| Cultivating a New Generation of Gardeners
In Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder, Richard Louv explains that as fewer children have access to natural places, they are forgetting how to play and to use their imaginations, and have little or no appreciation for natureor worse, they fear it. To develop fully a child needs time and a natural place to explore, build things, dig, run, jump and climb. If you cant bring kids to the garden, bring the garden to the kids! The National Gardening Association (NGA) has an Adopt a School Garden program, which allows individuals, organizations and corporations to make donations toward the purchase of garden supplies, curricula and gardening expertise. Also, some botanical gardens cultivate childrens gardens. For instance, children from the Evergreen, Colorado community are involved in all aspects of greenhouse gardening in a 500 square-foot-solar greenhouse designed and constructed specifically for Global Childrens Gardens.
The Astral Voyage to Sublime Finfinne
I still remember that strange, mid-September evening last year, when I was left alone with my thoughts on the Mediterranean shore not far from the Niles western estuary. There was a cosmic calmness around me, while I was admiring the water volumes entering the Mediterranean embrace. Hours and stars were interwoven in that loneliness that could either lift me high or deepen my vision. At a certain moment, long after the sun was set and the night drew on, turning to the place where a small island was located, I clearly saw far in the south the great flames that were devouring every being. As the fire could without impediment be seen afar off, I took courage in the darkness, and standing on the edge of the embankment, I perceived the whole island to be on fire. I suddenly realized the tragic affair, as through the flames the appearance of a Great Lady came forth to me in most enthralling whirling movements.
Ameritas Group to begin offering insurance coverage of laser ...
LINCOLN, Neb. Ameritas Group, a division of Ameritas Life Insurance Corp., will begin offering its policyholders an optional benefit covering laser vision correction, the company announced in a press release. The new benefit, called LASIK Advantage, will be available to customers beginning June 1, according to the release. LASIK Advantage will be available with almost all Ameritas Group dental plans within the entire spectrum of funding, from fully insured to self-insured. Customers will have several coverage option to choose from, with benefit amounts automatically increasing the longer a person is enrolled in the plan, the release said. The optional coverage will cover various types of LASIK procedures and PRK procedures.
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Ideology blamed for rebuff of private surgery plan
For the third day in a row, the Ontario government was put on the hot seat and was asked to explain why it dismissed a proposal to do knee replacement operations at a private hospital -- even though it would have saved taxpayers more than $1.6-million. .
Critics slam federal government's wait-time guarantees deal with ...
VANCOUVER (CP) - The federal government's medical wait-times guarantee agreement with the provinces and territories is a "meaningless" watered-down version of what the Tories promised before they were elected, health critics said Thursday. "It's a cynical gimmick," said Mike McBane, spokesman for the Canadian Health Coalition. He said Prime Minister Stephen Harper's wait-list guarantee is "meaningless and voters should see through it" because the root causes of long waiting lists for treatment haven't been addressed. Under an agreement announced with provinces and territories last week, each jurisdiction has promised to slash wait times by 2010 - but only in one key treatment area. On Thursday, federal Health Minister Tony Clement told a news conference that wait-time guarantees focusing on one treatment area in each jurisdiction will allow provinces to network and share knowledge to strengthen the country's medical system.
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