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For this week in our reading series we will be reading "Ellen Ochoa, Astronaut". This is a biography of a woman who worked hard to reach some big goals. Our phonic skill this week are plural words that end -s and -es. Students will be able to add and recognize these words. We continue to work on locating information in our focus skill. Students identify different parts of a book: table of contents, heading, glossary, and index. In grammar third graders will be using compound subject-verb agreement correctly in their speech and writing. Also we will use compound subjects and predicates in sentences. Third graders will be writing a biography paragraph this week. We will chose a person to write about, so there is a good chance that your child will be asking you questions about yourself.
Vocabualry: persevere, invention, confidence, hinder, talented, disappointed, apply, ambitious, attain, search
In math we are continuing working on basic facts to using extended facts. Along with this, we will be solving number stories. Students will use part-and-total diagrams, change diagram, and comparison diagrams. During social studies we are learning about map skills, the history of a community, and time lines. To help us with our map skills, students will be making a map of their community. The maps will include a title, compass rose, map key and a distance scale.
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is, that I can easily afford to hire a cleaner. Not to do everything all the time, but for a few hours a month to handle all the things I never have time for.
Oddly, this was the first time I sat down to do a budget since taking the new job last year. This is completely out of character; usually I look at the thing every few months, but the pay structure at this place is a little odd and it took me a while to figure out exactly how much I was making. I like budgets to two decimal places, so I just didn't have the info for a while and then I had other things to worry about.
But what nice surprise, to sit down finally with all the numbers and see myself so solidly in the black.
A taste of my analness, Dear Readers: I have a chequing account and several no-fee savings accounts. One is for general/emergency savings; one is for big-ticket savings; one is for writing income; one is for saving for vacation time; one is where I save money for sick days outside of the ones I get paid for (it's never enough); one is for saving for Christmas presents. Then there's PP's education savings, and my retirement savings. It's a lot of accounts to juggle but I am so reassured seeing those numbers sitting there, ticking upwards, and knowing that emergencies of various sorts and small indulgences are covered. And apparently a cleaner.
And I'm just going to give myself a self-deprecating pat on the back (if there is such a thing) for having good finances on one middle-class income.


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It's been almost a week, but whether or not you're a University of Georgia football fan, you can probably still sense the lingering disappointment of the devastating loss in the college championship game.
(And just for a moment here, I will acknowledge that we have plenty of Georgia Tech – and Alabama – fans among our customers, who clearly aren't troubled by the loss. My favorite comment from a Tech fan: "Rooting for UGA just because you're in GA is like rooting for the devil just because he is in the Bible.")
At the AJC, we covered UGA's season every step of the way, and when the Bulldogs made the college football playoff, we made following the team our highest priority. After all, the team was pursuing its first national championship in nearly 40 years.
Then President Trump decided to attend the game, which was played in Atlanta purely out of coincidence in the rotating location of the championship game each year. So a big story got even bigger.
I'll let you in on a secret about newspapers: when one of our major sports teams positions itself to win the championship, with us there's no waiting to see how it comes out. We assume they are going to win, and plan accordingly.
For us, that meant sending a large contingent to California for the Rose Bowl, and getting detailed and ambitious plans together for the national championship game.
Editors devoted countless hours to organizing and deploying staff. They made plans for special coverage leading up to the game, creating a week's worth of keepsake newspapers, and an impressively large amount of online content that fans could find at AJC and MyAJC.com. Operating on the assumption of a Georgia victory, we planned even more, including one-of-a-kind keepsake editions.
So, honestly, we were disappointed too. But I'd like to give you an inside look at what really goes into the process of covering a big game.
Multimedia journalist Erica A. Hernandez summarized it best.
"My job consisted of giving those who couldn't attend the game a look behind the curtain," she said. "From being able to bring Bulldogs fans inside the room at media day on Saturday to giving our audience a 360-degree view of the field on Monday."
"It was many long days and nights spent at and around Mercedes-Benz stadium, braving the uncharacteristically cold weather. Being able to bring the excitement of this experience to Georgia fans everywhere made it all worth it."
Hernandez was part of a large contingent of the staff covering the game, and everything around it. For some, this is a block they've been around before. Sports columnist Mark Bradley, for example. He's documented many big sports stories, including last year's Super Bowl.
"I actually had a harder time writing this one than I did the Super Bowl because this just felt so weird," he said. "You see a loss like that maybe every 20 years. I'd seen essentially the same loss twice in 11 months. On a rational level, I know that what happened in Houston had nothing to do with what happened here Monday night. But sometimes I do wonder."
Of course, all hands were on deck for the college national championship, but some of our journalists had other big games to cover – and managed to overcome big logistical obstacles.
It started with the Falcons game on Christmas Eve for visual journalist Curtis Compton and sports columnist Jeff Schultz.
"Jeff and I had driven together to New Orleans for the Falcons game on Christmas eve, so we could drive back to Atlanta," said Compton. "After the game, arriving at 3 a.m. Christmas morning, we spent a few hours at home, then flew out for Rose Bowl coverage the next day."
Of course, our journalists love covering a story as important to you as the Rose Bowl. But we never like a West Coast game that inevitably leads to tight deadlines. Recall that the Rose Bowl went into double overtime. But then things got even more complicated for Schultz and Compton.
I'll let Schultz explain what he did once he left the Rose Bowl – and it wasn't packing up to come home.
"I changed hotels to one near L.A Rams' facility in Thousand Oaks and worked from there," he said. He stayed in California to cover the Falcons-Rams' playoff game, another tough deadline because that game started at 8:15 p.m. eastern time.
After that, he moved to a third hotel near the airport and flew back to Atlanta the next morning, which was the day before the college national championship game.
And he describes the night in the press box at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
"I had a nice column started but refrained from writing the lead," he said. "I learned not to assume anything in my career – and that was reaffirmed in the Super Bowl."
Eventually, though, he had to commit.
"The lead changed twice: Alabama wins. Georgia wins. No-no-Alabama wins," he said.
Schultz drove home and booked a flight to Philadelphia and a hotel room at 3 a.m. so he could cover the Falcons' playoff game on Saturday.
Compton was pretty much on the same schedule. And Georgia's run at the title meant a lot to him. That's where he went to school. So an inspired guy was even more inspired.
"Just a very disappointing finish to a fairy tale season for the Dawgs," he said. "I am a journalist first, but also as an UGA alumni I can't say the finish wasn't painful — even if I nailed the game-winning play."
Compton took the picture of Alabama's game-winning catch, once again capturing an historic moment. His picture dominated the first page of the AJC's sports section the next morning.
It broke his heart, but he loves the work.
"Twenty-five years with the AJC and I don't recall a more-electric football season," he said.
Jeff Schultz column: Georgia comes close to title but falls to Alabama -- it's Atlanta's curse
Mark Bradley column: Jacob Eason was a Darn Good Dog
Steve Hummer: Traumatically injured against Bulldogs, Devon Gales cheers them on to title game now
Souvenir field edition captures UGA victory in Rose Bowl
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This is an old howto that I apparently missed. I really know so little about Windows administration that finding gems like this makes me really excited :-)
Anyway, it's possible to connect to a remote machine's registry, alter the data in it, then remotely reboot the machine so that it can come back up with the server running. That's pretty smooth!
Here are the details.
I know I'm missing tons more stuff like this. What are your favorites?
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Enable Terminal Server on a remote machine
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didn't want to get out of bed this morning...
"Too cold she says"
Just wait Mia baby......tomorrow morning should be almost 0..!
..Go For Your Dreams..
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Mia is going for the dreams! She sure is cute, all cozy there.
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Every interaction in life works like a dance between partners. Learn to make every dance amazing and you can make your relationships amazing too.06 Feb 2017/by Andrew Sutton/0 Comments/in Inspirational Quotes Topics: Relationships
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Teaching & studying dance in 231 cities across 35 countries, winning 2nd place in the World Lindy Hop Championships, 1st place in the US Open Swing Dance Championships, 1st place in the American Lindy Hop Championships, dancing in the NBC movie The Little Richard Story, performing on National Thai Television, training some of the world's top Lindy Hop & Blues instructors, and helping double the size of 3 different dance scenes in less than 3 months are just some of Andrew Sutton's accomplishments over the last 15 years. Andrew doesn't want you to need someone else to act a certain way in order for you to be successful or happy. He wants to help you find a way to be successful and happy given whatever circumstances you are in. Dance is his medium. Dance is often taught so students need their partner to react in a specific way, otherwise, they can't have an amazing dance. Their partner needs to have a certain type of connection, a specific frame, or use counterbalance "correctly", etc. Andrew teaches you to have amazing and successful dances regardless of what connection, frame, counterbalance, musicality, etc, your partner has. Learn the skills of the Dance Ninjas: Make Every Dance Amazing!
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Sunday, August 2, 2009
Cody is a Sr.
Meet my little brother! He will be part of the second graduating class at Mountain Range High School. I am so proud of him, and hope that he makes it very far in life. Good luck Cody!!
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Every single customer has a bunch of questions to ask, it comes with moving and we are waiting for it. We're waiting for you to shoot us an email, or give us a call with all the questions you have, because we know it will be coming. The problem we have is that almost every one of our clients asks at least a few of the exact same questions, so we have created an FAQ to list all our most commonly answered questions, so we hope then some of our customers can easily discover the answers without taking the time to write it all out in an email to us or calling us. commonly asked questions page
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Public health officials have downgraded the public health advisory at East Park, which, for the past five years, has restricted access to the park's beach area.
The original health advisory was issued in 2004 by the Health Department of Northwest Michigan as a way to protect beach goers from burns caused by high pH levels near shore waters that were found to have been contaminated by leachate from cement kiln dust.
After a recent comprehensive analysis and review of water samples collected at East Park, the health department is now authorizing the removal of existing fencing and signage around the once-prohibited area, just in time for the park's reopening Saturday, June 20.
"We're pleased the water quality has improved enough to allow us to downgrade the existing public health advisory," said Scott Kendzierski, director of environmental health for the Health Department of Northwest Michigan. "After many improvements to the leachate collection system at the shore, surface water testing has shown no water-quality exceedances in pH for over a year."


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The musings of a feminist humanitarian worker cruising around the world
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Something in Iraq works at least
Today, I walked down 18th street through the icy remnants of last nights ice storm. Although almost every business had not yet gotten around to shoveling their sidewalks at 9am, the Iraqi embassy on 18th and P Street was busy! Not only were their maintenance crew out there shoveling away, so were several men in ties. So - shut up, Republican naysayers that say the Iraqis can't do anything without the US help! Today, they were actually doing better than most US organizations.
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MADISON – Wisconsin Medical Society members elected Richard A. Dart, MD, of Marshfield president-elect during the Society's Annual Meeting at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center on April 13-14. A nephrologist at Marshfield Clinic from 1973 to 2007, Dr. Dart has served as a member of the Society's Board of Directors and in several other leadership roles during his 40-year tenure with the Society.
Doctor Dart is a member of the American College of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians, American Society of Nephrology, American Society of Hypertension and American Heart Association's Council for High Blood Pressure Research. Since his retirement in 2007, he has been an Emeritus Research Clinician with the Center for Human Genetics of the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation.
A graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Dr. Dart trained in both internal medicine and the subspecialty of hypertension and nephrology at the Cleveland Clinic. He is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health's Marshfield Campus and serves as an attending physician at the St. Vincent Free Clinic in Marshfield. In addition, he has served as a site principal investigator for numerous clinical trials and has been an author, co-author or contributing author on 70 publications and abstracts.
In 2014, Dr. Dart will succeed Timothy McAvoy, MD, who was sworn in as the Society's 162nd president on April 13. Until then, he will serve on the Board of Directors and the Board's Executive Committee. The Society's Board of Directors includes physicians from across Wisconsin as well as a student representative from each of the two medical schools in the state.
With more than 12,000 members dedicated to the best interests of their patients, the Wisconsin Medical Society is the largest association of medical doctors in the state and a trusted source for health policy leadership since 1841.


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Today is my birthday! I am 60 years of age and I feel great. I have just finished my 3 mile daily walk and I am cleaning up for a special night out with my wife. My how the world is changing. Believe me when I say it is great to be alive and healthy! Things didn't go exactly according to plan for the United States in a 1-0 loss to Germany, on today, but they did enough to finish second in Group G and they still have chance to step into history as the team that inspired our youth to play a new game! Can you imagine a world where young men like Lebron James and Kobe Bryant instead of opting for a life playing basketball and football start playing soccer? I can!
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"On the spectrum of creative work, the difference between the mediocre and the good is vast. Mediocrity is, however, still on the spectrum; you can move from mediocre to good in increments. The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something. Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing."- Austin Kleon


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Homemade apricot jam
So, yesterday I was making some apricot jam. I like it better when it is homemade because then I have the insight about the ingredients, and, although not all ingredients are healthy - preserver, for example - you know that you didn't put much of it. Apricot jam is a part of winter foods that are kept in storage, and so is sauerkraut, pickles, tomato juice etc. Most households in my country are into, should we call it, "simple living", and part of simple living is making winter storages of food. It is economic, since it is a lot cheaper, it is healthier since it is what we call "organic" (100 % natural) food, and useful because if you have your own garden and a lot of fruits and vegetables there it is better to store them for winter then to throw them away. And the best thing about that all is the process of making those foods - you can learn a lot through it and enjoy as well!
So now we will talk about the process of making of apricot jam. My grandfather has a few trees of apricot in his yard and that's where I got the main stuff from. Otherwise, I don't know if apricot is expensive on the market, so it may not pay off if you buy them to make jam - but you can still enjoy in making it, and spent money will be less worth than your experience.
1. First you shake apricots from the tree. Those who fall are overly ripe and that's good. The rest, which are "just right", you will have to pick with your hands.
I had 20 kilos of fresh fruit, which makes about 10-15 liters of jam, but it all depends.
2. Now I'll explain the process. When apricots are in the bucket, you wash them throughly a few (2-3) times. Then you core them, remove the stones and simultaneously clean from disfigurement and such things. Put all cleaned apricots in a big can, and stones and other stuff in the other.
3. When you have cleaned them all, you grind them with a meat grinding machine - but grinding is not absolutely necessary - you can just squash them with your hands. Then put sugar there. On each kilo of apricots goes 200-300 gr of sugar. But that also depends - if apricots are naturally sweeter then you will need less sugar, or if you want jam to be a little bit more sour then you will also put less sugar. Now you put one little bag of food preserver on each 5 kg of material. Preservers are not so healthy, but they help the food last longer. You stir all that up.
4. Now we are coming to the cooking process. It will take a lot of time, so your time supplies should be high. I used a cooking pot (should be clean) and a burner that uses natural gas, but even a stove and and a suitable big metal dish would do. Temperature should be high. You put the material in a pot and cook for 2-3 hours, stir every 10 min, and later you stir more often. When the material in the pot becomes dense you should turn off the heat, but your jam wouldn't mind even if you cook it for more then 3 hours. So you turn off the heat and now you will be filling the jars.
5. Glass jars should be clean, washed, and the most important - they must be dry! They must be dry so they won't break due to the temperature of the jam. Now take a piece of cloth and hold the jar with it - to protect your hands from high temperature. And then you fill jars, one by one, with jam, using a big spoon or something similar. It doesn't matter of some jam falls near jar, on the outer walls of the jar on on piece of cloth in your hands - that is normal. Fill jars almost to the top, give them some time (10 minutes) to cool down a bit and then you can clean the outer walls, wait them to cool completely and the put a cover or cellophane foil with a rubber on them and that's it. They can now be stored, and eaten whenever you want - if you did put the food preserver, they can last more then a year in the store-room. Nice jammin'!
Tip: In step 4. you might speed up the process if you have another heater near the main one. You can put a pan on that other heater, take out little quantities from the pot and cook them shortly in that pan and put them in a third dish. Then it will take less time for the main pot to cook the main quantity. But I advise you to be patient.
Tip: In step 5. jam can be even better if after filling the jars (and roughly cleaning them form the outside), you put them in the oven that is set to 100 degrees for one hour. Then an oven could be turned off and you can leave the jars there to cool down. After that, wipe them, put covers or cellophane, store them and it is done.
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Epic #TBT alert. Ariana Grande and Miley Cyrus teamed up to cover Crowded House's 1986 song, "Don't Dream It's Over" as part or Cyrus's Happy Hippie Foundation backyard sessions and best of all, the whole magical moment was captured on video.
Cyrus launched her Happy Hippie Foundationin February as a way to give homeless youth in America a voice. Melanie Safka and Against Me's Joan Jett and Laura Jane Grace have also sung covers with Cyrus as part of her backyard sessions and now Grande is the latest celeb to stop by. The two pop-stars kept is casual, singing in their onsies and slippers. Watch the full video below:


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OMB reserves decision on CHD transformers
At the end of a one-day continuation of the Ontario Municipal Board hearing into the transformers for the Melancthon II wind project, hearing officer Norman Jackson ruled that the hearing had ended but he would not deliver his decision and order for several weeks.
The decision and final order turn on approval of a second transformer at the substation near the 10th Line and 15 Sideroad in Amaranth.
There is no longer any dispute over Amaranth's 22 turbines or pre-servicing, although individual site-specific site-plan approvals will be needed.
The decision might not be an easy one for Mr. Jackson to reach.
Simply stated, the existing transformer is in compliance with the Ministry of Environment (MOE) guidelines on noise but Paul Thompson, a nearby neighbour, along with Ted and Cheryl Whitworth, say there's a constant humming.
Canadian Hydro Developers Inc. (CHD), nonetheless, is replacing the present transformer with a quieter model and twinning it with a second one that's required for the total capacity (about 200 megawatts) of the Melancthon I and Melancthon II wind farms, and erecting more sound barriers as well as looking for the source of "reflective" noise.
The present transformer has a guaranteed maximum noise level within the substation enclosure of 83 decibels.
The two new transformers would have a guaranteed maximum noise level of the same 83 decibels, but two acoustical experts testified that the test noise level would be 71 decibels.
However, Mr. Thompson says he is not satisfied with the tests, as they weren't conducted under field conditions, and neither the experts nor CHD would guarantee a reduction to the 71 decibels.
Perhaps complicating the issue, Mr. Thompson has launched a $1.25-million lawsuit against CHD and the owner of the substation site.
As well, CHD has time constraints for completion of construction of Amaranth's 22 turbines and power lines, along with other requirements, failing which its agreements with the township would expire.
Mr. Jackson's decision and order are expected before the end of the month.
By Wes Keller
Freelance Reporter
6 March 2008
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Gardening can often result in a headache - a lot of men and women are unsure of in which to commence or what to do following. Below we give you some cool suggestions to get creative in your garden once again. With any luck , gardening shouldn't seem to be as hard.
Deciding on a tree. When buying a container-grown tree, get rid of it from the pot and take a look at the roots. Never get a tree that is pot-bound with a mass of congested roots, or 1 that has roots expanding out of the holes in the base of the pot. Make sure that the container has been thoroughly watered, and check for any yellowing leaves or useless branches.
Picking bulbs. Most bulbs are sold throughout their dormant time period. Acquire them as early as possible prior to they start to make roots. Most spring flowering bulbs will begin to develop roots by early fall, and by planting them early, you will make certain that they have time to build on their own. Bulbs will deteriorate if kept out of the ground way too long. Don't purchase any bulb that is delicate or mushy, or appears to be diseased.
Know what grows in your region. When you see the broad assortment of seed packets supplied on-line, it is simple to get sucked into the notion of expanding everything and everything! In truth, although, only some of them may prosper in your regional setting. Examine up on your location and what crops can survive.
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By Dana Dratch• Bankrate.com
When you're house-hunting it's important to be able to identify the things that increase the value of a home and those that actually detract. The seller and his agent, after all, will try to convince you that rail line that runs through the backyard is good because it provides extra green space. Here are 10 features that can add value to your home, and another 10 that could reduce the sales price:
1. An updated kitchen. "Kitchens are critical," says Robert Irwin, author of "Home Buyer's Checklist." "Today, people like a big kitchen with a lot of workspace."
They look for solid surface counters and high-quality flooring, such as wood, laminate, tile or stone. And they want newer appliances in working order.
Even if it's not huge, it should have "countertops that are serviceable that aren't going to have to be replaced soon and cabinetry in good condition," says Alan Hummel, past president of the Appraisal Institute. "It has to be well-appointed and large enough to fit your needs."
And it doesn't hurt if it opens onto another room. "A lot of families are looking for that openness," says Hummel.
It helps to have a window over the sink, says Don Strong, a remodeler with Brothers Strong Inc., a Houston remodeling firm.
Be wary if renovations are out of character with the community, such as granite countertops in a subdivision where plastic laminate is the norm.
"Will you sell faster? Yes," says Hummel, CEO of Iowa Residential Appraisal Co., in Des Moines. "Will it sell for more? Not if the appointments you've done are significantly higher quality that the rest of the neighborhood."
2. Modern bathrooms. Buyers are looking for "master baths that give a little room to roam," says Hummel.
A big asset: spa or whirlpool tubs. "I'm always entertained by the people who have them in the master bath and don't use them," says Ron Phipps, principal broker with Phipps Realty & Relocation Services in Warwick, R.I. "But it's a big feature."
Some other features buyers are seeking: separate showers with steam and/or multiple jets, double sink, separate room for the toilet.
And make sure the plumbing and hot water heater can handle the job. The pipes have to be large enough to carry an adequate volume of water and the hot water heater has to be big enough to accommodate it. "You need a bare minimum of a 75-gallon hot water heater, and most of my customers have 100 to 150," says Chicago-based home inspector Kurt Mitenbuler.
"You don't want to see that false economy of a $30,000 bathroom but nobody spent a few thousand dollars to upgrade the pipes," he says.
3. A well-appointed master suite. "People are really excited about master suites," says Hummel. The wish list: a luxurious bathroom, lounging areas and walk-in closets.
4. Natural materials. "People like natural materials," says Phipps. "Ceramic tile, hardwood floors, granite. We've gone back to a real appreciation for historically true materials. And simulated works as well. The look is very popular."
In floor coverings — especially bathrooms or kitchens — look for ceramic tile or wood rather than linoleum, which can tear, says Strong.
In the rest of the house, wood or laminate products are a plus over wall-to-wall, says Gary Eldred, author of "The 106 Common Mistakes Homebuyers Make (and How to Avoid Them)".
But if you have carpet, it should be a good product and well maintained so that "a person doesn't have to walk in and think, 'I'm going to have to spend five grand right off the bat," says Strong.
5. Curb appeal. "A good first appearance on a home can add as much as 5 percent to 10 percent to the value of the home," says John Aust, president of the National Association of Real Estate Appraisers. "Homes in a neighborhood tend to vary about 10 percent from house to house, assuming all other things are the same."
6. A light, airy spacious feel."People buy space and light," says Myra Zollinger, owner/broker with Coldwell Banker Realty Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. "I have yet to have anybody walk into a really dark house and say, 'I love this.'"
Richard "Dick" Gaylord, member of the executive committee for the National Association of Realtors, agrees. "That's a very big feature," he says. "I haven't sold many homes that aren't bright and airy."
7. Good windows. "People are looking at exposures and windows," says Phipps. "It's been a cold winter for most of the country and energy efficiency is very important."
Insulated windows are always a plus, says Strong. "Typically, they pay for themselves in five years," he says. The cost: for an average 2,600-square-foot home, estimate about $10,000 for new windows, he says.
Well-placed skylights are also a good touch to add value, says Phipps.
8. Landscaping. Mature trees "are worth $1,000," says Strong.
And having outdoor spaces with touches such as pergolas and Victorian garden swings "can be very helpful," says Phipps.
Appraiser John Bredemeyer remembers one $250,000 home in Omaha that had no landscaping at all. "It was stark," says Bredemeyer, national chair of government relations for the Appraisal Institute, a professional group for real estate appraisers. "It just stood out as unappealing."
Conversely, you don't have to spend a fortune on plants, either. Just keep it "typical with the neighborhood," he says.
9. Lots of storage. Nothing beats an oversized garage, some attic space and plenty of closets. "If you have a two-car garage, do you have extra space for those things we all have — bicycles, lawn mower, snow blower?" says Hummel. "Space is important."
A nice plus in the master suite? "His and hers walk-in closets," says Irwin.
10. Basement. "If it's dry, it's a plus," says Kenneth Austin, co-author of "The Home Buyer's Inspection Guide." "But it's a negative if it has water problems."
A finished basement adds even more value. "Ten years ago, nobody cared," says Mittenbuler. "Now everybody wants them."
On the flip side, here are 10 things that could harm your home's value:
1. A pool. Forget what you might have heard. An in-ground pool in most parts of the country doesn't automatically raise the value of your home. "I would stay away from pools if you can at all avoid it," says Irwin.
Having a swimming pool will automatically limit your market when it comes time to sell, he says. "It's constant upkeep, they get cracks, the equipment goes down and it's expensive to replace, and the liability is high."
Others consider it a mixed blessing. "For the people who want the pool, they're willing to pay for it," says Austin. "But there are an awful lot of people who don't want a pool."
Consider your home value and location. In a million-dollar house, not having a pool is a detraction, says Irwin. "But they won't give you much more" if you do have one.
2. No garage or small garage. Unless you're living in a condo, retirement community or historical or in-town neighborhood, most buyers will look for at least a two-car garage. "If you don't have a garage, it's a real negative," says Austin. "If you have a one-car garage, that's a problem, too."
3. Garbled floor plan. Small rooms and bathrooms, an inconvenient floor plan or a layout that requires you to access bedrooms or bathrooms through other rooms will detract value from your home.
4. Outmoded appliances or systems. Who wants an electrical system or plumbing system incapable of handling modern conveniences? Would you buy a home if the appliances were worn or broken?
Phipps remembers walking into one house with clients who casually opened the oven door — and it fell off.
5. Stale or overly personal decor. Sure, red is the hot wall color right now, "but for how long?" says Hummel.
"We've gone into houses where they've had purple walls or electric green," says Austin. "It's a turn-off to many people."
6. A bad roof. Roofs are expensive to replace and a good roof is considered standard equipment in a house. If your roof has problems, expect to take a hit in the price.
7. Bad location. Phipps remembers one neighborhood with a significant difference in value between the even- and odd-numbered houses. The reason? The odd numbered ones backed on an interstate highway, as well as some ugly utility lines.
As a result, "the even-numbered houses were worth about 10 percent more than the odd-numbered homes," he says.
8. Poor maintenance. "If you've got an old roof and outdated paint, I don't care if you've updated the kitchen, you won't even get the buyer out of the car," says Bredemeyer.
"If you know you've got to have something fixed, fix it," says Zollinger. Otherwise, people "will subtract the cost or not make an offer on the house. And if people think the house hasn't been taken care of, they will wonder what else they're not seeing."
9. Environmental hazards. Besides being a danger to human health, lead, mold or asbestos can kill home value.
10. A laundry list of needed improvements. "It detracts if you have to do work," says Gaylord. "A house that you can move in today — and it's livable — is fine."
But a list of must-dos just to conduct everyday life will scare off a lot of potential home buyers. "Especially with first-time buyers," he says. "Most of them are [already] scraping just to get in."


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15th Annual Tolkien at UVM ConferenceApril 7th 2018Theme: LANGUAGES AND ETYMOLOGIESKeynote speaker: Andrew Higgins (Ph.D., Cardiff Metropolitan University) Co-editor of A Secret Vice Committee is accepting papers on the theme and all other subjects. Please submit abstracts or finished essays by the January 31st deadline to email@example.com fee is $25; for info contact Chris Vaccaro.Go to our website Tolkienvt.org for more details over the winter.Please share!!


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These nodes are based on a fork of the google-home-notifier-library: google-home-notifier Fork
What it does:
Send any string up to 200 Characters (API limitation) to your Google Home (or Chromecast) and it will happily respond. Great for telling us about finished Home Automation tasks.
How it works:
Hook up an Inject-Node to the Input channel and send a simple text phrase. This node will send the text to the google translation API which returns an MP3 file which then gets casted to your chosen Google device.
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Install node-red.
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One of Labor's so-called faceless men who help bring down Kevin Rudd in 2010 has been elevated to the opposition frontbench.
Don Farrell, who returned to the Senate at the July election, was named deputy leader of the opposition in the upper house by Labor leader Bill Shorten on Tuesday.
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Category: Zero Hours
Calling all Casualised! UCU Annual Meeting for Staff on Casualised Contracts Friday 13 February 2015
UCU's Annual Meeting for members on casualised contracts – Friday 13 February, UCU HQ Carlow Street, London
UCU is stepping up its campaign against the scandalous casualisation in our sector, seeking to recruit and organise more casualised staff and looking to involve more casualised members in the democratic life of our union.
Our Annual Meeting is a vital part of that democracy. The Annual Meeting:
• Elects the anti-casualisation committee, which advises the NEC;
• Sends motions to the committee to inform its work for the year,
• Features discussion and workshops to help members build the fight against casualisation in their own branches.
What's happening at this year's annual meeting?
This year's annual meeting will feature speakers on the fight against zero hours contracts and on women and casualisation.
There will also be workshops on legal challenges to casualisation, on researching and communicating the effects of casualisation and on building effective local campaigns on casualisation.
It will be a great opportunity to contribute to the democratic life of the union and to help build the union's campaign against casualisation.
Interested? Make sure your branch is represented at the Annual Meeting:
Each branch/local association is entitled to send two voting representative to the annual meeting. If you wish to attend, please contact your branch now.
Each branch delegate must have been been approved either by a quorate branch meeting, quorate branch committee meeting or by a properly constituted meeting of members on casualised contracts.
The deadline for registration is Friday 30 January 2015. If you would like to register please get in touch with your branch/LA committee asap! The registration form must be completed by Branch Secretaries / LA Presidents or other officers of the Branch/LA on behalf of members wishing to attend the conference.
For full details of how to register, click here
Email email@example.com for more information.
Travel costs are reimbursed as per UCU guidelines, and if you're coming a long way you may be able to request overnight accommodation. If you think you might struggle to cover the cost of travel upfront, contact firstname.lastname@example.com to discuss options.
Sheffield Hallam casualised lecturers call for full-time contracts
27 November 2014
(Originally posted by UCU at http://www.ucu.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=7300&from=7266)
Lecturers at Sheffield Hallam University who are on casualised contracts want proper full-time contracts, according to a survey of staff released today. Four-fifths (80%) of respondents teach students at the university while the other 20% are involved in either research or teach and do research.
The poll, conducted by the local branch of UCU shows how staff on casualised contracts, such as part-time or the controversial zero-hours contracts, do not enjoy the flexibility they purport to provide and want proper working conditions.
Nine out of 10 people questioned (88%) said they would prefer a permanent contract with guaranteed hours of work. The report is a follow up to research carried out by UCU in 2013 that found that only 10 UK universities employed more academic staff on zero-hours contracts than Sheffield Hallam.
As well as concerns about the nature of the contracts themselves, other issues raised by staff included:
- not being paid for preparation, marking and administrative work
- lack of inclusion and participation in day-to-day activities at work
- problems with contracts being issued on time
- negative impact on staff mental health
- lack of clarity and planning regarding recruitment and retention
UCU representative and co-author of the report, Bob Jeffrey said: 'This report makes a mockery of claims that the flexibility provided by things such as zero-hours contracts benefit staff. People want a proper permanent contract because they want to know when they are working and they want to be able to plan their lives, not exist on a month-to-month or even week-to-week basis.
'There a host of other issues that casualised staff face such as not being paid for preparation or marking, failing to be included in the day-to-day life of the university and even problems trying to sort out their contracts. We hope Sheffield Hallam will work with us to improve the lot of the casual staff member. We do not believe it is in students' interests to see lecturers who may not be there the following month.'
A report on hourly paid contracts at Sheffield Hallam University, Nov 2014 (.pdf) [739kb]
Zero Hours Hell and today's Private Members' Bill
This Private Members' Bill gets its second reading in the House of Commons *today* – Friday 21st November (probably about 1pm)… Have you asked your MP to make sure s/he is there yet? There is still time to do it here! You can also join us in putting pressure on MPs by tweeting on #ZeroHoursContracts, copy in @ucuanti_cas and you can also find your MP on Twitter here.
This isn't a "perfect" Bill (it doesn't abolish them or anything) but it would be a significant step if it got through. It is arguably the first serious attempt at a definition of a Zero Hours Contract. Even if it does not get through (sadly I'm guessing it's unlikely but *hope*) calling attention to it helps keep the injustice that comes part and parcel with this exploitative form of employment in public view. It helps underline the point that we think it is unacceptable to continue routinely exploiting workers.
Let's not forget being on a zero hours contract increasingly makes it difficult or impossible to *get* a rental contract, let alone be sure of making the rent each month.
Let's not forget that zero hours contracts quite literally mean you are guaranteed ZERO HOURS of work. Let's not forget that research (and common sense) links the increase in zero hours contracts and the growing problem of under-employment which has been on the rise for at least the past 6 years.
Let's not forget that research also shows that people on zero hours contracts "receive lower gross-weekly pay (an average of £236 per week) than those who are not (an average of £482 per week) and workplaces that utilise zero-hours contracts have a higher proportion of staff on low pay (between the National Minimum Wage (NMW) of £6.19 per hour and £7.50 per hour) than those who do not" [Resolution Foundation, 2013].
Let's not ignore that all zero hours workers necessarily receive rights and treatment many people take for granted at work, like proper holiday and sick pay – I didn't, and these people don't.
Let's not pretend that zero hours workers appear in small numbers when the ONS estimate went from 200, 000 in 2012 to a revision of at least 1.4 million in April of this year which may well still be an underestimate because there is a lot of confusion among workers as to whether they are even on a zero hours contract, whether that's in the public or private sector. UCU research shows that 46% of universities and 60% of colleges use zero hours contracts to deliver teaching – and we know that many institutions are under-reporting. At least 307, 000 care workers in England alone are on zero hours and this has been linked to difficulties in maintaining quality of provision (how can people provide that quality when under pressure and treated unfairly?!). Zero hours in the retail sector is rife; well-known offenders like Sports Direct consign 80% of their workers to them.
Let's not forget that zero hours contracts can significantly disrupt people's lives and even prevent you from claiming benefits you need when your hours fluctuate wildly. Let's also not forget that in May, the minister for employment Esther McVey started talking about JobCentre staff 'mandating' unemployed people to accept zero hours contracts or face benefit sanctions.
Let's not pretend that the idea of "flexibility" so often put about by those who support zero hour contracts tends to favour anyone other than the employer. If you're treated well on a zero hours contract that really is luck and fortune, it is not by contractual design. Many zero hours workers have reported that turning down work (supposed flexibility) can mean you're offered less work in future because you're not being "flexible" (aka flexploited) enough. Let's not forget that zero hours contracts can make it utterly impossible to plan ahead effectively, which impacts on the lives of individuals and the people who love them.
Let's not just shrug our shoulders and pretend it's "just one of those things" that the lives of so many are blighted by this form of casualisation.
Let's fight back.
Please email and tweet your MP if you haven't done so already, and please join the conversation!
Vicky Blake, ACC Chair
Stamp Out Casual Contracts – the Day of Action is taking shape
With less than three weeks to go till UCU's 'Stamp Out Casualisation' day of action, more and more branches are reporting in what they will be doing on the day. Many branches are taking the opportunity to organise and recruit new members on casual contracts, organising 'drop in sessions', surgeries and social meetings as a way of highlighting what UCU can do for them. Here's a brief roundup of just some of the action on the day, so far, together with some suggestions for how you can get involved at the bottom…
Branch events:
The University of Aberdeen branch report that they are holding a drop-in clinic for any member on a fixed term or zero hours contract who has concerns about their contract, followed up with one-to-one casework support if required. The University of Central Lancashire branch report that they are leafleting in the run up to the day to promote an open meeting for hourly-paid staff (members and non-members) followed by a members-only advice session. The University of the West of England branch are organising three similar meetings, one on each campus, with a video link between the three sites where they will be sharing "10 top tips" for those on fixed term and part-time/occasional contracts. The University of Leeds branch are holding a series of meetings for GTAs and staff on Fixed-term Contracts, including a social event, afternoon tea, sharing testimony about life on casual contracts and the launch of a survey. Northumbria University branch are holding two meetings for non-members among the Associate Lecturers, asking them what their issues are and showing how UCU can help and a similar meeting is being organised at Birmingham City University for their Visiting Tutors and postgraduate students. Cambridge University branch are holding a stall at an induction event where they will be focusing on casualised staff.
Lunchtime stalls and meetings are being held at the University of Middlesex, Coleg Menai in Wales, Queen's University Belfast and Oxford Brookes University.
Other branches are using the day of action to directly support their campaigning and negotiating on collective issues for casual staff. Sheffield Hallam University branch are launching a report based on their survey of staff on zero hours contracts as part of their campaign to persuade the university to abandon this form of contract. The branches at Liverpool University and Liverpool John Moores are holding a joint mass meeting as part of their ongoing campaign to win agreements against zero hours contracts. London Metropolitan University branch are holding a social event to which hourly paid non-members will be invited to highlight the branch's campaign against zero hours contracts, while Goldsmiths branch will be holding a meeting to promote their success in winning a progressive agreement on hourly paid staff and Graduate Teaching Tutors.
UPDATE: 24 October:
We're getting more reports in of branches organising events for the day of action, including some really imaginative initiatives:
Falmouth University branch are organising a free lunch for all hourly paid members in the main canteen on campus, supported by the local student union, and leafleting all staff with management responsibility with UCU guidance on supporting hourly-paid staff.
Bradford College UCU are using the UCU template to survey hourly paid staff, requesting data on numbers of hourly paid staff, writing to their local MP and recording a series of podcasts – talking about hourly paid work.
Oxford University UCU are leafleting their science area, where there are high concentrations of members on casualised contracts.
Stockport College UCU are organising a lunchtime meeting including a surgery for hourly paid staff.
Sunderland University UCU are planning an open meeting on – including non-members – on hourly or fixed term contracts as well as printing UCU anti-casualisation posters to display in all main buildings.
Blackpool and the Fylde College UCU are requesting a list of all casual staff from their employer and posting UCU leaflets to them, as well as having a stall at one of the sites for casually employed staff. They're also challenging their employer to remove exclusivity clause from the zero hours contracts.
Keep the reports coming in as it's shaping up to be a big day!
How you can support the day of action as an individual member:
If you don't know what your branch is organising them, contact them to find out. If your branch is organising something and it hasn't been reported in yet, let us know by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
The day of action isn't just going to be organised at branch level. Nationally, the union will be doing its best to give the action as much profile as possible on the web and in social media, so watch your twitter feed in particular.
In addition to branches organising and campaigning, nationally, the union is using the day of action as an opportunity to put more pressure on the political parties to deal properly with the scandal of zero hours contracts.
We'll be organising a mass letter-writing exercise targeted at MPs on the issue of eradicating zero hours contracts and the exploitation of hourly paid staff, so watch your email inbox for more details very soon.
And finally, if you want to help us boost our social media impact on the day, download our ever-popular poster "I support SECURE employment for ALL staff" and take a photo of yourself holding it and post it on twitter or email it to us at firstname.lastname@example.com so that we can tweet it on the day.
Watch this space for more and check the Stamp Out Casual Contracts web page.
UCU: Fighting for the casualised in Adult Education
If casualisation is endemic in post-secondary education, it's fairly rampant in Adult and Community Learning. In some urban areas, like the West Midlands, UCU has agreements that govern the use of casual contracts, ruling out zero hours contracts entirely, for example and ensuring that staff are employed on fractional or limited variable hours contracts. In many rural areas in the South however, highly exploitative zero hours contracts are rife. Targeting employers who maintain large numbers of their teaching staff on zero hours contracts is a priority for UCU and the union is looking at Adult Education services as well as colleges and universities.
On a related issue, the importance of collective union strength was demonstrated again recently as UCU scored a win for casual staff employed by an Adult and Community Learning Centre in North Lincolnshire and successfully fought off attempts to make detrimental changes to the way tutors were paid. Part-time variable hours tutors at the service are given a core hours contract for the year and until recently, were also paid extra in their monthly salary on an overtime basis for any extra hours they perform during the pay period, over and above the scheduled core hours.
Recently, the employer announced that the system for overtime payments was to be stopped and in the future no overtime payments would be made until the Tutor had achieved their annual contracted hours. That meant that tutors could be doing regular overtime and incurring work related travel and child care costs for example, while not being paid for this work for many months, once the annual core contractual hours had been fulfilled. For tutors who are often low paid and relied on regular overtime payments this could have a big impact on their income and standard of living.
Fortunately, the UCU branch had some new reps, one of whom was a part-time variable hours tutor and who took this up as a collective issue with the services's management. The result was that management agreed to revert to the previous system of making regular payments in the same month as the work was performed. Collective strength expressed in collective bargaining and campaigning, made the difference for these precarious and low paid workers.
Quality against casualisation – two case studies from further education in the South-West
UCU has been saying for years that casualised contracts affect the quality of education. We've argued that employers with highly casualised workforces often struggle to ensure that there are guaranteed staff for who areas of provision and that employers struggle to recruit and retain staff, leading to high turnover and neglect of professional development.
For students and learners, this means their lessons may not have enough staff, they may not know from term to term who is teaching them, and that it is impossible to build up proper educational relationships with a fast-changing workforce. For staff on casual contracts, it means the endless anxiety of worrying whether you'll be employed again and the frustration of working for an employer who shows no commitment to you but expects you to deliver 'excellence' day in day out. That's why UCU argues constantly for transferring casualised staff onto secure contracts. It's in everyone's interests.
Well, it seems that at least some Ofsted inspectors may be starting to agree with us. UCU, like other teaching unions, is highly critical of Ofsted, but it does seem that inspection teams in the South-West may have combined, if unintentionally, with UCU campaigning to persuade two colleges to reduce the casualisation of their workforces. City of Bristol College and Wiltshire College both received critical Ofsted reports over the course of 2013 and 2014 and in both cases, the quality of teaching was under the spotlight.
City of Bristol College is a significant employer of staff on zero hours contracts, while Wiltshire College employed some staff on zero hours contracts and over 30% of its teaching was delivered by agency workers. In the case of Wiltshire College, Ofsted, which shies away from contractual matters, seemed to come close to addressing casualisation directly. In its report from March 2014, Ofsted notes that 'over recent years, the lack of stability in a number of teaching teams due to staff turnover and some inadequate cover arrangements has contributed to students' below average achievement'. Similarly, in its October 2013 report into City of Bristol College, Ofsted noted that there was 'significant variation in the quality of teaching within and between faculties and subject areas', together with insufficient attention to planning to meet the needs of individual learners, while assessment and feedback to students was poor.
Both colleges have put in place plans to overhaul their teaching since and interestingly, both have responded positively to UCU calls to address casualisation. City of Bristol has reached an agreement with UCU to end entirely the use of zero hours contracts and to replace them with fractional established contracts. Wiltshire College has similarly agreed to end its use of agency staff and reduce the number of staff on part-time and variable hours contracts.
What's the 'learning point' here? In one sense, it's simple and obvious. We are right about the connection between casualisation and the threat to quality and other people are only just beginning to cotton on. Professional, committed staff who are put onto casualised contracts are often not given the resources or the time that they need. That's why this is the time for UCU and its branches to turn up the heat on our employers.
Zero Hours Contracts: in the news and in our sights
Zero hours contracts have continued to feature in the news, exposing some tensions within the UK Coalition government. In May, Tory Employment minister Esther McVey outlined plans to enable JobCentre staff to 'mandate' unemployed people to accept zero hours contracts with the sanction of removal of benefits. On the other hand, in June Liberal Democrat Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Vince Cable attempted to deflect some of the public attention on this issue by announcing that the government would legislate to make exclusivity clauses unenforceable as part of the Small Business Enterprise and Employment Bill.
As the authors of a new Institute of Employment Rights pamphlet have pointed out the proposed legislation will have almost no impact, partly because exclusivity clauses are probably already unenforceable and partly because this misses the essential feature – and unfairness – of the zero hours contract: the fact that the employer is under no obligation to provide work.
The ongoing political furore over the use of Zero Hours Contracts is an opportunity for unions to press for a proper solution by building political support for legislation that provides a right to continuity of employment. However, we also have a duty to work now to use our collective bargaining strength to win tangible improvements for staff on these contracts. That's why UCU is working to target major employers using zero hours contracts, making use of their high profile and controversial status.
The advantage of this kind of targeted approach is very visible in the case of the campaign at Gower Collegein Wales. UCU's FOI revealed that Gower College was the biggest user of zero hours contracts in the Welsh Further Education sector, employing almost 80 staff on such contracts. The UCU Wales regional office and branch agreed to target this employer for a sustained campaign against casualization, beginning by proposing a protocol for fractionalising staff on zero hours contracts.
The college, in common with many FE colleges, pleaded funding constraints and an early agreement seemed unlikely, so the branch and region moved into organising and campaigning mode. Part-time teachers formed a focus-group and from this a part-timers rep came forward for the branch. The college seems to have smelled trouble as it offered some members of the group fractional contracts, but no agreement. UCU continued to press for a comprehensive agreement and began to target Welsh politicians, making good use of the high profile issue, raising it in political circles and maximising bad publicity for the college. A high-profile lobby of the Welsh assembly followed, including part-time staff and the UCU Wales regional official, after which several politicians wrote to the college asking them to explain why they used zero hours contracts and employed so many staff as hourly paid.
In September last year, under growing pressure, the college agreed to set up a working party to look at an agreement. In May 2014, following hard negotiations, an agreement was finally signed. Under the terms of the new protocol for using hourly paid contracts, the college recognises the need to 'ensure that all staff feel secure and are appropriately supported throughout their employment' and are 'committed to appointing staff on contracts of employment that are 'fair and equitable', within funding constraints. Concretely, the college have agreed that those staff with four years' service at above 418 annual teaching hours (including remission) can apply for conversion to a fractional post. The college has maintained that conversion should be subject to any 'legitimate factors' that might place provision at risk, but has also agreed to review the policy with a commitment to looking at reducing the threshold of eligibility where possible.
UCU Wales are not sanguine about this deal. It's not ideal, but it's a major improvement, a big step forward and a launch pad for further campaigning and bargaining. And it was achieved for vulnerable precarious staff by combining organising, campaigning and negotiation while maximising the opportunity provided by the current political context.
"There is no job security, and you are unable to plan ahead"
The problems of being on a zero-hour contract are manifold. There is no job security from year to year and you are unable to plan ahead because you never know how much you will be earning in the future.
In my own case, I find it difficult to arrange childcare because of the variability of the hours on offer. Moreover, I have been expected to go to meetings that I am only partially paid for or sometimes I get nothing at all. I attended a meeting recently and my manager was most disapproving because I walked out at the time I had been paid up to.
I work in FE and you are only paid for contact time with the students so all preparation has to be done in your own time. No holidays are paid for so you have some months when you get no wage at all. If the departmental budget is all spent before the end of the academic year then you are told that you have to finish working early; even if a later ending date was agreed in the previous September.
The consequence of this treatment is that you feel under-valued as an employee. Full-time staff do exactly the same job but they are paid for doing preparation and for their holidays.
Zero-hour workers are exploited and vulnerable because no one dares to say too much to management for fear of not getting any hours. Also, the staff who ingratiate themselves with the management are often seen to get the pick of the part-time hours.
The fact is a zero-hour contract is not there to provide an employee with flexibility but to provide an employer with a cheap labour force!
Manchester UCU – Bargaining and campaigning for casualised staff over the long term
Manchester University is one of the biggest research intensive universities in the UK, employing more than 1,700 research staff. With such a large body of researchers, the use of casualised fixed-term contracts has long been a big issue at the university, which is one reason why the local UCU branch has made it a long-term strategic objective to win greater security and continuity of employment and fairer treatment for these staff. What's notable and interesting about Manchester UCU's approach is how long they have persevered, combined organising, campaigning and long-term negotiations to win comprehensive local agreements that cover their casualised staff. As we'll see, problems remain, which make it necessary to organise, campaign and negotiate constantly to police how these agreements are implemented. But the lessons are there, nonetheless.
Greater security for fixed-term staff
When the fixed-term regulations came into force in 2006, like lots of other branches, Manchester's used it as an opportunity to press their HR department to transfer large numbers of fixed-term staff. As it became apparent that this wasn't happening, they sought to press management for a local policy and started to campaign and organise among fixed-term staff to create pressure from below. Under joint union pressure, a university working group was convened in 2006 and by May 2007 it was discussing an initial draft policy.
It wasn't till December 2010 that the branch was finally able to win agreement on a progressive policy covering fixed-term contract staff. This included the crucial policy commitment to 'seek to employ people on permanent contracts where possible'. The agreement also included a tight and narrow definition of the circumstances under which it was appropriate to use a fixed-term contract.
Perhaps most importantly, the university made a commitment to end the use of 'hybrid' open-ended contracts with a stipulated end date. Instead, Manchester agreed to recognise only two kinds of contract: fixed-term and permanent. This meant that research staff whose employment depended on external funding won important new protections. They were contractually no different from other permanent employees and won equal rights to other permanent staff when the term to their funding placed them at risk of redundancy, including being properly consulted with a view to avoiding redundancy, being placed on the redeployment register and getting redundancy pay. In addition, individuals made redundant via this route would continue to be paid employees, on the redeployment register for three months after their funding ceased. Finally, the termination of fixed-term contracts, the threat of redundancy among externally funded research staff and the general policing of the policy were to be monitored by a fixed-term contracts committee. The agreement would, the university said, give the 'opportunity to enhance the quality of employment', while 'working toward a balance between flexibility and efficient and fair working practices'.
The branch continue to use the new machinery established under the agreement to ensure that the policy is implemented properly, which needs constant vigilance. There continue to be plenty of examples where the policy is not followed, so it needs constant monitoring through the bargaining machinery established through the agreement. But the agreement is a major improvement for research staff at Manchester and the branch continue to organise around it to ensure that researchers know their rights and they included it in their recent recruitment work.
More rights for Graduate Teaching Assistants and no Zero-Hours contracts
In 2010, as the research contracts policy was being signed off, the branch also began to organise and campaign around the need for a similar policy to cover its Graduate Teaching Assistant population, mainly, but not solely comprised of PhD students. Meetings of GTAs were organised to find out the extent of the problems and build support for an agreement during June and November 2010.
In April 2011, the university agreed to set up a teaching assistant review group and the branch sought to ensure that GTAs were able to feed into these group meetings. Consultation meetings on early draft policies were organised with GTAs and other hourly paid staff. Then, late in 2012, the branch signed off a final GTA agreement.
Under the final policy, the university agreed to ensure that GTAs all received one of a family of formalised job descriptions referenced against the nationally agreed academic role profiles and all received a formal contract of employment. Under the agreement, all GTAs were assimilated to the National Pay spine and those who had worked up four years service had incremental progression.
A key win under the policy was the general policy commitment to ensure that teaching assistants 'should not be treated as casual'. This commitment is delivered on via a range for mechanisms including the transfer of staff after four years of fixed-term contracts and can include the use of pro-rata contracts.
Another critical achievement was the commitment to eradicate zero hours contracts. Zero hours contracts had been widely used in some faculties but the branch scored a major success in winning management to the idea that there was benefit in moving all these staff on a'defined hours' contract with a few retained on 'minimal hours contract' to allow for specific flexibilities. The branch were able to convince management that such defined hours contracts 'would give greater stability and reliability in the use of teaching assistants.'
Again, of course, there remain problems with implementing the agreement, yet despite this its mere existence gives local reps the opportunity to hold management to account.
What's most impressive about Manchester UCU's achievement is the fact that as far back as 2004, the branch identified casualised staff as a strategic priority. Having done so, they made a long-term commitment to the issue and to combining campaigning, organising and collective bargaining over the long-haul. It's not perfect and like any policy, it needs to be constantly policed which requires the branch to keep organising and talking to management. But there's no doubt that these agreements have paid off in the form of real improvements for many vulnerable staff.
Message of Solidarity from IFUT #AntiCas14
Our sister union in Ireland has sent the following solidarity message for today's Anti-Casualisation Day of Action:
"On behalf of the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) I have great pleasure in sending greetings of solidarity and support to your Anti-Casualisation Day of Action.
Insecurity of employment in any sector of society is a cruel imposition on vulnerable people in the interests of profit and unfair levels of control. However, in the area of higher education, casualisation is a lethal weapon used to undermine the principle and practice of academic freedom. We in IFUT see the campaign against growing casualisation not only as a battle on behalf of our own members directly affected but as part of a wider, more fundamental struggle to maintain not just decent standards of work but also to preserve such socially essential rights as academic freedom and the free pursuit of knowledge.
We are proud to be in the same frontline as you today."
Mike Jennings
General Secretary
Irish Federation of University Teachers
http://www.ifut.ie @Ifut


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