Odds ‘n Sods:

Christchurch, New Zealand Mayor: Quake hit city ‘like an iceberg’

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KAF flagged this item: Harnessing the Power of Gym Rats

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Bill N. found this great Analytical Survival video tutorial: Bug Out Vehicle – Re-Inventing the Car Trunk

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Ooh, ooh! I want one: The KamAZ Armored Car. (Not that I can afford to buy one, but it makes a nice daydream.) OBTW, I assume that these are built on one of the assembly lines at the sprawling Kama River truck plant–the product of some Yankee ingenuity from the Pullman-Swindell company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Pullman-Swindell was formerly a subsidiary of M.W. Kellogg Company, but after some more recent re-conglomeration, M.W. Kellogg is now a subsidiary of KBR.)