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Comanche Kiowa Caddo Wichita | Texas | ||||||
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unknown | John Parker | ||||||
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100-600 | ~15 militia | ||||||
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none | 5 killed, 5 captured | ||||||
Fort Parker Massacre | |||||||
Part of the Indian Wars | |||||||
Fort Parker | |||||||
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Comanche Kiowa Caddo Wichita | Texas | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
unknown | John Parker | ||||||
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100-600 | ~15 militia | ||||||
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The Fort Parker massacre was an event in May 1836 in which members of the pioneer Parker family were killed in a raid by Native Americans.[1] In this raid, a 9-year old girl, Cynthia Ann Parker, was captured and spent most of the rest of her life with the Comanche, marrying a Chief, Peta Nocona, and giving birth to a son, Quanah Parker, who would become the last Chief of the Comanches. Her brother, John Richard Parker, who was also captured, was ransomed back after six years, but unable to adapt to white society, ran back to the Comanches.
Fort Parker was established about two miles (3 km) west of present-day Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas, USA by Elder John Parker (1758–1836), his sons, Benjamin, Silas and James, plus other members of the Pilgrim Predestinarian Baptist Church of Crawford County, Illinois. Led by John and Daniel Parker, they came to Texas in 1833.[2] Daniel's party first settled in Grimes County, then later moved to Anderson County near present-day Elkhart and established Pilgrim Church. Elder John Parker's group settled near the headwaters of the Navasota River, and built a fort for protection against Native Americans. It was completed in March 1834. Fort Parker's 12 foot (4 m) high log walls enclosed four acres (16,000 m²). Blockhouses were placed on two corners for lookouts, and six cabins were attached to the inside walls. The fort had two entrances, a large double gate facing south, and a small gate for easy access to the spring.[3] Most of the residents of the fort were part of the extended family of John and Sarah Parker.
Soon the settlers were making their homes and farming the land. Several had built cabins on their farms, and used the fort for protection. Peace treaties were made with surrounding Native American chiefs. Perhaps the Fort Parker inhabitants expected that other tribes would honor the treaties as well. The Fort Parker inhabitants had also allowed a Texas Ranger company to use the Fort, perhaps not understanding that many Native Americans regarded the Rangers with hatred for their Indian fighting.
On May 19, 1836, a large party of Native Americans, including Comanches, Kiowas, Caddos, and Wichitas,[4] attacked the inhabitants of Fort Parker. In her memoir, Rachel Plummer wrote that "one minute the fields (in front of the fort) were clear, and the next moment, more indians than I dreamed possible were in front of the fort."[5]
One of the Indians approached the fort with a white flag. No one believed the flag was genuine. Silas Parker wanted the five men present to man the walls and fight as best they could. Benjamin Parker felt that by going out he could buy time for the majority of the women and children to flee out the back (small) gate. He felt that there was simply no way that five men would be able to hold the Indians out more than a second or two, as they could use ropes to scale the walls. He felt that the war party would then kill everyone in the fort, and the unsuspecting men in the fields. He argued with Silas that they had to barter their lives for time for everyone else.[5] Their father agreed with Benjamin.[5]
Benjamin knew he was going to be killed. According to Rachel Plummer's account, Benjamin returned to the fort, after his first talk with the war party, and told his brother and father that he believed they would all be killed, and that they should run swiftly to the woods. Silas again argued with him, telling him they should push the big gate shut, and man the walls. Ben pointed out, rightly, Rachel said, that there was no time, and their "course was decided." He told her, "run little Rachel, for your life and your unborn child, run now and fast!" She said he then straightened up and went back outside.[5] She recounted how Silas told her to watch the front gate, after Benjamin had gone out to talk to the Indians the second time, when she herself wanted to flee, while he ran for his musket and powder pouch.[5] "They will kill Benjamin," she reported her Uncle Silas saying, "and then me, but I will do for at least one of them, by God." At that moment, she said she heard whooping outside the fort, and then Indians were inside.[5]
The 3–5 minutes bought enough time that the majority of the women and children did get away. Rachel Plummer, who was pregnant, was afraid she would not be able to keep up while carrying her two year old son, and so she stayed in the fort.[5] She began running after seeing the Indians come into the fort, holding her little boy's hand, while behind her she said she saw Indians stabbing Benjamin with their lances, and then she heard "Uncle Silas shout defiance as though he had a thousand men with him. Alas, he was alone, and soon dead."[5] Lucy Parker, who also had a small child, stopped to argue with her husband Silas, begging him to come with her.[5] Elizabeth Duty Kellogg stopped to gather up their savings, $100 in coins, before she attempted to escape.
Benjamin Parker was killed, and before the fort's gates could be closed, the raiders rushed inside. Silas Parker, who was outside with his brother, was killed before he was able to get back inside the gate. Samuel Frost and his son Robert were killed inside the gate, as they attempted to flee. John Parker's genitals were cut off and he was then scalped. His wife came out of the woods when she saw his torture and was captured.[5] Lucy Parker and her youngest two children were initially captured but were rescued by Luther Plummer as he ran up to the fort from the fields. Her two oldest children, however, along with Luther's wife (Rachel) and son, and Elizabeth Kellogg were successfully kidnapped.
In all, five men were killed, some were left for dead, two women and three children were captured, and the rest escaped into the wilderness.
Note: Killed were Samuel Frost, Robert Frost, Benjamin Parker, John Parker, and Silas Parker. Captured were Elizabeth Kellogg, Cynthia Ann Parker, John R. Parker, Rachel Plummer, and James Pratt Plummer; all of them were later ransomed or freed. Their captivity took several years, except Mrs. Kellogg, who was ransomed within 3 months.
One of the captives was a nine-year-old girl, Cynthia Ann Parker, daughter of Silas and Lucinda (Duty) Parker. Cynthia Ann lived with the Comanches for nearly 25 years. She married Comanche chief Peta Nocona and was the mother of three children, including Quanah Parker. In 1860, she was among a Native American party captured by Texas Rangers at the Battle of Pease River. Ironically, Cynthia Parker was the victim of two massacres which destroyed her life. The first, the attack on Fort Parker in 1836, killed her father and left her among the Comanche for nearly 25 years. The second, a massacre of the Comanche Band of her husband, the Noconis, at the Battle of Pease River left her a prisoner among the whites. She was identified by her uncle, Isaac Parker, and returned to her family. Cynthia Ann never readjusted to the Anglo society, and died at the age of 43 in 1870 after starving herself to death after her daughter, Prairie Flower, had caught influenza and died from pneumonia. She was originally buried with her daughter in Fosterville Cemetery in Anderson County near Frankston, but her son, Quanah, had her re-interred, and reburied next to him at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Cynthia Ann's brother John Richard Parker was ransomed back in 1842 along with his cousin, James Pratt Plummer. He was unable to adapt to white society and ran back to the Comanche. He later was left to die after he contracted smallpox during a Comanche raid into Mexico. The war party left a captive Mexican girl to care for him, and he restored her to her family after recovering, and spent the remainder of his life in Old Mexico after marrying her. During the American Civil War, he served in a Mexican Company within the Confederate Army. He later lived as stockman and rancher in Mexico, where he died in 1915.[6]
Rachel Plummer, the 17 year old wife of Luther Plummer, daughter of James Parker, and cousin to Cynthia Parker and her brother John, was held captive by the Comanche for two years before being ransomed by her father. Her book on her captivity, Rachael Plummer's Narrative of Twenty One Months Servitude as a Prisoner Among the Comanchee Indians, was issued in Houston in 1838. This was the first narrative about a captive of Texas Indians published in the Republic of Texas, and it was a sensation not just there, but throughout the United States and even abroad. Rachel died in 1840, in childbirth, a year after being ransomed.
James Pratt, son of Rachel Plummer, was separated from his mother (who never knew about his further fate) and was soon given away to another Comanche band. Late in 1842 he was ransomed and in 1843 reunited with his grandfather James W. Parker. Parker refused to return his grandson to his father, claiming that Luther Plummer had not even paid his ransom. Even when the latter appealed successfully to the Governor of Texas, Parker refused to return his grandson. Luther Plummer, meanwhile remarried and father of another child, did then not pursue the matter. James Pratt Plummer married twice and had four children. He died of pneumonia while serving with the Confederate Army in 1862.[7]
A NON-REVISED HISTORY UPDATE ABOUT THE REVEREND JAMES PARKER: Former Dallas Morning News columnist Frank X. Tolbert in his book "An Informal History of Texas" and in the chapter "Was Uncle James (Parker) The Villain" had an entirely different take on Reverend Parker. In fact, in that chapter Sam Houston communicated to Luther Plummer in a letter that "Reverend Parker had quite a bad reputation with most all he ever had business dealings." Sam Houston did not trust the judgement of Parker and could not believe that he would not return James Pratt Plummer to his natural father.. "An Informal History of Texas" published,1961, Harper,New York
In late May 1836, Elizabeth Kellogg was taken by a band of Kichai Indians, which she took for "Kitchawas". In summer, Delaware Indians purchased Mrs. Kellogg and sold her to her brother-in-law James W. Parker in August 1836 for 150 Dollars (the money was sent by Sam Houston). She was reunited with her sister Martha "Patsey" Duty on September 6, 1836.[8]
James W. Parker, who was working in the fields when the raid began, spent much of the rest of his life, and most of his fortune, searching for his daughter Rachel, his grandson James, his niece Cynthia, and his nephew John Richard. After many near-death escapes, he finally settled with his family. John Wayne's character Ethan Edwards, in the John Ford Western The Searchers, was modeled by author Alan Le May after Parker and others affected by child abductions.[9]
A NON-REVISED HISTORY UPDATE ABOUT THE REVEREND JAMES PARKER: Former Dallas Morning News columnist Frank X. Tolbert in his book "An Informal History of Texas" and in the chapter "Was Uncle James (Parker) The Villain" had an entirely different take on Reverend Parker. In fact, in that chapter Sam Houston communicated to Luther Plummer in a letter that "Reverend Parker had quite a bad reputation with most all he ever had business dealings." Sam Houston did not trust the judgement of Parker and could not believe that he would not return Jame Pratt Plummer to his natural father.. "An Informal History of Texas" published,1961, Harper,New York
Quanah Parker, son of Cynthia Ann Parker, became a leader among the Quahadi Comanches. After most of the Comanches and other tribes on the Staked Plains were defeated, Parker and his group surrendered to authorities and were forced to an Indian reservation in Oklahoma territory. The Quahadis were the very last tribe left on the Staked Plains. Quanah Parker was made chief of all the Comanche tribes on the reservation. Shortly before his own death in 1911, he arranged for the disinterment of his mother and sister and had them reburied in a plot next to his own at the Post Oak Cemetery near Cache, Oklahoma. Congress passed a special allotment to fund the reburial.[5] The three were moved in 1957 to the Fort Sill military cemetery in Oklahoma.


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Sickle Cell Disorder is a global health problem with psychosocial implications. Nigeria has the largest population of people with sickle cell disorder, with about 150,000 births annually. This study explored the psychosocial impact of sickle cell disorder in 408 adolescents and adults attending three hospitals in Lagos, Nigeria. A questionnaire was designed for the study, with some of commonly described areas of psychosocial impact including general public perceptions and attitudes, education, employment, and healthcare issues, and emotional responses.
The majority of participants thought that society in general had a negative image of SCD, and reported negative perceptions and attitudes. Some issues in education, employment, and healthcare were expressed, however these were in the minority of cases. The results also showed that depressive feelings were experienced in almost half the study population, even though feelings of anxiety or self-hate were uncommon. Clinical implications of these findings are considered.
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Services or part of a service may also be provided on behalf of a dentist or dental specialist by another dental practitioner. These services may be provided by dental hygienists, dental therapists, oral health therapists and dental prosthetists.
- The CDBS provides eligible children with benefits for basic dental services, capped at $1,000 over two consecutive calendar years. A child is eligible for the CDBS if he or she is aged between 2–17 years for at least one day of the calendar year and
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- Before starting a consultation, you should check your patient's CDBS eligibility and balance. You can do this through Health Professional Online Services (HPOS) or by calling 132 150. When calling, you will need to enter your 6 digit provider number. If required, please insert zeros at the beginning to make up a total of 6 digits. To access HPOS you need a valid Medicare Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificate. Find out more about HPOS.
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The audio quality is very good. We tested 5 of the top selling hands free devices on the market and this one provided the best audio performance for both users.
Most importantly our hands free device has an integrated function that automatically pulls the contacts from your mobile phone via Bluetooth and converts them to voice tags, even if the phone itself does not support voice tagging. From a safety aspect, this is the most important feature. It allows you to make and receive calls without having to touch your phone or take your eyes off the road.
If you have an iPhone, this solves one of the biggest complaints of iPhone users - no voice dialing! Most other phones with voice dialing still require you to look at the phone and press a series of buttons to initiate the voice dialing mode, but that is not necessary with our hands free device.
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When you enter your vehicle, simply press the red button for 2 seconds to turn the device on. Each time it's turned on, it automatically re-syncs and updates your contacts so it's always up to date. Re- synching takes 5-30 seconds depending on how many contacts you have. If you've been away from your car for 30 minutes or less, the device will re-connect automatically.
Press the green button to initiate voice dialing, the unit will ask " Who do you want to call?" and you simply speak the persons name as it is entered into your contacts and the device will make the association and make the call.
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To redial the last number called - Press and hold the green button for 2 seconds.
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To accept a second incoming call while in a conversation, simply press the green button to toggle between calls. To end one of the calls, press the red button.
To reject an incoming call, press the red button.
Battery life is approximately 10 hours of continuous talk or 20 days in standby mode.
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S2 Games (www.s2games.com) is the independent game company that made a huge splash in the summer of 2003 with the release of Savage: The Battle for Newerth. It wasn't the graphics or the engine that particularly made this game notable. It was the merging of two distinct genres—real-time strategy games, such as Warcraft, with first-person shooters, such as Quake—into what S2 Games calls a "real-time strategy shooter". This is not a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG), but instead it is run like a team-based first-person shooter, where a group runs its own server instance, and then all of the players join that instance.
In some ways, it's easier to talk about the Savage games in terms of other games with which you may be more familiar. There is a thorough breakdown of the game's general rhythm available at savage2.s2games.com/gp_overview.php, so I won't repeat that here. First, Savage is nothing new with having two teams (the humans versus the "beasts") trying to destroy each other on a dedicated server. It's also not new to have the option of playing combat characters or support characters. For example, Tribes allows you to take on the role of a repair engineer to keep the equipment in repair. However, in Tribes and most other first-person shooter games, all of the characters spawn as fairly identical units—it's the equipment that allows for specialization. Some, such as the Team Fortress mod for Quake, did allow people to select a character class, such as engineer, that remains throughout the game.
In the Savage games, one player takes on the role of the Commander, and then there are three additional classes: builder/conjurer, scout/shape shifter and savage/summoner. (The name of your class depends on which side you have taken in the battle.) Other first-person shooters that allow creation of Commanders have used them only for strategic purposes, such as coordinating the action players. Building, however, is new to first-person shooters, which brings in a feature from the real-time strategy side.
Another difference is that one phase of the game involves sending your action players out to hunt NPCs for both experience and gold, much as you would in an MMORPG. Typically, there are no NPCs in such team-oriented first-person shooter games. While the players hunt, the Commander researches technology and builds weapons, siege engines and more, which is another real-time strategy and MMORPG-style feature. Through the remaining early phases of the game, things continue to work in a real-time strategy mode as costs for building upkeep come into play. So, gold mines and more need to be owned and maintained to help keep everything in good shape.
Although first-person shooters are almost entirely modern day or science fiction, the Savage games are held in a fantasy setting. In many team-oriented first-person shooters, to gain access to more powerful equipment, groups often need to complete some kind of task, such as capturing a certain number of flags or destroying something valuable to the enemy, such as its generator. In Savage games, you have to create possessed/Hellbourne pits in order to gain certain powerful fighters. Once this goal is achieved, along with some others, the actual combat between the two teams commences. Soon after this point, the Commander switches from building and researching to tactical command, directing the forces. Both siege and battle units are important for winning. Perhaps the closest parallel to this type of play is the Battlegrounds in World of Warcraft.
With this level of complexity, the Savage games go far beyond merely "shooting each other dead".
In the Linux world, S2 Games made another splash as well by offering not only a server for Linux users, but also a native client. At the time, it seemed a no-brainer for the company, because its Silverback game engine is written for OpenGL (www.opengl.org), the cross-platform graphics standard typically used by those who want to develop for more than one operating system simultaneously. An advantage of hosting its servers on Linux is that the operating system has so much less overhead than Windows that it is possible to host multiple server instances on the same Linux machine without losing performance. This is not the case with Windows.
The Linux community responded with enthusiasm, accounting for approximately 15% (7,500 units) of the sales for Savage: The Battle for Newerth according to Mark DeForest, lead designer and cofounder of S2 Games. Due to the strong Linux community support and the fact that S2 Games' collective personalities find a kinship with some of the Linux community's attitudes, when it came time to build Savage 2: A Tortured Soul, the company wanted to continue providing a Linux client. However, the decision was made to use DirectX for the next engine, K2, because DirectX is still easier for programmers to work with, and there is far more middleware (software that game developers can purchase instead of having to write every tiny piece themselves) available for DirectX than for OpenGL. DirectX is also easier to tie into Microsoft Windows and the related APIs (programming interfaces allowing programs to talk to one another).
Rather than abandoning Linux, S2 Games decided to go ahead and make an OpenGL version of Savage 2 as well. As S2 Games wanted to make a lower-end renderer for those who have older video cards, the company folded this functionality into the OpenGL engine as well. Doing so means that both Linux and Windows users have the option of playing in both high-end and low-end graphics settings, keeping those with lower-end hardware able to play the game. Ultimately, including support for Linux adds more expense, frustration in terms of getting things working, project management and support efforts and costs, which makes the fact that none of the S2 Games staff are actually Linux users particularly interesting.
If Savage 1 broke ground and created a new genre, Savage 2 refines it. DeForest says that the game-play mechanics will not change. There will be new role-playing game (RPG) elements added, but otherwise, most differences are going to be a matter of polish. Savage 2 will simply "look and feel better", as the company takes the game to the next level. For Savage 1, S2 Games didn't have time to polish the product fully. This time, the developers promised themselves that Savage 2 truly would be a step above, rather than resting on their laurels, as no one else has seriously entered the genre they created. If you look at the pictures from both games, you will see just how far they have come (see Figures 1 and 2 to compare). Many more images are available on the S2 Games site.
Beta testing for Savage 2: A Tortured Soul begins July 31, 2006 for both Windows and Linux, and the game is scheduled for release in November 2006, as of this writing. This game is available for pre-order on-line, for those who are interested, and the Linux client launches at the same time as the Windows client.
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Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day… Learning games. I've been posting annual lists of the The Best Online Learning Games for a number of years.
I thought it would be useful for readers, my students, and me to review them all and identify my choices for the "all-time" best ones. I've begun creating a number of these "All-Time" Best list, with The "All-Time" Best Ways To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly being the first ; The "All-Time" Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education second; and The "All-Time" Best Videos For Educators third.
Look for quite a few more "All-Time" Best lists over the next couple of months. There are over 1,200 Best lists now that are categorized and updated regularly. You can see them all here. Kdlong. Dropcanvas - instant drag and drop sharing. Super Teacher Tools. Speed Match Our Speed Match Review Game tool is the newest review game to be added to the site.
Players must drag and drop answers onto the correct question to clear the board. Questions always appear in a different order. You can even download the Speed Match Flash Player file to use games that you have created offline without an Internet connection! Evernote – an attempt at the definitive summary of teacher uses! Well it's been just over 2 years since I tentatively pulled out my iPhone in class and trialled using the app 'Evernote' for the first time.
If it wasn't love at first use, it sure was close. Since then I've blogged about it, talked at numerous conferences about it, posted hundreds of tweets declaring my love for it, and watched countless other teachers who I've introduced Evernote to blog about it, tell others about it etc etc. There are many great blog posts about Evernote by teachers that explain ways that they use it (Miss Spink On Tech is a particular standout), but I've never quite found everything all in the one post. So this is it. I'm putting the effort in here because I honestly believe its the most powerful assessment tool that's ever been made so freely available to teachers. Google Launches New Search Education Site with Lesson Plans. Google has launched a new site called Search Education aimed at educators who want to teach online search strategies.
The site includes lesson plans geared at different levels of expertise — beginner, intermediate and advanced– as well as training videos that walk through different strategies for subjects like using Creative Commons and Google maps. The lessons cover the following topics: Picking the right search termsUnderstanding search resultsSearching for evidence for research tasksNarrowing a search to get the best resultsEvaluating the credibility of sources. Search Education – Google. DigitalTeachingTools. The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators.
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Along with some of my fellow community members, I was grieved to hear that two more historic buildings were going to be demolished in order to create new businesses and jobs for Eminence. However, what saddens and perplexes me even more is that there have been many more that have fallen long before we arrived 17 years ago. Their memories remain in beautiful portraits that reside in City Hall.
Although several major issues are still pending, the General Assembly wrapped up much of its work early last week, and for a "short" legislative session, there is already a fairly long list of key bills that have made it to Governor Beshear's desk.
The stairs were removed from the inside wall of the KOI building on Main Street and laid out in the parking lot last week on their way to their new home in the new Browning's building. I spent all one night cleaning off the loft we were going to use the steps on, only to find them gone. I have reported them to the police as stolen, however we have considered the possibility someone picked them up from outside the building thinking we were discarding them. If so, please bring them back. They are not yours. All will be forgiven!
I want to thank Allison Lundergan Grimes for standing up for Kentucky's military. Our military members make tremendous sacrifices to protect our rights and they deserve our best efforts to preserve their right to vote. It's refreshing to see an elected official making that effort. I hope members of the General Assembly will join Secretary Grimes in standing up for the military and pass Senate Bill 1 as it was originally filed.
Commissioner Diane Perry and I Commissioner Shawn Mertz would like to invite all interested citizens, business owners, church leaders, and any other interested parties to the next Pleasureville city Commission meeting to discuss future economic development and city growth. Henry County Judge Executive John Logan Brent, Magistrate Jerry Beasley, Shelby County Judge Executive Rob Rothenburger, Magistrate Bill Hedges will be present for the meeting.
Prior to the mid-1970s, Kentucky's judiciary looked nothing as it does today. There were nearly 1,000 courts back then, with many often having overlapping jurisdictions, and there was only one high court to handle all appeals. In a word, it was inefficient.
It isn't trash! Or is it? Would you throw that cigarette butt on your living room floor, on your kitchen floor? Of course not! You'd be sure it wasn't burning, and you'd put it in the trash. After all, a cigarette butt is trash, isn't it? Look at our streets and roadsides. Cigarette butts, tossed carelessly, line our curbs, parking lots and roadsides.
On behalf of my wife and family, I'd like to thank all of you who have been supporting us with prayers and help during my battle with cancer. Since my August diagnosis, we have been blessed with hundreds of cards, letters, prayer supports from churches, organizations and individuals, and tremendous outpourings of friendship from the county and beyond! It has been nothing short of amazing, and we are very indebted to you all!
No extensions, no exceptions
For the sake of argument with times being tight for a lot of people still struggling to make ends meet, why is Eminence Water Works doing this? If most of us customers are not paying our bills on time, I could understand some restrictions, but if that's not the case then I would like for them to explain the reasons for this.
Start hording your scissors because the government is coming after them!
A headline on WAVE3.com states that scissors were used in an attack on a man.
Okay, this may be silly and I do not wish to make light of the recent shooting tragedies in our country. My heart goes out to all those who suffered loss especially of their children.
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In what continues to unfold as the greatest heist in U.S. history that hasn't been exaggerated by a Hollywood filmmaker, Glen Davis has been shelved by the Orlando Magic for two games. (Orlando Sentinel)
The Orlando Magic have suspended Glen Davis for tonight's game against the Cleveland Cavaliers and Saturday's game against the Indiana Pacers because of what team officials are labeling "conduct detrimental to the team."
Davis had an outburst during the team's shootaround this morning at Amway Center.
"I heard there was an incident and I've yet to talk to the club about it," said John Hamilton, Davis' agent.
If pantsing yourself on an NBA basketball floor during an official NBA regular-season basketball game isn't enough to warrant a suspension, then I can only imagine what Big Baby did at practice to get under Stan Van Gundy's skin. Maybe there was a disagreement and Baby stripped completely naked and ran laps around the practice facility. There's a mental image for you to carry around.
While Glen Davis is using his opportunity to be Glen Davis and get suspended in Orlando, Brandon Bass has been a model citizen, a team player and the most productive player off the bench in Boston. Bass' ability to hit the mid-range jumper consistently has given the Celtics an effective scoring weapon when one of the starting bigs needs a rest and has effectively taken over Baby's role as the fifth player on the floor to close out games. He's only been everything that the Celtics have wanted and needed and all they had to do to get him was dangle an immature, inconsistent, undersized power forward out there.
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Teachers' Aides OK New Contract
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After years of bargaining, assistant teachers earned their first pay raises since 2009—and fought back against a proposed 8-hour workday.
The assistant teachers, known as araprofessionals, "overwhelmingly" approved a labor contract in a secret ballot vote Thursday at Metropolitan Business School, according to union President Claudine Wilkins-Chambers.
Her union, AFSCME Council 4 Local 3429, represents some 360 to 375 teacher's aides in New Haven public schools and Head Start pre-kindergarten classrooms. The union had been negotiating for years; the last contract expired July 1, 2010.
The new, five-year contract now passes to the school board and Board of Aldermen for final approval. It includes paying higher health care premiums; giving up longevity payments for newer employees; and receiving 7.5 percent wage increases over five years. It does not include a plank the city had pushed for—extending the workday from six-and-a-half to eight hours.
Wilkins-Chambers greeted union members in Metro's cafeteria Thursday. She said she doesn't consider the deal "a good contract," but "we didn't lose anything."
"Based on the economy, it's the best that we could have gotten," she said.
For one assistant teacher bogged down with student loans, the contract would represent her first-ever raise since she started working for the school system in 2009. The teacher's aide (not pictured), who declined to give her name, makes just shy of $19,000 a year for the 9-month, 36-hour-a-week position. A single mom, she's paying off loans from her bachelor's and master's degrees.
"I need my raise," she said. She said she reluctantly voted for the contract.
"Am I happy?" she asked rhetorically. Not quite. "If the times weren't like they were, I would've voted 'no'." But "you have to sometimes make concessions."
The union is the third in a series to agree to similar concessions in health care. The pattern began with custodians, whose fate was determined by binding arbitration in 2011. The city clerical union followed suit with a negotiated deal in July.
Like clerical workers and custodians, paraprofessionals will have to enroll in one of four new health care plans, one of which is a high-deductible plan. If they want to keep their current level of benefits, they'll have to pay higher premiums.
The city has been seeking similar concessions with the rest of its unions. Five unions are currently in contract talks: city managers, police, food service, parks, and the trades. The city stopped negotiating with the public works and fire unions because both sides reached an impasse, according to mayoral Chief of Staff Sean Matteson; those contracts have gone to binding arbitration. Teachers and administrators unions' contracts don't expire until 2014; those unions are set to begin negotiations in the summer.
Wilkins-Chambers said one of her union's top priorities was wage raises. Paraprofessionals, who make between $18,000 and $24,000 per year, haven't had a raise since July 1, 2009. According to the tentative deal, paraprofessionals would not get retroactive raises. Starting from the date the Board of Aldermen approves the contract, they would get: 3 percent raises for the rest of this fiscal year; a 2 percent raise on July 1, 2013; and a 2.5 percent raise on July 1, 2014. That amounts to 7.5 percent over 5 years.
Workers would not advance any "steps" in pay grade on top of the raises. Those steps have been frozen for years, Wilkins-Chambers said.
Like the city clerical workers, paraprofessionals would give up longevity payments for newer employees. Currently, assistant teachers get a modest annual bonus if they stick around: $325 after five years on the job; $500 after 10 years; $525 after 15; and $575 after 20. The proposed contract eliminates that perk for new workers and those with fewer than five years' seniority.
"If you haven't put in five years already, you get no longevity," Wilkins-Chambers explained.
The contract would not change any work rules.
Going into negotiations, the school district had sought to extend paraprofessionals' workday from six-and-a-half to eight hours, confirmed schools Chief Operating Officer Will Clark. Some schools have already experimented with a longer day. Teachers agreed to extend their hours in certain cases at turnaround schools, but paraprofessionals have no such clause in their contract, which creates a gap in coverage.
Clark said the idea behind extending paraprofessionals' workday was "to cover the actual school day as it's evolving," so paraprofessionals are there when kids arrive as well as when they go home. Wilkins-Chambers said her union successfully fought back against that change.
Unlike with other unions, pensions were not a factor: Paraprofessionals are not part of the city's defined-benefit pension plan. They pay into a defined-contribution plan.
The school district pays about $9.6 million per year on paraprofessional salaries, according to its budget. A mid-year 3 percent raise would cost the school district roughly another $150,000 this fiscal year.
Wilkins-Chambers said the union was able to hold on to benefits and procure wage raises in a tough economy.
"I don't consider it a good contract," but it's better than the alternative, she said. "We don't want to go to arbitration. Arbitration is never a good way to go."
"Naturally we want more money, but that wasn't happening," said Hilda Holness, a teachers aide at Conte/West Hills and the union treasurer. Holness, who sat on the union's negotiating team, said the contract was worth the wait.
"It was the best that we could possibly come up with," she said.
"We certainly appreciate all the efforts of these workers and appreciate the spirit to which they brought to the negotiations, of being reasonable and professional and doing the discussions at the table," said COO Clark Friday. "Ultimately we were able to find middle ground, and that's what's supposed to happen in a negotiation."
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posted by: Jacques Strap on December 20, 2012 3:57pm
Why is the city always looking for concessions from people who are responsible for the city's most precious commodity? If the city wants to save money, it should start by cutting the fat at 54 Meadow, where assistant superintendents and department heads are making obscene money—and they aren't even in the schools!
posted by: Threefifths on December 20, 2012 5:18pm
Wilkins-Chambers said one of her union's top priorities was wage raises. Paraprofessionals, who make between $18,000 and $24,000 per year, haven't had a raise since July 1, 2009.
Noticed union haters,They have not had a raise since July 1, 2009.Also who can live in New haven on $18,000 and $24,000 per year?
posted by: Curious on December 21, 2012 12:37pm
Threefifths,it's a part-time job. They should be thanking their lucky stars they get ANY benefits for an under-40-hour workweek. Most part-timers have not gotten health care.
posted by: swatty on December 21, 2012 3:36pm
yes. let's see the top heavy #s from 54 meadow street. i'd love to see an article that breaks out who is doing what at 54 meadow street.
posted by: Threefifths on December 21, 2012 5:47pm
posted by: Curious on December 21, 2012 12:37pm
Threefifths,it's a part-time job. They should be thanking their lucky stars they get ANY benefits for an under-40-hour workweek. Most part-timers have not gotten health care.
I am not talking about the benfits.I am talking about them not geting a raise since July 1, 2009.Also those part-timers who have not gotten health care should form a union to fight for them to get health care.
posted by: 1483mmm on December 23, 2012 10:05am
Thank you J-Strap! I know a number of paraprofessionals and have seen them in the classroom. I am amazed at the level of responsibility they are given teaching and managing our children, as well as supporting the lead teachers (many much younger with a lot less classroom experience). What the district pays them for this level of responsibility and service is sinful!
Also important to note that when the district hires new teachers some receive training from other and paras. Paras are good enough to train our hard working and dedicated teachers but not good enough to pay a decent salary?
Regarding part-time and 36 hours…this is A LOT of "part-time" in my opinion - with or without health insurance. Would the district even consider paying them more, as in decent salary and better benefits (i.e. the city's pension plan) if they were working 40 hours a week? I doubt it.
A mid year raise, which ISN'T retroactive is roughly $150k a year for 360 - 375 people working in the New Haven Public School system. Some of our "leaders" at 54 Meadows make $125k or more in a base salary. With fringes and benefits this can be close to $150k for ONE person annually.
I'm with Swatty…let's see the salary breakdown for folks at 54 Meadows Street. Have these folks gone without a raise since 2009? Do we push the same level of concessions from folks at the top?


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I think it is all part of Hamlet's grandiose scheme. Hamlet is amazingly intelligent. I love his character although he tends to speak in riddles so much that he leaves students befuddled. Hamlet knows his friends, and he knows they did not come of their own will. They were coerced into coming as they are "gentle" men and are looking for favor with the King and Queen...in lots of ways, but also with monetary payment. Hamlet knows these two have been summoned and therefore can't be trusted with too much information. He is playing with them and we get to watch. :)
R & G aren't truly Hamlet's friends and he knows this. He knows that their ambitious and desirous natures have led them to turn spy on their "friend" for a chance to gain favor with the new king. Of course Hamlet over does it. I think it's kind of his way of patronizing his supposed friends because they are overdoing it. They feign concern for Hamlet in order to get information for the king and queen and so Hamlet certainly plays up his own tragic situation to show them that two can play at their game and that he's got their number.
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