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4 Reasons Why India Needs Raghuram Rajan
17/05/2016 8:23 AM IST | Updated 15/07/2016 8:26 AM IST
Achal Agrawal PhD candidate in Applied Mathematics from University of Paris-Saclay
One cannot understate the importance of the Chief of the Central Bank. Just look at what Alan Greenspan did to USA and consequently the world. Recently, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, in all his wisdom, suggested that Raghuram Rajan is not the right RBI governor for India, giving the following reasons:
"His move to increase the interest rates, so as to cut down inflation and stabilize the economy, has backfired and has badly affected the nation,...,All the industries have collapsed and as a result unemployment has increased. In my opinion, he should be removed as early as possible."
The economy of a country is a shared responsibility of the government and the Reserve bank of India. So is Mr. Swamy criticizing his own government too?
While Swamy's views do not necessarily represent those of his party, the general mood seems to be that Rajan will not be given an extension due to bad performance.
On the other hand, Raghuram Rajan seems to want another term as RBI chief, as he says there is more to do. We should not just go by Rajan's impressive résumé, for as Swamy rightly points out, his international stature and knowledge does not make him automatically fit for the Indian job. It's like the argument usually thrown against foreign coaches -- they might not understand the Indian team ethos. Just that Rajan is Indian. He studied in IIT and IIM. That is the Indian dream!
Such an important decision for the country deserves more analysis. A good point to start would be the criticism of Rajan offered by Swamy. He claims that unemployment has increased in Rajan's term as RBI chief. This is factually incorrect if you go by what the Bureau of Labour statistics suggests. Moreover, loss of jobs is also a failure of the BJP government. The economy of a country is a shared responsibility of the government and the Reserve bank of India. So is Mr. Swamy criticizing his own government too? The other points made by him are no secret. Indeed one of the main goals of Rajan as RBI chief was to contain inflation, and prevent bubbles like the ones observed regularly in the US. To that effect, even Swamy agrees that Rajan has been successful. Also, Swamy, and indeed many Indians, do not give enough credit to the soundness of Rajan's economic knowledge. To claim that he will not understand the economics of a developing economy is to grossly underestimate Rajan's calibre, his "Indianness", and indeed the entire economics community.
To claim that he will not understand the economics of a developing economy is to grossly underestimate Rajan's calibre, his "Indianness", the entire economics community.
While Rajan admittedly has not done enough to rescue the economy from troubled waters, there are many reasons why he is the most suited for the job. Here a (non-exhaustive) list:
An economy is a complex system. The effects of the policies are seldom well understood, and there is never a clear consensus on the correct action. What is, however, agreed upon is that a policy must be given time for the market to adapt to it. Rapidly changing policy directions would obfuscate the sources of change due to the policy. Three years is too small a timescale to judge a policy. What can be objectively evaluated is whether it has caused a massive crash, or brought into motion an unending recession. Neither of those things happened, so the policy has not yet failed. Who better to continue the policies to their fruition than the one who implemented them?
Rajan has been going around the world explaining the need for an international financial body to monitor the monetary policies of countries, which at times can be destructive, almost war-like. His stature also helps India push through its views to the international stage, where he also gives his perspective as the Central banker of India. He is thus the best placed economist currently to understand the dynamics of international trade on economies and plan accordingly.
Rajan's strategy... is frustrating for the BJP, which wants to show impressive results after three years -- they fear that Rajan might postpone the party.
Rajan has so far succeeded in his modest goals in office. He has successfully curbed inflation. Inflation and growth go together, and this means he has willingly sacrificed some growth, just like China did few years back. By not lowering the interest rates, he has ensured that no major bubbling occurs, and the economy consolidates. By pushing the government, he ensured that the fiscal deficit is kept low, so that we do not entail crippling debts. By pushing the banks, he has ensured that bad loans are brought to book, instead of carrying them over till a crisis happens.
Yes, he may have been a little overcautious, but it's better to err on the side of caution, a dictum that makes all the more sense when you see the American model falling into one crisis after another. To be fair to Rajan, if all goes right, we'll hit the pedal.
I think the essence of the debate really is whether we should we adopt policies which give us profit in the short term but are riskier in the long run (American model) or instead make policies which provide less profit in short term, but are solid enough to make profits in the long term. Rajan's strategy is clear. It's also natural that this is frustrating for the BJP, which wants to show impressive results after three years -- they fear that Rajan might postpone the party.
In short it would be incredibly foolish of India to let go of Raghuram Rajan when he is willing to ably serve the country. If we do, we will lose parity in the Indian economy, and will give a free rein to the government, which will look to gain short-term profits at the expense of risking the future. India cannot afford a crisis, unlike the USA. Rajan knows all about it.
Above all, if we let go of Rajan now, we can never complain about "brain drain" without a sense of irony.
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Xu L.-X.,Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Sustainable Exploitation of Oceanic Fisheries Resources |
Xu L.-X.,Shanghai Higher Education Commission Key Laboratory of Oceanic Fisheries Resources Exploitation |
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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology | Year: 2010
Fish age and growth are the important biological parameters for the assessment of fishery resources. With the help of purse seiners, 262 individuals of skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) were sampled from western and central Pacific Ocean in October 2007-January 2008. The measurements in situ showed that the fork length of the samples ranged from 278 to 746 mm, and their body mass ranged from 345 to 9905 g. The first dorsal spine of each individual was collected for age identification and growth parameters estimation. The relationship between fork length (L, mm) and body mass (M, g) was expressed as M=3.612 × 10 -6L 3.278 (R 2 =0.9782), and no significant difference was found for the males and females (F =2. 002, P>0. 05). A comparison with Akaike information criterion (AIC) suggested that among power regression equation, linear regression equation, and exponential regression equation, linear regression equation was most suitable for describing the relationship between fork length and spine radius (AIC =2257.4). The mean back-calculated fork lengths of K. pelamis with the ages of 1-5 estimated by Fraser-Lee's method were 398.4, 494.2, 555.4, 636.8, and 728.8 mm, respectively. Residual analyses indicated that there was no significant difference in the growth of male and female K. pelamis (F = 0. 670 ; df = 182; P>0. 05). The sex-combined von Bertalanffy growth equation of K. pelamis was L t =706. 51 (1-e -0.64(t+0.037).
Wang S.Q.,Shanghai Ocean University |
Xu L.X.,Shanghai Ocean University |
Xu L.X.,National Engineering Research Center for Oceanic Fisheries |
Xu L.X.,Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Sustainable Exploitation of Oceanic Fisheries Resources |
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Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica | Year: 2014
Tropical tunas are a kind of highly migratory oceanic fishes whose food organisms in perched waters are relatively scarce and are distributed as patches. The tunas are obliged to swim quickly in response to dynamic changes of its prey because of hardly lasting aggregation of food organisms. Tropical tunas are inclined to form natural aggregations which are usually referred to as free swimming schools. In early days, however, the artisanal fisherman noted that the tropical tunas have the habit of gathering around natural floating objects such as logs, seaweed mats, branches and palm leaves, forming stable aggregations, termed as floating-objects-associated schools. They found that fishing was much efficient near these objects than in an open ocean. Tuna purse seine fisheries utilized this type of behavior to develop a great number of fish aggregation devices (FADs) for aggregating tuna and thus improve harvest efficiency. Two types of FADs are often used: drifting FADs (dFADs) and anchored FADs (aFADs). Since the first FAD deployments, FADs-based fishing technology had developed rapidly throughout the early 1990s, and FADs have been generally accepted as an effective mean to increase catch rates and reduce the energy consumption of purse seiners. The large-scale use of FADs, however, considerably increases the density of floating objects in some waters, and in turn, to some extent, artificially changes the surface habitat of the tuna. This may impose a series of potentially negative effects on tuna populations, such as changes in patterns of aggregation, feeding pattern and migratory movement and the decline of physical conditions for the population. Of those mentioned-above side effects, changes in the feeding pattern may have more profound impacts on fish populations as it exerts a direct effect on key life history processes, such as growth and reproduction. In the past 30 years, many studies have been conducted to evaluate whether and how FADs affect the feeding pattern. However, the results from these studies are still inconclusive and contradictory. This review summarizes recent studies in regard to the tuna feeding patterns as influenced by FADs. We compare differences of feeding behavior, daily rations, the types of prey and ecological niche width between FAD-associated and free swimming tuna schools. It implies that, FADs tend to alter the large-scale migratory movements to some extents, but not the local and small-scale migratory movements. FADs may also influence the stomach contains and the rates of empty stomach. Thus, FADs, in most cases, do in fact change feeding pattern and behavior. This review also identifies shortcomings in previous studies in their research methods and contents, and accordingly proposes new research approaches, such as the use of underwater video camera to observe the feeding behavior of tunas directly, take advantage of remaining stomach contents to rebuild diet composition for the estimation of the daily rations. Stable isotope analysis (SIA) can also help improve our understanding of trophic ecology for tunas. We also include a discussion on possible future research direction in evaluating impacts of FADs on feeding behavior for tunas.
Gong Y.,Shanghai Ocean University |
Chen X.-J.,Shanghai Ocean University |
Chen X.-J.,National Engineering Research Center for Oceanic Fisheries |
Chen X.-J.,Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Sustainable Exploitation of Oceanic Fisheries Resources |
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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology | Year: 2014
Stable isotope analysis (SIA) has become an important tool to investigate diet shift, habitat use and trophic structure of animal population. Muscle is considered to be the most common tissue for SIA, however, lipid content in muscle causes a considerable bias to the interpretation of isotopic ratios of animals. Neon flying squid (Ommastrephes bartramii) is an important economic cephalopod of Chinese distant water fishery, and plays a major role in marine ecosystems. In this study, the effects of lipid extraction on stable isotope ratios of the muscles of 53 neon flying squids were investigated and the interference mechanism of lipid in SIA was clarified with the aim of contrasting the suitability of different lipid correction models of stable carbon isotope. Results showed that the stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic values of non-lipid extracted samples significantly increased after lipid extractions by 0.71‰ and 0.47‰, respectively, which suggested that lipid extraction in cephalopod isotope study is needed prior to stable carbon isotope analysis but not recommended for stable nitrogen isotope analysis. The results could help remove the effects of lipid contents and standardize SIA muscle samples, thereby getting better understanding of the isotopic change of neon flying squids in the future. ©, 2014, Editorial Board of Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology. All right reserved.
Wang X.-F.,Shanghai Ocean University |
Zhu G.-P.,Shanghai Ocean University |
Zhu G.-P.,Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Sustainable Exploitation of Oceanic Fisheries Resources |
Zhu G.-P.,Shanghai Higher Education Commission Key Laboratory of Oceanic Fisheries Resources Exploitation |
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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology | Year: 2012
Tuna prefers to aggregate around floating objects. Based on this behavioral characteristic, people developed fish aggregation devices(FADs) to trap tuna, and made the catch and fishing efficiency of tuna purse seine fisheries improved greatly. However, there still exist uncertainties whether the FADs can attract tuna and what's the potential impact of widely applying FADs in tuna purse seine fishery on tuna resources and oceanic pelagic ecosystem. Aiming at these uncertainties, scientists conducted a great deal experiments to study the behavioral biology of tuna around FADs. This paper reviewed the related classic and more credible experiments in the past 30 years, and summed up five behavioral patterns of the tunas around drifting and anchored FADs, i. e., tropism behavior, schooling behavior, association behavior, feeding behavior, and vertical movement pattern. The related main research methods currently in use were introduced, and the issues on this subject needed to be paid great attention to were discussed.


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Diamond-like coatings are in great demand as protective coatings for optical components; as coatings in sliding wear parts such as valves, pistons, bearings and the like; as heat sinking materials in integrated circuit technology and as laser host material. Diamond-like coatings also have great potential as a integrated circuit semi-conductor material because of the very high heat transfer of such materials. By diamond-like coatings, applicant means coatings formed of carbonaceous species having characteristics of hardness and chemical structure similar to natural diamond, at least in part. Such coatings may include other species of chemicals and structure, at least in part.
Because of the great demand for these materials, techniques have been developed to produce this material. Common to all of the production techniques is the formation of a gas plasma as a source of free radicals and ions which form the depositing species and/or coating environment and which provides the transient energy required for diamond or diamond-like film nucleation. The conventional methods require radio frequency electronics to generate the plasma and require suitable filtering and collimating electrodes to extract and control the depositing species.
In addition, conventional methods require the provision of a means for insuring an electrical potential difference between the plasma region and the substrate to be coated, normally in the range of 100 to 1,000 electron volts potential difference. A further problem common to conventional methods of formation of diamond-like coatings is the requirement that adequate cooling be provided for the substrate, since the substrate is in close proximity to a very hot plasma. Conventional processes require that the substrate be maintained near room temperature as a key ingredient to forming diamond-like coatings. Heating of the coating films, either during formation or afterwards, will collapse the sp3 bonding characteristic of diamond films to a sp2 bonding, that is, will convert the diamond-like film to one of graphite.
Diamond-like coatings formed by state of the art methods notoriously have problems with adhesion to the substrate and are unable to support a shear stress. The industry recognizes a ten micron thickness limit as that which is attainable by conventional processes. The accumulation of diamond-like material above this limit incurs problems with the cohesive forces within the film which induces delamination of the film. Moreover, attempts to produce film beyond the ten micron thickness result in the collapsing of the sp3 hybrid to the sp2 bonding, that is, the formation of graphite. These films, above the ten micron thickness, have a very weak bond to the substrate such that the diamond-like coating can be easily scraped from the substrate, for example by application of a dental pick.
Conventional plasma assisted techniques for producing diamond-like coatings grow coatings which have separate, granular crystal structure, that is, an irregular geode-like appearance on microscopic examination. These films of discrete crystaline nature are unsatisfactory particularily when used as optical coatings since scattering of light as a result of the separate crystals can degrade the optical throughput.
With this process, continuous, tightly adhering, optically suitable diamond-like films may be deposited on substrates such as lenses, or on other surfaces subject to wear, without the use of the electronics and necessary in state of the art deposition processes. This method generates a plasma by the absorbtion of laser radiation into a precurser gas or gas mixture. The gas rapidly decomposes to produce the accelerating forces and the depositing species necessary to produce diamond-like coatings. Externally generated accelerating fields or potentials between the gas and the substrate are not required. Moreover, it is not necessary to substantially heat the substrate prior to deposition. Instead, the plasma region may be spaced from the substrate and generated intermittently, for example at ten microseconds duration, so that the temperature excursions are transient and high energies are developed to propel the deposition species onto the substrate. This system does not require a sophisticated vacuum system, as do conventional methods, since the coatings may be produced at atmospheric pressure as well as at reduced pressured. For example, applicant's process may typically operate at one to 100 torr total pressure. Conventional deposition processes normally take place at millitorr pressures.
This process may also work to provide deposition coverage of substantially greater areas than previous techniques. Previously, the art required collimated beams or very localized plasma mixtures which result in small area coverage. This process may be used over much wider areas. Moreover these films may be much thicker than conventional films. This process has produced films of greater than ten microns thickness. At this thickness the films have very high adhesion to the substrate. Standard pull tests indicate that the films may withstand in excess of 10,000 psi pulling pressure. The films are also very strong in shear stress. A Sebastian pulling post can be pulled through twenty degrees on removal of this film.
In addition to coating flat substrates, this process may produce coatings over curved or irregular surfaces as well. Coated surfaces of this type would be highly valuable on curved lenses, on nosecones, aircraft canopies and on windows. The films have a high degree of lubricity as well as hardness and durability.
It is an object of this invention to produce tightly adhering diamond-like coatings on substrates and to produce substrates having the diamond-like coatings thereon.
It is a further object of this invention to produce diamond-like coatings having superior optical, electrical, electronic, thermal and mechanical properties.
It is also an object of this invention to produce diamond-like coatings from a laser induced plasma and to develop a method for producing such coatings.
It is an object of this invention to develop a method of producing diamond-like coatings by absorbing laser produced energy into a coating precurser gas.
It is an object of this invention to develop a method of producing diamond-like coatings by absorbing laser energy into a plasma initiator.
It is an object of this invention to develop a method of producing diamond-like coatings from a precursor gas by initiating and propagating a laser induced plasma therein.
These and other objects will be apparent from the following Description of the Drawings and Description of the Preferred Embodiments.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an apparatus for performing the laser deposition process;
FIG. 2 is a second schematic diagram of the apparatus of FIG. 1 and
FIG. 3 is a partial cross sectional view of a coated substrate.
This process utilizes the cracking of fluorocarbons as well as hydrocarbons to produce a plasma in which radicals are generated and propelled onto a surface to produce a diamond-like coating. This coating has properties of both diamond as well as fluorocarbons. The coating is very hard carbon and is self lubricating in nature. A precursor gas such as a hydrocarbon, for example methane, ethane, propane, ethylene, acetylene or similar hydrocarbon gases and vapors may be used as the precursor for the diamond-like coating. This gas is cracked by intense heat to form a variety of high energy fragments, ions, radicals and free electrons which are propelled toward the substrate and deposited thereon. Cracking to break the hydrocarbon gas or vapor into fragments is achieved by subjecting the hydrocarbon to intense laser pulses, for example, CO2 laser having a 50 nanosecond spike and a power output of 1014 watts/cm2.
This laser impulse is absorbed by an initiator which is mixed with the hydrocarbon gas or vapor. The initiator is preferably a compound which is strongly absorbing at the output wave length of the laser impulse used. The output wave length of a ruby laser is 6943 angstroms and a helium-neon laser output wave length is 6328 angstroms, for example. The output wave length for a CO2 laser is 10.6 microns. I have found that sulfurhexafluoride is a highly effective initiator, when used with a CO2 laser, providing both sulfur and fluoride ions and radicals on detonation. The sulfur and fluoride ions react variously with hydrocarbon and carbon species formed on detonation. Due to the high IR irradiance levels and the presence of the highly absorbant molecule SF6 (sulfurhexafluoride), which is strongly attenuating at 10.6 microns wave length (the output of the CO2 laser), a high amount of laser energy is rapidly accumulated in a very small volume and is released explosively, fragmenting the hydrocarbon into highly reactive ions and radicals and imparting high translational energy of from ten to 100 electron volts to the formed gases. The detonation produces a plasma from the gas mixture and generates a high energy detonation wave in the plasma. The presence of a plasma propagating gas, such as nitrogen or air, also aids in propagating the detonation wave and plasma generation throughout the entire volume of the mixture. The ejected carbon, hydrocarbon or other fragments and electrons receive the required transient energy from the plasma to create diamond-like materials.
Moreover, it is believed that the detonation wave produces a shower of electrons which presputters the substrate, locally heating it and preparing the surface for the later arriving depositing species so that a very high adhesion of the coating to the substrate is achieved. It is believed that the tremendous surge of energy produced in the pressure wave on detonation produces an effective local temperature of thousands of degrees at the substrate and pressure in the range of thousands of kilobars. The duration of these transients of temperature and pressure is quite small, but is effective to produce the diamond-like species from the precurser hydrocarbon gas and propel the species onto the substrate surface and produce a tightly adhering bond between the diamond-like structure and the substrate.
The schematic views of FIGS. 1 and 2 show an apparatus 10 for producing diamond-like coatings. The apparatus 10 includes a machined aluminum box 12 which has a window 14 and gasports 16, 18 and 20 which permit the box 12 to be filled with mixtures of sulfurhexafluoride, methane and nitrogen from tanks 22, 24 and 26. A two joule pulsed CO2 laser beam 28 (10 Hz cycle at 10.6 microns) is transmitted into the box 12 through the IR transmissive window 14 which may be ZnS or ZnSe. A one inch focal length for, example in a ZnSe lens 27 assures enough gain to initiate the detonation of the gaseous mixture by the laser beam 28.
Prior to initiating deposition, a helium-neon laser 30 was used to designate a strike zone on the glass substrate 32. The CO2 laser 34 was then fired along the helium-neon path into the plasma cell 12. A photon drag detector 36 was used to monitor the CO2 laser pulse characteristics and a silicon photodiode 38 placed just behind the test cell, as shown, which was used to register the emissions from the plasma. The detectors 36 and 38 were linked to a recorder 40, as shown. The apparatus 10 was also outfitted with thermocouple 42 and pressure sensor 44 and with a pump 46 and residual gas analysis unit 48, as shown. The air in the box 12 was evacuated to about ten torr and the box 12 was backfilled with SF6 at sixty torr and CH4 at 100 torr. The gas was then detonated as decribed above.
Deposition of diamond-like material occurs over the entire interior 36 of box 12. The character of the material deposited varies with the distance from the plasma sheath. Deposits adjacent to the plasma on the IR window 14 were smooth, continuous and between about five to ten microns in thickness. The deposits on the IR window 14 were extremely hard, tightly adhering and had superior optical properties. The depth of the deposits on the IR window 14 may be tuned to increase or decrease the diamond-like character and conversely increase or decrease the fluorocarbon-like character by adjustment of the focus of the laser beam 28 toward or away from the substrate 32. Deposits occuring on the substrate 32, the rear glass window, were considerably thicker and more granular than those occuring on the IR window 14, yet were similar in composition and were tightly adhering. The materials on window 32 were quite satisfactory as an abrasive surface.
Analysis of the coatings found in the box 12 indicated a very hard, fluorocarbon containing, diamond-like material having tight bond to the substrate 32 and window 14. Substantial hand pressure was required with a steel spatula to remove the granular material from the glass substrate 32. The coating on the ZnSe lens, window 14, was also very hard and tightly bonding and suitable to protect the window 14 from rain and/or ice erosion. Rain and ice are a problem for IR windows, such as the IR lenses used on weather cameras, which are typically made from soft material. In addition, the smooth coatings appeared to have very high lubricating properties and would be suitable for parts subject to sliding friction such as valves, pistons and bearings. As noted above, the larger grained deposits appeared to be excellent as abrasive coatings. They would be suitable on grinding wheels or blades or on glass or metal substrates. The adhesion of the coatings was very high and the material was sufficiently hard to scratch glass. Thin, smooth diamond-like coating appeared to have sufficient hardness and suitable electrical properties that it could be used as a microelectronic substrate, for example, as a substrate for electronic circuitry prepared by photolithographic processes.
As shown in FIG. 3, the diamond-like coating 50 is formed as a hard, tightly adhering coating on substrate 14, the IR window. The diamond-like coating 50 has a thickness of about ten microns. As so coated, IR window 14 would be suitable for use as an IR window or lens subject to erosion from exposure to ice, rain and other abrasive environments. While FIG. 3 shows the substrate as being the IR window 14, it will be appreciated that glass substrate 32, or metal or any other substrate material can be used.
It will be appreciated that various changes and modifications may be made to the embodiments disclosed herein within the purview of the invention. The invention is not to be limited to the specific embodiments disclosed herein for purposes of illustration, but only by the scope of the claims appended hereto and their equivalents.
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by Phil Wilson
One Year After the Ambush Rule: Why Unions Should Be Worried
The ambush election rule turned one on April 15. We now can look at the true impact of the rule unions wanted so badly to "level the playing field" in union elections. I've looked at the numbers and compared this last year to prior years. The bottom line: the rule's impact has had no impact on what matters most to unions, total petitions and election victories.
When the rule first went into effect the number of union elections spiked nearly 15% over the year prior (while the number of days to an election dropped by 1/3). While many of those elections were in small units, it looked like the rule was going to work exactly how unions hoped it would.
With a full year under our belt it is now clear that the election spike was probably just petitions held back waiting for the new rule. By the end of the full year the number of petitions regressed back to the mean. In fact, this year the total petitions were actually lower than the prior year and about flat over the prior 4 years. Take a look:
The total number of election in the April to April timeframe dropped by 66 over the prior year. If unions are looking for an ever-so-small silver lining there was a 1.7% increase in RC petitions over last year (36 more than the same period in 2014-2015). But as you can see by looking at the chart, the overall impact on election attempts has been zilch.
What about election victories? The rule cut the average number of days to an election over the April to April period last year to 27 days (the median number of days to an election during that period was 24 days). That is down from around 36 days in prior years – a substantial drop. Historically unions win a higher percentage of shorter elections. However, the impact on union win rates is also surprisingly small:
A seventy percent win rate is nothing to sneeze at, but the fact is unions have seen no improvement in their win percentage even as election periods have dropped by 1/3. Our experience consulting in elections since the rule went into effect (we've handled nearly 100 ambush elections) is the same. We win as much under the new rule as we did under the old. Not to brag, but we didn't have a lot of room to improve.
I am not surprised by either of these results. I never thought the ambush rule was going to dramatically increase the number of petitions or union victories. That's because the ambush rule has no impact on the real problem unions face today: almost nobody is buying what they're selling. Even shrinking the amount of time people have to learn about what unions offer (and the more you know the worse it looks) hasn't moved the needle an inch.
I don't think the news is all bad for unions. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump (much to the chagrin of unions) have energized huge numbers of people around traditional "union" issues like trade and income disparity. But unions are swirling the drain relying on the traditional union election model. The only thing keeping them afloat today is public sector membership, and even that is wilting on the vine.
Whether unions can reinvent themselves fast enough to survive is a good question. What I can say is that government bailouts don't seem to be the answer.
Union Bailout Update
Activity around the recently imposed Persuader Rule is picking up. The House Education and Workforce Committee lambasted the rule and scheduled hearings, while several groups filed suit. Other Republican lawmakers signed a letter asking the House Appropriations Committee to take action against both the DOL and the NLRB.
It appears the chasm through which the "protected concerted activity" can be run through is widening by the day. A foul-mouthed rant against a client between employees in the restroom now qualifies. In another case, badmouthing the company and one of its owners over the company's two-way radio system is also safe ground for disgruntled workers. In the effort to create the broadest possible interpretation of protected concerted activity, the NLRB continues to defy the courts, especially around class and collective action waivers.
In the independent contractor vs. employee tug-of-war, it seems the courts will likely allow "ties" to go to the NLRB. In a recent decision, using the ten-factor tests set out in FedEx Home Delivery v. NLRB, 563 F.3d 492 (D.C. Cir. 2009), and Corporate Express Delivery Systems v. NLRB, 292 F.3d 777 (D.C. Cir. 2002), the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decided that if 5 of the 10 tests indicated employee status, the NLRB would win the argument.
NLRB General Counsel Richard Griffin has issued a list of high-priority issues he demands to be submitted to his office from his Regional Directors, Officers-in-Charge, and Resident Officers. Among the two most important groups of issues (of a total of 24) are included matters that involve General Counsel initiatives or priority areas of the law and labor policy, such as:
- the application of Purple Communications, 361 NLRB No. 126 (2014) to electronic systems other than email,
- the applicability of Weingarten principles in non-unionized settings,
- allegations that "English-only" policies violate the National Labor Relations Act,
- whether the misclassification of employees as independent contractors violates the NLRA.
The second group involves matters that involve "difficult legal issues or the absence of clear precedent," and include such issues as:
- the rights of contractor employees to have access to the property where they are working to communicate with coworkers or the public,
- whether novel forms of disruptive conduct, such as coordinated "shopping," excessive use of loudspeakers, or corporate campaigns, constitute violations of the NLRA,
- the need to harmonize the NLRA with local, state or federal statutes or where potential or actual overlapping jurisdiction with other federal agencies exists
If you ever wonder just how "union complicit" the NLRB tends to be, just review the case of Dennis Walsh, a Philadelphia Regional Director. Walsh was the chairman of a labor-funded advocacy group - raising money from many of the very unions he was supposed to investigate - and misled the NLRB ethics officers about his involvement when tapped for the Regional Director job. What happened when the truth was revealed? He had his hand slapped (suspended for 30 days), was forced to resign his position from the group, but then put right back to work "investigating" the unions as before. You can download a PDF of the investigation report here.
In an interesting twist to the ongoing franchise saga, Michigan passed a package of bills designed to protect franchisors from the NLRB. It would be expected that the NLRB will attempt to claim federal law would take precedence over such state action.
In Wisconsin, the squabble over the state's recently passed Right To Work law continues as a Dane County judge declared the law unconstitutional. A stay of ruling has been sought by the state Department of Justice and an appeal will be filed.
Quarter Mil Salaries for 448 Union Employees Last Year
Excluding professional athletes' unions, 448 union officers and employees were paid $250,000 or more last year. Of those union officials, 199 were paid more than $300,000, 55 were paid more than $400,000, and 18 were paid more than $500,000. These figures do not include health and other benefits.
For more details about specific unions, and the list of top 100 paid officials and employees, see this article.
SEIU Watch
It's LM-2 season, which means we get to look at the financial expenditures of labor unions for the previous year. The most compelling bit of information that came from SEIU International's LM-2 was its contribution to "Political Activities" – $27.7 million in all.
What SEIU-UHW'S revealed was quite interesting as well. Despite losing almost 40% of its membership, SEIU-UHW still made $16.6 million in 2015 (a profit margin of 14%). "To put that into perspective, it's higher than Fortune 500 companies like Coca-Cola."
SEIU lost another election to the National Union of Healthcare Workers. The bargaining unit was 300 workers at Oakland's Hospital and Research Center. 145 votes went to SEIU. 153 to NUHW. 4 voted against representation all together.
SEIU Local 1021 is currently being accused by their members of rigging their February election of officers. Out of the 48,000 ballots that were supposedly sent out, only 3,500 people voted. Apparently there were issues with the computer software that calculates the tallies as well. Click here to watch an interview with one of the Local's leaders who is disturbed with the way the election was conducted.
Connecticut is facing a $250 million shortfall this year and is expected to be in even worse shape next year ($900 million). Meanwhile, the Connecticut State Employees Association, a public union affiliated with SEIU will not budge on renegotiating their benefit packages in order to save jobs. They believe the problem can be solved simply by putting more taxes on the rich, even though Connecticut has some of the highest taxes in the country already.
Decades of Discrimination At This Sheet Metal Local
In an EEOC lawsuit going back 45 years, Local 25 of the Sheet Metal Workers' International Association (northern New Jersey area) and its associated apprenticeship school will pay a combined $1.65 million and provide substantial remedial relief in partial settlement of race discrimination claims. The local has demonstrated a decaded-long history of discrimination against African American and Hispanic workers, and this latest settlement was for a 10-year period covering April 1991 through December 2002 (the period prior to April 1991 had already been settled).
Fight for $15
Although it is fairly hidden from the public, those in the world of labor have always understood the end game of the union-funded (particularly by the SEIU) Fight for $15 movement has been about unionization. The SEIU has finally started owning up to the agenda, although it still uses shell organizations to prevent having to file financial documents with the federal government.
It's made even more obvious when unions fight for exemptions from the very minimum wage laws the movement has helped generate!
Union Power Gone Bad
Patrick Santeramo, former president of the Broward Teachers Union, pleaded guilty in federal court to mail fraud on February 12. This came less than one month after he was convicted by a state jury on "various theft, fraud, money laundering, and campaign finance violations." Click here for details of the Santeramo schemes that were a decade in the making.
A former member of IBT Local 82 has been sentenced to a year in prison and ordered to pay roughly $40,000 for extorting local business and fraudulently collecting unemployment benefits. Deamicis, 52, worked with two other Local 82 members to shake down businesses by "threatening to interrupt their business if the entities did not give jobs to unionized members."
Who are the winners (and losers) of the labor movement? Don't guess, just check the LRI Scoreboard
View this month's scoreboard (archives also located here).
Download a PDF of this month's scoreboard
"Gig Economy" Union Deal Goes Bust
It appears that a controversial deal between Airbnb and the SEIU that would have marked the first-ever formal collaboration between a major firm in the "gig economy" and a labor union has fallen apart. Airbnb was poised to encourage vendors who provide services to homeowners on the Airbnb platform to pay their staff at least $15 per hour.
However, SEIU backed down after taking heat from rival union Unite HERE. Most labor and housing activists are troubled by the impact on housing in markets where Airbnb operates. In an interesting plot twist, Andy Stern, former president of the SEIU, was negotiating the deal with SEIU on behalf of Airbnb.
Auto Workers
UAW membership rose 1.3 percent in 2015. This brings their current membership to 408,639, still drastically lower than the 700,000 members they had in 2002. But it's not all good news for the Auto Workers right now.
Fiat Chrysler announced on April 6 that they will lay off 1,300 workers, represented by the UAW, at their plant in Sterling Heights Michigan on July 5. The number of lost jobs represents 41 percent of the assembly plant's current workforce.
In St. Louis, one UAW leader, Vice President Cindy Estrada, has been effectively banned from her membership's Facebook page. This decision was made via a vote by the members and is quite representative of their dislike for the woman. These feelings are understandable and can be pinpointed to the "sellout contract" she made last year that affected 55,000 GM workers.
In other bad news for the union, Ford has officially announced that they will be building a new small car plant in Mexico. The Auto Workers are furious; which is interesting considering Ford leadership made it very clear during the Big Three negotiations last year that if the union didn't compromise a little on their financial demands, this move would be inevitable.
Whistlin' Dixie
Remember when the Auto Workers Local 42 organized 164 skilled workers at Volkswagen in December? Remember before that when they lost the bigger election at Volkswagen Chattanooga 626 to 712? And then, even though it's "illegal" to pursue another election at the same location for a year, how they set up an office just down the road and started to pursue a "works council" type of representation?
You have to give it to Local 42 – they are persistent. That's how they pulled off something that no union has done before in the US and changed the organizing game.
But Volkswagen is upset about it and filed a request to review the December election. The NLRB rejected the request. Volkswagen will now appeal that decision.
Labor Around the World
After a month-long strike, the South African Municipal Workers and Pikitup reached an agreement. This is excellent news for the people of Johannesburg, who have dealt with a month's worth of waste accumulation on their streets.
Things have gotten pretty dicey in France since President Francois Hollande and Manuel Valls proposed a reform to the French labor code. The part of the bill that people are taking issue with is the part that makes it easier to lay people off. When put that way, it's easy to think it's a bad thing. However, many believe that, as paradoxical as it sounds, this is a contributing factor to the mass unemployment in France. Nonetheless, the people of France are upset. Rioting is out of control. Violence is spreading. Arrests are happening. Click here for further detail.
Sticky Fingers
Current charges or sentences of embezzling union officials:
- Kenneth Potter - NSO: $4,130
- Charles Burke - UWUA: $111,000
- Therlen Benally - LIUNA: $1,220
- Juan Carlos Recinos - IAIW: $18,700
- Jeffrey Davies - AFGE: $100,000
- Benjamin Stancil - AFGE: wire fraud
- Malkia King and Adrian Lindsay - SEIU: $25,000


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Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
100 Pages
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Andrew Hawkes MVO RVM worked at Buckingham Palace for over 36 years and took up photography as a hobby back in 2011. He moved out of London to the Berkshire countryside to carry on with his passion for photography. He's often seen going off on photo weekends and day trips in the Cotswolds, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and a lot of walking along the River Thames taking photos of the landscapes, cityscapes, wildlife or in his home studio doing still life and portraits. He had some of his photos exhibited at the London Photo Festivals in 2012 and 2013 where he had some of his work sold. Even had a few published in photo magazines. Andrew showcased his work on canvas and print in his first solo exhibition at The Strand Gallery, London in October 2014. Andrew was awarded The Royal Victorian Medal in the 2004 New Years Honours and in 2015 was appointed Member of The Royal Victorian Order.
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How time flies! It doesn't feel like a year ago that I attended NUX4 and yet, here I am writing about NUX5. Sadly we didn't have Chewbacca this time but I have to say the peeps at NUX are doing a brilliant job with the conference as it gets better and better every year. NUX5 was no different, in fact I'd say it was the best one yet!
For those who don't know who NUX (Northern User Experience) are, we (I'm part of NUX Liverpool btw) are a group of passionate and enthusiastic usability experts who run a variety of events to get together and discuss all things user experience.
NUX5 had a great lineup of speakers covering a variety of topics, which I was eager to find out more about. It was with great excitement that I set off to the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Upon arrival I was greeted by the NUX team who all wore rather fetching green t-shirts to stand out amongst the crowds. This was definitely necessary because in total 600 people attended NUX5 but there certainly felt like there were more people present! Having registered and grabbed a drink, it was time to head to the the theatre for the first talk.
First up was Boon Sheridan, whose opening talk was called "Rules, Hunches and Coinflips". This was an engaging talk, that involved Boon walking the length of the stage multiple times rather than staying close to the lecture. Boon challenged the notion of abandoning tried and tested practices for the newest, popular technique. It was interesting and reassuring to know that if things are not broken then why try to fix them but at the same time you shouldn't be afraid to try things especially when you don't know the outcome because sometimes, it might just work!
Next up was Lola Oyelayo to talk about "For the love of wicked problems". In this talk, Lola expanded on what wicked problems were, the kinds of wicked problems we are creating. She discussed the future wicked problems we need to address and provided some tips on how to tackle these should you encounter them. Lola was extremely passionate about the subject and explained the uses of journey maps to find pain points and to set expectations correctly from the off. She explained that not blaming others and ensuring that we don't always deal with ideal scenarios will go some way to helping to alleviate these wicked problems. Sadly the nature of wicked problems means they won't completely go away, we just need to deal with them appropriately and in the right way.
Following a short break, it was back to the theatre to hear Karina van Schaardenburg talk about "Mixing methods abroad: a case study". In her talk, Karina outlined a range of techniques and tips that can be combined and used when feeling the pressures of a limited budget and when questions can't be answered immediately. The upshot of all of these techniques was to find the right people to listen to and when you do listen completely to ensure you get every little bit of insight from them.
After Karina, we had Glenn Gustitus talk about "Security and User Experience: Pushing for Change in the Enterprise Environment".
Although security has a perception of ruining the party for everyone, Glenn passionately put the case forward to demonstrate how security can be incorporated into projects without compromising the user experience. He explained this can be achieved by observing your users to see how they use your product on a day to day basis. He recommended we should also work within the constraints that you are presented with by having empathy for your users.
After lunch, we had Sophie Denis talk about "The Art of Things Not Done". Sophie's talk struck a chord with many delegates in the room discussing how to balance what can and can't be done within the time and budget of a project. She compared a Leatherman Micra (7 tools) to a Wenger Giant (87 tools) to illustrate that just because you can doesn't always mean that you should. The nature of doing less is to identify what can and can't be cut without sacrificing the user experience. Using the Kano Model, Sophie was able to illustrate where you should invest your efforts to ensure that the experience for that section is the best it can be.
Following Sophie was Graham Odds with his talk on chat bots or conversational UI through "Let's have a conversation". In what was probably the slickest talk of the day, Graham demonstrated how conversational UI could be the next stage in communication. It was incredible to see what was possible and how the use of conversational UI can be really useful to a user when they really need a piece of information. This might be when booking a flight or managing money. What was interesting to see was how this all tied back to Boon's talk earlier in the day. Since conversational UI's are only just emerging there is no best practice or right way to do things, we just have to experiment and see what works and what doesn't. With my mind suitably blown it was time for another break before the closing talk of the conference.
The final talk of NUX5 was Henny Swan's "The Velvet Rope" outlining how critical accessibility is for users. During the course of her talk, Henny explained how we as designers are responsible for accessibility, not just by meeting standards but by ensuring that users of every ability can receive the same level of access no matter what device or technology that they use.
In summary, NUX5 was brilliant with plenty to learn about and digest over the coming weeks. I'm really excited to see what happens with conversation UI and the techniques and tips that were picked up from the speakers will really help with the UX work we do here at Ph. I can't recommend attending the next NUX conference enough as it really is a great day out. In the meantime head over to one of their monthly events and I hope to see you at a NUX Liverpool event in the not too distant future!


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Corals can't fully acclimate to low pH conditions in nature, according to a University of California, Santa Cruz study that was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This marks the first time that a study on the effects of ocean acidification that was not conducted in a lab shows that low pH has adverse effects on corals.
Scientists from the university studied areas where corals are exposed to low pH levels during their entire lives and determined that while the corals don't die off, they do not produce structures to the scale that they would have had pH levels been more robust. The scientists, led by graduate student Elizabeth Crook, examined seawater chemistry in areas around natural springs in the ocean and removed skeletal cores from the coral Porites astreoides, a Caribbean reef-building coral. They then performed CT scans on the core samples to measure coral densities that helped them to determine annual calcification rates. These measurements were conducted in the lab of co-author Anne Cohen at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
"People have seen similar effects in laboratory experiments," said coauthor Adina Paytan, a research scientist in the Institute of Marine Sciences at UC Santa Cruz. "We looked in places where the corals are exposed to low pH for their entire life span. The good news is that they don't just die. They are able to grow and calcify, but they are not producing robust structures." Paytan co-authored another study that examined the effects pH has on a coral reef located near a freshwater spring. In that study, Paytan said that while the smaller corals were able to calcify, albeit at a lower rate, the larger corals that form the foundation for the area's reefs were not. They found that the closer to the spring the corals got, the colonies declined in size and structure.
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Ocean Acidification Alters Coral Reef Building
They found that coral calcification rates decreased quite a bit along a natural gradient in seawater pH. This leads to the corals laying down fewer structures, which reefs are built upon. With lower pH, the corals have to work harder to accumulate carbonate ions internally, the building blocks of corals. Without robust carbonate ions, entire reef frameworks are weakened, which results in further degradation of complex coral reef ecosystems.
This reduced density makes the corals more vulnerable to damage caused by storms, organisms that bore into corals, further weakening their structures, and parrotfish, which feed on corals.
What the study ultimately points to is a weakening of reefs worldwide as they are further exposed to acidification, including loss of coral cover that many fish species rely on for survival.


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Chicago, Illinois — In early September, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau charged Wells Fargo & Company bank of opening more than 2 million accounts that consumers may not have known about. As a result, the firm has been required to pay $185 million in fines and to compensate customers who incurred unfair fees or charges.
Now, in the wake of this scandal, the winds in the "Windy City" of Chicago are blowing against the bank. On October 5, 2016, the Chicago City Council passed a unanimous resolution to block Wells Fargo from doing business in its city for one year.
In so doing the city joins the states of Illinois and California, as well as other governments that have passed sanctions against Wells Fargo.
Chicago alderman Edward Burke, a member of the City Council, spoke of his intention and the Council's to send a message to the bank that Chicago will not put up with "this kind of conduct."
Meanwhile, Chicago City Treasurer Kurt Summers has said that he will divest the $25 million that Chicago has invested with Wells Fargo. He also noted that his office intends to stop investing in the bank's debt securities for a year.
The city's actions follow upon similar sanctions by the state.
On October 3 Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs announced that the bank would no longer be a broker and dealer for the state for approximately $30 billion in annual state investments. Frerichs added that this will cost Wells Fargo as much as "tens of millions" of dollars in fees during the one-year moratorium.
Wells Fargo has been a banking and investment partner of the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois for nearly 50 years.
As Treasurer, Frerichs oversees the state's annual investments, which are valued at approximately $1 trillion per year. The office of the Illinois State Treasurer works with roughly 25 investment companies, of which Wells Fargo is one. The state contracts with these firms to make various short-term investments for Illinois.
Frerichs charged,
"Wells Fargo took advantage of consumers by secretly opening 2 million unauthorized deposit, credit card, debit card, and online banking accounts."
Wells Fargo allegedly engaged in these activities for years as a way to meet inflated sales goals. The practices cost the bank's customers millions in unfair fees and resulted in damaged credit scores for many consumers.
Frerichs stated that he believes these unfair actions by the banking firm merit a "strong response."
The company has admitted that in the state of Illinois alone, it's possible that nearly 5,000 unauthorized accounts were opened for customers. Wells Fargo spokeswoman Bridget Braxton has admitted the following: "Although it was not confirmed that these accounts were unauthorized, 233 incurred fees." The bank has "decided to err on the side of the customer," she added, by issuing an average fee refund of $25 per account.
LaTrina Shepherd, another Wells Fargo spokesperson, conceded,
"We're very sorry and take full responsibility for the incidents in our retail bank."
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Johnston is charged in connection to several felony crimes first reported February 1, 2014, including breaking into a vehicle parked in a lot near North Five Mile and West Overland Road and stealing items valued at more than $1000 including electronics, clothing and personal identifying information belonging to two victims. Johnston was also found to be in possession of clothing items stolen from a Boise retail store. Johnston and a second suspect in the crimes, Ronald Rice are both accused of entering Idaho driving a pick-up stolen from a Utah dealership.
Johnston was apprehended following a shooting involving officers February 2 in Bliss, Idaho with suspect Ronald Rice. Rice was returned to the Ada County Jail February 24. Johnston was returned to Ada County to face yesterday.
Arrested: Darren S. McMullin, 30, Boise
Charged: Possession of a Controlled Substance with the Intent to Deliver – Marijuana (F), Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (m)
On Monday, March 3, at 11:30 a.m. Boise Police assisted US Marshals and Federal Probation and Parole in contacting McMullin at a gas station located in the 9500 block of West Chinden Boulevard. McMullin is a wanted felon who had absconded from Federal Parole. McMullin was taken into custody without incident. At the time of his arrest McMullin was found to be in possession of a loaded firearm, several rounds of ammunition, 38 grams of marijuana that field tested positive, a digital scale, one syringe and a cigar "blunt" that smelled like burnt marijuana. McMullin was booked into the Ada County Jail on the above charges. The US Marshal's Office is investigating the possession of the firearm.