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The American Red Cross recommends these items:

• 2 absorbent compress dressings (5 x 9 inches)
  • Control bleeding (this can also be controlled effectively with roller bandages below)
• 25 adhesive bandages (assorted sizes)
  • Cover cuts
• 1 adhesive cloth tape (10 yards x 1 inch)
  • Secure bandages (bandages can also be tied off)
• 5 antibiotic ointment packets (approximately 1 gram)
• 5 antiseptic wipe packets
• 2 packets of aspirin (81 mg each)
  • Some folks cannot take asprin (administering drugs should be left toEMS)
• 1 blanket (space blanket)
  • Good for the winter and to help treat for shock
• 1 breathing barrier (with one-way valve)
• Protection against contracting germs
• 1 instant cold compress
  • Reduce swelling
• 2 pair of nonlatex gloves (size: large)
  • Protection against contracting germs
• 2 hydrocortisone ointment packets (approximately 1 gram each)
  •  insect bites, poison oak/ivy
• Scissors
• helpful if tape is included in your kit
• 1 roller bandage (3 inches wide)
  • For bleeding and for splints
• 1 roller bandage (4 inches wide)
• 5 sterile gauze pads (3 x 3 inches)
  • Open wounds
• 5 sterile gauze pads (4 x 4 inches)
• Oral thermometer (non-mercury/nonglass)
  • Care can be given without knowing the victims exact temperature
• 2 triangular bandages
  • Very useful for splinting
• Tweezers
  • Splinters and the like
• First aid instruction booklet

Use your judgment and your knowledge of first aid to determine how your first aid kit is supplied.  Many of these items are inexpensive.  Having them at hand can prove very useful.

Marcos Levy
The New Learning Project

To be fluent is the ability to translate what we see or feel instantly into language.  So it should be with the reading of music.

When we read a note on the staff such as this one.  We are taught that name of this note is “G”.  When learning to play piano, for instance, we learn that the there is a key called “G”.  So we match them up and play the correct note.  I am not convinced that this method of translation is the most effective one for reading music for your instrument.  Translating a note on the staff into English and then re-translating the English letter to a particular key (or string, or fingering) is unnecessarily complicated and slow.  Better that seeing the placement of the note on the staff is directly followed by the striking of the correct key without any regard as to what the note may be called.

While knowing note letter names remains important in the studying of music, a stronger and clearer connection between the music on the page and the playing of the instrument can be forged.  I believe it is worth future study.  To that end, I am near completion of a virtual piano and staff to practice this connection online.  Keep in touch, and check back soon.

Marcos Levy
The New Learning Project

The answer is up to your own personal preference.    I am a big lover of Keyboard Shortcuts.  I find them faster than the mouse in many cases, and I don’t have to interrupt my work flow to use them.  Here are my TOP TEN most used (and then some)

Windows + D   – (hold the windows key down and then tap the “D” key)  – this shows desktop by minimizing all your open windows.  Pressing it again will bring the windows back.

Windows + E — this opens the “My Computer” window.  I find this helpful when I have just plugged in a memory stick and need to find it.  Also a great place to start when trying to find anything on your computer.  

ALT + F4 – closes the active window.  This is the same as clicking on the “x” in the upper right corner of the window

F5 – while browsing the internet, this Refreshes the view.   Also works with an Explorer window (e.g. “my Computer”)

ALT + TAB —  Switch windows (or tasks) Hold and keep down ALT Key and then Press TAB.  This brings up a visual of all the windows you have running.  Keep ALT key down and press TAB again to change windows.  Let go of ALT and you are there!

CTRL + B    CTRL + I  and CTRL + U  — Toggles on and off  BOLD, Italics, and underline  respectively  (works in most programs including WordPress in which this is being created)

CTRL + C,  CTRL +V,  CTRL + X  — These commands, found in the edit menu, are COPY, PASTE, and CUT respectively

CTRL + A — Selects ALL.  All content on a page or all files in a folder

CTRL +F  –  While viewing a web page, this brings up the FIND function.  Works in many other programs as well

ALT +LEFT ARROW  – navigate back a page in a web browser
ALT +RIGHT ARROW  – navigate forward a page in a web browser

ALT +D — Brings you to the Address Bar of your browser window or explorer window.  Allows you then to quickly type in a new address.

So there you have it.  These are the ones I find most useful.  There are many more.  If you are keen, you can have a lot of fun researching them.  Here’s to productivity!

Marcos Levy
The New Learning Project

•  How to identify the Half Step, the fundamental building block of all Western Music
• Using the Half Step to build intervals, scales, and chords
• What makes a Major Scale sound that way?
• How to build a Major Scale on any note by stringing together a series of Half Steps and Whole Steps.
• The story behind the Circle of Fifths.   It starts over 2000 years ago with Pythagoras and a piece of string!
•  How to use the Circle of Fifths to predict chords and key signatures
• How are the notes named?
• Naturals, Sharps, and Flats
• The story behind reading notes on a staff.  It starts over 1000 years ago withe a Pope called Gregory! 
• How to read music on its system of Clefs, Lines, and Spaces

Join your instructor, Marcos Levy, on this journey, as you master the Fundamentals of Music Theory.

Coming Soon,
In the meantime,

Enjoy Life!