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What do you need to make emergency situations more livable? You may want to add a few of these items to your emergency survival kits of food, water, blankets, etc. Here’s a slide show of ten tech tools that were found indispensable in the recent California fire evacuations.

If you live in an area which has tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, flooding, fires or unknown future emergencies, you will find information about these items useful. The author figured out what worked and what didn’t work, why each item is needed, etc.

Take a look because some of the items can be used for day-to-day routines or outings. Ten tech essentials for emergency evacuation by Steve Kovsky at eWeek.

Tired of hearing everyone’s New Year’s Resolutions and determined not to make any yourself? How about an adventure instead? How about a life list of adventures?Read through the 2006  Outside Magazine’s adventure list of 50 adventures and come up with a few of your own. Don’t think that you have to be an extreme sports athlete to enjoy an adventure. Note that even Outside’s list has a few random adventures thrown in, such as watching a child do something.The same list even has 15 fitness tips to help you get into shape — just in case you decide to select one of their adventures!