With Kyocera, Sprint Faces None of Apple's Quality Control

Sprint will soon begin selling the rugged Kyocera Torque. A new Kyocera ad suggests there will be none of the fussiness Sprint faces from Apple.

Sprint has enlisted Bear Grylis, a chisel-cheekboned extreme adventurer, former British Special Forces agent and star of the television show "Man vs. Wild," to help promote the Kyocera Torque, a rugged Android smartphone it will begin selling March 8. The "live more, fear less" handset," as Sprint has taken to calling it, is 4G Long-Term Evolution- (LTE-) enabled, supports next-generation push-to-talk (PTT) technology, has an impact-resistant 4-inch In-Plane Switching (IPS) touch-screen and what Kyocera calls a "smart sonic receiver" that helps to make calls clear in even super-noisy environments. It can also be submerged in 3 feet of water for 30 minutes and meets military standards for surviving in temperature extremes, blowing rain, low pressure, high humidity and vibration, shock and dust. Kind of like Grylis.? It's a good phone for outdoorsy-types who subject their phones to raging rapids or muddy mountainsides, and indoorsy-types who are subjected to incredibly energetic children?again like Grylis, who is the father of three boys. What might have been a marketing home run, however, instead started a reporter remembering a comment that Sprint CEO Dan Hesse made during Sprint's Feb. 7 earnings call. "We got the iPad for the first time pretty late in the year, and of course Apple?to their credit, they protect their brand very well?but it takes some time to get advertising in the market that meets Apple's approval," said Hesse. "So we really didn't have much of a marketing quarter in the fourth quarter, with respect to tablets. We hope that will improve; we need to increase awareness out there in the marketplace that Sprint carries the iPad, and we intend to work on that in 2013," Hesse said. Translation: Apple thinks our ads stink, so we haven't been able to run anyway. One has to imagine that between Sprint and Kyocera, the green light is always on. In a video Kyocera posted to YouTube, Grylis, in an opening shot, appears to be in a dark, dripping cave. But no, time reveals that he's at an awful indoor water park with his kids?or rather, a lot of people's kids?and a lot of splashing and phone-drenching ensues. (Even the potential perk, for the over-12-year-old crowd, of Grylis in bathing trunks was undone by the wardrobe person who gave Grylis a shirt to wear in the pool.) The point, of course, is that while Grylis and the Torque can cross the Artic and scale peaks, these aren't life's only adventures. "Torque, the rugged 4G Android for your extreme and every day," said Grylis, in his appealing British accent?truly all that's appealing about the ad. There's a reason that Apple is Apple and the iPhone is the world's top-selling smartphone. Sprint and Kyocera may want to take notes. ?

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Radioactive waste leaking from six tanks at Washington state nuclear site

SEATTLE (Reuters) ? Six underground storage tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation along the Columbia River in Washington state were recently found to be leaking radioactive waste, but there is no immediate risk to human health, state and federal officials said on Friday.

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'Parade's End' keeps British TV invasion going

This publicity image released by HBO shows Benedict Cumberbatch is shown in the five-part miniseries "Parade's End," debuting Feb. 26 on HBO. (AP Photo/HBO, Nick Briggs)

This publicity image released by HBO shows Benedict Cumberbatch is shown in the five-part miniseries "Parade's End," debuting Feb. 26 on HBO. (AP Photo/HBO, Nick Briggs)

This publicity image released by HBO shows Benedict Cumberbatch, left and Rebecca Hall are shown in the five-part miniseries "Parade's End," debuting Feb. 26 on HBO. (AP Photo/HBO, Nick Briggs)

FILE - This Sept. 4, 2012 file photo shows British playwright Tom Stoppard at the world premiere of "Anna Karenina" in London. Stoppard's latest project is a five-part miniseries, "Parade's End," premiering Tuesday, Feb. 26, on HBO. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, file)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Tom Stoppard is sitting on the patio of a Sunset Boulevard hotel, bathed in California winter sunshine, framed by bamboo landscaping and looking very much out of his element in Hollywood.

The acclaimed British playwright professes to feeling that way as well, despite having pocketed a Writers Guild of America lifetime achievement award the night before for his screenplays, including the Oscar-winning "Shakespeare in Love."

"I was always nervous coming here. The first time I was terrified," he said. "I'm trying not to sound nauseatingly self-deprecating, but I don't think of myself as being a terrific screenwriter or even a natural screenwriter."

Combine that, he said, with the local entertainment industry's perception that "I'm some different kind of animal," a high-minded artist to whom the words "intellectual" and "philosophy" are freely applied.

But if Hollywood can be forgiven anything, it should be that. Stoppard has created a remarkable wealth of two dozen-plus plays, including "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," ''Travesties" and "The Real Thing," and he's counting on more.

He looks like a proper man of letters, with unkempt gray hair, a comfortably unstylish cardigan and a delicately shaped mouth that hesitates, slightly, before dispensing exacting thoughts on the art of writing (without pretension: he relishes a snippet of "Ghostbusters" dialogue.)

Stoppard also is the master behind "Parade's End," a five-part HBO miniseries (airing Tuesday through Thursday, 9 p.m. EST) that was lauded by U.K. critics as "the thinking man's 'Downton Abbey'" after its BBC airing.

Adapted by Stoppard from a series of novels by British writer Ford Madox Ford, "Parade's End" features rising stars Benedict Cumberbatch ("Sherlock Holmes" and the upcoming "Star Trek" movie) and Rebecca Hall ("Vicky Cristina Barcelona") in the juiciest of roles.

Like PBS' "Downton Abbey," it's set in the early 20th century among aristocrats and encompasses World War I's shattering effect on the social order. Romance is provided by the triangle of Cumberbatch's tradition-bound Christopher, his unfaithful wife, Sylvia (Hall), and a suffragette (Australian newcomer Adelaide Clemens). The uniformly impressive cast includes Janet McTeer, Miranda Richardson, Roger Allam and Rupert Everett.

Stoppard rejects the oft-made comparison to PBS' "Downton" as unfair to it and its writer-creator, Julian Fellowes: "I was embarrassed by it because it's so condescending of Julian's work. He's a good writer and he's done a superlative job," he said. It's also a misguided comparison because "Downton" is heading toward season four and "Parade's End" is "five episodes and that's it, forever."

The self-effacing Stoppard leaves it at that. But there's a wider gap between the two: "Downton" is an easy-to-digest soap opera, while "Parade's End" is a challenging, nuanced view of a slice of British society and a set of singular characters, all dressed to the nines in the heady language of literature.

"There's a wonderful richness to the language and a beauty, which I think is the brilliance of Tom Stoppard, and also this very beautiful language of Ford Madox Ford," said director Susanna White.

The heedless, acid-tongued Sylvia has dialogue to relish, something Stoppard cannot resist.

"The line I like best comes straight from Ford: (the public) likes 'a whiff of sex coming off our crowd, like the steam on the water in the crocodile house at the zoo,'" he said, adding gleefully, "What a line!"

Although careful to credit the novelist with that particular zinger, Stoppard said "Parade's End" is the first adaptation in which his dialogue and that from the original text have become intertwined in his memory.

He attributes that to the year he spent forming Ford's intricate novels into a screenplay, often crafting original scenes, and the several more years he spent helping bring the series to fruition with the producers and White ("Generation Kill").

"It's the closest thing to writing a play which isn't a play that I have ever been involved with," he said.

The stage has been the Czech-born Stoppard's chief occupation since leaving journalism in his 20s. But he's made a number of detours into film, either as a screenwriter or a behind-the-scenes script doctor. His latest big-screen project is the adaptation of "Anna Karenina" with Keira Knightley.

Stoppard's insistence that he isn't an outstanding scriptwriter stems, in part, from his reticence. Then there's what he calls the differing "schools of eloquence" represented by film and plays.

"I envy and admire movies which are eloquent without recourse to long speeches," he said, citing several lines to illustrate his point. One comes from "The Fugitive" ("I don't care," Tommy Lee Jones says after Harrison Ford insists he didn't kill his wife), another from "Ghostbusters."

Bill Murray is confronted by "this kind of Amazonian ghost goddess, spooky thing, and he goes, 'This chick is toast,'" Stoppard said, with a delighted smile.

"It's the sense that precisely the right words have been uttered," he explained.

That's how fellow scribes feel about him. One L.A. film and TV writer said she regularly rereads the famed cricket-bat speech from "The Real Thing," about the challenge of writing, for joy and inspiration: "If you get it right," the character Henry says, "the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds, and all you've done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout, and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly. What we're trying to do is to write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might travel."

For now, the right words for Stoppard would be those of a new play, the first since "Rock 'n' Roll" from seven years ago. He has no regrets about immersing himself in "Parade's End," but is ready for the solitude needed to find the right story for the stage.

He used to steal away to a house in France until the air travel became too much. Now he makes do with a "small, shabby cottage an hour-and-a-half from London, which in theory is supposed to be my French house. But it's not far enough away" to evade commitments, social and otherwise. ("I'm Mr. Available," he laments.)

It's welcome assurance to hear the guild lifetime award he received Feb. 17 doesn't signal a halt for Stoppard. It did pull him up short, at least briefly.

"I was quite surprised. Though I am 75, so I shouldn't be surprised. But I haven't thought of stopping yet."

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Lynn Elber is a national television columnist for The Associated Press. She can be reached at lelber(at)ap.org and on Twitter (at)lynnelber.

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Boehner Idle as GOP Calls for Select Committees on Benghazi

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have suggested the formation of select committees since November 2012, one month after the assault which killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other State Department employees. Such select committees could provide a channel for Benghazi survivors to come forward and tell their stories to Congress?without legal repercussions from the federal government.

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told USA Today on Wednesday, "I want to know who the survivors are and for the appropriate committees to interview them." He explained further, "We know it was clear from the beginning it was a terrorist attack. I want to know what kind of help they asked for."

Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Senator John McCain (R-AZ), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), a member of the armed services committee, all called for a joint select committee to investigate Benghazi in November. The South Carolina Senator is threatening to hold up the nomination of CIA pick John Brennan if the White House will not release more information on the attack.

Both Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), along with other Democrats,?rebuffed the idea of a joint select committee to investigate the Benghazi attack.

?At this point, I think that the standing committees of the House, whether they be the (State Department) oversight committee or the intelligence committee, are working diligently on these issues,? Boehner said shortly after his Senate colleagues floated the idea in November.

The GOP senators were not the only ones blown off by Republican leadership on the House side to create a select committee to study the deadly Benghazi attack. In November, Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, called for a select committee to investigate the attack.

According to Wolf?s November press release, the congressman ?reminded Speaker Boehner of a September 25 letter to President Obama signed by eight House members requesting more information about the attack and the administration?s response.?

Speaker Boehner did not heed Wolf?s call for a select committee in the last Congress. In late January, Wolf refiled the resolution to establish a House Select Committee to investigate the Benghazi attack. Boehner has yet to comment or act upon the resolution.

Breitbart News sent an inquiry to Speaker Boehner's office on Thursday afternoon that has gone unanswered.

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COLLEGES: Brockton?s Naomi Woodcock headed back to NCAA swimming championships

In the first meet of her college swimming career, Naomi Woodcock was part of two winning relay teams.

The Brockton resident was a freshman at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, N.Y., on Oct. 17, 2009 when she helped the Golden Knights win the 300 and 850 races at the Hartwick Relays.

That performance marked the start of a successful career put together by Woodcock, now a senior who will conclude her run by competing at the NCAA Div. 2 Championships for a second consecutive year.

Woodcock, a 2009 Brockton High School graduate, was a consistent point producer and a record-setting swimmer at Saint Rose, and now she is wrapping it all up at the national meet.

?I think it?ll be bittersweet,?? said Woodcock as the end of her days as a competitive swimmer nears. ?I had just a great career, so I can walk away satisfied and happy.

?But I?ll be sad, too, because it was such a big part of my life. It?s not going to be there anymore.??

Woodcock will be taking part in the 100- and 200-meter breaststroke races at the NCAA Championships, to be held in Birmingham, Ala., March 6-9, after winning both of those events at the Northeast-10 Conference Championships.

She is ranked 10th in the nation in the 100 with a school-record time of 1:04.17 and 24th in the country in the 200 (2:21.32).

A year ago, Woodcock traveled to Mansfield, Texas, where she placed 17th in the 100 (in what was a school record 1:04.79) and 27th in the 200 (2:24.67). Woodcock was just the second female swimmer at Saint Rose to qualify for the NCAAs.

?When I was there, I was overwhelmed at first, but I didn?t let it get to my head because I knew I belonged there,?? said Woodcock. ?But when I originally walked in there, I was like, ?Wow, this is really amazing.?

?It?s such a great experience. I got to do it last year and I want to finish strong. One last time (is going) to be great.??

Woodcock arrived at Saint Rose following four solid seasons at Brockton High where she set the 100 breaststroke record and competed in the state championships.

As a college freshman, Woodcock was in the top five 15 times and won three events, then had 18 top-five finishes and five victories as a sophomore.

Woodcock made significant improvement in her junior year, getting 10 wins and 23 top-five finishes, and was second in the 100 and 200 at the NE-10 meet.

?Every year she?s improved to above and beyond what I thought she could do,?? said Golden Knights coach Keith Murray. ?At the time she came here, she was a decent swimmer. She was going to be one of the top point scorers.

?I knew she?d be one of our best swimmers, but I didn?t think she?d bring it to the next level like that. She had some experience with swimming, but not a lot like the others who swim for years and years in clubs. She was still fresh to the sport.??

Woodcock, who began swimming at the age of 9 at the Brockton YMCA, kept improving this season, finishing first or second in breaststroke events 11 times.

?I definitely wasn?t expecting be a national swimmer,?? she said. ?I?ve dropped so much time. I really wasn?t expecting it. I put my time in, worked really hard and it paid off.??

Said Murray: ?After her first two years, you could see something was there. Athletes have this certain drive when it comes to racing and competition and there?s nothing I can do as a coach to teach that. Some people just have that innate will to race, to win. Naomi, by far, has that. She loves to race.??

In addition to her success in the pool, Woodcock is a top student majoring in biology. She begins a three-year stay at Sage College in Troy, N.Y., in May to pursue a postgraduate degree in physical therapy.

?It can be demanding, but you need time management and keeping calm about it, not getting crazy about it,?? she said of combining academics and athletics. ?Everything in balance can work out.??

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LaBeouf launches Twitter rant after exit from ?Orphans?

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LaBeouf arrives at the ?Lawless? premiere last August.

First you leave, then you tweet.

Hours after Shia LaBeouf's sudden exit from the Broadway production of the play "Orphans" was announced, the hot-headed "Transformers" star started a Twitter rant revealing his short tenure at the show was even more troubled than originally rumored.

Posting personal emails from co-stars Alec Baldwin and Tom Sturridge along with playwright Lyle Kessler and director Daniel Sullivan, the 26-year-old actor outed a production in turmoil -- as well as his own inner demons.

"A man can tell you he?s wrong...he can apologize, even if sometimes its just to put an end to the bickering,? wrote LaBeouf in one email to his director. ?Alec, I?m sorry for my part of a disagreeable situation.?

It turned out whole swathes of his email were taken verbatIm and uncredited from a 2009 Esquire essay by Tom Chiarella, Gawker reported.

In response to the email from his resigning star, Sullivan fired back, ?I'm too old for disagreeable situations. you're one hell of a great actor. Alec is who he is. you are who you are. you two are incompatible. I should have known it. this one will haunt me. you tried to warn me. you said you were a different breed. I didn't get it. Dan?

LaBeouf went on to post a series of bizarre tweets about the nature of acting:

LaBeouf quit his role as a wayward older brother from North Philly in ?Orphans? less than a month before it was to open. Less than 24 hours after the official word came that he was out of the show, producers announced that Ben Foster, who had auditioned for ?Orphans? but passed over for LaBeouf, was in. The role marks Foster?s Broadway debut.

Producers cited ?creative differences? as the reason for LaBeouf?s departure, but a source told the News it was really caused by his difficult behavior and refusal to take direction.

LaBeouf has a long track record of bad behavior: he was arrested for trespassing in 2007, lost his driver?s license for a year in 2008 and had been in two bar fights and punched a photographer.

?It was just not working out,? a show insider said. ?It is a disaster. This is a massive disaster. They just lost a third of the cast. This was the best solution for what went down.?

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Storm promises messy, dangerous commute in Midwest

Trucker Ray Jersey of St. Louis exercises his dog Samson at a truck stop as snow falls in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. Ray Jersey opted to wait the snow storm out as much of the nation's heartland is experiencing heavy snow, treacherous roads and a day off from work or school as a large, potentially dangerous winter storm pushed eastward out of the Rockies. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Trucker Ray Jersey of St. Louis exercises his dog Samson at a truck stop as snow falls in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. Ray Jersey opted to wait the snow storm out as much of the nation's heartland is experiencing heavy snow, treacherous roads and a day off from work or school as a large, potentially dangerous winter storm pushed eastward out of the Rockies. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Kamika Ralstin,left, Sarah Blakley, back, and Claudia Huerta sled down the slope of the South Van Buren overpass Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, in Enid, Okla. Temperatures dropped into the upper 20s, as an upper level winter storm produced lightning, heavy rain, freezing rain, snow and thunder sleet, closing schools and colleges across Enid and most of Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Enid News and Eagle, Bonnie Vculek)

Two men help push a car down a snow-covered street Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, in St. Louis. Blinding snow bombarded much of the nation's midsection Thursday, causing whiteout conditions, making major roadways all but impassable and shutting down schools and state legislatures. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Emergency crews work to get a van out from the snow packed shoulder of I-70, Thursday afternoon Feb. 21, 2013 in Topeka, Kan. Kansas was the epicenter of the winter storm, with parts of the state buried under 14 inches of powdery snow, but winter storm warnings stretched from eastern Colorado through Illinois.(AP Photo/The Topeka Capital Journal, Chris Neal)

Braden Center jumps his sled over a mound of snow on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 in Wichita. Kan. Parts of Kansas have received over a foot of snow since a strong winter storm moved through the area. (AP Photo/The Wichita Eagle, Travis Heying)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? A major snowstorm that shuttered airports in Missouri, stranded truckers in Illinois and buried parts of Kansas in knee-deep powder was promising a messy and possibly dangerous commute Friday morning as it crawled northeast.

Wind gusts of 30 mph were expected to churn-up snow that fell overnight in southern Wisconsin, where forecasters were warning Milwaukee-area residents of slick roads and reduced visibility. The same was expected in northeast Iowa, where residents could wake up to as much as 7 inches of new snow, while nearly 200 snowplows were deployed overnight in Chicago.

At a Travel Centers of America truck stop in the central Illinois city of Effingham, all of the 137 parking spaces were filled by truckers unwilling to drive through the storm overnight.

"When it gets really bad, they like to camp out," cashier Tia Schneider said Thursday night, noting that some drivers called ahead. "They can make reservations from 500 miles away to make sure a space is available."

The storm system swirled to the north and east late Thursday, its snow, sleet and freezing rain prompting winter storm across the region ? and leaving some impressive snow accumulations.

Northern Oklahoma got more than 13 inches of snow, while up to 10 inches fell in the Kansas City, Mo., area. In Kansas, 17 inches of snow fell in Hays and several other cities got nearly that amount. Farther east in Topeka, 3 inches of snow fell in only 30 minutes, leaving medical center worker Jennifer Carlock dreading her drive home from work.

"It came on fast," Carlock said as she shoveled around her car late Thursday. "We're going to test out traction control on the way home."

Numerous accidents and two deaths were being blamed on the icy, slushy roadways.

State legislatures shut down in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska and Iowa. Most schools were closed in Kansas and Missouri, and many in neighboring states.

That included the University of Missouri, where classes were canceled for one of the few times in its 174-year history. At a nearby WalMart, students made a beeline for the aisles containing sleds and alcohol.

"This isn't our usual Thursday noon routine," Lauren Ottenger, a senior economics major from Denver, said as she stockpiled supplies.

All flights at Kansas City International Airport were canceled for Thursday night, and officials said they'd prepare to reopen Friday morning. On the other side of the state in St. Louis, more than 320 flights at Lambert Airport were canceled.

Transportation officials in the affected states urged people to stay home.

"If you don't have to get out, just really, please, don't do it," Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said. Interstate 70 through Kansas was snow-packed, and a 200-mile stretch between Salina and Colby was closed. The Kansas National Guard had 12 teams patrolling three state highways in Humvees to rescue motorists stranded by the storm.

For those who needed to drive, it's wasn't a fun commute.

Richard Monroe, a technology manager and marketing representative for the Missouri State University bookstore, said he arrived with eight of his colleagues in Kansas City, Mo., on Wednesday for a conference. He said a shuttle bus taking them on what should have been a five-minute trip got stuck in the snow, then ran into a truck. The vehicle was incapacitated for nearly two hours.

"We saw today that Kansas City is just shut down. I've never seen a big city like this where nothing is moving," the 27-year-old said.

Others people came down with cabin fever, including Jennifer McCoy of Wichita, Kan. She loaded her nine children ? ages 6 months to 16 years ? into a van for lunch at Applebee's.

"I was going crazy, they were so whiny," McCoy said.

Heavy, blowing snow caused scores of businesses in Iowa and Nebraska to close early, including two malls in Omaha, Neb. Mardi Miller, manager of Dillard's department store in Oakview Mall, said most employees were gone by 4 p.m., with "only two customers are in the entire store."

The storm brought some relief to a region that has been dealing with its worst drought in decades.

Vance Ehmke, a wheat farmer near Healy, Kan., said the nearly foot of snow was "what we have been praying for." Climatologists say 12 inches of snow is equivalent to about 1 inch of rain, depending on the density of the snow.

Near Edwardsville in Illinois, farmer Mike Campbell called the precipitation a blessing after a bone-dry growing season in 2012. He hopes it is a good omen for the spring, noting that last year, "the corn was just a disaster."

Areas in the Texas Panhandle also had up to 8 inches of snow, and in south central Nebraska, Grand Island reported 10 inches of snow. Arkansas saw a mix of precipitation ? a combination of hail, sleet and freezing rain in some place, 6 inches of snow in others.

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Associated Press writers Alan Scher Zagier in Columbia, Mo.; Bill Draper and Margaret Stafford in Kansas City, Mo.; Margery Beck in Omaha, Neb.; John Hanna in Topeka, Kan.; Roxana Hegeman in Wichita, Kan.; Catherine Lucey in Des Moines, Iowa; Tim Talley in Oklahoma City; Chuck Bartels in Little Rock, Ark.; Jim Suhr and Jim Salter in St. Louis; and Erin Gartner and Herbert G. McCann in Chicago contributed to this report.

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