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The Garden Club of America's Elizabeth Abernathy Hull Award annually recognizes the outstanding achievements of individuals furthering the early environmental education of children. Established in 1992, the Hull Award provides $1,000 to chosen recipients who honor Miss Hull's common sense approach to environmental awareness by inspiring children under 16 to appreciate the beauty and fragility of our planet.
Administered by GCA's Scholarship Committee, the Hull Award is open to GCA members and non-members alike; however, individuals may not propose themselves. A woman ahead of her time, Miss Hull (1900 – 1996) was an active member of the Ridgefield Garden Club and credited her mother and grandmother with instilling her own passion for the environment. Members of GCA clubs may propose a candidate.
Mud has helped to convert 1.5 acres into an urban farm, Muir Ranch, located on the grounds of the John Muir School in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Los Angeles County. At-risk and special needs student's learn to plant, grow, and harvest fruits, vegetables, and flowers year-round. Children become fascinated with nature and learn to till the soil, set irrigation lines, and dig in compost. They also learn the business aspects by selling fruits and vegetables at their farm stand and filling orders for weekly subscribers. He is a tireless advocate for students and without him Muir Ranch would not exist.
Proposed by: Member of Diggers Garden Club, Zone XII
Maria, a member of the Carrie T. Watson Garden Club, Zone III, is a volunteer at the Asbury Woods Nature Center where she organizes classes, games, and activities for children to learn about the environment. She teaches about everything from Monarch Butterflies, frogs, bats, and insects to watershed issues, sometimes donning costumes to emphasize the lesson. She also volunteers at the Lake Erie Arboretum at Frontier, helped to organize festivals at Earth Force where she teaches environmental lessons at Presque Isle State Park, and at Goodell Gardens a non-profit botanical garden where she coordinates programs for field trips and summer programs. Her efforts have touched the lives of many children over the years.
Proposed by: Member of Carrie T. Watson Garden Club, Zone V
Meg designed a "hands-on, brains-on" urban farm program to teach children about sustainable living and caring for the environment. She co-founded and developed Sprout City Farms, a non-profit, urban farm dedicated to developing local food systems in the Denver metropolitan area. She created curriculum for a living classroom where Pre-K through 8th grade students study the natural environment and our food system. The food produced is used in the school cafeteria system. As "farmer-in-chief", Meg manages all aspects of operations and programs at the Denver Green School Community Farm and oversees staff at the Mountain Park Community Farm.
Proposed by: Member of Garden Club of Denver, Zone XII
Maria has been an elementary educator for 27 years and is a gifted resource teacher at Seatack Elementary School, a Title 1 school in Virginia Beach, Va. She has created a curriculum for each grade level involving sustainable environment education, as well as, butterfly gardens, rain gardens, and organic gardens along with a greenhouse and compost area on the school grounds. She started a "Go Green" group to participate in environmental field trips. After a beach clean up day, they learn how the trash can affect sea life. Her "breakfast club" enjoys an outside breakfast where they plan the day's garden activities.
Proposed by: Member of The Virginia Beach Garden Club, Zone VII
Ryan Koch started a not-for-profit called Seedleaf, which educates children about the environment through the creation of neighborhood gardens. He has built 16 free u-pick gardens in low-income areas by partnering with civic groups in the city. Children learn the benefits of hands-on-gardening and sell their produce to local restaurants, then take field trips to the restaurants to enjoy the fruits of their labor. He is known for "cultivating attention and affection for particular places, plants, animals, and soil." In addition, he has piloted garden, cooking, and other food literacy programs at Growing Together Preschool, Sayre School, and the Lexington Parks and Recreation after-school program at the Gainesway Community Center.
Proposed by: Member of Garden Club of Lexington, Zone VII
Kay McConnell, a member of the Guilford Garden Club, Zone VI, has shared her expertise with three Baltimore schools. At New Song Academy, an elementary school, she developed an award winning native plant garden and is writing a manual about the plants in the garden. She helped develop a conservation plan for water, energy, and native plants at the Friends School where a series of gardens have become a "eaching campus showing the progression of water through the campus and highlighting the native plants of the Chesapeake Bay area. At the Kipp School, a public charter middle school, she helped create a native garden and Honeybee club. She inspires students to get their hands dirty and appreciate the beauty and fragility of our planet.
Proposed by: Member of Guilford Garden Club, Zone VI
Mary is a member of a sustainability team that began in 2009 at the Watkinson School in Hartford, CT. They are working to eliminate pesticides, recycle, and plant outdoor gardens for food to be used in the cafeteria. Over the years, her leadership has lead to the construction of a greenhouse, planting a fruit orchard, creating a compost area for worm composting, recycling paper for mulch and worm bedding, creating pollinator gardens, and installing perennial gardens to beautify the campus. Her creation of the school's farm to table initiative has taught the students about environmental sustainability and exemplifies her passion for the environment.
Proposed by: Member of Connecticut Valley Garden Club, Zone II
Gordon's CLEAN (Children Linking with the Environment Across the Nation) program successfully fosters environmental education by introducing thousands of Birmingham area youth to the Cahaba River. He has taken about 14,000 children and their teachers into the Cahaba River for hands-on environmental science stream walks, canoe trips, and educational service-learning projects, such as river clean-ups and forest restoration.
Proposed by: Member of Little Garden Club of Birmingham, Zone VIII
Elisabeth, a much-loved Berkshire Botanical Garden director, has promoted environmentalism through creative education and hands-on experiences for children of all ages. Her creation of a "Farm in the Garden Summer Camp" and enthusiastic teaching style has given children the knowledge of caring for animals, planting gardens and making food from what they grow.
Funded by Sasqua Garden Club, (CT) Zone II
Proposed by: Member of The Lenox Garden Club, Zone I
and Member of The Lenox Garden Club, Zone I
Maria has been the visionary and the driving volunteer force behind the over 125,000 annual visiting school age children to the Children's Adventure Garden in the Dallas Arboretum. Her leadership has built a garden like no other. The garden has seventeen unique learning galleries, each one devoted to a specific life, earth or environmental science concept. Maria has brought urbanized children back to nature through interactive education, creative play and outdoor exploration.
Proposed by: Member of Founders Garden Club of Dallas, Zone IX
As the senior naturalist at Briar Bush Nature Center in Abington, Pennsylvania, Mark helped launch the ACORN (Abington Children Observing Real Nature) to the public and private schools in the area. He was involved in the installation of a butterfly house at Briar Bush, oversaw the planting of many native plants and most recently designed, installed and landscaped an outdoor Playscape at Briar Bush. This was the first "natural" outdoor play area in Pennsylvania. This trailblazer has truly had an emotional and intellectual impact on his community and its children.
Proposed by: Member of Huntingdon Valley Garden Club, Zone V
and Member of Huntingdon Valley Garden Club, Zone V
As an educator and an inspiration for over forty-seven years, Stella has given children an opportunity to learn about nature and to explore an outdoor world unknown to them through her "Green Team" curriculum in the Piedmont School District. Growing native plants and providing an outdoor teaching and learning space to support curriculum have been accomplished in this year's opening of the "Learn Scape Lunch Park."
Proposed by: Member of Piedmont Garden Club, Zone XII
For nearly thirty years John has promoted environmental education in the Litchfield Schools through the Litchfield High School Envirothon team, The Meadow Restoration project and Operation Wallacea. Native plants continue to be planted on the school grounds where middle school children help to eradicate invasive shrubs and plants from the campus. Most of the plants have been propagated in the school's greenhouse under Mark's direction.Funded by Ridgefield Garden Club, (CT) Zone II
Proposed by: Member of Litchfield Garden Club, Zone II
A teacher of three to five year olds at the St. Columba's Nursery School, Kathleen has encouraged children's love of nature for more than twenty-five years. Each year her young children learn how the water cycle and the life cycles of plants and animals make and utilize compost for growing flowers, herbs and vegetables. The school's gardens are the basis on which St. Columba's has become a registered National Backyard Wildlife Habitat and Monarch Butterfly Way Station.
Funded by Jane Chapman, Rochester Garden Club, (NY) Zone III
Proposed by: Member of Perennial Garden Club, Zone VI
and Member of Perennial Garden Club, Zone VI
With boundless enthusiasm Sheryl has provided outstanding contributions to early childhood environmental education at the Ladew Topiary Gardens. She oversees "Storytime," has started a Butterfly House and a Monarch butterfly workshop. Her Summer Nature Camp for children four to nine years old has an environmental thrust as children hike, play games, perform experiments and create art projects. She has given children an opportunity to learn about nature and to explore an outdoor world unknown to them.
Proposed by: Member of Garden Club of Twenty, Zone VI
For thirty-five years at the Five Rivers Environmental Education Center and the Pine Hollow Arboretum, Anita has promoted environmental education especially for the young. She is the author of children's books, which are used in classrooms for developing reading skills, imparting information, and instilling enthusiasm and respect for the natural world. Her programs at Pine Hollow Arboretum have successfully reached both suburban and inner city elementary school children.Funded by Millbrook Garden Club, (NY) Zone III
Proposed by: Member of Fort Orange Garden Club, Zone III
As a volunteer for many years, Dorothy has donated 3,000 hours of community service to the Albemarle and Charlottesville schools through her work in their programs with young children. From after school programs at the Greenbrier Elementary School, close alignment with the city Schoolyard garden projects and the 4-H Club Junior Naturalists, this remarkable woman is leaving a lasting legacy in each young life that she touches.
Proposed by: Member of Albemarle Garden Club, Zone VII
and Member of Albemarle Garden Club, Zone VII
Pam has been a teacher at the Princeton Day School for over 35 years.
Citation: This award is in recognition of your work to promote environmentalism through education and a hands-on experience in your organic gardens and Green Camps for the children at the Princeton Day School. You have encouraged and inspired young minds to embrace the outdoors and enthusiastically shared your love of the natural world.
Proposed by: Member of Stony Brook Garden Club, Zone IV
and Member of Stony Brook Garden Club, Zone IV
Suzanne, a teacher, has been the visionary and driving force for over a thousand public school children a year in the Wissahickon Watershed and the Evens – Mumbower Mill.
Citation: This award is in recognition of your commitment and volunteer time to hundreds of school children in the Wissahickon Watershed and the Evens-Mumbower Mill in Pennsylvania. As a volunteer Naturalist you have encouraged and inspired young minds to embrace the outdoors and have enthusiastically shared your love of the natural world.
Funded by Jane Chapman, Rochester Garden Club, (NY) Zone III
Proposed by: Member of The Weeders, Zone V
As Houston's Audubon Society Education Director for over 22 years, Mary Anne has encouraged children's love of nature by using live "teaching ambassadors" such as the Barred Owl, a Red- Tailed Hawk and a Great Horned Owl.
Citation: This award is in recognition of your work to inspire children to appreciate the fragility of our planet and love of nature through your work at the Houston Audubon Society. Your work with live raptors as "teaching ambassadors" is teaching students to keep the environment healthy, safe for all and you are helping to create thousands of good stewards of the environment."
Funded by Sasqua Garden Club, (CT) Zone II
Proposed by: Member of The Garden Club of Houston, Zone IX
Through Eric's launching of the "REAL" (Rainwater Environmental Alliance for Learning) the organization serves 100 impoverished elementary schools in northern Texas.
Citation: This award is in recognition of your commitment and volunteer time as an environmental educator for the Rainwater Environmental Alliance for Learning in North Texas. By helping to launch the "Real School Garden" initiative, you are helping children to be more engaged learners and lifelong environmental stewards. Your creative teaching style is producing learning gardens that grow successful students. You have given children an opportunity to learn about nature and to explore an outdoor world unknown to them. Through your enthusiasm your students are focused and energized about environmental science and conscious about what they can do as individuals to preserve our ecosystem. Nature is fortunate to have a partner like you, Mr. "V," who works tirelessly to help introduce children to her wonders.
Proposed by: Member of Founders Garden Club of Dallas, Zone IX
As Breton Arboretum's Education and Outreach Director for 35 years, Kay produced many ground breaking programs, including "Knee High Naturalists" for young children.
Citation: This award is in recognition of your long-term dedication to educate and enlighten students and campers to appreciate the fragility and beauty of our planet. Through your efforts at the Brenton Arboretum and the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden your students are focused and energized about environmental science and conscious about what they can do as individuals to preserve our ecosystem. As a committed Naturalist, you have encouraged and inspired young minds to embrace the outdoors and enthusiastically shared your love of the natural world.
Proposed by: Member of Des Moines Founders Garden Club, Zone XI
For 13 years, Anne Healy has been teaching 4 – to 7 year olds at the Chicago Botanic Garden Summer Camp.
Citation: This award is in recognition of your years of personal dedication and work to promote environmentalism through education and hands-on experience at the summer camp at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Your enthusiastic teaching style stimulates your campers' knowledge and love of gardening while they learn to protect the environment. You have taught children to embrace nature and to realize their natural surroundings.
Proposed by: Member of Lake Geneva Garden Club, Zone XI
"I Can, I will" program successfully fosters environmental education of economically – deprived youth.
Citation: This award is in recognition of your work to inspire students to appreciate the fragility of our planet and its beauty by initiating and running the successful "I Can, I Will Program" in Chester, Pennsylvania. Through your efforts, your students are focused and energized about environmental science and are aware of what they can do as individuals to preserve our ecosystem. Your wide knowledge and enthusiasm inspire students in all age groups and instills an awareness and respect for our natural world.
Funded by Ridgefield Garden Club, (CT) Zone II
Proposed by: Member of The Providence Garden Club of Pennsylvania, Zone V
Mrs. Domaschk has been teaching Kindergarten at Hunters Creek Elementary School for forty years. She manages a garden on the campus where she and the children cultivate, harvest and maintain a beautiful garden. All five Kindergarten classes participate in this project, which Mrs. Domaschk oversees during science study time and in her spare time, after school and on weekends. She initiated HCE's recycling program five years ago, and in that first year, drove the aluminum collected each week to the recycling center across town; she has also worked on a Solar Garden and assisted in the design of HCE's Butterfly Garden. Mrs. Domaschk is a much-loved teacher who is wonderful, engaging and energetic.
This award is in recognition of your work to promote environmentalism through education and hands-on experience for the children and community of Hunters Creek Elementary School. Your enthusiastic teaching style stimulates your students' knowledge and love of gardening while they learn to protect the environment.
Proposed by: Member of The Garden Club of Houston, Zone IX
Joan McHenry Hoblitzell has been a volunteer at Irvine Nature Center since 1995. She works diligently as a Volunteer Naturalist Guide, inspiring children to embrace the outdoors as they learn everything they can about their natural surroundings. She has done this with enthusiasm through the years, thus encouraging and inspiring these young minds to become the leaders we desperately need in the environmental emergencies we all face. She helps with Irvine's Nature in the Classroom outreach program and Irvine's Urban Education outreach program where she shares her love of nature with under-served school children from Baltimore City's public schools.
This award is in recognition of your volunteer time and commitment to the Irvine Nature Center. As a Volunteer Naturalist, you have encouraged and inspired young minds to embrace the outdoors and enthusiastically shared your love of the natural world.
Proposed by: Member of St. George's Garden Club, Zone VI
Linda Kruhmin is the Farm Operations Manager for The Talking Farm, an Evanston, Illinois, based non-profit "urban farm" whose mission is "to cultivate healthy, sustainable communities by supporting the production and appreciation of locally grown food." Thanks to Linda's boundless energy and enthusiasm, The Talking Farm has established numerous urban farms throughout the Evanston/Skokie area, many at local schools. She has inspired our children about the importance of having access to local fresh foods and has shown what fun it can be in the process. Linda inspires all of us, above all our children, about the "beauty and fragility of our planet" and the need to preserve our access to fresh foods.
This award is in recognition of your work as Farm Operations Manager for The Talking Farm to ensure that all people have access to a safe and diverse regional food supply and to foster an awareness of healthy food choices. Through your energy and enthusiasm numerous urban farms have been established at local schools.
Funded by Ridgefield GC (CT) Zone II
Proposed by: Member of Garden Club of Evanston, Zone XI
Dr. Stewart Slafter has taught for thirteen years at Sacred Heart School, a pre-school through 12th grade private school in Atherton, California. Under Dr. Slafter's leadership, a 20,000-square-foot organic garden is maintained and operated by students and faculty as part of an Environmental Science and Global Studies course. Dr. Slafter says, "One of the chief purposes of our garden is to teach students how to be stewards of the earth's resources. By teaching young people about sustainability; how they can grow food and learn every step in the process, they understand that agriculture can be continued on a permanent basis." Dr. Slafter's wide knowledge and enthusiasm inspire students in all age groups.
This award is in recognition of your personal dedication to teaching children sustainable living and environmental responsibility through your gardens. Your wide knowledge and enthusiasm inspires students in all age groups.
Funded by Millbrook GC (NY) Zone III
Proposed by: Member of Hillsborough Garden Club, Zone XII
Lisa Kurstin is the Manager of Education Programs for Descanso Gardens as well as Los Angeles County and has provided well-developed opportunities for students of all ages. She offers educational programming at the Harvest Garden established by volunteers in 1964 to provide developmentally disabled children a once-per-week outdoors experience with plants, gardening and nature studies, and education for school children who visit Descanso Gardens on field trips. She is deeply committed to education that is lively, experiential, exploratory, expressive…but always based in the context of the Garden.
This award is in recognition of your innovation and commitment to innovative educational offerings at Descanso Gardens, and for bringing the mystery and wonder of plants to the core of children's experience.
Proposed by: Member of Pasadena Garden Club, Zone XII
Pat Penchalk has been teaching 5th graders for 15 years at Leggett Community Learning Center in Akron, Ohio. With her many years of teaching experience and personal interest in science and the environment, she is giving inner-city children a rare opportunity to learn about nature and explore an outdoor world unknown to them. Pat has been enhancing the environmental education of her students by participating in various residential programs at the Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center. In addition, she has assisted the CVEEC in creating the specialized curriculum for two distinctively different programs as well as providing hands on teaching and assistance with the children.
This award is in recognition of your many years of giving inner-city children an opportunity to learn about nature and explore an outdoor world unknown to them. Through your participation in various residential programs at the Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center, you have provided outstanding contributions to early childhood environmental education.
Proposed by: Member of Akron Garden Club, Zone X
John Cunningham, a science teacher at Foote School for over 25 years, has been a trailblazer while working with young children in horticulture and the environment. John initiated Foote School's Environment Action Group (EAG) to provide a way for interested students in grades 6 thru 9 to pursue a broad range of activities related to conservation, horticulture and ecology. He has inspired many students during his long career to appreciate the "beauty and fragility of our planet." With John's influence, Ecology plays a part in the curriculum of each grade, from the tending of a garden to the more complex ideas about using alternative energy to offset the environmental costs of consumerism.
This award is in recognition of your work to inspire students to appreciate the fragility of our planet and its beauty. Through your efforts, your students are focused and energized about environmental science and conscious about what they can do as individuals to preserve our ecosystem.
Funded by the Long Island Tree Committee, Zone III
Proposed by: Member of Garden Club of New Haven, Zone II
Christine is the "Learning through Landscapes" teacher at the Princeton Junior School in Lawrenceville, NJ. She started in 2002 and since that time the school's program has grown under her leadership to be a distinctive environmental approach to learning. She is the head of the school's organic garden where all the classes participate in the preparing of the beds, the planting, the weeding and harvesting of the garden each year. The garden is harvested and a Thanksgiving feast is prepared and consumed by the students. The school grounds have pockets of special gardens created under Christine's leadership which include a butterfly garden, a rain garden, and a native plant garden providing a wide variety of learning opportunities. In 2008, Christine received the Richard Rotter Award for Excellence in Environmental Education from the Stony Brook Millstone Watershed. Princeton Junior School was the first school in her area to receive River Friendly Certification through Christine's leadership.
— Funded by Millbrook Garden Club (NY), Zone III
— Proposed by Stony Brook Garden Club (NJ), Zone IV
In recognition of your work with the "Learning Through Landscapes" program at Princeton Junior School. This program has evolved through your leadership, personal care and watchful eye. Your knowledge and passion has inspired children about gardens, the environment and the importance of connecting with nature. Proposed by Stony Brook Garden Club, Zone IV
Leigh has been working with elementary-aged school children since 1994 at The Arboretum of Los Angeles County. Her program, "Roots and Shoots" program brings a designated classroom of children to The Arboretum 14 to 17 times over the course of the school year. In addition to working in their vegetable garden, the children join Leigh in reading stories, journaling their experiences, exploring The Arboretum, collecting seeds, flowers and leaves and observing the life in such a place. Once or twice during the year, Leigh invites a local chef to the garden to help the children prepare meals from their plants. The participating schools have shifted over the years, but consistently there have been low income, disadvantaged, urban children experiencing the natural, outdoor environment with a kind, compassionate, intelligent, experienced and knowledgeable guide. Leigh has had an emotional and intellectual impact on these children for so many years, and has enriched their lives and given them insight into the greater natural world around them.
— Proposed by Pasadena Garden Club (CA), Zone XII
In recognition of your work with elementary school children at The Arboretum of Los Angeles County through the "Roots and Shoots" program. You have enriched their lives and given them insights into the greater natural world around them. Proposed by Pasadena Garden Club, Zone XII
A new Master Gardener, Pam believes gardens are meant to enrich mind, body and spirit. As a teacher at Stamford Middle School where Pam taught French for 20 years, she created an informal Garden Club. Upon retirement in 2009, Pam created G.I.V.E., the Green Initiative for Vegetables in Education. Within a year's time, many schools signed on to the program and have developed gardens on their school grounds. Throughout the summer months, students are invited to participate and share the yield. During winter months, students cook foods from the autumn harvest.
— Funded by Ridgefield Garden Club (CT), Zone II
— Proposed by The Stamford Garden Club (CT), Zone II
In recognition of your long-term dedication to educate and enlightenment of children in the need to nurture the earth, stay in touch with how food is produced and experience the growing process. In addition, your creation of G.I.V.E. in the Stamford School System will touch countless children and inspire future generations. Proposed by Stamford Garden Club, Zone II
Robert is an environmental teacher at Irvine Nature Center in Baltimore County, Maryland. He has served as Director of Education of the Irvine Nature Center where he has provided environmental education to children under the age of 16 for the past 27 years. During his tenure, Rob has expanded school field trips, outreach, summer camp, and public programs in numbers, content, variety and scope. These programs reach over 2,500 students annually. He also creates numerous educational programs for the 50,000 annual visitors to the nature center's exhibit hall and trails.
— Proposed by Green Spring Valley Garden Club (MD), Zone VI
In recognition of your work in the Education and Outreach Program at Irvine Nature Center in Maryland. Your unique blend of talent has enabled you to continually raise the educational program to a new level of excellence. You are a gifted educator who works annually with students who come to understand the critical importance of protecting and respecting nature. Proposed by Green Spring Valley Garden Club, Zone VI
Steve has a passion for improving the quality of early childhood education, and he understands the importance of the outdoors in developing young minds. He has designed and created a unique and innovative curriculum at the University City Children's Center (UCCC) in St. Louis, Missouri. UCCC is a non-profit school for 130 young children, ages six weeks to kindergarten, located in an underserved urban area. A major part of Steve's outdoor learning approach is based on the garden at UCCC. Through the Seed to Table Program, the school's garden provides an opportunity for children to plant seeds, nourish the plants and watch them grow, harvest and consume the plants for lunch and snacks. The Seed to Table Program won the Ann Lyon Crammond Award which is displayed proudly in the front hallway of the school – at a child's eye level! Another major part of Steve's outdoor learning approach is the Adventure Playground which provides a secure, happy paradise for young children to explore the outdoors.
— Proposed by Ladue Garden Club (MO), Zone XI
In recognition of your passion for improving the quality of childhood education and the importance of the outdoors in developing young minds. Your vision, boundless energy and innovative curriculum create in children a love of plants and an appreciation of the beauty and fragility of the environment. Proposed by Ladue Garden Club, Zone XI
Sarah teaches science to kindergarten through third grade at The Lovett School in Atlanta, GA, where she reclaimed a greenhouse that had been empty for many years. Soon students were planting seeds and watching them grow! She serves on the school wide Sustainability Committee and leads in the planning of Earth Week activities. Placing "piggy composters" on the playground encourages all students and teachers to compost leftovers from fruit. Sarah includes a service-learning aspect in the second grade science curriculum where students plant and tend raised beds of vegetables which they donate to a nearby shelter for women and children. First graders learn about sustainable agriculture in communities around the world by participating in Heifer International's "Read to Feed" program.
— Proposed by Cherokee Garden Club (GA), Zone VIII
In recognition of your remarkable work in combining the best aspects of gardening and science as you teach kindergarten through third grade students at The Lovett School in Atlanta, Georgia. You have reached above and beyond your job description to manifest passion in the hearts and minds of a new generation of horticulturists, philanthropists, gardeners, environmentalists and sustainers of our great earth. Proposed by Cherokee Garden Club, Zone VIII
Sandy was the visionary and the driving force behind the creation of Bookworm Gardens, a landscaped garden based on children's literature in Sheboygan, Wisconsin which opened in 2010. Here children can safely play, discover, learn and explore, all free and open to the public year-round. Themes from 78 popular and well respected children's books are incorporated into gardens and features of interest that offer insight into horticulture art, music, environmental science and literature. Special reading programs, plays in the amphitheater and artistic projects are just a few of the extra activities which Sandy single-handedly initiated. Her contribution to outstanding environmental education for youth is to be applauded.
— Proposed by Town and Country Garden Club (WI), Zone XI
In recognition of your visionary work, dedication and diligence in the creation of Bookworm Gardens. Your efforts have awakened an appreciation in countless children for "the beauty and fragility of our planet." Proposed by Town and Country Garden Club, Zone XI
As a former science teacher and now principal of St. Martin de Porres Academy, an independent middle school in New Haven, Kelly has implemented a school-wide initiative of environmental education that includes recycling, community gardening and neighborhood beautification. Students planted and watered their garden, then donated the produce to feed the hungry and homeless. In partnership with Community Greenspace, students also have planted 22 trees and more than 50 perennials to beautify the school and create a healthier neighborhood, while developing a sense of responsibility and appreciation for street trees.
— Funded by Ridgefield Garden Club (CT), Zone II
— Proposed by Garden Club of New Haven (CT), Zone II
As principal of St. Martin de Porres Academy in New Haven, Kelly had implemented a school-wide initiative of environmental education including recycling, community gardeing and neigborhood beautification. Students plant and tend their garden, donating the produce to feed the hungry. In partnership with Community Greenspace, students have planted trees and perennials to beautify the school and create a healthier neighborhood. Proposed by New Haven Garden Club, Zone II
As an environmental educator for more than twenty years, Robert DeWire has taught natural science to elementary-age children through his NatureScapes programs. He uses local flora and fauna to illustrate concepts such as food chains, plant succession and natural adaptation. Through hands-on classroom demonstrations followed by field trips to local habitats, Robert inspires children to respect and appreciate their environment.
— Proposed by Stonington Garden Club (CT), Zone II
In recognition of your commitment to educating young children in the field of environmental education. For more than twenty years, you have taught natural science to students through your NatureScapes programs, using local flora and fauna to illustrate concepts such as food chains, plant succession and natural adaptation. Through hands-on classroom demonstrations followed by field trips to local habitats, you inspire children to respect and appreciate their environment. Proposed by Stonington Garden Club, Zone II


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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Torbay, Britain
By Julie Mollins
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - With recession-beating "staycations" in vogue in Britain, the Torbay area in Devon -- the self-styled "English Riviera" -- is enjoying a boom.
The region centers around the southwestern resort of Torquay and takes in Paignton and the fishing village of Brixham. Here are some suggestions for visitors:
6 p.m. - Kick off the weekend by mingling with Paignton locals in the Waterside Inn pub while enjoying a pint and traditional pub fare.
11 a.m. - Visit mystery writer Agatha Christie's Georgian holiday home Greenway House on the River Dart in Galmpton, near Brixham. A painted frieze in the library serves as a reminder of its requisition by U.S. admiralty during World War Two. Finish up a tour of the garden and grounds with a light lunch or tea in the cafe.
2 p.m. - See spectacular pastoral views from the terrace of High Cross House on the Dartington Estate in nearby Totnes. The furnished International Style structure designed by Swiss-born architect William Lescaze was built in the 1930s as a home for the first headmaster of Dartington Hall School, which is now a charity estate for the advancement of the arts, social justice and sustainability.
4 p.m. - Wander through medieval Dartington Hall, purchased by Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst in the 1920s as a site for an experiment in rural regeneration and the promotion of arts and crafts. British artist Henry Moore's reclining 1946 sculpture "Memorial Figure" is on view in the landscaped gardens. Stop for a drink at the White Hart. Continued...

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Chevy 350 rebuild....LOST oil pressure HELP!!!
I started a rebuilt 350 a few days ago, broke it in proper, it had great oil pressure the entire break in and the first few test drives. Today I took it out for a little 20 minute drive at about 55mph and it seemed to gradually lose oil pressure eventually getting hot and losing power. I got it home ok but now it has no oil pressure at idle but the pressure will come up as the engine revs.
Any ideas on where to start looking? It never knocked or ticked like a rod bearing spun! It starts fine just has no pressure at idle.
Oil and Filter
Mechanical or electrical gauge? If it is mechanical,does it have the cheap plastic line? If so it may be bent tight and reducing pressure. What is your psi at idle?1000 RPM's? 2000 RPM's?
yes I did change the oil after the break in and yes there is an orange filter under the block, could that be it the filter came apart?
The gauge is the stock electric gauge! and the oil pressure at idle reads 0 at 1000 or so it reads about 20 and it contiues to climb as the rpms do but when the rpms level off at any point the oil pressure falls off to 0?
Could the pick up have come loose, screen plugged, filter came apart? why pressure for two days now none?
I will drop the pan tomorrow and look! I just needed some incouragement!
orange filter
Orange filters are Fram. I have put new ones on used engines that lost oil pressure. I refuse to use them anymore. I use an off the shelf filter for break in. Then I use a K&N.
I agree the first thing I would do is change the oil and the filter.
If it is a mechanical oil pressure guage you need to bleed the air out of the line.
Are the lifters ticking? Rockers?
Did the block get cleaned well before assembly?
I will try the oil change and new quality filter in the morning, yes the block was cleaned at the machine shop after the .030 bore.
No there is no ticking or knocking!
No ticking or knocking is a good sign. Hope all turns out well.
did you weld or press on the oil pickup tube
I did not weld the pick up tube on, would I have any oil pressure at all if it worked loose?
Pick up a good mechanical oil pressure gauge. You can hook it up and not make a permanent fixture in your car if you need to. You could hook it and mount it under hood to check what it is at idle and with the engine running thru the RPM band. Good mechanical gauges are not expensive and are a direct piece that will read regardless of whether there is a circuit problem going to the electric. Your sender pulls a signal from there it sends it to the circuit board in your dash panel.
pull off the rocker cover and see if any oil is pumping through the rockers while motor is running
Update! I change the oil today to 10w40 but no change. I did find pieces of what looked like bearings in the oil filter. When I started it cold it had good pressure. I then found an oil leak on my sender unit, I changed it but the same thing little pressure at idle but about 30 psi while driving!
Bearing spun?
Oil pump came apart?
It could be a bearing issue. Did you have a shop press in new cam bearings?
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Israel strikes to stop a terrorist attack
Israel Air Force launched a strike on Palestinian targets in Gaza on Friday, killing the leader of the Popular Resistance Committees, the organization that captured former IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
The IDF Spokesman said in a statement that that the attack targeted Zuhir al-Qaisi, the secretary-general of the Popular Resistance Committees, and his collaborator, Mahmoud Hanani.
Israeli and Palestinian officials reported that IDF forces fired two missiles at a vehicle in northern Gaza, immediately killing al-Qaisi and Hanani, who were inside.
Al-Qaisi, the IDF Spokesman said, was recently organizing a large, coordinated terror attack to be carried out on Israel's border with Gaza. Hanani was a resident of Nablus and one of the prisoners freed as part of the deal to release Gilad Shalit, and was expelled to the Gaza Strip.
Al-Qaisi was one of the masterminds of the deadly terror attack in August 2011, in which eight Israelis were killed on Highway 12, which runs along the Israel-Egypt border.
The Popular Resistance Committees responded Friday to the attack, and vowed to avenge al-Qaisi's death in a way that would "shake the Zionist enemy."
Hamas' spokesman in Gaza said in response to the attack that the Palestinian people have the right to defend themselves.
Following the IDF strike, two mortar shells and eight rockets were fired into Israel, and cities near the Gaza border were put on high alert. The residents have been asked to stay close to bomb shelters.
After the rocket fire, IDF forces proceeded to strike targets in Gaza, killing two more Palestinian militants, who were trying to fire rockets into Israel. Highway 12 was also closed to traffic on Friday evening.
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We find out what the "shake the zionist enemy" means.
100+ rockets and a whole bunch of mortar rounds get fired at Israel on a single day.
To put this in numbers; 50 rockets was the count for the last month or 2-3 months in total (I'm not sure).
An Israeli missile is launched from the Iron Dome missile system in the city of Ashdod in response to a rocket launch from the nearby Palestinian Gaza Strip on March 11, 2012.
Another round of fighting broke out over the weekend between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip. It was the usual thing, only more so: Until Sunday morning, only militants were reported killed on the Palestinian side. And on the Israeli side, no one was even badly hurt, except for a Thai farmworker who had the misfortune of toiling in a field outside the remarkable umbrella known as Iron Dome, the anti-missile batteries that are transforming how Israelis respond to the sound of air raid sirens.
Instead of the stark terror provoked by that rising, sickening wail, a kind of grateful curiosity has joined apprehension in the cities of southern Israel that lie within rocket range of Gaza. Iron Dome works something like miracles. Stationed outside, say, Be'er Sheva, 22 miles from Gaza, the system reads the arc of incoming missiles to determine which may threaten populated areas. Militants fired some 120 missiles since Friday. Iron Dome judged that about two-thirds of those would land far from populated areas, and simply left them alone. Of the 37 that it calculated posed a significant danger to people, the system launched interceptor rockets that, in 32 cases, met the incoming missile and exploded it in mid-air. That's an 86 percent success rate.
The usual airstrikes in response came, sixteen militants killed on Saturday, and then the first civilian fatality on the Palestinian side on Sunday, a 12 year old boy.
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This is part of the article and a link to the rest. http://ndow.org/about/news/pr/2012/May/Quotas.shtm
"The Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) will make recommendations for some healthy increases in tag quotas for many big game species at the upcoming Nevada Board of Wildlife Commission Meeting May 11 and 12 in Reno."
"The Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners will make the final decision on big game quotas based on input from NDOW, sportsmen and the public during their May meeting to be held at 1100 Valley Road in Reno May 11 and 12."
The anti-hunters will be there according to a past article (anti-bear hunt) and it would probably be a good idea if some locals showed up to voice their opinions to conteract the people who want to ban hunting. The meetings will start Friday at 9 AM and Saturday at 8:30am. It looks like from the agenda that the Bear issue will be discussed on Friday and the Big game quotas on Saturday. Here's the link to the agenda. http://ndow.org/learn/com/mtg/ Click on the "Agenda" link for the document.


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Why Bloomberg's Persona Doesn't Hurt Gun Safety
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The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza baselessly criticized former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg's gun safety efforts, claiming without evidence that Bloomberg's "persona could hurt" the campaign.
Bloomberg plans to spend $50 million this year "building a nationwide grass-roots network to motivate voters who feel strongly about curbing gun violence," The New York Times reported. Republican and Democratic officials, including President Bush's secretary of homeland security and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sit on the board of Bloomberg's new group, Everytown for Gun Safety, as do several prominent survivors and family members of victims of gun violence.
Responding to the news, Cillizza criticized Bloomberg for allegedly making himself "the face of his new gun violence push." Cillizza wrote that Bloomberg "doesn't fully grasp how he is viewed by many people outside of major cities and the Northeast," who supposedly see the former Mayor as "the living, breathing symbol of the sort of nanny government they loathe."
It's true that Bloomberg has been harshly criticized by conservative media outlets for his work as mayor of New York City. But Cillizza errs in conflating this "conservative vitriol" from critics like Michelle Malkin -- hard-right types who will never support a gun safety agenda -- with the views of the people Bloomberg "needs to convince."
As Cillizza himself notes, polling data doesn't bear out the contention that there's a massive wave of anti-Bloomberg sentiment. According to the 2013 poll Cillizza cites, roughly equal numbers of Americans view the former New York City mayor favorably or unfavorably, while slightly fewer haven't heard of him or have no opinion. Other polls likewise show no massive anti-Bloomberg movement of the type Cillizza suggests.
Cillizza claims Bloomberg's persona impedes his efforts with the Republican-leaning women Bloomberg "needs to convince" for his efforts to be successful. But he provides no evidence that a sizable number of those women see Bloomberg unfavorably -- or that any block of swing voters, moderates, or independents do so. Indeed, the proposals Bloomberg supports, such as universal background checks on firearms purchases, have overwhelming public support.
Cillizza's case study for the supposed opposition also doesn't hold up. He writes:
The more groups opposed to gun control are able to cast the effort to pass measures that would tighten said laws as the efforts of a New York City billionaire bent on telling you how to live your life, the less effective the effort will be. Look at how badly Virginias reacted when Bloomberg ran stings in the Commonwealth in 2007 and when he made comments in 2012 about how so many guns used in New York City came from Virginia. People don't like others telling them how to handle their business -- especially if that person is a billionaire New York City resident who wants to regulate things like sugar in soda.
Cillizza leaves out what happened in Virginia in 2013, when pro-gun safety candidates backed by millions in election spending from Bloomberg-supported groups were elected as the state's governor and attorney general. Either the people of Virginia weren't as opposed to Bloomberg as Cillizza thinks, or their opinion of him didn't matter as much as Cillizza thinks.
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Tetris Credits
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Treatment for parathyroid cancer is given by cancer specialists (oncologists). Some specialize in surgery, some in radiation therapy and others in chemotherapy (drugs). These doctors work with the person with cancer to decide on a treatment plan.
Treatment plans are designed to meet the unique needs of each person with cancer. Treatment decisions for parathyroid cancer are based on:
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Treatment options for parathyroid cancer
- surgery
- En bloc resection is the primary treatment to remove the tumour and nearby tissues.
- Surgical removal (re-excision) is done for recurrence of the cancer in the neck.
- Lymphadenectomy is done to remove enlarged or firm lymph nodes, which suggests the presence of disease.
- Removal of metastases to the liver, lungs or bone may be done to help control blood calcium levels.
- supportive therapy
- Treatment is given to help manage hypercalcemia.
- radiation therapy may be given after surgery to treat recurrent or metastatic disease
- chemotherapy may be given for recurrent or metastatic disease
- follow-up after treatment is finished
- It is important to have regular follow-up visits, especially in the first 5 years after treatment.
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Clinical trials investigate new and better ways to prevent, detect and treat cancer. There may be some clinical trials in Canada that are open to people with parathyroid cancer. For more information, go to clinical trials.
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No Investor Backlash Over Banks' Credit DowngradesBy
So turns the post-subprime bizarro world of credit-rating companies: Moody's Investors Service downgraded Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse Group, and 13 other banks. Today the banks respond by … rallying? Has the sector no shame? Or do credit ratings perhaps not mean what they used to?
"All of the banks affected by today's actions have significant exposure to the volatility and risk of outsized losses inherent to capital-markets activities," Greg Bauer, Moody's global banking managing director, said in a June 21 statement.
That sounded dour enough, especially with everyone so worried about the systemic reverberations that could emanate from a full-blown euro crisis. Moody's reduced Morgan Stanley's long-term senior unsecured debt rating two grades to Baa1, while nine other banks, including Switzerland's UBS, got two-level cuts; Credit Suisse was taken down three levels to A2. Meanwhile, in a Scarlet Letter-like rebuke, Goldman Sachs now must endure the ignominy of an A3 rating on its senior debt—the lowest in the storied investment bank's history.
This all comes after Moody's in February said it was reviewing the health of 17 banks. So investors have had four months—which included JPMorgan Chase's bombshell trading-loss revelation, as well as fresh fear and loathing out of Athens and Madrid—to price in new concerns.
Shares of all the firms affected by the downgrade were up Friday in early trading, several by more than 2 percent, with financials leading gains in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index. Notably, the cost to protect Morgan Stanley debt against losses dropped to the lowest in more than seven weeks, while credit-default swaps linked to Bank of America and Citigroup also improved.
The banks themselves were defiant. Citigroup, which took a cut from Moody's to its lowest rating since it was formed 14 years ago, said in a statement: "Moody's approach is backward-looking and fails to recognize Citi's transformation over the past several years. Citi believes that investors and clients have become much more sophisticated in their credit analysis over the past few years, and that few rely on ratings alone—particularly from a single agency—to make their credit decisions." The bank said it was "especially surprised" at the "disproportionately adverse treatment" it says Moody's has given U.S. banks compared with their European counterparts. Moody's included Citi among a list of four banks, including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and Royal Bank of Scotland Group, that have a history of "high volatility" and problems with risk management.
Edinburgh-based RBS, the majority U.K. taxpayer-owned lender that took the biggest bailout in the global financial crisis, said the Moody's action "is backward-looking and does not give adequate credit for the substantial improvements the group has made to its balance sheet, funding, and risk profile." For its part, Morgan Stanley said that while the new ratings "are better than its initial guidance of up to three notches, we believe the ratings still do not fully reflect the key strategic actions we have taken in recent years."
Citi further used the Moody's downgrade to lend its bailed-out moral suasion to the anti-ratings companies movement. "Investors and clients should make their own decisions," the bank said. "Citi is aware that analytical alternatives to the ratings agencies exist today from several providers that would further enhance the ability of investors and clients to arrive at their own conclusions without being captive to the judgments of rating agencies."
The ghost of subprime lingers for the ratings companies. As housing and financials led the economy into its deepest dive in a generation, Moody's, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch Ratings were all late to recognize the error of their overly optimistic credit ratings on everything from mortgage-backed securities to bank debt. They have since been trying to win back the reputational clout they enjoyed before the crisis. The cuts by Moody's are "a mea culpa from 2007 and 2008," says James Leonard, a credit analyst with Morningstar. "The banks have gotten so much better in the last few years in terms of capital, yet their ratings keep going down. What does that tell you? That the ratings were so wrong before."
"To downgrade a BofA or Citigroup or companies that are sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars of cash in government-backed securities makes no sense," added Dick Bove, the oft-quoted banks analyst, in an interview on Bloomberg Radio. "You can forget Moody's," he said. "You should have forgotten them a long time ago."


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September 2005
My mother-in-law is standing at the window again, the one with the amazing sea view, worrying about how the oil tanker will manage to get out of the bay. She is rubbing each palm against the back of the other in turn, brisk and rhythmical.
"I don't think it will get out of the space: it's too big," she says, rubbing harder, her eyes full of concern.
She is wearing all her cardigans, in layers. Her mood has improved since breakfast, when she woke with the now characteristic belief that she had just been discharged from hospital into the care of strangers.
"But where are my family? Are they coming for me?"
"We are your family," I soothe.
She laughs disdainfully. "Either you're a liar, or I'm going mad."
Most mornings now, five years into dementia, there are tears. Dressing is hard. Bras and trousers go on backwards. If we don't get to her quickly enough, she wanders the halls in her underwear. Last week, our bed and breakfast guests were treated to a dining-room visit by a 79-year-old woman wearing only a pair of purple knickers.
"I don't know where I am," she sobs.
My husband is tender, explaining that they weren't coping, she and his father, and have come to live with us. I go for a jollier approach.
"Well, lucky for you you're retired now and you can sit by the fire and eat biscuits," I say. "Not like poor old me, I've got horses and chickens and washing to see to, and you should see Charlie's bedroom; the horses are tidier."
"Oh poor you, having to do all that," she says, fleetingly lucid, playing along, and I'm ashamed of talking to her in this nice-nurse fashion.
Now she's at the window.
"Look at all that water." Her voice is astonished.
"Yes. We live on an island, a Scottish island, the sea's all around us."
She looks at me, grim-faced. "That's all very well, but they laugh at me you know. They look me up and down in the street and I can see that they're thinking, who does she think she is?"
Granny's Alzheimer's advances in phases, as if we're mining underground, towards obliteration. Currently, we've hit the seam of Lost Prepositions. Grandad gets exasperated.
"No, no!" we hear him shouting. "The cup! The cup! In front of the book! No not under it, in front of it! Now put the spoon in it. In it! In it! Not behind it! Oh for god's sake!" Occasionally, she gets fed up with being yelled at and gets her coat. On one such day, she found me in the kitchen making soup.
"Excuse me." A plaintive little voice. She can't remember my name. "Excuse me. Lady. I think I should tell you that I have to find other accommodation."
Some days she has vocabulary, some days not. Today, I heard her wandering the house looking for her shoes.
"The things, the things that go on the ... that go on the things. I want to. I want the things that go on the end."
October 2005
Grandad is in hospital. He got up out of his chair and went down like a ninepin, breaking his leg at the hip. Granny doesn't know this (although she was with him when he fell, and held his hand until the ambulance came, and has visited him every day since). We keep it from her - or so she accuses us, when it occurs to her to ask where he has gone, two or three dozen times a day. She doesn't take the news well.
"Why didn't anyone tell me?"
She shakes her head, stamps her foot and has a tantrum like an outsized toddler. She asks for her father, and gets agitated when he can't be produced, and horrified when I confess that he and her mother are dead. Then, shocked by my own bluntness, I add: "But that's because you are an old lady now." She looks baffled. "You are almost 80. You don't have parents now, but you do have children, and grandchildren. Six grandchildren. Three of them live here with you."
Granny's face acquires a stony set look. "My. Parents. Are. Coming for me."
November 2005
Granny has latched on to me and wants to be where I am. When the children come home from school, I ask them to grannysit so I can have a break. Minutes later, Granny comes shuffling into the drawing room, her voice full of relief.
"Ahh, there you are, I was worried."
I say I'm trying to get a few minutes' peace, reading a book. Would she like to sit with me and look at a book?
"Yes, I'd love it, I've been all on my own, nobody speaking to me at all." She then proceeds to free associate. I put the book down.
"OK, but I am trying to read now, so ... do you think you could mind the children for me for a while?"
"I'd be happy to. Where are they?"
I take her back to her sitting room and introduce her to her grandchildren, whom she greets as if for the very first time. Then I rush back to the novel, knowing I have seven or eight minutes until she shuffles in again. "Ah, there you are, I was worried."
December 2005
Grandad spends Christmas in hospital. Granny watches TV from breakfast to bedtime. We realise that Grandad had been a pretty good grannysitter in his way. His way consists of the sharing of all-day TV. He would watch everything, anything, and kept up a steady dialogue with the programming that was really a way of talking to his wife.
"Just look at that suit! What does she look like?"
"£350? I wouldn't give him 10 bob for that vase, would you?"
"Look at the colours in the trees! I'd no idea Bulgaria was hilly, did you?"
He talks, and when a response is required, his wife joins in. "Oh yes, you're quite right ..." She might almost pull it off, the illusion that she understands the question, but then she blows it, "and I have always thought so, but not many people can see it, you know. It's been like that my whole life."
Grandad, in Alzheimer's Denial, can't let such wittering pass.
"What are you talking about, you silly woman? It's bloody Bulgaria!"
The worst days - for the rest of us, but also for her - are the ones in which Granny seems to be caught between her old and new selves; she knows that she's lost, and can ask sensible, unanswerable questions about her lostness.
"But where did you find me?" she asks her husband.
"What do you mean? You mean where did we meet?"
"Yes. Where was I?"
He tells her the details: the tennis club, the dance, their first date.
"I wish I could remember," she says.
Some days I take her with me round house and garden, finding, like mothers of toddlers do, ways of including her in domestic tasks. It's exhausting: "Now here's your peg, here's the sock, see you open the peg like this and put it on the line and when you let go it grips it. See? No, don't put them all on top of one another, they won't dry ..." Then, having spent five unbroken hours together, I put her in her chair by the fire and go to make her a coffee. When I get back she is purple-faced with rage.
"I've been left here all day on my own. If I'm not wanted, just say so!"
January 2006
Grandad's still in hospital. Granny can no longer sit still for more than 10 minutes. I find A Nice Film on TV, but 11 minutes later she's up and out.
"I'm just going for a wee walk."
I find her in my husband's office, interrupting a business call.
"Perhaps this gentleman can help me," she says, gesturing towards her son. "Can you tell me where I am?"
For a while, we adopted a policy of granny-shadowing, each of us taking a stint on the rota. But Granny grew testy. Grandchildren following her into her bedroom were rounded on.
"Why can't you just leave me alone?"
Then she'd come and find me, complaining bitterly. "I am pig sick of all these young people that live here."
During the Christmas holidays this resulted in an unseemly and pointless row. She'd been venting spleen at the children again. Our nine-year-old was called a series of unfortunate names: Alzheimer's with a side order of Tourette's. Granny got told the blunt facts: that we could only put up with so much, and it was very unfair to be nasty to the kids. The Home was mentioned: the one she'd be shipped off to if she didn't mind her mouth. Net result: two days of hand-wringing.
"I didn't do it! I didn't do anything bad!" Over and over and over.
"Would you like a cup of tea?"
"But I didn't do it! I didn't! I didn't do anything bad!"
"No. Listen. Tea? A biscuit?"
"But I didn't do anything!"
And then, on the third day, calmer but no less angrily: "I'm afraid I have to tell you that unfortunately your children are liars. They're all bitches."
February 2006
Grandad is still in hospital.
Granny doesn't mention him any more. I ask her about her family sometimes, reminding her that she has a brother who lives in Australia.
"He's in Australia? Has he been there long?" Only about 45 years.
One rather desperate day, we make a telephone call to the local health visitor, who turns up with a file full of paperwork, to talk about The Future. We will need to see the GP, the Memory Team, and be assessed. Just three months ago, we'd been dismissive about getting help. But now we're greedy for information.
March 2006
Grandad has been discharged from hospital and we are all close to demented. His broken leg hasn't responded well to surgery and is now permanently dislocated. He's tired and ill. This makes Granny all the more frustrated. She has rages and in one of these takes a swing at me with the coal shovel. A note is made on the care file.
Granny's interested in television again. She loves the soaps: the more shouting and misery and discord, the more she likes it. The house is too quiet, too harmonious for her. We bore her. She wants talking, talking, all the time; can no longer tolerate anyone reading, comes and looms over people until they pay attention to her. I'm reminded of a particularly needy cat we had once, that attacked opened newspapers.
April 2006
Suicide talk. We no longer leave Granny alone with nine-year-old Charlie, since she started seeking counselling from him about her urge to go and "jump in the canal". Internally, I'm fervently apologetic to all those people I ever maligned for "dumping" their parents in care homes. Movie grannies, with their crumpled-and-smoothed tissue-paper faces and tea dresses, have a lot to answer for. Movie grannies don't refuse point blank to clean their teeth. They don't yell obscenities at their grandchildren. They never pull down their trousers and touch their toes and ask you if their bottoms are clean.
May 2006
Granny's a different person when she is among strangers: happier, more at ease. Meeting people for the first time, she'll embrace them and say how glad she is to see them again. "I knew you when I was very small," she'll exclaim. Babies in pushchairs are waved at, sung to, engaged in one-sided conversations.
"Look at you, you're gorgeous, and you know it, don't you?" She pinches a rosy cheek. "The others are nasty about you, but don't you listen."
People closer to home are less favoured. Photos of her daughter in Canada elicits vague smiles.
"I know her, don't I?"
Nor does she always recognise her own body parts. Once, when she'd been ages in the bathroom, I put my ear to the door and heard her say, "No, no, this isn't my bottom."
She's not incontinent, but she no longer wipes and we change her underwear at least once a day. Unpleasant sections of toilet roll emerge from cardigan sleeves. She's taken to cleaning the loo pan with her hands, so we are paranoid about not letting her touch food. The long fingernails have to go.
Stuck at home a lot of the time, companion to a man she doesn't recognise, she becomes despondent, and it's as if her unhappiness is starting to leach out. It coats the walls and furnishings. This isn't just metaphorical. Despite twice weekly baths, my mother-in-law has acquired a sweet, sweaty smell with a dark undercurrent: faeces, armpit, fear.
June 2006
I find, on a superficial self-audit, that I have become very low. Granny is sucking the optimism out of me. Daily she wanders the hall. Up and down, with a stricken expression. I try to be cheery.
"Hey, you. What are you doing?"
The voice of doom speaks. "There is nothing to do. There is nothing at all to do. It's all meaningless. It happens again and again and it doesn't mean anything." She goes to the window, gestures out at the stunning sea view, the bay, the headland, the wind howling another gale.
"Look. There's nothing there."
She's right, I find myself thinking. She has possessed me; I am diminished.
July 2006
"I want to go home," Granny says over and over, and she doesn't mean to the little bungalow we rescued them from, she and Grandad: that suburban isolation, the washing piling up, tea made from the hot tap and packets of Rich Tea biscuits for lunch. She means home to her old self. She's aware that she's lost her somehow, the woman who was a company secretary, with painted nails and a wardrobe full of blue jackets, who knitted exquisite baby clothes for each of my children. She knows, but she can't quite put her finger on it.
More care meetings. The professionals come; drink tea. Granny is produced, and is charming. Some emergency facility, buried deep, is mined and polished.
"So. Can you tell me your date of birth?" one of the social workers asks.
"I've no idea. But it was a very long time ago; my memory's terrible."
The professionals give us quizzical looks. Crisis, what crisis?
August 2006
All the doors must be locked as Granny is now intent on escape. She tries each door a dozen times or more a day, learns how to turn the key and is off.
September 2006
Things are better and worse. Better: there's now a weekly timetable of carers. Worse: the effect of this has been to shift the balance from house to institution, the hall ringing with the shouts of care workers to one another, the merry giggles of good-natured matrons, the comings and goings of six people a day. Also worse: Grandad's mobility (now zero) and Granny's condition. She's now unconvinced for a lot of the time that the man in the orthopaedic chair is her husband, and stomps about the house complaining about That Man. She won't share a bedroom, thinking it unseemly. She has also taken against the rest of us, spending hours ranting about her son, her grandchildren ("those people who work here") and "that woman" (me). I've gone from most-favoured to least. "Who the hell do you think you are?" she asks, her face set with hatred. "You are nothing. You're not worth the shit on my shoe."
The worst news is that the panel that meets to assign residential care informs us that neither of my in-laws is severe enough even to go on the waiting list.


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About 45 minutes ago, Red State's Caleb Howe reported that a package filled with a white powder was sent to the office of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. Brewer, picture right in a file photo, has become a controversial figure since she signed into law a bill giving state authorities more power to determine an individual's immigration status.
Andrew Staubitz, the chief of Phoenix's Capital Police Department, told Howe that a state employee opened an envelope addressed to the Governor and found a "powdery white substance." The first floor of the Arizona Capitol was closed for about half an hour. Paramedics were called, but the employee required no further medical assistance. The powder was sent to a lab where it is undergoing tests.
Will the media report this event as vehemently as they have other instances of purported political violence? Will they extrapolate a larger threat posed by opponents of the new immigration law as they repeatedly have with the Tea Party movement (even though it has been completely devoid of violence)? Or will they apply the journalistic scrutiny to this incident that they failed to apply to the claims of members of Congressional Black Caucus who said protesters had shouted racial slurs at them? We will see.
As Howe writes (emphasis in the original),
How long after the Capitol steps alleged spitting incident was it before talking heads were running with the Democrat and Shepard Smith talking point that tea partiers were becoming violent? How many times in the last year, from the town halls through today, has MSNBC had panels and pundits discussing the "violent rhetoric" and increasing danger from the right? Can you imagine if Governor Brewer had declared a Arizona a sanctuary state and then received white powder in the mail? The uproar? The outrage? The utter ALARM!??!
Howe correctly notes that speculation about the motives of the perpetrator in this instance is almost irrelevant to a commentary on the media's role in the incident. Due journalistic diligence requires that reporters not jump to conclusions one way or another.
But this diligence has consistently been denied the Tea Party. In fact, the media seem bent on lending creedence to voices that are routinely incorrect in their accusations of violence against conservative activists (see Sparkman, Bill), and hardly bother concealing the political motivations that undergird their charges.
NewsBusters will monitor the media's coverage -- or lack thereof -- of this incident. You can help by reporting coverage if you see it. Is the incident being reported? If so, how? Are the media parroting the tired "lone wolf" claim to insulate the far-left from any possible connection? Is the incident being used to play up popular opposition to the Arizona law?
*****UPDATE: In anticipation of critics' claims that this story is not really worth significant coverage since signs point to the white powder being innocuous in this instance, I'll note the following. In three instances of similar white powder hoaxes at the Harlem office of former President Bill Clinton, a Kerry/Edwards campaign office in 2004, and at the Washington office of former Republican Senate Leader Bill Frist.
In all three cases, a major media outlet devoted significant time or space to the incident. We will see if the mainstream media do so in this instance.


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Selective Attention as a Metaphor for the Research Process
Watch.. (if you're still under your Internet-proof rock and have somehow managed to miss it…)
As I see it, there are two ways of missing the gorilla in the research process.
The intentional
First, the intentional. You throw your Harry Potter invisibility cloak over the big monkey and choose to ignore it.
This could be entirely your fault. Because a certain strand of evidence doesn't back your theory, or you dislike the work of another author so don't read it, or just don't bother to do your searching very well.
Or, it could be the fault of your environment. Maybe your institution doesn't have access to the right materials, or you don't have the funding to purchase them. Or, you just don't have the time to give it the attention it deserves.
The unintentional
The cape is on the ape before you knew there was going to be an ape.
It might be the thing you hadn't considered. Much like one of those choose your own adventure books, your research could take you down a particular route and you entirely miss other options. How many pages down the Google search do you go?
Or, it could be about the technology. Whether it's the search algorithm prioritising results above others or your organisation/ISP/government filtering certain content from you.
An argument for high quality research
All of which clearly points towards planning the research method being just as important as choosing the topic when it comes to my upcoming dissertation. Time to open that textbook…


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Chip Scale Atomic Clocks: Benefits to Airborne GNSS Navigation Performance
Bruggemann, Troy S., Greer, Duncan G., & Walker, Rodney A. (2006) Chip Scale Atomic Clocks: Benefits to Airborne GNSS Navigation Performance. In International Global Navigation Satellite Systems Society Symposium 2006, 17-21 July 2006, Holiday Inn, Surfers Paradise, Australia.
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Currently available atomic clocks are too large, power hungry and costly for use onboard GNSS receivers. Chip Scale Atomic Clocks (CSACs) are a promising new technology that is expected to be commercially available in a few years time. These devices are highly-stable atomic clocks in a small, low power and low cost package that may replace less-stable crystal oscillators in GNSS receivers. Previous studies have shown that integrating an atomic clock with a GNSS receiver gives improved navigation performance. This paper presents a study into the expected level of navigation performance that may be achieved with CSACs. A theoretical CSAC error model is constructed based on published performance. The application considered in this study is "clock coasting" in airborne GPS navigation. The results show that "clock coasting" with CSACs results in an improved Dilution of Precision (DOP) for up to 55 minutes under low satellite visibility or poor geometry, compared to a typical crystal oscillator. Results also show that good navigation performance (PDOP < 6) can be achieved for up to 80 minutes in four-satellite navigation with CSAC.
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