The Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted an own-initiative report by Maria Eleni KOPPA (S&D, EL) on the policies and criteria on enlargement and the European Union's strategic interests on the matter.
Members recall firstly, that in accordance with Article 49 Treaty on the European Union (TEU), any European state which respects and remains committed to the promotion of the values of human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, may apply to become a member of the Union. They also underline that each country aspiring to EU membership has to be judged on its own merits in fulfilling, implementing and complying with the same set of criteria.
They also recall that the Copenhagen criteria are twenty years old and it is now time for a re-evaluation.
In this context, Members also recall that the European Parliament, through its annual resolutions on the candidate and potential candidate countries, contributes to improving the transparency and accountability of the enlargement process by echoing the opinions of the European citizens and that, following the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, the role of Parliament has increased thanks to the recognition of co-legislative power, inter alia with regard to the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA).
General considerations: Members strongly support the enlargement process and believe that the policy must gain the support of the public both in the EU and in the candidate and potential candidate countries. In general, they consider that the EU and the candidate and potential candidate countries must fulfil all obligations and create the conditions for ensuring the success of future enlargements, inter alia by assisting the countries concerned in their efforts to meet the criteria for EU accession.
a comprehensive communication strategy should be in place to inform public opinion concerning the implications of enlargement.
Pointing out that the EU continues to be attractive with its combination of economic dynamism with a social model, Members regret that this social dimension has been largely neglected in the enlargement process. They invite the Commission to address this issue, especially in the framework of Chapter 19 (Social Policy and Employment), to foster positive social transformation in the future EU Member States. They underline the impact of the acquis in the social field and the commitments undertaken within the framework of the European Social Charter of 1961 and the Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers of 1989.
In order to facilitate alignment of the economies of accession countries in developing in the same direction as those of EU Member States, Members encourage the formulation of feasible and country-specific targets for each of the EU 2020 headline targets. They also stress that, in order to enhance the credibility and effectiveness of the enlargement strategy, the Copenhagen criteria must be fully respected and complied with by Member States as well, in order to avoid requiring applicant countries to meet higher standards than those applying in some EU Member States. To this effect, the Members stress the importance of defining the different stages more clearly, setting transparent and fair benchmarks throughout the process that translate the general membership criteria into concrete steps towards accession. A benchmark, once attained, should be sustained and that backsliding should elicit an appropriate response on the part of those setting the benchmarks.
Stressing that the objective of the accession process is full EU membership, Members call on the Commission to maintain and further intensify its monitoring of progress in the accession process, as well as its assistance to candidate and potential candidate countries, so as to ensure that they achieve a high degree of preparedness. They also believe that the EU integration capacity of each candidate should be evaluated at an early stage (that is, in the Commission's "opinion" for each potential candidate state).
In this context, Members emphasise that a successful enlargement process requires that the EU should maintain the capacity to act and develop with the financial resources to pursue its political objectives.
Enlargement policies: welcoming the new negotiating approach for future negotiating frameworks, which prioritises issues related to the judiciary and fundamental rights, as well as to justice and home affairs, Members call on the Commission to report to Parliament regularly on progress in these areas. This focus on the areas in question should not be to the detriment of the efforts and progress made in the other areas.
putting in place the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies.
Other questions were raised such as improving the quality of the accession process by making it more merit-based and more transparent and benchmark-driven. From this perspective, Members recommend that the progress reports should be clearer in their assessments. The benchmarks should not set additional conditions for the candidate and potential candidate countries, but should translate the general membership criteria and the objectives of the EU's pre-accession assistance into concrete steps.
The question of conflicts and good neighbourhood relations: Members take the view that any acceding state should resolve its main bilateral problems and major disputes with neighbours, particularly those concerning territorial issues, before it can join the Union. Therefore, they call on the EU to support efforts to resolve outstanding disputes, including border disputes. All parties to disputes whose continuation is likely to impair implementation of the acquis should engage constructively in their peaceful resolution and, if necessary, refer the matter to the International Court of Justice.
In this context, the Commission and the Council are called upon to start developing, in accordance with the EU Treaties, an arbitration mechanism aimed at resolving bilateral and multilateral disputes.
The IPA and the question of financing accession: Members urge the Commission to plan a non-decrease in real terms of overall funding for each beneficiary. Members note that this calculation should be made taking into consideration the following: a) the ratio of overall programmed IPA assistance to each country's GDP should not decrease in relative terms; b) the number of countries with access to funding through the future instrument is likely to decrease with the accession of Croatia; c) with the suggested changes to the new Instrument serving to remove differentiation between countries on the basis of their candidacy status, more countries will be able to access funding.
For a concerted communication policy: Members take the view that it is essential to accompany EU enlargement with a concerted communication policy, more effective and more transparent. In order to encourage support among EU citizens for further enlargement and the commitment of the citizens of the candidate and potential candidate countries to continuing with reforms, it is crucial to present clear and comprehensive information on the political, socioeconomic and cultural benefits of enlargement.
They consider it essential, in particular, to explain to the public how enlargement has brought new investment and export opportunities, and how it can contribute to attaining the EU's objectives in terms of promoting conflict prevention, tackling the economic crisis, creating jobs, facilitating the free flow of labour, protecting the environment while improving living conditions as well as reducing social and economic imbalances.
Prospects and the EU's strategic interests: Members consider that EU membership provides stability in the swiftly changing international environment, and that belonging to the European Union continues to offer the perspective of social development and prosperity. They are also of the opinion that enlargement is a long-term strategic interest of the EU.
For their part, Members consider that the Parliament should remain fully committed to the prospect of enlargement. They recognise, however, that not all European states will choose to seek full membership and that some which do seek it will not fulfil the accession criteria. They recommend, therefore, that at the next general revision of the Treaties, without prejudice to any ongoing enlargement negotiations, Parliament should initiate a discussion on the introduction of a new category of associate membership of the Union.
Members recall that the process is not concluded with the simple transposition of the acquis, and stress the importance of effective implementation. They consider that EU Member States should also be assessed for their continued compliance with the EU's fundamental values. Therefore, they call on the Commission to work out a detailed proposal for a monitoring mechanism, building on the provisions of Article 7 TEU and Article 258 TFEU.
Noting that the global financial crisis and the difficulties of the eurozone, Members underline the importance of further consolidating economic and financial stability and fostering growth, also in the candidate and potential candidate countries so as to maintain sound public finances. It is therefore necessary to provide adequate and better-targeted pre-accession financial assistance. Members note the Commission's proposal for a new IPA, including increased financial support for the financial perspective 2014-2020. They also call for closer examination of the use of innovative financial instruments requiring coordination structures, such as, for example, the Western Balkans Investment Framework, which is complementary to the administrative structures for the IPA and has the goal of attracting and channelling support for priority areas.
Members finally emphasised the need to focus the process of enlargement on a model of sustainable economic growth in line with the Europe 2020 Strategy.


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Indexes sink; Netflix miss pulls down communications stocks
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks moved lower in midday trading on Wall Street Thursday after Netflix reported a slump in new subscribers and dragged down communications companies. The streaming video service plunged after subscriber additions fell far below Wall Street forecasts during the April-June period....
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — The University of Alaska's revenue bond ratings have been downgraded after a cut in state funding, a report said. Moody's Investors Service announced the rating decreases Wednesday, citing the "unprecedented" single-year reduction, The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported Wednesday....
China launches STAR, tech stock market to boost industry
BEIJING (AP) — Trading starts Monday on a Chinese stock market for high-tech companies that play a key role in official development plans that are straining relations with Washington. Regulators have approved 25 companies in information technology and other fields seen by communist leaders as a path to...
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Whitmer appoints energy-efficiency leader as top regulator
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday named an energy-efficiency and sustainability official to Michigan's regulatory body that oversees utilities and telecommunication companies. Tremaine Phillips's six-year appointment to the three-member Public Service Commission will take effect...
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IEX Wins Buy Side Praise
IEX Group, an ATS that purports to focus on investor protection and performance, is earning plaudits by creating a market that aims to maximize shares traded at the best available price.
The company, whose CEO, Brad Katsuyama, was formerly global head of electronic sales and trading at RBC Capital Markets, has as its mission decreasing information leakage, eliminating informational disadvantages and persistent inefficiencies, and promoting an opportunity for natural interest to interact without unnecessary intermediation.
"One of the reasons we became interested in IEX is that it was formed by a group of guys who've been very helpful toward the buy side," said Joseph Scafidi, director of trading at Brandes Investment Partners. "At the time, RBC did not have its own dark pool and took a very different approach from other firms. As we became more educated on the breadth and depth of problems in the market, we recognized that the solution could not be a broker-dealer: it had to be independent."
Joe Scafidi, Brandes Investment Partners
IEX is dedicated to offering fair access to a balanced marketplace, and delivering a defined and objective experience in support of just and equitable principles of trade.
"One of the beautiful things about IEX is they have an ATS, which is effectively a dark pool," Scafidi said. "But unlike the other 40+ dark pools, they aren't in competition with the brokers. Rather, IEX can sit on any broker's platform, creating a highly effective network that increases the likelihood of finding the other side. It also has proprietary technology, which makes it unattractive to harmful HFT activities like latency arbitrage strategies. They've slowed things down, removing the advantage for running those strategies in their pool."
In addition to managing the day-to-day operations of the global trading desk at Brandes Investment Partners, Scafidi oversees the global trading strategy, including the execution of all institutional, private client and sub-advisory wrap portfolios, as well as program trading.
Scafidi has 21 years of experience on the sell side, most recently as the head of the international Trading Desk for a New York-based global financial services firm. He has extensive product knowledge in both foreign and domestic equity markets as well as 12 years of experience managing trading professionals and building positive relationships with institutional clients.
"So why did we get involved [with IEX]? We could see there was a problem with market structure, these guys had a decent idea, and we wanted to help them get it off the ground," he said. "It was important for us to try to help a group of people who had a plan to improve the markets for everybody."
Less than 20 percent of Brandes' AUM is in the U.S., so while IEX not impact benefit it initially, Scafidi thinks it will eventually go to other markets who look toward the U.S. for leadership.
"If this technology works (and we believe it will), this will benefit all of our clients," he said. "We've already seen a dramatic difference in the quality of execution: higher average order size and higher fill rates to a multiple of two to three over the market average in ATS's. We're also seeing a higher percentage of trades at midpoint than the industry average. The fewer the number of times you need to go around the carousel, the fewer the opportunities for people to front run you."
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A trade association representing a large network of retail outlets in a major European city is keen to invest in new technology allowing their customers full visibility of the range of products across all of the members' retail outlets. They want to increase the online utility of the service so that potential customers can browse products, compare prices between different outlets, download product information, check stock levels, and reserve a product online for subsequent collection. They are uncertain about the degree to which all of this is achievable and so ask Softage to work with them to clarify the requirement and measure aspiration against the art of the possible.
Softage begins work on the project in April 2012. Our team of systems and business analysts sit down with the client and work closely with them to refine their thinking and to get a clear idea of what they want the service to deliver. Having examined the project in great detail our team devises a service that will meet all of the client's needs. After showing the plan to the clients and securing their agreement, our developers set about designing and building a web based service that will satisfy the requirement.
Our team is able to design, build, test and roll out a service which links together databases containing product information with those containing stock levels, displaying all the required information clearly and in a way that's easy for potential customers to understand. We are also able to include a tool which highlights the closest outlets stocked with whatever the customer wants by reference to the user's IP address, displaying the results on a scrolling map.
The entire project, from definition to delivery, is completed in only three months. The client is delighted with the service and with the speed with which Softage delivers the product.
The service which Softage's team of developers builds allows for a full text search by product name. This produces results which link to information concerning product specification and use, as well as to the manufacturer's datasheets. Having selected a product, the service then allows the user to compare prices across all the city's outlets. These results can be ranked by price, availability, or proximity to the customer's address, depending on their wishes. This ability to calculate distance to the nearest outlet by IP address is reinforced by the option to override the automated calculation and manually select a location. The customer can also limit the results by specifying a maximum radius from their location to any stores which fit the other search criteria.
The service also allows users to review previous customer feedback on a particular outlet and present information such as street address, contact details, and outlet opening hours. If the user wishes to select more than one product in a single visit to the site, the system is configured to show only those outlets that had the entire selection in stock. It also remembers previous visitors to the site and previous searches, as well as ordering history.
Key to the system is the ability to receive and collate stock level information almost instantaneously. Each retail outlet has an electronic stock control system which records all deliveries and sales as they are made, and transmits that information back to a central server. Softage implements a database on that server which gathers information on each transaction as it is made, and then presents information to the online user that is completely reliable and up to date.
The service is designed to operate on versions of Internet Explorer from 7 onwards, and on the current and last two versions of Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari.
Softage's team selects Apache Tomcat 7 as the web server, drawing on their deep experience of working with Java. The search engine chosen is SOLR, another part of the Apache family, and highly regarded for its reliable full text search capability.


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From experience, I can tell you the military can provide these forms for the service member and family. Prior to deployment, the service member will be given an opportunity to meet with legal services. As a law librarian, I have to say you did an awesome job finding these forms! It's the exact way I would go about it – looking in the form books first and then the online resources. Don't forget, every county has a law library, with law librarians who assist the public with questions like these everyday!
In addition to somcak's suggestions (awesome btw!), it might be helpful to find out if there are any low-cost or free legal clinics in your area. If not, most law schools have one, so you could contact your nearest law school(s).
While there are often fill-in-the-blank forms you can use, filling them out and signing them doesn't necessarily make them enforceable instruments of law. It might be good to establish contact with someone in the state who can help you with occasional legal issues, or to whom you could refer patrons who need basic legal advice or assistance.
But I have to agree, you did a amazingly thorough job and found excellent resources! Well done sir.


What is better than a blissful night's sleep? Nothing. You may be on top of washing your sheets regularly to ensure your nightly date with the Sandman, but have you washed your comforter lately? Wait, I need to know how to wash a comforter? Yep.
Even if your comforter has a duvet cover, it still needs laundering. Duvet covers should be washed weekly with the rest of the bed linens, and comforters should be washed at least a couple of times per year. No duvet? Then your comforter needs more frequent attention. But don't despair! Here are 5 steps to help you wash a comforter with ease.
Before you being to know how to wash a comforter, you need to know what machine to use. How is your particular comforter designed – does it have down or synthetic filler? Is it cotton, wool, or polyester? Can your machine at home handle your comforter's bulk and weight?
Check your washer's manual to determine if you can wash heavy bedding with your machine. Alternatively, you can wash a comforter yourself at a local laundromat with large commercial washers. Here are 5 easy steps to wash a comforter yourself with confidence.
Determining the best machine for the job is only the beginning of knowing how to wash a comforter. Now you need to read the label to determine what is recommended for your comforter. If the care tag says "dry clean only," then it's best left to the professionals.
However, even down comforters can usually be washed in the right machine with the right settings. The label will tell you what water temperature is recommended and guide you with suggested detergents or warnings of what not to use. It will also tell you how to properly dry your comforter.
Following the information on the label, be sure to carefully treat stains with the recommended cleaning agent and method. A gentle detergent, such as Woolite or Mrs. Meyers, may be a safe choice. If possible, test an inconspicuous area for colorfastness.
Also, inspect the comforter for any rips or tears, as you don't want to further damage the comforter during the wash. Repair any damage to the comforter before putting it through the wash cycle.
Knowing how to wash a comforter includes some detergent savvy. Most care tags will recommend washing with a mild or natural detergent. It is best to use a detergent without additives, synthetic colors, or harsh chemicals, as these may damage the external fabric in addition to the comforter's fill.
In the same way, check the care tag to see if fabric softener is safe to use. For example, avoid using fabric softener when washing a down comforter- it can damage the down, thus reducing its fluff and the quality of the bedding.
Set the machine to the recommended temperature settings according to the care tag, and either the delicate or normal cycle. Adjust the spin speed to high to draw out as much water as possible.
Now that you know how to wash a comforter yourself, get drying! Dry the comforter according to the label recommendations. If drying down, try throwing a few tennis balls or dryer balls like the ones pictured below into the dryer to fluff the comforter and assist in drying.
If the weather is nice, a good air-dry will freshen up your comforter and keep bacteria at bay. Whichever method you choose, dry thoroughly and completely.
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Luang Prabang is a small city in central Laos, that is situated at the confluence of the Mekong and Nam Khan rivers. It was the royal capital of Laos until 1975. It's also designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
2-3: The Kuang Si waterfalls are a wonderful relaxing escape from the nearby town.
4-5: Buddhism is an integral part of Lao society, and the many temples are adorned with dozens of statues.
6: If you are willing to wake up early enough (6:00am), respectful visitors are encouraged to participate in the alms giving ceremony. Each monk collects sticky rice for their daily sustenance from the many participants seated along the road.
7-9: Mount Phu Si is located in the city, and has great views of the town and nearby Mekong river.
10: Long tail boat rides on the Mekong are a great way to soak in the surroundings, and see local life on the river.


So I found this site, TypeRacer. It's a pretty cool site. You can create an account (or don't, if you don't want to, but then it doesn't keep track of your stats), and you type out short passages from books, movies, songs, or whatever, and it tells you how fast you're typing. You can also race against other people typing the same thing as you, to see who types faster. Also, it adds a lot of keys for WhatPulse.
A table of XF member statistics will now be compiled as a table, because tables are awesome.
The rankings don't make a lot of sense. I'm apparently a Megaracer, rofl.
That keyboard is terrible for typing on.


As part of 19 Days In January, Rec Room will screen V for Vendetta. Natalie Portman stars in this dystopian political thriller based on the legendary graphic novel by Alan Moore. Set in the 2020s after the United States has a second civil war and the United Kingdom is taken over by fascists, Evey (Portman) is caught up in an anarchist's mission to ignite a revolution.
19 Days In January is a series of free films and lectures prior to the inauguration hosted by Rec Room.


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11. To the external form is referred the idiom of the Books of the New Testament, that all were written in the Greek idiom. Whether the Writers conceived in the Syriac idiom, but wrote in Greek?
Idiom is also referred to the external form of the books of the New Testament. Concerning which παρέργου ὁδὸν, by-path, a few things. Now, we persist in saying that all the books of the New Testament were written in the Greek idiom, even the Gospels of Saint Matthew and Mark, and the Epistles to the Romans and to the Hebrews, which we will more fully demonstrate concerning each in its place. Neither do we think that the Sacred Writers of the New Testament conceived what they had written in another idiom, namely, Syriac, but wrote in Greek things conceived in Syriac, in such a way that there are allusions, not which are on record, but which they conceived internally, to be considered by the genuine interpreter. For, this is to be firmly held by all, that the Holy Spirit inspired his amanuenses, not only with substance, but also with individual sayings, method and expression; that they perceived the things inspired, rightly formed their conceptions, and expressed those formed conceptions in such a way that that Greek, with which they expressed themselves, is the fabric/structure, and sole canon and norm, of the faith, manners, and all our meditations, with respect to the New Testament.


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Hapoel owner Guma still missing
The boat of the majority owner of Hapoel Jerusalem basketball club washes ashore on Fort Lauderdale beach in Florida.
By ALLON SINAI
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There remain more questions than answers regarding the disappearance of Guma Aguiar, with the 35-year-old millionaire missing at sea since Tuesday night.
The boat of the majority owner of Hapoel Jerusalem basketball club washed ashore on Fort Lauderdale beach in Florida in the early morning hours Wednesday and an ongoing search has so far come up empty.
Aguiar, who made a fortune in oil and gas, took his boat out at approximately 7 p.m. Tuesday and has not been seen since.
Aguiar rose to prominence in Israel when he gave Betar Jerusalem $4 million in July 2009 a month before coming to Hapoel's rescue, handing the cash-strapped club $1.5 million.
However, he would exit Israeli sports in remarkable fashion at the start of 2010 after he was forcibly admitted to the Abarbanel Psychiatric Hospital following a mental breakdown.
Last September, Aguiar, who also gave $8 million to Nefesh B'Nefesh and $500,000 to March of the Living, made a surprise return when it was announced that he had acquired a 60 percent stake of Hapoel after agreeing to transfer it $1.75 million for three seasons.
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Community Catalyst respectfully submits the following comments on the 2020 Census proposed information collection.
Community Catalyst respectfully submits the following comments in response to the HHS Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and reduce Out-Of-Pocket Costs.
Community Catalyst comments in response to the stakeholder letter regarding efforts by a bipartisan group of senators lead by Senator Cassidy to increase health care price and information transparency.
Community Catalyst's comments to the annual proposed changes to federal rules relating to the marketplaces and the Affordable Care Act's insurance market reforms.


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Seven-time World Champion, Carl Fogarty, has teamed up with CCM Motorcycles. Foggy, one of the world's most recognised sporting heroes, has taken up the role of brand ambassador and consultant.
To celebrate the new relationship, CCM has released a limited edition Foggy version of its iconic Spitfire Series. There will be just 300 models available to the public in addition to a bespoke version designed for the champ himself. The Foggy Edition Spitfire was on show for the first time at Motorcycle Live at Birmingham's NEC on November 17th.
Speaking about his new venture, Carl said that he has been very close to the Clews family for many years, and it seemed like a logical step to assume the role of brand ambassador for CCM. Foggy spoke about the importance of supporting a British manufacturer and said that CCM was close to his heart. He also added that he was a big fan of the limited edition Spitfire model, which he described as a bike that you can take to straight from the track to a coffee shop. The design reflects his personality and style, as well as the heritage of the brand.
Managing director, Austin Clews, was full of praise for his new brand ambassador and said that the future looks bright for CCM, as it takes a turn towards road biking and attempts to conquer emerging overseas markets.
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In a first for the African continent, South Africa is expected to launch three maritime-focussed nanosatellites into orbit on Thursday afternoon.
The three nanosatellites – the first to be entirely developed on the African continent – will be launched from Cape Canaveral in the United States at about 5.25pm.
The three satellites form part of the Department of Science and Innovation's (DSI) Maritime Domain Awareness Satellite (MDASat) constellation.
When complete, the constellation will comprise of nine satellites which, according to the department, will "detect, identify and monitor vessels in near real-time in support of South African maritime domain awareness".
Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande, described the launch of the constellation satellite as a significant milestone for the country.
"This will further cement South Africa's position as an African leader in small satellite development, and help the country to capture a valuable share of a niche market in the fast-growing global satellite value chain."
Nzimande added that although South Africa is making strides in the space industry, specialised skills are needed to take it forward.
He said the department has developed a human capital development programme based at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology; called the cube satellite (CubeSat) programme; which seeks to remedy the lack of professionals and skills in the industry.
"As part of this programme, students are taught engineering principles using CubeSats as training tools. CubeSats are built using the same engineering principles as any other satellite, hence highly specialised and advanced skills are acquired through this programme," he said.
– SAnews.gov.za
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Q: SQL consult, how to solve? It is a homework, but I can not do alone.
1) List the code name, the amount of cars sold and the total profit for resale
for resales who have profit up to $5000.
resale:
cod | name    | city      | state
--------+-----------------+------------+--------
01  | Paraiso | Sao Paulo | SP
02  | Alameda | Taubate   | SP
03  | Cabana  | Macae     | RJ
04  | Santana | Betim     | MG

Automotive:
cod | manufacturer | model      | year | country   | price
--------+------------+-----------------+------+-----------+----------
01  | 01           | Gol        | 2000 | Brasil    | 25000.00
02  | 01           | Golf       | 2005 | Argentina | 39000.00
03  | 04           | Ford Ka    | 1990 | Brasil    | 15000.00
04  | 03           | Corsa Seda | 1995 | Brasil    | 12500.00
05  | 04           | Fiesta     | 2003 | Argentina | 20000.00
06  | 03           | Corsa Seda | 1995 | Argentina | 10000.00
07  | 05           | Palio      | 2002 | Brasil    | 15000.00
08  | 05           | Siena      | 2006 | Brasil    | 26000.00

sale:
customer| resale | automotive | date       | value
---------+---------+-----------+------------+----------
02      | 01     | 03         | 2010-02-05 | 17500.00
04      | 02     | 01         | 2010-01-07 | 28000.00
01      | 03     | 08         | 2010-02-15 | 28000.00
02      | 03     | 02         | 2010-03-12 | 42000.00
03      | 04     | 06         | 2010-02-06 | 11500.00
03      | 02     | 05         | 2010-01-25 | 22100.00
01      | 01     | 04         | 2010-01-21 | 15500.00
03      | 01     | 08         | 2012-02-05 | 17500.00

My SQL:
SELECT automotive.cod, resale.name, COUNT(sale.resale) AS ammount, SUM(sale.value - automotive.price) AS total FROM sale, automotive, resale
WHERE sale.resale = resale.cod AND automotive.cod = sale.automotive
GROUP BY sale.resale, automotive.cod, resale.name
HAVING SUM(sale.value - automotive.price) <= 5000;

I cant do alone, my answer is wrong.
Ps: I'm using PostgresSQL.

A: You almost had it:
SELECT r.cod, r.name
     , count(s.resale) AS amount
     , sum(s.value - a.price) AS total
FROM   sale s
JOIN   automotive a ON a.cod = s.automotive
JOIN   resale r     ON r.cod = s.resale
GROUP  BY r.cod, r.name
HAVING sum(s.value - a.price) <= 5000;

I reformatted your query with table aliases and explicit JOIN syntax to make it more readable.
Basically, you only need to replace a.cod with r.cod. Looks like a typo. That makes s.resale in the GROUP BY clause redundant, so I removed it.

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Chicago, Illinois. Railroad help wanted signs in windows of an employment agency near the Union Station
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
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What different tonalities are currently available?
Positivity, Negativity, Fear, Hate, Love, Skepticism, Violence, and Desire in all supported languages.
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We use a combination of algorithms and sources of data to determine the tonality of a text. This includes information about the importance of words in the scope of total language use, information about which words are often used in a similar manner, which words are actually more meaningful in combination than by themselves and so on. We analyze the text you send in by looking for concepts that trigger one or several different tonalities. Thereafter we have several algorithms that look into what context the keywords occur in, to decide whether to increase the scoring or reduce it.
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THE BELIZE DEVELOPMENT ISSUES IS ABOUT FAIR PLAY AND HELPING THE UNDERDOG!
In that spirit we supply the following that disturbs the country of Belize.
Published on Friday, April 5, 2002 in the lndependent/UK, recopied from the Belize Listserve.
Ariel Sharon could not have done better. The heaping of blame upon an occupied people, the obsessive use of the word terror - by my rough count there were 50 references in just 10 minutes - and the brief, frightened remarks about "occupation" and (one mention only) to Jewish settlements and the need for Israeli "compassion" at the end were proof enough that President Bush had totally failed to understand the tragedy he is supposedly trying to solve.
The mugger became the victim and the victim became the mugger. What, I wonder, is the exact distance between the Rose Garden and Bethlehem? So the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, is traveling to "the region'' next week. Next week? Why not now?
But of course, the White House, which according to the Israeli press has repeatedly been asking Mr Sharon how long he intends to reoccupy the Palestinian cities of the West Bank, is to give the Israeli Prime Minister more time to finish his invasion, destroy the Palestinian infrastructure and dismantle the Palestinian Authority.
The speech was laced with all the "war on terror'' obsessions: Iraq as a sponsor of terror for donating money to a family of Palestinian "martyrs'', and Syria for not making up its mind if it is "for or against terror''.
The European Union, fearful of rising oil prices and their effect on the eurozone economy, had earlier dispatched a mission to Israel; with typical contempt, Mr Sharon told its members they could not visit Yasser Arafat in Ramallah. The delegation, which had earlier announced that the Americans had failed in their mission as peacemaker in the Middle East, simply packed up and left Tel Aviv within hours.
But will Mr Powell do any better? The dollar has fallen against world currencies because of the Middle East crisis - as good a reason as any for Mr Bush to act - and the possible restrictions on Middle East oil production, though more damaging to Europe, must have helped to prompt the President's decision to dispatch Mr Powell.
On it went, 11 September-speak applied to the Middle East. Israel's enemies must be eliminated - Al Aqsa, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hizbollah, which yesterday beat up a UN observer on the Lebanese border in the most dangerous incident of its kind since the Israeli withdrawal in 2000. The whole Bush speech revolved around Israel's well-being, with scarcely three minutes devoted to the Palestinians and their 35 years under occupation. Israel should, Mr Bush decided, show a "respect'' for and "concern'' for the Palestinian people.
There was some ritual mention of UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, which calls for Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in the 1967 war but which Mr Sharon has already said he cannot accept, and an appeal to halt settlement building. But Jewish settlements are still being built, at an ever-faster rate, on Palestinian land.
Only a heart of stone could not respond to the suffering of those Israeli families whose loved ones have been so wickedly cut down by the Palestinian suicide bombers. But where was Mr Bush's compassion for the vastly greater number of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israelis over the past 19 months, or his condemnation of Israel's death squads, house demolition and land theft? They simply didn't exist in the Bush speech.
The money for "martyrs" does not, of course, only go to the kin of suicide bombers - it goes to families of all those killed by Israelis, most of whom have been struck down by American-made weapons. Certainly, America has never offered to make reparations for the innocents killed by the air-to-ground missiles and shells it has sold to Israel.
Far more instructive than the Bush speech was the measured, fair way in which Terje Larson, the UN's special Middle East envoy, and Nigel Roberts, the local director of the World Bank, tried to describe the tragedy. In a short press conference they appealed to both sides to end violence and respect international law and cited Israel as well as the Palestinians for breaking it. The so-called Israeli "closed military areas" were, Mr Larson said, "illegitimate and in direct violation of the [Oslo] Agreements". Mr Roberts talked of the surge in violence as a threat that could "consign to history the unique opportunity for reconciliation''.
But "closed military areas" achieved another Israeli victory over the Western television satellite stations. Yesterday, the BBC, Sky and CNN, with their own crews largely prevented from filming in the reoccupied Palestinian cities, all ran footage of the Bethlehem battle taken by Israeli soldiers. Rather than refuse to use the tape unless their own crews were permitted access to the carnage, the three channels all dutifully used the film taken by the army of occupation. Another milestone in the collapse of journalism in the Middle East. But not so serious as the collapse of America's peace-making.
THE BIG JEWISH LAND GRAB OF THE WEST BANK!
Lest you think I am anti-semitic, my father ran a Jewish Youth Escape line in Vichy, France in World War 11. I also helped him as a child, smuggle arms to the Jews of Palestine, between 1946 and 1949, and Jewish refugees between Austria and Italy segment of the smuggling chain. But the Jews of then, are not the Jews of now. These today are more Gestapo and Nazi style SS than the high moral standards of the early years of Zionism.
Behind the Jewish occupation of the West Bank is the great LAND GRAB! They have to terrorize the Palestinian population to make them leave their land. You pass laws to persecute them, as in Milosevich and Hitler. I believe the Jews of Israel want to ethnic cleanse the West Bank for the land. They don't want these citizens under military occupation for 35 years, to become Israeli citizens as in our Belizean multi racial/religious democracy here in Belize, or nearby USA. They don't want Moslems in their Army and they don't want them in the government and bureaucracy. They want them pushed over into Jordan, or in American Indian style reservations in the Sinai of Egypt or the Saudi desert. The Jews of Israeli want to steal the land of these residents. We call that nowadays "ethnic cleansing".
The Jewish Government and their military are practicing "STATE TERRORISM". Since the Intifada started, the Miami Herald in the USA, states that 1,707 people have been killed. Of this number only 416 have been Jews. the rest, 1,258 have been Palestinians. 47,000 Palestinians have been wounded. Their land is stolen, the persecution demolishes their houses, punishes the innocent and generally are similar to the policies of Milosevich of Serbia in Kosovo, or the Nazis under Hitler.
The Jewish military harbors over 2000 WAR CRIMINALS, "terrorists" who have shot and killed Palestinan unarmed citizens, including women and children under the thirty five year occupation. That is right, 35 years under the military bootheels of Nazi like STATE TERRORISM. All to get the land of the West Bank. The Nuremburg Trials that protected the Israel of my day, long ago, set the precedent! Murder of unarmed civilians by a military person is a WAR CRIME. It is terrorism! You cannot use the excuse you are obeying orders. When will these Jewish military snipers and soldiers who commit murder be taken to the Hague to answer for WAR CRIMES?
Religious Civil Wars are not nice. Especially when the goal is to supply land to a growing Jewish population. Israel is a Theocracy, it is not a democracy, or the Palestinian members of that land would be full and equal members of Israeli society by now, after 35 years of assimilation.
But we at the Belize Development Trust condemn the actions of the USA media and USA government in spouting diatribes quoting only the terrorism, or freedom fighter actions of suicide bombers without equal and factual presentation of the facts from the opposing side. As far as I am concerned, the Jews of my youth, should have killed their Nazi guards with their bare hands, instead of going to their cattle cars and death calmly. They did in the odd place, but not mostly. I think it is something proud that Palestinians are willing to accept death to take some of their oppressors stealing their land from them. The Jews I knew in my youth, didn't have the guts!
It is a different world out there today and the Jews of Israel are no longer enjoying my sympathy. They have become that they hated in World War 11. They need a lesson in multi-ethnic/religious democracy like we enjoy in our country of Belize. Or practiced in the USA. There is no room in the world anymore for Religious States practicing terrorism like Israel.
What is the difference between State terrorism and individual terrorist acts? If we understand this difference we'll understand also the evilness of the US policies in the Middle East and the forthcoming disasters. When Yassir Arafat was put under siege in his offices and kept hostage by the Israeli occupation forces, he was constantly pressed into condemning terror and combatting terrorism. Israel's Stateterrorism is defined by US officials as "self-defense", while individual suicide bombers are called terrorists.
The only 'small' difference is that Israeli aggression is the direct responsibility of Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Ben Eliezer, Shimon Peres and Shaul Mofaz, while the individual terrorist acts are done by individuals in despair, usually against Arafat's will. One hour after Arafat declared his support of a cease fire and wished the Jews a Happy Passover feast, a suicide bomber exploded himself in an hotel in Netanya, killing 22 innocent Jews celebrating Passover. Arafat was blamed as responsible for this act, and the present IDF offensive has been justified through this accusation.
At the same time, Sharon's responsibility for Israeli war crimes is being completely ignored. Who should be arrested for the targeted killing of almost 100 Palestinians? Who will be sent to jail for the killing of more than 120 Palestinian paramedics? Who will be sentenced for the killing of more than 1,200 Palestinians and for the collective punishment of more than 3,000,000 civilians during the last 18 months? And who will face the International Tribunal for the illegal settlement of occupied Palestinian Lands, and the disobedience of UN decisions for more than 35 years?
Suicide bombs killing innocent citizens must be unequivocally condemned; they are immoral acts, and their perpetrators should be sent to jail. But they cannot be compared to State terrorism carried out by the Israeli Government. The former are individual acts of despair of a people that sees no future, vastly ignored by an unfair and distorted international public opinion. The latter are cold and "rational" decisions of a State and a military apparatus of occupation, well equipped, financed and backed by the only superpower in the world.
Yet in the public debate, State terrorism and individual suicide bombs are not even considered as comparable cases of terrorism. The State terror and war crimes perpetrated by the Israeli Government are legitimized as "self-defense", while Arafat, even under siege, is demanded to arrest "terrorists."
As Israelis in the opposition, we are fighting against our government, but the international support that Sharon receives is constantly jeopardizing our struggle. The whole international public opinion must be reverted, and the UN must deploy intervention forces in order to stop the bloodshed and the imminent deterioration. Israelis and Palestinians desperately need the awakening of the international community's public opinion and a reversal in the global attitude. These are needed both in order to save our lives (literally), and preserve our hope in a better future.


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If the talks succeed, the new Naval carrier would serve alongside India's 45,000-ton carrier INS Vikramaditya, pictured here.PTIPTI
The United Kingdom is in talks with the Indian government on building a new state-of-the-art aircraft carrier along the lines of Britain's HMS Queen Elizabeth as part of the ongoing 'Make in India' negotiations, according to a media report.
The talks are under way for the Indian Navy to buy detailed plans for the 65,000-ton British warship to build a so-called "copycat supercarrier" to be named INS Vishal in 2022.
"An Indian delegation has already visited Rosyth dockyard in Scotland where HMS Queen Elizabeth was assembled and where a second supercarrier, HMS Prince of Wales , is now being built," the Sunday Mirror reported.
"If a deal can be agreed, the new warship would be built in India but UK companies could supply many of the parts," the media outlet claimed.
The third carrier
The report noted that the new naval carrier would serve alongside India's 45,000-ton carrier INS Vikramaditya — bought from Russia in 2004 — and the currently under-construction 40,000-ton INS Vikrant , and could give India a larger carrier fleet than Britain.
"We have regular discussions with India on a range of equipment and capability issues. It would be inappropriate to comment further," U.K. Defence Minister Stuart Andrew said.
The design for U.K. aircraft carriers is owned by the British and French aerospace giants BAE and Thales.
"Discussions have begun with India. The design can be modified to meet Indian Navy and local industry requirements," a BAE spokesperson said.


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Hugh Barnett Cave (July 11, 1910—June 27, 2004) was a prolific writer of pulp fiction who also excelled in other genres.
Born in Chester, England, Hugh B. Cave moved during his childhood with his family to Boston, Massachusetts, following the outbreak of World War I. His first name was in honor of Hugh Walpole, a favorite author of his mother, a nurse, whohad once known Rudyard Kipling.
Cave attended Brookline High School. After graduating, Cave attended Boston University on a scholarship but had to leave when his father was severely injured. He worked initially for a vanity press, the only regular job he would ever have. He quit this position at age 20 to write for a living.
From 1932 until his death in 1997, Cave corresponded extensively with fellow pulp writer Carl Richard Jacobi. Selections of this correspondence can be found in Cave's memoir Magazines I Remember. Relations with his fellow pulp writers were not always so cordial. In the 1930s, Cave lived in Pawtuxet, Rhode Island, but he never met H.P. Lovecraft, who lived in nearby Providence. The two engaged in a heated exchange of correspondence (non-extant) regarding the ethics and aesthetics of writing for the pulps.
During World War II Cave travelled as a reporter around the Pacific and in Southeast Asia. Following the war he moved to the Caribbean, spending five years in Haiti, after which he rebuilt and managed a successful coffee plantation in Jamaica. He returned to the United States in the early 1970s after the Jamaican government reclaimed his plantation.
Hugh Cave was twice married, first to Margaret Long in a union that produced two sons before the couple began living apart, and Peggy (or Peggie) Thompson, who died in 2001. Cave was 93 when he died in Vero Beach, Florida, in 2004. His remains were cremated.
Sources differ as to when Cave sold his first story: some say it was while he still attended Brookline High School, others cite "Island Ordeal", written at age 19 in 1929 while still working for the vanity press..
In his early career he contributed to such pulp magazines as Astounding, Black Mask, and Weird Tales. By his own estimate, in the 1930s alone, he published roughly 800 short stories in nearly 100 periodicals under a number of pseudonyms. Of particular interest during this time was his series featuring an independent gentleman of courageous action and questionable morals called simply The Eel. These adventures appeared in the late 1930s and early 40s under the pen name Justin Case. Cave was also one of the most successful contributors to the weird menace or "shudder pulps" of the 1930s.
In 1943, drawing on his experience as a war reporter, he authored one of his most highly regarded works, Long Were the Nights, telling of the first PT boats at Guadalcanal. He also wrote a number of other books on the war in the Pacific during this period.
During his post-war sojourn in Haiti, he became so familiar with the religion of Voodoo that he published Haiti: High Road to Adventure, a nonfiction work critically acclaimed as the "best report on voodoo in English." His Caribbean experiences led to his best-selling Voodoo-themed novel, The Cross On The Drum (1959), an interracial story in which a white Christian missionary falls in love with a black Voodoo priest's sister.
During this midpoint in his career Cave advanced his writing to the "slick" magazines, including Collier's, Family Circle, Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook, and the Saturday Evening Post. It was in this latter publication, in 1959, that "The Mission," his most popular short story, appeared...subsequently issued in hardcover by Doubleday, reprinted in textbooks, and translated into a number of languages.
But his career took a dip in the early 1970s. According to The Guardian, with the golden era of pulp fiction now in the past, Cave's "only regular market was writing romance for women's magazines." He was rediscovered, however, by Karl Edward Wagner, who published Murgunstrumm and Others, a horror story collection that won Cave the 1978 World Fantasy Award. Other collections followed and Cave also published new horror fiction.
His later career included the publication in the late 1970s and early 1980s of four successful fantasy novels: Legion of the Dead (1979), The Nebulon Horror (1980), The Evil (1981), and Shades of Evil (1982). Two other notable late works are Lucifer's Eye (1991) and The Mountains of Madness (2004). Moreover, Cave took naturally to the Internet, championing the e-book to such an extent that electronic versions of his stories can readily be purchased online.
Over his entire career he wrote more than 1,000 short stories in nearly all genres (though he is best remembered for his horror and crime pieces), approximately forty novels, and a notable body of nonfiction. He received the Phoenix Award as well as lifetime achievement awards from the International Horror Guild, the Horror Writers Association, and the World Fantasy Convention.


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Is this the right time to recieve treatment with Chemo?
My Oncologist has recommended that I begin treatment in July with FCR. My numbers are 30 WBC and I have enlarged lymph nodes The change is my spleen is slightly enlarged. My only symptom is my fungus affected toes keep getting infected, and I have to take antibiotics. My preference is a clinical study but as I am 52 and never been treated there are no studies that are open to me.
My platelets are around 100. My WBC has been as high as 45 but recently came down to 30, there has been no doubling of the WBC, RBC are normal as well as neutrophils are normal. I have no other symptoms my energy level is fine, I had weight loss last December but it was planned, as I became vegan. I am a little flummoxed as I have been well except for my feet. I still work in the north country and have lots of energy. I was thinking the spleen was the kicker in all this that has changed.
With your presentation I'd be insisting on a second 'specialist CLL' opinion Musicguy because I sense you feel this treatment may be premature.
I know there are charts indicating prompts for treatment but someone once said knowing the right time is more 'an art than a science'.
If you're feeling so well with no doubling time or debilitating symptoms, I'd be wanting a greater level of discussion before consenting to treatment.
Thanks for the info. I am trying to get my head around starting treatment. I feel the same way I did before my foot infection. I am not sure what the rush is? I would like a second opinion, not sure how to go about it? I would like to wait until there are alternatives to chemo immunotherapy, but it may be too late for me. Thanks again.
Have you had your Ig levels checked (a simple blood test)? If they are very low it might help clarify the reason you are having trouble clearing your infection. I see that you are in Canada. Chris would be the person most knowledgeable about the Canadian system. I have to agree with everyone else that a second opinion with someone very familiar with CLL is in order.
I am being seen at the Tom Baker cancer center and my oncologist is a CLL specialist and researcher, I expect she would know better than anyone when treatment is needed. I will check on my ig levels and see what their main issue with me and my CLL . They told me I was carrying a large desease load and that due to my early age and good health would like to treat earlier rather than later to have a good outcome. I was hoping to put it off until Ibrutinib was available since there would be little chance of secondary cancers with Ibrutinib. Apparently my time has come, but I will discuss the starting of treatment with them. I am obviously missing something.
I suspect you are indeed missing something Musicguy. As pkenn says, it would be interesting to see what your immunoglobulin levels are, but if they are low and you are having frequent infections, all else being OK (though there's the concern about your platelets, particularly if they are trending down), a more typical treatment would to have IVIG transfusions to boost your immunity.
Are you aware of any problems with your lymph nodes other than the enlargement? Perhaps some are pressing on internal organs or they've grown rapidly lately? Have you ever had a bone marrow biopsy and have results from that or from prognostic marker testing?
I hope you can get some reassurance as to why you've been recommended to start treatment next month. That would make it easier to accept. If you do proceed with treatment, look upon this as an opportunity to gain a remission to get you through until better treatments are available. Your age and good physical condition should put you in a good position to tolerate the FCR too.
Thanks for your response, I have a bit of enlargement of my spleen, my platelets have been below 100 for close to a year, I still clot very well. My lymph nodes are about 5 cm round but they don't seem to trouble me. Have not had a bone marrow biopsy. And like you say the doctor is recommending treatment to allow me a good remission. I worry about secondary cancers that do not have as good a prognosis as the CLL that I have come to understand. I will let you all know the rationale when I talk to my nurse practitioner.
A friend told me about Daktarin - a foot cream for fungal infections that seems to work brilliantly for me. Also for mouth ulcers Corsodyl mouth wash works. I dont know what they're called in Canada.
Brilliant ! I have been fighting foot fungus for a couple years whatever helps would be a blessing thanks so much.
Fungal infections can be very difficult to eliminate even for healthy people - particularly on the extremities and hence can take ages to clear. So be prepared to give a new product like Daktarin a decent period of use (like months) before dismissing it as ineffective.
In my first year post diagnosis, I had a persistent fungal infection in my toes, a persistent skin rash and also the warts on my hands (usually barely noticeable), went into overdrive. My neutrophils and Ig levels were 20 - 50% higher than they are now, but I've been rash and fungal infection free now for several years and the warts have shrunk back - all this without any treatment for my SLL/CLL. So don't be too concerned about low immunity readings if your level of infection isn't out of the ordinary.
I suspect a lot of my problem was a bad bout of cytomegalovirus suppressed my immune system and it took a year or so to bounce back.
To clear a toe fungal infection, you really need to work at keeping good air circulation around your feet, i.e. frequent changes of footwear and a preference for sandals or sneakers with good venting rather than enclosed shoes. Probably hard to do in Canada unless your are out of the weather.
Thanks for your information, I have been dealing with the fungal infection for 2years and will be happy when it clears up. I am going out to get some sandals and running shoes to help my toes breathe, and grab some Daktarin. Hopefully with time this will clear up, it is really my only issue the foot infections. Thanks to everyone, your answers have helped give me hope that this is perhaps a just a bump in the road. Many thanks.
Whether it is a bump in the road or time to treat you should be able to get enough answers to your questions to feel like you and your doctor, working together, are on the same page. Have you had a scan to look at internal nodes? it could be that if you have enlarged nodes that are visible or palpable that there are internal nodes also that are of concern. So many questions and so many shades of grey answers with CLL! Very frustrating!


It looks like WWE Smackdown Tag Team title holder Rhyno will not be splitting his time between WWE and politics as he was not successful in getting elected in Michigan's House Representative for the 15th House District.
Rhyno won the Republican primary in August to put his name on the ballot sheet but yesterday he only managed to secure 35.6% of the votes. His Democratic opponent Abdullah Hammoud won with 64.4% and got the nearly $72,000-a-year job.