Sports briefs: 1/3/12

Storm trades Cash to Sky

The Seattle Storm has traded WNBA All-Star Swin Cash and forward Le'coe Willingham to the Chicago Sky for the No. 2 pick in the 2012 draft.

The teams announced the deal Monday. Seattle also sent a second-round pick to Chicago, the 23rd overall.

Cash, of McKeesport High School, averaged 12.7 points and 6.2 rebounds in her four seasons with the Storm and helped Seattle to the 2010 WNBA title.

Baseball

Hanley Ramirez says he'll accept a position switch to third base so Miami Marlins newcomer Jose Reyes can play shortstop. When Reyes signed a $106 million, six-year deal with Miami last month, there was speculation Ramirez was unhappy about being supplanted at short. But new manager Ozzie Guillen sold Ramirez on the idea.

Soccer

U.S. coach Pia Sundhage is gathering 29 players for a nine-day training camp before paring the roster to 20 for Olympic women's soccer qualifying. The group will train from Jan. 7-15 in Carson, Calif. Players will then head to Vancouver, British Columbia, for the qualifying tournament for the North and Central American and Caribbean region. The Americans won the 2008 Olympic gold medal. They play the Dominican Republic Jan. 20, Guatemala two days later and Mexico Jan. 24. The top two teams in the group advance to the semifinals Jan. 27, with both semifinal winners qualifying for the London Olympics. All 29 players attended a December training camp.

Auto racing

Defending bike champion Marc Coma of Spain won the second stage of the Dakar Rally and took the category lead after the 185-mile leg. In cars, defending champion Nasser Al-Attiyah of Qatar captured the stage while Stephane Peterhansel of France pulled into the overall lead. This year's rally, considered one of the most dangerous in motor sports, has already claimed three lives.

Tennis

The United States lost to Denmark, 2-1, at the Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia, with late-arriving Caroline Wozniacki and Frederik Nielsen beating Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Mardy Fish, 7-5, 6-3, in the deciding mixed doubles match. Fish gave the U.S. an opening victory in this Australian Open tuneup, defeating Nielsen, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4. The top-ranked Wozniacki made it to the tournament only four hours earlier on a flight from Thailand. She beat Mattek-Sands, 7-6 (4), 6-2 to tie the best-of-three series before the Danish pair combined to win mixed doubles.

? Sixth-seeded Fabio Fognini of Italy was eliminated and fifth-seeded Ivan Dodig of Croatia escaped in the first round of the Chennai Open in India.

First published on January 3, 2012 at 12:00 am

Source: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12003/1200958-139.stm?cmpid=sportsother.xml

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The nations weather (AP)

Weather Underground Forecast for Tuesday, January 03, 2012.

Lake-effect snow showers will continue in the northeastern quadrant of the nation on Tuesday. Blustery northwest winds will continue to sweep across the Great Lakes, causing heavy lake effect snow showers to persist downwind of the Great Lakes through the morning hours. This precipitation will lighten up through the afternoon and become more scattered. Storm totals for areas of the northern peninsula of Michigan, western Michigan, northeastern Ohio, northwestern Pennsylvania, and western New York will be quite high as total snow accumulations from this event range from 8 to 18 inches. Winter Weather Advisories, Winter Storm Warnings, and Lake-Effect Snow Watches and Warnings will remain in effect for areas downwind of Lakes Erie and Ontario through Tuesday evening. In addition to snow, strong northwest winds of 15 to 25 mph will increase travel difficulty in these areas with periods of blowing and drifting snow and reduced visibilities.

In the West, rain and high elevation snow will continue behind a cold front moving through the Northwest. As this front move to the east, a warm front in the eastern Pacific will trigger another batch of rain showers in near the Washington coast. Temperatures in the Lower 48 states Monday have ranged from a morning low of -9 degrees at Cando, N.D. to a high of 84 degrees at Ramona, Calif.

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Question- Should I get a Galaxy Nexus over a Samsung Galaxy S2?

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its a simple question but one I am sure many of you are pondering, on whether to get A Galaxy Nexus from Verizon Wireless over a Samsung Galaxy S2 From AT&T, T-Mobile or Sprint. With the Galaxy Nexus specs sporting :
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It also sports a 4.65-inch Super AMOLED HD display(screen resolution 720P), giving users a flat screen TV in the palm of their hands. It is power by a 1.2Ghz dual-core processor with 1GB ram for smooth operations. a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash in the rear and a 1.3 megapixel camera for video chatting in front. NFC capable and houses a Verizon wireless 4G LTE chip. While running latest version of Android 4.0

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T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S2

a dual ?core 1.5Ghz Qualcomm processor and not Samsung?s 1.2Ghz dual-core Exynos Processor. An 8 megapixel camera with LED flash in the rear that records video at 1080p, a 2 megapixel camera in front for video chat via Qik video over its massive 4.52 inch Super AMOLED Plus Display. Running Android 2.3.5 the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S2 also sport TouchWiz 4.0 custom overlay. While using T-mobile?s expanded 42Mbps HSPA+ network (depending on location of course)

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AT&T Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket

The Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket was the 4G LTE Galaxy S2 device in the US, on the AT&T. Powered by a 1.5 GHz dual core processor, it sports a 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus display, 8-megapixel rear-facing camera with LED flash, with 2-megapixel front-facing camera and 16GB internal Storage. It also house an 1850maH battery, which does add much wait to the device like other 4G LTE smartphone

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the Epic 4G Touch. From its massive 4.52? Super AMOLED Plus screen, to the lovely 8MP camera that records at 1080p, plus an additional 2MP front facing camera for video Chat, a 1.2Ghz dual core Eynoxs Processor; Samsung has embarked on a journey to create a device that beats in specs as well as delivers what consumers want.

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UK's Cameron: This year will be tough (AP)

LONDON ? Prime Minister David Cameron issued a blunt message to Britons on Monday, saying that though the Summer Olympics and the queen's Diamond Jubilee celebration will raise the country's profile 2012 will still be a tough year.

Rising joblessness and the European financial crisis have weighed heavily on Cameron's government, which came to power in 2010 on the back of promises to control the country's debt and restore economic growth. Both goals have been thrown into doubt over the course of 2011.

Cameron said he sympathizes with citizens "who are worried about what else the year might bring."

"There are fears about jobs and paying the bills," Cameron said in a video message meant to mark the new year. "I know how difficult it will be to get through this ? but I also know that we will."

Cameron said that 2012 will be the year his government "does everything it takes to get our country up to strength," promising new but unspecified curbs on what he called the excesses of Britain's financial industry.

Britain isn't one of the hard-pressed users of the euro currency. But, the Bank of England has forecast little or no growth over the next few months, and rating agency Moody's recently warned that Britain's cherished triple A credit rating is at risk, despite determined and controversial efforts to slash the country's public spending.

Cameron said the Olympics, which begin in July, and the Diamond Jubilee in June, marking 60 years of Queen Elizabeth II's reign, will raise Britain's profile abroad.

"It gives us an extraordinary incentive to look outward, look onwards and to look our best: To feel pride in who we are and what ? even in these trying times ? we can achieve."

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How male spiders use eavesdropping to one-up their rivals

ScienceDaily (Jan. 4, 2012) ? Researchers have made a new discovery into the complex world of spiders that reflects what some might perceive as similar behavior in human society. As male wolf spiders go searching for a mate, it appears they eavesdrop, match and even try to outdo the mating dances of their successful rivals, a behavior seen mainly in vertebrate animals.

The study co-authored by David Clark, a professor of biology at Alma College; J. Andrew Roberts, an associate professor in the department of evolution, ecology and organismal biology at The Ohio State University at Newark; and George W. Uetz, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Cincinnati; is published this month in Biology Letters, a journal of the Royal Society of London.

"Eavesdropping on the communication of others is widespread among animals and often serves as a means of obtaining information. For example, studies of birds, mammals and fish have shown that male bystanders observing male-male contests can learn about the strengths of potential opponents, while female observers may copy the mate choices of others," says Clark, the lead author and co-investigator on the study. "This new discovery shows that male wolf spiders also eavesdrop on the visual signals of courting males."

Those visual signals included a leg-tapping mating dance of the male wolf spiders. As part of the research project, the spiders were collected from the wild and observed when placed in a lab with a video of a "virtual" male spider that was sending out courtship signals in a digital version of a natural habitat. "Video playback has been used successfully in experimental studies of numerous animal species, including spiders," says Roberts, who conducted his doctoral research at the University of Cincinnati.

The researchers found that when it comes to this visual eavesdropping, experience counts. They first observed the trait in the woods during mating season, but previous studies on lab-raised (and therefore na?ve) spiders were inconclusive. The field-collected spiders used in this study were likely exposed to male courtship toward females in nature, and as a result, behaved as if their "rival" was courting a nearby female.

"This 'signal matching' behavior has only been seen before in vertebrate animals like birds or fish, and suggests that invertebrates like spiders may have more sophisticated behaviors than previously known," according to senior (corresponding) author and co-principal investigator Uetz. "The closer we look at spiders, the more complex we see they are -- their capacity for learning, memory and decision-making is far greater than we ever would have thought."

The research was supported by funding from the National Science Foundation, with Clark and Uetz serving as co-principal investigators on the grant.

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  1. D. L. Clark, J. A. Roberts, G. W. Uetz. Eavesdropping and signal matching in visual courtship displays of spiders. Biology Letters, 2012; DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.1096

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Perry Rallies Troops Ahead of Caucus

Gov. Rick Perry during the final pitch of his Iowa bus tour at a campaign rally at Hotel Pattee in Perry, Iowa, on Jan. 2, 2012.

Gov. Rick Perry during the final pitch of his Iowa bus tour at a campaign rally at Hotel Pattee in Perry, Iowa, on Jan. 2, 2012.

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa ? It might have been the closing moments of a Texas governor?s race.

There stood Rick Perry, flanked by his fellow Republican leaders Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, Attorney General Greg Abbott and Comptroller Susan Combs.

Ad man David Weeks lingered in a crowded doorway as aide Robert Black adjusted a sagging campaign sign, one of several being used for backdrops inside the Sheraton West Des Moines hotel. Longtime political allies, donors and friends smiled and cheered at all the appropriate times.

But in the few hours remaining before the results from the Iowa caucuses start pouring in, an unfamiliar air of nervousness and uncertainty hung over the crowd. None of them have ever seen Perry so far out of his comfort zone, so close to his first-ever defeat.

First lady Anita Perry took the stage to introduce her husband and warned she might cry even though her kids have told her not to. She still fought back tears, describing her husband as a dedicated military veteran who would steer the nation out of dark times.

?Our country?s finest deserve the finest,? she said.

Though it felt like a farewell of sorts, the stated purpose of the morning gathering was to fire up the ?Texas strike force,? a politically connected band of lobbyists, lawmakers and volunteers who are fanning across Iowa to talk up the Texas governor when Iowans begin voting Tuesday night. After Perry spoke to them, they were given tips on how to attend the caucuses and become effective advocates for the governor.

There are more than 1,700 caucuses, meetings where voters debate and then vote on which candidate to support. The Perry campaign is hoping that the Texans who know him best will help give him a better-than-expected showing in the first contest of the 2012 race.

Polls show Perry struggling to remain in double digits here, stuck in fifth place, behind leaders Mitt Romney and Ron Paul, and a now-surging Rick Santorum. Surrogates are already trying to tamp down expectations, noting that John McCain placed fourth in Iowa four years ago and went on to become the GOP nominee.

?Anytime you come to a state and you?re trying to explain yourself and sell yourself for the first time it?s a challenge,? Abbott said. ?We believe this effort of all these Texans here is going to be very beneficial tonight when we see the returns come in.?

Perry supporters privately acknowledge the governor faces daunting odds, and a coming money crunch, unless things turn around quickly.

But the campaign has all the outward signs of an ongoing operation. Advance men are planning to drive his bus, plastered with the slogan ?Faith, Jobs and Freedom,? to South Carolina for a barn-storming three-day swing that includes at least 11 stops. The governor is also planning to attend two debates in New Hampshire this weekend.

And Perry is increasingly describing Iowa as one step in a marathon race to the presidency. He conjured up some wartime imagery Tuesday morning to fire up the strike force, nicknamed ?Perry?s posse.?

?This is Concord,? Perry yelled, referring to the famous early battle of the Revolutionary War. ?This is Omaha Beach. This is going up the hill, realizing that the battle is worth winning.?

Source: http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-presidential-election/perry-rallies-troops-ahead-caucus/?utm_source=texastribune.org&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Tribune%20Feed:%20Top%20Stories

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South Sudan, Israel?s New Ally

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Mount Stuff on the Back of Your Monitor for a Clutter-Free Desk [Workspace]

Mount Stuff on the Back of Your Monitor for a Clutter-Free DeskA clear desk surface with no visual clutter might make you more productive, but what about all of the stuff you need for work like pens and paper? Bill Meade at RestartGTD has a clever solution: hide them behind your monitor.

In a long and thorough post on his Getting Things Done desk setup, Meade reveals his liberal use of double-sided sticky tape to strategically "engineer" his desk. An ethernet switch is attached to his monitor arm, which holds a swinging paper tray, while a USB hub, 3x5 index cards holder, desk light, and even his pen are attached to the back of the monitor. Sure, the picture above looks a mess, but it's all out of sight when he's sitting at his desk in front of the monitor. Then he's got a clear, large desk surface with "elbow room to think."

Check out the full post for more on the 6 basic elements Meade suggests make up the "perfect GTD desk":

1. Clear desk surface
2. Big (ideally 30 square feet)
3. Slide to side (open front)
4. Conference table legs
5. Cable management
6. Killer cool paper trays

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Romney's chief Iowa rivals press electability (AP)

DES MOINES, Iowa ? With time running short, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum and other Republican presidential contenders insisted they could beat President Barack Obama as they worked to persuade undecided Iowa Republicans aching to win the White House to choose them over chief rival Mitt Romney.

"I'm the candidate that actually was able to win in states, as a conservative, in getting Democrats and independents to vote for us," Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator who is surging in the race and is a favorite among cultural conservatives, said in an interview on CNN. "Mitt Romney has no track history of doing that."

Paul, a libertarian-leaning Texas congressman who Romney has said is outside the GOP mainstream, countered the suggestion that he's a fringe candidate. In an interview with ABC from his home state, where he was spending the weekend, Paul insisted: "I'm electable. I've been elected 12 times in Texas, when people get to know me."

With Romney in a position of strength in Iowa, both Santorum and Paul went directly at the former Massachusetts governor's chief argument ? that he is the most electable Republican in a head-to-head matchup against Obama next fall. They hope they can sway the roughly half of likely caucus-goers who say they are undecided or willing to change their minds two days before the leadoff presidential caucuses.

A Des Moines Register poll released Saturday showed Romney and Paul locked in a close race, with Santorum rising swiftly to challenge them. Nearly half of likely Iowa caucus-goers view Romney as the Republican most likely to win the general election. He was far ahead of Santorum and Paul, who was viewed as the least likely to win.

Those two are fighting against the notion in GOP circles that their bases of support are narrow and neither would be able to cobble together the diverse voting coalition necessary to beat Obama in November. Paul attracts legions of backers who put states' rights above much else, while Santorum ? an anti-abortion crusader ? is popular among Christian conservatives who make up the base of the Republican Party.

In contrast, Romney has styled himself as a Republican able to attract a broad spectrum of voters. As polls showed him in strong standing in Iowa in the past week, he has redoubled his effort to portray himself as the business-savvy executive with national appeal who is best able to defeat Obama on the campaign's most pressing issue, the economy.

Although the race remains fluid, it appeared that Romney's carefully crafted plan to avoid underperforming in Iowa, where he campaigned little until last week, may be working, given a divided GOP electorate torn between several more conservative candidates and Paul's appeal to libertarians.

The issue of what type of candidate to choose cuts to the heart of why the Iowa race is so volatile; an NBC/Marist poll last week showed nearly even percentages of Iowa caucus-goers want a candidate who shares their values as want a candidate who can beat Obama.

"The first thing you see when you talk to any Iowa Republican is that desire to beat Barack Obama," Iowa GOP Chairman Matt Strawn said.

Mindful of that, both Romney and Santorum canvassed the state Sunday to make the electability case ? and their schedules illuminated their late-game strategies for rallying their backers to the caucuses.

Romney appeared in Atlantic and Council Bluffs as he works to maximize the edge he holds in critical areas, especially those he won in his second-place finish here four years ago, rather than risk underperforming in places where more ardent conservatives are leery of his Mormon faith and shifting positions on social issues. On Monday, he was heading to his eastern Iowa strongholds, Cedar Rapids, Davenport and Dubuque.

He is increasingly projecting confidence that he would be the GOP's nominee, promising to return to Iowa, a general-election swing state, in the fall campaign.

On Sunday, Romney poked at Santorum directly for the first time since his opponent's rise ? though carefully ? saying the ex-senator "has spent his career in the government in Washington."

"Nothing wrong with that, but it's a very different background than I have," Romney said in Atlantic in response to a reporter's question, calling Santorum a good guy who has worked hard and probably will do well Tuesday. He also noted that Santorum endorsed him in 2008. It was a delicate attempt to stoke doubts about Santorum without angering ? and alienating ? his supporters.

Santorum, for his part, was campaigning deep into GOP-rich rural northwest Iowa, with stops in conservative counties won by Mike Huckabee during the former Arkansas governor's victorious campaign here four years ago.

Crowds swelled for a candidate who only recently has moved from afterthought to contender.

"Don't put forward somebody who isn't good enough to do what needs to be done for this country," he implored at a coffee house in Sioux City. He told the crowd that he had more than 1,100 precinct captains to convince undecided voters Tuesday but needs more.

As he met voters, his final ad for Iowa TV called him "a full spectrum conservative" who is most likely to beat Obama and the "trusted conservative who gives us the best chance to take back America."

Their rivals had less aggressive schedules.

Paul, who has slipped somewhat in the wake of attacks on his foreign policy positions, remained out of the state for a second straight day. He was in Texas to celebrate the New Year with his family. But he did a few national TV interviews from Texas, arguing in them that the majority of Americans are with him when it comes to a non-interventionist foreign policy.

"I would say that I'm pretty mainstream," he told CNN and hit his rivals, saying: "People who are attacking me now are the ones who can't defend their records, and they've been all over the place."

Along with Romney, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann ? all of whom are trailing in polls and fighting for the support of Christian evangelicals ? spent the morning in church.

Gingrich went after Romney with abandon, saying he felt like he'd been "Romney-boated" and adding that the multimillionaire would "buy the election if he could."

The nautical attack was a reference to a 2004 TV ad campaign by a group called the "Swiftboat Veterans for Truth" that bloodied Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. This year, Gingrich has faced an onslaught of negative TV advertisements by a group aligned with Romney.

In all, at least $12.5 million in advertising ? much of it negative ? has flooded the Iowa airwaves in the run-up to the caucuses as candidates and outside groups aligned with them, called super PACs, worked to influence the outcome of what has been a remarkably fluid and unpredictable campaign.

Working to make up ground quickly, Bachmann and Perry tried to make the electability argument while assailing Santorum, who suddenly has found himself the target of sharp attacks on his conservative credentials from rivals vying for the same bloc of voters.

Bachmann told ABC, "I have the best ability to take it to Barack Obama in the debate and hold him accountable." On Fox, she lambasted Santorum, noting that he was soundly defeated when he ran for re-election in 2006, losing by a 59-41 margin to Democrat Bob Casey.

"I won four races in the last four years, in the toughest years for Republicans ? in a liberal state like Minnesota, I won," Bachmann said.

Perry, who never lost an election in Texas but has struggled in his first nationwide race, told "Fox News Sunday" of his opponents, "They may do OK in Iowa, but when it comes to running a national campaign, they're going to falter."

Perry also renewed his attack on Santorum, saying: "He's got a spending problem. He's got an earmark problem. He voted eight times to raise the debt ceiling in the United States Senate."

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Associated Press writers Philip Elliott in West Des Moines, Shannon McCaffrey in Des Moines, Brian Bakst in Oskaloosa and Mike Glover in Sioux City contributed to this report.

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