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John E. Lawson, Jr., on December 26, 2011, of Washington Twp. Age 62. Beloved husband of Pam (nee Connors). Devoted father of Shawn (Janneen Padlo), Josh and Katie "Davy" Lawson (Steven). Dear brother of James. Loving pop-pop of Shawn Jr., Richie, Lee Lee, Spencer and Lex. Also survived by his faithful granddogs Shamus, Chipper and Skeeter. At the request of John, services will be private. "A Life Well Lived Is Worth Remembering"
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From the summary: "think of how many thousands of interconnections are in every piece of cotton clothing ? you could make a fairly powerful computer!""
There aren't that many connections. Assume a 200 thread count fabric, since it's both typical and makes the math easy. That thread count means in each square inch of fabric, you have 100 vertical threads and 100 horizontal, for a total of 10k crossings. To replicate just the old 100 MHz Pentium 1 processor (hardly what anyone would call a powerful computer), you'd need over two square feet of this stuff. If you want something decent, like what you might get in a modern smartphone, you'll need anywhere from ten to a hundred times that much. And remember that it won't run anywhere near the speeds of the IC, and that we haven't even allowed space for all the other essential bits of a computer (e.g. memory). If you want a powerful computer in your shirt, you're much better off sewing something tiny into the hem. Even then, the weight of the battery will be obnoxious.
Still very cool technology, but I see it being used for simpler distributed systems (like the mentioned sensors) rather than a fabric computer.
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Troy Smith CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Former Ohio State University quarterback Troy Smith pleaded not guilty to traffic violations in Cleveland Municipal Court on Wednesday.
According to court documents, Smith appeared in court on charges of having tinted windows and an open container. He also had an outstanding warrant from February for driving under suspension.
Smith was pulled over by police at West Ninth Street and Main Avenue at 9:30 p.m. Friday.
He was arrested when officers realized that he had an outstanding warrant, according to police. He is to appear in court for a pretrial hearing on Jan. 17.
Oct. 17: Troy Smith a good fit in Oakland? More sports of all sorts
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May. 31: Tressel leaves much for investigators to dissect: editorial
Mar. 10: Jim Tressel: What's being said around the country about Ohio State's football coach
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OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Washington state's minimum wage increases by 37 cents to $9.04 an hour starting on New Year's Day.
While the state's current rate of $8.67 an hour is already the highest state minimum wage in the nation, a few cities, like San Francisco, have their own laws and have higher rates. San Francisco's current rate of $9.92 jumps to $10.24 on Sunday, making it the first city in the nation to top a $10 minimum wage. The federal minimum wage is $7.25.
Washington is among a handful of states where the minimum wage will increase Sunday.
Washington's minimum wage is adjusted each year for inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index for the past 12 months, which is up more than 4 percent. The yearly recalculation is required by Initiative 688, which was approved by Washington voters in 1998.
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As the debt crisis spreads across Europe, the economy in the region is slowing to a crawl. One place that's starting to feel the impact of the slowdown is the massive port of Rotterdam in Holland. It's the biggest port in the world outside Asia. Much of what's bought and sold in Europe goes through Rotterdam.
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Apps have taken over the world. If you doubt that just take a look at this app map by Horace Dediu at Asymco which shows the 123 countries in the world where iPhones are available. Of course, anywhere you can get an iPhone, you can get an iPhone app. Like the Web, apps are distributed globally. But when it comes to "media" like books, music, and movies, the distribution is much more limited on digital devices. Again, only looking at Apple, Dediu counts only 51 countries where music is available through the iTunes store, and only 6 countries where TV shows are available (see map below). My first reaction is that Apple really needs to broaden its licensing efforts internationally. But remember, iTunes started going international in 2004, and there are still more countries where you can get only apps (72) than both music and apps. Except there already is a global market for digital media. They are called apps, and they represent the future of media in many ways. Apps are media. Not only are they a form of media in the way that consumer software and games have always been considered media (they compete with TV, books, and music for consumers' time and attention). But increasingly, they are also subsuming other forms of media.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/4X2ECbWv4qA/
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Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., signs an autograph during a campaign stop at at Tangleberries in Centerville, Iowa, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., signs an autograph during a campaign stop at at Tangleberries in Centerville, Iowa, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., listens to a question during a campaign stop at Lodge Pizza & Steakhouse in Corydon, Iowa, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks to workers and local residents after touring the TPI Iowa wind blade manufacturing facility, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011, in Newton, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry signs an autograph for Jeanne Dietrich, of Omaha, Neb., after speaking to local residents and workers at the TPI Iowa wind blade manufacturing facility, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011, in Newton, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? It's been a different presidential race in Iowa this year ? quieter.
Campaign headquarters have hardly been buzzing with activity, unlike the around-the-clock nature of past contests. Candidates have barely visited the state, compared with years when most all but moved here. And they have largely refrained from building the grass-roots armies of yesteryear, in favor of more modest on-the-ground teams of paid staffers and volunteers.
The final rush of campaigning here gets under way Monday, just a week before the Jan. 3 caucuses, and, to be sure, there will be a flurry of candidate appearances and get-out-the-vote efforts all week.
But that will belie the reality of much of 2011, a year marked by a less aggressive personal courtship of Iowans in a campaign that, instead, has largely gravitated around a series of 13 nationally televised debates, a crush of television ads and interviews on media outlets watched by many Republican primary voters, like Fox News Channel.
"We just haven't had as much face time," Republican chairwoman Trudy Caviness in Wapello County said. "That's why we're so undecided."
Indeed, people here simply don't know the Republican presidential candidates that well. And it's a big reason why the contest in Iowa is so volatile and why the caucus outcome could end up being more representative of the mood of national Republicans than in past years when GOP activists here have gone it alone by launching an unlikely front-runner to the top of the field.
With a week to go, the state of the race in Iowa generally mirrors the race from coast to coast.
Polls show Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, having lost ground and Texas Rep. Ron Paul having risen, with both still in contention with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at the head of the pack. All the others competing in Iowa ? Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum ? are trailing.
But, in a sign that the contest is anyone's to win, most polls have shown most Republican caucusgoers undecided and willing to change their minds before the contest in a state where the vote typically breaks late in the campaign year.
There are a slew of reasons why the Iowa campaign is a much more muted affair than in 2008 ? marked by the iconic clash of Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, who together employed almost 300 staff in Iowa and held blockbuster rallies. This year, there is no contested Democratic primary, given that President Barack Obama has no serious challenger. Only Republicans are competing, and those candidates are approaching the state differently, both visiting and hiring less. Also, like it did everywhere else, the race here started slowly ? months later than usual ? as a slew of GOP politicians weighed candidacies, only to abort White House bids.
Long-time Republican activists here, who often joke that they like to meet the candidates several times before deciding, have barely seen the candidates once, much less at all, and no campaign has more than 20 paid staff in the state.
All that's partly a consequence of how technology has changed both the political and media environments in recent years. Campaigns now can more precisely ? and cheaply ? target their pitches to voters from afar, sending personalized e-mails and YouTube video messages from the candidates to voters directly, and more campaign outreach is being handled by volunteers and through central national websites. And voters, themselves, now can go online and find information about the candidates without having to wait for the White House hopeful to show up in the town square.
"Caucuses don't exist in a vacuum. They're not the same every time," said John Stineman, a West Des Moines Republican activist who ran Steve Forbes 2000 Iowa campaign. "But everything else has changed. Why wouldn't the caucuses change?"
Part of the change has been driven by Romney's approach to the state.
The nominal GOP front-runner for most of the year, Romney has been far less aggressive in cultivating support in Iowa than in his failed bid of 2008. He's only spent 10 days in the state this year, compared to 77 days four years ago, in an attempt to lower expectations in the leadoff state where evangelical conservatives have harbored doubts about Romney in light of his Mormon faith and changed positions on some social issues.
Paul, the Texas congressman, has been focused more on building a national following than being a one-state candidate.
Gingrich only became a serious contender in the state a few weeks ago. And, until recently, he didn't have the money or manpower to launch a full-scale Iowa campaign, meaning more sporadic visits and a smaller team. He's struggled to reach all parts of the state more than once; it was just last week that he visited Ottumwa, seat of the county Caviness represents and a medium-size Iowa city uniquely situated in the southeast with its own small media market.
Likewise, Perry has not been to Marshalltown, a central Iowa GOP hub about the same size as Ottumwa and home of the state-run veterans home. It would seem like a natural spot for Perry, a former Air Force officer who has sought veterans support. But he also hasn't visited Fort Dodge, also another mid-size Iowa city in north-central Iowa on the way to heavily Republican northwest Iowa.
Those who have been struggling to gain traction ? and who lack the money of better-funded, better-known rivals ? are turning to old-fashioned retail campaigning in hopes of wooing voters the traditional way.
Bachmann is in the midst of a bus tour that has her crisscrossing the state. And Santorum, who never has broken out of the back of the pack, is betting that a year of one-on-one campaigning will pay off in the end.
Barb Livingston is proof that, for all the changes, there's still something to be said for the personal approach. She has struggled all year to find a candidate to back and is basing her decision on a personal impression she had ? except that impression was established four years ago, riding around Marshall County with Romney.
"When push comes to shove, I had a chance to meet him and travel around with," said Livingston, a former Marshall County GOP chairwoman. "He's someone personally I connected with."
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Nearly a year away from the 2012 election, we?ll talk to the president?s 2008 campaign manager, now White House Senior Adviser, David Plouffe. Then author of the definitive new biography on the late Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson; Author of the new book ?The Time of Our Lives,? NBC News Special Correspondent, Tom Brokaw; Former Governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm; and Republican strategist, Mike Murphy.
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Dec 24, 2011 ? 12:00 AM ET | Last Updated: Dec 24, 2011 12:01 AM ET
By Joanne Ireland
EDMONTON ? It wasn?t going to be an easy rehearsal, that much head coach Don Hay had predicted before his Canadian squad faced off against Sweden.
But surely he didn?t expect that his team would be staring at a 4-1 deficit early in the second period.
The plucky Canadians did erase some of the damage but came up two goals short Friday at Rexall Place. Canada closed out its 2012 IIHF world junior championship pre-tournament schedule with a humbling 5-3 loss to the Swedes.
?We?re going to get a good test tonight,? Hay had said before the puck dropped, ?and it will be important to see how we react to that.?
It took Sweden all of two minutes to react in the game?s early going. The Tre Kroner banked three late first-period goals to put Canada firmly on their heels.
Rickard Rakell, with a one-timer, Victor Rask, and Mika Zibanejad, with a pass from William Karlsson, each beat Mark Vistentin, the Waterdown, Ont. native who will man Canada?s net when the tournament officially opens.
Between then and now, Canada will need to shore up their defensive zone coverage. Canada has just three players back from the 2011 team and not one is a defenceman. It?s an all-rookie blue-line that will need more help from the forwards when the tournament?s top teams are across the ice.
?We can?t afford to have any lapses in our game because of the opponent we?re playing,? Hay continued in his pre-game preamble.
Vistentin turned the game over to Scott Wedgewood midway through the second, after the physical, opportunistic Swedes, padded their lead with an early second-period power-play goal that ricocheted in off Johan Larsson?s shin pad.
Six minutes before the Swedes stepped on the accelerator in their final road test, Canada had opened the scoring with a goal from Mark Stone of the Brandon Wheat Kings. The Winnipeg native, shadowed by Sebastian Collberg, beat goaltender Johan Gustafsson at 11:14.
Canada did outshoot Sweden 10-7 in the middle period and got a goal back when Brendan Gallagher redirected a power-play puck that Stone had batted toward the net.
Captain Jaden Schwartz, the Wilcox, Sask./Colorado College player worth keeping an eye on in the tournament, then pulled his team within a goal and the fans out of their seats when he charged up ice on a short-handed breakaway and snapped the puck stick side early in the third.
Zibanejad tapped in an empty-netter to close out the proceedings. Sweden had thumped Denmark 8-0 in its only other pre-tournament test.
Canada beat Switzerland 7-1 and scored a 3-1 victory over Finland in their previous exhibition games. This was Hay?s last chance to settle on his line combinations for Monday?s opening game against Finland and the players? first chance to experience what?s to come.
Edmonton Journal
Source: http://sports.nationalpost.com/2011/12/24/sweden-tops-canada-in-rough-contest/
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FILE - This Dec. 28, 2010 file photo shows Wisconsin offensive coordinator Paul Chryst speaking at a news conference for the Rose Bowl, where Wisconsin will face TSU, in Los Angeles. A person with knowledge of the decision says Pittsburgh has hired Chryst as its head football coach. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement has not yet been made. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
FILE - This Dec. 28, 2010 file photo shows Wisconsin offensive coordinator Paul Chryst speaking at a news conference for the Rose Bowl, where Wisconsin will face TSU, in Los Angeles. A person with knowledge of the decision says Pittsburgh has hired Chryst as its head football coach. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement has not yet been made. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
FILE - this Oct. 15, 2011 file photo shows Wisconsin offensive coordinator Paul Chryst watching Wisconsin quarterback Russell Wilson (16) before an NCAA college football game, in Madison, Wis. A person with knowledge of the decision says Pittsburgh has hired Chryst as its head football coach. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because an official announcement has not yet been made. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)
PITTSBURGH (AP) ? Paul Chryst turned Wisconsin's historically ho-hum offense into a high-powered attack that lit up scoreboards across the Big Ten.
Pittsburgh would love to see him do the same with the Panthers, but only after he provides the beleaguered program with some much-needed stability.
The school hired Chryst on Thursday to replace Todd Graham, who bolted for Arizona State last week after less than a year on the job.
The 46-year-old Chryst is Pitt's fourth head coach in the last 13 months, following Dave Wannstedt, Mike Haywood and Graham, who left for the Sun Devils following a disappointing 6-6 season.
Pitt is hoping Chryst, who spent seven seasons as offensive coordinator at his alma mater, sticks around much longer. In addition to the seemingly endless coaching chaos, the Panthers are leaving the Big East for the ACC by 2014.
"We believed it was important to find a leader who gets the very best from his players while also developing the kind of culture that fits the University of Pittsburgh," Pittsburgh athletic director Steve Pederson said. "Paul Chryst is that leader."
Chryst molded No. 9 Wisconsin (11-2) into an offensive powerhouse since joining the program in 2005, and may have done his best job this season. The Badgers ranked fourth in the nation in scoring, averaging 44.6 points while winning the Big Ten championship and earning a Rose Bowl berth.
It's uncertain whether Chryst will stay on at Wisconsin through the bowl game or join his new team immediately. Pitt plays SMU in the BBVA Compass Bowl on Jan. 7, with Keith Patterson serving as interim coach.
When he starts hardly mattered to Chryst on Thursday as he met with his new players and toured the team's practice facility with his family.
"Pitt and Pittsburgh are absolutely the right fit for us, and we're looking forward to getting immersed in our new hometown," Chryst said. "We are committed to building a program on and off the field that will make people proud."
Words of comfort to a fan base still reeling from Graham's graceless departure after 338 days at the helm. Graham resigned suddenly a week ago when Pitt denied him permission to talk to Arizona State, alerting his players via forwarded text message of his decision to leave.
The Panthers lashed out at Graham in the aftermath, with wide receiver Devin Street calling his former coach a "liar" through his Twitter feed.
There appear to be no such issues with Chryst, with Street tweeting he'd be "very" happy if Chryst brought his offensive fireworks to Pitt.
Chryst will be introduced on Thursday afternoon, ending an eight-day search for Graham's replacement. Contract terms were not immediately available, but he beat out Florida International coach Mario Cristobal and interim Ohio State coach Luke Fickell for the job.
It's one the Panthers hope Chryst will hold onto as the school prepares to join Syracuse in leaving the Big East for the ACC sometime in the next three seasons.
Graham said repeatedly over the last 11 months he was looking forward to the challenge, constantly preaching character, commitment and a "high octane" offense designed to take the Big East by storm.
It never happened as the Panthers struggled adapting from Wannstedt's pro-style approach to Graham's modified spread attack. Pitt allowed 57 sacks this season, easily the most in the FBS, and Graham drew the ire of the fan base for shifting blame from himself to quarterback Tino Sunseri.
The growing pains led to a wildly uneven season in which the Panthers let winnable games slip away. Pitt held double-digit second-half leads over Iowa, Cincinnati and rival West Virginia only to collapse in the final minutes.
There have been so such issues for the Badgers with Chryst calling the plays.
Chryst anchored the offense around massive offensive line that churned out 1,000-yard rushers with regularity, but also showed an ability to adapt.
When former N.C. State quarterback Russell Wilson transferred in this fall, Chryst didn't hesitate to let Wilson go to work. The senior finished second in the country in pass efficiency while throwing for 31 touchdowns and just three interceptions. The running game was its usual self as Montee Ball rushed for 1,759 yards and 32 touchdowns while becoming a Heisman Trophy finalist.
Graham didn't leave the cupboard completely bare. Running back Ray Graham was among the nation's leaders in rushing yards before tearing the ACL in his right knee in October, ending his season. He is expected to return for his senior season, and if he's healthy he will give Chryst the kind of dynamic threat out of the backfield that was a fixture during Chryst's days at Wisconsin.
Chryst's first job, however, will be selling the Panthers that he's in it for the long haul.
"The bar is set high in the 'City of Champions' and that is incredibly exciting and inspiring," Chryst said. "I can't wait to meet our players and get to work."
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Interview Street has been busy building out new ways for developers to prove their skills to potential employers, and now it's introducing a 48-hour contest to help them show off their skills. Think of it as part of a next-generation way of finding the right employer The site already offers a web-based integrated development environment, where developers can choose from dozens of challenges, lets them input answers, then get immediate results. If they?re successful, recruiters from a variety of leading technology companies can then contact them about getting hired.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/MferMYaEFVU/
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HBO has a big season coming up in 2012, but one of the network's most hotly anticipated projects is the upcoming political film Game Change, about the 2008 presidential election. Early photos of lead actors Julianne Moore and Ed Harris showed them offering up spot-on visual portrayals of former vice presidential and presidential candidates Sarah Palin and John McCain -- and, now that the film's first trailer has arrived, we finally get to see Moore and Harris in action. So does Moore do a convincing Palin? Watch the teaser below to find out!
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SEATTLE ? The Washington state ferry service isn't going to start turning away hefty passengers, but it has had to reduce the capacity of the nation's largest ferry system because people have been packing on the pounds.
Coast Guard vessel stability rules that took effect nationwide Dec. 1 raised the estimated weight of the average adult passenger to 185 pounds from the previous 160 pounds, based on population information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
During the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase in obesity in the United States and about one-third of American adults are now considered obese, the CDC says on its website.
The state ferry system has complied with the new stability rules by simply reducing the listed capacity of its vessels, Coast Guard Lt. Eric Young said Wednesday.
"That has effectively reduced the amount of passengers by about 250 passengers or so depending on the particular ferry," said Young, who is based in Seattle. "They generally carry about 2,000, so it's down to 1,750 now."
With that many passengers, the ferry wouldn't tip over even if everyone ran to the side at the same time to look at a pod of killer whales, he said.
The state operates 23 white and green vessels on 10 routes across Puget Sound and through the San Juan Islands to British Columbia. Carrying more than 22 million passengers a year, it's the biggest ferry system in the United States and one of the four largest in the world, Coursey said.
The ferries themselves could be contributing to passenger girth. The galleys cater to customers looking for fast food they can eat while looking out the windows at the scenery and seagulls. Calorie counters typically aren't buying the hamburgers, hot dogs and chicken strips.
"We do serve light beer," said Peggy Wilkes who has worked 20 years for the food concessionaire, Olympic Cascade Services, which serves food and drinks on 12 of the state ferries.
News reports of overloaded ferries sinking in other parts of the world are sometimes a topic of discussion, she said.
"I think it's cool the Coast Guard is keeping up on that," she said. "Not that we overload them. A couple of times, like for a Seahawks game, we've had to cut off passengers and had to leave them at the dock."
Carol Johnston, who has been riding the state ferries since 1972, said she found the rule change perplexing.
"The ferries are not listing, they are not sinking," said Johnston, who was onboard a Seattle-bound ferry from Bainbridge Island Wednesday afternoon. "How are you going to establish how much weight there is on the ferry?"
Johnston worried about the potential loss in revenue, which could cause ferry fares to increase further. And she joked she may alter her eating habits.
"That means I will not have popcorn with my wine," Johnston said.
The reduced passenger capacity is unlikely to have much practical effect on the spacious ferries, system spokeswoman Marta Coursey said. The ferries often fill up with vehicles, but the number of passengers, especially walk-ons is seldom a problem, she said.
The new stability rules may have a bigger impact on the smaller charter fishing boats, such as those that take anglers fishing out of the Pacific Ocean ports of Westport and Ilwaco, Young said. Any vessel that carries more than six paying customers has to be inspected and certified by the Coast Guard as a passenger vessel.
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Republican presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, with his wife Callista, talk to a supporter at a Hy-Vee store in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Republican presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, with his wife Callista, talk to a supporter at a Hy-Vee store in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Republican presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich listens to a question during a campaign stop at Al-Jon manufacturing in Ottumwa, Iowa, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, right, shakes hands with Helen Taylor, of Durham, N.H., while campaigning at a hair salon in Exeter, N.H., Tuesday Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) ? Iowa residents flipping their TV channels this season aren't finding a whole lot of Christmas cheer. A barrage of negative campaign ads is flooding the airwaves, with ghoulish images of Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi crowding Santa and doomsday music drowning out holiday song.
Mitt Romney is likened to "big-government liberals." Newt Gingrich is castigated for his "baggage." The still-volatile Republican presidential field means Iowans have two more weeks of this before the leadoff caucuses Jan. 3.
The onslaught of scalding ads and messages landing in voters' mailboxes, prompted in part by a Supreme Court decision last year that helped open the floodgates, has made the race for the 2012 GOP nomination among the most negative the state has ever seen. The campaign air war, slow to start at first, has intensified as the caucuses loom closer ? leaving observers to puzzle over its recent dark turn.
"The ads are more negative than they were in 2007," said Dianne Bystrom, a political communications professor at Iowa State University.
"In part it's the mood of the country, which has certainly darkened in the last 4 years," Bystrom said. "Some of the Republicans haven't spent a lot of time in the state, so they're communicating on television. And there's lots of third party ads this time that have really changed the dynamic."
That means Rick Perry is slamming Mitt Romney for supporting an individual health care mandate that formed the basis of President Obama's health care law. Ron Paul is complaining about "smooth-talking politicians" over video images of Gingrich, Romney and Obama. And a pro-Romney independent group, Restore Our Future, has unleashed a multimillion-dollar assault on Gingrich, effectively doing the former Massachusetts governor's dirty work while letting him float safely above the fray.
"Newt Gingrich has more baggage than the airlines," the group's new ad says, showing Gingrich pairing with Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, to fight climate change.
While attack ads are often effective, they can muddy the instigator as much as they wound the target. That's particularly true in a multicandidate field, where an attack on one candidate from another can actually benefit a third.
Such was the case in 2004, when Democrats Howard Dean and Dick Gephardt battled each other hard in Iowa. Another rival, John Kerry, took advantage of the fray and went on to win the caucuses that year.
As an officially independent group, Restore Our Future bears no mention of Romney's name ? protecting him to some degree from blowback. It is made up of former Romney advisers.
Gingrich, for his part, isn't ready to give Romney a pass. He addressed the risk to Romney at a campaign event in Iowa on Monday when asked about the impact of the group's ads.
"It reflects badly on other Republicans that they haven't got anything positive to say for themselves and they have to rely on their consultants trying to tear down a fellow Republican and they are in effect doing Barack Obama's work," Gingrich said. "I think the average Republican's going to be very unhappy with Republicans whose entire campaign is negative."
To be sure, not every candidate is blistering the airwaves.
Gingrich, for his part, is trying to make good on a campaign promise to stay positive in ads even though he's swiped indirectly at Romney. The former House speaker and his wife, Callista, are expected to appear in a campaign Christmas commercial in Iowa later this week.
Cash-strapped hopefuls Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum are focusing their limited resources on retail campaigning. Jon Huntsman has avoided Iowa in order to go all out n New Hampshire, which hosts the nation's first primary Jan. 10. Our Destiny, a super PAC supporting the former Utah governor, has run positive ads there for him.
By far the biggest jolt to the advertising landscape this time is the emergence of super PACs ? independent groups that can raise and spend unlimited money to support or attack a candidate.
Last year's landmark Supreme Court ruling easing campaign spending restrictions on corporations has brought forth a proliferation of such groups in Iowa. Restore Our Future, a super PAC, has been by far the most prolific, devoting its resources to painting Gingrich as a greedy, unethical hypocrite.
Make Us Great Again, a super PAC backing Perry, has also spent heavily on ads. Groups supporting Gingrich and Santorum have just started to go on the air.
Marty Kaplan, a political communications expert at the University of Southern California, said the negative attacks from both candidates and outside groups would all but certainly continue past Iowa.
"Negative ads work," Kaplan said. "They are compelling narratives with villains and twists that evoke emotion, and they do everything that Hollywood wants to happen to an audience."
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Associated Press writers Tom Beaumont and Shannon McCaffrey in Iowa and Jack Gillum in Washington contributed to this story.
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Apple is well-known for manufacturing iPhones, iPods, iPads, and Macintosh computers overseas at manufacturers like Foxconn, and sourcing its components in bulk from a variety of manufacturers. But a new report from Reuters finds Apple is now starting to get the A5 microprocessor brains used in its iPad 2 and iPhone 4S from a new 1.6 million square foot facility in Texas. And that?s not the only surprise: the factory is owned by Samsung.
According to Reuters, the facility cost some $3.6 billion to build, and while the facility also produces flash memory, the plant was recently expanded to manufacture logic chips ? and almost all the logic chip production is for Apple?s A5 processor.
The move is interesting since it reflects a deepening of ties between Apple and Samsung at the same time the companies are engaged in a range of patent infringement and copyright lawsuits against each other around the world. Many of the suits center on Samsung???s Android-powered Galaxy Tab tablets and Galaxy smartphones, which Apple has accused of ???slavishly??
Historically, Apple has been one of Samsung?s biggest customers. Reports earlier this year had Apple committing to buy nearly $8 billion in components from Samsung and testing new processor manufacturing with Taiwan?s TMSC.?Just this week, new reports surfaced of Apple looking to purchase Israel-based flash memory maker Anobit, although that deal likely has more to do with flash memory technology than manufacturing capacity.
Samsung couldn?t be reached for comment. Apple declined to comment, save to note the company does not disclose information on its suppliers.
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Collaborative gifting startup Giftiki is its first mobile presence with a new iPhone App. Giftiki lets users send small amounts of money as gifts, allowing recipients join a pool in order to give their friends the perfect gift. And Giftiki leverages social ties and game mechanics to get users to contribute to the gifting process and add more money to the pool. Giftiki users can sign in via Facebook, which will automatically pull in friends and their birthdays. Givers choose a friend and decide on an amount to give. Giftiki now allows users to invite their friends to gift a specific individual. After selecting an amount to gift, wrapping, and sending a Giftiki, a pop up window will appear that shows the giver what friends they have in common with the individual they just gifted. Users can then choose friends and write a personal message that invites them to join and chip in. This message posts to Facebook allowing more people spread the love.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/W8xgSjU7eGM/
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Brittney Griner has been looking forward to another shot against Connecticut. She'll get her chance on Sunday when top-ranked Baylor faces the No. 2 Huskies.
The two teams met early last season with the rankings reversed and UConn escaped with a one-point victory in Hartford, rallying from a late eight-point deficit. The 6-foot-8 phenom felt the loss was her fault.
"That last game with UConn has been on my mind for a long time," Griner said. "The one thing I think about the most is my free throws. It was just horrible that game. After that game, I hit almost every free throw I attempted."
Griner missed eight of 13 from the free throw line, including some key misses down the stretch that allowed UConn to rally for the 65-64 win.
She hasn't been missing much of anything this season, leading Baylor to victory after victory. Griner is averaging 22.8 points, 10.7 rebounds and 4.9 blocks in just 30 minutes a game this season for the Lady Bears (10-0). She's also shooting 73 percent from the foul line.
So far Baylor and Connecticut's games this season have been anything but competitive. The Lady Bears have won by an average of 34.5 points. Throw out wins over ranked Notre Dame and Tennessee and the margin jumps to nearly 40 a game.
"I know I'm definitely ready for a game like this. Our team is ready for a game like this," Griner said. "These are the kind of games basketball players live for, 1 vs. 2, big games. Nobody wants to blow out a team, that's not fun. You want hard competitive games when everybody puts it on the line. Those games I love playing."
There has been a definite buzz around Waco leading up to the game, which sold out weeks in advance for the first time in school history.
"It's great for women's basketball, great for Baylor," Lady Bears coach Kim Mulkey said. "The thing I will take away from it win or lose, now we've played Notre Dame, we've played Connecticut, we've got Big 12 coming up. ... Win or lose, where do we need to improve? It's a gauge, nothing more than a gauge right now. That is the way I will approach it after the game is over."
Connecticut (9-0) has run through its opposition this season winning by nearly 41.5 points a game, including a 30-point demolition of defending national champion Texas A&M in the Jimmy V Classic. Yet they are in a little different role, playing only their second road game of the season and for once may not be expected to win.
"It's weird," UConn center Stefanie Dolson said. "Everyone always says you don't focus on the ranking and the hype that everyone's talking about. Who's going to win? Who's the underdog? So for us we don't really focus on that. We're just going to kind of go out and play as hard as we can, compete as hard as we can. And whoever wins is the better team that night."
There haven't been many nights over the last few years that the Huskies haven't been the better team. It's the first time in four seasons that UConn will be playing a higher ranked opponent. UConn has only lost twice in the last three seasons ? falling at Stanford last December that ended their record 90-game winning streak. The Huskies then lost in the Final Four to Notre Dame.
"I don't think there has been a better team in the country of going on the road and playing against Top 5 teams in the country and done a better job than us in the last 10 years or so," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said. "That is the beauty of it. I am like a fan going down there Sunday night. I really want to see how we handle this."
Auriemma always expects greatness out of his players. He got to know Griner while she played for the U.S. national women's basketball team on a European tour this past Fall and came away impressed.
"There's nobody else in the world like her," Auriemma said. "I don't care who Australia has. I don't care who Russia has or anybody else has. Nobody has anybody like Brittney Griner ... There's things that she can do that no one else can do on any other team in the world."
Griner has a mutual respect for the Hall of Fame coach. She even spent a little time on the trip going to the town in Italy where he was born and meeting his family.
"I always viewed him as a great coach, he's done a lot for the UConn program and women's basketball," she said. "I view him as an opponent this game, but this past summer, he was my coach. You've got to turn it on. Like when you're playing in AAU, your best friend would be on another team, you're best friends, but both are trying to win, doing everything to win and at the end of the day you're still best friends. It's the competitive nature."
Sadly this might be the last time these two meet as opponents unless it's in the NCAA tournament. The budding rivalry will come to an end Sunday as the two teams aren't schedule to play against next season. UConn first beat Griner and Baylor when she was a freshman in the Final Four.
ESPN NBA analyst Jeff Van Gundy, who will be broadcasting the game, was disappointed to hear that they won't be playing anymore in the regular season.
""They should do a mini playoff series, three straight games," he said." Once you get past the top 10 or 15 teams, who's challenging these teams? The preseason is almost a joke, beating teams by 30 or 40. It's not good for the sport."
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AP Basketball Writer Stephen Hawkins contributed from Waco, Texas.
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Preferred Name:Cherry
Age:Sixteen
Role:Female Permanent
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Hometown:Seattlle,Washington
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Background:pt for the occasional family reunions and get togethers. Or at least it was good until I got to high school. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever believe such awful things could happen to me in such a short amount of time. When I first started freshman year, I was just another nameless chick who happened to have ridiculously dark red hair. In the middle of my first year, people began to notice me after I tried out and landed a spot on the volleyball team. I may have looked lanky, but I sure managed to surprise the volleyball team and coach after managing to hit all the serves they passed with my "dainty" hands. After we had a couple games, some of my teammates introduced to the people I would come to know as the "In" crowd. At first I didn't care about fitting in with them, but after awhile of watching and debating....I joined in. A decision I would come to regret for the rest of my life.
I had never thought once of parties and drinking. I had better shit to do, or at least that's what I told myself while playing video games or hanging out with my parents. During the beginning of Sophmore year, right after I had just turned sixteen I went to my first party...and my last.Things were fine at first. Everyone was relatively drunk before I even managed to find a safe can of Coke. I wanted to play it safe for my first time, making sure I wasn't just going through some initiation where I ended up being drunk and the next day I'm on some youtube video dancing in my bra. Realizing that this wasn't as fun as I had hoped, I walked into an empty room to attempt to text some of my friends who hadn't been invited that they were extremely fortunate.That was when He came in. Looking tan and buff just like he usually did at football practice. I had a crush on him since first coming to school, and we had only said a few greetings and sent a minimal amount of waves to each other in the mornings. So you could say I was surprised when he walked over and sat down on the ground with me. He said something, I couldn't remember because it was so mumbled up and his breath smelled so rotten I kind of tilted my head away. Then before I knew it, his lips were on mine and I had my first kiss. It wasn't uncomfortable at first. But then the small kiss moved to his hand reaching under my shirt, and automatically I slapped it away as if some sort of bug had landed on me.The next part happened to fast . His eyes seemed to glaze over and become much darker then before, and he was on top of me...and...and the next part I'm sure you can guess.
I was numb. I don't know how many minutes I laid on that floor , neither crying or showing any sort of emotion.When I did manage to finally get up, I was greeted by the sound of an empty house. Everyone had gone, and no one had even bothered to check for me. The walk home allowed me to think and to finally feel about what just happened. Thankfully my parents were out of town, so I manged to get inside the house without being found out. Of course then I had school the next day that I couldn't miss. As soon as I walked in, I was met with disgusted looks and glares from several people I had never even met. On my locker they had sprayed"Slut" in black spray paint. Slut? I was raped and they had the gall to call me that? As I began storing away my books, tears threatening to drip out of my eyes, a tall blonde guy shut his locker near mine and began to speak to me. He told me he was His and that if I ever wanted "company" just to let him know. By the end of the day, the rumor was I had slept with over twenty people, and He was just one of them on the list.
The bullying escalated until the point were I began fearing school itself. So on a Friday night, after lasting another week of hell, of being called a slut because I was raped...I went into my mom's medicine cabinet and downed a few pills. Death was easy. It was the living part that was the real hell.
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LOS ANGELES ? A draft report discloses conflicting accounts of why an air tanker was not summoned in the early hours of what turned out to be the largest wildfire in Los Angeles County history, but the document obtained Friday by The Associated Press concludes it's not possible to know if different decisions would have extinguished the blaze.
The 2009 arson-caused Station Fire killed two firefighters, destroyed 89 homes and blackened 250 square miles on the edge of Los Angeles, and residents who were burned out have long complained the Forest Service allowed the flames to spread by failing to bring in enough firefighters and aircraft to do the job.
Government records released after the blaze opened questions about whether firefighting aircraft could have been ordered and deployed more quickly, including at night, and whether a tight federal budget drove firefighting decisions on the ground.
The 67-page draft U.S. Government Accountability Office report concludes the Forest Service needs to clear up foggy policies that could cause confusion when working with local firefighters, but it stops short of suggesting the Station Fire could have been stopped in its early hours.
"These decisions may be made with imperfect information and under severe time constraints, relying heavily on the professional judgment of those involved. It is not possible to know with certainty whether different decisions or actions would have resulted in a different outcome for the Station Fire," the agency concluded.
The report said the agency should "clarify ambiguous operational processes, and address broader issues regarding its use of assets to fight fires, thereby laying the groundwork for improvements to its management of future fires."
Early in the first evening of the fire, on Aug. 26, 2009, an air tanker was nearby that could have been diverted to the Station Fire, according to the document. But accounts of why that didn't happen differed.
Citing interviews, the report said the supervisor at the Station Fire did not summon the firefighting plane, in part because it was getting dark. But the pilot told investigators darkness was not an issue and "he believed there was ample time for the tanker to fly to the Station Fire, make its drop, and return to base before nightfall."
But the report also notes large air tankers, typically used to dump retardant or water along ridge lines, might have had problems in the steep canyons where the fire was burning. "The tankers would have had to fly high enough to be safe from the power lines and the drops from such heights would likely have been ineffective," the report states.
The Forest Service summoned several powerful firefighting airplanes in the early stages of the wildfire, then canceled and reordered them, causing a two-hour delay in their arrival on the second day of the fire, according to government records released after the blaze. Recordings of calls between fire managers and dispatchers released last year showed the difficulty of communication in the mountainous region, and the problem of deploying aircraft as multiple fires burned in the state.
But in part because of rest requirements for flight crews, "it appears unlikely that any federal air tankers could have arrived over the Station Fire sooner than they did," the report said.
A federal review in 2009 found the fire slipped out of control because it jumped into steep, inaccessible terrain, not because the Forest Service scaled back firefighters and aircraft attacking the flames.
"We are not constrained by cost. We want to get the fire out," Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management Director Tom Harbour said at a congressional hearing earlier this year, defending the agency's response in the early hours of the blaze.
Members of Congress asked the watchdog GAO to conduct a broad review of the fire in 2010.
Federal foresters have long discouraged night flying because of the risk of operating aircraft in darkness in rugged national forests, but the agency reached an agreement with local firefighters earlier this year that makes it easier to get water-dumping helicopters into the air at night over the fire-prone Angeles National Forest.
Critics have suggested that deploying waves of water-dropping helicopters could have slowed, or extinguished, the fire on its first night, before it raged out of control.
The agency has argued that there are scant cases where aircraft alone extinguish fires, since embers, brush and grasses on the forest floor can continue to burn even after a water or retardant drop.
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