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Best rafting trip ever!

There's something wrong with all those pictures...all of those camps are almost completely empty. What's the story with that? There must be a reason...such as those staying there are not allowed to work, but must still pay for food and services, or something else untenable. People would not be paying thousands of dollars for a chance to take their familys on an overloaded rubber raft across dangerous waters and continuing on a dangerous voyage through hostile countries to unknown possible places of refuge if there was a reasonable, safe place for them on the border of Syria.
Also, to be sure, tent cities are less than ideal in Southern Turkey where the temperature is often deadly....but they are better than nothing.
I'm not sure, beyond the smugglers getting them to Greece and food on the trail, what the Syrians might pay for that helps them reach Europe. The train tickets they're buying don't cost much, do they? Certainly not the thousands they pay the smugglers....but perhaps paying the smugglers is what you mean.

Basically he got tore up by a grizzly, managed to climb on it's back and start knifing it to death, and then fell to the ground when his companions finished it with rifles. The leader figured he was dead soon, so he told the other two guys to bury him when he died and catch up after.

The history is a bit muddled on whether they got scared by Indians or just stole his stuff and left, but either way they took all of his gear and hoofed it. When they caught up, they told the leader that he had died.

So Hugh came to, with no gear, covered in a fresh bear skin they had taken off the bear. He was suffering from a broken leg, the cuts on his back exposing bare ribs, and all his wounds festering. He was 200 miles from the nearest fort, with nothing to help him and surrounded by hostile Indians.

He crawled, surviving on roots, berries, and remains of animal kills. His back became gangrenous, so he lay on a rotten log and let maggots eat the dead and rotten tissue away. Later he was found by a friendly tribe that sewed the bear skin to his back to cover his exposed ribs and gave him some supplies. When he finally reached the Cheyenne river, he fashioned a crude raft and floated down the river to the fort.

Everyone thought he had died, but he recovered fully. Later he decided he would avenge himself on the two that left him behind, but he spared one because he was too young and one because he had joined the army and was kind of untouchable. The young guy was Jim Bridger, who became a famous mountain man himself as he got older.

Bud light is actually a staple day time beer with me and my friends. It's good for a cruise down the river on a raft in the baking sun and you wanna drink and not get hammered. Doesn't really taste bad, just taste like beer-ish water. Cheap too.

I used to do just this all the time as a kid. My friends and I would throw my inflatable raft into the pool and we'd battle it out, (or rather: 'paddle it out'? har!) tug of war style.

Not a waterslide, a log/raft ride.

theFreak, I call it "age".

Combined nicely with a great deal of aches and pains sourced in earlier bad decisions. Like the guy who rode that raft down the ramp into a horrifically compressed spleen.

I would not be in a raft floating nearby. Did you see that guy furiously pulling the raft away to avoid a collision?

The rigid-hull inflatable uses the tube more as a stabilizer than flotation. They only become necessary in rough seas or hard maneuvering. The tubes are attached to a short-sided fiberglass or aluminium hull, which provides the buoyancy. At the end, you can see them slowly making towards home.

Smaller Zodiacs use the tubes as the hull, with just a sheet of rubber hanging between the tubes as a floor, so when the tubes lose air they completely collapse. In order to carry more than 3-4 people, you need a rigid hull for strength. Otherwise it would just flop all over the place like an inflatable life raft.

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Basically not enough of each. The cold person is warmed, but not enough and not in a safe way, and the warm person is chilled, sometimes enough to become hypothermic themselves.

There will be plenty of situations where it does work, but that's the case with lots of potentially dangerous solutions. Sometimes the person will be on the edge of hypothermia, but not too far gone and a nice warm cup of hot chocolate will warm them up enough for them to recover. That isn't the same as saying that a warm cup of hot chocolate is the best way to fix hypothermia. It's almost certainly what the cold person will want, and it's a very obvious answer. For a lot of cases it will be fine, but in a few situations it will be very dangerous.

That's what this is all about, and why it can be counter intuitive. In most mild cases skin to skin contact or a warm drink will help, but in more severe cases either of these things could be deadly. However, in the mild cases it won't hurt to assume the person is worse than they are and warm them slowly. Unless you're absolutely sure how bad the hypothermia is its much safer to assume the worst.

People aren't very good at assessing things in an emergency situation. This is one of the reasons the CPR training has changed in recent years. They used to spend a long time teaching us how to find a pulse and how to check breathing, but the time spent rafting around with that in an emergency could kill someone. So now you just assume the person isn't breathing and their heart isn't beating and go for it. Giving CPR to someone who doesn't need it is less likely to kill them than delaying CPR with someone who does.

Yea, that's generally the attitude of the people sneaking into the country "I wish I had enough money to make it 100s of miles on a raft or through the desert to freedom." Must be a charmed life where your comfort outweighs your apparent need to leave. Yup...go back to sleep, shang.>> ^shang:

we have reached the same level of the movie Idiocrasy now...
the government's IQ is below retarded, the national average IQ is now hitting retard levels...
As Bill Hicks said "Go back to sleep America, go watch your 'American Gladiators', go back to sleep'
I wish I had the momey to leave this country, so embarrassed to live in it.

Or worse. If the Republicans get their grand bargain, they're not going to suddenly become easy to work with and let Obama go ahead with the changes he wants to make, so yeah, a huge raft of Republican initiatives right away, then nothing else happens.

I was thinking of one where Cenk showed a scale 0-10, where 0 was left, and 10 was right, and Obama was 6-7 and Bush was around 8.>> ^Trancecoach:

Well it was this clip that gives me the impression that we're about to get four more years of the same stagnation.>> ^messenger:
I can't find it, but Cenk did an episode about a scale that measures how far right or left a politician is based on actions, and Obama was clearly right of centre.>> ^Trancecoach:
Obama will still lead from the middle however... which, with the far right's opposition, is still pretty conservative.