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Moderator: Welcome to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Financial Update Focus podcast. We're speaking today with Rich Oliver, executive vice president of the Atlanta Fed, about the ongoing decline of paper checks and the growth of electronic payment transactions. Rich has a first-hand view of how consumers pay for things. So, thanks for joining us today, Rich.
Rich Oliver: My pleasure.
Moderator: Well, first off, Rich, it's become abundantly clear that Americans are using traditional paper checks a lot less and paying for things electronically a lot more. What are the main things that are driving this trend?
Oliver: Well, it's unlikely that it's any one thing in particular that's driving it, but I think rather a confluence of many events, sort of a "perfect storm" of payments, if you will. Certainly one of the big items is demographics. I think we all anticipated over time that as the younger generation became a more prominent part of our financial society that they would begin to use electronics more easily, and in fact that's happening. I think most of our children view the check as an archaic instrument, and they use it once or twice a month to pay rent or something that they can't figure out how to pay electronically.
Another thing that's changing are the incentives and economics around payments. Economics from the standpoint of the payments providers...who, as the process of declining check volume has taken place, find themselves in a downward-spiraling curve, if you will, related to revenue. And as a result, the economics of offering and promoting electronic alternatives to customers have become more attractive. Customers, on the other hand, are being offered a lot of incentives to use electronics. I think there are many of us who have flocked to various debit and credit card programs in order to earn reward points and other types of benefits. In addition, a lot of the laws and rules and regulations that surround payments have changed also to facilitate the change that's going on. For example: Regulation E that's promulgated by the Federal Reserve provides considerably stronger consumer protections for electronically initiated payments than it does for paper checks. The National Automated Clearing House Association, who governs the automated clearinghouse process nationally, has modified their rules to make it attractive to allow participants to take paper checks and convert them to electronic transactions during the actual flow of the transaction, which is much cheaper for them in terms of overall operating costs.
In addition, there was a major act passed by Congress in 2004 called the Check Truncation Act, and it has facilitated the possibility of financial institutions deciding to take a paper check and collect it electronically as a check. And that has made a significant change, too.
As consumers begin to experience these types of activities and realize they're not getting their paper checks back anymore, we think it then leads them to say, "Why am I writing it in the first place? Why don't I just use the debit card or credit card?"
Finally, I think there's another thing, and that's the advancement of technology and the interweaving of technology with social acceptance of various things. It's now become socially attractive to use electronic alternatives. To shop on the Internet, to buy and sell on eBay, and other types of transactions that we probably would not have even conceived of five to 10 years ago.
Moderator: Well, Rich, I suspect some of those things probably factor into this, but predictions, if you will, of a "checkless" society go as far back as the 1970s, so why has it taken until relatively recently to see this sort of dramatic decline in check usage?
Oliver: Well, that's a good question because I was actually around and involved when people began to talk about the "checkless" society and, you know, then they talked about the "less-check" society, and then they stopped talking about it altogether when check volume continued to grow. What we have to remember, though, is the prognosis of that change at that time came from bankers and technologists who saw the opportunities here to reduce their own costs, their teller line problems, their back-room operational costs and so forth, by changing to electronic payments. They had forgotten, along the way, to actually ask the consumer whether or not they agreed with doing that...and the early evidence was that the consumer didn't. They were pretty strongly wedded to their cultural norms of writing checks, getting checks back, and actually viewed the writing of a check as a relatively convenient event. But what's happening now is different. At that point in time, consumers then voted on what was acceptable with their own behavior. But now I think the change is occurring for many of the same reasons: The benefits of the old ways are being lost, and the attractiveness of the new ways are overcoming it.
Moderator: So these benefits to the consumer are why we're seeing this shift accelerate even faster all the time?
Oliver: I think so, yes. And let's recall that most of the acceleration is occurring with consumer payments. The majority of corporate payments are still being made by check, for a wide variety of reasons, but when you look at consumers' reaction today, many of the alternatives, like the debit card at the point of sale, are, in fact, more convenient than the check. It takes less time, you put in a PIN number and you're gone. So convenience is a big issue. Ease of use is a big issue. At first, many people felt that the electronic alternatives were complicated—even using an ATM, people viewed it as perhaps complicated. But, as they started to use it more and more, they realized that it's in fact a very easy thing to do.
There's also changing values associated with things: Interesting social demographics, where people are beginning to talk to each other about what they did electronically, or what have you. And finally, I think the card people themselves have made a big impact by offering their products the way they do, by providing attractive terms for the provision of the card products and by putting in many of these reward programs that we just talked about.
Moderator: Well, Rich, are we likely ever to see checks disappear entirely? And also, I want to ask you to distinguish between a couple of things and that is, rather than see checks perhaps go away completely, are we more likely to see a time when people will still write a few checks, but those checks will go through the process as an electronic transaction and that its days as a piece of paper are numbered.
Oliver: Well, that's a great question because we have a tendency in the industry to get those two things mixed up. Let me say this first of all: checks, in terms of checks being written, are obviously in decline, they're going to continue to decline, but there are still a big number of them out there. So, they're not likely to disappear quickly in terms of checks written in the near future. In fact, our estimates are that the decline in actual check writing is probably still a single-digit year-over-year phenomenon. And, in fact, we have these last bastions of check writing in the area of consumer-to-consumer and business-to-business checks for which the electronic alternatives are not yet as attractive. But, as we talked earlier, the advent of Check 21, which allows a paper check to be converted to an electronic image for collection and the advent of many conversion products that allow paper checks to be converted to automated clearinghouse debits, are having a huge impact. To give you an example, our legacy paper processing volume in the Federal Reserve is down 37 percent year over year. But our total check processing volume is only down 8 percent. So I think the latter is more indicative of the rate of change in terms of check writing. So I think what we are going to see is a continuous decline in the number of checks written, but that may take many, many years to see the end of, but a much more rapid increase in the number of checks converted to electronics for the purpose of clearing them through the system more efficiently.
Moderator: Well, we've talked a bit about this already, Rich, but can you further explain a little bit about how retailers and other businesses that receive payments, how they benefit from the rise of electronic payments and the decline of checks?
Oliver: Everything we've seen, first of all, is that the economics of clearing checks are becoming significantly worse. The cost of check clearing is going up on a per capita basis because, as check volume falls, the cost of transportation, processing, and other costs associated with an item on a unit basis will inevitably rise.
But we also find that for retailers and others that the checkout experience is faster with the electronic alternative. And to a retailer, the ability to move people through the line fast is a very big thing to them. There's less handling and storage of physical items to maintain in their backroom; faster funds availability because the items are clearing electronically in a day rather than two days or longer if it's a paper check. And overall, less risk. The faster they can collect an item, it turns out, from any company, the better chance they have of actually making the item good if in fact there are insufficient funds in the consumer's account. It's been determined that the quicker they can hit the count, the better off they are. So there are many other factors beyond the backroom cost that are actually driving them to favor electronics.
Moderator: Well, Rich, what we're talking about are pretty dramatic shifts and pretty fundamental shifts in the way people pay for goods and services. Do we know yet what the consequences of this shift are for the overall economy?
Oliver: We don't know anything specific, but we suspect many things. There was a study done about 15 or 20 years ago by a Federal Reserve economist who calculated that the United States was spending four or five times more per capita on its payment system than other competing industrial nations. So, if we believe that's true, and I have some reason to believe that's true when you look at the way that payments are made in Europe and other places, one can only suspect that the move to electronification will in fact have some visible effect on the U.S. economy. But the economy is a big and complicated subject, but on the margin I think it will help and it will position us better as a competitive nation on the global front.
Moderator: But Rich, what does this mean for entities like the Federal Reserve that actually process these transactions?
Oliver: Well, it's not particularly good news. We have a huge amount of infrastructure dedicated over the years to processing billions of checks each year, and as check volume falls and as paper check volume falls as precipitously as it's falling today, that means that we have the obligation and responsibility to begin to pare back our resources as rapidly as possible to match the decline in check volume. For us, it's meant that we're having to close check processing offices. Consolidate our transportation activities. Centralize many of our other activities that used to be decentralized. In the last three years, we've contracted the number of Federal Reserve check processing facilities from 45 to 22. That's a big change for us, but it's something we have to do. It's likely that every other provider of check services in the industry, whether it be special purpose service bureaus or large financial institutions, are going to have to go through this same painful series of events in order to begin to scale back their costs.
On the other side, one might say yes, but you're moving to electronics so you're recapturing the volume there... but it's important to note that the revenue associated with electronics is a fraction of the revenue associated with paper. And likewise is the case with the costs. What it means is, however, that the margins associated with electronic payments are not as big as the margins associated with paper. And consequently, the profitability opportunities for electronics aren't as big either. So this is a very gut-wrenching experience. A true sea change in an industry that over the years hasn't been characterized by very rapid change. It's been a glacier-like evolution of the payment system, and today it's happening rapidly.
I close by saying that, during our lifetimes, there has never been a payment system in decline. Whether it's cash, ATMs, debit and credit cards, ACH, or checks, it's always grown continuously as the population has expanded. But now we have one in decline, and it's the big one that we've all counted on on our bottom lines over the years, and it's going away. So we have a tremendous challenge and a serious change process ahead of us as an industry.
Moderator: Are we likely, Rich, to see advances within the electronic payments realm? In other words, what is sort of the most futuristic payment method that you could conceive of right now that we might actually see?
Oliver: Well, I think the one that's coming out right now and makes the most sense to me is the movement of payments to a totally wireless environment, perhaps based around cell phones. Much of this is already occurring in the Far East. It's being piloted here within the United States with programs in which people can actually conduct a myriad of transactions from their cell phone. Both banking transactions and perhaps things like consumer-to-consumer exchange of monies. So now, in the future when you buy some Girl Scout cookies from the girl next door, you can actually use your cell phone to transfer money to that Girl Scout rather than write a check, and probably both parties would be excited about the experience. So, I think the whole wireless communication, debit card, Internet and cell phone experience is going to totally change the way we do things.
Moderator: Thank you, Rich. Again, we've been speaking with Rich Oliver, executive vice president of the Atlanta Fed. This concludes our Financial Update Focus podcast on changes in the payment system. For more information, please see Financial Update on the Atlanta Fed Web site at frbatlanta.org. Thanks for listening and please return for more podcasts. If you have comments, please send us e-mail at email@example.com.


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A study published the summer of 2011 finds that 8 percent of American children under the age of 18 have one or more food allergies. That means 5.9 million kids across the U.S. are at risk food-allergic reactions. That 8 percent finding is considerably higher than previously known.
Earlier prevalence estimates that have found the range of food allergies as high as 8 percent in children under age 3, but more in the range of 4 percent for older children.
Gwen Smith, Allergic Living magazine's editor, spoke to Dr. Ruchi Gupta, the lead author of the study, about her findings and what they mean. Her study was published in the journal Pediatrics and funded by the Food Allergy Initiative.
Gwen Smith: In your study you found that 8 percent of children under 18 have food allergies. We're used to hearing a figure much lower than that for kids over the age of 3 or 4. What do you make of your larger statistic?
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If you're wondering if this represents an increase, I don't really think there's been a big [recent] one. I know there have been a variety of numbers, there was a report in JACI [Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology] of between 1 and 10 percent, so there is a huge range that has been talked about.
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Re: ECF Game 3 Celtics/Pistons Sat. May 24th 8:00 PM So why doesn't he play our best rebounder?
This makes me want to scream. It seemed like we stopped doing it in G2. What gives?
Re: ECF Game 3 Celtics/Pistons Sat. May 24th 8:00 PM Maybe Flip is lame and doesn't assert himself with the starters, but that's only in a vacuum. The problem is, he shouldn't have been hired in the 1st place and therein lies the problem. The players don't respect him and never have. Then when he finally comes in and shows he has no idea how to win, they respect him even less. So, essentially by hiring this guy Dumars sewed the seeds for what he's seeing now. You can't run a guy out of town who has proven he knows his stuff and replace him with a guy who hasn't proven anything. The players don't respect him because they have brains and know this guy knows very little about championship basketball. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. You also don't need a college degree to see that this guy has no backbone or control. He's passive, reactive instead of proactive, and refuses to place an emphasis on the aspects of the game THIS team needs to be successful....defense and rebounding. Simply labeling guys that don't listen to him as cancers is not the solution. You could have 15 guys from the top of the roster on down wearing Flip Saunders jerseys and they would still lose every year. Bottom Line: Joe D and Bill D should have A) found someone who had a little more interest in their last initial and B) done a better and more thorough job of finding a new head coach to follow Larry Brown and they failed to do so in their search for a "good person." Enjoy your "good person" and your losses, they go hand in hand fellas.
Re: ECF Game 3 Celtics/Pistons Sat. May 24th 8:00 PM Okay, so we agree. Joe shouldn't have hired Flip. The question I ask though, is who should he have hired, and who should he hire now. I'm at a loss at this one, since there isn't a guy out there that I can think of besides Pop that doesn't suck now, didn't suck then, and isn't likely to suck in the future. Your guess is not only as good as mine, it is likely better, because I'm at a loss as to who would have led this team to the promised land following LB.
Re: ECF Game 3 Celtics/Pistons Sat. May 24th 8:00 PM No one was going to, lest we forget that the "if it ain't rough, it ain't right" mantra was developed under LB's watch during the 2005 playoffs. Flip's failure is not being able to overcome the bad habits and attitude problems of the players. I think they finally get it this year, that it is all on them, although we haven't seen that they are able to do anything about their own worst enemy, themselves. I got this perspective from today's practice interviews, which I should have posted within an hour.
Re: ECF Game 3 Celtics/Pistons Sat. May 24th 8:00 PM (Assuming some of this was directed at me) you missed the point of my post. The problem I have with Flip is "Missed shots" is the first thing he always blames, and he does it because it deflects all blame off of him. "Missing shots is out of my control". But the worst part is that every time he makes a big deal out of "missing shots", it makes the situation worse. What is harder than getting out of a shooting slump? How about getting out of a shooting slump with a coach who does nothing but point out the fact that you're missing shots. It all stacks up. Each miss gets in their heads, and Flip makes it worse by blaming it for everything. When they're not shooting well, Flip's entire goal should be to get them thinking about ANYTHING else. That's when you rip into them about rebounding or defensive rotations. Get them moving the ball quicker on offense. But DONT simply point to "missing shots". It's Coaching 101, and it's why Flip will never be a good playoff coach. Among other things, he doesn't know how to push the right buttons.
I was wondering the same..I didn't even turn this thing this on until 9PM tonight...I thought I had said all wanted to say last night and decided to avoid all I could today by spending it at a movie...Indy 4 and Prince Caspian were both good Bottom line is, CB ain't right, it's 2006 revisited with an 70% Mr. BS. JOE should start Stuckey and alternate with CB and AA depending on how the game flows. We are getting beaten on the boards,..... when KG sits, put Amir in there. Don't let PJ beat you with boards and short jumpers. What's wrong with 5 minutes? If they don't win Monday it's over and Flip will take the fall just like he should and player shake-up will accompany this move later. Those who say Flip is not at fault have never been in management. I have 12 auditors who I managed and when one or two of them screw up, I can put them on an action plan, but believe me my butt is on the line too for letting their performance get out or line. Yes it's the players fault too for not following the coaches plays or directions, but ultimately the coach, manager or supervisor is accountable too.
We don't have that much time in-between games after a loss to tear into Flip anymore.
You guys need to quit comparing your jobs to this. It's safe to say that none of you are managing guys that get paid 2x-3x more than you. It's a different dynamic, and if anything your previous experience would put you in the shoes of Joe D. not Flip, and that's where you're right, it is his fault at the end of the day.
Geez Cloud, you haven't been this pumped up in years. You're right that it ultimately rests with Joe, but Joe isn't going anywhere, and deflecting the public criticism is going to be necessary to do his job well. Joe doesn't just have to build a winner, he has to keep the seats filled. Flip is in the impossible and maybe undesirable position of simply winning. He can't fall back on filling the seats, that's to Joe's credit.
Good point Roscoe. So how plausible do you think it is that Joe passed on "one step back now for two steps forward later" moments just so he could keep the sellout streak going?
Re: ECF Game 3 Celtics/Pistons Sat. May 24th 8:00 PM Nope. No genius, just someone`s opinion. Probably the only person on planet earth that has that opinion.
During the TNT studio show following the Lakers/Spurs game last night, Barkley criticized the Pistons for coming out so flat in a home game after their victory in game 2. He basically said that the Pistons did not play with the kind of motivation you would expect from a team that is three wins away from a trip to the finals. Went on to say that Flip cannot be blamed for that lack of motivation, and that it was on the players. I disagree with Sir Charles' attempt to absolve Flip of all blame, but that's his opinion for what it's worth.
I agree with him. It all comes down to execution. They were as flat as Barkely's singing. That was the must win game that they lost. Now they have to win 3 in a row to avoid a 7th game in Boston.
I don't think he was absolving Flip of all blame. He basically said what any other player is going to say, that as a player, if you can't get motivated in the finals series, when a championship is right there practically in the palm of your hands, then you must be dead, and Kenny happened to agree. Magic has also said as much in the past. Motivation is for the regular season, when games can arguably be monotonous and meaningless, not the finals two rounds when a championship is on the line. It may be Barkleys opinion, but it happens to also be the opinion of the great, great (did I mention great) majority of the NBA. For once, it's not just Sir Charles running his mouth.
Ok folks, this is nothing new to us, I mean about the Pistons showing a lack of motivation in huge games. My question is; why does this happen, time after time? I agree that it`s not Flip`s job to keep this team motivated, in the playoffs! Its` becoming quite obvious that these guys just don`t show up for every game during the playoffs. Can it be they are just egotistical overpaid athletes? Is it the lack of a true leader on the team? One who will not take this lackadaisacal attitude lightly while he gives 100% each and every night. I don`t get it, hopefully this will be the last year of this foolishness.
Sorry for the late report, but I haven't really been home this weekend. I haven't read anyone else's post in this thread so I'll just go with my experience of the game. The day started off great, getting in 18 holes of golf, but the back 9 was awful having to wait for 2 groups of slow people ahead of us. It ended up taking 5.5 hours when it could've take 2. So I met my buddy late for going to the Palace and had to eat there. When we pulled in nearly an hour before the game the parking lot was packed...people were tailgating, it was a gorgeous day, and everyone was excited. There was a cool intro where it showe the Pistons in 6 straight ECF's and then Sheed in a dark room, in front of the TV, turning toward the camera and saying "we're baaaack" with his goofy grin. Then one of the flame throwers didn't work at the beginning. An ominous sign? Who knows. I really disliked the whole 'white out' idea, because by he ECF almost everyone that goes to the games is a hardcore fan and decked out in Pistons gear. I would say it was the weakest white out in history...just seemed out of character and gimmicky for a veteran crowd. I turned to my buddy and we both hoped the Pistons wouldn't get off to another slow start like the previous 2 games. The crowd was louder than I've heard all season, and there was no excuse for the 11-0 terrible run. Chauncey was atrocious all game, and by the end people started yelling at him to 'play like Stuckey' or 'put Stuckey back in the game' or just flat out groaning when he would check back in. I truly believe he is the sole reason we lost - yeah we did too many isolations, etc., but that's on Chauncey to manage the game and run plays. Flip would yell at them to push the ball and Chauncey would simply walk the ball up the court. And what is with the high pick-and-roll? Every time both their guard and big double team our guard at the top and our big isn't quick enough to roll to the basket and make them pay, so our guard just ends up 5 feet behind the 3-point line and wasting 10 seconds off the play. It just disappoints me that they worked so hard to get homecourt, and p1ssed it away. Now they HAVE to win again in Boston. If they don't make the Finals, this game will be their 2007 ECF Game 5 against Lebron. Now, I will be at the game today and cheering just the same, but I still won't be happy if it is 2-2. It's funny because if they lost 2 in Boston and won 2 in Detroit I would feel better. The crowd booed several times, but the Pistons deserved it. The crowd got real quiet, but the Pistons gave nothing to cheer about. And it's not like we're stupid...we see what is going on. But we cheer for effort and defensive plays far more than made baskets or 3-point bombs or dunks. And there was none of that. Lindsey was right in saying the defense continues to disappoint. The number of open layups and dunks we gave up were unacceptable. On a sidenote, we've only lost in the postseason when I drove to the Palace and when my buddy wore his white jersey...and we did both. So I'll shoulder some of the blame for this loss.
Yup. The entire roster is chock full of followers or lone wolves. Chauncey is the captain , but he's just window dressing when it counts. Our "when it counts" guy is riding his wheelchair downhill in Cleveland.
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And they repudiated them wrongly and haughtily, in spite of their own certainty about them. See the final fate of the corrupters. (Surat an-Naml, 14)
As related in the verse, some people rejected the truths to which the messengers called them because they were incompatible with the desires of their lower selves, even though they actually grasped the truths in their hearts and consciences. According to indications in the hadiths, this state of affairs that has been repeated throughout the course of history will also apply to Hazrat Mahdi (as) as well as to the Prophet Jesus (as). People will grasp, in their consciences, the superior nature of these holy personages, but will pretend not to understand the true position, under the influence of worldly desires. They will shelter behind various excuses in order not to accept the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as), not to support them and in order to keep their distance from them. This way of putting up excuses is revealed in the Qur'an as being a method employed by all hypocrites throughout history: making all kinds of excuses to avoid the truth even though they have actually grasped it perfectly clearly in their consciences, hearts and minds. People eager to avoid participating in the struggle alongside our Prophet (saas) made such excuses as "they had not been able to" (Surat at-Tawba, 42), "their houses were exposed" (Surat at-Tawba, 13) and "their wealth and families kept them occupied." (Surat al-Fath, 11)
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Most of us are familiar with the saying, "It's not what you say, but how you say it." If you're a doctor, abiding by that cliche can be the difference between a lawsuit or not.
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In the second exercise, the listener was engaged with the speaker, and the partner speaking felt more validated. They had created what Wolf calls "an interpersonal space," in which the two people felt open enough with each other to genuinely share.
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"Genuine dialogue means I don't express what I think until you're convinced I've understood 100 percent of what you've said," Wolf said. "In most charged situations, all we want is to be understood."
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Ok, I've always been a dog person. I have throughout my life mostly had rescue dogs of undetermined breed. They have all been loved and well behaved and trained. Some admittedly better then others. I already had four dogs that live in my house, my father lives with me and he has a French bull dog, we have a roommate who has a stubby tail Australian cattle dog, I have a min pin, chi mix and a what we assume is is chow/collie mix. A friend of mine had a rescue GSD male, he was a beautiful dog who was actually AKC papered, but had sadly been very neglected and starved and was untrained/un socialized. She never should have taken him being as she had small children, she also had a young female GSD. So we all know what happened next, Of course she bred them. After the breeding her male broke through the dog run fence and severely attacked her youngest child. The child lived, though she was very badly injured. The dog was put down. She lives a state away from me and the week before Christmas I went to visit, I feel in love with two of the pups and I brought them home with me. I have done a ton of reading about the breed, a ton. I've talked to our vet at length about the differences between these puppies and the other dogs I have. I am aware they will need training above and beyond what I have done with my other dogs. And excessive Exercise, which isn't a problem because I run and other then the cattle dog the others are all too old to run with me anymore. The puppies are now 11 weeks old and here at home we have already started working on basic obedience but I know we need to start stepping things up. I've been in contact with a local schutzhund group and I'm planning on going out and checking that out. But here are my questions for the group.
What do I look for in a trainer? What should I avoid? Any other general advice you think I should know?
IMO my pups are stunningly beautiful, but I know I'm biased. There names are Rudolph and Adolph ( and no there is no association to hitler) I choose the names because of what they mean in german. I am attaching a few pictures of them.
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They are both VERY cute. However, I would suggest you pick just one to keep. You now have two puppies from a breeding where (at the very least) the male was somewhat unstable and quite aggressive. If even one of your puppies has a similar temperament (as it can be a genetic link) you'll have a lot of training and behavior modification coming up... having two puppies that are going to need so much time and attention right now is asking for trouble. You would be much more capable of providing 100% (time and effort) to one puppy than trying to split that among two.
Anyway, I've trained dogs for years, and raised more than my fair share of puppies... I would never (even with my experience) take on two at once. So my only real advice is to reconsider trying to raise two.
They are very very beautiful- knowing the temperament of the father I would be SURE to socialize ASAP, as far as a trainer I to have just picked out my OB trainer, I had been to see at least 4 different ones before I found "the one" ask them to allow you to watch them work, see how they handle dogs and puppies (see if they use force or treats or toys) see how the older students act (super high drive?? Or lower drive/confident) and think about exactly what you want. Ask the trainer if you can see there dog. Some trainers will increase prey drive and make a dog super super high energy (which I kind of like) and some will calm a dog if that makes sense.
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Not my place to say what you are capable of, but it sounds like your plate is full. Raising litter mates is doable, I have two well behaved female litter mates, (BYB too), however both parents have known good temperaments. I would be concerned with how much genetic influence from the "dad" was passed onto the pups.
After going to three different trainers, I would suggest finding someone that specializes in the breed or working line dogs for sure. I would avoid anyone who says you have to be super firm with shepherd at least from the puppy stage...our first snatched the leash from my daughter and over corrected our male...we had to work a while to get him over the fear of trainers. It could have been avoided. She also kept telling us out 3 month old pups were bully breed and had to be dealt with differently....she had a couple of decades as a trainer....we left and did not return to her class....the second was great but did basic stuff, she did not have a bias against any breed. She just did not offer the detailed and extended training for working line dogs....having ours for almost a year...we have found they LOVE to work....they LIVE AND BREATHE to work. The last trainer owns 5 and works working line dogs. He has been a godsend. He challenges them and they love it...biggest difference! They get so excited when we pull in to his place...(1 hour from our home) long drive but worth it for what we all get from it! We did get two puppy's, and don't regret it....BUT....BUT....we have four of us in the family...2 adults, 2 teens...we all attending training every week, since they were 3 months old. We can't miss, if we do, the dogs show their boredom. I am also a stay at home mom....! So while the kids are in school....I work and spend time with them. Constantly...I split the time between them so they get one on one and develop their own personality. It worked they are polar opposite. Some days my husband takes one or the other to the office...and we switch off. It takes a lot of work and effort to raise two, had we had a choice we would only have one at a time, but both girls will be running and training for different sports and 1 dog could never handle running with each child every day...these dogs were for companion running and to later be protection dogs for future training for our daughters when running alone....we had to make the time and energy but even being a stay at home mom....I really have to push myself to train, run them tired, play and take care of them. It is all day, especially when they hit different stages that take a lot more energy! Different stages of growth and maturity....they need double the mental exercise, double the play time, double the attention! The different stages are mentally draining and physically draining. Their were times we thought miles would never slow down again...Millie's phases last a couple of days....miles does great for months, then bammmm....3-4 weeks of non stop never ending ENERGY! Luckily....we divide and conquer here...and have teens that can handle and have been to all the training sessions gives us a little better base for two dogs. With everyone training and using the same method, the structure and commands are very consistent which they respond well to. I have also learned they want to be with their pack....a lot....all the time....rarely separated....that was the biggest thing to adjust to...every time I get shoes...they sit by the door leading to the garage...they love the car...just dropping kids at school they are ready to go... Good luck on your pups. They are soooo cute! PS...I would recommend getting lots of puzzles, games that challenge the brain...rainy days will be murder....
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The 3rd trainer focused on positive training, rewards and making it fun so the dogs wanted to learn and work. He constantly changes things up.
We have been going to him since they were about 5 months old....just in two weeks we saw huge differences. Huge. He seems to really know the need of any working dog and how to make them love to work.
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Your going to be busy. I don't have litter mates , but I do have 3 dogs under 2.5 years old, they are pretty close in age and I manage. In the past I have had two puppies that were the same age, but different breeds, it was hard. Back then I didn't do any obedience classes with them and that can make a world of difference. You will have to train the separately on their own and I would also do some obedience with them together. I'm not 100 percent convinced that aggressiveness is 100 percent genetic. When we were younger we went to a farm to get a puppy, a St. Bernard/German Shepherd, mom was sweet(St Bernard) and dad (German Shepherd) was vicious, we couldn't go near him. The puppy was never aggressive and was a wonderful dog.
Make sure get to really read thru - - >http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...dogs-once.html
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I was initially against getting even one pup from this liter because of the sire. But I understand a few things about him that I may not have properly conveyed before. Even after he came to my friend as a rescue, she didn't treat him properly. Mostly due to misunderstanding what she was taking on. He was never allowed around the kids. He was never introduced into the family. He lived alone, untrained and unchallenged in a fenced in 16x20 yard. Did she feed him? Yes. Love him? Perhaps. But was he ever in his life treated right? Learning what i have just because of my little guys I firmly say that no, he never was. The problem with him was created by the humans not by his breeding. My 19 year old son and myself switch which pups we train daily. They are never kenneled just to get them out of the way. They are with us all day, even if it's just sleeping under the kitchen table while I'm cooking. They have been socialized with people and other dogs, not just my own. They go to work with me. Because my job rocks like that. I know, I'm fully aware that I'm I've taken on a HUGE challenge with two of them. Getting rid of either is not an option. Our family as a whole lives them already.
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If it sounds like I don't think Bromwich et al.'s results are anything new, let me correct that impression. The contribution of this new paper is huge. Bromwich et al. rely almost entirely on local data to produce the best-possible record of temperature from one location — Byrd Station in central West Antarctica. In contrast, our work relied heavily on interpolation of data from weather stations some distance from West Antarctica. Why didn't we use the same data Bromwich et al. did? Well, we did, but the problem is that the Byrd Station record is actually several different records, taken at different times using different instruments. We felt that we could not splice these records together into one continous record, because instrument inter-calibration issues could easiily create spurious trends.
One of the chief contributions of the Bromwich team is that they carefully checked the calibration on the various temperature sensors and dataloggers that are used in the Byrd automatic weather station. It turns out that there were significant calibration issues and that correcting for them makes the temperature higher in the 1990s but somewhat lower in the 2000s (though still higher than in the 1960 – 1980s). That is a compelling finding, because it puts the weather station data in better agreement with the climate forecast reanalysis data explaining the cause of the winter warming trends (as described e.g. in Ding et al., 2011; 2012).
Another new aspect of the Bromwich et al. paper is that it shows that there is significant warming even in summer time in West Antarctica. This could arguably bode ill for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, since if current trends continue it will mean more melting on the ice shelves there — ultimately leading to their collapse, as has already happened on the Antarctic Peninsula.
As Anais Orsi and I discuss in a News & Views article — not yet online, but evidently to be in the Februrary print issue of Nature Geoscience [Update, Steig and Orsi is now online here]— Bromwich et al.'s results are objectively the best record available of the last five decades of temperature change in West Antarctica. Note that the while the borehole data are the most important independent validation, they provide only a smoothed look at past temperatures; they do not resolve interannual or decadal variability. Bromwich et al.'s updated record for Byrd Station should now be routinely incorporated into global temperature compilations such as those done by GISS and CRU. Doing so will, I think, change the picture of climate change in the Southern Hemisphere, and not insignificantly.
There's a lot more to be said — including some reasons why I don't think the likelihood of surface-snow-melt-driven collapse of ice shelves is very high in West Antarctica — but I'm off to enjoy a respite from the internet for a few days. I'm going somewhere nice and cold and snowy.
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I'm new to this site which I think is great and I posted this thread in body exterior because I wasn't sure where to put so I put it here also.
I have been looking for a compressor for some time and wasn't able to lay out the $1,000.00-1,500.00 for a belt driven, 2 stage unit. I am a home hobbyist and paint about two cars a year. The other day I was in Lowes and they had a Campbell Hausfeld 80 gallon, 2 stage commercial unit on the floor. It was the floor model and was missing the gages and the air filter element and housing and a few other things even the instructions. They were selling it for $500.00. I thought because it was a floor unit, I don't know. I went to the cashier and said I wanted it figuring it was still a good deal for a 2 stage unit. I paid for it and went to get my truck and when I pulled up they put a brand new one still in the box in the back of my truck. I could't believe it. It was a $1,100.00 unit. I asked if I was supposed to get a new one and they said yes. I got it home and 4 of my buddies helped lift it off of the truck and into the garage. After unboxing it and taking the skid off I then had a chance to look over everything. It was indeed brand new with nothing missing even had the instructions. I filled it with oil and ran it for an hour the recommended break in period. It ran great. So for $500.00 bucks I think I got a deal and will be able to paint my cars and run a DA with ease.
I didn't have time to research it because they only had 2 left. but I figured for the price for an 80 gallon, 2 stage, commercial compressor I should't have any problems running a DA or painting a complete car. What do you guys think? I know it's not an eaton or IR but for the price I thing I got a steal.
Finally, I have it sitting on my concrete floor on 1" plywood. Is it really necessary to have the vibration/isolation pads? Do they make that much of a difference? If so I can't find anyone locally who sells them where can I get them.
I have listed the link below check it out.
http://www.chironforce.com/itemdetail.asp?itemID=9046&catID=1561&parentID=100 &item_typeID=10
Thats a deal!
Actually that will work just fine for you..I would get the vibration pads and bolt the compressor down to the garage floor so it will not tip over..
Also install a service disconnect in the circuit right by the comprssor so you can easily shut it off if you are not using it or you need to do any service to it..
Pipe the drain to a valve so you can easily drain the tank on a regular basis..
Run overhead lines to your paint area and put a air/water separator and regulator on the wall in a convenient spot..also might be good to have an air outlet and regulator out in the front by the garage door to run a air impact for changing tires or running air wrenches..
Air lines and outlets are kinda like electrical in that you cannot have too many outlets in convenient spots around your shop.. :drool:
Thanks for the reply. Any idea on where to get the pads? HD, HF, Lowes doesn't carry that stuff? Also, it is my understanding that it should be plumed so that the condensation drains back into the compressor. Does anyone have any thoughts on that?
Nice job, it should work just fine for what you are doing. I don't know what to do about the vibration pads either. Anyone have any suggestions. Have fun
Grainger carries the Isolation Pads. They sell Campbell Hausfeld Compressors under their "Speedaire" Logo. I am certain there is a good explanation as to why to drain back into the Compressor, but I used 3/4" galvanized pipe unning at about waist level with drops every 5' or so. Then I put my air outlets above that downpipe and downstream.
As always, your mileage may vary- :P
I think you got a great deal on your compressor. As far as your isolation pads, I would go to an industrial rubber supply shop which specializes in conveyer belts and rubber mats and get a few inch thick pre-cut stripes of rubber. One inch will probably do. I don't know how heavy your compressor is. Then fasten them down to your plywood. The best pads ever made :-). I hope this will work out for you.
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Some 50 million mourning doves are preparing to fly into the range of Texas hunters, as the state's annual dove hunting season begins on Sunday, 1200 WOAI's Stephanie Narvaez reports.
Texas dove season is one of the largest participatory sports in the country, as as many as 300,000 hunters will hit the blinds for the seven week season.
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The mourning dove season opens September First in the northern three quarters of the state, what are called the Central and North Zones. The south zone, where doves are more scarce, won't begin its season until later this summer.
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Oklahoma City had its chances in Game 3, taking as much as a 10-point lead in the third quarter Sunday. But turnovers, bad possessions and a Heat team determined to hold on to its home-court edge proved too much in the end.
Miami overcome a final Thunder charge in the closing minutes to win 91-85 and take a 2-1 lead in the NBA Finals. Sunday was the first of three straight games in Miami. Game 4 is Tuesday night back at AmericanAirlines Arena.
"I thought that was a very intense playoff game," Thunder coach Scott Brooks said. "I thought we did some good things, corrected some things going into this game, and I thought we gave ourselves a chance to win. That's what you want to do on the road.
"The game was basically anybody's ballgame that fourth quarter. We did some things, we missed some free throws. Normally we led the league in free throw shooting percentage, but we missed some free throws tonight (they made only 15 of 24) and turned the ball over in the second half too many times."
Brooks was asked if he had three keys for Oklahoma City regaining the control of the series his team had after Game 1.
"Just three? There's many more," he quipped. "Obviously, get back in transition. They're a very explosive team. They have high level athletes that get out and run and score at the basket. Protect the paint, close out Shane Battier, rebound the basketball and get out in transition ourselves.
"I don't know if that was more than three."
If the Thunder don't win the series, it won't be because they're intimidated by the stage they're on. The butterflies were long gone before the team plane touched down in Miami.
"The first game I think there was a little bit of that," Brooks said. "I think we were all like that because it was our first time in the NBA Finals. Anytime it's your first time there's not familiar surroundings or a setting.
"But I think after the second game we were fine. We just had a bad start. I don't see our guys being in awe of the moment. I think we're going to play our way that we play, aggressive, attack basketball, and hopefully we can make some shots along the way."


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hey guys
looking to start hunting honkers next fall, just waiting on a payout from veterans affairs and then im gonna get geared up for field shoots.
in terms of decoys im gonna go with sillouettesfrom big al, how many should i start with? im thinking bout getting 3-5 dozen
whats a good layout blind to get?
i already have a call and plan on practising throughout the winter
am i missing anything. ill be hunting out of edmonton ab.