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SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ.—Phil Mickelson birdied the ninth hole a day too late and missed a chance to break the PGA Tour's 36-hole scoring record when he finished with a double bogey after driving into the water.
Mickelson followed his opening 60 with a 65 on Friday in the Phoenix Open to reach 17-under 125, a stroke off the tour record for the first two rounds of a tournament set by Pat Perez in the 2009 Bob Hope Classic and matched by David Toms at Colonial in 2011.
"Unfortunately, I made a double on the last hole and didn't finish the way I wanted to," Mickelson said. "But I think it's a good example of what can happen on this course. You can make a lot of birdies and eagles, make up a lot of ground, but there's a lot of water and trouble there that if you misstep you can easily make bogeys and double."
He still tied the Phoenix Open record set by Mark Calcavecchia in 2001, but history slipped through his hands for the second straight day on the last hole.
On Thursday, Mickelson had a 25-foot birdie putt for a 59 on No. 9 that caught the right edge, curled 180 degrees and stayed out. A day later with little at stake on the par-4 hole, he hit to four feet and rolled the downhill putt into the centre of the cup.
"You always remember kind of the last hole, the last putt," Mickelson said. "But I think it's very possible that's going to help me because it's got me refocused, that I cannot ease up on a single shot. I've got to be really focused. These guys are going to make a lot of birdies and I've got to get after it and cannot make those kinds of mistakes."
Mickelson parred the first six holes, and played the next 11 in 8-under before making a mess of the par-4 18th. His drive bounced into the left-side water hazard and, after a penalty drop, he hit an approach that landed on the green and rolled off the front edge. His chip ran seven feet past and his bogey putt slid by to the left.
"I hit a good shot, I thought," Mickelson said. "I tried to start it right down the middle and hold it into the wind. It just leaked a little bit left. I still thought it was up. ... Then I hit a poor wedge from there. But the tee shot I didn't think was going to be in the water at any point."
The double bogey left him four strokes ahead of Bill Haas and five in front of Keegan Bradley and Brandt Snedeker. Haas shot 64, Bradley 63, and Snedeker 66.
Mickelson will play alongside Haas and Bradley in the third round.
"Bill and I have played on a Presidents Cup team, and Keegan and I have been partners in the Ryder Cup and had an incredibly emotional and fun experience together as partners," Mickelson said. "We're going to have a fun day tomorrow."
David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., was the only Canadian to make the cut. Hearn shot a 65, and is seven back at 132.


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ASTHMA AND ORMDL3 – A breath of fresh air for young asthma sufferers
Asthma is an increasing chronic health issue in Europe, affecting the quality of life of millions and placing an unbearable strain on national health systems. Understanding how this respiratory disease may be caused could lead to new innovative treatments. An EU-funded study has uncovered strong evidence that a specific gene is involved in the development of asthma in children.
The findings of the Asthma and ORMDL3 project could change our understanding of childhood asthma, a potentially fatal condition which affects over 30 million children and adults in Europe. Michaela Schedel, project coordinator and researcher of the Asthma and ORMDL3 project, focused on a specific gene called ORMDL3, which is found on one of the chromosomes, the chains of DNA in the cell nucleus, which encode genetic information. Previous studies suggested that ORMDL3 could play a role, but evidence was inconclusive.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Allen Toussaint is one of the most important musical voices to emerge from New Orleans in the latter half of the 20th century. In this intimate documentary he gives a rare solo performance on the piano for a rapt and delighted audience at Detroit's Music Hall, and talks about the history, music and culture of his city.
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There are some warnings parents drill into their kids: don't drink, don't smoke, and don't do drugs. Now that Washington state and Colorado have legalized marijuana, those conversations just got more complicated. Host Michel Martin speaks with pediatrician Dr. Leslie Walker for advice on how to talk with young children and teens about marijuana.


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Hundreds of Parkersburg-area doctors plan to close up shop for a while Wednesday to urge state lawmakers to pass medical liability reform.
The doctors will tie black and white ribbons to their white coats and gather at Parkersburg's Bicentennial Park and Wood County Courthouse.
The rally was organized by the Academy of Medicine of Parkersburg, which has asked Gov. Wise to attend.
Doctors say they can't find affordable malpractice insurance, and many aren't happy with the state-run insurance program created last year.
Many of the doctors attending the rally support some of the reforms adopted by other states. Those measures include the elimination of joint liability and a mechanism to screen out baseless lawsuits.
The rally is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.


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Do you like Digimon? Then this group is for you!
What do you think should be the next digimon?
He WILL beat the crap outta ya. Luigi says otherwise. The dominate bro.
I think they need to make a deal with Nintendo for a crossover with Pokemon. I mean, they have Pokemon Conquest, so why not Pokemon digiverse?
I agree! I'd love to see a Digimon/Pokemon crossover!
I don't want to see a digimon/pokemon crossover. Pokemon has dragged its lifespan out way farther than it should've gone and would be likely to drag digimon down with them. I mean yeah it is kinda a cool idea but only up to the first 3 sets of pokemon.
Vittoria per gli Assassini!
I agree with you C.A. As much as I love pokemon, they need to stop making new ones. They killed it off many seasons ago.


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/29/tax_laws_tax_haters/
Big biz, expensive beancounters write UK tax law, says senior MP
Alarm raised as corps get cosy with taxmen
Posted in Policy, 29th January 2013 12:28 GMT
Corporate giants and accountancy firms hold too much sway over UK's tax law, according to the chairwoman of an influential parliamentary panel.
Labour MP Margaret Hodge, who heads up the Public Accounts Select Committee, said the Tory-led coalition government "only talks to those who have a self interest in reducing their tax contribution" when writing new rules.
Representatives from heavyweight beancounters KPMG, Deloitte, PwC and Ernst & Young will be quizzed by the committee today. The panel's MPs want to know how much time and energy the accountants spend on helping firms legally exploit tax loopholes.
The news comes as Google exec chairman Eric Schmidt, who previously praised the ad giant's ability to minimise its tax bill, said he would go along with any changes Britain made to tax payments.
Speaking at Cambridge University, Schmidt said that "whatever the tax regime, we would pay that".
Prime Minister David Cameron said at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week that countries had to cooperate with each other to crack down on tax shenanigans.
"When some businesses aren't seen to pay their taxes, that is corrosive to the public trust," he said. "I want this year's G8 [meeting of the largest economic powers] to bring a new focus on tax [and] transparency."
However, new rules in UK levies coming into play this year have stirred controversy: the changes include tax breaks for companies that patent their products; and firms that have offshore finance arms will be able to pay just a quarter of the standard 23 per cent corporation tax on profit.
The changes were decided in consultation with "working groups", which Hodge said were dominated by top business bods - including folks at accounting firms and companies with potentially huge corporate tax bills. She believes this is a conflict of interest.
"What to me is really dangerous is that many are working very closely both with HMRC and with the Treasury to devise new tax changes, and then they exploit those perfectly legitimate objectives," Hodge told the BBC. ®


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Jingle Ball is consistently one of the biggest parties of the year. Past performers have included Pitbull, Rihanna, Maroon 5, The Fray, and more! Jingle Ball 2015 is sure to be the best edition of the event yet and while they lineup has yet to be announced, it's guaranteed to have some serious star power. Be sure you have tickets to Jingle Bell 2015 with GoTickets.


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but that's an endless battle anyways until the trusted computing platform is mainstream
Well, that's the rub isn't it, OSS being conceptually antithetical to DRM. Most open source licenses (hi BSD guys) require contributing your own work back to the collective good.
I second the earlier idea that encrypting your data is the best option, and submit for review the existence of libcrypt [gnupg.org] as an efficient means of accomplishing said goal.
In order to build secure systems for our own reasonable purposes. It would be really nice if I could have a system which is not hackable except by me, but is truly hackable by me. And you could have yours.
Don't sue me, bro!Too bad for you I've *patented* the idea of open sourcing tasers a long time ago.
Passwords can be applied in any number of ways. You can base it on pgp keys, if you want to limit the specific people who have access to the documents; or, you can do a one-size-fits-all solution, just applying a password to a file, and giving that password to those who need access.
Recently I was considering a solution to a professional problem that included some sort of DRM[1], albeit of a temporary sort.
As a part-time translator, I have in several occasions worked for people who got their translations, but failed to pay up. Some of my colleagues have had even worse problems of that sort.
The idea was, if they don't pay, have the file self-encrypt or self-destruct. Of course, since they could easily just copy and paste the contents in a new document, all this is really moot. Actua
then I guess we don't have anything like an encryption program of some sort like say gnu privacy guard or maybe truecrypt.If it's open source, you can change it thus disabling any protection it might offer unless it's some hardware-backed signing.
You are making the same mistake that people who insist on coming up with DRM schemes make...
A DRM scheme is an attempt at giving someone the encrypted file and the decription key, with the intent of protecting the content against that precise someone. GPG, on the other hand, is a scheme which attempts to protect the encrypted files from those who do not have the decription key.
It is not that difficult, really...
DRM is a twisted variant of crypto. If Alice sends a message to Bob using GPG, Eve can't read it because she doesn't have the key. In this case, Bob is the intended recipient, and Eve is the unintended recipient. In the case of DRM, Alice encrypts software and gives it to Bob. So, if Alice doesn't give Bob the key, Bob can't use the software. If Alice does, then Bob can break the DRM, having both the key and the code.
So, in DRM, Bob and Eve are the same person. DRM is not only socially undesirable, it's sexually perverse.
hey now, keep your Judeo-Christian mores to yourself. Some
That is fundamentally impossible to enforce. The decryption-algorithm does not care what happens to the file AFTERWARDS.
No, not really. It's just fundamentally impossible to enforce in the wild.
In a controlled business environment, this can be setup so that any attempt to break the DRM sends a clear signal to the company of an employee's activities. And if you can't think of reasons where a business wouldn't want DRM, I say you're just limiting your ideal of what kind of company would use Open Source Software if they could.
All DRM tries to work by hiding the Implementation - Universally, it fails.
That's not true. Obfuscation is just one of the layers in any DRM system (and also in security in general). Relying on obfuscation alone is what's bad practice -- not the presence of obfuscation itself.
DRM technologies work on essentially the same principles as PGP. The content being protected will usually be encrypted/decrypted using a symmetric key. This key is then protected using PKI (i.e. the content key is encrypted using each user's private key) -- that's the key management part of it.
I do agree tha
DRM is security through obscurity. If you have the code, you can break any DRM
What do you need the DRM scheme's source code for? Most major algorithms are loosely guarded if not totally open secrets.
DRM schemes rely on playback software and devices managing to keep their decryption keys hidden from their users... and so far, breaking them (finding a way to bypass safeguards and traps to locate plain-text keys) has always been a matter of days or weeks. Since OSS DRM would have no way of hiding the keys from
Most people smart enough to program such a thing are also smart enough to know it can never work. People who do create/sell/push drm solutions are selling snake oil.
Your best bet is to use PGP and simply encrypt your data, and trade public keys with your intended recipients. And plan ahead - once someone can see it, assume they can always see it. The whole "revoking a key" bit is the snake oil part of DRM.
My recommendation would be PGP, too. That would be the way to go. As long as the members of your company can secure their private/public keys, you can keep good control over who will have access to what.
If the members of your company fail to secure their keys? Well...
Responsible Behavior [xkcd.com]: "I got too drunk. I screwed up, bad".
For all those who are saying "open source DRM" is an oxymoron, they should have a look at OpenIPMP, which is an open-source DRM solution for video formats.
It is still an oxymoron.
If you see my comment [slashdot.org] posted shortly after yours, I mention OGG-S/Media-S. They are, at least, honest about their "open source" DRM system. In their FAQ they explain while it is GPL'd, you can buy a (closed-source) license so that it's anything other than a public-key encryption system. ergo: Open source DRM is an oxymoron.
DRM assures the rights that each group needs are all that they get. Least privilege is what they call it.
You're talking about normal operating system security. This has nothing to do with DRM. DRM is all about using technology to control an otherwise free agent when something is "sold".
DRM'ed content breaks the copyright bargain, the first sale doctrine and fair use provisions. It should not be possible to copyright DRM'ed content.
Here's what's become my business-side take on DRM: don't bother.
DRM systems set the bar too high for honest users who just need to get some work done, and too low for malicious users.
Corporate espionage in mind? Just make screen-captures. That won't work? Digital camera, anyone?
You can't make it work, principally because there's no way to both show and not show the same document to an end user. The security is only as good as your trusted users are.
You can also appeal to reason on financial grounds: the Hollywood studios are extremely motivated to make DRM work, have pored in millions and haven't hit on anything at all that prevents piracy.
If they can't do it, you probably can't either, and should probably focus on differentiating your content by making it sticky and extremely easy to use.
This is really the issue at hand here. DRM that prevents people from copying software is protection via obscurity. open sourcing this means nothing and is a complete waste of time. DRM to control access rights can simply use configuration files and digital signatures - these algorithms can be public. if a user changes the configuration file (access rights), they are blocked from using the material because the signature will fai
There's basically two kinds of DRM in the world: DRM that's been broken and DRM that no one has cared to break.
So, that said, here's some python DRM you can use which I am releasing into the public domain:
def issue_licence(filename, from_date, to_date):
_f = open("%s.key" % filename, 'wb')
_pickle.dump((from_date, to_date), f)
def check_licence(filename):
__(from_date, to_date) = pickle.load(open("%s.key" % filename))
_except IOError:
__return False
_return from_date <= datetime.date.today() <= to_date
(replace _ with spaces)
Cory Doctorow was been over this a couple of years ago when Sun came up with the (I'm guessing abandoned) idea of an Open Source DRM. Here, go read why it's oxymoronic: DRM != SSL [boingboing.net]
Any protection scheme where your customer and your attacker are the same party, doomed to failure, IMO.
Do not buy any DRM-encumbered products. Make a statement about this by not participating.
Licence limiting software is a real pain and time sink. I've been halted in the last couple of weeks by one with a Y2K bug of all things, have others limited to dongles on real parallel ports (USB converters have a different memory address to a parallel port in MS Windows) and have to kee
In business there are things like trade secrets, documents, drawings and the like that you have to distribute to a jobber or some other outside entity to accomplish a task, but you really only want the outside entity to have them for the amount of time that they actually need them to get a task completed.
Typically this has been accomplished via NDA's or other legal agreements. It appears that in some instances they want more then a "promise" to destroy the information when it is no longer useful for the legitimate contracted purpose. Sort of like the old "This tape will self destruct in 10 seconds" gag from mission impossible.
The problem is that it really cannot be accomplished. You can use PGP or IronKey (tm) as others have suggested but that only prevents the material from being easily viewed by 3rd parties and does not address the "self destruct" desire.
I really cannot think of a way to make that happen. Every method that I can think of requires the destruct method to either be built into the data ( as a code block ) but even then something has to execute that code, and that is simply worked around.
It basically has to come down to trust. Either you trust the outside entities that you deal with or you don't. When I was in the military I had access to classified materials, and I was looked over from front to back top to bottom, my friends and neighbors were interviewed as well as my Principal from High School.
Sadly, I think the last 8 years of the current administration have re-enforced the notion of mistrust and it has found its way deep into the culture of corporate America.
In business there are things like trade secrets, documents, drawings and the like that you have to distribute to a jobber or some other outside entity to accomplish a task, but you really only want the outside entity to have them for the amount of time that they actually need them to get a task completed.
Typically this has been accomplished via NDA's or other legal agreements. It appears that in some instances they want more then a "promise" to destroy the information when it is no longer useful for the leg
They're mutually exclusive. The only way to enforce DRM is to encrypt the contents and only permit decryption when authorized. But, to decrypt the content you have to have the decryption key present. If the software is open-source, anyone can simply change the code to dump out the decryption key. Once they have the key, they can decrypt the content exactly as if they were authorized to do so. Or, they can simply change the code so the enforcing application always gets back "Yes." as the answer to "Is this o
The earliest known invention of a phonographic recording device was the phonautograph, invented by Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville and patented on March 25, 1857.
All it takes is for ONE dedicated geek to build a phonograph, the copy then hits the internet and it's game over. Not even locking down the hardware will help because a single output wire operating at 50khz or above will be able to reproduce the sound. You would have to sniff every single port on the computer for
One of the big problems with DRM is that it's a sexy technology.
Technologists and businessmen just love the idea of being able to control other people in ways that were not possible before and that's why DRM keeps resurfacing. I know, I used to like DRM myself until I grew up and realized that it was simply not in my interest to live in a supposedly free society when DRM does end-runs around everything from first sale doctrine to fair use provisions to the copyright bargain to free enterprise. This is bec
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Coliform & E. coli Bacteria Detection in Drinking Water
Brief Description
Primary drinking water test that simultaneously detects total coliform and E. coli bacteria using defined enzyme substrate technology.
Laboratory Unit
Environmental Bacteriology
Standard Method 9223B Enzyme Substrate, using Idexx Colilert 24-hour Presence/Absence or Colilert 18-Hour Presence/Absence formats. The Idexx QuantiTray format for quantitative results is available upon special request.
Specimen Collection
Click here for sampling instructions. Minimum volume 100 ml.
Ship to MSPHL immediately. Must be received in lab within 30 hours (public water) or 48 hours (private wells) of sampling. May be stored in refrigerator conditions temporarily prior to shipping. Use of a cooler and ice packs in the field is recommended.
Acceptable Specimen Type(s)
Potable water from public water supply or private well. Public supply source water samples (surface water and ground water sources).
Test Request Form(s)
Public water samples must be submitted by an official of the public supply following a DNR approved sampling plan. Use the Public Water Sample Form LAB 10B.
The general public may submit private well samples. Test results are considered "Unofficial" and are for informational purposes only. Use the Unofficial Private Water Sample Form LAB 10C.
Private well samples to be used for "Official" purposes, including real estate transactions and health related inspections, must be submitted by an official of the state or local health agency, or a state licensed sample collector/well inspector. Use the Official Private Water Sample Form LAB 10G.
Possible Results
Total Coliform and E. coli "Present" or "Absent".
Reference Range
Total Coliform and E. coli "Absent"
Unacceptable Conditions
Transit time exceeded
No date/time collected
No sample identification
Sample form incomplete
Quantity not sufficient (100 ml)
Sample leaked in transit
Sample frozen
Presence of disinfectant
Unapproved container
Interfering Substances
Humic material with innate yellow color
Result Reported
Results are reported to DNR (public water samples) or to the submitter (private water samples) within 24-30 hours of sample receipt in lab (next day).
Private well samples are charged a $10 handling fee. Invoice will be sent with sample results. There is no charge for public water samples submitted by public supplies for their monthly EPA/DNR Safe Drinking Water Act compliance testing.
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A decision by the Jasper County Council could determine the location of the Hardeeville Community Library.
The city of Hardeeville has asked the county if it could use the Jasper County Satellite Office on Main Street across from Charles Street for the library, but since it is a county building, the city needs county approval.
"It has a large parking lot which would be the ideal place to put the library," Councilman Sal Arzillo said. "We would remove the old building and start from scratch. This would fit into our five-year plan as far as location and hopefully could get it done before 2013 comes to an end."
City Manager Bob Nanni said Monday it was too early to give an update on the project. He said the new location of the library depends on a decision by the County Council.
In September, the city planned to apply for Community Development Block Grant and search for a new location after being turned down a year ago for a grant through the Lowcountry Council of Government for Community Development Block Grant program.
One of the reasons the original grant was denied was because plans called for the new library to be on the same property as the Heyward House.
Arzillo said the Heyward House was never a well thought out plan.
"If the county would agree - and I think they will - we will own the property and get the grant process moving," Arzillo said. "We will bring this to Jasper County after the swearing in of the new County Council. Hopefully, we can all get behind this project and get it done."
The new County Council members will be sworn in Monday.
Mayor Pro Tem Michael Sweeney said City Council was very interested in picking a site because of the need for a new library and that the county will be approached for the use of the property next to Engine 7 on Main Street.
"If this falls through, we will have to go back to square one," Sweeney said.
Blueprints for a 4,500-square-foot library have been drawn by Spivey and Woods Architects of Charleston, but the project needs funding if the city receives the property from the county. The cost estimate for the library project is $1.85 million.


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Hominy Meatball Stew Recipe
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This stew is tasty served with crackers as well as corn bread, and it freezes well. For a less spicy version, substitute plain canned tomatoes for the Mexican blend.
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- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1/2 cup cornmeal
- 1/4 cup finely chopped onion
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1 pound ground beef
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 2 cans (15-1/2 ounces each) hominy, rinsed and drained
- 2 cans (14-1/2 ounces each) Mexican diced tomatoes, undrained
- 2 cans (8 ounces each) tomato sauce
- 2 cups water
- 1 envelope taco seasoning
- In a large bowl, combine the egg, cornmeal, onion, salt and pepper. Crumble beef over mixture and mix well. Shape into 3/4-in. balls.
- In a large skillet over medium heat, brown meatballs in oil in batches. Drain.
- In a Dutch oven, combine the hominy, tomatoes, tomato sauce, water and taco seasoning. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat; add meatballs. Cover and simmer for 30-35 minutes or until meat is no longer pink. Yield: 8 servings (2-1/2 quarts).
Originally published as Hominy Meatball Stew in Country October/November 2007, p51
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"This might have been good without the tomato sauce. As is did not like it."
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"Love this recipe. My husband is sceptical of new and different recipes, howevr he does like this alot. I also cook it in dutch oven when camping."
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Salvador Guerrero, D.O., F.A.C.S., board-certified general surgeon/board-eligible vascular surgeon, has joined the medical staff of Wayne Memorial Hospital. Guerrero is currently seeing patients at Honesdale Surgical Associates, a part of Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers (WMCHC), located at the Stourbridge Medical and Professional Complex.
He will also be holding office hours at the Pike Family Health Center, 750 Route 730 in Lords Valley beginning in December.
Guerrero joined WMCHC as a means of growing his practice he has said. "Wayne Memorial Hospital is expanding all departments including wound care," he stated. However, remaining within his own community was also important, "by staying local I can continue to treat patients living in Pike County."
Guerrero received his medical degree from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine in Old Westbury, NY and performed his residency in general surgery at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. He completed a vascular surgical fellowship at the Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Brown Mills, NJ. Guerrero was recently affiliated with Bon Secours Charity Medical Group, a multi-specialty group practice located in Port Jervis, NY.
In addition to performing general and vascular surgery at Bon Secours Community Hospital, Guerrero served as the hospital's wound clinic director. He lives in Milford with his wife, Claudia and their two children.
Wayne Memorial Hospital is said to be pleased to have the skills of two vascular surgeons available to its patients. J. Garry Wrobleski, Jr., D.O., F.A.C.O.S., general and vascular surgeon at United Surgical Associates, PC, in Carbondale joined the hospital's courtesy staff in February of this year.
"With our increasing patient base Wayne Memorial will be well-served by the addition of a new surgeon," said David Hoff, Wayne Memorial's chief executive officer. "For a facility of our size, we are proud of the range of surgical specialties we offer including orthopedic, vascular, gynecological, ENT, urology and neurosurgery."
Guerrero will be partnering with Brian Lenczewski, MD, who has been providing general surgical services at Wayne Memorial Hospital for the past three years. In addition to general and vascular surgical coverage, Guerrero will see patients in The Regional Wound Care Center and The Hyperbaric Center located within the hospital's main building on Park Street in Honesdale.
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Release Notes: An ARM AArch64 port was added. The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory. Support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc, was improved. Many optimizations and bugfixes as well as several further enhancements were made.
Release Notes: This release fixes many bugs, adds support for the x32 ABI on x86-64, removes support for anything but the ELF binary format, improves ISO C11 support, removes compatibility code for Linux kernel versions prior to 2.4, and makes many optimizations. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs brought many fixes and more accurate exceptions and function results.
Release Notes: Many bugs have been fixed. A new program "pldd" lists loaded objects of a process. Support for nss_db has been added back without dependency on Berkeley db and with support for initgroups lookups. Various functions have been optimized, notably on x86 platforms. The new functions scandirat and scandirat64 have been added, as well as process_vm_readv and process_vm_writev on Linux. Four new locales have been added.
Release Notes: glibc's RPC implementation was obsoleted in favor of TI-RPC, but still allows existing programs to run. The new Linux interfaces clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at, syncfs, setns, and sendmmsg were added. New locales os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH, yue_HK, lij_IT, and mhr_RU were added. New encodings CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, and CP774 were added. A new program called sotruss was added to allow tracing calls through PLTs. The malloc hook implementation, which never worked since the introduction of threads, was marked as deprecated. Many bugs were fixed.
Release Notes: New Linux interfaces prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, and fanotify_mark were added. POWER7 optimizations were made for memset, memcmp, and strncmp. New optimized string functions were implemented for x86-64: strnlen (utilizing SSE2), strcasecmp (utilizing SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (utilizing SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2). Many minor bugs were fixed.
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Release Notes: Several minor bugs were fixed.
Release Notes: New interfaces pthread_getname_np and pthread_setname_np have been added, and the new Linux interface recvmmsg has been added. STT_GNU_IFUNC has been implemented for SPARC. The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header. A new NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW, useful for some installations involving Solaris, has been implemented. Three new locales have been added. A large number of bugs and internal improvements have been made.
Release Notes: Several minor bugs were fixed.
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Officially a desperate team the Rangers did what their precarious position requires by again plastering Houston on Monday night. The Rangers flattened the dismal Astros early and rolled to a clear-the-bench 12-0 victory at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. Alex Rios hit for a cycle in his first four at-bats as the Rangers tripled their run production from the disappointing three-game series at Kansas City last weekend. Left-hander Derek Holland pitched his second shutout of the season to win for the first time since Aug. 4. Holland is in line to start the next-to-last game of the regular season. "This what we have to do" Rios said. "We know what's coming is not easy but we're very optimistic." The rout kept the Rangers two games behind Tampa Bay and moved them to one game behind Cleveland for the two American League wild-card spots. Manager Ron Washington insisted he will not obsess on the scoreboard in these decisive days. "We need to beat who we're [playing]" Washington said. "That's the way it's supposed to be. I'd like for them to lose while we win but I'm not depending on that." The Rangers are 15-2 against Houston which has lost 10 consecutive games. The Rangers can win their remaining six games two against the Astros and four against the Los Angeles Angels and miss the playoffs. Unlike the last three seasons when they determined their own fate on the way to the playoffs the Rangers need the kindness of others. The Rangers must have Tampa Bay to stumble in its final six games at the New York Yankees and at Toronto. Or the Rangers hope for Cleveland to struggle against a pair of AL Central patsies: the Chicago White Sox and Minnesota. "We need to worry about ourselves and not worry about what everybody else is doing" said Holland who held the Astros to six singles. "If we win the rest will take care of itself. You've got to put the pressure on them." And the Rangers have to keep winning something that has eluded them in September. On Tuesday they will attempt to win a second consecutive game for the first time since Aug. 27-28 against Seattle. Rios triggered the romp with a two-run double in the first inning. It may have released the pressure building within a team that went 2-for-19 with runners in scoring position during the wrenching series loss at Kansas City. "It's certainly something we've been looking for" Washington said of a quick offensive start. "We'll know how confident we are tomorrow."
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The NFL levied $50,000 in fines Friday to the Pittsburgh Steelers and wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders for faking an injury during an Oct. 21 game in Cincinnati.
Sanders was fined $15,000 and the organization $35,000. Sanders grabbed the back of his leg and collapsed to the ground during the fourth quarter of Pittsburgh's 24-17 win.
NFL executive vice president of football operations Ray Anderson handed out the discipline after meeting with Sanders last week.
Anderson said it found no evidence the Steelers, on an organization-wide basis, were instructing or condoning the faking of injuries for competitive purposes. ''If I believed that to be the case, the discipline would be substantially more,'' Anderson said.
In an open letter to Sanders and Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert, Anderson cited video evidence to the contrary of Sanders's contention that he was in severe pain, before or after the play. Sanders sat out one play — a team trainer attended to him — and then returned to the game for the next play, a Pittsburgh punt.
Anderson noted that Sanders outran his teammates and downed the ball.
Among the 10 other players fined were Panthers safety Haruki Nakamura and Packers tight end Ryan Taylor, who were fined $21,000 each for dangerous hits, and Eagles quarterback Michael Vick ($7,875) for a low block at Saints safety Roman Harper during an interception return for a touchdown by Patrick Robinson.
Murray out again
Cowboys running back DeMarco Murray will miss his fourth straight game Sunday against the host Eagles because of a sprained left foot. Felix Jones, who is listed as probable with a knee injury, is expected to start again in Murray's place . . . Steelers tackle Marcus Gilbert (ankle) did not practice and will likely miss his fourth consecutive game Monday against the Chiefs, while running back Jonathan Dwyer (quadriceps) is on track to return to game action after sitting out last week . . . Raiders running backs Darren McFadden (ankle) and Mike Goodson (ankle) and defensive lineman Richard Seymour (knee, hamstring) were ruled out of Sunday's game against the Ravens . . . Vikings receiver Percy Harvin was listed as doubtful for Sunday's game against Detroit after a sprained left ankle kept him out of practice all week. Meanwhile, Detroit safeties Louis Delmas (knee) and Amari Spievey (concussion) will miss the game with injuries . . . The Seahawks will be without linebacker K.J. Wright and guard James Carpenter against the Jets on Sunday as neither player has been cleared to return after suffering concussions.
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Jake Locker will start for the Titans against the Dolphins — the quarterback's first game in more than a month. Locker separated his left, non-throwing shoulder for the second time in four games Sept. 30 against Houston . . . Texans coach Gary Kubiak said tight end Owen Daniels was ''very limited' in practice with a back injury and could miss Sunday's game in Chicago, a matchup of 7-1 teams . . . The Saints will be without running back Darren Sproles (broken hand) and offensive tackle Zach Strief (groin) for Sunday's home game against Atlanta.


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In an industry where imitation is built into the collective DNA, few filmmakers can be legitimately credited with creating a genre, but it's easy to view David Zucker as a genuine progenitor.
Zucker made 1980's "Airplane!" with brother Jerry and long-time friend Jim Abrams. Even if "Airplane!" wasn't Hollywood's first spoof, it established the comic pacing for a generation of filmmakers. Zucker, whose latest effort is "Scary Movie 4," has been spoofing for so long that he's set down the genre's regulations in writing.
"We have 15 rules, which are mainly things not to do and that just helps in the writing," Zucker explains. "When we argue about what should be in the script, we just cite a rule like, 'Well, you can't do that, because it's a joke within a joke.'"
Surely one rule is that you have to admire the films you're spoofing, at least on some level, right David?
"You have to have some kind of affection for these movies and I guess my affection for 'Brokeback Mountain' is its outrageousness, I think, that they made a movie out of that that was so poorly done," he says.
With a risque scene involving Anthony Anderson and Kevin Hart, "Scary Movie 4" becomes the first mainstream movie to include a "Brokeback Mountain" parody, but that doesn't mean that Zucker feels any real warmth for the recent awards favorite.
"I think the Oscars are a great thing for the industry, but I don't take 'em really seriously," says Zucker, an Academy member. "I get all the movies. I can screen them at home. 'Brokeback Mountain' was hard to watch even at home and I couldn't scan it and I wanted to scan it. It was like watching paint dry. I couldn't wait until the guys kissed each other, because it was at least some action. Something happened."
Zucker doesn't feel much sunnier toward several of the other movies he spoofs in "Scary Movie 4," including a certain Steven Spielberg blockbuster he watched after undergoing a minor surgical procedure.
"I'm just recovering from the anesthesia and I'm watching 'War of the Worlds' and it was torture," he says. "Craig Mazin and Bob Weiss, the producers, said I fell asleep three times, so they made me see it again in Vancouver."
Hollywood's reigning king of twisty thrillers also takes a beating.
"If I ever met M. Night Shyamalan, I'd just shake his hand and tell him how much I love him because he makes the best movies," Zucker begins. "I don't mean 'best' as in 'good,' but the best spoofable movies. He takes himself so seriously. 'Signs,' how can you ask for anything better than that? Except 'The Village.'"
Despite the appearance of a certain Naomi Watts-loving money in the "Scary Movie 4" poster, Zucker confesses that "King Kong" is one movie audiences should expect to see lampooned.
"It was purely a ruse to get people to be interested in seeing the movie," he cackles.
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How slow is the blackberry pearl flip 8220, really?
I'm thinking of getting one soon off of amazon.com, and all I really want a phone for is making calls and texting every now and then. I'm not even on my phone all that much, the reason I'm thinking of getting it is because I've never owned a blackberry before, and it looks pretty.
Is it really that slow? Are simple tasks like calling and texting slow, or is it just internet browsing and applications, etc?
Would you recommend I get a blackberry that is limited to OS 4.6 in today's world, or do you recommend another phone? I'm not looking to spend a lot, I'm going to get the pearl flip for around 150$.
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If you're not paying attention to our Facebook page, you're missing out on some of the neat stuff Kate Sullivan has been finding, such as this 1963 Chrysler promotional video all about that company's gas turbine engine program, its various prototype gas turbine-powered cars and how Chrysler's gas turbine engines work.
In the spring of `65, five of these Turbines visited Omaha, and stopped at my Grandfather's hotel, the Shimmel Inn on Dodge St.
I can still recall Dad taking us down to see Pop & those beautiful copper coupes! Mom took a picture of 5 yr. old me in the driver seat–what a thrill! Little did I know about the test-drive program Chrysler has on these cars, but those 'jet after-burner' taillamps stay in my memory to this day.
Autobug2, is there any chance that you have a scan of that photo of you in the driver's seat? Here's a link to a postcard of the inn. Unfortunately, I see no Turbines in the parking lot.
If you want to see something that will make you cry, watch the short video clip at Mark Olson's Chrysler Turbine site (Mark's dad was one of the lucky people who participated in the nationwide pilot test), of the cars (most of them) being crushed at a Detroit area junkyard in 1968.
Go to this page (scroll to the bottom) to view the car-nage (if you have a strong stomach).
Kate, have you checked out Mark Olson's site I linked above? You should contact him, as he has collected lots of turbine car stuff over the years. As for me, I just have a promo, along with one of the Jo-Han model kits.
Shhhh, don't tell the boss, but I've now bookmarked that site. I'll definitely have to get in touch with him and maybe see if we can do a collector/specialist profile!
Very interesting film. I had no idea that CC was road-testing that engine 10 years before that fancy one showed up in '63. I understand that one of the reasons CC didn't try to put them into production was cost. Of course it was also a rather radical departure from the norm. Quite a noteworthy effort for CC just the same.
…or maybe I'm not missing so much, in that I have a satellite internet connection so most videos don't play right if they play at all.
It sounds like Walter Cronike did the narration.
I have always loved the looks of the Jet Car much less having a jet engine moving the thing. BTW, Jay Leno in the last few years added on to his collection and he has a very nice video on his website giving some great details about it.
did'nt Dennis Gage from My Classic Car go drive Jay's turbine?
I don't know if it's the same car that Jay owns now, but in the MCC episode I saw, the car was owned by an older gentleman, in Indiana (IIRC). At the time, it was the only one that wasn't in a museum, and the only one that was being driven. At the time the test program ended, Chrysler tried to find homes for all the cars, but they had to go to non-profits (museums), as they was the only way they could Chrysler could avoid the import duties on them, which apparently were steep. There weren't enough museums that were interested (or could be reached), which is why the vast majority of the cars were crushed.
I have been a FB friend of Hemmings for quite some time. I have always wondered who was responsible for its content over there. Thanks to Ms. Sullivan for keeping this regular follower of Hemmings blog apprised of even more cool stuff such as this. Fantastic job and this olelongrooffan will continue to enjoy the content, both here and there. Thanks.
Hey fellow Hooniversian!
Thanks so much! It's a blast getting to bring some extra car goodness to everyone during the day.
That's a beautiful car. They don't make stuff any more.
chitty chitty bang bang should have been a 1963 chrysler tubine! that turbine would have made a great aircraft engine.


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Aug. 2, 2010
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The UC Santa Barbara men's swimming team, which has won an unprecedented 26 Big West titles over the last 34 years, will join the Pacific-10 Conference for competition beginning in the 2010-11 season. The Pac-10 made the announcement official on Monday.
Rather than wait until a conference meeting in October, the Pac-10 went to an e-mail vote recently to allow UCSB to compete immediately in the conference. This announcement comes on the heels of the UCSB women's swim team joining the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.
The men's swimming team will be the first UCSB squad in history to be affiliated with the prestigious Pac-10, which has the most national championships of any NCAA conference in the traditional Olympic sports.
"This is an exciting day for UCSB Athletics," said Mark Massari, UCSB's Director of Athletics. "The opportunity to have one of our most decorated teams compete in the conference of champions is terrific news. It provides our team, which has some of the best swimmers in the country, the chance to compete against an elite level of swimmers throughout the conference."
The Pac-10 council, following the recommendation of the Senior Women Administrators Committee (SWAC), approved both UCSB and Cal Poly as affiliate members for the upcoming academic year.
"Joining the Pac-10 Championship meet could be the best thing that has happened to our men's swimming program in the last two decades," UCSB head coach Gregg Wilson said. "Competing against the best in the country can certainly make us better. We look forward to the challenge."
The Pac-10 men's swimming championships is in Long Beach at the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool on March 2-5, 2011. The diving championships will be held in conjunction with the Pac-10 women's swimming championships, which will be February 23-26, 2011 at the Weyerhaueser King County Aquatics Complex in Federal Way, Washington.
UCSB is in the initial stages of developing a proposed new aquatics facility and has hired Blackbird Architects for the conceptual designing of a future intercollegiate aquatics facility on campus. The planned site is behind the Intercollegiate Athletics (ICA) building and will face east towards the recreation fields. To read more about Blackbird's role, please click here.
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**As of 6 p.m. Sunday, the fire is 55% contained.
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A special press conference was held at 2 p.m. to update anxious evacuees on the status of their respective evacuation orders.
Oak Valley, Pinon Valley, Peregrine, Grand Centennial Apartments, and all businesses along Centennial and 30th will be permitted to return as 8 p.m. Sunday. Centennial will also reopen at 8 p.m.
Garden of the Gods and Palmer Park have been reopened. The Pikes Peak Highway will be reopened Monday.
--Sunday morning's coverage--
The Waldo Canyon fire remains 45 percent contained with 17,659 acres burned as of Sunday morning.
Sunday's press conference gave the first hint of normalcy returning to the Pikes Peak region, with the announcement that Highway 24 was reopening, first at 9 a.m. for residents living along Ute Pass, then at 1 p.m. for everyone. Officials advised drivers planning on using the highway to keep in mind that fire activity is still going on, meaning there may be some restrictions to using the highway such as reduced speed.
The Highway 24 announcement tied into more good news for residents along Ute Pass--Crystola, Green Mountain Falls, Cascade, Chipita Park--who were given the green light to go home. They will remain under pre-evacuation. Proof of residency will need to be shown to gain Highway 24 access between 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Steve Cox with Colorado Springs said the city will announce a decision on lifting the Oak Valley, Peregrine evacuations at 2 p.m.
Residents of Mountain Shadows will be allowed to tour their neighborhood from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Residents can drive themselves in through two checkpoints: Eagleview Middle School on Vindicator and the Verizon facility at 2424 Garden of the Gods Road. According to the city, Centennial still has closures in place, so those going through the Eagleview checkpoint can exit Rockrimmon or Woodmen to access Vindicator.
For an area that thrives on outdoor activities, officials gave the disappointing news that trail systems near Waldo Canyon, such as the Barr Trail and the Incline, remain closed, as do nearby attractions along the fire perimeter, Cave of the Winds and the Cliff Dwellings. An official with Manitou Springs says they are working closely with incident commanders to determine when it would be safe to reopen these areas.
There has been no word on when Colorado Springs parks and open spaces will reopen.
Colorado Springs Utilities and Black Hills Energy addressed resident concerns about utilities in the evacuated areas. CSU says it will have new information available for residents Monday on csu.org. They did caution returning evacuees to not touch gas meters, and that it may be a few days before gas service returns.
Black Hills Energy also directed customers with questions to their website blackhillsenergy.com. They are still trying to restore service to Crystola and Cascade.
Incident Commander Rich Harvey said that while he is cautiously optimistic about the 55 percent containment, he remains focused on the areas that are not contained, and remains prepared for any worst-case scenarios. There are a lot of crews on the ground on the northeast side of the fire, the most vulnerable side.
Investigators have finally been permitted to get on the ground to begin work on finding a call.
Harvey said some unburned areas inside the perimeter are beginning to catch fire, but that these areas are nowhere near the perimeter and should be no cause of alarm. They are working to save as much unburned area as possible.
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Stopping HIV Meds May Double the Rate of Liver Fibrosis in Co-Infected
May 9, 2011
From a study reported in the April 24, 2011 issue of AIDS, people co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C who stop taking their HIV meds run about a 2.5 times higher risk of liver fibrosis compared to those who don't interrupt their HIV regimens. This finding echoes similar results from other studies such as SMART in HIV mono-infected individuals, which showed that interrupting HIV treatment increases the risk of certain non-AIDS conditions.
The CTN222 study followed 541 co-infected people who had stopped HIV meds for at least two weeks. Only those who had little or no fibrosis were included and followed for an average of one year. Fibrosis was measured every six months by using blood markers, called the APRI method. Significant fibrosis was considered as an APRI score of 1.5 or more. (Ultrasounds or biopsies were not done, which are considered more accurate tests for fibrosis.)
Over six years of study, a total of 53 people stopped their HIV meds for an average of 180 days. A partially different group of 53 people developed significant fibrosis. Although lower CD4 counts and detectable viral loads partly contributed to the higher risk of fibrosis, stopping HIV meds appears to independently increase the risk as well.
These results underscore the need for careful choices of appropriate HIV regimens and follow-up of a patient's health to limit treatment interruptions. They further emphasize the need for staying on an HIV regimen during HCV treatment, which can be difficult given the dearth of information from few drug interactions studies between the full range of HIV meds and the two recently approved hepatitis C drugs, Incivek (telaprevir) and Victrelis (boceprevir).
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OSSINING — Final, as in the final environmental impact statement on the construction of a new Tappan Zee Bridge, apparently isn't so final after all.
OSSINING — Final, as in the final environmental impact statement on the construction of a new Tappan Zee Bridge, apparently isn't so final after all.
The state, despite concluding the review process and obtaining federal authorization to proceed, is still meeting with organizations that have raised significant objections to the plan — particularly its perceived failure to provide adequate protection of the Hudson River and adequate relief from congestion through mass transit.
"We haven't found our very aggressive adversariness deterring the state from meeting with us — which is good," said Paul Gallay, president of Riverkeeper. "The river is a fount of environmental diversity and recreational opportunity that we need to protect."
Gallay said the discussions started in the summer and include two other organizations that share Riverkeeper's concerns: Scenic Hudson and the Tri-State Transportation Campaign.
He described the final environment impact statement as a floor rather than a ceiling, explaining that the state has to do what it's promised to do, but is free to do more.
"That's why we're still meeting," said Gallay. "We're looking for common ground, to reduce the river impacts and to solve congestion."
However, Dan Weiller, the New York State Thruway Authority's director of public affairs, gave no indication that the state would consider any changes.
"The federal government has approved our environmental plan because it contains the strongest possible requirements to protect the environment," said Weiller.
In the formal comments it filed with the state, Riverkeeper contends "this rushed review progress has effectively resulted in the mere appearance of an environmental review process, as opposed to a properly conducted and adequately supported study."
The organization claims the analysis of alternatives for costs, impacts and benefits was insufficient, because it only evaluated building the bridge that the state is now advancing toward construction and building nothing — setting aside every other variant, including options incorporating bus rapid transit and/or commuter rail.
Riverkeeper also raises the possibility that the still-confidential design-build proposals — which include details for demolishing the present bridge — will result in different impacts, particularly from the form and extent of dredging that is being considered.
The organization suggests that alternate approaches to dredging would reduce the loss of shortnose and Atlantic sturgeon and "benthic macroinvertebrates" (insects and shellfish) on the river bottom as well as the resuspension of PCBs and other hazardous materials in the river sediments.
But Weiller pointed out that the state is taking "aggressive steps" to protect the endangered sturgeon, requiring contractors to use bubble curtains to shield fish from the noise of pile-driving and to curtail dredging in peak fish migration and spawning periods.
An observer from the National Marine and Fisheries Services will also be on-site to ensure any sturgeon captured in dredging operations are documented and released.
"When we presented these facts to Riverkeeper at a meeting last month, they had no real recommendations for new mitigation steps we should take," said Weiller.
Although Riverkeeper has been the most outspoken critic of the state's decision to fast-track construction of a new bridge, Galley declined to dwell on previous comments about the potential for a lawsuit.
"We're on record as to what will happen if the discussions fail," said Galley. "Right now, we're concentrating on how to help the state succeed."


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Correction of Statements Made On This Site About Serge Trifkovic:
Frontpage regrets characterizations of Serge Trifkovic, author of Sword of Islam, that were made in an article by Stephen Schwartz (CAIR's Axis of Evil) to the effect that Trifkovic, is an Islamophobe, is associated with Pravda or Antiwar.com, and "was the main advocate in the West for the regime of Slobodan Milosevic." Serge Trifkovic is not associated with either Pravda or Antiwar.com. He was not a supporter of Slobodan Milsoevic. He is not an Islamophobe nor would Frontpage have given extensive space to a summary of his book if he were. Frontpage regrets any pain or injury this may have caused to Mr. Trifkovic.-- David Horowitz)
Reply to Stephen Schwartz by Serge Trifkovic:
It is troubling and disappointing that Frontpagemagazine (FPM) has allowed Stephen Schwartz to slander me. Had the diatribe been launched privately I would never have stooped to replying, directly or otherwise, to this deeply troubled man. Since FPM has seen it fit to provide the vehicle, however, I have no choice but to react.
To be called "the noted Islamophobe" is not only an invitation to a fatwa, it is doubly sinister coming as it does from a convert to Mohammedanism.
Schwartz writes that "Trifkovic is much more closely identified [with] the Russian 'red-brown' (Communazi) newspaper Pravda." This comes as a genuine surprise to me. What foreign websites carry my articles is beyond my control, but since I have never written anything for "Pravda" or spoken to anyone associated with it, this slanderous little aside only reinforces the way in which Mr. Schwartz has not allowed mere facts to stand in the way of his creativity.
Schwartz accuses me of being in league with Slobodan Milosevic's apologists at Antiwar.com - although the site's only mention of my name in this context came in the form of a scathing personal attack by one of its former columnists: "Kostunica's American worshippers, including Fleming and his Chronicles colleague Srdja Trifkovic continue to indulge themselves in their puerile fantasies." (George Szamuely, Antiwar.com, September 29, 2000)
But it is the claim that I was "the main public advocate in the West for the regime of Slobodan Milosevic" that is as unfunny as it is untrue. It is also hurtful to me personally in view of the many risks I have taken with my long and well documented position vis-a-vis Mr. Milosevic. Let us therefore leave rhetoric aside and look at a small segment of verbatim quotes from my extensive record of articles and interviews on the subject of the former Serbian president, starting 13 years ago and continuing until our time:
"Slobodan Milosevic is cynically exploiting the nationalist awakening to perpetuate Communist rule and his own power in the eastern half of Yugoslavia." U.S. News & World Report, June 18, 1990
"Communist leader Slobodan Milosevic needs outside enemies to halt the erosion of his popularity... Yugoslavia could be well on its way to becoming the Lebanon of Europe." U.S. News & World Report, November 12, 1990
"Demagogue and populist." The Yugoslav Crisis and the United States. Stanford: Hoover Institution, 1991
"Trifkovic said he [was] critical of the authoritarian rule of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and has called for his removal from office and democratic reforms." The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), Sunday, September 6, 1992, p. 6-B
"[Trusting] Milosevic is like giving a bloodbank to Count Drakula." The Times (London), Thursday, November 23, 1995, p. 16
"Milosevic has used his newly-fangled international legitimacy [after Dayton] to stifle even further all political opposition and to reassert state control." The Phoenix Gazette, Tuesday, March 19, 1996, p. B5
"Milosevic is afraid of having Mladic and Karadzic delivered to The Hague not because of the possibility of a Serb backlash in Serbia itself, but because those two know quite a lot about Milosevic's own role in the early days of the Yugoslav war, in '91 and '92." BBC World Service TV, "Newsdesk" (live) 10:25GMT, Wednesday, 29 May 1996
"For Mr. Milosevic, the very existence of any alternative to his own power is not legitimate. Even the current façade of multi-party system he allowed only under pressure, treating it as something odious and temporary." The Phoenix Gazette, Wednesday, December 18, 1996, p. B4
"The sanctions had proved an absolute boon to Milosevic. He could blame them for the abysmal economic situation in the country, which was in fact due to the structural defects of an inefficient socialist economy - an economy he was unwilling to reform... Milosevic could observe with calm equanimity the exodus of about a quarter of a million predominantly young and well-educated urban Serbs. Those who had provided the backbone of political opposition to his government were emigrating, and he was staying." Chronicles, June 1997
"An incorrigible communist and blunderer."The Philadelphia Inquirer, Saturday, September 6, 1997
"Milosevic... manipulates these crises to preserve his power. With each new surrender he is temporarily converted by the West from the Beast of the Balkans into the Necessary Partner. This outcome would be awful for Serbia. The nation should lose its tyrant, not its borders." The Times (London), Thursday, March 18, 1999
"Albright and Milosevic manipulate each other and deserve each other... He had always been a recycled Communist apparatchik who manipulated the thetoric of nationalism in order to extend his shelf life. And his behaviour had always been personally functional, but systematically, from the viewpoint of Serb interests, dysfunctional. That's why Serbs are in such a dire predicament right now." CNN, Friday, March 26, 1999.
"Milosevic [is] a misshapen tyrant who will not flap his wings as long as he can feed on the evr-shrinking innards of Inner Serbia." The Philadelphia Inquirer, Monday, November 22, 1999, p. A15
"Serbia, thanks to Milosevic, acquired the image of the last bastion of communism in Europe." Testimony to the Canadian House of Commons, February 17, 2000
"Milosevic in Serbia and President Franjo Tudjman in Croatia were both busy establishing a quasi-dictatorial post-communist regime, and they needed vulgar nationalism - for a time - to outbid the most vulgar nationalists." The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World. Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 80
"Something has snapped in the minds of many Serbs. They can now visualize Serbia after Milosevic. They can visualize Serbia without sanctions and without the shame that he has brought upon his people. . . And once they lose their respect, they will loss fear. And once they lose fear, they may end up lynching him." CNN Headline News, live, Saturday, September 30, 2000, 6:10 p.m. Eastern
"Like some crazed anti-Midas, in his 13 years of chaotically autocratic rule Milosevic destroyed everything he touched... [He] cared not a hoot for his people's interests or dignity, and turned his country into a corrupt, mafia-infested basket case. Milosevic's arrogance and low cunning were matched only by his utter inability to devise a coherent strategy of anything - including his own political survival. . . It will take Serbia decades to recover from this awful man." Chronicles Online, April 14, 2001
The list goes on, but this small sample should suffice. Of course I opposed the misguided NATO intervention in the Balkans, and the systematic misrepresentation of the wars of Yugoslav succession by the likes of Schwartz. In doing so I was in good company on both Left and Right, and on both sides of the Atlantic-but that is a different story.
Reply to Trifkovic by Stephen Schwartz:
Fatawa -- the correct plural in Arabic -- are merely religious opinions. Fatawa of individual condemnation are seldom levelled against non-Muslims. Salman Rushdie and Khalid Duran, against whom fatawa urging violence were issued, are both born Muslims. The so-called fatawa of Osama bin Laden do not count, because bin Laden has no standing to issue fatawa. The fatawa of other extremists urging violence are opinions directed against nations or communities, not against individuals as such. I am much more likely to be the object of a condemnatory fatwa than Trifkovic. However, it is a little strange to imagine that a comment by me would elicit a violent reaction to him, when the attacks on him by CAIR, and his service to Radovan Karadzic, have not done so.
I mention Karadzic because Srdja Trifkovic has conveniently left out of his self-defense the fact that according to his own biography, he was a political consultant for two members of the Milosevic regime who served its aggression in the Balkans. These are Radovan Karadzic and Biljana Plavsic.
Trifkovic may cite all the comments he wants about Milosevic, but I would remind him that many witnesses were present when I debated him at Stanford a decade ago. In that debate, he defended the Milosevic regime, while I criticized it.
Final word -- Serge Trifkovic:
In regard to our Stanford debate: I repeated, more or less, the key points from my Hoover paper, which is available to the curious. My presentation was above all a defense of the Serbs' right to self-determination, and not a "defense of Milosevic."
I have met Karadzic during my many trips to the Balkans but I never "worked" for him. Yes, I was Plavsic's consultant during her brief presidency (1998), when she was persona gratissima in Washington, where I accompanied her during her visit in May of that year. She was certainly not a "member of the Milosevic regime" -- quite the contrary, she was his determined foe, which made it possible for me to help her, and made her attractive in the eyes of the U.S. Administration.


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Filed under: Capitalism, Democrat Corruption, Economy, Energy, Law | Tags: House Republicans, Speaker John Boehner, Working To End the Ban
House Republicans led by Speaker John Boehner are working to overturn the ban that was passed in 2007, by a Democrat Congress, on incandescent light bulbs. Many people are unaware that the ban begins on January 1, 2012, when 100-watt bulbs are outlawed.
A key House committee staffer emailed today that "It looks like light bulbs are one of the final sticking points on the Omnibus Appropriations bill that would block the light bulb ban from taking effect.
The replacements available for the standard lightbulb include two versions of bulbs that are not really ready for prime time — the twisty compact fluorescent with its eye irritation, slow warm-up and generally bad light, or the LED bulb which has baffles to attempt to get it to spread its light in the right direction. The ban was instituted at the behest of the major bulb-making companies, GE, Sylvania and Phillips, who found they could make way more money on CFL bulbs made in China, and claim energy savings as the rationale. With the exposure of the global warming fraud, this is a little hard to swallow. The lost jobs when the U.S. bulb factories were closed are just more additions to the long list of jobs lost because of Obama administration regulation.
You can make a difference. Please email your two Senators and your Congressman immediately. Tell them to support language in the Omnibus Appropriations bill that would block the light bulb ban. email http://www.house.gov and http://www.senate.gov to find the email addresses for your representatives. Urge your friends and family to join you in the effort.
Even better, is a phone call. The Capitol Switchboard number is (202) 225-3121. A live operator will direct you to the right offices if you give them your State and zip-code. Your representatives are more impressed if you make the effort to phone — it tells them that you're serious.
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The National Center for Public Policy Research has published a surprisingly balanced piece on the "Five Myths About the Federal Incandescent Light Bulb Ban".
First, just to put this straight: it is hard to dispute the concluding statement:
Defenders of the light bulb ban claim people are better off with alternatives to incandescents, but if the public agreed, Congress wouldn't need a ban to get the public to switch.
Now a few nuances.
I am not a fan of CFLs. What I'd like to see, though, are some figures that could answer the question: Which releases more mercury into the environment: that from broken or improperly recycled CFLs, or that from burning the extra coal to generate electricity for the less efficient incandescent bulbs?
"Most alternatives use less energy, some substantially less." That is indeed the case. But, of course, that should be an adequate selling point, and not require government intervention. The bulb sellers have not been very good at providing consumers with the savings figures. Perhaps that's because they are afraid of lawsuits if the bulbs don't last for as long as claimed?
🙂 keep up the good effort!
Apparently Congress Republicans will keep trying in 2012, and there's always the Texas (legislated) and other local state light bulb freedom bills…or Canada delay to 2014, as per link
Last minute attempts to save the simple incandescent bulb
Re "which is worse"
incandescent related extra coal mercury emissions or CFL mercury
This is a bit of a red herring – 2 wrongs don't make a right.
That said, ban proponents use old mercury emission data
– just like they use old CO2 emissions data,
PROJECT that forward to 2030,
and then talk of multi-million ton savings
As Elephant Child says,
EPA have already put in place mandates, 90% mercury emission mandates, on coal power plants,
as vigorously pursued by new admin Lisa Jackson (there was a court case challenge).
So whether you think that's good or bad,
it knock s the "bad incandescent" argument,
certainly on those future projections.
It never was true anyway:
with references
someone breaking a CFL is more likely to be concerned with mercury on-the-spot, than any distant chimney release.
EC, Yes there used to be fun hand held toy labyrinth games too were you had guide a mercury blob from start to finish – before computers 😉 That would probably cause an environmental parental revolution upset these days to see such toys.
Apparently mercury affects the brain, which some of my acquiantances might say "that explains a lot".
There is a mania for saving energy and to enforce it
Advice for saving fine, enforcing no.
Even if there was a shortage, the price rise limits use anyway!!!
Gas for cars too – price goes up,, people buy fuel savers.
No need to legislate for it.
Unless you want to give the makers of Green expensive often Patented products nice kickback profits
After all , much easier big market-share at the stroke of a pen,
than to actually have to try to sell something against cheaper alternatives 😉
Hey.. the voices were heard 🙂
Bulb Ban postponement announced to Sep 30 2012
Passed in House 2 hours ago.
Passage in Senate seen as a formality.
Light bulb ban postponement was the only Republican amendment to the Energy funding Bill allowed by Pres Obama's office in last night's discussions…. which is seen as a sign that the change may become permanent, especially in 2012 election year
note to ban delay……. it was a roundabout legal construction that
denies funding of oversight of the implementation…(whew)
but effectively a postponement
Yes still US manufacture of the those bulbs
seems manufacture will continue OK


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North Bergen 2014 budget released; taxes to increase 2.54 percent
NORTH BERGEN – The 2014 North Bergen budget was announced at the Board of Commissioners meeting on March 26. Township Administrator Christopher Pianese provided a detailed breakdown of the budget and expenditures.
For 2014 the total budget will be $84.4 million. That is an increase of 1.53 percent over the 2013 budget of $83.14 million.
The proposed tax rate will increase by 2.54 percent, resulting in an average homeowner increase of $85.
Pianese pointed out that state aid to North Bergen had decreased from almost $14 million in 2007 to about $7 million a year currently.
Less than a week before the meeting, Moody's Investor's affirmed the upgraded Aa3 bond rating for North Bergen due to "prudent management team, strong financial position and market access."
Copies of the budget presentation are available in PowerPoint format on the town website at http://www.northbergen.org.
Free tax preparation services for senior citizens and disabled residents
North Bergen residents age 55 or over or in possession of proof of disability, with yearly income below $55,000 are eligible for free tax help. Residents must bring identification, Social Security card, tax documents and 2012 tax return. A certified Public Accountant (CPA) will provide free tax preparation services for senior citizens and disabled residents until April 15.
Preparation is by appointment only. Call (201) 364-9022 for an appointment.
Sessions will be held on Tuesdays from 3 to 7 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the North Bergen Library main branch; Wednesdays from 5 to 7 p.m. in the North Bergen Library Kennedy branch; and Wednesdays from noon to 4 p.m. in Lawlor Tower, 6121-6131 Grand Ave.
Franciscan Mystery Players presentation on April 6
The Franciscan Mystery Players, a group of young people, will present their version of The Way of the Cross at Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel, 7615 Broadway, North Bergen, on April 6 at 4 p.m. The Mystery Play is not a "play" in the common sense, but is in fact a prayerful experience that uses special lighting, a stirring soundtrack, pantomime actions, and inspirational narration to portray the Stations of the Cross in a manner that invites each viewer to contemplate the meaning of the Passion and how it relates today.
Admission is free but a free-will offering as you leave after the performance will be appreciated. Your donation will help the FMP continue their ministry. All are welcome. It is suggested you arrive 15 minutes early.
Three out of four 'top hospitals' in NJ are in Hudson County
Inside Jersey magazine and Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. released their annual survey of "Top Hospitals" in the state of New Jersey, and among hospitals with 350 beds or fewer, three of the top four hospitals were in Hudson County. Bayonne Medical Center and Jersey City Medical Center were ranked #2 and #3 respectively, with Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen coming in at #4. The prestigious "Top Hospitals in New Jersey" list was tabulated based on votes from 2,076 licensed physicians in the state.
Union City music organization joins national orchestra in concert on March 30
The joint concert, "UCMP and UCHS Present Face the Music," will benefit Union City Music Project (UCMP), a bilingual non-profit organization serving at-risk children in Union City through afterschool orchestral and vocal instruction and regular performances of UCMP's children's orchestra and chorus. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the door.
UCMP's child musicians, ages 5 to 11 years old, will be joined by 160-member Face the Music, the country's only 18-and-under ensemble solely devoted to music of living composers, and about 20 high school students in the UCHS Jazz Ensemble.
The combined musical ensembles will perform Dean Deng's new piano concerto, "Soliloquy," described as a piece in which "orchestra and soloist move through a variety of moods and atmospheres," as they "share a collection of thoughts with the audience in an intimate, personal setting."
Since 2012, UCMP has provided free instruments and low-cost afterschool musical instruction at Robert Waters Elementary School to Union City's low-income public school students from preschool through 5th grade. Besides learning violin, cello, percussion, flute, clarinet and vocals, the UCMP musicians perform throughout the tri-state area in their growing orchestra and chorus.
UCMP is grateful to the Union City Board of Education and UC Mayor / NJ State Senator Brian P. Stack for their support, as well as funders such as the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Turrell Fund, D'Addario Music Foundation, Target, and Wells Fargo and Oritani Banks.
For more information about the March 30 concert, visit the UCMP website (www.ucmusicproject.org) or call Melina Garcia at (646) 831-7719, or email her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The UCHS Theater is at 2500 Kennedy Blvd. in Union City.
Rice-Stack Bill to help clean up foreclosed properties advances
A bill sponsored by Senators Ronald L. Rice and Brian Stack to help clean up foreclosed properties by allowing municipalities to penalize creditors that fail to timely remedy code violations was approved by the Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee last week by a vote of 5-0.
"When a foreclosed home sits vacant within a community, it can become a magnet for criminal activity, and can deteriorate to cause an economic blight on the remaining homes within the community," said Senator Rice, D-Essex. "When these abandoned homes fall into disrepair, the creditors who are legally responsible for them should step up, do the right thing, and maintain the home. If they fail to fix the property in a timely manner, municipal officials should have the ability to impose penalties."
"We've seen cases where abandoned foreclosed homes aren't kept up and as a result create problems that affect the rest of the municipality," said Senator Stack, D-Hudson. "Not only can these properties drag down home values but they also can create a financial burden on everyone else when towns are forced to conduct maintenance and police patrols of the area. By requiring creditors who initiate the foreclosure proceedings to maintain these homes or face penalties, we're putting the responsibility for maintenance where it belongs."
The bill, S288, would authorize municipalities to impose penalties on creditors that fail to timely remedy code violations for residential properties in foreclosure for which the creditor is legally responsible. Under the bill, if the creditor fails to remedy the violation within a 30-day time period from receiving notice, then the municipality would be permitted to impose penalties as outlined for violations of municipal ordinances under current law.
The bill next heads to the full Senate for consideration.
Eight-week hospice training course beginning
Do you want to do volunteer work that really makes a difference in the lives of the terminally ill and their families? Volunteer roles include companionship for the patients, emotional support for patient and family, errands, and telephone reassurance.
This volunteer training program consists of eight classes on eight consecutive Tuesdays. Participants MUST attend all eight classes, beginning April 1 and ending May 20.
Classes take place on Tuesday mornings from 10 a.m. to noon or Tuesday evenings from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Hudson Hospice Office, 93 Clerk St. in Jersey City.
For further information call Sister Carol at (201) 433-6225.


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President Obama joined members of Congress in reacting to Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe's announcement that she would not seek re-election this year. The Maine senator has been in public service for nearly four decades.
Stressing her history of working with lawmakers on the other side of the aisle, Obama released a statement that read in part: "From her unwavering support for our troops, to her efforts to reform Wall Street, to fighting for Maine's small businesses, Sen. Snowe's career demonstrates how much can be accomplished when leaders from both parties come together to do the right thing for the American people."
The President's reaction is notable because he does not typically release statements when Republican lawmakers announce their retirements.
There was no paper statement when the second-ranking Republican in the Senate, Sen. Jon Kyl (R), announced he was retiring last February. The White House was equally mum when longtime Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) announced last January that she would not seek re-election.
One reason for the difference may be that Snowe has a history of breaking with her Republican counterparts and voting with the Democrats. The Washington Post points out that only Sen. Susan Collins -- also of Maine -- voted with Democrats more than Snowe last year.
Obama's statement also celebrated Snowe's long career in public service: "Elected to the State House in 1973, Olympia went on to be the first woman in American history to serve in both houses of a state legislature and both houses of Congress."


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Seton Hall Invitational
at Seton Hall University
South Orange, NJ
The Farmingdale State Men's and Women's Indoor Track Team competed at the Seton Hall Invitational on Sunday, December 10th in South Orange, NJ. Senior Akil Williams (Jamaica, NY/August Martin) won the High Jump with a jump of 6'4" to qualify for the ECAC Championships on March 2-3 at Wesleyan University. Junior captain Reggie Routier (Freeport, NY/Freeport) placed 3rd in the Triple Jump with an outstanding jump of 13.62m (44"8 1/4"), which betters his previous ECAC qualifying jump. Freshman Jessica Sarro (West Hempstead, NY/West Hempstead) placed 2nd in the Long Jump (4.91m, 16' 1 1/4") and 4th in the Triple Jump with a personal best 10.45m (34' 3 1/2").
Three additional personal bests were established as was a team best. All three hurdlers qualified for the Final and placed 5th, 6th and 7th.
Azell Green: 5th place, High Jump, 5'10" - personal best
Chris Okolie: 6th place, 35-pound Weight Throw, 12.69m (41' 7 3/4")
David Casillas: 7th place, 35-pound Weight Throw, 12.55m (41' 2 1/4")
60m High Hurdles:
Earl Noel - Trials, 9.12 - Final, 8.71 - 5th place
Reggie Routier - Trials, 8.95 - Final, 8.89 - 6th place
Chris Herbst - Trials, 8.81 - Final, 8.95 - 7th place