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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — "I'll know when I get there."
That's what several Bassmaster Classic qualifiers had to say about Red River conditions and how the weather might or might not dictate the bite for the Feb. 24-26 Bassmaster Classic out of Shreveport-Bossier City, La.
None of the 49 Classic qualifiers have been on the river lately, because it's been off limits for more than two months. That will change Friday, the first of four days of practice. But until they start looking and/or casting, what Classic anglers can surmise about the Red stems from past knowledge and long-distance reconnaissance.
It's a safe bet that the majority have been tracking weather trends and river levels for weeks. Most anglers' ideal conditions would be moderate air and water temperatures, Goldilocks water levels (not too high and not too low) and a moderate rate of water flow. And that's been the Red over the past few days.
But the river is famous for turning wild. That's what makes competition there so tough, especially at the Classic, in which the prestige, visibility and $500,000 first-place prize create extra pressure on anglers.
A hard rain, for example, can quickly muddy the main channel. A swift and high main river swollen from upriver deluges can push stained water into the normally more clear and productive backwaters. Under such conditions, the big and mighty Red River suddenly seems to shrink, said Classic qualifier Todd Faircloth, who can drive two hours from his Texas home and be on the river.
"What high, muddy water does is concentrate everybody, because there's a smaller percentage of fishable water," said Faircloth, who competed in the first Classic on the Red River three years ago, finishing 35th.
Conversely, in a dry spell, some backwater areas can drop and be inaccessible by boat if they don't disappear altogether.
Like most Classic qualifiers, Alabamian Aaron Martens would not like to find extremely low water when he arrives back in Louisiana.
When he scouted in December, low water was what he saw. "It was impossible or very difficult to get to any of the stuff we fished before (in 2009)," he reported. "At normal pool, fishing should be decent. I'm not sure what it is now; I'll look at it when I get there."
He's hoping the South's moderate winter temperatures will continue. Not so much for his comfort — although he'd take it, he said — but because he's found that Red River bass tend to bite better in warmer weather.
He has not been tracking upriver or local rainfall closely.
"When I get there, I'll check the river flow. Mostly, though, just seeing the river is going tell me the most," said Martens, who was ninth in the 2009 Classic.
Brent Chapman from Lake Quivira, Kan., is hot off a Feb. 12 fish-off win in the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Central Open in Texas. Like other Classic qualifiers, he is expecting a backwater bite in tight quarters.
"It's a great fishery, but it tends to fish small," said Chapman, who finished 27th in the 2009 Classic. "You have to expect to fish around several other boats."
Edwin Evers has not been back to the Red since Classic 2009, in which he finished fifth. At home in Talala, Okla., he tracked Red River water levels. Lower water would definitely create a crowded backwater contest, he said.
"Low water will put a whole lot more boats in those areas, and it will fish a lot smaller than it did when we were there before," he said.
Like other anglers, Evers will evaluate the Red when he sees it again. But under any given river condition, he expects the weights to be tight.
"It's just that type of fishery," he said. "There's really no hidden, secret area that somebody can use to blow this thing out. Every ounce is going to count."
Evers noted that given extremely low water, some competitor might decide to run a shallow-draft aluminum boat or a jet boat into a skinny backwater," but that angler will not be him. He planned to leave his aluminum rig at home. He said no condition would be likely to tempt him to give up the advantages of his fully equipped fiberglass rig.
Faircloth is of the same mind; he said going to aluminum is not an option for him.
So what does Mother Nature have planned in northwestern Louisiana come Classic time? On Feb. 16, the National Weather Service seven-day forecast pegged daily highs in the 60s and nighttime lows in the 40s, with mainly cloudy skies and rain showers through Feb. 22. The 10-day Weather Channel forecast shows that the first competition day, Feb. 24, will be under sunny, clear skies with a high of 70 and low of 48 degrees.
As to water level, according to the National Weather Service's hydrologic statement of Feb. 15, the Red's readings have been falling. The flood stage at Shreveport is 30 feet; the river on Feb. 15 was 18.4. For the start of practice Feb. 17, the water level prediction was at 17 feet. Normal at Shreveport is 17.72 feet. By Monday, Feb. 20, the date of the farthest-out prediction, the level was expected to be steady at 17 feet.
Fog reduced visibility in the Shreveport area to a quarter mile as recently as today in the early morning hours. Fog isn't just a driving nuisance, it can change an entire Classic game. Fog over water can delay a morning start, as it did last year at the New Orleans Classic. This year, for any angler counting on having enough time to lock down into the Red River's lower pools, a shortened competition day won't work.
Given all the possibilities, will the weather be a ruling factor in Classic No. 42? Until a crystal ball appears, as Faircloth put it: "We'll just have to wait and see what happens when we get there."


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Discounts on plasma and LCD TVs may be great for consumers, but they're causing a world of hurt for TV retailers and manufacturers that face dwindling profit margins. Two global TV industry giants, Samsung and Sony, hope to boost profits by requiring retailers to drop the cutthroat pricing and focus more on making money.
The Wall Street Journal reports that a new Samsung and Sony pricing plan is designed not only help bolster the sagging prospects of big box electronics chains like Best Buy, but also to help brick-and-mortar stores compete with online retailers, which often charge less for TVs.
The pricing policy, which went into effect last month, prevents stores from advertising or selling Samsung and Sony TVs for less than prices set by the manufacturers. The plan is rife with risk, however. As the WSJ points out, consumers may balk at paying suggested retail for TVs. And since other leading TV makers, including LG, Panasonic, Sharp, and Vizio, aren't implemented the policy, Samsung and Sony risk losing sales to discounted TVs from their competitors.
Slowing TV sales and declining profit margins have plagued television manufacturers and retailers for some time. This year may bring some improvement, however, at least for some vendors.
According to The NPD Group, the TV businesses for LG and Samsung had profit margins of just over 2 percent in 2011. And while that's not very impressive, it's better than just breaking even, which was the case for both companies' TV operations in 2010.
Retailers have been struggling as well. Best Buy announced in March that it would close 50 of its big-box stores and replace them with 100 smaller outlets that focus on phones, tablets, and e-readers--but not TVs.
Contact Jeff Bertolucci at Today@PCWorld, Twitter (@jbertolucci) or jbertolucci.blogspot.com.
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By: Christopher Snowbeck, St. Paul Pioneer Press, INFORUM, Forum News Service
ST. PAUL - A state Senate committee advanced a bill to legalize medical marijuana on a 7-3 vote Friday morning.
The legislation next will be taken up by a rules committee in the Senate next week, said Sen. Scott Dibble, D-Minneapolis.
Dibble is the sponsor of legislation in the Senate, which won bipartisan support Friday morning. Sen. Michelle Benson, a Republican from Ham Lake, joined six Democrats on the committee in supporting the bill.
Sen. Chris Eaton, D-Brooklyn Center, joined two Republicans in voting against the legislation, which would give patients with certain medical conditions access to a limited amount of marijuana.
Patients would need to obtain certification from a doctor that they might benefit from marijuana; they would then obtain cannabis from a dispensary.
At the start of Friday's hearing, Dibble offered a lengthy amendment to his bill to tighten access by patients and improve standards for those who work in or operate dispensaries. The bill was amended to include a study on the evidence for medical marijuana.
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Abstract: Abstract In a recent global competitiveness report by the IMF, the four Nordic countries all ranked in top ten, attesting to the region's growing attractiveness as a host location for MNCs. This paper investigates the driving forces determining foreign direct investment flows into Scandinavia. We use a panel data set covering FDI inflows to Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland for the period 1979-2000. Results suggest that, in addition to traditional determinants of FDI, technological advantages of the region are of particular importance for foreign investors. Thus, evidence is provided for the changing pattern of international production indicating strategic needs for MNCs to acquire assets and technology that are specific to particular locations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6570
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Apple has two big products left to unveil this year: the new iPhone 5 and the iPad Mini. Of the two, the phone will be more critical, because Android competitors (Samsung in particular) have been gaining significant ground on the current iPhone. The iPhone 5 may well be Apple's only way to keep from slipping to a number-two spot. More importantly, the September 12 launch event will be the first to really showcase Tim Cook's Apple. If Cook stumbles, are we veering toward a future Apple that looks far less powerful than the one Steve Jobs helmed?
Unfortunately for Cook, a number of problems have already presented themselves. For one, the company's vaunted wall of secrecy might be cracking; we seem to know far more about the iPhone 5 than we should. Two, while Apple was winning its patent war with Samsung, Samsung was wracking up more market share: It now controls 32.6 percent of the smartphone market, compared to Apple's 18.8 percent. Three, Apple's ads during the Olympics (which made Apple customers look stupid) were arguably the company's first marketing misstep since Jobs returned to the company in 1996.
Apple has been setting the bar for smartphones since it introduced the original iPhone in 2007, but its ability to continue raising it is more in question than ever. That makes the iPhone 5 a critical product for Apple's continued dominance and market leadership. But will it be enough?
Treading the line between new and familiar
The iPhone 5 will have a unique 4-inch screen among highest resolutions in the market, and 4G LTE capability. Its strongest competitive feature will be its similarity to other iPhones – Apple can't break that because we users don't like change. This is why otherwise excellent products like Windows Phone devices aren't taking off; they are just too different from the current iPhone standard. Maintaining that sense of familiarity creates a tricky dance for Apple: It has to showcase the product as both new and innovative, but also old and familiar. If Apple fails on either vector, it will either lose existing iPhone users for becoming too different, or fail to capture new ones for not becoming different enough.
So much has leaked about the iPhone 5 that we already know a lack of similarity won't be the problem here; existing iPhone users won't have a problem with this product. The challenge will be appearing innovative and market leading. Even a 4-inch screen will be smaller than other phones, it won't be as brilliant, and it won't be as sturdy. Those are all OK if users see the unique configuration as being more useful. The iPhone 5 may well accomplish much of what its competitors accomplish without referring to those competitors' occasionally cumbersome dimensions, but being "Best In Class" if the class in question is "fitting into small hands" isn't what the world has come to expect from Apple.
Besides introducing new features, Apple will also be on the hook for fixing and improving old ones. Siri and iCloud have both proven somewhat problematic in actual use, so I would hope for improvements in both – especially since Siri has become a keystone iPhone feature. Apple could improve both reasonably quickly. I would also expect an improvement on how the phone takes, edits, and shares pictures, which has the possibility to appear magical with the right spin.
Finding the magic
No matter what Apple announces on Wednesday, I have no doubt that the pent-up demand will create lines. We're creatures of habit. We lined up for the old Batman and Star Wars films long after they stopped being great, and we'll pay Apple the same courtesy if it loses its mojo.
I don't think Apple is going to have a flop, but it will have real difficulty creating the kind of magic that Jobs was able to summon up. For instance, we'll likely see a celebrity trotted out at the launch event to help create the kind of on-stage presence that Steve Jobs once had, and Tim Cook lacks.
Apple's future will have a great deal to do with perfecting the recipe for magic, and learning to conjure it up without Steve Jobs. The company will continue to sell phones either way, but retaining that magic is the only way to retain true leadership in the market. I know Apple can do it. I hope they will do it. But I also have my doubts.
We'll know in a few days. Fingers crossed.
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ROCKFORD - The Rockford IceHogs and their fans are getting a sneak peak at part of their future.
They definitely are with defenseman Stephen Johns, who joined the team April 2 fresh from Notre Dame. They might be with forward Teuvo Teravainen, although he most likely will be given every chance to make the parent club Chicago Blackhawks in 2014-15. Teravainen, who was selected No. 18 overall in the 2012 draft, is considered the Blackhawks' top prospect.
For now, the two talented players are trying to establish their games at the American Hockey League level, and local fans get a couple more chances to see them, as Rockford has remaining home games Friday against Chicago and Saturday against Charlotte.
Johns has been noticeable on the ice by his sheer size (6-foot-4, 233 pounds) moving opponents around. He has collected a goal and two assists over six games.
The 5-10, 185-pound Teravainen's offensive skills were apparent in his first game when he was the only IceHog to score in last Friday's 4-1 setback against Milwaukee.
He noticed that the ice surfaces are smaller here than in Europe, where he played in Finland before initially joining the Blackhawks on March 21. He suited up three times for Chicago, going without a point.
"It's a good league," he said of the AHL. "You need to do things a little different. In the NHL, it's more faster. Here, you need to focus on the little things like face-offs and getting the puck to the net and everything like that."
By the time Teravainen, 19, arrived in Rockford, he had gone two weeks without game action.
"I practiced a lot, skated a lot," he said. "It's good to get in a game and get playing. It's most fun to play, of course."
Rating his play for his first night, he said, "It was OK. I think I can play better. But it was OK."
When Chicago loaned him to Rockford, he really wasn't given any in-depth instructions on what to do while here.
"They just wanted me to get used to this North American game," he said. "It is different than Europe. I need to shoot more, and I need to go to the net more."
It didn't take Johns long to assess Teravainen's potential.
"He's a great player – you could tell that in the pregame skate (Friday)," he said. "A first-rounder, he has a ton of skill. He's going to be a great player."
Johns, who will turn 22 on Friday, recognizes the adjustments he has to make going from college to the pros. He joined Rockford just days after the Fighting Irish were knocked out of the NCAA tournament by St. Cloud State.
"There are a lot of things, but I can't pinpoint one thing," said Johns, Chicago's second-round selection in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. "There are a lot of things I could get away within college that I can't get away with here. There are little details I need to sharpen up — to help my game and this team.
"Guys are really crafty with a lot of skill here, and they can beat you one-on-one – I think that's the biggest difference between college and pros."
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Unlocking the Iron Cage: The Men's Movement, Gender Politics, and American Culture
Oxford University Press, Jan 1, 1996 - Masculinity - 285 pages
The mythopoetic men's movement grew quietly for ten years before Roberts Bly's bestseller Iron John brought the movement to national attention. Reactions to the movement ranged from bemused or dismissive stories appearing in Sunday supplements and magazines, to outrageous lampoons on stage, to harsh criticism by many feminists. Bly and the mythopoetic claimed in turn to be misunderstood. What is the truth about these men and their movement? Why do these middle-class white men gather at rustic camps to beat drums, dance wildly, hold sweat lodge rituals, laugh and cry, and listen to old myths and fairy tales?
Based on Michael Schwalbe's three years of experience as a participant and observer at over one hundred meetings, as well as on interviews with active members, Unlocking the Iron Cage provides a revealing look at who these men are, what they do, why mythopoetic activity appeals to them, what needs it fills, where it succeeds, and where it fails. Schwalbe illuminates the theory behind the mythopoetic movement--which derives largely from Jungian psychology and the archetypal psychology of James Hillman--but for the most part he focuses on the rank-and-file participants. He finds mostly middle-class men trying to cope with the legacy of fathers who gave little emotional sustenance and with a competitive society they find unsatisfying, who sympathize with many of women's complaints about men and sexism (though Schwalbe also finds that many joined as a reaction to what they saw as feminism's blanket indictment of men), and who are searching for an alternative to the traditional image of a man as rational, tough, ambitious, and in control.
Schwalbe finds much of value in the men's quest. For instance, he highlights the religious appeal of mythopoetic activity, with its emphasis on finding one's personal truth, its gentle pantheism, its use of ritual to create emotional communion--all of which give the men the wide, inclusive path to spirituality they want. And he shows how Jungian psychology helps the men to redefine their feminine traits, especially their emotionality, as aspects of "deep masculinity." But he also levels some criticisms. He shows, for example, that the myths the men embrace--myths that tend to be devoid of women, or that portray women as beautiful prizes, or as hags, or cloying mothers-- reinforce the presumptions of male superiority they claim to reject.
If the mythopoetic movement seems absurd to an outsiders, it is no more ludicrous than football--with fans shirtless in freezing weather, their faces painted, screaming themselves hoarse--and it is far less damaging to men's image of women or of themselves. In Unlocking the Iron Cage, Michael Schwalbe provides an understanding, insightful account of this often-maligned grass-roots movement, revealing both its potential for harm and the genuine value it has for many people.
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While the mariners were landing in the New World (see previous post), the Renaissance intellectual literati were carrying on with their pagan wet dream in a dream. Published in 1499, and a bestseller for centuries, I just finished Hypnerotomachia Poliphili [other posts] and I can confidently say that it is the weirdest book I have read. Here are a few samples of the text which, as the translator tells us in his forward, has been considerably pruned of invented words and bizarre phrases to make it flow better for the modern reader.
One of the many architectural wonders Poliphilio dreams, and describes at tremendous length:
The threshold of the doorway was made from an immense leek-green stone, whose tough surface was marred with a scattering of white, black, and grey spots and various other indistinct stains. The straight antis-columns rested on this, standing one pace form the edge of the threshold with their inner sides smooth and lustrous but their outer faces notably carved. There was not sight of hinges either on the threshold, or above, nor any indications of iron hooks retaining the half-capitals which were of the same stone. Above this there curved the arched beam or semicircle, with the requisite lineaments and measured fascias of the beam, namely balls or berries and spindles, arranged by tens as if threaded on a string; dog's ears; sinuous or lapped rinceaux in antique style, with their stalks. The spine, wedge, or keystone of the arch was worthy of admiration for its bold and subtle design and its elegant finish, which make it a splendid sight to see.
In his dream, Poliphilio meets an enticing nymph:
The white breasts were left voluptuously open as far as to reveal the round nipples, The little virginal body rested on straight legs, and little feet, some of the bare within antique sandals what were held on by golden thongs that passed between the bi and the middle toes, near the little toe, and right around the heel, to join neatly above the instep in an artistic bow. Some were in shoes, tightly fastened with golden hooks: others wore boots with soles of crimson and other gay colors, such as were never seen on Gaius Caligula, the first to wear them. Some had high boots slit around their with and fleshy calves; others, slippers with masterly fasteners of gold and silk. Many wore antique Sicyonian shoes, and a few had fine silken socks, with golden laces decorated with gems.
Still in his dream, he finds Polia, and is invited into a pagan love-fest:
Take your pleasure of me for a all days to come, and you will feel comfort and contentment that make you forget your former torments and past misfortunes: they will dissolve under my caresses and kindnesses just as the mists, rising and thickening from the all-ruling earth are dispersed by forceful winds, as dust-motes float and vanish in the air. Now take this amorous kiss' (here he embraced me in virginal fashion) as the gauge of my inflamed heart, conceived from my excessive love." And as he hugged me tightly, my little round purple mouth mingled its moisture with his , savoring sucking, and giving the sweetest little bites as our tongues entwined around each other.
There is much sighing, some dying, some reviving, then dying more, then sighing, and loving and entwining. But in the end, Poliphilio awakes, and it's all over. He curses the jealous sun that rose and ended his nightime bliss.


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A Texas couple is fighting to keep their daughter's beloved companion — a 6-month-old, 10-pound kangaroo named Mike.
Jeni and Nick Dreis are creating a wildlife preserve, organic farm and education center in Conroe, Texas to serve special needs children, the Houston Chronicle reported. The center will offer academic and life skills classes, vocational training and social programs geared to people with special needs, including the Dreis' daughter, Kayla, who has Down's syndrome.
"I like to snuggle with him," Kayla Dreis, 16, said of Mike. "He's silly. And he loves me."
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The kangaroo will live at the center's wildlife park once he grows larger, Jeni Dreis told the Texas paper.
That can't come soon enough for the neighborhood homeowners association, which sent the Dreis family a letter saying the non-domestic pet puts them in violation of deed restrictions.
"Please immediately remove the kangaroo from your property as it is not a household pet nor can it be maintained for any business purposes," the Estate of Legends Ranch Homeowners Association wrote in a Feb. 20 letter. "You are asked to correct the violation immediately."
But Jeni Dreis said the family is sticking to its plan to move Mike to the park in about a year.
Nick Dreis said the group's letter "goes a little too far."
"They haven't taken the time to really get the details," he said. "The animal is only out in the yard for a few minutes a day, and he's behind a 5-foot fence. He's basically an indoor pet, like a dog or cat."
Dr. Todd Westin, a Beaumont veterinarian who sold Mike to the Dreises, said the objections were unreasonable because Mike is about to be neutered, is still young and will be in the house for a brief time.
"If the homeowner association is raising hell about them having a baby kangaroo, then it's pure stupidity," Westin said.


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