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At my favorite bakery when the bread is too hot and some of the bread types they cannot slice it for you but that got me thinking their reasons why I would not want them to slice it sometimes.

For example:

Toast Cut: default cut by bread slicing machine

Sandwich Cut: thinner cut to avoid overwhelming sandwich contents (season)

Diet Cut: sandwich cut with diet spread

Pocket Cut: sandwich cut leaving stop and a side connected (toast before filling)

Oil Cut: wedge cut with slanted cuts back toward top to fill with light olive oil (cherry tomato slices or sun-dried tomato pieces)

Cake Cut: wedge cut of Cinnamon Chip, instead of oil after toasting spread light frosting or wiped cream

Texas Toast Cut: thicker, after toasting cut into wedges for dunking in soup

Biscotti Cut: Texas season, toast, cut into strips for dipping (season to match)

Cheese Cut: Texas toast cut with channels for thin cheese slices (season top with sprinkles)

Pizza Cut: scooped Texas toast for pizza fixings leaving crust (oil removed piece and place on top, crisp)

My Favorite Bakery

Actually great any day:

“Darling crafts, sweet treats, and pleasing printables can all combine to help make your Valentine’s Day divine. Plus, the…”

UPDATE:

Currently I am researching pens that can upload through USB and newer ones that will wifi to a Cloud to download later.

My starting point:

Genealogy: Strategies for interpreting writings

Mormon Times
Jan 18, 2014

“Whether you are reviewing a letter, journal, postcard or other writing of an ancestor, there are several strategies for…”

2012 November

Family History Volunteers Reach Billion-Record Milestone

LDS Newsroom
Apr 21, 2013

“In less than seven years, volunteers have added one billion searchable records to the free family history website provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch.org.”

Faded Image:

I found something that appears to work for me. I go to the full image, find the name I am indexing, set the screen to include the adjacent names, then I drag the image in small circles. I do not know why but the name often appears.

This may be the key to preparing these images.

Using Dragon on iPhone 5:

I discovered that my new iPhone 5 has Dragon (voice recognition) embedded in it and it works great with the Indexing app. Hurray, I am a Dragon fan. Plus, the iPhone 5 has noise cancelation (one of its microphones is aimed away from you to the sound in the room enabling the iPhone 5 to remove those unwanted sounds).

I use Dragon for what it does best, interleaved with my typing. Never Dragon all by itself. For example, I use a stylus for initials and names I am not confident in pronouncing. I have found that a 7.3 inch stylus takes less hand movement, plus feels like a pen. I often pronounce the first part of a name completing it with the stylus: names that start with easily recognized words.

At first, voice recognition is really useful for what’s called Freestyle Writing (footnote1), where you are just getting your thoughts on paper, planning to go back and edit. I image a friend I am talking to. I say “New Paragraph” a lot. On the PC it can be told to add punctuation itself.

Pronouncing the names when first looking at them has always been useful to me for seeing slightly written letters. Reading I have an easier time filling in ambiguities due to stylized cursive.

While iPhone Indexing (footnote 2),I use it for long family names that I think it would recognize like Wilhelmina, Fredrickson, or Anderson, and a lot of short first and last names, but not for the initials. I say “cap” a lot.

If underlined with dots then there was another choice and the names are there quite frequently.

Often I pronounce the longer names just to see what Dragon comes up with and then compare that to the handwriting, to see some of the slightly-written cursive letters that are commonly there but easy for me to miss.

Also during PC Indexing, I found Dragon most useful for States, for example on the Census form I dictate all the states at once, dictation combined with how the Indexing software will repeat the last state entered with just the first letter. Secondly, I go into numeral mood and enter the column of ages and family numbers, using Down Arrow; my foot peddle is set to Down Arrow (a Six Sigma nut)

Accents can be entered by holding down, for example, the virtual keyboard letter “e” and then sliding the cursor across to the desired accent: è é ê ë ē ė ę (see footnote 3).

Just talk to it and see what it recognizes, getting my staffs to use it greatly increased how easy it was to understand each other. Several mentioned that they understood why they were being misunderstood; words that were simply wrong, switching tenses, simple grammar rules… They discovered: that Words which could be heard differently are the most helpful and how to watch for anything that relying on the emotional inflections of the speaker; once written the voice inflection showing emotion is gone, the words must speak for themselves.

More

When looking for the last name which appears more than once without its last name immediately after, look at the marks above and below the first name that you’re looking at to identify which one it is. When the first name is an abbreviation, look for the number of periods or dashes immediately after because that is sometimes used to identify it from the others.

My experience log:
Personal grand total:

1632 on 7/26
2792 on 8/31
4001 on 9/18
8011 on 10/30
12,011 on 11/25
15003 on 12/18
17003 on 1/21
17689 on 2/1
18001 on 2/24

Footnote: 1

Freestyle Writing eHow description

Footnote: 2

http://youtu.be/74itjDRZW4M

Footnote: 3

http://www.ehow.com/how_8563618_put-accents-over-words-cellphone.html

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Here is my friend’s reasonable disaster plans:

I do stuff that is general and reasonable. I spent $25 on a first kit includes 2 GSW dressings. That’s reasonable. I keep 3-days of 3 meals for myself and my wife in the house at all times sealed in plastic with toilet paper batteries and medicine. It costs me < $30 bux and I redo it every 12-18 months. That's reasonable. I have a paper map of Home Town and State in case I need to walk out with no GPS/smartphone/tech gear. < $10 invested, reasonable. I have a box of 100 sandbags in the attic at the cost of $20 bux. I could build a 2-foot sandbag wall around the back of my house and possibly prevent water damage. At $20 bux, it's a reasonable expense. Both of our cars have first aid kits, water, and gloves that I keep stocked. When it's cold, I keep blankets. Not weeks worth but enough that if the car breaks down and you have to wait for hours to get help, you can stay warm and hydrated. If you have to walk to get help the water and blankets help for that as well. I do things that are reasonable. I looked into the KI stuff and came to the conclusion it wasn't reasonable to hoard a bunch of pills on the extremely remote chance there could be a radiation leak nearby. I'm better off stocking up on antibiotics or diabetes meds that I am WAY more likely to need than iodide pills. Besides, I can get iodine from common table salt and other natural sources that are far less likely to overdose me. My Pluses: I never let our prescriptions get below two weeks. Takes some getting pills when first available through insurance but once ahead with diligence you can stay ahead. I stay ahead on supplies for our cat and have a carrying case she can see out of just in case she is in there for awhile. Question: Do you have a preferred source for water storage containers? I have four ways. First I always keep 1-2 cases of bottled water at home and several in the car. Second I have a water bob I can put in the tub and fill when needed. If a bad storm is coming I can put it in the and fill it I know the weight isn't a problem because it's a bathtub. It's made to handle the water weight. Third. In my bug out bag I have two filter straws. You can just put them in whatever water and drink it. Filters as you draw it through. For if the water runs out after we leave. Four, We also keep canned sparkling water in the house. Travels very easy and will ease an upset stomach much the same as Alia seltzer but without aspirin. Winter Months Mormon Times Jan 11, 2013, 6:00 AM CST "Winter months, when sales on storable foods are limited, are a good time to stock up on non-food items like cleaning and…”