Fugitive Bushcraft

Monday, May 11, 2015

Lost Runner Drinks Own Breast Milk To Survive

Lost Runner Drinks Own Breast Milk To Survive

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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

wndsn: chrisgaffey: Private Wight VC Super lightweight,...

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chrisgaffey:

Private Wight VC Super lightweight, Fishtail Parka.

Olive ripstop. Stripped back to the basic shell, packs small.

This material, Ventile; also sold as EtaProof, is a cotton-only ancestor (in function) of Gore-tex.

I used to have a Ventile smock, brilliant piece of kit

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Woman uses pizza order to escape US hostage situation - BBC News

Woman uses pizza order to escape US hostage situation - BBC News:

Woman uses pizza order to escape US hostage situation
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Thursday, April 30, 2015

irelandseyeonmyth: The sacred Mountain: Cruachan Aigle/Croagh...

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The sacred Mountain: Cruachan Aigle/Croagh Patrick

Moving from polytheism to monotheism didnt desacralise the landscape and geographical features continued to have a sacredness thats still around in Irish cultures today. Croagh Patrick is a medieval pilgrimage site where people walk up the hill in their bare feet and have mass on the summit.

As Cruachain Aigle ‘Eagle Mountain/the festival mountain’ Croagh Patrick is associated with the Lunasa motif marking the seasonal change with the battle of two deities for the possession of feminine divinity that personifies the fertility of the land. The story involves Crom the only time he appears outside the Saints Lives. Hes called Crom Dearg

In the place name stories the mountain gets its name from the death of the son of Dearg (a name for the death deity) at the hand of Crom Dearg. Interestingly When patrick fasts against the angel victor on Croagh Patrick it might be explaining how he took on some of the cult of a death god.

Patrick refuses to eat shaming god into giving him certain entitlements. Patrick made it so all irish people would go to him after death and not Saint Peter. Similar to how people go to Donn the death god after their death.

The move between Polytheism and Monotheism had to be marked and how the authors of the saints lives did it is the origin of saint patrick driving out the snakes. But there were no snakes. Instead he expelled demon birds from the plain here with a magic bell.

Unfortunately for our modern english language associations with pagans and snakes, snakes dont feature in the saints life until after anglo norman invasion. They spoke Norman french a mix of norweigan and Frankish might have confused Padraic with Padrkr. Toad expeller.

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law66: The fundamentals of the lock:In the first image, we see...

No key, the pins height varies closing the sheer line preventing opening

With the key, the pins height sits at the same height allowing the plug to turn on the sheer line.

The visible sheer line as all the pins match the same height and the plug will rotate opening the lock

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The fundamentals of the lock:

In the first image, we see a lock with no key, the sheer line is blocked by the pins varying in height. This wont allow the plug to turn, any force on the plug at this point is transferred to the pins further keeping the lock closed.

In the second image, the addition of the key forces the pins to sit at the correct height freeing the sheer line and allowing the plug to rotate, opening the lock.

The final image shows the plug rotated and the pins at the height of the sheer line in a normal operation of opening the lock. Most locks do not have a restriction on which way the plug turns to open, this can be used to your benefit when picking locks and allowing space for the tension wrench when it is tight.

Learning what is happening at all stages of picking and visualize the cause and effect of the action. This will help you pick more locks as you understand the feedback in relation to the events happening deep inside a lock. Sometimes you just need to reset and start again, don’t keep picking if you are getting nowhere and the lock is telling you something is wrong.

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