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If America's air, water, global warming, and other enviro policies seem to you like they're coming right out of a corporate smokestack, that's because they are.
Bush has not merely put our government in service to polluters and plunderers, he has put it directly into their hands. It's not just a matter of the corporate-hugging, cabinet-level sparklies at the top of Washington's environmental pyramid -- Gale Norton (Interior), Mike Leavitt (EPA), Spencer Abraham (Energy), Ann Veneman (Ag). Rather, the daily dirty work is being done by dozens of industry no-names, trusted lobbyists, and ideological hacks whom Bush has installed in key positions deep inside the innards of the pyramid, where they quietly but zealously are re-engineering the flow of national policy from pure public protection to poisonous private profits.
It's these sub-cabinet policy operatives that actually run government. Meet a Dirty Dozen of them:
1. JAMES CONNAUGHTON, chairman of the president's council on environmental quality. A former lobbyist for utilities, mining, chemical, and other industrial polluters, Connaughton, represented the likes of General Electric and ARCO in their effort to escape responsibility for cleaning up toxic Superfund sites. Now he heads up pollution-policy development for the administration and coordinates its implementation. He has led the charge to weaken the standards of getting arsenic out of our drinking water, and he has steadily advised Bush to ignore, divert, stall, dismiss, and otherwise block out all calls for action against the industrial causes of global warming.
2. JOHN D. GRAHAM, administrator of regulatory affairs in the White House budget office. Graham is the de facto boss of all regulatory programs for the entire government -- any change in enviro rules must pass through his strangling hands. An avowed enemy of pollution regulations, he previously headed a quasi-academic front group that consistently issued reports claiming that environmental protections are too costly for industry -- not a surprising stance since he and his "risk-assessment" center were financed by more than 100 corporate entities, including the American Petroleum Institute, Dow, Dupont, Exxon, Monsanto, and 3M.
3. J. STEVEN GRILES, deputy secretary of the Interior Department. A disciple of the infamous James Watt, for whom he worked in the Reagan years, Griles went on to be a lobbyist for the National Mining Association, Edison Electric, Chevron, Occidental Petroleum, and other energy giants. Appointed the overseer of America's 500 million acres of public lands, Griles was hailed by the NMA as "an ally of the industry," and the mining association welcomed him as "a breath of fresh air" -- for polluters, of course, not for us air breathers! Even though he is a public official now, he still draws $284,000 a year from his former lobbying firm, which represents corporations he supposedly regulates. Also, he has continued to meet behind closed doors with his former (and perhaps future) industry clients. The inspector general is investigating him for the blatant conflicts of interest posed by these meetings, which he had pledged to avoid in a "recusal agreement" he signed to get his government job.
4. JEFFREY HOLMSTEAD, assistant EPA administrator for air quality. Previously a lobbyist with the firm of Latham & Watkins, Holmstead represented electric utilities trying to fight air pollution restrictions, and he represented the Farm Bureau conglomerate in its fights against pesticide controls. Now inside, he's a key player pushing Bush's Clear Skies initiative, which will allow a 520 percent increase in toxic mercury pollution, a 225 percent jump in carbon dioxide pollution (a global warming contaminant), and a delay in the enforcement of smog and soot pollution until 2016. In charge of writing a new rule to limit mercury poisoning of children by electric power plants, Holmstead embraced a watered-down rule that essentially was written by his old lobbying firm of Latham & Watkins.
5. WILLIAM HORN, chairman of the fish and wildlife commission. In charge of charting policies governing America's priceless National Wildlife Refuge System, Horn's background is not as wildlife protector, but as a corporate lobbyist representing interests wanting to exploit our public refuges for their profit. He has lobbied for Florida Power & Light, Yukon Pacific Corporation (which wants to build a gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope to the port of Valdez, then export the gas to Asia), and the Nuclear Energy Institute. For a hint about his attitude toward preserving pristine wildlife areas, note that he has been the lead attorney for such outfits as the International Snowmobile Manufacturers Association, New Jersey Beach Buggy Association, and Sun Valley HeliSki company.
6. WILLIAM G. MYERS III, solicitor of the Interior Department. The government's top lawyer for cases involving exploitation of our public lands by mining and agribusiness corporations, Myers previously was a lawyer and lobbyist representing mining and agribusiness corporations. At interior, he has pushed for new rules to allow more cattle grazing, to limit endangered species protections, to require fewer environmental impact statements for the lands under his stewardship, and to open public lands in five Western States to oil drilling. Myers is under investigation by ethics officials for meeting with his former corporate clients, despite having signed a conflict-of-interest agreement to avoid such contacts. Meanwhile, George W has nominated this possible law violator to be a federal appeals judge.
7. BENNETT RALEY, assistant interior secretary for water. A longtime, extremist "corporate rights" advocate who previously lobbied to kill our nation's Clean Water Act, Raley now is the top official in charge of water issues at the interior department. In 2002, he teamed up with Karl Rove in a flagrant political maneuver to provide extra water for agribusiness from a federal water project in eastern Washington, even though agency scientists warned that this would be disastrous for wild salmon under federal protections in the Klamath River. Career agency professionals were forced to bow to White House political pressure, and thousands of fish died. When responsible officials tried to divert some of the Klamath basin water back to the endangered salmon populations, Raley again waved in Rove to apply top-heavy political pressure and back them off.
8. MARK REY, Agriculture Department undersecretary for natural resources. Rey, who now is caretaker of America's 156 national forests, has spent his entire career as a timber industry lobbyist and congressional staffer hell-bent on fattening industry profits by letting corporations clear-cut the public's trees. He headed the American Forest and Paper Association, the leading proponent of logging our national forests, prior to becoming a senate staffer and authoring an infamous 1995 act that suspended all environmental laws to give the green light for corporations to clear cut old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. He also wrote a bill that would have eliminated local citizen committees that oversee timber harvests. As forest chief, Rey has been the key force behind Bush's "Healthy Forests" scam that would allow nearly unlimited clear-cutting in pristine national forests.
9. THOMAS SANSONETTI, assistant attorney general for environment and natural resources. Now the public's lead lawyer for defending our environmental protection programs in court, Sansonetti is a Republican Party political operative and a lobbyist from Wyoming who represented coal companies and other energy corporations in their efforts to undermine these same environmental protections. He previously was chief lawyer for the Republican National Committee, and, as a lobbyist, he pushed in Washington to let each coal company increase its mining on federal lands by one-third. Another of the far-right corporatists that Bush has put in charge of the machinery of government, Sansonetti, is a proud member of the government-hating, laissez-faire Federalist Society, which is amply funded by ultra-conservative, corporate foundations.
10. PATRICIA LYNN SCARLETT, assistant interior secretary for policy. This overseer of overall policy affecting our nation's public resources is no fan of the public even holding resources and doesn't like regulation of private efforts to exploit the public's resources. She has written that "environmentalism is a coherent philosophy that rivals Marxism." Most of Scarlett's career has been spent with the Reason Foundation, a think tank that vigorously opposes government regulations and is funded by such corporations as Chevron, Dow, Enron, ExxonMobil, Phillip Morris, and Shell Oil, as well as by the American Petroleum Institute, American Plastics Council, and American Chemistry Council.
11. CARMEN TOOHEY, special interior assistant for Alaska. Cam, as he is known, is Gale Norton's handpicked aid to oversee environmental policies affecting the vast federal landholdings in our nation's largest state. For the Bushites, policy priority Number One in Alaska is, of course, to turn loose their oil buddies to build roads, move in drilling rigs, and extend pipelines across the majestic Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Cam is well-versed on this priority and completely in tune with it, for he comes to his government job from having led Arctic Power, a lobbying group supporting corporate interests that want to open our public refuge to their private profit schemes.
12. REBECCA WATSON, assistant interior secretary for land and minerals. Directing the Bureau of Land Management, Watson is responsible for the rules and fees for gold mining companies, drillers, and other corporations wanting to profit on the wealth of minerals and other public resources within our federal lands. Her qualifications for the job are not as a public defender, but as a Montana lawyer representing mining and logging corporations that either wanted unfettered access to these public treasures or that didn't want to pay for the environmental damage done by their exploitative procedures. Watson has represented Golden Sunlight Mines, Fidelity Exploration, Plum Creek Timber, and other companies regulated by the agency she now heads. She also worked on the litigation committee of the right-wing Mountain States Legal Foundation, a litigious, corporate-funded group of legal activists that tries to run over any environmental protection that pinches even a dime's worth of ill-gotten corporate profits.
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Easy test- play a game rated 8 or better from this year. Now play a game rated 8 or better from 2009. Even playing games in the between years you can see the steady increase.
I'm not sure if they're really getting better or not...I actually enjoy a lot of older NES/SNES era games just as much if not more than modern games, because those classic, simple games don't rely on eye popping graphics and overblown cinematics.
I guess it all really comes down to opinion and what you want and expect out of a game. Personally I feel like gaming needs to completely push for a digital out look. Instead of trying to make us pay $60 for the exact game we got last year (examples, Call of Duty, Madden, 2K) they actually give us what we pay for. So if you're asking me if the gaming CONTENT and QUALITY OF GAMES are getting better I'd say no...aside from the graphics.
Well, they sort of should be. Graphics get better, developers get more familiar with the hardware, and they can try more ambitious stuff or add that extra layer of polish.
While physics and graphics have improved, controls have tightened and gameplay is smoother, games have lost most of their imagination and individuality. Nearly every game is a 3rd or FPS with similar gameplay, the same bloated story with long cutscenes and Nathan Drake looking protagonists. Also due to the rapidly increasing cost to produce games, developers can't really take risks. The majority of games are focus group friendly and suffer greatly because of it. A lot of the issues are unavoidable because the videogame industry is no longer a niche market. The more money there is to be made, the less artistic games will be. At least there is Fallout but I fear that soon will have generic, mindless, FPS gameplay. After typing this, I realized I should definitely play more PSN games.
Yup. They're going to keep getting better too until the next consoles arrive. There will be a brief plateau until the next rise. If people complain about how long this generation has been, just wait until the next one. A lot of new gamers will only ever know one console generation and a generation of gamers will become more and more defined by a single console as time goes on...
oh 1 more thing , games r being more realistic, i dont think that good thing to me cuz i love imaginary games ..and that was my problem with red dead redemption (my opinion) but uncharted was both realistic and imaginary
This gen started out awesome. Then 2 things happened at it quickly went to shit: The Wii and CoD 4: Modern Warfare. You could almost HEAR the industry shift gears. Now you got games like Killzone passing on stuff people want, online campaign co-op, because their too busy working on motion controls. And now Resident Evil is a co op military shooter...dafuq?
I guess.. Probably because they're obviously getting except that there are plenty of untouched oldschool classics.
Batman Arkham City is better than Asylum. 2nd Infamous is way better than the 1st one. Same goes with Uncharted...so yeah there is plenty of games that get better this generation.
They were... then they just decided to make a series out of every fucking game that came out. So they decided to bust out the same game every year/every two years. Honestly, the only games that seem to be groundbreaking in the most part are Indie Games or games with a lower budget than ones that get millions of dollars behind them.
Really? Like what? Angry birds?... I know there are some cool small budget games out there but being inventive is not enough some times. Novelty doesn't last too long you need FUN factor too.
Angry Birds? Really? Fuck Angry Birds. Isn't being Initiative what matters when you make a game? Especially when you are an Indie Developer? You want to stand out from everything else. Novelty and fun can be considered the same thing with games.
Yeah it can, but usually those so called "inventive" indie games are fun for just a little while. Take flower for example, cool idea, fun for some time but it's not something I gonna think about playing when I'm on my way home from work.
And that's your opinion, we are all allowed to have one. I on the other hand think differently than that and think about Flower and would play it when I get home.
For me I think gaming hit a plateau in 2011 or 2012 and it's been slowly going downhill from there. Everything just feels stale and recycled this year to me across the board from handhelds to pc to ps3 to nintendo, it doesnt seem to matter, it all seems so uninspired. I don't think it's really going to change until we get the next consoles, Im looking forward to the next gen more than I've been looking forward to anything since the n64 and the start of 3d gaming, I feel starved. It's kinda funny really that Nintendo has this chance with the wii U to run the race solo for several laps, not being able to lose practically, and it's like they tied their own shoes together and they're rolling around on the ground as the whole stadium 'LOL's.. suppose they have tons of time to fix it though.
Actually, I think that while graphically and technically they are improving, for the most part games seem to be losing depth and overall quality. I mean, compare LOZ: Wind Waker to Skyward Sword for instance, or RE:4 to RE:5, Devil May Cry 3 to DMC4, Morrowind to Skyrim, etc.
Which games did you enjoy from 2011 and 2012 then? Was there any games you really enjoyed and thought: "Damn this is special/original/inspired!"?
Uncharted got nice imagination because the places u find and the puzzles r nice and need good imagination , RDR was pretty normal i mean yes there is nice places in the game but its not as nice as the ones in uncharted , though RDR is a very good game
A few years ago I was playing my PS3 every day for a couple of hours. Now I haven't played a game in a week or two. There's nothing these days but sequels and shooters and sequels of shooters - everything's run through marketing departments and focus groups to ensure the most bland and ordinary experience possible. It used to be that video games took you to weird and exciting places. It was really cool to play them. Now video games just take you to the exact same place to do the exact same thing that you've seen and done 20 times before. Imagination is completely dead.
open world games can be imaginary , am just sayin' , and yes in general any game can compared with another game ( my opinion)
Far Cry 3, Last Of Us are to two games that I look forward to bringing something a little new to table. I will agree though that we are seeing more sequels than games taking chances and more shooters something different. But most sequels are better made games and I still like shooters.
Some of my favourite games from this generation are: Rayman Origins - I know it was a known formula, but it looks and plays so great. A beautiful game that is amazing to play with friends, family, partners or whatever. I also loved Uncharted 2, God of War 3 and Heavy Rain. As djdue I'm also looking forward to Far Cry 3 and Last Of Us, needless to say I love Naughty Dog's games.
Imagination isn't exactly dead, it just doesn't have the tendency to sell in lagre numbers in retail. Most of the imaginative games you can find in the downloadable space or on a PC. Those platforms kind of allow for people to get away with trying to be imaginative since the financial risk there isn't so big. For sure though, the big games getting all the advertising time and being popular at retail aren't usually what you would call extremely creative. It's kind of weird because there is a lot of creative games out there right now, but it's like no one knows that they even exist.
I completely agree. You can easily find some good creative games out there, at least imo. I personally really liked Sound Shapes, which is quite different, though just a sidescrolling platformer.
So you actually favor one of the most botched games ever conceived over what is irrefutably the greatest comic book/licensed game of all time?

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Forrester is conducting a deep dive into dynamic case management usage by interviewing 50 companies implementing these solutions and evaluating 10 dynamic case management (DCM) platforms for an upcoming Forrester Wave. Enterprises are using DCM solutions to tackle untamed processes that service a myriad of customer and citizen requests, automate and track "incidents" related to investigations, and meet new compliance demands from a growing number of ever-more-scrupulous regulators. And with an eye to the future, business process professionals report that DCM offers great potential to align process outcomes with organizational goals, leverage unique expertise of I-workers, and improve agility for case workers, business managers, and IT.
But one aspect of this is interesting in the way DCM may change existing management approaches. The new generation of case management platforms allow for more rapid change by the case worker, business process pros, and IT. But this ability only matters if aligned with organizational agility, i.e., allows rules, such as dollar approval limits, to be approved by management in the same time frame. Approving a new rule or wording change in a communication can take weeks at some enterprises today. So management will have to decentralize decision-making to the case worker.
Further and more transformational, the less structured and scripted a business process' workflow is, the more important goals become to drive activity. Business process pros see goal definition and measurement, a focus of performance management approaches like Six Sigma and Balanced Scorecard, as increasingly important to how untamed processes should execute. Dynamic case management solutions such as IBM Case Manager, EMC XCP, PegaSystems, Global 360, Singularity, Appian, ISIS, and others reviewed by Forrester provide the capability to tie strategic goals to process execution through advanced SLA, monitoring, reporting, and greatly improved analytics. This means that metrics will guide behavior more than traditional management approaches. So do we need less managers? I think so, and in the end, if DCM fulfills its promise, we will see a gradual decline in the relevance of middle management and more flexibility to the I-worker to execute outside the traditional office — and without looking over their shoulder. And how good is that?
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Harper hits two homers, Nats beat Marlins
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Flyers tie Caps in final seconds, win in OT
Marcus Johansson and Alex Ovechkin scored power-play goals 26 seconds apart in the third period to give the Capitals a 4-2 lead. But the Flyers got the tying goal with 9.5 seconds left in regulation and scored 1:34 into overtime to beat the Caps 5-4.
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High-flying FGCU Eagles grounded by Gators
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Play Ball: Nats ready for Opening Day
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ClassicsOnline Home » GILELS, Emil: Early Recordings, Vol. 2 (1937-1954) > Review List
These recordings were made in the USSR and come from the first stage of Emil Gilels's career. Although he was strongly identified with Russian repertoire, this disc presents several rarities. As performances of Medtner's music were forbidden in the USSR until after Stalin's death, Gilels, who was an ardent champion of the composer's music, was unable to record the G minor Piano Sonata until 1954. No less valuable are the recordings of Glazunov's and Prokofiev's Second Piano Sonatas which, like Rachmaninov's music, were rarely included in Gilels's concert programmes.


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by Geoffrey Ciani - This weeks edition of On the Ropes Boxing Radio featured an exclusive interview with Hall of Fame boxing trainer Emanuel Steward, who is currently training Miguel Cotto for his June 5 fight against WBA junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman. Steward is also currently working with unified heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and middleweight contender Andy Lee, who scored a second round technical knockout against Mamadou Thiam last weekend. Here is what Emanuel had to say on a variety of subjects: On how long before he believes Andy Lee will be ready to face an elite level middleweight: Believe it or not I have a meeting this week with someone actually related to Pound for Pound fights, so maybe within the next six monthsa world title fight. Hes ready for a title fight its just that its been so hard to get a major fight with anybody. Even the fight with (Brian) Vera, it was a very tough fight. A good fight, he was ahead on the points, scored a knockdown, and just went all out trying to finish the guy got exhausted himself. So it wasnt like he was dominated or beaten up soundly or whatever. It was a good fight and its been very difficult to get quality fights, to be honest with you, in the whole middleweight division today. Its very bad. Its probably about the least attractive of all the major divisions right now. (Kelly) Pavlik is gone, (Arthur) Abraham is gone, and we got a new champion and I dont know what hes going to dowhether (Sergio) Martinez is going to stay at middleweight or junior middleweight. He might fight as a junior middleweight because thats where it seems the money is with the junior middleweights and the welterweights. In this division I told him (Lee) he could possibly be a star if he could get a title fight..
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- Effectiveness of second-generation antipsychotics in patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia: a review and meta-analysis of randomized trialsM Chakos
Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, CB7160, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7160, USA
Am J Psychiatry 158:518-26. 2001..The authors conducted a review and meta-analysis of studies that compared the efficacy and tolerability of typical and second-generation antipsychotics for patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia... - Predictors of relapse following response from a first episode of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorderD Robinson
Department of Psychiatry, Hillside Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 56:241-7. 1999..We examined relapse after response to a first episode of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder... - Longitudinal study of brain morphology in first episode schizophreniaJ Lieberman
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Biol Psychiatry 49:487-99. 2001..There is also a need to control for treatment effects of typical antipsychotic medication on brain structure... - IQ scores of treatment-resistant schizophrenia patients before and after the onset of the illnessB B Sheitman
Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Schizophr Res 46:203-7. 2000..807, P < 0.0001), while duration of illness (10-40 years) was unrelated to the magnitude of IQ score decline (r = -0.103, P = 0.575). These data suggest that pre-morbid IQ test scores are highly predictive of post-morbid scores... - The early stages of schizophrenia: speculations on pathogenesis, pathophysiology, and therapeutic approachesJ A Lieberman
Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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A portable elastomeric bladder-powered infusor for dispensing drug in liquid form under pressure at a predetermined flow rate is disclosed. The main elements of the infusor are a tubular housing, a plug/flow control assembly fixed in one end of the bladder, an axially slidable piston/filling port assembly within the housing, and a tubular bladder. The plug and piston assemblies each has an axial post about which the bladder ends are attached. When the bladder is not charged with drug, the posts fill the bladder's lumen and their ends abut. Drug is charged to the infusor by inserting a drug-filled syringe into the open end of the housing with the syringe's needle entering an axial bore in the piston, penetrating a septum that blocks the bore, and extending into the axial post. The force exerted on the piston by the syringe is transmitted to the fixed plug assembly via the axial posts. Drug is plunged from the syringe causing the posts to separate and the bladder to expand axially and radially. Once the bladder is filled, the syringe is withdrawn, with the septum sealing itself. The drug is dispensed from the bladder via the plug/flow control assembly and a conduit that is connected to that assembly and extends to the infusion site.
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Private is known for casting some of the world's most beautiful and exotic women in their productions. Set during a casting call in Budapest, Private Sex Auditions gives viewers a glimpse of director Toni Ribas' auditioning process through this candid release.
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Yeah, yeah... I know I know. So, you've seen this already??? F*** IT! It's FUNNY AS SH**!!! So F*** YOU!!! Today he didn't even have to use his AK... I gotta say it was a good day... on the lake. [Notice the half eaten piece of cake on the table in front of Cube... NOW DATS GANGSTA!]


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Welcome to UCSC's Genome Technology Center
The ability to dynamically measure gene and protein expression as well as signaling at the single cell level is key to understanding single cell behavior in a complex environment. Tissue architecture and function rely on cell-cell physical interactions and chemical crosstalk. Individual cells, acting in concert, control normal physiology as well as pathological states in disease processes. There is now a strong body of evidence for cancer initiation and progression being driven at a large extent by structural and signaling alterations in various cell types that make up the tissue. Therefore, there is an important need for a technology that interrogates tissues at the single cell level. Pourmand's team's focus is to understand how single cell heterogeneity contributes to two pivotal processes in malignancy. Pourmand;s team developing assays and tools to reliably amplify RNA and DNA from a siingle cell for further analysis.
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How can departments find out about parking tickets?? They don't show up on my state criminal background or drivers record?
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How can departments find out about parking tickets?? They don't show up on my state criminal background or drivers record?
Quit posting new threads and just repost your questions in the same thread
Originally Posted by jobdreamer
is there anyway that I can check my personal NCIC and ACIC?
Are polygraphs really that common these days in the hiring process?
What are the official background records that fire depts use during hiring processes?for ex: how can they find parking tickets when those dont even show up on my criminal background?
Has anyone had any experience or stories about hiring or getting hired with a OWI on the driving record in Wisconsin?
Are you hiding something? Is there some other criminal offense in your background that you're worried about?Quote:
3 years ago I got the dreaded OWI. During this time I was in my Fire Science Associates degree. I have been nothing but discouraged throughout the remainder of my schooling regarding firefighting...
Why on earth would you be asking questions about a polygraph test...unless you've really got something to hide?
My opinion? Based on your questions....and the whole tenor of them...it leads me to conclude you are not a good candidate for the fire service. You've thrown up a huge RED FLAG with your pattern of inquiries.
Good luck....but don't count on getting hired.
I have to agree with the other guys that are asking the same questions.
What are you trying to hide?? :rolleyes:
Any one with so much trouble in their past has a very little chance of getting hired by any fire department. In others words, son, you just have too much past history for any one to allow you in the door and hire you.
You smoke weed, we don't want you. You have DUI's, we don't want you. You loose you operators license, we don't want you. Should you do any of these while being a member of a department automatic dismissal!!! No recourse for you.
You need to be as clean as a pin to get hired by most departments. :D
And another thing, several of the posters have said this and so will I, Stop starting new threads. It is a waste of your time and ours having to go from this one to all the others to read a different question. Put all the questions in the same thread. Thank you.
I heard that for background checks, they do a search of internet firefighting forums to see what you've been doing and saying there. If this is true, you're probably toast now.
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I was gonna say that, and started typing it, but after I read it, it just didn't sound right. Anyway, thanks for picking my brain:D