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		<title>Empty Shelves Coming To America</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffalokill</dc:creator>
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6 months food supply

6 Months Supply (3 Servings/Day)
$3695.00
3 Servings per Day per Person
2,160 Serving Food Supply in (18) Stackable Buckets!
Provides food for 4 Adults (or 2 Adults/4 Kids) for 6 months, or 2 Adults  for 12 months.
Standard meal packages provide your family with 4 Adult servings

Blueberry Pancakes (240)
Brown Sugar Oatmeal (240)
Honey Glazed Granola (240)
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<h3>6 months food supply</h3>
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<p><strong>$3695.00</strong><br />
3 Servings per Day per Person<br />
2,160 Serving Food Supply in (18) Stackable Buckets!<br />
Provides food for 4 Adults (or 2 Adults/4 Kids) for 6 months, or 2 Adults  for 12 months.<br />
Standard meal packages provide your family with 4 Adult servings</p>
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<li>Brown Sugar Oatmeal (240)</li>
<li>Honey Glazed Granola (240)</li>
<li>Stroganoff (144)</li>
<li>Cheesy Macaroni (144)</li>
<li>Country Stew (144)</li>
<li>Creamy Chicken Pasta (144)</li>
<li>Chicken Teriyaki (144)</li>
<li>Cacciatore Pasta (144)</li>
<li>Corn Chowder (144)</li>
<li>Creamy Potato Soup (144)</li>
<li>Chicken Ala King (144)</li>
<li>Cheesy Lasagna (144)</li>
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<p>25 &#8211; Year Shelf Life (With Proper Storage)</p>
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		<title>Are You Ready to Survive a Disaster?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffalokill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A  disaster can strike in seconds sometimes with no warning what so ever and leave whole communities without power, running water or even shelter. You must be prepared to survive. 
The best way to prepare yourself is to have the necessary equipment and supplies to ensure you and your family are provided with the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="preamble">A  disaster can strike in seconds sometimes with no warning what so ever and leave whole communities without power, running water or even shelter. You must be prepared to survive. </p>
<p>The best way to prepare yourself is to have the necessary equipment and supplies to ensure you and your family are provided with the necessities of life.</p>
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<p>Survival equipment is really a form of life insurance. You never know when a disaster will strike and you need to be prepared before not after such an event. You should also try to ensure your neighbors; family and friends are prepared with their own survival gear otherwise be prepared to share yours. If others won&#8217;t take their survival needs seriously then buy them kits for Christmas, birthdays and even wedding presents.</p>
<p>Your survival kit should contain at the very least matches, fish hooks, fishing line, a string saw, a small knife, bouillon cube type<br />
dehydrated soup stock, sugar, salt, antibiotics, antiseptics, aspirin, bandages, aluminum foil, a magnetic compass, a small mirror, a magnifying glass, and antihistamine. In a larger kit, you will need food and fresh water to survive at least for two weeks. Avoid foods that have to be cooked unless you have a portable cooker or barbecue.</p>
<p>In the case of floods or earthquakes your home may be destroyed or unsafe to live in so you will need shelter and warmth. Waterproof backpacking tarps can be tied to trees with rope and used as a shelter. For clothing, remember that wool insulates when wet and comfortable waterproof footwear is worth its weight in gold.</p>
<p>You need to know how to use your survival equipment, experience in the use of emergency survival gear will help you to choose what to include in your emergency survival gear kit. You should know some first aid basics and have a copy of a first aid manual.</p>
<p>As well as knowing how to use your survival gear everyone in your house must know where it is. You should keep an inventory along with use by dates and replace items as they become aged or pass their use by date. Store and record the date on items to indicate when it should be replaced or buy extra food when you can and rotate items.</p>
<p>You need to take a survival kit everywhere you go. In your car you should have a portable kit that contains some high energy foods, Sports bars, hard candy, MREs (meals ready to eat), tropical chocolate bars, beef jerky, and nuts all work well. Basic first aid items, a flashlight and spare batteries as well as a map of the area. A couple bottles of fresh drinking water are must have items.</p>
<p>In some countries it is law to have a survival kit. Even in those countries where it isn’t you still need to be prepared. A good<br />
survival kit will only set you back a few hundred dollars and this is a cost you&#8217;ll be happy you paid if one day that disaster strikes and you kit saves the life of a loved family member.</p>
<p>Learning to survive doesn’t have to be all doom and gloom. In fact it can be an interesting family activity that all can participate in.<br />
Even very young members of the family need to be survival aware because if anything happens to their caregivers they may be left to fend for themselves. Don’t leave it till its too late get prepared to survive now.</p>
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		<title>The Survival Tool You Can&#8217;t Live Without</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steadyrock</dc:creator>
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Many articles have been written on Survival Digest and elsewhere on the various tools and gear available for surviving in just about any situation.  Some of these articles are good, some are bad (the bad ones, of course, have not appeared on SD).  Yet for all the attention given to lights, tents, campstoves, [...]]]></description>
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<p>Many articles have been written on Survival Digest and elsewhere on the various tools and gear available for surviving in just about any situation.  Some of these articles are good, some are bad (the bad ones, of course, have not appeared on SD).  Yet for all the attention given to lights, tents, campstoves, water purification, knives, firearms, and everything else under the sun the most critical tool often goes overlooked: your brain.</p>
<p>All the tools in the world are useless in the hands of an unprepared or ignorant person.  You would not trust your finances to an untrained accountant or your eyesight to an untrained laser surgeon, would you?  Neither should you trust your (and your family&#8217;s) survival to your untrained instincts.</p>
<p><strong>Get the Right Type of Training</strong></p>
<p>Google &#8220;survival training&#8221; and you are instantly overwhelmed with information about this DVD or that former Spec-Ops Ranger wanting to teach you how to craft shelters out of deer hides you tanned yourself.  For some, that kind of training makes sense (some of it may have helped the Kim family last winter).  For others though, focusing solely on that may leave them for want of more useful information when disaster strikes.  Each person needs to assess their own situation with respect to geography, locale, and what kinds of disasters they are most likely to face when putting together their training regimen.  However, there are a few kinds of training that will help everybody when they need it.  I am talking about preparedness courses from the American Red Cross in First Aid / CPR / AED, and Community Emergency Response Team training from the Citizen Corps (a partnership with FEMA).  Let&#8217;s take a closer look at both.</p>
<p><strong>American Red Cross First Aid / CPR / AED</strong></p>
<p>American Red Cross First Aid, CPR and AED programs are designed to give you the confidence to respond in an emergency situation with skills that can save a life.  They are designed for the casual citizen, and are mostly centered around the administration of life-saving medical care while waiting for help to arrive on the scene.  The American Red Cross has a chapter near you, and they offer preparedness classes for all age ranges.  I recommend that all members of your family over the age of 12 certify in First Aid every two years and CPR annually.    Contact your local chapter of the Red Cross today, or find them on the web at <a href="http://www.redcross.org">http://www.redcross.org</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Citizen Corps / FEMA Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)<br />
</strong></p>
<p>The CERT program is specially administered by the Department of Homeland Security, and seeks to educate the American public about disaster preparedness while training them in &#8220;basic disaster response skills&#8221; such as fire safety, elementary search and rescue (SAR) operations, and first aid.</p>
<p>The CERT training for community groups is usually delivered in 2 1/2 hour sessions, one evening a week over a 7 week period. The training consists of the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Session I, DISASTER PREPAREDNESS: Addresses hazards to which people are vulnerable in their community. Materials cover actions that participants and their families take before, during, and after a disaster. As the session progresses, the instructor begins to explore an expanded response role for civilians in that they should begin to consider themselves disaster workers. Since they will want to help their family members and neighbors, this training can help them operate in a safe and appropriate manner. The CERT concept and organization are discussed as well as applicable laws governing volunteers in that jurisdiction.</li>
<li>Session II, DISASTER FIRE SUPPRESSION: Briefly covers fire chemistry, hazardous materials, fire hazards, and fire suppression strategies. However, the thrust of this session is the safe use of fire extinguishers, sizing up the situation, controlling utilities, and extinguishing a small fire.</li>
<li>Session III, DISASTER MEDICAL OPERATIONS PART I: Participants practice diagnosing and treating airway obstruction, bleeding, and shock by using simple triage and rapid treatment techniques.</li>
<li>Session IV, DISASTER MEDICAL OPERATIONS, PART II: Covers evaluating patients by doing a head to toe assessment, establishing a medical treatment area, performing basic first aid, and practicing in a safe and sanitary manner.</li>
<li>Session V, LIGHT SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS: Participants learn about search and rescue planning, size-up, search techniques, rescue techniques, and most important, rescuer safety.</li>
<li>Session VI, DISASTER PSYCHOLOGY AND TEAM ORGANIZATION: Covers signs and symptoms that might be experienced by the disaster victim and worker. It addresses CERT organization and management principles and the need for documentation.</li>
<li>Session VII, COURSE REVIEW AND DISASTER SIMULATION: Participants review their answers from a take home examination. Finally, they practice the skills that they have learned during the previous six sessions in disaster activity.</li>
</ul>
<p>Because CERT graduates become permanent members of a team and are “deputized” to respond to emergencies, perform rescues and treat injuries and perform other duties when emergency services are unable to respond, not all cities/counties offer the program at this time.  Those areas which do not offer CERT usually offer a Community Emergency Preparedness Academy (CEPA), which consists of mostly the same training but lacks the official team designation.  As of this writing there are 2,911 CERT programs in the United States, including programs in every state.  You can find more information about CERT and the Citizen Corps (including training locations) at <a href="https://www.citizencorps.gov/cert">https://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/.</a></p>
<p><strong>Develop </strong><strong>Your Plan<br />
</strong></p>
<p>The above training will provide a foundation for you to go further.  <em>You should not stop here.</em> Each person&#8217;s circumstances are unique, and the combinations are myriad.  After incorporating the above training into your plan, you should build on top of that, adding specialized training that will suit your individual situation.  Know your threats, your risks, and your strengths, and plan accordingly.  Then be prepared to act on your training when the time comes.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[SURVIVAL
Sur*viv&#8221;al\, n. [From Survive.]1. A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.

DIGEST
n.   (dī&#8217;jěst&#8217;)  1. A collection of previously published material, such as articles, essays, or reports, usually in edited or condensed form.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>SURVIVAL</strong><br />
Sur*viv&#8221;al\, n. [From Survive.]1. A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.<br />
<strong><br />
DIGEST</strong><br />
n.   (dī&#8217;jěst&#8217;)  1. A collection of previously published material, such as articles, essays, or reports, usually in edited or condensed form.</p>
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<p>Welcome to Survival Digest!  If you take a look at both definitions of the the two terms, SURVIVAL and DIGEST, you will understand exactly what we are about here.  We are fathers, husbands, brothers, and uncles who care about our loved ones enough to understand that SURVIVAL training and preparation is key.  Whether its just a simple power outage, a natural disaster, or full on economic collapse, we want to be prepared to keep our families safe and alive.  </p>
<p>Here at Survival Digest you will find organized resources, commentary, and instruction on surviving the most volatile senario.  May God bless you and keep you safe! </p>
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