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WDFW Police heavily rely on our relationships with dog handlers to locate dangerous wildlife quickly and efficiently. This enforcement run program will assist in keeping dogs conditioned and ready for future response to urgent calls for service.
As directed by the legislature, the commission shall adopt by rule a process and criteria to select persons who may act as agents of the state for the purpose of using one or more dogs to hunt or pursue black bear, cougar, or bobcat to protect livestock, domestic animals, private property, or the public safety (1). The commission rule must outline the requirements an applicant must comply with when applying for the program including, but not limited to, a criminal background check. The department shall administer a training program to enable persons who have been selected pursuant to subsection (1) of this section to train dogs for use consistent with this section. The purpose of this program is to provide dog training opportunities using nonlethal pursuit. [ 2019 c 226 1.]
Training pass holders shall maintain a logbook of training activities under the nonlethal pursuit training program. Logbooks shall be completed online below or (COMING SOON) downloaded and printed. Logbooks are required to be completed for each training trip before leaving the field. Logbook pages must be provided to the department through an online reporting system or postmarked within ten days following any calendar month in which the training pass activity took place.
Pursuit Training offers a wide variety of group fitness classes throughout the day. We can accommodate any schedule! If there isn't a class that meets your needs - don't worry - all of our members get 24/7 access to our open gym.
Our personal trainer team believes that in order to truly thrive, you must create lasting change to perform optimally in the pursuit of your health, fitness, and performance. You have to make health a lifestyle choice.
We believe that comfort is the Enemy. Pushing beyond comfort in the gym, will transform the rest of your life. As a member of the pursuit community you are committed to transforming your body and mind through sound coaching, training and nutrition.
The Washington State Department of Commerce, Office of Firearm Safety and Violence Prevention/Community Safety Unit is soliciting applications from Washington state law enforcement agencies. This is the second round of funding through the Law Enforcement Vehicle Pursuit Technology Grant Program.
The purpose of the RFP is to provide law enforcement agencies with modern vehicle pursuit management technology, including, but not limited to global positioning system tracking equipment, automated license plate reading technology, aircraft, and non-armed and non-armored drone technology.
Only law enforcement agencies are eligible to apply for this funding. Agencies that received awards under the first round of funding of this program are not eligible for second-round funding under this RFP.
Our work translates the discoveries of basic science into promising clinical applications. Multidisciplinary teams of researchers collaborate on clinical research on a range of specialties and conditions organized into program areas.
We drive the research on biological, psychological, social, behavioral, and environmental causes and influencers of common and prominent child health problems to generate evidence for clinical and public health interventions.
Our diverse team of researchers are influential leaders in investigating pediatric health issues and diseases, and include physicians, scientists, postdocs, coordinators, statisticians, data analysts, trainees, and others who routinely collaborate with medical centers, academic institutions, and community partners across the globe.
Hosted by Patrick Seed, MD, PhD, FIDSA, Manne Research Institute President and Chief Research Officer, In Pursuit will feature the researchers who are driving advancements at the forefront of children's health. From groundbreaking medical breakthroughs to inspiring tales of resilience, expert guests will immerse you in the pursuit of knowledge that is shaping the future of pediatric care.
Extolling the pursuit of happiness was a toxic stupidity entirely unworthy of my greatest American hero, Thomas Jefferson. Indeed, the pursuit is a poison that sickens our culture. I wish he'd never said it.
It produces a monstrous, insatiable hunger inside our national psyche that encourages us to ravenously devour the resources of this small planet, crushing liberties, snuffing lives, feeling ourselves ordained by God and Jefferson to do whatever is necessary to make us happy.
During the year 2000, while feeding at the greatest economic pig trough the world has ever slopped forth, Americans ate $10.2 billion worth of Prozac and other antidepressants (up 19.5% from the previous year). Better living through chemistry? I don't think so. I have never heard any of my friends and acquaintances who have become citizens of the Prozac Nation claim that these drugs bring them any closer to actual happiness. Rather, they murmur with listless gratitude that antidepressants have pulled them back from the Abyss. They are not pursuing happiness; they are fleeing suicide.
Not until I turned 30 did it become apparent that my wariness of the pursuit of happiness might be a subtle form of treason. Like many of my generation, I hadn't expected to live to such an age. I really didn't trust anyone over 30, and remain reluctant to do so even now. But since I was about to become an adult, I figured I ought to take a stab at graceful adulthood.
So I spent the night before my 30th birthday composing a list called "Principles of Adult Behavior." Most of my self-directed advice consisted of such platitudes as Polonius liked to lay on Hamlet--stuff like "Expand your sense of the possible" and "Tolerate ambiguity."
But there was a patch in the middle of this earnest document that nearly every American who read it bottomed out on. And that was No. 15, which stated: "Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that."
Despite the safely Puritan kicker, this homily pissed off the broadest range of folks you can imagine. Whether hippie, cowboy, redneck, or debutante, practically everyone who read it thought there was something threateningly wrong with it. It was downright un-American. Why?
Because nearly everyone in this country feels the weird, invisible pressure to pursue happiness; they feel that secret shame of not trying hard enough to attain it. To have someone tell them they should just stop trying felt like a threat to an oath they'd taken. In other words, Jefferson's wistful aspiration has gradually transmuted into first an entitlement and eventually an obligation, even as its actual practice has become increasingly rare. Listen carefully for the sound of spontaneous laughter in America's public places. Observe random American faces for the sight of a smile. You will be alarmed, I think, at how infrequently we are illuminated by such natural human light. And yet, behind these grim masks, there continues to reside the guilty belief that happiness is ordained by Jefferson (and possibly God) to be our duty.
Let me be clear. I like happiness. Hell, I think I am happy most of the time. And why, when I'm happy, am I happy? Never because I pursued happiness but rather because I let it pursue me. To me, the more you ignore happiness, the more it will come looking. Swami Satchidananda of India put it better: "If you run after things, nothing will come to you. Let things run after you. The sea never sends an invitation to the rivers. That's why they run to the sea. The sea is content. It doesn't want anything. That's the secret in life."
In Africa, the Zulu have a word, ubunto, which is often translated to mean community, but I've heard a more accurate definition: "I am because we are; we are because I am." In other words, happiness is not a solitary endeavor; it's a joint enterprise, something that can only be created by the whole. I am happy because we are happy. Contentment arises from a sense of family, community, and connectedness.
Such virtues are in dwindling supply in America. Close to half of first marriages end in divorce. The war between children and parents has never been uglier. We ridiculously imagine that America Online and the local mall are communities. And to the extent that we are connected at all, it is largely by mass media like television, which, as Bertrand Russell pointed out, "allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone."
Do we Americans lack this sense of connectedness because of our affluence? Does wealth induce loneliness? I don't think so. But to address the problem, we first have to admit that it exists. This will not be easy. Many of us are convinced that our sorrows are a sign of personal deficiency. Thinking that we are alone in our politically incorrect despair only drives us deeper into personal isolation.
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