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Isn't he just the most beautiful boy? This sweet, innocent face represents the many faces in America that suffer from psychiatric and behavioral disorders that go overlooked as a result of a lack of mental healthcare.
Black History Month always re-surfaces multiple issues of concern. Unfortunately, we rarely hear discussion about mental health among ethnic minorities during this time.
Mental health treatment in ethnic minority sectors is often underutilized and highly stigmatized. Treatment is typically the last resort for cultures who rely heavily on holistic health, alternative and nontraditional healing practices, faith-oriented practices, and Christian counseling. Sadly, for urban residents, the majority of services are found in suburban and rural areas as well as larger cities. Securing transportation or funds to travel, can be a headache for urban families. As a result, various avenues are sought before traditional psychiatric services are even considered.
Many theories support the view that services are out of reach for ethnic minority and lower socio-economic status (SES) families and are either physically or financially unavailable. Other theories highlight issues such as high practice rates and fees, lack of interest, and lack of cultural competence of mental health therapists.
Cultural competence (a sensitivity to a culture or ethnic group and its issues) include an array of skills necessary to empathize with and fully understand the needs of individuals from particular cultures.
While becoming culturally competent is a goal most therapists are striving toward today, this is only half the battle. Many ethnic minority households are uninformed about the services available to them. Therapists, other mental health professionals, and advocates have a moral obligation to educate and inform.
Before we can properly educate however, we need to understand the issues that prevent proper psychiatric care:
- Lack of ethnic support: Only 2% of Psychiatrists and 2% of Psychologists in the U.S. are African American. For many ethnic minority families, it can be stressful considering the need for mental health treatment and can become even more daunting if there are limited opportunities to meet with therapists who you feel can relate to you.
- Lack of cultural competence: Because psychotherapy has been an avenue largely sought and researched by middle class Europeans, ethnic minorities, primarily African Americans, have had little access to services and have not been included in research. We are just beginning to incorporate ethnic minorities in research and provide avenues for access to treatment.
- Poor understanding: Many ethnic minority families have poor knowledge of how mental health influences behavior, thought patterns, and lifestyle. Most behavior is viewed as problematic due to an inborn characteristic that cannot be changed.
- Gender: It can be difficult for males of all races to express feelings of depression or anxiety. But it can be even more difficult for African American males due to their cultural background. In African American communities, males should "tough it out and get over it." In other cases, many are far more represented in the criminal/juvenile justice system than the mental health system.
For more information on mental health in African American communities, watch "Snapping the chain: Ending mental health stigma in the African American community"
All the best
PEERS Tv. (2011, October, 8). Snapping the chain: Ending mental health stigma in the African American community. Retrieved February 4, 2013, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcqtFlLNSa4.
PEERS Tv. (n.d.). PEERS Tv. Retrieved February 4, 2013, from http://www.youtube.com/user/peerstv?feature=watch.
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IBM Number One in Disk (and Tape) again
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IDC, an independent industry analyst firm, put out their 4Q07"Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker" report. Here is an excerpts from their [press release]:
"Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted 9.8 percent year-over-year growth in the fourth quarter of 2007 (4Q07) and totaling $5.3 billion (USD), according to the IDC Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker. For the quarter, the total disk storage systems market grew to $7.5 billion (USD), up 7.6 percent from the prior year's fourth quarter. Total disk storage systems capacity shipped reach 1,645 petabytes, growing 56.3 percent."
For those wondering how an industry could grow 56.3 percent in capacity, but only 7.6 percent in revenue, it isbecause the average dollar-per-GB dropped in 2007 from $6.63 down to $4.56 (USD), representing a 31 percent decline.In the past, disk prices dropped 40 to 60 percent each year, so making single digit growth was the best major vendorscould hope for. However, lately this has slowed down to 25 to 35 percent decline, but the client demand for capacity continues at the 60 percent pace, which means that vendors could achieve double digit revenue growth soon.
Once again, IBM was ranked number 1 in total disk storage. No surprise there. Here are the details:
"Total Disk Storage Systems Market
But why focus just on disk? IDC also released their"Worldwide Combined Disk and Tape Storage 3Q07 Market Share Update", and IBM was number one for that as well,taking in 21.9 percent share. Here's a quote of IBM VP Barry Rudolph in[CNN Money]:
"IBM's continued leadership in the storage hardware market reaffirms our strategy to provide the most comprehensive tiered portfolio of storage offerings, ranging from software and services to disk and tape storage solutions," said Barry Rudolph, Vice President, Storage Stack Solutions, IBM. "IBM is the clear choice for providing information infrastructure solutions that offer the most cost-efficient, streamlined approach to help our customers increase overall productivity and maximize performance."
It is looking like 2008 is going to be a good year for IBM!
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Section 12A. There shall be a board of registration in podiatry, to be appointed by the governor, in this and in the following two sections called the board, consisting of five members, citizens of the commonwealth, three of whom shall have had at least seven years of practice in podiatry in this commonwealth. The fourth member shall be a registered physician who shall have had at least seven years of practice in medicine in this commonwealth. The fifth member shall be a representative of the public, subject to the provisions of section nine B. No member of the board shall be connected in any way with a school of podiatry or be financially interested in any manufacturing, wholesale or retail business, pertaining to podiatry in any form whatsoever. As the term of a member expires, his successor shall be appointed by the governor, to serve for five years.


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Loveless Patty - Whats A Broken Heart Chords & Tabs
Whats A Broken Heart Chords & Tabs
#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: email@example.com WHAT'S A BROKEN HEART (by Don Phrimmer & George Teren) (performed by Patty Loveless) ----------------------------- [The recording of this song is in G#; I play the acoustic guitar intro in either D or C, and use a capo at the 6th or 8th fret. The chords I've written here are in D, but if you just want the chords, it would probably be easier to play it in G and use a capo on the 1st fret.] [Don't worry too much about the F#m13; just play it as F#m, if you're strumming chords. I called it a thirteenth because it has lots of hammer-ons and pull-offs that add up to a lot of different notes.] [Each chord is half a measure.] Asus2 Bm Bm9 F#m F#m13 G G(9) D G [intro; see tab at end] Asus2 Bm Bm9 F#m What's a broken heart, it ain't no big deal F#m13 G G(9) Asus4 It's not what I have, it's only what I feel Asus2 Bm Bm9 F#m I should laugh it off, I should never cry F#m13 G G F#sus4 F# It's not meant to live or die by G G C#/G# C#/G# D/A F#/A# Bm Once I learn to let him go, the healing has to start Bm Em F#m G It's temporary pain, I'll live to love again A Bm Bm9 F#m F#m13 Em F#m G (A) So what's a broken heart [ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/l/loveless_patty/whats_a_broken_heart_crd.html ] I just have to stop, and look at who I am I was just a fool, he was just a man I can walk away, never looking back All his tender lies are hard facts Compared to those who have no hope, their lives so cold and hard All my misery is a raindrop in the sea Yeah, what's a broken heart A Bm Bm9 F#m F#m13 G G F# F# What's a broken heart With faith and time, I know I'll find my world is not that dark It's temporary pain, I'll live to love again A Bm Bm9 F#m F#m13 Em F#m G (A) So what's a broken heart A Bm Bm9 F#m F#m13 G Asus2 Bm. What's a broken heart TAB: This is the intro; the verse is very similar. The first section of tab is in D, the second is in C; play whichever you want. [Capo 6.] Asus2 Bm Bm9 F#m F#m13 G G(9) G Asus2 --------|------2---------|------2---------|----------------|----------------| 0-2-0---|----3-----2-----|----2---232-----|----0-------3---|0-------0-2-0---| 2-----2-|--4-----4---4-2-|--2-----242-----|--0---0-2-------|----0---2-----2-| 2-------|4---------------|4-----------242-|0---------0---0-|--0---0-2-------| --------|----------------|------------2-2-|----------------|----------------| --------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ What's a... [Capo 8.] Gsus2 Am Am9 Em Em13 F F(9) F Gsus2 --------|------0---------|------0---------|----------------|----------------| --0-----|----1-----0-----|----0---010-----|------------1---|----------0-----| 2---2-0-|--2-----2---2-0-|--0-----020-----|----2---0-------|2-------2---2-0-| 5-------|2---------------|2-----------020-|--3---3---------|----3---5-------| 5-------|----------------|------------0-0-|3---------3---3-|--3---3-5-------| --------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ What's a...


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International Missions
The Duncan Family
Missionaries to the Philippians
Update October 2019- Sean & Julia Duncan
The Hamilton Family
Amazonas, Brazil
Hamilton Family Update September 2019
Since October 27, 1999, the Hamilton's have been missionaries to Brazil, currently in Benjamin Constant. As a family they serve in various capacities, some of which include teaching English to fourth graders, activities for youth, preaching and discipleship. In working with the local church, their goal is to evangelize and help Christians follow Christ.
The McIntyre Family
Ghana, West Africa
McIntyre Family Newsletter
Brian serves as Director of West African Mercy Ministries, a ministry begun in 2004. In 2007 McIntyres established and served at a children's hospice care facility in Ghana of which they currently oversee. They also host those who come to serve. Their heart is to encourage Christians to embrace the counsel found in James 1:27
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West Dundee, Illinois
In 2010, Jason began serving as Communications Director for International Teams. His responsibilities include leading a team to create strategy, language, and design. ITeams' vision is to see individuals and communities worldwide transformed through the power of God while focusing on ways to help others help the oppressed by integrating mission and compassion. Soli Deo Gloria.
Compassion International
Compassion International
Compassion reaches out to children in many countries. Individuals or churches can sponsor children in those countries. The support goes for food and clothing but also for Christian training in God's word. Those who sponsor children can write letters and correspond with them as they grow.
The Gideons International
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The Gideons are in over 200 countries and this year will distribute 2 billion copies of God's Word
National Missions
Midwest Church Extension – Vosburgh Family
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Phoenix, AZ
Crosspoint Summer 2016 Newsletter
Crosspoint, a church planting led by the Glazners, began meeting on
March 27, 2011. Robbie's primary tasks include preaching, administration and relationship building. Their desire is to see God glorified by using Crosspoint to help establish local Christ-centered churches.
Local Missions
Milwaukee Rescue Mission
Milwaukee, WI
Rescue Mission Support Request
Crossroads Community Church is a collection site for the Milwaukee Rescue Mission.
As the mission communicates their needs we post needs and transport collections to the Mission.
The list for current needs is above.
Child Evangelism Fellowship – Leah Pipkorn
Southeast ,WI
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A full-time missionary with Child Evangelism Fellowship since 2014, Leah currently serves as the Assistant to the Director and the Summer Ministries Coordinator for CEF of Southeast WI, training and serving alongside young people to reach children with the Gospel. CEF is active in over 190 countries worldwide, evangelizing children with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Child Evangelism Fellowship – Maribeth Pipkorn
Southeast ,WI
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Since 2012, Maribeth Pipkorn has served as a full-time missionary with Child Evangelism Fellowship and currently serves as the Director of Training for CEF of Southeast Wisconsin, training and equipping believers to effectively reach the children in their community with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. CEF, active worldwide, evangelizes children with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, discipling them in the Word of God, and establishing them in the local church for Christian living.
Care Net
Milwaukee, WI
Care Net 2016 Newsletter
The servants at Care Net Pregnancy Center are heroes and champions for life. They counsel many women who come in with unplanned pregnancies. They offer free ultrasounds. Each year many babies lives are spared through their love, compassion and dedication to reaching women in need. They also offer free baby supplies to those in need.


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(No.5, Vol.6,Jul-Aug 2016 Vietnam Heritage Magazine)Photo book shows slices of life along the Middle WayWhat do Buddhist monks and nuns do all day long? Many people may think they must occupy their time sitting under trees and meditating or trudging slowly through streets with begging bowls in their hands. Tran The Phong, a devoted Buddhist himself has produced an album of photographs to shatter such myths and show you that while they be not be of the world they are very definitely in it.The book begins with showing monks and nuns care for the young, presumably at an orphanage. Then we see images of juniors in Buddhist robes. Mostly they are playing like normal children at chess, tug-of-war and arm wrestling but also feeding small animals and tending to flowers. This led me to reflect on my early Christian upbringing and Sunday school, which was all about acquiring knowledge. The emphasis here seems to be opening up kids to religious experience. At the other end of life, there is a convent where the nuns give residential care to many geriatric females. I have visited this place with a Japanese charity and can bear witness to the saintliness of these people. They are Buddhist Saint Teresas and deserve at least a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. You see the nuns in packed wards, chatting to families old ladies and feeding and washing them.You may think monks do not actually do work. Phong shows you otherwise. He has captured them at gentle pursuits such as gardening, cooking, painting, sweeping floors and washing cars. However, to put sedentary folk like me to shame, he also has caught them at hard physical labour; hauling huge stones, pushing heavily-laden carts and road building. Glad to see these chaps are not corrupt like our Christian monks who were instrumental in concocting some delicious beers and wines. The nearest to that here is a shot of a monk making soya sauce.Many monasteries are centres for Eastern martial arts. Here you can see pictures of child monks thrusting out their fists with extreme concentration on their faces. An elderly monk demonstrates how to fell an opponent while seated child monks look on. The fact that this takes place in the tranquillity of woods gives contrast to the action. Another monk's physical and mental absorption is shown as he practices tai chi with a large fan outspread.Another monastic pursuit is medicinal gardening and the preparation of herbal remedies. Monasteries with their pharmacies are a good place to source traditional medicine. Nuns are pictured watering the greenery and tending to the plants. Another is joyfully carrying away a basket of freshly harvested herbs. Then there are nuns raking through carpets of herbs while others sort through them in baskets. Presumably there are looking for the best picks. Finally, two nuns are shown serving a mother and young child in the pharmacy.Like the rest of us, monks and nuns have to eat and there is a series on the monastic kitchen. A group of monks sit down together to make banh chung for the Tet festival. One cook is sweating away over a steaming pan. Another portrait which might be entered for a prize has a black robed monk sampling soup from a ladle surrounded by huge aluminium pots. He is cooking for a hungry mass.The word 'light' comes in the title and this photographer uses light to great effect when shooting his subjects. He also has an eye for colour. Light is, of course, a religious word too. There is a huge sense of joy on the faces of the people and in the scenes portrayed. It made me feel quite envious of the monastic way of life.The cover page picture is of a monk's hand holding a rosary. The final pages feature processions, including one over an iconic Hanoi bridge. On the very final page appears the cliché of a saffron-robed monk meditating under a tree. This is a photo album where you get not what you may have bargained for-full action monastic life.'The Light for Life' by Tran The Phong is published by Nha Xuat Ban Tre at VND360,000. It won the prize A – Excellent National Photography Award from Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists in 2015. The book can be found at Tribooks, 158 Dong Khoi St, Dist.1, Ho Chi Minh City.
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She is a the daughter of Muggle-born Ted Tonks and pure-blood Andromeda Tonks (nee Black).
Timeline Notes
We know this because in August 1995, Tonks tells Harry she's only one year out of Auror training (OP3). Since this training takes three years (OP29), she must have finished school in 1991 - putting her date of birth in 1972 or 1973.
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CSU coach Tim Miles states his NCAA Tournament case
There is value to playing tough competition. The NCAA Tournament selection committee places significant emphasis on it in its annual 'is-this-team-in-or-is-it-out' decision-making process, filling the field of participants.
CSU coach Tim Miles planned accordingly this season by scheduling with the NCAA Tournament in mind, understanding how tough it might be for his short-handed team with opponents like Duke, Southern Miss and Northern Iowa all on it. The Mountain West conference, with pacesetters in San Diego State, UNLV and New Mexico, kept the heat on his bunch high but helped further, particularly as his team pulled out upset after upset after upset.
As a result, his team goes into this week's MW Tournament in good in NCAA Tournament footing. Colorado State finished the regular season with a 19-10 record, 8-6 in Mountain West play. They began the week with an RPI of 21 and the Rams' strength of schedule is in the top 10 in the nation. They have two wins over RPI top-25 teams and another over an RPI top-50 team and are 6-4 in their last 10 games.
Still, Miles and his players want to remove any seeds of doubt by continuing to win here in Las Vegas. On a conference call earlier this week, Miles talked up his team in its quest for inclusion in this year's tournament field.
"We try and schedule with the idea that we want to build a resume that fits an NCAA Tournament at-large team," Miles said. "And I think you do that by scheduling good teams. You don't have to schedule a gauntlet, but you can't just schedule wins, either. You've got to risk some things, and I thought we did that. And our kids, we're three possessions away from being tied for first in this league – we're not a bad team.
"But it is what it is, we're a fourth-place team. I think we've built ourselves a very good resume. Certainly we want to go into the Mountain West tournament with the idea that that's why we're there, to win the Mountain West tournament. But at the end of the day I think our regular season speaks for itself. I think it's a very solid year, I think it's a year that we did exactly what we could. We dropped a few games, but we won some really big games and hopefully that's enough to get us in."
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Although Andrew Wheeler has sought to distance himself from Scott Pruitt in some important ways as acting head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, he's also signaled a continuation of his predecessor's agenda.
Two immediate examples: his decision to ease coal ash storage rules and announcement to weaken clean car standards.
But there are four specific tests Wheeler faces that we'll be watching closely over the next several months. They will shed more light on whether he plans to uphold the mission of the EPA, or continue the Trump-Pruitt all-out assault on protections for people and the environment.
1. Will he halt the "censored science" rule?
Before Pruitt resigned amid ethics scandals in July, he proposed a "censored science" rule championed by polluting industries. This change would effectively bar the agency from using many high-quality scientific studies in the development of safeguards from toxic exposures.
Under the guise of transparency, Pruitt's plan would only allow use of studies that make all their research public – even though gold standard research often relies on personal medical information scientists must protect for legal and ethical reasons. This would effectively censor valid science on chemical risks, air pollution, adverse health effects and other facts that polluters aim to suppress.
Wheeler can stop the proposed rule at any time, and once again center his agency on the best and most comprehensive science and research.
2. Will he reverse Pruitt's interstate smog decision?
Several states, including Maryland, have petitioned the EPA to help them reduce harmful pollution outside state borders that affects downwind states.
In its petition, Maryland asked the agency to require coal-burning power plants in five upwind states to use pollution control equipment already installed at 36 units. It would reduce interstate pollution and dangerous smog for millions of people in the region.
Under Pruitt, the EPA proposed denying this and a similar petition from Delaware. Wheeler now has an opportunity to reverse course and confirm EPA's duty to address interstate pollution.
3. Will he stand up against Trump to protect EPA's budget?
President Trump and Pruitt twice proposed budgets that would have gutted the EPA's ability to carry out its mission of protecting human health. These cuts would have meant more air pollution and contaminated water, more exposure to lead and toxic chemicals, more asthma attacks and more preventable deaths across America.
It's clear that President Trump is working to kneecap the EPA through both executive action and budgetary processes. We're watching to see if Wheeler will stand up for an agency that is already stretched thin with personnel and funding.
4. Will he defend life-saving chemical disaster rules?
Pruitt proposed to gut rules the EPA adopted after a 2013 chemical explosion killed 15 people at a Texas fertilizer plant, including a dozen first responders. The former EPA administrator's plan would weaken accident prevention measures and reduce the flow of information to local communities affected by such accidents.
Wheeler has said he will make "risk communication" a priority. Reinstituting the chemical disaster measures would show that he's willing to put action to his words. People's lives are directly at risk.
There's more on Wheeler's plate than these four tests, of course. As head of the EPA, he also needs to cut carbon pollution from power plants, defend a much-needed chemical safety law, and keep methane emissions in check.
The coming months will illuminate the agenda [PDF] of the man charged with keeping our environment clean and helping Americans live healthier lives.
Will he fix the refrigerants situation to greatly reduce their Global Warming Potential (GWP)?
Wheeler's suggestions to do away with the Clean Car Standards are repugnant and totally off the wall —i.e. ridiculous and incorrect! Why in the world would we want to go back to lesser gas mileage per gallon of gas?!? That would only cost the consumer more — not less! Why do we want more pollution and not less?!? What kind of madmen are Wheeler and Trump anyway?!? What kind of grass are they smoking?!?
Every cabinet director that the president pics — for EPA, Health, Education, Housing — they all want to cut human services. I'm getting the feeling this president wants to destroy this country.
What has happened to the EPA? It was created by President Nixon to protect our environment, not destroy it!


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It's a popular belief among agency executives that the best opportunity for new business is among current clients. Sometimes that can take the form of new projects and assignments, but sometimes it can just mean doing a better job of capturing the income opportunities you already have.
Here are 10 key questions to help uncover more revenue opportunities by making pricing (not costing) a core competence of the firm and getting paid for the value you create rather than the hours you work:
How can we help all associates understand the firm's basic value proposition and how we create value for our clients?
What capabilities and tools do we need to put in place to help us better determine and measure value?
How can we do a better job of scope management by identifying and re-pricing work that's out of scope?
Have we appointed senior executives to be in charge of pricing (not accounting) to ensure that we are pricing on purpose, according to the value received by the client, not the costs incurred by the firm?
What changes in process and procedures do we need to make in order to centralize pricing decisions at the firm?
How can we help keep the firm focused on effectiveness instead of just efficiency? Could we establish effectiveness tools, reports, metrics in place of traditional time-based efficiency tools and metrics?
How can we trade the time we would otherwise spend reviewing, modifying, explaining and defending our fees and invest it upfront in defining what constitutes value in the first place.
What are the main factors holding us back from discussing Scope of Value before Scope of Work?
What are the possible holes and gaps in our pricing and billing system where we might be undercharging or not charging at all for services and value delivered? Do we have a bullet-proof system of checks and balances to make sure this doesn't happen?
Could we conduct "after action reviews" at the end of major client assignments and relationships in order to assess what was learned and how we could have priced it better?
Remember, just because you may have a good cost accounting system doesn't mean you have a good pricing system. These are two different skill sets, and agencies must become as proficient in pricing as they are in costing.


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As its name implies, Popular Science magazine is no slouch when it comes to spotting breakthrough technology. Each year, the world's largest science and technology magazine selects from thousands of nominees to pinpoint 100 of the most innovative new products as part of its Best of What's New awards. For 2015, we're completely thrilled – and honored – that our Eargo hearing device was selected as a winner in the Best of What's New health category. That's quite a big deal for such a small device.
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When determining the most innovative products of the year, Cliff Ransom, Popular Science's Editor-in-Chief, looks for "… innovations that surprise and amaze us—those that challenge our view of what's possible in the future." According to Cliff: "The award is Popular Science's top prize, and the 100 winners are each a revolution in their respective fields." And to revolutionize the hearing category takes more than a nifty new hearing device. We fundamentally believe that caring for your hearing health should not compromise your lifestyle, appearance or checkbook. Our team is focused on empowering consumers in new ways by making Eargo easy to try, easy to buy, easy to use, and by providing all of the support of devices that cost thousands more.
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Sad news for all the fans of Manchester rockers Alfie...they are no more.
Alfie announced yesterday on their website that Sam Morris, Lee Gorton, Ian Smith, Matthew McGeerer, and Sean Kelly would be going their separate ways.
On their website Morris left a message trying to explain the band's decision, "Around four weeks ago we played a gig in life cafÈ in Manchester. I'm a little saddened to inform you that it was our last gig. Alfie are no longer a band. The reasons behind the decision are varied, but the main feeling was that it had seemed to run its course. As you know, we have always endeavoured to stay "true to ourselves" musically, and we perhaps somewhat naively thought that this would be sufficient to catapult us into the upper stratosphere of the popular music world. It wasn't, and unfortunately, although it's true that a single note of one of our songs holds more worth than ten thousand James Blunt albums (a chilling thought) this has never been apparent to the record buying public as a whole. We wanted it to work, you wanted it to work, the record company wanted it to work. So the question remains: where did everyone else's loving go, for frig's sake? Well I don't know where their loving went, but I know their cash went straight into the crazy frog's wackily amphibious bank account."
While Gorton only wanted to thank their loyal fans, "But, finally one last shout out has to go to you lot, our fans. Thanks so much for coming to all the gigs,(again, i'm proud to have shared a part in what i'll always consider many special and occasionally glorious nights), thanks for buying our records ,(4 albums eh! not bad for a bunch of "ramshackle northern chancers"), and thanks for generally fighting our corner, (Chin up 'team alfies', it's definately not your fault that the world won't listen!). So to part, it's the ultimate cliche i know, but it's the truth that we'd have fallen apart long ago if it wasn't for all you guys. Whether you've been with us from those precarious beginnings or if you've only just joined us as this ship sinks under troubled waters, i hope we've not let anyone down. Thanks again, sincerely and with much love, lee gorton."
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Charley GallayA conservative group cut ties with right-wing columnist Michelle Malkin on Sunday over her support for an anti-Semitic internet personality, ramping up a growing conservative civil war centered on college campuses.Malkin's firing from Young America's Foundation, whose speakers bureau had booked Malkin for speeches across the country for the past 17 years, marks the latest battle between supporters of Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and more establishment conservative figures. "Michelle Malkin in no longer part of YAF's campus lecture program," a YAF spokesman said in an email to The Daily Beast. Malkin didn't respond to a request for comment. How Donald Trump Jr. Landed Smack in the Middle of a Right-Wing Civil WarSince October, Fuentes's fans have been showing up at conservative college speeches and heckling speakers booked by YAF and another, rival conservative group, Turning Point USA. The alt-right activists, who call themselves "groypers" in a nod to a meme about an obese toad similar to Pepe the Frog, typically ask the speakers questions about United States aid to Israel and immigration in an attempt to push their racist and anti-Semitic beliefs into more mainstream conservatism. On Nov. 10, the activists booed Donald Trump Jr. at a Turning Point event after organizers refused to hold a Q&A.; Right-wing figures like former Fox News host and Trump campaign adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle and podcaster Ben Shapiro have slammed the activists, with Shapiro highlighting Fuentes's history of bigoted remarks in a recent speech. Among other things, Fuentes marched in the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, and praised what he called a "tidal wave of white identity" after the rally. Fuentes has also used his internet video show, America First, to deny the Holocaust, and claimed that segregation was "better."Malkin has praised Fuentes and his fans, calling on establishment conservatives to engage with them. In a speech last week, Malkin called Fuentes "one of the New Right leaders." In another, she praised Fuentes fans and called their conservative critics "cringe." She has also frequently echoed their talking points calling for further restricting legal immigration, claiming that continued immigration will doom the Republican Party."We're the majority in this room, and we're the majority in this country," Malkin said at a Thursday speech at UCLA organized by YAF. Malkin's praise for Fuentes appears to have been too much for YAF, which sent a tweet distancing themselves from Malkin on Sunday without mentioning her by name. "There is no room in mainstream conservatism or at YAF for holocaust deniers, white nationalists, street brawlers, or racists," the tweet reads. Malkin shot back on Twitter, calling YAF the "Keepers of the Gate" and calling Fuentes's activists "patriotic."Malkin's support is likely to draw more attention to the "groypers," who have notched at least one other win in their attacks on conservatives. Last week, under pressure from Fuentes, Turning Point chief Charlie Kirk backtracked from a remark he had made calling for foreign students to receive green cards if they graduate from a four-year college in the United States. But that capitulation apparently wasn't enough for his critics-on Thursday, Kirk was chased off the University of Houston campus by a group of heckling Fuentes supporters.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.


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5 Keys to Creating a Good Computer Science Thesis
Every student would like to know the easiest ways of creating a good Computer Science thesis. Unfortunately, thesis writing requires so much efforts and strengths that it is nearly impossible to create a good Computer Science thesis without spending maximum time on it. However, you can get to know the main keys to creating a good Computer Science thesis and finally succeed.
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Members will recall Hargreaves in his Review of IP recommending a Digital Copyright Exchange (DCE). The concept has evolved into the Copyright Licensing Steering Group (CLSG) on which AOP Business and Legal director, Gwen Thomas, will sit.
There are also four main workstreams; The Copyright Hub Launch Group, which AOP member and Stop43 co-founder, Paul Ellis is on, Data Building Blocks, Education Licensing and Images Metadata where the AOP will be represented by photographer and board member, Nick Dunmur. Within the Copyright Hub, Paul Ellis is involved in the Business Case and Metadata development workstreams and has invited AOP members to contribute to an important survey the results of which will be used to inform future discussions. Paul says: "We've prepared a survey of professional photographers to analyse how the photography markets work, how the Copyright Hub might affect them, and overall attitudes of photographers towards the Hub."


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Someone calculated what it would cost you to actually give all the gifts mentioned in the "12 Days of Christmas" song (because it's the Internet and of course they did). If you have an extra $114,000, you might be able to pull this off.
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The road to building my dream studio has been a long and involved one. I've talked about it here and here.
Now that the stove is cranking and patterns have been sent to the testers, I'm starting on some much-needed studio organization and, to a lesser degree, decoration. It can be hard to be timely with studio organization and remodeling when you're constantly working in the space as well.
I've wanted to teach sewing classes in the barn since the day we came to check it out with our realtor. Not just that, but provide a craft space to the community for knitting, sewing, you name it. I'm slowly getting closer to that goal. And I hope that offering this space to the community will help bring us into the fold. Right now we have approximately 4 friends in town: A couple whom we've known since before the move, and our friendly carpenter neighbor and his wife.
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Lighting is key. I wanted to maintain the old-barn-iness, so I figured aluminum wearhouse pendants were the way to go. These paris green enamel babes are from ikea. I still have the old Xmas lights up and need to grab the ladder and take them down. They provide great ambient light but use a ton of electricity (new lamps use LED's) and recently stopped working mysteriously, so they're on the way out. I plan to pick up a few more of these drop pendants next ikea trip. I'm also going to mount some clip floodlights aimed at the cieling for ambient/fill light since the ceiling is white.
I also lucked out on craigslist and picked up some used industrial shelving! I've always liked the look of these and they were super affordable. I need to consolidate/have a fabric swap. Nearly all bins pictured contain fabric or WIPs! Talk about a stash...I'd love to get the boxes of Cabin inventory up on these shelves too. Right now they're stacked neatly next to the loom. The rug pictures will migrate over to in front of the pellet stove where I'm setting up a social area.
This week I'm also working on a prom dress for my youngest cousin. I know it's cliche to say it, but I feel like she was just a baby! She's going bright red!


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The Muthoot Pappachan Group, with its flagship gold financing arm Muthoot Fincorp, has floated a new company--MPG Security Group-to take its "technologically advanced security services through emergency response teams (ERTs)" nationwide.
The Kochi-based diversified group has also roped in Raman Srivastava, the ex-Kerala top police officer and also the former director general of the BSF, as its chief security advisor, the company said.
"MPG Security Group and its emergency response teams are the first of their kind initiatives in the country's Rs 20,000-crore private security market," Muthoot Pappachan Group chairman and managing director Thomas John Muthoot told PTI.
"While we see large potential for every company that employs private security and needs technologically advanced security solutions, we see an immediate potential from the banking sector, especially for their ATM security," he said.
Muthoot said the company is in discussions with a leading ATM security provider to offer ERT services to the around 2-lakh-odd ATMs deployed across the country.
Stating that banks lose heavily in their ATM business, primarily due to the huge cost involved in deploying security personnel, Muthoot described manned security as a sheer waste of resources as technology like the one his company offers can take care of such needs. He also said ERT-based security services are in vogue in the Western markets.
He said banks on an average spend around Rs 50,000 a month to protect an ATM alone. This works out to be around Rs 1,000 crore for the sector a month that has around 2 lakh cash vending machines deployed.
Last year, largest lender SBI said it had lost over Rs 350 crore in its ATM business, a good portion of which was spent towards manning these machines that count around 60,000, making it the largest operator of ATMs in the country.
"If banks adopt our technology tool, they can save hundreds of crores in security cost alone," Muthoot said, adding, "Muthoot Fincorp alone had spent Rs 70 crore last year on security cost, which is one-third of its net profit. My objective is to bring it down to around Rs 10 crore a year."
Explaining how the ERT works, Muthoot said the company has already set up 16 control rooms at key cities in the country.
"Once any of these control rooms gets a call/alert from the electronic sensor fitted at every ATM, our security team in the immediate vicinity gets alerted and they can reach the trouble spot in 20-30 minutes," he said.
"Each of the control room can handle around 30-25 Muthoot Fincorp branches spread across a 20-km radium," Muthoot said, adding "if we get more customers, then this 20-30 minutes response time can be halved 10-15 minutes," Muthoot said.
He further said currently the facility is being offered to his Muthoot Fincorp branches in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Soon, it will be extended to Karnataka and Andhra. The company has tied up rival Muthoot Finance to offer the service to its branches in Kerala and Tamil Nadu from next month, which will be gradually ramped up to other states, the chairman said.
The company has already set up 77 ERTs involving 300 specially trained security personnel. These security personnel are trained in paramilitary skills and are supplied with guns.
Muthoot said each ERT consists of a specialised team of three-able bodied persons in uniform, equipped with non-lethal weapons, GPRS, wireless communicators and fully-equipped vehicle with alarm systems and who can handle any security related exigencies from 9.30 PM to 5.30 AM.
The Muthoot Pappachan Group have interest in financial services, automotive, property, hospitality, and alternate energy. It employs over 20,000, serving over a million customers.
The group's main companies include the gold financing arm Muthoot Fincorp, Muthoot Housing Finance, Muthoot Capital Services, which is the only publicly traded entity from the group and offers vehicle loans, and Muthoot Microfin.
The group's hospitality arm has star hotels run by the Taj and Hilton groups, Villa Maya the exclusive restaurant and SkyChef the air catering unit.


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StandardTextiles – Assessment of the ignitability of bedding items – Part 1: Ignition source: smouldering cigarette.Textiles – Assessment of the ignitability of bedding items – Part 2: Ignition source: match flame equivalent.Why test according to this standard?The standard is used to assess the ignitability of bedding items when subjected to a smouldering cigarette and a match flame equivalent as ignition source.In Sweden, to be able to use bedding items in a high risk health care environment, the bedding items must be able to resist ignition according to SS-EN ISO 12952-1 and SS-EN ISO 12952-2.According to the standard for railway applications, EN 45545-2, bedding items are to be tested according to EN ISO 12952-2, ignition with a match flame equivalent. These test methods only evaluates the ignitability of bedding products and does not evaluate the burning behavior of a specific item.Materials that can be tested according to this standardMattress covers, underlays, incontinence sheets and pads, sheets, blankets, electric blankets, quilts (duvets) and covers, pillows (whatever the filling) and bolsters, pillowcases.Sample dimensions
Short test descriptionThe tests are performed in a test cabinet with a calibrated air flow. The test specimen is located on a substrate of mineral wool, on top of a steel rig. Ignition sources are applied on flat surfaces, quilts, edge tapes, underneath quilts, between sheets, etc.During the cigarette test the bedding item is not allowed to smoulder or produce externally detectable amounts of smoke, heat or glowing after one hour from the beginning of the test. It is also not allowed to have any occurrence of flames initiated by the smouldering cigarette. The test assembly is subjected to a gas flame for 15 seconds. No flaming is allowed to continue for more than 120 seconds after removal of ignition source, and the specimen must not burn until it is consumed within the test duration. The bedding item must not smoulder or produce externally detectable amounts of smoke, heat or glowing after 15 minutes following the removal of the ignition source.
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Neither is Jenny Craig, MediFast, Curves, Slimfast, or whatever other diet you may be trying and (hopefully) succeeding at.
I don't think spending money on Weight Watchers is a waste. You are committing to a program that will most definitely teach you something about the way you eat. Even if you don't lose weight - you will learn about what is holding you back.
If you choose to go to the Weight Watchers meetings, you also get a community of people devoted to the same goals. This community can be invaluable when trying to do something as difficult as changing your eating patterns.
But, Weight Watchers can be expensive. Sometimes after not losing weight for a few weeks, paying for Weight Watchers can feel downright silly.
If you're short on dough, the first thing I suggest is trying to follow the program after you've learned it on your own or with a friend. With just a notebook and the informational books they provide you can get pretty far.
For those of you lucky enough to own an iPhone or Smartphone, there are a bunch of great apps for losing weight. Myfitnesspal and Lose It! are both very similar to the Weight Watchers app. They will both help you track your food intake, exercise, and weight loss goals.
Sparkpeople.com, myfitnesspal and MyPlate.com, and Lose It! are free websites that provide almost the same service at that as the Weight Watchers online site. They don't use PointsPlus but they do use calories and have databases of calories in common foods.
The key is finding something that works for you and it may be a combination of technology, cookbooks, and friends.
Finally, the amount of work you put into your weight loss program is directly related to how much you will change. Sadly, none of these websites or apps will stop you from eating junk food BUT they can help you make the process of losing weight more fun.
Frankly, I find that food journaling in a notebook is super helpful. It's low-tech but it is fast.
How do you come to terms with how with the cost of Weight Watchers? What solutions have become up with?
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If Egypt's new military rulers–pretty much the same as the old, only more truculent–want to ignite a civil war, they're going about it the right way. Not only are they prosecuting the senior leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, but they are also outlawing the entire organization as a terrorist entity and targeting its funding.
That is hitting the hospitals operated by the Islamic Medical Association, a Brotherhood offshoot which serves roughly a million, mostly poor, patients every year in a country where public medical care is poor to nonexistent. Already the hospitals are seeing fewer patients because ordinary people are scared of associating with the Brotherhood; if the government crackdown continues, the hospitals could close altogether. That is not going to endear the military leadership to the populace in whose name they claim to rule.
Nor is the military limiting its crackdown to Islamists. It is also jailing more secular pro-democracy activists and bloggers who led the original demonstrations that overthrow Hosni Mubarak.
Already there are signs of a backlash against the military crackdown. A few days ago the police headquarters in the town of Mansour was leveled by a bomb, killing at least 14 people. That brings the toll of police officers killed since August to more than 150. As the New York Times notes, "The attacks have affected police morale, officers said, and raised troubling questions about the government's ability to secure the country in the face of increasingly frequent attacks by militants."
And it is not just police officers who are being targeted. Recently a crude pipe bomb went off on a public bus in Cairo, injuring at least five.
These are small, early signs of how the Brotherhood and other, even more extreme Islamists are capable of hitting back against the security forces, and they run the risk of expanding into a higher level of violence that will make it impossible for the generals to revive the Egyptian economy, which depends so heavily on tourism. (Would you travel to Egypt today with your kids?)
Field Marshal Sisi, Egypt's actual ruler today, and his subordinates in the military hierarchy appear to be punch drunk from the wave of affection that greeted their usurpation of power last summer. At that point the people of Egypt were sick of Brotherhood mismanagement and open to a more effective, secular alternative. Even many Brotherhood leaders saw that they were losing popularity and were no doubt open to some kind of accommodation with the military. By taking such a hard line, however, the military is pressing its luck and risking sending Egypt down the vortex of civil strife.


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Part-time Instructional Staff [1]
THE COMMITTEE FOR PART-TIME INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF is a standing committee of the Delegate Assembly. It is responsible for the consideration of problems and the recommendations of policies related to the part-time instructional staff. The chairperson of this committee shall be the Vice President for the Part-Time Instructional Staff.
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Part-Time and Contingent Faculty and Staff Represented by the PSC
CUNY depends on the labor of thousands of part-time and contingent faculty and staff. Despite the University's self-representation as a place where tenured research faculty are valued for the time they can spend with students, CUNY continues to increase the number of faculty and staff in non-secure or "contingent" positions, and to create new programs staffed largely or entirely with contingent faculty. As a university in New York City, CUNY is fortunate to be able to draw on an exceptional talent pool of academics, artists, professionals and others to fill its thousands of part-time positions.
The PSC's "bargaining unit," or universe of employees the union represents, includes part-time, hourly and contingent employees in a complicated series of titles and work locations. The PSC has traditionally included all such employees in the designation "Part-Time Personnel," even though many "part-timers" work full-time hours—and more. The list below, reflecting Fall 2013 totals, provides a picture of who these members are.
Teaching Adjuncts: 10,265
Non-Teaching Adjuncts: 1,122
Graduate Assistants: 1,749
Adjunct CLTs: 551
Continuing Education Teachers (CET): 959
Substitute Full-Time Titles: 389
(For the above totals, an individual employee is counted only once even if s/he works in two different job titles. Thus if a graduate employee is also in a teaching adjunct title, s/he is reported as a graduate employee only. If an adjunct is also in a continuing education title, s/he is reported as an adjunct. PSC bargaining unit members who are in full-time titles and also are employed in a part-time or hourly title are not counted.)
Because of the conditions and insecurity of contingent work, faculty and staff in these positions often move from one title into another. For example, a graduate assistant may move from that title to an adjunct title, or an adjunct may move to a substitute title for several semesters and then back into an adjunct title.
It would be a mistake to assume that the working conditions or life circumstances of all CUNY contingent employees are the same. Of the more than 10,000 teaching adjuncts, approximately 2,000 to 3,000 derive most of their income from their work at CUNY and have offered long-term service, often for a decade or more. The majority of teaching adjuncts and CETs, however, have other employment or income. Many adjuncts, for example, are full-time NYC K-12 teachers or retirees from the City school system or CUNY. Most teaching adjuncts—70%—are in the Adjunct Lecturer title. More than a quarter of adjuncts are Adjunct Assistant, Associate or full Professors. Adjuncts teach at senior and community colleges as well as at CUNY's Educational Opportunity Centers.
Continuing Education Teachers include some who work full time (e.g. CLIP and CUNYStart Teachers) and many who teach one or more continuing education courses. Continuing Education courses may meet for a semester or for only a few weeks. Graduate employees are doctoral and master's students who are employed by the University, some on annual contracts as graduate assistants, and others on semester-long contracts as adjuncts. Some work in both positions.
PSC Bargaining Approach to Equity
From the start, it has been a central goal of the current leadership of the PSC to end the two-tier academic labor system at CUNY. Reliance on an underpaid and contingent workforce for the majority of undergraduate teaching harms the adjuncts themselves, offers insufficient support to students, and undermines working conditions for full-time employees. Our goal has proven extraordinarily difficult to achieve, for both economic and ideological reasons. CUNY is affected by the defunding, rationing of quality education, and centralization of power that have characterized American higher education for the last three decades. State funding to public universities has been cut by more than 40 percent since 1980, and a primary result has been the substitution of underpaid part-time faculty for better-paid full-time faculty. The goal of the union leadership, however, remains unchanged: to achieve equity in pay and benefits for part-time and contingent employees, and to negotiate job security for their positions.
Contract settlements ultimately involve reaching agreement with CUNY about the allocation of a designated economic package. The union has a responsibility to represent the needs of all of its members, and has represented adjuncts vigorously. Since 2000 and through three contractual settlements and numerous contract enforcement actions, the PSC leadership has sought to expand the rights of adjuncts and other contingent employees and to focus limited resources where there are the greatest inequities. While the gains made for adjuncts and other contingent employees are incremental and have not yet dismantled the two-tiered labor system, they are significant both locally and nationally. Some have represented breakthroughs in conditions for part-timers.
Rights and Benefits Won for Part-Time and Contingent Faculty and Staff Since 2000
- Equity pay increases—above the across-the board rate—for all adjunct titles and all graduate assistant titles
- Sustained adjunct health insurance for eligible adjuncts
- Health insurance for graduate employees on an equity basis with SUNY
- Graduate Center tuition remission for CUNY doctoral students who serve as graduate assistants
- A professional hour at full pay for adjuncts teaching six hours at the same college
- Full pay for the 15 weeks of the semester for teaching adjuncts at all CUNY colleges
- 200 new full-time faculty positions created exclusively for long-serving adjuncts
- Equity increase in the minimum pay rate for Continuing Education Teachers
- Thousands of professional development grants for adjuncts and other contingent faculty
- Longevity increases for CLIP and other Continuing Education Teachers
- Ability for Continuing Education Teachers to use of up to 3 days of sick leave for care of ill family members
- Right to campus library privileges for Continuing Education Teachers
- Personal emergency leave for adjuncts at 1/15 of total number of clock hours in a semester
- Tuition waivers for one course per semester for eligible adjuncts
- Right to notification of salary rate for adjuncts and right to full retroactive pay if the hourly rate of pay they receive is incorrect
- Right to college communication resources where available for teaching adjuncts
- Letters of yearly appointment after six consecutive semesters in the same department
- Counting substitute service for adjunct eligibility for health insurance, salary schedule movement, and tuition waivers
- Eligibility for Transit Checks to purchase MetroCards with pre-tax dollars
- Defeat of management attempt to establish lower-tier salary structure for EOC adjuncts
Health Insurance
Graduate assistants, teaching adjuncts and non-teaching adjuncts have identified health insurance as a priority. Gaining and maintaining health insurance for these members has been a major focus of the PSC in both the bargaining and political spheres. When the current leadership took office in 2000, graduate assistants did not have health insurance and adjunct health insurance was very under-funded and on life support. Continuing Education Teachers who work 20 or more hours per week and have an assignment that will last for at least six months had full access to the New York City health plan.
The union bargained with CUNY to gain health insurance coverage for more than 2,000 graduate employees that is comparable to coverage for graduate students at SUNY. We have also enforced the health insurance provision for Continuing Education Teachers when necessary.
Adjunct health insurance has required a significant amount of time and struggle by the entire union membership. Adjunct health insurance is offered through the PSC-CUNY Welfare Fund. It is very costly and inefficient to do it this way, and the PSC has long argued that adjunct health insurance should be offered through a public-employee benefits plan, as it is for full-timers. Through concerted membership activism, including courageous testimony by adjuncts themselves, the PSC convinced CUNY to provide significant resources to move adjunct health insurance to a large public-employee plan. With the full support of CUNY, the union is working to conclude the fourteen-year struggle to accomplish this goal. It has been possible only because we have gained the support of the entire membership.
Democratic Representation within the PSC
An important aspect of insuring equity outcomes is to have democratic representation within the union. Before the current leadership took office in 2000, part-timers were barely represented and were invisible within the union—despite numbering in the thousands. The union leadership and staff have sought to create democratic representation for all parts of the bargaining unit, including adjuncts, professional staff and full-time faculty. The union is strongest when all voices are heard. Upon assuming leadership, the PSC governing bodies enacted changes that would ensure greater representation for adjuncts and contingent employees in the union. Because of these changes the union's adjunct and contingent voting membership has increased and become more representative of adjuncts' importance to the University. These are the actions that were taken:
- Introduction of percentage-based dues for all members, replacing an unfair system of flat amounts
- Inclusion of contingent employees in agency fee collection
- Positions for adjuncts and contingent employees on the Executive Council were increased from one to four, with additional part-timers serving in other categories.
- Three adjunct grievance counselors dedicated to advising adjuncts and other contingent workers
- Adjuncts and other contingent workers have been integrated into the leadership of campus-based chapters
- Adjunct, graduate assistant, and continuing education liaison positions on the campuses were created and funded by the central union


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Jimmy had a shot of Pappy Van Winkle the other night. He was at a bar with some friends, one of which was having an auspicious birthday, and wanted to celebrate. The bartender whispered some magic words: "We have Pappy 20, and 23. Off menu." So Jimmy ordered a shot of the 20, neat. It arrived, everyone tasted, and all praised what was a lovely, lovely brown spirit.
Then, the bill came. $150. For a single 1 and 1/2 ounce of liquid.
Let's put that sticker shock in perspective: Given that there are about 16ish shots in a 750 ml bottle, that means that this bar will make around $2400 for that brown liquid. Not a bad profit, even considering that this bottle likely cost them (because it was off-menu and likely purchased retail, from a profiteer - they wouldn't tell us exactly where) around $1000. (EDIT: A reader, Jim, correctly states that 99% of the time restaurants and bars pay wholesale for Pappy, if they have the chance to purchase. And AN ENTIRE BOTTLE of Pappy 23 retails in some markets for $149!!)
Now, we get it - we live in a free country with a Capitalist system: There are lots of popular drinks out there, astonishingly well crafted, and the producers of these drinks, if they are lucky enough for it to achieve the cult status that Pappy has, can charge "whatever the traffic will bear" as it were. But when there is rarity or cultishness around a 'WHITE WHALE' (as these types of drinks are called), profiteering inevitably comes into the picture. And we believe that it spoils the intent with which the drinks were made in the first place.
According to our sources, some distributors in the US are now tying whether or not a liquor store receives bottles of Pappy to quantity sales of other whiskies, some of which are exceedingly hard to move in large batches. In other words, a store must move X cases of another product to earn the right to 'get Pappy'. This leaves the smaller Mom and Pop stores at a huge disadvantage, as they simply can't move the number of bottles necessary to qualify. In the Craft Beer world, pursuit of rare releases like Cigar City's Hunahpu Stout have led to black/gray markets springing up, in which a profiteer will buy multiple bottles at the brewery, then sell them online for a steep markup.
We've spoken to the good folk at Cigar City; in the case of Hunahpu Stout, they just want to make great beer, and they've set what they believe to be a fair price this beer - the fact that someone who had nothing to do with making the liquid is profiting from a black market re-sale is an insult to the work that they've put in to making it in the first place.
In both cases, the producers have the best and worst kind of success; their drinks have become astonishingly popular, but a great deal of the money that is changing hands over them never makes it back to their pockets, where it belongs.
Our advice? Stay away from profiteers. The point of having these amazing beverages is to experience them the way the producer intended - in the case of Cigar City, buy from a reputable retailer like Bruisin' Ales, or GO TO TAMPA YOURSELF - because bev-touring is awesome.
And as far as Pappy goes, we agree that it's wonderful, amazing, astonishing; but there are many, many other fantastic, aged bourbons out there that won't deliver such a blow to your wallet. Want to be super cool? Find the next one that less people know about. The Elijah Craig 23, for instance.
What about you? What are your feelings about Bev Sticker Shock, and Profiteering? Leave us a comment below.
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Electricity tariffs are regulated by the Energy Market Authority (EMA) and revised quarterly to reflect the actual cost of electricity. SP Services buys electricity on behalf of customers and pays the generation companies, transmission licensee and other market players based on the rates of the cost components as approved by EMA. Please click
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Network Cost (Paid to SP PowerAssets). This fee is reviewed annually.
Energy Cost (paid to the generation companies). This component is adjusted quarterly to reflect changes in the cost of fuel and power generation. The fuel cost is the cost of imported natural gas, which is tied to oil prices by commercial contracts.
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