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A little long but well worth the read.
A little long but well worth the read.
"The thing I admire about the rat tail is that it takes commitment. It's not like one day you just decide you want one, you have to grow out that bad boy and you have to repeatedly convince the hairdresser to trust you because it's a great idea."
continued...Cowards, Mass Murders And The American Public 17dec12
Let's be honest; we're not surprised anymore. We're no longer surprised when some pathetic, pitiful coward attacks a school or mall full of innocent men, women and children. Maybe we were shocked this time, but only because the victims were so young. These incidents have become so commonplace that when we see a headline or breaking news alert about the most recent mass shooting, we just shake our heads and say, "Jesus Christ, not again." And then we wait for the next one.
This time the murderer outdid most others, and his victims were younger than usual. But all the other factors were depressingly predictable: an unstable man, semiautomatic weapons, helpless victims with no defense other than hope. As is often the case, the murderer committed suicide rather than fight the police or face legal punishment. As usual, we see gut-wrenching video of parents crying out in unimaginable grief, police officers with heavy body armor and assault rifles maneuvering around a school as if it were an enemy blockhouse, and crime scene tape roping off areas where hidden dead lay.
And we see, in every case, calls from well-meaning people for something to be done, anything, to protect the innocent. They demand new security measures: mandatory visitor sign-ins at schools, cameras, metal detectors, "gun free zones", and of course, restrictions on firearms. These ideas and measures aren't new, and they're not effective (we've now learned that the Newtown shooter simply shot his way through Sandy Hook Elementary's locked doors). After a mass murder, students or patrons are made to feel safer with expensive but empty displays of improved security. Those warning signs, cameras, new laws or metal detectors rarely improve safety.
Now I'll ask you to put yourself in the shoes of an intended victim of an active shooter.
You're having lunch with your family at a mall food court. It's a pleasant afternoon, no different than any other day you've visited the mall. Bored, unarmed security guards on Segways patrol the walkways. You barely notice them as your family discusses your son's upcoming school play.
Suddenly you hear a scream. You look toward the sound and see a woman running in terror. At first you're just curious; you aren't sure what's happening. Then you hear gunshots. Rapid gunshots, six or seven in a row. Dozens of people are suddenly on their feet, running and screaming.
You follow your first instinct and drop to the floor with your family. The gunshots keep coming. You hear the high-pitched crash of tables and chairs being knocked over by fleeing shoppers. Looking under tables, you see motionless bodies strewn about the floor. Everyone you see who's still on their feet is running. Everyone, except one person.
One pair of legs is walking slowly, with determination, turning back and forth. You can't see the upper body above the tables, but with every gunshot, a shell drops by the pair of legs. You're looking at the shooter. Your breath catches in your throat as you have a sick realization: he's moving toward you. Toward your family.
Adrenaline saturates your blood. You force yourself not to panic because you know your family needs you now, more than ever. You grab your children and pull them close. A desperate thought crosses your mind, and you know it's fantasy even as you think it.Is someone making a movie or something?
Ten feet away, a woman and child are huddled under their table. The woman screams, "We've got to get out of here! Oh my God, we've got to get out of here!"
You look toward the shooter's legs. They're closer now, maybe thirty feet away. You stay silent, not sure if the woman is right. Should you get up and run, or stay where you are?
Near the shooter, a shrill voice shrieks, "No, please! Don't shoot me!" The man answers with gunshots. Another body falls to the floor.
The woman ten feet away grabs her child's hand, lurches to her feet and runs. A voice yells "Bitch!" and more shots are fired, four or five in no more than two seconds. You hear something heavy and soft slam to the linoleum floor. A child's voice screams in terror. Another shot is fired, and the scream is silenced.
You look to the shooter. Less than twenty feet away. He takes another step in your direction. You don't know if he's seen your family yet, but if he hasn't, he will soon. You close your eyes, say a prayer to your God, and make your decision.
I'd like you to ask yourself a question about the situation I just described: what measures could have protected you and your family?
Cameras? No, video just helps with the investigation after the fact. Metal detectors? Maybe they would have deterred the man from choosing that mall, but let's be realistic. Malls aren't going to put metal detectors at every entrance, they're not going to become mini-airports with customers waiting an hour in line to get in. They'd lose all their business.
What about the "gun free zone" sign on the wall? That obviously didn't work. People who plan on committing mass murder followed by suicide could care less about getting in trouble for illegally carrying a gun. Unarmed mall cops? They can call the police, but that's about it. Gun control? As I heard a wise man say recently, "That genie is already out of the bottle". Making new laws won't eliminate guns already out there.
What about calling the police yourself? As a cop, I can tell you the phrase, "when seconds count, the police are only minutes away", isn't a joke. Unless one of us happens to be right there when the shooting starts, the first officers will arrive several minutes later to find many citizens murdered and one coward dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
So what is the only realistic defense available to you and your family? Armed, trained citizens. Hopefully, many armed, trained citizens. Armed citizens who can be anywhere, unlike the limited supply of police and security guards.
Much of the American public will have a knee-jerk reaction against this idea. People will say, "How can you expect a civilian to go up against some heavily armed, psychotic killer? Civilians aren't trained for that."
Maybe they're not, but they're there, with a gun. A half-trained guy with a weapon who is on scene and ready to take action immediately is worth more than a highly-trained SWAT team that arrives thirty minutes later. If you're under the food court table watching as a murderer approaches your family, would you prefer to wait five minutes for the first patrol officer to arrive? Or would you rather have some fifty year old used car salesman with a concealed handgun license attack the murderer before he reaches you? I'll take the car salesman over the cop, because the car salesman is there when I need him.
Aside from that, we should keep in mind that most active shooters aren't well trained. No special training is needed to shoot defenseless people. We've seen evidence in many shootings that the murderers really didn't know how to handle weapons. In Aurora, Colorado and Portland, Oregon, the shooters opened fire with military-style weapons and then had no idea what to do when the weapons malfunctioned. In both of those cases, they just dropped the rifles. One of the Columbine shooters used his very cool-looking, sawed off, pistol grip shotgun to kill one victim. When he fired it, the weapon recoiled, hit him in the face and broke his nose. This isn't the mark of a skilled shooter. We shouldn't act like active shooters are Delta Force ninjas. Many can barely operate a weapon, and all are cowards.
I've used the term "coward" several times, and I don't think the importance of this fact can be overstated. These people are the epitome of cowardice. They don't want to fight anyone; they want to murder people who can't fight back. Shooting a bunch of unarmed people might take nerve but not bravery.
Typically, these murderers commit suicide as soon as they're confronted. Saturday we heard media reports that the Newtown shooter fled into a room as soon as he saw police, quickly shot several more children and then shot himself. One of the Columbine shooters traded shots with a police officer outside the school, then ran away; both shooters shot themselves before police made entry. Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech murderer, shot himself as soon as he heard police officers enter the building. What is the likelihood that the typical active shooter will fold as soon as an armed citizen opens fire on him? My gut reaction is that it's pretty high.
But people will still object to the idea of armed citizens responding to active shooters. Another issue that will be raised is, "If private citizens try to fight back against an active shooter, they might accidentally shoot an innocent person. So they shouldn't try it."
They're partly correct. There is a chance a civilian could shoot an innocent person in the confusion of an active shooter incident. A highly trained police officer might make that mistake too (remember the recent New York City shooting?). However, you'll have a hard time convincing me that's worse than allowing a murderer to fire dozens of rounds into a mass of innocent people.
Let's invent a series of seven hypothetical active shooter situations. In each situation, ten people are murdered. That's seventy victims. Now, let's inject an armed citizen into each situation. The armed citizens manage to stop the killing after three people are murdered. That's twenty-one victims. Now let's say the armed citizens accidentally kill an innocent person in every situation. That's twenty-one victims killed by the murderer, plus seven killed accidentally by the armed citizens. Twenty-eight victims total, versus seventy.
"The thing I admire about the rat tail is that it takes commitment. It's not like one day you just decide you want one, you have to grow out that bad boy and you have to repeatedly convince the hairdresser to trust you because it's a great idea."
What are your thoughts?Granted, this is a hypothetical. But I think it illustrates my point well enough. Even with a possible additional risk of friendly fire, it's still better for armed citizens to respond to active shooters.
We recently heard a public sports figure claim that had he been in the Aurora, Colorado theater during that shooting, he would have preferred to have been unarmed rather than shoot back. This is because "fighting back would have just added to the carnage". I cannot even begin to understand this thinking. A man walks into a theater and opens fire into the crowd with an assault rifle, and shooting back would somehow make things worse? Is it better to just allow the murderer to keep shooting innocents until the police show up, or he runs out of ammo, or gets bored and stops firing? What about the basic right we all have to defend ourselves, and our families? What about doing what any real, brave man or woman would do, stepping up to defend the defenseless?
Next objection: "We can't tell civilians to fight back against active shooters. If there are two guys with guns running around, how are the police supposed to know who the bad guy is when they arrive?"
Fair point. We cops won't know who the bad guy is when we arrive. But we do know not to assume that everyone with a gun is a bad guy. We train for that. We understand that we may encounter off-duty cops in plain clothes, armed civilians, security guards, even people carrying illegally but still trying to help. We may make a mistake and engage the wrong person. That's the reality of lethal, armed encounters, and there's no way to eliminate that risk. But that doesn't mean people shouldn't take action to defend themselves, their families and innocent people around them.
I've attended several Law Enforcement Active Shooter training courses, and was an assistant instructor for a few years. In addition to helping teach many classes, I also had the opportunity to participate in advanced training scenarios, and to play the role of an active shooter in numerous training exercises. I'm no expert on how to deal with an active shooter, and there are police officers who will disagree with me; however, in all the training I attended and instructed, I never saw a single reason why armed citizens can't effectively respond to an active shooter.
This subject requires a 500 page research paper to fully explore, and I won't inflict that on you. However, I'd like to leave you with some final thoughts.
We see pathetic cowardice from murderers in every active shooter incident. We don't need to see cowardice disguised as virtue from the intended victims. Refusing to take action against a brutal murderer isn't "exercising good sense"; it's relying on nothing more than hope. We've seen that hope fail in tragedy after tragedy.
Someone once said, "Violence is rarely the answer, but when it is, it's the only answer." When a coward opens fire on a crowd of innocent people, new laws and passive measures have failed; immediate, massive violence returned toward that coward is the only answer. The only people who can inflict that violence are those right there, in his path.
My dream is that committing mass murder becomes too dangerous of a proposition for anyone to even consider it. My dream is that the American public stops putting responsibility for their own lives into someone else's hands. My dream is that every useless loser who thinks he'll "be somebody" by carrying out a massacre changes his mind, because he knows he'll be shot down like a rabid dog within seconds of trying it. My dream is to see multiple armed citizens mow down every sorry excuse for a human being who tries to commit a mass murder. In the end, this righteous response is the only thing that will end the threat from these cowards.
"The thing I admire about the rat tail is that it takes commitment. It's not like one day you just decide you want one, you have to grow out that bad boy and you have to repeatedly convince the hairdresser to trust you because it's a great idea."
I think you make a valid point but the whole "death by cop" issue comes to mind. Guns and the people that use them will continue to be blamed for the exceptions while ignoring the norm.
Right close to your home, Russ.
UBA tiny Texas school district may have been the first in the nation to pass a law specifically allowing teachers and staff to pack heat — in 2008.
Trustees at the Harrold Independent School District approved a district policy change in 2007 so employees can carry concealed firearms to deter and protect against school shootings, provided the gun-toting teachers follow certain requirements.
Superintendent David Thweatt told FOXNews.com the policy was initiated because of safety concerns.
"We have had employees assaulted before by people in the last several years," Thweatt said. "I think that safety is big concern. We are seeing a lot of anger in society."
He wouldn't comment further on the nature of the assaults.
The Texas superintendent linked gun-free zones with the uprising of school shootings in recent years.
"When you make schools gun-free zones, it's like inviting people to come in and take advantage," Thweatt told FOXNews.com.
In order for teachers and staff to carry a pistol, they must have a Texas license to carry a concealed handgun; must be authorized to carry by the district; must receive training in crisis management and hostile situations and must use ammunition that is designed to minimize the risk of ricochet in school halls.
Thweatt said the small community is a 30-minute drive from the sheriff's office, leaving students and teachers without protection. He said the district's lone campus sits 500 feet from heavily trafficked U.S. 287, which could make it a target.
The kindergarten through 12th grade school district is home to 110 students.
Thweatt said officials researched the policy and considered other options for about a year before approving the policy change. He said the district also has various other security measures in place to prevent a school shooting.
"The naysayers think [a shooting] won't happen here," Thweatt said. "If something were to happen here, I'd much rather be calling a parent to tell them that their child is OK because we were able to protect them."
He told FOXNews.com he doesn't think students will think twice about the new policy.
"I hope they forget all about it," he said. "We want them to pay attention [to their school work]."
Texas law outlaws firearms on school campuses "unless pursuant to the written regulations or written authorization of the institution."
While the district's plan shot them into the national spotlight, carrying guns to school is nothing new some states. In Utah, the law allows anyone with a permit to carry a gun in public schools and state institutions of higher education.
It was unclear how many of the 50 or so teachers and staff members are armed because Thweatt did not disclose that information, to keep it from students or potential attackers.
Wilbarger County Sheriff Larry Lee did not immediately return a call placed to his office by FOXNews.com.
Barbara Williams, a spokeswoman for the Texas Association of School Boards, said her organization did not know of another district with such a policy. Ken Trump, a Cleveland-based school security expert who advises districts nationwide, including in Texas, said Harrold is the first district with such a policy.
The district is 150 miles northwest of Fort Worth on the eastern end of Wilbarger County, near the Oklahoma border.
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I think he is spot on! I would rather die trying to save lives and protect my family than be curled up on the floor next to my family waiting to be shot!
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Why Can't Schools Secure Themselves?
Dear Laissez Faire Today Reader,My inbox has been slammed with notes concerning the killings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. Given the accessibility of information, and the pace at which it travels, people have treated this event as not just a case of a ghastly local crime, but much more than that, a signal and a wake-up call to the culture at large.
Jeffrey Tucker
There is no harm in such reflections. The 500-year-old trend toward ever less violent societies -- a trend that continues to go in the right direction in our time -- should be pushed further in the right direction through education and cultural change.
Still, it might be beneficial to ask more focused questions about the problem of security at schools in particular.
In the days that followed the killing, my browser kept taking me back to a Wikipedia link about the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990. The law, still intact after many challenges and rewrites, reads: "It shall be unlawful for any individual knowingly to possess a firearm that has moved in or that otherwise affects interstate or foreign commerce at a place that the individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone."
Guns of all sorts are banned anywhere near schools. If the government's laws had worked, this killer would have realized that his plan was unachievable. After all, the world's most powerful government had banned the whole idea of guns at school.
But the law did not work, at least not as intended. On the contrary. The killer could be pretty sure going into this that he would be the only one at the school with a gun.
Think of this: Schools in particular have been singled out as a place without the ability to defend against violence. The law has been challenged and revised and debated ever since, but the bottom line stands. Have school shootings declined? Most major shootings now occur in gun-free zones, and nearly twice as many since the act passed than in the 20 years prior. (See the full list.)
People have wrongly tended to reduce the debate to more gun ownership or more gun control. It's clear where the Obama administration wants to take this: toward more centralized control and fewer gun rights. The right responds by pointing to the example of Israel where teachers are heavily armed. That's the choice the mainstream gives us.
Actually, the framing of the whole debate is wrong. It is not about whether teachers should be armed or whether guns should be banned for everyone but state-employed cops. The real issue is whether any institution in society is going to be in charge of its own security, and not be forced to obey the government's plan.
Schools face a problem not different in kind from any other issue of security affecting banks, convenience stores, jewelry stores, theaters, homes, or churches. All these institutions are constantly threatened with violence from random sources. They must all make judgments about the risk of violence and how best to deal with it. There is no one aggregate solution that applies in every case. Each institution needs to determine security for itself.
Just days after Sandy Hook, a shooter attempted to gun down people at the Mayan Palace Theatre in San Antonio, Texas. An off-duty deputy whipped out her own gun and blasted him before the killer could reenact the rampage at the movie theater in Aurora, Colo. This is probably the first you have heard about this precisely because the tragedy was averted. The institution will learn from the event and respond in a way that is rational and not injurious of human rights and liberties.
Because school killings engender special social outrage, legislators made them an exception, and this was before airports and airlines received similarly treatment 11 years later with the creation of the Transportation Security Administration. Guns of any sort, unless carried by a cop, were not permitted to be part of anyone's security solution. The federal government knew best, even to the point at which the federal law trumped state laws on guns.
Does this figure into the calculation that would-be killers make as they plot their malicious acts? Certainly. Advertising a place as gun-free by law is an invitation to killers. The law says to them that if they can get in, they will have a monopoly on violence. No efforts at defense will be available on the premises to protect the teachers and the kids. I don't see how it could be controversial to suggest that this law is a very bad idea.
To be sure, these killings might have happened anyway. Dealing with violence was the last thing on anyone's mind in this quiet and prosperous community school. All the events might have transpired as they did regardless. The point is that the law removes viable options for the school in dealing with security concerns. It says: We, the government, know what is best, and our way is the only way.
This is a terrible way to deal with any issue of security.
I am not saying that the school in question should have armed the teachers, the principal, or the students. What matters is who is in charge of security. What kind of incentives does the surety of the absence of effective security grant would-be murders?
Think of this in the case of your home. Let's say your community passed a Gun-Free Home Act. Is such a law going to be something taken note of by would-be intruders? Is a criminal going to be more or less likely to enter a home knowing with certainty that all law-abiding citizens will not have the means to protect themselves?
Some people might respond that they don't want to live in a society in which school administrators have to carry weapons. I completely agree. But wishing does nothing to deal with the problem of anti-social behavior on the part of a tiny minority. A tiny group is capable of ruining the social order for the rest of us, which is why we need mechanisms in place to deal with them.
It's true in every aspect of life, whether our homes or online forums or banks or schools. Ownership is what allows the security calculation to be rational. Without private property, the destructive element rules.
In the online world, these people are known as trolls. In the online world, they can't be violent, but they can wreck a good thing. A forum that cannot control them or kick them off is not long for this world. If the federal government had pass the No-Troll Act as a way of securing online communities against them, the forums would be all destroyed by now.
It is right and proper to wish for a society of perfect peace. But it is also very smart to have institutions in place that deal with those who do not want peace. Traditionally, people have relied on government to provide this service. This is a grave mistake. Security is inseparable from private property and the institutions of the market economy.
The reason violent crime has fallen by 65% since 1993 has not been government. It has been the private sector's creation of advanced technology in the hands of private enterprise: surveillance cameras, private security, alarm systems, increasingly sophisticated systems of screening, and so on. Guns in the hands of private owners have been part of that solution.
The best path forward for schools in particular is to get out from under the protection of government and be put on the same status as regular commercial establishments. Private establishments that own and control their own space provide better security.
Whenever any institution is singled out for special protection by government and called too important to manage itself, that institution needs to worry about its future. That's why the ultimate solution to public school violence is the full privatization of security and of the schools themselves.
At the very least, we need a repeal of the laws that make it impossible for schools to find their own solutions to the threat of violence. In the name of human rights, security needs to be privatized, whether government likes it or not.
Keep safe,
Jeffrey Tucker,
The Laissez Faire Club
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On teachers, I'm not sure if arming them is the answer or not, especially if they haven't ever handled one and aren't comfortable with them but I darn sure don't think we should DISarm the ones that have or want a carry permit.
"The thing I admire about the rat tail is that it takes commitment. It's not like one day you just decide you want one, you have to grow out that bad boy and you have to repeatedly convince the hairdresser to trust you because it's a great idea."
Couldn't agree more. Without question, when the school boards see fit to approve of teachers being 'armed', they would require plenty of proof that the teacher was capable of using a firearm. I doubt even the Israeli teachers that carry a slinged rifle, are anything but 'capable' using that weapon; but then that teacher had also spent time in their military, so what they already learned about weaponry was just being put to continued usage.
Coulter: We know how to stop school shootings
By: Ann Coulter
In the wake of a monstrous crime like a madman's mass murder of defenseless women and children at the Newtown, Conn., elementary school, the nation's attention is riveted on what could have been done to prevent such a massacre.
Luckily, some years ago, two famed economists, William Landes at the University of Chicago and John Lott at Yale, conducted a massive study of multiple victim public shootings in the United States between 1977 and 1995 to see how various legal changes affected their frequency and death toll.
Landes and Lott examined many of the very policies being proposed right now in response to the Connecticut massacre: waiting periods and background checks for guns, the death penalty and increased penalties for committing a crime with a gun.
None of these policies had any effect on the frequency of, or carnage from, multiple-victim shootings. (I note that they did not look at reforming our lax mental health laws, presumably because the ACLU is working to keep dangerous nuts on the street in all 50 states.)
Only one public policy has ever been shown to reduce the death rate from such crimes: concealed-carry laws.
The effect of concealed-carry laws in deterring mass public shootings was even greater than the impact of such laws on the murder rate generally.
Someone planning to commit a single murder in a concealed-carry state only has to weigh the odds of one person being armed. But a criminal planning to commit murder in a public place has to worry that anyone in the entire area might have a gun.
You will notice that most multiple-victim shootings occur in "gun-free zones" — even within states that have concealed-carry laws: public schools, churches, Sikh temples, post offices, the movie theater where James Holmes committed mass murder, and the Portland, Ore., mall where a nut starting gunning down shoppers a few weeks ago.
Guns were banned in all these places. Mass killers may be crazy, but they're not stupid.
If the deterrent effect of concealed-carry laws seems surprising to you, that's because the media hide stories of armed citizens stopping mass shooters. At the Portland shooting, for example, no explanation was given for the amazing fact that the assailant managed to kill only two people in the mall during the busy Christmas season.
It turns out, concealed-carry-holder Nick Meli hadn't noticed that the mall was a gun-free zone. He pointed his (otherwise legal) gun at the shooter as he paused to reload, and the next shot was the attempted mass murderer killing himself. (Meli aimed, but didn't shoot, because there were bystanders behind the shooter.)
In a nonsense "study" going around the Internet right now, Mother Jones magazine claims to have produced its own study of all public shootings in the last 30 years and concludes: "In not a single case was the killing stopped by a civilian using a gun."
This will come as a shock to people who know something about the subject.
The magazine reaches its conclusion by simply excluding all cases where an armed civilian stopped the shooter: They looked only at public shootings where four or more people were killed, i.e., the ones where the shooter wasn't stopped.
If we care about reducing the number of people killed in mass shootings, shouldn't we pay particular attention to the cases where the aspiring mass murderer was prevented from getting off more than a couple rounds?
It would be like testing the effectiveness of weed killers, but refusing to consider any cases where the weeds died.
In addition to the Portland mall case, here are a few more examples excluded by the Mother Jones methodology:
– Mayan Palace Theater, San Antonio, Texas, this week: Jesus Manuel Garcia shoots at a movie theater, a police car and bystanders from the nearby China Garden restaurant; as he enters the movie theater, guns blazing, an armed off-duty cop shoots Garcia four times, stopping the attack. Total dead: Zero.
– Winnemucca, Nev., 2008: Ernesto Villagomez opens fire in a crowded restaurant; concealed carry permit-holder shoots him dead. Total dead: Two. (I'm excluding the shooters' deaths in these examples.)
– Appalachian School of Law, 2002: Crazed immigrant shoots the dean and a professor, then begins shooting students; as he goes for more ammunition, two armed students point their guns at him, allowing a third to tackle him. Total dead: Three.
– Santee, Calif., 2001: Student begins shooting his classmates — as well as the "trained campus supervisor"; an off-duty cop who happened to be bringing his daughter to school that day points his gun at the shooter, holding him until more police arrive. Total dead: Two.
– Pearl High School, Mississippi, 1997: After shooting several people at his high school, student heads for the junior high school; assistant principal Joel Myrick retrieves a .45 pistol from his car and points it at the gunman's head, ending the murder spree. Total dead: Two.
– Edinboro, Pa., 1998: A student shoots up a junior high school dance being held at a restaurant; restaurant owner pulls out his shotgun and stops the gunman. Total dead: One.
By contrast, the shootings in gun-free zones invariably result in far higher casualty figures — Sikh temple, Oak Creek, Wis. (six dead); Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. (32 dead); Columbine High School, Columbine, Colo. (12 dead); Amish school, Lancaster County, Pa. (five little girls killed); public school, Craighead County, Ark. (five killed, including four little girls).
All these took place in gun-free zones, resulting in lots of people getting killed — and thereby warranting inclusion in the Mother Jones study.
If what we care about is saving the lives of innocent human beings by reducing the number of mass public shootings and the deaths they cause, only one policy has ever been shown to work: concealed-carry laws. On the other hand, if what we care about is self-indulgent grandstanding, and to hell with dozens of innocent children being murdered in cold blood, try the other policies.
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Family: Tyrannidae, Tyrant Flycatchers view all from this family
Description ADULT Has olive-gray upperparts (Alder's upperparts are usually subtly greener). Has faint pale eyering (on average, less distinct than Alder) and pinkish orange lower mandible. Wings are dark with pale fringes to inner flight feathers and two white wing bars; tail is dark (wings and tail slightly longer in Alder). Underparts are pale with pale olive wash on chest. JUVENILE Similar to adult, but with buffy wing bars.
Dimensions Length: 6" (15 cm)
Endangered Status The Southwestern Willow Flycatcher, a subspecies of the Willow Flycatcher, is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as endangered in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. Destruction of the dense streamside thickets that it nests in has dealt a serious blow to this species. Another problem has been nest parasitism by cowbirds, which lay their own eggs in the flycatchers' nests, to the detriment of the flycatchers' own broods. Predators, especially those that feed on eggs, have also contributed to this small bird's decline.
Habitat Fairly common summer visitor (mainly May-Aug) to damp woodlands and often associated with its namesake tree. Winters in Central and South America.
Observation Tips Best identified with certainty using voice; fortunately, like Alder, sometimes sings on migration as well as on breeding grounds.
Range Great Lakes, Northwest, California, Southeast, Florida, Mid-Atlantic, New England, Texas, Southwest, Rocky Mountains, Plains, Western Canada
Voice Song is a harsh, buzzing fzz'Byew; call is a sharp whuit.
Discussion Widespread woodland flycatcher. Best separated from Alder using voice. Occurs as several subspecies: eastern birds (described in detail below) are almost identical to Alder; western ones (outside range covered by this book) are subtly browner and darker. Feeding habits similar to those of Alder: engages in aerial sorties after flying insects from perches near top of trees; also hovers and gleans insects from foliage. Sexes are similar.


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"Honduran Elections": A Parody on Democracy - Laura Carlsen | December 7, 2009
Please Check the Americas Program website for urgent fundraising appeal. -Rick
Available in translation: "Elecciones en Honduras", una parodia de democracia
Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)
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Just post your drafts and lets see who does the best. Stop dumping on the hard work people put in.
Trades make this frigging impossible....but why not! Through it together this morning, hopes are not particularly high.
1. Kansas City Chiefs: Eric Fisher, OT, Central Michigan
2. Jacksonville Jaguars: Luke Joeckel, OT, Texas A&M
[Detroit Lions trade up with Raiders]
3. Detroit Lions (via Raiders): Ziggy Ansah, DE, BYU
4. Philadelphia Eagles: Lane Johnson, OT, Oklahoma
5. Oakland Raiders (via Lions): Shariff Floyd, DT, Florida
6. Cleveland Browns: Geno Smith, QB, West Virginia
7. Arizona Cardinals: Dion Jordan, DE/OLB, Oregon
[St. Louis Rams trade up with Bills]
8. St. Louis Rams (via Bills): Tavon Austin, WR, West Virginia
9. New York Jets: Barkevious Mingo, DE/OLB, LSU
10. Tennessee Titans: Dee Milliner, CB, Alabama
11. San Diego Chargers: D.J. Fluker, OL, Alabama
12. Miami Dolphins: Tyler Eifert, TE, Notre Dame
13. New York Jets: Star Lotulelei, NT, Utah
[New York Giants trade up with Panthers]
14. New York Giants (via Panthers): Jonathan Cooper, G, North Carolina
15. New Orleans Saints: Kenny Vaccaro, S, Texas
16. Buffalo Bills (via Rams): Ryan Nassib, QB, Syracuse
17. Pittsburgh Steelers: Jarvis Jones, DE/OLB, Georgia
18. Dallas Cowboys: Chance Warmack, G, Alabama
19. Carolina Panthers (via Giants): Sheldon Richardson, DT, Missouri
20. Chicago Bears: Manti Te'o, ILB, Notre Dame
[Indianapolis Colts trade up with Bengals]
21. Indianapolis Colts (via Bengals): D.J. Hayden, CB, Houston
[Philadelphia Eagles trade up with Rams]
22. Philadelphia Eagles (via Rams): E.J. Manuel, QB, Florida State
23. Minnesota Vikings: Cordarrelle Patterson, WR, Tennessee
24. Cincinnati Bengals (via Colts): Eric Reed, S, LSU
25. Minnesota Vikings: Xavier Rhodes, CB, Florida State
[Atlanta Falcons trade up with Packers]
26. Atlanta Falcons (via Packers): Tank Carradine, DE, Florida State
27. Houston Texans: Justin Hunter, WR, Tennessee
28. Denver Broncos: Bjoern Werner, DE, Florida State
[Jacksonville Jaguars trade up with Patriots]
29. Jacksonville Jaguars (via Patriots): Matt Barkley, QB, USC
30. Green Bay Packers (via Falcons): Justin Pugh, OL, Syracuse
31. San Francisco 49ers: Sylvester Williams, DL, North Carolina
32. Baltimore Ravens: DeAndre Hopkins, WR, Clemson
Not a good start to my mock draft that I had to change the first two picks...FML.
Remember no editing when the Chiefs are on the clock.
This is going to be a crazy draft fellas.
I have 6
No one in the world had Dallas' pick...lol
5 :( forgot to switch Luke and eric before the draft
Don't worry about it. Impossible task.
I got 10, couple I wish I hadn't switched out...specifically after having Floyd fall all the way to the Vikes....


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Finally upgraded to more modern technology, namely from a P2/233MHz to a P4/3GHz machine. Now slowly moving everyday tools and projects...
robocoder: Just rated your diary as 1, since it's unreadable anyway. Do you sell microscopes, by chance?
Couldn't get the <wiki> tag to work, either.
In contrast to what we've seen in some posts and articles over time, the SourceForge staff DOES care about their service and its users, proven by the fact that Jacob reacted to my recent posting.
Working for a big German portal & communication services provider, I'm well aware of the implications of running a BIG service used by many users over a day.
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Considering savannah or berlios.
Yes, no more PPT!
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Budget room 5 min from central station
Size8 m²
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You'll be in good hands. I'm an experienced host and I've welcomed hundreds of happy guests from all over the world. If you doubt, take your time to read the reviews below :)
The room is located 5 min walk from the main bus station and less than a 10 min walk from the main train station ! The main streets of Oslo and several tourist attractions can also be reached by foot within few minutes. The room is located less than 5 minutes from the main bus station (very convenient if you are taking the shuttle bus or train from the airports).
If you're on a budget, this is the place to stay. The price is lower than what you would pay in a hotel or hostel in the same area, but there is more to this place that can save you money on your Oslo trip. There is a low price supermarket in the same street where you can buy cheaper food. Furthermore, you can also reach many attractions by foot – no need to buy expensive tickets. And finally, if you book with me, I'll give you some additional tips that will save you time and money on your Oslo trip – guaranteed ;)
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- Comfortable double bed
- Table / desk and chair
- Internet connection
- Modern bathroom with heated floor (shared)
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- Towels and bedsheets provided
- No direct access to kitchen, but you'll have your own microwave and some plates / cups at your disposal, just as an extra service :)
- You can drink as much coffee and tea as you like.
- No hidden fees or extra costs, except the mandatory Wimdu fee.
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The room is not very big, but should be convenient enough if you are traveling light and for shorter stays.
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Host really nice and helpfull- answer on all questions about the city:) Room clean- like at the picuters. Really close from bussterminal- if You can look at the map! I would highly recommend.
The room was very simple but OK. Problematic is erroneous translation of the Wimdu-Advertisement from English into non-English languages. According to the Dutch version is a kitchen accessible and included in the price. But arriving in Oslo, is wasn´t. That makes a difference due to expensive costs for going out for dinner in the city of Oslo.
What was really really bad: on discussing the missing kitchen issue our host was pretty cooperative and proposed even (by himself) to transfer a small share of the money back as compensation. Unfortunately, when we asked him to stick to his promise, he ignored several email ever since. This is not just impolite but simply a no-go.
Great room in a modern apartment. We enjoyed the central location and the uncomplicated and easy communication with Jan. Highly recommended.
Tolles Zimmer in einer modernen Wohnung. Wir genossen die zentrale Lage und die unkomplizierte und einfache Kommunikation mit Jan. Sehr zu empfehlen.
The room was clean and contains everything what need to spent great time in the centre of Oslo. Really recommend to stay in Jan flat!
Nice apartment and a perfect location for visiting the most famous attractions in the city. Well equiped kitchen and bathroom. We really enjoyed the accommodation and trip to Oslo!
Jan was a friendly and accomodating host. Besondres pleasant, I found that he picked me up from the station and showed me everything in the apartment personally. The apartment is well equipped and attractively decorated. We felt very comfortable and would definitely come again!
Jan war ein freundlicher und entgegenkommender Gastgeber. Besondres angenehm fand ich, dass er mich vom Bahnhof abgeholt hat und mir in der Wohnung alles persönlich gezeigt hat. Das Appartement ist gut ausgestattet und ansprechend eingerichtet. Wir haben uns sehr wohl gefühlt und kommen gerne wieder!
Very well received in January that picked us up at the station, and the room is very well located in a quiet neighborhood. Kitchen very convenient.
Très bon accueil de Jan qui est venu nous chercher à la gare; la chambre est très bien située, dans un quartier calme. Coin cuisine très pratique.
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Mount Washington Climber's Log
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|Icy Lion Head
Date Climbed: Jan 6, 2011
|Previous day: 60-80mph sustained w/ gusts 100+ @ 0'F, turned back at the peak of lion head in alpine garden
Summit day was crystal clear, beautiful climb
|Posted Jan 23, 2011 4:54 pm
|sleet July 1974
|Part of an AT backpack. Couldn't see a damn thing. For a brief bit, we had wet snow; after summit bailed down 7 husbands
|Posted Jan 21, 2011 12:05 am
|Tuckerman Ravine
Date Climbed: Aug 1, 1977
|Hiked Tuckerman Ravine but also drove up another time.
|Posted Jan 8, 2011 4:17 pm
|Summer Of 1969
|via tuck
|Posted Jan 4, 2011 7:30 pm
|Lions head
Date Climbed: Feb 26, 2009
|Woohoo, made it.
Went up as part of a meetup. My trip comments are in the link below:
The hike was led by a guide from synnott mountain guides:
|Posted Dec 7, 2010 9:19 am
|Many Times
Date Climbed: Jun 29, 1974
|Have hiked MW and surounding mountains many times since the late 1960's. Love the Presidentials!
|Posted Nov 12, 2010 6:37 pm
|Winter summit
|My first real climb, up Lion's Head. Cold and windy (unsurprisingly) but clear.
|Posted Nov 10, 2010 6:35 am
|Dennis Poulin
|Cog RR
Date Climbed: Oct 11, 2010
|Took the Cog RR to the summit. Summit covered in rime ice. 24 degrees with a steady 36 mph wind.
|Posted Oct 22, 2010 4:24 pm
|Incredible, windy hike
Date Climbed: Oct 9, 2010
|Attempted a loop starting at Pinkham Notch via Old Jackson Road > Nelson Crag Trail > Davis Path > Boott Spurr > Tuckerman's Ravine. Made it up to the intersection of Nelson Crag Trail and Alpine Garden (about .8 mi from the summit) and had to turn down the A.G. Trail and circumvent the peak because of the -5 degree temp and the 90mph wind blowing the rime around everywhere - just didn't quite have the gear for it. Still an awesome hike nonetheless with incredible views, definitely doing this trail in the spring/summertime next year.
|Posted Oct 13, 2010 12:36 pm
|solo to the top
Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2010
|I was on a multi-day trip across the Presidentials in a group with 3 guys. The guys decided to circumvent the summit and went southwest towards Lakes of the Clouds. I soloed to the top. It was misty and windy on the way up, but then the clouds cleared completely, and there were views in every direction for 100 miles.
|Posted Oct 5, 2010 9:41 pm
|New Year
Date Climbed: Jan 1, 2010
|Good times, but not much visibility
|Posted Sep 21, 2010 9:36 pm
|Hiked this a few times
|Tuckerman's to Lion's Head trail: In the summer I did this hike in 2 hours 15 minutes up and 1 hour 33 minutes down. I've snowboarded The Ravine in the spring. It was a beautiful warm day not a cloud in the sky!
|Posted Sep 17, 2010 5:28 pm
|Underestimated this one
Date Climbed: Sep 10, 2009
|But still had an incredible time. Parked one car at Pinkham then a second up the road a few miles at the Great Gulf trailhead. 7.5 miles up to Spaulding lake just below the steep, rocky, wet headwall, then up the headwall itself to enjoy 2,000 calories and a nice 20 minute nap at the cafeteria :D
The summit itself was cloudy, but as we headed down they completely cleared and hiking back down the Lion's Head trail during the sunset was one of the most memorable experiences I've had on a hike so far. This is a ~12 mile round trip that took us close to 13 hours (book time for this is about 10 hours I believe...the only peak we'd hiked before this was Mt. Monadnock; we were underprepared, inexperienced, and underestimated the difficulty here!), but the views of the Presidential valley while on the headwall made it well worth it. Definitely going to do this trail again.
|Posted Sep 13, 2010 3:55 pm
|The Easy Route
|My wife and a few NE friends rambled around the summit and below. Views and wind, what else could you ask for in summer? Bring a pocket full of $.
|Posted Aug 26, 2010 12:56 am
Date Climbed: Aug 22, 2010
|Awful weather, lots of rain, cold and windy....but my 15 year old son climbed from Pinkham Notch on the Tuckerman Ravine trail to the summit BAREFOOT! Everyone we met was surprised but other than being cold, he said his feet felt fine. He was the only one of our group at the summit to have dry shoes as he had to put them on to go in and eat.
|Posted Aug 23, 2010 2:00 pm
|Another "Two-fer"
Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2010
|W/ Christine. Why not do a double if weather permits? Up Huntington Ravine, down Jewell, up Ammonoosuc, down Lion Head. R/T time = 11 hours including 1 total hour at the busy (and crowded) summit and 15 minutes at the base of the cog railway to watch a wedding party board and depart for the summit.
|Posted Aug 9, 2010 9:50 am
|Have to admit, I drove a motorcycle
|Posted Jul 23, 2010 4:22 pm
|Cold but beautiful
Date Climbed: Sep 30, 2006
|Tuckerman Ravine Trail.
|Posted Jul 18, 2010 11:07 pm
|Excellent introduction...
Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2010
|to Mt. Washington and bigger peaks in general. Up Huntington, down Lion Head.
|Posted Jul 7, 2010 8:20 pm
|Up Huntington Ravine, down Lion's Head
Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2010
|First real mountain, first time above tree line. Planned on doing another peak or so a day or two later but this was enough for one week for me, as a newbie hiker. We'll just have to go back, that's all. Great views, some unheard of awesome weather (6 mph winds on top, bright sun all day) some tough scrambles and a long, tiring, fabulous day.
|Posted Jun 29, 2010 4:37 pm


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Singapore: The board of directors of Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute revealed that Dr John C Reed has accepted the position of head of Roche pharma research and early development. Dr Reed has also accepted to become member of the corporate executive committee. Dr Kristiina Vuori, president of Sanford-Burnham, will assume all leadership responsibilities on an interim basis. Following the management transition, Dr Reed will retain his association with the institute through an adjunct professor appointment.
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Over the past decade, commodity prices have risen by an average of 9 percent a year, according to the composite index assembled by the Commodity Research Bureau. Aluminum prices, which have been through some dramatic ups and downs, have gained a bit less rapidly over that time. The average closing price for aluminum on the London Metal Exchange went from less than $1,500 per metric ton in 2001 to almost $2,400 in 2011 -- an increase of about 5 percent a year. (Disclosure: I have clients involved in both the production and use of aluminum.)
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3 danios
2 gold dojo loaches
1 apple snail
4 julii cories
1 mickey mouse platy
So here's what's going on right now. ^
I thoroughly cleaned this tank two nights ago, Sunday evening. That night, and Monday morning the water was clear. Now, Tuesday night, it looks like this. Super cloudy. I don't know why! The filter appears to be working, though I've been having problems with it. They are eating the food we give them, it's not building up on the bottom.
Here's the story.
Ever since I started this tank with sand in the bottom, my first time doing a sand bottom, I have had problems with my filter. I have read up on what sort of filters to use in a sand aquarium and I all I can find is conflicting information which is irritating. I have a HOB filter that I've had for several months. It use to be in my 30 gallon tank, but moved it to the 20 when I set it up and got a bigger filter for my 30 gal tank. Within days of setting up the new 20 gallon with sand, the filter started making this awful noise. It sounded like a food processor grinding away. I assumed there was sand in the impeller mechanism. I took the filter apart, cleaned it out really well, really didn't find sand in it, replaced the filter media, and reassembled it. No difference, still loud and grinding and awful sounding. The next day I bought a sponge filter cover to put over the bottom of the intake tube to help filter out sand before it got to the impeller. It worked, it quieted the filter, no more grinding, sounded good. But nothing was being filtered through the actual filter media! The sponge cover was catching all the poop and food debris, and in a couple days, no water was being sucked up into the HOB filter, and there was barely even a trickle of water coming out of it. Terrible! That was last Tuesday, Jan 29th, and so we cleaned the tank, took apart and reassembled the filter and got it all tidied up. There was a lot of food build up on the bottom at this time, and I had a hard time cleaning it all up. The apple snail produces a lot of slime in this sand-bottom tank (something it didn't use to do in the 10gal gravel bottom it was in before), and it gets really heaving with crud in it and my siphon doesn't suck it all up. Hard to clean and Frustrating! Do you recommend a different kind of siphon besides the tube kind?
Friday, three days after I cleaned the tank all my danios (4 at the time) got fungus on their fins. At noon they were fine, by 5pm they looked like hell, 9pm was worse. I don't know why, but there was still a lot of food and poop buildup on the bottom from it being so hard to suck up when I cleaned it just days before. So I immediately treat them with Pimafix. It's what I have. The next morning they looked a little worse, and now it was spread to my platy. I continued to treat with Pimafix, and also salted the tank some.
Come Sunday the danios were looking better, except for one which appeared to have fungus in its right gill, but no where else. When I got home from work Sunday afternoon, a blue apple snail was floating dead, leaving its yellow snail friend alone. I only had the blue one a couple weeks. The tank was just awful and I had to clean it, just 5 days after I had cleaned it before. It was bad, like I hadn't done it just days before. I did at least a 50% water change with the clean and made sure to take extra care and get every bit of left over food and poop out of the tank and clean all the decor really well. Then I fluffed the sand to make sure there wasn't any trapped air, and there wasn't. Refilled the tank, treated the water, put the decor back in, plugged up the filter, everything looked great except the danio with gill fungus. The water was crystal clear and pretty.
Monday, danios look a lot better with fin fungus, but the one with gill fungus looked worse. Still treating with Pimafix daily, and this point included an antibiotic. The platy still had a little fungus on her, but was looking better. Monday evening the water is cloudy. What the heck? Is it from the antibiotic?
Tuesday, the danio with gill fungus looks terrible, the fungus is huge, hasn't been eating the past two day, so I decide to quarantine to a small container on kitchen counter. Within a matter of hours she dies. The other danios in the tank look all better, back to normal with no fungus. Platy is looking a bit better too, but not all gone yet. But the water is so so cloudy murky YUCK! WHY?!!?!
Why is this tank such a nightmare? I have a 30 gallon that I've had for years with big clown loaches and an ancient 5.5 year old tiger barb. They're fine! Never and problems! Why is this 20gallon tank awful? Is it the sand? The filter? Why are my fish sick so suddenly? Did the antibiotic (which i used one dose of) make the water all cloudy? How can I fix it? I've had fish my whole life, and have been keeping them myself all my adult life. I'm not stupid, but I'm SO lost on this one!
UPDATE 2/6/13 Wed: I did a 50% water change and it looks maybe 50% better, but not GOOD.
For starters- did you cycle this tank? What are your tap water and tank water parameters (ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, ph.) I see you took apart the entire filter so if it was cycled, it is not now. Did you rinse the sand prior to placing it in the tank? FYI- you need not use foul langauge here, it is against the forum rules.><((((º> ><((((º> ><((((º> ><((((º>
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I agree with the top poster. Though it seems you've had tanks before. However, I had a huge problem with a sand bottom tank I started one little over a months ago. I did not rinse the sand as well as I should have and you couldn't even see through the water for about two weeks. However, if the water was clear and is now cloudy, it is more than likely a bacteria bloom. These occur when you accidentally kill of your good bacteria in the filter that cycling your tank would have created. Doing too vast a water change, not making sure the water going into the tank matches the tank water parameters, certain products, and too different a temperature of new water can kill off your cycle and cause a bacteria bloom. As for the fungus, when was the last time you added fish? It's possible you brought something into your tank when you brought in some new fish. In which case, get some meds for them and dose. I'd suggest 1/3 water change weekly until the bloom clears itself granted your water parameters are reading well.70 Gal Planted Rio Negro Angelfish Biotope with:
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I'm sorry if I had missed this in your post, but I am interested to know what type of sand you had used ?If you take your time to do the research FIRST, you can successfully set-up and keep ANY type of aquarium with ease.
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I am assuming this tank isn't cycled - are you testing your water parameters? What kind of test kit do you have? Your fish are showing signs of stress which brings on illness.
Until your water parameters show your tank is cycled, there is no need to clean your filter or replace any media.
Few things that occur to me.
I'm not familiar with this particular filter, HOBs are pretty rare here and that particular brand isn't even on the market but I do get the impression it's not capable of dealing with sandy water.
You forget to rinse the sand.
The tank must have started cycled since you used the filter before.My 33 gallon/125 liter tank. My photography on flickr.
In cleaning your filter, you might have killed off your good bacteria.
This probably caused your ammonia to increase, stressing your fish.
Stressed Fish get sick, eat less, also increases ammonia.
You treated for sick fish, which can be poisonous to invertebrates like the snails.
The cloudy water is from bacteria in the water column increasing to feast on the ammonia.
Recommended steps:
1. Increase temp slowly to ~80F and continue to treat for Ich. Increasing the temp accelerates the life cycle. Rehome Apple snail, or bid him fairwell. i have personally never had one survive ich treatment. I am concerned about the corys.
2. Vacuum sand. Ideally, you want to get all the food and poop, but you also want to get about 50% of your water while doing so... the ich lives in the bottom of the tank.
3. Continue 50% water changes/vacuuming daily until the water stops clouding.
In a week, everything should be back to normal. Return to weekly 25% water changes/vacuuming. If the tank is not cleared up in a week, you are missing something... something has wedged some rotting food or something under a rock or plant and is not getting vacuumed up.
+1 to Cliff's question. I'm curious to know what kind of sand you actually used. Some sand is made for FW aquariums, while others are used for SW. Some sand can increase pH or gH/kH. Some won't. What kind did you buy?
As for the sand clouding up the water? If you didn't notice in the first week, then it's probably not the sand. It looks more like a bacterial bloom, which can occur if your tank isn't cycled, or you didn't have enough beneficial bacteria to keep up with your bio-load/live stock. I'm betting on #2.
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Agree to the above posts, Failed/non-existent cycle looks to be the problem. I use HOB filters, one on my 10g sand-bottom tank and used to have these type of issues before I understood that thoroughly "cleaning" the filter is one of the worst things you can do. The sand was not the problem in my case. Post your water parameters, the fact that none are present in your original post is rather concerning.
Also, was the blue floating apple snail hanging out of its shell? If the "door" was shut it was still alive, mine used to frequently float around for a day or two then land and be fine.


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drop the team because the handler spoke to the dog before dog was released
carry the team with stern warning
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I am a trial judge, but the rules are basically the same for a minor stake.
I am not there to judge intent. I am going to give the benefit of the doubt to the dog/handler and score it as a controlled break. I wouldn't give a stern warning either. Handlers should know the rules unless they are new and then I would kindly explain it to them.
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I'm with Howard and Steve. I can't vote because I would not do either of your two options.
This is really pretty simple. When the dog stands up or creeps a ways towards the fall it is basically a trainability issue and can be dealt with on that basis. At some point the creep becomes a safety issue and then we have another issue but that isn't the issue at hand here.
The point is that when the dog stood up - the handler for whatever reason (and there really is only one - he knew or suspected that the dog was going to break) said something (doesn't really matter what it was) that served to prevent the dog from further actions.
It isn't a controlled break until the dog manifests the intent to make the retrieve and is successfully stopped. BUUUUUUUUUuttttttt the handler -by telling the dog to stop that crap took the pencil out of the judges hands. He communicated by his actions that the dogs behavior was unacceptable and acted to stop that behavior - and that is a problem. At that point the judges have a decision to make:
1. The handler stopped a break in the birth stages - controlled break rules apply
2. Handler broke the "No talking" rule - immediate disqualification
In the Master stake it reall doesn't matter - no difference both are disqualifying.
In the Senior stake there is room for "SOME" allowances we are expecting a few rough edges.
Either way - I would have to see it to judge it.
Lesson is that unless the dog actually bolts- shut up and trust her to remember her manners.
It's a LOT easier with /pauls dogs - once they decide to go it's all over regards
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Carry the dog without the "stern warning"... This is such old news. It happens all the time in senior and dogs don't get dropped for it, nor should they. It's a controlled break, period.
So, if a dog moves while the birds are going down and the handler makes an effort to stop the dog, should I assume the handler thought he was making an attempt to retrieve?
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In reference to those that mentioned the issue of a dog being dropped for a controlled break after the dog had been released by the judges....there is no break after the dog is released (judge says # or dog) and this causes the dog to leave ,the dog has not broken...For those that say ,you didn't release your dog ...I always say the dogs name when the judge looks at me when this happens ... Some times I'm a little slow ...Steve S
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Having run about twenty Senior tests, here's what I've learned.
Most every handlers' meeting had a discussion about NOT talking to the dog on the line after calling for the birds. Senior judges almost always discussed the "talking at the line rule". For most, it was "cut and dried"....."You are not supposed to!" There were a few times I saw a more lenient "You most likely will be disqualified" actually applied which means sometimes (maybe not). Most often it was "nervous first timers" that displayed a sincere "oops" in their demeanor. In essence, using this poll to "test the waters" to see how much you leeway you might have may prove risky.
For me at the line, I'm not supposed to talk to my dog after I call for the birds....period. I can after the judge releases the dog and most judges do that by quietly say "dog".
Now their judging sheets reveal the call name of every dog which means that if she/he goes on "dog" the judge immediately knows there is a training issue, but that's not the judges' problem.
I remember many years ago, running a HRC test down in Missouri (long trip) and my young dog was just terrible in the first series. I moped around deciding whether or not to just pick up and drive home. I was tired and sat down next to an older trainer. We got to talking....actually, I was whining....and he simply said "Remember this when you go to the line"...."Dogs run, handlers handle, and judges judge." "If you are still in it just make the judges decide." We nailed the second series and passed.
If you let fido go on "dog", he probably will do it pretty regularly unless you decide to deal with it right then and there. The rules say you don't have to and maybe that pass or ribbon is really important. You might even think about correcting the problem later in training. You have a choice.
I only had that happen once (going on "Dog") and he went about five quick hops before I called him back. Judge said, You didn't have to do that." and I said, "Oh yes I did."
I have a problem with the ethics of trying to see just how much you can get away with and still pass a test. I voted DQ'd.
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