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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Chavez: United States Could Cause Cancer
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is questioning the rash of cancer cases among Latin American leaders and asking if somehow the U.S. might have a way to induce the illness.
Chavez has long questioned whether the U.S. government could be plotting to oust him, but his latest remarks went far beyond any such theories.
The leftist leader referred to the cancer diagnosis of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, and noted that he and the leaders of Brazil and Paraguay have also struggled with the illness recently.
Chavez calls it very strange. He says he isn't accusing the U.S. and doesn't have any proof. But he asks, in his words, "Would it be strange if they had developed a technology to induce cancer and no one knew it?"
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Friday, December 30, 2011
91-Year-Olds Marry After 40 Years Of Friendship
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CHARLESTON, S.C. -- A 91-year-old newlywed says she expects to spend a dozen more years with her 92-year-old spouse following their wedding at a retirement home on James Island.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
The Fastest RAM for Your Gaming PC
You just bought the fastest (and most expensive) desktop platform on the planet. Which company's memory will you use to populate Intel's quad-channel controller? We tested four purportedly high-end kits in order to find out which set is the best.
Anyone willing to drop one thousand dollars on a CPU probably wants to match it up to the best possible memory kit, especially armed with the knowledge that Intel's new quad-channel memory controller is located within that CPU. How are we to know which kit is the best, though?
We left it up to manufacturers to decide which quad-channel kit they thought would be best, making it clear that our judgement would be balanced between overclocking, minimum latencies, and capacity.
Corsair Dominator GT CMGTX8
The only premium memory kit in today's round-up containing four 2 GB modules, Corsair's 8 GB DDR3-2400 kit promises top overclocking potential. These two things are probably related, since memory controllers are often capable of being pushed a little harder when paired with lower-density RAM.
As with other Dominator GT memory, the CMGTX8 kit features removable fins and Corsair's DHX Pro connector on each module. The fins can be replaced by parts of alternative size and color or, if you can still find one, the firm's long-discontinued thermoelectric cooler. The DHX Pro connector is designed exclusively to support Corsair's AirFlow Pro temperature and activity display.
Rated at DDR3-2400 CAS 10-12-10-27, the CMGTX8 booted at a mere DDR3-1333 CAS 9 on our Asus P9X79 WS test motherboard. A quick look at the SPD table reveals the reason.
Corsair skipped the now-standard DDR3-1600 C9 defaults in what appears to be an effort to assure the ultimate compatibility, since the lower speed will almost assuredly boot on nearly any board. Data rates lower than DDR3-1066 are no longer needed, since Sandy Bridge-E supplants the only processor architecture left officially constrained to that speed, Gulftown. We're not sure which platforms will treat the 518 MHz value as DDR3-1066, though.
CPU-Z doesn't report the correct frequency for XMP-2400, but our motherboard read it without issue and set the appropriate timings automatically when switched to XMP Profile 1 in its UEFI.
Corsair DRAM carries a non-transferable limited lifetime warranty.
G.Skill RipjawsZ F3-19200CL9Q-16GBZHD
With a model number that's easy to decipher but difficult to remember, G.Skill's PC-19200 CL 9 quad-channel kit is the only 16 GB set in today's round-up to carry a DDR3-2400 rating.
G.Skill says that, apart from its XMP profile, this is the same hardware as found in its DDR3-2200 kit. That made it the perfect product for a surreptitious appearance in our recent X79 motherboard round-up, where it was used as the second set for eight-DIMM overclocking tests.
We were happy to see G.Skill's DDR3-2400 automatically configured at DDR3-1600, but a little disappointed that JEDEC's slowest CAS 11 timings were used. While it is possible that G.Skill was simply seeking the ultimate compatibility, it's been a while since we've seen a "performance" motherboard that didn't support DDR3-1600 CAS 9 at 1.50 V.
Boards that can't use DDR3-1600 by default will find lower SPD values, while those that support XMP will configure the correct DDR3-2400 timings using Profile 1 from UEFI. CPU-Z misreports that value as a data rate of 2286 MHz, but our motherboard had no problem reading it correctly.
G.Skill memory includes a lifetime warranty.
Geil Evo Corsa GOC316GB2133C9AQC
Geil shipped its latest 16 GB quad-channel kit to us before any of its U.S. vendors received shipments. The unfortunate result is that its resellers have different offerings available to our North American readers. Versions of this kit at DDR3-1866 C9 and DDR3-2400 C10 are available here for $150 and $325, but this DDR3-2133 SKU can only be found in Europe (for the equivalent of $260). Reader demand could bring it to our shores, but the existing availability issue means that it's out of the award race.
Our motherboard detects and configures Geil's DDR3-2133 C9 using its DDR3-1600 C9 SPD. This, of course, is bootable at a motherboard's default 1.50 V, and yet Geil is the only company in today's round-up with the guts to add this configuration value.
DDR3-2133 CAS 9-11-9-28 is selectable as Profile 1 from XMP-compatible motherboards.
All Geil memory carries a limited lifetime warranty.
Mushkin Redline 993997
The least-expensive of this comparison's premium RAM, Mushkin's Redline 993997 still packs the punch of a DDR3-2133 rating and a full 16 GB capacity.
We're not certain how Mushkin achieved this pricing feat while using more-expensive heat spreaders than its 16 GB competitors. But we're happy to see that this kit is still as easy to configure as those more-expensive parts. DDR3-2133 CAS 9-11-10-28 is available as XMP Profile 1.
SPD profiles, on the other hand, are far more conservative. So, the best our board could accomplish without enabling XMP was DDR3-1333 CAS 9. Manual configuration is course another (highly recommended) option in this case.
Mushkin provides a non-transferable limited lifetime warranty to the original purchaser of its DRAM products.
Test Setup and Benchmarks
Asus' P9X79 WS won the memory overclocking portion of our recent high-end X79 motherboard comparison, and by doing so earned its place on this test bench.
We wanted to see what effect various memory speeds might have on program performance, and games are one of the types of programs that occasionally show this difference. Nvidia's GeForce GTX 580 is fast enough to keep the pressure on our CPU and GPU.
Intel's Core i7-3960X was locked at 34x throughout testing to keep its clock frequency stable at non-reference base clocks.
The lowest-possible game settings would show the biggest impact of memory performance on frames-per-second, but nobody actually games at those settings. Instead, we selected the lowest settings that high-end buyers would likely use (if forced to do so), along with a couple other applications that have been influenced by memory performance in the past.
Overclocking And Under-Latency Results
Only two of the memory kits in today's round-up are rated at DDR3-2400, while others list DDR3-2133 as their top validated data rate. So how many kits are actually capable of pushing the high mark on our motherboard?
Corsairs 8 GB kit barely exceeded expectations, while RipjawsZ fell slightly below them. In spite of that, G.Skill's kit is still the fastest among 16 GB competitors.
Ergo our caveats, the first of which is that many Sandy Bridge-E-based processors can't reliably run at DDR3-2400. Our first Core i7-3960X wouldn't reach this frequency at any setting, and its replacement is barely any better in this regard (though its higher-attainable core speed does make motherboard testing easier).
The second caveat comes from Asus, which informed us that CPU VCCA (formerly referred to as uncore) voltage probably shouldn't exceed 1.20 V. According to them, some processors lose stability and may even be damaged at higher settings, while others do not or will not. Ours reached the highest memory settings using 1.20 to 1.25 V.
Our third caveat is that different memory firms use different CPU samples to determine the best settings for their own memory, and those settings might not be right for your CPU. Corsair, for example, included VCCA of 1.40 V in its XMP profile, but wouldn't overclock well until we dropped it to 1.25 V. Likewise, G.Skill's 1.20 V XMP VCCA worked perfectly with our CPU, but probably wouldn't work well with whatever CPU the folks at Corsair used to dial in their profile.
None of the DDR3-2133 samples include VCCA in their XMP profiles, likely because the CPU's memory controller only needs this adjustment at extremely high data rates.
Corsair has the best DDR3-2400 timings, though this is likely a result of its lower-density 8 GB kit. Our CPU sample, hand-picked for its overclocking headroom, couldn't handle the larger, higher-density 16 GB kits at this frequency. That also eliminates any DDR3-2400 performance testing, since we'd need at least two devices to compare.
G.Skill takes over from DDR3-2133 downward, its 16 GB kit pushing 1-cycle lower CAS at every tested frequency, compared to competitors.
DDR3-1600 Memory Performance
One way to boost the overclocking capability of memory is to give it slower secondary and, if possible, tertiary timings. We'd hope that wouldn't hurt performance at lower data rates but, well?
Not interested in causing any panic, we went on to test the gaming performance of each module set. The slowest set in Sandra takes second-place here. Clearly, this platform isn't starved for memory bandwidth, else we'd see a closer correlation between the two sets of tests.
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Similarly, Corsair ends up in a five-way tie that includes the reference DDR3-1600 CAS 9, with the lowest-latency G.Skill RAM squeaking ahead by a few milliseconds in 3ds Max.
DDR3-1866 Memory Performance
We've seen that Sandra Memory Bandwidth doesn't always reflect the performance differences found in real-world applications, but we're still a little unsettled to find the 8 GB kit so far behind its 16 GB rivals at DDR3-1866. We're left to wonder how much module organization counts here.
Fortunately for Corsair, we again see that Sandra's numbers aren't reflected in real-world benchmarks. The other side of that coin is a realization that faster memory data rates simply do not translate to better performance. Desktop-class applications just don't tax a throughput-heavy quad-channel memory controller.
Click here to view gaming performance results.
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DDR3-2133 Memory Performance
By now, most readers have noticed that the performance of DDR3-1600 reference memory doesn't change. That's because it's always at DDR3-1600 CAS 9, regardless of the data rate its on-paper competition is running. In this case, everything but the reference memory is operating at DDR3-2133, which should kick performance up a couple notches.
The slowest memory in Sandra actually leads our gaming performance charts, while DDR3-1600 falls noticeably behind only in WinRAR.
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Whose Quad-Channel Memory Kit Is The Best?
Corsair wins our overclocking competition, and that should be enough to convince competitive overclockers to take the plunge. Of course, in the real-world, you have to remember that it takes stepping down to an 8 GB kit to achieve those marginally-higher data rates. The rest of the field sports 16 GB, and we have to imagine that most buyers will be inclined to buy larger kits for expensive Sandy Bridge-E-based platforms.
Going the 8 GB route is an option, of course, if you're building on a budget. If that's the case, though, Corsair's premium is going to put it out of reach. Again, this one's probably best suited to the competitive overclocking circuit.
So, how do we define superiority in a market were people are willing to pay 100% more to get 10% better performance? Certainly we can't make a decision based on price alone.
After all, the second-fastest G.Skill kit has twice the capacity, and anyone who wants to argue price can point out that the 100% increase in capacity comes at a mere 26% increase in cost.
But consider also that Mushkin came up only 9 MHz-not nine percent-lower in maximum data rate. In other words, we got 99.6% of the most-expensive kits clock speed for only 33% the price. And for those who prefer not to split hairs, 99.6% rounds up.
Today's competition was presented as a complement to our recent high-end X79 Express motherboard round-up for the folks willing to spend top-dollar on Intel's Core i7-3000-series processors. The goal was to root out the best memory kit to go with Sandy Bridge-E's quad-channel memory controller, and it turns out that we have two bests. Corsair's Dominator GT CMGTX8 8 GB quad-channel kit reached the highest frequency, while G.Skill's RipjawsZ was the best overclocker among 16 GB kits. But mimicking (if not duplicating) the top 16 GB kits achievement at one-third of its price makes Mushkin's Redline 993997 the kit we'd recommend to our friends.
This article originally appeared on Tom's Hardware as DDR3 Memory for X79 round-up on Tom's Hardware. For more information on this test and others, head over to the original review.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Egypt index slumps; Moody's cuts country rating (AP)
CAIRO, Egypt ? Egypt's benchmark stock index dropped more than 1.4 percent early Thursday as a deepening political crisis in the Arab world's most populous nation cast a pall over its political future and prompted Moody's Investors Service to push the government's bond rating deeper into junk status.
The Egyptian Exchange's EGX 30 index was down 1.48 percent by 11:50 a.m., rebounding slightly from a more than 1.6 percent slide earlier in the day. The index is down about 48 percent so far this year as investors fled the market amid the unrest stemming from the protests that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak in mid-February and have continued on a near daily basis since then.
The decline came even as the country's military-appointed prime minister called for national dialogue to end the clashes and protests that have crippled the country's economy and cast a pall on its transition to democracy.
The festering unrest prompted Moody's to cut Egypt's government bond rating to B2 from B1, with the agency on Wednesday citing, among its reasons for the downgrade, what it described as the "continued unsettled political conditions" that have led to the installation of the country's fourth transitional government since the start of the Jan. 25 uprising.
Moody's said that the "repeated changes in government leadership have resulted in ineffective and unpredictable economic policies."
It also cited the deterioration in the country's external payments position since the uprising, with net international reserves dropping about 44 percent since the end of December to $20.2 billion by the end of November. A portion of that has gone to propping up the Egyptian pound, which has seen its value fall relative to the dollar.
The near-daily protests since Mubarak handed over power to the military in mid-February have crippled the economy. Tourism and foreign direct investment ? two of the country's foreign currency mainstays ? have been decimated while manufacturing and productivity have been hard hit by the demonstrations.
The pound was trading at about 6.0295 on Thursday, according to forex Web site XE.com, but analysts worry that the depletion in foreign exchange reserves could lead to an even sharper depreciation that, in turn, would bring about a spike in the inflation rate.
In addition, while tens of billions of dollars have been pledged by foreign donors and institutions, Prime Minister Kamal El-Ganzouri said Thursday that only $1 billion had been delivered so far. Rounding off the country's litany of fiscal woes is that it has been wary of turning to the International Monetary Fund for a $3 billion loan.
"Moody's believes that the Central Bank of Egypt will find it increasingly difficult to maintain adequate international liquidity in the months or year ahead, raising the risk of a balance-of-payments crisis," the agency said in a statement.
Much of the current political turmoil stems from a standoff between the military and protesters who are demanding that the ruling generals step down and hand over power to civilian rule.
Recent violent clashes that left at least 14 dead have tapered off, but tensions remain high in the country especially as the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood appears to have strengthened its winnings after the second round of staggered parliamentary elections. The harder-line Salfist groups have come in second, raising fears that the next legislature will be dominated by Islamists.
El-Ganzouri called for a national dialogue and pleaded for a two-month period of calm to allow the country to restore security and some semblance of economic stability. He also said the ruling generals were eager to relinquish power, but did not elaborate.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
700 Union County Vo-Tech Students Honored by American Cancer Society
UNION COUNTY ? Students from the Union County Vo-Tech Schools received a resolution of ?Outstanding Accomplishment? from the American Cancer Society this week, for their 2011 Relay for Life event that raised more than $180,000 for cancer research. More than 700 students participated along with adult volunteers and cancer survivors. In the nationwide Relay for Life competition, Vo-Tech came in 2nd place for per capita fundraising and 3rd place in the Top Youth Event category. Pictured with the awards (from left-to-right): Vo-Tech advisors/teachers Ginny Oels and Adam Moskowitz, Academy of Performing Arts sophomore Amber Chabus, Magnet High School senior Meghan Emmons, Academy for Allied Health Sciences sophomore Caroline Culp, Academy for Information Technology senior Chris Sprague, UCVTS Board of Education Member Jane Lorber, and Deirdre McGuinness of the American Cancer Society. (Photo courtesy of Union County)
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Monday, December 19, 2011
More than 50 "Occupy" protesters arrested in New York (Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters) ? More than 50 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested on Saturday after they tried to climb over a chain-link fence around a church parking lot in a bid to establish a new encampment.
The demonstrators had used a wooden ladder to scale a chain-link fence into the lot owned by Trinity Church, an Occupy Wall Street spokesman said.
Police had no immediate figure on how many people were taken into custody, but Gideon Oliver, president of the New York City chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, put the number at about 55, including between five and 10 members of the clergy.
The remaining demonstrators marched through Manhattan's streets toward the house of the Trinity Church rector, but were turned away by police.
Later, as they started to move toward Midtown, some of the demonstrators were hemmed in by lines of police, and police on motorcycles tried to disperse protesters who were in the middle of streets.
"We are unstoppable. Another world is possible," and "Whose street? Our street," were among the chants from the protesters, who blocked some streets as they marched.
The remainder of the group, several dozen protesters, held signs in Times Square into the evening.
Trinity Church's rector, James H. Cooper, issued a statement on the church's website saying: "We are saddened that OWS protesters chose to ignore yesterday's messages" from several Episcopal and Anglican church leaders, including South African Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu.
The messages discouraged trespassing on Trinity Church property and called attention to several ways in which the church was providing support to Occupy Wall Street and working for economic change.
Cooper said the vacant church lot the OWS wanted to move into "has no facilities to sustain a winter encampment. In good conscience and faith, we strongly believe" erecting a camp there "would be wrong, unsafe, unhealthy, and potentially injurious."
The Occupy movement began with protesters taking over a park in New York in September to draw attention to economic inequality and a financial system they say is unfairly skewed toward the wealthy.
In ensuing months the protests and encampments spread to cities throughout the United States as well as to some in other countries.
But Occupy camps in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and a number of other major cities were shut down in recent weeks in operations that resulted in hundreds of arrests and have raised questions about the movement's future.
Authorities have justified their moves against the camps on a variety of grounds, including that the camps were causing sanitation problems and were dangerous to public safety.
(Additional reporting by Dan Whitcomb, Editing by Jerry Norton)
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Wall Street flat as Europe worries cut into gains (Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Stocks were little changed in volatile trading on Friday as a warning by Fitch it may cut ratings on some European nations offset gains in growth-related shares.
Major U.S. stock indexes, highly correlated to the performance of the euro, were well off their session highs as the euro fell after Fitch warned of the risk of recession in euro zone countries, including Germany.
The ratings agency also affirmed France's AAA rating but revised its outlook to negative, which usually means a downgrade is possible in 12-18 months.
"I think it is wrong, but there is a false sense of security about the U.S. economy and optimism that the recent spate of reasonably OK economic data will allow us to avoid a recession here," said James Dailey, portfolio manager of TEAM Asset Strategy Fund in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
The Nasdaq composite index performed relatively better as stocks tied to growth, including technology, gained. Shares of Adobe Systems Inc (ADBE.O) jumped 6.2 percent to $28.11 after results from the maker of Photoshop and Acrobat software beat Wall Street projections.
The Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) was down 18.69 points, or 0.16 percent, at 11,850.12. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (.SPX) was up 1.88 points, or 0.15 percent, at 1,217.63. The Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC) was up 12.86 points, or 0.51 percent, at 2,553.87.
U.S. financials (.GSPF), which have underperformed the S&P 500 this week, were the strongest of the 10 top sectors in the benchmark index, up 0.6 percent. Credit card company Discover Financial (DFS.N) added 3.9 percent to $23.98 a day after posting strong results and raising its dividend.
Blue chips underperformed compared with the overall market. The S&P 500's more defensive sectors also lagged.
Online game maker Zynga Inc (ZNGA.O) shares opened 10 percent above their initial public offering price of $10 per share but rolled back showing that investors were concerned about the Farmville maker's dependence on Facebook. Shares hit a session low of $9 and were last trading near $9.25.
U.S. consumer prices were flat in November as Americans paid less for cars and gasoline, while the 12-month inflation reading fell for the second straight month, which could give the Federal Reserve more room to help a still-weak economy.
Jim Paulsen, chief investment officer at Wells Capital Management in Minneapolis, said subdued inflation will be a long-term positive as consumers benefit from contained prices.
"That's one of the reasons you're seeing better consumer (confidence) of late," he said.
Research In Motion Ltd (RIM.TO)(RIMM.O) posted a sharp drop in profit on Thursday, offered a dismal outlook for BlackBerry shipments during the holidays and delayed an overhaul of its smartphones. The U.S.-traded stock dropped 11.8 percent to $13.34.
Data this week suggested a strengthening U.S. economic recovery, giving further support to equities.
Jobless claims fell to a 3-1/2-year low last week and factory activity in parts of the Northeast picked up in December, data showed Thursday.
(Reporting by Angela Moon; Editing by Kenneth Barry)
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IndyCar: 'Limitless' racing factor in Vegas wreck
IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard, left, and Indycar president Brian Barnhart talk about the report on the Oct. 16 fatal crash of Dan Wheldon at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Thursday Dec. 15, 2011 at The Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis. Wheldon was killed when his head hit a post in the fencing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, contact that created a "non-survivable injury" to the two-time Indianapolis 500 winner. The cause of death was revealed Thursday when IndyCar presented its findings of the Oct. 16 accident during the Indycar season finale. (AP Photo/The Star, Greg Griffo)
IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard, left, and Indycar president Brian Barnhart talk about the report on the Oct. 16 fatal crash of Dan Wheldon at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Thursday Dec. 15, 2011 at The Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis. Wheldon was killed when his head hit a post in the fencing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, contact that created a "non-survivable injury" to the two-time Indianapolis 500 winner. The cause of death was revealed Thursday when IndyCar presented its findings of the Oct. 16 accident during the Indycar season finale. (AP Photo/The Star, Greg Griffo)
IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard, left, listens to IndyCar president Brian Barnhart talk about the report on the Oct. 16 fatal crash of Dan Wheldon at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Thursday Dec. 15, 2011 at The Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis. Wheldon was killed when his head hit a post in the fencing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, contact that created a "non-survivable injury" to the two-time Indianapolis 500 winner. The cause of death was revealed Thursday when IndyCar presented its findings of the Oct. 16 accident during the Indycar season finale. (AP Photo/The Star, Greg Griffo)
IndyCar president Brian Barnhart talks about the report on the Oct. 16 fatal crash of Dan Wheldon at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Thursday Dec. 15, 2011 at The Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis. Wheldon was killed when his head hit a post in the fencing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, contact that created a "non-survivable injury" to the two-time Indianapolis 500 winner. The cause of death was revealed Thursday when IndyCar presented its findings of the Oct. 16 accident during the Indycar season finale. (AP Photo/The Star, Greg Griffo)
IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard listens to IndyCar president Brian Barnhart talk about the report on the Oct. 16 fatal crash of Dan Wheldon at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Thursday Dec. 15, 2011 at The Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis. Wheldon was killed when his head hit a post in the fencing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, contact that created a "non-survivable injury" to the two-time Indianapolis 500 winner. The cause of death was revealed Thursday when IndyCar presented its findings of the Oct. 16 accident during the Indycar season finale. (AP Photo/The Star, Greg Griffo)
Las Vegas Motor Speedway's "limitless" racing surface was singled out Thursday as a significant factor in a "perfect storm" of conditions that led to the death of two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon.
Wheldon was killed Oct. 16 during the series' season finale when his car sailed 325 feet through the air into a catchfence, and his head hit a post in the fence. The blow created a "non-survivable injury."
In the wake of the 15-car wreck, many criticized CEO Randy Bernard and IndyCar for creating a deadly mix of circumstances ? offering a jobless Wheldon the chance to earn a $5 million bonus if he could drive from the back of a 34-car field to Victory Lane on a high-banked oval, where a field of mixed experience levels had enough room to race three-wide at over 220 mph.
But IndyCar president Brian Barnhart dismissed those factors and focused instead on Vegas' multi-grooved wide racing surface that heightened the dangers of pack racing on a high-banked oval.
The IndyCar, with open wheels and an open cockpit, is not suited for the pack racing that develops on ovals. Unlike NASCAR, where cars bump and bang on every lap, any contact in an IndyCar results in either a crash or a slew of broken parts.
"Racing grooves not only restrict drivers' naturally aggressive racing behavior, but make the location of another competitor's car on the racetrack more predictable," the report said.
But when the race began at Vegas, the packed 34-car field was all over the track ? movement series officials did not expect despite drivers' warnings.
"The ability of the drivers to race from the bottom of the racetrack all the way up to the wall and run limitless is not a condition we've experienced before," Barnhart said. "I don't think we were expecting it to be any different from what we'd experienced in the last decade at places like Chicagoland, Kentucky, Fontana and Texas. ...
"We were never expecting to be able to run from the top to the bottom (at Las Vegas)."
Most ovals have one or two racing grooves.
Drivers, however, predicted as early as preseason testing that Las Vegas would be hairy and repeated those warnings during the buildup to the race.
"We knew that was the case before we even started the race, because it's been the case at (ovals) where you can run multi-grooves," driver Will Power, who broke his back in the accident, told The Associated Press.
"The biggest problem we face is it's almost like driving on the highway at full speed and you can't get away from anyone," he said. "It's the same thing NASCAR has with Daytona and Talladega, and when they have the big one, the consequences aren't nearly as bad as in IndyCar.
"We can't race in a pack. You just can't in open-wheelers. There's no room for error."
Bernard said the report was shared with Wheldon's widow, Susie, on Wednesday evening, and she spoke with both Barnhart and Bernard afterward.
"She talked to Brian Barnhart primarily about the investigation because I felt it was important for Brian to educate her," Bernard said. "My conversation with her was about some other questions and family matters that she wanted to discuss."
Just a day shy of the two-month anniversary of Wheldon's death, IndyCar is struggling to move forward.
The 2012 schedule has yet to be released, although Bernard hoped to have it out by Friday. At issue was whether the IndyCar is suited for any high-banked ovals. Bernard already has bought his way out of Year 2 of the Las Vegas contract. The third and final year of the lease agreement is up for review.
Las Vegas Motor Speedway president Chris Powell said track officials will work with IndyCar in hopes "the series might return to LVMS in the future."
"I think Las Vegas is a great city, a resort destination, and our fans and sponsors ? everyone loves the city," Bernard said. "But I don't want to go back there if the conditions aren't right, if it isn't safe, for our race cars."
So attention now turns to Texas Motor Speedway, a popular venue that has hosted IndyCar since 1997. After Wheldon's death, there were calls for Texas to be dropped from the schedule.
The investigation, though, determined every track should be judged individually and a ban on all banked ovals wasn't practical. Bernard said he hoped to have an agreement with Texas completed when he announces the schedule.
But Power wants to see changes first.
"If we go back there racing in a pack, I will be very disappointed," Power said. "What IndyCar has to do is find a formula that spreads it out, makes it difficult to drive and not reliant on an engineering program."
That's the direction Barnhart wants to go with IndyCar, too, both with the 2012 car that Wheldon helped develop and drivers' attitudes.
"You get to a point where you don't want to get to the limitless racing capabilities that we had at Vegas," Barnhart said. "What we're going to try to do is identify an aerodynamic package that makes it more challenging for the drivers.
"It wasn't a challenge to these highly talented drivers. I think what we have to create through this extensive testing is a limit. They have to know that there's a line that they can't cross."
Wheldon didn't appear to have any qualms about driving at Vegas, which was spurred by a $5 million incentive.
Wheldon was making just his third start of the season and chasing the incentive offered by Bernard to any non-IndyCar regular. Wheldon would have split the money with a fan selected in a random drawing.
Allowing Wheldon to take the challenge was a stretch ? he won 14 races on ovals, including the Indy 500 earlier in the season ? but because he sat out the season, he technically qualified for the bonus.
But Wheldon felt he was up for the challenge.
He was the in-race reporter for ABC during the event and spoke with the announcers during the warm-up laps. In a brief interview, Wheldon defended his participation and the entire IndyCar Series.
"I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't think that I could win," he said from his car. "Certainly I am not underestimating the talent of the other drivers in the field. I think IndyCar has got a phenomenal field right now."
Wheldon was killed minutes later when the crash began ahead of him at the start of the 12th lap. He had picked his way through the field and gained at least 10 spots when he came upon the accident and had nowhere to go to avoid the spinning cars and flying debris.
The report found that although Wheldon stayed low on the track in an attempt to avoid the cluster of cars spinning toward the top ? he had slowed from 224 mph to 165 ? his path was blocked by other cars. His first contact with another car sent him airborne and into the catchfence.
Las Vegas is owned by Speedway Motor Sports Inc., and the organization has spent considerable money on research into fencing. SMI owner Bruton Smith is adamant his fences are the strongest and safest in the business, and he makes no apologies for constructing them with the posts inside the wiring.
Barnhart said there is no indication Wheldon would have survived had the post been on the outside of the mesh wiring.
"It does not look like the position of the mesh fabric would have changed the consequences of this accident at all," Barnhart said. "Sometimes the forces are too great. The small fabric is not there to retain a car. That's the object of the post and the cables. The location of the fabric would not have changed the outcome at all, but as we've said, our preference is for it to be on the inside."
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Man captured in Austria convicted of Calif. rapes (AP)
SANTA ANA, Calif. ? A man described by prosecutors as an international serial rapist has been convicted of sexually assaulting three Southern California women.
The Orange County district attorney's office says Ali Achekzai was convicted Thursday of six felony counts, including forcible rape and aggravated assault.
Prosecutors say Achekzai assaulted the women in Orange County and San Diego in 2004. He fled to Canada and later Austria, where he was accused of rape in a separate 2009 case. He was extradited to California the following year.
Authorities say DNA from that case matched samples taken in California.
Achekzai faces a maximum sentence of 80 years to life in prison at a hearing Jan 27.
A message was left for Achekzai's attorney, Ronald Cordova.
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Man asks cop: 'Can I have my weed back?'
By The Associated Press
BEAVER, Pa. -- A defense attorney's argument that a bag of marijuana uncovered during a Pennsylvania traffic stop could have belonged to a man other than his client unraveled after an arresting officer recalled the suspect asking him: "Can I have my weed back?"
Nineteen-year-old Devonte Davon Jeter was one of four men in a car stopped by Midland police on May 13.
Jeter's attorney said Monday that the marijuana could have belonged to any one of the men in the car.
But the prosecutor told the judge: "I don't know what else 'Can I have my weed back?' can mean, other than it's his."
The Beaver County Times reports that a district judge agreed with the prosecutor and ordered Jeter to stand trial on marijuana possession charges.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Bill would make drug price gouging a federal crime (AP)
TRENTON, N.J. ? Price gouging on prescription drugs already in short supply would become a federal crime under legislation about to be introduced.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said he's proposing a bill that that would give the U.S. Department of Justice authority to crack down on "unscrupulous drug distributors" who sell hospitals life-saving prescription medicines in short supply at huge markups.
The problem has been growing this year, as shortages have dramatically worsened for normally cheap generic injected medicines that are the lifeblood of hospitals: drugs for cancer, pain, infections, even liquid nutrition and anesthesia for surgery.
The shortages are disrupting care of patients and even clinical trials of experimental drugs that must be tested against older standard treatments.
In September, The Associated Press reported that at least patient 15 deaths since mid-2010 have been blamed on the shortages. In one case in Alabama, nine hospital patients died after getting inadvertently contaminated liquid nutrition that had to be hand-mixed from a powder because the usual liquid version wasn't available.
Schumer's bill is to be introduced next week, an aide told the AP. It would allow penalties of up to $500 million for each case of price gouging.
"Forcing hospitals to buy life-saving medications at outrageously inflated prices is unquestionably unethical, and with this legislation it would be illegal, too," Schumer said in a statement.
A Schumer spokesman said Monday that the senator is working on lining up co-sponsors to the bill. Earlier in October, Schumer requested an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission into possible price gouging by some distributors.
In a typical year, there are always some prescription drugs shortages. But the number of new shortages reported each year has tripled since 2006. As of Nov. 30, there had been 251 different new drug shortages this year.
Multiple causes have been cited, including manufacturing deficiencies leading to production shutdowns, companies ending production of some drugs with tiny profit margins, consolidation in the generic drug industry and limited supplies of some ingredients.
Hospital pharmacists and other officials say the shortages have become a crisis, endangering patients and costing hospitals significant money and staff time to try to obtain crucial drugs not available from their regular suppliers.
Some secondary suppliers say they are helping hospitals get desperately needed drugs by calling pharmacies and other suppliers around the country, and that the drugs have been marked up by other middlemen by the time the suppliers get them.
Politicians, responding to reports of patients harmed by shortages, have been taking up the issue, including President Barack Obama.
On Oct. 31, Obama signed an executive order instructing the Food and Drug Administration to broaden its reporting of potential drug shortages, speed up reviews of proposed production changes for drugs facing shortages, and give the Justice Department more information about possible collusion or price gouging.
That order included a key provision of another bill, which would require manufacturers to notify the FDA immediately of impending shortages of key drugs.
The bill was introduced by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and recently was endorsed by the American Medical Association. It's set to get its first committee hearing on Dec. 15, before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. A similar bill was introduced in the House by Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo.
This Wednesday, the Senate Finance Committee is set to hold a hearing on reasons for drug shortages.
The FDA held a hearing on Sept. 26 on causes and potential steps to address the shortages, three days after the health subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a similar hearing.
Also in the House, Rep. Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has been demanding information from secondary distributors accused of price gouging, asking where they are getting drugs in short supply, how much they are paying for them and what they are charging hospitals for the drugs. That committee held a hearing on price gouging on Nov. 30 and is trying to line up one with manufacturers of drugs in short supply.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Ginger White Details Alleged Herman Cain Affair
Ginger White, whose accusation of a 13-year affair with Herman Cain contributed to his decision to suspend his presidential campaign Saturday, revealed intimate details of the alleged affair in an interview with The Daily Beast published Monday.
"One time we were having sex, and I was looking up at the ceiling, thinking about 'What am I going to buy at the grocery store tomorrow? What I am going to do with my kids tomorrow?'" she said. "One time after we had sex, I cried. He said, 'Maybe we shouldn't do this for a while.' So maybe he did have a heart -- or half a heart. But I knew I needed his financial help."
White defended her decision to take money from Cain. "I am a loving mother who has always wanted to make her own way and give her kids the best. I never wanted to take a handout, and I've said no more times than I said yes," she said.
Cain acknowledged that he gave White financial help with "month-to-month bills and expenses," without telling his wife, Gloria. He described White as a friend but denied any sexual affair with her.
Cain announced he was suspending his campaign Saturday. "These false and unproved allegations continue ... to create a cloud of doubt over me and this campaign and my family," he said. "That spin hurts. It hurts my wife, it hurts my family, it hurts me, and it hurts the American people, because you're being denied solutions to our problems."
White apologized to Cain's wife, Gloria, and his children Thursday. "I am deeply, deeply sorry if I have caused any hurt to her and to his kids, to his family. That was not my intention. I never wanted to hurt anyone, and I'm deeply sorry. I am very sorry," she said on MSNBC's "The Last Word."
White told The Daily Beast that she could not bring herself to watch Cain's announcement Saturday.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/05/ginger-white-herman-cain-affair_n_1129749.html
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Monday, December 5, 2011
Hawaii County mayor urges residents to 'buy local'
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HILO >> Hawaii County Mayor Billy Kenoi is urging Big Island residents to shop locally by declaring December "Think Local, Buy Local" month.?
Kenoi said Thursday local businesses have always been the backbone of the county's economy. He says a renewed focus on Hawaii island produced goods and on island-owned businesses is good for the economy and community.
In Hilo, residents may use a buy local button to receive discounts at participating local owned businesses during the holiday season. Buttons are available for $5 at the Hilo Information Center at the Mooheau Bus Station, Palace Theatre, Diabolik Surf and Glass, and Basically Books.
Businesses outside Hilo will be offering coupons online at www.ThinkLocalBuyLocal.org.
Source: http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/134948828.html
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Mexico's ex-ruling party leader quits amid scandal (AP)
MEXICO CITY ? The head of Mexico's former ruling party resigned Friday over a financial scandal that threatened the party's efforts to rebrand itself as corruption-free and retake the presidency in 2012.
Institutional Revolutionary Party head Humberto Moreira stepped down at a party meeting broadcast nationwide and intercut with live denunciations by opposition politicians. It was a remarkable scene in a country where the leader of the PRI once held virtually unquestioned power.
The PRI ruled Mexico for seven decades until voters angry at economic mismanagement, cronyism and corruption voted for the conservative National Action Party in the 2000 presidential race.
Eleven years later, Mexicans appear to widely accept the PRI's argument that it has learned from the past and become open and democratic. Its youthful and telegenic candidate, former Mexico State Gov. Enrique Pena Nieto, leads potential competitors by double digits in recent opinion polls on the July 2012 election.
Moreira was widely promoted as the face of the new PRI after he stepped down as governor of the northern state of Coahuila last January. He frequently appeared in national campaign ads with party candidates for key state races.
Then, in July, the Coahuila legislature said the state's total debt was four times larger than the 8.4 billion pesos ($700 million) that was reported by state officials just before Moreira stepped down.
The PAN said it suspected at least some of the public money was stolen by officials, demanding a criminal investigation into the assets of one of Moreira's former aides. Moreira has not clearly explained the ballooning debt figure, but has said repeatedly that the debt issue is being used by PAN as a smear campaign.
For months, Pena Nieto and other powerful PRI members stood by Moreira, who repeatedly said he would not step down.
Then, on Monday, Coahuila's state treasurer was arrested on suspicion of falsifying state documents that authorized the government to seek new loans ? the first criminal charges in the case.
Pena Nieto and other PRI members began distancing themselves from the party head, and on Thursday the presidential candidate told Milenio Television that the party "clearly needed to weigh the circumstances of the weakening of our party's leader."
By Friday it was clear Moreira would be forced out.
"I've resigned because I'm not going to allow a media war that is trying to harm our party to continue," Moreira told party members. "I also do it because I believe in a man who is the hope for Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto."
PRI secretary-general Cristina Diaz was named interim president of the party.
The national head of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, Jesus Zambrano, said Moreira had been "sacrificed" to save Pena Nieto, 45.
"It's becoming much clearer that the highly touted new PRI is the same old PRI that the majority of the people threw out of the presidency in 2000 because it was a true burden and a tragedy for the country," he said.
The conservative PAN has filed a complaint with the federal Attorney General's Office demanding an investigation into Moreira's former aide, Vicente Chaires, claiming he became rich on an administrative secretary salary while buying property in Texas and becoming a partner in radio stations. The PAN complaint accuses him of lending his name to assets on behalf of Moreira, though it provides no proof.
PAN Secretary-General Cecilia Romero went further Friday, telling reporters there was clear evidence of criminality in the budget scandal.
"The voices of millions of people who believe in accountability and transparency as ways to strengthen institutions and protect citizens from abuses of authority won't be satisfied just with his removal as president of the PRI," she said. "We demand that the legal case continues."
Standard & Poor's has said Coahuila's debt was accumulated mostly because of public investment. Coahuila's lawmakers agreed they spent what was needed on infrastructure to create jobs and weather the 2008-2009 global recession that hit income from manufacturing and remittances sent from relatives living in the U.S.
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Associated Press writers E. Eduardo Castillo and Adriana Gomez Licon contributed to this report.
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