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Frankie Goes to Reston: The Final Days Of The RELAC Referendum
We're down to the final days of the referendum determining whether residents in the neighborhoods around Lake Anne will continue to be required to use RELAC, Reston's awesome jet-age lake-powered cooling system. It follows a similar referendum in 2005, which failed narrowly.
For the referendum to pass, a two-thirds majority of affected homeowners will have to vote "yes." If it succeeds, RELAC will continue to be an option, but homeowners will get to choose whether they want to use the system without a doctor's note, a little like the way we used to get permission to bring in AC units in college. The quorum details were at first a bit vague, given that the Reston Association sent out a clarification that the quorum requires two-thirds of only the members who cast votes, not all 343 households who received ballots earlier this month. The RA has a fun fact sheet if you're into such things.
The Reston Citizens Association has come out in favor of the referendum.
Sridhar Ganesan, President of RCA stated: "While clearly many people around Lake Anne still like and want RELAC because it seems to serve their purposes, it is also clear that a number of people have not been happy with the system, the costs and other burdens that they feel it imposes on them. RELAC is a system as old as the Lake Anne community. Not only would the investment in that system have been fully paid for, today's technologies have surely far surpassed RELAC's. Many of us on the RCA Board as well as members sympathize and feel that after all these decades of using and paying for the operation of that system, those that would like to opt out of RELAC and pursue other alternatives should have the Choice to do so."...
If the referendum passes then everyone will get a fair choice. It is a matter of fairness in allowing choice in the important area of comfort. This will require that 2/3 of those voting will agree to choice for RELAC 's involuntary subscribers by voting yes. Vote yes even if YOU are happy with your summer cooling. Consider your neighbor across the street/lake/cul-de-sac who may not have the same experience.
Mass exodus from RELAC is highly unlikely as conversion costs are a major factor, but to imprison anyone in a system that does not work for them is ... well, unkind. Kindness and fairness is crucial to maintaining the fabric of our community. Forcing bondage to an antiquated monopoly is not kind, fair or necessary.
Meanwhile, John Lovaas says in a column that an RA Board member is actively encouraging residents to vote "no" on the referendum.
In addition to singing the praises of the aging RELAC and arguing with homeowners favoring change, the Board member has even resorted to what I would call fear tactics, by suggesting that if the referendum were approved and some homes convert to conventional air conditioning, the electricity serving the area may be overwhelmed. In one of many emails, the Board member said, "I have a concern our 50 year old junction line will not handle the load." There is no such problem.
In fact, Dominion supplies more than adequate power and would be delighted to sell even more electricity around Lake Anne if it were needed. When asked, Dominion, in fact, said as much.
The unnamed board member is well within their rights to voice their opinion, just as others are well within theirs to argue that the system doesn't work for them, if by "work" you mean "cools the house to under 80 degrees on a hot summer day."
Free From 15 posted some of the arguments against making a change that may have convinced voters to maintain the status quo in the 2005 referendum. "Sadly, their dire predictions about costs came true because their opposition destroyed the chance for competition, which we believe is the only realistic way to lower costs for everyone," the site argues.
Deadline for ballots is 5pm this Friday. While most of the households impacted by the decision likely voted as soon as uniformed federal agents delivered the ballots to their homes, it might not be a bad idea to check the stack of Reston-related mail piling up in your sunken living room, the end.
Posted by Restonian at 11:31 AM
Labels: 20190, Bizarre regulations, How I learned to stop worrying and love the RA, Lake Anne, Reston
I spent over $10k on a new HVAC for my two broom closets unit. How many months of RELAC would that buy me if I was an inmate at Lake Anne?
You are completely full of it. A few years ago I had to replace my HVAC unit which was a combined AC and furnace in one. Because of its configuration, size restrictions(had to fit in a space the size of a broom closet), and being a combined unit only 2 manufacturers even made a unit that would work. All of those issues made it more costly than just replacing a standard AC unit. It still only cost me $5500 total. The unit even required a connection to a gas line. If you payed $10k for just an exterior AC unit you were robbed.
Yeah, see, I wanted one that:
- runs quietly so as to not drive my neighbors and me crazy;
- runs efficiently so that it doesn't drive the environment and my wallet crazy... HA!
- runs for longer than say a couple of years so I don't have to replace it over and over and drive the above crazy again.
So I bought the BMW of HVACs, not the Ford. But now we have some idea what the soon to be former RELAC customers are going to choose.
And in case there is still confusion, it was both the outside infinitely variable heat pump and the inside inverter-driven air handler/coil, UV lights, and filter, as well as the duct work to make it all fit. It only took a crew of 6 a whole day, and it was a forklift job, not a new install or what the RELAC folks will need.
Of course who wouldn't want Lake Anne to look more like a Motel 8 with window units dripping moldy water over the peasants on the plaza. It's the quality of life people!
Nowhere in Reston can you have a window unit. Want that shit? Move to Arlington.
Relac Refugee January 27, 2015 at 9:39 PM
It's time to cut the cord on the outdated and inefficient RELAC system. Spend your money on an AC system that will actually work in the summer time. The board-member-who-remains-nameless demonstrates the continuing poor judgment n that RA board members are becoming known for.
I agree 100%. It seems the board wants to live in the past and is not able to open up their minds to new ideas. The concept of Reston as a whole was a good one when it was created but times change. If you are going to be on the board you need to stop sticking your head in the sand and realize not all of the concepts of Reston work in today's world.
What really bothers me is this no name board member chooses to stay nameless while spreading lies and negatively impacting others lives. I will put my name on anything I say. My name is Adam Petersen. I have lived in Reston since 2000. I am tired of some of the original Restonians holding the rest of Reston hostage.
Comments made by this "unnamed board member" on our cluster website are very concerning. Not only are they full of BS, fear, and inaccuracies, they point to HIS version of RELAC and the future of Lake Anne. His comments are alarming to say the least. He may have the right to speak as a RELAC user and a public citizen, but he is an elected official and leader of a (corrupt!) group whose purpose is to represent the best interests of all citizens of Reston, or something like that.
How do you really know what you think you know?
There is no spoon!
RA is a homeowners association! It is NOT a representative democracy.
To Anonymous#1: think years, not months!
From Anonymous#2, a RELAC hostage
Anonymous#1 January 28, 2015 at 4:56 PM
Right! Years! And why do people buy broom closets/condos? To save on expenses perhaps by sharing some of them?
People looking to buy/rent a new one being built in Reston should really talk to the Lake Anne population and then hop on the Silver Line and run back as fast as they can. If it is not the HVAC, it will be the elevators, the garage, the noise, the plumbing, the smell, the garbage, the aliens, the drug dealers, the "alternative lifestyle", the drummer, the jihadis, the yuppy lady with the yuppy doggies, the NRA geezer... It never ends.
Multi-dwelling existence is a recipe for an endless misery for all. Go find your own cave.
scubadiver January 28, 2015 at 4:58 PM
When we moved to Reston we were charmed by Lake Anne. We thought to take a small place on the plaza upon becoming empty-nesters. Our nest emptied a decade ago, but no Lake Anne. The reason: RELAC.
As it was explained to me at one meeting, my neighborhood has ALUMINIUM Wiring, and could not handle the extra load of AC units.
Got news for you: all of the power mains serving every unit in Reston, RELAC or not, are aluminum. If your interior wiring is aluminum, that's also not a problem if it's not been mixed with inappropriate connectors (which is both dangerous and illegal).
BIG NEWS: Those massive power towers we see all over Reston? Those are directly connected to the four nukes that supply 55 percent (or more) of our power. Those lines are aluminum.
Some houses built during that time period do have aluminum wiring and those inappropriate connectors, but fixing that is important for reasons beyond AC. They can be a fire hazard.
@Restonian you continue to be a useless fithy web log. Your info is inaccurate and you have an obvious bias against RELAC despite not living in a RELAC cluster. You have no dog in the fight, nor does anyone else who is not on RELAC.
As far as the rules goes if you took a moment to actually READ the damn FAQ you link to:
Quorum is 30% of eligible voters, referendum requires 2/3 of the VOTERs not households.
Modern AC technology has an obvious bias against RELAC.
Wow, you sound really really angry. But how do you know who "Restonian" is and does not indeed have RELAC? Are you on the RA board? Gad, I sure hope not... 'cause they have enough ethics problems without your anger issues.
@ Restonian. Your meta tag "Bizarre Regulations" is stupid like your trollish filthy web log. The RELAC requirement is a covenant NOT a regulation. Covenants are entered into with prior knowledge and voluntarily. Or did all the anti-RELACers not read their documents when the purchased their homes under gun-point?
Fithy Weblogger January 29, 2015 at 4:42 PM
Uh-oh. Sounds like someone forgot to take their Metamucil today.
By the way, as for your 12:15 comment, just for the L of it please remember this is a "filthy" web log, not a "fithy" web log.
Take this L and ... January 29, 2015 at 5:59 PM
Here's some maths for you courtesy of the HC website:
As few as 69 YES votes (2/3 x 30% quorum x 343 eligible) could impact RELAC service for all 626 current customers. But if all 343 eligible homeowners vote, 229 YES votes are required to pass the referendum, and 115 NO votes are required to defeat it.
http://hickoryclusterassociation.blogspot.com/
69 of 626 is about 11% Since when is it ok for 11% to decide what's best for the other 89% ?
April G January 29, 2015 at 2:25 PM
I'm a new homeowner at Lake Anne and I didn't receive a ballot. I do not wish to use Relac and I'd like to vote. How can I do this?
Call Reston Association. You better hurry up you only have one more day. Go to the office on Sunrise Valley Drive.
Even the most quiet system on this page is 59 db. Relac operates at 0db.
http://www.lennox.com/products/air-conditioners/
Anonym July 2, 2017 at 12:05 AM
We are new homeowner . We do not want to use
Relac.
Seven of Nine July 6, 2017 at 5:57 PM
We are Borg. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated into the RELAC collective.
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On May 10, 2018, the IRS issued Rev. Proc. 2018-29, which provides guidance for requesting an automatic change in method of accounting related to the adoption of revenue recognition standards under FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Topic 606, Revenue From Contracts With Customers. Under the new procedures, taxpayers that implement Topic 606 for financial reporting purposes may change certain of their tax revenue recognition methods to conform to the new book methods, provided the new methods are otherwise permissible under current federal income tax law. This taxpayer may make the automatic change only for the year the taxpayer adopts the new standard for financial accounting purposes and may make it either on a cutoff (prospective) basis or with a Sec. 481(a) (catch-up) adjustment. However, the automatic change does not apply to Sec. 451 revenue recognition changes provided in P.L. 115-97, the law known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) (the IRS will address those changes in future guidance). This discussion highlights some of the key provisions and potential implications of the new automatic method change procedures.
On May 28, 2014, FASB issued new financial accounting standards for recognizing revenue from contracts with customers. For most taxpayers, the new standards are effective for annual reporting periods beginning after Dec. 15, 2018. However, publicly traded entities, certain not-for-profit entities, and certain employee benefit plans must implement the standards one year earlier (i.e., for annual reporting periods beginning after Dec. 15, 2017). The new financial reporting standards apply a five-step analysis to all contracts with customers to transfer goods and services (other than leases, insurance, financial instruments, guarantees, and nonmonetary exchanges between entities in the same line of business).
5. Recognize revenue as the performance obligations are satisfied.
Rev. Proc. 2018-29 adds new Section 16.11 to the "List of Automatic Changes" contained in recently issued Rev. Procs. 2017-30 and 2018-31. Under the new procedures, changes to tax revenue recognition methods related to the adoption of Topic 606 are limited to changes for: (1) identifying performance obligations; (2) allocating transaction price to performance obligations; and/or (3) considering performance obligations satisfied (i.e., steps 2, 4, and 5 of the five-step process discussed above). For purposes of the second change (allocating transaction price to performance obligations), the new procedures indicate that taxpayers may generally follow the book-allocation method adopted under the new standards, thus adopting one of the suggestions in comment letters submitted in response to Notice 2017-17, to reduce complexity and the administrative burden associated with book/tax differences resulting from implementation of the new standards.
Permissible tax method: The changes may be made only if the taxpayer's new tax method is otherwise permissible under Sec. 451 or other guidance, including amendments made to Sec. 451 under the TCJA. These amendments relate to the application of the all-events test and an elective method of accounting for certain advance payments. They contain many ambiguities and complexities requiring clarification and guidance from the tax authorities that they have not yet provided. Thus, taxpayers looking to follow the new standards for tax purposes must first determine whether their proposed tax revenue recognition method conforms to Sec. 451 (as amended) and may need to do so prior to the issuance of the forthcoming IRS guidance.
Limited time to file: As noted previously, changes may be made only for the year the taxpayer adopts the new standards for financial accounting purposes (i.e., the first, second, or third tax year ending on or after May 10, 2018). Presumably, taxpayers that fail to file otherwise automatic method changes within the prescribed time frame will be required to apply for consent under the more onerous and costly advance consent procedures.
Accounting for income from long-term contracts subject to Sec. 460, except for contracts exempt from use of the percentage-of-completion method (i.e., certain home construction contracts and small taxpayers described in Sec. 460).
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Elective cutoff method: Changes requested under the new procedures may be implemented with either a Sec. 481(a) adjustment or on a cutoff basis. For changes made on a cutoff basis, the taxpayer must allocate any payment allocations prior to the year of change using the taxpayer's former method of accounting and implement all changes made under the new procedures using the cutoff method. A member of a consolidated group must implement all such changes with respect to its intercompany transactions on a cutoff basis but may elect either the cutoff method or a Sec. 481(a) adjustment for other transactions.
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File the automatic Form 3115, along with a copy of the National Office letter sent acknowledging the taxpayer's request to convert, by the earlier of 30 days after the date of the National Office's letter acknowledging the conversion request or the due date of the original Form 3115.
The highly anticipated new procedures are welcome news in that they incorporate several of the more significant requests for simplification from the Notice 2017-17 comment letters, such as permitting otherwise nonautomatic changes to be made using favorable automatic change procedures, providing taxpayers the flexibility to implement changes using either a cutoff method or with a Sec. 481(a) adjustment, reducing compliance requirements and temporarily waiving the "same change" eligibility rule. However, significant complexity, uncertainty, and/or compliance requirements likely remain for many taxpayers implementing method changes related to the new revenue recognition standards, particularly for those awaiting guidance in applying newly amended Sec. 451 or needing to make method changes that are ineligible for the automatic change procedures, such as taxpayers that receive variable consideration as part of the transaction price or that report income from long-term contracts subject to the percentage-of-completion method under Sec. 460.
As noted, the IRS has stated its intention to issue guidance in complying with amended Sec. 451 and, as evidenced by the request for comments contained in Rev. Proc. 2018-29, is aware that taxpayers will encounter additional issues requiring implementation assistance as they begin to adopt the new standards. However, notwithstanding the current lack of guidance, taxpayers must act soon to complete all the tasks necessary to file Form 3115 within the limited period allowed under the new procedures (i.e., they must implement tax method changes in the same year they adopt the new standards). Therefore, taxpayers are advised to begin the process of assessing the impact of the new revenue standards and tax law on their current tax revenue recognition methods so they are prepared to implement any necessary accounting method changes within the time frame specified in the final procedures.


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Responding to the UK Government's Civil Society Strategy
This post appears in full on Reason Digital's website.
The UK Government recently launched its new Civil Society Strategy: Building a future that works for everyone, echoing Theresa May's first speech as Prime Minister where she vowed to fight against "burning injustice" and to be "driven, not by the interests of the privileged few but by yours."
The strategy acknowledges the work already well advanced in parts of civil society, including "among responsible businesses and progressive public sector commissioners, where social value is in the forefront of what these organisations do." One of the criticisms of the 2010 strategy was that it laid out plans that many charities and civil society organisations had been doing for some time.
Chapter 1. People: enabling a lifetime of contribution
"We want to build a society where people have a sense of control over their future and that of their community."
Charities are already dealing with the consequences of wage stagnation, the rising cost of living, low paid, low quality and insecure jobs and lack of affordable housing, all of which is already creating a sense of loss of control and tension between communities.
Studies show that racism is more prevalent in tough economic times, which has been borne out in increased instances of hate crime since the EU referendum, with spikes in the aftermath of terrorist attacks. Poverty is also a contributing factor in radicalisation, and combined with the introduction of laws to restrict freedoms in the name of national security, could eventually lead to a downward spiral of violence and counter-violence, further isolating people and fracturing communities.
"Government is also supporting citizens to take action on the issues they care about by funding the training of 3,500 people in community organising by 2020."
We're keen to see how Community Organisers use design thinking to "motivate [the community] to come up with the answers to the problems they face" and how the success of Community Organising training is evaluated given the range and complexity of the problems being faced by communities.
Chapter 2. Places: empowerment and investment for local communities
"By working with service providers, the private sector, individuals, and communities in a place, we will make more sensitive and appropriate policy, we will achieve better social and economic results, and we will make brilliant places for people to live and work in."
There is a risk that, with the financial health of local authorities across England getting worse, and without proper support from central government to fund basic public services, local councils will always prioritise financial impact over social impact when it comes to land use and development.
There is also a danger that community-run spaces could become ghettoised as developers and private security firms gradually take ownership of larger areas of quasi-public spaces, who, in return for paying for the upkeep of those spaces, police them according to the instructions of their employers rather than common law. This practice has an impact on the culture of our places and can be disempowering for communities, such as restricting the right to protest.
With the creation of new systems of "accountable healthcare", the public sector is moving more towards delivering health and social care services which focus more on the need of the individuals in defined places. These systems could create more opportunities for local and regional charities to deliver place-based services, as they have more knowledge and insight into the needs of local communities. However, there would need to be changes in procurement and commissioning to ensure that contracts are not just awarded to the largest national charities who might lack the local knowledge and expertise.
One flaw in the place-based approach to community services is that not all communities are defined around a geographic area. For example, the LGBT community could be described as a 'non-geographic community of identity'. We know that LGBT have worse health outcomes that the general population, have their own unique health needs (including mental health needs) and suffer discrimination in accessing public services and healthcare. By focusing on serving geographic communities, place-based public services risk disadvantaging members of these communities of identity who live outside major urban centres by not offering easy access to the specialised services they need.
Chapter 3. The Social Sector: supporting charities and social enterprises
"On leadership, we will work with civil society stakeholders and the Charity Commission to agree on joint action to open up trusteeship to people from different backgrounds."
The commitment to "open up trusteeship to people from different backgrounds" is very much welcome. As reported by Inclusive Boards, trustee composition in UK does not reflect the diversity of the population or the communities served by those charities. The boards of the biggest charities are less diverse than those of FTSE 100 firms: 80% of senior leadership teams in the top 500 charities lack any ethnic minority professionals, while 62% of the charities have all-white boards.
We should strive for the same diversity at board level of private sector companies too as part of the commitments laid out in Chapter 4 – particularly if private companies are to be more involved in delivering public and community services. We welcome any support and initiatives from central government to diversify governance of all organisations at board level.
Chapter 4. The private sector: promoting business, finance, and tech for good
The government appears to be forging stronger links with the private sector, as part of its commitment to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, Goal 17 around strengthening partnerships.
"The government is implementing the Good Work Plan… to focus on improving the quality of jobs and the wellbeing of workers across our economy."
Many societal problems are tangled up in work and housing. 60% of people in poverty live in a household where someone is in work, and the risk of poverty in a working household has risen 25% in the past decade and the Minimum Wage is still not considered enough to live on according to the Living Wage Foundation,
With rents rising in the private rental sector faster than wages, many people are no longer able to afford to pay their rent, or have to choose between paying the rent, heating their home or feeding their family. The number of people facing homelessness is rising sharply, particularly among vulnerable groups. Food bank charity The Trussell Trust distributed 1.3 million 3-day emergency food parcels to people in crisis in the year to March 2018, a 13% increase on the previous year.
Zero hour contracts are exacerbating the problem, though numbers of people on zero hour contracts appear to be slowing from its peak of almost 1 million people in early 2017. The rise of the "gig economy" means fewer people on permanent employment contracts, with as many as 5 million people preferring to work on a freelance basis for a short term instead, for companies such as Uber, Deliveroo and Amazon. While some people benefit from the flexibility, others are working several jobs to make ends meet.
There are also close links between poverty and mental health. People stress about not having enough money, which can keep people trapped in a cycle of poverty. UK children and adults living in households in the lowest 20% income bracket are two to three times more likely to develop mental health problems than those in the highest, according to the Mental Health Foundation.
Poverty, homelessness and mental health are all interconnected, and are issues the civil society sector is tackling every day. We welcome efforts in the government's Good Work plan to enforce employers to respect basic working rights, to promote workplace health and wellbeing and to encourage skills development and progression, but it's clear that people need better quality, better paid jobs in order to survive and thrive.
"The government will explore further support for the development and expansion of the Purposely tool, which assists businesses to make the most of the flexibility within existing Company Law to embed purpose in their legal documents."
I welcome any and all initiatives to help businesses embed purpose in their legal documents and have already signed up to the Purposely tool. Reason Digital's own objects are "to pursue trading activities that are both economically and socially responsible" and to promote equality and diversity, social inclusion and sustainable development have been written into the company's Memorandum and Articles of Association since 2010.
"The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Government Inclusive Economy Unit are exploring how businesses are engaging with the Sustainable Development Goals"
I support any government initiative to get more companies to adopt work according to the Sustainable Development Goals, as a framework for responsible business and for being a catalyst for positive social change.
The UK has some way to go against some of the goals, as it currently underperforms in terms of prevalence of reducing inequalities, prevalence of obesity, e-waste generated, nitrogen and carbon dioxide emissions, over-fishing, deforestation, endangered species survival, ratio of renewable energy generated and tax haven status.
The goals offer business a $12 trillion opportunity and, through social entrepreneurship, I will continue to seek partnerships with organisations across all sectors that want to work proactively toward the Sustainable Development Goals to achieve a lasting, positive impact on the world, both in the UK and beyond.
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Organ Donation and Pacific Islanders
Because data is limited, Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders are often categorized simply as Asian Americans, which often fails to acknowledge the health disparities that exist within this general term. In 2014, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders made up 0.2 percent of the national population.
The number of organ transplants performed on Pacific Islanders in 2015 was about 20%, of the number of Pacific Islanders currently waiting for a transplant. The number of transplants performed on White Americans was 31% of the number currently waiting.
While 0.5% of the total candidates currently waiting for transplants are Pacific Islander, they comprised 0.2% of organ donors in 2015.
The number of organs recovered in 2015 from deceased Pacific Islander donors was almost twice the number of living Pacific Islander donors.
Native Hawaiians are more likely than whites living in Hawaii to be diagnosed with diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders have higher obesity rates, and also are seven times more likely to be diagnosed with chronic liver disease, as compared to non-Hispanic Whites. These conditions are known to put the patient at risk for organ failures.
U.S. Transplant Waiting List – Candidates by Race/Ethnicity
# of PI candidates
PI % of all candidates
# of White candidates
White % of all candidates
All Organs
Source: HRSA U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). Based on OPTN data as of July 12, 2016.
https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/data/view-data-reports/national-data/*
Transplants Performed in the U.S. by Recipient Ethnicity, 2015
% of total 2012 transplants
Total Transplants
https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/data/view-data-reports/national-data/
U.S. Organ Donors Recovered, 2015
Donor Type
# of all donors
# of PI donors
PI % of all donors
# of White donors
White % of all donors
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Coalition Still Campaigning
Aus_Anarchist	Australian Politics, Economy, Emergency Services, Environment, Federal, General, Human Rights, International Politics, Media, Philosophy, Society and Culture, State, The ABC, Unions	 November 22, 2019 November 22, 2019 6 Minutes
Despite winning the election in May, the Coalition seems to still be stuck in a lot of their campaigning habits. The reason, in my opinion, is a relatively simple one, but it's mind-boggling to think that a government can be so awful that, only six months into a third term, all they can think to do is self-promoting PR.
The main tactic used by the Coalition in this year's election, as in previous ones as well, is to simply attack their opponents. The question of policy was left comparatively untouched, and the facts relating to their accusations against Labor, the Greens, or any other party may have been contested, but the damage is done for most people. It worked for them, seeing as they won the election despite the polls pointing towards a Labor win.
Putting aside arguments about how tedious and infuriating election campaigning is in general, usually after a party has won they move to implement the vision that they laid out for those who voted them in. There is, however, one key detail that explains why the Coalition appears to have rejected this norm. That is the fact that they had no vision for Australia in the first place.
All throughout the election campaign, we saw attack after attack, but we saw very little in the way of policy, let alone policy that might actually be worth anything. So it only makes sense, after their "miracle" win, that the easiest way to hide that fact is to continue what they did whilst campaigning. I hadn't really considered it too much until today when the Liberal Party shared a video of ABC's Fran Kelly interrogating – sorry, interviewing – Anthony Albanese.
"Will you start today on this program as saying that franking credits are gone?"
"So why not just put … if they're the people you're trying to get back on your side, why don't you just say now 'don't worry, that's gone, that's off the table'?"
I'm sorry, it's bad enough that the ABC essentially campaigned for the Coalition this year through their timidity towards them and their hostility towards Labor, but to have an ABC presenter try and pressure the Opposition Leader six months later with Coalition talking points is pathetic. And this is the woman who had calls for her resignation for being a fiery, leftist feminist on that one Q&A episode? No, she is, like Leigh Sales, a woman who happens to be on TV under the watch of the (tellingly male dominated) government – hurrah for equality brought to you by the ABC.
I don't really think much of Albanese, but his responses to both of those statements by Kelly were amazing and do give me hope that the Labor Party hasn't completely capitulated.
"No. We'll make our announcement under our terms with proper processes as well."
"Because the election is in 2022, Fran."
Labor has acknowledged that franking credits was one of the many issues that they had with their campaign, mostly because the Coalition slammed them (and, as evident here, are still slamming them) for the so-called "retiree tax". But Albanese wasn't bullied into giving an answer, explaining that it was something they needed to consider for the future. Unlike the Liberal Party, which tweeted the video with the caption "Albanese doesn't want to drop Labor's Retiree Tax. Labor can't manage money, that's why they come after yours.", he does not appear think that franking credits was such a big concern. Realistically it wasn't, as it affected relatively few people, but the hallmark of any successful business-oriented parties is their ability to convince the masses that what "damages" the rich will destroy the poor.
For bonus irony points, accusing Labor of not being able to manage money whilst crashing the economy into a recession is some next level propaganda.
That's just one example, and a hefty one at that. But there are other things that, when considered from this angle, could also be seen as campaigning as a way to hide a lack of action. My Federal MP, Andrew Laming, has for years attacked the State Labor MP in my area, Don Brown, and Kim Richards, who I think is also Labor but I don't know her position. Not even his level of politics, Laming runs about six or more fake Facebook pages, including one masquerading as a media outlet, and spends a lot of time portraying his State "rival" as "Do Nothing Don". My house is getting NBN next week, that may or may not work and was promised over three and a half years ago – what's Laming been doing, I wonder?
It really is childish nonsense, and Don does try to avoid it, which only causes Laming to goad him for not being willing to debate and score easy points from the utter idiots who support him. But this is merely a continuation of a campaign – but not the Federal one. Laming is very insistent on throwing out the QLD Labor government, yapping on about the damage they've done to the state – because the Liberals and Nationals have been saints in the past, right? He actively campaigned against Don Brown in the last State election, which is a bizarre thing for a Federal MP to spend his time and money doing, and now the vitriol appears to be adding up as we in QLD head to the 2020 State election.
The last example I want to mention is the accusations against the Greens regarding the bushfires. Barnaby Joyce took time out of his busy schedule of betraying his family to make wretched assumptions about the political leanings of two bushfire victims. He, along with many of his colleagues in Federal and NSW State Parliament, blamed the Greens for preventing back burning and other safety measures – because a few Greens MPs and Councils have a say in that, sure.
Deflecting the blame from themselves for gutting the fire services and national parks of much needed funding is not a surprise, and scapegoating the Greens creates an ironic twist by accusing the party dedicated to the environment of being at fault for environmental catastrophe. But this is a vicious campaign that still has some sparring over it, which is quite bizarre considering the Greens are only a minor party. Sure, much of it has to do with controversy and distraction, but to so violently target the Greens that even the dead are dragged into it?
To me, that isn't a simple smear against the Greens, it seems like much more than that. The Greens have already gained a lot of support after Labor's election loss and subsequent backflipping and floundering, on a Federal level and a State level here in QLD. The Greens stand a real chance in the Brisbane City Council to take a few spots from the Liberal National Party, which has caused the BCC to adopt various small "green" projects to make them appear more environmentally friendly.
The Greens offer a real threat now that Labor has been thrown back again. Perhaps not in terms of being the new 'opposition' in any way, but their influence, should it grow, would not bode well for the Coalition on any level of government. To hide the fact that the Coalition has absolutely no environmental policy whatsoever, the only other way to "convince" people that they are doing anything about it is to crash down upon the one party that is taking it seriously.
Which is, unbelievably, actually working.
Other than slowly dismantle Australian society and democracy, what exactly have the Coalition done since being elected? Not a lot, and the Ensuring Integrity Bill is making its way through the various crossbenchers, which is a disaster for Unions if it passes. In itself, that Bill is essentially an attack on Labor and its backers.
For the next few years, it's quite likely that everything will continue to go slowly downhill, and that we will hear a lot more slander towards anyone the Coalition deems to be an opponent worth fearing. All the more reason to continue backing parties and groups that do oppose them. Join a Union, attend protests, vote for Labor/Greens/Independents – this isn't a fight we can just let rest for another three years.
They don't appear to have stopped campaigning, so neither can we.
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Cantwell Secures Important Wins for Washington's Maritime Economy in Defense Authorization Bill
Legislation includes increase in Cantwell port grants program, 14 percent increase in grants for small shipyards, support for Military to Mariner program
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), the Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, announced that key wins for Washington state's maritime economy have been included in the final text of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) released last night. The bill is expected to be voted on in both houses of Congress in the coming weeks.
"The United States maritime transportation system is critical to our nation's economy and to our security," Senator Cantwell said. "In the state of Washington, we have nearly 70,000 direct jobs. So whether it's ports connecting to freight corridors, warehouse workers, or ship building, we know the value of our domestic maritime industry."
The legislation contains provisions authored by Cantwell to authorize $500 million for the Port and Intermodal Improvement Program, a competitive grant program that funds projects to improve the safety, efficiency, or reliability of the movement of goods through a port or the intermodal connection to a port. It also includes a $40 million authorization – a 14% increase – for the Small Shipyard Grant Program, which provided a $1.3 million grant to a shipyard in Freeland, WA, in 2018.
Other programs supported by Cantwell are also included in the final NDAA text, including a report on infrastructure and upkeep needs for 17 strategic ports around the country, including Tacoma; reauthorization of the Maritime Security Program; and codification of a program to build the maritime workforce by helping retiring or transitioning servicemembers obtain mariner credentials. These provisions were originally included in the Maritime Administration Authorization and Enhancement Act introduced by Cantwell and Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) earlier this year.


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The System Monitor is built in to Windows 2000 and is essential to monitoring nearly every aspect of server performance.
Process and Thread Status (pstat.exe) shows the status of all running processes and threads.
Process Tree (ptree.exe) allows you to query the process inheritance tree and kill processes on local or remote computers.
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Windows Management Instrumentation exposes hardware and software diagnostics in a common API.
Microsoft Management Console accepts Snap-ins that display network wide diagnostics.
At the center of these tools are the Performance Counters that are built into IIS 5.0 and the Windows 2000 operating system. Developers can also include custom Performance Counters in the ISAPI DLLS or COM components that they write. These counters can be read directly by a number of the tools mentioned above, including System Monitor, the Web Application Stress Tool and WCAT.
For more information on any of these tools, see the online IIS 5.0 documentation included in the Windows 2000 Resource Kit.
Note: Windows 2000 Advanced Server can support up to 8GB of RAM, but the IIS File Cache will not take advantage of more than 4GB.
To determine if the current amount of memory on your server will be sufficient for your needs, use the Performance tool that is built in to Windows 2000. The System Monitor, which is part of the Performance tool, graphically displays counter readings as they change over time.
Memory: Page Faults/sec, Memory: Pages Input/sec, and Memory: Page Reads/sec. If a process requests a page in memory and the system cannot find it at the requested location, this constitutes a page fault. If the page is elsewhere in memory, the fault is called a soft page fault. If the page must be retrieved from disk, the fault is called a hard page fault. Most processors can handle large numbers of soft faults without consequence. However, hard faults can cause significant delays. Page Faults/sec is the overall rate at which the processor handles faulted pages, including both hard and soft page faults. Pages Input/sec is the total number of pages read from disk to resolve hard page faults. Page Reads/sec is the number of times the disk was read to resolve hard page faults. Pages Input/sec will be greater than or equal to Page Reads/sec and can give you a good idea of your hard page fault rate. If these numbers are low, your server should be responding to requests quickly. If they are high, it may be because you've dedicated too much memory to the caches, not leaving enough memory for the rest of the system. You may need to increase the amount of RAM on your server, though lowering cache sizes can also be effective.
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Besides adding more RAM, try the following techniques to enhance memory performance: improve data organization, try disk mirroring or striping, replace CGI applications with ISAPI or ASP applications, enlarge paging files, retime the IIS File Cache, eliminate unnecessary features, and change the balance of the File System Cache to the IIS 5.0 Working Set. The last of these techniques is detailed later in this document.
With users demanding quick response time from Web sites and the increasing amount of dynamically generated content on these sites, a premium is placed on fast and efficient processor usage. Bottlenecks occur when one or more processes consume practically all of the processor time. This forces process threads that are ready to be executed to wait in a queue for processor time. Adding other hardware, whether memory, disks or network connections, to try to overcome a processor bottleneck will not be effective and will frequently only make matters worse.
IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000 Server scales effectively across two to four processors. Consider the business needs of your Web sites if you're thinking of adding more processors. For example, if you host primarily static content on your server, a two-processor computer is likely to be sufficient. If you host dynamically generated content, a four-processor setup may solve your problems. However, if the workload on your site is sufficiently CPU-intensive, no single computer will be able to keep up with requests. If this is the case for your site, you should scale it across multiple servers. If you already run your site on multiple servers, consider adding more.
You should be aware, however, that the biggest performance gains with Windows 2000 and IIS 5.0 result from resolving memory issues. Before you make any decisions about changing the number of processors on your Web servers, rule out memory problems and then monitor the following Performance Counters.
Thread: Context Switch/sec:Dllhost#N=>Thread# , Thread: Context Switches/sec:Inetinfo=>Thread# , and System: Context Switches/sec. If you decide to increase the size of the thread pool, you should monitor the three counters listed here. Increasing the number of threads may increase the number of context switches to the point where performance decreases instead of increases. Ten context switches or more per request is quite high; if these numbers appear, consider reducing thread pool size. Balancing threads against overall performance as measured by connections and requests can be difficult. Any time you tune threads, follow-up with overall performance monitoring to see if performance increases or decreases. To determine if you should adjust the thread count, compare the number of threads and the processor time for each thread in the process to the total processor time. If the threads are constantly busy, but are not fully using the processor time, performance may benefit from creating more threads. However, if all the threads are busy and the processors are close to their maximum capacity, you are better off distributing the load across more servers rather than increasing the number of threads. See the AspThreadGateEnabled and AspProcessorThreadMax metabase properties in Appendix 1: Performance Settings in this document.
Since IIS 5.0 writes logs to disk, there is regular disk activity even with 100 percent client cache hits. Generally speaking, if there is high disk read activity other than logging, this means that other areas of your system need to be tuned. For example, hard page faults cause large amounts of disk activity, but they are indicative of insufficient RAM.
Accessing memory is faster than disk seeks by a factor of roughly 1 million; clearly, searching the hard disk to fill requests will degrade performance. The type of site you host can have a significant impact on the frequency of disk seeks. If your site has a very large file set that is accessed randomly, if the files on your site tend to be very large, or if you have a very small amount of RAM, then IIS is unable to maintain copies of the files in RAM for faster access.
If you do use SSL, be aware that establishing the initial connection is five times as expensive as reconnecting using security information in the SSL session cache. The default timeout for the SSL session cache has been changed from two minutes in Windows NT 4.0 to five minutes in Windows 2000. Once this data is flushed, the client and server must establish a completely new connection. If you plan on supporting long SSL sessions you could consider lengthening this timeout with the ServerCacheTime registry setting. If you expect thousands of users to connect to your site using SSL, a safer approach is to estimate how long you expect SSL sessions to last, then set the ServerCacheTime parameter slightly longer than your estimate. Do not set the timeout much longer than this or else your server may leave stale data in the cache. Also, make sure that HTTP Keep-Alives are enabled. SSL sessions do not expire when used in conjunction with HTTP Keep-Alives unless the browser explicitly closes the connection.
Physical Memory Used: Security requires that the system store and retrieve more user information. Also, the SSL protocol uses long keys—40 bits to 1,024 bits long—for encrypting and decrypting the messages.
If a server is used both for running IIS 5.0 and as a domain controller, the proportion of processor use, memory, and network and disk activity consumed by domain services is likely to increase the load on these resources significantly. The increased activity can be enough to prevent IIS 5.0 services from running efficiently. It is highly recommended that you refrain from running IIS 5.0 on a domain controller.
Upgrading a poorly written application with one that is well designed and has been thoroughly tested can improve performance dramatically (sometimes as much as thirty fold). Keep in mind, however, that your Web applications may be affected by back-end latencies (for example, legacy systems such as AS/400). Remote data sources may cause performance problems for any number of reasons. If developers design applications to get data from another Web site, and that Web site crashes, it can cause a bottleneck on your server. If applications are accessing a remote SQL Server database, the database may have problems keeping up with requests sent to it. While you may be the administrator of your site's SQL database, it can be difficult to monitor these servers if they are remotely located. Worse, you may have no control over the database servers, or other back end servers. If you can, monitor the back end servers that work with your applications and keep them as well tuned as you do your Web server.
Active Server Pages: Requests/Sec, Active Server Pages: Requests Executing, Active Server Pages: Request Wait Time, Active Server Pages: Request Execution Time, and Active Server Pages: Requests Queued. If you are running ASP applications on your server, these counters can provide you with a picture of how well the applications are performing. Active Server Pages: Requests/Sec does not include requests for static files or other dynamic content and will fluctuate considerably based on the complexity of the ASP pages and the capacity of your Web server. If this counter is low during spikes in traffic on your server, your applications may be causing a bottleneck. Requests Executing indicates the number of requests currently executing; Request Wait Time indicates the number of milliseconds the most recent request was waiting in the queue, and Request Execution Time indicates how many milliseconds the most recent request took to execute. Ideally, Requests Queued and Request Wait time should remain close to 0, but they will go up and down under varying loads. The maximum number for Requests Queued is determined by the metabase setting for AspRequestQueueMax. If the limit is reached, client browsers will display "HTTP 500/ ServerToo Busy." If these numbers deviate a great deal from their expected range, your ASP applications will likely need to be rewritten to improve performance. Request Execution Time can be somewhat misleading because it is not an average. For example, if you regularly receive 30 requests for a page that executes in 10 milliseconds (ms) to every one request for a 500ms page, the counter is likely to indicate 10ms, although the average execution time is over 25ms. It's hard to say what is a good value for Requests Executing. If pages execute quickly and don't wait for I/O (loading a file or making a database query), this number is likely to be low (little more than the number of processors when the machine is busy). If pages must wait for I/O, the number of pages executing is likely to be higher (close to AspProcessorThreadMax multiplied by the number of processors). If Requests Executing is high, Requests Queued is large and the CPU utilization is low, you may need to increase AspProcessorThreadMax. When enabled, thread gating seeks to optimize Requests Executing. The user's response time is proportional to Request Wait Time plus Request Execution Time plus network latency.
Web Service: Get Requests/sec and Web Service: Post Requests/Sec reflect the rate at which these two common HTTP request types are being made to your server. POST requests are generally used for forms and are sent to ISAPIs (including ASP) or CGIs. GET requests account for almost all other requests from browsers and include static files, requests for ASPs and other ISAPIs, and CGI requests.
The Microsoft® Windows® 2000 operating system contains tools to monitor various conditions of the operating system and the computer in general. This paper describes these tools, their metrics, and some of the commonly monitored conditions. This paper is not meant to be an in-depth study of all the capabilities of the tools, but is intended to be a source of reference for setting up and managing the most common measurement conditions.
As with all operating systems, Windows 2000 occasionally encounters serious error conditions, and stops responding. Windows stop errors display text on the console video screen with a blue background, and hence are often called blue screens. These conditions are also referred to as bug checks. Fortunately, operating system stoppages are relatively rare events. However, customers should still monitor these regularly.
The Windows Event Log service is a useful tool for historical monitoring of operating system crashes. Stop errors are recorded in the Event Log when the system restarts, and the crash dump is saved in a permanent file (usually called Memory.dmp). For details, see the subsection "Save Dump" in the "Using the Event Log as a Data Source" section of this document.
Windows 2000 reboots occur for a variety of reasons, including operating system upgrades, software installation, and hardware maintenance. Reboots are recorded in the System Event Log. A system's reboot frequency tends to drop when the system is stable. Thus, historical reboot frequencies are a long-term indicator of system and data center health. For more information, see the subsection "Startup Event" in the "Using the Event Log as a Data Source" section of this document.
Windows 2000 uses the Dr. Watson utility to record application failures. This utility appends information to the Drwtsn32.log file in the system root for each application failure. It also creates a User.dmp file that contains a memory dump of the user mode program that failed.
Application failures are recorded in the Application Event Log; therefore, the historical frequencies of these events are usually available for analysis. For details, see the subsection "Dr. Watson Event" in the "Using the Event Log as a Data Source" section of this document.
Most customers are very interested in the availability of the application services provided by the Windows operating systems. Each application generally requires different instrumentation; therefore, rather than measuring the application's availability directly, some customers find it useful to measure the operating system availability. The events needed to do this are contained in the Windows System Event Log.
There are several variations of availability, including planned availability and total availability. Total availability is defined as the percentage of up time over total run time, and can be computed easily using the information in the System Event Log.
There is a strong correlation between availability and recoverability of systems. System recoverability is measured as the length of time a system is unavailable following a system outage. Typically, this is reported as mean time to repair. It is easy to measure mean time to repair using the Windows 2000 operating system Event Log. An outage begins when a system is shut down and ends when the system is restarted. To understand how to capture the time stamps associated with these events, see the subsections "Startup Event," "Clean Shutdown Event," and "Dirty Shutdown Event," in the "Using the Event Log as a Data Source" section of this document.
You can use the Event Log service and Event Viewer to gather information about hardware, software, and system problems, and to monitor Windows security events.
Application Log. The Application Log contains events logged by applications or programs. For example, a database program might record a file error in the Application Log. The program developer decides which events to record.
System Log. The System Log contains events logged by the Windows system components. For example, the failure of a driver or other system component to load during startup is recorded in the System Log. The event types logged by system components are predetermined for the operating system.
Security Log. The Security Log can record security events, such as valid and invalid logon attempts as well as events related to resource use, such as creating, opening, or deleting files. An administrator can specify what events are recorded in the Security Log. For example, if you have enabled logon auditing, attempts to log on to the system are recorded in the Security Log.
Error. A significant problem, such as loss of data or loss of functionality. For example, if a service fails to load during startup, an error is logged.
Warning. An event that is not necessarily significant, but may indicate a possible future problem. For example, when disk space is low, a warning is logged.
Information. An event that describes the successful operation of an application, driver, or service. For example, when a network driver loads successfully, an information event is logged.
Success Audit. An audited security access attempt that succeeds. For example, a user's successful attempt to log on to the system is logged as a Success Audit event.
Failure Audit. An audited security access attempt that fails. For example, if a user tries to access a network drive and fails, the attempt is logged as a Failure Audit event.
The Event Log service starts automatically when you start Windows. All users can view the Application and System Logs, but only administrators have access to Security Logs.
By default, security logging is turned off. You can use Windows 2000 Group Policy to enable security logging. The administrator can also set auditing policies in the registry that cause the system to halt when the Security Log is full. For more information about using Group Policy, refer to the Windows 2000 documentation and to the Group Policy white papers available at http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/library.
You may want to export the event list to Microsoft Excel so that you can save and analyze the data.
On the Event Viewer Action menu, click Export List. A Save As window displays.
Save the file with an .xls extension.
You can sort events to more easily review and analyze the data.
On the View menu, click Newest First or Oldest First. The default is from newest to oldest.
(Optional) On the Options menu, check the Save Settings On Exit box to use the current sort order the next time you start Event Viewer.
Note When a log is archived, the sort order affects files that you save in text format or comma-delimited text format. The sort order does not affect event records you save in log-file format.
You can filter events so that you can easily see only those events that you wish to review and analyze.
On the View menu, click Filter Events.
In the Filter dialog box, specify the characteristics for displayed events. To return to the default criteria, click Clear.
To turn off event filtering, click All Events in the View menu.
Windows 2000 records startup events in the System Event Log, as shown below. The Event Log service itself is the source of this event, and the Event ID is 6005. The time of this event is approximately the time the operating system becomes available to applications.
Windows 2000 records a new event whenever an operating system shutdown is initiated. A clean shutdown can be initiated through several mechanisms.
The Event Log service itself is the source of this event, and the Event ID is 6006. The time of this event is approximately the time the operating system becomes unavailable to applications.
Windows 2000 records a new event whenever the operating system is shutdown using a mechanism other than a clean shutdown. The most common cause is when the system is turned off. The Event Log service itself is the source of this event, and the Event ID is 6008. The event is recorded when the system restarts and Windows 2000 discovers that the previous shutdown was not clean.
While Windows 2000 server is running, the system periodically writes a time stamp to disk. This last alive time stamp is saved in the Windows 2000 registry, always overwriting the last alive time stamp from the previous interval. Whenever the last alive time stamp is written, it is also flushed to disk. In this way, if the computer crashes, you would have a boot stamp and a last alive stamp as the final two entries in the stream. If the computer shuts down normally, the normal shutdown time stamp would overwrite the last alive time stamp.
The time in the description portion of this event is the last alive time and is therefore shortly before the time the operating system became unavailable to applications.
The last alive time stamp is written only on Windows 2000 server operating systems. The Windows 2000 Professional operating system does not maintain this time stamp, nor does it record dirty shutdown events.
The last alive time stamp is written to the registry at HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Reliability\LastAliveStamp.
The last alive time stamp interval defaults to 5 minutes. You can add the registry value TimeStampInterval to can change the interval. This value is in units of minutes. Setting it to zero prevents any last alive time stamp logging; only the boot and normal shutdown stamps are written in that case.
Windows 2000 records a new event containing the operating system version information whenever the system is started. This makes it easier to post-process Windows 2000 Event Logs by operating system version. The Event Log service itself is the source of this event, and the Event ID is 6009.
Windows 2000 now records service pack version details in the system Event Log. This makes it easier to post-process Windows 2000 system Event Logs by operating system version.
Save Dump events are always generated on Windows 2000 Server systems after an operating system stop error. They can still be disabled on Windows 2000 Professional systems.
Windows 2000 records application failures in Dr. Watson log files, and the Dr. Watson utility records application failure events in the Windows 2000 Application Event Log as shown below.
System Performance Monitor is a tool that allows an administrator to monitor many types of conditions occurring within a local computer or a remote computer located across the globe.
PerfMon performs real-time and short-term historical monitoring of conditions called counters that are contained within categories of objects. One such counter, System Uptime, is described below.
The System Uptime counter measures the time, in seconds, that the system has been "alive." PerfMon graphs the results on the screen as they are gathered, and allows you to export the results to Excel for reporting purposes.
You can configure PerfMon to alert you when thresholds have been exceeded. You choose the criteria you want reported and the manner in which you want it reported to you. Figure 13 shows PerfMon set up to report when CPU performance exceeds 80 percent.


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UNECE 55th environmental performance review underway in Azerbaijan by a large and diverse international team of experts
UNECE is leading a large and diverse group of international experts carrying out the 55th Environmental Performance Review (EPR) since the establishment of the UNECE EPR Programme, 25 years ago. Azerbaijan has requested UNECE to review its environmental performance for a third time. To provide the…
UNECE supports Uzbekistan to push forward sustainable development efforts
UNECE is deepening its support to help countries of the region capitalize on innovation to recover from the pandemic and realize the ambitious vision of the 2030 Agenda. The UNECE Innovation for Sustainable Development Review (I4SDR) of Uzbekistan, which is currently underway, will set out…
Connecting expertise for environmental governance: lessons from 25 years of UNECE Environmental Performance Reviews
By Ms. Olga Algayerova, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of UNECE, and Ms. Elisabete Quintas da Silva, Head of Department, Sustainable and Efficient Use of Resources Operational Programme, Government of Portugal, and Chair of the UNECE Committee on Environmental Policy. This…
UNECE supports countries to implement energy-related recommendations of their Environmental Performance Reviews
Countries in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe are stepping up efforts for their sustainable energy transition with ambitious plans and policies, aiming to significantly cut CO2 emissions and advance implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris…
Experts unite worldwide to improve statistics on disasters
The importance of statistical information to help us cope with disasters has never been clearer than over the past year. As the Covid-19 pandemic has gripped the world, numbers have become our bread and butter. Yet the pandemic has also highlighted the challenges and imperfections in many systems; …
Massive scaling up in funding will be needed to halve the number of victims on the road by 2030
Mobility is a primary enabler of our economic and social life. However, despite its many benefits, the costs of mobility to societies around the world remain unacceptably high. These include greenhouse gas emissions (transport accounts for some …
UNECE leads second environmental performance review of Morocco
Morocco has requested UNECE to review its environmental performance for a second time. To provide the groundwork for the review, a team of UNECE and international experts will participate in a country hybrid mission from December 2020 to February 2021, first meeting national experts by virtual…
Uzbekistan names priorities for international support to implement recommendations of its third UNECE Environmental Performance Review
Uzbekistan is making significant efforts on key environmental issues, including tackling the consequences of the Aral Sea disaster and reforming policies on municipal waste management, biodiversity conservation and green economy. However, the country must step up measures to improve water…


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Hajdu argues lab documents must stay secret for 'national security'
By Arvin Joaquin | News, Politics | June 15th 2021
Minister of Health Patty Hajdu arrives for a news conference on the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa on December 4, 2020. File photo by The Canadian Press/Justin Tang
Documents related to the firing of two scientists from the high-security laboratory in Winnipeg, and the transfer of viruses to a research facility in Wuhan are too sensitive to hand over to the special committee on Canada-China relations, Health Minister Patty Hajdu said Monday.
"In this particular case, the information requested has both privacy and national security implications," Hajdu said. "Compliance with the order without proper safeguards in place would put sensitive information at the risk of public release."
Conservative MP John Williamson accused Hajdu and the Liberals of wanting to "hide" what's in those documents by not being forthcoming about what he referred to as "the government's errors … and possibly how you put our nation's security at risk."
Hajdu said the Conservative's insistence on having the documents the way they want them is what is "putting Canada's national security at risk" and "putting privacy concerns to the side."
The Conservatives have been pushing the Liberal government — and the Public Health Agency of Canada — to shed more light on why two scientists, Xiangguo Qiu and her biologist husband, Kending Cheng, were escorted out of the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg in 2019. They were officially fired in January.
Qiu had earlier been responsible for a shipment of Ebola and Henipah viruses to China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, Hajdu said Monday those events are unrelated.
"There is no connection between the transfer of viruses cited in the order and the subsequent departure of these employees," Hajdu said.
She added: "There is no link to COVID-19."
Two weeks ago, a majority of MPs passed a motion in the House of Commons demanding the Trudeau government release unredacted documents related to what happened at the National Microbiology Laboratory to the special committee.
The Liberal government instead handed over the documents to the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, which was specifically created by the Trudeau government to allow MPs to probe classified matters.
Handing over Winnipeg lab documents has 'national security' implications: Hajdu #CDNPoli #PHAC #NML #China
"I have confidence in the parliamentarians on that committee," Hajdu said Monday. "All parliamentarians from all parties to do that hard work and analyze those documents and come to their conclusions and that is the appropriate place for a matter of this sensitivity."
The communique that emerged from the G7 summit in Cornwall, U.K., this weekend called for another investigation by the World Health Organization into how the pandemic began.
Once dismissed by most public health experts and government officials, the notion that COVID-19 leaked accidentally from a Chinese lab is now under a new U.S. investigation ordered by President Joe Biden, which is also exploring whether the virus jumped from animals to humans.
In the House of Commons earlier Monday, Hajdu said the federal government wants a "robust" and ongoing investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus.
"Like many countries around the world, we have always been clear that we need to understand the origins of COVID-19 and we will work with our international partners to ensure there is a robust and continued investigation into the origins of this virus," Hajdu said in response to a question from Conservative MP Michael Chong.
"It is important not just for Canadians but indeed for the entire world so that we can prevent another epidemic of this kind."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 14, 2021.
— With files from The Associated Press.
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PHAC ordered to dish on two scientists fired after viruses sent to China
By Maan Alhmidi | News, Politics | April 1st 2021
Firing of two government scientists from high-security lab to remain mystery
By Joan Bryden | News, Politics | March 27th 2021
High-level lab in Winnipeg for studying dangerous pathogens to be beefed up
By Sheryl Ubelacker | News, Politics | July 22nd 2017


A good article explaining why the iPhone may be hard to beat, even when Android hits the beaches.
Here is another stating how the new iPhone 2.0 will dominate the smart phone market. I think once this news gets to many enterprise consumers the game will be over.
If they think they are going to muscle in on Nokias share of the market they need another think. Apple are about profitability not mass market sales hence I dont see any iteration of iphone ruling the market unless Apple rethinks its pricing strategy.
Why is there no txt forwarding ability? Or no saving of txt as draft for later sending?
The Apple zealots will claim that this is a great feature to save you money or something ridiculous like this. Forwarding an SMS is a basic telephony feature. If your phone is jailbroken, use iSMS to do the work that Apple left out.
What about SMS delivery reports? What possible excuse can the zealots have for that ommision? Another balls up if you ask me.
In the old days when phones were not as advanced as the iPhone (sarcasm), on Nokia phones if you use *N# text here, it should give you the report by telling the SMS to send this back to you, but they no longer do this. I think iSMS will do this though. Have not tried it.


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Q: Не работает TypeConverters в Room Класс БД
@Entity
data class ObjectEntity(
    val active: Boolean,
    val comment: String?,
    @PrimaryKey(autoGenerate = false)
    val id: Long,
    val folderId: Long,
    val imei: String?,
    val name: String?,
    @TypeConverters(ObjectSettingsTypeConvert::class)
    var settings: List<ObjectSetting>? ,
    val stateNumber: String?,
    val typeId: Long
)

data class ObjectSetting(
    val id: Long,
    val name: String?,
    val type: Int
)

Есть конвертер
class ObjectSettingsTypeConvert {
    private val gson: Gson by lazy { Gson() }

    @TypeConverter
    fun fromList(value: List<ObjectSetting>): String? {
        return if (!value.isNullOrEmpty())
            gson.toJson(value)
        else
            null
    }

    @TypeConverter
    fun toList(value: String?): List<ObjectSetting>? {
        if (value.isNullOrEmpty()) return null
        val arrayTutorialType = object : TypeToken<List<ObjectSetting>>() {}.type
        return gson.fromJson(value, arrayTutorialType) as List<ObjectSetting>
    }
}

Есть ошибка:

E:\SOURCE\android\appproject-android-app\app\build\tmp\kapt3\stubs\debug\ru\mydomain\appproject\data\db\model\ObjectEntity.java:19:
  error: Cannot figure out how to save this field into database. You can
  consider adding a type converter for it.
      private java.util.List
  settings;

Чего я не вижу? Что не так?

A: Нужно указать, что аннотация для поля:
@field:TypeConverters(ObjectSettingsTypeConvert::class)

Иначе она добавляется не туда, куда нужно

Если вы не сделали указание, аннотация будет применена к элементу, выбранному в соответствии с аннотацией @Target той аннотации, которую вы используете. Если существует несколько элементов, к которым возможно применение аннотации, будет выбран первый подходящий элемент из следующего списка:

*

*param

*property

*field

Так как в данном случае аннотация стоит в конструкторе, то без указания выбирается param (параметр конструктора)
https://kotlinlang.ru/docs/reference/annotations.html в конце раздела Аннотации с указаниями
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/annotations.html#annotation-use-site-targets

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Вильянуа (,  или Vellanuga) — населённый пункт и муниципалитет в Испании, входит в провинцию Уэска, в составе автономного сообщества Арагон. Муниципалитет находится в составе района (комарки) Хасетания. Занимает площадь 58,2 км². Население — 475 человек (2014 год). Расстояние — 87 км до административного центра провинции.

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