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Iowa ad war: late starting but nasty
Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and his wife, Callista, make a stop at his campaign office, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011, in Sioux City, Iowa. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and his wife, Callista, make a stop at his campaign office, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011, in Sioux City, Iowa. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry greets local residents during a campaign stop at the Blue Strawberry Coffee Company, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop at the Music Man Square in Mason City, Iowa Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? At least $12.5 million and counting has blanketed the airwaves ahead of next Tuesday's Republican presidential caucuses, with hard-hitting commercials awash in ghoulish images and startling claims. Most are coming from a proliferation of new independent groups aligned with the candidates.
To hear the ads tell it, Newt Gingrich is a "serial hypocrite," Rick Perry "double dips" as governor and the "liberal Republican establishment" is plotting to anoint Mitt Romney as the party's presidential nominee. The attacks, the bulk of the commercials on the air, reflected the volatile state of the race five days before the first votes of the GOP presidential nominating contest.
After a slow start, the ads in Iowa are coming on fast and furious.
On Thursday alone, at least five new commercials were rolled out, including one by Perry castigating his rivals as Washington insiders and saying: "The fox guarding the henhouse is like asking a congressman to fix Washington: bad idea." An outside group aligned with Romney, Restore Our Future, rolled out a new spot that criticizes Gingrich and asks: "Haven't we had enough mistakes?"
In the final days of the Iowa campaign, most of the ads are deeply negative, thanks in large part to the proliferation of outside groups, known as super PACs, that are doing the dirty work for candidates they support. Gingrich has been the biggest target, withering under attacks from Ron Paul and Rick Perry's campaign as well as from several outside groups like the one aligned with Romney. Polls show that Gingrich's standing in Iowa has slid accordingly.
"I call it ad wars whack-a-mole ? this endless attacking in all directions, trying to slam down anyone who is surging to the top," said David Perlmutter, a University of Iowa journalism professor who studies political communication. "This is the most negative I've ever seen it. The ads are so blatantly negative I would have told you 10 years ago this would never fly in Iowa."
It's a different landscape in the campaign advertising world than four years ago when Barack Obama won Iowa's Democratic caucuses and Mike Huckabee carried the Republican side. Social media has intensified the advertising binge, with many spots debuting on TV but also going viral across the web at almost no cost to the campaigns that sponsor them. Candidates are making heavy use of online advertising to target voters based on location and other demographic information.
Campaigns are also producing video specifically for the YouTube audience, like a new 90-second Romney video excerpting a speech Obama delivered in Iowa days before winning the Democratic caucuses in 2008.
"Well, Mr. President, you've had your moment ... this is our time," Romney says in the spot.
On Thursday, Jon Huntsman's campaign ? which can't afford to put commercials on TV and is competing only in New Hampshire ? hit at Paul in a new web video that highlights comments about race and gays in newsletters Paul used to put out. The ad asks: "Can New Hampshire voters really trust Ron Paul?'"
But nothing has altered the environment more than super PACs, which are facing their first test in a presidential campaign since a Supreme Court decision two years ago eased restrictions on campaign spending by corporations, unions and individuals.
Much of $12.5 million spent to date in Iowa, a figure confirmed by ad tracking firms, outside groups and the GOP campaigns, has been spent in just the past few weeks, much of it paying for negative ads.
The pro-Romney super PAC, Restore Our Future, has been by far the most influential in Iowa, helping to bolster the former Massachusetts governor's position in the state he lost in 2008, crippling that campaign.
The group formed by Romney allies has spent at least $2.7 million in the state. The vast majority has been used to trash Gingrich, the former House speaker whose sudden surge in the polls earlier this month has been summarily halted in recent days. In ad after ad, Romney's allies have berated Gingrich for ethical "baggage," accepting $1.6 million in consulting fees from federal mortgage giant Freddie Mac and pledging to tackle climate change in an ad with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.
Another new ad from the group goes after both Gingrich and Perry for being "liberal on immigration."
Perry, the Texas governor, has defended his state's policy of allowing the children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates at public universities, while Gingrich has spoken out against deporting those who have lived in the U.S. for many years without permission to be in the country.
The ad also chides Perry for taking advantage of a loophole in state law that allows him to supplement his governor's salary with his $90,000 annual pension, even as Perry has used his own ads to rail against congressional salaries.
Romney has stepped up his advertising presence in Iowa, driving a largely positive message while his allies have made it easy for him to avoid attacking his Republican rivals.
"In the campaign to come, the American ideals of economic freedom and opportunity need a clear and unapologetic defense. And I intend to make it because I have lived it," Romney says in a new uplifting 60-second commercial he began airing Thursday.
Gingrich, for his part, has railed against the Romney allies' ad blitz but has refused to respond in kind. A pro-Gingrich super PAC has begun fighting back, running ads in Iowa claiming the Republican establishment is "attacking him with falsehoods."
The ad warns: "Don't let the liberal Republican establishment pick our candidate."
But the assist from the pro-Gingrich group Winning Our Future may be too little, too late. A new CNN-Time poll found Gingrich now in fourth place in Iowa, behind Romney, Paul and Rick Santorum.
Other Republican hopefuls have super PACs that support them, including Perry and Santorum. The former Pennsylvania senator has run no ads of his own but has seen his position in Iowa strengthen in recent days in part by $327,000 in ad spending from a super PAC called the Red White and Blue Fund.
Our Destiny, a super PAC backing Huntsman, has run ads in New Hampshire for the former Utah governor. Huntsman is skipping the Iowa caucuses to focus on New Hampshire, which holds the nation's first primary on Jan. 10.
Perry has run the most campaign ads in Iowa, spending at least $3.9 million so far. His ads have offered a smattering of sometimes conflicting messages ? promoting his conservative Christian faith in one to calling for a part-time Congress in another.
"I'm an outsider who will overhaul Washington," Perry says in his latest ad, while pledging anew to end "Obama's war on religion."
Make Us Great Again, a pro-Perry super PAC, has also been on the air for weeks in Iowa.
The heavy spending hasn't seemed to help Perry much ? polls have consistently shown him trailing in the state, though he has gained some ground.
Paul has also been on the air for months and has not been shy about hitting his opponents. His latest ad, titled "Washington Machine," hits Gingrich as a "serial hypocrite" and Romney as a "flip flopper."
Cash strapped and struggling in polls, Michele Bachmann will run TV commercials a day before the caucuses. Her campaign has run radio ads and she's sought free media on a bus tour through Iowa's 99 counties.
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Associated Press writers Brian Bakst in Iowa and Jack Gillum in Washington contributed to this report.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
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Bavarians building church out of snow
Leaders in the village of Mitterfirmiansreut near the German-Czech border originally wanted to open their so-called ?Snow Church? in mid December.?
But an unusual lack of the white stuff this winter meant that they only began building it a few weeks ago and won?t be able to open it until Wednesday.?People are on the work site through the day and night,? said Julia Herzig, a spokeswoman for the church, which will be able to seat 200 parishioners and has a 17-metre tall tower made out of packed snow and ice.
The church is likely to attract curious tourists from throughout Germany before it melts at the end of winter.
But project leaders said it?s not so much a commercial venture, but a commemoration of a protest by villagers some 100 years ago.
In 1911, local people became upset that they had to make an arduous 90 minute hike to the town of Mauth in order to go to services, despite long begging for a church of their own.
So, over the Christmas season the villagers built a church entirely out of snow and ice.
The modern version of the Snow Church has run into a few challenges. Catholic leaders have expressed scepticism and the local Bishop has refused to officially consecrate the structure.
Also, it?s still unclear whether the project will make money. It?s being bankrolled by local people excited about the idea, but costs have already reached the six figures.
?We are still looking for sponsors,? Herzig said.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Israeli airstrikes kill Gaza militant (AP)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip ? Israel carried out a series of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip late Tuesday, killing a Palestinian militant wounding others. Israel said it targeted militants before they could carry out an attack on the border between Israel and Egypt.
Gaza Health Ministry official Dr. Moaiya Hassanain said the militant was killed and another two injured in the explosion when a rocket hit his motorcycle Tuesday evening.
The Islamic Jihad, a violent Palestinian group that frequently fires rockets and mortars at Israel, said the he was a former member. The Israeli military said in a statement it targeted a "terror squad," without elaborating.
Another airstrike hit a Hamas police vehicle later Tuesday, injuring one Hamas officer and four others in the car, the Gaza health official said.
The Israeli military said it targeted "members of a global jihad terror group that were planning to attack the border."
In a statement, the military gave a list of the militants' names and said one of them used to be in Hamas before joining an even more radical jihadi group.
Such Israeli air attacks have been relatively rare since the end of a three-week Israeli war against Gaza militants three years ago.
It said the military will "not tolerate any attempt to harm Israeli civilians and soldiers, and will operate against anyone who uses terror against Israel."
In August, Palestinian militants who apparently sneaked out of Gaza into the Egyptian Sinai desert attacked Israelis on a border road in Israel, killing eight. Israeli forces pursuing the militants killed six Egyptian soldiers by mistake, setting off a diplomatic crisis between the two countries.
Also Tuesday, a hard-line Israeli group said it was launching plans for a new tourist center at the site of a politically sensitive archaeological dig in a largely Arab neighborhood outside Jerusalem's Old City, drawing fire from Palestinian officials.
The project's sponsor, the Elad Foundation, said the new visitors center and parking garage will be built above a section of the excavation area known as the City of David, leaving the ruins below accessible. Construction, which must pass several zoning committees, was still several years away.
Israeli archaeologists at the City of David, named for the biblical monarch thought to have ruled from the spot 3,000 years ago, are investigating the oldest part of Jerusalem.
The site is just outside the Old City walls at the edge of the neighborhood of Silwan in east Jerusalem, the part of the city the Palestinian Authority says it wants as the capital of a hoped-for state.
Israeli construction in east Jerusalem is regularly subject to international criticism. Critics say the new plan will cement Israel's hold on Silwan and could destabilize the volatile neighborhood, where Palestinian residents clash on occasion with Jewish residents and police.
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Additional reporting by Matti Friedman in Jerusalem.
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Magnificent seven for De Lange but South Africa are skittled
It's been a year like no other for Test-match debutants. Yesterday in Durban, Marchant de Lange became the eighth bowler to return five wickets in his first taste of the game's highest form to join an eclectic collection ? three Australians, two South Africans, an Indian, a New Zealander and a Bangladeshi called Sunny ? in making 2011 the year of the rookie.
It is comfortably the most in the sport's history, bettering the five first-timers in 2003 and 1962, and De Lange's addition to the list will be of particular interest to Andy Flower with South Africa due in England next summer (their erratic batting ? yesterday they were dismissed for 168, and a first-innings deficit of 170, by Sri Lanka ? will also not have gone unnoticed). The 6ft 2in, 21-year-old's spectacular start ? he finished with 7 for 81 ? gives South Africa a potent seam attack when added to Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel and Vernon Philander, the other South African among the 2011 debutants. Fast bowling has been a traditional strength of South African cricket but just months ago Allan Donald was voicing concerns. He isn't any more.
Like Steyn, De Lange comes from Limpopo province where cricketing facilities are scarce. They both played club games as teenagers in the small town of Tzaneen, where De Lange went to school. An all-round sportsman he was a promising javelin thrower ? his short run-up and speed have been in part put down to his athletic background.
In Melbourne, Sachin Tendulkar threatened to bring up his long-awaited 100th international century but was dismissed late on day two after helping put India in command of the first Test against Australia. Tendulkar was bowled by Peter Siddle for 73 from just 98 deliveries, three balls before stumps at the MCG. He and Rahul Dravid (68 not out) helped the tourists reach 214 for 3, in response to Australia's 333.
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James Pattinson (Aus) 5-27 v New Zealand
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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Maine police chief: Someone took missing toddler
WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) ? A 20-month-old girl who vanished a week before Christmas after being put to bed in her father's home was taken away and didn't walk out on her own, investigators said Monday as they announced the largest reward ever offered in the state to help find a missing person.
It marked the first time since the search for Ayla Reynolds began that police have directly said they don't believe she left the house by herself.
"At this point in the investigation ... we are confident that Ayla did not walk out of the house by herself," Waterville police Chief Joseph Massey said at a news conference at which he announced a $30,000 reward was being offered for help finding her. "We believe that someone was involved in taking her out of the house, and that's where the focus of this investigation has turned."
The reward, gathered with donations from residents and businesses in the Waterville area, is the biggest ever offered in Maine for a missing person, state Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland said.
Massey said the developments in a mystery that's been featured on national television programs have not shifted the matter from a missing-person case to a criminal investigation. Despite the passing of the Christmas holiday with no sign of Ayla, police remain committed to finding her, the chief said.
"The intensity of the investigation is as high today as it was the first day," he said. "We continue to employ every single resource we have."
Massey was joined at the news conference by Waterville attorney John Nale, who appealed for the safe return of Ayla.
"I ask and I plead with the person or persons who have Ayla Reynolds that they please keep her safe and return her safely to us," Nale said.
Hundreds of police officers, game wardens and local residents have been searching for Ayla since she was reported missing by her father, Justin DiPietro, on the morning of Dec. 17. Massey said a report about the case on the Fox network television program "America's Most Wanted" during the weekend generated some leads, which are being checked by police.
DiPietro told investigators he last saw Ayla when he put her to bed the night before at his home in Waterville, a city of 16,000 residents about 20 miles north of the state capital, Augusta. He said she was wearing polka dot pajamas with the words "Daddy's Princess" on them and had a cast on her broken left arm.
Ayla ended up with her father after child welfare workers intervened while her mother, Trista Reynolds, checked herself into a 10-day rehabilitation program.
Reynolds, who completed the rehab, had filed court papers that she said she hoped would lead to the return of her daughter. The filing came the day before Ayla was last seen.
DiPietro has said he has "no idea what happened to Ayla or who is responsible." He said last week his family and friends would do "everything we can to assist in this investigation and get Ayla back home."
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Monday, December 26, 2011
Egypt Salafists against improving ties with Israel
Egypt?s leading Salafi movement on Sunday clarified the party's stance on diplomatic relations with Israel, saying that it would oppose an improvement in ties between the two countries.
"We will stand firmly against normalization [of ties] between the two countries in a variety of forms, and against any entity that wants to harm Egypt's identity," the movement announced in a written statement quoted by Army Radio.
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Salafis represent a fundamentalist religious stream that seeks to create an Islamic state according to strict social codes and a legal system based entirely on Islamic law. The various Salafi parties have thus far been the biggest surprise of the Egyptian parliamentary elections, taking about 30 percent of votes to place second after the Muslim Brotherhood which garnered around 40%.
The announcement came a week after a spokesman for the group gave an interview to Army Radio, during which he said "the peace agreement with Israel will not be canceled."
Nour Party spokesman Yusri Hammad said during the unprecedented interview "we are not against the agreement but we say that Egypt is committed to the agreements signed by the previous governments."?If there are some clauses that the people of Egypt want to change in the agreements, then these belong on the negotiating table,? he said. ?We respect all treaties.?
The head of the Salafi movement last Tuesday also spoke about the peace treaty issue and said that the party would respect Cairo?s 1979 peace treaty with Israel.
Representatives of the party quickly backtracked, however, saying the matter was still being looked into.
?Treaties Egypt has signed must be upheld ? we intend to respect them,? Nour party chairman Emad Abdel Ghaffour told a press conference in Cairo, adding though that Israel has not implemented certain clauses in the agreement regarding the Palestinians.
These include ?a solution to the Palestinian issue, their right to self-determination, self-governance and the creation of a Palestinian state on Palestinian land,? Abdel Ghaffour said.
Oren Kessler contributed to this report.
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October 30: Plouffe, roundtable
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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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Iraq president demands fair trial for VP
TUNIS, (AFP) Tunisia's new government was sworn in on Saturday by the country's president, who told the ministers to get straight down to work. Headed by Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali of the moderate Islamist Ennahda party, the 30 ministers and 11 ... more
BAGHDAD, (AFP) Iraq's President Jalal Talabani said Saturday that the country's Sunni vice president, who stands accused of running a death squad, would stand trial only if promises were made regarding its fairness. His remarks come with the country ... more
CAIRO, (AFP) - Egypt's main Islamist parties won 65 percent of votes for party lists in the second round of a historic election for a new parliament after Hosni Mubarak's ouster, the electoral committee said Saturday. The Freedom and Justice Party won ... more
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat Hamas chief Khaled Meshal called on Palestinian factions, particularly the Hamas and Fatah movements, to have the courage to criticize themselves and bear the responsibility for the mistakes they have made in the past. Speaking ... more
WASHINGTON, (AFP) US experts sent to Libya to recover weapons left over by the regime of fallen leader Moamer Kadhafi have found about 5,000 surface-to-air missiles, the State Department said Friday. The exact number is difficult to say, said spokesman ... more
BEIRUT, (AFP) A war of words is heating up between Hezbollah and Washington, with allegations and counter-allegations flying between the two foes as the crisis in Syria takes its toll on the Shiite militant group. The cold war between Iranian- and ... more
NICOSIA, (AFP) Syria's Muslim Brotherhood on Saturday denied an Internet claim of responsibility that it was behind suicide bombings in Damascus, saying the claim was posted on a fake website created by the regime. Spokesman Zuhair Salem, speaking ... more
CAIRO, (Reuters) - Egyptian protesters gathered in Cairo for a mass rally they called for on Friday against the military's handling of protests that killed 17 people and have drawn international criticism of the ruling generals. Protesters who fought ... more
BEIRUT, (Reuters) - Suicide car bombers struck Damascus on Friday, officials said, killing 40 people, gutting buildings and sending human limbs flying in the bloodiest violence seen in Syria's capital since a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad ... moreBAGHDAD, (AFP) Crisis talks between political leaders set for Friday, a day after Iraq's worst attacks in four months, were cancelled amid a worsening row that has seen its premier threaten to dissolve power-sharing. Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, ... more
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) - A U.S. probe on Thursday found both American and Pakistani forces were to blame for a border incident that killed 24 Pakistani troops last month, inflaming already strained ties and deepening doubts about whether Pakistan will ... more
BEIRUT, (AFP) Lebanese group Hezbollah on Thursday denied charges by the United States that the Shiite militant movement was involved in drug trafficking and money laundering schemes to fund its activities. "The United States' allegations that Hezbollah ... more
GAZA, (Reuters) - Rival Palestinian factions took a significant step towards reconciliation on Thursday as the Islamist group Hamas said it planned to join Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Abbas held ... more
PRAGUE, (Reuters) - International leaders bade farewell on Friday to former Czech President Vaclav Havel, the anti-communist dissident who led the peaceful "Velvet Revolution" and inspired human rights campaigners around the world. Secretary of State ... more
KABUL, (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai will replace four people at the national human rights commission to bring fresh blood into the group, and not because he is seeking to remove some of his most outspoken critics, his spokesman said on Friday. The ... more
Alexandria, Asharq Al-Awsat Judge Mahmoud al-Khudairi is the former vice president of the Egyptian Cassation Court. He is also a newly-elected member of the Peoples Assembly, having won the seat of the Sidi Gabir district, Alexandria, in the latest ... more
CAIRO, (AFP) Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal met on Thursday to discuss reforming the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in a bid to allow the Islamist movement to join. The two men began meeting in Cairo ... more
ADEN, (AFP) The brother of an Al-Qaeda chief was among six militants killed in the restive southern Yemeni province of Abyan, where five soldiers also died in overnight clashes, local officials said on Thursday. Five Qaeda suspects died when their ... more
CAIRO, (AFP) Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri called on Egyptians on Thursday to set aside their political differences for the sake of the economy, warning that the country's finances were deteriorating alarmingly. The appeal came a day after Moody's ... more
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Android Central staff #FollowFriday holiday edition
One of the few times throughout the year when there won't be a mountain of Android news is coming up. We're talking about Christmas, of course, when the western world takes a few days off and we eat too much, drink too much, and spend time with our loved ones. Everyone here at AC is stoked at the thought of all the Android phones and tablets that will be unwrapped come Christmas morning, and we;ll be sure to be watching our friends and followers on Google+ and Twitter to see how their holidays are going. Join in the fun, and give us a shout to let us know how you're enjoying your holidays, or just to say hey. Without you guys we wouldn't have near as much fun doing what we do here, and we appreciate each and every one of you.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Googlers Get Galaxy Nexus Gift
Google has always been a great place to work, but occasionally stories leak out that make you want to immediately apply for a job. This is one of those stories ??happy Google employees are reporting that each of them are receiving a very special gift for Christmas ??their very own Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The Ice Cream Sandwich reference phone retails for roughly ?500 sim free, so that?s quite a Christmas bonus!
The Galaxy Nexus are a bit different than they normally look as well ??they?ve got a unique back cover that shows off Google?s iconography and gives a rather unique look to the phone, as you can see.
It?s not known if the phones are different in any other way. The changes could only be cosmetic, but knowing Google, I wouldn?t be surprised to learn if they ship with some custom firmware or perhaps an integrated Tazer or something.
Merry Christmas Googlers, and enjoy your new phones.
This article was written by William Judd. William writes for Mobile Fun (and not Google, sadly), although he is in possession of a Galaxy Nexus. Mobile Fun is known for being the largest online retailer of Amazon Kindle Covers, including the Leather Kindle Cover and a New Kindle Cover range.
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Negative ads mix with holiday cheer in Iowa (AP)
DAVENPORT, Iowa ? 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." 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 Texas Gov. Rick Perry is slamming Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, for supporting an individual health care mandate that formed the basis of President Barack 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 events in Iowa this week 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 Monday. "I think the average Republican's going to be very unhappy with Republicans whose entire campaign is negative."
He turned up the heat Tuesday.
"Understand, these are his people running his ads, doing his dirty work while he pretends to be above it," Gingrich said in Ottumwa, Iowa. "I don't object to being outspent. I object to lies. I object to negative smear campaigns."
Earlier Tuesday, Romney said in an appearance on MSNBC that super PACs have been "a disaster." But he refused to urge the group Restore Our Future to halt the attacks on Gingrich, saying that the law prohibits his campaign and such groups to coordinate.
"I'm not allowed to communicate with a super PAC in any way, shape or form," Romney said. "If we coordinate in any way whatsoever, we go to the big house."
A fired-up Gingrich, who has seen his candidacy slide amid a barrage of attack ads, read Romney's remarks to reporters and then promptly labeled them "baloney." He again urged Romney to demand that the negative spots be taken down.
"I think these guys hire consultants who get drunk, sit around and write stupid ads," Gingrich said. "Every one of these candidates should take responsibility for the lies they are putting up".
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 report.
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Ask Amy: Sports trip with lesbians worries this mom
Dear Amy: My daughter is going on a team sports trip next month.
There are seven girls going without parents (my daughter is one of them). These girls will be rooming in two hotel rooms.
Two of the seven girls are lesbians. How should the team handle the rooming situation?
One of the lesbian girls is in a long-term relationship and is also a friend of my daughter?s.
My daughter is not worried about sharing a room with her.
But my daughter calls the other girl ?sketchy? (her opinion). My daughter would definitely not be comfortable sharing a bed with her.
Some of the other girls and probably most of the parents are unaware of the sexual orientation of the players.
The ages of the players on the team run from 13 to 19 years old.
The sexual orientation of any one of the players is not an issue except for this situation, especially considering the age differences.
What would you and your readers recommend?
SPORTS MOM
Dear Mom: As you note, a player?s sexual orientation isn?t an issue otherwise ? and it shouldn?t be an issue here, either.
Your unspoken assumption plays into a predator stereotype that simply isn?t true.
The most important fact that these girls should be aware of is that ANY sexual activity involving team members must be prohibited.
Sexual activity between an older and younger teen would also be illegal (in my home state, sex between a 19- and 13-year-old is also a felony).
All participants should be educated about what is and is not permitted ? and this includes sexual behavior of coaches, other adults traveling with the team and fellow team members.
If your daughter has any reason at all to suspect there is a specific problem, she should take it to you and her coach.
You should also take your questions/concerns to the coach in advance of the trip.
If your daughter doesn?t want to share a bed with another player, she can call the front desk and ask for a cot to be sent to the room; these are usually available for a small fee.
Dear Amy: Counseling isn?t helping me too much, so I?d like to hear from your peanut gallery.
I love my partner of 13 years, but something changed a few years ago: I am not physically attracted to him anymore. It?s not about his being unattractive ? I just realized that kissing him was like kissing a brother.
We are compatible in many ways, but my reluctance to be physical with him is getting worse. I tell myself to ?change my thinking,? but my heart is not in it.
We are not married, and he is my best friend. I just don?t know what to do. I think I need to make the break, but the thought just kills me.
I?d like to hear what you and readers think.
TORN
Dear Torn: You present this as an attraction problem, but you don?t mention your own mojo.
The two of you may be able to revive your attraction.
If he wants to have an intimate relationship with you he should be given the opportunity to work on it along with you.
My two cents is that it might help for you to step away from this relationship ? temporarily ? to get a handle on what you really want and what you want to do.
Dear Amy: I side with readers who protest your blanket condemnation of pornography.
I enjoy a glass of wine but have never been drunk. I have gone to the casino but don?t have a gambling problem. This and many other things are OK in moderation.
I have lived all over the world and could write a book on the different standards of pornography in every country.
I would not like to offend a nice lady like you by describing what is displayed at a Swedish gas station, while in Mexico, Playboy is too raw for the newsstand.
TOM
Dear Tom: I have a problem with pornography when it objectifies people and when viewing it creates a problem in real-world relationships.
Otherwise, while in a Swedish gas station, do as the Swedes do (presumably this involves putting fuel in one?s car).
askamy@tribune.com
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Sniping pits old foes, new allies: France, Britain
PARIS (AP) ? France and Britain escalated an unusual bout of sniping Friday, as Prime Minister David Cameron took a swipe at religious freedoms in France while the French finance minister criticized the U.K. economy.
The latest cross-Channel squabbling ? triggered in part over a tense European Union summit last week ? bared efforts to win political points at home at a time when the financial crisis has pinched both governments.
The rabble-rousing also comes despite the lockstep military effort between the two countries in the NATO-led air campaign that helped spell the end of Moammar Gadhafi's longtime reign in Libya.
France and Britain, rivals for centuries, have been strong ? if at times uncomfortable ? allies since the 20th century. As western Europe's top military powers, they cooperate closely on defense and were joint pillars of the NATO-led air campaign that helped spell the end of Moammar Gadhafi's reign in Libya.
Friday's war of words got going as French Finance Minister Francois Baroin sought to deflect investor fears across the Channel to Britain, hours after the national statistics agency predicted France will slide into recession.
"We would prefer to be French right now than British, in terms of the economy," Baroin told Europe-1 radio.
Echoing comments from several top French officials this week, Baroin suggested ratings agencies should be paying more attention to Britain: "The economic situation of Britain is worrying today."
With French presidential and legislative elections on tap next spring, President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives have been on the defensive in recent weeks amid rumblings that France ? the eurozone's No. 2 economy after Germany ? may soon face a credit-rating downgrade.
Late Friday, Fitch ratings agency said it was keeping France's credit grade at Triple-A, but was revising its outlook on French sovereign debt to negative, from stable.
In Brussels last week, Cameron was the only European Union leader out of 27 to refuse to consider a new treaty that would impose tougher controls on state budgets to avert wider financial crisis. His decision left him isolated.
But in Britain, Cameron has been praised by many for his decision to hardball his European allies over their fiscal pact ? and some opinion polls show his governing Conservative Party winning a clear boost from the tough stance.
In a speech on religion in Oxford, Cameron appeared to take a swipe at France, switching focus from the economy to tolerance for minorities in the two countries. "Many people tell me it is much easier to be Jewish or Muslim here in Britain than it is in a secular country like France," Cameron said.
Britain's deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, leader of the pro-European Liberal Democrats who opposed Cameron's move to snub the European pact, urged French Prime Minister Francois Fillon to end the sniping from Paris.
During a trip to Brazil on Thursday, Fillon ? whose wife Penelope is Welsh ? acknowledged to reporters that France's debt was too high, before pointing to "our British friends who are even more indebted than we are."
"For the moment, the ratings agencies don't seem to notice," he said.
Clegg's office said Fillon had called him from Brazil to say that "it had not been his intention to call into question" Britain's credit rating.
Meanwhile, Clegg told Fillon that the recent remarks by some French officials about the British economy were "simply unacceptable and that steps should be taken to calm the rhetoric," the statement said.
Late Thursday, French statistics agency Insee forecast that the country's economy would shrink this quarter and next amid a worsening outlook for the whole 17-nation eurozone. Insee predicted the economy would contract 0.2 percent in the fourth quarter and 0.1 percent in the first quarter of 2012, and forecast renewed but weak growth in the second quarter.
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David Stringer in London contributed to this report.
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French state agency predicts recession (AP)
PARIS ? France's state statistics agency is predicting that the country's economy will shrink over this quarter and the next, putting it in recession, as prospects for the whole eurozone worsen.
The Insee agency forecast in a statement late Thursday that the economy would contract 0.2 percent in the fourth quarter and 0.1 percent in the first quarter of 2012. It forecast renewed but weak growth in the second quarter in France, the second-biggest economy in the 17-nation eurozone.
It said it expects the eurozone to experience "a short recessive episode" over the winter.
But it noted an "inhabitual degree of uncertainty" around its forecast because of the volatility on financial markets about the debt crises.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
It's the cable guys! Antarctic ice wired
One of the most desolate spots on Earth recently got a visit from one of the most elusive characters on Earth ? the cable guy. Four very high-tech and capable cable guys, to be specific.
A small team of scientists recently installed a fiber-optic cable in the Ross Ice Shelf, a colossal plain of floating ice larger than the state of California that clings to the edge of Antarctica, straddling a massive bay between the eastern and western halves of the continent.
The cable, more than half a mile (1 kilometer) in length, is threaded straight down through 600 feet (200 meters) of solid ice and 2,000 feet (600 m) of water to dangle above the seafloor.
The fiber-optic cable is "like the kind that goes to your television or computer," said project leader David Holland, a professor at New York University, and was set in place so that the giant ice plain can, in essence, make phone calls to his office in Manhattan, and tell him what things are like in the ocean underneath it.
Holland and three colleagues ? an NYU graduate student and researchers from Ohio State University and the University of Nevada ? spent two weeks living out on the ice, sleeping in tiny tents to complete the pilot project, which is a year-long test run for the technology.
"You can measure the temperature on a fiber-optic cable at every meter," Holland told OurAmazingPlanet. "With this technology you can 'watch' the ice shelf," he said.
It took three days of drilling to bore a tiny hole just 2 inches (3 centimeters) across into the ice to complete the installation, which was sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
Loquacious ocean
A nifty suite of instruments sits atop the ice shelf, connected to the fiber-optic cable ? a data logger, a low-power laser and a modem ? powered by solar panels, wind turbines and batteries to get through the dark winter months, Holland said.
Every three hours, a modem on the roof of Holland's NYU building calls up the modem parked on the Antarctic ice to get a full rundown of temperatures throughout the ice shelf and, far more important, the ocean below.
So who wants to talk to a chatty ice shelf about its watery nether regions? Just about anyone who studies the mechanisms driving the significant changes observed in Antarctic ice. Research has revealed that warm ocean water gnawing away at ice shelves is a key player in unprecedented losses to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet over the last two decades.
"The temperature of the water underneath the ice shelves and the rate that water circulates in the ocean cavities underneath the ice shelves are the major determinants of the mass balance at the bottom of the ice shelves ? in other words, how fast they're melting at the bottom," said Stan Jacobs, an oceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
Ice shelves act as door stops for glaciers ? which are, essentially, slow-moving rivers of ice ?? and slow glaciers' inexorable march into the sea. When ice shelves thin, or completely disappear, glaciers speed up.
"That moves more ice more rapidly into the ocean, and of course that has sea-level implications," Jacobs told OurAmazingPlanet.
Satellites have glimpsed changes in ice shelves, and even their disappearance ? the dramatic collapse of the Larsen B ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula made headlines in 2002 ? yet they can't see underneath them to capture the details concerning how warm ocean water is taking a toll.
Holland said the fiber-optic cable can operate for many years at a time, delivering a steady stream of data on temperature conditions in the ocean under the ice shelf.
Jacobs, who was not associated with the project, said that getting temperature data during the winter months, when the darkness and brutal conditions make field work impossible, would be valuable.
"You'd like to have year-round measurements, and once you have year-round measurements, you'd like to have them more than one year," Jacobs said. "We already know that properties and circulation (of the water) change from one year to the next."
Testing, testing
Holland said that so far, the data indicate things are pretty stable under the Ross Ice Shelf, which is precisely what he expected. Unlike its neighbors in western Antarctica, the ice shelf doesn't appear to be suffering any losses.?
"This was not necessarily the most important place to go," Holland said, "but it's a smart idea for testing the technology." The ice shelf is next door to McMurdo Station, the largest of the United States' three research stations in Antarctica.
"If it works for one year, it will be a proven technology ? and if it's good I would ask that it be installed elsewhere," Holland said.
Jacobs said that ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea, particularly the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf, are of most concern to scientists, because they appear to be melting rapidly.
The glaciers in this western region of Antarctica are responsible for about 7 percent of annual global sea level rise, and of those speedy glaciers, the Pine Island Glacier is moving the fastest, at a clip of about 2.5 miles (4 km) per year.
A team of scientists is currently camping out on the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf to get some of the first precise measurements of temperature beneath it, yet they will have to pack up and go home when Antarctic winter approaches.
Although drilling into a giant piece of ice clinging to a continent at the bottom of the world may appear frivolous to some, Holland said, the research is important.
"It's just one element in a puzzle," he said. The ultimate goal is to hand over enough puzzle pieces to climate modelers, Holland said, because it's clear that changes in the atmosphere are driving changes in Antarctic ice, and changes in Antarctic ice drive changes in global sea level.
"If you talk to one individual, they're working on some piece of the puzzle around the change," he said. "No one piece is more important than the other, but if one piece is ignored you can't figure out this story."
Reach Andrea Mustain at amustain@techmedianetwork.com. Follow her on Twitter @AndreaMustain.Follow OurAmazingPlanet for the latest in Earth science and exploration news on Twitter @OAPlanet and on Facebook.
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Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45690009/ns/technology_and_science-science/
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