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This course will focus on providing intervention strategies to assist parents who have a child with ASD and their professional intervention team prepare the child for school success and avoid the stumbling blocks for success once the child reaches school age. This course will focus on the Learning Style Components: #1 Object vs People Orientation; #2 Learns Through Social Modeling, Demonstration and Rehearsal; and #3 Attaining Social Cues from Multiple Partners. Practical applications of these three LSP components will be discussed.
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This chapter will provide practical applications and hands-on intervention strategies that incorporate LSP Components #1, #2 and #3. Dr. Rydell discusses strategies that have been well-established at Rocky Mountain Autism Center.
This chapter focuses on a discussion with Dr. Rydell specific to the relationship between emotional dysregulation and learning style challenges. This discussion focuses on the learning style challenges as described in LSP components #1, #2 and #3.
This chapter focuses on the discussion of the panelists and their case examples of providing intervention to children with ASD across school, private and university settings. This discussion focuses on their practical applications of LSP components #1, #2 and #3 in their respective settings.


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Members of St. Patrick Parish Norristown, which is comprised mostly of Latino immigrants, joined Visitation parishioners for the special celebration.
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The new track has just been released on Spotify, but you can hear it on YouTube too. If you're looking for the music video though, that's going to be a few weeks away. We can expect something weird, though. When has Gaga ever produced a tame music video?


Walking through life can often feel lonely, challenging and stressful. When facing life's transitions, we might experience sadness, sleep disturbance, loss of interest in things we normally enjoy, and anxiety and worry that seems overwhelming. Often, we feel that we have to keep it to ourselves and muscle through. I believe that when our stories are heard and received with compassion, we are offered some relief. I will always endeavor to receive your emotions, your pain, your confusion, your grief and anger with grace, and will use my training to gently guide and partner with you to rediscover the life that you want to live.
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/* -*- Mode: C; c-basic-offset:4 ; indent-tabs-mode:nil ; -*- */
/*
 *
 *   Copyright (C) 2007 UChicago/Argonne LLC
 *   See COPYRIGHT notice in top-level directory.
 */

#include "adio.h"

/* Generic version of a "collective open".  Assumes a "real" underlying
 * file system (meaning no wonky consistency semantics like NFS).
 *
 * optimization: by having just one process create a file, close it,
 * then have all N processes open it, we can possibly avoid contention
 * for write locks on a directory for some file systems.
 *
 * Happy side-effect: exclusive create (error if file already exists)
 * just falls out
 *
 * Note: this is not a "scalable open" (c.f. "The impact of file systems
 * on MPI-IO scalability").
 */

void ADIOI_GEN_OpenColl(ADIO_File fd, int rank,
	int access_mode, int *error_code)
{
    int orig_amode_excl, orig_amode_wronly;
    MPI_Comm tmp_comm;

    orig_amode_excl = access_mode;

    if (access_mode & ADIO_CREATE ){
       if(rank == fd->hints->ranklist[0]) {
	   /* remove delete_on_close flag if set */
	   if (access_mode & ADIO_DELETE_ON_CLOSE)
	       fd->access_mode = access_mode ^ ADIO_DELETE_ON_CLOSE;
	   else
	       fd->access_mode = access_mode;

	   tmp_comm = fd->comm;
	   fd->comm = MPI_COMM_SELF;
	   (*(fd->fns->ADIOI_xxx_Open))(fd, error_code);
	   fd->comm = tmp_comm;
	   MPI_Bcast(error_code, 1, MPI_INT, \
		     fd->hints->ranklist[0], fd->comm);
	   /* if no error, close the file and reopen normally below */
	   if (*error_code == MPI_SUCCESS)
	       (*(fd->fns->ADIOI_xxx_Close))(fd, error_code);

	   fd->access_mode = access_mode; /* back to original */
       }
       else MPI_Bcast(error_code, 1, MPI_INT, fd->hints->ranklist[0], fd->comm);

       if (*error_code != MPI_SUCCESS) {
	   return;
       }
       else {
           /* turn off CREAT (and EXCL if set) for real multi-processor open */
           access_mode ^= ADIO_CREATE;
	   if (access_mode & ADIO_EXCL)
		   access_mode ^= ADIO_EXCL;
       }
    }
    fd->blksize = 1024*1024*4; /* this large default value should be good for
				 most file systems.  any ROMIO driver is free
				 to stat the file and find an optimial value */

    /* if we are doing deferred open, non-aggregators should return now */
    if (fd->hints->deferred_open ) {
        if (!(fd->is_agg)) {
            /* we might have turned off EXCL for the aggregators.
             * restore access_mode that non-aggregators get the right
             * value from get_amode */
            fd->access_mode = orig_amode_excl;
	    /* In file-system specific open, a driver might collect some
	     * information via stat().  Deferred open means not every process
	     * participates in fs-specific open, but they all participate in
	     * this open call.  Broadcast a bit of information in case
	     * lower-level file system driver (e.g. 'bluegene') collected it
	     * (not all do)*/
	    MPI_Bcast(&(fd->blksize), 1, MPI_LONG, fd->hints->ranklist[0], fd->comm);
	    *error_code = MPI_SUCCESS;
	    ADIOI_Assert(fd->blksize > 0);
	    return;
	}
    }

/* For writing with data sieving, a read-modify-write is needed. If
   the file is opened for write_only, the read will fail. Therefore,
   if write_only, open the file as read_write, but record it as write_only
   in fd, so that get_amode returns the right answer. */

    /* observation from David Knaak: file systems that do not support data
     * sieving do not need to change the mode */

    orig_amode_wronly = access_mode;
    if ( (access_mode & ADIO_WRONLY) &&
	    ADIO_Feature(fd, ADIO_DATA_SIEVING_WRITES) ) {
	access_mode = access_mode ^ ADIO_WRONLY;
	access_mode = access_mode | ADIO_RDWR;
    }
    fd->access_mode = access_mode;

    (*(fd->fns->ADIOI_xxx_Open))(fd, error_code);

    /* if error, may be it was due to the change in amode above.
       therefore, reopen with access mode provided by the user.*/
    fd->access_mode = orig_amode_wronly;
    if (*error_code != MPI_SUCCESS)
        (*(fd->fns->ADIOI_xxx_Open))(fd, error_code);

    /* if we turned off EXCL earlier, then we should turn it back on */
    if (fd->access_mode != orig_amode_excl) fd->access_mode = orig_amode_excl;

    /* broadcast a bit of information (blocksize for now) to all proceses in
     * communicator, not just those who participated in open */
    MPI_Bcast(&(fd->blksize), 1, MPI_LONG, fd->hints->ranklist[0], fd->comm);
    /* file domain code will get terribly confused in a hard-to-debug way if
     * gpfs blocksize not sensible */
    ADIOI_Assert( fd->blksize > 0);
    /* for deferred open: this process has opened the file (because if we are
     * not an aggregaor and we are doing deferred open, we returned earlier)*/
    fd->is_open = 1;

}

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 * vim: ts=8 sts=4 sw=4 noexpandtab
 */

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Q: In what file are flags, set in Google Chrome, being saved? When running Chrome Beta Portable and changing a flag in chrome://flags, where (in which file) is the status of this flag being saved?
I tried running a program monitoring all the files in the Chrome Portable directory but it was next to impossible to determine which of the changes belonged to the newly set flag.

A: They are stored in the Browser block of the the plain-text file Local State, which is located in the User Data directory.
For example, the file
%localappdata%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Local State

Would contain something like:
{
  …
  "browser": {
    "enabled_labs_experiments": [ "disable-gpu-vsync", "extension-apis", … ],
    …
  }
  …
}

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Thanks Mike for your reply! Very detailed indeed and I think we all remember life changing events. I am an author (with a few things on Pluralsight, SyncFusion and MS) who specialized on Agile, then search (Solr) and now I got really interested in Cloudera.
If I may reply on my AHA MOMENT to get deeply interested in Cloudera, it came when the CEO of the company I work for (one of your partners) sat down with you in an event in New York and you told him how search fits into big data - and then he told us the story in a company event.
From there I watched some of your videos (the Stanford one being my favorite) and got started with Cloudera stuff. Just took the Hadoop Admin training, taking the test in 2 weeks and hopefully going to the Germany bootcamp in Nov. Also I am working my way to becoming a Cloudera expert (despite being a Microsoft MVP which probably should indicate that I go to Azure/HDInsight and a few more MS related stuff)
Thanks for what you have built. I hope I can soon become a Cloudera expert as planned. What do you see for Cloudera in the future? Where are you going? (if I may ask)
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Re: Cloudera & Apache Kafka
@BQuinart wrote:
First, I would like to congratulate you with what you and the team build at Cloudera.
Even now that the company is becoming mature, there is a DNA of deep expertise & vision with regards to the products and technologies; and most importantly, you keep customers and their use cases in the center.
Cloudera quickly understood the importance of (interactive) SQL and invested heavily in the area. You were also early to understand and discuss the importance of Apache Spark and showed the ability to move beyond the core technologies. Finally, you show with Apache Kudu, that if needed you will invest in technology to address specific needs.
I am interested to understand what you think about the importance of Apache Kafka?
What do you think of the newer components like Connect and Streams?
What should Cloudera's role be in this community? What does Cloudera want to achieve in it?
Are you happy with your current position and progress against your plans?
How will you benchmark yourself in this area (against established Apache Hadoop players or against the specialized start-ups)?
I might be biased here, because I truly believe in the power of Apache Kafka. I believe it can grow the big data market and enable many new use cases and at the same time drastically simplify some of the classic architectural patterns.
I am a bit concerned that Cloudera does not share (or act on) this view. Apache Kafka does not get that much 'airtime' in keynotes, blogs or roadmap sessions.
There is no such thing as a One Platform Initiative for Apache Kafka with clear ambitions and roadmap.
Looking forward to get your insights on this!
Thanks for the kind words in your first two paragraphs. Big team working hard for a long time can do amazing things, it turns out. I think we've had some good strategic insights -- you highlight SQL and Apache Spark, and I strongly agree on both -- but the real secret weapon has been the people we've hired to turn those ideas into shipping product.
I am also bullish on streaming data ingest in general, and, like you, on Apache Kafka in particular. I agree that we don't call it out as often specifically in our public presentations. That's not for lack of interest, but rather because we see it as an outstanding solution to a much narrower problem than is Spark. Let me lay out some thoughts here.
First of all, data ingest and preparation are absolutely crucial to our success. A big data platform isn't of much use if you can't get data into it. We created some early tools to help -- Apache Sqoop and Apache Flume were both Cloudera projects, released to (and developed with) the open source community. When LinkedIn released the Kafka code, we recognized it as a well-designed and useful addition to the arsenal.
Over time, it's taken a major role in the ecosystem of projects that collect and handle data in flight. It's part of our supported product, and we participate in development of the project. We promote it to our customers, and our technical field folks are good at integrating customer-specific data sources into it.
I should say that the primary other streaming engine we see in real use is the streaming support in Apache Spark. I don't want to start a battle here on micro-batching, latency and so on; what I can tell you is that the vast majority of our customers use one or both of Kafka and Spark Streaming for data collection and analysis in flight. Use of alternatives like Storm is, at least in our sample, seriously on the wane. I think this combination is likely to dominate for the next several years, though other open source alternatives may emerge.
We do invest pretty significantly -- integration with security, governance and lineage, support for various storage substrates and so on is critical to our users who want to use Kafka.
We've consciously kept ourselves out of the battle for dominance among these projects. We like robust communities that develop to their own taste, and we trust the user base generally to spot the best techology and adopt it. Our embrace of Kafka was driven by our technical taste -- it's well-made -- and by our observation of adoption in our installed base. We'll continue to exercise both kinds of judgment in bringing new projects into our platform.
@DataBrian wrote:
Kudos for building an amazing company by recognizing an industry trend and its potential way before anybody else did!
My understanding is that Cloudera has built its market dominance primarily on greenfield opportunities, i.e., new applications and new domains. In order to tap into the $40+B monster of the data management market, however, greenfield won't get you very far? (All database startups of the past 15 years are testament to the limits of greenfield – and ended up getting acquired)
What is Cloudera doing to migrate applications off of incumbent systems in order to take market share from, say, Teradata or Oracle? Are you developing tools like Amazon's Database Migration Services or Datometry's Hyper-Q to make re-platforming to Cloudera not only attractive but feasible for enterprises?
Pretty good user name, DataBrian!
Our platform adoption is actually driven by both new applications in greenfield opportunities, and by migration of existing workloads to the new infrastructure. Let me touch on those in reverse order.
One of the most common reasons we get pulled into a commercial discussion, or even see people deploy our free open source code, is because they're running into cost and scale problems with their existing systems. The canonical story is, "It takes us 23 hours to process one day's worth of data, and data volume is growing at ten percent per month." You don't have to draw that curve out more than a week or so before you see some badness happen, right before your eyes.
The historical way to deal with that problem was to go buy hardware twice as beefy as current infra, and move your ETL workloads there. That's okay if you are seeing one or two percent growth, but ten percent a month means you might as well just sign your revenue stream over to a white-box foundry in Taiwan. Sooner or later, you're going to run out of growth in centralized systems.
There's another legacy problem that lots of our customers want to solve: They've been archiving data to tape for years, and they want to stop. It's expensive, and it's nearly impossible to get the data back. No one reloads data from tape without an act of God or government -- your data center floods or the FBI comes knocking with a subpoena, and you need to restore. Else, those tapes just sit there in the repurposed mine under the mountain, incurring rent.
In that case, customers often choose to archive from expensive app infrastructure, like traditional RDBMS, to Hadoop instead of to tape. The data's on spinning disk, available for analysis or processing.
So, those legacy use cases are very common. They're often the first workload we take on.
You're right, though, that greenfield is a big driver, too. We can use scale-out storage and powerful new analytics, training up models under Spark, for example, to do magic with data that simply wasn't possible before. Those use cases can help customers interact with their customers better, develop better products and services, and manage risks and threats in their business using analytics over the data they collect in new ways.
In fact, most of our customers, and all of our big ones, do both things. They handle older workloads cheaper at greater scale, and do new analyses to create new value from old and new data.
You ask specifically about capture of traditional RDBMS workloads. Over the last years, Hive for data processing jobs and Impala for analytic database workloads have gotten steadily better. We do see more overlap between the Hadoop ecosystem and traditional database workloads than we did eight or five or three years ago.
That'll continue, but it's not our central focus. Our secret plan is to help companies profit from the vast quantities of new data they can collect. We're happy to let them optimize infrastructure, moving workloads among Cloudera, traditional databases, real-time systems and so on as business needs demand. We'll continue to invest in making that easy. But the 40Bn relational market you cite is less interesting to me than the future market for a thousand times more data in heretofore-unkown formats. I think there's money to be made, there.
@francescodevere wrote:
I would also like to congratulate you and the Cloudera team on some wonderful acheivements
I always look forward to seeing Amr Awadallah, and sometimes Sean Owen, at the Cloudera London Sessions.
I do have a simple technical question maybe you can get some of the cloudera engineers to look at:
My mahout arff.vector command produces NaN output for real and double values but works with integer values
ie, It works with input data like 2,1,3,1,15, ... But not input data like 2.5,1.6,5.00,2.8,1.11, ...Is there a simple solution ?
I am using Cloudera CDH5 Version 5.6.0-1.cdh5.6.0.p0.45 and Mahout Version 0.9+cdh5.6.0+26.
With regard to Cloudera and Mahout I am sad to see the Mahout mapreduce implimentations deprecated. But I am happy to hear you are moving on to new pastures with Apache Spark.
I am wondering how long will one be able to use the Mahout mapreduce algorithms with Cloudera's CDH distribution.
Your confidence in my technical depth is gratifying. In this instance, I am afraid I am of no help; I haven't used the Mahout package myself at all, and an unfamiliar with the interfaces or failure behavior there. I encourage you to post this question to the community at large, though.
I will say that, as fundamental as Mahout was to Hadoop's early success, we see most of the energy directed elsewhere these days. There are plenty of commercial ML companies with proprietary implementations running on the Hadoop platform under Spark.
There are some good open source choices as well. MLlib in particular has strong traction among the users we work with, and we and Intel have worked hard to optimize it using MKL (math kernel library) calls to take advantage of IA optimizations in silicon.
I'm pretty convinced that current-gen ML implementations are just a good start for what we'll see emerge in the next decade. Many of the algorithms we use date back to the 1970s; they didn't work, back then, and the only reason they do now is the ridiculous hardware we can throw at them. Silicon is evolving fast -- connectivity, storage, compute -- and commercial interest (and investment) in ML is intense. That combination seems like a rich field for innovation. My bet is that Mahout is kind of the Pascal of machine learning: It was interesting back when I was a kid, and had a lot of good ideas, but smart people took those ideas in lots of new directions and came up with new stuff that is much more interesting.
Nearly at the top of the hour, here, folks, so into the final few minutes of the AMA.
Thanks so much for the great questions. I hope you've enjoyed the discussion!
I'm going to close with an answer to a question no one has asked me, but that I think about a lot:
What does Cloudera look like ten years from now?
That seems like a crazy long time, but it's been more than eight years since we started the company, so we're close to the midpoint. We had a long-term vision when we started the company, and extensive practice has taught us a lot about our present and likely future.
We've always intended to build a long-lived, standalone company. That's not an automatic for an entrepreneurial startup, by the way: Lots of folks aim expressly at acqusition. But the four of us in 2008 honestly believed that a new generation of enterprise infrastructure was about to happen, and someone had to be the leader. We wanted to create that company.
When we started, no one knew about Hadoop and the meme "big data" hadn't happened, yet. Fast forward to today, and we're in a very dynamic, growing, big market. I like our position! Lots of hard work in front of us, but the opportunity is crazy big.
I'm watching closely the sudden and rapid shift in hardware (see Intel's announcements of 3D Xpoint and Silicon Photonics, over the last year). Original Hadoop was built for racks of pizza boxes; hardware of the future will have much faster storage with wildly different latency characteristics, and CPUs are going to be networked together across the data center at the speed of light. The software absolutely must change to take advantage of that.
I think our unique and strategic relationship with Intel is a huge advantage to us, in this regard.
And we're beginning to see the advent of a new class of competitor, and a new ecosystem in which we must live. Notwithstanding the "Cloud" in "Cloudera," for our first eight years, the vast majority of our customers deployed our systems on premises. These days, we're seeing much more enthusiasm for the public cloud. Google, Amazon and Microsoft are all innovating furiously, doing great work, creating platforms on which our products can run and changing, in some cases, the borders on "data management" and "analytics."
Five years ago, when you said Hadoop, you meant Cloudera or Hortonworks or MapR. These days, our eyes are aimed at a more distant horizon.
The first eight years have been wonderful. Tough, and tiring, but wonderful! With history as our guide, but with the opportunity before us, I am confident that we've got another eight or ten years of hard work and good fun in front of us.
Ten years from now, I believe that we'll be part of a much larger company, and that that company will be called Cloudera.
Thanks @Mike Olson, for all the great interaction here! I hope folks have found this interesting and fun!
I just want to clarify that we are leaving this AMA topic open for questions for the remainder of the day today. Please feel free to post your questions!
Mike will not be here live to answer you, but he will do his best to come back and post replies as time allows today.
txgoldbear
I have recently began taking courses that focus on Big Data solutions using Hadoop. I am interested in knowing a few basic steps that I should follow that could lead to employment for a novice?
@txgoldbear wrote:
This is a great question.
You're doing one sensible thing already; taking courses, including on-line courses, is a good way to learn the fundamentals and master new skills. Those skills only really get locked down, though, with practice.
So, my advice is to actually build something that uses the big data platform. If you've got a project you're interested in already -- I know folks who analyze census data, make good visual presentations from stock market data, collect and summarize health care info -- rolling up your sleeves and building something is a fantastic idea. There are tons of publicly available data sets (https://www.data.gov/ is a great place to start), and you can dream up interesting questions to ask of the data on your own. Then, you just need to turn that question into code against the big data platform.
Another way to build skills and reputation is to join a project that's already up and running. If you're interested in contributing to one of the open source projects, you'll find an enthusiastic group of folks happy to welcome you and glad of your assistance. You'll need to establish your bona fides, of course; take on some small tasks to get started, and show the group what you can do. At Cloudera, we know who the meaningful contributors are to the projects we include in CDH, and that's one of the best places for us to recruit. You'll find all the other vendors in the big data market think in exactly the same way.
Of course http://apache.org is a great place to browse for projects. There are tons of git repositories out there as well; some of the ones we're tractking are at http://community.cloudera.com/t5/Cloudera-Labs/bd-p/ClouderaLabs.
Hope this helps! And good luck!


A little bit of celebration today for our 30th!
Nice work everyone! I have found some of the references produced over the years to be very useful!
@Jasen – thanks so much. I share a lot of the blog comments with the team. I will let them know you appreciate the books.
Happy Birthday Microsoft Press, the Almighty inspire all you teams to 30 years more of good and useful publications. Thank you.
Joyeux anniversaire. Bon travail et merci à tous.
Thank you, Carlos. Merci, Wassim.
Fantastic! What a wonderful cake.


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Beginning on Veteran's Day this past Sunday, Broooklyn-based architecture firm Matter Practice and the Times Square Alliance in collaboration with the StoryCorp Military Voices Initiative is hosting a series of live conversations between veterans and civilians right in the heart of Times Square. The pavilion where these discussions take place—located at Duffy Square, between 46th and […]
By: Laurie Manfra
Beginning on Veteran's Day this past Sunday, Broooklyn-based architecture firm Matter Practice and the Times Square Alliance in collaboration with the StoryCorp Military Voices Initiative is hosting a series of live conversations between veterans and civilians right in the heart of Times Square. The pavilion where these discussions take place—located at Duffy Square, between 46th and 47th Streets and Broadway—was designed by Sandra Wheeler and Alfred Zollinger and is composed of a simple kit-of-parts plywood and glass structure, with the program titled "Peace & Quiet" because it is intended to provide not only a place of healing and shelter for housing exchanges, but a dedicated site for bridging the divide between veterans who have loyally served our country and the civilians whose freedoms they protect. Visitors and passersby are welcome to drop in, leave a note, listen to the stories, and even shake hands with and personally thank the guest veterans on-site.
"Ever wonder what it was like to sleep in a hole in the Iraq desert? What the food was like in the mountains of Afghanistan?"—these are two of the questions posed on the site's Facebook page, where you can also view candid process shots of the structure's design and construction process, and see live daily feedback of the program.
Show your gratitude for the service of our nation's veterans and be a part of the healing process by dropping by the Peace & Quiet pavilion this week. Conversations start on the hour daily and run through Friday, November 16th.
Photos of the Peace & Quiet Pavilion are by Ka-Man Tse.
Laurie Manfra is a freelance architecture and design journalist based on Long Island. She can be reached at [email protected].
Corrections where made to the photo credit and first paragraph on 11/16/2012.
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EU yielded to commercial interests over COVID-19 vaccines, NGOs say
The agreements signed between the European Commission and pharmaceutical companies to roll out COVID-19 vaccines offered significant long-term benefits to the corporations involved to the detriment of public health and global equality, research by NGOs has found.
"Private interests exerted undue influence over European policymakers during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in a crying lack of transparency on publicly funded vaccine contracts which left the public with more questions than answers," Rowan Dunn, EU Advocacy Coordinator at Global Health Advocates, a French NGO, has said.
Two reports released on Thursday and authored by Global Health Advocates and STOPAIDS, a UK-based non-profit, accuse the EU's executive of redacting contracts with pharmaceutical companies and accommodating industry requests on such things as pricing, intellectual property and confidentiality requirements in a bid to quickly roll out the vaccines for its population.
This was despite the fact that some of these confidentiality requirements weren't consistent with EU legislation.
"Protecting commercial interests came at the expense of supporting policy interventions that could have increased global vaccine access, and which harmed transparency", the report reads. "With an unaccountable driver, the public were taken for a ride".
For Belgian MEP Marc Botenga (The Left), who is cited in the report, "there was no real transparency in the contract negotiations. On the contracts, there have been minor steps forward - under pressure."
"So, from the first contracts basically the Commission outsourced transparency, meaning they will give you what the company tells us we can give you. You are in a situation where the company decides", he added.
EU Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly ruled maladministration on the part of the Commission last year after the EU's executive said it could not release text exchanges between its president, Ursula von der Leyen, and the CEO of Pfizer.
The Commission said following the request from the EU's watchdog for the messages to be released that they had not been kept as official EU documents because "due to their short-lived and ephemeral nature" text messages in general "do not contain important information relating to policies, activities and decisions of the Commission".
O'Reilly said then that the Commission's answer "leaves the regrettable impression of an EU institution that is not forthcoming on matters of significant public interest."
The NGOs' reports also concluded that the global vaccine rollout created levels of global inequality so great that many called it a "vaccine apartheid".
While high-income countries largely had widespread access to vaccines and medical countermeasures for their populations, low and middle-income countries could not access the same conditions in their fight against Covid-19.
Global Health Advocates and STOPAIDS argue in the reports that this inequality can be explained by the fact that "commercial, economic and geopolitical" considerations were placed above global health considerations.
"When it came to our journey out of the pandemic the route toward equitable access could have been a direct one, but with Big Pharma in the driver's seat choosing to follow private interests, access to vaccines for lower-income countries was likely denied," STOPAIDS' Advocacy Manager James Cold said.
Pharmaceutical companies sold the vast majority of their doses to the richest countries in the world - a strategy denounced as putting profits first, especially as companies wouldn't allow poorer countries to produce the life-saving vaccine on their own because of intellectual property rules.
Laid down in trade deals, these allowed pharma corporations to operate as monopolies, with no responsibility to share the knowledge they owned, despite how much society needed it, the reports stated.
At the start of the pandemic, the EU made several statements on the importance of global vaccine solidarity. However, the report said that these promises weren't turned into concrete actions.
"Instead, EU actions translated into an every-country-for-itself attitude, which effectively led to a form of gatekeeping of COVID-19 health technologies," it added.
According to data from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), nearly 73% of people in high-income countries have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, compared to just 30% in low-income countries.
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Help support vital OA and OS infrastructures
Almost three million Euros and counting - SCOSS fundraising initiative for vital open access and open science infrastructures is gaining ground
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Posted by Iryna Kuchma, Open Access Programme Manager, December 8, 2020
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) has helped raise funds for six open access and open science infrastructures, generating 2,781,525 Euros in just three years. Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, who is on the SCOSS Board, updates us on SCOSS' efforts to sustain open infrastructures.
Open access and open science infrastructures have grown in both number and usage, but financial sustainability is an issue, and many infrastructures risk stagnation or downsizing. Non-commercial public open access and open science infrastructures are vital, and a collaborative community-led effort is needed to help maintain them, and ultimately to secure their futures.
SPARC Europe responded to this need by inviting open science leaders representing regions from across the globe, such as EIFL, Association of African Universities (AAU), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), the Council of the Australian University Librarians (CAUL), Qatar National Library, LIBER, Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, France and REDALYC to form the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS). The Coalition was launched three years ago, in 2017, and provides a co-ordinated cost-sharing framework that enables the community to support the non-commercial open infrastructure on which it depends.
Every year, SCOSS invites non-commercial open access and open science infrastructures to apply for SCOSS-coordinated funding. The SCOSS Board evaluates applicants based on criteria including the value to communities such as funders, universities, libraries, authors, research managers and repositories. Applicants' governance structures, costs, sustainability measures, and future plans are also assessed. After evaluation, SCOSS proposes selected infrastructures to the wider open access and open science community with an invitation to help fund them over a period of three years, until they meet their fundraising goals. Each infrastructure handles the actual coordination of funds.
success in the pilot period
SCOSS launched a pilot funding cycle in late 2017, proposing support for the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals, and Sherpa Romeo, a database of publishers' policies on copyright and self-archiving. The pilot proved to be a success: DOAJ met its funding goal of 1,370 000 Euros ahead of time in the third quarter of 2020, with donations from 216 institutions in 19 countries. Sherpa Romeo's funding drive is continuing.
In December 2019 SCOSS launched a second fundraising campaign for four more open access and open science infrastructures, which are currently still seeking support:
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), a digital directory of peer-reviewed open access books and open access book publishers, and Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN), a growing repository of freely accessible academic books.
The Public Knowledge Project (PKP), a university research and development initiative dedicated to improving the quality and reach of scholarly publishing through research, community support services, and the development of free and open source software including Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Monograph Press (OMP), and Open Preprint Systems (OPS).
OpenCitations, a scholarly infrastructure organization that provides open bibliographic and citation data essential for powering discovery.
If you want to help support the vital, non-commercial open access and open science infrastructures that SCOSS recommends, you can find out more about them, and who to contact, here.
The SCOSS Board is in the final stages of selecting infrastructure to recommend for a third funding cycle and an announcement will be made early in 2021.
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Brisbane Airport, the destination for many airline and airport network planners who are heading down to Australia for Routes Asia 2018, heralded the arrival of Air China back in December. In the 12 months leading up to 30 November 2017, Brisbane posted an increase in traffic of 1.9%, while Air China increased its seat capacity from Australia by over 24%. Despite the carrier's impressive growth, it is still only Australia's 21st largest operator.
Now anna.aero can't speak for every airline and airport network planner in the world, but we're sure that some, along with our data elves, have got the song "Down Under" by Men at Work stuck in their heads as they get presentations and final paperwork ready for heading to Brisbane for Routes Asia 2018, where we will also be producing our glamorous Show Dailies. This year's event will take place between the 18 and 20 March at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. Given that many people in the network planning industry will be heading to Australia in a few weeks' time, and Qantas' new Perth to London Heathrow link will begin a few days after the conference has finished (more detail on this route market below), anna.aero has decided to track what has happened in Australia in recent years, including the trends of the past 12 months.
Between January and November last year (last known data), some 144.51 million passengers flew to/from and within Australia. Of the passengers flown in the first 11 months of 2017, 108.72 million were carried on domestic and regional operators according to the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE), with 35.79 million transported by international carriers. The average monthly rate of growth for passengers flown by domestic and regional carriers up until 30 November was 1.6%, with 5.4% recorded by international operators. With this data, anna.aero has forecast that a total of just over 158.67 million people will have travelled from Australian airports in 2017, with 119.06 million choosing to travel on domestic and regional operators, and 39.65 million on international airlines.
Source: Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE). *anna.aero forecast.
In total, the number of passengers flying from Australia has increased by 29% between 2009 and 2017. As can be seen from the graph above, the stronger growth has been coming from international carriers, with non-Australian airline traffic growing on average three times faster per year than domestic and regional operators. This result excludes data for 2014 and 2015, years when international carrier traffic grew close to 17 times faster than that flown on Australian airlines. Between 2009 and 2017, the number of annual passengers flown by domestic and regional operators grew by 20%, however the number of travellers on international carriers grew by a resounding 62%. International airlines have increased their market share of Australian travellers from 19% in 2009 to 25% in 2017, now capturing a quarter of the market.
Given its name, it is not just the natural sun shining down on the Sunshine Coast, but also the vitamin D of aviation – passenger growth. In the 12 months leading up to 30 November 2017, Sunshine Coast hosted 11% more passengers than it did in the same 12-month period ending 30 November 2016, representing an extra 114,386 people flying through its terminal. Most of this growth has come from increased capacity on existing services, with the last new route launch from the airport being towards the end of 2016 when Jetstar Airways launched flights from Adelaide.
Source:Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE).
Along with Sunshine Coast, another airport which has reported a solid development in traffic is Canberra, which in the 12-month period analysed saw a 7.2% upswing in demand. The airport will hope to extend athis trend, particularly given the recent arrival of Qatar Airways' new link from Doha, a route operated via Sydney. Following Canberra in third place is Ballina, which witnessed traffic grow 5.7%, Hobart in Tasmania was fourth with a 5.6% rise, while Newcastle was fifth, posting a 4.7% increase in passengers. The leading hubs of Sydney (3.1% growth), Melbourne (3.5%) and Brisbane (1.9%) also produced solid performances.
Given that it is Australia's flag carrier, it is of no surprise to see Qantas as the nation's leading airline, operating close to 68.50 million seats in 2017, representing 33% of all capacity in Australia last year. While Qantas is the largest airline it, along with Jetstar Airways (both highlighted in light red), reported cuts in capacity during 2017, with the former posting a 1.7% drop in seats, while the latter operated 2.1% less seats when compared to its 2016 operation.
The average growth reported by Australia's leading airlines last year was 3.8%. Outside of the top 12, significant growth has been posted by Chinese airlines, including China Eastern Airlines (17th largest airline) and Air China (21st) which experienced 36% and 24% rises in capacity respectively.
Given that Australia is one of the largest countries on earth, land transportation is often less viable than aviation for regional connectivity, which is why the domestic market is by far the most dominant. The domestic market is over 14 times larger than the biggest international country pairing – New Zealand. Despite its majority share of the market, with Australian services accounting for 75% of all seats in 2017, this fully mature sector has witnessed 0.4% drop in capacity. This translates to just under 700,000 less seats when compared to 2016. With this reduction, the Australian domestic market has seen its majority share of seats fall by 1.1 percentage points since 2016. Despite the cuts of non-international seats, all other major country markets from Australia appear to be performing well, with all those in the top 20 seeing creditable increases in capacity over the past year.
Of the top 20 markets from Australia, three have seen a growth rate above 20%, namely Fiji (13th largest country market), Papua New Guinea (17th) and South Africa (20th). In total Australia was connected to 36 nations last year, the same total recorded in 2016, with no markets being added or taken away from the schedule.
However, things are about to heat up in 2018 as Qantas prepares to launch the only non-stop flight between Australia and Europe, in the form of a link from Perth to London Heathrow. When referring to OAG Traffic Analyser data, some 322,500 people travelled between the UK and Perth in 2017, with around 63% of this market travelling to London, so Qantas is entering a sizeable market to sustain a daily service. However with Dubai (33% of connecting traffic – Emirates), Doha (18% – Qatar Airways), Singapore (16% – Singapore Airlines) and Abu Dhabi (13% – Etihad Airways) all holding a respectable share of the current market, it will be hard for the Australian national carrier to break the hold of these airlines' services. Qantas is keen to extract a premium from passengers wishing to benefit from a non-stop flight to Europe, as its charging around 32% more per ticket than its nearest rival (based on flight costs during the first week of the route's operation), with the Australian airline charging £750 versus £570 on Singapore Airlines.
Adelaide, which in the 12 months leading up to 30 November 2017 saw a 2.2% increase in traffic, welcomed the arrival of Fiji Airways back in July. Fiji was one of the best performing markets for growth from Australia in 2017, seeing a respectable 20% increase in capacity versus 2016.


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