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#1 Teresa P
Posted 26 December 2006 - 04:33 PM
What do you love most?
Where do you live?
I'll go first...
Teresa - a wife and mom most importantly
Video and Photography (especially of my girls)
Posted 26 December 2006 - 04:39 PM
I love creative pursuits - scrapping, photography, sewing, painting, drawing, and on and on
I currently live in Hawaii
Teresa - I love this thread! Great way to get to know everybody!
#3 Teresa P
Posted 26 December 2006 - 05:03 PM
We honeymooned in Maui and LOVED Hawaii! How long have you been there? Seemed so pricey but dreamy!
Posted 26 December 2006 - 05:59 PM
Posted 26 December 2006 - 06:33 PM
I'm Ngaire (Pronounced Ni ree) Wife to Dave, and Mum to Kerri, Tania and Pete and Granny to Jessica.
I love lots of things (I truely do Patti!!!) Family and my scrapbooking
I live in Oxford in the South Island in New Zealand. And I LOVE living here.
#6 nlwilkins
Posted 26 December 2006 - 07:18 PM
After my husband and children, I love my cats the most then scrapbooking. (Hee hee I can combine both by scrapping photos of the cats!)
I live in central Texas outside of Flat, a little crossroads on HWY 36
Posted 26 December 2006 - 07:51 PM
I love all things creative, hairdressing, photography, painting etc
I live in Southern NH (NE United States)
Nagire, I have been wondering how to pronounce your name! Now I know!
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference. reinhold niebuhr
#8 suezette
Posted 26 December 2006 - 08:05 PM
I love rubber stamping, scrapbooking, getting together with friends among other things.
I live in Florida and (mostly) love it!
Posted 26 December 2006 - 10:34 PM
My family, they melt my heart every.single.day
I live in Inver Grove Hts, MN, its a suburb of St. Paul
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Posted 27 December 2006 - 02:59 AM
I love my family most. Then I love scrapbooking, music, movies oh and CHOCOLATE!!!!!! oh sorry didn't mean to yell.
I live with my inlaws (yikes) Dh and kids in Ontario Canada.
My Gallery layouts.
New goal to finish a page now and then, even with a new baby.
Posted 27 December 2006 - 07:56 AM
I love my husband, our work, music, my cameras, travelling and my friends!
I live in Gothenburg, on the westcoast of Sweden.
Posted 27 December 2006 - 09:53 AM
I love my son more than life itself and, of course, digital scrapping (mostly photos of Michael).
I live in southwestern Connecticut just over the border from Westchester County, NY.
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Posted 27 December 2006 - 11:42 AM
I love my family, scrapbooking, reading and chocolate.
I live in Murrieta, CA.
Posted 27 December 2006 - 12:13 PM
I love my family, creative pursuits (music and visual arts) but I love our Lord the most.
I live just barely in Indiana, very close to Kentucky and all the bluegrass and barbecue that goes with it.
Posted 27 December 2006 - 05:54 PM
I love my family, being my children's playgroup leader, volunteering in my Lions club, TV, Scrapgirls , board and card games, and spending time with friends and family.
I live in Oregon, in a suburb of Portland.
My Gallery
Posting Goals:
750 by January 31, 2007 (accomplished on January 29!)
1000 by March 15, 2007 (accomplished on March 26, oops, a few days late!)
1250 by oh dear, I really failed on these goals, so... um, whenever lol
Posted 28 December 2006 - 04:09 AM
I love my family more than anything. I love scrapbooking, photography and watching basketball.
I live in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada
Paths clear before those who know where they're going and are determined to get there. -- Leonard Roy Frank
Posted 28 December 2006 - 07:07 AM
I am Gina, wife of Jef and mom to James 15 (finally adopted!!!!), Megan 14 (We just got legal guardianship!), Mandy 16 (She just started talking about adoption!) and Shyanne 2 (probably leaving us in March ) and past mom to 19 others from 2 days old to 17 years old.
I love kids (can you tell?), especially the ones who need a family the most, scrapbooking, reading, and teaching (I currently homeschool for two families).
I live in Park Hills, Missouri, a very small town south of St. Louis
Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ~Author Unknown
#18 emactatty
Posted 28 December 2006 - 07:11 AM
I love my family obviously and I love Scotland especially the Isle of Skye
I currently live just outside London
Posted 28 December 2006 - 08:49 AM
I love my husband and all my children. They are a source of unconditional love that gives me much peace. I love my life, I love my hobby, I love that we are all healthy and happy. I also love my three dogs, even though they get muddy and track it all into the house after I've cleaned it.
I've settled with my husband here in MN after living in 5 different states in 10 years. (NY, FL, IL, NC, CT).
Fun thread!
"Now and then it is good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
#20 sfcgijill
Posted 28 December 2006 - 09:02 AM
I love my family, laughter, and my cat named Dawgie. I love photography even though I'm not so good at it. I love my job, because I'm a data geek who loves to travel. I love scrapping because I get to tell the stories of all the above.
I live in Kentucky for now, we will probably retire here in the fairly near future. Or maybe not. However the wind blows!
Posted 29 December 2006 - 12:59 PM
I love my family, scrapbooking and reading.
We currently live in Rochester, NY, but we will be moving out of state in the next year due to changes in the Army Reserve. My dh is a reservist and works as a civilian for them as well. We both grew up here and we're sad to leave but kind of excited to start somewhere new again. We lived in Lawton, OK the first year we were married because my dh was stationed there but we decided to leave active duty and come home to Rochester. Eleven years later, we will be leaving it again!
Posted 29 December 2006 - 01:15 PM
What do you love most? scrapping, reading, knitting and rv'ing
Where do you live? Pennsylvania
My Gallery
Posted 29 December 2006 - 01:47 PM
I love scrapping, photography, babies, forest fire fighting (I do the waterbombers/airtankers for work)
I live in Kamloops, BC, Canada
Noah is now 2.5 Years Old!!
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. - Mark Twain
Posted 29 December 2006 - 02:08 PM
Paths clear before those who know where they're going and are determined to get there. -- Leonard Roy Frank
Posted 30 December 2006 - 09:30 PM
Noah is now 2.5 Years Old!!
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. - Mark Twain
Posted 30 December 2006 - 09:50 PM
Elizabeth Taylor
Wife to Noel and Mommy to Madison Grace and two kitty cats, Corey and Sadie Mae.
What do you love most?
My family and My Lord
I am addicted to ScrapGirls and enjoy reading, dance and music, and spending time with dd & dh.
Where do you live?
In the beautiful Shenandoah Mountains - Front Royal, VA
Posted 30 December 2006 - 10:58 PM
I'm Valerie, Mommy of 6, Wife, Daughter, GrandDaughter, Aunt, Friend, Welcoming Committee Team Member & a ScrapGirl through and through, .
What do you love most?
My family, friends, God, Scrapbooking, crafting, genealogy, photography and art. .
Where do you live?
In Kelso, Washington.
Yep, that would be me, .
To have a friend is to have a shoulder to cry on, a hand to hold and an extra pair of legs when yours are too weak to stand alone...
I have been living buried in books and writing classes... as an added note I must say that it is rather scary when you start dreaming and all you can see within your dreams is words floating everywhere!
Valerie Lynn Harrell is the published author of a book of poetry, titled "A Little Girl Lost... Was Found Through Her Writing"
Posted 30 December 2006 - 11:52 PM
What do I love most? Life (although sometimes I have to remind myself that... )
Activity-wise: photography, travel, RVing, scrapbooking, writing, watching my kids play sports, homeschooling, watching someone else's kids play sports, reading, singing, genealogy... (I'm sure there's more...)
Where do I live? Madeira, OH (a suburb of Cincinnati)
Fun thread!
Posted 03 January 2007 - 12:09 PM
I love Terry, my three beautiful step-children, my family, digi scrappin', photography, reading and hiking.
I'm from South Alabama.
Posted 03 January 2007 - 02:06 PM
I´m Ela ,mom of 3 kids and wife since 11 years (on march).
What do you love most?
After my familiy i love to reading and play with PSP or/and PS *lolz*
Where do you live?
In Germany but my favorite place i like to live (when im rich) is in the Phillippines
hugs Ela
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"What these words actually spell is horrifying:
"I am yahweh
I am God
Do as I say
Friday - at 4:30 in the morning."
The proof of the message lies in simple math. There are 66 letters and words in the resulting message. The ratio of letters and words in the resulting message to the number of words in the source text is 1.618, more commonly known as the golden ratio or divine proportion, an effort to conceal what we know is the true source of the message. At the end of this section, we have the secret key -- Friday at 4:30 in the morning -- when all school children will awaken to receive their instructions on what they must do next to fulfill the Obama Mission."
I deer hunt north of San Antonio. There is a crazy guy that lives/holds up on an adjacent property. Everytime I see him he always talks about conspiracies. From the normal "Who killed Kennedy" stuff to how Jews are Lizards that brought over pork to poison the American people, how the Frost Bank Tower in Austin will teleport people to Death Valley, CA which will be filled with billions of gallons of burning diesel fuel, how drinking 35% peroxide is the only "medicine" you need, etc. On the 12 hour drive home, I researched many of the big points that were included in the pages of his propaganda packet. My conclusion is that the level of craziness of the people who come up with stuff like this is greatly exceeded by the level of gulliableness of the people who believe them. There was not an original thought in the entire packet, all the crazy stuff was written by someone else and he just repeated it.
If you would read this speech without knowing who read it publically, I hope everyone would agree with the overall message of needing to take responibility into your own hands.


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dj_ultima_the_great wrote:...If there's anything else I haven't addressed, as always, let me know. I can't give you an exact date of when this will be released, but with any luck, it will be shortly after Thanksgiving or at the start of December. Hope that answers everything.
- Jen
Great news.
I'm anxious to the final release.
It's a great pity that they can't finish their tracks, but I can unterstand it cause I also have exams right now, and it's difficult to create a good track with so much things to learn. So I'll keep my fingers crossed for the last tracks and the final mixing!


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Comment Re:Keep up or shut up (Score 1) 785
Definitely. I've worked a couple of jobs where the money offered hit a ceiling for the role, but was able to negotiate an extra week of vacation instead of more cash.
Definitely. I've worked a couple of jobs where the money offered hit a ceiling for the role, but was able to negotiate an extra week of vacation instead of more cash.
They did improve the Ektachrome process. Older Ektachrome slides used the E-4 process and switched to the E-6 process sometimes in the 70s, IIRC.
10.10 uses the 2.6.35 kernel by default instead of the 2.6.32 kernel and it has better driver support than 10.04 (more stuff just works).
And some stuff that 'just worked' in 10.04 no longer works in 10.10.
I read that as "whether they can ask multiple times AT the same volume"... they can ask multiple times, just in a more shouty way. *mental image of some lost python sketch*.
'By 2020, nobody shall be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo.'
By 2020, nobody may be able to afford a new Volvo, so we'll keep driving the 20 year old deathtrap ones.
It depends where you are. Here in Sweden, I can get a mobile broadband stick for free from a provider and get 20GB of bandwidth a month for 199sek.
In fact this is what I use for my home internet, as there is no landline connection to my house. Telia wants 10000sek to install one, so I told them where to stick it
"Big Mac"
"Royale with Cheese"
Lighten up, dude. 'Hatred' is such a strong word; one which I reserve for a small subset of politicians.
of course even though I've only been a politician for a couple of days you might not trust me
Actually the fact that you're not a career politician is *more* likely to make me trust you. You haven't been infected by all the nasty political diseases yet.
I had a similar problem here in Sweden (I'm from the UK). Trying to speak Swedish was met with (generally pretty good) English. I was lucky to find an English speaking job that also paid for me to have private Swedish lessons. Now I get much further into the conversations before they switch to English...
Except... you can't - IKEA is privately owned, not listed on any stock market.
Anyway, I think IKEA chairs break too easily for SB's liking.
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What do people mean when they say let a puppy be a puppy? I think, like many phrases we hear, there is a great variance in what this might mean, to each of us. So often, someone new comes on and asks questions about their puppy, common response is let the puppy be a puppy. Well, I dont think thats particularly helpful. To some, it might sound like let the puppy do whatever it wants for now, just play, have fun, no training, no discipline. To many of us we have learned, BALANCE is key to everything, from day one. Yes, puppies should be puppies. Every day should be fun and learning and developing that bond with their humans. The first couple of weeks especially, pup arrives at completely new, strange home, leaves its littermates and dam, let the pup bond, build trust and relationship with its new people. But I dont think it is a free-for-all or excuse for doing nothing either. Puppies are sponges, that first 4 months especially, is so key to their later development. They can learn so much in this initial period, both good and bad. I like the term shaping myself, at this stage. Teaching the basic stuff like sit, here, heel, their name, all easily done with treats and games. No correction, just teach and reward, shape the behavior. This is really the easy stuff, the fun stuff. No need to push the pup, dont fall into the trap of a timeline or having to have the fastest, smartest pup that knows it all by 12 weeks. This is a shaping period where they are learning to learn. If they sit for a treat now, learn to sit and stay until released for their food dish, learn their name and that running to their human when called means a great treat and getting loved up, that is a very solid base for what comes later. Theres no need to smack a pup into a sit or correct when the obedience isnt super sharp. This is learning and shaping the good behavior, something most of us do as a matter of course.
But what about the bad, the undesired behavior? How many threads on noise alone? How about jumping, biting, scratching, chewing? This is a critical time in puppy development to NOT let the bad start in the first place. Play biting, noise, anything undesired like jumping, all can be, usually, discouraged from the start, by not rewarding, and if pup is persistent, by a deterrent such as a lip pinch, spray bottle, rattle stick, etc. Puppy is chewing table leg, distract pup and give appropriate toy/chew. Pup continues to be persistent in pursuing undesirable objects, teaching, then enforcing, the leave it command will pay big dividends for the pups life in all sorts of ways. Pup is a whiner/barker, learns to bark for attention, interrupt meals, sleep, well, to me, thats one of the biggest no-nos and certainly carries over to all other aspects of training. I have zero guilt about teaching a puppy to be quiet, then enforcing that if and when needed. Same with play biting. People seem to think it funny to show their hands and arms covered with marks from puppy teeth. Me, not so much. Then theres the field stuff, the marks, mark, mark, mark, get them pumped and crazy and throw more marks, bigger marks, no matter what pup is doing at the line or on the way to the line or in the holding blind. Well fix that later. Can take the drive out but not put it back in, which seems to be carte blanche for young dogs to be allowed to scream, dance, jump, snatch birds, chew birds, drag their owners, whatever, who cares, as long as they are doing those big marks, whew boy, well fix the rest later. How fair is that? Balance, always, balance. Desire and marks, of course, but in balance, use that retrieving desire to train and reward the dog vs letting the desire turn the pup into a monster. Why should a barking, whining, noisy pup EVER be released on a mark? Why should a pup who isnt returning reliably at least to the area of the handler be continued on mark after mark, without instilling a decent recall? What exactly is being taught that puppy? That noise and running away with the bumper/bird is good, rewarded behavior.
Am I ruining their puppyhood with teaching and expecting some basic appropriate behavior? I dont think anyone who has seen my dogs at training or events thinks they are abused, or even act like particularly well-trained robots, for that matter. They live in the house, are probably overly coddled in many ways, but basic manners to live here together in a pack, without destroying my house and my sanity, are a must. I find it far fairer to the pup to start out with some basic expectations, appropriate to age/developmental stage, and continue them vs letting a pup run wild, damaging things and people, raising a ruckus, then start with the smackdown later, or worse, having a lifelong battle with steadiness issues, line manners, vocalness, not coming on recall, cant be trusted loose in the house around food or furnishings. Teaching and expecting a certain level from the start is fundamentally fairer to a puppy than thinking one is going to fix that undesired behavior later. I dont think a well-bred field retriever is going to be ruined by instilling some basic manners early on.
I think, as a society, we have become overly conditioned to giving our dogs many human emotions that they just dont have, that puppies are babies to be coddled. I love puppies. Its what I have chosen to do with my life full-time. I live dog, the biggest high of my life is running my dogs. Ive had to learn the hard way that I have done my earlier dogs a huge disservice by not teaching and enforcing certain standards of behavior starting as puppies. Dogs WANT to be part of a functioning pack, it is in their DNA, they want boundaries and guidelines and rules and the less they have, the worse they act. A puppy with appropriate boundaries and obedience is a well-adjusted puppy, confident in its place in the world. A puppy thats just running wild because its being allowed to be a puppy is usually going to be a neurotic adult with behavioral issues, in and out of the field, and is just as unfair as expecting too much from a puppy. Thats what allowing a puppy to be a puppy means to me, teaching a puppy both desired and undesired behaviors fairly, maintaining balance for that particular puppy, building a confident dog that is my companion in the home and field.


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I was considering giving it a try, but I think I'm going to start with different food. MY BLF seems to have allergies. Right now she is on PPP Sport 30/20. Gooing to look into getting away from corn based and try Lamb/ rice formula.
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I agree. It's a sad day when one no longer appreciates a good fat schoolie on a fly rod. That's like someone who can't appreciate an 8" wild brookie in Vermont.
I will contend though that there are those times when quantities of cookie-cutter fish are 'appreciated' for the number of fish as opposed to the quality of fish, and at these times it would probably be better to choose the least damaging technique of angling and/or move on in search of bigger challenges.
Right now (May), the sizes of the stripers are mixed. We are literally catching rats on one cast and keepers or near keepers on the next. We are also driven by the desire to shake off winter's shackles. It's a great time to fly fish and enjoy the school bass, as well as the bonus surprise keeper. These mixed bags tend to sort out by late May/June and the brood fish arrive. At that time there is an opportunity to apply different techniques to target bigger fish away from the schoolie pods.
So I agree completely about appreciation of every striper no matter what size, I do contend though that during mid-season anglers who robotically catch schoolie after schoolie year after year to say they caught 40 or 50 as opposed to hunting one good fish (and perhaps failing) are missing the point IMHO.
BTW - Terry: this really had nothing to do with your initial statement on appreciating every 22" striper... just a mental segue and was not intended to imply counterpoint.
C'mon a 22" Striper IS a good fish
With all the fish reports blasting across the net now, I have to laugh. I can not believe how many guys are reporting Stripers caught in the low to mid 20 inch range casually, as if they are just another 15" schoolie. God I love fish like that on the fly. And whenever I get one you're sure to hear me screaming like an idiot (which isn't very often, I catch one that is).
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Time passed, and the Genius landed a recording contract with Cold Chillin', which, unfortunately, was nearing the end of its brilliant run. In 1991, he became the only future Wu-Tang member to release a solo album prior to the Clan's formation, with Words From the Genius. Produced mostly by Easy Mo Bee, the album flopped badly and, creatively, did little to hint at the Genius' future standing. Conflicts with the label sent the Genius packing, and he reteamed with a similarly disenchanted RZA (fresh off a failed stint with Tommy Boy) and Ol' Dirty B**tard to co-found the Wu-Tang Clan. Adding six other friends and associates, the group became an underground sensation and took the rap world by storm with its 1993 debut, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). Their innovative contract allowed each member to sign a solo deal with whatever label they chose, and the Genius wound up on Geffen. In 1994, his first post-Wu solo track, "I Gotcha Back," appeared on the soundtrack of the film Fresh. His second solo album, Liquid Swords, followed in 1995 and was hailed as a hip-hop classic thanks to its coolly understated menace. While it didn't make him a star on the level of Method Man, the album did sell well, reaching the pop Top Ten and falling one spot short of the top of the R&B charts. There were no big mainstream hits, but the title cut, "Cold World," and "Shadowboxin'" all did well on the rap charts.
Following the Clan's 1997 sophomore set, Wu-Tang Forever, the Genius returned to the solo arena with 1999's Beneath the Surface. While critics didn't praise it quite as lavishly as Liquid Swords, it was another well-received effort (especially compared to some of the lackluster follow-ups elsewhere in the Wu-Tang camp), and it topped the R&B album charts. After reconvening with the Wu for 2000's The W and 2001's Iron Flag, the Genius dropped his fourth solo effort, Legend of the Liquid Sword, in late 2002, consolidating his reputation as one of the most skillful rappers around. Grandmasters, a collaborative project between himself and Cypress Hill DJ Muggs was released in 2005, followed the next year by an instrumental version and then a remix version in 2007. A year later GZA released the solo album Pro Tools on the indie label Babygrande. It featured guest shots from Wu affiliates RZA, Masta Killa, and producer Mathematics. ~ Steve Huey, Rovi
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Scott Amey – (POGO) – February 3, 2012 – Compensation was a hot topic this week–here's a recap of the biggest developments:
Monday: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a study that found that federal employees, on average, are paid 16 percent more than employees in the private sector with the same education.
Tuesday: The White House blogged that the contractor executive compensation cap of $693,951 should be reduced to a "level on par with what the Government pays its own executives – approximately $200,000."
Wednesday: The House passed a bill (H.R. 3835) freezing federal salaries through 2013.
Thursday: The Senate proposed a bill to freeze civilian pay through 2014 and cut the civilian workforce.
You might recall that in 2011, the FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 1540) included a provision that extended the reimbursable compensation cap to all defense contractors (with a large loophole for top-talented scientists and engineers that is ripe for abuse). This might sound good, however the cap is expected to jump to approximately $750,000 (see p. 21) in 2012. Although, one might question that cap because it was based on "commercially available surveys of executive compensation," which included the "5 most highly compensated employees in management position." With the new cap applying to defense contractor employees, it seems top-heavy to use the old formula. (Click HERE for article)
13th ESC commander dies of apparent natural causes in Afghanistan
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Evicted MasterChef New Zealand contestants Serena Edwards and Suzanne Huber are fusing their flavours and opening a series of Euro-Pacifica pop-up restaurants together.
Edwards became the second cook to get booted from the reality cooking show after her attempt at a traditional Mexican meal didn't hit the spot.
"We didn't understand the dish at all," judge Simon Gault said. "I don't know where she's coming from with the flavours. I don't think she's taken us to Mexico."
Josh Emett felt the same way, saying: "I think in simple terms she doesn't have a clue what she's doing."
Edwards said she had cooked Mexican before, but the traditional flavours threw her.
"It's a weird sort of taste, Mexican doesn't really appeal to me."
The former social worker quit her job to go on the fourth season of the top-rating programme, earning her spot with a pineapple passion delight cake taught to her by her Tongan/Samoan/German mother.
The single mother-of-two shed a lot of tears during her brief time on MasterChef.
She says the waterworks were triggered by thoughts of her family.
"(I get emotional) when it comes to thinking about my parents because they've passed on now," she said.
"They're really dear to my heart."
While she would have liked to extend her MasterChef appearance, Edwards puts it all in perspective.
"I've been through a lot in my lifetime. You've got to be tough. Being a single mum, I've had to work hard to get where I am."
Edwards' foodie plans have flourished beyond the show. She has cooked up an idea with the contest's first evictee, Austraian-born Huber.
"MasterChef was just a small slice of the pie and the dream," Edwards said.
"My speciality is Pacific cuisine and Suzanne's speciality is European ... we're going to be combining our cuisines and start cooking."
They're hoping to share their fusion menu with Aucklanders from next month.
* MasterChef New Zealand screens on TV One on Sunday nights. www.nzherald.co.nz will interview every contestant as they are eliminated.
- nzherald.co.nz


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Extended Families: Our Greatest
There are many family situations
today where you can find three, four or even five
generations living under one roof. While the
circumstances that result in multi-generational living
vary from financial to health-related to simple family
closeness, families who choose to live together face
initial periods of adjustment. Many of these family
members ultimately find their relationships strengthened
by their mutual experiences and their patience in
dealing with many issues at once. These issues may
include serving as the main caregiver for an older
relative, grandparents raising grandchildren and adult
children having to rely on their parents for financial
support due to job loss or disability. Others choose to
live together by choice, as a way to keep the close-knit
ties intact, and as a way to help each other when needed
by being in the same household.
Those who maintain such a close relationship recognize
the benefits of continued contact with the members of
their extended families. There are, however, many
families that cannot see each other nearly this often.
Whether it is due to the large geographic distances
between them, or due to their hectic daily schedules,
losing contact with your family is a loss that can never
be recovered. With a little time and a little planning,
however, it is possible to maintain these links. Here
are several ways to help maintain closer ties between
extended family members.
Hold a Reunion
Many families hold regular or irregular reunions, be it
once a year, once every other year, or a few times
during each year. These get-togethers, which can be held
at a family members' home, a central point that all can
reach, or at a travel destination such as a cruise trip
or at Disney World, are a unique opportunity to visit
with closely related and more distantly related members
of the extended family. Many families have reunions with
the various parts of their family every year. Everyone
has a great time "catching up" with each other. Everyone
usually has fun, and they come away with a greater sense
of how lucky they are to be part of such a special
group. Pictures or video-camera movies are taken at
these events, which preserve the memories for years to
Vacation Together
This may seem like something that you might NOT wish to
do, but it can be a lot of fun, if you all work together
and understand from the beginning that there may be a
few rough moments along with the great ones. By
vacationing together, you have a great opportunity to be
even closer to everyone in the extended family. Although
you can plan many group activities, make sure to spend
some quality time alone, or with your own nuclear
Interview or Videotape a Conversation With an Older
You will be fascinated with the stories that you uncover
and can pass on to subsequent generations if you take
the time to listen. Not only do you learn more about the
person and what they endured in their lifetime, but you
also get a firsthand account of an earlier time from
someone who was there. You can "interview" your relative
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name on the family tree, but had a real connection to
your relative in their daily life. You can also
videotape your relative and ask a number of questions
about their childhood, thereby also learning more about
your parents and grandparents. These tapes and
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By Lena Mitchell/NEMS Daily Journal
IUKA – The issue of whether liquor, beer and light wine will be legally sold in Tishomingo County was settled in a special referendum election last week, with legal sales winning out.
The county voted by the slimmest margin to come out from under the state's dry law and also to permit the sale of beer.
Local officials must now enact appropriate ordinances for businesses to be licensed, which is likely to take some weeks.
However, even before legal procedures are in place, people on the pro side and those who fought against legalization continue to act.
The state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board holds jurisdiction over both content of alcoholic liquor ordinances and permits to sell. Any business desiring a permit must run a legal notice in the local newspaper to give opponents a chance to file objections with the ABC board, and as of Friday the Tishomingo County News had not received any such legal notices, according to an employee.
However, beer permits are governed by the municipal ordinance in which beer is to be sold, and local municipalities have yet to craft and enact ordinances.
Despite that, at least two of Iuka's four gas station/convenience stores say they will apply for a permit for beer sales: the corporate-owned Shell gas station and locally owned BP gas station. Handy Sandy, also locally owned, has not yet decided on a course of action. Exxon station owner Taft Little of Litco Petroleum in Corinth declined to comment.
Pastor Lance Foster of Iuka Church of Christ said he and other ministers remain opposed to alcohol in any form, and they will be keeping a record of changes in the county as a result of introducing alcohol to be prepared for a future vote.
"I've lived in both wet and dry counties and don't believe this is best for our county," Foster said. "We want to look at this thing logically, from a future standpoint. Every few months we'll put together a report, what promises did come through, what didn't, projections on tax income, DUIs. We're going to keep up with that ourselves so when this thing comes up again we're going to have a war chest built up."
Asked for their opinion about the way the vote went, several Iuka residents who said they don't drink said they felt the tax money from alcohol should stay in the county.
"I voted for it," said J.D. Smith. "It's time for a change, and I just hope we'll get some industry on this end of the county."
The Citizens Coalition for a Dry County, comprised of pastors and business leaders, plan to push for restrictions on how alcohol and beer are sold, said spokesman Pastor Tony Curtis of Fifth Street Baptist Church.
"We're going to continue to work within the city and county," he said. "I think we lost the election because of the sheer fact that so many people in the community thought we had it. I've heard from dozens of people, and we're going to work faithfully within the law to make sure there are restrictions. We want to protect our families, our kids, don't want them exposed it. We're going to work one day to have another vote."


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What you will need:
- tie
- fabric scraps
- needle
- thread
- buttons
- felt scraps
- scissors
Step 1: Create the Snake Body
Choose how long you want your snake to be, then cut the bottom of the tie off (the small end).
Step 2: Create the Snake Eyes
Cut two small circles out of felt and sew the buttons on top of the felt circles.
Step 3: Sew on the Snake Eyes
Choose the placement of the eyes on the front of the tie, then sew them into place.
Step 4: Stuff the Snake Body
Cut up your fabric scraps and start to push them inside of the tie. This should be fairly easy to do on a wider tie. I used a ruler to push the fabric scraps down the length of the tie. If the body part of the tie's stitching starts to pull apart, just hand stitch it closed again.
Step 5: Sew the Snake Head
Once the head portion of the tie is full of fabric scraps, hand-stitch it closed.
Step 6: Sew the Snake Tail
Fold the tail end of the tie into a triangle shape and then hand-stitch it closed.
Step 7: Sew the Snake Tongue
Cut a red scrap of felt into the shape of a forked tongue and then sew it into place under the snake's head.
Step 8: Surprise Your Child!
Give your kiddo his/her new toy snake and teach him/her how fun upcycling can be!


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This morning my Troop and I stood in a snow filled gully. The crisp mountain air and the smell of pine filled the air as our Chaplains Aide raised his hand in the Scout Sign, the signal for all to prepare for the Scouts own service.
I stood patiently to the side as he read a passage about failure. To sum it up.. you are only a failure if you fail to learn, to get back up, to try harder next time.. you are only a fail if you make a choice to be a failure. I thought this lesson was both timely and significant to our Troop this weekend.
You see, this weekend was not a failure, in fact it was full of success stories. There were challenges that presented themselves and were over come. There were Scouts that from one winter camp out to the next demonstrated significant gains in knowledge, skills, and the attitude toward camping in the snow. There was one Scout in particular that seemed to put it all together and had what I considered his very best camp out… ever.
Success breads Success.. once Scouts start to see that they can be successful, they strive for more and more. It is my job as a Scoutmaster to set the conditions for that success.
That is not to say that I do the work or make it easy for them, rather it is to say that I provide an environment that the Scouts are constantly learning. BORING.. right.. WRONG.. Our class room is a snow drift of Mt. Hood, a walk on the beach, a trek on the PCT.. our class room is adventurous and challenging and it forces young men to discover themselves and each other, it calls for them to be able to make decisions, not for themselves but for the good of their patrols, it asks of each young man to push their limits and have fun where they thought they couldn't.
Baden Powell summed up this idea of Scouting in three words; Fun, Boy Led, and Simple.
I think we over burden the Scouts when we stray from those three principles that have brought Scouting to where it is today.
90 page Troop policy books on how and when to turn in a Spoon checked out by the Quartermaster, over hyped rules that counter the simple nature of a Scoutmaster Conference, Troop committees that are burdened with rules and policies that do nothing to support Citizenship, Character, and fitness.
It is as simple as a few notes on a 3X5 card pulled out of the pack of a Life Scout on a crisp Sunday morning.
So Success or failure? You fail when you stop learning. You fail when you stray from the basics of program, you fail when you stop trying to deliver the promise to all these great young men. You fail when you do not take the time to listen to a young man deliver a Scouts Own service in the woods surrounded by his buddies. He gets it… so should we.
I am so fortunate and Proud to be the Scoutmaster of my Troop. They surprise me, make me think, engage me, and make me see things for what they really are.
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Family: Percidae, Perches and Darters view all from this family
Description The snail darter (Percina tanasi) is a small (up to 9 cm long), rare fish found in the waters of East Tennessee. It is a variety of darter which feeds primarily on aquatic snails.
The snail darter was initially native only to the Little Tennessee River. It was discovered in 1973, and subsequently was at the center of a legal controversy in which construction of the Tellico Dam was delayed due to concerns that it would extirpate the species. The snail darter was declared an endangered species in 1975 under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973; this halted construction of the dam for two years, until an amendment to the Act officially exempted Tellico. The snail darter was later introduced successfully to the Hiwassee River. On July 5, 1984, its status was lowered to threatened.
Dimensions Up to 3" (7.5 cm).
Endangered Status The Snail Darter is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as threatened throughout its range in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. This little fish became the focus of a legal controversy in 1977 when its status as an endangered species delayed construction of Tellico Dam in the Tennessee Valley. Congress eventually passed legislation exempting that dam project from the Endangered Species Act. The dam was built, and the darters habitat there was completely destroyed. The controversy, however, activated studies and reintroduction efforts, and new populations of the fish were discovered, and others were established. In 1984, the species was downlisted from endangered to threatened.
Habitat Rivers & streams.
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France 1859 – 1891
The little peasant in blue (The jockey)
[Le petit paysan en bleu (Le jockey)] c. 1882
oil on canvas
canvas 46.0 (h) x 38.0 (w) cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris , Gift of Robert Schmit 1982
© RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
Towards the end of the summer of 1881, Seurat stayed at the small village of Pontaubert in Burgundy with his friend Edmond Aman-Jean. According to the art critic Félix Fénéon, who owned this painting, the subject of the canvas is a young boy from the region.1 It was likely that Seurat returned to Paris with the painting and completed it the following year. Seurat and Aman-Jean had met while studying at the atelier Henri Lehmann—a prerequisite to their enrolling at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Both had suffered under the 'iron rule' of Lehmann. Emphasis on line and drawing was the hallmark of Lehmann's teaching, while colour was considered an ornament. Because of their rigid and backward-looking studies, Seurat sought inspiration elsewhere.
The work has been known as both The little peasant in blue and The jockey.2 The influence of the Barbizon master Jean-François Millet was particularly notable in Seurat's art of the early 1880s. Millet had depicted peasants working in the fields; herding animals, reaping crops, and had also portrayed workers breaking stones. Seurat followed suit. This painting, unlike many of Seurat's scenes of peasants, does not show the young boy actively toiling in the fields. Instead, the small figure simply stares out at the viewer, devoid of character, his features reduced to the essentials. Supporting the alternate suggestion that the subject is a jockey, the youth is dressed in a blue coat with a white high collar, which could be racing silks; and he could be wearing a jockey's cap.
In April 1879, along with his friends Ernest Laurent and Aman-Jean, Seurat visited the fourth Impressionist exhibition at 28 Avenue de l'Opera. The art students experienced an 'unexpected and profound shock' in response to the work they encountered, ultimately leading to the abandonment of their studies with Lehmann.3 The exhibition effected Seurat's development in the early 1880s in terms of his brushwork, adoption of colour and subject matter.
While there is an emphasis on the silhouette for his figure, Seurat has adopted a palette of blues, green, flesh-pinks and browns, applied with cross-strokes of the brush. This criss-cross brushwork, which Seurat termed 'broom swept' (balayé), suggests the influence which the New Painting methods of Impressionism had on the young Seurat, and which would lead him in new directions for the remainder of his short life.
Jane Kinsman
Text © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2009
From Masterpieces from Paris: Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin and beyond Post-Impressionism from the Musée d'Orsay exhibition book, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2009
- Robert L. Herbert, Françoise Cachin, Anne Distel et al., Georges Seurat, 1859–1891, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1991, cat. 80, pp. 115–16.
- The catalogue raisonné for Seurat' paintings, C.M. de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre, Paris: Gründ 1961, vol. 1, cat. 16, p. 10, lists the work as follows, Le petit paysan en bleu. Hermann Jedding in Seurat, Milan: Uffici Press c. 1950, p. 10 gives the title as Le jockey.
- In that exhibition, Degas had works on his modern-day theme of a race course. Léon Rosenthal, 'Ernest Laurent', Art et décoration, vol. 29, 1911, p. 66. The Impressionists were described as 'nevrosés' ('loopy'), while the effect on the young art students was 'un choc inattendu et profond'; see also William Innes Homer, Seurat and the science of painting, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press 1978, pp. 51–4.


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We all know, feet are made for walking and a dog and cats are no different; but did you know your pet's paws are also made for protecting? Yep, his pads are there to provide extra cushioning to help protect his bones and joints from shock, provide insulation against extreme weather conditions, aid him while he's walking on rough terrain and help protect tissue deep within his paw. With all that hard work to do, it's no wonder your cat and dog's paws often take a bit of a battering.
So, if you love your pet and want to keep his paws in tip top condition, take a look at my tips below. Your pet will be ever so grateful.
Winter Woes: Rock salt and chemical ice melters can cause sores, infections and blistering to your dog and cat's paws. Toxic chemicals can also be ingested by your dog and cat when he licks his paws. After your pet has been outside, wash your paws in warm water to rinse away salt and chemicals.
Foreign Objects: Items such as pebbles, small shards of broken glass, pieces of ice and other debris can become lodged in your pet's pads. These can usually be removed safely and gently using a tweezers. If in doubt, call your vet.
Get out the Moisturiser: Your pet's paw pads can become cracked and dry. Ask your vet to prescribe a veterinary moisturiser – do not use a human one – and massage into your pet's paws. Start by rubbing and massaging the veterinary moisturiser between the pads on the bottom of the paw and then move between each toe. For Dogs only Vaseline is also a great barrier against salt so rub it onto your dog's paws before each walk. Cats may lick the Vaseline so you need to ask your vet if it is ok to use on cats or ask them what they would recommend for cats.
Doggy Exercise: Your dog loves exercise but if you're about to begin a new regime, start off slowly. His paws may be sensitive, especially after a hard winter, and they can become chaffed or cracked; so take this into consideration before you bring him on long hikes or runs. Be conscious to avoid hazards such as broken glass and other debris when walking your dog. Do keep this simple tip in mind—if you don't like to walk barefoot on glass or other sharp objects, then neither will your dog!
Safety First: It's not unusual for dogs and cats to suffer cuts or other wounds from accidentally stepping on glass, debris or other objects. Wounds that are smaller than a half inch in diameter can be cleaned with an antibacterial wash and wrapped with a light bandage. For deeper paw cuts, see the vet for immediate treatment.
Prevention: To reduce the risk of injury, keep your garden clear of pointy bits and pieces.
Pamper With Pedicures: Your dog's nails should just about touch the ground when he walks. If nails are clicking or getting snagged on the floor, it's time for a pedicure. Ask your vet or groomer for advice about what types of nail trimmers are best for your dog and how to use them properly. Better still, have your vet do it for you. If you have a cat please check with your vet first before you trim any of their nails. Cats naturally scratch their claws to keep them short so cats generally do not need their claws trimmed. Your vet will give you the best advice about cats.
Snip and Trim: In order to avoid painful matting, trim your pet's paw hair regularly. Simply comb hair out, especially from between the toes, and trim even with the pads.
(c) Miriam Kerins, Education Officer, DSPCA


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- MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (2007)
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Neurology (2011)
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Neurology (2012)
Board Certifications
- American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology / Neurology-General (2011)
- American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology / Vascular Neurology (2012, 2017)
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Research Summary
Intracerebral hemorrhage, or bleeding in the brain, is a devastating neurological event. Hemorrhages can be large (hemorrhagic stroke), often occurring in people with high blood pressure, and resulting in disability or death in up to 50% of cases; or tiny (cerebral microbleeds), leading to progressive problems with thinking and memory. Dr. Marsh's research focuses on identifying the modifiable risk factors that are most closely associated with intracerebral hemorrhage, with the long-term goal of targeting 'at risk' patients for prevention. The studies include the following:
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- Clinician Scientist Award, Johns Hopkins , 2012
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Keeping Previous Stroke Patients from Becoming Inpatients, NeuroNow (Spring 2015)


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Comedian Jeremy Hotz likes to ease into his New Year's goals.
"I was going to start to really concentrate on making a New Year's resolution for next year. That's my New Year's resolution," the famously miserable standup star said in his signature anguished tone during a recent telephone interview.
Might that resolution involve being happier onstage?
"I don't think that's ever going to happen," Hotz groaned.
In the meantime, the Ottawa native can be seen in the Comedy Network's new original series "Just for Laughs: All Access," which debuts Monday at 10 p.m. ET.
The show features highlights from comedians at Montreal's Just For Laughs Festival, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.
Hotz appears in Episode 4 on Jan. 28 as well as episodes on Feb. 11, March 11 and March 25.
Other comics who perform in the series include "Saturday Night Live" cast member Bill Hader, "Community" star Joel McHale, and Jack McBrayer of "30 Rock" fame.
"For me, it did everything," Hotz said of the Just for Laughs festival. "It got me quite a bit of notoriety and it made me sort of an international star because they sell the product all over the world.
"It is the most important comedy festival in the world. It's the international one and it's a major feather in your cap if you get that festival. Especially if you're coming out of Canada, you really need that festival."
Hotz has performed at the festival countless times since the 1990s, when he co-starred in the CBC-TV series "The Newsroom."
He was also a writer for "The Jon Stewart Show" and has won Gemini and Canadian Comedy Awards.
Hotz's "Just for Laughs: All Access" segment on Jan. 28 finds him in his famous pose (his right hand over half of his face to appear distressed) and putting a pessimistic touch on topics including crows, public transportation and how he's been mistaken for Nicolas Cage.
"That really happened," Hotz assured over the line from his home in Los Angeles.
"In America, from far away, people seem to think that. And then they get up close and go, 'Nah, he looks more like Klinger from 'M.A.S.H.'"
Hotz fans can hear more of his griping when he kicks off the Canadian leg of "Jeremy Hotz: The Magical Misery Tour" Feb. 19 in St. John's.
The show will touch on "getting older and not realizing that you're not indestructible anymore," said the 49-year-old, who lives with his 16-year-old dog.
"You walk around and you still think you're, like, 21 and then you look in a mirror and you go, 'Who the (hell) is that guy? It's not you.' Everybody thinks they're somebody else inside their head. Mirrors are really bad for people."
The so-called "master of misery," who's been performing standup for two decades, said he's writing new material more quickly than ever these days.
That's because his standup bits become stale the moment they hit social media, YouTube and TV specials.
"It's a good thing. I don't mind that," said Hotz, noting he's also improvising and playing off the audience more than ever.
"You have to do that. And I write better that way, just right there, when there's all that pressure and they're staring at you.
"I walk an amazing tightrope onstage now," he added.
Hotz is also busy co-developing a TV series with the Laugh Factory comedy club in the United States.
And in the fall, he'll be seen in a new season of HBO Canada's Halifax-shot comedy series "Call Me Fitz," starring Jason Priestley.
His character, Leonard, is a struggling social worker and new father who has a big secret.
"Leonard is an extension of me," said Hotz. "He's a man who's very put-upon. I wouldn't call him miserable. I think he's profoundly disappointed."


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Lastly, I bought a Briley choke for skeet, eh, didn't really help up my scores impressively. Expensive choke I thought may help my sucky skeet skills.
But I think a extended choke may really make this little gun versatile.
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Paul Graham has a new piece on spam is different. He also includes my comment in response.
I have great hopes for word-based (or "Bayesian") scoring. Paul's arguments for why it will work seem convincing to me. In particular, keeping per-user word lists should help enormously with two big problems: the ability for spammers to "optimize" around a common scoring scheme; and differing opinions about what constitutes spam.
I still think there may be a role for trust, but it's also possible that scoring by itself will work so well that adding trust isn't really necessary. In any case, I'll do my best to write up my ideas for using trust to beat spam.
Bram and I had a great discussion about anti-certs. He is exploring the space of adding anti-certs to the trust computation, but is finding it complex. Many of the proposals would seem to require vastly greater computation than the simple eigenvector and network flow models I've proposed.
The leading alternative to that seems to be a way to use anti-certs as input to a process which removes positive certs from the graph. If you disagree with the ratings of user X, it might be interesting to analyze the influence of X on ratings transmitted to you through the graph, then remove your local edges which carry the most influence from X. In general, this boils down to optimizing edge weights. Lastly, anti-certs don't have be about individual users (nodes in the graph). They can be about ratings you disagree with. You don't really have to know where the bogus ratings come from, as long as you know how to tune your local edges to minimize them.
As always, a big part of the challenge is presenting a sensible UI. I've made the Advogato UI for certs as simple as I know how, and the user community is supposed to be sophisticated, yet it seems that many people can't manage to do certs and ratings the way they're supposed to be. Bram's anti-cert UI is straightforward to implement. In addition to "Master, Journeyer, and Apprentice", you'd just add one or more negative categories.


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well i will be leaving here in a couple of hours i hope that everything goes good. Kinda worried about the rain and all down there. I hope they do not cancel the test because of the weather. Anyway i will let you guys know how he does.
well i will be leaving here in a couple of hours i hope that everything goes good. Kinda worried about the rain and all down there. I hope they do not cancel the test because of the weather. Anyway i will let you guys know how he does.
Good luck, weather could be an issue but i hope it doesnt affect the test! Have fun!
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Good luck. Remember to have fun and relax.
Mark, Peyton's Touchdown Pass (JH) and Peyton's Sun-loving Baby Bindi (Troublemaker)
im assuming your running a started hrc test.i have only played this game 3 years but have seen a couple tests . ive seen those distances ,but ive also seen much much shorter distances also.. good luck and just have fun, you and the dog... let us know how it turns out!!!!!
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Well i just thought i would let you guys know that we did not pass. We did great on the land marks but he refused to get the water marks even after he swam almost all the way out to them. I dont know what happened. He is usually really great and i have never had any problems with im in the water before. I guess it is going to take some more work. I have until feb to get him ready for the next test and i hope by then he is doing great.
Sorry about not passing, but dogs are dogs and you never know which one comes out of the truck. Don't let it get you down. Just keep working at it and join a local club and train with a group. That will make all the difference.
Sorry about you not passing but you learned a valuable lesson. "A DOG IS A DOG IS A DOG" I like to tease the folks running under me in AKC that a $2.00 can of BLACK spray paint will improve a choco dawgs IQ by 50 points......LOL. The game should be FUN and a pass or fail is not a life or death situation. Did I mention HAVE FUN this game is intended to be fun. You might as well have fun as for sure your dog will.
My Dad said to me ."Son, a man just needs three things to be happy....A good dog, a good gun and a good wife.....Thank God I have all three
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Sorry to hear that. Yep a dog is a dog. Me and my dog failed a season test so bad one time that I was so embarrassed that I walked off the line offering to sell him for $10. He's now a hrch, etc. Had toearn to keep my temper in check and that there's always next time. Good luck and keep trying
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Sorry to hear that you didn't pass.
I was going to ask when you hadn't posted after the test, but I kind of figured what had happened. Don't worry, Peyton and I failed out on our first three test, the first she never even made it to the first bird. We then went 4 for 4 after learning what to prepare for. Just keep up the training and hunting and by February, you will see a huge difference in the confidence both of you have in each other. Four months is a l-o-n-g time in a young retrievers life.
Good Luck,
Mark L.
Mark, Peyton's Touchdown Pass (JH) and Peyton's Sun-loving Baby Bindi (Troublemaker)
Your training needs to come out of the comfort zone, a known location where all your training has occurred, and expose your dog to different elements found at a hunt test. Training with a hunt test training group will allow you to work your OB and line manners in a venue that allows training and correction. Also its a great time for a live flyer for a young dog. Once at a hunt test you will be limited in what you can teach.
I always find areas to improve from a hunt test. You can expect that all the way into Master or Finished. You will even find no matter how hard you try, the training group enviroment will never emulate a real hunt test. As long as your dog has been on a live bird and with real birds, go to the hunt test and expect to come out of there with two to three things to work on before the next test.
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VIDEO: The trailer for Twelve
It's before noon on a Saturday and I'm at the Glass Slipper, the 22-year-old strip-club fixture in Chinatown, sitting on a step in an upstairs Champagne room, where patrons can purchase a half-hour-long private dance (usually accompanied by an overpriced bottle of bubbly). Behind a gleaming brass pole atop a wooden stage, a man lazily squirts window cleaner onto a large mirrored wall, wiping over it with a paper towel. Three women lounge at the otherwise empty bar, smoking and idling over newspaper crossword puzzles. The room is silent until Megan Summers, 32, a petite woman with brown curls, yells "Cut!" and a crew springs to life from booths lining the room — adjusting equipment, applying extra make-up, and shifting camera angles. "You guys should be, like, bitchy," she instructs the actresses at the bar.
Summers is directing a 10-minute film short (she wrote the script, too), and is attempting to finish shooting over the course of a whirlwind weekend. Her movie is one of 12 that'll be woven together — in the big-screen equivalent of a patchwork quilt — into a multifarious, feature-length motion picture called Twelve. Scott Masterson, a Salem-based independent filmmaker, dreamed up the project this past winter, drawing inspiration from an indie artist of a different discipline. "Sufjan Stevens is trying to record 50 albums, one for each state," notes Masterson. "And that sort of gave me my idea: do one film for each month."
To help execute his calendar-guided endeavor, Masterson recruited 11 other individuals from Boston's film community, assigned each person a month of 2007, and gave them only one rule: each 10-minute chunk of this eventual 120-minute film must feature a shot of a chosen tree — on which Summers has carved the name "Kilroy," a "we were here" symbol from the crew — in the Fens, right behind the Museum of Fine Arts. The final cut of Twelve will move chronologically through the year, with the tree serving as a barometer of the seasons passing. (Masterson hopes to screen the film locally sometime next spring and, after that, enter it in as many film festivals as the group can afford.)
Gone, baby, gone
Every month, the Twelve crew meets once to brainstorm and plan for upcoming shoots, then again to actually film that month's segment. The weekend of Summers's shoot is in October, though her assigned month was July. Summers originally filmed her portion on schedule, but then disaster struck and, in a nightmarish set of circumstances not unlike a computer suddenly and inexplicably erasing a paper the morning it's due, the master copy of the film went missing during a moving mix-up. Now, Summers is redoing everything, with a sense of déjà vu and a vague goal to make it look like July — a task made harder by the fact that, on the gray Saturday they shot their tree scene in the Fens, the cast and crew were surrounded by an array of crunchy orange and yellow leaves.
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16 Sep / What I'm Eating Now…
As the healing cycle continues, I find myself drawn to chicken & wild rice soup with toast. Not very exciting, but it's what I'm loving right now.
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