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.25 Caliber (.257) 100 gr. SPTThe 100 grain #1620 Spitzer bullet is suited to hunting both varmints and medium game, such as deer and antelope. It features excellent accuracy and dependable expansion. The #1620 bullet is best suited for shots taken at medium game under 300 yards, and it may give slightly superior penetration compared to the GameKing #1625 Spitzer Boat Tail bullet at close range. Sierra's unique four-station jacket draw produces jackets with maximum concentricity and uniformity together with uniform taper dimensions. The result is a bullet with extraordinary accuracy, dependable expansion and deep penetration on medium game. This bullet is well suited for close to medium-range shots.
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.322 between 2400 and 1700 fps
.296 @ 1700 fps and below
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|Timothy D of Brisbane, Australia
|November 10, 2015
|.3 moa 5 shot groups from my 98 Mauser action .250 Savage. Terminal performance on feral pig size game up to 130 kgs (286 lbs) is excellent - penetrates and anchors them extremely well if you hit them in the vitals - anything smaller dies on the spot hit from almost any angle
|Clinton D of Blanco, Texas
|November 8, 2015
|Ferral hogs and white tail deer don't stand a chance with these bullet. 1/2" Moa all day long out of my 25/06. Anchors them all where they were shot. Great product.
|George C of Cairnsmore of Fleet, Scotland
|July 8, 2014
|Great bullet for accuracy and terminal function. I've taken many red hinds and some heavy red stags with his bullet using my .25-06Rem. Sub 1/2" at 100 yds accuracy too.
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|I've take a number of whitetail with this bullet... all one shot kills. Consistent 1/2 groups at 100 yards with my 257 Roberts Improved pre-64 M70! Sierra produces the best! Thank you!


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You can earn said status points by purchasing flights on Virgin America, Atlantic, or Australia, or using an associated credit card. The runner-up in the contest gets a Zero-G experience aboard a plane that does parabolic arcs to simulate weightlessness.
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Icouldn't really sleep last night. I think 2010 is another year for the really bad insomnia. :-(
Anyway, I decided to go out this morning to run some errands instead of waiting for Evan to get home from school when it will be hot outside.
I got to Wal-Mart @ about 9:45. They didn't have any electric carts. I decided to sit on the bench just inside the door for a while to see if someone brought one back.
While I was there, some older man asked if he could sit beside me. Of course I said "Yes".
Dude proceeded to tell me that he's on vacation with his wife from South Georgia and they were only supposed to stay here for 3 days on their way back from Maryland where he preached at some church but they've been here for a week now and they are going back home this Thursday! Yada yada on and on.
So I see someone I know and jokingly, I said "Go back in and get Evan some boots so I don't have to walk all the way back there."
She - What size?
Me - 12½
She - Black or brown?
Me - Black
So she goes back in the store to shop for the shoes!!!!!!!!
I turned to the dude and said "I didn't really think she'd do it!"
He - Well you must know her.
Me - Yeah.
So he told me that he has a - one of those things you drive on vacation. Like a Winnebago? I don't remember what it's called.
He told me other stuff too, but I wasn't really listening, I was looking for the girl who went back to get the shoes.
She came back with a black and brown pair size 12 (they didn't have 12½) but said she'd go back for 13 if I wanted her to.
Me - No. If he doesn't like these, I'll bring Evan back and HE can walk all the way back there. I really appreciate this. Thank you so much!
Can you buleedat?
The only reason I can think why she did it is because her mother is BFFs with my SIL and her younger sister was BFFs with my niece when they were in elementary school.
The only person I go back into Wal-Mart for is my mother, and that's only because I have the electric cart and I don't actually have to walk all over creation to get whatever it is, LOL.
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The average wholesale heating oil price rose 2 cents on March 7, 2005, to $1.56 per gallon (see the table at the end of this report). For the week ending March 4, the Midwest distillate inventory level was continuing to skirt along the lower edge of the normal range. This is a new survey so there are no prices from previous years. The graph below the text will show the spread in prices from month to month.
Other states in the Midwest region had comparable prices ranging from $1.50 to $1.59 per gallon resulting in a regional average of $1.54. States adjacent to Nebraska, such as Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and South Dakota had prices of $1.56, $1.53, $1.50, and $1.55, respectively.
Note: The annual report for the 2003-2004 winter season is available.
Heating Season
The Oil Price Information Service collects wholesale heating oil prices each week for Nebraska and twelve (12) other states in the Midwest Region during the heating season (October to March). The Energy Information Administration, the independent statistical and analytical agency within the U.S. Department of Energy, uses the prices collected by the Oil Price Information Service to calculate a state average price, a regional average price, and a national average price which can be seen in the report Wholesale Heating Oil Prices by Region and State.
Off Season
Prices are not collected during the off season (April through September).
Midwest Region
For statistical purposes, the Energy Information Administration defines the Midwest region to include the states of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.


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"Tummy tuck" is a cosmetic surgery procedure used to make the abdomen more firm.
The American Heritage Stedman`s Medical Dictionary defines abdominoplasty as "Plastic surgery of the abdomen in which excess fatty tissue and skin are removed, usually for cosmetic purposes."
The surgery involves the removal of excess skin and fat from the middle and lower abdomen in order to tighten the muscle and fascia of the abdominal wall. This type of surgery is usually sought by women with loose tissues after pregnancy or individuals with sagging after major weight loss.
Tummy tuck operations vary in scope and are frequently subdivided into categories. Depending on the extent of the surgery, a complete Tummy tuck can take 1 to 5 hours. A partial abdominoplasty (Mini-Tuck Tummy tuck) can be completed between 1 to 2 hours.
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A complete (or full) Tummy tuck involves:
• An incision is made from hip to hip just above the pubic area.
• Another incision is made to free the navel from the surrounding skin.
• The skin is detached from the abdominal wall to reveal the muscles and fascia to be tightened. The muscle fascia wall is tightened with sutures.
• The remaining skin and fat are tightened by removing the excess and closing the defect.
• The old belly button stalk is brought out through a new hole and sutured into place.
• Liposuction is often used to refine the transition zones of the abdominal sculpture.
• A dressing and sometime a compression garment are applied and any excess fluid from the site is drained.
Partial Tummy tuck
A partial (or mini) Tummy tuck involves:
• A smaller incision is made.
• The skin and fat of the lower abdomen are detached in a more limited fashion from the muscle fascia. The skin is stretched down and excess skin removed.
• Sometimes the belly button stalk is divided from the muscle below and the belly button slid down lower on the abdominal wall.
• Sometimes a portion of the abdominal muscle fascia wall is tightened.
• Liposuction is often used to contour the transition zone.
• The flap is stitched back into place.
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Can take one to four weeks and patients are advised to take at least a portion of this recovery time off from work.
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An increasing number of business owners are demanding that the government allow the New Taiwan dollar to depreciate to shore up the competitiveness of the nation's export industry, but every time they raise the issue, they are accused of wanting to use scooter drivers' gasoline money to subsidize the export industry.
This attitude echoes the statements of former Japanese vice-minister of finance for international affairs Eisuke "Mr Yen" Sakakibara that "a strong yen is good for the country" and that "depreciation increases the burden on people traveling abroad."
Has a strong yen really been good for Japan? Japan's 23-year-long experiment says it all.
Mr Yen's argument is similar to Karl Marx's views. Marx's theory of exploitation rejected the contributions of business owners, positing them as exploiting the working class only.
Yet, after ridding themselves of all the business owners, communist economies still did not improve the public's income and welfare.
On the contrary, the result was that everyone was equally poor.
Following the same line of reasoning, a strong yen meant that Japanese businesses died or were on the brink of dying.
While scooter owners enjoyed cheaper gasoline and people traveling abroad enjoyed lower travel expenses, salaries in Japan stagnated: The average salary in the manufacturing industry fell from ¥326,000 (US$3,458) per month in 2000 to ¥323,000 in 2011.
In short, everyone was equally poor.
Compare this to South Korea, whose currency depreciated by 16 percent from an annual average of 951 won to the US dollar in 1997 to an annual average of 1,108 won to the US dollar in 2011.
At the same time, average salaries in the manufacturing industry increased by 129 percent, from an average 1.32 million won in 1997 to an average 3.03 million won in 2011.
The currency depreciated and gasoline prices increased; however, salaries more than doubled.
Is it scooter drivers that will save the export industry or is it exporters that will save the scooter drivers?
In discussions about the exchange rate's influence on the economy, it is important never to let the short-term view decide, because the process from depreciation to increased business profits, and from using these new profits to increasing investments, which in turn leads to increased employment and higher salaries, will take between one and three years.
It was as early as 2011, three years after the financial crisis in 2008, that the South Korean company Samsung managed to deal a blow to Taiwan's DRAM industry.
In other words, if the South Korean central bank had not devalued the currency to save the country's export industry, Samsung would not be what it is today, nor would its workers be paid twice that of Taiwanese workers.
Currency devaluation is of course no panacea, and a country's export competitiveness cannot be improved on devaluation alone.
The crucial point is whether the government is capable of following up on a devaluation by seeing to it that the increased profits are reinvested — in Taiwan rather than in China — and used to improve equipment and strengthen research and development expenditure and, in the end, also achieve the goal of raising workers' salaries.
If all the government knows is to deregulate, relax controls and then deregulate some more, the question is: Do we really need a government?
Huang Tien-lin is a former presidential adviser.
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Thanksgiving.. you get a nice 4 day weekend but it seems like a tricky time of year to plan a climbing vacation.
I've been looking at Moab, Canyonlands and Southern Utah as my destination, but I'm not sure if the weather allows climbing this late into the rock season and/or early in the ice season? I'm not familiar with the climate down there being from New England.
I'm looking for suggestions for a long weekend trip or just advice to see if it's even possible to get in climbing around that time of year? I was looking at the Moab Desert Towers, or anything similar. A Class 5 peak would be really ideal. Again, though, the area is totally foreign to me.
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Horacio Potel has posted, over the course of several years, without authorisation, and free of charge, full versions of several of Jacques Derrida's works, which is harmful to the diffusion of his (Derrida)'s thought.Ok. I can understanding the (incorrect and misleading) argument that posting such works should be seen as infringing, but I can't fathom an explanation that giving away the works of a philosopher online for free could possibly "be harmful to the diffusion of his thought." It would seem that the opposite would be true.


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Clarence Barton
Clarence Walter Barton, a 77-year resident of Colville, passed away on August 22, 2012 at the age of 94. Clarence was born July 14, 1918 in Oelrichs, South Dakota, the seventh of 12 children born to George and Anna Barton.In 1935, Clarence moved with his family to the Colville area. Nine years later, on July 21, 1944 he joined the United States Army. He had an active part in the South Philippians Campaign, including the Mindanao Beach invasion. Clarence also drove a jeep around Hiroshima only two months after the nuclear attack. Even with his exposure to the radiation, he still lived to be 94. Clarence was honorably discharged on August 14, 1946 with an Army of Occupation medal, bronze service arrowhead, Philippine Liberation service medal with one bronze service star, Asiatic service medal, Good Conduct medal and a Victory medal. After returning home to the Colville valley, he farmed and worked in sawmills for 42 years. On Dec. 25, 1959, Clarence married Grace Hooks. Grace passed away in 1982 and on August 7, 1983 he married Lucile Lintecum. He continued farming even after retirement (until around 1993). Clarence had a great love for his family and friends. He also spent lots of time with his dogs and horses. He and Lucile were the Grand Marshall's for the PRCA Rodeo in 2004 where they astounded the crowds with their remarkable horsemanship. Over the years, Clarence and Lucile traveled extensively, including trips to New Zealand, Australia, Alaska, The Yukon Territory, The Panama Canal, Hawaii and across America. He was dearly loved by his family and friends and will be greatly missed by all.He is survived by his wife, Lucile; sisters, Elsie Day, Loretta McBreen and Lila Richardson; two step-daughters, Patti Stimpson and husband, Edgar "Bud;" Carol Riese and husband, Gary; step-grandchildren, Belinda Herrin and husband, Joe; Charles Bail and wife, Erin; step-great-grandchildren, Audrey and Marina Herrin; Adaline and Elsie Bail, also step-grandchildren, Rachel Riese, Garylene Wolf and Gary Riese Jr.; step-great-grandson, Arthur Riese Freeman and many, nieces and nephews.Clarence was preceded in death by his parents and by nine siblings.A graveside service for Mr. Barton will be held 11 a.m., Thursday, August 30 at Mountain View Park Cemetery in Colville. A potluck will follow at the Colville Eagles Lodge. Memorial contributions may be given to the Colville Community Senior Center, P.O. Box 29 Colville, WA 99114. Please visit the online memorial and sign the guestbook at www.danekasfuneralchapel.com. Danekas Funeral Chapel & Crematory is entrusted with the arrangements.


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Panel seeks fix for park access plea
The Wapakoneta City Council's Parks and Recreation Committee met Saturday to discuss a petition for expanded access to Veteran's Park. About a dozen community members attended.
Residents of South Wentz Street and South Rauthland Avenue petitioned council May 5 to reopen the pedestrian gates at the end of their streets to allow safe access to the park.
Residents said that at that meeting that at one point, when the skate park was located at the park, there were problems, but now that the skate park has been moved, they want access reopened.
Paul Rogers, spokesman for the group, addressed the committee Saturday repeated their request and said that having children go through the South Wagner Avenue entrance is dangerous due to the heavy traffic.
Rogers aknowledged there is concern for a renewed problem with parking, especially with vehicles blocking driveways, should the gates be reopened.
For the full story, see the Monday, May 12 edition of the Wapakoneta Daily News.


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Saturday, an annual memorial service is scheduled to honor and remember the lives of three city firefighters who died Nov. 30, 1975, battling a major blaze at the La Cuisina Restaurant.
Thirty-eight years ago, one of the worst tragedies involving safety forces in the history of Stark County occurred on a late Sunday afternoon.
Saturday, an annual memorial service is scheduled to honor and remember the lives of three city firefighters who died Nov. 30, 1975, battling a major blaze at the La Cuisina Restaurant.
"We all look forward to remembering these guys, but you get a little choked up, too," said Massillon firefighter Scott Negulici, who for the second-straight year is planning the memorial service.
"It's a somber time," he added.
Between 75 and 100 people are expected to attend the ceremony, in addition to up to 45 firefighters, said Negulici, a 23-year veteran of the Massillon Fire Department.
On that day 38 years ago, a series of makeshift bombs exploded inside La Cuisina, which was located in the 1700 block of Lincoln Way E, killing firefighters Kenneth Arnold, Donald Roseman and Frank Urwin.
Arnold and Roseman were pronounced dead at then Doctors Hospital, while Urwin died en route to Aultman Hospital.
Arsonists had left a paper trail out the back door after splashing the basement floor of the eatery with jugs of gasoline.
Saturday's service is also to pay tribute to four other fallen city firefighters. They are Albert Bamberger, who died in 1899; August Theis, 1919; Charles W. Snyder, 1959, and Everett L. Stevens, 1967.
Toward the conclusion of the service, a last alarm bell will be sounded to honor all lost firefighters. The bell was donated by the family of former Fire Chief Donald Simon, who received the item upon his retirement in the 1950s, Negulici said.
"This is something new," Negulici said. "The bell was restored and will be unveiled during (today's) service."
In addition, the Cleveland Firefighters Memorial Pipes and Drum Corp. is scheduled to play Amazing Grace, Negulici said. A trumpet player is also to perform Taps.
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Memorial service
WHAT Service to honor the lives of Massillon firefighters Kenneth Arnold, Donald Roseman and Frank Urwin, who died 38 years ago battling a Nov. 30, 1975, fire at La Cuisina Restaurant.
WHEN 5:25 p.m. today. The service starts promptly at 5:26 p.m., which is the time the alarm was received from street box 461 at 17th Street SE and Lincoln Way E. An alarm will sound to begin the service.
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I am EBF/pumping for my 5 week old daughter. I have been doing both since she was born.. Lately when i pump, every 3 hrs, ill get 2-3oz out of my right side & only 1-2oz out of my left side.. What should I do to fix it? I'm already taking Fenugreek(3x3 daily) & Blessed Thistle (3x3 daily)..
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A new national sex survey is out. Published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, it reveals who's doing what, with whom, and how. It clarifies the prevalence of gay sex, teenage intercourse, and oral gratification. But the big story is the increase in anal sex reported by women—and its possible connection to female orgasms.
Let's start with the foreplay: a few other trends worth noting.
1. What teens are doing. By ages 14-15, 10 percent of boys say they've had vaginal sex. By ages 16-17, the number is up to 30 percent. By ages 18-19, it's above 60 percent. For girls, the trajectory is almost identical. Oral sex follows a similar trend. At ages 14-15, 9 percent of boys say they've performed cunnilingus. By ages 16-17, 20 percent say they've done it, and by ages 18-19, 61 percent say they've done it. Among girls aged 14-15, the number who say they've given a boy oral sex is 13 percent. By ages 16-17, it's 29 percent. By ages 18-19, it's 61 percent. If you're turning 20 and you haven't gone down on somebody, you're in the minority.
2. Oral ubiquity. It's funny to look back at the previous national survey, taken in 1992. In that report, the authors marveled at the mainstreaming of oral sex. Now the whole question of its normality seems silly. By ages 25-29, eight of every nine women have performed fellatio, and half have done it in the past month. For men and cunnilingus, the numbers are only slightly lower. More people think the president is a Muslim than adhere to oral chastity.
3. Reciprocity. Women are getting as good as they're giving. By ages 25-29, 88 percent say they've received oral sex from a man, and 72 percent say they've received it in the last year. (Men confirm this: 86 percent say they've given it, 74 percent in the last year.) That's pretty close to the 91 percent of men aged 25-29 who say they've received oral sex from a woman and the 77 percent who say they've received it in the past year.
4. Homosexuality. Apparently, a lot of people try gay sex, but only about half stick with it. By ages 18-19, 10 percent of men say they've performed fellatio. That number drops among men in their 20s and 30s. But among men in their 40s and 50s, 13 percent say they've done it, and 14 percent to 15 percent say they've received it from another man. Meanwhile, 11 percent of men aged 20-24 say they've received anal sex. For unknown reasons, that number declines in the next higher age bracket but then steadily rises in succeeding brackets, leveling off at 9 percent among men in their 40s and 50s.
Remember, these are "have you ever" questions. When men aged 20-59 are asked whether they've performed fellatio in the past year, the number is more like 6 percent. And only 4 percent say they've received anal sex in that time. But that's a big jump from 1992, when only 2 percent of men admitted to sex with a man in the preceding year.
For women, the gap between trying gay sex and sticking with it is greater. From ages 20 to 49, the number who say they've performed cunnilingus ranges from 10 percent to 14 percent, but the number who say they've done it in the last year is more like a quarter of that.
5. Anal sex. Here's the big story. In 1992, 16 percent of women aged 18-24 said they'd tried anal sex. Now 20 percent of women aged 18-19 say they've done it, and by ages 20-24, the number is 40 percent. In 1992, the highest percentage of women in any age group who admitted to anal sex was 33. In 2002, it was 35. Now it's 46.
The last time I looked at the anal sex data, I figured that most women who reported having done it meant they'd tried it just once. I was wrong. If you push these women beyond the "have you ever" question, the numbers stay surprisingly high, and they're getting higher. In 1992, the percentage of women in their 20s and 30s who said they'd had anal sex in the past year was around 10 percent. Now that number has doubled to more than 20 percent, and one-third of these women say they've done it in the last month. Among all women surveyed, the number who reported anal sex in their most recent sexual encounter was 3 percent to 4 percent.
That's a lot of butt sex. And remember, this is what women are reporting. If anything, they're probably understating the truth.
So what's with all the buggery? Is it brutality? Coercion? A porn-inspired male fantasy at women's expense?
Apparently not. Check out the orgasm data. Among women who had vaginal sex in their last encounter, the percentage who said they reached orgasm was 65. Among those who received oral sex, it was 81. But among those who had anal sex, it was 94. Anal sex outscored cunnilingus.
No way, you say.
Way. Read the data. Table 5, Pages 357-8.
What could explain this? Taboo thrill? Clitoral migration? Some new kind of vegetable oil?
Here's my guess. Look carefully at Table 4, Pages 355-6. Only 6 percent of women who had anal sex in their last encounter did so in isolation. Eighty-six percent also had vaginal sex. Seventy-two percent also received oral sex. Thirty-one percent also had partnered masturbation. And the more sex acts a woman engaged in during the encounter, the more likely she was to report orgasm. These other activities are what gave the women their orgasms. The anal sex just came along for the ride.
So why did the inclusion of anal sex bump the orgasm figure up to 94 percent? It didn't. The causality runs the other way. Women who were getting what they wanted were more likely to indulge their partners' wishes. It wasn't the anal sex that caused the orgasms. It was the orgasms that caused the anal sex.
If anal sex is a trailing indicator of women's sexual satisfaction, then by all means, let's toast the new findings. Here's to you, ladies. Bottoms up.
(For other ways to explain the orgasm data, see " The Riddle of the Sphincter.")
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Whenever we see the name Eric Daigle Photography in our inboxes, we know we're in for a beyond beautiful treat in the form of wedding perfection. There's just something so romantic and oh-so-special about the way he captures the details. And lucky for him this adventurous couple headed for the hills for their big day and found gorgeous vistas and a super serene feel in what can only be described as the most beautiful mountain chic DIY inspired wedding we ever did see. And you can see even more right here.
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From the Bride... We knew we wanted our wedding to be in the mountains, away from the hustle and bustle of tourists. The Buffalo Mountain Lodge in Banff, Alberta Canada, was perfect — nestled in the evergreen trees, daily sightings of deer and other wild animals, not to mention world-class cuisine. Almost all of our guests stayed on-site at the lodge, so the wedding weekend had somewhat of a retreat feel. We started off the festivities with a group hike up Tunnel Mountain on Saturday morning and ended the weekend with a relaxed farewell brunch. Our wedding day was on a Sunday, and we were able to hold the ceremony outdoors in "nature's most beautiful church" — Tunnel Mountain reservoir. We held cocktails and the dinner reception in the Wapiti Longroom at Buffalo Mountain Lodge, a two-story log cabin complete with a wine cellar and large, open-air verandahs, surrounded by trees and flowers.
At home in Nevada, we are lucky to live next door to a highly-skilled carpenter who could not make it to the wedding but supported us instead by building and creating some of our most memorable details. He built us a large wooden chest to collect our cards, which we also used to hold our programs during the ceremony, and also cut the wooden hearts which we tied around jars filled with our favorite Canadian gummy candies. I bought a wood burner off eBay for $8 and burned all our guests' names onto the hearts.
It was important to us that everyone would feel special and connected at the wedding. At the ceremony site, guests were greeted with a hand-painted sign, made by my older brother and his girlfriend, and led down a worn path through the trees. We had bocce ball set up, as well as a pail of kites and bubbles for the younger (and young-at-heart) guests to play with. We also had a boutonniere station set up with pink flowers, baker's twine, raffia, and pins, so that guests could adorn themselves. At the reception, we had a kids' area filled with craft projects, and our music play list started in the 1940s and moved through the decades. We kept the decor fairly simple since the lodge and mountains are already so captivating. Using clothespins and twine, we hung pictures from childhood, our childhood homes, and our ancestors' weddings. Using a Polaroid 300, some tissues paper flowers as a backdrop, and some hand-made paper props, a photo booth was created, and guests were invited to take silly pictures of themselves to both paste into our guestbook and keep for themselves.
We chose our vendors very carefully — which is hard when planning a wedding from a different country — but we were beyond thrilled with the team we chose. Eric Daigle and his assistant rushed around all day to capture all the details, and even whisked us away between the ceremony and reception to an old train station and a private dock to capture more moments. We were so tired, but it was worth it. One of my favorite moments of the day was riding the tandem bicycle in my wedding dress with Alex. I was originally in the back, but after some cat-calling and heckling, I jumped into the driver's seat and we pedaled away into the evening … even though I could barely reach the pedals. Bicycles are a big part of our lives as we bike in almost every city we visit. It was the most memorable day we could have imagined, and all the planning was well worth it.
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Study: Sharing Patents, Rather Than Blocking Others, Encourages Innovation And Market Success
from the well-duh dept
Gene Cavanaugh points us to a new study that appears to reiterate this basic point, but focusing directly on situations with patents. The research, by economist Gilad Sorek, found that the free-licensing of patents to competitors actually increases the likelihood that a company's profits will grow as the result of a particular innovation. In other words, contrary to what many believe (that the best thing to do with a patent is to restrict others from using it), this research suggests that openly sharing that information for free actually tends to help the patent holder in the long run by opening up new opportunities that increase their profit.
The study, to be published in a forthcoming issue of Economics Letters, shows that the benefits of giving up patent protection outweigh the risks of surrendering a share of the market. By inviting further research, Sorek says, the original innovator is able to stimulate demand for its product. The company may lose a share of the market, but its product ultimately becomes more valuable as a result of the extended innovation effort.The research points out that such open and free licensing acts as a way to get free research and development from other companies that help expand the original innovator's market. This paper certainly seems to match what we've seen in other research in the past and, yet again, raises significant questions about the way many companies today manage their patent portfolios, as well as how they view the process of innovation itself.


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For the first time, perhaps, I don't even know where to begin.
I guess it makes sense to simply start at the beginning. While there are no doubt people at Microsoft who can point to an earlier date than I can, for me--and for most of the world--Windows Vista began on July 25, 2001, less than a month before Microsoft completed Windows XP. On that day, Microsoft publicly confirmed that it had changed its previous plans to follow up XP (codenamed "Whistler") with a major Windows version codenamed Blackcomb. "There will be a Windows release between Windows XP and Blackcomb," a spokesperson for the software giant verified that day. It was codenamed Longhorn and would ship in 2003, Microsoft said. According to reports, planning for the Longhorn release began the previous May when the Windows XP development process started winding down.
Longhorn, at the time, was seen as a minor interim release between XP and Blackcomb. Indeed, as I exclusively revealed that year, even the name Longhorn was an indication of the product's status: While both Whistler and Blackcomb are humongous ski resorts in British Columbia, Longhorn is the name of a bar between the two mountains. "To get to Blackcomb from Whistler," a friend from Microsoft told me at the time, "you have to go by Longhorn."
The very existence of Longhorn first came about when a friend of mine from Microsoft, Tom Laemmel, mistakenly blurted out the code name to an eWeek reporter. Annoyingly, he did this just one day after meeting with me to discuss Windows XP Release Candidate 2 (RC2), a fact I have jokingly reminded him of again and again. I'm over it. Seriously. (To be fair to Tom, if he had told me that codename previously, I never would have reported it anyway. So maybe it worked out fine in the end anyway. Maybe.)
Anyway, for most of the rest of 2001, there wasn't much to say about Longhorn. Most people were consumed by the then-new Windows XP, and of course XP succumbed to a major UPnP vulnerability that December, setting off a series of events that would later culminate in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative, Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), and a series of Microsoft product delays that continue to this day.
Amusingly, the first Vista delay came in April 2002. At that time, Microsoft group vice president Jim Allchin revealed that Longhorn wouldn't ship until at least 2004. "We are going to have a reasonable development cycle for this version," he said. "Oftentimes we try to spin things too fast and spend all our time getting beta feedback and not enough innovation as I would have wanted."
By this time, Longhorn was melding into a significant release and not the minor upgrade Microsoft initially promised. At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) that year, Microsoft said that Longhorn would include new managed APIs, a new graphics architecture (then called "Longhorn Graphics Architecture"), peer-to-peer technologies, and new SQL Server-based storage technologies. Tellingly, however, Jim Allchin barely mentioned Longhorn during his WinHEC keynote that year.
The early history of Longhorn was marred by a number of fake videos and screenshots reputing to show what the upcoming OS would look like. No doubt inspired by Microsoft's high level descriptions of the product, an alarming number of people turned out fakes, and I spent a good deal of time that year debunking them. I guess that's what happens when you don't have code to play with.
In June, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced, via a Fortune Magazine cover story, that he was spending about half his time working on Longhorn, which was now described as a major Windows release. "We'd been talking about doing a lot of things separately for a long time, but the mood was like, 'Hey, this incremental stuff is okay, but let's do something more dramatic,'" Gates said of the OS. "And [Microsoft CEO] Steve [Ballmer] said, 'That means synchronizing the release.' And I said, 'Isn't that risky?' And Steve said, 'But isn't it obvious we should do this?'" Gates called the suddenly complex Longhorn "[the equivalent of] many moon shots."
In the article, Gates described Longhorn as a complete overhaul of Windows, with the following features:
- A new consolidated Windows storage scheme that ensures documents, contacts, email, Instant Messaging (IM) buddy lists, calendar, and other data are all stored in the same way and can easily be searched together. The number one question Longhorn will answer, Gates says, is "Where's my stuff?"
- Technology that protects users from distractions by screening phone calls and email.
- Software to track you down when you're out of the office and forward calls and email to you automatically.
- A way to arrange conference calls and online meetings.
- The ability to let consumers easily set up Web sites and email lists to keep people they care about informed and up-to-date.
- Provide users with secure access to their important work data from home by using any connected device.
Gates also told Fortune that there were 10 major Longhorn scenarios, including People, Annotation, Real Time Communications, Storage, Authentication and Security, and New Look. Separate teams at the software giant were working on each scenario, but Gates was overseeing the entire project and meeting frequently with each team. It sounded very exciting, though it's somewhat sobering to compare this information with the version of Windows Vista that Microsoft is shipping this month.
Finally, in October 2002, I got my hands on an early Longhorn alpha version, build 3683 (see my overview). It still looked a lot like Windows XP, go figure, but included a few interesting features, some of which did make it into the final version (new Explorer views) and some that did not (the original Sidebar).
In November 2002, Microsoft claimed it would not ship a Windows Server release in tandem with Longhorn. At that point, of course, Windows Server 2003 had yet to ship (and would in fact undergo two more name changes) and it seemed like Longhorn would arrive much more quickly than a future Windows Server release. "Customer requirements dictate our release strategies and timing for Windows products," a Microsoft representative told me at the time. "We have determined that another major release of Windows Server in the Longhorn client timeframe does not meet the needs of most of our customers. Another major release of Windows Server will follow [Windows Server 2003]; it is code named Blackcomb."
Needless to say, those plans changed very quickly.
Later that month, a long-time informant began kicking out some serious insider news and I got my first peek at Microsoft's internal schedule for Longhorn. Here's what it looked like at the time:
M1 Release 12/7/2001
M2 Code-complete 7/26/2002
M2 Release 8/30/2002
Longhorn RI into MAIN 10/16/2002
M3 Release 11/13/2002
Beta 2003
I also received a bunch of technical information about Avalon, the "next-generation platform for Windows client applications. It combines the best features of the Web such as ease of deployment and rich mix of application and content with the power of the Win32 development platform to enable developers to build a new breed of applications that are robust and take real advantage of the connectivity, storage, and graphical capabilities of the modern PC. Avalon is not just about User Interface and Rich Graphics, although that is an important part. The overarching goal of Avalon is that it offers a common managed code exposure to all the capabilities of the Personal Computer including storage, communications, documents, multimedia etc." Avalon would be vector-based and merge the capabilities of the GDI+ and DirectX display technologies. What's interesting is that at this early stage, Avalon encompassed features we'd eventually associate with Indigo (Web services and networking) and WinFS (data services). Microsoft clearly eventually decided that it needed to break off a lot of that functionality into different projects.
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Adam Young didn't move to a big city after his one-man electronica act, Owl City, reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with the 2009 single "Fireflies." And it doesn't sound like the resident of Owatonna, Minn., which has a population of approximately 25,570, will move now that his latest single, "Good Time," a collaboration with "Call Me Maybe" singer Carly Rae Jepsen off of his album "The Midsummer Station" (released in August) recently cracked the top 10 on the Hot 100.
The soft-spoken Young, who will be in Chicago Saturday for Owl City's show at The Vic Theatre, was born in Iowa and moved to Minnesota at an early age. He says he is perfectly content living in a small-ish town, even if its claim to fame might be the 1995 film "Angus." He explained why in a conversation over the phone last week.
Peace and quiet: "I like a break from the noise of a big city. There are no sirens going off at all times. There's a sense of peace and quiet. I live in a house out in the woods outside of town. I like that pace of life more than anything."
Privacy: "For me, it's based on my personality. I'm a pretty private guy. I like to stay off the radar. I get groceries at night. I try to stay hidden. … Yeah, (I get approached often), but I think that's a small town thing. I've spent time with friends in towns that have a population of about a thousand people. Those get to be too much. Everyone talks to you because there's nobody else in town. (Twenty-five thousand) is right at the limit. You don't know every person, but they're still friendly."
Fewer commitments: "There's less busy-work to be done. I think when you spend so much time on the road in big cities, you get home and feel you can breathe easier. You have more inspiration and less crazy noise."
Independence: "I get tired of being this super consumer when I'm in New York. I love New York, but people there are waiting on me, serving me, I'm always on my phone, I'm calling cabs. I feel too dependent on other people."
Romantic dates: "You can go outside in the middle of the country and go for a walk or stargazing. It's definitely not a town where (people say) 'What can we do to be entertained?' You have to find stuff to do yourself. I always love that. My imagination is bigger than it might have been if I didn't have to invent things to do."
Music is unaffected: "I record music in the studio in my basement. It's done by computer and is easy to do anywhere. I don't think there would be any huge benefit to (recording in a big city). If I was Jack Johnson or someone who does acoustic live recordings, I'd definitely go somewhere else for that. But for what I do, it's perfect."
No music scene: "There's none whatsoever. I love that. All my friends back home are teachers, welders, workers for UPS. I love going home because there's nobody to talk music with. Everyone talks your ear off about it on the road. I'm gone six months a year. If I was in (Owatonna) every day, I definitely would feel stuck and feel the need to get out. But I see every big city around the world once a year, so it's perfect."
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Final Fantasy 13's spin-off series is about to come to a dramatic close. NowGamer caught up with Sqaure Enix's director and Final Fantasy overseer to find out why.
"[I] had a long conversation with Toriyama-San here and Tetsuya Nomura about which character we should use in the third instalment of the series, and they thought we were going to have to have a female one because we hadn't had a female sole protagonist in the franchise before."
Wow! He doesn't even know the history of their own franchise! You didn't have a female solo protagonist...what was Yuna in FF X-2 than?
Also i find strange that he calls Toriyama using a honoriffic but does not use one for Nomura....so he doesn't 'respect' Nomura than.
And just like that, we find out that FF13 was going to be a trilogy right from the very start and all of this pretense of it being "for the fans" was a huge load of bull.
"Kitase: We made a decision that we were going to have a sole protagonist in the third instalment of the Final Fantasy XIII franchise since the very beginning, six years ago, possibly 2005, 2006, something like that."
Way to go SE. You planned on a terrible trilogy from the very start? Frickin' classy.
"In order to pursue a more realistic depiction of combat, I think this is the way - the mainstream way, anyway - in an RPG in general."
Oh gee, he wants to go the mainstream way. Because that's ALWAYS the quality way to go and is NEVER a bad idea. *facepalm*
It's funny that Kitase says that story is more important in a Final Fantasy game than exploration and the world, and yet with the Final Fantasy 13 trilogy they have the worst stories in the franchise. They have a warped and poisoned view of where to take Final Fantasy in the future and can't see that the best of the series is behind them and not ahead of them if they continue with their recent attitude.
Er, I somehow doubt XIII-2 and Lightning Returns were planned well in advance. I mean XIII-2 retconned the ending of XIII, if it was planned they wouldn't have done that...
I know they're kind of in a rough spot in terms of their reputation at the moment, but there's no need to lie...
"if you think about the traditional RPG or JRPG, if you like, [driven] by command battle systems, you have to wait for your enemy to attack you, which is highly unrealistic."
It's a Final Fantasy game though... I mean they're not the most realistic games out there... I never really thought of Command battles as a reflection of hardware limitations anyway. They're an rpg tradition, and I always saw them as more symbolic or metaphoric of the party's struggles, i.e. they're not what really happened, but an illustration of what happened.


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Looking for McMenamin of Philadelphia
looking for family of James McMenamin of Philadelphia. My G.Grandfather he lived on Hazzard St and died at home. He was an conductor for Rail Road and wife was Katherine Henry. He was born May 1863 in Pennsylvania died April 19/1905 at age 42 and He is buried in Section J Block 4 Lot 36 (a plot owned by Patrick McMemamin) at the New Cathedral Cemetery in Phila.
1900 Census records show his father to be born in Delaware(-don't know if state or Co of Pennsylvania) Mother born in Pennsylvania. I not sure of her name. I don't know his connection to Patrick and I haven't been able to find his parents. There are eight (8) Mcmenamin memebers buried in the same section. They are:
Annie March 1882 Buried 9/30/1882 .7 md
James May 1863 Buried 4/19/1905 42 yr
Joseph 1876 Buried 3/5/1900 24 yr
Margaret 1893 1/20/1956 63 yr
Raymond 1894 11/16/1968 74 yr (Margaret and Raymond are buried at W/M-- Spouse??)
Margaret * 1849 10/24/1914 65 yr
Patrick * 1838 2/16/1905 67 yr Patrick born in Ireland *Margaret & Patrick buried at 2/E
William 1875 7/14/1955 79 yr
There seems to be a big connection since My Grandfather and his brothers carried the names James, Joseph, William and Raymond.
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The Golden State Warriors finally snapped their All-Star drought. Now who has gone the longest without a representative in the midseason classic?
January 4, 2013
The Los Angeles Lakers have an old rotation. They're also below .500. That combination puts the Lakers among a small group of unfortunate teams in NBA history.
November 21, 2012
Since three-point percentage is both highly volatile and generally independent of defenses faced, a look at which players and teams are shooting better or worse than expected from beyond the arc early in the season is revealing.
August 13, 2012
In terms of career accomplishments, it's tough to beat the group of four stars the Lakers have assembled with the addition of Dwight Howard. How does their projected 2012-13 performance stack up?
June 28, 2012
Dan looks at how the prospects stack up in one of the most telling categories when it comes to how skills will transfer between levels.
Dan continues our mock draft tradition of telling you which players teams ought to take rather than guessing whom they actually will.
June 10, 2012
During the fourth quarter of Saturday's Game 7, the Miami Heat's Big Three dominated as anticipated to lead Miami past the Boston Celtics and back to the NBA Finals.
June 8, 2012
The Boston Celtics were overwhelmed by a historic performance by LeBron James that helped the Miami Heat force a deciding Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals.
June 4, 2012
Without go-to scorers LeBron James and Paul Pierce, both the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat struggled to score in the extra session, but the Celtics handled it better and evened the series.
June 2, 2012
While the Boston Celtics' stars played like it, little-used reserves Keyon Dooling and Marquis Daniels keyed Boston's victory in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals.
May 29, 2012
In an impressive Game 1 performance, the Miami Heat showed the Boston Celtics will have a tough time keeping up with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade in the Eastern Conference Finals.
May 25, 2012
The Indiana Pacers--or at least their starting five--played well, but that only brought out the best in LeBron James and Dwyane Wade as the Miami Heat advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals in six games.
May 23, 2012
The last two games have reminded us that LeBron James and Dwyane Wade are good enough to carry the Miami Heat to victory against most teams all by themselves. If they get help from a slumpbusting Shane Battier, all the better.
May 21, 2012
With his team in desperate need of a win to reestablish control of its series against the Indiana Pacers, LeBron James delivered one of the top performances of his playoff career to lift the Miami Heat.
May 18, 2012
Dwyane Wade was a disaster. Erik Spoelstra panicked. LeBron James largely disappeared after halftime. All of a sudden, the Miami Heat finds itself trailing the Indiana Pacers 2-1 in their series.
May 16, 2012
The absence of Chris Bosh put extra weight on LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, who were hampered by fatigue down the stretch of a Game 2 loss to the Indiana Pacers.
May 13, 2012
Both Los Angeles teams won the deciding games of their opening-round series. The Lakers exploited their advantage on the interior, while the Clippers benefited from Memphis failing to do the same.
May 12, 2012
Dominant performances from Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph, combined with Blake Griffin and Chris Paul playing at far less than 100 percent, helped the Memphis Grizzlies win a chaotic Game 6 on the road.
May 11, 2012
The Boston Celtics left an opening for the Atlanta Hawks to force Game Seven, but made just enough plays down the stretch and got some help from the Hawks as they advanced.
May 10, 2012
The Memphis Grizzlies went back inside--at least in the first half--and recreated the formula that was so successful for them in the first two games against the Los Angeles Clippers.


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Russian MP Pushes Law Allowing The Public Whipping Of Gays
If Alexander Mikhailov has his way, a ban on speaking against the LGBT community in public won't be the most heinously anti-gay law in Russia. Mikhailov, an MP and the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Trans-Baikal Parliament, has called for a law that would punish out members of the LGBT community with public floggings at the hands of marines.
Citing a crackpot doctor who testified against marriage equality in Europe, Mikhailov wants the public lashings to frighten Russians into believing that homosexuality, like pedophilia (as he claims), is a "common shame."
"In Russia for many centuries the ass was used for educational purposes and not for love entertainment. So we should use it according to its intended purpose," the MP said.
Isn't it fishy that someone who's rather obsessed with gay anal sex is pushing for the public flogging of gays by sturdy marines? Is Mikhailov attempting to play out his BDSM/voyeur fantasies under the guise of conservative bigotry? I mean, what else can explain his 18th century approach to homosexuality?
This is exactly why the Human Rights Watch has demanded that the International Olympic Committee protect openly gay athletes from Russia's notorious homophobes next year in Sochi.
(Via PinkNews)
The Russia tries to be a "normal" country to the world - wants to be part of the World Economy, but still treats its people as almost slaves, the lack of freedom for expression is not only for LGBT people, but for everyone! You may notice that we do not see public demonstrations. Political corruption in the country is very strong and the Russian people still have much fear of their politicians. Where is the UN and human rights, we will not only boycott the games but everything is possible commercially speaking!
Alexander Mikhailov should be the one whipped in public for being such a moron! How the Russian people can allow these vermins to govern is beyond me! Putin is no better than the communist dictators that came before him! Why aren't world leaders speaking out against these mindless laws they are enacting?


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NEW YORK/OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian authorities approved the acquisition of Nexen Inc by CNOOC Ltd and the purchase of Progress Energy by Petronas, easing months of anxiety over the fate of foreign investments in Canadian resources.
The rulings, which has been closely watched by investors and politicians alike, follow months of debate over how much of Canada's energy sector should be controlled by foreign oil companies.
The Canadian dollar firmed against the U.S. dollar after Reuters reported the CNOOC deal had been approved.
The government also said it would impose stricter conditions on investments by state-owned enterprises in the future, and that it would welcome non-controlling minority investments by such enterprises in Canadian firms.
CNOOC has offered $15.1 billion to buy Nexen, which has Alberta oil sands assets and offshore operations in the North Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Nigeria.
In approving the deal, the Canadian government said CNOOC made significant commitments on transparency, employment and capital investments.
CNOOC's takeover of Nexen was overwhelmingly approved by Nexen shareholders in September, but the Canadian government delayed approvals while it drafted a long-promised update to the rules governing investments by state-owned foreign companies.
It also had to deal with the qualms of some of its own members over whether companies from the communist country should be allowed to buy up Canadian energy assets.
The acquisition brings CNOOC Nexen's 43 percent stake in the Buzzard field in the North Sea, the most important contributor to the crude blend used to set the Brent crude price that serves as the international oil price benchmark.
It also includes oil production from Yemen, offshore West Africa and the Gulf of Mexico.
CNOOC also gains full control of Nexen's Long Lake oil sands project in northern Alberta, properties containing as much as six billion barrels of recoverable crude and a 7.2 percent stake in the Syncrude Canada Ltd joint-venture.
Industry Minister Christian Paradis had in October turned down the C$5.2 billion ($5.3 billion) bid by Malaysian state-owned energy company Petronas for Progress but had given it a chance to make new representations.
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Additional reporting by Solarina Ho, Euan Rocha and Alastair Sharp in Toronto; Writing by Jeffrey Jones; Editing by Frank McGurty, Bernard Orr, Tim Dobbyn and Leslie Gevirtz


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The Firebird RDBMS 2008 Roadmap is now publicly available. During this year, Firebird users can expect two final releases (2.1 and 2.5) and the first alpha of FB 3. Many new features are planned, as described in the roadmap. In addition, RC1 of 2.1 has been released.


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Flooding in some of Louisiana's main crawfish-producing parishes may have dealt the season an early wallop.
Flooding in some of Louisiana's main crawfish-producing parishes may have dealt the season an early wallop.
The recent heavy rainfall may not have had serious impacts in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, but it flooded tens of thousands of acres of crawfish ponds in Iberia, Acadia and St. Martin parishes.
Those parishes received about 18-20 inches of rain over the last week, causing ponds to overflow their levees and allowing the crawfish to possibly swim for freedom, said Stephen Minvielle, director of the state's Crawfish Research and Promotion Board. The floodwaters also allow fish to swim into ponds to prey on the mudbugs. Fish can "totally destroy" a pond once they infiltrate, said David Savoy, president of the Louisiana Crawfish Farmers Association.
"We love crawfish — and so do the fish," Minvielle said.
But local crawfish sellers are hopeful this year will be better than last year when a cold snap caused scarce crawfish and high prices.
"Since the weather we had last week, it was pretty rough. The crawfish wasn't as plentiful as it was the weeks before," said Delvin Francis, owner of Bayou Cane Seafood in Houma. Francis was selling live crawfish for $3.10 per pound Wednesday.
But he said before last week's storms, things were looking up. The supply had been strong, and the crawfish were a good size. He's hoping things will improve.
Crawfish industry officials say they won't know until next week what kind of impact flooding may have had on the season because waters were only beginning to recede at many crawfish farms in the area on Wednesday.
But Minvielle estimates it will be at least a 20 percent loss to the industry this year.
" 'Abundant' or 'banner' are not going to be words that apply this year," he said. "We know there is going to be a negative impact. We may still have an average year."
Savoy said the flooding came at a time when many farmers had either just started to harvest or were getting ready to do so. That means many farmers may not have a baseline catch established to allow them to figure out how much they lost.
Gary Blanchard, owner of Crawfish House in Houma, said his shop farms from its own crawfish ponds, and it wasn't affected by the flooding.
Blanchard said he was selling live crawfish for $2.39 per pound Wednesday.
But even with possible problems in the greater crawfish industry, Blanchard said crawfish should be available for the first weekend in February, as long as there are no more major cold snaps.
With Mardi Gras kicking off that weekend in Houma and Thibodaux, and the Super Bowl Feb. 3, there are sure to be many people boiling.
When waters get cold, crawfish become more sluggish and less likely to follow the scent of bait into a trap. And the cold-blooded critters just don't grow if the water temperature is below 41 degrees.
The persistent rains ended Wednesday, and with water receding, crawfish farmers will be able to get back out into their ponds to catch mudbugs. The weather is expected to stay sunny and cool for at least the next 10 days, according to the National Weather Service forecast.
"We're hoping things will improve before Mardi Gras," Francis said.
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Dear Nolan: The Louis Armstrong International Airport ("MSY") serves as a gateway to millions of tourists and business travelers each year and is a critical driver for the creation of jobs and economic development. MSY is the front door of our City, and improving our airport is integral to our success as a world-class travel destination and hub for commerce.
I know the New Orleans Aviation Board ("NOAB") shares my commitment to the revitalization of MSY. MSY is a critical asset for the City, the region and the State. MSY carries approximately 80% of the State's enplanements. It provides over 12,450 direct and indirect jobs for our community and facilitates over $2.6 billion in tourism spending.
I commend Aviation Director Iftikhar Ahmad, the NOAB and MSY staff for their efforts over the last year. Significant progress has been made to improve the air service, facilities and customer experience at MSY. We've seen renewed confidence by air carriers in the strength of the New Orleans market. International service to Toronto was added, and we gained nonstop service to several new domestic destinations, including Milwaukee, Kansas City and San Francisco. To make facilities more attractive and customer friendly, MSY completed an upgrade of the flight information display system throughout the terminal and opened 11 sets of completely renovated restrooms and 9 sets of restrooms with minor renovations.
We also began the mid-term terminal renovations to enhance the look of the terminal inside and out prior to Super Bowl 2013. To improve customer service, concession hours were increased from 8:00 am-5:00 pm. to 5:00 am-8:00 pm. And ground was broken on the new Consolidated Rental Car Facility to house all rental cars in one convenient garage location. MSY's financial condition was recently recognized as improving, as both Standard & Poor's and Fitch upgraded its bond ratings.
As we continue our efforts to grow our air service to meet the demands of our residents, businesses, visitors and conventioneers, we see continued growth in passenger traffic from MSY. MSY exceeded 8.2 million passengers in 2010 with a 5.1% increase, a post-Katrina high. Further, we understand that, in the first quarter of 2011, enplanements at MSY were up 7.9%, compared to a national average of only 2.2%.
However, we know we have a long way to go to achieve the world-class airport that this City deserves. The Tourism Master Plan I commissioned as Lieutenant Governor identified the dated airport infrastructure and poor arrival experience as major "dissatisfiers" inhibiting our ability to grow as a top tourism destination, which we know also inhibits our ability to compete as a top destination for business and industry.
Our current facility is over 50 years old, much older than any of its peer airports. As a result of our crumbling infrastructure and other factors that drive costs up, we've seen the cost per enplanement (the cost to airlines to operate service from MSY) increase over the last several years, putting New Orleans at a competitive disadvantage to other cities with lower costs. We must take measures to correct these issues.
A world-class city like New Orleans deserves a world-class airport. MSY's facilities must enable it to achieve excellent customer service, amenities and most importantly, connectivity and more direct flights. We must modernize our existing facility to improve efficiency and costs, while allowing us to grow and compete in this 21st-century economy.
As the 300th anniversary of New Orleans approaches in 2018, my vision is to create a world-class, international airport that will contribute to the economic vitality of our region. For over 30 years, we have studied this issue, and we have collectively rejected proposals to move the airport to other locations. We cannot afford to let another 30 years go by without a clear path forward.
To that end, we have reviewed MSY's master plan and, in particular, its evaluation of options regarding the current airport facilities. The plan considered the option to build a brand new state-of-the-art airport terminal on the north side of current airport property, and rated it very highly. It also considered the possibility of expanding the airport adjacent to and west of the existing facility.
I am writing to request that the NOAB immediately undertake an in-depth and robust analysis of the proposed northside plans and make a recommendation to me for further action. The analysis should include: financial feasibility, environmental impact, design, and operational impacts, including potential uses for the existing terminal and surrounding infrastructure.
This report should also include: comparative analysis between the westside and northside options; cost-benefit analysis of continuing with current plans to improve the existing facility infrastructure, including the terminal and ground transportation improvements, in light of the potential construction of a new or expanded facility.
We will only pursue a course of action that is in the best interest of the citizens of New Orleans – one that is financially feasible and delivers a strong return on investment. We must also take into account the needs of MSY's neighbors, the City of Kenner, Jefferson Parish, St. Charles Parish and others, to ensure their quality of life is protected. Finally, any new plan must be acceptable to airlines and should promise to lower MSY's cost per enplanement, which will increase the marketability of New Orleans for more air service. I look forward to continuing to work with you and the NOAB to ensure the success of MSY and the economic growth and competitiveness of our City.
Sincerely, Mitchell J. Landrieu City of New Orleans, Mayor
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Despite progress, girls subjected to violence and discrimination
Despite progress, we continue to live in a world where millions of girls remain out of school, engaged in exploitative labor, are trafficked, are vulnerable to HIV/AIDS and are targets of sexual violence, Veneman said in advance of International Womens Day on 8 March.
Stressing the critical link between discrimination against girls and women and violence, Veneman drew attention to the sexual violence committed in armed conflict, trafficking, and practices such as honour killings, dowry crimes, early marriage, and female genital cutting/mutilation.
In too many countries and regions, the plight of girls is ignored or denied, Veneman said. This leaves girls to suffer in silence and has a devastating effect on the well-being of families and communities.
Veneman said education is a key to addressing discrimination and violence against girls and to helping achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Educated girls are better equipped to protect themselves against life-threatening diseases such as HIV/AIDS, are more likely to give birth to healthy babies who will survive and grow into adulthood, tend to delay marriage, and are more likely to have fewer children.
Economic development is enhanced in societies where both girls and boys are educated, Veneman said. We need accelerated efforts to help ensure that girls go to school and can learn and study in safe environments.
Those efforts must include abolishing the school fees that prevent many poor families from sending their daughters to school, providing sanitary facilities for girls in schools, supporting community-based early childhood development, and helping to protect girls against violence at school or on their way to class.
It is also critical that girls, including the most disadvantaged and marginalized girls, have safe spaces to be involved in recreational and learning activities without fear of violence or abuse.
Men and boys also must be engaged in the fight to end discrimination and violence against girls.
Men and boys can be powerful allies in the struggle for womens and girls equality and in rejecting violence against girls and women, Veneman said. Achieving gender equality requires the participation of all of society to challenge the norms that allow girls and women to be devalued and denied.
It is long past time that countries, cultures and communities everywhere accept that it is in their own best interests to treat girls and women as equals, Veneman said. Common sense and economics alike tell us that a society cannot possibly marginalize half its population and expect positive outcomes.
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Ohio man gets life for killing woman's unborn baby
Ohio man gets life for killing woman's unborn baby
AKRON, Ohio —
A 22-year-old northeast Ohio man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his girlfriend's unborn baby by punching her in the stomach.
Prosecutors said Tyvon D. Ward of Akron attacked his girlfriend on June 20 after learning that she was pregnant. He first attacked their 4-year-old son before turning on the woman, punching her in the stomach and face.
The woman was hospitalized the next day, and her baby died as a result of the attack. Authorities said that while the woman was in the hospital, Ward and another girlfriend left the critically injured 4-year-old son home alone.
The Akron Beacon Journal reports Ward pleaded guilty Monday to murder, felonious assault and endangering children. He won't be eligible for parole for 20 years.


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Milwaukee Bucks rookie guard Ramon (rah-MAHN) Sessions sustained a left hand fracture in the team practice on Friday, February 1, General Manager Larry Harris announced today. Sessions was originally assigned to the Tulsa 66ers on November 8, 2007, before being recalled from the Bucks D-League affiliate yesterday. He is expected to miss six weeks of action.
Sessions appeared in 24 games (17 starts) with Tulsa, averaging a team-high 21.1 points (6th in the D-League), a team-high 7.6 assists (3rd in the D-League) and 6.5 rebounds (19th in the D-League) in 36.2 minutes per contest. His points, rebounds and assists add up to 35.2 per game, eighth in the league. Sessions is the only player to be named the D-League Performer of the Week twice this season, claiming the award on November 26, 2007 and January 28, 2008.
A 6-3, 190-lbs guard out of Nevada, Sessions was the 56th overall selection by the Bucks in the 2007 NBA Draft. He has been on assignment in Tulsa for the entire D-League season. He was joined by Bucks teammate David Noel on January 20. Sessions played in five preseason games with the Bucks, averaging 1.4 points, 1.0 rebounds and 1.4 assists in 7.0 minutes of action.


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Mobile (In) Security
Mar 18, 2013
Smartphones have become our home away from home, letting us transfer funds, skim news headlines, or reserve a table at a favorite restaurant—all from wherever we happen to be.
But all that convenience comes with a price, say privacy experts. Like PCs and laptops, smartphones store a lot of data about you—your identity, contact list, files, emails, texts, and passwords—making your life an "open book" to data thieves if you aren't careful, cautions John Sileo, founder of ThinkLikeaSpy.com, a Denver-based identity theft prevention company.
His view is backed by a study that involved "losing" phones in five major cities. The phones contained photos, social networking and financial (banking) apps, and what appeared to the finders to be business files (including a "salary spreadsheet"). Over seven days, the majority of phone finders tried accessing the phone's data. Of those, 72% tried to access the photos, and 43% tried to access online banking. Only half tried to return the phone.
Lock it Down
The first line of defense, says Sileo, is password-protecting your smartphone (using the settings menu) and having the screen lock feature enabled to freeze functionality after a few minutes of inactivity.
If you have an iPhone, you can download the free Find My iPhone app, which allows you to remotely wipe your data, and lock and trace the phone. McAfee Mobile Security offers the same features for Androids.
Apps Attack!
In addition to physically securing your device, be aware of high-tech attacks—viruses, malware and spyware. Common scenarios involve "work for hire" emails or fake advertisements posted on the Internet. When the user clicks on a link in the email or ad, they're connected to a website that pushes malware onto their device, allowing the hacker to access.
The loss can be extensive. Explains Sileo: "The technology that keeps apps separate on your smartphone or tablet doesn't separate them out into private sandboxes, meaning that one app can read the juicy details stored in the other without much difficulty."
To protect yourself, keep your phone's software up-to-date and install anti-virus and anti-malware software. These range from free apps to subscription products. And before you download any app, seek out reviews on the developer/company who publishes it and understand the permissions you are giving to download the application.
Also, be aware of applications that enable Geo-location, an application that tracks your location. Criminals can use this application to monitor your movements and plan illegal entry to your home or business, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a task force that includes the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar Crime Center.
Other Safeguards
Smartphone users should be cautious of using unsecured networks (like the one at your favorite coffee shop). These free Wi-Fi hot spots can be trolled by data sniffers, which can capture data (like your passwords) being transmitted over the network. If you stick to your carrier's network, you'll probably have nothing to worry about, says Sileo.
Finally, if you sell your device or trade it in, be sure to wipe the data (reset it to factory default) to avoid leaving yourself at risk.
Editor's Note: If you think you have been the victim of an online breach or scam, please file a complaint at www.IC3.gov.


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A Backbone for Training
Seniors in mechanical engineering Joshua Bailey, left, and Chris Frank, right, prepare the pediatric spine model for a practice surgery at Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria.
By Frank Radosevich II
August 15, 2012
Joshua Bailey and Chris Frank are taking some of the high-stakes pressure out of spinal surgery.
The Bradley seniors haven't developed a new painkiller or surgical tool; instead they are running a simulation to better prepare medical professionals for a difficult procedure. The mechanical engineering students are having doctors, students and medical residents operate on a realistic model of a pediatric spine.
The replica, built by Bradley students and complete with synthetic skin, fat, muscle, scar tissue, bone and pressure sensors, allows doctors and students to practice the challenging surgery of detaching a spinal cord tethered somewhere in the lower back. The model mimics the feel and density of a child's lower back with the birth defect of myelomeningocele, a condition where the backbone and spinal cord do not form or close normally.
"The goal is to make it as realistic as possible and I think we've achieved that," said Bailey, a Morton, Ill., native. "You need to have as much finesse as possible for this surgery."
If the spinal cord is left tethered in a child, it can lead to pain, difficulty walking or a curved spine. Usually surgery detaches the cord but cutting it free requires a delicate touch. Too much pressure can damage or sever the cord, which can lead to paralysis.
"I actually ended up cutting the spinal cord," Frank, from Springfield, Ill., said about his first attempt on the model.
That's why the pressure sensors, wired into a computer by the students, provide feedback on the surgery. They let the surgeon know if they are putting too much force on the scalpel. And the more practice on the anatomical model, the better prepared students and doctors will be before setting foot in an operating room.
Each operation is filmed, too, allowing Bailey and Frank to show surgeons visually where and when they were slicing too rough or just right.
Although engineering students, Bailey and Frank are pursuing Bradley's biomedical engineering concentration, which gives students an interdisciplinary education to apply their engineering skills in the fields of medicine and biology. Both said they are applying to medical school in the fall.
The pair is carrying out the work of Matt Lesniak, Edna Lesle, Alyssa Macuk and Ankit Patel, Bradley mechanical engineering students who designed and built the model for their senior design project in May.
Bailey and Frank are running the experiment with Dr. Juilan Lin, a neurosurgeon at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria. They were put in touch with Dr. Lin by their advisor Dr. Kalyani Nair, who coordinates the biomedical engineering concentration.
So far, undergraduate students, medical students, surgical residents, a surgical fellow and a pediatric neurosurgeon have all taken a stab at the practice model inside a research laboratory at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria.
"The medical students have enjoyed practicing on it," Frank said. "They say the feel of it is very realistic."