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Why buy from a breeder when there are plenty of homeless pups in shelters???
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Hello everyone!! I am looking to adopt a pit pup. I have been speaking with someone and she suggested I post here and ask any questions I have to make sure I'm ready for one. I really can't think of any questions, so I was wondering if maybe you all have any advice I should know to make sure I'm ready. Just some info. I have a 1/2 boxer 1/2 pit already so I know they can be a handful to say the least and I know about same sex aggression so I'm only considering a male pup. Thanx ahead for any info you can share!!
This is the best starting point.
Steph-n-Wolf wrote:WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM A PIT BULL?
• High levels of exercise EVERY DAY
• A wonderful family dog
• A very "people loving" dog
• A dog that can be destructive to furniture or other objects if left
• An easy to train dog that can make a wonderful partner in agility,
jogging, or other activities
• May not get along with other dogs, especially of the same sex
• A dog that you cannot leave unattended with other dogs, no matter
how well they get along
• A pet that you may be unable to take to off-leash dog parks
• A poor guard dog; it is not a breed trait to be defensive of car,
home, etc.
• A social dog; most pit bulls greet strangers like long lost friends
• A healthy dog that is not especially prone to many genetic diseases
• A 12 + year commitment
• A dog that you may be unable to travel with due to breed specific
• Criticism from friends/family members that are misinformed about
the breed
• A dog that requires high quality food to maintain health
• Vet bills for regular check ups, spay/neuter, vaccinations, and flea
and other parasite treatments
• A dog that is safe with people. Human aggression, severe shyness,
and instability are not traits typically found in Pit bulls. Pit Bulls with
these traits are not good representatives of the breed and should not
be placed into homes.
Pit Bull Myths
• MYTH: All Pit Bulls are mean and vicious.
It is reported on temperament tests conducted by the American Temperament Test Society that Pit Bulls had a passing rate of 95% -- compared to only 77% of the general dog population. (Beagles scored 78.2%, and Golden Retrievers scored 83.2%) These temperament tests consist of putting a dog through a series of unexpected situations, some involving strangers. Any signs of unprovoked aggression or panic in these situations result in failure of the test. The achievement of Pit Bulls in this study disproves that they are inherently aggressive to people. (Please visit ATTS.org)
• MYTH: A Pit Bull that shows aggression towards an animal will go for people next.
"Many working breeds have antipathy towards other animals - coonhounds go mad at the sight of a raccoon, foxhounds will not hesitate to tear a dog-like fox to shreds, greyhounds live to chase and maul rabbits and even dog-like coyotes. Even the ever-friendly beagle will slaughter a rabbit, given the chance. And yet the greyhound, coon and foxhound and beagle are among the friendliest of breeds towards humans. And it is the same with the pit bulldog. His work through the years has been control of other animals - never humans. A correct pit bull is more often than not submissive toward all humans, and adores children. A pit bull that snarls, lunges or growls at non-threatening humans is NOT typical of the breed." (Written by Diane Jessup) Pit bulls that do show aggressive behavior towards humans are not typical of the breed and should be humanely euthanized.
• MYTH: If a Pit Bull was never trained to fight, it will be safe w ith other dogs.
Pit Bulls can live peacefully with other dogs and animals. However, the Pit Bull has historically been bred to take down large animals. Early and continual socialization can help a Pit Bull be more animal friendly. Genetics, however, play an important role in how the dog will respond to other dogs and animals. A Pit Bull that will fight another dog if unattended is a normal Pit Bull. Even if a Pit Bull does not start the fight, it has the potential to seriously injure or kill a dog once in the fight. The Pit Bull has been bred to not back down and withstand pain until the goal is met. This quality does not carry true in all Pit Bulls, but it is safe to assume it is a potential in any Pit Bull in order to avoid unnecessary problems.
Pit Bulls have a late maturity, and a Pit Bull that was dog friendly at 7 months old may suddenly show signs of intolerance of unfamiliar dogs around two years old. Spaying and neutering the dog may help to prevent "turning on" the genetic urge to fight another dog. All dog fights are preventable, however. Socialize a Pit Bull slowly with new dogs, and never let them play unattended. Remove items such as toys and food bowls to avoid stress. Pit Bulls can live happily with other pets; if not left unattended. Even the "best of friends" can fight, and the outcome may be tragic. This can be true for dogs that have been together for years. Often, after the first serious fight, relations between the dogs are never the same. Keeping that first fight from happening is a great way to ensure peaceful relations for the long run. If there is a multiple-dog household, it is important to separate the dogs when there is no one home. Many people use crates for short times, put dogs into separate rooms, use kennels, or have outdoor areas set up for separation that are safe and secure. Pit Bulls can get along wonderfully with animals like cats, rabbits, and ferrets, but for safety's sake, never leave them alone together.
• MYTH: American Pit Bull Terriers have 1600 P.S.I. in jaw pressure
Dr. Lehr Brisbin of the University of Georgia states, "To the best of our knowledge, there are no published scientific studies that would allow any meaningful comparison to be made of the biting power of various breeds of dogs. There are, moreover, compelling technical reasons why such data describing biting power in terms of "pounds per square inch" can never be collected in a meaningful way. All figures describing biting power in such terms can be traced to either unfounded rumor or, in some cases, to newspaper articles with no foundation in factual data."
• MYTH: American Pit Bull Terriers lock their jaws.
Dr. Brisbin: "The few studies which have been conducted of the structure of the skulls, mandibles and teeth of pit bulls show that, in proportion to their size, their jaw structure and thus its inferred functional morphology, is no different than that of any breed of dog. There is absolutely no evidence for the existence of any kind of "locking mechanism" unique to the structure of the jaw and/or teeth of the American Pit Bull Terrier.
• MYTH: Treadmills are only used to get dogs ready to fight.
Many responsible owners utilize treadmills to help exercise their dogs. This is useful in places where weather prevents outdoor exercise, or in situations where off-leash exercise in not an option. The treadmill is used by people that show their Pit Bulls, and do sporting activities like weight pull and agility to help keep their dogs in shape. Because Pit Bulls are athletic animals, responsibly using a treadmill can help them be healthier and happier.
• MYTH: Pit Bulls brains swell/never stop growing.
This rumor started with the Doberman, and has since been said about game-bred dogs in general. The concept of an animal's brain swelling or growing too large and somehow causing the animal to "go crazy" is not based in truth in any way. Their brains grow at the same rate as any other dog, and the only time that a Pit Bull's brain is going to swell is if it receives a serious injury. If an animal's brain were to grow too big for its head, the animal would die.
• MYTH: It is unsafe to get a Pit Bull from a rescue or shelter because their past/genetics are unknown.
Under the best of circumstances, it is great to know the history of a dog, the history and health of its parents, and what that line of dogs were bred for. If a person is buying a Pit Bull from a breeder, this information should be of top importance. However, in most shelter/rescue cases this information is not available. The Pit Bull at the shelter will often be a wonderful pet. It is important to know the general behavior of the dog. Has it shown any aggression towards humans? Most Pit Bull rescues will not accept or adopt out Pit Bulls with any level of aggression or excessive shyness towards humans. How does this dog do with other dogs? Has it shown any undesirable behavior or habits? It is suggested that a potential adopter of a Pit Bull bring the whole family to meet the dog. Often, shelters and rescues will allow you to take the dog for a home visit to see how they respond to the new surroundings. Most adoptions of a Pit Bull are amazing successes, and the adopter is not only receiving a pet, but they are also saving a life!
• MYTH: It is best to get a puppy so that you can make it behave how you want it to.
Many people feel if they get a Pit Bull as a puppy they can train it to not be aggressive towards other dogs and increase the likelihood that the dog will have no undesirable behavior qualities. Puppies can be a lot of fun and very rewarding, but with a new puppy there is no way of knowing how that dog will act as an adult.
One benefit of adopting a young adult or full grown Pit Bull is the ability to avoid the uncomfortable puppy behavior stage. This includes constant destructive chewing, house breaking, excessive and uncontrollable energy, teething and puppy biting, possible whining, howling, and barking for attention at night, and the time and effort it takes to begin teaching general manners and obedience.
Another benefit is that an adopter can know how an adult Pit Bull will do with other dogs, cats, children, car rides, and other certain situations. Bringing a puppy up in the most loving and social environment can only alter its predetermined genetic urges so much. In other words, having a dog since puppyhood does not necessarily mean it will have all of the qualities desired in a pet. It may end up having some traits that are undesirable. An adult Pit Bull, however, will have more of an established personality, and an adopter can know what to expect with the dog.
Pit Bulls with Other Dogs
The Pit Bull is a purpose-bred dog. Historically, Pit Bulls were bred as a hunting dog of large game. Later, the Pit Bull served as a farm dog and butcher's tool for taking down bulls for slaughter. Later still, the dog was bred to fight other dogs for money and entertainment. This purpose-breeding has given the Pit Bull behavior attributes that may not be desirable to all prospective owners. The Pit Bull is strong, intelligent, and has been bred for a willingness to "test their mettle" against larger animals and other dogs. It is not uncommon for Pit Bulls to not get along with other dogs; especially dogs of the same sex and dogs that are not neutered or spayed. This by far is not always the case with this breed, but the predisposition for varying levels of dog-aggressive behavior is very much there.
It is important for the potential owner of a Pit Bull to be realistic with their expectations of their new dog, and to be prepared to have a wonderful family dog that may not be able to socialize with other dogs. This is especially true of someone that is adopting or buying a puppy. A benefit to adopting a young adult or full grown Pit Bull is that their behavior is more fixed and reliable. Contrary to what many well-intentioned but incorrectly informed new owners think, a Pit Bull's behavior is not influenced only by how you raise them. Puppies from the same litter that receive the same love and socialization will range from being completely non dog-aggressive even when provoked or attacked, to dogs that will go out of their way to start a fight with any dog if not restrained. Dog aggression is common with all terriers. It is a trait also held by the Rottweiler, Akita, Malamute, and Doberman.
The Pit Bull does not fully mature until over two years of age. Due to this late maturity, some Pit Bulls that were dog-friendly as puppies will begin to show intolerance of unfamiliar dogs as they get older. This does not mean that the dog cannot play with other dogs, but it may mean that the Pit Bull should stick to dog playmates that it already knows. In some cases, Pit Bulls that were friendly with other dogs when younger will be unable to be with any dogs later in life. This is not common, but it is something that every responsible Pit Bull owner must consider. Having a Pit Bull neutered or spayed around 6 months of age can greatly reduce the chances of intolerance occurring later in its life.
Although many Pit Bulls get along well with other dogs, it is dangerous to expect all Pit Bulls to do so in all situations. A Pit Bull that is very dog-friendly may seriously injure or kill another dog if a fight is started. Because of this, the best way to keep dogs safe while they play is to take steps to decrease the chances of a fight starting.
It is always a good idea to introduce any dog to a new dog slowly, and on leash. Many people feel that it is best to pick a neutral ground, like a back yard of a house where neither of the dogs live. It is wise to first eliminate things like food bowls and toys that can trigger a fight. First offering two of the same toy, such as two tennis balls, may reduce possible tension during play. Pit Bulls can play very well with dogs of all breeds and sizes, but it is important to supervise all playtime. Through supervision, the owners can step in if play is too rough or if tension arises, avoiding a possible fight.
It is vital that Pit Bulls be supervised when with other dogs. This is even true for dogs that have grown up together or get along perfectly. After a serious fight, relations between the dogs may never be the same, increasing tension and the chance for more fighting. If a fight does happen, a Pit Bull can inflict serious damage to another dog very quickly. If a Pit Bull is left at home with another dog, the dogs need to be separated.
Although not always the case, dogs tend to be more relaxed and less prone to aggression when interacting with a dog of the opposite sex. This is a good thing to keep in mind when considering bringing a new dog into a household that already has a family dog.
Many people have great success in having a Pit Bull in a multiple-dog household. Some Pit Bulls will not tolerate other dogs, but more often Pit Bulls enjoy having canine family members. Some people believe that the easiest way to ensure success with having more than one dog in a household is to get them as puppies and raise them together. This method can work, but it is not always successful. Due to the varying degrees of intolerance for dogs that can be acquired genetically, raising puppies together is not a guarantee for compatibility. Many dogs end up in shelters due to intolerance towards the other family dog as they mature.
A risk must be assessed when brining a Pit Bull puppy home into a house with other dogs, or brining two puppies home together. An owner needs to understand that they may have a situation as the Pit Bull matures where the dogs cannot be together safely. This usually is not the case, however being unprepared for this possibility is not fair to the dogs involved. When bringing home a Pit Bull puppy, the new owner needs to assume responsibility for the breeds predisposed behavior and make a commitment to keep it safe and happy for its entire life no matter what may arise.
Having puppies of separate sexes, and having them altered before full maturity may decrease some of the chances for aggressive behavior. Making efforts to keep tension and fighting from starting is very important. Feed the dogs separately, even if they seem to share a food bowl without problems. Be cautious when offering raw meat, bones, and special treats to have the dogs separated. Having duplicates of favorite toys can help eliminate the dogs feeling the need to guard from each other. Interacting with the dogs equally can help keep them from feeling a need to compete for attention. Activities such as going for walks together, playing ball in the yard, going to the river for a swim, or lying on the couch side by side for petting during a movie are ways to enjoy the dogs together and thus strengthen the bond with the dogs and with the owners.
Socialization while the dogs are young is important as well. Exposing puppies to a variety of situations together in a positive way will help them be confident dogs as they grow up. Dogs that are feeling fearful or insecure are more likely to act aggressively towards each other or other dogs.
Many Pit Bull owners have found success in bringing older Pit Bulls into a home that already has a dog (either Pit Bull or other breed). By doing this the new owner has a general idea of the new Pit Bull's behavior with other dogs, and knows the behavior of their first dog, as well. There are many success stories from people that adopt through a rescue or animal shelter that have used this method.
Another idea to keep in mind when considering adding another dog to the family is foster care. Many rescues and shelters are in great need of foster families for dogs. This allows a family the chance to get used to having more dogs, gives time for the existing dog to adjust to having a canine family member, and may help the decision on which dog to adopt or if the family is ready to adopt another dog. The greatest benefit to fostering is that a life is being saved. Fostered dogs are no longer in the shelter risking euthanasia, and once a dog is in a foster home, another dog can have the chance for a foster family.
Leash Aggression
Some dogs get along very well with other dogs, but will show protective or dominant behavior when on a leash. This is commonly called "leash aggression". Leash aggression can happen in any breed or mix; not just Pit Bulls. Dogs with leash aggression should not socialize with other dogs when on a leash. It is important for a dog with leash aggression to have solid obedience training, and respond to their owners demand to ignore other dogs and to sit and lay down when told to. Other than a responsibility to have strong obedience, there is no reason why a dog with leash aggression should have difficulties going for walks or living with the family. One thing that can help a family with a dog that has leash aggression is to enroll in a dog training program. There are many styles available for obedience training. It is advised to look into several of these types and find what works best for the whole family. It is a good idea to make sure that the trainer or classes that are looked into have experience with Pit Bulls.
Pit Bulls with Other Animals
Pit Bulls are like every dog in the sense that they can easily get along with other animals, and can just as easily harm or kill those animals. There are several things to take into consideration.
Pit Bulls even from the same litter will have varying degrees of "pray drive". Pray drive is a genetic quality that makes dogs driven to chase and kill animals. Even dogs with high pray drives can coexist with other animals, but it demands a constant responsibility of the owner. Obedience training is a must for all dogs, but can be very helpful for an owner of a highly pray driven dog. Having a dog that responds to general obedience commands like "leave it", "heal", "off", "sit", "down", and "drop it" or "out" can help the owner keep other animals safe from their dog. The owners of a dog with high pray drive must ensure that access to other animals is kept from their dog. In other words, the dog is put into a different room if the ferrets are let out, the chickens have a coop that is secure, or that the family cat lives in a room where the dog is not able to enter. Also, a dog with high pray drive must be kept on leash when on walks. If the dog is not secure or not walked on lead and kills another animal, that dog may face mandated euthanasia in some locations.
Early socialization with other animals can help create a relationship of friendliness or tolerance between a dog and other animals. This socialization will not cease the development of intolerance in a highly pray driven dog, but that is usually more of an exception than he standard. Although many Pit Bulls can and do get along very well with other animals, it is important to understand before bringing a puppy home that ownership involves a willingness and ability to make adjustments if the dog does not tolerate other animals.
A benefit to adopting an older puppy or full grown Pit Bull is that many of their behaviors will have begun to show themselves. Many rescues and some shelters will know how the dogs respond to other animals. Rescues often have Pit Bulls available that have lived in family situation foster homes. A potential adopter that has other animals can ask to meet the Pit Bulls for adoption that have shown good behavior with other animals.
Aggressive Towards Humans
A correct Pit Bull will never be aggressive with people. The Pit Bull has been breed for centuries to be a human-friendly dog. It is not a guardian breed, and therefore should not display suspicion towards strangers or view them as potential threats. It is uncommon for a Pit Bull to be overly shy. The Pit Bull is likely to meet all strangers with an open heart and a wagging tail. A normal Pit Bull looks upon all people as friends unless their actions prove otherwise. Generally Pit Bulls are submissive with people and confident in their surroundings, making for a well-adjusted family dog.
Since times past when the Pit Bull was used for hunting of large game and as a farm dog, it has been a cherished fixture of family life. The Pit Bull has a special fondness for children and a pleased, relaxed look crosses its face when they approach. It can prove to be a safe, hardy friend that can keep up and put up with the active play life of kids. For a child, no better companion can be found.
"Do not assume that because a dog can be quarrelsome with other dogs that he is "vicious", will attack children, or has to be tied out with logging chains in the backyard and not treated as a pet. Many working breeds have antipathy towards other animals - coonhounds go mad at the sight of a raccoon, foxhounds will not hesitate to tear a dog-like fox to shreds, greyhounds live to chase and maul rabbits and even dog-like coyotes. Even the ever-friendly beagle will slaughter a rabbit, given the chance. Yet the greyhound, coon and foxhound, and beagle are among the friendliest of breeds towards humans. It is the same with the pit bulldog. His work through the years has been control of other animals - never humans." (Written by Diane Jessup)
It is reported on temperament tests conducted by the American Temperament Test Society that Pit Bulls had a passing rate of 95% -- compared to only 77% of the general dog population. (Beagles scored 78.2%, and Golden Retrievers scored 83.2%) These temperament tests consist of putting a dog through a series of unexpected situations, some involving strangers. Any signs of unprovoked aggression or panic in these situations result in failure of the test. (Please visit ATTS.org)
A Pit Bull that snarls, lunges, or growls at humans is not typical of the breed, and to keep such a dog endangers people and the image of the breed. If a Pit Bull or Pit Bull mix shows any signs of aggression towards humans, it is strongly suggested that the dog be humanely euthanized in order to avoid possible human injury. Responsible rescues will not place dogs into homes if they are aware of any aggressive behaviors in the dog towards people.
Have you thought at all about fostering for a while before you adopt your pup? Rescues are in a great need for awesome foster homes... and that would give you and your dogs an adjustment time before making the 12 to 20 year commitment... It is just a thought, I mean in no way to imply tath you should not adopt now if that is what you want!
I am so happy that you have chosen to look into a rescued dog!
I am very excited for you, too... I have a two-dog household now and we have so much fun!
Megan; I am totally flattered that you posted my quote
Zoe, wecome to the forum....
I am so happy that you have chosen to look into a rescued dog!
I am very excited for you, too... I have a two-dog household now and we have so much fun!
Megan; I am totally flattered that you posted my quote
Zoe, wecome to the forum....
Awesome folks!
You guys are awesome! Thanks for all the great info and links and just everything you have said. I have thought about fostering but I am one those people that could not give the dog up so I would either end up with too many or keep the first one I try to foster. I am ready for the commitment. I metioned I have my Angel dog I also have my daughter's birthday chihuahua but he isn't too fond of her and my mother in law has his sister so I am considering giving him to her before I adopt the new puppy. I love her little Peanut but I would rather her have a lovable pit than a mean donkey little chihuahua. Ineed to get some pics of Angel scanned so I can show you all. She is awesome. Anyways, I'm still studying up so the more info the better but I'm ready as far as I can tell!!
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Bhattacharyya, D., Pillai, K., Chyan O., Tang L., Timmons R.B. "A new class of thin film hydrogels produced by plasma polymerization", Chemistry of Materials, 19: 2222-2228,2007
Xu, Y.; Berger, P.R.; Cho, J.; Timmons, R.B. "Pulsed plasma polymerized dichlorotetramethyl-disiloxane high-k gate dielectrics for polymer field-effect transistors", Journal of Applied Physics, 99: 1-4, 2006
Cho, J.; Denes, F.S.; Timmons, R.B. "Plasma processing approach to molecular surface tailoring of nanoparticles: Improved photocatalytic activity of TiO2", Chemistry of Materials, 18: 2989-2996, 2006
Ma Y.; Manolache, S.; Denes, F.S.; Cho, J.; Timmons, R.B. "Surface modification of rutile TiO2 by submerged arc discharge for improved photoreactivity", Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 15: 370-375, 2006
Susut C.; Timmons, R.B. "Plasma enhanced chemical vapor depositions to encapsulate crystals in thin polymeric films: A new approach to controlling drug release rates", International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 288:253-261, 2005
Li, M.L.; Timmons, R.B.; Kinsel, G.R. "Radio frequency plasma polymer coatings for affinity capture MALDI mass spectrometry", Analytical Chemistry, 77: 350-353, 2005
Xu Y.F., Berger, P.R., Cho, J., Timmons, R.B. "Capacitance-voltage characterization of pulsed plasma polymerized allylamine dielectrics for flexible polymeric field effect transistors", Journal of Electronic Materials, 33: 1240-1247, 2004
B.S. St. Francis Xavier University (1958)
Ph.D. The Catholic University of America (1962)
Postdoctoral Fellow:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (1962-1964)
Appointed Distinguished University Professor and Member of the UTA Academy of scholars (2007)
Distinguished Record of Faculty Research Award, University of Texas at Arlington, 2001
W.T. Doherty Research Award, American Chemical Society (North Texas Section), 2000
Chancellor's (formerly AMOCO) Outstanding Teacher Award
— The University of Texas at Arlington, 1983
Outstanding Faculty Research Award — Catholic University of America, 1975
Senior Faculty Research Fellowship — NIH Heart and Lung Institute, Bethesda, MD. 1971-72.


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How did your local legislators do in the wild and wooly 2007 regular and special legislative sessions? The MEA-MFT Voting Record tells all. Read on, and check legislators' voting records.
HB = House Bill SB = Senate Bill
R = Right vote according to MEA-MFT position
W = Wrong vote according to MEA-MFT position
A = Absent (did not vote)
E = Excused absence
House Voting Record
Senate Voting Record
HB 2, Motion (Parker) Consideration of Governor's Budget.
Of all the mishaps of the 2007 regular session, none was more significant than the demise of HB 2, the funding bill for all state government services.
After 10 months of budget and policy review by the executive branch, six weeks of legislative hearings, testimony from over a thousand Montanans, and legislative subcommittee actions, the House Appropriations Committee met in executive session and tabled HB 2.
To take its place, Appropriations chair John Sinrud and Republican committee members introduced a series of eight separate budgeting bills that disregarded all the above and 30 years of state budget policy and practice. Worst of all, the newly introduced bills cut millions of dollars from essential state government services.
After one of the most contentious fortnights in modern legislative history, MEA-MFT member and House minority leader Rep. John Parker moved to revive HB 2 and place it on the House agenda for debate. His motion failed.
The failure to revive and pass HB 2 was the major factor behind the legislature's inability to resolve the 2007 regular session.
MEA-MFT position: Support.
Vote: Motion, House Floor, 3/15/07.
Status: Motion failed, 50-50. HB 2 was never fully restored and no budget bill ended up passing during the regular 07 session, leading to the call for a special session.
HB 13 (Sesso) State Pay Plan. HB 13 contains the pay plan negotiated by MEA-MFT and other state employee unions through extensive bargaining with the Schweitzer administration.
HB 13 provides average salary increases of 3% in the next two years while also providing another .6% in each year for additional salary enhancements. It also includes historic levels of funding for the Montana University System, reversing a decade of decline in the state's investment in university system employees.
In the midst of the 2007 session, House Republican leaders sought amendments to the pay plan that would have substantively changed the negotiated agreement. MEA-MFT worked with Governor Brian Schweitzer's administration to defeat hostile amendments and win passage of the bill.
MEA-MFT Position: Support.
Votes: 3rd Reading House Floor 2/21/07; passed 79-15. 3rd Reading Senate Floor 3/14/07; passed 31-19.
Status: Passed into law.
HB 63 (Musgrove) Teachers' Retirement System Funding. HB 63 provides additional state revenue to ensure the financial solvency of the Montana Teachers' Retirement System (TRS). HB 63 also clarifies provisions in TRS regulations to protect the system from actuarial losses.
Without passage of this bill, TRS would have remained underfunded and in violation of Montana's constitutional requirement that public employee retirement systems be funded "on an actuarially sound basis."
Votes: 3rd Reading House Floor 3/29/07, passed 87-11. 3rd Reading Senate Floor 4/16/07, passed 44-6.
HB 95 (Olson) Funding for University System Faculty Retirement Accounts. HB 95 is MEA-MFT's latest effort to address the Montana University System's next-to-last-in-the-nation status when it comes to retirement contributions for faculty.
Since 1993 (when the legislature mandated that all new faculty join the TIAA-CREF defined contribution retirement program), the state's contribution level has been stuck at a terribly noncompetitive 4.96%.
Coupled with the low salary levels of Montana higher education faculty relative to their peers across the country, retirement security has become one of the university system's most significant recruitment and retention issues.
HB 95 provides a state-funded 1% increase for all U-system faculty members in TIAA-CREF. The positive effect of this relatively small change will be felt for decades to come.
Votes: 3rd Reading House Floor, 3/28/07, passed 87-13. 3rd Reading Senate Floor, 4/16/07, passed 38-12.
HB 164 (Koopman) Cheap and Easy "Solution" to Montana's Teacher Shortage. HB 164 sought to amend Montana's collective bargaining act to "make it easier" for Montana teachers who might like to work for nothing and "provide them a tax incentive" to do so. This is in spite of the fact that Montana teachers can already work for free; and should they choose to do so, they would already receive a large tax incentive.
To make matters worse, the bill would have made licensure and endorsement optional for volunteer teachers, along with most provisions of any bargained employment contract. The bill was a thinly veiled attempt to bust MEA-MFT and eliminate contractual protections (not to mention teacher licensure) that we exist, in part, to protect and enhance.
MEA-MFT position: Oppose.
Vote: 2nd Reading House Floor, 2/27/07.
Status: Bill failed, 38-62. RIP.
HB 204 (Kasten) Taxpayer Bill of Rights Revisited. Frustrated by their inability to prevail in court or at the ballot box with their fraud-infested, out-of-state scheme to limit state spending, backers of the failed CI-97 (TABOR) introduced HB 204 for legislative consideration.
Like CI-97, HB 204 would have placed an arbitrary cap on state spending divorced from the realities of human concern and effective public policy.
Vote: 3rd Reading House Floor 2/17/07.
Status: Passed the House on a party-line vote 51-49. Tabled in Senate Finance and Claims.
HB 230 (Koopman) Anyone Can Teach - Cheap and Easy Part II. As MEA-MFT member Rep. Holly Raser put it best, this bill was "a slap in the face to the profession of teaching in Montana." HB 230 would have allowed school districts to employ and license to teach anybody with a college degree, regardless of state licensure or endorsement.
Worse, it required the state to honor local "licenses" issued by local school boards. HB 230 would have eliminated statewide standards, licensure, and accountability from the teaching profession.
Vote: 2nd Reading House Floor 2/10/07.
Status: Bill failed, 24-76.
HB 492 (Himmelberger) Less Than Minimum Wage. HB 492 would have established a tip-credit as a portion of Montana's minimum wage law. It would have taken away the ability of thousands of hard-working Montanans to earn at least a minimum wage on an ongoing basis. The ability to receive tips from customers is not a guarantee of income, and Montana does not treat it as such. MEA-MFT was pleased to work with AFL-CIO to defeat HB 492.
Vote: 3rd Reading House Floor 2/26/07.
Status: Passed the House 51-49. Tabled in Senate Taxation.
HB 609 (Hamilton) Stealing From Health Benefits Reserves Not Allowed--Ever! MEA-MFT wrote HB 609 and got it introduced. The legislation makes it illegal for school districts to dissolve employee health benefit reserves and then use the money to pay for general fund expenses completely unrelated to employee health benefits.
School employees often forego salary increases to maintain health benefit reserves. To simply redirect these dollars when a reserve is dissolved is taking away a benefit that has already been earned by the employees.
Votes: 3rd Reading House Floor 4/12/07, passed 92-8. 3rd Reading Senate Floor 4/5/07, passed 37-13.
HB 701 (Glaser) Tax Cuts to Improve School Funding? HB 701 claimed to provide over $200 million per year to Montana schools. However, over $140 million of this funding came through a property tax cut that provided no new money to schools. The bill also sought to eliminate the quality educator payment (QEP) that was achieved by MEA-MFT and education advocates in the 2005 special session.
HB 701 would have replaced the QEP with a per-classroom calculation that would have returned Montana to an even more enrollment-driven funding formula. Passage of HB 701 would have devoured all the ongoing revenue available to the 2007 Legislature while reversing course in addressing Montana's requirement for adequately funded schools.
HB 701 was unsustainable and designed to pit school groups against one another.
Votes: 2nd Reading House Floor 3/19/07.
Status: Bill failed, 53-47.
SB 23 (Moss) Quality Educator Payment for All. SB 23 corrects a technical oversight of the 2005 special session. In developing a definition of a quality educator for which a QEP could be made, the state left out licensed school social workers and psychologists.
SB 23 sought to address this and clarify that these important specialists are crucial to quality education for all Montana's children.
Vote: 3rd Reading Senate Floor 1/18/07.
Status: Passed the Senate, 38-11. Tabled in House Education, but its language was incorporated into SB 2 of the special session and thus became law.
SB 56 (Ryan) Retirement Funding for All. At the end of the 2003 legislative session, Governor Judy Martz's administration denied school districts access to their local county retirement funds to make retirement contributions for employees who are paid with federal dollars (predominantly Title I and special education).
This meant the statewide loss of nearly $10 million per year in state and local revenues for schools. Especially hurt are districts serving a significant number of low-income and/or special needs children. SB 56 would have reversed this policy, directly aiding Montana's most impoverished and disabled students.
Votes: 3rd Reading Senate Floor 2/14/07.
Status: SB 56 passed the Senate, 27-23. Tabled in House Education.
SB 96 (Williams) Initiative Reform. The result of the fallout from the 2006 election, which saw a host of fraudulent and deceptive practices by supporters of several radical right-wing ballot measures, SB 96 assures that signature gatherers must be Montana residents and that they cannot be paid on a per-signature basis.
Along with other changes, including original jurisdiction of the state Supreme Court in initiative-related challenges, the bill should help ensure a fairer and more transparent initiative process for Montanans.
Votes: 3rd Reading House Floor 4/26/07, passed 45-5. 3rd Reading Senate Floor 4/25/07, passed 86-14.
SB 123 (Williams) Full-Time Kindergarten. State funding for full-time kindergarten was one of MEA-MFT's top priorities for the 2007 Legislature. Full-time kindergarten passed the Senate with strong bipartisan support before running into the House Education Committee buzz-saw of Constitutionalist/Republicans led by Chairman Rick Jore (C).
After SB 123 won final passage in the Senate on January 23, Jore refused to allow the bill to be heard for two months! After a cursory, limited hearing March 21, Chairman Jore then delayed any action on the bill until April 3, a full two weeks after the hearing.
At that point, the committee tabled the bill without discussion. Despite all the delay, hostility, and opposition, most of the language contained in SB 123 made its way into SB 2 of the special session. State funding for full-time kindergarten is now the law in Montana!
Votes: 3rd Reading Senate Floor 1/23/07, passed 35-15.
Status: Placed into SB 2 of the special session; passed into law.
SB 152 (Ryan) Governor's School Funding Proposal. Governor Schweitzer's initial education funding bill, SB 152, contained inflationary increases for schools, funding for full-time kindergarten, additional funding for the quality educator payment, and a school facilities reserve to be set aside for the 2011 biennium.
SB 152 would have continued the positive upward trend in school funding that began during the 2005 regular and special sessions. Under SB 152, schools would receive ongoing inflationary increases in two consecutive sessions, the first such commitment in over two decades.
MEA-MFT encouraged the governor's office to devote additional resources to this bill, particularly in the quality educator payment. However, as with every other school funding proposal in the 2007 Legislature that sought to provide significant dollars to schools, the Constitutionalist/Republican party leadership in the House drastically rewrote SB 152, leading to its demise. See further description below.
Votes: 3rd Reading Senate Floor 1/24/07, passed 34-16.
Status: Bill was amended in House Education and sent to the floor for action, where it failed to receive enough votes to pass. See below.
SB 152 as amended in the House (Glaser, Lange, and Company) Forget Kindergarten, Let's Do Early Childhood Education-Whatever That Means… As amended in the House, the governor's proposed school funding bill was rewritten to:
1) replace full-time kindergarten with ill-defined and unaccountable funding for "early childhood education programs";
2) replace half-time kindergarten with ill-defined and unaccountable funding for "early childhood education programs";
3) create a classroom unit funding component that would be enrollment driven;
4) cut the proposed increase in the quality educator payment to a miserable $100;
5) change the basic entitlement for school districts to be enrollment driven; and
6) tie all the changes in the bill to passage of the Republican Education Appropriations bill in order to force the Senate to reject the governor's school funding proposal.
These changes were unacceptable and would have pushed Montana schools backward rather than forward.
Vote: 2nd Reading House Floor 4/02/07.
Status: Bill failed, 47-53.
SB 254 (Wanzenried) Card Check Neutrality in State Contracts. In recent years the State of Montana has increasingly turned to private vendors to provide public services. Unfortunately, many private vendors are openly hostile to attempts by their employees to form a union.
SB 254 would have required potential contractors to sign a neutrality agreement as a precondition for receiving a state contract. The neutrality agreement would mandate that the employer accept a unionized workforce if a sufficient number of its employees signaled their desire to unionize by signing an authorization card.
Vote: 3rd Reading Senate Floor 2/21/07.
Status: Passed the Senate, 27-23. Tabled in House Judiciary.
SB 355 (Wanzenried) Unemployment Insurance for Classified School Employees. Unlike almost every other segment of seasonal workers in Montana, classified employees of school districts are ineligible to collect unemployment insurance benefits during summer months. Many of these employees desperately need these benefits to support themselves and their families.
Most troubling, in districts that have chosen to privatize services that classified employees perform, the employees of the private companies are eligible for unemployment benefits in summer months, and many apply for and receive them.
All this leads to a terribly unfair situation: two publicly funded employees can be doing exactly the same work, but the one who works for a school district cannot receive an unemployment benefit during summer, while the one who works for a private firm can.
MEA-MFT has worked to address this inequity since 1992, when a change in federal law authorized classified employees of school districts to receive unemployment insurance benefits during summer and holiday breaks.
However, Montana's state law must change to implement the 1992 provision. SB 355 would have done just that. While we were again unsuccessful, MEA-MFT will not stop working to remedy this long-standing inequity.
Vote: 2nd Reading Senate Floor 2/27/07.
Status: Bill failed on a 25-25 tie vote.
SB 390 (Juneau) Indian Education for All Funding Enhancement. SB 390 would have increased state funding for local Indian Education for All efforts to $50 per student over the 2009 biennium. Montana's Indian Education for All law has established a national model now being replicated in other states. SB 390 would have expanded resources to help Montana school districts deliver on the state's constitutional promise of Indian Education for All.
Vote: 3rd Reading Senate Floor 2/26/07, passed 28-22.
Status: SB 390 was tabled in House Education. However, additional one-time funds for Indian Education for All totaling over $10 per student were approved in HB 2 during the special session.
SB 545 (Smith) Charter Prisons and Treatment Centers. SB 545 would have retroactively approved the state's participation in the construction and operation of a regional prison, as long as it was built "by a local governmental entity."
Worse yet, in this case, construction of the prison was already complete, with no direct input from the Department of Corrections. Such "charter prisons and treatment centers" have popped up all over Montana in recent years. They directly compete with the state's own correctional programs for funding and support. MEA-MFT has long opposed this costly trend in corrections.
Vote: 3rd Reading Senate Floor 2/28/07.
Status: Bill failed, 19-31.
Special Session HB 2 (Clark) State Budget Bill - Revived! After four months of partisan deadlock over the state's budgeting process and the introduction of 10 separate budget bills, the legislature came back into special session and adopted the special session's HB 2. Greatly resembling the first version of the regular session, HB 2 proposed by the Schweitzer Administration (see above for description), the bill provides essential funding increases for education, higher education, corrections, health and human services, and general government.
Votes: 2nd Reading House Floor 5/15/07, passed 58-41. 3rd Reading Senate Floor 5/15/07, passed 29-21.
Special Session SB 2 (Ryan) Governor's School Funding Bill. Going back to the future, the special session took most of the governor's original school funding proposal from SB 152 of the regular session, added to it, and passed it. See the description of SB 152 above.
In addition to the money originally contained in SB 152, SB 2 of the special session added $10 million for full-time kindergarten startup, $30 million for one-time facility payments, and increased the quality educator component from the governor's original proposal by over $240 per educator.
Votes: 3rd Reading House Floor 5/11/07, passed 68-30. 3rd Reading Senate Floor 5/11/07, passed 44-6.
Special Session SB 2, Amendment 1 (Jore) No Kindergarten, Period. In a last-gasp effort to kill kindergarten, Constitutional Party member and chair of the House Education Committee Rick Jore introduced this amendment. The amendment sought to make all kindergarten optional and would have stricken any reference to kindergarten in statute.
Vote: Do Concur House Floor 5/11/07.
Status: Amendment failed, 41-59.
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15 Essential Building Blocks for Quick Weeknight Meals
We're talking about kitchen essentials all month. Last week we talked about recipes to know by heart, but this week we're going even more basic: Essential building blocks of weeknight meals. These are the staples (and skills) you use to build a meal — the roasted vegetables for a sandwich, the strips of chicken breast to top a salad, the fluffy couscous you eat with chickpea stew. Crumbled bacon, hard-boiled eggs, steamed vegetables.
Do you know the best way to cook a pot of beans? Brown rice? Lentils? Do you know how to poach an egg in the microwave, or the best way to cook moist, tender chicken breasts? Read on for these and more — we've illustrated 15 essential basic skills for making quick, tasty, nourishing dinners.
• 1 How To Cook Beans: A Fast, Foolproof, No-Soak Method
• 2 How To Cook Dried Lentils
• 3 How to Cook Quinoa
• 4 How to Cook Couscous
• 5 How To Cook Brown Rice
• 6 How To Make a Quick Bowl of Polenta in the Microwave
• 7 How to Bake a Potato in the Oven
• 8 How To Quick-Roast Vegetables Under the Broiler
• 9 How To Steam Vegetables
• 10 How to Cook Moist and Tender Chicken Breasts Every Time - Also see How To Roast a Chicken.
• 11 How To Cut Up a Chicken: The Video
• 12 How To Make Perfect Bacon in the Oven
• 13 How to Hard-Boil an Egg
• 14 How To Poach an Egg in the Microwave - Also see How To Poach an Egg: The Video
• 15 How To Fry an Egg: The Video
....and a BONUS: How To Crack an Egg With One Hand: The Video - This is hardly an essential of the weeknight kitchen, but we just think it's fun!
What are your essential skills for weeknight meals? What do you think is important to know how to do for a quick meal in the middle of the week?
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"Sharing Knowledge, Improving Lives" conference to address Latino mental-health issues
Second session being held in Southern California
Community and mental-health leaders from across California will participate in a daylong conference to explore effective and culturally and linguistically appropriate solutions to mental illness among the nearly 40 percent of the state's population that identifies as Latino. The first session of the event, "Sharing Knowledge, Improving Lives," was held at the UC Davis Conference Center on Thursday, Oct. 18, in Davis, Calif., to address Latino mental-health issues and recommendations from a landmark study prepared under the auspices of the California Department of Mental Health, titled Community-Defined Solutions for Latino Mental Health Care Disparities.
A second, Southern California session will be held on Thursday, Nov. 8, in San Gabriel, Calif. Online registration for the Southern California session is available by clicking here. There is no registration fee, but space is limited.
"Untreated mental-health needs are a very common problem, creating significant individual and family burdens and reducing quality of life and productivity," said lead author Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, who is director of the UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities and director of the community engagement program at the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center. Aguilar-Gaxiola will address the participants in the Southern California session.
"We conducted this study to help guide policy and practice at the local and state levels to improve the mental health of Latinos and other underserved populations. Participants also requested that mental-health agencies demonstrate their commitment to serving Latino communities by developing programs that prove to be effective in producing positive outcomes -- from increasing access to improving retention rates -- and that guide policy and service development at the local and state levels," Aguilar-Gaxiola said.
Depression, substance and alcohol abuse and anxiety disorders are among the conditions that disproportionately affect what is by far the largest and the fastest growing ethnic minority in California. These maladies are rooted in health disparities -- such as poverty, poor housing, stigma and discrimination -- and are exacerbated by a statewide deficit of bilingual and bicultural community-based mental-health resources.
"Through this report, we have gathered and engaged community voices that have previously not been heard," said Aguilar-Gaxiola. "We are grateful to the individuals and communities that shared their time and wisdom with us. As we communicate the results of our study, our goal is to inform and help institute policies that improve access to quality mental-health care, thus improving the quality of life for Latinos and other underserved populations who struggle with untreated mental illness."
The project was funded by the Mental Health Services Act, also known as Proposition 63, which was approved by California voters in November 2004 to address un-served and underserved populations and provide culturally and linguistically competent services to prevent and treat mental illness. The strategies identified in the UC Davis report will inform state policies for improving the delivery of mental health care in the state.


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TRIPP, Timothy 1960-2013
Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 3/18/2015 at 20:17:09
Timothy Tripp, 53, of Reinbeck, Iowa, died Saturday, November 2, 2013 at Cedar Valley Hospice Home in Waterloo, Iowa, of natural causes. Funeral services will be 10:30 A.M., Friday, November 8, 2013, at First Baptist Church in Reinbeck, Iowa. Burial will follow at Reinbeck Cemetery. Visitation will be Thursday, November 3, 2013, from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M, at French Hand Funeral Home in Reinbeck. Memorials may be directed to the family.
Timothy J. Tripp was born on October 8, 1960 in Grundy Center, Iowa. He was the son of James and Jadean (Oltman) Tripp. Tim grew up in the Reinbeck area. He attended and graduated from Walnut Ridge High School with the class of 1979. Tim served his country in the U.S. Air Force. After his discharge he worked as a Paramedic and then for Brown Leasing as a mechanic retiring due to his health. He married Taresa Viola on August 1, 1986 in Austin, TX. Tim enjoyed radio controlled airplanes, camping, woodworking and riding horses. He loved spending time with his family and friends.
Tim was a member of the First Baptist Church in Reinbeck where he served as a deacon and as treasurer.
Tim is survived by his wife, Terri of Reinbeck; parents, James and Jadean Tripp of Reinbeck; daughters, Christian Jeys of Reinbeck, Heather (Zach) Barnett of Cedar Falls; grandchildren, Chandie Jeys, Blake Jeys, Serenity Barnett, Khloe Barnett; sister Cindy Dreesman and her husband Daryl; nephews, Scott, Dustin, Travis Dreesman; special brothers, Brian Osborne and Floyd McElhaney, and his dog Daisy.
He was preceded in death by his daughter, Kerri Tripp and nephew, Trevor Dreesman.
--Abels Funeral Homes (www.abelsfuneralhomes.com)
Grundy Obituaries maintained by Tammy D. Mount.
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The St. Louis Cardinals released RP Pete Parise, P Dan Calhoun, P Jean Mijares and P Sean K. Watson.
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USA Today.com reports the St. Louis Cardinals optioned C Matt Pagnozzi to Triple-A Memphis and reassigned P Eduardo Sanchez, P Oneli Perez, RP Fernando Salas, P Pete Parise and IF Ruben Gotay to minor league camp.
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Joe Strauss, of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, reports SP Rich Hill is the marquee player among 17 players invited to spring training by the St. Louis Cardinals. In addition to Hill, invites were extended to Ps Lance Lynn, Evan MacLane, Pete Parise, Oneli Perez, Fernando Salas, Eduardo Sanchez and Charlie Zink, Cs Tony Cruz, Charlie Cutler, Steven Hill and Robert Stock, IFs Daniel Descalso, Ruben Gotay, Peter Kozma and Donovan Solano, and OF Tyler Henley.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Facing a shortage of its traditional execution drugs, Oklahoma has revised its procedures to include the same two-drug mixture that left an Ohio inmate making gasp-like sounds as his lethal injection was carried out earlier this year, lawyers for two condemned inmates said Monday.
The attorneys said in a court filing that they were notified after business hours Friday that Oklahoma's prison system had adopted five acceptable ways to put death-row inmates to death. All involve multiple doses of sedatives that by themselves could be lethal.
The Oklahoma attorney general's office had notified the state Court of Criminal Appeals on March 17 that it couldn't obtain the sedative pentobarbital and the paralytic agent vecuronium bromide. Those drugs, along with potassium chloride, which stops the heart, had been Oklahoma's execution-drug mixture.
Now the protocols include a megadose of pentobarbital by itself, or the combination of midazolam and hydromorphone, which was used in the January execution of Dennis McGuire in Ohio. McGuire made gasp-like sounds for several minutes before being pronounced dead after 26 minutes.
Another allowed drug combo is midazolam, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride — which has never been used in an execution in the U.S., said Jen Marino, a staff attorney at the University of California Berkeley School of Law's Death Penalty Clinic.
"If the department is going to use one of these other methods, particularly the one that's never been used before, that's really something the courts need to look at and should have an opportunity to review before the department is allowed to use this controversial combo of drugs," she said.
Jerry Massie, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, said he could not provide a copy of the new protocols and referred The Associated Press to Attorney General Scott Pruitt. Pruitt spokeswoman Diane Clay said it was "unlikely" the attorney general's office would respond to AP's request.
The new protocols give the state a larger "veil of secrecy" that the inmates have been fighting against, said Seth Day, among the lawyers representing two Oklahoma inmates challenging the state's refusal to reveal where it obtains its execution drugs.
"The warden could choose at the last minute to use option five instead of option one, and they would have no obligation to inform the inmates or their lawyers," Day said.
The inmates, Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner, filed a lawsuit last month challenging a law that bars disclosure of specifics about the state's execution procedures. They want to ensure that the drugs used in their executions, which have been rescheduled from March to April, are pure.
In the Monday court filing, their attorneys said it appeared that the Oklahoma Department of Corrections could follow any protocol it liked without having to tell the inmate ahead of time. They also said it would allow drugs from unnamed companies, including compounding pharmacies that face less scrutiny from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration than traditional drug makers.
"This would allow the ODOC to obtain various drugs, from varying sources without any FDA oversight or regulation, not to mention doing so with no judicial oversight on whether the 5 options would subject the condemned inmate to cruel and unusual punishment," they wrote.
States have had trouble obtaining supplies of lethal drugs after European manufacturers objected to their use in executions and domestic companies feared being singled out for protests.
In turn, some states have gone to compounding pharmacies or have sought to buy drugs from other death-penalty states.
Texas, the nation's busiest death-penalty state, offered few details after saying last week that it had obtained a supply of execution drugs. An Associated Press review showed that Texas had a supply of the painkiller hydromorphone and the sedative midazolam.
Under Oklahoma's new protocols, the state is allowed to use, in addition to midazolam with hydromorphone, sodium thiopental as a potential substitute for pentobarbital in a three-drug combination. The protocols also state that even if a sedative kills the inmates on its own, the execution team should follow the new guidelines and inject the other lethal drugs into the inmate's body.
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The historic, 19th-century former Odd Fellows Home building that overlooks the north end of the city may soon become a memory.
A developer wants to raze the long-vacant, 3-1/2-story brick-and-stone building at 102 Randolph Road and construct in its place a $14.6 million, 61,920-square-foot state-of-the-art rest home residence for 82 elderly persons.
The home will consist of two buildings, each with 41 beds. The facility will also serve those diagnosed with memory impairment, dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
Meanwhile, City Manager Michael V. O'Brien is asking the City Council to designate the property as a Site Specific Economic Opportunity Area and as a Certified Project.
Such a designation enables the city to offer the developer a tax-increment financial deal, more commonly known as a TIF, to help finance the project.
Under the deal, the developer would save $1.9 million in property taxes over a 12-year period. Upon completion of the two phases of the project, the city will receive an estimated $3.2 million in property taxes, according to the city manager.
He said upon the expiration of the TIF deal, if both phases are completed, the city would realize an estimated $487,114 in tax revenues annually from the property.
In comparison, the property generated just $19,213 in property taxes last fiscal year.
KMRN Investment LLC, a Worcester-based company, purchased the property from Randolph Road Realty Trust in 2012 for $1.05 million.
KMRN Investment plans on leasing the property, which consists of 4.2 acres of land and a vacant, blighted 83,993-square-foot building, to The Oasis at Dodge Park LLC.
The principals of the companies operate the Dodge Park Rest Home at 101 Randolph Road. Together, they have more than 50 years of experience in the health care industry, according to Timothy J. McGourthy, the city's chief development officer.
He said the rest home project will be built in two phases. Phase I consists of demolition, site work, construction of one of the buildings, the purchase of furniture, fixtures and equipment, securing bed licenses and other soft costs is estimated at $9 million.
Phase II, meanwhile, entails the construction of the second building, the purchase of furniture, fixtures and equipment, and securing bed licenses, and is projected to cost $5.6 million. Work on that is expected to start 18 months after the completion of the first phase.
The first phase of the project is expected to result in the creation of at least 49 permanent, full-time positions in 2015 and 2016, while the second phase is expected to create at least 29 permanent, full-time positions in 2018 and 2019.
The companies have said they will ensure that 100 percent of the jobs to be created will be made available to Worcester residents through the city's Workforce Development Division and job fairs. In addition, they have also ensured that a minimum of 75 percent of the full-time jobs will go to Worcester residents during the life of the 12-year TIF plan.
The Odd Fellows Home building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, was built on land donated to the Odd Fellows in 1890 by Thomas Dodge, a prominent Worcester inventor and patent lawyer.
The home was built as a retirement home for Odd Fellows, members of the international fraternal and benevolent organization.
But the building fell into disrepair after it was closed.
In 2009 a proposal was brought forward to redevelop the property into two four-story buildings, with each building having 40 units of housing.
The Historical Commission approved the developer's request to waive the city's one-year demolition delay ordinance for two buildings that were additions to the Odd Fellows building. At the same time, the developer agreed to save the original building with its five-story clock tower.
But those plans never advanced. KMRN Investment then stepped forward in March 2012 to purchase the property from Randolph Road Realty Trust.
The Odd Fellows building is on Preservation Worcester's "Most Endangered Buildings" list.
While it is a historic property, the building can be legally demolished; the one-year demolition delay ordinance on the building expired in April 2011.
KMRN Investment has a petition before the Zoning Board of Appeals Monday night in which it is seeking a special permit to allow the operation of a nursing home in a residential-general zoning district.
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Matt Bartkowski has been on a road over the last seven years that's led him to a pivotal role in the Bruins' championship pursuit.
Matt Bartkowski had never really considered the possibility. The NHL? That wasn't for a kid out of the Pittsburgh suburbs, someone who had stayed in public school through high school.
Then Jimmy McGroarty pulled Bartkowski into his office.
McGroarty was a Lincoln Stars assistant coach for Bartkowski's first season with the USHL team, and the head coach the next year. After Bartkowski's initial 2006-07 season, McGroarty took the defenseman aside for a conversation.
"That was the first time that somebody had really told me that I could play in the NHL," recalled the Bruins defenseman, sitting in a small room across from the team's dressing room at TD Garden.
This was news to Bartkowski, still just an 18-year-old who had never thought much about a hockey career beyond the rinks of Western Pennsylvania. As a high school senior, he had made plans to attend Penn State as a regular student before the USHL scooped him up.
Sure, Bartkowski was always a good skater — Bruins coach Claude Julien calls it an "effortless type of skating style" — but he had never taken hockey that seriously. It was a passion, not a pursuit.
"We told him that he had to commit a little more, do a little more," McGroarty said. "That was missing away from the rink."
That conversation changed the path for Bartkowski, putting him on a road over the last seven years that's led him through the Bruins organization from trade footnote to late-blooming prospect to a top-four position and, potentially, a pivotal role in the Bruins' pursuit of another Stanley Cup title.
"Bart has made terrific progressions," Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli said.
A lot has changed in seven years.
Pitt start
Matt Bartkowski was born June 4, 1988, in Pittsburgh. Had he been born in 1978, he may not have ever touched a pair of skates.
The Mario Lemieux-Jaromir Jagr era of Penguins greatness started rolling when Bartkowski was still a toddler. Pittsburgh was awash in hockey fever from Stanley Cup titles in 1991 and 1992. Rinks popped up all along the Three Rivers.
Bartkowski took his first stride on ice when he was five years old. He was on a rec team a year later. His childhood was spent on the ice, and it may explain how Bartkowski has become an elite skater.
"Every summer growing up until senior year, when I was 18, I would take skating lessons," Bartkowski said. "Every week during the summer I would do a camp. I didn't really have any time off. Pittsburgh's different. I played on three teams one year. I played on a freshman team, JV team and a travel team."
There aren't many NHL players to make it out of Pittsburgh, not compared to hotbeds like Minnesota and Toronto. Bartkowski is one of just six current players in the league that were born and raised in the Pittsburgh area. He's the only one who played in high school for all four years, at Mt. Lebanon High School. The others went to prep school or the United States National Team Development Drogram.
"It's not like it was good hockey," Bartkowski said of the high school games. "It's more just playing for your school and with your friends."
Bartkowski got his reps playing for various travel teams and getting coached by former NHL players George Ferguson and Eddie Olczyk. That was where the real competition came, and it was while playing in a Chicago tournament with a travel team that he was noticed by the USHL.
If the hockey community would consider it a disadvantage to be from an area that doesn't produce NHL players en masse, Bartkowski would disagree.
"It worked to my advantage, at least," he says. "There's a lot of rinks in Pittsburgh and places to skate during the time that I grew up. … There's always camps and always being on the ice a lot."
Lincoln days
In the fall of 2006, Bartkowski reported to Lincoln, Neb., for his first junior season. The Stars had made him the 10th pick in the USHL draft that spring.
The first season saw Bartkowski play in 57 games, putting up nine points. There were signs of more, but it had to be pried out. McGroarty saw a jokester, a kid who liked to play pranks on his teammates and friends — McGroarty is quick to remember the time Bartkowski called his mother to say the Stars had traded him, then hung up.
McGroarty also saw someone who needed a kick in the butt. Although Bartkowski had done enough in that first year to earn a scholarship from Ohio State, there was so much more he could contribute.
That sparked The Talk, when the NHL was mentioned for the first time.
"He thought I was a better player than I had been that year, and I agreed with him," Bartkowski said. "He said I should be one of the best 'D' in the league and to play that way."
McGroarty wanted a commitment off the ice. In the summer of 2007, Bartkowski started working out. It couldn't just be skating anymore; he got in the gym, lost 15 pounds, worked on his stamina and his fitness. Bartkowski says it's not that different from what he does in the summer now preparing for an NHL season.
"You know what, that's what separates guys from this level [in the USHL] from the college game and then to the NHL," McGroarty said of Bartkowski, who's listed by the Bruins at 6-foot-1 and 196 pounds. "Look at him now. He looks different."
The coaches fine-tuned Bartkowski's game too, getting him to not look for the 'perfect pass' as McGroarty put it.
The results showed. Bartkowski became a 25-plus minutes player as a USHL sophomore in 2007-08, and scored 41 points in 60 games. He was one of the USHL's best defensemen. The Florida Panthers sent scouts to watch him, and took him with the 190th pick in the 2008 draft.
"The first year [with Lincoln], I was playing whatever, just a regular shift," Bartkowski said. "Then the next year [McGroarty] rewarded me. I was a lot better and I was in every situation, one of the leaders on the team. He kept instilling in me, 'You're one of the best players, now play like it.' That's what he said and he just instilled that in me and it showed. … I don't know if it was a breakout year — I just played the way I could. I got drafted out of that."
Boston bound
Bartkowski was wrapping up his second season at Ohio State when two moves in short order changed his immediate future.
On March 3, 2010, the Bruins acquired Bartkowski's rights from the Panthers. It was part of the Dennis Seidenberg deal, and stands as one of Chiarelli's biggest victories in his eight years on Causeway Street. Seidenberg and Bartkowski went to Boston for Byron Bitz, Craig Weller and a second-round pick in that June's draft, which Florida used on Alex Petrovic.
"We felt he was worth the value of a second-round pick," Chiarelli said Wednesday. "We felt he could turn into a top-five or top-six defenseman. It was a matter of our scouting him."
Bartkowski's plan had been to stay at Ohio State. He was a good student, and had done well with the Buckeyes.
But then coach John Markell was fired, less than two weeks after Bartkowski had been traded to the Bruins.
"I think if I could've stayed in Coach Markell's system, I would've done four years," Bartkowski said. "But once I was traded here, actually one of the coaches at Ohio State was like, 'They're going to try to pull you out.' I said, 'No way. Why would they do that? Let me progress here.' And sure enough, a week later we start talking contract."
Bartkowski signed an entry-level contract with the Bruins on April 29, 2010.
"We had a good discussion with his family and his father and himself," Chiarelli said. "We just felt, and he was a good student too, so we wanted to make sure he was fully informed before he turned pro. We just felt he would be better off playing in a lot of games. He's kind of a late bloomer, so we wanted to make sure he had that experience at the pro level."
In the system
Bartkowski met with assistant general manager Don Sweeney in the summer of 2010. Although the Bruins were a rising power in the Eastern Conference and had a deep roster that would go on to win the Stanley Cup the next season, Sweeney told Bartkowski he "shouldn't expect anything less than to make the team" out of training camp.
Now a 22-year-old, he didn't make it easy on himself. It's a hard enough jump from college hockey to the NHL as it is, and Bartkowski didn't exactly open eyes in that first training camp. Or at least, not for the right reasons.
"I remember he was late for the bus, that part I remember," Bruins coach Claude Julien said. "And that he needed to grow up, and that he's done. He's a young player coming out of college and a lot of things are happening quickly. I think that he needed to grow into a better pro."
The Bruins opened the season in Prague and Bartkowski was brought along for the trip. He watched how seasoned vets like Seidenberg, Zdeno Chara and Mark Recchi handled themselves and prepared for games, something he called a "great experience."
"Sometimes it's just about bringing them to these places and letting them grow around your team and making them see what it takes to be a good NHLer," Julien said. "I guess he learned a little bit on that trip and worked his way back up here."
Afterwards, Bartkowski was sent down to Providence for the grind of the season. Like for every hockey player that turns pro, it was an adjustment — on and off the ice.
"Sometimes you need to grow as a pro and I use that term 'grow as a pro' because you have to learn to deal with the schedule, you have to learn to deal with the rest, you have to learn to deal with nutrition," Julien said. "And when you're single, it's a bigger challenge."
In juniors and college, Bartkowski could skate circles around most of his opponents. That skating ability, built up in those summer lessons in Pittsburgh, gave him a natural advantage.
The rug was pulled out from under him in Providence. Everyone could skate now.
"He probably got himself out of situations at the college level that he couldn't at the [pro] level," Sweeney said. "He had to sort that out."
It's when that buzzword that's thrown around Bartkowski all the time — consistency — was first used.
The Providence Bruins play three games almost every weekend. As Bartkowski says now, "You want to be at least good for each game." Providence coach Bruce Cassidy preached to Bartkowski that if he couldn't bring his 'A' game each time, at least bring his 'B' game.
The first year made for some ugly Sunday afternoons.
"This is a tough league [in the AHL] and it exposes kids," Sweeney said. "Sunday afternoons, you come down to watch games early in the year and you're like, 'Hold on here, this isn't the same guy I saw Friday and Saturday.' But there's a reason for that and that's the growth. Coaches do a good job of recognizing that and understanding that. You have to address it with the guys. You have to understand, you're going to be judged on the consistency.
"Anybody on this [Providence] team can go play an NHL game or two — they have the talent to be there. Now can they stay there and take somebody's job and have the consistency that it takes to be at that level?"
It took Bartkowski nearly three full seasons of calling the Dunkin' Donuts Center his home rink before he had it down.
The Show
In three brief stints with Boston over his first two years, Bartkowski showed he was not ready. He turned the puck over and made the wrong decision on passes more often than not. His hockey sense wasn't honed to NHL levels.
In a recall at the end of last season, his third as a pro, Bartkowski was steadier. He had learned to use the wall to chip pucks out and to handle forecheckers. He also had to deal with the knowledge that he had been traded to the Flames, only for now-teammate Jarome Iginla to pull the plug.
In the playoffs, Bartkowski was a revelation. He was the unsung hero of the Bruins' Game 7 miracle against the Maple Leafs, logging 24:51 of ice time and scoring the only goal of his NHL career. He continued that through the second-round series against the Rangers, when he and Johnny Boychuk formed an effective second pairing.
Expectations were raised. The Bruins let Andrew Ference go in free agency, and Bartkowski entered camp expecting to play a major role.
It didn't start that way. Bartkowski was a healthy scratch for 12 of the first 16 games this season. Much of the rationale was the play of rookies Torey Krug and Dougie Hamilton, who both play on the power play. Bartkowski doesn't see it that way.
"I think a lot of that was reflective of my play," he said. "I know I wasn't playing good. It might have been enough to get by, but I could've made a bigger impact."
Bartkowski became a lineup regular in November when Adam McQuaid was injured. Yet it wasn't until around early January when Bartkowski found his rhythm, careening around forecheckers to bust out the puck and make things happen with his skating.
Not coincidentally, that began shortly after Dennis Seidenberg's injury threw Bartkowski into a top-four role and larger minutes. The more Bartkowski played, the better he performed from night to night.
"Consistency, I'll go back to that — if you can be consistent in this league every night, you're going to be around for a long time," Bartkowski said Monday morning. "I think right after Christmas, I started playing better and it's just been progressing from there. Now I'm just playing the game."
Bartkowski has averaged 20:58 of ice time since Seidenberg tore up his knee Dec. 27. He's not used in defensive situations as much as Seidenberg, but he has become a regular on the penalty kill and in late-game situations. Julien was asked Monday morning if Bartkowski had earned the confidence of the coaching staff to be used in any situation.
"Well, I think he's proven that the last little while," the coach said. "Right now I'm going to tell you about him maintaining it though. You know, you don't just start showing it and then think everything is OK. I like the direction he has taken, I think he has become really reliable and since Dennis [was injured], he has gotten better and better by being put in kind of Dennis' positions a little bit more.
"He's become more consistent, even more physical, more confident, and his consistency in his game has gotten a lot better. So now if he can maintain that, it is going to help our team a lot."
In retrospect, Julien's words Monday morning were foreshadowing. That night against the Wild, Bartkowski had perhaps his roughest game of the season. He was caught flat-footed on a dangle by Mikko Koivu, and bizarrely jumped up on an offensive-zone faceoff to give Jason Pominville an open runway to score a breakaway goal.
The inconsistency that might have been dismissed as a learning curve three years ago is no longer an excuse.
"If you're going to play 20-plus minutes and be counted on, you can't have games like that," Chiarelli said bluntly.
Bartkowski was scratched the next night in New Jersey. Julien said he wanted his young defensemen to know they had to keep earning their spots in the lineup, especially in the aftermath of the trade deadline acquisitions of Andrej Meszaros and Corey Potter.
Yet it's more likely than not that Bartkowski will be in the defensive six-pack as the No. 2 left-side defenseman when the Stanley Cup playoffs open in less than a month. His play will go a long way to determining whether a team that has all the pieces to win a championship — four quality lines, depth at center, a shutdown defenseman and an elite goaltender — can indeed raise the Cup for the second time in four years.
"I'm very comfortable with him as a player now," Chiarelli said of Bartkowski. "He's defending smarter. I think he's defending better when he's pushing the puck. He was scratched the other night, on the heels of not a good performance. I'm confident in him, confident that he's part of the group."
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Pawlitically incorrect as it might be, I do permit my dog to stick his head out the car window from time to time.
While there are those who say that's putting him, and particularly his eyes and ears, at risk, I can't bring myself to forbid him from sticking his nose out the window. To ban him from that activity would be the equivalent of taking someone to an art museum and blindfolding them.
So when traveling at reasonable speeds, and once in a while traveling at unreasonable speeds, I power down the back window halfway to let Ace sniff in the surroundings for a minute or two, usually at his urging — as in, "If I keep smushing my greasy nose into this closed window, he will open it a bit."
I, unsafe and risky as it is, love to see the dog head protruding from the car window, almost as much as dogs seem to enjoy sticking their heads out the window.
To me, the dog head protruding from a car window, while maybe not as iconic as that torch Lady Liberty holds up, is a symbol of freedom and possibilities and soaking up all life has to offer. I have even tried it myself, but I got something in my eye and no longer take part in that behavior. Ace still gets to, though, within limits.
Admitting that will probably bring some criticism my way, just as I'd expect this new ad from Volkswagen might take some heat.
The ad features more than 15 dogs — all hooked up to seat restraints, it is said — but still managing to get their heads out the car window, in some cases well out the window.
(If you're wondering why some dogs appear to be in the driver's seat, that's because the ad was filmed in the UK, for the British market.)
Twenty-two dogs were involved in the filming of the ad, and none of them were equipped with doggy goggles.
Thus those dogs, like my dog, were exposed to the danger of dirt, rocks, dust and debris that could harm their eyes; or ear damage that can result from them flapping too fiercely in the wind; or the possibility of falling out of the window.
The ad makers, judging from this behind-the-scenes "making of" video (below) seemed to exercise care and take precautions with the dogs.
But I'd be interested in hearing what you think. Will the ad be viewed as putting dogs in danger, or letting dogs be dogs? Is it joyous, or worrisome, and do you think it's going to sell many Volkswagens? As for me, I was too busy looking at the dogs to notice the cars at all.
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