I am currently in Rochester Minnesota receiving some treatments. I am new to fly fishing and with a lot of down time i would really like to get some lessons casting, and tying, and everything i can i guess. I am also willing to do some driving if need be.
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Okay so I just bought this little mare [whom i just figured out was an Arabian via movement and build] and she’s totally spooked by everything.
She’s halter and saddle broke, but i’d like to do groundwork before anything.
She’s never been longed and is scared of the longe whip.
She’s also terrified to death of fly masks and fly boots.
She stays in the back of her stall and and refuses to come to the front, she also moves away when I go in her stall to try to put her halter on.
She’s very head shy.
She is extrememly hard to catch in the pasture.
She’s scared of cross-ties, which i’ve been putting her on daily to get used to.
How can I fix these problems and what exercises can I do daily to help this.
I’ve had previous horses with these problems but she’s a handfull.
She’s a 6 year old Arabian if that helps.
She was abused at one point and has been switched from barn to barn after that. Nobody has really payed attention to her in about 4 years and she’s scared of everything.
I just need to show her that i’m not going to hurt her but she seems to have a hard time submitting.
She lets me touch her head and ears, but she won’t let anyone else get near them. And she’s broke to ride, she’s just unsure about her gaits. She doesn’t freak out on the cross ties, she just kinda moves her hindquarters around alot. And she never rears or bucks when she gets scared, she just kinda jumps to the side.
There is one other horse, a 23 year old Gelding, that she likes. He had been upset about another horse leaving, and wasn’t eating until she got there. They are always at the corner of their stalls next to each other. She’s in pasture with him all night and they get along, but when I stick a lead rope on her, she tends to get violent with him…But when I take it off, she’s fine. What’s the reason for this?
She is now able to accept the cross ties and i’ve even tacked her up on them! She’s not that spooked with the whip and I’ve figured out that she’s a bit scared of indoor arenas. I took her outside and she was perfect. She still stays at the back of her stall and is scared of fly boots. But she’s improving very fast!
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Universal health care is all the rage on the Left. John Edwards and Barack Obama have unveiled plans for government medicine. Since 1993, Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton has been this idea’s poster girl. And why not? As this cause’s advocates insist, every American has a right to medical treatment.
“I want to set a goal of universal, quality, affordable healthcare for every single man, woman, and child,” Hillary Clinton said July 3 in Iowa. As Senator John Kerry (D., Mass.) has explained, “I’m committed to universal healthcare coverage because, in America, healthcare is not a privilege, it’s a right.”
But why stop there?
Rather than target public assistance to the needy, Uncle Sam should do more. Lots more.
In 2003, for example, the then-GOP Congress and the Republican White House enacted Medicare drug benefits for all seniors, including multi-millionaires. Similarly, Washington should shower tax dollars on national challenges, like a plane spraying fire retardant on a blazing forest.
So, after 231 years of rugged individualism, the time is now, as Eva Peron sings in Evita, for “a government able to give us the things we deserve.”
Washington owes America the Omnibus Universality Act of 2007. This comprehensive reform would offer citizens a cornucopia exploding with delights:
Universal food. Every American has a right to food. Without it, you starve. We cannot let the savage free market control something as life-or-death as starvation prevention.
Government Food Stamps already help poor people buy groceries. That does not go far enough. Low-income Americans still must choose from among Safeway, A&P, Whole Foods, and more. Having picked a store, more choices await: Meat or fish? Fresh peas or frozen? Coffee or tea? If tea, hot or iced?
How dare we force the poor, or anyone else, to make so many decisions?
The new Federal Food Board’s menus will be balanced, tasty, low-calorie, protein-rich, transfat-poor, free-range, and free of charge. Once the FFB controls those competing grocery stores, it will be a snap to assure that every FFB Calorie Maintenance Center provides just enough of these foodstuffs. To guarantee that Americans don’t eat too much, or too little, Universal Food Stamps will be mailed to every home with that month’s ration schedule. Cuba has perfected this system. It could be imported quickly and easily, without wasting precious time on new FFB feasibility studies or detailed guidelines.
Universal housing. Every American has a right to housing. Without it, you freeze, especially in iceboxes like Chicago. That’s where Cabrini Green once stood. The government began blowing up much of that massive housing project in 1995. Nevertheless, its blueprints must exist somewhere. Washington should follow them to construct millions of similar units. Every American will receive free housing. Imagine the joy when we all share a single landlord.
Universal transportation. Every American has a right to transportation. Without it, you’re stranded. Every city without a subway system should get one. Existing subways should expand and offer even more stops. As for long distances, let high-speed trains crisscross the country. And why not use abandoned Air Force B-52s to fly people from coast to coast? Of course, everyone rides for free.
Universal clothes. Every American has a right to clothes. Without them, you’re naked.
Once the new Federal Style Council nationalizes the Gap, Brooks Brothers, Abercrombie & Fitch, Victoria’s Secret, and more, every American will have the free clothing needed to stay warm and dry, according to FSC standards. Every American will get new, uniform garments for work or play, specially crafted to eliminate design disparities and spare certain people the discomfort of looking unfashionable. Those navy-blue and bamboo-green outfits that took Peking by storm in the 1960s would make excellent patterns for such simple, easily maintained, ready-to-wear attire.
Universal shoes. Every American has a right to shoes. Without them, you’re barefoot. And that’s no way to walk around this Great Society. The same principles apply as with Universal Clothes, but with respect to your feet.
Yes, these are big changes. But the American people will understand them — and they will like them — thanks to a series of instructional motion pictures that will make all of this perfectly clear. And the ideal film company already exists to produce them:
Universal Studios.
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I have a rod and reel, waders and boots, but what do I need as far as hooks, leaders, etc…I have been fishing with other people that have everything, but let’s say I want to go by myself – what do I need to make sure I have? Thanks in advance!
fresh water (Montana & Idaho rivers) My rod is a 5 wt.
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I’m going to start out by saying, I’ve shared many kisses with many different people, so I’m not like asking- “OMG, this kiss was like all others! fkdsjfsdj” and freak out about it. I’m going to call this boy “Joe”. Joe fell inlove with my last June. I had a boyfriend. I two-timed my boyfriend with Joe. Joe didn’t know, nor did my boyfriend. It has been kept that way. We shared one kiss, which was one I truthfully didn’t want to share. It didn’t feel like any sparks were flying. Me and Joe became ill-fully close, then when I broke up with him because I couldn’t take the cheating, he broke all ties with me. I was perfectly okay with that. This past month (August), he texted me. We became close, again. But we never got to see each other. He told me every night how much he loved me, and how he couldn’t bare not seeing me anymore, such and such. Then word got out about us, and he cut all ties, again. This time it took a little longer to get over. But I did. Last Monday, he texted me.
He said he was mad that we got into that “fight.” We became close. He said he was still waiting for “our kiss” to come again. And I honestly didn’t want to kiss him, but I hadn’t planned on seeing him anytime soon. Well, this past Wednesday, it happened. I attended a new youth group, and he was there. During the two hours of class, we didn’t speak. But we secretly held hands on and off. Youth group ended and everybody proceeded outside. A couple of minutes passed by and Joe goes, -”(myname) race me around the building!!” And I knew he stop and kiss me. But I went anyways. And when he kissed me, it took my breath away. It was quick/short, but powerful. And we were holding hands, and then we kissed one last time, and ran back out front. I haven’t spoken to him since. I remember Tuesday night he was texting me from his sisters cellphone because he got his phone taken away. But, it’s now Saturday night.
I don’t know how to react. If I should be worried, and if I should.. should it be about how he reacted to the kiss, or how he hasn’t made any contact? And I cannot talk to any of my close friends about it because he’s one grade younger than us, and as a freshman, I get too much crap for dating an 8th grader. But, he failed kindergarten, and is suppossed to be in our grade, so I don’t worry too much. But I’m still fidgety about all of this. Everytime I think about it, my heart feels like it has butterflies.. not my stomach. I’ve never felt this for anybody. I just.. need to get this out. And get somebody else’s opinon about how to take the no contact, and everything else.
He wouldn’t be trying to get back at me? I didn’t leave him cold.. I broke up with him. He’s the one who left me cold. I still wanted to be his friend, not the other way around. AND I said, he doesn’t know I two-timed him. And I’ve broken up witht he other boyfriend a long time ago.
I didn’t intend to cheat. At all. But my other boyfriend (Ivan) and I were growing apart, so when we grew closer is when I broke up with Joe. Neither one of them know I cheated.
