The Romantic Era of the Arts from the mid 18th Century to the mid 19th Century was inspired by the ideals of a lost ethical ancient science. Its leaders were concerned that humans had deviated into being governed by a lifeless mechanistic culture. The philosopher of science Wolfgang von Goethe considered that Isaac Newton had betrayed the science of colour to reduce all to a black and white mechanistic reality. Goethe’s linguistic colour perception theories were revived in 2012 as a book of the year ‘Through the Language Glass’, written by the linguist-physicist Guy Deutscher. However, few people are aware that in fact, Isaac Newton actually refuted the idea that the mechanical theory of the universe was complete and that like the Romanticists, he had derived this opinion from the same lost ethical science.

The work of other poets and artists during the Romantic Era that had attacked Newton for having a science derived from a clockwork description of a mechanical universe has now been linked to important DNA discoveries and the issue has become a crucial human survival one. It is an outstanding achievement that in 2017 the World Fund for Arts in Russia has taken upon itself to rejuvenate the Science-Art ethos belonging to the Romantic Era of yesteryear.

Newton’s mathematical genius supported a more profound description of the universe than that of a lifeless mechanistic cosmos. Science, economics and religion approved of the mechanistic model, the basis from which a false quantum mechanics was derived by teaching that Newton’s world-view was mechanical. Both political and commercial science, together with religious persuasion gained control of our unbalanced modern science. Along with the scientists, religious institutions were in denial that the living process evolved to infinity, evoking religious laws to enforce their opinions. The lost ancient ethical science could not come into its own until the time for knowledge about living human DNA arrived. It is now possible for quantum mechanics to be made complete by researching its entanglement with the science of quantum biology.

Arthur C Clark’s television documentary ‘The Colours of Infinity’ was about Benoit Mandelbrot’s discovery of infinite fractal mathematics. Within the documentary a comment was made that the evolution of civilisation was not included in the purpose of an infinite universe. The reason for that is because prevailing science is governed by the ‘Universal Heat Death Law’, which states that all the heat of the universe is going to radiate away into cold space and eventually all life in the universe must become extinct.

History’s most famous mathematician, Georg Cantor was also history’s most despised mathematician for daring to challenge the global scientific death cult. His declaration that a dysfunctional fear of infinity had infected the minds of modern age scientists created an international scientific and religious furore. World famous mathematicians, strongly objecting to such a pronouncement, joined together to savagely condemn his concept that the life force process could be evolving toward infinity. Influential religious leaders were enraged that Cantor’s mathematical conviction overturned their stubborn insistence that only a Supreme Deity could permit any access to infinity. The religious leaders, with differing Gods, were all willing to fight to the death as soldiers bravely upholding their sacred responsibility to protect their participation within the global death cult.

The NASA High Energy Project has published a paper by the Science Advisor to the Belgrade Institute of Physics, Petar Grujic, showing that ancient Greek mathematics incorporated aspects of infinite fractal logic. From the jumble of old mathematical ideas an ethical atomic political science emerged to guide democratic ideals, vaguely referring to the evolution of an infinite moral wisdom. This proposed science was designed to guide an ennobling form of government so the civilisation could become part of an ethical universal purpose. Such a science was held necessary to avoid the extinctions belonging to the giant fossilised remains of previous life-forms that had not survived their tooth and claw arms race. In Plato’s Republic, the ancient atomic theories had advanced to the stage where Platonists defined ‘Evil’ as a destructive property within the atom, which could emerge to destroy civilisation. Therefore, the lost pagan atomic political science warrants our immediate attention. We need to balance the destructive aspect of atomic mathematical emotion with the atomic mathematics of what the ancient Greeks called virtuous mathematical emotions.

The Greek mathematics governing ethical atomic evolution posited the idea that the 28-day cycle of moon movement influenced the development of the female fertility cycle. It held that harmonic vibrations emanating from the moon resonated with the atoms of a mother’s spirit to explain her ethical love and compassion for children. Ancient Indian mathematical logic was not so vague about the concept of a living infinite mathematical reality. Sanskrit mathematics, developed before the Greek political atomic science came into existence, alluded to a future technology to be derived from the mathematics of infinity. However, today the prevailing thermodynamic heat death culture prevents adequate investigation into the development of such a technology.

The harmonious Greek mathematical process belonged to the ‘Music of the Spheres’, which the scientist Johannes Kepler used to make his famous astrological discoveries. Enough scientific discoveries have since followed to prove that the thermodynamic heat death cult information, governing every aspect of our ensured path to extinction, is quite simply a nonsense concept. During the 1980s Australian researchers proved this is to be an absurd situation.

In 1979 China’s most highly awarded physicist Kun Huang, gave Australian Science-Art researchers the methodology to measure the life-force governing seashell growth and development. They proved that our extinction law is what the mathematician Cantor said it was, a neurological malfunction within the scientific mindset.

Seashell life forms have existed for 50 million years and have not become extinct. In Australia the ancient Greek infinite mathematics was programmed into a computer to generate seashell evolutionary simulations over a 50 million year period. The computer simulations matched perfectly with the mathematical language written within the seashell fossil record. The dysfunctional mathematics upholding our thermodynamic death culture can only generate distorted or carcinogenic futuristic seashell simulations. Therefore, the law governing healthy seashell evolution toward infinity belonged to the mathematical messages coming from the living creature within the seashell.

In 1990 the world’s largest technological institute IEEE, based in Washington, placed the discovery alongside such names as Louis Pasteur and Francis Crick. However, eminent scientists locked into their association with the Australian Government’s thermodynamic culture became extremely hostile when confronted with this simple factual observation.

The hostility toward the prediction that the seashell research was socially important had begun in 1979, following the Commonwealth Science Unit of Australian National Television in that year documenting the seashell research background into its internationally screened series, The Scientists – Profiles of Discovery. Scientists and Government Art Administrators joined forces in 1986 to attack the validly of the seashell discoveries published by Italy’s leading scientific journal, Il Nuovo Cimento, during the 1980s. Later in 2009 they abruptly ceased their constant deprecation of the Science-Art research when it was awarded a Gold Medal Laureate by an Academy of Science in London.

The Science-Art theories of the molecular biologist, Sir C P Snow, delivered at the 1959 Rede Lecture at Cambridge University and the ‘Letter to Science’ in 1974 written by the Nobel Laureate cancer researcher, Szent Gyorgyi, had one thing in common. They both argued that the existing obsolete thermodynamic scientific culture belonged to the primitive mindset of our Neolithic ancestors.

The extreme difference between ethical and non-ethical mathematical emotional language is now very obvious. Poker machine mathematics, accompanied by sound and colour vibrations, can create a strong emotional compulsion to enter into states of financial and moral bankruptcy. Plutocratic governments (government by the wealthy), wage constant unethical poker-machine-like warfare against each other. They employ this deceitful mathematical-artistic phenomenon, forming alliances to maintain global power, for the militant protection of the people (Szent-Gyorgi’s ‘Crazy Ape’ tribe) that they represent.

The accompanying disregard to damage suffered by their constant creation of bankruptcy victims, simply echoes the harsh reality of the seeming naturally occurring law of the survival of the fittest paradigm. The salient point to be made however, is that to the ancient Greek science, the poker-machine mentality was correctly predicted to be based upon false emotional illusions.

In 2010 the fusing of the controversial Australian research with quantum biological cancer research in partnership with Quantum Art International was important. It resulted in the discovery of the antidote to the global epidemic of dysfunctional illusory scientific information transmitted by the mass production of communication and information devices.

The primary evidence as to the technological potential of the antidote contained an important visual proof. Unlike the poker machine designed to employ colour vibrations to control the mind the antidote reverses the process resulting in the mind controlling the colours in a painting. The electromagnetic emotional field bringing about this phenomenon can now be visually demonstrated.

In 2016 their presentation of the antidote theory together with relevant artwork at the International Contemporary Arts Competition in Russia, under the auspices of the World Fund for Arts, won a first prize. In 2017 the President of the World Arts Fund appointed the Founder of Quantum Art International to assist establish a Science-Art Research Project for the betterment of the global human condition.

The above mentioned ‘Evil’ within Plato’s ethical atomic political science can now be considered as a form of a neurological cancer threatening global civilisation. It can be reasoned that the antidote can best be introduced by a powerful military complex employing what is referred to as a soft military diplomacy, a sharing of mutual beneficial information technologies with other nations. From the DNA perspective that humans can be considered to belong to one race this diplomacy could overcome fanatical violent religious persuasions. From the DNA viewpoint, humans attacking humans is obviously a nonproductive neurological form of cancer. By simply programming the dysfunctional world-view’s entanglement with the antidote information the survival blueprint simulations can be generated for humans rather than for seashell life forms.

To summarise, Sir Isaac Newton most certainly did not believe that the mechanical description of the universe was complete. In his 28th Query Discussions he published, under the threat of being burnt alive by the Church for his statement: that those who thought that gravitational force was caused by the mass of objects in space were pretentious and illogical. He actually stated that the more authoritative scientific understanding of the matter came from the ancient Greek science. The discoveries of the great scholars of the artistic Golden Era of Romanticism had also derived their ethics from that same lost ancient science.

The social significance of all the above was dramatized by the Australian Science-Art author/artist Chris Degenhardt in his book “Democracy on Trial – The verdict” published in 2002. From the perspective of DNA discoveries made since that time he published a retrial involving new evidence exonerating Sir Isaac Newton from Wolfgang Von Goethe’s charge that Newton had destroyed the science of emotional colour perception. In 2017, the Retrial edition of the above book was published under the auspices of Feedaread Publishing, in association with Amazon Books.

For those considering becoming a prepper, or at least becoming more well prepared for a natural disaster, terror attack or any other catastrophe, there are a few things that are obviously first on the agenda. It's critical to keep first things first, because otherwise, a person who is learning how to be a prepper can quickly get overwhelmed.

Most people learning how to be a prepper make a few common mistakes that end up costing them a lot of money and a lot of time. However, a little education goes a long way to shortening the learning curve and helping you get off on the right foot.

The first thing to do is not worry so much about guns and ammunition. If you have the means to protect yourself, then you needn't go hog-wild buying all sorts of assault rifles and tactical gear. Those things are fun and may very well make us feel safer, but they are really just toys unless you have your priority straight.

The first priority must always be clean drinking water. For a city dweller who has never had a second thought about turning on the tap and drinking to his heart's content, this statement is probably sounding crazy. However, if the power grid goes down, the pumps at the water plants will not be able to supply your tap.

Far more important than even food, going without clean drinking water for 3 days can spell the end of you. And what commonly happens in urban "SHTF" (Sewage Hits the Fan) scenarios is that when the water goes out, sanitation suffers and cholera can break out.

If you give in to the temptation to get your water from a local river or other ground source in times like that, you risk cholera, which can literally kill you inside of one day with horrendous abdominal cramps and "explosive diarrhea."

So, if you haven't looked into securing a 2-3 week supply of clean drinking water, through either storage or a capability to purify it, then you are wasting your time stockpiling guns and ammunition. The reason: someone can just take them when you collapse.

After water comes food – and stockpiling expensive freeze-dried survival food or MRE's is a money wasting newbie mistake. While these foods have their place, they should not be the mainstay of your food storage plan.

So, there is a lot to learn. Begin by taking a good, hard look at securing a clean drinking water supply and then turn your attention to food. Neither of these is as glamorous as guns and camouflage tactical gear, but they will save your life.

The following article stresses the importance of the fact that the Times Literary Supplement included Sir CP Snow's book, 'Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution', in its list of the 100 books that most influenced Western public discourse since the Second World War ('The Times' London. 30 December 2008).

Funding is now urgently needed for research into the Platonic Medical Science for Ethical Ends which has been derived from advancing Snow's human survival theories. The following summary of research already undertaken by the Science-Art Research Center of Australia, sets out a framework for further research and actions which could facilitate the funding required through the sale of relevant artwork.

The Pioneering of Platonic Fullerene Chemistry

Professor Robert Pope, born in Bendigo on December 1939, is listed as a Science-Art artist-philosopher in Who's Who of the World. He is also an Enzinearticle Global Celebrity Author and the father of Platonic Fullerene Chemistry. In 2009 he received a Gold Medal Laureate, awarded by the Telesio-Galilei Academy of Science, London. He worked with the late former Head of the Development Sector of the AEG-Telefunken Institute of Automatic Control in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Berlin, Professor Wolfgang Weber, to establish the basis of Buckminster Fuller's World Game Theory, in order to implement CP Snow's human survival theories through supercomputers. As Director of the Science-Art Research Center of Australia Incorporated, Robert Pope authored a new book, 'The 21st Century Renaissance', published in 2012, in liaison with Florence University's New Measurement of Humanity Project.

Pope launched the Pope Art Gallery in Alice Springs in Central Australia in 1994 and two years later won the inaugural Northern Territory Caltex Art Award, later to become the Alice Art Prize. He began to apply knowledge from his previous professional work, in seismic computer mapping, to remove what he referred to as 'noise interfering with the human creative process,' honoring the survival theories of Sir CP Snow. During the 1970s he organized at his own expense and in collaboration with the Western Australian Department of Native Welfare, a special art school for disadvantaged aboriginal children. From these experiences, Pope believed that Western Science, by ignoring human creativity physics principles, had been built on false scientific assumptions, which CP Snow had warned would destroy civilization. In 2008, 'The Times Literary Supplement' included Snow's 'Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution' in its list of 100 books that most influenced Western Public discourse since the Second World War.

21st Century Renaissance: Timeline to Infinity

The culmination of years of dedicated and meticulous research was marked with the publication in 2012 of the book, 'The 21st Century Renaissance', by the Science-Art Research Center of Australia, directed by Robert Pope. The following timeline traces Robert Pope's long journey which led to this publication.

The reunification of Science and Art Project

1972: The Art Academy of Western Australia Environment Division Newsletter (Australian National Library Archives) announced that the artist Robert Pope and the eminent geologist Dr John Daniels (The new mineral 'Danielsite' was named in his honor) were working together to reunite science with art. Robert Pope had become convinced that the theories of Sir CP Snow had been given rigorous scientific structure by the American engineer Buckminster Fuller. This was later confirmed six years later within Fuller's biography, written by Harvard University's Novartis Professor, Amy Edmondson, who stated that Fuller had derived his synergistic universe from Platonic mathematics. The mathematics was the basis of CP Snow's ancient Greek artistic culture.

1973: The artist Robert Pope was awarded a Western Australian Bursary to further his research into Sir CP Snow's concepts about bridging the culture gap between science and art. Pope argued that Fuller's book 'Utopia or Oblivion' fully supported Snow's theories.

1974: The Australian National Bulletin featured Pope's Science-Art theories. A letter to the editor of the Bulletin, written by Professor John Frodsham, Head of the School of Human Communications at Murdoch University, Western Australia, claimed that Robert Pope was the first artist living to have crossed the CP Snowline. The artist later delivered a lecture on 'Crossing the Snowline', at the University of Western Australia, to eminent visiting black hole physicists.

1978: Robert Pope received a Science-Art Residency at the Waite Research Institute of the University of Adelaide. The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs arranged an official visit between the artist and Princeton University's Black Hole physicist, Remo Ruffini, during his Australian lecture tour. The Science Division of Australian National Television recorded the artist's theories on film. Ruffini organized for UNESCO to invite Robert Pope to attend the 1979 Second Marcell Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity at the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, as a Special Australian Science-Art delegate.

Towards the 21st Century Renaissance: The Development of CP Snow's Theories

1979: ABC Television screened Robert Pope's Science-Art documentary into their international eight part series entitled The Scientists-Profiles of Discovery. His documentary was subtitled 'Pope the Catalyst'. The Commonwealth Department of Trade and Export Development awarded a grant to publish Robert Pope's Science-Art book for distribution to delegates attending the World Summit Meeting in Trieste, held to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the birth date of Albert Einstein. The ultimate objective of the book was to bring to Australia CP Snow's envisaged super-technology in the form of a human-survival medical science. The Head of the Chinese Solid State Physics Delegation attending the meeting, China's most highly awarded physicist, Kun Huang, provided Pope with a research methodology to modify Einstein's world-view in order to accommodate the human survival theories of Sir CP Snow. The proposed research suggested the compilation of formulae based upon Snow's emphasis on linking the mathematical logic upholding Classical art theory with modern science. The relevant geometrical simulations were to be used to generate life-form simulations through space-time, using the world's seashell fossil record to provide rigorous evolutionary proof statements supporting Snow's work.

Robert Pope's Science-Art theories were mentioned in the prestigious encyclopaedia 'Artists and Galleries of Australia and New Zealand', along with a reproduction of a Pope 'Centralian Desertscape'.

The Establishment of the First Science-Art Center

1980: Robert Pope established his first Science-Art Center in South Australia to enable the implementation of Kun Huang's modification to Einstein's mathematical world-view structure in order to demonstrate how Buckminster Fuller's synergistic universe embraced the survival theories of CP Snow. The Center's mathematician Chris Illert commenced work on developing Science-Art mathematics in order to generate super-computer images related to seashell evolution. Classical-art theory was derived on sacred geometry golden-mean mathematics, found in the construction of seashell life forms. Evolutionary changes to these sacred geometry designs of seashells was held to be caused by creative physics laws which Robert Pope declared to be acting negentropically toward infinity, in defiance of Einstein's world view.

The Science-Art Center's Research

1981: The artist Robert Todonai joined the Center as Pope's protege, studying the mathematical structure of Mandelbrot's 1980 discovery of fractal logic. Together, the artists liaised with Dr George R. Cockburn, Royal Fellow of Medicine (London), in order to gain insight into the fractal logic involved in the functioning of artistic creation within the human cerebral functioning. They concurred that the living process interacted with the entropic energy system as was also proposed by the 1937 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, Szent Gyorgyi, whose theories were upheld by CP Snow. They began to examine aspects of the workings of the molecule of emotion discovered in 1972 by Dr Candace Pert. Dr Cockburn and Robert Pope delivered a joint paper at the 1981 Australia and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) Conference. The Australian Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs greatly honored Robert Pope by reproducing one of his Science-Art paintings on the front cover of its Foreign Affairs Record and publishing his world peace theories therein.

1986: The Science-Art Research Center had published several books by Dr Cockburn, linking cancer to the evolution of consciousness and he arranged for his artist colleague Robert Pope to receive an Artist-in-Residency on campus at the University of Sydney, to work alongside a cancer research team. Pope's theories were included into a cancer research paper published by the University News. Within the paper the artist predicted the importance of the Center's life-energy mathematics being developed by its mathematician. Eminent physicists, infuriated over an artist daring to modify Albert Einstein's entropic world-view, attempted in vain to have his comments removed. The ensuing furore made the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald in which Robert Pope was deemed a disgrace to the university's scientific reputation.

! 988: Robert Pope's medical supervisor at the Queen Elizabeth II Research Institute for Mothers and Infants was interviewed by the Science Writer for the Australian Medical Observer, Dr Calvin Miller. Pope's theories were acclaimed for asking the right questions towards the possible instigation of a 'New Renaissance' of scientific thought leading to the implementation of Sir CP Snow's theories, (later, in 2012 the envisaged international Renaissance came into existence in association with the development of quantum biology at the University of Florence). As a result of this support from the medical world, Pope received a further Artist-in-Residency in the form of the 1989 Dorothy Knox Award for Distinguished Persons at the Dunmore Lang College: Macquarie University.

1989: Robert Pope's and Robert Todonai's proposed Australian Bicentennial Science-Art Exhibition in New York was cancelled due to intense covert scientific political lobbying in Canberra. However, support from twelve Local South Australian Councils and members of State Parliament ensured that their Australian Bicentenial Exhibitions went ahead. Their Centennial project was launched in Los Angeles under the auspices of the Hollywood Thalian Mental Health Organization. Their work at the Hollywood Pacific Design Center and at the exclusive Dyansen Galleries on Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills earned them Decrees of Excellence in the Thalian Hollywood Walk of Fame. Upon the return to Australia, Robert Pope received another Artist-in-Residency from a college in Darwin, Australia.

1990: Two of the Center's Science-Art optical life-energy mathematical papers, previously published by Italy's leading scientific journal, Il Nuovo Cimento were selected for reprinting by The SPIE Milestone Series of IEEE, the largest technological research institute in the world. The papers were acclaimed as important discoveries from the 20th Century. This completely validated Robert Pope's controversial prediction at Sydney University four years earlier. The Encyclopaedia Artists and Galleries of Australia, 3rd Edition, Vol., 2 featured a copy of a Robert Pope Science-Art painting hailed as 'an unprecedented pictorial survey of most recent attitudes and consolidated values', by Dr Elwyn Lyn, AM, the art critic for the Australian and Chairman of the Visual Arts Board of Australia Council, repairing much of the damage caused by the slanderous attacks upon his reputation from within the Australian scientific establishment.

1993: Robert Pope's paper 'A Self Funding Model for Ethical Scientific Research through the Arts' was published by the International Journal for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (LEONARDO), containing a supporting feature written by Dr George Cockburn. This journal, in the past, had been used to guide Australian governmental cultural policy. The present Ezine article is about implementing this funding model for the sciences. Proceeds from art sales are to be paid to the Science-Art Research Center of Australia Incorporated as a non profit organization for the purpose of helping to generate the Fuller-Snow super-computer using a similar research methodology that was successful with super-computers during the 1980s.

The Science-Art Center: Approved Scientific Research Status

1995: The President of the Institute for Basic Research in America, Professor Ruggero Santilli, in collaboration with the Science-Art Center's mathematician, transformed the reprinted seashell mathematics into a life-energy physics format. This paper won international peer-reviewed acclaim for the discovery of new physics laws governing optimum biological growth and development through space-time, as predicted by China's Professor Kun Huang sixteen years earlier. The Australian Federal Government awarded the Science-Art Center an Approved Scientific Research Status after it was proven that organized scientific objections to this had been based upon incorrect assumptions. The Lord Mayor of the Tweed Shire in New South Wales, officially opened the Science-Art Research Center's stone Castle on The Hill overlooking the Tweed Valley near Mt Warning, built by the artists Robert Pope and Robert Todonai as a symbol of a New Renaisannce.

1996: Robert Pope received a full professorial title from the American Basic Research institute. Alarmed by the general dismissal of Sir CP Snow's theories by Australian universities he wrote to the United Nations Secretariat claiming that Australia was unintentionally committing a major crime against humanity for ignoring Snow's warning of impending disaster by basing Australian culture upon an unbalanced scientific world-view ( Registered in the Australian National Archives). As a result the complaint was handed to the United Nations University Millennium Project Futures Research and Development Organization. A peer reviewed investigation was instigated by its Australasian Node. This resulted in a later Decree of Excellence being awarded to Professor Robert Pope from the Australian Futures Studies and Development Division.

1999: Following the death of the Center's Bio-Aesthetician Dr Cockburn, his cancer research theories were reviewed in depth by the Science-Art Research Center of Australia. It was found that entropic mathematics belonging to the Einsteinian world-view cannot generate healthy undistorted life-form simulations through space-time as the Center's Science-Art mathematics did. CP Snow's widening anti-life gulf between modern science and artistic creativity was associated with the rationale of entropic scientific thought being in constant conflict with the negentropic disposition of the molecule of emotion. Dr Cockburn's work was seen to explain aspects of artistic creativity in terms of asymmetrical electromagnetic optical cerebral activity. By viewing science-art paintings through glasses with asymmetrical electromagnetic lensing, the images depicted holographic properties. The same phenomenon occurred when viewing computer generated pictures within the book The Beauty of Fractals-Images of Complex Dynamical Systems. The Center's discovery upgraded the conclusion in the chapter written by Professor Gert Eilenberger, entitled Freedom, Science and Aesthetics, which was about constructing Snow's bridge linking the cultures of science and art through quantum biology. Eilenberger concluded his chapter by stating: 'That is part of the excitement surrounding these pictures. They demonstrate that out of research an inner connection, a bridge, can be made between rational scientific insight and emotional aesthetic appeal; these two modes of cognition of the human species are beginning to concur in their estimation of what constitutes nature '. The scientists however, did not know about the nature of the cerebral functioning of the Platonic Fullerene optical engineering mathematics that Fuller had placed into his synergistic world-view. However, the Science-Art artists had discovered this knowledge by themselves.

2000: The general public voted into existence Science-Art symbols at the Science-Art Center's Science-Art Festival in the Tweed Valley of Northern New South Wales. Those symbols later were to become part of the artwork supporting the 2012 fabric of Florence University's New Measurement of Humanity Project.

2001: Following Professor Pope's Science-Art lecture at Cambridge University during 2000, Chinese scientists who attended, realized that he had greatly honored China's greatest physicist. Pope was invited by the Chinese Government to lecture at Chinese Universities. A record of his address as guest of honor at the opening of the Art College at Yangzhou University contained the statement: 'Evolutionary direction is provided by the constantly changing shapes of the evolving protein (within DNA), which when measured, demonstrates that it is evolving toward universal infinity. ' This concept, of course, is inconceivable within the Einsteinian world-view. A decade later on the 18th of February, 2011, Cornell University Library in the USA announced a quantum biological discovery by two Chinese scientists. They had used mathematics to describe why proteins in DNA were enfolded in a strange way in defiance of 20th Century understanding of the second law of thermodynamics. This linked asymmetric electromagnetic engineering principles into the construction of CP Snow's bridge between science and art. Later, cancer researchers in the USA developed Szent-Gyorgyi's theories in which asymmetrical electromagnetic carbon signalling, associated with Snow's entropy versus negentropy theories, sustained the Center's decision to make the Snow-bridge a medical science to guide ennobling government, a concept envisaged by the greek philosopher Aristotle.

2004: The Science-Art Center's Public Events Manager, Irene Brown, in liaison with the New South Wales State Ministry for The Arts and the Tweed Shire City of the Arts Space Project, organized the 2004 Science-Art Festival. For two months, international and local artists, scientists, environmentalists and the local community met to discuss, debate and interpret the synergy of art and science. The Center produced a sequential program including: forums and debate; creative practice; and an exhibition of outcomes and disciplines via the Chinese Science-Art Exhibition (The Ministry for the Arts in conjunction with the Tweed Shire had flown over from Nanjing University a Science-Art delegation from its Department of Aeronautics). During three seminars guest speakers lectured in their field of expertise on the subjects of an infinite universe (contrary to the Einsteinian world-view). The design of symbols, text and artworks interpreted human values ​​derived from CP Snow's Classical Arts, as were encompassed by the Platonic 'Science for ethical ends'. In particular, the Chinese Delegation accompanied by the Cultural Officer from the Chinese Embassy in Canberra, the Director of the Australian Sustainability Institute and Professor Pope, discussed the Fullerene-Snow theories for world peace, agreeing that Buckminster Fuller's World Game Theory could be somehow implemented to achieve Fuller's objective to 'make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offence or the disadvantage of anyone'.

2005: The Head of the Chinese Delegation, Professor Cam Ming, returned to Australia under the auspices of the Southern Cross University. His previous enthusiasm about the concept of CP Snow's bridging of the two cultures appeared to be somewhat subdued upon his return to Australia although the Science-Art Center's Castle featured on the front cover of his biography book published in China. He appeared unable to echo the former spirit of confidence that existed within the Chinese Art Administration encountered by Professor Pope in China during 2001 when he had been awarded a professorial honor. It was as if the Chinese educational system had finally bowed to the inevitable entropic logic of science that CP Snow and Buckminster Fuller had warned about. The Science-Art Center then began to focus on helping to create a super-computer program to upgrade the Fullerene Chemistry that the three 1996 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry had chosen to become the basis of their new medical science and technology. The upgrading of the computer program to be referred to as Platonic Fullerene Chemistry, embracing the various forms of forbidden negentropic, asymmetrical, electromagnetic logic that nanotechnology was beginning to discover existed.

2006 – 2008: The Science-Art Research Center of Australia began to focus upon Immanuel Kant's electromagnetic ethic for perpetual peace on earth. His concept of space-time had been modified by the Center's discovery of new physics governing optimum biological growth through space-time. Kant's definition of aesthetics as the philosophy of art appreciation was logical, but his electromagnetic ethic, although derived from the Platonic 'Science for ethical ends' was not in accord to its priori physics principles. The ancient ethical Greek 'Wisdom Through Beauty' alluded to an entanglement between the visual effects caused by the energies of Einsteinian chaos and the Platonic spiritual (holographic) optics of evolutionarty intelligence. Einstein would not allow the mythogogical mathematics to exist that Plato allowed to represent reality before the Egyptian creator god Atum (Atom) proclaimed 'Let there be light'. The seriousness of this can be explained: A painting of a mountainside covered by majestic waterfalls produces emotion-forming substances that lead to appreciation of the entropic destruction of the mountain '. Hidden within that process also lies the key to CP Snow's appreciation of the Classical concept of 'Wisdom Through Beauty': To a young German youth passing through puberty, the appreciation of the beauty of a blond, blue eyed German girl may have a powerful aesthetically pleasing impact, but when associated with the ravings of an entropy-worshiping Hitler, the emotional result, which lacks Platonic love, can never be considered to be ethical.

CP Snow's ethical values ​​belonged to the Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy, which for over two hundred years fused ethics into Anaxagoras' theory of creation based upon ancient Egyptian mythological, sacred-geometrical mathematics. This resulted in the establishment of the atomistic Platonic Science for ethical ends during the 3rd century BC in Greece, and the Center continued to publish books on this subject. Einstein, on the other hand, was considered to have developed his theory of relativity from what he called the mythological-mathematics belonging to the ancient Babylonian empire (in 2012, the Center located a book published in 1957 by the New York University Library, entitled 'Babylonian Myth to Modern Science', which argued likewise). Plato and other philosophers such as Philo, Hesoid, Plotinus and Al Haitham argued that employing the optics of vision to gain knowledge of universal reality would lead to the emergence of the destructive properties of unformed matter within the physical atom. Plato's geometrical logic upholding that concept was derived from his axiom that 'all is geometry'. The Egyptian metaphysical ethical ethos developed by Plato was about preventing the universe from reverting to chaos. By placing ethics into the Greek creator myth of Anaxagoras, derived from the Egyptian one, its mathematical structure became what is now recognized as an expression of a complex fractal dynamical system: the logic of which extends to infinity. Conversely, Einstein's concept of visual observer participancy, being the basis of quantum mechanics, produced E = MC squared, the symbol of the destructive chaos that Sir CP Snow considered to be unfit to govern modern science.

2009: The artist-philosopher Robert Pope and the Science-Art Center's former mathematician, Chris Illert, both received Gold Medal Laureate awards from the Telesio Galilei Academy of Science-London.

The 21st Century Renaissance

2010: The '21st Century Renaissance' came into being on the 24th of September when the Giorgio Napolitano Medal was awarded to Professor Massimo Pregnolato and Professor Paolo Manzelli on behalf of the Republic of Italy for their quantum biological discoveries. Their '3rd Quantumbionet Workshop, 2010, recognized that their work was part of the Florentine New Measurement of Humanity Project conducted by Professor Paolo Manzelli, Professor Massimo Pregnolato and Professor Robert Pope'. The prediction that Robert Pope's theories would help establish a New Renaissance, published in the Australian Medical Observer in 1988, written by its Science Writer, Dr Calvin Miller, had come true.

2011: The Professor of Electrical Engineering, Wolfgang Weber, the former Head of the Development Sector in the AEF-Telefunken Institute of Automatic Control in Germany, recipient of the 1985 Albert Einstein Order of Honor and recipient of the 1998 Humboldt-Plaque of the Humboldt Society of Science Art and Education, proclaimed Professor Robert Pope as being a World authority on bringing to fruition the blueprint for the constriction of Sir CP Snow's bridge, uniting the culture of science with the culture of art. The discoverer of the electromagnetic field, Hans Christian Oersted had based his Doctoral Dissertation upon Immanuel Kants search for the electromagnetic ethic. Friedrich Schelling had modified Kant's space-time theories by making the physics principles upholding the ancient Platonic Science for Ethical Ends, the priority concept to Kant's world-view. As a result of this, the work of those scientists who proposed the electromagnetic motor driving the sperm to the ovum, was taken into account. Upon entry into the ovum the female electromagnetic field was held to morph that motor into the centriole, which in turn, energises the first bone created in the embryo with the same seashell life-energy forces discovered by the Science-Art Research Center during the 1980s . The resonating electromagnetic Platonic 'Music of the Spheres' containing the ethical purpose of the universe was then transmitted to the cerebral and emotional mechanisms within the human metabolism as documented by Texas University's Dr Richard Merrick in his book 'Interference'. The Science-Art Research Center's sole objective then, was to help in the construction of the Fuller-Snow super-computer. Immanuel Kant's envisioned base for his predicted League of Nations had been modified to upgrade Aristotle's ethical science to guide ennobling government in order to prevent civilization from reverting to primordial chaos. Professor Robert Pope's Platonic Fullerene Chemistry, as a medical science to develop a Creative Physics human survival supra-technology, was given a firm legal basis by the Center's colleague Michael Byrne, Dr of International Law, supported as being also a medical science, by the Center's Medical Director Dr Peter Yaxley. Together with Professor Wolfgang Weber's work all this research is considered the means to bring Sir CP Snow's great vision to life.

2012: The Science-Art Research Center of Australia published its book entitled 'The 21st Century Renaissance', which was given scientific appraisal in Europe and Britain under the auspices of the Telesio Galilei Academy of Science, in London and also in Italy and China under the auspices of the Florentine New Measurement of Humanity Project.

© Professor Robert Pope, Advisor to the President Oceania and Australasia of the Institute for Theoretical Physics and Advanced Mathematics (IFM) Einstein-Galilei

Survival Knives are intended for survival situations. Survival knives are carried by Military Troops, Hunters, Backpackers and Campers. Multitudes of participants in other outdoor activities carry and use survival knives. What should you consider when selecting a survival knife?

Survival knives have many designs and sizes. There are long and heavy survival knives with a design similar to a machete. Some are still built based on the design of the Bowie knife, with a long strong blade. Still other survival knives are of a folding design for compact carrying. We will cover some of the designs and features commonly found on survival knives.

Most survival knives have a multi-purpose blade. The blade can usually perform multiple tasks like chopping,cutting, spearing and prying. The handle often has a lanyard hole so the survival knife can be tied to a pole to make a spear.

One of the most common features is a section of saw like teeth on one side of the blade. These teeth are often marketed as being a saw that can be used to cut wood. Due to the design of the teeth and the limited length of most survival knives their usefulness as a saw is limited. These teeth on the survival knives were designed so crews could more easily cut through the relatively thin metal skin on a downed aircraft. These teeth can be used to scrap wood or bark to make tinder to help start a fire. Some survival knives do have actual saw type teeth on the blade. You are still limited in what you can cut by the length of the survival knife blade.

Some survival knives have a hollow handle feature. The movie “Rambo” popularized this style of survival knives. Survival Knives like these are sometimes called “Rambo” knives. One of the selling points to these survival knives is that gear can be stored in the handle. A drawback to many hollow handle survival knives is the handle is attached to and not actually part of the blade. This creates a weaker point that may fail when you need your survival knife the most. There are some hollow handle survival knives that are fashioned out of a single piece of steel. The handle on these survival knives is part of the blade so you do not have the weak point. There is another consideration with hollow handle survival knives. If you lose your survival knife you also lose all the gear stored in the handle.

The blade on survival knives. As a rule of thumb you should avoid survival knives with a double cutting edged blade. This weakens the tip and also increases the risk of getting cut while performing tasks with survival knives. Some of these tasks may include cutting, slicing, prying, chopping or digging. Fixed blade survival knives should have a full length tang. This means the blade on survival knives should be a single piece of steel that runs all the way through the handle. The blade should be good quality steel that is strong and will also keep a sharp edge.

The blade length on survival knives is often the subject of debate. Most people should avoid the huge “Rambo” style survival knives. They are heavy and can be awkward to use for many of the tasks survival knives may be expected to perform unless you are familiar with how to use the knife. Many people feel more confident with long heavy bladed survival knives. Others feel survival knives with a long blade are too awkward for some of the tasks they expect survival knives to do.

My opinion, based on experiences I have had as a police officer, while hunting and while camping, is this. The best survival knives are the survival knives you trust with your life AND that you are comfortable using. I use this analogy A .22 pistol is much more effective in the hands of someone that knows how to use it, than a 30-06 rifle is in the hands of someone that doesn’t know how to load the bullets or is afraid of it.

Survival Knives do not have to look fancy. A good solid useful design is what you should be looking for when evaluating a survival knife. Any knife can be used as a survival knife if that is the only knife you have.

The selection of survival knives is a personal choice. Evaluate what type of terrain you will be in (Desert, Jungle, Woods, Rocks), what your most likely needs will be (digging for water, building a fire, making a shelter, cutting bandages, gathering food), your own physical strength (Don’t buy a 5lb. Knife if you can’t use it) and keep in mind the points discussed above. When you make your selection remember – Cheap is not a bargain when you need to survive. You do not get any ribbons for finishing second in a survival situation!

Buy quality survival knives and equipment, know how to use your equipment, take care of your equipment and they will take care of you. Stay safe and get outdoors as much as possible.

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Most new traders tend to focus just about all their time and energy on finding nearly perfect "setups", but trade setups, even very good ones, are * not * the key to successful trading. It's the * way * you trade your setups that keeps your losses smaller than your gains. And this is the single most essential key to trading success. To me, the process of limiting losses is more than just money management … it is survival .

I can't give you a list of mechanical survival rules that will take the place of experience and make you a successful trader overnight, but if you stick to the following principles in your trading, you'll be on track. You'll be doing just about the opposite of the crowd, and you'll eventually learn to limit your losses. Limiting your losses is the only way I know to make money in this business.

The following guidelines will sound radical, but they have guided me in making my living from trading for many years.

1. If a trade doesn't go your way within the first one to five minutes, get out. I usually get out within one or two minutes as soon as my perceived edge is gone.

2. If a trade goes against you in the first few seconds, begin drawing in your hard stop and / or your target, trying to get out of the trade at break even.

3. Never let your hard stops get hit. When it happens, you may want to take a break and get some fresh air.

4. Hard stops are adjusted to market conditions. At the moment (July 6,2005) I am using 1.50 point hard stops on the SP futures.

5. Never move your hard stop away from your entry point, hoping that a bad trade will turn around.

6. If you find yourself * hoping * as you trade, it is a clear sign that you are not following good survival (money management) principles.

It will be impossible to put these principles together without a set of high-probability setups. Without good setups, trading is just a
flip of the coin.

Resourcefulness is a vital attribute to achieve goals whether it’s short or long-term and thus is a key skill to develop. Being resourceful is a skill we need to have in this era and generation. There are unexpected roadblocks as we journey in our live. It is very important to surmount them using our willingness to think various possible solutions in order to move forward towards our goals in life.

Resourceful people think that they can influence outcomes. They can minimize the effects of bad luck by maximizing skill and hard work. It is a person’s mindset to solve problems if there are problems available to be solved. It is also about learning from mistakes and the ability to make decisions and finding solutions on their own.

In fact, there are many people who started as just a mere nobody but are able to reach the top and become a somebody due to resourcefulness. These people converted their barriers to achievement into their advantage. These people find solutions to their limitations instead of giving focus to what they do not have.

Our major enemies include problems, difficulties and resistance to change. However, we can beat this by thinking how to outwit them. By doing this, we are able to defeat them. We need to apply calm and careful reasons to problems in order to beat them.

However, it is not enough just to act quickly and appropriately. We have to do it in a creative and innovative way in order to generate the best thinking and application of our available resources.

Resourcefulness is not just about thinking how to make things work but it is more on making things happen. We need to be resourceful enough to overcome any hurdles that we encountered due to our lack of resources. It is also about thinking different ways we might possibly be able to get the outcome we want through our own thinking and initiative.

If we are confronted with many problems right now, it is our responsibility to check how to approach these roadblocks. If one approach is not effective, then we need to try other strategies until we are satisfied with our outcome. It is about defining the real problem and how we work it out.

Remember, every problem has a solution. We just have to be intuitive and imaginative in beating these roadblocks to success by using our resourcefulness and initiative.

Mission: Survival series is written by popular TV personality, Bear Grylls. The books in the series are adventurous in nature aimed at young adventure lovers. Children love to read stories about adventures and Bear Grylls is an expert adventurer. Bear Grylls is a real life survival expert who has undergone numerous missions for the benefit of others. He is a highly famous television presenter with numerous wilderness survival television series in the US and the UK. Due to this success in various missions, he was appointed as the Chief Scout in the UK at a very young age of 35. The boy scouts of the country look upon Bear Grylls as an inspiration. To inspire the young generation and let them enjoy a taste of adventure, Bear Grylls has written the Mission Survival series.

The Mission Survival series has a total of 6 books with the first one being published in the year of 2008. In the series of books, the adventures of the protagonist Beck Granger are closely followed. Beck Granger is a teenager with excellent survival skills. His parents David and Melanie Granger worked as Special Operations Directors for Green Force, an environmental action group. They travelled to some of the remote tribes of the world and Beck accompanied his parents frequently.

Beck Granger grew up amidst danger all the time due to the work nature of his parents. As a result, he has hands on experience on survival techniques that are only known to military experts. Beck’s parents taught numerous skills to Beck so that he could accompany them from a very young age. Quickly, Beck became the youngest survival expert who is constantly facing adventures.

Beck’s favorite uncle is Professor Sir Alan Granger who is fondly called as uncle Al. He loves working in his lab, but he is famous in the country as a judge of a reality television show. After the loss of his parents, Beck looked up to his uncle Al for guidance. Al dutifully acted as a guardian to Beck, becoming his second father. Taking adventure trips is a part of the profile of uncle Al and Beck made sure that he goes with his uncle whenever he can.

Another important person who stays with Beck during his adverse times is Peter Grey, Beck’s best friend from school. Unlike Beck, Peter is physically weak, but he is a headstrong individual. He can make the best out of any situation and he is responsible to ensure that Beck learns his social skills. The two friends are constantly seen bickering, but they support each other all the time. Peter’s favorite equipment is his digital camera that his parents presented to him on his birthday.

In the Mission Survival series, Bear Grylls presents the gripping tale of individual adventures of Beck Granger as he is often stranded alone in one of the scariest places on the earth. Being a survival expert, Beck tackles all difficult situations with great courage, putting his life skills to use. Through the journey of Beck Granger, readers will learn a lot of tips about surviving in the wilderness without any resources. These books ensure that the adventure lovers learn basic tips in case they decide to take up a mini adventure on their own. At the end of the each book, Bear Grylls presents important illustrated survival tips to educate the readers.

The first book in the Mission Survival Series is Gold of the Gods in which Beck Granger suddenly finds himself amidst snakes, howler monkeys and jaguars in the Columbian Jungle. He faces the harsh reality of death due to starvation and manages to find a way to survive. Beck accompanies his uncle Al to Colombia on the request of Mayor Rafael De Castillo, who is a descendant of a great explorer of the past who allegedly discovered a city of gold. The secret was believed to have died with the explorer, but Don Rafael seeks the help of uncle Al to find the city. However, both of them goes missing and Beck was in a position to bring his uncle back. He seeks the help of the twins Marco and Christina, the children of Don Rafael and set out to the wilderness of Colombia. The young kids build rafts, deal with wild river rapids, build camps, defend from dangerous animals and stay alive in the jungle.

In the second book of the Mission Survival series, Beck travels with his uncle to Ankat Village to interact with the native people of Alaska. Their plane sets off to the remote area with just three passengers along with the pilot. Due to some unknown technical difficulties, their plane crashes in the middle of Alaskan wilderness, leaving uncle Al badly injured. With no sign of rescue in near sight, Beck sets out with his new friend Tikaani to cross the mountains to get some help. The icy mountains are made even more dangerous by the bears and wolves that show no mercy. Beck had to cross an extremely dangerous river and look for food sources. During their journey, they had to face the worst ice storm and they build a snow cave to brace the weather. As Beck manages blizzards and white water rapids, he also had to keep track of the hungry wolf trailing Beck to devour him. In this book, Bear Grylls teaches numerous life skills to survive on icy lands.

In each of the books in the Mission Survival series, Bear Grylls takes the readers through different types of dangerous parts of the earth. As you read the book, you will surely marvel at the raw beauty of nature and start to appreciate it. The rawness of nature can be a great threat to survival if you don’t know how to live without the resources. Through his journeys, Beck Granger pulls the readers out of their comfort zone and shock them with the imminent danger that is just around the corner. At the end of each book, you will learn a handful of survival skills through the experience of Beck.

If prostate cancer is caught before reaching the end stage, then it is often treated very successfully. Treatment has been getting higher and higher success rates within the last twenty years, although it is still not known what causes the cancer and how to prevent it.

However, if the cancer spreads from the prostate gland to the bone then it becomes extremely difficult and often impossible to cure. In this situation treatments are aimed at prolonging life and relieving symptoms rather than curing.

When a cancer reaches its end stage the patient may start to show signs such as weight loss, tiredness and pains in different places. In the case of this type of cancer, this is especially true in the lower back and hips.

Prostate cancer is the second most likely cause of death to a man in cancer related deaths. If left untreated and provided the man does not die of other reasons, it will cause death. As it is a slow developing cancer, in many cases the man may die of other causes before being killed by the cancer. This is especially true as prostate cancer is much more likely to occur amongst older men, and can take 15 years or more to full develop.

If the cancer has reached an un-curable stage, then treatments can be effective at reducing pain and prolonging life, although as has been said once the cancer spreads to the bone it is usually untreatable.

The Survival Rates

Prostate cancer, while not receiving as much exposure as other cancers, is the most common of all amongst men in the US and UK. According to the NHS, around 111 men out of 100000 will get prostate cancer at some point during their lives.

As this type of cancer is a slow developing cancer and is most common amongst older men, many die of other causes without being affected by it. However it is the second most common cause of cancer death in the UK. Around 10000 men die from it each year in the UK.

In the past, because of the difficulty in treatment the survival rate for prostate cancer was quite low. However for the last twenty years the survival rate has been improving and was around 86 percent in 2009. Compared to 31 percent in 1975, this is a vast improvement.

Age plays the biggest factor in this type of cancer, with older men much more likely to suffer from it. Above 65 the chances of getting increase greatly, and above 85 even more. You can find out more about treatment options at our health-and-beauty-base.com website. Men with a family history of the cancer also have a much higher chance of getting it themselves.

There is no known way of decreasing your risk of getting prostate cancer, although a diet including a lot of animal fats may increase the chance of getting it.

Disasters can strike anytime. You may have to face a hurricane or a tornado. What you need to do is study the basics as this is important to make the right decision during the destruction. After all, you may not want to get hurt or see your property get damaged during this type of disasters. So, if you are looking for some survival tips, we suggest that you read this article.

Make the right assumption

You are supposed to assume that the disaster can happen. It's OK to be positive, but don't assume that things will go as planned. An important point to keep in mind is that survival is mostly about psychology. Therefore, if you are unprepared on a mental and emotional level, your survival odds will be lower.

Don't panic

One thing that you must not do is panic as this is your biggest enemy during a bad time. It's natural to be scared in a survival scenario, but if you are prepared, you will be in a better position to deal with the problem in a more effective manner. So, you should spread facts and try to control yourself.

Know your limits

Make sure you know your limits. Like any other family, yours will also have to meet their routine needs. Therefore, you may want to ensure that you are physically fit, medications are in the right place, and your family members can move around as needed. For this, you have to prepare a solid survival plan. Creating a plan will also help you know your limits. You will know what you can and what you can't do.

Learn how to manage

You should learn how you could work in an efficient manner. For instance, if you know how to install a tent in the woods for your family to spend a weekend, you will find it easier to survive. Ideally, you should spend a weekend with your family camping far away in the woods. This will give a pretty good idea of ​​how things should be done in case of an emergency.

Keep it simple

You don't have to have a fancy plan for survival. The fact of the matter is fancy preparedness plans can't help you under immense pressure in a disaster scenario. So, it's better if you use fewer moving parts.

Get ready for all types of situations

You may want to be prepared for all types of situations that may arise. Make sure you know the type of disasters that may happen in your area.

Make a "Survival Kit"

Aside from your home-based stuff, you may want to make a "survival kit" for your family. It should contain things that may help your family in case of an evacuation.

Act

Physical preparedness should be part of your survival plan. In other words, you should put your plan into practice.

So, if you are trying to get ready for a disaster, we suggest that you follow the tips given in this article. Hopefully, you will be on the safe side when the disaster strikers.

With the hectic life many of us lead it would certainly be great to just “get away” from civilization and have fun in the wild outdoors. How many of us really know what to do when we get there or what to take with us in the “survival pack”? Camping can be a really refreshing lift to life, but roughing it may not come without some sort of price. Adequate preparation is a must and may prevent your trip into the wilds from becoming a disaster.

Some things to take care of before you leave:

The preparation you do may mean the difference from really enjoying your trip to actually roughing it and trying to survive. One of the primary things you should do is scout out the area you want to camp in. Look at the demands of the environment and available natural resources. The area you go to will determine what supplies and gear you will need to take with you.

When you know where you will be going you have to select the type of shelter you will need. Are you sleeping in the open or using a tent? What type of tent you select will have a direct impact on how comfortable and dry you will be if it rains. You may need to get a tent with windows and ventilation and waterproofing. Then once you purchase the tent, practice setting it up several times. This will give you an idea of what tools you will need to take with you. Doing this will also give you a great idea about the functionality and usage for your tent. You may also need to take some spare parts for the tent incase of breakage or damage to some parts.

When you have your living accommodations prepared you must next look to the provisions you will take with you. What type of food and beverages will you need on a daily basis? Will you be preparing each meal cold or hot? You may also want to pack a couple days more provisions for any emergency that may arise. Make sure you have snack foods that will provide you with a high energy source. Camping and hiking are activities that require a lot of energy, maybe much more than you usually expend in your normal activities. Ideas may be dried fruits, nuts, and high energy bars.

Next would be to look at what you would take beyond the necessities of food and shelter. Are you prepared for any cold or wet weather? When you look at the area you are going to look at the weather that may occur when you get there and be prepared for a change. Several places I have been the weather changed very suddenly and caught me off guard. Pack a variety of clothing and prepare to dress in layers if you have to. You will need to pack a hat of some sort to protect you from the sun or rain. Some type of rain gear would be advisable. You will need to take a close look at what type of activities you will be doing on your trip.

Bring along some good sunscreen. Even in the winter time a person can get a sun burn. You may want to get some type of bug repellant also. Don’t combine the sunscreen and bug repellant as sunscreen may have to be used more frequently.

The emergency kit:

A well equipped emergency kit may be as necessary as food and water on your trip. Some items to consider are: flashlights (with extra batteries), a whistle, a cell phone, a thermal reflective blanket, waterproof matches, bottled water, map and compass, extra dry food, wood cutting tool, a radio (either battery or solar powered), heavy duty bear pepper spray (1 or 2 cans), a survival knife (some have various attachments), some length of nylon rope, and a well stocked first aid kit. The first aid kit should contain (at a minimum) sterile gauze, antiseptic wipes, calamine lotion, adhesive strips and bandages, butterfly closures, sterile eye pads, adhesive tape, tweezers, scissors, several pairs of disposable latex gloves, a snake-bite kit, alcohol wipes, antihistamines, any prescribed medications that may keep you alive.

Always tell friends or family members where you are going and your expected time of return.

Safety on your trip

Having the right supplies and camping gear is a part of a good camping trip experience. You may want to keep in mind the following:

* Do not camp or hike alone–use the buddy system.

* Do not leave your camping gear unattended.

* Park in a spacious area to avoid getting blocked in–in case of emergency.

* Carry a can or two of bear pepper spray when hiking–for use on bears or other animals. It works on them just as it does on humans.

* Tightly seal all food and garbage in a double layer plastic garbage bag and suspend from a tree high enough to keep the animals out.

* Avoid bright colors clothing, perfumes, and aftershave cologne–helps stop bugs from bothering you.

* Wear light colored clothing that covers your body to help protect you from ticks.

* Avoid plants in three-leaf clusters–these may be poison ivy.

Camping can be a very enjoyable experience. It can be a remedy for the hectic life-style you lead today and lower your stress level. Advanced preparation will prepare you for many contingencies, but no one can prepare for everything. Use common sense when you prepare and your camping or hiking trip will be enjoyable and safe.