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CHARLOTTE, N.C.—When Jimmy Brown came to North Carolina from his native Belfast, Northern Ireland, his wife-to-be, Ashlee Hardee, was already performing music. When they fell in love and decided to get married, they figured it would be hard to stay married if they were both on the road, going in different directions. So their marriage also gave birth to the band Matrimony. They decided it keep it a family affair by enlisting Ashlee's brothers Jordan and C.J. Hardee, along with bass player Ethan Ricks. The band just signed a recording deal with Columbia Records and earlier this month played the massive Bonnaroo Music Festival, Manchester, Tenn.
I sat down to talk with Jimmy and Ashlee Brown in Charlotte, the day after they played an album release concert in front of an appreciative crowd of 2,000 hometown fans.
Tell me about Matrimony.
Jimmy: There's a lot of singing. It's a full set-up: drums, banjo, mandolin, keys, acoustic guitar. We write some songs and we like to play them for people.
You've got a banjo and a mandolin in the band, but I hear Fleetwood Mac and Tom Petty more than I hear Earl Scruggs or Bill Monroe.
Jimmy: We never tried to sound like Tom Petty, but Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is probably my favorite band at the moment, so that's cool.
How does the songwriting work?
Jimmy: Ashlee and I write a lot of the stuff. Then Jordan and C.J. come in and help. We usually get the initial idea going, but we work on it together after that.
Does it start with lyrics? A melody? How does that work for you guys?
Ashlee: It happens differently every single time. Sometimes one of us hears a melody and we start singing it and we record it on our phones and we put chords and lyrics to it. Sometimes we'll start off with lyrics and put melodies to that. Sometimes we're all just hanging out together and playing music and we come up with something.
So do you guys sit down and say, "OK, tonight we're going to write a song together," or, "This weekend we're going to carve out some time to write songs"? Or do you do that separately and bring it together?
Jimmy: I don't feel right about myself unless I'm always working. I make myself go to the studio and start writing—write lyrics, write melodies. Ashlee is way cooler than I am. She'll just kind of let it happen. When it happens it's always awesome. I always just try to make it happen. I'll re-write and re-write and re-write and then eventually I'll figure out that I've got something. I think it's cool because we both come at it from very different angles. We help each other out. So far so good. It's pretty effortless and enjoyable.
One of the things I know is not effortless for anybody is maintaining a marriage. You've been married for three years. I know you just signed a major label deal and you're having some success, but I'm guessing there are probably still a lot of times when you're driving through the night and sleeping in vans and airplanes. How do you maintain a marriage in all that?
Ashlee: After loading in for the day and before the time we play, we always try to go hang out together on our own. Just kind of catch up and just talk. When you're touring it always feels like a swell of things happening all the time. But I feel like our relationship is good. We love each other a ton and we communicate all the time and try to spend time together whenever possible.
Jimmy: We started our band so we could be together. We both love to play music, but we always put our marriage ahead of our music.
What's different now that you've signed a deal with a record label?
Jimmy: It's a big, huge corporation, so getting stuff approved, getting stuff done, takes a little more time than it would if you were just doing it yourself and just had to make some calls. But on the flip side of that, you're dealing with people who have done it a million times before. They have so many more connections than you could ever have yourself. They have money to back up what they say they're going to do. So we've really enjoyed working for the major label. Things have taken a little longer than we would have liked but, looking back, I'm glad things have taken a little longer. It's given us a chance to develop and write more songs and get better at playing live. So now when we're starting to play in front of bigger crowds, it feels like we're ready to do that. I'm glad that we weren't playing Bonnaroo a year ago. But a year ago, all we wanted to do was play Bonnaroo. Having a major label helps you set the tone for your career a little more because they have more experience and they know how to navigate the whole thing.
As I listen to your music, I hear pop love songs. But I also hear issues of faith, issues of doubt, issues of reality, authenticity. Where does that come from?
Jimmy: The whole point of making music, for us, is being truthful, being real. We always try to find that with the lyrics, with the melodies, with everything. But also, at the same time, we don't have all the answers. We don't know everything. Making music and writing songs, when that's your life and you put everything into that, you really are on the edge, always trying to be available emotionally to connect with something greater than yourself. That's where we're coming from.
Ashlee: I think our goal is just reality. Trying to write songs that are real and true to us. We're trying to write songs about the human condition. I've always believed that artists have a sound that's inside of them and I think being true to that is the greatest thing you can do as a musician.


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Late last week, before the season four finale of "Boardwalk Empire," The Playlist had the chance to talk to the HBO mob drama's creator, show runner and head writer Terence Winter. At this point, we're hoping you saw last night's season finale (recap here), a wrenching episode that saw the death of a fan favorite character (spoilers from here on in, ok?).
Why the death of Richard Harrow (Jack Huston), a character seemingly disconnected from the main narratives of this season? How much longer can the show go on? And what's going on with "The Wolf Of Wall Street," the rise and fall drama of cocky, young stockbrokers in the 1990s? Winter answered all these questions and more. Our conversation below. If you have yet to catch up, and you should, "Boardwalk Empire" airs on HBO and all its seasons from beginning to end are available on HBO Go.
Rewinding a little, because we've never talked to you about the show before, after "The Sopranos" [Winter was one of the head writers] the world was sort of your oyster. What drew you to "Boardwalk Empire"?
One sentence, "Martin Scorsese is attached to this." They handed me the book and said, "Why don't you read this and see if there's something there," and I said, "I don't even have to read the book, I'm interested. I want to do this." That was pretty much it. I mean the book was essentially a history of Atlantic City, and they said, "Why don't you look at it and see if there's a TV series in there somewhere." And I landed on the prohibition years and this guy Nucky Johnson and we fictionalized it as Nucky Thompson, of course. But really, you know the idea that I would get to work with Martin Scorsese was the big carrot for me. I'd been in the gangster genre for a while, this was the way to do it in a fresh way and than to do it with him was just irresistible.
Were you concerned at all about repeating yourself? You had just done mobsters and here you are doing mobsters from another era.
That was an initial concern, and it was something that was on my mind when I was reading the book looking at the different eras in Atlantic City. And the '70s were interesting, gambling came in, but it felt a little too close, it felt like Tony's Dad's world and even the '50s felt familiar, not really a 'Sopranos' thing but it just felt like I've seen a lot of the '50s. But Prohibition in the '20s—I mean I haven't really seen aside form the Warner Brothers gangster movies...so it just felt like it was an area that was far enough away from what I had been doing that it felt fresh again. Also, you got the idea that you know "The Sopranos" was about the end of organized crime, this was about the very beginnings of it. That was appealing to me to sort of bookend those two ideas.
Does the book cover all that time span period?
It's literally a history of Atlantic City, it's not fiction. It's really from when Atlantic City was a mosquito infested swamp up until the present day. Just literally how Atlantic City came to be. It originally started as a health resort but it was the most unhealthy place. Swarming with mosquitoes, it was horrible. But than once the railroad came in it became a tourist destination, it was a way for people to get there from pretty much a lot of major cities on the East Coast within a day, you could take a trip to the shore. That was a huge thing for people, for a nickel you could get on a train and end up at the beach, just within a span of a couple of years just blossomed into this incredible carnival town and by the 1870s it became sort of a version of Atlantic City that we know today.
So then you just zeroed in on the prohibition-era in the book because that's the stuff that appealed to you?
Yeah, the character Nucky was really interesting. He was a low level politician, essentially, who's kind of the guy who ran the town and suddenly alcohol is illegal and overnight this guy, this corrupt politician who runs this town right on the Atlantic Ocean, became the friend of every gangster in the country, immediately. He sort of trafficked alcohol in right off the ocean into the city and brought it anywhere to the East Coast. Nucky got really popular, really quickly. He went from being a fairly low level corrupt politician to a major, major player in the alcohol market.
So how much do you look at history still? How much are you looking at what actually happened?
I very consciously changed and fictionalized Nucky Johnson to Nucky Thompson because I knew I was going to take our Nucky to places that the real Nucky didn't go. I knew I wanted the latitude to allow our Nucky to be much worse in terms of the things he did, getting involved in murders and that sort of stuff, so that was important to me. The overall historical context is accurate.
The spirit of who Nucky is [and] the world around him is accurate—the fact of Prohibition and women getting the right to vote and what was happening in the gangster world in Chicago and the Al Capone story—all of those things are factually close to the truth. It's just those real life historical figures interact with our fictional characters and for me the rule is if I stay true to the spirit of who those real characters were, than I feel like I can have them comfortably interact with people. I won't rewrite history, I always use "Inglourious Basterds" as an example: I won't kill Hitler in a movie theater, it will play out the way it played out but I'll interact with those people as I'm doing it.
So Al Capone won't be killed in his '30s a la Quentin.
I've jokingly threatened the actors with something like that. "This could just as easily be a Quentin Tarantino deal so don't' feel too comfortable!" But I would never do that, I think they know that.
How involved is Martin Scorsese now?
He's very involved. It's interesting for a guy who's so unbelievably busy and prolific, both with features and documentaries, he's really got an eye on the show down to the smallest details. He and I generally have a standing weekly conversation about the show. He reads all the outlines, reads all the scripts, weighs in on casting. We'll cast a show I'll send him my top two choices for a role and I'll say, "This is what I want, number one and number two," and he'll weigh in if he has anything to say. I can count on one hand the times we've disagreed on a role. Usually we're pretty much in sync.
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Scandal could shut down Michael Waltrip Racing
NAPA Auto Parts announced Thursday it would end its sponsorship contract with Michael Waltrip Racing (MWR) in light of the NASCAR Sprint Cup team's race-manipulation scandal. The auto parts supplier, the primary sponsor of the MWR car driven by Martin Truex Jr., was in the first year of a three-year contract estimated to be worth $16 million annually. Coupled with the stiffest punishment in NASCAR history—a $300,000 fine for the team owner and 50-point penalties against the team's three drivers—NAPA's departure could spell the end for the MWR team.
"NAPA believes in fair play and does not condone actions such as those that led to the penalties assessed by NASCAR," the company, which has been associated with driver and owner Michael Waltrip for many years, said in a statement.
At the Federated Auto Parts 400 at the Richmond International Raceway on Sept. 7, MWR driver Clint Bowyer appeared to deliberately spin his car out with seven laps to go, bringing out a caution flag. Ryan Newman of Stewart-Haas Racing, who was the race leader when Bowyer spun out, needed to win the race in order to secure the final spot in NASCAR's season-ending, 10-race "playoffs" known as the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. As the top cars pitted, Newman fell behind and finished in fifth place and out of the Chase. Additionally, MWR driver Brian Vickers intentionally slowed down during the final laps of the race, affecting the finish of other cars and ensuring teammate Truex earned a spot in the Chase.
Two days later, NASCAR ruled that MWR deliberately manipulated the outcome of the race and removed Truex from the 12-driver Chase field, replacing him with Newman. (Later in the week, NASCAR also punished Penske Racing and Front Row Motorsports for trying to manipulate the finish at Richmond, putting both teams on probation and making the unprecedented move of adding a 13th driver to the Chase field, Jeff Gordon, who likely would have made the Chase on his own had these late-race activities not taken place.)
"As the owner, I am responsible for all actions of MWR," Waltrip said in a statement. "I sincerely apologize for the role our team played and for the lines NASCAR has ruled were crossed by our actions at Richmond."
This is the second major scandal during Waltrip's career— the previous one occurred during 2007 Daytona 500 when NASCAR inspectors discovered a fuel additive in his car's engine.
The line between cheating and cleverness is very fine in NASCAR, as teams take any possible advantage when competing for the Cup. But this case is fairly clear—NASCAR investigators reviewed team communications in which Vickers was ordered to slow down in the final laps.
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According to ESPN, Aaron's, which sponsors Vickers car, is sticking with MWR, but 5-Hour Energy, the sponsor of Bowyer's car, said Thursday it was evaluating its relationship with the team.


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Tonight (Sunday) on the National Geographic Channel (NatGeo WILD)
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This episode will feature some Great Gray footage shot in Sax-Zim Bog last winter...Filmmakers Neil & Laura Rettig shot on the coldest day of the year in Sax-Zim... Minus 36 degrees! They spent about a week filming.
Some of their Great Gray footage shot along McDavitt Road and CR133 will be included tonight.
Their super slow motion footage� shot on Creek Road of another Great Gray Owl will be shown next year in another production...I will keep you posted!
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For Manchester United, the answer to a slump in form or a crisis of confidence comes in 50 pound notes. Millions of them.
The giants of Old Trafford haemorrhaged almost 150 million pounds ($247.9 million) in the last few weeks, dressing the likes of Angel di Maria, Marcos Rojo and Falcao in red shirts.
The huge spending has given new Dutch manager Louis van Gaal an embarrassment of riches with which to fix his team's on-pitch struggles, even though critics suggest the money could have been spent a little more wisely.
Still, though, theirs is a glittering squad, its make-up largely mirrored across the city at their blue-shirted rivals, and at Chelsea, who either spent big on new superstar names or forked out to renew the contracts of their most influential players.
Liverpool, too, leaned heavily on their history and spending power to lure one of the biggest names in soccer to Anfield, snapping up Mario Balotteli from AC Milan for what is these days a paltry 16 million pounds.
But for the mortals of the English Premier League, it takes a little more creativity to secure the talent required to challenge in the top flight of English football.
Southampton finished last season in eighth position - one below United in the league.
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The spine of the team was sold off, and Southampton again dominated back-page headlines - this time generally attracting the word "exodus" twinned with the phrase "relegation candidates".
The club appointed a Dutch footballing heavyweight of their own, Ronald Koeman, in what may well prove to be a masterstroke, as the former Barcelona superstar has already proved as influential in attracting talent to St Mary's as he was on the pitch in his heyday.
On transfer deadline day, Koeman's latest coups were the capture of Toby Alderweireld and Sadio Mane. Both owed more to his powers of persuasion than those of Southampton's chequebook.
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Yep. She is in incredible shape ... as is her husband ... an occasional cyclist that gave me a run for my money climbing up that back side. Great folks!
Here is a little more of us riding through the Eastern Sierra. What a gorgeous day! This particular valley is typically headwindy, and when we made the turn to head south, we got a snootfull of 15-20 MPH headwinds. It looked like we were in for a 50 mile sufferfest, but only a few miles up the road, the winds magically disappeared, eventually turning into TAILwinds for much of the distance.


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Warm Room Ideas?
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Posted 22 January 2013 - 09:00 AM
I'm planning on using my living room for my warm room. Haven't got to that point yet but it seems doable to me with remote control software on the PC
Just VNC into your obs computer from the house (assuming you have network to each).
I don't have an obs yet, but am working on automating/remote-izing my setup... once up and running I simply VNC into the PC and control it via remote desktop, either with another PC, or on the iPad from the couch!
Works great!
Posted 22 January 2013 - 03:50 PM
I'm planning on using my living room for my warm room. Haven't got to that point yet but it seems doable to me with remote control software on the PC
Seems doable?????
It's the only way to do it.
It was minus 34C here last night. I observed for at least three hours. Never felt the slightest bit of chill.
Posted 22 January 2013 - 05:27 PM
I do use VNC for remote control and monitoring (I especially like being able to check status with my iPad). The warm room comes in handy when doing visual observing on cold nights and for the many nights when I am tweaking something and want to see how it operates in the observatory while keeping warm.
Here is an older picture. I've added a permanent PC, a cot, and a storage cupboard.
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Posted 23 January 2013 - 09:40 AM
I have just started thinking about my own, and here's some items I've come up with
- Desk/chair etc. (obvious I guess)
- Intercom to the house (although with cell phones and IM this may be not required)
- Bookshelves with any books I need, although most of my manuals and charts are all electronic now
- I plan to have my computer, power supplies and networking equipment all in a nice rack-mount setup (I like the neatness and professional look of such a setup).
- Appropriate number and placement electrical, LAN and Cable/satellite jacks
- I want either duplicate monitors, or a monitor mount such that I can view the status either at the desk or at the scope. I'm mainly an imager but there are times I'm tweaking at the scope but would like to see the full monitor/status/focus etc. This depends on the layout of your obs, my plan is for a rectangular layout with a warm room separated by a window.
- I saw someone online with dual track lighting, some red some white. I think this would be nice as well.
Creature comforts, a small fridge and a small microwave would be nice. That would provide cold/warm drinks when the weather calls for it. I don't personally plan on a cot or anything because I don't plan to snooze there...
I'd like a TV or possibly dual monitors and one I can source over to the TV when there's a game on or something I want to watch (or to encourage the attendance of the girlfriend when I'm lonely )
And of course the walls would be littered with the photos I've already taken
I guess a lot depends on the room (area size) you have free.
Sorry, kind of random, just thinking out loud. I know you probably would enjoy photos more, but I'm getting pretty excited about my own possibilities soon so like thinking about it.
Posted 23 January 2013 - 10:21 AM
But I use what a friend of mine calls "my mobile warm room".. heated motorcycle clothing..!
Just a heated jacket liner that I wear over a plain t-shirt and under a large sweat shirt...heated socks and a pair of heated glove liners which I purchased one size to small so they fit tight which allows me to still type on my computer in the observatory without removing them...
For less then the price of an Ethos eyepiece..I'm very comfortable down to below zero if I wanted to go out when it was that cold...
Normally I require the temps to be in double digits (10 degrees F or higher)
BTW .. Yes I do have to drag a power cord around with me but that is a very small price to pay to be warm and comfortable..
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Posted 23 January 2013 - 10:33 AM
Thanks for the replies. At the risk of repeating myself, I want the obs experience separate from the house because it has too many distractions and I have always enjoyed the "other-worldness" of the observatory. Also, I have so many electronic intermediaries now between me and the sky that adding more seems like the wrong direction for me. So I am still open to any new ideas.
I hear you. There are times where I like to just sit in my observatory doing nothing for a few minutes. I find it very relaxing.
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I'm running a 3" conduit between two 12x12x8" junction boxes -- one at the scope, one in the warm room. I plan to have the PC in the warm room with dual monitors and then run two USB extensions and a HDMI feed to the remote keyboard, mouse, and monitor near the scope. I also plan to put up a 40" LCD TV in the observatory and a "smaller" 32" in the warm room. All of my video feeds are HDMI and I'll use a 4x4 switch (about $150 on Amazon) that can switch any input to any (or multiple outputs). Blu-ray, uverse receiver, and all-sky cameras are also part of the video fare.
The warming room will also be fully insulated to minimize the thermal currents outside. This includes using an exterior-grade door and windows.
The room will have two light switches -- one for a florescent fixture during the day or when I'm not particular about night vision, and another going to an outlet that powers a red LED strip light.
A radio is a must. I plan to just use a receiver that has A & B speaker outputs to power stereo speakers on both LCD TV's. The receiver will also be tied into the HDMI matrix so I can pipe the audio stream to either set of speakers if the source happens to have audio (like when watching a movie).
The room itself is 5x7 with a truncated corner. I would like for it to be bigger, but my last observatory wasn't much bigger (about 6.5' square with a huge telescope and pier right in the middle) and it was still usable with creative space management. Getting the cords all tucked into the walls, replacing power strips with multiple duplex outlets, putting some equipment on higher shelves, flat panel monitors mounted to the walls, etc... can all increase the space.
I will be sleeping in my warm room during imaging sessions. I'm tall (6'5") so some options don't work as well for me. One thing I'm investigating is an RV convertible bench/bed. It can be folded up to about 7" deep against the wall when not in use. It can fold down to become a bench, or the back can fold down more to become a bed. It's about $500 though. Another options is the recliner chair.
Posted 23 January 2013 - 04:18 PM
Da Bear
Posted 23 January 2013 - 04:54 PM
home was a pain in the neck and the bladder. I'm 62 now and I've come to enjoy my creature comforts along with my hobbies. The more comfortable you are the more apt you are to stay out observing rather than doing the stay warm/gotta pee shuffle at the scope.
Posted 23 January 2013 - 05:27 PM
What will ever tempt you to leave it?
Posted 24 January 2013 - 02:06 AM
Nature's Call
What will ever tempt you to leave it?


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RE: Latest patches: restart issues?
From: Samson Lee (slee_at_lwcotrust.com)
Date: 08/22/05
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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:49:43 -0400 To: "Manuel J. Morales" <email@example.com>, <email@example.com>
Are you running and APC Powerchute services? I have this issue with any
of my win2000/win2003 servers after I updated. I found that the services
were taking forever to start up and thus causing the server to act like
The solution was found on APC's website which stated that due to the
expiration of the Sun Java Runtime environment certificates expired on
July 27, 2005, versions 6.x Powerchute will stop running normally. The
fix is to install the latest version 7.04 from the website.
Samson Lee, Network Administrator
Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge Trust
230 Congress St
Boston, MA 02110
(617) 523-6531 x 2435
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From: Manuel J. Morales [mailto:email@example.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 4:31 PM
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: Re: Latest patches: restart issues?
I just applied these MS updates to two(2) Win2k3 Standard Edition
both running MS Exchange 2003.
One came up no problem. The other allows a terminal session but will
spin after accepting login credentials - "Applying Computer Settings"
The shutdown command is not being allowed due to the server doing some
higher processing (maybe the terminal session loop?!?).
> C:\shutdown -r -f -m \\foundry
> foundry: The computer is processing another action and thus cannot be
> down.
> Wait until the computer has finished its action, and then try
> again.(21)
I thought I could restart TS via the Manage Computer MMC but this
has all the control options grayed out. It was set to Manual startup and
I tried to change it to Automatic but after I applied it the MMC just
So I have seen this in 50% of my servers. I am running RTM version with
prior updates.
> From: Trevor <email@example.com>
> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:04:41 -0700
> To: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> Subject: Latest patches: restart issues?
> I'm having multiple servers having issues restarting after installing
> the latest patches for Win2K3 (SP1 or RTM). The server will still
> respond to ping, SMB/CIFS, Exchange, SQL, but not terminal services.
> can issue them a shutdown -r -f -m \\servername and they will restart
> that point.
> Anyone else experiencing the same thing? This isn't with all servers,
> but I've had a couple doing this.
> -Trevor
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Okay, so I was Googling something, and it created a question, rather than answering one (weird, huh?) and Google couldn't seem to answer it.
I have been playing around with 4:3 and 16:9 footage (standard def) since my camcorder does both.
How the heck does 4:3 and 16:9 have the same pixel count, just with different pixel sizes, and result in more coverage, rather than stretched coverage?
My 4:3 footage is 720x480x0.9 and 16:9 is 720x480x1.2121 (0.9 and 1.2121 are pixel ratios).
Isn't a pixel a pixel? So if the pixel is sqaure, almost square, or a rectagle, how can it have more stuff in it?
If the 4:3 screen is 720 pixels across (x480) and the pixel is almost square (0.9), then you change it to 16:9 footage, also 720 pixels across (x480) but the pixel is a rectangle (1.2121) how does that get you more footage, rather than just strecthing the footage across the larger screen space?
If none of this makes sense, it sheds light on why I am so confused about the whole thing.


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REPORT No. 8/11
March 22, 2011
1. On April 23, 2003, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter "the Commission" or the "IACHR") received a petition lodged by the Ecumenical Commission on Human Rights [Comisión Ecuménica de Derechos Humanos- CEDHU] (hereinafter "the petitioners"), in which it alleges that agents of the Republic of Ecuador (hereinafter "the State" or "the Ecuadorian State") are responsible for the torture and death of Aníbal Alonso Aguas Acosta (hereinafter "the alleged victim"), presumably perpetrated by State agents on March 1, 1993 in the city of Machala, and for failure to ensure a fair trial and judicial protection in the investigation, prosecution, and punishment of the responsible parties.
2. The petitioners allege that the State is responsible for violation of the rights to life, humane treatment, a fair trial, and judicial protection, established in Articles 4, 5, 8, and 25 of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter "the American Convention"), all considered in relation to the general obligation to respect and guarantee the rights contained in its Article 1(1). They argue that the petition is admissible by virtue of the exception to exhaustion of domestic remedies stipulated in Article 46.2(b) and (c) of the American Convention, based on the fact that the criminal proceedings were in the police jurisdiction and on the unjustified delay in the proceedings and in executing the judgment of conviction issued by the National Police Court.
3. The State, for its part, alleges that the petition is inadmissible on the grounds that the facts do not establish possible violations of the American Convention, in accordance with its Article 47(b), since the national courts issued a judgment and reparations for the alleged violation were provided by the domestic courts. It further contends that the Commission cannot act as a fourth instance.
4. After examining the position of the parties in light of the admissibility requirements stipulated in Articles 46 and 47 of the American Convention, the Commission concludes that it is competent to examine the complaint, and that the petition is admissible insofar as it alleges the violation of rights established in Articles 4 and 5 of the American Convention, considered in relation to its Article 1.1, to the detriment of Aníbal Aguas Acosta, and in Articles 8 and 25 to the detriment of his family members. Moreover, by virtue of the principle of iura novit curia, the Commission considers it admissible with regard to a possible violation of Articles 1, 6 and 8 of the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture, and of Article 5 of the American Convention, to the detriment of the family members of the alleged victim. Consequently, it will notify the parties of the report, order its publication, and include it in its Annual Report to the OAS General Assembly.
5. The IACHR registered the petition as number 302-03, and after a preliminary analysis it proceeded to forward it to the Ecuadorian State, granting the State two months to submit information.
6. On February 24, 2005, the State presented its response, which was forwarded to the petitioners on November 14, 2005, for its observations. Since the State's communication arrived incomplete, on April 4, 2006, it was sent to the petitioners once again for their observations. The petitioners responded on May 12, 2006, and this response was transmitted to the State for its comments. On July 25, 2006, the State requested an extension of the deadline for submitting observations, and this was granted by the IACHR. On August 3, 2007, the IACHR reiterated its request to the State.
7. On October 26, 2009, the petitioners sent additional information, which was forwarded to the State for its observations on January 6, 2010, the date on which the IACHR reiterated its request to the State for information. On January 29, 2010, the State asked for an extension, which was granted by the IACHR. On March 4, 2010, the State presented its response, and it was forwarded to the petitioners for observations.
8. On May 10, 2010, the petitioners submitted their response, and it was transferred to the State for its comments. On July 19, 2010, the State submitted its response, which was forwarded to the petitioners for their information. On November 9, 2010, the petitioners submitted additional information, which was forwarded to the State for its information.
A. Position of the petitioners
9. The petitioners allege that in the afternoon of March 1, 1997, Aníbal Alonso Aguas Acosta, in an inebriated state, went into a shop in which he broke several things, causing the owner to call the police. They report that agents arrived in a few minutes and despite the resistance of the alleged victim and the pleas of his wife, they arrested him and took him to the detention unit at the police station. They allege that when the police tried to get the victim out of the patrol car, they realized that he was not moving, and so they threw a bucket of water on him. When he did not react, they ordered his transfer to a hospital. In the hospital, they declared him dead and immediately transferred him to the morgue.
10. They further allege that the Judge of the Fifth Criminal Court of El Oro went to the morgue, authorized the removal of the body, and ordered the legal autopsy. Subsequently, since said judge did not record any data on the certificate of removal of the corpse, family members requested that the Judge of the Third Criminal Court intervene, and that judge indicated that death was caused by a "bulbous protuberancial and cerebral hemorrhage plus tuxuación [meaning unknown] of the occipital altoid articulation resulting from trauma (encephalic cranial trauma)."
11. They allege that in view of these findings, the police reported at a press round that the detainee "hit himself" inside the patrol car and that when they arrived at the police detention unit, he fell on the sidewalk, and after that, the body was banged up when it was taken to the morgue, and that this is the explanation for the injuries present on the body.
12. They contend that on March 10, 1997, the Judge of the Fifth Criminal Court of El Oro issued an order to open a criminal proceeding to investigate the death and punish the responsible parties, and initiated a series of procedures. They report that on April 2, 1997, the judge noted that the five policemen accused on the day of the events were still on the job, and so he withdrew from the case and transferred jurisdiction to the police courts.
13. They indicate that the petitioners filed a motion for appeal and subsequently another motion of complaint for refusal to allow the appeal [recurso de hecho]. They report that the latter was also denied by the same judge, in violation of the law that establishes that such a motion must be reviewed by a higher court judge. They allege that after that decision was handed down, they filed a constitutional amparo motion with the Contentious Administrative Court of Guayaquil, which was denied on March 11, 1998. They report that said decision was appealed to the Constitutional Court, which took over six months of deliberation before confirming the lower court decision on September 28, 1998.
14. They maintain that the proceedings were transferred to the Second Court of the Fourth District of the National Police in Guayaquil, which, after completing the required formalities and the preliminary and intermediate stages of the proceedings, issued a substantiated ruling convicting two members of the police and acquitting the other three accused, on the grounds that they did not participate in any way in the crime.
15. They report that after the oral argument stage on September 7, 2000, the criminal court sentenced them to a three-year prison term. They indicate that said ruling was appealed to the Second District Court of Guayaquil, which after hearing the appeal in June 2001, upheld the conviction judgment and amended the sentence to eight years in prison for preterintentional homicide [manslaughter]. They indicate that said judgment was challenged in the National Police Court of Justice, which upheld the prior judgment of December 4, 2001. They report that on May 14, 2002, orders were issued for the arrest and imprisonment of the convicted persons, and their transfer to the prison in Guayaquil. They allege that the convicted police officers subsequently filed an appeal for review with the same Court.
16. The petitioners indicate that, according to the document issued by the Personnel Department of the National Police on March 31, 2003, the prisoners remain at large, and the appeal for review is still pending decision with the National Police Court of Justice; thus, the accused are in a transitional situation. They contend that the State did not capture the responsible parties, in other words it did not comply with the judgment rendered by the domestic legal system, and that the crime remains unpunished. Therefore, they consider that the State is in violation of Article 25 of the American Convention.
17. As regards exhaustion of domestic remedies, the petitioners allege that the police criminal jurisdiction is not the appropriate forum for investigating, prosecuting, and punishing human rights violations, and so they are not required to exhaust the remedies of that jurisdiction. Moreover, they believe that the refusal of the agents to arrest the responsible parties constitutes a denial of justice, and that there was an unwarranted delay of six years before the final judgment was handed down in the police proceeding; hence, the exceptions to exhaustion of domestic remedies apply.
18. The petitioners allege that the State violated the right to humane treatment of Aníbal Aguas Acosta, as established in Article 5 of the American Convention, and that this violation is based on the various injuries present on the head, legs, and arms, as well as on the genitals of the victim, indicating that the agents subjected him to torture. They further argue that during the proceedings conducted, the responsibility of State agents for the death of Aníbal Aguas Acosta was proven; hence, the State is responsible for violation of Article 4 of the Convention.
19. The petitioners contend that the police courts are not an impartial jurisdiction, since they are made up of police on active duty subject to a line of authority. Consequently, the State has violated Article 8 of the American Convention.
B. Position of the State
20. In response to the petitioners' complaint, the State claims that it is inadmissible, since it does not state facts that establish a violation of the Convention, since the facts set forth in the petition were the subject of proceedings conducted diligently in the police criminal courts, and the IACHR is not a court of fourth instance.
21. It alleges that criminal proceedings were conducted by the Second Police Judge of the Fourth District strictly according to normal procedures, in compliance with the applicable procedural rules under Ecuadorian law. It argues that evidence of this is that the Second Chamber of the District Court of the National Police "upheld the ordinary court judgment of conviction to 8 years of prison" against two police agents for the homicide of the alleged victim. It further alleges that subsequently, the convicted parties filed an appeal for review with the National Police Court of Justice, which was denied on January 22, 2003, upholding the conviction of the police agents.
22. It contends that although a violation of the right to life was committed in this case, the State undertook a serious and effective investigation within a reasonable period of time that "resulted in the criminal punishment of the elements in the National Police at fault, as they were found guilty of the simple homicide of Mr. Aguas Acosta." The State maintains that the proceedings occurred within the limits of a reasonable period of time as determined by the Court and the Commission, and so it was not in violation of Article 8 of the American Convention.
23. The State further maintains that administrative sanctions were applied to the convicted parties. It indicates that the fact of being in a "transitional situation" means that the convicted parties are in the stage prior to their dismissal from the Police Force. Later the State indicated that "the persons involved were punished administratively by the National Police, since they were dismissed." It further argues that "it has made every effort to determine the whereabouts of the implicated parties" and that it reserves the possibility of submitting additional information on the action taken by Ecuador to capture the responsible parties.
24. It alleges that the petitioners never expressed their discontent or availed themselves of legal remedies against the judgment of the police courts. As regards the right to defense, the State claims that the petitioners had all the remedies offered under Ecuadorian law for such violations available to them. In fact, the Ecuadorian courts accepted all of the motions filed by the parties, and processed the many challenges and objections filed by the victim's wife.
A. Competence of the Commission ratione materiae, ratione personae, ratione temporis y ratione loci
25. In principle, petitioners are authorized to lodge petitions with the
Commission under Article 44 of the American Convention. The petition indicates that the alleged victims are individuals in respect of whom the Ecuadorian State pledged to respect and guarantee the rights established in the American Convention. With regard to the State, the Commission points out that Ecuador has been a state party to the American Convention since December 8, 1977, and that it has been a party to the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture since November 9 1999, the dates on which it deposited its instruments of ratification. Consequently, the Commission has personal jurisdiction to examine the petition. It also has territorial jurisdiction to examine the petition, since it contains allegations of the violation of rights protected by the American Convention that took place within the territory of Ecuador, a state party to that instrument.
26. The Commission has temporal jurisdiction, since the obligation to respect and guarantee the rights protected in the American Convention was already in effect for the State on the date that the acts alleged in the petition occurred. Finally, the Commission has subject matter jurisdiction, because the petition refers to possible violations of human rights protected by the American Convention.
B. Requirements for admissibility
1. Exhaustion of domestic remedies
27. In order for a petition alleging a violation of the provisions of the American Convention to be admissible, it must comply with the requirements established in Article 46.1(a) of that international instrument pertaining to prior exhaustion of remedies under domestic law. For its part, Article 46(2) of the Convention establishes that the requirement of prior exhaustion of domestic remedies shall not be applicable when: (a) the domestic legislation of the state concerned does not afford due process of law for the protection of the right or rights that have allegedly been violated; (b) the party alleging violation of his rights has been denied access to the remedies under domestic law or has been prevented from exhausting them; or (c) there has been unwarranted delay in rendering a final judgment under the aforementioned remedies.
28. In the first place, the domestic remedies that must be exhausted in the present case need to be clarified. The Inter-American Court has stated that only the adequate remedies to redress the violations allegedly committed must be exhausted. Adequate remedies refer to
the fact that these remedies in the domestic legal system are adequate to protect the violated legal situation. In all domestic legal systems, there are various remedies, but not all of them are applicable in all circumstances. If, in a specific case, the remedy is not adequate, it is obvious that it does not need to be exhausted. This is indicated by the principle that the legal provision is designed to produce an effect and it cannot be interpreted that it does not produce any effect or that it is manifestly groundless or obviously out of order.[1]
29. In the present petition, the State argues that the facts described in the petition gave rise to proceedings conducted diligently in the police criminal jurisdiction. The petitioners on the other hand, argue that the exception stipulated in Article 46.2(b) and (c) of the American Convention applies, since the proceedings were conducted in the police criminal courts, and there was an unwarranted delay in the proceedings and noncompliance with the judicial decision.
30. The Commission notes that in view of the fact that the present complaint involves the alleged responsibility of State agents in the detention, torture, and death of a civilian, the adequate remedy to clarify the facts is a criminal investigation in the ordinary courts, in order to establish the criminal responsibility of the State agents involved and to open the door to possible reparations for the damages incurred.
31. The Commission observes that the death of Aníbal Alonso Aguas Acosta was the subject of an ordinary criminal investigation that was transferred by the judge's decision to the jurisdiction of the police courts. The decision was appealed by the petitioners, who also presented a motion of complaint for refusal to allow the appeal [recurso de hecho]. They were both denied. Against this decision they filed a constitutional amparo motion with the Contentious Administrative Court of Guayaquil, which was also denied. Said decision was appealed before the Constitutional Court, which confirmed the lower court decision. Proceedings before the police courts culminated in the judgment rendered in the third instance by the National Police Court of Justice against two police agents for simple homicide, sentencing them to eight years in prison, but that said judgment was not executed, and the convicted parties remain at large. According to the information it received, the Commission notes that the State did not provide information on the action taken by the authorities to capture the perpetrators, other than issuance of the arrest warrant.
32. In this regard, the Commission has repeatedly found that special jurisdictions, such as military or police courts, do not constitute an adequate forum and consequently do not provide an adequate remedy to investigate, prosecute and punish possible violations of the human rights—such as the right to life--enshrined in the American Convention, that are committed by members of the police.[2] It also has found that the Ecuadorian Police Courts do not provide an adequate remedy for these cases[3]. Article 165 of the 1979 Ecuadorian Political Constitution, in force at the time the events occurred, established that: "[t]he members of the police force have a special jurisdiction. They may not be prosecuted or deprived of their ranking, honors, or pension except for the reasons and in the way determined by the law, with the exception of common violations, which shall be decided in the ordinary courts."[4] The military and police courts comprised this special jurisdiction.
33. The Commission has previously stated that cases related to alleged violations of civil rights require a criminal investigation to establish the facts and the corresponding responsibility.[5] In this petition, the judge in the ordinary criminal court withdrew from the criminal proceeding opened on the death of Aníbal Alonso Aguas Acosta, in favor of the police criminal jurisdiction, and this decision was upheld when it was challenged by the petitioners in their motion of appeal and subsequent motion of complaint, which were denied. Moreover, when the petitioners' motions were denied, they filed a constitutional amparo motion which was also rejected, and their appeal to the Constitutional Tribunal resulted in confirmation of the previous decision.
34. In view of the foregoing, the petition falls within the scope of the exception to exhaustion of domestic remedies stipulated in Article 46.2(b) of the American Convention, which establishes that said exception applies when: "… the party alleging violation of his rights has been denied access to the remedies under domestic law or has been prevented from exhausting them." Consequently, prior exhaustion of domestic remedies is not required.
35. Article 46.1(a), by its nature and purpose, is a legal norm whose content is independent of the substantive rules of the Convention. Therefore, exhaustion of the domestic remedies applicable to the case in question must be determined in advance and separately from the analysis into the merits of the case, since it relies on a standard of evaluation different from the one used to determine a possible violation of Articles 8 and 25 of the American Convention. It is important to clarify that the causes and the effects of exhaustion of judicial remedies referred to in this case will be analyzed in the report on the merits of the case adopted by the Commission, when it will determine whether they consist of violations of the American Convention.
2. Deadline for filing a petition with the Commission
36. Article 46(b) of the American Convention establishes that in order for the Commission to find a petition to be admissible, it must be lodged within six months of the date on which the alleged victim was notified of the final decision. In the complaint in question, the IACHR has established that application of the exception to exhaustion of domestic remedies pursuant to Article 46(2)(c) of the American Convention applies. In this regard, Article 32 of the Commission's Rules of Procedure establishes that in cases in which the exceptions to prior exhaustion of domestic remedies are applicable, the petition must be lodged within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the Commission. For that purpose, the Commission will consider the date on which the alleged violation of rights occurred and the circumstances of each case.
37. In the present case, the petition was received on April 23, 2003 and the alleged facts that are the subject of the complaint occurred on March 1, 1997. It should be noted that fourteen years after the facts occurred, their effects -in terms of the alleged failure to administer justice and to impose an effective punishment to the ones responsible- have extended to this day[6]. Therefore, in view of the circumstances and the characteristics of this case, the Commission considers that the petition was lodged within a reasonable period of time and that that the admissibility requirement referring to the deadline for filing has been satisfied.
3. Duplication of procedures and res judicata
38. The case records do not contain any information that would lead one to determine that this case is pending other international settlement procedures, or that it replicates a petition already examined by this Commission. Therefore, the IACHR concludes that the provisions of Articles 46.1(d) and 47(d) of the Convention are not applicable
4. Characterization of the alleged facts
39. The State alleges that this petition does not tend to establish a violation in view of the fact that there was a domestic criminal police proceeding which redressed the alleged violations. The petitioners, on the other hand, allege that the crime remains unpunished, due to defects in the police criminal proceeding, and to the fact that the State did not take steps to execute the judgment. In view of the information presented by the parties and the nature of the case under consideration, the IACHR finds that in the case in point, it is required to determine that the petitioners' allegations regarding the alleged violation of the rights to life and to humane treatment would characterize violations of the rights protected in Articles 4 and 5, considered in accordance with Article 1.1 of the American Convention, to the detriment of Aníbal Alonso Aguas Acosta.
40. Moreover, it must establish if the allegations of the petitioners could characterize a violation of the rights enshrined in Articles 8 and 25 of the American Convention, considered in relation to its Article 1.1, and if, according to the principle of iura novit curia, the facts would characterize violations of Article 5 of that instrument, to the detriment of the family members of the alleged victim[7].
41. Finally, the IACHR must consider, in application of the iura novit curia principle, whether the facts alleged in the petition regarding failure to investigate the presumed torture, if proven, could characterize violations of the State's obligation to conduct an investigation and a criminal proceeding, as established in Articles 1, 6 and 8 of the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture, in view of the fact that the alleged absence of an investigation occurred after the entry into force of that Convention. Since it is apparent that the petition is not manifestly groundless or obviously out of order, the Commission considers that the requirements established in Articles 47(b) and (c) of the American Convention are satisfied.
42. The Commission concludes that it is competent to examine the complaints presented by the petitioners regarding the alleged violation of Articles 4, 5, 8, and 25, considered in accordance with Article 1.1 of the American Convention, and Articles 1, 6 and 8 of the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture, and that they are admissible, pursuant to the requirements established in Articles 46 and 47 of the American Convention.
43. Based on the factual and legal arguments contained herein, and without prejudging the merits of the case,
1. To declare this case admissible with regard to Articles 4, 5, 8, and 25, considered in relation to Article 1.1 of the American Convention on Human Rights and Articles 1, 6 and 8 of the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture.
2. To notify the parties of this decision.
3. To continue with an analysis of the merits of the case.
4. To publish this decision and include it in its Annual Report to be presented to the OAS General Assembly.
Done and signed in the city of Washington, D.C., on the 22nd day of March 2011. (Signed): Dinah Shelton, President; José de Jesús Orozco Henríquez, First Vice-President; Rodrigo Escobar Gil, Second Vice-President; Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Felipe González, Luz Patricia Mejía Guerrero, and María Silvia Guillén, Commission Members.
[1] Inter-American Court, Case of Velásquez Rodríguez, Judgment of July 29, 1988, Series C No. 4, para. 63.
[2] IACHR Report No. 64/01, Petition 11712, Leonel de Jesús Isaza Echeverry et al, Colombia, 6 April 2001, para. 22. Also see: Inter-American Court, Case of Durand y Ugarte, Judgment of 16 August 2000, Series C No. 68, para. 117; Case of Cesti Hurtado, Judgment of 29 September 1999, Series C No. 65, para. 151. Also see IACHR, Repiort on the Human Rights Situation in Chile, 27 September 1985, pp. 199, 200. OEA/Ser.L/V/II.66 doc. 17; IACHR, 1996 Annual Report, 14 March 1997, p. 688; IACHR, Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ecuador, 24 April 1997, p. 36; IACHR, Report on the Human Rights Situation in Brazil, 29 September 1997, p. 50.
[3] IACHR, Report No. 11/02, Petition 12394, Joaquín Hernández Alvarado et al, Ecuador, 27 February 2002, para. 18 and Report No. 74/09, Petition 386-02, Mickey Alexis Mendoza Sánchez and family, Ecuador, 5 August 2009, para. 19.
[4] 1979 Constitution of Ecuador, amended in 1996.
[5] IACHR, Report No. 74/09, Petition 386-02, Mickey Alexis Mendoza Sánchez and family, Ecuador, 5 August 2009, para. 20.
[6] CIDH, Informe No. 86/07, Petición 680-05, Elías Lindt López Pita y Luis Alberto Shinín Laso, Ecuador, 17 de octubre de 2007, párr. 58.
[7] Pursuant to Article 35.1 of the Rules of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and its recent jurisprudence, the IACHR includes as victims the relatives of the alleged victims. See I/A Court H.R., Case of Radilla Pacheco v Mexico. Judgment of November 23, 2009. Series C No. 209, paras 161 and 162. Cfr. Case of Castillo Páez v Peru. Judgment of November 3, 1997. Series C No. 34, fourth operative paragraph; Case of Kawas Fernández v Honduras. Judgment of April 3, 2009. Series C No. 196, para. 128, and Case of Anzualdo Castro v Peru. Judgment of September 22, 2009. Series C No. 202, para. 105.


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Langtoft, Nr Peterborough
Situated around 14 miles north of Peterborough in rural Lincolnshire. The field is on the Baston Fen Road off the Market Deeping By-pass. It is the second field on the left hand side from the by-pass. For further details and exact instructions on how to get there please contact the secretary


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The original Geoduck Gallop was established in 1984, but only lasted through the following year. Formerly a pledge run/walk, in 2006 it was re-invented as a Half Marathon and a 10k road run/walk. The race was set up as a qualifying course for Evergreen Track and Field Team members wishing to run the standard for the NAIA National Championships Marathon and opened to the public.
We are proud to announce that we will again be joining with The Thurston County Food Bank in an effort to address the issue of hunger in our area. In six years, the run has brought in over $2,000 of food donations for the Thurston County Food Bank. Each participant donating a minimum of four items of non-perishable food will receive a photo with Speedy Q. Geoduck. Entry fees will also contribute to the Evergreen Cross Country Team's fundraising efforts.
*Canned food donations such as canned fruit or meat items (tuna fish, spam, chicken) are especially appreciated*
The course starts and finishes in front of the Costantino Recreation Center and takes runners onto the rural roads and bike paths surrounding the campus and follows wide shoulders the majority of the race. The course will be well marked (including mile markers), monitored at intersections, and will have water stations at various points. To reduce encounters with the already minimal car traffic, there will be an out-and-back section in the last four miles of the course.
Registration will be open from 7:30am to 8:45am. The races will begin at 9am.
Geoduck Gallop 2014 #564


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tallying up the pluses and minues: i like krystic's hands; he's already caught more passes than perk had in his career . . . and he is very proficient, offensively. but, the interior defense seems more porous--or, does mbah moute score 16 (midway through the 3rd) every night? and don't forget what big al jefferson did to us last week. also, there was a stretch in the second period tonight where the bucks got about 4-5 offensive boards in successive possessions . . . very worrisome . . .
now, here's a thought for you all: our team now reminds me of some of those Laker teams; we got a bunch of greyhounds . . . green, rondo, delonte, kg, bradley (a future stopper) . . .
but, i'm worried about the boards . . . last few games, we've given up a lot of second chance points . . .


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Coot, The Duckbusters agree completely with every point/tip you gave. All great advice form obviously a veteran successful duck hunter. one thing I might add is a face mask on the 'one' person working the birds and everyone else not looking up. They should just face forward and watch the decoy 'air space' until they are told to take em.
Remember ducks get calls shy not duck shy what i mean is ducks talk to each other everyday so sound like a duck and you will kill more ducks call ducks on the corners or going away from u as soon as they turn quit use other calls also gadwall ,whistle that will help u put more ducks in your bag Roland (Duckman )Cortez
Those are some great tips Coot. Its all about being as natural as possible. Thanks
Good stuff, Coot, I'm on board for sure. One decoy type I put out on every hunt now is WHITE feeder butts. Not the mallard ones, but the pintail butts (G&H or Tanglefree making them), and I cut the pin off. As a predominantly public land hunter, I spend A LOT of time scouting/watching rafts of birds undisturbed. One thing you can see from a mile out is the intermittent flash of white from their tails when dipping. Lately I've been going with a spread of all grays, 4 feeder butts, and a mix of coots and a couple mallards. A spread of grays looks natural, but unfortunately blends into the marsh due to their coloring. Be where they want to be and they'll find your spread! good luck guys
Good tips.....I'll add a couple more
1. Ducks love coots.....put out a whole spread of coots decoys if you got 'em....my friends and I have put out as many as 10 dozen if there are lots in the area.
2. If ducks don't work in to your spread where you want them to move your decoys until they do.
3. Space out your decoys....only scared ducks sit close together. Grays especially will land right smack in the middle of a big pile of coot decoys if you give them enough room.
did anyone here ever hear of making yur own coot decoys out of 2 litter plastic bottles?? paint the bottle black and the cap white??? they say they work great??? heard this a few times!! does anybody do this??? just curious!!!
Thats as old school as it gets. We've done that in the past with all size plastic bottles and it works like a dream. Flat black paint and white gloss caps. The Duckbusters use more coot dekes than duck dekes, our typical set up
These are all great tips and I can tell that you guys are experienced hunters. Blind with a cross wind to me is the biggest tip of all and can make the biggest difference in your shooting and kills. When set up in a good crosswind, if you let them come all the way in, they simply cannot get away from you. You will shoot your three shells before they get out of range. Good luck to all the rest of the season and stay safe!
I painted my all my hens with flat black spray paint and dabbed the beaks in some left over Kiltz I had....they looks great!....I hunt the deltas and a raft of coots is hard to beat out there so I decided to join em. Another good reason to use coots is that black and white are the colors ducks see from farthest.
I've been using 6 gadwall, 6 ringnecks, and NO mojo. Of course I hunt out for the grass. That helps alot too.
All good tips their coot I use alot of spoonbills ,pintail decoys for their white bellies they show up from far also make sure my blind lots as real as possible would rather hunt a crosswind but will take a wind at my back to decoys are put in a u shape more decoys on the down wind side as a buffer on a cross wind if the winds at my back more decoys on the left and right side with none in front of the blind. put decoys where u dont want the ducks to land
Never have I seen a post on this website so full of great quality information. Great job coot as well as the other guys putting in their two cents. Only if every post could be as helpful to people as this one. Keep it up.
If you'd like an interesting read. Go to NOLA.com, in the search box enter 'Decoy Placement', and enjoy
I hope these tips help some fellow hunters. Coot decoys work well if you have a lot of coots in your area, if you 'don't' have coots in your area then don't use them. 2 liter bottles painted black work well too if you are hunting a very large spread of over 150-200+ dekes. In north LA I use to use 2 liter bottles to add to my spread when hunting large resavoirs where we had floating blinds, but in SE LA 4-5 dozen real decoys will work better for big water. The key is experience. Observe your surroundings, watch the ducks and where they want to go, try to hunt where the ducks are holding, observe their fly ways so that you set up in the fly way, observe how they look when in sitting in a pond before you spook them, set your decoys to look like these ducks, and yes as one said do not put decoys too close together. Spread them out. Decoys that are very close together in a tight group can indicate a startled flock of ducks that is ready to get up and fly off.
Experience pays off. I consistently do very well compared to others in my areas b/c of many of the tips suggested in this post. The only other thing that is not mentioned in this post is hunt late or try hunting from 8am to 12pm. Some of my best action is between 9 and 11. Happy Hunting.....
Here is a little something from a similar thread last season, it explains my favorite way to set up:
I was very fortunate to grow up and learn to hunt ducks at an early age from a family of duck hunting men. My earliest memories of hunting ducks were with my father and his uncles who always took the time to explain why and how we were going to set up that morning. These men were hunters who hunted as a way of life, to put food on the table, and when it was legal sold their bag of ducks to the market in New Orleans. I remember their stories of when times were hard and shells were too expensive to waste shooting to kill only one duck with a shot. There was a reason for the method and techniques they used and the Paw-Paws Pirogue family still uses these traditional approaches to increase their chances during the hunt.
We always paddle into the area to avoid disturbing any ducks that are around with the noisy boat motor. After checking the wind, we determine the exact spot we will make our blind and place the bulk of our decoys up wind of that location. We pull our pirogues into the marsh and build a low profile blind of Roseau canes around the pirogue that we can shoot out of from a sitting position. Setting up with a cross wind is always our first choice as it provides many advantages over hunting with the wind blowing over your back. Lets say that the wind is blowing from your right towards your left. By placing your decoys up wind on your right side (about 20-30 yards), the ducks will approach from your left side and look to land right behind the decoys to your right. Your blind will not be in the direct line of sight of the approaching ducks and you will be able to get away will a little movement as you prepare to shoot. Your first shot, from a sitting position, will send the ducks flaring with the wind and bring them right back across the front of the blind for easy and sometimes closer second and third shots. With the wind at your back, the ducks are looking directly at your blind as they approach and any movement could send the ducks away before they get into effective range. Also with the wind from your back, your first shot sends the ducks flaring away from you and your follow up shots are usually more difficult, out of range, and lead to many crippled ducks. When setting up in this manner, be patient and resist the urge to shot at the ducks that are working your spread until they are committed, they will actually pass up the blind and be just up wind of you before it is time to call the shot.
I know some of you also like to set up this way and know how effective it can be. If you have not tried this approach, give this type of setup a chance this season; I think you will enjoy the feeling of completely fooling the ducks with that fist kill shot coming before they even know you are there.
I love hunting a crossing wind... As you pointed out the advantages are the ducks are not approaching you looking at your blind, but the really cool part is if you set your dekes right and let them get up wind from you before shooting, the following shots after your first shot the ducks are even closer to you. It's fun to hunt them in a strong crossing wind and when you miss on your first shot, just wait patiently for them to back paddle with the wind until they are in your face for the sure shot and kill....
It's funny when I hunt with folks and once we get to the spot I want to hunt they are in hurry to throw out dekes, but I stop them and say 'Wait, we have plenty of time'. I like to choose my spot where I will hunt that day, then sit in that spot observing the wind etc, enjoy a cup of coffee and think long and hard how I will set my spread. I always throw a couple of dekes as markers from the blind location first before I go out and set the rest of my dekes. Nothing worse than throwing out dekes, then you get back in the blind and realize your spread is screwed up and not to your liking.
Also, most of us now have smart phones in which you can use the Weather Channel app for an hourly forecast which will give you wind direction and speed for each hour. Often times the wind will shift directions in the middle of your hunt. Make sure you plan accordingly for this too.
Last but least, always keep a pair of sunglasses in your bag b/c I will set up facing the sun in the heart beat. I don't care if the sun is to my back or not. Actually ducks are less confident approaching a spread coming into the sun just as the sun blinds us, it blinds them too.... Ducks would rather approach a spread with the sun to their butts as they can see better looking for danger.
Make sure to choose sunglasses without a mirror or shiney lens. Leave your Blue lens Costa's in the truck. Get a pair that are dull in frame color with a non-shiney brown lens if possible. No need to get expensive ones, since the likelyhood of getting scratched/broken is high. Good luck to all.
i grew up in a very lucky family, my grandfather was the former World Champion duck caller and taught me to call, I picked it up pretty well and won the State Championship and went on to place 3rd in the world several years ago...But i can tell you Competition calling and Hunting calling are two completely different things! Thats one of the hardest things to realize is that even if your good at calling you dont always need to call...get the birds attention and leave them be...the only time i even pick up the call is when they are flying away from the blind and usually just a quick little comeback or a feed call and they break right around back to the hole...being able to call is definatly a plus but being in the right place and blending everything to look as natural as possible is the KEY to having a successful hunt....not having 5 mojo mallards and swimming decoys and four people screaming hail calls at the birds lolol...it really cracks me up when im invited to hunt with people and they do that and we dont kill a bird then i say guys lets try this...shut off all the motion decoys and put your calls down, then limit out lolol...


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ST. PAUL, Minn. — Senior John Konrad scored three goals in the third period as St. John's defeated St. Thomas 4-2 in an MIAC game Friday night.
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