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From an article of the same title on BBCNews.com:

Nearly 60% of Ethiopian women were subjected to sexual violence, including marital rape, according to the Ending Violence Against Women report. Almost half of all Zambian women said they had been attacked by a partner... In addition to violence from partners, the report also condemned what it found to be high levels of institutionalised violence, such as female genital mutilation, estimating that 130 million girls and women had undergone this practice.

The Kickin' Chickens finished the 2006 season today with their fifth straight victory on the wet, frigid, blustery tundra that is the Midland, MI, soccer fields. Elliot scored once. Here are some team photos from this past Tuesday's practice.

On Thursday, 3 of Elliot's friends from school came over for leaf-pile shenanigans. Here are some photos (there are a few more here in the Picasa Web Album):

The boys and I arrived at the end of halftime for todays game between the Timberwolves and Warriors. It was pretty much perfect timing because we didn't have to pay to get in and got there in time for the boys to be the last two kickers in the kids halftime field goal kicking activity. We watched most of the the third quarter before leaving to go to Elliot's last soccer game. Here are some pictures:

I've been using Picasa for a while now for photo organizing, tagging, editing, etc. I really like it. It's slick and free. I recently started using the associated Picasa Web Albums (250 MB of free storage) where I upload some of our photos. Here's a link to an RSS feed for our Picasa Web Album. Picasa Web Albums Feed