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How-to-make-Black-Powder.pdf
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To add to these posts, here is an in depth guide on making your own black powder. Follow all local laws and wear safety gear. If you don't know what you're doing, do more research
Homemade_Ammo_Duncan_Long_Paladin_Press.pdf
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Comprehensive guide on DIY ammo, including primers. Again, exercise extreme caution when working with these compounds!
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A few weeks ago i ran the house for the day from my lithium batteries. But I had an external solar charger hooked up that was maintaining my batteries. My SMA inverters didn’t know about this and despite my batteries being 90% full, the inverters thought the battery was down around 15% and subsequently shut themselves down to protect the batteries from over discharge.
The solution for this is to add a current sensing shunt so that when additional energy is put into the batteries that does not originate from the inverters, they become aware of that energy.
So I have installed two bars bars on the negative side that are connected together with a 50 mV/500 amp shunt. The batteries go on one bus bar, and the inverters and all sources of power go on the other negative bus bar. If you look carefully at this picture you will see two copper colored bolts on the top and bottom right hand bus bars. The shunt is behind that.
The solution for this is to add a current sensing shunt so that when additional energy is put into the batteries that does not originate from the inverters, they become aware of that energy.
So I have installed two bars bars on the negative side that are connected together with a 50 mV/500 amp shunt. The batteries go on one bus bar, and the inverters and all sources of power go on the other negative bus bar. If you look carefully at this picture you will see two copper colored bolts on the top and bottom right hand bus bars. The shunt is behind that.
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The_Ultimate_Guide_to_Homeschooling_Styles_Kelly_George_Fearless.pdf
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The goal of each and every one of us should be to raise a large self sufficient family. It's one thing to know survival skills, off grid electricity, farming and raising animals. It's another thing entirely to be able to educate your children. I hear it a lot, our lives are so busy keeping up with the daily workload, people get cold feet when they think about homeschooling. It's becoming more and more evident that this will be our only option. Educate yourself on homeschooling methods / advice and I promise, it will become much less intimidating
Forwarded from The Lost Art of Homemaking
"The most convincing proof that home-educated children develop normally is a conversation with a home-educated child who's bright, engaged, polite, interesting, and outgoing. ... Taking the child out of school doesn't mean you're going to remove him from the other "agents of socialization" that surround him. Furthermore, think about the type of socialization that takes place in school. ... This type of socialization may be damaging. Thirty years ago, Cornell Professor of Child Development Urie Bronfenbrenner warned that the "socially isolated, age-graded peer group" created a damaging dependency in which middle school students relied on their classmates for approval, direction, and affection. He warned that if parents, other adults, and older children continued to be absent from the active daily life of younger children, we could expect "alienation, indifference, antagonism, and violence on the part of the younger generation."
Peer dependence is dangerous. When a child is desperate to fit in--to receive acceptance from those who surround him all day, every day--he may defy your rules, go against his own conscience, or even break the law.
... The antidote for peer-centered socialization is to make the family the basic unit for socialization--the center of the child's experience. The family should be the place where real things happen, where there is a true interest in each other, acceptance, patience, and peace, as far as is possible.
... In our society, children, taught by their peer groups, learn to survive, not to live with kindness and grace. ... The trend in our culture is to devalue--even bypass--the family as a basic unit of socialization. But it's within the family that children learn to love by seeing love demonstrated; learn unselfishness both through teaching and through example (choosing to teach a child at home is unselfishness at work); learn conflict resolution by figuring out how to get along with parents and each other.
... In this day of endemic family breakup, teaching your high schooler to live peacefully in a family is probably the most important feat of socialization you can accomplish. Teach skills of resolving conflict, habits of doing for others instead of self, truthfulness, loyalty, sensitivity."
- Jessie Wise, author of The Well-Trained Mind (and mother of The Well Trained Mind classical trivium-based homeschool method which I highly recommend.)
Peer dependence is dangerous. When a child is desperate to fit in--to receive acceptance from those who surround him all day, every day--he may defy your rules, go against his own conscience, or even break the law.
... The antidote for peer-centered socialization is to make the family the basic unit for socialization--the center of the child's experience. The family should be the place where real things happen, where there is a true interest in each other, acceptance, patience, and peace, as far as is possible.
... In our society, children, taught by their peer groups, learn to survive, not to live with kindness and grace. ... The trend in our culture is to devalue--even bypass--the family as a basic unit of socialization. But it's within the family that children learn to love by seeing love demonstrated; learn unselfishness both through teaching and through example (choosing to teach a child at home is unselfishness at work); learn conflict resolution by figuring out how to get along with parents and each other.
... In this day of endemic family breakup, teaching your high schooler to live peacefully in a family is probably the most important feat of socialization you can accomplish. Teach skills of resolving conflict, habits of doing for others instead of self, truthfulness, loyalty, sensitivity."
- Jessie Wise, author of The Well-Trained Mind (and mother of The Well Trained Mind classical trivium-based homeschool method which I highly recommend.)
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Home Schoolers... here's an entire high school curriculum.