Holiday Safety Tips

Holiday safety is an issue that burns brightest from late November to mid-January, when families gather, parties are scheduled and travel spikes. Take some basic precautions to ensure your family remains safe and injury-free throughout the season. Here are some tips to help keep you safe from the National Safety Council and other sources I’ve found

Traveling for the Holidays? Be Prepared

Many people choose to travel during the holidays by automobile, with the highest fatality ...

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Real Combat Judo

Judo was the first martial art I studied formally back in the early 1980s. While my instructor moved away before I could earn a black belt, it provided a great base for the other martial arts I ended up studying. It always amuses me when I hear people state that Judo is a sport only and doesn’t have any real self-defense applications. I remember Curtis Sliwa of the Guardian Angles discussing his background in Judo that helped him on the ...

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Be Active In Warm Weather Safely

I love the summer and I love being active out in the heat. Fortunately, I’ve always been able to deal with heat well, unlike others I served with in the Army who fell out of different activities and wound up heat injury casualties. (Which means medics and combat lifesavers, like me, would have to give them IVs, and those of us that could carry on had to with more gear. But even though I have always been good with heat, ...

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Beware of Snakes

When you are out hiking, you should be paying attention and aware of your surroundings. One thing to be aware of is snakes. Your geographic location will determine what kinds of snakes to be on the lookout for. And I’m not saying be paranoid and think there’s a snake behind every log and under every rock. I’m just saying pay attention and snakes are one thing to pay attention to when noticed.

Here’s what the Reader’s Digest Action Guide: What ...

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Utility Scam Alert

I just received this from NorthWestern Energy and want to warn people.

Beware of increased utility service scam activity!

Many electric and natural gas customers throughout the country are being targeted by imposter utility scams.

Here are a few common signs of potential scam activity:

Threat to disconnect: The imposter utility representative aggressively tells the customer his or her account is past due and ...

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