Actress Ashley Judd won't run for US Senate

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2008 file photo, actress Ashley Judd, a Kentucky native, speaks at a Democratic get-out-the-vote rally in Louisville, Ky. Judd announced Wednesday she won't run for U.S. Senate in Kentucky against Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, saying she had given serious thought to a campaign but decided her responsibilities and energy need to be focused on her family. (AP Photo/Brian Bohannon, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2008 file photo, actress Ashley Judd, a Kentucky native, speaks at a Democratic get-out-the-vote rally in Louisville, Ky. Judd announced Wednesday she won't run for U.S. Senate in Kentucky against Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, saying she had given serious thought to a campaign but decided her responsibilities and energy need to be focused on her family. (AP Photo/Brian Bohannon, File)

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) ? Actress Ashley Judd announced Wednesday she won't run for U.S. Senate in Kentucky against Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, saying she had given serious thought to a campaign but decided her responsibilities and energy need to be focused on her family.

The former Kentucky resident tweeted her decision.

"Regretfully, I am currently unable to consider a campaign for the Senate. I have spoken to so many Kentuckians over these last few months who expressed their desire for a fighter for the people & new leader," Judd wrote.

"While that won't be me at this time, I will continue to work as hard as I can to ensure the needs of Kentucky families are met by returning this Senate seat to whom it rightfully belongs: the people & their needs, dreams, and great potential. Thanks for even considering me as that person & know how much I love our Commonwealth. Thank you!"

Her publicist Cara Tripicchio confirmed Judd's decision.

The 44-year-old Judd had hinted last week that she was nearing a decision about the race.

Now living in suburban Nashville, Tenn., Judd has said little publicly about her intentions. However, she has been meeting with several Democratic leaders, including Gov. Steve Beshear, to discuss a possible run.

Defeating McConnell would be the Democrats' biggest prize of the 2014 election. His seat is one of 14 that Republicans are defending while Democrats try to hold onto 21, hoping to retain or add to their 55-45 edge.

The star of such films as "Double Jeopardy" and "Kiss the Girls" is known for her liberal political views and she would have been running in a largely conservative state where Republicans hold both Senate seats and five of the six seats in the U.S. House.

Former State Treasurer Jonathan Miller, a Judd supporter, said she would have been a strong candidate.

"As a Kentuckian and someone who was really enthusiastic about her as a candidate, this wasn't the news I was hoping for," Miller said. "But as her friend, from the first time we talked about the race last summer, I was very candid about the grueling nature of politics. It's become a very unpleasant business and running against Mitch McConnell would be an extraordinarily difficult and grueling experience."

McConnell, who spent some $20 million on his last election and who has already raised $10 million for the next one, had already been taunting would-be Democratic challengers in a comical online video intended to raise second thoughts about taking on a politician known as brawler. The video plays on the fact that Judd lives in Tennessee.

Republican-leaning group American Crossroads in its own online video also plays on the Tennessee angle and ties her closely to President Barack Obama, who is unpopular in Kentucky.

University of Louisville political scientist Laurie Rhodebeck said Judd certainly wasn't frightened out of the race.

"She doesn't strike me as a shrinking violet," Rhodebeck said. "I think the real issue would be how much disruption she wanted in her life. This was the kind of thing that she would have to throw herself into 100 percent in order to make it worthwhile."

Judd and three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti separated early this year after marrying in his native Scotland in 2001.

Judd's decision not to enter the race leaves the Democratic Party in search of a candidate. Many of Kentucky's top Democrats, including Beshear, have said they won't run. However, a rising star within the party, Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, hasn't ruled the race out. Grimes declined comment Wednesday evening through her spokeswoman, Lynn Sowards Zellen.

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Associated Press writer Janet Cappiello contributed to this report.

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Mercedes-Benz introduces B-Class Electric Drive, we go eyes-on

Electric Vehicle choices keep getting more compelling, and Mercedes-Benz is doing its part by unveiling the upcoming B-Class Electric Drive. The B-Class is among the smaller of MB's cars (one step up from the A-Class), fitting squarely in the MPV category. It's basically a mini-minivan. MPVs are small but big enough to be practical, and they tend to be economical. The fully electric powertrain in this 2014 model that just rolled onto the stage here at the New York International Auto Show should go a long way in that regard. Follow us after the break for more details and some photos.

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From the Android Forums: Unlocking and root

Justiceanthony asks in the Android Central Forums:

Hi all,
I'm new here. I'm looking to buy a new Note 2 for the third time (yeah, I lost the first one and gave the second to my girlfriend). Someone is selling one to me here in Ghana , and it was previously locked to O2 (UK network), it's now been unlocked and my question is whether it's been automatically rooted since it's unlocked. I wouldn't mind a rooted phone since I would like a little more "freedom" . thnx to you all.

First things first -- welcome to AC justiceanthony!

Now to the question. No, SIM unlocking a Note 2 (or any Android phone) does not automatically root it. SIM unlocking is a built-in tool that uses a key to activate. It's done outside of any modification to the firmware, like rooting. Having said that, sometimes the opposite is true, and a root method that unlocks the bootloader will also SIM unlock the phone.

This begs for an explanation about the different uses of the word unlock and root. Lets do that.

Root: Rooting an Android phone is simply adding a file to the system that allows other apps to elevate their permissions and read, write, and execute anything on your device. In this case, anything means anything -- if it is user editable or actionable, you can do it with root. This is both powerful and dangerous, so be sure to get all the answers and be clear on the subject before you do it.

SIM or Network Unlocking: This allows a phone bought for use on a particular network to be used on another network. If you buy a phone designed to only work on Orange (or AT&T for an American example), to use it on any other network, you will need to unlock the SIM programming. This is what Justiceanthony has done in the example above, as he wants to use an O2 phone on his carrier in Ghana. It's done without rooting or modifying any firmware in your phone or tablet.

Remember, the networks have to be compatible. A phone with radios designed for one carrier may not provide 3G or 4G service on another, and sometimes they won't work at all.

Bootloader Unlocking: All Android devices ship with a locked bootloader. Some are very easy to unlock, like Nexus devices, some need a little hacking to unlock (like most Samsung devices), and some are encrypted and designed to be very difficult to unlock (hello, Moto). Bootloader unlocking allows you to flash (write to your phone's "hard drive") images files that haven't been signed with the official key from the folks who made it. A locked bootloader can flash a new recovery provided in an OTA update because the recovery was signed with the right key. It will fail to flash a custom recovery like ClockWorkMod. An unlocked bootloader will flash anything that fits, as long as you tell it to. Once a custom recovery (or sometimes a "Super" boot image) is flashed, you can install and erase custom built system firmware at will. Again, this means you need to do your homework before you start fiddling with things. Use the forums. Read, ask questions, and read some more.

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An inside look at Apple Anonymous, an attempt to both secret and social

Even outside Cupertino, in the massive retail division of Apple, secrecy is deeply held value. Yet people are, by nature, social animals, and platforms like Twitter and even Google+, filled with friends and family, are in many cases just too big to ignore. Some simply draw up a firewall, never mentioning anything not already public knowledge about their employer or their employment, and focusing on the other things they enjoy, and other issues in the world. Others, however, want to use places like Twitter as a way to blow off company steam -- as a place to bitch about their jobs. Mark Gurman of 9to5Mac has taken a look at that side of the Apple/Twitter equation:

Even with strict, Apple Corporate-implemented policies on social media usage of its employees, a portion of Apple retail employees have formed an under-the-radar, ?Apple Anonymous? community over social media sites like Twitter and Google+. The majority of these employees work on these social media networks under ?anonymous? personalities.

Gurman focuses on the @GeniusBarTales account in particular, on the Fearless Feedback concept at Apple Retail, Net Promoter for our People (NPP) surveys, and what, if any, role "Apple Anonymous" played in getting the word out about unpopular changes made by then Apple Retail head John Browett, since fired.

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Engineers explain physics of fluids some 100 years after original discovery

Mar. 22, 2013 ? Sunghwan Jung is a fan of the 19th Century born John William Strutt, 3rd, also known as Lord Baron Rayleigh. An English physicist, Rayleigh, along with William Ramsay, discovered the gas argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904.

But it was Rayleigh's lesser-known discovery of a physical phenomenon in 1878 that was more intriguing to Jung. Some 135 years ago, Rayleigh wrote that two fluid jets or drops do not always merge into one body of liquid, a counter-intuitive topic or phenomena in physics that has since been studied in much detail, cited Jung, Virginia Tech assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics.

The significance today of this fact is that when noncoalescence takes place between two fluids, it might impact a variety of industrial and everyday processes such as fuel efficiency, ink jet printing, and the development of spray coatings.

New information on Rayleigh's verbal description of the collision of fluids now appears in a contemporary paper authored by Jung and Pavlos Vlachos, professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, and Navish Wadhwa, of Blacksburg, Va., a doctoral candidate in engineering science and mechanics. The paper, accepted in Physical Review Letters, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Physical Society, is called "Noncoalescence in the oblique collision of fluid jets."

"In Rayleigh's original paper, he mentioned two things: drop bouncing on a liquid bath and jets bouncing. No pictures were given. Much work has been done in drop-bath bouncing, but no work has been done in bouncing jets except for a couple of demonstrations in textbooks. We are the first ones to rationalize the physical mechanism of bouncing jets," Jung explained.

In their experiments, the researchers studied two silicone oil jets bouncing off each other upon collision. Silicone oil is used in most experiments in order to avoid any surface contamination, Jung said, and it is often the base for hydraulic fluids or lubricants.

"Intuition tells us that two or more jets of the same fluid impinging into each other will readily coalesce to form a single mass of fluid, and are well-studied phenomena," Jung explained.

Velocity is key to bringing the two silicone oil jets into a single flow of liquid. Since these jets of fluid drag along air, considered to act as a cushion, the two jets will bounce off of each other. But when the speed of the flow is increased beyond a certain threshold, the air is no longer stable due to the high inertia of jets, and the liquid jets will coalescence, Jung added.

To attain fuel efficiency in space rockets, two different fuel fluids need to mix well to maximize the combustion.

"In our experiments, we showed they are able to bounce off each other and inhibit the mixing. However, in rocket fuel tanks, the fluids come out of the nozzles are a very high speed, so no bouncing happens in their cases," Jung said.

Jung's earlier work on fluid flow won him the 2010 international Milton Van Dyke award at the 63rd annual meeting of the American Physical Society.

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These Stone Shades Are Fit for a Flintstone

Whether pedaling to Rock Vegas with the top down or boarding a pterodactyl flight to Hollyrock, no self-respecting cave man leaves his igneous abode without proper eye wear. Now, both the stone age man about town and modern cool hunters can rock a pair of retro wayfarers made of, well, rock. More »

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Sex assault rarely punished in military, victims say

Gwen Arnold of Cocoa Beach, Fla. talks about her life on Feb. 11. Just when she was learning to cope with a decades-old rape that resulted in a pregnancy, the torment recently came rushing back to her.(Photo: alcolm Denemark, Florida Today)

Story Highlights

• Pentagon estimates 3,000-plus reported attacks a year
• Victims say their reports ignored, fear retribution
• Congress, military examining issue

MELBOURNE, Fla. -- A phone call about a year ago rocked Gwen Arnold's world.

A baby girl she gave up at birth, more than 30 years ago, called her out of the blue, a shocking reminder of the trauma she says she suffered when she was raped as a 19-year-old soldier.

"I lived in fear for thirty-some years," said Arnold, now 53. "When I say these things, they don't even sound real."

The Cocoa Beach woman is one of several thousand each year who report sexual assaults in the military. The Defense Department's own numbers -- 3,000-plus reported attacks and as many as 16,000 more unreported a year -- are getting intense attention from Congress, the Pentagon and military commanders across the country. The military is demanding top officers be accountable. Congress is investigating and proposing legislation, including maybe taking handling of sexual assault cases out of the normal military chain of command. Advocates say more is needed.

Part of the effort is women telling their stories, to raise awareness of what happened to them and how they felt treated afterward. They're hoping Congress, military leaders and the public insist on reforms. Arnold is one of three local veterans who spoke with Florida Today about attacks they say went unpunished, though they were reported to military authorities.

They say their cases are not unlike thousands of others, acknowledged in the Defense Department's own reports, where victims either choose not to report the attacks for fear of retribution or report them but feel military unit commanders -- who currently have the authority to move forward with cases or not -- did not do enough about their case.

"We've got to eradicate this problem," said U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif. "When we have a military system where a service member is more likely to face violence from someone in the military than from the enemy, we have a problem. The issue has been under the radar for so long. When I talk about this issue, people are shocked."

Speier proposes an independent body of civilians and military personnel to oversee each report of sexual assault, taking it out of the military chain of command. A bill she supported to do that didn't come up for a vote last year.

The Defense Department has taken steps to deal with the issue, including making make it easier to report sexual assault, creating a coordinator position at all major bases, and increasing the minimum rank of the person responsible for deciding how to proceed with a case. Despite those measures, reported cases were up 1 percent from 2010 to 2011.

'Goal is zero'

"The Air Force goal for sexual assault is not simply to lower the number," said Gen. Mark Welsh, the Air Force chief of staff, during testimony about a recent scandal involving 32 instructors at a base in Texas. "The goal is zero. It's the only acceptable objective."

Olga Ferrer, a victim of sexual assault in the military, who says she's still suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, advocates for victims mainly through her website, ABlackRose.org.(Photo: Craig Rubadoux, Florida Today)

In Brevard County, victims like Arnold are finding help from an organization born here and growing nationally. Ten to 15 women meet in person, and interact online, under guidance of a therapist from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Some of those attending served more than 30 years ago; others are recently back from Iraq or Afghanistan.

They also stay in touch with Olga Ferrer-Cintron, a fellow victim who started the group, A Black Rose, and a companion website ablackrose.org about four years ago.

"There are days that I'm exhausted and I don't want to hear another story," said Ferrer-Cintron. "It's not that I don't want to hear it, but I'm sad that it is still going on in the military."

Ferrer-Cintron, 43, said she was attacked in a tent shower in Bahrain during Operation Desert Shield. She said a man's hands gripped her neck so tightly while he raped her that she lost consciousness. "I was afraid for my life," she said.

Then 20, she said she reported it to military police. When she later sought a copy of the report, she said she was told there was no report. She did not see the face of her attacker. No one was charged.

'Shooed me over'

Ramona Booker, photographed Jan. 18, in Florida, dreamed of being a pilot, so she joined the U.S. Air Force. She said a man whose advances she had turned down, sexually assaulted her.(Photo: Malcolm Denemark, Florida Today)

Ramona Booker was 22 when she said she was attacked on a base in England, more than 25 years ago. She said a military man visiting from another base hid in her room while she was in the restroom and then attacked her.

"Your life changes in a matter of minutes," she said, talking openly for the first time. "When it's done, you're happy to be alive. How can you rebuild your life after that."

Booker didn't come forward. She only agreed to talk now to help other victims. A self-described loner, she never married or had children.

Booker, who said she had trouble walking after the brutal attack, reported the incident to the person in charge of the dorm. After a few days, she said she was reassigned from the aircraft mechanic job she loved and said airmen in her unit turned against her.

"They kind of got rid of me," she said. "They shooed me over. You get taunted, you get harassed."

"This shouldn't still be happening," she said. "They are not going to warn you, they are not going to tell you about the problems when they are trying to recruit you. I think they should implement a safety class for women going (into the military) now."

Women like Booker and Arnold bear mental scars for decades, experts say.

"It forever impacts the ability to trust others," said Scott Fairchild, a Melbourne psychologist who treats traumatized veterans. Fairchild said it causes victims to be cautious, depressed and insecure.

Intense turmoil

Arnold was 18 when she went into the Army in 1977, and "had no idea what the military was like."

She said she reported the first of two sexual assaults and "all it did was get me in trouble." She learned other women in her unit had stories of attacks. "We were blackballed. We sat in the commander's office. We might as well had been lying."

"The military needs ... to acknowledge that it's not reported because of fear," she said.

She describes nightmares and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder but says she learned to cope. She moved to Brevard from Tennessee in 2011 looking for a quieter life. She shut out many details of what happened, until she got the call from the daughter she'd given up after the attack.

The sudden call has caused intense turmoil. Her husband and their 28-year-old daughter did not know of her attack, until now.

"I came here with hope of living a peaceful life on the beach," she said.

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