6:30pm – Currently I’m in GNV sitting on a broken airplane. We got down here with no problems, but now things seemed to have spiraled out of control.

As soon as we open the door to deplane the gate agent asks when I’ll be ready to board again because apparently they want to get these people out of here. We only have 19 passengers so I asked for five minutes.

Everyone gets on and gets settled, but we’re still not even fueled, and the fueler is busy with another plane, so we wait. ATC has given us a window of 10-12 minutes past the hour to get off the ground before we have to wait on another slot; the flight deck clock says nine minutes past and we’ve not even been fueled.  I’m not too sure we’ll make that window.

After a few minutes we have our 6,500 pounds of Jet A fuel and the captain tells me I’m clear to close the door. I press the door assist button, and wouldn’t you know the thing doesn’t work. I’ve been in this spot before, but it doesn’t make it any more pleasant, not at all. In addition to a main cabin door that won’t close, the galley service door is showing as open. That problem is identified as a circuit breaker that keeps popping out.

The captain gets on the horn with maintenance, and they end up sending a contract maintenance guy out. He takes 45 minutes to arrive. Right now, I’m just drinking hot chocolate hoping we cancel, because a pilot that I met earlier today will be down here to overnight, and she’s got great freckles and pretty eyes.

I’ll update as news breaks.

7:20pm – Update: The guy came, and it was a quick fix. Something about a wire in the cargo hold that “popped” and deactivated all the door sensors causing them to go inop.  At least we didn’t have some aircraft safety guru trying to tell me we failed our safety inspection this time.

We were supposed to overnight in CHA, but now we spend the night in CLT when we get back. That’s fine with me. I don’t get to see the cute pilot, but I do get to drink cheap beer and get paid for a flight I’ll never work. Rum all ’round!

US Airways Airbus A330-323X N275AY (msn 370) CLT, originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.

US Airways (Phoenix) will start a new spoke route from the Charlotte hub to Rome with Airbus A330-300s on May 13, 2010.

Copyright Photo: Bruce Drum.

US Airways Airbus A321-211 N195UW (msn 3633) CLT, originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.

US Airways’ (Phoenix) pilots, represented by The US Airline Pilots Association (USAPA), announced yesterday (November 30) that it is seeking a full investigation on the impact of a proposed slot, gate and facility transaction between US Airways and Delta Air Lines at New York’s LaGuardia and Washington’s Reagan National airports. In a letter to Christine Varney, assistant attorney general of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, USAPA stated that this transaction may have serious antitrust concerns.

Here is the full press release:

finance.yahoo.com/news/US-Airways-Pilots-Ask-bw-219662354.html?x=0&.v=1

Copyright Photo: Jay Selman.

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posted by Wolfgang Butzkamm, Aachen University (RWTH), Germany

“All you need is communication? No, because all you get is fossilisation.” (see Butzkamm (2009: 83-91): “The Language Acquisition Mystique: Tried and Found Wanting.”)

In the best known methodology handbooks, foreign language teaching is viewed through the lens of a few closely related European languages. Their grammars are often transparent for each other. This explains to some extent the severe doubts cast upon grammar teaching in general, rather than only against its misuse.

But a focus on grammar is not only indispensable for remote languages. It can really help the learner by making “odd” constructions meaningful and transparent, for instance through idiomatic and literal translation (“mirroring”) combined. That is why grammar should not be dealt with in a cavalier fashion. However, at all times the teacher must discipline himself to be brief, to confine the focus on form – in whatever way it is done – to matters of immediate practical relevance, and above all, to be clear. That is no easy matter for any language. On the other hand, for many foreign languages taught in schools excellent grammars have been made available, which represent a great advance on the grammars of earlier centuries.

Because of a delayed inbound flight, you get a new post. Huzzah!

A few nights ago I was boarding a plane to TLH. It appeared to me that we had a good group of passengers on board. We weren’t full, we were on time, and 75% of the crew was pretty rockin’. As I’m closing the main cabin door a ramper comes scampering up waving his hand to get me to stop. The door is roughly halfway closed, but I release the Door Assist button, dropping the 200 pound door back to the ground. As soon as I release the button, though, I see that the aforementioned ramper is standing under the door . . . kind of like an idiot would do. Not wanting to hit him in the head I quickly press the Door Assist button so he can move himself out of harm’s way before letting the door drop again. He tells me that the captain needs to add three more checked bags into the fancy computer. We do that, the captain tells me we are once again clear to close the door, and I hit the button for the third time.

Only this time nothing happens. The door just sits there on the ground like a jerk. After a few minutes maintenance comes out to the plane and diagnoses the problem as a faulty motor. We are given the option to swap aircraft or have them repair it. Thankfully, our large-nostriled captain wants to just repair the motor and that’s what happens. It would have been a royal pain in the butt to find a plane, deplane everyone, transfer bags, cater the plane, do our checks, and board them up again. Plus, when passengers have to get off a plane before it even leaves its originating point they seem to get a lot crankier. Crisis averted. Thanks, Cap!

While we’re waiting for the maintenance guys to finish some brainiac in the back asks the other flight attendant if our planes have safety inspections. Obviously she tells him they do, and he proceeds to tell her that this particular plane has failed, like he knows anything about aircraft maintenance or safety. No way. No way! I wonder what he says and how he feels when he has to fill his gas tank or change a tire on his ‘94 Ford Escort. What a jabroney!

We get the thing fixed and make it to TLH only about 30 minutes late because, yeah, we’re that good. Most of the passengers were fine and didn’t mind the slight delay.

And as it turns out I had to do a line check on someone down to TLH a few days later, and one of the same guys was on the plane going back to CLT. Thankfully, it wasn’t Mr. Aircraft-Door-Safety-Man. Getting to the point – this whole thing could have been avoided if the ramper had thought to himself that it might not be such a bright idea to stand under a rather large aircraft door as it falls open, or maybe even just tell the flight crew over the radio to add more checked bags. But at least he wasn’t hurt and I didn’t get in trouble for “breaking” the motor.

posted by Jürgen Kurtz, Karlsruhe University of Education, Germany

The 2009 National GGT Conference took place at Karlsruhe University of Education between Wednesday, November 11 and Friday, November 13.  Focused on the further development of all-day schooling in Germany (“Ganztagsschulen – Motor der Schulreform”), it provided a great opportunity for researchers, headmasters and teachers, education policy makers and administrators to share concepts, strategies and personal experiences, and to discuss future directions (background information: the majority of schools in Germany are half-day schools). On Thursday, November 12 all of the several hundred participants were given the chance to visit various types of all-day schools in Karlsruhe and in the surrounding area and see them in action (including free public transport). In my view, the organizers accomplished a (logistic, etc.) masterpiece that day.

As a researcher interested in how theory and practice can be brought together more closely, this was definitely one of the highlights, something that should be taken into consideration for all future conferences focusing on school development and on the quality of education (including the teaching of English as a foreign or second language).

I was generously invited to conduct a 2 1/2 hour workshop on learning and teaching English as a foreign language in all-day schools in Germany (“Englischunterricht an Ganztagsschulen: Herausforderungen, Erfahrungen und Konzepte, Praxisbeispiele”). The central questions raised in this workshop were:  Does it make any difference to teach English as a foreign language in all-day schools (as compared to half-day schools)? What are the advantages and disadvantages, potentials and limits? Do we, perhaps, need specific approaches to learning in afternoon lessons, including specific designs of instruction? And, more specifically related to current SLA / EFL research: How is discovery, inductive, increasingly self-regulated grammar, vocabulary, culture etc. learning possible, if students are tired, disinterested, no longer capable or willing to learn between 1.30 and 4 pm?

A lively discussion arose. Whereas some participants argued that successful foreign language education and learning in all-day schools largely (but of course not only) depended on the organization of the school day, i.e. on ‘pedagogically’ convincing timetables (an optimal balance of lessons and breaks), others felt that more emphasis needed to be placed on learners and learning processes in afternoon lessons, especially on the development and implementation of specific, less linear instructional designs geared toward maintaining learners’ interest and motivation and toward keeping them on task and focused. For anyone interested in this topic, here is the presentation I came up with last Friday.

Since schooling is naturally understood in other countries as all-day schooling, it would be very interesting to hear your thoughts on this.

Empresa é ressarcida por sindicato na Justiça

Por Fabiana Schiavon

As entidades sindicais, mesmo alegando liberdade sindical, não estão autorizadas a “efetuar ajustes” e estipular novos valores da contribuição por meio de assembleias ou resoluções, sob pena de ofensa ao princípio da legalidade. Com esse entendimento, a 40ª Vara Trabalhista da capital paulista julgou procedente o pedido de restituição da empresa Gtech Brasil das contribuições feitas ao Sindicato das Empresas de Processamento de Dados e Serviços do Estado de São Paulo (Seprosp).

A decisão determinou que a empresa fosse reembolsada dos valores pagos de 2005 a 2008 e “eximida da obrigação de pagar” os mais de R$ 5 mil que se constam como devidos pelo ano de 2009. Segundo o advogado da empresa, Daniel Lourenço, do Leite, Tosto e Barros Advogados Associados, embora a cobrança de contribuições sindicais esteja prevista na CLT (Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho), sindicatos e confederações têm embutido em suas tabelas todos os expurgos inflacionários que julgam devidos. “Especialmente durante o período de 1979 a 1991, época em que o MVR (Maior Valor de Referência) ainda existia como base de conversão para a Unidade Fiscal de Referência (Ufir)”, afirma. “Some-se a isso os arredondamentos que cada sindicato faz, o que justifica também a disparidade entre as bases de cálculo de cada um”.

Segundo a juíza Eumara Nogueira Borges Lyra Pimenta, de acordo com a CLT, “a contribuição sindical será recolhida, de uma só vez, anualmente, e consistirá para os empregadores, numa importância proporcional ao capital social da firma ou empresa”. A sentença ainda determina que os valores devem ser calculados mediante “a aplicação de alíquotas, conforme a tabela progressiva”, prevista em lei.

Para Lourenço, como cada categoria de sindicato aplica reajustes inexistentes, aumentando consideravelmente o valor a ser cobrado, a quantia cobrada é bem superior aos valores efetivamente devidos. “Sendo assim, surge a possibilidade de se questionar judicialmente a base de cálculo adotada pelas federações e sindicatos, vez que não foi observado por estes o princípio da legalidade”, afirma.

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Fabiana Schiavon é repórter da revista Consultor Jurídico.

Revista Consultor Jurídico, 14 de novembro de 2009

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Os Direitos Do Trabalhador Pela CLT

Os trabalhadores em seus direitos garantidos pela Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho (CLT). Alguns pontos foram modificados por legislações específicas ou alterações na própria CLT. Conheça aqui os principais

Os trabalhadores em seus direitos garantidos pela Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho (CLT). Alguns pontos foram modificados por legislações específicas ou alterações na própria CLT. Conheça aqui os principais direitos e, abaixo, uma descrição detalhada de algumas situações específicas:

Os direitos do trabalhador

• Carteira de trabalho assinada desde o primeiro dia de serviço;
• Exames médicos de admissão e demissão;
• Repouso Semanal Remunerado (1 folga por semana);
• Salário pago até o 5º dia útil do mês;
• Primeira parcela do 13º salário paga até 30 de novembro. Segunda parcela até 20 de dezembro;
• Férias de 30 dias com acréscimos de 1/3 do salário;
• Vale-Transporte com desconto máximo de 6% do salário;
• Licença Maternidade de 120 dias, com garantia de emprego até 5 meses depois do parto;
• Licença Paternidade de 5 dias corridos;
• FGTS: depósito de 8% do salário em conta bancária a favor do empregado;
• Horas-Extras pagas com acréscimo de 50% do valor da hora normal;
• Garantia de 12 meses em casos de acidente;
• Adicional noturno de 20% para quem trabalha de 22:00 às 05:00 horas;
• Faltas ao trabalho nos casos de casamento (3 dias), doação de sangue (1 dia/ano), alistamento eleitoral (2 dias), morte de parente próximo (2 dias), testemunho na Justiça do Trabalho (no dia), doença comprovada por atestado médico;
• Aviso prévio de 30 dias, em caso de demissão;
• Seguro-Desemprego.

OBS.: Esses são alguns dos direitos assegurados pela CLT, mas verificar sempre as CONVENÇÕES COLETIVAS DE TRABALHO que muitas vezes oferece melhores vantagens. Como por exemplo no caso das horas extras em algumas convenções tem garantido acréscimos de 100%.

CAUSAS DE AFASTAMENTO – DIREITOS DO EMPREGADO

1. Pedido de demissão, antes de completar um ano de serviço

O empregado terá direito:
· saldo de salário
· salário família
· 13º salário proporcional (1/12 para cada mês ou fração igual ou superior a 15 dias trabalhados)
· férias proporcionais após 06 meses (Art. 11 da Convenção 132 da OIT) – Decreto nº 3.197 de 05/10/99
· acréscimo sobre férias (1/3)
· FGTS – deverá ser depositado

O empregado não terá direito:
· aviso prévio
· multa sobre o saldo do FGTS, bem como não poderá sacar os valores já depositados
· seguro desemprego

2. Pedido de demissão, com mais de um ano de serviço

O empregado terá direito:
· saldo de salário
· salário família
· 13º salário
· FGTS – Termo de Rescisão, deverá ser depositado
· férias vencidas, se ainda não houver gozado
· férias proporcionais · acréscimo sobre férias (1/3)

O empregado não terá direito:
· aviso prévio
. multa sobre o saldo do FGTS, bem como não poderá sacar os valores já depositados
· seguro desemprego

3. Dispensa sem justa causa, antes de completar um ano de serviço

O empregado terá direito:
· aviso prévio
· saldo de salário
· salário família
· férias proporcionais
· acréscimo sobre férias (1/3)
· 13º salário proporcional
· FGTS – sobre a rescisão
· multa sobre o saldo do FGTS, que deverá ser depositada na conta vinculada do empregado, por meio da GRFC
· seguro desemprego, desde que tenha trabalhado mais de 6 meses na empresa

4. Dispensa sem justa causa, com mais de um ano de serviço

O empregado terá direito:
· aviso prévio
· saldo de salário
· salário família
· férias vencidas, se ainda não as tiver gozado
· férias proporcionais
· acréscimo sobre férias (1/3)
· 13º salário proporcional
· FGTS – sobre a rescisão
· multa sobre saldo do FGTS, que deverá ser depositada na conta vinculada do empregado, por meio da GRFC
· seguro de desemprego – entregar a CD

5. Rescisão antecipada do contrato de experiência, pelo empregador

O empregado terá direito:
· indenização da metade dos dias que faltarem até o término do contrato (artigo 479 da CLT)
· saldo de salário
· 13º salário proporcional
· salário família
· férias proporcionais
· acréscimo sobre férias (1/3)
· FGTS – sobre a rescisão
· multa sobre o saldo do FGTS, que deverá ser depositada na conta vinculada do empregado, por meio da GRFC

6. Rescisão antecipada do contrato de experiência, pelo empregado

O empregado terá direito:
· saldo de salário
· 13º salário proporcional
· FGTS – sobre a rescisão, depositado na conta vinculada do FGTS, sem direito a saque

O empregado não terá direito:

a multa sobre os depósitos (saldo) do FGTS O empregado poderá ser obrigado a indenizar o empregador em 50% dos dias restantes até o término do contrato, por ter rescindido antecipadamente, sem justa causa, o contrato de experiência.

7. Rescisão por término do contrato de experiência

O empregado terá direito:

· saldo de salário
· salário família
· férias proporcionais
· acréscimo sobre as férias (1/3)
· 13º salário proporcional
· FGTS – sobre a rescisão

O empregado não terá direito:

. aviso prévio multa sobre o saldo do FGTS, mas, neste caso, poderá sacar o saldo depositado

8. Morte do empregado, antes de completar um ano de serviço

Os dependentes terão direito:

· saldo de salário
· 13º salário proporcional
· férias proporcionais após 06 meses (Art. 11 da Convenção 132 da OIT) – Decreto nº 3.197 de 05/10/99
· acréscimo sobre férias (1/3)
· salário família
· FGTS – sobre a rescisão

Os dependentes não terão direito:

· aviso prévio;
· multa sobre o saldo do FGTS, mas, neste caso, os dependentes poderão sacar o saldo depositado

9. Morte do empregado, com mais de um ano de serviço

Os dependentes terão direito:

· saldo de salário
· 13º salário proporcional
· salário família
· FGTS – sobre a rescisão
· férias vencidas, se não foram gozadas.
· férias proporcionais;
· acréscimo sobre férias (1/3)

Os dependentes não terão direito:

· aviso prévio;
· multa sobre o saldo do FGTS, mas os dependentes, também, poderão sacar o saldo depositado.

10. Rescisão por dispensa com justa causa

O empregado terá direito:
· saldo de salário
· salário família
· férias vencidas, acrescidas de 1/3
· FGTS – sobre a rescisão, sem direito a saque.

O empregado não terá direito:

· aviso prévio
· férias proporcionais
· 13º salário proporcional
· multa sobre o saldo do FGTS

11. INDENIZAÇÃO ADICIONAL DO EMPREGADO DISPENSADO SEM JUSTA CAUSA NO PERIODO DE 30 DIAS QUE ANTECEDE A CORREÇÃO SALARIAL (Art. 9º das leis nº 6.708/79 e 7.238/84)

O empregador que dispensar o empregado sem justa causa, no período de 30 (trinta) dias que antecede a data de sua correção salarial (data-base), pagará ao trabalhador dispensado indenização adicional equivalente a um salário mensal do próprio empregado. Com referência ao Aviso Prévio Indenizado, se o último dia do aviso prévio cair no período de 30 dias que antecede a correção salarial, esse fato gera direito à indenização de que se trata, posteriormente à saída física do empregado, considerando que esse aviso prévio fica integrado ao período de serviço.

12. O QUE COMPREENDE O SALÁRIO?

Nos termos do art. 457 da CLT, integram a remuneração do empregado, para todos os efeitos legais: as gorjetas, as comissões, percentagens, gratificações ajustadas, diárias para viagem, abonos, além das ajudas de custos superiores a cinqüenta por cento do salário percebido pelo empregado.

Também, integram os salários os adicionais noturno, de insalubridade e periculosidade, o adicional por tempo de serviço, as horas extras, o adicional de quebra-de-caixa e demais remunerações habitualmente pagas pelo empregador.

FÉRIAS PROPORCIONAIS – tabela de proporcionalidade e faltas

Após cada período de 12 meses de vigência do contrato de trabalho, o empregado terá direito ao gozo de um período de férias, sem prejuízo da remuneração, na seguinte proporção:

Os empregados demissionários com mais de 06 meses de tempo de serviço passam a ter direito ao recebimento de férias proporcionais (Convenção 132 da OIT – Decreto nº 3.197 de 05/10/99).

SEGURO DESEMPREGO VALOR DO BENEFÍCIO

· A apuração do valor do benefício tem como base o salário mensal do último emprego do trabalhador dispensado sem justa causa, na seguinte ordem:

1) Tendo o trabalhador recebido três ou mais salários mensais a contar desse último vínculo empregatício, a apuração considerará a média dos salários dos últimos três meses;

2) Caso o trabalhador, em vez dos três últimos salários daquele vínculo empregatício, tenha recebido apenas dois salários mensais, a apuração considerará a média dos salários dos dois últimos meses;

3) Caso o trabalhador, em vez dos três ou dois últimos salários daquele mesmo vínculo empregatício, tenha recebido apenas o último salário mensal, este será considerado, para fins de apuração.

Observação :

Caso o trabalhador não tenha trabalhado integralmente em qualquer um dos últimos três meses, o salário será calculado com base no mês de trabalho completo.

Para aquele que recebe salário/hora, semanal ou quinzenal, o valor constante no requerimento deverá ser o do salário mensal equivalente, conforme a regra abaixo:

Cálculo do salário mensal
Salário/hora = Y –> Salário mensal = Y x 220
Salário/dia = Y–> Salário mensal = Y x 30
Salário/semana = Y –> Salário mensal = Y ÷ 7 x 30
Salário/quinzena = Y –> Salário mensal = Y x 2

O último salário é obrigatoriamente aquele recebido no mês da dispensa, constante no TRCT, no campo Maior Remuneração.

Ex: Um empregado que ganha R$ 1.600,00 e tem um filho como dependente legal, pagará 15% de Imposto de Renda e 11% de INSS. O cálculo do desconto deve ser feito da seguinte forma: salário bruto menos o valor dedutível por dependente legal e o desconto máximo do INSS. Em números, isso representa: 1.600,00 – 106,00 – 176,00 = 1.318,00

Sobre esse resultado, o empregado deve calcular a alíquota de 15% de IR, o que dá um total de 197,70, e, desse valor, deduzir os R$ 158,70 (dedução estabelecida para salários entre 1.058,01 e 2.115). O valor do IR a ser descontado mensalmente será de R$ 39,00.

Além disso, o empregado deve deduzir o valor de outras possíveis contribuições, como seguro-saúde, plano de previdência privada e, uma vez no ano, a contribuição sindical (equivalente a um dia de salário).

Hip, hip, hooray!  We’re picking up new service to two new destinations early next year.  Yesterday the Check Flight Attendant group (of which I am a part because I’m a big deal) received an email that on 11 January we’ll start back service to FPO.  My airline has performed this service in the past but discontinued it before I started.  We were told a few weeks ago that “we may have an opportunity to perform  international operations beginning first quarter 2010,” and obviously there was speculation as to where we’d go.  We all figured it was either Canada or the Bahamas.  Personally, I was hoping for Canada because we would overnight there while Bahamas would just be a turn, and we all know I’m here for the stamps in my passport, not to end up in XNA.  Either way, I’m pretty pumped about the once daily service, even if CLT crews get to work the flights.  Anyway, at least we’ll be doing the turn on the 700 (CRJ-700) so if I do get to do it I won’t be stuck all by my lonesome.  Perhaps in the coming months we will start back service to Canada.  A boy can hope, right?

Also, while waiting out a flow control program into CLT I got on my fancy iPhone and saw that we’ll also be starting service to Florida’s Space Coast on 11 February, going to MLB after a 12-year hiatus.  This we’ll be doing three times a day, seven days a week on the 700 as well.  This is an overnight so maybe I can score this one and hit up the Space Center; I’ve always wanted to be an astronaut.  In fact, should NASA contact me today about going to the moon I’d leave my job and be there most Rikki-Tik.

So we’re getting new service, but here’s the rub: just because we serve new destinations doesn’t mean we’re growing.  It doesn’t mean we’re not, though.  A lot of times when one carrier starts service to a new city, they also lose service to an existing destination to another affiliate carrier.  My hope is that, at the very least, a non-wholly owned carrier doesn’t pick up some service that we gave up; we are a small airline after all and I’d rather grow than shrink to some jabroneys with an SA5P boarding priority.  I guess we’ll see what happens in the coming months.

 

US Airways Express-PSA Airlines (2nd) Bombardier CRJ700 (CL-600-2C10) N702PS (msn 10135) CLT, originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.

PSA Airlines (2nd) (US Airways Express) (Dayton) will start flying the Melbourne, FL-Charlotte route (three roundtrips daily) for its parent US Airways starting on February 11, 2010. This marks the return of US Airways to the Melbourne area.

Press release:

finance.yahoo.com/news/US-Airways-Resumes-Flights-bw-2055955289.html?x=0&.v=1

Copyright Photo: Dave Campbell.

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An intermediate exercise in Mathematical statistics is to construct a (100-)% confidence interval for the mean of a random variable distributed according to the log normal law (.)

The mean is

.

Then

.

The MVUE is

, where .

The variance of is

.

Then evidently

, where .

To sum thinks up the confidence interval for  mean of X fixing  is

.

The great thing about elections:  hypotheses are tested and questions are answered.  A campaign manager can tell a candidate, “We need to win these precincts by this much in order to win.”  On election day, you find out not only if you could win those precincts but if you were right that they were the key to victory.”  I didn’t put forward any such hypotheses this year, but I did raise some questions.  Let’s answer them:

Question 1 for 2009:  Will Charlotte’s move towards partisan divide continue?

Citing at-large city council races from 1997 and 2005, I suggested Charlotte was growing more divided on partisan lines.  I broke precincts into four categories “Straight Democrat,” “Straight Republican,” “Winner Ticket” and “Random Mixed.”  I did hear some concern about picking just two data points, so before we look at 2009, let’s look at all four elections in the last 12 years in which both parties ran 4 candidates for at-large city council.

Obviously, the addition of 2001, and 2005 alter the view of a steadily progressing march towards partisanship.  Apparently, the national political climate, candidates and campaigns make a difference.  No doubt.  I draw two conclusions from this data that are more nuanced than “Charlotte is becoming more divided by partisanship.”  1.  Straight party Democratic precincts are on the rise.  2.  When precincts split tickets, they are more likely to give their votes to candidates who don’t win.  So what did 2009 deliver?  More partisanship.

Question 2 for 2009: Will a fractured District 3 vote lead to a surprise winner?

This wasn’t a perfectly worded question, as someone could certainly say that they were surprised by Joyce Waddell’s victory.  But it wasn’t the type of surprise I contemplated.  In fact, considering there were 9 candidates, the outcome was surprisingly predictable.  The runner-up had been endorsed by the Charlotte Observer.  The winner had the nod of the Black Political Caucus.  Since the Black Political Caucus hands out their list at the polls and the Observer does not, it really isn’t that surprising that their endorsement is apparently more impactful, at least in this district.  Here were the district 3 results:

Nicole E. Hudson                          19.20%            3,182

Joel Levy                                      3.54%              586

Vivian C. Mitchel                           12.32%            2,042

Mr. Hans Peter Plotseneder         4.04%              669

Aaron J. Pomis                     7.03%              1,164

James Ross II                        9.27%              1,536

Teresa Tudor                          3.01%              499

Joyce Waddell                       31.96%            5,296

W. L. (Pop) Woodard               9.42%              1,560

Question 3- Does the early vote indicate Anthony Foxx (D) holding Unaffiliated and white Democrats or is John Lassiter (R) winning most of those votes?

I offered this guidance last weekend:

If Foxx holds a 3000 vote lead or more when the early vote is reported, it will indicate that he is doing well among white Democratic voters and will likely expect victory a few hours later.  If however, the early vote shows Lassiter within 1000 votes or so, it will indicate that he is pulling a significant amount of both Unaffiliated and white Democrats. That will mean a long night where voter turnout becomes the key question.

That guidance really wasn’t helpful when the two split the difference and Foxx emerged from the early vote with a 2,200 vote lead.  Implicit in my projection, however, was that the Democratic get-out-the-vote machine would carry the early vote but Lassiter would make up ground on Election Day.  That didn’t happen.  Foxx not only won early voting, he won Election Day voting.  And, while we don’t have exit data to help us, if we assume that Foxx won the African-American vote at about the same rate that Lassiter won the Republican vote, then we can deduce that Foxx won the White-Democrat/Unaffiliated vote by about 3-1.  That will do it.

Question 4: Are demographics electoral destiny?

We won’t know for several weeks what the demographic breakdown was on Election Day, so I’m going to use this space to add my opinion to the “key precinct” analysis that you may have seen elsewhere.  The Charlotte Observer cites 30 precincts that voted for Republican Pat McCrory in 2007 and Foxx in 2009.  Meanwhile, Jeff Taylor at MeckDeck points to low turnout in some south Charlotte precincts as the “bigger story.”  I’ve always believed that when you lose a close race (51.5 % to 48.5% in this case) there isn’t one thing that cost you, there are twelve.  If you’d turned any one of them around, you might have one.  Similarly, if you win a close race, you didn’t do one thing right, you did twenty.  And if you had done any one of those wrong, it could have cost you.  Having said that, I point to these nine precincts that made the difference.  Across these precincts, Anthony Foxx picked up 3,454 votes net against Lassiter compared to how Democrat Beverly Earle fared against Republican Pat McCrory two years ago.  Foxx’s margin of victory, 3,239

These precincts really illustrate the different ways that Foxx won.  Precincts 210 and 16 are Democratic strongholds where Foxx used voter turnout to improve upon his party’s effort two years ago.  (In precinct 16, Foxx won 1037-3.  THREE!  You’d expect Lassiter to get more than 3 votes just by people accidently pushing the wrong button).  These are reliable boxes where the Democratic machine picked up votes.

Precinct 203 was a new precinct for this election, added through annexation.  It provided one of Foxx’s biggest swings and perhaps sheds light on precinct 145.  John Lassiter won this precinct that includes Highland Creek but not by a significantly lower margin than McCrory in ’07.  This precinct grew due to annexation, and it’s not clear if the vote swing was the result of attitude changes or annexation.

Foxx also did well on the edges of the University area (212, 204, 203), just outside of downtown (11) and the Derita area (146).

If you want to know more about these crucial precincts, CharlotteObserver.com has a useful interactive map.  Hover over a precinct to see its name and number, click on it to get demographic information.  Then let me know what you think all of this means for 2011 and beyond

Na presença de lideranças da Fecomércio, da Fiesc e da classe contábil, o presidente da Fecam, Ronério Heiderscheidt (PMDB), comprometeu-se a  cumprir artigos da Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho, em todos os municípios catarinenses, para que estes exijam a contribuição sindical patronal no momento da renovação dos alvarás de localização e funcionamento.
Ronério, que também não obedecia a norma em Palhoça, e garante que começará a partir de agora, vai levar a deliberação ao encontro estadual dos municípios, dia 30, em Florianópolis.

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IBON Features / October 2009