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Loyalty in your survival group/14 Comments/in Security /by Selco
When I write about SHTF world and interactions between people in that time, I always emphasize that you cannot trust in people any more. There are many examples why in my course.
Your neighbour that had been always nice to you in normal times is simply not same guy when SHTF, because now he may have hard time to keep his family fed, and comparing to his family you are nothing.
So simply trust no one outside your group.
Your group matters, you need people who you can trust, people that you can put your life in their hands. It is your group of people that you are preparing with for the time when SHTF.
Loyalty is one thing that you need to "grow", and it needs time to grow, that is why it makes sense to have prepared your group before SHTF, it may be slow process, and you need to be sure what kind of people you have there.
My SHTF experience was very bad from the perspective of what I saw when it comes to loyalty.
When you have big number of unprepared folks thrown in really hard situation like war, you can see all kind of examples, mostly bad one.
Yes, I saw people betraying their friends, or even families. Sometimes for the few more hours of life.
Sometimes even for food.
But I have seen also people getting killed trying to save their families, sometimes they were almost sure that they going to get killed.
My old school friend get killed at the beginning of the war simply because he did not wanted to leave his wife under the ruins of collapsed house, he was trying to save her until the moment when rest of the building collapsed and kill them both.
And I already mention people trying to help friends or family members who get shot and wounded from sniper fire, only to get themselves killed from the same sniper.
Once I was pass out from the explosion (detonation) and my relative drag me to safety, while shells were still exploding.
You need to know what kind of people you have with you when it comes to loyalty.
Before you expect loyalty, ask yourself, are you loyal?
What kind of man you are? Do you have feeling of belonging to the group and what that group mean to you?
Of course there is your family or your friends inside the group, but what kind of the things you are ready to do for them? Do not expect more from them if you are not ready to do similar for them.
What keeps your group together?
There s few answers to that, fear can keep group together, or temporary circumstances too can keep it together when SHTF, but both of those examples will keep it together on very short run, and be sure that group not going to function good.
If members of the group are loyal to each other group will function much better, loyalty will be thing that keeps it together when things get tough. Creating a shared goal, idea and identity everyone feels part of, is another way to create more loyalty. You want as much things to be loyal to as possible. Patriots are examples of people loyal to something bigger.
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
I would slightly modify the quote for survival groups and add "loyalty to the group and cause" and not the government. Some of us also do not feel loyal to country anymore because most important ideas and values that country was build upon have been lost long time ago. Just look in your group who is loyal to something. These people can be loyal to your cause or group as well if they want to.
Be realistic
Just try to be realistic when it comes to the loyalty of the people in your group. They are people, not machines. Do not ask from them impossible things.
Everybody has a breaking point. It is important to know EXACTLY where (or when) that breaking point is in every man. Observe people and see where their limits are in low risk situations.
Expect some weird things when people get to that breaking point. You may be surprised when you find out that some "tough" guys have much lower breaking point than you expected. When people break they often forget to put group interest first and just think about themselves. So a loyal weaker person can be much more worth than tough guy who is very selfish.
Point is to understand loyalty ends somewhere for most people. Try to find out that breaking point today BEFORE the SHTF so you can know what to expect.
Vision, goal and causes in your survival group
I saw some groups turn to gangs simply because it was easiest thing to do and took not much effort besides lack of compassion for others. There was no shared cause, vision or goal. Just selfish people who want to survive. Same groups often fell apart because of internal fighting.
In other words what makes group of survivalists different from the simple group of scavengers and thieves? Vision, goals or a cause.
While one group is simply going to use the opportunity of lack of law to do nasty things, other group will try to survive in order to make some sense in all of that chaos. In short you MUST have goal or cause however strange that can sound. Our simple shared cause was to keep our family save. Very simple. I went out and risked my life every day for people back at our place. Think now about shared cause or goal when you are with other families or friends in survival group.
For someone it may be trying to survive in order to build better society afterwards, for other trying to teach folks good things. Do not ever let your group get lost without cause or vision of better tomorrow. A cause or vision can carry group like picture of a loved one you look at when you are held hostage.
A cause can be simply to survive to tell others how it was back then. In this sense I found another cause years after, writing here today.
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Stopping Power Myths & What Really Matters to Stop Attackers/41 Comments/in Violence /by Selco
Another great and favourite topic in survival community is matter of best caliber and weapon for SHTF, and ammo with most stopping power. Stopping power means how quickly and with few bullets you can make threat unable to attack you or anyone else.
I tell you now, even for urban survival and the situation I have been through and speak about in my course, it is more important to discuss water filtering in urban SHTF scenarios than talking about stopping power.
Do not get me wrong, I am perfectly aware that burst from the machine gun in the man standing in front of you will do much more damage (and probably will stop him forever) than shooting at him with a pistol.
I have seen and been in lots of gunfights and in real life, shootings are not so simple that guy with bigger gun wins.
It is about you
Guy who was standing next to me pulls pistol (TT 7.62 mm like in the picture above) at attacker who was starting to run away from us. I did not want to shoot at the guy because he was running away from us, and I thought he did not need to be shot, but my friend thought different.
Anyway, he raises the pistol, and fired 6 bullets at the guy. Guy was some 6-7 meters from him. And he missed him, all six bullets missed the guy, who run away.
Guy who was running away was moving away from us, but not in straight line, he was moving diagonally so I guess that adds little bit to why all bullets missed.
But man who was shooting from the pistol did next:
- He held the pistol with one hand
- Fired 6 shots in very fast manner (recoil did its job so he did not spend to reacquire target)
- Screamed very loud while shooting
I had (and still have) lot of confidence in TT pistol, it is reliable and scary thing in good hands, and can do lot of damage.
But point is that you are the man who makes the shot (and kills). So first you need to work on your skills. A .22 bullet to the head is worth more than .45 to the shoulder. Common sense.
Weapon is something that in my opinion needs to be good and correct for you and your hand. There is no point in having some weapon just because it is good for someone else, maybe it is completely wrong for you.
Recoil, trigger pull and general feel are just few of many factors that determine what makes sense. Get gun that enables you to hit your target even if people on shooting range shoot bigger caliber. We train for survival and not to show off.
About gunshot wounds
Gunshot wounds are kinda strange stuff, because you never know what you can expect from it. When bullets enter the body it can make quite interesting stuff, so I have seen people being hit from high caliber weapon and they even did not know they are hit, OK adrenaline works there too, but it is simply important the vital organs are damaged.
Bullets can have very weird path once they enter the body, so even if entrance wound looks not so dangerous it still can shred organs in body.
You never know what it will be, because there are many factors involved like weapon caliber, distance, angle… Bullets ricocheting from wall or ceiling above you still can kill you, actually small pieces of wall exploded from bullet hits can kill you if they hit right spot.
Generally speaking exit wound (if there is any) should look more "nasty" than entrance wound, but still there were cases when in middle of the fight some folks did not know they had any wound at all, until later they were carefully examined and entrance and exit wound were found.
I treated man once who had gunshot wound in forearm, some 10 minutes after the battle people pointed at him and at the blood coming all along his arm and fingers. He had entrance and exit wound, no bone damaged, and still no pain. Adrenaline.
Stopping power, penetration etc.
Remember the guy from the beginning of the post, maybe if he had knife or alternative weapon in that moment he would stop that man with more success.
And yes, I would always choose to have good and reliable pistol over a spear, but you get my point. I have seen guys who "stop" other guys with bullets from .22 CZ rifle in some very very cool (and scary) way, and on quite some distance. They simply were good with that rifle.
Shots in the head and chest have more chances to "stop" a man. Man can be also stopped with few shots in legs, but remember that he still can shoot you.
Still do not expect that man will be "blown away" with one shot in the chest, like i movies. Even if you hit the man in heart, he still have chance to shoot you.
So in short, yes, bullets in chest and head are good, but BULLETS not A BULLET. Just be sure. Keep shooting until the threat is gone. Nothing worse than stopping too early.
Bullets in the stomach are bad things, but I have seen people firing back at their attacker with rifle with their intestines hanging out.
Also important to consider is the meaning of the word "cover". Remember that some things just cannot give you enough cover. There is not much better than big pile of compact dirt or concrete wall between you and man who shoots at you.
Use common sense with taking cover, objects like wooden door, bush, glass and similar are not cover, they are concealment. They can maybe HIDE you, but you still can be killed with bullets through it.
Many times I mentioned it that in SHTF you need lots of ammo, people shoot at whatever is suspicious. If you are hiding behind wooden door, attacker can shoot burst just through the door, to be sure. You are not covered.
Will to kill
When I wrote those 3 points about what the guy with TT gun did and why he did not shoot the other man, there needs probably (but I never know for sure) to be number 4 and that is "he did not want to kill the man".
Yes, even in life threatening situations lots of people simply would choose not to kill, even if that means death for them. I believe it is something that some people simply can not do. They are not capable of that, to take some other mans life.
Maybe it looks that this is not connected with this topic about stopping power, but it is. So while choosing what weapon is good for you, you need to ask yourself "am I capable of taking other mans life?". Any hesitation can kill you when it matters, whatever caliber you have.
Lesson here is, instead of researching "tacticool" stuff online, learning about survival and going down to shooting range and finding gun with common round in the area that one shoots well with is what makes sense. The gun you know how to use best has biggest stopping power.
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A Typical Day During SHTF/24 Comments/in General /by Selco
Konrad suggested in comment on recent blog post I write about typical day during my time in SHTF trying to survive. Usually I think about what topic to write about first and write, this time I did other way around and just wrote. So while there are lessons to learn, this is just typical day during my time in war.
I woke up with feeling that I do not have legs under my knees, only some strange feeling, something between numbness and pain.
Second feeling after that was that something wrong with my head, and definitely something wrong with my room because ceiling was pretty much black instead white. I sat up in my bed too fast, and it was mistake, I forced myself not to throw up, barely. And then everything came back to me:
There was war outside going on, for last couple of months.
My legs under the knees were numb because I slept with my boots on, not that it was something unusual, I did that whenever I felt that there is big chance to be forced to jump from the bed completely ready, but mistake was that I did not ease laces a bit before I fell asleep.
Ceiling above my head was black because we used oil lamps for months, with bits of old laces dipped in oil. It smelled bad, and leaves nasty black greasy spots on walls, clothes, probably lungs too.
And finally my head was about to explode because again I drank some homemade booze last night during the trade with folks from 6th street. I remember that after we finish deal, guy from 6th street pulls a bottle somewhere from behind the back, and we all felt little bit more comfortable because something like old custom that you are not going to share drink with the guy who you want to kill or cross. Old habits.
Guy was banging on box of tomato juice cans yelling: "this is good first class stuff, it worth a lot, healthy for kids …" like he personally handpicked the tomatoes in Italy, and then make the juice in his refinery which is in his family for centuries… In reality that case was 3rd class stuff, probably bought some 100 kilometres from there on some bargain market and then brought to the dude through weird black market channels to be traded at 50 times its worth.
I was there with T. and after we traded some alcohol and baby food for that package of tomato juice cans, he saw some piece of machinery. It looked to me like big old part of car engine, completely not useful for anything. (Want some ideas for items for trade? Join our discussion)
But T. was obsessed with making homemade grinder that he could use for all kind of stuff.
"What do you want for this?" he asked.
"Oh , you see it is perfect for…for… you see you could use that for…" guy from 6th street tried to rise the price trying to discover for what T. is planning to use that piece of junk.
"I want to use it for making the grinder" T. said again, ignoring my leg signs to be quiet and let me finish the deal.
Finally guy from 6th street put big fat trading smile on his face, with more holes than teeth in his mouth.
We all were missing teeth in that time, but somehow always surprised me when I saw it on someone else. Funny and disturbing at same time. I did not want to confront T. in front of the guys because it was not smart idea. When you trade you must look and act confident, giving the other side clear picture that you are know what you are doing.
If two of us looked like we are not agreeing, or we have something to argue, or that we are not confident, other side could get the idea that we are weak. And that could be dangerous.
So T. traded some stuff for that thing. We drink some more stuff and went home.
Now, after I woke up and sat in my bed I was trying to remember how much tomato cans he gave back for that piece of machinery but I could not remember.
It was pretty dark in the room with all junk moved on windows and I started to carefully look for rifle. I had ritual of leaving my rifle always in same position next to my bed, at the reach of my hand, loaded and ready, but not too close to me.
I remembered stories about incidents with weapon, guy who slept with his loaded rifle next to him, so after his friend storm into the room and yell at him "Wake up! They are attacking" he panicked and blew his own feet into the pieces.
Other folks would do opposite things and store weapons at "secure place" so after someone attacked them they had trouble to "unsecure" it and make it usable. There were lots of funny situations in world where whole bunch of folks trying to shoot and fight but without too much previous experience with weapon.
I get up from the bed, and search my pockets for cigarettes. Could not find single one. Then I turn my pockets out and collect tobacco dust.
I found enough for one cigarette. In corner of the room I picked some paper from newspaper and roll one fat cigar.
While rolling dust in paper I checked what was printed on that piece of paper : "…and we must all be patient and do everything… some people want to use panic…I promise you…" some political bullshit from peace time. It looked so far away now.
I went out to the yard, pulling the small pieces of crap that would make cigarette taste bad from the cigarette, carefully watching to hold it in vertical position all the time, otherwise tobacco simply would go out from the cigarette in split second.
Skinny was on the balcony, doing something like watch, but in reality daytime was peaceful time in the terms of the surprises and dangers at the front door of our yard. He was just trying to catch some sun there.
T. was sitting on the old car wheel with screwdriver in his hands while small fortune of tools were around him. Old piece of steel that he traded last night was in his hand, he was trying to attach it to complex mix of stone wood and steel that he worked on for last few weeks.
"And how much food you gave up for that piece of ****?" (pointing at the steel) Skinny asked me.
"I did not give anything, he wanted to take it, he took it, he give it leave him alone" I said, at same time thinking that he gave that food for nothing.
T. put some oil on that part and continued to work, and talk to us:
"How long already are we living like animals? 4 months? 5? How dirty are we? All that we can do is to shoot, sleep and find food to eat?
Did you even try to really DO something? I am building something here."
Skinny completely ignored him, he made "kids binoculars" with his hands (fists) and watched plane barely visible high in the sky. In last few weeks foreign fighter jets flew high in the sky, as a part of the effort to stop civil war under them. I guess the thought they gonna somehow scare folks and armies under them to stop fight with simply showing the force.
Only mistake in whole thinking was that they forget that they deal with Balkans. We slaughtered each other here for centuries with unbelievable rage, and then lived together in big love with silenced hate. No too much sense.
Most of the folks watched those jets like they are some kind of magic or not even real.
Interesting and maybe dangerous magic, but far away and in some other dimension. Much bigger transport planes flew at night, throwing food for us, in the form of MREs (we called that "lunch packets").
Skinny still looked at fighter jet high in the skies, and asked me "how high you think they are flying there?"
"Why you ask?" I said.
"I just ask".
I kept looking at him suspiciously, because I remembered our neighbour who stated (OK he was completely drunk) that he had brilliant plan to end this siege. When we asked him how, he explained that he will shoot at the airplanes, and when they respond to that they will bomb whole area and everything will end.
One of most stupid things that I ever heard. It was like shooting the man who brings you sandwich when you are hungry but desperate folks will talk lot of nonsense.
"I am just thinking how funny and how far away we are to that pilot up there. He looks down and sees some buildings and smoke, some shitty place, and then 15 minutes later he is out of the whole area, going home, or wherever out of this mess. Can you imagine how cool is that to be out from here in 15 minutes?" he asked me.
"No I do not" I hated discussion like that, "what if" or "imagine if we.." or "only if…"
We were here, and thats it. I learned or trained myself to live and think only for today or only few days into the future. I learn not to hope too much.
Hope can be shitty thing when it proves to be false.
In first period we all thought like "oh this is temporary" or "someone gonna solve this" pretty soon people realize that nobody gives a damn about us, and that we are on our own.
After that realization some folks just lost touch with reality, some else use their skills, brain or imagination to survive.
T. always was doing some projects, trying to make things easier, to create tools for easier living. Usually it was useless. Skinny was dreaming all the time, about when "all this come to the end" and "what if" scenarios.
I learned to stay in present moment. Each one of us had some kind of mechanism of coping with new reality.
Later that same day guy from the neighbourhood came with info that chemical gas was used in one part of the city from some unit so we pretty soon forgot discussion about planes and everything.
And what about the project that T. Was trying to finish?
Yes he actually made it, he did made some kind of grinder, but much later. And funny thing was that few days after he finished that siege was over, so there was no need for that anymore.
Maybe he was building that grinder so slowly with purpose to keep some sense for him, I do not know.
This was how one of my days went. Lessons here are keep yourself busy and what works for others does not have to work for you. If you have also experienced survival situation head over to our Personal Survival Experience & Lessons Learned forum and share your story.


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Converting a Sterilizer to a Canner?
I have an All American 1915X Non Electric Sterlizer that isn't being used. I would like to convert it to a canner. I understand that the gauges are different for this function and was wondering if anyone out there knows how I might be able to convert it. I would appreciate any help on this.
One nice thing about Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry Co. (WAFCO--they make the All American products) is that they still sell parts for all their pressure cookers and sterilzers. My guess is that you could replace the vent pipe, the gauge and get a jiggle weight from WAFCO and you'd be good to go--IF the gauges and vent pipes are threaded identically.
The only question I would have: does that sterilizer have a rubber blow out plug? I can't tell from the picture. If it does not have that safety feature, I don't know if I would want to risk using it without that...
The link is to WAFCO All American parts dept.; might want to give them a call or an email to see if this is a feasible conversion. They also sell tops for their canners; if you could ascertain that the bottom of the 1915 sterilizer is the same as the bottom of one of the pressure canner models, you could just order the top...but then you're approaching the cost of a full new unit.
Hope you succeed. I have a 930 and love it. I had a 921 and gave it to a relative. I'm sold on their quality.
Here is a link that might be useful: All American pressure canner parts
Coming to this late, but this topic was discussed on Harvest. Check the link. A search will bring up a couple of other threads also.
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Indigestion solved... I think
I have had indigestion since childhood, starting out minor and slowly getting worse over the years. It is so bad now that I can't go for walks after I eat a meal. My neighbor said she can't drink reg milk because of gas so she drinks Lactoid which is a brand of lactose free milk at our local grocery and it works. For the last 3 weeks I have had no problem at all. Unbelievable, after all of these years, I can eat and be comfortable. If you are wondering what it tastes like, I asked her before I tried it, her reply was "milk". LOL Anyway just wanted to post my experience in case anyone here as suffered with indigestion as I have.
Yes I can, but I don't eat it in such a concentrated form as I do in cereals and a glass of milk. I first started wondering about this when I have lunch at 11 AM, with no ill effects. Then have a bowl of cereal around 6 PM. I knew it had to be the bran or the milk because of the indigestion that followed that. I am glad it was the milk because I am a cereal and bread lover. I can also drink coffee with a meal, but not on an empty stomach like most people can. I drink instant Kava because it is suppose to be acid neutralized ???, but also because I don't get it as hot as you would with a coffee pot. The hotter the coffee the more acid released. The bonus with lactose free milk is that it lasts longer in the fridge.
Good for you!
I'm blowing sometimes and don't know from where it comes from. I can drink milk but not too much. Many of us, around 20%. are lactose intolerant.
Then I was reading this the other day ....
Some good info. from ET
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Lactose intolerance is not harmless and must be taken seriously. Lactose intolerance is an adverse reaction to lactose, which occurs when the small intestine does not produce enough of the digestive enzyme lactase. Fortunately, not everyone who is subject to lactose intolerance suffers from lactose intolerance to the same extent with this milk sugar intolerance. But for people who do suffer from it, there are definitely possibilities for eating balanced diets with no reductions in milk and milk products, consequently, lactose intolerance does not mean that milk should be eliminated thoroughly and completely.
Milk contains milk sugar, which is lactose, whereby approximately 20% of the European population is lactose intolerant and lactose is hard to digest for them. If, despite that, these human beings still enjoy milk, and then take on typical symptoms of lactose intolerance, which manifest themselves by various symptoms, for example, abdominal pain, bloating or diarrhoea, and so forth, whereby actually also strong health-impairing disease could be caused. Naturally, with every person the tolerance limit for drinking milk can be very different, as is the case also with regard to indigestion.
For understanding, it must be said that lactose intolerance, that is to say, milk sugar intolerance, has nothing to do with a milk allergy, which is different in nature and that is based on a cow's milk protein allergy. Consequently, make sure that these two factors are not confused. A milk allergy is based upon a reaction of the immune system which negatively reacts to certain parts of the protein in cow's milk.
Naturally, there are also dairy foods that are free of lactose, such as the following cheeses: Emmentaler, Gruyère and Sbrinz. On the Internet and in nutrition journals can be found a large number of foods that are free of lactose.
Milk and milk products contain very valuable nutrients and belong, for the majority of people, among the most important staple foods. Lactose intolerance sufferers do not have to extensively go without this nutrient supplier, because they can still fall back on milk and milk products if they comply with their personal tolerance level, whether only a little or no lactose is present.
How can one buying food, for example, recognise whether a product contains a lot of trans fats?
If a product contains a lot of fat and has a long shelf life, then that is, as a rule, a sign that many trans fats are included.
Therefore, the HDL cholesterol is good and protects the arteries from the damaging LDL cholesterol. This LDL cholesterol thus increasingly accumulates within the blood vessels and thus leads to hardening of the arteries, that is to say, arteriosclerosis. And if this is furthered early, then this thereby increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.
It can also greatly impair the health of pregnant women, leading to miscarriages and stillbirths, as well leading to damaging the health of the baby. But basically all human beings are at risk, but especially those prone to atherosclerosis; but also human beings who have a high risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, allergies, and so forth.
Right, because an especially great danger exists for them, because due to poor nutrition they succumb to obesity, indeed, especially through partially or fully saturated fatty acids and also in relation to the consciousness, as concentration becomes impaired. They become overweight and also have problems with concentration related to consciousness. As an example: a 5 to 6 year old child should not consume more than 1.5 grams of trans fats a day. But if that child ate a slice of bread for breakfast with some margarine and ate a portion of cottage cheese before lunch, then consumed chips and a donut and in the afternoon consumed half a package of chocolate biscuits and in the evening consumed processed vanilla pudding, he has already ingested the insane amount of 6.5 grams of trans fatty acids.
What is actually to be understood regarding partly or wholly solidified [hydrogenated] fats, that is to say, trans fats?
The fats are artificially added in the state of so-called hardening [curing]. In other words, this means that the fats are artificially hardened, whereby the fats are obtained, through a chemical intervention, from plant and fish oils. Basically, the fatty acids occur in the food according to their chemical structure, split into the two groups, being saturated and unsaturated fatty acids. The chemically treated, and therefore saturated, fatty acids can be divided into short, medium and long chains, while the unsaturated fatty acids are referred to as monounsaturated or polyunsaturated.
And why are they cured? I do not understand, when the hardened trans fats are indeed so damaging to health.
The matter is quite simple, because, by means of the so-called hardening of fats, the corresponding foods last much longer and do not go rancid. In addition, trans fats are cheap, which has great profitable benefits for the manufacturer. But for the human beings who eat these trans fats, the whole thing is very bad, because of all the fats, it is these which evoke the most health damage in human beings. But there are trans fats in nature, for example, in ruminants, and for example, in the fat from cattle, for which the trans-fatty acids are formed by bacteria in the rumen. Also, calves, sheep and goats, and so forth, are biochemically natural trans fatty acid producers, whereby these trans fatty acids are of an entirely different nature and are absolutely harmless to health.
But Sfath, your father, said that both saturated and unsaturated fatty acids from plants and animals are necessary for human nutrition. Saturated and unsaturated fatty acids are throughout our food. He also spoke of butter and lactic acid, which are very valuable if the human beings have the necessary enzyme production for these foods.
That is right, but with high-fat foods and their enjoyment, a healthy amount is always a requirement. However, in a healthy diet, both saturated and unsaturated vegetable and animal fats are permitted. A unique feature of animal products is the milk fat, because this has an unusually rich spectrum of very valuable fatty acids, for which reason its composition is quite ideal, whereby, however, its compatibility should be considered, since in certain people the necessary corresponding enzyme production is lacking, in order to make milk and milk products tolerable. If this enzyme production is deficient, then milk and milk products are not recommended and, under certain circumstances, may be very harmful to health.
And which fats can now be described as healthier, it is vegetable or animal?
Vegetable fats are the most valuable because they contain more unsaturated fatty acids, while animal fats exhibit more saturated. The origin of the fat is therefore decisive, whereby, however, all edible fats contain saturated and unsaturated fatty acids. The highest quality fats are contained in natural butter and cold-pressed vegetable oils such as rapeseed [canola] and in nuts.
For many human beings, children and adults, milk and dairy products are more or less harmful to health, but this cannot be generalised. The harmfulness only applies to human beings whose enzyme production, in relation to their ability to digest milk and dairy products, is more or less deficient or even completely absent.
We have already once spoken about milk and dairy products being harmful, indeed, especially from cows, but you have given no further explanation about it. Quetzal and I also had a conversation once in this regard. Therefore, the matter looks somewhat different if the enzyme production necessary for digestion is absent or lacking.
Yes, we talked about it, but it is a long time ago. In fact, we did not addressed enzyme production in relation to the compatibility of milk and milk products.(See the 216th contact conversation of March 16th, 1987, sentence 127; the 217th contact conversation of May 8th, 1987, from sentence 30, the 401st contact conversation of April 24th, 2001, from sentence 60, the 326th contact conversation of April 15th, 2002, from sentence 56, the 447th contact conversation on 20 April 2007, from sentence 38.)
That only vegetable fats are healthy, especially since many of these contain unsaturated fatty acids �" therefore that is not quite so.
That is really not quite so. For example, despite their vegetable origins, coconut butter and palm oil contain the most saturated fat of all foods. Therefore, vegetable fats cannot simply be regarded as healthy, because there are also various saturated fats among these.
But milk fat contains many healthy fatty acids, consequently, it is healthy. Where are all the places it occurs?
It primarily occurs in milk and butter, as well as in cheese and other milk products. Milk fat is a very special fat, because, in its composition, it is similar to neither vegetable oils or animal fats. Overall, milk fat contains practically all saturated, unsaturated, short, medium, and long-chain fatty acids. In total, there are over 400 different types of fatty acid, in a way that no other food exhibits. With this rich diversity of fatty acids, milk fat is ideally tailored to human requirements. Some fatty acids have an especially positive effect with regard to health. For example, the short-chain butyric acid, which is found almost exclusively in milk fat, has big anti-cancer effects, in particular the risk of colon cancer and breast cancer is reduced. Milk fat also means no cholesterol danger. On the other hand, it lowers the risk of heart attack. The saturated fatty acids in milk have very diverse effects on cholesterol levels, whereby, however, seen as a whole, they have no elevating effect on the state of the level of cholesterol.
Thanks for your important explanations.
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Real Christian faith doesn't remain hidden in the heart: It shows itself through the lives we live. Faith grows as we cultivate perseverance, humility, and patience -- key attributes that the book of James commends. James calls us to demonstrate our faith in practical ways in the world around us. Studying James will help you prove the reality of your faith through sound actions, attitudes, and words in your everyday life.
James 1.1-18
It begins as a sneaking suspicion when things don't go well. As troubles
continue, a sense of doom or resignation can develop. "I must
be doing it wrong," we think. "This is too hard. Surely God did not
mean life to be such a struggle."
James takes a different point of view. Life is indeed a struggle, he
writes, and for a good purpose. Through difficulties we learn perseverance,
the art of "hanging in there." Christian growth, as James sees
it, is a process for which there are no shortcuts. It takes time for God
to teach us how to be mature people.
1. What was the hardest year of your life? How did that year
affect your character?
2. Read James 1:1-18. In your own words, how would you
define maturity (v. 4)?
3. What does James say is the role of trials in developing
4. If there are trials in your life that require special perseverance
just now, what kind of maturity do you see potentially
5. The Bible defines "wisdom" (v. 5) as skillful living-knowing
how to conduct your life in a way that leads to good results.
In what areas do you see people in our society showing a lack
of wisdom?
6. What are the characteristics of a "double-minded" person
(v. 8)?
Why would such a person have trouble becoming wise and
7. Verses 9-11 imply that trials of life erase superficial distinctions
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How does the illustration of a wildflower make that point?
8. Verse 12 refers to the "crown of life" that God will someday
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9. Sometimes people put the blame on God for their failings.
How does James describe the true origin of temptation (vv.
10. Some people regard temptation itself as sin, but the Bible
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the line from temptation to sin?
Do not relate the experience aloud to others, but try to think
of an occasion when you did not cross the line, or another
when you did. What were the results in your life? In others'
11. If we know God as the changeless "Father of the heavenly
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the way we deal with trials and temptations?
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The depiction of the death of UU minister the Rev. James Reeb in the newly released film Selma is included among the many inaccuracies a reviewer from Selma, Alabama, notes. Reeb did not die immediately after being attacked outside of a diner, as the film depicts. (Selma Times-Journal - 1.14.15)
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"Selma official: 'The movie Selma is a combination of historical inaccuracies,'" (al.com - 1.13.15)
"Selma evokes Casper memories" (Casper Journal - 1.12.14)
"50 years later, Selma still strikes a chord" (The Blade - 1.10.15)
Unitarian Universalist Association becomes landlord
The Unitarian Universalist Association officially became owner of its new headquarters building at 24 Farnsworth Street in Boston. The Association paid $25.5 million for the six-story brick building, purchased from the Davis Cos., a real estate investment company. (The Boston Globe - 1.14.15)
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The faces of Florida marriage equality
Many couples have waited decades to have their relationships recognized in their home state. The Rev. Kathy Schmitz of First Unitarian Church in Orlando, Fla., felt a celebration was necessary for the thirteen couples married at the church last Saturday. (Orlando Sentinel - 1.10.15)
Nearly twenty Unitarian Universalist religious professionals joined clergy and other people of faith in a letter to the Georgia legislature opposing recent so-called religious freedom legislation. They see these bills as overreaching the bounds of religious freedom by using it to harm or exclude some individuals or groups. (GA Voice - 1.13.15)
Finding meaning and community without God
The father of two young children finds a religion worth considering in his local Unitarian Universalist church. While he and his wife aren't necessarily religious, Calvin Hennick was initially drawn in by the Rev. Hank Pierce's Twitter feed and assurances that he did not need a belief in God for his family to be welcome at First Parish in Milton, Mass. (Yahoo Parenting - 1.12.15)


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The second half of the 1950s was a relatively active period for Lena Horne as a recording artist. Regularly appearing at the country's top nightclub venues, such as the Waldorf Astoria in New York and the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles, she had an exclusive recording contract with RCA Victor that resulted in regular releases. The British Avid Easy label takes advantage of the 50-year copyright on recordings in Europe to compile this 57-track, two-hour-and-37-minute two-CD set, containing Horne's four RCA LPs of the period, Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria, Stormy Weather, Give the Lady What She Wants, and A Friend of Yours: Songs by Burke and Van Heusen, plus the four-song EP Lena Horne at the Cocoanut Grove. The Waldorf Astoria album, recorded live, gives a good sense of her vibrant, authoritative stage show and was a Top 30 hit in 1957. Stormy Weather, a studio LP most of which was recorded just after the Waldorf Astoria shows, did not chart, but has attracted great attention since for its collection of torch songs, including Horne's umpteenth rendition of the title track, her signature song. The tracks from the Cocoanut Grove EP, all show tunes, don't sound like they were recorded live, but they are welcome additions to her repertoire. Give the Lady What She Wants was a Top 20 hit in 1958 and serves as a contrast to Stormy Weather, being a concept album of happy love songs. Most unusual of the bunch is the Burke and Van Heusen tribute album. Burke and Van Heusen actually dominated the hit parade of the 1940s, largely because they were Bing Crosby's personal songwriters for his movies. But Crosby never sang the songwriting team's music like this. Horne, as ever, exudes sex appeal, and she makes these songs smolder in a way they never did before. Avid Easy reprints the original liner notes, but not much else. The mastering, presumably drawn from old LPs, presents the music as is, with none of the sparkle that, for example, was present on the 2002 reissue of Stormy Weather on the RCA Bluebird imprint. But that one was a legitimate release able to draw on the original masters. This album is an unlicensed package that brings back into print some valuable material from the 1950s that was otherwise moldering in the RCA vault. William Ruhlmann, Rovi
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Are these buckeye eggs?
I found a bunch of eggs on a snap dragon. Are they buckeyes? On the internet greenish eggs come up, but these are just like monarchs. So if you could verify them that would be great.
Thanks, Nicholas
I've never seen a buckeye egg, just the cats. My book The Life Cycles of Butterflies by Burris & Richards shows a picture of one, and it's green with vertical lines. Butterfly eggs can and do vary in color, though, like giant swallowtail eggs can be anywhere from pale green to dark orange, and pipevine swallowtail eggs can be yellowish to orangey to solid red to burgundy. Yours does look like a butterfly egg, though, so let us know what hatches!
It's going to be impossible to give you a definite ID until the cats are larger. Most likely they are Buckeye caterpillars since you found them on snapdragons. Your sequence of pictures is great.
Those pictures really are fabulous, Nicholas!
They might be buckeyes, but they look more like some type of skipper to me. The egg looks very much like a silver-spotted skipper egg. It's not uncommon for skippers to lay eggs on plants that aren't the proper host plant, and the hatchlings don't usually live. Long-tailed skippers lay eggs on my pipevines sometimes, make their little shelters, but disappear before growing large. I assume it's because they can't find their right host plant?
Here's a picture on the internet made by Sandy of a SSS egg.
Here is a link that might be useful: Sandy's Picture of a SSS Egg
And here's Sandy's picture of a SSS hatchling.
Silver spotted skippers normally use members of the pea family as host plants. Here they use my Robinia pseudoacacia trees, also my Amorpha fruticosa bushes.
Here is a link that might be useful: Sandy's Picture of a SSS Hatchling
Please do, Nicholas! I'd like to see how they develop.
I've never seen buckeye eggs or hatchlings - by the time I find them, they're several instars gone, at least, and sometimes I don't find them until they're ready to pupate. They grow fast.
Unfortunately I think they're some sort of moth because of the position of the cat in the picture, and the leg count (6 arms and 4 legs) The picture is poor but you can obviously see the arch the body is in. I've seen inch worms and other moth caterpillars in the same position. Am I correct about that I hope not?
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The usual tenor of a man's life, the dwelling of his soul, is the true test of his state. Perhaps the providential visitation experienced by Hagar struck Isaac's mind and led him to revere the place. Its mystical name endeared it to him; his frequent musings at its brim at evening made him familiar with the well. Meeting Rebecca there had made his spirit feel at home near the spot; but best of all, the fact that there he enjoyed fellowship with the living God had made him select that hallowed ground for his dwelling.
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The Lord has been a sure helper to others: His name is Shaddai, God All-sufficient. Our hearts have often had most delightful communion with Him; through Him our soul has found her glorious Husband, the Lord Jesus; and in Him this day we live and move and have our being. Let us, then, dwell in closest fellowship with Him. Glorious Lord, constrain us, that we may never leave You but dwell by the well of the living God.
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