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Survial

EMS Newbie

by Ron on June 14, 2010 · 2 comments

Once you do one podcast, you are quick to think about doing another. As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m going to be an EMT. I’m a week into my training and it is interesting. But it also gave me an idea for another podcast. Being a podcast listener as well as a podcaster, [...]

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Super Sexy Abdominal Thrust

by Ron on June 8, 2010 · 0 comments

First it was CPR, now the Heimlich Maneuver.

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Sexy CPR Is Really CPR

by Ron on May 18, 2010 · 0 comments

Before it start my EMT clinical I have to take CPR for health care professionals. I found a place online to take it and was just starting to read the section on actual CPR when a office mate pointed something out in this video and I needed to rewatch it. Yes a terrible thing to [...]

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Patriots Review

by Ron on March 10, 2010 · 0 comments

Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse is the book I judge all other survivalist lit by. Is it better worse written than Patriots? Is the scenario more or less realistic? Even my dichotomy of survivalist vs ordinary people comes from reading this book. The author says Patriots is a poorly disguised survivalist [...]

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Last Light Review

by Ron on February 23, 2010 · 0 comments

This is my first survival literature review and is for Terri Blackstock’s Last Light, the first in her Restoration Series. In my intro to reviewing survival literature I talked about two kinds of survival stories. This book is a regular people story. The Survival Scenario: EMP The book starts with what appears to be an [...]

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Reviewing Survival Literature

by Ron on February 12, 2010 · 1 comment

I’ve been reading a bunch of survivalist literature lately and I thought I should write some reviews. But as I got ready to write my first ones I thought about some over arching things that need to be talked about first. Fiction vs. How To There are two kinds of books I’ve been reading. One [...]

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The Best Is The One You Have With You

by Ron on February 8, 2010 · 0 comments

I’ve heard this phrase used for everything from guns to cameras. Over the years I’ve slowly added a number of things to my pockets. Every one I thought I’d be fine without, and learned after carrying it for a few days how great it was to have them. Here’s the best gear I’ve got, ie, [...]

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Possum Living

by Ron on January 22, 2010 · 0 comments

Very interesting documentary about A girl who wrote at book called Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and with (Almost) No Money It is very interesting example of simple living. Pt 1 Pt 2 Pt 3 I heard about it via an article on Viceland interviewing the author Dolly Freed, who went [...]

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