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Report: FAA Hasn't Done Enough to Ensure Safety Concerns Are Investigated
By Dave Michaels, The Dallas Morning News
Jul. 2–WASHINGTON — Federal aviation regulators haven't done enough to ensure that its inspectors' allegations of safety problems will be fully investigated, even after this year's highly publicized failings at Southwest Airlines, according to a new government report.
The U.S. Department of Transportation's inspector general recommended Wednesday that regulators establish an independent watchdog within the Federal Aviation Administration to investigate inspectors' safety concerns.
In an audit released Wednesday, the inspector general urged that FAA do more than set up a system that allows inspectors to directly report safety concerns to top officials.
That system "merely adds one more process to an already existing internal reporting process … that is unequivocally ineffective and possibly even biased against resolving root causes of serious safety lapses," according to the inspector general's report.
The inspector general began its review after congressional investigators, acting on information supplied by Dallas-area whistle-blowers, identified serious safety lapses in the maintenance program of Southwest Airlines.
The whistle-blowers reported that they tried to raise concerns about Southwest's maintenance program, but were blocked from further investigating by Dallas-area FAA managers who had become too cozy with the carrier, according to federal investigators.
The FAA fined the Dallas carrier $10.2 million in March for violations that included flying jets that should have been grounded for crucial safety inspections. Five jets were found to have fuselage cracks that should have been repaired much earlier.
The FAA later removed several of its own officials who failed to enforce the agency's regulations. One of the managers has since retired, and two more remain on paid leave.
The FAA announced other changes after fining Southwest, including a revolving-door policy that prohibits FAA inspectors from going to work for an airline they previously regulated.
The inspector general further recommended that FAA rotate inspectors between assignments, to guard against regulators becoming too close with airlines. The FAA didn't agree with that recommendation, according to the inspector general's report.
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20 November 2013 15:26 [Source: ICIS news]
DUBAI (ICIS)--Europe's polymer demand is expected to improve next year in tandem with the regional economies, a senior industry executive said on Wednesday.
Demand in Italy has already started to pick up, said Thomas Endres, CEO of MB Barter & Trading, a Switzerland-based company that distributes and trades 1.3-1.5m tonnes of polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) globally.
Polymer distributors in Europe have experienced thin margins for most of this year because of weak demand, as several regional economies slowed down or slipped into recessions, Endres said.
He was speaking to ICIS at the sidelines of the 8th annual Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals (GPCA) Forum.
More than 65% of the polymers handled by MB Barter goes to Europe, said Endres.
The PE and PP trade flows to Europe would change after the region raises the import duty on Middle Eastern cargoes from 3% to 6.5% in January 2014, he said.
More PE and PP cargoes would flow from South Korea and Thailand as a result, he said.
PE and PP from South Korea are exempted from import duty in Europe, and that from Thailand are subject to a 2% duty rate.
The GPCA 2013 Forum will end on 21 November.
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"If all goes well, finish in the top 25 of the general" is the goal it has set for the next edition of the Spanish Dakar Laia Sanz, the highest ranked woman (39 th) in the motorcycle category in the 2011.
Sanz has landed tonight at the El Prat airport from South American soil with a smile and with his mind set on next season, where he will participate in the toughest race of the year.
"Everybody said that the Dakar hooked and, frankly, is engaging. It is a very tough race, but I do not know if it's the landscapes, the friends you make there or the atmosphere created, but you just delighted" has recognized.
He began this adventure with the sole aim of ending, "but I saw a few days later and I ran to get the best result possible," he explained.
"Much of the credit," as she herself acknowledges, is Jordi Arcarons, an old fox,''''of returning to Dakar to make of''competition''backpacker. "He has touched go back and eat dust, but support has always been important to me soul," he stressed.
Today about thirty people, including relatives and friends were waiting at the airport to embrace, "a surprise" that was not expected. "Especially because during the Dakar I could not talk too much with mine, because there are not running when you are sleeping or resting," he stated.
Laia Sanz has been nine times European champions and ten of the world in the mode of trial, but in Dakar where he discovered its limits.
"It's a physically tough race, the penultimate day besides me a bit dehydrated (his''bag''camel ran out of water) and ran with cramps throughout the body. So when you reach the end of the last stage and I saw my whole team there waiting, I broke with emotion to mourn, "said the Barcelona, the next year wants to relive that feeling
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First thanks for this amazing tools.
Very powerfull with a lovely classic interface.
I have a question about environment processing.
Is it possible to "concatenate" or substitute environment variables into another environment variable ?
to create a sort of dynamic attribution and resolution and if yes what is the syntax ?
Here is my example:
windows.systemfolder.x86 = %SystemRoot%\System32\ windows.systemfolder.x64 = %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\ computer.processor.architecture = %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% windows.systemfolder.current = %windows.systemfolder.%computer.processor.architecture%% windows.version = %windows.systemfolder.current%ntddl.dll?Version
Also depending on the current computer architecture systemfolder will dynamically be attributed.
- windows.systemfolder.current does not work as i have a variable into another variable.
- windows.version works great if I specify windows.systemfolder.x86 value for windows.systemfolder.current
Thanks in advance for your reply.
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