As the first voters of the presidential primaries, Iowans are used to getting personal attention from every campaign. Throughout election season, staffers will show up at their doors to provide information and discuss the ways in which Candidate A deserves their support. But the campaign of Tim Pawlenty, perhaps in an extreme effort to be less boring, seems to have had 24-year-old staffer Benjamin Foster try a different and somewhat revolutionary tactic last night: 
 
 A 15-year-old girl found a campaign worker from Alabama banging on her Ankeny family's back door early Wednesday morning. 
 
 Chloe Steward told KCCI she heard her dog barking around 3 a.m. and went to investigate. She said she found a man trying to get into the back door. 
 
 "His arm was in my back door, trying to get in and I screamed and went upstairs to my parents room and I continued screaming," said Chloe Steward. 
 
 The family then called police. 
 
 Police said Benjamin Foster was arrested and charged with public intoxication and trespassing. 

 Web wide crawl with initial seedlist and crawler configuration from March 2011. This uses the new HQ software for distributed crawling by Kenji Nagahashi. 
 
 What?s in the data set: 
 
 
 
 Crawl start date: 09 March, 2011 
 
 Crawl end date: 23 December, 2011 
 
 Number of captures: 2,713,676,341 
 
 Number of unique URLs: 2,273,840,159 
 
 Number of hosts: 29,032,069 
 
 The seed list for this crawl was a list of Alexa?s top 1 million web sites, retrieved close to the crawl start date. We used Heritrix (3.1.1-SNAPSHOT) crawler software and respected robots.txt directives. The scope of the crawl was not limited except for a few manually excluded sites. 
 
 However this was a somewhat experimental crawl for us, as we were using newly minted software to feed URLs to the crawlers, and we know there were some operational issues with it. For example, in many cases we may not have crawled all of the embedded and linked objects in a page since the URLs for these resources were added into queues that quickly grew bigger than the intended size of the crawl (and therefore we never got to them). We also included repeated crawls of some Argentinian government sites, so looking at results by country will be somewhat skewed. 
 
 We have made many changes to how we do these wide crawls since this particular example, but we wanted to make the data available ?warts and all? for people to experiment with. We have also done some further analysis of the content. 
 
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– Memo to political staffers of presidential wannabes: Try to remember the correct house where you're staying in Iowa, try not to vomit in strange backyards, and, above all, try to avoid having quotes like this show up about you in newspaper accounts: “His arm was in my back door, trying to get in, and I screamed and I went upstairs to my parents’ room and I continued screaming. And then my dad opened his safe and got his gun out, and just stayed inside.” Such is the tale of a 24-year-old staffer of Tim Pawlenty's political action committee, reports KCCI-TV. Benjamin Foster apparently got drunk, got confused where he was staying, and tried to break into the wrong home—at about 3:30am. The earlier quote came from a 15-year-old girl who went downstairs to see what the dog was barking at. Foster has been suspended from Pawlenty's staff for two weeks and has apologized for his "serious mistake," notes the Des Moines Register. He is charged with public intoxication and trespassing. Click for another take on this "revolutionary" way to greet voters.