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Stained Glass Appeal
The stained glass at Victoria Baths is one of the building's finest features - there is a wide variety of designs and the quality of the windows was very high. It is also unique for a municipal baths to have such a lavish level of decoration.
In the Males 1st Class and Gala pool, there were originally windows in each of the gable-end walls, but also three large themed windows in the side wall. These windows were lost many years ago, but we have original images which show both the design and the theme. One window depicted AQUA, and another depicted ZEPHYR. The images above include the original AQUA window.
As a first step to reinstating all three windows, the Friends of Victoria Baths and the Victoria Baths Trust launched an appeal to raise £13,000 to replace one of these windows and this total was reached in 2012. The AQUA window was installed in March 2013.
These seven smaller windows in the Gala Pool are at changing cubicle height and are all fully restored to the original green and white lilies design found in archive pictures. Click on photos number 12 to 15 on this page (top right hand corner) to see the beautifully restored windows. Thank you to the following supporters who generously funded their restoration: Stefan Bielecki, The Bonner Family, Susan Booth, Jill Earnshaw, Anne Forshaw, Elaine Skeffington (in memory of John Skeffington), Rachel and Hugo Steven and The Friends of Victoria Baths.
A further appeal raised funds to restore the ZEPHYR window, which was publicly unveiled on the Baths' 110th birthday, 7 September 2016, by the Lord Mayor of Manchester, Councillor Carl Austin-Behan.
The Lord Mayor also inaugurated the newly-restored FRED LUCAS MEMORIAL WINDOW, a gable-end window in the gala pool. This restoration was only made possible through a gift from the Lucas family in memory of their late father Fred Lucas 1923-2015. Sincere thanks to John, Mark and Andrew Lucas.


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Adams State University Alumni Email Accounts
Adams State University has taken advantage of Google's Apps for Education in order to offer an Alumni email service. In many ways, an alumni e-mail account is similar to an ordinary Gmail account, with two key differences:
- No advertising!
- Instead of having your address end in @gmail.com, you'll have @alumni.adams.edu
This is a free service to alumni who wish to retain a college e-mail connection. Your e-mail will be stored on Google-owned servers. Your inbox can be accessed by you from a desktop e-mail client like Outlook, via Google's webmail service, or mobile devices such as the iPhone or BlackBerry. Current students can request for messages in their ASU student email account to be transferred to their new alumni account, as well as having any future messages automatically forwarded to their new alumni email account.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- Is this e-mail "for life?"
We certainly hope so! The reality is technology is changing! Who knows what e-mail will look like in 30 years, or whether it will go the way of so many other technologies before it. That said, we're confident that both Google and Adams State University will be around in some form for a very long time. It is therefore reasonable to assume that your new @alumni.adams.edu account will be too. Of course, e-mail usage is subject to Google's terms of use, and to the College's Alumni Email Acceptable Use Policy. As such, we reserve the right to suspend or deactivate e-mail accounts if there is any breach of the user agreements.
- I already have a Gmail account, so how does this help me?
Only Adams State University has the right to give out Google accounts that end in "@alumni.adams.edu", which can be useful for joining some closed networks, like Facebook, or just for reasons of personal pride.
- Can my "@alumni.adams.edu" account be forwarded to another account?
Yes. In the top right corner of any Google mail page, click on the link marked "Settings," then on the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab, and forward the account as you please.
- Can anyone at the college read my e-mail?
No. ASU and Google both respect your privacy. ASU employees have no access to individual alumni accounts.
- If I'm a graduate and also a returning student/staff member/faculty member, can I keep this address as well as my @adams.edu?
Yes. One is being offered to you by virtue of your staff/student status, and the other by virtue of your alumni status. The two email accounts are physically separate, and will only forward or share email from one to the other if you wish them to.
- What personal information is being shared with Google?
The only personal information provided to Google by ASU are the names of participating alumni (for the "From" line of the e-mail), and your e-mail prefix (the part before the @ symbol).
- Where is my e-mail physically located?
All @alumni.adams.edu accounts store their files in Google-owned servers based in the United States, stored along with other North American Gmail accounts.
Acceptable Use Policy for the ASU Alumni Email
The use of an Adams State University "branded" alumni email account is provided to help ASU alumni maintain contact with one another and to assist in their transition from college to the professional workplace. When using an ASU alumni-branded email account, individuals are expected to respect the college's good name in dealings both within and outside of the college.
Alumni.adams.edu addresses may not be utilized as return addresses for commercial email solicitations, advertising, offensive or illegal communications, communications which infringe intellectual property rights, or communications which harass, intimidate or otherwise violate the rights of others. Further, alumni email accounts should not be used in a manner which states or implies the college's endorsement of other organizations, products or services.
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NOTE: A new map editor is being worked on here: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5309&start=0 http://forums.wz2100.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4630
This is windows only (as is EW32), and is written in visual baisc.
Step one, get this: http://files.wz2100.net/tools/BetaWorldEditor32.exe and install it.
Step two, get the file below, and use that .exe file when you run it.
This should fix it, so that when you create a map, no need to change anything, just drop it in the maps directory, and it should work.
That is assuming you read http://docs.wz2100.net/map%20tutorials/WorldEditor32bitBeta/index.html and followed the tutorials.
No, there is no source to this patched file, since I didn't have any to begin with.
NOTE: cleaning up this thread. All OT posts will be removed.
NOTE, Editworld 32 does NOT support 3/5/6/7 player maps! For that, you *must* use FlaME 1.10+ or manually fix editworld. We do NOT have the source code to fix this.
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Wednesday's blog entry looking at the Sweet 16 was apparently a work of fiction and has little to do with reality. At least Wichita State won and I didn't actually say Miami would be Marquette I just hinted at it. I can't even come up with an excuse for why I picked Indiana.
After two games that went right down to the wire last weekend Marquette had a much easier time beating Miami on Saturday. Marquette will now play Syracuse who picked apart an Indiana team who played a horrible game except for a brief spurt of energy to start the second half. Otherwise, Syracuse was totally in control. Just because I'm tired of picking against both teams I will say that either Syracuse or Marquette will win that game.
Out in Los Angeles Ohio State escaped with a victory over Arizona in the only game of the evening with any drama as Ohio State came from behind with a last second shot to move on to face Wichita State who totally dominated a very over matched La Salle team. This sets up a game that I am really looking forward to as Wichita State has proven they can play with anyone and are an outstanding defensive team while Ohio State proved they can play under intense pressure and can hit the big shot when they need to. This could be the game of the day for Saturday.
The St. Louis Cardinals wrapped up their spring training by signing Adam Wainright to a long term contract which will likely keep him in a Cardinals uniform for the remainder of his career. With the issues Chris Carpenter faces with his arm which will likely keep him from ever pitching again it was very important that the Cardinals get Wainright locked in to be that veteran presence for the pitching staff. Wainright has leadership ability and can give you quality starts just about everytime he takes the mound so this was a great move by the Cardinals in my opinion.
Spring training also saw any questions about whether or not Jaime Garcia's shoulder was fully healed get answered as Garcia had a really good spring and his last outing was outstanding. Jake Westbrook and Lance Lynn both struggled at times but appear to be rounding into form and Shelby Miller emerged as the fifth starter at least for now with Joe Kelly waiting if Miller falters.
Third baseman David Freese begins the year on the DL with back tightness, Matt Holiday is nursing a sore rib cage but should be ready for opening day and Carlos Beltran is still recovering from a fractured toe but will almost definitely be in the lineup for opening day. The Cardinals begin the season Monday in Arizona and then head to San Francisco before returning home for their home opener on April 8.
As I have mentioned previously the Kansas City Royals have had an excellent spring training and set a franchise record for the most spring training wins. The Royals are scoring runs in bunches and have several hitters who have put up very lofty numbers this spring. After struggling early the pitching staff have collectively pitched much better as of late and there is a sense of optimism going into this season which the Royals fans haven't had for quite a while. Kansas City also opens the season Monday in Chicago against the White Sox where it is expected to be in the upper 20's to low 30's.
At least for the next couple of days spring sports can go on as scheduled and it will actually feel like spring. Truman State baseball and softball have been going on for a while with the softball team getting off to a quick start this season. After some early season struggles the baseball team has played better as of late.
All Kirksville High School sports have started with the girls soccer team, boys and girls track team, boys tennis and baseball all having been able to get in a couple of games over the past three weeks. If I'm not mistaken all the sports including boys golf are set to have at least one game at home next week if the weather says it's OK.
We'll be back on Monday with a review of all the weekend's sports action. Please check out all the blogs on this site and thanks as always for your support of this one. The Facebook page for this blog is coming along slowly but we will get there at some point.
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As we begin a new year in North Central Florida, we thought we'd take one last look back at the best of 2012, according to web readers.
As we begin a new year in North Central Florida, we thought we'd take one last look back at the best of 2012, according to web readers. These are the stories, in order, that received the most page views on gainesville.com:
1. "Charges unlikely against man who shot robbers": 650,378 page views. Published July 16, this article out of Ocala included the video of Internet cafe patron Samuel Williams, 71, shooting and injuring two men as they tried to rob the business.
2. "Man tells police group yelled 'Trayvon,' then beat him": 216,821 page views. Published April 9, this article involved the police investigation of the beating of a 27-year-old man who was walking home from midtown bars early Saturday when he said he was jumped by five to eight men who shouted "Trayvon" before the attack.
3. "9-foot alligator attacks man going for dip in creek near homeless camp": 114,388 page views. Published June 11, this self-explained story told of James Wimmer's encounter with an alligator. Wimmer survived, though the gator, "Three Legs," ultimately did not.
4. "Search for missing student centered in southwest Gainesville": 80,359 page views. Published Sept. 25, this article concerned the first court appearance of Pedro Bravo, 18, in the disappearance of his friend, 18-year-old Christian Aguilar, while family and volunteers continued to search for the missing University of Florida student. Bravo ultimately was charged with murder, and Aguilar's body was found by hunters on Oct. 12.
5. "10 dead in crashes; I-75 temporarily closed Monday morning": 80,085 page views. Published Jan. 29, this article appeared on the Web — along with photos, videos and sidebars — the afternoon of the deadliest auto crash in the history of North Central Florida and possibly the state.
6. "'Trayvon' shouted as group attacks Good Samaritan": 79,830 views. Published April 12, this article told of another attack in Gainesville in which the name of Trayvon Martin was invoked again, this time during an attack by a group that police say stomped on a man who was scuffling with a robbery suspect on the Bo Diddley Community Plaza.
7. "Police believe UF student jumped to death at stadium": 77,751 page views. Published April 15, this article concerned the suicide of 26-year-old University of Florida student Michael Richard Edmonds Jr., who apparently jumped to his death from a stairwell along the west stands at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
8. "GPD: Man mistakes disabled vet's wheelchair as costume, assaults him": 69,818 page views. Published Nov. 1, this article recounted the attack on paralyzed U.S. Army veteran Daniel Priotti, who was wearing a uniform while celebrating Halloween, by a Marine veteran in a pink tutu.
9. "I-75 survivor: 'It looked like the end of the world'": 65,411 page views. Published Jan. 29, this story told the account of Steven Camps II, 22, who was injured in the deadly Interstate 75 pileups.
10. "Investigators: 21 arrested in online child-sex sting": 65,375 page views. Published Feb. 6, this article looked deeper at the arrests made the previous week as part of Operation Tail Feather, revealing the arrests of a second-grade teacher, a physician's assistant and a man who said he mentors children at area churches.


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Avalanche descends on Pioneers
In the McMinnville boys basketball team's quest for Portland, it must first make a stop in Aloha.
The Grizzlies advanced to the second round of the Class 6A state playoffs after dispatching Oregon City, 59-51, on Wednesday night in The Furnace. Mac will play Sunset -- winners of a 6A first-round game over McNary -- on Saturday at 5 p.m. for a spot in the quarterfinals and a trip to the Moda Center in Portland.
McMinnville senior Gage Gubrud scored a game-high 22 points, and Vince Boumann added 19 points and nine rebounds. Briggs Young led the Pioneers (13-12 overall) with 21 points, and Austin DeWitz scored 15; all of Oregon City's points were scored by four players.
The Grizzlies (19-5 overall) entered the third quarter trailing 39-37 but opened the third quarter on a 13-2 run to keep the Pioneers at bay. McMinnville made 9-of-12 free throws down the stretch to seal the victory.


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Man shot, killed in Beltzhoover
Teen injured in shooting
Man shot, killed in Beltzhoover
Teen injured in shooting
Pittsburgh police said a 35-year-old man was shot and killed after returning home from a convenience store with his girlfriend in Beltzhoover early Saturday.
Authorities said a man on East Warrington Avenue started shooting at the couple Avenue as they were walking up steps to the woman's house.
Police said six other people were in the house at the time. They said a bullet grazed a 15-year-old girl's arm, however the injury was minor and she did not go to the hospital.
Detectives believe the shooter fired at least 15 shots from a hand gun.
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One personal goal is still out there for Kain Colter, who said in August that he dreams about racking up 100 passing, 100 rushing and 100 receiving yards in a game.
Beyond that, it's hard to imagine a better performance than Colter's against Indiana on Saturday. He rushed for four touchdowns, tying a Northwestern record, and chewed up 161 yards on just 14 carries. He caught nine balls – six on third down – for 131 yards.
His 292 all-purpose yards were 42 shy of the school's all-time mark, set by Jason Wright in 2003.
The accolades have come pouring in for a guy who was strictly a quarterback for NU's first four games this season:
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Shia LaBeouf Left Orphans Because of Beef With Alec Baldwin
That's why they call him Shia "the Beef."
Yesterday, we learned that Shia LaBeouf left the production of what was to be his first Broadway play, Orphans. The reason he gave was "creative differences." LaBeouf then took to Twitter to expound upon that and post e-mails from those involved. From these correspondences, you get a very clear sense that those "differences" were between LaBeouf and Alec Baldwin.
In one e-mail, the play's director Daniel Sullivan wrote: "I'm too old for disagreeable situations. You're one hell of a great actor. Alec is who he is. You are who you are. You two are incompatible. I should have known it." This was in response to an e-mail from LaBeouf, in which the actor kind of writes a prose-poem about what it means to be a man ("A man owns up. That's why Mark McGwire is not a man. A man grasps his mistakes") and apologizes to Baldwin: "Alec, Im [sic] sorry for my part of a dis-agreeable situation."
LaBeouf also posted an e-mail exchange with Baldwin. In his message, Baldwin wrote: "When the change comes, how do we handle it, whether it be good or bad? What do we learn? I don't have an unkind word to say about you. You have my word." Nine minutes later, LaBeouf responded in all lowercase: "same. be well. good luck on the play. you'll be great." That might've been a curt response, but, hey, at least we know LaBeouf isn't the type of guy who just doesn't respond to your e-mail for like a week.


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or whatever your name is now...
Don't be so bloody rude and you may get more folks updating this thread.
Yes that is what I did and it was resolved within 30 days.
If a CR line is wrong, it is presumed correct unless you notify the authority.
Yes dispute it.
Just be prepared to offer tangibles to prove that it is wrong.
The burden of proof lies with you.
Do the dispute ONLINE.
It will take about 10 days to get resolution.
You MAY get an email saying they are "still investigating".
If they side with the lender, they will tell you. They will not tell you WHY.
At this point you will need to have your documentation ready.
Place a comment on the CR and state that it is incorrect.
Immediately afterward MAIL them your documentation.
At minimum this should be deleted off.
After I went through this my score jumped 78 points and I and a few of my mates who went through this felt that it was a war of resolve. In the end it had little to do with accuracy and more to do with "oh heck if he is going to keep bugging us well then ok, we will take it off."
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or whatever your name is now...
Don't be so bloody rude and you may get more folks updating this thread.
Hi there.
I'm not sure what you are referring to when you say the OP was/is being rude. I see no evidence of that although admittedly the written word can be interpreted different ways by different people because it's difficult to know the writer's intent. Can you give an example of perceived rudeness?
From a BK years ago to:
EX - 3/11 pulled by lender- 835, EQ - 2/11-816, TU - 2/11-782
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem".
thanks marinevet, I don't fink I were being rude to this chap or anyone else...he's all sixes and sevens.
Ok, so I called DOE today to hopefully get some answers, and I did. I told them how it wasn't being reported correctly and they said that it was the credit bureau's fault and that they haven't updated the reports yet, which is weird because they reported in September for August. They told me to call the bureaus and take it up with them. They did however specify that all the negs should be TOTALLY removed...I'll believe it when I see it. It just seems weird that ALL 3 bureaus are still reporting the negs...
As of right now on all my reports
2 of the defaulted loans have been removed from my report..
All the collections from ECMC have been removed..
But only TU is reporting my new loans..
Im thinking about disbuting the other trade lines that were not removed and see what happens..
My Scores right now are higher then I ever remember them being..
Yesterday all the old trade lines came off my report and my score jumped 20 points..
Wondering what my scores will do when the new loans show up on my Equifax report..
they reported the positive student loan tradeline for september, but haven't reported on the negs yet...I can only hope that they are going to fall off...hopefully I have good news for everyone soon...i'll keep you posted.
I'm in exactly the same boat as you Ficotron. My rehab went through on Aug 1 and the new tradelines are reporting normally but the old ones are showing on TU and Equifax. For whatever reason they had fallen off of Experian long ago. My mortgage broker is trying a rapid rescore to see if they can get them removed because they are keeping me from qualifying for a conventional mortgage, which includes Fannie Mae's Homepath. FHA doesn't care for whatever reason though. I'll let you know of that works or not. Thanks for all the updates by the way.
I can tell you for an absolute fact that after completing my loan rehabilatation all negatives were erased completely. In fact it shows up on my report as though I made my payments on time the whole time I was in default. So for the last couple of years it now appears on my report: OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK........ for the last year or so. I did my loan rehabilation through Direct Loans I believe and my score went up significantly. My rehabilation program was for 9 months and I am living proof that they did what they said they would. Hope this helps and will be glad to give you any other info that may help....
I just made my 8th rehab payment, so hopefully, within the next month or two, I'll be able to give you some information on how things go on my end as well! Its always good to see when others are successfully getting all their lates removed, and tons of good-standing information on there reports.


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This story is part of the "Men In America" series on All Things Considered.
Is America's dominant "man up" ethos a hypermasculine cultural construct, a tenet rooted in biological gender difference or something in between?
Educator Ashanti Branch doesn't much care or, more accurately, doesn't have time to care.
He's too busy trying to make a difference in boys' lives.
Boys in American public schools are suspended from and drop out of school at higher rates than girls. Black and Latino boys are suspended the most. Boys make up half of the student population in American public schools. But among those who are suspended multiple times and expelled, 75 percent are boys.
Branch, now an assistant principal at Montera Middle School in Oakland, Calif., is working to change that. When he first became a teacher about a decade ago at a high school in the San Francisco Bay Area, Branch soon realized he had a problem with the boys: Nearly half of all black and Latino boys were failing his math class, and almost half were failing all their classes.
"That was not OK for me," he says. "I was not willing to sit back and watch that happen."
So in 2004, at San Lorenzo High School on the east side of San Francisco Bay, he founded the Ever Forward Club for boys.
"When I started it I told these young men, 'I'm gonna bribe you. I'm gonna buy you lunch once a week and you're basically gonna teach me how to be a better teacher.' "
He came to school early and stayed late. And he always tried to have something in his room for kids to snack on. He created a safe place where boys can talk with him and each other, play, hang out and do their homework without fear of being seen as weak or uncool. This year Branch started a new boys Ever Forward Club at Montera Middle School in Oakland.
A Bigger Tool Box
Branch tries to foster emotional maturity through conversation, play and community. The big goal is to help give boys a bigger emotional tool box to better handle the challenges of school and life now and into the future.
"The pain that they're holding on to that they don't really have a space to [let] go, the anger, the sadness — all those things. How can I help them tap into that in ways that they can let it go and not walk around angry all the time? I told one young man the other day: 'You walk around with a tool box full of hammers. You hammer everything. All you needed was a little screwdriver.' "
Branch is a burly, 39-year-old African-American with long, braided hair. He got a degree in civil engineering and had a successful career as a construction engineer and project manager. But he felt unfulfilled. He says he wanted to do more than make money. He followed his mother into the teaching profession.
"OK, check in and be respectful of each other, OK?" Branch shouts to about a dozen club members who've gathered on a recent Friday afternoon at Montera's courtyard. A new administrator here, Branch this school year brought his Ever Forward Club for boys to sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders for the first time.
The kids stand and then sit in a semi-circle at the end of the school day — and school year. "So what are we gonna do, like, talk about our feelings like we always do?" one student asks with a smile.
Today, Branch has some questions for the group. "So what are some things we need to do better or different next year, like what are some things you all want to see?"
Jacob MacLeod has a ready answer. "More real sports so we can make it, like, more competitive." Other students suggest more field trips away from school, camping and BBQs.
Branch hopes his boys club chips away at the hypermasculinity of the "man up, be tough" code that he believes can block boys' empathy and retard their humanity.
"We're ... saying, 'You hate high school? Come with us.' We want to help high school become fun for you," he tells the boys. He firmly believes that the academic challenges can be overcome once boys bolster their sense of self and gain confidence. "The [schoolwork] is easy," he says, once they realize, " 'I just gotta get connected to who I am.' "
Big elements in helping boys connect to who they are include playing together, hanging out, laughing and, above all, talking. He says his Oakland roots regularly come in handy.
"This is where I grew up. So I tell kids, 'You know the game you're playing? Man, I know this game. I'm born and raised here.' I use that phrase at least once a week."
On this day, as part of their weekly conversation starter, he asks the boys to check in and talk about what kind of week they had.
Sixth-grader Cornell Flournoy-Alexander is wearing a sharp-looking, silken bathrobe. It gives him an air of pre-fight Muhammad Ali with a dash of Hugh Hefner.
"Well, today in history class it was 'A Day in Rome' and I was a gladiator. So I just decided to wear this robe. It's cool. I just like it," he says.
Alexander, Roman gladiator for a day, rates his week a 10 out of 10.
"I've raised up all my grades. And I don't have any F's. And, it's cool, but I'm kinda still confused how to get some grades up. Some of 'em are like D pluses. But today was a nice day," he tells his friends.
'We're All Brothers'
On a Friday afternoon at the end of a long week, and a long school year, the last thing many of the kids seem to want to do is sit still in the sun and talk.
There are some fits and starts and ubiquitous middle-school fart jokes: "Ohh off with his butt!" yells one student as kids scurry away from a flatulence bomb.
Yet remarkably the students soon settle down, sitting and listening to each other intently.
"I feel like we're all brothers and we can just talk about anything," says sixth-grader Terrence Austin. "And we play games together. And we really make a bond."
Seventh-grader Gabriel Goodspeed gives his week an '8' because, he says, his English teacher gave him a B on a project he was certain was A material.
"He made some pretty lame excuses about it. But I'm happy about today too. Like watching the game. That was really fun to see all my friends without having to worry about teachers. Some kids made some pretty bad choices today at the softball game," Goodspeed says.
Those bad choices he's referring to are the three eighth-graders who were busted with pot and rolling papers at the annual teachers vs. students softball game.
It's a familiar problem for Branch: Boys get sent to the principal's office far more often than girls. After years of teaching and running his after-school clubs, Branch says he has learned this: Sometimes boys just gotta move. So instead of playing disciplinary Whack-A-Mole with their frenetic energy, Branch says it's key to try to channel it when boys act out.
"Disruptive. Disruptive. Disruptive. I'm like, 'What's going on with you?' 'Oh all I did was go get a piece of paper from my friend.' And I'm like, 'OK, you're moving. Your body is trying to keep yourself awake. So you're moving.' "
So whenever needed he'll give boys a quick chore ... or errand.
"So you're gonna go water the garden, all right? You're gonna go water the garden."
Boys, he believes, are too often made to feel like they're in trouble because they're out of their seats. So he's learned to employ a safety valve dance time he calls "brain breaks." A little Michael Jackson to the rescue.
"Our boys are in trouble; they're in crisis now," Branch says. "Because of the type of energy that they are bringing to school, maybe they don't have the kind of house and neighborhood they can go play at in the evening."
In the two high schools where Branch has started Ever Forward Clubs, he says, they helped dramatically halt the class-failure and dropout rates. He says about 90 percent of the kids who went through his club went on to graduate.
'He Punched Her!'
But while overseeing the last Ever Forward meeting of the school year, he soon has to put out yet another fire. Welcome to the world of an assistant principal in Oakland: Word comes that a boy — not one of those in his boys club — has just punched a girl in the mouth. The girl's mother has arrived, and she's furious.
"This boy's a problem. You need to be callin' his parents. I'm pressing charges!" the mother shouts.
"I'll deal with this situation," Branch tries to tell her. Witnesses, however, say the girl student was also no angel. "Two sides to the story, ma'am."
"I don't care. Did she touch him?"
"I'm hearing two stories," Branch says again.
"He punched her, dude. He punched her. That's the only story you need to be hearin' right now!" the mother yells.
The police are called. Tense conversations and paperwork follow. Branch knows the boy with the hitting problem is likely to end up in one of his Ever Forward Clubs. You see, the Friday after-school club is voluntary, an elective. But the club's shorter Monday lunchtime sessions are not. Disruptive boys get an invitation and attendance is mandatory.
Branch has an ambitious goal to expand the Ever Forward Club to 20 public middle schools and 20 high schools by the fall of 2015. This summer he plans to start building a mentor-training arm for the program. He wants to expand the model to teachers and community members who want to get involved in a boys program he believes is changing lives.
This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block.
And I'm Audie Cornish. We're talking this summer about what it means to be a man America. And today we're looking at boys.
MARIO LEWIS: Boys love balls, boys love running, boys love getting dirty.
STEPHANIE COGGIN: They're like little monkeys. You can't tell them to calm down because it's their nature to be like that. There's bruises and boo-boos.
CHRISTIE WELSH: I would say that raising two boys is full of energy and chaos. I need to go grab one of them who is climbing on top of the tree house. Get down from there, thank you. I know you saw your friends doing that.
CORNISH: That's Christie Welsh (PH) of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Before that Stephanie Coggin (PH) and Mario Lewis (PH), both of Bridgeport, Connecticut. All three parents putting it out there boys are about action.
BLOCK: And that's often what gets them into trouble at the playground, at home and in school. A couple of facts to consider, 75 percent of students who are suspended multiple times and expelled are boys and boys are more likely than girls to become dropouts.
CORNISH: NPR's Eric Westervelt takes us to one middle school program in Oakland, California that's working to shift that trend.
UNIDENTIFIED BOY 1: I forgot it was students vs. teachers.
UNIDENTIFIED BOY 2: I'd choose pizza over ice cream.
ERIC WESTERVELT, BYLINE: Not long after becoming a teacher, Ashanti Branch, realized he had a problem with the boys. Almost half of all black and Latino boys were failing his high school math class and almost half of all their classes. They were smart kids and Branch couldn't understand why so many were failing and dropping out.
ASHANTI BRANCH: That was not OK for me. I was not willing to just sit back and watch that happen. I told these young men - I said look it, I'm going to bribe you. I'm going to buy you lunch once a week and you basically going to teach me how to be a better teacher.
WESTERVELT: At that East Bay High School, out of those free lunch listening sessions, Branch eventually created the Ever Forward Club. He came to school early, stayed late and always had something in his room for kids to eat and open ears.
UNIDENTIFIED BOY 3: Let's go, let's do this.
WESTERVELT: Slowly Branch created a safe place where boys could play, talk with him and each other and do their homework without fear of being seen as uncool or weak.
BRANCH: We like saying, you hate high school, come with us all right. 'Cause we want to help high school become fun for you and there for once it's fun for you - once you can realize that this is - the work is easy. I just have to get connected to who I am.
WESTERVELT: At that high school and now at Montera Middle School in Oakland Branch helped boys connect to who they are by playing together, hanging out, laughing and above all talking. The big goals is to give boys a bigger emotional toolbox to better handle the challenges of school and life - in essence, to help foster emotional maturity through dialogue.
BRANCH: The pain that they're holding on to that they don't really have a space of letting go, like the anger, the sadness and all those things. How do I help them tap into that in a way that they can like let it go and not walk around angry all the time? I told one young man the other day, you walk around with a toolbox full of hammers, you hammer everything. All you needed was a little screwdriver.
WESTERVELT: Branch is a burly 39-year-old African-American with long braided hair. He got a civil engineering degree and had a successful career as a construction engineer and project manager but he felt a bit unfulfilled. His mom's a teacher and he wanted to do more than make money. He became a public school teacher. Now an assistant principal at Oakland's Montera Middle School, Branch this year brought the Ever Forward Boys club to sixth, seventh and eighth graders for the first time.
UNIDENTIFIED BOY 4: What are we going to do? Talk about our feelings?
WESTERVELT: A dozen boys sit in a semi-circle at the end of the school day. Part of the aim of Branch's afterschool club is to chip away at the hyper-masculinity, the man-up code that Branch believes can impede boys empathy and retard their humanity.
BRANCH: What is some things we need to do better or different next year? Like what are some things you want to see?
JACOB MACLEOD: More real sports, so we can make it like competitive.
WESTERVELT: Jacob MacLeod and other club members start to rate their day and week, it's part of their weekly conversation starter check in. Sixth-grader Cornell Flournoy-Alexander has come to school this day wearing a sharp looking silken bathrobe. It gives him an air of pre-fight Mohammed Ali meets Hugh Hefner.
BRANCH: I like this robe, what you dressed as?
CORNELL FLOURNOY-ALEXANDER: Today in history class it was a day in Rome. I was a gladiator so I just decided to wear this robe.
WESTERVELT: Alexander gladiator for a day gives his week at 10.
FLOURNOY-ALEXANDER: I raised up all my grades and I don't have any F's. It's cool but I'm kind of still confused how to get up some grades even though they are not F's - some are like D pluses.
WESTERVELT: On Friday afternoon at the end of a long week and school year, the last thing many kids seem to want is to sit still and talk. There are fits and starts including the occasional fart joke disruptions.
UNIDENTIFIED BOY 5: Jacob, why you farting?>>MACLEOD: No, I didn't.
WESTERVELT: But remarkably the boys mostly sit and listen to each other intently. Sixth-grader Terrence Austin...
TERRENCE AUSTIN: I feel like we're all brothers and we can just talk about anything and we play games together and we really make a bond.
WESTERVELT: Seventh-grader Gabriel Goodspeed gives his week and 8, as his en English teacher gave him a B on a project he was certain was A material.
GABRIEL GOODSPEED: He made some pretty lame excuses about it but I am pretty happy about today, watching the baseball game was fun to see all my friends without having to worry about teachers. Some people did some pretty some pretty bad choices today at the softball game.
WESTERVELT: Those bad choices he's referring to are the three kids busted for smoking pot at the end-of-the-year teachers vs. students softball game. It's a familiar problem for Branch. Boys get sent to the office more, a lot more. After years teaching and running his afterschool clubs Branch says he's learned this, sometimes boys just got to move. So instead of playing disciplinary whack a mole with boys frenetic energy Branch tries to channel it.
BRANCH: Disruptive, disruptive, disruptive. I'm like, what's going on with you, all I did was go get a piece of paper for my friend and I'm like, OK, you're moving. Your body is trying to keep itself awake, so you're moving.
WESTERVELT: So now he'll give them a quick chore or an errand.
BRANCH: You're going to water the garden. All right? You're going to go water the garden.
WESTERVELT: Branch says he didn't want boys to always feel like they're in trouble because they're out of their seats, so now he improvises. He'll often turn to a safety valve dance time he calls brain breaks - yep, a little Michael Jackson to the rescue.
BRANCH: Everyone's going to dance, move your body, I don't care what you do move your body, right. It began to change things and even that one minute of taking time out made everything else more productive.
WESTERVELT: But welcome the world of an assistant principal. Branch soon has to put out yet another fire. Word comes that a boy, not in his boys club, has punched a girl in the mouth. The girl's mom has arrived and she's livid.
UNIDENTIFIED MOTHER: You need to be calling his parents. That's what you need be doing because I'm pressing charges.
BRANCH: I will deal with that situation, I promise you.
WESTERVELT: Witnesses however say the girl was also no angel.
BRANCH: There's two sides to the story ma'am.
MOTHER: I don't care. Did she touch him?
BRANCH: I'm hearing two stories.
MOTHER: He punched her dude. He punched her. That's the only story you need to be caring about now...
WESTERVELT: The police come. Tense conversations and paperwork follow. Branch knows the boy with the hitting problem needs to be in one of his Ever Forward Clubs. You see the Friday after school club is voluntary. But the clubs Monday lunchtime sessions are not. Disruptive boys get an invitation and attendance is mandatory. Eric Westervelt, NPR News, Oakland. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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