Used to develop data analytical methods, which are resistant to outlying observations in the data, while capable of detecting outliers, robust statistics is extremely useful for solving an array of common problems, such as estimating location, scale, and regression parameters. Written by an internationally recognized expert in the field of robust statistics, this book addresses a range of well-established techniques while exploring, in depth, new and exciting methodologies. Local robustness and global robustness are discussed, and problems of non-identifiability and adaptive estimation are considered. Rather than attempt an exhaustive investigation of robustness, the author provides readers with a timely review of many of the most important problems in statistical inference involving robust estimation, along with a brief look at confidence intervals for location. Throughout, the author meticulously links research in maximum likelihood estimation with the more general M-estimation methodology. Specific applications and R and some MATLAB subroutines with accompanying data sets--available both in the text and online--are employed wherever appropriate.
Robustness Theory and Application is an important resource for all statisticians interested in the topic of robust statistics. This book encompasses both past and present research, making it a valuable supplemental text for graduate-level courses in robustness.
Brenton R. Clarke, PhD is an experienced academic in Mathematics and Statistics at Murdoch University, Perth, WA, Australia. A former president of the Western Australian Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia, Dr. Clarke has published numerous journal articles in his areas of research interest, which include linear models, robust statistics, and time series analysis.


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Hey folks. In our last post, we talked about components, state and props. In this one, we will talk about events and forms. These two are vital subjects for any web app, and despite not being really difficult in React, they present certain particularities.
First of all, what are events? Events are used to notify your code that something interesting is happening. This interesting thing can be triggered by the user or by the page itself. For example, a user clicks on a button, or a page finished loading, or the value of a text input changes.
If this bothers you, there are two other ways to make it work, as explained on the same post. I, particularly, prefere arrow functions to handle this type of problem.
Well, after writing the code above, you can click on the button and you will get the browser alert. onClick is the most common event for buttons.
Start typing on the text input and see how the paragraph will change accordingly. Note that in this case, we have to set a initial state with an empty string. If we don't do this, the paragraph will break when trying to render, as the part of the state that we will try to reference will not be defined.
Having learned about events, let's now talk about forms. Forms, as we already talked about, are a huge part of a great number of web apps, and because of that, it's important to understand how they work on React.
For the select element, you create each option inside of the element with its own value, and then you pass the event to the function to be called when the select element value is changed. Go on and test it, selecting your favorite color and clicking on the button to submit the form.
Note that, for the radio buttons, we define if it's checked or not by comparing it's value with the value that is currently in the state.
And with this, we were able to learn how to work with forms in React, and also how to use the most common form elements.
In "real life" examples, the submit of a form would probably make a request to an API with its values, possibly using Axios, fetch or any other way you prefer. But this is a subject for another post.
Cheers and I hope this is helpful.


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Richard Maskin founded Dart in 1981 in a two-car garage in Oak Park, Michigan. In the years since Maskin started his business with a desk and a telephone, Dart has become the proven leader in aftermarket cylinder heads, intake manifolds and engine blocks.
Maskin is well known to drag racing fans as a mechanical mastermind whose engines have won multiple NHRA Pro Stock world championships and dozens of national events. Like many successful entrepreneurs, Maskin turned his passion for drag racing into a thriving enterprise.
The company has expanded its product line to include aluminum and cast-iron engine blocks that are designed to meet the specialized needs of racers and performance enthusiasts. Dart components are developed in-house, manufactured on Dart's own CNC machining centers, and tested on Dart's computer-controlled engine dyno.
Maskin keeps current with the continuous advances in racing technology through Dart's in-house engine program. Dart also supports the sport as an NHRA and IHRA Major Sponsor.
"Our engine program and our daily interaction with leading engine builders and winning racers keeps Dart on the leading edge of technology," Maskin explains. "We apply everything we learn to produce more powerful and more reliable parts for Dart customers."
Dart Machinery's Technology Center in Troy, Mich., houses the company's administrative offices, the R&D headquarters, and inspection, machining and warehouse operations. The immense CNC machining centers that produce Dart heads and blocks from raw castings are located in a separate manufacturing facility in nearby Melvindale.Richard Maskin founded Dart in 1981 in a two-car garage in Oak Park, Michigan. In the years since Maskin started his business with a desk and a telephone, Dart has become the proven leader in aftermarket cylinder heads, intake manifolds and engine blocks.
Dart Machinery's Technology Center in Troy, Mich., houses the company's administrative offices, the R&D headquarters, and inspection, machining and warehouse operations. The immense CNC machining centers that produce Dart heads and blocks from raw castings are located in a separate manufacturing facility in nearby Melvindale.
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HPL's full line of specific engine oils, weights and blends provides the right lubricants tailored for each kind of engine. The shotgun approach of mass produced, consumer grade lubricants can't do that. Whether it's a 0W3 oil for your Pro Stock, a high temp blend for your turbo car or a soot resistant formulation for your diesel, HPL has the right lubricant for whatever moves you.
Every batch of HPL lubricants are tested before, during and after. Raw ingredients are always QC'd before they can become a HPL Lubricant. Careful checks are made throughout the formulation process to be sure standards are met. Then the final products are catalogued, sampled and measured so every product is the same regardless of when it was bottled.
From their humble beginnings in 1971, Hughes Performance has become distinguished as a leader in the industry. They are proud to give you the race products catalog that represents their latest technology. The Hughes Motorsports race team tests all product and assures you of their quality and durability.
Their race team covers everything from super street to super eliminator. The team continually gives them invaluable information for the research and development of new products that are unparalleled by other manufacturers. Product quality, latest innovations, and already tested applications give you the advantage to win more races. Customer service is the cornerstone of this family company. They pride themselves in treating you the way they want to be treated. Everyone in their team organization – from research to shipping – has one goal in mind: Customer Satisfaction. Experience for yourself why so many racers around the world are changing to Hughes Performance race products.From their humble beginnings in 1971, Hughes Performance has become distinguished as a leader in the industry. They are proud to give you the race products catalog that represents their latest technology. The Hughes Motorsports race team tests all product and assures you of their quality and durability.
Their race team covers everything from super street to super eliminator. The team continually gives them invaluable information for the research and development of new products that are unparalleled by other manufacturers. Product quality, latest innovations, and already tested applications give you the advantage to win more races. Customer service is the cornerstone of this family company. They pride themselves in treating you the way they want to be treated. Everyone in their team organization – from research to shipping – has one goal in mind: Customer Satisfaction. Experience for yourself why so many racers around the world are changing to Hughes Performance race products.
Vance & Hines is an American manufacturer of aftermarket motorcycle performance parts with factories in Santa Fe Springs, California and Brownsburg, Indiana. While we are best known for our distinctive exhaust systems for big twin cruisers, you may be surprised to know that we also make a wide range of parts and accessories for nearly every form of vehicle in the powersports world.
The company's founders, Terry Vance and Byron Hines shared a passion for the quarter mile from the early days of motorcycle drag racing. But they also shared a vision of creating a company that would be a pillar of the motorcycle aftermarket, and they used their unrivaled achievements in racing to build a brand that would unmistakably stand for quality and performance.
This same formula drives Vance & Hines today, from our continuing involvement in many disciplines of racing to our commitment to making the kinds of products that get people excited about motorcycling.
From metal forming to smartphone-driven electronics, we believe pushing the envelope for design and technology is the way forward. At the end of the day, our goal is not just to make an American-made product, but to create products that inspire motorcyclists around the world. Vance & Hines is an American manufacturer of aftermarket motorcycle performance parts with factories in Santa Fe Springs, California and Brownsburg, Indiana. While we are best known for our distinctive exhaust systems for big twin cruisers, you may be surprised to know that we also make a wide range of parts and accessories for nearly every form of vehicle in the powersports world.
From metal forming to smartphone-driven electronics, we believe pushing the envelope for design and technology is the way forward. At the end of the day, our goal is not just to make an American-made product, but to create products that inspire motorcyclists around the world.
Brian's Truck Shop began building transmissions in 1990. The engine performance was always there, but the Ford factory transmissions were not. We have spent years learning and developing transmission modifications that meet the needs of an ever-growing performance market.
Transmissions are built to order and customized by horsepower, tire size, and performance goals for your truck.
Brian's Truck Shop transmissions will change the way your truck performs! No more hard starts when towing.Brian's Truck Shop began building transmissions in 1990. The engine performance was always there, but the Ford factory transmissions were not. We have spent years learning and developing transmission modifications that meet the needs of an ever-growing performance market.
Brian's Truck Shop transmissions will change the way your truck performs! No more hard starts when towing.
Our continuous motorsports R&D program is carried out at the highest levels of racing due to our involvement with teams who demand only the very best products available. In back to back dyno testing, our racing oils consistently delivered 2-3 CFM less blow-by and as much as 10 HP gains in maximum effort competition engines.
Reher-Morrison supplies products and services worldwide from their location in Arlington, Texas. Their Research and Development facility is one of the nation's premier high performance machine shops.
In addition to two SuperFlow dynamometers, two SuperFlow flow benches and a Mondello WetFlow flow bench, they utilize three CNC machining centers for paramount precision and repeatability. By using Reher-Morrison's Shop Services you keep your racing program on the cutting-edge.
What they learn every day on the dyno and at the track goes into everything they do. All of their engine building, cylinder head work and machine shop services are done in-house to ensure quality products and maximum performance.
For 40 years, Wegner Motorsports has been providing customers with custom solutions. It all started with building NASCAR engines — and now includes everything from front accessory drive kits to full engine machining to Harley-Davidson exhausts to machined parts. All made in the farmland, and rolling hills of central Wisconsin.
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One of the most recognized names in American motorsports, Sammy Swindell grew up watching his father behind the wheel at many of their local Memphis, Tennessee dirt tracks. In 1971, at the age of fifteen, Sammy took to the dirt at Riverside Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas. In his rookie season, the oldest of two racing Swindell brothers won eleven feature events.
From an engineering standpoint, he's been on the leading edge for years. His driving record speaks for itself. Few people demonstrate excellence at either skill, but Sammy Swindell combines the two like a director. It is a very unique talent!
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Angelle Sampey has won the NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle championship three times (2000-2002). Since her debut in 1996, she has earned an all-time class record 45 top-qualifier awards and 41 event victories, the most wins for any female in both NHRA competition and professional motor sports as a whole.
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From the heart of America Patterson Racing has been supplying world championship engines for over 35 years to racers across the country and around the world. Their engines have powered racers to over 100 NHRA and IHRA National event wins and their ability to constantly develop and provide horsepower has helped a multitude of drivers claim World Championships in numerous racing organizations. Patterson Racing specializes in building customer specific engines, each based on the needs of their highly competitive clientele. With their customers using a variety of small and big block powerplants, they can custom tailor a race engine for your specific needs in a variety of class or category combinations.
Founded in 1987, Precision Turbo and Engine is one of the world's foremost manufacturers of high performance, aftermarket turbochargers. Their manufacturing facility, conveniently located in Northwest Indiana, has been a worldwide supplier of high performance turbochargers that have set the standard for uncompromised quality and unsurpassed performance since the late 1990s. Over the years, they have designed, tested, and manufactured record setting and championship winning turbochargers for all racing organizations, as well as Original Equipment Manufacturers such as General Motors. As they continue to expand their operations and product offerings, you can count on PTE to plan for all your future needs.
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Just a few minutes south of Interstate 10, located on the Pima County Fair Grounds, Tucson Dragway is one of the nation's most active drag racing facilities. Having offered a full and dynamic schedule with nearly 100 events in 2016, Tucson Dragway is excited about continuing its success in 2017 and beyond. Tucson Dragway was proudly offered a diverse line up of drag racing events in 2016 including, an NHRA National Open, The Summit Series Team Races, Import Face-Off, Arizona No Prep Races, Frank Hawlye's Drag Racing School, The Pure Speed Drag Racing Experience, Drag Weekend West, The WFA Nationals, Midnight Drags and Friday Night Drags, and The Tucson Dragway Reunion. Tucson Dragway is excited for its full 2017 schedule including The Original Super Chevy Show, Street Car Takeover, Roadkill Zip-Tie Drags, The Arizona No Prep Racing Series, Summit Series Team Races, Friday Night Drags and Jr. Drag Racing featuring tomorrow's drag racing stars.
Founded in 1936, Badger Midget Auto Racing Association (BMARA) celebrated their 80th anniversary in 2016. BMARA is the oldest sanctioning body in the country. Help us celebrate this race season! THE MIGHTY ROAR OF MIDGET auto racing echoing through Wisconsin has been a tradition since 1934. Operating within the state since 1936, the BMARA and its members, past and present, have played an important role in the development of midget auto racing nationwide.
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Jimmy Creten is one of the top drivers in monster trucks and the 2005 Freestyle World Champion. With extensive knowledge of robotics and a job as an engineer under his belt, Creten creates trucks with massive horsepower to help fuel his burning desire for a racing championship. Alongside his wife, Dawn (driver of Scarlet Bandit), Creten made 2Xtreme Racing a household name in monster trucks.
The reputation for excellence that 2Xtreme Racing has gained in the sport is best evidenced by the team being named Team of the Year in 2006, 2007, and 2008. Creten's team is the only team to have been awarded the prestigious honor for three consecutive years.
Creten started out like many drivers with a modified truck that eventually led him to mud bogging, then on to the monster truck circuit, where he quickly made a name for himself as a top flight racer and technical freestyler, making moves like slap wheelies and combinations look easy. Creten is a staple at the Monster Jam World Finals, and his team has now grown to a multi-truck, year round operation that is one of the largest and most successful on the independent monster truck scene.
In his free time, Creten likes to spend as much time as possible with Dawn and his kids. He also had a commercial pilot's license. Whether it's in an airplane or a monster truck, look out for Jimmy flying overhead at a town near you!
Shane Stewart has amassed more than 100 winged sprint car wins, in both 410 and 360 cubic inch engines, throughout the course of his 20 year racing career. Across the United States, Canada and Australia, Shane has become a threat to win on any given night. Shane was introduced to the world of motorsports at a young age when his father, Mike, was racing super modified's at dirt tracks in Tulsa, OK Being in the pit area and watching his father in victory lane fueled Shane's need to compete. When he was six-years-old, his father surprised him with his first quarter midget. A year later, Shane was again in victory lane, this time celebrating his own wins..
Miss GEICO holds numerous world speed records, National, and World Titles. Since its inception in 2005 Miss GEICO has won 10 World Titles and over 100 individual races. Miss GEICO is headquartered in Riviera Beach, FL. In addition to competing for its 11th World Title, Miss GEICO participates in 20 National Boat Shows, 3 National Air Shows competing against the GEICO Skytypers, 5 Nationally televised P-1 Powerboat Races, 10 AquaX jet ski races, and numerous charitable events assisting United We Race, Inc. their own 501 (c) (3) charity that distributes 100% of the proceeds to United States Veterans. The Miss GEICO Offshore Race Team is hard at work and hungry to claim its 11th World Title against a long list of teams from Qatar, Norway, Australia, and the United States.
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As a mother of four Dawn Creten has some of the regular mom duties you would expect, getting the kids ready for school, taking care of dinner, and flying a 10,000 pound monster truck. That last one may not be most mom's but at the Creten household it's what they know best. Creten has now been involved in monster trucks since 1997 after a chance meeting with her now husband Jimmy at the North Dakota State Fair following an event. Creten soon found herself immersed in the world of monster trucks and eventually into the drivers seat. With each even Creten grew more confident as her skills continued to improve. Fellow drivers and fans alike took notice as Creten's following grew. With that following came success as Creten started to prove she was a strong competitor and started winning.
In 2003 Dawn Creten claimed her first major stadium event racing victory in Vancouver, British Columbia and was pushing drivers like multi-time World Champion Tom Meents to the limit in a photo finish in Minneapolis. She followed up that success with another major stadium racing victory in Phoenix the following year. It was fluke as Creten repeated in 2005 by defeating husband Jimmy and the Bounty Hunter in Phoenix for the racing victory. That year Creten received her first ever Monster Jam World Finals invitation and put up a strong result with a sixth place freestyle against the sports top drivers.
While Dawn Creten has had to take off time from driving the Scarlet Bandit for the births of her children, it certainly never took away from her driving skill. In 2007 she made her return to the Monster Jam World Finals after great performances in major stadium events.
In 2008 Creten took to the freestyle course shortly after her husband was narrowly defeated for the World Finals racing championship, and delivered an incredible freestyle performance that had Sam Boyd Stadium going insane. Her freestyle that night would rank her second against the best in the industry. Creten continues to be one of the sports leading female drivers to this day and makes the guys sweat every time she hits the track.
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A couple of days ago, I received an e-mail from my cousin stating that he and his kids were going to be marching in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. I knew I wasn't going to be able to see it live, so I DVRed it for later. My kids, however, love watching parades and were able to see it live. NHL said he was able to spot my cousin's kids.
Upon watching the DVRed footage, though, I couldn't spot them, but I was able to spot my cousin (dressed as a hockey referee).
My Aloha Friday question for today is: Did you watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade?


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What we say equals what we do when it comes to sustainability
A commitment to sustainability and values
Our commitment to the best possible future for everyone is all-pervasive. We simply insist on the highest standards of sustainability, diversity and inclusion across our entire footprint, including our supply chain.
Our commitment is to only work with organisations that are not only accountable for, but deeply understand their own supply chain, and are open about their ethical, environmental and socially supportive work practices.
One example of this is our partnership with Living Edge, who have supplied the public furniture for the North Lobby of Two International Towers. All the furnishings are original designs, sourced from ethically responsible firms who manufacture to best-practice standards of environmental protection. Another is the procurement of our team and concierge uniforms. International Towers partnered with leading Australian fashion merchant M.J. Bale, who produced an ethically manufactured fabric made from Australian merino wool, and collaborated with leading Indigenous design agency Balarinji, to bring wearable art to our people, in a uniform design that depicts the life-force of nature's abundance of Barangaroo.
We are striving to leave a light footprint on our planet, and our commitment is shared by the organisations that have joined the International Towers community. As part of their shift to the agile way of working encouraged at International Towers, Westpac Group has introduced the Paper Zero program. They looked at some of the most paper-dependent processes across the business and actually changed the way they worked. More digital, less paper. The bank has already seen an 87% reduction in paper – that equates to approximately 13,000 trees. Sandra Casinader, the bank's head of HR strategy and research and workforce revolution program director says, "We actually changed the way we work to be more sustainable. Once we moved into International Towers, people had new ways of working that didn't require paper. It can be done. It simply requires the will."
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Neighbourhood natters: We chat to a project management maestro from Gilbert + Tobin, and our very own water-loving eco-warrior.
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We had a small gathering (about 20 folks) at our church New Year's Eve. It was a "bring your favorite game" event, mostly board games in the main fellowship hall.
We brought our "Scout Plus" sized bridge experience and set it up in a side classroom to see if anyone would be interested.
It was a VERY big hit! Most folks who played had never seen Artemis before, and we ended up running at least 8 missions back to back.
It's a family thing! At Helm on the right is a "non-gamer" Dad (hardware retail store manager), and his sci-fi minded daughter seated next to him on Weapons. Captain Cameron (our pastor's son) is standing, middle. They did great!
This was our first event with our new short-throw projector (Optoma GT1080 Darbee) and fold-up portable screen. at 48" the projector filled a 100" diagonal screen! Two DMX wash lights behind the screen and one small torchiere lamp in the back of the room provided all the necessary ambiance.
Next stop... http://www.connooga.com/ Con Nooga, a sci-fi convention in Chattanooga, TN during the last week of February!
Looks like a fun event for your intrepid crew. Thank you for sharing!
It all looks good, and it looks like everyone was having a blast!
So I wasn't the only Thompson playing Artemis on New Years eve!
Very cool! Great job sharing it with so many people!


This symposium celebrates the significant roles women have played and continue to achieve, in preserving historic sites. Numerous iconic historic buildings and neighborhoods owe their very existence to the determination of women to preserve them. This was achieved by building awareness, securing private philanthropy, and fighting to establish public policy.
Women have led the historic preservation movement from its earliest efforts until today. Speakers from across the country will come together for a symposium to explore and contextualize these achievements. Six presentations will consider various women's contributions to historic preservation from the founding effort to preserve Mount Vernon, to Colonial Williamsburg, the White House, and historic neighborhoods in Richmond, including contemporary concerns in preserving Richmond's more troubling past.
This daylong symposium is in celebration of the 125th anniversary of the founding of women's organization that saved and restored Wilton, The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
This talk will root the American historic preservation movement in the tremendous efforts of nineteenth-century women. By collecting, researching, arranging, and preserving the past, these pioneers ensured the survival of the nation's material heritage while actively shaping contemporary conversations about identity.
Susan Higginson Nash was Colonial Williamsburg's first decorating consultant, responsible for the creation of historically accurate color and furnishing schemes that would go on to delight and inspire the nation. While an all-male Advisory Committee of Architects oversaw the progress of the architectural and landscape restoration work in the 1930s, Nash, the only woman working in the architects' office, oversaw a Ladies Advisory Committee that played an important role in guiding the decision-making process, particularly regarding interior colors, décor and furnishings. Decades before architectural paint research was a recognized discipline, Nash understood the significance of architectural color and worked tirelessly to bring Williamsburg's 18th-century settings to life through documentary research, extensive fieldwork, and artistic experimentation. Her pioneering efforts laid the groundwork for Williamsburg's continued focus on architectural paint research.
James Archer Abbott will identify America's one-time "New Frontier" first lady as an influential and pivotal player in the shaping of modern preservation theory and practice. Formally beginning with her behind-the-scenes contributions to her husband John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer-prize winning "Profiles in Courage," Abbott will identify history as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's language of choice. Once her husband became President of the United States, Mrs. Kennedy made restoration and preservation national interests, as opposed to regional or community fascinations. Her somewhat theatrical transformation of the White House – classified as a "restoration" – became a visual moniker for a burgeoning national preservation dialogue that culminated with the now iconic saving of early-19th century houses surrounding Washington D.C.'s Lafayette Square. After the White House, and largely through a carefully crafted memorialization of her martyred husband, Kennedy proved instrumental as an activist and contributor to the saving of some of the nation's greatest architectural and historic treasures.
In the 1950s a tight-knit group of Richmond ladies joined forces to rescue the decaying neighborhood in the vicinity of historic St. John's Episcopal Church. Brilliantly, they combined knowledge of how cities function, common sense, unique tactics, and considerable moxie to create one of our nation's most evocative mixed-use neighborhoods.
Across the Commonwealth of Virginia various efforts by women are re-shaping our cultural landscape and our understanding and appreciation of Virginia history. African American women have been and continue to be a quiet force in the preservation of historic sites that have fostered communities of uplift. This presentation will provide an overview of contemporary African American women and their activism and endeavors in the field of historic preservation across Virginia.


Gati Packers and Movers is one of the leading packers and movers whose home shifting and office shifting services in Gurgaon are unmatched. Many have been on the lookout for household shifting and company relocation services Gurgaon. The fact can't be denied that shifting an entire home from one location to another is not only an annoying task but a problematic one. It is absolutely not possible to carry out this on one's own. Thus, several individuals have been coming into contact with us so as to hire our secure and timely home relocation or corporate relocation services that are easy on their pockets. We value our customers' valuable time and money and therefore, we provide them those services that are without comparison and match the level of their expectations. People relocate their homes or offices for varied reasons. As a result, they seek our matchless residential relocation or office relocation services so that they can the required task executed without any problems.
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Sorry to disturb you guys here, but of late for a month I've been having some email problems which I hope can be determined & fixed.
I've just enabled mail logging for all 3 mentioned - thanks to Jalal's tutorial on that.
Sent I presume if successfully sent, what if unsuccesfull - will it log as unsuccessful - not sent ?
3. Do you guys set relay for your domains hosted ? Since I did not set any relay, it shows my desktop IP. Is it better to set relay or no - could that be my problems of missing emails ?
It read ** Is your address for ablynet working? I got an undeliverable message for that address.
b _ i o abc ftp 0 * c - indicates files downloaded ?
I'm not real sure what the problem is that you are having it was not real clear from your post.
Not an expert on logs but on the first error I would assume that the account in question did not have a home directory for it. I guess this from other post where folks are haveing a problem and it is because when they have set up the email/ftp account they did not enable FTP so no directory was created for it. You can go in and enable FTP on a account which well create the directory and then disable it and the directory is left and the system sees it.
I think you are right on the second one. If for somereason the email was not sent it well tell you and I think it uses Not sent.
I don't really understand what you are asking on the thrid example. I have not ever had to set a relay when I have created an account.
Sorry can't be more help.
There should be other values on the line also according to documentation.
Should start with current time then show the time it took for transfer. Then you should have the remote host name, file size and file name. Each is supposed to be seperated by a space and would come before what you have above.
So in your example the o would not replace the r but the i.
All I can really add here is that you can type mailq at an SSH "command prompt" to see if there is mail waiting (queued) to be sent - if this is the problem you are having (i.e. outgoing mail not being sent/delivered).
As for your question number 3, I'm also not sure what you mean - I don't know much about that topic anyway, but I'd say that Westhost defaults are good enough, unless you know what you need to change (and exactly how to change it, the consequences of the change, and so on).
Thanks Shawn especially for the detailed description for the xferlog.
Fayez, if I ssh into it, I can only see it real time..will try it if there's any more complaints from my colleagues.
I have to say it took me a bit to figure out myself and not real sure how much I really understand it still.


2019 marks 20 years in business for TeleNet Marketing Solutions, which is no easy feat in the business-to-business marketing world. Two of the company's founders, Gregg Garrett and Kathy Rizzo, offer their observations on the marketing teleservices industry over the last twenty years, as well as insights on what the future holds for b2b marketers.
Q. Looking back over the last twenty years, what has stayed the most consistent in your business?
Gregg Garrett: Outbound cold calling has always been a large piece of our business. It never died, as some industry experts had predicted. We've become smarter in our targeting and our approach has evolved thru the integration of email and online content; however, proactive outbound teleprospecting has consistently made up at least sixty percent of our business. People still want to talk with people.
Kathy Rizzo: I would add that quality has consistently been at the center of our business model. Everyone in our organization is measured on quality in some capacity. While cost per lead and lead per day metrics are certainly important, it's the quality of our leads that impact our client's pipeline the most. It's what keeps them coming back quarter after quarter, year after year. Our very first client from 1999 remains one of our largest clients today.
Q. That's impressive! Surely you've seen some major changes in the marketing world over the last 20 years. What stands out the most?
KR: The alignment of marketing and sales teams has improved dramatically, paving the way for TeleNet to be much more tightly integrated with our clients' sales teams. In many cases, our lead development representatives (LDRs) work directly within our client's CRM systems, we have access to account executives' calendars in order to schedule appointments, and our LDRs facilitate warm introductions between prospects and account executives. We truly work as an extension of our clients' sales teams. We've come a long way from emailing leads as a Microsoft Word attachment.
GG: Key performance indicators have also expanded, giving a clearer picture on what's contributing to a campaign's success or struggle, allowing us to create better action plans. Twenty years ago, our KPIs were mainly centered on dials, talk-time and lead rates. Today, our system provides us with a lot more information, giving us the ability to examine a plethora of metrics around data usability, market intelligence and LDR productivity. Also, with the tighter client integration Kathy mentioned, we have a lot more understanding of how TeleNet positively impacts our clients' pipeline and revenue.
KR: The tighter sales and marketing alignment has also impacted the criteria and requirements of a sales-ready lead. It's no longer a one-size-fits-all definition based on BANT (Budget, Authority, Need, Timeframe). Nowadays lead criteria are different for nearly every TeleNet client, depending on many factors such as the sales team's bandwidth, account segmentation, product type and market awareness.
Q. Looking into your crystal ball, what changes do you anticipate over the next 20 years? How will TeleNet change?
GG: Great question. Data intelligence is going to continue to improve, allowing marketers to create more relevant messaging, as well as help us target the best accounts and contacts possible via teleprospecting. We are already leveraging our clients' ABM tools to prioritize accounts, which are more likely to be in the buying cycle. However, I think there will be more data intelligence in the upcoming years, giving our LDRs a comprehensive buying history of each targeted account, which in turn will allow more pinpointed conversations. That will translate into even higher quality leads for our clients.
KR: The role of the LDR will continue to evolve and develop as well. While the phone will remain a very effective medium to reach and speak with prospects, we'll more heavily integrate online chat and social media outreach into our marketing campaigns, expanding the role of our LDRs. I won't be surprised if cell phone laws are adjusted to be less restrictive, as the business world becomes more and more mobile. If that happens, it will expand our callable market, and pave the way for integrating relevant text messaging into our outbound prospecting initiatives as well.
Q. Any advice for business owners who would like to make it to the 20 year mark?
GG: We've done our best to create an atmosphere in which employees truly want to be here and are rewarded and recognized for their hard work. Nearly all of our managers and account executives started in entry level positions at TeleNet and were promoted as they learned our business and excelled in their positions. This internal advancement has been a huge factor in our success and ability to be very consultative with our customers. My advice is to establish clear career paths and a reward system for your employees. If you do that, they will in turn help you build your business and grow your clientele.


For as long as I can remember we have used Group Publishing's curriculum for VBS. And while it has served us well over the years, I am ready for something different. I noticed it last year as I was planning for it. It was easy. I didn't take much work. I knew the format and layout and expectations and ins and outs. And while this is typically a good thing, for me it is not. It lost it's "allure" for me. It was predictable and boring.
If you're not used to me (and how I manage things as a children's pastor), I'm usually always writing, crafting and arranging my own stuff. I don't trust curriculum companys to think for me, nor minister to Hayward Wesleyan's children. Now I know you have to make curriculum your own and Group's curriculum is just a shell, but for me I needed a change.
Typically we would just ALWAYS choose whatever "theme" and "content" Group had to offer. And with this year's Group theme of "Pandamania: Where God is Wild About You" it helped me make an already easy decision even easier (I hope any church who uses this curriculum the best and hope it communicates the Word of God to children).
It has to do with living the "Jesus-kind-of-way", which is inside out and upside down.
This is a topic which I talk and emphasize constantly with the children (and youth) @ Hayward Wesleyan: if you want to live "like Jesus" basically do the opposite of your natural human reaction (or intention) is and that opposite is usually the "Jesus-kind-of-way". I'm intrigued to see how this is done with this VBS curriculum and excited to see not only the content, but also the effects after VBS.
The theme compliments what our "environment" already is: Main Street!
Again, for those of you unfamiliar with the children's ministry @ Hayward Wesleyan, it is called Main Street on Sunday mornings. Over the last several years we have slowly tried to decorate and "theme" the "Main Street Hallway" and rooms. My (secondary) hope with this curriculum is to help propel us to complete some of our decor and leave this "temporary" theme, permanent.
Like I've already said, for me it's going to be different and I am excited about that. Not only because it presents a new challenge, but I will have to redo our material and re-communicate and re-structure better. I think the way the flow works with this curriculum better fits our time frame and our expectations. I'm also excited to see how the volunteers and directors do with this new curriculum. They are always up for new challenges!


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It's hardly a secret that I'm no fan of Boston Globe columnist Shirley Leung's writing on matters political and economic. Which clearly reflects her belief that bringing big corporations to Boston and shovelling public money at them is the best way to improve the city's fortunes. And she's none too picky about what corporations she supports either. Despite recently criticizing Wayfair's $200,000 sale to a government contractor doing business with baby concentration camps near the Mexican border, she has had no difficulty at all shamelessly flacking for companies like General Electric and Amazon. Both of which, as I've written on numerous occasions, have done far worse things to the people of the Bay State and the world than Wayfair has done to date.
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THE RIGHT QUESTION FOR THE BROAD LEFT
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CAMBRIDGE COUNCILORS CAN STOP UNDEMOCRATIC COURTHOUSE DEAL
Four votes against the proposed leasing of city parking spaces should do the trick
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STOP THE ELECTRIC SCOOTER SCAM
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A WINDOW INTO THE STATE HOUSE
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THE MERRIMACK VALLEY DISASTER: IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT OLD PIPES
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The events of last week in the Merrimack Valley were unfortunate by any measure. Something bad happened to the natural gas distribution system in parts of Lawrence, North Andover, and Andover that resulted in dozens of homes being damaged or destroyed by explosions and fire, at least 25 people getting injured, and one person (tragically, an 18-year-old) getting killed. The leading theory for the conflagration is that it was triggered by a pressure spike in area gas pipes. But until the National Transportation and Safety Board concludes its investigation—which could take up to two years—we likely won't know the cause of that spike. According to ThinkProgress, the Mass Department of Public Utilities will be conducting its own investigation, and Attorney General Maura Healey will oversee that effort to ensure transparency.
The company responsible, Columbia Gas of Massachusetts—a division of NiSource Inc. of Indiana—was so slow to respond to the crisis that Gov. Charlie Baker put Eversource Energy in charge of the cleanup effort.
But the magnitude of the disaster is just starting to sink in. About 8,500 homes were affected, and its occupants are being told that it will take months to replace the cast iron gas pipes under city streets and restore service. Pipes so old, and so prone to rusting, leaking, and failure, that the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration started pushing gas utilities nationwide to replace them over a decade ago, according to USA Today. Yet despite being allowed to recoup such costs—which run about $1 million a mile—from their customers, utilities like Columbia have been slow to complete the needed work. Meanwhile, the thousands of residents that officials have allowed to return to their homes are forced to stay in apartments and houses that use gas for heating and cooking… with the gas shut off for the foreseeable future. As winter approaches.
This highlights the danger of using methane, an obviously flammable and explosive gas, as a fuel source for homes and businesses. Notwithstanding being in continuous use at millions of sites in the United States for well over 150 years, "natural" gas is not as safe as many people believe. According to the New York Times, "Since 1998, at least 646 serious gas distribution episodes have occurred across the country, causing 221 deaths and leaving nearly a thousand people injured. …" And the reasons for such episodes are not always found.
Perhaps it could not be otherwise, since America has allowed private companies to control the production and distribution of natural gas from the industry's beginnings. Sure, we call those companies "public utilities" and tell ourselves that federal and state government regulate them. But, like all corporations answering to the siren call of the market, gas companies exist to make profits for their shareholders. To the exclusion of all other considerations—be they health, safety, environmental, or economic. Even though the small local gas companies of the 1800s have long since merged to become large and powerful combines, and even though they are allowed to be monopolies in the areas they control, they continue trying to save money on costs and make as much profit as regulators allow. Often quite a lot, since the phenomenon of "regulatory capture"—where a revolving door sending top staff back and forth between utilities and regulatory agencies generally assures that utilities have fat bottom lines—continues unabated. Including here in the Bay State. Whether utilities provide good service or bad.
Which is why National Grid—another one of the seven companies that have gas monopolies in parts of Massachusetts—is getting away with locking out 1,200 union gas workers who are trying to get a better contract for the difficult and dangerous work they do day in and day out. And why Columbia, which has already been dinged for recent safety issues in the regions of the Commonwealth gas infrastructure under its control, according to the Boston Globe, was allowed to continue business as usual until the Merrimack Valley fires brought international attention to the consequences of its malfeasance. Leading WGBH's Jim Braude to wonder aloud on the Sept 17 episode of Greater Boston what would have happened if the gas network in Lawrence, North Andover, and Andover had been owned by National Grid. A company currently trying to service its infrastructure with ill-trained scab labor—some of them managers with little or no field experience. The better to bust the labor unions that protect the livelihoods of its workers, and permanently replace them with un-unionized workers that will make its stockholders even bigger profits.
If all these developments were taking place in a period where there were no demonstrable environmental consequences for burning fossil fuels like natural gas, they would be dire enough. But, unfortunately, that is not the case. True, burning methane as an energy source only produces about half as much carbon dioxide as burning coal, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. However, there are so many methane leaks in the production and distribution of both oil and gas that any relative advantage to the environment that burning it provides is mostly erased, according to a Washington Post article on a key study in the journal Science. Given that methane is a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. So even the 2.3 percent of methane estimated to be leaking away into the atmosphere before it can be burned is enough to ruin its oft-hyped potential as a more "green" fossil fuel source that can be leaned on for decades while carbon neutral energy sources like solar are brought online on an industrial scale. Not because we don't have the technology to do so faster, but because energy multinationals don't want clean energy systems deployed until they've made all the money they can make by burning carbon.
Worse still, more than half of the natural gas being used in the Greater Boston area is now coming from fracked gas, according to Boston University earth and environment professor Nathan Phillips in a BU Today article. Fracking (more correctly, hydraulic fracturing) is an incredibly destructive and ecologically disastrous method of squeezing oil and natural gas out of vast underground shelves of shale rock by injecting massive amounts of water and any number of often-toxic liquid chemicals into them. Direct environmental impacts include ground, water, air, and noise pollution in those areas unfortunate enough to have lots of shale. And the technique has even been known to trigger earthquakes. Phillips also explains that fracked methane contains many impurities that may be making consumers sick. But the indirect impacts are far more problematic because fracked gas and oil have flooded the planet's fossil fuel markets with cheap product at exactly the time we need to move away from burning carbon.
In a better world, the Merrimack Valley disaster would be a clarion call to move more decisively toward clean energy alternatives—at least in the affected communities as a useful demonstration project. In advance of doing so swiftly across the country, and in every corner of the globe. But we are not in that world. We're in a world where energy corporations control the politics of the US and many other countries to their own advantage. And they want to ensure that humanity squeezes every last possible joule of energy out of fossil fuels like natural gas before allowing alternatives to finally become the dominant mode of energy production. Regardless of the fact that doing so will very likely result in a planet that's unable to sustain advanced human civilization, and perhaps unable to sustain human life at all. If the worst global warming scenarios are allowed to become reality.
That's why I have repeatedly called—most recently in a column about Eversource, the utility called upon to "fix" the Merrimack Valley crisis—for bringing energy companies to heel on both the environmental and economic fronts by winning the huge political struggles necessary to make them all genuinely public utilities. With a mission to provide cheap, clean, green energy like advanced wind, solar, and hydroelectric (ideally not from environmentally destructive mega-dams) power to America, and phase out all fossil fuel production, distribution, and usage as soon as possible. If we could accomplish that sea change in our energy system, other countries would be likely to follow at speed. And we might actually stand a chance of minimizing the damage from global warming, already on display with increasingly alarming frequency in the form of catastrophic storms like Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut.
So if you want to help the Merrimack Valley disaster victims, certainly donate to the best local charities you can find. But also join environmental groups like Mass Sierra Club, Resist the Pipeline, and HEET (Home Energy Efficiency Team) that are working to end the ability of privately owned energy utilities to harm communities like Lawrence in particular and our planet's ecosphere in general going forward. Furthermore, be sure to make your house, condo, or apartment as energy efficient you can and do whatever you can do to convert your dwelling from reliance on burning fossil fuel to using genuinely clean energy sources. Every little improvement helps. Just remember, we won't really be able to ensure our survival as a species until the fossil fuel megacorps are stopped. Cold.
Apparent Horizon—winner of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia's 2018 Best Political Column award—is syndicated by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. Jason Pramas is BINJ's network director, and executive editor and associate publisher of DigBoston. Copyright 2018 Jason Pramas. Licensed for use by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and media outlets in its network.
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POPULAR NOT POPULIST: GOV BAKER CONTINUES TO POLL WELL WITH PEOPLE HE'S SCREWING
There is no area of Massachusetts politics where it is more baffling to contemplate Gov. Charlie Baker's ongoing popularity in the polls than the annual state budget debate. One can only draw two conclusions from such musing: either people don't get the budget information they need from Bay State press, or a majority of Commonwealth residents simply enjoy watching poor people get kicked to the curb. While corporations are encouraged to line their pockets with public funds in ways that hurt everyone but the wealthy.
At no time of year is the contradiction of Baker's popularity thrown into bold relief more than late July when he issues his line item vetoes and other modifications to the legislature's final budget.
And this year that contradiction is sharper than ever. Because the most visible victims of the governor's last budget action look to be people on welfare—many of whom are single mothers with children.
So last week, Baker refused to agree to a budget policy section that would remove the "family cap" that stops families on welfare from being able to receive extra benefits for children born while they were on welfare. Instead he sent an amended version of the family cap section of the state budget back to the legislature.
As reported by MassLive, "That amendment would lift the family cap but also change welfare eligibility laws so that an adult's Supplemental Security Income is counted when determining if a family is eligible for welfare. SSI is a federal payment given to severely disabled adults." … "According to state figures as of last year, 5,200 children with a severely disabled parent would lose their welfare benefits entirely under the change, and 2,100 children would lose part of their benefit."
By contrast, MassLive continues, "Lifting the family cap would make approximately 8,700 additional children eligible for welfare assistance."
If the family cap policy section of the budget had simply been vetoed, it could have been overridden by a two-thirds vote of the legislature like any other veto. But since its language was amended and sent back to the legislature for action, they have to vote on it like a new bill. After which, Baker has 10 days to act on it. And since he sent it back to the legislature at the end of its current session, the end of the 10 days after any new bill passes comes after the session is over. So Baker can simply veto it, and supporters will have to wait until next session to go through the entire legislative process again.
Advocates from organizations like Mass Law Reform Institute and Greater Boston Legal Services are crying foul, given the heartlessness of the measure and the fact that it has taken years to get the family cap reform through the legislature.
As of this writing, the House has reinstated the original family cap language, and the Senate is expected to do the same. But Baker will almost certainly veto it within 10 days of passage as planned. After the legislative session has ended.
Which is a total drag, and exemplary of a backwards view of welfare as an "incentive" to "encourage" poor people to work. Language that Baker has used when explaining his position on the family cap debate—a standard conservative view, unfortunately shared by Republicans and many Democrats alike, that poor people are poor because of individual failings like "laziness," not for any structural reasons beyond their immediate control.
But here's another way to view welfare: People are poor because just as capitalism provides billions of dollars to a vanishingly small number of big winners like Jeff Bezos and the Koch brothers, it creates millions of losers who have to struggle endlessly to make ends meet. Meaning inequality is baked into our economic system. Without strong government regulation, capitalism is incapable of even blunting the brutal impact of such inherent flaws, let alone somehow fixing those flaws.
Part of that inequality comes in the form of job provision. Since the drive for people at the commanding heights of the capitalist system is always to maximize profits, their concomitant drive is to do so by slashing labor costs whenever possible. One way they have done this since the 1970s is by changing labor from a fixed cost—as it tended to be under postwar American social democracy when over 30 percent of the workforce was protected by government-backed union contracts and there was a reasonable social safety net (including welfare)—to a variable cost.
The result? As was last the case at the turn of the 20th century while a militant labor movement spent decades fighting the "robber baron" billionaires of that era for redress, bosses can hire workers when needed at the worst possible rates and push them out when they don't need them. Often without even having to officially fire workers—which would allow them to collect unemployment for a few months. And the largely ununionized workforce has almost no say about the conditions of its employment, or job policies in general, outside of insufficient minimum wage laws, easily avoided health and safety laws, and a few increasingly weak civil rights laws that might get a handful of people reinstated on the same bad terms on the rare occasions when open discriminatory practices by employers can be proven.
So by converting stable decent-paying union jobs to unstable contingent jobs—like temp, part-time, contract, day labor, and independent contractor jobs—over the last 40 years, capitalism and the capitalists who run it have ensured the creation of a growing impoverished underclass. This vast group of poor people acts as a reserve army of labor that, together with vicious union-busting that is on the verge of killing the American labor movement, accelerates the downward pressure on wages. And ensures that the only jobs that most poor people can get are bad contingent jobs.
When poor people can't put together enough of these precarious non-jobs to make ends meet, they turn to welfare. But the old "outdoor relief" programs that provided poor men with jobs, money, food, and other necessities in many parts of the country were eliminated long ago (as were New Deal-era public jobs programs), and the remaining welfare system that largely benefitted poor women and children was hamstrung by the Democratic Clinton administration in 1996. Not coincidentally, its prescriptions were first tested here in Massachusetts in 1995 by our completely Democrat-dominated legislature—presided over by a Republican governor, Bill Weld. A so-called "libertarian" cut from much the same cloth as Charlie Baker.
According to a 2008 report ("Following Through on Welfare Reform") by the Mass Budget and Policy Center, the one-two state-federal punch to poor women and children in the Commonwealth predictably ended up significantly cutting already meager welfare payments by imposing time limits on assistance and by mandating the most cruelly ironic possible change, "work requirements."
Why cruelly ironic? Because the work requirements forced people who were poor because the only jobs available to them were bad contingent jobs to prove they were "working" before getting the reduced welfare benefits still on offer.
The new system was in many cases literally run by the very temp agencies that played a key role in making people poor to begin with. The "jobs" forced on people to qualify for much-denuded benefits were often not jobs at all. Welfare applicants were just "employed" by such temp agencies—now recast as privatized social service agencies—and forced to wait for "assignments" that were low-paying and sporadic. But unless they "worked" a certain amount under this system, no benefits. It was a hardline right-winger's wet dream made flesh. The same capitalist system that made them poor now kept them poor. And state and federal government were no longer in the "business" of helping offset the worst depredations of capitalist inequality in what we still like to call a democracy.
So this is what popular Gov. Charlie Baker is up to when he plays games with reforms like the family cap. He's screwing people who get a few hundred bucks a month in benefits out of an extra hundred a month for another kid born while they're jumping through every conceivable time-wasting bureaucratic hoop and working the same shit jobs that made them poor to begin with. Meanwhile, he's finding new and creative ways to dump more millions in public treasure on the undeserving rich with each passing year.
And you like this guy, fellow Massholes?! Just remember, in a "race to the bottom" economy presided over by capitalist hatchet men like Baker, once the poor are completely crushed, the working class is next. Followed by the middle class. Maybe think that over next time a pollster asks your opinion of the man.
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STOP BAKER'S 'MORE SCHOOL COPS AND SURVEILLANCE' PLAN
Why the Mass budget surplus is better spent on infrastructure needs
Having just been handed an estimated $1 billion budget surplus for the 2018 fiscal year, Gov. Charlie Baker was quick to make a proposal last week to divide up the unexpected spoils.
According to MassLive, "Around half of that will be placed in the state's reserve account to be available in case of emergency. Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday laid out how he is proposing to spend the rest of that money, introducing a $583 million supplemental budget bill."
And where does the surplus come from, readers might well ask? Well, the details are still a bit fuzzy, but the Trump administration's drastic changes to the federal tax code months back seem to have resulted in what's likely to be a very temporary state tax revenue increase.
Which explains why the Boston Globe paraphrased Noah Berger of the Mass Budget and Policy Center opining that "it would not be prudent for the state to spend the extra money from last fiscal year in the current one." His preference being that "it should be spent on one-time capital expenses like roads or schools, or put away in the state's savings account."
But that's not what Baker is proposing.
To be sure, there is money allotted for roads and the like. But only two items seem clearly earmarked for infrastructure expenditures: $50 million for cities and towns to fund local road and bridge maintenance and improvement projects, and $30 million for municipal clean water projects. Both worthy candidates for what is likely to be a one-time windfall.
The rest of the proposal is more problematic, however. Especially in its stated focus.
According to a July 13 press release from the governor's office, "The administration is proposing a wide-ranging $72 million package to make school security upgrades in the Commonwealth's schools and provide resources to students, staff, and first responders to better respond to threats within schools."
Which is probably just red meat for Baker's right-wing supporters. Massachusetts is definitely in dire need of more funding for K-12 and higher education. But it needs that funding on an ongoing basis.
What it doesn't need is a supplemental budget better dubbed the "More School Cops and Surveillance Plan."
Yet that's exactly what Commonwealth students will get from the following proposed items that are part of the aforementioned $72 million section of the governor's larger supplemental budget proposal:
$20 million in matching grants for security and communications upgrades in K-12 schools and at public colleges and universities
$4 million to provide training to school resource officers
$2.4 million to create a tip line to provide public safety and school personnel with timely information on potential risks
$2 million for a statewide "Say Something" campaign
It's true that the proposed $40 million in additional aid to school districts in that same section to hire more social workers, mental health counselors, and psychologists is a good idea in general terms. But such an effort can't amount to much if the funding evaporates next year. Something also true of most of the line items outside the ed-targeted package in the supplemental budget proposal that would provide funding for a variety of decent-sounding programs for K-12 and higher education, and "substance use prevention, education, and screening." Plus a grab bag of other one-offs of varying importance like "$35.4 million for snow and ice removal costs in FY18" or wastefulness like "$8 million for multi-year municipal police training needs" (in a state that already spends vast sums on cops).
And, sure, we don't want students (or school staff and faculty) to be vulnerable to killers with automatic weapons. But then we don't want them to be vulnerable to asteroid strikes either, and most of what we could conceivably fund in the way of preparedness on that front would be about as useless as what the governor is proposing to fund for "school security." Worse than useless, since the main result of such measures will inevitably be to increase official harassment of students of color and poor and immigrant students in their own schools. And the concomitant danger of their being shot for no reason. As the militarization of police proceeds apace. And their well-documented trigger-happiness is validated by the likes of Weymouth police Chief Richard Grimes in shockingly opportunist remarks at yesterday's memorial for Weymouth Officer Michael Chesna—who was felled by a rock before being disarmed and executed by a random criminal over the weekend. Even as the K-12 school districts and the state colleges that serve those populations remain starved for funds with or without the FY18 surplus.
Regardless, there's already a general decades-long trend toward stationing armed police on campuses nationwide, but that hasn't stopped mass shooters from slaughtering students. There's a veritable panopticon of surveillance measures from all levels of government on the population in general and on students in particular. Which also hasn't prevented mass shooters from slaughtering students nationwide.
The things that might actually stop mass shooters from appearing in the Commonwealth—like stronger welfare and public jobs programs and more stringent gun control measures—are not in the cards in the current political climate. Even here in a supposedly left-leaning state that is unable to provide the first of those two needed reforms because it's constitutionally prohibited from having a progressive income tax. The second, naturally, being blocked by a powerful and triumphalist gun lobby in this Age of Trump.
Fortunately, the legislature hasn't weighed in on the FY18 supplemental budget yet—having failed to send the regular FY19 budget to the governor's desk for his signature as of this writing either. So there's still time for constituents to weigh in on how the surplus funds get spent.
And my suggestion would be to push your state reps and senators to fight for spending whatever part of the supplemental budget is not put into the "rainy day fund" on key capital projects. Like fixing public transportation infrastructure that stubbornly continues to disintegrate no matter how much Gov. Baker's hand-picked MBTA flacks claim they don't need any more money—as they had the temerity to do yesterday.
Once that's done, then start agitating for the progressive tax system that would better fund state education, transportation, and social safety net programs for the foreseeable future. Because we badly need such reforms, and because—for those of you worried about a mass shooting at a Bay State school—families that have a stable income are less likely to produce violent misogynists and racists and nazis (oh my!), since they won't need to find scapegoats for economic instability anymore.
Progressive taxation will be a very hard reform to win in the Commonwealth, as I've written many times in the past. But then so will better gun control legislation. Yet both are needed if we are going to have a more just, stable, and safer society.
We've got our work cut out for us. So let's get cracking.
Apparent Horizon is syndicated by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. Jason Pramas is BINJ's network director, and executive editor and associate publisher of DigBoston. Copyright 2018 Jason Pramas. Licensed for use by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and media outlets in its network.
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Mass legislature helps, harms workers in "deal" with labor and business lobbies
No sooner did the Supreme Judicial Court shoot down the "millionaires' tax" referendum question last week than the Mass legislature rammed a so-called grand bargain bill (H 4640) through both chambers. A move aimed at shoring up tax revenue threatened by the Retailers Association of Massachusetts referendum question that is virtually certain to lower the state sales tax from 6.25 percent to 5 percent if it should go before voters in November.
The house and senate did this by rapidly completing the brokering of a deal that had been in the works between pro-labor and pro-business forces on those issues for months. Giving each side something it wanted in exchange for encouraging the Raise Up Mass coalition to take its remaining two referendum questions—paid family and medical leave, and the $15 an hour minimum wage—off the table, and the retailers association to do the same with its sales tax cut question. Both organizations have not yet made the decision to do so.
If passed, the so-called grand bargain bill will give labor watered-down versions of its paid family and medical leave and $15 an hour minimum wage ballot questions, and give business something that's explicitly anti-labor: the end of time-and-a-half wages for people working Sundays and holidays, and their ability to legally refuse to work Sunday and holiday shifts.
While Gov. Charlie Baker still has to sign the bill, as of this writing it's looking like he will do so. Soon.
Which is a pity because it's not such a great deal for working people as written. True, the grand bargain does ensure that the state minimum wage will raise to $15 an hour for many workers. But it moves up to that rate from the current $11 an hour over five years, instead of the four years it would take with the referendum version. Plus it betrays tipped employees, whose wage floor will only rise from a pathetic $3.75 an hour now to a still pathetic $6.75 an hour by 2023. Keeping all the cards in the bosses' hands in the biggest tipped sector, the restaurant industry. Although it's worth mentioning that even the referendum version of the $15 an hour wage plan would have only raised tipped employees to $9 an hour. When what's needed is a single minimum wage for all workers.
It also makes Massachusetts one of the first states in the nation to institute paid family and medical leave for many workers. Which is truly a noteworthy advance. Yet again, the referendum version is better for workers than the grand bargain version.
But legislators gave away another noteworthy advance from 20 years ago in the process: time-and-a-half wages for many employees who work on Sundays and holidays. Which will hurt some of the same people who the new minimum wage and paid and family medical leave will help.
Thus far, the labor-led Raise Up Massachusetts coalition has had mostly positive things to say about the deal. However, the main union representing supermarket workers—many of whom currently take Sunday and holiday shifts—is already vowing to torpedo the grand bargain. Even though their union contracts also mandate time-and-a-half pay for working Sundays and holidays. And they've resolved to take down legislators who backed it over their protest.
Jeff Bollen, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1445, minced no words on the subject in a recent video message to his members:
"I am really pissed off at our state legislature for stabbing retail workers in the back by taking away time and a half on Sundays and holidays for all retail workers in Massachusetts.
"Remember, it was this local union in 1994 with big business and the retail association wanting to get rid of the blue laws; so they could open up their supermarkets, their big box stores, and their liquor stores and make money on Sundays that we fought hard to get a law passed to protect you, the retail worker. And we did."
The supermarket union leader went on to explain that state lawmakers "panicked" when the millionaires' tax was derailed and pushed through the grand bargain to avoid losing any more revenue from the referendum question to lower the sales tax. He swore the union was "going to remove those individuals that voted against you. We're going to get them removed and replaced with pro-labor legislators who are going to fight for the rights of working people." And defiantly concluded: "We're going to continue to fight. We're going to continue to try to get this whole thing repealed."
How much support the UFCW can expect to get from the rest of the labor movement remains to be seen. But the fact is that some Bay State working families are going to suffer nearly as much pain as gain from the grand bargain.
Worse still, there's a deeper problem with the bill. It potentially stops the retailers' referendum drive to lower the sales tax—which they've definitely put on the ballot to ensure that big businesses make more profits. But it must not be forgotten that the sales tax is a regressive tax that disproportionately harms working families. And even though the state desperately needs money for many programs that help the 99 percent, it remains a bad way to raise funds compared to a progressive tax system that would force the rich to pay higher tax rates than everyone else. Like the federal government has done for over a hundred years.
Yet since the rich and their corporations continue to rule the roost in state politics, and since a state constitutional amendment would be required to allow a progressive tax system in Massachusetts, there is no way that is going to happen anytime soon. As I wrote last week, the millionaires' tax would have at least increased the amount of progressivity in the tax system had it been allowed on the ballot (where it was projected to win handily). But business lobbies got the SJC to stop that move.
Given that, the revenue lost from a sales tax cut would really hurt in a period when many major state social programs are already being starved for funds.
Nevertheless, many working families will take a big hit from the grand bargain bill as written: They'll see the full introduction of the $15 minimum wage delayed by an extra year, they'll get a worse version of paid family and medical leave, they'll lose time-and-a-half wages on Sundays and holidays, they'll see the sales tax remain at 6.25 percent… and if they're tipped employees, they'll still be made to accept a lower minimum wage than the relevant ballot question would get them and still have to rely on customers to tip them decently and their bosses to refrain from skimming those tips.
So, it would behoove Raise Up Massachusetts and its constituent labor, community, and religious organizations to stay the course with the paid family and medical leave and $15 an hour minimum wage referendum questions that are still slated to appear on the November ballot. And pro-labor forces should also be ready to lobby harder for a better deal should Gov. Baker refuse to sign the grand bargain bill.
Of course, it could very well be that the bill will be signed into law before this article hits the stands, and that labor and their allies will throw in the towel on their ballot questions. And that would be a shame.
Here's hoping for a better outcome for Massachusetts workers. Even at this late date.
Note: Raise Up Massachusetts announced that it had accepted the "grand bargain" bill shortly before this article went to press on Tuesday evening (6.26), according to the Boston Business Journal.
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TOWNIE: WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND
Or how tax breaks for fat cats relate to a defeat for Harvard management rats
"Opportunity" for the few
Gov. Charlie Baker submitted paperwork to the US Department of Treasury last week, according to the Republican, asking the federal government to consider 138 tracts in dozens of Massachusetts communities for inclusion in the new "Opportunity Zones" program—passed in December as part of the Trump administration's sweeping tax reform legislation.
As the name implies, each opportunity zone is a low-income area of an American city or town. According to Next City, acceptance to the program makes such areas eligible to receive investment from "Opportunity Funds"—which are to be certified by the treasury department. The funds "will be required to invest at least 90 percent of their investment dollars into businesses or properties located in designated Opportunity Zones," and the initiative "allows investors to defer some of their taxes on capital gains in exchange for investing some of their accumulated wealth into the opportunity zones."
This week, MetroWest Daily News looked at tracts chosen for the program in Framingham and Marlborough. In Framingham, "City officials nominated a pair of contiguous neighborhoods on the southeast side of the city, which has struggled to rebound from the decline of manufacturing and the legacy of environmental contamination in the area."
One of those tracts is particularly interesting because it contains "a significant amount of industrial land, including the state prison and the former General Motors plant, which is now the site of Adesa, the vehicle auction house." And thus encapsulates everything that's wrong with neoliberalism—the return to 19th-century dog-eat-dog capitalism in which private interest must always outweigh any possible public good.
Which is germane to this discussion because the opportunity zone scheme was cooked up by a "bipartisan" (read "neoliberal") think tank called the Economic Innovation Group—led by a who's who of Silicon Valley movers and shakers, according to the Los Angeles Times. Napster founder Sean Parker, former Facebook general counsel Ted Ullyot, and a rogue's gallery of major West Coast venture capital investment house leaders are all part of the organization's "founders circle."
So it's absolutely no surprise that the program is essentially yet another tax break for the rich. In a federal tax regime that's now replete with them—especially after Trump's ungentle ministrations. More problematic, however, is the fact that the so-called opportunity zones give the rich and powerful even more control over economic development in areas already impoverished by the rich and powerful.
Which brings us back to the Framingham tract in question. It houses MCI-Framingham, a medium-security women's prison with a population that includes a majority of nonviolent offenders. Most of whom are from working-class families, and most of whom would not be there if the state and federal government put less money into the "prison-industrial complex" and more money into guaranteeing economic opportunity for those families.
It is also home to the former General Motors plant. Which once employed as many as 5,000 workers in high-paying jobs unionized with the United Auto Workers. Just the kind of jobs that increasingly downwardly mobile working-class families need, if they want to avoid turning to crime to make ends meet.
According to the New York Times, the last 2,100 workers were laid off from the GM plant in 1989. And the working families of Framingham and environs have never really recovered since then. Because pols and CEOs and policy wonks can talk all they want about Massachusetts having recovered from the Great Recession of 10 years back. They can claim we've achieved "full employment." But the jobs that working people have been able to get since the destruction of the Bay State's largely unionized industrial base between the 1950s and the 1990s are not nearly as good as the ones that were lost.
Gone also is the social—and therefore political—solidarity that once enabled the local working class to defend and maintain the improvements they won on the job for decades.
In its place, we have programs like the "opportunity zones" that help the rich find new and exciting ways to get richer. But that don't mandate the creation of good jobs for working families, or provide for the democratic control of new enterprises that are created by the people that work in them.
Furthermore, as Next City points out, "Opportunity funds could end up raising too much capital without enough deals in the designated census tracts, blunting the impact per tax dollar lost, or they could end up without enough capital raised to make a discernible difference."
Seems likely that the new program will go the way of a similar neoliberal program from the Clinton era: "Empowerment Zones." Which never produced gains for poor communities that could be tied to the program. Instead lining the pockets of legions of contractors and investors along the way.
Harvard University grad union victory
In light of the loss of 5,000 good jobs unionized with the UAW at GM Framingham decades back, it's extremely ironic that 5,000 graduate assistants at Harvard University just successfully unionized with—you guessed it—the UAW. Big congrats to all concerned.
The labor campaign was absolutely necessary because the same neoliberal system that purposely depresses working-class wages and benefits worldwide to increase corporate profits also hurts grad assistants. Harvard is a large employer, and—nonprofit or not—like most large employers it always strives to save money on staffing costs. So it makes perfect sense that a union that was decimated by decades of assaults from auto industry tycoons should get vengeance of a sort by unionizing grad assistants at a ruling-class university that continues to help spearhead the corporate drive to crush global labor power. Grad assistants that—together with various kinds of adjunct faculty—get overused by fully corporatized university management to avoid increasing the ranks of more expensive (and far more powerful) tenured faculty.
Naturally, being a teaching or research assistant for a few years is not the same kind of job as the ones lost at GM Framingham. And the fortunes of people with advanced degrees from an elite school are typically much different than those of auto workers that often only had high school degrees. But beyond the improvements that grad assistants will see in their working lives during their short time at Harvard, and the bump that the labor movement will get from their very public victory, here's hoping that the students will learn to feel genuine solidarity with working families the world over. And move into their professional lives with the determination to help undo the grievous damage that too many of their predecessors did, and continue to do, to the billions of people who don't control the commanding heights of politics and the economy.
Townie (a worm's eye view of the Mass power structure) is syndicated by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. Jason Pramas is BINJ's network director, and executive editor and associate publisher of DigBoston. Copyright 2018 Jason Pramas. Licensed for use by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and media outlets in its network.
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