Apple unexpectedly unveiled a new fourth-generation iPad yesterday, just six months after the last new iPad came out. That is actually the shortest planned obsolescence window that people have ever seen from Apple. The new iPad even updated to a faster A6X processor, it expanded LTE support, and now has a 10-hour battery life. All the feature upgrades would have been just as good six months from now. The new iPad is really about one thing and one thing only though, the lighting. This upgrade fits the iPad into a new universe of lighting accessories and cables that will generate no less than $100 million in revenue from consumers suddenly forced to upgrade. Apple started standardizing on the lighting connector with last month's updates to the iPhone and the entire iPod line. The iPad was the only outlier, until today. The 30-pin third-geration iPad has vanished from the Apple Store too. While the iPhone 4S sticks around as a cheaper alternative to the iPhone 5, the iPad 2 suddenly gets a "price drop" to $399 and the great iPad 3 gets sent to the closet. You can't even buy the iPad 3 through normal channels now. The new new iPad is mini too!
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Ohio Country Gets Election Date Wrong Obama and Romney are both really focusing their attention on the critical swing state of Ohio, officials in the northeastern county of Ottawa discovered late last week that they had sent out 2,200 notices telling voters that election day was Thursday, Nov. 8, instead of the actual date, Tuesday, November 6. The Associated Press reported that Carol Ann Hill, deputy director of the county's Board of Elections, said 7 percent of the 30,000 registered voters in the county were mailed incorrect postcards. Hill added that the relatively small percentage "doesn't make it any better." The notice also included an incorrect listing for the location of a polling place. Election board director JoAnn Friar, a Republican, blamed the mistake on a computer glitch and told the Washington Post that new notices would be sent out to the voters affected. The county is on Lake Erie near Toledo and voted 52 percent for Barack Obama in 2008. The Democrats quickly attacked the elections board for the mistake. Ohio is not the only state where county officials have gotten the election date wrong. Offcials in Maricopa County, Arizona, mistakenly listed the general election date as November 8 in the Spanish translation of an "official government document" given to around 50 voters.
The Sessions Paranormal Activity 4 Alex Cross All These Movies Came Out On Wednesday October 19, 2012 Hailey Hurowitz 10/22/12 1A Movie: The Sessions Summary Based on the poignantly optimistic autobiographical writings of California-based journalist and poet Mark O'Brien, The Sessions tells the story of a man confined to an iron lung who is determined - at age 38 - to lose his virginity. With the help of his therapists and the guidance of his priest, he sets out to make his dream a reality. Reviews On rottentomatoes.com 88% of the people liked this movie. A review from a person on rottentomatoes.com said, "The Sessions is bracing. It's also one of the few movies to recognize that people with severe physical disabilities have sexual lives, too." Another review was, "The Sessions'' treats intimacy with an explicitness and honesty that's very rare in movies." This movie looks good to me. Grosses The weekend gross for this movie was $0.1M. The total gross for this movie is $0.1M. Movie: Paranormal Activity 4 Summary
Paranormal Activity 4 is the fourth installment in the popular horror franchise. Reviews On rottentomatoes.com 47% of the people liked this movie. A review from a person on rottentomatoes.com said, "There are some tense scenes and it isn't as dull as the second installment in the franchise, but ''PA4'' is full of uninteresting characters, typical scares and no surprises of any sort." Another review was, "They could have called this Paranormal Inactivity." Grosses The weekend gross for this movie was $30.2M. The total gross of this movie is $30.2M.
Movie: Alex Cross Summary Alex Cross follows the young homicide detective/psychologist (Tyler Perry), from the worldwide best-selling novels by James Patterson, as he meets his match in a serial killer (Matthew Fox). The two face off in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, but when the mission gets personal, Cross is pushed to the edge of his moral and psychological limits in this taut and exciting action thriller. Reviews 62% of the people liked this movie. A Reviewer on rottentomatoes.com said, "So cloddish, slapdash, gracelessly written, and visually fugly that it's difficult to distinguish Perry's limitations in the role from those of the whole unpleasant enterprise." Another review was, "I am a huge fan of the books, so I was a little disappointed with the storyline. Not he Alex Cross I expected, but overall, not a terrible film." This film seems like an okay film to me, but more of a film you watch at home. Grosses The weekend gross for this movie was $11.8M. The total gross of this movie is $11.8M.
Movie Trailer Review
Hailey Hurowitz
October 2nd, 2012
Title of Film: Little Miss Sunshine Release Date: July 26, 2006 Producer: Albert Berger, David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub, and Ron Yerxa Director: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris Genre: Indie
Plot: Sheryl Hoover is an overworked mother of two children who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her brother Frank is a gay scholar of French author Marcel Proust, and is temporarily living at home with the family after a suicide attempt. Sheryl's husband, Richard is trying to build a career as a motivational speaker and a life coach. Dwayne, Sheryl's son from a previous marriage, is an unhappy teenager who has taken a vow of silence until he can accomplish his dream of getting into the US Air Force Academy in order to become a test pilot. Richard's father, Edwin, a World War II veteran recently evicted from a retirement home for using heroin, lives with the family now. He is close with his seven-year-old granddaughter, Olive. When Olive learns she was qualified for the "Little Miss Sunshine" beauty contest that is being held in Redondo Beach, California in two days, she is really excited. However, money is tight, the only way to make the trip is if the entire household goes. Despite Richard, Dwayne, and Frank not wanting to go, they all get together to support Olive and go on the 800 mile road trip in their yellow Volkswagen. They family argues a lot during the trip, with all the yellow van's car troubles. When the van's clutch breaks early in the trip, the family finds out that they must push the van until it reaches 20 miles per hour, and then run and jump in. Later, the horn starts honking uncontrollably, resulting with the family getting pulled over. Throughout the road trip, the family suffers a lot of personal setbacks, and discover their need for each other's support. Richard loses an important contract that would have jump-started his motivational business and saved the family from financial problems. Frank see's his ex-boyfriend who, in leaving him for Frank's chief academic rival, made his suicide attempt. Meanwhile, Edwin dies from a heroin overdose. In order to reach the beauty contest in time, the family puts his body out of the hospital, transporting it around with them, planning to make funeral arrangements after the pageant. During the last part of the trip, Dwayne finds out he is color blind, and therefore he can never get a pilot's license, which makes him break his silence, making him refuse to continue with the trip and revealing his anger and anger towards his family. He storms from the van in tears, but is calmed down by a hug from Olive and returns to the family, apologizing for the things he yelled. They made it to the beauty contest with barley no time to spare, and Olive is almost refused entrance to the pageant for arriving at the hotel four minutes late. As she gets ready, the family looks at the other competitors that look like they have been doing this for a long time. It quickly becomes apparent that Olive that is plain, pale, slightly chubby, with ugly hair, wearing large eyeglasses, and untrained in beauty pageant conventions is not in their league. When it is almost time for Olive to perform in the talent portion of the pageant, Richard and Dwayne see that Olive is certain to be humiliated, they run to the dressing room to prevent her from performing. Sheryl, however, says that they should just let Olive be Olive, and Olive will decide to go on stage or not. Olive performs the dance routine that her Grandpa had secretly choreographed for her, a burlesque performance to Rick James song "Super Freak," Olive, not knowing this routine and song is a little too old for her, they audience is horrified. They organizers are shocked, and demand Sheryl and Richard remove Olive from the stage. Instead of that, one by one the members of the family join Olive on stage, dancing alongside her, and Richard prevents the pageant officials from touching his daughter. They family is next seen outside the hotel's security office where a police officer tells them they are free to leave as long as Olive never again enters a beauty pageant in the state of California. Richard tells Olive that her grandfather would of been very proud of her, and the family happily piles into the junky bus and heads back to their home in Albuquerque. Time and Place of Film: The film takes place in the United States in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The time of the film takes place in 2006. Main Characters: Toni Collette plays Sheryl Hoover, Olive and Dwayne's mother. Steve Carell plays Frank Ginsberg, Sheryl's gay brother. Greg Kinnear plays Richard Hoover, Toni Collette's husband. Paul Dano plays Dwayne Hoover, the brother of Olive who wants to be a test pilot. Abigail Breslin, plays Olive, the girl that performs in a beauty pageant. Alan Arkin plays Edwin Hoover, the grandpa that is addicted to heroin. Introduction and Ending:
I think the introduction of the movie trailer was okay, it was nothing special. The introduction starts off as the family sitting at the table, and the grandpa points out that Dwayne is not talking. The family gets a call that some girl quit the pageant, so their is a spot for Olive to be in it, which she is really excited about. The family then heads to California, and immediately they start arguing about random stuff. Their yellow bus thing then breaks down, and they all get out and start to push it, and then they get back on their way to the beauty pageant.
I think the ending of the movie trailer was just okay too. It first starts out how the honking of the horn can't stop on the yellow van thing, and they get pulled over by a cop because of that. After that they show really quickly, and shot little shots of most of everything that happens in the car ride on the way to the beauty contest. After that part it shows Olive sitting in a bed asking her grandpa if he thought she was pretty, and of course he says yes. At the very end they are all in the car and they all realize that Olive isn't in the car, so they go back to get her, but they can't stop the car to get her because the car won't stop, so she has to jump in, quickly.
The introduction and ending really should you what the movie was going to be about in little pieces, but it still didn't ruin the movie. It really made you want to go see it because it seems like an hilarious movie. The introduction and ending though wasn't very cool looking, and it had a lot of writing on it about the movies, and the awards and stuff it won. Towards the end it also ran through the main characters that were in the movie. Camera Work: The camera work wasn't really fancy because after all it is an independent film, but just because it didn't have great camera work, it still was a good trailer. The camera was not shaky, and it even had a few basic transitions that I saw. Before I watched the trailer I new it wasn't going to be like a Stephen Spielberg trailer because it is an indie film after all. It was good enough. Identifying Shots and Angles: There was a lot of medium shots and a few close ups. There wasn't much of any others shots or angle shots, which they could of included to make the trailer better. The trailer was still good though without all the fancy shots. Key Moment: A key moment of the movie trailer was when Olive was laying on a bed, sort of looking said and asked her grandfather if he thought she was truly pretty. The grandpa responded saying that he thought she was the prettiest person in the whole world, and Olive said he was just saying that. The grandpa responded to that saying he was madly in love with her and its not just because of her brains or personality....:) It was a very cute and funny moment. Who Would Like This Film: I think this would be a family film, but it would be for families that had mature family members in them because this movie does have some things in it that people need maturity to watch. I would rate this movie PG-13 just because it has some stuff that isn't meant for little kids to see. It is a great film for people that love comedy, if you don't, you might not like this movie. Rate This Film: I rate this movie 5 stars because it is a great independent film that is really funny. I love funny movies, and I loves family comedies like this. It reminds me of the funny movie vacation, but this a cleaner version. This characters played their parts very well, which is always great to see in a movie. Recommendations: I would recommend this movie to kids 13 and up because it has some things in it that young kids shouldn't see. I think this movie would be okay for younger kids of the ages of 10, 11, and 12 to see if they are watching it with their parents. If you don't like funny movies, you shouldn't watch this movie.
Sports News McQueary Files Defamation Suit Against Penn State Hailey Hurowitz October 2nd, 2012
In Harrisburg, Pa, a former Penn State graduate assistant who said he saw former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky showering with a young boy on campus and testified at his sex abuse trial sued the university on Tuesday for what he calls defamation and misrepresentation. Mike McQueary's lawsuit claims his treatment by the university since Sandusky was arrested in November has caused him distress, anxiety, humiliation, and embarrassment. The complaint, filed in county court near State College, where the university is based, is seeing millions of dollars in damages. Penn State spokesman, Dave La Torre declined to comment on Tuesday, and McQueary's lawyer, Elliot Strokoff did not return a phone message. The lawsuit discloses that shortly after Sandusky was charged, the university's then president, Graham Spanier, met with athletic department staff inside the university's football stadium and told his support for athletic director, Tim Curley and vice president, Gary Schultz, who had been charged with perjury and failure to properly report suspected child abuse in the Sandusky case. Spanier also gave a public statement with the same message. Curley, now on leave, and Schultz, who has retired, have denied the charges against them many of times, and now they await trial. McQueary said Spanier's support of the two administrators was designed to preserve the university's reputation and make McQueary a fool. McQueary, whose contract with Penn State wasn't renewed, testified this summer that he came upon Sandusky and the boy in a sexually suggestive position in a team shower in early 2001. He told jurors at Sandusky's trail he saw that the boy's hands were against a wall and Sandusky was behind him, with his midsection moving subtly, and he heard a "skin-on-skin smacking sound." McQueary reported that to then-head football coach, Joe Paterno, who alerted Curley and Schultz. Paterno was fired after three men were charged, and he died of complications from lung cancer in January. McQueary says that the November meeting with Spanier cleary suggested that McQueary was lying in his reports and testimonies that he had reported the sexual misconduct. Spanier's statements have ruined MacQueary's reputation for honesty and integrity, and have ruined his ability to earn a living. Messages left for Spanier and his lawyer on Tuesday were not quickly returned. The lawsuit said McQueary, placed on administrative leave Nov. 11, learned his contract was not being renewed, meaning he was no longer a university employee, from a news conference held in July by the university's new president, Rodney Erickson. He said his salary last year was $140,000 and his future earnings as a coach would amount to at least $4 million. He claims he was let go because he cooperated with investigators, testified at the preliminary hearing for Curley and Schultz and is expected to be a main witness against them at trial. He wants reinstatement, money that he lost while he was on leave, legal fees, back pay and benefits through the Sandusky trial, among with other things. Sandusky, a former defensive coordinator, was convicted in June on charges he sexually abused 10 boys, some on campus. He remains jailed awaiting sentencing next week. Eight young men testified against Sandusky, describing a lot of abuse they said went from grooming and manipulation to fondling, oral sex, and anal rape when they were boys. Sandusky still says he is innocent, saying that he did shower with boys, but saying that he never molested them. He is most likely going to get a sentencing that will keep him in prison for life.
Dr. Barbara Bellar is a former nun, an Army major, a lawyer, a college professor, and a physician. Now, Dr. Barbara wants to be a state senator from IIinois, and she has one question about ObamaCare though. "What the blank could possibly go wrong?" Bellar is a Republican candidate running for office in the state's 18th district. She gave a one-liner speech while warming up the crowd at a recent event for GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Someone took it on video, and now the doctor's diagnosis of the Affordable Care Act is an Internet sensation with more than 2 million views. She said, "We are going to be gifted with a health care plan that we are forced to purchase, and fined if we don't." She also said, "signed by a president that smokes, and with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke." Bellar had no idea she was being videotaped. She just meant it was a little opener to a more serious issue. Bellar is running for office for the first time, and she has strong feelings about ObamaCare, which she considers a decrease of rights. She hoping to take Edward Maloney's place, who is retiring from the district, which includes Chicago's 19th Ward, and has picked up the endorsement of the Chicago Tribune. The title of senator would just be another thing to add to her long list. Bellar was a Benedictine nun for almost five years, but she left before she completed her final vows. She is a major in the U.S. Army Reserves, runs a family medical practice, teaches part time at both Benedictine and DePaul universities and practice law. She is a very caring person that loves to help people.
Local News Tucker Woman Opens Up About Life as a Secret Agent Hailey Hurowitz October 2, 2012
A psychologist living in Tucker, GA had a secret life. The former Israeli secret agent spoke to FOX 5 about her secret life. Einat Toledano's secret life has made who she is, and how she now helps other people. She is a therapist, and she founded the Emotional Wealth Resources Institute in Tucker. When Toledano was a child growing up in Israel, psychology was not exactly the career path she wanted to go into. She actually wanted to be a P.E. teacher. Her life changed though, and it just ended up being totally different. She ended up getting a Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice. When it was time for her to server her mandatory assignment in the Israeli military, she was assigned to a specialized unit of the investigative police as an undercover agent. Her unit was specifically responsible for ammunition coming into the country and any sort of smuggling. Toledano's lifestyle though, didn't make her happy. The betrayal wasn't working for her, and it made her sad. It made her sad having to arrest people. After she married and moved to the United States, she said she finally discovered who she was, and what makes her happy. She now has a new mission and assignment, which is helping others discover themselves.
