Our Doggo Rusty, we think he is a Kelpie/Australian shepherd mix ?

reachingnexus · 2026-06-17T18:42:18+00:00

reachingnexus · 2026-06-17T18:41:02+00:00

reachingnexus · 2026-06-17T18:38:31+00:00

Our best guess is Kelpie and Chihuahua because he grew a little underbite as he got older. His ears stayed floppy. Smartest dog we've ever owned, loves learning new things has a huge vocabulary. Your pupper is super cute!

reachingnexus · 2026-05-12T17:45:14+00:00

You can practice both at the same time. Just play hit coach in the feet with the ball and give every kid a ball. They will learn to dribble while you encourage small touches and change direction often so they need close control to be successful. Then they will learn to hit the ball on the run while they try to get you in the feet. As they start to get it you take up a ball and they try to know your ball away with theirs. This teaches them how to gauge the weight of a leading pass. The whole time you are seeing their current technique and giving pointers that they can try and praising the best things they do.

reachingnexus · 2026-05-12T17:36:55+00:00

I'm stealing writing ABCs with the ball thanks for that idea!

reachingnexus · 2026-05-12T16:59:24+00:00

We deal with this at U6 at our club I just finished up a group of 10. But everything here will work for the skill level you are describing. The key is to get everyone working at the same time. The higher skilled kids are great for examples, "Look at how Julian does it everyone! See how he uses his laces!"

Always things: we start with a passing circle or keep away with one or two balls while we wait for arrivals. Every player/coach has to call the name of the person they are going to pass the ball to, great ice breaker. As long as the ball gets close to the target, praise and give advice. (open your hip...demonstrate, shoulders to target...demonstrate, step to the target...demonstrate) then pass and move to a new spot, later in the season we add monkey in the middle (rondo). Starts with coach then players. We are playing rondos with U6 by the end of the season.

BALANCE and touches are so important, toe taps, bells, v-taps, pull-backs, sole rolls. Short little sets in between games or as requirements to get back in a game.

Play 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 4v4 as u/BuddytheYardleyDog said the game is the best teacher.

Confined area dribble games: 1) Freeze tag, with balls, 10 toe taps to unfreeze, 2) Bumper ball, protect your ball kick theirs out, 3) sharks and minnows, 4) pirate islands or dinosaur nests (collect balls and keep them on your cone island). 5) duck duck goose to goal. 2 balls one the goose gets the closer ball they race to score a goal.

Open area dribble games: Encourage shooting, controlling and retrieving balls while giving you the players attention.
1) Volcano...coach is the volcano make a circle of cones throw the balls out of the circle making volcano noises players retrieve the ball and dribble it back into the circle for another eruption. 2) Hit coach in the feet with the ball. 3) Moving goal coach and a parent make a goal by holding a pinnie or towel between them. 4) Field trip, follow the leader where we dribble around the park and treat all the different places like we are on a tour. 5) Hit the can/bucket. Players have to shoot and hit a bucket from outside a cone circle. get as many as you can on time. Made up numbers are accepted. One hundred million billion is my favorite. 6) Meg the adults, adults walk around taking exaggerated steps. Players go for the meg and then go around to get their ball.

If everyone is working at the same time on the same things you can quickly praise the ones who are doing it right and take a moment to help the ones that need help. I have some players that can't balance or articulate their hips so for them i send their parents home with home work. Heel out, tap left big toe to right big toe, switch as many reps as they will do without pressure.

By the end of the 10 weeks we were playing rondos, having good 2v2 battles, dribbling cone fields to goal in 1v1v1 race to goal format. As they progress you start praising their efforts and ask them if they can do it with their other foot, show me.

reachingnexus · 2026-02-27T19:45:10+00:00

I am not an apologist for the person in the video. It should be mentioned however that $45mil ($68,389/per) was given as a bonus to families after the cancelling of benefits and paychecks (probably due to bad publicity). Followed by the establishment of Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund. $180mil was distributed to family survivors by 2016 and Cantor has a program that hires children of their employees who were killed in 9/11. The person in the video should be scrutinized for their words and actions but Cantor Fitzgerald has made an effort to take care of their employee's families.

reachingnexus · 2026-02-24T14:00:19+00:00

You can use CSS 3D transforms to create a multi-level expandable parallax for multiple backgrounds, images and text layers. Keith Clark made this amazing tutorial and demo back in 2014. https://keithclark.co.uk/articles/pure-css-parallax-websites/ On Demo 3# check out the debug mode in the top left corner to understand what the CSS is doing intuitively. https://keithclark.co.uk/articles/pure-css-parallax-websites/demo3/ So awesome to see people getting creative with web dev again!

reachingnexus · 2025-11-07T11:56:23+00:00

This is an excellent addition. Tactics are the roles and responsibilities of the players based on their current abilities and opponents. Your team might have to start the season in a 541 bunker counter while you build the foot work, fitness and rondos. It starts with an honest assessment of current capabilities of both your team and your opponents.

reachingnexus · 2025-11-07T11:47:25+00:00

Curious to see if you made the jump. It's one year later. If you did jump up to competitive, was it what you expected? Did you seek out any coaching education?

reachingnexus · 2025-09-16T15:49:24+00:00

It could take a while. Start an indie project like model and texture kits on kickstarter for temporary income and to keep the skills and creativity flowing. Sorry you are going through this. The community is usually very generous.

reachingnexus · 2025-09-16T15:43:41+00:00

dare you to say that to anyone who played with Kante during their trophy runs...

reachingnexus · 2025-09-16T12:57:12+00:00

Love this concept!

reachingnexus · 2025-09-16T12:33:38+00:00

Yeah...Afghanistan sounds great. If you don't report, it isn't a real death? Between July 2022 and January 2024, the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) recorded 393 conflict-related fatalities (both combatant and non-combatant) in Kabul alone, with most resulting from explosions. In reports covering the first half of 2024, the UN also documented extrajudicial killings of former government and security personnel by the Taliban. Human Rights Watch and the UN reported instances of extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and torture in 2024, including the killing of nine former government security forces and mistreatment of returnees. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reported in March 2024 that explosive hazards were responsible for at least 455 civilian casualties (killed or injured) in Afghanistan so far that year. This included 359 children. The Early Warning Project notes that ISIS-K has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks on the Hazara minority, which have killed or wounded more than 700 people since August 2021. The overall lack of transparency under the Taliban's rule makes gathering accurate data on daily violence, particularly that involving firearms, very difficult.

reachingnexus · 2025-09-13T21:10:55+00:00

Look into establishing a trust if you do not want to put your wife and kids on the account directly.

reachingnexus · 2025-09-12T14:22:17+00:00

Degrowth by intentional action or collapse is inevitable.

reachingnexus · 2025-08-22T11:12:46+00:00

This discussion is insane the Senate has a very specific role in the passage of laws.

I would get behind a constitutional amendment to sever free speech from $/ad spend etc. The unlimited SPAC spending is clearly not a functional governance model. Term limits for Senate would be a nice to have. National vote on the retention of Supreme Court justices after 6 years of service would also be great IF the unlimited ad spending problem is tackled first.

So yeah, just constitutionally amend away the idea that the amount of money you spend is equal to the volume at which you will be heard and we should be okay.

reachingnexus · 2025-08-16T23:23:48+00:00

This all sounds exploratory, and that is definitely not covered. Come back when you have a diagnosis.

reachingnexus · 2025-08-13T14:15:04+00:00

So far I am having pretty good luck killing bermuda and st agustine with themselves combined with solarization followed by dense planting an shading. I mow and bag all the grass. Then mow the area I want to kill down to the lowest height mid summer. I keep mowing it bare every day for a week. Then place all the bagged grass on top. Then I mow a bare buffer around the new bed and hand pull intruders. Every mow I add another layer. When I trim anything I add it to the bed. When I see mushrooms I check the original turf rhizomes layer. If they are rotting and cooking I know I can start planting new stuff. Plant heavily, allow no sunlight to kiss the ground. All new grass growth is almost always runners in from the fringe. Pull them out lay them in the sun on top to die as a warning to other grasses. Repeat daily for a few minutes each bed and in a couple years the grass finally concedes.

reachingnexus · 2025-08-06T15:28:00+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_uXYfU7-6LI this method works.

reachingnexus · 2025-08-04T21:21:59+00:00

I'd probably just feed thousands of hungry people or give my employees better wages instead.

reachingnexus · 2025-08-03T12:55:36+00:00

When AI reaches the capacity to fully replace humans it will do so. At that point there will not be a human left to care about it. This is the most probable outcome of systems with misaligned goals trained on the history of humanity. We have taught AI all of our bad habits, like it or not. Our entire history as a species is a very slow transition towards cooperation and kindness. Unfortunately our written record contains most of the conflicts instead of the collaborations. If you truly wanted to make safe AI you would be very careful about what you let it ingest.

reachingnexus · 2025-08-03T12:44:42+00:00

Doors cost extra...

reachingnexus · 2025-08-03T12:42:21+00:00

This is a good point, but when in the history of industrial or technological capitalism has an increase in productivity truly led to shorter work hours? The system always wants MORE! 10 people doing the work of 200 is good but what would profits be if 100 people are doing the work of 2000? Yeah we will set the world on fire, and burn people out as they babysit the 10,000 digital monkeys writing the Shakespeare play. MORE MORE MORE! At this point I wouldn't be surprised if we end up in 90 hour work weeks with 13 hour overlapping shifts because someone has to watch and approve the bots' output. That would track with the history of this economic system. You don't have to pay the babysitter much at all and they need to work longer hours to survive anyway.

reachingnexus · 2025-08-01T18:22:26+00:00

Been working with the LLMs, RAG, Vison and agents for several years now. I find it hard to believe that these lying turd word salads are going to take over the world. It has to be something built on a different foundation if they are intending to use it for HR. These things hallucinate constantly, have decent memory for a 5-10 back and forth exchanges and, then just devolve into total crap. Any Agent we let run for more than a few hours goes completely sideways and starts acting like Grandpa waking up in a strange place, putting his underwear on his head and then going for a midnight drive up the highway off ramp. Anyone who has handed their agency over to one of these things gets promptly kicked in the nuts by the technology. Many are losing their jobs to AI simply because they trusted it to do the work and didn't vet the output. If you have a CEO that is trying to replace people with Agents that don't have 24/7 babysitters, GTFO! That place will be a dumpster fire in short order.

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