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Xbox Hack#150104: The People Business
Call me old-school but even with all the desktops and devices I own, I still love the feel and look of a print publication. [I hope the folks at FireRescue Magazine are reading this! lol] And I don’t...
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The Greatest Show on Earth!
While I believe it was P.T. Barnum who referred to the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus as “The Greatest Show on Earth!” – I’m not clowning around when I tell you that FDIC should be one...
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Destiny and Gratitude
This group of improvisational actors and musicians bring stories to life. I’ve never really bought into the whole idea of spirituality in terms of auras and orbs and such, but I have to admit that I...
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The Four Layers: How Deep is Your Brotherhood?
The term ‘Brotherhood’ means different things to different people. Ask 100 firefighters what brotherhood is and you’ll get 100x different answers. You know it when you see it; you miss it when it’s...
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Xbox 2.0: The Greatest Expectation
I originally wrote “From the XboxTM to the Box Alarm” in 2008 as I stumbled upon what I saw as a direct correlation between Generation Y and the influence of video games on virtually every aspect of...
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Xbox Hack#160125: Meet Individual Needs. Exceed Organizational Expectations.
Xbox Hack#160125: “Creating a work environment that meets the individual needs of your team members creates outcomes that will exceed your organization’s expectations.” I tell the participants in my...
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Eagle Eye
For me and I’m sure many others, February 12, 2009 was one of those moments in your life where you’ll always say “I remember exactly where I was, what I was doing … at the moment I heard of the crash.”...
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Taking the Volunteer Out of Volunteering!
“Please don’t tell my parents I’m a volunteer fireman, they think I’m a piano player in a cat house.” That’s the tongue-in-cheek message printed on a bumper sticker that used to be pinned to the...
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Drugs are Killing me.
It takes a lot to shock me but this is the most sickening, disturbing story I’ve read in a while. There is no such thing as recreational drug use any more. Abstinence is the only real solution to this...
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Meth, Click, Doom.
In July of 2014, I had enough! I couldn’t go on. I was so confused not knowing what was going on in my life − why was I like this? I had to stop myself from hurting my family. I felt I needed to...
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The Exit Row
Scott Geiselhart, Jared Meeker and Tiger Schmittendorf connect at the New York State Fire Chiefs Conference in June-2017 While most of my return trips from FDIC – the Fire Department Instructors...
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