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Mahoney Commission report
No full textReport of Commission of Enquiry into Purchasing Procedures of the Department of Public Works and Services 1981Letter of transmittal -- Acknowledgements -- Background. The commission in context. Creation -- Scope of enquiry: the terms of reference. Limits in subject-matter -- Limits in time -- Focus -- Methods of investigation. General approach -- Investigation of department files: methodology. Repairs and maintenance -- Capital projects -- Government purchasing agency -- Cleaning contracts -- Leasing -- Other expenditures -- Relationship to other investigations -- The hearings. Procedure & rules of evidence generally -- Weaknesses in commission power -- Rulings. In camera hearings -- Privilege against self-incrimination -- Crown privilege -- Access to transcripts -- Participation of other counsel -- Structure of the report -- Government contracting in Newfoundland. Historical introduction -- Legislative history -- The Public Tender Act, 1974 -- Tendering legislation in other selected jurisdictions. Introduction -- Canada -- Selected provincial jurisdictions -- Findings. The Department in context. General structure of the Department. Introduction -- Property management services division -- The perceived purchasing system -- Analysis of departmental purchasing procedures. Characteristics of a good purchasing system -- Property management services division - electrical and mechanical -- Property management services division - other -- Technical services division -- A case in point: The college of fisheries, navigation, marine engineering & electronics -- Use of direct purchase orders -- The Public Tender Act, 1974. Introduction -- General analysis and interpretation -- Non-compliance with the Act. Property management services division - electrical and mechanical -- Property management services division - other -- Technical services division -- Service contracts -- Attitudes -- General assessment -- Responsibility for violations. General standards of ministerial responsibility and sub-delegation -- Conclusions -- The value of the Public Tender Act -- Improper interference in department spending practices. Introduction -- Methods of investigation -- Findings. Alleged influence by contractors and others toward politicians and departmental officials. Alleged gifts and bribes -- Political contributions -- Alleged improper interference by politicians in the contracting and tendering process. The "preferred list" -- The "work list" -- Delays in implementation of service contracts -- Other examples of improper interference -- Further proceedings -- Other considerations. Leasing -- Government purchasing agency -- Health Sciences complex -- Carbonear hospital -- Spending by means of grants -- Transfers between subheads -- Recommendations. Administrative recommendations. The current system -- Internal control -- Committment control -- Staffing -- Education -- Delegation -- Documentation -- Service contracts -- Regulations -- Recovery of money spent in contravention of Public Tender Act -- Code of ethics -- Political interference -- Legislative recommendations. Concept: statute v. regulations -- Tabling in the House of Assembly -- Leases -- Extensions of contracts -- Dispensing with tenders for trivial amounts -- Purchasing procedures in the absence of public tenders -- Definition of "services" the Department of Public Works and Services Act, 1973 -- Sanctions -- Spending by means of grants -- Transfers between sub-heads -- General conclusions and comments -- Appendices. Terms of reference -- List of witnesses -- List of briefs submitted -- Commissioner's opening statement re: rules of procedure -- The Public Tender Act, 1974 -- Attitude survey questionnaire -- Summary of attitude survey results -- Analysis of work undertaken at college of fisheries -- Analysis of work undertaken at selected government buildings -- D.M.D. 07 - "work authorization" -- Work lists for 1974-1975 -- Direct purchase order form -- Government contracts regulations (Canada) -- Quebec tendering regulationsCited as the Mahoney Commission repor
Fossil carotenoids and paleolimnology of meromictic Mahoney Lake, British Columbia, Canada
No full textVertical distribution of fossil carotenoids in a sediment core from meromictic Mahoney Lake was studied. Besides okenone and demethylated okenone, lutein and zeaxanthin and-carotene isomers were identified. No carotenoids typical for purple nonsulfur or green sulfur bacteria were detected. The ratio of zeaxanthin to lutein (above 1:1 in all samples) indicates a dominance of cyanobacteria over green algae in the phytoplankton assemblages of the past. Okenone, which is found exclusively in Chromatiaceae, was the dominating carotenoid in all sediment zones.
The oldest sediment layers containing okenone were deposited 11 000 years ago. Between 9000 and 7000 and since 3000 years b.p., Chromatiaceae reached a considerable biomass in the lake. Vertical changes in okenone concentration were not related to changes of paleotemperatures. In contrast, okenone concentrations decreased during periods of volcanic ash input. During most of the lake history, however, mean okenone concentrations were positively correlated with sedimentation rates. This indicates that vertical changes of okenone concentration in the sediment reflect past changes of purple sulfur bacterial biomass in the lake.
According to these results, the past limnology of Mahoney Lake resembled that of the present with a sulfide-containing monimolimnion and a well-developed population of okenone-bearing purple sulfur bacteria
Bill Addressed to Clara MacNaughton from W. M. V. Mahoney
No full textBill addressed to Clara MacNaughton from W. M. V. Mahoney for services rendered, including wall papers, window shades, room mouldings, and painting.Regarding Olympia Brown, Clara Bewick Colby, Dr. Clara W. MacNaughton, Susan B. Anthon
Hawley collection of violins; with a history of their makers and a brief review of the evolution and decline of the art of violin-making in Italy, 1540-1800.
No full textLimited ed. of 2000 copies. Mahoney Collection c. 1 is no. 1935. Limited Deluxe ed. of 2000 copies. Mahoney Collection c. 2 is no. 1998
Mahoney, Fannie Jane
No full textFrancis W. Mahoney - husbandhttps://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-ch-memoranda-1919/1201/thumbnail.jp
Trace Metal Distribution within the Fluvial Levee Samples in the Coeur d'Alene River, Idaho.
No full textColor poster with text, graphs, and map describing research conducted by Brooke Fahrenkrog and Adam Krieger, advised by J. Brian Mahoney, Robert L. Hooper, and Jill W. Ferguson.Extensive lead, silver, and zinc mining in the Coeur d'Alene River Valley, Idaho during the late 1800s-mid 1900s produced mine tailings that were reworked downstream by fluvial processes. This study focuses on oxidized sediments from river levees near Cataldo and Swan Lake.University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
Approximating the Solution to Mixed Packing and Covering LPs in Parallel O˜(epsilon^{-3}) Time
No full textWe study the problem of approximately solving positive linear programs (LPs). This class of LPs models a wide range of fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization and operations research, such as many resource allocation problems, solving non-negative linear systems, computing tomography, single/multi commodity flows on graphs, etc. For the special cases of pure packing or pure covering LPs, recent result by Allen-Zhu and Orecchia [Allen/Zhu/Orecchia, SODA'15] gives O˜(1/(epsilon^3))-time parallel algorithm, which breaks the longstanding O˜(1/(epsilon^4)) running time bound by the seminal work of Luby and Nisan [Luby/Nisan, STOC'93].
We present new parallel algorithm with running time O˜(1/(epsilon^3)) for the more general mixed packing and covering LPs, which improves upon the O˜(1/(epsilon^4))-time algorithm of Young [Young, FOCS'01; Young, arXiv 2014]. Our work leverages the ideas from both the optimization oriented approach [Allen/Zhu/Orecchia, SODA'15; Wang/Mahoney/Mohan/Rao, arXiv 2015], as well as the more combinatorial approach with phases [Young, FOCS'01; Young, arXiv 2014]. In addition, our algorithm, when directly applied to pure packing or pure covering LPs, gives a improved running time of O˜(1/(epsilon^2))
Book review: Criminal Justice and the Supreme Court. Edited by Leonard W. Levy, Kenneth L. Karst, and Dennis J. Mahoney.
No full textBook review: Criminal Justice and the Supreme Court. Edited by Leonard W. Levy, Kenneth L. Karst, and Dennis J. Mahoney. New York, N.Y.: MacMillan Publishing Company.
1990. Pp. xix, 375. Reviewed by: Gerald Caplan.Caplan, Gerald. (1991). Book review: Criminal Justice and the Supreme Court. Edited by Leonard W. Levy, Kenneth L. Karst, and Dennis J. Mahoney.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/165935
James E. Mahoney on way to court, Seattle, 1921
No full textOne of the state's most notorious crimes, the "Mahoney Trunk Murder" occurred in Seattle in 1921. The victim was Kate Mooers, 72, an eccentric and wealthy woman who married for the third time to James E. Mahoney, 38, a convicted robber. After Kate's body was discovered in a trunk in Lake Union, Mahoney was indicted for first degree murder. The trial was big news nationally. It began on September 21, 1921, and ten days later the jury found Mahoney guilty. In this photo, Mahoney is on the right, handcuffed to a Seattle law enforcement official.Handwritten on sleeve: [Mahoney?] on Way to Court. Source for caption: WASHINGTON, THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED YEARS, 1889-1989, by Don Duncan.1 glass negative: b&w; 5 x 7 in
WE, the undersigned, will pay the above reward for the arrest and delivery of ARNA MAHONEY
No full textWE, the undersigned, will pay the above reward
for the arrest and delivery of ARNA MAHONEY, to
the Sheriff of Limestone County, at the jail in Athens, Ala. He is charged with the murder of Redus Westmoreland on the 5th of November 1895. Description: Age, 20 years; weight., 150 pounds; hair, red or sandy, thick; complexion, fair, with freckles; eyes, blue; of
Irish decent
Athens, Ala. Nov. 30, 1895
M. F. Westmoreland
W. B. Vaughn
Theo. Westmorlan
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