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POLL: State receives no bids for Alligator Alley lease
One year later, the odyssey led by Florida transportation officials seeking to lease Alligator Alley is over as quietly as it started.
By the 4 p.m. deadline Monday, the Florida Department of Transportation had received no proposals from six teams of bidders who expressed interest in the project in 2008. That was after several delays, including one in January that put off the proposal deadline for an additional five months. It was pegged as an effort to allow credit markets to thaw and for teams to consolidate and share risk.
However, about 4:30 p.m. Monday, department officials released a statement that not one bid had been submitted.
Kevin Thibault, assistant FDOT secretary and the project's head, said Monday evening he was surprised, but had prepared long ago for the unexpected.
"It's something you can't normally expect," said Thibault. "You kind of plan that you will have a scenario where you don't get any proposals."
He said run-of-the-mill construction projects receive no bids, from time to time. It is a reality of the business, he said. That is not the case with any current projects, however.
"Each one is unique," he said. "There will be different factors that will drive the proposers to put together their bids. Time could be a factor. It could be that, with some of them, the added time gave them the ability to change their minds."
Thibault said he had no regrets about changing the timeline, however.
He said it is too early to speculate whether the state will pursue a lease of the Alley at another point in the future. Additionally, he said FDOT would have to hold discussions about whether to increase tolls starting in July, as planned. A toll schedule released in October called for tolls to go up to $3.75 for cash transactions from the current rate of $2.50, starting July 1 this year.
Bob Poole, an advocate for public-private partnerships, speculated early Monday that the number of bidders might narrow — to two or three.
"When you deal with a project that is based on voluntary usage ... there is some inherent risk in how many people paying how much are going to use a project like that," said Poole, who is director of transportation studies for the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think-tank.
He pointed to recent brush fires that scoured 30,000 acres in the Big Cypress National Preserve, shutting down Alligator Alley intermittently for three weeks, meaning no tolls were collected while the road was out of use. Events like that remind investors of the risk inherent to leases of public transportation assets such as roads.
Moreover, said Poole, international credit markets have hardly thawed compared to January. Poole called it "increasingly difficult, but not impossible," to secure the credit needed to lease a large piece of the transportation pie, from an airport in Chicago where a lease deal championed by Mayor Richard Daley fell through last year to a road in Chile, where the firm Global Via Infrastructure put down 40 percent equity to lease a road in 2008.
Global Via was originally partnered with the collapsed investment bank Lehman Brothers and was looking for a new partner to put up the capital needed to lease Alligator Alley. Unofficial estimates placed the lease price of the road at about $500 million for 50 years.
After news broke Monday that no bids had been received, state Senator Dave Aronberg was jubilant. He spent the past year speaking publicly against the proposal and introducing legislation that would block similar deals. However, it was to no avail during the recently-concluded legislative session.
"This deal was ill-conceived from the beginning," said Aronberg. "It's a shame that the taxpayers of Florida had to waste $3 million to get to the point where the state was turned away at the altar. The state shouldn't have been at the altar to begin with."
That $3 million Aronberg referred to is how much he says the state paid to litigate the deal and defend it from attacks that mounted over the 13 months it was pursued. The first public mention of a potential lease of the 78-mile toll road from Naples to Fort Lauderdale was at an April 2008 meeting held in Orlando. Local residents were outraged from the get-go that FDOT officials would hold a meeting more than three hours from the counties affected by the proposal.
The deal was fraught from there.
In June, officials announced they would re-post the request for qualifications, the equivalent of re-advertising a job opening to seek resumes. They said they needed to clarify some of the requirements and ask for additional information. The field of interested firms dropped from eight to six after that.
When, during a "short-listing" process, the state did not remove any firms from the running and instead asked all six to bid, a few eyebrows went up, including Poole's. It typically makes sense to invite just two or three firms to bid, Poole said, in order to give those in the running a sense that they have a good shot.
Phineas Baxandall, a transportation expert with the U.S. association of Public Interest Research Groups, said now is actually a better time for states to leverage their own money, anyway.
"It would be a case of outsourcing to a more expensive middle man now than when they said the deals weren't good enough (in January)," said Baxandall. "In the meantime, the stimulus bill has introduced some bills such as the Build America bonds."
Baxandall has been opposed to the lease proposal since the first suggestion and minced no words Monday about the state's efforts: "The history of this has been a string of spectacular failures that are continually talked about as if a great payoff for the public is just around the corner."


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The Peachtree City Police Department officials say that the third annual Light Up the Night Toy Drive has been a resounding success.
The donations for the 2012 event were almost overwhelming, said spokesman Lt. Mark Brown. "The department would like to thank all those who contributed to this program. It is estimated that 86 children in Fayette County, 15 adults, and approximately 30 residents of Southland Nursing Home received these generous donations for Christmas," he said.
Volunteers from the department, the Community Emergency Response Team (C.E.R.T.), Auxiliary Police Force, and several other organizations assisted with the collecting and wrapping of the toys and donations for families in need in the Fayette County community.
Capt. Stan Pye and Sgt. Kay Crider were the coordinators of the program.
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St. Louis Attorney Kevin O'Malley, nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, has not been confirmed yet. Colby Itkowitz, National reporter for the Washington Post, discusses the "Ambassador Backlog".
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Adoniram Judson, pioneer missionary to Burma, was not afraid to, and it changed his view and cost him dearly. I encourage, yes, challenge you—do not think you hold to a biblical mode of baptism that is not believer's baptism by immersion, unless you can read this missionary's reasoned study and refute it by God's Word. If you do hold to believer's baptism by immersion, do not think that the mode and timing of baptism is a matter of non-importance if Christ commanded us to do it! Judson's story and sermon will strengthen your understanding.
Judson, originally a Congregational missionary holding to paedobaptism (infant baptism), took time to study the issue on his and Ann's sea voyage to India. One account follows:
On the five months' sea voyage Adoniram gave himself to an in-depth study of baptism. He was prompted by the question of what procedure he would employ with converts. He was also concerned as to how he would defend paedobaptism when he was with the British Baptist missionaries at Serampore [William Carey and others]. Adoniram read everything he could find on both sides of the subject. Ann [his wife] resolutely declared that nothing would change her views. She used every argument she could to dissuade Adoniram from changing his position. But eventually she came to the Baptist position herself. This was seismic in its outcome. It spelled the end of all their support…. In a letter to a friend, William Carey wrote, "since their arrival in Bengal brother and sister Judson have been baptized. Judson preached the best sermon upon baptism that I have ever heard on the subject, which we intend to print." (in Adoniram Judson and the Missionary Call by Erroll Hulse, p. 14)
That sermon was published as "A Sermon on Christian Baptism." A version is available to read on Google Books here and it will take you less than an hour to read it. If my challenge to you to read it above was not enough, I leave you with the words of Judson himself from his sermon's conclusion:
To believe in Christ is necessary to salvation ; and to be baptized [as a believer by immersion as he has argued] is the instituted method of professing our belief. It is, therefore, not only an infinitely important question to all men, whether they believe in Christ; but it is also a very important question to all Christians, whether they have been baptized. If you love Christ, you cannot consider this question unimportant. You will be desirous of discovering the will of him whom you love, and of testifying your love, by joyfully obeying. (93)
If, when your mind adverts to this question, you fear the consequences of an examination, and dread those sacrifices, which a discovery that you have been mistaken may enforce on your conscience; or if you feel the influence of long established sentiments, and imagine, that the subject is too dark and intricate for your investigation; look to the Son of God, who hesitated not to make the greatest sacrifices, and to endure the most painful sufferings for you; and look up to the Father of lights, to send the Holy Spirit according to the promise of his Son, to guide you into all truth. Especially, my brethren, diligently use the means of discovering the truth. Put yourselves in the way of evidence. Indulge free examination. Though the sun shines with perfect clearness, you will never see that light which others enjoy, if you confine yourselves in a cavern, which the beams of the sun cannot penetrate. Be assured that there is sufficient evidence on this subject, if you seek to discover it. But if your love for truth is not sufficiently strong to make you willing to labor for the discovery of evidence, God will probably leave you to be contented with error. (93-94)


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Under federal law, this spring's deadline was May 17. But candidates are given a 30-day grace period to submit the report detailing their personal financial status.
That deadline was up Wednesday. The Senate's Office of Public Records said late Thursday, it had not received a filing from Paul since last October.
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Dale Cherney settled into a meditative casting rhythm on a red rock stretch of Wyoming's North Platte River and caught nine trout in a single late summer day. That's spectacular fly fishing by any measure – and even more impressive considering Cherney lost part of his right leg, his eye and his spleen to a rocket attack in Iraq. For Cherney, however, catching trout is almost inconsequential. He appreciates the ways fly fishing restores his strength, his balance and coaxed him back to life."The injuries have made me an introvert," says Cherney, whose left leg, also injured in the October 2007 attack, is held together by pins and rods. "Fly fishing pushes me, it gets me out doing things with people. I feel privileged to be stealing breath every day."Personal victories such as Cherney's are replicated from Maine to Hawaii because of a growing effort to provide fly-fishing therapy to wounded warriors. Some fishing guides informally reach out to veterans living in their area. Programs such as Sun Valley Adaptive Sports in Idaho include fly fishing among several offerings for veterans. Project Healing Waters, which made Cherney's trip to Wyoming possible, is the most far-reaching national effort focused solely on providing fly fishing for wounded warriors.The results speak for themselves: a wheelchair-using combat veteran now walks to fishing streams; a quadriplegic veteran learned to cast a fly rod with his right hand and manage the fishing line with his left hand despite a traumatic brain injury and a stroke; a Vietnam War veteran with severe agoraphobia and PTSD is able to leave his home and his family to fish with fellow veterans."Fly fishing helps veterans discover physical abilities they didn't know they have," says Teri Olson, a recreational therapist with Togus VA Medical Center in Augusta, Maine. "Say you no longer have a hand and all of a sudden you learn to use your prosthesis to strip line. It's no longer a weakness. Veterans who have lost a leg? They learn they really do dare to wade out into the water."Such invigorating therapy goes well beyond the physical. It's saved marriages, rebuilt shattered confidence, and helped veterans ease back into civilian life. "I have guys tell me, 'This is a thousand times better for me than sitting in a group talking about how bad things are,'" Olson says.Great Lakes Beginning. Fly-fishing therapy has been around since at least World War II, when a masonry contractor from Chicago first taught fly tying to Marines and sailors recovering at the Great Lakes Naval Hospital. Bill Blades initially saw fly tying as a way to relieve the tedium of long hospital stays and help combat veterans with injured arms and hands regain their fine motor skills. Fly tying inevitably led to fly fishing. Blades passed his talents to contemporary therapy efforts during a chance encounter in the early 1950s. A self-taught fly fisherman named John W. Colburn was dispatched to Camp Haven, Wis., with his artillery battery to train National Guard and Army reservists. During that three-month stint, Colburn's father-in-law – a sheet-metal contractor who knew Blades – insisted his son-in-law meet the fly-tying master."He wasn't the kind of guy who went around bragging about it," Colburn says of Blades' work with World War II wounded. "He mentioned it to me because I was in the Army at the time."Blades gave Colburn a couple of fly-tying lessons and presented him with a red rooster neck – prized fly-tying material. And Colburn carried his fly-tying gear everywhere he could throughout his 20-year Army career. "It kept me from doing other things that weren't good for me," he says. "I could do that in a tent out on a gun position rather than sit and play poker."After retiring from the Army in 1968, Colburn worked in fly shops and taught fly-tying classes. Five years ago, he heard a retired Navy captain named Ed Nicholson was starting a fly-fishing therapy program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center."When Project Healing Waters started, it reminded me of Bill Blades, and I mentioned to Ed that I did teach fly-tying classes," Colburn says. Soon he was teaching some of Blades' techniques to his first class of combat veterans: four soldiers who had lost their left arms and a soldier who had lost most of the use of his right hand. "My motto during that first class became, 'It isn't that you can't do it, it's that we haven't figured out a way that you can do it,'" Colburn says. In fact, Colburn taught himself to tie flies with either hand so he could teach soldiers who only have the use of one hand. And he learned not to take no for an answer."A guy will say to me, 'No way I can do that,'" Colburn says. "I say, 'Hell, give it a shot.' Pretty soon, he will figure out he can do it and there's no stopping him." Healing Waters. Nicholson was inspired to launch Project Healing Waters while recovering from surgery at Walter Reed. "I love to fly fish myself," Nicholson says. "I thought it would be helpful to get soldiers out of the hospital and reconnected with the outdoors. It wasn't hard to convince them to give it a try."Project Healing Waters started with fly-tying classes at Walter Reed led by Colburn. When spring broke, Nicholson and other volunteers launched the first fishing outing near Hagerstown, Md., with three wounded soldiers. The fishing stories got around. Demand was overwhelming. Nicholson asked fly-fishing groups around the country to help veterans in their areas. "We want to work within a club structure," Nicholson says. "This is more than an individual can do." Trout Unlimited and the Federation of Fly Fishers stepped forward. A dozen other independent clubs, including a chapter of American Fly Casters, have joined the effort in individual communities. Today, with just two paid staff and the generosity of the fly-fishing community, there are Project Healing Waters programs at more than 60 VA medical centers and about a dozen Army medical centers and Warrior Transition Units. A program soon will launch in Canada."The support we receive locally from many service organizations, including The American Legion, is making sure disabled veterans who would benefit from our program have access," says Jerry Lorang, who coordinates Project Healing Waters programs in Oregon.Fly fishing offers wounded warriors therapy away from the barbells and boredom of a hospital setting. Wounded warriors get one-on-one attention from volunteer instructors. They start with fly tying, progress to rod building and, in some locations, drift boat building. Fly-casting practice also starts indoors during the foul months of winter and moves outside as the weather improves. "We try to stay in front of it and keep soldiers engaged," Nichols explains.The men and women who participate talk about the camaraderie, about being inspired by watching what others are able to accomplish, about the chance to forget what most troubles them."It releases your mind from what happened back there," says Jesse Garza of Fullerton, Calif., who was wounded in Vietnam and still battles PTSD. "It gives you that moment, that hour, that week away from the pain. It's a mental-physical type of therapy where you use your hands and you use your mind." And it has given him and his wife an outdoor sport they can pursue together.There's also the pride of learning to master something as mysterious and challenging as fly fishing despite dramatic physical and emotional challenges inflicted by combat."Soldiers wake up one day missing an arm or a leg and ask themselves if they will ever be able to do the things they liked to do," Nicholson says. "We help them regain their confidence through teaching them the art and craft and sport of fly fishing. Time and again, a soldier who didn't want to do anything is out there casting with one arm, stripping line with his teeth."However, Project Healing Waters emphasizes it's not a "take-a-soldier-fishing-for-a-day program." It establishes long-term relationships with wounded warriors. It works with the physical, occupational and recreational therapists at VA and military medical centers who are in charge of the formal treatment."Therapists see the benefits of repeated contact over time," Nicholson says. "They love the fact that we are committed.""There are hundreds of organizations that want to help veterans," adds Carole Katz of Long Beach, Calif., Casting Club. "What's unique about Project Healing Waters is we're there on a regular basis where other groups might come for the Fourth of July or a one-time benefit event."The therapy is all about the fishing – and not about fishing at all."Put yourself in the framework of a person who is missing an arm or lost the ability to use an arm," Nicholson says. "They have got to find ways in everyday living to get along. How do they button their buttons? Tie their shoes? If you get them down on a fly-tying bench and show them how, with one arm, they can tie a wooly bugger, they can do other things."Terry Perry, who developed a desire to fly fish while she was stationed in Alaska with the Air Force, says there's another consideration. "When I'm in a drift boat catching fish, nobody can tell I have a handicap," says Perry, who returned home to Maine after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. "Out there, you can relax, you can be yourself. When you go in public with a wheelchair, you don't always get that." The classroom sessions, offered as often as weekly in some locations, are as important as the fishing trips. "I have vets who just take the rod-building classes, fly-tying lessons, and casting lessons," says Carole Katz, the retired nurse anesthetist who runs a Project Healing Waters program for veterans at the Long Beach VA Medical Center. "For many of them, these ongoing classes are just as therapeutic as the fishing outings." One participant, whose life revolved around sitting in bed, watching TV and popping pills for his relentless pain, told her the classes "get the week off to a positive start" and give him "a reason to get out of bed and out of the house." Families are equally grateful for fishing therapy. "I've had spouses call me or pull me aside and say, 'Thank you for saving our marriage,'" Olson says. Fly tying, rod building and fishing also are more meaningful than some of the textbook physical and occupational therapy. "One of the exercises they have to do in physical therapy is pick up a marble and put it in a bowl over and over again," Katz says. "That's mind-numbingly boring to a 21-year-old stud who is coming back from the Middle East."Other soldiers find fly tying so enjoyable that they declare, with relief, that they have made their last leather wallet – standard fare on the rehabilitation menu.Participants from the Long Beach VA Medical Center have achieved other milestones, graduating from psychiatric treatment because the fly fishing program inspired them to buy a fly rod or go on fishing trips – all steps toward independent living.Fly Fishers Anonymous. Tim Reed wishes fly-fishing therapy had been offered when he came home from Vietnam with a bullet-shattered leg."I was in traction for four and a half months," Reed says. "It was brutal for the boredom. I could have tied flies when I was in bed." Reed found his way to fly-fishing therapy on his own 15 years ago, after alcohol and drugs cost him his business, his house and most of his friends. While he was in recovery, "they said, 'You cocaine addicts better find something real quick,'" Reed says. "Fly fishing turned my obsessive qualities a better direction. (Now) I just torture the fish instead of myself and my family."Why does fly fishing work? "It's hard to find a hobby you can participate in for the rest of your life," Reed says. "It's something anybody can do. You don't have to be an athlete. You can do it on your own or with other people. And trout hang out in pretty places."Reed started a program through the Spokane Fly Fishers because he wanted veterans to have the opportunity to find some of what fly fishing has given him. "I would not have gotten the VA hospital here to respond without the help of Project Healing Waters founder Ed Nicholson and regional director Chuck Tye," Reed says.Last summer, Spokane Fly Fishers took an 88-year-old combat veteran fishing after being contacted by his wife. It's the first time Mershan Shaddy fished since he was a kid. Now Reed's group is planning fly-fishing therapy for veterans with traumatic brain injury who live in a halfway house.Dale Cherney wishes more veterans would take advantage of the program. For him, fly-fishing therapy means a future. He pushes his workouts at Walter Reed so he has the strength to deal with steep stream banks. "I'll never be 100 percent," Cherney says. "But I'm getting close. When (rehab) is done, I want to help Project Healing Waters out – maybe volunteer to organize an event. And I'm thinking about building bamboo rods for a living." Meanwhile, one group is formally testing veterans before and after they participate in fishing therapy with the aim of establishing scientific evidence of the benefits of wielding a fly rod. Recreational therapists like Teri Olson don't need the formal affirmation."I've watched it work for 30 years," Olson says. "The veterans come away with lifelong changes. They come back week after week, month after month, as effusive as they were during that week of fishing. They see a strength they never knew they had before." She pauses and laughs. "It's amazing what a fish can do." Ken Olsen is a frequent contributor to The American Legion Magazine.
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10th Annual Paul C. Alaniz CACI Golf Tournament a Winner
Sunny skies and fair winds turned out for the 10th Annual Paul C. Alaniz CACI Golf Tournament. On June 25, 144 golfers challenged the greens at River Ridge Golf Course and raised over $9,000 to continue support for the California Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Home of California-Greater Los Angeles/Ventura County and raised awareness for the CDVA Project: Gold Star.
"For more than 10 years, CACI Technologies, Inc. has been a strong partner in service and support for veterans and their families, and this year they have stepped forward to help the families of those men and women who were killed in the line of duty with their support of Project Gold Star," said Roger Brautigan, secretary of CalVet. "CACI is an example for the corporate world to support our veterans when they return home and the families of those who don't come home."
CalVet operates six state-owned veterans' homes in California, including the Greater Los Angeles and Ventura County homes.
Congratulations to all the winners and players, but most importantly to the true winners: California's veterans and their families.
First place team: Mark Casen, Kenny Yang, Rob LaRosa and Thomas Wilson.
Second place team: Ret. Capt. Steve Huber, USN; Capt. Scott Heller, USN; Dave Scheid; and Dan Peterson.
Longest drive: Cdr. John Lowery, USN; and Barbara Ward, CDVA Deputy Secretary Women and Minority Veterans Affairs.
Closest to the pin: Patti Morgan and Dave Fucito.
Capt. Huber said, "The CACI tournament is a great event because it supports veterans and the families. Plus it is a fun day of golf at a wonderful venue."
Equipment purchased with funds raised from prior tournaments were installed and ready to welcome the veterans at VHC GLAVC in time for the grand opening ceremony held in December 2009. Equipment included a Barunm pool table, 52-inch Sony flat screen TVs, barbecue equipment, a WII console, a Play Station 3, games, hundreds of books, movies and magazine subscriptions, furniture, and art displayed in the game room.
Ret. Col. George Compton, US Army, said, "CACI has been the biggest local supporter of the Veterans Home. The recreational rooms would be empty without CACI."
The California Air National Guard, 146th Airlift Wing Communications Flight Channel Islands, gave incredible support on and off the greens.
CMSgt Ronald O'Connor, CA ANG, said, "It is an honor and a joy for the 146th to be a part of this event. To come out here and play some golf, knowing that we are helping those that have served before us, leaves us all with a satisfying feeling. CACI does a wonderful job, and we would like to thank them for their hard work. I know the veterans in Ventura appreciate it. I'd also like to acknowledge our folks from the 146th Communications Flight that volunteered to cook an awesome tri-tip barbecue lunch. They did a great job!"
In 2005, the tournament was renamed to honor Capt. Paul C. Alaniz. Capt. Alaniz died in a helicopter crash in Iraq during the opening days of Operation Iraqi Freedom. All of the golfers and volunteers proudly wore a Capt. Alaniz Marine Corps pin in remembrance. His widow Thelma and their daughter Lourdes graciously supported the festivities.
The spirit of giving was steadfast as the first and second place teams returned their winnings to the local Veterans home and to Lourdes to put toward her college funds.
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My kids (5yo boy, 3yo girl) and I have been building up some mileage this Spring and are now planning our first overnight camping tour for saturday/sunday. The route is 24 miles with one moderate climb. There are good rest points every 4-5 miles and the roads have bike lanes or wide shoulders.
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Well Bailey, I think Dan's video pretty much answered both our questions.In your video I see a small razor blade (very light weight) and a very small piece of fire starter (also extremely efficient on weight). Both of which are ideal state for an ultralighter, only exception being the motor skills comment above....*thinking*...HOWEVER, I'm being forced to "look within", deep into myself after watching this video. I'm not quite sold. The primal, savage, mountain man in me isn't satisfied with the razor blade and stubby flint.There's no logic to what I'm about to say, it's just the "MAN" in me that has a hard time giving up his big knife and big fire steel. This is coming from the same guy that spent $55 buying a Dremel just to shave 16 grams off of his cooking pot. Some areas I'm willing to cut weight, and in other areas...in this area, I'm gunna stick to my guns.This forum may burn me at the stake for saying this, but I'm not ready to surrender my over-sized, man knife and obscenely heavy 1/2" firesteel. I've drawn a line.____________________________________________who is with me?
Edited by matthewjamesroberts on 03/25/2009 00:29:01 MDT.
IMO, way too small and needs good motor skills. If you are cold, going to be tough to get a fire started.The Sparkie is a mechanical device subject to failure.Hard to beat a 1.5 oz magnesium block with built-in rod. These are really effective, if you practice with them. They will dull a knife, but it is not an everyday item. I leave mine at home, except for long trips or bad weather trips.
That 1/4" firesteel looks like a nice campfire conversation starter to me. But what do you use to start the campfire?
In a survival situation your "survival instincts" will kick in. Adrenalin will be flowing to the max. If not you'll be dead shortly. Knowledge of your equiment and environment is what separates the men from the boys. I have a passionate interest in surviving so my skills are extreme and so is my interest in alcohol stoves. It requires a minimum of 1 teaspoon full of magnesium to be scraped of a magnesium bar that has been spoken of. For all of you that have those bars I challenge you to scrape off that amount with your Man Knives into a manageable pile and then light it with the 1/4" ferro rod. Come back to this thread and tell us of your enlightning experience. That excersise will separate the men from the boys. It'll make you think twice about fire and sparks and survival. Let's hope we'll never need the fire making skills that we speak of. It has been an eye opening experience for me to delve into the world of fire making. I've had alot of fun learning and hope that all you will practice your fire making skill. Practice lighting your double walled downdraft wood gasifiers with a ferro rod and hacksaw blade.
Dan,I applaud your survival skills and encouraging others to hone theirs. As to magnesium bars, they require practice like any other tool. A tablespoon is a lot, much more than I would normally use, assuming some tinder is available. Wind is the issue with mag shavings. As to an 'enlightening' experience, here is mine. In the '60s I did several weeks of military SERE training in the Rockies. During the evasion part, we had a week to get from point A to point B. We had to travel at night, because during the day the 'aggressors' were trying to capture us. There were fewer aggressors at night. Traveling on trails was a good way to get captured, so I traveled cross country and on ridgelines where possible. This meant we had to sleep during the days under duft, in trees, etc. We encountered the usual afternoon thunderstorms and some snow (it was summer). Those who traveled in groups got caught. Those of us who traveled solo, had a much lower capture rate. I avoided capture. From what I remember, here was my gear.- sleeping bag- poncho- compass- topo map without major landmarks- flashlight- mag bar- knife- one day of C rations (had some matches in it)- paracord- NO packMy C ration "water proof" matches got wet early on and were not water proof :( During the week I was able to trap one rabbit and one squirrel. I caught two trout. I also ate a snake. The rest of my food was dandelion leaves and some berries. One day my sleeping bag got soaked, and it snowed that night. So I traveled outside the aggressor area, which was off the map. Built a fire with the mag, and kept somewhat warm. The next day cleared, and I was able to get the bag fairly dry. Being out of the area of the aggressors, I was not concerned about hiding that particular day. When night came, I moved back to the area on the map and continued towards point B. During the week, I was even able to light the K ration cigarettes with the mag bar. :)
I have no problems scraping that amount from the mag bar and hitting it with a spark. Maybe you were just to pumped up when you tried it or something.
Wow Nick! You're really living it up.Who were the agressors *sitting on the edge of his seat, waiting to hear more of the story*
Don't really want to hijack the thread, but I have gotten more than one inquiry about my post. All branches of the military have Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) training. The government is pretty sensitive about people giving out a lot of details about the training. There are different levels of training, depending upon the risk of the 'combatant', should he or she be captured. My training was about 40 years ago, when I was attending the USAF Academy. The Academy was unique, because it had its own SERE program. Actually a part of this training was classified by the USAF as "Secret." Since many graduates become pilots, it was extensive. Keep in mind that this was during the Viet Nam war era, and very realistic. Pilots are privy to a lot of military intelligence, and are prime targets for capture by any enemy. The Air Force took this training of the cadets very seriously.The survival and evasion training took part in the national forest, in the Pikes Peak area. The 'aggressors' were trained as SERE instructors, and acted as any enemy would in a war. They traveled on foot, and others used jeeps and trucks on forest service roads trying to locate us. I remember the area was very remote, and I did not see a single civilian during the week I described in my earlier post.Before this training we had completed Resistance and Escape training to include a simulated POW camp. That training was unpleasant to say the least, and all of us were truly afraid of capture. Many of us had sustained minor injuries during the prior training modules, and capture meant more of the same. The simulated enemy knew the territory, there were lots of them, and they wanted/needed to capture as many of us as possible. Given the time frame, we were well versed in Geneva Convention standards, and we were appropriatedly trained to the real fact that the enemy might not honor any of them. Thus, our realistic desire to avoid capture.The training we went through left a lasting impression on most of us. Last year I attended our 35th class reunion, and we drank many beers over our SERE rememberances and stories.During the late 60's and early 70's the USAFA SERE program had the reputation of being as difficult as any program in the military.In later years, due to a "harassment" lawsuit which the government lost, the USAFA SERE program was watered-down to CST (classroom training) and eventually discontinued at the Academy. Graduates who required SERE training went to the training at Fairchild AFB in Washington state. If you do a Web search for USAFA SERE, you can find more information.
Stimulate the economy, buy commercial fire starters, blastmatch or sparkies, take your pick.More flint and steel fire videos:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dos06c03p34http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDBBtUIVM5shttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdW8WBY_uhYIt's manditory that you practice. It could be hazardous to your health, so be careful. Watch this guy practice and not give up.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dos06c03p34.
Edited by zelph on 03/26/2009 17:26:22 MDT.
Thank you for posting this.I really like the technique holding the tinder on top of the blade with an upwards stroke. I've never seen this before.Where did you learn this. I like it!
I watched Dan's the video of how to light jute tufts or a paper towel using a fire starter. Since my own experience led me to believe the sparker was only useful for igniting my alcohol stove, I was so impressed I had to immediately try it myself. It took a while to get it right, but once I got the knack it was so much fun I filled the kitchen sink with little burning twine tufts and paper towel bits!I joined BPL forum just to thank you for the tip!
I learned the "SureFire" way of using the ferro rod from a grizzly looking "Mountain Man" out in the hills of PA many years ago while at a Mountain Man Gathering. He and I were sitting in his teepee talking fire stuff and the subject of ferro rods came up. It is the best method to use with a ferro rod when you want to give demos on fire starting. Ross, I'm glad you liked the video and thanks for the compliment. My videos make it look easy. I practiced alot, did my homework, and all is well = ) I'm confident that I can start a fire under adverse conditions. I carry my little ferro rods and 1 tablespoon of magnesium with me 24/7. The magnesium is contained in a hermetically sealed packet the size of a credit card x 1/8 inch thick. It's in my wallet along with a stainless steel blade. If I go somewhere that has homeland security I take measures to make myself legal; Practice your fire making skills, it could save your life or someone else. Hypothermia kills.
Try sparking some dryer lint, that really goes too.
Im going to let you guys in on one of my little secrets. If your ever in a jam and you need a little bit of tinder you can reach down your shirt and grab a fingernail sized amount from your inny. My bellybutton generates about one nights worth every day or two when I wear my smartwool or cotton tshirt. For those of you with outties maybe you could reach down a little further. It works great with a ferro rod.
Dan,Thanks for persevering, and sharing your skills, I found your technique original and highly effective.I've been using the FireSteel Army models and am thinking of getting much smaller and lighter ones, like that on my Magnesium block.Regards,
Did you get those firesteels yet? If so, how easy are they to create a spark...low, medium or high pressure?Thanks...b.gin
Dan,Thanks for the video. You're always a wealth of good fire-starting info. I was unaware of Jute before this - can I find this anywhere? Hardware store, craft store, etc? - Sam
Low to medium pressure with the blade of the knife drug backwards across the steel.
Thanks for the info Dustin. I bought a couple from firesteel.com and those required alot of pressure to spark which I didn't like. I think I read somewhere that firesteels made with a higher magnesium percentage were harder to spark.b.gin
I can second that. I recently purchased 4 fire steel ferro rods from goingear.comThe first 10 or so strikes in one area on a new Ferro rod looked great. Molten balls of fire shoot out and sizzle on the ground. It looks cool, and is sounds primal! Very Awesome.Until you get to the 11th or so strike. Then the rod doesn't produce much. Just shards of metal shavings and little-to-no spark.I have struck the ferro rods with everything from steel to carbide steel (Knife sharpener). No change in the rod's inability to produce sparks.Ditches form on the rods surface around strike 15+.I have written GoinGear. We'll see what they say.Please let me know if I'm doing something wrong.
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Trailer For "Hors La Loi" ("Outside The Law") – A "Battle Of Algiers" Prequel
As MsWOO already noted, Algerian filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb's film Hors la Loi (Outside the Law), was the other African film that screened in competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, which ended over the weekend; and the film, a fictionalized account of the Setif Massacre, caused quite a stir before a frame had even been screened, with French politicians and war veterans demanding that the film be pulled from the festival. Obviously it wasn't.
It reminded me of another film that captured Algerian liberation struggle from French colonialist rule – Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 masterpiece, Battle Of Algiers. That film too was considerably controversial in its day; it was banned in France for a number of years.
Will Bouchareb's film experience a similar fate? Obviously, 50 years later, some French aren't quite yet willing to turn that page. Any attempts to paint the French government/army in a less than admirable portrait (even if it's fact-based) gets French nationalists anxious.
If you haven't seen Battle Of Algiers, I strongly recommend that you do, especially if you plan on eventually seeing Bouchareb's film, which will likely travel, even if it doesn't screen in France. Both films take place at different moments of Algeria under French rule: the Setif Massacre covered in Bouchareb's film occurred soon after WWII, 1945; Battle of Algiers begins about 9 years later, reconstructing events that took place between 1954 and 1960, leading to Algeria's eventual independence from France.
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Fractured memories of a deadly encounter
ANDERSON COUNTY - Accused killer Leslie Sandoval says he can't remember much about a drinking spree in January that left his homeless friend Seth Foster dead and dismembered under a vacant downtown building.
"It is like a jigsaw puzzle and I can't put all of the pieces together," said Sandoval during an exclusive jailhouse interview with the Independent Mail. "I am still putting pieces together today."
Anderson police arrested Sandoval on Feb. 25 and charged with him murder and possession of a weapon in a violent crime.
He was apprehended at a rural Abbeville County home two days after investigators discovered Foster's decomposing torso in the crawl space of an abandoned building in downtown Anderson. The 53-year-old victim's head, hands and right foot were recovered from under a nearby building.
Sandoval said he may reveal the location of Foster's left foot, which police haven't found, if Solicitor Chrissy Adams is willing to bargain with him.
"Depends on what kind of deal she wants to make," he said.
Sandoval, who turned 45 last month, is being held without bail at the Anderson County Detention Center.
During last week's unsupervised interview at the jail, the lean, 5-foot-6 Utah native talked about his troubled childhood. He also recounted his days as an amateur boxer and years spent drifting from state to state while struggling with a drinking problem before he arrived in Anderson.
Wearing an orange jumpsuit a couple of sizes too large, Sandoval answered questions in a small room with a glass partition and a single door. He couldn't seem to stand still for more than a second or two. Occasionally clenching his hands into fists, he paced like a fighter circling in the ring.
But years of hard living have left Sandoval looking tired and worn. He says he's had head injuries from boxing. He's balding, wears his remaining black hair to his shoulders and has a thin beard. He is missing a few teeth, and the rest appear grimy. He kept scratching his thighs during the interview.
Moments after complaining that the criminal case against him is riddled with holes, Sandoval said he doesn't care if he receives the death penalty.
"It don't really make no difference at this stage," he said.
'Raised by the system'
Sandoval said his father was a violent alcoholic who beat his mother. He also said that his parents and nine siblings were separated from one another when he was around 6.
"I was abandoned," Sandoval said. "They found me in the closet."
After spending three years in the pediatric unit of a Utah state psychiatric hospital, Sandoval said, he grew up in a series of foster homes.
"I didn't get along with people," said Sandoval, adding that he was "raised by the system."
"I don't even remember my mother," he added.
Sandoval said his life's happiest moments happened at Pine View High School in St. George, Utah, where he set track records in the 800-meter, 1,500-meter and 3,200-meter distance races.
According to Sandoval, a turning point came a few years after high school when he was living in Kanab, Utah. The small town near the Arizona border is best known as the location where movies such as "Planet of the Apes" and "Stagecoach" were filmed.
He was preparing to become a professional boxer. But when he lost his job as a cook, Sandoval said, he started abusing alcohol.
Sandoval, a bachelor and self-professed fan of books and movies about serial killers, said he eventually wound up serving time in a Utah penitentiary for a string of crimes that included five burglaries and a number of thefts.
Following his release, he moved to Nevada.
"I spent four years in Las Vegas," he said. "I've been in Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Montana — I've been everywhere out West with the exception of Oregon and Washington."
After living in Detroit for three years, Sandoval came to Christian Brothers Ministry near Lake Marion.
Some of his memories from that period are muddled.
"I can't remember what it was, but somehow I ended up at the Greenville hospital," he said. Sandoval said he spent three weeks at the hospital and then enrolled in a Salvation Army program in Anderson in 2008.
The Electric City was meant to be just another stop along the road for Sandoval.
"I was getting ready to go to Florida," he said. He also had hoped to travel to Spain, his ancestral homeland.
But instead he stayed in the Upstate, splitting time between Anderson and the home of his friend Deloria Airline near Due West.
"I couldn't get enough stuff together to get up out of here," Sandoval said.
Dark Clouds
Before his arrest on the murder charge, Sandoval had a few minor brushes with the law in Anderson. He pleaded guilty to a driving under the influence charge in 2008 and served 125 days in the county jail for a check forgery charge in 2010.
Deloria Airline said she got to know Sandoval after he met her son while they were inmates at the Anderson County Detention Center.
Sandoval often spent weekends at her home, said the 52-year-old Airline. She said he would mow neighbors' yards and accompany her family to church.
Airline described Sandoval as a kind man, but she said he was a "big-time drinker" who suffered from depression and other "mental issues."
In the weeks before his arrest, Airline said Sandoval told her that he was hearing voices and seeing dark clouds inside the abandoned building where he was staying on West Earle Street in Anderson.
"There was a prior murder in that building," said Sandoval, referring to the July 2010 beating death of a 46-year-old homeless man named Steven Ross Hughes. "I was scared."
He said he knew the homeless man who pleaded guilty to murdering Hughes. Andy Steve Roach, 46, was sentenced last month to 20 years in prison for the crime.
Sandoval also said he knew Mark Napier Kirby, another homeless man who was beaten to death two years ago in the woods near the Walmart store on the S.C. 28 Bypass west of Anderson.
After Sandoval was arrested, he said, an Anderson County sheriff's detective questioned him about Kirby's death. Sandoval said he knew nothing about the case.
Foster's Final Months
Seth Foster spent part of his childhood living on Broadway Lake in Anderson County. He moved back to the area in February 2011, according to his mother, Marie Whitney.
Belton police responded to two domestic disputes involving Foster and a woman at the apartment where they were living in April and June 2011.
By January 2012, Foster was homeless and drinking again. He told his family that he was staying in a vacant building that had mattresses and warm blankets. It was the same building where Sandoval was staying.
Sandoval said he sought to help Foster stop drinking but it backfired.
"Trying to help him got me back on it," he said. "By no means was he a bad person, but he had some serious issues."
Sandoval said he and Foster went on a drinking spree from Jan. 14 to 16.
Anderson County Coroner Greg Shore listed Foster's date of death as Jan. 15. The cause of death was classified as blunt force trauma, though Shore is still waiting for Foster's final autopsy report. The report has been delayed because toxicology tests have not come back from a state lab.
Sandoval stressed that he is still confused about what precisely happened between him and Foster.
"I don't know the reasons behind everything. See I can't say this happened for this reason and this happened for this reason. If could put things together, I would," he said. "If you feel like everything is closing in around you, you feel like everyone is watching you — what are you supposed to do?"
He insisted, however, that Shore is wrong about how Foster died.
"There was no blunt trauma done to him," he said. "That didn't happen to him."
Back Behind Bars
Anderson city public works employees called police on Feb. 22 after they noticed a foul odor coming from the building on West Earle Street that formerly housed the Yellow Cab Co. Investigators soon found Foster's dismembered body under the structure.
Two days later, Airline said, she took Sandoval to see a psychiatrist in Anderson so he could complete a disability evaluation.
"I was trying to help him get off the streets," she said.
Airline said Sandoval seemed out of sorts that day.
"He said he had something on his mind," she recalled. "He kept on apologizing to me."
Later that night, Anderson police showed up at her home and placed Sandoval in custody.
According to an arrest warrant, Sandoval strangled Foster and then cut off his hands, feet and head. It was the first dismemberment in Anderson County that authorities can recall.
The warrant said Sandoval "has given a written statement admitting" to the crime. A police spokesman said that investigators had recovered the knife that was used.
Sandoval disputed several of the assertions made by police.
"I didn't write no confession," he said. "I didn't give them no weapon — where is it at?"
Sandoval said the murder charge is unwarranted because police have not determined a motive for the crime.
"They know they screwed up," he said.
He expressed dissatisfaction with the legal representation that he has received from the public defender's office, referring to its lawyers as "clowns."
No date has been set for Sandoval's trial.
According to Sandoval, he is taking Depakote, a prescription medication for bipolar disorder.
He said he is being held alone in a cell at the detention center.
"It doesn't bother me," he said. "I did five-and-a-half years in maximum security, so it doesn't bother me."
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Johannesburg - Limpopo Agriculture MEC Jacob Marule has been implicated in a "jobs for pals" scandal on a R1 million annual salary position.
Department officials claim the position of senior general manager for rural development and district services was earmarked to Marule's alleged friend, Kgabo Masela.
Two officials in the department said the vacancy was created specifically for Masela after his ambition to become head of the department in July was frustrated. "Marule wanted this guy because they were together at the legislature," said a source.
The position is said to be unfunded, and the sources allege that it had not been approved by the provincial human resource task team.
This would be a direct violation of the provincial treasury note, dated February this year, which states that all unfunded posts must be frozen.
"[The] filling of funded vacant positions are to be advertised ONLY after prior approval by the provincial HR task team responsible for reduction of compensation of employees by 2 percent as resolved by provincial Exco," the note reads in part.
The new position pays more than that of the department's chief financial officer. Even before the official appointment, Masela was said to be occupying a department office and was provided with a personal assistant. He denies this.
But when The Star phoned the department on Tuesday, an official, who identified herself only as Penny, said Masela was not in the office. "He does not come to the office often," she said.
She tried unsuccessfully to get hold of a woman who she called Maria, who she said was Masela's personal assistant in the department.
Another official, who identified herself as Juliet in the MEC's office, said: "[Masela] is at the legislature."
Masela denied he had been earmarked for the senior position. "I have not applied for that position. I had only applied for the HOD [head of department] position," he said.
Masela is also accused of instructing the department's senior managers. But he said he had phoned the senior managers because the MEC had asked him to proofread his speech.
"When proofreading the MEC's speech, we had to correct certain data errors. I even used his phone to call some of those managers," Masela said.
He was also implicated in the suspension of Phuthi Dipela, a department official who had been accused of interfering with the awarding of tenders.
"The MEC is the one who suspended him. Actually, he wanted [Dipela] to go, but I said 'don't fire him, procedures must be followed'," said Masela. Dipela refused to comment on Tuesday.
Masela said the MEC had wanted to appoint him as his adviser, but he had turned down the offer.
Marule could not be reached for comment.
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Where should I go next fall? / Waitlisted at Boalt« on: March 30, 2005, 12:07:22 AM »
Got the news today over the phone. Couldn't resist and called like the rest of you.
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Where should I go next fall? / Waitlisted at Boalt« on: March 30, 2005, 12:07:22 AM »
Got the news today over the phone. Couldn't resist and called like the rest of you.
Where should I go next fall? / UF, UM or Emory?« on: March 29, 2005, 10:36:07 AM »
Hey All:
I want to practice Big Law in a city (most likely South Florida, California or New York). Which school would you go to? UFlorida, UMiami or Emory?
Keep in mind that I'm paying this all on my own and as of yet have heard of no scholarships to any of these schools.
Please, help me make my decision! I'll give you all a cookie!
Where should I go next fall? / Help me decide: Emory, UF or UM?« on: March 23, 2005, 07:14:11 PM »
I want to practice BigLaw (as I've been doing as a paralegal for the last year). Parents won't help finance education. I'd like to practice somewhere warm (I hated Penn, Dartmouth and Oxford's cold weather). So people, if you were me, where would you go?
3) Emory
Have fun choosing my life for me (and as slim as my chances are, dont' discount the possibility of ND, UCLA, GW & Boalt)
Acceptances / In at Emory!« on: March 23, 2005, 07:02:22 PM »
So...my snooping around the website proved right. I got my acceptance today in the mail. Now to decide whether I can afford it...and to hold out for GW, UCLA and Berkeley.
But yay! A reach came true!
Where should I go next fall? / I've got an law.emory email address and I'm not in yet!« on: March 22, 2005, 10:20:56 AM »
LOL. Messing around Opus, I found the e-mail forwarding possibility and then found out I have an e-mail address at emory now: firstname.lastname@example.com.
So guys, does THIS mean I'm accepted? Or do they do this for all potential applicants?
LOL. Can you tell I just can't wait long enough for my mailman?
Where should I go next fall? / Where's my mail already?« on: March 21, 2005, 07:03:32 PM »
Okay, there's like a week left, right? And the last time I heard from a school was on 2/18. I sent my applications to Berkeley and UCLA in the first week of December and Emory and GW during the last week of January.
Why is my mailbox empty, especially in relation to UCLA and Berkeley?
I'm not feeling very <3ed.
Where should I go next fall? / Am I accepted to Emory?« on: March 21, 2005, 10:57:32 AM »
Very confused, but possibly VERY excited.
I have not received the package yet, but....
...I got an e-mail inviting me to a Student chat and an e-mail asking me for more information for financial aid today.
Does this mean Emory admitted me? Anyone who wasn't admitted that received all this?
Someone, make my day!
Where should I go next fall? / Emory - Big Batch of Decisions coming our Way...« on: March 18, 2005, 11:08:23 AM »
Hey All:
I couldn't resist and called Emory. A decision has been made on my application...but they wouldn't tell me over the phone.
However, they said that decisions have been printed and a big batch is getting ready to go out soon. So, if you are waiting on Emory, you may expect something next week.
Hope this info helps.
Denials / Do I not deserve a rejection?...« on: March 17, 2005, 12:09:51 PM »
...at least to calm my nerves?
Any theories as to why I have yet to receive a rejection? I'm guessing my URM status is throwing everything off the loop. Please help. I need a theory to calm my impatient nerves.
Where should I go next fall? / Emory Complete E-mail Again?« on: March 09, 2005, 10:35:17 AM »
Hiya All:
This morning, I received this e-mail:
Your applicant file is now complete. Decision letters will be mailed between March 1, 2005 and March 31, 2005.
Office of Admission
Emory University School of Law
However, I had been told I was complete a month ago. Why would I receive this again? And did anyone else receive this? Please share (especially if you were accepted/rejected after receiving this).


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