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Health & Fitness > Healthy Living & Wellness Attaining the much needed gift of sleep: 13 of 22
How many times have you come home from holiday shopping and wished you could just fall into bed and sleep until it was all over? Instead, there's the gift wrapping to be done, meals to be planned and lets not forget, there's more shopping to do. By the time you can go to bed, you find yourself so stressed out it seems imposs... More..
Sports & Recreation > Hunting What does it take to kill a bear?: 2 of 3
Hunting Bear A well placed shot with a proper bullet or arrow is what it takes. It's that simple. Bears look big and some are big. The average black bear in the continental United States is not that big. A really big black bear weighs 500 or more pounds but black bears of this size are rather rare. More likely, a good sized ... More..
Sciences > Atmosphere & Weather Air and its components: 9 of 11
The atmosphere of the earth is what we typically refer to as "Air". Air is composed of various components, primarily Nitrogen and Oxygen along with other gases that make up much smaller percentages of the total. Air is about seventy eight percent nitrogen and twenty one percent oxygen. The remaining one percent is made up of... More..
Celebrations & Holidays > Gift Advice Go for green gifts this holiday: 25 of 29
Everyone knows someone for whom it seems impossible to pick out just the right gift. It might be someone special and close to us or it might be a co-worker whose name we drew in the office 'Secret Santa' exchange. Either way, it can be difficult to pick a gift that won't end up re-gifted or returned. In a season when the col... More..
Sports & Recreation > Camping Camp tips: Cooking baked potatoes in a campfire: 4 of 4
As the sun sets over the lake, you roll those baked potatoes out of the coals. Mm-mm. Can't you just smell them now? Doing it right takes just a little practice. Broil a couple of steaks over the same fire, some butter and maybe a bit of sour cream for the potatoes and its dinnertime. All you need is a cold beer. First, a no... More..
Business > Management Ethics My most politically incorrect moment in the office: 3 of 3
Being right nearly got me fired. It was 1988 and I was the network manager / programmer for the small electronics manufacturing company I worked for. Here is what happened that lead up to the incident. One weekend, the file server inexplicably locked up and would not reboot. As it happened, I was out of town on a few vacatio... More..
Sports & Recreation > Hunting What is the best deer rifle for brush hunting?: 3 of 3
If you want to foster a lively and heated debate among hunters, just start a sentence with, "The best gun for hunting "{insert animal} is." Every hunter has his own favorite and for various reasons. Subscribe to any hunting and fishing magazine and sooner or later, the shooting or hunting editor will have an article comparin... More..
Sports & Recreation > Hunting The proper way to take care of a deer in camp: 2 of 2
You've done the two hardest parts. You hunted until you found the right deer and made the shot when it counted. Then you field dressed and hauled it out of the woods. Right now, it's hanging outside on the pole and you've had your picture taken with it. What's next? Proper Cooling Your first concern should be to cool the mea... More..