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Lastly prongs don't choke the dog. They allow for an even and precise distribution to be felt around the dogs neck that allows for an obvious correction that does NOT cause pain unless severe enough. And many dogs will simply self correct when they hit the end. I did a lot of "flee market" walking with berlin when I first put him on the prong.
Holding the leash fairly short, gave him less than 6 inches so hr had to stay close, I kept my thumb in my pocket and my fingers holding on to the seem of my pants so the leash position with my body wouldn't change. Then I just pretended like I was walking around around a flee market. First fast, then slow. Stopping frequently. Looking around. Changing directions. I always turn my head in the direction I'm going before I change my direction so the dog can take a cue from that and follow.
There was no choking, no pain, he self corrected when he didn't pay attention and keep up. Simple.
As far as distraction, you need to work on way more engagement so YOU become more exciting. Lots and lots of play, with tugs are great. That way you should be able to call the dog off a lunge because coming back to you is going to be more fun.
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|I bet I have the biggest plethora of gear on this forum. I've bought it ALL -- and it came down to the ONLY thing that has worked is a prong collar. I wish I had all the money I wasted on the other stuff.
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Agreed. Which is why I am moving away from a head collar. A paradox arises though. Lita is somewhere between 9 and 18 months, as near as I can figure. You can treat/praise/reinforce for good behavior. How do you train a dog (large puppy) without giving a correction, whether it's a twitch on a head collar or a short tug on a neck collar, to let the dog know that behavior needs to change?
Some of the responses here are counter-intuitive.
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It's going to be pointless to train in class one way and at home another.
As well pet smart is far from decent training....
Why don't you find a private trainer in your area that will work with prongs?
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I believe the snap of the dog's head when hitting the end of the leash on a head halter is far more dangerous to the dog than the pinch of a prong collar. JMO
My dog also would shut down in a gentle leader (literally curled up in a ball and wouldn't move), but is happy in a prong. It's funny that so many people think prongs are unkind, but my dog was *much* happier to wear that!
OP, a fur saver won't stop pulling. The links don't slide all that easily, I don't find it much different than a flat collar that way, my dog will pull like a freight train in her fur saver. Try a prong. You can remove links to make it fit. It should be relatively snug, and sit high on the neck, behind the ears.
I would use a fur saver as a backup to a prong though
You didn't fail your dog at all, don't be silly! You guys are a work in progress!
Have you tried something like this? http://youtu.be/9mWwU3aWPIU
Maybe you could train in your home and trigger her prey drive using a ball?
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Please don't feel as if you've failed, you deal with the dog you have, not always the one you particularly wanted! In my opinion, it's also kind to communicate clearly how you expect the dog to behave. Check out these links on prongs from a balanced trainer:
and maybe watch this one first, David Winners posted it a while ago, I think it's beautiful!
Good luck and have fun!
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After talking with a relative who has had GSD's all of her life and our trainer, I ordered a Prong and a backup Fur Saver today. I'm out of options, and the Petsmart trainer endorsed a prong for her. What does that tell you?
I feel like I have somehow failed.
|No brainer to me, use a prong. If she has all her adult teeth and is lunging at animals, she's old enough for one. You can either correct her yourself, or let her self-correct, but if she's not that soft, you may have to correct her, plenty of dogs will pull into prong just like they will any other flat collar. Praise her when she's right, correct her when she's wrong.
The fur saver is terrible as a correction collar. The links are too big to get a good crisp correction. The smaller the links the better the correction with a properly fit non stretchy nylon (NOT what they sell at Petsmart!) one being the best (JMO from the days I taught with choke collars.......I used what they now call the "dominant dog collar" ( a snug snap slip) but you would go through several if the neck is still growing.
Second vote for a properly used and fitted prong but it sounds like you don't have any experience with one. Leerburg site has some good info on fitting a prong and we could help with that. Same thing with the prongs. Herm Springer is the best. But don't use a prong if you don't fit it properly.
I have used Halti's and Gentle leaders as well (Positive only methods) and the dog had FULL ability to pant so I am not sure how you are using it unless the dog is pulling into it but I like the prong a lot better.
For the pulling and general excitement, I think you need to spend more time on engagement in a non distracting environment . FWIW, I carry water on my walks. No biggie.
If a 9 month old cannot adjust adult food, I think you have a different problem. GSDs are a notorious breed for having sensitive digestions. A lot of puppies are never fed puppy food as the formulas are not all that different, particularly on the nicer foods as long as you stay away from the super high protein and calcium blends.........under 30% on the protein and under 1.5% on the calcium with about equal calcium and phosphorus is pretty typical for large breed dogs until fully grown.
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Am I missing a fert ?
I'm setting myself up for an EI schedule. But I want to be moderately prepared too.
Lets say I'm buying from GLA http://greenleafaquariums.com/aquarium-fertilizer.html
Potassium Nitrate (KNO3) - $3.00 / Pound
Mono Potassium Phosphate (KH2PO4) - $5.00 / Pound
The Ultimate GH Booster - $5.00 / Pound
Plantex CSM+B - $12.00 / Pound
Possibly Iron ??
Iron Chelate - $10.00 / 1/2 Pound
What else do I need ? I have a med-high light tank with pressurized c02. I have the option to move up to high light in the near future. I'm just waiting until I know a lot more about what I'm doing.
EI=NPK and micros
GLA can set you up . The only place I get frets and stuff for micro mix. Great CS. Give them a call or send an email
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What you plan to purchase is fine; you can leave out the iron chelate.
You may want potassium sulfate just in case you are finding you have a potassium deficiency, but there shouldn't be one if you are following EI (potassium is contributed from both the KNO3, KH2PO4, as well as the K2SO4 that is already in the GH booster).
Do you need GH booster? What is the GH of the tank and of the water you will be using for water changes? If the GH is already holding stable, at least 3 German degrees of hardness, you probably do not need GH booster.
I have not tested my GH yet. I still need that kit. I was getting this idea from a quote by Tom Barr. What do you think ? Am I misunderstanding ? I'll leave it out of my schedule if I don't need it.
There are a few fish (Cardinal Tetras for example) that cannot handle extra calcium, so I would find out if you need it at all. Plants and fish do take some calcium out of the water, it is a necessary mineral, and so is magnesium.
Can you get a water report from the company that supplies your tap water? Or will you be using RO for this tank?
I wont be using RO. This is the report from last year, http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/pdf/wsstate11.pdf (numbers toward the end) Unfortunately I dont know how to read the GH part of that. I know our water is considered soft. That's it.
With that water I'd go for the GH Booster, in case you need to control pH drop from CO2 addition, or add some calcium.
I'd skip the Iron Chelate DPTA. You may choose to experiment with it later, but it is by no means a necessity, and any iron deficiency can be corrected by increasing CSM+B. I find it far more useful in hard water tanks with no CO2, where the high pH quickly renders the less stable Iron Chelate EDTA found in the CSM+B useless. In my tanks fitting this description, it required *tripling* CSM+B to fully compensate; as opposed to a much smaller addition of Iron DPTA along with the standard amount of CSM+B.
And I'd consider Potassium Sulfate, in case you want to add Potassium separately without adding either Nitrate or Phosphate. If you have a heavy fish load, and feed what the fish will eat in a minute or two daily like me, you may not need to add any Nitrate or Phosphate at all. In some of my tanks, dosing unmodified EI was causing Nitrates to peak at a whopping 140ppm right before the weekly water change, which was causing stunted plant growth.
Our water is soft, get the GH Booster. I have all the ferts you listed, including the iron, but I also have some Potassium Sulfate.
Look at the water company chart where it says Physical Properties.
Go down to Hardness (mg/l) CaCO3 and it is 18.
This is very low GH.
Get GH booster. This supplies calcium and magnesium, and many GH boosters may have potassium.
You can use baking soda for carbonates if you need to raise the KH. Carbonates are the buffer that will stabilize pH.
I have had similar experience with KNO3 and KH2PO4: To properly dose K using these I have to add too much, so the NO3 goes sky high. Get the K2SO4 so you can dose K without having to overdose the N or P.
My tanks were low tech, Excel for carbon, low light, and heavily stocked. When I dosed NO nitrogen fertilizer, I had to do water changes to keep the NO3 low. Since fish food also contains P I assumed the same was going on with P: The tanks had plenty without adding fertilizer.
Then I improved the lighting and had to dose a little bit of KNO3, so I also dosed a little bit of KH2PO4.
In all these, there were holes in the leaves and discolored leaves that indicated deficiencies of K and Fe, and these problems went away when I dosed K and Fe, so I kept on dosing fairly high levels of K2SO4 and iron chelate even when I increased the K from KNO3 and KH2PO4. I was not adding that much of either of these to fully supply the K needs of the plants.
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John Kerry is spending a second day in Iraq to meet with the Kurdish region's president as part of a diplomatic drive pushing towards a more inclusive government in the crisis-hit country.
He arrived in Irbil, the capital of Iraq's northern, autonomous Kurdish region, as Sunni rebels claimed to have completely overtaken the country's main oil refinery at Baiji, north of the capital, which has been under siege for ten days.
Iraqi forces have managed to push back the offensive on the refinery on several occasions, which supplies a third of the country's refined fuel.
At one point militants were flying the black flag of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) on one helicopter, while the government deployed helicopter gunships.
Mr Kerry met several top Iraqi leaders in Baghdad on Monday, including Mr Maliki. He said all the leaders agreed to start the process of seating a new government by 1 July, which will advance a constitutionally-required timetable for distributing power among Iraq's political blocs, which are divided by sect and ethnicity.
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Mourners burying 15 bodies in the village of Taza Khormato, near the northern city of Kirkuk
2/98 Iraq
A Shiite Turkman fighter from the so-called Sahwa or "Awakening" force, manning a position on the front line with insurgents led by the Isis group which has overran swathes of five provinces north and west of Baghdad
3/98 Iraq
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters on their military vehicles drive towards the front lines of Mosul villages where they fight against Isis, in the Khazer area between the Iraqi city of Mosul and the Kurdish city of Irbil
4/98 Iraq
Fighters of the Isis group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle down a main road at the northern city of Mosul
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Shi'ite volunteers, who have joined the Iraqi army to fight against the Isis, take part in a military-style training in Basra, southeast of Baghdad
6/98 Iraq
A Kurdish peshmerga fighter takes his position behind a wall on the front line with militants from the Isis group, in Tuz Khormato, 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of the oil rich province of Kirkuk
7/98 Iraq
Iraqis who fled with families the violence in their home towns walk at a refugee camp near the city of Mosul
8/98 Iraq
A member of the Jordanian Bedouin forces stands guard in front of the Jordanian Karameh border crossing at the Jordanian-Iraqi border, near Ruweished city
9/98 Iraq
Iraqis gather at the site of a car bomb explosion in a Kurdish-majority neighbourhood of the ethnically mixed northern city of Kirkuk. The blast killed at least three people and also wounded 15 others in the northern part of the tinderbox oil hub, which lies at the centre of territory Iraq's Kurds want to incorporate into their autonomous region over the objections of Baghdad
10/98 Iraq
Iraqi Kurdish forces take position near Taza Khormato
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11/98 Iraq
Kurdistan regional government president Massud Barzani greets US Secretary of State John Kerry at the presidential palace in Arbil
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12/98 Iraq
Iraqi men queue to for a medical check up as they volunteer to join the security forces at a recruitment centre in Baghdad
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13/98 Iraq
Kurdish fighters believe they are 'facing a new reality and a new Iraq'
14/98 Iraq
Militants of the Isis group stand next to captured vehicles left behind by Iraqi security forces at an unknown location in the Salaheddin province. For militant groups, the fight over public perception can be even more important than actual combat, turning military losses into propaganda victories and battlefield successes into powerful tools to build support for the cause
15/98 Iraq
A member of the Kurdish security forces takes up position with his weapon while guarding an oil refinery, on the outskirts of Mosul
16/98 Iraq
Iraqi Turkmen stand with their weapons as they ready to fight against militants led by the jihadist, in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk
17/98 Iraq
Volunteers of the newly formed "Peace Brigades" participate in a parade in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, Baghdad. Thousands of Shiite militiamen have paraded in Baghdad and several other cities in southern Iraq with heavy weaponry, signaling their readiness to take on Sunni militants who control a large chunk of the country's north
18/98 Iraq
Iraqi security forces, loyal to Muslim Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr take part in a military parade in the shrine city of Najaf, in central Iraq. International leaders and Iraq's Shiite religious elite have called on the country to unite to face off the insurgent threat, with US Secretary of State John Kerry this weekend heading to the Middle East and Europe in a diplomatic push to bring political stability to the country
19/98 Iraq
Iraqi Shiite mourners carry the coffin of a Shiite militiaman killed in Muqdadiyah during his funeral procession, in the shrine city of Najaf. Militants attacked the town of Muqdadiyah, northeast of Baghdad and a key approach to Diyala provincial capital Baquba, sparking clashes that killed 30 Shiite militiamen
20/98 Iraq
An Islamist fighter, identified as Abu Muthanna al-Yemeni from Britain (R), speaks in this still image taken undated video shot at an unknown location and uploaded to a social media website. Five Islamist fighters identified as Australian and British nationals have called on Muslims to join the wars in Syria and Iraq, in the new video released by the Isis
21/98 Iraq
Al-Qa'ida inspired militants stand with captured Iraqi Army Humvee at a checkpoint belonging to Iraqi Army outside Beiji refinery some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad. The fighting at Beiji comes as Iraq has asked the U.S. for airstrikes targeting the militants from the Isis group. While U.S. President Barack Obama has not fully ruled out the possibility of launching airstrikes, such action is not imminent in part because intelligence agencies have been unable to identify clear targets on the ground, officials said
22/98 Iraq
Members of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces take their positions during clashes with the Isis group in the city of Ramadi
23/98 Iraq
Members of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces shoot during the clashes with the Isis gruop in the city of Ramadi
24/98 Iraq
A Peshmerga unit is ready and armed on the front lines outside Kirkuk
25/98 Iraq
A U.S. Geological Survey satellite image shows smoke rising from the Baiji refinery near Tikrit
26/98 Iraq
A column of smoke rises from an oil refinery in Beiji, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad
27/98 Iraq
Iraqi men line up at the main army recruiting center to volunteer for military service in Baghdad, after authorities urged Iraqis to help battle insurgents
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Iraqi Shiite women hold their weapons as they gather to show their willingness to join Iraqi security forces in the fight against Jihadist militants who have taken over several northern Iraqi cities in the southern Shiite Muslim shrine city of Najaf
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Kurdish Peshmerga fighters stand next to the bed of a comrade wounded in clashes with jihadists in Kirkuk at the emergency ward of a hospital in Arbil
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A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter wounded in the legs in clashes with Isis in Kirkuk is watched by a family member as he lies on a bed in the emergency ward of a hospital in Arbil
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Relatives stand vigil for a Kurdish peshmerga fighter wounded in fighting as he is treated in a hospital in Irbil. Kurdish security and hospital officials said that fighting has been raging since morning between Kurdish fighters known as peshmerga and militants who are trying to take the town of Jalula, in the restive Diyala province some 80 miles (125 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad. Ethnic Kurds now control the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk, moving to fill a vacuum after the flight of Iraqi soldiers. They too are battling the Sunni extremist militants
32/98 Iraq
Militants attacked Iraq's main oil refinein Baiji as they pressed an offensive that has seen them capture swathes of territory, a manager and a refinery employee said
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Militants from the Isis group parading with their weapons in the northern city of Baiji in the in Salaheddin province
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A smoke rises after an attack by Isis militants on the country's largest oil refinery in Beiji, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad. Iraqi security forces battled insurgents targeting the country's main oil refinery and said they regained partial control of a city near the Syrian border, trying to blunt an offensive by Sunni militants who diplomats fear may have also seized some 100 foreign workers
35/98 Iraq
Major General Jamil al-Shammari (C), police chief of Iraq's Diyala province north of Baghdad, inspects the Mafraq police station which includes a prison where the bodies of 44 prisoners were found. An attack by militants was pushed back by Iraqi security forces in Baquba, Diyala's provincial capital within only 60 kilometres (37 miles) of Baghdad, leaving 44 prisoners dead at the Mafraq police station. Accounts differed as to who was responsible for the prisoner killings, with the security spokesman of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki saying the prisoners were killed by insurgents carrying out the attack, and other officials saying they were killed by security forces as they tried to escape
36/98 Iraq
Iraqi men mourn over the coffin of an Iraqi soldier who was killed in the clashes with militants in northern Iraq, during the funeral procession in Najaf. More than two million Iraqis have volunteered to fight against militants from the Isis group, Iraqi Energy Minister Hussein al-Shahristani said. The government had no capacity to process any more volunteers, he adds. Isis and other Sunni fighters, including groups linked to the former ruling Baath Party, were reported that they now control swathes of northern Iraq after a lightning advance recently
37/98 Iraq
Iraqi displaced people, who have fled violence in Iraq's northern Nineveh province, walk past the wreckage of military vehicles upon their arrival in al-Hamdaniyah, 76 kms west of the Kurdish autonomous region's capital Arbil
38/98 Iraq
Demonstrators chant slogans as they carry al-Qa'ida flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad. In the week since it captured Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, a Muslim extremist group has tried to win over residents and has stopped short of widely enforcing its strict brand of Islamic law, residents say. Churches remain unharmed and street cleaners are back at work
39/98 Iraq
Personnel from the Kurdish security forces detain a man suspected of being a militant belonging to the Isis group, in the outskirts of Kirkuk
40/98 Iraq
Iraqi women walk at the site of a car bomb explosion in the mainly Shiite Sadr City district in Baghdad, which killed at least seven people and wounded 20. The blast came amid a week-long militant offensive in which insurgents have seized vast swathes of territory in northern Iraq
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A member of the oil police force stands guard at Zubair oil field in Basra
42/98 Iraq
An Iraqi man with a boy inspects the scene of a car bomb attack in Sadr city
43/98 Iraq
Iraqi Shiite tribesmen parade with their weapons in central Baghdad's Palestine Street as they show their willingness to join Iraqi security forces in the fight against Jihadist militants who have taken over several northern Iraqi cities. Faced with a militant offensive sweeping south toward Baghdad, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced the Iraqi government would arm and equip civilians who volunteer to fight, and thousands have signed up
44/98 Iraq
Iraqi men queue at the entrance of a volunteer centre in Karbala city
45/98 Iraq
Members of the Shiite Muslim Mehdi Army militia, take part in training in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. Iraqi Shiite volunteers, who had been fighting in neighbouring Syria, have been heading home to battle an offensive that has brought militants to near Baghdad, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said
46/98 Iraq
An injured fighter (C) from the Isis group after a battle with Iraqi soldiers at an undisclosed location near the border between Syria and Iraq
47/98 Iraq
Fighters from the Isis aiming at advancing Iraqi troops at an undisclosed location near the border between Syria and Iraq
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Fighters from the Isis group taking position at an undisclosed location near the border between Syria and Iraq
49/98 Iraq
Fighters from the Isis group inspecting vehicles of the Iraqi army after they were seized at an undisclosed location near the border between Syria and Iraq
50/98 Iraq
Iraqi men flash victory signs as they leave the main recruiting center to join the Iraqi army in Baghdad
51/98 Iraq
Refugees queue to register at a temporary camp in northern Iraq
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Newly-recruited Iraqi volunteers, wearing police forces uniforms, take part in a briefing at a training centre in Karbala
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Kurdish peshmerga forces keep guard around Tal Afar of Mosul
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54/98 Iraq
One Iraqi captive, a corporal, is reluctant to say the slogan, and has to be shouted at repeatedly before he obeys
Sky News
55/98 Iraq
Iraqi captives held by the extremists
Sky News
56/98 Iraq
Iraqi captives held by the extremists
Sky News
57/98 Iraq
Shiite tribal fighters raise their weapons and chant slogans against the Isis group in the northwest Baghdad's Shula neighborhood
58/98 Iraq
Tribal fighters carry their weapons as they take part in an intensive security deployment in Dujail, north of Baghdad
59/98 Iraq
Iraqi soldiers watch as armed tribesmen gather to show their willingness to join Iraqi security forces in the fight against Jihadist militants who have taken over several northern Iraqi cities in the southern city of Basra
60/98 Iraq
Shiite tribal fighters raise their weapons and chant slogans against the Isis group in the northwest Baghdad's Shula neighborhood
61/98 Iraq
Mehdi Army fighters loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr march during a military-style training in the holy city of Najaf. The United States said it could launch air strikes and act jointly with its arch-enemy Iran to support the Iraqi government, after a rampage by Sunni Islamist insurgents across Iraq that has scrambled alliances in the Middle East
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Volunteers, who have joined the Iraqi Army to fight against the predominantly Sunni militants from the radical Isis group, gather with their weapons during a parade on the streets in Basra, southeast of Baghdad
63/98 Iraq
An Iraqi young boy holds a weapon from the window of a car as people gather to show their readiness to join Iraqi security forces in the fight against Jihadist militants who have taken over several northern Iraqi cities in the capital Baghdad
64/98 Iraq
Tribal fighters from Ramadi hold up their weapons as they shout slogans in support of Iraqi security forces in Kerbala
65/98 Iraq
Iraqi security forces fire artillery during clashes with Sunni militant group Isis in Jurf al-Sakhar
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Iraqi security forces fire artillery during clashes with Sunni militant group Isis in Jurf al-Sakhar
67/98 Iraq
Ammar al-Hakim, leader of Iraq's largest Shiite party, the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, exercises a shooting drill in the main army recruiting center in Baghdad. Thousands of Shiites from Baghdad and across southern Iraq answered an urgent call to arms, joining security forces to fight the Islamic militants who have captured large swaths of territory north of the capital and now imperil a city with a much-revered religious shrine
68/98 Iraq
An Iraqi security officer stands guard outside the Church of the Virgin Mary in the northern town of Bartala, east of the northern city of Mosul as some Iraqi security stayed in the town to protect the local churches and community
69/98 Iraq
The insurgent offensive that has threatened to dismember Iraq spread to the northwest of the country, when Sunni militants launched a dawn raid on a town close to the Syrian border, clashing with police and government forces
70/98 Iraq
Volunteers walk with their weapons during a parade in the streets in Al-Fdhiliya district, eastern Baghdad
71/98 Iraq
A volunteer, who has joined the Iraqi Army to fight against predominantly Sunni militants from the radical Isis group, holds a weapon during a parade in the streets in Al-Fdhiliya district, eastern Baghdad
72/98 Iraq
Militants of the Isis group force captured Iraqi security forces members to the transport
73/98 Iraq
Militants of the Isis group transporting dozens of captured Iraqi security forces members to an unknown location in the Salaheddin province ahead of executing them
74/98 Iraq
A major offensive spearheaded by Isis but also involving supporters of executed dictator Saddam Hussein has overrun all of one province and chunks of three others
75/98 Iraq
Militants of the Isis group executing dozens of captured Iraqi security forces members at an unknown location in the Salaheddin province
76/98 Iraq
A women and a girl wash at a tap at a temporary displacement camp set up next to a Kurdish checkpoint in Kalak. Thousands of people have fled Iraq's second city of Mosul after it was overrun by Isis (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) militants. Many have been temporarily housed at various IDP (internally displaced persons) camps around the region including the area close to Erbil, as they hope to enter the safety of the nearby Kurdish region
77/98 Iraq
Families arrive at a Kurdish checkpoint next to a temporary displacement camp in Kalak
78/98 Iraq
An Iraqi refugee girl from Mosul stands outside her family's tent at Khazir refugee camp outside Irbil, 217 miles (350 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq. Days after Iraq's second-largest city fell to Isis fighters, some Iraqis are already returning to Mosul, lured back by insurgents offering cheap gas and food, restoring power and water and removing traffic barricades
79/98 Iraq
Civilians escape from Mosul and come to a region that close to Erbil city and are placed to camp by United Nations and Kurd government in Iraq
80/98 Iraq
Young men in Baghdad chant slogans against Isis outside the main army recruiting centre yesterday, where they are volunteering to fight the extremist group
Karin Kadim/AP
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Volunteers who have joined the Iraqi Army to fight against the predominantly Sunni militants, who have taken over Mosul and other Northern provinces, board an army truck in Baghdad
82/98 Iraq
Isis militants taking position at a Iraqi border post on the Syrian-Iraqi border between the Iraqi Nineveh province and the Syrian town of Al-Hasakah
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Isis rebels show their flag after seizing an army post
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Isis militants waving an Islamist flag after the seizure of an Iraqi army checkpoint in Salahuddin
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A girl, who fled from the violence in Mosul, carries a case of water at a camp on the outskirts of Arbil in Iraq's Kurdistan region
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A displaced Iraqi woman washes her family's laundry as the children shower outside their tent at a temporary camp set up to shelter civilians fleeing violence in Iraq's northern Nineveh province in Aski kalak, 40 kms west of the Kurdish autonomous region's capital Arbil
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Iraqi refugees from Mosul arrive at Khazir refugee camp outside Irbil, 217 miles (350 kilometers) north of Baghdad
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Refugees flee Mosul
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Iraqi families fleeing violence in the northern Nineveh province gather at a Kurdish checkpoint in Aski kalak, 40 kms West of Arbil, in the autonomous Kurdistan region
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Refugees fleeing from Mosul head to the self-ruled northern Kurdish region in Irbil, Iraq, 350 kilometers (217 miles) north of Baghdad
91/98 Iraq
An Iraqi woman carries her property while fleeing from Mosul to Arbil and Duhok due to the clashes between security forces and militants of Isis in Arbil
92/98 Iraq
Iraqi people receive water as they flee from Mosul to Arbil and Duhok
93/98 Iraq
A woman carries a child as families fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Mosul wait at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Arbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region. Radical Sunni Muslim insurgents seized control of most of Iraq's second largest city of Mosul, overrunning a military base and freeing hundreds of prisoners in a spectacular strike against the Shi'ite-led Iraqi government
94/98 Iraq
An Iraqi man and his wife flee from Mosul to Arbil and Duhok
95/98 Iraq
The residents gather at a security checkpoint between the provinces of Irbil and Duhok which is controlled by Kurdish Peshmerga troops
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Uniforms reportedly belonging to Iraqi security forces scattered on the road
97/98 Iraq
An armoured vehicle belonging to Iraqi security forces in flames, after hundreds of militants from the Isis group launched a major assault on the security forces in Mosul, some 370 km north from the Iraqi capital Baghdad
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Civilian children stand next to a burnt vehicle during clashes between Iraqi security forces and Isis group in the northern Iraq city of Mosul
Mr Barzani's support is important because Kurds represent about 20 per cent of Iraq's population and usually vote as a unified bloc. That has made Kurds influential in Iraq's national political process.
Tensions have run deep for years between Mr Barzani and Mr Maliki, and recently surged again when the Kurdish regional government began exporting oil through Turkey without giving Baghdad a required share of the profits. The Kurdish region is home to several vast oil fields, which have reaped security and economic stability unmatched across the rest of the Iraq.
Once a stable government is in place, officials hope Iraqi security forces will be inspired to fight the insurgency instead of fleeing, as they did in several major cities and towns in Sunni-dominated areas since the start of the year.
US special forces began arriving in Baghdad this week to train and advise Iraqi counter-terror soldiers, under orders from President Barack Obama, who is reluctantly sending American military might back to the war zone it left in 2011 after more than eight years of fighting.
Mr Maliki has for months requested US military help to quell Isis, and the Obama administration has said it must respond to the insurgent threat before it spreads beyond Iraq's borders and puts the West at risk of attack.
Yesterday, Mr Kerry said the US is prepared to strike the militants even if Baghdad delays political reforms.
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LNG Groundhog Day: Cheniere Energy Signs Yet Another Gas Export Deal on Gulf Coast
Steve Horn | December 1, 2011
By Steve Horn • Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 14:43
Another day, another unconventional gas export deal signed. Nascent North American LNG (liquefied natural gas) export deals are happening so fast and furiously that it is hard to keep track of them all.
The latest: On November 21, Cheniere Energy Partners signed a 20-year LNG export deal with Gas Natural Fenosa, an energy company which operates primarily in Spain but also in such countries as Italy, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Morocco. Cheniere will maintain the Sabine Pass LNG export terminal located off of Sabine Lake between Texas and Louisiana, which feeds into the Gulf of Mexico, while Gas Natural Fenosa will ship the gas to the global market.
Cheniere, which made waves when its CEO Charif Souki announced that his corporation's business model would center exclusively around LNG export terminals, also recently signed a 20-year export deal with BG Group, short for British Gas Group.
Like the recent export deal with BG Group, which involves carrying fracked unconventional gas from various shale basins around the United States via pipelines to the Sabine Pass LNG export terminal, the Gas Natural Fenosa deal also centers around the export of gas from Sabine Pass to the global market.


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Herding cats
It's February and I'm swamped. It can only mean one thing — this year's version of the Southern California Linux Expo, more commonly known to the rest of the world this year as SCALE 11X, is finally in the starting blocks and ready to run.
It's cat herding time: Yes, getting all the tech and non-tech media to pay attention and come to the event is best described as herding cats, but it's something I love doing. As the publicity chair for SCALE, I never have a dull moment from, say, Boxing Day in the previous December until the end of the show. With the help of Scott Ruecker, Hannah Anderson, Dennis Rex and the rest of the SCALE Publicity Team, we also get the word out to the wider Linux/FOSS audience to come to the show, or else miss the best Linux/FOSS show in North America.
I mention the glorius burden of my own personal SCALE workload because I'm always there but I can never see any of the presenations I'd like to see. Given the opportunity to see a presentation or several, I'd pick . . . all of them. But most immediately, there are several part of SCALE 11X that are not to be missed:
The Keynotes: Both Matthew Garrett and Kyle Rankin bring excellent topics — UEFI and 3-D printing, respectively — to the keynote talks on Saturday and Sunday mornings. This is the first time in awhile that I've thought, "Dang, I have to make both of these." There's a good chance I can make one, or maybe (knock on wood) both of them this year, and you should, too.
Most of Friday's sessions: OK, so cloning technology isn't up to splitting me into several people and all of them going to different sessions on Friday. But between the Chef Training, the Cloud sessions, the PostgreSQL track, the Mentoring track and the Puppet track, I'd be bouncing like a pinball between them for a better part of the day. To say nothing of the Linux Essentials Prep, which I have to take someday. After all this on Friday, there's . . .
UpSCALE: I did this once, and I'd do it again if my most excellent partner in digital crime (also known as my daughter Mimi) would join me in taking the stage again. The Friday night to-do is in the form of the Ignite Talks, where a speaker is at the mercy of a timer which is advancing his/her slides at a 20-second-per clip and they're always fun, mostly interesting and continually a topic of discussion throughout the course of the show.
And then there's a line up of speakers throughout the rest of the weekend for whom I'd walk a mile on my knees through broken glass to attend their presentations: Joe Brockmeier, Ruth Suehle, Deb Nicholson, Owen DeLong, Dru Lavigne, Christer Edwards, Jason Brooks, and Thomas Cameron top this list that goes on for quite some time. In addition, we have some first-timers to SCALE who deserve special mention, like retro gamer Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas and Oregon State University Open Source Lab manager Lance Albertson. Heck, even a few current and former SCALE folks come out from behind the curtain and are giving presentations: Stuart Sheldon, Tom King and Jenn Greenaway take the stage as well.
You'll have to check the schedule here to find out when these folks are speaking. Meanwhile, when I'm able, I'll be at sessions I can make, but for the most part you can find me in the press room.
I'll be the one with the string and the catnip.
One more time: We turn it up to 11 this year — a reference many of the folks my age laugh uproariously to, but one which some of the younger speakers may not know. Watch this.
More to follow. Watch this space.
This blog, and all other blogs by Larry the Free Software Guy, Larry the CrunchBang Guy and Larry Cafiero, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND license. In short, this license allows others to download this work and share it with others as long as they credit me as the author, but others can't change it in any way or use it commercially.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and develops business software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)


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Green Bay Drops Home Finale to Wright State
By: Andrew Gavin (@GBGavin)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - Green Bay honored its four seniors Saturday at the Kress Events Center and junior Brittany Groth (Oak Creek, Wis.) broke her own school record with a career-high 38 digs, but the Phoenix (10-16, 6-8 HL) fell to visiting Wright State (6-22, 5-10 HL) Saturday afternoon 3-1 (28-26, 24-26, 25-23, 25-21) in Horizon League volleyball action.
Head coach Debbie Kirch and the Phoenix recognized its four seniors - Alison Bohnen (St. Germain, Wis.), Abbey Gitter (Hortonville, Wis.), Kelly Mischler (Kaukauna, Wis.) and Carlie Willison (Greenfield, Wis.) - after the conclusion of the match.
By winning close sets and ultimately pulling out the match, Wright State spoiled the celebration for the seniors and for Groth, whose 38 digs broke a school for digs in a 4-set match that she broke on Oct. 28 with 35 against Loyola. The Horizon League leader in digs and digs per set now has 35 or more digs four times this season and is just two digs shy of breaking the single-season digs of 577 set by Megan Elfering in 2008.
Despite falling behind 17-12, Green Bay had a set point in the opening set when an error by Dani Branco made it 25-24 Phoenix. The Raiders used a kill to tie it and then benefitted from a service error and an attack error to win the opener 28-26.
Junior Carmen Leitermann (Schofield, Wis.) had five kills and no errors in the first set for Green Bay and finished the match with 14 kills and four errors for a .303 hitting percentage. She added six blocks and now has 262 for her career to rank ninth in program history.
Green Bay led 24-21 in set two before Wright State rallied to tie the set at 24. However, a WSU service error and and a kill from Leah Van Zeeland (Kaukauna, Wis.) ended the set and squared the match at a set apiece. Van Zeeland matched Leitermann with a team-high 14 kills but also had 10 errors in the match.
Groth had 15 of her school-record dig total in the second set as the Phoenix held Wright State to a .104 hitting percentage. The junior now has 576 digs in 2011 and 1,088 in her career, good for ninth all-time. She now has six of the nine best single-match dig efforts, including four this season.
The third set was also up for grabs despite the Phoenix trailing by five (16-11) midway through. Getting four kills from Van Zeeland, Green Bay went on a 9-4 run to tie the set at 20. Wright State regained the lead, however, and closed out the set, 25-23.
Gitter used a kill to tie the score at 19 as the fourth set was up for grabs as well. Like it did in the third set, WSU scored two points in a row and did not relinquish its lead in closing out the match and handing the Phoenix a difficult loss.
Gitter finished with 13 kills for the Phoenix while sophomore Monica Anderson (Cottage Grove, Wis.) had her best match of the 2011 season with 11 kills. Sophomore setter Leah Poel (Jenison, Mich.) had 52 assists and 12 digs for her ninth double-double of the season. Sophomore Sabrina Marunowski (Milwaukee, Wis.) and Van Zeeland also tallied double-digit dig numbers with 16 and 14, respectively.
Green Bay has two road matches remaining before the 2011 Horizon League Championship gets underway on Nov. 18 in Milwaukee. The Phoenix will play at Youngstown State on Friday at 6 p.m. and at Cleveland State Saturday at 3 p.m.
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I've made some progress, getting the tiny renders and line art to scale:
And now I have a front, back and sides view to full size and the helmet renders also to full scale. My file shows the helmet as being just slightly over 10" long in the renders. Looks comparable with the MA/SA helm.
So next step is to print off portions of the line art and see how they match on me. I scaled Bo to being 170cm high in footgear which is close to me. She winds up as 174cm using the troopers as exactly 181cm high (6').


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MSNBC testing Hillary-hating shock jock as news anchor
Bud Hedinger, whose radio talk show airs between The Rush Limbaugh Show and The Dr. Laura Schlessinger Program on 540 AM (WFLF) in Orlando, Florida, debuted May 3rd for a test run as an anchor for MSNBC Live, which airs between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. weekdays. "If they like what I do, they'll hire me," Hedinger told his hometown paper, the Orlando Sentinel on May 2.
According to the Sentinel, Hedinger "demonstrates his passion for George W. Bush through songs like 'God Bless Our President,'" which he sings [1] on the air during his radio show.
In contrast with his fervor for Bush, on the website [2] for his radio show, Hedinger asserts disdain for Senator Hillary Clinton, whom he calls "Hanoi Hillary." "THE BUDMAN URGES YOU TO PROTEST! HILLARY BLASTS BUSH IN ARAB PRESS INTERVIEW," Hedinger blares [3] on his website, providing readers with a link to an April 27 NewsMax.com article [4] reporting that Senator Hillary Clinton had criticized Bush in an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, an Arab newspaper. However, as Media Matters for America documented on May 3 [5] -- in response to MSNBC host Joe Scarborough making the same false statement on his program, Scarborough Country -- Clinton was never interviewed by the Arab paper.
Hedinger caused a flap in Florida last year when he played down racially charged remarks by a Republican state representative. According to an April 20, 2003, Orlando Sentinel article, Hedinger said on his radio broadcast that "he thought folks overreacted to State Rep. Fred Brummer's comments that the Democrats would obviously beat his Republican team in a legislative basketball game -- because all the black legislators [were] Democrats. [Hedinger] described the hubbub as political correctness run amok."
Hedinger "says he's not too worried about questions about his objectivity -- which he largely abandoned when he made the switch from TV anchor to radio commentator," according to the May 2 Orlando Sentinel. "Everyone in the news business has an opinion, he says. The trick, which he says he knows well, is to not let it affect your job." But on May 3 during his MSNBC debut, this exchange took place:
HEDINGER: The [Medicare prescription drug discount] cards will save seniors an average of 17% for name brand drugs and up to 30% for generics, according to the Bush administration. However, critics say seniors can get similar prices without discounts through online pharmacies.
CO-HOST: Let's just hope it works right?
HEDINGER: Well, a lot of folks do, although I'm not sure the Democrats are rooting for it.
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As you get started with the licensing process, there are two distinct components of which you need to be aware to keep you on track. You need both components to teach Career and Technical Education courses.
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There are different ways to earn a Professional Educator License.
Required FACS Courses for ARL at Utah Institutions
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Endorsements are requested when a licensed educator wants the authorization to teach outside his/her current endorsement area(s). All endorsement requirements should be completed before the application is submitted. A processing fee of $25.00 is the responsibility of the educator and must be submitted with the endorsement application.
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Hey guys, I've been working on a Ki Adi Mundi costume. I have the robes and boots and such... but I don't have a mask. There seems to have been one made, but I can't find it anywhere now
Does anyone do any custom masks? or have one for sale? Willing to do a commission if costs are right


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South Border Land Event is Ongoing
South Border Land - As a vast independent land for PVE, it enjoys the great reputation of "Super Big Scenario. Also, in this charming but perilous land, TO Adventure in South Border Land Event is ongoing!
This event will be held on each server (Section "Genesis") ONCE per week. It lasts 2 hours each time. In this area, there is no punishment for death. The great thing is to get FUN!
Event Qualification: All players at level 40+ (including lvl 40)
South Border Land Entrance: 14,-1659 (in Sand Village)
Before the start of SBL Event, related information will appear in Rumor channel.
"Adventure in South Border Land Event" Brief Introduction:
As a special independent vast land for PVE, South Border Land contains 3 major areas and it can accommodate more than 1000 players, so it enjoys the reputation of "Super Big Scenario"!
South Border Land is a special vast area due to its mystery. Different from the ordinary areas, SBL is not available to players all the time. And only GMs have the right to start this event by using special codes. South Border Land map can be available for 2 hours each time.
Isolated Area:
When the event runs, players need to be teleported by a big crystal teleporter to reach this isolated area. One SBL Teleporter can be found at coordinate (14,-1659), you can also find more entrances near Sand Village.
A Vast Land:
As referred above, South Border Land is a vast land containing 3 big areas "Ancestor Fairy Stage", "Money Tribe", "Spore Forest", etc. Moreover, you can also expect charming oasis, huge valley and horrible death trap in this vast Land!!
Each big and small area is guarded by squads of mobs and powerful BOSS!
Super Powerful BOSS
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November 15. 2013 10:08PM
Students are raising money to send the MCC Community Service Team to Florida to volunteer at the Village, where children with life threatening illnesses and their families from around the world can enjoy a memorable, cost-free visit to the Central Florida attractions and enjoy the "magic" of the village in Kissimmee.
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In a time where we're all threatened by a rhetoric of hate from the people in power; A Gay And A NonGay challenges many of our differences head on and promises that no matter who you are, or what you're into (Bruce Springsteen or Britney), love is love and gay and nongays can be friends.

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Texas Set to Execute 500th Killer Tonight
The State of Texas tonight is set to execute the 500th capital killer to be put to death since capital punishment was reinstated in Texas in 1982, 1200 WOAI news reports.
Kimberly McCarthy, who was once the wife of a member of the infamous racist 'Black Panther' group, beat and stabbed a neighbor to death in a robbery near her home south of Dallas in 1997.
McCarthy's attorneys lost a last minute appeal on Tuesday, when the state's highest criminal court refused to approve her claim that she deserves a new trial on the grounds that African American jurors were improperly excluded from her jury. The court said the issue was raised too late, and Maurie Levin, McCarthy's attorney and a prominent Austin death penalty opponent, says the case can't be appealed and McCarthy's execution tonight cannot be stopped.
Richard Dietert, who heads the Death Penalty Information Center, says the real story in the state's 500th execution is the decline of the death penalty in Texas. Texas, which has executed far more people than any other state in the past 31 years, only sentenced 8 people to death in 2012, down from 49 death sentences annually in the 1990s.
"The biggest change was the life without parole passage back in 2005," Dietert said.
Death penalty opponents say the flurry of exonerations of people who had served long prison sentences, and the exoneration of two people from Death Row, has also prompted Texas juries to think twice about sentencing people to death.
"For the past five years, Texas has averaged about nine death sentences a year," Dietert said. "If you go back to 1999, for example, they had 48 death sentences."
Texas is now third in the nation in sentencing people to death, behind Florida and California, which actually carry out far fewer executions than Texas.
Dietert says there is also no evidence to back up the contention that the existence of the death penalty is a deterrent to crime, pointing out that Texas' violent crime rate remains among the highest in the nation, despite the state's liberal use of capital punishment.
McCarthy will also be the first woman put to death in the U.S. since 2010.


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First off I'm 27 and have been on the serious side of waterfowling for a couple years now but have hunted for as long as I can remember. I'm basically sick of being an unpaid guide when I barely even know what I'm doing. I have no good hunting partners to speak of. I am and probably always will be the only person with decoys. I'm the only person that does any scouting and even then I work 50 hours/week so it's basically scouting Friday night for the Saturday morning hunt which usually doesn't work out that well. I've got an extra blind and I have no problem bringing out people that are new to it and introducing people to hunting; that part I enjoy. It's being the only person that puts forth the effort and funds to keep doing it when others that I hunt with are more than capable of putting in some time and effort that I get sick of. Everyone wants to go as soon as I find a spot but they're always busy when it comes time to scout. I set out the decoys while they stubble their blinds and talk about how they don't know how to do that so they'll just let me do it so they don't screw it up (I hardly know what I'm doing as previously stated). Go by myself? I get asked why they weren't invited.
So anywho, I live in Minot and hunt primarily south of town but would love to experience new areas and types of hunting. I've never successfully hunted over water nor have I ever hunted snow geese, both of which I'd love to try. If you bring me to your spots, they'll remain your spots just as I would expect the same from anyone I shared spots with. I've got all of my own stuff and decoys to add to any spread if needed. As of yet I don't do any calling in the field because it'll do nothing to help at this point but I'm attempting to learn when I can and would love to get some tips on that as well. I hunt upland as well as waterfowl and would like to get into predator hunting but I'm not much into big game hunting.
That's my story so if you need new partners as well or would be willing to take an apprentice under your wing I'd love to do some shooting!


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Discussion in 'March 2014' started by roscoe36, Oct 21, 2013.
If we lose this one, it's probably time for Joe to consider firing Loyer.
This is going to be a good one.
Brandon Jennings decided he didn't want to be part of the embarrassment if the Pistons lose and got thrown out of the game.... Pistons down 11 points in the first....to a bunch of D leaguers
Pistons are down 19 at the half to a team that has been beaten every which way but loose 26 straight times..... and the Pistons aren't tanking, they are just Bad. Sixers 70- Pistons 51...........
I can barely watch.......
For those not watching ....good for you......Pistons down 30 at the end of 3...98-68....
twelve days ago I predicted something out of the ordinary would happen....and it did, the Susan Lucci streak is finally over and the Sixers win this one almost wire to wire and at the half there was never any doubt in my mind that the Pistons would ever catch up. They lose by 25 ...... The only thing worst than the Pistons defense was Greg Kelsers' scraggly voice. Blame it on Brando Jennings selfishness of getting thrown out. After he left, the Pistons took awhile get situated and it never happen. D league stars I never heard of like Elliott Williams, Hollis Thompson and Henry Sims combined for 43 points....while Bynum, Stuckey and SMith were a combined 7-30 shooting. Next loss...Monday to the league worst Bucs..
Kyle Singler was minus 21 in his 25 minutes. If Kyle was not in the game, our horrible bench was, featuring Bynum handing the ball over to the other team repeatedly, Stuckey trying valiently but being hopelessly out of position at shooting guard, Pope scoring well but being hopelessly out of position defensively as the small forward, JJ hustling well but being a very poor excuse as a totally out of position power forward. Monroe had a 20 - 10 game, but he was often surrounded by mediocrity in the form of either of Singler or Pope at small forward, neither of which can play the position, and JJ playing out of position at power forward. The coach did empty the bench quicker in GT. Never the slightest attempt at fixing anything while the game was fixable. Never any sign at all that the coach wanted us to win the game. And I can tell you already, next game, nothing will change. Anything that possibly could produce a win will be avoided for sure, probably on orders from the owner. Who should sell the team to someone who believes, not just talks about, winning. Silly for Jennings to get tossed. Smith seemed to want to follow suit. In this game, even with Jennings getting tossed, we had the players to easily beat Philly. We just had to follow simple little rules, like playing people in their positions that they excel at. Hey, we need Jennings to bring the ball up. If he gets tossed, either go to Stuckey, or Siva. Bynum by no means should be on the team And how much should Stuckey play shooting guard: NEVER. Not under any circumstances. Pope could have started at shooting guard, like he did most of the season. Back when we had at least a chance to win a game. JJ did not play any small forward in this game. He should have been the only backup at that position in this game. Mitchell would be the ideal guy for this game to bring in as a backup to Drummond or Monroe when they sit. And Philly would not have been able to compete with us.
Can't believe we not only lost, but were dominated by guys on 10-day contacts razzle dazzling all night long. Btw, the best thing about Josh Smith is his ability to single handedly stop another team's fast break. They just underestimate his length and hops every time. Some of the fast break sequences were comical. Smart of the coach to keep villanueva off the court at this point.
Gotta be the season's low point.
Feels rock bottom ish.
Kinda figured the way they played last night that they would probably lay an egg tonight. If they can't beat a bunch of no names like the sixers, they would probably have a hard time beating an all star line up of the current Spartans and Wolverines. At this point, I am thinking that Mo would have squeezed at least 5 more W's out of this group than Loyer has.
Cheeks' firing and the decision to roll with the assistants is where the tanking actually happened. If you want to make the playoffs, you probably get a coach.
Wonder what the mood was on the plane ride home.......who was blaming whom....and if anybody really cared that they had gotten beaten by a team that hadn't won a game in two months..
Things I heard the Philly announcers say: The Sixers scored their season high for first quarter points. The Sixers had their largest lead of their losing streak. (It was only 17 at that point. The Sixers scored their season high for the half. (71 pts) Philly set their season high for a game. I'd never heard of 3/4 of the guys the 76'ers played. I couldn't believe how bad Philly was the first 2 minutes of the game. 3 minutes later I realized the Pistons were just as bad. Tony Mitchell was plus for the game. I don't know how much more proof Loyer needs before he stops playing Singler.
Whatever happened to Jorts anyway? I thought he was surprisingly decent. Was he Cheeks' guy only? It stinks when your assistant head coach doesn't have the self confidence to unleash the deep bench. He's waiting way too long. Arguably, we should be testing the heck out of these guys during meaningful parts of games so that we know what we have. But with Jorts, he should be in the rotation since he plays smart and has legit range.
I don't follow the Pistons or anything NBA related. But I DO follow the Eagles ( and Phillies a bit) and in doing so I listen to the Philadelphia sports station quite frequently. So I can't help but listen to news of the Sixers and how terrible they are. The station has been adding up the consecutive losses and I got the distinct feeling they wanted the team to break the record for all time losses for a professional sports team. For the last couple of weeks I constantly heard that I IF the Sixers were going to win a game it would be against the Pistons. And today it actually happened. The reports of the game kept coming through. Ten point lead. Twenty. Thirty. The sports casters were bummed. Disgraceful. I hope they improve for you guys but it looks like they won't even get a high draft choice next season. Sad. I became a huge fan back in the Vitale days. I think they won about 19 games that year. But I don't remember anything quite like this. At least the Sixers are TRYING to win.
I'd like to say the 76ers just got taught a lesson in tanking but it looked more like we outsucked them. I was laughing like a madman during the first half when guy after guy I never heard of scored at will. I'm still ecstatic over the loss though. If we put on a show like this against the Bucks we are in great shape.
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Carl Jenkinson says the entire Arsenal squad is excited about playing alongside new signings Lukas Podolski and Olivier Giroud.
The Club sealed a deal for Germany international striker Podolski in April, before highly-rated French forward Giroud agreed a move last month.
And Jenkinson believes the new additions will provide a major boost to Arsène Wenger's squad this season.
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McGillen, who said the department raised a couple hundred dollars last year, added that the event makes the officers involved feel good because they know they are helping children.
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March 27, 2014
Ruth Brice, director of Career Services at Cheyney University, is encouraging first- and second-year students to consider applying to The University of California Summer Institute for Emerging Managers and Leaders is an all-expenses-paid, career-building fellowship that provides intensive two-week training to first- and second-year students from Historically Black College and Universities (HBCU) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI).The submission deadline in March 31 and Ms. Brice is available to assist applicants with their submission.
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Program Dates: Students attend for two weeks a year, for two consecutive years. The 2014 session is slated to run from August 3 through August 15. Students who complete both sessions, are issued a Certificate of Completion as an emerging manager and leader in business that can be cited on their resume or provided as evidence of marketable skills. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to apply for internships.
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