Blogs BuddasBlog February 2012
Busse, Scrapyard and Swamprat source sale
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Brought a couple of Scrapper knives off this guy, hes good to deal with and Ive found knives on his forum link that I havent managed to find any where else.
Jeff Crowner Knives Links
Friday, February 17th, 2012
Been having a problem with cutting and pasting links into articles. When ever I add them to the actual article they will mess up the entire paragraphs, so Im adding them seperately till the problem is sorted.
Jeff Crowner knives
http://jeffreycrowner.webs.com/
http://jeffcrownerknives.blogspot.com.au/
http://themanwhonevermissed.blogspot.com.au/2009/04/knife-show-eugene-or.html
Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Crowner/100000044488319
Other Blade Design Collaberatorshttp://cssdsc.com/
Bram Frank
Tactical Arts
http://www.tacticalarts.com/about/instructors/137
TYR Tracker Group
Mykel Hawke Blog
Steels Info
Jeff Crowner Custom knives – Bush Blade PT 1 CPM 3V steel
Friday, February 17th, 2012
The Bush Blade comes in two different sizes, a 7 inch model for the TYR Tracking Group and in a 9 inch length. Made using a choice of D2, 5160, 1080V, L6 or CPM3V – (this one costs extra to cover costs of additional linishing belts and cryo tempering) and incorperates a high convex grind. I ordered an 8.5 inch version to suit my height in CPM 3V.
I hadnt heard of 3V steel before so have added a run down and comparrisons with other steels, out of interest. Mykel Hawke from Man Woman Wild uses a 9 inch version Bush Blade in the second season episode Louisiana Firestorm.
This will be in several parts one to cover the steel used while Im waiting for the knife to be built, before being able to field test.
CPM 3V Steel
CPM 3V Composition – Carbon 0.80% Chromium 7.50% Vanadium 2.75% Molybdenum 1.30%
The wear and toughness properties of CPM 3V make it an alternative to shock-resistant steels such as S7 or A9, where they typically wear out too quickly, but where grades such as A2, tend to fail by breaking or chipping. CPM 3V offers the highest impact toughness of any tool steel with this range of wear resistance. CPM 3V offers impact toughness approaching the shock-resistant tool steels, with much greater wear resistance and offers substantial improvements in tool wear life when compared with conventional tool steels such as A2 and D2. CPM 3V’s high vanadium content offers wear resistance similar to M2 high speed steel.
Alloy steels
5160, Spring steel. Popular forging steel for swords and large knives. High toughness and good wear resistance
Tool steel
D2, has a high chrome content of 12%, it is called “semi-stainless”, because of the lack of free Chromium in solution. While not as tough as premium carbon steels, it is much tougher than premium stainless steels.
L-grade tool steel is short for low alloy special purpose tool steel. L6 is extremely tough.
Carbon steel is a popular choice for rough use knives. Carbon steel tends to be much tougher and much more durable, and easier to sharpen than stainless steel. They lack the chromium content of stainless steel, making them susceptible to corrosion.
10 series steel
1095, a popular high-carbon steel for knives; it is more brittle than lower carbon steels such as 1055, 1060, 1070, and 1080. It has a carbon content of 0.90-1.03%
1084, carbon content 0.80-0.93%
1070, carbon content 0.65-0.75% Used in machetes.
1060, used in swords. It has a carbon content of 0.55-0.65%
As a comparison, A2 is about 10-20% tougher than O1 and will hold an edge a little longer. O1 will be slightly easier to sharpen and also will allow the user to strike a spark off the spine using the flint and steel method of fire lighting ( A2 has a little too much alloy to get a good spark). Since A2 has a higher chromium content it will be a little more stain resistant than O1, however both will rust if not wiped down after use or abused.
CPM 3V is a very tough tool steel made by the Crucible Particle Metallurgy process. 3V is about 100% tougher than A2 or O1 and has better rust preventative characteristics than either, but is not classified as a stainless steel. With this toughness comes higher cost and more difficulty in sharpening with natural stones though. As with A2 you will be unable to derive a spark from 3V by the flint and steel method. Good for when you are in need of a very strong edge.
CPM–Crucible Particle Metallurgy – Conventional Steelmaking vs. Particle Metallurgy Processing
Conventional steelmaking begins by melting the steel in a large electric arc furnace. It is usually followed by a secondary refining process such as Argon Oxygen Decarburization (AOD). After refining, the molten metal is poured from the furnace into a ladle, and then teemed into ingot molds.
Although the steel is very homogeneous in the molten state, as it slowly solidifies in the molds, the alloying elements segregate resulting in a non-uniform as-cast microstructure. In high speed steels and high carbon tool steels, carbides precipitate from the melt and grow to form a coarse intergranular network. Subsequent mill processing is required to break up and refine the microstructure, but the segregation effects are never fully eliminated. The higher the alloy content and the higher the carbon content, the more detrimental are the effects of the segregation on the resultant mechanical properties of the finished steel product.
The CPM process also begins with a homogeneous molten bath similar to conventional melting. Instead of being teemed into ingot molds, the molten metal is poured through a small nozzle where high pressure gas bursts the liquid stream into a spray of tiny spherical droplets. These rapidly solidify and collect as powder particles in the bottom of the atomization tower. The powder is relatively spherical in shape and uniform in composition as each particle is essentially a micro-ingot which has solidified so rapidly that segregation has been suppressed. The carbides which precipitate during solidification are extremely fine due to the rapid cooling and the small size of the powder particles. The fine carbide size of CPM steel endures throughout mill processing and remains fine in the finished bar.
The powder is screened and loaded into steel containers which are then evacuated and sealed. The sealed containers are hot isostatically pressed (HIP) at temperatures approximately the same as those used for forging. The extremely high pressure used in HIP consolidates the powder by bonding the individual particles into a fully dense compact. The resultant microstructure is homogeneous and fine grained and, in the high carbon grades, exhibits a uniform distribution of tiny carbides. Although CPM steels can be used in the as-HIP condition, the compacts normally undergo the same standard mill processing used for conventionally melted ingots, resulting in improved toughness.
JDR Knife and Tool
Friday, February 17th, 2012
Found another EDC tool maker while doing some research on CPM 3V steel. Havent dealt with him yet but waiting to hearback to see if he still makes mule Bars.
http://jdrknifeandtool.blogspot.com.au/
Dog Siezure Update
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
As some you you may be aware from previous posts, my 10 year old staffy started having siezures. These became a regular occurance to a stage where they were happening every 10 to 14 days.Phenobarbital (PB)which can lead to liver damage and result in charactor changes . Potasium Bromide (KBr) seems to no longer be available in this country. (PBr) secretes through the kidneys, (PB) secretes through the liver, however the liver is better at recovering from the drugs.
This was treated with 5mg of diazepam placed under his gums during a siezure and within an hour he had quitened down. I was about to start him on
I found the below web site and started him on Vitamin B and Lecitin recomended by the vet and Melatonin combined with Taurine recomended by the below site. Within two weeks the siezures had stopped and knock on wood have not reappeared for 4 months.
I found these amounts to suit his size, after trying different combinations.
Vitamins (as per below)
1 Iron, once per fortnight to improve anemia
2 fish oil tablets per week, hes getting to that age where it cant hurt.
Half Vitamin B tablet per day
Half Melatonin tablet per day
1 large pinch Taurine powder per day
2 large pinches of Lecitin granuales per day
http://www.canine-epilepsy-guardian-angels.com/tablecontents.htm
Links from PT 2
Sunday, February 12th, 2012
It became too hard to post the links with the article. Taking too long without system messing up the entire cut and post process.
Furniture
http://www.greatstuff.com/furniture.html
Candle
http://www.latestbuy.com.au/candle_security_safe.html
Stash Bolts
http://www.smokeshack.com/stashsafebolt.aspx
Magnetic Stash Box
http://www.keepshooting.com/magnetic-stash-box.html
Secret Storage Books
http://www.secretstoragebooks.com/?gclid=CO3Ry8yu-a0CFYMmpAodrhF8rg
Hidden Outlet Safes
http://www.spyville.com/hiddensafes.html
Hidden Diversion Safes
http://www.tbotech.com/diversionsafes.htm
Monitors
Motion Sensors
Home Security for Preppers PT 2
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
(Electronics and Re-cap of Fortifications)
The following few paragraphs are a brief rundown on the difference between having an alarm system and a home security system. A standard alarm system that is unmonitered, will reduce to majority of breakins by thieves. Not by burglars. The difference being a thief is an opportunist, while a burglar is a proffessional.
A self installed alarm can be bypassed quite easily, if the system is not attached to solid brick or wall joists by simply wrenching off the wall. Another way is to fill the siren with expandable foam. This needs to be placed where it can not be reached, to be interfered with.
A monitered alarm system is more efficient. These are rigged to alert a base station, who then contacts the police and the owner if the sensors are activated or a break in transmission occurs.
Both these systems work off motion sensors and when breaks occur in a circuit. The circuits are placed on the doors and windows, while the motion sensors are placed in each corner of the rooms most likely to be used as entry points.
These alarm systems are designed for when the owner is not at home. This is the difference between an alarm system and a home security system. A home security system is designed for when the occupant is staying at the residence.
Alarm systems during an emergency situation, meaning earthquake, terrorist attack etc are little more than a preventative measure for looters, as there wont be anyone to respond. Including yourself if already bugged out of the area. This is presuming mains power has remained on and or that the backup batteries have not already failed from continous use.
A home security system is for when yourve decided to stay in place and not bug out, either to avoid the initial traffic jams of mass exits or to wait for an infection to burn its self out before attempting to bug out to a more secure location.
Once again a home security system will be of little use if there is no mains power or a backup generator is not in use. Or simply if the property has not been properly secured to begin with. A recap on achieving this, is for example.
Starting with the outer courdon. Have a fence entirely surrounding your property, at a full legal height. Here it is 1.8 meters for suburban use. Ive further extended this by using treallacing. The trallace is attached with heavy duty cable ties and not frame work. This is designed to hold under the weight of a small animal such as a cat but break when heavier weight is applied such as a human.
The fence capping has been removed and sharpened on the inside edge to develop a chisel grind edge effect that cannot be seen from the outside. If any large weight is applied to the trellace causing it to break, this will result in a nasty wound to the forearms. Using barb wire in a suburban area is also against the law. Another way around this is to grow thorny creepers along fence lines.
My front yard is then covered by a motion sensor activated lighting system, between the fence and lights this develops a choke point where the only entry is through the main gate which has been made from steel tubing. A simple padlock on this gate keeps out most people. It is simply turned to make it look as though it is locked, permiting entry by friends or rescue personel. Its fooled all but three people.
One of these people were told before hand by a third person, the other two Im still trying to work out if they either have no respect for another persons property by checking to see if the lock was in a fixed position or just smart enough to test to see if the gate was locked. An interesting test for peoples thought processes.
If I wanted to take it a step further than that, I could use a push button actived entry solonoid to manually open the gate such as used on multi story buildings and have an intercom to identification. This needs to have a reset feature on a circuit to make sure the gate has been reclosed after entry. This may be an option during a pandemic, to keep others atleast 8 meters from myself before contact and possible contagion.
The backyard is fully enclosed by using framed treallace attached to a pergola that completely encloses the yard and then covered in bamboo sceening. The yard is again covered by a sensor light, allowing a choke point at the rear gate. Framed trellace is much stronger than unframed, having an outside support structure.
The choke points are used to form three functions. One is to make it the easiest way of entering the property, therefore the home security system takes over. Remember, there is a difference between security and safety. More on this later. Secondly the choke point is the most likely area to be accessed and wont require an entire yard filled with cameras meaning not as many are needed. Not as many blind spots. Thirdly a choke point is the easiest to defend, such as being in a cave and having your back and sides covered. Only one direction to defend against.
The inner courdon. Being a single brick home the walls have been left. A fake brick home is just a matter of sawing and in some cases simply kicking a hole between the bearers to gain entry. A single brick wall still wont stop a 30 cal rifle round. Something to keep in mind.
The two easiest points of entry are the doors and windows. All windows have had security film added, reducing the ability of breaking them open. The hinges on all doors and windows have been replaced with long course thread chip board screws into hard wood frames. These cannot be ripped out with a crowbar, unlike the standard installed short fine thread screws. This includes the strike plates on all door locks. The door hinges have also been replaced with full length piano style hinges or atleast add several more than the standard two that are on most homes. Minimal of three used on each door, five is better.
There are atleast four locks on each door. The standard door lock, dead lock, chain lock and panic slide bolt. I have yet to replace the screens with framed steel mesh, which is next on my list of things to do. The glass windows can be left open to allow for a breeze to pass through. Have a removable system to permit escape in the case of a fire.
Note: When using dead locks, to choose the type that require no internal key in case of fire all you need to do is turn the latch to escape. If having to use the cheaper variation, then have extra keys cut and super glue them in place on the inside. This way you dont have to search around for house keys in an emergency and no one can remove them.
The man hole cover in the ceiling has had a frame added, including a hinged side and two interior slide bolts. Most homes are entered by kicking up the tiled roof and simply walking through the ceiling and entering through the man hole.
Having done all this, it is still a simple matter of taking less than 10 minutes to enter my home. Either using a Halligan style emergency entry tools on the doors by the Fire Brigade or by going through the roof and lifting the insulation to kick a hole in the ceiling. The other way is to use a rechargeable grinder on the alloy security door and a small rechargable chainsaw on the timber door.
This is where security vs safety comes into the equation. I can overcome both these problems by installing weldmesh in the roof space and using a steel door frame and steel door, but what if Im injured and require medical attention and the premises is designed to stop anyone entering for 4 hours.
Ive overcome this by adding a key safe on the outside brick wall. This is made from heavy duty cast steel and takes 3 hours to cut one open, but is a simple matter of pushing a few buttons on the key pad to access the keys in order to open the front door incase of emergency.
A home security system as opposed to a monitered alarm allows you to have a heads up on whats going on around you. By using motion sensors, cameras and diversions in an overlapping system to make an early warning system.
Once again by establishing choke points cuts down on the ammount of electronic equipment required. Basic systems cost as little as a few hundred dollars, but be prepared to add a few extra cameras and sensors to cover any potential blind spots.
I have two cats and a dog. The cats have much better hearing than the dog. Theyll hear a disturbance first. If they seem alarmed, then the dog will investigate. Very few times has the dog not heard someone at the gate before theyve even touched the lock. Keep this in mind for those times when power is not available. All the electronic gadgetry wont beat having a good dog, thats been trained, not to take baits.
A set of wireless motion sensors essenually do the same thing. They relay a message back to a base station, which simply beeps. Each beep has a slightly different tone to identify which area has been compromised. By establishing two choke points at either gate, Ive only required two motion sensors for the unit. These will hopefully be the only points of access for an intruder to use.
Larger yards, less choke points, sheds and other out buildings, walk ways, etc require more sensors. The motion sensors immediately notify me of movement therefore I check the camera system. The first camera in the front yard covers to entire yard from one corner to the other, positioned high in an overt manner. To where the motion sensor is located, covering any tampering with it. The second pin hole camera is concealed covertly to monitor the car park in the a joining cauldersack area. Only one point of entry and excess to nine buildings is through this road. Another choke point.
The backyard has a similar set up where the motion sensor covers the back gate, the primary entry source. The camera is once again mounted overtly to put anyone off that has spent the time reconaising the area. A second camera is mounted covertly onto the walkway that runs parallel to my back fence. Another early warning of anyone that should not be there, outside my premises.
The inner courdon has battery operated door alarms, not so much to be used as a burglar alarm, being activated from inside the bulding but more as another form of letting me know which door has been breached and secondly as a diversion for the intruder trying to quiten them, giving me time to respond. By either fleeing to a safer room, or preparing to respond by using force.
This brings us to the backups in case of a breach. The first is to have a room with a re-enforced door, hinges and locks. An extra hall way door with these features also helps to slow down a home invader. Panic bolts are large bolt style locks that are designed to be slammed into place with great speed.
Secondly if forced into this situation, have diversions in place. Magicians use distraction techniques to draw the audience’s attention away from whichever hand is engaged in sleight of hand. Magicians can accomplish this by encouraging the audience to look elsewhere or by having an assistant do or say something to draw the audience’s attention away.
The last consideration is escape. While the front of my home has multiple choke points, entry road, gate, doorways. The rear of my home has the exact opposite, which is one of the reasons I took it.
Other than being a maze to enter the area. Only those people wishing to come into this section of backroads, will be those that live locally or their visitors. Very few others can deal with a maze of dead end streets. Leading off from my rear fence is a walkway onto a small park. This has over six different exist points, through parks and around buildings, including leading down to a creek line and a main road to public transport. Another reason to know who’s in the park, along the rear fence incase of utilizing it as a possible last resort means of escape and evasion. No matter how much security you have always have a means of escape, if not for home invasion then for the off chance of a fire occuring.
Home Security for Preppers PT 1 (Tactics)
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
Home protection starts long before ever approaching your home by gleaming attitudes, tactics and training concepts from that of executive protection and applying it to personal preparedness. The job of executive protection specialists are 95% preparation and only 5% reaction. These are lessons of others that we can benefit from, not only after a disaster when trying to survive, but when going to work, the store, or to visit friends, in terms of mind set.
Most of the proponents of Self Defense are only interested in fighting, but the best professional bodyguards plan for, identify, and avoid trouble more often than have to use violence or lethal force to protect their subject.
Most aspects of executive protection are not very complicated. They become complicated by the sheer number of simple things that executive protection specialists achieve correctly. By practicing a few of these skills and disciplines, the better you will be at them and quicker to add on additional ones.
By looking at some of the practices that bodyguards do to keep their principals from being attacked add to the preparedness mindset. One of the things that bodyguards do is to look at places where they know their principal will be and find the best spots to expect surveillance and/or attack from.
Your home for an example. Draw up a map of your home and surrounding area, neighbours homes, parks, etc. Mark every place on the map that you can see from a door or window from your house. This will end up being a series of overlapping arcs. The reason this is important is because anyone who wants to see a door or window on your house will have to be within this area. From an executive protection standpoint, it means that anyone who wants to perform surveillance or potentially cause harm will need to be within these arcs.
Look at our house through the eyes of a burglar or home invader. Where would you need to be to have a clear view into the house? Where would you need to be to see when the occupants are turning off lights to go to bed? Where would you need to be to see which occupants are coming and going? Where would you need to be to see whether or not they lock the door or set an alarm when they leave?
Then, if you see people in those places that you don’t recognize, Immediately take note of them. Don’t panic. Just take note of them. I regularly write down license plate numbers or discretely snap pictures with my phone. If they’re sitting in their car on either side of the street in front of my house, I’ll approach them by vehicle or foot and ask them if I can help them.
These arent specific threats that I’m concerned about. Just be aware that home invasions happen 8 times more often than house fires. I don’t invest much time or effort in doing this, but I make sure I know what’s going on around me and any strangers in front of my house know that they’ve been seen, acknowledged, and could probably be identified at a later stage. Always carry a note pad.
When dealing with predators who are simply looking for easy prey, being acknowledged is often times enough to cause them to move on to another area. having a description handy for police if an offence is committed at a latter time also helps others that may be attacked by predators that have targeted a specific area.
Another example, is spotting someone sitting in a van right next to your car in a parking lot. A lone man could easily shove a person into a van, incapacitate them, shut the door, restrain with pre-cut duct tape or zip ties, get in the driver’s seat, and drive off inconspicuously in under several minutes.
So, if you’ve got a situation where you find a suspicious person in a van next to your car, you can walk on by and approach from a different angle to see if you get a better feeling, get in your car from the other side, or, if possible, ask security or another person to walk you to your car. Safer in groups, when approaching a difficult situation.
Alternate Exits: When you go anywhere, always try to quickly pick out multiple conventional (doors) and unconventional (windows) exits. The reason for exiting could be a gas leak, accidental explosion, terrorist attack, fire, earthquake, robbery, active shooter, or simply avoiding someone who might cause an unnecessary confrontation.
Redundancy and Contingency planning are key principals, whether you’re doing executive planning, running a company or key project, doing activities in the back country, or just day to day life. Here are some specific areas that executive protection specialists focus on that you can benefit from.
Contingency meetup plans. As an example, “If we get split up, we’ll come back to this location every top-of-the-hour and half-hour and stay here for 5 minutes. If we don’t meet up after 3 hours, we’ll meet at home.”Or, “If an event were to happen and we don’t have communications. If neither of us can get home or it’s untenable, we’ll post a note if possible and meet at anothers house. If that’s untenable, we’ll post a note if possible and meet at regularly used location.
Contingent communications plans. These could be cell phones, UHF radios, letter drops, or “If local phone service goes down, we’ll both get in touch with relatives by all means possible (phone, voice mail, text, email) and use them to get back in touch with each other
Have Primary, Alternate, Contingent, and Emergency (PACE) routes to your destination, be medical care, bug out locations, stay in place locations, etc. Have PACE plans for medical care. Know where the hospitals are in your city. I also know where private surgical centers are, veterinarians, fire departments, ambulance, veterinary supply stores, medical supply stores, and basic drug stores. Also bulk food store wharehouses, camping stores, fuel supplies, sources of LPG gas, clean above ground water, etc.
When I travel to unfamiliar areas, I spend the time before I leave and find where these resources are located near where I’m going to be. Write everything down addresses, phone numbers of where facilities are located. Include methods of performing cleaning runs if being followed, using public transport and large shopping centres.
Match the baseline. Everywhere you spend time has a “normal” or “baseline” look. Taking on this look is called, “becoming the ‘grey man’” and the discipline is called cover for status. At a dress ball, it may be formal wear. At the beach swim attire are the norm. At a park in the summer, it might be shorts and light weight shirts. At that same park in the winter, it might be heavy coats, hats, and gloves. Wear any of these four outfits at any of the other three settings and you’ll stick out like a sore thumb.
In executive protections, there are basically two ways that you can go…overt and covert. Said another way, either look intimidating or look invisible by matching the baseline.
As a bodyguard for yourself or your family, it’s normally better to be the grey man and stay invisible. You can do this by not wearing excessive tactical clothing, using your peripheral vision to scan the room, and not acting like you’re on edge all of the time. Just try to look as lost and confused as everyone around you. If a situation arises where you need to let someone know that you’re switched on, then that is still easy to switch into that mode.
Cover for status is also an important tool for identifying threats. Who doesn’t belong or are they possibility looking for a victim?
Cover for action is having your appearance match your actions. Climb a utility pole with shorts and a t-shirt on, and someone will probably call the cops. Get out of a utility van wearing jeans, work boots, a tool belt, hard hat, and climbing gear and nobody will even remember seeing you climb the pole.
Ask someone their date of birth, social security number, sexual habits, and other private medical questions in a mall, and you’ll get slapped. Put on a nametag and hand someone a detailed survey on a clipboard with a pen tied to it in a doctor’s office and they’ll tell you more than you really want to know. If you notice people who don’t have a cover for their actions, take it as a sign to pay closer attention to them but still pay attention to what doesnt fit. A criminal can use the same Greyman principles to infiltrate a property or aquire information to steel your identity.
Choke Points are Funnels and channels that restrict or control movement and make movement controllable and or predictable. They’re something that you hope your enemy will go into if you’re trying to attack or ambush them.
Executive protection specialists try to avoid choke points as much as possible. Some examples are construction zones, underpasses, roads where traffic stops for trains, long hallways in malls, alleyways, gates into parking lots at night, or even walkways to your house.
This helps you keep from being a target of opportunity. The practice of identifying choke points combined with identifying multiple exits can make a speedy exit much faster as well.
Movie theaters are an example of this concept that most people can relate to. Normally, when the movie is done in a medium to large theater, everyone gets up and slowly waddles down the stairs and out one of two exits. The rows of seats create channels that funnel everyone to the isles, funnel everyone down the stairs, and funnel everyone back along the outside walls and back together to exit a common door.
But every theater also has additional marked exits that people could go out. At the front of the theater, at the back of the theater upstairs, or sometimes along the walls. These exits fight against the channeling and funneling that the aisles are trying to accomplish and let people get out quickly and efficiently.
By simply identifying these additional exits in advance, you can avoid unnecessary waiting during normal times and they could make the difference between surviving and dying after a fire, explosion, or natural disaster.
Where else does this apply to other buildings such as Malls, churches, sporting events, offices, or anywhere else where large groups of people might have a planned or unplanned incentive to move at the same time.
Give as few, accurate details as possible. Details help predators identify targets, opportunities, and the best times to strike. You can increase your safety level considerably by keeping your day’s itinerary and other plans as secret or unpredictable as possible.
The same holds true for individuals, but this is a tough one for social people. Don’t tell people where you live, unless your’ve invited them over. I rarely use my last name. Often times, making up a name to use at events. When leaving for a trip, I hardly tell anyone and when I do tell people that Im going out of town, I do it in private.
You’re going to have to figure out how open or covert you want to live…and then accept the fact that it’s incredibly difficult to be both social and covert. Family and friends who you talk with in confidence may or may not understand your desire to stay covert. Even if they do, the passage of time tends to make people think, in error, that things that you once told them in secret are now open to the public.
Dont mention what you own. Telling one person in the area about the brand new wide screen tv set, may end up being broadcast by gossiping through the entire neighbourhood. Broadcasting yourself to thieves as a target.
Keep loved ones on your weak side. When guarding a principal, bodyguards keep their principal on their weak side so that they can push/pull them to cover and use their primary weapon.
In addition to the general guidelines mentioned above, here are some location/situation specific guidelines that are used, that you can implement immediately.
When returning home, do a quick check to make sure that your home hasn’t become someone else’s property while you were gone. Are any lights/windows broken? Are multiple security lights suddenly malfunctioning? Are pets responding normally? Is your door locked? Does your alarm beep like it should when you open your door?
Fire extinguishers “Spray them with the white stuff and hit them with the red thingy.” Do you have plenty of metal fire extinguishers? Keep in mind any form of improvised weaponry available within reach, bottles, pens, etc.
What is normal? Observe what normal is for your neighbours, for your neighbourhood. Cars, coming & going, etc. It will not only alert you to people and events that are out of the ordinary, but it will also help you get to know your neighbors better. You’ll quickly see who’s social, who races off every morning with a scowl on their face, who always waves and has a smile, etc. You’ll also see who notices you and who is oblivious to the world and completely un-aware. Learn the sound of their engines, to recognise the owners of vehicles. Pay attention to how many times a car door is opened and closed, telling you how mnay people are exiting a vehicle or if items are being removed by the timing between the doors closing.
Surveillance Detection – (Performing a Cleaning Run). Detecting a tail may be a life or death situation for the principal of a bodyguard. For you and me, it may not be life or death, but it is still a smart thing to do. You may have accidentally cut off a driver who got laid off, lost his dog, and who’s wife left him that day and not even realize it. I have a handful of turns between the main roads and back streets before my house. If anyone follows me for more than 2 of these turns, I turn early or late to see if they keep following me. I’ve pre-identified routes that I can take that only add a few extra minutes to my drive.
Alter your route and timing. Do everything you can to keep from having your movements from being predictable. At a basic level, this means changing when and how you go to and from work and other regular appointments. Even if you’re not a high risk target, you might want to try different time and route combinations for your regular trips so that you can become more aware of your area and to see if there isn’t a quicker combination. Atleast become aware of your habits and the things you would change if you needed to become unpredictable. Use a different series of streets every time you leave you home and return. The people that will know when your not at home will be those that live closest.
Pole Shift Survival Information
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Lots of Files
Busse, Scrapyard and Swamprat source sale
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Brought a couple of Scrapper knives off this guy, hes good to deal with and Ive found knives on his forum link that I havent managed to find any where else.
Jeff Crowner Knives Links
Friday, February 17th, 2012Been having a problem with cutting and pasting links into articles. When ever I add them to the actual article they will mess up the entire paragraphs, so Im adding them seperately till the problem is sorted.
Jeff Crowner knives
http://jeffreycrowner.webs.com/
http://jeffcrownerknives.blogspot.com.au/
http://themanwhonevermissed.blogspot.com.au/2009/04/knife-show-eugene-or.html
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Crowner/100000044488319
Other Blade Design Collaberatorshttp://cssdsc.com/
Bram Frank
Tactical Arts
http://www.tacticalarts.com/about/instructors/137
TYR Tracker Group
Mykel Hawke Blog
Steels Info
Jeff Crowner Custom knives – Bush Blade PT 1 CPM 3V steel
Friday, February 17th, 2012
The Bush Blade comes in two different sizes, a 7 inch model for the TYR Tracking Group and in a 9 inch length. Made using a choice of D2, 5160, 1080V, L6 or CPM3V – (this one costs extra to cover costs of additional linishing belts and cryo tempering) and incorperates a high convex grind. I ordered an 8.5 inch version to suit my height in CPM 3V.
I hadnt heard of 3V steel before so have added a run down and comparrisons with other steels, out of interest. Mykel Hawke from Man Woman Wild uses a 9 inch version Bush Blade in the second season episode Louisiana Firestorm.
This will be in several parts one to cover the steel used while Im waiting for the knife to be built, before being able to field test.
CPM 3V Steel
CPM 3V Composition – Carbon 0.80% Chromium 7.50% Vanadium 2.75% Molybdenum 1.30%
The wear and toughness properties of CPM 3V make it an alternative to shock-resistant steels such as S7 or A9, where they typically wear out too quickly, but where grades such as A2, tend to fail by breaking or chipping. CPM 3V offers the highest impact toughness of any tool steel with this range of wear resistance. CPM 3V offers impact toughness approaching the shock-resistant tool steels, with much greater wear resistance and offers substantial improvements in tool wear life when compared with conventional tool steels such as A2 and D2. CPM 3V’s high vanadium content offers wear resistance similar to M2 high speed steel.
Alloy steels
5160, Spring steel. Popular forging steel for swords and large knives. High toughness and good wear resistance
Tool steel
D2, has a high chrome content of 12%, it is called “semi-stainless”, because of the lack of free Chromium in solution. While not as tough as premium carbon steels, it is much tougher than premium stainless steels.
L-grade tool steel is short for low alloy special purpose tool steel. L6 is extremely tough.
Carbon steel is a popular choice for rough use knives. Carbon steel tends to be much tougher and much more durable, and easier to sharpen than stainless steel. They lack the chromium content of stainless steel, making them susceptible to corrosion.
10 series steel
1095, a popular high-carbon steel for knives; it is more brittle than lower carbon steels such as 1055, 1060, 1070, and 1080. It has a carbon content of 0.90-1.03%
1084, carbon content 0.80-0.93%
1070, carbon content 0.65-0.75% Used in machetes.
1060, used in swords. It has a carbon content of 0.55-0.65%
As a comparison, A2 is about 10-20% tougher than O1 and will hold an edge a little longer. O1 will be slightly easier to sharpen and also will allow the user to strike a spark off the spine using the flint and steel method of fire lighting ( A2 has a little too much alloy to get a good spark). Since A2 has a higher chromium content it will be a little more stain resistant than O1, however both will rust if not wiped down after use or abused.
CPM 3V is a very tough tool steel made by the Crucible Particle Metallurgy process. 3V is about 100% tougher than A2 or O1 and has better rust preventative characteristics than either, but is not classified as a stainless steel. With this toughness comes higher cost and more difficulty in sharpening with natural stones though. As with A2 you will be unable to derive a spark from 3V by the flint and steel method. Good for when you are in need of a very strong edge.
CPM–Crucible Particle Metallurgy – Conventional Steelmaking vs. Particle Metallurgy Processing
Conventional steelmaking begins by melting the steel in a large electric arc furnace. It is usually followed by a secondary refining process such as Argon Oxygen Decarburization (AOD). After refining, the molten metal is poured from the furnace into a ladle, and then teemed into ingot molds.
Although the steel is very homogeneous in the molten state, as it slowly solidifies in the molds, the alloying elements segregate resulting in a non-uniform as-cast microstructure. In high speed steels and high carbon tool steels, carbides precipitate from the melt and grow to form a coarse intergranular network. Subsequent mill processing is required to break up and refine the microstructure, but the segregation effects are never fully eliminated. The higher the alloy content and the higher the carbon content, the more detrimental are the effects of the segregation on the resultant mechanical properties of the finished steel product.
The CPM process also begins with a homogeneous molten bath similar to conventional melting. Instead of being teemed into ingot molds, the molten metal is poured through a small nozzle where high pressure gas bursts the liquid stream into a spray of tiny spherical droplets. These rapidly solidify and collect as powder particles in the bottom of the atomization tower. The powder is relatively spherical in shape and uniform in composition as each particle is essentially a micro-ingot which has solidified so rapidly that segregation has been suppressed. The carbides which precipitate during solidification are extremely fine due to the rapid cooling and the small size of the powder particles. The fine carbide size of CPM steel endures throughout mill processing and remains fine in the finished bar.
The powder is screened and loaded into steel containers which are then evacuated and sealed. The sealed containers are hot isostatically pressed (HIP) at temperatures approximately the same as those used for forging. The extremely high pressure used in HIP consolidates the powder by bonding the individual particles into a fully dense compact. The resultant microstructure is homogeneous and fine grained and, in the high carbon grades, exhibits a uniform distribution of tiny carbides. Although CPM steels can be used in the as-HIP condition, the compacts normally undergo the same standard mill processing used for conventionally melted ingots, resulting in improved toughness.
JDR Knife and Tool
Friday, February 17th, 2012http://jdrknifeandtool.blogspot.com.au/
Dog Siezure Update
Thursday, February 16th, 2012As some you you may be aware from previous posts, my 10 year old staffy started having siezures. These became a regular occurance to a stage where they were happening every 10 to 14 days.Phenobarbital (PB)which can lead to liver damage and result in charactor changes . Potasium Bromide (KBr) seems to no longer be available in this country. (PBr) secretes through the kidneys, (PB) secretes through the liver, however the liver is better at recovering from the drugs.
This was treated with 5mg of diazepam placed under his gums during a siezure and within an hour he had quitened down. I was about to start him on
I found the below web site and started him on Vitamin B and Lecitin recomended by the vet and Melatonin combined with Taurine recomended by the below site. Within two weeks the siezures had stopped and knock on wood have not reappeared for 4 months.
I found these amounts to suit his size, after trying different combinations.
Vitamins (as per below)
1 Iron, once per fortnight to improve anemia
2 fish oil tablets per week, hes getting to that age where it cant hurt.
Half Vitamin B tablet per day
Half Melatonin tablet per day
1 large pinch Taurine powder per day
2 large pinches of Lecitin granuales per day
http://www.canine-epilepsy-guardian-angels.com/tablecontents.htm
Links from PT 2
Sunday, February 12th, 2012It became too hard to post the links with the article. Taking too long without system messing up the entire cut and post process.
Furniture
http://www.greatstuff.com/furniture.html
Candle
http://www.latestbuy.com.au/candle_security_safe.html
Stash Bolts
http://www.smokeshack.com/stashsafebolt.aspx
Magnetic Stash Box
http://www.keepshooting.com/magnetic-stash-box.html
Secret Storage Books
http://www.secretstoragebooks.com/?gclid=CO3Ry8yu-a0CFYMmpAodrhF8rg
Hidden Outlet Safes
http://www.spyville.com/hiddensafes.html
Hidden Diversion Safes
http://www.tbotech.com/diversionsafes.htm
Monitors
Motion Sensors
Home Security for Preppers PT 2
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
A self installed alarm can be bypassed quite easily, if the system is not attached to solid brick or wall joists by simply wrenching off the wall. Another way is to fill the siren with expandable foam. This needs to be placed where it can not be reached, to be interfered with.
A monitered alarm system is more efficient. These are rigged to alert a base station, who then contacts the police and the owner if the sensors are activated or a break in transmission occurs.
Both these systems work off motion sensors and when breaks occur in a circuit. The circuits are placed on the doors and windows, while the motion sensors are placed in each corner of the rooms most likely to be used as entry points.
These alarm systems are designed for when the owner is not at home. This is the difference between an alarm system and a home security system. A home security system is designed for when the occupant is staying at the residence.
Alarm systems during an emergency situation, meaning earthquake, terrorist attack etc are little more than a preventative measure for looters, as there wont be anyone to respond. Including yourself if already bugged out of the area. This is presuming mains power has remained on and or that the backup batteries have not already failed from continous use.
A home security system is for when yourve decided to stay in place and not bug out, either to avoid the initial traffic jams of mass exits or to wait for an infection to burn its self out before attempting to bug out to a more secure location.
Once again a home security system will be of little use if there is no mains power or a backup generator is not in use. Or simply if the property has not been properly secured to begin with. A recap on achieving this, is for example.
Starting with the outer courdon. Have a fence entirely surrounding your property, at a full legal height. Here it is 1.8 meters for suburban use. Ive further extended this by using treallacing. The trallace is attached with heavy duty cable ties and not frame work. This is designed to hold under the weight of a small animal such as a cat but break when heavier weight is applied such as a human.
My front yard is then covered by a motion sensor activated lighting system, between the fence and lights this develops a choke point where the only entry is through the main gate which has been made from steel tubing. A simple padlock on this gate keeps out most people. It is simply turned to make it look as though it is locked, permiting entry by friends or rescue personel. Its fooled all but three people.
One of these people were told before hand by a third person, the other two Im still trying to work out if they either have no respect for another persons property by checking to see if the lock was in a fixed position or just smart enough to test to see if the gate was locked. An interesting test for peoples thought processes.
If I wanted to take it a step further than that, I could use a push button actived entry solonoid to manually open the gate such as used on multi story buildings and have an intercom to identification. This needs to have a reset feature on a circuit to make sure the gate has been reclosed after entry. This may be an option during a pandemic, to keep others atleast 8 meters from myself before contact and possible contagion.
The backyard is fully enclosed by using framed treallace attached to a pergola that completely encloses the yard and then covered in bamboo sceening. The yard is again covered by a sensor light, allowing a choke point at the rear gate. Framed trellace is much stronger than unframed, having an outside support structure.
The choke points are used to form three functions. One is to make it the easiest way of entering the property, therefore the home security system takes over. Remember, there is a difference between security and safety. More on this later. Secondly the choke point is the most likely area to be accessed and wont require an entire yard filled with cameras meaning not as many are needed. Not as many blind spots. Thirdly a choke point is the easiest to defend, such as being in a cave and having your back and sides covered. Only one direction to defend against.
The inner courdon. Being a single brick home the walls have been left. A fake brick home is just a matter of sawing and in some cases simply kicking a hole between the bearers to gain entry. A single brick wall still wont stop a 30 cal rifle round. Something to keep in mind.
The two easiest points of entry are the doors and windows. All windows have had security film added, reducing the ability of breaking them open. The hinges on all doors and windows have been replaced with long course thread chip board screws into hard wood frames. These cannot be ripped out with a crowbar, unlike the standard installed short fine thread screws. This includes the strike plates on all door locks. The door hinges have also been replaced with full length piano style hinges or atleast add several more than the standard two that are on most homes. Minimal of three used on each door, five is better.
There are atleast four locks on each door. The standard door lock, dead lock, chain lock and panic slide bolt. I have yet to replace the screens with framed steel mesh, which is next on my list of things to do. The glass windows can be left open to allow for a breeze to pass through. Have a removable system to permit escape in the case of a fire.
Note: When using dead locks, to choose the type that require no internal key in case of fire all you need to do is turn the latch to escape. If having to use the cheaper variation, then have extra keys cut and super glue them in place on the inside. This way you dont have to search around for house keys in an emergency and no one can remove them.
The man hole cover in the ceiling has had a frame added, including a hinged side and two interior slide bolts. Most homes are entered by kicking up the tiled roof and simply walking through the ceiling and entering through the man hole.
This is where security vs safety comes into the equation. I can overcome both these problems by installing weldmesh in the roof space and using a steel door frame and steel door, but what if Im injured and require medical attention and the premises is designed to stop anyone entering for 4 hours.
Ive overcome this by adding a key safe on the outside brick wall. This is made from heavy duty cast steel and takes 3 hours to cut one open, but is a simple matter of pushing a few buttons on the key pad to access the keys in order to open the front door incase of emergency.
A home security system as opposed to a monitered alarm allows you to have a heads up on whats going on around you. By using motion sensors, cameras and diversions in an overlapping system to make an early warning system.
Once again by establishing choke points cuts down on the ammount of electronic equipment required. Basic systems cost as little as a few hundred dollars, but be prepared to add a few extra cameras and sensors to cover any potential blind spots.
I have two cats and a dog. The cats have much better hearing than the dog. Theyll hear a disturbance first. If they seem alarmed, then the dog will investigate. Very few times has the dog not heard someone at the gate before theyve even touched the lock. Keep this in mind for those times when power is not available. All the electronic gadgetry wont beat having a good dog, thats been trained, not to take baits.
A set of wireless motion sensors essenually do the same thing. They relay a message back to a base station, which simply beeps. Each beep has a slightly different tone to identify which area has been compromised. By establishing two choke points at either gate, Ive only required two motion sensors for the unit. These will hopefully be the only points of access for an intruder to use.
Larger yards, less choke points, sheds and other out buildings, walk ways, etc require more sensors. The motion sensors immediately notify me of movement therefore I check the camera system. The first camera in the front yard covers to entire yard from one corner to the other, positioned high in an overt manner. To where the motion sensor is located, covering any tampering with it. The second pin hole camera is concealed covertly to monitor the car park in the a joining cauldersack area. Only one point of entry and excess to nine buildings is through this road. Another choke point.
The inner courdon has battery operated door alarms, not so much to be used as a burglar alarm, being activated from inside the bulding but more as another form of letting me know which door has been breached and secondly as a diversion for the intruder trying to quiten them, giving me time to respond. By either fleeing to a safer room, or preparing to respond by using force.
This brings us to the backups in case of a breach. The first is to have a room with a re-enforced door, hinges and locks. An extra hall way door with these features also helps to slow down a home invader. Panic bolts are large bolt style locks that are designed to be slammed into place with great speed.
Secondly if forced into this situation, have diversions in place. Magicians use distraction techniques to draw the audience’s attention away from whichever hand is engaged in sleight of hand. Magicians can accomplish this by encouraging the audience to look elsewhere or by having an assistant do or say something to draw the audience’s attention away.
Other than being a maze to enter the area. Only those people wishing to come into this section of backroads, will be those that live locally or their visitors. Very few others can deal with a maze of dead end streets. Leading off from my rear fence is a walkway onto a small park. This has over six different exist points, through parks and around buildings, including leading down to a creek line and a main road to public transport. Another reason to know who’s in the park, along the rear fence incase of utilizing it as a possible last resort means of escape and evasion. No matter how much security you have always have a means of escape, if not for home invasion then for the off chance of a fire occuring.
Home Security for Preppers PT 1 (Tactics)
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
Home protection starts long before ever approaching your home by gleaming attitudes, tactics and training concepts from that of executive protection and applying it to personal preparedness. The job of executive protection specialists are 95% preparation and only 5% reaction. These are lessons of others that we can benefit from, not only after a disaster when trying to survive, but when going to work, the store, or to visit friends, in terms of mind set.
Most of the proponents of Self Defense are only interested in fighting, but the best professional bodyguards plan for, identify, and avoid trouble more often than have to use violence or lethal force to protect their subject.
Most aspects of executive protection are not very complicated. They become complicated by the sheer number of simple things that executive protection specialists achieve correctly. By practicing a few of these skills and disciplines, the better you will be at them and quicker to add on additional ones.
By looking at some of the practices that bodyguards do to keep their principals from being attacked add to the preparedness mindset. One of the things that bodyguards do is to look at places where they know their principal will be and find the best spots to expect surveillance and/or attack from.
Your home for an example. Draw up a map of your home and surrounding area, neighbours homes, parks, etc. Mark every place on the map that you can see from a door or window from your house. This will end up being a series of overlapping arcs. The reason this is important is because anyone who wants to see a door or window on your house will have to be within this area. From an executive protection standpoint, it means that anyone who wants to perform surveillance or potentially cause harm will need to be within these arcs.
Look at our house through the eyes of a burglar or home invader. Where would you need to be to have a clear view into the house? Where would you need to be to see when the occupants are turning off lights to go to bed? Where would you need to be to see which occupants are coming and going? Where would you need to be to see whether or not they lock the door or set an alarm when they leave?
Then, if you see people in those places that you don’t recognize, Immediately take note of them. Don’t panic. Just take note of them. I regularly write down license plate numbers or discretely snap pictures with my phone. If they’re sitting in their car on either side of the street in front of my house, I’ll approach them by vehicle or foot and ask them if I can help them.
These arent specific threats that I’m concerned about. Just be aware that home invasions happen 8 times more often than house fires. I don’t invest much time or effort in doing this, but I make sure I know what’s going on around me and any strangers in front of my house know that they’ve been seen, acknowledged, and could probably be identified at a later stage. Always carry a note pad.
When dealing with predators who are simply looking for easy prey, being acknowledged is often times enough to cause them to move on to another area. having a description handy for police if an offence is committed at a latter time also helps others that may be attacked by predators that have targeted a specific area.
Another example, is spotting someone sitting in a van right next to your car in a parking lot. A lone man could easily shove a person into a van, incapacitate them, shut the door, restrain with pre-cut duct tape or zip ties, get in the driver’s seat, and drive off inconspicuously in under several minutes.
So, if you’ve got a situation where you find a suspicious person in a van next to your car, you can walk on by and approach from a different angle to see if you get a better feeling, get in your car from the other side, or, if possible, ask security or another person to walk you to your car. Safer in groups, when approaching a difficult situation.
Alternate Exits: When you go anywhere, always try to quickly pick out multiple conventional (doors) and unconventional (windows) exits. The reason for exiting could be a gas leak, accidental explosion, terrorist attack, fire, earthquake, robbery, active shooter, or simply avoiding someone who might cause an unnecessary confrontation.
Redundancy and Contingency planning are key principals, whether you’re doing executive planning, running a company or key project, doing activities in the back country, or just day to day life. Here are some specific areas that executive protection specialists focus on that you can benefit from.
Contingency meetup plans. As an example, “If we get split up, we’ll come back to this location every top-of-the-hour and half-hour and stay here for 5 minutes. If we don’t meet up after 3 hours, we’ll meet at home.”Or, “If an event were to happen and we don’t have communications. If neither of us can get home or it’s untenable, we’ll post a note if possible and meet at anothers house. If that’s untenable, we’ll post a note if possible and meet at regularly used location.
Contingent communications plans. These could be cell phones, UHF radios, letter drops, or “If local phone service goes down, we’ll both get in touch with relatives by all means possible (phone, voice mail, text, email) and use them to get back in touch with each other
Have Primary, Alternate, Contingent, and Emergency (PACE) routes to your destination, be medical care, bug out locations, stay in place locations, etc. Have PACE plans for medical care. Know where the hospitals are in your city. I also know where private surgical centers are, veterinarians, fire departments, ambulance, veterinary supply stores, medical supply stores, and basic drug stores. Also bulk food store wharehouses, camping stores, fuel supplies, sources of LPG gas, clean above ground water, etc.
When I travel to unfamiliar areas, I spend the time before I leave and find where these resources are located near where I’m going to be. Write everything down addresses, phone numbers of where facilities are located. Include methods of performing cleaning runs if being followed, using public transport and large shopping centres.
Match the baseline. Everywhere you spend time has a “normal” or “baseline” look. Taking on this look is called, “becoming the ‘grey man’” and the discipline is called cover for status. At a dress ball, it may be formal wear. At the beach swim attire are the norm. At a park in the summer, it might be shorts and light weight shirts. At that same park in the winter, it might be heavy coats, hats, and gloves. Wear any of these four outfits at any of the other three settings and you’ll stick out like a sore thumb.
In executive protections, there are basically two ways that you can go…overt and covert. Said another way, either look intimidating or look invisible by matching the baseline.
As a bodyguard for yourself or your family, it’s normally better to be the grey man and stay invisible. You can do this by not wearing excessive tactical clothing, using your peripheral vision to scan the room, and not acting like you’re on edge all of the time. Just try to look as lost and confused as everyone around you. If a situation arises where you need to let someone know that you’re switched on, then that is still easy to switch into that mode.
Cover for status is also an important tool for identifying threats. Who doesn’t belong or are they possibility looking for a victim?
Cover for action is having your appearance match your actions. Climb a utility pole with shorts and a t-shirt on, and someone will probably call the cops. Get out of a utility van wearing jeans, work boots, a tool belt, hard hat, and climbing gear and nobody will even remember seeing you climb the pole.
Ask someone their date of birth, social security number, sexual habits, and other private medical questions in a mall, and you’ll get slapped. Put on a nametag and hand someone a detailed survey on a clipboard with a pen tied to it in a doctor’s office and they’ll tell you more than you really want to know. If you notice people who don’t have a cover for their actions, take it as a sign to pay closer attention to them but still pay attention to what doesnt fit. A criminal can use the same Greyman principles to infiltrate a property or aquire information to steel your identity.
Choke Points are Funnels and channels that restrict or control movement and make movement controllable and or predictable. They’re something that you hope your enemy will go into if you’re trying to attack or ambush them.
Executive protection specialists try to avoid choke points as much as possible. Some examples are construction zones, underpasses, roads where traffic stops for trains, long hallways in malls, alleyways, gates into parking lots at night, or even walkways to your house.
This helps you keep from being a target of opportunity. The practice of identifying choke points combined with identifying multiple exits can make a speedy exit much faster as well.
Movie theaters are an example of this concept that most people can relate to. Normally, when the movie is done in a medium to large theater, everyone gets up and slowly waddles down the stairs and out one of two exits. The rows of seats create channels that funnel everyone to the isles, funnel everyone down the stairs, and funnel everyone back along the outside walls and back together to exit a common door.
But every theater also has additional marked exits that people could go out. At the front of the theater, at the back of the theater upstairs, or sometimes along the walls. These exits fight against the channeling and funneling that the aisles are trying to accomplish and let people get out quickly and efficiently.
By simply identifying these additional exits in advance, you can avoid unnecessary waiting during normal times and they could make the difference between surviving and dying after a fire, explosion, or natural disaster.
Where else does this apply to other buildings such as Malls, churches, sporting events, offices, or anywhere else where large groups of people might have a planned or unplanned incentive to move at the same time.
Give as few, accurate details as possible. Details help predators identify targets, opportunities, and the best times to strike. You can increase your safety level considerably by keeping your day’s itinerary and other plans as secret or unpredictable as possible.
The same holds true for individuals, but this is a tough one for social people. Don’t tell people where you live, unless your’ve invited them over. I rarely use my last name. Often times, making up a name to use at events. When leaving for a trip, I hardly tell anyone and when I do tell people that Im going out of town, I do it in private.
You’re going to have to figure out how open or covert you want to live…and then accept the fact that it’s incredibly difficult to be both social and covert. Family and friends who you talk with in confidence may or may not understand your desire to stay covert. Even if they do, the passage of time tends to make people think, in error, that things that you once told them in secret are now open to the public.
Dont mention what you own. Telling one person in the area about the brand new wide screen tv set, may end up being broadcast by gossiping through the entire neighbourhood. Broadcasting yourself to thieves as a target.
Keep loved ones on your weak side. When guarding a principal, bodyguards keep their principal on their weak side so that they can push/pull them to cover and use their primary weapon.
In addition to the general guidelines mentioned above, here are some location/situation specific guidelines that are used, that you can implement immediately.
When returning home, do a quick check to make sure that your home hasn’t become someone else’s property while you were gone. Are any lights/windows broken? Are multiple security lights suddenly malfunctioning? Are pets responding normally? Is your door locked? Does your alarm beep like it should when you open your door?
Fire extinguishers “Spray them with the white stuff and hit them with the red thingy.” Do you have plenty of metal fire extinguishers? Keep in mind any form of improvised weaponry available within reach, bottles, pens, etc.
What is normal? Observe what normal is for your neighbours, for your neighbourhood. Cars, coming & going, etc. It will not only alert you to people and events that are out of the ordinary, but it will also help you get to know your neighbors better. You’ll quickly see who’s social, who races off every morning with a scowl on their face, who always waves and has a smile, etc. You’ll also see who notices you and who is oblivious to the world and completely un-aware. Learn the sound of their engines, to recognise the owners of vehicles. Pay attention to how many times a car door is opened and closed, telling you how mnay people are exiting a vehicle or if items are being removed by the timing between the doors closing.
Surveillance Detection – (Performing a Cleaning Run). Detecting a tail may be a life or death situation for the principal of a bodyguard. For you and me, it may not be life or death, but it is still a smart thing to do. You may have accidentally cut off a driver who got laid off, lost his dog, and who’s wife left him that day and not even realize it. I have a handful of turns between the main roads and back streets before my house. If anyone follows me for more than 2 of these turns, I turn early or late to see if they keep following me. I’ve pre-identified routes that I can take that only add a few extra minutes to my drive.
Alter your route and timing. Do everything you can to keep from having your movements from being predictable. At a basic level, this means changing when and how you go to and from work and other regular appointments. Even if you’re not a high risk target, you might want to try different time and route combinations for your regular trips so that you can become more aware of your area and to see if there isn’t a quicker combination. Atleast become aware of your habits and the things you would change if you needed to become unpredictable. Use a different series of streets every time you leave you home and return. The people that will know when your not at home will be those that live closest.
Pole Shift Survival Information
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