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AUGUSTA, Ga. — So who embraces nostalgia any better than the Masters?
A half-century ago, Arnold Palmer won himself a green jacket for the fourth time in seven years. It was his seventh major. It would be his last. Tuesday, the folks who run the season's first major took the time to celebrate this golden anniversary.
"Well, I'm happy to be here," Palmer, 84, said before heading to the annual Champions Dinner. "Let's just say that. I came here first in 1955, and I parked a trailer with my wife (the late Winnie) on the other side of Daniel Field just off the railroad tracks. Are they still there?
"I drove over to the club, and the feeling was so overwhelming. I felt like I had died and gone to heaven. And I mean that. It is very difficult to tell you what that feeling was like. I was just very thankful.
"I felt like I was walking on a cloud. It was so beautiful. It was something that I talked to my father (Deacon) about when I was a baby. Knowing that I had arrived at the Masters. That was the beginning. And the rest is pretty much history."
He finished 10th in his debut, and bagged his first major here three years later. For 11 years starting in 1957, he was never worse than seventh. He played for the last time a decade ago. Since 2007, he's been one of the honorary starters, joined in 2010 by six-time winner Jack Nicklaus and in 2012 by three-time winner Gary Player. So how long will he keep doing it?
"I think the chairman makes that decision, and if he wants me to hit that first tee shot and I have to crawl, (then) that's what I'll do."
This is where he was able to cash his first paycheck.
"That in itself was a thrill of a lifetime," Palmer said. "I was still under the PGA rules and auspices of not being able to accept what I won on the normal tour events, because of the apprenticeship. But at Augusta, I was able to put in my pocket and take home. I had not been a professional six months. So that kind of gives you an idea of what it was like to be here.
"I stayed in a hotel downtown, and it was fine. It was a lot different than it is today. The accommodations were OK. And getting a caddie, Iron Man. I'll never forget him. Nathaniel Avery was his name. He told me where to go and what to do, and that was the end of it."
Before 1964, something Palmer had never experienced here was an easy win. That year, he beat Nicklaus and Dave Marr by six.
"It had been a squeaker every (previous) time," Arnie recalled. "I would walk up 18 and people thought I was looking at them. I was scared to look at them. I was playing to win the Masters, and it was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done, and most enjoyable.
"So to walk up 18 feeling comfortable, like, hey (giving a thumbs-up sign) ... Marr, who was my playing partner and also a friend, when we teed off 18 the last day, I sort of casually said to David, 'If I can help you, I will.' And he looked at me and he says, 'You know how you can help me?' And I said, 'How is that?' He says, 'Make nine.' "
Eras change. Some memories fade, others get embellished. He was the King. That's forever. Still, he couldn't leave us without weighing in on the guy who might break Jack's record for most majors. The presence who isn't here this week for the first time in two decades, thanks to back surgery.
"Lately I've heard so much about Tiger (Woods) and opinions," Palmer said. "Opinions are what you pay for them, and most of us don't pay much.
"As Tiger continues on his personal physique and ability to work and stay healthy, I don't see any reason in the world why he will not come back and potentially (still) do the things that he has the desire to do.
"There is a drawback that relates to myself a little about the psychological aspects of the game. He's going to have to overcome the fact he won as much as he did, and he's going to have to refresh that in his mind and his approach to the game."
Then he was off, to trade stories and break bread with the old gang.
"We used to sit down in the room, and I counted them one year and I think there were, like, 12 guys at the dinner," he said. "I remember talking to some of the other pros, and Nicklaus was one of them, and we were kind of laughing and we had just held the title for a couple of times. And we said, you know, it would be nice if we could keep this room to 12 or 13 people."
Savor all those toasts.


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Florida's bench depth will take a hit today when it travels to Knoxville to play Tennessee. Michael Frazier II, center, will be sidelined with a concussion, along with Will Yeguete (knee).
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Florida will be shorthanded today on the road.
Two weeks ago this trip to Knoxville to face Tennessee didn't seem daunting on the schedule, but the Volunteers (16-10, 8-6 SEC) are on a hot streak of late and have won their last five games.
Backup guard Michael Frazier II (concussion) and backup forward Will Yeguete (knee) will not play today (8 p.m., ESPN) but could return Saturday against Alabama. ...

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Colleges will now have to notify students whether a sprinkler system is present when they move into school-owned housing, according to a new law signed Thursday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The Kerry Rose Fire Sprinkler Notification Act requires all colleges to provide written notice to students of their housing unit's fire-safety procedures, describing any fire sprinkler or lack thereof.
The law is named after Kerry Rose Fitzsimons, a Marist College student who was killed along with two others in a January 2012 fire at her off-campus house in the Town of Poughkeepsie. ...


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Four men were shot -- and one killed -- during a robbery attempt as they played dominoes outside a Pompano Beach home early Sunday.
The shooting happened in the 1600 block of Northwest 7th Lane about 12:56 a.m.
The Broward Sheriff's Office pronounced 23-year-old Joshua Childs dead when they arrived.
The other three shooting victims -- Christopher Singleton, 25; Rashaad Payne, 23; and, Alphonso Wright, 54 -- were taken to Broward Health North. Their conditions weren't immediately released, although all three are expected to survive.
Detectives believe there were four armed robbers. Anyone with information in this case is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS (8477).


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New pictures from Dr. Who!
Everybody knows that Christmas is all about time-travelling aliens. This is why Dr. Who is a Christmas classic!
We can't wait for the special Christmas episode and we've got some pictures from the upcoming special.
This episode will give us the first glimpse of The Doctor's new assistant – Clara.
Here's what Matt Smith had to say about the episode "For this year's Christmas Special we have the wonderfully villainous Richard E Grant as Doctor Simeon. As well as lizards, Victorian assassins and deranged warriors from the future all return to convince The Doctor that he should board the TARDIS again and save the world."
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Too much of education, especially following the Western Enlightenment model and its increased use of scientific, quantifiable metrics, has seemed to completely forget that love and emotional intelligence have everything to do with what and how well the human child learns. In a globalizing society facing shared environmental and social crises of existential proportions, this forgotten understanding is fatal to real hopes of education for sustainability and healthy human and planetary life. Love is simply too critical an emotion to understand and incorporate into education, and it has been too long left out in the cold. But cold it has been for the human mind focusing on only rational/objective and emotion-denying forms of learning and intelligence, creating minds unmoved by the thus un-felt facts of an increasingly globally warming and more confused world.Continue Reading
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The theme of stewardship, or caring for God's creation, features prominently throughout Catholic social teaching. This Care for Creation project was designed to make students become engaged science learners who want to dig deeper into solutions when they learn about the environmental impacts caused by human choices through a lens of Catholic faith. By employing a Project-Based Science strategy and incorporating many of the themes of Catholic social teaching, students learned about climate change in a year-long sustainability education experience, shared their knowledge with their school and parish, and sponsored projects to help the poor and vulnerable of their city and abroad. This project can be used as a model for incorporating sustainability content and Project-Based Science learning into a Catholic science curriculum.Continue Reading
Abstract: In Kissed by a Fox: And Other Stories of Friendship in Nature, Priscilla Stuckey, Ph.D. presents a collection of stories as an integrated whole. The purpose of this book review is to offer this work of creative non-fiction as an illuminating example of how love and relationships are essential ingredients for sustainability. Kissed by a Fox is fundamentally about relationships between humans and other-than-human beings. Love for the natural world and one's self are consistently described throughout the book as necessary for taking in and giving out what will sustain us and the earth. Stuckey delivers this message through narrating her experiences with "friendships in nature" and how these relationships transformed her life.Continue Reading
This opinion/editorial presents the belief that love is present in all human lives as an emotional experience and may be present in all human lives as an intellectual idea as well. It considers possible actualities that lie behind some common thoughts (clichés) about love. The author presents the idea that even though love is central to our lives, the word love, if not the concept of love, is avoided in academic discourse. The author explores some of the scholarly, theoretical, and philosophical writing about love, noting that it is often named something other than love (compassion, well-being, altruism, etc.). The question and invitation are presented to consider what might be possible if love were intentionally and specifically identified as a methodology, pedagogical practice, and value in leadership, activism, and education.Continue Reading
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Table of Contents: JSE March 2015 — Sustainability: What's Love Got to Do with It? PDF: Charles JSE March 2015 Love Issue There is a terrible challenge facing all of us who worry about the future of the Earth, and its inhabitants—human, domesticated and wild. That includes all of its living ecological inhabitants, and the […]Continue Reading
The stories we tell shape our view of ourselves and the path we take through this time of collective awakening and global turning. We have the ability to consciously choose narratives that offer realistic beacons of hope to guide our way through the Great Transition. To achieve authentic and lasting reconciliation as the foundation for our future, we require the power of love and compassion as a practical basis for organizing human affairs.Continue Reading
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This article briefly summarizes a body of research in which love is understood to be at the core of three primary life experiences that foster life-long care for the environment: time in nature, especially during childhood; close role models for care of nature; and participation in an organization that fosters direct learning about nature. From this foundation, family nature clubs are presented as having a fairly unique capacity to offer all of these experiences. The family nature club founded by the author, Columbia Families in Nature, is described in some detail, including photos and quotes from the participants and summary results from research on the broad effects of family nature clubs is presented. All together, the case is made that family nature clubs are a ripe opportunity for communities to cultivate connection, care, and love between people and the natural world.Continue Reading
In The Living Universe: Where are We, Who are We, and Where are We Going, Duane Elgin presents a powerfully compelling argument that the most fundamental challenge facing humanity during this time of crisis is to visualize a future of great opportunity and that the foundational story guiding the reality people create on Earth is whether the universe is alive and to be loved and nurtured or dead and to be feared and consumed. This article provides a review of this powerful book with an eye to the connection between love and sustainability.Continue Reading
This article is an introduction and exploration of the potential for a new approach to mental healthcare. This approach blends mental health treatment with nature and service for a therapy that is systemically beneficial for the individual, the community, and nature together. Called nature-based therapeutic service (NBTS), it is a method within the construct of ecotherapy that is both nature-based and service oriented. It involves empowering clients to serve nature, to develop relationship, build skills, connect to the community, and gain a sense of purpose and fulfillment. Foundational fields related to NBTS include ecopsychology, sustainability education, biophilia, service learning, the study of altruism, trans-species psychology, and other psychological theories. Based on research from these contributing fields, the assumption is that a mutually beneficial therapeutic approach can reconnect humans with nature for individual and community sustainability, through the power of relationship, compassion, empowerment, and love.Continue Reading
This article looks at the Wisdom Development Process and the importance of the heart in ensuring sustainability. This will be a key process for developing leaders in the emerging Wisdom Economy.Continue Reading
Women farmers in the U.S. are more likely than men to adopt more ecologically-based practices on their farms. In order for such practices to increase, it is relevant to understand how these women farmers learn the values and skills that shape their work. Place attachment (including the emotional connection to a locale and the intangible, felt meanings, values, and symbols) and place meaning (including personal values, socially and iteratively constructed values) seem to be important drivers of active care for place. These are mediated by ecological and social knowledge, experience, social relationships, and identity. If these factors are supportive rather than in tension with place attachment and place meaning, an active care for place can further develop the context for emotional bonds and the story of the locale. Regenerative farmers as well as others who work directly with the land are perhaps uniquely positioned to be leaders in the process of becoming part of a place. In this paper I summarize the literature about farmers' relationship to place using a framework developed from the general sense of place literature. Finally, I discuss two aspects of this framework that emerged from research with 14 women farmers in Wisconsin and Minnesota: a georgic ethic and an ecocentric perspective: functional components of an ecology of love.Continue Reading
This article utilizes theoretical inquiry to explicate the value of cultivating biophilia within higher education settings. The author provides several suggestions to promote participation in the sustainability movement while also cultivating biophilia. The definition of biophilia is explored within the context of sustainability education and a link is made to the theme of this JSE issue. Thus, this article provides both theoretical exploration of utilizing biophilia in an educational context and it offers suggestions for implementation of a form of curriculum and pedagogy that promotes the understanding and practice of sustainability that is applicable in many settings.Continue Reading
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This article attempts to fill a gap in the sociological literature by detailing how I taught a sociology course 'Society and Climate Change'. I discuss the theories I used to frame my course – Barry Commoner's laws of nature (1976) and Patricia Hill Collin's intersectionality (2009) – and then I present and analyze the pedagogical practices I used that attempted to put these two theories into practice by embodying connectedness through love, in order to create what David Korton refers to as an 'earth community' (2010).Continue Reading
This article is an exploration of vulnerability and the experience I had as an artist inhabiting the art of writing poetry; a creative medium that is new to me. I begin with a brief examination of vulnerability as it is defined today culturally and move towards a personal exploration of what vulnerability feels like within an intentional and unfamiliar creative process. Through this process I learned from vulnerability– things like like navigating open space, respecting how growth unfolds, that vulnerability is an integral part of loving an living life fully, the relationship between vulnerability and love, and the magic that happens when bodily experience aligns with word. This article is an exploration, and affirmation, of vulnerability as a deep site for learning and growth and a requirement, if we are to love deeply.Continue Reading
'Sustaining Love' explores education for sustainability as a psycho-cultural transformation rooted in moments of personal emotional enmeshment in Nature. It is argued that while technical and economic development provides some of the necessary conditions for meeting our collective sustainability challenge, our choices along the way must be informed by a sense of identity and shared fate with infra-human species and the natural world.Continue Reading
The Sustainability Education Framework for Teachers (SEFT) intends to build a capacity for educators to be able to understand: (i) the broad, complex nature of sustainability, (ii) the problem-oriented, solution driven nature of sustainability, and (iii) how sustainability connects to them as both citizens and classroom teachers. SEFT embraces four ways of thinking––futures, values, systems, and strategic which are conceptualized as being bi-directional and interconnected. The framework aids in linking sustainability topics that are seemingly disparate to the novice teacher population by building upon knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for problem solving with respect to complex sustainability challenges. Imagined as a conceptual framework, it offers organizing principles for examining and considering sustainability problem/solution constellations in a coherent fashion. The framework provides the opportunity for self-reflection and independent enquiry by considering and learning through real world foci. Likewise, SEFT offers a logical framework for working in interpersonal, intragroup, and intergroup situations. The four lenses require considering critical inquiries related to societal values, equity, and visions of the future; unpacking the status quo; and exploring and articulating pathways towards a sustainable tomorrow.Continue Reading
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This paper describes a three-week professional development program, for inservice science teachers, which included on-site field trips to different energy production sites, explored the variety of opinions about them (via film, podcasts, news media, and expert lectures), and incorporated mathematical modeling as a lens through which to evaluate the relative sustainability of each energy type. The teacher participants explored oil, natural gas, hydroelectric, nuclear, wind, and coal energy production methods. This paper describes in detail their experience at a coal strip mine and a coal fueled power plant. For each type of energy, the teachers completed a pre- and post-assessment on their understanding of how the energy source was used to generate electricity and their perceptions of the environmental costs of each. The participants' change in understanding of the energy production methods and increasing awareness of environmental costs are shared. Further, in their own words, participants describe the impact of the professional development on their own knowledge base and their classroom teaching as well as their perceptions of experiential learning as a vehicle for conceptual change.Continue Reading
This study presents outcomes from the Girls Energy Conservation Corps, a research and development project that produced a series of six patch activity guides for girls age 8-14 who are members of the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts. The program focused on integrating engaging online and real world activities that involved girls in learning about climate change and their role in it, in saving energy, understanding the importance of collective goals and action to address climate change, and using new media creatively to educate peers and the community about energy conservation. Positive changes in knowledge, behavior, and attitudes pre to post suggest that a carefully designed program can address the challenges of educating children about energy conservation and climate change at this age, even if participant exposure to the program is brief. Findings also bring to light that developmental differences may be important to deconstruct in future studies when applying adult-tested behavior change models and theories to youth.Continue Reading
This paper will explore the Energy for ME program, funded by the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation, which worked across formal and informal K-12 environments to bridge the gap between society, science, and the environment. Specifically, this article documents how Energy for ME integrates three experiential education pedagogies (place-based education, inquiry, and project-based learning) in combination with real-world electricity data in order to impact energy consumption within participating communities. Energy for ME schools and communities have saved over $135,000 in homeowner electricity costs, 900,000 lbs of carbon, and 1,000,000 kWh of energy) in electricity costs over the 3 years of the project.Continue Reading
Undergraduate energy education is often offered from a specific perspective, such as engineering, sustainability, policy, or economics. This essay argues that undergraduate programs in energy should be explicitly interdisciplinary, because issues surrounding energy production, transmission, and use have multiple perspectives. Challenges to creating interdisciplinary energy programs include often-compartmentalized nature of colleges and universities, and employment prospects for broadly-educated graduates that may not be clear. Strategies for overcoming those issues are proposed, but others remain to be developed by leaders in undergraduate energy education.Continue Reading
Energy education, vital though it is, remains incomplete if it doesn't explicitly address the impacts of human activities, specifically the combustion of buried solar energy/fossil fuels, on the environment in general and climate system in particular. Projections based on current emission trends indicate a likely increase of the radiative forcing of energy in the Earth system from around three waters per meter squared today to over eight by the year 2100, substantially heating the planet in the process. Efforts to avoid or minimize the connection between human energy consumption and changing climate amount to a form of science denial through omission. In order to address the causes, effects, and risks of climate change and appreciate the range of options to minimize negative impacts and maximize resilience, energy and climate literacy efforts should be combined and ideally infused throughout the curriculum.Continue Reading
Eat local. Choose a reusable bag instead of plastic. Put a brick in the toilet. These are intuitively simplistic environmental "solutions" that may do little but make a person feel environmentally virtuous. Energy and environmental science teaching requires us to change students' preconceived simplistic notions about solving environmental issues if we want these future leaders to make real environmentally effective decisions. Students need to understand that the energy input in a disposable plastic bag is dwarfed by the energy expenditure of driving to the grocery store with a reusable bag, so that they don't make symbolic, but ineffective decisions. One approach is to have students attempt to develop a "sustainable" product. The complexity of environmental solutions becomes evident when we have to evaluate the energy use and environmental consequences from raw material sourcing to reuse.Continue Reading
In August 2014, twenty-nine K-8 teachers from eleven Vermont schools engaged in the science, engineering and pedagogical practices of sustainable energy education. This week long workshop was organized by the Vermont Science Initiative (VSI), with an engineering and science instructor each from Norwich University and Lyndon State College respectively, and in partnership with the Vermont Energy Education Program (VEEP).
Teachers defined energy in terms of work, differentiated between transfers and transformations occurring across different energy forms, and gained a deeper conceptual understanding of renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. Opportunities for inquiry ranged from wind turbines, to electrical circuits, to light and Photovoltaic (PV) cells, and an energy bike. These, in combination with scientist meetings and a field trip to a nearby solar PV farm solidified their scientific literacy in the sustainable energy context. The teachers were also led through the Engineering Design Process (EDP) including concepts of design criteria and constraints to learn about sustainably engineering the energy components of systems. Teachers worked in groups to build an Archimedes Screw pump and determined the efficiency of a micro-hydro-generator. By the end of the week, post assessment test results revealed that the teachers had a 37% improvement in understanding various content areas.
By engaging elementary and middle school teachers in fun, hands-on exploration of sustainable energy we hope to bring this form of literacy to our youngest citizens, and future leaders and decision makers. The opportunity to continue engagement throughout the year with three follow-up sessions, and a forum to share the units they developed and best practices through the VT Agency of Education website will serve as a model for other stakeholders interested in implementing a similar program.Continue Reading
Many K-12 school districts are embracing energy conservation efforts and constructing environmentally sustainable buildings with the purpose of lower operating costs of their facilities. Investments in green infrastructure to improve operating efficiencies and occupant health are important but the impact on green buildings on instructional practice should also be considered. This study focused on teachers' perceptions of the many impacts of a new sustainably designed middle school on students and teachers and explores the use of the school as a learning laboratory. Grades 6-8 teachers participated in open-ended focus group discussions near the end of the first school year in their new green building. An emergent coding framework was created to characterize conversation topics. Analysis of the coding yielded insights into seven major categories of teachers' perceptions of the impact of the new green school on their work in the building and their students' attitudes and academic performance. The seven major coding categories of green infrastructure, student behavior, student awareness, teacher awareness, curriculum, health, and professional development were further analyzed to formulate considerations and recommendations for others to capitalize on the instructional potential of sustainably designed school facilities as learning laboratories.Continue Reading
The Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA) is a biofuel research project that includes a holistic educational approach to energy literacy. NARA research is focused on woody biomass as a feedstock for biofuels and associated co-products, particularly in the forested areas of the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Extending beyond the science of biofuels, the NARA project examines many social elements of our energy economy, including education. Projects that can combine research and connections to educational venues provide excellent opportunities to expand the impact of grant funded proposals. Keys to making this possible include coordination across disciplines, interpretation of research results, and research processes in the field coupled with investment into integrated educational strategies within the project. This paper outlines elements of the NARA approach to energy literacy, offering strategies for approaches to broader impacts in projects beyond the energy sector.Continue Reading
Effective teacher professional development in energy education is essential to creating a sustainable future. This article highlights and describes three key components of the Wisconsin K-12 Energy Education Program (KEEP) that have led to two decades of increased statewide energy literacy. The success of the program can be attributed to supportive partnerships that guide staff, the development of an adaptive conceptual framework, and a professional development network for teachers. We offer these components as a guide for other energy education programs to promote future successes in teacher professional development in energy education.Continue Reading
Linking ecology and energy literacy efforts is an essential step for producing scientifically literate citizens who are able to make informed choices about energy, yet the two literacies have developed independently. To explicitly link these, we explored the interface between ecology, energy and education by inviting experts from diverse fields to share perspectives on how to improve public literacy in ecology and energy. This paper presents a synthesis of three organized sessions at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) August 2014 annual meeting: a symposium on a broad range of issues related to energy, ecology and sustainability; an organized oral featuring innovative approaches using ecological concepts to educate Kindergarten through college students about energy, and a share-fair where these innovations were demonstrated. Presentations represented all age-levels, non-formal and formal education, the geophysical sciences, public policy experts, government agencies, ecologists and sociologists, faith-based and environmental non-profits.
Diverse, creative and innovative educational approaches are underway, with major government funding attesting to their import. For ecologists, most of the energy applications centered on sustainability issues, and focused on climate change caused by fossil fuel development. Emerging considerations include direct impacts of energy development and transmission on ecosystems. Conversely, energy literacies should consider the role of ecology, given the ecological impacts involved in decisions about energy extraction and transport. General public audiences including environmental, faith-based and environmental justice communities are increasingly considering environmental dimensions in energy decisions and policy outreach but often on single, time-sensitive issues. Adult education would benefit from a more comprehensive integration of energy and ecology.
We propose that including an explicit ecology dimension in the energy literacies, and similarly involving energy application in the ecology literacies, would be synergistic and allow these inclusive and inherently interdisciplinary fields to flourish and best serve our educational goals of achieving an informed citizenry.Continue Reading
Columbia Water & Light is a municipal electric and water utility with a number of energy education programs. By hiring a full-time education and outreach coordinator, Water & Light has been able to create connections with existing audiences in the community. Historical and current programs have earned awards for the utility. Water & Light's education programs touch on the science, math and social forces behind energy in the community through projects with adults and children alike. By addressing energy education from a number of angles, Water & Light hopes to provide the community a holistic view of their energy use and how they can improve, with a goal of increasing participation in the utility's efficiency programs. Short descriptions of a number of programs highlight the work that Water & Light's education and outreach team has developed over a number of years.Continue Reading
National efforts in energy education aim to increase energy literacy and a diverse set of tools is needed to assess the effectiveness of different educational endeavors. As an alternative to the standard testing-based approach for determining individual energy knowledge, this research further advances a rubric-based approach for assessing the energy literacy manifested in artifacts of a competition or project. The goals were to add additional validity, determine if revisions to the rubric and assessment process increased reliability over the initial study on abstracts, and to determine how well suited the approach is for application to posters – the final deliverable of the competition. The rubric was applied to abstracts and posters from Imagine Tomorrow, a high school energy competition, and the resulting scores were analyzed for both standard rater reliability measures and variable-linked trends. Results showed that interrater reliability on the abstract assessment was similar to that of the previous study, the poster assessment showed much higher reliability than the abstract assessment, and many of the same energy literacy trends identified in the previous research were present with additional data allowing for further trend investigation in this study. While this refinement did not appear to contribute to higher reliability, it has created a rubric that is more user friendly and valid. This study has preliminarily demonstrated that the rubric approach may be more appropriate for artifacts with more information, such as posters or reports, than for brief summaries, such as abstracts. In the posters, some trends based on competition variables were able to be identified. This constitutes the next step toward an implementable approach that has the potential to assess certain energy education endeavors.Continue Reading
Recent changes in the climate system are mostly due to greenhouse gas emissions through increased energy use by society, which changes the distribution of energy in the Earth system. These changes highlight the importance of energy education. Energy consumption is at the source of and the solution to climate change. However, studies across the US and globally show that students' understanding of energy and the connection between energy and climate is low. The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness (CLEAN, http://cleanet.org) effort supports educators of middle school through undergraduate levels in their teaching about energy topics by providing an online, free collection of peer-reviewed, classroom ready resources that span the entire breadth of energy and climate education. The web portal also provides materials for teachers to learn more about how to teach about energy and climate. A vibrant community supports educators and other stakeholders in their efforts.Continue Reading
Reimagining energy education involves moving beyond the basics of energy use, conservation, and efficiency toward a more robust exploration of energy. This exploration should address energy access and equity, the impacts of energy choices, and personal attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors related to sustainable energy solutions. One approach to encourage this evolution is to use a learning context that inspires educators and students to delve deeply and methodically into the social, economic, and environmental interconnections of energy issues—in other words, to learn about energy within the context of global sustainability. In this article, we share Facing the Future's definition of global sustainability education (GSE), explain why GSE is an effective context for energy education, and use Facing the Future's newest energy curriculum to demonstrate how GSE can be employed to develop engaging and rigorous interdisciplinary energy curriculum.Continue Reading
Why don't people adopt energy efficient appliances and curtail their behaviors to decrease energy use? People may not know which behaviors are truly effective and may be insufficiently motivated to change their behaviors. We focus on one area of this problem by first analyzing existing decision aids, tools available to help users make effective decisions. We explore EPA's Energy Star program, DoE's EERE calculators, and LBNL's Home Energy Saver tool. We highlight their strengths and limitations and propose a framework to expand the functionality and uptake of the information through such aids. We suggest improvements along two broad areas. One area concerns the analytic capabilities and the information content of the decision aid, which focuses on (1) multiple goals and constraints, (2) hidden costs, and (3) heterogeneity in user characteristics. The other pertains to the framing so that users can easily process information through decision architecture by limiting choice overload and incorporating smart default options.Continue Reading
Energy services undergird all modern, industrial societies, yet economies based on fossil fuels are not sustainable. Insecurity of supply, particularly of oil, has sparked major geopolitical tensions and warfare. Pollution from use of fossil fuels and other energy sources has damaged local, regional, and global health. Greenhouse gases from fossil fuels have triggered concerns about the earth's climate. Educational institutions are responding only slowly to these existential threats. This paper addresses the challenges facing students, faculty, and administrators as institutions move from simply providing technical education on the respective components of the energy industries to a more comprehensive program that also addresses the environmental, political, economic, cultural, and ethical contexts of energy literacy. Students at most institutions lack courses and programs outside of engineering and physical science. Only 8 percent of 1638 institutions have systematic, broad-based energy studies. The U.S. Department of Energy has supported initial efforts to develop this field. Development includes helping students move from energy studies to employment. Nevertheless, student interest is high. Faculty teaching sustainable energy have generally self-taught, and faculty employment opportunities in energy studies seldom exist. A faulty member delivering energy studies generally lacks a community of supporting peers. Those in this interdisciplinary field may fear the effort will not be rewarded by the institution. Nevertheless the intellectual rewards from developing energy studies are significant and motivating. Administrators face questions of balancing competing claims for institutional resources and face criticism from internal and external constituencies. In addition, they must guide the institution to promoting, enabling, and rewarding interdisciplinary work. Development of energy studies, however, positions the institution for better internal operations and for meeting critical societal needs. We conclude that energy education is both easy and hard, but it can and must be done.Continue Reading
Prezi presentation on overall energy picture in the U.S. and the role of hydrofracking with special focus on the Marcellus ShaleContinue Reading
With this unthemed issue and its impressive international scope, JSE enters its sixth year and shows its stretch across the continents.Continue Reading
This paper explores the intrinsic but often weakly developed links between sustainability and issues of diversity, power, and privilege. It offers a systems-oriented conceptual framework for exploring and understanding how issues of diversity, power and privilege operate in social-ecological systems. This framework can be used as a learning tool with a wide array of audiences (higher education, organizational development, adult learners) and educational contexts (including but not limited to sustainability education programming).Continue Reading
The "Whole Earth Catalog" (1968-1972) featured a collection of creative ideas, articles, and durable, practical tools promoted from a utilitarian, environmentally conscious, and intellectual perspective. The wisdom inherent in the catalog may be of value to education today, as we seek innovative, timeless, and empowering technologies to promote sustained learning for all. This purpose of this article is to position the discussion of sustainable educational technology tools for 21st Century education within the context of the "Whole Earth" standards: 1) High quality at a reasonable cost, 2) Easily accessible, 3) Useful and relevant to independent or self education, and 4) Capable of launching a cascade of new opportunities.Continue Reading
Undergraduate education majors were enrolled in a project based learning methods course in spring 2012. As a culmination, they prepared five year plans to promote environmental stewardship in primary public schools in Bahrain. Since all students plan to eventually teach science in the primary schools, it is hoped they will be able to implement at least some of their plan and foster environmentally friendly habits that last for the lifetime of their students.Continue Reading
The United States along with many other nations actively support the United Nations agenda to educate the next generation about sustainability. Library and information science (LIS) educators may support this effort by incorporating sustainability concepts into the LIS curriculum. While multiple alternatives exist for this goal, this paper argues and provides ideas integrating sustainability into a course focusing on management, offered, and frequently required, by most American Library Association accredited LIS programs. Discussion explains the meaning of sustainability; the international agenda surrounding it; why LIS programs need to help further the sustainability agenda; and, alternatives for incorporating sustainability into the LIS curriculum.Continue Reading
This article explores the relation between politics and sustainability education. It draws upon a political ecology of education perspective to analyze how political and economic processes shape the curricular content of sustainability education, environmental behaviors, and processes of ecological change in Brazil. Examples from research on agroecological education within the Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement (MST) highlight how national level public policies and economic incentives intersect with the MST's political ideology to influence the creation of sustainability education programs, development of curricular content, and advocacy around land management practices. Scholars, educators, administrators, and community activists are encouraged to draw upon the political ecology of education perspective in negotiating the political nature of sustainability education.Continue Reading


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On a decade of living in the South
The northeast will always be home to me. That's where I grew up. But the South is Grandmama House.1
Me in an old conversation with JT. Why yes, I did just quote myself in a blog post.
As a kid, Down South was the land of Kountry Folk, people like loud-ass, country-ass, twangy-talking Tina and her quieter, yet rougher-in-that-country-ass-way brother (Donald maybe?) who visited their auntie (a neighbor of mine) a couple of summers.
Down South was the land from which my people came — and got the fuck out of (thank the good Lord Sweet Jesus) — because of barking dogs, and fire hoses, and job discrimination, and Jim Crow, and that damned n-word. Later, the South was the land where I was sentenced to spend boring-ass (I repeat: Boring. Ass.) summers counting the pickup trucks rolling down York Street as penance for being a teenager.
So <ebonics>why in da hey-ull2</ebonics> has my family of (mostly) native New Yorkers migrated to the South?3 And why did my Southern grandparents migrate north and then return south, to their hometowns (or nearby)?
I have lived here — first in South Carolina and now in Georgia — for ten years. That don't even sound right to my ears. Neither does this country-ass, twangy-talking voice I hear coming out of my own mouth. But there it is and here I am in a place I once viewed with equal parts fear and suspicion. I still give the South the side eye on occasion, but it's tempered by the kind of nuanced understanding that only comes from living here and adopting a bit of that Southern pose.
The South is a region with a complex history and a truck-bed's worth of contradictions. It's the Bible Belt. And yet strip clubs and adult novelty shops are really visible, and seemingly everywhere. The South had slavery, a war to keep it, and almost a century of de jure racial segregation. But it also had (and has) a deep level of intimacy, familiarity and contact between blacks and whites. I think folks here align as often along class lines as they do along racial lines. In most northern cities, race is primary.
Now, don't get me wrong, the South does not feel like "home." You will never, ever, ever hear claim the South4 because I'm from Strong Island, son!!!!5 — but, as I told JT, it does feel like grandma's house.
1 Apostrophe dropped for effect.
2 Translation for the non-ebonics speakers: that's "hell" with two syllables for emphasis.
3 We're not the only ones either. Black Southern migration started in either the mid-1960s or mid-1970s depending on who you ask.
4 You might, however, see me throw up an A or two, particularly if some Tito's or Patrón is involved.
5 Yes, "son" is more of a Brooklyn word than a Strong Island one. Yes, Strong Islanders like to pretend we are just as hard as BK. We are not, unless you are from Terrace Avenue in Hempstead. Then, you just might be. Also: anyone who isn't from a town that has produced at least one major hip-hop recording artist (that'd be Hempstead, Roosevelt, Uniondale, Central Islip, Amityville, Wyandanch, and Brentwood) is from Long Island, not Strong Island, and needs to STFU. Yes, I am looking at you douchebags from The Daily Show. Skip to 1:58 to see who I am talking about.


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Place can provide you with a tangible connection between structures or landscapes and the people and stories that add meaning to your battlefield experience.
Explore the links above to discover the special places at Monocacy National Battlefield.
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Monocacy National Battlefield comprises 1,647 acres of farmland, forest and riparian areas a few miles south of Frederick, Maryland in the Monocacy River valley. The park encompasses six component properties including the Baker, Best, Lewis, Thomas, and Worthington Farms, as well as the Gambrill Mill and House. The architectural styles of the structures in the park exhibit the variety of cultural traditions associated with agriculture in western Maryland. Dwelling houses, forebay barns, the unique stone barn on the Best Farm (L'Hermitage) and the Georgian style of the Thomas Farm (Araby) main house all reflect the mix of Pennsylvania German, French, Caribbean, and Tidewater English influences on the area.
The map at left shows the tracts in relation to each other within the park. For further details, follow the links above.


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The Brady Campaign puts a Philadelphia shop on its list of the 10 worst gun dealers in America.
"That's what we dealt with," says the ATF's Vince. "If there's no record there, it can be hard to prove there's any wrongdoing. But what would happen to a drug store if they failed to keep track of their painkillers? The DEA would be all over them."
Even highly publicized scandals involving gun stores often rate little to no reaction from either law enforcement or manufacturers.
The most egregious example remains Bull's Eye Shooter Supply in Tacoma, Wash., which could not account for 150 weapons in its 2000 ATF audit, yet owner Brian Borgelt managed to stay in business long enough to supply the Bushmaster rifle used by the D.C. snipers. Bull's Eye could not account for the sale of that gun, either, yet Bushmaster declared it still considered the shop a "good customer."
After much adverse publicity, the ATF revoked Borgelt's license, but allowed a close friend of his to take over the shop. Borgelt still owns the building, and operates a shooting range on the property.
With such lax enforcement of federal firearms laws, the most meaningful incentive for store owners to run a lawful business may be their own conscience.
Jim Colosimo's own clear conscience probably provides little consolation after he got publicly pinned with the "bad apple" tag. And fellow dealer Weiner sympathizes.
"The numbers look like a lot," he says. "But look at the numbers he sells, total. Look at the area he's at. Basically, you have to trust the dealers and the methods the ATF has to oversee us."
Steve Volk (email@example.com) writes often about Safe Streets and related policing matters.
A Legal Solution?
Some think stricter gun laws would be the best way to combat straw purchasing. The one-handgun-per-month concept, which would certainly crimp the style of most straw men, remains a popular idea with anti-gun-violence groups and many law enforcement officials.
In the late '90s Mayor Ed Rendell worked hard to establish a one-gun-per-month law that impacted only handgun sales, allowing midstate hunters to buy as many rifles as their living room gun racks could hold. But the midstate troglodytes prevented the measure from passing.
Talk continues of another effort, which would no doubt include Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham, who testified before a Senate sub-committee during the last one-gun-per-month push. During her testimony, Abraham cited Lauretha Vaird, the city's first female officer to die in the line of duty, as the victim of a gun obtained through a straw purchase.
"Officer Vaird responded to a silent bank alarm," said Abraham, "indicating a robbery in progress. She was shot down as she entered the building, before she even saw the perpetrators. The gun used to kill officer Vaird was traced by the ATF and found to be a gun purchased by a straw purchaser and then delivered to one of the bank robbers, who was not eligible to purchase the gun himself."
In the Vaird case, the straw purchaser avoided prosecution by cooperating with investigators.
Straw men often flip, and because by their very definition they have no criminal records themselves, they rarely face prosecution. (From January 1999 through August 2003, the feds indicted just 204 people for straw purchasing.) So prohibiting multiple purchases of handguns might solve a lot of problems, limiting the speed with which bad guys can acquire firearms--and taking a big decision out of the hands of clerks.
PW's 2015 Gift Guide
Food Fest: Neighborhoods unite for discounted food and drink specials
Judah Friedlander steps off the stage to put pen to paper
Dinner with Luke Palladino
A stage for our stories: First Person Arts & the art of storytelling
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Charles Barngrover, of Anderson Township, will be driving his 1961 Nash Metropolitan at the Indianapolis Speedway for their "100th Anniversary of the Speedway" on May 12-14. The first fifty years will be celebrated with 250 privately owned domestic and imported cars from 1911 thorugh 1961.
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ANDERSON TWP. - As a youth in Bethel during the Great Depression, Charles Barngrover cultivated a love for automobiles while spending countless weekday nights and weekends working on junk cars in his parents' large garage.
He didn't have much time to work on cars while he and his wife, Elaine, raised a family and while he spent 38 years as a University of Cincinnati finance professor. But the Anderson Township resident resumed his hobby in earnest during his retirement.
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Le Concorde is ideally located in the centre of Aix-en-Provence, only a 5-minute walk from the famous Cour Mirabeau, near the Granet Museum. It offers a flowered garden. The guest rooms all feature a TV with Canal+ channels, air-conditioning and Wi-Fi access. You can start the day with a generous breakfast in the breakfast room or in the courtyard. For guests arriving by car, the hotel has a large private garage in the basement, allowing you to explore the city without any parking worries.
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Love the handmade wallpaper bits and bobs.. Very Liberty! The kitchen in the first shot is very kitsch and fun, but I reackon it would jar a bit on days when I have a fuzzy head ;-) It would definitely hide my daughters scribbles though... she has taken to crayoning on the walls at the moment... I love it when I walk in a room and find her new creation :-( Hope you're having a great day! Lx
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Only In My Dreams
I can reach up and touch the brightest star,
I can dance, I can sing, do almost anything,
But only in my dreams.
In my dreams I have beauty and grace,
I can run, I can win any race,
I can pass all exams, drive the biggest of vans,
But only in my dreams.
In my dreams I have riches galore,
Diamonds and Pearls by the score,
I'm admired far and wide, everyones on my side,
But only in my dreams.
So when life is getting me down
I don't sit around with a frown,
I go to my bed, lay down my head
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Lobbyist Registration
Every person employed, retained, or authorized as a lobbyist shall, before commencing any lobbying activity, file an application with the Clerk of the Legislature for registration as a lobbyist. The Act contains minimum information that must be included in the registration form. A registration fee of two hundred dollars ($200.00) payable to the Clerk of the Legislature is required for an application for registration by a lobbyist for each principal if the lobbyist receives or will receive compensation for such lobbying. A registration fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00) payable to the Clerk of the Legislature is required for an application for registration by a lobbyist for each principal if the lobbyist is not receiving and will not be receiving compensation for such lobbying. Any lobbyist who receives compensation who did not anticipate receiving such compensation at the time of application for registration shall, within five days of the receipt of any compensation, file an amended registration form and submit payment of one hundred eighty-five dollars ($185.00) for such year.
The registration of a lobbyist for each principal terminates at the end of the calendar year for which the lobbyist registered. The lobbyist may renew his or her registration for each of his or her principals by payment of the fee as provided above.
Lobbyist means a person who is authorized to lobby on behalf of a principal and includes an officer, agent, attorney, or employee of the principal whose regular duties include lobbying.
Lobbying means the practice of promoting or opposing for another person, the introduction or enactment of legislation or resolutions before the Legislature or the committees or the members thereof, and shall also include the practice of promoting or opposing executive approval of legislation or resolutions.
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Gas prices rise locally over concerns in the Middle East
At 8 p.m. Wednesday there was a line to get into the Speedway on West 150th in Cleveland. And why not? They were selling gas at $3.02 a gallon, while many nearby stations were already up to $3.29.
Sad part is that it may not be long until $3.29 is what has them lined up.
"We could be talking $5 a gallon," oil Industry analyst Phil Flynn told newsnet5.com.
For the first time since October of 2008, oil prices hit $100 a barrel Wednesday before retreating to $98. "I'm very happy it didn't continue to go to $102 to be honest with you," said Flynn.
"This is a very serious situation. What's happening in the Middle East is historic. It could potentially be the biggest thing that happens to oil prices in our lifetime."
What direction oil prices go, Flynn says, depends on if the growing unrest seen in Tunisia, Egypt and now Libya moves any further.
"We really don't know where this is going," said Flynn. "We know that this is spiking up gasoline prices to record levels for this time of year. If it ends right in Libya and it doesn't spread further, the market will be able to bear it."
Bill Mahnic of Case Western's Weatherhead School of Management says the hike comes at a time economists had hoped tax changes that went into effect last month would have put more money into consumer pockets but it's money that now may be going into our tanks.
"They cut the payroll tax by 2 percent, so everybody's paycheck went up two percent this year. Most economists thought that was going to increase the GDP growth in our economy," he said. "If gas reaches $4, that benefit disappears."
"I don't think we can reach a point where it will throw us back into a recession but we won't get the robust rate of growth that we thought we were going to get," he said.


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We reclined in chairs facing a small pond in the Tuileries Garden in Paris. The early April sun broke through clouds, warming our faces.
Holding hands, eyes closed, we savored the tranquility.
My mind drifted to the previous evening's dinner at Le Reminet, a cozy restaurant in the Latin Quarter nearly a stone's throw from Notre Dame. We arrived early and enjoyed a glass of rose at an outdoor table next door. Sipping the pale Tavel -- a wine A.J. Liebling praised in his memoir of Paris, "Between Meals" -- we watched the late sun against the flying buttresses of the ancient cathedral.
Our meal started with oysters and champagne and included highlights of fish poached in butter and braised veal. Hours later it concluded with elaborate desserts of meringue, sorbet and Florentine cookies. The dinner remains framed in my mind by the velvety Bordeaux from the Haut-Medoc region.
A week in Paris is many things. On the trip I took with my girlfriend in early April, I had a chance to finally see the city that previously had been alive for me only in books and film.
While the history and culture are magnificent -- so strongly embodied in the architecture -- Paris is still a city with crowds, busy streets and packs of tourists. We found in the parks and gardens, large and small, places of momentary solace from what could be an overwhelming pace.
We avoided the metro during our stay.
We stayed at the Hotel Lenox, a small boutique hotel tucked into the narrow Rue de L'Universite. Our room was tiny compared with American hotels, but it was on the top floor and afforded us a dramatic view of the street and rooftops, particularly at night.
Within a block or two were all the conveniences we needed.
Also close by was the Boulevard Saint-Germain -- home to world-famous cafes, such as Les Deux Magots and the Cafe de Flore, from which so many noted intellectuals and writers held court.
On our first evening, we took an outside table at Cafe de Flore, under an awning to keep dry from the rain. A waiter appeared quickly, and we enjoyed a light meal of croque monsieurs -- crunchy pieces of toasted bread smothered with melted Gruyere and slices of ham.
But it was in the the city's gardens that we were able to slow down and savor fresh memories of good food, architecture and the museums we visited.
Paris' open spaces are home to art and beauty, nature and civilization. They also are rich with the turbulent history of the city.
The Tuileries Garden -- the oldest open space in Paris -- gets its name from the early craftsmen who manufactured tiles from the area.
The history of the Tuileries wasn't always peaceful. It also was Catherine, a fanatical Catholic, who is said to have planned the St. Bartholo-mew's Day massacre -- a horrific spasm of religious violence in 1572 that claimed the lives of thousands. Many died on the grounds of the Tuileries.
The gardens also are where Marie Antoinette strolled during her imprisonment following the 1789 French Revolution before she joined thousands to be brought to the guillotine for beheading.
Today, just inside the entrance to the garden at Place de la Concorde, one can find the statue "Le Silence." "A sensual and graceful figure, her dispassionate gaze registers the garden's mortal haunted beauty, it's bloody history buried under the Linden trees," is how Susan Cahill describes it in her book "Hidden Gardens of Paris."
We also came upon the Orangerie, a small museum featuring the work of early Impressionists as well as Spain's Pablo Picasso. I love stories of Picasso's first years in Paris at the turn of the century, so it was a treat to see some of his works from this time as well as work of other modernist painters from that era that make up the museum's collection from the art dealer Paul Guillaume.
The museum's most famous works are Claude Monet's "Water Lilies." Seeing the huge paintings up close -- they cover walls in oval-shaped rooms designed specifically for them -- it's as if you are enveloped by the intimate deep blues, greens and violets.
While the Tuileries, with its exquisitely trimmed trees, gravel walkways and geometric layout, were a study in the need for aristocratic order over nature, the Luxembourg Gardens on the Left Bank near the Latin Quarter seemed fuller and greener.
On the sunny morning I visited the Luxembourg, I found thick rows of chestnut trees, bright orange tulips as well as children kicking a soccer ball and adults in an exercise class.
As I walked along the paths, I recalled that Ernest Hemingway used to cut through the Luxembourg Gardens on his way to Gertrude Stein's salon just to the east on the Rue de Fleurus. It was from the Luxembourg Palace, to the north end of the gardens, that the German SS headquartered during the Occupation. The Nazis' surrender from the palace on Aug. 25, 1944, marked the end of their hold on the City of Light.
In every garden we visited in Paris, we found sculptures.
The most dramatic are in the garden accompanying the Rodin Museum not far from Les Invalides. Among the most impressive of Auguste Rodin's dramatic work is far from the physical perfection embodied in ancient Greek sculpture. It proved startling to his contemporary critics.
After time spent among Rodin masterpieces, such as "The Gates of Hell," the "Thinker" and "The Burghers of Calais," I took a break at a cafe located discreetly off a main path. I drank rich espresso and watched the surrounding trees. It seemed almost as if I'd left the city behind, enclosed in a tree-lined sanctuary. The massive dome of Les Invalides, under which lies Napolean's tomb, and the tip of the Eiffel Tower could be seen rising above.
Not all Paris' gardens are as large or well-known as the Tuileries, Luxembourg or near Rodin's Museum.
By chance, we came upon the tiny Square Gabriel Pierne on a walk not far from our hotel. The square was another oasis from the hectic pace of the city. Blossoms from cherry trees carpeted the ground. The image of the pink blossoms against old gray stone will forever be linked with Paris in my mind -- the ancient and the fleeting together.
Named after a 20th-century composer, the park includes a fountain and gorgeous stone benches shaped as open books. There's also a dark-stone sculpture of a young girl, which collected rain drops and falling petals. One of the days I visited, several old women sat in the square by themselves. They appeared to find contentment in the moment.
Paris also offers the Seine and its famous bridges for those seeking a break from the streets. Known as the mirror to the city, the river's surface can shift from leaden hues to bright sparkles when the sun emerges from clouds. Tour boats frequently ply the waters, and seeing the city from its river was one thing we regretted not doing.
Each bridge -- or "pont" -- has its own history. We enjoyed the Pont Alexandre III -- the most ornate bridge in Paris -- with its nymphs and gilded sculpture honoring a Russian czar. The Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in the city, runs across the western tip of Ile de la Cite. It also offered a view at the tip of Ile de La Cite of the statue of King Henri IV on horseback.
But it seemed to us that the pedestrian bridge the Pont Des Arts is the most popular with lovers. In recent years, couples have attached thousands of locks along the bridge. They bear names and promises of devotion.
There's even a brass one, brought all the way from St. Paul, that was attached just before the two lovers dropped its keys into the deep waters of the Seine, as is the fashion.
David Knutson, the Dakota County and North suburbs team leader, can be reached at 651-228-5447. Following him on Twitter at twitter.com/DavidKnutsonPP.
For more information on Paris and its open spaces, see the following books and blogs:
-- "Hidden Gardens of Paris," by Susan Cahill (St. Martin's Griffin, 2012)
-- "Quiet Corners of Paris," by Jean-Christophe Napias (Little Bookroom, 2007)
-- National Geographic's "Walking Paris: The Best of the City" (2012)
-- Parisianfields.wordpress.com


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Tall and striking, Yeo Yeon Hee's modeling career up to this point is rather conventional. Finished third place in the 2012 Korea's Next Top Model competition, the 5-foot-5 beauty have already graced the pages of VOGUE, ELLE, Dazed & Confused and numerous other fashion publications. However, what makes Ms. Yeo unique in the high fashion circle is her appreciation of men's streetwear, something you don't often see still in Asia. Despite her hectic schedule, we caught up with the up-and-coming supermodel for an impromptu photoshoot recently in Seoul…
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Assistant Professor Ryan Trimm's essay "The Times of Whiteness; or, Race between the Postmodern and the Postcolonial" has now appeared in the anthology Postcolonial Whiteness: A Critical Reader on Race and Empire. The volume is edited by Alfred J. Lopez and published by SUNY.
Janet Hagen (PhD student, lecturer at Three Rivers Community College in CT), Donna Bickford (recent URI English PhD and current lecturer in Women's Studies at URI) and Karen Stein, Director of Womens Studies and Professor of English, will present a panel at the New England Women's Studies Conference, March 4-5, 2005. The panel is titled
"Integrating Activism in Women's Studies," and will be moderated by Anne Foley, Assistant Professor, Education, UMass Dartmouth. The titles of the papers follow: Karen F. Stein, "Activism in the University of Rhode Island's Women's Studies Program"; Donna M. Bickford, "Acts of Dissent in 'Women Writers of the Americas'"; and, Janet Hagen, "Activism in Introduction to Women's Studies."
Catherine Michna, Graduate Student, will be presenting her paper, "Heteroglossias and Urban Space: Bakhtin on Ulysses' 'Wandering Rocks,'" at the Aesthetics and Politics in Postcolonial Studies conference taking place at University College Northampton on April 8 and 9, 2005. This conference is sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Board in the UK, and brings together post-graduate students from Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick and University colleges with international scholars to discuss postcolonialism as a field of research, as well as its changing political or ethical orientations. Catherine's trip will be partially funded by a grant from URI's Research Office.
Graduate Students Jennifer Joyce Kissko, Cathryn Molloy and Bryna Siegel will all be presenting papers at the Stony Brook Graduate Conference in Manhattan, February 25-26 th. Jennifer Kissko will present on, "The 1980's 'New Homeless': A Social Historical Context for Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping"; Cathryn Molloy will present on, "White Teachers in Black Writing Classrooms: The Ongoing Debate and Searching for New Answers," and Bryna Siegel will present on "Requiring Imagination: The Case for Required Creative Writing Courses."
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Two Healdsburg City Council members are not running for re-election, but candidates are emerging to fill their seats.
Both council members Jim Wood and Susan Jones say they will not seek re-election in November, providing an opening for hopefuls vying to succeed them.
Healdsburg Planning Commissioner Jeff Civian and winery owner Tim Meinken have announced their intent to run.
There's still plenty of time for other candidates to emerge, since the official filing period begins July 14 and closes Aug. 13.
The two candidates offer voters a distinct choice, expressing divergent views on growth and the direction of the city.
"I think the City Council has done a great job of trying to balance the needs of locals and visitors," said Civian, a retired civil engineer. "I think the current council is going in the right direction."
In contrast, Meinken, a former pension and benefits consultant who lost a bid for council in 2012, says a "new sense of leadership is needed on the council."
Meinken has been outspoken on the topic of overhauling pensions, accusing the City Council of taking "a bit of a head-in-the-sand approach" when it comes to the "massively underfunded" city employee pensions.
But he said the "number one issue is slowing down the growth."
"It may be time for the city to take a breather on its breakneck pace of growth," he said in his candidacy kick off statement.


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Brushing Up on Children's Literature Basics: Art of the Picture Book
Location: Online
$250 (Simmons SLIS Alumni Price $200)
February 1 - February 28, 2013 - PDPs: 15
This 4 week session is an overview of picture book authors, titles and series to know for new youth services librarians, those returning to the field after a hiatus, or anyone who would like to increase breadth and depth of knowledge on this topic.
Course goals:
- Learn to evaluate the picture book format in terms of art, writing, and design
- Develop a vocabulary to use when talking about picture books
- Become familiar with awards given for children's picture books
- Become aware of trends in theme, subject, style and format of children's picture books
Student expectations:
- Read 3-5 picture books per week, choosing from a selection of 20 or so widely available titles (some may be available online or as free ebooks through OverDrive). It is expected students have the resources to request copies of books in advance of assignments, or will use their local libraries in a timely manner.
- Keep a reading journal/blog about titles read
- Read articles about children's literature and comment on them though participating in online discussion forums
- Complete a study on 1 author or series, and share with classmates as a final project, contributing symposium style to the course's knowledge-base.
Workload is ~2 hours per week with many optional resources provided. Coursework is asynchronous with optional real time chats provided twice during the course.
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Kim ♥ 2247517922 2 kids; Colorado Springs, CO, United States 26777 postsSep 26th '12
I would file a dispute, for sure!
I'm so sorry you're going through this. :(
A good friend of mine (also a BG mama) makes crochet items. Check her out on fb! http://www.facebook.com/mandies.krafty.kreations?ref=ts
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Quoting *Momlette*:" I guess if she wants to. I waited like a month for some chick that I bought a purse from and never got it. I filed and they gave her 5 days to prove she sent the item or pay me back...."
What if they cant reach her? Will they still give her the money back? That is so scary and frustrating.
Momlette of 3 Due December 25 (girl); 3 kids; Ohio 25635 postsSep 26th '12
Quoting ___RAIDERETTE___:" What if they cant reach her? Will they still give her the money back? That is so scary and frustrating."
I'm pretty sure they still give your money back. Paypal is hooked to a bank account so even if she doesn't get back to paypal paypal has access to her account.
ZombieGeeks. Due July 11; 1 child; Somewhere, IN, United States 9153 postsSep 26th '12
I just emailed her, I'm going to give her a day or two to get in touch with me before I file, but if she doesn't by Friday then I will.
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You should have ordered from me. :lol:
No but seriously file a dispute if you don't here from her within 24 hours.


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Maine Baseball Players Find Success in Summer Play
ORONO, Maine -- University of Maine baseball players Scott Heath (Westbrook, Maine) and Lou Della Fera (Colts Neck, New Jersey) won the 2014 West Coast League Championship on Monday, Aug. 18 with the Bellingham Bells. The Bells defeated Corvallis 3-2 on Monday night at home before 2,821 fans. Bellingham finished the season 37-17.
Heath went 2-for-4 in the championship game, while Della Fera was 1-for-3 with a run scored.
Heath batted .293 this summer for the Bells with 31 runs scored and 33 RBI during the regular season. He had seven doubles to go along with four home runs. In the playoffs, he hit .444 with three runs scored and three RBI. He had two doubles and a triple. He finished third in the league in hitting in the playoffs and tops among players who played in more than two games. Earlier this season, Heath earned a spot on the the West Coast League All-Star team.
Della Fera hit .230 on the season with 19 runs scored and 14 RBI. He had a double and a triple. Della Fera scored four runs in the 2014 playoffs, which tied for second most in the league.
Heath, who was named to the America East First Team as a designated hitter and the America East Second Team as a first baseman, was also a All-New England selection this past season. He started his junior by picking up a victory in Maine's win over #13 Miami. He was also named to the America East All-Tournament Team.
Della Fera hit .286 in 19 games during his rookie season, scoring five runs.
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Aaron began his career at WVII in March of 2008. He attended Old Town High School, where he graduated in 2004. From there he moved on to the New England School of Communications, majoring in Sports Broadcasting and Journalism. Originally a sports radio major, Aaron co-hosted a weekly sports radio show on WHSN called This Week in Sports while also doing play by play and color commentary of Husson Eagle sporting events. He also spent a semester as the stations sports director. After his sophomore year he realized he had run out of radio classes to take, so he began taking TV courses while also working at Stephen King's sports station WZON. Aaron graduated from NESCom in May of 2008 with a degree in communications, and was named the top broadcast journalist of his class. Since joining ABC-7 and Fox Bangor he has won multiple Maine Association of Broadcasting Awards.
In his free time Aaron likes, surprise, to watch sports and play sports. From mountain climbing to basketball, there are very few sports Aaron doesn't enjoy. He also likes traveling when he gets the chance, and is happy he has been able to pursue his passion for sports while staying close to his family. You can follow him on Twitter at @AaronRJackson, and you can catch him weeknights at 6, 10 and 11 on ABC-7 and Fox Bangor. He can also be reached via email at email@example.com.