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Vaccinations are a way of life in the U.S. Military. All new recruits (both officer and enlisted) are vaccinated against various diseases during enlisted basic training or during officer accession training. What Vaccinations Are Given? The below table shows the standard vaccinations given to United States military personnel. While many vaccinations are given during basic training, other vaccinations and/or “booster shots” are given at various times while in the service, and some are given only to certain designated personnel, or for assignment/deployment to various locations around the World....

If you’re going to go full-time as a musician, you’re going to need to make some cash. You might love what you’re doing, but it’s hard to pay the rent or buy groceries if you don’t have some source of music industry income. So how can you make money as a musician without resorting to heading back to your day job? It can take a little creativity as you are getting your music career off the ground....

With saw blade painting, it’s essential not to skip over the preparation of the surface you’ll be painting on. If the saw blade has any oil or rust on it, you need to get this off before you start painting. Skip this in your rush to start painting the saw blade and you’ll regret it later. Difficulty: Average Time Required: Variable What You Need Saw blade suitable for paintingSteel wood or glasspaper for cleaningPaint and paint brushesVarnish...

Value-conscious customers of Ann Taylor retail stores will find some of the same popular styles at discounted prices at LOFT Outlets and Ann Taylor Factory stores. Shoppers can expect to find past seasons’ merchandise and “affordable luxury” products manufactured specifically for the factory outlet stores. LOFT Outlets carry a more youthful look and more casual styles, while the Ann Taylor Factory stores cater more to professionals. Both divisions sell suits, separates, dresses, shoes, and accessories designed for professional women....

It takes a lot of work to generate leads and turn them into qualified prospects. It’s harder still to convert those qualified prospects into clients or customers. Unfortunately, many small business owners give up on their prospects way too early in the sales cycle. HubSpot indicates that 44% of salespeople give up after one follow up while 80% of sales are made after five follow-ups. The reality is that few leads are “hot” in that they’re ready to buy on that initial contact....

I had a query from a reader about whether there was a medium available that can be used with acrylic paint to make it suitable for painting on silk. The specific query and answer are below. Question Is there a medium for acrylic paints that makes it suitable for silk painting? Answer I’ve used the one produced by Golden that’ll make acrylic paint suitable for “normal fabric painting” but wasn’t sure if it would be okay for painting on silk, or whether it would need to be heat-set too warm for silk....

The funniest political quotes include quips from writers, thinkers, and statesmen such as Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, and Abraham Lincoln. 01 of 42 Mark Twain on Congress “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” 02 of 42 P.J. O’Rourke on Democrats vs. Republicans “The Democrats are the party of government activism, the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn....

To some people, part-time work means having your hours reduced against your will or settling for part-time work after a long job hunt failed to land a full-time position. But there are plenty of positive aspects to part-time work if you look at it the right way. Some people actually consider the right part-time work arrangement the best of both worlds when it comes to work-life balance. More time for family....

Michael Jackson may have been a thriller in the eighties, but he was already a star at 11, and a superstar by the time he hit puberty. This list of his Top 10 musical moments from the Seventies, the decade that paved the way for his remarkable ascent to megastardom, shows how Michael Jackson evolved from the new Frankie Lymon to a disco demon, a sensitive torch singer, a dramatic romantic obsessive, and, later, a world healer....

There’s a lot of “do” and “don’t” information out there for eBay buyers, but it’s sometimes hard to get a concise list of just what the risks are that sellers are meant to be avoiding by observing best “do” and “don’t” practices. Here are ten of the biggest risks that eBay sellers face—apart from everyday concerns like failing to make sales, seeing demand for their stock dry up, seeing high return/exchange rates, or other things universal to the retail business....

Recording drum sounds is no easy matter. In fact, recording drums can be the biggest pain in your you-know-what, especially if you’re just starting out and you have limited resources. A few years ago, a good friend and fellow engineer (not to mention a top-notch drummer), Colin Anderson, introduced me to a great technique. With this method, four microphones, placed strategically, can give a spectacular sound when recording drums. It’s called the Glyn Johns method, and it’s a favorite of recording engineers everywhere trying to get professional results on a tight budget....

The annual employee performance review is an essential human resource process for documenting how well an employee performed throughout the year, an opportunity to provide feedback to the employee, and serves as a springboard for setting performance and development objectives for the coming year. However, the annual workplace ritual been compared to a trip to the dentist to get a root canal. Both can be accurate descriptions. Just like taking care of your teeth, the reason the annual performance review ends up feeling like a root canal is because of a lack of preventive maintenance....

A hater is a slang term used in everyday language and especially online to describe an individual who talks and behaves negatively in response to other people’s success and goal achievement. Haters might be jealous of their more successful counterparts, but they don’t necessarily have to be. For a person to be a hater, they merely have to be criticizing another person’s success — regardless of whether they secretly want that same type of success for themselves or not....

If the words “annual fund” conjure up an image of one big mailing to everyone in your nonprofit’s database, once a year, you’re likely still living in the 1960s. The stereotypical annual fund as a concept is still legitimate, but it has become a much more complicated beast in an era of multichannel fundraising. Let’s think of your annual fund as the hub of a wheel with many spokes, not unlike the way we now think about content marketing....

Wearing pantyhose on your head isn’t just for bank robbers any longer. In Elephant March, you’ll be donning a pantyhose trunk weighted down by a baseball and attempting to knock over water bottles. Like most “Minute to Win It” games, you shouldn’t have any trouble finding the supplies to play this game at home. The Goal Wearing a pantyhose “trunk,” walk a straight line and swing your head to knock over eight water bottles, four on each side....

Getting music press is never easy. So many people are vying such a limited amount of print space that getting the press attention you want is always hard work. The last thing you need to do is burn your bridges before you even build them. To make sure you get off on the right foot when you’re trying to get some press coverage of your music, check out these “dont’s” when it comes to approaching music journalists....

In warmer weather, most women wear sandals with shorts and skirts, but in many places, it’s too chilly to wear anything but jeans or pants during much of the spring. Then there are those women who actually prefer wearing jeans, even in the hottest months of summer. For all of those people and occasions—as well as any others you can come up with—I’ve assembled this list of the most jean-friendly women’s sandals....

One of the most common methods advertising agencies use to sell a product is exaggeration. Now, it cannot be just a little bit of exaggeration, as that could get confused with reality. No, it has to be “full-on, out there, only a complete idiot would believe it” exaggeration. For example, let’s imagine that you’re selling a car. In the TV ad, the driver gets into the car, revs it up, and then the car takes off....

Over the years, this Book Publishing Expert has listened to, read about, and polled many successful authors about their writerly habits and their best advice to their fellow writers. Here’s a roll-up of some of the core lessons from the pros. Professional Authors Write a Lot If you want to be a writer, you need to develop disciplined writing habits. Even if you have another day job, if you want to be a writer then writing is your job....

There’s a reason that the driver’s test includes a vision test—if you cannot see, you cannot drive. Being able to see and react to road signs, traffic signals, other vehicles, pedestrians and animals, and differing road and weather conditions is critical to making it through your daily drive. At night, because human beings don’t see well in the dark, clean headlights are even more critical to a safe driving experience....