Hey Everybody,

 

It has been a few months since I’ve posted a fresh video and many of you have emailed or called wanting to know why.…

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Hi everyone, my name is Tony Palm and I'm the founder of Straight TAP!



Over the next few weeks our CIO Vern Hyndman will be making some significant changes to the look and feel of the site; in fact, he's already started the process.



The biggest change will be in the tabs you see at the top of the page just under the Straight TAP banner. Most of the existing tabs will be removed completely and replaced with content hosting pages chock full of information including: Resume… Continue

Thomas Cahill, the historian and novelist, calls his historical novel series "the hinges of history", because it's his perspective that while the primary eras of history... the enlightenment... the dark ages... all have valuable history for us to study, Cahill believes that it's in the few years BETWEEN each epoch where all the interesting things happen.

 

I think Cahill is onto something, the idea that it's during the change periods that a lot of the important stuff happens.…

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I recently retired from 30 years of service in the Navy and I would like to share some of my transition experiences with the group.

 

There is a precise moment when we are struck with a moment of self-realization that is a little scary.  This self-realization compounds if you haven’t taken the time to establish a transition plan, set goals, identified your network, and defined “what you want to do when you grow…

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