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Pepper Spray as an Effective Self-defense Product
Pepper spray which is used today as one of the most effective self-defense products by most women was originally used by the US postal department personnel to protect themselves from dogs when they delivered letters and parcels. Other terms that are used to refer pepper spray include OC spray, Oleoresin of Capsicum Spray, Defense Spray, OC Gas and Capsicum Spray.
This spray is used on those who come to attack us and it is sprayed on the eyes to cause irritation and pain. In certain cases it can even cause temporary blindness. Pepper spray when used effectively will give you enough time to take off from the crisis location as the criminal who is attacking you will be distracted by the acute pain caused by the spray. This is a non-lethal self-defense product. Moreover it can be easily carried around in the handbags and ladies purses as they come in small canisters. Pepper spray contains Capsaicin and chilly which give the spray its severe character. The effect of the pepper spray lasts for a minimum of 30 to 45 minutes; however the residual effects will remain for several hours. It also induces coughing along with the severe pain in the eyes.
As technology improves pepper spray comes in a variety of forms, they come in the form of key chains and they even come concealed in rings. Pepper spray has become the most popular self-defense product among women because it is very easy to use this product and it does not require you to exert any violent physical force. Moreover this is also one of the most affordable self-defense products in the market.
Some people are under the wrong notion that pepper spray is a mild form of tear gas and this is not true. This is not a volatile liquid so it is safe to use and it will not affect you when you use it on your attacker as it does not produce any fumes like tear gas. Moreover, it has been proved that it will be effective even against those people who dont feel pain such as drug abusers and psychotics. One of the disadvantages with pepper sprays is that if the criminal has protective eye glasses it may not have any effect on him or her. So you must always make sure to have a standby self-defense product such as stun guns or tasers to use in such situations.
When you want buy pepper spray or other self defense products you must make sure to get it from a reliable store. Today you can easily order these products online and save yourself from the trouble of driving around to find a personal security store. You can order your pepper spray at Personalsecurityandsurveillancesystems.com which specializes in selling self-defense products and home security products. They have a large collection of self-defense products making it a one-stop shop for all your personal and home security needs. All the products that are sold here are highly reliable and at the same time they are very competitively priced.
Akosi Dogbe is author of this article on Personal security.
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Internet auctions have become a fun and addictive
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One of the ways of making money on the internet is to keep a blog space. Blogs give the writer a chance to use adsense to earn some extra income. Some bloggers sell merchandise that not only brings in a little extra income but also works to promote the blog. One author turned her blog into a bestselling book. Not only does blogging have the ability to earn a little income, as a blogger you have a soapbox that lets you tell the world how you really feel.
Online auctions have become a fun and addictive way of making money on the internet. Internet auctions provide people with an opportunity to sell their old and unwanted items to the highest bidders. Many of the people who started selling unwanted household items on QxBid and have gone on to build lucrative businesses that rely on the internet auctions for their survival.
Freelance writers have found that the internet is a wonderful place to develop their careers. Several freelance writers have found that the internet provides them with an opportunity to keep in touch with magazines, editors, and publishers without having to leave their home. Surfing the internet can lead to new story ideas that would have never presented themselves in the pre-internet days. Websites in desperate need to improve their search engine optimization also provide writers with a means of making money on the internet by hiring them to write keyword rich articles.
People with excellent hand eye coordination and a talent for playing games will find that they have an excellent opportunity to make money on the internet. There are several gaming websites that offer a variety of games to anyone who is willing to pay a small fee. The websites then offer the person a chance to earn their money back by competing with other players. A talented player can earn an impressive income in a minimal amount of time.
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Peasant to Merchant to Peasant in Three Generations
By Wayne Messick
About three thousand years ago a group of Chinese business owners were sitting around after their local businessman’s group meeting. Their guest speaker that day was a very ancient and widely respected management consultant. It had been raining for days and the roads were a mess, so the ox cart that was picking him up to take him to the next village was running late.
That gave the business owners a chance to pick his brains further. They were all complaining to him about how their offspring just did not want to work hard like they had. They told the famous management consultant that their sons also wanted them to delegate decisions to them - even though they only had a few years experience.
And their sons were anxious, especially the married ones - they kept asking him when he was going to retire and turn things over to them. What is the problem with this younger generation they asked?
The seasoned successful business owners sitting at the feet of the management consultant that day were frustrated. After all they had worked for their honorable father for thirty years and they were happy to be told what to do by him and his most honorable father - both of whom were still around the business in case he had any questions. His father had not ever talked about retirement, although recently, now that he is over seventy - he does not come to work until 7am and leaves before 8pm.
If working long hours for decades, being told what to do and how to do it was fine for me, why do my sons seem so ungrateful?
The ancient Chinese management consultant listened carefully to each business owners’ concerns and then said, “peasant to merchant to peasant in three generations.” Just as the business owners were about to respectfully ask for clarification, his ox cart pulled up out front and like legions of consultants to follow him over the centuries - he got up and left without explaining what he meant.
They knew what he meant. They had seen it happen to their neighbors. A peasant worked hard growing more than his family needed to live on and sold the remainder. With the profits he bought more land and grew even more - making greater profits until one day he had a thriving business that did not require him to grow anything. Now he was a merchant and it was that business he passed along to his eldest son.
That son was successful doing what his dad had taught him. The business grew and grew until it seemed like it could run itself. When his son came along there was no need to impress upon him just how much sacrifice had been required by his grandfather to build the business in the first place.
He did not want to talk about the day when he had to carry the goods on his back to the next village to sell because his only ox had died along the road - slipped in the knee deep mud and broke its leg. He saw no value in telling his son the price he had had to pay in the early years to build what his dad had created into what it is today. He had actually never told anybody, his ever faithful and long suffering wife did not even know how hard it had been.
So when his son comes along he gets his own ox and two carts - one for the nice days and one when the winter winds come. The son gets his own little house not like the room in back of his grandfather’s house that his dad and mom shared with him and his two siblings.
The son had never experienced a drought, never saw a band of marauders burning their fields, and had never known what it was like when the price people were willing to pay did not cover the cost of growing the crops - so they lost money on everything they sold.
When the ancient Chinese management consultant left - what the business owners were still confronted with was WHY had the business failed in the long run turning the third generation merchant and his offspring back into peasants? And is there a lesson for us today, three thousand years later.
Successful companies - defined by me as those who systematically empower the next generation of owners from their first day on the job - all share a single characteristic. These companies have managed somehow to instill a sense of shared purpose about the future of the company. Every decision whether personal or business flows from that spirit. When everyone is totally committed to a shared vision of the future - they make decisions most likely to move them all toward that picture.
A successful business exists and is successful to the extent that it is a vehicle to accomplish the family’s goals and objectives. And business succession is not planning it is a process.
When working from a perspective of shared goals the necessary training is encouraged, expected really and gladly undertaken. If the mission is to build management for the future and that takes training then training it is. When everyone is on the same page about the future they call in the advisors, sooner rather than later, because the need for their expertise is understood. When everyone is on board and rowing together in the same direction, Dad goes shopping for a new Bass boat and mom starts planning for their European vacations.
Siblings with no commitment or interest in the business find other paths while mom and dad provide the resources to help them in lieu of a share in the business they do not want. And they start today - knowing that the kids committed to the business already have, in a way, their inheritance. It doesn’t seem right to make the others wait until the worst thing they can imagine happening happens before they get any of theirs.
And those who will run the business in the next generation will begin to look for the best ways to use their talents and those of the existing key managers and employees so the process of succession is smooth, seamless in fact.
When mom and dad sit down with their advisors they do so with the picture - what the whole family wants the company and everything else to look like in the future - right there on the table in front of them.
It’s the advisors role to create the documents, the cash required in the form of life insurance, and the structure - so that their wishes will come true.
So, it does not have to be “peasant, to merchant, to peasant” in your family’s case. But that is what is most likely to happen unless you do something about it.
If the business fails to achieve it’s potential it’s your fault. It’s not taxes, it’s not the economy, it’s your fault just like it was their fault (those ancient Chinese business owners) for not stopping the cart and dragging that consultant back into the room and asking him what they could do to avoid the predictable cycle.
What should you do? I suggest you start with a family meeting.
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Wayne Messick reports on how Main St. businesses are poised to succeed in the 21st Century on his blog
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