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Bear Model Chris Miklos Dies
Celebrated bear model Chris Miklos passed away of an apparent heart attack in his sleep at his home in Dallas, Texas according to Kenneth In The 212.
Mack Sturgis Studio released the following statement:
We here at Mack Sturgis Studio are devastated to have heard the news about Chris's passing. Chris has basically been our Spokesmodel since he first walked into our studio 2 1/2 years ago…immediately inspiring us with his rugged good looks, charming personality, and adventurous willingness to help bring our visions to life. It is my sincere honor to have known him and to have had the opportunity to create the body of work we created together…from a beyond fantasy fireman to an image of masculine beauty encased in a shell of leather. Through Chris I found a direction for my Mack Sturgis vision and with the simplest of gestures he could project a beam of life through the lens of the camera, creating an image immediately representing the essence of male strength and valor. The beauty of his spirit and laugh perfectly mirrored what we all saw in the resulting images.
This image is what we would call our "Classic Chris" pose during a shoot…I could simply say "let's see the Classic Chris"…and out would come the Big Guns…and a fantastic smile every time. Thank you thank you, Chris, for the growth you encouraged in me as an artist and for your enthusiasm to see just what we could come up with each time you visited the studio…and for your patience as I learned my way around studio lighting... I hope it is the light of Heaven in which you now shine! Bear Hugs,
We send our condolences to Chris's family and friends.
I knew Chris and had the pleasure of working with him. People should not speak ill of those who have passed on. His passing was a huge loss...he was a beautiful, intelligent man with a huge heart. His legacy is greater than a few stupid comments...but it's too bad people have to gossip like school girls. For those who knew him-we are better for it. Rest in peace buddy.
I've seen pictures of Chris for years, such a beautiful person, and from what I've read the lucky people that actually knew him confirmed that he was a beautiful person inside and out. Our world was certainly made more beautiful by him being in it. So sorry for his friends and family to lose such a sweet guy.
so i told myself i would never read this garbage and yet like a moth drawn to a flame...here i am. What brings to disgrace and a very saddened heart is to see messages left by people who never knew him. Chris DID in fact have heart issues. Chris was a very dear friend of mine. One, whom I loved like a brother, looked up to, respected and admired. None of which came from his modeling career.
What I dont understand is all of these comments of guys giving their opinion on how my beloved friend left us way to soon. Whether Chris did drugs, roids or anything else was his business and his alone. Not a single person commenting here has true knowledge of what happened. Please everyone, let this man who was loved by many, known of all around the world go with dignity. I only care that OUR BUBBA will never be able to hug me again. Was Chris Miklos a celebrity? Yup.....to everyone else that is, but NEVER in his mind or heart. For those of us who were lucky and blessed to call him a friend, we didnt see the fame, we saw our goofy loveable meathead who was a true boy at heart trapped in a mans body. So, in ending...please, no more accusations or even opinions on how he passed because you actually do NOT know what you are talking about.
Sorry. I am sure he was a great guy.
I have lived in Venice, CA forever. Its obvious that he was juicing. You dont look like that just by lifting weights.
I have no idea if they contributed in any way to his death, but you are doing a dis-service to others if you know him, but deny steroids did NOT play a role in his death.
Yes, he was asleep and it was a heart attack. But steroids when not taken with a doctors supervision like so many gay men do are fatal
It's baffling to me. He didn't look like a roids user, I didn't know him but he didn't strike me as a drug addict. He definitely was in good shape. And he was young, I wonder what happened to him. It's a shame that something so definite happened to a person that seemed to have so many good things in his life. I always admired his pics on my FB wall and I will definitely miss him. RIP.
Hmmm, I knew chris for about 8 yrs and he was a very nice , caring ,funny always smiling and willing to help anyone in any way he could . Odd how people are always quick to pass judgment , none of us are perfect and never will be. People talk about others to take focus off their own flaws and insecurties, your time will come and you will be exposed of your flaws . what goes around comes around . Rip Bubba you will be missed...
My thoughts are with his friends and family. It is horrible when someone you love dies - even worse when people offer up any opinions other than shared sadness over the loss suffered by those left behind. I am embarrassed by a community that preaches against hate - yet says such horrible things. Until the posting I saw today - I knew nothing of this man - yet I felt sadness for his passing at such a young age and sadness for those left behind. It was horrible to read all the nastiness that exists in the world - and I know nasty having been in some of the world's most horrible disaster and war zones. People in those areas living is desperate conditions showed more compassion for fellow human beings!
WOW! Such hatred and judgment! Someone dies and you post something hateful? What kind of person does that? Chris was a human being with family and friends who loved him. If you posted something negative here you should really seek a therapist because you need help. Never speak ill off the dead!
My thoughts are this, when a heavyset person dies we don't say that they must of been eating too much. When a skinny person dies we don't say that they must of been on drugs and haven't eaten enough. When a very flamboyant person dies, we don't say that they were so flamboyant they must of had AIDS!
When someone passes away we should only speak nice things about them or don't say anything at all! The death of pretty much an icon is not open for a debate. There are people that loved him and are still alive and morning and want to see this article and think positive of this person and all you negative Nelly's ruined it! As a community we need to stop with labels on people and judging them. I don't care if you're married, single, partnered, or a big fat lonely old man, stop judging! Maybe you should try getting in the gym yourself getting off the couch and trying to live the life that you always imagined!
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My thoughts are this, when a heavyset person dies we don't say that they must of been eating too much. When a skinny person dies we don't say that they must of been on drugs and haven't eaten enough. When a very flamboyant person dies, we don't say that they were so flamboyant they must of had AIDS!
When someone passes away we should only speak nice things about them or don't say anything at all! The death of pretty much an icon is not open for a debate. There are people that loved him and are still alive and morning and want to see this article and think positive of this person and all you negative Nelly's ruined it! As a community we need to stop with labels on people and judging them. I don't care if you're married, single, partnered, or a big fat lonely old man, stop judging! Maybe you should try getting in the gym yourself getting off the couch and trying to live the life that you always imagined
I absolutely cannot believe some of the things you people have said. Chris was a good friend of mine and was an AMAZING person in countless ways. Some of you have skipped right over that and immediately start spouting your mouths off with incorrect information, trying to pretend as if you are in the know!
You should take a good hard look at yourself and ask what is so fucked up about yourself that you can be so ANONYMOUSLY callous. Shame on you!
Why worry now? And why bring it up? Why did he have to be doing something? Many people do things but I don't go around after their dead and talk about them in such a cowardly way. That's what's wrong with the world we live in today. He said she said. Worry about yourself and your life, makes me sick that you go straight to giving him a label. MYOB AND JOHN if you didn't see him do them then just keep your mouths shut. Ohio says a lot and MYOB can't even say who you are, your probably one of those big fat guys that only gets laid by his hand and a magazine.
So why because my dear friend whom i will never see again have u chosen to say how he passed? Are you a Dr? Are you are you someone who was with him at the time is his passing to know? Did u even known this great and wonderful human being? I will not throw stones at you as you have done to him. I will only say this, your words are meaningless and uneducated. For those, like myself, that called him a friend, someone whom we loved, know how he passed. And the horrible part of this, just simply is he is gone. You have zero knowledge of him, other than what you see in magazines and his FB. Beyond that, you created your own scenario to mKe yourself feel better. Please do not do that
Your such an idiot "Nobody", I guess that is why you have to hide your name or you are a closeted queer! If I have my facts correct, Chris was NEVER a porn star had you read the article you would have known that he was a MODEL! Although I did not know him, just from his eyes and smile, you can tell that he was a man with a good heart! Chris is a person with real friends and real family! How can you be so jaded and callous as to automatically assume that he was a tweeker and a porn star! You must be an awful lonely person to automatically pass judgment on someone you know NOTHING about! You are a person that truly needs to seek help! My husband and I will be praying for you hun!
I think it is safe to assume that he was doing something.
He looks quite young and he has a great body.
You don't just die from a heart attack for no reason.
No, I do not know him, but it isn't normal for someone that looks like that to die from a heart attack.
My first thought went to steroids as well.
I could be absolutely wrong and it could have been from some congenital defect for all we know.
Anyone with half a brain could say that it was a high probability that he did use steroids.
The death of someone handsome who sexually pleased us can be quite a shock. We realize that death plays no favorites, and even the most wonderful person with so much to give can be taken when we least expect it. Be sure to live your life. Don't envy the "muscle hunks" and "bears" that seem to have life itself around their little finger. All are human and pass away.


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LSA Crashworthiness
Life is full of moral dilemmas and compromises and here's an interesting one: Does an airplane manufacturer�including an LSA manufacture--have a moral obligation to provide as crashworthy a design as technology and economics allow? The answer might be an easy yes, but then again, maybe not.
I got pulled up short on this by Aviation Consumer reader John Valldejuli recently. Based on our favorable reviews of the Pipistrel Virus, including gushing a little about its fuel economy, Valldejuli checked out the airplane for himself. Here's what he said: "Once I got into the pilot's seat, I wondered who would buy this plane? To me, it is downright dangerous, as the main wing spar intrudes into the cockpit crossing just a little bit in front and above your head ( I am only 5 feet 9 inches tall). In a not-too-perfect forced landing, your head could easily be crushed by the impact with the main spar." Between the lines, he was inquiring why I hadn't noticed this in my review.
The fact is, I did notice it, I just didn't mention it. Why? It has to do with my peculiar background and experiences�flying and jumping out of airplanes, riding motorcycles and so on. Further, I tend to elevate things like speed and economy above safety and comfort, nearly to a fault. Because I think I understand the risks associated with these tradeoffs, I have a low expectation for crashworthiness in airplanes in general, but more so for LSAs. I think it's all but inarguable that given the minimal structure in a 1320-pound airplane, it's not reasonable expect it to be as crashworthy as a heavier Part 23 airplane. For me, crashworthiness in LSAs is not the same as for Part 23 aircraft. If you want an airplane as crashworthy as a Part 23 airplane, buy a Part 23 airplane.
That's probably an overbroad generalization because I suspect that some LSAs are more crashworthy than others. I just don't have any meaningful data to rank these airplanes. But I think Valldejuli is correct. The Virus is compromised toward performance and safety, but that spar intrusion diminishes its crashworthiness in a way that other designs don't. A basic principle of crashworthiness is generous flail space inside the cabin, so in a crash, your extremities don't collide with something hard. Because of their cabin size, LSAs just don't have the flail space of, say, a Diamond DA40 or a Cirrus SR22. In my view, the Pipistrel Virus may have even less because some of its speed comes from low drag and low frontal area. That translates to a small cabin whose crush and flail space is minimal.
This is the very reason that Diamond declined to enter the LSA market. Diamond CEO Christian Dries is adamant that a manufacturer owes its customers the best crashworthiness possible and his airplanes have the unassailable record to prove that he's not just talking the talk. Further, he thinks that with regard to safety in general, the regulators' 1320-pound limit is artificial and sheer lunacy. I can't argue the point. In a sense, Dries is on the same page as I am. LSAs and real crashworthiness may be mutually exclusive.
By the way, Pipistrel doesn't see it this way. The company's Tine Tomazic told me he believes the Virus, with its beefed up A-pillars and spar cage and strong carbon fiber construction is actually more crashworthy than other designs. Pipistrel sees the spar intrusion as a net positive, protecting the occupants against a tree or other object slicing into the cabin. (I'd still pick the Virus as the LSA of year, by the way.)
For me, the eureka realization in all of this is that I have to recuse my high-risk tolerance sensibilities and make a note to report such things as Valldejuli's observation about the Virus spar intrusion. Doing so doesn't condemn the airplane nor suggest that a buyer shouldn't buy it. What it does do is illuminate a potential compromise that the reader can then evaluate guided by his or her own sensibilities.
That's about as direct a means as I can devise to say that it's not just manufacturers who have moral responsibilities. So do journalists.
Editorial addition 9/14/2012. What follows are the two texts mentioned above in their entirety. I did not include them originally because I try to get out of blogs in under 600 words. With these texts, it's closer to 1700. These are routine editing decisions and not an attempt to smear anyone or suppress information.
The context is this: I picked the Pipistrel Virus as the LSA of the Year. I picked the company as the Innovative Company of the Year. Nothing in the foregoing would make me reconsider that, but that's not the same as companies and products being above criticism. Reader Valldejuli questioned my judgement, fairly I think, because his letter reminded me when I got into the Virus, I scuffed my head on the spar and when I got out, I did the same thing. Why didn't I mention it in my report? Because it seemed minor to me and not worthy of comment. While I don't share his view that it's an unacceptable safety hazard, it is still my duty to make note of it. And that's the point of this blog.
Dear Aviation Consumer:
I really enjoy your publication and find it well worth the money. However, I must disagree with you on a Gear of the Year choice.
Flying a Piper Archer II, mostly by myself, I drooled over the gas mileage of your BEST LSA: PIPISTREL VIRUS. So I flew to the SLA showcase in early 2012 at Sebring, Fl airport to get a closer look at the Virus. Once I got into the pilot�s seat, I wondered who would buy this plane? To me it is downright dangerous as the main wing spar intrudes into the cockpit crossing just a little bit in front and above your head ( I am only 5�9�). In a not-too-perfect forced landing, your head could easily be crushed by the impact with the main spar.
I mentioned my extreme concern to the salesman who responded that, �You lean forward in front of the spar just before impact�... then I surmised the back of my head could be crushed as the indeterminate g forces toss my body - and head - around in milliseconds, seatbelts notwithstanding. I thought it a silly assumption that I could control where my head was in a uncontrolled crash with water or a fixed object like a tree. I surmised that not even a motorcycle helmet would save my life as my neck would be broken.
In my opinion, this airplane would never comply with the safety portion of Part 23 certification, and it certainly does not meet the �common sense� certification. ( I can just hear fellow pilots at my funeral, �Too bad his head got crushed, but he sure did get great gas mileage while he flew!�)
We as consumers must consider all of the possibilities � planes do crash land, both on land and in the water; and when they do, you may not be in control when you strike a stationary object or water as the g forces will be just too great. It is sort of the like the fool who does not wear his seat belt in a car because he thinks he can control how his body will react in accident. Anyone who has been in a bad accident knows the folly of that thinking � it is quick and with great force.
New LSA airplanes are great and Viva la Innovation, but I have to thank Piper, the FAA, and Part 23 certification for really considering � and testing - the crashworthiness of my Archer II.
John A. Valldejuli
Response from Pipistrel's Tine Tomazic
While I am quite a bit taken aback by the tone of Mr Valldejuli, I am happy to comment on this.
The cockpit design is made of Kevlar reinforced composites and the seat belts designed so that the head passes well below the main strut. I am 5 ft 9'' myself and have never head an issue bumping into any structure. We have had serious crashes because of pilot error, and even there � none of the occupants bumped into the spar which Mr Valldejuli claims to be �in front of his head�. What everybody forgets is that your head is �hinged� to the body at the bottom of the neck � and not on the forehead. Hence in an impact, the head goes DOWN and not forward (you can see this in car crashes as well � this is why airbags are coming from the steering wheel, which is well BELOW the eye (forehead) level, and not from the windshield somewhere).
Also, I am sure that there was a misunderstanding on what exactly the salesparson told this gentleman. It is common sense that you do not lean forward when the situation becomes an oh-shit moment! I do not know how the cockpit demonstration went for Mr Valldejuli, as I was not present, so I cannot directly comment on that. What is for fact is that �leaning forward before impact� is not our design principle behind cockpit safetyJ
Further, because the spar is in the location of where it is, it makes the cockpit MORE safe, because an impact into e.g. a tree branch will be stopped by the spar and not fly freely through the cockpit into someone. You have flown the Virus, you saw where the spar is relative to oneself. When comparing the Archer II to the Virus � ever wandered what happens when the aeroplane rolls over on ground. It is one of the most typical crashes, e.g. nosewheel brakes off then the nose dips into the ground. Archer has no roll cage (like Virus, Panthera, even Taurus in our case), but the occupants heads would simply be squashed. Is that what makes an aeroplane so great?
I am not saying our design is perfect, but there definitely was a lot of thought in its execution and keeping everybody safe. We have not had any deaths related to accident head trauma, and people were involved in ditching, even crashed into a mountainside in a white-out situation. In our view, we view our cockpit design safe, in fact, much safer than most aeroplanes. When strapped in, you are sorrounded by Kevlar reinforced element and energy absorbing zones from all sides, with the main spar protecting you from above (roll over), the A-pillars/spar cage (forward impact), undercarriage uni-element design (below) and collapsable fuselage ribs (behind).
To put things into perspective: On thanking FAA and Piper for the crash tests � Crash test for small general aviation was imposed by the FAA with the �The Dynamic Crashworthiness Requirements� detailed in FAR23.562, first issued in August 1988 as part of the FAR-23 document. This was then further explored during the NASA/FAA AGATE program in mid-1990. My point here is that the Archer I (certified 8 July, 1975), which Mr Valledejuli references, was NOT even tested for Crashwortniess, despite his claims.
Thank you and best regards,

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Borondir Udalraph (died April 15, T.A. 2510) was a Gondorian soldier with some Northern blood: a forefather was a Captain of the Northmen who served under the Steward of Gondor. He was described as brave and an excellent rider.
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Is Your Love Big Enough?
- Warner Music UK
- July 9. 2012 (UK)
- August 7. 2012 (US)
After sharing the stage with Keane, Lana Del Rey, Basement Jaxx, and Aloe Blacc at Soho House's House Festival in Chiswick last month, Lianne La Havas' official debut album, Is Your Love Big Enough? is finally available here in North America. With three critically acclaimed EPs to her credit as well as a nomination for the BBC's Sound of 2012 poll, Lianne's debut album is yet another milestone in what appears to be an already impressive and ever promising career.
The UK chanteuse distances herself from her contemporaries with her amalgamation of jazz, folk and soul and her keen attention to detail in her songwriting and music. The album's title track "Is Your Love Big Enough?" is a lively soulful number peppered with claps and tambourine and Lianne's buttery vocals.
The album's standout single "No Room For Doubt", which originally was included on Lianne's Lost & Found EP, is a beautifully moving duet with American folk singer Willy Mason. The single's charm is derived from the juxtaposition of La Havas' honeyed vocals with Mason's gruff, weathered vocals.
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Editor's note: Julian E. Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of "Jimmy Carter," published by Times Books, and editor of a book assessing former President George W. Bush's administration, published by Princeton University Press.
Princeton, New Jersey (CNN) -- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a possible Republican presidential candidate, recently caused a major stir. In an interview with the Weekly Standard, he referred to race relations while growing up in Mississippi this way: "I just don't remember it as being that bad."
Of course, his state was one of the most racially explosive sections of the country in the days of segregation and the start of the civil rights movement.
In the same interview, Barbour also tried to distinguish the citizens councils of his hometown from the Ku Klux Klan, even though historians have amply documented how citizens councils spent much of their energy using economic, and sometimes physical, intimidation to prevent racial integration. Although Barbour sought to clarify his remarks when they triggered a political firestorm, the fallout is likely to continue given the long and complicated history of conservatism.
With these statements, Barbour tapped directly into one of the most problematic aspects of the modern conservative tradition: the interest among some on the right to resist racial and ethnic pluralism. The comments come at an inopportune time.
In recent months, there have been questions about the degree to which racial politics has influenced Tea Party activists and some Republican politicians. The heated debates about illegal immigration and the proposed construction of an Islamic cultural center near ground zero brought out some of the uglier elements of the conservative movement. At some of the early Tea Party events, there were placards that drew on explicitly racial imagery of the nation's president.
The conservative political tradition has revolved around many issues other than race.
National security, for instance, has been a staple issue for the right ever since Republicans attacked President Truman for having allowed China to fall to communism in 1949. Tax cuts and limited welfare programs have been another important concern for right-wing activists who believed that in most areas, free markets were best. Ronald Reagan attacked the welfare system as causing dependency and worsening the problems that programs were meant to solve.
There has also been a libertarian strand of conservatism, which has most recently surfaced in parts of the Tea Party Movement that rail against all forms of government intervention. Finally social and cultural conservatives have waxed nostalgic for earlier eras when, they argue, national values were stronger and more stable than today.
But it is impossible, and also dangerous, to ignore that racial politics have been an element of modern conservatism. The high point came during the 1960s, the moment that Barbour was recalling. During the early-1960s, the Radical Right warned of communist forces that they claimed were behind the drive for civil rights.
After Lyndon Johnson signed the 1964 civil rights bill, he told aides Bill Moyers and Jack Valenti that he had just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a generation. Some politicians immediately played into the racial fears. During the 1966 midterms, Republicans called for law and order as they focused on the rioting taking place in many inner cities.
Historian Rick Perlstein recounted how in Iowa, first-term House Democrat John Schmidhauser went to his district to discuss agricultural problems, and instead encountered a crowd that wanted to talk about rumors of armed civil rights activists who were allegedly riding over on motorcycles from Chicago to Iowa with the intention of causing trouble.
Richard Nixon's Southern strategy depended on winning over Southern voters and working-class ethnic whites in the North by attacking school busing for racial integration and connecting urban disarray to liberal welfare policies.
The place of racial backlash greatly diminished during the next few decades. Yet there were moments when politicians played into these fears. In 1980, Reagan advocated "state's rights" in a speech at the Neshoba County Fair, just a few miles from where three civil rights activists had been murdered in 1964.
Although there is no evidence that Reagan was a racist, his campaign staffers were not above using racially loaded language at a time that many Republican operatives were targeting Southern whites in these formerly Democratic areas.
Reagan targeted "welfare queens" during the 1980s, with obvious imagery about African-American women. An infamous Republican ad in 1988 revolved around an African-American, Willie Horton, who had been furloughed in Massachusetts and raped a white woman.
In 2002, Republican Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi said at the 100th birthday of Strom Thurmond, "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either." Of course, Lott was referring to the election of 1948 when Thurmond bolted from his party to run as an independent in opposition to the fact that some Democrats were supporting civil rights.
Critics who characterize all of conservatism as revolving around racial issues overstate the role of racial backlash and downplay the many other ideas that have driven a majority of conservatives.
But the race issue has lurked within the movement since the beginning. When Republicans try to deny this or make statements such as those of Barbour -- which are grossly insensitive to the history of the nation -- they play into the worst characterizations of their critics.
If Republicans want to rebound from 2008 and to create a broad coalition for victory, they will need to attract Latino voters, suburban moderates and other parts of the electorate who want little to do with any kind of racial or ethnic backlash.
Conservatives should think long and hard about nominating a Republican who cannot demonstrate, once and for all, without any question, that he or she fully understands the history of racial inequality in this country and appreciates the centrality of a pluralistic America.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian E. Zelizer


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The night before
To get your children excited about your day outdoors, read them an adventurous story before you tuck them in for the night. We love Bill Martin's Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and Michael Rosen's We're Going on a Bear Hunt for the younger ones and Maurice Sendak's Where The Wild Things Are for the older ones.
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If you plan to be out for the whole day, take a nice lunch break. Find a spot under a tree or out in the sun and lay out a picnic blanket so that everyone can rest their feet. Apples, sandwiches, juice boxes and don't forget snacks, and a lot of them. Your walk may take longer than you expect.
I spy with my little eye…
If all that Mother Nature has to offer isn't enough to keep the children entertained, here are some suggestions for games to play along the way. Challenge them to a round of hide-and-seek in between the trees or I-Spy to inspire them to look up from their mud-covered wellies. Bring a notepad and colouring pencils so your children can document their favourite creepy crawlers. Create a map of your route like true explorers and you are the first ones to discover this land. Spot tracks in the mud and imagine where the animals have run off to. Make daisy crowns. Magnifying glasses and compasses can come in handy too!
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Jars or small tins are great ways to gather flowers, leaves, shells, twigs or stones. Read up on foraging for food in the wild – children love picking berries in the summertime! Create artworks with them when you get home, or display them in your home so your children can proudly show off their collections to their friends. Collect bugs and insects and examine them better at home before releasing them into the wild again.
The end is near
While you might want to pick up speed to get back home at a reasonable hour, your children might start to slow down. They might start pulling at your legs and demand to be held for the last stretch. Your stroller will come in handy at this point! Or we recommend working out those arms before heading out with the clan. Exercise goes a long way, right?
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Holiday speakers in Norwich, Hartford say Dr. King's work still unfinished
Political and community leaders gathered in Norwich and at the State Capitol Monday to not only remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. but to talk about how much more needs to be done to achieve what the slain civil rights leader talked about.
"Today, despite all the progress we have made, if you are of color you are more likely to be unemployed, to live in poverty, to have been be incarcerated, to become a parent as a teenager and yes to become a victim of gun violence," said state Attorney General George Jepsen at the state Capitol ceremony.
"When a young man of color has his life put to risk when he walks to a convenient store wearing a hoodie, society has a lot further to go," he said.
In Norwich, references to the morning's presidential inauguration and King's speeches dominated the ceremony, as speakers tied together the struggles of the Civil Rights movement to today's challenges.
The Rev. John Lancz, pastor of the United Congregational Church in Norwich, called Monday's participation by representatives of several local and distant churches and synagogues and local towns "a reminder that we are all working together toward justice and peace."
About 50 people attended the annual ceremony at the Evans Memorial AME Zion Church, about twice the number of those who participated in the preceding march through cold downtown streets as they sang "We Shall Overcome."
The Rev. Gregory Perry, pastor of the Greeneville Congregational Church, led the march reminding participants that several hundred thousand Americans were in Washington, D.C., to witness "the marvelous second inauguration of our president."
Lancz recalled how King was calling for a "true revolution of values" in America. Lancz looked up and added: "we're still working on that."
Rabbi Julius Rabinowicz of Beth Jacob Synagogue, a newcomer to the popular ecumenical event, said he was not used to the resounding audience response to his greetings and affirmation of his words. Rabinowicz read a psalm describing how discarded stones from one building were used as the cornerstone of new construction.
"Those who were rejected are becoming the cornerstone of our democracy," Rabinowicz said.
Perry said King could have lived the economic American Dream for himself and his family. Instead, he took up the fights of those around him, with the compassion his father had taught him, subjecting himself to arrest, church bombings and threats.
"He could have been alive today if he just lived the American Dream for himself," Perry said.
At the state Capitol ceremony, leaders of Connecticut Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Commission, state officials, nonprofit honorees and others spoke of how King inspired their work but also how more had to be done to end poverty and violence.
James Williams, chairman of the commission, said "On this day of service, national service, let us all reflect upon the ways that we can be of service to our community and neighbors as we strive to create the beloved community that Dr. King envisioned."
The executive director of Christian Community Action, Bonita Grubbs, quoted King who said, "We are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway."
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MORE — Adventures of an Antiquarian Bookman
By Harold Nestler
208 Pages, $20, $2 postage/handling
Harold Nestler
13 Pennington Ave, Waldwick, NJ 07463
How do you top a best seller? Write a sequel. That's what Ephemera Society of America member Harold Nestler has done with MORE . . . a follow-up to his 2001 self-published limited edition Where Did You Find That — Adventures of an Antiquarian Bookman.
Where Did You Find That was a best seller only when compared to Nestler's previous titles, but fame and fortune weren't the goals of his 2001 effort, nor of MORE.
Nestler figures he earned about 25 cents and hour with the first book in this short series, but the real reason he's worked so hard recording his remembrances of 50 years in the business is to keep the "Golden Age of the wonderful antiquarian book business" from being "overwhelmed by the onslaught of the impersonal computer and the Internet."
He laments the decline in interaction among dealers, collectors, and librarians and opportunities to tell good stories and share knowledge face to face. It's those good stories and recollections that Nestler has preserved on paper in this often stream-of-consciousness narrative.
The book is divided into chapters covering most aspects of a dealer's business life from traveling to issuing catalogs, to wrapping and shipping books. For instance, there's the tale of a two-pound shower head forged in the shaped of the Liberty Bell that eventually made it into one of Nestler's book catalogs and sold. Honest! He also has added chapters that contain dozens of stories and recollections on books and ephemera on Early American Life and Industry, the Revolutionary War, Indians, and other topics.
Nestler recalls a quite involved tale about the path followed by the rare Cherokee Spelling Book of 1819. When the book came to market in 1974, Nestler and Connecticut dealer and collector Rockwell Gardiner were the winning bidders. While sorting through the collection, Nestler put a price of $125 on the book. Gardiner, who was awarded the Society's Maurice Rickards Award posthumously in 1988, said he felt it was worth at least $235, even during the depths of a recession. The pair sold it to a Tennessee dealer who later sold it to a customer for $1,200. When Sotheby's auctioned the owner's library in 1999, the book sold of $50,000.
Wrote Nestler, "Rocky Gardiner and I made money on it at $235. The dealer in Tennessee made a lot of money on it — $1,200 or more, and the beneficiaries of the auction sale did very well indeed."
At two and a half pages, the tale of the Cherokee spelling book may be the longest passage related to a single topic in the entire book. Nestler jumps from story to story almost paragraph by paragraph. At one point, he details a 19th-century broadside promoting chiropractors then jumps immediately to a paragraph about a 1940 article on the history of the enema published in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. You may never know what's coming next, but keep reading and you're guaranteed to find something Nestler has pulled from his deep pool of experience that will strike a sympathetic chord.
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So. Lars Von Trier made a little bit of a mess of things yesterday. The Danish filmmaker behind Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark and Antichrist is notorious for making outrageous, headline-grabbing comments. He referred to himself as "the best director in the world" at the 2009 Cannes International Film Festival, but he managed to "top" that yesterday when he admitted to being able to sympathize with Adolf Hitler during the Cannes press conference for his latest effort, Melancholia. As a result, the festival organizers made the move of declaring Von Trier a "persona non grata" and banning him from future gatherings in a public statement.
In order to understand this situation, you first really ought to read exactly what it was that the director said (via Huffington Post):
"The only thing I can tell you is that I thought I was a Jew for a long time and was very happy being a Jew, then later on came [Danish and Jewish director] Susanne Bier, and suddenly I wasn't so happy about being a Jew. That was a joke. Sorry. But it turned out that I was not a Jew. If I'd been a Jew, then I would be a second-wave Jew, a kind of a new-wave Jew, but anyway, I really wanted to be a Jew and then I found out that I was really a Nazi, because my family is German. And that also gave me some pleasure. So, I, what can I say? I understand Hitler. I think he did some wrong things but I can see him sitting in his bunker. I'm saying that I think I understand the man. He is not what we could call a good guy, but yeah, I understand much about him and I sympathize with him … But come on! I'm not for the Second World War. And I'm not against Jews. No, not even Susanne Bier. I am very much for them. As much as Israelis are a pain in the ass. How do I get out of this sentence? Okay, I am a Nazi. As for the art, I'm for Speer. Albert Speer I liked. He was also one of God's best children. He has a talent that … Okay, enough."
Yikes. You can almost visualize him digging that hole deeper and deeper, knowing already that he's too far down to climb out and hoping against hope that if he keeps digging, he'll break through to a new reality. That didn't happen though. Instead, Von Trier made some horribly offensive comments and was banned from one of the world's most prestigious film festivals as a result. Here's what the Cannes organizers had to say (via Deadline):
"The Festival de Cannes provides artists from around the world with an exceptional forum to present their works and defend freedom of expression and creation. The Festival's Board of Directors, which held an extraordinary meeting this Thursday 19 May 2011, profoundly regrets that this forum has been used by Lars Von Trier to express comments that are unacceptable, intolerable, and contrary to the ideals of humanity and generosity that preside over the very existence of the Festival.
The Board of Directors firmly condemns these comments and declares Lars Von Trier a persona non grata at the Festival de Cannes, with effect immediately."
It's worth noting that Von Trier later apologized for his comments, but it's really little more than a footnote at this point. Anyone who reads the actual facts can pretty clearly see that this was some misguided attempt at… humor? Perhaps it was intentional, given the filmmaker's penchant for grabbing headlines, or perhaps that sort of attitude is simply a reflex for him. Regardless, the content was, correctly, deemed by one and all to be offensive and Von Trier is now being punished for it. Do you think that the punishment is just? Where do you fall on this?
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How did an art restorationist and a saltwater sailor happen to buy a dilapidated 25-year-old houseboat and spend many months, lots of money, and untold blood, sweat and tears to restore it? It all started back in 2006 on a cold winter day in North Georgia after the Thanksgiving holiday. My fiancé Bob and I went for a drive up to Lake Lanier from our home in Athens, Ga. We were indulging in Bob's all-time favorite hobby-looking at boats. In fact at that time, Bob was landlocked in Athens and boat-less, having just sold his 30-foot seagoing Bayliner to a crazy Swede who bought it sight unseen and had it shipped off to Sweden from Florida.
So we found ourselves strolling along the docks at Lake Lanier, admiring the many beautiful boats, particularly the sleek luxurious houseboats, many of which were for sale. We were both intrigued with the idea of keeping a houseboat on one of the mountain lakes in western North Carolina, but the cost of buying and fitting out such a boat seemed prohibitive, particularly since we knew we planned to buy another saltwater boat to replace the Bayliner. But how about a modest-sized older boat that we could rehab ourselves and keep on a mountain lake?
Search Is Over
As any boat-lover knows, if you go looking at enough boats you will find the very one you are looking for, so on a later trip to Lake Norman in North Carolina, sure enough, there it was! A vintage 40-foot, 1984 Holiday Mansion that is no longer being built. It looked quite presentable from the outside and seemed to offer everything necessary to provide us with a floating mountain cabin for long spring, summer and fall weekends. It definitely needed some work, but nothing we felt we couldn't handle with a little help from the pros.
I thought it was adorable, a tiny little home away from home, but it had everything we needed. It had a good-sized lounge aft with two reclining chairs and space for a small folding dining table for two, a pilot house with a fold-out futon for guests, a galley which needed much work but had potential, a cabin below with a double bed and cot, and-miraculously-two heads, one with a bathtub and shower. I was in love! Bob was somewhat less enthusiastic, but the price was right, and of course neither of us anticipated how much work lay ahead of us.
Decision Time
Being an experienced saltwater sailor, Bob insisted on a "Marine Survey," and the result was a thick 30-page detailed description of just what bad shape the little boat was in, top to bottom. My heart sank! It looked as if it would cost us as much to fix it as to buy it, to say nothing of the backbreaking work we were taking on. Meanwhile we had located Bear Creek Marina on Lake James in North Carolina, a beautiful mountain lake 30 miles east of Asheville. Perfect. It was only three hours from our home in Athens, just right for those weekend getaways we had dreamed about. So after many hours of discussing the pros and cons, we decided to take on the Black Swan renovation project, hoping to have our boat shipshape and ready to launch by spring. We named her Black Swan in honor of the rare black swans known to have nested in the North Carolina mountain lakes in past years.
Boat Yard Beauty
Our first step was to have the boat moved from Lake Norman to a boat repair yard near Charlotte for the big jobs requiring professional help. The exterior topside had some serious problems, including moisture penetration, de-bonding of fiberglass core materials, impact fractures, worn gelcoat patches and oxidation. The swim platform was rotten and the air conditioner, located inconveniently in the middle of the top deck, was beyond repair.
We reviewed the marine surveyor's dismal report with the ship repair guys and decided to go forward with the structural repairs. The yard was to replace the transom completely. They would repair the damage to the gelcoat and the impact fractures to the deck. They would also replace the rub rail and paint the boat from the main deck to the bottom. In addition, we had them replace the small damaged swim platform with a custom four-foot aluminum platform and swim ladder.
The situation with the engines was even more challenging. The boat had its original twin Penta 145A, four-cylinder gas freshwater cooled engines, which we seriously considered replacing with reliable safe diesel engines, but this was not practical due to the scarcity of diesel fuel on the North Carolina mountain lakes. We finally decided to have them overhauled as we hoped for the best. The generator did not work and was not worth repairing, so we replaced it with a 7.3 k.w. Kohler gas generator. We replaced the malfunctioning battery charger with a 15-amp three-battery bank charger, connected with a new group of 12-volt deep-cycle marine batteries.
Our Turn
On our budget we could not replace walls, floor coverings, or tackle large expensive renovation jobs, so we concentrated on what we could do ourselves. Bob is a good handyman and could do some carpentry, small electrical and plumbing jobs, and we did a lot of scrubbing, painting and polishing. Still, some replacements were necessary. The air conditioning unit was not only beyond repair, but was located directly in the middle of our very spacious top deck where we planned to have a table and chairs for topside dining. We decided to replace the old A/C with a new combination A/C-Heater unit, which we moved forward to make room for our deck furniture. Of course this required major surgery-cutting a new hole in the deck and patching and painting the deck and the ceiling below.
Most of the forward console equipment either did not work or was missing. A fishfinder had been installed in the boatyard to replace the depth gauge and Bob put in a marine radio, which we later found was rarely used on inland North Carolina lakes. We added an AM/FM radio with CD player and installed an exterior antenna as well. The console was faced with ugly deteriorating tiles, and we tackled the big job of stripping them off, sanding and painting the front surface.
We did most of the interior work ourselves. The lighting made no sense at all-the boat had only DC lights throughout, and a few 115 A/C outlets. We decided to convert everything to A/C, using an inverter when away from shore power-avoiding the nuisance of a noisy generator. We installed a Xantrex Pro 1000 inverter, which enabled us to have uninterrupted A/C power with a three-way switch for a smooth transition from shore power to inverter A/C. Bob then undertook the task of mounting new light fixtures throughout the boat, replacing the old rusty D/C lights.
An Eye Sore
My heart sank when we surveyed our galley. The entire kitchen area was a disaster with its scarred counter, battered and leaking sink and single burner hotplate, plus there was no refrigerator or microwave. Bob installed new cabinets, a Formica counter, a stainless steel sink and faucets, and a dandy little Swedish cook top stove which, together with the addition of a microwave and a gas marine grill on the deck, provided all the cooking ability we needed. We felt that we needed a fairly good-size refrigerator with a freezer compartment to keep a ready supply of food on the boat for our arrival and to store supplies for preparing meals while onshore or cruising. We searched the Internet and found an Italian eight-cubic-foot refrigerator with a good freezer unit, which we could miraculously fit into a modified cabinet space. Everything in a small houseboat is about space! We decided to buy an A/C refrigerator because of disappointing experiences with AC/DC models like Norcold.
The bathrooms were functional, so we were able to just replace the two toilets with new manual Jabscos, which work fine. We added new faucets, mirrors and towel racks as well. In the cabin below, the previous owners had fitted the bed platform with an enormous box spring and mattress, which we replaced with a five-inch comfortable foam mattress, allowing more headroom and making the cabin appear larger.
Final Touches
With new paint and repairs from the boatyard, our little boat was looking rather jaunty, and we trimmed it out with matching blue canvas skirting on the deck rails and a blue bimini topside. Bob said the old fenders were a disgrace, so we scrubbed them to a gleaming white and fitted them out with new lines. Now we have what Bob says in the Navy is called "a taut ship!"
The one persistent problem that "dogged" us throughout our long project was getting our dog onboard the boat! Frodo is a long-haired Dachshund who weighs nearly 40 pounds and lifting him on and off the boat threatened to send poor Bob to the chiropractor. To make matters worse, Frodo had developed a paralyzing fear of the water, due to a nearly tragic fall overboard. Because of his near-death experience, whenever we approached the boat he flattened himself on the dock, making lifting him almost impossible! Ever ingenious, Bob constructed a lightweight plywood gangplank which we could attach to the boat rails, and finally with much coaxing, treats and a lesson from a visiting dog, Frodo finally overcame his fear and learned to use it.
Of course the Black Swan is a work in progress. There is still much we would like to do, but we have managed to make our little boat quite comfortable and livable, and much more attractive than it had been. We have spent many long weekends on the boat and invited guests to accompany us on our cruises to explore the coves and waterways of this beautiful mountain lake. We have packed a picnic lunch and launched our canoe, paddling for miles to watch the many waterbirds nesting along the shore. We have dined topside with magnificent views of the ridges and peaks surrounding Grandfather Mountain, and enjoyed our evening glass of wine while watching splendid sunsets over the lake. As the captain said himself on our last voyage, "It doesn't get much better than this."
So-to all the shipmates who share our journey on beautiful waters, near and far-here's wishing you fair weather cruising and a snug boat in harbor!
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1. Be a good example
Work out, at home, in front of your child. Better yet, include your kid in your workout. Kids naturally desire to emulate and copy everything you do and there's no more positive way to model fitness than doing it--living it--yourself.
One way I used to include Zak, my son, into workouts was by making miniature equipment which replicated my own. For example, I made him a little 25# sandbag upon which we drew a smiley face, and he named it "Heavy". He loved that sandbag so much he used to sleep with it at night, like a stuffed animal. You should have seen this little pre-schooler working every fiber of his being attempting to lug that sandbag up the ladder and into his top bunk, much to my glee. If you lift kettlebells, buy or make your kid a mini-kettlebell. If you lift dumbbells, get tiny ones so your kid can follow along with your next workout. My friend, Joe Egan, includes his kids in his workouts all the time, and even when we made slosh pipes he automatically made a miniature version for his youngest son.
Forget all bunk you hear about damaged growth plates from introducing weight training at a young age. We're not talking about heavy weight-lifting here, we're talking about mirroring and playing at weight training. The idea is to make it fun. Insist upon good form, light weights and plenty of body weight movements, like push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups and full squats. The objective is developing technique and form, not producing fatigue or a training effect, which will come soon enough.
2. Hang a rope...and teach your kid to climb it
One of the best things I ever did for my kids was hanging a rope in the foyer of our townhouse, which had unusually high vaulted ceilings. I had them both hanging on that rope from the time they could walk. I tied a knot on the bottom so they could sit, swing and twirl on it. Kids LOVE to climb. Unfortunately, you hear everywhere well-meaning but misguided parents admonishing children to:
"Stop that!"This instills fear reactivity, effectively decreasing your child's confidence while increasing his reluctance to explore and try new things.
"Be careful!"
"Get down--you might fall!"
Rope climbing develops incredible grip and upper body strength--both sadly lacking in modern-day school kids. As a physical educator, I remember even as far back as the 1970s, the children unable to pass simple P.E. tests, most were unable to perform a single pull-up. By the time Zak and my daughter, Savannah, were in kindergarten they could climb the rope to the top. Zak was able to climb with his legs in the L-Seat and even upside-down. My Viking friend, Gudjon Svannson, hung a rope in his living room for his three boys, as well as a set of rings. His boys were continually climbing, hanging, swinging--and otherwise supporting themselves on rope and rings--throughout the days. All three boys are incredibly fit and respected amongst their peers for their athletic prowess. This is a great example of how you can make exercise into play.
3. Make everything a game
When I used to walk my two kids to the drugstore to get a snack, I made up on-the-spot obstacle courses from anything I could think of. If we walked by the school yard with the ten-foot high chain link fence, it was:
"Hey Zak, let's see how many times you can climb up and over that fence in a minute!"
"See how fast you can run down to that stop sign--I'll time you!"Or:
"Oh, you want a candy bar? Ok. Daddy'll tape this dollar to the top of this pole--now climb up and get it!"Sometimes I'd put quarters under heavy weights and he'd have to figure out how to get the quarter by learning to leverage his body weight in order to either slide, lift, or tilt the weight to get at the coins beneath. I did this stuff from the very beginning.
Sometimes a nearby fabric store used to throw out large cardboard tubes--which made for awesome javelins! Or impromptu, double-handed sidewalk sword fights.
4. Make everything an obstacle course
Every chance you get, encourage your child to go under, over, around or through. Whenever my wife left the house, all the furniture instantly transformed into giant, indoor, obstacle courses. The kids would jump over couches, crawl under tables and chairs, dash up flights of stairs, evade hurled couch pillows and balance on jury-rigged beams suspended between dining room chairs. Your imagination is the only boundary. Kids will push themselves to their physical limits in games like these, not even realizing they're "working out". One of our favorite indoor games seeing if they could get up to the third floor without touching the stairs (hee, hee, hee) by balancing upon the stair railings and wedging along their small bodies, using hands and feet pressed against the stairwell walls.
5. Teach your kid to grapple, not punch
Punching (and kicking) definitely has its place in self-defense, but the surest way for your kid to get suspended from school is punching another kid in the nose. Parents frequently enroll their kids in karate school for self-esteem, fitness and discipline but the techniques taught therein work by physical aggression, e.g., kicking, punching or otherwise striking out. From a very young age, I taught my son jiujitsu, where the emphasis is upon escaping from bigger, stronger foes. I disguised these lessons in play: I'd grab him in various locks, chokes and holds (sometimes pretending to be a robot/monster) and he had to figure out how to escape. We also played Living Room Rodeo and Bucking Bronco Daddy which had me bucking, spinning, twisting and otherwise doing my best to dislodge him from my back. It's a tremendous workout for Dad, or Mom, too. Other grappling games included trying to keep him on the couch or carpet while he attempted to flee--at the last second, I'd snatch or grab him and he had to wrestle his way free. The rule was if he could get off the floor or couch, he won, but again and again, I'd grab him at the very last second, just when he thought he'd finally pried me off. With these games, and dozens more, he was learning jiujitsu without even knowing anything of it. As soon as a kid thinks you're trying to teach him something, he's likely to shut down, so everything was always presented as play. Best to postpone formal lessons until your child has started school.
Most elementary school fights involve hair-pulling, pinching, head locks, choke holds, grabbing clothing and various forms of wrestling. Jiujitsu teaches a child to grapple his way out of such situations, building his confidence while protecting the other kid from a broken nose or lost tooth. If there isn't a jiujitsu school in your area, enroll your child in the local pee-wee wrestling league. I guarantee your kid will become disciplined, respected, and no one will pick on him while karate will likely as not get your kid kicked out of school.
6. Danger Jumping!
One of the basic human fears is that of falling, which is also referred to as ground engagement. Most young kids are fearless and later fears are conditioned into them via the parent. This begins at a young age from constant admonishments to ...be careful or you might get hurt! Falling down is natural for small children, their bodies are pliable, resilient, and for the most part they bounce back up with no lasting damage. I often observe parents over-reacting to their child's fall, making a big fuss based upon their own fears, which leads to the kid believing something much worse happened than actually occurred. Way back when, I read about the Gracie jiujitsu family (and later some Russian articles) which described a system of "baby-tossing". In my former gym, I have a photo of Helio Gracie tossing one of his infant sons to his brother, Carlos. It's claimed this practice builds not only fearlessness but tremendous courage in a child and I believe this to be true. From the time he was able to sit up by himself, I tossed Zak high in the air, by myself or to others. I also held him upside-down by the feet and swung him around my body or between my legs in his baby seat, like a kettlebell swing. The fear of falling seriously holds kids back in contact sports. As a coach, I saw kids everyday holding themselves back, tentative and afraid of getting hurt. Ironically, these fearful children were usually the first to get hurt, despite their tentativeness.
One way of building confidence and fearlessness into a child is a practice I call Danger Jumping! Kids who haven't yet been negatively programmed LOVE to jump off stuff. The way I worked it with my kids in our bi-level living room was I'd have the kids jumping off the dining room railing ten feet down onto the couch, which I'd covered with extra pillows to break their falls. Sometimes we'd take all the cushions off the couch, along with all the throw pillows in the house, form a big pile, and they'd jump right into that. My kids became so fearless they trained themselves to jump down nearly a complete flight of stairs...without injury. One game we'd play was Indiana Jones and the Temple of Death! where I'd grab a large stability ball (so big it barely fit into the stair well) and rolled it down from the top step just behind the kid tearing down the stairs. The goal was getting to the bottom before getting hit by the ball and their minds, the ball was a gigantic granite boulder, just like in the movie, on the verge of crushing them. You've got to move quickly to get down a flight of stairs before a stability ball!
7. Encourage your kid to self-locomote
Don't be so quick to give them rides! Make them walk, ride their bikes or even run to the store. Too many parents mollycoddle and provide taxi service when the best thing is for their kids to move themselves.
8. Teach your kid to swim
Fear of water is another basic human fear. Newborn babies instinctively know to hold their breath and paddle and bob in water. They are unafraid and even comfortable in a liquid medium. Very soon, they lose that comfort, becoming more scared as young children. There are so many needless drownings, so easily prevented by teaching kids the rudiments of swimming. There are limitless fun, fitness games you can play in the pool, including diving for coins, lap swimming under water and towing things around the pool.
9. Get your city kids out in the woods
My son was a genuine city kid and had never been out in the wilderness. When he was in 3rd grade, I took him on an extended canoe trip, camping out on the river banks each night. The first night or two he was terrified of the unfamiliar noises. I realized then just how good it was for him to get out of the city and experience some of the natural world. By the trip's end he was inured to the sounds of the forest and its creatures and I know he was better for it. Take your sons and daughters canoing, camping, hiking and fishing. Teach them how to build fires, make shelters and locate water. By the same token, if you live in a rural area, get your kid into the big city and let him see and hear what life is like in the concrete jungle. As a youthful rube from Carlisle PA, I was at once attracted but intimidated by the big city life and strange ways of Philadelphia. I got street-wise the hard way...it would have been so much easier if I'd had a parent or mentor help me with street smarts.
10. Create good health habits
Nothing will make your kid into a simpering, whiny little brat like a steady diet of sugar, denatured foods and soft drinks. You'll never prevent your kid from eating crap, so don't bother trying. By totally restricting them, you'll make treats the forbidden fruit and they'll sneak them absolutely every chance they get. Better to dole them out in limited amounts. I believe the best thing is to provide plenty of healthy foods, giving them ample opportunity to eat good stuff. This means regular mealtimes where they sit down to a table and good food is provided. And if they're not hungry, don't make them eat--but don't give them anything else. I guarantee they'll eat the next meal. So many parents are afraid to let their kid get a little hungry, instilling a fear of, and intolerance for, hunger in the child. Parents over-feed their kids and may get emotional managing their own hunger, so that the kid can grow up feeling panicky about the issue. At some of my friends' homes, so many options are provided to the kids regarding what to eat, it sounds like a restaurant and the mother plays short-order cook. I say,
"This is what's for dinner and you don't have to eat it if you don't want to but their ain't anything else."
Kids end up respecting meal time more and feeling more gratitude for it. I'm not going to expound on dietetics, but I encourage plenty of protein and fat for growing children and keeping simple carbohydrates to a minimum. Kids need plenty of saturated fat for their developing brains, nervous and immune systems. This means lots of cream, eggs, milk, meat and cheese. Get their little asses off the couch. One of my standard rules was that for every 30-minutes of physical activity, they would buy one hour of television or video games. If they wanted more time, they had to get more active. For kids playing on sports teams, this doesn't apply. They're already so active with their school sports, the extra t.v. doesn't seem to hurt them.
I don't claim to be the best parent or know everything (and much of what I know was learned by trial-and-error) but anyone who knows my son, Zak, can attest that he is truly a physical specimen and world-class athlete. What I've described worked well for him and will for you as well.
Q: Any tips and/or modifications to improve the deck squat? I can't seem to get up from the roll yet and I'm guessing it's simply a lack of flexibility at this point OR not generating enough momentum to pull me up. What would be something to perform to help me get to the level of doing a deck squat...?
A: Try doing deck squats on something elevated: use a treadmill or some cushions, foam or a mattress, or, if outside, use the curb. That will give you a little boost to get back up.
Using a KB generates enough momentum to get back up, throw it forward and let the body follow it. Despite the name, there is a some momentum involved.
Thanks for reading, thanks for writing in your comments and updates.
Yours in strength & health,


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Israeli officials responding to the latest pressure from US President Barack Obama said the American leader is weak and naive, suggesting that Washington, which today has little leverage anywhere else in the Middle East, is trying to strong-arm the Jewish state.
The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday reported that the Obama Administration had held up a delivery of missiles to Israel during its war against Gaza's Hamas terrorist infrastructure.
In a phone call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the same day, Obama reportedly repeated his demand that Israel implement an immediate, unilateral, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
The frozen missile shipment would appear to be a pressure tactic to get Israel to acquiesce to Obama's demands, which Israeli officials have said only serve the interests of Hamas and terrorists throughout the region.
The month-long Gaza war was rife with diplomatic confrontations between Israel and the United States.
When Secretary of State John Kerry proposed a ceasefire deal drawn up in coordination with Hamas allies Turkey and Qatar, Israelis from the highest levels of government to the average man on the street were left wondering if America was still their ally.
Officials on both sides have been frantically working to downplay the worsening relations.
"The allegations are unfounded," said Israel's ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer. "Israel deeply appreciates the support we have received during the recent conflict in Gaza from…the Obama administration."
"We know nothing of this," an Israeli government official told 0404 News in relation to the Journal report, claiming that "relations between Netanyahu and Obama are much improved."
But the Israeli press was unimpressed by the denials, and news of the "deepening rift" between America and the Jewish state was the leading headline on nearly every Israeli media outlet Thursday morning.
Many speculated that Netanyahu knows well the workings of the American government, and is content to wait out a hostile Obama White House knowing that Congress will shield Israel from any truly severe measures.
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David Nail Dishes on Being Only Married Man on a Tour
Life on the road definitely has its perks, but it also has its downside. If you're involved with someone or even married, being away from home is extra tough, especially when you're the only married person on a tour.
David Nail found that out first hand this past spring when he toured with his labelmates Billy Currington and Kip Moore. "I think I [was] the only married guy out there, so that [was] definitely miserable," Nail told Taste of Country earlier this year with a crooked smile. "I [had] to just sit back and watch them in all their escapades. I just kind of [sat] in the corner and [texted] my wife!"
Of course Nail wouldn't have it any other way. He and his wife, Catherine, are still very much in love and just celebrated their third wedding anniversary last month. The time spent on the road for Nail was a great learning experience, as Currington was a big inspiration to his career in the early years.
"Billy was probably the first artist I ever met when we were signed," Nail says. "I was originally on Mercury, and we were signed a month apart. I've always said people don't understand what a great singer he is. I've seen him in some different scenarios where he just pulls out a guitar and it's like, that's not fair! You hear Billy talk, and then when you hear him sing, they just mesh. It just makes sense. It's been very exciting to see him really solidify himself as a bonafide star in this format.
"I think a lot of time when people talk about tours, they try to pair people up based on their music being similar," Nail continues, as he reflects on the tour with Currington and Moore. "I think it's almost more enjoyable to take the opposite approach. Your ability to reach new people who probably otherwise would never care to listen to you or heard of you. I'm sure there [were] some David Nail fans who never really heard of Kip or Billy and vice versa."
Now with the tour behind him, Nail is able to focus on the next portion of his year, including the release of his new three-song EP titled '1979′ on July 17 and continuing to push his current single, 'The Sound of a Million Dreams.' Check out Nail's tour dates by clicking here to see where else he will be popping up on the road throughout the year.