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I've encountered some interesting beliefs in my time as a hospice nurse. Before making visits or calls, we are expected to at least glance at a 'basic information' screen about the patient. I've always been intrigued when I come across an entry that says some variation of, "Do not mention the word hospice in front of patient (and/or) family."
I can respect this. I'm more of a "let's keep it real, yo" kind of person, but I know not everyone is. So I do my best not to mention the word 'hospice' while providing care for these patients, and it's never been a problem.
But there are some patients that are SO opposed to the entire concept (although they still come on service) that they also refuse any kind of equipment that we offer them to make their lives easier while they are being taken care of at home.
Hospitals have it all, right there – over bed tables (which are nice because they have wheels and can be a tall, easy moveable surface for anything from meals to setting up supplies for a dressing change), bedside commodes (gotta pee, can't walk, oh! there's something we can put next to the bed! Genius!), and hospital beds. In fact, the fancy pants hospital beds we had at my job in CCU could translate phrases into like 15 different languages. We'd just pick one from a list ("are you in pain," "please hold still," etc.), choose the language, and the bed would speak the phrase you wanted. Needed to tell someone "I am your nurse" or ask them to wiggle their toes in Mandarin? The bed would do that. It would have been a really helpful feature, but patients often could not hear what the bed was saying.
Anyway, hospital beds, even those that can't speak 15 languages, are pretty nice things to have when you're sick. So part of me was always dismayed when I'd go to a house to see a patient in distress only to find that they were still on the couch or in a regular bed. Look, I get it. Having a hospital bed in your house takes up a lot of room. It basically screams, "Hi! I'm sick and/or dying!" So for someone who can't even tolerate hearing the word "hospice," having such a huge reminder in the room can be distressing.
But when the chips are down and you can't breathe and you don't have the strength to sit up? That bed can be a godsend. The head can be raised or lowered, the bed itself can be raised so that your loved ones (and visiting nurse! ahem) don't break their backs bending over to provide care (turning, cleaning, boosting). The ability to raise the bed is actually pretty important for laypeople who aren't used to using proper body mechanics when moving patients. The bed rails can be really useful to use to help get yourself out of bed.
So when I come visit because the patient is having a hard time breathing, and I walk in to see them laying flat on a regular bed, I'm sad that their denial has progressed to causing them actual discomfort. There's nothing more I'd love to do than push a button and raise the head of the bed so they can breathe more easily. There are wedges you can use on regular bed mattresses, and of course there are pillows you can jam behind the patient's back, but those aren't always very comfortable and it's hard to get them in the right position. Not to mention having to try to get them all back in position every time the patient needs to change position or get out of bed.
So if you find yourself or a loved one needing to be taken care of at home, and your nurse brings up maybe getting a hospital bed, don't dismiss it immediately. It can be a real asset for a sick person's comfort and that of those taking care of them.
thats the truth! just trying to care for those in regular beds or wheel chairs all day can be very back breaking! They shoud make "nicer looking" hospital beds..
pretty sure we don't use beds that speak 15 languages in Australia! Pretty much the standard functions here only, bit more for ICU
I couldn't agree with you more. And how can we do what we do best when the patient and family are in denial? Sometimes I want to shake a family member that says "But if we get a hospital bed, he'll know he's really sick".
I understand that hospital beds are very useful for the people who take care of the patients. Nevertheless, they are extremely uncomfortable for the people who actually lay in those beds. Unfortunately I had to be in a hospital quite a few times. Can't sleep in them, the mattresses are awful, the pillows never stay where they are supposed to and usually slid to the small of your back, and you need to be holding yourself at all times otherwise you slide down on the bed as well. Or if you manage to fall asleep, sooner or later you'll bang your head/elbow/knee on the rails. I was never able to sleep while in the hospital, and that made my recovery very slow, especially when I had to be in the hospital more than two days.
For something that gets so much stick hospitals beds really are useful. I can't say I've ever heard of the beds that talk though, maybe its just been too long since I've worked on a ward! I'm off to scour YouTube for videos of them ;)
Unfortunately, I have a long personal history with hospital beds. This has to do with me visiting my mother during her numerous illnesses and actually moving into the hospital and staying in a rehab with her twice. No, I did not end up with a hospital bed. However, I changed her bed so many times in the course of her illness, I could say that I have become quite expert at knowing which are the most functional depending on the stage of the person's illness. Of course, I will never forget that she rented one for the last year or so of her life. I must agree, that when someone rents a hospital bed, it is akin to admitting that if the end is not near, the patient is very sick and needs the bed to function. I also remember quite vividly that after she died, the rental company came to the house, disassembled the bed and loaded it up with the new bedside commode she had barely used and the wheelchair that I could take apart in a flash even though it weighed 45 pounds. I remember crying when the truck pulled away from the driveway, like none of that had ever happened. Was she really ever here? The room was now so vacant and still.
Another recollection is the last bed she had in the coronary care unit. I was told that it was a $30,000 bed and basically did everything but talk. I don't recall if it rotated, but it must have allowed her to shift her weight since she had so much fluid from 3rd spacing. I have slept in many recliners and can honestly say to my patients that I know exactly what that is like and I usually conclude with, it's not so bad. The worst part is not ever having to sleep in one again, because your relative is gone and your care taking role is over.
Thank you so much for the read. I get a tad dismayed by the frustration of some of the patients. I am just trying to make their stay better and am always trying to help. I may be on a downer but I doing my best to keep my positive outlook going. I am ready for a compliment if anybody hears me! lol.
Having a hospital bed at home can be a godsend in many cases, not only for the physiological reasons, but also psychologically…we all know that there are way too many patients, especially the older ones, who simply refuse to be admitted to a hospital and allow their health deteriorate at home that's lacking the proper equipment.
I agree- I think some people go through a denial stage. Personally, I can see why the beds would be such an eyesore but at the same time it brings many accommodating benefits to the table.
That is exactly the simple fact, simply hoping to care for individuals in regular beds, all day can be very back splitting. I think beds should be Comfortable for as.
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BILL MOYERS: Let's talk now with Sherman Alexie. He comes from a long line of people who have lived the consequences of inequality, Native Americans, the first Americans. They were the target of genocide, ethnic cleansing, which for years was the hidden history of America, kept in the closet by the authors and enforcers of white mythology.
How do you grapple with such a long denied history? If you are Sherman Alexie, you face it down with candor and even irreverence, writing poems, novels, and short stories, and even movies. Here's a clip from "Smoke Signals" that Alexie wrote and co-produced in 1998:
VICTOR IN SMOKE SIGNALS: You got to look mean or people won't respect you. White people will run all over you if you don't look mean. You got to look like a warrior. You got to look like you just came back from killing a buffalo.
THOMAS IN SMOKE SIGNALS: But our tribe never hunted buffalo, we were fishermen.
VICTOR IN SMOKE SIGNALS: What? You want to look like you just came back from catching a fish? This ain't "Dances with Salmon," you know.
BILL MOYERS: Alexie has published 22 books of poetry and fiction, including "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven," "War Dances," and "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," a book for young adults and winner of the National Book Award. His latest work is a collection of short stories, old and new, with the title, "Blasphemy." I'll ask him why.
He now lives in Seattle, like many of his characters who left the reservation for the city, living in between, and traveling across boundaries both real and imagined.
BILL MOYERS: Sherman Alexie, welcome.
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Oh, thank you. It's good to be here.
BILL MOYERS: Life for you is a lot of in between, isn't it?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Well, as a native, as a colonized people you do live in the in between. The thing is I'm native. But necessarily because I'm a member of the country, I'm also a White American.
BILL MOYERS: But you must feel at home in that in between now, because so many people are, as you say, living there.
SHERMAN ALEXIE: I was taught that it was not easy, that there was something destructive about it. I was taught by my elders, my parents that it was a bad, dangerous place to be. But I've come to realize it's actually, it's pretty magical. You know? I can be in a room full of Indians and non-Indians. And I can switch in the middle of sentences. So, and also because I'm ambiguously ethnic looking, you know, I come to New York and I can be anything. People generally think I'm half of whatever they are.
So, I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they would talk around the people in their cultural group. So I get to hear all the secrets and jokes and you know, I'm a part of every community because of the way I look.
BILL MOYERS: Is that a big change from your parents' generation and your generation?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Oh, I mean, I grew up in a monoculture. We did a family tree in sixth grade on the rez and everybody was related.
BILL MOYERS: On the reservation?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Yes, including the teacher. My mom and dad met when he moved to the rez, when he was five and she was 14. And she helped him get a drink at a water fountain. My mom was born in the house where her mom was born. So we were as isolated in the sense of Native Americans as anybody else. So, you know, I realized later on that when I left the rez to go to the White high school on the border of the rez I was a first-generation immigrant, you know? I'm an indigenous immigrant.
BILL MOYERS: What is it like to be an alien in the land of your birth?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: I mean, it's a destructive feeling. Because, you know, a lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling lost and insignificant inside the larger culture. So you end up feeling lost squared. And to never be recognized, to never have any power, you know, other minority communities actually have a lot of economic, cultural power. But we don't, you know? Not at all.
I mean, you can still have the Washington Redskins, you know? You can still have the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians, which is by far the worst. And if you look at Chief Wahoo on their hats and put Sambo next to him, it's the same thing. And, you know, you could never have Sambo anymore.
Most, you know, at least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural power. We're still placed in the past. So we're either in the past or we're only viewed through casinos.
BILL MOYERS: Do you feel shoved back into that tight space, that closet, even by the questions I ask about Indians, natives, reservation, all of that?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Sometimes. But, I'm, you know, it's who I am. So I have no issue talking about it. You know, I know a lot more about being White than you know about being Indian. I am extremely conscious of my tribalism. And when you talk about tribalism, you talk about living in a black and white world. I mean, Native American tribalism sovereignty, even the political fight for sovereignty and cultural sovereignty is a very us versus them. And I think a lot of people in this country, especially European Americans and those descended from Europeans don't see themselves as tribal, you know? I don't think, for instance, Republicans see themselves as tribal. I was speaking to a Republican here in New York, a friend of mine. And, you know, I asked him, "Do you think it's an accident that, what, 80 percent of Republicans are White males?" And he did. I mean, he--
BILL MOYERS: Coincidence, huh?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Yes. He couldn't even imagine that he's part of a tribe. So as a member of a tribe, I think I have a more conscious relationship with black and white thinking. And I used to be quite a black and white thinker in public life and private life until 9/11, you know? And the end game of tribalism is flying planes into building. That's the end game. So since then, I have tried, and I fail often, but I have tried to live in the in between. To be conscious what did Fitzgerald say? The sign of a superior mind is the ability to hold two different ideas. Keats called it negative capability. So I have tried to be in that and fail often, but I try.
BILL MOYERS: That's what I get from your poems. You even see Yo Yo Ma's cello differently from the rest of us. That's one of my favorites. Would you read it?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Oh, yes--
BILL MOYERS: Here it is.
SHERMAN ALEXIE: And this poem is called Tribal Music.
Watching PBS, it occurs
To me that I want to be
Yo Yo Ma's cello.
Hello! Does this mean
That I'm sexually attracted
To Yo Yo Ma? Nah,
He's cute and thin
Looks great in a tux,
And makes the big bucks,
But I long to be simultaneously
As strong and fragile
As the cello. I want to be
The union of fingertip
And string. I want less
To be a timorous human
And desire more
To become a solid
Wooden thing, warm
To the touch but much
Colder when left
Alone in my case. I need
To flee the mystery
Of mortality and insanity
And become that space
Between the notes.
I no longer want to be the root
Cause of anybody's pain,
Especially my own.
O, Yo Yo Ma, I hem
And haw, but let's be clear:
I want to abandon
My sixteen-drum fear
And inhabit the pause
That happens between falling
In love and collapsing
Because of love. I want
To be sane. I want to be
Clean and visionary
Like a windowpane.
BILL MOYERS: Where does that come from?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Well, you know, number one, the cello looks like a woman to me. And, you know, the curves. And so I am in a way, and it's funny to admit this, I am sexually attracted to the cello, the curves really get me. So as I watched him play, you know, Yo Yo Ma is sort of making love to a beautiful woman.
And I want to be that beautiful. So I was thinking of that watching it. And then it occurred to me, you know, I'm a man. I don't want to be a woman. But I want to be the object of beauty. I want to be so clearly beautiful. And in a way it's a need for perfection, you know, the desire to be perfect, even though I can't be and even though if I really started thinking about it I don't want to be. But there's a state of nirvana or bliss especially when Yo Yo Ma's playing. I want to be that blissful. And it's so fleeting. And I'm just incapable of it.
BILL MOYERS: Yearning for that moment of sanity or that place of sanity?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Yes.
BILL MOYERS: You say in there, "To be sane."
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Yes. Well, I'm bipolar. So, you know, I myself veer between these extremes. And to be in the middle is a strong desire. And I mean, I'm working on this idea, I don't know where it's going to go, that being tribal, being colonized automatically makes you bipolar. I think the entire Native American world is bipolar.
BILL MOYERS: But is this your imagination or are you clinically bipolar?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: I'm clinically--
BILL MOYERS: You've been diagnosed--
SHERMAN ALEXIE: I've been diagnosed. I'm medicated. And the medication's working right now. I mean as any person watching this who knows anything the, you know, the medications have to be adjusted constantly, because your brain sneaks around it, you know? Your brain is like the, your bipolar brain is like the soldiers. And your sanity is like the civilians.
BILL MOYERS: Help me understand what the experience of bipolarity is, what happens to you?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Well, you know, when you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages.
Just staying up, you know, two days in a row writing and great stuff often. I mean, you're crazy. So you get these incredible images. You know, forget Yo Yo Ma's cello. I mean, it ends up being, you know, I'm, well, I'm hearkening back to somebody like Sylvia Plath, you know, writing Colossus, you know, Daddy, you know, "You do not do." You know, which directly comes out of mental illness. And depression and mania. I would venture that most of the world's great art has come out of manic periods in an artist's life.
BILL MOYERS: But has it ever occurred to you that there's been more preoccupation with Sylvia Plath's illness than with her poetry?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Oh yeah. I mean, there's a new biography out about her. And it's the same story. It's about her craziness.
BILL MOYERS: Why is that?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: I think we're more interested in the biography.
BILL MOYERS: The story.
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Yeah, and especially in this era, where there are no secrets anymore, where the audience in fact desires so much to know more about the artist. You know? You're supposed to now Twitter everything you're feeling, you know? You go to, you know, some artist's, writer's Twitters. And like everybody else, they're talking about what they had for dinner, you know? All over writer's Twitter feeds and Facebook pages are pictures of what they had for dinner. And why anybody would care, you know, that I had a bowl of cereal in my hotel room this morning, I don't get it. And—
BILL MOYERS: So does that explain The Facebook Sonnet?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Oh, definitely. Definitely.
BILL MOYERS: All right, let's hear that one.
SHERMAN ALEXIE: The Facebook Sonnet.
Welcome to the endless high school
Reunion. Welcome to past friends
And lovers, however kind or cruel.
Let's undervalue and unmend
The present. Why can't we pretend
Every stage of life is the same?
Let's exhume, resume, and extend
Childhood. Let's all play the games
That occupy the young. Let fame
And shame intertwine. Let one's search
For God become public domain.
Let church.com become our church.
Let [us] sign up, sign in, and confess
Here at the altar of loneliness.
BILL MOYERS: Sherry Turkle has written a book called Alone Together on just this point. Talking about how the internet has produced this serial isolation.
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Well, when I think the human is so complex, you know? And as we're relating here, we're relating on so many different levels that we don't consciously understand. I mean, we're actually smelling each other right now, but our, we, as we talk, don't know that, but our bodies know that, you know? My gestures, your gestures, the look in your eye. And the internet takes all that away. There was, there is one level of communication on the internet, which actually in a way is really insulting to the complexity of being human.
BILL MOYERS: How so?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: It limits us to one sense.
BILL MOYERS: One dimension.
SHERMAN ALEXIE: One dimension. And that's not who we are. The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are. And, you know, I don't have Facebook friends. I have friends. And a lot of my friends play basketball. And when we play basketball together, literally, we're touching each other.
And that can't be replicated in any form whatsoever with the internet. And when people say they're really connecting with somebody, I think, it occurs to me that I don't know that they've ever really connected with anybody if they think the internet is how you do it.
You know? It's postcard relationships. In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you know? It has to be a long e-mail. It has to be a five-page hand-written letter, you know, it has to be overwhelming and messy and sloppy as humans are.
And Facebook and Twitter and these other social sites bring every, I mean, 140 characters. I mean, I'm on Twitter and I have fun. But I don't think anybody learns anything about me as a person.
You know, one of the things I've always tried to do as a public person is limit the gap between who I am on a daily basis and who I am on a stage. You know, I've tried to be as honest—
BILL MOYERS: Consciously
SHERMAN ALEXIE: --Yes, I've tried to be as honest as possible.
BILL MOYERS: How are you different?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Well, I think I'm a more gentle person in private, maybe slightly more gentle. I mean, I'm a lot more confrontational in public. I mean, I'm very angry person.
BILL MOYERS: At what?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Oppression.
BILL MOYERS: Oppression?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Racism, sexism, colonialism, the sins of capitalism, the sins of socialism, human weakness, human cruelty. You know, when we behave more like a lion pride than people with prehensile thumbs.
BILL MOYERS: Is writing cathartic for you? Is it healing?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: No. I think it can be healing for readers. You know, I have been helped and healed by other people's words.
BILL MOYERS: Same here.
SHERMAN ALEXIE: But I, my own words for myself, oh man, I don't think so.
BILL MOYERS: Do you think of yourself as a poet first and foremost? Because that's how I first got introduced to you.
SHERMAN ALEXIE: I'm naturally a poet. I started as a poet. I think it's how I look at the world, you know?
BILL MOYERS: What, how does it help you see the world?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: You know, I look at Yo Yo Ma's cello and want to be the cello. I think a novelist would want to write about where the cello came from, who built it. I don't care.
BILL MOYERS: In this poem, Tribal Music, whose tribal music are you writing about?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Mine. A tribe of one. You know, one of the things about being tribal, being a member of a tribe is the force that makes you, that makes the tribe, for you to be like the tribe, to share similar values, to be less of an individual and more a very conscious member of a community to share political beliefs, to share cultural beliefs.
And I've always resisted that. One of the misconceptions about Indians, you know, because liberals love Indians, you know? White liberals worship Indians. But actually, Indians are a conservative lot. I mean, we by and large we vote Democrat, but we live very Republican lives, you know? Indian communities, there's no separation of church and state, war is a virtue, guns are everywhere, by and large pro-life. So, you know, once again, it's a very bipolar existence.
You know, this, you know, knowing that Democrats, by and large, are going to support us more. But still behaving like Republicans. You know, it occurs to me it's like a big city Republicans, who live these incredibly liberal, secular lives in the city, while espousing small town religious politics.
BILL MOYERS: You're so different from how I expected you to be, quite frankly, because I have never met you. Although one of my producers met you some years ago, 11 years ago, I think, Rick Fields. And I have a clip of the piece that we ran on my show then about you from Seattle. Take a peek.
SHERMAN ALEXIE: But my dad, that alcoholic nomad, he used to leave my family for days or weeks at a time drinking and roaming. And I would lie awake all night waiting for him to come home, and five or six times I cried myself sick into the hospital. And I'd lie awake in the kids' ward, ignoring the night shift nurses who came in and said, "Please, try and get a little sleep." So maybe I learned how to be an insomniac because I'm still waiting for my father to come home.
BILL MOYERS: What's changed for you since then?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Medication. I was undiagnosed bipolar. And staying awake was directly the result of that. Either staying awake because I was depressed and didn't want to fall asleep for the nightmares or because I was manic and couldn't fall asleep because I had a million things to do.
BILL MOYERS: Did your father ever come home?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: No. You know, I cut my hair when he died as part of a ceremony. And you can grow it back when the grieving is over. It's been 10 years since he died. So… and I haven't grown my hair back. And I doubt I will.
BILL MOYERS: He was an alcoholic?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Oh, lifelong, really.
BILL MOYERS: There's one scene in your short story War Dances, where the narrator's in the hospital with his father, who has just had surgery. He's cold. And the son is trying to find a blanket for him. Why don't you read this excerpt, War Dances, from Blasphemy.
I walked down the hallway - the recovery hallway - to the nurses' station. There were three woman nurses, two white and one black. Being Native American-Spokane and Coeur d'Alene Indian, I hoped my darker pigment would give me an edge with the black nurse, so I addressed her directly.
"My father is cold," I said. "Can I get another blanket?"
The Black nurse glanced up from her paperwork and regarded me. Her expression was
neither compassionate nor callous.
"How can I help you, sir? " she asked.
"I'd like another blanket for my father. He's cold."
"I'll be with you in a moment, sir."
She looked back down at her paperwork. She made a few notes. Not knowing what
else to do, I stood there and waited.
"Sir," the Black nurse said, "I'll be with you in a moment."
She was irritated. I understood. After all, how many thousands of times had she been asked for an extra blanket? She was a nurse, an educated woman, not a damn housekeeper. And it was never really about an extra blanket, was it? No, when people asked for an extra blanket, they were asking for a time machine. And, yes, she knew she was a health care provider. And she knew she was supposed to be compassionate, but my father, an alcoholic, diabetic Indian with terminally damaged kidneys, had just endured an incredibly expensive surgery for what? So he could ride his motorized wheelchair to the bar and win bets by showing off his disfigured foot? I know she didn't want to be cruel, but she believed there was a point when doctors should stop rescuing people from their own self-destructive impulses. And I couldn't disagree with her but I could ask for the most basic of comforts, couldn't I? "My father," I said, "an extra blanket, please. "
BILL MOYERS: Autobiographical?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Oh, completely. You know, I remember when my first short stories came out and people were calling it autobiographical and I fought it. And then 10 years later I reread the book and thought, "Oh shoot, this is memoir."
BILL MOYERS: Eventually, the son in the story finds a Pendleton blanket. What's a Pendleton blanket?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: It's actually made by a White-owned company in Oregon. These blankets have become highly sacred among Indians. And actually, the Pendleton Company's amazing in their relationship with Indians. So, you know, we love the Pendleton Company in Oregon. And they're gifts. You know, the joke is they're like Native American fruitcakes. The same blanket travels over and over and over. And nobody ever uses it.
BILL MOYERS: Was that you searching for a blanket or wishing you were--
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Wishing and the desire to go out. Because I knew there'd be Indians in the hospital, you know? If you're near an Indian community, there are Indians in the hospital. And so I knew somewhere in that hospital was an Indian family with more than one Pendleton.
BILL MOYERS: And in the story, the son brings the blanket back. And he and his father sing together. Did that happen?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: No, we never sang together.
BILL MOYERS: You wish it had happened?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Yes. I mean, even if we'd sang Elvis together, that would have been great.
BILL MOYERS: You know that you've been described as both an explorer and an exploder of Indian stereotype. And alcohol is surely one of the most persistent stereotypes, correct?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: It's not a stereotype. It's a damp, damp reality. I mean, Native Americans have an epidemic rate of alcoholism. I'm an alcoholic, recovering. My father was an alcoholic. My big brother's an alcoholic. One of my little sister's an alcoholic. My mom's a recovering alcoholic. Every single one of my cousins is a drinker. All of my aunts and uncles were drinkers, some of them have quit, some of them never did. You know, my classmates, you know, three have died in alcoholic-related accidents. My brother has had five best friends die in alcohol-related accidents. And we're not atypical.
BILL MOYERS: What have you come to understand about that?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: It's medication. Trying to take away the pain. And in a way it has substituted for cultural ways of dealing with the pain. So instead of singing, we're drinking. And my father often said, "I drink because I'm Indian," which, you know, is the saddest thing imaginable.
BILL MOYERS: Why did you drink?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Because I'm Indian.
BILL MOYERS: How do you, how do you stay sober?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Because I don't want to disappoint all those hungry sons out there, whose own fathers have failed them. Because whether or not I believe in visions or omens, the last time I drank, I completely destroyed my then girlfriend's birthday party with my alcoholic behavior. And woke up the next day, late in the afternoon feeling deeply ashamed and thinking once again, "I'm going to quit." You know, I tried eight or nine times. But I woke up, went and checked my mail, and the acceptance from "Hanging Loose" for my first poetry book was in the mail. And I thought, "Okay, this is a sign. Write poems, sober up."
BILL MOYERS: And you did?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: And I did.
BILL MOYERS: You live in Seattle now. You've lived there for how long?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Twenty years.
BILL MOYERS: But as a boy you lived on the Spokane--
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Indian Reservation.
BILL MOYERS: --Reservation. How do you feel where you're in a place where your people were ethnically cleansed?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: We didn't make reservations. The military, the US military and government made reservations. And it was a place where we're supposed to be concentrated and die and disappear. And I don't know, and I think it's only out of self-destructive impulses that Native Americans have turned reservations into sacred spaces.
BILL MOYERS: You don't consider them sacred?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: No. Often the place where reservations are aren't where the sacred locations were for tribes. I think Spokane, because it's where Spokane Falls is, I think the city is actually far more sacred than the reservation.
BILL MOYERS: Well, more Indians today live in the cities than live on reservations.
SHERMAN ALEXIE: It's almost 70 percent of natives live off the reservation. It's not easy to live in either place.
BILL MOYERS: Can American Indians ever feel easy in a country that is haunted by the memories of genocide, ethnic cleansing?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: I think for that process to begin, the United States would have to officially apologize. I mean, there's a Holocaust museum in the United States, which I think there should be.
BILL MOYERS: Right in downtown Washington.
SHERMAN ALEXIE: But there should also be a Native American Holocaust Museum.
BILL MOYERS: Why isn't there?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: This country's not good at admitting to its sins.
BILL MOYERS: Have you ever heard an apology for what happened?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: From White liberals. But never from White conservatives.
BILL MOYERS: These were, you were nearly exterminated. You--
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Oh, late 19th century, early 20th, we almost blinked out. Ironically, the reservations also saved us, because they concentrated us.
BILL MOYERS: How did that save you?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Breeding. You know? It wasn't until much later when the US government realized that relocation, taking us out of, you know, highly-concentrated ethnic communities was the way to dissipate us. And that didn't work either, you know? There are blond Indians now, red-headed Indians. So it was cultural protection. It was sovereignty. The impulse to be together in a little group.
BILL MOYERS In this sense, possessed of a horrendous memory, do you sometimes think of yourself as Jewish?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Constantly. I have a really strong identification with that. And, you know, it's funny, because my poetry editors are Jewish. And, you know, I have quite an international following. And one of my editors tells the story of she and her husband were in Europe and these Italian scholars were really obsessed and questioning about, you know, "What is the relationship between Jewish people and Indians?" And using my work as sort of this universal idea. And they asked her, "What does the Native world think about," you know, "Jewish people and Native Americans?" And she said, "I think only Sherman talks about that." So I, it's a very personal vision.
The big thing is humor. Humor in the face of incredible epic pain. I mean, Jewish folks invented American comedy. When you're being funny in the United States, you're being Jewish. And despite all this incredible dislocation. And the thing, you know, even though it's pretty similar in population, the number of Jewish folks and the number of Native Americans, they've had this incredible success. They have this incredible cultural power.
And in a way, I wish that was us. In a way, that could have easily been us. You know? Indians with our storytelling and artistic ability could have created Hollywood. We could have created American comedy. So in some ways, we're the yin and yang of the American genocidal coin.
BILL MOYERS: There's a poem that I have read several times in anticipation of this meeting. And this one is troubling. Another Proclamation.
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Another Proclamation.
that, one year earlier, in 1862, he'd signed and approved the order for the largest public execution in United States history? Who did they execute? "Mulatto, mixed-bloods, and Indians." Why did they execute them? "For uprising against the State and her citizens." Where did they execute them? Mankato, Minnesota. How did they execute them? Well, Abraham Lincoln thought it was good
simultaneously. Yes, in front of a large and cheering crowd, thirty-eight Indians dropped to their deaths. Yes, thirty-eight necks snapped. But before they died, thirty-eight Indians sang their death songs. Can you imagine the cacophony of thirty-eight different death songs? But wait, one Indian was pardoned at the last minute, so only thirty-seven Indians had to sing their death songs. But O, O, O, O, can you imagine the cacophony of that one survivor's mourning song? If he taught you the words, do you think you would sing along?
BILL MOYERS: Talk about that.
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Well, essentially, they were executed for terrorism. The perception of being terrorists for defending themselves and their people from colonial incursions.
BILL MOYERS: As the Whites had been pushing into Minnesota, pushing them further west. And promised them, as I understand it, food in exchange for land. And then the food didn't come. And the Indians reacted violently.
SHERMAN ALEXIE: And then all over the country massacres happening of people they, you know, they would push these tribes and these people onto reservations and then send the soldiers in to wage war on them. I just learned, I don't know why I didn't know this, some sort of denial I guess. But they gave medals of honor to U.S. soldiers who participated at Wounded Knee, absolute massacres of unarmed women, children, and elderly people.
They gave medals of honor. And, you know, this idea of Lincoln as this great savior. Which is true. But in deifying him, it completely, completely whitewashes the fact that he was also a complete part of the colonization of Indians, a complete part of the wholesale slaughter of Indians.
BILL MOYERS: He lived in the in between like everyone. What I know of this incident is that 303 Indians were sentenced to death. President Lincoln commuted the sentences of 265 of them on the basis he himself said of not enough evidence, but allowed 38 of them to be hanged.
SHERMAN ALEXIE: So, the hypocrisy abounds. So once again, the way in which I watch Lincoln the movie is far different than most people watch Lincoln.
That movie in no way portrayed the complexity of human beings, and certainly does not portray the complexity of Lincoln, who for his genius was also, you know, an incredibly, as any politician, an incredibly conflicted and conflicting man, who was capable of ordering great evil. And who did, in fact, by ordering it, created a great evil, committed great evil, a sinful, sinful man that Lincoln.
BILL MOYERS: Had you known about the story for a long time?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: You know, most Indians know a lot about the massacres. They're touchstones. They're a myth for us.
BILL MOYERS: What saved you spiritually? What saved you inwardly?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Storytelling.
BILL MOYERS: How so?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: The age-old stories, you know, sort of an actual sacred nostalgia. And keeping all the ghosts alive, keeping all the memories alive. If you tell a story well enough, everybody in it is right there. So nobody ever dies.
BILL MOYERS: Why did you call this book Blasphemy?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Because I've been so often accused of it by Indians and non-Indians.
BILL MOYERS: How so?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Because I question everything. Because even though I do believe in the sacred, I believe just as strongly in questioning what people think is sacred. Because we're humans and we make mistakes. So, you know, I do my best to point out our weaknesses. And people don't like that. And the weaknesses of our institutions and the weaknesses of our politicians and the weaknesses of our religions.
Once again, 9/11, was the event for me. 9/11 turned all sorts of people into fundamentalists who weren't otherwise, on the left and the right, in the Christian worlds and in the Muslim worlds. And I refuse to participate.
BILL MOYERS: So what do you mean by blasphemy?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: I don't believe in your God. And "your" means the royal "your."
BILL MOYERS: Do you believe in your God?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: No.
BILL MOYERS: What do you believe in?
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Stories. Stories are my God.
BILL MOYERS Would you read this for me?
I've never been to Mount Rushmore. It's just too silly. Even now, as I write this,
I'm thinking
About the T-shirt that has four presidential faces on the front and four bare asses
on the back.
Who's on that damn T-shirt anyway? Is it both Roosevelt, Jefferson, and Lincoln?
Don't get me wrong, I love my country. But epic sculpture just leaves me blinking
With dry-eyed boredom (and don't get me started on blown glass art. I really
hate that crap).
I've never been to Mount Rushmore. It's just too silly. Even now, as I write this,
I'm thinking
That I'd much rather commemorate other president. Let's honor JFK's whoring
and drinking
Or the thirteen duels Andrew Jackson fought to defend his wife's honor. Why
don't we sculpt that?
Who's on that damn Rushmore anyway? Is it McKinley, Arthur, Garfield,
and Lincoln?
And, yes, I know, there's a rival sculpture of Crazy Horse, but the sight of that
one is ball-shrinking
Because Crazy Horse never allowed his image to be captured, so which sculptor
do you think he'd now attack?
I've never been to Mount Rushmore. It's just too silly. Even now, as I write this
I'm thinking
About George W's wartime lies, Clinton's cigars, and Nixon's microphones, and
I'm cringing
Because I know every president, no matter how great on the surface, owned a
heart chewed by rats.
Who's on that damn Rushmore anyway? Is it Buchanan, both Adamses,
and Mr. Lincoln?
Answer me this: After the slaughterhouse goes out of business, how long
will it go on stinking
Of red death and white desire? Should we just cover the
presidents' faces with gas masks?
Who cares? I've never been to Rushmore. It's too silly. Even now, as I write
this, I'm thinking:
"Who's on that damn mountain anyway? Is it Jefferson, Washington,
vReagan, and Lincoln?"
BILL MOYERS: Now go eight pages over to page 38 and read me your footnote.
SHERMAN ALEXIE: So it's footnote 13.
Honestly, I've never been there. This is not a conceit for the poem. I've truly never had any interest in visiting Mount Rushmore or the Crazy Horse memorial. Once while driving in the region, I thought about stopping by, but I didn't. I have no regrets. I've seen Alfred Hitchcock's film "North by Northwest," where Cary Grant's climactic battle with the bad guys happens on the face of Mount Rushmore. It's exciting. But I much prefer the ending where we watch Grant and Eva Marie Saint start to make out in their train car, and then cut to the final shot of that awesomely phallic train penetrating a wonderfully vaginal mountain tunnel. I'm a lover, not a fighter."
BILL MOYERS: And we're all glad for that. Sherman Alexie, I really enjoyed this time with you. And thank you very much for sharing it.
SHERMAN ALEXIE: Thank you, thank you.


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POINT PARK IN FOREFRONT OF Preparing Special Ed Teachers
Curriculum embraces new programs, community partnerships
The Point
Fall 2011
On-site observation is a key component of Point Park's new Autism Spectrum Disorders course.
Students study the causes, characteristics and treatments of autism disorders, then travel to the Watson Institute in Sewickley, Pa., to observe children with autism and collect data about teaching strategies, positive behavior guidance, family interactions and more.
Graduate student Annamarie Casciato says she was fascinated by the process of collecting behavioral data. "At [Watson's] Education Center, we observed students ages 14 and up and documented the antecedent, or what led to a student's change in behavior. Then we recorded the behavior observed, and finally the consequence."
Collecting and analyzing "ABC" data helps students identify behaviors and interventions used to improve the attention, language and social skills of children with autism, says Marilyn Hoyson, chief operating officer of the Watson Institute and an adjunct professor at Point Park.
Dual Certification Option
Hoyson began teaching the course last year as the Department of Education initiated a dual certification option for undergraduates, which enables students to pursue Pennsylvania's new requirements for special education certification along with initial teaching certification. Students may specialize in either pre-kindergarten through grade eight, or grades seven through 12.
Point Park is one of only 13 schools in the state approved for special education at the secondary level leading to certification at the same time as teaching certification. In addition, the University is one of the few to offer the programs over four years, including the student teaching practicum.
New M.Ed. in Special Education
This fall Point Park enrolls the first cohort of teachers in the M.Ed. in special education leading to Pennsylvania certification. The new master's offers advanced training in teaching special needs students.
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Interest in the programs has been strong, says Darlene Marnich, Ph.D., education department chair.
"Special education teachers and general education teachers increasingly work together in general education classrooms as schools become more inclusive, so this training is crucial," says Marnich, "It enhances the skills of all, now that teachers and school districts are facing new challenges due to state funding reductions."
Graduate student Kristen Weaver, who has a bachelor's degree in elementary education from Point Park and is a group supervisor at the Jewish Community Center's Early Childhood Development Center, says she is confident the M.Ed. in special education will make her more marketable in the future. "I know that having the degree will make me a better teacher, whether I am working in a regular classroom or special education setting."
"Point Park graduates will certainly be welcomed by public and private school principals looking for the most qualified teachers with special education certification," says J. Kaye Cupples, Ph.D., associate professor of special education.
Cupples has 34 years of experience in special education teaching and administration in the Pittsburgh Public Schools and leadership roles with such organizations as the Parent Education and Advocacy Leadership Center. Upon joining the University, Cupples worked with faculty and community and agency experts to design the undergraduate and graduate programs and used his extensive network to expand professional collaborations.
Partnerships Enrich Learning
Partnerships with organizations such as the Watson Institute enrich learning and provide students with multiple perspectives, he says. For example, this fall an Allegheny Intermediate Unit professional will lead Point Park graduate students in a new assistive technology course.
Other courses in the master's program include a class on high incidence disabilities, taught by an educator with extensive experience in all three categories: learning disabilities, mild intellectual disabilities and emotional disturbances. As in other courses, students will explore the importance of family partnerships and the roles that collaboration and communication play in children's Individualized Education Program (IEP) plans.
"The goal is to prepare Point Park students to demonstrate they have met the competencies the state has outlined, and that they are each prepared to take over a special education class," Cupples says. The graduate program, he notes, allows for students to undertake specialized research and gain experience in specific areas.
A Model for Educators
Point Park is providing a model for other universities across the state. The Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN), which assists the state's Bureau of Special Education, invited Point Park to give a presentation on its program at the organization's meetings last year. PaTTAN also awarded the University $60,000 in grants to increase community collaborations and produce publications about the new programs.
Point Park's 36-credit M.Ed. is structured to fit the schedules of educators and professionals and provides a means for teachers to acquire the credits needed to obtain Level 2 certification. The program prepares teachers more fully to meet the challenges of today's inclusive schools, says Marnich.
"The teaching strategies learned in the special education program will positively serve all students. These teachers will be an asset to any school district and, as such, will definitely be more marketable."
Text by Colleen Derda
Photo by Martha Rial
The Point is a magazine for alumni and friends of Point Park University.


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Breaking News
Neil Diamond's classic "Sweet Caroline" will no longer be played at Penn State football games because the lyrics have been deemed inappropriate ... in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
The song ...with the lyrics, "touching me, touching you" ... has been a traditional fan sing-a-long at Penn State football home games, but school officials have decided to cut it from the playlist -- for obvious reasons.
But here's the thing, tons of pro and college teams -- most famously the Boston Red Sox -- use the song ... which Diamond has said was inspired by a photo of a then 11-year old Caroline Kennedy with her pony.
So we gotta ask -- if the song's inappropriate at PSU's Beaver Stadium, is it inappropriate for all sporting events?


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Baidu To Lose Its Advantage By Going Public?
from the the-perils-of-going-public dept
Last week, when Chinese search engine Baidu announced plans to go public, we linked to the SiliconBeat report saying that Baidu's one big advantage over Google (an investor in Baidu) was that Baidu pointed people to illegal copies of music. That leads to the obvious question of whether or not going public in the US would put pressure on Baidu to stop this practice. The answer, apparently, is yes. Baidu has said that they will be taking out all the links to downloadable music from their site. They've already removed 3,000 and will be looking at another 50,000. Of course, if this is their one main advantage over Google -- and they're removing it -- you have to wonder what they're left with? It might make for a questionable long term investment if going public strips them of the one factor that differentiates them from the competition.


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Ekaterina Ermolaeva - Business, General Business Projects in China
Studying International Business at university spurred me to expand my knowledge with a real life experience and take part on a voluntary business placement in China. On my first day I was nervous but excited about how the office would look, who the team were that I would be working with and what type of work I was going to be doing.
The office I was working in was located on the 23rd floor and had an amazing view of the streets of Shanghai. It was an ideal distance of half an hour from the flat I was staying in. The people I worked with were responsive and helpful, but most importantly a lot of them soon became my friends.
Once, during lunch, I asked my manager about the Shanghai Wildlife Park as I knew it is one of the biggest animal parks in the world. It appeared that he loved animals too and although he heard about the park, he had never been there. My manager, myself and two of my colleagues went together to the park, where we could feed the kangaroos, touch the lemurs, ride an elephant and hold a baby tiger!
My internship was interactive, involved a lot of multi-tasking and was a truly worthy experience that will help me to overcome any difficulties in the future. The company who I was working for was Italki.com which is a global language educational social network and a marketplace where people from different countries communicate and learn new languages.
My primary responsibilities were the development of a marketing plan and marketing materials targeted at Russian speaking markets, identification of potential partner website and blogs as well as placing marketing materials on various media sites. In addition, I helped with QA testing and translation corrections of the website and teaching processes.
I was also given the opportunity to test the website myself and successfully completed ten lessons of Mandarin language. Last but not least, the internship was not limited to the office only. Our manager showed us around the city and we learnt how the advertising is different from in the West, what kind of advertising is the most popular in Shanghai and how it all works.
I will definitely come back to China after I finish my studies to spend time visiting Beijing and travelling around the country. My voluntary project was for one month which meant that I had four weekends to explore the Expo, visit the historical sights, buy souvenirs, go to the Shanghai Wildlife Park and, of course, enjoy the famous nightlife!
As for the social events, Projects Abroad organised enough gatherings where all the volunteers got together and had the opportunity to get to know each other. One of my favourite nights was when all the volunteers met in the Southern Barbarian Restaurant, which is located in the modern Pudong area with all the skyscraper surroundings and the view on the famous Pearl.
I would like definitely recommend for any new volunteers who are going to Shanghai to make the most of their stay and I would like to thank the Projects Abroad staff for the help and support during my stay.
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Map: Where are the Journal News employees in your neighborhood? | Talk of the Sound.
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Yes.Bigpumpkin wrote:This comparison between two vastly different sports from men of vastly different backgrounds is regretable.
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Taylor Announces Tax Lien Program Nets $5.3 Million since 2011
COLUMBUS — Ohio Lt. Governor and Dept. of Insurance Director Mary Taylor today released figures for an agent tax lien program that has collected more than $5.3 million in unpaid income tax, sales tax and workers compensation premium payments. Taylor introduced the program in May 2011 to recover funds that belong to the state and its citizens.
"Through the program we have tracked down more than $5 million on behalf of Ohio taxpayers," Taylor said. "As we continue our efforts to locate all unpaid funds, I commend our partners, the Department of Taxation and the office of Attorney General Mike DeWine, for their support of this important initiative."
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Not every traveller speaks and understands English, and those that do may still be better served by a travel guide in their native language. We try to support all travellers with Wikitravel versions in many human languages. ==Multilingual structure== The goal of this policy is to make Wikitravel guides in multiple languages. To do so, we borrow some of the format from Wikimedia's projects, and some principles that are homegrown. * There is one MediaWiki instance per language, with a separate user database, article database, front page, interfaces, etc. * Each instance has a root at http://wikitravel.org/code/, where code is the ISO 639-2 2- or 3-letter code for the language. * Language versions are international, serving speakers of the target language in all countries. 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"Fiscal Cliff" Talks Hit Lull
There's a lull in the fiscal cliff talks as the White House and leading congressional Democrats have rejected the "Plan B" presented by House Speaker John Boehner.
Boehner's plan would extend soon-to-expire Bush-era tax cuts for everyone making less than $1 million -- but would not address huge across-the-board spending cuts that would strike the Pentagon and domestic programs next year.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says "everyone should understand Boehner's proposal will not pass the Senate."
Boehner's "Plan B" came after significant progress over the past several days in talks with President Barack Obama. Those talks produced movement on tax rate hikes that have been unsettling to GOP conservatives and on cuts to Social Security benefits that have incensed liberal Democrats.
Just Monday, Obama had offered concessions, including a plan to raise top tax rates on households earning more than $400,000. But the outlines of a possible Obama-Boehner agreement appeared to have shaky support from Boehner's leadership team and outright opposition from key Republicans.
The economy-threatening deadline is only two weeks away.
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House Republican Leader Tom Cross takes the stage during Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield. Cross of Oswego called on Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to "quit the games" that have led to deadlock on pension legislation that would rein in costs of a retirement system hurtling toward a $93 billion debt by next summer.
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Minor Miracles
But I'm getting ahead of the seasons already.
The first miracle of the moment is that an entire month of snow cover is almost completely melted away in a luscious March thaw - and it hasn't produced the spring mud. We've had a week of dry days, with temperatures getting into the low 50's F (~11 C) each day. Little by little, the snow has retreated to the shady sides of buildings and the ground has absorbed it all. There isn't even any water standing in the basement. We may yet get our mud season from the proverbial April showers. But at the moment, things look gorgeous.
I did a garden inspection as soon as the snow melted away and found the earth springy and fluffed up from the action of the frost heave. It almost breaks my heart to walk on it. This is how nature repairs the damage of compacted soils, at least in my part of the world. Another miracle. My intention for this year is to get the garden laid out into permanent beds, with permanent pathways between them, so that I never again have to walk where I intend to plant. And so that compost can be concentrated where it is most useful, while the less valuable mulch and straw is used to just keep down weeds in the pathways.
Today I'll use the warm, dry weather to start priming and painting my beehives.
How are things looking in your part of the world?
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Sigh. Here in New Mexico, the snow melt has left mud everywhere. Our road is next to impossible to get out because it it either so deeply rutted or like a huge mire. We have snow predicted for this evening and tomorrow. I really am ready for Spring now.
- March 9, 2010 at 9:06 AM
- Penny said...
I think that only other gardeners truly appreciate the excitement to be found in seeds coming up, whether in a sunny window or fertile ground. Most people just look at me crazy when I say I spent my Sunday hauling manure and I'm excited about it. :)
- March 9, 2010 at 12:20 PM
- Robin said...
Here in the SF Bay Area we had heavy frost this morning and hail yesterday but right now it's gorgeous, sunny and not a cloud in the sky (though there's a nip in the air - well a nip for me).
Have you ever read 'The New Self Sufficient Gardener' by John Seymour? It's fantastic. He's big proponent of deep bed gardening. We try to do that as best we can. Our veg beds are terraced boxes built onto a slope so it's easier said than done for us but we do try.
Is this the time to say my asparagus has been coming up since January ;)
- March 9, 2010 at 12:55 PM
- Joel said...
Two other benefits of mulched paths:
They offer a space for a mostly-fungal soil ecosystem, in contrast to the mostly-bacterial conditions in the beds.
Also, chickens scratching up the mulch every now and again can be a good thing, and if it's only pathway underneath, they won't destroy many roots in the process
- March 9, 2010 at 2:36 PM
- CatHerder said...
It has melted...garlic is coming up with the hyacinths and daffodils..i put the snowshovels and icemelt away today...hoping we dont get ANY more snow!
- March 9, 2010 at 7:28 PM
- Robin said...
We are having a cold snap here in Oregon. It was 26 degrees here last night. I was getting ready to plant my onion starts but decided to wait until the cold front passed. Otherwise it looks like spring here. Lots of flowering trees and flowers are out.
- March 10, 2010 at 2:50 AM
- Kate said...
Patricia, I'm ready for spring too, and I know this isn't it, what we've got going right now. We can expect frost until early May, at least. This is just a tantalizing foretaste of spring.
Penny, I've still got a partial load of horse manure in the pickup truck. I needs unloading before the rain arrives. I know the excitement.
Robin, heavy frost in the bay area is pretty unusual. I've not read the book you mention, but thank you for the recommendation. I'll request it through the library. I don't begrudge you your asparagus, but I'm impatiently waiting for mine to appear. This is the year of our first asparagus harvest!
Joel, yes, I've read the book (Mycellium Running) and I'm very concerned to maintain that soil nutrient delivery network. I saw quite a bit of it last year after heavily mulching with hay and wood chips from the yard waste facility in our township. Good signs!
Catherder, right there with you. I could do without any further snow this season. My garlic is looking a little ragged, but I'm hoping it perks up in the next few weeks.
Robin, brrrr! That's colder than what we're seeing in this part of PA right now. I'm sure you'll get warmer weather soon.
- March 10, 2010 at 8:43 AM
- Tamar@StarvingofftheLand said...
We had that same thaw, with the same result -- the snow disappeared without bringing on the mud. When the first lettuce sprouted in the cold frame, it felt nothing less than miraculous.
More than what it does for the garden is what it does for me. Amazing how a few days of sunshine and warmth can change your mood.
- March 10, 2010 at 8:51 AM
I'd never thought about how frost heaving repairs compacted soil! What a beautiful thought!
We're looking much the way you are. Supposed to rain this week for the first time this spring...gotta get the root cellar finished so I can start learning to regulate the temp before it gets too warm!
- March 10, 2010 at 10:06 AM
- Kate said...
Tamar, pretty amazing, isn't it? My mood is better too, though the list of chores is daunting.
Emily, good luck with finishing up your root cellar. I know the sense of satisfaction will be enormous.
- March 11, 2010 at 7:26 AM
We've got some tomatoes that are ready to go in the ground that we started from seed in January. I'm getting tired of chasing the sun moving those one gallon pots all over the back yard. Just finishing thinning our nectarine tree and a peach tree. I'm still picking lettuce and kale and have one cauliflower left from the winter garden. It was great to not have to water this winter with all the rain we had in Southern California. We lucked out in that it kind of dried out in between each storm.
- March 11, 2010 at 8:26 PM
- J.N. Urbanski said...
I know; nature is amazing. I can't believe it either. We have a greenhouse now, so we can lengthen our growing season as we're 3000 ft up there. There's nothing like getting up in the morning and find the first seedlings have sprouted.
- March 12, 2010 at 8:05 AM
- Kate said...
Jeri, you must live in a much warmer climate than I do. My tomatoes aren't even started yet, but then I do plant them out late even by local standards.
JNU, I can't decide whether I'm jealous of those with greenhouses, or relieved that I still get a winter break from garden chores.
- March 15, 2010 at 8:58 AM


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Saturday, February 25, 2012
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Chaverim is a social, recreational, educational and Judaic program for adults with developmental disabilities. The group meets 6 – 8 times a month and offers a variety of activities that focus on fostering ongoing learning and personal growth. Activities include art based crafts and projects, dining out, community events such as Jazz in the park, Milwaukee sporting events, theater productions, life and social skills courses with Jewish family Services, an annual choral/ musical performance and luncheon's at local synagogues.
All of these activities are designed to help adults with developmental disabilities increase their social skills, form peer relationships and feel a part of the community. This group also specializes in adhering to low income individuals. We provide transportation to each event whether it is at our Jewish Community Center or out in the city of Milwaukee. Each member can pick and choose which activities they wish to attend and we price it at a rate they can afford. Our members gain a sense of community, belonging, satisfaction and an active social life.
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Sept. 19, 2011 – The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries urges all hunters to support Hunters for the Hungry on Clean Out Your Freezer Day set for Sunday, Sept. 25.
As the 2011-12 hunting season gets underway, hunters can donate frozen game to the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank in support of the needy within the community. Between 1 and 4 p.m. on Sept. 25, frozen game and fish will be accepted at the following collection points:
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Baton Rouge Fire Dept. – 545 Lobdell Drive and 835 Sharp Road
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St. George Fire Dept. – 7027 Antioch Road and 16415 George O'Neal Lane
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Gila Community College Student Art
Exhibited July - August, 2009
of the most promising artist students from around Gila County were featured
in a multi-media exhibit in the visitor center gallery at Boyce Thompson Arboretum
during the months of July and August, 2009.
"We showed works from the Payson and Gila Pueblo campuses," said Art Department Chairman Larry Brown. "Works ranged from predominantly landscapes, wildlife and also a few figures, portraits and botanicals. These are student works in oils, acrylics, watercolors and various drawing media. Most of the artists are retirees,
students from Globe and Payson. And many of these artists are also amateur photographers, people who draw from their photography for subject
As head of the Gila Community College Art Deptartment, Brown has been impressed with the variety of artworks produced by students from Globe and Payson,including works by local painter and pastel artist Ida Padilla. The college is excited about it's new jewelry making, lapidary and digital photography classes being offered this fall at the Globe campus..
Brown said he may have a work or two of his own in the exhibit, which will be on display from July 18 through August 31. Brown majored in painting and art education at Mesa Community College,
Arizona State University, and completed his graduate work at Northern Arizona University. He earned a Masters Degree in 1991 and has been an art instructor for three decades, most of them at Miami High School. School ties dont end there, in fact he bought, lives in and is in the process of restoring the old Buena Vista School in Miami. Check out pictures and read more about the artist on his web site http://www.handteqstudios.com.
Contact the artist by email to email@example.com and also firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone at 928-701-1036 or else 928-473-4358, or by mail at PO Box 222, Miami, AZ 85539
Boyce Thompson Arboretum is located at Highway 60 milepost #223, just three miles west of the town of Superior - a drive of about one hour east of Phoenix or two hours from Tucson (take Oracle Road North to Highway 79 past Florence to Highway 60, then East for another 12 miles).
Monthly exhibits may be seen in our Visitor Center gallery daily from 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. during June, July and August. Fall/winter hours 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The Arboretum is an Arizona State Park and daily admission must be paid to enter the Visitor Center where the gallery is found. Admission is $7.50 for adults and $3 for ages 5-12. Annual memberships at the Arboretum begin at $45, and include a year's access, guest passes for your friends and family, along with many other benefits. A membership may be purchased in the gift shop on the day of your visit. Review other recent gallery shows by ...
Margie Porter June - July, 2009
Deborah A. Lee May, 2009
Mesa Arts League April, 2009
Bud Heiss March, 2009
Laurent Baig February, 2009
Timm Chapman January, 2009
Paul Kinslow December, 2008
Maggie Leef November 2008
Sharon Sieben October 2008
Nicole Royse September 2008
Gila Community College Art July-August 2008
Judy Bottler Photography May 2008
Bob Estrin Photography April 2008
Mary Isham Watercolors March 2008
Susan Strom and Cathy Franklin Lightning Photography February, 2008
Arizona State Parks Plein Air Paintings January, 2008
Carolyn Gray & Connie Thomas December, 2007
Jean Sullivan November, 2007 Sue Cullumber October, 2007
Adriane Grimaldi September, 2007
Pima College print-making students July-August, 2007
Mesa Arts League June-July, 2007
Fred Charlton May, 2007
Paul Mudersbach March-April, 2007
Linda Kaiser February, 2007
Edith Kreueger-Nye December, 2006 - January, 2007
Cindy Carrillo October-November, 2006
Bob Rice September, 2006
Bud Heiss July-August, 2006
Mesa Arts League June-July, 2006
Sandy Tracey April-May, 2006
CJ Rider March, 2006
Jessica Green February, 2006
Steve Davidson January, 2006
Don & Carole Schupp December, 2005
Carolyn Gray November, 2005
Martha Burgess October, 2005
Boeing Photographers September, 2005
Lightning Lady Susan Strom July/August, 2005
Mesa Arts League June/July, 2005
Jeanette Bronson May, 2005
Tom Stanley April, 2005
Kathy McClure February-March, 2005
Pam Smyth January, 2005
Tina Faust December, 2004


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