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I've gotten in the zone before, but only a couple times. When I'm "In the Zone" or like I always say, in the Empire State of Mind, I am unstoppable. Steals, rebounds, layups, threes, you name it I do it. But the only problem is, how do I get to that mental state, and the physical state strong enough to ignore the pain and play harder.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
- Kevin Durant
Being "in the zone" is pretty much all about your view of the game. If the game is a blowout, it's probably not gonna be there. But if it's the 3rd quarter, the ball's in your hands and you block out everything except what you have to do, you have a way better chance of getting into the flow. I always get pumped up like that when I'm in a good mind state, plus just seeing one shot go down can effect your whole game.
Thanks MaxxHunter! Yeah that really sounds true. But how can you get in the Empire State of Mind the whole game, from the starting tip to the final buzzer?
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
- Kevin Durant
What MaxxHunter said
I say you should start off with easy baskets, and just have an agressive beast like type mindset then move into the way you score best.
so me for instance, will start off with a layup of dunk, then a couple more drives to the hoop and midrange jumpers.and on D i just keep in my mind "im gonna haraas this guy,he wont score" or "im gonna block everything" type mindset. By the end i realized i dominated.
Thanks Malik18, but I can't exactly dunk. Thanks anyway though!
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
- Kevin Durant
i isolate myself the day of the game, and watch tapes of MJ, Kobe, and LeBron and go out and try what they do. I also show up early to my game and get used to the backboard and the rim. this is just how i get myself in a good position to get In the zone. early in the game i dont go out with an all out aggressiveness, but with a patience and a different view of the game. using fakes and jab steps etc a lot when everyone else is going all out and not focusing on that..
I know that when im in the zone im not really thinking about anything in particular im just playing and going off of my instincts so what i do is before the game i go out on the court and just do game type situtation stuff one right after the other in rapid progression but i make sure when i start that im not thinking about anything. Im not thinking about elavating when i shoot, i just shoot. I dont think about getting low when i drive i just do it and drive. So before the game starts i would go warm up and make sure that you arent thinking about anything you are just doing it. Hope this helps!
lol, you dont have to be able to dunk just kick off with layups instead. I meant to say layup or dunk
i in the zone by making heroic shots and when i sit down on the bench or get to the other end of the court and when my teamates are congragulating lating me on what i did and when the crowd gets hyped.
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Comme des Garcons, Gaultier, Ackermann (OnStyle Notebook)
The chunky sweater has been having its fashion moment for a year now. Junya Watanabe and Rei Kawakubo's Comme des Garcons took the trend and made it art on Saturday. (Viktor & Rolf did, too, but went with an unchunky version). I couldn't help thinking that the Comme hats were exactly what we all need in the polar vortex-layers upon layers of stuffed sweaters. Junya's coats — as if Burberry went on an acid trip — were likewise a breath of fresh air in a sea of cable knits.
Good collection — bad collection? With these designers, the point is irrelevant. No normal human being will wear most of those clothes, and yes, they're fantastic. The golf shirts most consumers are likely to buy were on the runway, but — and here's the point — isn't it cool to be able to buy a golf shirt designed by a great artist?
Rihanna was at Comme des Garcons, generating plenty of gossipy questions. Yes, she could have done herself a favor without the bunny-eared knit cap. Moments later, she raced to the 19th arrondissement to witness Jean Paul Gaultier's space age ode to the 90s — another moment well meant and misguided.
Haider Ackermann could have done with out the fake thunder and the drop-crotch looks. He simply doesn't do more theatrics for his spectacularly tailored clothing. Lined cotton sweatshirts, floor-dragging wool pants, and double-or -triple peplums turned skirts into playground equipment. Designer Olivier Theyskens watched from the front row — supporting his fellow Belgian.

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Double room in Pisa Bed & Breakfast
Size15 m²
Floor No.
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Disabled access
- Suitable for events
- Lockable room
- Parking available
|Via di Padule, 56124 Pisa, Italy
|Property type
|Private room
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|Acceptance rate
|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
|6 days ago
Open 24 hours
B&B drive by family, always open, in a typical Tuscan house of the nineteenth century. The upstairs has hardwood floors and the house is stone offering cool in summer and warm in winter. Ideal for budget holidays and great for those who have to attend hospital patients.
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1 double bed
Desk and chair
2 bedside tables (one with two drawers, one without drawers)
Large wardrobe with 5 doors and cab
Chest of 4 drawers
Television with satellite channels
Fan and dehumidifier
Telephone for internal communication, and external alarm
Conditioned and soundproofed windows
Parquet floor
Bathroom, large bath and is located just outside the door of room (shared but often use)
Situated on the first floor with comfortable stairs of 15 steps with handrail and railing
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- Utilities: water, electricity, gas, heating, fan
- Set 3 towels: washbasin, bidet, bath / shower
- Transmission: daily bed linen and towels (on request), otherwise weekly
- Cleaning accessories: hair dryer, soap, shampoo
- Clothing accessories: washing machine (4 euro / time if you use), clotheshorse, iron, ironing board
- Kitchen (on request): with large table, ceiling fan, microwave, fridge, fridge freezer, toaster etc..
- Bicycles: for adults and children (service development)
- Internet: WiFi 300 Mb / s on ADSL 20 Mb / s
- Parking: you can download at the entrance and then go to the common parking which is located in 100 meters with places still available (not Habitable on Monday morning for the market). The parking garage with gate has an extra charge of 5 € / day.
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Telephone and fax: VOIP and analog
Printer: Color inkjet
Shuttle: hospital (2 euro), train (5 euro), center (5 euro), tower (5 euro)
Breakfast (3 Euros per person)
Guide and companion: in agreement
Event Planning: on-site with edukom.it
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- Hospital: 1 km (also connected by bike path)
- First aid: 1 km
- Pharmacy: 250 m (time of pharmacies of Pisa)
- Bar / Cake: 150 m
- Italian Post: 600 m
- ATM: 200 m (there are several in the area within walking distance)
- Supermarket: PAM (200 m); Mall Pisanova Esselunga (500 m), Coop (800 m), Carrefour (2 km), Media World (1 km)
- Restaurant / Pizzeria: 650 m
- Railway station: 3 km (Pisa Centrale) Train schedule
- Bus: line 14 (50 meters), line 13 (100 m), line 22 (100 m), LAM blue (200 m);
- Airport: 4 km
- Parking: 70 m (within 100 meters there are more than 50 seats)
- Highway: 2 km (Florence-Pisa-Livorno)
- Highway: Pisa center (8 km), Pisa Nord (12 km)
- Leaning Tower: 3.5 km, in addition to the complex of Piazza dei Miracoli is near the Piazza dei Cavalieri
- Town center: 2.5 km (here it is, half bridge, over Italy, a village close, the National Museum of St. Matthew, Spina Church, Church of S. Cristina ...)
- Cinema Green Island: 0.5 km
- Walk: 1 km (Avenue of shores: shaded walk along the Arno River, with playgrounds and gymnastics)
- Teatro Verdi: 2.5 km (information)
- Church: 0.5 km (Holy Family Parish, time of harvest with other churches pastoral unit)
- Playground: 30 m (in front of the house shaded park with playground and benches)
- Sea: 15 km
2. Pets: Pets may be alone in the courtyard of the house but did not enter into
3. The town of Pisa requires a local tax cost of 1.5 euros per person, per day of stay. We are humbled by this decision, but this cost must be borne by you upon your arrival. Then this is an extra cost additional to that indicated that in turn will remit to the municipality.
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Simone was very frendly and helpful. Unfortunately was our room directly in the main street! It was too loud and we can't good sleep. For breakfast there were only Cornflakes & coffee. The Schoko cake was great;))
Amazing! Everything was perfect! Simone was so nice, and gently took us to the airport for a cheap price! Extremely recommended!
Convenient location for access to downtown, even with the car. The disadvantages are shared bathrooms and drains that do not work.
Posizione comoda per l'accesso in centro, anche con l'auto. Gli svantaggi sono il bagno in comune e gli scarichi che non funzionano.
The stay in Pisa at Simone's house was really good. The room was good, bathroom has to be shared with others, but was cleaned everyday. Breakfast was very good with delicious coffee. Simone is a great host and really really nice and friendly. We would come back every time :-)
Very helpful host, friendly and knowledgeable. Shared bathroom and eating area.
But a good place for the money.
Great place for this money. Clean room, bathroom and kitchen. Not so far from the city center: 30 mins walk or 10 mins by bus - bus just on the other site of the road. Quite big kitchen with all of the tools needed. Bikes available for use. Folders describing attractions and the ways to get to them as well as restaurants' addresses. Clear rules. And great host - always kind and very helpful. The place to recommend:)
We were received with great hospitality, both Simone and his wife were very friendly hosts. The room was nice and clean. We feld at home!.
All the rooms that we rent with Wimdu during our trip. It was the most beautiful and cleanest ... The family was charming and welcoming. Our host picked us up and take us back to the train to ... Basic info Airport And the lady gave us a sweet home cooked :) Thanks a lot
De toutes les chambres que nous avons louer avec Wimdu durant notre voyage. Celle-ci était la plus belle et la plus propre... La famille était charmante et accueillante. Notre hote est venu nous chercher au train et nous reconduire à l'aréoport... Et la dame nous a offert une petite douceur cuisiné maison :) Merci beaucoup
Very friendly householders, delicious coffe in the morning and pretty accomodation. We'll come back here ;)
bright and spacious room, adjoining bathroom very clean. Guests very nice, gave us map and tourist guide of the city. only flaw location, not in itself, but as a poorly connected. we went out to dinner in the city center but at eleven and a half there were no more buses and we were forced to take a taxi for ten euro. excellent accommodation for those with cars but the rest will be made available to the bikes (which they said there but, unfortunately for us, to be repaired).
camera spaziosa e luminosa, bagno adiacente molto pulito. Ospiti molto carini, ci hanno fornito cartina e guida turistica della città. unico neo la posizione, non di per sé ,ma in quanto mal collegata. siamo andati a cena fuori in centro ma alle undici e mezza non vi erano più autobus e siamo stati costretti a prendere un taxi al costo di dieci euro. ottima sistemazione per chi è dotato di automobile ma per gli altri dovrebbero essere messe a disposizione delle biciclette (che hanno detto esserci ma, purtroppo per noi, in riparazione).
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LAB: Epidemiology Many age-related conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, dementia, cancer, musculoskeletal disorders and age-related eye disease, appear to have strong nutritional components. Improved nutrition through public health recommendations and interventions could have a tremendous impact on the economic and societal costs associated with these disabilities, but development of recommendations and interventions requires a greater understanding of the presumptive role that nutrition plays in delaying the onset of disease and disability. Epidemiologic methods applied to community-based investigations of aging populations provide a valuable tool to help meet this need. We will use these methods to address project objectives. LAB: Dietary Assessment We will achieve project objectives by continuing to work with existing cohorts of aging adults in the US population, including our own Boston Puerto Rican Health Study and Nutrition and Memory in the Elderly Study, and through active collaboration with the Framingham Studies, the Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging and the VA Normative Aging Study. In each of these, we either collect and analyze or interpret dietary intake and/or biochemical measures and relate them to health outcomes. In addition, we will collaborate across the ARS Human Nutrition Research Centers to conduct a new multi-center assessment of barriers and facilitators of adherence to dietary guidelines to prevent obesity. Together this body of work will contribute to a better understanding of the importance of specific foods, nutrients and dietary patterns in health maintenance with aging and in prevention of obesity and related chronic conditions.


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Rosemary T. DeVizia, 86, of East Stroudsburg, passed away Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, at Arnold Walter Nursing Home, Hazlet, N.J. She was a retired office clerk for New Jersey Transit Authority.
She was born in Pittston and lived most of her life in Roselle, N.J., before moving back to Pennsylvania 20 years ago. Rosemary was a graduate of Orange High School and was a person who gave of herself to anyone in need. She was very charitable and generous when it came to those in need or less fortunate. She was truly blessed and will be missed by all who knew her.
She was predeceased by her parents, Louis J. and Carmela DeVizia, and two brothers, Louis J. and Charles DeVizia. She leaves behind a sister, Ann M. DeVizia; sisters-in-law, Nancy DeVizia and Josephine DeVizia Matullo; 15 loving nieces and nephews; and 13 great-nieces and -nephews.
Visitation will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, at Waitt Funeral Home and Cremation Service, 501 Highway 79, Morganville, N.J. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, at St. Clement Church, Matawan, N.J., followed by interment at St. Gertrude Cemetery, Colonia, N.J.
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Deputies say a migrant farm worker is dead following an accident at an Orleans County farm.
According to our news partner, News10NBC, Luis D. Larios-Hernandez died Friday evening when he was pinned between two trucks after one rolled down a hill at Kirby Farms on Densmore Road.
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Los Alamos County Completes Abiquiu Hydropower Project, Bringing New Clean Energy Resources to New Mexico
April 21, 2011
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu issued the following statement on the completion and startup today of the Abiquiu Hydropower Project in New Mexico – the first hydropower project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to be completed nationwide.
"Today marks a major milestone in securing America's clean energy future as we celebrate the completion of the Department of Energy's first major Recovery Act-funded water power project. By increasing renewable energy output at existing hydropower facilities, we can create clean energy jobs, bolster our nation's economic competitiveness, and contribute to America's diverse energy portfolio," said Secretary Chu. "The Abiquiu Low-Flow Turbine Hydropower Project highlights the clean energy potential and local economic benefits that come with the environmentally responsible use of our rivers."
The project received a $4.5 million Recovery Act grant from the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Wind and Water Power Program, which was leveraged with $4.5 million from the private sector to fully fund the project. The low-flow turbine will increase renewable energy generation capacity by 22 %at the Abiquiu facility – from 13.8 megawatts to 16.8 megawatts. The new turbine will produce enough energy to power 1,100 homes annually and will supply clean energy to Los Alamos County, including DOE's Los Alamos National Laboratory. Hydropower projects at both new and existing facilities will play an important role in meeting President Obama's bold but ambitious goal of generating 80 % of America's electricity from clean energy sources by 2035.
At today's commissioning ceremony, representatives from DOE joined New Mexico Senator Tom Udall and Los Alamos County officials to celebrate the unveiling of the 3 megawatt turbine-generator, which was installed by the Los Alamos County Department of Public Utilities at the Abiquiu Hydroelectric Facility on the Rio Chama River in New Mexico.
DOE's Wind and Water Power Program works to improve the performance, lower the costs, and accelerate the deployment of innovative wind and water power technologies. Greater use of the nation's abundant wind and water resources for electric power generation will help stabilize energy costs, enhance energy security, and improve our environment.


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News 12 First at Five / Friday, July 6, 2012
HARLEM, Ga. -- It's a drug that may not be very well known, but Columbia County investigators believe they have found more than 1,000 bags of synthetic marijuana.
Investigators say they now have a total of 1,145 bags worth more than $21,000.
Only News 12 was there as officials confiscated bags of the suspected drug from a local convenience store Thursday night.
On Friday, it's business as usual at Pumpkin Center in Harlem.
Barry Roberson shops at the convenience store a few times a week.
"It's been very well known, you know, you can ask anybody about the Pumpkin Center area and they know exactly where it is," he said.
What many people probably didn't know was that possible spice was going in and out of the doors.
A narcotics investigator told News 12, "We actually seized 292 packets of synthetic marijuana."
Plus, more than 800 more bags at the owner's home.
"It just surprised me, you know, and I just think people need to watch what's going on around them," Roberson said.
Roberson didn't know possible spice was selling over the counter or even what it was.
"I've never heard of spice," he said.
We can't show you those investigators' faces, but they say people are just as clueless of its effects.
"Two months down the road, you might be dead," one of them said.
Now, all of these packets are being tested for one of the five Schedule I drugs that are illegal.
A narcotics investigator told News 12, "We will seize any synthetic marijuana. You're taking a risk for being arrested for Schedule I and you will lose your money 'cause we will seize any synthetic marijuana that's in our county."
It's a tough message for those dealing the synthetic drug, meanwhile, some hope to stick to the drug's traditional meaning.
"The only thing I know are spice cakes. I've never heard of spice drugs," Roberson said.
News 12 attempted to talk to the owners, but we were told they work the later shift.
Investigators continue testing out those packets looking for one of the five illegal ingredients. It could take about two months until the final results are released.


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Teaching Beyond the Test
There's no doubt that teachers make a difference in students' lives. But new research shows that lessons from great educators may live on in more than just memories; in fact, they can directly affect where students live, how much money they make, and even when they have children.
School districts across the country have scrambled to find the most effective ways to evaluate teachers in recent years, especially in the wake of 2001's No Child Left Behind Act. The federal legislation rates schools and teachers based on the percentage of students meeting a particular level on standardized tests, at which they are deemed proficient. Critics have consistently pointed out the flaws in one-size-fits-all standards, says Professor Jonah Rockoff, who explains that the academic and family backgrounds of students gives high-income suburban districts an edge over low-income urban schools.
"No Child Left Behind essentially has one goal for all students, no matter where they started," Rockoff says. "It tells schools serving advantaged kids that they are doing well and schools serving disadvantaged kids that they're doing a poor job."
In search of fairer evaluation measures, Rockoff worked with Raj Chetty and John Friedman of Harvard to explore a different approach, called value-added, and to test whether teachers' impacts on student test scores are actually a good measure of teacher quality. In general, value-added refers to the amount by which the value of something is increased at each stage of its production, excluding initial costs. When using this approach in teaching, how much value a teacher adds each year essentially, the effectiveness of a teacher is measured by growth in his or her students' test scores. In order to distinguish true teacher impacts, however, Rockoff points out that one must account for student backgrounds. "Value-added aims to set reasonable benchmarks for how much each child's achievement should grow from one year to the next," he explains. "Instead of setting the same standard for all students, you should compare the performance of teachers to other teachers with classrooms of similar students. How well did your students do compared to other students who look like them?"
To compare apples to apples, the researchers controlled for outside factors like incoming achievement levels and family background in the largest study ever conducted on value-added: they tracked 2.5 million students and 18 million test scores for math and English for 20 years, from 1989 to 2009. The information came from two databases: the first, test scores and classroom and teacher assignments in grades 3 through 8 from a large US urban school district; the second, data from US tax records that provides information on student outcomes such as earnings, college attendance, teenage births, and parent characteristics like household income, retirement savings, and mother's age at child's birth. The researchers matched nearly 90 percent of the school district data to the tax data, allowing them to track a large group of individuals from elementary school to early adulthood.
The results were overwhelming: students assigned to high value-added teachers those whose students consistently achieved higher test score growth are more likely to attend college, attend higher-ranked colleges, earn higher salaries, live in higher income neighborhoods, and save more for retirement, and less likely to have children as teenagers regardless of their background or parental income. Replacing a teacher whose value-added is in the bottom 5 percent with even an average teacher would increase the present value of students' lifetime incomes by more than $250,000 per classroom, on average, in the researchers' sample. Each classroom was made up of approximately 28 students.
"We believe that value-added measures uncover the real impact of teachers on student test scores," Rockoff says. "High valued-added teachers improve students' long-term outcomes, which means that a higher test score doesn't just reflect mindless teaching to the test. At least some of it reflects real improvement in student achievement growth that has long-lasting benefits."
Rockoff adds that the research puts definitive numbers to the long-held belief that teachers matter in students' lives. "We invest in public education with taxpayer dollars and private dollars, and as a society we need to know what benefits we're getting from those investments," he explains. "Just having a rough sense that education is important doesn't give policymakers a way to gauge whether to increase or decrease funding for certain programs, or how much to spend on a new program to improve the quality of education for students."
But putting value-added measures into practice isn't so simple. For one, there are fears that teachers and districts would and that some already do focus only on testing, at the expense of other lessons. To avoid bad behavior and potential cheating by teachers to pass students, Rockoff says districts should avoid applying a value-added approach in a formulaic way. Instead, principals should take more into account than student test scores: they should also observe a teacher in the classroom; solicit peer, parent, and student feedback; review portfolios of student work; and analyze teacher lesson plans.
"We see this type of review in most professional occupations, especially those as complex as teaching," Rockoff says. "Like other types of managers, principals should make decisions based on lots of information and data pulled together."
However, with education funding and teacher evaluation determined by state legislatures, political realities could make implementing these more comprehensive measures difficult. If individual districts were given enough autonomy to implement value-added measures that produce good results, Rockoff says, schools would have more honest insight into which educators are helping and hurting students most.
"When teachers struggle, their students feel lasting damage and grow far less than their peers in other classrooms," Rockoff says. "But teachers who greatly improve the achievement of their students have long-term impacts on those kids' livelihoods that are worth several times a teacher's annual salary. We all knew teachers mattered, but now we also know just how much."Jonah Rockoff is the Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Business in the Finance and Economics Division at Columbia Business School.
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Jonah E. Rockoff is a Professor of Business at the Columbia Graduate School of Business and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Rockoff's interests center on the finance and management of public schools. His most recent research focuses on systems for hiring new teachers, the effects of No Child Left Behind on students and schools, the impact of...
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Jerrie Lee Randolph Stevens passed away peacefully September 11, 2012 at the age of 81. Jerrie was born in Merced, California, July 5, 1931.
She lost a long courageous battle with Alzheimer's.
She is survived by her husband, Kenneth; brother, Palmer Hatch; sister, Jane Randolph; daughter, Kenna; son Michael; three grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Jerrie was a person who cared for others before herself. She had a great sense of humor, who loved and supported her husband unconditionally, and will be deeply missed.
A private Memorial services will be held.
Remembrances may be made to: Alzheimer Aid Society 2641 Cottage Way, #4, Sacramento, CA 95825
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Saints' Foegele accepts UNH hockey scholarship
The six-foot, one-inch, 178-pound forward verbally committed to the school and will start there in autumn 2015. A combination of factors drew Foegele, 17, to New Hampshire. He sat down with his family to identify the criteria for selecting a school, he said. The main ones were location, campus, academic programs, hockey program and the people.
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013
From The Wall St. Journal:
February 5, 2013
Hagel's Hruska Defense
Will America's next defense secretary vindicate the cause of the mediocre man?
Once upon a time, a Republican senator from Nebraska spoke up for the right of mediocrities to occupy eminent positions of public trust.
"Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers," said Sen. Roman Hruska in 1970 as a defense of G. Harrold Carswell, Richard Nixon's ill-fated nominee to the Supreme Court. "They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they, and a little chance? We can't have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos."
Right. And at the Pentagon, we can't have all Stimsons, Forrestals and Marshalls. Which is why America needs another senator from Nebraska to vindicate the cause of the mediocre man.
That man is Chuck Hagel.
Until his confirmation hearing last week, Mr. Hagel was touted as a courageous tribune of the hard but necessary truth. His nomination, according to one sycophant, "may prove to be the most consequential foreign-policy appointment of [ Barack Obama's] presidency." He was hailed as a latter-day Dwight Eisenhower, a military hero mindful of the appropriate limits of U.S. power, a real American bold enough to tell the chicken-hawk neocon pretenders where they could stick it.
As for his claim about the Jewish lobby intimidating people, it was no more than a gaffe in the sense of accidentally telling the naked truth. "I am certain," said another prominent Hagel defender, "that the vast majority of U.S. senators and policy makers quietly believe exactly what Hagel believes on Israel." To take offense at the suggestion that a nefarious assortment of Jews plays the Congress like a marionette was to risk accusations of McCarthyism.
After the hearings, what's left of that defense?
Courageous Chuck is done for. He simply folded in the face of questions about his previous positions on Israel, Iran, nuclear Global Zero, Pentagon overspending and so on. If his repentance is sincere, then the ideological iconoclasm that was supposed to be his great recommendation as secretary of defense is no more. If he's insincere, then he's little more than a dissembler trying to advance his career.
Deep-thinking Chuck is no more, either. His befuddlement on Obama administration policy toward Iran—the flubbed remark about containment, the passed note, the re-flub, the coaching from committee Chairman Carl Levin—was almost the least of it. He didn't even seem to grasp the details of the 2011 Budget Control Act that contains the infamous sequester and will be the very thing he'll need to wrestle with immediately if confirmed.
Chuck-in-Charge is also not in the cards. "I won't be in a policy-making position," he said, astonishingly, to a question from West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin. To be the secretary of defense, you see, is a bit like being the grand marshal at an Independence Day parade: You wear a sash, you hold a baton, you say a few words, you smile, wave and walk the route.
It says something about the political state of play that Mr. Hagel's defenders are now whispering that he just won't matter all that much. Serious defense policy will be run by the grown-ups in the White House, people like Ben Rhodes, Valerie Jarrett, Denis McDonough and, of course, the president. That's reassuring.
It also says something about the political moment that Republicans seem prepared to let Mr. Hagel through now that they have drawn a bit of blood. Nebraska's Mike Johanns and Mississippi's Thad Cochran have declared their support for Mr. Hagel. John McCain opposes a filibuster on the grounds that the president deserves an up-or-down vote on his nominee. In theory that's right and, in a sense, honorable. But a political party that can't press a political advantage when it has one is a loser. And who wants an opposition that thinks its honor lies in losing honorably?
In the meantime, it will come as a comfort to America's enemies to know what they'll be getting in a second Obama term.
One is a cabinet without a single hawk or even semi-hawk, whereas only a year ago there were three: Leon Panetta, David Petraeus and even Hillary Clinton. Another is a secretary of defense with an unsteady grasp of a department that may, within a month, be facing a historic and blunt reduction in its budgets. A third is a vice president who has just agreed to yet another round of negotiations with Tehran. And finally there's a president whose second inaugural address was entirely devoted to calling America home for the collective tasks he believes lie ahead.
Ask yourself how Vladimir Putin, Ali Khamenei and Bashar Assad are likely to feel about all of that. Shouldn't America have at least one officer of cabinet rank who scares the daylights out of these people?
If Mr. Hagel had a sense of the seriousness of the office he is now likely to enter, he would withdraw his name from consideration. But the essential characteristic of mediocre people is that they are the last to recognize mediocrity, either in themselves or in others. That our legislators in their wisdom may soon make this man secretary of defense says as much about them as it does about him. Truly, it's a Roman Senate.
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Watched St. Pat's (NJ) playu Friday night against Lincoln (NY) and St. Pat's plays tough defense, but they couldn't put Lincoln away in the first half when they had a chance. Plus the Lincoln coach showed five mionutes into the game. Is there any excuse for a tardy coach?
St. Pats is a quality team but Lincoln showed they are really a one man team. North Jersey bball is dominant with St Pats, St Anthonys, and St beneditcs
st. pats lost to oak hill 73-64 on saturday night. Do think they a little hangover from playing a tough game against lincoln?
They certainly had a bit of a hangover, but Oak Hill is no slouch. Still it's a game St. Pat's should have won. But when you play top-notch competition every night, you're bound to stumble once in a while. But's here's some highlights of the game. The best is when St. Pat's coach Kevin Boyle slams the scorer's table in frustration at the end of the clip. You have to see it.
Boys Basketball: St. Patrick vs. Oak Hill Academy

Boys Basketball: St. Patrick vs. Oak Hill Academy

Since the video won't load for me. Here's the link. http://videos.nj.com/star-ledger/2009/02/boys_basketball_st_patrick_vs.html
No worries that is a rookie mistake. Marion still makes them dispite his 4 star ranking.
Marion is in hiding, havent seen him in a while, but I have a feeling he might be back soon, he is due for some domination on the forums
We dont need him anyway we are better off without him. Just like that old guy PostCorner
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Baseball team was down 5-3 and down to its final out, but Cody Stephens came through with a big two-RBI single with two outs in the top of the ninth to tie the game and give his team new life. He did more of the same in the top of the 11th, picking up the game-winning RBI on a single to give his team a 6-5 win over Sam Houston State in the second game of the Southland Conference series.
The Islanders (13-10, 1-1 Southland) never gave up despite being down by multiple runs in the ninth, and rallied over Sam Houston (11-11, 1-1 Southland) for the big win. Stephens went 3-for-6 with three RBI on the night to lead his team to the dramatic win.
Matt Danton (2-0) picked up the win after coming on in relief when the Islanders got down 5-3 in the bottom of the eighth in a tight spot, allowing a single that loaded the bases, but then striking out the next two batters he faced to end it with just a two-run deficit. He pitched 3.2 innings and allowed just two hits and no runs while striking out two and walking none. Starter Trevor Belicek pitched well for the Islanders, but had a no decision in the game. He pitched 7.0 innings and gave up four runs, three of them earned, on nine hits with two walks and five strikeouts.
After getting just one hit and no runs in the Friday night game, the Islanders scored first on Saturday, getting a run on two hits in the top of the first for an early lead. Stephens led the game off with a single, moved to second on a Zach Taylor groundout, went to third on an Eric Weiss single to center and came home to score on an RBI groundout by Jonathan Gonzales for the 1-0 lead.
The Bearkats answered with two runs in the bottom of the second inning to take their first lead of the game, plating two on three hits to make it a 2-1 game.
The Islanders tied it in the top of the fifth, scoring after Brandon Tierney reached on an error, moved to second on a balk, moved to third on a fly out to right field, and then came home to score on an RBI single from Taylor to tie it at 2-2.
Sam Houston answered with a run in the bottom of the fifth to quickly regain the lead, but Texas A&M – Corpus Christi answered once again in the top of the sixth.
Eric Weiss walked and moved to second on a balk, but he was thrown out on a fielder's choice that looked to eliminate the Islanders threat. Jonathan Gonzales reached on the fielder's choice and moved to third on a double by Brad Porras down the right field line. That brought Lee to the plate where he hit a sacrifice fly into foul territory in left field, scoring Gonzales from third and knotting the score at 3-3.
It remained that way until the bottom of the eighth inning when the Bearkats plated two runs on four hits, but Danton came on to limit the damage when he struck out the final two batters with the bases loaded.
That sent it to the ninth inning. Lee started the frame off with a walk and advanced to second on a single by Dominic Lopez to center. After a groundout left the Islanders with just one out in the game, Stephens came through with a single up the middle to plate both runners and tie it up at 5-5.
The score remained the same until the top of the 11th when Lee led off with a single, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Russell Vaughan. A strikeout swinging made it two away and down to their final out of the inning once again, but just like before, Stephens came through, hitting a fly ball to center to score Lee and make it a 6-5 advantage for Texas A&M – Corpus Christi.
Danton came back out in the bottom of the 11th and got a 1-2-3 inning to end it and give his team the win.
In addition to Stephens three hits, Taylor and Lee each had multiple in the game, getting two each in the game. Weiss, Porras and Lopez had one apiece. Taylor, Gonzales and Lee each added one RBI in the game for the team.
The two teams will play the rubber match at 1 p.m. Sunday, with both vying for the series win. Adam Hoelscher will be on the mound for the Islanders, while Sam Houston's starter will be Caleb Smith.
Live stats and audio will be available by visiting www.GoIslanders.com.
For all the latest on Islanders Baseball, like the team on Facebook (Islanders Baseball) and follow them on Twitter (@CorpusBaseball).


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hatch 1
1An opening of restricted size allowing for passage from one area to another.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- There are three opening ports on each side of the cabin trunk, an opening hatch forward plus the companionway for excellent ventilation.
- The easiest and safest passage to the foredeck is through the forward deck hatch.
- There are two opening deck hatches and eight opening bronze ports for the best ventilation to be found on a boat this size.
1.1A door in an aircraft, spacecraft, or submarine.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- And as the forward escape hatch was also destroyed, the LR5's only hope of gaining access to the submarine now is through the aft hatch.
- The pilot and his passenger, who were both wearing lap and diagonal shoulder straps, escaped injury and were able to climb out of the aircraft through the normal hatches.
- First Lt. Bill Bower, ready to bail out, paused at one of the bomber's hatches and peered into the darkening sky below for some sign that his crew got out of the aircraft safely.
1.2An opening in the deck of a boat or ship leading to the cabin or a lower level, especially a hold: a cargo hatch
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- He unscrewed the bolts that secured an access hatch to the wall and keyed something into a control panel adjacent to it.
- There was also an access hatch in the floor that would require the use of a fork lift truck to lift goods of any weight up into the second floor.
- Emily leads the others down a short corridor until they come to an access hatch in the wall.
1.3An opening in a ceiling leading to a loft.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Mrs Murphy said her patio doors rattled and even her loft hatch in the ceiling moved.
- Unbelievably for me I failed to put my foot through the ceiling, or fall through the loft hatch, or step on any water pipes, and every winter we are as snug as a bug in a rug.
- I wear the free polythene gloves provided, and make sure that there is a straight and uncluttered escape route from where I am standing back to the loft hatch.
1.4An opening in a kitchen wall for serving or selling food through: a service hatch
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- After a few minutes mum would poke her head through the serving hatch in the wall between the kitchen and dining room, stretching her sinewy neck like a curious chicken.
- There are only three tables on the ground floor sharing an open hatch for the sale of soft ice cream.
- Bowyer, who had been drinking, approached the serving hatch and asked for a burger.
1.5The rear door of a hatchback car.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- It has the look of a nice large saloon, provides plenty of space for passengers, and a large boot reached through a rear hatch.
- Now classified as a mid-size sedan, it's only slightly smaller than a Camry and even more versatile with its rear hatch.
- Open up the rear hatch and you can fit in a week's shopping… for a family of 15!
1.6 short for hatchback.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Saloons attract marginally lower insurance costs, as it's perceived that gaining access to a hatch is easier.
- This is a car that handles with an enjoyable agility, steers with sporting precision and musters enough urge from its titchy 659 cc engine to keep pace with all but the most spiritedly driven hot hatches.
- One way of looking at it is: Plenty of kids buy and modify Honda Civics, especially the hatch versions.
down the hatch
- informal Used in a toast; drink up.Oraciones de ejemplo
- 'Well,' he thought 'Down the hatch.' Alex set the empty glass down on the bar and ordered another.
- One for you, two for me. Down the hatch!
- Drain that one, go on, down the hatch, there's plenty more.
Palabras que riman con hatchattach, batch, catch, crosshatch, detach, latch, match, mismatch, natch, outmatch, patch, scratch, thatch
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1 [no object] (Of a young bird, fish, or reptile) emerge from its egg: ten little chicks hatched out
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- In the first two weeks after the young hatch, the female stays on the nest to brood them, and the male brings food for the female and the owlets.
- Roughly a hundred of these snakes could fit inside of the giant egg that the single snake hatched from.
- Just because the tops of many eggs were broken, does not necessarily mean the dinosaurs hatched.
1.1(Of an egg) open and produce a young animal: eggs need to be put in a warm place to hatch
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- When the eggs hatch, the caterpillar enters the first instar (stage of development).
- Once the eggs hatch, both the male and the female feed the young.
- Once the eggs hatch, the Larvae burrow inside the host and begin consuming nonessential tissues.
1.2 [with object] Incubate (an egg): the eggs are best hatched under broody hens or in incubators
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- Hatcheries, which use incubators to hatch the eggs, take advantage of this biological phenomenon for shipping.
- Mother hen hatches her eggs in a farmyard and finds one of her baby chicks is a scrawny, ugly duck.
- The males are left behind to guard and hatch the eggs, which they cradle at all times on top of their feet, even during blinding blizzards.
incubate, brood
1.3 [with object] Cause (a young animal) to emerge from its egg: our penguins were hatched and hand-reared here
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- Lobster larvae were hatched in our culture facility and fed live brine shrimp.
- After emerging, the moths were stored at 4°C. Moths are incapable of moving at low temperatures and thus they remained in good condition until all larvae were hatched.
- Because of our aim to prevent competition within broods, we carried out the survival analyses for experimental chicks without the inclusion of the four nests that had hatched two chicks.
2 [with object] Conspire to devise (a plot or plan): the little plot that you and Sylvia hatched up last night
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- The pedestrianisation scheme has gone ahead even though it is difficult to find anyone outside the offices in which the plan has been hatched up who supports it.
- Did the two hatch the plot together, in secrecy, with the over eager Heffernan ready to cop the worst of it should their plan go belly up?
- So together they hatch the plot of doing The War of the Worlds on radio, to wow the studios.
A newly hatched brood: a hatch of mayflies
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- Every spring the moorhens build themselves a nest on a raft of twigs or on the bank at the waterline, for a clutch of speckled brown eggs to bring off a hatch of four or five tiny brown-black chicks.
- Mayfly hatches are not confined to rivers, some lakes also have spectacular mayfly hatches.
- Nests were revisited on the expected hatch day and every 3 days after hatching to assess nest success and nestling survival.
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(In fine art and technical drawing) shade (an area) with closely drawn parallel lines: (as noun hatching) the miniaturist's use of hatching and stippling
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- As I said, in the plan that is annexed to the first respondents' submissions, it is the shaded hatched area.
- But my gratitude also extends to those drivers who reverse on to main roads, see hatched areas as special taxi lanes and who ask for the removal of the indicator lights upon purchase of their vehicle.
- It cited improvements to the road layout, including lane markings, hatched areas and clearer road signs as the reason.
Late 15th century (in the sense 'inlay with strips of metal'): from Old French hacher, from hache (see hatchet).
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Long story short. Worked forever for me, next morning gone, and the only change in config or both set ups was the uninstallation of Quicktime. I was getting the failed to bind to port error because the port was already in use, but somewhat fixed it?
PMS only detected the PS3 if I forced the IP to my PS3's and also forced to a different port. However my PS3 isn't seeing my computer.
I'm using wireless, but have flawless connection, open UPnP, DMZ and Port Range Forwarding is set up for my PS3, and I've given all access to my PS3, Java, and PMS through my firewall as well as tried to turn it off.
Any ideas?


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"We just got stuck with this big can of worms," said Clarkfield Mayor Gene Kockelman as the city council discussed the tangled issues of reviewing the Ecumen contract and accepting the resignation of councilwoman Erin Crosby at their regular meeting Tuesday night. "But it's our responsibility to untangle this whole mess. And it's not looking very easy."
At their last city council meeting the council was shocked by the concurrent revelations that Clarkfield Care Center Administrator Paul Luitjens had been terminated by the Care Center's management company, Ecumen, and newly elected councilwoman Erin Crosby, an employee of the Care Center, was unknowingly serving on the council while in violation of state statute.
Both revelations came while the council was reviewing a new management contract with Ecumen. The old contract ran out April 1 and the council is continuing negotiations for a new contract, with a decision on that new contract being at least several weeks away.
Meanwhile, at Tuesday night's meeting, Crosby submitted her resignation and the council cheerlessly accepted, while also passing a motion to post the now vacant council position.
By state statute the council will now post the vacancy for a month, review any interested candidates and appoint a new council person to serve the remaining year and nine months of Crosby's term. Crosby was elected during the last election through a write-in campaign.
"I want to make it clear to everyone that this isn't something that I want to do. And it's not something the council wants to do either. It's important for the residents to know that. Everyone's trying to do what's best and what's right. It's just a tough position for the city to be in."
Several times Crosby and the council reiterated this point during the discussion by directly engaging the Advocate Tribune. "We just need Clarkfield residents to know that this is just an unfortunate situation. And we really have no choice. We want to make that abundantly clear. We're doing this because we have to. We want [Crosby] on the council and she wants to be here, but our hands are tied. People just need to know that we're working in good faith here and trying to take on a problem head on, while being as transparent as possible," said councilman Neil Linscheid, again directing his comments to the Advocate Tribune.
After Crosby's election to the council by write-in ballot, the council questioned her validity to serve on the council while also technically a city employee (as the Care Center is owned by the city). Yet an opinion from City Attorney David Gilbertson, at that time, said that Crosby was eligible because Ecumen managed the site. However, as the council and city administration reviewed the Ecumen contract for the renewal negotiations, they found the section that detailed employment and found that the city is technically responsible for every Care Center employee but Administrator Luitjens.
Page 2 of 2 - After reviewing the contract and the state statute more fully, Gilbertson reversed his opinion.
State statute 410.191, which was amended as recently as 2010, and is concerned with city council members and city employment states: "Notwithstanding any charter provision, neither the mayor nor any city council member may be employed by the city. For purposes of this section, "employed" refers to full-time permanent employment as defined by the city's employment policy."
Gilbertson, who attended Tuesday night's meeting said later that there's a strong possibility that there are many cities in Minnesota that are in violation of this statute—they just might not know it yet.
Crosby vocalized the difficulty a statute like the one above puts small cities into. "It's hard enough for the city to find people willing and able to serve. There's about 900 people in Clarkfield. Now we have about 120 people of that group that can't serve (indicating the 100-plus Care Center employees). Then you take away people too old to serve on the council and then those too young—and you're not left with much of a pool to draw leadership from."
As for the contract negotiations with Ecumen, the council identified that there are obvious questions that need to be addressed before they consider entering into a new contract. Chiefly: the segregation of duties and responsibilities. Gilbertson will now help the council fashion a counter-offer of how they'd like the contract updated.
At the end of the discussion with Crosby the council passed a motion thanking her for her service. "We just want to acknowledge that you served your community when you didn't have to and that's a special thing," said Linscheid.
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
Canines: domestic and wild
We've still had the injured coyote coming by our house with his mate - and I suspect that he was one of the pair that we saw yesterday. You might be able to see the dark area under his left eye in the next photo taken by our house. It has been there for a couple of weeks.
Returning to our hike yesterday afternoon, after we'd walked a good distance away from the coyotes, I gave the Duo their freedom again. I love watching R run. He is so graceful and strong, galloping among the boulders.
31 comments:
- Nola said...
How cool you get to be so close to them!
Dachshund Nola
- March 22, 2012 at 8:17 PM
- NCmountainwoman said...
Beautiful. So clever of you to spot the coyotes. And lucky they were downwind from the duo.
Neither of our dogs likes to go to the vet. Ellie refuses the cookies they give her. Making a statement I suppose. I'm so glad K doesn't have that to worry about. It would make the trips so much harder if she were afraid.
- March 22, 2012 at 8:20 PM
- Khyra And Sometimes Her Mom said...
We at SO jealous of the awesome coyote encounters!
Thanks again for letting us tag along!
- March 22, 2012 at 8:21 PM
- The Mama Monster said...
Wow your coyotes look so much healthier than ours here... Probably because ours have no room anymore with all of the building.. It's very sad!
Love to see all of your infared pics!!! So cool to be able to see them in that capacity!
- March 22, 2012 at 8:53 PM
- harrispen said...
Good thing you spotted the coyotes before the duo did. After we moved to our current home our first dog Greta used to get very excited to go to the vet because she always got cookies. She used to go into the exam room and literally point to the cookie jar with her nose and not stop until she got one.
- March 22, 2012 at 8:58 PM
- zeeFM said...
I couldn't have spotted them, they blended so well in the background! R looks like a cheerful happy dog with that pic licking his nose as he gallops!
- March 22, 2012 at 9:05 PM
- Hiking Hounds said...
I can just imagine K singing it up when she goes to vet. I bet they love it.
- March 22, 2012 at 9:14 PM
- Siku Marie, White Dog said...
We send White Dog positive energy of the strongest kind that K's body is accepting the new chemo without difficulty or pain.
Perhaps the hardest thing to understand, at least for me, is the duality of life. Is it truly essential to experience darkness to know light? Makes living a life awakened to living fully a tough choice. You are awesome.
- March 22, 2012 at 9:20 PM
- GOOSE said...
I really like the picture of the coyote on the rock. Very cool. Glad you saw them. I am not sure if I did if I would have come back when MOM called. More of a friendly thing than aggressive.
I don't mind going to the vet. I walk in ok and like the waiting room. But once I have to go to the exam room, well then I don't like it so much.
- March 22, 2012 at 9:21 PM
- Tweedles -- that's me said...
You have trained your dual so well! I think it would be panic time here if there was ever a coyote around me- the little tweedles.
I don't obey so well!
But you know K and R- and you knew they would come to you!
Such beautuful photos of the coyotes, and of course K and R.
I can tell by the look in K's eyes- that she just loves everyone- veterinarains included.
- March 22, 2012 at 9:25 PM
- Lulu Louise said...
Wow, you handled your encounter with grace. My mom would have screamed and ran! I once almost caught a jack rabbit when we were visiting friends in wine country. She freaked. Hahaha. I have a city momma. :)
- March 22, 2012 at 11:41 PM
- Jed and Abby in MerryLand said...
We're glad the encounter with the coyotes was without incident. Jed would have charged right at them if he'd sensed them. It's great to see the labraduo so happy together.
Jed & Abby
- March 22, 2012 at 11:54 PM
- Eileen said...
I'm glad K doesn't mind her trips to the vets, so much less stress for you. Unfortunately my Amber hated going to the vets and that is an enduring memory. Hope today's test results are good.
Fabulous post and photos as always.
Love Eileen and Annie
- March 23, 2012 at 1:02 AM
- Lindsjö taxar said...
Must be exciting to meet a coyote like that. Do you think the labraduo would gone after the coyote if you let them? THey are not that huntingdogs ...great trailcamera pictures.
Tomorrow we will go home from our vacation. Happy to see our dogs.
My dogs go to the vet without complaining. My breedermentor had a bad experience yesterday. One of the dogs, good hunting dachshund, got unfortunately into the closet where the dogfood was. SHe ate a lot. She went very sick and she did´nt make it, only 5 years. So to all doglovers, keep the dogfood locked, dogs are inventing dogs too.
- March 23, 2012 at 1:07 AM
- Tina said...
I train a lot of recalls, too, with my little rat terrier, she's a decidated hunter!
Good K loves to go the vets, most of my pack love it too, but with Flavie it is pure stress, no matter how much cuddles and treats... Poor girl.
- March 23, 2012 at 1:07 AM
- Faith Shen said...
what a great news, that you spotted cayote on your place, an were glad that K and R are still doing great! ^_^
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- March 23, 2012 at 2:24 AM
- bichonpawz said...
My goodness, those coyotes look like they were quite close! We see them up North near out cottage and I have to be very careful with the girlz...especially at night. They would think the girlz are rabbits!! Your two did an excellent job of coming to you. Glad that K seems to be accepting her chemo so far and it is a really good thing that she likes to go to the vet. Mine just HATE it and freak out every time we go! Enjoy our weekend!!
- March 23, 2012 at 2:30 AM
- Tom, Tama-Chan, Sei-Chan, Bibi-Chan, Gen-Chan, Vidock said...
Paws crossed for the male coyote.
Love the photos of the two pups!!!
- March 23, 2012 at 4:07 AM
- Sammie and Avalon said...
Wow - am sure I never would have seen them - you have such a great eye - and trained your beautiful labs so well! We were hiking in some open space a couple of months ago with our son and his family. There was a slough pond (large) with fire roads on either side. Our son spotted a coyote midday, trotting on the opposite bank. We were stunned as the fella was practically invisible except for his trotting gait.
So glad to read that K likes her vets and is doing well. Just love your beautiful pictures of her!
xo Sammie and Avalon
- March 23, 2012 at 4:14 AM
- 3 doxies said...
I just thinks its amazin' dat you actually can call them off. Mum could if we was each alone uis on our pack...furgets it! But you is a better trainer than my mum...hehehehe.
I loves sein' da coyotes! We has them heres but we nevers actually seen one in da furs. Everybuddy keeps tellin us they be aroun our neck of da woods.
PS: mum's camera will be arrivin' Tuesday.
- March 23, 2012 at 4:27 AM
- kks said...
so cool to see the camouflaged coyotes! and remarkable how brazen they are...
lovely photos as always....love and hugs to you and the pack...hope your weekend is uneventful, filled with love and joy!
- March 23, 2012 at 5:31 AM
- Lovable Lily said...
What beautiful pictures once again! What kind of trail camera are you using?
So glad that K & R stayed safe. Your excellent training paid off. Wish my Mom was that good with training. Most of the time we just ignore her. Got any pointers?
I'm just gonna jump thru the computer screen and give K & R big wet doxie kiss on their noses. That sit stay picture is awesome!
Lily Belle
- March 23, 2012 at 5:34 AM
- ♥♥♥ The OP Pack ♥♥♥ said...
K and R are so lucky to have such a responsible and loving owner. The sibes here would need a lot more work before they could ever come close to what your two do. R is looking much more serious these days. But we are sure he still keeps you laughing with his antics.
The pack says they have given up on asking for snow, but could you please some of your sunshine our way - been five days of miserable rain here.
Have a great weekend and we hope the tests show some good results.
- March 23, 2012 at 6:13 AM
- houndstooth said...
I adore those pictures of the duo together! They just look so sweet. How much interest do they typically show when they do know that there's wildlife around?
At least "Scarface" looks like he's healing and getting better. Whatever caused his injury, he still seems healthy and hearty. Hopefully those Coyote pups will grace the cameras one of these days! :)
- March 23, 2012 at 6:30 AM
- MAXMOM IN SOUTH AFRICA said...
Hey there KB,
Gee, you sure have interesting things happen amongst your wildlife. I think you must have the best behaved dogs on the planet too.
Toby says: "Recalls? What's that?"
sending lotsaluv to you all
- March 23, 2012 at 6:54 AM
- Bassetmomma said...
I can't imagine being that close to wildlife! It's amazing the shots you get and how well trained K and R are in that environment. The duo look stunning together!
- March 23, 2012 at 6:57 AM
- Random Felines said...
amazing pictures!! we are glad you kept everyone (wild and domestic) safe.....
- March 23, 2012 at 8:12 AM
- Inger said...
I'm glad K is doing OK and loving the vet. And how wonderful to see such well-trained dogs. Great pictures too.
- March 23, 2012 at 11:34 AM
- STELLA and RORY from Down Under said...
Hi KB, thanks for taking us on your hike. The photos are amazing. Would the coyotes fight your dogs or run away if they came face to face? The photos of your two sweethearts and wonderful. Take care and hugs to all. No worries, and love, Carol (and Stella and Rory)
- March 23, 2012 at 3:32 PM
- Louisette said...
wonderfull fotos dog and coyotte, greeting from two golden retriever in Belgium, nice blog
- March 23, 2012 at 4:22 PM
- Trailblazer said...
ONce again, some wonderful wildlife behavior on your cams...and great shot of the coyote watching you guys from a distance!!!
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