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	<description>Musings from Doug Ritter, editor of Equipped To Survive&#174;</description>
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		<title>Crowdfunded Smart Watch PLB – Scam or Dangerously Naive?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As appealing as the idea of an affordable ($179) smart watch personal locator beacon (PLB) might be, a recently publicized Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign that has garnered a fair amount of press would seem to be either an outright scam or dangerously naive. While many crowdfunding campaigns&#8217; funding goals and delivery promises need be taken with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.equipped.org/blog/?p=686</link>
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		<title>REVIEW: A Pair of Surefire EDC Flashlights That Won&#8217;t Break the Bank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Surefire has for decades been synonymous with high-performance flashlights, weapon lights and the like, but you would never accuse the company of building particularly affordable flashlights. They&#8217;ve never been a factor in the consumer EDC (Every Day Carry) market, just too expensive. 
SHOT Show 2015 marked something of a revolution at Surefire as it upended [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.equipped.org/blog/?p=664</link>
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		<title>Leatherman Tread Moves EDC Multi-tool in New Direction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leatherman&#8217;s Tread takes the concept of an EDC (Every Day Carry) multi-tool in an entirely new direction with virtually unlimited potential. There have been numerous less than successful attempts at functional jewelry that you wear as a pendant and there&#8217;s no shortage of keychain-sized tools, many of which can be hung from the neck. However, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.equipped.org/blog/?p=654</link>
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		<title>Surefire Breaks New Ground with 1xAAA Titan &amp; Titan Plus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click for FULL Review
Surefire has for decades been synonymous with high-performance, high-end flashlights, weapon lights and the like, but you would never accuse the company of building particularly affordable flashlights. Nor were they ever a major market mover in the consumer EDC (Every Day Carry) market. That was then. 
SHOT Show marked something of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.equipped.org/blog/?p=646</link>
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		<title>ACR vs DME SATRO PLB: DME Loses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Final judgment is in on ACR&#8217;s lawsuit against DME and its design consultants alleging that  they misappropriated ACR trade secrets and documents and incorporated them into DME&#8217;s SATRO PLB. In a  Stipulated Judgment and Permanent Injunction issued on January 15, 2013, DME lost big time.
For background:
Click Here for the original article about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.equipped.org/blog/?p=609</link>
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		<title>Post Election Rioting: Alarmist or Just Being Prepared?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The past few weeks have seen a significant uptick in emails to me expressing concern about possible rioting as a result of the upcoming election, asking what the writer should do to protect themselves (a subject also being discussed on a number of online forums).  If anything is a sad commentary on the current [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.equipped.org/blog/?p=574</link>
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		<title>What Happened to the SATRO PLB from DME?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NOTE:  DME has withdrawn the SATRO PLB from the market. Click here for the final judgement in this lawsuit.
I have been getting a number of inquires about Astronics DME Corporation&#8217;s SATRO PLB-110 &#8220;world&#8217;s smallest and lightest&#8221; PLB  that we first wrote about back in December of last year (2011). Besides being small, one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.equipped.org/blog/?p=523</link>
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		<title>UPDATED: Patent Claims Invalidated &#8211; BriarTek Patent Claims Pressure Popular 2-Way Distress Beacon Manufacturers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Updated December 3, 2014: BriarTek&#8217;s patent claims relating to 2-way Satellite Emergency Notification Devices (SENDs) have been invalidated in a federal court ruling that granted summary judgement to Delorme.  While the ruling makes interesting reading, if you are so inclined (Click here for links to the ruling download or viewing), the bottom line from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.equipped.org/blog/?p=504</link>
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		<title>After 13 Years Life Raft Aerospace Standard AS1356 Published!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Call me persistent, call me stubborn, call me crazy&#8211;what started as a small test and evaluation of aviation life rafts nearly 20 years ago for The Aviation Consumer has finally resulted in a new and vastly improved SAE Aerospace Standard for aviation life rafts, AS1356. This new standard addresses many of the serious deficiencies that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.equipped.org/blog/?p=485</link>
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		<title>GGGH = Great Gear Gifts for the Holidays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t care if you have been naughty or nice, ‘tis the season for me to make a list of everything from stocking stuffers to ultimate gifts that would make anyone who enjoys the outdoors smile.
I know, you are thinking this is just about me and my Doug Ritter Gear, but read on; there is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.equipped.org/blog/?p=410</link>
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