Archive for the ‘General Interest’ Category
Sunday, August 5th, 2007
As a criminal justice officer, you have qualified and re-qualified with your firearm many times, participated in pursuit driving with the siren blaring and done many other activities that could have potentially damaged your hearing. Take a minute to visit the American Speech Language Hearing Association's website to learn ...
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
Numerous books have been written about the art of successful negotiation since the 1970s when, Roger Fisher and William Ury published "Getting to YES" that introduced the win-win or mutual gains bargaining. The mutual gains approach has been effectively applied to community policing where the principles are framed as "problem ...
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
I try to spend as much time as possible hiking and backpacking during the nice weather, although going out during the winter months has some definite advantages. One of those advantages is absence of insects - particularly mosquitoes. In addition to just generally being a pain, mosquitoes are ...
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Saturday, July 14th, 2007
When it comes to disaster readiness, can you ever be too prepared? According the Association of Small Business Development Centers, the effects of a disaster can be quite profound: More than one in four businesses will experience a significant crisis in a given year, and of those businesses that experience ...
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Sunday, July 8th, 2007
What's in your wallet? Which credit card are you using? Why did you select that particular card from among the daily flood of offers that you receive in the mail? How do you use your card? Some people use credit cards strictly for big-ticket items, while others ...
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
There are certain milestones in one's life that I believe everyone looks forward to and remembers. Most men remember when they bought their first car and they can still describe it in vivid detail. Other momentous occasions include graduating from high school and/or college, meeting your spouse for ...
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Job stress can be defined as the harmful physical and emotional responses that occur when the requirements of the job do not match the capabilities, resources, or needs of the worker. Increasingly, experts are drawing a direct correlation between job stress and poor health or even injury.
The concept of job ...
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
I inadvertently discovered a small automobile detailing trick yesterday that I thought I would pass along. My son was doing an extensive detailing job on his new car (my old car) and he was having trouble getting the inside of the windshield clean. You may have noticed that ...
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Monday, June 18th, 2007
When it comes to blogging, Jason McCabe Calacanis is one of the few bloggers who enjoy a loyal daily audience of readers that numbers in the thousands, about 10,000 to be exact. Although his normal list of blogging topics focus on business and tech issues, he has stumbled upon ...
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Thursday, June 14th, 2007
I was up at 0645 hours but some of my shelter mates were already long gone by that time. I have never been able to take off in the morning without eating breakfast first, preferably a hot breakfast. I would be in a fog for half the day ...
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Thursday, June 14th, 2007
I didn't have any trouble going to sleep last night but I did wake up at zero dark thirty as a result of my uncontrollable shivering. The trick to heating up quickly when you are inside a sleeping bag is to pull the bag up over your head. ...
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
I wish I could say that I woke up refreshed and ready to tackle those mountains I mentioned yesterday. Unfortunately, I would be lying through my teeth if I said I had slept well. The temperature dipped way down and I hadn't put the rain fly on my ...
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
After a Friday meeting delayed my departure, I had to make a small adjustment to my backpacking plans so I decided to jump on the Appalachian Trail near Glasgow, VA, where the trail crosses Virginia Route 130. I mean it looked easy enough. The Virginia Scenic Highways map that ...
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
If you don't recognize the sign that accompanies this entry, you probably are not going fully appreciate how much I am looking forward to the next few days. I will finally be taking the time to do one of the activities I really enjoy - hiking on the Appalachian ...
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