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Sometimes, solutions come from unexpected places. My journey encompasses my experience at my Historically Black University in Alabama, a student congress in Idaho, and an emerging organization of young people called the FireGeneration Collaborative. I see these as unexpected sources of innovation and hope within the fire realm.
In my teens, I knew I wanted to go to college, but I did not know about forestry at that time. At 23, I decided to enroll in Alabama A&M University. Now at 26, I am entering my final years as a student there. A&M, as we call it, is one of the few Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) with a nationally-accredited forestry program. This program fuels a focus on fire and its role in forest management. Outside class, I was offered a chance to make a few bucks checking out backpack pumps and other fire gear for the school. Soon after, I was invited to a prescribed burn.
I started out as an observer; little PPE, just cowboy boots, jeans, and a shirt. But thanks to my job, I knew what a backpack pump was, and how to offer some support. The flames reminded me of an almost innate affinity for fire.
This kind of event is rare: a free trip for students that brings our generation and current leadership together. It empowers people and ideas in spaces where we never otherwise have a voice. When the week was up, it was over. I believe if the fire world wants to truly prepare, learn from, and pass knowledge to the next generation, this collaboration should be continuous. And that is part of the mission of the final program.
Our grassroots group had asked organizations around the country if they felt that young generations, the ones who will face the full weight of intensifying fires and climate, the ones who are depended on to expand and carry solutions, deserve a formal seat in the decisions we are most impacted by. The answer was resounding.
Just this summer, the EPA launched the first National Youth Advisory Council in a federal agency. We hope land management agencies will work with us while we grow, to develop similar spaces. If you want to support, you can donate, fill out our community interest form, or get in touch with us by email. It makes a big difference for emerging groups like ourselves.
I love that you bring together attention to our pressured environment (in the form of fire education and training), involvement of underrepresented folks and intergenerational decisions. That plus enthusiasm (which definitely shows up in your writing!) are essential elements to facing our human future. Thank you so much.
FireGeneration Collaborative has the passion, momentum, and dynamism to make a national impact on creative solutions for fire management from intergenerational perspectives. Bravo for the efforts of you and all those involved.
The Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network is supported by a cooperative agreement between The Nature Conservancy, USDA Forest Service and agencies of the Department of the Interior through a subaward to the Watershed Research and Training Center. This institution is an equal opportunity provider.
In a thriving education system, students experience learning that prepares them as the vital keepers of a just and democratic society. Teachers as professionals and experts, not cogs in a machine, are essential to this goal. Sparks Into Fire offers design principles for facilitating effective professional learning in which teachers are active learners engaging in experiential learning, discussing problems, analyzing student work, and sharing their expertise with one another. The author introduces each principle with a compelling and illuminating story from his extensive experience teaching students and facilitating teacher learning in Providence, RI; Oakland, CA; and South Korea. These narratives, along with specific practices, show the reader not just what to do but how to do it. Whether you are a school leader, lead teacher, PD facilitator, or teacher educator, you can apply the ideas in this book to design collaborative experiences that revitalize teacher practice and, in turn, spark a fire in the hearts and minds of students.
Young Whan Choi is a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley where he teaches the next generation of social studies educators. He has been a teacher in South Korea, New York City, Providence, RI, and Oakland, CA, during which time he developed expertise in project-based learning, curriculum design, and culturally relevant teaching. He produces and hosts The Young and the Woke podcast.
The cry for swift and explosive change rings true in the hearts of we who have been dissatisfied with this imperfect world. We long not just to grow, we long to rise up, to change things, to be changed into that which we would be. But yet, even when a fire glows within, my fingers have yet to become lamps.
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Where are you getting the cut files? Are you creating them or downloading them from somewhere. Any files you use must be post processed with the correct FireControl post processor before it can be used for cutting in FireControl. You cannot directly load DXF files into FireControl. The downloads section of the Langmuir page has the instruction for downloading and installing the post processor in Fusion360 or SheetCam. Those are the only two supported programs for generating cut files.
having trouble with work flow and would like some tutoring on how i can get up and running with my own work i have created. im using Adobe Illustrator and sheetcam with firecontrol. i have the the crossfire pro machine. let me know if thats something you can help me with. Thanks
The sheriff's office said Highlands County Fire Rescue was called to the scene, but due to the suspicious nature of the incident, law enforcement was also requested. When fire rescue arrived at the scene they were confronted by 39-year-old Richard Myron Ham.
By 4:22 p.m., the sheriff's office said a deputy pulled out his gun and shot Ham. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The injured deputy was taken to another hospital, where he was treated and released.
The sheriff's office discovered Phillips and the 9-year-old boy were listed as missing and endangered out of Wichita, Kansas on December 6. It still has not been determined when or why they came to Highlands County.
The maximum penalty for felony substantial battery is 3 years of confinement, with 1 years in custody and then two years in extended supervision. It could also mean a fine of $10,000 in place of or in addition to prison time.
Dessiray Koss, 32, suffered third-degree burns to her upper right arm, as well as burns and injuries to her left wrist and chin. The injuries left permanent scars that cause Dessiray Koss shooting pain at random, a condition that may never go away.
One of the linchpins in Lasee's cross-examination was Nolan's willingness to lie to both his employer, the Green Bay Correctional Institution, and his girlfriend about the nature of his injuries in the aftermath of the incidents that night.
"I had confronted him. I was just angry and confused. I didn't know what was going on, so I asked him if he had anything to do with it, was I set up for some reason, things like that," Nolan said. "We were argumentative. Then we split ways. He walked across the street and we walked our separate ways."
He also stated he would never use a slur like the one he was accused of using against Dessiray Koss, noting "it's a core value of mine" to never utter such a word. Nolan noted growing up he was taught in school to find synonyms for certain derogatory words when referring to something as preposterous.
Nolan answered to the affirmative when defense attorney Robinson asked him if he has friends and family members who identify as LGBTQ+, most notably Nolan's own sister. During his time as a prison guard, he told Robinson he worked regularly with men who were either gay or transgender.
During cross-examination, however, Lasee questioned this adherence to his moral code. Lasee referenced jail phone conversations in which Nolan, in his attempt to piece together what happened early July 3, offered the possibility to both his girlfriend and his sister he "probably said 'This is gay as hell' and somebody took offense to that."
In his closing arguments, Lasee emphasized, regardless of any inconsistencies in certain details, the key elements of the incidents on July 2 and 3, 2021, remained the same. The state witnesses who saw the incident testified that Nolan used derogatory slurs before throwing Dessiray Koss into an active fire pit and attempting to strangle her.
Lasee argued the smaller details don't negate the outcomes of the evening. He implored the jury to consider their own experiences with trauma and whether they remember the minutia of those experiences.
Lasee argued Nolan's intention to harm a protected class comes down to Nolan using this homophobic slur and directing his aggression toward Dessiray Koss, the person for whom that slur would cause the most harm.
"There's a difference between being unable to recall details and intentionally obfuscating details, potentially preventing you from hearing the details that are not favorable to him," Lasee told the jury.
Additionally, Lasee raised a reality that had come up multiple times during the trial: Dessiray Koss' distrust of the criminal justice system when it comes to her status as a member of the LGBTQ+ community.
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