GammaPix Lite
The GammaPix(TM) Lite App, developed initially for several federal agencies, turns your phone into a detector of ionizing radiation. This isn't one of those fake Geiger counters. The GammaPix technology has been successfully tested at independent labs with calibrated sources.
An Introduction to IFAKs (Individual First Aid Kits)
Warning: There are TEN videos on this page, and a few of them are “graphic” in nature. If you are studying prepping with children, review this page before showing them. An introduction to IFAKs, (Individual First Aid Kits), courtesy of quite a few friendly folks who posted their YouTube videos. I went through and selected a few of them for your own review. Some good ideas throughout.
Ten Essentials
A simple dry magnetic pocket compass The Ten Essentials are survival items that hiking and scouting organizations recommend for safe travel in the backcountry. List[edit] According to the Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills, 6th edition, the ten essentials are:[3] These are now referred to as the "classic" essentials.
Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling « Aerogramme Writers' Studio
These rules were originally tweeted by Emma Coats, Pixar’s Story Artist. Number 9 on the list – When you’re stuck, make a list of what wouldn’t happen next – is a great one and can apply to writers in all genres. You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be very different.Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about til you’re at the end of it. Now rewrite.Once upon a time there was ___.
Fight Food Fatigue: 20 Oft-Forgotten Items In Your Long Term Food Storage
One of the major mistakes people make with regards to food storage is buying a huge amount of one or two staples (ie rice and beans or wheat and powdered milk) and nothing else. While there’s no problem with storing thousands of pounds of wheat, if that’s all you have you are going to suffer from a serious case of appetite fatigue in a short time. Appetite or food fatigue in simple term can be described as a phenomenon whereby eating the same foods over and over cause you to become disinterested in eating. In the best of cases it will cause minor malnutrition but in severe cases it can lead to starvation – despite being hungry. Though this may sound ridiculous it is a very real phenomenon, especially during times of stress (something that a SHTF situation would probably promote), and young children and older people are particularly susceptible to it. Like a mantra I’m sure you’ve heard the advice, “store what you eat, and eat what you store”.
100 Items to Disappear First
100 Items to Disappear First 1. Generators (Good ones cost dearly. Gas storage, risky. Noisy...target of thieves; maintenance etc.) 2. Water Filters/Purifiers 3. Portable Toilets 4.
Adult Wilderness Survival Camps – Lifesong Wilderness Adventures
“The adult Circle camp survival series is a wilderness skills methodology that guides you from a beginning level of knowledge, and transforms you into an experienced, advanced, outdoor adventurer in three individual weeks of training.” ~ Mark Wienert The Circle camp series of survival are held at our California Survival School locations near Mt Shasta – CA. First Circle Camp First Circle wilderness survival and bushcraft skills is an exclusive week long outdoor California training camp featuring, basic survival skills using primitive and modern technology, wilderness navigation and orientation, fundamentals of tracking and nature awareness, survival attitude, and provides outstanding outdoor adventure. Lifesong Wilderness Adventures offers the best hands-on, personalized attention while developing your physical and mental ability for wilderness survival and natural disasters…
Survival Lists
Our best survival tool is our own head. More is optional. There are 3 considerations, for making fire -- matches or source of flame, tinder, and knowhow. Havin a kit is a beginnin, but bein able to use the kit takes practice aforehand. In Mine. This is a basic kit.
Food Storage Basics: Step 1 – Water
What does water have to do with food storage? Well, you can have all the food in the world but if you don’t have water you won’t be living long enough to enjoy that food. In most cases, you’ll be around for only three days. One easy way to remember this is with the 3-3-3 rule. Generally speaking you cannot live longer than 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water, and 3 weeks without food. In an ideal world, we would all have a years supply of water stored away.
Bug-out bag
Off-the-shelf Red Cross preparedness kit . A bug-out bag[1][2] is a portable kit that contains the items one would require to survive for seventy-two hours[3][4] when evacuating from a disaster. The focus is on evacuation, rather than long-term survival, distinguishing the bug-out bag from a survival kit, a boating or aviation emergency kit, or a fixed-site disaster supplies kit. The kits are also popular in the survivalism subculture.[5]
Andy's Most Useful Knots
Before we start, one word about orientation: on the left, there are links to the multiple pages in this series. This first page contains my selection of "essential knots"—those that I recommend for anyone to learn if they would like to acquire a "Swiss Army Knife" collection of knots for every purpose. If you'd like a list to orient yourself, you can always visit the Knots Index.
37 things you should hoard – or is it 55?
Randomly checking emails today I came across a link that stated there were 37 thing I should hoard in case of emergency. We may have one or two snow storms this season so I clicked the link. Sadly, there was nothing there. Apparently the author did not think the domain was worth hoarding… I did a google search and found that the 37 things I wanted to look at was not a list, but a book. Although sales are obviously down I realized that there are a few things in case of emergency I don’t have.
