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Ryan Mallett (Arkansas, sophomore) leads the SEC in total offense and ranks 15th nationally with 3,387 yards. He also leads the league and ranks seventh nationally in passing touchdowns with 29. Mallett is first in the SEC and sixth in the nation in pass efficiency (157.8). He is the only SEC quarterback to have thrown for 400 yards in a game this season, which he has done twice, and he leads the league in 300-yard passing performances with five. On the season, he has completed 210-of-367 passes for 3,425 yards with 29 touchdowns and just seven interceptions. In 12 games as a Razorback, he has matched or broken 16 different school records. On Jan. 2, Mallett will take his Razorbacks to face East Carolina in the Liberty Bowl at 4:30 p.m. CT on ESPN.
The Manning Award was created by the Allstate Sugar Bowl in honor of the college football accomplishments of Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning. It is the only quarterback award that takes into consideration the candidates' bowl performances.
The first five winners of the Manning Award reads like a Who's Who list at the quarterback position. USC's Matt Leinart was the inaugural winner of the award in 2005, followed by Texas' Vince Young in 2006. Both went on to be top 10 NFL draft picks. In 2007, LSU's JaMarcus Russell earned the award and was the NFL's No. 1 draft pick. Boston College's Matt Ryan claimed the award in 2008 and was drafted No. 3, quickly becoming the starting quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons. Last season's winner was Florida's Tim Tebow, who is making his bid to become the first two-time winner of the honor this year.


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|February 10, 2013, 06:30 PM
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Reloaded rounds jam in AR15
I have been reloading for various calibers for 4 yrs. and casting my own for 2 yrs. This was the first time reloading for the AR15 DPMS Oracle, .223/.556 rifle. I started out with jacketed Midway 55 gr FBHP, Federal brass, CCI SRP and Re7 five cases each, OAL 2.240 for .223 rounds. This was range pickup brass, all cleaned, sized, prepped and loaded according to specs. I did five each starting at 20.1 working up by .3 to 21.5 at max.
First reloaded round at 50 yds. was 1" to the right of the bullseye, using the Vortex Strikefire scope. The second round cycled but locked up in the chamber and I could not budge it using the charging handle which barely moved at all.
I took the rifle home after ejecting the magazine but the safety button wouldn't work either so it was still in fire mode with a live round in the chamber. After a little research online I used the "mortar" method and just lifting the butt about 4" off the ground and simultaneously putting pressure on the charging handle, released the BCG and the round ejected.
The question is why did this happen? and what to do to avoid this?
The only thing I can see differently between round #1 and #2 is that the shoulder of the case in #2 is slightly more angled than in #1. They are the same size case length and overall look the same other than that shoulder. Some other rounds in this test batch have similar shoulder irregularities.
Could this be the cause?
Or is it that this small charge of RE7 won't cycle the action effectively?
Any other reasons you can think of to cause this?
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|February 10, 2013, 07:40 PM
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Have you tried any of the other rounds? A misadjusted die can slightly bulge a shoulder and cause a jam. Too bad that you don't have a case gauge.
|February 10, 2013, 08:33 PM
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Are you using a full length small base die? Does your die have a built in crimp feature? I know from experience over crimping can damage the shoulder and jam the rounds! There is a lot of stuff that could have caused it, just trying to ask a few of those questions.
Just wondering, what powder are you using?
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|February 10, 2013, 08:47 PM
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Hard to tell from your photo, but it sort of looks like the bullet has some striations on it. Any chance that it was jammed into the lands?
|February 10, 2013, 08:58 PM
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I had similar problems using a competition AR. My problemwas solved by adusting my die. I now check every piece of resized brass with a case gauge. Using the case gauge, I have found about 1-2% bought cases will not full length resize.
|February 10, 2013, 09:34 PM
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I did the same thing.... over crimp was the only thing i could pin it on...
bit yours does not look like it...
|February 10, 2013, 10:18 PM
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When you are resizing your brass, is the shell holder touching the die at the top of its stroke? (with brass actually in the die) A case that isn't quite resized all the way can jam in a tight chamber. Secondly, if you are trying to apply crimp a bullet with no cannelure, you could be distorting the neck and/or shoulder. It also does appear there might be rifling marks on the bullet, but that could just be the photo. If there are, you need to seat the bullets deeper. That by itself probably would not prevent a round from going into battery unless crimp was applied. I didn't see you mention if you tried pulling the trigger on that second round, but since you mention that you could not engage the safety, I take it that the round did not quite chamber fully and did not fire, nor would it eject. I would first make sure that you are sizing the brass as fully as possible, and if you still have problems you might need to use a small base die - at least when first resizing range pickup brass.
|February 10, 2013, 11:46 PM
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Let me try to answer some of your questions.
No case gauge for .223
The round got stuck with the charging handle unable to move and nothing but a click when I tried to fire the round. The primer had a very faint indentation.
I couldn't try any of the other rounds since the rifle was jammed.
Dies are Lee set and I crimped in a separate step on a single stage press, just barely enough to smooth out the bell on the mouth of the cases.
Reloader 7 is the powder.
There is one small rubbed spot on the bullet, rubbing on the lands would have appeared all around the bullet I think?
My thought is that in resizing the brass I didn't quite set up the die correctly, but that would have applied to all of those rounds wouldn't it? And the first round fired perfectly, just the second one got jammed in the chamber.
I think I will take some measurements of the other rounds and see what I can find with that, especially the shoulder measurement of the cases. I will keep you posted.
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|February 11, 2013, 12:16 AM
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I assume full length re-size w/ a slight cam-over
1. Don't bell. Jacketed bullets don't need it.
2. Don't crimp. Again, w/ normal neck tension on jacketed bullets, you don't need it.
3. Try that and see if it doesn't clean things up.
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|February 11, 2013, 12:43 AM
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+1 on mehavey's excellent reply. Your loaded round did not allow the bolt to go into battery and an oversize case body or neck will cause that in a tight chamber. All FL resize dies may now be small-base dies but it was an important distinction when I bought mine.....awhile back. A set of go-nogo gauges may be money well spent if your chamber is a bit on the tight size.
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|February 11, 2013, 02:39 AM
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Wrong powder.
Use Reloder 15. Numerous reports of jamming with RX7 with anything over 45gr bullets.
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|February 11, 2013, 03:32 AM
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Its usually almost always Headspace... check your headspace, i bet youre off just enough to have that happen. Turn the resizing die down a quarter turn at a time until they chamber properly and you should be fine from there.. Good Luck!
|February 12, 2013, 01:28 AM
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My new Sig 716 did something very similar to what you are describing. I had to use persuasion on the charging handle to get the action back open.
A set of small base dies fixed the problem.
|February 12, 2013, 09:48 AM
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Sound like shoulder set-back.
Re-set your dies.
Let the expander ball do all of the case mouth expanding, don't bell.
Don't use any crimp, none, zero. (This is where I think the shoulder set-back.)
Crimp only if you are having a problem with too little neck tension. I would prefer to polish the expander ball (makes it a little smaller and smoother) over crimping, but that's just me.
A gauge would be nice, I guess. I don't have one and most likely never will. My 'gauge' is the chamber of what I'm feeding.
Small base sizing dies.... Got a set some place in the stack of stuff I don't use. SAAMI spec sizing dies, the standard ones, seem to have been working just fine for me for the last 40 odd years. Oh yea, I did use those SB dies when I built a target bolt action in true .223 chambering, but the regular base sized brass worked just as well. Maybe your chamber is ultra tight and you need them.
Your charge is not in question (at this time), you are not getting a good chambering.
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|February 12, 2013, 11:50 AM
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I agree with oldpapps and Ifishsum and recommend that you reset your resizing die with the shell holder touching the die at the top of its stroke (with brass actually in the die). After resizing, I would then check the case length and if it is over 1.76", trim it back to 1.75". A case that is over 1.76" can and will cause a jam.
If you do both of those things and still have a stuck case issues, then your AR probably has a very tight chamber and you probably will have to go to a small base sizing die.
There are many threads on crimp vs no crimp. Personally, I would not crimp a .223 bullet unless it had a cannelure. If you need to crimp because of bullet setback issues, then you may have additional sizing die issues, further justifying the need for a small base sizing die.
Hope this helps...
|February 13, 2013, 03:30 PM
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Here is what I found on measuring cases and rounds.
Trim length was 1.750 on all the brass after sizing.
One fired round that cycled fine:
1.745 brass length
.311 from mouth of case to just below shoulder where cs flattens
.356 dia. at top of shoulder just below the neck
.170 neck length
One loaded round that jammed:
1.740 brass length
dia. at top of shoulder .358 (where it looks like bulge)
.187 neck length
.309 from mouth of case to just below shoulder where cs flattens
One loaded round that wasn't in the mag:
1.737 brass length
dia. top of shoulder .368 where it looks like bulge
.184 neck length
checked Several cs not loaded:
1.750 brass length
dia. at top of shoulder varied from .354- .368
.184 neck length consistently
Since the SAMMI standards show .3542 just below shoulder where cs flattens- mine are all bigger, especially the one that jammed as well as the one that wasn't in the mag and is unfired.
I think this must be from the resizing step or maybe the seating step. When I get the case gauge that I ordered in the mail, I will set up the dies using that hopefully that will cure this problem.
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|February 13, 2013, 04:07 PM
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Looks like your seating die is not adjusted correctly. You are "smashing" the case during the seating step and "bulging" the shoulder. Hence your shorter cases after bullet seating than after sizing. This will happen.
Back your seating die out a few turns and re set the seater plug.
I bet that solves your problem.
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|February 13, 2013, 05:05 PM
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You do not have a case-length problem.
Two questions:
1. Are you full length resizing with slight cam-over ?
2. With newly sized cases (per Step #1) -- but not loaded -- will they chamber and the bolt close ?
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|February 13, 2013, 07:35 PM
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Chris that picture is exactly how some of mine look with the smushed shoulder.
I plan to try to resize these cases and will check them with the Dillon gage when that comes in mail.
I have H335 to try with these too
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|February 14, 2013, 01:11 AM
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Don't bother resizing, just toss them.
|February 14, 2013, 08:59 AM
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I use an old RCBS Taper Crimp die for my 223 (5.56x45) loaded rounds.
Do not roll crimp.
Taper crimp to smooth out & uniform neck imperfections only for smoother feeding in semi-autos.
And use a Small Base die when resizing.
Not required - but works for me, many thousands of rounds with no problems.
Taper crimp does not require exact case length like a roll crimp.
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|February 14, 2013, 10:04 AM
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Jal5, I would bet the farm that your seating die is turned into the press too far. I made this mistake in the past with a 270 and needed a ramrod to get the case out.
The seating die, on the other hand, will crush the case if it is set too close to the shell holder. It is trying to apply an exsesive taper crimp to the case and pushing the neck back into the case shoulder.
place a sized, primed, and charged case in the press; raise the ram to top stroke; screw the seating die into the press untill it hits the case and stops; lower the ram and case; unscrew the seating die 1-2 turns; place a bullet in the case and raise it agian to top stroke lower it, check seating depth and adjust seating stem. Repeat untill desired OAL is achieved.
This is your problem. Nothing else.
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After bumpy start, symphony sparkled with Mason Bates, Rachmaninoff, and Mozart.
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San Diego Leihua Smith figured that the man who volunteered to be a witness for her in court must have been an angel. "I gave him a kiss on the cheek after the hearing," she says, "but when I later tried calling his number to thank him, I couldn't get through anymore." Indeed, the number Eugene McCullough gave Smith is no longer in service, and the phone company's directory assistance says he requests his current number to remain private.
Smith says that on the afternoon of April 1 of this year, she was driving her car eastbound on Massachusetts Avenue in Lemon Grove. She stopped for a red light before the street crosses the trolley tracks to the left of the Massachusetts Avenue Orange Line station. When the light turned green, she says, she crossed the tracks first and then Lemon Grove Avenue, which runs parallel to the trolley line only a few yards away. In the succeeding few moments, the southbound trolley crossed Massachusetts and pulled into the trolley station. Smith did not get far before a motorcycle cop pulled her over.
After the officer finished his work and left, according to Smith, Eugene McCullough pulled his car up next to hers and said, "Did that cop write you a ticket?" Smith acknowledged that he had. "That's a $350 ticket," said McCullough. "You did not deserve it. I saw what happened. I've lived in this neighborhood for a long time, and I've seen that before."
McCullough encouraged Smith to fight her ticket before a judge and promised he would appear as a witness in her defense. On May 19 Smith pleaded not guilty to the charge of running a red light. She called McCullough to inform him that the court had set her hearing date for June 28.
"He was already in the [El Cajon] courtroom by the time I got there," says Smith of McCullough. "When [San Diego sheriff's officer A. Bier] testified to the judge that I ran a red light," she continues, "Mr. McCullough raised his hand from the courtroom seats like he was a kid in school. The judge asked him what he wanted after the officer finished speaking. Mr. McCullough said, 'She did not go through a red light.' "
Smith says that McCullough also testified that the bell announcing the trolley's arrival did not ring until after she had crossed the tracks. The bell did start ringing, and the red-and-white crossing bar started to come down, right after she drove on. McCullough said that he had to wait for the trolley to pass, according to Smith, before following her and then stopping to talk with her.
Smith feels that McCullough came across as "a very honest witness." After listening to both of their statements, the judge overturned Smith's ticket.
Nine or ten other people appeared in court that day to fight the same ticket from the same officer. One of the last to be heard was Ellen Arcadi. Also on April 1, Officer Bier ticketed Arcadi for running a red light as she drove east on Broadway Avenue and crossed the tracks next to the Lemon Grove trolley station.
In court, says Arcadi, Officer Bier hesitated when the judge asked him whether he had heard the trolley bell ring by the time he saw the defendant go through the intersection. Arcadi remembers the officer replying, "I still might have had my helmet on." But the judge allowed the ticket to stand.
On the day he issued her ticket, exclaims Arcadi, "The officer started to write me up even before I had my window rolled down." She was upset that, when he did speak, Bier would say only that she ran a red light; he would not explain how she did it. "No bell rang," Arcadi continues, "and all I saw was the light [across the street] turn from red to green. So I drove across the tracks and turned right on Lemon Grove Avenue. But the cop was saying I ran a red light."
Several hours after the incident, Arcadi went back to the intersection to observe the traffic lights' behavior. "There is no consistency in what they do," she tells me. "Sometimes, when the trolley is coming, the light turns green, sometimes amber, and sometimes it doesn't do anything."
When I went to look for myself, I noticed some inconsistencies that Arcadi describes. But most of the time the traffic light on eastbound Broadway turns green for almost 6 seconds 30 seconds before the trolley rolls into the station. It comes on after the red and white crossing bar drops close to two feet and the trolley bell starts ringing.
Arcadi charges that the ticketing next to the Lemon Grove trolley station results from "entrapment" and that the purpose of the $350 tickets is for the city of Lemon Grove to make money. James Sutic thinks so, too. Sutic routinely gets on and off the trolley at the station. He says that in the middle of most weekdays, he sees a sheriff's officer sit on his motorcycle at the northwest corner of Broadway and Lemon Grove Avenues. The officer occasionally darts diagonally across the intersection to follow a car. "It's a bad trap they've got going there," says Sutic.
I ask Majid Al Ghafry, Lemon Grove's city engineer, if citizens have complained to him about the way the traffic lights at his town's two trolley stops are orchestrated. First of all, he tells me, the city does not control the way the lights operate. "The preemption of the trolley triggers what happens in the intersections," he says. "And if people get tickets there, it's 100 percent motorist error. The green light they see is not for them."
San Diego County sheriff's officer Bier explains to me the purpose of the green traffic lights at the trolley intersections. "The green is to allow people who have already driven onto the tracks to get out of no man's land. Otherwise an oncoming trolley could hit them." Bier goes on to say that the trolley system's bell, crossing bar, and blinking red lights in front of the train tracks are what should tell drivers to stay put.


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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A look at Texas Gov. Rick Perry's preparations for a potential 2016 presidential campaign:
Nondenial denial: "It's a long way down the road." — Iowa, February. Says he'll decide in December.
Book: Not since 2010.
Iowa visits: Yes, visited Des Moines suburbs and Davenport in February, meeting GOP activists and attending an event with business leaders sponsored by the Koch brothers' Americans For Prosperity. Also met with Gov. Terry Branstad and addressed a Des Moines crowd of 400 in November.
New Hampshire: No.
South Carolina: Yes, spoke to state GOP in December. Also visited in August to raise money for Gov. Nikki Haley's re-election campaign. This is the state where he announced his failed presidential campaign, in August 2011, and where he dropped out, in January 2012, two days before its primary.
Foreign travel: Yes, has visited Israel numerous times including an October trip that included a photo op with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meeting Cabinet members, and a separate stop in London to see British officials and financial leaders.
Meet the money: Yes, very friendly with major donors nationwide as former head of the Republican Governors Association, and has strong contacts with both grass-roots activists and mainstream GOP donors from his years in office. Since announcing last summer he won't seek a fourth full term, has had more time to work the phones privately. Also has led many job-poaching missions in big states with Democratic governors and met privately during those trips with key donors, especially in New York and California.
Networking: Yes, spoke at the past two Conservative Political Action Conferences, as well as its regional meeting in St. Louis in September. Addressed conservative activists at a RedState Gathering in New Orleans in August, mistakenly saying he was in Florida. Job-rob tour in various states helped make connections.
Hog the TV: Raising his profile lately, making several national TV appearances while starring in a flood of media spots in California designed to persuade businesses based there to move to Texas. Previously, though, not much. Only a few Sunday talk show appearances since 2012 election, including one in February with three other governors. Said on CNN in February "it wasn't appropriate" for his old friend, renegade rocker Ted Nugent, to call President Barack Obama a "subhuman mongrel." Perry debated health care law on "Crossfire" in September with Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who's considering running for Democratic presidential nomination.
Do something: "Texas Miracle" job-creation boom has seen state create a third of the net new jobs nationwide over last decade, although Texas has disproportionately high percentage of hourly workers earning minimum wage or less. Helped muscle new abortion restrictions into law last summer. Challenged the Democratic candidate to replace him as governor, state Sen. Wendy Davis, on the abortion issue by asking, what if her mother had aborted her?
Take a stand: A prominent voice on conservative issues since before the birth of the tea party. Wants to ban all abortion in Texas, relax environmental regulations, boost states' rights; opposes gay marriage and says the health care law is doomed.
Baggage: "Oops!" Memories of his stumbling 2012 campaign, a quick progression from a front-runner to flameout. Deflection: He's got a more serious, mature look with dark-framed eyeglasses first donned in August and more touches of gray for the man long dubbed "Governor Good Hair." He followed up his "oops" brain freeze in a November 2011 debate, when he forgot the name of the third federal department he wanted to close — the Energy Department — by poking fun at himself and by noting frequently that "second chances are what America's all about."
Shadow campaign: Created a political action committee, Americans for Economic Freedom, in 2013 to raise his profile again, help him test the waters and broadcast ads promoting Republican governors around the country. Using more than $200,000 left over from the PAC that raised millions for his 2012 campaign, the group was formed with Jeff Miller, a former chief financial officer for the California Republican Party, as CEO. Board members include Marc Rodriguez, chairman of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and a fellow Texan, St. Louis beer baron August Busch III, economist Art Laffer and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whose 2012 White House campaign Perry endorsed upon giving up his own presidential bid. That PAC and private marketing fund Texas One have paid for much of Perry's domestic and overseas travel.
Social media: Active. One popular tweet was accidental — from his pocket, he said — and consisted of "I." Followers jumped in to complete his sentence. One offered: "I ... really like Obamacare." (He doesn't.) Facebook appears staff-generated. Calls himself now simply a politician, though he was still listed on Facebook as a presidential candidate long after he left the 2012 race.


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My son is 10. He has a white and red blister on his gums. There is a baby tooth that is a little loose below it. The dentist says it is erosion from a big tooth coming in. It is irritating and a little painful for him.
Is there anything I can do to help relieve the pain or irritation? Also, how long does something like this last? Any other information? Thanks.
Thank you for the question. I'm glad to hear that you had a dentist see this, as that would have been my first suggestion.
In terms of pain relief (and I am assuming your son has no other medical/bleeding problems or medications. If he does you really need to follow the instructions of his treating dentist or physician), you could:
1) Use a topical gel like Orajel sparingly when needed, just a small amount applied to the area with a q-tip.
2) Place a cold washcloth in the area.
3) Encourage him to wiggle the tooth and remove it.
4) Have the baby tooth removed if it continues to be painful (and if it keeps him from school at all).
The time this lasts really varies with how much of the tooth is actually left. In some cases, the 'pain' actually comes from gum tissue that is being pressured or cut by the loose baby tooth as he chews. I hope this helps!
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He said he has never seen a tragedy with more grievous physical injuries than the Marathon bombings, including the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
"It raises questions that I believe would defy Solomon in getting answers," said Feinberg, who has administered the funds for victims of the Sept. 11 attacks and the mass shootings at Virginia Tech and in Aurora, Colo.
About 40 people, some on crutches, attended the meeting Tuesday morning.
A draft protocol for distributing money calls for dispensing assistance based on the severity of injury. There are three tiered classes of eligible victims listed in the protocol: Those who were killed or suffered double amputations; those who suffered a single amputation; and those who were physically injured and hospitalized overnight due to physical injuries suffered in the blast.
At the town hall, Feinberg mulled the gray zones: whether and how to compensate people with emotional trauma, whether and how to consider victims' financial status, whether and how to compensate people who only needed outpatient treatment.
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"There's not enough money here to pay everybody," Feinberg said. "When you look at the horror that happened here in Boston – the horror, the number of deaths, the number of horrible physical injuries, the number of people still in the hospital today, I assure you based on everything I've done in the past, including 9/11, there isn't enough money to pay everybody who justifiably expects it or needs it. There's not enough money."Evan Allen can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @evanmallen.


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The Upshur County Commmissioners Court, at its mid-month regular meeting Thursday, tabled action on its controversial decision to do away with the county's Information Technologies Department and outsource IT services.
Pct. 1 Comm. James Crittenden chaired the meeting, in the absence of Judge Dean Fowler, who was away at school.
The tabling came after critics of the move, during public comments, pointed out that the county did not have a written contract with the outside provider, Inline Integration Network of Longview.
Commissioners had voted 3-0, with Pct. 3 Comm. Lloyd Crabtree abstaining, at their Oct. 31 meeting to outsource IT work to purportedly save the county about $20,000 annually.
Several people addressed the court, criticizing the decision. No one from the public spoke at the meeting in favor of the move, which would terminate 35-year county employee Karmen Kelley, head of the department, and her assistant, Heather Steelman. Mrs. Steelman, who has worked for the county for five years, is Mrs. Kelley's daughter-in-law.
Former Upshur County Auditor Keith Barber, who was later County Auditor at Cass and Nacogdoches Counties, was sharply critical of the decision.
He termed the outsourcing action as "a vulgar act of politics. It's lowly, heartless, cruel, disrespectful of public dignity and public character. It is a vile example of intimidation and undeniable cowardice."
He said that he had hired Mrs. Kelley when she was just out of high school 35 years ago, and that she had been a model employee.
Barber also said that the county's computer system was developed through discussions between him and a representative of the Software Group, which up to then had no experience with serving the needs of county governments. (Software Group is now known as Tyler Technologies.)
He cited his experience with the county's computer operations with giving him knowledge about it.
Holding aloft a yellow legal pad, Barber said that software which still serves Upshur and other counties was conceived on a yellow pad in his office between him and the Software Group.
"My remarks were not meant to be accusations but simple questions concerning basic county law, professional due diligence, vendor capacity and unsubstantiated claims," Barber said. "Too many questions that the members of the court were visibly rattled about and could not offer any conclusive or reasonable answers. A fast retreat soon followed."
He asked, "With all the other problems facing the county in general and the computer operations specifically why is this court so fixated and possessed to change the only thing that is working and is the absolutely most qualified to meet the future issues?"
He said that his "primary concerns are how the issue has been handled, and the sudden animosity toward an impeccable 35-year employee," which he termed "very, very curious."
He said commissioners "admitted they approved contract before they got it (and still don't have) the final contract. It could be somewhat misleading to everyone that the deal was already done."
Barber claimed that there are "lots of questions, not many answers."
He said the county's computer hardware "is functional, but the county has known for years that software maintenance will end in two years." He said the proposed contract "only covers hardware, so the software problem is being ignored to just swap inhouse IT to contract IT. There will be no one in county to do software maintenance."
He said that "those charges could be in the thousands, and when the old system shuts down, the whole county's operation will come to absolute chaos: No financial system, no way to record transactions, no way to accept funds, no way to pay bills, no payroll, no law enforcement records, no court records."
Barber warned that "the county could functionally if not physically implode. Not crying wolf, this is possible and likely probable, if constructive actions are not taken now."
"A system could be in the $500,000 range and no one is concerned about it," Barber said.
He likened outsourcing IT services in such circumstance to "having a rusty, nonworking pickup truck, and rotating the tires on the truck."
Barber asked why "Commissioners are unilaterally promoting changes and not asking or taking any input from IT or any other elected officials on how it would affect their work?"
He also questioned whether the vendor's contract price of $48,600, was just short of the $50,000 minimum open-bid statutes to circumvent the statute. Barber said that "any additional payments to same vendor exceeding $50,000 will trigger the bid law. Without knowing what is covered by contract, 'other services' could be in the thousands."
Mrs. Steelman asked the court why, if money was the issue, why didn't they terminate her and "keep Karmen and save $25,000, versus outsourcing the whole department and really screwing up everything?"
Pct. 2 Comm. Cole Hefner said that money was not the sole issue. He said that "we want to take our IT Department to the next level."
He said that it was a "business decision," in the interest of the county's taxpayers.
Clint Steelman, Heather's husband and Mrs. Kelley's son, said that she "has 35 years of knowledge to run the IT department. She built it from the ground up."
Some had said that the action was saying to county employees that loyalty and longevity didn't matter.
Crittenden said later that the IT Department reports directly to the court, and they couldn't order another department not under their direct line of command to hire Mrs. Kelley when the IT Department is outsourced.


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Photo from the yoga practice: a circle of trees opening their hearts to the sky
For the second part of the program, Paulina & Erica from Pure Juice talked about making healthy, delicious smoothies. They demonstrated how to make three of their most popular smoothies, complete with samples for all participants! Green Goddess was my favorite - stop by there and let me know which ones you like the best!


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STRANGE BUT TRUE- Made cow disease: How bovines and others can kill
Q. Plants can nourish and heal, but what are a few of Mother Nature's truly "wicked plants," such as the weed that killed Abraham Lincoln's mother? –S. Beauty
A. Cows that eat white snakeroot produce the poison milk that likely undid Nancy Hanks Lincoln, leaving behind nine-year-old Abraham, says Amy Stewart in her book of the above title. Milk sickness was so common that Milk Sick Ridge and Milk Sick Cove are still attached to Southern locales where the disease was rampant.
Stewart points also to a tree that sheds poison daggers, a glistening red seed that stops the heart, a shrub that causes paralysis, and a vine that can strangle– "you don't want to meet these in a dark alley."
Other historical wickednesses include the poison hemlock that killed the Greek philosopher Socrates; ergot, a fungus that grows on rye and causes wild hallucinations, perhaps underlying the deranged behavior leading to the Salem witch trials; monkshood, with a toxin so powerful that Nazi scientists tested it in poison bullets. Even simple corn, when grossly overeaten, can cause the ghastly symptoms of pellagra, a syndrome that may have inspired European myths of vampirism in Bram Stoker's Dracula: pale skin that erupted in blisters when exposed to the sun, sleepless nights brought on by dementia and a morbid appearance just before death.
"Yet without question," concludes Stewart, "the world's most wicked plant is tobacco (nicotiana tabacum), responsible for the deaths of 90 million people worldwide."
Q. When is laughter not the "best medicine," far from it, in fact? Gelotophobes know this one all too well. –S. B. Cohen
A. "Gelotophobia," from the Greek "gelos" for laughter, means the fear of being laughed at and describes people hypersensitive to other's negative moods, says Constance Holden in Science magazine. They mistrust smiling faces and are unable to discriminate between friendly and hostile laughter, i.e., between teasing and ridicule.
This was no laughing matter in the recent school shootings in Germany where the perpetrators reportedly had a horror of being mocked.
About 10 percent of the population has some degree of gelotophobia, note researchers Ilona Papousek and Willibald Ruch in the journal Personality and Individual Differences. In tests covering 74 countries, Scandinavians ranked among the least gelotophobic; the highest scores in Europe were from the United Kingdom, suggesting, Ruch says, that "maybe a well-developed sense of humor does not help where mockery and ridicule are cultivated too."
Q. Love might be "blind," but wouldn't even blind lovers prefer pairing up with attractive partners? –R. Charles
A. Some do, as discussed by University of Birmingham professor John Hull, who himself went blind, says David G. Myers in Psychology. A colleague's remarks on a woman's beauty would strongly affect how Hull felt. He found this "deplorable... What can it matter to me what sighted men think of women... yet I do care, and I do not seem able to throw off this prejudice."
Over-emphasis on looks seems unfair and unenlightened. As the Roman statesman Cicero expressed it two thousand years ago, "The final good and the supreme duty of the wise person is to resist appearance."
A recent analysis of 100 top-grossing films found that attractive characters were portrayed as morally superior to unattractive ones, perhaps explicable in terms of everyday attitudes. But Hollywood's modeling doesn't explain why even babies– to judge from their measured "gazing times"– prefer looking at attractive over unattractive faces!
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How to Condition Your Cricut Mat
To combat this, after opening the mats up, I usually press the mat against a clean T-shirt (or the one I'm wearing, ha ha!) and this removes the excessive stickiness.
But, Cricut Dan has an even more interesting idea and people on the yahoo group say this prevents those little paper stickies from clinging to your mat!
Look HERE to see Cricut Dan's video about this!
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Wow! All this time I thought we shouldn't touch the mat because the oils from our hands would make it less sticky and that would mean the paper wouldn't stick to the mat and thus make our mats last less time! I guess I'm still finding it hard to believe that we should want to oil-up the mat before we use it the first time!ReplyDelete
But he seems to know of what he speaks. And I am a baby cricuteer.
I've been doing it since I saw this and the reason it helps is that the paper doesn't stick and tear on the mat and little pieces and fibers don't build up as bad. Also amazing is when your mat starts feeling less sticky take a baby wipe to it to get dirt and particles off of it and it is sticky again for a while.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the ideas! My friend has one and she didn't know to "season" her first mat and had trouble with her paper wanting to divide in half. I thought I would do the t'shirt thing like you suggested until I saw Dan's video... think I'll try that instead. :)ReplyDelete
Great advice ladies! And I have been just buying new mats!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2010 at 10:54 AM
Oh, I just experienced the tooo sticky new mat syndrome and was sooo frustrated, Thank you for eliminating the taboo of touching the mat! And now I'll try the marker outline and cut shape element. Thank you for sharing tips. MaMaK at firstname.lastname@example.com
I heard this before but not to this length. I just took new mats out, and conditioned them with my hands, but it was really sticky, did the trick with the papers and that really helped!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousJuly 31, 2010 at 9:46 AM
I watched the video, but couldn't hear what repostional glue to use & how to use it? Can anyone help?ReplyDeleteReplies
He said re-positionable dotto glue. I did not hear him state any particular brand, but if you Google "dotto repositionable adhesive" you will find a few brands like HERMA and TOMBOW, etc. Sounds like you would just roll the adhesive out onto your mat, making sure to cover the corners and the middle section. I hope this helps.Delete
Thanks!!! This is awesome. My DH just bought me new mats and I used the first one but got frustrated because it was tearing my paper. So I didn't even use the second one yet. I will be pulling that puppy out tonight and testing this.ReplyDelete
Would like to know more about making my mat sticky again. I felt like my mat didn't stick very good after using a baby wipe on it.
- AnonymousDecember 18, 2010 at 6:24 AM
Before i resort to throwing old mats out, i will lightly spray the back of whatever paper i am using with light adhesive. This works great with heavier paper, but an extremely light mist is needed with regular paper.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 2, 2013 at 6:29 PM
What kind of glue did he say to use?? I could not hear what he recommended????ReplyDeleteReplies
He said re-positionable dotto glue. I did not hear him state any particular brand, but if you Google "dotto repositionable adhesive" you will find a few brands like HERMA and TOMBOW, etc. I hope this helps.Delete
You can also use Dawn dish soap to clean your mats. The trick is it has to be Dawn. No other dish soap I have tried thus far has worked.ReplyDelete
You can also use Dawn dish soap to clean your mats. The trick is it has to be Dawn. No other dish soap I have tried thus far has worked.ReplyDelete
He said re-positionable dotto glue. I did not hear him state any particular brand, but if you Google "dotto repositionable adhesive" you will find a few brands like HERMA and TOMBOW, etc. Sounds like you would just roll the adhesive out onto your mat, making sure to cover the corners and the middle section. I hope this helps.ReplyDelete
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February 25. 2013 5:38PM
Another View: Why raising the state's gas tax takes taxpayers for a ride
Everyone supports safe roads and bridges in New Hampshire. The only real debate here in Concord is figuring out the best way to pay for these expensive, but totally necessary, infrastructure needs.
As we begin to build our state budget spending plan for the next two years, two camps have emerged regarding how to increase funding for our road and bridge projects: One insists that raising our gas tax is the answer, while the other looks to protect taxpayers by establishing a totally new source of funding.
As Senate Finance Chairman and the veteran of several budget battles, I am convinced we need to move forward on this funding issue in a manner we can best handle financially with the least burden to taxpayers. That is why I could not be more opposed to HB 617, filed by Rep. David Campbell, D-Nashua, that seeks to increase our gas tax by fifteen cents per gallon.
This would mean an eighty-three percent increase, totaling one billion dollars over ten years, in our gas tax and the timing could not be worse. Prices at the pump are heading back up at the same moment New Hampshire is beginning to show signs of climbing out of the current recession. This is exactly the wrong recipe for improving our economy.
When fully implemented, this tax will cost drivers in my hometown of Salem nearly $2 million a year. Nashua drivers will contribute an additional $5.2 million, and Manchester motorists will pay in over $6.3 million more a year. In return, our communities will receive less than 20 percent of those funds for local road and bridge repairs; the rest will be funneled to bureaucracy of our state's Dept. of Transportation.
There are additional reasons why raising the gas tax is bad policy:
We are currently living in a time of high gas prices and a stagnant economy. These are the two main obstacles to raising the gas tax in recent years.
As gas prices/taxes increase, consumers drive less, purchase less gas and as a result, tax collections decrease.
Supporting an increase in the gas tax is one thing, being honest about who is footing the bill is another. Since most gas in New Hampshire is bought by New Hampshire drivers and businesses, we would not be passing this increased cost along. Example: $22 million of diesel fuel was purchased last year in New Hampshire and New Hampshire businesses/individuals bought $21 million of it.
An increase in the gas tax is bad for commerce and small business because it makes energy more expensive. These increased costs cut into a business's bottom line and are often passed on to consumers.
Once any tax is raised, the state becomes dependent upon it.
And if those arguments aren't convincing, try this: If we pass an increase in the gas tax as Rep. Campbell suggests, it would nearly double the amount of revenue our Dept. of Transportation collects when fully implemented.
If every department took this approach, state government and the taxpayers would go broke.
Instead, I believe funding roads and bridges with money generated by expanded gaming is the better approach for two reasons. First, under Senate Bill 152 (legislation that I am sponsoring), gaming money generated by a casino located near the Massachusetts border will go directly to the source, i.e., bettering roads/bridges, paying off bonds. And second, there will be no additional taxation of New Hampshire citizens.
Specifically, this legislation guarantees the state gets 30 percent of the net revenues a casino generates from its slot machines. Twenty-five percent of that money pool is split between roads and bridges, higher education, and North Country economic development. The town where the casino is built, as well as adjacent communities, would benefit from three and one-percent shares respectively. The final one percent is set aside to support problem gamblers.
Here's the bottom line, to pay for needed road and bridge work the legislature can either create pain at the pump by nearly doubling the gas tax and thus reducing disposable income and hurting commerce in the state; or go with a plan that protects taxpayers by establishing a new, non-tax source of revenue that could raise more than $50 million a year - a plan that also has the green light from Gov. Hassan.
I think the choice is pretty clear.
Chuck Morse, a Republican, represents District 22 in the New Hampshire State Senate and is a resident of Salem.


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"Former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov, who downloaded source code for the investment firm's high-speed trading system from the company's computers, was wrongly charged with theft of property because the code did not qualify as a physical object under a federal theft statute, according to a court opinion published Wednesday." This could be a huge deal, if it ever were to be upheld in higher courts. More specifically, "because Aleynikov did not 'assume physical control' over anything when he took the source code, and because he did not thereby 'deprive [Goldman] of its use', Aleynikov did not violate the [National Stolen Property Act]". Well paint me purple with white and red dots and call me a girl scout.
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Manchester man arrested after police say he crashed stolen car
A Manchester man is under arrest after a police chase from Salem into Massachusetts, where he crashed a stolen Honda into a utility pole, splitting the car in two, according to state police.
The incident began a little after 10 p.m. Tuesday when N.H. State Police Trooper Jack DeJesus, on Interstate 93 South in Salem, tried to stop a 1994 blue Honda Accord with Massachusetts plates that had been reported stolen in Manchester.
DeJesus activated his blue lights as the car crossed into Massachusetts, according to police. The driver, later identified by police as Tommy M. Rogers, 29, of Manchester, pulled over into the breakdown lane for a brief moment but police said he then drove off.
DeJesus chased the stolen car south on I-93, then east onto Route 213, then on Pleasant Valley Street in Methuen, where the Honda crashed into a utility pole near Oak Street.
The car was split in two but authorities said Rogers and his female passenger, who police did not identify in a news release, both got out of the wreckage and ran into a nearby McDonald's, where Rogers was arrested.
The woman was interviewed and released. She was not charged.
Neither Rogers nor his passenger were injured. The car was destroyed and two trucks were needed to tow the wreckage. The utility pole also was damaged.
Rogers is charged with being a fugitive from justice and receiving stolen property. He will be arraigned Wednesday morning in Lawrence (Mass.) District Court.
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Lake Oswego's Arbor Week celebration continues through Saturday, April 13. Celebrate trees with your family, friends, and neighbors at these upcoming events:
Thursday, April 11
Tree City USA and Heritage Tree Celebration
12-1:30 pm at the Jean Road Fire Station, 4555 Jean Road
The City is celebrating its 24th year of Tree City USA designation by the National Arbor Day Foundation. Stop by the Jean Road Fire Station to learn more about what it means to be a Tree City and enjoy a snack while admiring one of Lake Oswego's new Heritage Trees, a 39-inch diameter Oregon white oak.
Friday, April 12
Plant a Tree, Free a Tree
3-4 pm, Springbrook Park, Sundeleaf Drive entrance
Students from Lake Oswego Junior High School will be planting native trees in Springbrook Park. Stop by to support their hard work and enjoy a walk along the gentle pathways through the trees in this beautiful natural area. You can also lend a hand and free a tree from invasive English ivy! Please bring work gloves and pruning shears if you have them.
Saturday, April 13
Three Cheers for Trees, A Puppet Show
11 am, Lake Oswego Public Library, 706 4th Street
Trees are everywhere, but how much do we know about them? This delightful sing-along show is entertaining as well as educational! Performance made possible by the Friends of the Library.
The City and Frog Pond Toys are also sponsoring an Arbor Day Art Contest for kids in pre-kindergarten through 5th grade. Official entry forms are available at Frog Pond Toys (310 North State Street), City Hall (380 A Avenue), the West End Building (4101 Kruse Way), and online at www.ci.oswego.or.us/planning/arbor-day-art-contest. Drop off your TREEmendous work of art on or before Thursday, April 25 at Frog Pond Toys, where entries will be on display throughout April. Winners will be selected on National Arbor Day, April 26, and prizes will be awarded by the City Council on May 7.
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ROTC at Clarkson University is an elective course of study that provides college-trained officers to the United States Army and Air Force. Upon graduation and successful completion of either the Army program in Military Science or the Air Force program in Aerospace Studies, students receive appointments as commissioned officers at the rank of second lieutenant. Each program provides a Basic Course in the first and sophomore years, and an Advanced Course in the junior and senior years. Sophomores who did not participate during their first two years may qualify for admission into the Army Advanced Course by attending a special, expenses-paid, four-week Leader's Training Course in the summer prior to their junior year. There are other entry options available for veterans and graduate students. Students may enroll in the ROTC Basic Course without incurring any military service obligation.
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Before Nov. 14, the world knew nothing about Massachusetts' greatest buck. It had lived in total secrecy.
The details of the hunter and the hunt by now have spread across the country and likely will be featured in several national magazines and documented in the record books. Today, though, we can piece together and celebrate much about the magnificent buck's life and family.
We'll never know, of course, the identity of his special mother and father — or even which of his two parents actually passed down the remarkable genes for his gigantic antlers. Many erroneously assume that it's always the buck that bequeaths his son's antler characteristics. While that may be true, just as human mothers carry their sons' trait for baldness, deer mothers can pass on spectacular traits to their young as well.
Those who argue that shooting big bucks hurts the gene pool don't understand genetics. Does sired by exceptional parents remain equally valuable repositories of DNA, and great bucks breed many times before they reach full, spectacular maturity. Superior antler growth is also largely dependent on habitat quality, nutrition, longevity and calcium content of soils.
We do know much about his parents' relationship. Typical of all deer, they mated only one day during the doe's 24-hour early November heat. A day later, their biological imperative having been satisfied, with mutual willingness and total lack of resentment, they permanently parted ways.
She would soon rejoin her maternal wintering group, destined to be a single mother in a little less than seven months, and he would obsessively continue seeking other neighboring hot does emitting irresistibly alluring perfumes of estrogen. His polygamous nature over the years likely resulted in the birth of several other Rutland-area giants.
Our Rutland buck's mother was hyper-wary, having previously survived one or more bow hunting, shotgun and muzzle-loader seasons every year between Oct. 15 and Dec. 31. Her tentative movements would be largely crepuscular and nocturnal, as she customarily bedded down for most of the day to avoid most dangers. Her eyesight, well adapted for the night, would serve her well in her nocturnal movements and feeding. During the full moon, she would often forage all night.
She was also remarkably tough, having endured one if not more food-scarce winters. She benefited from a lowered metabolism, her species' body response to diminishing hours of daylight. Those seasonal physiological changes — and her 20 percent-of-body-weight accumulated fat — would allow her to live on about 30 percent fewer calories and reduce her winter movements by 50 percent.
Buds and other slim pickings close to her bedding area would provide most of her nutrition when she wasn't nocturnally browsing on someone's landscape or couldn't find her favorite acorns, open fields of winter rye, or patches of clover.
On the coldest days, she'd preferably bed on sunny, southern-facing slopes, often favoring pine groves that additionally afforded overhead cover. Looking down her hill, constantly testing the wind and independently focusing her ears, she would never totally be at rest.
Her remarkable digestive system, often compared to an internal boiler room, would provide her an amazing degree of body heat, keeping her warm on the coldest New England nights. Her dense, long, hollow body hair was so insulating, she typically didn't melt the snow she had bedded in. In response to the dangers of predation, her four stomachs would allow her to eat and swallow large quantities of food fast, to regurgitate and chew later, extracting maximum nutrition in safety at her leisure.
Our special buck's mother listened intently to the cacophonous music of the human world around her, recognizing snowmobiles, ATVs, chain saws, traffic, dogs and footsteps, knowing well which to ignore, and which to flee.
Her historically important pregnancy that significantly altered our record book occurred six years ago. Inside her, all that winter, her soon-to-be famous fawn developed, its emergence essentially timed for early June when she could get enough nourishment for milk production and find vegetation thick enough to hide him.
After being carried for almost seven months, like all fawns, Rutland's great buck was raised by a totally devoted and mentoring, if not constantly doting, single mother. It's likely he had a twin. Both would be left entirely alone for many hours each day, separated by a good distance, as their mother fed and bedded elsewhere, removing her scent and appearance from their sanctuary, and allowing their initially scent-free bodies to give them a degree of protection against predators.
For the first couple of weeks, much unlike human babies, they would instinctively remain totally quiet and motionless despite building hunger, patiently waiting to be nursed briefly only twice each day.
Rutland's special fawn was lucky on too many occasions to even count. Many of his age class were discovered and devoured early by coyotes, bears and bobcats. When it reached a month old, it finally could outrun the ever-dangerous, always scavenging coyotes which would soon revert to eating mostly rodents.
Our little "skipper" or first-year "button buck" would keep his spots until around August, drinking his mother's slightly bitter, tannin-tainted milk as late as November. All the while, he learned well from his mom a hundred edible forbs, wildflowers, grasses and buds. He would find ferns, barberry and certain other exotic plants most distasteful, eating everything but them and leading to their spread.
He would quickly discover he could eat poison ivy and poison mushrooms with impunity and that he really liked lady slippers, lilies and other wildflowers. The buck also enjoyed corn tops, apple buds, acorns and highly nutritious landscape plants like hostas and yews, which he'd dine on undetected in suburban back yards at night. He definitely loved first-year tree growth, too.
Annoying nuisances — including ticks, black flies, mosquitoes, bot flies and horseflies — plagued him from the start. His dense, short and wiry red hair would turn to gray-brown, well mimicking tree bark and insulating him during his first winter.
He was born with keen eyesight and hearing, but his sense of smell would prove phenomenal and key to his survival. He would learn to avoid human odor, amazingly able to detect it downwind several hundred yards from its source.
During his education, he certainly came close to several bow hunters' tree stands. We'll never know how many archers may have let him pass, patiently waiting for a fully mature buck or heavy doe to harvest. He definitely heard gunshots — some very close. All the while, our button buck skipper would learn to become a buck, displaying an ever-more phantom-like, reclusive nature until his second autumn, when diminishing daylight would trigger his testosterone production, drive him to leave his bachelor group, and mate with his first doe.
Our magnificent buck certainly mated with many Rutland does over the years, passing on his remarkable genes to dozens of fawns. His legacy will become apparent only with future Rutland hunters' harvests.
Early on, as a wannabe stud of a mere year and a half, he had to be sneaky, risking being gored by the antlers of much bigger rutting bucks on territory. His neck was likely stabbed numerous times, and he was certainly tossed and bulled over on several occasions by much heavier adversaries. He would engage in antler-rattling skirmishes, becoming a serious contender by his third autumn.
By the wear on his teeth, we know our fully mature buck was 6-1/2 years old when taken. His spectacular, deciduous antlers likely would have never grown bigger, and in subsequent years actually would have begun to diminish progressively in size.
All aging bucks deteriorate. Had he lived to age 10, a feat of longevity rarely accomplished, his teeth would have ground down to the gums, a natural function of the abrasive minerals inadvertently chewed during his grazing. He would have died shortly after of starvation, unable to chew his food.
The great Rutland buck was tagged and claimed by an extraordinarily skilled and deserving bow hunter, Dan Daigle, without whom we might never have known of its existence, or what the growth potential of our Massachusetts herd can be.
Forever now, many across the country will refer to this supremely magnificent animal as the Daigle buck or the Rutland buck. But it truly belongs to Massachusetts, especially all of us in Worcester County who have proven good stewards of our land and proudly value our exceptional wildlife heritage.


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Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) is a graphics application and desktop publishing software company whose product portfolio includes several ubiquitous consumer technologies, including Flash for rich Internet applications and Acrobat for publishing documents. Adobe's strategy has been to gain nearly universal penetration by giving away software to consumers--to run Flash applications and read Acrobat documents, for example--while selling the software to enterprises, developers and other professionals who create content.
While the company has traditionally specialized in graphics and publishing offerings such as Photoshop, Adobe is particularly well-poised to take advantage of the growth of next-generation Internet applications. Its acquisition of Macromedia, which invented Flash, was particularly strategic in expanding into the web developer customer base. The company now bundles applications such as Illustrator, Photoshop and Flash in order to reach a broad array of creative professionals, "knowledge workers" (including programmers, researchers, systems analysts, and students), and enterprises. Internet advertising is an especially important industry, as it caters to professionals who design and create ads, as well as to websites that utilize its capabilities for "rich media" ads.
The company is also well-positioned to take advantage of the rise in digital media (e.g., photos, videos) and an increase in rich content on mobile phone platforms. As today's generation becomes more ingrained with digital formats of photography, video and sound, Adobe's suite of creative software products will benefit. On the mobile front, Adobe has partnered with providers to pre-install mobile versions of its popular applications, including Flash Lite and mobile Acrobat reader, onto mobile handsets.
Adobe Systems is an information technology company with a focus on creative products. Though it has traditionally specialized in graphic, photo, video, and publishing tools, its acquisition of Macromedia allowed the company to expand into the web design industry. Its products are used by graphics designers, artists, web designers, and advertisers as well as by publishers and professionals in nearly every industry (Adobe produces the ubiquitous Acrobat PDF file format).test
Second Quarter 2010 Results (ended June 4, 2010)[1]
Adobe achieved record revenue of $943.0 million, compared to $704.7 million reported for the second quarter of fiscal 2009 and $858.7 million reported in the first quarter of fiscal 2010. This represents 34 percent year-over-year revenue growth. Record revenue and the company's strong Q2 financial performance were driven by the successful launch of Creative Suite 5 and the explosion of digital content across all media and devices.
Adobe's GAAP diluted earnings per share for the second quarter of fiscal 2010 were $0.28, compared with GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.24 reported in the second quarter of fiscal 2009. GAAP operating income was $227.3 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2010, compared to $161.4 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2009. GAAP net income was $148.6 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2010, compared to $126.1 million reported in the second quarter of fiscal 2009 and $127.2 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2010.
Adobe has evolved from a company that sold graphics, publishing and other software to one focused on building suites of tools and software used by publishing and graphics professionals as well as developers of websites. The company makes the vast majority of its revenue--96% in 2006--from selling software products and licenses. Adobe's business segments are the following:
Adobe's Creative Solutions segment focuses primarily on the needs of the creative professional customer. Creative professionals include graphic designers, production artists, Web designers and developers, user interface designers, writers, videographers, motion graphic artists, photographers and prepress professionals. Adobe's software tools are used by creative professionals to create much of the printed and online information people see and read everyday, including newspapers, magazines, Websites, rich Internet applications (RIAs), catalogs, advertisements, brochures, product documentation, books, memos, reports and banners.
Adobe's media products and services enable broadcasters, events organizers and marketers to reach the audience through its Flash Platform. The products of this segment includes Adobe After Effects Professional, Adobe Audition, Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium, Adobe Creative Suite Design Standard, Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection, Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium, Adobe Creative Suite Web Premium, Adobe Creative Suite Web Standard, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Encore, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Flash Access, Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server, Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server, Adobe Flash Professional, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InCopy, Adobe InDesign, Adobe InDesign Server, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Photoshop.com and Scene7 On-Demand.
The Business Productivity Solutions business is focused on providing solutions which meet the needs of enterprises and governments. This segment leverages its client platforms that include Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR. Knowledge Worker products include Adobe Acrobat.com, Adobe Acrobat Standard, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Adobe Acrobat Pro Extended, Adobe Document Center and Create Adobe PDF Online.
Adobe's Omniture Business segment provides Web analytics and online business optimization products and services, which it delivers through its Omniture line of products and Omniture Online Marketing Suite. Customers use its Omniture products and services to manage and enhance online, offline and multi-channel business initiatives. Customers who use Omniture solutions include marketing professionals, such as marketing managers, online marketing managers, search engine marketers, media managers, media buyers, marketing research analysts and the chief marketing officer. Customers also include Web content editors, Web analysts and Web production managers.
Adobe Flash Platform enables the development and delivery of applications, content and video. The Adobe Flash Platform includes client technologies, such as Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Flash Lite and Adobe AIR. It also includes developer tools and technologies, such as Adobe Flash Professional, Adobe Flash Builder, Adobe Flash Catalyst, Adobe Flash Platform Services and Adobe Flex. Its products include Adobe ColdFusion, Adobe ColdFusion in the Cloud, Adobe Flash Builder and Adobe Flex.
Adobe's Print and Publishing business segment contains several of the Company's products and services, which address market opportunities ranging from the diverse publishing needs of technical and business publishing to its legacy type and OEM printing businesses. Its OEM PostScript products include Adobe PostScript and Adobe PDF Print Engine. The Company's Print and Publishing Business Unit is focused on solutions, which address the needs in markets, such as technical document publishing and communication, business document publishing, compact disk-read only memory (CD-ROM) publishing, eLearning solutions, online help systems and typography. Print and Publishing products include Adobe Authorware, Adobe Captivate, Adobe Contribute, Adobe Director, Adobe Font Folio OpenType Edition, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe Type Manager and FreeHand MX.
Creative Suites is a bundled product of Adobe with a focus on creativity. Specifically, Creative Suites contains software allowing users to design and edit photos, graphics, audio, video, and web pages. Adobe produces packages for Creative Suites and individual software titles for amateurs to use at home and professionals to use in the studio. The most well known applications within Creative Suites are Illustrator, Photoshop, and Dreamweaver.
Acrobat is the industry standard publishing tool launched in 1993. It is used to create documents by many businesses, as well as by average consumers. Acrobat uses the Adobe-designed file format "PDF" or Portable Document Format for all its applications; the format is widely used throughout businesses, schools, and government offices. Adobe's Acrobat PDF Reader is a free application that can be downloaded off their website and allows users to read and search through PDF files, but not to edit or create them. Acrobat has a host of different programs for sale that are for creating PDF word and 3D image files, as well as for converting large documents into searchable, published PDFs. Acrobat also has a line of communications software for corporate digital networking and web conferencing. Although Adobe faces similar dependence problems with Acrobat as with the Creative Suite (see above), these are on a slightly lesser scale.
Adobe made a sizeable splash into the web design industry with its acquisition of Macromedia in 2005. Macromedia has a number of powerful web-design and media-design tools that are found on many major website these days, and its products could become key to the future of next generation website design
In particular, Flash is a programming language and tool kit created by Macromedia that allows vector graphics and other graphic languages to be streamed together very quickly, creating simple animations and allowing for interactivity with those animations. Programmers must buy Flash tools from Adobe, but users can download flash players for free. The main competitor to Flash is Ajax, an industry-standard design technique that uses tools already available within most web browsers, thus allowing programmers to create moving graphics without purchasing Adobe tools.
Recently, Adobe has entered the mobile software market, producing Flash Lite players for pocket PCs, PDAs, and cellular phones. Adobe has also produced an Acrobat reader that is mobile compatible. It appears that the company is betting on the growth of the mobile platform by expanding its product line to take advantage of the predicted growth. Telecom industry continues to upgrade cellular networks and more users have internet access on their phone.
Adobe's products are very popular among professionals in the advertising and publishing industries, both online and print. Creative professionals use Adobe's software to lay out printed magazines and newspapers, as well as create the advertisements for these media channels. Revenues of the printing and publishing industries are typically correlated with Adobe's revenues for its creative products.
One competitive advantage for Adobe is the learning curve needed for its creative products. Adobe's professional editing products require significant training for its professional users, making the proposition of switching products expensive.
Rich Internet applications are driving the next generation of the Web (including the so-called Web 2.0), which focuses on interactive media. Google's YouTube is an example of a popular site that utilizes Adobe's Flash technology for its videos; the stock chart on the Wikinvest home page also uses Flash. The company is very well poised to take advantage of the increased growth in the next generation Internet with products such as the aforementioned Flash as well as its Flex technology and ubiquitous Acrobat publishing format.
Interestingly, Adobe is also leveraging its dominant position in rich Internet applications with Flash to gain penetration onto various computing platforms. The company has introduced its Apollo product so developers can build "light" software applications for the desktop, mobile, etc.
Internet advertising is growing at the fastest rate of all major channels--often at the expense of traditional media such as print. Continued strong growth in Internet advertising will benefit Adobe, especially as rich media functionality has evolved online advertising. Many advertisers seeking greater interactivity with consumers are flocking to rich web media, especially compared to print or television media, because of advertising that allows users to interact with the ads. For example, users change the color of a car in a side-bar advertisement powered by Adobe's Flash technology.
The digital native segment is defined by the younger generation, children and teenagers who have grown up in a constantly evolving environment of new technologies. While Adobe's core audience has been publishing and graphics professionals, increased demand for their products may come from the generation of digital natives as older technologies such as photography, video, and sound become increasingly digital. Amateurs looking to manipulate digital media may increasingly demand Adobe's editing applications such as Photoshop and Illustrator.
As with most technological products--hardware or software--Adobe's offerings face a constant threat of obsolescence. The company must keep pace with cheaper and more powerful computers and faster Internet bandwidth in order to stay relevant with customers' needs. As a result, development of software upgrades to include new functions and features remains crucial to their growth and market share. Adobe has faced cyclicality for its products in the past when sales slow dramatically as customers await the release of new upgrades. Adobe's diversification of offerings beyond creative products for publishing and graphics will also smooth product cycle volatility that occurs with software cyclicality.
Adobe has made a significant bet on the growth of the mobile platform by releasing mobile versions of its popular applications, including Flash Lite, Flash Cast and mobile Acrobat reader. Adobe partners with handset manufacturers to pre-install Flash and Acrobat software into a phone. If the mobile industry continues to expand and the growth of technologies such as 3G continue to accelerate, Adobe could be well-placed to take advantage of said industry trends.
In February 2009, Adobe released to developers a test version of its upcoming Flash Player 10.1, which is designed to run well on smartphones and other mobile devices. According to a Strategy Analytics analysis from January 2010, more than 250 million smartphones that support the full Flash Player are expected ship by the end of 2012.
However, Adobe Flash is facing an onslaught of up-and-coming alternatives that threaten to displace the former's dominant status as the de facto rich-media platform online. The launch of Apple's iPad, which does not support Flash, has also heated up the debate on whether the Adobe platform is in danger of losing market share to competing alternatives.
Adobe's primary competition comes from Microsoft (MSFT) and Apple (AAPL). Both companies produce mainstream operating systems, and as a result, both have designed digital media software specifically for their operating systems that compete directly with Adobe's digital media software.
Trying to deliver rich content effectively to the stubbornly heterogeneous end-user device tiers has produced more tears than triumphs. Adobe (ADBE) is aiming to fix that with the ambitious and inclusive Open Screen Project, which now throws Adobe's considerable installed base weight behind an industry-collaboration movement to standardize interface delivery.
By leveraging Adobe's ubiquitous Flash Player and soon Adobe AIR, the project's ambition is to allow ease in creating content -- including video -- and delivering it consistently to televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics. The means is a consistent runtime environment for content, applications and services to present well across a variety of "screens," from cell phones to mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and home entertainment set top boxes. the Open Screen Project includes:
Adobe's efforts will provide a significant counter-punch to the Microsoft Silverlight/Live Mesh move to accomplish similar values using the market presence muscle and developer allegiance to the Windows, .NET and Visual Studio world.
Microsoft has made a direct challenge to Adobe in its release of Windows Vista and Office 2007 by releasing XPS, a competing format to Adobe's PDF. Because PDF is portable across a number of operating systems--mobile included--the success of XPS will depend on whether or not it becomes a mainstream format for non-Windows users. Additionally, Microsoft ships Expression Studio, a graphical suite of design tools that competes directly with Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator tools.
Macromedia Flash also faces competition from Ajax and other rich internet application technologies that are publicly available for any web development applications. Ajax continues to be refined by independent programmers worldwide and pose a threat to the already refined Flash platform. Ajax is used in several major applications, including Google Maps, and continued growth is likely given that it is free and no software player needs to be downloaded to view Ajax applications.
These figures below illustrate Adobe's significant installed base for PC users, which may drive web developers to continue using Flash development tools. Ajax, on the other hand, runs in an Internet browser and does not come with tools, requiring more technical know-how to program.
|Media Player
|Percent of PCs Worldwide with the Player Installed
|Adobe Flash Player
|Microsoft Windows Media Player
|Apple Quicktime
|RealOne Player
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Adobe will lose luster as it becomes easier and easier to develop websites and alter graphics for free.
The growing functionality of the Wordpress Platform, responsible for countless websites across the internet, is making leaps and bounds in its implementation of CSS styling and complex plug-ins that would normally require a professional web designer. Wordpress is currently the #11 site on the internet, with over 194 million people visiting its sites each month.
The widely used Thesis Theme for Wordpress, and other flexible layout systems like Weebly.com make it easy to apply something called "dynamic CSS styling". This allows users to quickly create professional looking websites without using Adobe products. Wordpress' young founder, Matt Mullenweg, has publicly criticized the Thesis theme and other pay-per-use website design services as violations of Wordpress' open API. Free, flexible and easy to use Wordpress themes, like atahualpa, have already been released in Beta form, to wide community support.
While Wordpress developers frequently use the Adobe suite to create new themes and templates for public use, the growing trend towards easily editable, free, flexible themes will reduce the need for products like Dreamweaver.
Gimp.org has also released a free software package for editing photos and replicating a large number of Photoshop functions. Primo PDF, Sourceforge.net and many others have developed software which replicates Adobe Acrobat for free, or for a fraction of the Adobe price point.
Unscrupulous would-be designers can find illegal torrents of the entire $1,500 Professional Adobe CS-4 Suite on sites like demonoid.com and the Pirate Bay. Torrent sites are likely here to stay, with The Pirate Party winning actual seats in the Swedish parliament in 2009.
To maintain its high price point, Adobe will have to continuously innovate and focus on developers instead of the mass market who will increasingly use free services.
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If you've got kids, giving them your Apple ID password (or your credit card info) so that they can buy music from iTunes is a bit risky. You never know when one of them will go crazy and decide to purchase the entire Grateful Dead back catalog, do you? In any case, if you'd like to protect the little buggers' college funds, you can use what are called iTunes Allowances to give them a certain amount of credit every month.
To check it out, either use this link to be taken right to the Allowances page in iTunes, or open iTunes and go to the Store (it's the button in the upper-right of the window by default in iTunes 11).
Then choose Send iTunes Gift from the links on the right.
On the window that appears, select the link at the bottom (Learn More About Gifting).
Then you can scroll down to the Allowances section and choose Set Up an Allowance to (finally!) get started.
Once you're on the iTunes Allowance screen, you'll fill in all of the relevant info. How much money do you want to give to your kiddo every month? When do you want the first installment sent? And does the recipient already have an Apple ID, or would you like to create one?
That was a lotta steps, but as you can see, it's a pretty simple process. There are a few additional details to be aware of, though. First, your kid won't be able to go over the monthly amount without you adding a credit card to his account. I see that as a very good thing! Also, you can cancel the charge any time you want to by visiting your Account page (you can see that choice in my second screenshot above, underneath Quick Links).
And lastly, the amount you give will be automatically deducted from your credit card every month, so if the recipient doesn't use it all, the money will stay as a credit in his or her account. So your seven-year-old could save up to buy that season of Archer she's been dying to see.
What? Archer is completely appropriate for children. Not that I have children, or know any children, or even know what's appropriate for anyone, really. In fact, you all should probably have stopped listening to me a long time ago. It's for the best.