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Whats the best way to train a dog to run/walk beside you while you ride a bike?
What I've started doing, and he's responding well to, is getting on the bike while holding his leash and then just walking it for a bit, until he's got a good pace going, then pedaling. We've been doing it for about a week (except it snowed today).
I talk to him - not commands or anything - just to keep his attention on me instead of on other things. I'm afraid he'll stop paying attention then run in front of the bike or something.
Any suggestions for training would be great Also - any bike training tools, if they exist
I bike with Riley. He is hooked up with a harness to my bike. I have the Walky Dog bike attachment. You can get it on Amazon for $40 or so. It makes it much safer for you and the dog. It has a spring shock absorber in it so when the dog pulls he doesn't pull you over. Riley is very well trained and knows a lot of commands so it is very easy to bike with him. He knows stop, wait, easy, left, right, leave it, heel etc. It is very helpful if your dog knows these commands. I can bike right by people with dogs and other critters running around. Start off slow. I prefer to bike on trials where he can run free but I do bike around the neighborhood but since its all pavement I don't run him more than a mile or so. How old is your dog? If he is still young I would be careful running him on pavement.
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Beau is a year and two months old. I don't bike with him very long - just training him to do it right now. I don't know exactly what biking him on pavement means - but I'm on the pavement the whole time but he's on the grass except for when he goes across driveways. We don't go far, for fear that something will happen and we want my family to be able to come quickly to get either of us. We only go about 12 houses down the road and turn around. It's convenient, really, because I can teach him "Stop" at the stop sign, and turn around in an area without any traffic (a dead end portion of the road).
I'll look into the Walky Dog bike attachment. Right now I'm just hooking his retractable leash to my bike handle, which he hasn't done anything deadly yet but the idea is scary lol. I knew there had to be something that existed.
When I take Riley around my neighborhood he runs on the road. That's what I meant about biking on pavement. With a young dog you don't want him running on hard surfaces till he is older. 18 + months old. Riley is almost 7 so I don't like to do to much running on hard surfaces.
Definately look into getting a bike attachment. Hooking your leash to your bike could get you seriously injured especially if he takes off after something. Also make sure you get a harness. You don't want him pulling on his neck.
Riley actually will pull the bike along at the beginning of the run. Once he gets a little energy out he settles jogging right next to the bike.
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This may be a dumb question - but is the idea for riding the same as for heeling? Like, should they stay beside you or is it okay for them to go a little ahead, further out, or lag behind a little? I've been keeping him beside me, a couple feet away in the grass. I didn't know if that was right.
Also - he does have a harness that we use on walks and everything because I hate for him to get the leash under his legs and the harness prevents that usually.
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Use a very short leash, my new puppy is already very good going along side the bike and he can't run in front or behind the bike because of the short leash
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At 3 months old you need to be very careful about biking your puppy. As mentioned above, they should not be running on hard surfaces until at least 18 months old (I prefer age 2 after final hip and elbow xrays).
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It doesn't matter. He's still doing forced exercise on a hard surface. You could be doing irreparable harm to is growing joints. I would suggest waiting to bike him until he's older.
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The clandestine shipping of wild animals to foreign lands resurfaced in the National Assembly yesterday with the Committee for Lands, Natural Resources and Environment accusing the government of protecting the culprits.
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Lembeli said the recommendations had aimed at assisting the government to track down the shipped animals.
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According to the committee, instead of taking disciplinary measures against some government officials involved in the graft, some individuals were transferred to other ministries and some promoted, including former ministry's permanent secretary Ladislaus Komba who was transferred to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
Shadow Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Peter Msigwa called upon the government to hold accountable all officials and heads of security organs charged with the responsibility of conserving wildlife.
"It is not possible for 116 live animals including giraffes to be captured, carried in trucks to Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA), put on a plane and then ferried out without the government knowledge," he said.
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He said apart from conducting investigations for the ongoing case state security organs are also doing the same in and outside the country by involving Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
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Lembeli said since the Wildlife Conservation Act No 5 of 2009 allowed the extraction of strategic minerals within game reserves in the country the two parliamentary committees should have been involved transparently in all stages by enabling them to visit the site.
"Despite the government's efforts in conducting exploration for large scale mining, the committee wants the government to stop conducting such processes in secrecy," Lembeli said.
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Lembeli said the size of the area involved in the project is 345 square kilometres, equivalent to 0.69 of the total area of the game reserve.
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On Saturday, April 12th, twenty-two Forsyth County 4-H members participated in the North Central 4-H District Activity Day at Elkin High School with 160 other youth from the twenty county district. The youth, ages five to eighteen, presented five-to-twelve minute speeches on topics ranging from NASCAR and Meteorology to personality profiling and swimming and everything in between.
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Carr set a Fresno State single-game record for highest completion percentage by connecting on 28-of-32 passes for 87.5 percent. He threw for 452 yards and four touchdowns to lead Fresno State past the Falcons in the win that clinched the Mountain West championship for the 'Dogs, the school's first conference title since 1999.
After the victory, Carr announced he would return for his senior season in 2013.
It was Carr's third game this season throwing for over 400 yards with at least four touchdowns and he is one of three quarterbacks in the nation that has done so.
His three 400-yard passing games this year has also set a new Mountain West single-season record.
Carr has completed 68.1 percent of his 457 passes this season and has 36 touchdowns against five interceptions. He ended the regular season with 126 consecutive passes without an interception.
He ranks seventh nationally with 3,742 passing yards and his 36 touchdowns are the fourth-most in the FBS.
Carr is one of only four quarterbacks in the nation that has thrown for over 3,000 yards and only five interceptions.


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His Highness the Aga Khan, the Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network, became Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims on July 11, 1957 at the age of 20, succeeding his grandfather, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan. He is the 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims and a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) through his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, the first Imam, and his wife Fatima, the Prophet's daughter. Son of Prince Aly Khan and Princess Tajuddawlah Aly Khan, the Aga Khan was born on December 13, 1936, in Geneva. He spent his early childhood in Nairobi, Kenya, and then attended Le Rosey School in Switzerland for nine years. He graduated from Harvard University in 1959 with a BA Honors Degree in Islamic history.
Like his grandfather Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan before him, the Aga Khan has, since assuming the office of Imamat in 1957, been concerned about the well-being of all Muslims, particularly in the face of the challenges of rapid historical changes. In Islam's ethical tradition, religious leaders not only interpret the faith but also have a responsibility to help improve the quality of life in their community and in the societies amongst which they live. For His Highness the Aga Khan, this has meant a deep engagement with development for over 50 years. Building on institutions started by his grandfather, the Aga Khan created the agencies of the AKDN as a contemporary endeavour of the Ismaili Imamat to realise the social conscience of Islam through institutional action. For more information on the AKDN, please see the About AKDN page and the Frequent Questions page.
View of Islam
The Aga Khan has emphasised the view of Islam as a thinking, spiritual faith, one that teaches compassion and tolerance and that upholds the dignity of man, Allah's noblest creation. In the Shia tradition of Islam, it is the mandate of the Imam of the time to safeguard the individual's right to personal intellectual search and to give practical expression to the ethical vision of society that the Islamic message inspires. Addressing, as Chairman, the International Conference on the Example (Seerat) of the Prophet Muhammad in Karachi in 1976, the Aga Khan said that the wisdom of Allah's final Prophet in seeking new solutions for problems which could not be solved by traditional methods provides the inspiration for Muslims to conceive a truly modern and dynamic society, without affecting the fundamental concepts of Islam.
The Ismailis
During the course of history, the Ismailis have, under the guidance of their Imams, made major contributions to the growth of Islamic civilisation. The University of Al-Azhar and the Academy of Science, Dar al-Ilm, in Cairo and indeed the city of Cairo itself, exemplify their contributions to the cultural, religious and intellectual life of Muslims. Among the renowned philosophers, jurists, physicians, mathematicians, astronomers and scientists of the past who flourished under the patronage of Ismaili Imams are Qadi al-Numan, al-Kirmani, Ibn al-Haytham (al-Hazen), Nasir e-Khusraw and Nasir al-Din Tusi.
Achievements of the Fatimid Empire
Achievements of the Fatimid Empire dominate accounts of the early period of Ismaili history, roughly from the beginnings of Islam through the 11th century.
Named after the Prophet's daughter Fatima, the Fatimid dynasty created a state that stimulated the development of art, science, and trade in the Mediterranean Near East over two centuries. Its centre was Cairo , founded by the Fatimids as their capital. Following the Fatimid period, the Ismaili Muslims' geographical centre shifted from Egypt to Syria and Persia . After their centre Alamut (in Persia), fell to Mongol conquerors in the 13th century, Ismailis lived for several centuries in dispersed communities, mainly in Persia and Central Asia but also in Syria, India and elsewhere. In the 1830s, Aga Hassanaly Shah, the 46th Ismaili Imam, was granted the honorary hereditary title of Aga Khan by the Shah of Persia. In 1843, the first Aga Khan left Persia for India , which already had a large Ismaili community. Aga Khan II died in 1885, only four years after assuming the Imamat. He was succeeded by the present Aga Khan's grandfather, and predecessor as Imam, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan.
A Tradition of International Service
In recent generations, the Aga Khan's family has followed a tradition of service in international affairs. The Aga Khan's grandfather was President of the League of Nations and his father, Prince Aly Khan, was Pakistan's Ambassador to the United Nations. His uncle, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, was the United Nations' High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations' Coordinator for assistance to Afghanistan and United Nations' Executive Delegate of Iraq-Turkey border areas.
The Aga Khan's brother, Prince Amyn, joined the United Nations Secretariat, Department of Economic and Social Affairs following his graduation from Harvard in 1965. Since 1968, Prince Amyn has been closely involved with the governance of the principal development institutions of the Imamat. He is Director of the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) and a member of the Board of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) and Chairman of its Executive Committee. Prince Amyn was also deeply involved in the establishment and the development of the Tourism Promotion Services (TPS). He is also a Director of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC).
The Aga Khan's eldest child and daughter, Princess Zahra, graduated from Harvard in 1994 with a BA (Honours) Degree in Development Studies, and is the Head of the Social Welfare Department (SWD). She has policy and management responsibility for the health, education, and planning and building service companies of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). She also plays a key policy role with respect to the other social development institutions of the Network.
Prince Rahim was born on 12 October 1971, in Geneva, Switzerland, and is the second of His Highness the Aga Khan's four children. Prince Rahim is an executive Director of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) -- the economic development arm of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). A graduate of Brown University, Rhode Island, USA with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Comparative Literature awarded in 1996, Prince Rahim received his secondary education at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. In 2006, Prince Rahim completed an executive development programme in Management and Administration at the University of Navarra IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. Prince Rahim travels regularly to Asia and Africa to oversee the industrial plants, hotel properties and financial institutions, including microfinance programmes, of the Aga Khan Development Network.
The Aga Khan's second son, Prince Hussain, graduated from Williams College (USA) with a Bachelor of Arts degree and has a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) where his main area of study was Economic and Political Development with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa.
His youngest son Prince Aly Muhammad was born in 2000.
Recognition for the Aga Khan's Work
Over the years, the Aga Khan has received numerous decorations, honorary degrees, and awards in recognition of the various dimensions of his work. He has received civilian decorations on one or more occasions from the governments of France, Portugal, Côte d'Ivoire, Upper Volta, Madagascar, Iran, Pakistan, Italy, Senegal, Morocco, Spain, and Tajikistan. In October 1998, on the occasion of the Award Ceremony of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, he was presented with the Gold Medal of the City of Granada.
His Highness has been awarded honorary degrees by universities throughout the world. He has also received numerous awards and prizes from various professional organisations in recognition of his work, ranging from nursing to architecture.
The title His Highness was granted by Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain in 1957, and His Royal Highness by His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Iran in 1959.
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Wikipedia describes Free to air as: television and radio services broadcast in clear (unencrypted) form, allowing any person with an FTA receiver and a 30" or larger satellite dish + linear LNB to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscription or other ongoing cost. Free to air also refers to channels and broadcasters providing content for which no subscription is expected, even though they may be delivered to the viewer by another carrier for which a subscription is required like cable, satellite or the Internet.
Terrestrial television or what it is commonly referred to as over the air television (OTA) is a type a television broadcasting that does not involve a signal from a satellite or cables. The TV signal is transmitted by radio wave and requires a digital antenna to receive the television programming. As with free to air, there is no monthly bill or subscription required but you will need the correct size antenna and either a digital tuner set top box or a compatible TV with a terrestrial / ATSC tuner.
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News 12 at 11 o'clock / Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Only a parking lot separates the Suntrust Bank from all the other businesses in the Southgate Plaza shopping center, and it has one store wrestling with a lot of "what ifs."
"What if somebody feel like, you know, we'll come to one of the stores and do it? You never know," said Simply Fashion Assistant Manager Cecelia Harris.
Her store sits just across a parking lot from the bank a man robbed on Thursday.
"That's pretty close to home. We got a police station right there in the back. You would never think of somebody doing something that crazy. That's like Russian Roulette," Harris said.
Shortly before noon a man walked into the Suntrust Bank on Gordon Highway demanding money and threatening to harm the bank tellers if they didn't turn it over.
Investigators say he then jumped over the counter, grabbed the money and then ran out of the bank.
The robbery has local businesses and customers shocked.
"It's right in your own backyard, in your own neighborhood. You never think that it would be just as close to walk up and think that earlier it was just robbed," Suntrust customer Michele Thomas said.
"It's shocking, and it's scary, and it makes me worry about my safety," Harris said.
The short distance isn't the only reason this crime hit close to home. Simply Fashion banks with their neighbor, and someone from their store drops money there every morning.
"What if one of us might have been over there doing the drop in the morning? Ain't no telling what could have happened," Harris said.
Just last week the store had a crime of its own.
"A customer came in here. I had a cellphone laying right here by the cash register, and she took my phone and ran out the store with it," Harris said.
She's afraid next time it could be worse.
As the holidays get closer, these women don't expect their concerns to go away any time soon.
"People are getting desperate, and the money situation is tight for a lot of families, and a lot of things are going to happen out of the ordinary," Thomas said.
"I know it's just gonna get worse -- not better at all -- it's just gonna get worse," Harris said.
Investigators later caught the suspect, Eddie Garnett, on the 3000 block of Washington Road.
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Kenny Petrovic[1] (Russian: Кенни Петрович) is a character in Grand Theft Auto IV.
Kenny Petrovic was born in Russia and went to Liberty City for criminal purposes. His father fought the Germans at Stalingrad in WWII, and had not given up to the Germans, but is believed to be dead. When Kenny first arrived, all his income came from shipping American cars back to Russia. After some time in America, he formed his own organization and he became one of the biggest Russian crime bosses in America, if not the biggest. In the meantime another organization was created by Mikhail Faustin.
Events of GTA IV
The two Russian Mafia organizations seemed at peace, but after Faustin sent Niko Bellic to kill Kenny's son Lenny Petrovic, suspecting him to be a rat, Kenny wanted war with Faustin. Faustin wasn't afraid of Petrovic, and he again sent Niko to steal a truck of explosives and arm it in a Petrovic-owned garage destroying it. Petrovic was prepared for war, but Faustin's second-in-command Dimitri Rascalov wanted to make peace. This deal included Niko killing Faustin. Niko did so and Petrovic didn't eliminate the Faustin Family but instead made an alliance with them. Kenny has several mistresses and girlfriends behind his wife's back. His goons are sent across the city to destroy hot dog stands for his Kosher girlfriend and are forced to escort his mistresses to safe areas away from Petrovic's wife when she discovers his secret lover. He despises the Angels of Death, sending a squad of his gangsters to raid a drug deal they made and sending a goon to destroy the chapter leader's bike, Sexy Charlie. They also blew up one of Kenny's meth labs. His favorite stripper, Juliet was fired. Kenny has various alliances with people from all over Liberty City, including Rami Yalon, Gordon Sargent, Little Jacob and Brucie Kibbutz. His last name sounds different during the game, but the right pronunciation is "PetroviCH", not "PetroviK". According to Russian criminal hierarchy he can be called "pakhan", "maz" or "avtoritet" (Russian: авторитет, English: authoritative one) as he is the most powerful crime lord in the city.
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Despite his absence in the single player game, Kenny is prominent in the multiplayer aspect of Grand Theft Auto IV. He appears in the multiplayer missions Mafiya Work and Team Mafiya Work. In these missions, the player must obey Petrovic's orders, protect him from rival mobsters and take care of Kenny's "Black List." He also gives orders to players in Car Jack City and Team Car Jack City by having mercenaries steal cars off his wishlist and bring cars loaded with drugs. He also assigns orders in the co-op missions Bomb Da Base II, where you must bomb a ship, Deal Breaker, where you must disrupt a drug deal, and Hangman's NOOSE where you must escort him to safety while fighting off NOOSE enforcers.
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Surname: Petrovic
First Name: Kenny
Age: 52
Place of Birth: Russia
Affiliations: Linked to Russian Organized Crime Syndicates throughout Liberty City.
Criminal Record:
- 1990 - Manslaughter
- 1994 - Racketeering
- Believed to be the kingpin of Russian Organized Crime in Liberty City, if not the whole United States.
- Arrived in the US in the 1980s on an Israeli passport though, this was confiscated when evidence came to light that he did not, as previously claimed, have a Jewish grandmother.
- Involved in all types of criminal activity.
- The direct translation of his first name is Kenya (pronounced kEHNYaa) making his full name in it's Russian form Kenya Petrovic written as Кенни Петрович in Russian Cryilic. The Bratva boss likely adopted the anglicized form of his name, Kenny, to aid his merge into American society.


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WASHINGTON – The second annual Washington Humane Society's D.C Walk for the Animals and Pet-A-Palooza was held Saturday in Adams Morgan. Pet owners and their pets were walking to end the problem of homeless animals.
Scott Giacoppo is the vice president for external affairs and chief programs officer with the Washington Human Society. He says the money raised is vital to the society's programs but he adds, "For us, it's more of a way to share the organization with the community."
He says this is a daylong event with a small walk around the Adams Morgan neighborhood.
The fundraising event was held on the field of the Marie Reed Elementary School. The event had previously been held at the National Mall but organizers wanted to be in a neighborhood parks so they could engage with they community it serves.
"She had more than 100 wounds on her face, neck and front legs," Barrett says. But the dog's owner denied the dog treatment. Even though the dog was only 11-months old the owner wanted to euthanize it. But a Humane Society law enforcement officer fought to keep Polo alive, Barrett says.
Within weeks with special treatment and a whole lot of love and the blue-eyed beauty made a comeback. Now Barrett, who is Polo's new owner, wants to train her as a therapy dog for people who have gone through a lot of trauma, Barrett says.
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Waterloo, IL (KSDK) - For months before his family was killed, Chris Coleman was telling people he was receiving death threats against his family because of his job as the body guard for television preacher Joyce Meyer. Monday, prosecutors tried to convince the jury those threats were bogus.
The prosecution's computer expert was Sgt. Ken Wojtowicz with the Granite City Police Department.
Sgt. Wojtowicz, who testified that most of his work is related to child pornography cases, said he copied and catalogued the contents of Coleman's computer and found seven threats emailed to Coleman in November 2008 and an eighth that was never sent.
Sgt. Wojtowicz said the emails originated from the email address "email@example.com" and testified that the account was created on Coleman's laptop computer - provided by Joyce Meyer Ministries.
Sgt. Wojtowicz also testified that after a subpoena and search warrant were served to Google he was able to determine the emails threats were also sent from Coleman's computer.
"Tell Joyce to stop preaching the (expletive) or Chris's family will die. If I can't get to Joyce then I'll get to someone close to her," one email read.
The threats were addressed to Coleman, Joyce Meyer and others from her ministry.
"You (expletive) are probably wondering how I got your emails. You stupid (expletive)... just like every company... so (expletive) predictable," on message entered in to evidence read.
And there were references that implied Coleman had prevented the alleged sender from speaking to Meyer in person.
"Tell Chris his family is dead!!! I know his schedule and they will die. Next time the (expletive) will let me talk to Joyce," Sgt. Wojtowicz read to jurors.
The prosecutions computer expert drew some of the most aggressive questioning so far from the defense. Attorney John O'Gara tried to plant doubt by getting Sgt. Wojtowicz to agree that computers can be remotely controlled from other locations by other people using software or viruses.
Prosecutors also presented evidence from AT&T. James Kientzy, an engineer from the company, said cell phone records show that Coleman did not drive straight home the morning of the murders when he said he was concerned that his wife wasn't answering the phone.
What forensics did not find
DNA evidence found inside the Coleman home where Sheri Coleman and her two sons, Garett and Gavin, were found murdered, was linked to members of the Coleman family, according to forensic scientists who testified in the murder trial.
Illinois State Police Forensic Scientist Michael Brown said he collected several DNA samples from the victims' fingernails and from the bedding after the May 2009 murder. On Sheri and Garett, they found another person's DNA on them, but it was consistent with that of family members. Brown said that would not be uncommon because they all lived together and had constant contact.
"Not a single genetic marker that I identified would have to have come from outside source," Brown said.
The defense asked Brown if the DNA could have come from an outside source.
Brown said it was possible because certain people share some common DNA markers.
The defense asked if investigators examined DNA samples from Keith Coleman and if it would be similar to Keith's.
Brown said they did not examine Keith's DNA and that the brothers may have DNA similarities, but the exact profile would differ.
It was the second time the defense has brought up Keith Coleman's name. But, investigators said he has a credible alibi. He was spotted on an ATM camera in Arkansas.
Illinois State Police Forensic Scientist Melody Levault testified that the loose strains of hair found on the crook of Gavin's elbow and near Garett's head, were consistent to that of Sheri's hair.
In the first week of trial, Dr. Michael Baden, a forensic pathologist, testified that he believed the three were strangled by the same ligature and that's how the hair was transferred. He believed Sheri was killed first, then the boys.
When police arrived at the Coleman home after the murders, they found a back window opened, which they believed the killer may have used to get inside the home.
Rick Sawdey, who works for the company that made the windows, testified that the window was not damaged and that the window has a forced entry resistance mechanism that prevents anyone from entering from the outside. He said there was no damage to the locks and it did not appear to have ever been forcefully opened.
The prosecution could wrap its case as early as Tuesday.
If convicted, Coleman could face the death penalty.
NewsChannel 5's Ryan Dean and Casey Nolen are following the trial and tweeting updates on the case @ksdknews.


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(1) Not more than 15 loans may be guaranteed under subsection (a), of which not more than five such loans may be guaranteed during the 3-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this subchapter.
(2) A guarantee of a loan under subsection (a) shall be in an amount that is not less than the amount necessary to sell the loan in a commercial market.
(c) A loan may not be guaranteed under this subchapter unless, before closing such loan, the Secretary has approved the loan.
(1) The Secretary shall enter into contracts with a qualified nonprofit organization, or other qualified organization, that has experience in underwriting transitional housing projects to obtain advice in carrying out this subchapter, including advice on the terms and conditions necessary for a loan that meets the requirements of section 2052 of this title.
(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), a nonprofit organization is an organization that is described in paragraph (3) or (4) of subsection (c) ofsection 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and is exempt from tax under subsection (a) of such section.
(e) The Secretary may carry out this subchapter in advance of the issuance of regulations for such purpose.
(f) The Secretary may guarantee loans under this subchapter notwithstanding any requirement for prior appropriations for such purpose under any provision of law.
(g) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a multifamily transitional housing project that is funded by a loan guaranteed under this subchapter may accept uncompensated voluntary services performed by any eligible entity (as that term is defined in section 2011 (d) of this title) in connection with the construction, alteration, or repair of such project.
Source(Added Pub. L. 105–368, title VI, § 601(a),Nov. 11, 1998, 112 Stat. 3342, § 3772; renumbered § 2051 and amended Pub. L. 107–95, § 5(d)(1), (2)(B),Dec. 21, 2001, 115 Stat. 918; Pub. L. 108–454, title IV, § 402(a),Dec. 10, 2004, 118 Stat. 3615.)
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2004—Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 108–454added subsec. (g).
2001—Pub. L. 107–95, § 5(d)(1), renumbered section 3772 of this title as this section.
Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 107–95, § 5(d)(2)(B), substituted "section 2052 of this title" for "section 3773 of this title".
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|Queen of America, Princess of Arkansas, Empress of New York
|1993 - incumbent
|Since "Leaders are born, not made." One can only conclude that Hillary is the result a bizarre test tube experiment from which she emerged somewhere around the year 1910."
|Let's just say, snowballs that were present stood very little chance.
|We're still waiting.
|Baraq Hussein Osama
|Denies sleeping with her
|Monica Lewinsky
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
Queen Hillary, is US politician who is starting to get even more dangerous than Bill Clinton. She has adopted such slogans as "I'm the next best thing to Bill!" and "Vote for me and get Bill free!".
Unfortunately, it turns out in the real world, people want leaders who are eye candy like Clint Eastwood, George W Bush and myself. Were Americans really ready for a tough old beer guzzling broad who chased her mugs of bud light with a 20 oz. shot of Crown and could drink any republican under the table? Did they want a ball busting battle axe; someone who couldn't stand the heat and stayed out of the kitchen as well as disparaged the act of baking cookies?
So who does this bitch think she is?
Besides being a cigarette smoker who has journalists' cameras confiscated, is she a woman without a state? By becoming a Connecticut Yankee in Arkansas clothing, parading through Washington DC, she appealed to everyone but their black-Latino brother. Americans were wary of bait and switch tactics after years of democracy and car salesmem, more to the point they feared she would NOT do a bait and switch by going into exile again and letting Bill have another go as President.
Fun Facts
Unlike most presidents' wives of the United States, Hillary Clinton has never been known to wear a dress, gown, skirt, perfume, hairspray, or anything but a pantsuit. Just the sight of an apron makes her break out in hives. Hillary has never visited the Rose Garden and never intends to because roses reduce her political powers by 85%. The paparazzi has never caught her in the act of receiving a bouquet of roses, or even so much as a box of truffles, even after the Lewinsky scandal".
Political Stance
Clinton has taken many stances in her career, such as crying to make people go "awww" and vote for her, and yet, one of her most unwavering commitments is to the ideals of liberalism. Obviously, as a liberal, Clinton believes that wealth should be shared equally and believes money should be allocated to those in need. Clinton is always willing to demonstrate this by leading by example during her campaign taking in $41,500 per day.
Some might claim that Hillary profited from the fat stacks of cash that her political enemies sent her, but nothing could be further from the truth. No sooner did she receive her bribes then she gave them to someone in need, and to a cause that helps the poorest members of society:
2008 Campaign
During the 2008 democratic primaries, heated rivalry between Hillary Clinton and democratic candidate rival Barack Obama began to build. At the beginning of the primary candidacy run, rumours had started that Hillary Clinton and her post-menopause followers believed she had already "won the election" and that it was "owed to her due to experience." Another speculation began to go around when people believed that Clinton was having a secret case of jungle fever for Obama.
Shortly after the meeting between Obama and Clinton when she began to endorse Obama, Obama stated in an interview on CNN "Yes, she did want me - and I was surprised...I would've guessed she wanted Michelle."
Prophecies and Mythology
According to Christian prophecies from the new testament bible (v. King James) , Hillary Clinton is in fact the Whore of Babylon sent by the Dark Prince to destroy man. In the 3rd chapter of Revelations it was foretold that she would enter the world scene riding one of the four horses of the apocalypse and give birth to an evil monstrosity of unknown ancestry. It will have 5 heads, ten horns, twenty hooves, a clay foot, and a straw body. That according to Rush Limbaugh who described Chelsea Clinton, though he later claimed the wrong picture came up.
Nostradamus also made predictions about Hillary in the quatrain that mentions a person named Hister. Nostradamus said, "Most of the army will be against the lower Danube [Hister Clinton]. The great one shall be dragged in an iron cage when the child brother [de Germain] will observe nothing." Since Nostradamus disguised words by using anagrams, he couldn't possibly have meant Hitler. The correct anagram of Hister is its her. It's Hillary who will escape the army of the lower Danube under intense sniper fire and hand over the keys of the kingdom to The Great One. Probably.
In ancient Norse writings Hillary is described as a she-wolf goddess of chaos that comes to Migard to devour the grandchildren of Odin. She claims to be for the working class, but is wealthy and sells out everyone to the tune of $451,000 then hands over the leadership of America to the highest available bidder. She then secretly allies up with Osama the bearded one to destroy any who refuse to convert to the religion of the crescent moon god after disbanding all armies and overthrowing Congress and rewriting the Constitution.
In Hindu mythology Hillary is allied up with Shiva the destroyer and Shiva orders Hillary to destroy the Earth because Vishnu went on vacation and wasn't there to preserve it. Hillary is a dark goddess with two faces and eight arms bringing death and destruction creating the Kali Yuga to human beings because she hates them for being more loved than she ever was. All of this brings about changes that leads to the arrival of Kalki who defeats Hillary and brings about a new age.
According to Sumerian mythos, once the Gate-Keeper, Zuul, and the Key Master, Vinz Clortho, come together, Hillary will come forward in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the 3rd Rectification of the Voldronii, she appeared as an enormous slor! Then in the late 1960s, a new form was chosen. That of a bitchy shrew with bloated ankles and an over-bite! Many shubs and zuuls were roasted in the depths of the shrew that day, I can tell you!
According to ancient Greek mythos Hillary is the goddess of chaos and discord, but instead claims she is for change instead.
She first gained public spotlight in her elementary school years by winning the 15 district wide contest historical forensics investigational writing award, with the controversial speech, My friend Satan: Prince of Darkness, or just misunderstood?
Essential Involvement in International Affairs
Hillary has a long and distinguished track record when it comes to foreign affairs.
- It has been proven that during every important policy Bill Clinton made as president, he was married to Hillary. She went on planes with him as he traveled between places and she even slept in the same bed as him occasionally.
- What more do you want? She was present when he was thinking about important political ideas and he even might have mentioned them to her on occasion.
For example,in 1998, she was deeply involved in the Good Friday Agreement that helped get the terrorists elected in Britain. Many of the top political figures of the time remember that throughout the talks she was "married to Clinton" and that they "sometimes met her at functions" or "that she got off the plane when Bill did and waved", some even going so far as to say "Who? Oh Bill's wife? Yes I think I met her once." Without her involvement, what chance would the talks have stood?
Currently Hillary is on a campaign to crush the hopes of every cancer patient worldwide.
Factual Errors
In the future, some of the facts in this article may come into question, and some may even be proved patently false. If this should happen, remember, we did not lie, we just misspoke, which is completely different. Should any of it be proven to be true, that was an accident as well. We didn't know what we were thinking! This article was written using the Clintonian Method of public speaking and fact checking, everyone knows that the Clintionan Method does not fail, and everyone likes it anyway, even if it misspeaks.
See also
- Bill Clinton
- Bill Clinton Presidential Wash-house
- Top Ten Most Murderous Animals
- Despotism
- Democrat
- Hillary Clinton's Bust
- Hillary Clinton's Presidential Fund-raising Campaign
- Feminazi
External links
- Hillary's lies
- Hillary lying about Healthcare
- Hillary lies about taxes
- Hillary stole the NH election
- Really Bad News Day for Hillary Clinton
- Hillary Clinton takes $2M from Comic Book company and then ruined it and framed Peter Paul
- Part 2 of the above video
- Hillary Clinton censors Ron Paul
- Hillary tells college students to ask planted questions to her
- Bill and Hillary Clinton: Their Secret Life
|Candidates in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
|Republican Party
|John McCain | Rudy Giuliani | Mike Huckabee | Ron Paul | Mitt Romney | Tom Tancredo | Fred Thompson | Tommy Thompson
|Democratic Party
|Barack Obama/Baraq Hussein Osama | Hillary Clinton | John Edwards
|Ralph Nader
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Lotus Official Clubs
From an initiative originally conceived by the Lotus dealers of Italy comes a new officially recognised member's only club for Lotus owners.
Launching in December, the first of the Official Lotus Clubs debuts in Italy as Lotus Official Club Italia. The upcoming programme includes a calendar of events and activities from national gatherings and assemblies to organised excursions, including trips to Lotus HQ and motorsport events.
Targeted at anyone who owns a Lotus sports car old or new, the only criteria is a love of Lotus!
As well as the regular excuse to drive the incredible roads of Italy in convoy alongside iconic Lotus cars past and present, there is a generous members' benefits package that includes not only discounts on Lotus parts and merchandise, but also with Lotus' partner companies offering preferential rates at hotels and restaurants.
To keep members in touch with each other there will be an 'Official Lotus Forum' online portal that will also provide expert technical advice to owners who like to play with their Lotus as well as chat about it!
For a full list of membership benefits please visit the Lotus Official Club Italia website www.lotusclubitalia.org or contact your local Lotus dealer.
Keep a look out on our website for your Lotus Official Club coming soon near you!
Glamorous Club Italia Launch
The launch event of the Lotus Official Club Italia took place on the 1st and 2nd of December in Barberino di Mugello, Florence (Italy). The event was a great success with around 50 Lotus owners arriving at the venue at the wheel of their Lotus.
After a glamorous gala dinner on the Saturday night at the beautiful Villa Le Maschere, the guests had the opportunity to drive their cars on the twisty roads of Tuscany on the Sunday morning.


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So apparently the rules changed, so here's a repost of my Spore review, as seen on
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A vast galaxy of mouse clicks and random creatures.
What is Spore? Spore is an evolutionary park, where all the players have a few things to play with; the slide, a swing set, jungle gym, and of course the sand box. While some kids will undoubtedly run straight into one of the active activities, others will head for the sand box and create stuff. That is Spore, a collaborative playground where players have their choice of what to do.
The journey from single-celled organism to space-faring society is going through that full list of active things to play on, while creating everything from the organisms to buildings to theme songs for cities is, for the most part, like playing The Sims. Which is to be expected.
Yet this five-in-one game is really just two games in one: the creation of different organisms and buildings and vehicles, and the development of said organisms. Depending on personal preference, one or both of these will be fun. However, because Spore tries to do so very much, it ends up lacking. Maxis search for realism has dug a hole that they cannot climb out of. Not yet, anyways.
Beginning as a single celled organism, Spore plays very much like flOw, where players must maneuver their creatures to eat either other swimming organisms or plants. From that moment, players are also forced to decide whether their creatures will be carnivores, omnivores or herbivores, something that comes too quickly. When I realized that my diet cannot be changed later on, it was too late for me to stop eating meat and get some veggies in my diet, and the only way to fix it would be to start over.
This section is fairly easy, and takes little more than half an hour to complete. So building the proper creature is of dire importance. If the creature doesnt have the right mouth, the right protection of spikes or poison-excreting sacks or even the right fins, youre fish food. The simple list of features for the Creature Creator of single celled organisms has only a few things to change, but theyre important ones. Every part has a purpose and is used to its utmost.
Completing this stage of creature growth leads to complications. Getting on land means making a creature that follows the traits made in the previous stage, and thats all. The Creature Creator becomes more robust, with different levels of strength, speed, attack and abilities for each. In fact, in this stage the Creature Creator is at its best, giving a huge number of options that all will have different reactions to the encounters players will have.
Yet even in this stage the Creature Creator is flawed. Players arent rewarded for making a creature that has more desirable traits, such as being extremely tall or large. Size doesnt matter in the slightest. Unless the body part attached to the creature has some written advantage, it is purely aesthetic. Tall creatures cannot step on shorter ones, nor will they be stronger or more powerful in any way. The determining factors of a strong creature rely solely on the few power parts that are supplied, which kills any creativity players may have.
But at least you have numbers. As a land animal, youre allocated a certain number of family members for your pack, and theyll do whatever you do, be it eat, attack another species or move to a location. So you arent stuck running from larger, deadlier things like in the cellular level. On land, players have backup.
This whole section, however, is not very enjoyable. It revolves mainly around creating a strong enough creature to take on whatever adversaries lie in the way or missions there are to perform. Point and click is the all there is. That, and hoping that you can run away faster than more powerful stronger enemies.
After successfully learning communication, players species becomes capable of fighting other evolving species in tribes. This section is very similar to the previous one, where the tools (in this case, weapons instead of claws) you have make little difference. Its possible to make friends with all the opposing tribes or to destroy them. Either way, only one type of weapon or musical instrument is necessary. After building up your tribes numbers, its easy to take out opposing tribes. Its almost not worth it to be diplomatic because that is more work and less fun.
The civilization stage is the first that requires some strategy. It begins by asking what type of capital building players want, which has no relevance to anything except aesthetics, and then has the city mine for dust. Collected dust acts as currency for the cities, allowing the building of homes, factories to produce more mines, entertainment centers to keep the city residents happy, and military power.
That military power is whats really needed. In order to succeed past the civilization stage, you must take over the world, either by diplomacy or force. Like the tribe stage, diplomacy takes a lot of work and reaps little benefit over time while full-scale war against single cities is highly effective. Over time more advanced weapons and vehicles can be used to take out the enemy faster, but in the end its about how numerous your forces are verses theirs.
Finally, the galaxy stage. The most robust and challenging section of Spore, the galaxy is huge and offers real choices for diplomacy and aggression. If you want to make friends with another species, just do a mission or two for them and earn their trust, then open trade lines. The more missions performed and the longer trade lines are open, the sooner theyll ask if you want to buy them out. Prices for whole planets are very expensive, but after collecting a few, currency isnt an issue.
Traveling the galaxy, making new friends, terraforming uninhabited planets, establishing new colonies and fighting enemies is what its all about. Diplomacy is fairly limited, with either paying enemies off, offering to open trade lines and doing missions. There are tons of different missions to perform over the hundreds of worlds, spanning the entire galaxy, and of course growing your own empire is at top of the list of things to do.
All said and done, each of these stages is a test of patience and time. Gathering food, conquering the world and even the galaxy takes time, not effort. Very little thinking is required. There are no special weapons to collect, no strategies to perform, no thought required whatsoever. Simply click and press. And just like the playground getting boring after youve played with everything, Spore grows tiresome.
Considering how large the game is, it begs the question: how can this have happened? Doing too much with too little, it seems. Spore certainly has its moments, and is a very well designed and well made game. Yet instead of pursuing the things that could make it into not only a great game, but an excellent and perhaps the best game of our time, it falls closer to minesweeper. Follow the numbering and youll know which buttons to press to win the game.
Spore also lacks multiplayer, which is devastating considering how incredible multiplayer could be for such a game. Even with its lack of thought, pitting players against each other would allow for the most extreme form of intelligent multiplayer gameplay, in any section above the tribal stage. It would essentially be Tribal Wars in three dimensions; addictive, creative, strategic and fun.
These two things, as well as the lack of purpose with creations, puts Spore farther back than we expected based on the tens of previews and videos weve seen on the game. Its a shame; even one of these three factors would have made Spore infinitely more exciting, but in the end its just another trip to the playground. Fun for a time, but not exciting or inspiring.
Robust creature creator allows players to make whatever they want; replay value is infinite.
No multiplayer or online whatsoever; creation system has too much aesthetics; gameplay lacks fun, becomes tiring quickly.
Final Verdict
A game with much to like, but not enough to enjoy regularly.
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Refess is boring. They use the same exact strategy every game. Play units, spam start skills, snowball. I don't think Refess should be so reliant on the same trick every game. I think start skills and snowballing effects should be nerfed so that the sphere can do other things better.
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