Article: People who push your buttons and put you into fight and flight mode regularly should be avoided until you learn stronger coping mechanisms. For some people, this may mean avoiding them long-term. All the same, it may be unrealistic to avoid all fear generators, especially if they're your boss or a family member, so practice very non-committal responses when these people begin to create fear situations and quickly and politely remove yourself from their sphere of influence. Don't explain yourself, just simply make excuses to get going.  Balance the fear generators with emotional nurturers. For every fear generator, find an emotionally regenerative and calming person you know that you can turn to and unwind around. People who are good listeners, healers, carers, and good humored are generally excellent antidotes to the nastier, darker personalities out there. This isn't a time for trying to find the good side to the person who has generated your fear; deal first with calming down and building yourself up again. Use your eyes and not your heart. Look at people to judge their real intentions and behavior. By learning to better translate body language, you will learn that much of what people say is counteracted by their body, giving you far greater insight into their real motives and even their own fears. Studies have shown that emotion is contagious. How the people you spend time with feel rubs off on you. Fortunately, this works both ways; while spending time with people who are anxious and fearful can provoke your own fear responses, spending time with people who are calm and balanced can foster those feelings in you, too. The four A’s are Avoid, Alter, Adapt, Accept. Different stressors require different responses. Using these techniques, depending on the situation, can really help you fight your fear response.  For example, if traffic increases your fear levels because you're worried about time, accidents, and noise, you can choose to Alter or Avoid this source of stress. Find an alternate route to drive to work that decreases your chances of being involved in traffic jams. Read How to cope with rush hour for more details. Or, see if you can take public transportation or carpool to work instead, and avoid that stress altogether. If conflict provokes your fear response, you can Alter how you handle it or Adapt to have different expectations.Learn to reduce conflict by managing it. Instead of avoiding it, find constructive ways to cope and to assert yourself around others. Always remember that you don't have to provide explanations for excusing yourself or for standing up for yourself. You do not have to tolerate abusive people or situations. Some sources of stress you may just need to Accept. For example, you can’t control how other people react to stress. If a person in your workplace gets all flustered over missing a big deadline and spreads that stress around your office, you can try to soothe her, but you can’t control whether she changes her behavior. You can look at this situation as an opportunity for you to grow as a person, instead. If you're highly sensitive and tend to get overwhelmed by the sights, sounds, and activity around you, until it builds up into a fearful crescendo, make an effort to take regular breaks to restore a sense of inner calm. Sit outside for a bit, go for a walk, do a short meditation, etc. In this way, hopefully you will alleviate the build-up of fear that can be triggered through any event during the day that upsets you.
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Avoid the fear generators. Use the 4 A’s. Take calming mini-breaks.
Article: A signal phrase is the part of the sentence that introduces the quote. This helps your reader understand that you are about to explain something with a quote. There are 3 common ways to introduce the quote in the text. You can:  Include both the author and the year in the text. The page number will be in parentheses. Include only the author's name in the text. The year and page number will be in parentheses. Do not write the author's name or year of publication in the text. The name, year, and page number will be included in parentheses at the end. In this case, you do not include the year in parentheses, but you do write it elsewhere in the sentence. Put the page number in parentheses at the end. For example: Smith’s 2002 study found that “owning a pet absolutely reduced stress” (p. 48). This is one of the most common ways to write a signal phrase. In this case, put the year in parentheses next to the author’s name and the page number in parentheses at the end of the sentence. For example: Smith (2002) found that “owning a pet absolutely reduced stress” (p. 48). You must then cite the last name of the author, year of publication, and the page number all at the end in parentheses. You might start the sentence with "research states that..." or "one study found that..." For example: One study found that “owning a pet absolutely reduced stress” (Smith, 2002, p. 48).
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Put the signal phrase before the quote. Write the author and the year in the signal phrase if you put the page number in parentheses. Name only the author in the signal phrase if you put the year and text in parentheses. Include no citation information in the signal phrase if you put the author, year, and page number in parentheses.
Article: There are a wide variety of ammunition options available for the shotgun, and bird shot--made of small pellets poured into a plastic wadding--is most commonly used for shooting clay pigeons on the target range, or small birds like doves. You can also choose between high-base (also called high-brass) or low-base (also low-brass). High-base (compared to low-base) does not necessarily mean more powder. This is the type of shot you would use against small living creatures such as dove or varmint, where low-base you can use against clays. This type uses large pellets (up to 0.38-inches) seated into plastic wadding. The most common type of Buckshot is 00 (pronounced "double-aught"). 000-buck (triple-aught) is even larger pellets, 0-buck (single-aught) is smaller, the next set of smaller pellets would be #1 buck, then #2 and so on. There are three shell sizes. 2-3/4-inch (standard), 3-inch (magnum), and 3-1/2-inch (super-magnum). Most common shotguns support up to 3-inch (shotguns can always shoot smaller shells, but not necessarily larger), but some shoot the 3-1/2-inch which contain much more powder than standard loads and can carry more pellets. Slugs are essentially what most think of when they think of a bullet. It is a large piece of lead propelled by powder .Slug power is determined in the same way as Buckshot, with standard, magnum, and super-magnum loadings. With magnum and super-magnum you also have the option of getting a heavier (heavier than 1oz.) slug. There are two common types of slugs.  The "rifled" slug is used in shotguns that have a smooth-bore barrel and the sabot slug is used for shotguns with a rifled barrel. Sabot slugs are generally more accurate and higher velocity than rifled slugs, but they require a rifled barrel to be fired accurately, which is less common. When you're shopping for ammunition, keep an eye out for the size of the shot listed on the box and get something appropriate for your needs. Just as a 12-gauge is larger than a 20-gauge, #6-shot uses larger pellets than #8-shot.  For shooting clay, a higher shot number (#7-1/2 to #9 shot) is usually preferred as the dense spread of the pellets is more important than the weight of individual pellets. The larger, heavier pellets (#4-#6 shot) is usually reserved for birds and rabbits, because fur and feathers are harder to penetrate than the ceramic of the artificial targets.
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Use "bird shot" for sport shooting. For large game hunting, try Buckshot. Get shells of the appropriate size for your gun. Consider getting some slugs. Note the shot size of your ammunition.