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O'Halloran's expansion haunted Hutchinson
Chanticleer is Australia's pre-eminent business column.
Updated Dec 10, 2013 — 12.41pm, first published at 12.14am
The brutally sudden ending to Belinda Hutchinson's career as the chairman of a top 20 company is because she placed too much trust in former chief executive Frank O'Halloran.
Troublesome legacies from O'Halloran's 14-year reign as CEO came back to bite the company on Monday, wiping $4 billion off QBE's market value.
Even at Monday's close of $12 the stock looks overvalued given the uncertain outlook in America and the prospect of more pain after a new chief financial officer joins the company and runs his eyes over the highly leveraged balance sheet.
When she became chairman of QBE in July 2010, Hutchinson capped a stellar career in Australia's notoriously conservative and close-knit directors' club.
But the QBE chairmanship also brought with it the formidable task of standing up to one of the most powerful and entrenched CEOs in Australia, O'Halloran.
At that time he had been running the company for about 12 years under the chairmanship of QBE's former chief executive John Cloney.
QBE insiders say that when Cloney handed over the chairmanship of QBE to Hutchinson, the power in the boardroom shifted to O'Halloran.
He knew more about insurance than Hutchinson or any other QBE board member apart from Duncan Boyle, who is, strictly speaking, an insurance technician rather than an underwriter.
This power imbalance was common knowledge among the company's big institutional investors who called on Hutchinson to get more non-executive directors with insurance experience on the board. Hutchinson scoured the world for top-quality directors with knowledge of an industry that requires specialist skills and can easily bamboozle the uninitiated.
QBE symbolised the complexity of the insurance world. Investors had referred to O'Halloran's "black box" approach to acquisitions and how every deal miraculously delivered higher earnings.
However, Hutchinson eventually found the people she wanted in John Graf, who joined the board in August 2012, Marty Becker and Margaret Leung, who both joined the board in August this year.
Graf has more than 30 years' experience in the US financial services industry, Leung was CEO of Hang Seng Bank which owned an insurance company and Becker has held various insurance and reinsurance positions over the past 13 years.
Becker will take over as chairman of QBE from February next year.
But all this additional insurance talent at board level was acquired after the horse had bolted. O'Halloran left in September 2012 and was replaced by QBE veteran John Neal, a British insurance man who cut his teeth writing motor insurance in London.
Neal got off to a bad start. He took O'Halloran's last half-year profit result in August 2012 and pinned his credibility to it with an analyst road show around the world. That was unfortunate timing because within weeks of returning to Australia Neal issued a profit downgrade including slashing the insurance profit margin from 12 per cent to 8 per cent.
The company also reviewed its North American operations at this time. It lifted its claims provisions by $180 million and added another $380 million to cover prior year claims development.
The critical point of this review of the North American business was that it included an external actuarial review by Ernst & Young, which cost several million dollars.
The QBE board of directors would argue that it fulfilled is fiduciary duties by relying on the advice given to it by management and external parties.
This review of the US operations, including the program business, was a top-down review. That was a fatal mistake, according to CLSA analyst Jan van der Schalk, who used to run an insurance company.
As an aside, van der Schalk is the only analyst to have consistently had a "sell" rating on QBE.
He says the only sensible and reliable review of an insurance book involves going through the files. While this approach is time consuming it is the only way to be certain whether the premium charged is enough to cover the liabilities.
However, Neal was sufficiently concerned about the American operations to get rid of the president John Rumpler and replace him with experienced insurance executive David Duclos.
The following executive appointments and their starting dates show the wholesale cleanout that has occurred: chief financial officer Richard Dziadzio appointed August 2013, chief operating officer Sue Harnett appointed September 2012, chief risk officer John Langione appointed September 2012, chief actuary Andy Doll appointed May 2013 and head of claims Paul Stachura appointed May 2013.
Duclos was asked to do a fresh review of the US business. He followed the approach outlined earlier by van der Schalk and went through the program portfolios file by file.
This comprehensive review was delivered to the QBE board last week ahead of a three-day board meeting. Neal had previously been to the US to discussed the situation with Duclos.
The board called Ernst & Young back to give advice on the new work done by Duclos and his team. They agreed with the findings.
The board was presented with a series of presentations about the US business last Thursday. Many questions were asked and there was a detailed analysis of the acturial assumptions underpinning the numbers presented to the board.
This is one feature of the insurance industry that continues to baffle analysts and investors. As QBE has discovered, two different groups of actuaries can come up with two very different sets of future projections of financial outcomes.
However, once the board was satisfied with the assumptions used and the horrible truth about the deterioration in the US program portfolio and the loss of value in the US Financial Partner Services portfolio it had to quickly put the company's shares into a trading halt
QBE took the following actions: lenders placed insurance business was written down by $US600 million, reserves were topped up by $US470 million including $US300 million in the program business and risk margins were strengthened by $US200 million.
The impairment charges, reserve top-ups and risk margin expansion added up to more than $US1.3 billion.
The company has stresssed that its regulatory and rating agency capital ratios are in excess of the levels at June 30 but the assessment of financial strength will have to await the pronouncements by ratings agency Standard & Poor's.
A downgrade of QBE's credit rating would be a further blow to the company's credibility.
Hutchinson decided that as the longest-serving director and chairman she should resign to take responsibility for what happened.
The O'Halloran deal that occurred under her leadership was the acquisition for $US700 million of Balboa in February 2011.
This is a lenders placed insurance business which was owned by Bank of America. QBE later paid a $US10 million fine to New York insurance regulators as punishment for paying unwarranted commissions and charging excessive premiums.
Lenders placed insurance is taken out by a bank, lender, or mortgage servicer when a borrower does not maintain the insurance required by the terms of the mortgage.
It had very high profit margins and earned back two-thirds of its purchase price in the first two years of ownership.
But it is clear in hindsight that QBE's due diligence failed to recognise the political and regulatory risks associated with this business.
After selling Balboa to QBE, Bank of America decided to get out of the lenders placed insurance market in a big way.
It sold assets to other insurers. The big drop in QBE's revenue explains the $US600 million write-down.
Bank of America was smart enough to sell down its lenders placed insurance portfolio after clawback provisions signed with QBE had expired.
The clawback provisions applied for several years and related to revenue and profitability.
The other big acquisition legacies in the US from O'Halloran's era were the purchase in January 2007 of Praetorian Financial Group from Hannover Re for $US800 million and the purchase of ZC Sterling Insurance for $US575 million in November 2008. The Praetorian business was sold by Hannover after it had cherry picked the best businesses out of a bad lot.
Program insurance involves relying on the capabilities of brokers who are also underwriters of specialist areas of insurance such as restaurant risks.
Hutchinson placed her trust in O'Halloran and his acquisition spree over many years. This trust was misplaced.
tony.boyd@afr.com.au
Twitter @Tony__Boyd
Tony Boyd is The Australian Financial Review's Chanticleer columnist. Tony has more than 35 years experience as a finance journalist. Connect with Tony on Twitter. Email Tony at tony.boyd@afr.com
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Jewish Rabbi Menachen Froman met on Wednesday with Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, in Ramallah, and informed him that he and several Jewish Rabbis support the Palestinian bid at the United Nations to seek full UN membership and international recognition of statehood in the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Froman told Abbas that establishing an independent Palestinian State is very helpful to the peace process with Israel, and is a step towards working for a comprehensive peace based on justice and stability.
The official Palestine News and Info Agency, WAFA, reported that Abbas received Froman in his headquarters in Ramallah, and informed him that the Palestinian leadership is committed to peace, and that the UN bid comes due to Israel's refusal to abide by the signed agreements and international law.
Abbas stated that the UN move is not a replacement for peace talks with Israel, and that it is only a move to bypass the current crisis in peace talks due to the ongoing Israeli construction and expansion of settlements in the occupied territories, and due to Israel's rejection to recognize the two-state solution.
On his part, Froman congratulated Abbas and the Palestinian people on the occasion of the Eid Al Fitr Muslim feast that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, and expressed his wishes for peace and co-existence between Israel and the Palestinians through the establishment of an independent Palestinian State, WAFA reported.
The Rabbi also proposed establishing a committee that includes Jewish, Muslim and Christian leaders that would head to the United States to meet with the its political leadership and convey a message of peace, based on the establishment of a Palestinian State living in peace next to Israel.
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Federal appeals court temporarily blocks Biden's OSHA rule mandating vaccines for workers
President Joe Biden's private business COVID-19 vaccine mandate could be in trouble.
The Washington Examiner reports that a federal appeals court has placed a temporary stay on Biden's vaccine mandate.
In their ruling, the three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said that those challenging the mandate offered sufficient evidence to suggest that there are "grave statutory and constitutional issues" with Biden's mandate.
Now, the Biden administration has until Monday to respond to the ordered stay.
The controversial mandate
The mandate at issue is the one Biden announced in September that requires employers with 100 or more employees to force those employees to either get vaccinated against COVID-19 or to undergo weekly testing.
This week, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the agency that Biden tasked with implementing the mandate, finally announced its rule, as Breitbart noted.
According to that rule, employers now have until Jan. 4 to comply with Biden's mandate. The Biden administration announced that it will keep an eye on compliance with "planned inspections," adding that those who fail to comply will be hit with hefty fines.
Within hours of OSHA's announcement, over 20 Republican attorneys general brought lawsuits challenging the measure. As part of those lawsuits, a stay was requested to stop the mandate from going into effect while litigation determining the legality of the mandate takes place. Now, the stay has been granted.
Reactions from both sides
The Republicans challenging OSHA's rule celebrated the federal court's decision. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) tweeted, "Yesterday, I sued the Biden Admin over its unlawful OSHA vax mandate. WE WON."
The Biden administration, however, has tried to appear unperturbed by the court's ruling. White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Friday the administration is "very confident" that the mandate will survive the legal challenges brought by the Republicans.
Jean-Pierre emphasized the Biden administration's position that OSHA's rule is not a COVID-19 vaccine mandate but "a standard for a safe workplace." This is exactly why Biden put OSHA in charge of the rule in the first place. The key is that a vaccine mandate would be more obviously unconstitutional.
We'll see what the courts end up deciding on this issue. But, for now, it's an early victory for Republicans, and all those opposed to what many believe is gross government overreach.
Robert Ayers
Robert Ayers is a staff writer for Conservative Institute. He has a bachelor's degree from Quinnipiac University and a J.D. from the University of Connecticut.


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Biografia

Il condottiero
Allo scoppio delle guerre di religione francesi, Pfyffer si mise al soldo del partito cattolico comandato da Francesco I di Guisa. Nella Battaglia di Dreux (1562) furono gli svizzeri di Pfyffer ad assorbire l'urto della carica protestante, permettendo a Guisa di guidare la contro-carica che portò alla cattura di Luigi I di Borbone-Condé. Ben portatosi a Dreux, Pfyffer venne nominato colonnello del reggimento svizzero.

Come rappresentante di Lucerna, Pfyffer prese parte alla Dieta di Augusta (1566) e si guadagnò un cavalierato dall'imperatore Massimiliano II, poi tornò in Francia, attirato dalla recrudescenza delle ostilità tra cattolici e protestanti. Distintosi come guardia del corpo del giovane re Carlo IX di Francia, attaccato dagli ugonotti lungo il tragitto da Meaux a Parigi, si guadagnò l'appellativo di "Re degli Svizzeri". Partecipò alla Battaglia di Saint-Denis (1567) ed alla Battaglia di Jarnac (marzo 1569), decidendo, pochi mesi dopo (ottobre), l'esito dello scontro nella Battaglia di Moncontour, che gli valse anche un cavalierato francese.

Il politico
Nel 1571, il quarantasettenne Ludwig Pfyffer venne eletto magistrato cittadino di Lucerna. Fino al giorno della sua morte, ventitré anni dopo, non abbandonò mai quell'incarico.

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Bibliografia
 Segesser, Philipp Anton : von (1880-1882), Ludwig Pfyffer und seine Zeit. Ein Stück französischer und schweizerischer Geschichte im 16. Jahrhundert, Wyss, Berna.

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        <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
            <ColumnDefinition Width="100" />
            <ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
        </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
        <StackPanel
            Grid.Row="0"
            Grid.Column="0"
            Orientation="Vertical">
            <Button
                x:Name="SubmitCustomerGet"
                Margin="0,0,0,12"
                Click="SubmitCustomerGet_Click"
                Content="Get a Customer" />
            <Button
                x:Name="StartPerformanceTests"
                Margin="0,0,0,4"
                Click="StartPerformanceTests_Click"
                Content="Start Tests" />
            <Button
                x:Name="StopPerformanceTests"
                Margin="0,0,0,4"
                Click="StopPerformanceTests_Click"
                Content="Stop Tests" />
        </StackPanel>

        <StackPanel
            Grid.Row="0"
            Grid.Column="1"
            Orientation="Vertical">
            <TextBlock x:Name="CountURLAdded" Background="#FFFBFFA7" />
            <TextBlock x:Name="CountURLWaiting" Background="#FFEA9393" />
            <TextBlock x:Name="CountURLFinished" Background="#FFB7EEB1" />
        </StackPanel>

        <TextBlock
            x:Name="InformationMessage"
            Grid.Row="1"
            Grid.ColumnSpan="2"
            Background="#FF646464" />

        <ListBox
            x:Name="ResultList"
            Grid.Row="2"
            Grid.ColumnSpan="3"
            ItemTemplate="{DynamicResource ResultListItemTemplate}"
            ItemsSource="{Binding ElementName=MainPage, Path=AwesomeSauce, Mode=OneWay}" />
    </Grid>
</Window>

WINDOW CODE BEHIND
using System;
using System.Timers;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Data;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Imaging;
using System.Windows.Navigation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;
using web.app.smash.lib;
using web.app.smash.lib.Helpers;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading;
using Timer = System.Timers.Timer;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;

namespace web.app.smash
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml
    /// </summary>
    public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {
        //This is the URL to the webAPI
        private const string BASEURL = "http://localhost:23653/";

        public ObservableCollection<Task<ProcessedURLResult>> AwesomeSauce
        {
            get
            { return ocDownloadedTasks; }
            set
            { ocDownloadedTasks = value; }
        }

        private ObservableCollection<Task<ProcessedURLResult>> ocDownloadedTasks;

        private WebRequestCustomer wc = new WebRequestCustomer();
        private CancellationTokenSource cts;
        private CancellationToken ct;

        private HttpClient client = new HttpClient();

        private long counturladded = 0;
        private long counturlwaiting = 0;
        private long counturlfinihed = 0;

        private Timer smashtimer;

        public MainWindow()
        {
            Debug.WriteLine("App started");

            InitializeComponent();

            SetupTimer(1000);

            ocDownloadedTasks = new ObservableCollection<Task<ProcessedURLResult>>();

            ocDownloadedTasks.CollectionChanged += OcDownloadedTasks_CollectionChanged;

            ResultList.ItemsSource = ocDownloadedTasks;
        }

        private void OcDownloadedTasks_CollectionChanged(object sender, System.Collections.Specialized.NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
        {
            foreach(Task t in e.NewItems)
            {
                if(t.Status == TaskStatus.Created)
                {
                    t.RunSynchronously();
                }
            }
        }

        private void SetupTimer(double interval)
        {
            Debug.WriteLine("Timer set to:" + interval.ToString());

            smashtimer = new System.Timers.Timer(interval);

            Debug.WriteLine("Timer event handler set");
            smashtimer.Elapsed += Smashtimer_Elapsed;

            smashtimer.AutoReset = true;
        }

        private void Smashtimer_Elapsed(object sender, ElapsedEventArgs e)
        {
            //Debug.WriteLine("Timer event handler elapsed start: " + e.SignalTime.ToString());
            //this.urlList.Add(BASEURL);

            //Debug.WriteLine("ProcessAll: Returns a collection of tasks (In Loop)");
            //// ***Create a query that, when executed, returns a collection of tasks.
            //TasksList = from url in this.urlList select wc.ProcessPostURL(url, client, ct);

            //Debug.WriteLine("ProcessAll: Start processing the list of Tasks (In Loop)");
            //downloadTasks.AddRange(TasksList.ToList());

            //downloadTasks.Add(wc.ProcessPostURL(BASEURL, client, ct));

            App.Current.Dispatcher.Invoke((Action)delegate
            {
                ocDownloadedTasks.Add(wc.ProcessPostURL(BASEURL, client, ct));
            });

            //TasksList = null;

            counturladded += 1;
        }

        private async void SubmitCustomerGet_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            await wc.GetCustomerByID(BASEURL, 6);
            //ResponsesList.Inlines.Add(wc.DisplayResults);
            //ResponsesList.Inlines.Add(new LineBreak());
            InformationMessage.Text = "Get single customer";
        }

        private void StartPerformanceTests_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            Debug.WriteLine("Start Performance button: Clicked");

            Debug.WriteLine("Start Performance button: Create the cancelation token");
            //Create the cancellation token
            cts = new CancellationTokenSource();
            ct = cts.Token;

            Debug.WriteLine("Start Performance button: Timer started");
            smashtimer.Start();

            InformationMessage.Text = "Timer Started";
        }

        private void StopPerformanceTests_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            Debug.WriteLine("Stop performance button: Clicked");

            Debug.WriteLine("Stop performance button: Timer stopped");
            smashtimer.Stop();
            InformationMessage.Text = "Timer Stopped";
        }

        //private void DisplayResults(ProcessedURLResult pur)
        //{
        //    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        //    if (pur.ErrorMessage==null)
        //    {
        //        sb.Append("Milliseconds: " + pur.MillisecondsTaken.ToString());
        //        sb.Append("API Result: " + pur.APIResults);

        //        ResponsesList.Inlines.Add(sb.ToString());
        //        ResponsesList.Inlines.Add(new LineBreak());

        //    }
        //    else
        //    {
        //        sb.Append("Error: " + pur.ErrorMessage);

        //        ResponsesList.Inlines.Add(sb.ToString());
        //        ResponsesList.Inlines.Add(new LineBreak());
        //    }
        //    ResponsesList.InvalidateVisual();

        //}

        //private void DisplayInformation()
        //{
        //    CountURLAdded.Text = counturladded.ToString();
        //    CountURLWaiting.Text = counturlwaiting.ToString();
        //    CountURLFinished.Text = counturlfinihed.ToString();
        //}
    }
}

PROCESSURLRESULTS CODE
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace web.app.smash.lib.Helpers
{
    public class ProcessedURLResult : INotifyPropertyChanged
    {
        private string _apiresults;
        private long _millisecondsTaken;
        private DateTime _startTime;
        private DateTime _endTime;
        private string _hTTPStatusCode;
        private string _errorMessage;

        public string APIResults
        {
            get
            {
                return _apiresults;
            }
            set
            {
                _apiresults = value;
                OnPropertyChanged(nameof(APIResults));
            }
        }

        public long MillisecondsTaken
        {
            get
            {
                return _millisecondsTaken;
            }
            set
            {
                _millisecondsTaken = value;
                OnPropertyChanged(nameof(MillisecondsTaken));
            }
        }

        public DateTime StartTime
        {
            get
            {
                return _startTime;
            }
            set
            {
                _startTime = value;
                OnPropertyChanged(nameof(StartTime));
            }
        }

        public DateTime EndTime
        {
            get
            {
                return _endTime;
            }
            set
            {
                _endTime = value;
                OnPropertyChanged(nameof(EndTime));
            }
        }

        public string HTTPStatusCode
        {
            get
            {
                return _hTTPStatusCode;
            }
            set
            {
                _hTTPStatusCode = value;
                OnPropertyChanged(nameof(HTTPStatusCode));
            }
        }

        public string ErrorMessage
        {
            get
            {
                return _errorMessage;
            }
            set
            {
                _errorMessage = value;
                OnPropertyChanged(nameof(ErrorMessage));
            }
        }

        public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

        // Create the OnPropertyChanged method to raise the event
        private protected void OnPropertyChanged(string name)
        {
            PropertyChangedEventHandler handler = PropertyChanged;
            if (handler != null)
            {
                handler(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(name));
            }
        }
    }
}

Talking Points
The ObservableCollection holds Tasks of type ProcessURLResults, and to access these properties of ProcessURLResults you need to use the Results property of the task.
ocDownloadedTasks[0].Result.APIResults;

So how do I make the ListBox's DataTemplate get the Result property?

A: I think that your template binding type mismatch.
<DataTemplate x:Key="ResultListItemTemplate" DataType="{x:Type m:ProcessedURLResult}">

is different from
public ObservableCollection<Task<ProcessedURLResult>> AwesomeSauce

and
ItemsSource="{Binding ElementName=MainPage, Path=AwesomeSauce, Mode=OneWay}" />

is redundant. you have the assign code in MainWindow()
ResultList.ItemsSource = ocDownloadedTasks;

try to use wrapper class. for instance
public class ResultWrapper
{
    public Task<ProcessedURLResult> InnerTask { get; set; }

    public ProcessedURLResult Result
    {
        get
        {
            return InnerTask.Result;
        }
    }

}

and
public ObservableCollection<ResultWrapper> AwesomeSauce

XAML is
<DataTemplate x:Key="ResultListItemTemplate" DataType="{x:Type ResultWrapper}">
...
    <TextBlock
                    x:Name="StartTime"
                    Width="50"
                    Margin="4,0,0,0"
                    FontSize="8"
                    Text="{Binding Result.StartTime, Mode=OneWay}" />
....

A: You have to change the DataType to Task (or remove it completely) and then adjust the binding paths:
<DataTemplate DataType="{x:Type Task}">
  <TextBlock Text="{Binding Result.ErrorMessage}"/>
</DataTemplate>

Note
You definitely should avoid Task.RunSynchronously() as there are scenarios where it will produce a deadlock. Task are designed for asynchronous or concurrent programming.
To have code execute synchronously and deferred at some random time you should make use of delegates and use one of the Action overloads (Action<ProcessedURLResult> in your scenario).
Then don't bind to this delegate collection directly (or Task collection) but to a dedicated result collection of type ProcessedURLResult you can bind the ItemsSource to. This will give you Intellisense support in XAML too, when writing the DataTemplate.
Whether you use Action or stick to Task you will experience UI freeze. Depending on the individual execution time and count of items, i.e. total execution time, this freeze will be more or less noticable but is always not desireable and should/ can be avoided. Therefore if you have access to WebRequestCustomer consider to make it run asynchronously (e.g., using TaskCompletionSource in case of posting HTTP requests).
Also your code is mixing both ways to populate the ItemsControl.ItemsSource: you are using Binding and direct assignment. The latter will override the former and behaves differently. I recommend Binding set from XAML.

A: Tasks should be awaited.
Do not use Task<ProcessedURLResult> as item type. Instead, declare a (read-only) collection property like
public ObservableCollection<ProcessedURLResult> AwesomeSauce { get; } =
    new ObservableCollection<ProcessedURLResult>();

and populate it in an async method by awaiting the Task returned from the ProcessPostURL method:
private async void Smashtimer_Elapsed(object sender, ElapsedEventArgs e)
{
    ...
    var result = await wc.ProcessPostURL(BASEURL, client, ct)

    Dispatcher.Invoke(() => AwesomeSauce.Add(result));
}

There is also no need to assign the ListBox's ItemsSource in code behind if you bind it in XAML:
<ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding ElementName=MainPage, Path=AwesomeSauce}" .../>

You may also want to replace System.Timers.Timer by DispatcherTimer to avoid the need for calling Dispatcher.Invoke.

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Q: Enable to load image I use codeigniter framework for develop my database but there is minor problem in this database that is image
image show like this:

but when i make right click on it and click on open image in new tab it show this error
Error of image open in new tab:

and also if i refresh the url again after error message,now image open and also the main page where i start this also image open.
Can anyone please tell me what is the problem,is this hosting problem or coding problem.
i'm using this code for place image

        <?php
            if(count($siteinfos->photo)) {
                echo "";
                echo "photo)." />";
                echo "";
            }
        ?>

<?php echo $siteinfos->sname; ?>

A: First load url helper in controller from where data is passed to the view.Like this...
$this->load->helper('url');

Then only you can use base_url().Replace your above code with following..

<?php
    if(count($siteinfos->photo)) { ?>
       <img width='50' height='50' src=" <?php echo base_url('uploads/images/').$siteinfos->photo;?>" />
 <?php    }
?>

<?php echo $siteinfos->sname; ?>


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Aside from our smartphones, we at all times carry a couple of earphones simply in case we become bored when travelling, or once we need to revel in a quiet time on my own. But have you ever ever heard about headphones that don't duvet ears? Well, AfterShokz seeks to guide the upward push of bone conduction headphones available in the market with Trekz Air.
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Keep studying for our complete overview!
Inside it, you'll be able to in finding the product itself, USB charging cable, a couple of foam earplugs, consumer information, and a sporting black pouch.
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On the appropriate aspect, you possibly can see some buttons, permitting you to keep watch over playback and quantity. The buttons could also be too small for many who have giant fingers although. You too can spot the charging port.
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We would additionally like to notice that dressed in the Trekz Air in black variant used to be like dressed in no headphones in any respect, particularly if feminine customers let their hair down.
It seems to be in reality distinctive and swish for the reason that tool isn't the standard headphones you spot available in the market.
The Trekz Air is supplied with rechargeable lithium-ion. Based on its web site, it claimed the tool will last as long as 20 days standby time, and six hours for steady play and calls. Charging hours, in the meantime, will take two hours.
Based on our enjoy, it would in reality ultimate for five to six hours if you happen to use this with average quantity.
On the charging time, then again, we have been stunned that we completed a complete rate after one and a part hours simplest.
Since the tool is simplest just right for optimum six hours taking part in time, we don't suggest this in case you have an extended adventure.
You don't need to come across the effort of charging it once more sooner than you'll want to revel in just right track and the surroundings alongside the way in which.
AfterShokz Trekz Air is straightforward to make use of. All you wish to have to do is flip at the Bluetooth of your track tool and pair it with the headphones.
We didn't come across any problem in pairing it with our gadgets. The tool helps Bluetooth 4.2 connectivity.
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The enjoy of no longer having to near your ears with headphones used to be each overwhelming and superb. It may be just right when you're outdoor performing some errands as you possibly can nonetheless remember of your surrounding.
Although we expect bone conduction headphones aren't for everybody, the ones with listening to issues can get pleasure from this because it makes use of vibrations, bypassing the eardrum.
The tool boasts the PremiumPitch+ sound era it has to offer optimized sound with bass and keep away from sound leakage.
Bone Conduction Technology delivers sound thru cheekbones!
While the Trekz Air produces respectable audio output, conventional earphones or headphones, which might be in the similar value vary, are nonetheless higher in relation to sound high quality.
As we discussed, the field has a couple or earbuds within, which you'll be able to use to maximise and extra benefit from the sound it produces.
When the usage of it, we desire low to average volumes as choosing upper volumes can produce an excessive amount of vibrations, leading to sound leakage. The vibration could also be overwhelming too for some who aren't used to dressed in this type of tool on their higher cheekbones.
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Bad Rx - Big Pharma & Medical Research
Arthur Schafer
"Evidence-based medicine" has become the mantra of the medical profession. When patients "present" to their physicians, the physicians are supposed to set aside their intuitions and prejudices and, instead, treat the patients' problems according to the best and most rigorous scientific data available in the leading journals.
Let us suppose that you are one of those patients fortunate enough to have a family doctor who actually keeps abreast of the medical literature, rather than making her prescription decisions based upon what was popular when she graduated from medical school 20 years ago or, worse still, what was left to her as a pile of free samples by that handsome young drug company "rep" who took her to lunch last week at Rae and Jerry's steak house. (If the doctor is male, then substitute pretty young woman for handsome young man in the above example.)
You have been diagnosed with hypertension. That is, you have high blood pressure. Your doctor has consulted the journals and has found a high percentage of articles in the leading journals which favour treating hypertensive disease with drugs known as "calcium-channel antagonists or blockers." You then begin your career as what could turn out to be a lifetime consumer of this very expensive medication.
Is the Evidence on which Your Doctor Is Relying Truly Reliable?
There is a good deal of recent research to suggest that the correct answer to this question is: "Probably not." The principal reason for doubting the scientific reliability of the published studies, even though they have been carried out by eminent physicians and appear in leading journals, is that they have mostly been funded by the drug industry itself.
One of the most influential studies of how researchers' objectivity might be compromised by drug industry sponsorship appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, in January 1998. Stelfox and colleagues set out to examine published articles on the safety of calcium-channel antagonists. Their goal was to answer the question: To what extent does industry support of medical research influence the research findings of investigators? For purposes of this study, Stelfox divided authors according to their relationships with pharmaceutical companies and then, independently, classified their research findings on the safety issue as "supportive," "critical" or "neutral." The conclusion reached by Stelfox et al must be of serious concern to every supporter of industry-university partnerships: "Our results demonstrate a strong association between authors' published positions on the safety of calcium-channel antagonists and their financial relationships with pharmaceutical manufacturers."1
It may be worth spelling out just how influential drug company sponsorship appears to have been: "Ninety-six per cent of supportive authors had financial relationships with the manufacturers of calcium-channel antagonists, as compared with 60 per cent of the neutral authors and 37 per cent of the critical authors." A caveat is required here. The Stelfox study needs to be interpreted with care. Were authors first funded by companies making calcium- channel blockers, after which they wrote favourably about the product, or did they first write favourably about the product and only then receive financial support from the companies? Since the Stelfox authors were unable to determine the time line, this question cannot be answered conclusively. Interestingly, even researchers who had financial ties with manufacturers of competing products were significantly less critical of the drugs being tested than authors who had no ties to industry. In other words, scientists who are funded by the pharmaceutical industry produce studies which tend to be more favourable to new drugs than those whose funding is industry-independent even when the new drug being tested is a product of a rival company.
In a more recent study, Canadian doctor Joel Lexchin and colleagues did a comprehensive meta-analysis of what is currently known about the alleged tendency of drug company sponsorship to produce biased research results. They concluded that there is a systematic bias to the outcome of published research funded by the pharmaceutical industry. When research is funded by the pharmaceutical industry, it is significantly more likely to favour the industry's products than when the funding is industry-independent. The results apply across a wide range of disease states, drugs and drug classes, over at least two decades and regardless of the type of research being assessed.
Although it seems intuitively obvious that "he who pays the piper calls the tune," there are competing hypotheses to explain why it is the case that when a pharmaceutical company pays for the clinical trial of its new drug, the results are more likely to be favourable to that drug than when the funding is industry-independent. The most plausible explanation is encapsulated by the phrase "publication bias." This phrase is used to describe a tendency on the part of researchers not to submit their findings for publication when those findings are negative. Publication bias is sometimes referred to, colloquially, as "the file drawer effect." Suppose that there are 20 studies done of some new drug, and suppose that of those 20 studies, six are positive and 14 are negative. Suppose, further, that as a direct or indirect result of company influence, 12 of the negative studies are not published (that is, they are banished to the file drawer), while every positive study is published, celebrated even. Those physicians who then attempt conscientiously to review the literature would find six positive but only two negative studies.
The new drug would be hailed as a medical breakthrough and would rapidly become part of standard therapy. This is not science, however, so much as marketing through censorship or self-censorship. If the much-touted movement towards "evidence-based medicine" is to mean anything, then physicians need unbiased data on the clinical effectiveness, toxicity, convenience and cost of new drugs compared with available alternatives. Because of the phenomenon of publication bias, what passes for good scientific evidence may be simply a mirage.
When a university or hospital researcher's career depends upon attracting and keeping drug industry funding, the desire to please the company (and protect one's career) can easily lead to ethical violations. When the researcher's university is beholden to the same company for huge donations of equipment and buildings, the incentive not to kill the goose that's laying these golden eggs will sometimes be irresistible. Moreover, when researchers discover potentially serious harms being caused by the drugs they are testing on their patients, and when they attempt to inform their patients of such newly-discovered risks, they may find themselves threatened by the company with ruinous legal action, as happened to Dr. Nancy Olivieri at Sick Kids Hospital, in Toronto. Neither her hospital nor her university (University of Toronto) was willing to support her effectively in this struggle. When the public discovered that the company had promised a $20 million donation to the university and more millions to the hospital, those of a cynical bent suspected the defence of academic freedom may have been less than vigorous because of a desire, conscious or unconscious, to please a wealthy donor.
To make matters worse, sometimes the research design itself is loaded in favour of the company's drug. For example, the new drug is compared to a drug already proven to be ineffective rather than to one already proven effective. Or it might be compared to an effective older drug, but the older drug is given in an inappropriate dose, which misleadingly makes the new drug seem better than it is. Moreover, even well-designed studies can be poorly conducted, and biases that favor the sponsor's product can be introduced by protocol violations, failure to keep proper records or failure to submit accurate data to a journal for publication.
Evidence such as that cited above calls into question the integrity of drug company-funded research. Since company-funded research has become preponderant, in both Canada and the United States, the clear implication is that the integrity problem is both systemic and serious.
Why Drug-Industry Funding of University Research Should Be Banned
The evidence now seems very strong, indeed. When medical research is sponsored by drug companies, it tends to be biased in favour of the companies' products. Given the major role of the pharmaceutical industry in funding research, it is not altogether surprising that published drug studies are often of poor quality.
Data showing that a new drug may be dangerous for patients is sometimes "lost" or "reinterpreted" or simply not submitted for publication. Scientists who try to warn patients about potentially serious drug side effects sometimes find that their university or hospital appointment has been terminated. This happened to Dr. David Healy after he issued public warnings about his concern that Prozac was being overprescribed. Healy was not intimidated, but many researchers are understandably concerned to protect their future funding and their jobs.
Since doctors rely on published studies when deciding the best treatment for their patients, anything which threatens the objectivity of medical research is bad news for patients. Partly this is a matter of patient safety, but it is also a matter of economics. New drugs, which are vastly more expensive than older drugs but often no more effective, sometimes achieve enormous popularity based upon flawed research.
Celebrex, for example, became a "blockbuster" drug for the treatment of arthritic pain, largely based upon a now-notorious study appearing in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in the summer of 2000. The published data, covering six months, indicated that the new drug was associated with lower rates of stomach and intestinal ulcers than two older drugs. Only after publication was it revealed that the full year's data - which had not been disclosed - did not support the claim that Celebrex was safer than its generic competitors.
Although the company, Pharmacia, continues to claim that Celebrex has a superior safety profile, the U.S. Government Food and Drug Administration's arthritis advisory committee concluded, based upon the full year's data, that Celebrex offers no proven safety advantage in reducing the risk of ulcer complications. JAMA's editor laments: "I am disheartened to hear that they had those data at the time they submitted (the manuscript) to us."
It should be noted that half of the Celebrex study's 16 authors were medical faculty at eight different universities, acting as paid consultants of the company. The other eight were company employees.
In such an environment, can the public trust in the objectivity of university research?
Cases such as this one have generated a powerful reform movement within the medical research community. In an article published recently in The Canadian Medical Association Journal, the acceptance of drug-company funding by university researchers is compared to "dancing with the porcupine." Those who wish to dance with porcupines must exercise great care if they are to avoid painful skin punctures. By analogy, it's okay for scientists to partner with industry, so long as precautions are taken. What kind of precautions?
The general public would likely be amazed to learn that, until very recently, researchers were not required publicly to disclose who was funding their research. Worse, it was - and still is - common for medical researchers to attach their names to scholarly articles that they have neither designed nor written. That is, the experiments are designed by the drug companies and ghostwritten by drug company employees, but appear under the names of prominent doctors (who duly reap status from their colleagues, and cold cash from the company).
Important reforms, adopted in recent years by many universities, have included the requirement that investigators disclose the sources of their funding, that they take responsibility for the design of their experiments and the interpretation of the data, and that they (not the companies) have the final say as to whether to publish.
Disappointingly, however, a recent (2002) survey shows that these reforms are routinely ignored by academic institutions. It seems to be the case that universities and researchers are competing so fiercely for drug-industry funding that the reforms have been sidelined in a race to the ethical bottom.
Is it likely that any reformist approach will succeed in restoring integrity to medical research? Keep in mind that the fundamental duty of universities is "to seek truth." By contrast, the duty of pharmaceutical companies is "to make money for their shareholders." Thus, from the university's perspective, "partnership" with the drug industry may be characterized as "an unholy alliance" - more akin to swimming with sharks than to dancing with porcupines. To avoid becoming shark bait, universities might be wise to decline the swimming invitation altogether.
Universities and university researchers have, as their prime duty, the obligation to put the health and safety of the public above all else. When they accept drug company donations and funding, they are beholden to the companies. Disclosing this conflict of interest is scarcely an adequate solution to the problem. Would we permit our judges to own shares in for-profit prisons on condition that they disclose their shareholdings? Would we allow judges to accept payment from some of their corporate litigants? The answer is obvious. Our judicial system would lose all credibility if such practices were permitted, even with full disclosure.
Analogously, if biomedical researchers and their universities are to retain public trust, then they should simply not be permitted to put themselves into situations of financial conflict of interest. If the community values public science in the public interest, then it will have to be paid for by public tax dollars.
This does not mean that university-originated discoveries should never be commercialized. In western marketplace societies, many of the discoveries of fundamental research will be developed and marketed commercially. It should become the job of governments to develop new mechanisms so that a fair share of the resulting profit would be captured for the benefit of universities and hospitals. There is no need for our researchers to become handmaidens of business, nor is it desirable for universities to become adjuncts of large corporations. University research and university researchers must be sequestered from the process of commercialization if we want to avoid the kinds of damaging conflicts of interest described earlier.
How might such a sequestration be achieved?
One practical possibility might be to require of any drug company which desires to bring a new drug to market that it provide to an independent institute all the funding necessary for the design and performance of a clinical trial of its drug. The institute would then allocate to qualified university and hospital researchers the task of conducting the necessary clinical trials. The independence and objectivity of clinical research would thereby be protected.
Another promising solution might lie in changes to the tax system. If industry profitably exploits the public's investment in scientific research, it could not legitimately complain when a fair share of its profits from such research is recaptured through special taxation. The government could then provide research support through special taxes raised from corporations which make use of discoveries originating from university science.
Moreover, if drug research were publicly funded there might actually be a net saving, because drug costs would be significantly lower. At present, we waste fortunes on ineffective or positively harmful treatments, not to mention the cost of lives lost or blighted.
The stakes are certainly high. To continue on our present course is to risk losing the one commodity which, for physicians, universities and hospitals, should be viewed as beyond price: the public trust.
Arthur Schafer is Director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba.
1 Stelfox HT, Chua G, O'Rourke K, Detsky AS. Conflict of Interest in the Debate Over Calcium-Channel Antagonists. New England Journal of Medicine; 1998; 338:101-6.
A more detailed discussion of the issues raised in this article can be found in Arthur Schafer's paper "Biomedical Conflicts of Interest: A Defence of the Sequestration Thesis - Learning from the cases of Nancy Olivieri and David Healy," forthcoming publication in the Journal of Medical Ehtics. The JME has posted the article in advance on its website http://jme.bmjjournals.com/misc/advanced.shtml.
The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of CAUT.
CAUT Bulletin October 2003


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La Sociedad Deportiva Aucas es un club de fútbol femenino ecuatoriano. Es considerado como uno de los pioneros del futbol femenino de la capital de la República y del Ecuador.

Historia
El equipo en su primera etapa se formó en febrero del 2004 y participó en el Campeonato Experimental realizado en Loja, entre octubre y noviembre; fue tercero entre seis conjuntos donde el campeón fue el Deportivo Quevedo.

El equipó está conformado por las siguientes chicas. Arqueras: Carla Wray, Mayra Quispe, Blanca Achig y Diana Suasnavas. Defensas: Lorena Borja, Fanny Yasig, Lorena Paguay, Yolima Paiz, Marcia Cárate y Olivia Mina. Mediocampistas: Merly Zambrano, Verónica Tarambiz, Carmen Neto, Ximena Simbaña, Alexandra Escobar, Yolanda Salazar, Aracelly Tamayo, Carina Pulla y Cecilia Saltos. Delanteras: Eva Piedra, Cristina Quishpe, María Fernanda Erazo, Mayra Ohbayashy, Natalia Pallo y Nelly Suntaxi. El promedio de edad en el plantel de entonces es de 23 años, aunque existen dos jugadoras que rompen la regla, Blanca Achig de 13 y Aracelly Tamayo de 35.

Con aquella base de jugadoras, las warmis del Aucas en el Torneo Amateur de Futbol Femenino de Pichincha quedó campeón en el 2005, con el equipo se compitió hasta el año 2008.

En la segunda etapa, empieza desde el año 2018, debido a un requerimiento de la CONMEBOL de que todas las plantillas deben tener un equipo de futbol femenino. Aucas participa en el primer campeonato profesional llamado  Superliga Femenina de Ecuador donde debido al no tan buen armaje perdería la categoría.

Futbolistas

Títulos
 Campeonato Provincial de Pichincha (1 veces): 2005.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
Página oficial del Aucas

 Sociedad Deportiva Aucas en FEF
 Sociedad Deportiva Aucas en FIFA
 Sociedad Deportiva Aucas en Youtube

Sociedad Deportiva Aucas

Equipos de fútbol femenino de Ecuador
Equipos de fútbol de Quito


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