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Friday, December 16, 2011
Plantronics M50 Review
Plantronics released the M50 Bluetooth mobile headset mid-October 2011. ?This sleek-looking headset features extended battery life, streaming music and podcasts from smartphones, and blocks noise and wind from calls, to name a few. ?It comes with a 1-year limited warranty. ?Contents of package are: Bluetooth headset, AC charger 11-240v. ?The M50 is to have up [...]
Monday, December 5, 2011
Bradley might be best pick to coach PSU
In a program where a closed-door culture that wielded too much influence seems to be the root cause of the current problems, Bradley, the longtime defensive coordinator, is the ultimate insider. He has a 37-season link to the Paterno era, starting with four as a player.
I certainly understand the argument that the next coach of the Nittany Lions should have no previous ties to the university.
But is it the right move for Penn State and Penn State football as both try to move forward from something that has shaken Happy Valley to its core?
First, let me be clear that Bradley must be completely free of the current scandal. He must be vetted by the search committee as if he were running for president of the United States. Nothing is off-limits. No question is out of bounds. He must be absolutely honest about everything.
Bradley cannot have even a hummingbird-size skeleton in his closet that shows he had any inkling of prior knowledge of the allegations against former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.
OK, so considering the chances are remote that Bradley never even accidentally overheard a whispered conversation about Sandusky, why him?
Well, because no football coach in the country better understands what is happening with Penn State football and what is going to happen with Penn State football moving forward.
Bradley has been in the belly of the beast with this football program for the past month.
Even more, he knows that as bad as things already have been, the stronger corrosive digestive juices haven't yet started to truly flow.
There are dark, dark weeks, months, possibly years ahead for Penn State football.
Source: http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/john_smallwood/20111130_John_Smallwood_.html
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Wisconsin Tops Michigan State In Big Ten Championship To Clinch Rose Bowl Berth
INDIANAPOLIS ? Wisconsin got the late touchdown it needed, the late stop it needed and the big break it needed Saturday night.
Otherwise, the inaugural Big Ten championship game may have ended the same way the Badgers' first round with Michigan State did.
Montee Ball scored four touchdowns, the last coming on a 7-yard run with 3:45 left, and the Badgers used a running into the kicker penalty to kill the clock as No. 15 Wisconsin hung on to beat No. 11 Michigan State 42-39 and earn a second straight Rose Bowl bid.
"It makes it twice as nice," Badgers coach Bret Bielema told the crowd after hoisting the trophy. "They came out today, they weren't going to be denied, and to do it here, first time ever ? Big Ten champs, twice!"
Yes, the Badgers (11-2) were ready to party when streamers started covering the field. Some players walked into the postgame news conference carrying roses. Quarterback Russell Wilson, the game's MVP, tucked the rose behind his ear.
Next up for Wisconsin is Pac-12 champion Oregon, which beat UCLA in its conference title game Friday night.
But the Badgers almost didn't make it.
After losing on a deflected Hail Mary pass in October in East Lansing, the Spartans (10-3) looked as if they might pull off another miracle comeback Saturday night when they forced what appeared to be a three-and-out with less than two minutes to go.
Coach Mark Dantonio called for a punt block, but instead of getting the ball or taking advantage of Keshawn Martin's return inside the Wisconsin 10-yard line, Isaiah Lewis hit punter Brad Nortman. The 5-yard penalty gave Wisconsin the ball with Michigan State out of timeouts.
Game over.
"I don't know if he hit him," Dantonio said. "You probably have seen all the replays, but he threw the flag. I thought he flopped a little bit."
It's the second straight year, Michigan State and Wisconsin have been in the Rose Bowl hunt at season's end.
The Badgers got the invite last year based on a tiebreaker. This year, they took the undisputed title thanks primarily to their two offensive leaders ? Ball and Wilson.
Ball was his usually spectacular self early and efficient late. He ran for more than 100 yards and scored on two 6-yard TD runs in the first quarter. He scored two more times in the final 13 1/2 minutes -- once on a 5-yard shovel pass and the other a 7-yard TD run that gave Wisconsin a 40-39 lead. A conversion pass from Wilson to Jacob Pedersen made it 42-39 with 3:45 left.
Ball finished with 27 carries for 137 yards and three scores, and his four TDs put him within one of breaking Barry Sanders' FBS mark (39) as he tried to impress the Heisman voters.
Wilson was nearly as good. He was 17 of 24 for 187 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions and broke the NCAA record by throwing a TD pass in his 37th consecutive game. Graham Harrell of Texas Tech held the previous mark (36).
"This is one of the reasons I came here," Wilson said of the Rose Bowl ticket.
The loss not only extended Michigan State's Rose Bowl drought, it hasn't gone since 1988, and ruined Dantonio's pregame prediction. In an interview taped Friday, Dantonio told a local radio station that the Spartans would win the game and go to the Rose Bowl.
He and the Spartans tried everything to make that happen.
The Spartans ran a fourth-down pass play, called a fake extra point and even got an impromptu lateral for a score ? and that was just in the first half. Kirk Cousins made most of it work. Only one of his 17 first-half passes hit the ground in the first half, and he wound up 22 of 30 for 281 yards, three touchdowns and one interception.
But it was Cousins' ability to fool the normally stout Badgers' defense that nearly won the game.
On fourth-and-1 in the second quarter, he got Wisconsin to bite on a fake pitch and hooked up with a wide open B.J. Cunningham for a 30-yard TD pass to cut the deficit to 21-14.
On its next possession, Michigan State receiver Keith Nichol, who wrestled the Hail Mary pass across the goal line to beat Wisconsin in October, beat the Badgers again. This time, he caught a short pass from Cousins and just before stepping out of bounds lateraled to Cunningham, who ran the final 4 yards for a TD. Michigan State then called for a fake extra point that Brad Sontag ran in to make it 22-21.
"We felt we were having our way offensively the whole game," Cousins said. "We never felt like it was won. But we felt like we had our way offensively."
Even after playing more conventional football for most of the next two quarters and taking a 36-34 lead, the Spartans lined up two different players in the Wildcat formation, ran a reverse and drove for a 25-yard field goal to make it 39-34 with 8:31 left in the game.
But just like the first meeting, the Badgers answered.
Wilson led Wisconsin on an eight-play, 64-yard scoring march, converting a fourth-and-6 when Wilson scrambled, threw back across the field and Jeff Duckworth made a spectacular adjustment to haul in a 36-yard pass. On the next play, Ball burst up the middle for the 7-yard TD to give the Badgers the lead.
This time, the Wisconsin defense stiffened and after a replay review overturned a third-down play that would have gone for a first down, the Spartans punted for only the third time in the game.
They never got another chance.
"It's tough," Cousins said. "We came close two years in a row. We don't get to go, it's tough."
Michigan State's Martin had a career-high nine receptions for 115 yards, the second 100-yard game of his career.
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
Ultraconservative Islamists make gains in Egypt
Supporters of Egyptian candidate for the parliamentary elections Mustafa Bakri, center, surround his car as they celebrate after he was able to win a seat in the first round in South Cairo's Helwan district, Egypt Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. Partial results show the Muslim Brotherhood emerging as the biggest winner in Egypt's landmark parliamentary elections, and leaders of the once-banned Islamic group demanded to form the next government, setting the stage for a possible confrontation with the ruling military. (AP Photo)
Supporters of Egyptian candidate for the parliamentary elections Mustafa Bakri, center, surround his car as they celebrate after he was able to win a seat in the first round in South Cairo's Helwan district, Egypt Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. Partial results show the Muslim Brotherhood emerging as the biggest winner in Egypt's landmark parliamentary elections, and leaders of the once-banned Islamic group demanded to form the next government, setting the stage for a possible confrontation with the ruling military. (AP Photo)
A banner supporting Egyptian parliamentary candidate Ahmed Abd El Hameed Mohammed is pasted on a wall in the al-Azhar quarter in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. The fundamentalist Brotherhood is emerging as the biggest winner in partial results from the first voting this week in Egypt's landmark election, in which voters turned out in unexpected droves. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
T-shirts for sale are displayed in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. Judges overseeing the vote count in Egypt's first parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster say near-final results show Islamist parities taking a majority of seats contested in the first round. The Arabic writing on T-shirts read, "Jan. 25, Revolution, freedom." (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
An Egyptian tobacco vendor waits for customers in the al-Azhar quarter in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. The fundamentalist Brotherhood is emerging as the biggest winner in partial results from the first voting this week in Egypt's landmark election, in which voters turned out in unexpected droves. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Egyptians drink coffee and smoke water pipes in the al-Azhar quarter in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. The fundamentalist Brotherhood is emerging as the biggest winner in partial results from the first voting this week in Egypt's landmark election, in which voters turned out in unexpected droves. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt's ultraconservative Islamist party plans to push for a stricter religious code in Egypt after claiming surprisingly strong gains in the first round of parliamentary elections, a spokesman said Friday.
Final results are to be announced later on the day, but preliminary counts have been leaked by judges and individual political groups.
Islamists led by the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Salafists appear to have taken a strong majority of seats in the first round of Egypt's first parliamentary vote since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, a trend that if confirmed would give the religious parties a popular mandate in the struggle to win control from the ruling military and ultimately reshape a key U.S. ally.
Spokesman Yousseri Hamad says the Salafi Nour party expects to get 30 percent of the vote. Their party appeared to lead the polls in the Nile Delta province of Kafr el-Sheik, in the rural area of Fayoum, which is known for high rates of illiteracy and poverty, and in parts of their longtime stronghold of Alexandria.
Hamad also said the party faced its toughest challenge in Cairo because of the small presence of Salafi supporters there.
The strong showing would put them in a strong position to influence policy, although it's unclear how much power the new parliament will have with the ruling generals still in power.
Hamad said that his party is willing to cooperate with the rest of secular, liberal and Islamist forces, "if it will serve the interest of the nation."
This week's vote, held in nine provinces, will determine about 30 percent of the 498 seats in the People's Assembly, parliament's lower house. Two more rounds, ending in January, will cover Egypt's other 18 provinces.
The new parliament, in theory, is tasked to select 100-member panel to draft Egypt's new constitution.
The Nour Party is the main political arm of the hard-line Salafi movement, which unlike the more moderate Muslim Brotherhood is a new player on Egypt's political scene.
Inspired by the Saudi-style Wahhabi school of thought, Salafists have long shunned the concept of democracy, saying it allows man's law to override God's. But they formed parties and entered politics after Hosni Mubarak's ouster to position themselves to make sure Sharia law is an integral part of Egypt's new constitution.
Salafi groups speak confidently about their ambition to turn Egypt into a state where personal freedoms, including freedom of speech, women's dress and art are constrained by Islamic sharia codes.
"In the land of Islam, I can't let people decide what is permissible or what is prohibited. It's God who gives the answers as to what is right and what is wrong," Hamad said. "If God tells me you can drink whatever you want except for alcohol, you don't leave the million things permitted and ask about the prohibited."
The showing in Egypt ? long considered a linchpin of regional stability ? would be the clearest signal yet that parties and candidates connected to political Islam will emerge as the main beneficiaries of this year's Arab Spring uprisings.
Tunisia and Morocco have both elected Islamist majorities to parliament, and while Libya has yet to announce dates for its first elections, Islamist groups have emerged as a strong force there since rebels overthrew Moammar Gadhafi in August. They also play a strong opposition role in Yemen.
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Study confirms many of us go online for no reason
NEW YORK (AP) ? For anyone who needed official word, a new study confirms that many of us ? and the majority of young adults ? go online for no good reason at all.
The report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project found that on any given day, 53 percent of 18 to 29 year-olds go online just to have fun or pass time.
That should explain all those kitten videos.
The report finds that the amount of time people spend tooling around on the Web doing nothing corresponds with age. Only 12 percent of people over 65 say they went online the previous day for no particular reason. Of those aged 50 to 64, the study found 27 percent answered yes to the same question.
In all, 58 percent of all adults said that they use the Internet to pass time or have fun at least occasionally. Of adults who use the Internet, nearly three-quarters surf the Web for no reason.
The survey didn't define "fun," so people could interpret it broadly. For some people, gossip blogs might be fun, for others, they're serious research.
Pew is releasing the study on Friday. The phone survey was conducted from July 25 to Aug. 26 among 2,260 American adults.
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Top cable programs for Nov. 21-27 (AP)
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen for the week of Nov. 21-27. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses:
1. NFL Football: Kansas City vs. New England (Monday, 8:30 p.m.), ESPN, 8.98 million homes, 12.34 million viewers.
2. NFL Football: San Francisco vs. Baltimore (Thursday, 8:30 p.m.), NFLN, 6.04 million homes, 10.68 million viewers.
3. "Walking Dead" (Sunday, 9 p.m.), AMC, 4.35 million homes, 6.62 million viewers.
4. "NFL Pre-Kick" (Thursday, 8 p.m.), NFLN, 3.84 million homes, 7.32 million viewers.
5. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.21 million homes, 4.76 million viewers.
6. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 3.15 million homes, 4.68 million viewers.
7. "Gold Rush" (Friday, 9 p.m.), Discovery, 3 million homes, 4.48 million viewers.
8. "Storage Wars" (Tuesday, 10:30 p.m.), A&E, 2.83 million homes,, 4.17 million viewers.
9. "NCIS" (Wednesday, 8 p.m.), USA, 2.78 million homes, 3.89 million viewers.
10. "Good Luck Charlie" (Sunday, 8 p.m.), Disney, 2.73 million homes, 3.95 million viewers.
11. "Shake It Up" (Sunday, 8:30 p.m.), Disney, 2.7 million homes, 3.89 million viewers.
12. College Football: Texas vs. Texas A&M (Thursday, 8 p.m.), ESPN, 2.69 million homes, 4.14 million viewers.
13. "Sons of Anarchy" (Tuesday, 10 p.m.), FX, 2.68 million homes, 3.85 million viewers.
14. "NCIS" (Wednesday, 9 p.m.), USA, 2.67 million homes, 3.71 million viewers.
15. "Republican National Security Debate" (Tuesday, 8 p.m.), CNN, 2.66 million homes, 3.6 million viewers.
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USA is owned by Comcast's NBCUniversal. ESPN and the Disney Channel are owned by the Walt Disney Co. Nickelodeon is owned by Viacom. AMC is owned by AMC Networks. NFLN is owned by the NFL Enterprises LLC. A&E is owned by the A&E Television Networks. The Discovery Network is owned by Discovery Communications Inc. CNN is owned by Time Warner Inc.
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Online:
http://www.nielsen.com
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Cyber Monday sales hit record $1.25 billion (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? Cyber Monday online sales set a record, led by department stores and home goods retailers, according to U.S. data released on Tuesday.
Online sales reached $1.251 billion on Monday, up 22 percent from the same day last year, said comScore Inc, a closely watched Web tracking firm.
IBM Benchmark, a unit of International Business Machines Corp, put the increase at 33 percent compared with Cyber Monday in 2010.
Department stores saw online sales surge 60 percent this Cyber Monday, compared with last year, while sales of home goods rose 68 percent, IBM Benchmark added.
Cyber Monday is traditionally the first Monday after Thanksgiving when employees return to offices and purchase items with their work computers.
In 2010, Cyber Monday sales topped $1 billion, making it the heaviest day of online spending ever, according to comScore Inc. This year was expected to top that comfortably as more people shop online and with mobile devices.
"Cyber Monday was the biggest day of the year and the biggest day ever for online retailing in the U.S.," said John Squire of IBM's Smarter Commerce initiative.
Department store operators, including Nordstrom Inc, Macy's Inc and J.C. Penney Co Inc, have spent a lot of money personalizing their websites, online advertising and e-mails to customers, which paid off this year, Squire said.
Department stores have collected more data on which brands and products shoppers browse online. Combined with geographic information, the effort has helped companies recommend more relevant products, he added.
J.C. Penney and Macy's saw the biggest increases in Web traffic among retailers in the past month, according to FreePriceAlerts, which tracks consumer goods prices online.
A major source of online traffic to J.C. Penney this Cyber Monday came from the company's mobile website. Consumers could buy on the mobile site this year, while they could not last year, according to a spokeswoman.
J.C. Penney and other department stores, including Kohl's Corp and Macy's, used Facebook a lot more this year to attract online shoppers.
J.C. Penney released its Black Friday deals on Facebook, allowing customers to browse the promotions, create shareable wish lists and send tips to friends.
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