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One of the top Joint Strike Fighter officials outlined the arguments he will present Wednesday to OSD's Program Analysis and Evaluation office, the Joint Evaluation Team, and the Cost Improvement and Analysis Group about why the program is not an additional two years behind schedule.
Dan Crowley, F-35 executive vice president and program manager for the Joint Strike fighter, told reporters after the roll out of the plane's carrier version that the Joint Evaluation Team had identified four areas that posed threats to the program's manufacturing; schedule and cost: personnel retention; software; and ...
The JET report found that the JSF program faced a likely delay of two years, Crowley said. Lockheed had manufacturing issues under control, while the JET had based it analysis "largely on legacy results" such as how the F-18 and other planes have fared in construction, Crowley said.
The second issue the JET identified is the kind of thing only a major defense program might suffer from -- how to intelligently and economically shed the 4,000 engineers who have made the program possible in the first place. Crowley said JSF should be able to shed half of those jobs by the end of the year and absorb ma...
One of the most ticklish issues facing the program is software development, according to the JET. Crowley said the program's software development "has been better than planned" in contrast to the JET's estimate that it would grow substantially. He pointed to the fact that, although the program is in the early stages of...
Finally, the issue that probably means the most in terms of pushing the program out of its scheduled envelope, is flight testing. The program projects 12 sorties a month but the JET thinks this is probably too optimistic, Crowley said.
Boil all this down and Crowley said he believes the JET is judging JSF by the false standards of past programs because they don't have data from programs managed as JSF is being developed and managed. They are being conservative, in effect, because they don't how else to be until the JSF program proves them wrong.
We'll see who's right and whether JET, PA and E and the CAIG believe the Joint Strike Fighter Program is flying the right course.
Full disclosure: Lockheed flew me and a small group of journalists down to Fort Worth and paid for us to stay in a hotel.
NEW DELHI, Sept 8 (PTI) The nine-Judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, adjudicating the presidential reference, today made it clear it was not going to "review or reconsider" the 1993 apex court judgement laying down the guidelines for the appointment of judges and their transfers.
The Union of India through Attorney-General Soli Sorabjee assured the Bench headed by Mr Justice A.S. Anand that it would abide by "letter and spirit" the Benchs opinion on the reference raising nine doubts over the consultation process regarding the appointment of Judges.
When the Bench said, "Hope the government will abide by our opinion, Mr Sorabjee assured "whatever the nine-Judge Bench says, whether advisory or not, will be binding on the government."
The Bench said as the apex courts 1993 judgement laying down guidelines regarding the appointment of Judges to the Supreme Court and Chief Justices and Judges to various high courts had become the law of the land, it "will neither review nor reconsider the judgement but consider the reference in the light of the judge...
"However, if any grey area emerged during the hearing of the presidential reference, the court will make an earnest effort to clarify it," the Bench observed. The final hearing on the reference would commence on September 15.
Mr Sorabjee informed the court all confidential documents pertaining to the consultation process for appointment of judges, which formed the core of the present controversy, had been submitted in sealed cover to the court.
The 1993 judgement, on a petition filed by the Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association (SCARA), gave primacy to the opinion of the Chief Justice of India formed in consultation with two seniormost judges of the apex court in regard to appointment of Judges and their transfers.
The Bench said, "All that is needed is to answer these (nine) questions (referred to the court by the President under Article 143 of the Constitution) in the light of the 1993 judgement and if any grey area emerges that is to be considered."
Of a whopping 18 intervention applications filed by various organisations and individuals, the court allowed only the Bar Association of India (BAI), the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBAL), the Committee on Judicial Accountability (COJA) and advocate R.K. Singh (latter two being petitioner in a separate case pertain...
The Bench asked all others including Common Cause, to approach either the BAI or the SCBA with their pleadings and points to facilitate bringing of those to the courts notice.
The Bench had earlier issued notices to Advocate-Generals of all states and union territories, the SCARA and Registrars of high courts for filing of written submissions.
Watch a replay of the Friday Feb. 20, 2015, Link Live, Argus Leader Media's weekly live original music show. This week Chris Champion plays and talks with host Jay Kirschenmann about music.
REPLAY: Singer/songwriter Chris Champion played original songs on Link Live Friday at Carnaval Brazilian Grill.
Champion has been playing guitar and teaching for more than 40 years. He studied classical guitar starting at age 7, and at 15 discovered the finger style of guitarist Leo Kottke and later Larry Carlton.
He studied at guitarist Randy Buzzelli's Guitar Institute of Technology -- now Musicians Institute -- and studied jazz at Arizona State University.
He played in bands, and from 1997 to 2008 was the jazz guitar teacher at Arizona State. Champion relocated to South Dakota and is involved with the music scene in Sioux Falls.
Under this arrangement, districts are no longer insulated from the city’s social, civic, and economic sectors.
Given the high level of interest at the local, state, and federal levels in mayoral control of public schools, it is important to understand the organizing principles of mayoral accountability, and especially its effects on district performance.
Our 2007 book, The Education Mayor: Improving America’s Schools, is the most comprehensive study to date of mayoral-appointed school boards. Combining empirical analysis of performance measures from 1999 to 2003 with case studies of mayoral-led school districts, we examined all of the large urban school districts whose...
Using this comprehensive research design, we found that mayors can improve not only student performance, but management efficiency, financial stability, and public confidence as well. In this research-review article, we present some of the major findings of that study and also provide new information on more-recent tre...
Mayoral accountability as a governance strategy recognizes that for many big-city school districts, the fragmented power structure of traditional school board governance has been a barrier to systemwide reform. By placing control of the school district squarely in the mayor’s hands, the mayor’s electoral fate becomes t...
In this new institutional arrangement, districts are no longer insulated from the city’s social, civic, and economic sectors. The “education mayor” bridges those sectors, and public education is seen as a core component in improving the city’s quality of life as well as its long-term economic growth. By bridging multip...
Several big-city districts employ a mayoral-accountability governance structure. These include Boston; Chicago; Cleveland; the District of Columbia; Harrisburg, Pa.; New Haven, Conn.; New York City; and Providence, R.I. Baltimore and Philadelphia are jointly governed by the mayor and the governor. Suggesting a trend to...
Mayoral accountability is most prominently visible in the regular municipal electoral cycle. Because more voters go to the polls to vote in mayoral elections as compared to traditional school board contests, the school system is held accountable by a wider swath of the city’s electorate. These voters, in turn, assess s...
With formal authority over the school system, how do mayors perform? Rather than look at each district individually, we decided to conduct a national analysis aimed at making generalizations about the governance structure itself, not just the effects of a single mayor. Our research design, in which we standardized and ...
Public satisfaction with the New York City pubic schools has doubled since the introduction of mayoral control. Student performance on state assessments has also risen during that period.
Our analysis found that mayor-led school systems post systematically higher test scores in reading and mathematics at the elementary and secondary levels, even after statistically controlling for previous achievement and many demographic-background variables. Our results suggest that the intervention of education-mayor...
While the magnitude of this change will not likely move the district above the state mean immediately, these improvements are nonetheless significant. It is especially important to keep in mind that these are systemwide improvements. For instance, in a school district like Chicago, with roughly 240,000 elementary stude...
Moreover, these gains are not found only among a city’s strongest schools. A promising effect of mayoral accountability lies in the academic improvement of the district’s lowest-performing schools, such as the lowest-quartile schools. These schools serve higher concentrations of students eligible for free and reduced-p...
Cities with a strong form of mayoral control—an “education mayor” with the authority to appoint a majority of school board members—show consistently stronger gains in student achievement on state assessments relative to other large urban school systems. Improvements in student proficiency associated with strong mayoral...
Notes: This analysis is drawn from a national database of 104 large urban school districts from 40 states, each of which has a unique state assessment system. In order to gauge the impact of mayoral control across states, it was necessary to convert test scores to a common metric—standard deviations—that indicates how ...
Despite these structural challenges, lowest-quartile schools in mayor-controlled districts show steady progress in the percentage of students who tested as proficient on state assessments from 1999 to 2003. For example, the lowest-25th percentile schools in Baltimore improved in 3rd grade reading from 5.6 percent profi...
Our analysis suggests that mayoral control is less effective in narrowing the achievement gap between schools in the top and bottom achievement quartiles. Further, an absence of checks and balances (such as the lack of a school board nominating commission) was found to have mixed effects on student performance between ...
At the same time, we believe that an in-depth analysis of a sample of mayoral-control districts will provide descriptively rich evidence on what works under what governing circumstances.
Our research suggests that two of the factors leading to mayoral success are improvements in financial management and resource allocation. Mayors, conscious of the need to spend taxpayer dollars as efficiently as possible, have strengthened school district bottom lines. Analysis of over 10 years of district-level finan...
Mayoral control also broadens the human-capital pipeline at both the system and the school levels. In the central office, administrators in budgeting, operations, facilities, and management are drawn from multiple sectors. For example, 40 percent of the newly recruited managerial staff in Chicago during the first two y...
Often mayors have turned to a diverse set of educational service providers at the operational level—for instance, contracting out the lowest-performing schools to education management organizations. To improve principal and teacher quality, mayors actively partner with alternative programs, including New Leaders for Ne...
Wong, Kenneth K., Francis X. Shen, Dorothea Anagnostopoulos, & Stacey Rutledge. The Education Mayor: Improving America’s Schools. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2007.
Joseph Viteritti (ed.). When Mayors Take Charge: School Governance in the City. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2009.
Henig, Jeffrey R. & Wilbur C. Rich (eds.). Mayors in the Middle: Politics, Race, and Mayoral Control of Urban Schools. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Another gauge of mayoral success is public confidence in the city school system. While data limitations prevent us from conducting the same sort of cross-district analysis we did for achievement, the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute provides us with a unique perspective on public-opinion trends on the subject of...
Specifically, we can examine the trend in voter satisfaction with the schools, as compared to achievement trends in the New York City public schools. Although the data are only correlational, they certainly suggest that New Yorkers’ positive views of the city schools have tracked improved performance following mayoral ...
In New York, where the state legislature first gave Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg control over the city’s schools in 2002, satisfaction levels with mayoral control have shown gains. Responding to the question “Do you think Mayor Bloomberg’s takeover of the public schools has been a success or failure?,” voters have shown ...
The Obama administration’s enthusiastic support of mayoral control, combined with growing momentum for mayoral involvement at the city and state levels, suggests that we may well be entering a nationwide paradigm shift for the governance of urban education.
In the past 15 years, a new breed of education mayor has emerged to challenge the traditional governance model of school districts insulated from the rest of municipal service delivery. Unwilling to sit on the sidelines as their cities’ schools continue to fail, these mayors have set an example that President Barack Ob...
The Education Mayor and other recent studies suggest that the president’s advocacy of increased mayoral accountability is on the right track. Districts successfully governed by mayors can expect improved student performance and better management. But research also suggests that successful governance will require mayors...
Mayors cannot do it alone. But mayors can be the prime movers in developing a citywide partnership to turn around urban school performance.
RESEARCH PERSPECTIVE: This essay and the accompanying charts and graphs were commissioned for this report from Kenneth K. Wong, who holds the Walter and Leonore Annenberg chair for education policy and is chairman of the education department at Brown University, and Francis X. Shen, a postdoctoral fellow at the Univers...
There are just a few hours left until firework celebrations in Boston begin.
Tonight, Boston Town Football Club host their fireworks display at the DWB Stadium, Tattershall Road.
Gates open at 6.30pm and the bonfire is lit at 7pm. There will be refreshments available.
Admission is £3 for adults, and £2 for children.
Boston United Football Club also hold their event tonight at The Jakemans Stadium, York Street.
There is pre-display entertainment, and hot food and drinks are available between 6pm and 8pm.
Admission is £6 for adults, £4 children under 16, and £16 for families. For enquiries, call 01205 364406.
Tomorrow, Boston Rugby Club fireworks will be at Princess Royal Sports Arena, Great Fen Road.
Gates open at 6pm, and there is a bar, barbecue, ride and live band.
Babies in pushchairs or in arms are free, adult admission is £5 and for children is £3. There is strictly no sparklers.
On Monday, Donington hos ts its fireworks night at Donington Community Centre.
Doors open at 6pm, and there are refreshments and a bar until fireworks after 7pm.
Entry is £5 per adult accompanied with a child, and under 12s are free admission.
Donington Fire Station will be assisting with the firework display.
The Twentieth Biennial Report of the Kansas State Board ofAgriculture was published in 1917. The very first chapter was dedicated to the topic of Rural Welfare and began withan article by George E. Putnam, Associate Professor of Economics in Lawrence, Kansas.�He devoted the first twenty pages to the topic of Farm Tenan...
The concern of farm tenancy was a front-burner issue of the day.� His report was a rather extensive document of the percent of land ownership, versus rented lands. Coupled with those numbers was an equally thorough examination of the overall evils of tenant farming, and its impact on rural communities.�In those early d...
He further stated "A new factor is being introduced into the agricultural situation through the development of huge estates, owned by corporations and operated by salaried managers upon a purely industrial system."� The tenant was seldom equipped for cultivatinga large farm intensively.� The tenant could cultivate a la...
In a short period of time, World War I would shift the focus away from the tenancy issue.� A multitude of economic woes developed in the 1920's, which lead to the Great Depression of the 1930's.
Nearly a hundred years ago, our predecessors combated "the evils of farm tenancy" and the daily struggles of life on the farm, with their own creativity and ingenuity.� They did not buy most things they needed.� They created them.� They" built" their farms and ranches, from the ground, up. They were also organized as a...
Farmers today are blessed with many gifts, manifested in multiple ways. We have an inherent understanding that 'making a living' ismore than making money.� It is imperative that we strive to maintain a balance between the many tools that technology allows us, and taking 'ownership' of our responsibility to the land, ou...
Barbara Stevens Hammond, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stevens Hammond Jr. of Branford, Conn., was married yesterday to Newton Carlson Schoenly Jr., the son of Mr. Schoenly, a Presbyterian minister, and the late Mrs. Schoenly of Hanover, Mass. The Rev. Everitt L. Fullam performed the ceremony at the First Congregati...
Mrs. Schoenly until recently was dean of students at Wells College and was formerly an admissions officer and assistant to the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She graduated from the Foote School, the Day Prospect Hill School and Middlebury College and received a master's degree i...
Mr. Schoenly is the president of the Charter Oak Service Corporation, a support service concern in Vernon, Conn. He graduated from the Thayer Academy and Eastern Nazarene College of Boston.
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Everyone seems to be working on a smartwatch right now. Now, Forbes reports that Microsoft is working on a device too—which plays nicely with the mobile operating systems of its competitors.
The report cites "multiple sources with knowledge of the company's plans" who claim that Microsoft is working on a sensor-rich smartwatch which syncs with with iOS, Android and Windows Phone. The device is said to "continuously measure heart rate through the day and night" and feature a battery that "will last for two ...
The report goes on to explain that "the watch will look similar to the Samsung Gear Fit and feature a full-color touch screen about the size of half a stick of gum, positioned on the inside of the wearer's wrist." Which sounds a bit weird, but according to the sources that screen placement is designed to make it easier...
Apparently a team of "engineers from Microsoft's Kinect division, designers and data scientists" have been working on the software for the new device that will "correlate data from the device's sensors." What it will do with all that data isn't clear, though.
Government loans for small businesses are often the only way many small businesses can secure funding.
Most businesses and start-up companies need capital to fund new product or service development, buy equipment or hire new employees in advance of an anticipated business expansion. The Small Business Administration (SBA) backs loans that are made to small businesses by banks. Government-backed loans are often convenien...
Establish your credit worthiness to qualify for a government funded loan for your small business. This is similar to getting a personal loan from a bank. If your credit rating is poor, work with your creditors to establish a payment plan. Then, make sure you perform on the plan and do not miss payments. Typically, you ...
Get to know your local banker. SBA loans are administered through the banking system. The SBA does not make the loan directly to a small business; rather, it guarantees the loan should you be unable to repay it to your bank. In the application process you will deal with your bank exclusively. If you know your banker on...
Determine which loan program is appropriate for your business. The SBA has different loan programs for different business needs. For example, the 7(a) Loan Program, the SBA's most popular program, allows loans up to $750,000 for working capital, asset purchases and leasehold improvements, but it insists that those with...
Fill out the application. The length of the application and the business and financial details needed differ from SBA loan type to loan type. The important thing is to fill out the application honestly and to provide any additional information such as business plans and financial statements at the time of your applicat...
Keep in touch with your lender during the application process. While the SBA strives to serve small businesses efficiently through its various loan programs, it does not hurt to keep in touch with your banker on a regular basis. She can find out if your application is missing information and then alert you so you can s...
Develop a close relationship with your banker.
A thoughtful and well-conceived business plan helps your lender to understand your business.
Be honest in your application and financial data.
The SBA cannot force the lender to provide the loan even with an SBA guaranty. Your business should meet not only the SBA's requirements, but the lender's as well, to help ensure the loan.
Nielsen, Lisa. "How to Get a Government Funded Small Business Loan." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/government-funded-small-business-loan-1979.html. Accessed 21 April 2019.

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