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So then I found out that the foster carer is aware of his propensity to snarl etc and this happens whenever he's unhappy. She says "Just let him have his way". The foster carer knew we had a kid, said the dog was good with kids. A dog that snarls and snaps when unhappy is NOT "good with kids". I would have liked to have had that information before I signed up. I'm no stranger to dogs - or rescue animals. I've rescued a dog and a cat over the years, and had 5 dogs over the years. I know how to deal with dogs. I will put up with the chewing, toilet training, walking, feeding, grooming, bathing, vet stuff, boarding - that's all fine. What I will NOT put up with, though, is an aggressive dog that snarls and snaps when unhappy which has been trained through passive ownership that this is acceptable - especially when I have a child in the house. He's 16lb, easily big enough to seriously hurt my son.

He'll be 75 when his stated term is up. His earliest possible release is when he is nearly 72 years old. I think the interests of justice have been served. His life is effectively over. I think that is an adequate punishment.

Wow. Not such a happy ending. We bought a new crate for this dog and set it next to the other two. As the dogs went to sleep tonight Pip was in the wrong crate and went for me as I tried to get him out. I have an 8-year old and I'm not going to tolerate a dog that has a propensity to attack.

This dog is now called Pip (was called Flipper - seriously?!?!) He was severely underweight, teeth rotting out his head etc. The foster home found him in a shelter in Marion. He was due to be euthanized and the foster home agreed to take him but then another rescue org came in and agreed to take a large group of dogs so the foster home backed off. Shortly thereafter the foster home found out that the rescue group passed on Pip because he was too old (8) but nobody said anything. He was about to be euthanized and the foster home owner drove up there in a panic to rescue him. Was at the foster home for a month to gain weight and get all his shots etc. Now he's with us. He'll be happy here.

Well, we now have a new dog. :-)

The foster carer turned down the other person who was interested as it turns out they never had a dog before and live 3 hours away (this place requires a home visit) The dog is here now meeting the family and will be returned to the foster place in an hour. He's getting along well with our other two dogs which is a relief. We'll see how it goes. The dog's story is that he was owned for 7 years by an older couple and was not neutered, never got dentals etc. Has lost all the front teeth on the top to decay but the rest are good. Recently neutered and up to date on shots now. Basically the owners died together and the adult children tied his leash to the door of the shelter after hours. That was it. They also left his collar with name/address on it so the shelter was able to contact then and get the backstory. He's really sweet but shy around me and has an apparent fear of hand tools like scissors, screwdrivers etc. They can't explain this. I wonder if he was mistreated by the former man of the house.

I'd like verification for that... I can find only one reference to that quote before 2001. Seems to be made-up.

My wife wanted to go look at a rescued malty-poo today at the home of the person who is fostering the dog from the shelter. The foster carer just contacted us and asked my wife to reschedule so other prospective adopters can visit at the same time. Is this normal? My wife didn't like this at all, seeing it as setting up a competition/confrontation for the dog where someone could make a rash decision under pressure. We need to have the whole family meet this dog, including our existing dogs, and can't do that in one visit. She told the foster carer she wouldn't be there. If the dog still needs a home afterwards then we're still interested. Thoughts?

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Either way, you will fit right in at the Blue Oyster.

I don't have itunes music files. Mine is all pictures and videos.

I just read the statement directly to employees: - They are all told to stay home unless already specifically told they are part of the wind-down. - 401k pensions are safe - Accrued, unused vacation time is gone - FSA accounts can be claimed against for expenses incurred before termination date, the remaining balances are forfeit. - No severance - Unemployment is available for most folks, however they point out that in some states striking workers will be denied unemployment. - Expense claims not yet paid are forfeit. Those folks are fucked.

That ship was doomed for a while. It is a product that doesn't sell these days. What the union did was equivalent to tying one arm on a man struggling to tread water. He was already in trouble, but the union's actions finished him off.

I have a 64Gb ipod and 5Gb cloud storage? No thanks. I have my itunes backing up to my SAN drive so any PC on my network I plug into will back up to the same shared location.

Wait, so the blues are taking our ammo AND our twinkies? That's two of the central pillars of my doomsday system! Do they know something we don't about when the SHTF? Back to trying to get my wife over her gag reflex so she can make us beaucoup bucks after the apocalypse. :tagteam:

Night vision is always over-spec'd. Take this image: This is a panvigor camera that claims 50' night vision. The concrete pad is 20' long and if it wasn't for the 200' rated IR emitter (size of a laptop monitor) you wouldn't see anything past the pad. The 200' emitter can only really "see" about 75-100'. Rather than spending $ on night vision, spend that money on traditional motion sensor lights. The better lighting will give you a better image, in color, and you get the deterrent effect on anyone who approaches the property. The cat5 thing... There's two ways to connect an analog camera. 1) coaxial cable, and 2) cat5 cable. In coax you would run rg59 siamese (power and video molded into in a "single" cable - the power cable is molded onto the side) and put BNC ends on the cable. you'll need a crimper that can do BNC and someone to show you how to crimp then - or use twist-on BNC connectors, but experts frown on that for professional installs. If you are better with F-type crimps (the screw-in connector used for antennas, cable tv and satellite) then use them and but f-type to BNC adapters. They're a few bucks each but easier to use. You would meausure, run and cut a length of rg59 siamese cable from the dvr to the camera, then at each end you would attach a BNC connector on the big coax cable, then the power connection would be conencted to you power supply next to the DVR, and to the camera on the far end. For cat5 you would run a cat5 cable in place of the rg59, and you would use one twisted pair (MUST be a pair that is twisted together!) for the video signal - that pair of wires is conencted to a "balun" whuch is a connector that has two screw terminals on one side and a BNC connecter on the other side. Simple as that. Then you would to TWO or THREE pairs for power (three if running IR) and they connect just like a normal power conenction. POWER SUPPLY at the DVR is very important. Put a UPS on it and your cameras will all survive a power outage. They are cheap, like $30-40. They plug into a 110v outlet and have a door (looks like an ADT alarm box) . Behind the door there is a row of screw terminals, one pair per camera, + and -. Easy. On the camera side you will either have a pair of screw terminals (follow polarity because cheap cameras proetect themselves by shorting out the terminals if you hook them up backwards - I burned out the pass-thru camera power feature a brand new DVR doing this.). The power supply will have individual circuit breakers so a short on one camera won't affect the others. Don't get hung on on TVL. At your price range you're going to have to make up for cheap cameras with good placement. Choke points. Put the camera where someone must be close to it. A camera that shows your entire front garden will not provide a good image of someone standing 30' away. Get the camera close, like these: This is too far away... About 60' You want to catch license plates? This ain't CSI, that shit is TOUGH. Firstly - you HAVE to get THIS CLOSE: Any further out and you just can't read them at NTSC quality. Infra-red cannot see PRINTED plates: You have to have a visible-light backup: In fact I wouldn't try to catch plates with a regular camera - I use a fast shutter-speed wide dynamic range infra-red camera with a high-powered emitter to tag plates at up to 30mph from 100' - but still only when the car is in the right place (the choke point). That video feed is looped through 3 channels, either with different bright/cont setting to ensure that regardless of light level at least one of the cameras can read the text. It helps you keep an eye out for the po-po so you can escape through your underground tunnel to the doomsday bunker: Oh, and watch out for long-legged aliens that will come to eat you.

If you are not tech savvy then don't try to make a DVR out of your computer. Cheap DVR cards use BT878 chips which uses your cpu for video processing and will render the system useless for anything else. Proper DVR cards from GeoVision etc use hardware video processing on board on the card but they run several hundred dollars. What is your budget? 600/700 tvl lines? Well, NTSC only has 525 scan lines, so 600/700 is an empty promise. Look for effective pixels as a better gauge of image quality. (PAL is 625, so 600/700 TV lines makes more sense in the UK, not in the US) I always advice the Aver EB1304 DVR. 4 channels. If you need more channels later then add another EB1304. Put cameras that overlap on different DVRs to add redundancy in the case of DVR failure. Asking "What kind of CCTV system should I get" is like asking "What kind of vehicle should I get" Well, do you need a dump truck, or can you get there on a bicycle? Stay away from wireless. The biggest pain in installing a CCTV system is running wire. Wireless systems still need power so you still have to run wires. use cat5 cable with baluns and a central power supply and a UPS (easier than it sounds) - DON'T just plug each camera into a nearly outlet with an AC adapter!

I use Avermedia DVRs. Had no clue they were "no name". I'm running a 16 channel hybrid DVR/NVR wired over Cat5e (ip and analog) If that's what you call a cheap noname system then fair enough. Nearly $2k for a DVR is not what I would call cheap, though.

Are they shutting down for good? Or just moving to Colorado?

You are both wrong. Every type of road has a basic speed limit. The speed limit can be overruled by a sign. http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/4511.21

That is exactly, precisely what he said. I wonder if he realizes it?

+1. Rev.Dice is da man.

We must invade them and force regime change. We must spread freedom!

Should have said; "I look forward to shooting 7 shades of shit with like-minded riders." I almost got banned from the OhioCCW forum because my name was offensive. Same screen name.

It might just be you. Although I agree it may be a new user thing. Dunno