It's one of our American ironies: our culture values older women less, just as they come into the fullness of experience and wisdom. Women "of a certain age" have greater self-acceptance; the losses they've lived can give them deeper appreciation of each day's gifts. But the passage of time offers no escape from the misogyny every woman wades through daily. And that's compounded by a new barrier: ageism.
In her new book Women Rowing North, Mary Pipher probes the world of aging women with insight and compassion— just as she did the struggles of adolescent girls in her landmark bestseller, Reviving Ophelia. Pipher explores how women can build resilience against both new and lingering challenges. "If we can keep our wits about us, think clearly, and manage our emotions skillfully," she writes, "we will experience a joyous time of our lives. If we have planned carefully and packed properly, if we have good maps and guides, the journey can be transcendent."
Join us for KLF's ongoing This Is Now series with host Angie Coiro, as she welcomes Mary Pipher— daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, caregiver, clinical psychologist, and treasured cultural anthropologist.


The model you see here above is a great all around frame for all riders. Its big enough for tall riders but has a nice, low step through frame for comfortable mounting and stopping. the frame is a little higher in the front also for a more upright riding position. After trying out many of the different frame styles available here this one is the clear winner for comfort and versatility. These bikes are a little harder to find now because most of the shops have switched to selling the smaller, cheaper step-through frames. You can still currently purchase them at Biciplaya 1 on 30th Ave.
The Purple Cruiser you see below is an excellent choice for taller riders because the frame is longer and taller than all the other economy beach cruisers you will find in bike shops here in Playa Del Carmen.
I like to ride this particular model myself because I am taller and it is also a very sturdy frame. Check out my Orange Gym Bike below.
Another consideration is tire size. Notice the smaller,red, urban tires on the playa beach cruiser below equipped with a nifty child seat for your little guys to cruise in style. These tires are faster but puncture more easily and aren't as forgiving on the bumps, potholes and sewer grates that you will encounter riding bikes here in Playa del Carmen.
All the bikes you see here and more are available for rental from Playarida. Take advantage of free, convenient delivery to your condo or hotel on rentals of 4 days or more. Or contact me if you would like more information. I hope you get to have as much fun as I do riding bikes around Playa Del Carmen!
No Deposit Needed and Baskets and Ulocks are included.
Reserve your bikes now with a $20. deposit per bike or pay in full.


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Smith considered for federal job
By By Ben Alexander/The Meridian Star
Meridian Mayor John Robert Smith is under consideration for a politically-appointed federal job in the new Bush administration, The Meridian Star has learned.
Smith, a member of Amtrak's board of directors and a transportation advocate, is being considered for the position of administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, as well as other possibilities.
Contacted by The Meridian Star this morning, Smith said he wasn't prepared to talk about any possible contact he may have had with members of Bush's transition team, who are working quickly to fill hundreds of positions as the new administration prepares to take office on Jan. 20.
The FRA administrator's position is a full-time, Washington, D.C.-based post and if he is offered and accepts it, Smith would be out of the running for another term as Meridian's mayor.
The FRA administrator position is an executive schedule appointment made by the President. Under the agency's current budget, the position pays $133,700, according to an FRA spokesperson.
Smith is a current member of the Amtrak Board of Directors and has played a major role in lobbying railroad legislation in Washington for several years.
The Federal Railroad Administration is an agency under the U.S. Department of Transportation. The agency's primary responsibility is to oversee safety of all rail freight and passenger services.
Carmichael, who served as FRA Administrator under President George H. Bush, said Smith was being pushed as an eventual candidate for the administrator's position when he served under President Bush.
Ben Alexander is a staff writer for The Meridian Star. E-mail him at balexander@themeridianstar.com.

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LAS CRUCES – A New Mexico State University basketball player charged with a felony is still on the team and will continue to practice while his case is adjudicated.
Terrell Brown hasn't been accused of any wrongdoing in New Mexico, and he's received only praise from coaches and administrators, yet he faces serious charges in California.
But he'll continue to be on the team, administrators say, because the student-athlete handbook doesn't address how the university should handle players charged with felonies before arriving at NM State.
Brown, a 6-foot-1 guard, was one of five people arrested in May 2017 — all accused of robbing a man and using his credit card to buy food at an In-N-Out fast-food restaurant in California.
He's charged with second-degree robbery, assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury, conspiracy to commit a crime, identity theft — all felonies — and receiving stolen property, a misdemeanor.
Brown pleaded not guilty to the charges in June 2017. He'll again be arraigned Oct. 24 in Alameda County Court, where another plea could be entered.
Following the incident, he was dismissed from San Jose State — where he played his freshman year — for violating team rules. Brown went on to play for City College of San Francisco, a community college, last season.
Brown then joined NM State as a walk-on this summer. He's expected to be a part of the rotation and saw court time when the team played in Spain this August.
NM State Men's Basketball Coach Chris Jans and Athletics Director Mario Moccia are allowing Brown to participate because the alleged crime took place prior to Brown enrolling at NM State.
Per university policy, any student athlete enrolled at NM State who is charged with a felony is suspended indefinitely, but can appeal the suspension.
The handbook also states the student-athlete can appeal the suspension to the Student-Athlete Misconduct Appeals Committee, which would then make a recommendation to the athletics director. The student-athlete shall be dismissed permanently from his or her team if he or she is convicted, pleads guilty, or pleads no contest to any felony charges, according to the handbook.
Brown wasn't a student-athlete at NM State when he was charged with a felony.
Moccia said Brown's situation could allow the athletics department to address inconsistencies in the handbook.
"He was charged prior to being an athlete (at NM State) ... I can't make up a new rule if he's charged someplace else," Moccia said. "That's not in the handbook."
"We did extensive background checks on Terrell. A lot of character references to people who have coached Terrell, people who have taught Terrell, people who have been around Terrell as a person on and off floor. He has elected to be a walk-on for our program. ... He's trying to wade through his legal issues that he has and we are certainly monitoring the situation. But as of right now, he is a member of the team and he is a part of the program.
Moccia said Brown is aware the allegations will play a factor while he's enrolled at NM State.


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Dog Blog Post #345: Ok... I bet you never, in a million years, would have dreamed up the picture that leads this post. Fess up. Not a million, right?
... was hard because it was easy... and hard.
It was easy because it's, well, metal. We are surrounded by metal, right? It's everywhere right? Before today I would have said, "Well, duh." And then the day dawned, and I looked around my house, and realized that metal - actual bare metal - is a rather rare.
Everything I saw was either wood, or glass, or (sigh) plastic. And even those few things that I did happen to know where metal underneath, were either painted or covered with something.
I was almost to the point of pulling labels off soup cans, when I spied one of my son's Boy Scout trophies. That's right, Boy Scouts. It has absolutely nothing to do with dogs, or bones. Go figure.
But the base is genuine metal (of some sort) and it kinda related to dogs (that's a genuine dog chew on top) and so a picture was born.
... well... moving right along.
Monday is Memorial Day in the USA, and each year the Boy Scouts go out and put flags on the graves of those who served in the military.
May all who gave all find peace.
Love the drool! Toby & I like to help clean dishes too, so we know all about that drool stuff!
Good thinking about the Boy Scout trophy.
The drool still makes me laugh this morning! I absolutely love that picture.
I sort of had the same conundrum as you, and the place I would have liked to have gone was in the opposite direction of our outing.
I swear, if the Daily Shoot assignment tomorrow is a vista or landscape, I'll spit metal!
Those pictures are great, and the drool is perfect!
I like to check out our dishwasher too! Mommy does not like me to though.
Don't forget to tell our Veterans "Welcome Home!" Mommy says.
Love it! That last photo is a hoot!
Sheesh, if I could get my guys to lay still like that... dream on, sit, stay, lay, behave. Not in a million years.
BTW, my black reflective surface you ask? It's a mirror. I just made sure that I had black fabric reflecting at camera angle. In fact, it's a mirror I cracked about six years ago.
Was Zach drooling in that picture? BOL!


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Válečný štváč je pejorativní označení pro osobu, snažící se podnítit nějakou skupinu lidí, případně celý národ, k zahájení války.

Vymezení pojmu
Toto označení má velice negativní vyznění a může být používáno coby součást propagandy (například Československý filmový týdeník ze začátku 50. let 20. století se osměloval takto označit tehdejší americké prezidenty Roosevelta a Trumana, v 80. letech toto označení v československé publicistice i zprávách "zdědil" Ronald Reagan).

Válečné "štvaní" se nepojí s případem tzv. spravedlivé války, kdy je země napadena a brání se, ale většinou naopak – vytváření a vznášení důvodů a záminek pro napadení jiné země, tedy útočnou válku, ať už z jakýchkoliv pohnutek (zábor území, podmanění obyvatel, příliv daní z nově dobytého území, přístup k přírodním zdrojům napadené země, tzv. nation building, odstranění dosavadních představitelů napadené země a instalace loutkových režimů přátelských zájmům útočící země, atd.).

Lidé označení jako váleční štváči mají působit na veřejné mínění, ve snaze vytvořit většinový názor potřeby angažovat se ve válce, ať už se jedná o zapojení se do již probíhajícího konfliktu, nebo zahájení nového. Způsoby, kterými se snaží toho dosáhnout, mohou většinou počítají s elementem strachu a bezprostředního ohrožení existence nebo pouze zájmů dané země, a podle jejich výkladu tak ospravedlňuje preemptivní napadení. Mohou mít úzké vztahy s tzv. vojensko-průmyslovým komplexem, tedy propojením armády a válečného průmyslu za účelem zisku.

Jestřábi a holubice
Označení (válečný) "jestřáb" je mírnější varianta, která označuje člověka (často politika), který v případě nejasné a nejednoznačné situace, zdali jeho země má či nemá jít do války, argumentuje za to, aby šla. Opakem k tomu je "holubice", který hledá neválečné možnosti řešení, například další jednání. Obě označení mají evokovat charakter toho, jemuž byly přiřknuty – neohroženost a dravost jestřába a plachost holuba. V minulých letech byl takto označován například Dick Cheney nebo Donald Rumsfeld. V angličtině ještě existuje hovorový termín chickenhawk (česky přibližně slepice-jestřáb) pro člověka (většinou muže), který se v době svého mládí vyhnul vojenské službě, a dlouho poté, kdy je již na ni příliš starý, mluví sveřepě o válčení a motivuje, ne-li přímo nutí ostatní k tomu, aby vzali zbraň a šli do války.

Příklady

Asi nejznámějším příkladem může být Adolf Hitler, kterému se podařilo rozpoutat druhou světovou válku. V historii je dále uveden například Maximin Isnard. Za válečného štváče byl také označován například americký prezident Ronald Reagan. Nicméně zcela exaktní definice toho, kdo již je a kdo ještě není válečný štváč, neexistuje a zejména v poslední době se tento termín používá stále častěji ve spojitosti s řadou osob.

Odkazy

Reference

Související články
 Válečný zločinec
 Vojensko-průmyslový komplex

Propaganda
Válečná propaganda

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Mary Elizabeth: Live, Love, Dream
To inspire the hearts of others in LIFE LOVE & DREAMS, help me record these new songs & make an album for my 30th birthday in Norway!
Mary Elizabeth Vorrath
52 backers pledged NOK 43,010 to help bring this project to life.
Rewards Campaign FAQ Updates 12 Comments 1 Community
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NOK 43,010
pledged of NOK 40,000 goal
With this project, "Live, Love, Dream," I plan to finally share with the world some fresh songs that I've been writing from a new season of life. I hope this music will inspire honesty and commitment in relationships & marriages, innocence and purity when falling in love, and perseverance in the times of testing and waiting for the right one. Some of these songs came out of my own journey with being real and honest with my heart and some came out of just simply dreaming of love while in the waiting myself.
Today we live in a world where the divorce percentage is so high and standard for purity is so low. And we hear such a negative and selfish voice singing to the world what love looks like. I want another voice to be heard, music cherishing the gift of love. I believe in what Blaise Pascal said, "It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs."
I have 8-10 songs I'd like to record here in Norway. In order to record, produce, mix, master, pay musicians, etc to make this happen, the cost is going to be a lot more than my minimal goal of 40.000NOK/$5,000USD. This minimal goal will allow me to receive the money raised here and record at least an EP. Yet I really believe in these songs and it would be really hard to only record a few. So any money over this goal will go to my main goal which is to record a full album. I plan to release singles out first as they are completed and work in the studio throughout this winter and spring of 2016. I hope to be finished & ready to release the final work by summer 2016. If I receive over triple my minimum set goal, I may even be able to record a music video if you want to be so generous!
As I turn 30 years old this October, I want to celebrate in a way of giving something authentic and different of myself to share with the world. This is also a fun opportunity to collaborate together with friends around the globe to make this happen!
My greatest challenge after raising the minimal goal is really to decide which songs to record first. Because I believe in all of them and the different messages they each carry needs to be heard. It will be hard if I don't get enough money to record all of them. Also I have a great network of musicians and artists that are friends of mine but one challenge I will face is deciding which musicians to specifically work with to get the sound I am wanting to create with my music. I don't want to compromise on this record and I believe the right producer will help bring this out.
Pledge NOK 200 or more About $23
If you would like to pledge 200NOK or more which is around $30USD, then you will receive a huge thank you for contributing to the best 30th birthday gift! Also I want to give you the pre release digital mp3 album to download.
If you would like to be a backer for 500NOK or more which is around $60USD, then you will receive a huge thank you for contributing to the best 30th birthday gift!
+ I want to give you the pre release digital mp3 album to download
+ The mp3 downloads of my previous EP "This Season" & Disciples of Worship EP "Follow the Sound"
Pledge NOK 1,000 or more About $117
If you would like to be a backer for 1000NOK or more which is around $120USD, then you will receive a huge thank you for contributing to the best 30th birthday gift!
+ I will send you a personalized post card from Bergen, Norway.
+ I will personally write you a song with your personal choice of the content and put it on You Tube for you to share with all your friends!
Pledge NOK 10,000 or more About $1,165
If you would like to be a backer for 10.000NOK or more which is around $1,200USD, then you will receive a HUGE thank you for contributing to the best 30th birthday gift!
+ I will do a 45 minute concert for free in your area or a songwriting seminar for those you personally invite or can sell tickets to. (Travel costs would need to be covered for me to get there)
Sep 10, 2015 - Nov 1, 2015 (52 days)


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For the last ever XSJADO skate, they have chosen the XSJADO 2.0 construction. The XSJADO 2.0 features 4 shell sizes to make the footwraps fit better in each shell. The cuffposition is adjustable, as you know it from all other XSJADOs. The soulframe is made of one piece. The results is a weight reduction of the skate, a lower center of gravity and it increases the responsiveness and control of the skate. The material of the soulplates makes it possible to grind faster than with the old souls.
Another highlight is the separated cuff. It is moveable and improves the flexibility to the front and the side. Further more the cuff features a buckle protection wall - what also allows to mount regular buckles (optional).
In addition the instep strap and double ring for the upper strap can be adjusted on three points. Therewith you can totally customize the skate for your requirements.
If you like the old soul- and baseplates or cuffs you still can use it on the new XSJADO!
Please note, you maybe have to adjust the Cuff to the right position. So that your Shoes will fit perfectly.


The Service Center for Rural Areas (DLR) Rheinlandpfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate) has published the latest research results on steaming of field salad cultures in greenhouses.
In the end of 2010 an area of 600 sqm were treated down to 10 cm depth with the latest steaming system "Steam Mixer", invented by Mobildampf. The output of the steaming system reaches up to 1000 kg steam per hour at about 180sqm / h.
All results are in favor of steaming. While the untreated control area only had a yield of merely 560gr sqm of fresh mass and was infested by weed, the area treated with hot steam was completely weed-free and yielded 700gr/sqm – an increase of about 25%.


Kristen is a caregiver for her husband Jeff who is a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic, and she shares an incident to highlight why she always stays with him whenever he is in the hospital.
After Jeff's recent surgery, when a team of hospital staff were preparing to transfer him from the gurney to the bed, Kristen asked if she could step in to assist with managing Jeff's ventilator during the transfer. Jeff had been allowed to remain on his home ventilator during his stay, and Kristen was the only person in the room who was familiar with managing the vent.
Kristen reluctantly stepped aside. Just as the transfer was about to begin, a nurse lifted Jeff's ventilator and one of the circuits popped off. Jeff was no longer getting the air he needed. Kristen immediately responded and fixed the situation.
It was an incident that left her and her husband shaken.
At their home, Kristen performs all of Jeff's care from transfers, to suctioning his lungs, to changing his trach. She is intimately familiar with his needs.
Kristen says the remainder of the hospital stay went very smoothly despite the transfer incident. Still, she highlights this incident to show the importance of the presence of family caregivers even when the patient is in a setting such as a hospital and surrounded by medical professionals.
Share this post to show others why family caregivers are an important ally when it comes to a loved one's care.


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Elizabeth Warren's Glass-Steagall Legislation Has Two Fatal Flaws
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: July 20, 2015
Elizabeth Warren Speaking on Restoring the Glass-Steagall Act
When it comes to sleuthing out how Wall Street has gamed the laws, conned the regulators and colluded to corrupt the whole financial system, there is no one in Congress sharper-eyed or more outspoken than Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is also exceptionally well-qualified to lead this Wall Street posse.
Warren was a commercial law professor at Harvard for more than 20 years. She is widely credited with facilitating the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to protect consumers from the insidious rip-offs in mortgages, credit cards, student loans and other financial products.
On July 7 of this year, Warren, together with fellow Senators John McCain, Bernie Sanders, Angus King, and Maria Cantwell, introduced the "21st Century Glass-Steagall Act of 2015," (S.1709) legislation to separate insured, deposit-taking banks from Wall Street's investment banks, brokerage firms, market makers, and hedge funds.
Warren had this to say when she introduced the legislation, according to the Congressional Record:
"Seven years ago, Wall Street's high-risk bets brought our economy to its knees. The Dallas Fed estimates that the total cost of the crash was $14 trillion. Millions of families lost their homes. Millions of people lost their savings. Millions of people lost their jobs. And even today, millions of hard-working, play-by-the-rules people are still struggling to survive.
"Over the past 7 years, we have made some real progress dialing back the risk of a future crisis. But despite that progress, the biggest banks continue to threaten the economy. The biggest banks are collectively much bigger today than they were 7 years ago. They continue to engage in dangerous, high-risk practices. And with each new headline and subsequent legal settlement, it becomes clearer that they keep chasing profits even if it means breaking the law.
"The big banks weren't always allowed to take on big risks while enjoying the benefits of taxpayer guarantees. Four years after the 1929 Wall Street crash, Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Act, which is best known for separating investment banks and their risk-taking from commercial banks that manage savings accounts, checking accounts, and offer other banking services.
"For 50 years, Glass-Steagall played a central role in keeping our country safe. Traditional banking stayed separate from high-risk Wall Street banking. There wasn't a single major financial crisis, and the financial sector helped contribute to a sustained, broad-based economic growth that helped build America's middle class…after 12 separate attempts, Congress repealed most of Glass-Steagall in 1999.
"The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act will rebuild the wall between commercial banks and investment banks, separating traditional banks that offer savings and checking accounts and that are insured by the FDIC from their riskier counterparts on Wall Street."
Those are all goals to be applauded. Unfortunately, the text of the proposed legislation has two fatal flaws. First, banks can take up to five years to implement the new law. Regulators can stall for an additional year, bringing the delay to a total of six years. As Senator Warren clearly knows, this country will be devastated with staggering national debt, a ravaged middle class, decaying infrastructure, and the highest income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world if Wall Street retains the current structure for another six years.
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur's legislation in the House of Representatives to restore the Glass-Steagall Act, which has 63 co-sponsors versus Senator Warren's four, provides just a two-year window for implementing the law, with a maximum one-year extension at the behest of regulators. That legislation is called the "Return to Prudent Banking Act of 2015."
Another serious problem with Warren's proposed legislation is that it leaves the trillions of dollars of interest rate swaps on the insured commercial bank's balance sheet. The language in the proposed legislation reads:
"A national banking association may not…(i) invest in a structured or synthetic product, a financial instrument in which a return is calculated based on the value of, or by reference to the performance of, a security, commodity, swap, other asset, or an entity, or any index or basket composed of securities, commodities, swaps, other assets, or entities, other than customarily determined interest rates…"
Interest rate swaps make up the bulk of the tens of trillions of dollars of swaps sitting on the major Wall Street banks' balance sheets. Under the above language, they could remain and more could be added. That's a big problem because many of these contracts are secret deals between financial institutions and neither Congress nor the public have any means of ferreting out the credit worthiness of the counter parties or what type of financial contagion might result if these swaps blow up on the books of an insured depository bank.
Kaptur's Glass-Steagall bill has no such carve-out for interest rate swaps. Senator Warren's inclusion of this carve-out is particularly hard to understand given the wrath (well-deserved) that she directed at Citigroup when it was able to sneak language into the funding bill in December to defy the language of the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation and keep these tens of trillions of dollars of swaps on its books and at other major banks.
Restoring the Glass-Steagall Act has now become an issue on the presidential campaign trail. It is likely to grow in importance along with accelerating signs of financial stresses in global financial markets.
Hillary Clinton, whose husband was President when the Glass-Steagall Act was repealed, has no plans to endorse its return according to a statement earlier this month by one of her economic advisors, Alan Blinder. Robert Reich, Labor Secretary under President Clinton, recently lectured Hillary in an opinion piece in Newsweek on why this is a serious mistake on her part. Reich wrote:
"…in 1999, President Bill Clinton struck a deal with Republican Senator Phil Gramm to do exactly what Wall Street wanted, and repeal Glass-Steagall altogether.
"What happened next? An almost exact replay of the Roaring '20s. Once again, banks originated fraudulent loans and sold them to their customers in the form of securities. Once again, there was a huge conflict of interest that finally resulted in a banking crisis.
"This time, the banks were bailed out, but millions of Americans lost their savings, their jobs, even their homes."
At least two other Democratic candidates for President, Senator Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, are advocating for the restoration of the Glass-Steagall Act. Hopefully, Americans will be wise enough this time around to choose a candidate who wants what's best for the country, not what's best for Wall Street.


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Of the 195 independent countries in the world, only 17 are led by women.
Women hold just 22 percent of seats in parliaments globally.
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Women hold about 25 percent of senior executive positions, 19 percent of board seats, and constitute 19 percent of our elected congressional officials.
"When a couple announces that they are having a baby, everyone says 'Congratulations!' to the man and 'Congratulations! What are you planning on doing about work?' to the woman. The broadly held assumption is that raising their child is her responsibility.


The meeting and event industry has transformed into one of the leading sectors of the hospitality and tourism industries, making it important for traditional and virtual event venues to understand the logistics behind meeting planners' site selection decisions. Previous research has shown consumers are influenced by their surroundings, or environmental factors known as 'servicescape'. This study examines the relationships between a venue's layout and functionality, aesthetic appeal, safety and security, and social factors for virtual event venues, in regards to meeting planners' intent to return to the venue or recommend it to others. Additionally, the study aims to identify any differences that exist between the traditional and virtual event venues. This empirical study applied a quantitative research method to survey a sample of meeting planners through an online-based questionnaire. Findings of the study indicate that the servicescape of an event venue can be influential in regards to a meeting planners' intent to recommend a venue, and the study identifies similarities and differences among venue types. Theoretical and managerial implications of the study are discussed and recommendations for future research are introduced.


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Russian official calls for U.S.-North Korea talks, offers to help
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Photo: Mikhail Svetlov / Getty Images
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called for the U.S. and North Korea to start talks over the North Korean nuclear weapons program and said Russia was prepared to facilitate the negotiations, according to a Reuters report.
Why it matters: Russian President Vladimir Putin has voiced similar sentiments. When he and President Trump spoke by phone earlier this month, Putin said they should be cooperating when working on the issues posed by North Korea, per the Independent. The UN applied additional sanctions to North Korea this week, which the regime labeled an "act of war."


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"Because I'm 16"
April 29, 2014 10:16 am / Leave a comment
New York is the only state other than North Carolina that prosecutes youth as adults when they turn 16. According to Raise the Age NY, an advocacy campaign for increasing the age of criminal responsibility:
Nearly 50,000 16- and 17-year-olds are arrested and face the possibility of prosecution as adults in criminal court each year – the vast majority for minor crimes (75.3% are misdemeanors).
Furthermore, more than 600 children ages 13 to 15 are also prosecuted in adult criminal courts –seriously diminishing their life prospects before they've even entered high school.
Over 70% of the children and youth arrested are black or Latino. Of those sentenced to incarceration, 80% are black and Latino.
On their own, the statistics above are disturbing, painting a bleak picture of a system that is misaligned with science around adolescent development and the experiences of so many, including policy makers, who remember being young, impulsive, and rebellious. When paired with the voices of young people and the exposure of the hypocrisy evident in laws governing youth behavior, as in a recent PSA from the New York Center for Juvenile Justice, the statistics take on an even more penetrating message.
Because I'm 16, I can't drive at night.
Because I'm 16, I can't get a cell phone without my parents.
Because I'm 16, I can't get a flu shot without my mother's consent.
At 16, I'm not allowed to watch an R-rated movie alone.
Because I'm 16, I can't sit on a jury, but I can be tried as an adult.
Listen to these young people making the case for "Judging Children as Children."
Leveraging Individual Talents to Make Change In the Lives of Former Foster Youth
April 15, 2014 7:20 am / Leave a comment
According to San Francisco Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children, there are 65,000 children and youth in foster care in California—by far the highest population of any state. Each year over 4,000 foster youth "age out" of this system. Within the first 2 to 4 years after emancipation, 51% of these young adults are unemployed, 40% are on public assistance, 25% become homeless, and 20% will be incarcerated.
Importantly, attention is being turned to this crisis and individuals and communities are mobilizing. In a recent report on KALW Local Public Radio in San Francisco entitled "A Starting Place for Former Foster Youth," journalist Rachel Wong highlights individuals in the San Francisco community who are experimenting with new ways to support these young people educationally, professionally, and personally. Wareene Loften, age 73, is featured in the story as a striking example of the power of leverging individual talents to make change in the lives of others.
After one year volunteering as a mentor at Guardian Scholars, a program at the City College of San Francisco that provides support for foster youth, Wareene Loften "recognized pretty quickly how much the students struggled with housing." As a real estate agent, Loften felt that her skills and services could be put to good use. At first, Loften helped by locating open sublets for individual students in local residences. Then, in December 2012, she convinced an owner of a home near City College to let her rent the house and then sublet it to four Guardian Scholar students. In doing so, Loften was able to do what she thought was best for her students— to provide opportunities for independent living and a flexible payment schedule. "I pay the rent upfront, and they reimburse me, so I'm giving them that leisure time to get their money together," she says.
The project has been a success with Loften's ingenuity and outlook on foster youth being praised by tenants like Darrel Molett:
Not a lot of people believe in foster youth. They believe we mess things up more than fix things. And she took it the other way around. She said we fix things more than mess things up.
Looking forward, Loften is looking to expand her model and hopes to recruit more likeminded people to join the cause. The fate of too many young people in California and across the country is at stake. As she explains,
Somebody needs to do it. It just has to be done.
From Wait Time to Creative Time
March 27, 2014 9:59 pm / Leave a comment
In September 2013, the New York Probation Office published "Free Verse," the first issue of a poetry journal that emerged from the thoughts of those waiting in the probation office at the Bronx Neighborhood Opportunity Network (NeON), a collaborative of community organizations, government agencies, local businesses, and community residents focused on connecting probation clients who live in the neighborhood with opportunities, resources and services.
As described in its opening pages,
Free Verse is a journal of poetry, prose, and song that promotes turning waiting time into creative time. Headquartered in the heart of the waiting room of the new South Bronx NeOn – where probation clients check-in with their probation officers – FreeVerse solicits new writing created while people wait.
As described in Gwen McClure's article on the Juvenile Justice Exchange, "Free Verse" was the brainchild of Loni Tanner, Chief Change Officer for the NYC Department of Design and Construction and Executive Director of See ChangeNYC, as well as Dave Johnson, the Poet-in-Residence at South Bronx NeOn. Tanner informally named the program, in its existence since April 2013, "Not School"—an acknowledgment that learning for young people does not need to only be confined within classroom walls. Instead, learning opportunities exist in the most unexpected places. For Johnson, the program was a movement with a larger purpose than literacy and learning. As he explains,
This is a lot more than poetry; this is an opportunity to be welcomed back into society.
Thankfully, this innovative program has continued, recently releasing its Winter 2014 edition . Below are a few of my favorites from the collection:
in justice for all,
though no one opens a door.
in opportunity,
though the best ones don't reach me.
in freedom, in equality,
but mostly I believe
in me.
TAISHA WILLIAMS
One day I will not have to fight you,
the partner I was given in this lottery of life
that looked so promising until the drawing
as each number was pulled, it was clear, it was not a winner,
just another one to go with the other ones
in a pile of must forget yesterdays.
One day I will not have to fight the voices in my head
of people's words placed wrongly in my spirit,
the words that should have rolled off my back,
but somehow, were deposited in my future.
One day I will not have to fight the urge to write about the sorrows
that have been my tomorrows, before tomorrow has even gotten here.
One day I will fight the good fight of keeping
the roaring laughter from my belly, fighting to make it out like a raging lion.
One day I will fight to open the cocoon, to let the butterflies I protected, go free.
You'll never know the pressure I endured, to be cut, into the diamond you see.
MARLITA DALTON
I'm a life.
I'm not just passing by.
CRISTY BAPTISTE
Breaking Barriers Through Storytelling in an ATDP
Earlier in the academic year, I was asked to ponder the following question as part of my coursework for the Youth Media and Educational Justice seminar:
What do educators need to consider when court-involved youth – reentry, on probation, in foster care — are in their classrooms and schools (and programs)?
In response, I offered the following:
In thinking about this question, I was reminded of Virginia Shabatay's (1991) piece "The Stranger's Story" Who Calls and Who Answers?" in which she poignantly asks, "How do those of us in the helping professions discover the strangers among us? How can we develop sensitive caring relationships with those who feel set apart?" (p. 137). In her eloquent treatise, she posits, "We bring certain attitudes to those whom we don't know: suspicion, mistrust, caution, and bias, or trust, openness, and welcome" (p. 137). Accordingly, she urges readers to use stories as ways to discover what strangers have to teach. She explains, "Stories allow us to break through barriers and to share in another's experience; they warm us. Like a rap on the window, they call us to attention" (p. 137). Shabatay's insights resonate with me as ways in which entering into dialogue and exchanging stories can combat strangehood in our classrooms, schools, programs, and research.
Since the time of this assignment, I have had the opportunity to begin volunteering work every Thursday as a mentor at an alternative to detention site in New York City. During each visit, I have the privilege of witnessing and participating in the embodiment of Shabatay's words— the sharing of stories that allow space for possible connection between participants, staff, and volunteers. Around the small conference table, youth who because of their current situation often feel "set apart," are approached not with "suspicion, mistrust, caution, or bias" but with "trust, openness, and welcome." Through dialogue and narrative, a community is formed that is mindful of and active in recognizing and then disabling the human tendency to judge, to categorize, and to stereotype. Through human exchange, we no longer are strangers. We are companions. It truly is a remarkable place and each visit pushes me to consider ways in which more spaces and places can be created for court-involved youth and others to "break through the barriers and to share in another's experience."
November 10, 2013 4:37 pm / 1 Comment on Seeing the World Anew
The Fresh Eyes Photography Project is a unique New Mexico-based organization that seeks to engage youth at three incarceration facilities with arts-making. In particular, the focus of Fresh Eyes is photography with project teachers and staff leading two, 10-week workshops in each facility during the course of the year. Guided by the mantra, "You have the ability to change the outcome," the project's mission is to provide court-involved youth with the tools and support to see the world anew. It is their belief that engaging in digital photography will help the young people with whom they work successfully re-enter society with the confidence that they have a real place in their community.
Bokeh, the visual arts blog of the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange recently profiled the work of Fresh Eyes artists in a piece entitled "Capturing Captivity From the Inside." Along with providing a curated compilation of photographs from the Fresh Eyes gallery, Katy McCarthy writes,
The images are startlingly anonymous — no faces, no full names or details like family photos and no books. And yet, even the simplicity of two hands in mittens clasped together is somehow painful. Is it a naïve attempt at symbolizing affection or a moment of insight into the kid's yearning for touch and intimacy?
An unnaturally indigo sky is streaked by a jet stream framed by the intersection of two imposing rooflines. A pink-veined sphere is caught in mid-air, in the background two big trees with outstretched limbs distract the eye only briefly from a tiny bit of fencing in the bottom right corner. The photos are compositionally dynamic, with great consideration paid to color. Still, the architecture of incarceration permeates.
McCarthy's phrase "the architecture of incarceration" is haunting, reminding readers and viewers of the setting and context that frames the work and lives of these young people, yet it is important to note that sterility and impersonality do not define these artists. In the complete Fresh Eyes gallery from which McCarthy draws her collection, there are also images of hope and humanity, of beauty and movement— evocative gestures to a brighter future. Individually and collectively, the work of Fresh Eyes artists invite viewers into aspects of the life-world that these young people find meaningful. I know that I am thankful for their offering and hope that others are also moved by their vision.
http://www.fresheyesproject.org/
http://bokeh.jjie.org/capturing-captivity-from-the-inside/
A Strategy for a Strained System
November 3, 2013 8:03 pm / Leave a comment
NPR's "All Things Considered" recently ran a feature story entitled "Strained Foster Care System: A 'Meter of Our Social Programs.'" By interweaving the stories and commentaries of Claudia Felder, a 21-year-old young woman who spent over 10 years in the foster care system, Claudia's adoptive parent and social worker Kim Felder, Chris Beam, author of The End of June, and Alex Morales, CEO of the Children's Bureau of Southern California, Arun Rath creates a complex picture of a foster care system struggling to support the 400,000 kids in its care. That is equivalent, Beam reminds us, to the total number of students in all Chicago public schools—elementary, junior high, and high school combined.
While it is important to recognize that there are foster care stories with happy endings, as in the case of Claudia Felder who found a social worker who would listen and in her a mother to trust, Morales reminds us that others whose lives are mediated by the courts are not so lucky. In the LA foster care system, for example, there are only around 3,000 homes, a fifty percent decrease from five years ago. As Morales describes, "The children have no place to go when they come into the care of the government or courts," so young people are shuttled to group homes, institutions often characterized by bleak conditions and overcrowding. Beam adds that for many older kids who don't end up with families by the time that they are 12 or 13, adoption no longer seems like a viable or even appealing option. Instead, many decide to run out the clock and age-out of the system. But that, Beam argues and Claudia confirms, is a dangerous solution. Independence without family support is a challenging endeavor. "You need to have somebody in your life," Claudia explains.
So what do we do? How do we repair a broken system representative of a broken society? While there is neither a silver bullet, nor single answer, Beam identifies the need for more outreach influenced by a redefinition of family.
" …what we really need to be finding for them are families. And by family, I mean one person to say, you know what? I'm going to stick by you. I'm going to care about you. I'm going to love you for a long time"
Beam's definition of family may seem simple, yet its essence is complex and compelling. Family need not be traditional. Family need not be biological. Family is connection, care, and consistency. All youth need a family.
http://www.npr.org/2013/09/22/225148325/foster-care-in-america-too-many-kids-not-enough-homes
October 22, 2013 12:25 pm / 1 Comment on Foster Youth And Higher Education
According to research from Casey Family Programs, a national charitable foundation working to improve the lives of children in foster care, estimates suggest that only about 7 to 13 percent of youth from foster care enroll in higher education. Out of those who matriculate to postsecondary institutions, only 2 percent of young people from foster care obtain bachelor's degrees, in comparison to 24 percent of adults in the general population. Such sobering statistics reflect the critical need for policymakers, child welfare agencies, government officials, higher education systems, and educators at the secondary and postsecondary levels to address this issue facing approximately 20,000 youth age 16 and older who transition or "age" out of foster care each year.
Recently, several colleges and universities across the country have answered the call for action by creating programs that help foster care youth to fund and complete their college education. One such initiative, the Seita Scholars Program at Western Michigan University, has received accolades for its work supporting the educational attainment and life outcomes of youth and young adults (12-25 years old) who have lived some or all of their years in foster care. The program, now in its fifth year, provides tuition assistance and extensive student support services including mental health counseling, life skills training, and career planning to foster youth who have lived in foster care on or after their 14th birthday. Seita Scholars experience on-on-one coaching to help them navigate both the challenges of college life as well as those of the adult world more broadly, including filing tax returns, applying for Medicaid, and budgeting their weekly expenses. Given that many students from foster care do not have a permanent residence, the program ensures that a WMU dormitory is kept open through school recesses and summer breaks and organizes community meals and activities on holidays. Academic tutoring is available to all scholarship recipients as well as career advising and assistance with locating internships and employment opportunities in the Kalamazoo, Michigan community.
The Seita Scholars Program is an example of a comprehensive approach to assisting youth and young adults who age out of foster care. Its success can be attributed, in part, to its focus on the future rather than the past. While acknowledging and not diminishing the fact that many of its students have experienced trauma and harrowing life experiences, the program's emphasis is on moving forward and equipping youth with the tools to manage difficulties, access resources, and succeed in college and beyond.
http://www.casey.org/Resources/Publications/pdf/SupportingSuccess.pdf
http://wmich.edu/fosteringsuccess/index.html
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865586408/New-programs-help-former-foster-care-students-succeed-at-college.html?pg=all


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Lead, Copper and Zinc
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Ochre has ongoing importance to many Aboriginal people; it has religious significance and is used in ceremonies, healing practices and art. It has been used in rituals for at least 42,000 years; when the Aboriginal man known as 'Mungo Man' was buried he was covered in ochre, as part of a ritual burial. The ochre had come from more than 200km away.
Wilgia Mia, Aboriginal red ochre mine, Weld Range, Murchison, Western Australia
Wilgie Mia, 1905
Wilgie Mia, or Thuwarri Thaa (the place of red ochre), is located in the Weld Ranges, Western Australia and is a significant ochre mine. Estimated to be 27,000 years old, it is believed to be the oldest continually worked mine site in human history. The ochre is very high quality and was an important part of pre-colonisation Aboriginal economies, being traded as far as Ravensthorpe, Queensland and the Nullarbor Plains in South Australia.
Wilgie Mia is also the largest and deepest underground Aboriginal ochre mine in Australia. Initiated Wajarri Yamatji men mined the ochre using heavy stone mauls and fire-hardened wooden wedges to pry away ochrous rock, which was then further broken up to separate the ochre. The pigment was then pulverised with rounded stones, dampened with water, and worked in to balls. The men used pole scaffolding and wooden platforms so they could simultaneously mine at different heights, increasing output. It is estimated that over 40,000 tonnes of rock and ochre were removed using this technique.
Wilgie Mia and its surrounding area, including Little Wilgie Mia and the Marlu Resting Place, are of great and ongoing cultural significance and sacredness to the Wajarri Yamatji people and neighbouring Aboriginal people. According to Colin Hamlett, the creation story goes:
A [red] Kangaroo [(Marlu)] was wounded down near the coast. It hopped back through the country and dropped spots of blood along the way. It dropped quite a bit at Little Wilgie Mia, then it died at Wilgie Mia which left a lot of ochre. Then the spirit of the Kangaroo moved from Wilgie Mia to the hill right next-door to it. (Yamatji Marlpa Aboriginal Corporation, media release: 25 February 2011)
The traditional story also accounts for the different coloured ochres found in the area. They are all related to the different parts of Marlu's body: the red ochre is his blood, the yellow ochre is his liver and green ochre is his gall.
In the 1940s, ochre was mined commercially by non-Aboriginal people - J. C. Zadow and J. G. Cassidy. The permit was later transferred to Universal Mining Company and then revoked because of illegal use of explosives and non-compliance with heritage-protection requirements. In 1973, following the introduction of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972, Wilgie Mia was declared a protected site. By then, however, 10,245 tonnes of ochre had been removed.
The company Weld Range Metals has owned four tenements surrounding the heritage site since 1986. They intended to start mining in the Weld Ranges but their application was rejected by the Native Title Tribunal in 2011. The rejection came after Weld Range Metals made limited attempts to work and negotiate with the Traditional Owners. As noted by Colin Hamlett:
"Aboriginal people aren't opposed to mining, but they do want to preserve certain areas, if the company just came to the table, we could have talked about it and preserved different areas… we're just trying to keep a little bit of our culture that belongs to us originally and to preserve it for generations to understand about Aboriginal culture." (The world's oldest Aboriginal ochre mine is under dispute, ABC, 31 October 2011)
In October 2017 and April 2018 the Wajarri Yamajti people were successful in a two part Native Title determination. The second part included the Weld Ranges and Wilgie Mia and gave the Wajarri Yamatji people exclusive possession native title of the area. This means that the Wajarri Yamatji people have the right of possession, occupation, use, and enjoyment of these areas to the exclusion of all others.
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Murky preventive care rules trouble insurers, patients
by Alicia Caramenico |
The Affordable Care Act requires most health plans to cover preventive services, such as cancer screenings, check-ups and contraceptives, without cost sharing. But some patients still face coverage exclusions--raising calls for more federal guidance, Kaiser Health News reported.
Healthcare reform provisions that eliminate most patient cost sharing for preventive services follow recommendations by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. However, preventive care coverage rules get a bit murky as new research changes the list of recommended preventive services, KHN noted.
In fact, earlier this month, HHS announced that based on a review of evidence, ACA expanded access to tamoxifen and raloxifene without copays or other out-of-pocket costs for women at high risk for breast cancer, FierceHealthPayer previously reported.
America's Health Insurance Plans cited a lack of specific federal guidance for preventive care coverage variations while advocates and policy experts highlighted the difficulty in translating clinical recommendations about preventive services into "insurancespeak." Translating that into an insurance claim is "much more complicated than just pointing to a list and saying 'that's covered,'" Karen Pollitz, a senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation, told KHN.
For example, while health plans must cover "the full range of FDA-approved contraceptive methods, including, but not limited to, barrier methods, hormonal methods and implanted devices" at no cost to the patient, several plans exclude the contraceptive ring and patch because insurers claim they use the same hormones as the pills and therefore are the same method.
Procedure billing codes also cause problems with preventive care coverage rules, as the fee-for-service model assigns multiple codes for a procedure and all related services--for instance, one code for the colonoscopy and separate codes for the anesthesia and the facility, according to KHN.
Moreover, 30 million people will likely remain uninsured and miss out on preventive care that health plans are required to cover with no patient cost sharing. People who are exempt from the individual mandate, immigrants who are in the country illegally and low-income legal immigrants are among several groups who may fall through the preventive care coverage cracks, FierceHealthPayer previously reported.
- here's the KHN article
Alicia Caramenico


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FEWA is accepting nominations for both the National Board of Directors and each of the FEWA 2019 Chapter Board of Directors. Members are invited to nominate themselves or a fellow current member. Nominations for the National Board of Directors can be sent to the National Office by Wednesday, December 5. Serving on the Board is a great way to expand your network, advance your knowledge, and give back to the FEWA community.
Cybercrime is a growing problem as it increases exponentially requiring the need for digital forensics expertise also to grow adjacently. There are numerous law enforcement agencies such as FBI, local police force and many other entities who rely on digital forensics to catch criminals.
When looking at the new demand from digital forensics in 2019, it is crucial understanding that this market is segmented based on its various components (Software, hardware, and services), tools, types, verticals, and regions.
Recently, we have received some questions from expert witnesses regarding potential liability for expert witness testimony. The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals recently decided this issue.
A new field, "image synthesis," is coming into focus, in which computer graphics and A.I.are combined. Progress is accelerating. Researchers are discovering new ways to use neural networks—software systems based, loosely, on the architecture of the brain—to analyze and create images and videos.
More than one crime, including multiple murders, has been solved with help from 3D printing, as the technology can help recreate forensic evidence. But in a new study entitled "A Preliminary Investigation into the Accuracy of 3D Modeling and 3D Printing in Forensic Anthropology Evidence Reconstruction," a team of researchers examines just how impactful 3D printing and 3D modeling actually are in solving cases.
As of November 1st, any new or renewing Certified Forensic Litigation Consultant (CFLC) certificant is required to pass a 60 question online exam, in addition to meeting the minimum requirements of participation and coursework. Those due to recertify by December 31, 2018 have received detailed information about the renewal requirements and should contact the FEWA National Office if they have any questions. Click here for more information about the CFLC and recertification.


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Kalininsky () is a rural locality (a khutor) in Yanybayevsky Selsoviet, Zianchurinsky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. The population was 17 as of 2010. There is 1 street.

Geography
Kalininsky is located 103 km southeast of Isyangulovo (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nizhneye Mambetshino is the nearest rural locality.

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Rural localities in Zianchurinsky District


Volkswagen Eos Fuel Injectors to suit Volkswagen Eos, Month/Year - 5/06-5/09, Engine Code - BWA, 4 Cyl and Engine Capacity - 2.0L Turbo. The advertised price is for a set of 4 injectors. We strongly advise that you replace the entire set of fuel injectors to avoid damaging your vehicle.
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Culture / Family / Feature / History / ICYMI / Parenting
Holiday Memories and A ( Not So) Brave New World
by John McCumber · December 4, 2020
Virgil McCumber, the authors father, in an undated post-WW2 photo.
"If you were born mid-century, you will one day wake up in a century not meant for you." I cannot find the original reference to credit the source for this provocative maxim, but it has been a recurring theme for me during the After Times of the pandemic. The truth of this precept hits home as we approach the holidays, and like many of you, my mind harkens back to memories of holidays past.
I vividly recall the holiday gatherings when I was a boy in the mid-1960s. My cousins lived two blocks away, and we bundled up to walk through the snow to their home for Christmas gatherings. My uncle was a VIP layman in our Catholic parish, and out of respect for his influence, our parish priests walked en masse, black robes flowing in the cold winds, from the parish rectory to my uncle's spacious Victorian home to enjoy smoking cigarettes and swilling holiday cocktails with our family members. My blue-collar father by this time had ceased his post-war drinking binges and quietly settled for black coffee and a chain of cigarettes as we sat among the many guests.
It was at one of these holiday fests when at the tender age of 15, I first felt the effects of alcohol. As liquor was no longer in our home in deference to my father, I only encountered booze at my uncle's house. As an older child, I was expected to function as support staff for my harried aunt. At this particular event, I was tasked with clearing away the tables set up for Happy Hour while dinner service was prepared in the kitchen. While removing the used glassware, I decided I would sample some of the leftover drinks on offer.
One of the local holiday favorites was a drink known as a Tom & Jerry: named not for the cartoon characters, but an 1821 British play. You can look it up. It was also a favorite Christmas tipple of President Warren G. Harding. Tom & Jerry's were drinks made with a type of eggnog batter the family purchased from a local donut shop. It was a cold-weather drink, served hot in a coffee mug and was laced with both brandy and rum. So, a teenager with no previous exposure to the wonders of alcohol found himself sampling half-consumed, lukewarm drinks made with eggs and dairy and two types of sweet liquors. I know I am telegraphing where this is going. Fortunately for me, I noticed the one cup in which the monsignor snuffed out his cigarette in his half-consumed drink before it went to my lips.
As I felt the oncoming effects of the two types of booze, I was also feeling the associated stomach rumblings of lukewarm milk and uncooked eggs swirling around a bellyful of holiday cookies and peanut bars. A rushed trip to the bathroom eventually started to settle my stomach, but the strange new feelings in my head lingered most of the rest of the evening. I worked to hide the symptoms from my parents as we walked back home, the cold wind bracing my constitution while allowing me to bury my face in my hood.
My father passed away just a few years after. I often think of him — especially this time of year – as he and I never really connected as two adults. When his life was cut short by a quick and horrific battle with colon and lung cancer, I was still a rebellious and headstrong young man trying to find his own way in the world. He was never one for reminiscing, so only years later did I spend time trying to find clues to his life before me. I found he had woken in a time not meant for him.
Virgil McCumber in an undated photo prior to 1939 in Iowa.
My father came of age on an impoverished Dust Bowl farm in Iowa. As the farm struggled to feed even his own family, my father left during the Depression to earn money as an unskilled young man working in FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps. He was sent to Wisconsin to hack out trails in state parks with hand tools and mule wagons. As that dead-end job dried up, he enlisted in the US Navy in 1939, two years before we would go to war. During basic training at Great Lakes Naval Station, his mechanical aptitude directed him to training as an aviation metal smith. After Pearl Harbor, he was sent to sea aboard the USS Wasp (CV-7) to repair Navy aircraft with a backup role as a ship's fireman.
The Wasp was sunk out from under him and his shipmates in the Pacific in 1942 by a Japanese torpedo. After trying unsuccessfully to fight the flames erupting all over the ship, he eventually raced to the stern to throw ammunition boxes overboard to delay the fatal explosions to come. As the carrier foundered, he was forced to abandon ship and ended up floating in shark-infested waters waiting on a rescue that was still many hours away. I only know all this from a yellowed copy of our local paper I found long after his death where he was interviewed from his hospital bed in Memphis. He never spoke of any of this to anyone I know — least of all me.
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-7) burning and listing after she was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-19, on 15 September 1942, while operating in the Southwestern Pacific in support of forces on Guadalcanal. US Navy Photo [Public Domain]
After his second Pacific Theatre tour in the Philippines, he came home at war's end to marry my mother. Thereafter, he diligently went each day to a John Deere factory where he worked as a machinist for a paycheck to provide for his wife and five children. He built corn planters and was even awarded a patent for one of his mechanical inventions that dramatically improved the efficiency of corn farmers everywhere. I loved the man and admired him, but we were never close. He always seemed distracted and aloof, like he was communing with ghosts and suppressed memories.
Wedding Photo of the McCumbers, the authors parents, 1945
My father died suddenly in 1977, and the world he learned to succeed in had been washed away. He was a product of deprivation and the Second Industrial Revolution. He was gifted with hands that could not only repair any kind of aircraft or farm equipment, but make beautiful Bauhaus-style furniture and cabinets. I often wonder how he felt when he turned on the television to see the 1968 Chicago riots, San Francisco hippies, Woodstock, and the psychedelic Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix posters my sister hung in her area of the home. It was nothing he would have foresaw as a young farm worker.
Holiday memories force me to face my own mortality and reflect on my perspective of coming of age in a previous century. I know the tools I adopted for success are no longer as relevant in this new era. When I teach and interact with my younger students, I am often asked how I got into my career field and some are even foolish enough to ask for advice. I always struggle to answer knowing they are growing up in this new century. I know my father was scared for me. His first-born son didn't share his mechanical aptitude nor was he able to craft functional items with his hands. He was destined to seek his own way in a new world my father couldn't comprehend.
All this washes over me as I look into a hopeful young person's face.
This is no longer my century.
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written by coach___cooper December 30, 2021
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It is almost New Year's Eve.
That is now the most exciting day in college football with the placement of the College Football Playoff. For years, New Year's Day held that distinction.
With all the opt-outs, COVID-19 cancellations and so on, we want it to be known at Fifth Quarter that we still care about bowl games. Making and winning bowls should still be a big deal. After all, the majority of trophy rooms around college football are mostly filled with bowl game trophies.
As a competitor, the game means a little more when you were formally invited and a trophy is on the line. While it has become easier to put a bowl appearance streaks together with more than 40 scheduled bowls, it is now more difficult to win consecutive bowl games.
Currently, Alabama has won six bowl games consecutively and that is the nation's longest active streak. There is one record for bowl wins however, that will likely never be broken.
All Time Streak: Florida State — 11 Straight Bowl Wins (1985-96)
With all the opt-outs that now plague bowl season, it is going to be hard for any team to ever collect 11 consecutive bowl game victories. While Alabama currently sits at six (national championship losses do not count), it is hard to imagine the Crimson Tide to continuously keep winning in the playoff or that a future minor bowl game couldn't bite them.
That is why the 11-game bowl winning streak from Florida State will be untouchable for years to come.
Once upon a time, bowl games meant something. While it's not hard to understand why a kid would protect his future financial investment, there was something about being a competitor back then. Even when your team was not playing for it all, it was important to bring that bowl trophy home.
Over the final nine years of FSU's streak under the legendary Bobby Bowden, the Seminoles finished in the top five every year. That means that FSU was not only winning bowls, but it was doing so against stellar competition.
Here's a look back at the streak:
Gator Bowl – Dec. 30, 1985: Florida State 34, Oklahoma State 23
All-American Bowl – Dec. 31, 1986: Florida State 27, Indiana 13
Fiesta Bowl – Jan. 1, 1988: Florida State 31, Nebraska 28
Sugar Bowl – Jan. 2, 1989: Florida State 13, Auburn 7
Blockbuster Bowl – Dec. 28, 1990: Florida State 24, Penn State 17
Cotton Bowl – Jan. 1, 1992: Florida State 10, Texas A&M 2
Orange Bowl – Jan. 1, 1993: Florida State 27, Nebraska 14
Sugar Bowl – Jan. 2, 1995: Florida State 23, Florida 17
Orange Bowl – Jan. 1, 1996: Florida State 31, Notre Dame 26


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I must confess that although mora knives are by far and away my favourite cutting tool I do not go anywhere without my Leuku. I have used this tool for shelter building, stickmaking, splitting wood, chopping trees, preparing game, filleting fish, preparing bow drills, basically anything that a normal knife or axe would be used for..
here you can see the typical finnish grind..
which becomes more pronounced at the belly of the blade as this is the area takes the most use when the knife is used properly.
and a more typical Swedish Scandi Zero grind, with a much more obtuse bevel, probably more robust but I personally don't feel this grind gets as sharp as the Finnish grind.
and my favourite tool, I made this one from a Lauri Blade and a block of curly birch, you can see just how much this knife has been sharpened by the slight change in the blade shape, believe you me it takes a lot of use and many many sharpenings to even make this sort of difference on the blade!
The one common thing you will find on all my leukus is Brass.. The Sami considered brass a sacred metal and according to old Sami tradition brass has magical properties.
The brass on the knife can keep evil spirits away, and brass also has healing powers and can be used to stop bleeding, remove abscesses and take away pain.
I have even heard of top Leuku makers refusing commissions simply because the client didn't want any brass on his Leuku!
The least I can do is honour that tradition.
By it's very definition a shelter is meant to shelter, however rain is not always what you need protection from, at times it's snow, cold or even wind and the later was what we needed protection from today, so we just needed to make something simple that broke up the constant battering from the wind gods..
and all cosy underneath with plenty of leaf litter.. This shelter was set at 45 degrees, a little too shallow to prevent rain from getting in, but it certainly stopped the wind!
It only took about an hour to put this together, we could have spent another couple of hours covering it in leaf litter to make it waterproof or just took 5 minutes and stretched a tarp over it to make it waterproof..what would you have done???
Sometimes the wind can be a killer and just getting out of it can raise the temp by quite a few degrees, and this was the case here..as we say over here "we have a lazy wind, it goes through you instead of around you"..
and that's it, a shelter/tarp/tent, prop it up like a lean to, sleep under it like a dome tent, or even suspend it for a roof, and best of all this arrangement doesn't need trees!
The poles are handy for numerous things too like a fishing rod, tie them together for a lightweight fiberglass bow, or even use them for arrows..
The deer population in Northern Ireland is growing steadily, no matter where you go they seem to appear from nowhere, as Davy noticed when out the other day and he took this pic.. Sometimes we wish we had our bow at the ready when we see them but then we realise, why should we kill such an animal when we have no real need of it's meat, such a shame to take it's life for no real need.. a true hunter and bushcrafter knows when to kill and when to watch..and there should be much more watching!


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