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The department offers programs leading to a bachelor's degree in either liberal arts or education, with specializations in athletic training, health education, outdoor recreation, physical education or sports science. There are eight majors and 11 minors. A master of science degree is also available for students wishing to pursue advanced study in exercise science. The department's programs are designed to build on a student's liberal studies foundation, give a broad overview of the health and fitness fields and offer a focused preparation in the student's choice of profession.
Most programs in the department include an internship, field experience or student teaching experience. These programs also help students prepare to earn certifications such as the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Health and Fitness Instructor Certification, the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) Accreditation, and relevant Michigan teacher certifications.
The athletic training program prepares students to take the Board of Certification Examination in Athletic Training.Accreditation
The teacher education programs in health and physical education are accredited by the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. The athletic training program is accredited by the Commission on the Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE). A program within outdoor recreation leadership and management is accredited by the Wilderness Education Association.
- Health Promotion Society
- Organization for Outdoor Recreation Professionals
- Student Association for Sport Science
- Student Athletic Training Organization
- Student Michigan Education Association
The department has one of the finest physical education buildings of its kind: the Physical Education Instructional Facility (PEIF). This facility includes four gymnasiums, several classrooms, a pool and dive tank, an exercise physiology and biomechanics lab, athletic training labs, a high ropes course and an instructional dance studio.
The Student Recreation Center is also located in the PEIF and features aerobic and weight training equipment, basketball courts, a student lounge and an indoor climbing wall.
The Outdoor Recreation Center provides programs and equipment rental.
Additional facilities include the Superior Dome (the world's largest wooden dome) and Berry Events Center. The Superior Dome seats 8,000 for football, soccer and softball. When the turf is retracted, basketball, tennis, volleyball and track and field are available. The Berry Events Center, which seats 3,675, has an Olympic-sized ice surface and is the home for Wildcat hockey and basketball and United States Olympic Education Center (USOEC) speedskating.
Student placement and/or employment in public school systems, athletic training agencies and outdoor recreation leadership management agencies generally stipulate that applicants possess good moral character and strong judgment. The ability to successfully pass the rigors of Northern Michigan University's HPER Department helps to validate or ensure these prerequisite qualities in our majors. Each student is therefore advised that school systems and agencies will perform a background investigation on potential employees. The nature and scope of the background investigation is the prerogative of the specific school system or agency and is ordinarily subject to the consent of the applicant. Lack of consent would ordinarily remove an individual from placement and/or employment consideration. Additional information in this regard is available from academic advisers, the department head or the director of teacher education student services.
Before applying for admission to the athletic training program, applicants must fulfill the following requirements:
- Be admitted to Northern Michigan University.
- Have completed, or be in the process of completing the following courses: ATR 110 Introduction to Athletic Training, ATR 125 Emergency Health Care for the Health Professional and HL 101 Medical Terminology for Health Educators.
- Achieve a cumulative NMU grade point average of 2.75 or better in their first semester, with a minimum grade of "B" in ATR 110 Introduction to Athletic Training.
- File an application with current transcript of grades and three letters of recommendation with the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Department by February 1 for the succeeding fall semester.
- Sit for a formal interview with the director of the athletic training education program and additional certified athletic training staff members after application has been filed.
- Meet technical standards for admission.
The technical standards set forth by the Northern Michigan University athletic training educational program establish the essential qualities considered necessary for students admitted to this program to achieve the knowledge, skills and competencies of an entry-level athletic trainer, as well as meet the expectations of CAATE. The following abilities and expectations must be met by students admitted to the athletic training education program. Failing to fulfill these technical standards with or without reasonable accommodations will result in a student not being admitted into the program. Compliance with the technical standards does not guarantee a student's eligibility for the Board of Certification Examination in Athletic Training.
Candidates for selection into the NMU athletic training major must demonstrate the following:
- The mental capacity to assimilate, analyze, synthesize, integrate concepts and problem solve to formulate assessment and therapeutic judgments and to be able to distinguish deviations from the norm.
- Sufficient postural and neuromuscular control, sensory function and coordination to perform appropriate physical examinations using accepted techniques; and accurately, safely and efficiently use equipment and materials during the assessment and treatment of patients.
- The ability to communicate effectively and sensitively with patients and colleagues, including individuals from different cultural and social backgrounds. This includes, but is not limited to, the ability to establish rapport with patients and communicate judgments and treatment information effectively. Students must be able to understand and speak the English language at a level consistent with competent professional practice.
- The ability to record the physical examination results and a treatment plan clearly and accurately.
- The capacity to maintain composure and continue to function well during periods of high stress.
- The perseverance, diligence and commitment to complete the athletic training education program as outlined and sequenced.
- Flexibility and the ability to adjust to changing situations and uncertainty within the clinical situation.
- Affective skills and appropriate demeanor and rapport that relate to professional education and quality patient care.
Once accepted into the athletic training education program, students will be required to have a brief physical exam to ensure he or she meets all program technical standards. The physical exam is conducted by the contracted medical director of the athletic training education program and is of no charge to the student.
The Health, Physical Education and Recreation Department admits a limited number of students to the athletic training program each year. If the number of eligible applicants exceeds the number of placements available, the faculty reserves the right to select the applicants who shall be admitted. The remaining eligible applicants may apply for admission the following year. Ordinarily, students may expect to complete the entire program in approximately three academic years after being admitted to the athletic training program, assuming that they complete all of their courses satisfactorily and in sequence.
Students are responsible for their own transportation to and from off-campus clinical assignments.
- Maintain a minimum cumulative NMU grade point average of 2.50.
- Successfully complete an athletic training (ATR) course on the first or second attempt (i.e., student may repeat an athletic training course only once).
- Complete all courses in the major with a minimum grade of "C", except courses with the ATR prefix must be completed with a minimum grade of "B-".
- Adhere to the Northern Michigan University Student Code.
- Demonstrate a pattern of safe clinical practice commensurate with the student's educational experiences.
Students who withdraw from the program and wish to re-enter must follow the same application and admission procedures as all pre-athletic training students.
Community health education majors and management of health and fitness majors must achieve a grade of "C" (2.00) or higher in all major courses. In addition, students are expected to follow a lifestyle commensurate with their professional aspirations. Sports science majors must achieve a grade of "C" (2.00) or higher in all major courses.
See Retention in the Athletic Training Program (above) for information on this major.
Students majoring in outdoor recreation leadership and management must achieve a grade of "C" (2.00) or higher in all major core courses.
Students majoring in secondary education health education or secondary education physical education or minoring in health education secondary education or physical education secondary education must maintain a grade point average of 2.70 or higher with no grade below a "C" in the professional education sequence, the major and/or minors and required cognates combined.
Liberal Studies: Complete information on the liberal studies requirements and additional graduation requirements, including the health promotion requirement, is in the "Liberal Studies Program and Graduation Requirements" section of this bulletin.
Courses within each major that can be used to satisfy liberal studies requirements are listed with the Roman numeral (in brackets) that coincides with the liberal studies division the course falls under.
- Athletic Training Major
- Community Health Education Major
- Management of Health and Fitness Major
- Outdoor Recreation Leadership and Management Major
- Physical Education - Coaching Major
- Sports Science Major
- Secondary Education Physical Education Major
- Dance Minor
- Emergency Medical Services Minor
- Health and Nutrition Minor
- Health Education Cluster Minor
- Interpretation and Outdoor Education Minor
- Outdoor Leadership Minor
- Outdoor Recreation Leadership Management Cluster Minor
- Outdoor Recreation Minor
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"Parrots are extremely intelligent animals, but they show their intelligence in different ways," Montgomery said. "Some of them feel like learning language, some of them feel like learning something else.
Since then he has appeared on TV shows around the world; led a group of children in a dance on Animal Planet; and starred in a Taco Bell commercial.
"Kids, I think, can be very good stewards of animals" and are very often the best way to pass information to adults, she said.
She is also raising money for Snowball and his friends. Montgomery is donating all of her royalties from this book to Bird Lovers Only.
To create the book, Montgomery brought in her good friends and neighbors, she said.
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"Sarah Bauhan puts out a gorgeous book ...,' which helps book sales, Montgomery said. That, in turn, ensures maximum profits for the bird sanctuary.
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" Pain!" V yells.
"Pain!" the poolees repeat.
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"I want it there!" I want it there!
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"Good for me!" Good for me!
One of the female poolees stops and tilts back with her hands behind
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fellow recruiter, the others jog in place. George's feet knead the
ground, barely leaving the sidewalk. He might finish last every run,
but at least he's never retreated to the "van of tragedies," as the
poolees call it.
While waiting at an intersection, V launches into a regular theme.
"What do you think all your friends are doing now?" he asks.
"Nothing," a poolee mutters.
For examples of doing nothing, George doesn't need to think of his
friends. He only has to think of himself the previous summer, in the
one-bedroom apartment where he lives with his parents and younger
sister. They just passed it a few minutes before, on the right. A year
ago, George would have been sitting at home gorging on ice cream and
frittering away his time on MySpace.
George Zacatelco
courtesy of the Zacatelco Family
"And what are you doing?" V asks. "You're making yourself better, right?"
"Yes, sir!" the poolees shout.
"Marines are winners!" V affirms.
As they near their destination, Sergeant V asks, "Who didn't think he
was going to make it through this run?"
George props up his hand, a shy smile on his face. His shoes come
untied again and he finishes to the cheers of Sergeant V and the other
poolees: "C'mon, George! Let's go! Let's go, big George!" As they wait
for the other recruiter at the edge of a high school's playing fields,
George asks Sergeant V what he should bring to boot camp. He's
scheduled to leave Tuesday morning, but no one's told him yet.
Sergeant V tells him that all he needs are the clothes on his back, a
Social Security card, and a picture ID. The Marine Corps provides the
But V knows that unless George can lose 10 pounds and get in shape in
the next few days, he won't be shipping to boot camp on schedule and
his dream of becoming a Marine may be derailed. It's a dream he has
nurtured since signing up the previous October, choosing the infantry,
which means he's likely to end up on the front lines in Iraqa dream
he's clung to even when he proved ill-suited to military discipline. A
dream that many around him have found puzzling. Why, they wondered,
would anyone want to join the Marines in the middle of a war?
Almost four years into the Iraq War, even Sergeant Vthe top Marine
recruiter in the New York City metropolitan area labors against
widespread lack of interest in the military, at a time when President
Bush has called for a 21,000-troop "surge" to help him win the war. As
V's supervisor, Staff Sergeant Jeffrey Hess, puts it, "You get someone
who might be good to go and he gets out the door and there are 8
million people saying, 'Why in the heck are you doing this?' " Having
once made a living peddling cars, V is a natural salesman. Staff
Sergeant Hess calls him a "Marine's Marine," a poster boy for the
Corps, and refers to his style as "churning and burning." V walks so
much through his territory, which includes the Kingsbridge, University
Heights, and Bedford Park neighborhoods of northwest Bronx, that he
goes through two pairs of shoes a month. Back at the office, he makes
dozens of calls each day, following up on leads.
When talking to potential recruits, V, who grew up in Forest Hills and
was piling up debt at St. John's University when he left to join the
Marines, emphasizes the educational benefits of the Corps, not the
chances of going to Iraq. Still, V and his two fellow recruiters
frequently have to push to "make mission," to reach their monthly
recruiting quota. In December, they made their quota of five total
recruits by a hair, with twoboth recruited by Vsigning up the day
before deadline. Of the 14 substations in New York City and on Long
Island, Hess's was the only one to make mission for the month.
Marine recruiting is more challenging today than during any of the
major 20th-century conflicts, according to David Segal, director of
the Center for Research on Military Organization at the University of
Maryland. The prospect of getting drafted by the Army to fight in the
World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam led many who sought control over their
military experience to enlist in the Marines. With the Iraq War
increasingly unpopular and with no draft to serve as a foil, the
Marine Corps failed to reach its recruiting goals for the first four
months of 2005, the first time this had happened in a decade. Unlike
the Army, which missed its overall 2005 goal by almost 7,000 recruits,
the Marines rebounded to make its target for the year and hasn't
missed a monthly goal since.
Lawrence Korb, a fellow at the Center for American Progress and
assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan Administration, says the
Marine Corps' success is due to its smaller recruiting goals and to "a
special élan" that appeals to recruits. Segal adds that the Corps
assigns its very best noncommissioned officers to recruiting duty and
rewards them with accelerated promotion.
Still, Marine recruitment is showing signs of strain. In August, the
Corps announced the recall of up to 2,500 Marines who'd completed
their tour of duty to serve in positions that couldn't be filled by
volunteers. President Bush's proposed Iraq troop surge, as well as his
proposal to increase the size of the Marine Corps by 23,000 over the
next five years, would dramatically increase the burden on Marine
At Recruiting Substation West Bronx, where Hess and V are based, both
the élan and the potential crisis are apparent. The walls of their
boxy main office, in a building at the intersection of East Fordham
Road and Grand Concourse, feature hundreds of photos of newly minted
Marines in dress uniforms alongside plaques citing the substation for
being "First on Target" in April, May, and December of 2006, making
mission before any other substation in the city or on Long Island.
Sergeant V says their success is due to teamwork, but demographics may
also play a part. The station's territory is heavily Hispanic, as are
the majority of its recruits, including George Zacatelco, whose
parents are Mexican immigrants. While Hispanics have historically
enlisted at low rates, the Marine Corps has made great progress in
recruiting them, according to Segal. Sergeant V, of Colombian descent,
speaks fluent Spanish, as do the station's two other recruiters, which
helps them connect with potential recruits' parents.
But on a day in late June when V is pushing to make mission, a terse
hortatory list in Staff Sergeant Hess's office tells a different story:
1. We must perform at a level which forces us to make all our missions
before deadlines.
2. Currently we are not performing. WTF!
3. Make adjustments ASAP!
Hess, who volunteered to become a recruiter and worked as one for a
year in Jamaica, Queens, before taking over the West Bronx office in
2003, says that recruiting is the hardest job in the Marine Corps. The
demands of making mission have his recruiters working 12 to 15 hours a
day, six days a week. They're on their own most of the time and face a
constant stream of dispiriting rejection.
Hess says that Sergeant V hates being a recruiter, but V says he's
gotten used to the job, though he'd prefer one that wouldn't require
dealing with the public and would allow him to spend more time with
his wife and young daughter. Still, he throws himself into the
assignment. In addition to searching for new recruits, he has to keep
tabs on his poolees. Many sign up while still in high school and spend
months in the delayed-entry program before shipping to boot camp. If
they aren't ready to ship on schedule, he has to recruit others to
take their place. For some poolees, readying them to ship means
accompanying them on errands such as getting a new Social Security
card or signing up for summer school. For others, like George
Zacatelco, it means working out with them to make sure they can pass
the required fitness test.
It's a Friday afternoon in mid June, and George sits on a couch in his
living room watching a DVD of Jarhead. The couch doubles as his bed,
and there's little in the room's plain décor to mark it as his own.
The window drapes are lace. Two shelves of an immense wall unit hold a
smattering of his things: Old Spice, a photograph from his prom. The
rest are packed with ornate dolls and photographs from his younger
sister's quinceañera. (She shares the apartment's single bedroom with
their parents.) Jarhead, about a Marine sniper platoon during the
first Gulf War, came out shortly after George joined the delayed-entry
program and was an instant hit among the poolees. "We burn the fat off
our souls," they'll say, echoing one of its lines. They're also fond
of advice on how to kill time in the desert, which features extensive
masturbation along with debates on the meaning of life. The recruiters
tell the poolees that Jarhead is dumb, that it casts the Marine Corps
in a poor light. If anything, though, its warts-and-all portrayal only
increases George's desire to be a Marine.
But George is also driven by a strong sense of patriotic duty. He
first heard of the Marine Corps when he spent hours as a young child
watching History Channel documentaries about the World Wars. His
MySpace page reflects that obsession. Under the header "Who I'd like
to meet," instead of a movie star or athlete, he features the famous
photograph of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill together at Yalta. "The
Big Three," he notes. After the terrorist attacks of September 11 ,
which happened when he was in eighth grade, George began to seriously
consider joining the military. As a high school freshman, he wrote an
essay arguing for war against Iraq, though he later came to believe
that President Bush was "BS'ing" about weapons of mass destruction.
Still, the Madrid and London bombings, as well as ongoing attacks
against U.S. forces in Iraq, solidified his resolve to enlist.
At first, George's parents laughed off his plans. When they realized
he was serious, they grew angry. He was their only son. Why wouldn't
he just go to college? Nonetheless, in October 2005, Sergeant V came
to their apartment and they signed papers allowing George, six weeks
past his 17th birthday, to join the delayed-entry program.
A few of George's teachers at the Marble Hill School for International
Studies, a small public high school in the Bronx, supported his
decision to enlist, but many urged him to go to college instead. But
George revels in defying his teachers' expectations. (His favorite
line from Jarhead is the main character's explanation of how he ended
up in the Marines: "I got lost on the way to college.") He even has a
conspiracy theory that explains his teachers' obsession with higher
education: The more students they send to college, he claims, the more
funding they get.
George's friends at school wore black, grew their hair out, and did
"stupid crazy" stuff. They'd run around the hallways, slamming into
doors. They'd dare a friend to drink an entire gallon of milk in a
single sitting. They'd shout down people who made stupid comments,
like a girl in one of George's classes who said that illegal
immigrants take jobs from Americans.
His friends thought it was cool that he was joining the Marines,
though one girl told him he was going to die in Iraq, while others
joked that if he went there, he should bring back some body parts.
Another girl would hug him every time he mentioned the Marines, and
not let go.
When the platoon in Jarhead throws an alcohol-fueled blowout, George
grins. With a 7 p.m. curfew, he didn't get to go out much in high
school, and he's hoping there will be a lot of partying in the
Marines. From what he's seen so far, they're pretty crazy. The
sergeants will get into martial arts battles in the street,
indifferent to what passersby might think. And when the poolees are in
the minivan after training, they'll start chanting, "Kill! Kill! Kill!"
For the first few months, George was a solid poolee. He went to all
the Saturday trainings and worked out with Sergeant V during the week.
But then in early February, he had an awful week. It started with a
poor report card, which placed his graduation in jeopardy. Then,
during a fitness test that all poolees must pass before shipping out
to boot camp, he finished the one-and-a-half-mile run in 16 minutes,
way over the limit. Staff Sergeant Hess, who's so big and tough that
George doesn't even like to talk to him under normal circumstances,
blew up at him, telling him to take off his poolee shirt, that he
wasn't fit to wear it.
Now, when a drill instructor in Jarhead shoves the main character's
head through a blackboard, George is nonchalant. "I hope that doesn't
happen to me," he says.
But back then, George felt like burying his head under a rock. He
holed up at home, obsessively re-reading "The Making of a Marine," an
official booklet given to each poolee. On the inside front cover, next
to "Ship Date," George had written, "July 11th, 2006 woot!""woot"
being what his crazy friends at school say when they want to get
pumped. George occasionally made his way back to the recruiting
office, but the sergeants would mock him by giving him Army recruiting
flyers and saying, "I thought you were dead," or, "Look who appeareda
Once George showed up with a lip piercing. "I will either kill you,"
Staff Sergeant Hess said, "or you can go outside, or I'll take that
shit out of your mouth." George was about to leave, perhaps for good,
when Sergeant V appeared and talked him into taking the piercing out.
That was George's turning point. He was back on track, still set to
leave on July 11. Woot!
Just before Jarhead ends, George's mother arrives home from her
babysitting job, followed shortly after by his father, a cook. They
sink into a couch at the other end of the room and a tense silence
takes hold as the movie's two main characters return from the desert
to find that the war's over. "They didn't get a kill," George remarks
softly, explaining the characters' sullen expressions. After the
movie, George's mother leaves the room, and his father, a squat man
with a sunken face and a wispy mustache, sits next to him on the
couch. George replaces the DVD with a documentary about Marines who
fought in Iraq that came packaged with the Jarhead collector's
edition. One of its subjects can't sleep at night. Another discovers
that the GI Bill doesn't cover his state school tuition. A third mocks
the idea that Marine jobs carry over into civilian life. If you're
trained as a cannoneer, he asks, "what are you going to be, the guy
who fires a cannon in the circus?" George laughs at the quip, but he's
unfazed by the bleak prognosis for life after the Marines. The Marine
brother of a friend from school had post-traumatic stress disorder and
now he's back in Iraq. Having signed up for the infantry, George knows
he's likely to end up there, too. Going to Iraq would be an honor, he
says, because he'd be able to "get some bad guys, to fight them over
there instead of over here." He just hopes he doesn't die, and takes
solace in his belief that Army soldiers in Iraq are more vulnerable
than Marines. Some online research he did around the time of the
2,000th American death in Iraq revealed that most were indeed from the
Army and the National Guard. (He failed to take into account that
Marines make up just one-sixth of the troops in Iraq; per capita,
they're twice as likely as Army soldiers to die there.)
Meanwhile, George's father still hopes he'll change his mind. He rubs
his eyebrows and asks George softly in Spanish if he really wants to
join. Yeah, George replies, and then smiles and grabs his father's
shoulder, as if to assure him that everything will be all right.
It's easy to see why Staff Sergeant Hess terrifies George. A former
running back whose college football career was ended by injury, the
32-year-old Hess is six feet tall and weighs 225 pounds. He can
bench-press nearly twice his weight and his bulging biceps are covered
with tattoos, including one of a bulldog wielding a bloody knife.
While Sergeant V is like an older brother to the poolees, Hess is the
father, the hammer, the one who shoves a foot up their butt.
Putting on a stern look, Hess strides out of his office toward George
and another poolee. George was supposed to ship out to boot camp four
days ago. But instead, he's sitting at a desk in the recruiting
office, where Hess will once again give him the required fitness test.
George smiles nervously as Hess approaches.
"Zacatelco!" says Hess, a Pittsburgh native whose accent is curled
slightly Southern from eight years stationed in North Carolina as a
career retention specialist. "You know how to do pull-ups, right?"
"Yes, sir," George replies. He goes to the pull-up bar, hangs, and
pulls. He only needs to do two to pass, but barely gets his arms to 90
degrees before they begin to shake and he drops down.
"You've gotta be shittin' me," Hess barks. "I thought you almost did
two the other day."
"Yes, sir," George mumbles.
The other poolee does five, then Hess brings them over to a scale to
be weighed. George comes in at 184.
"Me and you are gonna have a conversation," Hess says.
Hess brings George into his office, where he checks height and weight
requirements in a loose-leaf binder.
"You need to get down to 175," he tells George, though even at this
weight, he'll require a waiver. "You need to be here every day."
"Yes, sir," George says.
"Don't just tell me, 'Yes, sir,' " Hess says. "Because you don't come
every day."
"All right," George says, holding his hands behind his back and
grabbing at the fabric of his shirt.
George barely does the minimum of 44 abdominal crunches in two
minutes. Then they head to nearby Devoe Park for the mile-and-a-half
run. On the way, Hess strides several yards ahead, talking on his cell
phone to Sergeant V, who's on vacation.
"How the fuck do you expect to fucking get rid of Zacatelco?" he asks.
"He's 15 pounds overweight."
"It's your job to know that shit," Hess continues after a pause. "He
ain't goin' nowhere. When you come back off of leave, he's gonna be
your baby."
At the park, Hess lays down the ground rules. "You don't want to walk
on this run. If you walk, guess what?" he says. "You fail. Your goal
is to get 10 if you can, but 13 minutes, 30 seconds pays the rent."
Less than halfway through, George slows to a walk. Hess hustles across
the park to motivate him.
"Pick it up, Zac!" he taunts. "You ain't gonna pass it this way!"
George starts jogging again, but before long he's back to walking.
"Let's go!" Hess yells, arms flung wide in disbelief. "Why you walking?"
George finishes two full minutes over the cutoff. A grimace of pain
crosses his face. He leans forward, as if to stretch, then crumples
down and ends up on all fours. He's rubbing his right calf when Hess
commands: "Get up! Drink some water!"
Hess paces around angrily. "Are you gonna die?" he asks.
"No, sir," George says.
"So why walk?"
On the way back to the recruiting station, Hess again pulls ahead.
When he looks back in frustration to find George and the other poolee
a half block back, they race-walk to catch up.
Even by the standards of the sedentary Xbox generation, George is
having serious trouble passing the fitness test. A more common
challenge for the recruiters is when a poolee tries to back out as his
ship date approaches. Poolees aren't legally bound to the Marines
until the day they ship out to boot camp, and some see the
delayed-entry program as a trial period at the end of which they can
make a final decision. Others waver under the pressure of parents,
friends, and teachers telling them they're crazy to join the Marines.
Hess says this happens about half the time. In a recent case, a poolee
set to ship the next week tried to pull out at the behest of his
parents. A hectic few hours of back-and-forth ensued among Hess,
another recruiter, the poolee, and his parents. After methodically
reminding the poolee of why he'd joined up in the first placeto be a
part of the bestHess and the other recruiter got him back on track.
Hess tries to preempt such second thoughts. When recruits are about to
sign up, he sits them down in his office and impresses upon them the
gravity of their decision. They're free to get up and go, he tells
them, but if they sign up, they're making a commitment. And that means
that the day you're set to go to boot camp, he says, when I show up at
your house, I'm taking someone to boot camp. If you won't come out of
that house, I'll take your mom or your dad. If I have to burn down
your house to get you out of there, then I will.
If a poolee still dares to try to pull out, Hess and the recruiters
remind him that he gave his word. What kind of person goes back on his
word? If he drops out and tries to join the Marines later on, they
tell him, there'll be a black mark against him. Still, if the poolee
has a really good reason, such as a college scholarship, Hess might
let him switch to the Reserves. But he has to have gotten up on the
right side of the bed for that to happen. Otherwise, he'll just say
there's no way out, you signed the contract.
In the end, a certain number of poolees never do go to boot camp. Each
substation tries to keep this attrition rate below 20 percent. At
Hess's office, it was 14 percent for 2006.
On an overcast, humid morning in mid July, George and 11 other poolees
stand in a circle at the edge of Van Cortlandt Park. Staff Sergeant
Hess, who apparently did not get up on the right side of the bed this
morning, glares at them from the center of the circle.
"You sound like a bunch of little girls," he says as they count off
while stretching their quads. Then he leads them in a set of push-ups,
keeping his body absolutely straight and thrusting his head forward to
keep watch on them.
"Push up!" he commands.
"Marine Corps!" they respond.
On abdominal crunches, George falters as they near 40.
"Let's go, Zacatelco!" Hess yells.
"Yes, sir!" George responds, showing a bit more verve than usual. As
promised, he's come to the recruiting office to work out almost every
day in the week since the disastrous fitness test.
Hess has decided it's time to crack down. After the run at the last
training, Sergeant V had the poolees play football, then they drove
back to the office to eat pizza. This time, when Sergeant V and
another recruiter expect to play football again, Hess is annoyed.
"We're gonna train these guys the way we're supposed to," he says.
On the run, Hess leads the chanting:
Up from the sub 60 feet below!
Hit the surface and we're ready to go!
Grease gun, K-bar by my side!
These are the tools that make men die!
Sidestroke, backstroke, swim to the shore!
Hit the beach and we're ready for war!
It's rare to hear the recruiters and poolees express such bloodthirsty
sentiments. Although the Marine Corps is known for undertaking
extremely dangerous missions, most recently in places such as Anbar
Province in Iraq, the recruiters would much rather talk about
education benefits and the inculcation of pride and leadership than
about facing down an enemy with a K-bar knife.
As of mid July, Staff Sergeant Hess claims that George is the only
current poolee signed up for the infantry; others are headed for
careers as computer specialists and legal administrators. Of several
hundred Marines recruited in the three years he's headed the
substation, Hess claims that only a handful have ended up in Iraq. Yet
Lawrence Korb, the former assistant secretary of defense, estimates
that half of all Marines end up deploying to Iraq or Afghanistan
within a year of starting boot camp. He says that even a computer
specialist might end up attached to an infantry platoon.
After jogging halfway around the field and running a series of
"suicide sprints," the pool circles up for more exercises. Sergeant V
leads them in a lengthy set of arm circles and, as poolees give up,
another recruiter taps them on the shoulder and directs them to sit on
the sidelines. George's arms droop, but he perseveres.
"If you're thinking of quitting," V says, "look inside yourself and
decide who you really are."
"If you're thinking of quitting," Hess rebuts, "don't."
The next stop is the pull-up bars. Each poolee has to run up and
identify himself with a set script before beginning. Many garble the
words or say them weakly. One laughs halfway through. Hess sends the
offenders to the back of the line. On his second try, George announces
himself at a barely acceptable volume: "Poolee Zacatelco from RSS West
Bronx, sir!"
Hess nods his approval and George leaps up to grab the bars.
"C'mon, c'mon! One! Two!" Hess cheers George along, giving him a
boost, with one hand on his back and one on his torso. " Three! C'mon!
You got it! There you go! Four! Get it! Get it! Five! C'mon, big
George. Six! There you go. Six! Good job!"
A few weeks later, one of Sergeant V's fellow recruiters pulls up to
George's apartment building at 4 in the morning. It's early August and
George has shed the required 10 pounds and passed the fitness test by
doing two pull-ups and running a mile and a half in 13 minutes, 15
seconds. George has been up all night, too anxious to sleep. Though
he'd been concerned that his parents would accompany him to the
military processing center in Brooklyn, prolonging an awkward parting,
he now finds it difficult to say goodbye. But he does, then joins the
recruiter in the car. Upon arriving at Parris Island, however, he does
only one pull-up and spends several weeks in a remedial platoon before
starting boot camp proper.
Shortly after George joined the delayed-entry program, he dreamed of a
flag-draped casket. He'd been fighting in Iraq and one of his buddies
hadn't made it. No, it was him. He was in the casket.
That was October 2005, when American casualties in Iraq increased
sharply. George returned from boot camp in late November 2006, in the
midst of an even bloodier period. Last October, 105 American troops
died in Iraq, and the average of more than three deaths per day during
the last three months of 2006 was the highest in two years. Yet boot
camp was a news vacuum. As the chaos in Iraq helped propel the
Democrats to control of Congress and brought down Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld, George was put through a grueling 13-week training
regimen. All day long, drill instructors yelled at him to hurry up, do
this, do that. At night, he dreamed of more orders, not Iraq.
A week after returning home, George sits in his parents' living room.
Foil banners reading "Congratulations" and "Welcome Home" are taped to
the walls, and a cluster of partially deflated balloons hugs the
ceiling. George's parents have installed a bed in the corner to make
his brief stay more comfortable. A Snoopy doll rests by the pillow.
George looks like he's shrunk a few sizes. Along with 15 fewer
poundshe's down to 159he has lost a certain animation in his face.
His old nervous smile surfaces only at rare moments. Since returning,
George has grown much closer to his parents and sister. They traveled
down to South Carolina for his boot camp graduation, and seeing them
there was, he says, "the best feeling in the world."
When George goes to the recruiting station, he's treated as a Marine.
The first time he walks in, he's wearing civilian clothes and a poolee
mistakes him for another poolee. "I'm a Marine," George says. "Get on
your face!" The poolee obeys and begins doing push-ups. He does so
many that George loses count.
Through the summer and into the fall, Hess's office consistently
exceeded its mission. The pressure never lets up, thoughwhen it makes
mission before the end of the month, it's expected to bring in more
recruits to make up for substations that fall short. At the end of
September, the office was named "City Station of the Year" for making
mission more often than any other substation in 2006.
Before heading to North Carolina for infantry school, George spends a
few days assisting the recruiters. On an unusually mild day the week
after Thanksgiving, he stands in front of an armed forces recruiting
station in the traffic island across from the recruiting office and
tries to interest passersby in the Marines. With him are a lance
corporal and Hanly Rivas, the poolee George ordered to do push-ups.
George wears a green cap, tan shirt and tie, dark green slacks, and
glossy black shoes. He has a blank, self-conscious look on his face
and rocks back and forth on his feet as pedestrians stream by.
"Grab 'im up! Grab 'im up!" says the lance corporal, prodding George
to approach two passing black kids.
George sticks out a hand and the kid closest to him shakes it without
breaking stride.
"No, no," the other teen mouths, weaving around George.
George smiles nervously. A dark-haired young woman walks up and
berates Rivas, whose gray T-shirt features an image of an M16 rifle,
for joining the Marines. It turns out that the wiry 18-year-old Rivas
and the woman dated briefly.
"I'm serving my country," Rivas says.
"Bush has us in Iraq fighting for oil," the woman says. "You guys are
protecting oil!"
George walks over to Rivas and whispers in his ear, "End it."
Rivas goes quiet as the woman continues her tirade. "You're entitled
to your opinion," he says when she's done.
For George, there's no longer any point in discussing whether the Iraq
War is right or wrong, whether it's a success or a disaster. As the
rest of the country embraces the latter position, he focuses on doing
his job.
A few days later, he leaves for Camp Geiger in North Carolina for
infantry school, which lasts about a month. Now, he's there training
to be a rifleman, his specialty. According to Hess, George could "pump
out" to Iraq as early as March. Training keeps George pretty busy, but
he finds time to keep up his MySpace page, logging in once a week or
so. He's changed the design a bit, though. The photo of Roosevelt,
Churchill, and Stalin is gone, replaced by a link to a YouTube video
of Marine martial arts battlesa hard rockscored smorgasbord of
flailing limbs and body slams. And George's identification photo,
which used to include a number of his high school friends, has been
supplanted by a picture of him flanked by two fellow Marines.
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I think I have seen them for sale somewhere.
Anybody care to have some t-shirts made?
I think I have seen them for sale somewhere.
If anyone finds them for sale or does a buy, count me in for several.
Retired US Navy
NRA Life Member -- NAHC Life Member
"Take, sink, burn, or destroy the enemy fleet": Lord St.Vincent's orders to Nelson off Toulon, 21 May 1798
Pretty much spells it out, huh?
This shirt - and many more - can be found atOriginally Posted by Scorpion8
Lots of cool designs. There's another site at
that has some good Second Amendment / Gun themes.
I'm going to contact the first company to check on bulk buys - if I get an answer, I'll post it under the 'group buy' section to see if there's interest.
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i would be in for at least two!
"my name is mike brandyberry and i hope to be your gunsmith!"
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During the past sixty years, many European nations have confronted issues of ethnicity and national hatred in working toward a European Union based on respect for human rights. However, the issue of where do Roma citizens belong in countries like Hungary has produced considerable talk, but scant action at government levels. Zoltan Balog of the parliamentary Human Rights Committee, recently told a business group it was time "to find a language to speak clearly about the problem" without offending Romas. He noted the political rise of the nationalist Jobbik party which fosters fear and hate of Romas as a symptom of what must be addressed if this issue can result in equal citizenship for all who are members of the Hungarian community.
Recent surveys of Hungarians reveal over 60% of the population believes criminality is "in the blood of Romas." In the view of Balog any solution begins with providing meaningful work for Romas so they can earn a decent living and cease requiring government assistance. A sensible solution.


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Max Hastings, writing in the Canberra Times, compared the attitude of the American people towards the war in Iraq as akin to having "a chronic ailment. It is nasty. They wish it would go away. But it does not inflict the sort of agonizing pain that causes democracies to force urgent action upon their government." The rest of the world has simply grown tired of the same old words from Bush and his cohorts, hopeful expectations from US military commanders and suicide bombers killing without restraint.
Hastings expresses the view "it seems futile to waste words rehearsing the folly of the invasion launched under false pretenses on the basis of weapons of mass destruction that some of us, including me, were foolish enough to swallow. Likewise the blunders of the early occupation are common ground. All that matters now are the preent and the future."
According to Hastings, "The Iraq experience has laid bare the limits of raw mllitary power. It would be naive to suggest that an abrupt US departure would prromise the country a happy future. But, there seems no purpose in a continual US military presence except in the context of new policies vastly different from those at present."


text: In my opinion Taraus does not compare to a Springfield,Ruger or Glock . I think for a few bucks more get a Springfield XDM . I have a XDM 3.8 compact 9mm it is sweet and eats everything I feed it . You will always wish you bought top shelf . I vote Springfield then ruger


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scream out
gone with clock cuz his shit's fresh
scream out
fresh style clockmodel. Big Ups
Diggin clockmodel's style, sick shit
i don't like the way the letters fade. it would of won my vote if it was solid.
clock got sum steez on it
i know you're new to calgary, but just so you know...
there's a MOLAK.
and moloko is a shit name choice.
Went with SCREAM
Shiit has style man.
Clock is what ev's cause its not even a complete throw. I mean I dig it, but it's not sometin practical to me.
Screams was practical and Wider's was str8 basic throw which is nice to see once in awhile.
Stay up guys.
dope letters wider, and clock fresh as a daisy
made her cum twice never once used a mattress
Widers is the only real throwup there. And its dope.
clock no doubt thats real fresh ive never seen anything quite like that. nice work bro.
I'm worse than all 7 deadly sins!
Cause i'll kill ya off wit tha speed of hurricane force winds!
lol i don't care of winning or losing, but i gotta speak out. clock doesnt diserve to win. this is my last post.
i kill zombies
Word! I hate that new fangled art school shit. Wider shows us how its done.
this still open?


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I selected my colors based on the following color challenge issued by Kristina Werner. I'm becoming one of her blog groupies!! Last week, I was selected to be in her top ten. I was truly swooning!!! Maybe the one and only time ever, so I will cherish that moment forever! lol! Her challenge this week was based on this Martha Stewart picture:
The colors to use were: Certainly Celery, Soft Sky, Pumpkin Pie and Very Vanilla.
Here is the link that will take you to Kristina's blog. She links to the Martha Stewart website, too, if you are interested in the baby shoe template.
Tonight I am having 17 ladies over for my first annual Hostess Appreciation Dessert and Gifts night. I've been a SU demonstrator for just over a year now and it's been so much fun. I can't wait to pamper my hostesses with gifts, pie, projects and prizes. I have to admit, though, the food spreads that most of them put out will make mine look paltry. My talent does not fall far from my stamp room! haha! My dessert is a thawed out Mrs. Smith's pie . . . but I'm hoping my projects will make up for the lack of kitchen creativity! (Although, I LOVE to cook main meals. I'm just not much of dessert/appetizer kind of girl.)
Supplies I used to make this card:
Stamps: Dream du Jour
Paper: Certainly Celery, Pumpkin Pie, Very Vanilla, Soft Sky Designer Prints
Ink: StazOn Black, Pumpkin Pie, Certainly Celery, Soft Sky
Accessories: Pumpkin Pie Grosgrain, Button, Pretties Pearl, Glue Dots, Dimensionals, Aqua- Painter


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Speakers at a conference in Dublin, Ireland, on May 7, sponsored by Ireland's Association of Catholic Priests, called on the hierarchy to open structures of dialogue with lay Catholics about the future of the church. The A.C.P. has called for a re-evaluation of the church's teaching on sexuality and a "redesigning" of ministry "to incorporate the gifts, wisdom and expertise of the entire faith community, male and female." The Rev. Gerry O'Hanlon said the crisis of sexual abuse by members of the clergy and its serious mishandling by church leaders have revealed deeper fault lines in the national and universal church. Participants pointed to the report from the recent apostolic visitation of the Irish church, which criticized a "fairly widespread" tendency among Irish Catholics to hold views contrary to the teaching of the church, as an indication that Irish Catholics are eager for reform.
Irish Seek Dialogue
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Re: how long does it take you leave?
I've known some who are liveaboards, like us, that are burdened with stuff on the deck, on the dock, in storage boxes and cars, etc. We own nothing ashore besides our bank account. If we are stocked with provisions and full water tanks, we can leave for a day sail within ten minutes or leave for a six month cruise in the same length of time. We are usually underway more than half of each year.
Re: how long does it take you leave?
Takes me about 15 minutes to get underway.
Normally, it takes me 45 minutes+ when I get back before I'm walking down the dock to leave. I like to arrive at a clean and ready boat, so I do all my cleaning and tidying up when I get back to the marina at the end of the day. Depends on how long I was on the boat....a quick day sail and I'm out fast....several days over a long weekend? I gotta go dump the holding tank, wash down the decks and cockpit, clean up the cabin....you know, more work.
I always plan this into my sailing.....I don't come back from a few days out overnighting at sunset, tired. I plan to have a few hours of daylight left and plenty of time to leisurely clean up.
Re: how long does it take you leave?
It takes me about 35 minutes to unload, assemble, and launch my boat, assuming I don't screw it up somehow or break my foot pump. Another 30 to put it all back into and on top of the car.
Re: how long does it take you leave?
My boat is about 100 feet from my office window/home.
From the time I get off work to the time the boat can leave the slip is somewhat under five minutes.
Re: how long does it take you leave?
From where?
It is a 10 minute walk to the dinghy dock from my house. The oars, a pfd and a sponge live in the Avon. I enjoy the row to the mooring. Another 5 minutes. Open things up, remove covers, check systems, start the engine and relax. Decide which head sail to hank on and do that 10 to 15 minutes (if it isn't blowing 20 ssw). Cast off. I need lazy jacks and a simpler way to cover the main when I return. Flaking the main properly and covering it are the most time consuming tasks. I probably spend 10 minutes on that. Stow the head sail or put it into a sail bag that stays on deck, 5 minutes. Shut down systems and final check, dry up any water that dripped in at the shaft seal if I used the engine, 5 or10 minutes. Row back to the dock. (20 to 30 minutes each way?)
I do not hurry any more. It is all an enjoyable part of the day so I consider finishing the breakfast dishes and going out the door as my departure. Zero minutes!
Re: how long does it take you leave?
We trailer our 25 footer . . . every weekend. On a GOOD day, from the time that I stop the truck to the time that my wife pulls the trailer out of the water to park it, is about 30 minutes. That includes stepping the 30 foot mast, rigging all the lines and warming up the motor while she saunters back to the dock. On a bad day, an hour. However . . . it take a little more time loading the boat in the driveway, especially if we're going out for a week.
Re: how long does it take you leave?
Liveaboard, on a dock, 30' sailboat : 15 minutes if nobody is sitting in my way, and it begins with closing all the roof hatches, tipping delicate things over/wedging them in tight spaces so they don't fall and break. Then I go up in the cockpit and remove the wheel cover, start the engine, go on deck and remove the mainsail cover, remove parts of my dodger windows, and the entire dodger cover, center the traveler, clip the main halyard to the sail, and then run my (roller furling) jib sheets aft to the cockpit. By then, I can unplug from shore-power, untie from the dock and motor out of the marina until I raise my sails.
In the midst of this, before un-tying I check to make sure the Fwd/Rev/throttle all work as they should...habit...
There's always a weird "I know I'm forgetting something" feeling when it all happens too quickly and too fluidly. It's usually that I forget to take my fenders up while underway, and the feeling goes away after that. Of course, now after stating that fact, it may never happen again.
Re: how long does it take you leave?
Guests along?
I do my absolute best to get there before them and do almost all cast off preparations prior to their arrival. They can and will require my attention once aboard and I prefer to be done with my chores first. If they turn out to be low maintenance, all the better.
Re: how long does it take you leave?
I'm with Islanderguy....
Time is inversley proportional to the number of people coming along...
I'm on a trailer at the marina (2.5 hr from home)...I can get there, get loaded, launched, park the truck and out the harbor in 30-35min (just did it this week end)
Bring the wife (or a buddy) along and it's an hour easy to get loaded...bring my two girls with the wife and it's a good two hours to load, pack and organize, potty breaks, launch the boat, park the truck, go back to the truck for more stuff, load that, potty break, and then head out the harbor...
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Re: how long does it take you leave?
With new the pilings installed off the end of the pier I now finally have a nice wide pull through slip. Now I can be underway in 5 mins and tied up in 15. Before the pilings were put in I had to tie her between our pier and the neighbors. That made it a real challenge for boarding and in anything other than a dead calm a real bear to jockey in and out.
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"At a time when we are working hard to both secure energy supplies and shift to more environmentally appropriate means of extracting fossil fuels, but also adding immeasurably to our search for renewable energy, this agreement is a win-win. These reservoirs could hold considerable reserves that would benefit the United States and Mexico alike," said Secretary of State Hilary Clinton.
"This Transboundary Agreement removes uncertainties regarding development of transboundary resources in the resource-rich Gulf of Mexico. As a result of this agreement, nearly 1.5 million acres of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf will now be made more accessible for exploration and production activities," stated Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Ken Salazar. "Estimates by the DOI's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) indicate this area contains as much as 172 million barrels of oil and 304 billion cubic feet of natural gas."
There is a higher level of interest in the western Gulf of Mexico since the region is oil-prone. Shell Oil's Perdido development provides some of the closest infrastructure in the area.
According to a DOI statement, the Transboundary Agreement establishes a framework for U.S. offshore oil and gas companies and Mexico's Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) to jointly develop transboundary reservoirs. The agreement also opens up resources in the Western Gap that were off limits to both countries under a previous treaty that imposed a moratorium along the boundary through 2014.
"The Obama Administration is committed to the responsible expansion of domestic energy production," Salazar said. "This agreement makes available promising areas in the resource-rich Gulf of Mexico and establishes a clear process by which both governments can provide the necessary oversight to ensure exploration and development activities are conducted safely."
Mexican President Felipe Calderon watched the signing of the agreement by Clinton and Mexican Minister of Foreign Relations Patricia Espinosa. Salazar and Mexican Minister of Energy Jordy Herrera were also present at the ceremony.
The agreement is designed to enhance energy security in North America and support the shared duty of both countries to exercise responsible stewardship of the Gulf of Mexico. It is built on a commitment to the safe, efficient, and equitable exploitation of transboundary reservoirs with the highest degree of safety and environmental standards, the agencies noted.
Originally, the United States and Mexico jointly announced their intention to negotiate a transboundary hydrocarbons agreement on June 23, 2010, following the joint statement adopted by Presidents Brack Obama and Calderon at the conclusion of the latter's visit to Washington, D.C., on May 19, 2010.
The agreement establishes a cooperative process for managing the maritime boundary region that promotes joint utilization of transboundary reservoirs.
It also provides a legal framework for possible commercial activities at the maritime boundary and sets clear guidelines for transboundary developments. It establishes incentives for oil and gas companies to voluntarily enter into arrangements to jointly develop any transboundary reservoirs.
In the event such an arrangement is not achieved, the agreement establishes a process by which U.S. companies and Pemex can individually develop the resources on each side of the border while protecting each nation's interests and resources. U.S. companies will also be able to explore new business opportunities and carry out collaborative projects with Pemex.
Joint inspections teams will be able to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Both governments will review all plans for the development of any transboundary reservoirs.
"This agreement creates new opportunities. And for the first time, American companies will be able to collaborate with Pemex, their Mexican counterpart. In tough times like these, we need to make the most of every opportunity to create jobs, to foster economic growth and energy security, while managing our resources and our environment responsibly for future generations," Clinton emphasized.
After signing, both countries will work through their domestic systems to bring the agreement into force, according to DOI.
It will likely be several years before permitting begins and drilling can start. The area has not been considered for an offshore lease sale and environmental impact assessments have probably not been done.
This will be an opportunity for Pemex to add to its knowledge of ultra-deepwater drilling and production operations that can be used to develop fields offshore Mexico.


text: geod2 requested a separate thread; I borrowed paskatefan's phrase for the thread title. Cassar turned 24 this past December. He was planning to do 3Lz+3T in his SP at Nationals but fell on his 3Lz. I saw him working on -- and landing some -- 3Lz+3T and 3T+3T in practices in Greensboro, but didn't notice any 3A attempts.


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Canada jobs surge surprise offers hope for fourth quarter
By Louise Egan
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's economy churned out far more jobs than expected in November in a surprising comeback at a time of sluggish growth, offering hope of stronger fourth quarter economic showing.
However, Statistics Canada's report on Friday was accompanied by a negative report on the labor productivity of Canadian businesses, which fell 0.5 percent in the third quarter, in contrast to a 0.6 percent rise in U.S. productivity.
Canada created a net 59,300 new jobs in November, mostly full-time positions and in the private sector, and the jobless rate fell to 7.2 percent, the lowest level since June, from 7.4 percent.
Market operators surveyed by Reuters had forecast, on average, 10,000 new jobs in November and a steady 7.4 percent jobless rate.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty called the news "terrific" and economists were unanimously upbeat about the report, which came amid other signs the economy was struggling to gain momentum.
"Just as the conventional wisdom pretty much everywhere was that the Canadian economy was practically grinding to a halt, we get handed one of the strongest job numbers of the year," said Doug Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Capital Markets.
"It's a solid report, from head to toe. At least upon first glance, I don't see any major warts in the data."
Nonfarm payrolls in the United States rose by 146,000 in the same month, proportionately not nearly as strong as Canada, but still better than expected, while the U.S. jobless rate fell to 7.7 percent from 7.9 percent. Continued...


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Thomashton, you have taken my words far too literally, they were not intended to cause a "dramatic" spin on the death of these ducks, but to liven up a little story. I am truly fully aware of how animals behave, all animals require food, all have a place on this earth. Thank you for your empathy towards my loss, we learn lessons by our errors, and I am learning today, tomorrow and to then. Have a wonderful and great day, enjoy our life we live. Cindi
This falls in my back yard. I do animal damage control work for a living. That big of a hole in chicken wire, in your area, with multiple kills and only one missing adds up to one main suspect. If you have neighbors I would suspect a medium sized to large dog. Multiple kills like you describe are a canine habit. They bite and shake, or worry, their prey, and torn off heads and wings are common. The second most likely would be a coyote. Both have the size and strength to pull apart the wire, and once inside to kill the birds. A large Weasel is roughly a foot long and can fit through a hole the size of an orange. A Fisher or Martin 2 to 3 times that size on average. The 18 inch hole rules them out.


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Is there anything in Arkansas flooded besides privite hunting grounds. Here in the southern part of the state all the good public hunting is high and dry and the ducks are headed to Mexico :cry: :cry: :cry: Maybe 2004 will bring rain and lots of it.
See Ya in the flooded greentimber.


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Discomfort walking up hills
I apologize, this is text heavy, but I want to get all the info on here. My girl (5 1/2 yr old GSD/Mal) seems to have some discomfort when she's walking up hills, and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas as to what the issue might be.
When she's going up hills, she kind of humps her back and instead of walking "right back foot, left front foot"/"left back foot, right front foot" she walks "right front, right back"/"left front, left back". She does this every time she walks up a hill. We live in the mountains, in a very hilly area, so avoiding hills is impossible. She's actually changed her walk now so that she walks like that almost all the time, hunches her back at hills, and her trot and canter look normal.
This first started when she was about 2 and we had gone for a 3 hour hike that was about 2 hours uphill, 1 hour down. By the end of the hike she was definitely tired out - which is a little unlike her, she normally goes forever. The next day she was limping and sore to get up. The limp would go away after a few steps. She was sore and limping for a few days (maybe a week?) so we made a vet appointment to get her hips looked at. The hip x-rays looked very good to the vet, not sent to OFA as she's a shelter dog and was spayed really young. Vet thought that maybe there was a bit of shading higher up on the spine that might indicate arthritis starting but nothing major. Vet suggested a couple of weeks of rest (no walks, no ball chasing, monitored pee breaks), which we did, and all seemed good after that.
Just before Christmas this year, she had a super active couple of days and was extremely sore after that (limping again, laboring a bit to get up, limp would go away after a few steps, but she wasn't really interested in much activity). The soreness lasted over Christmas and New Years, and we took her to a vet a few days after New Years (we were out of town with her and didn't have non-emerg access to a vet until we got home). Vet said it was probably her back (based on shadows on old hip x-rays) and that they could do more x-rays to confirm if we wanted. We decided to try resting her again, so we gave her 1 month rest and gave her aspirin for about a week. No x-rays at this point.
After 2 weeks, she was raring to go but we rested her the full month. After that, it was like she was very out of shape, so we started up with 20 minute walks in the evening, 10 minute walks in the morning. We've gradually increased this to about 20 minutes in the morning and 1 hr + in the afternoons/evening.
Every once in a while, she still seems sore. Especially after a longer walk with maybe a tag-along doggie friend. So we took her back to the vet last week for back x-rays to see what we were dealing with.
Vet x-rayed her back, decided to check hips again, and also x-rayed her back hocks. Everything came back clean. No changes in her hips since she was 2 (appt was on the 15th and I looked on the hip forum that day after viewing Frankie's x-rays, and based on the x-rays I've seen there Frankie is good/excellent, but I'm no expert); spine looks excellent with no arthritis; vertebrae all evenly spaced which suggests that it's not a disc issue; hocks look great.
So... I've spent a lot of money to find out that Frankie is structurally fine! I'm happy to know she doesn't have any bone problems, but we still don't know what might be causing the discomfort!
Does anyone have any ideas? Vet suggested acupuncture, and then maybe going to see a gait specialist (which would be a 3 hour drive, not a problem, but we want to rule everything else out first).
the first thing that comes to mind is a spinal disc issue or a foot problem. i would most likely get an eval from an ortho vet.
Yeah, I thought of disc too. I've had a herniated disc, and kinda know what it would be like for her. Should we just go on with the acupuncture? (It seems a bit new agey to me, but hey, why not if it will work.) Or should we try a few more weeks of rest? :confused:
Does anyone else have any suggestions?
I agree with Huntergreen to make an appt. with an ortho vet. As for the acupuncture, I would try it to see if it gives her relief.
Agree on the ortho vet. At her age they may want to do a myelogram to look for disc extrusions etc. You can't see that on a standard x-ray.
IF money is an issue, try someone who does acupuncture and cold laser; they may, by feeling along the back/spine isolate the issue and know what to do.
Well, money is always a consideration but not really an issue until we get into the big $$. Our biggest issue is time/driving distance. We live kind of in the middle of nowhere. It's an hour drive to the acupuncturist, and would probably be a 3 hour drive to an ortho, more if there's no ortho in Spokane.
I left a message with the acupuncturist the other day but she hasn't gotten back to me yet. Maybe I'll ask my vet for an ortho referral too...
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The United States government in March warned Tokyo it could not support Japan's demand for return from North Korea of abducted Japanese citizens unless the Abe government reversed its contentious claim there was no proof that imperial forces forced women into sexual slavery. US Ambassador Thomas Schieffer delivered the warning and Abe agreed to abide by his nation's 1993 apology to the "comfort women." Abe had created an international furor on March 5 that no proof existed that the Japanese military was directly involved in the enslavement of Asian women during WW II. Schieffer said US-Japanese relations had reached a critical stage and said there was a possibility Congress would pass a resolution urging Japan to apologize to the women. Abe personally assured President Bush in April that he would stand by the apology and back away from denying the policy of abusing women had ever existed in wartime Japan.
This is certainly an excellent example of President Bush standing by the principle of respecting human rights. But, one is left wondering why he felt comfortable threatening a nation about the possibility Congress would pass a resolution, but had an entirely different viewpoint when Nancy Pelosi pushed for the statement about the Armenian genocide? It appears that Bush is more concerned about Turkish feelings than those of Japanese views.


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Hi guys.
I'm heading to Ghana to do some teaching in the next few months and although they have their own textbooks I would really like to take my own to teach from. I will be teaching primary school and I reckon their English is going to be quite low level as it's in the middle of no where!
Does anyone have any good recommendations of text books I could take? I'll probably take a few levels and age ranges. I'm fairly new to teaching so am not very wised up on what books to use.
Thanks, Mimi.