 into steps:
Because the goal is that the horse learns to take responsibility for standing still, the horse should stand on a completely loose lead rope or rein, unrestrained by his handler. Remember that we are looking for the horse to make an emotional change and decide that standing still is the best thing for him to do. Once he develops the positive habit of putting mental effort into holding himself still, you can extend this emotional discipline into more and more challenging situations.ops the positive habit of putting
- Get him moving. This usually isn't hard, because an emotional horse is generally already in motion: running, pacing, jigging, prancing, shying. If he feels restricted, he might be showing his desire to move by exhibiting a displaced behavior: pawing, head tossing, teeth grinding, weaving, and so on.
- Direct his movement by taking the nervous energy he's offering and putting it to a positive use. Disengaging the horse's hindquarters (performing a hindquarter yield) is the most useful exercise for redirecting forward motion into a stop, because it allows the horse to move, but encourages him to find comfort in stopping. You can also do this by changing directions, circling, and performing lateral movements.
- Release pressure for slowing, stopping, or calming. Your timing is critical here. If you can take off pressure the instant you feel or see your horse think about slowing, stopping, or relaxing, he will quickly learn that revving up means more work while slowing down and standing still means comfort and relaxation.
Patience Checklist
Can your horse do.......
- Stand still on a loose lead for saddling? While ground tied?
- Stand still for mounting on a loose rein?
- Stand inside the trailer unrestrained until asked to back out?
- Stand on a loose lead rope at least six feet away from you for five minutes? While standing on grass?
- Stand on a loose rein for five minutes?
- Stand on a loose rein while other horses pass him? When others horses leave and go out of sight?
- Stand still in a new environment such as at a horse show, or on an unfamiliar trail?
- Stand relaxed after high adrenaline work, such as galloping or
This article is copyrighted and first appeared in The Aiken Horse. It is reprinted here by permission.&gt;If you can't be genuine with people, if you can't genuinely care about them, then they won't want to associate with you.  And if you try to fake it just to get ahead in life, people will be able to tell.

Bingo. Human interaction is far more than just problem solving. How can you create any bonds with people that way? If you don't have empathy and show caring, you're never going to have anyone close to you. You'll never develop the deep bonds that make life worth it. 

I wish this toxic masculinity stuff would die already. It's ok to have emotions. It's ok to feel. It's ok to, and bear with me here, need some comfort and empathy too.

Listen to Rauchy_Potato.  That's the problem here. Your interactions with other people are based on what you feel. And if that's all you ever do, you'll never keep anyone around.

Edit: "You" meaning anyone who feels like Qzy or TheIncompetenceofMan. I'm sorry if it seemed like I was referring to you Mr. Potato.I would recommend Claire to anyone who suffers with gut problems, who is looking to improve their diet, increase their energy levels and would like to feel healthier.
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A major part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy has been in creating a nation where Americans are not, "judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." So how are we doing?
When it comes to electoral politics, the last several years have given us reason to be optimistic.
Ronald Reagan (who signed into law Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a federal holiday) and George W. Bush (who has appointed more African-Americans to senior-level cabinet positions than any previous president) have worked to make the "Party of Lincoln" once again a welcome home for African-Americans.
This past election cycle, for example, the GOP fielded several top-tier African-American candidates (including Ken Blackwell in OH, Lynn Swann in PA, and Michael Steele in MD). On the Democrat side, Deval Patrick recently became the second elected Black Governor (when he was elected Governor of Massachusetts.) And Sen. Barack Obama, of course, continues to be talked about as a possible presidential candidate...
Had the zeitgeist of 2006 been different, Republicans might today be celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. day with newly-elected African-American GOP Governors in key states like Pennsylvania and Ohio -- and a U.S. Senator in Maryland.
The fact that both major American political parties now boast serious African-American candidates vying for top political offices is a very good sign for all Americans.Just let the story fail forward with a time-skip. Give in a couple-of-hundred years of "Dark Ages" with dubious history. Then nobody gets to complain about continuity holes / retcon and you can move on to developing a games worth playing and stories worth telling.
This is exactly what happened with the Forgotten Realms in Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition; for me it was a hot mess to put it lightly. A lot of people didn't like the Spellplague time jump of around a century or so; it was so bad that when 5th Edition came around, they brought in the original creator of the Forgotten Realms to clean everything up in "The Sundering."
A card game that gives you more a la carte story flavor (sort of how 4th Ed L5R RPG books handled it) would be the most appealing. I want to see all my old favorite personalities from the Clan Wars era. And just like Game of Thrones has different cards for different stages in character development, the card game could offer that here as well.
If we're bringing back old favorite characters, I would personally love to see some more story time for Hantei Naseru, before he was handed the idiot stick and left the Empire to collapse. In fact, let's see all the Four Winds again. After all, AEG promised it would not bring back Toturi Tsudao, but FFG made no such promises.
The Doctor Who analogies are particularly strong with L5R at this time. Much like the Classic series, L5R was encountering a terrible downturn in sales and investment, due to a number of factors, though much like Classic Who, I would place some of the blame squarely on poor decisions in the management area. Both were reaching the end of their runs in their current forms after twenty or more years, and it was time to take a step back to evaluate what to do with them, though thankfully, we won't have to wait nearly fifteen years for the relaunch of L5R.
I agree with sndwurks that the best course of action for the brand would be the thematic reboot as it would acknowledge the work of players and writers for the AEG years, yet allow the story and game to jump forward to begin a new story, possibly with tweaks to the available factions, a stronger, more cohesive narrative out of the gates, and a more measured form of player/story interaction. Starting right with Onyx or just after that arc runs the risk of injecting many of the problems that the game and storyline faced at its end with AEG, such as too many loose ends, unmanageable levels of player interaction, and inescapable systemic and historical inertia, back into the game, when it is the perfect time to evolve the brand and story into something more accessible to modern gamers.
This is potentially inflammatory, so please do not take this as a personal attack on anyone supporting a reboot to Clan War. This is merely my opinion on why the Clan War is not a good point to set the story to.
I think the game is in need of a thematic reboot, in a way to make each Great Clan starkly unique. Part of the problem with the Clan War reboot? Is that the factions (not Clans, remember) were not yet that distinct.
I do not want