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The Case of Dr. Samuel Sheppard
The Murder of Marilyn Sheppard
This much is certain: Marilyn Sheppard was brutally beaten to death. Sam Sheppard served 10 years in the Ohio Penitentiary for her murder, only to be freed by a landmark Supreme Court ruling. And, 35 years after the murder, young Sam Sheppard began a crusade to clear his father's name and bring to justice the man he believed killed his mother.
It had been a hot, sunny Saturday in the quiet Cleveland suburb of Bay Village — perfect for picnics, boating and swimming, an ideal start for the three-day holiday weekend. Tomorrow, the Fourth of July, and Monday, the legal holiday, promised more beautiful mid-summer days.
Now, as darkness fell, cool air was moving in from the south. Around the barn-like home perched on the edge of Lake Erie, a gentle breeze stirred the trees. Good sleeping weather.
Shortly after midnight, a man and woman emerged from the house, calling out their "good nights" and putting the lock on the door. Inside, Marilyn Sheppard went upstairs to prepare for bed while her husband Sam sleepily watched a late movie. Their seven-year-old son Sam, known as "Chip," was already asleep. The house settled back into the quiet darkness.
What happened in the next few hours is a murder mystery still alive in the courts and the public mind more than a half-century later. For now, though, on this soft summer night in 1954, Bay Village slept.
Clevelanders awoke late on the holiday Monday. When they opened their front doors, they got a shock. Because it was a holiday, all three papers — the afternoon Cleveland Press and Cleveland News as well as the morning Plain Dealer — published in the morning.
"BAY DOCTOR'S WIFE IS MURDERED; Beaten, He Tells of Fight With Intruder," said the double banner in the Plain Dealer.
"DOCTOR'S WIFE MURDERED IN BAY; Drug Thieves Suspected in Bludgeoning," said the Press.
"FIND TOOTH CHIPS UNDER BODY OF BAY DOCTOR'S SLAIN WIFE; Grappled With Brutal Slayer, Physician Says," said the News.
For the next month, the Sheppard murder case was to be the play story in virtually every edition of all three papers. Gradually, however, the tone of the stories changed.
What they described at first was an idyllic family. Marilyn Sheppard, 31 years old, was a devoted wife and mother who taught Sunday school at Bay Methodist Church and was active in community affairs. At 5 feet, 7 inches and 125 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes, she was, in the jargon of the day, an "attractive suburban housewife."
Samuel H. Sheppard, 30, was known to all as "Dr. Sam" to distinguish him from three other doctors in the family. With his father Richard and his brothers Richard and Stephen, he helped run Bay View Hospital, a 110-bed osteopathic hospital in an 80-year-old converted mansion.
While he was listed as a neurosurgeon, he was also skilled at emergency care. Only Saturday afternoon, he had struggled valiantly but unsuccessfully to save the life of a child who had been struck by a car. His work had earned him the good life —a lakefront home with a Lincoln Continental and a Jaguar in the garage.
Sam and Marilyn had been childhood sweethearts at Cleveland Heights High School, where he was president of his senior class and quarterback of the football team. They were "deeply in love," said Marilyn's father. "Like sweethearts," said their once-a-week maid. Marilyn was four months pregnant, though only close friends knew.
They were "popular among the younger set" in the clubby community, said neighbors — "beautiful people," as one put it. Only a few days earlier, they had gone water skiing after midnight in the lake behind their home.
That peaceful existence was shattered early on the holiday morning, as Sam Sheppard groggily related it to police at 6 a.m. After the departure of their dinner guests, neighbors Don and Nancy Ahern, Sam fell asleep watching the late movie, Strange Holiday. Marilyn left him on the downstairs couch and went to sleep in the twin bed next to Sam's.
Sheppard was to tell that story many times, always substantially the same. As he put it in a formal statement six days later, sometime after he fell asleep he awoke, believing he heard his wife calling his name.
He ran upstairs and saw "a form with a light garment, I believe, at the same time grappling with something or someone." He heard moans or groans. Suddenly he was struck from behind.
When he came to, he was lying on the floor. His wife was covered with blood. He checked her pulse and felt none. He ran to the next room and saw that Chip was still sleeping soundly.
Hearing a noise below, he ran down the stairs. The back door was open and he saw "a form progressing rapidly toward the lake." It was somebody, as well as he could tell, about 6 foot 3, middle-aged, with dark bushy hair and a white shirt.
He chased the form across the lawn and down the wooden steps to the beach 50 feet below. Then, he said, "I lunged or jumped and grasped him in some manner from the back, either body or leg. It was something solid." He struggled with the form, then felt himself "twisting or choking, and this terminated my consciousness."
He could not say how long he was unconscious, but when he came to again he staggered up the stairs to the house and the bedroom in which his wife lay dead. "I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true."
A phone number came to his mind, that of his neighbor, Bay Village Mayor Spencer Houk. He didn't remember what he told Houk, but Houk did: "For God's sake, Spen, get over here! I think they've killed Marilyn."
Houk and his wife Esther dressed quickly and drove the short distance to the Sheppards'. Mrs. Houk ran upstairs and found Marilyn's body in the blood-spattered bedroom. Houk called Bay Village police. It was 5:57 a.m.; the Fourth of July dawn was breaking.
The newspapers reported his tale of terror, the brutal tragedy that shattered this ideal family and the combined sympathy and horror it stirred in the quiet community. "They Shared Duties, Pleasures of Life," said a headline about the couple. "Sheppards Face Tragedy Bravely," said one about the family.
Gradually, though, the headlines were to change.


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Introduction: Literature and the Press: 1800 / 1900 | Abstract |
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Periodical Personae: Pseudonyms, Authorship and the Imagined Community of Joseph Priestley's Theological Repository | Abstract PDF |
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Writing in Dissent: Coleridge and the Poetry of the Monthly Magazine | Abstract PDF |
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Influential Force: Shafts and the Diffusion of Knowledge at the Fin de Siécle | Abstract PDF |
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DURHAM – The Duke Men's Basketball team was honored by the city of Durham on the American Tobacco campus on Thursday.
Several Duke fans gathered in the converted former warehouses to honor their Duke Blue Devils for winning the 2010 National Championship.
Chants of "Let's go Duke," rang through a beautiful spring day in the City of Medicine as the band and cheerleaders helped get the crowd going.
Coach Krzyzewski led his troops out as Durham Mayor Bill Bell and other dignitaries gave homage to a team that Krzyzewski called the most together team he'd ever coached.
After Krzyzewski sang the praises of his team and Durham, seniors Jon Scheyer, Lance Thomas and Brian Zoubek spoke to the gathering of smiling faces, most all of them wearing royal "Duke" blue.
When junior Final Four Most Outstanding Player Kyle Singler was mentioned, chants of "One more year," were heard. Singler is undecided on whether he will enter the NBA Draft with the deadline fast approaching. When asked by Mayor Bill Bell if he was ready to make an announcement to make, Singler smiled and declined.
Several signs will go up on Durham highways stating, "Home of the Duke University Blue Devils 2010 NCAA Men's National Champions."
The Blue Devils then made their way over to the DAP home of the Durham Bull's the defending AAA Champion who were playing their home opener. Scheyer, Thomas and Zoubek all threw out pitches and the team was honored during the third inning.
In winning the title, Duke gave a gift to its fans that keeps on giving as time goes on. It's clear that Blue Devil faithful are still basking in the glow of victory, each one on this day immersed in sunlight surrounded by Duke blue.
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Why your city doesn't need an elevated bicycle highway
— By Tyler Falk on January 15, 2014, 10:00 AM PST
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I wonder, was there ever a thought in a head of bike's inventor that someday it would be necessary to invent the road for it?
I don't see why bicycle highways cannot ride on top of some kind of special built buildings. Don't need to look for another spare space inside the city. If it is in the air, go over things! The layout over the city could be chosen with many different formats using appropriated developed structures and columns as structural parts of buildings which would be the connecting points to support the bike's highways. Some buildings could also have the bike's highway ridding thru over hangers shelves on the sides of it. The parking spaces, garages, business, ramps, all would be part of those buildings structures. Just my token!
The advantage of an elevated route above Railtracks, is that the Real Estate to build it on is essentially 'Free', whereas it is hideously expensive and hard to obtain without major disruption at ground level. But then again, the engineering technology required to build the elevated routes would be much more expensive than the simple concrete and tarmac of a conventional, ground-level route. That said, I think some version of this would be a very good idea, as it would be very flat like a railway track, and so easy to cycle, and it would directly link existing populations, because those populations are already situated along the track. You can get very high densities of people travelling on bikes, which in turn would make a major contribution to relieving congestion and overcrowding on both Trains and the roads, so it has got to be worth a look. I think Boris must have had a telling off from his mate the PM, to criticise it like that, - it's an Engineering project, - in London, - what planet was he on if he ever thought it was going to be cheap !
Great to see a counter point post.
Some times one persons great idea is just not practical for the majority of society.
My first reactions to the idea were:
A. To expensive to build and maintain
B. What an eyesore.
Thanks Tyler.
Considering that London's railways are mostly electrified, a bicycle highway (and maybe pedestrian throughway) could easily ride on top of the existing catenary support infrastructure with relatively minor cost. Since some of London's rain infrastructure is over 100 years old, the construction could be used to improve and secure the catenary system while also making it easier to maintain--thus reducing operating costs for the railroad.
The drawback really is the access to the elevated paths. The concept art shows a ramp system which is pretty, but not really the most efficient or safe. An elevator system would be safer, but less efficient and would generate backups at the lift. An escalator (moving stairs) would be almost ideal as the rider could walk his bike onto a platform that then rises to the bikeway. Even if the escalator is out of order, it could be used as a relatively shallow stairway to still walk the bikes up and down without stopping to wait for repairs.
Yes, I do understand the merchanters' complaints about traffic bypassing them, but speed, safety and congestion are all addressed. After all, if these ramps are built at or near train stops, then local merchants can see more business, not less, as bikers will have to pass them on their way to their ultimate destination.
Obviously it is much cheaper to build elevated bicycle freeways than elevated automobile freeways. Plus automobiles overhead are really noisy while bicycle traffic over head will be pretty quiet.
It is pretty unpleasant to share office space with bicycle commuters, as Agent Smith said in The Matrix "It's the smell".
Perhaps our governments need to require employers and retailers to provide showers for bicycle commuters.
What like Barclay's much loved NYC Rollercoaster ad. This would be fab.
For this sort of money, you might as well build a monorail, like the Skytrain in Bangkok, or another underground line or update the underground at an accelerated rate.
@Vulpinemac Good point on the escalator idea. The IKEA near me has an escalator built to take entire shopping carts that would be perfect for bicycles.
"cheaper to build" .... makes you wonder why the pilot 6km section is estimated to cost a whopping £GBP200m - A small fly in the ointment SP keep omitting from the context of this story.
I hope SP have not taken to the (Apple Fanbois/Fanbois hunter) practice of sister site ZDNet, to do advocacy stories one week, and then a week or two later do a detraction story on the same subject and why it's a bad idea, as it gives an inconsistent 'Editorial' on things. Make you wish the original story had perhaps been more balanced, and probably bit better researched in the first place.
@Kevin D. Jackson Most cyclists are quite fit and don't even work up a sweat riding a bike. It's usually the overweight that have the smell problem with all the body and skin folds and are so out of shape they sweat just sitting there.
@neil.postlethwaite @Kevin D. Jackson Gee, I guess I thought that £GBP200m was pretty cheap since it costs £GBP2m for the government to put-up a stop sign.
@neil.postlethwaite We have seven writers on the Bulletin and all bring their own expertise and opinions to the stories they write. Our aim here is to brief readers on innovative new ideas, technology, and design, and to promote thoughtful discussion of them--not to hew to any party line.
@neil.postlethwaite @Kevin D. Jackson Have you any idea of why that 6km stretch might be so expensive? Maybe they'll be doing as I suggest and replacing railroad catenary supports with new ones strong enough to support not only the wires but the bikeway as well. The cost as such would be split by the railway and the city making overall costs lower. Just look at how much local traffic on both rail and streets will be affected DURING construction and tell us how to make it cheaper.
I guess I'm glad things have changed, for the better, esp. on the comments.
Ideology from either end of the spectrum is generally not helpful in any reasoned debate on quality evidence, sound methodology and conclusion v's observation and opinion.
@neil.postlethwaite @alywindsor Believe it or not, in this regard SmartPlanet isn't quite as bad as it used to be, 2-or-so years ago when it was almost exclusively a progressive propaganda blog which did little other than promote "global warming" and sing praises to the virtues of absolutely anything promoted as green and ObamaCare. (I miss Dana Blankenhorn; I see they finally pulled his posts, which are pretty embarrassing considering today's reality) The "perfect" SmartPlanet story all to often included someone promoting a "solution" that to be successful only required a massive taxpayer subsidy, a mandate that people buy it, the forceful elimination of any competition, and a willing suspension of belief in the laws of economics and/or physics. All too often, even posting a reasoned response to the insanity would get you censored.
That's fine, but you need to take a (editorial?) line on things....
Otherwise it's a fairly vacuous tennis match of "Pro-expert's say" v's "Anti-expert's say" and you get competing conclusions, but no real discussion of method, analysis, how you did/do stuff context and - in this case - the huuuuge cost (which seems to have made Boris Johnson turn tail on his initial being all giddy over it).
May I remind you of your metatag "What Smart Planet stands for"...Advice, analysis, discussion
"SmartPlanet - destination for savvy advice, thought-provoking analysis and expert discussion on the intersection of technology, business and life."
After all, little of this is in any real forum of Conservative v's Liberal v's socialist ideologies, regardless of the country of the consumer of the site. US, Canada, UK, France, China, Japan, New Zealand etc... I think the general person attracted to the site's aspirations are of the orientation that support Environmental protection, want better cleaner easier to live in cities, want more diverse energy production and security, want more wholesome and sustainable food sourcing, believe Global Warming has some man-made constituent, want more sustainable travel, perhaps are concerned that the planet v's a predicted 9 billion population has sustainability issues, etc....
. Little call for the tea-party here.
@firstname.lastname@example.com@Kevin D. Jackson
They might well be, but at £GBP200m for the pilot 6km stretch, that's £GBP33K/$USD54K per metre, it's insanely expensive. Charlie O's cited original article, mentions the ultimate plans would be for 220km of this around/over London. If the maths don't change from this cost rate, that would extrapolate to be a bonkers £GBP7.3bn/$USD11.7bn.
They are reckoning on building a High Speed rail line from London to Birmingham (100 miles or so) for a wee bit over double this - to put the cost in context and perspective.


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In our September issue, to help kick of our Take Back Dinnertime Challenge (you're signed up, right?), our managing editor Kristin van Ogtrop shares the story of what a typical dinnertime at her house looks like—complete with trick forks and a four-year-old (naked) comedian. You can read her essay, My Dueling Dinnertimes, here.
So as part of the Take Back Dinnertime blog this month, we want to give you the chance to share portraits of your crazy dinnertimes. What are the funny, silly, slightly stressful things that happen as you try to get your family to the table? E-mail them to firstname.lastname@example.com, and we'll share a few each week on Simply Stated.
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I was wondering if a few of you master gardeners out there could give me an idea of what the programs are like. I looked on the net and I didn't see an extension service program in my county. There is a master gardener program at Texas A&M but that is probably 2 hours from here by car.
I am looking for a career change (not quite "mid-life") after my youngest starts in kindergarten a couple of years from now. I have been an R.N. for 12 years and don't really want to go back to that stress. Just being a mom is stress enough for me.
I have a forest green thumb and have loved growing plants since my mom and dad let me have a pothos in my room at the age of 8. I didn't kill it believe it or not, a year later it was 6ft. long. I got bitten by the orchid "bug" 3 or 4 years ago and my collection has grown to 80+ plants. Do you specialize in a specific type of plant? Are the programs open to people who just love plants or do you have to have a degree in something plant related? Any other comments would be welcome.
Thanks in advance for your time.
- Posted by cactus jack(email@example.com) onMon, Jun 14, 99 at 20:04
Hi judy, every county in the U.S. has a cooperative extention office. Look in you tele. book under gov. listings and it should be there. Try DBG.org they have listings for coop. offices. Cactus Jack
- Posted by Alice - 7b(email@example.com) onSun, Jun 20, 99 at 20:44
Hi, Judy,I just completed the Master Gardener course in South Carolina. The best way I can describe it is that it's a college-level Horticulture 101 course: all the basics, from soil to diseases to culture of various types of plants. It's a good, solid foundation course, and what I especially liked about it is that it is tailored to your state and your particular area of the state (I had to unlearn a lot of stuff from when I gardened up North). In the class I took, I found the interests and backgrounds of the students ranged from true beginners (every lecture seemed to be a revelation) to gardeners with quite a lot of experience and interest in specific areas, such as roses or camellias. You will undoubtedly know more about orchids than anyone in your class but may have a lot to learn in another area, perhaps vegetable gardening or lawn maintenance. In addition to the classes (3 hours a week for 4 months) there is a test to pass and then you must give 40 hours of volunteer work as a Master Gardener. Your extension office can tell you more. The main thing to realize is that the Master Gardener course is only one course--it is not the equivalent of a horticulture degree, nor will it qualify you as a landscape architect. However, it's fun, gives you access to really relevant materials (no need to rely on gardening books from England for those Texas gardening problems!), and it builds a community of people who share a love of gardening. I don't know what it's like in Texas, but here in South Carolina there's a waiting list to get in the class, so call your extension office as soon as you can to get more information!Good luck!
- Posted by Margaret Sinclair - 9a/b Houston(email@example.com) onMon, Jun 21, 99 at 12:24
Hi Judy,
This Wednesday is my last day of class for the spring semester of the Fort Bend County MG class. It's 35 miles from my house. There's no night class in Harris county (Houston), so we (Houstonites) all go out there.We're also 1.5 hours from A&M, who run the MG courses in Texas. What part of the state do you live in?
If you can, the courses are terrific. We toured the hort dept at A&M and have had great speakers on a wide variety of subjects specific to our area. Like termites, cockroaches, heat, humidity, gumbo soil, hot weather plants, heat stress. It's been a ball.
Here's my impression of the overall program. If the coordinator at the local course isn't good, you'll have a problem. Our class is a night class with working people and we make arrangements to be where we need to be to fulfill our obligations to the program. It seemed that this particular course, for working individuals, wasn't as well coordinated as we needed. We had a class that had no speakers, and have arrived for our designated hours of work with no work to perform. These may be issues with all MG groups, not just ours.
We had the A&M MG coordinator as a speaker one evening and he told us that the program was not designed to give everyone the training. They intended to be somewhat selective in not who, so much, as how many people could attend.
To many of those in my class, the course was somewhat misrepresented. Yes, we get the training and we do volunteer work. What wasn't clear was that the volunteer work had to be in conjunction with the sponsoring extension service. So any work you might want to do for another group, say, the Rose Society or your neighborhood gardening group wasn't accepted. The volunteer hours are to give work back to the sponsoring extenstion service - not specifically to enhance your learning experience, so to speak. That's probably why the course is inexpensive. No, no, it's inexpensive so that no one is left out for financial reasons, that's why.
After the course, one can change MG affiliation to another extension service if you wish. However, each ext serv has particular days and hours which are available for volunteer work. Be sure to verify what those hours are. Continuing to be a MG requires additional volunteer hours each year.
The other interesting item is that you may only announce, communicate or otherwise admit to being a Master Gardener at an A&M Master Gardening or Extension Service approved event. So no selling your services as an accredited MG person. That certainly makes sense, but not being allowed to say you've attained a certain level of knowledge or attended classes specifically to learn and share is strange to me. I understand that they don't want anyone to make a profit off the MG courses. Maybe I just don't understand being allowed to say that you are one...?
All in all, I'm glad I did it and I've learned a bunch about horticulture for my area. Maybe I'm one of those who wants more structure. I've made wonderful friends and we've learned from each other, as well.
Do it!!!
- Posted by Pat - 72682(email@example.com) onTue, Jul 13, 99 at 20:55
I've been a Master Gardener in Arkansas for the past 5 years. We do not have a real large group, but we meet once a month. We do barrel plantings on the square for those businesses that wish to participate. They pay a small price for plants, fertilizer, etc. We do a couple of flower beds in town on the main street for all to enjoy, and have had a few other projects at public places. We have a new postoffice and started some plantings there this year. We also started a "Yard of the Month" contest in the county this year and it is going well. We do a little column in the local newspaper and receive numerous requests for advice from locals. As a fund raiser we have a spring plant sale with our Master Gardeners furnishing the plants. Usually dividing perennials or houseplant cutting that have been rooted and come up with a really unusual grouping of plants. It has done well for us. We handle the horticulture classes at the fair in August and are in the process of putting a booklet together on showing in these classes. There are many things you can do as a Master Gardener. Since our county is small, our Extension Agent leaves it up to us as to how to better the community gardening wise. It's a lot of fun, but should be taken seriously as far as paying back your time.
- Posted by Bobbi - 5(email@example.com) onWed, Jul 28, 99 at 16:40
I am a Master Gardener in Michigan. I have just (hurray!) finally completed volunteer and educational hours to get my advanced status. I think the programs may vary slightly from state to state, or even county to county.
Here you must apply to take the course, which is very extensive. You must state why you would like to do so on the application. It costs, I think, about $150 dollars, maybe more now. Some of the money is refunded after your volunteer hours are completed. You must put in a certain amount of Extension approved hours to get certified. After that just about any volunteer hours (short of working for an individual) are acceptable to recertify each year. I can work with my local garden club to get these hours. We have many community projects we work on.
One of the things I liked about taking the classes was there were people from so many different backgrounds. Some people came in knowing very little about gardening but had a desire to learn more. And there were professionals there too, such as landscapers.Here in Michigan, the educational hours for an avanced title can be earned at a 3 day class packed event at which you get to pick the classes you want. It's a great program and I highly recommend it.
- Posted by Kay - 8b(firstname.lastname@example.com) onFri, Jul 30, 99 at 20:20
Hi Judy,
Finished my MG course in Hancock County Ext. Agency located on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. The course was extremely rewarding, and I was amazed and the variety of topics covered. The first class was attended by around 150 people, most of whom gradually dropped out. The final class was approximately 50 people (3-county wide). We have monthly meetings which also count toward making up the 40 volunteer hours. We start our first project next week--we're landscaping and planting gardens around the civic center in the small town of Waveland. I would highly recommend trying to get several people interested in starting a class in your county. Good luck,
- Posted by Delann - 5(firstname.lastname@example.com) onFri, Nov 5, 99 at 9:39
Master Gardener programs, entrance criteria, volunteer hour requirements vary from state to state and probably from county to county. I finished master gardener training about 2 years ago and the courses were generally taught by professors from the University of Illinois. It cost me $60 and 60 hours of volunteer work that also gave em access to University of Illinois publications offered through our local unit of the UofI Extension.I learned a number of things through the trainingbut, in general, I was surprised at how much I already knew. In any area of expertise, you are likely to learn nothing through Master Gardener training. Our training in vegetables and fruits I could have learned by reading the back of a seed package.
You're also going to find that the training is biased from the point of view of the instructor. Of course! I am an organic gardener and the MG's who grow this way were made fun of by some of the instructors...to the point of trying to humiliate us. This really ticked me off. As a volunteer, I was put into the position of making recommendations about pesticides and herbicides that I would never use. And the university did not provide us with any information on organic pest control I think this was a real oversight because we got plenty of requests for that type of information.
But, overall, I was glad I took the training. I have met a number of other gardeners in my area I probably would not have met. And, I have learned a lot by being connected through the extension volunteer work.
Oh, one other thing. The vast majority of people who received master gardener training in my area never bothered to do the volunteer hours and I think that is a shame. They took the training and signed the agreement but didn't fulfill their end of the bargain. I think they need to develop a solution for this. In any case, I can't see any legal way for them to enforce this part of the agreement. As far as I can tell, you don't need to do the volunteer hours if you don't want to. No one is going to knock on your door with an arrest warrant and you aren't going to end up in court with a breach of contract lawsuit.
- Posted by Linda - 5a-No. IL(firstname.lastname@example.com) onMon, Nov 15, 99 at 18:43
If you are looking for a career change to the hort. biz, then you would be much better off going to, for example, a community college and getting a 2 yr. degree in hort. (or one of the specialities) or a local arboretum that has a certificate program. The Master Gardener program is only equivalent to a Hort. 101 class at the comm. college level, which is pretty basic. You would have a better chance of finding a job with some type of degree or certificate than trying to find a job by saying you're a "Master Gardener". I know a number of nursery owners who aren't that impressed with "Master Gardeners" and wouldn't hire them.
- Posted by KMC(firstname.lastname@example.com) onThu, Dec 9, 99 at 22:58
I would like to take Master Gardener's Training, but all the programs in my area (metro Portland, Oregon) are all one entire weekday for 14 weeks, Jan-Mar. Are there any ones out there by videos etc. or that operate on Saturdays, as a suggestion for the local MGs? I can't afford to quit work for 4 months minimum just for volunteer training...
I garden in a community garden(city of Beaverton) & spend a lot of time informally helping the other gardeners,-by trading ideas,drawing on my extensive background & haunting the resources of local library systems(3 different cards)...but there's always something new to learn.
- Posted by Penny(firstname.lastname@example.com) onThu, Dec 16, 99 at 17:58
I have been a Univ Cal Master Gardener for 3 years. All the information we received was university based and when we give information to clients, we give them choices on what they can do. Since I passed the test, I have never stopped learning and have changed many of my garden practices to what I have learned. I also chair the Field Testing committee which is very educational and enjoyable.Master Gardeners in California may not use their "title" in any business they are involved in.
Our program is 8 weeks long - 1 full day a week. Other counties handle it differently. There are several small counties which do not have extension offices
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- Posted by linda - 5a-No. IL(firstname.lastname@example.com) onTue, Dec 28, 99 at 11:05
I applied to the master gardener program in my county and was accepted, but have decided not to pursue it. Before I get jumped on by other MGs, I have to tell you that I have a hort. cert., am a garden designer, work part time in a nursery, and give seminars and teach on natural landscaping topics. What turned me off about the MG program in my county was the emphasis on volunteering, actual learning was secondary. I DO NOT mean to say that I did not want to volunteer - I looked forward to it, especially sitting in the MG booth at the county fair or helping women prisoners garden at our county jail. What I am saying is that this was the ONLY thing the interviewer was interested in (60 hrs. required) - have I ever volunteered in the past, how many hours, what did I do, where did I do it, etc. etc. When I asked the interviewer whether this is the only criteria that people are judged on for the MG program, then she changed the subject.The course book in my county costs $100 - I did not see why I should spend that amount of money for the privilege of volunteering, when in reality I and other MG trainees are doing the MG program a favor by being there, not the other way around. For me, that $100 is better spent on a professional seminar or workshop, not on a handbook that covers very basic horticultural topics, at best.
- Posted by IronBelly Mays - 5a /SS41 - Iowa(email@example.com) onWed, Dec 29, 99 at 9:57
Linda,I think you make some very valid points. Where I do give your local MG Program a lot of credit is that they let it be known up front that the volunteering was a big part of what they do. I have seen where people can get all the way through the program and then ask, "What do you mean VOLUNTEER hours???" --- I think that is worse.
This entire issue of volunteer hours is often handled pretty poorly around the country. I don't think the extension offices are trying to conceal anything. I just think they are poorly communicating all the facts. They assume the general public has more knowledge about the program than it really does. I think the offices would be much better off to describe the MG Program as a service organization that trades training for volunteer hours.
The training is only Hort 101. However, depending upon the person, it can open up a lot of doors to learning opportunity. It has helped me network with experts I probably would not have had the chance to meet. I think the program can be a great first step --- or something less.
With your training and background, the actual training would probably do you little good. However, like they always say about college; most of the really important stuff you learn after dark. That is an assessment only you can make.
Sadly, the $100 fee comes as a discouragement to people who take the course never to be seen again. From what I can tell of the Illinois Extension Service, they do a lot better job of running their program than some states. Living on the Iowa/Illinois border, I get to rub shoulders with them some. We even try to offer special additional training sessions to each other. I don't think there is as much wrong with your local program as there seems to be with the "packaging".
- Posted by Carol the Weedlady(My Page) onSun, Jan 2, 00 at 21:19
Came across an interesting thread in the Professional Gardener forum. I am working on my 2 cents worth to add. Those who have read/are reading this thread may want to go to the link below.Like anything else, I think, one gets out of the program as much as one wants to put in. And there are certainly some MGs who are much more knowledgeable than others, and some who (most unfortunately) stick their noses up in the air just because they have that certificate. These are often the very ones who know a great deal less than many experienced, self-taught gardeners who don't happen to have that piece of paper.
To this thread I will add that the cost of taking the MG course in PA (in Indiana County, at least) was only $35 three years ago when I took it (don't know about now). I feel it was worth every cent for the big manual I received, not to mention the in-person instruction from experts in the field, including many Penn State profs, the on-going association with other gardeners, and the opportunity to continue learning. I look forward eagerly to the annual 2-day in-service and am thankful I have the luxury of having the time to do the volunteer work. It is made very clear at the beginning that the whole raison d'etre of Master Gardening is for us to give voluntarily of our time to share our knowledge and love of gardening with others, and to act as a liason between the public and the university ag dept. Most of the MGs in my county give a lot more than the required number of hours, too.
Persons who have not the time or inclination to give those hours, but who are looking for enough knowledge to get a job in horticulture would be much better advised to take actual university courses. Only 3 hours are given to each topic in MG training, which is certainly merely scratching the surface; therefore I feel it cannot even be said to be the equivalent of a Hort 101 course. Although MGs are required to maintain or expand their expertise by adding another 8 hours of instruction annually, there are many quite effortless (and certainly cost-free) ways of doing that.
The Master Gardener programs are open to anyone/everyone. I have read some comments from folks who say no one ever flunks the course, but again, because there is such an unfortunate disparity from one state to another, some exams are evidently more difficult than others. Over the past 3 years that I have been involved with MGs, each year a few people fail the course. It is not a shoo-in, particularly if one has not much gardening knowledge to begin with.
One need not have any sort of degree to take the course; there are no pre-requisites of any kind in that regard. Anyone who has not had a varied gardening experience (for example, has only grown orchids indoors), will find the course a much greater challenge. I had been mostly vegetable gardening for about 25 years or so (in 3 states and Europe, by turns) when I took the course. One reason I wanted to take it was that I was acutely aware that I had large gaps in my knowledge. The formal course helped me to see what I needed to concentrate on, and I studied a lot on my own outside of the manual to ensure that I learned what I felt I needed to know--and am still learning! Another thing that helped me a great deal was that each week I went to the Gardenweb forum that corresponded to the topic we were studying in class that week, and read through each and every post in that forum, looking up many answers for myself in my own reference books as well as the MG manual. In that way, I missed only 2 questions on the 100-question final. That also helped me prepare for the experience of having to answer questions from the public at garden centers, walk-in clinics, the Fair, or when it was my turn to answer the phones in the extension office.
While we all learn a very basic, limited overview of botany, IPM, soil science, plant diseases, and all aspects of horticulture, we each have our pet specialties. My main interests are the strictly organic method of growing herbs and vegetables, although the last couple of years I have really expanded my flower garden as I learn more of annuals and perennials. The more plants I grow, the more help I can be to others, plus I simply enjoy the experience of learning how to garden successfully. One big thing we learn from the course is how to find the answers to the questions we cannot answer immediately, and that is one way we can be of great service to the average week-end gardener. How many people know that an inexpensive, yet comprehensive soil test, with specific recommedations for amendments if necessary, is available from their local extension office? Or know that you can take in an insect, plant, or a sample of a diseased plant for identification? Or can get hundreds of free or very inexpensive bulletins and publications on all aspects of gardening and home economics? It is our tax dollars that pay for all of this, it is a shame more people do not take advantage of it.
One final note: if the day/time of the classes in your county are inconvenient, ask if you may take the course at a neighboring county. That is what I did. My resident county (which includes a major metropolitan area) had a large MG roster, at least 100, I think, while the one in which I took the course (encompassing a very low-density rural area) had less that a dozen at the time, so everyone was happy!
Sorry I have gone on so long, but maybe this information will help. CK
Here is a link that might be useful: Master Gardener Discussion
- Posted by Ram Martinez - Philippines(firstname.lastname@example.com) onFri, Jul 14, 00 at 8:14
Hi, Judy,
I have been trying to find an international master gardener program for years. I did find the Longwood Gardens in Philly but unfortunately, they turned me down because I am a college instructor in my country. During summer break, I do teach to a few interested adult students of horticulture. I feel I am very inadequate still, so the reason for a master gardener program. Can you help me? Thank you.
- Posted by Michelle - 5(email@example.com) onSat, Jul 29, 00 at 16:51
HI everyone,
I am looking into master gardening but it sounds pretty basic. Does anyone know of a trade school or something to that effect that i could attend?
- Posted by jean(email@example.com) onWed, Aug 2, 00 at 0:42
KMC,You don't need to take off work for 4 months, this because the training is only one day a week. Thus, folks in this year's sessions (folks who had a full-time job) took their day-off on the same day they attended class.
If you think you'll be interested in the 2001 program, call the Multnomah County Extension to place your name on the list to receive an application. (Applications aren't mailed until November.)
- Posted by Laura - 8/WA(email@example.com) onSun, Oct 8, 00 at 1:34
Do you think it is realistic for someone to take off one day a week from work, every week, for 12 weeks? I would be fired after the third absence.Laura
- Posted by weze - 4a(firstname.lastname@example.com) onMon, Oct 16, 00 at 19:01
I, too, have been a nurse (for 23 years) and am acutely aware of the stress of the career. I took a MG course in '92 (one day a week for 6 wks). We didn't have to apply for the course, just sign up. We recieved a very large binder with all the information that was taught to us during the course for our own use and reference guide. We did hands-on things outside so we could do these on our own after the course was over. We did not have to take a test after it was over, and we had to return 50 hours of volunteer time within 2 years to the extension office. That was easy, because they weren't too picky about what we could do. As long as you were helping someone in need with a gardening problem, it was OK. I usually go to an inservice every fall that they have in different areas of the state because I want to, not because I have to. I always go home learning something new every year. We do have to return a few hours back to the ext office every year, but it's not a great deal of time. I enjoy hearing other's problems and solutions. I have met and gotten to know many people from across the state and it's been wonderful to see them every year. Yes, it is basic for people that have a degree in hort or other landscaping areas. But, if you are going into it just for the joy of gardening, then do it. It's great. I judge for the achievement days that we have every year for 4-H and you find some very young kids that really enjoy the challenge of gardening from year to year. No, you can't get a job in landscaping or design after taking this class, but it sure helps if you're trying to do your own yard (like I have been for the last few years). If you're doing it for your own self-worth and to get a little R-and-R, it's worth it.
Our state usually has 3 sites in different areas of the state that you can attend, whichever is closer to you (usually one in the west, middle and east part of the state) Here, you can call the ext agent and request that one of the classes be in your area. (It's not guaranteed that it will be there that year, but it is there eventually.)For me, it was worth the trouble of taking the class. It's help me grow as a person and as a gardener!
- Posted by Linda - 7(firstname.lastname@example.com) onSat, Nov 18, 00 at 0:56
I took the Master Gardening Course in Washington State 22 years ago. I have not changed professions - I am in the health profession and did change a part time job so that I could spend more time gardening. I continue to volunteer in projects related to gardening and have taught classes about organic gardening in a state that did not have a Master Gardener program. I was impressed with the knowlege of the people who taught the classes as well as those who attended. You will most likely find retired "scientists" (these are individuals who have been extremely interested in their work, intelligent, curious people) who are ready to put a lot of energy onto a new focus. Some of the people I took the class with all those years ago have become experts in a small area of gardening - dahlias, pears, water gardens, pruning and have worked professionally without a college degree in horticulture. These people had degrees in engineering, teaching, therapy,law before they took the Master Gardening classes. They are ba
I tok the Master Gardener course at Mercer Arboretum In Spring, Texas. I can't say enough about this course. The course was one day (8 hours) a week from March thru May. The course is taught under the guidance of Texas A&M university and the county extension office. It is taught by PHD's and other experts. The level of instruction is just as good if not better than college level. We have classroom and hands on instruction. The class is made up of people from all walks of life who have a passion for gardening. We are taught that a flower is just not a pretty thing. We are taught about disease, insects, fertilization, pesticides, etc. By the end of the course some of us were able to diagnose disease and insect damage and pinpoint treatments. Because we were not the extension office, we did not have to volunteer on the phones. We could volunteer a few hours a week in the green house propagating, on the arboretun grounds, gardening or on a number of other projects. Because it is an arboretum, we are always surrounded by beautiful gardens! You must complete 60 hours of volunteer time in one year before you are rewarded with your certification. At the risk of sounding like an infomercial for Mercer Arboretum, I must say they really appreciate their volunteers and show it in many different ways. |
As a Master Gardener coordinator and an adjunct Hort instructor. I will say that Master Gardener Training in my county is actually a bit more practical and useful than Principles of Horticulture. We cover most of the same information, but it is more indepth and more practical. Hort 101 is also just an introduction to horticulture. One area where Hort 101 is better is the hands on experience that is gained in the lab portion of the training. MG training is theory, not hands on. I will say that I am more comfortable asking a MG for help find and answer to a question than I would be asking one of my students from Hort 101. Paul |
Interesting topic! Anyone know if such is available in Mississippi and if they |
- Posted by Aya_Amauta (My Page) on Thu, May 8, 03 at 22:51
Hello my dear Brothers and Sisters of the verdant fields, remember that to be a Master Gardener on this outside 3D world always reflects the Master Gardener that we are on the inner spiritual worlds and beyond where our true desire is to co-create health and beauty for ourselves and all others. To heal the Earth is to heal yourself. I encourage you to look into the Master Gardener Programs at the Cooperative Extension departments that are offered at your local University. These programs only cost a fraction of what is normaly charged for just one semister. For example, here in Fresno California the M.G. Program is about $103 dollars, whereas one semister at the University of Fresno is around $640 dollars, a big difference! |
Here is a link that might be useful: GardenWeb
You seem to be ready to extend yourself with such a stress relief as hort. therapy. I would look into an adult center with/without a program and if you have invite your child and get started. I think righ now you don't have to be cert. and with your nursing, sounds like right up your alley. The MG is great but you seem ready for something more. |
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Gold Capped: Getting rich off the real-money auction house? {WoW}
Aug 9th 2011 11:14AM @ Fox Van Allen
I think your missing one key point in Blizz real money AH
Yes you can put your cash in and buy stuff off the AH
Yes you can set gear at real world cash prices
but no you cannont then put that money on your credit card
the money you "make" from the AH is put into your battle.net wallet and if you want you can top up this wallet, from this point its blizz money (basicly) the cash in your wallet can then be use to buy Blizz products, pets game time ect ect and used in the AH (for which ever games end up useing this type of system) but that is all you can do you cannot farm and sell a heap load of mats sell them on the AH and take the money out of your wallet to pay your rent for the month
One reason why they are not doing this is due to banking legislation, they will have to follow all the banking laws over each country they have the game in and deal with all the tax issues that come with it
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May 7th 2011 5:47PM @ Amanda A.
You have 2 ;P
For multi mob fights its called the tab key
On single mob fights its the hands off keyboard agro dump move :D
Totem Talk: Healing The Stonecore for restoration shaman {WoW}
Jan 27th 2011 1:48AM Simple answer is try it on if you win a piece on greed put it on, look at your int
if you have more int its worth losing the 5%
if you have less int its not worth loseing the 5%
also remember on upgrades you may have to factor in gems but would only
get cheep ones as it is a stop gap
Drama Mamas: Tank entitlement {WoW}
Aug 6th 2010 6:18PM Fixed by blizzard ??? sure it was the problem was made by blizzard, if you look at any HC dungon nowadays they are ran by at least 4 out 5 overgeared people and they just run through the dungon no problems now some make alts and think thats is how all dungons are mwnt to be ran (not just tanks)
apart from that i dont see any comments here that actualy help Shaman Scared Silly with her issue so i'd like to try.
When you go into LFD to heal i belive you have the most influance (i tank and heal in LFD) on how the run goes when i tank before every pull my first check is the healers mana bar second check is mini map ...is the healer here, even if we dont talk you still tell me when to pull and how many to pull. the one thing i think you are lacking when you heal is confidance, try to remember at your level you have 2 heals one big one small, blizzard deisgned the game for those 2 heals to take care of any healing the tank needs in the dungon if the tank run ahead and pulls a big group and you all wipe try /w him/her and say hi mate can you pull a few less next time i cant keep up with all those hits ...if he try's to blame you in /p chat piont out his mistake in front of every one
If you come across another tank like tank2 in your mail first thing put him on ignore second just say to the group hi i have and can heal this dungon no problems my last group had a bit of a problem with this tank the last run i was on he's one of those ones that think they can pull a whole dungon on there own you know the type, so im sorry but i wont run with him again please feel free to kick me or if you want to kick the tank ill stay with you till we get a proper one
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Jun 30th 2010 10:56AM :D no problem mate, these post are without emotion and i guess I took you up wrong,on the upside for the euro's amongst us look's like the servers will be up at 18.00 just tryed logging and got to the realm select screen (no realms active yet)
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Jun 30th 2010 10:25AM Yea we are getting it this patch Extrox, cheers for the info its probably what happening over here this time aswell (nice to have some info)
Breakfast Topic: Where were you on your day off? {WoW}
Jun 30th 2010 10:22AM @ Extrox
its not just extended maintenance its extended maintenance on the day you guys are running RS. Yep last week you had the same to deal with but while taht was on you were not sitting at your comp every few hours seeing the time get pushed again and again knowing that our 3/4 american friends are running RS the other 1/4 have it worse than us getting what we have now last week AND 24hr maintenance (hearth goes out to you guy's)
All i was saying on my post was i'd be nice to see something from WoW.com to show a bit of support for there Euro readers (and possibly other regaions i dont know what there servers are like at the moment)
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Jun 30th 2010 8:19AM Hi,
Any chance of even a mention of the european servers, went down for extended maintenance at midnight expected to be back up at 12.00 now pushed out till 16.00. i know it RS patch but with the QQ'ing of "some" american down for 24hrs and not being able to get into RS to get there world first a little sympathy for your euro friends who can't get in on any server would be nice
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May 3rd 2010 2:48AM only time I use it is when in my resto spec, group over powers the dungon FS tick on boss and LB to add a bit of DPS instead of standing there waiting till someone takes some damage ....any damage (but this would be off topic i suppose)
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May 3rd 2010 2:44AM you answered your question yourself "As far as i can tell the only downside is my mana runs out faster compared to enhancement" not only did you have to wait to get thunderstorm but you also had to use elixirs and with alchemy you probably used a few mana pots (am i right?) leveling in the DF system is fine as you'll be having a few drinks with the healer anyway but when leveling alot of people play the game by questing (traditional way) and dont want/ cant spend G on elixirs mana pots just to decrease there down time whereas by leveling enhancement your down time due to OOM situations is less and you can still (if you have to) do some DPS with no mana
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Other governments followed Thatcher's lead, some having begun the process before she took office. They sold airports, railroads, utilities and other assets. The first question became: can the private sector run these things better, more efficiently and at less cost than government? In most cases, the answer was a resounding "yes."
The United States has had less success with privatization because of the commitment of liberal Democrats and some Republicans to big government. Still, President Ronald Reagan was able to sell off the Conrail freight railroad in 1987 for $1.7 billion. The year before, the Alaska Power Administration was privatized.
The federal helium reserve was sold for $1.8 billion in 1996. The Elks Hill Petroleum Reserve was sold in 1997 for $3.7 billion. And in 1998, the U.S. Enrichment Corporation, which provides enriched uranium to the nuclear industry, was privatized for $3.1 billion.
Here's a shocker: The Office of Management and Budget has calculated that about half of all federal employees do work that is not "inherently governmental."
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Yeah, contracting out or selling things by the government does work sometimes.
We have fought two wars for awhile by using bought in country people. We even pay our enemies of just a few years ago to fight for us.
Personally, I also would prefer to read columnists who were farmed out also.
Now these private people would of course pay all these people about60% of what they make now with much fewer benefits, wouldn't they---including guest columnists.
What would that enormous sum lost to those workers (employees) do to our economy?
Your hero, Mr. Reagan, spent more on the military than we did to fight WW2 and maybe, just maybe, he caused a wall to fall and ruin West Germany which we helped salvage somewhat.
If you really want the government to sell something useful, how about our state parks, federal parks, river management, national forests, etc.


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