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Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM Works for Canon 550D ?
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Re: Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM Works for Canon 550D ?
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In their campaigns for and against Proposition 23, supporters and opponents each adopted nicknames for the measure clarifying their respective views of it. Supporters called Proposition 23 the '''California Jobs Initiative,''' and opponents called it the '''Dirty Energy Proposition'''.<ref>[http://www.stopdirtyenergyprop.com/ No on 23 campaign website]</ref><ref name=bw>[http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-16/california-climate-fight-may-break-campaign-spending-record.html ''Business Week'', "California Climate Campaign Spending May Top Record", April 16, 2010]</ref>
In their campaigns for and against Proposition 23, supporters and opponents each adopted nicknames for the measure clarifying their respective views of it. Supporters called Proposition 23 the '''California Jobs Initiative,''' and opponents called it the '''Dirty Energy Proposition'''.<ref>[http://www.stopdirtyenergyprop.com/ No on 23 campaign website]</ref><ref name=bw>[http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-16/california-climate-fight-may-break-campaign-spending-record.html ''Business Week'', "California Climate Campaign Spending May Top Record", April 16, 2010]</ref>
People were predicting that more than $150 million might be spent supporting and opposing the measure and that donations to Prop 23 could top the record of $154 million set by [[California Proposition 87, Alternative Energy Oil Tax (2006)|Proposition 87]] in 2006.<ref>[http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-04-16/california-fight-over-global-warming-laws-may-top-campaign-spending-record.html ''Bloomberg News'', "Calif. Climate Campaign Spending May Top Record," April 16, 2010]</ref> However, in total, the support and opposition campaigns
People were predicting that more than $150 million might be spent supporting and opposing the measure and that donations to Prop 23 could top the record of $154 million set by [[California Proposition 87, Alternative Energy Oil Tax (2006)|Proposition 87]] in 2006. <ref>[http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-04-16/california-fight-over-global-warming-laws-may-top-campaign-spending-record.html ''Bloomberg News'', "Calif. Climate Campaign Spending May Top Record," April 16, 2010]</ref> However, in total, the support and opposition campaigns no more than $74.8 million.
==Election results==
==Election results==
:: ''See also: [[2010 ballot measure election results]]''
:: ''See also: [[2010 ballot measure election results]]''
Revision as of 12:25, 26 February 2014This article is about a 2010 ballot measure in California. For other measures with a similar title, see Proposition 23.
- 1 Election results
- 2 Aftermath
- 3 Ballot title and summary
- 4 Unemployment in California
- 5 Jobs in California's clean energy sector
- 6 Support
- 7 Opposition
- 8 Commercials and videos
- 9 Impact on gubernatorial election
- 10 About AB 32
- 11 Editorial opinion
- 12 Polls
- 13 Path to the ballot
- 14 External links
- 15 Additional reading
- 16 References
AB 32, the "Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006," was passed by the California State Legislature and signed by Arnold Schwarzenegger.[2][3] Proposition 23, if enacted by voters, would have frozen the provisions of AB 32 until California's unemployment rate droped to 5.5% or below for four consecutive quarters. At the time of the vote on Prop 23, California's unemployment rate hovered around 12% and had been at 5.5% or below for four consecutive quarters just three times since 1980.[4]
AB 32 required that greenhouse gas emission levels in the state be cut to 1990 levels by 2020. The process of cutting greenhouse gas emissions in the state was slated under AB 32 to begin in 2012.[5]
In their campaigns for and against Proposition 23, supporters and opponents each adopted nicknames for the measure clarifying their respective views of it. Supporters called Proposition 23 the California Jobs Initiative, and opponents called it the Dirty Energy Proposition.[6][7]
People were predicting that more than $150 million might be spent supporting and opposing the measure and that donations to Prop 23 could top the record of $154 million set by Proposition 87 in 2006. Louise Bedsworth, a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, said, "It's likely to be one of the most expensive propositions that the state has had."[8] However, in total, the support and opposition campaigns raised no more than $74.8 million, with the opposition group far outraising supporters.[9]
Election results
- See also: 2010 ballot measure election results
|Proposition 23 (Suspend AB 32)
- These are the final results for this election as per the California Secretary of State's statement of election results.
California's Air Resources Board administered AB 32. They approved a new set of rules governing the sale of carbon credits in December 2010 that some environmentalists said gave the state's timber industry "too good a deal, enabling them to clear cut at the expense of the overall vitality of the forests."[10]
Ballot title and summary
Ballot title:
Official summary:
- Suspends State law that requires greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to 1990 levels by 2020, until California's unemployment drops to 5.5 percent or less for four consecutive quarters.
- Requires State to abandon implementation of comprehensive greenhouse-gas-reduction program that includes increased renewable energy and cleaner fuel requirements, and mandatory emission reporting and fee requirements for major polluters such as power plants and oil refineries, until suspension ends.
Estimated fiscal impact:
- The suspension of AB 32 could result in a modest net increase in overall economic activity in the state. In this event, there would be an unknown but potentially significant net increase in state and local government revenues.
- Potential loss of a new source of state revenues from the auctioning of emission allowances by state government to certain businesses that would pay for these allowances, by suspending the future implementation of cap-and-trade regulations.
- Lower energy costs for state and local governments than otherwise.
- See also: 2010 ballot measure litigation
The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court on July 29, 2010, asserting that the ballot title prepared by the Office of the Attorney General of California was "false, misleading and unfair" and should therefore be changed.[12] Arguments filed in court said the title and summary should not refer to "air pollution control laws" because Proposition 23 did not apply to multiple laws and should not refer to "major polluters" because power plants and refineries were not the only businesses affected by the law, since emissions from universities, agricultural facilities, municipal buildings, and other private companies and citizens were also affected.[13]
On Tuesday, August 3, 2010, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley issued a ruling that took the side of the plaintiffs and ordered that the state government change the ballot title and summary.[14]
Frawley's ruling said:
- The term "sources of emission" should be used in the ballot language instead of "major polluters".[14]
- The official ballot language should not use the word "abandon" to describe what will happen to AB-32 if Proposition 23 is enacted, but should rather consistently use the word "suspend".[14]
- Ballot language should clarify that Proposition 23 does not apply to state pollution laws on "smog-forming emissions and others related to asthma and other health risks."[14]
Unemployment in California
|Proposition 23 (article about)
|Full text of Prop 23
|AB 32 (article about)
|Full text of AB 32
In January 2010, California's unemployment rate had crept over 12% and 2.25 million Californians were unemployed.[15] In March 2010, it was discovered that, at the time, 8 of California's 58 counties had an unemployment rate exceeding 20%.[16]
At the time of the vote on Prop 23, the last time the unemployment rate in California was below 5.5% was in 2007.[17] According to the California Employment Development Department in 2010, there had been three periods since 1976 when unemployment in the state remained below 5.5% for four or more quarters:
- January 1988 through December 1989
- October 1999 through June 2001
- October 2005 through June 2007[18]
In 2010, California had lost 34% of its manufacturing jobs since 2001.[19]
Jobs in California's clean energy sector
The number of clean energy businesses and clean energy jobs increased in California 45% and 36%, respectively, in the period between 1995-2008. [20] This rate of growth is 10 times more than the state's average job growth rate.[21]
At the time of the vote, California had over 12,000 clean energy businesses [22] and 500,000 people were employed in clean energy occupations.[23] With over $9 billion in venture capital funds, California's clean energy firms have received 60% of venture capital funds in North America [24].
The independent Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) stated that suspending AB 32 would "dampen additional investments in clean energy technologies or so-called 'green jobs' by private firms, thereby resulting in less economic activity than would otherwise be the case." [25]
Arguments were submitted to the official California Voter Guide on behalf of a "yes" vote on Proposition 23, as were rebuttals to the arguments provided by Prop 23 opponents. The signers of these arguments were:
- Kevin Nida, president, California State Firefighters' Association
- John Kabateck, executive director, National Federation of Independent Business/California
- Jon Coupal, president, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
- Brad Matzelfelt, governing board member, Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District
- J. Andrew Caldwell, executive director, The Coalition of Labor, Agriculture & Business
- James W. Kellogg, international representative, United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry
Other supporters included:
- Dan Logue was a key sponsor.[26] Logue said of the proposed initiative, "This has been the blind leading the blind, political correctness that has collapsed the economy in California. California already has the fifth-cleanest air in the country, so why are we doing this when no one else is?"[26]
- U.S. Congressman Tom McClintock.
- Steve Poizner.[7]
- The California Republican Party.[18]
- Jim Kellogg, secretary-treasurer of the State Building & Construction Trades Council. He said, "I don't doubt that there will be more green jobs in California, perhaps even thousands of them; however, we don't want to put at risk the millions of well-paying, blue-collar jobs that put bread on the table right now. We need to make sure we do our homework, ask the tough questions and make adjustments as necessary to implement AB 32 in a way that reduces greenhouse gases without hurting millions of families in this state."[18]
- The California Manufacturers & Technology Association. A spokesperson said that if AB 32 was implemented as planned, it would be the "death knell for scores of manufacturing jobs."[19]
- Americans for Prosperity of California[27]
(Note: Ted Costa of People's Advocate, an initial sponsor, withdrew his active support in March 2010, saying, ""Big money interests have come in and shut out the people."[28])
Arguments in favor
The main themes of the arguments made in favor of Proposition 23 by its supporters in the official California Voter Guide were:
- Energy costs in California will go up when AB 32 is implemented. The voter guide argument made by supporters quotes CARB's Economic Allocation and Advisory Committee as saying, "AB 32 will cause California households to face higher prices both directly for electricity, natural gas, and gasoline, and indirectly as businesses pass costs for GHG reduction on to consumers."[29]
- It will save jobs. The voter pamphlet argument says, "Other countries that passed global warming laws experienced a loss of two blue collar jobs for every one green job created."[29][5]
- It maintains environmental protections: "California has the toughest environmental laws in the country. Proposition 23 doesn't weaken or repeal the hundreds of laws that protect the environment, reduce air pollution, keep our water clean and protect public health."[29]
- Main article: Donations to California's 2010 ballot propositions
Supporters of Proposition 23 raised about $10.6 million for their campaign.[30]
Two Texas-based oil companies, Valero Energy Corporation and Tesoro Corporation, provided the campaign with initial funding to launch its petition drive to qualify for the November 2 ballot.[31]
Valero Energy Corporation and Tesoro Corporation, along with Flint Hills Resources, altogether donated over $6.5 million to the "California Jobs Initiative Committee." [32] At the time, Flint Hills Resources had oil operations in several states outside of California, and was a division of Koch Industries.[33][34][35]
According to Cal-Access, these donations of $25,000 or more were made to the "California Jobs Initiative Committee":[36]
|Tesoro Companies
|Flint Hills Resources
|Marathon Petroleum Company LLC
|Adam Smith Foundation
|Occidental Petroleum
|National Petrochemical and Refiners Association
|Tower Energy Group
|World Oil Corp
|Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
|Southern Counties Oil (Total Energy Products)
|California Trucking Association
|Frontier Oil
|Murray Energy
|Berry Petrochemical
|Boyett Petroleum (Stan Boylett & Son)
|California State Pipes Trade Association
|Caminol Management
|Holly Corporation
|Robinson Oil
|J.G. Boswell Company
State Treasurer Bill Lockyer encouraged California's two largest public employee investment funds, CalPERS and CalSTRS, to divest themselves of stock in refiners Valero and Tesoro. Lockyer, a member of the board of CalPERS, wrote in a letter, "CalSTRS should not be investing in Texas oil companies that hurt the California economy, no more than they should invest in companies that spend millions of shareholder dollars to undermine California's environmental laws and the state's green energy industries and green tech jobs."[37]
Goddard Clausen Strategic Advocacy was retained as a campaign consultant. Spokesman Jennifer Dudikoff of Goddard Clausen said in early March of 2010, "Right now, we're not commenting on funders. We expect support from a very broad group of individuals, companies and associations who are currently concerned with keeping and creating jobs in California."[31]
Goddard Clausen's leadership role in the effort was a factor that engendered Ted Costa's decision to step away from the campaign. He said, "They're a bunch of greedy consultants feeding off the trough" and objected to how much money he predicted Goddard Clausen would spend to get the signatures to qualify the measure for the ballot, versus how much money he would have spent, if he had been hired to collect those signatures: "I said I could qualify this initiative for $1.2 million. They'll probably spend $3 million, and all that money will go to consultants."[38]
Dan Logue opined that Costa's position was a case of sour grapes: "Ted basically didn't get the contract to do the signatures, so he's mad."[38]
Political consultants who provided paid services to the "Yes on 23" campaign included:
- Baselice & Associates: $162,214
- Bayside Communications: $30,000
- Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk: $155,772
- Carpenter Hawkins: $90,000
- Goddard Clausen Strategic Advocacy: $270,000
- National Petition Management: $2,222,312
- Woodward & McDowell: $405,000
A group called "Californians for Clean Energy and Jobs" formed to oppose the measure. George Shultz, who served as secretary of state during the Reagan administration, was the honorary co-chairman of the group. He said in early May 2010, "While some companies in California have said they're worried about the cost of the planned greenhouse gas limits, the new regulations will boost the state's economy by creating 'clean-tech jobs'".[39]
Democratic consultant Steve Maviglio worked for "Californians for Clean Energy and Jobs." He said, "This measure is a polluter's dream and will kill a clean energy economy for California."[40]
The following organizations opposed Proposition 23:[41]
- American Lung Association- California
- American Association of Pediatrics in California
- Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality District
- California Professional Firefighters
- League of Women Voters of California
- Consumers Union
- VoteVets.org
- California Climate & Agriculture Network
- Small Business California
- Western States Council of Sheet Metal Workers
- California Conference of Carpenters
- California Infill Builders Association Council
- Antelope Valley Black Chamber of Commerce
- California Black Chamber of Commerce
- Culver City Chamber of Commerce
- German American Chamber of Commerce
- Greater San Fernando Valley Chamber of Commerce
- Green Chamber of Commerce
- Mountain View Chamber of Commerce
- Los Altos Chamber of Commerce
- Latin Business Association
- Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce
- Pasadena Chamber of Commerce
- San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
- Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce
- Silicon Valley Leadership Group
- Solano County Black Chamber of Commerce
- Valley Industry and Commerce Association (VICA)
- California Teachers Association
- California Wind Energy Association
- California Solar Energy Industries Association
- Oak Creek Energy Systems, Inc.
- Solaria
- TechNet, "a national network of some of the most recognizable names in the 21st-century market, from Apple to Yahoo."[5]
- Virgin America
- Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
- Abel Maldonado, Lieutenant Governor of California at the time
- Kamala Harris, a candidate for Attorney General of California.[18]
- Arnold Schwarzenegger was staunchly opposed to the repeal of AB 32. Schwarzenegger said that AB 32 created green jobs in the state.[17] When it was announced that supporters of the effort to suspend AB 32 had turned in signatures to qualify the measure for the November ballot, Schwarzenegger said, "The effort to suspend AB 32 is the work of greedy oil companies who want to keep polluting in our state and making profits."[42]
- The California Teamsters[43]
- California Institute of Architects, California Council
- California Statewide Law Enforcement Association\
Arguments against
Comments at a press conference
The arguments submitted to the official California Voter Guide urging a "no" vote on Proposition 23, and the rebuttals to the arguments provided by Prop 23 supporters, were signed by:
- Jane Warner, president, American Lung Association in California
- Linda Rosenstock, M.D., Dean, UCLA School of Public Health
- David Pacheco, president, AARP California
- Lou Paulson, president, California Professional Firefighters
- Dr. Charles D. Kolstad, chairman, Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara[44]
The main themes of the arguments made against Proposition 23 by its opponents in the official California Voter Guide were:
- If Proposition 23 is enacted, it will lead to more air pollution and increased health risks.[44]
- The financial backers of Proposition 23 have bad motivations: "...the Valero and Tesoro oil companies, are among the worst polluters in California. They're using 23 to repeal portions of the health and safety code that require them to reduce air pollution at their California refineries."[44]
- The enactment of Proposition 23 would threaten jobs in the clean energy sector in California: "...clean energy companies are sprouting up and building wind and solar power facilities that provide us with clean power, built right here by California workers. By repealing clean energy laws, Proposition 23 would put many of these California companies out of business, kill a homegrown industry that is creating hundreds of thousands of California jobs, and damage our overall economy." This could jeopardize as many as 500,000 jobs.[44]
- Proposition 23 will reduce incentives to find alternatives to oil. Oil is costly to consumers and heavy use of oil threatens national security by making us dependent on foreign oil.[44]
Other arguments made against Proposition 23 included:
Vinod Khosla, an investor of clean energy projects, stated, "Prop 23 will kill the market and the single largest source of job growth in California in the last two years."[45]
Danny Curtin, the director of California Conference of Carpenters, stated, "All across the state, workers are being retrained to work on solar and wind projects, to upgrade and build energy efficiency buildings, and to build other clean energy projects. Millions of construction work hours will be created right here because our strong clean air rules have made us a magnet for the renewable energy industry. But if Proposition 23 passes, that revolution will come to a halt – and so too will hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs that our industry desperately needs."[46]
Donors against
- Main article: Donations to California's 2010 ballot propositions
Eighteen different campaign committees filed with Cal-Access in opposition to Proposition 23. Cumulatively, these organizations raised about $39 million. However, seven of the 18 committees were simultaneously registered in support of or in opposition to other propositions also on the November 2 ballot, and it was not possible to say with certainty how much of the money they raised was spent specifically to defeat Proposition 23. The main "No on 23" committee, which was registered only as a committee to fight 23, raised $25.2 million.[47][48]
According to Cal-Access, these donations of $100,000 or more went to one or more of the "No on Proposition 23" campaign committees:[49]
|Thomas Steyer
|National Wildlife Federation
|John and Ann Doerr
|Natural Resources Defense Council
|Sierra Club
|League of Conservation Voters
|Environmental Defense Fund
|Vinod Khosla
|James Cameron
|Robert J. Fisher
|Gordon Miller
|Climateworks Foundation
|Nature Conservancy
|Bill Gates
|Clean Energy & Jobs Mobilization Committee
|Green Tech Action Fund
|John Morgridge
|Claire Perry
|Wendy Schmidt
|Julian Robertson
|Pacific Gas & Electric
|Hannelore Grantham
|Susan Mandel
|Ballot Initiative Strategy Center
|Rockefeller Family Fund
|William Patterson
|Anne Earhart
|Susan Packard Orr
|Nicolas Berggruen
|Democratic State Central Committee
|Shawn and Brook Byers
|Sergey Brin
|California Teachers Association
|Lauren Powell Jobs
|SunRun Inc.
|Environment California
|Union of Concerned Scientists
|Julie Packard
|Fahrad Ebrahimi
|John Pritzker
|Nancy Burnett
|Lucy Southworth
|Paul Klingenstein
|Green Tech Capital Advisors
|Audubon Society
|Majestic Realty
The Courage Campaign and CREDO Action called for a boycott of Valero and Beacon gas stations in order to punish Valero for providing financial sponsorship of the initiative. Michael Kieschnick, the president of CREDO Action, said, "What is particularly troubling is that anyone who buys gasoline from Valero is now helping to fund audacious attacks on California's air quality standards. Valero believes it will be cheaper to deceive California voters than to compete in the new energy economy."[50]
Paid consultants
Political consultants who provided paid services to the "No on 23" campaign included:
- The Better World: $120,000
- Bicker, Castillo & Fairbanks: $308,065
- Clean Economy Network: $120,000
- Conservation Strategy Group: $200,000
- Mark Fabiani: $225,000
- Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates: $241,000
- Grassroots LAB: $27,500
- Steven Maviglio: $105,000
- Mercury Public Affairs: $170,000
- Olson, Hagel & Fishburn: $98,871
- Resources Law: $52,500
- Winner & Mandabach Campaigns: $362,596
Commercials and videos
"Yes on 23" videos and commercials:
"No on 23" videos and commercials:
Impact on gubernatorial election
California GOP gubernatorial candidates debate AB32 in March 2010
- See also: California gubernatorial election, 2010
Prop 23 is likely to become a factor in California's 2010 gubernatorial election. This is because the next Governor of California, by the terms of AB 32, has the power to suspend AB 32 regardless of whether the initiative passes.
- Meg Whitman has said that she would act to freeze AB 32 for a year or more.[51]
- Jerry Brown says that he would support "adjusting" some features of AB 32 but that he generally supports it and would not suspend it.[51]
Both gubernatorial candidates are against Proposition 23 [52]
About AB 32
AB 32 was enacted in 2006. The goal of AB 32 is to cap state-created greenhouse gases by 2020, based on 1990 emissions. Steps taken under AB 32 include retrofits on diesel engines and new devices on gas pumps.
The impact that AB 32 will have on jobs in California is a matter of some dispute.
Air Resources Board
The California Air Resources Board is the state agency charged with enforcing AB 32. This group said in 2008 that AB 32 would create more than 100,000 jobs in the state. In March 2010, the agency revised its estimate, saying that AB 32 would create 10,000 jobs.[15]
Larry Goulder, a professor at Stanford University, was the lead economist in the CARB report. Goulder came under fire in April 2010 when it became known that he in on the board of directors of the Energy Foundation. The Energy Foundation, in turn, is the sole contributor behind the Green Tech Action Fund. The Green Tech Action Fund gave $500,000 in April to "Californians for Clean Energy and Jobs", which is the campaign committee that is gearing up to defeat Proposition 23.
When questioned by the New York Times, Goulder said, ""I value my reputation as an economist. I have no direct involvement with the Green Tech Action Fund."[53]
CSU-Sacramento Studies
Two studies of AB 32 have been conducted by S. Varshney and D. Tootelian. Varshney and Tootelian are professors at California State University-Sacramento. Their studies are sometimes referred to as the "Varshney studies" or the "V&T studies".
- June 2009. The name of this study is "Cost of AB 32 on California Small Businesses—Summary Report of Findings (June 2009)." It concludes that AB 32 will cost California's small businesses $183 billion in lost output each year.[54] Commissioned by the California Small Business Roundtable, this study says that the cost of implementing AB-32 "could easily exceed $100 billion" and that the program would raise the cost of living by $3,857 per household each year by 2020.[15] It also says that the implementation costs of AB 32 are "likely to total $183 billion in reduced GSP and the equivalent of 1.1 million fewer jobs" and estimates the "average annual cost of AB 32 per small business...[at]...approximately $50,000."[54] The California Legislative Analyst's Office in March 2010 said of this study that "it contains a number of serious shortcomings that render its estimates of the economic effects of AB 32's proposed implementation through the SP highly unreliable."[54]
- March 2010 Varshney and Tootelian's study was reviewed by James L. Sweeney, a professor at Stanford University, and Matthew E. Kahn, a professor at UCLA. Sweeney and Kahn said that Varshney and Tootelian's study is "flawed" and "overestimates the law's [AB 32] cost by a factor of 10." [55] Sweeney and Kahn also say that Varshney and Tootelian do not include in their study the savings and innovation that would result from AB 32. [56]
- September 2009. The name of the second study by Varshney and Tootelian is "Cost of State Regulations on California Small Businesses Study (September 2009)." Mandated by Chapter 232, Statutes of 2006 (AB 2330, Arambula), this study concludes that "California's regulations of all types resulted in reduction in the gross state product (GSP) of $493 billion annually in lost output and $134,000 annually per small business." The California Legislative Analyst's Office, in a March 2010 letter to Kevin de León, said, "Our review of this study indicates that it contains a number of serious shortcomings that render its estimates of the annual economic costs of state regulations essentially useless."[54]
- March 2010: Business Alliance for a Green Economy issued a round-up of criticisms of the Varshney-Tootelian study.
Editorial opinion
"Yes on 23"
- Orange County Register: "By approving Proposition 23, voters can stall implementation of the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 and perhaps save more than 1 million jobs until state unemployment falls to 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters. Unemployment has been above 12 percent for more than a year. We prefer permanent repeal of the 2006 law. For now, we urge at least a delay of its disastrous economic effects and infringements on private-sector freedoms."[57]
- North County Times: "One plain, undeniable fact of economic life is that the government doesn't, and can't, create wealth ---- only private employers can do that. [...] Proposition 23 would suspend (but not end) the expensive "greenhouse" legislation ---- AB 32 and related measures ---- that coerces businesses in California into using more renewable energy sources and sets arbitrary mandates in doing so. [...] We urge a yes vote on Proposition 23."[58]
"No on 23"
- Bakersfield Californian: "The question shouldn't be whether AB 32 should be implemented. Rather, it's how quickly, and to what degree, it should be enacted to maximize results."[59]
- Contra Costa Times: "The long-term impact of AB32 could be huge in making California a leader in a growing renewable energy industry, while much of the rest of the country delays action."[60]
- Fresno Bee: "Proposition 23 is another self-serving measure from special interests."[61]
- The Herald (Monterey County): "California achieved greatness through innovation and the success of clean industries such as aerospace, high tech, film and education. At the moment, it is poised to lead the nation again through the development of various clean-tech ventures, but that would be wiped out overnight through a ballot measure intended primarily to help the shareholders of Tesoro and Valero and Occidental Petroleum."[62]
- Lompoc Record: "So, the question we need to ask ourselves is, are we really willing to risk our health so oil companies can make a few billion more dollars each year?"[63]
- Long Beach Press-Telegram: "That doesn't make the measure more appealing to voters. Neither does the idea of encouraging more greenhouse gases, even if they are a small part of the worldwide issue. Also, some of us feel that apart from the issue of global warming, it will be healthier and eventually more efficient to get our energy from the sun, the winds or the tides."[64]
- Los Angeles Daily News: "Proposition 23 proponents ignore the competitive advantage California as a whole has in AB 32. There is an emerging global market for green technology, and with market-changing regulations in place, California is likely to be ground zero in the U.S. for clean technology industries."[65]
- Los Angeles Times: "Suspending California's global warming law would take the state, and the country, in the wrong direction."[66]
- Oakland Tribune: "More than 500,000 people work in the cleantech industry, including 93,000 in manufacturing and 68,000 in construction. These are the kind of well-paying jobs California needs and which will increase under AB32."[67]
- Sacramento Bee: "Three oil companies, Valero, Tesoro and Koch Industries, have so far pumped $8 million into the Proposition 23 campaign. They are the major forces behind a misleading effort to convince voters that AB 32 is harming the state's economy and is a threat to economic recovery." [68]
- San Bernardino Sun: "The green industry is ready to solve our economic problems and have a major impact on our environmental problems."[69]
- San Diego Union-Tribune: "...the solution to one bad law is not to adopt a second bad law. And that is precisely what Proposition 23 on the Nov. 2 ballot is – bad law." [70]
- San Francisco Chronicle: "California's fragile recovery can't afford the chaos that Proposition 23 will bring."[71]
- San Gabriel Valley Tribune: "This disingenuous measure would hurt businesses struggling to innovate and make California's energy future bright."[72]
- San Jose Mercury News: "If Proposition 23 passes, clean-energy investment will come to a halt. That's what seems to be happening nationally: After the collapse of Senate talks on a national climate and energy bill like California's, a Deutsche Bank executive told Reuters that it would pour most of the $7 billion it has to invest in clean energy into China and Western Europe. Said Kevin Parker, global head of asset management: "(Congress is) asleep at the wheel on climate change, asleep at the wheel on job growth, asleep at the wheel on this industrial revolution taking place in the energy industry."" [73]
- Santa Rosa Press-Democrat: "This is no time to go back on California's commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and trying to limit the impacts of global climate change."[74]
- Ventura County Star: "Voters need to see Proposition 23 for what it is: A cleverly written measure aimed at eliminating AB 32 and, in the long run, posing harm to all Californians."[75]
- See also: Polls, 2010 ballot measures
|Date of Poll
|Number polled
|June 22-July 5, 2010
|Sept 15-22, 2010
|GQR and AV
|September 14-21, 2010
|September 19-26, 2010
|October 2-4, 2010
|October 10-17, 2010
|October 14-26, 2010
|Field for the Sacramento Bee
The question in this poll asked whether poll respondents supported AB 32, the 2006 Global Warming law that would be suspended until the unemployment rate dropped.[76]
|Date of Poll
|Support AB 32
|Oppose AB 32
|Number polled
|July 6-20, 2010
The question in this poll asked whether the state should take action "right away" on its plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or wait until the state's economy and job situation improved.[77]
|Date of Poll
|"Take action right away"
|"Wait until economy improves"
|Number polled
|July 6-20, 2010
Path to the ballot
- See also: California signature requirements
433,971 valid signatures were required to qualify the measure for the November 2, 2010 ballot.
The petition drive to qualify the measure for the ballot was launched the first week of March.[78] Organizers turned in their qualifying signatures on Monday, May 3.[79] In emails to the press on May 3, the campaign said that it had turned in over 800,000 signatures.[17]
Signatures to qualify the measure for the ballot were collected by National Petition Management at a cost of $2,222,312.[80]
On November 25, 2009, the group People's Advocate filed a request with the Office of the California Attorney General for an official ballot title on 09-0094. An official summary was accordingly provided on February 3, 2010. To qualify 09-0094 for the November 2, 2010 ballot, supporters must provide qualifying signatures to California's 58 county election clerks no later than July 5.
On December 22, requests for ballot titles were filed on 09-0104 and 09-0105. These ballot titles were provided on February 7, with petition deadlines of July 19.
External links
Basic information
- Official voter guide for Proposition 23
- Ballot title, summary and analysis in the California Voter Guide
- Arguments and rebuttals in the California Voter Guide
- Letter to Attorney General requesting ballot title (09-0094)
- Letter to Attorney General requesting ballot title (09-0104)
- Letter to Attorney General requesting ballot title (09-0105)
- Implementation of AB 32 - Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, a report from the California Legislative Analyst's Office dated April 14, 2010
- California Environmental Protection Agency's FAQ page about AB 32
- League of Women Voters overview of Proposition 23
- California Voter Foundation guide to Proposition 23
- Institute of Governmental Studies overview of Proposition 23
- See also: 2010 ballot measure campaign websites
- Suspend AB 32, official website of the California Jobs Initiative organization
- Yes on 23 on Facebook
- Yes on 23 on Twitter
- Campaign finance filings for "Yes on 23, California Jobs Initiative, a Coalition of Taxpayers, Employers, Food Producers, Energy, Transportation and Forestry Companies"
- See also: 2010 ballot measure campaign websites
- Stop Dirty Energy Prop
- No on 23 on Facebook
- Stop Prop 23 on Twitter
- Campaign finance reports for No on 23, Californians to Stop the Dirty Energy Proposition
- Campaign finance reports for Credo Victory Fund to Fight Climate Change
- Campaign finance reports for Committee for a Clean Energy Future, No on Prop 23
- Campaign finance reports for Environmental Defense Action Fund Say No to Prop 23 Committee
- Campaign finance reports for Communities Against Proposition 23, sponsored by Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
- Campaign finance reports for No on Prop 23, Committee of the NRDC
- Campaign finance reports for the Clean Economy Network, No on 23 Action Fund
- Campaign finance reports for Green Tech Action Fund California Committee - No on 23
- Campaign finance reports for California Student Public Interest Research Group - Committee to Defeat Proposition 23
- Campaign finance reports for Committee to Defeat Prop 23, sponsored by Environment California
Additional reading
- Pavley predicts ballot measure will aim to overturn global warming law
- Update on initiative to suspend California's global warming bill
- On Climate: Congress Restarts, California Threatens
- Millions in political contributions move in late-night transactions
- Proposition 23 Likely To Become Midterm's Most Expensive Ballot Measure
- ↑ Fresno Bee, "Climate law to go before voters", June 23, 2010
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "Ballot initiative would curb California efforts", January 25, 2010
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 San Diego Union Tribune, "Critics: State can't handle greenhouse gas mandates", February 12, 2010
- ↑ No on 23 campaign website
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Business Week, "California Climate Campaign Spending May Top Record", April 16, 2010
- ↑ Bloomberg News, "Calif. Climate Campaign Spending May Top Record," April 16, 2010
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "Proposition 23: Backers were outspent, out-organized," November 2, 2010
- ↑ Press Democrat, "New air rules may be boon for timber", December 15, 2010
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributed to the original source.
- ↑ Mercury News, "Judge rules Proposition 23 ballot language must be reworded", August 3, 2010
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "Proposition 23 backers sue over ballot language", July 29, 2010
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Orange County Register, "Rebuke of Jerry Brown good news for Proposition 23", August 3, 2010
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Wall Street Journal, "California's Cap-Trade Law Faces Fall Ballot Challenge", April 5, 2010
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "Unemployment tops 20% in eight California counties", March 11, 2010
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Reuters, "California may vote to freeze landmark climate law"
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 Legal Newsline, "Referendum on Calif. greenhouse law appears headed for voters", May 3, 2010
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Legal Newsline, "DiCaro: Shelving Calif. greenhouse law will save jobs", May 5, 2010
- ↑ "Many Shades of Green", Collaborative Economics and the Next 10 (December 2009)
- ↑ "California's Green Innovation Index" Collaborative Economics and the Next 10, 2009.
- ↑ "Many Shades of Green", Collaborative Economics and the Next 10 (December 2009)
- ↑ Employment Development Department- Labor Market Information Division, California's Green Economy, April, 2010
- ↑ http://www.cleantech.com
- ↑ www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2010/rsrc/ab32_econ_review/ab32_econ_review_030910.aspx
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 Appeal-Democrat, "Logue wants air rules to face popular vote", December 1, 2009
- ↑ Americans for Prosperity/California
- ↑ Los Angeles Times Blogs, "'Integrity abuses' charged in initiative to suspend California climate law", March 10, 2010
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 California Voter Guide, "Proposition 23"
- ↑ Official record of "Yes on 23" campaign contributions
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 Sacramento Bee, "Drive launched to derail state's greenhouse gas law", March 4, 2010
- ↑ [http://cal-access.ss.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1323890&view=late1 Cal-Access record of donations to support Proposition 23
- ↑ San Jose Mercury News, "Oil company owned by Tea Party's billionaire brothers gives $1 million to fight California's climate change law.", September 4, 2010
- ↑ Washington Independent, "Koch Brothers Spend Big to Derail Greenhouse Gas Law in California", September 9, 2010
- ↑ [3]
- ↑ Cal-Access record of donations to the California Jobs Initiative Committee
- ↑ PRNewswrite, "Gangster Government: California Officials Retaliate Against Proposition 23 Supporters", October 19, 2010
- ↑ 38.0 38.1 Los Angeles Times, "Fight splits backers of ballot initiative to suspend state's global warming law", March 12, 2010
- ↑ Business Week, "California Carbon Law Fight Takes a 'Giant Step'", May 3, 2010
- ↑ Sacramento News & Review, "Conservatives hot about global warming ballot measure", February 8, 2010
- ↑ No on Prop 23- Californians to Stop the Dirty Energy Proposition, "Our Coalition"
- ↑ Mercury News, "Opponents of California global warming law turn in signatures for November measure", May 3, 2010
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "Global warming ballot initiative: Teamsters and cities weigh in", April 23, 2010
- ↑ 44.0 44.1 44.2 44.3 44.4 Arguments for and against Proposition 32 in the official California Voter Guide
- ↑ Mercury News, "Cleantech industry coming out against Proposition 23", August 10, 2010
- ↑ [4]
- ↑ Appeal-Democrat, "Anti-AB32 measure rhetoric heating up", April 14, 2010
- ↑ Wall Street Journal, "Cleantech Braces For Assault Against California Greenhouse Law", May 10, 2010
- ↑ Cal-Access record of donations to Californians to Stop the Dirty Energy Proposition
- ↑ AOL News, "California Activists Urge Boycott of Valero Gas"
- ↑ 51.0 51.1 New York Times, "Jerry Brown Defends Embattled State Climate Law But Is Open to 'Adjustments'", April 30, 2010
- ↑ [5]
- ↑ New York Times, "Lead Economist for State Analysis Linked to Pro-Climate Law Campaign", April 21, 2010
- ↑ 54.0 54.1 54.2 54.3 Legislative Analyst's Office, "Letter of March 9, 2010 to Kevin De León"
- ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/24/opinion/la-oe-sweeney24-2010mar24
- ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/24/opinion/la-oe-sweeney24-2010mar24
- ↑ Orange County Register, "Our picks for the propositions", October 5, 2010
- ↑ North County Times, "EDITORIAL: Yes on Proposition 23--OUR VIEW: Economic recovery is single most important issue facing state", October 27, 2010
- ↑ Bakersfield Californian, "Keep up momentum, reject Proposition 23", October 6, 2010
- ↑ Contra Costa Times, "Voters should endorse cleaner energy by rejecting Proposition 23", September 5, 2010
- ↑ Fresno Bee, "State voters should reject Proposition 23", October 8, 2010
- ↑ Monterey Herald, "Proposition 23 just a bad ballot measure", October 8, 2010
- ↑ Lompoc Record, "Want cleaner air? Defeat Proposition 23", October 3, 2010
- ↑ Long Beach Press-Telegram, "No on Proposition 23", October 6, 2010
- ↑ Los Angeles Daily News, "No on Proposition 23: Proponents can't make a case for delaying emissions rules", September 19, 2010
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "No on 23", September 28, 2010
- ↑ Oakland Tribune, "Voters should endorse cleaner energy by rejecting Proposition 23", September 5, 2010
- ↑ Sacramento Bee. "Endorsements: Proposition 23 deserves to go down in disgrace.", September 27, 2010
- ↑ San Bernardino Sun, "No on Proposition 23", October 9, 2010
- ↑ San Diego Union Tribune, "No on Proposition 23", October 11, 2010
- ↑ San Francisco Chronicle, "Vote no on Proposition 23", September 27, 2010
- ↑ San Gabriel Valley Tribune, "Our View: No on Proposition 23; keep green future", October 4, 2010
- ↑ San Jose Mercury News. "Vote No on Proposition 23", August 22, 2010
- ↑ Santa Rosa Press Democrat, "No on 23", September 7, 2010
- ↑ Ventura County Star, "Reject Proposition 23 to clear the air", September 9, 2010
- ↑ Public Policy Institute of California, "In Big Shift, Californians Oppose Offshore Oil Drilling"
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "California poll: support for climate law, opposition to oil drilling", July 28, 2010
- ↑ Sacramento Bee, "Drive launched to derail state's greenhouse gas law", March 4, 2010
- ↑ Sacramento Bee, "Drive to suspend AB 32 will submit voter signatures Monday", April 30, 2010
- ↑ "Yes on Prop 23" campaign expenditures
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The state Division of Employment Security paid out an estimated $178 million more in unemployment benefits than it should have for the 12 months that ended in June, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
North Carolina's estimated rate of "improper payments" last year – 12.59 percent – actually was only a little more than a percentage point above the national average, the data shows, with 24 states performing worse. But the sheer volume of benefits collected by unemployed Tar Heel workers – a function of the state's persistently high unemployment date – adds up to big bucks.
The state paid out $1.43 billion in benefits for the 12 months that ended June 30. The improper payments calculated by the Labor Department totaled $179.4 million, but that sum includes $1.5 million in underpayments.
The improper payments for North Carolina and other states are estimates based on extrapolations of random audits of claims. Sample sizes ranged from 360 to 480 claims per state.
"Whether it's $179 or $179 million, it's too much," said Dale Folwell, the new head of the Division of Employment Security. "Any time there is waste, fraud and abuse, the trust people have in the system goes down."
Thursday was the first official day on the job for Folwell, a Republican and former House Speaker Pro Tem.
"If we're doing things within the agency that are rewarding people for the wrong behavior, that's going to stop," Folwell said. "We want policies in place that reward people for the right behavior and punish people for the wrong behavior."
Forty-two percent of the improper payments highlighted by the Labor Department were attributed to people continuing to claim and receive benefits after returning to work.
But it would be wrong to assume that means fraud, said John Quinterno of South by North Strategies, a Chapel Hill firm specializing in economic and social policy.
"If you look in the chart, the actual rate that they attribute to fraud is very, very small," he said. The Labor Department estimates that 3.84 percent of improper payments were the result of fraud.
"There are all sorts of reporting requirements," Quinterno said. "Sometimes the worker starts a job and doesn't report the change in status promptly enough. There can be a variety of reasons."
An additional 36 percent of the improper payments was the result of benefits that were paid to people who were subsequently disqualified from eligibility, which can happen when an employer sends inaccurate or tardy information or a ruling on eligibility is made on appeal.
"That you can say is very much on the employer," Quinterno said.
Quinterno also noted that the Department of Labor data shows that the state has implemented, or is on track to implement, steps that the federal government has recommended it take to reduce improper payments.
"The state is not sitting idly by," he said.
The Labor Department estimates that improper payments nationwide totaled $5.16 billion last year.
Indiana had the highest improper payment rate last year: 32.75 percent. Pennsylvania, which had a 23.6 percent improper payment rate, led the nation by paying an estimated $715.5 million more than it should have.
The Labor Department cautions that comparing states' "accuracy rates" for unemployment benefits may be misleading.
"No two states' written laws, regulations, and policies specifying eligibility conditions are identical, and differences in these conditions influence the potential for error," the Labor Department states. "States with stringent or complex provisions tend to have higher improper payment rates than those with simple, more straightforward provisions."
Although North Carolina's improper payment rate was significantly better than some states', it's been getting worse. The rate was 8.1 percent in 2010, 10.66 percent in 2011 and 12.59 percent in 2012.
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The annual Airline Quality Rating Report from researchers at Purdue University and Wichita State University, released Monday, found customers in 2012 giving the airline industry its second-highest quality rating in the survey's 23-year history, after 2011.
On every indicator in the survey (mishandled baggage, involuntary denied boarding, customer complaints and on-time arrival), United's ratings worsened from 2011 to 2012, in the context of a prolonged and painful merger with Continental Airlines.
Virgin America, conversely, reported outstanding numbers across all categories, with industry-best mishandled baggage rating and second-best involuntary denied boarding performance. It was also above average for its on-time arrival and customer complaints ratings.
To merit inclusion in the survey, airlines must have at least 1 percent of total domestic scheduled-service revenue for the year.
The full list of airlines, ranked best to worst. (Full survey breakdowns follow.)
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Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Supply Chain Bolt-ons: Investment and Usage by Manufacturers
2008, International Journal of Operations & Production Mgmt
C. Watts, V. Mabert, N. Hartman
Purpose – While past IT investment research has looked at a number of important factors, one issue that needs to be resolved in supply chain IT is the ability of different types of software to improve a firm's productivity or sales. Specifically, the purpose of this paper is to investigate which factors influence the number and types of supply chain bolt-ons systems that are used by companies to improve system functionality.
Design/methodology/approach – In total, 2,000 questionnaires and personalized cover letters were mailed to qualified individuals who were selected from APICS's active membership and employed in manufacturing firms in the USA and 187 useful responses (a 9.3 per cent return rate) were obtained.
Findings – The results were encouraging and they indicated the use of bolt-ons were most common in large firms, firms with defined plans and objectives, firms with existing ERP systems, and firms who believe that the application of best practices is of maximum importance. Most importantly, Bolt-on usage did not seem to be impacted by recent sales or productivity increases, but was instead a result of a critical need in the supply chain.
Research limitations/implications – This research used a single survey methodology and all measures were collected at single point in time. This may limit its generalizability to all time periods and conditions.
Practical implications – Investment in supply chain IT like all strategic initiatives does not end with its installation and implementation but requires continuous improvement. Bolt-ons seem to be one way firms customize their systems to optimize performance and develop a competitive advantage.
Originality/value – The paper employed a survey study approach to examine investments in Bolt-on technologies used to supplement and/or augment ERPs across a wide variety of companies. This is a particular novel research area because much of the existing ERP research has focused almost exclusively on ERP deployment and integration with other systems; while relatively little research has focused on those key Bolt-on systems that might be needed to enhance ERP systems once they have been installed.
Watts, Charles A., Vincent A. Mabert, and Nathan S. Hartman (2008), "Supply Chain Bolt-ons: Investment and Usage by Manufacturers," International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 28, No. 12, pp. 1219-1243.


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Refactor transformation of OQL to SQL queries (GSoC)
Table of contents:
- Refactor transformation of OQL to SQL queries (GSoC)
- Project description
- Uncommenting not working download links (C-3064)
- Testing and making oneself familiar with the application
- Increase of test coverage and improvement of tests
- Refactoring of SQLRelationLoader (C-3086)
- Refactoring of ClassMolder and SQLEngine
- Improve build-up of table and column hierarchy in InfoFactory
- Add field information to ColumnInfo class
- New QueryObjects for parsers
- CastorQLParseTreeWalker
- EJBQLParseTreeWalker
- Code cleanup
- Add test for all required features to TestCastorQLTreeWalker
- Author tag and license information in cpa package (C-3146)
- Recreate JDO and Advanced JDO documentation in DocBook format
- Create Test case for property changes in extends hierarchy
Project description
Student-programmer: Johannes Venzke
Mentor: Ralf Joachim
Uncommenting not working download links (C-3064)
First of all I uncommented some dead links at the download page of castor.
Testing and making oneself familiar with the application
I had an extensive session of testing. I ran through the tests in cpactf package and compared the results with the ODS Matrix (C-3075). Doing so I got a first expression about how the application works. Also I took a closer look at TestDefaultQueryVisitor, which deals with the persistence.sql.query classes to understand how they work. That is, what I'm going to include in the SQLRelationLoader. Tests 73 and 74 are also important for that.
Increase of test coverage and improvement of tests
Some tests missed CREATE or DROP scripts and I looked after it. Amongst other things I had the opportunity to get to run test39.TestStoredProcedure for the first time. The tests give validation for functionality of the whole program and I helped to increase coverage.
Refactoring of SQLRelationLoader (C-3086)
Use of persistence.sql.query classes to represent constructed queries
- This was a refactoring to use objects instead of strings, resulting in a more automated and easier to understand query.
Introduce CastorStatement and CastorConnection classes to handle query construction
- This refactoring had to do with the upper. The persistence.sql.query classes yielded a query, that is only compatible with Derby database. With the use of query visitors, the resulted queries get independant from the database used.
Use ColumnInfos instead of SQLColumnInfo to bind parameters
- The SQLEngine and SQLRelationLoader classes had a complex mechanism to retrieve information about column names, types and convertors, used to serve operations on many to many relations. The TableInfo class already holded the table hierarchy with all information about columns (ColumnInfo). This functionality is now used by SQLEngine and SQLRelationLoader.
Refactoring of ClassMolder and SQLEngine
Move SQL-related function of ClassMolder to SQLEngine. The creation of SQLRelationLoader has already been moved to SQLEngine with CASTOR-3087.
As a first step the move to SQLEngine was completed and improved by also moving "if statement" for many table decision and saving a parameter.
After that SQLRelationLoader retrieves all information in a newly created class called RelationTableInfo. This class is used as it represents the relation table and holds information about left and right foreign keys needed by SQLRelationLoader (CASTOR-3096). No other parameter is needed and no other procedure in SQLEngine. This is a way more elegant way to bind parameters. I had this in mind with CASTOR-3089, but the TableLink class has disappeared in the development process. It hasn't displayed n-to-n relation tables well.
Improve build-up of table and column hierarchy in InfoFactory
InfoFactory didn't create ColumnInfos well. Types and convertors were missing in some cases. This was fixed with C-3095 and C-3100.
Add field information to ColumnInfo class
After a lot of time has elapsed trying to replace the old column retrieval procedure for SQLRelationLoader in SQLEngine, it has turned out, that the information that was presently stored in ColumnInfo wasn't sufficient to find proper RelationTableInfo. That is to say we needed to add an additional field that stores the name of field in mapping to match correctly the field name of the stored foreign reference with the field name of the field descriptor.
This progress is included in the patch of CASTOR-3096.
New QueryObjects for parsers
Objects are used to represent a SQL tree and real queries are generated automatically out of the tree structure. Refactorings of old code are being done to make process more extensible and easier to understand.
CastorParameter objects were added, that deal with parameters of the form "... WHERE $1 = 1000" and "$(int)2 = 5" to make the new CastorQLParser backward compatible (C-3117). These objects plus the following are the foundation of parsers to work well.
As a next step new QueryObjects should get created, that could represent queries with COUNT aggregation functions and translate it to simple SQL. We canceled this job in favor of the more important GSoC projects.
Old Lexer and Parser should be replaced with new ones. This new Parser, CastorQLParser, is in the starting blocks.
There were only problems of two kinds, that hindered them to be used:
- CastorParameters Parameters of the form "... WHERE $(int)1 = 1000" in conditions and even "... WHERE $1 = 1000" leaded to a ParseException or respectively a ArrayOutOfBoundsException. Ralf and I disabled the use of identifiers with "$" in it - as it is in the old parser - to allow the parser to detect CastorParameters well. After that I improved the logic of the ParseTreeWalker, that different parameter statements don't lead to no Exception any more (C-3117).
- ORDER BY and LIMIT I fixed bugs at parsing of ORDER BY and LIMIT statements with C-3153
There is one problem left, which has to be solved before the new parser can be activcated:
- COUNT All kinds of COUNT aggregation functions were unsupported by the Parsers before. Castor-3118 deals with that problem. We didn't finish the development for the favor of GSoC projects that were more important.
To approach this, I first added some Tests to TestCastorQLParseTreeWalker and to be able to view the current state of success.
The EJBQLParser should be brought to run. There is only one desired functionality that isn't supported at the moment. This is the simple COUNT aggregation function.
A test was added to TestEJBQLParseTreeWalker to show current state of query support. We didn't continue the development.
Code cleanup
Meanwhile I'm going to resolve Checkstyle warnings in the cpa packages. Did it with CASTOR-3110. Also with CASTOR-3112.
Add test for all required features to TestCastorQLTreeWalker
Tests are needed to validate all existing functionality of existing parser. As recently as the CastorQLParser supports all constructs that the old one supported, it will be used instead of the old one.
I first created graphics that visualise the possible queries. Then I created tests for LIMIT and ORDER BY clause in C-3129.
Ralf did the remaining tests.
Author tag and license information in cpa package (C-3146)
I had a look at all classes in org.castor.cpa package (except the classes in driver package) and created an result table as an overview what has to be done.
- I checked if they have an author tag given. Then I added author tags where authors were given in license part.
- And I checked if they are declared under Apache license. After that I added license information to classes where information was missing. I also added authors so that authors given in license part and author tags match.
- I added delimiters. This is just to improve the visual appearance of the classes.
- I finally added version tags where they were missing.
Recreate JDO and Advanced JDO documentation in DocBook format
I created the JDO documentation in DocBook format.
First I took the old pages and replaced tags that are functional same with the new ones.
Examples are:
<emphasis role="bold">
The sections needed further adaptation and needed all an "id" for links and so.

Sometimes I also needed to rearrange the structure of the document to fit for DocBook.
Some tags also disappeared as there is no DocBook correspondent like

I had to change some tags as the functionality isn't supported by DocBook.
<api package="package">class</api>
The old api tag produced a link to the javaDoc reference. The new one only highlights the class.
Create Test case for property changes in extends hierarchy
There was a bug, that no fields of an extended table got stored. I created a test case in C-3183 that showed the bug.


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October 13, 2013
PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) — An eastern Kentucky disability lawyer is denying accusations that he collaborated with a former West Virginia judge to improperly award disability benefits.
Reports say attorney Eric C. Conn denied wrongdoing in a statement sent out by his law office, which is located in Stanville near the West Virginia border.
The accusations against him were in a report released Monday by congressional investigators. It accused him of scheming with retired administrative law Judge David B. Daugherty to approve more than 1,800 disability cases from 2006 to 2010.
"By 2011, Mr. Conn and Judge Daugherty had collaborated on a scheme that enabled the judge to approve, in assembly-line fashion, hundreds of clients for disability benefits using manufactured medical evidence," said the report by the staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Conn declined to answer questions during a Senate hearing, asserting his constitutional right against self-incrimination. Daugherty left the hearing before being called to testify.
The statement from Conn details his long law career.
"I have practiced Social Security disability law for 20 years," he said. "I have advertised extensively and represented every claimant to the best of my ability. When changes in the law occurred, I studied those changes in an effort to better represent the people who put their faith in me. I have served my clients with honor and dignity. While I am not now at liberty, on the advice of counsel, to fully address all of the accusations against me, in due course, the truth will be forthcoming. For now, I request that public judgment be withheld until all the facts are known."


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backport175 has been designed to work in highly dynamic environment (such as load-time and runtime weaving for AOP). In environments like this the bytecode on disk is not the "current" one being executed. Since the bytecode has been transformed during the execution of the application. What this means is that annotations can have been added or removed.
We therefore need two things:
- a way for the vendor/user to define a bytecode provider since the current one is not available on disk
- an API for refreshing/updating the annotation reader, so we know that the annotations we have reflects the annotation in the latest bytecode
All these operation should be fully thread-safe, if not, then we have a bug.
Defining the bytecode provider
This is done by implementing the
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Registering the bytecode provider
The bytecode provider implementation class is registered in the
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If no bytecode provider is registered then a default one that uses
getResourceAsStream(), e.g. reads in the bytecode from disk, is used.
It is also possible to set a bytecode provider on a per class basis, which can be usefull in some circumstances.
Refer to the API documentation for more details.
Refreshing the annotation reader
When a change to the bytecode has been made it is needed to refresh the annotation reader, so that it can pull the new bytecode from the
BytecodeProvider, parse it and update the reader with the new information about the annotations.
This is done by invoking one of the
refresh(..) methods in the
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Research and Publications
Journal Articles
Clicks, Discontinuities, and Firm Demand Online
2009, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
Michael R. Baye, Rupert Gatti, Paul Kattuman, John Morgan
We exploit a unique dataset from a price comparison site to estimate the determinants of clicks received by online retailers. We find that a firm enjoys a 60% jump in its clicks when it offers the lowest price at the site, and failure to account for discontinuities distorts parameter estimates by nearly 100%. This discontinuity is consistent with a variety of models that have been used to rationalize online price dispersion. Finally, we show that one may use estimates of the determinants of a firm's clicks to obtain bounds on its underlying demand parameters, including standard elasticities of demand.
Michael R. Baye, J. Rupert Gatti, Paul Kattuman, and John Morgan, "Clicks, Discontinuities, and Firm Demand Online," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Winter 2009), pp. 935-975.


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Next generation of reactors will be built at Sellafield and Heysham, the Government announced today as it pushes ahead with plans for new nuclear power plants.
In the first major announcement on the future of nuclear in the UK since the Fukushima disaster in Japan, the Government outlined the locations deemed suitable for new power stations by 2025, all of which are adjacent to existing nuclear sites.
The eight sites are: Bradwell, Essex; Hartlepool; Heysham, Lancashire; Hinkley Point, Somerset; Oldbury, South Gloucestershire; Sellafield, Cumbria; Sizewell, Suffolk; and Wylfa, Anglesey.
The plans for new nuclear power plants are part of a series of national policy statements on energy which were published today, following a public consultation.
They will be debated and voted on in Parliament, but ministers are hopeful that, with a pro-nuclear majority in the Commons, they will win the argument.
Nuclear power is one of the issues that divided Conservatives and Liberal Democrats when they entered Government together, with the coalition deal allowing a Lib Dem spokesman to speak out against any new nuclear plants, while Lib Dem MPs could abstain on the issue.
Lib Dem Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has since given his backing to new reactors, insisting they would not be subsidised by the taxpayer - although MPs have warned that reform of the electricity market could favour nuclear power and amount to a hidden subsidy.
The Government is planning the new suite of reactors to maintain electricity supplies and cut greenhouse gas emissions as an old generation of power stations is shut down.
The future of nuclear as a power source for countries around the world was called into question earlier this year after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami rocked the reactors at Fukushima, leaving radioactivity leaking from the plant.
Mr Huhne signalled last month that plans for new reactors in the UK were on track after an initial report on Fukushima from nuclear chief inspector Mike Weightman ruled out the need to curtail the operation of nuclear power stations in the UK in light of the situation in Japan.
The energy policy statements aim to provide a framework for making planning decisions so projects do not face "unnecessary hold-ups".
They set out the need for billions of pounds of investment in new energy sources, including 33 gigawatts of renewable power - the equivalent of thousands of offshore wind turbines - to meet the UK's future needs.
Energy minister Charles Hendry said: "Around a quarter of the UK's generating capacity is due to close by the end of this decade. We need to replace this with secure, low carbon, affordable energy.
"This will require over £100 billion worth of investment in electricity generation alone.
"This means twice as much investment in energy infrastructure in this decade as was achieved in the last decade.
"Industry needs as much certainty as possible to make such big investments.
"These plans set out our energy need to help guide the planning process, so that if acceptable proposals come forward in appropriate places, they will not face unnecessary hold-ups."
He said the coalition Government was determined to make the UK attractive to investors to ensure that the country had secure, affordable, low-carbon energy.
MORE than 10,000 people flocked to Crooklands at the weekend to celebrate quality local produce.
Country Fest — organised by Westmorland Agricultural Society — showcased the finest food and drink the area has to offer.
Independent food and drink producers and suppliers, who give the region its culinary reputation, tempted the senses at the County Showfield and gave visitors an insight into where their food comes from.
The family event also included a pets' corner, 'meet the farmer', sheep shearing demonstrations, music and dance, a 'grow your own' area, crafts, beer festival, trade stands and dog shows.
Sheep dog trials were a new addition this year and The Westmorland Gazette hosted a wedding fair.
Richard and Barbara Mathews, from Kendal, were impressed with the range of items on sale and stocked up on locally-produced pies.
"We have such a wide variety of food here," said Mr Mathews.
"We have got a lot of farmers who are extending what they do into other products and we like to support them."
Tommy Brady, also from Lancaster, said: "The amount of food that is available is amazing. There are umpteen different types of sausage and pies — you want to buy it all."
Christine Knipe, chief executive of Westmorland Agricultural Society, said: "The sunshine did bring people out on the Sunday and it was very busy.
"The feedback was positive."
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A practical guide for Maven 2 users
Not so long ago on the users mailing list, someone complained Maven 2 documentation was the "worst documentation in the whole Apache projects". I am writting this tutorial as an attempt at making Maven 2 one of the best documentation in the whole Apache projects. This tutorial is split in several trails of different level wich are adressing specific aspect of Maven 2 use.
Trails covering Maven 2 Basics :
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