1. Handle a blowout
2. Drive in snow
3. Check trouble codes
4. Replace fan belt
5. Wax a car
6. Conquer an off-road obstacle
7. Use a stick welder
8. Hitch up a trailer
9. Jump start a car

Handling Emergencies

10. Perform the Heimlich
11. Reverse hypothermia
12. Perform hands-only CPR
13. Escape a sinking car

Home

14. Carve a turkey
15. Use a sewing machine
16. Put out a fire
17. Home brew beer
18. Remove bloodstains from fabric
19. Move heavy stuff
20. Grow food
21. Read an electric meter
22. Shovel the right way
23. Solder wire
24. Tape drywall
25. Split firewood
26. Replace a faucet washer
27. Mix concrete
28. Paint a straight line
29. Use a French knife
30. Prune bushes and small trees
31. Iron a shirt
32. Fix a toilet tank flapper
33. Change a single-pole switch
34. Fell a tree
35. Replace a broken windowpane
36. Set up a ladder, safely
37. Fix a faucet cartridge
38. Sweat copper tubing
39. Change a diaper
40. Grill with charcoal
41. Sew a button on a shirt
42. Fold a flag

Medical Myths

43. Treat frostbite
44. Treat a burn
45. Help a seizure victim
46. Treat a snakebite
47. Remove a tick

Military Know-How

48. Shine shoes
49. Make a drum-tight bed
50. Drop and give the perfect pushup

Outdoors

51. Run rapids in a canoe
52. Hang food in the wild
53. Skipper a boat
54. Shoot straight
55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike
56. Escape a rip current

Primitive Skills

57. Build a fire in the wilderness
58. Build a shelter
59. Find potable water

Surviving Extremes

60. Floods
61. Tornados
62. Cold
63. Heat
64. Lightning

Teach Your Kids

65. Cast a line
66. Lend a hand
67. Change a tire
68. Throw a spiral
69. Fly a stunt kite
70. Drive a stick shift
71. Parallel park
72. Tie a bowline
73. Tie a necktie
74. Whittle
75. Ride a bike

Technology

76. Install a graphics card
77. Take the perfect portrait
78. Calibrate HDTV settings
79. Shoot a home movie
80. Ditch your hard drive

Master Key Workshop Tools

81. Drill driver
82. Grease gun
83. Coolant hydrometer
84. Socket wrench
85. Test light
86. Brick trowel
87. Framing hammer
88. Wood chisel
89. Spade bit
90. Circular saw
91. Sledge hammer
92. Hacksaw
93. Torque wrench
94. Air wrench
95. Infrared thermometer
96. Sand blaster
97. Crosscut saw
98. Hand plane
99. Multimeter
100. Feeler gauges

http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_journal/how_to/4281414.html

- Albert Einstein

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

- Anne Bradstreet

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

- Arthur C. Clarke

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

- Benjamin Jowett

Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile…initially scared me to death.

- Betty Bender

once again you expect us to believe your lies but i’ve removed the blindfold you put across my eyes i can no longer sit back and watch your system destroy what’s left of me everything that makes me is a lie no more of this not freedom we don’t even question it these are your standards these are your ideas these are your morale but this is my life i’m taking back my life i won’t let you make a living off my misery

- Chokehold

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for the law is too slow. I’ll ruin you.

- Cornelius Vanderbilt

Don’t try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.

- Daniel Quinn

to be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing it’s best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting

- E.E. Cummings

I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.

- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

- Emiliano Zapata

All glory comes from daring to begin.

- Eugene F. Ware

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

- Hellen Keller

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

- Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” ( $ ) ( ? )

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

- Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” ( $ ) ( ? )

Go without a coat when it’s cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it’s all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you’re made of and what you’re capable of. If you’re never tested, you’ll never define your character.

- Henry Rollins

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

- Heraclitus

no matter who we are, where we’re going, or where we’ve been, we all struggle. everyone has battles. everyone, at one time or another, faces the every moment, to day, to year, trials of existence. such is life.sometimes simple. sometimes complicated. when we wake up with challenges, we wake up with choices. to either overcome all that holds us down by going against what opposes us – or to continue sitting quietly in the foul stench of our own shit, while at the same time surendering ourselves to dear and failure. life shifts, spins, and relocates. as we do. we all have the ability to switch our fear of failure into an energy to overcome any trial. just a sure as we all have a spine.

- Hot Water Music

Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees.

- J. Willard Marriott

I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, ‘You’ll come to a wall you won’t be able to get through.’ So I said, ‘I’ll beat my head against that wall.’

- John Cage

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

- John Fowles, “The Magus” ( $ ) ( ? )

The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.

- John Ruskin

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquesting faith. I consider the capacity for it terrifying.

- Kurt Vonnegut

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

- Lillian Hellman, “An Unfinished Woman” ( $ ) ( ? )

It’s a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

- Madeleine L’Engle

I restore myself when I’m alone.

- Marilyn Monroe

No pressure, no diamonds.

- Mary Case

Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

- May Sarton

In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Haunted Mind” ( $ ) ( ? )

One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

- Nietzsche

Capitalism is like an island of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty.

- Noam Chomsky

Misfortunes one can endure. But to suffer for one’s own faults — ah! — there is the sting of life

- Oscar Wilde

I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has to get down to work.

- Pearl S. Buck

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

DOn’t forget the struggle don’t forget the streets. United we stand, divided we fall you’ve got to keep the faith!

- Ray-Beez

People find life entirely too time-consuming

- Stanislaw J. Lec

A victorious army first wins and then seeks battle. A defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.

- Sun Tzu, “The Art of War” ( $ ) ( ? )

It is not the critic who counts; Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; Who strives valiantly; Who errs, and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; But who does actually strive to do the deeds; Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; Who spends himself in a worthy cause; Who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worse, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt

If you go in search of honey, you must expect to encounter bees.

- Thomas Szasz

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

- Tim Robbins, “The Shawshank Redemption” ( $ ) ( ? )

in the aftermath of betrayal, we often have to struggle to maintain our grip on reality. survival requires a source of self-respect, self-awareness, and self-honesty. we have to find a balance point before reaching out again.

- Trial

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

- William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” ( $ ) ( ? )

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

- e.e. cummings

http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2008/05/21/secrets-to-smart-decisions-when-you-graduate-from-college/

A young man named Quincey Carr at age 22 had been pursuing his aviation career and was hoping to become a pilot for the California Fire Service as a firefighting tanker and fighting fires. In 2002 Carr achieved his private pilot’s license at age 17, and by August of 2006 had passed his written for the commercial pilot’s license.

He and his girlfriend were getting ready to go out and celebrate, but first he needed a haircut for the big event. While at the barbershop a stranger came in and began flirting with Carr’s girlfriend. After being rebuffed by the couple he left, only to return a few minutes, walk into the crowded barber shop, and proceed to shoot Carr as he sat in the barber’s chair.

Seriously wounded and left in a wheelchair, one would imagine that his dream was over. But not for Quincey!
His spine spliced by a bullet, and his legs paralyzed. Many months of painful physical therapy were required, but today Quincey flies airplanes with special hand controls even though he gets around in a wheelchair.

But that alone was not enough for this tough young man. Today he is a commercial pilot and has started working as a ground instructor at a startup flight school at the Hayward, CA airport. This during his free time from two other jobs he works at so that he can continued his flight training.

Quincey’s love of aviation started at age 9, and has not given up on his dream of flying for the California Fire Service. And from what I can find out nothing will stop him.

This story just goes to prove that aviation is a passion, a lifelong pursuit of excellence, and a career and avocation shared by those who keep their eyes on the sky.

Until next time keep your wings straight and level Hersch!

wow!!

here is the link,

http://all-things-aviation.com/aircraft/a-story-of-courage-committment-and-success/

Cycling Aerodynamics: Rider Position and Clothes

• an aerodynamically designed helmet
• a one-piece Lycra skin suit with short or long sleeves
• gloves with Lycra backs
• Lycra shoe covers or tape over shoelaces
• smooth nylon socks.

How to Make a Bike More Aerodynamic

• frame: The weight and design of a bicycle’s frame has a significant effect on drag. For time trials and triathlon riding, frames are designed to rotate the rider forward. This puts the rider in a lower position, thus improving his aerodynamics.
• handlebars: Handlebars act as the steering wheel of a bicycle, used in conjunction with a rider’s balance and center of gravity. They come in a variety of forms including drop handlebars, flat or upright handlebars, cruiser handlebars, triathlon handlebars and more.

  As their names indicate, different types of handlebars are used for different types of riding. The purpose of the handlebars is to allow a rider to steer while maintaining optimal aerodynamics and comfort.

• wheels: There are different schools of thought on the importance of wheel aerodynamics. While lighter wheels can help a rider accelerate more quickly, once the rider has reached a cruising speed, the lighter weight of the wheels no longer offers an advantage. As a result, lighter wheels are helpful for certain types of riding and racing but are not necessarily beneficial for long-distance events.

  The type of wheel chosen will depend on the terrain on which the cyclist will be riding. For example, aerodynamic wheels are beneficial until the rider reaches a grade of four percent. At that point, aerodynamic wheels lose their advantage and lighter wheels prevail.

“graduated” today!!

haha +p

The Forgotten Man

1/Lt Joe E. Seward

Through the history of world aviation
Many names have come to the fore,
Great deeds of the past in our memory will last
As they are followed by more and more.

When man first started his labor
In his quest to conquer the sky
He was designer, mechanic, and pilot,
And he built a machine that would fly.

But somehow the order got twisted,
And then in the public’s eye,
The man who got all the glory
Was the man who knew how to fly.

The pilot was everyone’s hero,
He was brave, he was bold, he was grand,
As he stood by his battered old biplane
With his goggles and helmet in hand.

To be sure, these pilots all earned it,
To fly then you had to have guts.
And they blazed their names in the hall of fame
On wings with bailing wire struts.

But for each of these flying heroes
There were thousands of little renown,
And these were the men who worked on the planes
But kept their feet on the ground.

We all know the name of Lindbergh,
And we’ve read of his flight into fame,
But think, if you can, of his maintenance man,
Can you remember his name?

And think of our wartime heroes,
Gabreski, Jabara, and Scott.
Can you tell me the names of their crew chiefs?
A thousand to one you cannot.

Now pilots are highly trained people,
And wings are not easily won,
But without the work of the maintenance man
Our pilots would march with a gun.

So when you see mighty jet aircraft
As they mark their paths through the air,
The grease-stained man with the wrench in his hand
Is the man who put them there.

Feeling worthless is a major sign of any kind of depression.  In a study by Dr. Aaron Beck, over 80% of diagnosed depressives said that they did not like themselves.   Why is this?  Partially, because we may have been taught to constantly compare ourselves, our talents and abilities with others.  It can start from a teacher saying, “Why can’t you be more like your older brother?” to being admonished act more like a saint or religious figure.  Once we get in the habit of comparing ourselves with others, we can’t help but think we don’t measure up in any way beside anyone else.

You can certainly learn from role models, heroes and religious figures.  But in learning, you have to forgive yourself of your faults, make any restitutions necessary and try to change from there, if you really need to.  For example, the hero for most of my life is British singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel.  When he was my age, he released his most sucessful album of his career, So.  Peter made millions and gave away a lot of that money to charity.  In comparison, I haven’t done anything nearly as remarkable.  I haven’t won awards or been applauded on stage or made a fraction of the money he has.  I also haven’t been able to give very much money or time to charities, becuase I lacked in neither. 

For years I tried to be another Peter Gabriel becuase that was my standard of a great human being.  However, over the years, I realzed that the job of being Peter Gabriel was already filled.  My job was to be Rena Sherwood and that was just as important a niche to fill as being a generous rock star.  I run my own home business as a freelance writer where I can write articles helping people help themselves.  I help take care of my Mother, her cat and my dog.  So, being Rena Sherwood has turned to be just the right person I was meant to be.

It’s not easy to stop an ingrained habit like running yourself down.  You have to practice, practice, practice.  You are learning another skill — to compare yourself with no one except yourself — and you can’t learn a new skill overnight.  One of the things that can help you learn this new skill is by meditating.  You don’t have to twist yourself into a pretzel and light incense in order to meditate.  You just keep your mind focusd on the present.  Don’t worry about the future or regret the past.  Appreciate what is around you.  Have no expectations, and you might find more good in your life than you thought.

Keeping your mind on the moment by meditating can help your physical stress levels and help ease your feelings of worthlessness.  See what you get accomplished in a day.  Who knows — you might be the envy of others.

http://www.we-relax.com/relaxation-stress/stop-comparing-yourself-with-others.htm

Thank you for you post.

It change my thought. A Big Thank You For Y’all.

I am A-level student. I plan to dropout after complete my Advance Subsidiary Level(AS-level). I just can’t stop thinking of Aircraft everyday.Besides, I just always get poor result because I can’t concentrate. So, I decide to take my AS level only this coming may and stop taking Advance level(one A-level) and go further my education in another college to pursue my dream(Diploma in Aircraft Maintenance Engineer). Am I doing the right thing?

I afraid I will regret later… Because I left more or less half a year only to complete one whole a-level (AS-level and A2-level). Is this a right decision? Should I complete my a-level or should I take As-level only and go pursue Aircraft Maintenance Course?

This is a very crucial decision I had to make. It might change my life. Arghhh…!!

please help.