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Possible Washington state connection in shooting and multi-vehicle crash in Las Vegas Thursday | Breaking News
By KATHERINE SMITH
Covington Reporter Reporter
February 22, 2013 ? Updated 9:38 PM?
Sandi Sutton, a resident of Maple Valley, was identified by the Clark County Coroner's office in Las Vegas as one of the victims of the shooting and subsequent car crash which happened in the early morning hours of Feb. 21 on Las Vegas Boulevard, the city's center of gaming known as The Strip.
Sutton was a passenger in a taxi cab that was struck by a Maserati at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Las Vegas Boulevard. According to Officer Jose Hernandez in the public information office of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, the taxi exploded and caught fire, trapping Sutton and the driver. Both Sutton and the driver died at the scene.
"This morning occupants of a black Range Rover opened fire on the occupants of a Maserati," LVMPD Sheriff Douglas Gillespie said at a news conference on Thursday. "The Maserati driver, having been shot, sped through the intersection of Flamingo and Las Vegas Boulevard, colliding with a taxi cab and causing a six car accident. The driver and passenger of the taxi both died on the scene when the car exploded due to the impact."
Police believe that the altercation between the drivers of the Range Rover and Maserati began in the valet area of a nearby resort, the Aria Hotel and Casino, after which both vehicles began traveling northbound on Las Vegas Boulevard. After colliding with the taxi, the Maserati also struck four other vehicles, Hernandez said in a phone interview on Friday. The driver and passenger of the Maserati both suffered gunshot wounds and were transported to a local hospital where the driver, Kenneth Cherry Jr., died of his injuries. Three people from the other vehicles in the crash were also transported to the hospital.
Sutton grew up in Maple Valley and graduated from Tahoma High School in 1982. She is survived by her husband, James Wasmund, and their three children, Austin, Sarah, and Hunter.
Sutton was also a local business owner, and an active member of the Greater Maple Valley-Black Diamond Chamber of Commerce and the Maple Valley Rotary. Together she and her husband owned All Service Plumbing and she was also co-owner of The Dazzled Dame with Leih Mulvihill. The store had recently moved to a new location in Maple Valley Town Center about a month ago. Sutton and Mulvihill were in Las Vegas together, attending a business convention.
"I honestly can't remember what year we met," said longtime friend Tina McDonough. "The thing that drew me to her was that I'm highly involved in Susan G. Komen and she (Sutton) was a two time survivor. We've always been on the same team to find a cure."
Sutton had participated in Race for the Cure 5k with the local team Touched by Jeanie. Last year Sutton also participated in the Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk for a Cure with Valley Girls and Guys, a team McDonough founded.
"2012 was her first time walking the 3-Day with us and she immediately signed up for this year," McDonough said. "We've done a lot of stuff together?just a big heart, big smile. (She was) really well known and well liked in the community. Just an amazing person and friend. She's left a hole in this community and our hearts. She's going to be forever missed."
Contact Covington Reporter Reporter Katherine Smith at?ksmith@covingtonreporter.com or 425-432-1209 ext. 5052.
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It's personal and business in GOP fight over Hagel
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The fierce Republican opposition to President Barack Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary is personal and business.
The nasty fight long has been seen as a proxy for the never-ending scuffles between the Democratic president and congressional Republicans, with barely any reservoir of good will between the White House and lawmakers, and the GOP still smarting over the November election results.
Barring any surprises, the drawn-out battle over Hagel's nomination probably will end this coming week with his Senate confirmation. But his fellow Republicans have roughed him up.
A vote is expected on Tuesday.
In the weeks after Obama secured a second term, Republicans knocked out a presidential favorite, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, and dashed her secretary of state hopes over her widely debunked remarks about protests precipitating the assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya on Sept. 11.
Emboldened Republicans then set their sights on Hagel, whose GOP classification won him no points with the party.
The former two-term Nebraska senator was widely viewed as a political heretic. He disagreed with President George W. Bush over the Iraq war, stayed on the sidelines in the 2008 president race between Obama and the Republican nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain, and endorsed fellow Vietnam veteran and former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey in last year's Nebraska Senate race.
Republicans remember it well.
"There's a lot of ill will toward Sen. Hagel because when he was a Republican, he attacked President Bush mercilessly, at one point said he was the worst president since Herbert Hoover, said the surge (of U.S. troops in Iraq) was the worst blunder since the Vietnam War, which is nonsense, and was anti-his own party and people," McCain said in an interview on Fox News on the day Republicans stalled Hagel's nomination.
Hagel didn't help his cause with his past opposition to unilateral penalties against Iran, his comment about the influence of the "Jewish lobby" in Washington, his support for reducing the nation's nuclear arsenal and remarks that created widespread doubts about his backing for Israel.
His halting and uneven performance at his confirmation hearing also hurt his nomination.
McCain, one of Hagel's friends during their years in the Senate, would have been a crucial vote to help sway other Republicans to back the nominee. Instead, he is one of more than a dozen opposing Hagel.
"I think he will have been weakened, but having said that, the job that he has is too important," McCain told reporters Friday during a visit to Mexico. "I know that I and my other colleagues, if he's confirmed, and he very likely will be, will do everything we can to work with him."
The nomination fight also is about the business of re-electing Republicans in 2014. Challenging the Democratic president over his nominations and policies is clearly a winner with the conservative base, a point not lost on GOP incumbents wary of challenges from the tea party.
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who's up for re-election next year, is getting high marks from Republicans for his relentless effort to get more information about the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya, and his fierce opposition to Hagel.
"Most people down here think he's dead-on in his arguments and hope that he continues to press the issues," said Warren Tompkins, a longtime GOP strategist.
The Libya attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans has been a political flashpoint for Republicans who accused the Obama administration of an election-year cover-up of a terrorist assault.
An independent review conducted by respected former diplomats failed to mollify the GOP, who demanded testimony from Hillary Rodham Clinton, secretary of state when the attack occurred, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
Graham has been at the forefront in seeking emails, communiques and videos while threatening to delay both Hagel's nomination and that of CIA Director-nominee John Brennan, who also has become entangled in the Libya dispute.
During a stop in Easley, S.C., this past week, Graham insisted that his effort has nothing to do with politics.
"It's not because he's a Democrat and I'm a Republican," he said, referring to Obama. "It's because it really was system failure and we need learn from it. We have not gotten the information, and we're going to get it if I have to die trying."
The White House has agreed to give the Senate Intelligence Committee additional documents related to the Benghazi attack, according to a congressional aide said. The material includes emails between national security officials showing the debate within the administration over how to describe the attack.
Graham also has been intense in opposing Hagel, portraying the former GOP senator as an out-of-the-mainstream radical. Some of the toughest questions of Hagel during his confirmation hearing last month came from Graham, who seized on Hagel's "Jewish lobby" remark and asked him to "name one dumb thing we've been goaded into doing due to pressure by the Israeli, Jewish lobby."
Hagel was often tentative in his response in the face of GOP grilling.
"He's leading, he's governing," Glenn McCall, the chairman of the York (S.C.) County Republican Party and a GOP committeeman, said of Graham. "More and more I talk to Republicans ? and even those that are conservative Democrats ? I think folks are looking for leadership."
Both Tompkins and McCall cited a Winthrop University poll released last week that showed Graham with strong support from registered Republicans in the state, with 72 percent holding a favorable opinion of the senator.
It's a turnaround from several years ago when Graham's work with Democrats on climate change and immigration as well as his votes for Obama's nominees for the Supreme Court angered South Carolina Republicans, with some calling him out of touch and Charleston and Lexington counties voting to censure him over his bipartisan work.
"It might be the right thing to do ... but when you partner with Hillary Clinton or you partner with John Kerry, you're going to be looked upon with a lot of suspicion in South Carolina," Tompkins said. "You have to be careful who you dance with."
Kerry, a former Democratic senator from Massachusetts, has just replaced Clinton as secretary of state.
Graham still may face a primary challenge, but he and other GOP incumbents are determined to head off any conservative uprising as Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch successfully did in his 2012 race. They want to avoid the fate of the only GOP primary loser last year ? Indiana's longtime Sen. Dick Lugar.
Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the No. 2 Republican and a candidate next year, took the lead on the Senate floor to block a vote on Hagel on Feb. 14 and was one of 15 Republicans last week to call for Obama to withdraw the nomination.
Cornyn got a primary challenger last week.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/personal-business-gop-fight-over-hagel-135227159.html
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Friday, 22 February 2013
Apple may be to blame for Foxconn's hiring freeze after all
Foxconn workers. Photo: Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP
FORTUNE -- Apple's (AAPL) battered shares took another hit Wednesday -- down $8.84, nearly 2%, for the day -- after the Financial Times attributed a hiring freeze at the Foxconn factories that assemble many of Apple's products to a slowdown in iPhone 5 production.
The stock didn't recover, even after a Foxconn spokesman flatly denied that the freeze had anything to do with the iPhone 5.
Several alternative explanations were quickly put forward:
- A slowdown in 9.7-inch iPad sales (Fubon Securities analyst Arthur Liao)
- A decline in Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) PC sales (UBS's Steve Milunovich)
- A shift to robotic production by Foxconn (CBN Daily)
- A shift by Apple to other manufacturers (Business Insider's Nicholas Carlson)
- Fewer workers going AWOL after the Chinese New Year break (RBC's?Amit Daryanani)
What's interesting about that last explanation is that it puts the blame squarely back on Apple.
Historically, according to Daryanani, 20%-30% of Chinese workers don't bother to come back after the holidays to factory jobs where the pay is low and working conditions harsh. This year, according to his sources, return rates may have been closer to 90%.
Could that have anything to do with the fact that Foxconn, pressured by Apple and local workers rights groups, has more than doubled wages and?cut overtime hours?
Source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/magazines_fortune/~3/jJ_S66LxWEs/
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Energy Stocks: Cabot Oil & Gas shines among energy stocks
By Claudia Assis, MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) ? Shares of Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. rallied Friday, in contrast with lackluster performance from the rest of the sector, after the company reported increased production and fourth-quarter results that beat market expectations.
Shares of Cabot /quotes/zigman/221094/quotes/nls/cog COG +10.38% ?rallied 8%, the top gainer among stocks in the S&P 500 index /quotes/zigman/3870025 SPX +0.65% . Read: U.S. stocks rebound to trim weekly losses. .
The company late Thursday reported fourth-quarter adjusted earnings of 27 cents a share, compared with expectations of 22 cents a share.
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Profits reached $40.9 million, from $26.4 million a year earlier. Production in the quarter was higher than expected and reserves expanded, paced by strong performance in the key Marcellus shale formation.
Cabot also unveiled a $1 billion capital expenditure program for this year, foretelling ?aggressive production growth in 2013,? analysts at GHS Research said in a note.
Shares of Exxon Mobil Corp. /quotes/zigman/203975/quotes/nls/xom XOM +0.43% ?declined 0.1%, while shares of ConocoPhillips /quotes/zigman/294662/quotes/nls/cop COP -0.07% ?declined 0.7%. Chevron Corp. /quotes/zigman/289939/quotes/nls/cvx CVX +0.83% ?shares were flat.
U.S.-listed shares of Royal Dutch Shell PLC /quotes/zigman/379078/quotes/nls/rds.a RDS.A +0.91% ?rose 0.5%. Shell said late Thursday it is reassessing its development plan for the North Sea?s Fram oil and gas field after initial drilling showed ?unexpected well results.? The company had planned an average of 35,000 barrels of oil equivalent out of Fram, with first production expected within three years. Exxon?s U.K. unit is a partner at the field.
/conga/story/misc/investing.html 250568Shares of refiner PBF Energy Inc. /quotes/zigman/13139747/quotes/nls/pbf PBF +4.95% ?rose 2.2%. Analysts at Simmons & Co. upgraded PBF Energy to overweight, on ?early signs of success? from the company?s crude procurement strategy.
?PBF recently increased its expectations for crude deliveries by rail and has shown success procuring crudes at substantial discounts to Brent,? the analysts said.
?PBF is the high reward/risk stock in the refining universe in our view,? with the cheapest valuation and most upside potential, the analysts added.
PBF debuted on the New York Stock Exchange in late January, and reported adjusted earnings of $1.70 a share compared with expectations of $1.63 a share.
Refiners were mixed Friday, with Phillips 66 /quotes/zigman/9483013/quotes/nls/psx PSX +2.23% ?up 0.7%. Tesoro Corp. /quotes/zigman/243084/quotes/nls/tso TSO +1.43% ?and Valero Energy Corp. /quotes/zigman/186158/quotes/nls/vlo VLO +0.93% ?, however, were among the top decliners of the day, with shares off 0.8% a piece.
The SPDR Energy Select Sector /quotes/zigman/246199/quotes/nls/xle XLE +0.79% ?exchange-traded fund declined 0.1%. Crude futures were off 0.2%, with April crude /quotes/zigman/2291772 CLJ3 +0.36% ?at $92.64 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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Claudia Assis is a San Francisco-based reporter for MarketWatch. Follow her on Twitter @ClaudiaAssisMW.
Source: http://feeds.marketwatch.com/~r/marketwatch/financial/~3/Pb1JJvM6-y0/story.asp
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Fendi in Milan sticks discreetly to fur heritage
MILAN (AP) ? Fendi is to fur what Ferrari is to cars. Yet given current concerns about animal rights, the brand has moved from the lavish fur coats that were all the rage in the 1980s to a more discreet way of interpreting fur as fashion.
At Just Cavalli, which showed right after Fendi on Thursday and also featured furs, an activist disrupted the show by jumping on the runway holding a sign that read "Your fashion is our death." She was forcibly dragged away as were several others in the audience who had held up similar signs.
At the latest Fendi winter collection presented Thursday during Milan Fashion Week, Silvia Venturini, the creative director and daughter of one of the company's five founding sisters, opted for wisps of fur used as hair decorations, bracelets, or charms hanging from Fendi bags.
Fur also appeared as inserts in a skirt or a dress, or sheered and fashioned into a cozy, but not showy, jacket. Long fur, usually goat, also seen on other runways during Milan's preview showings, was used to make up a skirt or a cape.
For decades, German born designer Karl Lagerfeld has been working with Fendi, adding his flamboyant designing talent to their creative genius.
This round he offered a constructed slim silhouette, with accentuated shoulders and a knee-length hemline. The look is sophisticated rather than sexy and used deep, dark shades of red and blue, which along with black are becoming the staple colors for next winter.
In the accessory department, Fendi chose to reinvent its iconic handbags, from the clutch bag ? this time furry ? to a modern version of the Mary Poppins bag.
The shoes are sure to be a winter hit. Whether a pump, a boot or a lace-up, each pair was elaborately decorated, some in fur, and comes with a pointed toe and a glistening mirrored high heel.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fendi-milan-sticks-discreetly-fur-heritage-165954604.html
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Thursday, 21 February 2013
Denzel Washington Is So Cool, He Doesn't Need Celebrity Friends
Denzel Washington is just your typical guy. He works hard, loves his four children, and doesn?t have any celebrity friends. And he doesn?t want any, either.
?Even within the industry, I don?t have any actor friends. My friends are old friends,? Washington explained to the Guardian. ?One?s an ex-music guy, the other?s a restaurant owner and the other?s an ex-pro ballplayer.?
When questioned as to why he doesn?t make any celeb friends on movie sets he laughingly replied, ?Maybe I?m not a butt kisser. Maybe I?m not a schmoozer. I?m not about to go to a party to try to get a job.?
?I don?t want movie star friends. And being African American, there were no big movie stars to hang out with anyway, not when I was starting out. They were just the third guy from the back! For whatever reason, I never befriended any white actors.?
(His rep later whooshed in and clarified the latter part of that statement, saying the magazine cut out the part where he said ? ? except Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts,? among others.)
?I?m a working actor! What?s a celebrity, anyway?? Washington added. ?Paris Hilton?s a celebrity. I?m just a working actor.?
And with only a few short sentences, Denzel nailed the difference between people who are famous for their work ? and people who just work at being famous.
Source: http://starcrush.com/denzel-washington-famous-friends/
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A New Pope May Be Selected Sooner Than Expected
TORONTO, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Canada's Rebecca Marino, a rising star in women's tennis, stepped away from the sport in search of a normal life on Wednesday, weary of battling depression and cyber-bullies. Ranked number 38 in the world two years ago, the 22-year-old admitted she had long suffered from depression and was no longer willing to make the sacrifices necessary to reach the top. "After thinking long and hard, I do not have the passion or enjoyment to drive myself to the level I would like to be at in professional tennis," Marino explained in a conference call. ...
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pope-may-selected-sooner-expected-162949945.html
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Friday, 15 February 2013
TomTom Rider motorcycle GPS gets refresh, for those born to be guided
It seems a safe bet that any contemporary Easy Rider reboot would be vastly different from its predecessor. For one thing, there's the whole GPS thing to contend with -- and surely there'd be a little friendly product placement in the form of the TomTom Rider (New Orleans isn't gonna find itself, after all). The company has updated its long-running motorcycle GPS line to feature a new 4.3-inch "glove-friendly" weatherproof display and the ability to create, upload and share routes via Bluetooth. Bluetooth functionality also makes it possible to get in-helmet audio directions, so you don't have to stare down at that screen the whole time (when you should be looking at the, you know, road). And for those who don't like the straight and narrow path, there's the Winding Roads to help you find routes with more bends. The Rider is currently listed at £329.99 ($511) for pre-order.
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Can You Potty Train a Cow?
From the summary: [quote]The bovines can defecate nine to 16 times daily, creating big hygiene problems on dairy and beef farms[/quote]
Farmers are interested in two things above all the rest: costs and production. So my guess is that it's not about hygiene, but about lowering costs. Although mildly interesting from a science point of view, this research is of course mainly to lower costs and then I think to myself: divine bovine, please shit where you stand.
Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/dvcwIhEGC1Q/story01.htm
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Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Back to BlackBerry: a whole new UI world
Editor's note: This is not a review. If you haven't taken the opportunity to read through our review of the BlackBerry Z10 and the BB10 operating system, now is the perfect time to do so. As I progress through my 30-day BlackBerry trial, I'm writing most of my thoughts with the assumption that you have a basic understanding of BlackBerry's new devices and platform.
If you were to ask me what the most significant changes are in BlackBerry 10, I'd likely go into detail about the user interface, gestures, the Hub and the ecosystem. It's an amazing improvement over previous BlackBerry devices in most cases. It's not too difficult to learn, either: just three days into my 30-day trial, I found myself unsuccessfully swiping up on a friend's Android phone to turn it on. But now that I've had the chance to set up all of my accounts, do some hardcore messaging and play around with the device, what are some of my thoughts about those major differences? Join me after the break and learn some of the best and worst things I discovered so far.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Blackberry
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/12/blackberry-z10-ui/
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Square Enix Offering Huge Discounts For President's Day
In honor of President's Day, Square Enix is marking 40 percent off on all boxed titles in their catalogue for North America.
The sale, which started yesterday evening, will continue until February 19. No boxed titles are excluded so fans can buy a copy of Front Mission 4 and Final Fantasy X on the PS2, or even Chrono Cross for the PSOne at a discounted price.
Square also decided to include the Hitman Lithographs in the sale as well. While the lithographs would usually run you $47, the sale brings them down to the more reasonable price of $28.20.
This sale ends next Tuesday so don't wait too long to catch up on your favorite series whether it be Final Fantasy, Deus Ex, or Hitman.
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NBA: Bobcats end the Celtics? winning streak
The Charlotte Bobcats ended Boston?s seven-game winning streak as Byron Mullens scored 25 points and had 18 rebounds in a 94-91 win over the Celtics on Monday.
Kevin Garnett had 16 points and 13 rebounds for the Celtics, but missed a key 18-footer that would have given Boston the lead late in the game.
Paul Pierce and Avery Bradley had chances to send the game into overtime in the final seconds, but missed open three-pointers.
Ramon Sessions had 19 points for the Bobcats, including the go-ahead jumper from 18 feet with 25.7 seconds left.
Minnesota?s Luke Ridnour scored 21 points, while Ricky Rubio added 13 and 10 assists as the Timberwolves downed the Cleveland Cavaliers 100-92 to end an eight-game losing streak on the road.
Nikola Pekovic added 16 points and 10 rebounds as Minnesota ended a four-game losing streak and improved to just 4-16 since losing center Kevin Love with a broken hand.
Kyrie Irving scored 20 points and Tristan Thompson had 16 for the Cavaliers.
Chris Paul scored 21 points and made 11 assists, while Blake Griffin scored 20 points in Philadelphia as the Los Angeles Clippers cruised past the 76ers 107-90.
Jamal Crawford also scored 20 points and Matt Barnes had 11 for the Pacific Division-leading Clippers.
Nick Young led the Sixers with 29 points.
In Indianapolis, Indiana, Brook Lopez scored 25 points as the Brooklyn Nets opened overtime with a 9-3 run to pull away and down the Indiana Pacers 89-84.
The Pacers appeared to swing the game with a 7-0 run that gave them a 76-72 lead with 1 minute, 38 seconds left in regulation, but Brooklyn scored the final four points to force overtime and started fast in the extra period to put the game away.
New Orleans won for the third time in eight games as Ryan Anderson scored 31 points, while Robin Lopez had 23 points and 10 rebounds in the Hornets? 105-86 victory over the Detroit Pistons.
Reserve Rodney Stuckey led Detroit with 19 points, but most came after the game had been decided. Greg Monroe added 17 points and 11 rebounds.
In other games, rookie Brandon Beal scored a season-high 28 points to help the Washington Wizards to a rare 102-90 road win over the Milwaukee Bucks, the San Antonio Spurs defeated the Chicago Bulls 103-89 as Kawhi Leonard had a career-high 26 points, while Josh Smith had 26 points and 13 rebounds as the Atlanta Hawks edged the Dallas Mavericks 105-101.
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Current Conditions - Legendary Event Celebrates Boost
(Press Release) With more and more Americans hooked on fishing and other outdoor activities, the 2013 edition of the 67th annual Fred Hall Show ? The Ultimate Outdoor Experience is expected to reel in tens of thousands of attendees. The week-long event, scheduled March 6-10, 2013 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, Calif., will feature nearly 600 exhibitors (almost 10,000 products), over 400 seminars, and some of the most highly engaging, unique and interactive family-fun entertainment and activities found anywhere in the world.The Fred Hall Show ? The Ultimate Outdoor Experience ? is the world?s largest consumer fishing show, the largest boat show in the Western United States, and California?s largest travel show. The show?s attendees will enjoy the Kid?s Fish Free Trout Pond, the popular Dock Dogs and Great American Duck Races, air gun and archery ranges, laser shot games, saltwater and freshwater mobile aquariums, three large touch tanks, a dry suit dive tank, and free fly fishing and casting lessons (including adult casting range and contest).
Also returning this year is precision knife thrower, Jack Dagger ? The King of Fling ? and The Sporting Chef, Scott Leysath, the world?s leading expert in cooking fish and game. Hundreds of seminars, panel discussions and demonstrations will also take the stage during the event, including the Ultimate Eastern Sierra Experience, The Ultimate Salt Water Experience and the Ultimate Bass Fishing Experience.
One of this year?s many dynamic displays will be a 427-pound , world class yellowfin tuna, caught off the coast of Mexico in December 2012. The tuna, which was caught on 130-pound fishing line, is also an all-tackle record. Mustad Hook Co. will present the winning fisherman, Guy Yocom, with a $1 million check during the Fred Hall Show in Long Beach.
?Avid anglers are going to be very excited,? said Bart Hall, producer of The Fred Hall Show ? The Ultimate Outdoor Experience. ?This will be the first time many people, including myself, have seen fish this size.?
The show also promises celebrity entertainment, including Dave Marciano, captain of the boat Hard Merchandise, in National Geographic?s popular fishing reality series Wicked Tuna. Captain Marciano will be appearing and signing autographs at the Accurate Fishing booth on Friday and Saturday of the Long Beach show. Other new features in this year?s Fred Hall Show include a climbing wall in conjunction with the Sierra Recreation Center, and a display by famous extreme sports photographer Christian Pondella.
The number of Americans enjoying the outdoors has increased over the last few years. More Americans hunted, fished and watched wildlife in 2011 than five years earlier, according to the latest statistics released by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
Here are some fast facts from the Agency?s final 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, which was released in late December 2012:
? More than 90 million U.S. residents 16-years old and older participated in some form of
wildlife-related recreation in 2011; that is up three percent from five years earlier. The
increase was primarily among those who fished and hunted.
? Wildlife recreationists spent $144.7 billion in 2011 on their activities,
which equated to one percent of the Gross Domestic Product. Of the total amount spent, $49.5 billion was trip-related, $70.4 billion was spent on equipment, and $24.8 billion was spent on other items such as licenses, land leasing and ownership.
? The number of sportspersons rose four percent over the last five years. The data showed
that 33.1 million people fished, 13.7 million hunted, and 71.8 million participated in at
least one type of wildlife-watching activity such as observing, feeding or photographing
wildlife.
One big change in the outdoor recreation industry is that more women are now involved in previously male-driven outdoor activities such as fishing. For example, there were 8.9 million female anglers in the United States in 2011, compared to 7.6 million in 2006.
Sports and outdoor activities, such as fishing, can cross all generations, said Hall.
?When I fish, I release most of what I catch,? Hall added. ?The ones I keep I eat. That?s the idea. There?s nothing quite as good as catching your own fish and cooking it. If you want fresh sashimi you could catch it, filet it and eat it right there, fresh out of the ocean.?
Hall was only 1-year old when his late father, Fred, launched the first of the Fred Hall Shows in 1946 at Gilmore Stadium in Los Angeles. Back then, the show was even popular among ?Hollywood? cowboys such as John Wayne and Roy Rogers, and cowgirl/actress Dale Evans. Much has changed since then, including the industry.
?There has been a lot of consolidation,? Hall said. ?But there are still a lot of great companies out there that are involved. So many people in this industry love the outdoors and that passion is still driving even the biggest companies.?
All of the proceeds from the Fred Hall Show ? The Ultimate Outdoor Experience, are donated to support the fishing and boating industries, including protecting angler access and opportunities and clean water initiatives.
One big change in the outdoor recreation industry is that more women are now involved in previously male-driven outdoor activities such as fishing. For example, there were 8.9 million female anglers in the United States in 2011, compared to 7.6 million in 2006.
Sports and outdoor activities, such as fishing, can cross all generations, said Hall.
?After my father died 12 years ago, I came to the show that day and I had dozens of people come up to me and tell me ?I caught my first fish at the show and my son caught his first fish at the show.
?When I fish, I release most of what I catch,? Hall added. ?The ones I keep I eat. That?s the idea. There?s nothing quite as good as catching your own fish and cooking it. If you want fresh sashimi you could catch it, filet it and eat it right there, fresh out of the ocean.?
Hall was only one year old when his late father, Fred, launched the first of the Fred Hall Shows in 1946 at Gilmore Stadium in Los Angeles. Back then, the show was popular among Hollywood cowboys such as John Wayne and Roy Rogers, and cowgirl/actress Dale Evans. Much has changed since then, including the industry.
?There has been a lot of consolidation,? Hall said. ?But there are still a lot of great companies out there that are involved. So many people in this industry love the outdoors and that passion is still driving even the biggest companies.?
All of the proceeds from the Fred Hall Show ? The Ultimate Outdoor Experience, are donated to support the fishing and boating industries, including protecting angler access and opportunities and clean water initiatives.
About The Fred Hall Show ? The Ultimate Outdoor Experience
The Fred Hall Show will be held March 6-10, 2013 at the Long Beach Convention Center located at 300 East Ocean Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90802. Admission to this year?s show is: Adults: $15; Seniors: (62 and over) $14; Children 15 and under: Free with a paid
adult; Active Military with ID: Free. For show hours and directions log onto www.FredHall.com
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Threes Biting
American Angler reported three tuna over 300 pounds over the weekend, with 11 tuna over 200 pounds also taken:
Jack ?Sailor? Esson, 307 pounds
Cesar Zeyala, 320
Mike Pigeon, 302
?Another fine day of angling in beautiful weather,? reported Royal Star February 10, ?that was highlighted by three more cows: 235, 275, 304. We also kept ten others from 100 to 150 pounds and released numerous tuna that weighed under 100 pounds.
?An added bonus today when a school of ravenous skin got on us and wreaked havoc for a few hours, 55 went in the hatch. Photo: Tom Nordstrom with a 275 taken on a sardine.?
Source: http://www.fishingvideos.com/news/index.php?itemid=2325
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Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Snedeker finally gets a win
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) ? With one last birdie, Brandt Snedeker finally had a chance to catch his breath at one of the best places in golf.
He was on the 18th tee at Pebble Beach with a three-shot lead Sunday as he gazed into the sun at an endless ocean and tried to grasp just how far he has come in the past few months.
There was that big win at the Tour Championship to claim the $10 million prize as the FedEx Cup champion.
He played in his first Ryder Cup.
In his past nine tournaments, he has six finishes in the top three, including back-to-back weeks as the runner-up to Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.
Snedeker wasn't about to let anyone get in his way at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
"Just hard to put into words, to have a stretch of golf like I had the last couple of months," Snedeker said after his two-shot win. "Something you dream about. Something you think that you can do, but you don't really know until you actually put it together. And I have.
"I'm really enjoying this, and hopefully can parlay this into the best year of my career."
He was the best all week at Pebble Beach, finishing at 19-under 267 to break by one shot the tournament record. Mickelson (2007) and Mark O'Meara (1997) each had a 20-under 268 when Poppy Hills was still in the rotation.
Snedeker built his lead in the final round by playing the opening seven holes in 5 under, fired at the flag on the par-3 17th to set up his last birdie and closed with a 7-under 65, his 10th consecutive round in the 60s.
A tap-in par on the 18th gave him a two-shot win over Chris Kirk, who stayed in the hunt all day without ever putting too much pressure on Snedeker.
The hottest player in golf, Snedeker finally has a trophy to show for it.
"The last two weeks, playing great but running into two Hall of Famers, really motivated me to go out and prove that I can handle the lead," he said.
With his fifth career win ? and fourth over the past 22 months ? Snedeker improved to a career-best No. 4 in the world, making him the second-highest American in the world ranking behind Woods.
"Sneds is officially the best golfer on the planet right now," Ian Poulter tweeted from home in Orlando, Fla. "Some serious golf he is playing."
In five starts this year, the 32-year-old from Nashville already has a win, two second-place finishes and a third. He never had much of a chance against Woods at Torrey Pines or Mickelson at the Phoenix Open, who each had big leads going into the final round.
Snedeker was tied with James Hahn, a 31-year-old rookie from the Bay Area, and seized control with an eagle and three birdies on the opening seven holes. Snedeker responded to his only bogey, a three-putt at No. 9, by rolling in birdie putts on the next two holes.
Hahn was looking forward to learning something from his debut in the final group, and he saw Snedeker put on a clinic.
"I learned that he is a better guy than he is a golfer. The dude is world class," Hahn said. "He's obviously one of the best, if not the best golfer right now, and possibly for the last year. But how he conducts himself as a person on an off the golf course, that's also world class. He deserved to win today. ... I'm sure if you ask him, it was never a doubt that he was going to win the golf tournament."
Snedeker concurred.
"I definitely didn't want to do anything but win today," he said. "I was out there for one purpose and one purpose only, and I was extremely focused all day. I did a great job of staying patient and I did a great job of playing the golf course the way you're supposed to play it."
He now heads off to a vacation on Maui before returning for the stretch run leading to the Masters.
Winning a major is the next step for Snedeker, who has emerged as a veritable threat wherever he plays with a confident putting stroke and a dramatic increase in hitting fairways off the tee.
Kirk never got closer than two shots of the lead, missing an 8-footer on the 16th that could have put some pressure on Snedeker. He closed with a 66 to finish at 269, a score that would been good enough to win all but four times at Pebble Beach since this event began in 1937.
"We've had a lot of tournaments like that on tour this year where somebody has really just kind of blitzed the field," Kirk said. "I felt like I played well enough to win a golf tournament and came up a little bit short."
Hahn wound up with a 2-under 70 and tied for third with Jimmy Walker (66) and Kevin Stadler (65). The day wasn't a total loss for Hahn. He previously tied for fourth at the Humana Challenge, and his tie for third gets him into Riviera next week. He hasn't missed a cut this year and is already 11th in the FedEx Cup standings.
The only drama on a pristine day on the Monterey Peninsula came from Patrick Reed. His 12-foot birdie putt on the final hole gave him a tie for seventh with Fredrik Jacobson, and kept Jacobson from qualifying for the Match Play Championship by 0.0002 points.
The final spot in the 64-man field based on the world ranking instead goes to Shane Lowery of Ireland, who did not play this week.
Even better for Snedeker was leaving with two trophies. He and his amateur partner, Nashville investor and longtime friend Toby Wilt, tied for first in the pro-am. Wilt endowed a golf scholarship at Vanderbilt, and Snedeker was the first recipient.
Snedeker has come a long way and might just be getting started.
"I would love to be known as the best American golfer," Snedeker said. "I've got a long way to go to do that, but this is a great start to the year. Couldn't have scripted much of a better one, except for maybe winning the last two weeks if the guys (Woods and Mickelson) hadn't played."
Mickelson, the defending champion, hit two more balls in the ocean on the 18th hole, but at least this time he didn't slip on the rocks. He closed with a 72 and tied for 60th.
Snedeker kept to his strategy of attacking the opening seven holes, the key to scoring at Pebble Beach.
He hit a 4-iron that caught the collar of the green and rolled to 4 feet on the par-5 second hole for an eagle, matched birdies with Hahn on the fourth hole, and then hit a 3-wood that skirted the collar of the green on the par-5 sixth and settled 20 feet away for a two-putt birdie.
From there, the FedEx Cup champion had to worry about the rest of the field. Kirk, Walker and even Retief Goosen all tried to make a run, and it looked as though Snedeker might help them out when he gunned his birdie putt past the hole and off the green at the ninth for a bogey.
Snedeker made five bogeys this week, and answered with a birdie four times. He rammed home a 25-foot birdie on the 10th, and then followed that with a 15-foot birdie on the 11th to expand his lead to four shots.
From there, it was a battle for second place ? and for the final spot in the Match Play Championship. Mickelson already has said he won't be playing in two weeks, so the top 65 are eligible.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/snedeker-finally-gets-win-020644593--spt.html
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Monday, 11 February 2013
3 dead in Indian Kashmir protests after man hanged
SRINAGAR, India (AP) ? Sporadic violence left three people dead in Indian-controlled Kashmir despite a curfew that was extended into a third day Monday in the wake of the execution of a Kashmiri man convicted in a deadly 2001 attack on India's Parliament.
Mohammed Afzal Guru was hanged in New Delhi early Saturday. Ahead of the execution, authorities ordered people in most of the Indian-held part of the disputed Kashmir region to remain indoors indefinitely in anticipation of anti-India protests.
Despite the curfew, hundreds of angry residents protested against Indian rule on Sunday and clashed with troops at dozens of places in the region.
In Watergam village near the town of Sopore, which was Guru's home, at least four people were wounded, one critically, as police and paramilitary troops fired tear gas shells and bullets to disperse an angry crowd, police said.
One of the injured, 12-year-old Obaid Mushtaq, died early Monday, said Aijaz Mustafa, a medical superintendent at the S.K. Institute of Medical Sciences, a government hospital in Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir. He said another 18-year-old boy was on life support.
Another young man died in Sumbal village in northern Kashmir on Sunday after he jumped into a frigid river while trying to run away from troops who were firing tear gas and using batons to disperse the protesters. Four policemen were injured in separate clashes.
On Monday, local villagers fished out another body of a high school boy who was missing since Sunday's protest in Sumbal from the river, police said.
Tens of thousands of security troops were fanned out across the Himalayan region, and metal barricades and razor wire blocked all major roads in the area.
Cable television and mobile Internet services were shut in most parts of the region and Kashmir's nearly 60 newspapers were unable to publish.
Showkat Ahmed Motta, the editor of an English-language daily newspaper, Kashmir Reader, said that his paper published Sunday's edition but police seized the copies.
"Police gave us verbal orders not to publish for four days," he said.
A local police official denied that any newspapers were stopped from publishing, but said the strict curfew may have prevented copies of the papers from reaching readers. He declined to give his name.
Guru's execution is an extremely sensitive matter in the Himalayan region, where most people believe his trial was not fair. Several rights groups across India, and political groups in Indian Kashmir, also questioned the fairness of his trial.
Anti-India sentiment runs deep in Muslim-majority Kashmir, which is divided between Hindu-dominated India and Muslim-majority Pakistan but is claimed by both nations.
Since 1989, an armed uprising and an ensuing crackdown in the region have killed an estimated 68,000 people, mostly civilians.
Guru confessed in TV interviews that he helped plot the attack on India's Parliament that killed 14 people, including the five gunmen, but later denied any involvement and said he had been tortured into confessing.
Government prosecutors said Guru was a member of the Pakistan-based militant group, Jaish-e-Mohammed, a charge that Guru denied.
Guru had been on death row since first being convicted in 2002. Subsequent appeals in higher courts were rejected, and India's Supreme Court set an execution date for October 2006. But his execution was delayed after his wife filed a mercy petition with India's president. That petition, the last step in the judicial process, was turned down last week.
While Indian government officials said Guru's family had been informed of his imminent execution by express mail, the family said it learned of it only through television news.
John Samuel, Indian Kashmir's head of postal department, told local reporters that the letter posted in New Delhi on Feb. 8 was delivered to Guru's family on Monday.
Indian Kashmir's top elected official expressed anger that authorities denied Guru's family a last meeting.
"I wish we were the ones authorized to give the news to the family ? we owed him that much," Omar Abdullah, Indian Kashmir's top elected official, told CNN-IBN news channel on Sunday.
After the execution, Guru was buried in the prison compound.
The secrecy with which Guru's execution was carried out was similar to the execution in November of Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Kasab, a Pakistani citizen, was buried in the western Indian prison where he was hanged.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/3-dead-indian-kashmir-protests-man-hanged-091458277.html
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