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As uberhackz team, all group members are university students, Ric2x, Devica, Aravind, Sic-o and Anasuya. Aravind, the only girl member of group searches for the game which people want hacks most. Devica and i prepares layouts for hacks. Sic-o codes the hack and checks its stability. And lastly Anasuya promotes hacks.
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We know you appreciate our desicion about surveys. Please dont forget there is no premium things and we dont any donation.
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Technically the oldest of the Six Flags franchises, the former Riverside Amusement Park was purchased by the amusement park giant in 1996 on the site of a recreational park that opened in the 1840s. Children of all ages can enjoy the free concerts and rides, including the Superman: Ride of Steel and Batman: The Ride, or the ultra-modern Typhoon water coaster. If old fashioned coasters are more your thing, the Cyclone, one of the largest wooden rollercoaster in the world. If stomach-turning rides are your favorite, then visit the new Skyscreamer, a swing ride that will dangle your legs 400 feet up and spin you around. Little ones will enjoy the Warner Brothers characters and Thomas the Tank Engine Town. Around Halloween, guests flock here from all over New England to enjoy one of the biggest scary sites in town at Fright Fest. Check website for varying hours.
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Starting a Childcare Centre
This guide examines possible steps to take and issues to consider when starting a childcare centre in Canada. Prepared by Canada Business, this document describes licence, permit and registration requirements that apply to a childcare centre. The extent to which the information will apply to you will depend on the details of your project.
Because this document is only meant as a guide, Canada Business service centres will not accept responsibility for business decisions made based on the information provided.
For more information on individual topics identified herein, contact your local Canada Business network service centre.
Before proceeding, reference should be made to the Alberta Business Start-up Info-Guide for complete information applicable to all types of business. Check out our Small Business Webinars: BizStart Webinar Series 1: MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS
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According to Human Resources and Social Development Canada's research on the childcare industry, 330 000 individuals, mainly women, provide childcare for a living in Canada. Most caregivers are relatively young (45% are under 30 years of age) and are well educated (55% have completed post-secondary education).
In contrast to other services in the health, education, and social and human services fields, childcare is not provided as an essential public service. Only a few childcare services are operated as commercial enterprises or by incorporated non-profit* organizations.
Over half of Canadian children were in some form of childcare by 2000/01 and a quarter of them were in a daycare centre, according to a new analysis. The proportion of children aged six months to five years who were in childcare increased significantly between 1994/95 and 2000/01. In addition, during this six-year period, a shift occurred in the type of main childcare arrangement used.
Social / Demographic
Trends in birth rates, immigration patterns, ethnic composition of the labour force, and the labour force participation rates of women all play a role in determining who will need and be likely to use childcare.
While the rate of population growth is slowing (primarily due to constant fertility rates), immigration levels have been rising and now account a significant proportion of Canada's population growth.
Much of the increase in demand for childcare over the last 25 years has been driven by the rising participation of women with young children, in the workforce. This trend, however, is not expected to continue at the same rate, and thus demand for childcare is expected to grow steadily but more slowly than in the past three decades. There also appears to be increasing demand for more flexible, part-time childcare, but few services are available to meet this need.
Types of Operation
North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) codes: 6244, 62441 and 624410 - NAICS for Child Day-Care Services
This industry group is made up of establishments primarily engaged in providing daycare services for infants or children. These establishments may care for older children when they are not in school and may also offer pre-kindergarten educational programs.
- baby-sitting (self-employed caregivers)
- nanny service (live-in or out, work in home of employer)
- daycare centres
- pre-kindergarten (except when part of elementary school system)
- preschool centres (except when part of elementary school system)
Home-based caregivers comprise the bulk of the childcare workforce, representing about 85% of all providers. The remaining 15% of the workforce provides care in early childhood centres and nursery schools, including school-aged care.
A childcare business can easily be started in your home with just a few weeks of planning and a modest amount of start-up cash. A commercially-located center takes a greater investment of time, energy and money. The size and type of business you choose will depend on your start-up resources and goals for the future. Many childcare providers are satisfied with a one-person operation in their home that generates a comfortable income while allowing them to do work they enjoy (and possibly even care for their own children). Others may start at home and eventually move to a commercial site as the business grows. Still others begin in commercial locations and are either content with one site or have plans to expand.
Specialty Operations
- Aboriginal Head Start
Aboriginal Head Start provides comprehensive experiences for First Nations, Métis and Inuit children up to 6 years of age and their families, with primary emphasis on preschoolers, 3-5 years of age. The program is based on caring, creativity and pride following from the knowledge of their traditional community beliefs, within a holistic and safe environment.
- Children with Special Needs
An additional assistance may be required because the child has a physical, visual or auditory disability, or if the child has developmental, communication, behaviour or a chronic medical problems.
- Promoting Breastfeeding
Some mothers may want to benefit from childcare services while still providing their baby with breastmilk. A specialized daycare may have private, quiet sitting rooms where a mother can breastfeed the child. Such a centre could also promote breastfeeding and pumping techniques or simply establish an open attitude that will ease mothers. Information about breastfeeding is readily available, for example, you might wish to start by visiting the Breastfeeding Committee for Canada or the INFACT Canada Web sites.
Whatever type of childcare centre you choose to operate, keep in mind that the basics of your work will be caring for someone else's children. This involves a lot of responsibility and a serious commitment. When the children are in your custody, you are responsible for their safety and well-being. What more, you'll play a key role in their overall development and may well be someone they'll remember their whole lives.
Choosing Your Location
Choosing the right location for your business is important. Considerations include the needs of your business, the location of your customers and competitors, and such things as taxes, zoning restrictions, noise and the environment. For most businesses, an appropriate location is critical.
One area of rules and regulations that all new businesses must comply with is that of licences, permits and regulations. When creating a business, you must contact the municipality involved, along with the provincial and federal governments.
Each municipal government has the authority to issue its own business licences within its jurisdiction. Since there is no uniformity throughout the country regarding municipal licences for businesses, you should consult with the appropriate local officials to determine whether your business will be affected by local regulations and licensing requirements. Businesses (including home-based businesses) must also meet the zoning by-laws that control property uses in their municipalities.
Provincial governments are responsible for:
- determining what childcare services are regulated (Child Care Licensing);
- monitoring those regulations; and
- determining the type and amount of funding for childcare services.
In keeping with the broader public policy moving towards privatization and targeting of public funds, provincial governments, have generally been moving away from co-ordinated childcare policies and programs, making childcare more of a private responsibility.
Examples of licences, permits and regulations that could apply when starting a childcare centre may include, but are not limited to:
- municipal business licence
- building permit
- fire safety standards or regulations
- health regulations and requirements
- Protection of Personal Information - Your Responsibilities
- smoking regulations
- zoning by-laws
You can get permit, licence and regulation information by contacting your province/territory, local city hall, town or village office or rural municipal office. Contacts for local, Provincial/Territorial and federal governments can be found in the government listings of your telephone directory or on the Canada.ca Web site.
Get help navigating provincial regulations.
Provincial regulations control issues like how you treat your employees and customers, care for the environment, and pay taxes. Connect with our Senior Business Advisors who will help you cut the red tape so you can get down to business. Contact a Business Advisor via email or by calling 1-844-422-7705.
BizPaL - Business Permits & Licences provides Canadian businesses with one-stop access to permit and licence information from all levels of government. This online service is offered by Industry Canada in partnership with provincial, territorial, and municipal governments. Please note that BizPaL is not available for all provinces and all cities.
Market Research
Successful businesses have extensive knowledge about their customers and their competitors. Acquiring accurate and specific information about your customers and competitors is a critical first step in market investigation and development of a marketing plan.
In developing a marketing plan, your primary functions are to understand the needs and desires of your customer, select or develop a product or service that will meet customer needs, develop promotional material that will make the customer aware and ensure product or service delivery.
Training and Development
Many post-secondary institutions deliver early childhood education (ECE) programs in Canada. In addition to certificate, diploma, and degree programs, some institutions offer related credit and non-credit programs for those already offering childcare. It is important to note that childcare centres often hire caregivers with qualifications beyond provincial / territorial minimum requirements.
Selecting Professional Services
The use of professional services is essential to the success of a small business. Professionals provide knowledge and expertise in the areas where you may have little. They round out your management team to ensure your business is operating efficiently.
As an entrepreneur, there are four main areas of professional services with which you may consult:
- lawyer (contact a lawyer about legal issues);
- insurance broker;
- accountant; and
- banker (for tips and pointers on dealing with your bank, see the document Dealing With Your Banker & Other Lenders).
A good record keeping system should be simple to use, easy to understand, reliable, accurate, consistent and designed to provide information on a timely basis.
The legal requirements concerning financial records specify only that they be a permanent, accurate and complete record of your daily income and expenses.
Examples of types of record books and bookkeeping systems:
double entry bookkeeping;
- commercial bookkeeping systems;
- one-write systems;
- computerized systems; and
- single entry bookkeeping.
Benefits and Income Tax Return
If you run a daycare in your home, you may be able to deduct business expenses from the income reported on your income tax return. Canada Revenue Agency's easy to understand guide to Using Your Home for Day Care explains whether you can claim expenses, what expenses you can claim, your responsibilities as an employer, and the importance of keeping good records.
Setting Up a Pay System
Pay administration is a management function that helps you control personnel cost, increase employee morale, and reduce workforce turnover.
Insurance needs for businesses vary greatly. It is best to choose an insurance agent or broker familiar with your size of business and, in particular, an agent familiar with your type of operation. If you don't have an insurance agent, it could be a wise decision to ask other business owners in your area to recommend one.
The following list will remind you not to overlook the complex areas of business insurance. It is best, however, to discuss your specific requirements with your insurance agent.
Basic insurance:
- fire insurance (extended coverage on buildings and contents);
- liability insurance;
- burglary protection (theft coverage).
Furnishings and Equipment
Before you open your early childcare centre, you need rest mats; kids tables and chairs; adult chairs; shelves; storage units and book cases. You need to have a variety of outdoor toys; indoor toys and games; toys for large motor development; toys for small motor development and educational toys. You must also have unbreakable dishes of a suitable size; colourful and stimulating environment, but also a calm environment area for nap time or for more relaxing activities.
The fee you receive, the size, specialization and kind of service will determine the type of equipment you require. For assistance in this area, you may get the advice of a sales representative or consult trade publications and manufacturers' Web sites.
Consider buying used equipment as a cost-saving measure. Sources of used equipment include an early childcare centre that is closing or dealers in second-hand equipment. The drawback to this approach is that, often, there are no guarantees with the purchase.
Word-of-mouth advertising and good public relations are often the best ways of promoting an early childcare centre. Depending on your market and its size, also consider flyers, newspapers, radio, TV, the business pages of the telephone book and the Internet. Also bear in mind that a satisfied customer is good advertising. Participating in community events is another way of advertising your early childcare centre -- the more people know you and appreciate you, the more they'll be sending business your way. However, this should be the by-product of genuine interest in the community.
A Web site should have details to describe the location (business address, telephone and fax numbers, and directions on how to get to your centre), hours of operation, and anything else that may be of interest to potential customers. However, once you launch a Web site, you must update it on a regular basis. You may want to consider registering with Internet childcare services directories.
The Online Small Business Workshop - Marketing Basics covers the basics from developing your customer profile to promoting your business.
The federal Competition Act governs misleading advertising and deceptive marketing practices for all businesses in Canada. The Act defines which marketing practices are illegal and the process of a complaint investigation.
For more information, visit the Competition Bureau Website.
For more information regarding advertising and marketing, see the following documents:
Check out our Learning @ The Link Small Business Webinars
You can find additional information on managing your operations, by viewing the Canada Business index of Popular Business Topics.
This checklist will help you ensure you have covered everything.
- Type of centre: Where will you operate? Home, commercial location or home of client?
- Location: Does the location have parking? A park nearby? A school?
- Market: Is there a need for your service in the area?
- Legal requirements: Have you checked on zoning, fire safety and other legal requirements?
- Health and safety issues: Have you written down your action plan for emergencies? Have you read-up on health and safety issues (toys, food, stairs etc.)?
- Licensing: Do you have your licences and permits yet? From what organization must you get them?
- Training and certification: What types of training/certification do you need/want/have?
- Staffing: Know the required staff-to-child ratios. If you plan to hire people, you should have human resources policies.
- Financial issues: How much money must you invest? Can you borrow money?
- Insurance: What coverage do you need to adequately protect yourself, the children in your care, the centre and its contents?
- Programs: Have you prepared your program for games, activities, outings, discipline, meals, etc.
- Equipment: What equipment, toys, articles and food do you need? Where will you get it, and how much will it cost?
- Links: What community and professional resources are available to you?
Although only 20% of caregivers in centre-based programs are members of unions, unions have played a large role in advocating for increased public investment in childcare.
In Canada, caregivers are not required to affiliate with professional organizations, although about 5% do. Several national and provincial childcare associations are taking steps to increase the level of professionalism in the field, although the issue is a contentious one as some see it as placing too much emphasis on knowledge, rather than valuing the caring and nurturing practices in the sector.
Examples of associations include, but are not limited to:
- Canadian Child Care Federation 1-800-858-1412
- Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada 613-594-3196
Additional resources which may help early childcare business owners include, but are not limited to:
You may find books, magazines and other relevant print material at any Canada Business service centre and/or business service organizations in your community that provide Canada Business information. Contact the Canada Business service centre in your region for the location nearest you.
- Contracts/forms -ready to go and customizable contracts and other forms are available for a fee from the private industry
Related Web Sites
- Canada's Universal Child Care Plan - the official site for the national plan that provides choice, support and spaces for today's parents.
- Childcare Resource and Research Unit - focuses on early childhood care and education research and policy.
- Child Care Online (Canada) - offers a wealth of information and allows for online shopping.
- Public Safety Canada - Preparing for Emergencies and Disasters.
- Toy Safety Tips - although toys are regulated for safety in Canada under the Hazardous Products Act, this site helps you gain awareness of risks that can be associated with toys or their use, so you can further protect a child.
Check with your local library, the major chartered banks, your local Chamber of Commerce, educational institutions and business development organizations — some of which offer courses, seminars and workshops. Also, take advantage of our seasonal Guest Advisor program (1-800-272-9675) offered by the Business Link.
Licences, Permits and Regulations - Human Resources and Social Development Canada
Training and Development - Human Resources and Social Development Canada
Furnishings and Equipment - information gathered from various private sector Web sites and associations
*Note: "non-profit" also known as nonprofit organizations, non profit organizations, not-for-profit organizations, voluntary organizations and volunteer organizations.
Information contained in this document is of a general nature only and is not intended to constitute advice for any specific fact situation. Users concerned about the reliability of the information should consult directly with the source, or seek legal counsel.


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Monday, April 20, 2009
Hardball Heroes: Harold Baines
Harold Baines is the owner of 2866 hits, 488 doubles, 384 homeruns, 1299 runs, 1628 rbi, .289 batting average, .820 OPS, and a 6 time all-star. I understand that is not quite Cooperstown worthy, especially coupled with the fact that he was a horrible fielding outfielder that spent most of his career DH'ing, but those are some pretty damn impressive totals. All-time ranks: 18th games played, 31st plate appearances, 40th hits, 33rd total bases, 53rd homeruns, 57th doubles, and 28th rbi. In 31 postseason games: .324 average, .888 OPS, 5 hr, 16 rbi. The former 1st overall pick of the 1977 draft by the Chicago White Sox spent 22 seasons in the majors with the ChiSox, Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, and Cleveland Indians.
Since his playing days he's been honored with a bronze statue outside of U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago. He's currently the first base coach for his beloved White Sox. Fun facts: was discovered as a Little League player at the age of 12 by Whitesox owner Bill Veek, who signed him 6 years later. Every January 9th is Harold Baines Day in St. Michaels, Maryland, where he was born, raised, and still resides today.
Past Hardball Hereos inductees: Bert Blyleven and Dale Murphy.
Harold Movie Trailer
9 comments:
- GM-Carson said...
That afro is a thing of beauty!
- April 20, 2009 9:14 AM
- FatGirl said...
I think you should grow an afro, GM
- April 20, 2009 9:30 AM
- GM-Carson said...
With my balding whiteboy hair?
- April 20, 2009 11:17 AM
- tamtam said...
nice :)
- April 20, 2009 1:46 PM
- GM-Carson said...
TamTam- being the ChiSox gal you are, I figured you'd appreciated the Baines tribute.
- April 20, 2009 2:23 PM
- YouGabSports said...
Baines was always a model of how a player should be. Quiet, productive, and professional. As much as the Hall Of Fame says they consider those qualities, unfortunately it won't get him on those merits alone.
- April 20, 2009 7:36 PM
- tamtam said...
@ gm carson:
and i do :D. too bad he was playing baseball before i was born, but he's a good coach
- April 20, 2009 10:35 PM
- Burton said...
A good coach. Shit I am getting old...
- April 24, 2009 9:58 PM
- I LOVE YOU said...
- February 18, 2010 12:15 AM


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She credits Jane Birkin as her style icon so it comes as no surprise to see Alexa Chung styled up like the Sixties star in her latest modelling campaign.
Vero Moda has treated Grazia Daily to the exclusive first look at their Autumn Winter 2012 offering, which sees the Brit stunner posing up a storm with her chocolatey-brown tresses and shaggy fringe in all their hipster glory.
Shot in London, the images were inspired by that covetable Birkin look and the Swinging Sixties vibe of our capital city, making Alexa the perfect girl for the job. You'll remember we last saw her getting Sixties-tastic for Maje in an array of dreamy black and white shots, also inspired by the French film star.
Chungers showcases the Danish high street brand's latest collection which features those classic retro shapes and cuts from houndstooth print trousers and boucle knits to a cocoon-shaped coat, high-waisted shorts and a white broderie anglaise shirt.
In celebration, we had a few fashioney questions for Lady Chung...
Grazia Daily: Which of this season's trends are you most attracted to?
Alexa Chung: I don't believe in trends. I'm drawn to things I love and have my own perennial choices. For example, mini-dress, mannish shirts, black skinny jeans and ankle boots.
Grazia Daily: Is there a specific feeling or look you like to channel when styling yourself?
Alexa Chung: These are the people who inspire me: Keith Richards, Anita Pallenburg, George Harrison, Kurt Cobain, Marianne Faithful, Alice in Wonderland, Minnie Mouse, Grayson Perry.
Grazia Daily: You have mentioned you are going to style Vero Moda's flapper dress with boots and opaque tights, but how would you dress it up?
Alexa Chung: I usually don't go for dressing things up as I like to dress things down, hence the boots and opaques which would be very simple. But if i were to dress up the flapper dress it would be with a statement cocktail ring, ballet pumps and a ribbon in my hair.
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Towards Practical Heterogeneous Teams
|Paul Scerri
|Carnegie Mellon University
Notice: hosted by Regis Vincent
Date: 1957-05-11 at 11:00
Location: EJ228 (Directions)
The process of taking well developed theories of teamwork and creating large, practical, heterogeneous teams has revealed new challenges requiring novel solutions. In this talk, I will discuss some of the challenges and the solutions we have developed. Specifically, I will focus on the use of *tokens* as an abstraction for scalable and robust coordination algorithms. Tokens encapsulate both information and control, thus allowing agents to make local decisions that are likely to lead to good global behavior. A key to many of our scalable coordination algorithms is that locally improbable events become highly likely on a large scale. These algorithms often use orders of magnitude less communication than optimal approaches while performing almost as well. I will also discuss some of the additional algorithms, e.g., meta-reasoning, that are useful for practical environments. Finally, I will describe applications of the approach to a variety of projects and open issues raised by specific projects.
Paul Scerri is a Systems Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. Since 1997, when his RoboCup football simulation team won a game at the first world championships, Paul has been dedicated to building bigger and better teams (because his team also lost two games and he is very competitive). Currently, much of his focus is on heterogeneous teams with a mixture of robots, agents and people. His thesis work, conducted at Linkoping University and USC, and post-doctoral work at USC, looked specifically at how humans and agents can flexibly work together, transferring control in a way that maximizes overall team reward. Since then, he has been trying to make bigger and bigger teams for a variety of domains. Most recently Paul has been building heterogeneous teams of unmanned aerial vehicles which isnt half as much fun as RoboCup soccer, but uses many of the same algorithms and makes for some really cool demos.
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« American: Limited Options, Pain Likely »
Many readers have let me know that they are not as encouraged about the financial prospects of American Airlines with its massive aircraft order as I was in this piece. After all, the folks at AMR have problems beyond an ancient fleet, including an anemic revenue performance relative to the industry, high labor costs and all the other economic misery inflicted on many airlines in the past ten years.
I believe that AA's aging fleet contributes some to the competitive disadvantage it suffers, and bright, shiny, fuel-efficient new planes will help impress customers and cut fuel and maintenance costs. But what comes next?
Anxious analysts point to the fact that the price of oil impacts everyone, yet AA's performance lags quarter after quarter. And there's seemingly no significant movement yet in the airline's labor negotiations, despite years at the bargaining table. With contract costs higher than anyone else in the industry, the company wants more productivity and smarter work rules in exchange for enhancements. All the while the unions have dug in either thinking or pretending that their righteous indignation will somehow turn the global economy and thus the industry around and recoup for labor all of losses in recent years.
American is one of the few carriers out there that didn't turn to bankruptcy to shed some of these costs. In bankruptcy you cannot restructure the price of oil, but you can shed the leases of the least desirable aircraft, work with creditors to reduce debt and make changes to the labor agreements. But bankruptcy is probably not a realistic option now.
This is not 2002 with the shadow of 9/11 cast over the proceedings. This is not 2005 when the price of oil began its march upward and served as a catalyst for the bankruptcy filings of Northwest and Delta on the same day.
No it is 2011, 10 years past the date that the country would like to forget. Now, many airlines are flush with cash and don't have the liquidity scares that were present when others filed. Many U.S. airlines are making money or at the very least are cash positive, despite jet fuel prices at the equivalent of a barrel of oil at $130.
American, however, is on the wrong end of the industry today and some smart people question whether it will survive to see it's much talked about long-term plans take wing.
So, let's assume that Avondale Partners' airline analyst Bob McAdoo was right in his May 16, 2011 analysis that American simply needs to shed capacity. McAdoo cited US Airways as an example, where new management culled 20 percent of jet capacity. But what he did not figure in is the likely relief American would need from its pilots union to make that kind of correction possible. More on that later.
American still relies on its regional partners to fly 37 and 44 seat jets because they are part of the pilot contract's "scope" equation that determines the number of larger regional jets American can fly. A 20 percent reduction in flying, much of it on long haul wide body routes flown by senior crews, would likely result in a furlough of up to another 1,500 pilots. But American can't do that either because of the same contract provisions that say American cannot drop below 7,200 pilots on the active roster. And that doesn't even take into consideration what the other union groups may have in their contracts that prevent the company from making the kind of changes that may be necessary to save the airline.
So what choice does American Airlines have? Cutting that much capacity will be extremely painful for employees, and could put at least an additional 11,000 other American Airlines workers on the furlough list and in the unemployment line. Cutting that much capacity would also redraw American's network and route structure as we know it, giving its competitors greater strength in some cities and markets where American's presence would dwindle or disappear.
McAdoo's analysis calls for American to pull down certain Chicago to London flying; cut flights to Buenos Aires from multiple AA gateways; eliminate service to India; reduce by half the flights from Chicago to China; and trim transcon service between JFK, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
McAdoo also challenges American's "Cornerstone Strategy." In addition to flying a money-losing route between London Heathrow and Los Angeles, American is building its LAX presence using those inefficient, small regional jet aircraft. The same is true at Chicago and New York JFK. In McAdoo's view, Chicago is too dependent on connecting traffic at fares that are not compensatory. Further he claims that in many instances, Chicago and Dallas/Ft Worth compete for many of same passengers connecting to points east and west and internationally and therefore are redundant service.
Maybe it is time to de-emphasize LAX because the mix of traffic makes profitability difficult. Maybe it is time to pull out of O'Hare because de-leveraging a hub is tricky particularly with an aggressive United hubbing in the same market. Honestly, the only real big bang [removing fixed costs] American may have left is to massacre a hub like Chicago the way US Airways did to Pittsburgh and Delta did to Dallas/Ft. Worth. The bigger the hub takedown, the bigger the fixed cost savings.
As for New York, American is now third in the market behind Continental at Newark and Delta at JFK and offers less connecting service than does Delta at JFK. American's relationship with jetBlue was supposed to address some of these competitive disadvantages but, as McAdoo points out, one can look a long time before finding many jetBlue to American connections in the various distribution systems.
In the local New York market, AMR's revenue per seat mile is underperforming when compared to peers at JFK and Newark. Maybe it is time for American to pull out of JFK except for some select Trans-Atlantic flying, select transcon flying, and turn the rest of the region's feed over the jetBlue. But oneworld is depending on American to make New York the best market it can be for the alliance so this would be harder to do. In fact with more 70-seat aircraft American could actually become more competitive there. That would, again, depend on the pilot union's willingness to do the right thing.
There is no doubt that a 20 percent cut in capacity would cause significant pain at American, even if it might be absolutely necessary to address the airline's structural problems. But what if the cuts go even deeper? What will be the impact on necessary American Eagle capacity that American has contracted for in the new Air Services Agreement? If there is no Eagle feed, then there is no need for many mainline aircraft now dependent on the flow from points of all sizes behind and beyond the hub. The virtuous circle spirals downward.
At that point, American's Cornerstone Strategy will be more about Dallas/Ft Worth, Miami and a little New York JFK and Los Angeles. And the labor savings will come simply by cutting headcount.
To be clear, McAdoo says very clearly that labor costs are not the main driver of American's weak results. "Stopping the long haul bleeding has more direct leverage than trying to offset the losses by squeezing labor," he said. But in this scenario, labor is a large component of the fixed costs shed.
And on a strict profitability analysis, McAdoo may be right. But contractual restrictions like pilot scope clauses – and American's pilot scope clause is the most restrictive of network carriers – hamstring the company from making necessary tactical and strategic decisions. It is pretty clear that that American would not be flying as many mainline 136-seat aircraft today if it were able to utilize 70 seat aircraft like its competitors. If that were the case, we may not be having this discussion. And American Eagle would certainly not be flying 37 and 44 seat configurations in today's fuel environment if not for the mainline pilot scope clause.
These small aircraft, "scope busters" to their critics, are used for many reasons and in this case they are used to average down the seat size of the regional fleet so that larger aircraft can be flown. By the way, the competition flies 70-seat aircraft at will, primarily with the borders of the contiguous United States. They can compete on frequency because they have right sized aircraft. American does not. Remember CALite?
Those who suggest that there is no labor problem at American should look no farther than the pilot agreement. Among other common-sense adjustments, either American needs relief from that scope agreement in order that it can compete on equal footing with its domestic peers and provide the U.S. network feed to its oneworld partners that they demand, or the Allied Pilots Association needs to negotiate a regional-like contract for domestic flying as the A319s are delivered. I wrote about these two options in March 2010 when I asked: Mainline Pilot Scope: Will Regional Carriers Be Permitted to Fly 90+ Seat Aircraft?
It is unlikely that management at other airlines are going to make any deals that drive up their own labor costs only to have to go back and ask for relief later.
So there is not likely going to be the kind of labor cost convergence American hopes for in this round of negotiations; therefore, American may still have a labor cost disadvantage relative to the industry, particularly on productivity and benefits and scope. This coupled with continuing economic challenges and pressure from investors and analysts will necessarily limit the extent to which American can sweeten its contract proposals to buy labor peace. Purchasing labor peace only exacerbates the Ft. Worth carrier's problems.
By all appearances, even the National Mediation Board recognizes that American does not have the money to satisfy the inflated demands of the unions that seem unwilling to discuss anything that smacks of a concession.
The upshot is that the unions at American may want to think hard about a draw-a-line-in-the-sand strategy that has done nothing but contribute to the airline's under-performance. The contracts have to be part of an overall plan to get American out of the financial doldrums if the company is going to be able to execute the kind of financial and operational maneuvering that is absolutely necessary to win back the hearts and minds of the investment community – let alone customers and alliance partners.
A failure to make strategic, forward-looking agreements at the negotiations table now could have ramifications well beyond the individual contracts. And there's not a lot of time to waste in the process. With limited options, the structural changes will prove painful.


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Jesse Jackson Jr. Is Behind Door #5
Who is Senate Candidate 5? That was one of the biggest questions that arose after yesterday's arrest of Illinois Governor and four-time Gary Cole lookalike contest winner Rod Blagojevich, and ABC New says we now have an answer.
Chicago Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., is the anonymous "Senate Candidate No. 5" whose emissaries Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich reportedly offered up to $1 million to name him to the U.S. Senate, federal law enforcement sources tell ABC News.
According to the FBI affidavit in the case, Blagojevich "stated he might be able to cut a deal with Senate Candidate 5 that provided Rod Blagojevich" with something "tangible up front."
I, for one, think this is an outrage. Jesse Jackson Jr. is a good and honorable man who would never do anything untoward. Why, I'd stake this big sack of cash I was just given on it.
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Jesse Jackson, Jr. Will Be Waiting in the Senate, In Case Anyone's Looking to Appoint Him to Anything
Hey, Governor Rod Blagojevich (D-IL)? Sorry to bother you, sir, but I just ran into Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. and he just wants you to know… just in case… that if you need him for anything, ya know, like, to appoint him as Barack Obama's replacement or whatever… well, he's just going to be waiting over there, sir. Okay?
Yeah, I mean right over there. In the Senate…
Minutes after the Senate opened at noon Monday for its lame-duck session, the only lawmaker milling around the second-floor elevator banks was… Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.).
Though Jackson is a leading candidate to replace President-elect Barack Obama in the Senate, Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich has yet to make his appointment.
So what was Jackson doing on the wrong side of the Capitol?
"MSNBC," he said, explaining he had a TV appearance on the Senate side.
Nevertheless, it did seem Jackson was walking more slowly, checking out the Senate hallways, imagining what it might be like for him should he be tapped to fill the seat.
In other news, Sen. Hillary Clinton is going to take lunch over at the State Department today, in case Barack Obama is looking for her or anything.
And Larry Craig is going to go use the bathroom right now. Just in case… ya know… you might have to as well?
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U.S. Senate Purged of African-Americans
Here's a head-scratcher for you.
Last night, voters across America widely cast aside past racial differences and voted for an African-American president. Pretty amazing and transcendent, right?
Well, what if I told you that because of that incredible victory, the voters have ensured that the United States Senate, the greatest deliberative body in the world, will have no African-American members. Zero. Nada.
See, Barack Obama was not just the only black person running for president. He was the only black person in the entire Senate. And he was just the third black Senator elected in the last century!
When Obama resigns his seat (which will surely be in the coming weeks, to give his successor a leg up in seniority over other freshman senators), Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich will appoint a replacement. Previously, we told you that Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. is jockeying hard for the seat. But don't count on the governor to pick him.
After all, he needs to follow the will of the voters: no black Senators.
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Jesse Jackson Jr. Begins Salivating
And you thought that Barack Obama was getting presumptuous in his race for the White House. You should see the guy looking to take over his current job as U.S. Senator from Illinois — Jesse Jackson, Jr.!
It seems that Jackson, Jr. is assuming that Obama will win the presidency and vacate his Senate seat, and he is eagerly maneuvering to replace him.
If Obama does vacate his seat, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (a Democrat) would name his successor. There are a number of Illinois Democrats who would certainly be up for consideration, including Representatives Rahm Emanuel and Jan Schakowsky. Blagojevich has not commented on the matter, and needless to say a President Obama would be pretty influential in making the decision as well.
To his credit, Jackson, Jr. has an amazing number of details in common with Obama when he won his Senate seat in 2004, including…
* 43 years old.
* African-American.
* Distant, preoccupied father.
* Popular elected official representing Chicago's South Side.
* Problems with being associated with a controversial preacher.
Now all that Jackson, Jr. really needs to do to fully fill Obama's shoes is to obliterate a carpet-bagging Alan Keyes in an election, appear dozens of times on the cover of Rolling Stone, and be threatened with castration by Jesse Jackson, Sr.
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The Parbuckling Project
Concordia wreck removal project informative website
Baseline survey (University la Sapienza)
Bionomic cartography of the sea bottom
This is one of the key elements of the project, with the aim of protecting the priority habitats in the area represented by the Posidonia meadows and coral formations. Characterisation involves the acquisition of geo-referenced information used to produce detailed cartography of the benthonic population in 1:1000 scale. 1:5000 cartography will provide information about the wider area bordering on the project area. Multibeam and Side Scan surveys will be used to characterise the morphology of the sea bottom by means of sonograms interpreted by sector experts and supplemented with the data gathered by video control surveys performed by ROVs and divers in the areas identified. Data on sandy bottom benthonic components will be acquired by direct bucket sampling to identify the characteristic elements of the biocoenoses present. A particle size analysis will complete the study of the characteristics of the sea bottom. The survey by Multibeam RESON Seabat 7125, performed from 30 June to 7 July, produced detailed bathymetric data both in the specific area and around the entire east coast of the island. Data is already available for the specific area and processing is underway for the wider area. The survey by EDGETECH 4125P Sonar Side Scan was performed from 8 to 12 July and the data is now being processed. Surveys using an ENNE Elettronica underwater video camera began on 7 July and are still underway. Of the total 27 crossings planned for the specific area (30 meters apart), 23 have been completed.
Study of Posidonia oceanica
Surveys undertaken by divers to gather detailed information about the condition of the Posidonia meadows were performed on 3 July and have so far covered the area of the sea bottom between the wreck and the coast. To date 15 dives have been made which, together with the surveys mentioned previously, have provided lots of detailed information about the meadows (Posidonia coverage and density) in the area between the wreck and the port to the south, and between the wreck and Cala Cupa to the north. In the area close to the wreck, two balise control stations have been positioned near the lower edge. Six more stations will be completed in the coming days. Also in the coming days, samples will be taken and control balises positioned in accordance with the Water Framework Directive (WDF 2000/60 CE) for the calculation of the PREI (Posidonia oceanica Rapid Easy Index) in 3 pre-established stations. In the wider area, measurement stations will be positioned and further dives performed in locations based on the results of the SSS and MultiBean survey. In various points of the wider area, control dives have already been performed to check on the condition of the meadows compared with the situation observed near the wreck. The biological material needed to perform lepidochronological studies on the Posidonia will be gathered over the coming days and analysis will begin immediately afterwards.
Characterisation of sensitive habitats: Coral
The sites studied to characterise the coral in the specific area have been identified because of their precise location in relation to the position of the Concordia. The surveys were performed along the two rocky ridges that drop down steeply from the point in which the ship is now resting. The surveys were performed by a professional diver/operator equipped with a rebreather and HD video camera, from 10 to 14 July, along 5 pre-established routes (Fig. 1). The video recordings made it possible to record the characteristics or each site (depth, species present, etc.) and to take photographs inside a standard-sized area (50 x 37 cm) to define the species present and estimate the percentage coverage. Video recordings were made to a depth of 80 m. Inside the wider area, the recordings will document the actual state of populations at increasingly distant sites from the Concordia, based on the results of the morpho-bathymetric surveys currently being processed.
Benthonic sampling of sandy bottoms for fauna characterisation and biocoenotic identification
The samples used to characterise the sandy bottom were taken from 3 to 7 July in 30 stations at depths of between 10 and 90 m. The results, expected in mid-August, will provide additional information to map the sandy bottom populations present.
Surveys to define macroalgal populations in the intertidal zone
Surveys to characterise macroalgal populations in the intertidal zone around the island will be performed on 17 and 18 July.
Particle size characterisation of sandy bottoms
Samples to characterise the sediments were taken concurrently with sandy bottom benthonic population samples, in 30 stations, from 3 to 7 July.
Study of currents and suspended sediments
Preliminary investigations of the currents and the dynamics of suspended sediments were performed from 28 June to 1 July in a measurement campaign using a vertical acoustic current profiler with Doppler V-ADXCP effect.
In parallel, the waters were characterised by a CTD probe to measure parameters including T, salinity, dissolved oxygen and alpha chlorophyll.
In the same period 6 sediment traps were positioned on the sea bottom around the Concordia to measure the sedimentation rate before the start of work.
This data will be used to create a mathematical model of the water circulation to determine possible preferential sediment re-suspension paths.
1:1,000 mapping of the information gathered so far about the two priority habitats (Posidonia and coral) and the other biocoenoses identified in the specific area is nearing completion and will be concluded on schedule by the end of July.
The general framework of the geographical software (ArcGis 9.3) has been developed and implementation work will continue with the addition of new information as it becomes available.
Plankton population
The plankton population was sampled in 6 stations at 2 different depths from 3 to 7 July as planned.
Fish populations
Surveys to characterise fish populations using a visual census performed by divers will begin on 16 July.
So far as commercial fish are concerned, surveys began on 10 July on the fleet of small fishing boats based in Giglio Port. The information gathered includes species caught, yield and operating method used by the island's trawling and small-scale fishing operations.
Characterisation of the marine mammal species present and identification of the background sound level
Background noise measurements were performed by means of a survey using underwater hydrophones over a period of 24 hours, with measurements taken at an increasing distance from the coast, from 27 to 30 June.
Processing this data will make it possible to develop a noise dissipation model that will be used to define the size of a safety area and the noise threshold above which behavioural disturbances may be caused in marine mammals.
At the present time the study of marine mammals in the area is being conducted on a bibliographic basis, for the description of available knowledge about the populations present.
Study of Pinna nobilis
This phase focuses on the presence of specimens of Pinna Nobilis on the sea bottom around the wreck of the Concordia, particularly inside the Posidonia meadow. A first examination of the data reveals a high density of these molluscs throughout the wreck area.
Study of alien species
Sightings of alien species, and Caulerpa genus seaweed in particular (Caulerpa taxifolia e C. racemosa), are recorded during all activities involving divers and ROV surveys.


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