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NOT long ago, Sabino Gutierrez of Ontario, Calif., was awarded $1 million in damages by a Los Angeles jury for sexual harassment by a female executive in his company. A Minnesota boy is suing his school for failing to protect him from explicit sexual taunting from other boys. As the saying goes, "What's good for the goose is good for the gander."But sexual harassment isn't good for anyone, regardless of gender -- goose or gander. Unless harassers are stopped and pay consequences, they miss out on meaningful and authentic human relating.

Gena Wilson flicks her hot-pink-polished nails in the air as if, perhaps, finger-painting. But there is no canvas, and what she is doing is “grabbing energy from the air,” she says. Wilson, a licensed clinical social worker, self-described psychic medium and animal communicator, is visiting Dogs & Co., a pet supply and animal wellness venue whose new location in Snowden Center on Oakland Mills Road is large enough to host practitioners including chiropractors and acupuncturists, as well as breed rescue events in its Canine Cafe.

Tired of leftover Thanksgiving turkey? How about a different bird, say a plump Canada goose?The trick is to cook the goose just enough. As with all game, when overcooked it becomes tough, dry and tasteless. It doesn't have the natural fat of barnyard poultry.The bird should be cooked to a golden brown, maybe blackened just a bit in splotches. Probe it with a fork or knife, and if it seems tender and juicy, it's done.You can compensate for the lack of natural fat in a goose when roasting by laying strips of bacon or salt pork over the breast.

How come the gas prices went up every day for the past month and a half when the price per barrel of oil went up, but now the price of a barrel of oil dropped almost $15 and not one gas station has dropped their price per gallon. Someone needs to check on the oil companies and see why prices have not come down and what are the oil companies doing with all their profits. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. If we had to pay when the price went up, we should get the benefit of lower prices when oil prices drop.

While goose hunters in the Atlantic Flyway can expect to pursue resident Canada geese over an expanded season in some parts of the state this fall and winter, hunters elsewhere in the nation will be gunning for migrants.The reason, of course, is that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has suspended the hunting season in Atlantic Flyway states while the flyway's population of migratory Canada geese rebuilds. In the past three years, the number of breeding pairs has increased from a low of 29,000 to 63,000.

Rosemary Muir likes to dress up her goose. A school outfit in September. A tuxedo for formal occasions. A wedding gown when her daughter got married. And, of course, appropriate attire for the appropriate holiday. Muir bought her first and, she thought, her last 26-inch tall, 90-pound concrete goose two decades ago in Ohio and brought it with her to Howard County. Ten years ago, she and her husband took the prized lawn ornament to their new home on South Hanover Street, in South Baltimore's Otterbein.

CHICAGO -- The Goose is hanging in. Jeff Reardon was released last week. Three weeks ago, it was good bye for Dave Righetti and Bobby Thigpen. Dennis Eckersley is struggling: three blown saves and three losses.In Detroit Sunday, Goose Gossage was summoned in the seventh inning. One-run lead, one out, tying and winning runs on base, Travis Fryman and Cecil Fielder coming up. The Goose fanned Fryman. He knocked down Fielder with his first pitch, then struck him out. Two batters, two strikeouts.

I learned firsthand that Canada goose numbers are good in Kent County this year. Thousands of geese were in sight throughout the morning after Thanksgiving Day, as well as pleasing numbers of ducks.The hunt took place on a farm near the Chester River, not far from Rock Hall.Norbert Wagner, who has rented the hunting rights to this wonderful spot along the banks of Lankford Bay for at least a decade, invited me and Dick Broden to join his father, Norbert Sr., Henry Rouseman, Eddie Wood, Tom Thalheimer and Steve McBride to enjoy a morning of waterfowling.

EASTON -- From Chestertown to Trappe, the federal government's new goose-hunting ban was yesterday's hot topic the Eastern Shore. Reactions ranged from sadness and resignation to outright anger."

State officials, concerned that the state's population of migrant Canada geese decreased to its lowest level in 30 years last winter, yesterday said that they plan to cut this fall's hunting season to 30 days as part of a continuing effort to rebuild the flock. The proposed season is half the 60 days possible under guidelines established by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The daily bag limit would be one bird.(Article, 8D)

Nina's Closet Exchange 6375 Ten Oaks Road Clarksville 410-300-0106 Jeanine “Nina” Baumgardner always enjoyed shopping at yard sales and flea markets. So she decided to hang an open sign on her own consignment shop, Nina's Closet Exchange, in Clarksville. Baumgardner, a Columbia resident of 30 years who opened shop in September 2010, calls her place “cozy and family friendly.” The Blue Goose 3715 Old Columbia Pike Ellicott City 410-461-6072 TheBlueGoose@verizon.net Original works by local artists, new and pre-owned home furnishings on consignment and other affordable treasures stock The Blue Goose, in Historic Ellicott City.

It is appropriate that we worry about the 13 people who were caught "Partying on the city's dime" (March 29). But where is the outrage for the "too big to fail gang" of Wall Street bankers who fleeced the common folks, gambled away the lives of so many hard-working citizens and caused world-wide economic robbery? When will they be apprehended and brought to justice? When will we seize their champagne and thwart their unbridled arrogance? An old English verse helps us to understand what is going on: "The law locks up both man and woman who steal the goose from off the common.

Visitors to Columbia's Lakefront promenade have increasingly been confronted by panhandling resident Canada geese, who had stayed away for years, chased by Glenn and Bud, the town's two border collies. But two years after the last dog died, the birds seem to have forgotten they're not wanted. As a reminder, town leaders are preparing to spend up to $43,200 a year to bring in rented dogs from Frederick County. The nonprofit Columbia Association wants to rid its main waterfront at Lake Kittamaqundi of the geese — and their droppings.

Thousands of people braved frigid temperatures and wind-driven snow to jump into the Chesapeake Bay during the 14th annual Polar Bear Plunge - but the second of Saturday's scheduled dips in the water was canceled on doctors' orders. Organizers for the event, a fundraiser for the Maryland Special Olympics, estimated that as many as 15,000 people took quick splashes in the water, which was about 36 degrees, during the first plunge at 1 p.m. Saturday. Air temperature hovered around 23 degrees.

Thousands of people braved frigid temperatures and wind-driven snow to jump into the Chesapeake Bay during the 14th annual Polar Bear Plunge - but the second of Saturday's scheduled dips in the water was canceled on doctors' orders. Organizers for the event, a fundraiser for the Maryland Special Olympics, estimated that as many as 15,000 people took quick splashes in the water, which was about 36 degrees, during the first plunge at 1 p.m. Saturday. Air temperature hovered around 23 degrees.

Your goose is cooked the Inn at 202 Dover What's the deal? The Inn at 202 Dover, located in a historic mansion near downtown Easton, is offering a Waterfowl Hunting package pegged to migratory goose season. Not only will the inn provide accommodations, but it will also have its chef prepare your goose cooked to order for dinner. The package includes room, breakfast, boxed lunch and dinner each night. A one-night stay is $500, two nights is $900 and three nights is $1,250.

Maryland's Department of Natural Resources wants to cut the hunting season for migratory Canada geese to as few as 18 days this fall and winter, a reduction of 65 percent from last season.The cutback is necessary to maintain a viable population of Canada geese in the state, Joshua Sandt, director of DNR's Wildlife Division, said yesterday.The announcement hit hard on the Eastern Shore, where many businesses rely on hunters for economic survival. "I'd rather have been told my wife was cheating on me. I'd like that better than this," said Roger Dye, owner of the Sportsman Service Center on Kent Island.

SMYRNA, Del. -- The only thing hot about yesterday's opener of Delaware's Canada goose season was the weather. Shooting started with record low fall populations matched by the lowest hunter turnout in decades.The only consolation for many shooters was the psychological uplift of filling their bag. But that wasn't too difficult for those who had geese within range, not with a limit of one a day.Maryland hunters looking to Delaware for indications of what is to come when our season opens Nov. 14 have to be disappointed.

David Joseph Kessler, former president and owner of Kessler Shoe Manufacturing Co., whose Mother Goose line of shoes was worn by generations of children throughout the nation, died Monday of heart disease at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The longtime Pikesville resident was 88. Born in Baltimore, the son of an immigrant shoemaker from Europe, Mr. Kessler was raised in Northwest Baltimore. During the 1920s, his father made $40-a-pair hand-turned women's shoes. "They were made so well that you could fold them up and put them in your pocket.

Rosemary Muir likes to dress up her goose. A school outfit in September. A tuxedo for formal occasions. A wedding gown when her daughter got married. And, of course, appropriate attire for the appropriate holiday. Muir bought her first and, she thought, her last 26-inch tall, 90-pound concrete goose two decades ago in Ohio and brought it with her to Howard County. Ten years ago, she and her husband took the prized lawn ornament to their new home on South Hanover Street, in South Baltimore's Otterbein.