A-Holes Of The Week: Boko Haram

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Congratulations to our most recent A-Holes of the Week, Boko Haram!

In their latest attack Boko Haram killed ten civilians in Yaounde, Cameroon. Suicide bombers killed five members of the same family and then when on to kill five more people a couple hours later.

People wounded by Boko Haram attacks.

Last week Boko Haram killed at least six people when suicide bombers attacked the town of Fotokol.

2.3 million people are displaced as they flee regions infested with Boko Haram.

In 2014 Boko Haram overtook ISIS as the world’s deadliest terror group. According to the Global Terrorism Index Boko Haram was responsible for 6,644 deaths in 2014 alone.

In the last six years Boko Haram has killed an estimated 20,000 people in their attempt to create a caliphate or Muslim state.

Chadian and Nigerian troops are making some headway in ousting Boko Haram terrorists in their areas.

Nigerian troops kill a Boko Haram terrorist.

Boko Haram terrorists use hit-and-run tactics and suicide bombings to create fear in populations they want to conquer primarily in Chad and Nigeria.

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Boning Your Animal In The Field

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I hear this complaint almost everyday during hunting season. We had a great time hunting, but it was so much work dragging our animal to the pickup. My question is always why did you drag your animal to the pickup?

Overview

Hunters have it ingrained in their minds that they have to gut their harvested animal and then drag it whole to their transportation. It is very difficult lifting a whole animal minus it’s guts into the back of the pickup. Then hunters generally want to hang their animal. The idea is that it will be easier to skin the animal, which it is, and perhaps age the meat. Aging the meat can be argued either way. However, most hunters do not have a way to hang the meat. Hanging an animal like a deer is work in a normal size garage, but an elk will require a large shop.

The first thing a hunter does is skin the hanging animal and either throw the skin away or trade it for a pair of crappy gloves at the local recycle center. Next they carve off all the meat leaving a bunch of bones to discard. So why do hunters drag the hide and bones home just to throw them all away? I have never understood that.

Here is a better solution. Always hunt with a pack frame on your back. Sure it is clunky, but many of the pack frames out their today are made on a flexible plastic frame. You don’t have to fill the whole pack. Just carry the items you normally would put in your day pack. The reason you carry a pack frame with you all the time is because after you shoot your animal you might as well take a load of meat to the pickup instead of going to the pickup empty, grabbing your pack, and walking back to the animal. Lots of walking and you haven’t packed any meat.

Equipment Required

Carry a knife with changeable blades. You will not need a saw using my method unless you plan on taking the horns and if you do many knifes have saw blade attachments. Kershaw makes a wonderful knife with changeable blades, as do many knife manufacturers. Then you will not have to carry a knife and a saw plus a sharpening stone.

Carry a 10-foot sheet of thin plastic that you will use as clean spot to bone your animal. I place this sheet of plastic right next to the animal. I will secure the plastic to the ground using nearby rocks.

Bring along a gallon size Ziploc bag with two pairs of plastic gloves. The Ziploc bag will be a great place to put the 10 plastic sheet and bloody plastic gloves after you have boned your animal. I also include small travel pack of wet wipes to clean my hands after the animal is processed.

Carry a second gallon size Ziploc bag to place your saw or knife blades after you are done boning your animal. In this second Ziploc bag you can store several garbage bags. How many garbage bags you bring will depend on what size an animal you are hunting. For a deer two garbage bags should be fine. For an elk you will want at least six garbage bags. The garbage bags will be used to hold your meat and keep the inside of your pack nice and clean

So we are next to our trophy with our 10-foot plastic sheet secured with rocks, garbage bags out on the plastic sheet along with spare knife and saw blades, and now its time to make the first cut.

Boning The Animal In The Field

Forget about the belly area. We start at the base of the skull and slice the hide down the neck and backbone to the tail. Next slice the hide from the backbone straight down to the knee joint of the front leg. Cut the hide completely around the knee joint. Do the exact same thing for the rear leg. Start at the backbone sliced hide and cut straight down the back leg to the knee joint.

Next start skinning the hide back away from the hind leg. Once you have the hind leg totally skinned you can remove the hind leg if you are working on a deer or if you have an elk you can start boning the hind leg still attached to the animal. The hind leg is attached by a ball joint and can be removed without a saw. Simply lift the leg and start cutting where the leg connects to the body until you hit the ball joint. Once you have cleared all of the muscle away from the ball joint, the hind leg should lift easily off the animal. Place the hind leg on the plastic sheet to allow it to cool.

Move up to the front leg. Skin the hide away from the front shoulder. The front shoulder is not connected by a ball joint.  How this works without a ball joint boggles my mind, but it works. Just like the hind leg, lift the leg and start cutting the front shoulder off the animal. Once the front shoulder is disconnected place it on the plastic sheet to cool.

Next we will remove the back strap. Go to the where the neck connects to the body and start a cut right next to the backbone all the way to the tail. Start cutting the back strap off the backbone in one large piece all the way to the neck. This procedure should be exactly what you are familiar doing with a hanging animal. Place the back strap on the plastic sheet to cool.

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Dale Earnhardt Jr.: NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver

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Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s pizazz for inventiveness and judgment skills have impelled him to stand out amongst the most well-known sports people. He has been chosen a record 12 times as the victor of NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver honor. The 2015 season denotes Earnhardt’s sixteenth win. Through 2014 has amassed 23 profession triumphs, including several wins in the Daytona 500. His 23 triumphs tie him for 31st on NASCAR’s unequaled race victors. Earnhardt completed the 2014 season positioned eighth in the title standings on the quality of a 12.2 normal, completing position, the third-best of his profession. Generally, Earnhardt has fit the bill for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup seven times.

Earnhardt is the main third-era NASCAR champion, accomplished the several times he has won the NASCAR XFINITY Series titles. He takes after Dale Earnhardt Sr., His father, who has won the cup some seven times. He has won about 76 races. On the other hand, Ralph Earnhardt, his grandfather, a champion in his own right. Two generations have been chosen among NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers ever. They were selected in the year 1999. Therefore, the three Earnhardts have ten NASCAR titles.

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Until 2008, Earnhardt Jr’s. Profession was singularly within limits of the family-claimed business with which he has amassed 39 triumphs in the XFINITY and Sprint Cup Series. Earnhardt’s part as a group proprietor and businessperson keeps on making the most of its potential separate from his driving vocation. JR Motorsports utilizes more than 120 individuals and fields three full-time categories in the XFINITY Series. This is in addition to low maintenance Camping World Truck Series group and two late model stock autos contending locally in the southeast. Elliott earned the organization’s first XFINITY Series title in 2014 with colleague Regan Smith finishing a one-two scope of the top spots in the drivers’ standings.

The media chose Earnhardt as one of the main three XFINITY Series drivers ever in a 2006 NASCAR survey. Earnhardt’s 23 triumphs rank tenth in the unequaled XFINITY Series wins list. His two titles in 1998 and 1999 acquainted him with the NASCAR history books, and his achievements all through the following decade fortified his position. In the year 2010, Earnhardt scored a prominent triumph at Daytona International Speedway in a return blue-and-yellow No. 3 Chevrolet made renowned by his dad in the mid-1980s.

With a quality unmatched by some other competitor, Earnhardt Jr. Keeps on accumulating media interest around the world. He has showed up countless magazine covers. Subsequently has also been highlighted in prominent productions. While commending his 2014 Daytona 500 win, Earnhardt stayed faithful to his commitment from a pre-race meeting by formally joining the Twitter group in Victory Lane. In just three days, Earnhardt collected 295,000 adherents and following has a taking after of more than 845,000.

In 2009, Earnhardt showed up on country music’s greatest stage as a moderator at the 43rdannual Country Music Awards. It denoted Earnhardt’s first appearance at a noteworthy popular culture recompenses show since he was a moderator at the 2002 MTV Music Awards. In 2004, he was the voice of Chase Crawford, one of the focal characters in Disney Channel’s “Convenient Manny” primetime exceptional. In 2012, he was included in the Note to Self, and composed a letter to his 16-year-old self about his association with his dad, his racing profession and building certainty inside. In 2013, Earnhardt collaborated with Diet Mountain Dew and a Discovery Channel’s show that was endeavored at restoring and tweak a 1956 Chevy Nomad. The scene made records given the number of viewership records by a staggering with 2.7 million viewers tuning into the station.

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Shaun White – Defying Gravity

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The new face of winter sports success in America is unbeatable in the halfpipe and remarkable in the air. Shaun White has proved his mettle in snowboarding and skateboarding, emerging as the new sports superstar.

Early Life

The two-time Olympic gold medallist was born to Cathy and Roger White in San Diego, California. As a child, he went through two open-heart surgeries to correct a heart defect known as Tetralogy of Fallot. Surfing and skateboarding were a part of Shaun’s adventures as he grew up in California. In addition to these, winters were usually spent skiing at Bear Mountain and Okemo Mountain. He enjoyed living life on the edge, so at the age of six, Cathy introduced him to the board and found that he was able to perfect his jumps very quickly. His family supported him on every step to follow his love for snowboarding. By the time he was 12, White had won many medals.

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Career

His career as a snowboarder took off from the age of seven, and since then White took part in many competition and won many accolades. White has participated in three Winter Olympics so far and has won gold in the snowboard halfpipe event during the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics. He was recognized as the best athlete at the 2003 Winter X Games. He joined the skateboarding tour in 2002 and qualified for the Summer X Games next year. He made history in the X games by becoming the first summer-winter participant.

He gained popularity as the best crossover star. He endured his first injury in the 2004 X games and had to keep away from sports for almost six months. He started getting media attention in 2006 and the nickname Flying Tomato became synonymous to White. Shaun won gold in the Winter Olympics of 2006 where he executed one of the best runs of his life.

The 2008 U.S. Open Snowboarding Championship saw White execute a brilliant second run as he captured his third consecutive snowboard halfpipe title. In the 25^th US Burton open, he stood third in slopestyle and first in halfpipe. The year 2008 also saw the release of his first video game which is Shaun White Snowboarding.

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In the year 2009, White got the gold medal in super pipe at the Winter X Games for the second time consecutively. He was also able to bag a gold for slopestyle after winning bronze for 2 years. In the same year, he won the FIS World Cup Men’s Halfpipe event at Vancouver.

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Batman: Arkham Knight – A Perfect Ending to the Arkham Trilogy

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The final chapter in Rocksteady’s Arkham Trilogy surpasses the previous games and emerges as one of the most graphically pleasing games. The entire city looks spectacularly designed and Batman, who is a slick and scary as ever, glides from the rooftops giving you the feeling of soaring above the skies. Players are bound to be immersed in the graphically alluring Arkham city. The open-world structure of the game allows you to tackle side missions and you can choose to take them up in any order. The strong storyline complements the gameplay and the graphics in every step of the game. The game was released on June 23, 2015.

Plot

Joker has been dead for nine months and crime rates have declined in Gotham City. Joker had sent his mutated blood to Gotham’s hospitals. Many people have been infected and start to act and look like joker.

On the other hand, Scarecrow brings his latest fear to a diner on Halloween’s night. It is a fear gas that he threatens to release throughout Gotham. While most of the civilians evacuate the city, the villains stay behind. Commissioner James Gordon and his team of police officers are outnumbered. Batman tracks Scarecrow and is able to rescue Poison Ivy from the rooftop of a safehouse where she was captured and kept by Scarecrow’s henchman.

Barbara Gordon, James Gordon’s daughter is collecting information on the toxin which is being used by Scarecrow. She traces it to Ace Chemicals where Batman goes to gather more information. The mysterious “Arkham Knight” confronts Batman. Batman soon finds out that Scarecrow has set the building to explode, and Batman is exposed to the fear gas which reacts with his mutated blood.

Batman finds out that Barbara has been abducted by the Arkham Knight and he is compelled to inform James Gordon of the abduction. This outrages Gordon who decides to find his daughter without Batman’s help.

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Batman continues in his efforts to stop Scarecrow and Arkham Knight. He gets a message from Scarecrow that Barbara is being held captive in the same safehouse where Poison Ivy was kept. Barbara shoots herself after being doused in the fear toxin.

Alfred Pennyworth tells Batman that Gotham city will be flooded with the fear toxin with the help of Cloudburst. Poison Ivy takes control of a tree that produces massive flowers which can neutralize the effect of the toxin.

In another part of the city, joker’s mutants are being gathered by Harley Quinn to keep joker’s legacy alive. Batman and Robin capture Harley and free the hostages. Henry Adams who is also infected, has succumbed to the mutations, and kills all the hostages. He shoots himself when he is confronted by Batman. Robin realizes that Batman is also infected so Batman puts him in a cell to avoid being apprehended before he stops scarecrow.

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How To Increase Your Rifle Hunting Success

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Many of the techniques we have discussed for bow hunting in previous articles will also benefit rifle hunters. Although it easier to harvest an animal with a rifle than it is a bow, often times rifle hunters face stiff competition for hunting areas. There are more rifle hunters in the field than bow hunters. For some reason game animals tend to become more cautious after the first shot of the rifle season is fired.

Get Comfortable With Your Rifle

Before the season starts make sure you sight in your rifle in with the exact ammunition you plan to use during the season. I will tape the ballistic information on the side of my rifle butt for various distances out to 500 yards. This is information can be very useful when used in conjunction with a range finder.

Find you comfortable range. Your comfortable range can be found by placing a paper plate on a target and shooting five rounds at the target. If you can group all five shots inside the paper plate that is your comfortable range to shoot an animal. Keep shooting at further and further distances until you are no longer grouping all five rounds in the target. Do not shot at an animal past your comfortable range. It doesn’t matter how big the horns are, you need to show some respect for your target animal by killing them quickly.

How much practice should a rifle hunter do before the season starts? That depends on the ability of each individual, but shoot as much as possible. You will want to be comfortable with your weapon, make sure it is functioning properly, and can group in your comfortable range.

Get In Shape

In some areas there is a lot of competition for hunting ground. Generally speaking if rifle hunters can get ½ of mile from a road they can eliminate 95% of hunting competition. Find areas that are without roads or in National Forest areas have gated roads. Be sure to exercise months before the season to give you the edge of getting away from the roads. Hunters that drive the roads will spook animals into areas with no roads that hopefully you will be occupying.

Wind Checker

Be sure to always carry a small plastic bottle with baby powder to check the wind. Shooting distances are often greater with a rifle than a bow, but it is still essential to know the wind direction. Animals that catch your scent will flee even from several hundred yards.

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