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Society of American Foresters honors four forestry faculty members
John Munsell, John Seiler, Jen Gagnon, & Carolyn Copenheaver The Society of American Foresters has been impressed by the work within the College of Natural Resources and Environment, naming four faculty members from the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation as recipients of the organization’s annual awards. John Munsell, professor and extension specialist, will receive the Carl Alwin Schenck Award, one of SAF’s highest honors for excellence in forestry education.
Divorced, but still sharing the family home
When Kathleen Brigham and her then-husband, Jim, decided to divorce, she proposed an unconventional living arrangement: Instead of shuttling their three children back and forth between homes every few days, they would let the kids stay put. The parents would take turns living with them. Brigham and Jim drew up an informal custody agreement for the children, who were ages 4, 9 and 12 at the time.
Divorced, but still sharing the family home
Divorced, but still sharing the family home (washingtonpost.com) Divorced, but still sharing the family home By Chris Moody 2025070912050000 When Kathleen Brigham and her then-husband, Jim, decided to divorce, she proposed an unconventional living arrangement: Instead of shuttling their three children back and forth between homes every few days, they would let the kids stay put. The parents would take turns living with them.
Why You Should Work Like It’s the ’90s Original
One Friday afternoon 10 years ago, Andrew Heaton, then a cable-news writer, joined his colleagues for a meeting. The show’s producer asked the staff to keep an eye on their email over the weekend in case they needed to cover a breaking news event. No one seemed to mind—working full days in person while remaining on call in the evening and on weekends has always been a standard practice in the news business—but Heaton had a simple request.
Iron Age-Female Society
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Iron Age-Female Society
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Iron Age-Female Society
Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery in southern Britain shows that women were closely related while unrelated men tended to come into the community from elsewhere, likely after marriage. The study published Wednesday in the journal Nature shows that female family ties were central to the organization of Celtic society in southern Britain before the Roman invasion. Researchers studied ancient DNA from 57 graves in Dorset in southwest England.
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More journalists are leaving big cities — and finding America - Editor and Publisher
Posted Tuesday, September 3, 2024 6:48 pm As a teenager growing up in a rural Georgia town in the early 2000s, Alison Miller counted the days until she could move away for good. Bound for New York City after high school, she could think of nothing worse than “a continued existence in Hartwell, Georgia.” “I could not wait to leave,” she said. Miller studied journalism at New York University and dived into a career of magazine journalism.
The lawyer who fights for people’s right to grow ‘weeds’
Val Weston and J. Brandon knew the yard needed help. In 2021, the couple had bought a 1970s-era fixer-upper in Silver City, N.M., on a corner lot carpeted in weeds, including the invasive goathead, notorious for its spiky leaves. "The yard was completely abused," Weston says. "Neglected." Weston, a certified naturalist, was eager to ditch the lawn altogether in favor of native grasses, flowers and trees.
Top 25 Stories of 2023
Below is a list of the Top 25 stories of the year, as ranked by the number of page views at the MinistryWatch website, plus the first few sentences for each story. How Do You Handle a Problem Like…Andy Stanley? By Warren Cole Smith, Oct. 6, 2023 | Andy Stanley and I are almost exactly the same age, and I met him when we were both just out of college.
Life After Home Internet on Apple Podcasts
Chris Moody and his wife called their telecom provider, to ask that their Internet service be scrapped, and replaced by a landline. They do not have cell reception on the mountain where they live, so eschew wifi and the world wide web in favor of a single hardwired phone inside their home. Chris joins the show to discuss how the change affected his lifestyle and happiness, and offer advice on what others can do. REFERENCES: TPO: Would You Shut Down the Internet If You Could?
The Seven Stories to Read Today
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. The holiday season is upon us—but before you power through your to-do list, decompress with these seven stories, selected by our editors.
Life Really Is Better Without the Internet
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Before our first child was born last year, my wife and I often deliberated about the kind of parents we wanted to be—and the kind we didn’t. We watched families at restaurants sitting in silence, glued to their phones, barely taking their eyes off the screens between bites. We saw children paw at their parents, desperate to interact, only to be handed an iPad to keep quiet. We didn’t want to live like that.
Essentials for Van Life
The Goods How do you build a bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom, and a workspace in a van? | (Illustrations: Galich Ws/Fiverr) Enjoy the fruits of capitalism with The Goods, a regular series highlighting products that can make life a little bit better. For two years, we lived in a 72-square-foot tiny house we built inside a van.
Essentials for Van Life
Enjoy the fruits of capitalism with The Goods, a regular series highlighting products that can make life a little bit better. For two years, we lived in a 72-square-foot tiny house we built inside a van. Our van gave us the freedom to live rent-free across North America, making our home in picturesque high deserts, isolated mountaintops, secluded beaches, wineries, and even the streets of Manhattan.
The enduring allure of a older 'project' home
Debbie Sue and Mark Przybysz’s home, a 100-year-old craftsman bungalow in Chattanooga, Tenn., that they bought for $65,000, came with original wood floors, a charming stone porch and a gaping, burned-out hole in the roof. Part of the house had been set ablaze when a previous resident flicked on a lighter near a set of curtains. In addition to opening the cavity overhead, the fire left dark burn marks on the floor below.
The enduring allure of the cheap old house
Debbie Sue and Mark Przybysz’s home, a 100-year-old craftsman bungalow in Chattanooga, Tenn., that they bought for $65,000, came with original wood floors, a charming stone porch and a gaping, burned-out hole in the roof. Part of the house had been set ablaze when a previous resident flicked on a lighter near a set of curtains. In addition to opening the cavity overhead, the fire left dark burn marks on the floor below.
The enduring allure of the cheap old house
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate Debbie Sue and Mark Przybysz's home, a 100-year-old craftsman bungalow in Chattanooga, Tenn., that they bought for $65,000, came with original wood floors, a charming stone porch and a gaping, burned-out hole in the roof. Part of the house had been set ablaze when a previous resident flicked on a lighter near a set of curtains. In addition to opening the cavity overhead, the fire left dark burn marks on the floor below.
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August 22, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EDT Debbie Sue and Mark Przybysz’s 100-year-old craftsman bungalow, shown after they renovated the interior and exterior of the home. (Ryan Dugger/Creative Revolver) Debbie Sue and Mark Przybysz’s home, a 100-year-old craftsman bungalow in Chattanooga, Tenn., that they bought for $65,000, came with original wood floors, a charming stone porch and a gaping, burned-out hole in the roof.
Forget Uber Eats. Modern-day homesteaders prefer to live off the land.
TRIPLETT, N.C. — Every morning before commuting to full-time jobs in town, Jess McClelland and Alex O’Neill tackle a long list of chores. Eggs in the chicken coop need collecting; the vegetables need picking; a pair of 400-pound pregnant pigs need their medicine. After working all day in nearby Boone, McClelland, 24, and O’Neill, 27, drive home, descending a steep curved road to their 16-acre property in the mountains of western North Carolina. Then they work their land until nightfall.
Forget Uber Eats. Modern-day homesteaders prefer to live off the land.
TRIPLETT, N.C. - Every morning before commuting to full-time jobs in town, Jess McClelland and Alex O’Neill tackle a long list of chores. Eggs in the chicken coop need collecting; the vegetables need picking; a pair of 400-pound pregnant pigs need their medicine. After working all day in nearby Boone, McClelland, 24, and O’Neill, 27, drive home, descending a steep curved road to their 16-acre property in the mountains of western North Carolina. Then they work their land until nightfall.
Forget Uber Eats. Modern-day homesteaders prefer to live off the land.
TRIPLETT, N.C. – Every morning before commuting to full-time jobs in town, Jess McClelland and Alex O’Neill tackle a long list of chores. Eggs in the chicken coop need collecting; the vegetables need picking; a pair of 400-pound pregnant pigs need their medicine. After working all day in nearby Boone, McClelland, 24, and O’Neill, 27, drive home, descending a steep curved road to their 16-acre property in the mountains of western North Carolina. Then they work their land until nightfall.
Forget Uber Eats. Modern-day homesteaders prefer to live off the land.
"There's a good sense of gratification that comes from it," O'Neill says. "It's pretty hard to grow all of this stuff and it's satisfying when you see that first beautiful tomato." The number of farms in the United States has seen a steep decline, but some have turned to homesteading - in which property owners use home gardening, lumber production and other subsistence skills to take more control over their lives during uncertain times.
Forget Uber Eats. Modern-day homesteaders prefer to live off the land.
"There's a good sense of gratification that comes from it," O'Neill says. "It's pretty hard to grow all of this stuff and it's satisfying when you see that first beautiful tomato." The number of farms in the United States has seen a steep decline, but some have turned to homesteading - in which property owners use home gardening, lumber production and other subsistence skills to take more control over their lives during uncertain times.
Forget Uber Eats. Modern-day homesteaders prefer to live off the land.
"There's a good sense of gratification that comes from it," O'Neill says. "It's pretty hard to grow all of this stuff and it's satisfying when you see that first beautiful tomato." The number of farms in the United States has seen a steep decline, but some have turned to homesteading - in which property owners use home gardening, lumber production and other subsistence skills to take more control over their lives during uncertain times.
Forget Uber Eats. Modern-day homesteaders prefer to live off the land.
They have found ways to make it work financially — and realized quickly that strong relationships with neighbors and other homesteaders help. They arranged a deal with the Boone stockyard for cow manure. They bought landscaping material from a farm selling off equipment, including Reemay gardening cloth and hoops at a huge discount. A friend lets them use a tractor. For newcomers to homesteading, Bogwalker offers sound advice: Go slow.
How US right-wing views Putin amid Russian attack on Ukraine Original
As Russia’s deadly invasion of Ukraine continues, a number of prominent American conservatives who had previously been complimentary of Vladimir Putin have been forced to confront past comments praising the Russian president.
US midterms: Activists brace for renewed fight over voting rights
With United States midterm elections scheduled for November, the struggle in Congress to pass federal voting rights legislation has left Democrats and election rights activists worried that time is running out for reforms. “The honest to God answer is I don’t know whether we can get this done,” US President Joe Biden told reporters earlier this month.
2022 Association Forecast
For the past two years, Water & Wastes Digest has requested a brief from industry associations about their predictions for the coming year. As noted in the 2021 State of the Industry Report, 2021 was a year with many important events for the industry, from regulatory movements on the Lead & Copper Rule to the American Society of Civil Engineers Infrastructure Report Card and the months-long process surrounding the proposal, adoption, passage and signing of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Decades after 9/11, what became of the US’s neoconservatives?
In the weeks before former President Bill Clinton delivered his State of the Union address to Congress in 1998, a group of intellectuals, writers and policymakers penned an open letter to the president that made an impassioned case for “removing Saddam Hussein and his regime” from power in Iraq. “We urge you to act decisively,” the letter, published through an organisation called the Project For The New American Century, read.
How Critical Race Theory Overran the Southern Baptist Convention
Photo: Mark Humphrey/AP/Shutterstock As they headed toward Nashville for the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, the cars with black pirate flags strapped to their windows — complete with smirking skulls and crossbones — were a good indicator that some of the passengers were spoiling for a fight.
‘Critical race theory’ becomes a flashpoint in US public schools
As part of a backlash against campaigns to emphasize racism’s historical and ongoing effect on inequality in American life, Republican lawmakers across the United States are moving to restrict how race is discussed in public schools. Legislatures in more than a dozen states have considered bills that would regulate how teachers teach about race-related issues in classrooms.
Vaccination rates fall off, imperiling Biden's July Fourth goal
Plummeting vaccination rates have turned what officials hoped would be the "last mile" of the coronavirus immunization campaign into a marathon, threatening President Joe Biden's goal of getting shots to at least 70% of adults by July 4. The United States is administering fewer than 1 million shots per day, a decline of more than two-thirds from the peak of 3.4 million in April, according to The Washington Post's seven-day average, even though all adults and children over age 12 are now eligible.
How Southern Evangelicals Learned to Love CBD
CHATTANOOGA Tenn. — Not long after Elisha Millan opened Grass Roots Health, Tennessee’s first hemp dispensary, a woman from a nearby church walked through her door in downtown Chattanooga, timidly passed the neat rows of pipes, rolling papers and CBD oils, and asked if the products would make her high. The customer, who leads a predominately African-American congregation in worship as a piano player, suffered from pain in her hands and fingers from decades of constant play.
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Living Nowhere
The “RV Entrepreneur Summit,” held at a mountaintop lodge overlooking Alabama’s Lake Guntersville in the summer of 2019, promised attendees a long weekend of networking with full-time R.V.ers, workshops, and gear training with “brand ambassadors” from outdoor recreation companies.
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Watching a dude hit on a young woman at CPAC. Stopped her in the hall outside Trump's speech and delivered his pickup line: "Hey! Um, I'm a sponsor here at CPAC, so I feel obligated to talk to everybody." Seems to be working so far. We'll see how it goes... He just got her name. Called her beautiful, so things are escalating. It seemed to be working for awhile, but she said, "Nice to meet you," after the "beautiful" line and she walked away. Solid attempt all around tho.
Trump cements grip on GOP, even as some backers look forward
Orlando, Florida, the United States — Regardless of whether Donald Trump mounts a third campaign for the White House in 2024, it became clear over the weekend that the former United States president still holds a firm grip on the Republican Party. However, despite overwhelming support, there are signs that some die-hard Trump backers are open to seeing somebody other than Trump become the future of his political movement.
Pro-Trump Republicans dominate conservative conference
Orlando, Florida, United States – The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the United States’s largest annual gathering of Republicans, has over the years served as a gauge for the direction of the party and its supporters. This year’s event, just weeks after Donald Trump was acquitted in a US Senate impeachment trial for his role in a deadly Capitol riot, is taking place as the party has splintered over the former Republican president’s role moving forward.
In ‘Nomadland,’ Vanlife Is a Necessity-Not a Choice
When I was living full-time in a van before the pandemic, I visited San Diego, a place where it was common to find people living in their cars. The city’s year-round warm weather facilitated a booming community who lived in vans and RVs as a lifestyle choice. At the same time, a housing shortage and high rent prices forced others to live in their vehicles because they had nowhere else to turn.
In Greene’s district, a polarized response to her expulsion from House committees
DALTON, Ga. —A day after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was stripped of her congressional committee assignments for past extremist and racist remarks, some of her top supporters said it felt as if they, too, were being silenced. “I think it’s awful what they’re doing to her,” said Cheryl Hamdani, 64, who voted for Greene in November and works as a house cleaner in Whitfield County. “Georgia should have the authority to do that or not.
Back home in Georgia, voters stand with QAnon congresswoman
Lookout Mountain, Georgia, US — As Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene faces bipartisan condemnation for her unapologetic embrace of conspiracy theories, her supporters back home say she is doing what they sent her to Washington to do. “She went to Washington to take a stand for the American people. We’re proud of her,” said Dianne Putnam, chair of the Republican Party in Georgia’s Whitfield County. “We love her. We voted her in.
One night in Rob Portman’s haunted hotel
"Sarah's Room" in the Golden Lamb Inn owned by Sen. Rob Portman LEBANON, Ohio—The sun is setting on this small town in southwest Ohio, and when darkness reigns, strange things happen at the Golden Lamb Inn. Or so I'm told. The Inn, owned by the family of Ohio Sen. Rob Portman for the better part of the last century, is the oldest hotel in the state.
Potential Romney VP Rob Portman is a method actor of debate prep: ‘physical mannerisms, parsing of his voice, everything'
By Chris Moody June 4, 2012, 9:28 AM • 9 min read -- When Republicans need to get inside the brain of a Democrat, they call Rob Portman. "I don't know anybody who's done more debate coaching or surrogate work in debates than Rob Portman," Rick Lazio, the former New York congressman who ran against Hillary Clinton for Senate in 2000, told Yahoo News. Lazio asked Portman to play his opponent in that race, and he left shocked at how well Portman could transform himself into the former first lady.
2021 Association Forecast for the Water Industry
AWWA, NACWA & WEF share insights into the regulatory & legislative future of the water industry Last year, Water & Wastes Digest (WWD) asked associations throughout the industry to share a small brief forecasting the upcoming year. Those briefs highlighted each association’s focus of year, the regulations and legislation they had at the top of their minds, and what that could mean for the future of the industry.
How will Democrats’ control of an evenly-divided Senate work?
Georgia certified election results Tuesday confirming the victories of Georgia Democratic Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff to the US Senate. Their arrival in the Senate splits the partisan makeup in the chamber equally between 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans, a divide that has occurred only three times before in the nation’s history.
Democrats near Senate control after Warnock wins Georgia race
Democrat Raphael Warnock has defeated Republican Kelly Loeffler in one of Georgia’s two US Senate runoff elections, according to a projection from the Associated Press, putting Democrats one seat away from majority control of the Senate. In the extremely tight race, Warnock leads Loeffler 50.5 to 49.5 percent, with 98 percent of votes counted. The second runoff, between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican David Perdue, is still too close to call.
Georgia awaits results of high-stakes US Senate runoff elections
Polls have officially closed in Georgia, where Republican and Democratic US Senate candidates faced off after running the most expensive and nationally consequential pair of congressional runoff campaigns in state history. Around one million voters were expected to return to the polls Tuesday to vote in two races pitting Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler against Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican David Perdue, whose Senate term expired Sunday, against Democrat Jon Ossoff.
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