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Rights, safety and why you should carry on the road

Connie Ulman Recreation & Leisure

Preparing for and getting my concealed carry weapon (CCW) license has been an exciting and empowering experience. I encourage all my fellow travelers to take a pistol safety course, or at least some kind of self-defense class. Hopefully, as you follow my journey, you will understand the importance of why you should conceal carry.

Make sure your employee harassment policies are strong enough

Lisa Mulcahy Business Management, Services & Risk Management

In today's workplace, managers can't be too careful when it comes to issues regarding employee harassment. It is key that you protect your company against internal legal claims, and you certainly don't want your staff members to feel uncomfortable, or worse, afraid when they are trying to do their jobs on a daily basis. Researchers have been looking into which company policies are the most effective in terms of shielding both your workers both physically and emotionally from various forms of co-worker or supervisor abuse. Use what they've learned through the following tips to make sure your policies offer the proper protection, and make changes where they're needed.

Military eyes ‘synthetic biology’ to track enemy movements

Karen Harrison Science & Technology

In an effort that sounds like it came straight from a science-fiction movie, the Department of Defense has announced it’s exploring the use of genetically altered marine life forms to track enemy subs. The effort is part of a $45 billion initiative begun in 2017 and dubbed the Applied Research for the Advancement of Science and Technology Priorities Program on Synthetic Biology for Military Environments. According to researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory, the program would use a relatively common type of sea life, altering its genetic makeup to make it "extra sensitive" to markers left by passing subs.

VA, T-Mobile partner as government expands its telehealth efforts

Scott E. Rupp Civil & Government

Mobile phone service provider T-Mobile has announced plans to provide 70,000 lines of wireless service to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in an effort to ensure that every VA location has a connection for telehealth services to veterans. According to a release issued by the company, military veterans drive "an average of 25 to 50 miles for healthcare visits today." Through its partnership, the VA healthcare system is attempting to create better, more efficient connections between patients and their provider.

December is National Impaired Driving Prevention Month

Dr. Denise A. Valenti Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

It is a message that needs to repeatedly loudly and often: do not drive impaired. The holiday season is a time where there are frequent preventable tragedies due to impaired driving. For that reason, December is National Impaired Driving Prevention Month. On average, 29 people in the United States die each day in motor vehicle crashes that involve the use of alcohol. Every year, more than 10,000 lives are lost to drunk driving at a cost of $44 billion.

Lessons learned from the Sig Sauer Academy

Joshua Fry Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

Being a law enforcement officer, shooting competitions and making television/films are three of my great passions in life. When Eli Crane, my friend of 24 years, former Navy SEAL, and now-owner of Bottle Breacher, presented me with an opportunity to combine all three into one trip, I couldn't say no. Eli is a brand ambassador for Sig Sauer firearms and was invited to film an episode of the internet series "The Real Man Show" at the Sig Sauer Academy in New Hampshire. Sig Sauer makes my agency’s duty weapons and I had long heard about the world-class facility they offer classes at to police, military and private security entities from around the world.

At last, a roadside screening test for THC

Dave G. Houser Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

November’s midterm elections added three states — Michigan, Missouri and Utah — to the growing list of 34 states that have legalized cannabis for medical and/or recreational use. That means that about 90 million Americans live where pot is legal, so the ramifications — good and bad — affect almost a third of our nation’s population. Aside from the fact that marijuana is still classified as an illegal controlled substance by federal law — subjecting those who partake to potential criminal prosecution — the use of pot is posing a more immediate and vexing problem concerning public safety.

Studies show obesity is a major concern for active-duty military and veterans

Karen Harrison Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

Losing weight is one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions, and according to new data, if you’re a veteran, the need to drop those extra pounds has never been more acute. A new survey conducted by Westat on behalf of the Wounded Warrior Project polled more than 33,000 post-9/11 veterans and service members, and found that, alarmingly, more than half of all survey respondents were obese, based on their body mass index measurements. Of those, about 7 percent were morbidly obese. What’s more, the number of obese service members increased by more than 3 percent since a 2014 survey, the report found.

If you still use your sights to aim, you should do this instead

Mike Ox Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

There are stages that shooters go through as they go from picking up a pistol for the first time to being ready to use a pistol in a life or death situation. This is true of all skills. For some reason, most people treat shooting differently. They think that if an instructor told them something at any point in their life, it must still hold true today. That’s not the way it works. Take the sights on a pistol as an example.

The origins of store-bought wild game

John McAdams Food & Beverage

It’s December now and we’re right in the thick of hunting season. For that reason, a lot of people have venison and other wild game meat on their mind. However, the wild game meat you can buy in a store or eat in a restaurant probably doesn’t come from where you think it does. Commercial hunting of wildlife for meat, hides, and feathers greatly contributed to the massive decline of wildlife populations in the United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Laws like the Lacey Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, and a whole host of legislation at the state level effectively outlawed market hunting.

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