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Saturday, January 7, 2012
Friday, January 6, 2012
UPDATED: Mitt Romney got 20 fewer votes in Moulton precinct, Appanoose County GOP chairman says
NOTE: An earlier version of this blog incorrectly reported which numbers Appanoose County GOP chairman Lyle Brinegar believes are accurate. The numbers he referenced as accurate earlier today are those sworn in the affidavit by Moulton resident Edward True.
Mitt Romney received 20 fewer votes than are reported from a Moulton precinct in numbers posted by the Republican Party of Iowa, the Appanoose County GOP chairman said today.
The final vote between Iowa caucuses winner Mitt Romney was eight ahead of Rick Santorum.
?We stand by the figures that were presented by the Moulton precinct caucus,? said Lyle Brinegar, chairman of the Appanoose County GOP.
Matt Strawn, chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa, continued to express confidence Friday that the order of finish will not change. He said the party would make no further comment until its two-week vote certification process is complete.
Moulton resident Edward True has signed an affidavit saying that he helped count the vote at the Garrett Memorial Library in Moulton and that the precinct had two votes for Romney, not 22, as reported online by the state GOP.
Brinegar says True is correct.
?I?m not disputing what Ed True said,? Brinegar said.
Appanoose County has 12 caucus precincts. All but two had no votes or single-digit votes for Romney, while one had 20 votes and the Moulton site reported 22.
Drake University political science professor Dennis Goldford said the results ? even if the certification reveals a different answer ? will change little other than bragging rights.
Santorum, who for months remained in the single digits in polls, wildly beat expectations, and that is the real story, Goldford said. The caucuses don?t result in an actual election, so there?s no additional harm done in terms of having to eject a candidate from a position, Goldford noted.
However, there is potential for long-term consequences regarding the credibility of the Iowa caucuses, Goldford warned.
?It reinforces the view from other states that the Iowa caucuses are this unreliable, amateurish event,? Goldford said.
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Serious & dedicated RPers: small group Rp about the Occult
Basically what I want is for the story to start in the middle with flashbacks of the past and how the uncovering started. Or we can start from the beginning and reveal mysteries and stuff. IMO, it is better to Rp with a small group for this one since a large group can be pretty messy and hard to maintain.
The most important thing here is a dedicated RPer so we can make the Rp last long :)
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Report: Apple planning media event for end of January (Appolicious)
That?s the report from All Things D, anyway, which cites sources close to Apple and claims there?s a media event coming in the next few weeks. The event will be important, the report says, but also somewhat small-scale, and take place in New York.
All Things D says that several sources the publication spoke to insisted that the event wouldn?t be the announcement of the iPad 3, the next version of Apple?s super-popular tablet, which is expected to show up in the spring. And it?s unlikely that Apple will be announcing a new interactive TV set this month, either, even though rumor has it that Apple will have a new Apple TV out later this year. The reasoning against the Apple TV being announced in New York is that, given the device?s market, All Things D expects it to get an announcement event in either Hollywood or Silicon Valley.
So what does that leave for this supposed New York event? It seems likely the announcement could be related to one of Apple?s other content initiatives related to the iTunes App Store. Rumor has it that Apple Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue will be a part of the announcement. He?s in charge of things like Apple?s iAd division and its involvement in publishing, as well as iTunes, iCloud and the App Store. So it seems likely that the announcement could pertain to one of those things, but it?s hard to know for sure at this point.
Last time Cue was at an announcement in New York, Apple helped launch News Corp.?s iPad-only magazine, The Daily.
We don?t know just yet what to expect from Apple at the end of the month, or even if there really will be an announcement this month. We?ll keep our ears to the ground and bring you any new information we get.
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
2011 Reflections: Iraqi resilience amid war
Seven Monitor correspondents reflect on the world's hot spots. In this installment, Scott Peterson explains why despite the risks, he kept going back to tell the stories of Iraqis.
In the darkest years of the Iraq war, in 2006-07, some 3,000 Iraqis were being killed every month. Every day the bodies of ordinary Iraqis appeared on the streets, tortured in a vicious sectarian war ? or blown up by car bombs and suicide bombers.
Skip to next paragraphBack then, kidnappings afflicted Iraqis and foreigners alike. Monitor reporter Jill Carroll was released after 83 terrifying days; many others fared much worse.
The question came too often to ignore, from my friends and family ? and even surprised Iraqis ? about why I continued reporting from Iraq.
My answer was always the same: Despite the magnitude of murder, there were also 5 million Iraqis in Baghdad alone who survived every day.
I wanted to tell their stories.
Those narratives could be as inspiring as they were often grim, as Iraq's social fabric frayed under the weight of violence. While the death toll has since dipped (to about 150 civilians per month), many risks remain: In the days after the final US troops flew out of Iraq on Dec. 17, the government of Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki issued an arrest warrant for a key Sunni rival, which could prompt sectarian feuds to reignite.
But Iraqi resilience has remained strong, no matter what the challenge.
There was?the Methboub family, whose widowed matriarch, Karima, kept her eight children alive and laughing, despite impossible poverty as the post-Saddam Hussein world exploded around them.
I found hope in the war diary of daughter Amal, who wrote by candlelight of her fear during the invasion ? and of celebrating her 14th birthday as the bombs fell.
Years later, youngest son Mahmoud risked his life daily to sell Pepsi on the street, and daughter Fatima found love through the kitchen window, with a young man in the next apartment.
That joyful marriage would turn to abuse and misery, though Fatima has since regained her coquettish nature. Son Ali would be held and tortured in prison for 2-1/2 years, then released without charge. And Amal and her sister Hibba would finally make it to college ? a bright coda.
Yet as the years ground on and the violence deepened, getting to the Methboubs required careful planning and disguise.
I used Iraqi shirts, jackets, a beard, a pair of Shiite rings acquired in Tehran, and an ordinary shopping bag to hide my camera and notebooks, hoping no one would notice me during the short walk to their apartment.
That walk grew longer and riskier when a spate of car bombs in the area caused residents to block the streets with chunks of concrete.
I could rarely stay for long, and left under the cover of darkness. I could never tell the family when I would arrive. But a similar balance of life took place everywhere.
Tough balance
When a double suicide car bomb in late 2005 hit the Hamra Hotel, adjacent to the Monitor office, it blew in our windows ? and I had to stagger through clouds of dust with my cameras on my way out.
Those bombs devastated the lives of Iraqis who lived 25 yards from its impact point, including the Khafaji family. Father Yas lost his wife, 11-year-old daughter, and nephew when the bombs destroyed their home.
Such savage violence often defined the disconnect between Iraqis and their American occupiers.
While Iraqis lived under the constant threat of death, inside the fortified Green Zone was a different story. True, US officials, generals, and contractors there were living under frequent rocket and mortar fire. But they were also taking coffee at the Green Bean or grabbing slices at Pizza Hut ? a sliver of Americana that was duplicated with everything from enchiladas to Heinz Steak Sauce at sprawling US military bases.
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Naz vows to play for Apache; Bishop Ford says it's too soon
SETH WALDER/DAILY NEWS
Three roses sit beneath photos of Apache Paschall in a makeshift memorial on the second floor at Nazareth HS. Paschall, the girls basketball coach at the East Flatbush school, suffered fatal heart attack on Tuesday.
Controversy follows Apache Paschall wherever he goes.
A day after the unexpected death of the Nazareth HS girls basketball coach, a battle is brewing over exactly when his nationally-ranked team should resume its schedule.
The Lady Kingsmen are slated to play at Bishop Ford on Thursday, and members of its team, as well as its remaining coaches, want the game to go on.
Bishop Ford, however, sees things a little differently.
?We are not playing the game,? said Eileen Egan, Ford?s girls athletic director. ?My principal feels that the man has not been buried yet, there hasn?t been a funeral and we should not be playing a basketball game. I mean, we are a Catholic school. So my administration is not allowing us to play.?
Nazareth assistant Lauren Best, who was extremely close to Paschall, said Ford?s decision was ?disrespectful to Apache.?
Best, who will coach the Lady Kingsmen on an interim basis with fellow assistant Ron Kelley, said that Paschall?s teenage daughter, who attends Nazareth, was all for playing the game as scheduled.
?She wants the game to happen,? Best said. ?Most importantly, his players want the game to happen.?
Egan said Ford principal Frank V. Brancato and school president Raymond P. Nash decided against playing, and that she agreed with the decision.
Best said she was planning to travel to Ford in time for the scheduled tip-off at 6 p.m., though it?s unlikely that the Lady Kingsmen will find an opponent waiting for them when they get there.
Nazareth is scheduled to play host to Christ the King on Saturday in what is supposed to be a Homecoming game. Bob Mackey, Christ the King?s girls athletic director and basketball coach, could not be reached on Wednesday.
Best made it clear that the decision to continue playing without interuption was the players?.
?They all came to the hospital (on Tuesday) and we asked them what they wanted to do, and they came up with it on their own: they wanted to play,? said Best. ?That?s what (Paschall) would have wanted.?
Meanwhile, the East Flatbush school began the process of grieving for the wildly successful and controversial Paschall, who died of an apparent heart attack at age 38.
Students and teachers said a prayer for Paschall on Wednesday morning, and members of the girls basketball team were excused from classes to spend time with one another and reflect.
A memorial on the second floor holds three roses, pictures of Paschall and messages from members of the Nazareth community.
Funeral arrangements had not been announced, but Best and Murphy said his memorial service will probably be held next week.
Practice continued on Wednesday, with girls in the gym going through drills and smiling. Best complimented the players? positive attitude and willingness to push forward.
?They actually kept us afloat,? she said.
Best said she is certain that Paschall would have wanted the team to move on, especially since Ford and Christ the King are thought to be Nazareth?s greatest threats.
?If he could talk to me now, he?d be like, ?Just keep this (rivalry) going,? ? Best said. ?He?d probably tell me to say something crazy, to keep that fire alive. ?Dominate them!? That?s what he?d say.?
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