Bill Hartman on Daily Contingency Plans

Bill Hartman on always having contingency plans for everything in life (here he gave examples to deal with getting good food/eating too much food/a lack of gym access/a lack of gym time):

“I can assure you with relative confidence that today will not go as planned.

Someone will interrupt your productive time. You’ll get distracted from your task at hand. Your work will take longer than expected. Someone else will be using the piece of equipment that you need at the gym. You’ll forget your prepacked lunch.

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The key is to have your contingencies ready to implement when they are necessary. It is the consistency over the long-term that will ultimately bring you success.

Get out your notebook and start planning your contingencies. Today may not go exactly as planned.”

School Shooters Will Lose Out to People With...Bats

A miniature baseball bat

““We don’t want to be sitting ducks,” William Hall, superintendent of the Millcreek Township School District, said on Wednesday. “We’re not just going to go hide.”

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“Part of that response is to assess your environment for anything that could be used as a potential weapon or to defend yourself,” he added.

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They are no match, of course, for a gunman toting a semiautomatic weapon.

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Even so, Mr. Hall said, “I think a bat could disarm a pistol with a nice swing.””

This is really just too funny.

(from Daring Fireball)

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Anesthetic Breathing Circuits

Could not write any notes for the past 2 weeks. Uploading an old set of notes from 2014 as a specialist asked us to remember how much fresh gas flow is required with the Mapleson circuits (though on a recent re-search, I've found the various values to be different between different sources, though the principle remains the same; the later the "letter" the less efficient it is for spontaneous ventilation, and generally vice versa for controlled ventilation).