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there was one place where someone said that children, who are more instinctive, are more likely to survive out in the woods than an adult who's overconfident and thus makes stupid mistakes
and then in another forum, someone just mentioned the warm jell-o stays warm longer in someone's belly than warm water. if any warm jello is handy....
i guess i have one to add. my brother-n-law and i were just talking about food shortages. he thinks if we have a shortage many people would just be unable to ration. being that we can live for three weeks without food, he's all about the one-can-o-food-per-day ration if not less. we can survive just fine with much less food in our bellies than the average american can conceive of...
inability to ration foo is why when stockpiling reserves it is important to stock things you would normally eat in the amounts you would normally eat. and once again the guy who thinks "I am a trained survivalist, I don't need cans of soup, I need a bow and arrow" is the guy least likely to make it imo he thinks because he can distill water and make fire with flint that he doesn't need all those sissy reserves. I personally stockpile more and have more convenience foods than we typically eat. in a desperate or extremely stressed situations comfort foods, easy foods, etc... will be much more appealing than something that you have to work hard at preparing after shivering in the cold or wandering scrounging for food all day. survival time is no time for worrying about whether brownies are good for you as long as you are eating a basically healthy diet. and its no time to try and stick to idealistic notions. for example I have a bag of "seven" I keep in the garage. if the shtf and some bug is decimating my garden I will use it even though I am adamantly against the use of pesticides in my garden plot. additionally you will likely be burning more calories for a variety of reasons in a deperate situation. surviving a real shtf scenario is as much about knowing how to keep yourself hopeful and wanting to survive (as well as those around you) as it is about knowing how.
long term shtf scenario should have you planning for long term survival. although you need to cultivate fruits and vegies for variety and nutrients focusing on calorie crops is important. and wildcrafting for greens is nice but dandelions aren't going to fuel your body adequatly for a 10 mile hike or lugging water buckets to the animals that are crucial to your survival. unless you have fields of crops than grain crops are not your answer. potatoes.
I am in a rather high state of anxiety now with the economy the way it is and my using up my stocks to move to a house that likely will not have any established garden. My freezer is less than 1/2 full now and my pantry is 1/3 plundered except for a few long term staples. eeeeekkkkk.
"One cannot help an involuntary process. The point is not to disturb it. - Dr. Michel Odent
Survival is probably one-third each of mindset, knowledge and preparation.
And when people think of 'survival', they often think of wilderness survival, and think they don't have to even think about that because they never go into the wilderness. They don't think of the wilderness areas they pass through, like driving from Yakima to Olympia. The chances are excellent that, even if it's midwinter, they don't have extra clothing, a sleeping bag, firemaking supplies, a metal pot, bottled water or any granola bars in the car.
There's urban survival, like what do you do if you were shopping in Seattle and the Big One hits. many of the overpasses are down, buildings have collapsed (including your apartment). What do you do then?
And there's accident survival, like a plane crash. A cold wind blowing, you're dressed for a business meeting, and have no gear except your purse and briefcase. Now what?
There's evacuation survival, from a dam breaking, flooding, wildfire, toxic tank leak (truck or rail car), and you have to go somewhere else temporarily, a relative's home, a campground, a Red Cross shelter.
And there's survival at home, the best option, in my opinion. I feel that I would be better off living in a small tent and having access to my stuff (books, tools, bedding, etc) than leaving it all behind (my last option).
Although situations may differ, some things remain the same, and that tends to be the priorities:
- First aid
- Shelter
- Fire
- Water
- Signal
- Food
If you have a small pack with a couple of mylar emergency blankets, a Bic-type lighter and some tinder, a metal cup and some beef jerky and granola bars, you would be ahead of practically everyone else in the country.
Even the stuff in your purse can be valuable. Half a tampon (fluffed out) with lip balm or gel sanitizer can get a fire started if you've got a lighter or other firestarter with you. A compact mirror or rear-view mirror can signal a plane, as can the lit-up face of a cell phone.
Signals in threes is an international distress signal -- three blasts on a whistle, three gunshots, three fires in a large triangle.
But the most important survival tool is between your ears.
Susan Monroe wrote:
But the most important survival tool is between your ears.
the truest statement yet.
I read "the road" by cormac mcarthey (sp?) a few days ago. shudder. you want to talk about survival......its fiction but still......I had been wanting it and I finally found it in a paperback (cheap )
"One cannot help an involuntary process. The point is not to disturb it. - Dr. Michel Odent
More likely would be the need for a Bug-Home Bag, with things to help you get home from a bad situation.
How many times do you read about 'experienced hikers' who left all their gear in camp and went on a day hike that turned into a 6-day survival test? It's the old It-Can;t-Happen-To-Me Syndrome. Well, it CAN happen to you... anytime. Usually at the most inconvenient time.
Plan ahead and you'll be ahead.
"One cannot help an involuntary process. The point is not to disturb it. - Dr. Michel Odent
But going out in conditions like we've got in the PNW right now, well, it would make sense to carry some things, just in case. My sister took a sleeping bag, foam pad and small pillow, as well as a change of clothes to work yesterday. She said if you can't get out, you have to stay at the hospital and sleep on the cold floor. The member of the Providence hospital chain where she works isn't exactly what you would call well-run. Their annual disaster drills are like old Three Stooges movies.
People really need to plan for things that would be likely to affect THEM, not anyone else. If Mt. Rainier blew, would most people have the stuff to deal with a massive ash fall?
Any emergency plans should be tailor-made for each family.
"One cannot help an involuntary process. The point is not to disturb it. - Dr. Michel Odent
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Permaculture seems to include lots of these off farm inputs.Plastic for greenhouses and hoses for instance.Given this,I can only imagine what a permaculture future would look like.News articles about birds dieing from injesting greenhouse plastic,the Uv protectant turns out to cause breast cancer ect...Your new toxic prmaculture paridise!!If this is the future we are promoting then by all means people-stay inside and get your food from the store for the planets sake!(I guess this is based on my premise that decetralized industrial society is acually more toxic than centralized)
well actually Ill elaborate on that.I believe that one giant tractor is more efficient than 10 little tractors and more efficient than 100 rototillers.Even with the added costs of distributing the produce.How much fluid is leaked/spilled filling 100 rototillers.How many trips to get gas or parts.How much time for 100 peoples learning curves and maintnence instruction.How much sprawling infrastructure to support our ability to be self sufficient!
Many permie sites ive been too depend on chippers,rototillers,green houses,electicity(pumps ect..),mills,industrialy produced and imported grains,hay,and straw,resourse intensive metal for barns and fencing,and plastic for all sorts of stuff.If they are off the centralised grid then they are usually on the (just as toxic)alternative grid(I have lived on strictly solar for 9yrs and after years of research got dissilussioned with that too-LEAD batteries ect....)
Now if(and I know this could not happen right?)a permiculture homestead dependent on these things were to not be able to get them or had them stolen,how would its production compare to conventional agriculture(if they both were in the same boat)and how would it compare to a more wild(less dependent)managed system?How would it compare over a week,a year,indefinitely?This is why I think rewilding has alot to offer permacuture.It focuses our direction away from dependance on our ecologicaly devestating industrial society.(I originally thought thats what permaculture was supposed to be about but after 15yrs in the movement,Im pretty sure permaculture is just gardening and animal husbandry-same ole stuff just a new package)
Sure take what you can salvage from the system.Salvage is going to be huge in the future!But I prefer to use it in the direction of lessening my dependence.Like using this library computer to get ideas that manifest inthe physical.
OK so my responses on this site might seem like personal attacks sometimes but really I just gotta say this stuff because I feel the need to defend permacultures name.More and more people are going to be interested in how to survive on this earth as the economy starts to slip.I think its our resposibilty as supposidly the "cutting edge" of sustainability to pioneer examples that are truly sustainable.I dont want to imply to some poor person that if they want to be sustainable,the first thing they should do is go buy a greenhouse from some giant corporation.oh yea,and they will also need at least 50k for all the crap for sale in MOther Earth News and 100k for all the infrastrucure to house and maintain it all.Then they too can become self sufficiant.1st world self sufficient!
Hey people,you can grow food just fine without all that crap,just not basil and tomatoes!
Why build a beautiful landscape dependent on the house of cards infrastrucure.You can tell me what grows good where you are at but if it includes all this stuff then the information is practicaly useless to me.Of course you can grow citrus in the Pacific NW with a heated greenhouse!In a survival situation,am I going to have time to hand water plants?or repair the hydro system?It ultimately breaks anyway so then what?
There is nothing permanent in a culture dependent on such temporaries as civilization.
Mt.goat wrote:
survival seems to meen "survival for a while until the empire gets rolling again and we can go back to the store".True survival seems like it would aim for something a bit more self sufficiant.
I always chuckle when I see "survival guides" that say to have 3 days supply of food and water. it is obvious that is just a tactic to use while awaiting rescue.
!(I guess this is based on my premise that decetralized industrial society is acually more toxic than centralized)
I agree, with that premise, and since I think it is highly unlikely that even 20% of the modern world will ever be willing to go backwards as far as modern conveniences go I think a utopian view is fun to think about but seriously unproductive.
How much time for 100 peoples learning curves and maintnence instruction.
well if learning curves are not allowed I don't think any of us should be here
Many permie sites ive been too depend on chippers,rototillers,green houses,electicity(pumps ect..),mills,industrialy produced and imported grains,hay,and straw,resourse intensive metal for barns and fencing,and plastic for all sorts of stuff.If they are off the centralised grid then they are usually on the (just as toxic)alternative grid(I have lived on strictly solar for 9yrs and after years of research got dissilussioned with that too-LEAD batteries ect....)
This is why I think rewilding has alot to offer permacuture.It focuses our direction away from dependance on our ecologicaly devestating industrial society.(I originally thought thats what permaculture was supposed to be about but after 15yrs in the movement,Im pretty sure permaculture is just gardening and animal husbandry-same ole stuff just a new package)
permanent agriculture. that is what it is to me. sustainable agriculture. meaning it doesn't really matter what you use in the present as long as it is not preventing future agriculture. I think all the details of what does and does not prevent future agriculture is debatable and will continue to evolve. some things are trendy but unrealistic somethings are truly toxic and something are only regarded as so or are only toxic in large quantities like appleseeds.
Sure take what you can salvage from the system.Salvage is going to be huge in the future!But I prefer to use it in the direction of lessening my dependence.Like using this library computer to get ideas that manifest in the physical.
using the library computer is less dependent? to me you are depending on the good ole gooberment to provide you with access to the web. I can gaurantee the enviromental impact of the computer at the library is more than a home one. manufacturing is the same it jsut has to go through more sticky hands and red tape before it gets there
OK so my responses on this site might seem like personal attacks sometimes but really I just gotta say this stuff because I feel the need to defend permacultures name.
if you don't take things as personal attacks then assume others won't. permaculture doesn't need to be defended it needs healthy debate (that I happen to enjoy). if it becomes a permanent set of ideas then it will no longer be viable and will seek to become a dictatorship with a few self rightious people telling everyone else what to do/not to do. that is a recipe for alienating people to the whole concept and prevent the use of the permaculture name and ideas to truly make a difference in this world.
Why build a beautiful landscape dependent on the house of cards infrastrucure.
the point is to build a better infrastructure that is not a house of cards. permanent sustainable agricultural infrastructure. even if you use the other take on the definition...permanent culture....then that is not what you are talking about and certainly not what you are defending. you seem to be more concerned with promotion of an individualist mindset to become sustainable, not " culturist" ideas. and that is ok too. but never utilizing outside resources and "rewilding" is not a culture of like minded people it is a person living alone in the woods.
"One cannot help an involuntary process. The point is not to disturb it. - Dr. Michel Odent
I guess all of this stuff that we are trying to figure out really comes back to a form of survival prep. I tend to think of it as more of "safety" which then breeds "freedom."
Once in a while we talk about TSHTF and the mad max world. But I think more about a space where things bounce between kinda good and kinda bad. Maybe another depression is gonna happen. So I guess I see the mad max scene as a remote possibility.
In the meantime, I think about things like a full farm eco system. Something with minimal input and maximum harvest. Something with community. Since 90% of the food would come from this imaginary farm, then the farm would be safe from economic downturns - at least all of those shy of the mad max scenario.
I like the idea of a path that has certain comforts.
So then it becomes a bit of a juggle between all of the different aspects.
And then work in the aspect that all of this gets a lot easier when you are surrounded with like minded folk. So then you explore ways to help that happen ...
For now ... get the idea of where you want to go ... then look at the materials you have on hand to help find the smoothest/quickest path to where you want to be ...
We can only control a very small part of our general area, and 'control' is really just a general term.
We do the best we can with what we've got, mentally, physically and emotionally. Sometimes we've got more of one than the others.
We can teach others if they want to learn, but we can't force it on them, no matter how strongly we feel. If a neighbor wants to know how to grow tomatoes and you think she should grow all kinds of things, start with tomatoes. What the other person wants IS important. What is important to you isn't necessarily what is important to the next person.
You do what YOU can. Start with that. Someone near you may be watching and think, "Hey, that looks like a good idea! Could you help me learn to do that?"
There is always resistance to force of any kind.
i guess that was why i was so excited about the aegopodium, no maybe it doesn't taste good, but it grows like crazy, we have cattails in our pond, daylillies by the hundreds, food every where we turn that we grow for beauty or other reasons besides our food crops, that we can eat if we have to, and yes if i had to i might eat DOE too..but i wouldn't want to..and the hundreds of bunnies, possum, coon,etc that roam our yard.
the hard time is winter..so around here if we keep seeds for summer and enough food to last the winter and earliest spring, we are pretty much all set if something should happen, i also have a greenhouse and a glassed in s facing porch where i can grow crops inside if i have to..and i am lucky to live in the middle of nowhere off the beaten path and have protection..we always keep enough canned products and boxed products that we could prepare in our fireplace if we had to to survive many many months..for a lot of city people water will be a problem, and here it might as we used to own property with a flowing well which we don't now as we sold it in oct..so one of our future plans is to put down another flowing well on the property we still own..then there isn't much of anything we will need that we don't have..
i think thinking through every day what you would need is a fantastic idea for everyone..and if you live in a NY apartment, i feel so bad for you.
Bloom where you are planted.
I agree that its good to plan for all possibilities.I have 6mo of food on hand at all times but also am learning primitive skills in case I have to flee to the hills.As well,I am learning firearm skills and hopefully archery at some point.
There is nothing permanent in a culture dependent on such temporaries as civilization.
One of the long-time regular guys on another forum (not permie) is bright, knowledgeable, a scientist and not a cry-wolf sort of person. Today, he said ""Hit the red button, folks. My long-term financial adviser over at Morgan Stanley just told me to double my stocks of rice, beans, and ammo and to push my retirement back ten years. Something dark and terrible is coming."
Water is a really big issue, even here in WA. Yes, it does rain nine months of the year, but usually during the other three months we get NOTHING. I'm looking into building a homemade tank of about 5,000 gallons, made from fence wire, chicken wire and concrete. All I need is the money. But there is no natural water within a mile, and the river that is about a mile away is heavily contaminated -- people are advised not to eat the fish in it. City water here, no well.
If anyone has any brilliant (and cheap, very cheap) ideas, please post.
Seed the Mind, Harvest Ideas.
Susan Monroe wrote:
I don't think we're looking at a nuclear war as much as we're probably staring a major depression right in the face...
I think so too. Hyper-inflation, with dramatically rising energy and food prices.
We've stored some staples like beans, wheat, salt and honey. We've learned how to do it economically, using PETE bottles and oxygen absorbers.
But we think that what's more important than storing food is being able to garden and forage. We enjoy those hobbies anyway, now we're just getting more serious about them, especially the latter. We're surrounded by food that most people just don't recognize as such.
Other things we've done or are working on:
Investing in the equipment to be more efficient foragers - crawfish traps, blueberry rakes, hand-crank nutcracker, etc.
Adding organic matter to improve our soil. That's like money in the bank.
Planting more fruit trees and bushes.
Building a predator-proof chicken coop.
Keeping bees.
The staples we have stored would be a bland survival diet by themselves. But we have the tools and knowledge to add everything from chanterelles to venison. And it's not just a hypothetical plan, we do it now and have fun. The best way to learn to eat wild is to eat wild.
One thing I learned really fast (besides have a 4-wheel drive vehicle when you go off road. ) was that where I am complete comfortable camping with people, is pretty scary, alone.
And the fish aren't biting when you are hungry... I swear they can smell your hunger.
I often hear about people talking about how they will raise all their food, and fish and hunt. You would be surprised how many of them have never had a garden, and rarely fish or hunt. The skills you need you don't want to be learning while you are starving - or freezing.
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Kelda O. wrote:
many people would just be unable to ration. being that we can live for three weeks without food,
There are many tips useful for permaculture in the survival literature. But I question just how realistic the proverbial "Rule of Threes" is. Yes, you can live for three weeks without food, but by not eating you are lowering your resistance to disease and hypothermia and becoming depleted of energy, all of which makes finding food even more problematic. I wouldn't change the ranking of priorities, but I wouldn't delay finding food either.
Seth Pogue wrote:
Could be a good idea to be scared when camping alone in NY in a placwe where someone can drive to.
That's why I vastly prefer to go on foot, deep into the wilderness, where you don't have to worry about seeing another person, and the fish are always hungry.
Let's say you couldn't really drive there, which is why I had to hike out six miles to the ranger to get help getting unstuck... ops:
And the spooky part wasn't the people - lots of wildlife, some of it large.
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I am slowly working on the permaculture aspects but in other ways I am a prepper, we live in an area of high probabilty of earthquake on the west coast so I am learning to make changes to accomodate challenging situations. I just see it all as living conciously with thought and appreciation with survival in mind as an outcome! Okay, practical and cheap ideas, buy heavy black contractors garbage bags and have some handy . I have one in each BOB, truck, workshop, bike pannier, a case in my house with good quality duct tape. Many practical uses from improvised raingear when you least expected to need any, to transporting a find like seaweed for my compost, i suppose you could drape one over a bush and collect condensation for drinking water in an extreme situation, or use it for sanitation as sickbag in rush hour traffic. I think there could be a whole thread on how you could use them.
My latest thing has been experimenting with cheap solar garden lights I bring in for
night lights in the bathroom, night lights in each bedroom easy to turn off once snuggled into bed but if there in an emergency we have a back up light source, like when grid power goes down in a storm at night (yeah we have candles and flashlights too) I want to hang some pretty sconces so I can grab a solar light and hang it by the door so i can see where to put the key in the door knob at night.
Practical and good for the environment and you can use them to recharge small rechargeable batteries for other things.
Kirk Hutchison wrote:
Most people think of being stuck in the woods in a survival situation. I think of being stuck in the city and trying to get to the woods!
There is some truth to that. The TV show, survivor man (or whatever it is) were the man is dropped into a situation and has to survive was hilarious to those of us who know the jungles of Costa Rica. Drop me in a jungle here and I will come out fatter. It is amazing how much food is in a jungle if you can recognize it.
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Fred Morgan wrote:
There is some truth to that. The TV show, survivor man (or whatever it is) were the man is dropped into a situation and has to survive was hilarious to those of us who know the jungles of Costa Rica. Drop me in a jungle here and I will come out fatter. It is amazing how much food is in a jungle if you can recognize it.
I went through jungle survival school in the Marines. We all lost weight and were very hungry the whole time.
Solar powered battery charger -- will charge four AA, AAA, C, or D cell batteries. I need to get more rechargeable batteries, but have enough to last for a while. They'll run several small led lights, including the two headlamps that I use for working outdoors after dark. Would also run my small short-wave radio.
Bicycle for transportation, and a cargo trailer for it. Spare tires and a spare chain and a tool kit.
Some stored food, but we don't have much space for that and need to depend on the garden, the chickens, meat rabbits and dairy goats.
A hand-cranked clothes wringer and a couple of scrub boards, also a set of laundry tubs (I know from experience that laundry is one of the more difficult things to deal with when the power is off, if you aren't set up for it).
A hand pump for the well -- thankfully our well isn't very deep. This isn't installed, but I'm hoping to get that done in a few weeks when I'll have some help here.
What we DON'T have is a long-term means of heating the house if the power went off permanently. We have a kerosene heater that will work for intermittent outages, and I've got fifteen gallons of kerosene stored, but would rather be able to use that in our oil lamps. I'm starting to clear out and clean up the garage, which is frequently used as hay storage and sometimes as animal housing (newborn goats kids go in there, and right now, I have a broody hen with six chicks in a cage in the garage). It has a gravel floor and isn't insulated or finished on the inside, but it seems like the logical place to build a rocket stove so we'd have some place to go to get warm and to cook stuff.
I do have 'bug-out bags' but as others have said, it's unlikely that we'd ever need to use them for that. A more likely use is as 'get-home bags,' and really the only reason I can think of that we might need that is in case of an EMP strike -- that's being talked about, but who knows how likely it is to ever happen. On the other hand, the bags could turn out to be very useful in the event of any unexpected delay in getting home, no matter what the reason. Someone on another forum said they'd used theirs when a family member had an unexpected visit to the emergency room and then a stay in the hospital where the person didn't have time to run home and grab a change of clothes. Said the food and water in the bag came in handy, also. So it doesn't need to be the end of the world before one of those bags becomes useful....
Just like your stored food may be useful even if TEOTWAWKI hasn't happened yet -- I know several families who survived on their stored food when the family breadwinner lost his/her job for several months, or was disabled and the other family members were so busy caring for them that they couldn't go out and get a job. In some cases, the stored food made the difference between keeping and losing their home.
Previously known as "Antibubba".
Sure the market garden portion of the farm might lose out however the ability to feed the household would not be dependent on industrial inputs. Also within a few months of a protracted crisis, the ability to use a pumpkin as a barter currency may be higher than imagined.
The use of chippers and so forth is not in itself a requirement for the operation but rather a means of quickly introducing fertility in the soil.
Raising potatoes using the Mollison method does not require tilling the soil. Growing squash can be down under a tree using a hand spade.
I am the first generation of my family to live on the grid. I have a hard time understanding the fear of off grid living. If a family is homesteading already and preserving food by canning, freezing and drying then they already have several months of food stored away.
If they have the ability to grow mushrooms then they can create a protein source from waste material in as little as four weeks to supplement the stored away food.
Organic material that is not edible can be transformed with worm farming to poultry feed. The first winter would be the hardest as the masses would be hurting and that is the crisis point. If someone had a variation of the Sepp Holtzer seed mix then a simple afternoon in any green space the spring after the collapse could feed a city the following winter.
So with some small level of planning and enough communication with like-minded people, the SHTF could be the new green revolution and a transition into a new economy. Twelve to twenty four months later the new economy will stabilize into a new social norm.
On bugging out for me it is not an issue like many areas. I am in the Appalachians where there is any number of relatives households with in a day or twos walking distance that I can hole up with. Every house here has a wood stove or other means of heating someplace in the house whether in use or not. Power outages always seem to come with sever snow.
I am the first generation of my family to grow up on the grid eating out of the super market. I hope to be the last.
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Kathleen Sanderson wrote:
A hand-cranked clothes wringer and a couple of scrub boards, also a set of laundry tubs (I know from experience that laundry is one of the more difficult things to deal with when the power is off, if you aren't set up for it).
Here's an easy solution to the laundry: 5 gallon bucket w/ lid, cut a hole in the lid that will fit a broomstick handle.
Fasten a small (2-3" cross piece on the bottom of the broom handle. Your washer is complete!
Just put clothes, water and soap of preference in the bucket, put the broom handle cross piece down in the bucket, slide the lid over the broom handle and fasten to the top, now mash that broom handle up and down like your churnin butter.
I have to admit I didn't come up with this idea, just found it somewhere on the web where I can't find it again...
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Always keep plenty of cash around the homestead: your ATM card will be useless while power is down.
A glass Pyrex measuring cup makes a perfect candle holder: It is fire proof, has a convenient carrying handle, won't obstruct the light, and protects it from wind, plus it will safely save any wax.
I'm finding you can eat a lot of what you throw away in your own garden, like the leaves and stems and flowers of almost all annual crops (not potatoes or tomatoes)..but things like peas, squash, melons, and even leaves of some trees, pits of some things like plums, seeds of a lot of plants..
i am taking extensive notes and plan to try some of these plants every year to make sure I know what ones i like to eat before there is an emergency and food isn't available.
most of your garden flowers are also edible ..at least parts of most.
Bloom where you are planted.
The short term can be broken down into away from home such as lost in the woods, small airplane crash, etc and natural disasters (usually while at home or in a shelter). Both of these take some of the same skills and yet are vastly different. I am as prepared as I can be for the natural disaster survival being inland outside the evac zone but still in a hurricane zone. Surviving for a few days to a week (and longer I was without power during Hugo for 9 weeks) would be easy for me. I don't think much at all about surviving a natural disaster because it is simply a part of my life I could have to deal with any given year. In the event of an away from home survival situation I usually have a small kit as well as (in the situations I would be in) a gun for hunting or rods for fishing. Thankfully I have never had to use these things to survive but I have practice camped but there is a mental difference between practice when you know you can go home and reality and I will only know how well I will do when it happens (hopefully it never will).
I think though what this thread is more about is long term survival. To me this means beyond the time my canned and preserved foods run out. In this instance we are not talking survival but altering your lifestyle. In this I am as prepared as possible because I know how to grow my own veggies, raise my own animals,and even hunt and gather wild edibles (plant and animal). Having already lived for 9 weeks without electricity I know exactly how much we take it for granted and how little we actually need it to survive. The biggest thing as has been mentioned is safe drinking water. I like to make sure I have at least 2 sources of fresh water on or near my property and more is better. In this regard I have a deep well (not useful without power but working on a pump rig would give me something to keep my mind occupied while I and doing more mundane things), I have a large fishing pond, and the water table in this area is fairly high even mid summer and I have an old fashioned hand pump as well as pipe to sink a shallow well. Of course the water will need treated but simply having it available to treat is what is key.
I am very prepared for survival and have thought about things trying to ready myself for the eventuality I see coming. In other words folks the grid goes down, fuel runs out, and it all goes to pot I am prepared even more so because I also have the ability to protect and keep what I have which I feel you will find most important of all when it truly shuts down.
Short term survival isn't really the issue, short term survival is relatively easy.
For the long term, "survival" isn't good enough! What's needed is "thrive-al", to thrive during the permanent, SHTF scenario.
I think the key is community, people don't thrive doing it alone, the "rugged individualist" thing is all a myth. In my mind, no matter how ready you might be (or think you are), without a healthy community of people working together, your walking on thin ice. All you need is one mistake or accident, in a DIY permanent living situation, a broken leg or sprained ankle can snowball into death. Considering the blockaded shooter mentality, you find that there's always a faster draw, or a gang to face. AND, no matter HOW competent you might be, you just can't do it ALL effectively.
In my way of thinking, if yer not planning to THRIVE, yer planning for a short, miserable life alone.
The Amish seem to have this one worked out... Maybe a path in the right direction would be something like the Transition Town movement.
Build it yourself, make it small, occupy it.
This whole discussion is a good but I feel a reminder is needed of how bad things can and will actually get if there is a meltdown and it all goes to hell. First off lots of people will die from simple things such as a small scratch. Without antibiotics there will be no way to treat infections (unless you are well versed in herbal remedies). Heck in short order many people will die simply from an allergic reaction to say a bee sting because of lack of things such as epinephrine. In other words folks when it happens there is going to be a mess because it will not take long before disease and famine reduce the population. The question is are you ready to survive and thrive or will you be a statistic. Personally I don't think many outside of those who have been in an area hit by a hurricane, earthquake, or other widespread natural disaster has a clue what to expect when the most basic modern services are cut off (for example no 911 for medical emergencies). Even survivors of such things only have an idea because when these things happen we have a government and nationwide, heck worldwide, community that shortly steps in and comes to the aid of others. When the big hammer falls this support will be cut off because everyone nationwide and perhaps worldwide will be dealing with it. Keep in mind help is not coming so are you ready when the only help you can expect to rebuild, survive and thrive is you and the individuals you may or may not know within WALKING distance of you?
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The difference between most MMOs and Second Life, is that MMOs requirements are scripted into the game; such as you have no choice but to choose their clothes, their looks, where you need to go next, or how your going to do it. Second life is a place where you can be anything you want. You can accessorize your avatar to your heart's content. It is really a wonderful thing and a very refreshing change from all the normal avatar based games where you are forced to pick from the limited items they have modeled into their game. It is a way of life here in Second life, to constantly change, improve your look, and to try new, limitless things. Its what most of the economy of Second Life is based on.
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Having shown the "reasoning" given in the OP is a total logical fallacy, there is no foundation upon which to construct anything positive. Further comment would be unchivalrous.
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Jul. 1--A new school year will bring a new face to the Caldwell County School System, along with some familiar ones.During a special session Monday night, the Board of Education approved three administrative recommendations.
The retirement of Donnie Bassinger, effective June 30, left a vacancy for the position of associate superintendent of auxiliary services for Caldwell County Schools. The board unanimously approved Dr. Jeff Church to fill the position.
"Jeff Church is a Caldwell County institution," said Caldwell County Schools Superintendent Dr. Steve Stone. "Certainly he will do well in this job. It's important to have someone (like Church) who already has a working knowledge of the county."
Church previously has served as a special education teacher and assistant principal at West Caldwell High School and principal at Gateway Alternative School. Since July 2002, Church has served as principal at Hudson Middle School, and he recently earned his doctorate from Gardner-Webb University. His two-year contract will begin Aug. 1. Stone said the position for a new principal at Hudson Middle School will be posted immediately and hopefully will be filled by mid-July.
The board also unanimously approved Katrina Watson to take on the position as director of high school education for Caldwell County Schools. Watson currently serves as Hibriten High School's assistant principal for curriculum, and Stone said that experience will pay off in her new role.
"(Katrina Watson) has a strong curriculum background, which is certainly a positive in this position" Stone said. "She has strong leadership skills, and she will be missed at Hibriten."
Watson's two-year contract will take effect Aug. 1. The director of high school education is one of three created from the restructuring and phasing out of the curriculum consultant positions. In May, the board approved Stephen Martin as director of elementary education and Shawn Clemons as director of middle school education.
With the approval of Martin as director of elementary education, the board voted Monday night for Andrew Miller to fill the vacancy for principal of Granite Falls Elementary School.
Miller has served as principal at Penderlea School in Willard (Pender County) since 2004, and Stone said the Appalachian State University and University of North Carolina at Charlotte graduate is looking forward to moving to Caldwell County.
"The committee was very impressed with (Miller), as was I," Stone said. "It was important to have someone with elementary experience who is able to relate to kids and teachers. He has a proven track record in success in schools."
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While the Turkish military has vowed to track down Kurdish rebels suspected of perpetrating several recent terror attacks in Turkey, the Voice of America reported Gates has asked the nation not to send troops into Iraq as part of that manhunt.
"We have been working with the Turks to try and help them get control of this problem on Turkish soil," Gates said. "Our view would be that we would prefer that we continue to work this problem with them to try and safeguard Turkey, and would hope that there would not be a unilateral military action across the border into Iraq."
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With 40 shootings per weekend becoming routine, a year that featured the most murders in six years, and 45 schools closed in Chicago to the sound of loud protest, the approval ratings for Rahm Emanuel have plummeted. The former White House Chief of staff appears to have few answers to solve the big problems that plague the city.
Dr. Enyia is focused on big change. Changing the way Chicago politics works and introducing a spirit of transparency and responsibility in leadership that is the cornerstone of Dr. Enyia's campaign is sharp turn from "the Chicago way."
"It's definitely a challenge but it can be done… I think the worst thing we can do is sit back and not rise to the challenge," she said in an interview earlier this year. Enyia is focusing her campaign on what she calls the deep rooted systemic problems that prevent the city from fixing its problems.
Huffington Post: "Dr. Amara Enyia, a 30-year-old community organizer told The Huffington Post she has "every intention of winning" Chicago's mayoral election in February. If elected, the Democrat would be the city's first black female mayor — and its second female mayor. Thus far, only one other challenger to the mayor — former alderman Robert Shaw — has emerged."
Her website reads, "We must reject leadership that divides us; leaders that ignore us, and leaders whose policies destroy our families and communities. We have a unique opportunity to build a movement – a movement powered by people and fueled by values of transparency in government, integrity in leadership and equity in policy. The times require it."
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Still at Cuverville Island, the local gentoo penguin colonies were an attraction, as well as the resident blue-eyed shags. After Cuverville we intended to embark on a series of visits to a few Antarctic bases. At Water Boat Point, on a tiny island immediately adjacent the mainland, the Chileans have a small installation, while a distance offshore, a UK charity looks after an even smaller British base set-up during the war.
Despite this human presence, the "unsurveyed" notes on the chart are typical.
Cuverville Island, Water Boat Point, and Neumayer Channel
There was more evidence of the whaling past. This chain and cable was wrapped around the rocky outcrop of a small islet in the middle of the bay at Cuverville Island. Whalers probably used it to tie to in the old days.
On the island hillsides, a large gentoo penguin colony is established. Parents stand guard over chicks.
The chicks here were younger than they were farther north. This is because the whole breeding cycle gets started later in the colder environment.
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The penguins have a good view of the bay.
Moving on, we came to the first of a few bases we intended to visit. This is Water Boat Point, where the Chileans have an answer to the Argentines.
We were moored directly between the base, which is built on a small isle, and the continent coast. Glaciers and mountain ranges climbed away behind us.
In front of us was the largest iceberg we see on this trip – so large it took us a while to realize that it was not in fact part of the land.
The Chilean Armada boys have a good view from their observation tower. The pink in the snow is not reflected sunlight nor penguin guano; it is pink algae which lives in the top layer of snow.
The color here is all sunlight though.
Leaving the continent behind, we headed out to a group of large islands off the coast. Below, the flat plateau that the ice-cap provides to the entire Peninsula is apparent from distance.
This is the Neumayer Channel, a famous passage between dramatic walls of mountain ranges which rise steeply out of sea.
This colorless landscape is reminescent of something from Tolkien. Mountain peaks march into the distance.
We were on our way to Port Lockroy, a British base dating from the war. Its presence is marked by some small black huts and radio antennae.
"Base A" Port Lockroy was established by the British in 1944 as part of "Operation Taberin", intended to both report on German activities in the region and provide weather reports. The base is now abandoned by the British Antarctic Survey, which has consolidated its investments into the larger British bases farther south. Lockroy however is maintained and run as a museum by a British charity organization. They send a small team down every summer to do maintenance work and run the museum shop which mostly funds their efforts. Here, Rick and Nicky are working on cement steps to assist visitors from cruise ships.
The penguins have no interest in such dull activities, and continue to colonize the island as they always have.
On the other side of the bay, the local penguins have another intrusion into their landscape to contend with. These right whale bones are another leftover from whaling days.
Port Lockroy is dominated by the terrain that surrounds it. The little huts have so far managed to brave the odds, and the flag seems a symbol of man's endurance in the face of the natural world.


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Have you ever felt hurt or slighted when your spouse didn't come home right away, and you hadn't told them directly that you would like that?
Have you said something to your partner and they completely got the wrong interpretation of what you meant?
First spouses know their partner well enough that this doesn't happen as often as with people we don't know as well, but we all want harmony and good will at home. So what can you do to prevent this misunderstanding from happening? Well first harness your thoughts. Worry is not fact. We can make up all kinds of problems that most of the time will never happen. There is the classic "I didn't know if you had been in an accident". With texting and cell phones, we seldom can't reach our partner. Allowing a few minutes to respond is only natural.
Second check out old sensitivies from past experiences. The partner whose first husband cheated on them often will admit to needing reassurance when schedules change. Owning our insecurities with our partner and how we developed them will only promote more emotional intimacy between you and your partner. Asking for understanding and receiving it will often lead to a healing of these earlier upsets.
Third if you do "lose it" with your loved one, breath and give up any defensiveness and say you are sorry. They are magic words. Many of you have not heard those words growing up and this is a new experience. It will get easier with practice.
You all don't want to fight and especially over misunderstandings. These are the needless dramas. Life has enough real challenges without us making them up.


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"Vivid yellow. Poached pear, melon and butterscotch on the pungent nose. Ripe and fleshy, with good depth and a bit of heat to its broad orchard and pit fruit flavors. Finishes smooth and gently sweet, leaving notes of sweet butter and honey behind. I'd have liked a bit more vivacity but fans of rich, creamy chardonnay should love this." Josh Raynolds International Wine Cellar - Click here
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"Bright yellow-gold. Intensely perfumed bouquet of exotic tropical fruits, candied orange, vanilla and marzipan, with a smoky overtone. Lush, expansive pineapple and passion fruit flavors show serious depth and a pliant texture. The vanilla note comes back on the finish, which features notes of toasty lees, honey and bitter citrus pith. This distinctly opulent wine also shows surprising vivacity, but it's not for delicate palates." Josh Raynolds International Wine Cellar - Click here
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"Light, bright gold. Spice-accented aromas of pit fruits, mango, anise and toasty lees, with a brighter note of lemon pith adding verve. Deep, juicy and penetrating, with powerful tropical and citrus fruit flavors, hints of clove and ginger and a smoky overtone. Shows very good vivacity for a ripe, rich wine (this is carrying 15.1% alcohol), finishing with strong grip and length." Josh Raynolds International Wine Cellar - Click here
93 Points 2009 Talbott Chardonnay, Sleepy Hollow Vineyard
"As always with this vineyard, the wine is superripe, almost overripe, with extracted pineapple, pear, nectarine and peach flavors that are impossibly ripe. New oak adds even richer vanilla, carmel and buttered toast notes. Great acidity and a firm minerality fortunately balance all this flamboyance, but it's still a pretty powerful Chardonnay. Drink with rich lobster, scallop and tuna dishes. Typical Talbott Sleepy Hollow Vineyard, ultraripe, exotic, oaky." Steve Heimoff Wine Enthusiast - Click here
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'Health Impact News has just received urgent information from health care workers at Hope Assisted Living & Memory Care in Dacula, Georgia. According to our informants, on Friday November 7, 2014, all the residents received flu vaccinations. They all reportedly developed a fever immediately, and within one week, five of the residents died.
According to its website, Hope Assisted Living & Memory Care specializes in Alzheimer's and Dementia care. Our sources indicate that 5 fatalities in one week is extremely unusual, as the center "maybe loses a couple of people every 6 months or longer to Alzheimers."
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Fiscal Cliff
Fiscal Cliff.
Maybe I am not the sharpest, but I had honestly NEVER heard this term before September. Apparently, we are teetering on the edge of it, with a strong wind at our back. According to the intertubes, Bernanke, head of the US Federal Reserve, used the term to describe a "massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases" set to begin on January 1, 2013. In other words, we are jin for it if the parties don't suck it up and decide to play nicely with each other for the sake of, ummmm, their actual country.
The fiscal cliff, if left unchecked, will affect everyone. Rich, poor, those on unemployment, doctors who accept medicaid, air traffic controllers, R&D companies, pretty much everyone, will be affected. If left unchecked, the average middle-class family will pay about $2000 more in taxes a year. That will sting, no matter what side of the aisle you sit on.
I have had my head in the sand with this one lately but I ventured to the edge to peek last night and the ramifications of inaction will be astonishing and deep. Expiration of many tax cuts, some that Obama has extended from the Bush days. Spending cuts to most programs via the Budget Control Act of 2011, in remarkably vague wording that only clearly protects the DOD and Medicare. Highway funding, educational grants to states, spending on weapons programs, air traffic controllers- It will all be cut by eight percent. Doomsdayers say it will bring the slow climb out of the recession to a halt- some predict that it will take unemployment close to the double digits and that spending will come to a halt. We will feel the tax increases with any paycheck beginning on January 1, 2013.
Unless. Unless lawmakers from both sides come together to extend tax breaks, extend acts that protect us, and look at the other options that can bring us back from the edge. Unless lawmakers, who reconvene in a few days, do this hard work, we are all looking at immediate pains. I almost wish I had kept my head in the sand when I start to look at this stuff.
Fiscal Cliff- have you heard about it? Is it changing the way you think or spend or plan?
I would like to stick my head back in the sand........
It will have to be dealt with and many are unhappy with both sides of congress. I am hopeful and believe they can come to some sort of understanding but I don't truely know what that will mean for everyone.
Lawmakers coming together? Yeah. That'll happen. That actually makes me really frightened, money is already tight in our house, we can't afford more taxes.
Funny how we are all talking about burying our heads in the sand...
I've been watching it since last year. What most didn't realize going into the election was that both presidential candidates were planning to raise taxes on the middle and lower class. That tax break for the employee portion of the SSI tax was set to expire in January and neither candidate is/was planning to renew it. That means, no matter what, every one's (that isn't just investment income) taxes are going up across the board by 2%. The rest is fuzzy and I hope Congress can finally stop playing politics and actually GET TO WORK. We need a resolution and they need to stop making BS pacts like "no raising taxes no matter what". I will be curious to see what happens come January. No sand for me :)


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The Weirdest Fetishes..Today at work, was the weirdest clientele i have ever had.. I normally dont find fetishes weird, no matter how different they are, but today I had a bunch of them, client after client with more 'indifferent' fetishes. I am going to list the few, and comment if you dont think they are and im just going mad:
#1) an elderly man didnt want oral or sex, he just want to smell my hair for 30mins, which got me an extra $120 for basically doing nothing.
#2) A young gentleman wanted to make like a 'goldfish' face while he was fingering me. (why that face?)
#3) One of my regular clients came today, and every time he sees me, he pays for an hour session, and all i do is stand in a corner for normal clothes on(he pays for me to put clothes on) and stare at him batting off, im not even aloud to talk,move, smile, etc at him while he does, if I do he yells at me.
#4) another elderly man wanted me to fake that i was asleep while he ****** me
#5) another client asked me to burp?!? in his face
#6) Another guy wanted to lick a wall?
So this what i have to deal with, there are so many more weird fetishes, but these are the ones that i cant understand why people pay over $120 to see me do it?
NOTE: these fetishes werent all in one day
i also have a weird and disgusting fetish.I am a man with a fart fetish.i would pay thousands if i could afford for a black good looking prostitute with a big bum to fart in my face before we start.I erect quickly if a black good looking woman farts even if its away from me
funny n kinda wierd...but mostly they seem like ez $ that dont hurt no1 =)
How about haircutting? Has anyone asked to cut your hair?
I can get the sleep fetish, the other ones are strange.
Sleep fetish is basically a softer rape fantasy.
Any advise on how to get in the game
I hate the guys with foot fetishes
What's wrong with foot fetishes?
One of my coworkers had a client who was a fireman and he'd pay her to "fake" faint, then he'd pick her up and carry her around the room.
my experience is that over the last years customers get more kinky. probably because of internet. i try to live up to most of them just to get some extra buck, and lets face it most fetishes are quite OK and make sex more fun. It would be boring if all guys wanted a quick ******* and then **** me doggy style.
The weirdest fetish I've ran into was a guy I dated wanted me to sit on his face and fart in his mouth. Yeah.
Just my take :)
1: Totally understandable, many people get freaked out by folks who like to smell hair or w/e they do to it.
2: Goldfish face was probably what his ex made
3: Intriguing that he doesn't want you to talk or move in the slightest... don't know what to make of this one
4: Normal
5: Awesome, lol. When being dominated I like being spit on and such... never thought of burping. There are also those people into the farting thing. Lol.
6: He wanted to lick the wall? :P Or did he want you too? Would be strange if he asked if it was okay if he licked the wall, lol.
Thanks for making me feel normal.
lol yah me 2 =)
Must be the toughest job in the world - how do you do all of that with a straight face?
Peoples fetishes are images from life, books, movies, tv shows, I have been a Trannie Prostitute for a great many years since i was a teen and still am today I get asked to do many so called weird things too but a guy needs some one who will not judge or smirk at him while he indulges his fantasy/fetish that why he will pay. I ask not why but enjoy
Haha! although I don't envy you having to deal with these guys and their issues, at least you can go home knowing your day was quite different and not that boring lol, hope you're well? Gxx
The sleeping one I've had before. One guy likes it when I lick his feet. Not that weird. But the thing is he doesnt want anything else, just the feet for an hour. All I'm thinking is 'Hell, just get a dog and close your eyes' ;)
Lol! That made me laugh. I want your job!
Hmmm... I can almost relate to the hair smelling. I love the smell of womens hair. A guy usually only smells his wifes hair. Maybe the old guy was a widower. The smell of your hair probably helped him remember the good times. Smell can be a powerful trigger for memories.

The others... just weird.
I learnt some thing new today :) btw you shud ask them why they hav those fetishes and will be a nice thing to write in your book.
Loved your story. it is strange what some men like. But there must be reasons for their particular tastes.
just do it, girl, write!
I love this story. There is tenderness (the smelling of your hair) and the hilarious as well.


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Oferta personalizata si reducere pentru 2 sau mai multe produse. Suna acum si afla!
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Sooo much has happened since Monday I don´t know where to begin... Although I did talk to Mom last night so I´m sure half the world knows of my adventures by now. :) But here goes...
1. I´m in my homestay! I live in an apartment in a nice part of town about a 20 minute metro ride from the Plaça de Catalunya (the center of the city). My señora´s name is Beatriz, but she goes by Béti. She has a two-year-old grandson who is staying with her while I am here, and also... a dog! Those of you who know me know how ridiculously happy that makes me (But don´t worry, no one can EVER replace Lacey)! The dog is some kind of small mutt, but is cute and is named Nala, like "El Rey León" (The Lion King). Béti is very hospitable and doesn´t speak English.
2. EVERYTHING is in Spanish. I didn´t realize how intense my program is, but I think I like it. We started our intensive Spanish class today and we have that for 2 1/2 weeks and then we start actual classes at the university. All of my classes are in Spanish, and almost no one speaks English, except the people on my program. And we try to speak to each other in Spanish also so we can practice. There are a few native speakers on the program, so they help a lot too. But hopefully it will help so that I am at least almost fluent by the time I return to the U.
3. I´m a big girl now! I´ve never lived in a really big city with public transportation, a main square, etc. But I was so proud of myself because I have to walk from my homestay to the metro station, take the metro the center of the city, and walk from the there to the university each morning. And I do it all by myself! It´s so scary at first, but I´m getting used to it already.
4. I haven´t seen all the main sights yet, but we went on tours and saw most of the important historical and architectural sites like Gaudí´s Casa Amatller and Casa Batlló and the Barcelona Cathedral. My favorite is Casa Batlló- look it up online- it´s fantastic. I have yet to see the Picasso Museum, Montjuïc, La Sagrada Familia and more. I´ll upload pictures when I get a chance, but I don´t know when that will be yet.
5. The food is awesome. And that, for me, is essential. :) The wine is pretty fabulous too. But I´ve been very adventurous with my eating habits. Yes, I´m still a vegetarian but I´ve been eating much more fish and seafood than ever before. Most of it is very chewy (and some are served with all parts still intact), but it´s good! Most restaurants have a "Menú del Día" which includes two courses, a dessert and wine for around 10 euros. It´s a pretty good deal. Tonight we´re going out so I´m excited to explore the nightlife and I´ll be sure to update on that later!
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Within the realms of reality (regarding real estate pricing), where are the best areas to live in Golden to meet these needs?
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Metal Monday Volume 77 (7.2.12)by Jesse on Jul 2, 2012 • 3:00 pm No Comments
I don't want to preface this by saying that what I witnessed on Friday, June 30th (In the year of our lord two thousand and twelve) at the Vic Theater in Chicago was Ministry's finest hour (well, two hours) but it probably was. Ministry's "final" US show ever, Uncle Al along with mainstays Sin Quirin and Mike Scaccia on guitar, Casey Orr on bass, Aaron Rossi on drums and John Bechdel on keys; gave a performance that will go down in Ministry history as one of their best.
While the bulk of the main set was mostly newer material (much like the 2008 sets), Ministry still had lots of surprises and if possible, the band was tighter now than on their last go round. Opening with the sonic alarm clock that is "Ghouldiggers" off of this year's Relapse, it was apparent from the start that "slowing down" was not an option as the band progressed in years. Uncle Al, at 53, looking even more like his nickname "Alien" with the addition of no less than 3 facial tattoos, was on fire. Dancing around like a man possessed behind his all new mic stand, Jourgensen seemed to be reveling in the finality of the night's proceedings.
Songs that definitely are not favorites of mine from Relapse ("99 Percenters", "United Forces") served as visceral reminders of why Ministry truly shine on stage. On the other hand songs like "Worthless", off of 2004's Houses Of The Mole, which was a favorite already was positively devastating this time around. Other highlights were trips through the "Bush-y" (Al's words) years with songs like "No W" and the Bin Laden centric "Khyber Pass" complete with new, updated lyrics reflecting recent events. One of the other perks of making it to Chicago and managing to get to the front (Seriously Chicago? This should not have happened!) was the privilege of watching Scaccia utterly destroy on guitar as well. The man's hands moved so fast during songs like "Senor Peligro" that you'd swear he was part machine.
Beginning the first encore (yes, first) with "Psalm 69", Uncle Al kept the haters at bay with
Now I was at the last batch of "final" Ministry shows in Chicago in 2008 so I know it might not be over but with only five US shows in four cities announced and a handful of European Festival appearances scheduled for later in the summer, my thoughts are that this might be it. If this was indeed the last Ministry performance in the States then Al and company went out with a bang. If it's not and I find myself on my way to Chicago in four years then God help us all for whatever Uncle Alien has in store for Relapse number two!


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This is a simple resource any blogger can use to add a dash of color to otherwise drab text (textual content) — especially for larger text, such as titles and subtitles, where color shows up better. Adding color to your titles, subtitles, etc. is quick and simple as long as your blogware allows you to edit in HTML view or mode; most platforms (e.g., WordPress) allow this. [ I get it; take me to the list of color codes ] [ Lighter colors for backgrounds ]
Here's how you do it! (If it makes no sense, then read on… it's explained simply.)
HTML code example for a red H3-level title:

In general, virtually all blogging, website, coding, and programming platforms have two modes for editing content: A visually oriented mode and a coding-oriented, text-based mode.
WordPress allows users to create and edit content (for blog posts and pages) in either Visual mode or HTML mode. Most geeks, technically proficient, and power users prefer to edit in HTML mode. Most others probably use Visual mode, which is a type of content presentation often referred to as WYSIWYG (stands for What You See Is What You Get; pronounced wizzie-wig).
In HTML, headings, or headers – HTML terminology for what most would call a title or a subtitle – are indicated by being enclosed within "H" tags; therefore, the HTML code for a normal H1 heading title looks like this:

Title goes here

The above line of HTML code produces this:
Title goes here
The HTML code for a heading tag to display text in the color of your choice (for now, red) looks like this:

My red title

When the H2 code snippet above is displayed on a web page, it looks like this:
My red title
Selected HTML color codes
Antique white 3: #CDC0B0
Azure 3: #C1CDCD
Bisque 3: #4A708B
Bisque 4: #8B7D6B
Burnt orange: #CD6600
Cadet blue 4: #53868B
Chocolate 4: color:#8B4513
Coral 3: color:#CD5B45
Coral 4: color:#4A708B
Cornsilk 3: color:#CDC8B1
Cornsilk 4: color:#8B8878
Cyan 4: color:#008B8B
Dark green: color:#006400
Dark olive green: color:#556B2F
Dark orange 4: color:#8B4500
Dark red: color:#8B0000
Dark salmon: color:#E9967A
Dark sea green: color:#8FBC8F
Dark sea green 4: color:#698B69
Dark slate blue: color:#483D8B
Dark slate gray: color:#2F4F4F
Dark slate gray 4: color:#528B8B
Deep sky blue 4: color:#00688B
Dodger blue 3: color:#1874CD
Firebrick: color:#B22222
Firebrick 4: color:#4A708B
Honeydew 3: color:#C1CDC1
Honeydew 4: color:#838B83
Indian red: color:#CD5C5C
Indian red 4: color:#8B3A3A
Lavender blush 3: color:#CDC1C5
Lavender blush 4: color:#4A708B
Light blue 3: color:#9AC0CD
Light blue 4: color:#68838B
Light cyan 3: color:#B4CDCD
Light cyan 4: color:#7A8B8B
Light salmon 3: color:#CD8162
Light salmon 4: color:#8B5742
Light sky blue 3: color:#8DB6CD
Sky blue 3: color:#6CA6CD
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Light steel blue 3: color:#A2B5CD
Sky blue 4: color:#4A708B
Light steel blue 4: color:#6E7B8B
Magenta 4: color:#8B008B
Maroon: color:#B03060
Medium orchid 3: color:#B452CD
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Medium sea green: color:#3CB371
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Orchid 4: color:#8B4789
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Pale turquoise 4: color:#668B8B
Pale violet red 3: color:#CD6889
Pale violet red 4: color:#8B475D
Peach puff 3: color:#CDAF95
Peach puff 4: color:#8B7765
Plum 3: color:#CD96CD
Plum 4: color:#8B668B
Purple 3: color:#7D26CD
Purple 4: color:#551A8B
Red: color:#FF0000
Red 2: color:#8B0000
Red 3: color:#CD0000
Red 4: color:#8B0000
Royal blue 3: color:#3A5FCD
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Salmon 3: color:#CD7054
Salmon 4: color:#8B4C39
Sea blue: color:#4A708B
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Sea green: color:#2E8B57
Sea green 3: color:#43CD80
Sea green 4: color:#2E8B57
Seashell 3: color:#CDC5BF
Seashell 4: color:#8B8682
SGI light blue: color:#7D9EC0
SGI salmon: color:#C67171
SGI teal: color:#388E8E
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Sienna 4: color:#8B4726
Sky blue 3: color:#6CA6CD
Sky blue 4: color:#4A708B
Slate gray 2: color:#B9D3EE
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Slate gray 4: color:#6C7B8B
Snow 3: color:#CDC9C9
Snow 4: color:#8B8989
Spring green 4: color:#008B45
Steel blue: color:#4682B4
Steel blue 3: color:#4F94CD
Steel blue 4: color:#36648B
Tan: color:#D2B48C
Thistle 2: color:#EED2EE
Thistle 3: color:#CDB5CD
Thistle 4: color:#8B7B8B
Tomato 2: color:#EE5C42
Tomato 3: color:#CD4F39
Tomato 4: color:#8B3626
Wheat 1: color:#FFE7BA
Wheat 2: color:#EED8AE
Wheat 3: color:#CDBA96
Wheat 4: color:#8B7E66
A few light colors; suitable background colors
Many of the above colors are light enough to serve well as background colors — perfect for sectioning off small sections of text, such as asides, notes, digressions, etc.; they are easily used with blockquotes. As above, many more suitable colors can be found on Somacon's page of HTML color codes.
Antique white 1: #FAEBD7
Antique white 2: #FFEFDB
Antique white 3: #CDC0B0
Azure 1: #F0FFFF
Azure 2: #E0EEEE
Azure 3: #C1CDCD
Bisque 1: #FFE4C4
Bisque 2: #EED5B7
Bisque 3: #CDB79E
Cornsilk 1: #FFF8DC
Cornsilk 2: #EEE8CD
Cornsilk 3: #CDC8B1
Dark sea green 2: #B4EEB4
Dark sea green 3: #9BCD9B
White smoke: color:#F5F5F5
Yellow: color:#FFFF00
Curious? Additional details about headings, HTML, and CSS
Here are a few of the details which I omitted from the above explanation in order to keep things simple for everyone, to avoid getting too technical, etc.
HTML includes six (6) standard header sizes; from largest to smallest, they are H1 to H6. The next few lines are what the standard H1 to H6 headers look like on this blog:
H1 is the biggest.
This is an H2 heading.
Next is the H3 heading.
Then comes the H4 heading…
… followed by an H5 heading.
Last & least is the H6 heading.
If you are new to HTML, then the primary question at this point is probably something like this:
Where is the code with all the variables necessary for things like the font type (e.g., Arial, Franklin Gothic Book, Times New Roman, etc.), the font size (e.g., 10, 12, 14, etc.), the colors, what links look like and what happens when you click on them, the width of the website, etc.? When I use the browser's feature to look at the original source code of a web page, I don't see variables like BACKGROUND COLOR, FONT FACE, attributes of forms, and so much more… How do our web browsers know what colors and fonts to use?
That's an excellent question which shall serve as the segue into CSS: the Cascading Style Sheet. For years now, the web standard has called for the separation of presentation and content.
Presentation: Appearance; just about anything having to do with the way a site or blog looks on the screen: background color, text color and size, font stack, link color, link action, width of the webpage, the attributes of the headers H1 to H6, etc.)
Content: The actual, bare-bones textual content; the words that comprise the content of a site or blog
In the old days, the content — PLUS all the hundreds or thousands of variables used to instruct the web browser how to render the content onto the screen (colors, fonts, widths, heights, etc.) was all mixed together to form an great big ugly mess of HTML code which could be very time-consuming to update. But now — with CSS — things are much better for the webmaster!
Resources: Add a dash of color to your blog content using colored text
- HTML Headings – W3 Schools
- How To Use H1-H6 HTML Elements Properly – Hobo – Perfect if you'd like to absorb the HTML heading lowdown via video!
- CSS Color Chart – Somacon – Excellent list; displays colors along with their HTML/CSS codes… Excerpt: This page contains a neutral colors chart and a general-purpose color chart. You can use the colors in the palettes with either HTML or CSS. Click on the color code to select it, then you can copy and paste it. Click on the Toggle button to convert from Hex to RGB and back. The charts are printed in tabular fashion so you can narrow your browser window with the palette and compare the colors to your design side-by-side.
- Semantic uses of HTML heading tags –
Semantic User Interface best practices: Guidelines for developing quality user interfaces
- HTML Beginner Tutorial – HTML Dog: The best practice guide to XHTML and CSS – This HTML Beginner Tutorial assumes that you have no previous knowledge of HTML or CSS. It should be quite easy to follow if you work through each step, which are all brought together at the end, before moving on to the CSS Beginner Tutorial.
- CSS Beginner Tutorial – Like our HTML Beginner Tutorial, this CSS Beginner Tutorial assumes that you know NOTHING: that you know as much about CSS as you do about the cumulative effects of sea squirt discharge on the brain chemistry of Germanic ammonites. The purpose of this guide is to teach the bare essentials – just enough to get started. The CSS Intermediate Tutorial and CSS Advanced Tutorial go into more depth about CSS.
- How to use HTML color codes – HTML Color Codes
- The simple theory behind HTML color codes; understanding HTML color codes & how they work
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