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The Calvert Gazette Thursday, December 22, 2011 16 Kiddie er n Kor CLUES ACROSS 1. Angry 4. Mr. Claus 9. Minerals 11. Gluten-free diet disease 12. Nickel-cadmium accumulator 14. Day or rest & worship 15. King of Magadha (273-232) 16. Satisfy an appetite 17. Stage signal 18. Durable aromatic wood 19. Something used to lure 20. Actress Basinger 21. A rare and exceptional person 24. Quick head movement 25. Yeddo 26. Mythological bird 27. Root mean square (abbr.) 28. Chart of the Earth’s surface 29. Fish eggs 30. Recto 37. The cry made by sheep 38. Pitcher 39. Supports climbing plants 40. Arbitrager 41. Winglike structures 42. Singer Ross 43. Belonging to Barney & Betty 45. “Promises” author Wendi 46. Swindles 47. In widespread existence 48. Those opposed to 49. Used to be U___ CLUES DOWN 1. Grace’s Principality 2. No longer seated 3. Translate into ordinary language 4. Point that is one point E of SE 5. Linen vestment worn by priests 6. A B vitamin 7. Ryan O’Neal’s daughter 8. Dull steady pain 10. Seaport on Osaka Bay 11. Cowpunchers 13. Mend a sock 14. Ship’s canvas 16. Aformentioned 19. Big man on campus 20. English actress Stark 22. Malaria mosquitoes 23. Many subconsciousses 26. A scrap of cloth 27. Cry loudly 28. Actress Farrow 29. S. Korean Pres. Syngman (1948-65) 30. Rectangular grooved joint 31. “___ the night before Christmas” 32. Male parents 33. Earlier in time 34. Rampart of felled trees 35. Scoundrel (Yiddish) 36. Pencilmark remover 37. Danish ballet dancer Erik 40. Blood clams genus 41. Subsititutes (abbr.) 44. Spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan Last Week’s Puzzle Solutions
17 Thursday, December 22, 2011 The Calvert Gazette Sp rts Fur and Feathers By Keith McGuire Contributing Writer I’ve been hearing reports from Calvert, Charles and St. Mary’s counties that the firearms season for our region was dismal. I can vouch for that! The deer just seemed to disappear when the guns came out – more so than usual. Sure, there were some lucky hunters who bagged really nice bucks with their guns, and quite a few does as well. The local deer processing facilities report that numbers of deer brought in for butchering are less, but very nearly the same as they were last year. As I sat in the woods throughout the season, there were not as many blasts punctuating the woodland symphony as there seemed to be last year. Last Friday, Maryland DNR released the preliminary harvest totals for the 2011 firearms season. Overall, the harvest is up slightly from 2010, but in our region the overall total is down by about 1% (according to them). Statewide the total harvest from the regular firearms season was 41,421. In 2010 the total was 40,694. The totals for the tri-county region 2011 Regular Firearms Season are as follows: County Antlered Antlerless Total 2010 Total Calvert 243 549 792 704 Charles 555 1085 1640 1878 St. Mary’s 379 839 1218 1304 The Junior Firearms Season was 2 days long this year – for the first time ever – and the harvest for this season alone was up by 47%. Twenty of the State’s 23 counties allowed hunting on Sunday on private land during the junior season. The statewide total harvest for the Junior Firearms Season was 3,014. In 2010, 2053 deer were harvested by juniors. The breakdown for the tri-county region Junior Firearms Season is as follows: County Antlered Antlerless Total 2010 Total Calvert 32 30 62 30 Charles 61 62 123 79 St. Mary’s 48 50 98 42 Last Saturday, instead of being in the woods for the beginning of the late segment of the Muzzleloader Season, I found myself at an afternoon holiday party. There was not a single hunter or angler there besides me, so I was a little out of my element. One very nice lady asked me if I knew of a way to get more deer to her back yard. She loves to watch them and has had little success at attracting them to stay. She has tried apples and even a salt lick. The apples rot where she puts them – even hanging from a string – and the salt lick dissolves away in the rain. Now, I really hate to tell people how to attract deer to their backyards because those who do often regret their actions when they discover how deer love to eat Deer Harvest flowers and rub the bark from small trees and shrubbery. Still, the lady persisted, so I told her to coat her salt lick with molasses or one of the concoctions sold in sporting goods stores for this method of attracting deer. If that’s not enough, buy several bags of “deer corn” (which is little more than shelled corn) and spread that corn on the ground. Autumn harvest “ear corn” will also work. Then I reminded her that deer are very nocturnal creatures, but when fed and not disturbed, she could expect to see them at all times of day or night. Deer are fascinating creatures to watch. A few years back, I used these methods to attract deer to my own back yard until my better half – a devoted gardener – taught me the error of my ways. If you have a particularly interesting hunting story and a picture, please drop me a line at riverdancekeith@gmail. com. If you have a particularly interesting hunting story and a picture, please drop me a line at riverdancekeith@ gmail.com. Ah those summer days of fishing! A View From The Bleachers By Ronald N. Guy Jr. Contributing Writer A s s e m b l e all NFL teams together and, like every schoolyard, you’ll find a sample of styles covering the entire athletic continuum. The awkward and uncoordinated (the Colts and ‘Skins), the talented but unfocused (the Cowboys), the naturally gifted and elegant (Green Bay) and even the bullies are represented. There are many teams claiming territory in this latter group, but there’s only one true NFL playground thug: the Pittsburgh Steelers. No sports franchise personifies its city more accurately than the Steelers. The franchise’s name and logo were, obviously, derived from the local trademark steel industry, but the team’s cultural connection with the region is far deeper than these superficial indicators. Western Pennsylvania is synonymous with Appalachia, rugged, resilient Americans and steel. Similarly, as far back as the early 1970s and the famed Steel Curtain defense, Pittsburgh has proudly been one of the NFL’s tough guys. Stingy defenses, hard hits and bluecollar, no-nonsense players have been the hallmark of Steelers football for 40 years. The organization long ago adopted a successful formula that, like a good family recipe, they’ve stubbornly maintained without compromise. They draft and develop their own players and have little use for free agents who’ve been corrupted with another, non-Steelers culture. They seek out “steel”- minded, hard-nosed coaches that embody the “Steelers way “, show them uncommon loyalty – they‘ve had but three coaches since 1969 – and empower them to run the football operations. It’s a business model, a franchise and a style of play I’ve admired for many years. That admiration, despite the team’s on-going success, is starting to wane. Savage Amusement Violence, an innate aspect of football, is under assault. League rules regarding hits on quarterbacks and defenseless receivers has been redefined; the powers-that-be in the NFL have absolutely zero tolerance for helmet to helmet hits and NFL headhunters who lead recklessly with the crown of their helmets. As one might suspect, such violence legislation and its enforcement has been met with great resistance from fans and players alike. Every Sunday fans erupt over perceived dubious personal fouls and players cry to their union over league-levied fines for illegal hits. Ground zero for this battle between old school football ops and the new school neutering of defensive aggression is Pittsburgh, Penn. No team has gotten more publicity for its blackout hits and fines than the Steelers. The new rules fly in the face of everything the Steelers are and team and fans are united in their angst. I was with them for a while. Now my answer to Black and Gold nation’s gripes is “too bad.” The truth is violence follows the Steelers. If you watch a team against any other opponent and then watch them against the Steelers, you’ll see two different brands of football. The Steelers are like the attitude-laden co-worker who brings out the worst in everyone around him or her. Watch a Steelers game and you’re probably going to see someone from the other team knocked senseless and stagger off the field. And for the most part, football fans – Steelers fans or otherwise – love it. That is sad commentary on the lack of basic humanity pervading society and stands on Sundays. Our ignorance of the long-term impact of concussions is long gone. There should be a collective intolerance for players who blatantly and habitually hit opponents high and disgust, not barbaric celebration, when someone’s husband, father or son is knocked senseless. For whatever reason, such play follows the Steelers and in this battle of wills, the NFL will, thankfully, prevail. The Steelers will conform… eventually. Their style represents football’s past, the league’s approach its sustainable, safer future. In the movie Gladiator, an enslaved Maximus continues to win the favor of his captors and fans for his victorious acts of violence in arranged battles. In a poignant moment, Maximus, irritated by the bloodthirst of spectators seeking savage amusement, hurls his sword at his captor’s perch. The act was met with catcalls and prompts an annoyed Maximus to yell, “Are you not entertained?” In that moment Maximus, as the great human conscience, captures exactly how I feel about Steelers football. Am I entertained by Steelers football? Not anymore. Send comments to rguyjoon@yahoo.com
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