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Houston mayor apologizes for death of dog left on side of highway by police officer
The mayor of Houston has apologized to a family whose nearly blind Chihuahua was killed after a police officer arrested his owner and left the dog on the side of a busy highway.
"Let me give you a public apology right now on behalf of the city of Houston," Mayor Annise Parker said. "I don't know what airhead – there's another word in my mind but I'm not going to say it – would throw, you wouldn't put a kid on the side of the road. You shouldn't put someone's pet on the side of the road."
The airheaded officer has not been identified.
But police say an internal investigation of the incident is underway, and that it could take six months to complete.
As reported by KTRK, the complaint stems from a July 14 traffic stop. Josie Garcia says her husband and a friend were pulled over for failing to use a turn signal. Police say they found drugs in the vehicle — a prescription medicine called phencyclidine — and arrested both men. (The charges against Garcia's husband were later dropped.)
According to Garcia, the arresting officer wouldn't let her husband call anyone to pick up Guero, the family's 14-year-old Chihuahua who was along for the ride.
Guero had bad vision due to cataracts, she says. He was left on the side of the highway when the vehicle was towed, and the officer took no steps to contact animal control, Garcia said.
"My husband pleaded with the officer to let him call someone to come get Guero … but he said it wasn't his problem, that the dog would be fine," Garcia said.
Three days later, Garcia, who had posted "lost" signs in the area, received a call from someone who had spotted Guero. She found him dead on a shoulder of the Eastex Freeway, about half a mile from where he had been left.
Guero wrapped the dog's body in a towel, took him home and buried him.
Posted by John Woestendiek August 1st, 2014 under Muttsblog.
Tags: abandoned, airheaded, animals, annise parker, apologizes, apology, blind, cataracts, chihuahua, complaint, dog, dogs, eastex, freeway, guero, highway, houston, investigation, killed, law enforcement, left, mayor, pets, police, road
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"The only thing I'm going to do is shoot it"
That police in St. Clair Shores in Michigan saw killing a dog as the preferable way to stop her barking has been pretty well documented in dash cam videos that have become public.
As soon as they pulled up at the scene, their dashboard camera recorded remarks they were making inside their patrol car, like "The only thing I'm going to do is shoot it" and "I don't do snares. I don't do dogs … I'll shoot the f—ing thing."
But why there were 15 bullet holes in Lexie, a dog police officers only admitted to shooting four times, is a question that may go unanswered — at least until a federal lawsuit filed by the dog's owner comes to trial.
The lawsuit, filed earlier this month, stems from the November 2013 shooting of Lexie, a 44-pound mixed breed who was the subject of a barking dog complaint filed by a neighbor.
Lexie's owner, Brittay Preston, filed the lawsuit against the city of St. Clair Shores, two police officers and an animal control officer, according to Fox News in Detroit. It alleges a violation of her Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable seizure.
The lawsuit seeks money damages, and assurances that St. Clair Township police will "train their officers so that there's not another incident where they respond to a barking dog complaint by killing it," said Preston's attorney, Chris Olson.
Preston was at work and the dog was under the care of a grandfather, who suffers from dementia and forgot to let Lexie back inside during a cold night.
Officers, after discussing their alternatives in the patrol car, approached the home and eventually persuaded the grandfather to let the dog in the house. After he agreed to do so, they shot the dog saying she lunged at them in a threatening manner.
Attorney Olson said the discussion recorded by the dash came shows the shooting was premeditated.
"Neighbors complained of a dog that was barking. [Police] showed up. The first thing that they said out of their mouths was they don't like dogs; they don't do dogs; they're going to shoot the dog anyway. And that's exactly what they did," he said.
"Then they shot the dog again, instead of trying to take care of the dog, getting some care of the dog to prevent it from dying, they did what they intended to do. They made sure that the dog died. They shot it again, and then the dog walked into the animal control van and then when we picked up the dog it had extra bullet holes," he added.
A necropsy conducted by a veterinarians found 15 bullet holes in Lexie.
Officers, after shooting and wounding the dog, can be heard discussing what to do next, including "choking it out" and "using a shovel," according to the lawsuit.
One officer remarked that would be a bad idea because "you know this is going to be all over Facebook in about an hour."
"We're saddened when anyone loses a pet, but since the city and its employees are being sued, the city will certainly defend the lawsuit," St. Clair Shores City Attorney Robert Ihrie said in a statement. "The complaint that was filed is filled with innuendo, speculation and half truths, and I have no doubt when it's held up to the light of day, the truth will bear itself out in court."
(Photo: from the Justice for Lexie Facebook page)
Posted by John Woestendiek July 25th, 2014 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: 15 bullet holes, animals, barking, brittany preston, brittay preston, cam, complaint, conversation, dash, dashboard, dog, dogs, federal, Fourth amendment, justice 4 lexie, justice for lexie, killed, law enforcement, lawsuit, lexie, michigan, necropsy, nuisance, officers, pets, police, recorded, shooting, shot, st. clair shores
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Vet kept their "euthanized" dog alive — and used him for blood transfusions, family says
Imagine being told by your vet that your dog had an incurable condition and had to be euthanized.
Imagine saying your goodbyes and agreeing to let the vet put the dog down, with the promise that he would bury him on his farm.
Now imagine learning — six months later — that your dog never died, and the vet was keeping him alive to use him for blood transfusions.
A veterinary clinic in Fort Worth is under investigation for just such a Frankenstein-like scenario, NBC 5 reports.
Fort Worth police, the city of Fort Worth and state officials are involved in an investigation that started when a client of the Camp Bowie Animal Clinic found out his "euthanized" dog, a 5-year-old Leonberger named Sid, was alive.
Alive and well, in fact — except for being kept in a cage around the clock, and apparently being periodically tapped for blood at the clinic.
Jamie and Marian Harris said they took their dog to the vet for a minor anal gland issue.
After getting treated, Sid had trouble walking.
They say the vet, Lou Tierce, told them their dog had a spinal condition that was only going to get worse, and recommended he be put down. The couple and the son agreed to let the clinic bury Sid on the vet's farm.
Six months later, the Harrises received a call from a veterinary technician, Mary Brewer, who told them Sid was alive and being used for blood transfusions while being kept in a cage most of the day.
"I told her, 'He's still here,' and she's like, 'Can he walk?' and I said, 'Yeah, he's here waiting on you. If you came today, he'd walk out and jump in your car,'" Brewer told News 5.
"It was like getting punched in the stomach and then some," said Marian Harris. "This has rocked our world. My kids are like, 'How does somebody do this?' How does this happen?"
The couple went to the clinic, found Sid and freed him.
State and local authorities went to the Camp Bowie Animal Clinic Tuesday and seized several animals as evidence.
Sid, now back home, is being treated by other veterinarians. They've found he has mange, and shows signs of being used for blood transfusions, as well as being "abusively kenneled," according to the Harrises' lawyer, Jim Eggleston.
Eggleston says allegations have surfaced that more dogs and cats — some with serious illnesses — were being kept alive for blood transfusions and other experimental treatments, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
"You have a vet keeping dogs under false pretenses," he said. "You have family pets that people thought were cremated or put down peacefully that may still be alive."
Tierce has not been responding to media requests for his side of the story.
When the Harrises drove to the clinic to pick up their dog, they found Sid in a cage behind the building. Tierce came outside, according to their complaint, and explained that he had not euthanized Sid because some of his employees had threatened to quit if he did.
An investigator from the Texas State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners met with Fort Worth police and the Tarrant County District Attorney yesterday to discuss whether criminal animal abuse charges will be filed.
Posted by John Woestendiek May 1st, 2014 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: alive, animals, blood, camp bowie animal clinic, complaint, dog, dogs, ethics, euthanized, fort worth, frankenstein, harris, investigation, jamie, kept, kept alive, leonberger, liar, lied, lou tierce, marian, pets, put down, sid, texas, transfusions, vet, veterinarian
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Cat to be evicted from Oregon library
Agatha Christie, a beloved — but apparently not by everybody — cat who has long called the Willamina Public Library home, must go, the city council voted last night.
The city council in Willamina, Oregon, voted 4-0 to evict the 14-year-old cat.
The council gave Head Librarian Melissa Hansen and Youth Services Librarian Denise Willms 10 days to find a new home for Agatha Christie.
It's not the first time Agatha Christie has been on the verge of homelessness.
In the late fall of 2005, the council voted to ban all but guide animals from city-owned buildings. The community quickly rallied to the cat's defense — and the council ended up making an exception for the cat, but not her hamster buddies, Hamlet and Othello.
Hamlet and Othello found new homes, and Agatha Christie remained in the library. (The controversy was also partially responsible an unsuccessful recall effort against then Mayor Rita Baller and two council members, according to Yamhill Valley News Register.)
Apparently, a local resident claims her two-year-old daughter was bitten and scratched by the declawed and mostly toothless old cat in late September. The cat was resting on a shelf in the library when the child approached and petted her.
"I'm not against animals, but I have a genuine concern," one complaining resident said. "Animals get grouchy when they get older. I don't think an animal should be roaming around a public building. The cat needs to live somewhere else. The library is a public building. I think there are allergy issues and sanitation issues. It's not a good place for a cat to reside."
Librarian Hansen was surprised by it all: "She is the most laid back cat there is. She's been declawed and she hardly has any teeth. She has to eat soft food … Anything a small child can do to an animal it's been done to Agie. Over the years, I've seen all kinds of things happen to her. She has never gone on the offensive. She just gets away and hides under my desk."
Posted by John Woestendiek November 12th, 2010 under Muttsblog.
Tags: agatha christie, animals, bit, cat, cats, child, city council, claim, complaint, evict, evicting, eviction, library, melissa hansen, news, oregon, pets, rescue, scratched, shelter, willamina
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PETA vs. BARCS
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has accused Baltimore Animal Rescue & Care Shelter (BARCS) of being overcrowded (which no one is going to argue with), unhealthy (which is debatable) and of allowing an injured cat to sit for hours before it was euthanized (which the shelter adamantly denies).
The criticisms are based on a complaint from a citizen and a follow-up investigation by Teresa Chagrin, a sepcialist with PETA's cruelty investigations department, which included a visit to the facility.
Chagrin said a resident of Hamilton named Joe Lombardo witnessed the cat get attacked by a dog and called animal control. The cat was neither treated nor put down for seven hours after arriving at BARCS, he said. The cat arrived at BARCS Aug. 8, according to the Baltimore Sun. When Lombardo called BARCS the next day, he says he was told that the severely injured cat was not put down until 8:30 the next morning.
BARCS officials said Tuesday that the cat was immediately evaluated and then euthanized.
"That's completely wrong," Debbie Rahl, the shelter's rescue coordinator, said of the complaint. "There was no delay."
Chagrin apparently had investigated BARCS before the cat incident. In July, she wrote a letter to the city's health department, criticizing conditions she had either witnessed or been told about.
"Visitors to the city facility report that several rooms lined with cages from floor to ceiling contain cats housed in high temperatures while small box fans, apparently meant to cool the rooms, simply blow hot air around the floors," Chagrin wrote. "I visited the facility on June 13, 2010, and verified the complaints. During my visit, many cats showed signs of overheating — the majority of cats were lying on their sides with their eyes closed and were breathing very rapidly. They had no interest in visitors and appeared extremely lethargic."
Chagrin said Wednesday she'd received no response from the city.
Jennifer Brause, BARCS executive director, called the complaints unfounded and said the cat was evaluated and then put down, a process that took several hours. Brause said the staff and volunteers have increased the number of animals whose lives have been saved at the shelter by 60% over the last few years.
Posted by John Woestendiek September 4th, 2010 under Muttsblog.
Tags: animal welfare, animals, baltimore, baltimore animals rescue & care shelter, barcs, cat, cats, complaint, conditions, dogs, euthanasia, injured, investigation, people for the ethical treatment of animals, peta, pets, rescue, shelter
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Communion for dogs? Why not?
An Anglican priest in Canada who drew criticism for feeding a communion wafer to a dog has apologized.
Donald Keith, 56, and Trapper, his German shepherd-Rhodesian ridgeback mix, frequented a park outside St. Peter's Anglican Church in Toronto, and would sit on its steps as part of their daily routine.
Last month, Rev. Marguerite Rea welcomed both inside and gave them both a wafer during communion — an act of kindness that, as can happen when it comes to religion, created a furor. One parishioner filed a formal complaint with Anglican Bishop Patrick Yu, leading Rea to apologize this week.
"If I have hurt, upset or embarrassed anyone, I apologize," Rea said on Sunday. "It was a simple church act of reaching out."
Keith, a 56-year-old truck driver, got Trapper three years ago from a shelter, where, after three previous owners declared him unmanageable, he was likely going to be euthanized, according to the Toronto Star.
Every day, the two sit on the front steps of St. Peter's for "reflection and spiritual renewal," Keith told the newspaper. In late June, police urged the two to move off the spot, and Keith stepped inside the church to complain. Rea, the interim minister, invited Keith and Trapper to attend church.
When offered communion, Keith accepted. Trapper only sniffed the wine, but gobbled up the wafer.
Bishop Yu called the act a "misguided gesture of welcoming."
But Rea says she's received support through phone calls, visits and emails. The congregant who complained has since left the church, and others have no problem with the minister's gesture.
"We're all God's creatures," said one of them, Suzette Mafuna. "If a dog goes into a church, he's entitled to every service that's offered, including spiritual nourishment."
(Photo: By Colin McConnell/Toronto Star)
Posted by John Woestendiek July 29th, 2010 under Muttsblog.
Tags: anglican, animals, apologize, apology, bishop, canada, church, churches, communion, complaint, congregation, dog, dogs, donald keith, marguerite, minister, news, ohmidog!, patrick yu, pets, rea, reverend, st. peters, toronto, trapper, wafer, wine, worship
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Justice: Lawyer fined for snubbing service dog
A Colorado Springs attorney accused of not allowing a disabled woman and her service dog into his office because he feared his new carpet might be soiled will pay $50,000 as part of a consent decree approved by a federal court today.
A November 2009 complaint accused Patric LeHouillier of violating the Americans with Disabilities act by barring Joan Murnane, a veterinarian with brain and other injuries that affect her balance, from entering his law office because her service dog was with her.
The complaint says LeHouillier and his firm, LeHouillier & Associates, expressed concern that the Australian shepherd might soil its new carpet, according to a report in Westword.
That decision, under the consent decree, will cost him $50,000 – $30,000 for Murnane, $10,000 for her husband and another $10,000 for a civil penalty.
"For almost two decades, the ADA has ensured that individuals with disabilities are guaranteed full and equal access to public accommodations, both large and small," said Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. "The Justice Department is unrelenting in [eradicating] discrimination against people with disabilities and ensuring that owners and operators of public accommodations recognize their obligations to provide equal access."
The consent decree was approved by Judge Marcia S. Krieger in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.
Under its terms, LeHouillier and his firm will be required to adopt an ADA-compliant service animal policy and post the policy in a conspicuous location, post a "Service Animals Welcome" sign, and provide training to staff.
The press release noted that a service animal is any animal individually trained to work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability — and that the classification is not limited to dogs that assist the blind.
It includes, the press release says, dogs who alert individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing to sounds, warn persons about impending seizures or other medical conditions, perform tasks for persons with psychiatric disabilities and provide physical supports for individuals with mobility issues.
More information about the ADA, including how to file an ADA complaint with the Justice Department, is available on the ADA home page at www.ada.gov.
The Justice Department also has a toll-free ADA Information Line (800) 514-0301 or (800) 514-0383 (TTY).
(Photo: Cafepress.com)
Posted by John Woestendiek March 31st, 2010 under Muttsblog.
Tags: ada, american with disabilities act, attorney, carpet, colorado springs, complaint, consent decree, disability, dogs, federal court, fined, joan murnane, lawyer, news, ohmidog!, patric lehouillier, pets, physical, psychiatric, service animals, service dog, veterinarian
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The share of education tax dollars that actually winds up in Arizona classrooms slid again last year, to the lowest level in the 13 years the state has been monitoring.
New figures from the Auditor General's Office show less than 54 cents out of every education dollar went into actual classroom spending — 7.4 percentage points below the national average.
Auditor General Debra Davenport said that shows up largely in more students being packed into fewer classes.
The average class size in Arizona is larger than the national average, Davenport said, and has increased in the last two years.

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At 17, Rita ran away from home and left school to escape a violent, mentally ill mother. The hazards of homelessness increased when she found herself seven months pregnant, retching with food poisoning from eating dumpster food and lying next to a trash compactor behind a Kroger store. She turned to prayer and her pleas were answered in the form of another homeless person who told her about the South Oakland Shelter in Royal Oak. After walking miles to the shelter, she had to tell the staff she was 18 so she could enter the program. "They were so wonderful to me," she says. The social workers and church volunteers took her to a doctor, supplied maternity clothes and made sure she ate properly. Because the shelter had a 30-day time limit, Rita decided to return home with her baby and figure out a way to deal with her mother's schizophrenia and create a better life for her son, Alaric.
Through adult education classes, she finished high school, just six months behind her class. To Rita, that better life meant college. She approached several colleges and universities with little to no encouragement, that is, until she came to Marygrove. Here she was treated respectfully, was offered financial aid and the support to believe in herself and her goals. She became an extraordinary student, managing a double major in Psychology and English with a Distinguished Student Award in each, a first at Marygrove. In her final semester, she carried 10 classes, another record at the college, and achieved in an A in every one. Her young son with his own schoolbag road the bus with her and quietly attended classes with her. She met her goal of graduating before he entered kindergarten. Throughout those years, she worked a low-paying night job to support her son, mother and herself. She tells her story not to elicit sympathy but to show others that that they, too, can overcome obstacles.
After graduation, Rita began her career in Human Resources at an executive recruiting firm. In less than a year, she developed ten new clients and attracted 200 candidates for positions posted. In the last decade, she has held recruitment positions of ever-increasing responsibility. Meanwhile, she earned a Master's in Human Resource Management in 2002 by taking night classes, also at Marygrove. Her employer, Henry Ford Health System, selected Rita as a participant in the 2006 Leadership Academy Class to provide her with intensive developmental training, indicating she is on the "fast track."
Dr. Karen Keljo Tracy, Associate Professor of Psychology, described her as, "One of those exceptional individuals who can intertwine art and science and bring both to bear in untangling an impossible knot or in initiating a creative strategy. She can sort out patterns in many aspects of her work, which lead her to effective ways of organizing and viewing an issue from a different perspective to solve it."
Rita believes in reciprocation. She is a member of the Board of the South Oakland Shelter, where she resided as a client 15 years ago and where she shares her story with homeless people to give them hope. Her personal creed is "Don't allow others to define your failures or your strengths. At the end of the day, you'll walk in your own shoes and you need to have faith in your guiding principles."
She is a member of several professional organizations including the National Association of African Americans in Human Resources, the Society for Human Resources Management, Inforum and the Human Resources Association of Greater Detroit.
Rita gives back in many ways to Marygrove and is Vice President of the Alumni Association Board. "Marygrove greatly contributed to the person that I have become. My education not only gave me knowledge, it also largely rebuilt my shattered self-esteem," she says. Rita's professional insights were invaluable as a member of the Presidential Search Committee. To assist students seeking employment, she presented a workshop on how to write dynamite cover letters.
Rita's husband, Keenan D. Fields, and her son were among the many who wrote glowing tribute letters supporting her nomination as a Distinguished Alumna.
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Joshua Bailer has joined Atlas Commodities LLC, a commodity brokerage, to lead the company's biofuels division.
Bailer worked at Sucden et Denree and at Morgan Stanley (MS:US) in its oil and refined products trading division, Houston-based Atlas said in an e-mailed statement today. He will lead the firm's new suite of brokered products under the name Next Generation Commodities.
The biofuels segment, to be based in Miami, will cover ethanol, ethanol credits and other alternative energy commodities, Atlas said.
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The Downtown Monroe Alliance and Community Trust Bank present A Very Merry Commander Christmas with A Night On The River Christmas Flotilla - featuring the stars of Duck Dynasty and a spectacular Laser Light Show.
The colorful river parade begins at 5:30 PM, Saturday, December 14 at Forsythe Park and will make its way to the Downtown RiverMarket. The stars of television?s Duck Dynasty will serve as Grand Marshals aboard a vessel sponsored by Universal Music Group Nashville. They will address the crowd from their boat at the RiverMarket, the premium viewing area for all the sights and sounds of the flotilla and the big Laser Light Show that follows.
Get your entry in now. The number of registrations will be limited to the first 20 to 30 boats depending upon size. A non-refundable entry fee of $25 is required. All proceeds will go to the Food Bank of Northeast Louisiana. Vessels will be assigned a number corresponding with the order in which your entry is received.
Boat sizes include 29? and under, 30? to 39?, 40? to 59? and 60? and over.
Form your crew and get ready to join the parade.
Remember, decorating is half the fun and the rewards for best decorations aren?t shabby either. A panel of local judges and the public will determine the winners. The public will be able to vote for your favorite by phone and online.
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A Place of Healing, a new Johnson City-based nonprofit service center for people throughout the Tri-Cities with eating disorders, will host its first public event tonight — a benefit storytelling session to be held at Shakti in the Mountains at 409 E. Unaka Ave.
"Everybody knows Somebody," an evening of inspirational stories by students and instructors from the storytelling program at East Tennessee State University, will be held from 7-9 p.m.
The benefit will also include a silent auction and refreshments catered by Earth Fare. Doors will open at 6:30 for a free viewing of a large selection of auction items donated for the benefit. Admission to the storytelling is $20 per person.
Proceeds will help the center raise awareness that eating disorders are a serious illness, help those in need access treatment and make critically needed educational materials available to individuals and the local medical, educational and business communities.
The first of its kind in the Tri-Cities region, the center began work in January to fill the void in local resources. Open Tuesdays from 3-5 p.m. and other times by appointment, the center is located at 509 E. Watauga Ave. and includes a reading library. Treatment referrals are available.
For more information about the center's resources, visit www.healingtn.org or call Laryn Hurley at 815-9511 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Good Samaritan Ministries has lost a piece of equipment essential to its charitable operations.
On Wednesday, the ministry learned its much used and increasingly failing 26-foot delivery truck is beyond repair. The truck played a critical role in the ministry's day-to-day work, picking up and delivering donations of food, clothing, household furnishings and more for local families and individuals in need.
Adam Hoover with the Good Samaritan staff said, "Our ministry cannot afford to not have a vehicle like this. Every day we don't have a box truck, food is not picked up, furniture is not delivered and families in our community are not adequately served."
While a donated delivery truck would be ideal, monetary donations to help the ministry purchase or lease a replacement vehicle are urgently needed.
Those who wish to help may make tax-deductible donations earmarked for "Operations" online at www.goodsamjc.org or by mail to Good Samaritan Ministries, P.O. Box 2441. Johnson City, TN 37605-2441.
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If you're aiming for a Valentine's weekend dinner date to show your sweetheart just how sweet you are, Honor Flight of Northeast Tennessee is inviting everyone to twist the night away Feb. 15 at the Johnson City Veterans of Foreign Wars post.
A 1950s style sock hop and spaghetti supper is planned to help the nonprofit Honor Flight organization treat its next bus load of local World War II veterans to a complimentary trip Washington to tour of the nation's war memorials.
The dinner dance with Jerry Pierce and the Nightlife Band will be held from 4-8 p.m. Fun '50s attire and comfortable dancing shoes are encouraged but not required. It's a nonalcoholic event and children are welcome.
Admission will be by donation. The VFW is located at 2518 Jim Funkhouser Road.
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Kington – St. Mary the Virgin
The oldest part of this church is the tower which is roughly circa 1200. Originally it was detached from the body of the church, and was used as a refuge for the parishioners during troubled times – the walls are a very solid and reassuring six feet thick. There is a simple Norman font, near to which is a baptismal "tank" which was frequently used for adults in the eighteenth century.
Under the terms of the will of Lady Margaret Hawkins, Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth l and second wife of Sir John Hawkins, the Elizabethan sailor and adventurer, and also a Vaughan from Hergest Court, it was decreed that pupils of the nearby free school (Lady Hawkins School) should attend the church every Sunday, and then on the following day give an account of what they had learnt.
In 1469 Thomas Vaughan of Hergest Court died in the battle of Banbury – his body was taken back to Kington and a beautiful alabaster tomb inside the church houses both him and his wife – Ellen Gethin (Ethin the Terrible). Memorials include one for Cassandra Davies, a spinster of the parish who decreed that five pounds was to be distributed every year on 26th March to the "most antient, indigent, and necessitous parishioners". Another inscription relates how Richard Meredith in 1777 left £24 per year to be given "in bread monthly and distributed amongst the poor housekeepers who were not suppoted by the Parish as paupers, on the first Sunday of every month".
Lovely brass plaque in memory of Albert, 4th son of Francis and Jane Parker, born 18 March 1853, who with 78 others was lost in the ship "British Admiral" in Bass Straight on 23 May 1874
In 1055, the Welsh thronged over the border and attacked Hereford, and Harold Godwinson was appointed to sort things out. He managed to push the Welsh back as far as Radnor, and then promptly dispossessed many of the surrounding land owners, dividing the spoils between himself, the king and some of his officers in the army. The settlement became known as the king's town and eventually Kington. By 1287, Kington had spread further down the hill, close to where the present centre is. Edward I granted six fairs, and the Whit Monday Fair was the biggest and jolliest, but the other five were more seriously for stock.
Close to the summit of Hergest Ridge, immediately to the west of the church, is a rock known as the Whetstone, which it was said went down to the Hindwell Brook at the bottom of the Ridge every time it heard a cock crow. It is thought that during the plague of 1366 a weekly market was held at the stone, where wheat (whet) was put onto the stone by farmers from the surrounding area, who would then back off to allow the townspeople to collect it and leave their money in exchange…..this was in an effort to avoid infection.
The market hall in the town had two floors, with the top room being used for sales of wool, and the ground floor for dairy goods and poultry.
Kington, along with Ledbury, was one of the few places in the county to suffer the Rebecca toll gate riots of the 1830s, which arose because locals were angry over being forced to pay for everyday journeys such as to and from the market. Frequently the protestors were men disguised as women, and they even blacked their faces so that nobody could recognise them as they burnt or dismantled the toll gates. (the name ~Rebecca~ might have come from Genesis "the descendant of Rebecca will possess the gates of them that hate them". Drovers roads gradually came into existence, and these bypassed the hated toll houses which still are plentiful throughout Herefordshire although of course no longer used for the original purpose.
Kington had a thriving clothing industry at one time, but this declined after the late 18th century, and eventually the cloth mills were demolished. There was also a glove industry, but in the mid 1800s cheaper French gloves were being imported and this hit the Kington glove makers hard. By 1845 there were 4 corn mills, an iron foundry and a tanning industry.


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Myawaddy (also sometimes spelt Myawaddi, Myawadi or Myawady) is a border town in Myanmar. Access for foreigners is currently only possible from Mae Sot in Tak Province, Thailand, though this is set to change in a few years time.
At some point this is expected to be a full international border crossing as part of the Asian Highway Network route AH1 which will connect Tokyo in Japan with the border between Turkey and Bulgaria. At that time the Mae Sot - Myawaddy border crossing will probably become the main overland entry point for foreigners wishing to get from Bangkok to Yangon, and vice-versa, overland.
Currently however foreigners may only enter on foot, are not allowed to travel further overland into Myanmar from Myawaddy, and are not permitted to stay in Myawaddy overnight, hence they must head back to Mae Sot before the border closes at 18:00.
Despite these restrictions, the Myawaddy - Mae Sot border crossing is a moderately popular destination for tourists and expats in Thailand who want to make a "visa run", i.e. get a new Thai entry permit stamp by making a short visit to another country.
The time in Myawaddy is 30 minutes earlier than in Mae Sot, and the traffic drives on the right.
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There are several buses daily from Myawaddy to Hpa-an (Pa-an) and Mawlamyine (Moulmein), however a Myanmar or Thai passport or ID card is required.
Foreigners can only cross the border into Myanmar at this point on foot, and foreigners are not even permitted to cross with bicycles.
From the Thai town of Mae Sot, take a songthaew or other transport to the border crossing at the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge over the Moei River; Myawaddy is immediately on the other side of the bridge.
Foreigners must deposit their passports at the Myanmar immigration checkpoint. The officers ask for 500 baht, whereas officially the fee is USD10. They will haggle and mess around, using a variety of ruses, such as your US dollar notes being printed in the wrong year. To save their face, carry a selection of notes, or just be patient - the fee is USD10. No fees are payable at the Thai checkpoint. Normal exit and entry stamps are issued at both checkpoints.
In March 2010 it was not possible to pay USD10 instead of 500 baht. When asking for an explanation of why the border in Mae Sai charges USD10 and the border in Mae Sot 500 baht, guards may claim that these are different border crossings and there are more foreigners in Mae Sai so it makes it easier to exchange the dollars, or something like this. In any case, just be prepared to pay 500 baht. Even if you pretend to have no Thai currency with you, the officers then let you enter the town without taking your dollars, but tell you to change them into baht there and pay 500 baht on your way back.
On your re-entry back into Thailand you are given visa for only 15 days, not 30 days.
While in Myawaddy the Thai baht is universally accepted, as such, there is no need to change your baht into kyat.
Get around[edit]
Myawaddy is centred around the wide strip of highway that leads from the Friendship Bridge through town and is small enough to be explored easily on foot; alternatively, ubiquitous red bicycle rickshaws go everywhere.
Places of interest in town include:
The Golden pagoda, 2-3 minutes from the border checkpoint by rickshaw. Very picturesque site with several big Buddha images enshrined on its grounds, one of which is a replica of the golden Buddha image of Mahamuni Temple in Mandalay. Locals claim that this pagoda is more than 1,000 years old.
The Crocodile Temple, 6-7 minutes from the border checkpoint by rickshaw. Very unusual temple on the back of a gigantic crocodile statue.
Three more temples with big pagodas a bit away from the town centre in neighbouring villages.
One of these pagodas is on the grounds of the children's dancing school, so you can see many small kids there. There are also more than a hundred similar sitting Buddha images on one of the sides of this pagoda.
Another temple is situated on a hill 100 m walk from the previous one. It also has a big pagoda and gives a good view of the surrounding area.
Visiting these distant places gives a bit of experience of "real Myanmar" with small wooden huts and locals working in their fields.
There are several guesthouses and small hotels, however foreigners are currently not permitted to stay in Myawaddy overnight.


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Throughout the pages of Scripture we find God's infinite mercy on display. Whether it be the story of Joseph and his brothers or the parable of the Prodigal Son, one aspect of God shines forth particularly clearly in the Bible: His infinite mercy. Although we deserve condemnation, He has mercy upon us over and over again.
Today's first reading tells of the Exile of the Jews to Babylon. The biblical author makes clear that the blame for this traumatic event can only be placed at the feet of the Israelites themselves. They had "added infidelity to infidelity, practicing all the abominations of the nations and polluting the LORD'S temple" (2 Chronicles 36:14). Yet it is also made clear that this event is a mercy to the Chosen People: it allows them a "sabbath rest" and through their humiliation they can return to the Lord. And God does not forget His people, allowing them to return to Jerusalem under King Cyrus.
Yet even after this mercy, God's people - and all the world - continue to defy Him and deserve condemnation. St. Paul says bluntly that "we were dead in our transgressions" (Ephesians 2:5). We had rejected God and instead followed our own wicked ways. We deserved nothing other than condemnation. But Jesus proclaims in today's Gospel that "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him" (John 3:16-17). What a marvelous mercy! Instead of giving the world what it rightly deserves due to its continued infidelity to God, the Lord sends His only Son to save us. God's great mercy can never be outdone by our sinfulness.
God's mercy continues to be with us today. Although we persist in sinning against Him, He has given us the great sacrament of reconciliation to restore us to fellowship with Him. Contemplate the beauty of this sacrament: no matter what we do or how we reject Him, God is always available – and waiting! – to forgive us when we are sorry. He waits on the porch looking in the distance for us to return to Him, running to embrace us at the first glimpse of our return. "[N]either death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:38-39). Praise be to the all-merciful God!
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LETTER: Sharing a testimony
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Hi, my name is Terry (Susie) Coe. I am 44 years old. I have Down syndrome, a heart defect and pulmonary artery hypertension. My mom, Inez, passed away two years ago. I went to live with my sister, Mickie, and niece, Amanda Upchurch. We live at High Ridge Apartments. About six months ago, I found out that I have a serious disease, PAH, which left me on oxygen 24/7, limiting my daily activities but not immobilizing me because I am a strong woman.
I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. I am sharing my story because I want to be an example for others with disabilities of any kind. My favorite saying is, "Don't worry, be happy." I have encouraged a lot of people, especially my family, with these positive words. I think my mommy would be proud of me. I love my brother and sisters dearly. They are good people. I thank the Lord for them!
I want to share a testimony of a kind deed that a total stranger did for me.
Around my birthday, my sister took me to Olive Garden in Southern Pines. I had my favorite dish, pizza, but it was healthy [with] veggies. When I walked in the restaurant, a kind man greeted me with a smile and said, "Welcome to Olive Garden, glad to have you here." This young man treated me with respect and made me feel smart. He gave me a tag that had my name on it that he fixed just for me. [It] made me feel special. This kind man also gave me a present for my birthday. It was a big towel with "Olive Garden" on it. I was so happy, excited and grateful for what this God-sent man did for me on my birthday. I am a blessed woman.
I want to thank all my providers and doctors for their care for me — Moncure Clinic, UNC Specialty Clinic in Sanford and Urgent Care in Sanford, also, Quality Home Health Care.
I have a new job at the Stevens Center, to keep me busy during the day. I'm loving it — computers, making soup, learning kitchen skills, everything. I just want my friends and the general public to know that there comes a time in life that change is necessary. "Change is good." I'm looking forward to a whole New Year, filled with joy, peace and excitement. So if you need to make that change, I encourage you, too!
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Real focus happens inside the camera's lens element. The sharpening features in Photoshop CS3 exaggerate the contrast along edges in a photograph to transform a well-focused image into an outstanding image. In Photoshop CS3 Sharpening Images, Deke McClelland teaches a host of sharpening and noise reduction techniques, including using filters such as Unsharp Mask, Smart Sharpen, High Pass, and Reduce Noise. The training teaches the essentials of sharpening, including what it does, why it's important, and how the filters function. Plus, the training covers Deke's recommended best practices, including the four distinct varieties of sharpening, which can be used independently or in combination with each other. Photoshop CS3 Sharpening Images is about how to transform images from looking good to looking their absolute best. Exercise files accompany the course.
In this project, we are going to talk about how to add depth of field to an image. So that we bring more of the image on to the focal plane. So notice what we have in the case of this image right here, which is called a Man with columns.PSD. It's found inside the 07_For_Effect folder and this image comes to us from photographer Tom Young, once again of iStockphoto.com. And notice that we have this gentleman in the foreground, who is in sharp focus, and his background is out of focus. It's very separated from him.
Now what if you want it to look more part of him, you want the foreground and background to appear to be more in union with each other? Like this image right here for example, which by the way is called heightened DOF, meaning depth of field, .PSD also found inside that same 07_For_Effect folder. How do you go about achieving this effect? Well, I will say first of all that you aren't going to take portions of an image that are out of focus and suddenly make them in focus. So the background still appears to be somewhat out of focus.
You are just going to close the gap a little bit. Now we could try to- by the way this is the entire built file at this point- we could try to close the gap even farther. We could try to heighten the focus of the background even more and I could do that by going to this Unsharp Mask effect that's been applied to this Smart Object that's called success right here. And I could change its blend mode settings by double clicking on the blending icon and I could increase the Opacity. Notice that I have the Opacity setting way down; I could increase it to a 100%.
So that we have a very crunchy background indeed and I will go ahead and accept that modification. That to me doesn't look like it's in focus. What it looks like to me is this guy is standing in front of a poster that is over sharpened. So he doesn't look like he is even in the neighborhood of these columns anymore; it just looks like a completely faked effect. Whereas if I go ahead and back it off by pressing the Ctrl+Z or Command+Z on the Mac, so I undo that modification, then we end up getting something that produces an enhanced depth of field effect as I say, but it looks credible as well.
It looks like the image might have actually been photographed this way. Now I am going return back to the original image right here, Man with columns.PSD from the iStockphoto.com. image library as I say. Now it's tempting after seeing this heightened depth of field image here. It's tempting to look at this one and say gosh, was this modified? I mean this foreground image looks so different than its background. Perhaps he was masked against this background, or the photographer took the time in order to mask the background and lightened it significantly.
I am going to tell you first of all, I didn't do anything to the image and secondly, I don't think the photographer did either and I will tell you why. I am going to double click on the Smart Object. Notice that I have gone ahead and taken the original image and opened it inside of Camera RAW and then transported the image into Photoshop as a Smart Object. So we can go ahead and double click on the Smart Object in order to load the Camera RAW modifications. Heres a few reasons why I don't think anything has been done to this image. First of all, it was slightly crooked and so I needed to go ahead and just ever so slightly straighten it and I also went ahead and cropped it as well.
And I made some modifications to the temperature and tint which I didnt think were exactly what they needed to be. And if I switch over to the Sharpening options here, you can see that I up the Color noise reduction setting. I am going to ahead and press Ctrl+Alt+0 or Command+Option+0 in order to zoom in on this image and actually I am going to zoom in quite close on the eye and cheek details right here. This is what the image looked like originally. If I set the color value down to the 0, you can see that there is a lot of color noise inside of this image, both inside of the skin tones and inside of the eye, there is a lot of blue. There is a lot of aberrant very bright blues inside of this image that can be easily resolved by uping this color value to 30 and then they pretty much entirely go away.
I also sharpened for the de-mosaicing process. So I am guessing that if the photographer didn't take care of the straightening and the Color noise reduction and all of that stuff then he wasn't going to spend the time necessary to create an extremely accurate mask. This is quite the mask, I am here to tell you, and separate the image from the background. So my guess? This is the way it was photographed, it's beautiful photograph incidentally. So nothing against the photography at all. Alright. So having explained what we are about to do, we will set about doing what we are about to do in the next exercise.
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An Okada Economy
By Reuben Abati
My mechanic returned from his workshop wearing a dour look, a radical departure from his usual boisterous self. "Something definitely is wrong with this fellow", I thought. In place of his sunny disposition was a sullen mood. A squat fellow, just a little above five feet, whatever it was that was bothering him had made him to arch his shoulders a little. Human beings tend to adopt different postures to give non-verbal expression to the turmoil within. In his own case, he actually looked as if there was an imaginary weight on his shoulders, pressing him down, making him appear shorter than he is. My mechanic and I have a good rapport. He was anxious to tell his story.
It turned out that three of his apprentices had just left him: the reason for his frustration. He was down to just one apprentice in his workshop. Nigerian artisans generally: tailors, mechanics, vulcanizers, plumbers, carpenters, bricklayers etc. cannot do without apprentices, the more established ones among them even engage those they call "join man". A join man is a fully trained artisan, who had been set free by his own master, and had undergone the ritual of what local people call "freedom", a kind of graduation ceremony. These days, that graduation ceremony involves the wearing of academic gown and the issuance of certificates, nicely tucked inside a scroll. Other masters in the particular trade or craft are invited to deliver Convocation lectures! If such a graduate is unable to set up his own shop immediately, due to lack of resources, he or she teams up in the meantime with an existing practice, not as an apprentice but as a junior partner. He is an important part of the sociology of the trade and craft guild in Nigeria.
Apprentices learn the craft and the tricks of the trade from the more experinced master. They also contribute to the making of the master's business by running errands, and taking on less complicated tasks. They would have been handed over to the master by their parents and relations, to be trained, to be disciplined, and to be moudled into self-reliant professionals. In most cases, the master is even paid for taking on such apprentices. This apprenticeship system is an informal ssytem of education which has worked over the years in the absence of a well-structured Basic Education system in Nigeria. Most apprentices are school drop outs, children of poor parents, who in order to make something out of their lives are sent off to learn a trade.
It is a popular system of education particularly in the Southern part of the country partly because it is close to the traditional mode of education in local communtiies. In traditional communities, fishermen, hunters, dancers, priests, weavers, and other local artisans learnt their trade through apprenticeship. As the Nigerian society became exposed to technology, the apprencticeship system became more diversified. And many of us continue to rely on the services of its graduates: the Mr. Kamoru who does your plumbing work, Sunday, the bricklayer, the owner of the Wait and Get photo shop in the neighbourhood, Chiedu, the electrician, Fatai, the roadside vulcanizer, Emeka at the computer village, Folly, the phone repairer and so on. They are all useful to the educated crowd in Nigeria that cannot change tyres or fix a leaking tap. But these artisans are not products of any government-owned Trade and Craft Centre or any Polytechnic providing technical education. They are products of the apprenticeship system and they have managed to learn how to offer service and earn a living through trial and error. However, if you live in Nigeria, you must have noticed that the competitiveness crisis that assails the nation, the skills deficit that is one of our major national problems are felt even more seriously at the level of artisans. The quality of instruction under the apprenticeship system has become terribly low.
It is so bad now that most mechanics in our so-called mechanic villages actually help to destroy cars. Many of the cars coming from the West these days either as brand new or as used cars are so technologically sophisticated that the average Nigerian mechanic has no clue. He fumbles around with your car and he ruins it, because he has had no opportunity to upgrade his knowledge and skills. Even Nigerian plumbers can no longer fix basic equipment. The makers of sanitary wares in Europe and elsewhere are constantly changing their designs. Good, old bricklayers who can build a straight wall are in short supply. The world is leaving Nigeria behind. A country whose citizens cannot do basic maintenance chores is an unlucky country, and it should be pitied for losing its capacity to compete. I have lamented about this once, but it is a continuing problem. My mechanic offered a fresh explanation which I had never thought of.
"Dr.", he had said. He calls me Dr. "You have to write something about this okada menace and let government know that with okada on the streets of Nigeria, this country will not make any progress."
I was shocked. My mechanic trying to tell me what to write or think? My countenance changed but I was curious. I tilted my head to a side as if I wanted to get more details. I am beginning to get used to all kinds of persons trying to tell a me what to write, what to think, and how to write!
"We can't get apprentices anymore. When parents bring a child to learn a trade these days, there is no guarantee that the child will stay to learn anything. After a few weeks they all run away to ride okada. If this trend continues, a time will come when there will be no mechanics again, no plumbers, no electricians, no carpenters, no road side vulcanizers, there will only be okada riders in Nigeria."
I thought that was frightening. I didn't think this will happen and I told him so.
"But I am telling you what I know. We even discussed it at our meeting last Thursday. The young men that are growing up now, they don't want to do anything that requires the use of the brain or the body. If you ask them to change a tyre or fix a bolt, they would soon tell you that it is a difficult way to earn a living. Even drivers can't get conductors again. Nobody wants to be a conductor. And if they agree, they will insist on earning the same amount as the driver. It is easier to ride Okada. Two of my apprentices are now okada riders. All the boys in our mechanic village now ride okada. They say they are happy to do that, instead of learning difficult trades."
"Is okada that profitable?", I asked, fishing for further explanations.
"Nothing sells like okada. Those okada riders you see, they make as much as N4, 000 per day and even more. All they are required to do is to deliver N2, 000 or less, to the owner. The remaining N2, 000 is theirs. There is no apprentice that can ever earn N2, 000 per day in this country. Even workshop owners don't always earn up to N2, 000 per day with all their hardwork."
"You really mean the riding of okada is that profitable?", I varied the question trying to do a mental calculation of what that amounts to in a month.
"The only other business that pays like okada is the sale of pure water. Those are the two main businesses now in Nigeria. The third one is aluminium work. The people in that line of business still get apprentices. But my suspicion is that this is because of the big money involved. Some of those boys if you give them a contract to do the aluminium windows of your house and they give you a bill of about N600, 000. We all know aluminium windows are expensive. Once they collect a deposit from you running into about N350, 000, they can disappear into thin air. They will just relocate to another town. Things like that happen all the time. Somehow, nobody wants to work hard again."
"But I don't see how banning the okada will suddenly help to change that?". I queried. "Those motorcycles help people to move around. They take people to their destinations faster than vehicles. Many parts of Lagos are inaccessible. Without the okada, it is not just in Lagos that people will be stranded, all over Nigeria, public transportation will grind to a halt."
"Then let government do something about public transportation"
"I still don't see how that will solve the problem. I think the okada, like pure water business has come to stay"
"If it stays, the country will pay a bigger price in the future. There will be no artisans in the country. It is better to take people away from the okada business now and force them to go and learn a trade, and acquire skills. Riding a motorcycle around town is too easy. It doesn't require any skills. Our workshops are dying."
"I hear some of those okada riders are graduates."
"The money is good. That's why. In fact most of the owners are company managers. I know doctors and Professors who own okadas. What they do is that they buy the motorcycle and give it to somebody to ride, on the condition that once he finishes paying an agreed value, the okada becomes his own. A new motorcycle costs between N60, 000 and N70, 000. The original owner may ask that the rider should pay N120, 000. Once he finishes paying, the okada becomes his. If you tell the okada rider that the motorcycle will become his after paying a certain amount, he will make sure he takes good care of it and that it is not stolen. One of my former apprentices now owns three okadas, He pays his rent regularly and he has two wives. He is living fine."
"I don't think so."
"He is making money. He has two wives."
"A country where the only thing that people do is to make money, and marry an additional wife as they get richer certainly cannmot make progress, " I pointed out, seeing that he kept stressing the point about two wives.
"If government can insist on the use of helmets by okada riders, that may discourage them", he continued. " I know that many Nigerians will not want to use a helmet that has been used by another person. And the use of helmet won't help the okada business. It will eat into the profit. Sometimes the okadas carry four passengers on one motorcyle. Is it possible for four persons to wear helmets riding one machine? Government can also insist that every okada should be licensed and that okada riders must pay tax. Their hours of operation and areas that they can cover in the city should also be reduced. Once the business is no longer profitable, all those boys will go and find a trade to learn"
"You are just interested in anything that will bring back your apprentices."
"I am also worried about Nigeria. "
"You are?"
"Government is not serious. They don't know what is going on. Last week, they came to threaten that they will shut down our mechanic village. They said we are not paying tax. But what tax are we supposed to pay? Why do they want mechanics and vulcanisers, rewires and spare parts dealers to pay tax when nobody is doing anything for us? For the past three weeks, there has been no electricity in that village. All the artisans who need electricity for their work, can't do anything. This is also what is forcing many people to ride okada. It is the last resort for failed artisans."
"I hear many of those artisans are arrned robbers"
"Because it is easy to rob with an okada. The police have not been trained to tackle okada robbers. Once they strike, they disappear quickly into thin air. You can't chase them with a car. Dr. This is a tough country o. Okada riders also rape women."
The way he presented that last statement, he sounded as if he was telling me something that I didn't know. I showed my mechanic a copy of PM News in which it is reported: "Okada Thieves Invade Ijegun". The story says that in a suburb of Lagos, four motorcycles being used as okada were stolen in one day. That should not be surprising he pointed out, since the okada is a major business tool in contemporary Nigeria. He asked whether I was aware that people who are involved in the pure water business are always offering prayers that the public water works system must never work.
Egunje wanted apprentices for his workshop, and he hoped that making the okada business less attractive will bring apprentices back to the workshops. But I was more concerned that the Nigerian economy has become an okada economy in every sense. The okada is an ad hoc measure, elevated into a main vehicle in the face of the failure of urban planning and the public transportation system. We run a national economy that is fuelled by ad hoc measures. That is why the proces of formulating the 2008 budget has so far been mostly experimental. The Presidency and the National Assembly do not know what they want. They can't agree on a road map.
Motorcycles have become the main means of transportation in Nigeria, because of the failure of planning. Okada-related accidents are often more fatal, and more frequent, than any other category of accidents, and yet the government is not sufficiently concerned. Even government officials, faced with a traffic snarl, jump onto the back of the okada. When they are thirsty, they buy sachet water or pure water as it is known. Many of those boys riding motorcycles around our cities and earning an income of less than $20 dollars a day and staging a dance for that, should be in more meaningful jobs or in a school learning a skill. It is a miracle how Nigerians still manage to be the happiest people on earth and the least vulnerable economy in the world. I guess an okada-driven economy was bound to be considered safe by Merrill Lynch since it is so peculiar, nobody in the West can really claim to know how it works.
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Re: An Okada Economy
Tengallons posted on 11-30-2008, 08:55:04 AM
A very good article. I like the okada metaphor. What we are looking at here is the casualization of labor in an ever-expanding informal sector. Economic globalization has opened the door to the flooding of Nigeria with inexpensive Chinese motorcycles. Poor roads and weak municipal transportation schemes provide the perfect environment for this ad hoc system of moving people around. Add to this Nigeria's burgeoning population and massive unemployment and -- voila! -- okada seems to be the road to El Dorado. It is cheap, easy, and profitable. Human beings are rational profit maximizers and the okada riders' mamas didn't raise no fools. I can't knock the hustle.
What is sad about this whole picture is that the Nigerian economy could be so much more. Transportation and related infrastructure provide great catalysts for growth. Aside from obvious economic benefits from well planned transit systems, there are health and aesthetic gains as well. All this however requires bold, visionary, and selfless leadership. If we want our economy to start clicking on all cylinders, we have to pay attention to the science and art of administration. Workable plans must be drawn. Execution must be competent. Maintenance must be done. Transgressors must be punished. Restitutions must be made. Taxes must be collected for services that must be provided. Probity must be upheld. The list goes on...
I owned a motorcyle in Nigeria in my younger days. Back then, it was not a vehicle for commercial gain. Today, when I see the buzzing swarms of overloaded two-wheelers on our roads, the whole charm and practicality of riding one of those things escapes me.
Well, I guess all is not gloom and doom. For better of for worse, "bikes" are filling a gap that was allowed to emerge. Also, everybody now knows the name of the little town with the "wonderland" off the Ore-Benin highway!
Nigeria, ronu! (Nigeria, think!)
Re: An Okada Economy
Anioma777 posted on 12-01-2008, 03:02:14 AM
Good article. Maybe if my plans don't work out in 2009 when I relocate I will convert my aprilia motorbike into an executive okada.
The mechanic has a point but I am afraid he is unrelialistic. Whilst education or getting a skill is a good thing, SURVIVAL IN NIGERIA IS WHAT COUNTS. I have a lot of respect for those graduates who drive okadas. Also many graduates in Nigeria are very stupid. Many study useless courses like "Mass Commnunication"
and expect just because they are degree holders they have some VIP access to jobs. The reality in any part of the world is that NO ONE OWES YOU A JOB just because you have a degree. You have to "work" to get your dream job, but in the meantime you have to do whatever you can to eat and pay your bills. Its the same pragmatic solution those who might have been artisans have taken to become Okada riders and in the process taking a second wife as business booms
Re: An Okada Economy
Ronkemac posted on 12-07-2008, 16:18:54 PM
The okada phenomenon: they are everywhere, like the swarm of locusts sent to plague Egypt by a vengeful God. They swerve and strut all over the road; their aggression knows no bounds; they maim and kill.
In the last few days, as Sallah approaches, I have seen countless terrified rams borne on bikes › what more can one say?
Yet okada serve a useful purpose for not only the common man, but also the more affluent in a hurry to beat the ever-worsening traffic jams.
I would say for now they are a necessary evil, but we must look to develop safer and more practical alternative modes of transportation in our cities.


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Gibson is learning a new position in a new system to him. Matthews has put in some time.
that is what you are seeing right now. thats all. in time, it wont matter, we will have 5-6 WR's with two waiting for playing time, which they will get once injuries start happening.
1. Melvin Gordon RB
2. Bernardrick McKinney ILB
3. Steve Nelson CB
4. John Miller G
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5. Kenny Bell WR
ive said before with Gibson we have brian hartline 2.0 if we want to go by GB's wr gameplan, all wrs have to be able to play all positions. I hope Matthews becomes a beast. but if Gibson can develop an inside game it makes him multifunctional. we're not gonna be 3 wr sets every play. we'll line Gibson up on the outside at times and have Wallace or hartline in the slot. every wr on roster is supposed to be able to run the "tree" if Matthews contributes than awesome! great diamond in the rough. Gibson is still young and has done more in the league than Matthews. has he hit his ceiling who knows, will Matthews reach his ceiling or can he hit it who knows. no team in the league has ever not signed a player and said ooops. and if we go into the season with a wr of gibsons "caliber" as our 4th WR cause a second year late round pick surplanted him I will have no issues with that. as long as he was supplanted by talent instead of lack of talent. let Gibson ride out the season then good bye. as much as it seems a lot of people hate him on here hes better than Armstrong, naanee or any other scrub in league.
"I want guys who want to make an impact on and off the field. Good human beings. Guys who want to get better. Guys who want to improve. They want to be great, want to win. Those types of guys we can work with every day." --Joe Philbin
- Defending the Read Option - What do you think?
Some people bitch when we don't have depth, and turn around and bitch again when we do. Last year we were scrambling to try and find a receiver, Anthony Armstrong, Jabbar Gaffney. Now, it looks like we have may have depth at the position without having to scramble in the event of an injury, and they bitching now..!!
What ever The Dolphins pay these players is irrelevant from a fan stand point because it's not your money. The league has a revenue sharing system and place and they money has to be spent and since it's a passing league, why not sign someone like Gibson. A young emerging player, that just had he's best season, and has yet to reach his peak. Especially when the coach has been screaming about competition, competition. They actually brought in competition for the godam pro-bowl long snapper for Christ Sake!!


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BIG BROTHER. By Lionel Shriver. Harper. 373 pages. $27.
Lionel Shriver's personal life has garnered almost as much attention as her acclaimed novels. Her candid admissions that she only allows herself one meal a day and has shunned motherhood for fear of not loving the child as much as herself, have made her a polarizing public figure.
After the sudden, international success of her 2003 novel "We Need to Talk About Kevin," a dark story about a teenage shooter and his apathetic mother, Shriver was often asked to defend the darkness of her novels and of her mind. Her response was unapologetic and stern: it was humanity's fault, not hers.
In her new novel, "Big Brother," Shriver looks at a problem that is as private as it is public: morbid obesity.
Pandora has always idolized her older brother Edison. He was attractive and musically talented, so no one was surprised when he headed to New York as a teen and became a successful jazz pianist. Meanwhile, Pandora found her own success when she turned a prank gift into a highly lucrative business making customized pull-string dolls. Her family was acquired as suddenly as her professional success when she married Fletcher, a fitness freak with two teenage children. Their marriage, like her husband's strict diet, is bland.
When Pandora's estranged brother calls and asks to visit, she knows he is "bound to breathe some life into that vast blank house ... that, since the advent of Fletcher's mad cycling and cheerless diet, had erred on the grim side."
She quickly agrees to host her brother, and like the mythical Pandora, lets loose a chaos she can't anticipate.
When Edison is wheeled into the baggage terminal of the airport, he weighs hundreds more pounds than when they last met. Pulled between social niceties and her own disgust, Pandora at first makes little of having to find a chair that will fit her brother's new size.
His short visit turns into a longer one, which puts a strain on more than just her husband's handmade chairs. Forced to choose between her familial and marital bonds, Pandora discovers that "what is wonderful about kinship is also what is horrible about it: there is no line in the sand, no natural limit to what these people can reasonably expect from you. ... Ergo, what Edison could 'reasonably' expect from me was infinite."
Picking up any of Shriver's previous novels guarantees an unflinching and insightful glimpse into a hot-button topic.
With her latest, however, the momentum never gets started. Like her character, the novel seems bloated and in need of parsing. Having admitted that she's drawn to the perilous territory of the human mind, one would expect to excavate the shadowy corners of these characters; but long passages ramble on, making the characters more clouded than visible.
A twist at the ends adds little to the novel and might even frustrate readers. There is ambivalence in the novel, an emotional blandness that marks Shriver's style, though in "Big Brother," it seems to distance the reader from the characters, making it difficult to care about them and their revelations.
Reviewer Summer Mauldin is an editor and writer living in Charleston.
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Raising the Bar: Improving the Representation of Children in Family Law Cases Marked by Domestic Violence, Wyoming Lawyer, Dec. 2008, at 32. Westlaw
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Tamanna confirmed as heroine for 'Aagadu'!
The makers of Prince mahesh babu's new movie 'Aagadu' have been in doldrums for the past few months about the selection of suitable heroine of their project.
From bollywood to tollywood many names have been heard. Some days ago, a tug of war situation was run between Milky beauty Tamanna and sizzling hottie Shruthi Haasan. Finally, the makers are heard to have confirmed Tamanna as the lady lead of the project. As she has not acted with mahesh babu so far, her selection is a right choice for the project. An official announcement is awaited.
Srinu Vaitla will be directing this movie. This is going to be the 50th venture for music director Thaman. Ram Achanta, Gopichand Achanta and Anil Sunkara will be producing the movie on 14 Reels Entertainment. The movie will go on floors in the month of November.


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Facebook buys Instagram
Just days after Instagram released its app for Android, Facebook announced that it purchased Instagram for an impressive $1 billion.
This is definitely the social network's largest acquisition to date (though possibly not the largest or the last), and probably the most exciting, given how popular Instagram is among Apple — and now Android — users. From the article:
With Instagram, Facebook will get a formidable mobile player – an area that is seen as a weakness for the sprawling social network.
In a post on his profile page, Facebook's chief Mark Zuckerberg said Instagram would continue to work with rival social networks.
Facebook announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire Instagram, a fun, popular photo-sharing app for mobile devices.
Given how popular Instagram is, and how popular Facebook is, one can only imagine what how great of a merger this is for both companies.
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Boiled Lobster
- Total Time:
- 22 min
- Prep:
- 10 min
- Cook:
- 12 min
- Yield:
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- Level:
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Pour 1 gallon of water into a large stock-pot, and add sea salt. Add the thyme sprigs and parsley stems, white wine, and lemon juice. Bring the pot to a rolling boil. Place the lobster tails into a steaming tray or colander, on top but not touching the boiling water for about 12 minutes, until the meat loses its opalescence.
In a small saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Bring to a boil until the milk solids have separated and sunk to the bottom of the pan. Remove out the clarified butter and place in a warm cup until the lobster is done.
Serve lobster with lemon wedges, drawn butter in a small bowl, and garnish with parsley.
Recipe courtesy of John Albin
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