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Natural Cleaning Tips

Remove Sticky Stuff Remove wax, stickers, tape, tar, etc. Mix equal parts coconut oil and baking soda Orange oil cleaner Armpit Stains Mix 1/4 cup baking soda with 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp hydrogen peroxide. Rub on the stain and let sit for 20-30 minutes. You can also pre-soak the shirt in a 2-1 warm water/vinegar solution for 20-30 minutes to loosen up the stain before applying the baking soda paste. Coffee or spice grinder Grind white rice. Copper tarnish Ketchup. Dirty drains Alka-seltzer. Lemon juice Rust stains: scrub lemon juice and salt on the stain. Garlic smell on hands: rub with lemon juice. Soap scum: scrub with a half of a lemon covered in salt. Vinegar Cloudy film on glasses: soak in warm vinegar for 5 minutes, then rinse and dry. If the cloudiness doesn't go away it might be etched. Clean a shower head: put nozzle in a plastic bag full of vinegar overnight. Cutting boards: scrub vinegar into wood or plastic cutting boards to...
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South Florida Native Gardening

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Pioneering

Pioneering Information http://www.pioneeringprojects.org/projects/index.htm https://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/d/de/Step-By-Step-Knots-11-Basic-Scout-Knots.pdf https://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/5/5d/Six-Boy-Scout-Knots.pdf Lashings Add diameter of the spars together and multiply by 3 to get length of rope in feet. If the combined diameter is greater than 6", use 3/8" rope. Otherwise 1/4" is fine. Make 3 wraps and 2 fraps. http://scoutpioneering.com/2013/02/23/lashing-information/

How to Make Money Online

Find a site you would like to emulate, and use similarweb.com to see where the site gets traffic from, and to find similar sites. Use builtwithwat.com  to see what technologies the site uses. Pick a domain name. Use  leandomainsearch.com  to enter some words you want to use and it will show you available domains. Go to bluehost.com to buy your domain name and web site space. Start your own site. Profit.

Electronics, Robotics, ROVs, etc.

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Converting flv to mp4

Stolen from: http://superuser.com/questions/483597/converting-flv-to-mp4-using-ffmpeg-and-preserving-the-quality To make sure the video is H.264 or MPEG4 simple profile and audio is AAC         ffmpeg -i input.flv To convert to mp4         ffmpeg -i input.flv -acodec copy -vcodec copy -copyts output.mp4 To convert to mp4 and convert audio         ffmpeg -i input.foo -vcodec copy -acodec libfaac -ab 128k -copyts output.mp4 To extract aac audio from flv         ffmpeg -i input.flv -vn output.m4a To convert aac to mp3          ffmpeg -i audio.aac -acodec mp3 -ac 2 -ab 160 audio.mp3 Edit ID3/metadata          http://jonhall.info/how_to/create_id3_tags_using_ffmpeg