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- Home & Garden, Outdoor shows move to Euclid - WKYC
- Home & Garden Calendar - Delaware Online
- Denton mental health facility's garden helps patients with stress - Dallas Morning News
- Videos From the Web: Home Videos - San Francisco Chronicle
- Stunning shots of thirsty bats swooping down for a drink from garden ... - Daily Mail
| Home & Garden, Outdoor shows move to Euclid - WKYC Posted: 16 Sep 2009 03:35 PM PDT EUCLID -- One of Cleveland's oldest and most popular traditions, the Home & Garden Show, is moving to a former K-Mart store building in Euclid. So is the Cleveland Sport, Travel, & Outdoor Show. The new location for each show was made public Wednesday, as Euclid officially announced the creation of The Great Lakes Expo Center, the first suburban convention center in Cuyahoga County. The Expo Center is located at 1200 Babbitt Road, in a building that had once been a K-Mart. It is being transformed into a 215,000-square-foot exhibit space which will open with the 67th Annual Cleveland Home and Garden Show in January. "What's going to make it into an Expo Center are all the displays and all the vendors that will come in and locate," said Euclid Mayor Bill Cervenik. "Compared to what it looks like now and what's it's going to be like inside during all those shows, is just amazingly different." The Home & Garden Show moved to Euclid after the I-X Center declined to renew its contract with the show's producer, Expositions, Inc. "They were not invited back because we wanted a higher quality show," I-X Center President Bob Peterson told WKYC. "The quality of their shows had been declining and so had attendance." While the original Home & Garden Show moves to Euclid, a new producer is being brought into the I-X Center to stage a second, new version of the show. It will be known as The Great Big Home & Garden Expo, says Tom Baugh, CEO of Solon-based Marketplace Events. "The need for a really good show, a high quality show that delivers, is greater now than ever before," Baugh told WKYC. "I think what you'll find at the I-X Center is a grander show, something that has complete model homes, brand new garden floor, a whole new look to it." Baugh says the new show at the I-X Center will be held Feb. 5-14, 2009, the dates originally reserved for the original 67th Cleveland Home & Garden Show. In Euclid, Mayor Cervenik predicted success for the incoming shows and for the city's new Great Lakes Expo Center. "If they came to a tank plant," he said, referring to the one-million-square-foot I-X Center's previous life, "there's no reason they wouldn't come to an old K-Mart." Investors in the Expo Center plan to have at least 125 events per year by 2011, and Cervenik thinks there is a large under-served audience on his side of town for them. "I think it's a very good opportunity for those on the East Side to save a little gasoline, and the parking's going to be cheaper here," he said. Expositions Inc., says parking for the Home & Garden Show will be free, on 10 acres in front of the building. The Cleveland Sport, Travel, and Outdoor Show will also be moving to Euclid in March. Reno Reda, host of a popular outdoors radio program, visited the new site Wednesday to evaluate the space for his displays. "This is going to open up a lot of doors to people in Ashtabula, Trumbull, Mahoning, and certainly Geauga and Lake Counties," said Reda, who has had a presence at the show for many years. Representatives from both show producing companies, along with Mayor Cervenik, thought Northeast Ohio could support two home shows and two outdoor shows. Baugh, of Marketplace Events, said until now, Cleveland was perhaps the only city of its size that did not already have two of each show. © 2009 WKYC-TV This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Home & Garden Calendar - Delaware Online Posted: 10 Sep 2009 12:55 AM PDT Autumn's Colors Featuring giant pumpkins, autumn blooms, garden railway and more. 9 a.m.-5 p.m., through Nov. 22. Longwood Gardens, 1001 Longwood Road, near Kennett Square. (610) 388-1000. Free-$16. www.longwoodgardens.org. The Intimate Landscape Workshop Two-day workshop focusing on exploring the intimate spaces of Mt. Cuba. Bring art supplies, lunch and a camera. Reservations required. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Fri. and Sat. Mt. Cuba Center, 3120 Barley Mill Road, Greenville. 239-4244. $45. www.mtcubacenter.org Terrain Sprouts Club 10 a.m. Wed. Terrain at Styer's, 914 Baltimore Pike, Glen Mills. (610) 459-2400. $10 per family. Vegetable Growers Monthly Discussion 11 a.m. Sat. Terrain at Styer's, 914 Baltimore Pike, Glen Mills. (610) 459-2400. Free.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Denton mental health facility's garden helps patients with stress - Dallas Morning News Posted: 16 Sep 2009 01:41 PM PDT At the Denton County Mental Health Mental Retardation facility, "hope" equals "flowers," thanks to the efforts of staff psychiatrist Bharat Patel. "For many people who come here, MHMR is the only hope they have left," Patel says. "If they lose that, they are hopeless. Our garden keeps hope alive." Patel, 57, came from India to Dallas in 1980 as a young man with a wife and a newly earned medical degree. While sharpening his English and preparing for the necessary licensing tests, he began working under a physician's direction at a state psychiatric hospital. "I would always ask the patients how they were doing, how their families were," he recalls. "By nature, I like to help people. But I never thought of practicing psychiatry." His supervising doctor, however, thought of it for him and recommended young Patel apply for training at the University of Pittsburgh. Patel felt some trepidation: "An Easterner in Western culture? How can you be a good psychiatrist?" Not only was Patel accepted into the university, he excelled, becoming chief hospital resident in his final year. He turned down an offer to stay in Pittsburgh in favor of returning to Dallas, where two brothers and their families already had settled. Patel began his new career at an aging Dallas County outpatient facility. "The place was depressing," he remembers. "One day I saw a new patient sitting outside and wished him good morning. 'What's good?' he said, and pointed to a pot with a dead plant in it. "When I was a child in India, I learned gardening from an uncle. My brothers grew veggies, but I always liked flowers. That day I promised that there would be no more dead plants." Calls to garden suppliers brought donations, and staff members agreed to help when he told them, "You don't need a green thumb – just a green heart and mind. "The next time that same patient came back, he cried," Patel says. "I thanked him for his inspiration and the challenge, and gardening became part of my treatment plans." When he joined the Denton facility in 1993, Patel brought rosebushes from his home garden and invited the staff to join him in breaking new ground. Together they transplanted young white crape myrtles already on the property and added pink crape myrtles and a Bradford pear tree; all have grown tall over the years. Coxcomb seeds from India grow well here, too: "Low maintenance, and they last until the first freeze,' says Patel. Patients always admire and comment on the many beautiful flowers, says the psychiatrist, and Saturdays have become family picnic and planting events. Patel continues to bring materials from home or local garden retailers. "I know the best times to shop," he says, "and I bargain." He accepts no money from staffers or outsiders, but spends his own: "I do this for myself. It's good karma." Inside the psychiatric facility, Patel's own nature photographs and videos continue the garden motif, with Indian music playing softly in the background and water plashing gently in a fountain he recently installed, a purchase he made with birthday gift money. "In an Indian temple, all the senses are involved," he says. "People see, touch, smell, hear, taste, and their moods and thinking change. Neurotransmitters put brain chemicals into harmony. This is medication. I'm known as a miser prescriber, because there isn't a pill for every problem. I work with my patients on this. Gardening that beautifies our Mother Earth rewards with the physical activity and mental relaxation that make people feel better." At his Carrollton home, Patel has created a backyard arbor in which Buddha sits under an arch of trumpet vines and roses – flowers he also has propagated to grow in Denton. There is a grassy expanse where Lord Krishna rests near a statue of a boy and girl, their heads bent over one book. "It gives me pleasure to see my children reading in my garden," he says with a smile. The Patels' son is now a California businessman, and their daughter is a pediatric nurse in a hospital near the family's residence. Of the Denton MHMR garden, Patel says, "I believe we're giving our patients hope. It uplifts mood and spirit, and when they know we're doing this for them, it has more significance. "One mentally retarded patient would never leave his mother when she brought him to the clinic. But one day, he walked away from her. He went outside – to look at the flowers."
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| Videos From the Web: Home Videos - San Francisco Chronicle Posted: 09 Sep 2009 11:36 PM PDT http://www.aliejames.com/profile If you love HGTV, watch this! DIY Home and Garden Tips & Ideas to help you Design, Decorate & Furnish your Home - naturally & intuitively. Learn how to Personalize your Decorating Style, Save Money on your Bedroom & Living Room Makeovers, and how to get Free Interior Design service. Introducing Alie James - Design Consultant and Author.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Stunning shots of thirsty bats swooping down for a drink from garden ... - Daily Mail Posted: 16 Sep 2009 03:14 PM PDT By Daily Mail Reporter Swooping low over a garden pond in Surrey, these are the stunning pictures of bats enjoying an evening drink at their favourite watering hole. They are so detailed you can even see the night creatures slurping from the pool with their little pink tongues. The amazing shots were taken after months of painstaking planning by wildlife photographer Kim Taylor.  The amazing shots were taken after months of painstaking planning by Kim Taylor. This is thought to be a brown long-eared bat  Kim Taylor shows off his equipment that he used to get his detailed images After noticing the beautiful bats flying close to his garden pond at night Kim began wondering how he could capture the moment they drank from the pool. Travelling at 20mph, with wing beats not visible to the human eye and flying mostly at night the bats are notoriously difficult to photograph.
They are also no bigger than a human hand and weigh less than half an ounce. Kim, 76, rigged ropes across the pond which encouraged the bats to drink from a certain point. Then, using special sensors designed by himself, he managed to get the perfect shots.  This Daubeton bat swooped over the pond in Guildford at 20MPH He said: 'I think not one in a million people has ever seen this happen but it happens every night during the summer months all over the country. 'These photos were taken with a digital camera using a device that listens for the ultrasonic squeaks. 'An infrared beam was then set to trigger flash lamps whenever a bat dipped down to scoop up a mouthful of water. Kim's subjects are believed to be a Brown long-eared and a Daubentons bat which have made their homes in his garden near Guildford, Surrey. 'In all my time working as a wildlife photographer I don't think anyone has ever tried to do this like this, I am very pleased with the results. 'It took weeks and a lot of patience to set up but the results are breathtaking.'  The photographs even captured this brown long-eared bat's reflection Except for the camera itself, Kim designed and built all the equipment to achieve the amazing shots. To generate enough flash to capture the shot Kim needed an incredible 3,500 volts. She said: 'Our experts have never seen anything like these shots before, to capture these bats in flight so clearly is amazing.' Share this article: This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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Fantastic pictures Mr Taylor. Very well done indeed. I have tried to photograph bats over many years and really know how difficult it is and to get pictures like you have obtained, is simple wonderful. Again congratulations and thank you for sharing them with us all.
- Michael Birt, Banglamung, Thailand, 17/9/2009 00:37
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