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Less than an hour ago, around 5 am on July 16, 2012, I found my sweet Ollie Vern in his bed. His life had left him. Born on December 1, 2000.
My focus and energy during the last 50 minutes was dealing with moving what Ollie left behind, his body. This was a difficult task as his legs had stiffened, and he was a heavy boy, somewhere between 80 and 90 pounds. I don't know how I did it, except with a towel to drape over his head and his sleeping blanket underneath him, but I managed to pull in through the house, getting around a couple of tight corners, and out through the front door onto the stoop.
Being so early in the morning, the neighborhood was still dark. I wanted to remove Ollie's body without the audience of passers by, so I had pulled my truck up to the door stoop, after first backing into the corner of the fence in the front yard. I do have a walking ramp for my dogs, due to their age, and their need for help getting into the truck. I was dearly thankful for that ramp this morning. Without it, I couldn't have lifted Ollie's body into the truck.
I put a white flannel sheet in the back and stepped inside to pull his body onto it. There I covered him completely, opened the side windows and closed the back, and reparked the truck in the carport. I will call the crematory when they open and finish the ritual I've gone through too many times before.
The ritual, this time, was slightly different. Ollie was the first dog in my long life to have let himself go without the necessity of a veterinarian's intervention. After relocating the body, I suddenly faced the fact that my Ollie was gone. When I stepped into the house, that's when I was faced with what happened and streams of tears came flowing out.
I can say before that moment, this was a less emotional ritual than every pet in my past. From making the phone call to the vet to leaving the office with the pet's body, that process is wraught with tears and pain. Finding Ollie's body was indeed traumatic, but his passing in his bed, peacefully and at an age that perhaps I would expect, contributed no extra stress to the process of death. This is where I can go directly to grieving. Ollie was a special mann. He caused me no trouble, and offered me years of laughter, companionship, and love. I hope I did the same for him.
As in life and in death, Ollie has always been very little work. The fact that he laid down and peacefully left was just how Oliver would have it. He was the kind of fellow who would say, "Don't worry about me. I'm fine."
There were only two times, really, when he was a challenge. When I was out in the yard, he was like a big baby. Ten years of being a big baby, he would cry loudly in the house. Loudly enough that I could hear him far into the back yard. This fine example was from last week while I was training Luigi, you can hear him at the end of the clip when I start talking. Ollie could have been an opera singer.
So many times I would bring Ollie into the yard with me when I did yard work. He was the only of my dogs who would lie down in a spot, either a hole he dug or a shady spot, and relax. I could open the gates of the no-dog area and work on the plants there, and he wouldn't bother to enter. He was my yard-work buddy. Yard work without him will be very lonely.
His second challenge was playing with toys. Once Ollie got a toy, he would keep it, especially if I were playing fetch with Luigi.
Luigi and Ollie were ball playing buddies from the get go. Luigi plays fetch and Ollie played keep away. I suspect Ollie had some Lab in him, though I will always insist he was 100% Dobermann with a little something extra. The reason for the Lab is I've seen other photos of Labs stuffing their mouths with toys. Ollie, too, was a toy stuffer.
Ollie had been raised in a veterinarian's office, boarded for the first year of his life. The people who owned him were Canadians and boarded him and a GSD there while in Canada. They then decided they didn't want him or the GSD after paying boarding fees for both dogs, so the vet called rescue. When I first brought Ollie home, he would turn in circles, as in spinning, and bump into furniture and the walls. Spinning was what he could do in his kennel to occupy his time, and to the last day, when he saw a squirrel, Ollie would spin. But he also expanded his spin to running in bigger circles in the back yard. Small spin first, then run in the circle. That is another of Oliver's job duties that will not go unforgotten. He was the head squirrel alerter. When squirrels ran across the telephone wires, Ollie was the one to alert with his deep, resonating Oliver bark.
Ollie was my second Dobermann. My first, Baby, loved Ollie. Baby was particular about who she played with, and Ollie was one of the few of her playmates. When I wanted to get Baby a playmate, I went to rescue, and several months into the search, in 2001 I adopted Oliver. It was on December 6, exactly. My rescue friends and I joke that as I drove up to the house, they ran out with Ollie, shoved him in the front seat and shooed me on. The joke was solely because Ollie, as previously mentioned, his Doberness may have had something extra in it. Whatever Ollie was made of, he has been a very special part of my life, and I am sure Baby was waiting to meet her good friend early this morning when he passed onto the Rainbow Bridge.
Oliver you were my very special buddy. Until we meet again, my love, I will honor your memory.
Just over a week ago, my Luigi peed a couple of blood clots first thing in the morning. This was followed by some reddish pee a few minutes after. I knew what that meant. After 7 years, his oxalate crystals were back. I took him to the vet, and after the x-ray, we were told Luigi had a lot of crystals and he needed surgery. I remember saying, "Oh no," and when looking at Luigi, his eyes were so big and pleading. Ugh! He could sense something, and I couldn't stop feeling awful. I had to leave him there overnight, which made things worse for both him and me. I knew I'd been getting more and more lax on his special diet. It's not the food I was making, so much as the dog treats he was getting and shouldn't have been. But it got to be so fun having Luigi back as a "regular" dog and not having to watch everything, including treats, that he ate. That was a mistake on my part, and he is very good at making faces to get me to do the wrong thing. I have to be stronger. Last time he had surgery, he was a much younger dog. I have to admit I wasn't ready for the following 7 days after I picked him up from the hospital.
On the way home, he was still coming out of anesthesia, and was not having a good trip out. He was agitated in the back seat, and I was driving Alligator Alley, and couldn't pull over to soothe him. And I didn't know if he could even be soothed.
I stopped at the next rest stop and found Luigi was wedged between the floor and the seat. Being the state he was in and the fact that I had to find a way to get him out of the truck on my own, I decided to leave him in this position. It worked well. When I got home, I put a dog blanket on the ground and slowly opened the door. He slid out and onto the blanket. Lucky me that he was able to get up and walk with some help. I got him in the house and into his ex-pen where he stood for over 24 hours.
That's why his paws swelled. By the next day I could say I was panicking when I saw his big feet. I had to *tell* Luigi to lie down; otherwise, he stood. He was still out of it, glassy-eyed, and not "in there." But when I got his attention and helped him, he laid down. I am sure it was sore. Not only sore, but the pain medicine he was on was underprescribed and he didn't need the lamp shade on either. When I finally got a hold of a vet the following day, Saturday, I was told I could give him twice as much as they prescribed. When she told me that it "may make him sleepy, though," I was thankful. That's what he needed. Sleep and pain relief. And it worked.
He still pees in his sleep and it's been 11 days. But it is a slow heal this time, so I hope he will be able to hold it in as he becomes stronger. Until then, he has to sleep in his padded cell – the ex-pen. That's hard on him and me. He's slept in bed for over 10 years.
The good news is he's already back to bringing me his toys to play fetch with. I ease up our game a lot, so it's a rolly game of fetch, but he's still happy. Luigi's a fetching maniac.
As for my mistake, I am going to watch his diet a lot more closely again. No more dog treats or other foods that aren't on his safe list. I have been following the Fuzzer diet and for all these years it's been working until I got lax and started adding foods that were not on the list. He and I both got into that "eat whatever he wants" feeling. It was fun till it wasn't. And this is so not worth the risk. Lesson learned.
Now onto playing ball!
Winter's over, in fact, down south it never really shows up in the form of snow. But this video just caught my eye, and awesome is awesome anytime of year.


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This is some footage from our last wakeworld dune trip. Most of the crew had left on sunday but my friend (on the kawi with the helmet cam)and I set out on one more ride and found some huge jump into the wind that was pretty fun. IT was 4th pinned on my 450. There are some other clips of jumps and a wipeout. Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt6wJmC86J8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-h_X7oAaWE

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sick, that was huge!!
Awesome. That was big
Thanks for putting those up Chris, awesome!

My go pro should be here soon and can't wait to test it out.

How was New Years?
Sweet Jeebuz that was some great jumpin.!! You all make it look so easy. I still can't ride in sand without looking like a shopping cart being hurled down a hill.
Thanks guys...it was a fun trip especially cause it poured in San Diego the entire trip while we where all enjoying perfect winter dune riding....

Hey Brian did u get the HD version go pro?

New years was fun glamis was packed as usual...new years eve we took the rzr to olds and sat up top to the left out of harms way lol ive never seen so much chaos down below in my life lol some pretty fun stuff going on that I'm almost certain alcohol didn't have anything to do with
Yeah I ordered the Helmet hero HD so I could get the different helmet mounts (moto and skate style), then I ordered the surf mount kit as well.

I think we're going to get some good surf, wake, and moto footage.
Thanks Chris, looks like some fun

"glamis was packed as usual..."

It must have been!
We were returning from Mex Sunday afternoon on the 8, and I've never seen so many toy haulers and motor homes in a row in my life!!
 It was a solid constant line all the way into SD...
Yeah we were one of them lol how was your guys trip...cold beers and even colder water lol ?
Great footage Chris!

The water was COLD...but you can't go down without getting a pull in.

Brian...where did you order your Helmet Hero from???

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Melissa's cousin works at dive shop and they carry them.
Our trip was great Chris!
Air a pleasant 73, beers about 35 degrees, and as Brandon said, water was a cold 55.
 Too cold for the old man, and our boys weren't there to take the customary New Years Day trunk ride, but Joe's kids across the river trunked it on New Years Day to keep the tradition going

I'll bet that full moon was awesome in the dunes at night!

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Yeah it was epic as far as the night rides went...The wife and I really need to get a move on with the century pass interview! We haven't been down for months

Brian... Kristy got me the non HD go pro for Xmas she didn't know they make the HD. I haven't opened it yet I was contemplating selling it and upgradeing??? What do u think I should do? The video above is from the HD model and it's pretty awesome
nice dude. sand is super sketchy. wind doesnt help either
Looks like you guys found some good lines out there! Where was the dune in the first two vids at?
If u leave the sand drags heading north the trail will narrow down abit with a dune ridge on your right and the downhill leading to all the camping on your left...I'd say about a 1/2 a mile in from the end of the sand drags at gordons the jump is over the ridge on your right....wow that sounds really confusing lol
Ha, not confusing at all. I'll have to check that out next time we ride down to the restaurant. We camp up off Gecko Rd but ride down there at least once every trip.
Cool the trail u take across will take u right by it it'll be on your left just watch for the ridge to get flat and wide then that should be ballpark ... We can't wait to go back n get some still shots!!!
Yep the Dunes were packed New Years, but it was still a damn good time. We rolled out with 14 families from my neighborhood for a few days. Kory had a lot of fun playing with the 12 - 15 kids in the group. Laura and Kory had fun rolling around the dunes in Laura's Christmas present, we had fun as a family and I had some fun on some longer rides with the pack. Got out of there late Saturday to beat the crowds home.

14 families circled up

crowd at the sand drags, it was like this on both sides

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McMoRan Updates Gulf of Mexico Activity
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|Thursday, April 22, 2004
McMoRan Exploration Highlights is First Quarter Activity:
-- JB Mountain No. 3 development well currently drilling below 14,600 feet.
-- Mound Point Offset No. 2 development well currently drilling below 16,300 feet.
-- First quarter 2004 production from three wells currently on-line (JB Mountain No. 1, JB Mountain No. 2, and Mound Point Offset) averaged an aggregate gross rate of approximately 78 million cubic feet of natural gas equivalent per day (Mmcfe/d).
-- Submitted a license application with the U.S. Coast Guard for the Main Pass Energy Hub(TM) (MPEH(TM)) to develop a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal offshore in the Gulf of Mexico at Main Pass Block 299.
In January 2004, McMoRan announced an agreement with a new exploration partner which enables it to conduct significantly expanded exploratory drilling activities outside the JB Mountain/Mound Point area. Under this multi-year exploration venture, a private exploration and production company has committed to spend a minimum of $200 million for its share of the venture's exploration costs. The private company will participate for a minimum of 40 percent of McMoRan's interests in prospects drilled during this period. In the initial year, McMoRan and its partner plan to participate in the drilling of at least 10 exploratory wells. McMoRan and its partner are currently participating in the Dawson Deep prospect at Garden Banks Block 625, the Minuteman (previously referred to as Phoenix) prospect at Eugene Island Block 213 and the Lombardi Deep prospect at Vermilion Block 208, and will participate in the Deep Tern Miocene prospect at Eugene Island Block 193 that is expected to spud in May 2004.
As previously announced, the Dawson Deep No. 2 Side Track No. 1 appraisal well was drilled to a total measured depth of 27,953 feet. The initial well encountered hydrocarbons in several sand intervals. The appraisal well was targeted to intercept those intervals in a down dip position. A zone indicated to be oil bearing at 22,568 feet in the original hole was intercepted in the appraisal well which is located 2,250 feet to the northeast and 600 feet low to the original hole and by wireline log analysis and tests, indicates a 120 foot single sand interval with 90 feet of true vertical depth of oil indicating a potential commercial reservoir. The original and appraisal wells have been temporarily abandoned while well data is analyzed and integrated with newly processed seismic data that is expected in May 2004 by Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Corporation, a wholly owned affiliate of Kerr McGee Corporation (NYSE: KMG). Kerr McGee is evaluating opportunities to develop Dawson Deep as a subsea tieback to its adjacent and recently commissioned Gunnison spar facility, which achieved its initial production in December 2003.
The venture owns a 50 percent working interest in the well (30 percent working interest; 24 percent net revenue net to McMoRan). Kerr-McGee operates Dawson Deep with a 25 percent working interest, Nexen Inc. (NYSE: NXY) owns a 15 percent working interest and CalDive International (NASDAQ: CDIS) has the remaining 10 percent working interest. The Dawson Deep prospect is located on a 5,760 acre block located approximately 150 miles offshore Texas in over 2,900 feet of water.
The Minuteman No. 1 exploratory well commenced drilling on March 22, 2004 and is currently drilling below 13,700 feet, has a proposed total depth of 22,000 feet. The venture has a 66.7 percent working interest (33.3 percent working interest; 24.3 percent net revenue interest net to McMoRan) in the prospect. Spinnaker Exploration Company operates Minuteman with a 33.3 percent working interest. McMoRan controls approximately 9,600 acres in the immediate area surrounding the Minuteman prospect, which is located approximately 40 miles offshore Louisiana in 100 feet of water.
The Lombardi Deep No. 1 exploratory well commenced drilling on March 25, 2004 and is currently drilling below 11,300 feet towards a proposed total depth of 19,500 feet. The venture has a 100 percent working interest in the well, 50.0 percent working interest and 39.5 percent net revenue interest net to McMoRan. McMoRan is the operator of the Lombardi Deep prospect, which is located approximately 50 miles offshore Louisiana in 115 feet of water. McMoRan controls 10,000 acres in the area and was high bidder on the 5,000-acre Vermilion Block 216 at the recent Central Gulf of Mexico Sale No. 190.
The Eugene Island Block 193 No. C-2 (Deep Tern Miocene) well is expected to commence drilling in May 2004 and has a proposed total depth of 20,350 feet. The venture will have a 97.2 percent working interest (58.3 percent working interest net to McMoRan) in the deep objectives of the prospect. ChevronTexaco will pay and participate for a 43.7 percent working interest to test the Basal Pliocene section in the well. McMoRan will operate the Deep Tern Miocene well, which is located approximately 50 miles offshore Louisiana in 90 feet of water. McMoRan controls 10,000 acres in the area and was high bidder on the adjacent 5,000-acre Eugene Island Block 207 at the recent Central Gulf of Mexico Sale No. 190.
McMoRan continues to identify prospects to be drilled on its lease acreage position which currently consists of approximately 200,000 gross acres. McMoRan is also actively pursuing opportunities to acquire additional acreage and prospects through farm-in or other arrangements and recently has augmented its prospect portfolio. Plans are being made to spud exploratory wells at the Hurricane Upthrown prospect at South Marsh Island Block 217, and the recently acquired JB Mountain Deep prospect at South Marsh Island Block 224 (east and adjacent to the original JB Mountain discovery at South Marsh Island Block 223). Other exploratory wells may be drilled as prospects are developed and ownership arrangements are negotiated.
OCS LEASE SALE No. 190
McMoRan was the high bidder at the March 2004 OCS Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale No. 190 on two leases comprising 10,000 acres on the continental shelf for a total of $0.5 million. The leases, which are both adjacent to blocks currently controlled by McMoRan, are Eugene Island Block 207 and Vermilion Block 216. Vermilion Block 216 is south of McMoRan's Lombardi Deep prospect at Vermilion Block 207. Eugene Island Block 207 is southwest of McMoRan's Deep Tern Miocene prospect at Eugene Island Block 193 and north of and adjacent to Eugene Island Block 216, which McMoRan acquired at an earlier lease sale.
McMoRan is a participant in an exploration program which includes the JB Mountain and Mound Point Offset discoveries. The program currently holds a 55 percent working interest and a 38.8 percent net revenue interest in the JB Mountain prospect and a 30.4 percent working interest and a 21.6 percent net revenue interest in the Mound Point Offset prospect. Under terms of the program, the operator is funding all of the costs attributable to McMoRan's interests in the JB Mountain and Mound Point Offset prospects, and will own all of the program's interests until the program's aggregate production totals 100 billion cubic feet of gas equivalent (Bcfe) attributable to the program's net revenue interest, at which point 50 percent of the program's interests would revert to McMoRan. Under the terms of this program, all exploration and development costs associated with the program's interest in any future wells in these areas will be funded by the exploration partner during the period prior to when McMoRan's potential reversion occurs.
Currently, two development wells are drilling at the JB Mountain and Mound Point properties and McMoRan expects continued aggressive development activities on these projects. The Louisiana State Lease 340 well (Mound Point Offset No. 2) commenced drilling on January 30, 2004. The well is currently drilling below 16,300 feet toward a total depth of 18,500 feet. The Mound Point Offset No. 2 well is located approximately 7,000 feet south-southeast from the Mound Point Offset discovery well, which was drilled to a total depth of 19,000 feet.
The South Marsh Island Block 223 No. 221 (JB Mountain No. 3) well commenced drilling on December 15, 2003. As previously reported the well encountered mechanical difficulties and was sidetracked. The operator was successful in sidetracking the well, which is currently drilling below 14,600 feet proceeding toward a proposed total depth of 21,000 feet. The JB Mountain No. 3 is located approximately one mile south of the JB Mountain No. 1 discovery well.
Gross production from the three producing wells in the JB Mountain/Mound Point area averaged 78 Mmcfe/d in the first quarter of 2004. The wells were shut-in late in the quarter for construction activities and were brought back on-line in April. The operator is currently addressing mechanical issues on the wells to restore production levels, which are currently producing at a gross rate of approximately 50 Mmcfe/day. Enhancements to the production facilities, which would increase the production capacity of the facility jointly handling the JB Mountain and Mound Point wells, are expected to be installed during the third quarter of 2004.
In February 2002, McMoRan sold three oil and gas properties for $60.0 million and retained a reversionary interest in the three properties equal to 75 percent of the transferred interests following payout of $60 million plus a specified annual rate of return. The properties sold were Vermilion Block 196 (Lombardi), Main Pass Blocks 86/97 (Shiner), and 80 percent of our interests in Ship Shoal Block 296 (Raptor). There are three wells currently producing on these properties at an average rate approximating 12 Mmcfe/d, net to the third party's interests. Two additional wells located at the Shiner prospect are expected to commence production during 2004. At March 31, 2004, the remaining amount of net proceeds required to reach payout approximated $26 million, a reduction of approximately $9 million from the December 31, 2003 balance. Based on the estimated future production from these properties and current natural gas and oil price projections, McMoRan believes that payout for these properties could occur by early 2005. The actual timing of the reversion will depend upon many factors including oil and gas prices, production rates, operating costs and capital expenditures from the properties and timing of the commencement of production from the Shiner wells.
On February 27, 2004, McMoRan's wholly owned subsidiary Freeport-McMoRan Energy LLC submitted its license application, which is pending acceptance by the U. S. Coast Guard (USCG), to develop a LNG receiving terminal located at its Main Pass Energy Hub(TM), offshore in the Gulf of Mexico 37 miles east of Venice, Louisiana. The proposed terminal would be capable of receiving and conditioning 1 Billion cubic feet (Bcf) per day of LNG and is being designed to accommodate potential future expansions. The capital cost for the terminal facilities is estimated at $440 million and McMoRan is also planning additional investments to develop significant cavern storage for natural gas and pipeline interconnects to the U.S. pipeline distribution system. This would allow significant storage capacity of natural gas using the massive 2-mile diameter salt dome located at the site and would provide suppliers with access to premium natural gas markets in the U.S. Current plans for the MPEH(TM) include 28 Bcf of initial cavern storage availability and aggregate peak deliverability from the proposed terminal, including deliveries from storage, of 2.5 Bcf per day.
The application has been filed under the U.S. Deepwater Port Act, which was amended in 2002 to include deepwater gas ports such as MPEH(TM). The license process is under the administration of the USCG and MARAD (Maritime Administration). McMoRan is currently in the process of developing its responses to comments on the application and anticipates its application will be accepted as complete by the USCG and MARAD during the second quarter of 2004. Acceptance of the application as complete by the USCG and MARAD will be followed by a 330 day review period for final determination of issuance of the license.
MPEH(TM) is located at Main Pass Block 299 in 210 feet of water which allows deepwater access for large LNG tankers and is in close proximity to shipping channels. McMoRan will utilize the substantial existing platforms and infrastructure as a site for the LNG vaporization and surface storage facilities, providing significant construction timing advantages and cost savings. The facilities could be operational by late-2007, which would make MPEH(TM) one of the first U.S. offshore LNG facilities. Safety and security aspects of the facility are enhanced by its offshore location.
McMoRan is engaged in active discussions with potential LNG suppliers and natural gas consumers regarding commercial arrangements for the facilities. There is significant interest in the project and McMoRan is advancing these discussions in parallel with the permitting process.
Company: McMoRan Exploration more info
- McMoRan Touts 'Sizable Reserves' at Sub-Salt, Ultra-Deep Trend (Feb 20)
- McMoRan Preps Davy Jones Well for Fracking Ops (Jan 31)
- McMoRan's Latest Efforts at Davy Jones Site Meet 'Limited Success' (Dec 28)
- McMoRan Touts 'Sizable Reserves' at Sub-Salt, Ultra-Deep Trend (Feb 20)
- McMoRan Preps Davy Jones Well for Fracking Ops (Jan 31)
- McMoRan's Latest Efforts at Davy Jones Site Meet 'Limited Success' (Dec 28)


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|Panic time: Deep State Foot Soldier Jess Baily ordered to break Ivanov, bribe Judges
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Jess Baily, a Deep State representative in Macedonia, remnant from the Obama's Administration has hit the panic button after the massive protests that are taking place across the country - reports Dnevnik's Mirka Velinovska.
"In their effort to erase Macedonia and its people as a country, the planners hired Zoran Zaev and his SDSM. For logistical support Zaev was given full support from Soros and his NGOs, Washington's criminal spy network and their terrorist creation UCK which in the country is masked as political parties."
According to the latest intelligence, the US Ambassador Baily before he is removed from Macedonia has been ordered by a rogue CIA power center to do everything in his power to make Zoran Zaev the Prime Minister with a mandate to turn Macedonia into a caliphate, a crime depot run by these rogue elements to expand their power in the region. Baily is scheduled to leave in May.
For this to be achieved, the planners needed to make VMRO-DPMNE a nonfactor in the country, while the albanian bloc to become the dominant political force in the country. The Macedonian citizens had to be pacified and demoralized. The Tirana platform as we've reported on multiple occasions, was not created by Edi Rama, instead it was a task given to him by former CIA Boss John Brennan whose fate now hangs in the balance thanks to Wikileaks - reports Dnevnik.
There is no question the American intel agencies are being disciplined and drained. Certainly some of these rogue forces will remain, go into a hybrid mode seeking to hide on the peripheries awaiting "better days" when they can continue their organized terror. Macedonia and the Balkans have been identified by these rogue forces as the perfect destination for this, reports Dnevnik.
These days, Baily is frantically working our Courts, has already activated bought judges, has attempted to scare those that can't be bought while through Zaev he has threatened to replace them all. He has blackmailed Macedonian businessmen and state media to support Zaev. Everyone and anyone in the country that Baily believes to have some power is being blackmailed by Zaev's team with wiretapped material.
What Baily, and his Euro partners Mogherini and the rest of their colleagues on the left did not plan is for the forest keepers to enter the forest. Forest keepers are the Macedonian citizens who said "no" to the lunacy from Tirana. The old age proverb "calculations at home are not the same as those outside" proved true once again.
The deep state believed Macedonians were not interested in preserving their own country!? The planners believed that Macedonians have already been pacified by wiretapped scandals, the Soros-ization of the media, the condom revolution, censoring of the State TV media...
Baily's nervousness was perfectly illustrated by Zaev's interview with Alsat when he suggested that protesters were 'dumb', 'fascists' and should leave the streets. The leaders of the protests are led by individuals who aren't affialiated with any political party, are multi ethnic and have increased on daily basis (over 200,000) which creates even more problems for Baily.
The planners have no solution for this "problem". Another deep state foot soldier, Hoyt Lee, part of Nuland's terror team, made a quick appearance from Zagreb and stated Macedonia must change its name, this is why they need Zaev in charge. Hoyt Lee essentially repeated what SDS advisor and CIA contractor Ljubomir Frckovski stated in numerous TV appearances.... that it is benefitial for Macedonia to change its name, and for Macedonians to lose their identity - reports Dnevnik.
Both Baily and Mogherini have attempted to scare the Macedonian leadership with unlishing their terrorists squad, the UCK!? They don't seem to understand that unlishing Morgoth himself wouldn't work into scaring the Macedonian public.
It is quite realistic to expect Trump to be cleaning up his swamp for the next three months at least, if not more. He just drained the entire Justice Department which was packed with corrupt prosecutors and lobbysts appointed by the Obama administration. This is quite significant for the new US Government as there was a great deal of sabotage from the DoJ.
Meanwhile, in Macedonia, Zoran Zaev will never get the mandate, even if he publicly denounces the Tirana platform. He will get the mandate if his party, the SDS wins in the next election. This will never, ever happen. As a result, the SDS will avoid new elections like the plague.
There will be elections when Macedonia and its citizens decides there will be elections. There will be a new census. The foreign cancer in the country will very quickly realize Macedonia and its people are sovereign and independent, where the people decide.
Zaev's scenario B failed. This scenario was suppose to fool everyone that Zaev allegedly gives up the platform, gets the mandate and through Parliament (with EU flag approval) stages a putsch on the Constitution. Furthermore, Zaev has threatened VMRO-DPMNE if they don't become part of Baily's plan, he would take few MPs from their own party. Zaev is still not aware that he is no longer part of Macedonian society. He believed he was protected by an Umbrella that doesn't leak.
In terms of the threats of war, Macedonia has been in an official state of emergency for nearly a year thanks to the migrant cirisis. The army is deployed to the north and the south. Yes, the police is quite chaotic with a greatalbanian interim minister from DUI in charge, but if terrorist formations like to test us, Baily and his Euro contractors may be once again unpleasantly surprised.


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Last week, former United States Vice President Al Gore met with Discovery News' Kieran Mulvaney and Lori Cuthbert in New York. He discussed his new book, Our Choice, and the Copenhagen climate summit. Here is the full transcript:
Discovery News: Mr. Vice President, many thanks for your time. The title of your book – Our Choice. On the one hand it offers a challenge but also implies a degree of optimism, that there is a choice to be made.
Al Gore: Well the word "our" requires some elaboration, because this is the first time that we as human beings have had to make a global choice about the future of our civilization. And what we're facing is a global threat unlike any other in previous history. And yet we have a choice available to us, that would make our civilization more prosperous, more humane, more enjoyable, fairer, while simultaneously defusing this threat to our future. But it is a choice that must be consciously made, and what I've tried to lay out in this book are all the tools that are available to us that could in combination give us the ability to safeguard our future while simultaneously making the kind of choices we ought to be making anyway.
DN: It is indeed a toolkit. It dispenses with a lot of material that you included in, for example, An Inconvenient Truth. It doesn't lay out the scientific case about global warming. It says, this is the energy use that got us here, this is how we get to somewhere else. Why this kind of book, and why now?
AG: An Inconvenient Truth focused about 90 percent on the crisis itself, its causes and its impacts, with about 10 percent presenting a broad-brush overview of the solutions. I felt that the time had come to move beyond a description of exactly what we're facing and why to a discussion of how we can solve it. So I began, three and a half years ago, a long series of Solutions Summits, during which I invited the leading experts from around the world in each of the areas that make up the solutions, to present their cutting-edge findings and new understandings and to contribute to a description of exactly the most effective solutions are. It was a great privilege to be in the room with these people, and I was very grateful for them to be willing to share their insights and really this book is my presentation of their insights, and when they presented the finer points of this technology or that, I did my best to capture the consensus view of what the state of the art is for solar, wind, geothermal energy, sustainable agriculture and the rest.
I also felt a comprehensive plan to solve the crisis should focus not only on the tools that are available but also on how to remove the obstacles to using those tools. And therefore I included chapters on the obstacles in the political system and the opportunities available in the new information tools that can speed up the adoption of some of these solutions.
DN: You mention the political obstacles. As Copenhagen has drawn closer and now arrived, the voices of denial have grown louder and appear to have had a degree of success. There was, for example, a recent Washington Post poll that showed that maybe fewer people are convinced by the notion of anthropogenic climate change than perhaps was the case. Are you concerned that the relentless drumbeat from the skeptics is having some impact?
AG: Well, it's almost identical to what the tobacco industry did after the Surgeon General's report in 1964, linking the smoking of cigarettes to lung and heart diseases. And while they slowed down the formation of a consensus necessary to adopt the recommendations from the Surgeon General, they didn't prevent it. In this case, we're in a race against time. Even in that prior case, we lost more Americans to cigarettes every year than were killed in all of World War II. The stakes were high then, but they're even higher now.
The polling is subject to different interpretations. In the one poll that you mentioned, virtually 100 percent of the decline was among conservative Republicans. Which means that it probably has something to do with following their perceived political leaders, but more understanding is needed. In this case, the challenge is different in many important respects from any other challenge we face. Because the consequences that are now beginning to unfold are distributed globally, the crisis masquerades as an abstraction. Because the length of time between the causes and the consequences is longer than we are used to dealing with, it presents the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Both of these perceptions need to be challenged. It is concrete, real, present and ominous. We don't have the luxury of time.
We're putting another 90 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution into the atmosphere today. We'll put slightly more than that into the atmosphere tomorrow. And the accumulated concentration has long since passed the point where it is having profound impacts.
The entire north polar icecap is disappearing before our very eyes. What do the deniers say about that? It's been the size of the continental United States for most of the last three million years. Forty percent of it has gone in the last few decades, and the rest of it is due to go in the coming decades. Virtually all the mountain glaciers are melting, threatening water supplies for drinking water and agricultural water. We've had record storms, droughts, fires, floods on every continent. The death of the evergreen trees in the American west. The beginning of the flow of climate refugees. The kinds of inter-ethnic violence that we see in Darfur was attributed by the Secretary General of the United Nations in that case, in significant part, to the effects of global warming on drying up Lake Chad and pushing those refugees into southwestern Sudan.
We don't have a lot of time here. So the special pleading of the carbon polluters and the existence of ideological deniers is probably an example of the so-called sunset phenomenon, where we have a spectacular display just before the subsiding. But the sooner we get beyond these kind of silly arguments, the better.
You know, there are still people who believe the Moon landing was filmed on a movie lot. If they had access to nearly unlimited funding from carbon polluters, I'm sure we'd be having a big public debate about whether the Moon landings actually occurred or not.
DN: There's a good quote in your book from Michael Oppenheimer: "They've taken scientific understanding and placed it on the same level as political opinion." It's similar to what I think when I read George Will's columns on global warming. It's as if he's saying, "I believe this, so if I keep repeating it often enough, it will become true." It seems to me that some of this is coming from those who are not used to dealing with science in a policy context.
AG: I think that's true. I think there are several elements that combine to make this denialism so resistant to change. There's garden variety denial: If something's unpleasant, we don't want to think about it. There's a perceived history on the part of some of these ideological deniers that leads them to believe some people have a habit of over-hyping a crisis in order to push some hidden agenda. I think that plays a role. I think there's an assumption on the part of the ideological deniers that a choice to solve this would inevitably lead to a larger role for government, which they see in the anti-statist aftermath of the horrors of the 20th century to be the supreme value, and I think they hold to that as their North Star. But I think it's hard to underestimate the significance of a billion dollars a year or more spent on strategic advertising, lobbying and persuasion campaigns, by people, some of whom are willing to promote outright falsehoods. There are now five climate lobbyists on the Hill for every member of the House and Senate, and most of them are working to stop any progress. Our political system in the U.S. has a diminished immune system, because the role of big money in politics has reached toxic levels, and as long as members of the House and Senate have to raise enormous sums of money to buy 30 second TV ads, they go back over and over again to the same business lobbies for support, and over time that wears down their resistance, and that plays a role, especially in the Senate where a minority of 40 Senators can block action on anything that smacks of reform.
DN: One of the things that the carbon lobby has done very well is to equate carbon use with wealth and prosperity, and that if we don't have a carbon-based economy, we're all going to be wearing hairshirts and sitting around warming ourselves by candlelight. One of the things that I thought was particularly important about the book is that it very calmly lays out the fact that we're perfectly capable of living the lives that we are used to with the changes that we need to make, and also one big take-home is that the number one change we can make is improve our energy efficiency.
AG: Yes. CO2 emissions are an invisible marker of waste and inefficiency, and if we track them we'll find, not only ways to reduce global warming, but we'll find ways to become far more efficient and therefore more competitive in the world. The old phrase, "out of sight of mind," has frequently been applied to pollution, but in the case of CO2, it's tasteless, odorless, and invisible. And also has no price tag. So, out of sight, way out of mind. Yet if we had magic glasses that would enable us to see it, we could walk through any factory, any business and say, "Here's a place to save money, here's a place to become more competitive, here's a place to create some more jobs." And I think that is now beginning to dawn on business leaders. I think that's why so many of them are far ahead of politicians, those outside the carbon polluting industries.
DN: In the book, you mention the example of California [and its success in areas of energy efficiency]. What are some of the examples from California that can be applied to the rest of the country?
AG: Well, they run from the profound to the mundane. In the latter category, they found that leaks in duct systems – again, out of sight, out of mind, because they're between the walls and in the attic – cost home and business owners lots and lots of money each year, just so they can heat the outdoors. California, in pursuit of efficiency, came up with a lot of specific solutions, one of which was just that. The more profound was decoupling the profits of utility companies from the volume of electricity that they sell, so that they don't discourage energy conservation and savings. Overall, over the last 30 years per capita use of energy in California has remained essentially level, while in the rest of the country it has gone up 30, 40 percent. And economic output per capita in California has remained almost the same over that same period.
It's a powerful example. And there are others. In Sweden, for example, they have both CO2 tax and cap-and-trade and their economy is booming, they're doing great, and there is popular appetite for more CO2 taxes. So these tools are available, we just need to make a choice to use them.
DN: Two things that are frequently advocated, I think partly because they feel familiar as well as because they are pushed by vested interests, are clean coal and nuclear power. In your book, you address both of those, and are skeptical about both, albeit for different reasons.
AG: They're very different, but I came out at a similar point in my analysis of both. Both of them work, both of them can be used, but both, at least in their current form, carry a burden of implausibility that will probably limit the extent to which they're used.
In both cases, one of the main burdens is cost. In the case of carbon capture and sequestration, the owner of a coal plant that uses CCS will have to use one-third of the electricity that a utility now sells just to power the CCS operation. Well, no matter the price of coal or energy, over time that's not going to work so well. And the sheer volume is so enormous, that finding and characterizing and using the underground storage reservoirs in so many places at those huge volumes is probably not going to happen. Now, I think that it will be used in some places. And I think there's a chance that with enough R&D, enough money thrown at it, they will discover cheaper, easier and more effective ways to capture the CO2. So I do favor demonstration projects. Let's push the limits of the technology, if it did work at an acceptable cost, then we ought to use it.
In the case of nuclear, there is also a cost issue. The present generation of nuclear reactors has been increasing in construction costs 15 percent a year over the last 30 years. That means it doubles every few years, and a $400 million reactor is now a $4 billion reactor; it's gone up ten-fold. It's not competitive. If governments throw enough subsidies in that direction, then more nuclear plants will eventually be built. I don't think it's a silver bullet, and I don't think it's going to be the dominant solution by any means, not least because there's a second problem with nuclear power, which limits its scaleability on a global scale. The new technology for enriching nuclear materials shortens the distance between reactor fuel and weapons grade material. Now they have these cheap, highly efficient centrifuges that can be hidden underground. That's what Iran's doing, that's what North Korea is doing, that's what Syria is nibbling around trying to do. In the eight years I worked in the White House, every single nuclear weapons proliferation problem we had was connected to a reactor program. So we can't put tens of thousands of these things all over the surface of the planet. It's not going to happen.
DN: You talk in the book about some of the steps that government will have to take to affect the economics of carbon. You discuss in particular three things: a carbon tax, cap-and-trade, and then direct government regulation. Yesterday [December 7], the Environmental Protection Agency made the announcement that it would classify CO2 as a dangerous pollutant. Is your sense that this is primarily a very strong message to Congress of the need to pass climate legislation, or else this will have to be the route to take?
AG: I think it is a very powerful message to Congress, and to industry lobbies, that if legislation is not passed, it's going to be regulated by the EPA. Now the history of this is that environmental groups brought a lawsuit during the Bush-Cheney years, and the Supreme Court ruled, the year before Barack Obama became president, that, under the meaning of the Clear Air Act, CO2 should be regulated. The EPA refused to act, but the new EPA under President Obama did. The announcement that you read yesterday is the result of this nearly year-long process since he took office.
That'll happen if there's no legislation passed. But it's a blunt instrument, and it's not as wieldy as a legislative solution. But it's a backstop.
Now, a CO2 tax: I've long favored a CO2 tax, with the money either given back in rebates or with other taxes reduced by an equal amount. Economically, the case is very, very strong. Politically, the degree of difficulty far exceeds the difficulty of passing cap-and-trade. We need both. And we'll wind up using both. Sweden already uses both. But to those who say, "I'm against cap-and-trade because I think CO2 taxes are better," that's a prescription for another decade of delay.
Hey, I could be wrong about that. If we could pass a CO2 tax tomorrow, and have it take effect worldwide, sign me up. But I've spent enough time in the political system to have some feelings about what's likely and what's not. But even if it were likely, I would still favor using both a CO2 tax and a cap-and-trade mechanism.
DN: We have 192 countries or thereabouts gathered in Copenhagen. You anticipate in your book some of the reactions there are going to be from those who, for example so strongly oppose cap-and-trade as a primary instrument that they are going to be disappointed in Copenhagen's results. You anticipate that in the book and I notice how you present Copenhagen as, not so much 1969 when we land on the Moon but more 1961 when JFK says we're going to land on the Moon. Notwithstanding the race against time, are you at this present moment feeling relatively comfortable that these two weeks are going to take us forward? Are you optimistic?
AG: I choose to be. I think that President Obama's announcement that he's going to attend on the last day rather than during the first week is an indication that he's optimistic that there will be a result worthy of 70 heads of state gathering there. It will be in the eye of the beholder to some extent because it won't be a fully completed treaty. Therefore, expectations have long been lowered a little bit for Copenhagen. But I do think it could be the key turning point.
When I was at Kyoto 12 years ago, virtually no heads of state were there. Now, most of them will be. The European Union has already implemented a plan. Japan has implemented a plan. China has put out targets for reductions. So has India. So has Brazil. It's a new day. It's not dawn yet, but you can see the glimmers – I don't want to torture the metaphor, but you can see the glimmers on the horizon. Depending on what they do over these next days, there's an excellent chance that we will look back from some future time and see it as a turning point.
DN: In the conclusion to your book, you imagine that future generations will either look back and despise us for inactivity, or they will say, "What took you so long? But at least you got it done ..."
AG: And how did you find the courage to shake off the lethargy and focus on what was at stake? It's hard for us, because the kinds of threats that we respond to viscerally and automatically are different from the kinds of threats we encounter here. The odds of us encountering a leopard on Park Avenue as we exit this building are vanishingly small. But if we did, we'd respond quickly. We're hardwired to do so. This is a threat that requires us to use our reasoning capacity, and form long-term goals based on our deepest values. We also have that capacity. It's not a visceral capacity, it's not automatic or semi-automatic. It requires a choice, it requires reflection, it requires communication. All of which we're capable of. But in a world of distraction and complexity, it does require a conscious choice. But I think the world is now at a point where that's beginning to be possible.
DN: Mister Vice President, thank you very much.
AG: Thank you.
(Discovery News would like to give special thanks to Kalee Kreider for arranging the interview).
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"Self-leadership is a process, strength, and skill of influencing the self to attain self-direction and self-motivation needed to accomplish specific tasks and goals."
To be an effective leader, one must be an effective leader to himself. Being able to manage personal behavior, identify strong and weak points is a sign of effective leadership skills. A person has to learn to effectively manage and develop the self to be able to place himself or herself on a position wherein he/ she could provide the greatest contribution to an organization or the community (Drucker, 2002). Self-leadership is a process, strength, and skill of influencing the self to attain self-direction and self-motivation needed to accomplish specific tasks and goals. It is composed of precise behavioral and cognitive strategies aimed for the purpose of positively influencing the self to become effective and efficient. Self-leadership is generally grouped into three primary categories—behavior-focused strategies, reward strategies, and constructive thought pattern strategies (Neck and Houghton, 2006; Hybels, 2002; & Nardi, 2005). Behavior-focused strategies are aimed at enhancing the person's self-awareness in terms of behavioral management, particularly on areas where in the management of personal behaviors related to performing necessary and sometimes objectionable tasks (Neck and Houghton, 2006).
Self-Evaluation as a Tool
Behavior focused strategies consist of "self-observation, self-goal setting, self-reward, self-punishment, and self-cuing." In particular, self-observation is intended to increase the person's awareness of the dynamics—when and why he/she engages in specific behavior. This is a crucial and necessary step towards analyzing and identifying ineffective and unproductive behavior that could later be eliminated (Neck and Houghton, 2006 & Neck and Manz, 2007). One tool that is commonly used in behavior focused strategies is self-evaluation. This paper is aimed at presenting a review and critique of self-evaluation as a behavior-focused strategy tool in assessing self-leadership. It will also try to look at areas for improvement and provide an analysis on the impact of self-evaluation as a tool in terms of contemporary human resource practice.
cording to businessdictionary.com (2010), evaluation is the "rigorous analysis of completed or ongoing activities that determine or support management accountability, effectiveness, and efficiency". It is the process of the ability to apply personal judgment of one's capacity and personal capabilities to instigate successful performance of specified tasks at specific levels, exert greater effort, and continually persevere even at the face of adversity (Center for Positive Practices, 2005). Ergo, self-evaluation would involve the appraisal or assessment of personal behavior to gauge effectiveness, accountability, and efficiency. Self-evaluation as a tool have many purposes throughout various sectors of the society and various industries but still, retain the ultimate purpose—of measuring ones strength and weakness in pursuit of improving ones' capacity. Being able to gauge and assess personal skills, behavior, and learning outcome based on very detailed parameters will allow a person to gain insight on personal strengths that could be enhanced and improved on, traits that must be unlearned or avoided, and develop new behavior that would prove useful to the person's endeavor. If used in a classroom setting, self-evaluation would allow students to gauge their productivity, quality of work, level of learning or understanding of the subject or topic, all of which are based on evidence and explicit criteria that would allow the individual students the opportunity to learn their areas of strengths and identify weak points that they could improve on in the future (Rolheiser and Ross, n.d. & North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, 1995). In terms of community or volunteer organization, self-evaluation is an integral and critical aspect of the workings of the entire group. It is an "internal process of self-reflection and assessment" for the purpose of evaluating each member that would provide a collective assessment on the productivity of the whole community or organization (Clarke, 1996). In terms of management and business organization setting, particularly in the area of human resource, self-evaluation provides an overview of the plan as a tool for training and orientation at the same time identify areas for improvement to enhance productivity and service delivery (Oklahoma Office of Personnel Management, 2009 & Lee and Erez, 1997). Self-evaluation is an important facet of quality assurance and development wherein it is utilized operational goals to help attain overall company aims via HR strategies that would measure the improvement of each variables particularly focusing on effective and efficient client service deliver. This would be attained through effective leadership and management (Glasgow Metropolitan College, n.d.). In a sense, with a proper self-evaluation questionnaire and rubric, an organization's human resource could efficiently use this as a tool to gain insight on each of its personnel's perceived strength and weaknesses through very explicit parameters that could be verified and or quantified.
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Assessing the Efficacy of Self-Evaluation
Ideally, self-evaluation is geared towards personal exploration of the self to better understand self-dynamic through a standard or a set of prevailing measures to gauge personal aptitude with the aim of self-improvement. Often times, self-evaluation pose negative impression to most people that could cause anxiety because of equating it with criticism and failure. Some are terrified with the result that could be attributed to lack of confidence in their quality of work or self-value. These apprehensions towards self-evaluation could be based not just on personal perception of the self but could be deeply embedded on the community and is intertwined with the prevailing culture among the people and or within the organization.
Self-evaluation as a self-monitoring tool enhances a person's ability through constant and regular monitoring. This would allow the person to monitor personal growth and provide motivation in enhancing specific kills while also highlighting areas for improvement that could be easily addressed and identified through initial self evaluation outcomes. Furthermore, it also allows the person to incorporate feelings with personal capacities; for instance competence, physical appearance, and behavioral conduct with self-worth, self-esteem, and self-concept (Berns and Berns, 2007). Therefore, personal perception of self has a direct correlation with the perceived personal capacities that would in turn affect the outcome of self-evaluation. For example, a person with a low self-concept or damaged self-esteem could easily downgrade his capability thus affecting his perception of his work competence. In a sense, self-evaluation would be not just about the self but involves a dynamic interplay of self as part of a larger community. And how much that community affects the perception of personal aptitude would have an influence on the results of self-evaluation. Moreover, self-evaluation in line with social comparison theory would suggest that social factors influence the judgment that a person has on himself. Integral variables in this case include the person's mood and state of self-esteem. For case in point, research has been suggestive that low self-esteem and comparing self to someone who is inferior could either lower or raise self-evaluation. As an outcome, it is quite problematic to gauge the motives behind the commitment in taking the self-evaluation (Moskowitz, 2001). For instance, an enhanced commitment towards attaining specific goal would lead to a truthful and honest self-evaluation to validate perceived capacity towards self-improvement. On the other hand, self-evaluation could be motivated by a driven self-interest to enhance personal capacities in hopes to have a perceived higher commitment and or capacity to be above the rest and downgrade others in terms of comparison.
Lastly, self-evaluation with continuous self-monitoring does not necessarily translate to self-motivation and self-regulation. Self-regulation particularly is not something that could be passively learned through self-evaluation. The applicability of the result of the assessment would still be based on the person's response towards the results. Receptiveness and or antagonistic response or perception on self-evaluation would be the turning point of the efficacy of the tool (Weiner, et al., 2003). Again, the outcome of self-evaluation is dependent on the drive of the person towards self-improvement and his commitment on improving his disposition.
Do you think self-evaluation is an efficient tool to assess yourself?
In terms of contemporary human resource practice, self-evaluation is a crucial tool in aiding the assessment process of prospective candidates and even among employees. Self-evaluation could be a key towards strategic factor in delivering organizational success. The efficacy of self-evaluation does not directly translate to self-leadership without guidance and prudence in terms of human resource handling. What I found most critical is that Human Resource has the role and responsibility of ensuring that employees and people within the organization understood the aims and importance of self-evaluation and its role towards helping everyone in improving productivity and efficiency. Also, without proper amount of motivation—too much or too little, would greatly affect on how individuals would interpret the role of self-evaluation in their work. Guided accordingly, self-evaluation would be a great tool towards improving the capacity of individuals in terms of self-leadership. However, focusing on self-evaluation alone would cause crucial gaps in data gathering method. Sole reliance on self-evaluation is not advisable as there are other strategies and tools that could work with self-evaluation to ensure that there is check and balance in terms of interpreting variables and verifying the truthfulness of data gathered. This way, the true essence and purpose of self-evaluation is served not just for the benefit and growth of the company but of the individual as well.
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By JIM RAMBERG
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hen was the last time you were checked by a game warden in Kansas, either for a hunting or fishing license?
Chances are, it's been years. The reason is simple, there are only 57 conservation officers in the field in a state that comprises 84,048 square miles of country.
Richard Harrold, chief of special operations for the law enforcement division of the Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks, is aware of the lack of manpower. And the continuing downsizing of his department.
"We've been losing some positions," he said. "When someone retires, we haven't been able to replace them. Neighboring officers have to take up those positions and that spreads them out even further."
Back in 1985, Gov. Mike Hayden ordered the Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks to open the special operations branch, sort of an undercover sting operation against poachers and illegal game operations.
Today, there is only one agent operating undercover.
"The undercover operation was started in 1985," said Harrold. "We put agents into places where there were a lot of problems, like deer poaching. But we've been losing officers to downsizing, just like every other state department."
Harrold said conservation officers will work undercover, but they wear uniforms most of the time.
Game violations range from the illegal killings of species like the trumpeter swans in the related story to deer poaching and to the taking of less glamorous species such as mussels.
"This was probably the worst year we've seen as far as deer violations went," Harrold said. "We saw a tremendous increase of deer found with their heads cut off. The deer were killed for their antlers. In years past, we'd find 15-20 like that. This year, it was 60-80. The value of antlers is going up and poachers are making money from them."
Harrold said the case of the trumpeter swans probably won't involve his special operations branch unless there is a good chance that "we know who is responsible for it."
In the meantime, Harrold urged sportsmen and landowners to utilize the Game ThiefHotline.
"It's a good way to stop vandalism of our wildlife and also help the landowners," he said. "The number is 1-800-228-4263. We get a lot of calls on the hotline, some good, some not so good. Honest sportsmen should check out types of vehicles, license plate numbers, locations, and call them in if they think something wrong is going down.
"The Highway Patrol mans the phones during the weekends and works with us and the local sheriff's department. If we get a call on a likely violation, someone will check it out."
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