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Q: MySQL custom storage path I'm working on a server with almost no free space on it, so I attached a NFS volume to it. Now I would like MySQL to be storing tables or, even better, entire databases on the shared volume. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks a lot!

A: I don't think that is a good idea. You will have performance and consistency issues if storage is on NFS. Consider adding a secondary local disk, mounting it, and hosting your database files in it.
Having said that, you could change database location in MySQL. It's pretty simple. Have a look at this web entry. MySQL is pretty flexible with this kind of things.


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Biophysical characterization of traditional and nontraditional equilibria in metal-biomolecular interactions
Kayla Diane McConnell
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Numerous biological phenomena occur as a result of macromolecular interactions. Metal-ion-biomolecule binding account for a large portion of these reactions, and unsurprisingly, a vast amount of new research in this area is constantly emerging. Gaining insight into the characteristics that define these interactions; including equilibrium fluctuations, metal center formation, global stability perturbation, cooperativity, allostery, and site-specific binding are all significant. As with all chemical reactions, biological interactions are regulated by thermodynamics; and the development of novel tools and methods by which to study these interactions becomes highly relevant. In this dissertation, three systems involving macromolecular binding are studied using well established biophysical techniques in conjunction with a critical look at appropriate uses for mathematical modeling. The first system studied is that of the serpin plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1). PAI-1 is a protease inhibitor that specifically effects fibrinolysis, or the process that prevents the formation of blood clots, and misregulation of this enzyme leads to uncontrollable hemorrhaging. ITC was utilized to investigate the thermodynamics of copper binding to PAI-1. Human carbonic anhydrase II (CA) was the second system investigated. Studies were conducted on zinc(II) and copper(II) binding to CA, a metalloenzyme responsible for acid-base balances in the blood and the transport of carbon dioxide. Interestingly, CA binds two copper(II) ions, one at the active site, and one at a higher affinity N-terminal site. Temperature dependent ITC, CD and GdnHCl denaturation studies were performed to explore the impact of copper(II) binding, particularly at the higher affinity N-terminal site. Finally, protein binding to inorganic gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) was investigated. AuNPS are utilized in areas of diagnostics, biological sensing and drug delivery. We studied binding of nanoparticles to a set of six biologically relevant proteins; glutathione, wild-type GB3, K19C GB3 (a variant at position 19), bovine CA, bovine serum albumin, and fibrinogen. Nanoparticle-protein binding was monitored via UV-Visible extinction and polarized resonance synchronous spectroscopy (PRS2). The UV extinction maxima wavelength shifts were fit with two models, a Langmuir isotherm model and a mass action-derived model. The models fit the data equally well, however, they predict very different Kd values, specifically for smaller sized AuNPs.
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Australia goes to WTO over India sugar subsidies
Posted by Ian Ackerman | 28th February, 2019
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AUSTRALIA, along with Brazil, has launched formal dispute action with the World Trade Organization on India's continuing sugar subsidies that, the complaint says, are depressing world prices and impacting Australia and Brazil's sugar industries.
Minister for trade Simon Birmingham said India's sugar subsidy regime was inconsistent with WTO rules and had helped create a glut in the global sugar market.
"This glut is hurting Australia's canegrowers and millers, and is threatening our $1.8bn sugar export industry by dragging down prices to unsustainable lows," he said.
"While Australia respects the rights of WTO members to support their farmers and agricultural industries, this support must be consistent with WTO rules and provide a level playing field."
Mr Birmingham said Australia always seeks to resolve its concerns outside of the WTO's dispute system and its "numerous" representations to India and the WTO have been consistent with such an approach.
"Unfortunately, our representations, and those of other sugar exporting countries, have so far been unsuccessful. This has left us with no other choice but to initiate formal WTO dispute action, together with Brazil," he said.
"Australia maintains a very good relationship with India, both economically and strategically, and it is perfectly normal for even close friends and partners to avail themselves of WTO mechanisms from time-to-time to resolve trade issues."
Agriculture minister David Littleproud and assistant trade minister Mark Coulton joined Mr Birmingham in acknowledging the work the Canegrowers and the Australian Sugar Milling Council have done in preparing to launch this WTO action.
"Our industry relies heavily on exports, sending roughly 85% of its raw sugar into the world market," Mr Littleproud said.
"These subsidies are hitting our farmers and millers, and I'm pleased we're exercising our WTO rights and asking for an even playing field."
Assistant Minister Coulton said the sugar industry made a great contribution to jobs and the economy in regional Australia and the government would continue to stand up for these communities.
"This action being taken by the government demonstrates our commitment to protecting the interests of our hard-working canegrowers and sugar millers, and to the rules-based international trading system that underpins the viability of our vital export industries," Mr Coulton said.
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Q: Snappydata SQL WITH statement I am using Snappydata to run some queries, and use the sql with statement:
WITH x AS (
  SELECT DISTINCT col_a, col_b
  FROM table_a
)
INSERT INTO table_b
SELECT x.col_a, x.col_b
FROM x
  JOIN table_c c ON x.col_a = c.col_a and x.col_b = c.col_b

This sql code runs fine when running in local mode, but when I submit the compiled jar file to Snappydata cluster, it throws an error saying the table "APP.X" does not exist,
org.apache.spark.sql.TableNotFoundException: Table 'APP.X' not found;

any idea why this happens?

A: This is a known limitation due to Approximate Query Processing (AQP) rule resolution that tries to resolve the name prematurely. We saw this when running TPC-DS queries. It is fixed on latest AQP master and fix will be available in 1.0. For now there are two options:
a) Change to normal sub-query variant:
INSERT INTO table_b
SELECT x.col_a, x.col_b
FROM (SELECT DISTINCT col_a, col_b FROM table_a) x
  JOIN table_c c
  ON x.col_a = c.col_a
  AND x.col_b = c.col_b

b) Or if not using AQP queries, then you can move out snappydata-aqp jar from product jars directory

A: try adding FROM x
WITH x AS (
  SELECT DISTINCT col_a, col_b
    FROM table_a
)

INSERT
  INTO table_b
SELECT x.col_a,
       x.col_b
  FROM x
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Gene Autrey Williams, 69, died at 4:20 p.m., Thursday, July 1, 2010 at Jerseyville Manor Nursing Home.
He was born in Alton on April 2, 1941, the son of the late Frank & Lillie Mae (Brown) Williams.Gene had been employed as a meat cutter for Diamond Meat Packing in Carlinville for many years, and is survived by three older children, Gene, Kenny & Sandra Dee.He later married the former Kathy Baker, and together they had three children whom survivies, Scott Williams of Jerseyville, JoAnn and her husband, James McAdams of Jerseyville, and Rhonda & Joseph Burns of Hayward, Ca.; seven grandchildren; two sisters, Barb Menzie of Alton, and Charlotte of Elsah: three brothers, Clyde Williams of Jerseyville, Larry Williams of Carrollton, and Paul Williams of Alton.Per his request, cremation has taken place and private family services will be held.Crawford Funeral Home in Jerseyville is in charge of the arrangements.
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National Bird (2016) opens Friday and it's worth seeing
I saw NATIONAL BIRD when it payed at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year. I liked the film but I had a problem with it, basically the film is really two films- the first half about the use of drones and the second about the effects of the drones. Seeing the film in the middle of the Tribeca Film Festival I wrote up a small piece and I moved on...
But here's the rub despite seeing some 89 other films, most of which have faded from my memory, I still remember NATIONAL BIRD. Despite my reservations concerning the film it has stayed with me and forced it's way into my brain. While I don't remember the first half discussion about drone use, I sure as hell remember the second part where we see the damage they cause. Its so arresting that when I was asked to revisit the film for it's theatrical release I said yes.
Below is a slightly modified repost of the review that ran back in April during the Tribeca Film Festival. It explains briefly my feelings for the film
NATIONAL BIRD is half a disappointment and half a kick ass film. For me the first half about the effects of drones in the US's current wars is a been there and done that tale of the damage making life and death decisions causes even far away. We've seen variations of this before in numerous documentaries and several recent fictions films (some of which even have played here at Tribeca) and the result was I kind of tuned out.
It wasn't until one of the interviewees goes to Afghanistan on a humanitarian mission and we meet victims of the drone war that the film springs fantastically alive. Here at last the film finds its footing and we are kicked in our asses. What we see is absolutely arresting, and even if we've seen it before it still rattles us to the core. I can't help but wonder what this film might have been had the film been focused from the start on the human cost of the robotic agents of doom. Its this later section of the film that makes it a film worth you time.
Reservations aside this is worth seeing.
NATIONAL BIRD hits theaters Friday.
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In what appears to be another economic casualty of the pandemic, Oregon Public Broadcasting will end its 24/7 audio channel on Friday, December 11.
The service has been available since 2007, with an overall effort that grew to include regular features such as their beautifully-shot studio sessions. In announcing the sunsetting, opbmusic's Program Director David Christensen said the move would allow the organization to focus on broader music and arts reporting on radio, TV, and digital.
"In the past few years, we've increased the amount of music reporting by opbmusic staff, and especially during the pandemic, it's grown in importance on OPB Radio as well as our digital platforms. opbmusic's popular studio sessions, while currently on hiatus, will return in 2021. Regular features like the "Monday Mix" will also continue," said Christensen in a blog post.
"2020 has been an exceptionally difficult year for artists and venues. Like you, we're anxious for the return of concerts and touring, and want to support those events for artists, venues and fans when they can safely restart. Look for this coverage, along with our regular features and, eventually, studio sessions, on opbmusic and OPB's other digital and broadcast platforms."
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On May 18, Wellesley faculty from departments across campus participated in a retreat focused on making progress toward the institutional goal of inclusive excellence. Planned by the Inclusive Excellence Working Group and the Retreat Planning Committee, the retreat built upon the College's two town halls on inclusive excellence held this spring, during which students shared with faculty (and with each other) their personal experiences at Wellesley and suggested ways the College could better support underrepresented groups.
In a range of workshops, faculty reviewed inclusive pedagogy and considered research-based strategies from Wellesley and other institutions. Several staff members from Student Life also made presentations or moderated workshops, including Sheilah Horton, vice president and dean of students, and Tiffany Steinwert, dean of the office of religious and spiritual life.
The retreat gave faculty an opportunity to think deeply about what students have shared and to consider the latest research and analysis as they worked to formulate solutions to help the College provide a fully equitable experience for all students.
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The Eisner Award-winning miniseries The Crooked Man, by Mignola and Richard Corben, teams Hellboy with a wandering hillman in a devilish tale of Appalachian witchcraft. This volume also includes the rare "They Who Go Down to the Sea in Ships" by Mignola, Josh Dysart (B.P.R.D.: 1947), and Jason Shawn Alexander (Abe Sapien: The Drowning), never before available for purchase; Mignola and Duncan Fegredo's "The Mole," from Free Comic Book Day 2008; and Mignola's most recent solo outing, "In the Chapel of Moloch." * Also includes a look into the artists' sketchbooks! * 2009 Eisner Award winner for Best Limited Series! "Richard Corben shows these youngsters how it's done... and it's so good, in its grotesquely beautiful way." -Comic Book Resources
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Q: How can I control the SQL table aliases that Hibernate uses in its generated queries? tl;dr: Hibernate automatically generates SQL table aliases in its queries like jurisdicti4_ or this_.  Here's an example query:
SELECT
    this_.id                            AS id2_6_3_,
    this_.a_table_column                AS a_table_column3_6_3_,
    jurisdicti4_.b_table_column         AS b_table_column4_6_3_,

FROM
    app_table_a          this_
    LEFT OUTER JOIN jurisdiction       jurisdicti4_ ON this_.jurisdiction = jurisdicti4_.name
WHERE
    this_.a_table_column = ?

I'm using the Hibernate Criteria API to add some hints that need reference the SQL aliases in the query, so I need to know how to either:

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*specify the SQL table aliases Hibernate will use in its queries (e.g. tell it to use juris instead of jurisdicti4_ for jurisdiction, or

*get hibernate to tell me the exact SQL table alias it will use for a particular table or entity (e.g. be told the alias in the query for jurisdiction will be jurisdicti4_.

Full story:
I've inherited a Java app with an Oracle DB that uses Hibernate 4.3.8 and the Hibernate Criteria API to generate some complicated search queries.  It recently ran into a severe SQL performance problem that will require us to start to include hints these queries.  However, we use Oracle, and its index hints are in the form of:
/*+ index (TABLE_ALIAS INDEX_NAME) */
I've successfully added the needed hints using Criteria.addHint(...), however I've had to hardcode the Hibernate-generated TABLE_ALIAS in the hint string.  I'm concerned that over time, the aliases may change, so I want to either control how they're generated or be able to retrieve their values to use when adding the SQL hint.

Edit: This website describes the Hibernate SQL alias generation process: https://prismoskills.appspot.com/lessons/Hibernate/Chapter_23_-_Hibernate_alias_names.jsp
I've found that I have partial control of the SQL aliases when I programmatically set up the join like this: criteria.createAlias(associationPath, alias).  The alias value I pass seems to be used as the first part of the SQL alias for the table.  However, Hibernate appends some kind of generated table ID integer to that, so I'd get something like myalias4_ in the generated SQL.  Also, this only seems to work in joins I setup myself in the criteria.  Hibernate will often add its own based on the mappings, and I'm not sure how get this same level of partial control over those.


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Recurring lockdowns and the ongoing coronavirus crisis have seen a significant increase in remote working; and many organisations are now planning their future strategies around an increased desire for remote working.
For most people remote working means home working, and in recent months we have all seen articles and guidance around managing information security risks while working at home. Robust plans around information security are being carefully crafted by most organisations to address professional life in the new normal. But one element of security appears to have been widely overlooked, and that is around the physical security of home workers.
Some organisations do face threats from aggrieved third parties from time to time – they could be customers, suppliers or possibly former colleagues. These threats are impossible to predict but usually manifest themselves in threatening correspondence or calls, and very occasionally unwanted attendance at offices in person. Thankfully these incidents are rare, but when they do occur they can be extremely worrying for those targeted, and the consequences can be very serious.
Towards the end of last year, it was widely reported that a man with a large knife entered a London law firm and launched a "violent, racist attack" that injured a staff member before the assailant was overwhelmed. Just last week there was also the alleged attempted murder of renowned plastic surgeon Graeme Perks at his family home.
Security arrangements at office locations very often serve as a deterrent. The reality is, however, that physical security controls at our offices are usually far more robust than at our homes.
There are of course limits to the steps any organisation can reasonably take to protect their staff from criminal behaviour off and on site. But every organisation should carry out a specific risk assessment, paying particular attention to the sensitivity and risks around the tasks that home workers are routinely carrying out.
Guidance around home security should be issued to all employees. Home addresses should not be provided to third parties and not appear on any documents in the public domain, and any staff at particular risk should use social media very carefully and regularly review their privacy settings on such platforms.
It is also important to know what legal action can be taken if the Police are unable to stop an offender quickly enough. Our experience is that obtaining an injunction through the civil courts in serious cases takes a fraction of the time it takes for the Police to investigate an allegation and for any criminal prosecution to be dealt with in the criminal courts.
We have an experienced team at DMH Stallard dealing with such issues. As an example, we recently obtained an injunction against an individual where harassment was involved within days of the harassment taking place.
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The Prague Transport Company has launched a website entirely dedicated to the upcoming Metro D.
Visitors will be able to find detailed information about the new line, and the latest news on the construction.
The Metro D line has faced numerous delays. Construction was originally supposed to start in 2010. There was a petition in 2016 to change the approved designs for the stations between Pankrác to Písnice because the designs are already outdated, and do not reflect current trends in mass transit.
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Metro D is a planned subway line that will connect the city center to neighborhoods in the southern part of the city that now has poor public transportation options. The trains will be driverless.
Prague will thus catch up with the most advanced metropolises of the world, where it's quite common that a metro operates without a driver. This fun's not for free, though.
At this point, the costs are expected to be around 72 billion CZK and they'll keep increasing. According to current plans, the first passengers could board the D Line at the end of 2027.
The first section to be built will be between stations Náměstí Míru and Depo Písnice. The proposed length is 10.6 kilometres and a total of 10 stations is being planned. (Náměstí Míru, Náměstí bratří Synků, Pankrác, Olbrachtova, Nádraží Krč, Nemocnice Krč, Nové Dvory, Libuš, Písnice a Depo Písnice).
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The Prague Metro was founded in 1974, and now comprises three lines (A, B and C), serving 61 stations (predominantly with island platforms), and consists of a transit network 65.2 kilometres long. Prague Metro system served 589.2 million passengers in 2012 (about 1.6 million daily), making it the fifth busiest metro system in Europe.
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Expect a new proposal for money market mutual fund reform before summer.
That's what SEC commissioner Daniel M. Gallagher has said, according to a Bloomberg report. Gallagher said he anticipates a proposal coming out within two months.
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Brandywine Living Residents Support Local Police with Humorous Survival Kits
For some people, the daily grind of working can feel like survival, but for the men and women who wear "blue" to work the feeling of survival can be reality. Residents of Brandywine Living at Moorestown Estates assembled inspirational and humorous "Police Officer Survival Kits" in support of the local police officers who face dangerous challenges daily.
Each survival kit was filled with different types of "survival" candy complete with humorous and inspirational instructions. For instance, the peppermints were supplied to "…help you keep your cool."
Brandywine Living at Moorestown Estates team members, who created the project, hoped it would not only make the police smile, but also the residents.
"I just had so much fun making up the gift bags for National Police Week. It was like a crazy assembly line and we laughed a lot! It was so funny because we all ended up wearing blue that day and we didn't even plan it," said Pauline, Brandywine Living resident. "I thought it was such a creative way to thank the police for all they do and it made me really happy to be a part of it. That's really the secret of doing things for others, isn't it—¬that the people giving, feel almost as good as the people receiving."
The survival kits were delivered to local Moorestown police stations during National Police Week observed May 13-19, 2018.
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Brandywine Living (formerly Brandywine Senior Living) is a market leader in luxury senior living, including assisted living, memory care and independent living. Founded in 1996, and headquartered in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, Brandywine currently operates 29 communities in six states (PA, NJ, NY, CT, VA & DE) with capacity to serve over 3,000 residents.
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"Majestic! . . . Readers of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings will find in The Silmarillion a cosmology to call their own, medieval romances, fierce fairy tales, and fiercer wars that ring with heraldic fury . . . It overwhelms the reader." — Time
The story of the creation of the world and of the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. The three Silmarils were jewels created by Fëanor, most gifted of the Elves. Within them was imprisoned the Light of the Two Trees of Valinor before the Trees themselves were destroyed by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. Thereafter, the unsullied Light of Valinor lived on only in the Silmarils, but they were seized by Morgoth and set in his crown, which was guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of Fëanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all their heroism, against the great Enemy.
"A creation of singular beauty . . . magnificent in its best moments." — Washington Post
"Heart-lifting . . . a work of power, eloquence and noble vision . . . Superb!" — Wall Street Journal
J.R.R. TOLKIEN (1892–1973) is the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic and extraordinary works of fiction as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. His books have been translated into more than fifty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.
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Fracking Industry's Faulty Claims Cast Doubt on Shale Investments
Why EPA Should Create New Rules for Oil and Gas Waste in 2012
Laura Beans
By Sharon Kelly
America is in the midst of the biggest onshore oil and gas rush in recent history, with excitement spreading across the U.S. Oil and gas companies have cashed in on this frenzied excitement by courting huge investments domestically and abroad.
Graphic courtesy of OpenSecrets.org
But a growing chorus of independent analysts and law enforcement agencies have their doubts and have questioned whether shale drillers are over-hyping their financial prospects and overestimating how much oil or gas they can profitably pull from the ground. Just this week, one of America's biggest agricultural lenders, the Netherlands-based Rabobank, announced that it would no longer lend money to companies that invest in shale gas extraction (nor to farmers worldwide who lease their land to these drillers).
The way that oil and gas companies describe their prospects in their financial statements matters because investors—and not just the uber-wealthy ones but also pension funds, university endowments, average folks with retirement savings or 401(k)s—can lose catastrophically if the information they rely on is faulty.
This matters to taxpayers too, since lawmakers need accurate information when making long-term decisions about the industry subsidies and tax breaks granted to encourage the drilling boom. The shale fracking rush could prove to be an expensive bust for taxpayers if oil and gas wells do not perform as promised.
Concern that companies have been over-exuberant about shale led Wall Street's two top cops, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the New York Attorney General to investigate whether oil and gas companies have been "overbooking" their reserves (translation: inflating their appeal by promising investors more fossil fuels than their wells can actually deliver).
One company in particular—Chesapeake Energy—has attracted the most attention from these investigators.
In the drilling industry, Chesapeake is known for being more aggressive than many of its competitors in its "land grab" strategies, its use of book-keeping methods to obscure costs, even in its legal and public relations posture toward local communities that try to block drilling.
Last year, Chesapeake came under renewed heavy scrutiny after then-CEO Aubrey McClendon's $1.1 billion in personal loans, an undisclosed private hedge fund and extensive perks were revealed by an award-winning Reuters investigation.
Little has leaked out about the SEC and New York Attorney General probes. One company, Goodrich Energy, announced in September 2012 that the SEC probe into their reserves was over, but no other companies made similar announcements.
Recently, with little fanfare, Chesapeake announced a move that underscores the importance of these concerns and also offers another example of the revolving door that has characterized relations between the oil and gas industry and the regulatory agencies that are supposed to police them.
The SEC's Revolving Door Problem
On June 17, Chesapeake Energy announced it had appointed a new chief Compliance Officer, Patrick K. Craine. Craine is an accomplished attorney—he was a partner at a major law firm, Bracewell & Guiliani, where he specialized in white collar criminal defense, regulatory enforcement and internal investigations.
But hands down his greatest value to Chesapeake will be the role Craine played at the SEC. A former prosecutor, Craine handled many oil and gas cases at the SEC and, according to his law firm bio page, "prosecuted the largest oil and gas reserves restatement case in history."
Companies that hire former regulators often dismiss concerns about revolving doors, arguing that no one knows the rules better than the people who used to administer them. Their specialized knowledge and experience in interpreting rules is invaluable to companies who want to follow the rules in good faith and navigate complicated regulations, they say.
But since the financial collapse in 2008, watchdogs have honed in on the problems that can result when former prosecutor go to work for the industries they once investigated – especially at the SEC.
"Former employees of the Securities and Exchange Commission routinely help corporations try to influence S.E.C. rule-making, counter the agency's investigations of suspected wrongdoing, soften the blow of S.E.C. enforcement actions, block shareholder proposals and win exemptions from federal law," the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) wrote in a report released earlier this year.
In a companion report, POGO highlighted the ways that revolving doors can lead to a situation political scientists call "regulatory capture."
When the people who are supposed to police an industry are too cozy with the people representing that industry, they can pick up their world view. They can come to identify strongly with the people they are supposed to be overseeing, undermining their ability to take tough measures. And current regulators can unconsciously give former colleagues who now work for the industry greater deference or leeway because of their shared past.
That's why many federal agencies have ethics rules that attempt to guard against regulatory capture. But last year, the SEC's own Inspector General investigated how the SEC guards against conflicts of interest caused by revolving doors and concluded that the agency's ethics rules on these matters were riddled with loopholes.
And when it comes to policing the colossally wealthy and politically powerful oil and gas industry, the SEC is especially outgunned as its staff of enforcement specialists consists of little more than a handful of experts.
A Little-Noticed SEC Rule Change
In some ways, the SEC has helped create some of the very problems it is now investigating at Chesapeake and other drilling companies.
At the end of 2008, the SEC loosened rules that govern how oil and gas companies can calculate their reserves. The new rules from the SEC allowed more leeway in predicting how much oil and gas their wells, particularly unconventional oil and gas wells like shale or coal bed methane, could produce. This was a boon for drilling companies like Chesapeake in their effort to attract investment.
This little-noticed SEC rule change—one of the Bush Administration's last moves before leaving office—allowed companies license to more optimistically book unconventional oil and gas, including shale gas and shale oil.
The impact of this rule change on the shale gas industry was enormous and immediate.
"The final SEC rules have demonstrably created a situation where there is room for interpretations" that allow unconventional oil and gas companies to book larger reserves, a July 2012 Society of Petroleum Engineers paper by Ruud Weijemars concluded, adding that "a difference in reserves reporting 'culture' has emerged between U.S. independents—engaged in unconventional-gas developments—and the oil majors."
After the SEC changed its rules, a huge gulf emerged between the ways that these independents booked their reserves and how conventional oil and gas companies applied the rules.
"Digging deeper into company reports reveals some additional cause for concern about the certainty of economic production from shale gas reserves," Weijemars wrote in his peer-reviewed paper.
A company-by-company review led to a damning conclusion for the unconventional gas industry. Weijemars found that "throughout 2009, companies such as Petrohawk, Devon, Chesapeake and EOG could not produce gas with an operational profit. The 51 percent increase of 2009 proved reserves from U.S. shale producers therefore cannot be explained by economic fundamentals."
He said instead, that companies appeared to be making money through financial engineering and the use of creative financing. Forty percent of Chesapeake's 2009 operational income didn't come from selling gas, but instead came from derivative trading. (Weijemars is not alone in having doubts about Chesapeake's prospects—last year a report by ITG Investment Research calculated that Chesapeake could only deliver 70 percent of the oil and gas it was promising.)
"Today's reality is that nearly all North American shale-gas projects are losing money faster than can be generated from operational income," Weijermar and Joost van der Linden wrote in First Break, a journal that covers applied geophysics, petroleum geoscience and reservoir engineering, "which means losses must be compensated" using various financing techniques and selling off acreage.
The SEC is the federal agency that should be asking hard questions, uncovering information like this and making sure the numbers provided to investors add up. And indeed, Chesapeake has found itself under numerous inquiries that will keep former-SEC prosecutor Patrick Craine's hands full. But so far it's not clear how aggressively the SEC will police Chesapeake's reserve claims —or similar claims by the rest of the shale oil and gas industry—or whether any results will simply be buried.
Meanwhile, market analysts are increasingly finding red flags in the industry's publicly-disclosed data. These concerns have even drawn the attention of Congress.
"Shale wells deplete alarmingly," testified energy analyst Deborah Rogers in May before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Rogers, who was recently appointed an adviser to the U.S. Department of the Interior's Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative which is looking into some of these issues, described a pattern where companies like Chesapeake need to drill more wells just to keep gas flowing out and cash flowing in.
She also explained why this pattern is not just financially worrisome.
"The collateral damage in the form of air toxics, ground water depletion, encroachment, road damages and potential aquifer ruination in the United States could be immense," she said, "and will only continue to rise as more and more wells need to be drilled."
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By Amy Mall
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With the void of federal protection from toxic oil and gas waste, states can and should create better rules. As I mentioned in a recent blog post, a new West Virginia law takes one tiny step in that direction. From now on in West Virginia—for horizontal wells only—drill cuttings and other drilling waste can only be buried on someone's property if the surface owner consents.
An article in the Dominion Post illustrates why rules like this are so important. According to the article, the Teel family in Wetzel County, West Virginia, is suing a division of Chesapeake Energy for permanently damaging and polluting their property and groundwater with toxic natural gas waste. Their complaint says that Chesapeake cleared about five acres on their property and "assured them the land would be suitable for home sites when work was complete." Instead, Chesapeake used that spot for drilling and fracking waste. The Teels say that Chesapeake dumped "foamy, foul-smelling material" into unlined trenches 12-15 feet deep and buried it, and that it is now migrating through the soil and groundwater.
The Teels, like many other Americans, are victims of toxic oil and gas waste that is inadequately regulated. We've blogged about how this waste is getting into the environment and being poorly managed with often minimal oversight in spots around the country. We know how toxic this waste can be, and we also know the industry has better methods that can be used for storing and disposing of it. Why should the Teel family have to pay out of their own pocket for a lawyer to represent them in court to protect their land and water from toxic waste? They don't own mineral rights and are getting zero economic benefit from the oil and gas industry.
One of the disposal methods is underground injection of the waste. While this method is almost always going to be a better option than burial in a residential or agricultural zone, it is the lesser of two evils with its own risks to groundwater, and needs to be improved. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just issued a notice that it has entered into a Consent Agreement and Final Order with EXCO Resources (PA), LLC for violations of the rules governing underground injection of oil and gas waste. It appears that EXCO kept injecting waste into a well that it knew had failed mechanical integrity, didn't inform EPA of the problem in a timely manner in accordance with the permit, and operated the well at a pressure exceeding its permitted maximum injection pressure.
Before this order was issued, the Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air was alerted to the dozens of trucks that were unloading waste in this location everyday. Concerned about the activity, they paid to test water from nearby springs and report that they found very alarming contamination data. There is not enough information at this point to know if any contamination is linked to the problematic disposal well, but we certainly hope that EPA will be fully investigating the potential groundwater impacts from this toxic waste site.
While it's good to know that EPA is enforcing the law at the Pennsylvania injection well mentioned above, these problems need to be prevented in the first place. EPA's current standards for underground injection wells are not strong enough for toxic oil and gas waste. Disposal wells used for underground injection of toxic waste from other industries are built to much higher standards than those used for oil and gas waste. It is long past time for national oil and gas waste rules to be strengthened—for pits, underground disposal wells, and other methods currently used by the industry.
Natural Resources Defense Council has asked the EPA to write new rules for toxic oil and gas waste. The current rules have not been updated since the late 1980s. Needless to say, a lot has changed since then, as documented in our petition to EPA. We hope the EPA will take up this issue in 2012.
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Der Ort wurde 1553 gegründet. Von 1598 bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts gehörte er der  Radziwiłł-Familie. 1654 erhielt  Zabłudów das Magdeburger Stadtrecht. Im Russisch-Polnischen Krieg wurde die Stadt 1659 vom russischen Heer zerstört.

Von 1807 bis 1918 gehörte Zabłudów zu Russland, dann zum Staat Polen. Von 1939 bis 1941 wurde der Ort von sowjetischen Truppen besetzt, dann von deutschen (1941–1944).

In der Stadt gab es vor der Schoah eine große jüdische Gemeinde. Am Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts waren etwa 60 Prozent der Einwohner Juden. In der Stadt gab es eine in den 1640er Jahren erbaute Synagoge. Deutsche Truppen brannten sie 1941 nieder.

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I'll be starting a series here called My Work Wardrobe just to give you guys an idea of how I dress to work - from shoes, to clothes, to accessories and if possible, how I do my hair as well.
crisp, long sleeve white shirt. I'm not a fan of mid-length sleeves. It is either a short sleeve or a long sleeve for me. Long sleeves are what I would typically wear on a 'serious' Monday, lol.
sleeveless sweater. Do I really need to wear a sweater in Lagos? Nope, but they are so comfy I have 3 of them but wear them so well that people assume I have several, lol. Barbara wakes up and doesn't find what to wear? I throw a sweater on a shirt.
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Amit Singhal is Google's senior vice president of search, overseeing all of the company's search products, a role he's had since he joined Google back in 2000. In this interview he discusses his motivations for putting 'mobile first' for the last year or so and it is pretty interesting reading. Interview snippets like these reinforce the importance of mobile in the eyes of Google, they also released an algorithm update in the last year which increased mobile optimisation as a ranking factor. If you would like any more information on how we can help ensure that your dental website is optimised for mobile – please call us on 01202 677277 or email your account manager.


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Have your members and friends and families and kids use social networking Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube and cellphone with cameras spread a call throughout the world and especially in the dozens of countries suffering US bombings, occupation wars or CIA covert violence, death and destruction to BREAK the 48 year BLACKOUT of King's condemnation of his country's government as the "greatest purveyor of violence in the world," and his having held himself and his fellow Americans responsible for "atrocity wars and covert violence on three continents since 1945 in order to maintain unjust predatory investments."
During Martin Luther King's three day weekend Birthday celebrations, everyone, everywhere throughout the world use social networking Twitter, Facebook, cell phone, camera's to produce YouTube segments! Make it impossible for genocidal US media to again deceitfully erase from history King's condemnation of his country's government as the "greatest purveyor of violence in the world," and his having held himself and his fellow Americans responsible for "atrocity wars and covert violence on three continents since 1945 in order to maintain unjust predatory investments."
Ramsey Clark suggests using the above terse quotes from King's world shaking 1967 sermon Beyond Vietnam - a Time to Break Silence, but below are other powerful phrases one can quote - a few perhaps naming your country as targeted for death.
"The Vietnamese people proclaimed their independence in 1945, after a combined French and Japanese occupation ... we decided to support France in its reconquest of her former colony. For nine years we vigorously supported the French in their abortive effort to recolonize Vietnam. ... After the French were defeated, we supported one of the most vicious modern dictators, our chosen man. Now they languish under our bombs and consider us, not their fellow Vietnamese, the real enemy. They move sadly and apathetically as we herd them off the land of their fathers into concentration camps where minimal social needs are rarely met. They know they must move on or be destroyed by our bombs.
So they go, primarily women and children and the aged. They watch as we poison their water, as we kill a million acres of their crops, as the bulldozers roar through their areas preparing to destroy the precious trees. They wander into the towns and see thousands of the children, homeless, without clothes, running in packs on the streets like animals, children degraded by our soldiers as they beg for food. They see the children selling their sisters to our soldiers, soliciting for their mothers...we ally ourselves with the landlords...we test out our latest weapons on them, just as the Germans tested out new medicine and new tortures in the concentration camps of Europe? We have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village. We have destroyed their land, their crops. We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men. So far we may have killed a million of them, mostly children."
"During the past ten years, we have seen emerge a pattern of suppression which has now justified the presence of U.S. military advisers in Venezuela. This need to maintain social stability for our investments accounts for the counterrevolutionary action of American forces in Guatemala. It tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Cambodia and why American napalm and Green Beret forces have already been active against rebels in Peru.
(King mentioned ) "Mozambique - South Africa."
Ask yourselves, with all mankind's social media power, are we going to sit back and let criminal media smother King's devastating blow against the genocidal wars of US NATO imperialism this year too? Let the media of a still racist society sucker our eyes and ears and use King's 1963 "I have Dream' to erase his 1967 'That Dream won't come true unless we stop the Nightmare that is Vietnam and the rest of the atrocity wars and covert violence meant to maintain unjust predatory investments overseas.
Folks, if we can kick up enough awareness, someone capable of prime time coverage like Putin or Evo Morales or the now tough talking Foreign Minister of Venezuela, who a couple days ago called Kerry a murderer, might just decide to lower the boom on this preposterous 48 year old pathetic farce, and make a statement honoring King on his birthday for his bravery in condemning his government as the greatest purveyor of violence in the world for its atrocity wars and covert violence on three continents for to maintain its unjust predatory investments.
Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark is co-founder of the King Condemned US Wars International Awareness Campaign, created on the initiative of beloved peoples historian Howard Zinn and supported by Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa.
jay janson is a regular contributor to OpEdNews, Counter Currents, Kerala, India, and Minority Perspective Birmingham, UK; is coordinator of the Howard Zinn and Ramsey Clark founded, King Condemned US Wars International Awareness Campaign and historian of the Ramsey Clark co-founded Prosecute US Crimes Against Humanity Now, an educational and stimulus website featuring the laws pertaining and a country by country history of US crimes in nineteen countries.


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We're almost there! Stay tuned every day this week for more updates and information! For now, a little bit about it!
Ryan Russell, RYANTIME TV's creator and host, is a recognized name and personality with a 24 year performance history and he's decided it's time. Time for a fresh, sexy, and playful take on the personality interview show with a decidedly gay twist. Incorporating activity-based interviews, performances, and variety show entertainment that celebrates dynamic personalities and talents, everything runs on RYANTIME starting January 12, 2015!
Audiences join us live, every week on Tuesdays at 8:30PM at Woody's in Toronto for the tapings! Then through 50 weekly episodes available Mondays with behind-the-scenes and bonus clips and editorial, delivered through RYANTIME TV! All completely free.
RYANTIME TV is recorded weekly in Woody's, located in the heart of Church-Wellesley Gay Village.
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Flights from Dublin to Chicago O'Hare Airport via Reykjavik, Iceland for €159 one way including taxes and charges;
WOW air will fly four-times weekly to Chicago O'Hare Airport via Reykjavik, Iceland, commencing today
Offer open from today (Thursday, 13 July) for travel from October 2017 – March 2018
WOW air, Iceland's low-cost airline, has announced fares from Dublin Airport to Chicago O'Hare Airport, via Reykjavik, Iceland, for as low as €159 one way including taxes and charges. The offer is valid from today (Thursday, 13 July) on flights from Dublin Airport to Chicago O'Hare Airport via Reykjavik for travel between October 2017 and March 2018.
The airline will begin flying to The Windy City from today, Thursday, 13 July, with flights from Dublin Airport to Chicago operating up to four times a week, increasing to six weekly flights during peak summer schedule. Passengers can also avail of the WOW stopover option and explore Iceland on either leg of their transatlantic journey for an unlimited time.
Chicago is the third-largest city in the United States and is renowned for its bold architecture. The city boasts an impressive skyline, being home to four of America's tallest buildings: Willis Tower, Trump International Hotel & Tower, Aon Centre and John Hancock Centre.
Visitors to the Windy City can explore many of its world-class museums; take a trip to Millennium Park and get a picture with the iconic 'Bean' sculpture; eat the best Chicago-style pizza the city has to offer; and if you're in time for St Patrick's Day, see the Chicago River turn green.
Commenting today, Svanhvít Fridriksdóttir, Director of Communications at WOW air, said: "We are thrilled to be able to offer our Irish passengers more affordable travel to transatlantic destinations and to continue our mission to offer the lowest fares across the Atlantic.
"With its unique history and attractions, and the city's deep ties to Ireland, it's easy to see why Chicago appeals to Irish travellers. We're delighted to add it to our route list and are pleased to be able to make the city more accessible than ever before."
Chicago is the tenth U.S. destination to be connected to Ireland via Iceland since WOW air's inaugural flight from Ireland in June 2015. The airline also flies, via Reykjavik, to New York , Boston, Washington DC, Toronto , Montréal, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Pittsburgh.
For more information on flights or to book, please visit www.wowair.ie.
About WOW air
WOW air is Iceland's only low-fare airline and the most punctual, with 92% of flights arriving on time in 2014. WOW air offers the lowest fares, a modern fleet with the lowest emissions and the biggest smile; this is the WOW air promise to its valuable customers. The airline began flying to Reykjavik Iceland from Dublin in June 2015 and from Cork in May 2017. WOW air flies Dublin to Reykjavik five times weekly, increasing to daily in peak summer times. WOW air has since launched a number for US routes from Ireland via Reykjavik. Flights connect passengers to ten North America destinations via Reykjavik including New York, Boston, Washington DC, Toronto, Montreal, Miami, LA, San Francisco and Pittsburgh with the Chicago route starting in July 2017. Established in November 2011 by Icelandic entrepreneur Skúli Mogensen, the purple airline currently flies three Airbus A320 aircraft across Europe, three Airbus A330 aircraft and eleven Airbus A321 aircraft that service its transatlantic routes. By the end of 2018 the fleet will consist of 24 brand new aircrafts. WOW air was ranked as the 7th best low-cost airline in Europe at the 2013 and 2014 Skytrax World Airline Awards and was the youngest airline in the top ten. To book flights and for more information visit: www.wowair.ie
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Training for quality service | LOT Polish Airlines
Could LOT Polish Airlines win our 2021 Cabin Concept of the Year Award?
By Julie Baxter
Launched: Elite Fleet Group training began in June 2021. New meal concepts launched May 2021
To redefine the quality of its Business Class offer on long-haul flights, LOT Polish Airlines launched a three-stage crew training programme to up service skills, professionalism and performance, and transform the Business experience inflight. This was combined with new e-training for Economy crews, new IFE and expanded pre-order meal concepts to improve the onboard offer...
LOT Polish Airlines wanted to better meet the expectations of its clients and reflect current trends. For Business passengers they wanted to create a competitive advantage in the market by providing the best Business Class service in the Eastern European market. In Economy they wanted to offer easy access to a wide choice of food and beverage. They decided to achieve this by developing an elite team of dedicated cabin crew for Business Class given specific, high-quality training to deliver a new range of inflight catering concepts. Economy innovation was driven by digitalisation and pre-order, alongside a purpose-made e-learning programme for crew. The training is trail-blazing and ambitious, designed to transform the onboard offer.
Crew screening
All crew could apply for the elite group and after initial screening those put forward were put on a comprehensive, purpose-designed training course with four modules and an exam, plus detailed verification process taking 12 full days. The course covered hospitality, crew roles, Business Class equipment, catering and wine as well as cultural differences, cheese board service, plating, service delivery, theoretical and practical tests. This was followed by a probationary period of six months during which newly empowered senior pursers evaluated the Business Class personnel in action and supported their development further.
The process was designed to ensure the highest level of service, and create an unforgettable and luxurious journey for Business passengers. A proprietary recruitment and training programme was developed to identify and appoint Senior Pursers with new leadership and management responsibilities to support the smooth running of the cabin and a personal service onboard.
Economy crews were given access to a large scale e-learning programme to support their understanding of operational processes and service delivery. This included virtual walk arounds and VR training tools designed to push industry standards to a new level.
LOT Entertainment, a wireless IFE service onboard the B737s, supports onboard service further and allows entertainment options to be accessed via personal devices free of charge. It also gives passengers the opportunity to browse the digitalised SkyBar menu and Shop&More catalogue. No app download is required.
In addition the system showcases a new e-press service of daily papers and magazines for all classes, available prior, during and after each flight. This enhances the passenger offer as well as supporting LOT's sustainability goals by reducing paper onboard. The system includes guides written by the LOT cabin crew to support the passenger experience.
Catering change
Following a small trial, the opportunity to pre-order meals and snacks went live in May 2021. The brief for the revised catering offer was to be 'brave and open minded and pioneer a wide range of options to suit all lifestyle choices and dietry needs'. Economy passengers can now pre-order on booking and upto 24 hours before departure.
The launch produced great feedback and resulted in a 10-20% increase in sales each week following the full menu launch.
Catering in the LOT Business Lounge in Warsaw has been upgade too to provide a rich gastronomic offer served restaurant-style at the table to order. The goal was to bring the onboard level of service into the lounge and innovation includes customised cocktails at the bar and local specialities.
Remotivated
The newly revised offering and focus on improved, quality training has given the crew a renewed sense of pride and dedication to service. The airline has developed a new sense of purpose among its teams – providing the highest quality of service in both cabins. Passengers are already noting and appreciating the change.
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Opinion: Daily Journal
A Budget Deal at 7-Eleven
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Two weeks after the start of the 2014-15 fiscal year, the North Carolina House and Senate still haven't reached an agreement on adjusting the state budget. If you've been around the General Assembly for any length of time, the situation ought to look awfully familiar. The rapid resolution of budget negotiations we've seen in recent years has been an outlier, not the norm. I've often seen budget deliberations stretch into August, and sometimes beyond.
Still, there's no doubt that the current impasse has proven to be immensely frustrating for all concerned. It's not helping matters that critics of the new Republican-led government in Raleigh have strong incentives to exaggerate the differences between the chambers and aggravate the resulting tensions between them. Rather than give Democratic politicians, liberal media outlets, and left-wing activists what they want, however, Gov. Pat McCrory and legislative leaders need to step back, take a few deep breaths, and begin again with a focus on values in common, not differences in detail.
I have a proposal for bridging those differences. But first, a review of recent events.
The Current State of the Negotiations
The Senate's latest offer to the House proposes a 11 percent average pay raise for public school teachers, a $469 million item in FY 2014-15 funded in part by transferring $233 million currently budgeted for teacher-assistant positions in the second and third grades. The House's latest proposal leaves current TA appropriations alone and gives teachers average raises of 6 percent, costing $219 million in 2014-15.
The Senate offer also includes tighter eligibility rules for Medicaid's "medically needy" population. Combined with other reforms, this means that the Senate proposal for the Department of Health and Human Services is about $135 million lower than the latest House figure. (Both plans now set aside $186 million as a hedge against possible Medicaid overages, albeit in different parts of their respective budgets.)
There are two other key differences on Medicaid. The Senate proposes that after years of chronic mismanagement, Medicaid ought to be brought out from under DHHS into its own separate agency. Senators also want as much of the program as possible to be converted from a fee-for-service model to a competitive-contracting model in which both provider-led and insurer-led networks compete to serve patients and are fully at risk when their costs exceed fixed state payments per recipient.
The House currently accepts neither of these proposals. It favors leaving Medicaid within DHHS and proceeding with a competitive-contracting model that includes only the provider-led networks (the so-called accountable care organizations) and excludes private insurers, although the latest version of the House reform plan does assume that provider-led ACOs will bear financial risk after several years.
The Senate's Conservative Principles
The problem here is not that one side is conservative and the other isn't. Both Senate and House leaders are citing core principles of fiscal conservatism to defend their respective positions.
Two of those principles are fiscal priority-setting and empirical policymaking. The Senate argues, quite correctly, that if everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority. There is widespread agreement that teacher compensation ought to be the priority in 2014. Even adjusted for cost of living, non-wage benefits, years of experience, and other factors, North Carolina's average teacher compensation is now below the national and regional averages. Thought of another way, the ratio of North Carolina teacher salaries to the national average is lower than the ratio of North Carolina private-sector salaries to the national average. This is a fundamentally different situation than in the past, when North Carolina's teacher compensation was at or above average when properly measured, which is why the consensus in favor of a large teacher-pay increase in 2014 includes my colleagues at the John Locke Foundation, among other fiscal conservatives.
The Senate also argues, again correctly, that a major reason why North Carolina's spending on teacher compensation has grown relatively slowly is that North Carolina's spending on Medicaid has grown relatively rapidly. As a result, North Carolina ranks below the national average in real, per-pupil education spending and above the national average in Medicaid spending per recipient (about 10 percent above the average if you take into consideration the fact that the cost of medical services in North Carolina is relatively low). Because education has at least the potential to be an effective public investment in state economic growth, while public assistance funds consumption rather than investment, rebalancing the two within state government's portfolio would likely bring future fiscal and economic benefits.
That's why the Senate offered a plan that spends less on Medicaid and more on teacher compensation. These decisions reflect clear, firm priorities.
As for the details of the Senate plan, they reflect a willingness to apply empirical research to produce policy innovation. Conservatives believe that intentions do not guarantee results. Some well-intended policies fail to achieve their objectives. Others actually harm more than they help. One policy that North Carolina pursues — to improve student achievement by putting teacher assistants in second and third grade — has little empirical support. Most studies find no effect, particularly as TAs are normally used. (This used to be a widely appreciated fact, by the way, including here in North Carolina. Years ago, under Democratic rule, school districts obtained the flexibility to convert funding for teacher-assistant positions into funding for other positions, including new teachers to reduce average class sizes. Many districts have done so. To suggest this insight is somehow new or a product of "radical Republicanism" is either to exhibit ignorance or to mislead the public.)
Similarly, whatever you think of the Senate's proposals to rewrite the "medically needy" standards for Medicaid eligibility and allow insurer networks to bid on providing Medicaid services, they are based on the empirical fact that many of North Carolina's peer states do Medicaid differently than we do, freeing up tax dollars those states are able spend on other priorities, including education.
The House's Conservative Principles
So, does that mean that the Senate's budget offer is conservative and the House offer isn't? Not necessarily. House leaders justify their latest offer on the basis of conservative principles, too. Two of them are fiscal discipline and policy stability.
While raising teacher pay by 11 percent in one year may be dramatic, says the House, it may not be wise. Because it increases the base of teacher compensation, across-the-board raises in years two, three, and beyond will be that much more expensive. Moreover, while average compensation is a concern, how that compensation is apportioned is of even greater concern. Conservatives have long argued that high-performing teachers who work in hard-to-fill jobs and schools ought to make much more than mediocre or low-performing teachers who work elsewhere. The House and the McCrory administration argue that taking a disciplined, slow-and-steady-wins-the-race approach — with an initial hike of 6 percent and more large hikes in subsequent years tied to the Career Pathways proposal — would serve as a hedge against future budget problems while ensuring that teacher compensation is reformed in the long run, not merely raised in the short run.
When it comes to transferring TA funds to teacher raises and reforming Medicaid, the House position is that whatever the merits of these proposals, conservatives have to take into consideration the views and priorities of those charged with implementing them. No matter how sound a reform may look on paper, its success depends in part on whether the reform is implemented as intended and sustained over time. Reformers of both parties faced this dilemma in the 1990s on the subject of welfare. Rather than attempt to transform the entire welfare state at one time, they focused on cash benefits and imposed work requirements, time limits, and other rules that most people considered reasonable. (Some bitter-enders opposed welfare reform in its entirety. They were, properly, ignored or encouraged to find a different line of work.)
On education funding, then, Gov. McCrory and the House are unwilling to mandate the mass conversion of TA funding into teacher pay raises. They are also unwilling to overrule the objections of medical providers and other interested parties by tightening Medicaid eligibility and allowing insurers to present bids for covering Medicaid patients. I know for a fact that some of the individuals involved agree with the Senate on the merits of the proposals. But they don't believe enacting them at this moment would produce reforms that would be sustainable over time.
Two Other Principles Can Help
Fortunately, there is a way out of this impasse. It begins with embracing two other core principles of fiscal conservatism: devolution and prudence. With regard to education, Senate leaders believe it is better to use tax dollars to attract and retain high-quality classroom teachers than to fund teacher assistants in the second and third grades. House leaders disagree. Instead of trying to settle this disagreement at the state level, why not devolve the decision to local school districts?
With regard to the Medicaid disputes, it seems imprudent to try to resolve them at the end of a short legislative session. Instead, each side should recognize that the other has legitimate concerns — about chronic mismanagement of Medicaid, for example, as well as the importance both of achieving significant Medicaid savings over time while ensuring that providers are treated equitably and fully engaged in the reform process.
So here's my four-part plan for a compromise:
1. Start with the latest House offer, which assumes $21.231 billion in General Fund availability, a $25 million deposit into the repair and renovation reserve, an $18 million deposit in the rainy-day reserve, and $186 million in a Medicaid risk reserve that, if unneeded during the 2014-15 fiscal year, would be equally split between repair/renovations and the rainy-day reserve. This latest House offer spends less than the Senate in several categories, including the UNC system, and also resurrects an idea originally in Gov. McCrory's budget to eliminate $19.8 million in expansion funds for teacher assistants, which is one reason why the House is now offering teacher pay raises of 6 percent rather than its original proposal of 5 percent.
2. Accept the Senate's latest offer on compensation increases for state employees, education employees other than teachers and principals, and retirees. That comes to about $156 million, or $80 million less than the cost of the House's compensation increases. Furthermore, accept $26 million of the Senate's proposed savings in educational administration and support services. But also accept the Senate's lottery revenue figure, which is $20 million lower than the House plan. Adopting all these Senate positions produces a net savings of $86 million, which would allow the average teacher pay raise to go up to 7 percent while adding another $22 million each to repairs/renovations and the rainy-day reserve (another good conservative principle is that it's better to be safe than sorry).
3. Next, accept the Senate's idea of converting $233 $213* million in current funding for TAs into pay raises for teachers — but don't make it mandatory. Instead, allow school districts (and charter schools) either to spend those TA funds as they do now or to convert some or all of them into higher teacher pay. Current policy already allows districts to use the funding for TA positions to hire other personnel, including teachers, but not to hike their pay. Lawmakers should simply eliminate the latter restriction. If all school systems decide to convert all the money, average teacher pay will rise by a bit more than 11 percent. If all school systems decide against converting any of the money, average teacher pay for state-funded teachers will rise by 7 percent. Either result would constitute one of the largest inflation-adjusted increases in teacher pay in North Carolina history. Perhaps what would happen is a mixture: the maximum pay raise in some places, the minimum pay raise in others, and something in-between for everyone else.
4. Finally, rather than trying to implement the Senate's ideas on Medicaid eligibility and separate Medicaid administration this year, authorize a study with a short turnaround time to borrow the best approaches on both ideas from states with tighter eligibility standards and lower, more predictable Medicaid costs than North Carolina's (there are plenty to choose from). House leaders should clearly communicate their willingness to implement a version of both reforms during the 2015 session. Similarly, rather than trying to settle the accountable care/managed care debate right now, authorize the McCrory administration to continue preparing its competitive-contracting model while setting up a separate study commission. Its purpose would be to harmonize as much as possible the competing House and Senate versions of long-term reform — perhaps by starting with the ACOs, subjecting them to financial risk, and then at a subsequent point allowing insurers to join the bidding process, as is already commonplace in most states.
I know that lawmakers are exhausted and tempers are frayed. But a deal is possible here. The Senate, House, and McCrory administration actually agree on most of the major issues facing North Carolina, and on general budget priorities. The Senate is correct to stress the need for empirically based policy innovation and firm fiscal priorities. The House is correct to stress the need for budget discipline and sustainable reform. Let's escape the education impasse by further devolving budgetary authority within a 7 percent/11 percent model for raising teacher pay. And let's escape the Medicaid impasse by prudently choosing which reforms can be initiated now and which reforms need more prep work to ensure successful implementation.
What we need, in other words, is a study break and a stop at 7-Eleven.
John Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation.
* After this column's publication, I discovered that the Senate's original figure of $233 million for the teacher-assistant funds to be converted to teacher pay raises includes the $19.8 million in TA expansion funds that the House has already agreed to convert. Thus the optional amount offered in my compromise would be $213 million.
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John J. Ellington (born October 26, 1960) is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia and former judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals.

Early life and education

Ellington was born in Vidalia, Georgia on October 26, 1960. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting in 1982, and from the University of Georgia School of Law with a Juris Doctor in 1985.

Legal career

Ellington began his career as a general trial lawyer and a partner with the law firm of Andrew, Threlkeld, & Ellington.

State court service

In 1991, he was appointed to serve as judge of the Treutlen County State Court. He also served as a municipal court judge and later as a superior court judge. He  was sworn in as the 66th Judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals by Governor Roy Barnes on July 12, 1999. He was elected statewide to a full six-year term in 2000 and re-elected in 2006 and 2012.

Service on Georgia Supreme Court

Ellington was considered in 2016 for one of three seats on the court. In early 2018 Ellington announced his intention to run for the state Supreme Court seat being vacated by retiring Justice Carol W. Hunstein. He was elected, unopposed, on November 6, 2018. He was sworn into office on December 19, 2018.

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This blog we are going to talk about common running injuries that we see in our office on a regular basis. We are going to cover what the injury is, preventative tips, and treatment. These are merely tips that are meant to help you and educate you. As always, if you think there maybe something more going on, schedule an appointment face to face with someone that would be able to assess your injury.
As the weather decided to get warmer we all want to get out and enjoy it. As a runner, you need to take care of yourself so that you are able to run throughout the summer and be able to enjoy it injury-free. We typically see hip, knee, and foot complaints in runners since that is the part of the body that is hitting the pavement in a repetitive pattern. In general, active warm-ups are a great way to prime your body for running; stretching is much more productive after a run to cool down. Many people think that running is only a lower body sport, but it is a whole body sport. Yes, your legs are the ones hitting the pavement but your arms and shoulders should be moving with the opposite leg.
This is a repetitive injury that is an irritation or possible microtears to the tibialis anterior or tibialis posterior (these are often referred to as inside or outside shin splints).
The longer this injury occurs, typically the more damage is being caused.
If this is only minor, treatment is ice, reduce the amount of running and/or rest. If this injury has been going on for a while or is very painful; there is a chance of stress fracture which will result in complete rest until healing occurs.
In our office we adjust the lower extremity along with active rehabilitation exercises and possible acupuncture/dry needling. RockTape can also help speed up the recovery process and make the shins less painful.
Gradual increases in distances gives your body time to adjust to the different demands.
Cross training is very important. It gives your body a break from the repetitive motion of running but keeps you moving.
Often times in "runner's knee" the pain is located around the patella (knee cap). If this is the case, this can be irritation of the cartilage under the patella.
In our office we look at the function and movement of the knee, ankle, and hip. The knee is often painful due to something else above or below it causing an issue.
We look to figure out the problem and correctly diagnose you to get the correct specific treatment for your injury.
With this injury, we will focus on why you are having pain in your knee. We will assess your walking/running and come up with a specific plan for you to decrease pain and increase your function.
Cross training is important to give your body a break of the same repetitive motion of running.
Listen to your body and what it is telling you is important.
At the beginning, taking a few days off between runs, or decrease the length and amount of running for a while and then slowly add back in the mileage can help.
Inflammation or tightening of the thick band of connective tissue that runs on the outside of the thigh.
In our office we give specific rehabilitation exercises for IT band syndrome. Many times the IT band is over compensating, we often strengthen muscles around the hip to let the IT band not overcompensate.
We also can also help break up scar tissue, dry needle/acupuncture, and Rocktape.
The injury associated with plantar fasciitis is inflammation of the bottom of the foot between the ball of your foot and heel.
Often there is quite a bit of pain in the mornings when you first wake up and get out of bed. Also, being barefoot is often very painful.
In our office we use soft tissue mobilization to help the fascia (connective tissue) loosen and relax. Then we do simple take home exercises to help keep the tissue looser and activate other muscles so you can have lasting results.
Each exercises given is tailored to each individual patient.
Proper warm up and cool down exercises.
Pain is NOT "normal"; many people often deal with pain because they think it is a part of the training schedule. There is a difference between soreness and pain. Pain is not acceptable.