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HUNTING & FISHING 2012: Mixed outlook for deer hunters
Counts for whitetail looking improved; others could be bleak
Preseason predictions are calling for a much improved season for Texas whitetail deer hunters, but for those going after mule deer in the Trans-Pecos the outlook is bleak.
"Generally speaking, range conditions are in better shape than we were last year at the same time," said Mitch Lockwood, a spokesman for the wildlife division of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department. "In most areas of Texas those parched areas of 2011 are turning green again. Our field biologists are seeing a good fawn crop, unlike that of 2011, when young deer were almost nonexistent.
"It appears that there will be good acorn crops in many locations, and that always aids in antler development."
Skipper Duncan, who ranches and runs a hunting resort just west of San Angelo, said the 2012 and 2013 deer seasons will be improved over last year, but just how much he's not sure.
"We did have a fawn crop this spring and turkeys had a hatch. The 2011 turkey hatch in West Texas was almost zero," Duncan said. "My trail cameras are picking up young birds and fawns. We had enough rain early in the summer to aid in antler development of young bucks. If we get more rain between now and November it could turn a 110 BC buck into one that scores 130.
"I'm anxious to see what fall deer counts will show. Because of the bad drought years we had from 2010-2011, I fear that overall whitetail numbers are down. We not only lost a fawn crop, but some adult deer died as well."
Deer counts normally begin in September, he said.
Whitetail deer season begins Sept. 29 with a monthlong archery season.
The general deer season opens Nov. 3 in both the north and south zones of Texas.
Loyd Whitehead, a San Angelo rancher with land in Tom Green, Schleicher, Menard and Concho counties, said he expects hunters to enjoy improved conditions this fall.
"We have not conducted flyover deer surveys, but I'll say that the 2012-13 hunts will at least be decent," Whitehead said.
He said his fawn crop was better than last year, but not back to normal despite spring, and some summer, rains.
"I've been told that this year's crop of young deer will be around 20 percent, not that great, but an improvement."
Greg Simons of Wildlife Systems, who manages hunting on several area ranches, anticipates a good season for deer and other game animals.
"Antler growth, I think, is going to be above average," Simons said. "We had some great rain in the spring that is helping with fawn production as well. We've been seeing lots of little turkey and it appears that bobwhite quail had a good hatch."
Hunters interested in mule deer, however, will faced continued challenges because of dry conditions and worries about chronic wasting disease.
There are three zones for hunting mule deer. The Panhandle, 39 counties, runs from Nov. 17 through Dec. 2. The Southwestern Panhandle area is open from Nov. 17 through Nov. 25. The Trans-Pecos area season starts Nov. 23 and ends Dec. 9.
Shawn Gray, a parks and wildlife department biologist, who heads up the mule deer, pronghorn and big horn sheep programs in Texas, said the prospects for mule deer and antelope are not that bright.
Earlier this year, 31 mule deer were harvested and tested for chronic wasting disease and after extensive testing it was revealed in June that two of the deer had CWD.
"The two deer that tested positive were from the Hueco Mountains of northern El Paso and Hudspeth counties," Gray said. "Although the exact locations have not been set, hunters can expect to see mandatory check stations for mule deer taken in the Trans-Pecos region this hunting season."
Although no official statement has been handed down by the TPWD, it's possible that mule deer hunters in the CWD-affected areas will be asked to bone out the meat of deer killed in these locations and return only the head of the carcass to check stations.
The procedure would be an extra means of controlling the spread of CWD to mule deer.
However, if such a request is adopted, it would be contrary to a deer game regulation that states deer many only be processed at the final destination of the hunter whose name is on the attached tag.
"Since 2007 we have noticed a 40 to 50 percent decline in mule deer populations in the Trans-Pecos. I attribute the drop in numbers to drought conditions," Gray added.
Legal tagging
of game
The tag from the hunting license of the person who killed the deer or turkey must be correctly and legibly completed (including name of property and county) and must:
Be used on a specific type of deer or turkey (for example, buck tags must be used only on buck deer, antlerless tags on antlerless deer etc.).
Have the month and date of kill CUT OUT.
Be attached immediately to the deer or turkey carcass until it reaches its final destination and is finally processed.
Key hunting dates
Here is a list of 2012-13 hunting dates and important hunting information in Texas:
Twenty-two counties and special properties (by permit only) — Sept. 10 through Sept. 30
Remainder of state — April 1 through June. 30
By permit only — Sept. 29 through Oct. 7
North zone regular season — Sept. 1 through Oct. 24
and Dec. 22 through
Jan. 6
Central zone regular season — Sept. 1 through Oct. 24 and Dec. 22 through Jan. 6
South zone regular season — Sept. 21 through Oct. 28 and Dec. 22 through Jan. 22
Special whitewing dove area regular season
Sept. 21 through Oct. 28 and Dec. 22, 2012 through Jan. 18.
Special white-winged dove
area special season:
Sept. 1 through Sept. 2 and Sept. 8 through Sept. 9
(Note: The dates are distinct from the rest of the south zone. Legal shooting hours are noon to sunset. Please report leg bands to 1-800-327-BAND)
Nov. 15 through Dec. 21
September teal only season
Sept. 15 through Sept. 30
White-tailed deer:
Archery — Sept. 29 through Nov. 2
Special Youth Season —
Oct. 27 through Oct. 28
and Jan. 7 through
Jan. 20
North Texas (212 counties)
Nov. 3 through Jan. 6
South Texas (30 counties)
Nov. 3 through Jan. 20
Special antler restrictions (117 counties) — 13-inch inside spread or one unbranched antler
Late antlerless and
spike — North Texas (106 counties) Jan. 7 through Jan. 20; South Texas (30 counties) Jan. 21 through Feb. 3
Muzzleloader (57 counties) — Jan. 7 through Jan. 20
Mule deer
Archery — Sept. 29 through Nov. 2
Panhandle (39 counties) — Nov. 17 through Dec. 2
Southwestern Panhandle (11 counties) — Nov. 17 through Nov. 25
Trans-Pecos (19 counties) — Nov. 23 through Dec. 9
Northern (43 counties) — Oct. 1 through Feb. 24
Southern (50 counties) No closed season
Special Youth Season — Sept. 29 through
Sept. 30
East Texas (51 counties) — Oct. 1 through Feb. 3; May 1 through May 31
Other open counties — No closed season
Oct. 27 through Feb. 24
Panhandle (37 counties) — Dec. 1 through Dec. 30
Oct. 27 through Feb. 24
Rio Grande Turkey
Archery: Sept. 29 through Nov. 2
Fall Season
Special youth season —
Oct. 27 through Oct. 28
and Jan. 19 through
Jan. 20
North Texas (123 counties) — Nov. 3 through Jan. 6
South Texas (26 counties) — Nov. 3 through Jan. 20
Brooks, Kenedy, Kleberg and Willacy counties — Nov. 3 through Feb. 24
Spring season — North zone (101 counties) — March 30 through May 12
Special youth season — March 23 through March 24, 2013; May 18 through May 19
South zone (54 counties) — March 16 through
April 28
Special youth season — March 9 through March 10; May 4 through May 5
One turkey bag limit (eight counties) — April 1 through April 30
No Special Youth Season
Eastern Turkey (Mandatory/
check stations)
East Texas (28 counties) — April 15 through May 14
Cameron, Hildago, Starr and Willacy counties — Nov. 3 through Feb. 24
Rabbits and hares
No closed season
Source: Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
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What's an error in an application? An error, from my general point of view, is, for example, the wrongly coded solution to a problem. Such are logic errors that could lead to wrong function results where everything seems nicely but the result of the application is completely unusable (i.e. wrong).
With logic errors, application might or might not stop working.
An exception is an exceptional condition. Exceptions include errors in your code where you try to divide numbers with zero, or you try using freed memory blocks or you try providing wrong parameters to a function.
An exception in an application is not always an error - if by error we think on those nasty problems with the program where it stop responding.
Exceptions And The Exception ClassAs stated, exception are special conditions that require special handling. When an error-type condition occurs the program raises an exception.
As suggested by Nick Hodges in Exception Handling for Fun and Profit article, application writers should trap exceptions, exceptions get raised by components and library code on purpose.
You (as the application writer) handle exceptions, to make your application more error-prone, to respond to the exceptional condition.
In most cases you will find yourself being the application writer and also the library writer. So you would need to know how to raise exceptions (from your library) and how to handle them (from your application).
I'm sure we all have dozens of units defining some special-to-me classes, interfaces and alike. For example, I have a class dealing with PDF documents I'm using in several of my applications. When I code / edit the class I am the library writer, when I'm using the library I'm the application writer.
Let's take a look at handling exceptions...
The article Handling Errors and Exceptions provides some basic guidelines on how to guard against errors using try/except/end and try/finally/end protected blocks to respond to or handle exceptional conditions.
A simple try/except guarding blocks looks like:
The ThisFunctionMightRaiseAnException might have, in its implementation, a line of code like
//handle any exceptions raised in ThisFunctionMightRaiseAnException() here
The Exception is a special class (one of a few without a T in front of the name) defined in sysutils.pas unit. The SysUtils unit defines several special purpose Exception descendants (and thus creates a hierarchy of exception classes) like ERangeError, EDivByZero, EIntOverflow, etc.
raise Exception.Create('special condition!');
In most cases the exceptions that you would handle in the protected try/except block would not be of the Exception (base) class but of some special Exception descendant class defined in either the VCL or in the library (you or some other developer coded) you are using.
Handling Exceptions Using Try/ExceptTo catch and handle an exception type you would construct a "on type_of_exception do" exception handler. The "on exception do" looks pretty much like the classic case statement:
Note that the else part would grab all (other) exceptions, including those you know nothing about. In general, your code should handle only exceptions you actually know how to handle and expect to be thrown.
on EZeroDivide do
//something when dividing by zero
on EIntOverflow do
//something when too large integer calculation
//something when other exception types are raised
Also, you should never "eat" an exception:
Eating the exception means you do not know how to handle the exception or you do not want users to see the exception or anything in between.
When you handle the exception and you need more data from it (after all it is an instance of a class) rather only the type of the exception you can do:
The "E" in "E:Exception" is a temporary exception variable of type specified after the column character (in the above example the base Exception class). Using E you can read (or write) values to the exception object, like get or set the Message property.
on E : Exception do
Who Frees The Exception?Noticed how exceptions are actually instances of a class descending from Exception? The raise keyword throws an exception class instance. You know that what you create (the exception instance is an object) you also need to free.
If, you as a library writer, create an instance, will the application user free it? Or, who will?
Delphi magic: handling an exception automatically destroys the exception object. This means that when you write the code in the "except / end" block - this block (hm, bad wording) will release the exception memory.
So what happens if ThisFunctionMightRaiseAnException actually raises an exception and you are not handling it (this is not the same as "eating" it)?
How Come My App Does Not Crash When number/0 Is Not Handled?When an unhandled exception is thrown in your code, Delphi "magically" handles your exception by displaying the error dialog to the user. In most cases this dialog will not provide enough data for the user (and finally you) to understand the cause of the exception.
This is controlled by Delphi's top level message loop where ALL exceptions are being processed by the global Application object and its HandleException method.
To handle exceptions globally, and show your own more-user-friendly dialog, you can write code for the TApplicationEvents.OnException event handler.
Note that the global Application object is defined in the Forms unit. The TApplicationEvents is a component you can use to intercept the events of the global Application object.
Ok, that's it for now. Next time I'll go into reraising exception.

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McGill's two campuses offer no shortage of beautiful green spaces to the Montreal public – such as the clearing around the picturesque "Three Bares" fountain. Find out about some of the behind-the-scenes work that goes into maintaining McGill's verdant public spaces.
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CLAFLIN - Studying the lives of bees, along with other creatures, Claflin Elementary School students learned all about Kansas state facts from the educators at the Kansas Wetlands Education Center on Thursday last week.
The Individual Retirement Account Charitable Rollover, first enacted by Congress in 2006, expired in 2009. However, in the new tax bill signed by President Barack Obama, the IRA Charitable Rollover provision has been extended through 2011. This provision allows individuals 70 1/2 or older to make tax-free gifts of up to $100,000 to qualified charitable organizations, like Clara Barton Hospital Foundation, using funds transferred directly from their traditional IRAs or Roth IRAs.
HOISINGTON - At its meeting Monday night, the Hoisington City Council approved ordinances establishing guidelines for handling health nuisances in the city. It was the consensus of the council to hire a Public Officer for 5-10 hours a week at a wage of $10-$12 per hour.
Noon on Tuesday was the filing deadline for those interested in running for various school board, city council and hospital board positions in Barton County. The regular election is April 5.
HOLYROOD - At its regular meeting on Monday night, USD 112 Board of Education heard a proposal for providing all students and teachers from ninth to twelfth grade with Macintosh laptop computers.
HOISINGTON - Hoisington High School student Chaz Stephens was hungry one day, and he and fellow classmate Drew Reisner along with Principal Meg Wilson brain-stormed a plan last fall to begin serving healthy snacks at a reasonable cost to students mid-morning. The students are finding that good nutrition makes a difference.
ELLINWOOD - Over the years, the Ellinwood High School debate and forensics teams have achieved great success, and the students give credit to coach Julie-Ann Jacobs and hard work. The students involved begin work in the summer, attending a workshop and spending many hours researching their topics.
HOISINGTON - Hoisington High School student Chaz Stephens was hungry one day, and he and fellow classmate Drew Reisner along with Principal Meg Wilson brain-stormed a plan last fall to begin serving healthy snacks at a reasonable cost to students mid-morning. The students are finding that good nutrition makes a difference.
HOISINGTON - Gambino's Pizza restaurant has reopened under new ownership Thursday, and will be offering more menu items and different hours.
HOISINGTON - The Clara Barton Hospital Foundation held its annual meeting on Monday and heard status reports as well as a program by Dr. Joshua Durham called, "Lend a Healthy Hand." The foundation has seen growth this year.
A few months ago, Kaito Richter of Great Bend, was a normal healthy little boy full of energy. Then his mother, Amber Beverley, noticed a lump in his leg that did not go away.
HOISINGTON - Andrea Dolezal, Hoisington Middle School science and social studies teacher, received the Kansas Horizon Award sponsored by the Kansas State Department of Education. The award identifies and recognizes exemplary first-year teachers who perform in a way that distinguishes them as outstanding.
LORRAINE - After serving for one year, the seats of the Central Plains USD 112 interim school board will be up for election on April 5, and the elected members will take office July 1. The filing deadline is Jan. 25.
HOISINGTON - The Hoisington City Council, at its regular meeting on Monday, approved a resolution to put on the November ballot a raise in retail sales tax of .25 of one percent for the community. This increase will put the city at the same increment as the city of Great Bend.
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HOISINGTON - The new director for Hoisington Recreation Commission is Granson Salmans formerly of Montezuma, and he began his duties on Monday.
Dr. Bryan Pinkall, who grew up in Great Bend, recently drove home from Manhattan and broke the news to his parents, Michelle and Gary, with a short video that he had a special vacation planned in August.
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Her voice brimming with enthusiasm, new Big Brothers, Big Sisters area director Diane Shoemaker has come on board with the non-profit organization which provides a little attention to kids-in-need, but has big results.
ELLINWOOD - Overcast skies made for a pleasant morning Saturday when the Ellinwood After Harvest Festival parade brought crowds to the red, brick streets of the community.
HOISINGTON - At the Hoisington City Council meeting on Monday, several landlords were present, upset about the rental licensing agreement just passed by the council. The Great Bend Tribune featured a story on the program on July 6. The rental agreement requires minimum standards for rental housing and rental inspection.
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Blog Post: The Broken Art of Company Blogging (and the Ignored Metric that Could Save Us All)
A genuienly great read about the importance of commenting in blogs. Like a few other commenters have alluded to, comments are great at expanding on the topic written about in a post and help to extend its life and visibility amongst readers of a given community. However, I am not sure social should be seen soley as vanity, It is often these new shares that help to spread the word further about a great post and attract new views and further comments.


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November 29, 2006
My walk into town: Favourite place in Ethiopia #6
Head off an hour after dawn on the road past Menelik Hospital (my beautiful new neighbourhood – who needs Bole). Turn left and take a look at the forested hills that surround Addis Ababa, packed with hyenas and who knows what else. If you were really keen you could have climbed them an hour earlier and watched Haile Gebrselassie on one of his early morning training sessions.
Turn right and start walking past the straggled taxi stand, past Sandford English/International School, past the well-heeled parents dropping off children in their 4x4s. Past the old men a few yards down the road, taking their grandchildren to playschool (the one with the Teletubbies painted on its metal gate.)
The road curves down to a T-junction – St Matthew's Anglican Church and the Ras Amba hotel to the left, Arat Kilo to the right. Turn right and then almost immediately left, crossing the road and its endless stream of line cabs and taxis. This takes you down a rural back lane – Lovers Lane or Robbers Lane depending on who you believe.
Past the shacks and the children. Past the cemetery with spooky old photos of dead people on the gravestones. Past the armed Red Berets. Past the hardest working street youths in Addis who live behind four big skips and scrape a living recycling the city's waste.
Head straight across the crossroads with the crowds of secondary school pupils, past the Prime Minister's Palace on your right. If you are lucky and it is a Saints Day, get caught up in the crowds of worshipers and beggars and candle sellers and shiny umbrella stalls that pack the road around St Gabriel's church
You are at the top of the dual carriageway that leads down past the still un-opened Africa Park with its untouched slides, climbing frames and benches. Head down and left into the Hilton for a reminder of how the other 1% live. Walk through the grounds, skirting round the back past the barbers, the mini-supermarket, the tourist shop and the bakers.
Walk down through the back gates, past the uniformed guards and their wobbly salutes. Cross the road, braving another stream of line cabs, taxis and WFP Toyota Landcruisers. Head left, then right after the petrol station, past the beggars and street children waiting for the UN staff to turn up for work. Past the barricaded back entrances to the UN compound.
Head down to the junction with Jomo Kenyatta Avenue, past the two young polio-crippled beggars who came to Addis a year ago, all the way from Arba Minch. Turn right where the dual carriageway crosses the trash-choked river. Keep going for another couple of minutes and there you are - in Meskel Square.
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The first Brit to visit Ethiopia was an 18th Century Scottish gentleman called James Bruce. He came back with so many tall tales that he was ridiculed as a liar for the rest of his life.
His tallest tale was that the country's favourite dish was a plate of raw meat. According to his biographer Miles Bredin in his book The Pale Abyssinian:
Bruce has an undeserved and unenviable reputation. He is generally remembered, if at all, as ill-tempered and a liar... Haughty and proud (the portmanteau word paughty might almost have been coined for him), he once forced a visitor to eat raw meat after the unfortunate man had expressed doubt at it being the Abyssinians' favourite dish.
To my shame, it has taken me two years to present the proof that Bruce was telling the truth. I can also tell you that Bruce's visitor wasn't unfortunate at all. Once you get used to the texture, fresh raw meat is tender and tasty.
The picture shows what I got when I asked for a 'tinnish, tinnish' [small, small] portion at a friend's wedding.
Posted by aheavens at 5:27 PM
Addis Ababa: The new building site
Welcome to the changing face of Addis Ababa. Every time you turn around these days, a new building site springs up.
This is a view of the road between the Hilton Hotel and the United Nations compound (see the car park bottom right). Once a jumble of shacks and small businesses. In a few months it will be Addis' high rise downtown, packed with shiny new tower blocks. (Will there be enough business to fill them? Probably.)
The building with the curved glass roof in the right of the main group is the already-finished German House - home to GTZ. The skinny yellow one behind it will be the new UNICEF headquarters in a few months. Somewhere behind them is the skeleton of an Irish-funded four-star hotel. No idea what everything else is going to be - and the empty ground in the foreground is up for development as well.
No wonder there a national cement shortage.
The picture was taken from the new site of the Old Milk House at about 6pm - when the harsh light of an Addis afternoon turns into a photographer's dream.
Headline explanation: 'Addis Ababa' means 'New Flower'.
Posted by aheavens at 4:58 PM
November 27, 2006
Gone again?
All the Blogspot blogs seem to have disappeared again.
Posted by aheavens at 4:59 PM
November 26, 2006
Hacks outperform athletes at Great Ethiopian Run
Another November, another great Great Ethiopian Run.
More than 25,000 people ran through the Addis Ababa this morning on the 10k road race organised by Haile Gebrselassie and British marathon star Richard Nerurkar. They were joined by another few thousand street children and some athletics greats including Ireland's Sonia O' Sullivan and Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj.
But the most impressive performances of the day came from the world's journalists gathered for the event:
- There was the Chinese film crew who turned up early to get the best view of the start of the run. They hauled their equipment up to the roof of Meskel Square's Siemens building - then pulled up the ladder behind them, ignoring the increasingly angry appeals from the crowd of photographers building up on the floor below them.
- There was the celebrity Japanese photographer who waited until all the other snappers had politely taken up their position in the media box at the finish line - then strolled in front of the media barriers and squatted down, blocking the view.
- Best of all was the British BBC presenter who took part in the race, interviewing people as he went. He finished pretty quickly but looked absolutely exhausted, almost pained as he crossed the line. After a few minutes getting his breath back he jogged back a hundred metres or so, and finished the race again, this time cheering, with both arms raised in victory. Let's be generous and assume the camera didn't get him first time around.
Posted by aheavens at 2:59 PM
November 20, 2006
Gunfire at the Meta brewery
A quiet Sunday afternoon at the Meta brewery. Three adults and one baby boy sitting back having a beer/milk, enjoying the late afternoon sun, watching a wedding party getting noisier and noisier outside the main visitor centre.
Everyone was drinking and singing and clapping and dancing and drinking. About half an hour in, some of the younger men started tussling on the edge of the crowd. Nothing too serious. The bride and groom drove off in a car covered in ribbons and everything calmed down.
People started drifting towards the front of the visitor centre, wandering about on the road that ran along the shaded grassy bank where we were sitting. The guys started shouting again, lunging at each other in packed crowds. Girlfriends in shiny dresses dived in, screaming and trying to drag their men away. Nothing more than you would see in many English towns on a Saturday night.
The screaming suddenly got louder and people started running in all directions, leaving a gap in the middle of the crowd. People started picking up rocks and throwing them at anyone within range. A man in a suit and open necked white shirt stumbled forward carrying a five foot length of telegraph pole. He looked around for someone to hit, saw a 30-something woman in traditional dress, raised the pole above his head and brought it down on her neck.
It was then that I noticed the doddery old guard standing next to our table on the bank. He was pulling down on a lever on his equally aged rifle (so they do load those things). He aimed it into the air and fired off an ear-shattering round.
Three adults and one bawling baby decided to run away very quickly and take shelter in the bar building. Everyone we passed on the way had something to say.
"Chiggur yellem, chiggur yellem" (No problem, no problem) said one of the guests.
"Ethiopian men and alcohol," said another standing close to the door as the guard fired again.
Inside a smartly suited man sitting at one of the tables leaned forward and wagged his finger at me. "Don't talk," he said. "Don't tell anyone."
Posted by aheavens at 4:20 AM
November 9, 2006
How I learned to stop worrying and love Creative Commons
Below the fold is a re-written version of part of a talk on 'Blogging with pictures' that I gave at the Digital Citizens Indaba in Grahamstown, South Africa last month. It is the part that focuses on the strange things that start happening when you add a Creative Commons license to your work.
This really is the last word on the Indaba, promise.
How I learned to stop worrying and love Creative Commons
This is how it used to be. I took photos of things that happened in Ethiopia. I sold the best ones where I could and posted the rest on Flickr for the folks to see back home.
Then two things happened – one huge and historic, the other small and not so historic.
The big event was the violence that followed Ethiopia's national elections in May last year.
Just to recap, opposition parties made huge gains in the elections – the third held since the country's murderous Derg regime was overthrown in 1991. The opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) won almost all of the national and city administration seats in the capital Addis Ababa and lots of constituencies outside. When all the results were finally counted, however, it emerged that the incumbent Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) had held on to power across the country as a whole. Many opposition leaders and supporters felt cheated. There were three days of protests in June, and another period of unrest in November. On both occasions, events climaxed in bloody confrontations between protesters, armed federal police and special forces. At the end of it just short of 200 people – most of them young men – were dead.
I took some photos of the elections, then of the protests, the dead and the injured. Some of the photos ended up with Reuters. Without thinking about it too much, I posted the rest on Flickr.
The second, much smaller event was a passing comment from Ethan Zuckerman of GlobalVoices and ... My Heart's In Accra. It was a long story, but it ended with him suggesting that I should consider using a Creative Commons license. Again, without thinking too much about it, I made the necessary quick changes to the blog and my Flickr page.
[Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that has released a series of copyright licenses that allow you to say how you want your work – your articles, photos, music and so on - to be used by other people. Mine is a fairly typical one that allows anyone to re-use anything – as long as they credit me and don't change the original material or make any money out of it.]
The days after the June protests, the Reuters pictures made it into some papers in the UK, Europe and the US. They were also all over the local press who had ripped everything off the news feed on Yahoo! – a fairly common practice that every journalist living here gets used to.
After that, they sank down the list on Yahoo News and disappeared. News photographs hardly ever outlive the stories they are attached to. The world's attention had moved on so that was that.
A few days later it became apparent that the photos were attracting pretty heavy traffic on Flickr. Up to then, the most I had had were a couple of hundred viewers in total for each photo. But the protest photos were getting many hundreds of visitors a day.
Next a couple of mirror sites cropped up on Flickr, collecting all the photos they could find of the violence and re-publishing them on the photo-sharing site, under names like Ethio Photo and Terrorism against Ethiopians. (Warning – some of the photos reposted on these sites include very disturbing scenes from the mortuaries.)
Most of the people behind these were from Ethiopia's huge diaspora population in Europe and the US. Ethiopians in Washington DC and London had heard about the bloodshed in their home country. On the day of the protests, they had been able to watch the story unfold on the BBC and CNN. But the day after that, the mainstream news organisations had moved on to fresher conflicts. News-hungry Ethiopians were left to do their news gathering by themselves.
In the weeks that followed, Ethiopians across the world started holding their own demonstrations against the government and its use of lethal force against unarmed protesters. Slowly, photographs of these demonstrations – from Melbourne, from Geneva, from New York, from Rome – started filtering back through Ethiopia's resilient blogosphere and, again, the Yahoo! News feed.
The pictures all showed crowds of Ethiopians marching past well known landmarks holding banners in English and Amharic and huge blown-up photos – very familiar photos.
In Melbourne, a middle aged woman held up one of my photographs of a nurse, weeping in the corridor of Addis Ababa's Black Lion hospital, as she looked into the (out-of-shot) morgue, which held the bodies of seven dead teenagers.
In Washington DC, a young man held up a photo of five other young men in Addis Ababa waving their fists at a line of armed riot police. In Rome, young women held up a montage of shots of mothers and sisters screaming with grief outside another city mortuary.
I am sure they would have got hold of some of the pictures with or without the Creative Commons license. In fact photos from other photographers also appeared on the banners – including a well-known one of a soldier beating a boy with his gun from AP. But the way the Creative Commons license had opened up my Flickr account meant that the protesters had access to many of the shots in their original full resolution. Many of the photos were blown up to near life-size.
This June, the first anniversary of the violence rolled round. Ethiopian blogger Weichegud ET Politics pointed to a six-minute video that had just gone up on YouTube titled Ethiopia's June Massacre.
If you have the bandwidth and the time, watch it now. It makes its point without resorting to any of the disturbing scenes from the morgues.
Once again, many of the photos used in the film to illustrate the post election violence and grief looked very familiar. They were taken straight off Flickr and other online news sources – and, apart from the fact that they were not credited, it had all pretty much happened within the terms of the Creative Commons licence.
The film itself, with its soaring, wailing soundtrack, was very moving and brought back lots of difficult memories. From a journalistic perspective it was also very disturbing.
Most journalists do their best to keep a distance from the things they write about and take pictures of. The key thing is to maintain impartiality, particularly when the story in question is divisive and highly political.
But here were my pictures illustrating a piece of highly-charged anti-government propaganda. (That's not to criticize the film by the way. It is just pointing out the obvious that the film had something to say and it said it with great force.) I worried about what the Ethiopian Ministry of Information might think. I worried about what my freelance employers might think. For one brief selfish moment I also worried about my bank balance – didn't I used to get paid when other people used my photographs? None of these worries were particularly focused. To be honest, at the time I didn't really know what to think.
Now that a few months have passed, those worries have faded – in fact looking back they seem a bit over-played (particularly the one about getting paid given the subject of the photographs.)
Time and distance have allowed me to reflect on the many benefits of learning to stop worrying and start loving the liberating effect of Creative Commons.
On the personal side, lots of good things have come out of the fact that my cast-off photos are swimming around the internet with a CC license attached. People have written in checking to see if they can use them in textbooks, calendars, Ethiopian restaurant menus, novelty Amharic greeting cards. (How often do you get the chance to illustrate a line of novelty Amharic greeting cards?) Some of these contacts have resulted in further paid work. Some have resulted in the offer of free food if I am ever passing through New York and want to pop in to a certain Ethiopian restaurant. Others have resulted in nothing financial at all.
Lots of good things have also happened beyond the personal side. As I said earlier, one of the most frustrating things about press photography is the short lifespan of your photographs. You put yourself in a risky situation to record what you consider to be an important, newsworthy event. The resulting pictures flash up on newspaper pages, TV screens and Yahoo! News for a day or so. And then they disappear.
The greatest thing that Creative Commons does is give you work an extra lease of life. After the news event has passed on, the photographs are still out there, waiting for someone else to pick up on them, give them a new meaning and use them in a different setting.
There is no doubt it can still be scary and disturbing (imagine if a race hate group had picked up the pictures and used them to illustrate an article on black-on-black violence.) But at the very least it is a fascinating process to sit back and watch where your photos end up.
Now you will have to imagine me pressing the button to reveal the last cheesy slide in my cheesy PowerPoint presentation in Grahamstown, in south South Africa. It spelled out a simple message in swirly whirling letters – 'If you love your photos, set them free'.
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The FGM debate
Here is the latest round up of the Ethiopian blogosphere on GlobalVoices - this one mainly focused on the debate over the Ethiopian sentenced to 10 years for female genital mutilation.
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November 7, 2006
Use Shell or else
Can someone out there translate this for me.
At the moment I can only assume that it says something like - Use Shell or this will happen to your car.
Or could it be anything to so with Ethiopia's scarily high rate of road accidents?
According to the World Health Organisation, Ethiopia has the highest rate of fatalities per vehicle in the world - quite an achievement when you realise that there are only 1.5 vehicles per 1,000 Etihopians.
UPDATE: Thank you brother, abe, Tazabeo and Abebe. Apparently the slogan means something like "A second's patience can save your life and property".
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Peace rehab
Why fight your enemy when you can just rehabilitate him? Maybe this is something they should try in Iraq.
More than 100 former ONLF fighters undergoing rehabilitation - Walta Nov 7
Some 104 former members of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), who recently gave themselves up to the government, have been rehabilitated, according to the Somali State Security and Justice Coordination Supreme Bureau.
Bureau Head Abdi Mohammed told WIC that the training has been offered to the defectors misled by the anti-peace propaganda of ONLF, which is the agent of the Eritrean ruling party...
As a result the disillusioned members of the Front asked for forgiveness realizing that ONLF has done nothing for the benefit of the Ethiopian Somalis other than destabilizing the region through terrorist acts, the Bureau Head elaborated.
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Soldiers for sale
Re-fight the Italian/Abyssinian War in your very own bedroom.
For just £400 you get a Mountain Gun Mule Team and handlers, an Abyssinian Stretcher Party, four Abyssinians at the Slope, three Italians at the Slope, four Abyssinian Tribesmen in different coloured cloaks and a rare John Hill and Company Ski Trooper (G-VG).
Those cunning Italians - to catch everyone by surprise with their shock troop of ski troopers.
They are all on sale at Christie's in South Kensington, London on November 20.
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November 2, 2006
Haile and Tirunesh
You think you are a hard-bitten hack who has seen it all - the last person to get excited about the appearance of a mere celebrity.
Then Haile Gebrselassie and Tirunesh Dibaba turn up in their super tracksuits.
And all you want to do is stand behind them and grin like an idiot.
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Ten years for genital mutilation
It is not every day that the BBC World Service headlines make you want to cheer.
But that is what it felt like this morning when they led their bulletin with the news that an Ethiopian man had been jailed for ten years in the US for mutilating his daughter's vagina with a pair of scissors. Here's the online version of the story:
Father jailed for US mutilation - BBC Online Nov 2
A US court has sentenced a man to 10 years in jail for genital mutilation of his two-year-old daughter, in what is said to be first such case in the US. Khalid Adem, an Ethiopian immigrant, was found guilty of aggravated battery and cruelty to children by the court in the state of Georgia. Prosecutors said he used scissors to remove his daughter's clitoris in 2001. A US women's rights group described the verdict as a victory against female genital mutilation worldwide.
The "traditional" practice of Female Genital Mutilation (or 'cutting' for the squeamish or 'circumcision' for those in denial) is the most shocking thing I have come across since moving to Ethiopia.
Its defenders often try to play down the actual process. In Egypt, for example, they claim that everything is OK because qualified doctors conduct the mutilation under anesthetic. (Although personally I find the image of scrubbed-up men doing it in operating theatres just as chilling as the scissor attack, if not more so).
They never talk about Ethiopia's Somali region where just short of 100% of little girls undergo the most extreme form of mutilation which is the complete excision of the female genitals followed by a process called "infibulation". Together the process is also known as "pharaonic circumcision". It is no coincidence that this subject is packed with convenient technical euphemisms to hide what actually goes on.
"Complete excision" means total removal - everything gone. In Somali region, "infibulation" means sewing up what is left afterwards with acacia thorns which are inserted into both sides of the wound to seal it shut, as a guarantee of a young girl's virginity. Wikipedia has more on the practice in its excellent entries on Female genital cutting and Infibulation.
This morning's story brought to mind two images from the Somali region.
An Ethiopian friend described finding a hut in a village near the regional capital Jijiga a few months ago. Inside there was a row of little girls sitting close to each other with their legs stretched out and their ankles tied together. They had undergone the procedure earlier in the week and were having to sit dead still for days on end for the wounds to heal.
The other image was from my own visit to the town of Gode, not so far from the border with Somalia. A group of boys were playing outside their school, watched by a line of girls. I asked why the girls weren't playing with them. The teacher next to me shrugged and said "We're afraid that if they fall they may break their stitches."
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Trader Joe's Fresh Natural Brined Turkey
I'm strongly considering the same turkey, and I'm cooking my first turkey/family meal ever, too! At $1.79/lb all-natural and prebrined, it sounds like a good deal, but it must be 12lb or more. Mainly, the thought of brining for 4 hours -1 day and defrosting for days in advance with other turkeys has won me over to Trader Joe's.
You can read up on some insight at http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/65334
I bought one for the first time too, and also highly recommend it Over the years I've done deep-fried turkeys, brined it myself, or bought kosher - all good. But for convenience, quality, and price, the TJ's pre-brined is a winner, and I'll be buying one of these again. Used a compound butter, put it in the oven, and didn't even baste. It came out perfect. Full report here -
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---- — Virginia Ann Barth, 79, of Mt. Vernon, departed this life 2:28 p.m. Monday, April 8, 2013, at Good Samaritan Regional Health Center in Mt. Vernon.
She was born Saturday, Feb. 3, 1934, in Johnston City, the daughter of Lester and Cora (Samples) Williams. She first married Edward Webster on June 2, 1956, and he preceded her in death on Feb. 16, 1975. She later married Roy Barth on May 2, 1986, in Mt. Vernon.
Virginia was the oldest of five children. She graduated from Johnston City Township High School and attended Rend Lake College. She spent her entire working career in the secretarial and accounting field, first in manufacturing then in construction and the last 33.5 years in oil and gas. Virginia was a member of Central Christian Church in Mt. Vernon.
She is survived by husband, Roy Barth of Mt. Vernon; stepson, Michael Barth of Carterville; two stepdaughters, Sherrie Barth of Fort Meyers, Fla. and Bobbie Barth of Colorado Springs, Colo.; sister, Gwen O'Dell and husband Larry of Effingham; four nephews, Jim McCuan and wife Lisa, John McCuan, Barry O'Dell and wife Nikki and Brad O'Dell and wife Janeen; stepgranddaughter, Jessica Backes; and seven great-nephews and five great-nieces.
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Published 5/29/2012 in Youth In ExcellenceHaving attended Healy public schools since kindergarten, senior Alicia Barnett of Healy High School prefers to go with the flow while giving 100 percent to anything she does.
Her advice to her fellow graduates is "grow where you're planted."
In a questionnaire she submitted to The Telegram, she wrote, "I hope each of my classmates already learned that no matter how small the population is around them, there exists a chance for success and harmony, as long as everyone works with the flow instead of against it."
As for how she would like her classmates to remember her, she said, "I want to be remembered as the mature young lady that never wanted to be sorry about giving her full effort to anything she attempted."
The 2012 class valedictorian, her academic honors include National Honor Society, Board's Honor Roll and Superintendent's Honor Roll. She has a weighted grade-point average of 4.133 and a non-weighted GPA of 3.917.
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At a time when our government borrows 40 cents out of every dollar that it spends and our debt is more than $14 trillion, House Republicans are committed to ending the Democrats' failed economic policies that have stalled economic growth and job creation. Today, the House will vote on the Cut, Cap and Balance Act; our balanced plan to meet the President's request for a debt limit increase while achieving serious spending cuts, binding budget reforms, and putting in place a balanced budget amendment to ensure we don't continue to kick the can down the road. By passing this common sense plan to eliminate wasteful spending and manage down our debt, Washington can spur economic growth and provide American families and businesses with the opportunity to return to prosperity.
Today In History: In 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovered a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta. The irregularly shaped stone, that came to be known as the Rosetta Stone, contained fragments of passages written in three different scripts: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics and Egyptian demotic. More startlingly, the Greek passage announced that the three scripts were all of identical meaning. The artifact thus held the key to solving the riddle of hieroglyphics, a written language that had been "dead" for nearly 2,000 years.
Birthdays: Rep. John Campbell, Stuart Scott, Anthony Edwards, and Brian May
Here is what's in today's Ledger ...
State Of Play: House To Vote On Cut, Cap and Balance Today
- Cut: Based on CBO's March baseline, the Cut, Cap and Balance Act saves $111 billion in 2012 and around $5.8 trillion over ten years.
- Cap: Enforceable caps on spending will bring the size of government back below 20% of GDP to its average level over the last 30 years. Breaking the caps triggers automatic spending cuts.
- Balance: The legislation grants President Obama's request for an increase in the debt limit, but only after Congress has cut up the credit cards by passing a Balanced Budget Amendment.
Leader Cantor: The President Hasn't Put Forward A Plan That Can Pass The House, He Shouldn't Simply Dismiss CCB. "As President Obama has not put forth a plan that can garner 218 votes in the House, I'd caution him against so hastily dismissing 'Cut, Cap and Balance,'" said Cantor. The Associated Press
- Chairman Hensarling CCB Will Force President Obama To Stop Spending Money We Don't Have: "I find it incredibly ironic that President Obama is one of the few Americans who think we don't need a constitutional amendment 'to do our jobs.'" Said Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas, a member of the leadership. "The point of cutting up the credit cards in order to raise the debt ceiling isn't to meet his tax-and-spend demands; it's to force him to stop spending money we don't have." The Associated Press
Kudlow: Cut, Cap and Balance Is The Best Option Forward. Next up is cut, cap, and balance ... This is my preferred option right now. The burden of government on the economy would be reduced from roughly 24 percent to 20 percent. That narrows the wedge between work and reward. It strengthens private market resources by curbing government redistribution. ... Other accounts of cut, cap, and balance use the Paul Ryan fiscal-year 2012 spending cut of $110 billion. That would be a home run. It would come to $5.8 trillion over ten years and would certainly satisfy the credit-rating agencies. In other words, the GOP House plan is far better from a rating-agency standpoint than any other plan out there ... Reducing the corporate-tax wedge and reducing the budget-spending wedge, to quote my friend Arthur Laffer, would provide a tonic for the economy. In other words, a debt deal can still work and promote growth. National Review
The Road Ahead: Weak Economic Growth Persists In The Obama Economy
Economic Firms Continue To Downgrade The Nation's Growth Outlook. The lethargy isn't over. The U.S. economy's weak growth rate was supposed to end with the first half. After all, temporary drags, particularly high energy costs and disruptions related to the Japanese disaster, were key headwinds last quarter. Recent reports, however, suggest the third-quarter economy is just limping along. While not a "soft spot," the expected growth rate is so meager it is unlikely to lower the jobless rate by much. Two major economic shops lowered their outlooks last week. First, economists at J.P. Morgan reduced their expectations for third-quarter real gross domestic product. They now expect real GDP growth of 2.5% this quarter, down from a prior view of 3.0%. Then on Friday, the crystal-ball gazers at Goldman Sachs brought down their forecast, also to 2.5%, from 3.25% previously. The Wall Street Journal
Steve Wynn: President Obama Is The Biggest "Wet Blanket" To Job Creation and Economic Growth In My Lifetime. I'm saying it bluntly, that this administration is the greatest wet blanket to business, and progress and job creation in my lifetime. And I can prove it and I could spend the next 3 hours giving you examples of all of us in this market place that are frightened to death about all the new regulations, our healthcare costs escalate ... my customers and the companies that provide the vitality for the hospitality and restaurant industry, in the United States of America, they are frightened of this administration. And it makes you slow down and not invest your money. ... those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are going to sit in fear of the President. And a lot of people don't want to say that. They'll say, God, don't be attacking Obama. Well, this is Obama's deal and it's Obama that's responsible for this fear in America. Business Insider
President Obama's Tax Hikes Stifle Growth, Will Lead To More Tax Hikes. Obama's tax obsession becomes understandable when you realize the long game he's playing: Big Taxes to fund Big Government. Decade after decade. See, it's an almost universal belief among left-of-center journalists, economists, policymakers and politicians that Americans must pay higher taxes in coming years to cover the medical expenses of its aging population – not to mention all sorts of brand new social spending and green "investment." Dramatically higher taxes. On everybody. And if we have a debt crisis, maybe those tax increases come sooner rather than later ... all those tax hikes would still fail to balance the budget. And when you move past 2035, taxes would almost certainly need to go even higher. Reuters
Getting To Know The Freshmen
Chip Cravaack: Rep. Chip Cravaack represents the 8th District of Minnesota. He is a 24 year Navy veteran, and he is the third generation of his family to serve in the United States military. His experience as a Navy helicopter pilot and Northwest Airlines pilot gave him the opportunity to experience and live in multiple areas of the United States, as well as travel to many foreign countries. Chip's wife, Traci, is a graduate of The Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. They have two sons. (Courtesy Of The Whip Office)
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Juana Molina
Tres Cosas
res Casas is a difficult album to get through. Like Juana Molina's last album, Segundo, it's meant to be an easy listen, but it isn't. The electronic blips and waves that Molina melds so effortlessly with her gentle acoustic strums barely raise above a Spanish whisper, yet they are hypnotically, and contradictorily dense, difficult pieces of music.
It wouldn't be so bad if the tracks didn't mostly range near the four minute mark; some clocking in as long as six minutes. Combine thirteen of those and therein lies Tres Casas' fault—nearly an hour of almost yoga-like textures accompanied by a not entirely beautiful, breathy Spanish coo. It's difficult to take in one sitting. The same was true for Molina's last record, and second overall, Segundo. It was similarly long, with melodies only surfacing after repeated listens, it's main difference to Tres Casas being its more prominent use of electronics. Molina has definitely progressed as a producer (as well as a composer, recorder and mixer) through the discernible improvement in her juxtaposition of electronic, ambient and natural elements. The band members of Múm could possibly learn a thing or two about balance from Molina.
Last year's Segundo was a sprawling work that lacked a fundamental feel of cohesion, something that Tres Casas has in spades. But while Tres Casas succeeds in its thematics, that same cohesion hampers the album. Never does the record lift its metaphoric and literal voice above a warm droning. "Sálvese Quién Pueda" is a stand out, merely due its hummable (singable, if you speak Spanish) melody, which is complemented by the backup vocals of Alejandro Franov. The title track, "Tres Cosas" is another song that pushes through the largely monotonous void thanks to some subdued, yet forward electronic waves. Beyond those, only "Sólo Su Voz" (has a violin) and "Filter Taps" (sounds like a Sigur Ros outtake with looped, indistinguishable vocals swirling around a wave-like guitar melody) leave impressions.
While Tres Casas is a large step forward for Molina, and a better album than Segundo, paradoxically, it's a less enjoyable one. Molina's vision is undoubtably one that makes her one of the more unique manipulators of organic and electronic sound today, but her vision still needs to be reigned in and smoothened.
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NAPERVILLE – Benet's boys basketball team knows that when the playoffs come around, its perfect record, top ranking in the state and Midwest and No. 6 national ranking don't matter.
The Redwings saw teams like Downers Grove South and Glenbard East survive tough tests in their regional openers Tuesday in games that, on paper, they were expected to dominate.
Benet made sure that they would have to go through a test like that.
The Redwings scored the first 10 points of the game and led by as many as 33 in their 65-35 win over Plainfield East in the Class 4A Naperville North Regional semifinals Wednesday. Benet will face the host Huskies for the regional title and a berth in next week's East Aurora Sectional Friday at 7:30 p.m. at North.
"It was just keeping us aware that just because it's a regional and we're the No. 1 seed, that doesn't mean that we're going to get by," Benet senior Frank Kaminsky said of Tuesday's close calls by top seeds. "We just had to come out and prove that we were the better team."
Despite shooting only 11-of-31 from the field in the first half as a team, Benet (28-0) proved that from start to finish Wednesday. The dominance came on the defensive end. The Redwings held Plainfield East (15-12) to 4-of-17 shooting in the half and outrebounded them 23-to-11. That helped Benet enjoy a 31-9 halftime lead.
"I think our defense was key in the first half," Benet coach Gene Heidkamp said. "I knew that even if we didn't shoot the ball well, if we defended and rebounded that we would be in the position that we wanted to be in."
Benet's three senior leaders all stepped up at various times. In the first 10 minutes, it was Matt Parisi scoring 11 points and hitting three three-pointers.
"We just wanted to work the ball around because we knew they were in a zone," Parisi said. "We just found open shots in the flow and I was just fortunate enough to knock them down."
Down the stretch of the second quarter, Kaminsky dominated down low, scoring 10 of his 13 points in the quarter. Then Dave Sobolewski scored five straight points in the third to open the game's largest lead, 49-16. They combined for 44 points in the win, despite only about three quarters of action.
"I think that just shows that we're a veteran team that's unselfish," Heidkamp said. "We moved the ball to the open man. Just a solid job from start to finish. The strong start carried over to the rest of the game."
The Bengals finish the season having won seven of their last 10 games. Dondrae Shelton and Jaylen Thompson each scored seven points to pace Plainfield East Wednesday.
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Anti-gay slurs were spray-painted on a Cambria house three times this week, shaking the community known for its openness and inclusion.
Its the communitys first hate crime in recent memory, according to Sheriffs Department officials.
Volunteers from American Legion Post No. 432 have twice helped the male victim a member of the post paint over the slurs, one of which read fag from 432. The other two simply read fag.
One furious legion member, Post Cmdr. Greg Sanders, called the criminal a goddamned coward.
After the vandalism was discovered Wednesday, Sheriffs Cmdr. Aaron Nix said any crime in which anybody is being harassed because of their race, sexual orientation or gender is obviously reprehensible. Well pursue it diligently.
It was the second and third incidents, which occurred Thursday night, that could qualify the vandalism as a hate crime.
A detective has been assigned to investigate, Nix said. The victim is also taking steps to protect his property in the upper Park Hill neighborhood.
If anybody has information on this crime, wed love to have it, Nix said. Call 781-4550, and youll be directed to a Coast Station deputy.
J.D. Cronin, the senior deputy who took the original call Wednesday, helped remove the spray paint later that day. It didnt work at first; the 35-year-old garage door is unstained wood, so a crew of volunteers applied stain to the door because it was the only way to remove the insults.
Late Thursday night, the house was targeted again. Fag was sprayed high on the newly stained garage door. And then a third time, when the victim was away from home later that night, the same word appeared, lower on the same door.
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next weekend in NOLA/Saints game
Taking two friends to NOLA for their first time visit. Will be arriving on Thursday night and just figured out the Saints open that night. We are staying the the Quarter. Have reservations at Emril's for Friday night and have brunch reservations for Sunday. Saturday will be the Ole Miss game. Any recommendations for Thursday night would be appreciated. I am scared it will be really crowded in the Quarter. Looking for a nice bar with food in the Quarter to take these people for their first night in New Orleans. I have never been in the city for a Saints game. Will the crowds thin out during the game?
Thanks for any advise!
It's going to be insane. In addition to the game, there's a Dave Matthews/Taylor Swift concert in Jackson Square, and a parade down Decatur Street. I doubt the Quarter will thin out much during the game. What time are you arriving? If you are getting in early enough, maybe you can just find someplace to hunker down, maybe the bar at Antoine's where you can get food from a bar menu or order off the regular menu, or Erin Rose which is a fun bar just off Bourbon St. that has decent bar food. Another option might be the Three Legged Dog, a sort of divey bar with a bar food menu. Otherwise I'd say just go with the flow and have fun with the crowd. That might really be your only option.
You may want to go to Emeril's on Thurs rather than Fri. The pre game vibe and great food make it our regular dining spot before heading to the dome. They will have the game on in the bar for those that remain. You could also venture up to Lucy's (a short walk) to watch the game. The parade will muck things up a bit. Emeril's called to tell us Tchoup. will be blocked (no valet till after the parade passes) So, if you decide to go, go early (before the parade gets there)...resv a must.
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Jazzy B is correct. Go to Emeril's Thursday night. You can take a cab from the FQ. But it really is not a bad walk. Go early and stop by Lucy's Bar then Emeril's maybe come back to Lucy's after you eat. Drew Brees hangs out at Lucy's but he won't be there Thursday night. Emeril's has an outstanding bar. The Carousel Lounge at The Monteleon Hotel is nice. Napoleon House is fun. Go to the Bar at The Ritz Carlton and listen to Jeremy Davenport play jazz at Devenport Lounge after 9 PM. Go to the French 75 Bar at Arnaud's. You could have dinner there Friday night. It's one of the oldest restaurants in the city.
French 75 Bar @ 813 Rue Bienville, New Orleans, LA. 504 - 523 - 5433.
Go to Galatoire's, Mr. B's, Bayona or Nola for dinner in the FQ.
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All that looks like good advicce but I have hesitated in recommending Lucy's just becuase it has become SO "Saints Central" since Mr Brees showed up after Da Parade...I am owrried it will be unmangeable this season--not that it was empty before. Well, forewarned is forearmed.
Recent years have taught me that football nights are no longer safe anywhere...people have their little TV's in restaurants (for years it was radios...used to be we just asked rthe waiter what the score was b/c they were listening/watching in the kitchen).
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Hazelhurst. You are right about Lucy's. But I think it will be manageable at Lucy's right before and during the game. What time is the game anyway. The OP could check it out and then make his way to Emeril's bar for more relaxation though.
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I am fairly committed to going to Emril's on Friday night. It was my original thought to do the French Quarter and possibly Frenchman St. on Thursday night but with the ballgame, I just don't know. I am scared it is going to be so crowded it is going to be impossible. Just trying to find some idea of a safe place where we can watch the game. have drinks and something good to eat. By safe, I do not mean it is dangerous, just not too terribly crowded!
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GW Fins may be a bit more upscale than you were thinking. However, the food is quite good and they have a nice bar area with tv. It is doubtful there will be a crowd. http://gwfins.com/nola/dailymenu/
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A special party at game time. Broussard's is turning its entire premises into a game-watching party. (They did this for the Super Bowl.) They'll have big screens set up and a buffet. The price is $38.50. Broussard's is the most formal restaurant I've heard of doing such a thing, but many others are following suit, particularly the steakhouses


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OAKLAND — A collision Saturday at 4 p.m. between a tractor-trailer and a 2000 Dodge sedan in the 3800 block of state Route 135 left the drivers of each vehicle injured.
The accident occurred when Paul Allen Tasker, 48, of Oakland, was making a left turn in his sedan onto the highway from a private road, a press release from the Garrett County Sheriff's Office said.
Tasker drove his car into the path of an eastbound 1999 Kenworth tractor-trailer driven by Ronald Lee Evans, 55, of Keyser, W.Va. The tractor-trailer hit the car and then crossed the westbound lane of Route 135 and went off the road into a ditch.
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There is a single disc Celebration available with 18 songs, but with an artist like Madonna choosing the 2 disc deluxe edition is a no-brainer here. This is easily her most extensive greatest hits collection yet. The 1990 greatest hits set The Immaculate Collection has been a perennial bestseller and sales are nearing six million in the US. Celebration includes 36 tracks that range from the 1982 single "Everybody" that brought Madonna to the dance charts for the first time through two new songs. There is also a Celebration DVD packed with 47 videos including 27 that have never before been released on a DVD collection.
New Tracks "Celebration" and "Revolver"
Celebration includes two new tracks and they close each of the CDs. The first to be released as a single is the title cut "Celebration." It is a collaboration with dance DJ and producer Paul Oakenfold. The song is solid, classic club music from Madonna. I suspect it will sound even better after a few years go by. Madonna's music wears very well over time. The other new cut "Revolver" with Lil Wayne sounds a bit more like a stretch to remain contemporary and current.
Track Listing
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- "Hung Up"
- "Music"
- "Vogue"
- "4 Minutes"
- "Holiday"
- "Everybody"
- "Like A Virgin"
- "Into The Groove"
- "Like A Prayer"
- "Ray Of Light"
- "Sorry"
- "Express Yourself"
- "Open Your Heart"
- "Borderline"
- "Secret"
- "Erotica"
- "Justify My Love"
- "Revolver" with Lil' Wayne
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- "Dress You Up"
- "Material Girl"
- "La Isla Bonita"
- "Papa Don't Preach"
- "Lucky Star"
- "Burning Up"
- "Crazy For You"
- "Who's That Girl"
- "Frozen"
- "Miles Away"
- "Take A Bow"
- "Live To Tell"
- "Beautiful Stranger"
- "Hollywood"
- "Die Another Day"
- "Don't Tell Me"
- "Cherish"
- "Celebration"
What Is Left Out?
Three major hits excluded from her earlier Immaculate Collection greatest hits, "Angel," "True Blue," and "Causing a Commotion" are again left out. "True Blue" and "Causing a Commotion" were included later on a UK released Holiday Collection EP. However, "Angel" seems to be always left out in favor of its single partner "Into the Groove." Among the later hits left out are the #1 smash "This Used to Be My Playground," the only US #1 pop hit missing, as well as "Deeper and Deeper," "Don't Cry For Me Argentina," and "You'll See." It is not a big surprise that "American Pie," one of Madonna's weakest recent hits is missing, but, personally, I would have liked to see "American Life" make the cut. However, when you have the embarrassment of riches in hits that Madonna has amassed, even when you include 36 tracks, there will still be great moments left out.
Consistency is the Hallmark of Madonna's Career
As you listen to all 36 tracks on the Celebration collection one of the most obvious attributes is the impressive consistency in musical quality that Madonna has maintained over more than 25 years. Songs such as "Justify My Love" that sounded a little over-indulgent when first released have worn very well over time. A song like "Dress You Up" that seemed a bit of a throwaway originally now just sounds like solid dance pop. If you do not already own a significant amount of Madonna's music in your collection, Celebration is a must. These songs belong in any serious pop music catalog.


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Sherwood chose Melody Siebenekc, Christy Gurney and Jesse Richardson as the February teachers of the month. They were nominated by colleagues and recognized by their building principals at the March board of education meeting. Each honoree received a certificate and a ribbon for their classroom door and is eligible for teacher of the year honors in May.
Sherwood Elementary School honored Siebeneck as the February teacher of the month. Siebeneck teaches first grade. She received her bachelor's of science in early childhood education from Missouri State University and a masters in elementary administration from William Woods University. This is her 12th year teaching.
"Though it's challenging as well as rewarding, the thing I like most about teaching first grade is that no two classes are ever alike, let alone any two consecutive days," Siebeneck said. "Each school year brings in a group of eager and curious learners and I look forward to figuring out personalities, quirks, and abilities. I also sincerely enjoy the teachers and staff that I'm surrounded with day after day. It is great to work with people who make our students a priority."
Sherwood Middle School's sixth grade science teacher Gurney was chosen as this month's teacher of the month. Gurney, a Sherwood alumnus, began her teaching career 19 years ago, with this being her 16th year at Sherwood. In addition to teaching, she also sponsors high school cheerleading. She received her bachelor of science degree from the University of Central Missouri.
Gurney chose to teach at Sherwood because of the size and location.
"I wanted to give back to the community that I was once a part of that helped shape my path to become a teacher," she said. "It is great to see how much our school has changed and is changing to meet the needs of our students to be successful in today's society."
Sherwood High School has chosen Richardson as their February teacher of the month. Richardson teaches social studies. He has taught for two years, both at Sherwood. In addition to teaching, he is the head girls' basketball coach, assistant football coach and student council representative. Richardson obtained a bachelor's of art in social studies from Avila University.
"Teachers at Midway, where I attended high school, played a huge role in my life," Richardson said. "In particular, my high school social studies teacher Mr. Smalley. He not only made learning fun but changed me as a young adult and that's how I want to be remembered."


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The rent at Alara Hedges Creek Apartments ranges from $956 for a one bedroom to a $1,487 three bedroom. Apartments in this building are about as expensive as the Tualatin average.
This apartment is in Tualatin. Nearby parks include Tualatin Community Park, Tualatin Commons and Tualatin Commons Park.
Alara Hedges Creek Apartments has a Walk Score of 66 out of 100. This location is Somewhat Walkable so some errands can be accomplished on foot.
Nearby schools include Kindercare Learning Centers Inc, Tualatin Elementary School and Tigard High School.
The closest grocery stores are Barhyte Specialty Foods Inc, El Ranchito Alegre and Ray's Produce Inc.
Nearby coffee shops include Starbucks, Dutch Bros Coffee and 501 sports cafe. There are 13 restaurants within a 15 minute walk including Mashita Teriyaki III, C I Bar & Grill and Bellagios Pizza.
Alara Hedges Creek Apartments is near Tualatin Community Park, Tualatin Community Park and Tualatin Commons.
Alara Hedges Creek has one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments for rent in Tualatin, Oregon. Our homes are perfectly located near all of the wonderful attractions you want to live by. When you want to take the night off from cooking, we are only minutes from delicious barbecued food at Famous Daves. Fiorano Ristorante and Haydens Lake Front Grill are around the corner and are ready to serve you a mouth-watering meal. National favorites like Outback Steakhouse and Applebees are less than two miles away. Grab a sandwich at Big Town Hero or stop by Bambuza Vietnamese Bistro for a quick meal.
When you need to go shopping for household supplies, we are near a wealth of retail options. T.J. Maxx and Old Navy will make sure that you always have a full wardrobe. Best Buy is only a few minutes away and Road Runner Sports is also in the neighborhood. Bridgeport Village has a wide variety of stores for you to choose from. Petco will help make sure that your pet is always happy and St


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Canada Stands Up to Iran As Only Canada Can
What would you do, if you had to sit through a speech by a sniveling Holocaust denier with a patchy beard? Would you just sit back and think, Hey, at least it's funnier than Jay Leno?
No you would not, at least not if you're a Canadian delegate to the United Nations…
Canada will boycott Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at the United Nations on Wednesday, saying his outbursts about the Holocaust and Israel are "shameful."
Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon will be at the world body to attend the opening of the UN General Assembly's annual debate, but officials signal he and other members of the Canadian delegation will vacate the Canadian seats when the Islamic republic's President approaches the podium.
Yeah! That's right! Da da Canada, nyet nyet Iran! Hoooooooo! Suck it, Ahmadinejerk!
Interestingly enough, this is the first time in recorded history that Canadians will be seen participating in a public display of rudeness that does not involve mouth guards and ice.
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