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Outdoor Survival: Channel Catfish

March 29th, 2010


4 catfish and 1 crayfish i caught

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Can You Survive Alone in the Wild?

March 29th, 2010

For most people, a trip into the wilderness is not a solitary experience. Safety experts recommend that you travel in groups with a minimum size of two to four. The individual wilderness education of the travelers can be different, there should always be an expert or experienced person to serve as a leader. If you travel alone, you increase the risk of injury or death in the wilderness.


Even though you may start a trip into the wilderness in a group, there are always possibilities that lead to separation and/or injury. Injured members of a group may have to stay in a safe camp while some, or all, of the others return to civilization to bring help. It is important to plan for the worst on any wilderness excursion.


Trip Planning for Safety


When preparing for a trip into the wilderness each member of the party should be familiar with the group’s general plan for the excursion. This will include the locations and designs of shelters located throughout your scheduled trip. Research ahead to have knowledge of the availability of fire rings, sites, and combustible piles of wood. Each proposed stopping point should include locations for safe drinking water as well as fire protection water. There should be a plan for signaling the outside world if you are in trouble. This may include such high tech concepts as mobile or satellite communications, or GPS guidance, and mapping data to find the nearest help.


Make yourself familiar with the route you will be taking through the wilderness. Whenever possible, take trails rather than planning adventures across country. Carry a marked map with you which includes your itinerary. Be sure to make notations of the points where you can get assistance should it be necessary.


Validate your Navigation Methods


There are several ways to navigate through a wilderness. Some are only feasible if weather and visibility conditions prevail. Try to have two methods of navigation available for any trip into the wilderness. One of the newest and best methods uses the Global Positioning Satellites (GPS) to find your exact position relative to other desired destinations. There are handheld units that you can pre-load with the maps of your chosen area so the GPS system can point out visually where you are on the screen’s map. It is a good idea to have a light and hardened laptop. This would provide precise directions and choices should weather, or unexpected events cause you to vary from your arranged trail.


GPS systems not only need a sensor that can capture three satellites’ signals in the sky and triangulate your position, but they require enough memory to hold a detailed topographic map. The latest handheld GPS trail systems have the ability to add memory cards. These memory cards will allow you to store a wider geographic map of the wilderness area you are visiting.


Back-up Navigation Systems


If you don’t have GPS navigation, you can use topographic maps, the stars, and a compass. If you know how to use one, a sexton can also be used to locate your position relative to your surroundings. The sexton will tell you the direction that you are facing in degrees of the compass. Using the map along with a good map compass, you should be able to find the latitude and longitude of your position on the topographic map.

Cory Doggett owns and operates several websites specializing in survival and wilderness skills. Visit the Untolerable.com survival forums.

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Outdoor Survival: Survival Stove In Action

March 29th, 2010


the survival stove in action its sweat

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UP NORTH GETAWAY!

March 29th, 2010


Taking time to be with Friends and share some beverages. Went UP NORTH for the weekend, 300 miles on snow scoots in 2 days.

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I’m compiling a notebook for a frient to give on her birthday and I want to include survival tips.(continued)

March 29th, 2010

not survival tips as in the outdoors, when you get stranded, but survival tips as in, “School Survival Guide” and stuff like that, thoughts on all kinds of things, and just random things like “shit happens, deal with it,”
do you think this is a good idea?

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A Look at Treatment and Rate of Survival for Breast Cancer

March 28th, 2010

The whole usual of five-year survival figure for women who deal breast evil is around 86% for those whose disease has not metastasized. That means, 86% of the women who treaty it live for at least five existence. Nevertheless even that equitably high number is just a global norm. The facts are even better for some categories. Those figures depend on the scaffold at which the blight is detected and treated.

Just like other cancers, breast plague develops in different stages. Each of these stages has both a letter and a number. The disease types are labeled based on a norm classification of cancers (T, N, and M and a volume from 0-IV). A T shows the bulk of the individuals growth, N means the sarcoma has butter to the lymph nodes and M means hazy metastasis. When a lump spreads from the major lump to other areas and spreads tumors to the inferior areas therefore forming the same nature of tumors.

Tumors that have been labeled TX are tumors that aren’t adept of being assessed. T0 means that there is no mark of any melanoma. Tis means that an individual has a melanoma that might be DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ), LCIS (lobular carcinoma in situ) or Paget’s disease which is a rare form of pest where the areola and/or nipple is actually cancerous.

Stage 0 cancers are the original of all. In Stage I, tumors are less than 2cm in size and have not swell. Stage II shows a lump that is 2-5cm in diameter, and Stage III one bigger than 5cm. A Stage IV tumor has become friendly to the chest side and expand to the lymph nodes.

Fortunately, merit to superior diagnosis and dealing methods, many more breast cancers are jammed and eliminated in the very early stages.

For both women and men who are able of obtaining healing during Stage 0 or Stage I of their scourge there is a five year survival quotient of about 100%. Men too can treaty breast blight, but their toll of contraction are far fewer than that of women. Individuals who have Stage II cancers the survival quotient is between 81% and 92%. Your speed of survival will not institute to dip awaiting you get to Stage III, it is during Stage III that the survival pace is about 67%, and at Stage IV the tariff is about 20%.

Beating the scourge odds is forever doable. Even people who are in the later plague stages are skillful of present for longer periods of time than they might have likely, sometimes even more than seven days. Due to the technological advances that have occurred in the diagnostic and healing methods the odds for individuals are improving significantly.

One new approach of diagnosis is the QM-MSP (quantitative multiplex metylation-exclusive PCR). This procedure was discovered in 2001. It is a chemical adversity that draws fluid from the breast in suspect. The fluid is then analyzed for certain chemicals attached to certain genes. Cancer clumps that contain as few as 50 cells are adept of being detected with an 86% rank of accuracy. These new methods make the detection of sarcoma unfussy, hence improving the chances that an individual’s behavior will be successful.

Treatments are improving, too. Hormone therapy, embattled radiation, molecule limited drugs and other contemporary techniques constitute the biting creep, where once there was only unkind.

Breast melanoma is not an amusing disease. It would always be a very honest disease. Breast tumor does not have to be life threatening. Breast cancer doesn’t even have permanently to disfigure. Breast cancer does not have to be important any longer.

To learn about breast cancer in men and what is breast cancer, visit the Breast Cancer Prognosis website.

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Wilderness Survival : How to Make an Outdoor First-Aid Kit

March 28th, 2010


A first-aid kit is one of the most important supplies for a camper or hiker to bring on their trip. Pack antibiotic ointments, band-aids and gauze in a first-aid kit with first-aid advice from a wildlife and hiking specialist in this free video on wilderness survival. Expert: Derek Perez Bio: Derek Perez is a computer scientist and wildlife and hiking expert. Filmmaker: David Pakman

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Bushcraft Outdoor Survival Day

March 28th, 2010


Turn up your volume and click through the link in order to view some of the finest moments from our Outdoor Survival Day adventure. For those of you lived and breathed the experience we are sure this will bring back some emotional memories and be a great memento to keep and send on to those who know you. Obviously large groups would have scared all the wildlife away so if you couldn’t make it this time, here is a look some of the outdoor pursuits we all enjoyed. You missed a great adventure, but don’t worry… David’s already started scheming for the next event. This video contains explicit material that may upset some vegetarians. “But to survive self preservation is paramount and risks may be involved which would otherwise be out of the question” John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman, SAS survival instructor Best regards THE LONDON INDEPENDENT AGENCY TEAM

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Sarco Machine Gun Catdalog #3.

March 28th, 2010

Sarco Machine Gun Catdalog #3.

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Emergency Disaster Survival Preparedness

March 27th, 2010

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