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Herald-ZeitungImplodesOn Sunday, March 16, theHouston-owned Herald-Zeitung

put the final nail in its coffin

with a front-page story entitled

Wheres Money? The piece

was written by reporter Dalondo

Moultrie with an assist from Managing Editor

Shawn Lewis. As it turned out, the headlines

unfortunate grammar was the least of the

problems with that report, which more or lessalleged charity fraud on the part of the Moms

of New Braunfels Facebook group. The story

was entirely false.

BackstoryLast November, 15-year-old Logan Davidson

was ambushed as he was coming out of a

classroom at Canyon High School. He was

brutally beaten by another student, and later

died as a result of his injuries.

As is common in these situations, a fund

was established to assist the grieving family

with expenses associated with their loss.

And as is also common, a pack of people

glommed onto the family to get their share

of the spotlight and congratulate themselves

on being so very thoughtful. Weve covered

that story already, and dont need to go into

again. Suffice it to say that the Herald-Zeitungwas right there to get its piece of the action.

We kept a respectful distance.

Not so common in these situations, was

a fund set up for the benefit of the attacker.

The wisdom of that is questionable at best,

while the fact that it was put together

before Davidsons funeral had even taken

place gives insensitive a new definition.

Weve said it before: Compassion for the

attacker is contempt for the victim. Maybe

you wait until a few days after the funeral

until you start supporting the person

responsible for it. Respect for the grieving

and whatnot.

After all, its not like the identity of the

attacker is in question weve seen the video.

Whether or not hes guilty of murder will

be left to a jury to decide, what wont be is

who threw those brutal punches. NOTE TOATTACKERS LAWYER: Would you like to sue

us for saying that? Please, do.

Amateur HourBefore we get into how the HZ

story was put together, I needto explain whats been going

on at the Herald since Doug

Toney retired as Publisher/

Editor-in-Chief due to his inability

to compete with a startup, boutique,

alt-weekly newspaper. This will read as

snarky self-promotion, but its leading up to a

greater point. Stick with me.

After Toney, uh, resigned, Jim Rainey

was brought in to fill Dougs shoes for aboutsix-months, leaving when he realized he had

walked into a train wreck. We were worried

when Rainey showed up the quality of the HZ

improved, quite literally, overnight. Imagine

our delight when he left.

After Jim, Houston sent Neice Bell in

to run the show. By all accounts she is a

very nice person, much nicer than Toney,

but saddled with the staff shes got, unableto compete. So she did the next best thing:

copied the TX Citizen.

It started with an off-handed joke in one

of Dalondo Moultries stories. Then there

were a few editorials mildly critical of safe

targets. Ok. So far, so good. But it wasnt

good enough, and they got bolder with their

gimmick infringement, to the point where I feel

like I deserve half of Bells salary for all the

editing Im apparently doing over there.We publish on Thursdays, with a heavy

emphasis on bars and entertainment. All of a

sudden, the HZ comes out with the Groovin

section on Thursdays, focusing on bars and

entertainment.

We ran The Beer Hunter column for just

over a year, and we have another column,

Advice from Uncle Esel, written by fictional

German, Ken Esel. The HZ doubled-down

on those, and created a fictitious Scot by the

name of Sheamus OGroovahan to review

cocktails. OGroovahan, otherwise known as

HZ Managing Editor Shawn Lewis, is notorious

for not actually sampling all the drinks he

reviews. The Beer Hunter consumed every

last brew he wrote about, because, well,

hes an honest man. As youll see later in this

column, Lewis doesnt let facts get in the way

of, well, anything.

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Scientology Takes Hit onAnti-SLAPPudge Dib Waldrip, whose district includes

Comal County, found the Church ofScientologys argument that Monique

Rathbuns harassment lawsuit infringed on its

First Amendment rights lacked merit and, thus,

can go forward.

Because the Church is a business, Waldrip

ruled, and because the Churchs actions arose

from a business dispute, it cannot accurately

say the lawsuit relates to its First Amendment

rights. The Church of Scientology International

(CSI) filed a motion that claimed the suitviolates its rights to association and religion.

We are obviously extremely pleased,

Rathbun lead attorney Ray Jeffrey said of the

ruling. The other side put so much work and

energy into using the First Amendment to cloak

what they did, but it was all a charade. The judge

saw the substance and cut right to the quick.

The Churchs attorney, Ricardo Cedillo,

would not take phone calls and did not

respond to an email request for comment.Rathbun says she endured months of

consistent harassment and years of surveillance

by the Church at her home in Ingleside on

the Bay, where she lived with her husband,

Mark Marty Rathbun, a former high-ranking

member of the Church. The couple moved to

Bulverde to escape the Church, only to find

surveillance cameras aimed at their new

home. She filed suit in August.

In an attempt to end the suit, the Churchof Scientology International (CSI) filed an Anti-

Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation

motion. An Anti-SLAPP motion is intended to

stop lawsuits that are proven to be based on,

related to, or in response to a defendants

First Amendment rights.

CSI did not deny that it sent its members

to confront the Rathbuns as well as private

investigators to keep tabs on the couple and their

visitors, but maintained it had a First Amendmentright to do so. The Church said its actions were

due to Mark Rathbun offering Scientology

services outside the Church thus, according to

CSI, violating its trademarks and patents.

Monique Rathbuns legal team argued that

the Churchs own admissions showed it to be a

dispute between competing businesses, which

means the Anti-SLAPP statue does not apply.

Waldrip agreed.

As Defendant CSI asserts and argues,Waldrip wrote, Mark Rathbuns activity of

offering Scientology services is a business.

If so, the Churchs own activity of offering

Scientology services is also a business.

The judge also pointed out, citing other

cases and the by the Churchs own admissions,

the evidence sufficiently establishes

Scientology is primarily a business to sell a

good or service be it religious or otherwise.

Waldrip ruled that since the dispute is

one of competing businesses, the Anti-SLAPP

motion does not apply if the litigation arises

from selling or leasing goods and services.

Besides, as Rathbun attorney Jeffrey argued

many times and Waldrip concurred, after years

of surveillance and harassment, the Church neveronce took legal action against the Rathbuns.

No evidence indicates that CSI,

Waldrip wrote, has ever sent Mark Rathbun a

cease and desist letter or sued Mark or Monique

Rathbun for infringement of intellectual property

rights or any other cause of action.

The judge also pointed out that he has to

balance any First Amendment right with Monique

Rathbuns Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial.

Waldrip said that since Monique hasclaimed bodily injury resulting from the Churchs

activity, the Anti-SLAPP motion doesnt apply.

Her claims, he said, can only be validated

by a trial with evidence. Monique testified

the Churchs actions caused her stress and

anxiety, which led to migraines, sleeplessness

and loss of appetite, all of which fall legally

within claims for bodily injury. Such claims of

injuries, Waldrip said, are not in relation to the

Churchs First Amendment rights.Moniques Seventh Amendment rights

cannot be preemptively overridden by

the Defendants First Amendment rights,

Waldrip ruled.

Jeffrey said he was very impressed with

Waldrips jurisprudence. Hes very logical as

he goes through and nails what the evidence

is and how the law applies to the evidence,

the attorney said. He had to wade through

hundreds of pages of motions and evidence toreach this decision.

In a parting comment, the judge took

exception to the manner in which CSI has

consumed an inordinate amount of time.

The Court does conclude, Waldrip

wrote, that the method in which the motions

were litigated, from the discovery to the

objections, etc., resulted in hours upon hours

of courtroom time that could have been better

spend elsewhere.

Nick Rogers covers courts and crime for the TX Citizen.

Due ProcessWITH NICK ROGERS

I think now is a good time to quote David

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Continued from page 3.

Since Groovin and OGroovahan

werent cutting into our market share as

planned, and seeing the success weve had

with Uncle Ken Esels fake advice column, they

decided to go one step further, and created

a fake German advice column of their own.

Ask Ethel now graces the Groovin section.

Ethel der Klatsch (Ethel the Gossip) does

double duty, writing restaurant reviews as

well as dispensing fake advice in response to

fake letters. Word is, unlike his OGroovahan

persona, Shawn Lewis actually does eat the

food he, I mean Ethel, reviews. So in the

end, the Managing Editor of the HZ spends

his time eating but not drinking, and writing

under two allegedly hilarious alter-egos,

which is why he doesnt have time to checkfacts when accusing somebody of fraud. I

mean, who can blame him?

We have a section called Around and

About, which features photos of locals doing

fun stuff. Pretty standard newspaper fare.

Groovin came out with a similar section called

Groovin out and about, in and around New

Braunfels. Ugh. (Come on, Shawn. Have an

original thought. There are lots more words

out there than around and about. Were

embarrassed for you over here. Eww.)

They copied everything they could think

of that could possibly account for our appeal.

They tried being funny. They tried being edgy.

They tried and tried and tried and tried,

copying our features right down to the almost-

titles. But none of that worked, and it never

will. First, because theyre not funny or edgy,

and second, because theyre not copying thepart that counts: Getting the story straight.

No mater what it looks like were selling

here news, snark, entertainment, small-

business defense, taxpayer advocacy, light

profanity, government accountability, mild

sexual innuendo, anti-establishment rants its

all an illusion. Our real product is the truth.

Trustworthy information. Information that

someone can repeat without looking like a liar

or an idiot after somebody else double-checks

the facts. Thats our prime asset, and without

it were nothing. The rest is window dressing.

Shawn Lewis keeps stealing the drapes and

expecting the house to build itself.

Shawn, your barrel of trust is empty,

from the fake cocktail reviews, to the fact

that the HZ is noted in the City Hall check

register, to the story were writing about now.

If you cant provide the truth, get out of thetruth business. All of you, for that matter. Run

for office or something.

I think now is a good time to quote DavidLee Roth, on the topic of imitators. This is highly

relevant to where Im going with this:

If you imagine a hundred people running

down the street in a road race and one of them

is in front, then 99 are in back, right? The 99

in the back go How come Ray is in front of the

pack all the time? Well cause hes wearing

red shorts. Cut to the next race: You see 99

people wearing red shorts. Ray is still in front.They go, Uh, it must be the shoes.

The HZ Buys New Shoes,Doesnt Try Them OnAs the de facto public relations arm of City

Hall, the HZ has never done any legitimate

investigative work, so when a woman walked

into their office a few weeks back with a

second-hand story about her friend, theattackers mother, not getting the charity she

was promised, they pounced on the story. They

couldnt believe that someone was tipping

themoff (instead of the TX Citizen, for once)

to something they could actually look into

without angering their masters at City Hall and

the Chamber of Commerce. A real scandal.

An exclusive story. A piece that will catch the

competition completely off-guard.

Except it wasnt true.They talked to the woman with the second-

hand story, and then to the friend of whom she

was speaking. Neither woman told them the

truth. This kind of thing happens all the time

in this business. Hardly anybody who walks

off the street and into a newsroom has their

facts straight, which is why you check them out

before you publish, not after.

For some reason, which were still notprivy to, the attackers mother, (The HZ referred

to her as Maria. Well call her Anita,

because of, you know, Rita Moreno), thought

that the money she had indeed received from

the charity drive was actually from LULAC.

Because Anita wont speak with us now

that shes created a living nightmare for the

charitys administrator, we cant ask her why

she thought that, and thus, cant go after the

person in LULAC who may (or may not have)taken credit for the donations.

Just to make things worse, the HZ printed

Anitas outright charge that the money intended

for her went instead to the victims family:

When I found out that money was given to

the other family, I just thought I want the people

who donated for my family to know we didnt

receive anything The next question from the

HZ should have been Found out from whom?


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Instead of going down that road, the HZ

instead intruded on the Davidson familys grief

yet again, this time with questions about the

whereabouts of the cash intended for their

deceased sons attacker. Nice.

The Davidsons told the HZ that they didnot get the attackers money. The HZ ran the

claim anyway.

PRO NEWSROOM TIP: When grown-ups

write a story, and find out that a completely

unsubstantiated claim is contested, that

claim doesnt run, unless youre using it to

illustrate deception or unreliability on the

part of the claimant. This was not the casein the HZ story, which was told exclusively

from Anitas point of view. She should not

have been allowed to make that statement

unchallenged. But again, that might have

ruined the story.

(And while were on the topic, if my kid

ever brutally attacks your kid, and your kid

dies, and I think you got money intended for

me,Im going to go ahead and let you keep it

without complaining to the press.)

W y i t is Happen?WHYYYYYYYY?Ill tell you why. Because after appropriating

everything else they could from our little

weekly, Lewis and Moultrie thought they

had the big fish on the hook an exclusive,

investigative whopper. They thought that after

all of the things they had lifted from us, they

finally had the prize marlin. That at last, they

were going to be real reporters, and get the

respect from the industry that weve been

sucking up for the last few years. But as weve

learned today, the real work isnt in landing a

fish. A news writers job is to gut it.

In other words, Shawn and Dalondo fell

in love with the story, and nothing was going

to get in the way of that love. They were also

in love with the idea of having an exclusive,

which is why they didnt want to push toohard looking for answers. Too many questions

to too many people might result in a tip-off to

KGNB, or, gods forbid, us. Totally worth the

risk of putting out a completely false story. I

mean, what could happen?

Kids, in all seriousness, I want to drive this

home: Be yourself. Be the best person with your

unique set of qualities that you can. Dont let

anybody seduce you into becoming a shadow

of somebody else, because that always ends

badly. Plus you ll miss out on being at the top ofyour particular game, which is damn satisfying.

Lewis and Moultrie, while certainly good at

something, wont ever feel that satisfaction until

they start to cut their own swath through life and

dedicate themselves to their specific talents. I

suspect their opportunity for a fresh start might

be right around the corner, however.

The FalloutWithin hours of the Sunday HZ hitting thestands and Internet, a tsunami of scorn and

corrections were posted to the HZs Facebook

page by hoards of outraged readers. Shawn

Lewis responded to the disaster by defending

the piece, which he claimed they worked

a whole week on, and by pointing fingers

at sources he and Moultrie didnt try hard

enough to contact during that week. What

took them seven days to create was destroyed

in a matter of minutes, and all those sources

they couldnt seem to find during the previous

week were suddenly right in Lewis face.

None of them were happy.

PRO NEWSROOM TIP: See, when you

try to get in touch with somebody through

Facebook, and youre not on their friends

list, your mail gets sent to their other file,

which, for all intents and purposes, is oftentreated as a spam filter. Moultrie and Lewis

might be forgiven this point, except Facebookproduces a giant message that says something

to the effect of Hey, youre not friends with

this person, so well be putting this message

where they probably wont see it. So they

knew ahead of time that the message wasnt

going to anybodys inbox. But really, had they

actually gotten in touch with those people, all

they would have done is screwed up a really

good story. Advantage: HZ.

For the record, we know how to get

around that little problem with Facebook. Im

not going to say how we do it, because its fun

watching the HZ #### themselves. It really is.

Heres what Moms of New Braunfels

founder Susan Lecher had to say to us about

the situation, via the electronic mail:

We were shocked to read the article by

the HZ as there was no truth to the claims

and will continue to try to serve and supportour community.

We got together in person with fund

administrator Stacy Berry, and she wasnt

happy either. According to Berry, she told the

Herald she wanted to see the correction story

before it ran, and while they contacted her to

verify her quotes, they did not let her review

the story as agreed. Were not surprised.


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Uncle Esel,

My friends recently gave me a hard

time because I posted something on

Facebook that said Will Smith is dead.

Only thing is that I didnt post any such

thing. Some people then said that I had

a virus or that my account was hacked.

How does this stuff happen?

Tank You,

Shay

Dear Shay,

You dont necessarily have a virus and

you may not have been hacked, at least not

in the way the word hacked is usually used

(Note to Mrs Krueger, getting spammed is not

the same as getting hacked). More than likely,

you, at some time in the past, had a post on

your wall, perhaps from a friend, that you

clicked on because it caught your attention.

Some examples are the multitude of phony

giveaways for electronics that have been

opened and are therefore free, or perhaps an

airline ticket giveaway. When you clicked on

it, a window opened that asked for permission

to post on your behalf and/or to access yourcontacts. Well, you must have said yes at some

point and wallah, Facebook thinks this is your

new best friend.

Uncle Esel advises readers to not give

permission to any app that you didnt seek

out and verify yourself. Just because a friend

is posting it is not enough to assume it is

safe. Make sure you have protection, and

not the kind in a guys wallet, but protection

for your computer that will stop malwareand Trojans (again, not that kind of Trojan)

from getting you.

Love, K

Dear Esel,

So I read that the guy who leads

that Wetboro church is almost dead. Do

you think he has a special place in Hell

waiting for him?

Tanks,

Raymond

Dear Raymond,

It has been heavily reported that

Westboro Baptist Church patriarch, Fred

Phelps is near death and is expected to

pass in the coming days or weeks at most.

Phelps son, who is not part of the church and

despises his father, has also claimed that hisfather has been removed from the church, but

the reason for this is unknown.

If you believe in such things, it is safe

to say that Phelps will languish in Hell for

eternity. What torments he faces are really not

printable in this column, but you can use your

imagination to figure out what Phelps might be

receiving down there. Imagine, if you will, a

baseball game in Hell where Phelps is forced

to be a catcher for the other team. Not that

theres anything wrong with that.

Love, K

Hello Mr. Esel,

I read that there are several new

housing neighborhoods going in behind

the big Creekside shopping area. I think

traffic here has become a nightmare,

especially around Buc-ees. How the

heck can the city allow this without

doing something about the roads? I

cant stand this.

Tank You Kindly,

Alan

Dear Alan,

With this development, you can count

on the city doing a traffic impact study to

see how road use will be affected by thisnew development. The problem is that the

city knows the impacts but seldom does

anything proactively and waits until it

becomes intolerable to finally move. Creekside

roadways and 306 were actually built by the

developer in exchange for giving them a big

chunk of the sales tax to repay themselves via

taxes collected. Essentially, this was a low

interest loan to the companies that also them

to sell and lease property in order to make

income that is greater than the loans they are

paying back over 15-20 years.

How about this, go down with a lawn chair

and see what the traffic is like today. The 306

and IH 35 intersections were built too small and

now they are planning on adjusting it, but guess

what, it will still be too small for the expected

traffic. In this case, you have to wonder if City

Hall is waiting for TXDOT to bail them out. This

can be a risky bet. Esel thinks the city should

change their motto to reflect their thinking; If

you build it, they will come. And they will wait

in traffic for long periods every day.

Love, K

Uncle K. Esel is a lifetime resident of our fair city, and iswell known for his sage advice on a wide range of topics.If you find yourself perplexed with no one to turn to, sendyour question to Uncle Esel at: [email protected] sure to write Question for Uncle Esel in the subjectline of your email.

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By Gustavo Arellano

Dear Mexican: Whats the story

with Mexican pastries? Like most

cultures, Mexicans seem to be cribbing

from the French, but pan dulce just

winds up tasting l ike a dinner roll with

a little icing on top. So many other parts

of Mexican cuisine emphasize strong

flavors. Why must the best part of the

meal be so bland?

Un Bolillo

Dear French Roll Gabacho: Youre

being a bit harsh. Mexican pan dulce (sweet

breads for those who dont habla) is as varied

as Mexican skin tones, from the conchas

(the ones that look like sea shellshence,

their name) to empanadas (turnovers stuffed

with everything from apples to pumpkin to

coconut cream and strawberries) to rosca

de reyes (the pan dulce offered during the

Feast of the Epiphany thats essentially aring of sugar upon sugar) to that pan dulce

with a top layer consisting solely of candy

sprinkles. But youre right to note that most

pan dulce appears to originate from French

pastriesbecause thats true. You can

blame two historical porqueras for this: the

occupation by Emperor Maximilian that also

brought Mexico the waltzes danced duringquinceaeras, and the Porfiriato, the long

reign of Mexican President Porfirio Daz

in which he tried to modernize Mexico by

trying to act French and giving away land

to the evil gabachos. I personally dont have

a problem with pan dulce being a mestizo

version of French yummiesthis is Mexico,

after all, a country borne from the mixing

of foreign culturesbut I always like to

point out pan dulces roots to people who

still insist theres such a thing as authentic

Mexican food. Their equivocations in trying

to justify this sweet, inconvenient truth after

having blasted a Tex-Mex combo plate as

not authentically Mexican is as laughable

as Mexican President Enrique Pea Nieto

trying to appear as anything other than the

pendejo he is.

Dear Mexican: I was wondering

how the Mexican-American

population regards Jaime Escalante

and his legacy as an educator. In mymind, he is a civil rights pioneer, in

that he urged his Mexican-American

students to break through the

unofficial caste system existing in

the United States, wherein Mexicans

would have to work lower-payi ng and

lower-skilled jobs than their white

counterparts. Many of his students

are lawyers, doctors and educators.

Is there a consensus among Mexican-

American s that Escalante was nothing

short of a hero because of the high

standards he placed on his students?

Michael from Menifee

Dear Gabacho: If only. The sad

verdad is that Escalantewhose story was

immortalized in the 1988 film Stand and

Deliver, which has been seen by every

Mexican high school student in class at

least twice a year ever sinceis only

universally admired by his former students

nowadays. Chicano yaktivists dismiss

him because he was a strong opponent

of bilingual education and palled around

with conservatives; Freire pedagogical

types find his teaching methods not radical

enough. Theres an elementary school in

the working-class city of Cudahy named

after him, sure, but thats about it in termsof public respectand if that doesnt

exemplify the Chicano concept of crabs in

a bucket, Im not sure what can.

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Hot in the Kitchen!Carpe Canis

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If you ever get caught with an invitation to a party on short notice, here is a quick and easy

recipe that will delight your host and the other guests. Or maybe youre tired of your family

asking whats for dinner? at 5:30pm when you dont have the energy to cook a huge meal.

Well, these chicken meatballs are full of flavor and are a great lower calorie and lower fat

alternative to ground beef meatballs. They can be pre-made and frozen for future use, along

with a homemade marinara sauce. Serve these healthy meatballs as an appetizer for parties or

at home on top of spaghetti for dinner, or even meatball subs for the kids!

Chicken Parmesan Meatballs

1 lbs chicken sausage removed from

casing or ground chicken

cup Italian breadcrumbs

1 cup fresh grated Parmesan cheese 1 tsp garlic powder

tsp onion powder

1 tsp dried Italian seasoning

tsp crushed red pepper

2 tbls fresh parsley, chopped

tsp fresh cracked black pepper

1 lg egg, beaten

1 cup homemade marinara sauce (see

below) 1 cup fresh mozzarella cheese, thinly

sliced

Preheat oven to 350 and line baking sheet with parchment paper. In a large bowl,

combine the first 10 ingredients. Combine well but do not over mix. Roll chicken mixture into

1-inch meatballs and place on prepared baking sheet. Bake for 16-18 minutes or until lightly

browned. Spoon about 1-tbls marinara sauce over each meatball and place a small slice of

mozzarella on top of each one. Return to oven and bake for about 5 minutes or until cheese is

melted. Garnish with additional grated Parmesan and a sprinkle of dried parsley flakes.

The following marinara sauce recipe is a cost effective alternative to store brought jar sauce. 3 tbls olive oil

1 cup yellow onion, diced

3 garlic cloves, crushed and chopped

3-28 oz cans of Muir Glen Organic Diced Fire Roasted Tomatoes (This brand can be found

in your local grocery stores canned tomato section)

cup fresh shredded basil

1 tbls fresh chopped oregano or dried oregano akes

Salt & fresh ground black pepper to taste.

In a medium saucepan, heat olive oil over medium-low heat. Add onions and saut untiltranslucent; about 4 minutes. Add garlic and cook until garlic is almost brown; another 2

minutes. Add canned tomatoes and simmer about 30 minutes. Add basil and oregano and

simmer for 30 minutes more stirring occasionally. Use a stick blender or food processor to

thoroughly mix your sauce ingredients. Add salt & pepper to taste. Left-over sauce can be

portioned out and frozen for future use.

Until next time, Eat, Drink & Be Sherri!

Sherri

Sherri Gallagher is a New Braunfels personal chef who grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she began cooking at

the age of 8. Her culinary virtuosity can be experienced at the Regal Ravioli food truck in Austin, (regalraviloi.com), and at

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NOTE: We werent Facebook friends

with Lecher or Berry, either. Only took a few

minutes to get in touch with both of them

though. #wetryharder

NOTE NOTE: Berry did not start the

fund for the attackers family. She took overadministration of the fund from the founder.

One of the demands that people were

making on the Facebook thread was for the

HZ to correct the story on the front page of

the following Sundays issue, because the

Sunday edition goes to a lot more people

than the Tuesday edition does. Managing

Editor Lewis responded to one of those

demands in this way:

Lisa, our circulation numbers are pretty

consistent throughout the week

Yeah, we checked that. A quick phone call

to the HZ gave us these distribution numbers:

Average of 11,700 Copies on Sunday

Average of 9,000 Copies on Weekdays

A difference of 2,700 copies, which

is about a 23 percent weekday drop off.

Hmm. But wait. We remembered a piece that

Publisher/Editor-in-Chief Neice Bell wrote

back on October 26, where she discussed

circulation. She claimed that distribution was

up by an astonishing 35 percent. Earlier in

that piece she described how they made

that jump: By donating 2,500 copies perday to the NBISD. (35% of 6,500 is 2,275.)

You know what schools do with donated

newspapers? This:

Heck, we could go from 5,000 a week to

100,000 a week if thats all it takes, but we

figure thats a sneaky way to bump up your

distribution, especially since those numbers

safe to pull the NBISDs 2,500 out of the daily

number. Now lets see what we end up with

on a Tuesday:

9,000 2,500 = 6,500

So thats 6,500 on Tuesday, versus

11,700 on Sunday. A difference of 5,200

copies. Thats over a 44% percent variance, or

as Shawn Lewis would say, pretty consistent.

Yep. Seems legit.

Despite multiple demands for an apology,

and the fact that a correction was printed in the

Tuesday, March 17 edition, none have been

offered. We expect Neice Bell will issue a

real nice one after shes finished firing people.

For what its worth, we hope she doesnt fire

anybody. We like what theyve done with the

HZ. Oh boy, do we ever.

UpshotScrew-ups happen. Ive got a few big ones

in my catalogue. How one handles them

defines both the situation and the character of

the mistaken party. There was only one way

to deal with this once the cat was out of the

bag, which was to unequivocally apologize,

and then prominently set the story straight.

Defending the piece, making excuses, and

blaming the victims of your negligence is

nothing short of unprofessional, hack work.

Man up, take your swats, and make the

necessary repairs. Thats how you keep the

respect of your readership. And your self-

respect, for that matter.

One more thing. The HZ story referred

to what happened between Logan and his

attacker as a fight. It was not a fight. It was

a premeditated attack, complete with videocamera ready to catch the action. Logan was

punched twice in the head/neck, and went

down without resistance. He didnt see it

coming. He never got back up.

\m/

Mike Reynolds

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GMO DearThe winters in Vermont are long and brutal.

Over time, the cold creeps into your bones,

and you begin to think youll never be warm

again. But theres a bright spot in all that

harshness: it makes you appreciate all the

more the things that youre missing. For me,

just as March raises its frost-covered head, that

thing is an orange.

Glorious. Juicy. Delicious.

I had an orange just the other day, and

it was the same semi-spiritual experience

that I have come to expect. As part of my

celebration for myself, I posted an ode togenetically modified foods on Facebook,

thanking scientific marvels for my treat. I will

often take mildly unfair swipes at GMOs and

organic foods because I know that this type

of trolling is sure to get a bite or two even

among my friends.

First, let me make it clear that I understand

the modern usage for both genetically

modified and organic. I just cant resistpoking some fun at the way that many of us

believe that changing language will somehow

change reality. The truth is that any number

of things we eat are genetically modified in

one way or another, and there is nothing

particularly scary about that. It is also true

that avoiding modern farming methods

and chemicals will not make your food any

healthier or taste any better. Of course, neither

of those statements is likely to be left alone

without hours of debate.

I have discussed both topics in print

before, but it occurred to me that it might be

easier to tackle the discussion of GMOs in a

different way.

I actually have nothing against people

who try to stay away from genetically

modified foods. Im comfortable enough in

my own skin to allow others to eat what theylike, and for the most part, what someone else

eats has no real effect on me. I do draw the

line at misconceptions and fear mongering,

though. There are several undeniable and

easily verifiable facts about GMOs that

everyone should accept.

There is no evidence that GMOs are

dangerous to humans.

I have seen studies that imply correlations

between GMOs and various effects, and I

have seen wild interpretations of various data,

but I have never seen any actual evidence that

GMOs are dangerous to humans. I still have

people send me studies, reports, and articles,

and I will continue to read them, but I have

yet to see anything that rises to the level of

actual evidence. Lack of evidence is no proof

of safety, but in a world full of very real

dangers, the burden of proof lies with those

who suggest a problem.

Monsanto is not about to bring on the

sterility apocalypse.

Various levels of this myth abound, somecrazier than others. Like all good myths, a

seed of truth is at the center of the story.

Monsanto does have genetic technology

that allows them to make seeds that produce

sterile seeds at harvest, but thats really

where the truth ends. Monsanto did not

develop the technology; they actually bought

it from another company. Monsanto does

not employ the technology and have agreedseveral times and in writing that they will not

do so. Even if they did, this would hardly

mean the end of life on this planet. While the

occasional non GMO crop might get cross

pollenated and thereby contaminated, it is

not within the realm of possibility that this

could happen on a grand scale. Furthermore,

if it did happen, the non GMO farmer would

actually have a legal case against Monsanto

not the other way around.

Monsanto will not sue you if their

GMOs infect (cross pollenate) your crops.

This comes from a case where Monsanto

sued a farmer who they said was using their

Roundup resistant seeds without permission.

The farmer in question argued that his crops

had been cross pollenated and he was not to

blame. Monsanto received no settlement in thiscase. Whats more the court was convinced

that the farmer was trying to steal Monsantos

technology. The farmer harvested his seed

crop from a section he knew was most likely to

have been cross pollenated, and he first used

Roundup to kill plants that had not been. In

either case, Monsanto received no settlement

even though the court agreed that their patent

had been violated because they could showno actual damages, nor prove the farmer

received any benefit.

Its better for people in third world

countries to eat GM rice than to starve or go

blind from vitamin A deficiency.

I cant see any reason why this should be

controversial in any way. As before, there isnt

any evidence that Golden Rice is dangerous,

but there is conclusive evidence that starvation

and vitamin A deficiency are. While taking time

out of your busy schedule to save the planet,

pencil in that poor people are people too, and

they have the same interest in living that you do.

The use of purchased seed has

been going on for years because it workswell for farmers.

Again, Monsanto is often seen as a

culprit here. The truth is that purchasing seed

as opposed to saving part of a harvest has

been going on since before Monsanto got into

the business. Imagine, if you will, how much

time and effort are saved by purchasing seed

every year for a farmer. No longer does he

need to worry about which portion to save or

to be concerned that something might happen

to his seed before planting. A company

simply provides the seed, usually with better

reliability and potency than what could be

taken from his own harvest. Division of labor

can be a good thing.

GMOs do change the way farming is

done, but this seems to be a good thing, not

a bad one. Food production is increased and

use of pesticides and fertilizers are decreased.Thats how technology works.

There was a time when farming itself was

the new technology. A one point a plow was

a new idea. Farmers have been refining their

skills and trying to get better more bountiful

crops from time immemorial. Gene splicing

and cross-species creations may seem strange,

but they are really just the latest in a long line

of advances that have bettered society.

I cant stop anyone from being overly

cautious, and I welcome people to make their

own decisions about GMOs. I hope people

will read through my list of truths and research

for themselves where necessary, but if you

insist on hating GMOs, have at it. Just try not

to hit me in the head while youre doing all

that hand waving.

You can read more from Kelly Colby at yourfirstshrug.blogspot.com.

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