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CLOWNING AROUND!

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am a reader - I have been since my days as a child staying up past midnight reading comic books. Why, because my mom was a reader and knew the value of learning new things and going on the wild adventures that only reading can take you on.

Now, I’m sure to…

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Added by Paul Combs on June 29, 2018 at 7:01am — No Comments

THE EGOCENTRIC OBJECTIVE - January Magazine Cartoon

NEW Fire Engineering January editorial illustration.

You as an instructor are there for your students, they are not there to pad your ego! I have seen way too many instructors and officers who love to show you how much you don't know, instead of how much they can…

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Added by Paul Combs on January 17, 2018 at 3:28pm — No Comments

My Happy Place

For as long as I can remember, I have loved to read. Being that my interests have been very specific, I loved to read fire books.

So it only makes sense that the National Fire Academy’s Learning Resource Center is the “holy grail” of fire literature. Contained within its historic walls are over 208,000 books, video, research papers and publications.

THIS is my happy place.

If you have not personally been to the National Fire Academy, the campus and its top notch…

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Added by Stephen Raclaw on November 16, 2015 at 5:47pm — No Comments

You Are What You Read

In between discipline, training, planning, and WOW actual calls it occurs to me that we have some down time that we could responsibly fill with knowledge enhancement activities. Do you like that? A new acronym KEA. Yeah, what the heck does that mean? Let's call it reading.

It doesn't make a difference if it's printed matter, blogs (thank you dear reader),… Continue

Added by Peter Lupkowski on December 21, 2010 at 10:22pm — 2 Comments

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