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Occupational Duties of Astronauts
Astronauts explore uncharted territory and so something new everyday. The fun derives from floating in weightlessness and gazing at the large blue Earth. Find out what their jobs entail.
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How to Access Gmail or Tumblr
You can access both Gmail or Tumblr using desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones or and devices that can browse the Web. To use a site, you must first sign up for it.
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Information on Navy Recruiting for Civilians
Joining the U.S. Navy gives you a chance to serve your country. While in the service, you can also learn skills, get money for college and receive a nice income when you retire.
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How to View Multiple Excel Worksheets at Once
Find out how to show two or more worksheets at the same time, either from the same or different workbook.
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Jobs That Get Oil Out of the Ground
Before oil can become useful, it must get out of the ground through the efforts of many types of jobs. Collectively, individuals with this employment are called oil workers.
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Automotive Maintenance Mechanic Jobs
Find out the skills, education and job description of car mechanics who can fix, maintain and tune up automobiles.
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Chief Administrator Responsibilities
If you have a knack for organization and like to work in comfortable digs, then a career as a chief administrator may be for you. This business pro makes sure everything in the office runs smoothly.
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Insurance Administrator Job Description
Find out what insurance administrators do and how their job descriptions vary.
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Ranking Average Teacher Salaries by State
What states offer the highest average salaries for teachers by grade level? Find out here.
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Demands of Police Officer Jobs
Police officers have higher-than-average rates of injuries and illness. The dangers from this highly stressful work can be minimized by ensuring that officers meet tough demands.
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Medical Unit Clerk Jobs
The primary functions of hospitals, doctors’ offices and other medical facilities center around diagnosing medical conditions and treating patients. However, as businesses, they must also manage information and paperwork, or risk inefficiency, unprofitability and eventual failure. Medical unit...
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Comparing Director and Screenwriter Jobs
A movie or TV program requires the efforts of several types of professionals to reach its audience. Two of the better-known job types belong to directors and screenwriters.
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Medical Transcriptionist Jobs and Experience
Doctors and healthcare professionals often have to write documents such as diagnostic reports, letters to patients and supply requirements. The fastest way for them to create written materials is to dictate it into a recording that is then processed by medical transcriptionists into written...
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What are Licensed Real Estate Salespersons
Buying and selling homes, office buildings and properties involves dealing with industry standards, government regulations and financial contracts. The process is fraught with peril for individuals who do not perform it everyday. Licensed real estate salespeople handle this complex transaction so...
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Starting a Pharmaceutical Career
With the chance to ease pain and save lives, a pleasant and climate-controlled working environment, and the ability to interact with people as an authority figure, pharmaceutical careers may prove ideal choices for many students and jobseekers. Starting in the career can begin before high school...
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Business Executive Responsibilities and Duties
The term “business executive” can apply to managers in charge of seeing their areas of responsibility succeed, whether they’re in charge of departments or entire corporation. The duties of these higher-level professionals differ from those of the workers they supervise.
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Marketing Jobs and Salaries
The best and most valuable products and services in the world only earn profits for their producers when marketed to a target audience. Thus, the job of marketing is to advertise value and why customers should take advantage of an organization’s offerings. Salaries for marketing professionals vary...
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Administrative Assistant Job Description and Salary
Although they’re considered by many to have the lowest positions in corporate offices, administrative assistants boast at least two advantages. First, there’s nowhere to go but up the corporate ladder. Second, they learn all aspects of their chosen industry from the ground. Their job descriptions...
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South Asian Standout: A Review of Wrap n'Roll Kabob House
Travel to an exotic land of spiced flavors by sampling the lunchtime buffet of Wrap n'Roll Kabob House.
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Great Taste with the Illusion of Health: Yogurtland Review
Find out if Yogurtland, a bastion of frozen yogurt desserts, is worth a visit.
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Fresh and Filling: A Review of Redbrick Pizza Café
Check out this candid review of the Redbrick Pizza Cafe, specifically, of the one located in Brea, California.
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Receptionist Jobs and Salaries
Because receptionists are usually the first employees that customers see when walking in the company door, they act as the important first impression for any organization. A neat and professional appearance, and a friendly personality are some of their necessary characteristics. Their salaries and...
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Salaries of the Best Jobs in the USA
Figuring out what the best jobs in the country can be subjective, based on a person’s abilities, interests and job responsibilities.. However, the decision can also come from objective criteria, such as best employment, highest salaries or education.
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Physician Assistant Salary Basics
Physician assistants diagnose and treat medical conditions but only with the supervision of physicians. They are not the same thing as medical assistants who perform clerical work and some minor medical tasks, such as checking blood pressure. PAs earn according to their employer and where they work.
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Researching Your Miniature World: A Review of “The Model Railroader’s Guide to Industries Along the Tracks”
Check out this review of "The Model Railroader's Guide to Industries Along the Tracks" to see if it's a worthy addition to your library.
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Your Tax Dollars at Work: Highest-Paying Government Jobs
Government careers don’t just cover legislators, soldiers and city workers. They also encompass doctors, lawyers, electricians, cooks and janitors. As in private industry, some jobs in government pay far more than others.
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Clerk / Data Entry Jobs
If you want to work in an office or get your foot in the door of a corporation, one way to start is with a clerk/data entry job. Because the position is considered entry-level, it has minimal qualifications. It offers the chance to learn a company from the ground up, and is the first step on the...
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Counselor Roles
Counselors help clients with unusual or difficult situations in life by meeting with them individually, as part of couples or families, and as members of larger groups, such as students or job hunters. They typically work from offices full-time, although their schedules could include evenings and...
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Differences Between Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees for Teachers Salaries
The minimum educational requirement for teachers in kindergarten through 12th grade is a bachelor’s degree, which takes a minimum of four years. However, some states require teachers to earn a master’s degree. Find out the differences in teacher salaries between the two degrees.
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Occupational Therapist (OT) vs Physical Therapist (PT) Careers
Both occupational therapists and physical therapists treat patients for injuries and illnesses without prescribing medications or using invasive surgical procedures. Choosing one career over another depends on the duties, qualifications and rewards of each.
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Careers in Fine Arts
Fine artists create beautiful or thought-provoking objects for exhibition at museums or for sales to private collectors and businesses. They use different media such as oil paints, canvas, glass, stone or clay, and techniques such as painting, glassblowing, or sculpting. Most earn their pay through...
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Customizing a TomTom GPS
The TomTom portable car navigation device tells you how to get somewhere with spoken and visual directions. However, you may find its functional and sturdy black case a bit dull. You can customize the exterior of several models with something more exciting by ordering your device from the TomTom...
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Show Them The Money: Tax Manager Salaries
Tax managers handle increasingly complex tax accounting for organizations. Find out what they earn.
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Hourly Wages of Developers
Find out what software and web developers are paid per hour.
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Can Amateur Golfers Earn Salaries?
The compensation of golfers is defined by the United States Golf Association, in consultation with the Royal and Ancient Golf Club in St. Andrews, Scotland. Both organizations share authority over the Rules of Golf and its decisions.
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Hourly Pay for Merchandise Associate Jobs
Merchandise associate, sales associate, sales clerk, sales worker and customer assistant are just some of the terms that refer to retail salespeople. They work in brick-and-mortar stores. Their total compensation can combine a base salary and a commission on sales.
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Uploading Files to the Internet
You can easily store musical selections on your computer by ripping them off CDs or buying digital versions from music retailers. But loading your files onto the Internet protects them from system malfunctions and allows you to listen to them anywhere in the world with a web connection.
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Changing a Name on U.S. Treasury Bonds
Treasury bonds are government-backed securities that pay you fixed interest rates until they mature in 30-year terms. Find out how to change names on them.
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Google lies! Why a plain search for your site’s SEO rank won’t work.
You perform Google searches on your Internet articles to observe their SEO rankings. But what you perceive as your site’s rank on Google may have nothing to do with reality.
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Changi (Singapore International Airport): What Great Airports Should Be
Changi Airport contains recreational activities to while away the waiting hours, plenty of retail and restaurant options, and a place to rest the body after a long, confining airplane flight.
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Men Power: Jobs with the Highest Percentage and Numbers of Male Workers
Though American society has made great strides in equalizing the job market for both genders, certain jobs are still dominated by men because of innate ability, social pressure or tradition. Some professions have a higher percentage of males while others have greater absolute numbers.
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Worse than Excrement: What to do about bad online writing, especially if it’s yours.
What do you do if you encounter bad writing on the Internet? What if it's one of your pieces?
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Alocsin's Entertainment Index
The following is an index to Alocsin's hubs about entertainment including movies, theater, art and dance. The hubs are arranged in alphabetical order by subject and then by title. The last subject, What's New, is a list of the latest additions.
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Alocsin's Teaching Jobs and Salaries Index
The following is an index to Alocsin's hubs on teaching jobs and salaries for all grade levels up to college. The hubs are arranged in alphabetical order by title.
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Alocsin's Railroad Jobs and Salaries Index
The following is an index to Alocsin's hubs on railroad jobs and salaries, include locomotive engineers, train conductors and brakemen. The hubs are arranged in alphabetical order by title.
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Alocsin's Entertainment Jobs and Salaries Index
The following is an index to Alocsin's hubs on entertainment jobs such as actor, director, producer and musician. They are arranged in alphabetical order by category and then title.
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Alocsin's Engineering Jobs and Salaries Index
The following is an index to Alocsin's hubs on engineering jobs and salaries, arranged in alphabetical order by category and then title. Click any link to visit its related hub. Feel free to add any constructive critiques in the Comment field at the end of this index.
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Alocsin's Computer Jobs and Salaries Index
The following is an index to Alocsin's hubs on computer jobs and salaries, sorted alphabetically by title. Click any link to visit its associated hub. Feel free to add any constructive criticism in the Comment field at the end of this index.
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Alocsin's Jobs and Salaries Index
The following is an index to Alocsin's hubs on jobs, employment and salaries, arranged in alphabetical order by category and then title. The last section, What's New, lists the five newst jobs hubs.
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Alocsin's Moneymaking How-To Index for Hubs and the Internet
The following is an index to Alocain's hubs about how to make money on HubPages and the Internet, sorted in alphabetical order by category and then title. The last section, What's New, lists the five latest hubs.
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Comprehensible Craftspeople: Five Great Modern Artists You Can Enjoy
Art requires that the artist and the viewer communicate in a language that both can understand. Fortunately, enough craftspeople are still willing to use their work to communicate in comprehensible terms.
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Memories Made Manifest: Collecting Print Catalogs
Print catalogs form a snapshot of a particular point in time because they show the exact products, pictures and text that people looked at back in the day. Find out how you can collect these documents of history.
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Getting Around L.A: Maxxing Out Your Ride Style with Rentals
Whether you live in Los Angeles or are just visiting, you need a car to travel among all the area’s distant destinations. For a special occasion like an anniversary, prom night or business celebration, an ordinary vehicle may not be enough. Fortunately, many options are available for maxxing out...
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Stop the Crime: Five Surprising Ways Thieves and Burglars Know You’re on Vacation
A long vacation can provide a relaxing and refreshing break from your regular routine unless it’s marred by a break-in at your home or theft of your luggage. Find out what those are and how you can defend against crime.
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How 31,000 monthly page views made January 2012 my best hub month ever
Find out how my hub reached 31,000 page views in one month.
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Picture-Matching Quiz: How well do you know European paintings?
The following matching quiz tests your knowledge of Western art. Simply match the letter of artist’s name on the left with the number of the painting on the right. You can click the picture to enlarge it.
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Load Off Your Shoulders: Luggage Tips for Traveling
Like all smart travelers, you pack light so that your carry-on can avoid the airline’s ever-growing baggage charges. But despite your best intentions, sometimes a long trip such as a cruise requires that you bring luggage. This increases the chances that your possessions may be lost or stolen. Here...
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California Nightmares: Why I Hate L.A.
I've lived in the Los Angeles area for most of my adult life. I’ve also traveled around the world enough to know that things can be far better than they are here. Find out the reasons why I hate L.A.
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You’re an Evil Plagiarist with a Duplicate Flag
Find out why you can get a "duplicate" flag and what to do to remove it.
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Female Force: Part 2: Jobs with the Highest Percentage of Women Workers
This hub is part 2 of a series that began with Female Force: Part 1: Jobs with the Greatest Number of Women Workers. You may want to read that hub first for comparison. The following are the top ten jobs with the highest percentage of women worker.
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Great L.A. Walks: Part 2, Concrete Encounters in Los Angeles
Urban areas to visit while walking in Los Angeles, California.
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Money from Your Pocket: The Big and Scary 14 Trillion
Find out exactly what 14 trillion is and why it's important.
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Asian Journeys:Traveling From Japan to Singapore
The Asian destinations of Japan and Singapore attract visitors because of their cultural sites and business opportunities. Though both areas are separated by the East and South China Seas, the following three options are available for travel between the two countries.
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Public Works: Lowest and Highest Paying Jobs for Civil Engineers
Civil engineers design and oversee the construction of the nation’s infrastructure, which includes bridges, freeways, sewer systems, harbors, airports, railways, canals and dams. Their salaries depend on employer and job location.
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Great L.A. Walks: Part I, Los Angeles Icons
You definitely need a car to visit the far-flung destinations that comprise the Los Angeles area. But once you get there, the region’s many communities offers opportunities to ditch the wheels. You can actually walk in L.A. and see things up close that just whiz by from your driver’s seat. Here are...
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Your Fairy Godfather’s Guide to Social Dances with Beginning Lessons
There are still occasions that demand the genteel art of social dancing such as weddings, anniversaries and any formal celebrations. I shall wave my magic mouse so my fairy helpers can show you exactly what I’m talking about.
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Your Fairy Godfather’s Guide to Designer Couture at a Budget Click
Here’s the dilemna, darling. You want to look spectacular for your anniversary fete, promotion party or first date. But the latest Vera Wang couture is just a tad out of the budget. Fear not and let moi, your virtual fairy godfather, wave his magic mouse and turn you into the belle of the ball.
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Online Origami Videos for Learning the Art of Paper Folding: Simple Starts
Origami is the Japanese art of paper folding. Through it, you can enliven your surroundings with just a piece of paper. The skill can make you friends at any gathering and gain the admiration of kids. The collection is arranged in order of increasing complexity.
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Movie Review of “Bubble” by Steven Soderbergh: Anybody Can Be a Non-Actor!
Many critics proclaim "Bubble," directed by Steven Sodebergh, to be a quirky masterpiece of filmmaking that uses low-cost digital cameras. So I rented the DVD from Netflix, which predicted a respectable 3.3 stars out of 5 for my rating.
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Happy Realities About HubPages and Making Money: What the FAQs Don't Tell You.
Find out what makes HubPages a worthy money-making site.
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Evil Truths About HubPages and Making Money: What the FAQs Don’t Tell You.
Find out some of the ugly truths about HubPages.
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Pennies for Your Thoughts: Making Money with Reviews at Epinions
Epinions is a website that lets you post your reviews to an Internet audience for cash. Find out how to take advantage of it.
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Breathing for the Eyes: How to Improve Your Writing using White Space
White space refers to the blank lines and empty spaces that surround your text. You can use white space to improve readability as shown by this article.
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Great Job Bets: Fastest Growing Careers in the USA
The fastest growing careers in the country are those with the greatest increases in actual job numbers or in percentage of jobs. Find out what they are.
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Flash and Substance: Increase Website Traffic with Titles and Subtitles
Find out how to increase website traffic by using the right title and subtitle for your online writings.
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Labor Burden and Overhead Expense for Small Business
Small business owners often have to estimate project budgets as well as what to charge clients for any contracted work. The closer the estimates are to the final amount, the better owners can manage their expenses and make a profit. Two major components of any estimates or final costs are the labor...
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Keeping Cool Tools: Storage Solutions for Crafters, Model Makers and Hobbyists
As a hobbyist, you like to buy tools that will make the process of creation easier, whether you’re building model airplanes, knitting booties or forming clay figurines. These low-cost organization tools, with most priced under $25 and only a couple over $50, can keep your favorites at a handy...
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Bring Your Wallet and Leave Your Sweet Tooth at Home: A Review of Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour in Brea, California
I remember eating at a Farrell’s in another state when I was much, much younger. Would this latest version live up to those memories?
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The Promise of Love: Free Romantic Ideas for Valentines Day Activities
Valentines Day activities typically mean a special night out, a romantic dinner and gifts. But you can add unique touches to the experience with these ideas that don’t cost a dime.
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Running with Fries: Eating Less by Comparing Calories with Exercise
You try to lose weight by eating less and then exercising. But you continue to eat and despair at your growing waistline. Use this strategy to overcome the extra calories.
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Melting Away: Easy Ways to Lose Weight with Everyday Activities
Everyday activities can provide easy ways to lose weight because you don’t have to schedule time in your day to perform them. Find out how.
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Creative Control: Producer and Director Salaries and Employment
Producers and directors are at the top positions for entertainment media. Find out how much they earn and where their jobs are located.
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Flight Dreams: Airline Jobs and Salaries
Airline jobs ensure that air travel remains the fastest and safest way to get to destinations that lie hundreds or thousands of miles apart. Their salaries and responsibilities vary by position.
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Calculating HVAC Duct Designs
When the weather outside gets too hot or too cold,a heating, venting and cooling system is necessary. Proper HVAC duct design and calculation ensures the best climate control with most efficient energy use.
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Law Office Operators: The Highest Salaries and Employment for Legal Secretaries in the USA
Legal secretaries prepare legal papers such as motions, subpoenas and complaints while supervised by a lawyer or paralegal. Their job prospects and earnings depend on whom they work for and where they are located.
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Top Selling Model Trains on Amazon
What kid doesn’t enjoy the sight and sound of a model locomotive chugging its way down a track while pulling some colorful passenger and freight cars? Here are the top selling trains on Amazon.
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How to Find Amazon Best Sellers for your Articles
Step-by-step procedure on locating the best selling products on Amazon.
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More Road Warriors: The Highest Paid Light or Delivery Services Truck Drivers in the USA
Light or delivery services truck drivers are also called pick-up and delivery drivers because they deliver goods within a small region or metropolitan area. Find out what they earn.
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Workin’ on the Railroad: Salaries of Rail Yard Engineers and Hostlers
Rail yard engineers and hostlers operate locomotives within the confines of a rail yard, such as for an industrial area or port. Engineers handle consists with cars, while hostlers operate yard locomotives without attached cars. Find out how much their salaries run.
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Payment Requisitions and Small Business
When you’re a one-person business, you can easily track expenses because you’re the only person requesting goods and services, and then paying for them by check or credit card. As your enterprise expands with employees, the people creating the expense, approving it and paying for it may differ. A...
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Is New Siding or a New Roof Cheaper for a House?
Though a new roof and siding can add value to a home, replacing them both at the same time can prove too costly. Homeowners can choose to do just one of these upgrades at a time on the basis of price.
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Model Train Resource: Online Videos of Great Winter- and Snow-Themed Track Plans
Even when Arctic conditions rage outdoors and snow is falling, the trains must roll to deliver passengers and freight to their intended destinations. Bearing witness to those intrepid vehicles are the following online videos of model railroad layouts in several scales dedicated to winter scenes and...