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Linfield hires Bechtol to coach men's soccer

Mac High's boys and girls coach moves up to coach his alma mater

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Chuck Bechtol (center) addresses the Mac boys team after its 2010 season-ending defeat at home against Beaverton.

Dec 29, 2011

By Carl Dubois
Of the News-Register

Linfield College didn't have to go far to fill the vacancy for the position of men's soccer head coach. Chuck Bechtol, a former player for the Wildcats and a 1992 Linfield graduate, accepted the position, the college announced today.

Bechtol is our All-Valley Boys Soccer Coach of the Year, as we announced Wednesday.

Look for more in Saturday's print edition of the News-Register.

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Scholars want help identifying slaves' origins (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Almost two centuries before there was a man named Obama in the White House, there was a man named Obama shackled in the bowels of a slave ship. There is no proof that the unidentified Obama has ties to President Barack Obama. All they share is a name. But that is exactly the commonality that Emory University researchers hope to build upon as they delve into the origins of Africans who were taken up and sold.

They have built an online database around those names, and welcome input from people who may share a name that's in the database, or have such names as part of their family lore.

"The whole point of the project is to ask the African diaspora, people with any African background, to help us identify the names because the names are so ethno-linguistically specific, we can actually locate the region in Africa to which the individual belonged on the basis of the name," said David Eltis, an Emory University history professor who heads the database research team.

So far, two men named Obama sit among some 9,500 captured Africans whose names were written on line after line in the registries of obscure, 19th century slave trafficking courts. The courts processed the human chattel freed from ships that were intercepted and detoured to Havana, Cuba or Freetown, Sierra Leone. Most of the millions of Africans enslaved before 1807 were known only by numbers, said James Walvin, an expert on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Once bought by slave owners, the Africans' names were lost. Africans captured by the Portuguese were baptized and given "Christian" names aboard the ships that were taking them into slavery.

But original African names ? surnames were uncommon for Africans in the 19th century ? are rich with information. Some reveal the day of the week an individual was born or whether that individual was the oldest, youngest or middle child or a twin. They can also reveal ethnic or linguistic groups.

The president's father was from Kenya, on the eastern coast of Africa, and Eltis said it was rare for captives to hail from areas far from the port where their ships set sail. The unidentified Obamas on the slave ships sailed from west Africa. Walvin, author of "The Zong," a book about the slave trade, said there were Africans who had been brought great distances before they were forced onto ships.

"Often their enslavement had begun much earlier, deep in the African interior, most of them captured through acts of violence, warfare or kidnap, or for criminal activity ..." Walvin said in his book, which chronicles the true story of a captain who ordered a third of the slaves aboard his ship thrown overboard due to a shortage of drinking water.

Obama's ancestors, a nomadic people known as the River Lake Nilotes, migrated from Bahr-el-Ghazal Province in Sudan toward Uganda and into Western Kenya, according to Sally Jacobs, author of "The Other Barack", a book about the president's father. They were part of several clans and subclans that eventually became the Luo people of Kenya, Jacobs writes.

The president's great-grandfather's name was Obama. Obama is derived from the word "bam", meaning crooked or indirect, she said in her book.

But it's also possible that Obama was a name used by other cultural groups in Africa and for whom the name had a different meaning.

The slaves found aboard intercepted ships provided their names, age and sometimes where they were from, through translators, to English and Spanish speaking court registrars who wrote their names as they sounded to them.

Body scars or identifying marks also were recorded. The details were logged in an attempt to prevent the Africans from being enslaved again, which didn't always work.

Emory's researchers are including audio clips of the names as they would likely be pronounced in Africa.

"These people enslaved were not just a nebulous group of people with no place and no name," said Kwesi DeGraft-Hanson, one of the researchers, who has found variations of his name, his brother's and his children's names in the database. He is originally from Ghana. "That's how lot of us view slavery. We don't have names faces to go with it ... It makes them that much more removed from us."

Eltis and his researchers acknowledge the database may not help African Americans with genealogical research because records on the Africans once they were freed from the ships are harder to find, if they exist at all.

However, the project provides another piece in a major jigsaw, and helps put together a bigger picture on slavery, Walvin said.

Before this project, Eltis and others assembled a database of 35,000 trans-Atlantic slave ship voyages responsible for the flow of more than 10 million Africans to the Americas.

Together, the two databases provide some details on the horrific voyages of the Africans, including the Obamas.

The Xerxes, which carried one of the unidentified Obamas, was a 138-foot schooner that began its voyage in Havana with a crew of 44. Five guns were mounted aboard when the ship left on a slave purchasing trip to Bonny on Feb. 10, 1828.

Sailing under the Spanish flag, the ship's captain Felipe Rebel purchased 429 slaves, nearly one third of them children, before setting out on a return trip to the Americas. But on June 26, 1828, the Xerxes was intercepted and forced to dock at an unknown Cuban port. By then, 26 slaves had died.

The other unidentified Obama, 6-foot-3-inches tall, was one of 562 Africans shackled in the belly of the Midas. The vessel was a Brig, a fast, maneuverable ship with two square-rigged masts. It was equipped with eight guns.

Midas' captain J. Martinez and a crew of 53 left Cuba on an unknown date. It left Bonny with 562 slaves but was intercepted. It docked in Cuba July 8, 1829 minus 162 slaves who had died during the voyage.

Some slaves freed from seized ships were returned to Africa, but not always to their original homelands. Some were sent to Liberia or were allowed to remain free in the cities where the courts were located. Some may have been re-enslaved and some died on ships that were returning them to Africa.

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On the Net: African Origins: http://www.african-origins.org/

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Voyages: http://www.slavevoyages.org

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NY bill would require bachelor's degrees for RNs

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ? New registered nurses would have to earn bachelor's degrees within 10 years to keep working in New York under a bill lawmakers are considering as part of a national push to raise educational standards for nurses, even as the health care industry faces staffing shortages.

The "BSN in 10" initiative backed by nursing associations and major health policy organizations aims to attack the complex problem of too few nurses trained to care for an aging population that includes hundreds of thousands of nurses expected to retire in the coming years. But some in the health care industry worry that increased education requirements could worsen the problem by discouraging entrants into the field.

Currently, most registered nurses have two-year associate's degrees. No state requires a four-year degree for initial licensing or afterward, though New Jersey and Rhode Island have considered proposals similar to New York's over the past several years. New York's legislation died in committee last session, but it has bipartisan support in both chambers this year and could be debated as early as January.

Demand for more skilled nurses is increasing as the population gets older and has more chronic diseases, and as the new federal health care law promises to help 32 million more Americans gain insurance within a few years.

Federal health officials have recommended upgrading nurse education to BSNs for more than a decade, and the idea got a boost in a 2010 report, "The Future of Nursing," by the National Academy of Sciences nonprofit Institute of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. As of 2008, about a third of RNs had bachelor's degrees or higher, according to federal statistics. The institute recommended increasing that to 80 percent by 2020.

Advocates say that in addition to improving patient care, a key reason for requiring more education is to put more nurses in position to move on to jobs in administration and in-demand specialties like oncology, and to teach at nursing schools, where the average faculty age is 53.

"More and more hospitals are looking to hire BSNs, but the catch is that not that many schools offer the RN-to-BSN program or have the faculty to teach it," said Sharon Shockness, an adjunct teacher at Mercy College in Westchester County.

The New York bill's main sponsors, Democratic Assemblyman Joseph Morelle of Rochester and Republican Sen. James Alesi of Monroe County, said the bill is needed to further professionalize nursing. Both serve on their respective higher education committees and represent districts that include University of Rochester Medical Center and St. John Fisher College, which have BSN programs.

In addition to helping provide future teachers, the lawmakers say the added education and critical thinking skills are needed as patient care has become more sophisticated and studies show staff with higher levels of education serve patients better.

In a memo supporting the bill, the New York State Nurses Association cites a 2003 University of Pennsylvania study that found every 10 percent increase in staffing by nurses with bachelor's degrees results in a 5 percent decrease in surgical deaths.

Current registered nurses would be exempt from the education requirement to prevent driving more nurses from the field.

"This bill shouldn't discourage anyone at this point because it doesn't involve anyone even applying for licensure right now ... and 10 years is a long time to get a degree that will give you better pay," Alesi said.

Alesi contends the measure will "improve the landscape of nursing" by increasing the pool of RNs who can go on to obtain master's degrees and teach.

Researchers say almost 900,000 of the nation's roughly 3 million licensed RNs are older than 50, and while there's been an uptick in new, younger nurses, shortages are still expected as the health care industry continues to add nursing jobs. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated in 2009 that almost 582,000 new RN jobs would be created by 2018.

Federal projections in 2004, the most recent available, forecast a shortfall of 54,000 RN jobs in New York by 2020; the state currently has about 170,000 working nurses. But the state and national shortage estimates have varied greatly as the overall economy and national health policy have changed. A study published this year in the journal Health Affairs reports a surge among younger RNs entering the workforce, pointing to an easing of a national shortage previously forecast to reach 400,000 by 2020.

That shortage concerns New York's health care providers.

William Van Slyke, spokesman for the Healthcare Association of New York State, said the organization representing health care networks and hospitals supports having a better educated nursing workforce, but opposes a four-year degree mandate.

One problem, he said, is the lack of nursing faculty ? the same issue advocates say the bill would address.

"If you start the clock and you don't have the educational system, we may find ourselves having to turn away staff and have shortages," Van Slyke said.

The association has proposed legislation that would provide incentives like loan forgiveness to encourage people to become nurse educators, he said, but lawmakers haven't taken up the idea.

Morelle, the Assembly sponsor, said the state's community colleges also have expressed concerns that the requirement will cut into the number of people seeking the 2-year degrees they offer.

"Their classes are overflowing," Morelle said, and there is a "whole host of programs" that allow students to progress from a 2-year to a 4-year program.

A spokesman for the New York nurses association said New York City metropolitan area hospitals are increasingly requiring new RNs to have a bachelor's degree or earn one within five years, creating a disparity in standards between downstate and upstate, where fewer candidates have four-year degrees.

"Even without the legislation in place, hospitals and other medical facilities are making hiring decisions that favor those with BSN degrees over those without them," said Dr. Peggy Tallier, program director and associate professor in nursing school health at Mercy College.

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Did Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson Just Play Scrooge to the Democrats' Christmas? (ContributorNetwork)

ANALYSIS | The word "Nebraska" loosely translates as "broad river" according to Netstate.com. And that's just what the Democrats are going to have to cross if they want to hold onto the Senate, now that Nebraska Senate Democrat Ben Nelson called it quits for after a career in statewide and national politics spanning more than two decades. Will such a retirement spell doom for Senate Democrats and their bid to hold onto the upper house of Congress?

Republicans probably perceived Nelson as "Dead Man Walking" after his health care vote, but Nelson made a career of defying expectations. He ousted a Republican Governor in a stand-pat election year in 1990. He was overwhelmingly reelected in a bad Democratic year (1994). He won an open seat in 2000, the same year Bush won and took Nebraska handily. And he coasted to a senatorial re-election in 2006. His only stumble came in 1996 when he lost an open seat Senate race (to independent-minded Republican Chuck Hagel), but only after breaking a campaign promise not to run for another office while governor, according to the Associated Press.

What's more is that this upsets Democratic Party plans. They had already purchased a number of ad buys, according to Schulte and Margasak. Nelson had a decent war chest, according to The Blaze. Plus, there was the prospect of a messy Republican primary between the state's Attorney General, State Treasurer, a legislator and business executive, which would have made things easier for Nelson.

There are no easy Democratic candidates to trot out as replacements. The entire congressional delegation is Republican, as are all statewide offices. Politics1.com lists Larry Marvin as a potential candidate (an Air Force veteran and prior candidate for office). There's also Scott Kleeb (former Congressional candidate) and Bill Hoppner (who ran twice for Governor, losing once to Nelson after a lengthy recount by 40 votes, and got 46 percent of the vote in a 1998 contest to succeed Nelson according to OurCampaigns.com), but only the younger Kleeb is likely to consider the election.

A more likely option could come from the state's second district, where Obama narrowly won in 2008. According to Politics1.com, three Democrats were attempting to unseat Republican Congressman Lee Terry: Douglas County Treasurer John Ewing, State Senator Gwen Howard, and Howard Buffett (listed as a former US Defense Dept. Official, Farmer, Philanthropist and Democratic Activist by Politics1.com). One of them could step out the race (where Terry faces his own primary) and switch to the Senate race.

Some on Yahoo Answers want Bob Kerrey to come back into politics. That may be wishful thinking on the respondents' part, but one cannot completely rule it out.

Whoever the Democrats run, it will be an uphill battle. For all their bad-mouthing of Ben Nelson, he was rated as a "toss-up" by the Charlie Cook Political Report, for race ratings in December 1 and 22 in the big red state of Nebraska. Already, there are 10 toss-up races; eight of them involved seats Democrats needed to defend. Only a Kerrey comeback might make this a toss-up.

Nelson's departure is likely to move the race into the Republican column, unless three things happen. First, the expected divisive GOP primary needs blood on the walls. Even this is not a guarantee, as Hagel was able to overcome a bitter intra-party feud against Don Stenberg (then-Attorney General, now State Treasurer, who wants Nelson's job). Second, Democrats need little or no in-fighting in their own primary. Third, Obama's fortunes need to rebound in a big way. He needs better economic numbers, or at least some sort of positive trend. And, as Cook wrote in the National Journal "If Republicans nominate someone whom swing voters find unpalatable, or if the GOP nominee self-destructs, Obama will benefit." And I have yet to meet a Republican in my conservative bastion of West Georgia (which resembles Nebraska for political ideology) who is enthusiastic about any of the choices, save Ron Paul supporters.

Democrats (and Democrat-leaning allies) must defend 23 of the 33 seats up for grabs in 2012, so the math was already against them. Without a big name entering the race, the Senate is even more likely to shift Republican next year.

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Julie Ingersoll: Gingrich Panders to Biblical Worldview Crowd

Newt Gingrich may avoid going negative in Iowa (and elsewhere), but he sure is pandering to the biblical worldview crowd. Could he be trying to deflect their attention from his own family values?

Gingrich turned up on David Barton's radio show "Wallbuilders Live" the day after Christmas and described Barton as "extraordinarily knowledgeable about American history." Gingrich's own credentials as a historian aside, there is unanimity among historians on the problems in David Barton's "Christian American history" but little question as to his ideological use of history to support his view of the bible and its application to civil society in the form of biblical law. I've written about that here and here.

In What to do about an out of Control Judiciary, Barton and Gingrich discussed what they consider an overreaching judiciary, and Gingrich's controversial strategies for reining it in. Since gaining ground in the Republican primary/caucus field, Gingrich has generated controversy and attention by suggesting that the judicial branch of government should be brought under the control of Congress, a move most scholars oppose as undermining the Constitutional separation of powers between the three branches of government.

The Gingrich strategy is outlined in a position paper on Newt.org and includes impeaching and/or arresting judges and even abolishing courts. Since discussing the strategy in debates, Gingrich has gained support for the plan from conservative leaders like Rush Limbaugh but on Barton's radio show, Gingrich flattered Barton by saying that some of the views laid out in the position paper, "go back to (Barton's) own work" on the founding fathers.
Toward the end of the interview, Gingrich was asked, "should you become President, is there a crop of judges and attorneys out there you could choose from" (i.e. folks of similar mind whom he could appoint to a reformed judiciary that "properly" understand the Christian character of the American Republic)?

Gingrich was ready with an enthusiastic endorsement of the law schools at Regent University and Liberty University, both of which have their roots Christian Reconstruction's long term strategy to establish a "biblical worldview" as the basis for civil law in America. Sarah Posner at Religion Dispatches has written about both Regent University Law school and its Christian Reconstructionist founder Herb Titus and the effort to teach a "biblical worldview" based in David Barton's work at Liberty University's Law School.

Either Gingrich really would look to these two extreme institutions to fill court vacancies, or he just thinks saying he would will secure him support from a key part of the GOP base. In either case, it's another piece of evidence that this long-term effort to transform culture according to a specific understanding of a biblical worldview has had an impact. Funny -- there was no discussion of Gingrich's own "family values."

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Romney machine rights ship after Gingrich bump (Reuters)

TILTON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - ? Ten days before the first votes in the 2012 Republican presidential race, Mitt Romney's well-funded campaign machine has held off the most serious challenge to his White House bid and is keeping him near the top of the pack.

The denting of his main rival, Newt Gingrich, endorsements from respected Republicans and a series of well-received media interviews over the past couple of weeks have boosted the former Massachusetts governor's campaign.

The usually buttoned-down Romney also showed a lighter side with an appearance on Monday on comedian David Letterman's late-night talk show.

Gingrich had overtaken Romney in some Iowa polls earlier this month, but a wave of negative television ads by the Romney campaign and his political allies on the former U.S. House of Representatives speaker has righted the ship.

Restore Our Future, a super political action committee (PAC) fundraising committee formed in large part by close associates of Romney, has spent $2.6 million in the past two weeks on advertisements opposing Gingrich, whose lead in the polls in Iowa has melted.

Romney's failure to move above the 25 percent mark in national opinion polls throughout the year is a problem. But if Gingrich's support collapses in Iowa, which holds its nominating contest on January 3, Romney could have a respectable showing and pick up momentum going into the January 10 New Hampshire primary.

Texas Congressman Ron Paul holds a narrow lead over Romney in most Iowa polls, with Gingrich having slipped to third.

"Wonder why Gingrich's numbers are falling in Iowa? Romney (and Super PACs supporting him) are outspending Gingrich 34:1 this week," noted the Democratic strategy firm Anzalone Liszt Research.

Long-time Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom told Reuters that Romney's campaign, by far the best-funded among the Republican candidates, had been ready for a tough December.

"We always thought it would be more competitive and more intense as voting approaches," he said. "But we like the state of the race right now. Momentum is on our side."

Romney largely side-stepped a political capitulation by House Republicans this week over a two-month extension of a payroll tax cut, describing it as part of the "Congressional sausage-making process." And after looking shaky against Gingrich and Texas Governor Rick Perry in debates, Romney has refocused his attacks on President Barack Obama's economic record.

But some voters are starting to take issue with Romney's persistently bleak assessment of the U.S. economy, especially in New Hampshire where conditions are improving. Several small business people enthusiastically volunteered upbeat assessments of their companies this week.

"I think he used facts selectively," said Ken Allen, a restaurant manager from Northfield.

Morey Stettner of Portsmouth pointed out at a townhall meeting with Romney in Conway that the unemployment rate was falling. "The news every day is of a turnaround," Stettner said.

IOWA PUSH

Romney's team has been ambivalent all year toward Iowa. It did not, for example, participate in a straw poll in August that took the Republican presidential pulse of the conservative Midwest state.

However, an endorsement from Iowa's statewide newspaper, the Des Moines Register, has increased the incentive to go for a win there, while publicly keeping expectations low.

Romney has a solid organizational structure in the state that has held together since his first presidential bid in 2008 and he will campaign in some eight cities there over four days next week.

When Gingrich on Wednesday announced the support of House speakers from Iowa and New Hampshire, Romney's campaign fired back with endorsements from no less than seven former House speakers from the two states. He also won the backing of former President George H. W. Bush.

As much as Iowa seems a toss-up, New Hampshire is Romney's state to lose, and he needs to post a big win there to silence his critics and build momentum for other contests.

Polls in the New England state consistently show Romney up by double digits over Gingrich, Paul and former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman. A narrow victory for Romney, who owns a home in New Hampshire, could be spun by opponents as a defeat for him as the campaigns head to South Carolina.

"There have been elections in the past where a candidate has been a distance second, but won a moral victory," said Christopher Galdieri, a politics professor at Saint Anselm College in Manchester.

Former New Hampshire Governor John H. Sununu, a close Romney associate, often says that "Iowa picks corn. New Hampshire picks presidents." Sununu was constantly at Romney's side during this week's campaign swing through the Granite State.

"Yes, I am confident," Sununu told Reuters, referring to Romney's chances winning the state and continuing on to the nomination. "It all starts here. The numbers we are seeing are good numbers."

Even though no votes have been cast, pundits argue about what would benefit Romney most: quickly locking up the nomination so he can concentrate on the November election against Obama, or enduring a longer, bruising race that would battle-harden him.

Political observers have noted that Romney has bristled at times in television interviews, and can lose focus when challenged.

On Thursday night, at a town meeting in Conway, he sounded irritated and made a sweeping and risky promise to college student Kallie Durkit, who questioned whether Romney had answers for young Americans worried about the job market.

"What I can promise you is this - when you get out of college, if I'm president you'll have a job. If President Obama is re-elected, you will not be able to get a job," Romney said.

(Editing by Alistair Bell and Paul Simao)

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111227/pl_nm/us_usa_campaign_romney

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Sony PlayStation Vita: List of Launch Games Lineup Revealed [VIDEO]

Sony has revealed the list of games that will be available alongside the upcoming PlayStation Vita on its launch day on Feb. 22. As many as 25 launch games from Sony and others from its development community are set to arrive alongside the most-awaited hand-held gaming console.

As far as the Sony titles are concerned, the launch day games include the likes of ModNation Racers: Road Trip, Uncharted: Golden Abyss and wipEout 2048. The third-party games that are also set to come include Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Square Enix's ?evil Pikmin,? Rayman Origins and Army Corps of Hell. Other games, set for a later release, are MLB 12 and Gravity Rush (from Sony).

Here is a list of the upcoming games:

SCEA (Sun Certified Enterprise Architect) Window Titles:
Unit 13
MLB 12
Reality Fighters
Gravity Rush

SCEA (Sun Certified Enterprise Architect) Launch Day Titles:
UNCHARTED: Golden Abyss
ModNation Racers: Road Trip
Escape Plan (PSN Only)
Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational
Super StarDust Delta (PSN only)
Hustle Kings (PSN Only)
Little Deviants
wipEout 2048

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Third Party Titles Window Titles:
NINJA GAIDEN Sigma PLUS
LEGO? Harry Potter: Years 5-7
Ridge Racer
Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention
Silent Hill Book of Memories
Supremacy MMA: Unrestricted

Third Party Launch Day Titles:
Army Corps of Hell
Asphalt Injection
BEN10 GALACTIC RACING
Blazblue: Continuum Shift EXTEND
Dungeon Hunter Alliance
Dynasty Warriors Next
F1 2011
EA SPORTS FIFA Soccer
Lumines Electronic Symphony
Michael Jackson The Experience
Plants vs Zombies (PSN Only)
Rayman Origins
Shinobido 2: Revenge of Zen
Tales of Space: Mutant Blobs (PSN Only)
Touch My Katamari
Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3
Virtua Tennis 4: World Tour Edition

Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/273412/20111228/sony-playstation-vita-list-launch-games-lineup.htm

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Romney's rivals attack in final Iowa caucus push (AP)

DES MOINES, Iowa ? Attacking in waves, Mitt Romney's Republican presidential rivals cast the former Massachusetts governor as a less-than-reliable conservative on taxes, gay marriage and more Tuesday in the final, intensifying phase of a costly Iowa caucus campaign.

"I think I'm going to get the nomination if we do our job right," countered Romney, sounding like the front-runner his rivals made him out to be a week before the first major test of the race.

In a measure of the political stakes, the candidates and allied groups have spent more than $12 million on television commercials to air through caucus day next Tuesday. Romney, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and supporting groups account for nearly half the total, according to one estimate.

Most of Romney's rivals preceded him into the state during the day at the end of a holiday lull, seeking support in caucuses that are likely to dispatch one or more of them to a hasty campaign exit.

"My idea of gun control? Use both hands," said Perry, setting out on a bus tour in hopes of resurrecting his once-promising candidacy.

"I've been a conservative all my life," said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. He called Romney a "Massachusetts moderate ... who campaigned to the left of Teddy Kennedy."

In Dubuque, the first stop of a bus tour through the state, Gingrich said his own economic proposal for an optional flat-tax as well as the elimination of all capital gains taxes was a more pro-growth approach than Romney's prescription.

In a radio interview, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said Romney had "sort of gotten a pass'" when he said in a recent debate he had done all he could as Massachusetts governor to block same-sex marriages in the state.

Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota had a bus of her own, and saw herself as the rightful Romney alternative.

"I am the only consistent conservative in the race and the only candidate with the proven leadership and experience to create more American jobs and repair our economy," she wrote in an email seeking donations for her underfunded candidacy.

Bachmann, Perry and Gingrich have all spent time atop the Iowa public opinion polls in recent months, either alone or alongside Romney, only to fall back.

Recent soundings suggest Texas Rep. Ron Paul is Romney's likeliest threat in Iowa. He is due in the state on Wednesday.

A conservative with libertarian leanings, Paul commands strong allegiance from his own supporters but appears to have little potential to expand his appeal and emerge as a serious challenger for the nomination.

Unlike his rivals and most Republican voters, he says the federal government should have no authority to ban abortion.

And Paul was alone among the GOP contenders in a recent debate in saying the United States should not consider preemptive military action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, an issue of significant importance to Israel. He warned against jumping the gun, adding, "That's how we got into that useless war in Iraq."

Romney, making his second run for the nomination, has relied on a well-funded and disciplined organization, generally strong debate performances and deep-pocketed allies to keep his balance as others have risen to challenge him and fallen back.

According to one tally of television advertising in the state, the Massachusetts governor and a super PAC run by supporters have spent $3.7 million combined on ads through Jan. 3

The total was exceeded only by a combined $5.5 million for Perry and a super PAC set up by his supporters.

Whatever the outcome, there was a recognition that for some, Iowa might simultaneously be the first and last test of the campaign.

"If I finish dead last way behind the pack I'm going to pack up and go home," Santorum said in a radio interview on WHO in Des Moines. "But I don't think that's going to happen," he added instantly.

Santorum, more than any of the others, has campaigned in Iowa the old fashioned way by doggedly visiting all 99 counties and holding hundreds of town hall meetings.

In Mason City, on a final swing through the state, he, like the others, urged potential caucus-goers to look past the appeal of conservative pretenders.

"The siren song of `this person can win' has been the mantra of a lot of the candidates," he said. "Vote for me because I can win."

In the state where caucuses propelled Obama toward the White House in 2008, the president's campaign organization pointed toward Election Day next Nov. 6.

With offices in eight Iowa cities, officials said Obama's re-election campaign has placed hundreds of thousands of phone calls since April to potential supporters.

___

Associated Press writers Chuck Babington in Des Moines, Tom Beaumont in Mason City, Philip Elliott in Council Bluffs, Shannon McCaffrey in Dubuque and Steve Peoples in New Hampshire contributed to this report.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111227/ap_on_el_pr/us_gop_campaign

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GG, MacKay visit Canadian troops in Italy, Afghanistan

Date: Sunday Dec. 25, 2011 5:38 PM ET

Canadians serving in Afghanistan were greeted on Christmas Day by a visit from Gov. Gen. David Johnston and top brass from the Department of Defence.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay, Liberal Leader Bob Rae and General Walt Natynczyk, chief of defence staff, joined Johnston on the trip.

"It was a privilege to extend my heartfelt gratitude and support to the Canadian men and women in uniform, and the many diplomats, aid specialists and police officers deployed abroad, who are committed to making parts of the world a safer and better place," Johnston said in a statement.

"The sacrifice of troops and civilians who are away from their families and friends at this time of the year is tremendous and I wish them the best of luck in the completion of their missions."

The men donned red and white Santa hats on Christmas Day and led by the governor general, sang "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" with the soldiers, Rae said in a blog post.

In a statement, Rae said, "It was a great honour and privilege to join the Governor General in spending Christmas Day in the company of our brave men and women of the Canadian Forces and many other Canadians who are helping Afghanistan to rebuild."

"All Canadians should be proud of the work they are doing," he added.

Prior to the trip to Afghanistan Johnston, MacKay and Natynczyk visited Rome, where the HMCS Vancouver was docked. HMCS Vancouver is currently involved in NATO counter-terrorism efforts in the Mediterranean and had earlier taken part in the Libyan mission.

"Canadian Forces members have worked tirelessly, at home and abroad, to save lives, provide security, and promote peace," MacKay said in a statement. "It has been a busy, challenging year. As we celebrate the holidays, we should also take time to think of those who are still deployed throughout the world."

Canada's military mission in the country, which ended earlier this year, saw over 2,500 Canadian troops posted to a military base in Kandahar.

The trip to Afghanistan has become an annual tradition for MacKay, where around 950 Canadian soldiers are still in the capital of Kabul teaching local soldiers and police and also mentoring Afghan medical staff.

MacKay also met with U.S. General John Allen, who is commanding the international military mission in Afghanistan.

Johnston, who was already overseas for the state funeral of former Czech president Vaclav Havel, also met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other senior officials while in Afghanistan.

Source: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20111225/johnston-mackay-visit-canadian-troops-111225/

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Clues sought in house fire that killed 5

STAMFORD, Conn.?? Investigators were talking to a New York City advertising executive and an acquaintance who survived a Christmas morning house fire that killed her three daughters and her parents to try to determine what caused the blaze.

Madonna Badger, who was having work done on the home she bought for $1.7 million last year, was released from hospital Monday.

The home was demolished Monday due to the fire damage and safety concerns.

Badger's three daughters ? a 10-year-old and 7-year-old twins ? and her parents, who were visiting for the holiday, died.

Badger's father, Lomer Johnson, had worked as a Santa at Saks Fifth Avenue's flagship store in Manhattan. "Mr. Johnson was Saks Fifth Avenue's beloved Santa, and we are heartbroken about this terrible tragedy," spokeswoman Julia Bently said.

Neighbors said they awoke to the sound of screaming shortly before 5 a.m. on Christmas morning and rushed outside to help, but they could only watch in horror as flames devoured the grand home and the shocked, injured survivors were led away from the house.

Badger, an ad executive in the fashion industry, is the founder of New York City-based Badger & Winters Group. A supervisor at Stamford Hospital said she was treated and discharged by Sunday evening.

The fire might have been related to a fireplace on the first floor, a source familiar with the case told NBCNewYork.com.

Property records show she bought the five-bedroom, waterfront home for $1.7 million last year. The house is situated in Shippan Point, a wealthy neighborhood that juts into Long Island Sound.

The male acquaintance who also escaped the blaze was a contractor who was doing work on the home, Stamford police Sgt. Paul Guzda said. He was also hospitalized but his condition was not released.

"It is a terrible, terrible day," Mayor Michael Pavia told reporters at the scene of the fire on Sunday. "There probably has not been a worse Christmas day in the city of Stamford."

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The Stamford Advocate identified the contractor as a male friend named Michael Borcina.

Police officers drove Badger's husband, Matthew Badger, from New York City to Stamford on Sunday morning. The Badgers reportedly are separated.

Firefighters knew there were other people in the home but could not get to them because the flames were too large and the heat too intense, said Acting Fire Chief Antonio Conte, his voice cracking with emotion.

"It's never easy. That's for sure," he said. "I've been on this job 38 years ... not an easy day."

A neighbor who lives across the street, Sam Cingari Jr., said he was awakened by the sound of screaming and saw that the house was engulfed by flames.

"We heard this screaming at 5 in the morning," he said. "The whole house was ablaze and I mean ablaze."

He told The Advocate that he later learned the screams were coming from Madonna Badger.

"The reason she was screaming, of course, was because her family was inside the house," he said.

Cingari said he did not know his neighbors, who he said bought the house last year and were renovating it.

Charles Mangano, who lives nearby, said his wife woke him up and alerted him to the fire. He ran outside to see if he could help and saw fire trucks in front of the house.

"I heard someone yell 'Help, help, help me!' and I started sprinting up my driveway," Mangano told The Advocate.

He told the newspaper he saw a barefoot man wearing boxers and a T-shirt with no shoes and a woman being taken out of the house.

Video: Conn. house fire kills 5 on Christmas (on this page)

The woman said, "My whole life is in there," Mangano said. "They were both obviously in a state of shock."

The house was undergoing heavy construction last summer, he told The Advocate.

Badger's father known as 'Happy Santa'
Badger's parents, Lomer and Pauline Johnson, were going to celebrate their 49th anniversary on Monday, a family member told The New York Times. Lomer Johnson, 71, had spent Saturday working as Santa Claus at Saks Fifth Avenue, a gig he had been doing since retiring as a safety director for the parent company of Jack Daniels.

The man with the long white beard loved posing as Santa, said the relative, who asked not to be named.

?That?s all he ever wanted to be,? the family member told The Times. ?He stopped shaving the day he retired.?

He advertised his services through a site called gigmasters.com, where he referred to himself as "Happy Santa." His profile reads "I am now a santa because my oldest granddaughter asked me to be a pretend Santa Claus. I have enjoyed it more than any job I've ever had."

Lomer Johnson also formerly worked to prevent fires as safety chief at a company in Kentucky.
He was remembered as a stickler for safety details by a former boss at the Louisville, Ky., liquor maker Brown-Forman Corp., where he retired as safety and security director years ago.

Former Brown-Forman executive Robert Holmes Jr. said Monday it was Johnson's job to keep plant workers safe. He says Johnson's responsibilities included planning fire drills.

Stamford, a city of 117,000 residents, is about 25 miles northeast of New York City.

Badger was the creative mind behind major advertising campaigns for leading fashion brands, including the iconic Mark Wahlberg underwear ads for Calvin Klein.

Raised in Kentucky, Badger began her career working as a graphic designer in the art department of Esquire magazine. Before starting her own company, she worked as an art director for several magazines and CRK, the in-house advertising agency for designer Calvin Klein.

Badger & Winters has worked with Proctor & Gamble, CoverGirl, A/X Armani Exchange, Emanuel Ungaro and Vera Wang, among other high-profile corporations.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45787994/ns/us_news-life/

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Division II 2012 College Baseball Preseason Poll

West Florida Tops Collegiate Baseball Newspaper?s Rankings?

With opening day just over two months away, the defending NCAA Division II national champion West Florida baseball team will start 2012 ranked No. 1 according to Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, it was announced on Tuesday.? Meanwhile, College Baseball Lineup?s preseason rankings were released on Thursday, and West Florida came in at No. 19.

Francis Marion earned the No. 2 spot in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper preseason coaches? poll, and they were also No. 1 according to College Baseball Lineup.? Tampa, Southern Connecticut State, Millersville and Grand Valley State also earned spots in the top 10 according to both publications.

The Argonauts will return in 2012 without several top players from last year?s championship squad, including eight that signed professional contracts over the summer.? That list includes All-Americans Brandon Brewer, Greg Pron, Daniel Vargas-Vila and Shane Waller.? Also signing pro contracts were Ben Hawkins, Zach Jadofsky, Dustin Lawley and Jason Postill.

(Releases by West Florida & Collegiate Baseball used in this report)

West Florida No. 1 in NCAA Div. II COLLEGIATE BASEBALL NEWSPAPER Pre-Season Poll

Collegiate Baseball Newspaper?s
NCAA Div. II Pre-Season Poll (As of Dec. 20)
www.baseballnews.com
Rank??? School Name	?11 Final Record	Point Totals
1. West Florida	52-9	640
2. Francis Marion	41-16	618
3. Central Missouri	49-10	606
4. Grand Valley St.	52-5	590
5. Mount Olive	47-10	586
6. Tampa	36-17	546
7. Millersville	44-12	532
8. Emporia St.	43-12	530
9. Southern Conn. St.	45-9-1	518
10. Florida Southern	32-15	514
11. St. Mary?s (TX)	47-10	472
12. St. Cloud St.	43-11	464
13. Franklin Pierce	40-14	454
14. Winona St.	42-18	414
15. Columbus St.	32-19	406
????? Cal. St. Chico	30-20	406
17. Mercyhurst	41-12	392
18. Catawba	41-15	386
19. N.C. Pembroke	44-12	340
20. Minnesota St.-Mankato	40-12	326
21. Southern Indiana	37-19	310
22. Southern Arkansas	36-16	306
23. Georgia College	35-17	292
24. Le Moyne	23-30	278
25. Armstrong Atlantic St.	35-17	264
26. Incarnate Word	37-18	248
27. Barry	40-17	230
28. Harding	42-13	216
29. Cal Poly Pomona	36-23	208
30. U.C. San Diego	42-15	188
31. Wayne St. (MI)	35-21	120
32. Delta St.	30-19	110
33. Western Oregon	37-15	108
34. Mesa St.	35-21	102
35. North Georgia	34-20	? 98
36. S.E. Oklahoma St.	35-19	? 92
37. Massachusetts-Lowell	37-14	? 88
38. North Alabama	37-14	? 58
39. California (PA)	30-18	? 34
40. Ashland	30-21	? 28
Also Receiving Votes: Abilene Christian (24), Wilmington (22), Tarleton St. (22), Wayne St., NE (18), Dixie St. (14), Wingate (12), Seton Hill (12), Northern Kentucky (12), Limestone (10), Nebraska-Kearney (10), S.C. Aiken (8), Nova S.E. (8), Indianapolis (2), Tusculum (1), Cameron (1), St. Edwards (1), Angelo St. (1), West Texas A&M (1), Arkansas Tech. (1), Florida Tech. (1), Lynn (1), Kutztown (1), Slippery Rock (1), West Virginia St. (1), Drury (1), Missouri S&T (1), Quincy (1), New Mexico Highlands (1), Augustana (1), Adelphi (1). Did Not Report: Sonoma St. Source: NCAA Division II Poll Committee

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Source: http://collegebaseball360.com/2011/12/26/division-ii-2012-college-baseball-preseason-poll/

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First Communion service for Texas Episcopalians

On this Christmas Day in 1838, Caleb Smith Ives, an Episcopal priest, celebrated the Holy Eucharist in Matagorda, Texas. This is believed to be the first time it had been celebrated in Texas according to the Episcopal rite. Ives, a native of Vermont, arrived in Texas late in 1838 and established an Episcopal church at Matagorda. He held occasional services in Brazoria and organized St. John's parish at Victoria, but continued to hold the pastorate at Christ Church in Matagorda, where he and his wife operated Matagorda Academy, said to be one of the best academies in Texas. Christ Church was the first Episcopal parish in Texas and, at the time, the most southern and western in the Protestant Episcopal Church of America. Ives died in 1849.

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Internet scams trick vacationers with fake rentals

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida?? A family from Suriname was the first of a string of guests to arrive at Steve Chase's million-dollar South Florida home expecting a vacation ? only, Chase didn't invite any of them.

All had paid thousands of dollars and had rental contracts for the Fort Lauderdale house. They were the victims of a growing number of scams that post occupied homes as available on vacation rental websites.

"I said, 'I hate to say it to you, but this house is not for rent. You've been scammed,'" Chase recalled telling the family.

"It's so sad," Chase told the South Florida Sun Sentinel newspaper. "These were good people that had good intentions, and they were just shocked."

Experts say Chase's would-be houseguests probably never get their money back or see the scam artists punished because the fraud crosses international borders, making investigation and prosecution difficult.

Websites offering vacation home rentals act as clearinghouses where homeowners can list their properties. Prospective renters then connect with the owners independently of the websites.

Scam artists are increasingly taking advantage of that arrangement, falsely listing properties and requiring unsuspecting renters to pay upfront by wiring the money or sending a check to a post office box, experts say.

Chase's neighbor, 85-year-old June Beard, also has received multiple visits from people who believed they had rented her beachfront home. Beard neither listed the property nor collected the rent.

"The poor people who have come and expect to rent our houses, it's a shame," she said.

Fort Lauderdale police say they have been stymied in efforts to locate, arrest and prosecute the culprits.

"Our problem is that the victims are from Canada and other countries," said Sgt. Steve Scelfo, head of the Fort Lauderdale police's Economic Crimes Unit. "The money's not actually coming through Fort Lauderdale. We don't have standing jurisdictionally to investigate it."

Further complicating the cases is the fact that the homeowners such as Chase are not being victimized.

"He's not out financially or really the victim of the crime," Scelfo said.

Such cases are the province of the Internet Crime Complaint Center, a federal Department of Justice clearinghouse that analyzes online fraud, he said. Few of these cases, though, see prosecution.

In addition to the family from Suriname, Chase has had to turn away a couple from Quebec and a local man who wanted to inspect the property on behalf of a New Jersey banker interested in renting the home for six adults, four children and two dogs.

The banker, Michael McKenna of Pine Beach, New Jersey, withdrew his offer and now says he only works with real estate agents on vacation rentals. "They're definitely more trustworthy than going off those Internet sites," he said.

Chase has had two fake listings in his beachfront neighborhood pulled from four websites, and he's fighting for more accountability for vacation rentals.

"I'm trying to push for some legislation to hold these websites accountable for the information they post," he said. "I'm making a lot of noise."

Information from: South Florida Sun Sentinel, http://www.sun sentinel.com

Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45785204/ns/technology_and_science-security/

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