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State to ready action plan
With the Right to Education Act formally coming into nationwide effect from today, the State Government has embarked on a drive to ensure that every child in the age group of 6 to 14 secures quality education in an enabling environment. [...More]
Education dept seeks time for nod to prosecution
The education department has sought fifteen days' time from the Gauhati High Court (GHC) for finalizing the status on the issuance of prosecution sanctions against the five senior officials listed as accused by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) [...More]
Assamese woman makes computer easy for illiterates
A young woman from Assam has achieved honours in the challenging realm of computer literacy. What is more she, along with two co-workers, have earned a patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office last year. [...More]
Jugasankha Literary Award to Bikash Sarkar
Renowned poet and litterateur Bikash Sarkar was conferred the prestigious Jugasankha Literary Award-2010 yesterday, for his contributions to Bengali literature from the North East. [...More]
Best Services Award for IGNOU centre
The Guwahati Regional Centre of IGNOU was selected for the Best Services Award for the year 2009. [...More]
NE States not availing funds for research
The National Testing Service (NTS), India, a Central scheme of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, today regretted that Assam and the other North-east States were not coming forward to avail of the Central funds meant for research [...More]
Steps for water management during floods
For flood prone States like Assam, preserving the quality of drinking water is a major cause of concern during the high floods as most of the sources go under water and sometimes even washed away. [...More]
Sabha appeal on mother tongues
The Asam Sahitya Sabha has urged the State Government and all the Opposition parties to put up a united front to fight the growing threats to the indigenous mother tongues of the State. [...More]
Vehicles distributed
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today distributed vehicles to inspector of schools at a functioned at the Assam secretarial complex here, stated an official press release. [...More]
Computer teachers' posts not to be regularised
The State Education Department has no plan to regularise the teachers appointed against the Rajiv Gandhi Computer Literacy Programme. This was stated by Education Minister Gautam Bora in the State Assembly today in reply to a Zero Hour discussion initiated by Gunindranath Das (AGP). [...More]
Govt-run schools in poor state
The overall health of the government run schools in the state does not auger well for the citizens who believe in the principle of socialistic welfare and free universal education. [...More]
HC directive to Govt on teacher appointment
The division bench of the Gauhati High Court comprising Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Biplab Kumar Sharma today directed the State Government not to appoint upper primary and lower primary school teachers (regular/contract/ad-hoc) till regularisation of the OBB teachers without leave [...More]
7000 to be appointed on contract basis
The Assam Government has decided to appoint 7,000 teachers on contract basis to overcome the problem of shortage of teachers in the educational institutions. [...More]
GU teachers stage stir over pay package
The Gauhati University Teacher's Association (GUTA) on Wednesday boycotted classes and resorted to blockade of the VC's office demanding full implementation of the UGC revised pay package. [...More]
IIT-G entrepreneurship summit from March 6
The second edition of IIT Guwahati Entrepreneurship Summit will be held on March 6 and 7 at the institution's campus at North Guwahati. [...More]
Sanjeeb Bordoloi becomes USO president
Former principal of city's Bagmibor Nilomoni Phukan Higher Secondary School, Sanjeeb Bordoloi, has been elevated to the post of president of United School Organisations (USO) of India. [...More]
Nalbari schools lack funds for mid-day meal
The ongoing mid-day meal scheme being implemented in different primary, upper primary and high schools in Nalbari district as per the Supreme Court (SC) direction has turned into a farce due to the alleged negligence of some officers. [...More]
Ploy to occupy Sonaram HS school field comes to light
One of the oldest schools of Assam, might well end up losing a part of its estate, result of a plan being hatched by private parties. [...More]
State scholars, writers dash off protest letter to Sahitya Akademi
Several leading scholars and writers of the State have resented Sahitya Akademi Kolkata-based Regional Office's irrational act of humiliating eminent scholar and critic Dr Hiren Gohain. [...More]
Centrally cooked mid-day meal scheme launched
Janaki Ballav Patnaik today inaugurated the centrally cooked mid-day meal programme in Kamrup district. This programme will provide cooked mid-day meal on all working days for 20 thousand students of 260 schools of the district in the first phase. [...More]
Upgradation of GU infrastructure on
Gauhati University (GU) has embarked upon a mission to provide a second building to its library known popularly as the KK Handique Library. [...More]
Cotton Collegiate Alumni Association's ultimatum to Govt
The Cotton Collegiate Alumni Association on Wednesday served a three months ultimatum to the government to reconstitute the managing committee of the school which had its last meeting way back in 1985. [...More]
Computer education likely in State schools
To ensure uniform spread of computer literacy in all the government schools, the State government is mulling over a plan to introduce computer education as one of the optional subjects at high school level. [...More]
Nostalgic moments at Cotton Collegiate alumni meet
Nostalgia ran high on the second day of the valedictory function of Cotton Collegiate Government HS School completing its 175 years of existence, with the alumni and teachers exchanging their experience with the present students. [...More]
CM assures land for Sankaradeva university
In the open meet of 79th annual session of Srimanta Sankaradeva Sangha, held at Samannaya Khetra at Titabor here today Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi assured to allot land for the proposed Srimanta Sankaradeva University at Nagaon. [...More]


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Now close your mouth almost completely and pronounce the French version, perfection. Keep that tongue tip down. Per... that R should come from back in the throat... per... fec... tion. Per... fec... tion. Perfection.
Do you see that your mouth doesn't have to be open very far? Just slightly. Perfection. However, your tongue and cheeks need to do more work than they do when you pronounce words in English.
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The next French pronunciation recording is going to encourage you to make different movements, to experiment with the oral gymnastics that it takes to make French easy to pronounce.
French pronunciation is easy once you have the correct mouth position, once you are doing the right things with your tongue and lips.
The next recording gives you my two guiding principles for improving your French pronunciation. Go on to French Pronuciation Lesson 4.


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Valuing Our Teachers with Improved Compensation
We're pleased to share that the Denver Public Schools and the Denver Classroom Teachers Association reached a tentative agreement on a new ProComp contract shortly after 6 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 14, after negotiating through the night.
The tentative agreement invests an additional $23 million in teacher pay. It includes an average base salary increase of 11.7% next year and a cost-of-living increase the following two years. The ProComp incentive for teachers in the highest-poverty schools increases to $3000, and the incentives for teaching in Title I schools and hard-to-fill positions are $2000.
The tentative agreement must be ratified by the DCTA membership and then approved by the Denver Board of Education
See DPS/DCTA Agreement »
Archive of Negotiation Information
FAQ: Claims about Negotiations and Teacher Pay
I heard DPS' proposed 10% increase still doesn't bring Denver teachers up to competitive salary levels in the metro area. Is this true?
DPS' latest teacher pay proposal would ensure Denver teachers have among the highest salaries in the state, from starting pay to lifetime earnings. See how DPS' proposed salary schedule compares to other districts.
DPS teachers who have a bachelor's degree, a bachelor's degree plus 20 credits or a master's degree and who earn at least one incentive — which 72% of DPS teachers do under the proposal — would have the highest lifetime earning potential of any metro-area school district. See chart comparing lifetime earnings among districts.
In addition, DPS' starting pay for a teacher with a bachelor's degree would be $45,500, second only to Boulder Valley schools. But in Boulder, a teacher with a bachelor's degree faces a salary cap after about five years; DPS has no salary caps so teachers can grow their pay over 30 years.
I heard DPS and the teachers' union are $8.5 million apart and that is only 1% of DPS' total budget. Is this true?
DPS has offered teachers an average 10% raise in base pay starting next year. Gov. Polis' Office of State Planning and Budgeting analyzed the teachers' union proposal and, on Jan. 29, shared their estimate that the DCTA proposal would require an additional $11.3 million in funding.
However, the difference between the district and union proposals is actually more than that because of how the proposals are structured.
DPS' proposal includes $2,500 annual incentives for teachers serving in high-poverty or Title 1 schools and another $2,500 annual incentive for those working in 30 schools identified jointly by DPS and the union as the district's highest-priority schools. Providing additional resources to support higher-poverty schools is aligned to our values and a key strategy for improving outcomes for students.
The union's proposal drops those amounts to $1,750 annual incentives for high-poverty schools, and eliminates the highest-priority schools altogether. This means that teachers in the 30 highest priority schools would lose their $2,500 incentive so that all teachers, regardless of the poverty level in their school, could receive about $450 more in base pay. As we are committed to maintaining these poverty incentives, we are $17.8 million apart from the union's proposal.
Altogether, DPS would spend $450 million per year on teacher compensation or just over 50% of the total district-managed operating budget, under its proposal.
About that 1% ….
The vast majority of DPS' budget is spent on compensation for 15,500 employees, operating costs for 160 district-run schools, facility maintenance, student transportation and expenses required by federal or state law, such as serving students with special needs and students learning English.
This leaves just under $150 million for central office expenses; of this, DPS has proposed cutting $10.5 million to put more money into teacher pay. In addition, DPS will be making further cuts to central office expenses to support raises for other employees, including hourly school support staff such as classroom assistants, and to better fund key priorities such as serving kids with special needs.
DPS does not want to shrink school budgets to put more money into teacher pay.
I heard DPS has millions of dollars in reserves that it could use to pay for teacher raises. Is this true?
DPS does have millions of dollars in reserves, as required by state law and school board policy. However, it's one-time funding that would quickly be drained if used for ongoing expenses such as teacher pay.
Colorado law requires school districts to have a minimum of 3% of their operating budgets in reserves and a maximum of 15%. Within these parameters, Denver Board of Education policy requires DPS to put 10% of its operating budget in reserves. Today, the district's reserves are a little over $100 million. The 10% reserves allows the district to get stronger credit ratings, which lowers DPS borrowing costs, thereby reducing the costs to Denver taxpayers for bonds.
Under DPS' latest teacher pay proposal, the district would spend $450 million a year on teacher compensation or just over 50% of our total district-managed budget. So we would quickly go through our reserves if we tried to pay teacher salaries from one-time funds.
I heard DPS teachers haven't gotten a raise in years. Is this true?
In September 2017, the district and teachers' union signed a master agreement that includes an average annual increase of 5% for 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20. This works out, on average, to a 15% increase over this three-year period.
Under the district's latest pay proposal, DPS teachers would receive an additional 5% increase next year — for a total increase, on average, of 10% from 2018-19 to 2019-20.
I heard DPS spends $4 million per year in bonuses on administrators. Is this true?
We pay over $4 million per year in incentives, but the vast majority of the administrator incentives was paid to school principals and assistant principals. About $4 million was spent on school leader incentives and about $500,000 for central administrators.
Principal incentives align with ProComp incentives for teachers, rewarding principals who teach in high-poverty schools and who achieve Top Performance and High Growth. Principals also have retention incentives, as do teachers, for continuing to work in high-poverty schools. This incentive supports our belief that strong leadership continuity is essential to strong teacher performance and sustained student growth.
The average DPS high school principal's base salary was $117,100, behind Cherry Creek, Aurora, Adams 5, Littleton and Boulder. With the incentives, DPS high school principals' total compensation was third, behind Littleton and Boulder.
For elementary principals, DPS' base salary lagged Aurora, Adams, Littleton and Boulder. With incentives, DPS was the second highest-paying district.
Executive incentives for central administrators are used to close the gap in compensation between DPS and other large urban districts as well as local organizations of equal size and complexity. Incentives are based on a combination of personal performance and organizational performance. The Board of Education approves the organizational performance measures and outcomes.
I heard that, in DPS, more than 20% of teachers turn over every year. Is this true?
In DPS district-run schools, with DPS teachers, our teacher retention has continued to climb over the last three years to 85%. This is notable given the post-recession retention decreases that were seen in school districts across Colorado. The current rate is similar to Jefferson County, the second-largest district in the state after Denver.
And for teachers in our highest-priority schools, who have been receiving higher incentives for the last four years, we have seen an increase in teacher retention each and every year.
DPS is seeking to increase these retention rates even further through competitive salaries and a large base-salary increase for teachers who spend ten years in our classrooms.
We also know that retention is about more than compensation. We know that our teachers want strong leadership, a voice in their school's improvement planning and a strong culture that supports them and their students. In addition to our proposed incentives, we are working on all these efforts in our high-poverty schools to support teacher recruitment and retention.
I heard DPS has twice as many administrators as any other school district in Colorado. Is this true?
Based on data collected by the Colorado Department of Education, DPS does have more administrators than the state average. That's one reason why Superintendent Susana Cordova is proposing cuts of more than $10 million in central administration to pay teachers more.
In negotiations with the Denver teachers' union, Cordova has committed to "right-sizing" the district's central administration staff and expenses:
"We have too many priorities, too many people working on those priorities, and not enough impact coming out of that," said Cordova, a DPS graduate and former DPS teacher who became superintendent on Jan. 7. "I am 100 percent committed to right-sizing what the central office looks like."
When you hear about the number of "administrators," that includes central administrators and school administrators like principals. Here are some of the reasons DPS has had more administrators than other districts:
Grant-funded initiatives and initiatives funded by dedicated mill levies
Nearly 10% of DPS central support staff were funded by grants last year, supporting nationally-watched initiatives such as the district's trauma-informed practices for the district's Whole Child efforts.
The district also funds key initiatives through dedicated mill levies such as the nation's largest Teacher Leadership & Collaboration program, a leadership model that allows our best teachers to coach and grow other teachers in their schools while staying true to their first love, teaching their own classroom of kids.
DPS has invested in more small schools in an attempt to provide personalized attention for students, particularly those in poverty or those struggling in school. More schools equals more school leaders in buildings.
DPS, the state's largest district, serves approximately 92,000 students in 207 schools — or an average of 444 students per school. In comparison, Jeffco, the next-largest district, serves 84,600 students in 155 schools — or an average of 546 students per school.
Central office administrators also provide a number of key services to the DPS community — including translation and interpretation services, and family and community engagement — which are essential to our goal of serving our diverse community well.
How do DPS teachers get paid and what is being negotiated?
DPS and the Denver teachers union — the Denver Classroom Teachers Association or DCTA — are jointly working to improve teacher pay in our schools. We agree that the current system needs to be simplified and that we need to invest more money in teacher compensation.
The current system is referred to as "ProComp" — short for a professional compensation system for teachers. It was intended to incent and reward the best educators to come to DPS and to stay in DPS. It got that name when Denver taxpayers agreed in 2005 to fund a mill levy that gives DPS $33 million a year to invest in incentives for things like working in high-poverty schools or hard-to-fill positions.
Read the ProComp ballot language approved by voters.
DPS has two big contracts with the union. A master agreement that covers things like annual raises, class sizes and the amount of planning time for teachers. And the ProComp Agreement, which covers how the ProComp incentives work. Learn more about ProComp and how it works here. In 2017, DPS and DCTA renegotiated the master agreement and that agreement will be in effect until 2022. As a part of that agreement, DPS invested an additional $45 million in teacher compensation to guarantee average teacher raises of 5% in 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 (total of 15% over three years).
Since the beginning of 2018, DPS and DCTA have been negotiating the ProComp Agreement. Regardless of what happens with these negotiations, teachers are still guaranteed raises for the 2019-20 school year. However, DPS and DCTA agree that we can do better and we've made some great progress so far on our mutual goals — specifically returning to a simple and transparent salary table and committing to invest more money in that system.
In its latest Jan. 31 proposal, DPS is offering an additional $26.5 million in teacher compensation. That's on top of the $45 million committed to teacher raises in 2017 and on top of the $33 million in voter-approved annual funding for ProComp.
The additional $26.5 million in teacher pay includes:
$10.5 million in cuts to central-office or school-support staff and services.
$6 million from the governor's anticipated budget that funds full-day kindergarten. Because DPS has been subsidizing full-day kindergarten, this will free up funds for teacher pay.
$6 million from the balance in the ProComp trust fund, to be used to transition educators to the new salary schedule.
$4 million from the governor's anticipated budget to reduce the "negative factor" in state funding, thus increasing funding for DPS.
What are the facts about teacher pay in DPS and what would it look like under DPS' current proposal? How does it compare to other districts?
Average teacher pay this year in Denver Public Schools — calculated by dividing the number of teachers by the total dollar investment in teacher pay — is $58,892 for regular classroom teachers and $60,228 for those teaching children with special needs. This salary is for 187 days of work a year.
Here are examples of what the district's latest proposal would mean in actual pay for our teachers:
Starting salary for DPS teachers would be $45,500, higher than Cherry Creek, Aurora and Jefferson County, and second only to Boulder Valley schools.
Increases the average DPS teacher's base salary by 10% from 2018-19 to 2019-20.
A DPS teacher with a bachelor's degree and five years of experience earning one ProComp incentive (based on current data, 72% of DPS teachers would receive at least one incentive) would earn $56,750 — the highest rate for this experience and education level in the metro area.
At the end of ten years, this same DPS teacher with a bachelor's degree and earning at least one incentive would earn a total of $558,750 — the highest in the metro area.
See more examples of how the district's proposal would impact teacher pay.
DPS teachers are paid differently than teachers in other districts and that's by design. When Denver voters approved ProComp in 2005, they were approving a nationally groundbreaking plan, developed by district and union leaders, to pay teachers more based on factors such as performance and their willingness to serve in more challenging schools or positions. Read the original ballot language, which continues to be binding.
Similarly, Denver voters in 2016 approved an additional $14.5 million investment in our efforts to attract, retain and grow great teachers, particularly our teacher leadership model, which pays our strongest teachers up to $5,000 more annually to coach their peers.
While we are grateful to Denver voters for additional funding for teacher pay, it makes it more difficult to make comparisons across districts. For example, annual calculations by the Colorado Department of Education do not include ProComp funding in DPS, despite the fact that it contributes $33 million to teacher compensation each year and the average DPS teacher earns more than $4,000 each year in ProComp incentives.
Our research consistently shows teacher pay in DPS ranks among the top three in the metro area. DPS and the union signed an agreement last year that will increase DPS teacher pay by 15% over three years, or through 2019-20. And our latest proposal would add another $26.5 million, on top of the $33 million in ProComp funding approved by taxpayers.
See teacher pay schedules from other metro-area districts.
How is DPS working to use taxpayer dollars wisely?
DPS has cut administrative expenses in recent years to pay teachers more, and we have agreed to continue to cut more.
Over the past four years, we cut central-office or school-support staff and services by 8% to help fund higher raises for teachers and put more money into schools. Our latest proposal continues this trend, adding $26.5 million on top of the $33 million in ProComp funding approved by Denver voters in 2005.
Sources for the additional 26.5 million in additional funds for teacher pay include:
$7 million in cuts to central-office or school-support staff and services.
$6 million from the balance in the ProComp trust, to be used to transition educators to the new salary schedule.
The union's latest proposal seeks an additional $29 million for teachers, or nearly double the $33 million in ProComp funding approved by voters.
It's important to understand that investing in great teachers for our kids is about more than teacher pay. For example, a top priority for DPS and our community is closing student achievement gaps. This means investing in efforts like culturally-responsive training, practices and materials for our teachers, increasing mental health and whole child supports, better teacher to student ratios in our most highly impacted schools as well as increasing their pay.
Finally, while the teachers' union represents about 5,500 employees, DPS employs nearly 15,000 across our district. We have also sought to make significant investments in raising the pay of employees who are currently earning the district's lowest hourly pay rates. It's essential to the operation of our schools that we also offer competitive wages to our classroom assistants or paraprofessionals, bus drivers, custodians and food-service workers.
How is DPS helping teachers keep up with the high cost-of-living in Denver?
Our latest pay proposal includes increasing a new teacher's starting salary to $45,500, higher than Cherry Creek, Aurora, Jefferson County, Adams Five-Star and Littleton. It also includes increased supports for every stage of an educator's career.
In addition to proposed pay increases, DPS is actively partnering with organizations to support our employees as our city's cost-of-living escalates. This includes partnering with housing programs, such as Landed, that offer down payment assistance, and collaborating with Oakwood Homes to offer educators discounts on new homes.
DPS also has created a cost-of-living toolkit that connects teachers with services to help with home-buying, childcare, prescriptions, public transportation and parking, insurance, tuition reimbursement, pay advances and educator discounts.
Like many other employers in Denver, we are constantly seeking new ways to support our employees. If you are aware of opportunities, please email communications@dpsk12.org.
Retaining Great Teachers
Teacher retention in DPS has increased over the past three years, with 86% of our educators returning to our schools this year.
For our teachers of color and top-performing teachers, retention was even greater: 87% of our teachers of color and 91% of our top-performing teachers returned to DPS this year.
We believe retaining strong teachers means thriving schools and better outcomes for our kids.
Learn more about teacher retention in DPS. »
Have a Question about Teacher Pay? Email Us »
Meet the DPS Leaders Negotiating Teacher Pay
Susana Cordova, Superintendent
Susana, a former teacher, is mom to a DPS graduate and a high school senior.
Debbie Hearty, Chief Human Resources Officer
Debbie is a former teacher and mom to two DPS students.
Mark Ferrandino, Chief Financial Officer
Mark has one student in DPS, a first-grader.
Michelle Berge, Chief Legal Counsel
Michelle has a first-grader in DPS as well as an incoming kindergarten student.
Additional Information and Background
In Denver Public Schools, we are committed to working with our teachers to build a salary system that better supports our educators at every stage of their careers.
In negotiations, DPS added $26.5 million to teacher pay ($6 million of which was for the cost to transition to a new schedule). This presented an average 10% salary increase for teachers next year, as we worked to find common ground with the teachers' union.
Unfortunately, we were unable to reach an agreement by the Jan. 18 deadline and the union voted to strike.
We remained absolutely committed to doing everything in our power to prevent a strike and reached out to state leaders to request intervention.
We also asked the union to return to negotiations. We met again Jan. 31 and presented a new proposal; we were disappointed union leaders did not respond — instead, they left negotiations more than an hour early.
On Feb. 6, Governor Polis announced that the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment will not intervene at this time in our contract negotiations with the Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA). It is his hope that we continue negotiating to avert a strike. This is DPS' wholehearted goal as well. If we cannot reach an agreement, the DCTA has announced plans for its members to strike starting Monday, Feb. 11.
On Saturday, Feb. 9, DPS presented an updated proposal that responds to what we have heard from teachers, aligns to our values of equity and retention, honors the ProComp ballot language, and significantly increases the base pay for all our educators. DCTA responded with a counter proposal that offered technical changes to the process for earning additional pay for professional development. They did not make any offers that brought us closer together on financial terms.
We were disappointed that the union walked out on negotiations instead of continuing to work toward an agreement. DCTA ended negotiations at 7:30 p.m. and indicated they will not return to the table until Tuesday, Feb. 12.
There's still time to reach an agreement. We are willing to continue working every minute we have available to us to avoid a strike and the disruption it would mean for our students, families and teachers. There has been progress the past few days, and we remain ready to come back to the table to keep working toward an agreement.
While we are committed to finding an agreement and avoiding a strike, our number one priority as a district will continue to be the safety of our students. We are working hard to ensure there are enough licensed DPS team members and guest teachers to keep our schools and classrooms open. Most schools will stay open during normal hours. If a strike does occur, all ECE classes will be canceled for the duration of the strike. We will not be charging tuition for any days that our ECE classrooms are closed.
We appreciate the flexibility and patience of our community during this difficult time. We'll continue to share updates as they're available.
Timeline of Recent Events
Five all-day bargaining sessions were held in January before the DPS-union contract expired at midnight, Jan. 18. All bargaining sessions are public and open to anyone who would like to attend. The sessions were Jan. 8, 11, 15, 17 and 18. Watch past meetings here.
Friday, Jan. 18, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Acoma Campus. Final bargaining session; contract expired at midnight.
Saturday, Jan. 19 and Tuesday, Jan. 22, union members vote on whether to strike and, late Tuesday, union leaders announce the vote is to strike. However, due to state law, the earliest teachers could strike is Jan. 28.
Wednesday, Jan. 23, DPS files a request for intervention with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, asking state officials to intervene and facilitate a resolution to avoid a strike. Under Colorado law, a strike cannot occur while state officials are considering such a request.
Monday, Jan. 28, the teachers union files a motion with state officials, asking they stay out of the matter and allow teachers to strike. State officials have until Feb. 11 to make a decision about intervention.
Thursday, Jan. 31, while the two sides wait for a decision by state officials, they return to the bargaining table. DPS makes another pay proposal, which is rejected by the union. Union leaders decline to counter and leave negotiations more than an hour early.
Jan. 31 District Proposal Summary
Claims about Negotiations FAQ: I Heard …. Is This True?, Jan. 30, 2019
Negotiations Timeline through Jan. 22, 2019
Jan. 8 District Proposal Summary
Dec. 13 District Update to Teachers
Dec. 12 District Proposal Summary
Dec. 4 District Proposal
Watch Negotiation Meetings
Current DPS-DCTA Agreements
Schedule of DPS Bargaining Sessions
DPS Teacher Compensation and Benefits webpage
ProComp Policy and Management webpage
ProComp Ballot Language
Negotiation News
Message from Superintendent Susana Cordova: Teacher Compensation Negotiations Recap, Feb. 1, 2019
Statement on Incorrect Immigration Information by Superintendent Susana Cordova, Jan. 25, 2018
DPS Requests Intervention by Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Jan. 23, 2019
Press release: DPS and Teachers Union Unable to Reach Agreement, Jan. 18, 2019
Message from Superintendent Susana Cordova: Working to Reach Agreement, Jan. 16, 2019
Message from Superintendent Susana Cordova: Our Latest Conversations to Improve Teachers' Salaries, Jan. 12, 2019
Message from Superintendent Susana Cordova: Valuing Our Teachers with Improved Compensation, Jan. 8, 2019
Superintendent's Message: DPS is Committed to Finding Common Ground with Teachers' Union, Dec. 13, 2018
Our DPS Weekly Community Newsletter: Working with DCTA on Common Interests, Dec. 7, 2018
District Update on Talks with DCTA, Sept. 25, 2018
Information Regarding DCTA Negotiations, Sept. 24, 2018
DPS, DCTA Agree on ProComp Extension, March 15, 2018
DPS, DCTA Reach Agreement on Five-Year Contract, Sept. 1, 2017

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Report on Trinidad one year after independence focuses on the possibility that political life may develop along racial lines as has happened in nearby British Guiana.
Island is at present governed by Dr Eric Williams at the head of a largely black party. Indian leader of the opposition Dr Capildeo complains that although the Indian members of the population work harder than blacks they are unable to get good jobs and are treated as second class citizens; he predicts…
Island is at present governed by Dr Eric Williams at the head of a largely black party. Indian leader of the opposition Dr Capildeo complains that although the Indian members of the population work harder than blacks they are unable to get good jobs and are treated as second class citizens; he predicts racial strife. Doctor's analysis and prediction are disputed by an Indian supporter of Dr Williams' Peoples National Movement (founded in 1955 as a multiracial party) who states that a large number of urban Indians are well integrated into Trinidadian society and claims that Capildeo's real intention is to win political power by manipulating his rural following of Hindus who still feel allegiance to India. Another danger which potentially threatens the present harmony of Trinidad is social discontent arising from widespread unemployment, although blacks in a shanty town outside Port of Spain at present seem more interested in steel bands and gang violence (long sequences with interviews on both subjects) than in politics. Solution to island's economic problems may be the projected trade association with other Caribbean states.
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Bret Michaels - Concert with a Purpose
(CLEARWATER) Ruth Eckerd Hall presents, in his first public appearance in Florida in two years, multi-platinum recording artist Bret Michaels' Concert With A Purpose, featuring special guests Warrant and U.S. Army Veteran and Dancing With The Stars' alum Noah Galloway on Saturday, February 26 at 7:30 pm. In line with Michaels' lifelong commitment to philanthropy, proceeds from the concert will benefit the local Florida chapter of the 50 Legs Foundation. Tickets go on sale Friday, November 12 at 10 am.
In addition, there will be an auction for one lucky person to score a MEGA VIP Package, that includes two tickets and two passes to a Bret Michaels Stadium Show.
"We couldn't be more excited to have Bret return to Ruth Eckerd Hall and Florida for his first public appearance in two years," said Bobby Rossi, Chief Programming Officer / Executive Vice President of Programming for Ruth Eckerd Hall. "Bret always goes above and beyond and I have no doubt that this event will be one for the books. People are starving for entertainment with a purpose that brings the community together and this event ticks all those boxes. A night of big hits, giving back, and a party with a purpose."
Michaels, a lifelong diabetic first diagnosed at the age of six, will be continuing his philanthropic efforts through his Life Rocks Foundation, bringing relief and support to organizations based in the Southeast and Florida. These include previously performing at the "Toys In The Sun Run," benefiting Joe DiMaggio's Children's Hospital while also donating personally to the organization, plus even taking his personal jet to deliver toys to children in the Bahamas and Puerto Rico while also serving as the Grand Marshall for the largest "Winterfest" parade to date. Michaels, whose charitable outreach is detailed in his bestselling Auto-Scrap-Ography (available exclusively at ShopBretMichaels.com), will also return to Florida this upcoming Summer for a good time bash performing on The Stadium Tour.
Tickets starting at $50.50 will be available at The Raymond James Central Ticket Office at Ruth Eckerd Hall, by calling 727.791.7400 or visiting www.RuthEckerdHall.com. The Raymond James Central Ticket Office at Ruth Eckerd Hall is open Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 6 pm ONLY. The Raymond James Central Ticket Office will open one hour prior to show time.
Bret Michaels is a Music Icon, global entrepreneur and philanthropist, having sold over 100 million records, digital copies and streams worldwide, is a reality TV superstar with some of the highest rated reality shows in history as well as a lifelong type 1 diabetic. As an entrepreneur, Michaels has created the multi-million dollar selling Pets Rock Collection with PetSmart, launched his own line of custom guitars and created "Bret's Blend, Diet Trop A Rocka" which is a number one selling beverage for Dr. Pepper/Snapple Group. Michaels, personally and through his Life Rocks Foundation has helped raise millions of dollars for charity and makes donations to not only diabetes awareness and research but to such causes as childhood cancer, PetSmart Charities, Operation Homefront, Fealgood Foundation and more. His talent, business acumen and natural candor have solidified him as "a cultural touchdown" in the words of former Viacom CEO Judy McGrath and made him one of the most sought-after performers for not only live performances but virtual performances, speaking engagements, corporate events, charitable concerts and private engagements.
The 50 Legs Foundation provides amputees with the necessary care and prosthetics that they could not otherwise afford. The foundation also helps amputees to live a happier and healthier life. 50 Legs values, coupled with their desire to give back, has a positive impact on the lives of amputees by removing hopelessness and providing necessary care and prosthetic devices. 50 Legs vows to assist in providing the needed care and/or prosthetic devices to a person who loses a leg or foot to allow them to live an active and productive life.
Hailing from Hollywood, California, Warrant burst on the scene in the mid 80′s and from 1988 to 1996, their five album releases sold over 10 million copies. The band first came into the national spotlight with their double platinum debut album, Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich and its singles, Heaven, which reached #1 in Rolling Stone and #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The band's success continued with the double platinum album, Cherry Pie, which provided the hit song of the same name. After more than 30 years, the band is still recording music and performing, with ex-Lynch Mob lead vocalist Robert Mason.
Noah Galloway is a husband, father and solider, native of Birmingham, Alabama. His story is a shining example that with laughter, and the right amount of perspective, you can tackle anything. Noah demonstrates how to live life to the fullest, with no excuses. His story includes the battle he faced to overcome losing two limbs during Operation Iraqi Freedom, how mental health and physical fitness was crucial in his recovery, and how fitness is now more than a passion, it's a lifestyle. A highly sought after public speaker, Galloway travels the country sharing his story, encouraging and motivating others to live with no excuses.
Galloway lead his team to victory on FOX's hit series American Grit, where teams were tested with various military challenges. He also took third place in Season 20 of ABC's hit series, Dancing with The Stars. Following his appearance on the November cover of Men's Health Magazine, he was named the publication's 2014 Ultimate Guy. Adding to the list, Galloway released his first book a memoir; Living with No Excuses the Remarkable Rebirth of an American Soldier. A firm believer in giving back to those around him, Galloway created the No Excuses Charitable Fund, which raises money and awareness for organizations that mean the most to him. Like Galloway says and reminds us to live with no excuses.
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Bucharest City Hall plans to set up a metropolitan network of screening centers for breast and cervical cancer, according to a project that is to be discussed by the capital's General Council during its August 23 meeting.
The network will include the 'Saint Agatha' clinic dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of oncological affections of women, as well as four ambulatory medical centers that will work in hospitals subordinated to the City Hall that provide obstetrics-gynecology services. The four hospitals are Prof. Dr. Panait Sirbu Clinical Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Filantropia Clinical Hospital, Dr. I. Cantacuzino Clinical Hospital and Nicolae Malaxa Clinical Hospital.
"Considering that the incidence of cervical cancer and advanced breast cancer has reached alarming levels in Romania, this phenomenon being also caused by the fact that a small percentage of women go to see a doctor for cervical and breast screening, we want to contribute to the effective implementation of screening programs by creating ambulatory clinics with consulting rooms, gynecology and the necessary equipment," Bucharest mayor Gabriela Firea said.


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Efforts to battle opioid crisis are 'starting to pay off' in Will County, officials say
By Susan DeMar Lafferty
Daily Southtown |
Hundreds attended Will County's Hero Helps Heroin Summit last week in Romeoville, where 42 organizations passed out information and state and local officials discussed efforts to battle this public health crisis. (Susan DeMar Lafferty / Daily Southtown)
The number of opioid-related deaths has risen steadily in Will County in the past few years, but officials at a forum on the problem said progress has been made in tackling what they called a "public health crisis."
In 2017, the Will County coroner's office recorded its highest number of deaths related to heroin and fentanyl (a more potent synthetic opioid) — 85, up from 78 the previous year.
"It is easy to get discouraged, but progress has been made. Your work has started to pay off. You have saved lives," said Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health.
Will County's 7th Annual Hero Helps Community Summit was sponsored by the Heroin Epidemic Relief Organization, Will County Heroin Education Leads to Preventative Solutions, and the Southwest Coalition for Substance Abuse Issues last Friday at the Edward Hospital Athletic and Event Center in Romeoville.
Several speakers outlined efforts undertaken by Will County and the state of Illinois to address the opioid epidemic on many levels, noting that it will take a community-wide effort to solve the crisis.
Featured speaker Laura Porter outlined how the "piling up" of adverse childhood experiences from one generation to the next, can lead to health issues, substance abuse, suicide, unemployment, homelessness and divorce.
This "vicious cycle" can be broken by a caring community, but it will take a "cultural shift," she said. "Communities are powerful," Porter said, and she called on people to be kind, help each other, and support those "who are difficult to support."
"We can change the way we relate to each other day by day. We can create a culture with a lot less adversity," she said.
Cindy Davis, a social worker who was attending the forum for the first time, said that after hearing Porter, she believes "there is hope."
She also was encouraged that state officials have been working on this opioid problem.
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Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti, who co-chairs the Illinois Opioid Task Force, said the group's goal is to reduce opioid deaths by one-third in three years.
Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, tells the crowd to "keep perserving" in battling the heroin crisis. Listening are (right) Kathleen Burke, Will County's Director of Substance Abuse Initiatives and Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow. (Susan DeMar Lafferty / Daily Southtown)
The statistics are "startling, shocking and hurtful," she said, citing that last year, more than 63,000 Americans died from drug overdoses — most from opioids and prescription painkillers.
In Illinois, opioids killed twice as many people as vehicular accidents, she said.
"It's imperative that we act as a community," she said.
Other members of the task force, Dr. Shah and Maria Bruni, assistant secretary of programs for the Illinois Department of Human Services, highlighted their recent efforts in the state that:
Recently expanded access to care for Medicaid recipients by allowing Medicaid to pay for critical services that previously were not reimbursable through the state's program. The state also got a waiver to lift the limit of 15 beds in a treatment facility.
Established a 24/7 hotline, 833-234-6343, to provide help and information for those in need.
Launched a mandatory prescription monitoring program.
Limited opioid prescriptions to seven days instead of 30.
Began a pilot program of medication-assisted treatment to prison inmates with substance abuse disorders
Will County was part of that effort, and of 78 inmates who received MAT, all but one have entered a treatment program after their release, officials said.
The county also has:
Trained 200 people to use Narcan, an opioid antidote.
Worked with Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox to be the first hospital in the county to participate in the "warm hand-off" program, which has counselors and recovery coaches on duty to transition an emergency room patient into substance abuse treatment.
Helped launch Safe Passage programs in local police departments, where those with substance abuse disorders can turn themselves in for treatment without being arrested.
Joined other counties in filing lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies.
Prosecuted 17 people for drug-induced homicides in the past seven years.
Barton Firzpatrick, of Optimal Healthcare Group, in Chicago, which has been serving opioid patients for 20 years, said he liked the "collaboration" Will County has in fighting this issue.
"We don't have that in Cook County," he said.
"We have made great strides, but we must keep working together to someday find a solution to this terrible issue," Will County Executive Larry Walsh said. He formed HELPS after meeting Brian Kirk and John Roberts, who lost their sons to heroin addiction.
Since the day of his son's funeral in 2009, Kirk said his goal has been to raise awareness to this problem.
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"We did not want other parents to go through this," he said.
He teamed up with Roberts to form HERO, and they held their first event eight years ago, passing out information in the parking lot of Menard's in Homer Glen. The following year, Will County joined the effort, which now draws hundreds to this annual summit.
"We feel like we made a difference. We have made progress in raising awareness, but the problem has gotten worse. There are more deaths due to fentanyl now," he said.
According to Shah, fentanyl remains a "growing threat."
"For the first time, more deaths are caused by fentanyl than prescription opioids," he said.
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"We have seen a tenfold increase in fentanyl-related deaths. The threat cannot be overstated. With heroin, death occurs within hours; with fentanyl, death can occur within minutes," Shah added.He encouraged the crowd to "keep persevering."
"There's a very long road ahead of us. We need to make continued steady progress. I'm asking you to stick with it," Shah said.
Guest speaker Laura Porter discussed the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on substance abuse and other health issues. (Susan DeMar Lafferty / Daily Southtown)
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Posted byDebasis January 3, 2023 January 3, 2023 Posted insocialTags:activist, birth anniversary, blogging, casteism, gender-bias, gender-equality, India, remembrance, SAVITRIBAI PHULE, social reformer, tribute, women's rights
Savitribai Phule was an Indian social reformer, educationalist, and poet from Maharashtra. Along with her husband, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule in Maharashtra, she played an important and vital role in improving women's rights in India. She is considered to be the pioneer of India's feminist movement.
Savitribai and her husband founded one of the early modern Indian girls' school in Pune, at Bhide wada in 1848. Robert May of the London Missionary Society was the first person to open a school exclusively for girls in the region of Chinsurah, Bengal, in 1818. She worked to abolish the discrimination and unfair treatment of people based on caste and gender.
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Q: Change service call URL from html Form? My html is relatively simple: I enter a value in each input and click the button to search. It looks like this:

            <select id="myDropDown" onchange="FillMap(this)">
              <option value="11-01-2017">11-01-2017</option>
              <option value="12-01-2017">12-01-2017</option>
            </select>

            <input type="text" size="5" name="FromDate">

            <input type="text" size="5" name="ToDate">

            <button type="button">Search</button>

My javascript looks like the following. As you can see, the call to service GetSales has fixed parameters (2018-01-21 and 2018-02-05). I need to replace these two values with the input values in the html. This service returns coordinates that will then be plotted to the map.
So to summarize, I click on the html button, and the web service will be called with the values entered in the html form as parameters:
function FillMap(control)
{

    portsMap.dataLoader.url = "http://OUR_SERVER/Service1.svc/GetLocationTotals/" + control.value;
    portsMap.dataLoader.loadData();
}
var portsMap;
AmCharts.loadFile( "http://OUR_SERVER/Service1.svc/GetSales/2018-01-21/2018-02-05", {}, function( data ) {
    var latlong = AmCharts.parseJSON(data);

portsMap = AmCharts.makeChart( "MapDiv", {
  "type": "map",
  "dataLoader": {
    "url": "http://OUR_SERVER/Service1.svc/ShowFailures/11-01-2017",
    "postProcess": function(data, config, chart) {
      var areas = data.areas;
            console.log(areas);
      data.images = [];
      for (var i in areas) {
            for (var x in latlong) {
                if (areas[i].id == latlong[x].location) {
                    circlelat = latlong[x].latitude;
                    circlelong = latlong[x].longitude;
                      data.images.push( {
                      "longitude": circlelong,
                      "latitude": circlelat,
                      "title": areas[i].id,
                      "value": areas[i].value,
                      "description": sitetext
                        });
                }
            }
      }
    return data;
    }
  },
"listeners": [{
  "event": "clickMapObject",
  "method": function(e) {
    ChangeUrl(e.mapObject.id);
  }
}]
} );
} );

The issue is that I don't exactly know how to pass parameters to AmCharts.loadFile. I was able to change dataLoader through a function call, but I'm not sure if I can use this with AmCharts.loadFile.
Thanks.

A: You don't have any unique identifiers on either your <input> elements or your submission button, but fortunately you can use .getElementsByName() and .getElementsByTagName() to target them respectively.
You'll want to attach an event handler to the submission that passes through both variables once the button is clicked, and then combine the two <input> variables with the URL using string concatenation:

var submit = document.getElementsByTagName("button")[0];
submit.addEventListener("click", submit);

var from_date = document.getElementsByName("input")[0];
var to_date = document.getElementsByName("input")[1];

function submit(from_date, to_date) {
  AmCharts.loadFile("http://OUR_SERVER/Service1.svc/GetSales/" +
    from_date + " / " + to_date, {}, function(data) {}
  });
}

This will load the file from http://OUR_SERVER/Service1.svc/GetSales/{from_date}/{to_date} once the button is clicked.
Hope this helps!


"Treasoncrat" could be a form of the words "treason" and "bureaucrat," but usage usually refers to a "Democrat." Users of "treasoncrat" have claimed that the Democrats haven't supported the United States wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2000s, and that this amounts to treason.
"Treasoncrat" was used on the Free Republic website by one user in 2006, but "treasoncrat" became more frequent in 2007, when Iraq war troop surge funding was debated.
Do you think John Foster Dulles would have sold out Vietnam the way you Treasoncrats are doing?
They're after my wife's secret fruitcake recipe.
Standard Demorat MO: you can't deny the statement, so just engage in name-calling.
McCain is going to need future collaborators so he does not want to offent the Treasoncrats.
This is why I don`t call them Democrats anymore and prefer to call them "Treasoncrats".. The Democrats of today aren`t the Democrats we had in the past, at least not the kind we had pre 1960`s. All you get from them now is pure unadulterated, blatant Treason, every way and every day.
What ticks me off is Repubs who refuse to prosecute this other front in the war on terror. Treasoncrats are not for the USA. Harry Reid is not an American, he is a blatant traitor just as much as Nancy Pelosi is and the rest of the Treasoncrats. If it was up to me, they would be arrested, tried and sentenced if found guilty, and they would because the evidence is OVERWHELMING! They do it EVERYDAY! That`s ALL they do!
Liberty is a very fragile gift. It requires maintenance, vigilance, and dedication. It is not a gift to us, it is a gift entrusted to our care for our children. It is not easy to keep Liberty. Most things worthwhile in life are not easy to obtain or keep up. TreasonCrats seem to believe that they have the natural right (not God-given because they hate God and do everthing possible to erase His name from our land) to be free to do as they will on a whim, and damn the cost that others will be forced to pay for their selfish happiness.
This is THEIR Super Bowl. If they and the treasonocrats in Congress succeed in forcing us to give up…we are doomed. If we win, they are forced to find another way to advance their mission to control the world. This is the first time anybody stood up to them and refused to be intimidated….treasoncrats not-withstanding.
Hey Liar, Every time you open your pie-hole, you help more Americans and Iraqis get killed. It's called emboldening the enemy, which is the TreasonCrat Party's stock and trade.


Málaga is capital of the Costa del Sol, a metropolitan area of 1.2 million people, as well as one of the most famous tourism destinations worldwide. The city has been characterised by a strong demographic increase in the last 50 years, doubling its population between 1960 and 1980. Currently innovation and cultural tourism are increasing their importance in the city's local economy. Since the approval of its Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan, several actions have been developed such as pedestrian and traffic calming areas, dynamic parking information, and priority lanes for public transport and bicycles. However, these initiatives need to be integrated in a broader strategy, aiming at reducing private vehicle use and improving public and alternative transport.
Málaga is located in the Mediterranean coast of Andalusia, between the Strait of Gibraltar and the mountains of Sierra Nevada. Originally founded by the Phoenicians during Roman times, Málaga obtained the benefits of being declared a confederated city of Rome. By the end of the 18th century, it became the second most important industrial centre in Spain. Today, converted into a world capital of tourism, thanks to the development of the Costa del Sol and its privileged climate and strategic location, Málaga continues to grow.
The city's current main challenge is to become a knowledge-based economy through the development and the collaboration between the University of Málaga and the Technology Park Andalusia (around 500 companies, mainly specialised in ICT applications). The improvement of cultural infrastructures (Thyssen and Picasso museums, city centre and docks regeneration, etc.), is also increasing the role of cultural tourism.
The city presents a quite complete transport infrastructure, which includes a recently renovated train station with high speed connections to major cities in Spain (Madrid, Barcelona, Zaragoza, Seville, Cordoba), and a public transport fleet composed by 242 buses covering 45 itineraries within the city. Two metro lines are under construction, whereas the roadway system includes two highway rings: one close to the consolidated city, and a second in the outside. Nevertheless, due to its rapid increase and disorganised planning between the 1960s and 1980s, Málaga's citizens depend highly on private vehicles in its urban areas with less connection. This, together with a strong 'car culture' (private motorised vehicles represent 42% of the modal split), lead to strong congestions in the central areas and main city destinations (city centre, university, industrial parks). In addition, a clear road hierarchy is missing, whereas currently heavy goods vehicles are allowed to go all through the main road system.
On the other hand, despite cycling and public transport representing just 0.4% and 12.6% respectively, their importance in modal split is continuously increasing due to recent initiatives carried out by the local government: 30 Km of bicycle lanes, changes in the public transport itineraries and frequencies, etc. The recently approved Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) aims at achieving several ambitious objectives by 2025, through a realistic action plan. Measures include switching the modal split from the current 42% to 14% in private vehicle use, together with a parallel increase in bicycle (9%) and public transport (27%). Furthermore, compulsory itineraries for Heavy Good Vehicles (HGV) and new access and traffic control policies will be implemented through ICT based traffic management tools.
to provide new decision support tools for future policies linked to sustainable mobility through mobile pollutant monitoring stations within the public bus fleet, offering information on air quality in different areas of the city.


There's a fad diet for practically everyone.
But as fun as the diets may seem, it's often difficult to stick with them for more than a few weeks. As a result few people actually see any long-term results.
It may seem as if the easiest way to lose weight is to stop eating the foods you overindulge in. But this can be short-sighted, Lisa Sasson, a New York University nutrition professor, told Business Insider in 2015. "If you pick a diet with foods you don't like, you're doomed to fail," Sasson said. Food is a pleasurable experience; if you cut out all the foods you like, you probably won't stick to your plan.
And asstudiescontinueto show, coming up with an eating regimen you can stick with is critical.
There's a psychological component to eating, especially when you have weight loss in mind. Being conscious of losing weight and sticking to the right portion sizes is half the battle, Sasson said. This phenomenon is whymost people in studies lose weight, regardless of whether they're in the group assigned a special diet. Simply being studied can lead to people being more conscious of what they're eating.
But overall, keeping an eye on portion sizes is a great way to help avoidovereating especially with portion sizes rising since the 1970s.
Portion sizes in American restaurants have increased by as much asthree timesin the past 20 years, and it is changing what we think of as a normal meal.
"One way to keep calories in check is to keep food portions no larger than the size of your fist," Elizabeth G. Nabel, director of NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute,writes.
4. Stick with food that's packed with fiber and protein.
In areviewof weight-loss studies focusing on fiber, protein, and fullness, psychologists at the University of Sussex made the case for high-protein and high-fiber foods to be included in weight-loss plans because feeling full can help prevent overeating and spurweight loss.
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As if you needed more excuses to eat as ifyou live on the Mediterranean (olive oil, pasta, hummus, tomato, and cucumber salad what's not to love?), studies have shown that a so-called Mediterranean diet may help reduce the risk ofheart diseaseand provide some potentialmemory-related benefits. And a recent study also found a link between the eating plan and a lower risk ofbreast cancer in older women.
In astudyof 173 obese women ages 25to50, researchers found that swapping out sweetened beverages with plain old water was linked with weight loss, independent from diet and exercise.
In astudyof diets like Weight Watchers and Atkins thatallowed for such flexibility, doctors and dietitians at Tufts University looked at 160 overweight people ages 22 to72 on the diets over a one-year period. They found that the people who followed the popular diets sawmore weight loss and a reduction in heart risk factors compared tothose who didn't stick with the diets.
8. Go with your gut … bacteria.
The microbes that live in your stomach,collectively called your microbiome, play an important role in digestion. In a recent study, researchers in Sweden came up with amathematical formulato help find the right eating plan for each person based on his or her microbiome. The study authors found evidence that these plans could help the participants lose weight and even possibly prevent certain diseases.
This research is still preliminary, so beware of diets that suggest there's some kind of magic formula for your microbiome. But if you want to diversify your gut microbiome, here's some simple advice that makes for healthy eating either way: Eat a variety of dairy, vegetables, chicken, fish, eggs, and oils, the study authors suggest.
9. Don't kill yourself on the treadmill. There may be a simpler way.
Eating when you'revery hungrycan make youmore likely to overeat.
10. Never go grocery shopping when you're hungry.
Onesmall studyfound that hungry shoppers grabbed one-third more junk food than full shoppers. So, just make sure that you're aware not only of what you're eating, but also of what you're buying.
11. A good night's sleep could be better than a late-night run.
Researchers usingfunctional magnetic resonance imaging(fMRI)scanned the brainsof 25 men and women of average weight as they looked at images of delicious, fatty junk food. The participants were studied after a week of ninehours of sleep a night and then after a week of fourhours of sleep a night.
There's a saying that breakfast is the most important meal of your day, and it may be true. Evidence suggests that an early mealkick-starts your metabolism, the process that breaks down the food you eat into energy. There's been a lot of back-and-forth on the topic, and astudy published in Julydidn't see any effects of eating breakfast on the kids' ability to perform in each of the cognitive tests compared to kids who had not eaten breakfast.
But, of course, breakfast does provide vital nutrients to keep you energized throughout the day, so if you do eat breakfast, it'simportant to eat amorning meal that's highin protein and complex carbohydrates, butlowin sugar.
13. Don't snack after dinner.
Ashort-term studyof 29 young men showed that they consumed on average 238 fewer calories each day for two weeks when they were told not to eat anything between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. And these calories they were no longer eating were coming mostly from high-fat, high-carb foods.
Roughly20% of Americansdrink at least one soda a day. For those drinking regular, switching to dietcouldlead to weight loss. But studies suggest that change may work only in the short-term.
In astudythat ran from 1979 to 1996, researchers found from a sample of nearly 750 people age 65 or older, that those who drank diet soda on a daily basis had a 70% greater increase in waist size than people who drank it less regularly or not at all.
While there'sno evidenceto support the scary notion that artificial sweeteners increase our risk of cancer, there is reason to suspect that in the long run it won't help your waist line. Still, whilethese studies show only an association between drinking diet soda and putting on weight, you can't go wrong switching from a highly processed beverage to plain old water or seltzer.
At the end of World War II,researchers starved36 young male volunteers for 24 weeks, giving them a low-fat diet limited to just 1,600 calories a day, which was600 to 1,500 calories fewerthan their body needed (depending on their level of daily activity) to maintain a healthy weight.
Though the men lost about apound a week for the first 12 weeks, they lost only one-fourth a pound a week for the last 12 weeks. Worse things happened as well: Many became obsessed with the thought of food, began to lose their hair, and noticed that their wounds seemed to heal more slowly.
When the men were finally allowed to eat freely, many went on extreme binges, consuming as much as 10,000 calories a day five times as many calories as they needed. Twenty weeks after freedom the men had gained an average of 50% more body fat than when they began the study.
You cannot go hungry forever, and your body doesn't want you to, so be smart about losing weight. First, know how many calories your body needs with online calculators like this one from theMayo Clinic, and then reduce your caloric intake moderately.
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5 Instagram Marketing Strategies for Your Business
Stephen Altrogge / July 20, 2018
According to Pew Research, 35% of American adults use Instagram. And the platform is even more popular among the younger crowd: a whopping 92% of Instagram users are between the ages of 18-49. Even if your business isn't currently using the platform, your customers most certainly are.
While businesses have generally figured out how to use Facebook and Twitter to their advantage, there's still a disconnect when it comes to Instagram. As an image-heavy platform, it's tough to pinpoint how to leverage it for business—but that means you'll stand out from the crowd if you do it right.
Getting Started with Instagram
Instagram Marketing Techniques
Automating Your Instagram Account
The first step toward using Instagram for your business is to create an Instagram account. The process is as simple as visiting Instagram's home page and selecting a username and password.
Next, sign up for an Instagram business profile. This allows you to
add business-specific information (like your contact info) to your profile.
get insights into how many people see each post.
determine which posts generate the most engagement (hearts, comments).
see which days of the week your posts get the most engagement and reach.
evaluate the overall demographics of your audience (gender, age, location, etc.).
create paid promotions for specific posts.
If you already have a Facebook page for your business, Instagram automatically populates your business information when you create a business Instagram account. If you don't, make sure to add business contact information, a profile picture, and business details so customers can recognize and contact you on the platform.
That's it! Now that you have your business profile set up on Instagram, start making the most of the platform with these five techniques.
1. Take Advantage of Hashtags to Attract New Followers
Hashtags—words or phrases preceded by the pound (#) symbol—are particularly important on Instagram because they help users find your content.
Typically, hashtags are posted after the caption or in the first comment.
Instagram users can search for and follow specific hashtags. Then, Instagram displays a selection of posts with followed hashtags in each user's feed.
How to find relevant hashtags
There are a number of tools designed to help businesses find popular and relevant hashtags to include on their Instagram posts:
Tag Blender: Tag Blender (free) displays popular hashtags in multiple categories, including art, fashion, food, and sports. It's a great starting point if you have no idea what hashtags people are using to find content in your industry.
HashTagsForLikes: Like Tag Blender, HashTagsForLikes (free) also displays popular hashtags in different categories. Though the two tools are similar, it's worth checking both because some categories appear on one tool and not the other, and either tool may have more specific lists of hashtags to include on your posts.
All Hashtag: Once you have a list of basic hashtags, use the search tool on All Hashtag (free) to find related hashtags.
Display Purposes: While All Hashtag only lets you search for one hashtag at a time, Display Purposes (free) lets you find hashtags related to multiple topics.
Instagram: Another way to find hashtags is to just click a hashtag you're interested in on Instagram. In the results, Instagram displays related hashtags.
Use Instagram's related hashtags to brainstorm additional hashtags for your post.
Pro tip: You don't necessarily have to use pre-existing hashtags to promote your posts. Many brands create their own hashtags. For example, Pottery Barn uses #potterybarnkids to encourage followers to share photos of their kids in rooms decorated with items from the store. HubSpot uses #inbound2017 (the year in the hashtag is updated annually) to generate interest and excitement for its annual conference.
Tips for using hashtags
Adding hashtags to your Instagram posts is great, but just slapping dozens of popular hashtags onto each post won't do the trick. Your hashtags must be relevant.
For example, an entrepreneur might post a photo of his team and accompany it with the hashtag #EntrepreneurLife. But if a restauranteur used the hashtag #EntrepreneurLife on a picture of food just because it was a trending hashtag, that could actually be bad for business. Why?
It makes your content less trustworthy. It's clear to your users that you're just in it for marketing and not to provide interesting content.
Users are able to mark posts as not relevant to a hashtag. This indicates to Instagram that you're spamming hashtags, and they won't hesitate to dock you in their algorithm.
People are less likely to like it or comment on it. Because the Instagram algorithm prioritizes posts that get the most engagement, your photos will show up in fewer feeds.
It's also important to avoid adding too many hashtags to your posts. While Instagram allows you to add up to 30 hashtags, cramming in that many looks spammy. After analyzing more than 65,000 social media posts, TrackMaven found that posts with nine hashtags generate the highest engagement.
Finally, always search for the hashtag on Instagram before using it to make sure it's relevant. Some hashtags appear at a glance to mean one thing, but they're actually used in a very different way. Mistakenly tagging your post with an inappropriate hashtag could do serious damage to your business' reputation.
2. Communicate with Customers via Direct Messages (DMs)
Instagram allows you to send a direct message to any account you follow, giving you an easy way to interact one-on-one with potential customers.
Here are some examples of when you might DM a follower:
A user's comment on a post indicates they might be interested in your product/service.
A user sends you a DM in response to one of your stories.
A user asks a question via comment that's better answered in a private conversation.
A user expresses an issue or complaint about your business in a comment.
You want to offer a discount to a specific user.
The goal is to show the human side of your business.
"The more virtual our lives get, the more we hunger after something genuine. What people really want now is not just a product or a service, it's an experience. An experience that is more honest and transparent …more authentic." - James T. Noble, Kissmetrics
One-on-one interaction with users is the easiest way to create this "genuine" experience. Particularly on a platform where your main form of communication is visual, having a chance to exchange words with users more directly has a huge impact.
3. Boost Your Visibility with Instagram Stories
Instagram Stories is a feature that lets you share a series of short video clips or create an interactive photo slideshow. Stories disappear 24 hours after they're posted, so they tend to be used for in-the-moment content.
The biggest benefit of stories is that they display at the top of your followers' Instagram feeds, so they boost visibility and often generate more engagement than regular posts.
Stories also offer a few unique features that you can't get with regular posts:
The ability to overlay hashtags on the photo
The ability to create polls that users can interact with
The ability to add pre-made stickers and emojis
The ability to draw on photos
These features allow you to get creative with your content in a way that's not possible if you just post standard photos.
Additionally, stories invite users to direct message you. Users can't comment on stories; the only way to respond is via direct message, so stories are more likely to help you develop personal relationships with your customers.
Ideas for how to use Instagram Stories
Businesses use Instagram Stories for a lot more than just capturing and sharing short video clips of what's happening in the moment. If you want to take full advantage of the feature, consider these examples for inspiration:
Promote your blog content and make tutorials. Etsy excels at repurposing its blog content by using images and videos collected for blog posts to create tutorial Instagram Stories. Users can watch the tutorial on Instagram, then swipe or follow a link to the blog post for more detailed instructions.
Show off product features. Vitamix uses photos and video clips to show off new products and their features. Each story links to a product detail page on the Vitamix website where followers can learn more and purchase the product.
Gather customer feedback. Italian shoe retailer M.Gemi uses polls in Instagram Stories to gather customer feedback and measure interest in potential new styles before adding those styles to its product catalog.
Tips for creating Instagram Stories
If you're new to Instagram Stories, here are a few tips:
With standard photo posts, your hashtags go in either the caption or the comments. But on Stories, the hashtags go directly on the image. When creating a story, don't forget to add hashtags to boost your visibility.
Though stories only display to followers for 24 hours, they can be republished at any time for another 24-hour period. Just find the story in your archive and tap "Share" to republish the story for another 24 hours.
Don't have photos or videos to share? Use Type Mode to add short text-only stories to your Instagram feed.
4. Earn Immediate Attention with Instagram Live
Instagram Live provides a way for businesses to stream live content to their followers. When you start broadcasting live, your followers get a notification, so streaming is another way to increase visibility and engagement on the platform.
The other big advantage of Instagram Live is it gives you the ability to interact with your followers in real-time. Read users' real-time comments, respond, and see how people react as you're streaming.
To start a live video, simply tap "You" under the stories section and then slide the bottom menu from "Photo" to "Live." Once you tap "Start Live Video," your followers will be notified—and you can do your thing.
Ideas for how to use Instagram Live
There are a lot of ways for business of all sizes to engage and interact with followers via live stream:
Take them behind the scenes at your business. Restaurants, distilleries, and breweries can engage followers by showing them how their favorite dishes or drinks are made. For example, this behind the scenes live stream from Dunkin Donuts on Facebook garnered 48,000 views and more than 1,000 comments.
Unveil a new product. Every Monday, M.Gemi hosts an Instagram live unboxing of its new, limited-edition styles for the week. If you have a retail or arts and crafts business with a rotating inventory, introducing your new products on an Instagram live stream generates interest and sales.
Promote special offers and discounts. J.Crew, promotes certain offers that are only available to viewers of its live streams. To access the discount, users have to use a special link that's only available during the broadcast. Any type of business could use this approach to attract new followers on Instagram.
Do a tutorial. Teach followers how to do something related to your business. For example, Benefit Cosmetics hosts live streams showing followers different beauty tips and tricks. Use Instagram Live to show your followers creative uses of your product or how to create something with your product.
Whatever you use it for, live video gets users excited, and the novelty of it might just draw them into your Instagram account more broadly.
Tips for using Instagram Live
Instagram Live can be a bit overwhelming, so here are a few tips to be sure you don't miss a beat:
While followers will get a notification when you start live streaming, they may not be available to watch the stream if they didn't make plans ahead of time. Make sure to promote your live stream in advance so your followers schedule time to watch it.
By default, Instagram Live videos only display while you're streaming. If you want the content to be available to people who missed the stream, go into your story archive and repost it. Like other Instagram Stories, republished live streams display for 24 hours.
Turn on automatic comment filtering to block inappropriate comments from appearing on-screen during your live stream. To do this, open comment settings, check the box next to "Use Default Keywords," add any additional problematic keywords, and click "Submit."
5. Post Lifestyle Photos to Showcase Your Brand's Personality
Posting lifestyle content basically means going beyond posting images of your product. Instead, post images of people using or experiencing your product—or images of the people behind the product.
In 2015, influencer marketing tech company Mattr did an in-depth study of content shared by Nike and Adidas on social media. Here's what they found:
"Nike used more lifestyle content than Adidas. Sixty percent of Nike's posts featured lifestyle content, and its traditional call-to-action posts received an average of 993 shares a post. In contrast, only 32 percent of Adidas' posts featured lifestyle content, with its traditional posts receiving an average of 122 shares each."
Lifestyle content ideas for businesses on Instagram
Because Instagram is all about images, it's crucial to capitalize on the lifestyle trend. If you want people to follow you and engage with your content, you need to go beyond product photos. Here are some ideas to consider:
Post user-generated content. To generate interest in its rental properties all around the world, Airbnb selects photos taken by users staying in its properties and tagged with #airbnb. Then, the company reposts those photos to its account with a credit to the original photographer.
Share something funny. You might expect the TSA Instagram account to post about travel regulations or safety. Instead, they post photos of items they've confiscated—along with witty captions about why you can't bring those items on a plane. The creativity has paid off: The account has nearly a million followers.
Highlight your company's culture. You can tell prospective employees that you're a fun company in your job descriptions, but it's much more effective to show some evidence. Just take one look at MailChimp's Instagram page and tell us it doesn't look like a fun place to work.
Share your customers' stories. Small business accounting software provider Xero doesn't really promote its own business on Instagram. Instead, it shares its customer stories, showcasing small businesses with its hashtag #beautifulbusiness. With more than 16,000 followers, Xero's approach garners plenty of visibility for the brand.
Lifestyle content is more engaging, but it also avoids giving the impression that all you're trying to do on Instagram is sell. Even if that's true—and you're a business, so you're allowed to market—you need your customers to find value in your posts.
Ask before posting user-generated content
Reposting your customers' images may seem like a great way to populate your business' instagram page, but make sure you get explicit permission first. Just because a photo is posted on Instagram doesn't make it public domain, and many photographers charge businesses to repost their photos.
To learn more, check out this detailed post on how to legally repost user-generated content on Instagram, and check out the terms that Airbnb makes users agree to before sharing their photos.
Once you've come up with a social media content strategy for Instagram, you can automate the process with Zapier. Nicole Wilson is the Brand and Marketing Manager at Kinco, a family-owned company that makes work gloves, and she automates the company's Instagram account by connecting it to Asana and Slack. She says, "Using Zapier, I was able to create follow-up tasks for my team and notify our entire company about new social media posts, cutting down on time spent by 15%."
Want to automate your Instagram account in other ways? Click "Use this Zap" on your desired workflow below to get started.
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Instagram is growing rapidly, and the platform represents a unique way to connect with existing customers and engage with new customers.
But you can't simply take your strategy for Twitter or Facebook and move it over to Instagram. Instead, shape your content specifically for the platform, and take full advantage of the features that are there for you to use.
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Catherine Naliaka Nyongesa Watta (née Catherine Naliaka) (born in 1970), is a Kenyan physician and radiation oncologist, who is the founder, owner and chief executive of Texas Cancer Centre, in Nairobi, the capital and largest city in the country.

Background and education
She was born in Kenya, . She attended Kenyan elementary and secondary schools. She studied at the University of Nairobi School of Medicine, graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) degree. In 2002, she was admitted to the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. There, she was enrolled into a three-year residency program to study to become a radiation oncologist, graduating in 2005 with a Master of Medicine (MMed) degree, in Radiation Oncology. Later she was elected as a Fellow of the College of Radiation Oncologists of South Africa (FCRO (SA)).

Career
Following her specialized training in South Africa, she returned to Kenya and was hired as a Consultant radiation oncologist at Kenyatta National Hospital, the largest tertiary-care public referral hospital in the country. The case load was heavy, and all patients could not be helped, in the public setting.

In 2010, Nyongesa and her husband, a practicing pharmacist in the Houston-area, Texas, United States, started Texas Cancer Centre Nairobi. Initially the Centre only offered chemotherapy treatment as an outpatient service. Later, the couple borrowed KSh100 million (approx. US$1 million), to built an inpatient facility at a second location in Nairobi. With assistance from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, the Nairobi center acquired and installed a radiotherapy machine, set up a diagnostic laboratory and acquired x-ray machines and ultrasound equipment. As of March 2015, the centre had over 70 full-time staff, handling over 150 outpatients daily, and offered accommodation at a reasonable fee to out-of-town outpatients. As of July 2017, the Texas Cancer Centre has expanded to a total of four locations in Nairobi and Eldoret.

Family
Dr. Catherine Nyongesa is a married mother of three children.

Other considerations
She is the first woman radiation oncologist in Kenya. She serves as Chairwoman of the Kenya Society of Hematology and Oncology (KESHO). She is the clinical coordinator at the Cancer Treatment Centre of Kenyatta National Hospital. She is also an honorary lecturer at the University of Nairobi.

See also
 Shitsama Nyamweya
 Borna Nyaoke-Anoke
 Victoria Walusansa

References

External links
Website of Texas Cancer Centre Nairobi

1970 births
Kenyan oncologists
University of Nairobi alumni
University of the Witwatersrand alumni
Fellows of the College of Radiation Oncologists of South Africa
Kenyan women physicians
Living people
20th-century Kenyan physicians
21st-century Kenyan physicians

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t. Luke�s Anglican Church in Red Deer has recently been recognized by the province of Alberta as a registered historic resource.
St. Luke's church earns provincial designation
The designation of a century old Red Deer church as a provincial historic resource will provide much needed funding to upgrade some worn and torn parts of the aging building.
By MURRAY CRAWFORD
St. Luke's Anglican Church, 4929 54 St., is now eligible to receive matching grant funding up to $100,000. Previously as a municipal historic resource, the church was only eligible to receive $50,000.
Janet Pennington, City of Red Deer heritage community development co-ordinator, said Wednesday the church has received grant funding from the provincial government in the past for such projects as work on the main church door and the repair and repointing of the exterior chimneys.
Now the church is turning its focus to repairing the roof and fixing the foundation, which will require more provincial grant money.
With the designation, St. Luke's is now one of three sites in Red Deer that have the provincial historic designation, the other two being the Old Court House and the Canadian Pacific Railway Station.
"Once it becomes a full provincial site it has a better level of protection," said Pennington, adding any major changes to the building will have to be approved by the minister of Culture and Community Spirit, which is currently Edmonton-Glenora MLA Heather Klimchuk.
"That means the potential for it to be knocked down is very unlikely to ever happen."
Klimchuk made the announcement on Oct. 1 saying the church was an early and excellent example of Gothic Revival.
Pennington, who has worked with the church on the grant applications, said because it is a place a faith they are also able to plead financial hardship when filing their grant applications, so rather than a 50-50 split on cost, the church can apply for a 25-75 cost split, with the province paying the larger portion.
In 2009, the Alberta government eliminated grants for registered provincial historic resource status and reviewed each site on that list, which included St. Luke's. That same year the church applied for status as a City of Red Deer Municipal Historic Resource, which was approved.
Since that time the city has been working with the church to receive designation as a full provincial resource.
"It really sends a message out to everybody that the City of Red Deer is really into preserving our heritage," said Pennington.
The first rector of the parish, Rev. Joshua Hinchcliffe was also a trained architect and he drew up plans for the church. He was named the rector in 1899 and the church opened its doors on Nov. 4, 1900. One part of the church's battlement was designed by Red Deer architect Julian Sharman.
"It's a beautiful building, we don't want to lose it," said Pennington. "I think in Red Deer it is one of only a couple of buildings that are left that are actually built using sandstone blocks that were quarried in Red Deer."
St. Luke's was one of three sites submitted in Red Deer for the designation as a provincial historic resource, but the other two, Allen Bungalow and North Cottage School, didn't qualify for full provincial status Pennington said.
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Q: Group By using date, name and amount in Cassandra I'm new in using Cassandra and I can't use the Group By, is there a way that I can use the GROUP BY in Cassandra like in SQL? I want to group my data by date and also by the name of the user, and I want to sum all the amount in a specific date. I still don't have a code for this because I don't know how to start and I also aware that the group by is not supported by cassandra

A: You can't use group by without materialized view
But if you want to find the sum of amount for a specific date and name you can get easily.
Using Apache Cassandra 3.x
1.Create a table
CREATE TABLE data (
    date bigint,
    name text,
    amount double,
    PRIMARY KEY (date, name, amount)
);

2.Insert dummy Some data
INSERT INTO data (date , name , amount) VALUES ( 1, 'a1', 10);
INSERT INTO data (date , name , amount) VALUES ( 1, 'a1', 20);
INSERT INTO data (date , name , amount) VALUES ( 1, 'a1', 30);
INSERT INTO data (date , name , amount) VALUES ( 1, 'a1', 40);
INSERT INTO data (date , name , amount) VALUES ( 1, 'a2', 50);
INSERT INTO data (date , name , amount) VALUES ( 1, 'a2', 60);

3.Now you can find the sum of amount in a specific date and name
SELECT sum(amount) FROM data WHERE date = 1 AND name = 'a1' ;