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Ivan Eland Discusses Syria on ARNN
Recorded: Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland appears on the nationally syndicated "America's Radio News Network" program with Lori Lundin discussing the debate on American intervention in Syria.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: RadioIssues: Defense and Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Government Power, Terrorism and National Crises
Ivan Eland on the Crisis in Syria
Recorded: Thursday, August 22, 2013
Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland discusses the use of chemical weapons by the government of Syria and the ongoing civil war there. Originally aired
Aug. 22, 2013 on CTV News Channel.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Defense and Foreign Policy, Terrorism and National Crises
Ivan Eland Discusses Snowdens Temporary Asylum in Russia
Recorded: Friday, August 2, 2013
Senior Fellow Ivan Eland discusses USRussia relations and Edward Snowden, the NSA whistle blower on CCTV's "BizAsia America" show.
Experts: Ivan ElandType: TelevisionIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Defense and Foreign Policy, Freedom, Law Enforcement, Politics
Reaction to the Conviction of Bradley Manning by Research Fellow Anthony Gregory
Recorded: Thursday, August 1, 2013
Presidential candidate Barack Obama promised to protect government whistle-blowers in an effort to be more transparent. When U.S. Army private Bradley Manning was convicted of espionage, Independent Institute Research Fellow Anthony Gregory said it's time to make a choice.
Experts: Anthony GregoryType: Independent Institute TVIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Justice/ Prisons, Defense and Foreign Policy, Government Power
The State Is Too Dangerous to Tolerate
Recorded: Saturday, July 27, 2013
Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and author of Delusions of Power, speaks at the 2013 Mises University, hosted by the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 27 July 2013.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: TelevisionIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Defense and Foreign Policy, Government Power, Political Ideology and Philosophy
Anthony Gregory: The Myth of War Prosperity
2013 Summer Seminar for High School Students
Recorded: Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Anthony Gregory exposes the fallacies behind the common notion that war boosts the economy, showing how it helps some at the expense of others and society as a whole. Talk given on July 24, 2013 in Oakland, CA.
Experts: Anthony GregoryType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Corporate Welfare, Defense and Foreign Policy, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Labor and Employment
Mary Theroux on ARNNSnowden and the Surveillance State
Recorded: Monday, July 22, 2013
Mary Theroux, Senior Vice President at the Independent Institute, is interviewed by host Ernie Brown on the topic of Edward Snowden and the US Governments Surveillance State.
Experts: Mary L. G. TherouxType: RadioIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Defense and Foreign Policy, Government Power, Government Secrecy, Technology, Terrorism and National Crises
Civil Liberties and Security in an Age of Terrorism
Recorded: Thursday, July 18, 2013
Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism: A special evening with our "Challenge of Liberty Summer Seminars" students and featured by C-SPAN's Book TV. Watch this eye-opening, timely discussion on the recent revelations of systematic government spyingincluding NSA accessing of phone records, USPS photocopying the exterior of all mail, and the dangers posed to liberty and security by these and other such unchecked and unconstitutional powers.
Experts: Anthony Gregory, Robert Higgs, Mary L. G. TherouxType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Defense and Foreign Policy, Privacy, Terrorism and National Crises


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My wife has agreed to help me fight this battle and to get my life back in order, but I welcome your prayers. I am going to implement some of the Body for Life principles along with Weight Watchers. I started eating healthier as of this morning and I'll hit the weights and cardio around noon. And that is my last point, if you haven't started resistence training (lifting weights & calisthenics) then start today. If you have started then don't stop! I'm having difficulties performing daily activities that should quite honestly be a "piece of cake" for me. And it has A LOT to do with my lack of renitence training in the last several years and the extra 20 pounds. I'm learning these lessons the hard way...when you hit your forties you need to have your muscles toned so that it doesn't hit back. There is no reason to feel beat down in your forties...it is the new thirties.

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- "Harry Potter, Dobby has come to rescue you."
- —Dobby the house-elf before being killed by Bellatrix Lestrange.[src]
The Skirmish at Malfoy Manor was a small but bloody skirmish of the Second Wizarding War that took place around Easter of 1998 in Malfoy Manor, located in Wiltshire, England. It resulted in several prisoners being freed from the dungeons of the Death Eaters's headquarters and in Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley discovering the location of one of Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes. There were at least two casualties – Peter Pettigrew and Dobby.
- Ron Weasley: "The name's Taboo! I told you, Harry, I told you, we can't say it anymore – we've got to put the protection back around us – quickly – it's how they find –"
- Snatchers: "Come out of there with your hands up! We know you're in there! You've got half a dozen wands pointing at you and we don't care who we curse!"
- — The Trio is caught[src]
By the spring of 1998, Voldemort was in control of the Ministry of Magic and had Snatchers prowling the country in search of Muggle-borns, blood traitors and Undesirable Number One, Harry Potter. Harry, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger were secretly hunting down Voldemort's Horcruxes in an effort to make him mortal and defeat him once and for all.
Harry accidentally triggered the Taboo curse on Voldemort's name, and he and his friends were immediately surrounded[2] by a gang of Snatchers led by Fenrir Greyback. Greyback and his gang had already captured Dean Thomas and goblin Griphook and killed Ted Tonks, Dirk Cresswell and Gornuk. Thinking fast, Hermione used a Stinging Hex on Harry's face in an attempt to disguise his identity.
The three were disarmed and questioned on their identities. Harry claimed that he was "Vernon Dudley", the son of a Ministry employee and a Slytherin, a claim he was able to back up because he knew where the Slytherin common room was from having been there in his second year. Ron said he was Stan Shunpike, but the Snatchers knew he was lying and punched him in the face; Ron then claimed he was "Barny Weasley". Hermione told them she was Penelope Clearwater and a half-blood. They claimed that using the Dark Lord's name was an accident and that they did not know what the Order of the Phoenix was.
Their story may have been believed, but Hermione's picture was in Daily Prophet, which described her as "the Mudblood who is known to be travelling with Harry Potter". Greyback decided not to take them to the Ministry, thinking that they would "take the credit". As he desired the monetary reward and to bite Hermione, he decided to bring them to Malfoy Manor, where someone with the Dark Mark could call Voldemort directly. [3]
- Lucius: "Well, Draco? Is it? Is it Harry Potter?"
- Draco: "I can't – I can't be sure."
- Lucius: "But look at him carefully, look! Come closer! Draco, if we are the ones who hand Potter over to the Dark Lord, everything will be forgiven –"
- — Lucius and Draco Malfoy[src]
When the group arrived at Malfoy Manor, they were greeted by a disdainful Narcissa Malfoy, who let them in and called her son Draco, who was home from Hogwarts for the Easter holidays, to identify the prisoners. Lucius Malfoy was also there and was visibly excited at the prospect of being the one to hand Harry over to Voldemort, in the hope it would redeem him in the Dark Lord's eyes.
Draco was extremely reluctant to identify any of them, despite Ron and Hermione's identities, at least, being obvious. Bellatrix Lestrange came upon the scene at that moment and briefly argued with her brother-in-law Lucius over who would be the one to signal Voldemort, but stopped when she spotted Godric Gryffindor's Sword among the seized possessions of the prisoners. [3]
- Bellatrix: "Wait. All except…except for the Mudblood."
- Ron: "No! You can have me, keep me!"
- Bellatrix: "If she dies under questioning, I'll take you next. Blood traitor is next to Mudblood in my book. Take them downstairs, Greyback, and make sure they are secure, but do nothing more to them – yet."
- — Bellatrix isolates Hermione for interrogation[src]
Bellatrix screamed at Lucius not to touch his Dark Mark, saying that they would "all perish if the Dark Lord comes now". She demanded to know where the Snatchers got the Sword and then stunned four of them in rapid succession for their "lack of respect" towards her. She ordered her nephew to move the unconscious men to the courtyard and implied that she might kill them later. She then ordered Greyback to take all the prisoners down to the dungeons – except for Hermione.
Harry, Ron, Dean and Griphook were shut into the dungeons in the cellar just as Bellatrix began to torture Hermione with repeated use of the Cruciatus Curse while questioning her about how she and her friends obtained Gryffindor's Sword, which Bellatrix had believed to be in her vault in Gringotts. Ron had the worst reaction to hearing Hermione's screams. He struggled against the ropes binding him, and screamed her name. When he was freed, Ron attempted to disapparate without a wand. He failed, and began to pound on the wall and sob. [3]
- "Help us! We're in the cellar of Malfoy Manor, help us!"
- —Harry screams for help into Sirius Black's two-way mirror[src]
Luna Lovegood and Garrick Ollivander were also in the cellar, having been imprisoned because of Xenophilius Lovegood's public support of Harry and for knowledge of wands, respectively. Luna helped cut the new prisoners's bonds using a nail. Harry could hear Hermione screaming from above, and frantically searched the pouch around his neck for help. A piece of the mirror Sirius Black had given him fell to the floor, and Harry saw a blue eye – later identified as Aberforth Dumbledore's – and screamed for help.
In the meantime, Hermione managed to lie under torture and claimed that the sword was a copy. To confirm this story, Bellatrix sent Draco to fetch Griphook, who would be able to tell if the sword was genuinely goblin-made. Harry begged Griphook to tell them it was a fake, and just after the goblin was taken upstairs by Draco, Dobby, the house-elf, appeared in the dungeon using house-elf Apparition. Harry ordered him to take Luna, Mr. Ollivander and Dean to Shell Cottage, the home of newlyweds Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour, Ron's brother and sister-in-law.While this was all happening, Harry saw a vision of Voldemort at Nurmengard, asking Gellert Grindelwald where the Elder Wand was. However, when Dobby returned to the cellar, the sound of his apparition was heard. Peter Pettigrew was sent to investigate the noise. When he arrived, Harry and Ron tackled him and Ron forcefully disarmed Pettigrew. Pettigrew started to strangle Harry, but Harry reminded him that he owed him his life, as Harry once saved Pettigrew's life. He slackened his grip, and his own silver hand promptly strangled him to death for his moment of pity, despite Harry and Ron's efforts to prevent it.
Just then, Griphook lied to Bellatrix, saying that the sword was a fake, and she pressed her Dark Mark. Voldemort murdered Grindelwald when Bellatrix summoned him, so he could travel to Malfoy Manor. [3]
- Bellatrix: "STOP OR SHE DIES! Drop your wands. Drop them, or we'll see exactly how filthy her blood is! I said, drop them!"
- Harry: "All right!"
- Bellatrix: "Good! Draco, pick them up! The Dark Lord is coming, Harry Potter! Your death approaches! Now…Cissy, I think we ought to tie these little heroes up again, while Greyback takes care of Miss Mudblood. I am sure the Dark Lord will not begrudge you the girl, Greyback, after what you have done tonight."
- — Bellatrix holds Hermione hostage[src]
Just as Bellatrix was about to hand Hermione, who had been tortured into unconsciousness, over to Greyback, Harry and Ron burst in. Ron disarmed Bellatrix, using Pettigrew's wand. Harry stunned Lucius, who did not have a wand to repel the curse and then rolled behind a sofa to avoid curses from Narcissa, Draco and Greyback. Bellatrix then held her short knife to Hermione's throat in threat, and Harry and Ron surrendered their wands to Draco.
However, Dobby returned and sent the crystal chandelier falling to the floor. Bellatrix released Hermione to jump out of the way and Draco's face was scratched by the flying debris. Ron rescued Hermione from the wreckage, and Harry disarmed Draco and used all the wands to stun Greyback. Dobby disarmed Narcissa before she could curse anyone.
- Bellatrix: "You dirty little monkey! How dare you take a witch's wand, how dare you defy your masters?"
- Dobby: "Dobby has no master! Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends!"
- — Bellatrix and Dobby[src]
Harry threw Ron a wand, and he disapparated with Hermione. Harry then grabbed Griphook and the Sword and followed. Bellatrix, however, threw her knife as they vanished and struck Dobby in the chest. [3]
Dobby's death
- Bill: "Harry, what the hell's going on? You turn up here with a dead house-elf and a half-conscious goblin, Hermione looks as though she's been tortured, and Ron's just refused to tell me anything –"
- Harry: "We can't tell you what we're doing. You're in the Order, Bill, you know Dumbledore left us a mission. We're not supposed to talk about it to anyone else."
- — Bill and Harry[src]
Harry arrived at Shell Cottage to find, to his horror, that Dobby was dying. He subsequently buried the elf in the garden by hand, with the epitaph Here Lies Dobby, a Free Elf. As he dug, he got glimpses of Voldemort furiously punishing Bellatrix and the Malfoys for their failure to capture him. After Fleur assisted in healing Hermione and Griphook, they gathered around the grave to give their farewells and thanks to the house elf. [4]
- "I want to do it properly. Not by magic. Have you got a spade?"
- —Harry Potter to Bill Weasley in Shell Cottage [src]
Also, while the trio lost their own wands to Snatchers, they gained Draco's wand, Pettigrew's wand, and Bellatrix's wand, which they would use at least until the Battle of Hogwarts in 2 May, 1998.
Other consequences
- Griphook: "As the Dark Lord becomes ever more powerful, your race is set still more firmly above mine! Gringotts falls under Wizarding rule, house-elves are slaughtered, and who amongst the wand-carriers protests?"
- Hermione: "We do! We protest! And I'm hunted quite as much as any goblin or elf, Griphook! I'm a Mudblood!... You can't want You-Know-Who defeated more than we do, Griphook!"
- — Hermione tries to persuade Griphook to help them[src]
The Death Eaters's discovery that Ron Weasley was with Harry and Hermione – instead of sick with spattergroit at home, as had been previously claimed – made his family a target. The Weasleys fled the Burrow and were no longer able to go to work. Bill was the Secret-Keeper for Shell Cottage while Arthur acted as the Secret-Keeper for Muriel's home, where the other Weasleys stayed.
Harry, Hermione and Ron then spoke to Griphook, persuading him to help them break in to Gringotts and steal the Horcrux in Bellatrix Lestrange's vault by agreeing to give him Godric Gryffindor's Sword in exchange.
Afterward, the trio spoke to Garrick Ollivander, who told them about the Elder Wand. Harry realised that Voldemort had gone to Hogwarts to take the wand from Albus Dumbledore's tomb, but decided to focus on getting the Horcruxes, not the Deathly Hallows, per Dumbledore's instructions. He, Ron and Hermione spent the rest of their stay at Shell Cottage planning the break-in of Gringotts. [4] With Griphook's help, they would eventually obtain Helga Hufflepuff's Cup[5].
Mastery of the Elder Wand
This battle would also prove critical in Lord Voldemort's final defeat in another way — when Harry disarmed Draco Malfoy, he unknowingly obtained the loyalty of the Elder Wand, just as Draco had unknowingly become its master when he disarmed Albus Dumbledore a year earlier. Thus, when he faced off against Voldemort during the Battle of Hogwarts weeks later, the wand refused to harm its true master, and Voldemort was killed by his own rebounding Killing Curse. [6]
Behind the Scenes
- In the film, Bellatrix carves the word "Mudblood" into Hermione's arm with her knife during her interrogation due to Emma Watson and Helena Bonham Carter coming up with the idea on spare notice. Unlike in the book, Bellatrix did not use the Cruciatus Curse on Hermione at all.
- In the novel, Peter Pettigrew was killed by his own silver hand for his moment's hesitation when attempting to strangle Harry Potter. He also was disarmed by Ron, who won the wand from him. However in the film, he was stunned from behind by Dobby, who also took his wand and gave it to Ron. Seeing as how he didn't appear in Part 2 fighting, it can be assumed that he was killed off-screen or that instead of being stunned by Dobby he was killed by him.
- Also in the film, when Harry takes Malfoy's, Bellatrix's, and Wormtail's wands from Malfoy, he uses them to stun Lucius Malfoy instead of Fenrir Greyback, who along with Scabior has been sent away from the manor by Bellatrix. Thus, Lucius is stunned twice in the same scene.
- In the film, Dean Thomas is notably absent. He was mentioned to be travelling with Griphook on radio, so it is presumed that he escaped the Snatchers, unlike Griphook.
- In the film, Greyback gets defeated by surprise by Bellatrix instead of Greyback begging for mercy. He also only gets beat by Harry when he uses 3 wands casting Stupefy and took him down in the book but in the film it was Lucius Malfoy who got stunned.
- The Nintendo DS version of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 video game starts with the skirmish at Malfoy Manor, rather than the planning for and execution of the break-in of Gringotts Wizarding Bank as in the film and other versions of the video game.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game) (Nintendo DS version only)
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The American University of Mediocrity is a college in the United States dedicated to admitting extremely talented scholars, artists, musicians, scientists and deep thinkers and teaching them to be bank tellers, tollbooth operators and constructioon workers. The college's mission is to help the unfortunate minority who have been blessed with intelligence achieve mediocrity and therefore be more readily accepted by their friends and neighbors.
Reasons to attend
The school seats 5,000 students, and over 45,000 students apply each year. It's frankly very depressing to be a person of gifted intelligence in the United States. You're different from all your peers, first of all. Anyone who knows complicated phrases such as "Antebellum economics," "Multi-dimensional physics" or "independant thought" has a very difficult time making friends. School president and mechanic Jim Stubbles elaborates: "There are a great number of people in this country who unfortunately suffer from intelligence. Some of them become poets, others become amateur philosophers, and still others devise cures for diseases and social injustices. But they all share one thing in common: they're all DIFFERENT. And being different is an awful, awful thing. They all know that. That's why I've created a school dedicated to teaching these people how to be normal. We start with easy classes like "misinterpreting shakespeare" and move on to more difficult ones like "despising art," "ignoring politics," "swearing regularly" and "hating all forms of education." It is with this extensive program that the American University of Mediocrity helps remarkably gifted scholars forget their intelligence and live normal lives.
The American University of Mediocrity has criticized middle and high schools as "too focused on education." A pamphlet for the school reads: "Small children are taught that they can accomplish anything that they want if they put their mind to it. We believe this is wrong. We think the truth is that people can become whatever they want AS LONG AS they work in an office job or a gas station. There are two types of people, those who accept their mediocrity and get dead-end jobs and then die, or those who strive for excellence before realizing that excellence isn't normal, and then getting dead-end jobs and dying." The school is devoted to helping the latter.
The curriculum is based around a set of core classes that all students must take, including Using a cash register, Swearing, Eating fast food, Ignoring all literature except Playboy and some comic strips, and The stapler: an introduction. Many students have difficulty at first, especially since some classes require the burning of classic literature such as the works of Shakespeare and Dickens. "I set a very rigorous syllabus," says one teacher, "Many students have a lot of trouble with burning the classic plays at the beginning of the year. But by the end of the year, if you hand them a classic Shakespeare play, they'll throw it away without second thought because it's too big for rolling paper."
Success stories
John Kendle, a student at the University, was asked to write an essay about a trip to the beach before he started to study mediocrity. This was his essay:
"Today I drove down to the beach, and as I walked along the sand I allowed my thoughts to wander to the nature of humanity in this vast, confusing world. I turned around and watched the waves obliterate my footprints. It seemed an allegory for something much more vast. No matter what we accomplish in our lives, humans are ultimately tiny and insignificant, and all traces of our existence will eventually be wiped out by the endless flowing waters of time."
After four years of majoring in Ignorance (with a minor degree in Sexual Obsession), John was asked to write another essay about the beach. This was the result:
"Today I drove down to the beach, and I thought it would be a great place to fuck my girlfriend."
Clearly the university successfully drove all traces of intellectualism from Mr. Kendle, who said in his graduation speech: "God, back when I was smart, nobody ever talked to me. I was so ashamed of who I was. But now, I get invited to parties every other day--and I've been getting laid! Sometimes even by women under 40!" Kendle's is only one of hundreds of heartwarming tales of people who came to the university burdened by excessive intelligence and came away from the university as scholars in stupidity. "I used to be a nerd," says Jane Svenson, "I was interested in all kinds of taboo things--the world around me, the climate, history, science--but this school taught me what was really important. Football games, fast food restaurant, and paychecks. I used to be really unpopular. I'm still unpopular--probably because my boobs aren't big enough--but at least I'm the same as everyone else!"
At the end of their four years at the Mediocrity University, students are put through a rigorous Mundaneness Test. They are asked to chose between objects (for instance, a Big Mac or a telescope, a cardboard cutout of Mickey Mouse or a historical textbook). If they make the right choices, they are then asked a series of philosophical questions, including "In your opinion, do human beings have any purpose on this planet?" and "Can the existence of God ever really be proven or disproven--and does it matter?" If the students give responses that show too much intelligence, they fail the exam. However, if they respond with the correct answers (A response of "I don't give a shit, Deal or No Deal is on!" warrants a perfect score), they are given full credit and they graduate.
Beer College
Beer college is a smaller college located near the university. Beer college has abandoned classes altogether and teaches solely about alchol consumption. Like the larger university, beer college has a strict moral code under which acts of honesty or kindness are strictly forbidden, and acts of violence against women take place every Saturday in the cafeteria as part of a school sport, competitive raping. In classes at beer college, students are taught about different brands of beer and how to open the cans. However, most students are actually penalized for attending class (they recieve credit for skipping).
When looking at a student's application, admissions officers at Beer College look for evidence that the student has been as uncommitted as possible in his or her high school days. "We prefer students who've had at least three DUI's," says one admissions officer, "And we are especially impressed by any student who has killed at least five people in drunk driving accidents."
Students are expected to devote all time to mediocrity--any textbook not devoted to traffic jams, fast food, or other class subjects is banned. Students caught with books on philosophy, painting, or calculus are immediately suspended. "I had one student who really, REALLY wanted to shed her genius and become a common sheep," says a professor in Housewife 101, "But she kept doing calculus equations in class when she should have been practicing her sweeping technique, which was poor at best. She wasn't showing the commitment necessary to become a stereotypical housewife. She was still showing signs of abnormal intelligence, which is unnacceptible. We suspended her. She vandalized the school before she left--she wrote the pythagorean theorem on a wall of my office."
Students who graduate recieve a gift certificate to Burger King, a stick of chewing gum, and a bottle of suicide pills.


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(c) The powers granted to Department police officers designated under this section shall be exercised in accordance with guidelines approved by the Secretary and the Attorney General.
(d) Rates of basic pay for Department police officers may be increased by the Secretary under section 7455 of this title.
Source(Added Pub. L. 102–83, § 2(a),Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 397; amended Pub. L. 111–163, title X, § 1001,May 5, 2010, 124 Stat. 1181.)
Prior Provisions
Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 218(b) of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 102–83, § 2(a).
2010—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 111–163, § 1001(1)(A), amended par. (1) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (1) read as follows: "Employees of the Department who are Department police officers shall, with respect to acts occurring on Department property, enforce—
"(A) Federal laws;
"(B) the rules prescribed under section 901 of this title; and
"(C) subject to paragraph (2), traffic and motor vehicle laws of a State or local government within the jurisdiction of which such Department property is located."
Subsec. (a)(2), (3). Pub. L. 111–163, § 1001(1)(B), (C), redesignated par. (3) as (2), inserted ", and on any arrest warrant issued by competent judicial authority" before the period, and struck out former par. (2) which read as follows: "A law described in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1) may be enforced under such subparagraph only as authorized by an express grant of authority under applicable State or local law. Any such enforcement shall be by the issuance of a citation for violation of such law."
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 111–163, § 1001(2), amended subsec. (c) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (c) read as follows: "The Secretary shall consult with the Attorney General before prescribing regulations under paragraph (1) of subsection (b)."
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Once you pass the Online Exam and pay for the online course, you will be given a link to your Course Completion Certificate . At that point, you can view and print the Course Completion Certificate from your computer, or have a PDF sent to your email address.
Q: How do I get the permanent Trapper Education Certification Card issued by my state's hunting agency?
Please refer to the state requirements page for the remaining steps you must complete to be issued Trapper Education Certification Card by your state.
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Per ISU football facebook page "We will have a special visitor here Friday night. It weighs 130 pounds... It is the BCS National Championship trophy."
"The greatest risk in life is not taking one"
The BCS National Championship trophy weighs 130 POUNDS?! Why?
Why?? Would it be in Ames?
It will be nice to have the upset of the Century with that being there.
It would be awesome to see the players run over and smash it, right in front of Weedens face.
Originally Posted by dtclones
The BCS National Championship trophy weighs 130 POUNDS?! Why?
Shhh. That is what Sam Steele weighs.
Let Prohm's Posse Ride: Hallice, Brady, Stu, Lard, Naz, Deonte, Monte, Matt, Simeon, Jordan, and Babb.
They'll have it on the field for the broadcast since OSU is a NC contender. They did the same thing for the Oregon/Stanford game last Saturday. Hopefully it jinxes them like it did Stanford!
Maybe they are getting it used to being in its future home.
Anyone wants to touch something that has been touched by Gene Chizik ?
If we win....we are champs and get to keep it right?
Carrying the banner for ISU.
Isn't it a new trophy each year?
Good times on Hawkeyenation.com after the 2010 Wisconsin Game!
Originally Posted by cyclone13
Anyone wants to touch something that has been touched by Gene Chizik ?
I'm hoping that trophy was sterilized, considering it's the same trophy...
Some day it will stay here.
Originally Posted by Gorm
Isn't it a new trophy each year?
yes. they let the schools keep it IIRC. I remember seeing trophy cases at school's that have won, but they could be replica's i spose.
I say when we win somebody goes and steals the BCS trophy..hold it ransom until the BCS pays for all their **** ups against us in football and especially basketball vs Michigan St...save the money up and bowl in the end zone...I mean if somebody can steal beer from a cooler this isn't out of the realm of possibility.
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Bronco fans better take a good look. This is their future unfolding in front of them. It's about to get uglier.
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Carolina by 17
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Yeah, Carolina is going to win the Superbowl
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If you never had Fred then you never would have had Georges. Think about that for a minute you stupid *****
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Administrators at the University of Colorado-Boulder appear set to adopt a campus-wide smoking ban this week.
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BW088: Piplup, Pansage and a Meeting of the Times!
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Arriving in Undella Town, Ash and co. were invited by Cynthia and her butler Jervis to stay at her vacation home, along with a Mythical Pokémon: Meloetta in surprise when she turn herself invisible since she likes Ash when it follows them on the seaplane. But she isn't the only old friend from Sinnoh. That's right folks, Dawn from Twinleaf Town in Sinnoh has returned and is introduced to Iris and Cilan and heard words about them from Professor Oak. Apparently she is competing in the World Tournament Junior Cup too, and has seen Elesa back in Nimbasa City during the fashion show to get as much inspiration as she could. Later, she requests to have a battle with Cilan. Will this semi-top Coordinator, Dawn fair against the A-Class Connoisseur, Cilan? And why is Piplup moving in on Oshawott's girlfriend, Meloetta, since she followed all the way here for Ash and introduced to Dawn?
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What can I do about feral cats?Since 2011, Animal Control stopped picking up or impound feral/free roaming cats from citizens. Instead, the unit encourages citizens with feral cat issues to utilize the Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) approach. The change is a cost saving measure, but is also considered a best practice and a more humane alternative to dealing with feral cats.
When a feral cat is permanently removed, nature's tendency is to over-populate the vacancy it creates. By not creating that vacancy, and by preventing the existing cat from reproducing, the feral cat population will decrease over time. The activity of our most frequent trap users supports this claim – some of them have trapped as many as 50 feral cats from the same location, a clear indication that the trap and euthanize approach is not the best solution.
Your favorite search engine will return a long list of hits for "trap neuter return", and will help identify local programs and provide links to the body of research behind the TNR philosophy.
What can the city do about a barking dog?The most common animal disturbance that Peoria animal control officers respond to are barking dog complaints. It is a violation of Peoria City ordinances for a dog owner to disturb another resident's peace by allowing their dog to bark excessively and unreasonably. It is not a violation for a dog to bark. It is only a violation if the dog is barking excessively and unreasonably.
To report a barking dog, call the hotline at 623-773-7040. Any Animal Control Officer who personally observes excessive barking can issue a citation to the owner. If our investigation of a barking dog does not result in such an observation, we will continue to respond to subsequent complaints in an attempt to observe the violation.
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The Power of Independent Thinking
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Environmental quality has been a major public concern since the first Earth Day in 1970, yet the maze of environmental regulations enacted since has fostered huge government bureaucracies better known for waste and failure than for innovation and success.
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Gore Vidal on Understanding Americas Terrorist Crisis
Recorded: Thursday, April 18, 2002
Filmed before a live audience on April 18, 2002, renowned author Gore Vidal rejects the blind patriotism expected by government officials and the mainstream media, and investigates U.S. foreign policy throughout recent history, showing how it has contributed to the terrorist crisis. With his famous wit and insight, Vidal also demonstrates the ways in which the War on Terrorism is being used to curtail civil liberties and shred the Bill of Rights.
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DENVER (AP) -- Broncos owner Pat Bowlen knows what a great season looks like.
This season wasn't one of them.
In a letter sent to season ticket holders, Bowlen thanked Broncos fans for bringing the passion back to the stadium in this, the first season with Peyton Manning in a Denver uniform.
Denver finished 13-3 and had top seeding in the playoffs but lost to Baltimore on Saturday in the divisional round.
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A short documentary that asks why middle school age students make fun of homosexuality and make gay jokes. Artist's statement: "What brought me to this subject was that my ELA teacher was encouraging us to do a lot of social justice projects and I was interested in the topics of homosexuality and suicide among teens. I wanted to find out why kids always made fun of these issues. They talked about them like they were jokes or like they were nothing. I decided to narrow down my documentary because I was worried about what people would think and say if I was asking about suicide. It's a really sensitive issue. After making this movie, I'm hoping that people will understand that it's okay to make jokes but you shouldn't take things too far. By making jokes about homosexuality, you cross the line and can hit a nerve by hurting someone's feelings and putting them down."
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JERUSALEM (AP) " A Jerusalem court on Monday convicted two Israeli youths in the grisly killing of a 16-year-old Palestinian boy whose slaying was part of a chain of events that led to last year's Gaza war.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) " Some immigration signs at Zimbabwe's main international airport are in Chinese, a sign of China's deep economic inroads in Africa, which Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit this week.
LE BOURGET, France (AP) " Pushing for a powerful climate deal, President Barack Obama called the global talks opening Monday outside Paris an "act of defiance" against terrorism that proves the world stands undeterred by Islamic State-linked attacks...
BEIJING (AP) " Beijing suffered its worst air pollution of the year on Monday, with monitoring sites throughout the city reporting extremely hazardous levels of pollutants.
NEW YORK (AP) " Retailers are rolling out online deals on so-called "Cyber Monday." But now that shoppers are online all the time anyway, the 10-year-old shopping holiday is losing some of its luster.
WASHINGTON (AP) " The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a retired Texas veterinarian who was barred from evaluating animals and giving advice over the Internet.
BALTIMORE (AP) " In Baltimore, this year can be divided into two parts: what came before Freddie Gray died and what happened afterward.
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Whitney Bouck
Whitney Bouck is an enterprise software executive with 25 years of experience in leadership, strategy, sales, marketing, and general management. In addition, she is well-versed in product strategy, marketing, thought leadership, market category creation, mergers & acquisitions, P&L management and strategic planning. She is also a veteran public speaker with a high profile in the media.
Quite apart from her encompassing tech knowledge, Ms. Bouck specializes in managing fast growth and creating new go-to-market business opportunities. In 2004, Ms. Bouck received a "40 under 40" Award and was named one of the "100 Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley."
- Box, General Manager, Enterprise, and Senior Vice President, Global Marketing
- Galvanize, Advisor
- Box Enterprise, General Manager
- EMC, Chief Marketing Officer, Information Intelligence Group
- EMC Software, Vice President, Strategic Marketing
- Documentum, Vice President and General Manager
- Documentum, Inc., Vice President, Worldwide Product Marketing
- Documentum, Inc., Director, Worldwide Product Marketing
- Sybase, Senior Analyst, Support Engineering
- Oracle, Senior Technical Analyst
- AIIM, Board of Directors
- EMC Women's Leadership Forum, Executive Sponsor
- Claremont McKenna College, B.A., PPE
- University of Buckingham, PPE
Steve Grove
Mr. Grove is currently the Head of Community Partnerships for G+ at Google. He paved the way for integration of politics into mainstream social media, as the Head of News and Politics at YouTube. While at YouTube, he was responsible for the development of news and political content strategy programming. He developed YouTube Direct, a website that gave news organizations access to YouTube's archive of citizen-generated news clips. He also created CitizenTube, a YouTube channel that highlights news clips generated by individuals in the wake of breaking news.
- Google, Head of Community Partnerships
- YouTube, Head of News and Politics
- ABC News, Reporter
- Boston Globe, Correspondent
- Harvard University, M.A., Public Policy
- Claremont McKenna College, B.A.
Jon Kirchner
Mr. Kirchner currently serves as Chairman and CEO of DTS, the leader in high-definition audio technology. Since joining DTS in 1993, he has led DTS from a small startup to a globally-recognized brand and a leader in audio enhancement and delivery technology for movies, music, and video games. Today DTS technologies have been licensed into hundreds of millions of consumer electronics, mobile, automotive, and PC products worldwide. During his tenure, Mr. Kirchner has served in a variety of senior leadership roles, including President, COO, CFO, and Vice President of Finance & Business Development. Previously, he worked for the Dispute Analysis and Corporate Recovery and Audit Groups of international accounting firm Price Waterhouse LLP (now PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP). While at Price Waterhouse, he advised clients on a range of finance, strategy and operations issues.
- DTS, Inc., Chairman and CEO
- Price Waterhouse LLP, Dispute and Corporate Recovery
- Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), Chapter Chairman
- YPO Santa Monica Bay Charitable Foundation, Chairman
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- State of California, Certified Public Accountant
- Claremont McKenna College, B.A., Economics
Jonathan Joseph Rosenberg
Mr. Rosenberg is advisor to Google CEO Larry Page and former Senior Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for Google. The industry veteran led the teams that manage Google's innovative product portfolio and go-to-market strategies, overseeing the development, improvement, and customer acceptance of all of Google's products, from consumer offerings to business services. He directed the teams with a special focus on delivering exceptional user experiences, continuous innovation, and highly relevant, accountable, and non-traditional marketing.
- Google, Senior Vice President - Product Management and Marketing
- Excite@Home, Senior Vice President of Products and Services
- Apple Computer, Inc., Executive Producer
- eWorld Services, Product Line Manager
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Francisco Varela
Mr. Varela leads YouTube's partnerships with mobile and consumer electronics manufacturers, telecommunications carriers, game consoles and publishers, infrastructure providers, and live streaming content providers. Mr. Varela's team is responsible for YouTube's global partnerships with companies such as Vodafone, AEG, Samsung, Sony, Electronic Arts, Verizon, and DoCoMo. Prior to joining YouTube, Mr. Varela held the position of Legal Director for mobile software company Openwave Systems in London, where he oversaw support for Openwave's regional sales efforts, litigation and corporate acquisitions. Mr. Varela also spent five years as International Counsel for Yahoo! Inc., where he worked on Yahoo!'s strategic alliances and acquisitions, including Yahoo!'s mobile efforts with companies such as TeliaSonera and sponsorship of the FIFA World Cup.
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*Beta Review* — It needs to be clearly stated that Gun Bros is currently in beta and so hopefully the issues with it will be fixed before going live. The good news is that GB is a lot of fun. Based around a classic power-up scrolling shooter (think Chaos Engine or Alien Breed), with the required big, fat...


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Department of Fish and Game to hold youth archery clinicBy: George deVilbiss/Special to Gold Country News Service
The Department of Fish and Game will hold an archery clinic for young shooters who want to learn a new skill and enjoy the great out-of-doors.
The clinic will be held Saturday, Oct. 27, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the El Dorado Hills Bowmen Archery Club, 3321 El Dorado Hills Blvd., in El Dorado Hills.
Only 45 participants will be allowed, and the minimum age is 8. All participants must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
The class will include instruction in basic archery form, safety, equipment choices and the fun part — hands-on shooting on a professional range. There will be plenty of bull's-eye targets, and in keeping with the harvest spirit, pumpkin targets also will be used.
The clinic fee is $15, which includes brunch, snacks, equipment, range use and instruction. Attending adults are included in the brunch at no additional cost.
Pre-registration is required. For information, contact Lesa Johnston at (916) 322-8933 or email@example.com. Register online at www.dfg.ca.gov/yo.
Pig hunts offered at Bobcat Ranch in Yolo County
Just west of Williams, maybe an hour up Interstate 5, is the Bobcat Ranch in Yolo County's Vaca Mountain foothills.
Hunting is conducted under the SHARE Program. It helps achieve the ranch's long-term conservation management objectives, including providing public hunting opportunities and controlling the wild pig population.
A total of 64 hunters will be selected to hunt pigs. There will be eight two-day hunts from Nov. 5 to Dec. 3, each hunter may bring a non-hunting partner, and one permit is good for two hunters.
Any hunter with a valid California hunting license may apply through the Automated License Data System, and you can apply for each hunt. There is a $10 non-refundable application fee for each hunt choice.
To apply, visit the DFG's Web site at www.dfg.ca.gov/licensing/ols/.
Current fishing
Summer officially has ended, but the notice apparently hasn't reached Mother Nature, as the weather remains warm. But slowly, water temperatures are beginning to drop and hopefully, there soon will be clouds in the sky and rain and snow will fall.
Lake Pardee: It's the final month of fishing at the lake, which will close when the sun sets on Sunday, Nov. 4, not to reopen until February 2013. In the meantime, trout plants continue, and for those with boats, the catching remains good. Trollers are working the river arm around Twin Coves, Deer Island, Indian Head Rock and all the way up to Columbia Gulch. The southern end of the lake is still doing well, too. Not all the kokanee have turned to spawning-mode red with hooked jaws, and keepers are being found 75-110 feet down. The best trout trolling is around the dam and spillway regions at the southern end where the water has cooled more than other parts of the lake. The 'bows are down 40-60 feet.
Fishing from shore isn't unheard of. You'll find little competition anywhere you can walk to, and some shore casters actually are doing quite well. Those fishing Woodpile have found a good bite, and even right at the boat ramp there's been a decent bite. Just know for shore fishing, you need to get an early start.
Lake Amador: Lake officials haven't begun planting their homegrown Donaldson strain of rainbow-cutthroats. The fish are still in tanks getting nothing but bigger. They'll start the winter planting program once the first rains fall and the water temperature cools. In the meantime, the action is bass with nearly zero fishing pressure. The action has been downright good with bucketmouths running two to five pounds.
Folsom Lake: Few are trying, but you can troll the main river channel from Brown's Ravine to the dam and get into a trout-salmon bite. Weekenders are still visiting the lake in enough numbers to roil the water, so weekday fishing will be much better — and quieter. You still need downriggers to get down as much as 65 feet. Haul something like a small Speedy Shiner and you should get bit. Bass action is slow, but make enough casts over rocky points and rock piles and you can get bit.
Lake Oroville: It doesn't seem that long ago that the water level was at the highest point possible and in the trees. Now, there's considerable brown shoreline showing with the lake now under 60 percent. The one good aspect of lower water is it will concentrate the bass into smaller areas, and right now, the catching is great. Try the North Fork, and almost anything you throw at them will get you bit. Drop-shotting worms, crankbaits, jigs and swimbaits works. Crawdad patterns are always good this time of year. Having a 50-fish day is not uncommon.
Rollins Lake: It's a heavily attended lake for water recreationists, but with school in session and the temperature dropping a little, that aspect is reducing. The water hasn't cooled enough for trout fishing to pick up, but those plugging for bass are finding a good bite on spots to three pounds. Cranks and drop-shot no more than 10 feet down.
Ice House Reservoir: The lake is scheduled for a planting of catchable rainbows, which will greatly enhance the fishery. Nights are cooling, and that's affecting the water temperature, so you only need to get down 25 feet to find a bite. A threaded crawler will do the trick, as will a rubber, curly tailed jig.
Local salmon: Rod-bending action from Clarksburg to Verona has been good with many nets dipping into the water to scoop a bright silver King salmon. It's a waiting game, though. Just get your spinner down and be sure to anchor your rod well. More than one rod has been lost overboard by an angler not watching as a salmon slams the spinner. There's nothing you can do about it, but there's a sea lion or two ranging around looking for an easy meal, and the big critters are known for taking a major part of the fish off the hook with a big bite. As one angler found out last year, you can't shoot — or otherwise even harass — a sea lion.
Contact George deVilbiss at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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May 2, 2016
Hyde County Commissioners are hosting a public hearing this week about a proposed sales tax increase that officials say the citizens are asking for.
The proposal is to increase the sales tax by .25-cent, a quarter of a penny. The measure could be voted on during the May primary.
The public hearing on the proposal is at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Government Center in Swan Quarter and at Ocracoke School through the
electronic meeting system.
Several counties have increased their local sales tax rate. The beneficiary is often the public school system.
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Search Swinburne Research Bank
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/55693
- Title
- H alpha regions in FCC046 and FCC207
- Author(s)
- Michielsen, Dolf; De Rijcke, Sven; Dejonghe, Herwig B.; Zeilinger, Werner W.; Hau, G. K. T.
- Abstract
- We present deep Hα+[NII] narrowband imaging of FCC046 and FCC207, two dwarf ellipticals (dEs) in the Fornax Cluster. Although one does not expect much of an interstellar medium (ISM) to be present in dEs, FCC207 shows a central emission region, whereas FCC046 also contains fainter emission regions. The central emission can be explained as photo-ionization by post-AGB stars. Some of the emission clouds in FCC046 are resolved and have diameters of the order of 50-150 pc and Hα luminosities of 1030 W, comparable to supernova remnants (SNRs), pointing to recent star formation. Dwarfs like FCC046 could be the evolutionary link between normal, quiescent dEs and more vigorously starforming blue compact dwarfs (BCDs).
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol. 284, no. 2 (Apr 2003), pp. 635-638
- Publication year
- 2003
- FOR Code(s)
- 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
- Keyword(s)
- Dwarf galaxies; FCC046; FCC207; ISM supernova remnants
- Publisher
- Springer
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- Copyright © 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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Awesome, awesome seminar yesterday. Mitch focused on the handler side of the partnership, and the mental aspects of the game--your psychological prep, reading the tests, working out a strategy, adapting to unexpected events, etc. it was definitely worth the 5 hour drive!
"Breeze" HR Trowsnest Sterre Autumn Breeze Can. SH WCX, Am. MH CCA
"Winter" Can/UKC Ch. Amberwood Winter Wonderland Can. SH WCX CD VCI, Am. SH CD WCX CCA VC, 2007 GRCC Nan Gordon Trophy
"Butch" Sterre Badlands Outlaw JH WC I(Ch ptd)/Am JH 2013 Nan Gordon Trophy
"Bonnie" Sterre Texas Bluebonnet JH WCI, Am JH
"Wings" Sterre Widgeon on the Wing
"Chrissy" Halfmoon Embellishment (Cavalier)
"Juniper" Amberwood Northern Exposure CD RNCL (Apr15/02-Feb12/13)
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I would love to go to one of Mitch's seminar's. He was one of the judges at National for the SH test, and I really enjoyed him. Especially after he had some very nice things to say about Tito !
CH Rosewood Little Giant, UDX VER RA MHU SH MXP MJP MFP T2BP DJ VCX WCX CCA CGC FFX-OG (born 3-10-2007), also UCH HR UH UUD UJJ URO1 UHIT a.k.a. "Tito" (the Tito Monster)
waiting at the bridge:
My first dog, and my most special girl
Gibson's Golden Girl, CD, CGC, TDI ( 3-20-1997 - 11-22-2013) a.k.a. "Tiny", "Queen B"
and my heart dog
Gibson's Golden Guy, CD, CGC, TDI ( 01-31-1998 - 01-02-2012) a.k.a. "Toby", "HRH"
run free my sweet, sweet loves, I will love you and miss you forever.
Mitch is a terrific guy. I met him when I started running AKC, so he has seen Breeze run from JH right through MH, and was one of the judges on one of her MH passes. A friend and I are making arrangments to get down for a few days of private training with him over the summer--a bit of a training vacation for us. Keep an eye on his website (gamekprs.com) as they will be posting info for their July 4th camp soon. Unfortunately it conflicts with an important test weekend up here for me, which is why we are going to go the private route.
"Breeze" HR Trowsnest Sterre Autumn Breeze Can. SH WCX, Am. MH CCA
"Winter" Can/UKC Ch. Amberwood Winter Wonderland Can. SH WCX CD VCI, Am. SH CD WCX CCA VC, 2007 GRCC Nan Gordon Trophy
"Butch" Sterre Badlands Outlaw JH WC I(Ch ptd)/Am JH 2013 Nan Gordon Trophy
"Bonnie" Sterre Texas Bluebonnet JH WCI, Am JH
"Wings" Sterre Widgeon on the Wing
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DH is hunting Bambi so our hunt training has come to a brief halt. We are just working on obedience for now. Hope hope hope that in spring we can start Rose on more serious hunt training. Until then I will just indulge my eyes with your posts. She has an amazing soft mouth - but she has recently started the keep away game and have to be quite stern and serious for her to bring whatever it is she thinks is valuable back to me. I am so not happy about that.
Rose Bud - Golden Retriever (June 2012)
Darcy Bud - Flat Coated Retriever (June 2009)
Belle Bud - Golden Retriever (December 2014)
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triples and such
I'm certainly no expert, but in our training group with the pro (with all but the most experienced dogs), we would run all the marks as singles before putting it together as a triple. If after that, a dog that had to be handled on any mark, they get to do it again....until they can do it right. Same thing with blinds. On the repeat, they are expected to line the blind. Obviously if they lined it the first time or took a great line with one or two whistles, they don't need to repeat.
And your training partner sounds like they have the identical problem I have with my very talented, very cocky toller. At about age 5 he decided I was only good for driving him to events. It is a CONSTANT battle of the wills. Usually not very pretty. More pressure is not the answer with him. He wants to do it his way, thank you very much. Usually he is right, but when I need him to cooperate with me (give up control, like on a blind)and he would rather not, his behavior is down right irrational. He would rather put up a fight. He spins, gets incredibly agitated, jumps on me. If I'm setting up for a blind and he does this, I just keep walking forward with him carrying on. And then the switch flips and he sits down, locks on and usually runs a nice blind. I tell my friends he needs a psychologist.
I passed zero tests last year (he has a MH and HRCH) because he would not sit on the whistle on blinds (give up control). Sounds like something easy to fix.....or not. I try to manage it and some days are better than others. We do lots of control exercises (he also is working on his UDX), wagon wheels etc where he is very cooperative. Realistically, I doubt he will ever be 'normal' again. The trainer calls him a leaky boat. I 'fix' one problem and something else pops up. Its basically a sit problem which I created.
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We will be pheasant hunting tomorrow. We will alternate working Buffy and Rebel, a Boykin Spaniel.
I just love that pheasant hunting!
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David Welch, Bechtel and Egypt's nuclear program/
I remember reading a while back that David Welch, head of Near Eastern Affairs at the State Department under George W. Bush and former US Ambassador to Cairo, had retired from the Foreign Service for a lucrative perch at Bechtel, the American contracting company. My memory was jogged today reading this post at the Cable (mostly about delays in the confirmation of Jeffrey Feltman, Welch's successor as Head of NEA):Read More
His predecessor as assistant secretary of NEA, David Welch, retired from the State Department in December to join Bechtel as vice president for Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Southwest Asia. Bechtel is part of an Egyptian-led joint venture that has contracts to design and build power plants in Libya.This led me to wonder whether Welch's appointment at Bechtel had anything to do with the surprising Egyptian decision to drop Bechtel as the lead contractor for its civilian nuclear power program -- an important and potentially immensely lucrative contract, since Bechtel would have recommended which firms should get further contracts for the construction of the power plant and other infrastructure. Welch, after all, was not appreciated by official Egypt due to his outspokenness on various issues, from anti-semitism in Egyptian media to meeting with opposition leaders. (Although I dislike Welch's politics and apparent full agreement with GWB policies, I think his behavior as ambassador was quite effective -- the current ambassador, Margaret Scobey, could learn something from his forthrightness). Anyway, this may be pure speculation, but I wonder if there's still bad blood about Welch in Egypt, and what link that may have, if any, with the decision to drop Bechtel.


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For the past two days, potential jurors have been questioned behind closed doors in the trial of Mark Strong, who faces charges that he was a partner in an alleged prostitution business in Kennebunk. But the Maine Supreme Court today ruled that the jury selection process should be public. While that decision was pending, the judge in the case heard various motions on the trial. Patty Wight has this update.
From day one of jury selection - which began on Tuesday - Justice Nancy Mills barred media from observing the process, citing capacity issues in the courtroom, as well as the need for potential jurors to be candid in their answers. The Portland Press Herald protested that decision and ultimately appealed to the Maine Supreme Court to overturn it. The court di so, ruling that the selection proceedings be public.
While waiting for that ruling, Justice Mills heard several motions in the trial against Mark Strong, including a motion to dismiss all 47 counts of invasion of privacy. Client encounters at the alleged prostitution business were videotaped, and Strong's attorney, Dan Lilley, says those clients knowingly engaged in a criminal activity and they should not have a right to privacy in committing a crime.
"Does that mean that if somebody is in a drug deal in an apartment, and somebody happens to be in the position to take a picture of it, that the drug dealer now becomes a victim of invasion of privacy by the picture taker?" he asked. "I can't believe, and I don't think anybody in this room would believe, that the state of Maine would have that as a law on its books."
But Assitant District Attorney Patrick Gordon argued for the state that the Fourth Amendment, which guards citizens against unusual searches and seizures, should be used as a guide in this case.
"Historically, the Fourt Amendment has protected people, whether they are engaged in legal or illegal activities, in places where they can preserve as private," Gordon said.
Justice Mills did not make an immediate decision, saying she would give the motion further consideration. But Mills did make decisions on other motions. Defense attorney Dan Lilley has often talked publicly about the abundant resources the state has used in the case, as well as his client's financial problems due to fallout from the case.
The state asked that these statements be excluded from trial, claiming they have no bearing on the facts of the case. That was granted. But another motion by the state to exclude any mention of Mark Strong's private investigations into the Kennebunk police department was denied. Strong owns an insurance agency and has a side business as a private investigator. His attorney Dan Lilley suggested police may be retaliating against him.
"So the problem is, our client was involved with an investigation against them, they were involved with an investigation against him. They have the power, he got arrested," Lilley said.
With Justice Mills deciding on most of the motions, the outstanding task to complete before opening arguments can begin is jury selection. That will continue Friday - this time, with the media present.


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Mike Maddux Next Cubs Manager
Mike Maddux is my first choice (Ryno aside) as the Cubs next manager, and that has nothing to do with being Mad Dog's brother!
More so, it's the idea that he's an innovative thinker, a successful pitching coach and has the recent experience of back-to-back World Series appearances with the Rangers.
Few things, if any, are more important for a manager than managing his bullpen. Maddux did this well in Milwaukee and then for Ron Washington in Texas, using a level-headed approach and uncanny ability to relate to his pitchers.
There's no reason to believe he couldn't do the same sitting in the manager's seat.
Although the Cubs rotation and bullpen is a bit thin, there's enough talent to compete within the Central in addition to the opportunity to unlock some serious potential with Jeff Samardzija, Andrew Cashner and Chris Carpenter, among others.
Assuming Maddux isn't a miracle worker, the Cubs poor play defensively will remain its biggest weakness and greatly limit the Cubs' success as it did last season.
But once Theo and company finish plugging the fielding holes, Maddux's coaching touch should put his players, and pitchers in particular, in a position to compete for the division title, and perhaps, a deep run in October.
Now all Maddux needs is the chance.


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Study Finds Tablet, E-Book Ownership Soared
Tablets and e-readers were a popular gift over the holidays, so much so that the number of people who own them nearly doubled between mid-December and January, a new study finds. A report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project set to be released Monday found that 29 percent of Americans owned at least one tablet or e-reader as of the beginning of this month. That's up from 18 percent who said the same in December.