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The type of trapshooting described here is known as American or Down-the-Line trap. It is the oldest and most basic, of all the Trap disciplines. American trap is shot over one trap machine which has a fixed elevation but constantly changing angles. The clay target is thrown away from the shooter and must travel between 50 and 55 yards. The height of the target is adjusted so that at a distance of 10 yards from the trap it's height will be between 8 and 10 feet . The angles at which the target is thrown (to the left and right of the shooter), is constantly changing and should appear random and unpredictable. The maximum target angle is normally 22 degrees either side of center, but can be a maximum of 47 degrees.
A round of trap consists of 25 shots, with groups of five shots being taken from five shooting positions. There is a maximum of five people shooting per round which is called a squad. Each shooter on the squad shoots five shots from each of the five shooting positions. The shooters take turns shooting such that the first shooter will shoot one shot, then the second shooter takes their shot, etc. until all five shooters have shot 5 shots from a given shooting position. The shooters then rotate to the next shooting position and repeat the process.
In American trap there are three separate types of events that are shot, singles (a.k.a. 16-yard), handicap and doubles.
Singles are shot 16 yards behind the trap house, which why it is also known as the 16-yard event. Each shooter shoots five shots from each of the 5 shooting positions, with each shooter in order shooting at one target until all have shot five times, and then rotating in a clockwise manner to the next station.
Handicap was designed so that shooters of different abilities could compete against each other fairly. In handicap the shooters stand farther away, between 17 and 27 yards, from the trap house. The greater a shooters ability the further back they stand. A shooter's ability and hence the distance behind the traphouse from which they shoot (called their yardage), is determined by their average handicap score for the year and whether they have placed in the top 1-5 scores at any competition during the year. There are tree ways for a shooter to "earn" additional yardage, there by moving them back further from the traphouse. If a shooter wins a competition or places near the top, they can earn an additional half to 2.5 yards to their existing handicap yardage, if they shoot 96 or better out of a 100 targets, they can gain a half to 1.5 yards, or if their annual average is above 94, they can earn additional yardage.
Doubles are shot from 16 yard line (16 yards from the trap house). In Doubles two targets are thrown at the same time (hence the name). These targets thrown at a fixed angle normally between +/- 30 to +/- 45 degrees from the centerline of the traphouse. One target is thrown to the left and one to the right of the centerline. The shooter takes shots, one at each target and is scored for the number hit. So for a single pair the score can be from 0 to 2. Normally a round consists of five pairs (10 targets) are shot at from each of the five shooting positions for a total of 50 targets per round. Occasionally a round will consist of 13 pair (26 targets) with three pair being shot at the first shooting position, two pair at the second shooting position, then 3 pair, 2 pair and 3 pair. In trap shooting competitions both 50 target and 100 target doubles events are common.
There are several types of trapshooting competitions in the United States, the majority are ATA registered events. In the western United States there is another organization called PITA which holds competitions.
For an ATA registered competition each entrant is assigned a classification level for Singles, and Doubles, and an assigned shooting yardage for Handicap. In most competitions an individual only competes against other within the same classification. This allows beginners to compete against other beginners instead of much better shooters. A competition will have from 3 to 5 classifications typically based upon the number of people in the competition (the more people the more classes). The classes are based upon the individuals average scores for the year. The highest classification (corresponding to the highest average) is AA, followed by A, B, C, and D.
A typical single day competition will consist of 100 Singles targets, 100 Handicap targets and 50 or 100 Doubles targets. This is only typical, some gun clubs might only have Handicap events in a given day, others might have a Double marathon where they will throw 500 targets in a day.
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I haven't had a chance to write this yet, so here is a link that does a better job anyway ATA Home Page.
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Middle East|Clash Over Regional Power Spurs Iraq's Sectarian Rift
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Clash Over Regional Power Spurs Iraq's Sectarian Rift
By JACK HEALY DEC. 23, 2011
Iraqis waiting to apply for police jobs in Baquba, where a Sunni-backed proposal on regional control led to mostly Shiite protests. Credit Michael Kamber for The New York Times
BAQUBA, Iraq — The governor has fled this uneasy city. Half the members of the provincial council are camped out in northern Iraq, afraid to return to their offices. Peaceful protesters fill the dusty streets, though just days ago angrier crowds blockaded the highways with burning tires and shattered glass.
All of this because the local government here in northeastern Diyala Province recently dared to raise a simple but explosive question, one that is central to the unrest now surging through Iraq's shaky democracy: Should a post-American Iraq exist as one unified nation, or will it split into a loose confederation of islands unto themselves?
A dire political crisis exploded in Baghdad this week, after an arrest warrant was issued against the Sunni Arab vice president, Tariq al-Hashimi, accusing him of running a death squad. But years of accumulated anger and disenfranchisement are now driving some of the country's largely Sunni Arab provinces to seek greater control over their security and finances by distancing themselves from Iraq's Shiite leaders.
Many Sunni leaders have rallied to the cause while top Shiites in Baghdad have fought the efforts, aggravating the sectarian divisions among the country's political elite.
"They feel that they have no future with the central government," said Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq, a prominent Sunni.
This development comes at a moment of rising tensions and could herald a near-breakdown of relations between the countryside and the leaders behind the concrete walls and concertina wire guarding Baghdad's Green Zone. It has splintered communities within provinces along religious lines, while deepening the sense of political uncertainty pervading Iraq in the days after the American military's withdrawal.
"We've reached a point where the exasperation with the entire political process is so big in Sunni majority areas," said Reidar Visser, an expert on Iraqi politics and the editor of the blog historiae.org. "They are just fed up and disillusioned."
On Friday, thousands of protesters marched through largely Sunni cities to condemn the warrant for Mr. Hashimi's arrest. In Samarra, where the destruction of a Shiite shrine in 2006 set off waves of violence, 2,000 demonstrators filled the streets after Friday Prayer, waving signs that declared, "The people of Samarra condemn the fabricated charges against Hashimi."
The schism is one thread of a growing battle between Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, a Shiite, and politicians from the political opposition and Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority.
Security forces who take orders from Mr. Maliki — sometimes personally — have arrested dozens of people tied to opposition politicians in recent weeks. The government accused Mr. Hashimi, the Sunni vice president, of running a death squad from his offices in central Baghdad, a charge he denies. And Mr. Maliki has urged Iraqi lawmakers to unseat his own deputy, Mr. Mutlaq, who frequently inveighs against the prime minister.
A leading political coalition supported by many Sunnis and secular Iraqis has boycotted Parliament, refusing to attend sessions, and its ministers and lawmakers have threatened to resign en masse. An American-backed partnership government uniting Iraq's three main factions — the Shiite majority, Sunnis and Kurds — appears poised to fall.
That discord is resonating in the largely Sunni provinces around the capital, places that once hewed to a rigid nationalism cultivated by Saddam Hussein.
In recent months, Anbar, Salahuddin and Diyala Provinces have each pushed for a public vote on creating their own regional governments.
Tribal sheiks in Baghdad called on Friday for Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi to face trial on charges he led a death squad. Credit Michael Kamber for The New York Times
Mr. Maliki has pushed back harder. His supporters contend that the movement threatens to destabilize the central government. They say that regions controlled only by local security forces would provide safe havens for Al Qaeda in Iraq, the Baath Party and other Sunni-aligned militant groups at a tenuous moment so soon after the American military withdrawal.
During a trip to Washington this month, Mr. Maliki was asked in a meeting about the movement for greater regional control and offered a brusque reply, according to an American who met with Mr. Maliki during his visit.
"His response was: 'Everything those people are doing is illegal. The only way to deal with them is through a legal process, and not a political process,' " said the American, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid jeopardizing access to Iraqi leaders. "This is not a guy who has any interest in compromising."
Early Friday morning, Iraqi police commandos arrested a leading advocate of Salahuddin Province's push for regional status and seized his computer and reams of documents, security officials said. They did not say why he had been detained.
The provinces are not seeking a total divorce from the rest of Iraq, just a wider separation in the mold of Kurdistan, the relatively prosperous and safe area in northern Iraq. The Kurds, who have lived for decades as a people apart from the rest of Iraq, have their own Parliament and president, command their own security forces and have signed lucrative oil deals with foreign companies without Baghdad's approval.
It is not a new idea. Iraq's Constitution gives provinces the right to carve out their own regional governments. In 2006 and 2007, during Iraq's civil war, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., then the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, suggested partitioning the country into three federal states to calm the sectarian bloodshed.
But could Iraq still stand if it were divided into Kurdistan, Shiitestan and Sunnistan? Even raising the issue unleashes a torrent of emotion.
On Dec. 12, a majority of the members of the Diyala provincial council announced that they were asking Iraq's central government to hold a referendum on whether the province could form its own semiautonomous region. Diyala is about 60 percent Sunni, 20 percent Shiite and 20 percent Kurdish, and its government roughly reflects that breakdown.
Distrust of the central government runs deep here among the snaking rivers and palm plantations that once served as battlegrounds and hide-outs for Qaeda insurgents. Last year, three of the Sunni members of the provincial council were thrown into jail by Iraqi security forces. Others were threatened.
But the abrupt announcement of a potential Diyala region angered and frightened some of the province's Shiites. It was read as a power grab that would put Shiites and Kurds in the province at the mercy of unknown new security forces, and could presage the fragmentation of Iraq.
On Dec. 15, about 1,000 outraged demonstrators, most of them Shiites, streamed past the Shiite-dominated national police forces and into the provincial council's headquarters. They occupied the building for a few hours, then set up roadblocks and tents in the streets. Half the city's elected officials fled for safety.
Protesters said they had acted spontaneously, but several Sunni officials believed that Iraq's central government had mobilized the protesters and stoked their outrage to kill the proposal.
"We left the city because of the chaos and insecurity," said Rasim al-Ugaili, a member of the provincial council who supported the proposal for a new region. "We feared for our lives."
A few days later, the roads were clear, but the fate of the Diyala region was anything but. The Kurds on the provincial council withdrew their support for the referendum after the protests erupted, and much of the council was still missing.
The deputy governor, Furat al-Tamimi, was filling in until his boss returned. Mr. Tamimi, a Shiite, said he was pleased to see the banners and protesters shouting passionately through the afternoon. "This is all about democracy," he said.
Reporting was contributed by Omar al-Jawoshy from Baghdad, Duraid Adnan and an Iraqi employee of The New York Times from Baquba, and an Iraqi employee of The Times from Samarra.
A version of this article appears in print on December 24, 2011, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Clash on Regional Control Spurs Iraq's Sectarian Rift. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
Deadly Explosions Rock Baghdad Amid Political Crisis DEC. 22, 2011

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Philips partnered with Desso, a high-end European flooring manufacturer, to design the carpets. Each tile is specially designed to be "light transmissive" – when the LEDs are on, they shine right through. When they're off, they completely dissapear.
This unique innovation takes advantage of people's tendency to be guided by the floor when moving through a space. It can be used to provide directional information, the latest business news, or the quickest way to the safety exits. It can also display videos, infographics and logos. Or it can be used to celebrate an occasion, highlight an important guest, or simply inform visitors of the current waiting time. Creativity and imagination are the only limitations to its application.
There are three different installation possibilities, depending on floor type. They are easy to install on the raised access floors commonly found in offices, and can be recessed or routed into concrete floors. Small areas can be installed using an underlay that keeps the tiles flush with non-lit floor areas.
The Philips and Desso Luminous Carpets™ solution is designed to interface with most building management systems (either across Art-Net or KiNet). This makes controlling the system very straightforward. The messages can run pre-programmed, or can be changed instantly with a variety of mobile and networked devices.


May is easily one of the most beautiful of the twelve months of the year. Everywhere you turn things are blooming, blossoming, greening and coming back to life—at least in this northern hemisphere. As the world around us comes back to life, so does the inner life of our spirits, and we can "see" that too if we pause a moment to contemplate the journey of this sacred season.


Shopping with spouse: Fun or punishment for men?
Chioma Iyke-AniFew days ago, I was discussing with a colleague in the office and then it started raining. She was disturbed that the rain had ruined her plans because she had planned to branch off to the market to buy some groceries before heading home. I suggested that she ask her husband to help her buy one or two ingredients she needed for their dinner, and then tomorrow she could shop for the rest.
There's this general notion that most men hate going shopping, especially with their significant other. Womanhood asked a few men if it was true.
Utiben Udofia, 42-year-old graphic artist, says "I can't go to the open market (Wuse, Utako, Garki markets in Abuja) with my wife but I can go shopping with her to places like Jabi Mall, Ceddi Plaza, Next Cash n Carry. Going to the open markets would be punishment for me while the shopping malls would be fun. In these places, I would have time and opportunity to check up on electronic gadgets, films, work tools and some of the things I'm interested in. I will always have something to keep me busy until she is done with her shopping.


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Spring has sprung…at last…
Wanted to throw some stuff against the wall, scattershot style. Used to work with the legendary Joe Falls at the Detroit News, who would write about cookies, cats, the DH, and Babe Ruth in one column. I promise not to be that esoteric…Joe could do that, because after all, he was in the Baseball Hall of Fame. (God rest your soul, Uncle Joe…)
Anyways…
– South By Southwest 2015: Our "Does Sports Equal Brain Damage?" panel was a success, and glad to have had the amazing experience. It was an intense thing, as we did a Tweetchat, I did some media work, and then the main event, the panel. Learned a lot about how SXSW works (amazing planning, whoa! Like a 200-ring circus), and was amused by some of the PR/marketing stunting around the main tent. Glad we did it.
– I caught some grief for this from the non-kitty people on my trip – and you KNOW who you are – but meeting the completely magical Lil' Bub was up there as a massive highlight. Bub, as her Dude (her cat dad Mike) says – is pure science and magic. So true. She had a meet and greet at an animal shelter in suburban Austin, and she was one of the sweetest, most content kitties ever. And so tiny! Bub did a lot of good for other animals, and I was happy to meet her and give her a kiss on her tiny, tiny head. Rock on Miss Bub. And much love and thanks to the Dude.
– Happy to say Michigan State's Sports Journalism program is coming out of the incubator and into the real. I am continually humbled and amazed by the enthusiasm, talent, and inventiveness of the students who want to go into sports media. And yes, despite all the doom and gloom, I see a strong future for media – especially in sports. You have to be good, have a thick skin, and be willing to work your ass off to succeed. But isn't that true of anything? You can't succeed in neurology, baking cupcakes for a living, or being a writer unless you can hit the fastball with the best of them and commit to being the best. It doesn't come easy, and that is what I think discourages some. They think it is easy, because it is sports. Well, they are learning the truth in my classes, and I hope, making themselves even more fantastic to kick ass in the real world.
So love to all, big world out there. Let's all kick ass.
OK, so I have been MIA… :)
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Joanne C. Gerstner is an award-winning multimedia journalist, author, college professor and Fulbright specialist. She extensively covers, and is an expert, on sports, concussions in sports, the global business of athletics, women in media, and journalism/social media for outlets such as The New York Times, the U.S. Olympic Committee, the BBC, USA Today, ESPN.com and Detroit News.
She is the co-author of "Back in the Game: Why Concussion Doesn't Have to End Your Athletic Career", with Dr. Jeff Kutcher (Oxford University Publishing, 2016), an Amazon No. 1 hot seller on youth sports and concussions.
In 2019, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer appointed her to the state's first Women in Sports Task Force.
Gerstner is a sought-after expert, speaker and panelist, appearing at SXSW Sports, the University of Michigan, Jacobs Foundation, the American Academy of Neurology's Concussion conference, the Association for Women in Sports Media, and numerous media appearances (BBC, NPR, etc.)
She is the Sports Journalist in Residence at the School of Journalism at Michigan State University, and has won fellowships with Knight-Wallace at the University of Michigan (2012-2013), Jacobs Foundation (2015) and Steve Saler-Medill (1995).
Gerstner is the recipient of the Association for Women in Sports Media's Ann Miller Award (2014), Faculty Impact Award from the College of Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University (2017), and the Headliner Award from the Association for Women in Communications Detroit chapter (2017).
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charcoal for local reduction in electric kiln firing.
I think that may be what I was talking about, Phil.
Now I'm intrigued once again.
pots if the wood slivers make it intact into the kiln environment.
and sometimes I'm not.... about kilns, it's usually "not."
way as woodash from any other source.
"I hate to remind you but charcoal ash is wood ash!
enough wood to make a discernible difference and with particular glazes.
wood slivers make it intact into the kiln environment.
sometimes I'm not.... about kilns, it's usually "not."
lake bed that was left when L. A. ripped off our water....... for shame!


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    return "Bind mounts KVM device into the container"

  def get_config_key(self):
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  def get_injected_args(self):
    return (("--kvm-device", HicaValueType.DEVICE, "/dev/kvm"),)

def register(context):
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