Craft the Perfect Keychain This Weekend by Adam Dachis Keychains: they’re great for keeping your keys collected and organized but often become a bulky, enormous mess. This isn’t a problem you have to live with. A few clever tools and tricks can get your keychain in order so it’s not only easy to carry but functional as well. Stop Stressing When You Need to Swap Your Keys Changing up the keys on your keychain is often one of the most frustrating task you’ll encounter, but there are a few tools that don’t cost much and can remove a lot of the frustration. To remove the stress of getting your keys on and off the ring, just get a FREEKey. Minimize the Number of Keys You Have to Carry Bulk is the other main problem most keychain owners face. Make Your Keychain Actually Useful Most keychains hold keys and stop there, but so many useful items fit on the ring as well. Got a weekend project you want us to cover?
The Best Hand Tools for Disaster Recovery By The Best Hand Tools for Disaster Recovery By Harry Sawyers When trees are down and power is out, the most useful gadgets are the ones that never need a charge. The situation calls for shovels, rakes, knives—and a few rolls of duct tape don’t hurt either. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Popular Mechanics posted a list of the 14 hand tools you need during disaster recovery. Here are a few highlights: Long-socket shovels to remove debrisBypass loppers to clear brushA bow saw or pruning saw to cut fallen branchesAxes and hatchets to clean up messy limbsA bow rake to collect debrisA heavy-duty wheelbarrow to haul away garbagePlastic tarps to transport materials or keep things dryDuct tape to help secure that plastic sheeting Utility knives to slice damaged drywall Safety glasses to shield yourself from flying debrisA first-aid kit for any type of small injury A few things we’d add to PM’s already thorough list—rope and twine; contractor bags; and framing hammers or sledgehammers.
Who Needs Photoshop? Amazing Image Editing Feats You Can Do With MS Word If you don't want to face the steep learning curve of Adobe Photoshop but you still want to conjure up some imaging magic, you need to look elsewhere. So, have you considered using Microsoft Word? What! MS Word as a replacement for Photoshop! There are some amazing image editing feats you can do with MS Word 2017 and its image editing tools. Head for the Picture Tools Most of the image editing magic in MS Word lies in the Picture Tools tab. The Picture Tools work on all image types you insert in Word document. It Could Start With a Screenshot It could just have escaped you, but Microsoft Word (and the other apps too) does have a handy screenshot tool. With Screen Clipping, your entire window turns temporarily become opaque or "frosted over". Embed an Image in a Shape You can create interesting graphics by using a combination of a shape and a picture inside it letting the shape acts as a frame. First, choose Insert > Shape. Give Your Edges a Softer Touch Remove Background Use "Layers" In Word
Mnemonics or Memora Technica MNEMONICS OR MEMORA TECHNICA (Heb. סִימָן, siman; "a sign"), devices based on the principle that the mind is able to recall relatively unfamiliar ideas by connecting, as some artificial whole, parts of them which are mutually suggestive. Mnemonics are widely used in the Talmud – as in post-talmudic literature – but their use in the former was rendered imperative by the fact that the Talmud was originally transmitted orally, and even after it was committed to writing, both the scarcity of the texts, and the custom of teaching the text orally which prevailed in the geonic academies (Weiss, Dor, 3 (19044), 215ff.; Halevy, Dorot, 3 (1928), 227) made it necessary for mnemonic devices to be employed. The mnemonic devices of the Talmud can be divided into two main categories, those in which the mnemonic is an integral part of the text, forming part of its body, and those in which a passage is preceded by the mnemonic as an aid to the memory of what is to follow. Biblical Mnemonics Catchphrases
Get Out of Dodge Thursday, April 17, 2014 From: Wallace Streete, Editor at Absolute Rights Re: How you can be prepared for ANY situation that forces you to temporarily evacuate your home. Dear Friend, Did you know that over 5,000,000 Americans have been forced to evacuate their homes in the last 5 years? Did you also know that many of those 5 million evacuees literally had to scrounge for food, water and shelter…and sadly, that some didn’t make it? FACT: Government agencies will take 3 days assigning jurisdiction, organizing people and setting up supplies before they even start to deal with victims. In fact, FEMA expects you to be practically prepared to take care of yourself for at least one week after a disaster. Truly preparing for when disaster strikes may seem overwhelming…but did you ALSO know that it’s possible to be practically prepared to leave your house in less than 2 minutes with everything you’ll need to survive that critical first week? Probably not… but don’t worry, you're not alone… That’s OK.
Farewell Dossier The Farewell dossier was the collection of documents that Colonel Vladimir Vetrov, a KGB defector (code-named "Farewell"), gathered and gave to the French DST in 1981–82, during the Cold War. Vetrov was an engineer who had been assigned to evaluate information on Western hardware and software gathered by the "Line X" technical intelligence operation for Directorate T, the Soviet directorate for scientific and technical intelligence collection from the West. He became increasingly disillusioned with the Communist(Bolshivist) system and decided to work with the French at the end of 1980. Between the spring of 1981 and early 1982, Vetrov gave almost 4,000 secret documents to the DST, including the complete list of 250 Line X officers stationed under legal cover in embassies around the world. As a consequence, Western nations undertook a mass expulsion of Soviet technology spies. Background[edit] Reagan passed this on to William Casey, his Director of Central Intelligence. CIA response[edit]
CEMS Home "Not NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) but WIMBY (What’s in my backyard,)" says Tom Tailer, UVM '85 alumni and Co-Director of the UVM/GIV Engineering Institute. Tom and his wife, Beth, also a Co-Director of the Institute, began the Eco-Freeze project in their backyard in Essex, VT with high school students enrolled in the Governor's Institutes of Vermont's Engineering Institute. Students and others worked to fill the 3000 soda bottles with a mixture of salt and water. Styrofoam will be used to insulate the bottles. This first of its kind, Eco-Freezer measures 16' x 30' and contains three rooms: the freezer (23°F), the cooler (-40°F), and the air-lock. Calculations and mathematical modeling were used to determine Thermal Resistance and Heat Flow. Their dream is to see thousands of passive freezers across the country and around the world. Watch WCAX's news coverage:
Store Eggs Long-Term Without Refrigeration! | Survive the Coming Collapse Welcome to this week’s Survive The Coming Collapse newsletter, brought to you by Free Survival Cheat Sheets.com, a set of quick, actionable, and free preparedness and survival tips and tricks from the The Fastest Way To Prepare course. Remember, this week, we’re donating 10% of all sales to front line first responders who are helping in the Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts. Also, if you missed David’s article on Wednesday, you should check it out to learn about this week’s 2 for 1 Urban Survival Playing Card promotion. To learn more, go >HERE<. Also, check out something new David is offering on the forum; News & Views that will bring you news from around the web that relates to prepping. To the extent that we’re able, we’ll be posting links to articles that we find important on a daily basis at SurviveTheComingCollapse.com. Survival Diva here. Believe it or not you can store eggs, unrefrigerated, for 6 months or longer, and cheese for years when done properly. So, How Did They Do It? 1.
Speak, Memory - A FEW YEARS AGO, Captain Emmanuel Joseph decided to learn Arabic before his deployment to Iraq. “At first it was easy,” he told me. At his base in the U.S., he explains, “we had native speakers teaching us basic things like greetings; imperatives like stop, go, walk; and some numbers and nouns. It was very much survival-level.” In Iraq, Joseph (not his real name) continued trying to learn Arabic with Al-Kitaab, the main textbook used by American universities and the military. But he struggled. “I was forgetting more than I was learning,” he said. LinguaStep was first developed in 2006 by Loren Siebert, an energetic computer-software entrepreneur with coppery hair crowning a triathlete’s build. Siebert decided to learn Arabic on something of a lark: He took an aptitude test that told him he’d be good at languages. Siebert designed his software to use spaced repetition. “There are subtle, key things that make all the difference in programs,” he added.
Names & details changed. But the Story is 100% True. Dave worked in a job he hated and it was giving him an ulcer. Nearly had a nervous breakdown. One day made a decision: “I’m bailin’ from this place, and come heck or high water, I’m going to make it on my own.” Started a safety consulting business, helping companies comply with gov’t regulations. A year later, he’s doing… okay. I ask to see his sales letter and his lead gen. “You mind if I rewrite one of your faxes?” “Sure,” he says. Dave blasts the fax. Sure enough, the phone begins to ring. These people are MAD. Dave’s wife is MAD too. It’s dinner time and we’re driving to dinner. Dave’s face is white as a sheet, like he’s tumbled out of an airplane without a parachute. (And I have to admit, I’m wondering if maybe I’ve finally pushed things too far this time.) Next morning, I give Dave instructions: “I want you to call Jeff Cramer’s office at the Safety Commission and request a personal appointment with him, right now.” He’s never talked to this guy, but he leaves the room and complies.
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