div class='os_post_top_link'a href='http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/11/12/sony-ericsson-xperia-x1-review/' target='_blank'http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/...eria-x1-review//abr /br //divp"emSony Ericsson has produced some exceptional handsets over the years, with certain gems like the W950, W300i and W580i (just to name a few) catching the eyes and hearts of casual and hardcore mobile fanatics alike. Even so, it's hard to argue that any single phone in the outfit's history has caused more of a stir than the XPERIA X1/em."/ppimg src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/ppct/auto/1227407692.usr251.jpg" //pp /ppDarren Murph and the team at Engadget Mobile tear into the new a href="http://www.sonyericsson.com/x1/" target="_blank"Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1/a version slated for North America, the X1A, which is different than the X1i which is already available in some areas. You'll find a great look at the hardware and software the X1 offers, as well as a gallery of shots and even video of a web surfing race between the X1 and the iPhone 3G. Who do you think won? Check it out at a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/11/12/sony-ericsson-xperia-x1-review/" target="_blank"Engadget Mobile/a and see if it's worth parting with $799.99 to take it home./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/uPshxHzGGp4oV4UG5Ng7qCZgynE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/uPshxHzGGp4oV4UG5Ng7qCZgynE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.pocketpcthoughts.com/~f/pocketpcthoughts?a=XHyjv5BO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pocketpcthoughts?d=287" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.pocketpcthoughts.com/~f/pocketpcthoughts?a=yxpDgt53"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/pocketpcthoughts?d=120" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pocketpcthoughts/~4/dY8dfwousO4" height="1" width="1"/

So Nokia has a 40-odd percent stake in the world's handset market. You know where that insanely high number isn't coming from? Japan, where the Finnish giant holds less than a 1-percent share of phone sales as it competes against domestic models from Sharp, NEC, Fujitsu, and others who've traditionally ruled over FOMA with an iron fist. We think that we can probably chalk that up to the simple fact that Nokia doesn't produce many (okay, any) wide VGA flip phones with one-seg TV tuners, but they're thinking bigger -- way bigger -- to the tune of a self-branded MVNO that'd operate on NTT DoCoMo's expansive network. A Japanese paper is reporting that the virtual network will launch next spring, initially with high-end models designed to establish name recognition in a market where it currently has none; Vertu is just starting to set up shop over there, so we're assuming they don't mean ridiculously high-end, but high-end in the sense that the spec sheets won't get laughed right out of town.

[Via Unwired View, thanks Robin of Loxley]

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a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE4AL0UD20081122"img vspace="16" hspace="4" border="1" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2008/11/nokia-nttdocomo-sm.jpg" alt="" //aSo Nokia has a 40-odd percent stake in the world's handset market. You know where that insanely high number emisn't/em coming from? Japan, where the Finnish giant holds less than a 1-percent share of phone sales as it competes against domestic models from Sharp, NEC, Fujitsu, and others who've traditionally ruled over a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/FOMA/"FOMA/a with an iron fist. We think that we can probably chalk that up to the simple fact that Nokia doesn't produce many (okay, any) wide VGA flip phones with one-seg TV tuners, but they're thinking bigger -- way bigger -- to the tune of a self-branded MVNO that'd operate on NTT DoCoMo's expansive network. A Japanese paper is reporting that the virtual network will launch next spring, initially with high-end models designed to establish name recognition in a market where it currently has none; Vertu is a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/09/17/vertu-coming-to-japan-wants-all-your-yen/"just starting to set up shop/a over there, so we're assuming they don't mean ridiculously high-end, but high-end in the sense that the spec sheets won't get laughed right out of town.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.unwiredview.com/2008/11/22/nokia-to-become-a-mvno-in-japan-helped-by-ntt-docomo/"Unwired View/a, thanks Robin of Loxley]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"Cellphones/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/nokia-tying-up-with-ntt-docomo-for-japanese-mvno/"Nokia tying up with NTT DoCoMo for Japanese MVNO?/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:58:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE4AL0UD20081122Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/nokia-tying-up-with-ntt-docomo-for-japanese-mvno/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1380287/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/nokia-tying-up-with-ntt-docomo-for-japanese-mvno/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/rhe31z_fYKypZRF9ssywgxs0ffU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/rhe31z_fYKypZRF9ssywgxs0ffU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=uoy3yl7S"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=uoy3yl7S" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=bi8oaX8t"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=bi8oaX8t" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/mlTjMUlQaeY" height="1" width="1"/

So you've read our extensive BlackBerry Storm review and, despite feeling disappointment about it not living up to the hype, can't help but wonder just what makes the thing tick click. While we were a bit too squeamish to rip one of ours apart and find out, phoneWreck felt no qualms about turning this week's hottest handset into a pile of bits, exposing (among numerous other things) the Qualcomm MSM7600 processor that's blamed for the phone's sluggish performance. As to how the clicky screen works, it's rather simple: just a plate behind the display (pictured above) with a dimple to push a button on a circuit board. Never dissect your heroes, kids; it just takes the mystery out of life.

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div align="center"a href="http://www.phonewreck.com/2008/11/21/blackberry-storm-review-and-teardown/"img hspace="4" border="1" vspace="4" alt="BlackBerry Storm's clickable screen (and the rest of it) dissected, exposed" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/blackberry-storm-teardown.jpb.jpg" //abr //div So you've read our emextensive/em a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/19/blackberry-storm-review/"BlackBerry Storm review/a and, despite feeling disappointment about it not living up to the hype, can't help but wonder just what makes the thing striketick/strike click. While we were a bit too squeamish to rip one of ours apart and find out, emphoneWreck/em felt no qualms about turning this week's hottest handset into a pile of bits, exposing (among numerous other things) the Qualcomm MSM7600 processor that's blamed for the phone's sluggish performance. As to how the clicky screen works, it's rather simple: just a plate behind the display (pictured above) with a dimple to push a button on a circuit board. Never dissect your heroes, kids; it just takes the mystery out of life.pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"Cellphones/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/handhelds/" rel="tag"Handhelds/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/blackberry-storms-clickable-screen-and-the-rest-of-it-dissect/"BlackBerry Storm's clickable screen (and the rest of it) dissected, exposed/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:30:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.phonewreck.com/2008/11/21/blackberry-storm-review-and-teardown/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/blackberry-storms-clickable-screen-and-the-rest-of-it-dissect/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1380223/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/blackberry-storms-clickable-screen-and-the-rest-of-it-dissect/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/u2D0sLD7b9tw2JDM69__SS2ZdQE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/u2D0sLD7b9tw2JDM69__SS2ZdQE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=aSPWku6r"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=aSPWku6r" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=ioWF7ade"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=ioWF7ade" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/tPqawdXOKog" height="1" width="1"/

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=49286416796c7abf00fc964dmaxX=218maxY=389" border="0" alt="blackberry-storm-limited-availability.jpg" title="blackberry-storm-limited-availability.jpg" width="218" height="389" /RIM's new BlackBerry Storm is a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/live-blackberry-storm-twitter-rimm-"proving to be popular with some people/a -- many Verizon Wireless stores a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/blackberry-storm-lines"sold out/a of their first batches yesterday. But while Verizon initially promised quick Internet orders, shipment for new orders has been delayed to "by Dec. 15." This is potentially bad news for RIM, whose third quarter ends Nov. 29. (See below for details.)/p pWhy the delay? a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/blackberry-storm-shipments-delayed-due-to-apparent-version-glitc/"Engadget reports/a that Verizon is being forced to downgrade the phones in its inventory to an older version of RIM's operating system to potentially avoid a "security glitch," which was first alleged by a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/11/21/the-real-story-behind-the-verizon-blackberry-storm-os/"mobile blog Boy Genius Report/a. (We don't know if this is true. We're checking with Verizon and will update if we hear back.)/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/blackberry-storm-shipments-delayed-due-to-apparent-version-glitc/"Engadget/a: Supposedly the Storm was set to launch with OS version 4.7.0.82, but due to a last-minute security glitch every last handset had to be downgraded to .65 -- a surely time-consuming task that resulted in many fewer handsets in-store and online for release. Right now Verizon is indicating that orders placed before noon on November 21 should ship on the 25th, those received after noon will ship on December 5, and anything received on November 22 or later will not ship before December 15. That's close enough to a certain major holiday to make BlackBerry-loving kids of all ages nervous./p pNervous indeed -- and something that, if true, could potentially negatively impact RIM's Q3 results -- the quarter that ends Nov. 29 -- and Q4 guidance. We assume RIM's Q3 emdevice/em shipments are at lower risk because, in theory, the phones have already been sold to Verizon, whose staff is tinkering with them. (Though it's possible Verizon's orders in Q3 and Q4 will be lower while they can't ship phones they already have.)/p pMore important: If thousands of people can't buy new Storms until next month, they can't sign up to be new BlackBerry emservice/em subscribers until next month -- which is part of RIM's Q4. Which could negatively impact RIM's Q3 subscriber growth. How much? We don't know. But it's definitely not emgood/em news for RIM or Verizon./p pAnd if the delay extends further into the Christmas buying season, it's even worse. Why? Besides delaying Storm purchases, it could push on-the-fence buyers to consider other phones, such as Apple's (AAPL) iPhone./p pThat could be happening already. We've seen some a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?max_id=1018483140page=2q=storm+iphone"anecdotal evidence/a -- like a href="http://twitter.com/MStokes/statuses/1018423941"multiple/a a href="http://twitter.com/onefoodguy/statuses/1018483140"Twitter/a a href="http://twitter.com/anivus/statuses/1018287199"conversations/a -- panning the Storm's push-down touchscreen, which you have to press down hard to type with -- and dismissing the phone's threat to Apple. (We a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/rim-blackberry-storm-review"think it's a decent phone/a, but we personally find the keypad more gimmicky than helpful.)/p pstrongSee Also:/strongbr /a href="../../2008/11/blackberry-storm-lines"BlackBerry Storm Lines Boost RIM Shares/abr /a href="../../2008/11/rim-blackberry-storm-review"RIM's BlackBerry Storm Is No iPhone, But Should Sell Well/abr /a href="../../2008/11/live-blackberry-storm-twitter-rimm-"LIVE: BlackBerry Storm Twitter/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Z3Y6isDf6LqjqNZKGypsRlbGbcI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/Z3Y6isDf6LqjqNZKGypsRlbGbcI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=mkDMwnvk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=mkDMwnvk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=G7d97k72"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=hU4RwHA6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=YNb5OElZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=YNb5OElZ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=pxl6eEAO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=OFz4HOPP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=g2K8htIP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=ESuC8xhu"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/SPpgbZ_5jog" height="1" width="1"/

If you're one of the many, many BlackBerry Storm buyers who cleaned out inventories at Verizon stores on Friday, all that time spent waiting in the cold just became a bit more worthwhile. Online orders are being subject to shipping delays and, while you might think this is just another case of holiday supply versus demand, many are calling shenanigans. Supposedly the Storm was set to launch with OS version 4.7.0.82, but due to a last-minute security glitch every last handset had to be downgraded to .65 -- a surely time-consuming task that resulted in many fewer handsets in-store and online for release. Right now Verizon is indicating that orders placed before noon on November 21 should ship on the 25th, those received after noon will ship on December 5, and anything received on November 22 or later will not ship before December 15. That's close enough to a certain major holiday to make BlackBerry-loving kids of all ages nervous. If a Storm is high on your Christmas list you might just want to plan a few extra good deeds on your schedule to boost your placement on the "nice" list -- nobody wants a 7100i in their stocking.

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The 2009 NAB Show, held April 18-23 in Las Vegas, will include new pavilions and exhibitors showcasing the latest developments in 3D, mobile solutions, IPTV and content, show organizers announced today. The NAB Show will once again put content and the content lifecycle in the spotlight through an unparalleled array of 1,600 exhibits, featuring the industry's top innovators, including Show partners Sony, Thomson, Panasonic, Canon, Dolby, Evertz, Harris, JVC, Ross Video and Vitec Group. Other major exhibitors that reflect the leading edge in content development include Accenture, Adobe, Autodesk, Cisco, Google, HP, Microsoft, NEC, QUALCOMM, Inc./Media FLO and Quantel.

"The new pavilions featured on the exhibit floor will allow content professionals from all sides of the broader-casting spectrum to come together to share experiences, explore opportunities and examine new business models for distributing content over next generation platforms," said NAB Executive Vice President of Conventions and Business Operations Chris Brown. "We look forward to providing the content community with an even sharper focus around the balance between content development and distribution during the 2009 NAB Show."

New pavilions at the NAB Show include:

• Content Commerce Pavilion is produced in partnership with VideoNuze and located within Content Central. This area will unite all members of the content community to facilitate business to business information sharing and innovation, explore opportunities and examine new business models for distributing content over next generation platforms.
  
  "I'm thrilled that VideoNuze is partnering with NAB to create the Content Commerce Pavilion at the 2009 NAB Show," said Will Richmond, editor and publisher of VideoNuze. "The broadband video industry is exploding with content and technology choices; this will be a premier opportunity to see the latest monetization, video platform, syndication, and ad support technologies that will expand audience reach for content owners."
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• Mobile Solutions Pavilion is produced in partnership with Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) and will showcase the latest in mobile technologies including: standards, handsets, advertising applications and end-to-end mobile solutions.
  
  "We are excited about our ongoing relationship with NAB and the partnership to help create the Mobile Solutions Pavilion at the 2009 NAB Show," said Jim Beddows, board chairman for MEF Americas. "The rapid acceleration of video consumed through mobile devices bodes well for cross-platform opportunities and for the content industry as a whole."
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• 3D Pavilion includes the latest in stereoscopic and auto stereoscopic technologies. This area will feature 3D software tools for content professionals looking to create cutting-edge 3D footage. Participating first time exhibitors include Phillips 3D Solutions and 3ality Digital.
  
  "Exhibiting at the NAB Show is vital for Philips 3D Solutions," said Bjorn Teuwsen, manager of marketing and communications at Phillips 3D Solutions. "The NAB credo 'where content comes to life,' will become reality when you experience the new dimension of our immersive 3D displays."
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• NHK Pavilion will include a super hi-vision theater and an integral 3D television system, a new development in 3D technology that reproduces the 3D effect in HDTV without being sensitive to viewer position. Japan's terrestrial digital broadcasting system, ISDB-T, will also be displayed at the pavilion, featuring an innovative application that shows how mobile DTV services can be utilized for emergency warning systems.

Pavilions returning this year include the IPTV Pavilion, produced in partnership with Telephony and Broadcast Engineering magazines, and an array of international pavilions. Occupying over 15,000 square feet of exhibit space, the International Pavilions at the 2009 NAB Show will include representatives from France, Bavaria, Belgium, Brazil, India, the UK and Italy.

h4Turn on, tune in... and your calls won't drop out/h4 pstrongReview/strong Nokia has cranked up the volume of its mobile music message recently with the debut of its Comes With Music download service and the unveiling of its touchscreen 5800 XpressMusic handset..../p

I released an application which plays AIFF files through CoreAudio. Since the 2.2 upgrade, users have been complaining that audio doesn't play anymore. I have verified this behavior on my handset. Basically, after AudioQueueStart(..), the playback callback never gets called, so audio data never gets queued to play. And, in iPhone Simulator, I get the below error on the console when attempting to load the AIFF file for playback.

This has worked fine prior to 2.2. Can anyone advise?

Thanks,
Dave

Error below----------------------

2008-11-22 01:47:51.748 xxxxx[7365:20b] Error loading /Library/QuickTime/DivX Decoder.component/Contents/MacOS/DivX Decoder: dlopen(/Library/QuickTime/DivX Decoder.component/Contents/MacOS/DivX Decoder, 262): Symbol not found: _SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser
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I dont think a firmware upgrade can make the iPhone beat the RAZR at this:rolleyes:





RAZR stops a bullet, its owner reports "feeling lucky, punk."


Source: Engadget

Quote: New Orleans resident Ronald Richard was mowing the lawn when he felt a hard object hit him in the chest -- precisely where he'd been keeping his pink Swarovski-encrusted (just kidding) RAZR. It was only after Richard took off his sweater that he discovered the .45-caliber slug and realized that the phone had literally taken a bullet for him. According to paramedics, the angle of the bullet and the modest stopping power of the cellphone were all that stood between the man and serious injury or even death. Instead, this lucky gent got away with little more than a fairly significant bruise and an excuse to pick up that Aura he's been coveting.
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Source: The St. Tammany News

Quote: By all accounts, Ronald Richard, 68, of Covington, should be dead.

Driving his John Deere tractor Saturday, Richard was suddenly thumped with a pain ”like a hard punch jumped up” and bit him in the heart.

He bent over and grasped his sweater. Then he took it off to get a closer look. A .45-caliber bullet casing tumbled out, clattered onto the tractor and fell on the ground.

Ronald Richard shows a hole in his shirt caused by a stray bullet. (Staff Photo by Matthew Penix)

He’d just been shot.

It was a stray bullet, and it tore through his sweater, leaving a 1/2-inch hole, where it entered into the top center pocket of his coveralls and hit his cell phone.

The bullet, coming in at a 45-degree angle, busted the phone in two, but the impact halted its trajectory just enough to save Richard’s life

”It’s a miracle,” he said Tuesday. ”Normally I put the phone in my inside pocket, but for some reason that day was different. Now I know why.”

Richard, a computer systems analyst who was alone at home at the time, didn’t hear a gunshot over the tractor’s roar and at first didn’t know what hit him. Part of him thought the tractor spewed some gravel. But being in the driver’s seat, he thought it impossible, he said.

”I was shocked,” he said. ”I just thought, ‘How did this not kill me?’”

After calling 911 and assuring a dispatcher several times that ”although I was shot in the chest I was fine,” Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived to investigate.

”He’s extremely fortunate,” said Capt. George Bonnett, Sheriff’s Office spokesman. ”And with Thanksgiving around the corner he definitely has something to be thankful for. I’ve never heard of anything like this before.”

Neither had Mindy, Richard’s wife.

Mindy, who was out running errands, returned to their house Saturday afternoon to find three Sheriff’s Office deputies parked in her driveway.

She wondered if Richard had a heart attack or flipped the tractor and was injured. She was confused.

Then Richard told her, ”I was shot.”

”You can’t tease me like this,” she said. ”But then I noticed he looked stricken. I burst into tears.”

The pair immediately remembered a spate of gunshots, some single, others rapid fire automatics, in the nearby woods that surround their Lee Road north of Covingtonhome and many others less than a quarter mile in all directions. They’ve always thought it was hunters or gun enthusiasts taking target practice, a noise they’ve heard intermittently for eight years, ever since they moved from Metairie to the Northshore in 2000.

Not against guns or hunters, the couple never reported the shots and just thought it was part of the territory ”because we live in the country.” They routinely see hunters park their cars at the intersection of Lee Road and North Fitzmorris Road and walk down a power line corridor through the woods and behind their home. In the past couple months, Sheriff’s Office deputies have fielded ”two or three” complaints of nearby gunshots, Bonnett said. But in recent days, the shots grew louder, closer, likely the result of deer season opening.

”I always thought one day a bullet would hit the house, whiz by us, but never did I think one would hit me,” Richard said.

The couple decided to tell their story Tuesday in an effort to teach hunters and gun enthusiasts how dangerous shooting near homes can be.

”We’re not against guns. My family used to hunt. We just want to tell as many people as possible to be careful,” Mindy said. ”And for them to be aware that people live here. We could be planning a funeral, but for the grace of God, he’s alive.”

The couple this week also sent a letter to St. Tammany Parish District 2 Councilman Chris Cooper urging for a harsher gun ordinance. They hope to increase jail time and fines for anyone firing a weapon in directions of nearby homes.

Cooper said he planned to meet with an attorney to discuss solutions.

”I’m going to do anything I can to solve this,” he said. ”There are a lot of homes in that area, and if it wouldn’t have been Richard it would be someone else. Somehow we’ve got to control this or get it stopped.”

For now, the couple is just happy to be alive. They just returned to live in their Hurricane Katrina-ravaged home and are still unpacking mounds of boxes and knickknacks. They just finished remodeling their kitchen. And now, ever since the accident, Richard’s son is calling home more often.

”We’re going to have a happy Thanksgiving this year,” Mindy said. ”We’ve got a lot to be thankful for.”

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