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The Bedford November 13 - 27, 2014Volume 5 :: No. 23

CommunityNews!

StandardMore articles at www.thebedfordstandard.com

Celebrating 5 years in Bedford!

District Plans a Sleepover Party—For Teddy Bears Only!The Bedford City Schools would

like to invite parents and their preschoolers who reside in the district to a Teddy Bear Sleepover at the Southeast Library on Thursday, November 20, 2014, from 7-8:30 p.m. This will be an entertaining evening for children, who should bring along their favorite teddy bear or doll. It will also be an informative evening for parents.

Children will participate in crafts, face painting, and other fun activities. Special guests that evening will include the Bedford High School Bearcat (mascot), Teddy Trooper from the State Highway Patrol, who

will talk about safety, and Bedford Police Officers, who will conduct safety finger printing. Parents will learn about kindergarten readiness, Kindergarten

Club, and the school registration process.

While the children will go home with their parents, the teddy bears will be invited to spend the night at the library. When parents and children return the next day to pick them up, they will receive photos of the sleepover and what the bears did will they were gone, along with a packet of important information about getting ready for school. Reservations are needed. RSVP to Iwanda Huggins at 440-786-3517 or register online at http://tinyurl.com/TeddyBearSleepover.

November Centennial Gift: Cleveland Foundation Day of TheaterFoundation to provide free tickets to five holiday performances on Sunday, Nov. 30 by Cleveland Play House,

Cleveland Public Theatre and Great Lakes Theater at PlayhouseSquare: ClevelandFoundation.orgThe Cleveland Foundation today

announced its November centennial gift to the community – Cleveland Foundation Day of Theater – which will help usher in the holiday season by sharing the gift of some of our community’s theatrical treasures with Northeast Ohio. The gift includes 2,300 free tickets to five separate holiday performances by Cleveland Play House, Cleveland Public Theatre and Great Lakes Theater at PlayhouseSquare on Sunday, Nov. 30. Greater Clevelanders can enter an online ticket lottery system for the chance to be randomly selected to receive up to four tickets to a single performance.

“We look forward to thousands of Greater Cleveland residents beginning their holiday season by enjoying the incredibly talented theater companies our community is fortunate to have,” said Robert E. Eckardt, Executive Vice President of the Cleveland Foundation. “We are

overwhelmed by the incredible interest in our monthly gifts to the community. We recognize that being first to reserve tickets can be difficult, so we decided a lottery system was the fairest way to extend this opportunity to those who want to participate in this month’s gift.”

People can select only one performance and register once for up to four tickets for a single performance on Nov. 30. One entry per household and email address is permitted. Because this “Day of Theater” is on the busy Sunday following Thanksgiving, the foundation asks all people who enter the lottery to first confirm they will be able to use the tickets if selected.

The Cleveland Foundation has played a role in saving or sustaining the three theater organizations that are its gift partners this month, providing a total of $22 million to Cleveland

Public Theatre, Cleveland Play House and Great Lakes Theater in the last four decades alone. All three organizations also participated over the past three years

in the Cleveland Foundation’s “Engaging the Future” initiative, which focused on helping local arts organizations build their audiences of tomorrow.

Prostate cancer: do you know your risk?

Sam Abraksia, MD

Did you know African-American males are more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer at a younger age and have a more aggressive form of the disease?

Certain risk factors can be changed while others can’t. Advanced age does increase the risk for prostate cancer, but

it’s not an “old man’s disease” – 35 percent of those affected are younger than 65.

A strong family history of prostate cancer can increase your chances of developing the disease.

Prostate cancer occurs more often in African-American males.

trans fat contribute to cancer risk.

By following these prevention methods you can reduce your risk of the disease.Eat foods high in Omega-3 fatty acids (salmon, almonds) and

monounsaturated fats (olive oil, peanuts) as well as fruits, vegetables and whole grains.

Participate in 75 minutes of vigorous activity, or 150 minutes of moderate activity, weekly.

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network recommends baseline PSA screening for healthy men ages 50 to 70 every one to two years, and a majority of the panelists recommend baseline testing for men ages 45 to 49, too. Talk with your doctor about the pros and cons of prostate screening. For African-Americans or those with a family history of prostate cancer, ask if screening should begin earlier.

Sam Abraksia, MD, is an oncologist and medical director at the Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center at South Pointe Hospital.

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A theme throughout “My Universe-A Transcendent Reality” (published by Xlibris) is that human consciousness transcends its physical embodiment - that the gift and power of our transcendent ‘higher consciousness’ is that all humanity shares it - along with extraterrestrials elsewhere in the cosmos. In this sense, through our higher consciousness, we are truly extraterrestrials. Author Alex Vary says that his book is like the map in a shopping mall with an arrow pointing to ‘you are here’ - transcendently, spiritually.

My Universe describes how we can perceive a transcendent reality through a quantum substratum that intertwines the transcendent and physical. By learning to use

this substratum, we may ultimately experience and communicate with extraterrestrial beings and worlds - without spaceships. Vary adds, “This is because the substratum links transcendent reality and material reality, higher consciousness and ordinary consciousness, which are separated only by a tenuous interface that will eventually be erased by advancing human evolution. In a way, we are already crossing the interface with our wireless Wi-Fi communication technology.”

Vary’s entertainingly prophetical prose-poesy essays combine physics, metaphysics, philosophy, cosmology, and religion-free theology. He shares insights derived from exploring his higher consciousness and invites us

to help connect more dots that reveal extraordinary radical ideas that can expand humanity’s dominion over nature and promote self-realization. My Universe-A Transcendent Reality differs from others of its kind because it presents a rational basis for understanding the transcendent reality that influences our lives and by which we can enhance our interpersonal relations and transcendent potentials.

“My Universe-A Transcendent Reality”

By Alex VaryAvailable at Amazon and Barnes &

NobleAlex Vary, resident of North

Olmsted, retired from NASA’s Lewis Research Center after over 36 years as research scientist and supervisor. He

began his NASA career in the in the Center’s Nuclear Division. His first major assignment was research in methods for converting nuclear thermal energy directly into electricity for Mars mission auxiliary power. He then conducted research in liquid metal heat transfer for nuclear power conversion until all NASA nuclear work was halted. As an advocate of nondestructive evaluation (NDE) methods he developed during studies of liquid metal containment, he established an NDE laboratory for the Center. Vary guided its progress to his retirement in 1995, and gained world recognition for his pioneering work and numerous contributions to NDE technology for high temperature composites and ceramics for advance aircraft engines and structures.

Local author writes book that promotes broadening of one’s spiritual self-realization

November 13 - 27, 2014

The Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District with support from the Carton Council announces “Let The Carton Live On.” For America Recycles Day 2014, we want schools interested in starting a recycling carton program or improving their school’s carton recycling rate. The Solid Waste District have recycling bins in the shape of a milk carton, generously donated from the Carton Council. Schools with Rumpke, Waste Management and Republic recycling services can sign up for the recycling bins. Schools with other recycling haulers should work with Kathleen

Rocco, Education Specialist of the Solid Waste District to determine if carton recycling is accepted by the hauler and/or recycler.

Carton recycling bins should be placed in the cafeteria along with a pour off bucket. All juice boxes and milk cartons must be empty and straws removed to recycle following the “drink, empty, recycle” behavior model. Cartons from breakfast and lunch should be recycled. The custodial staff should be informed of the program, especially if they are to handle the removal of cartons for

recycling. The best practice for carton recycling is to place them loose in a recycling dumpster as plastic bags can trap moisture and odors rendering cartons unrecyclable.

Schools with less than 400 students can get up to two carton recycling bins and a set of “drink, empty, recycle” posters. Schools with over 400 students can obtain up to three recycling bins and a set of “drink, empty, recycle” posters. Schools will also receive promotional material to be used at school and can be sent to parents and educational material that

can be used in the classroom. The goal of the program is to

capture 100% of the milk cartons and juice boxes consumed on school grounds. Please share your results with the school community, Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District and the Carton Council through articles, media announcements, photos and/or videos.

Contact Kathleen Rocco at 216-443-3731 or [email protected] start “Let The Carton Live On” recycling program. Do not miss out, start recycling cartons now.

“Let The Carton Live On” Increase milk and juice carton recycling now!

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The Southeast branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library is located in Bedford at 70 Columbus Road. To register for any event or for more information, call 440-439-4997 or register online at cuyahogalibrary.org.

G2P: Animé Club: Wednesday, November 5th / 7:00 to

8:30 p.m. (Ages 11 – 18). Join us to play video games, board games and Yu-Gi-Oh trading card duels. We will also have iPads® available for Minecraft, GarageBand and Stop Motion Animation activities. In the fall session, Anime Club is on the first and last Wednesdays of the month.

Whooo’s Ready for School? Kindergarten Readiness – Story Play:

Friday, November 7th / 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. (Ages 4 – 5 with a caregiver) Help your preschooler make the transition into their first year of school by building literacy skills. Explore hands-on activity stations together. Registration required.

Creative Writing Workshop:

Saturday, November 8th / 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Join writer and Bedford school teacher Jamie Cole to discover innovative writing techniques that encourage creativity, and imagination. Registration required.

Math in Motion: Monday, November 10th

/ 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. [School Age (K-5), Families] Have fun with math! Using music and movement games, Terry Boyarsky teaches listening skills, problem-solving, teamwork and kinesthetic awareness. Estimate, measure and analyze musical patterns and forms through rhythmic games, body percussion and song.

Southeast Library Spotlight

November 13 - 27, 2014

Tips to Prepare Now for Severe Winter Weather Ahead Cold temperatures, heavy snow, and

treacherous ice storms are all risks of the impending winter season.

“Severe winter weather can be dangerous and even life-threatening for people who don’t take the proper precautions,” said FEMA Region V acting administrator Janet Odeshoo. “Preparedness begins with knowing your risks, making a communications plan with your family and having an emergency supply kit with essentials such as water, food, flashlights and medications.”

Once you’ve taken these steps, consider going beyond the basics of disaster preparedness with the following tips to stay safe this cold season:

Winterize your emergency supply kit:

•Before winter approaches, add the following items to your supply kit:

oRock salt or other environmentally safe products to melt ice on walkways. Visit the Environmental Protection Agency for a complete list of recommended products.

oSand to improve traction.o Snow shovels and other snow

removal equipment.oSufficient heating fuel and/or a good

supply of dry, seasoned wood for your fireplace or wood-burning stove.

oAdequate clothing and blankets to keep you warm.

Stay fire safe:•Keep flammable items at least three

feet from heat sources like radiators, space heaters, fireplaces and wood stoves.

•Plug only one heat-producing appliance (such as a space heater) into an electrical outlet at a time.

•Ensure you have a working smoke alarm on every level of your home. Check it on a monthly basis.

Keep warm, even when it’s cold outside:

•If you have a furnace, have it inspected now to ensure it’s in good working condition.

•If your home heating requires propane gas, stock up on your propane supply and ensure you have enough to

last an entire winter. Many homeowners faced shortages due to the record freezing winter weather last year, and this season there’s the possibility of lower than normal temperatures again. Don’t be caught unprepared.

•Avoid the dangers of carbon monoxide by installing battery-powered or battery back-up carbon monoxide detectors.

•Winterize your home to extend the life of your fuel supply by insulating walls and attics, caulking and weather-stripping doors and windows, and installing storm windows or covering windows with plastic.

Prevent frozen pipes:•If your pipes are vulnerable to freezing,

i.e., they run through an unheated or unprotected space, consider keeping your faucet at a slow drip when extremely cold temperatures are predicted.

•If you’re planning a trip this winter, avoid setting your heat too low. If temperatures dip dangerously low while you’re away, that could cause pipes to

freeze. Consider draining your home’s water system before leaving as another way to avoid frozen pipes.

You can always find valuable information to help you prepare for winter emergencies at www.ready.gov/winter-weather. Bookmark FEMA’s mobile site http://m.fema.gov, or download the FEMA app today to have vital information just one click away.

FEMA’s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.

Follow FEMA online at twitter.com/femaregion5, www.facebook.com/fema, and www.youtube.com/fema. Also, follow Administrator Craig Fugate’s activities at twitter.com/craigatfema. The social media links provided are for reference only. FEMA does not endorse any non-government websites, companies or applications.

Temporary Change in Schedule for Community MealThe Lutheran Church of the

Covenant and Hope United Methodist Church have invite all members of the community to our ongoing monthly community dinner. For the months of November and December only, the community dinners (usually served on the LAST Thursday of the month) will be held on Thursday, November 20 and December 16, 2014 beginning at 6 pm. A free hot meal will be provided to members of the community, friends and family. All are welcome –there are no restrictions. Just come to the parish hall located at

the rear of The Lutheran Church of the Covenant, 19000 Libby Road, Maple Heights OH 44137 and enjoy a deliciously prepared meal, meet and get to know your neighbors.

The entrance is handicap accessible. If you need further information, call the church at 216-662-0370.

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Columbus & Ohio4 The Bedford Standard

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Give thanks by giving blood through the Red Cross this holiday seasonThe American Red Cross asks eligible

donors to make an appointment to give blood to help ensure sufficient blood supplies are available for patients this holiday season.

Blood donations often decline during the holidays when donors get busy with travel and family gatherings, but the need for blood remains steady. Someone in the U.S. needs blood every two seconds.

Eligible donors with all types are needed, especially those with O negative,

A negative and B negative. To learn more about donating blood and to schedule an appointment, download the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).

As extra encouragement to donate blood during the busiest time of November for many people, presenting blood donors from Nov. 26 through Nov. 30 will receive a limited-edition Red Cross potholder stuffed with unique

celebrity chef recipes, while supplies last. Thanksgiving recipes are courtesy of Mario Batali, Rocco DiSpirito, Alex Guarnaschelli and Mike Isabella.

Simply download the American Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) to make an appointment or for more information. All blood types are needed to ensure a reliable supply for patients. A blood donor card or driver’s license or two

other forms of identification are required at check-in. Individuals who are 17 years of age (16 with parental consent in some states), weigh at least 110 pounds and are in generally good health may be eligible to donate blood. High school students and other donors 18 years of age and younger also have to meet certain height and weight requirements.

Cleveland11/16/2014: 8 a.m.

- 10 a.m., Warzel Blood Donation Center, 3636

Euclid Avenue

Lyndhurst11/16/2014: 8:45 a.m.

- 1:15 p.m., Church of Saint Clare, 5659

Mayfield Road

Parma11/16/2014: 8 a.m.

- 10 a.m., Parma Blood Donation Center, 5585

Pearl Road

University Heights11/16/2014: 8:30 a.m. - 2 p.m., Church of the

Gesu, 2470 Miramar Blvd

Cleveland11/17/2014: 11 a.m. -

1:45 p.m., Warzel Blood Donation Center, 3636

Euclid Avenue

East Cleveland11/17/2014: 11:30 a.m. - 4 p.m., East Cleveland

Public Library, 14101 Euclid Ave.

Euclid11/17/2014: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m., Euclid Hospital,

18901 Lakeshore Blvd

Parma11/17/2014: 1:30 p.m.

- 7:45 p.m., Parma Blood Donation Center, 5585

Pearl Road

South Euclid11/17/2014: 1 p.m.

- 7 p.m., South Euclid Community Center, 1370 Victory Drive

Strongsville11/17/2014: 3 p.m. - 7

p.m., St Joseph Church,

12700 Pearl Rd

Cleveland11/18/2014: 2 p.m. -


Euclid Avenue

Euclid11/18/2014: 10 a.m. - 3

p.m., Euclid City Hall, 585 East 222nd Street

Lyndhurst11/18/2014: 11 a.m. - 3 p.m., Lyndhurst

Community Presbyterian Church, 5312 Mayfield Road

Parma11/18/2014: 1:30 p.m.


Pearl Road

Valley View11/18/2014: 2 p.m.

- 7 p.m., Valley View Community Center,

6828 Hathaway Road

Berea11/19/2014: 12 p.m. - 7 p.m., Baldwin Wallace

University, 96 Beech St

Cleveland11/19/2014: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m., Post Office Plaza

Building, 1500 West 3rd Street, Suite 550

11/19/2014: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., CWRU Thwing Hall Ballroom, 11111 Euclid

Avenue

Highland Hills11/19/2014: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Cuyahoga

Community College East, 4250 Richmond

Road

Parma11/19/2014: 9 a.m. - 3

p.m.,

Cuyahoga Community College West Campus,

11000 Pleasant Valley Rd11/19/2014: 1 p.m. -

7:45 p.m., Parma Blood Donation Center, 5585

Pearl Road

Brecksville11/20/2014: 1 p.m. - 7 p.m., Brecksville

Community Center, One Community Drive

Cleveland11/20/2014: 10 a.m. - 4

p.m., CWRU Thwing Hall Ballroom, 11111 Euclid

Avenue11/20/2014: 1:30 p.m.

- 7:30 p.m., Warzel Blood Donation Center, 3636

Euclid Avenue

Fairview Park11/20/2014: 3 p.m. - 7

p.m., Fairview Park City Hall, 20777 Lorain Rd

Highland Hills11/20/2014: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Cuyahoga

Community College East, 4250 Richmond

Road

Parma11/20/2014: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., Cuyahoga

Community College West Campus, 11000

Pleasant Valley Rd11/20/2014: 3 p.m. -


Pearl Road

Cleveland11/21/2014: 7:45 a.m.


Euclid Avenue11/21/2014: 8 a.m.

- 2 p.m., MetroHealth Medical Center, 2500

Metrohealth Drive11/21/2014: 9 a.m.

- 2 p.m., Senior Health & Wellness Ctr at MetroHealth Old

Brooklyn Campus, 4229 Pearl Road

11/21/2014: 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., Cuyahoga County Courthouse, 1

Lakeside Avenue11/21/2014: 1:30 p.m. - 6 p.m., MetroHealth Medical Center, 2500

Metrohealth Drive

Parma

11/21/2014: 8 a.m. - 2:45 p.m., Parma Blood Donation Center, 5585

Pearl Road

Beachwood11/22/2014: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Beachwood Public

Library, 25501 Shaker Blvd.

Cleveland11/22/2014: 7:45 a.m.


Euclid Avenue

Lakewood11/22/2014: 1 p.m. - 5

p.m., Lakewood Seventh Day Adventist Church,

1382 Arthur Avenue

Lyndhurst11/22/2014: 10 a.m. - 2

p.m., L. A. Fitness, 25145 Cedar Road

Parma11/22/2014: 7:30 a.m.


Pearl Road

Chagrin Falls11/23/2014: 8:30 a.m.

- 1:30 p.m., Temple Emanu EL, 4545 Brainard Road

Cleveland11/23/2014: 8 a.m.

- 10 a.m., Warzel Blood Donation Center, 3636

Euclid Avenue

Parma11/23/2014: 8 a.m.

- 10 a.m., Parma Blood Donation Center, 5585

Pearl Road

Cleveland11/24/2014: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., University

Hospitals Rainbow Area, 11100 Euclid Ave.

11/24/2014: 11 a.m. - 1:45 p.m., Warzel Blood Donation Center, 3636

Euclid Avenue

Parma11/24/2014: 1:30 p.m.


Pearl Road

Westlake11/24/2014: 1 p.m. - 7 p.m., Westlake Porter Public Library, 27333

Center Ridge Rd.

Cleveland11/25/2014: 2 p.m. -


Euclid Avenue

Parma11/25/2014: 1:30 p.m.


Pearl Road

North Olmsted11/26/2014: 1 p.m. - 7 p.m., North Olmsted Community Cabin,

28114 Lorain Rd.

North Royalton11/26/2014: 10:30 a.m.

- 3 p.m., Cuyahoga County Library North

Royalton Branch, 5071 Wallings Rd

Parma11/26/2014: 1 p.m. -


Pearl Road

Cleveland11/27/2014: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m., Cleveland

Metroparks Zoo, 3900 Wildlife Way

11/27/2014: 11 a.m. - 1:15 p.m., Warzel Blood Donation Center, 3636

Euclid Avenue

Parma11/27/2014: 8 a.m. -


Pearl Road

Brecksville11/28/2014: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Brecksville

Community Center, One Community Drive

Cleveland11/28/2014: 7:45 a.m.


Euclid Avenue11/28/2014: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m., Anthony J Celebrezze Federal

Building, 1240 East 9th Street

11/28/2014: 12 p.m. - 4 p.m., Great Lakes

Brewing Co, 2701 Carroll St.

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Columbus & Ohio The Bedford Standard November 13 - 27, 2014

Cleveland Clinic welcomes Chad Raymond, DO.Providing world class heart care at South Pointe Hospital

Chad Raymond, DOCardiovascular Medicine

Event sets stage for July 2015 opening of Heritage College on Cleveland Clinic’s South Pointe Hospital campus

As preparations accelerate for its new campus in Cleveland, the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine unveiled symbolic artwork that will greet visitors to its new site during an Oct. 21 reception at Cleveland’s Museum of Contemporary Art.

The work, a glass wall etched with a mural of a Yoshino cherry tree, will grace the entrance to the Heritage College medical education building on Cleveland Clinic’s South Pointe Hospital campus in Warrensville Heights. The first class of 50 students will begin their studies on the new campus in July 2015.

The Heritage College is developing its new campus in affiliation Cleveland Clinic and with the support of other health care organizations in the region to train more primary care physicians to serve communities in northeast Ohio. Students at the new campus will remain in the region for all four years of medical school, with the intention that they’ll also stay in northeast Ohio to practice.

“For nearly 40 years, the Heritage College has excelled in meeting its mission to train primary care physicians who practice in Ohio,” said Isaac Kirstein, D.O., dean of the Heritage College, Cleveland. “Now, with this new campus, we’re thrilled to partner with Cleveland Clinic and other health care providers to

bring that success to northeast Ohio.”

T o b y Cosgrove, M.D., president and chief executive officer of C l e v e l a n d Clinic, said the academic-

corporate partnership underlying the new campus “fits together perfectly,” with the Heritage College’s leadership in primary care education complementing Cleveland Clinic’s reputation in specialty care. “I think we will look back on this day and realize that we are changing the way health care is going to be taught and the way it’s going to be delivered.”

Ohio University President Roderick McDavis, Ph.D., said he expects the new campus to have a big impact on the region. “This collaboration will help increase access to care, stimulate medical innovation and improve the economic health of our communities, both in northeast Ohio and throughout the state,” he said.

Ohio University Executive Vice President and Provost Pam Benoit described the significance of the Yoshino cherry tree to the university. “The spectacular spring blooms of the Yoshino cherry trees have become iconic to Ohio University, signifying new beginnings, friendships, growth and renewal,” she said.

In Athens, a grove of cherry trees, a 1979 gift from Chubu University in Nagoya, Japan, grows along the Hocking River, representing a token of kinship from one community to another. In 2013, a Yoshino cherry was planted as part of the groundbreaking celebration for the Heritage College, Dublin. As the Heritage College prepares to launch its third campus in 2015, Benoit said, it brings the iconic tree to Cleveland through the glass wall, symbolizing the connection between the three Heritage College campuses and Ohio University.

While the Heritage College is undergoing a period of growth and transformation with the opening of its Dublin campus in July 2014 and preparations for its Cleveland campus opening next summer, Executive Dean Kenneth H. Johnson, D.O., pointed out that the college’s mission remains constant.

“As our college grew from one campus to two – and now as we prepare to grow from two campuses to three – we have

begun to change the way we educate students,” Johnson said. “But one thing will never change: our commitment to training caring and compassionate osteopathic physicians.”

The Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine is a leader in training dedicated primary care physicians who are prepared to address the most pervasive medical needs in the state and the nation. Approximately 50 percent of Heritage College alumni practice in primary care and nearly 60 percent practice in Ohio.

Left: A glass wall etched with a mural of a Yoshino cherry tree will welcome visitors to the Heritage College, Cleveland campus at Cleveland Clinic’s South Pointe Hospital when it opens in July 2015.Above: Representatives from Ohio University, Cleveland Clinic and others gathered Oct. 21 in Cleveland to celebrate the Heritage College’s upcoming expansion.

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Columbus & Ohio6 The Bedford Standard

Ellen Augustine, M.A.

What’s up, America?

While Congress is in Stalemate, the American Dream is Dying

This election was a Big Win for Big Money, particularly for the unaccountable and untraceable dark money of the Koch brothers and other billionaires. It is a testament that the voter suppression measures in 27 states had the desired outcome.

It will be an unmitigated disaster for middle class and working families. The Republican agenda is to cut and privatize Social Security; increase tax breaks for the wealthiest and multinational corporations; slash Medicare, Medi-cal, and nutrition spending; increase military and war spending; block efforts to mitigate climate change, and defund Obamacare, despite the fact that it has helped millions of people.

This while the American Dream is dying. Richard Eskow has compiled 7 indicators in his October 29 article. ( ht t p : / / o u r f u t u re. o rg / 2 0 1 4 1 0 2 9 / 7 -s igns-that- the -amer ican- dream-is -dying?utm_source=pmupdate&utm_m e d i u m = e m a i l & u t m _campaign=20141029)

“A recent poll showed that more than half of all people in this country don’t believe that the American dream is real. Of those polled in June, 59% agreed that “the American dream has become impossible for most people to achieve.” More and more Americans believe there is ‘not much opportunity’ to get ahead.”

“The public has reached this conclusion for a very simple reason: It’s true. The key elements of the American dream—a living wage, retirement security, the opportunity for one’s children to get ahead in life—are increasingly unreachable for all but the wealthiest among us. And it’s getting worse. As inequality increases, the fundamental elements of the American dream are becoming increasingly unaffordable for the majority. Here are 7 ways the American dream is dying.”

[1] Most people can’t get ahead financially.

“If the American dream means a reasonable rate of income growth for working people, most people can’t expect to achieve it.”

“Thomas Edsall wrote in the New York Times that “Not only has the wealth of the very rich doubled since 2000, but corporate revenues are at record levels. In 2013, according to Goldman Sachs, corporate profits rose 5 times faster than wages.”

Robert Reich underscores the hit working people have taken in his September 28 blog post, Why the Economy is Still Failing Most Americans (http://robertreich.org/post/98668011635). “Median household income is now 8% below what it was in 2007, adjusted for inflation. It’s 11% below its level in 2000.”

“It used to be that economic expansions improved the incomes of the bottom 90% more than the top 10%. But starting with the ‘Reagan’ recovery of 1982 to 1990, the benefits of economic growth during expansions have gone mostly to the top 10%. Since the current recovery began in 2009, all economic gains have gone

to the top 10%. The bottom 90% has lost ground.”

“Why did the playing field start to tilt against the middle class? One factor has been a sharp decline in union membership. In the mid 1970s, 25% of the private-sector workforce was unionized. Then came the Reagan revolution. By the end of the 1980s, only 17% of the private workforce was unionized. Today, fewer than 7% of the nation’s private-sector workers belong to a union. This means most workers no longer have the bargaining power to get a share of the gains from growth.”

“Another structural change is the drop in the minimum wage. In 1979, it was $9.67 an hour (in 2013 dollars). By 1990, it had declined to $6.84. Today it’s $7.25. Given that workers are far more productive now – computers have even increased the output of retail and fast food workers — the minimum wage should be even higher.”

Eskow continues:[2] The stay-at-home parent is a thing

of the past.“There was a time when middle-class

families could lead a comfortable lifestyle on one person’s earnings. One parent could work while the other stayed home with the kids. Those days are gone. As Elizabeth Warren and co-author Amelia Warren Tyagi documented in their 2003 book, The Two-Income Trap, the increasing number of two-earner families was matched by rising costs in a number of areas such as education, home costs and transportation.”

“These cost increases, combined with wage stagnation, mean that families are struggling to make ends meet—and that neither parent has the luxury of staying home any longer. In fact, parenthood has become a financial risk. Warren and Tyagi write that ‘Having a child is now the single best predictor that a woman will end up in financial collapse.’ This book was written over a decade ago; things are even worse today.”

[3] The rich are more debt-free. Others have no choice.

“Most Americans are falling behind as their salary fails to keep up with their expenses. No wonder debt is on the rise. As Joshua Freedman and Sherle Schwenninger observe in a paper for the New America Foundation, ‘American households… have become dependent on debt to maintain their standard of living in the face of stagnant wages.’”

The outrage is that while our incomes are falling, we are working harder than ever. Esther Kaplan writes, in an article for The Nation, “Americans work longer hours than we did a generation ago, and hundreds more per year than our counterparts in France or Germany—the equivalent of 6 to 8 extra weeks a year. We top the Eurozone nations in productivity by 18 percentage points. ‘Every month the BLS [Bureau of Labor Statistics] releases its worker-productivity numbers, which measure output per labor hour worked,’ says Celeste Monforton, a former Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) staffer. Montforton, now at the George Washington University School of Public Health, points out that the numbers ‘go up every month. And that’s because businesses are not hiring new workers; they’re just expecting the old workers to work more, and spitting them out after they get injured.’ Some of these gains come from the adoption of new technologies, but others just come

from pushing workers harder.” (http://www.truthout.org/news/item/27183-americans-are-working-so-hard-it-s-actually-killing-people).

Eskow expands his points:[4] Student debt is crushing a

generation of non-wealthy Americans.“Education for every American who

wants to get ahead? Forget about it. Nowadays you have to be rich to get a college education; that is, unless you want to begin your career with a mountain of debt. Once you get out of college, you’ll quickly discover that the gap between spending and income is greatest for people under 25 years of age.”

“Education, as Forbes columnist Steve Odland put it in 2012, is ‘the great equalizer… the facilitator of the American dream.’ But at that point college costs had risen 500% since 1985, while the overall consumer price index rose by 115%. As of 2013, tuition at a private university was projected to cost nearly $130,000 on average over 4 years, and that’s not counting food, lodging, books, or other expenses.”

“Public colleges and universities have long been viewed as the get-ahead option for all Americans, including the poorest among us. Not anymore. State cutbacks in the wake of the financial crisis caused the cost of public higher education to soar by 15% in a 2-year period. With a median national household income of $51,000, even public colleges are quickly becoming unaffordable.”

“Sure, there are still some scholarships and grants available. But even as college costs rise, the availability of those programs is falling, leaving middle-class and lower-income students further in debt as out of pocket costs rise.”

[5] Vacations aren’t for the likes of you anymore.

“Think you’d like to have a nice vacation? Think again. According to a 2012 American Express survey, Americans who were planning vacations expected to spend an average of $1,180 per person. That’s $4,720 for a family of four.”

“As the Center for Economic and Policy Research found in 2013, the United States is the only advanced economy in the world that does not require employers to offer paid vacations to their workers. The number of paid holidays and vacation days received by the average worker in this country (16) would not meet the statutory minimum requirements in 19 other developed countries. For workers in smaller businesses, 31% had no paid vacation days at all. The CEPR also found that 14% of employees at larger corporations also received no paid vacation days. Overall, roughly 1 in 4 Americans gets no vacation time at all.”

“Rep. Alan Grayson, who has introduced the Paid Vacation Act, notes that the average working American now spends 176 hours more per year (equivalent to 4.3 work weeks) on the job than was the case in 1976.”

“Between the pressure to work more hours and the cost of vacation, even people who do get vacation time—at least on paper—are hard-pressed to take any time off. That’s why 175 million vacation days go unclaimed each year.”

Contrast this to Europe, where the first year at a job you get 4 weeks paid

vacation.[6] Even with health insurance, medical

care is increasingly unaffordable for most people.

“Medical care when you need it? That’s for the wealthy.”

“The Affordable Care Act was designed to increase the number of Americans who are covered by health insurance. But health coverage in this country is the worst of any highly developed nation—and that’s for people who have health insurance.”

“Every year the Milliman actuarial firm analyzes the average costs of medical care, including the household’s share of insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs, for a family of four with the kind of insurance that is considered higher quality coverage in this country: a PPO plan which allows them to use a wider range of healthcare providers. Since 2007, household insurance costs have risen 8% per year, and are now more than $9,600. In the same time period, Census Bureau figures show that median household income has fallen 8%.”

“The recent claims of ‘lowered healthcare costs’ are misleading. While the rate of increase is slowing down, healthcare costs are continuing to increase. And the actual cost to working Americans is increasing even faster, as corporations continue to maximize their record profits by shifting healthcare costs onto consumers.”

[7] Americans can no longer look forward to a secure retirement.

“Want to retire when you get older, as earlier generations did, and enjoy a secure life after a lifetime of hard work? You’ll get to… if you’re rich.”

“There was a time when most middle-class Americans could work until they were 65 and then look forward to a financially secure retirement. Corporate pensions guaranteed a minimum income for the remainder of their life. Those pensions, coupled with Social Security income and a lifetime’s savings, assured that these ordinary Americans could spend their senior years in modest comfort.”

“No longer. As we have already seen, rising expenses means most Americans are buried in debt rather than able to accumulate modest savings. That’s the main reason why 20% of Americans who are nearing retirement age haven’t saved for their post-working years. Meanwhile, corporations are gutting these pension plans.”

Eskow’s assessment clearly shows how high the stakes are against the 90%. If we do nothing, keeping our focus only in our personal lives, things will surely get worse. But as a nation we have faced comparable dire times! What calls to you to become involved in? Forming a union at your workplace? Starting a cooperative business? Helping overturn Citizens United? Adding your voice to the free universal education movement? Passing the Robin Hood Tax or the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act? Reinstating a progressive income tax? Or . . . ?

Ellen Augustine, M.A., is a speaker and author on national currents and the emerging sustainable economy. She may be reached at [email protected], 510-428-1832, www.storiesofhope.us. Questions, feedback, and topic ideas for future columns are welcome.

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Cleveland Zoo to offer Winter Break Camp for kids The gifts are all unwrapped and the

relatives have all gone home. How does a parent keep their kids occupied during that week of vacation between Christmas and New Year’s? Bring them to Cleveland Metroparks Zoo’s Winter Break Camp!

Winter Break Camp is a week of hands-on, fun activities for children ages 5-10 focusing on how active the Zoo’s animals are in winter and how the Zoo cares for them year-round. Winter Break Camp includes Zoo exhibit tours, Get-Close encounters with small animals, arts and crafts, and conservation-themed games

and stories.Kids will meet in the Jungle Lab

classroom at The RainForest before setting off to discover the Zoo. Campers will explore the lives, habitats and conservation of animals around the world. The four-day camp runs from Monday, December 29 through Friday, January 2 (no camp on January 1) with half-day (9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) and full-day (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) sessions available. Half-day registration is $110 per child and full-day registration is $155 per child. Cleveland Zoological Society

members receive a discount, with half-day registration costing $95 per child and full-day costing $135 per child.

“The best way to fend off the dreaded, ‘I’m bored,’ is to keep your kids active and engaged over their days off from school,” said Zoo Director of Conservation Education Vicki Searles. “And what could be more fun than spending winter break exploring the Zoo and seeing animals up close?”

To register, visit clevelandmetroparks.com/zoo. For more information, call 216-

635-3391, or e-mail [email protected].

Northeast Ohio’s most-visited year-round attraction, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Admission is $12.25 per person, $8.25 for kids ages 2 to 11 and free for children younger than 2 and Zoo members. Parking is free. Located at 3900 Wildlife Way, the Zoo is easily accessible from Interstates 71, 90 and 480.

Zoo Admission is Free on ThanksgivingThe gifts are all unwrapped and the

relatives have all gone home. How does a parent keep their kids occupied during that week of vacation between Christmas and New Year’s? Bring them to Cleveland Metroparks Zoo’s Winter Break Camp!

Winter Break Camp is a week of hands-on, fun activities for children ages 5-10 focusing on how active the Zoo’s animals are in winter and how the Zoo cares for them year-round. Winter Break Camp includes Zoo exhibit tours, Get-Close encounters with small animals, arts and crafts, and conservation-themed games

and stories.Kids will meet in the Jungle Lab

classroom at The RainForest before setting off to discover the Zoo. Campers will explore the lives, habitats and conservation of animals around the world. The four-day camp runs from Monday, December 29 through Friday, January 2 (no camp on January 1) with half-day (9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) and full-day (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) sessions available. Half-day registration is $110 per child and full-day registration is $155 per child. Cleveland Zoological Society

members receive a discount, with half-day registration costing $95 per child and full-day costing $135 per child.

“The best way to fend off the dreaded, ‘I’m bored,’ is to keep your kids active and engaged over their days off from school,” said Zoo Director of Conservation Education Vicki Searles. “And what could be more fun than spending winter break exploring the Zoo and seeing animals up close?”

To register, visit clevelandmetroparks.com/zoo. For more information, call 216-635-3391, or e-mail programregistration@

clevelandmetroparks.com.Northeast Ohio’s most-visited year-

round attraction, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Admission is $12.25 per person, $8.25 for kids ages 2 to 11 and free for children younger than 2 and Zoo members. Parking is free. Located at 3900 Wildlife Way, the Zoo is easily accessible from Interstates 71, 90 and 480.

Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography OpenThe Cleveland Museum of Art presents

Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography, a fascinatingly varied group of over 160 surrealist and modernist photographs from the 1920s through the 1940s. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue of the extraordinary vintage prints, acquired by the museum in 2007-2008 from the renowned collection of filmmaker David Raymond, represent the collection’s first appearance in print or at a museum. The exhibition will also include six short films and two books. Forbidden Games will be on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art from October 19, 2014, through January 11, 2015. Admission to this exhibition is free.

“We are proud to celebrate this important acquisition with the first in-depth examination of a segment of our increasingly important collection of photography,” said Dr. William M. Griswold, museum director. “David Raymond is a judicious and passionate collector who assembled his collection with astute judgment and connoisseurship, seeking out works that reflect l’oeil à l’état sauvage – the eye in its wild state, a tenet of surrealism supplied by André Breton, founder of the first surrealist group in Paris.”

Beginning in the 1990s, Raymond assembled works of both surrealism and modernism, two usually opposing movements that share a desire to bypass conventions about composition and content to experiment with new processes, materials and subject matter. His holdings were distinguished by their quality, breadth and rarity of subject matter.

Vertiginous camera angles, odd croppings and exaggerated tones and perspectives are hallmarks of both surrealism and modernism. As with surrealist efforts in other media, artists making photographs also aimed to explore the irrational and the chance encounter – magic and the mundane – filtered through the unconscious defined by Sigmund Freud.

Eventually, photography became a pre-eminent tool of surrealist visual culture.

Photographs by 68 artists from 14 countries in the Americas and Europe, representing diverse artistic pathways and divergent attitudes toward photography, come together in the collection. It includes works by notable artists such as Hans Bellmer, Ilse Bing, Bill Brandt, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Brassaï, Marcel Duchamp, Germaine Krull, László Moholy-Nagy, René Magritte, Man Ray and Alexander Rodchenko as well as numerous rare examples of equally provocative but less well-known photographers. Special highlights are bodies of work by Georges Hugnet, Marcel G. Lefrancq and 23 photographs by Dora Maar, one of the largest holdings of her work in a public collection.

“The Cleveland Museum of Art made a major, transformative acquisition by procuring the David Raymond collection,

one of the most important holdings of twentieth-century surrealist photography that remained in private hands,” said Barbara Tannenbaum, the museum’s curator of photography. “Forbidden Games offers the public its first chance to view Raymond’s collection and through it, to vicariously experience an exhilarating, sometimes harrowing period of revolutionary social and cultural change.”

Forbidden Games is accompanied by a 240-page catalogue by Tom Hinson, curator emeritus, who tells the story of how the collection came to the museum and discusses the philosophy and the psychology behind Raymond’s collecting style; photo historian Ian Walker of the University of South Wales, who sets the photographs into historical and historiographic contexts; and independent curator Lisa Kurzner, who delves into topics of special interest ranging from examinations of techniques

such as photograms and photo collage to explications of the symbolism of the mannequin and biographical studies of Maar and Hugnet. The catalogue, distributed by Yale University Press, is available for purchase at the museum or online: store.cmastore.org/fogasuandmop.html (Hard cover/$39.95, soft cover/$29.95.)

This exhibition is supported by a grant from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation and was developed in part through the generosity of Mark Schwartz and Bettina Katz. The Cleveland Museum of Art is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this exhibition with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence, and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

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