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I am the proud husband of Cleveland School teacher. One who works her butt off for her students. One who has not had a raise in over 5 years and has voted for concessions so students could have busing and spring sports. Also one who, thank God, is retiring before the lawmakers truely screw up public education for good.
It's easy to blame the teachers and their union for the failure of the school district to meet muster in the end of year tests. I'd like to know where the parents and school admibnistration fit into the blame game. How about the courts and the stae, Where do they fit into the blame.
How many would like to teach in a system where they have had three cars stolen or borken into. Where they have to leave in groups to prevent being robbed on their way home. How many teach in areas that have "hit the floor drills" so they can survive when the sounds of gunfire happen? My wife may deserve merit pay but she definately deserves combat pay.
These teachers are dedcated to their students to work in this kind of environment. By the way, in my wife's failing school, over half of the teachers were successful teaching in private schools. There, however, when there was horrible behavior, the student was asked to leave.
The problems in the school will not be solved by one solutiion, merit pay, seniority, or teacher union busting. It needs to have police in schools, behavior problems removed from the classroom so a teacher can teach, parent involvement, safety issues, etc. Blaming teachers is the easy way out. Why don't we put pressure on multiple fronts instead and attempt to solve the whole problem.
I think it's interesting that many of the charter schools who are siphoning off the best and the brightest Cleveland has to offer still cannot succeed and they have non-union teachers and no seniority. The whole plan is a crock. Just another blame the teachers movement by our politicians to deflect any blame coming back at them.
Bait and switch? This state has a history of bait and switch. Start with the original 1972 vote on the income tax. If you recall, it was for education. They touted the tax as going to go to local schools and colleges. Then there was the income tax increase in the early '80s. It was for education. Again to support colleges and local schools. Today, the first thing cut in the budget is the money going to local schools. Ohio universities have some of the highest tuitions in the country. Before the '70's young people were coming to Ohio to go to school because our out of state tuition was lower than what the tuition was in their state for residents. Funny how our higher education tuition costs have gone up after the income tax was passed or increased for education. Today, our young people are finding they can get their college cheaper paying out of state tuition somewhere other than Ohio. Yet we are 13 out of 50 states for money spent on road construction. Guess more kick backs and campaign contributions can be had from contractors than from educators. But where are our priorities?
In business, when you have a plan that is going to fail and you are going to be held responsible for that failure, you find another job, resign, and bail out before the crap hits the fan. I think you see Dr. Sanders following the business model once again. He knows his transition plan is doomed without proper funding and he's pretty sure Kasich is going to cut money going to the schools. I mean after all Kasich knows in his heart that we voters did not pass the original state income tax for education in 1972 nor did we pass the increase in the early 80's for education so why make educational funding a priority. I'm not a Dr. Sanders fan but I wouldn't stick around either and go through the next few years of frustration as people expect miracles but do zip to help and blame you for everything from cyber bullying to the lake eroding the beaches.
I have no problem with J. Dimora getting a public defender from the Public defender's office. If all of his assets are tied up and he has nothing to draw his defence expenses from, he can have a P.D. like any other citizen in that situation. However, as for taxpayers picking up the tab for his expensive hot shot lawyers, forget it.
I hope they don't go overboard on the test score criteria. My wife teaches in an inner city school and works her tail off to give the children a great education. In the process she has to deal with gang violence, poverty, kids without needed items like costs, jackets, gloves, hats in the winter. Add to that an attitude that education is not needed by some of the children, behavior issues, etc. and you have teachers trying to teach despite heavy odds against them. Remember the old adage that you can bring a horse to water but you can't make him drink. It is just the in thing today to blame the teacher if a child fails to make the grade. It is certainly easier to do that than to tackle all of the social problems and ills that exist. And as far as charter schools go, they skim the best students off the top. those that can't cut it or are behavior problems get bounced out and end up (Guess where??) the public schools. If I was aloowed to decide who can be my student and who couldn't, was allowed to get rid of the class troublemaker or anyone not quick enough to learn the lesson, I'd be highly successfull and I am sure, under the new proposed guidelines, well paid. I predict that in the future, inner city schools will not be able to recruit talented teachers because they will not want to work with no raises when they fail to increase test scores.
Grumpygramp.... the same thing happened in Milwaukee after they allowed charter schools. The charter schools skim off the most profitable students, ones with no disabilities, the ones without major behavior issues, etc. leaving the rest in the public school system. CMSD student population has been decreasing for the past several years as children go to these private charter and parochial schools. So 20 percent may seem high to me but also is not surprising.
Teachers in a classroom with "inclusion" and no special ed trained teacher or aid in the class spends a lot time with the special needs children which takes time from the other students in the class. The marines use to say that a unit can move only as fast as it's weakest link. Its true for the Marines and its true for the classroom. A teacher with 25 plus students in the room does not have the extra time for a special needs child and that is what the Speical ed teacher does... they give them the extra help they need.
if the federal government and the state are mandating inclusion then they need to step up to the plate and finance it.
When I read the comments above, I am again saddended by the politics of hate and myth that permeate today's America. Where has the invaluable debate on issues gone? You know what I'm talking about, people with various opinions talking a subject over,learning the good and bad points of a bill. What I see today is scare tactice thrown out there so freightened voters will over react. What I see is ranting in blogs. What I perceive is anger at the other side spurred on by the talk media. How do we get anything done in this environment? You cannot make any progress when both sides war with each other. We need productive discussinon by informed electorate. Instead we have lazy voters who listen to some sound bite that winds them up and off they go.
I have several issues with the health care proposals. The first big one is no one is saying up front how they intend to pay for it. I would not buy a house or car or ... without knowing how I will pay for it and I really expect my government to follow the same rule. The second is there are major issues with health care that are not addressed in this bill. Someone above stated his fear that the government will set the price we pay on medical procedures. Hopefully they will. Today my insurance pays $200 for an $850 proceudre, the doctor accepts it and my $15 co-pay and that's that. However if I was uninsured, I would have to pay the full $850. Looks to me like insurance companies have negotiated with the doctors, hospitals, etc. a price break based on volume. With the volume of business the government would handle with their health care plan, I would hope they would negotiate a volume discount or least pass a law that allowed doctors, etc. to collect no more more than the negotiated insured price when dealing with someone uninsured. I say I hope they will negotiate a discount because the US Government is paying full price for presrciption drugs it buys under the prescription drug plan passed by Pres. Bush and I know my insurance company is not.
I'd like to see more time and debate on this issue, no one can really believe that we need to look at the whole system and do something. Unfortunately in the current politics of hate and rumor environment we live in, that is not going to happen. Too many people who are making money with the current system are very busy scaring everyone and the politicians who want this passed need to move quickly to do something before the other side blocks any bill passage by creating hoards of angry, uninformed voters. No wonder the country is slowly going down the tubes. We need to work together people not spend our time throwing rocks.
The problem is in the financial controls. Who ever heard of a $50,000 dollar no bid limit? Drop that baby down to $5,000 at least. Limits as high as $50,000 invites people to sneak around the system and allows those who are after some personal gain and open door to do so. Hopefully, CMSD reviews their financial controls to prevent something like this in the future.
Years ago very good friends of ours lost a child in a situation just like this. It was an old gun, no one had used it for years, everyone thought it didn't work, no one knew it was loaded. It was more than sad, more than terrible, more than horrific. No parent should have to deal with anything like that. I can only imgaine what the parents, siblings, and relatives are going through. They have my sincerest prayers.
Hey daveacp.
Let's have you give up 20 days worth of time off next year for no extra pay. Judging from your attitudes towards teachers getting paid for those extra days worked, I'm sure you would be happy to jump right on this proposal. Consider it your patriotic duty to the State of Ohio.
And, by the way, why don't you do that while trying to figure out how to take the graduate level college courses required by the State during the summer at a cost of thousands of dollars so you can contiue working.
This story is a farce. The editor that allowed it to be printed and the reporter who wrote are idiots and give reporting a bad name. They had to go back 10 years to make the numbers work out. Compare the last 4 or the last two years.
Cleveland has been open over the last few years when almost every school in the area closed. Why? Perhaps it is because the other schools in the area do not want to see kids hurt or killed walking down the side of a road when sidewalks are totally covered. while Cleveland is more concerned with impressing the state or this reporter or is in some trumped up competition with Chicago over which school is more macho.
How much is Sanders paying this reporter to justify the mistake he made yesterday by not calling off school and then compounding by ending it early.
Hey Chickenaribs, get it right. She's in management and not part of any union, teacher or otherwise. I doubt any teacher makes 126,647 a year. She's in administration. The article says that plainly and was borught in with the current administration, Ie, Dr. Sanders. My bet is you could drop that job and never miss it.
The reasons the schools are fialing are many. Start with the problems in the city, the gangs, the attitudes. Start with money spent for high priced administrators with fancy titles. Add teachers getting transferred all over the place, no money for supplies, teachers teaching science without adequate text books, the list goes on.
Many teachers are buying their own supplies for their classroom, put int extra time to help the students who need help, go the extra mile. I am impressed by the staff I see in elementary schools. Teachers teaching in classes despite gunfire, their cars being broken into in the parking lot, muggings on school grounds. Before you start your mototr mouth next time, check out what is going on, get your brain in gear, and you won't look so rediculous.
You're just like everyone else, just balme the teachers and the union. That has been the Republican line in this state for tha past several years and you just suck it up and believe it.
The state lottery, the income tax voted in by the voters in the early 70's and the income tax increase voted in by the voters in the mid 80's were all supposed to be for education. However, they all go into the general fund. The voters have been sold a bill of goods if the first thing the state does is cut aid to education. That's what the voters said they wanted a to be the priority use of those tax dollars. that is what the voters were promised. Cleveland will not be the only school affected negatively by any cuts to schools. Public schools across the state will feel the hit. Just thing back to the last time this was done under Bob Taft. Mentor had an 18 million dollar shortfall while Cleveland's shortfall was over 100 million. Mentor made theirs up with a property tax increase of over 12 mills. I am sick and tired of having my property taxes go up because the state reneged on its promise to aid public education with the income tax.
Listen up Republicans who control the house and senate, listen up Gov. Stirckland, cut the bloated state budget in other areas, put some of those highway construction projects on hold, stop building state offices, put the moeny into our kids.
And if you decide to cut education again, quit blaming the teachers and administrators for the schools failing. They keep trying to do the job they were hired for with less and less. First the Taft cuts and now more projected on the way.
I agree with Raconteur216. New Yuck taxes heavier vehicles like caddies and SUVs more than lighter vehicles through the license registration process. you pay more for your car plates if you own a bigger more expensive car. King James can afford a higher registration fee for that custom car of his and that money is supposed to go to highway projects. The guy who can barely afford the small economy car would pay less for his plates but he is putting less weight on the roads.
2curious2 missed the point. The superintendent can only control what goes on in the schools. Several schools have security that check backpacks, run kids through scanners, etc. Security is on site trying to keep order. Cameras are in critical places monitoring what is going on in the school. A lot of money is being spent to keep the schools safe.
But he cannot control the streets outside of the school. Some schools have had so many shootings between rival gangs that the kids instantly obay a "hit the floor" order.
Blame Mayor Jackson and former mayor Campbell for the problem. Campbell for removing so many officers from the streets allowing these gangs to take over and Jackson for not getting them back on the streets to take the streets back.
PoorRichard makes several solid points. The school system cannot make up for the cultural issues which surround it. Parents have got to take an activie part in the raising and dicipline of their children. Kids have to have some hope that they can go to school and upon graduating have other options for finding work.
They need to listen to what their chief of police said... The police do not follow up on immigration status unless a crime was involved and he doesn't mean a speeding ticket.
There should be no santuary for ILLEGAL immigrants. They need to be sent home and apply for a proper visa and enter the country the right way. The right way menas their backgrounds are screened and, if they are criminals, they don't enter.
Would you leave your home's door open so anyone good or bad could walk in? Of course not. You know something about the people you invite in. There's no difference between your home and this country. Lock the doors, screen people who want to come in, and call the autorities when you find someone univited in your house.
If he is dead, how much child support he will pay? How much back child support do you think they will get? Alive, they stand a chance of getting the money, dead, I don't think so. Besides, the last time I looked it up, not paying child support was not on the list of capital offences.
Mr Lavert was not in jail for shooting anyone. He should have been afforded his meds. My wife is on Plavix. her doctor has warned her time and time again that she just can't stop taking her medication. I don't know if Xanax is like that but it sounds as if it is. Some meds are dangerous to just stop and you have to be weaned off them.
The jail needs to look at it's policy and make some changes. If not, I propose the ministers and other leaders in the county band together to oust the sheriff.
Mr. Vasil is not alone in his desire to make contact with the people he served with. When you're young and busy with starting a career and a family, you lose contact with the people who had meaning in your life while serving. As the years roll on, you start to wonder what happened to them. Did they marry? Have Kids? In the old days, you just wondered and, if your were lucky, you met someone at a reunion. Today, thanks to internet search engines and web sites like togetherweserved.com, it is possible to find these lost firends. I am now in contact with 9 fromer Marines I served with. We correspond via email and met last summer for a reunion of our own.
To Mr. Vasil from one vet who never saw to combat to one who did... thank you sir for everything you did for our country, for me, for the freedoms we are privledged to have.
"I will not be bullied into letting a group of people tell me what to do," DeLeone said. "I do my job."
Most voters grumble but don't take time away from their precious TV to show up at a council meeting. When a large block of people do show up, and you're an elected official, you had better listen. These folks represent a larger group who feel the same way but arn't as motivated. Mr. DeLeone's job, the job he was elected to, is to represent the people, so he needs to listen.
By the way, here's a novle thought: Instead of raising taxes; let's cut expenses. The City of Mentor is run very well on 7 councilmen. Cut the number of councilmen and save some salaries. Then go through the rest of the City budget line by line and dump relatives of councilmen, After that, you may have to cut something meaningful.
Just for the record... I don't live in Kent. I do feel their pain. That trick was tried up here once and a recall threat changed it. Keep in mind the one basic difference between the income tax and the credit that was taken away... The income tax was instituted by the voters in a proper election. The credit was taken away, thereby raising your taxes, by a vote of council not the people.
Seven teens were involved, it fits what is going on nowdays in cleveland. Ever since mayor Campbell reduced the size of the police department, teen gangs have taken over the streets.
My wife teaches in cleveland and we have both seen the change. Gang signs painted on the walls of the schools or doors or windows. Abandoned houses take over by gangs as their headquarters. police called to schools to break up gang fights.
More has got to be done to reduce the power and influence of gangs. Trie all seven as adults and put them away when they caught. send a message, put more cops on bikes in the neighborhoods so they will know what is going on in their beat. I don't know the answers but I sure hope someone does and that the mayor, or future mayor, of Cleveland will get serious about spending the required funds to make the city safe.
If not all of the Euclid Corridor work is a farce because no one will ever want to take it anywhere near downtown.


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Soaps Boards :: Dirty Soap Forum :: Nadia's Mom... ugh
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I understand your points however, part of the problems this country is having is that we are expected to conform to other cultures, religion and beliefs... what about ours? She is in America and came here for a reason.
That issue exists because we are a country that is made up of all different cultures. There is not one American culture or set of expectations. The only indigenous group are the Native Americans! Everyone came here for a reason -- even the Pilgrims and that reason was not to let go of their culture.
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I guess there are all sorts of relatives that try to latch on to fame. I thought that Nadia's mother is Persian which tells me that she came to this country to have some rights of her own. What I don't understand is why she thinks she can control her daughter's life...oh that's right she's Persian.
No one who comes to America as an immigrant dumps their upbringing at the door. As for "latching on" I think she was asked to participate in the show.
I believe most nationalities expect to be respected in their homes. I think to most cultures it is considered rude to enter a man's home and show him disrespect.
Fary is a perfect example why some cultures insist on women wearing burkas and not speaking unless spoken to. I'm all in favor of sending her back home to Iran where I'm sure they would appreciate her candor. They would fit her with a burka with a built in muzzle, and maybe a shock collar.
Imo there is an ignorance of what happens in most of America. I'm not talking about the urban areas or even small pockets of the midwest or SE but America is built on the concept of tolerance but does not actually live it across the board... Part of that ignorance includes statements like "let her go back to..."
Quote Scrimmage: Fary is a perfect example why some cultures insist on women wearing burkas and not speaking unless spoken to. I'm all in favor of sending her back home to Iran where I'm sure they would appreciate her candor. They would fit her with a burka with a built in muzzle, and maybe a shock collar.
This is America, and in America we respect all cultures, but we also have community standards that everyone is expected to abide by. No one should come here expecting everyone else to adapt to them, they need to adapt to the way we do things here. If someone expects to enjoy the fruits of living in this wonderful country, then they must also expect to assimilate into the culture here and contribute to it. We don't encourage immigrants to set themselves apart from the rest of the community, keeping to themselves, never participating in society or never learning English because we want them to truly join with us and become part of the unique "Melting Pot" that is the United States of America and enrich us all by sharing the best of themselves and their backgrounds.
In America you don't see people raising goats in their back yards in suburban neighborhoods just because that's the culture they grew up in, and likewise you don't see people being forced into arranged marriages against their will, or stoned to death for adultery, though both barbaric practices are common elsewhere in the world. Those sort of things are unacceptable and illegal in this country, and anyone here born of foreign extraction had better understand that and get with the program.
There are also standards for acceptable behavior and basic respect for others in general that transcend any culture, and Fary is a stranger to all those standards. She's a miserable person in ANY language. Until and unless she learns to control herself, she deserves to get back exactly the kind of harsh and unforgiving treatment she so easily dishes out, but I doubt if she will ever change, because Nadia will never stand up to her until it's too late and Fary has ruined every chance at happiness she will ever have. She'll just continue to drink more and more, and eventually, after Fary has run off every man she loves, Nadia will just marry some loser to spite her mom and then she'll turn into her mother, complaining and criticizing him and everyone else and everything because by then she'll be miserable too. Eventually, even that can become a way of life and for Nadia, that's what passes for normal based on the role model she's had working on her all this time.
Run Brandon, RUN! Life's too short and he deserves to find someone who doesn't need to be pampered and fawned over ever second, and whose family will appreciate and accept him for the great catch that he is.
With statements like that I'm starting to believe that Nadia is way too good for him.Nadia is nothing like her mom.What do you want her to do?Choose between her mom and her boyfriend? Brandon would lose because no matter what her mother is,SHE is first and formost her mother .No one is making Brandon take all that.He can walk out of this relation anytime he wants.It's his choice to stay and fight along with Nadia for their relationship .And Nadia has been dealing with her mom's behavior for her entire life,her mom treats every boyfriends Nadia gest this way.So it's not against Brandon personnaly.And since we don;t know idf etrhe is more that we don't know, so we can't judge.But brandon knew what he was getting into when he started to date Nadia.Fary was clear from the begining ,she didn't like him,ever since both Nadia and Brandon are trying to have her come around.But it was pointless.Yes Brandon can run because he can't take Fary's behavior but he would lose teha wondeful woman who "truly loves him and makes him happy"(his words).He's in a relationship with Nadia not her mom.So giving up on Nadia because of her mom would be a very coward behavior.He knows that's how she treats everyone,not just him.We saw how she treated, Michelle,the interior designer..so he should be able to ignore her and focus on him and Nadia.
i stopped watching Days partly because of Nadia and now i stopped watching Dirty Soap partly because of her mom
Fary needs to kind her own man. She is just jealous because both Brandon and Nadia are successful and has what she wants. She wouldn't be able to keep a man.
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Harvard Public Health Review
Fall 2004
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Dueling Diets
An HSPH study asks: How best to lose weight--and keep it off?
Go to any cocktail party, play group, or breakroom in America, and you're bound to hear about the low-carb miracle. Suddenly, low-fat is old hat--and the newly thin are boasting of how they lost ten, 20, or 30 pounds on the Atkins plan while dining freely on cheese, butter, and steak.
But check in with these fad dieters in six to 12 months, and most of the pounds are bound to have come back. Meanwhile, many have been raising their risk of heart disease by consuming foods laden with saturated fat.
Now HSPH researchers have launched a study to ask: How should people eat if they want to keep excess weight off--and do it in a healthy way? With funding from the National Institutes of Health, Frank Sacks and colleagues will be the first to compare the long-term success of four eating regimens featuring varying percentages of fats, carbohydrates, and proteins. Unlike most other previous weight-loss trials, which followed people for just six, eight, or 12 months, this study will track dieters for two years. The goal is to find an eating plan people will follow for life, not just a few tortured months.
"The question really is: How do these diets differ in the long run? That's what we care about. That's what's related to health," says Sacks, a member of the HSPH Department of Nutrition. "Weight loss at six months--that's meaningless."
The low-carb route promises quick weight loss and, for many, it delivers. It even comes with what some researchers say is a scientifically sound justification: Many carbohydrates cause a spike in blood sugar, or glucose, followed by a sudden drop that triggers hunger pangs. By severely cutting back on carbs, dieters can take advantage of a process called ketosis, in which the body burns fat instead of glucose for fuel.
"The problem with extreme diets--low-carb, low-fat--is that people don't stick with them," Sacks says. "It's hard to eat in a restricted way for long. And any diet that isn't palatable or appealing, or doesn't meet the body's needs, is not a good public health strategy."
Such diets do shed pounds, says Sacks, who has studied both vegetarian and low-fat strategies. But research consistently shows that by month six or eight, people lose as much as they are going to, he says. Then, over the next year or two, they typically regain some or all of that weight.
The HSPH study, which will begin enrolling 800 overweight and obese men and women in September, will look at what happens to dieters divided into four groups, each of which emphasizes certain nutritional components more heavily than others (see charts on page 18). Researchers will not only tally pounds shed. They will also monitor key health indicators, such as cholesterol and blood pressure levels, as well as mental health, to see how participants are feeling overall. In so doing, investigators aim to cut through the anecdotes and piecemeal science of weight loss with hard data and long-term results.
"Potentially, this could be a landmark study," says Kathy McManus, a co-investigator who is the director of nutrition for Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "We feel strongly that this study needs to be done because people are so confused." Many are wondering what became of the low-fat mantra (see sidebar at right).
For Sacks and McManus, the idea for this new study came in a roundabout way. Neither is an obesity researcher. Sacks, trained as a cardiologist, has studied lipoprotein metabolism through clinical trials focused on heart disease and nutrition. He works with McManus in the Brigham and Women's Lipids Clinic, and it was there that they began prescribing a moderate-fat diet for patients with high cholesterol.
Rather than outlaw all fats, this diet--known as the Mediterranean diet--emphasizes plant-derived fats like olive oil and oils in nuts. It also minimizes saturated fats by emphasizing fish and poultry over red meats as protein choices. Mediterranean-style diets had been known since the 1970s to improve cholesterol levels. To their surprise, however, McManus and Sacks discovered that many of their patients not only lowered their "bad" low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, but also lost weight and kept it off.
"After we had a number of very exciting
successes," says McManus, "we decided to do a study."
They put about 50 patients on the Mediterranean-style diet, and another 50 on a traditional low-fat plan. After six months, both groups lost an average of 11 pounds. Then, participants started dropping out. After 18 months, only 20 percent from the low-fat group had stuck with their diet, compared to 54 percent from the Mediterranean group. On the whole, patients assigned to the low-fat arm gained an average of 6.4 pounds, while those in the Mediterranean arm lost 9 pounds.
"What patients in the Mediter-ranean group told us was that they didn't feel like they were dieting," Sacks says. "They could choose a lot of different foods. They could fry things, put olive oil on their salad. They felt they could eat more of a normal diet."
Just as Americans began picking up on the low-carbohydrate approach, Sacks began lobbying the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for funds to do a long-term study comparing the Mediterranean diet to other popular eating plans. Now he, McManus, and their partners at Louisiana State University (LSU) are recruiting participants in both Boston and Baton Rouge. The latter site, at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center, will be supervised by George Bray, an expert on diet and diabetes prevention who has long advocated a low-fat, high-carbohydrate approach to weight loss.
Unlike some other clinical trials, weight-loss studies have no trouble attracting participants. This time, however, researchers need people who have a reasonable chance of sticking with an eating plan. Potential subjects who respond to ads in local newspapers are put through several qualifying visits. During an hour-long interview, a dietician will assess their commitment. Those selected will be assigned randomly to one of four groups.
Rather than supply food, the researchers will "prescribe" menus for three meals a day, each specifying a certain percentage of protein, carbohydrate, and fat content. Participants must attend group meetings weekly for the first six months, and every two weeks after that. In Boston, study subjects will gather at a facility that features classrooms and a kitchen for cooking demonstrations.
Exercise will be a component of all four weight-loss plans. Participants who don't already exercise must take up walking or some other form of physical activity, starting with 30 minutes per week and increasing to 90 within five months. Exercise goals are set low to make sure energy expenditures don't obscure the weight-loss impact of their diets. But people who want to exercise more won't be discouraged.
For most people, "exercise and careful
food choices are essential to maintaining a healthy weight in the long run,"
notes HSPH Department of Nutrition Chair Walter
Willett, who has published extensively on the dietary habits of thousands
of people through the Nurses' and Health Professionals' studies. This new trial,
he says, should identify a way of eating that people can live with--"one
that's enjoyable, has variety, and is compatible with living in the 21st century."
For details about the weight-loss trial, visit the HSPH website this fall: www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/.
Tinker Ready is a freelance health and medical writer based in Cambridge, Mass.
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Our pals in Pocket Vinyl are about to hit the road on their most ambitious tour to date. Called the 'Perimeter of the Nation' Tour 2015, the path will literally take the piano/painting duo around the whole of the contiguous 48 states of our great nation. There still a few gaps they are looking to fill so drop a line if you can help. The group is also wrapping up another successful Kickstarter campaign for the new album 'Tin' that they have been working on with the wonderful Brad Bensko here in New London (there's still time to pitch in and help them reach some additional goals for the record which will be their first full-length vinyl release). Thought he record is expected to land until later this year, thye've leaked out a new, unfinished track as a teaser and it's a lovely affair indeed. Check out the stream of "Run" on Pocket Vinyl's Bandcamp and mark the dates below to catch Pocket Vinyl at a show near you!
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February 13 – Worchester, MA – Electric Haze 9 PM
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February 25 – Appomattox. VA – Baine's Books 6 PM
February 26 – Roanoke, VA – The Bazaar 8 PM
February 27 – Roanoke, VA – Hollins University 8 PM
February 28 – Blacksburg, VA – XYZ Gallery
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March 3 – Murfreesboro, TN – Two Tone Art Gallery
March 4 – Decatur, AL – The Leonard Nimoy Center 7PM
March 5 – Cleveland, MS – Hey Joe's 10 PM
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Violent Mae's debut is currently burning up the charts at college radio hitting #88 on the CMJ Radio 200 Chart in only its second week at the format. Now, they've debuted a haunting new video at the wonderful UK blog GoldFlakePaint for 'Long Hard Wait'. The clip features one long segment from the excellent and haunting Vincent Gallo vehicle Buffalo 66. It's a match made in heaven (or more likely hell) and the effects will stick with you long after viewing. Deeply and darkly beautiful and frightening at once, pure Violent Mae. Here's what Tom Johnson of GoldFlakePaint had to say about the vid and the group:
"A rich, evocative moment and a reminder that sometimes the most special bands are quietly going about their business, somewhat undetected, but with the ability to shape the very fiber of your day."
We're excited to welcome Violent Mae to the Telegraph Recording Company family of bands and we're kicking the partnership off in grand style with a full-campaign for their debut CD to college radio around the country. The band is already well-known here in Connecticut but we're looking forward to introducing them to the world beyond. The duo of Becky Kessler and Floyd Kellogg are playing a bunch of shows in the coming months but are also busy at work on their sophomore release which is expected to hit late summer or early fall this year. In the meantime, here's a recent video release for "Worn Out My Welcome" for your viewing pleasure.
Ryan's Smashing Life has world premiered Daphne Lee Martin's cover of TV on the Radio's 'Ambulance' The track features guest musicians Graham Thompson on vocals and David Keith on drums with Martin providing the rest of the instrumentation and vocals. The track is the third in a series of covers (preceded by Tom Waits' 'I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You' and Cory Brannan's 'Easy') that DLM has been releasing this fall as she continues work on her fourth full-length due out out in 2015.
We're proud to welcome Phonosynthesis to the Telegraph family of bands. The group (previously known to folks in the know here in Connecticut as the Isaac Young Quartet) is giving us a taste of great stuff to come with their first single 'Birth of a Machine' which premiered recently with true blog love from our friends over at Lonesome Noise. It's a Headhunters-esque jam full of tasty licks and we can't wait to hear more from their debut in 2015! Check it out now.
Pocket Vinyl will be hitting the road again this fall, sharing some dates with Daphne Lee Martin. Check out more at their site HERE.
Some new material from New Haven's Elison Jackson for your listening pleasure. Teasing a new album? We sure hope so!
The CT Music Awards has released the list of finalists for the 2014 awards which will be given out in Hartford at the Bushnell on June 10. Congratulations to Telegraph Recording Artists Elison Jackson (Song of the Year, Best Rock), Bedroom Rehab Corporation (Best Metal), Fake Babies (Best R&B/Soul/Funk), Daphne Lee Martin (Best Singer/Songwriter), and Isaac Young Quartet (Best R&B/Soul/Funk, Best Jam Band, Best Jazz), for making the final cut (and here's to bringing the trophies home)!
Of course we're biased toward our Telegraph team of nominees but heart-felt congratulations go out to all of the nominated acts and to the organizers of this fun celebration of our immensely talented music community here in Connecticut. View all of the nominees here: Connecticut Music Awards Finalists.
Matt Gouette returns with a batch of five songs on his new ep 'Sunnyside'. The collection is the first release in some time from the prolific pop auteur and is full of the expected hook-laden guitar rockers and symphonic keyboard jams. Stream the record below or stop by our shop in New London for a physical copy today!


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Tameka Raymond: Words Cannot Express Relief For My Son's Life
Three days after her son's pool incident, Tameka Raymond has taken to Instagram to express gratitude for her son's safety. We can't imagine how the mother of five, who just lost a son last year, must have felt when she got the call that Usher V was being taken to the ICU after getting his arm stuck in the pool drain. Thankfully, the five-year-old survived and is doing well, as Tameka noted in the photo above, with this message:
My favorite 5 year old. What a blessing! I have always loved and appreciated my sons but tragedies and close calls make this even more evident. URV had an angel named Kile Ishmael and our Lord and true savior to look after him. Words cannot express the relief and how thankful to God I truly am. Thank you Jehovah God, Jesus and Kile
Tags:Instagram, Pool Incident, son, Tameka Raymond, Usher, Usher Raymond V
Wuk At The Wittle Family! Phaedra Finally Debuts Baby Boy
With so many celebrity women popping out babies these days, it's been hard to keep up with who we've already met and which new mamas are keeping their newborn's under wraps. Up until a few days ago, Phaedra Parks was in the hideout category, but thanks to a spread in US Weekly, we've finally gotten a chance to see her handsome baby boy who, by the way, is named Dylan.
Phaedra gave birth back in May and kept her son's name under wraps for the past two months, initially telling US Weekly, "We've been calling the baby Mr. President!" and saying she and Apollo were waiting to have a traditional African naming ceremony before debuting his namesake to the world. Now we've gotten a formal introduction to the little prince in a magazine spread showcasing the gorgeous Nilda family and honestly, it gets no cuter than this!
It's great to see little Dylan is doing well after being born three weeks premature and do you see Mr. Ayden over there looking as grown as he can be! It's hard to believe Phaedra and Apollo's first son is already 3 years old, it seems like just yesterday that Dwight was planning his first birthday party, right? Now he's a big boy and a big brother.
If you can't wait for the next season of "Real Housewives of Atlanta" to spot more Nilda family preciousness, check out the August 5 issue of US they're featured in. What do you think of the spread?
Tags:Apollo, Ayden, baby, Dylan, family, phaedra parks, Real Housewives of Atlanta, RHOA, son
'Your Son Is Waiting For You' Rasheeda Puts Kirk On Blast In The Worst Way On Instagram
I hate a sorry father as much as the next woman, but I have a particular distaste for messy girlfriends, baby mamas and wives as well, and Rasheeda is quickly finding herself a member of that group. Though everyone feels immense sympathy for the "Love & Hip-Hop" star whose husband Kirk is clearly acting like everything but a loving husband and father, Instagram is not the place to air out grievances with your spouse. But then again I'm talking about a couple airing out all their business on reality TV so I guess I shouldn't be surprised by this, huh?
Anyway, over the weekend, Rasheeda put her husband Kirk on blast in the worst way on Instagram. Though the site may be for pics, Rasheeda got her textgram on in a heartbeat, calling Kirk out, this time, not for abandoning her, but for abandoning their son.
Here's what she wrote:
On top of mentioning Kirk in the post, Rasheeda put her husband's IG handle in the text underneath the Textgram, writing "Ky is waiting" and 1,800 of her eager followers jumped right into the mess with her, applauding her for putting "that deadbeat clown on front street."
Kirk absolutely deserves to be embarrassed, but I can't help put feel like Rasheeda's child is being put on front street just as much as his dad. You can't make a man be a daddy no matter how much you blow him up on social media. She might want to file paperwork rather than Internet posts.
What do you think about Rasheeda's message?
Tags:father, Instagram, Kirk Frost, Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta, Rasheeda, son
Draya Tells Bow Wow She's 'Not A Bad Parent In Any Way' After 106 & Park #AskDraya Fiasco
Remember Wednesday when we told you "106 & Park" had the genius idea to start an #AskDraya hashtag on Twitter where fans could send questions to the "Basketball Wives LA" cast member in anticipation of her appearance on the show Thursday? And remember how quickly that seemingly innocent idea went downhill when every single person involved asked Draya questions related to her lack of parenting skills — like "on a scale of Helen Keller to Ray Charles how often do you see your son" — and the shade was so strong #AskDraya was actually trending for a while?
Well when the reality TV star actually headed to the "106 & Park" stage to co-host with Bow Wow yesterday evening, it was only natural that she'd address all the negativity that came her way — and more importantly the allegations that she remains the epitome of a bad mother, even after the increased fame and money that's come with being on a VH1 show. Sitting with her co-host for the day, she attempted to clear her bad mother name, saying:
"Well, the first thing is, of course, I don't expect people to understand my life because it's my life. I'm not a bad parent in anyway. And I'm lucky enough to have fans who actually followed me on the show and they know the path that I'm try to choose and set for my family and the direction we're trying to go."
When it came to the subject of how she deals with haters, which appears to be the name being given to those who assume she's a terrible mom, she said:
"Well, I got so many. I'm starting to think that they really don't hate me. I think they are confused and they are admirers. That's what someone told me, haters are confused admirers. I don't deal with them. I just let them hate on their own… I just feel like if you're thinking about me — negative or positive — you're still thinking about me."
I guess.
You can check out everything else Draya had to say about her life in the video below. What do you think about her bad parenting rebuttal?
Tags:#AskDraya, 106&Park, Bad Mother, Bow Wow, draya, Draya's son, parenting skills, son
Be Careful What You Ask For: BET's #AskDraya Twitter Chat Brings Out Unprecedented Shade
Black Twitter has never been known to exercise chill. Case in the point, the #AskDraya trending topic making a mockery of one Draya Michele.
Long story short; Michele is one of the stars of VH1's reality show Basketball Wives: Los Angeles and a, shall we say, "woman about town." The source of the vitriol hurled her way are her much criticized parenting skills, or lack thereof. Born Andraya Howard, she was found guilty of child endangerment back in 2010 for leaving her then 7-year-old son in Wyomissing, Pa. while she was busy working stripper poles in Philadelphia. It came to light on the show, she denied it, but the police report said it was true.
Then today, BET started an #AskDraya hashtag to coincide with her appearance on 106 & Park. Bad move—the slander shortly reached unholy levels. Also, for the record, Hip-Hop Wired had an #AskDraya Bangin Candy video post popping last year. Y'all just showed more chill. Thanks, we think.
Draya Michele was most recently seen kicking it backstage at this weekend's Hot 97 Summer Jam XX concert. Nope, her son was nowhere in sight. Anyway, today's slander seems exceptionally cold-blooded, even by Black Twitter standards. Check out the 15 meanest tweets in the following pages. Clutch your Bibles tight…
Read more tweets on HipHopWired.com.
Tags:#AskDraya, 106 & park, basketball wives la, BET, draya michele, son, twitter
Congratulations! Phaedra And Apollo Welcome A Baby Boy!
Here's round two of the baby birth news for today. US Weekly just learned that "Real Housewives of Atlanta's" Phaedra Parks and Apollo Nida just dropped their bun in the oven! A source told the mag that Phaedra gave birth to the couple's second son today in Atlanta and "Mom and baby are doing great."
Thank God all that drama on the three RHOA reunions didn't affect Phaedra and Apollo's little bundle! Though there aren't any details on the name or the baby's weight, we're sure he's a cutie just like the couple's 2-year-old son Ayden, and we can only imagine how the southern belle will spoil the new prince in the house. Remember Ayden's first birthday party?
Surprisingly, the reality TV couple hasn't spilled the beans on Twitter yet, but it looks like the little one came just in time. Less than a day ago, Phaedra sent out this tweet which likely helped the pair welcome their new pride and joy into the world safely today.
Early baby blessing by Pastor @glpollard instagram.com/p/ZB7BcsKwrr/
— Phaedra Parks, Esq.(@PhaedraParks) May 8, 2013
10 Gift Ideas For The Mom-To-Be This Mother's Day
Mother's Day is almost here, a great time to continue to celebrate the great loves of our lives: our mothers. While mothers and grandmothers are being celebrated, let's not forget to acknowledge the moms-to-be this Spring!
Wish the expectant mother-to-be in your life a great pre-Mother's Day on her behalf with a great gift to help her along her pregnancy, and to let her know that she's celebrated too!
Tags:back support belt, Maternity, mother's day, pregnancy, prenatal, shoes, son, vitamins
Sir, Who Asked You? Chris Brown's Dad Talks About Why He Doesn't Think Chris & Rihanna Should Be Together
Well, apparently, somebody asked this man to open his mouth.
The NY Daily News caught up to Chris Brown's dad, Clinton, to talk to him about his son and Rihanna's relationship. Seeing as though we've never heard much from him in the past, you know he took every opportunity to chat it up.
When asked about the twosome, Brown said:
"I personally really didn't want him and Rihanna back together. You have to have a balance in a relationship. You have to have someone who is spontaneous and whimsical but you also have to have someone who is grounded and logical."
You know, it's not that what he's saying is incorrect but why even talk about it? I get it, everyone else has publicly had their say so why not Papa Brown? But by now, he should know that neither Chris nor Rihanna care about what people say about their relationship.
Clinton also added that his pick for his son would have been Jordin Sparks who he called a "wholesome young lady" who's also very pretty. A few years ago, Jordin would have agreed with him because she had quite the crush on him for a long time.
Thankfully, he didn't "down" Rihanna. He said he met her a few years ago during the first go 'round of "Chrianna" and said she was very respectful and polite. Still, he just feels like his son could have moved on from her and found someone better.
I wonder if Chris or Rihanna will respond to this story. Neither of them is known for staying quiet when someone has something to say about them.
What do you think? Should Chris' father just have stayed quiet about this whole thing, especially since the "talk" has died down a lot?
Tags:abuse, california, Chris Brown, Clinton Brown, family, father, relationships, Rihanna, son
(Fine) Father And Son Time! NY Knicks' Tyson Chandler And His Son Do GQ
Pop stands at seven feet tall. Little man comes in somewhere around three feet. NY Knicks star Tyson Chandler and his son, Tyson II pose for an adorable feature in GQ that will melt your heart!
In the issue, Tyson talks about going from wearing cowboy boots as a kid growing up in the country, to sporting the fur coat trend on the Chicago Bulls, to his current downtown style tailored to the streets of NYC. He also proves that the all-star is quite in the know when it comes to staying fresh and sophisticated off the court:
"To me, if you're going all black, the cut is everything," Chandler says. "That's what makes it sophisticated."
Tyson and son aren't the only supermen rocking the pages of the current GQ issue, on newsstands now. NBA's fashion elite are also featured in the magazine's "NBA's New Style Wars" feature.
Check out the rest of the pics from the photo shoot on StyleBlazer.com.
Tags:April 2013, GQ, NY Knicks, son, Tyson Chandler, Tyson II
Nothing Like A Father's Love: Dad Writes Son A Letter Telling Him It's Okay That He's Gay
We know all parents aren't this understanding but this story is really touching.
FCKH8.com, a website that sells t-shirts to spread love across all sexualities (in their words, they "fight homo-h8), posted a very sweet letter on Friday morning on their Facebook page that epitomized love. In the letter, an unidentified father told his son, Nate, that he'd overheard a phone conversation about his plans to come out to his dad. In surprising fashion, his dad totally took the pressure off his son.
In the note, he said:
I've known you were gay since you were six. I've loved you since you were born."
The dad also added that he thinks his son and Mike, the guy he was on the phone with, make a cute couple.
Well…anybody have a smile on their face right now? Need a Kleenex? We aren't sure how old Nate is (he's apparently in school as his dad told him to plan to bring home oj and bread after class) but as many in the LGBT community will tell you, it isn't always the easiest thing in the world to come out to friends and family members. Some parents are especially hard to tell because some of them have certain life "expectations" for their children and can't see that being gay, lesbian or bisexual doesn't necessarily stop those things from happening.
I'm sure Nate took a huge sigh of relief after reading that note.
Do you think or hope you'd be this open if you overheard your child having this type of conversation?


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Prostate Cancer
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 210686, 10 pages
Review Article
Bone-Targeted Therapies in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: Evolving Paradigms
1Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA
2Department of Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Received 10 June 2013; Accepted 25 July 2013
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Yet the nation's top disease detective says many other countries do a better job at trying to cut tobacco use.
The reports appear online Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. This week's journal marks the 50th anniversary of a surgeon general report credited with raising health alarms about smoking.
More than 42 percent of U.S. adults smoked in years preceding the report; that rate has dropped to about 18 percent.
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Just before our daughter was born I went on a bit of a cooking spree. We had some close friends who were due a few days before we were and just over a week ago they surprised us with the news that their son was born.
Given that it was their second child, and second son at that, there was nothing they really needed that we could have bought them for the baby. Instead, we came bearing the gift of a home cooked meal.
When our son was born the best thing people did for us was bring food over because more often than not we were so preoccupied with attending to his needs that we neglected our own. The meals that we received were a godsend and we figured this was the best way to both help our friends and welcome their child into the world.
As I was shopping for the ingredients for a super sized meatball and lasagna dinner for them, I figured it was just as easy to double down and freeze some for us. Considering our daughter was born only 10 days later I feel like an absolute genius.
Late last week I was reading the blog of food author Michael Ruhlman, a favorite of mine, and he had a video post on how to make sausage.
While I wouldn't consider myself an expert by any means, I feel am a seasoned sausage maker. My cold smoked barbecue sausage is easily my favorite cased creation. It takes nearly two days to create a batch, but when they grill up with that beautiful mahogany color it makes it all worth while.
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After procuring all the ingredients, I cubed the meat (the chicken and the pancetta) and seasoned it with salt, fresh ground black pepper and finely minced garlic overnight. Father's Day afternoon I mixed in the remaining ingredients I had planned and ground it up.
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The seasoning was perfect and the results were phenomenal.
About an hour after we had the sausage cased and packaged up for storage my wife started to go into labor. A little more than five hours later we welcomed our sweet baby girl into the world.
Now that we are home with her I'm a little more than relieved that the "what's for dinner" question won't be an issue for a week or two. Also, I'm pretty confident that chicken sausage will be making its way into my sausage making rotation.
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No. 634,775. I Patented on. ID, I899. c. 'r. SUDERMAN & e. -W.ILACY.
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vessels it is customary to provide spouts for be readily deflected to any part of the vessels CHARLES T. SUDERMAN AND GEORGE W. LACY, OF GALVESTON, TEXAS.
'' GRAIN-TRIMMING. MACHINE USED IN LOTADING vssssts.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,775, dated October 1! 1899.
Application filed May 2, 1899, Serial No. 715,390. (Nomodeh) To all whom, it may concern:
Be it known that we, CHARLES T. SUDER- MAN and GEORGE W. LACY, residing at Galveston, in the county of Galveston and State of Texas, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Grain-Trimming Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.
This invention is in the nature-0f an improved means for facilitating the loading of cargoes of grain onto vessels. I
In the usual method of loading grain onto loading the grain from the elevator to the vessel and to employ manual labor for distributing the grain to the hold of the vessel, so as to leave no open places between the decks and also to give the vessel a full cargo as well as distribute the cargo over those parts of the hold farthest from the place where the grain is discharged to the vessel, thereby keeping the vessel from shifting and also adding safety as well as utilizing the fullest capacity of the vessel by reason of filling all of the vacant places in the hold thereof. This method of loading vessels is costly, requires considerable time, and does not always satisfactorily distribute the grain. Our invention seeks to provide a simple but efiective means whereby the grain can be properly trimmed within the vessels hold and by which the loading can be effected in a much less time than can be possibly accomplished by the use of laborers and shovels and by which the grain can hold and uniformly distributed over all the parts thereof.
With the aforesaid objects in view our in: vention comprehends areceiving-hopper having discharging apertu res in the bottom thereof, discharge-tubes connected with such dischargerapertures, and pneumatic means for forcing the grain into and through the discharge-tubes at such point or points desired.
Ourinvention also comprehends certain details and combination of parts, such as will be first described and then be specifically pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- V Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of our improved grain-trimming ma- Fig- 2 is a top plan view thereof.
In the practical construction of our invention the same comprehends a hopper A of suitable size, which is adapted to be conveniently placed upon the vessel or other point to receive the grain from the elevator, and the said hopper may have a single discharge in the-bottom, but preferably has two discharges (indicated by a a) at the. bottom of the convergingly-disposed collecting-pockets Z7 Z7, that are divided by the central pyramidal partition B, and the said discharges a a communicate with the pendent boot E E, the lower ends of which have necks e for the convenient passing thereto of flexible hose-sections F. To regulate the flow of the grain, the said boots E have cut-off slides f f, as shown.
D indicates afeed-pipe in which air is forced under pressure from any suitable point, and
thereof and then projected through the bottom of the bin to discharge downward into the boots E. By thus arrangingthe air feed and ejecting pipes the pneumatic suction through the boots E can be regulated at will and one part of the bin or trough made to discharge faster into one pipe F than into the other, as conditions may make desirable.
From the foregoing, taken in connection with the drawings, it will be readily apparout that the grain may be conveyed from the collecting-tro ugh bypneumatic pressure into the ships hold at difierent parts simultaneously, or, when desired, to two or more ships at the same time, the active agency in this invention being conveying the grain by the application of air-pressurein connection with the pipes and hose to throw the grain.
One of the essential advantages of our invention is that the grain can be distributed overany part of the vessel that can be reached by spouts and shovels, as well as to such parts thereof that cannot be practically filled by the ordinary methods of loading.
Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-
1. A collecting-trough having a converging bottom terminating in a plurality of separate discharges; a pendent boot member secured to each discharge; a cut-off valve in each boot; a feed-pipe adapted to receive the air under pressure, said pipe being located outside the bin and having valved laterals terminating in downward extensions discharging into the boots at a point below the cut-oft" valves therein.
2. Anapparatusforthepurposesdescribed, comprising a bin having converging sides whereby 'a contracted bottom is formed; a transverse pyramidal partition B, separating the said bottom into two collecting-comparti all being arranged substantially as shown and described.
J AS. B. STUBBs, FRED J. BURKEY.
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Wright State University Staff Council Minutes Wednesday, August 26, 2009
The WSU Staff Council met for a special meeting on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 2:00 pm, in Room 248 University Hall.
Present: Council Members: Rob Boley, George Collins, Mary Healea, Joanie
Hendricks, Fran Keeley, Jacqueline Neal, Curt Pederson, Vickie Slone, Betty Staugler
from Lake Campus, Michael Sullivan, and Chris Wydman
Convener: Albert Bondurant
Guests: Bill Rickert, Associate Provost
Tony Linz, Benefits and Compensation Generalist, Human Resources
Rich Johnson, Employee Benefits Manager, Human Resources
Albert Bondurant, as the new Convener, opened the meeting by having everyone introduce themselves. He then asked Bill Rickert to speak about the main agenda item:
1. Separation Agreement
Bill Rickert's update was as follows:
The August 24 deadline for faculty or staff to participate in the Early Separation Program (ESP) had passed, and those who chose to participate have until August 31, 2009, to change their mind and opt out. Those who do not opt out as of September 1, 2009 will be in a legally binding agreement to separate from Wright State University by retiring or resigning on their agreed-upon exit date. There are a total of at least 111 participants including 31 classified staff, 2 Teamsters, 40 unclassified staff, and 38 faculty. More applications are probably in the mail and not yet received. Names are not being widely released to protect privacy of individuals, although their supervisors will be notified.
Around 46 extensions of the exit date have been approved, which will be confirmed by an email and a hard copy statement to each participant.
The university has made no agreements with any participant to rehire that person in any capacity. While it is possible that a few participants might be rehired in part-time, temporary positions, such arrangements will almost certainly be significantly fewer than they have been in the past.
Each dean and vice president will need to pay the costs of these early separation incentives (as well as the pay-out on Benefits) from savings they generate. Overall, the budget cuts that have been made--some of which have been made possible by the early separation program--allow for a balanced WSU budget. If the State revenues decline further, however, the situation can worsen.
The university will attempt to fill classified vacancies internally, moving those whose jobs have been eliminated into vacated positions. While all may not be pleased with the new assignments, this procedure should minimize disruption to individuals and offices.
2. Health Care
Rich Johnson said that for 2010, the HDHP and the Anthem PPO and HMO Plans will still be available. Consistent with what has occurred in recent years, employee premiums are expected to increase starting January 1, 2010.
3. Human Resources Survey
Tony Linz said the HR Survey is not on the website yet. It will be displayed prominently on the website, announced through quarterly emails, and also indicated on cards displayed in HR. Staff Council recommends the survey be implemented as soon as possible.
When asked if Human Resources is still moving to a new location, Bill said that this move is still expected but the timing is unknown due to numerous reasons, including other priorities at the university (e.g., Budget, Separation Agreement packages, lack of key personnel in Facilities Planning and Development) that have pushed the move to the background. Most likely, the move will not occur before February, 2010.
The meeting was adjourned at 3:00 pm. The next meeting of the WSU Staff Council will be held on Wednesday, September 23, 2009.