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The search for the next head of the Los Angeles Fire Department is underway, with Interim Fire Chief James G. Featherstone among the candidates being interviewed for the top job.
Mayor Eric Garcetti's office has not provided the full list of candidates being considered. An aide said the mayor intends to name the 3,200-member department's next leader this month.
At Tuesday's meeting of the city Fire Commission, Featherstone told The Times he had been interviewed to keep the job. Considering the interim chief for the role marks a change in tack by Garcetti, who described Featherstone as a temporary caretaker when he was appointed last October. At the time, Garcetti promised a nationwide "best-in class" search for the next permanent chief.
Featherstone filled the position when Garcetti pushed the previous chief out of office soon after his election as mayor. His selection broke with a tradition of picking chiefs from within the top ranks of the LAFD. Featherstone served 20 years in the Fire Department, reaching the mid-level rank of captain before leaving in 2007 to head the city's Emergency Management Department.
"It's whatever the mayor decides. I serve at the pleasure of the mayor," said Featherstone, who has held the interim job since Nov. 1. "My thing is every morning I wake up and keep trying to make this department better."
Recent LAFD chiefs have had short tenures, with three moving in and out of the office in the last eight years. The previous chief, Brian Cummings, took an early-retirement package after he failed to restore confidence in his administration following the admission that crucial statistics published by his office and used to build the case for budget cuts were faulty.


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Fresh from their successful stint at this year's Glastonbury Festival on the BBC Introducing Stage, London-based band Deep Cut have announced that they will release their second studio album, Disorientation on 5th September.
Formed in East London in 2006, Deep Cut pin their inspiration to bands including The Byrds, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Joy Division and The Smiths, and their line-up includes former Revolver singer/guitarist Mat Flint.
Disorientation is the follow-up to their debut offering, My Thoughts Light Fires, which was released in 2009, and it will be preceeded by single 'Something's Got To Give' on 8th of August. They've also announced tour dates including a gig at The Wilmington Arms in London on 11th of August.
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Kathy McCullough learned to fly at the age of sixteen, but her story began much earlier. Her challenges, accomplishments, and indomitable spirit come to life within the pages of Ups and Downs. Becoming the fourth woman pilot hired by Northwest Orient Airlines in 1981 and earning her captain wings in the Boeing 747 a quarter of a century later, was not an easy journey. There is no better way to understand the gender issues in a cockpit than through the eyes of a woman pilot who lived the many challenges. Kathy takes us on the flight of her life with compelling stories of what it took to get into the cockpit of the largest airplane of its time, and what it took to stay there. Now retired, Kathy lives with her husband Kevin on a wheat ranch in eastern Oregon. She shares her experiences with young adults, inspiring them to explore the world. Everyone who has a goal in life will see themselves in the pages of this book.
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The Belfast Agreement is about to be shattered by Operation Blue Blood. One young American stands in the way, airline pilot Samantha Starr. She is catapulted into a deadly chess match with police, assassins, and British Special Forces, all who want her dead. The fate of nine noble bloodlines depends on Samantha and a boy whose hero is a wizard. Stranded in Scotland where she is accused of kidnapping and murder, where can she run? When a US Navy fighter pilot and a SEAL join the hunt and every choice can get her killed and start a bloody war in Northern Ireland, on whom should she rely? The line between trust and betrayal is razor sharp, and it is cut at Deadstick Dawn.
An 11,000-year-old prophecy plunges airline pilot Samantha Starr into an international maelstrom. While flying to exotic locales during a round-the-world charter flight, Sam stumbles upon the enigmatic key to Poseidon's Sword, an ancient weapon of unimaginable power. Her discovery triggers a race among secret cults, arms dealers, and world leaders intent on possessing the doomsday weapon. Old enemies and mysterious allies enter the fray, believing Sam is vital to locating and activating Poseidon's Sword. She becomes an unwilling pawn thrust into a treacherous game trapping her crew, passengers, and family in the rivals' deadly power plays. Sam struggles to save them and thwart her evil adversaries before time runs out in this fast-paced action thriller. Poseidon's Sword is award-winning author S.L. Menear's second book in the Samantha Starr Series.
After a ten-year leave, Kathryn Jacobs has been invited back to the N.T.S.B to investigate a series of unexplained airline crashes. But her husband, Captain Bill Jacobs, has his concerns. While her twin daughters are off at camp, and Bill is actively campaigning for the Pilot Union Presidency, Kathryn secretly begins her investigation. What she learns will shock the nation. Flight For Control is a thriller that reads like a mystery. But to Kathryn, there is no mystery on the condition of the airline industry-it's broken. Planes are crashing. Pensions are lost. Pilots are financially and emotionally bankrupt due to fatigue, furloughs, and loss of seniority. It's time that someone takes control before it's too late-unless it already is. Your life is in your pilot's hands. Do you know who's flying your plane?
Flight For Safety is an aviation thriller where fiction mirrors truth and each flight is a game of Russian roulette. Aircraft are crashing after computer failures, incidents are occurring worldwide, coming close to hull losses, with mismanagement of aircraft navigation systems, and airline training programs are being canceled. Aerodynamic skills are failing and the new generation pilots never learned them. But when Darby Bradshaw learns what is happening at her airline, she steps into a far-reaching conspiracy where she has become the target.
NextGen is on the horizon with multiple threats looming. Aircraft complexity, fatigue, and training issues leave pilots open to error. Unmanned aircraft systems-drones-are flooding the airspace, creating a regulatory nightmare. Safety Management Systems are mandated to be in place by 2018, but creating a safety culture is an essential ground floor requirement. FAA inspector Kathryn Jacobs is in charge of drone regulation, Jackie Jameson is managing flight attendant training, and Darby Bradshaw is flying an A330 for Global Air Lines while fighting for safer skies.
Darby has just been offered a two million dollar publishing deal for her safety management book: Fight For Safety, Inside the Iron Bubble. Unfortunately, there are those who would do anything to stop the book's release. The darkest realm of Global Airlines' secret sub-culture surfaces between the pages amidst fear that the truth about what happens inside the iron bubble will come to light. When a Boeing 777 disappears, and a pilot intentionally flies into a mountain, suspicion points to Captain Bill Jacobs, hidden inside prison walls. But the truth is never what it appears. The worst crash in airline history plunges these three friends into a fight for their very survival.


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Published Online: Dec 07, 2010
Print Issue: 16-30 November 2010
New Delhi: Alarmed by the news of encounters, which in course of time are alleged to be fake, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued fresh guidelines to all the states to report the facts within 48 hours. In the past a period of six months was granted for reporting such cases. It also made it mandatory on the states to send detailed second report "within three months" from the date of encounter which must include a post-mortem report, inquest report and findings of the inquiry conducted by a magistrate or senior officials. These guidelines make it amply clear that cases of culpable homicide lodged against policemen can now be investigated by any specialised investigation agency. Delhi shows a remarkable decrease in the trend of encounters in recent years. The period 1 August 2007 to 31 July 2010 registered death of eight criminals and arrests of 581 whereas in the period preceding this i.e., 1 August 2004 to 31 July 2007, the persons killed totalled to 52 while those arrested had been 834. Arrests of police officers in Gujarat following Sohrabuddin fake encounter has considerably influenced the senior ranking police officers who now are keen on arresting criminals instead of gunning them down. Special Cell commissioner P.N. Agarwal also substantiates the fact that the last three years saw 25 encounters while its preceding period had 70 such cases. Similarly compared to 199 registered cases in the recent past the earlier record was 399. The Special cell carry out anti-terrorist operation as well as preventive assignments. Peaceful completion of Common Wealth Games is a feather in special cell's cap.
This article appeared in The Milli Gazette print issue of 16-30 November 2010 on page no. 18
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Katie Mueller, deputy general manager of the San Diego County Fair, left, and Tim Fennell, right, look on as Dr. Eric McDonald, center, medical director of the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency's Epidemiology and Immunization Branch, talks about the E.coli outbreak in the petting zoo at the fair. The petting zoo has been shutdown.
(Howard Lipin / The San Diego Union-Tribune)
By Paul Sisson and Pauline Repard
The connections between the death of a 2-year-old boy and the violent illness suffered by three other children earlier this month weren't at first apparent.
But on Friday, June 28, public health officials zeroed in on the common denominator: all four tested positive for E.coli bacteria and all four had visited animals at the San Diego County Fair.
The discovery prompted the closure of all animal exhibits Saturday, June 29, a safety measure that will remain in effect through the remainder of the fair's 2019 run set to end July 4.
Two-year-old Jedidiah King Cabezuela died on June 24.
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While the cluster of cases has not yet been definitively linked to fair animals, in part because testing is not yet complete, the decision to shut down the public livestock exhibits, including the popular petting zoo, seemed prudent.
The livestock auction, which took place in a different area and does not allow the public to have direct contact with animals, went forward as scheduled Saturday, June 29.
"We have taken this step to restrict access to animals at the fair in an abundance of caution," Dr. Eric McDonald, a county public health official, said at a news conference Saturday, June 29. "We may find, as the investigation develops, as we develop genetic fingerprints of these organisms, that these cases are not related, that these just happened to be cases that occurred during the summer when it's more common for these types of cases to occur."
Signs are on the doors to the building that houses the petting zoo animals at the San Diego County Fair. It was closed after an E. coli outbreak that claimed the life of a two-year-old boy and sickened 3 others.
Jedidiah King Cabezuela, 2, visited the Del Mar Fairgrounds on June 15, became ill on June 19, and died on June 24.
McDonald said the boy suffered from a complication called hemolytic uremic syndrome which affects about one in 10 of those with E.Coli infections. The dangerous complication occurs when infection causes damage and inflammation in the kidneys, causing clots to form that can lead to organ failure. Though the syndrome can happen to anyone, it's more common in young children.
The parents took their ill son to a hospital where he was treated and sent home on June 20, said Ed Sandford of Bonita, whose wife is related to Jedidiah's mother. Later that day they took him to Rady Children's Hospital.
"He was in a lot of pain and discomfort, crying," Sandford said of the toddler. "He's 'upstairs' now. I told the Lord 'You've got your hands full now.'"
The boy's unusual name is an expression of the couple's Christian faith, Sandford said. King refers to Christ the King, Sandford said, and Jedidiah is an Old Testament name meaning "beloved of Jehovah."
He said Rebecca Cabezuela has an older son, about 11 years old.
On Saturday afternoon, friends, family and supporters of the boy's parents gathered at Rosie O'Gradys in Normal Heights to raise money with raffles and a dinner buffet. Family members of Jedidiah's mother own the restaurant that operates inside the bar.
More than $17,000 has been raised on a GoFundMe page, where the boy called "Jedi" was remembered for his energy, smiles and silliness.
Sandford said the grieving couple were too distraught to appear at the fundraiser.
"All this happened overnight," said Mark "Harpo" Delguidice, a local musician who acted as emcee to announce raffle numbers. "It's overwhelming, all the donations coming in — gift certificates, an expensive bike, a DVD of my band. Every business on the street has donated, to express our caring and help this family through their grief."
Authorities on Saturday, June 29, provided additional details about the other children who were sickened:
A 13-year-old girl who visited the fair on June 8 and had symptoms appear June 10;
An 11-year-old girl also present on June 8 with symptoms showing on June 12;
A 9-year-old boy who visited on June 13 and started showing symptoms on June 16.
The county's recommendation to shut down the animal exhibits, including its sprawling livestock exhibits which fill row after row of barns, came Friday, June 28, nearly four days after the boy's death. With symptoms showing up from June 10 through June 16, some have questioned why the action was not taken sooner.
McDonald explained that determining the sources of outbreaks don't often happen quickly.
It takes time for symptoms to turn into doctor's visits and for those visits to result in testing to indicate that E.Coli is or may be present. It's only after the public health department is notified of possible infections that public health nurses can begin interviewing subjects and their families, gathering enough facts to determine whether people with similar conditions visited the same places, ate the same food or share some other critical commonality, said McDonald, medical director of the public health department's Epidemiology and Immunization Services.
"It really did not come together as a picture until late yesterday (June 28)," McDonald said, adding that, in one case, it was only after a third interview that public health investigators learned that one of the four had indeed visited the animal areas of the fair.
Investigators have begun to rule out food poisoning.
McDonald and Dr. Wilma Wooten, the county's public health officer, confirmed Saturday, June 29, that a full list of everything eaten by all four children was obtained and informed the basis of a food investigation by environmental health inspectors Friday, June 28.
"We had a detailed list of all of the foods that were consumed by all four of these patients, and our colleagues and environmental health looked at the food preparations for every single place where a food item was reported to us," McDonald said. "There were no deficiencies found in any of those locations."
Environmental health inspectors, he added, make daily rounds of fair food vendors to make sure that they're following safety recommendations.
The E.Coli bacteria is best killed by hand washing with soap and water, and fair officials repeatedly advised attendees to wash their hands before indulging in the fair's gauntlet of food booths.
Fairgrounds chief executive Tim Fennell, himself battling a cold, said that he has every confidence that fairgoers will be safe attending the remainder of the events. Fennell said his 18-month-old grandson would be attending Saturday, just as scheduled.
"I'm very confident that the fair is safe and secure, and we're doing everything in our effort to cooperate with the health department," Fennell said.
Two of the four cases in which E.Coli infection has been confirmed are of the O157 type responsible for causing a wide range of food-based outbreaks in recent years.
About 40 percent of the estimated 265,000 U.S. E.coli cases each year are of the O157 strain, which is known for its ability to cause severe kidney damage, especially in children.
Though fair-related E.coli deaths are rare, they're not unheard of. In 2016, a two-year-old Indiana boy died of a similar infection after visiting the petting zoo at the Indiana State Fair, though investigators were unable to definitively link the outcome to animal exposure. In 2015, a 20-month-old boy died of an E.Coli infection after visiting a fair petting zoo in Maine. In 2013 the family of a 2-year-old boy sued a county fair after he died following a petting zoo visit in North Carolina.
Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said there is robust evidence that animal encounters in petting zoos and county fairs are a growing source of E.coli infection.
The big challenge, he noted, is that animals are the object of so much human affection. What may seem to be an innocuous hug around the neck of a young calf or goat can put people into direct contact with portions of an animal that have been reclining in areas where animal droppings are present.
"For sure, cases like the one in San Diego are tragic reminders of the importance of hand washing but also of the shared responsibility that petting zoos and parents share," he said.
To prevent against infection at petting zoos, researchers recommend regular sanitation of animal cages and hand-washing stations nearby staffed with attendants to encourage visitors to comply. A fair official said such steps were in place on all of the dates when the four children visited.
Osterholm said that parents don't necessarily need to run away from petting zoos, but caution is extremely important. That means making sure that kids and adults who are petting animals are not subsequently touching their faces or putting their hands in their mouths until their hands are washed.
"I don't think they need to run away or avoid, but I do think they need to be vigilant when they're in these situations," Osterholm said.
Fairgoers were generally understanding of public health officials' decision to close the animal barns and petting zoo.
Kathy Jugo, a dog trainer from Chula Vista who was outside the closed exhibit hall with her family early in the afternoon, said she looked forward to going next year.
"This doesn't stop me from going in the future," she said. "It just brings more attention and more awareness to the importance of washing your hands."
Jugo said even if the parents of the deceased toddler made sure he washed his hands after exiting the petting zoo, the boy could have been infected by simply touching his face before he left the barn.
"Maybe that's the education that needs to get out," she said. "You need to use sanitizer every time you touch the animals"
All four local cases are expected of being a type of E.coli bacteria that produces shiga toxin, a substance that can cause more severe symptoms. These infections — known as STEC — cause severe abdominal cramps, watery or bloody diarrhea and vomiting with or without a fever.
When fever is present, it is usually in the 101-degree range. The incubation period for the bacteria is between one and 10 days with most cases declaring themselves in somewhere between two and four days.
Anyone who has experienced these symptoms since June 8 — especially those with diarrhea that lasts for more than three days, bloody stool, a fever higher than 102 or so much vomiting that they cannot keep liquids down — is urged to seek medical attention.
--Paul Sisson and Pauline Repard are reporters for The San Diego Union Tribune
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Q: How to integrate servicemix shared libraries using jbi-maven-plugin? I use ServiceMix 3.5
I have multiple ServiceAssemblies, each one for a ServiceUnit.
The service Units have in common many libraries, so i mark them in the maven pom with the scope 'provided'.
The shared library contains all the libraries that i want the service units to share.
I built according to the following maven pom.xml's but the effect is a simple exception:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
  org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource in classloader
  org.apache.xbean.spring.context.FileSystemXmlApplicationContext

What can i do (maybe using the jbi-maven-plugin) in order for my service units to make use of the jar's from the shared library?
Shared libraries service unit pom:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>aaa.bbb</groupId>
  <artifactId>SHARED_SU</artifactId>
  <packaging>jbi-service-unit</packaging>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

  <parent>
    <groupId>aaa.bbb</groupId>
    <artifactId>theParent</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
  </parent>

  <build>
    <defaultGoal>install</defaultGoal>
    <plugins/>
  </build>

  <properties><componentName>servicemix-camel</componentName></properties>

  <dependencies>
  ...
  </dependencies>
</project>

Shared libraries service unit pom:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>aaa.bbb</groupId>
  <artifactId>SHARED_SA</artifactId>
  <packaging>jbi-shared-library</packaging>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

  <parent>
    <groupId>aaa.bbb</groupId>
    <artifactId>theParent</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
  </parent>

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>aaa.bbb</groupId>
      <artifactId>SHARED_SU</artifactId>
      <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.servicemix.tooling</groupId>
        <artifactId>jbi-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.2.3</version>
        <extensions>true</extensions>
        <configuration>
          <type>service-assembly</type>
          <classLoaderDelegation>parent-first</classLoaderDelegation>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

Pom of the service unit that needs to use the shared libraries:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>aaa.bbb</groupId>
  <artifactId>theServiceUnit</artifactId>
  <packaging>jbi-service-unit</packaging>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

  <parent>
    <groupId>aaa.bbb</groupId>
    <artifactId>theParent</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
  </parent>

  <build>
    <defaultGoal>install</defaultGoal>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.servicemix.tooling</groupId>
        <artifactId>jbi-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.2.3</version>
        <extensions>true</extensions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  <dependencies>
    ... <!-- all "PROVIDED" in scope-->
  <properties>
    <componentName>servicemix-camel</componentName>
  </properties>
</project>

Pom of the service assembly for the service unit
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>aaa.bbb</groupId>
  <artifactId>theServiceAssembly</artifactId>
  <packaging>jbi-service-assembly</packaging>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

  <parent>
    <groupId>aaa.bbb</groupId>
    <artifactId>theParent</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
  </parent>

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>aaa.bbb</groupId>
      <artifactId>theServiceUnit</artifactId>
      <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.servicemix.tooling</groupId>
        <artifactId>jbi-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.2.3</version>
        <extensions>true</extensions>
        <configuration>
          <type>service-assembly</type>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

A: I think you misunderstand some concept of JBI Component/SharedLib/SA/SU or the classloader how JBI works, please take a look here to get more details.
I can't understand what you mean by "Shared libraries service unit pom", as in per JBI spec, the SharedLib shouldn't has any service unit, it just referred by the JBI component, like servicemix-camel, all servicemix JBI component only refer one default SharedLib which name is servicemix-shared.
Class org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource is from commons-dbcp.jar but the commons-dbcp.jar isn't in the smx3.x default sharedlib servicemix-shared-${version}-installer.zip, so it means by default all servicemix-camel su can't see this class unless you explicitly  add <library>your_shared_lib_name</library> in your SU's xbean.xml.

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EUROPEAN CE marking rules could force up the cost of high technology products like concrete admixtures and repair materials, manufacturers claimed last week.
All products for which a harmonised European standard has been published can only be offered for sale if they bear the CE mark.
For complex products like concrete admixtures the standard usually demands compliance with tough third party 'attestation of conformity' rules.
In many cases this means extra testing and the employment of more in house technicians.
These extra costs could also lead to producers rationalising their ranges which could see many low volume products dropped.
Degussa construction products national sales manager Mike Threadgold said that for multinational producers identical products from factories in different countries had to be independently certified, which pushed up unit costs.
He also claimed that UK accredited independent test houses were unable to cope with the extra testing requirements.
'We're moving most of our UK production testing to Europe, ' he said.
But Construction Products Association (CPA) industry affairs director John Tebbit said he had not seen any signs so far of CE marking having a negative effect on cost or availability.
Cement Admixtures Association secretary John Dransfield agreed: 'Most common admixtures now are basically commodities - what marks out one producer from another is the depth of technical expertise and back-up that's on offer.


German human and veterinay medicines major Boehringer Ingelheim has more than doubled the amount in funding of its Venture Fund (BIVF) to €250m. Additionally, the investment focus has been extended to include infectious diseases and digital health.
Originally, the BIVF was designed to put investments of up to €10-15m into early stage companies focused on immunomodulation, tissue regeneration, small and large molecule drugs, and new therapeutic modalities. The fund, launched in 2010, had a volume of €100m, 22 portfolio companies from which already one exited (Okairos).
Most recently, portfolio company Rigontec was acquired by Merck & Co in a €464m deal. Oncolytic virus player ViraTherapeutics entered into a potential €210m option agreement which might end up in an acquisition. Additionally, the BIVF participated in a €15.2m Series A of Belgian Rewind Therapeutics, a private company funded by technology transfer platform and investment fund CD3 (Leuven, Belgium) and CRO Axxam S.p.A. (Milano, Italy). The company develops re-myelinating therapies for patients suffering from multiple sclerosis. Merck Ventures BV (MV) and Participatiemaatschappij Vlaanderen (PMV), and KU Leuven's Centre for Drug Design and Discovery (CD3) and KU Leuven Gemma Frisius Fonds (GFF) also participated in the investment.
BIVF investments target unprecedented therapeutic concepts addressing high medical needs in immuno-oncology, regenerative medicine, infectious diseases and digital health. These may include novel platform technologies to address so far undruggable targets, new generation vaccines and/or new biological entities.


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I Agree with norbertk, I'm working with few more OLAPs and they are far less better then the vertica solution. but still all depends on what is your company needs.
Getting the same issue here in other project I'm doing but still it's a web-gui interface. :/ any solution?
Topic: 2.2 GB of inserts.sql How to insert them.
Re: 2.2 GB of inserts.sql How to insert them.
After review the docs a out transfering I Modify it. the script has 10m inserta. Its planty even to split them. I manipulate the file to cs file delimited by ',' now i will use the opy command to move it.
Hey, I have 2.2GB sql file with planty of inserts.
How do I Move it into the table?
When i try \i x.sql i get the message that said the file is too large.
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Q: Hide decimal point if no decimal digits present var qtyMaskedTextEdit = new RepositoryItemTextEdit();
qtyMaskedTextEdit.Mask.MaskType = DevExpress.XtraEditors.Mask.MaskType.Numeric;
qtyMaskedTextEdit.Mask.UseMaskAsDisplayFormat = true;
qtyMaskedTextEdit.Mask.EditMask = "#,###.##;(#,###.##)";
grid.RepositoryItems.Add(qtyMaskedTextEdit);
column.ColumnEdit = qtyMaskedTextEdit;

the following format: "#,###.##;(#,###.##)" shows 123 as 123. (with decimal point at the end)
How to get rid of this decimal point?

A: SOLUTION 1:
Creation of derived control worked for me with next modifications:
In the constructor:
CustomDisplayText += OnCustomDisplayText;

And after the subscription replace comma/dot sign with empty string:
private void OnCustomDisplayText(object sender, CustomDisplayTextEventArgs e)
        {
            if (MaskType == DevExpress.Xpf.Editors.MaskType.Numeric &&
                MaskUseAsDisplayFormat &&
                !String.IsNullOrEmpty(e.DisplayText) &&
                e.DisplayText.Last().ToString() == NumberFormatInfo.CurrentInfo.NumberDecimalSeparator)
            {
                e.DisplayText = e.DisplayText.Replace(NumberFormatInfo.CurrentInfo.NumberDecimalSeparator, string.Empty);
                e.Handled = true;
            }
        }

MINUS: in edit mode comma/dot is still visible
SOLUTION 2: I found that this problem occurs only with decimal type and this is .NET problem, not devexpress. With double, for example, there is no such problem.
There is a hack with dividing decimal on 1m (m = decimal) number after which trailing zeros disappear.
public static class NumberExtensions
{
    public static decimal RemoveTrailingZeros(this decimal number)
    {
        return (number / 1m);
    }
}

and then use it in your View Model or Model, e.g.
public decimal Number {get {return number.RemoveTrailingZeros(); }}

P.S. Still do not understand what the hell is happening after 1m dividing, here is the test of bytes before division and after:


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Whether they are on stage or off stage a dancer does hold the body in a trained posture that is instantly recognizable. You know it. Back straight, no slouch and head high! A dancer looks different and they move with a grace that most people wish they had. As our life becomes more relying on gadgets, we lose movement grace and so much more. This new book, The Art Of Grace: On Moving Well Through Life by Sarah L. Kaufmann tries to help everyone achieve grace and move on well in life and in what we do.
We do not need to talk much about the reputation of Sarah Kauffman. After all, she is a Pulitzer Prize winner. What we should talk about is why you may want to read this book written by a dance critic that can change your life.
Grace is how well you feel in your own skin, no matter what you do from a bodybuilder to a modern dancer.
Grace is democratic as it can be genuine without being genteel. It is available for all people in the world, not just some in different professions.
Kaufman's way with words is really deep and it perfectly matches the tricky subject handled. Everything is controlled and smooth while maintaining a high authority about so many different subjects. There are even some bits of humor that make everything even more enjoyable.
The Art Of Grace is a book that comes after much research. It is evident. There are 16 chapters included, with most of them being about grace manifested in different fields: theater, art, dance, politics, sports, hospitality, cooking, strippers and waiters. The book is not about what we normally refer to as grace and there is no social premise.
Related Article: What Are The Best Motivational Books You Should Read?
There is a gap between generations when looking at grace. It is quite visible and so many things have an influence on it. Kaufman highlights that and manages to talk about manners, grace and so much more in a way that makes a lot of sense. Without giving any spoilers we cannot go deeper into the subject but we can say this is definitely a read that is going to make you question some things and change perceptions.
The Art Of Grace will present things in a different life and in many cases there is no desire to beat around the bush. Realities are presented and some difficult topics are handled. For instance, Kaufman talks about the idea of being yourself. The current society is focused a lot on it but the truth is that true grace and politeness is not just about the individual. It is also about those around the individual. For instance, let's say you are riding in the subway and it is crowded. You stretch your legs without a care in the world. You are yourself. That is what we are taught, to do just that. However, this action can easily disturb those around us. This idea in itself could be a book but everything else is even better.


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'Are there any Dreamers in the house?' Nancy Pelosi speaks at SFSU graduation
By Debora Villalon, KTVU
SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was the commencement speaker for San Francisco State University Tuesday evening. She had a simple message for graduates: be yourselves. Almost 9,000 undergraduate and graduate students received degrees as about 30,000 guests cheered them.
"Are there any Dreamers in the house?", asked Pelosi during her speech.
She spoke of immigration reform and climate change and urged students to "take bold action" because "the times have found us."
Pelosi also lauded the nation's founding values and democratic principles.
"This class is America, you are America because of your diversity and because you prescribe to that special quality our founders embraced: optimism."
Pelosi has been in Congress longer than most of the graduates have been alive. She praised SFSU for its history of advocacy and social justice.
"What a beautiful day in a a sanctuary city," led off one student speaker.
Another student spoke of discrimination and violence in her onstage comments.
"Did you know the average life expectancy of a transgender woman of color is only 35 years old, which is preventable?" posed Alexis Adsit, receiving an M.A. in Ethnic Studies
Graduates of the 2019 class come from 37 states and 64 countries and graduate in an array of majors.
"Criminal law, kinesiology, accounting, film," responded four friends, naming their fields of study.
With a healthy job market, their confidence is high. Some students will defer career to stay in school, and earn a more advanced degree.
"I'm getting a masters in occupational therapy," said Rena Ribeiro of Novato.
"I really want to work in geriatrics, in a senior home, when I graduate in three more years, it's where my heart is. I'm just excited to help people."
Other students expect life to take its course, glad to have the diploma and the experiences that came with it.
"I'm an international business major but I love working with kids," said Elaine Zaho of San Francisco.
"But throughout the four years, I've become way more confident, I was shy before but now i'm just me."
It is SFSU's 118th graduating class, and its largest ever. This is the fifth year commencement has been held at Oracle Park, home of the S.F. Giants. The five hour ceremony was followed, as usual, by a ten minute fireworks show.
Speaker Pelosi kept her remarks more heartfelt, than fiery.
"Know your power, the power that springs from being yourself, your individual you," she concluded.


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PFA: Israel denied entry of Arab youth teams to Palestine. Palestine urges FIFA exclusion of Israel.
The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) accused Israel of having refused the entry of several Arab youth teams to Palestine and demands the exclusion of Israel by the FIFA (International Federation of Association Football).
The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) has called on FIFA to exclude Israel from the Football (Soccer) World Association. The information says that Israel has denied the entry for several Arab soccer youth teams into Palestinian territory.
PFA President Jibril al-Rujub said in Ramallah yesterday that the Palestinian Football Association demands the exclusion of Israel from the World Association. The PFA President Jibril al-Rujub further said that they have "call on the FIFA red card" because the "yellow card" was already shown "long enough."
The Palestinian Football Association (Arabic: الاتحاد الفلسطيني لكرة القدم) is the main soccer (football) body in the Palestinian territory and also for the national soccer team of Palestine.
According to the statements made by PFA President Jibril al-Rujub in Ramallah yesterday, several young soccer players and officials were unable to travel to the West Asia U17 Championship because Israel has denied their entry. The West Asia U17 Championship should begin in Palestine on Thursday.
The PFA President Jibril al-Rujub said in Ramallah that three coaches from Jordan, two officials of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as well as 13 young soccer players and several officials of the Iraqi team were affected. According to Jibril al-Rujub, the PFA (Palestinian Football Association) will not accept compromises by the FIFA in regards of this inexplicable denial of entry.
Already in last month, FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter made a so-called Middle East tour. On his Middle East tour, the FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter called on both soccer organizations to increase their cooperation.
Joseph S. Blatter also asked the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for help, although somebody such as Joseph Blatter should know that such enquiries in direction of the Prime Minister of the Israeli regime are worthless and a waste of time.
However, the FIFA (International Federation of Association Football) is, simple said, just another international organization and tries to maintain its image as a neutral association for the international soccer. In the past, the cooperation of the two associations had been made difficult by political decisions.
For example, the Palestinian soccer player (footballer) Mahmoud Sarsak was arrested in Israel on suspicion of terrorism in the past year. The case had caused a worldwide stir.
However, Israel is still allowed to do what it wants and it does not matter if it happens in terms of soccer or such arrests and the further occupation of more Palestinian territories. That Palestine urges FIFA exclusion of Israel comes as no surprise. However, it will not happen..
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Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Cabinet (KP) approved the draft of the 'KP Land Acquisition Rules 2020' along with the formation of the Galiyat Development Authority (GDA) Board of Authority. The decision was taken in a meeting chaired by KP Chief Minister Mehmood Khan.
The Land Acquisition Rules 2020 are to be applicable in the merged tribal areas. To facilitate their implementation, the cabinet decided that all local traditions would be fully considered while acquiring land in these locations – and further verified by a National Commission comprising advisors from the individual tribes concerned. Additionally, the said body will give its advice on the land acquisition process.
As per the information shared by the Advisor to KP CM on Information and Public Relations Ajmal Wazir, the GDA Board of Authority is to consist of 5 private members, four government representatives, and 2 members from the KP provincial assembly. The board has been set up to promote tourism activities in both Galiyat and Abbottabad.
In addition to these approvals, the cabinet also sanctioned the establishment of Heritage Field Schools in the province. These institutes aim to provide archeological training to the youth in order to help them utilize their talent in a province popularly considered to be a rich haven of historical attractions
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Cabinet (KP) approved the draft of the 'KP Land Acquisition Rules 2020' along with the formation of the Galiyat Development Authority (GDA) Board of Authority KP Land Acquisition Rules 2020' along with the formation of the Galiyat Development Authority (GDA) Board of Authority


I WATCHED AS FROSH-----THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR MARYLAND ATTORNEY GENERAL STOOD WITH ANTHONY BROWN ON THE STAGE ELECTION NIGHT----HERE IS SUPPOSEDLY THE NEXT MARYLAND ATTORNEY GENERAL PARTICIPATING IN AND KNOWING THAT MARYLAND ELECTIONS HAVE WIDESPREAD IRREGULARITIES AND ELECTION RIGGING.
Now we hear Anthony Brown vs Larry Hogan running for Governor of Maryland. Brown is the Clinton neo-liberal and Hogan is the neo-conservative and both of them will do the very same thing in office-----move all public wealth to the top and hand control of all public policy to global corporations. The only difference is that Brown and Hogan represent a different set of rich/corporations.
Simply the power of appointment will have Cindy Walsh appointing to these commissions and committees people working in the public interest and end this neo-liberal corporate hold. Fight these election irregularities in court that are only designed to keep labor and justice out of elections and corporate pols in control.
The article below opens with 'measuring what matters'....neo-liberals in Congress took the Cost Benefit Analysis that was connected to what is described in this Vermont 'New Economy' and turned it into corporate profit as the end result of Cost Benefit.
We simply need to move away from profit as the benefit and back to social health and welfare.
I understand Maryland is a conservative state----but if you do not put domestic health back into economic models----you will not rebuild a domestic economy. Social welfare does not have to be Welfare and Food Stamps. It is the backbone of building a domestic economy focused infrastructure that leads to the health of all in Maryland. If you Google 'domestic economy' you will see nothing----the' 21st century economy'----the 'innovation economy' are all neo-liberal terms for spending more money making new products for the existing global corporations to profit. We all know a domestic economy is small and regional businesses producing what we consume right here in the state for our own citizens. This doesn't mean there is no global markets---it simply means the domestic economy drives the Maryland economy. That is what this article from Vermont speaks to. It is not socialism to have a strong public sector that does the work of government---oversight and accountability is needed even for free-market Republicans. Neo-liberals and neo-cons have outsourced everything and this is why the domestic economy is stagnant. They are consolidating against anti-trust and monopoly laws that are in place to allow that Republican ideal of competition.
So, whether Democrat or Republican----neither Brown nor Hogan will speak to any of this.
CHANGE THE COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS BACK TO USING SOCIAL WELFARE AS THE STANDARD!
The article addresses GDP measures as well as returning to a socially-based cost benefit analysis. This group plays on the Constitutional rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.....neo-liberals have eliminated that Constitutional phrase because there is no profit in it.
Editor's note: This commentary is by Dan Jones, who was a member of the original steering committee of Vermonters for a New Economy and sits on the board of Gross National Happiness USA. He lives in Montpelier.
For a lot of us, it has become evident (even before the shutdown debacle in Washington) that the current economy isn't working. The gap between the rich and the rest has never been wider; the world is under enormous threat from climate change and other disruptors. If you care about these problems, you understand that we need to do something.
Many Vermonters believe that we need to get about inventing a new set of rules that will work for all of our well-being. In general terms, we call these rules a "new economy." The premise is based on a question: How do we get about building a sustainable economic system that encompasses the social and environmental values we all share?
Let's start with imagining that maybe the current economic system isn't as permanent and all-powerful as we think. It certainly isn't giving most of us any sense of security these days. What else is possible? Could we imagine an economic system where there were more opportunities for ourselves and our children, and one that would not hurt, but help, society and the planet? If such an economy were imaginable, what laws and agreements would be needed to create a new system based on these values?
Why do we need a new economy? Because the old one, now measured by the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has failed us. In the last Depression, government planners figured that if we all knew there was more money being spent every year, then somehow we would all assume that life was getting better for everyone. To measure the amount of money being spent they invented the GDP to tell us how things are going. So for 75 years we have been using the ideal of a growing monetary transactions as a promise that we will all be doing better in the near future. But according to Gus Speth, dean of the Vermont Law School (a founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council and author of "America the Possible"), the era of GDP as a measurement of well-being has passed, and we now need an alternative measurement.
Vermont is the first state to compile an official GPI through law rather than executive order. And it's on track to be the first to use GPI in program evaluation, development planning, and state budgeting processes.
He details Vermont's response as: "responding to this challenge with an idea that corrects the shortcomings of GDP as a measure of social well-being and that can be compared with the movements of GDP and GDP per capita on a regular, quarterly basis – the so-called Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), and it is wonderful to see Vermont in the lead nationally in this regard." In the spring of 2010 the Legislature passed, and the governor signed, a bill directing the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont to compile an official GPI for the state.
This is very exciting stuff. Vermont is the first state to compile an official GPI through law rather than executive order. And it's on track to be the first to use GPI in program evaluation, development planning, and state budgeting processes. The first official report of the index was given to the Legislature at the end of this past summer, and a complete technical report, giving the formulas behind the calculations, the raw data, and the sources of the more than 75 data sets that were used, will be released this fall.
The really comforting news, he says, is that state GPI increased faster last year than the Gross State Product (GSP) did. "Last year's increase in GSP was an anemic three tenths of one percent, while GPI rose a very satisfactory 5.34%." Most of that improvement, he said, can be ascribed to a lessening of income inequality in the state.
Beyond the dollar values added to our environmental protection, we still have another area to add to our desired measurement schemes. That is the value of our social capital and our collective feeling of well-being. This is addressed by another Vermont effort: Gross National Happiness (GNHUSA). The GNH metrics include variables such as social costs (family changes, loss of leisure time to commuting and underemployment), and non-financial participation and resources (like volunteer work, investing in improving the natural and built environments).
Today it is possible to see how these measures, taken together, can build a vision of a new and sustainable future for Vermont, and possibly for the nation and the world.
On Oct 17, there was a unique statewide teleconference introducing theses new ways of measuring our progress. Experts such as Gus Speth, Tom Barefoot and Sam Carlson of the Gund explored how all Vermonters can start measuring what matters. People can now find a video record of this event on Youtube.
We're at a turning point in the environmental and social consciousness of the world; we can either give in to cynicism and despair, or we can become active members of a movement to make things better. If you, like so many Vermonters, are of the latter camp, I urge you to join in this growing movement towards defining a New Economy.
DO YOU HEAR YOUR POLITICIAN SHOUTING OUT AGAINST PRIVATE COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS IN PUBLIC POLICY-WRITING? NOT WHEN NEO-LIBERALS HAVE CORPORATIONS WRITING ALL OF PUBLIC POLICY! THIS IS THE #2 ISSUE FOR DEMOCRATIC LABOR AND JUSTICE FOLLOWING REINSTATING RULE OF LAW!
The democratic party platform states the opposite as regards policy stance. So, having neo-liberals in control of the democratic party is counter to the very platform on which they run.
'In social cost benefit analysis, not only profit but also other effects like how will it affect life of others are considered. Whereas, in private cost benefit analysis, the focus of the analysis is on maximizing profits'.
Social cost benefit analysis is a process in which the social impact of a project or a policy is assessed and evaluated by the government before approving a project contract.
Social cost benefit analysis is a part of calculating the merits of a project or a government policy. As the name suggests, social cost-benefit analysis of anything is associated with its social impact. This means that how a project or a policy will affect people is analyzed. Only after calculating the opportunity cost of a project, it is approved.
The scope of social cost benefits can be applied to public investment and also to private investment. In case of public investment, it plays a major role in the economic development of a developing country. And, in case of private investments social cost benefit analysis is important as investments are to be sanctioned and are monitored by the government. There are two aspects of calculating the cost benefit analysis of any project. One is the private cost-benefit analysis and the other is social cost-benefit analysis. Though, social cost-benefit analysis is usually undertaken by the government.
1. In social cost benefit analysis, not only profit but also other effects like how will it affect life of others are considered. Whereas, in private cost benefit analysis, the focus of the analysis is on maximizing profits.
2. For calculating social cost benefit, market prices for the factors to be considered cannot exist. Therefore, market price is not the main factor taken into consideration while calculating social cost benefit. Whereas, for private cost benefit analysis market price forms the base of the analysis and the key factor that determines if a project is viable.
Social cost benefit analysis has been introduced to develop systematic ways of analyzing cost and benefits of factors which do not have market prices, like effect on environment and traffic. Social cost-benefit calculates non-monetized benefits/ losses. It is normally used for large fund projects like constructing a dam, a road. Such projects have higher social cost-benefits and also affects the price level to an extent.
Example: If a bridge is to be constructed then how much will it benefit the people who live in that particular area, is to be analyzed. Therefore, how many people are willing to use the bridge, how much traffic will be reduced and what is the increase in cost of traveling, will have to be assessed as a whole to come to a conclusion. Suppose, if people are not willing to use the bridge if the cost of traveling from the bridge is $5 and if $7 has to be charged per vehicle to make this project feasible, then the government may consider dropping the project out.
On the other hand, if people are willing to travel using the bridge, being indifferent to the toll price-difference of $2, and the traffic is reduced by a good amount, then the government will sanction the project. Therefore, it is beneficial to take up a project if its total benefits (B) are more than its total costs (C).
It can be put up as, a project should be undertaken if, B/C > 1 or even when B=C. That is, when the cost-benefit ratio exceeds unity or when benefit derived and the cost of the project is equal. Before sanctioning a project, cost and benefit of alternative projects are assessed too. For example, the opportunity cost of setting up a hospital instead of a school.
The importance has been explained with the help of the following factors that affect the general masses as a whole.
Market failure when a big project is not affecting everyone but only a few. A private firm would only look at profitability and related market prices to take up a deal but the government has to look at other factors. To determine the social cost in case of market failure and when market prices are unable to define them. These social costs are known as shadow prices.
Impact of the project on general savings and investment level. A project that induces more savings are investment in an economy and not the other way round.
The project should not lead to accumulating income in the hands of a few but, it should equally distribute the income.
How a project affects employment and standard of living will be taken into account as well. The deal should lead to increase in employment and standard of living.
Externalities are impacts of a project which can be both harmful and beneficial. Therefore, both the effects are to be assessed before sanctioning a deal. Positive-externalities could be in the form improvement in technology and negative-externalities could be in the form of increase in pollution and destruction of ecology.
In a general cost benefit calculation, taxes and subsidies are considered as expenses and income respectively. Though in case of social-cost benefit analysis, taxes and subsidies are considered as transfer payments.
Social cost benefit analysis enables the government to take up new developments which will benefit everyone and not just a few. Also, it helps in bringing about an overall development in an economy and can help make decisions that will increase employment, investments, saving and consumption, thus, improving the economic activities in an economy.
Consider that the same time Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) of government policy-making was coming to the forefront in the Reagan/Clinton years, so too was neo-liberalism. So, you have the political philosophy of limited regulation and global expansion tied to Cost Benefit Analysis and you see that the social costs and benefits are out of the door. Social Benefit Analysis cuts into profit-maximization and will not be apart of neo-liberal public policy.
This is why we have a nation in the state it is today. Criminal, corrupt, predatory in its push to enrich a few and control the social damage.
COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS (CBA) IS NOT A BAD TOOL. WE NEED TO CONSIDER WHETHER POLICY IS EFFECTIVE. IT IS A BAD TOOL WHEN THE POLS USING IT ARE ONLY LOOKING AT HOW PUBLIC POLICY CAN ENHANCE WEALTH AND PROFIT.
Think about the state of Mexico's society today to see where neglecting the costs to society over the benefits to profit will take the US if Trans Pacific Trade Pact (TPP) is enacted. TPP does to the US what NAFTA did to Mexico. While Americans suffered under NAFTA, TPP will take the US to third world standards as all US law protecting the public will be eliminated.
Mexican farmers were left with no livelihood and turned to drug dealing; US manufacturing created sweat shops that impoverished people; the environment was destroyed and food distribution systems distorted. Rule of Law disappeared as corporate fraud and government corruption infused the Mexican society-----SOUND FAMILIAR????
THAT'S NEO-LIBERALS FOR YOU----WEALTH AND PROFIT OVER PUBLIC INTEREST! SHAKE THE NEO-LIBERAL BUGS FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BY RUNNING AND VOTING FOR LABOR AND JUSTICE IN ALL PRIMARIES!
Remember, Trans Pacific Trade Pact is NAFTA on steroids and most of it has nothing to do with trade----it restructures the world's national sovereignty giving a global corporate tribunal control of what happens in your country, state, and community.
Not all companies in these industries moved to Mexico. The ones that used the threat of moving during union organizing drives. When it became a choice between joining the union or losing the factory, workers chose the factory. Without union support, the workers had little bargaining power. This suppressed wage growth. Between 1993 and 1995, 50% of all companies in the industries that were moving to Mexico used the threat of closing the factory. By 1999, that rate had grown to 65%.
Another agreement within NAFTA has not been implemented. NAFTA would have allowed trucks from Mexico to travel within the United States beyond the current 20-mile commercial zone limit. A demonstration project by the Department of Transportation (DoT) was set up to review the practicality of this. In 2008, the House of Representatives terminated this project, and prohibited the DoT from allowing this provision of NAFTA to ever be implemented without Congressional approval.Congress was concerned that Mexican trucks would have presented a road hazard. They are not subject to the same safety standards as U.S. trucks. In addition, this portion of NAFTA was opposed by the U.S. truckers' organizations and companies, who would have lost business. Currently, Mexican trucks must stop at the 20-mile limit and have their goods transferred to U.S. trucks.
When we listen to neo-liberals speak of the high costs of health care, they are not talking about costs for the public, they are talking about costs for corporations. Cost Benefit Analysis would look at how health corporations can maximize profits while limiting the costs to public programs because government revenue will continually decline as corporations and the rich pay no taxes. This is why, given that the costs of US health care are driven by health industry fraud and profiteering, the ACA focuses on ending corporate health plan costs and gutting entitlement spending and actually increase the conditions for fraud and profiteering. People are seeing that none of these health policies are written in the public interest.
THAT'S PRIVATE COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS FOR YOU!
Below you see the private CBA reasoning behind ACA.....the coming baby boomer health needs would tap the Trusts that are now empty with no plans to replenish with corporate taxation/fraud recovery. This is the demographic shift. Inflation in health care has been allowed to reach triple digits and ACA does not address this, but recognizes corporations will not pay for this hyper-inflation in the health industry. You see corporations paying for 1/2 of health expenditures via wage and benefit packages. Workers gave up wage increases in exchange for these health plans. Private CBA won't have this. Placing health technology as the next global market strategy means costs/profiteering rise and access becomes even more limited.
Then you look at the local social benefit analysis and you see all of the social CBA is eliminated by the private CBA.
'At a local level, health care spending growth is more likely to be viewed as beneficial. It creates health care jobs, increases wages for health care workers, expands local tax revenues, and increases demand for related goods and services'.
Introduction In recent years, considerable attention has focused on aggregate health care spending increases. Emphasis has been given to identifying and examining the factors that have contributed to spending growth, and proposing policy solutions to reduce spending growth. Factors that contribute to spending growth encompass changes in health care utilization, population demographics, price inflation, and advances in medical technology.
This background paper focuses on a somewhat broader topic—how health care spending impacts the economy of the United States. The relationship between health care spending growth and the U.S. economy is inherently complex and multidimensional.
At an aggregate level, economists have cautioned that rising health care spending could lower economic growth and employment.. A December 2004 survey of CEOs found that employee health care costs are the foremost cost concern in the minds of America's business leaders (Figure 1). Further, rising health care spending has a significant impact on the federal budget. Many employers are seeking to limit their exposure to rising health care costs by requiring their employees to increase their contributions or by providing different forms of coverage, potentially reducing household available income finances as more costs are shifted from employers to employees.
Some economists note that rising health care spending has important benefits, often outweighing the increased costs. When adjusted for improvements in quality, these economists found that the cost of medical care is in fact in decreasing. In this view, increased health care spending improves increases access to new technologies — providing both new options of treatment (substitution) and treatment for a greater number of individuals (expansion).
"Technology often leads to more spending, but outcomes improve by even more."  At a local level, health care spending growth is more likely to be viewed as beneficial. It creates health care jobs, increases wages for health care workers, expands local tax revenues, and increases demand for related goods and services.
Source: Business Roundtable December 2004 CEO Survey.
Below you see how social benefit loses every time with private CBA. What is the CBA of global warming? Look to the UK and its cap and trade enactment and you see the entire program is engulfed in fraud and corruption---neo-liberalism will not allow any social CBA. Offering to make carbon a market is simply another neo-liberal way of creating profit from movement of money from public coffers and pockets under the guise of environmentalism. Republicans do not like this because it places restrictions -----neo-liberals simply want yet another market.
GET RID OF NEO-LIBERALS SO WE CAN GET BACK TO SOCIAL COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS!
This article may be too technical/boring for most----it just states that creating a market to solve an environment problem will not work.
Let's start with the costs. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has done the first cost estimate for Waxman-Markey. It finds (page 17) that by 2020 Waxman-Markey would cause a typical U.S. household to consume about $160 less per year than it otherwise would, and about $1,100 less per year by 2050 (before any potential benefits from avoiding warming). That doesn't sound like the end of the world, but this cost estimate is based on a number of assumptions that seem pretty unrealistic, to put it mildly.
First, it assumes that every dollar collected by selling the right to emit carbon dioxide will be returned to taxpayers through rebates or lowered taxes. Waxman-Markey establishes this intention but doesn't (as of the time I'm writing this) describe how it would be achieved, which reflects the political difficulty of achieving it. Second, it assumes no costs for enforcement and other compliance measures, which would be awfully nice. Third, it assumes that large numbers of foreign offsets will be available for purchase; without these, costs would be far higher. Fourth, it assumes that the rest of the world will begin similar carbon-reduction programs. Lack of such foreign action would either increase U.S. costs or risk a trade war if we tried to compensate for lack of international cooperation with targeted tariffs. Fifth, it assumes that there will be no exemptions or other side deals—that is, no economic drag created by the kind of complexity that has attached to every large, long-term revenue-collection program in history. And so on.
The EPA forecast is something like an estimate of the pure loss in economic productivity from replacing some fossil fuels with less economically efficient fuels or conservation in a laboratory setting; in the real world, expected costs are far above 0.8 percent of economic consumption by 2050. The EPA does not forecast costs beyond 2050.
Remember that the U.S. should not expect any net economic damage from global warming before 2100. That is, the bill's benefits would accrue to U.S. consumers—who are also bearing its costs—sometime in the next century. The EPA underestimate has costs rising from zero to 0.8 percent of consumption between now and 2050, and offers no projection beyond that year; but to what level would costs rise over the more than 50 years between 2050 and the point in 22nd century when we might actually expect some net economic losses from global warming? The answer is likely to be much higher.
Now consider the benefits. Climatologist Chip Knappenberger has applied standard climate models to project that, under the scenario for global economic and population growth referenced above (A1B), Waxman-Markey's emissions reductions would have the net effect of lowering global temperatures by about 0.1°C by 2100. Remember that the estimated cost of a 4°C increase in temperature (40 times this amount) is about 3 percent of global economic output. Assume for the moment that global warming has the same impact on the U.S. as a percentage of GDP as it does on the world as a whole (an assumption that almost certainly exaggerates the impact on the U.S.). A crude estimate of the U.S. economic costs that Waxman-Markey would avoid sometime later than 2100 would then be about one-fortieth of 3 percent, or about 0.08 percent of economic output. This number is one-tenth of 0.8 percent, the EPA's estimate of consumption loss from Waxman-Markey by 2050. To repeat: The costs would be more than ten times the benefits, even under extremely unrealistic assumptions of low costs and high benefits. More realistic assumptions would make for a comparison far less favorable to the bill.
I've had to rely on informal studies and back-of-envelope calculations to do this cost/benefit analysis. Why haven't advocates and sponsors of the proposal done their own? Why are they urging Congress to make an incredible commitment of resources without even cursory analysis of the net economic consequences? The answer should be obvious: This is a terrible deal for American taxpayers.
One potential objection to my analysis is that the bill is part of a global drive for all countries to reduce emissions, and that the U.S. needs to "show leadership." By this logic, we should ascribe much larger benefits to the Waxman-Markey bill—specifically, the benefits to American consumers of the whole world's engaging in similar programs. There are two obvious problems with this argument, however. First, ascribing all of the benefits of a global deal to reduce emissions to a specific bill that does not create such a commitment on the part of any other countries is loading the dice. The benefit we should ascribe to the bill is rather that of an increase in the odds of such a global deal. But would Waxman-Markey actually increase them, or would it decrease them instead? Whenever one nation sacrifices economic growth in order to reduce emissions, the whole world can expect to benefit, because future temperature should decrease for the entire globe. Every nation's incentive, therefore, is to free ride on everybody else. Our most obvious leverage with other emitting nations would be to offer to reduce our emissions if they reduced theirs. Giving up this leverage and hoping that our unilateral reductions would put moral pressure on China, Russia, Brazil, and similar countries to reduce their emissions reveals a touchingly sunny view of human nature, but it strikes me as a poor negotiating strategy. Second and more fundamentally, even if the whole world were to enact similar restraints on emissions, the cost / benefit economics would still not be compelling, for the reasons outlined at the beginning of this post.
A second and more serious potential objection to my analysis is that while Waxman-Markey may not create benefits if the projections I offered above turn out to be accurate, climate science is highly inexact, and the bill is an insurance policy against higher-than-expected costs. Now, climate and economics modelers aren't idiots, so it's not as though this hadn't occurred to them. Competent modelers don't assume only the most likely case, but build probability distributions for levels of warming and associated economic impacts (e.g., there is a 5 percent chance of 4.5°C warming, a 10 percent chance of 4.0°C warming, and so on). The economic calculations that compose, for example, the analysis by William Nordhaus that I cited earlier are executed in just this manner. So the possibility of "worse than expected" impacts means, more precisely, the possibility of "impacts worse than those derived from our current probability distribution." That is, we are concerned here with the inherently unquantifiable possibility that our entire probability distribution is wrong.
This concept has been called, somewhat grandiosely, the "Precautionary Principle." Once you get past all the table-pounding, this is the crux of the argument for emissions abatement. It is an emotionally appealing political position, as it easy to argue that we should reduce some consumption now to head off even a low-odds possibility of disaster. The most compelling version of this argument, by far, has been presented by Martin Weitzman. You can read my detailed response here (note that this was to a slightly earlier edition of the paper). The essence of my response is that in order to drive a decision, Weitzman must take his argument from the conceptual idea of a "fat-tailed distribution" of danger to a numerical estimate of risk. He recognizes that the logic of his argument entails this. In his article, he ends up having to do the kind of armchair climate science that has been the bane of the "global warming is all a hoax" set. He uses a couple of ice bore studies to develop his own probability distribution for potential warming that calls for a 1% chance of 22.6C or more of warming by 2100. To put this in perspective, a 22.6C increase in the earth's temperature would mean that the average global year-round temperature would be the same as summertime Death Valley is today. If you could convince me that there was a reliably-quantified 1% chance of this happening, you wouldn't need all of the mathematical formalism of Weitzman's paper – I'd be the biggest emissions mitigation proponent on earth. The problem is that the IPCC has already built a distribution of potential temperature changes (see Figure 10.28, page 808) that looks nothing like this. If you don't want to believe me, read Cass Sunstein's book about why the Precautionary Principle, even in sophisticated form, is a very bad decision rule.
In the end, clarity about costs and benefits is the enemy of Waxman Markey. It is hard to get around the conclusion that it can not be justified rationally based on the avoidance of climate change damages.


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Minnesota motorcyclists hit road for annual 'Spring Flood Run'
Maybe the weather doesn't feel like spring, but that won't make a difference to Minnesota motorcyclists Saturday as they hit the road for the state's annual "Spring Flood Run."
The Associated Press reports that up to 30,000 motorcyclists will kick off the riding season with the annual event, which stretches 90 miles from The Twin Cities to Winona, between the Mississippi and St. Croix Valley roadways.
To prepare for the event, law enforcement will step up enforcement in southeastern Minnesota, as well officials will in Wisconsin.
Motorists are advised to keep watch for motorcyclists Saturday. Fortunately, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety says, there no have been no motorcycle fatalities during the last 10 years of the Spring Flood Run.
The Spring Flood run commemorates an act of kindness during the 1965 Mississippi River Flood, when a group of 12 motorcyclists rode from the Twin Cities to Winona to help out with sandbagging.
Today the event's proceeds benefit the Gillette Children's Hospital.
Brian Zepp of the KQRS Morning Show is leading Saturday's run, which will also feature live music at the run's destination in Winona.
Organizers say the Spring Flood Run has gone on annually, and has never been canceled due to inclement weather.
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Hog alert: Up to 30,000 motorcyclists expected for 50th 'Flood Run'
Hit-and-run driver sought in bicyclist's death in Minneapolis
5 motorcyclists killed on Minnesota roads in under a week
30,000 motorcyclists set for 90-mile charity run prompt safety warning
Crash kills 1 in Spring Flood Run – motorcycle accidents reported around MN
Taste of spring weather prompts minor flooding in SE Minnesota
Flooding causes widespread road closures in central Minnesota
Cyclist hit by car, injured during tour around Minnesota


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Vote by peers the only way in?
By Momleader, March 18, 2014 in Order of the Arrow
JC'sMom 10
My son was elected to OA recently and attended Ordeal this past weekend. Another boy in his Troop was not elected and his mother was VERY upset about it. So she had one of the ASM sign an Ordeal registration form for her son. She took him to Ordeal on Friday with the signed form and registration money and the OA staff allowed him to stay and complete Ordeal. So I can tell you that I know being voted in by your peers is not the only way in...at least at this lodge.
I would not recommend this route as it has caused a conflict in the Troop and the boys who were honestly voted in feel like they have been slighted. And I feel like it took something away from their experience.
I have considered contacting OA staff for the lodge and discuss my concerns but at this point I can't decide. What do you all think?
perdidochas 655
JC's Mom,
Whats done is done. It's a bad situation, but all you will do is make it worse. What woudl you want done? Would you want the boy with the pushy mom to be stripped of his unearned sash? Do you think that will make things any better? The boys who were voted in did lose out.
It is a bad situation. And you are right, what's done is done. I haven't contacted the lodge yet because there is nothing that can be done at this point to make it right for anyone. Guess I am more just really disgusted that this "honor society" which has rules in place for elections did not follow their own rules. I don't see the "honor" in it anymore.
skeptic 364
It is not your horse to whip. The council should step in and clarify how this was allowed in the first place, as should the troop committee. Someone needs to make it clear to the ASM and leadership in general that they have NO authority to override the normal channels. And those on the OA staff who allowed it need to be retrained too, as there should have been a list of scouts that DID get elected and were invited to do the Ordeal.
Right. It is not really my fight as my son's OA election and Ordeal was handled the correct way. I just hate that it overshadowed the experience for him and the other boys.
gsdad 59
Park the helicopter at Woodbadge and leave your son's Scouting experiences in his own hands. The fact that you mentioned being on Woodbadge staff speaks volumes. If he needs to ask for votes he is not a good candidate for the OA. The OA is not just something to add to a resume.
qwazse 3010
Just one more beggar ...
@JCM, If I were SM and heard about such shenanigans I would be spitting nails. I would ask my COR to dismiss that ASM. (Chances are he would talk me off of that ledge.) I would call the lodge advisor ashamed and embarrassed by what happened. I would follow his and the chiefs lead about what should be done after that.
jpstodwftexas 72
Your Right...""at least at this Lodge"" is Correct..
Again Only Voted in By Your Peers is the Correct and Should be Only way in.
First the Lodge Should have received a Notice from all the troops in the Council on Whom they Elected
Second Those Elected should have been notified by being "Called Out" at a Call Out Ceremony..
Third Lodge Screwed up Royally..They should have had a List of the Candidates who were Elected and Called Out
Plus I have never heard of Any Lodge having a Registration Form for Ordeal.
What Lodge is this?
Your Right it does take away from Those who Followed the Rules and were elected into the Lodge instead of just registering and buying their way into the Lodge....If I was Still a Youth I would Bring it before the Lodge Leadership and ask for the Youth to be removed and Banned from Membership. Which Can and Should Happen....The Scout had to have known he was not elected..Does this Lodge Hold Call out Ceremonies?
Yes there was a Call Out Ceremony at Camporee a couple weeks ago. After that is when this mom realized that her son was not voted in. She was told that the documentation from the election had been turned in and her son was not voted in and therefore he could not attend Ordeal. I was there for this conversation when she was told he could not go. The form said "pre-registration" and to be returned with medical releases, identifying information, date attending Ordeal, etc. There was a place at the bottom for "Unit Leader's Signature". I have not seen the ASM that signed this form for her. He was not at the Troop meeting this week.
And when I say it has caused a conflict in the Troop, I mean a HUGE conflict. I do not know what the SM has done or who he has talked with. I feel like the Lodge needs to understand what they have done... the trouble this has caused.
SM bob 171
JC's mom - It's sad that this has happened. I would talk to the SM and the CC about my issues. Then I would walk away from it. Your son went through the ordeal and probably is better for it. The other scouts knows his helicopter mom got him in. I am guessing he is feeling pretty ashamed of this due to the reaction of his fellow scouts. The boys went through their ordeals they are both in. Going forward the SM will now have to clean house and deal with the parents side of the troop. I know you feel betrayed but try to keep the parent issues away from your son. The scouts in the troop need to deal this out on there own.
eagle90 99
How can this happen? We had our election last week, and I, as Scoutmaster, had to sign the election form and certify the election. Then the form had to be signed by an additional adult OA member AND a scout OA member to make the form valid.
Clearly the ASM should not have gotten involved and signed the registration form for this boy and his mother should not have acted the way she did. But I feel like the Lodge is responsible for some of this mess as well. The SM was told on Friday that she was on the way to Ordeal with her son and he at that point said that the Lodge would turn her away. But that did not happen.
Okay, aside from being aggrieved adults, what can we scouters do? Let me give a gentle suggestion based on personal experience from outside of scouting.
When I was in high school, my friends did me the biggest favor in the world by calling me out on something offensive that I did. The guys who really weren't my friends gave me "high fives" for being cool and not getting caught. In the grand scheme of things, the offense really wasn't that great, and there was not much that I could do to change things. But the fact that good people who I cared about told me in no uncertain terms what they thought of my actions helped me to be a better person in the long run.
So, the very least you could do is encourage your son and his buddies to tell that other scout how they felt about him getting a 'free pass" on something that was really important to them. They can tell him he doesn't have to do anything to make it right. He probably can't. But that first point of the scout law? It's down at the bottom of the latrine at the moment.
qwazse,
Good advice. Thanks. I just hope that this situation is not the standard or will become the standard with Lodge 560. If so, it is a sad day for the OA.
Oldscout448 522
In a strange way I feel sorry for the scout who got in without being elected. He cheated (or his Mom shoved him into cheating ) and thus cheapened the Order to the point of meaninglessness.
I guess all he can do now is refuse to wear the sash or flap if he wishes to retain an iota of honour or honesty
This was a screw up on so many levels
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Using Facebook's api with a valid client app how do I check if the user who just signed up is not reckless and use 2FA ? (Wondering the same thing with google too).