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03/18/2015 08:02 am ET Updated Mar 18, 2015
Rahm Emanuel's Housing Agency Sitting On Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars With Massive Waitlist
By Ryan Grim, Arthur Delaney, and Kim Bellware
CHICAGO -- Mayor Rahm Emanuel's housing agency has been pulling hundreds of millions of dollars from a fund earmarked for its affordable housing program and using the money instead to boost its pension, purchase government debt and build up a staggering cash reserve.
Meanwhile, Chicago's most vulnerable are bearing the brunt. The Chicago Housing Authority's waitlist tops 280,000, with a sizable portion of the city's population hoping for a shot at affordable housing. Ninety-seven percent of the people receiving housing assistance are black or Latino, and 85 percent are women, according to the agency. Some 15,000 families on the list are homeless.
Early in Emanuel's term, the size of the housing agency's reserves began hitting eye-popping levels. Instead of pouring that money into housing, it found other ways to chip away at the pile. In 2011 and 2012, the CHA pumped more than $55 million into its pension fund, nearly 10 times the amount it was required to. But because the amount of federal money the agency was receiving outstripped what it spent by such a large amount, the reserves remained high. So in late 2012, the agency took $185 million and paid down its debts early. Of what remained, millions were pumped into state and local bonds.
Despite the more than $200 million the agency moved from the reserves, the fund was still sitting on at least $440 million at the end of 2013, according to its most recent audited financial report.
In a statement, CHA spokeswoman Wendy Parks noted that federal rules allow the agency to maintain some reserves, which CHA plans to use to finish developing 25,000 new units of housing.
"The increase in reserves was driven by the significant downturn in the real estate market that slowed the expenditure rate of funds," Parks said, adding that the pension contribution and bond purchase will help the agency save money on interest payments or otherwise reduce costs in the future.
The decision to hoard cash while tens of thousands of families are in need of housing appears to be a strange one only if the goal is to find housing for the people the agency is supposed to serve. Yet developers, bar and restaurant owners and other interests who want to see the city of Chicago continue to gentrify have little interest in assisting the poor, black and brown single moms who populate the waitlist. Instead, they'd prefer the women and their children leave the city and find housing somewhere in the distant suburbs or beyond. The trend was underway before Emanuel took office, with the 2010 census finding 182,000 fewer African-Americans living in the city than a decade before, when Chicago began demolishing its public housing.
The agency's massive cash reserves were first noticed by the Chicago Housing Initiative, a coalition of tenants. The Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, a Chicago-based watchdog group, later produced a report on the stockpile, leading to a spate of news coverage over the summer. But the fate of much of the money the housing agency has stashed away has so far gone unreported. Through a series of open records requests, the Chicago Housing Initiative and the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability obtained internal documents revealing that under Emanuel, the CHA has become as much an investment fund as a housing agency.
Several days after providing its initial statement to The Huffington Post, the CHA, through the mayor's office, provided a new statement from CHA CEO Michael Merchant. While reiterating that the massive surplus was the result of the real estate downturn, he added that CHA was going to spend much more of it this coming year.
"CHA's mission is to create strong, sustainable and inclusive communities throughout Chicago and I'm committed to ensuring that low-income families have access to quality housing options. The increase in CHA's reserves was driven by the significant downturn in the real estate market however this year CHA will invest $240 million to build affordable housing units across the city on top of the $135 million spent last year to develop affordable housing for low-income families and seniors," Merchant said in the statement. "Additionally, last year we issued more than 3,000 housing vouchers and are on track to exceed that in 2015. Through paying down our pension liabilities we've saved more than $2 million and used those savings to directly invest in new and revitalized affordable housing helping families in need increase their potential for long-term economic independence and success."
By the end of 2015, he said, the surplus would be down to $50 million, assuming every penny is spent. That figure doesn't include, however, the $115 million reserve the CHA says the Department of Housing and Urban Development allows for, meaning the cash on hand will be closer to $165 million. Still, if the investment happens as Merchant forecasts, it would represent a dramatic turnaround and a boon for low-income residents in Chicago.
The CHA's long-term goal, set 15 years ago, was to dismantle its high-profile public housing high rises and replace them with 25,000 new units of affordable housing. The city received extra funds to pull off the task and succeeded in knocking down many of the high rises, yet hasn't managed to create all of the 25,000 new units. Each year from 2008 through 2012, the agency issued 13,000 fewer vouchers than it could have, according to the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability's analysis.
Emanuel, who faces a runoff against Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, was elected mayor in 2011. In the four years before he took office, the CHA delivered an average of 843 new affordable units each year, either through new construction or rehab. The year Emanuel took office, the number plunged to 424. In 2012 it dropped to 112, and in 2013 it fell again to 88, according to the agency's annual reports. For 2014, the CHA set itself a goal of 40 new units. Meanwhile, it was stockpiling unspent cash.
"It might be that a desire to reduce the number of low-income and minority families in Chicago is what motivates those who control CHA to withhold available housing assistance," said Leah Levinger, the executive director of the Chicago Housing Initiative. "Chicago activists have long questioned whether Emanuel's 'world class city' is contemporary code for rich and white -- a way to name development strategies that have obvious racial impact without all the racial overtones."
The reverse Robin Hood strategy implemented by the CHA is not an aberration when it comes to Emanuel's politics. The deregulation that the agency has exploited was made possible by a law passed in 1996, the same year President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform legislation that capped federal welfare spending and gave states more leeway to administer benefits. It was part of a strategy of triangulation that Emanuel, then a top Clinton aide, pushed as a way to win back working-class white voters and distance the party from traditional liberalism. The pinnacle of the new approach involved "ending welfare as we know it," a move Emanuel aggressively lobbied for as an aide.
The separate housing deregulation, approved by Congress with much less scrutiny, is called "Moving to Work." It allows a small number of city housing agencies to be part of a "demonstration project" that gives them more leeway to shelter the poor. Instead of having to inspect every apartment where a poor person wants to use a housing voucher, for instance, landlords in participating cities can be allowed to vouch for themselves. Crucially, separate federal funding streams for rental assistance, capital improvements and maintenance of existing housing stock can slosh together in an agency's general fund, instead of remaining segregated in separate accounts. And an agency's annual allotment from the federal government is no longer based partly on how many vouchers it distributed the prior year, removing an incentive to help as many people as possible.
While he was a White House aide, Emanuel was a close political ally of Andrew Cuomo, who was secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development during Clinton's second term. Cuomo and Emanuel share a hard-charging style and a rejection of traditional liberalism in favor of a more business-friendly politics.
When Emanuel left the White House, he became vice chairman of the CHA from 1999-2001. Those were pivotal years for the agency, during which it applied for the special status that allows it the flexibility it is now using to short its would-be clients. The application to deregulate was approved by Emanuel's friend Cuomo. In 2000, Emanuel was also appointed by Clinton to sit on the board of Freddie Mac, stepping down the next year to run for Congress.
While Emanuel was on the CHA board, he was also working for the private equity firm Wasserstein Perella, where he made $18 million in just over two years. In 2002, he was elected to the House, before going on to become Obama's chief of staff and then Chicago mayor.
The Obama administration wants to extend the Moving to Work program to 2028, beyond its planned 2018 sunset. Republicans in Congress have proposed increasing the number of agencies eligible to participate in Moving to Work, which currently stands at 39.
The inspector general for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversees Moving to Work, reported in 2013 that HUD's oversight of the initiative had been insufficient, and that the department was basically in the dark about whether the deregulation had allowed housing agencies to serve more families.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal D.C. think tank, reported in January that in 2013, the most recent year for which data is available, Moving to Work agencies issued 86 percent of the vouchers for which they had received funding, compared to 99.5 percent for agencies that are not part of the program. In 2013, Moving to Work agencies diverted more than $350 million of rental assistance to other purposes or left it unspent, with Chicago accounting for just under a third of the total.
HUD spokesman Brian Sullivan said in an email that HUD is working with Chicago to accelerate the pace of spending so more families could get help.
"While CHA enjoys greater flexibility under the Moving to Work Program, we believe it's critical to get this housing assistance in the hands of the very people who need it most," Sullivan said.
On Nov. 20, 2012, according to a CHA document obtained as the result of an open records request and provided to HuffPost, the agency sought authorization from its board to use $185 million from its "existing MTW excess reserves" -- the Moving to Work slush fund -- in order to pay down its debt.
The national average wait time for a Housing Choice Voucher is 12-24 months. In Chicago, the average wait for the rent subsidy is 10 years, according to CHA's 2012 Moving to Work report.
CHA's reserve hit $349 million in 2010 and ticked up to $471 million in 2011, when it began diverting money to its pension fund. In 2012, despite the pension fund payment, it was still at $432 million.
In September 2013, the CHA, its coffers having grown to unmanageable heights, put out a request for an investment portfolio software package to help manage what it said was a $500 million fund, according to one internal document obtained through the records request.
In November 2014, the agency authorized itself to increase its municipal investments by 50 percent, so that it can now make up 7.5 percent of its total, according to another document.
The CHA gets tens of millions each year for apartments it controls but leaves vacant. One of the CHA's larger sites, Lathrop Homes, has a staggering vacancy rate despite the fact that the most recent November 2014 housing lottery saw more than 282,000 applicants. Lathrop Homes has 925 units, but according to longtime resident and co-chairman of the Lathrop Leadership Group, Miguel Suarez, only about 150 of them are occupied today.
"In 2000, CHA froze all leasing in Lathrop with the promise that in 2001, they would start rehabbing," Suarez told HuffPost. "And of course, that never happened."
Suarez said that by 2007, developers still hadn't made improvements, though roughly 45 families were still living on the north end of the site. Shortly after, those remaining families were moved to the south end of the site and CHA "went in and boarded all of the north end up."
Suarez, who has lived in Lathrop Homes for 25 years and is a chairman for the residents' leadership team, said some families left after years of what he characterized as neglect by CHA.
"There are apartments that have mold issues, leakage from the outside, and things of that nature," Suarez said. "When I first moved in, it was totally different: [Lathrop Homes] was fully occupied. Along [North Hoyne Avenue] had a canopy of trees. It was beautiful. Somewhere along the line they got rid of it. Ladies had their flower gardens up front, vegetables in the back. People would even hang their laundry."
"It was a very different thing -- it was a true community," Suarez noted.
But as the surrounding neighborhoods of Bucktown, Lincoln Park and Roscoe Village hit new levels of prosperity, Suarez called the situation with Lathrop Homes "gentrification at its worst."
"It's no secret that today, Lathrop Homes is on some of the most valuable property in the city," Suarez said. "For developers to come in and say, 'We want to make this a revitalized community," well, it already is. They want to move the current residents out to give this property to people with greater means."
Suarez said that knowing the agency is sitting on hundreds of millions of unspent dollars while Lathrop deteriorates is a clear sign of the city's priorities. "Knowing very well that CHA has $400-some-odd million stashed, knowing that money is there, and seeing that Lathrop Homes has had no major rehab done to it, it's evident that the CHA as a whole is not willing to make these units [livable] that could be made available," he said.
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In Germany, Veterans
Dearest Old Bolds, Family and Friends,
Greetings from the city of Dresden.
They say time heals all wounds. And to some extent, that is true for this gorgeous city. Dresden has been working hard to regain its glory since the reunification of Germany, and has made great progress in restoring the loveliness of the city. The Frauenkirche is a good example. Destroyed in the bombing raids in 1945, the pile of rubble that once was the church was declared a memorial to the war by the DDR. After the fall of the wall, the new management decided to rebuild the Frauenkirche along with the city's central residences and palaces. Many of the old stones were used, but a fair number had to be cut anew. In the astoundingly short time period of ten years, the magnificent Frauenkirche has once again found her place in the heart of the city, crowned by a cross of gold. The donations for this cross came from England, a main impetus from the son of a bomber pilot who took part in the destruction of the city. In 2000, His Royal Highness, the Duke of Kent, handed over the donations which helped to bring forgiveness and reconciliation to a whole city with the restoration of this architectural beauty.
But I'm not sure people really know about Dresden. Or perhaps it still seems to carry the taint of the DDR. Either way, we are benefitting from Dresden's relatively unknown status. Our hotel is a restored baroque noble residence in the Neustadt. Palatial would be the right description, but at a shockingly affordable price – less than that of a mid-range American hotel. If you plan to come to Dresden, now would be the time to take advantage of the good exchange rate and the unbelievable prices. They cannot last long.
Our mission here was not as tourists, but to search the Saxon State Archives for the citations for Charley's father and grandfather, who both won the Saxon army's highest medal for bravery. We also hoped to find unit histories that would detail the battles they took part in during the 1870-1 war and World War I. Unfortunately, however, these archives, like German archives everywhere, were captured by the Allies and brought abroad before being returned. In this case, the Russians took the archives and returned bits and pieces of it. The bits that were returned did not seem to include anything about the Russian front in World War I, where Charley's father fought. Now, isn't that strange? I suppose what we are looking for is buried somewhere deep in the Russian archives, if it exists at all anymore.
Our trip started over a week ago in London, England, a bewitching country about which, unlike Dresden, word has definitely spread. Despite England's many charms, the affordability of hotels is not one of them. Despite this drawback, the English wherever we went were unfailingly polite and charmingly friendly, and our goal of visiting the remaining Sherwood Rangers and their families one last time was all-too-quickly reached.
As we drove across the country to meet these old friends, melancholy often overtook Charley. His current physical condition, which was never a factor on previous trips, no longer allows many flights of fancy. It is clear this may be the last time we will be able to see his dear friends – his comrades from the other side, as they are almost affectionately called in German soldiers' parlance.
As time continues to drive us onwards, we realize with heightened awareness the preciousness of every minute of life. This is even more apparent to us as we are about to embark on a most challenging assignment: to find the Russian front battlefields from World War I where Charley's father fought in what is today central Poland. Unlike France or Belgium, which maintain memorials of century-old battles fought regardless of the winner, Poland has not been keen on preserving many of the painful reminders of World War I or World War II.
We are going deep into a land where we have never been before, whose language we do not speak, which does not want to mark or perhaps even remember its last 100 years of battles, without even a unit history to point the way. Only one of the many Polish agencies we've reached out to for help in English and German has responded to us – they wrote back in Polish, and in the negative. Now, we have only the names of small towns not far from the Vistula river to guide us. It is a true adventure, one that I view with not a little trepidation, but which Charley insists we take on while we still can.
On our way we have planned several days to visit our dear Theresia's Breslau, once in the German state of Silesia, which was given to Poland at the end of World War II, and is now called Wroclaw.
Wish us luck. Please.

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Well, I've decided on which school I'm applying to... FIDM!!! YAY!!! I'm starting my application process this week. Now it's just a matter of deciding which campus - San Francisco or Los Angeles. I suppose it's going to be based on where we can find jobs. I'm not going to focus on that right now though. It's time to get crackin' on my application. I need three references, I need to write two essays and complete an at home project! Man, I'm so excited and scared at the same time. It's the best feeling though!


Have you tried Manitoba Harvest Hemp Pro 70?
How cool! Hemp Pro 70 is plant based protein!
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I have always been a fan of protein powders as a way to get extra protein into my diet. As a Sweat Pink Ambassador I was sent two sample packs of Manitoba Harvest Hemp Pro 70 Plant Based Protein Powder to try. They sent me two sample packs (each a half serving) in Chocolate and Vanilla. Hemp Pro 70 is a great alternative to typical whey protein powders.
Hemp Pro 70 is pure plant protein.
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It is sweetened with Organic Coconut sugar.
Both the vanilla and chocolate hemp pro contain high amounts of protein and omegas.
My metabolism is very quick which means I burn through nutrition quickly especially when I am at the peak of a training cycle or in the middle of racing season (which seems to be always?!?). When I was younger my pediatrician recommended that I drink smoothies as a way to get calories into my diet. Now still love drinking smoothies with protein added in and I also love to add protein to my pancakes. I tried the Chocolate Hemp Pro 70 in my favorite pancake recipe and added bananas (because chocolate and bananas, right?). The result was perfect. I am saving the vanilla for my breakfast smoothie tomorrow to power me through my morning!
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I didn't know they did powders. Bet they are great.
Sounds interesting. I have to admit, I've never found a protein powder that I like enough to use consistently. I do like that it only has four ingredients and none of them are fake sugar.
I just received my first pack of the Manitoba Hemp Pro7 in my September Bulu Box so I am extremely pleased and can't wait to try it.
You had me at only 4 ingredients.
I love the pro70 chocolate. Mmmmmmm.
I've never tried hemp protein but I love the idea that it's all plant based. And only 4 ingredients!
I have heard such great things about MH. I can't wait to try it. Protein AND omegas! FTW!


Arthritis means inflammation of joints. There are many causes of arthritis in pets. It is usually seen in senior pets.
The most common type of arthritis is osteoarthritis (OA) which is also known as degenerative joint disease (DJD). This can be primary, the cause of which is unknown and secondary, following conditions involving joint instability. Some common causes of DJD include hip dysplasia, cranial cruciate ligament rupture (ACL injury), and luxating patellas (loose kneecaps).
Rheumatoid arthritis is an uncommon immune mediated, erosive, inflammatory condition. Cartilage and bone are eroded within affected joints and the condition can progress to complete joint fixation, (ankylosis). It may affect single joints or multiple joints may be involved (polyarthritis). In certain dog breeds Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) factors can be detected with blood tests.
Other types of immune mediated arthritis can be non-erosive, such as arthritis that is associated with Systemic Lupus Erythematosis (SLE). SLE is often accompanied by other clinical signs, such as skin lesions, in addition to the arthritis.
Infective or septic arthritis can be caused by a variety of microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses and fungi. Septic arthritis normally only affects a single joint and the condition results in swelling, fever, heat and pain in the joint. Before long your pet is likely to stop eating and become depressed.
Treatment will depend on the cause of arthritis. Immune mediated and rheumatoid arthritis are usually treated with high doses of corticosteroids which often lead to a dramatic response. The maintenance of these conditions often involves the long-term use of corticosteroids and other drugs such as immunosuppressive or cytotoxic agents.
Septic arthritis is treated with antibiotics, usually based on a test called a Culture and Sensitivity. Antibiotics are usually administered for a minimum of a month and analgesics are also necessary to combat pain and inflammation.
Analgesics (pain medications) and anti-inflammatories are the most common form of treatment for osteoarthritis. It is important to select these medications with care since some dogs are more sensitive than others to the potential side-effects. Aspirin (ASA) is not longer recommended because it can cause decreased appetite, vomiting and diarrhea. Newer analgesics such as Metacam have fewer side effects than aspirin, and can often be safely prescribed. Our patients will have pre-medication blood tests before starting arthritis medications, to make sure that they can safely metabolize and excrete the medication. Afterwards, periodic blood tests to ensure continued safe usage.
Non-drug treatments for arthritis include chondroprotectants (joint protection agents) such as Cartrophen and/or glucosamine or UBA-Vet. Cartrophen is more effective than glucosamine, so is often used initially for treatment. Glucosamine or UBA- Vet is prescribed for long-term administration. Please note that it takes about one month to see if glucosamine is working or not, and it must be given daily to work, not just when the dog is having a flare-up!
If the pet is overweight, a prescription reducing diet will help it lose weight so there is less strain on the joints. Weight control is a critical part of managing the arthritic patient. Some animals respond to weight loss alone as a treatment!
Phototherapy is a new treatment for soft tissue disease in humans and animals. The light stimulates healing of tissues, and helps relieve pain. We have a local human massage therapist that is available to administer these treatments in our hospital if you're interested.


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The Indonesian city of Java was shaken by the strong earthquake, the magnitude of 6.6 on the Richter scale was ruled out, tsunami fears
Strong earthquake tremors have been felt in Java, Indonesia. According to the US Geological Survey, the earthquake measured 6.6 on the Richter scale. According to the information, the epicenter of the quake was located about 88 km south-west of Labuan, a coastal city in Banten province in the Indian Ocean and was centered at a depth of 37 km. According to initial reports, no casualties have been reported. Also, no warning has been given regarding tsunami.
According to Indonesia's Meteorological, Climatology and Geophysics Agency, there is no threat of a tsunami at present. Indonesia is a vast archipelago nation and is prone to frequent earthquakes. But feeling the tremors of an earthquake in the capital Jakarta is an unusual phenomenon. Java has a population of about 10 million and has skyscrapers, whose residents felt the shaking of the earthquake for a few seconds. At the same time, strong tremors of the earthquake were also felt in the houses of satellite city Tangerang.
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Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE): Executive Director, September 2001 – 2014, NCTM Representative, April 1999 – September 2001; Immediate Past President, January 1999 – February 2000; President, April 1997 – January 1999; President-elect, April 1996 - April 1997; Treasurer, April 1994 - April 1996; AMTE renamed one of its awards as the Nadine Bezuk Leadership and Service Award in January, 2011.
Co-founder, California Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, November 2004; Immediate Past President, 2008 – 09; President, 2006 – 08; President-elect, 2004 – 06, Member, Advisory Board, 2010 - present.
Outstanding Classroom Mathematics Teacher at the Post-secondary level, Greater San Diego Mathematics Council, 1995.
California Commission on Teacher Credentialing: Member, Mathematics Content Advisory Committee, December 2010 – present; Member, Teaching Mathematics Advisory Panel, March 2009 – September 2010.
Member, Nominations Committee, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2007 – 10.
Member, CSU Early Assessment Program Professional Development Committee for Mathematics, 2004 – 2009.
Funding from Qualcomm Incorporated for "Improving Student Achievement in Mathematics (ISAM)", 2000 – 2010, $8,600,000.
Grant from the National Science Foundation, Robert Noyce Scholarship Program for "Springboard to Success" (Kathleen Fisher and Cheryl Mason, co-directors), September 2004 - August 2008, $494,000.
Funding from University of California Office of the President for "San Diego Mathematics Professional Development Institute" (Rafaela Santa Cruz and Nicholas Branca, co-directors), 2001 –2004, $420,000.
Funding from the California Department of Education for "San Diego Comprehensive Teacher Education Institute" (Mariam True, co-director), 1995 –1999, $240,000.
Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Teacher Preparation and Enhancement for "San Diego Mathematics Enhancement Project" (Larry Sowder, co-director), 1991 - 1996, $1,100,000.
Cathcart, W. G., Pothier, Y. M., Vance, J. H., & Bezuk, N. S. (2014). Learning mathematics in elementary and middle school: A learner-centered approach (6th ed.). Boston: Pearson.
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Bezuk, N. S., Holmes, F. A., & Sowder, L. K. (1994). Teachers and students learning together via after-school mathematics enrichment laboratories. In D. Aichele (Ed.), Professional development of teachers of mathematics (NCTM's 1994 yearbook), 200 - 203. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Curcio, F. & Bezuk, N. S. (1994). Understanding rational numbers and proportions. F. Curcio (series Ed.), NCTM Curriculum and Evaluation Standards Addenda Project--Middle school volume. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
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BEIRUT, LEBANON- An influential Syrian rebel group, the hardline Islamist Ahrar al-Sham, on Sunday rejected the truce deal brokered by Russia and the United States hours before it was due to begin.
A high-ranking member of the group, which works closely with former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front, said in a statement on YouTube that the deal would only serve to "reinforce" the regime of President Bashar al-Assad and "increase the suffering" of civilians.
Ahrar al-Sham, which has an influential presence on the ground in Syria's brutal war, is the first rebel group to officially react to the deal reached on Friday following marathon talks in Geneva.
"The people cannot accept half-solutions," the group's deputy leader Ali al-Omar said in the YouTube video to mark the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha on Monday, when the truce is due to come into force.
"The Russian-American deal... will send all the sacrifices and gains of our people who have risen up into smoke. It will only serve to reinforce the regime and surround the revolution militarily."
Omar also rejected the aspect of the deal in which Washington is supposed to convince mainstream opposition fighters to break their alliance with Fateh al-Sham.
That group, which is not covered by the truce deal, has also dismissed the accord.
"It's simple -- the Russian-American deal is intended to eliminate those who protect Syrians," Fateh al-Sham spokesman Mostafa Mahamed wrote on Twitter.
"The negotiations and the deals which do not take account of fighters on the ground are useless."
The announcement of the truce after weeks of talks between the US and Russia -- which back opposing sides in the Syrian war -- comes with opposition forces struggling on the ground.
Pro-regime forces reimposed a devastating siege on Aleppo's eastern districts last week in a major blow to the rebels.
The Assad regime and its allies have said they will respect the truce deal.


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Outlook.com Users: Number Of Spam Emails Increased Significantly During The Past Few Months
By Alex Schoff December 22, 2019
Microsoft is constantly working to improve the spam blocking capability of its email service. The Redmond giant introduced different changes aimed at making Microsoft Outlook safer than ever.
Despite Microsoft's efforts, the company has failed to come up with a technique that can guarantee 100% protection against spam e-mails. Consequently, there is no way that you can completely block the junk messages in your inbox.
There has been a significant increase in the number of spam emails this year. However, recently several Outlook.com users claimed that their inbox is flooded with advertisements and spam emails. The problem was highlighted by many furious users on Reddit. One Reddit user reported the issue as follows:
"Over the past two days, I got 9 spam e-mails, all coming from the same doman – @foreing8.xyz. That's weird considering I usually don't get spam because the e-mail address isn't posted anywhere on the internet nor is used for registration anywhere else except on Google."
The claim was supported by many Outlook users who have experienced a similar problem during the past few weeks.
Thousands Of Reports On UserVoice Forum
A quick Google search revealed that its a widespread problem that was reported by thousands of people on Outlook's UserVoice page.
An Outlook user stated: "I'm noticing that spam email senders are rotating their obviously false domains so even if you block them, they just rotate to another false domain, and the body contains no text, but rather images that look like text making it harder for filters to read the content. The amount of spam getting through has increased tremendously in the past few weeks."
Thankfully, people working in a corporate environment already have some sort of filter set up on their server. The anti-spam filter helps them to avoid junk mail to some extent. This situation is problematic for home users who need to configure the spam filter on their own.
If reports are to be believed, a lot of unsolicited emails can certainly trick the spam filters and end up in your inbox. If you are one of those who are getting a lot of spam emails in your inbox, follow the step-by-step guide to block them.
In addition, you should also report the emails in order to train your spam folder to block junk emails. Also, don't forget to unsubscribe to market emails (if you haven't done already). Needless to say, Microsoft needs to do something about this issue on a priority basis before its too late.
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Anderson Lloyd's Queenstown Environment, Planning, and Natural Resources Team are proud to have assisted co-applicants, Ngāti Tama Ki Te Waipounamu Trust and Andrew Yuill, in their application for a Water Conservation Order (WCO) over Te Waikoropupū Springs and associated water bodies (including the aquifers, Tākaka River, and tributaries).
The iconic Te Waikoropupū Springs are the largest freshwater puna (springs) in New Zealand. It is a registered Wāhi tapū (sacred place), a taongā tuku iho (treasured resource), and is listed as a Water of National Importance for biodiversity. The water is some of the clearest in the world, and its outstanding clarity is attributed to the underground aquifer that supplies the Springs.
The Application seeks to recognise and sustain the aquifer's mauri (life force) and wairua (spirit), and its associated physical health. This is a unique application in that it is the first opportunity for WCO protection to be afforded to an underground aquifer system. All previous WCOs have been applied to rivers throughout New Zealand, recognised for their outstanding attributes. A copy of the Application can be found on the Friends of Golden Bay here. And further information about Ngāti Tama Ki Te Waipounamu Trust and its mahi on the Application can be found here.
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Alpha Team Leader Kyle Martin has always found solace in work, but this time he's been cut from the team following his father's death. The last thing he wants to do is grieve the abusive man who almost ended Kyle's life. When nurse Bethany Rossi shows up on his doorstep begging for help, Kyle knows he should turn her away. Her haunted eyes have seen demons like his, but he's always been a sucker for her smiles.
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Two battered hearts find comfort in each other's embrace.
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Para Equestrian Shares His Love of Horse Sports
It began with a pony that boasted an improbable pedigree. The sire was a strapping son of Triple Crown Champion War Admiral, by the immortal Man O' War. The dam was a diminutive Shetland. Michael Muir had his first pony, foaled in 1949, and a life-long love of horses was born.
Michael was actively breeding horses by the age of thirteen, despite living in the town of Dixon, California with his family, and no farm of their own. Down the lane beyond the edge of town stood a large barn in need of a new roof. The owner was happy to let the young horseman indulge his dreams in exchange for the needed work on the barn. Michael had already found his life's work.
Beginning with Appaloosa show horses in 1965, Michael began breeding racehorses, and launched the careers of the World Champions and multi-million dollar sires Apache Double and Ocala Flight. His horses set world records racing and earned National Grand Championships in the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. What is remarkable about this record is that Michael has lived with multiple sclerosis since the age of 15.
Despite being hospitalized, bedridden or wheelchair-bound many times throughout his life, Michael has remained an avid and active horseman. He credits his very survival and fulfilled life to his involvement with horses. When the course of his disease prevented him from riding, he turned to carriage driving, and was introduced to the world of draft horses. He began crossing some descendants of his original Appaloosas with Percherons and European warmbloods, developing his eye-catching Stonewall Sporthorses.
These unique warmbloods, with Michael and an international team of equestrians with disabilities, completed an extraordinary 3,000 mile Horsedrawn Journey Across America in 2001, driving wheelchair accessible carriages from the Mission San Diego in California across 11 states to Washington, DC. The HorseJourney team traveled through northern Europe in 2002, driving Friesian horses in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. In 2003, Lexington, Kentucky horsewoman Cindy Goff joined Michael and Stonewall Domino driving a wheelchair accessible carriage a thousand miles from Louisville, Kentucky to Cedar Key, Florida.
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SDSU Uses Terascala-Powered HPC Storage Appliance to Study the DNA of Viruses and Bacteria
Bioinformatics research is using Big Data to explore human health, disease, and our environment.
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To break this bottleneck, we purchased a Terascala-powered HPC storage appliance that balances our storage requirements with our computational infrastructure. --Christopher Paolini, staff scientist at San Diego State University
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Terascala, the industry leader in High Performance Computing (HPC) storage management software, today announced that its TeraOS software powers the Lustre®-based parallel storage appliance at the Computational Science Research Center (CSRC) data center at San Diego State University (SDSU). The Terascala® TeraOS software keeps the HPC storage running at the high throughput required by SDSU researchers using bioinformatics to study, process, and correlate biological data.
SDSU researchers are contributing to the Human Microbiome Project, where the National Institutes of Health collects viral and bacterial samples from healthy people and sequences the DNA. SDSU researchers then investigate to find meaning in the DNA sequences of the viruses and bacteria. Purpose-built computational tools are used to identify patterns in the DNA strings, as well as classify the unknown sequences. These tools also check if these DNA sequences are found in other organisms or people, and what contributing factors may have significance, including geography and environment.
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"The biological sciences are really becoming data driven and require large amounts of compute and high performance storage," explained Rob Edwards, professor of computer science at San Diego State University. "We couldn't explore new ways of thinking about biological data, human health, disease, and our environment without large computational resources. Our bioinformatics research is using Big Data to answer biological interesting questions that may improve our quality of life."
"Big Data simulations are often I/O bound and consume a significant amount of time just reading and writing data. To break this bottleneck, we purchased a Terascala-powered HPC storage appliance that balances our storage requirements with our computational infrastructure," noted Christopher Paolini, staff scientist at San Diego State University. "The plug and play nature of the appliance has allowed our researchers to concentrate on the science instead of system administration."
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Enghouse Interactive Records More Than 450 Deployments on Microsoft Skype for Business
Trusted Microsoft Gold partner continues to lead the way in the Skype for Business contact center and customer interaction solutions adoption
PHOENIX, AZ–(Marketwired – Jul 6, 2017) – Enghouse Interactive, a leading developer of a comprehensive portfolio of contact center software and services, today reported that it has successfully completed more than 450 contact center deployments, totaling more than 10,000 active concurrent agents, on Microsoft Skype for Business (SFB), for which the customer interaction solutions leader provides a full omni-channel communications experience both on-premise and in the cloud.
"Skype for Business continues to revolutionize how organizations engage with both internal and external customers," said Enghouse Interactive President, Americas, Ernie Wallerstein. "Leveraging Skype for Business service in the contact center and in other customer-facing communications reflects the appetite of businesses for highly collaborative interactions."
Enghouse Interactive solutions leverage native integration to Skype for Business, utilizing Microsoft-endorsed APIs and trusted conferences. End-users enjoy the unique combination of Enghouse Interactive solutions with their choice of SFB configurations and deployment options.
"Skype for Business has ushered in a new era of unified communications," said John Cray, vice president, product management, Enghouse Interactive. "Enghouse has been a member of the Microsoft Partner Network for more than a decade, and we continue to work alongside Microsoft to provide organizations worldwide with the resources and expertise they need to take full advantage of Skype for Business as the next-generation of communications technology."
Not only does this milestone reinforce Enghouse Interactive's position as the preeminent leader among Microsoft Skype for Business contact center partners, but also exemplifies the company's mission to deliver solutions that provide key added value to Microsoft's core communications platforms. In addition to contact center, Enghouse Interactive recently introduced TouchPoint Attendant Console for Skype for Business Cloud PBX, a highly graphical and easy-to-use tool for receptionists and operators that natively integrates into Microsoft's Skype for Business Online and Office 365.
"As a tenured and trusted Microsoft partner, Enghouse understands communications and what it means to optimize people's time," said Senior Product Marketing Manager, Skype for Business Developer Platform, Microsoft Corp, James Skay. "We are excited to share Enghouse's innovative breakthrough with the thousands of enterprises worldwide for which Skype for Business is the preferred collaboration solution."
Enghouse Interactive earned its Gold Application Development and Communications competencies in March of 2015, distinguishing itself within the top 1 percent of Microsoft's partner ecosystem. Attaining the Microsoft Communications competencies demonstrates partner expertise in video conferencing, voice over Internet protocol and instant messaging. For more information about Enghouse Interactive Skype for Business solutions, please visit, https://www.enghouseinteractive.com/solutions/skype-for-business/.
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Home Business Banking & Finance NIB takes major step in transformation agenda
NIB takes major step in transformation agenda
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… relocates head office to Airport City
National Investment Bank (NIB), as part of its transformational agenda, has relocated the operations of its head office to the Manet Towers, Airport City, Accra.
According to the Managing Director (MD) of the bank, Samuel Sarpong, after almost 60 years at the Central Business District (CBD) in Accra, the move heralds the coming of a new era for the bank and is indicative of its medium to long-term aspirations.
In an interview with the B&FT, Mr. Sarpong suggested that accessibility to the premises which housed the head office as well as visibility in the newest banking hub were significant factors in the decision.
"We are in the process of transformation and as part of that transformation, a major step that we had to take was to relocate the head office. As you are aware, the Accra Central Business District is no longer a prime location for the head offices of major corporations, particularly banks, as that whole environment is congested.
We are now at one of the three major banking hubs and we are happy to be in this location, which is very accessible to all our customers and projects the new image for the bank," he said but quickly added that the current location doesn't represent the permanent residence of the bank and suggested that measures are being put in place to find a long-term home for NIB.
Mr. Sarpong indicated that the transformation of the bank is not merely aesthetic but is a reflection of the reforms the bank is undergoing to be modern, competitive and profitable.
"A modern NIB will be well-run from a governance perspective. The ills of the past, in terms of a poor running of the bank which leads to losses and going back to shareholders for capital injection will be a thing of the past. Irrespective of who the manager is, once we have proper policies in place, they will have to be followed and we are looking at having a well-diversified Board, for which the bank's Charter is being revised to make sure the Board and the committees are better structured.
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Making Cops Pay For Patrol Car Fuel??
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-- Georgia Department Caps Fuel Use --
Chattanooga Times Free Press (Tennessee)
By Kevin Cummings
Dalton Bureau
DALTON, Ga. -- Thanks to the bruising fuel-cost pinch, city police officers soon will have to monitor their driving habits more closely.
Police Chief Jason Parker said a new department fuel policy will go into effect Oct. 1 that requires employees to pay for gas used in department vehicles if they exceed monthly use limits.
Police department spokesman Bruce Frazier said the policy will not cut into neighborhood patrols or inhibit officers from backing each other up.
"They're not going to do something that would put another officer, or anyone in the public, in jeopardy," he said.
Chief Parker said city officers' beats are small enough that they'll be able to help one another whenever needed.
The chief said he has tried to meet with every employee in the department to explain the policy, and he said officers are concerned about the potential impact on their personal finances and being able to do their job.
But Chief Parker said the plan was studied thoroughly and that it will be up to officers and supervisors to adjust to the limits.
To come up with the plan, fuel consumption of each division of the department was studied in relation to how much gasoline the department should use per month. Mr. Frazier said the calculations took into account possible overtime and concentrated patrols. Exceptions will be handled case by case, such as if an officer had to transport an inmate from Atlanta.
It is a "good, fair policy," according to City Councilman George Sadosuk, who also serves on the city's Public Safety Commission.
"I think it's great that the police department has been proactive on this and taken the lead on it," he said.
Mr. Frazier said department personnel will receive training on the policy and on ways to conserve fuel, such as not letting vehicles sit and idle and when to perform foot patrols.
If the policy had been in effect in July, department employees would have had to buy a combined 600 gallons of fuel from their own pockets, Mr. Frazier said. At that rate, the policy should save the department about 7,000 gallons of fuel a year. The average officer in the department's Assigned Vehicle Program has a commute distance of 10.21 miles.
MONTHLY FUEL LIMITS
* Administrative staff -- 45 gallons
* Patrol officers -- 120 gallons
* Patrol sergeants -- 65 gallons
* Criminal Investigators -- 75 gallons
* Drug Unit -- 95 gallons
Source: Dalton Police Department
120 gallons a month? That's insane. When I was a deputy sheriff, it was possible to use that much gasoline in a little over a week. A Crown Vic is not exactly a Prius, you know.
Georgia, like most southern states, can get quite hot in the summer months. Unless you are out of the car on foot patrol (possibly a hidden motive for the fuel use guidlines), the engine will be running with the A/C turned on.
I wonder if this is going to hurt police patrols or response to calls.
"Sorry, sarge; I can't arrest this guy because the jail is too far away and I will use up my monthly fuel quota to take him there."
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The comments above reflect my personal opinion as a private citizen, ordinary motorist and all-around good guy.
The aforementioned advice should not be construed to represent any type of professional opinion, legal counsel or other type of instruction with regard to traffic laws, judicial proceedings or official agency policy.
"Ignorance on fire is hotter than knowledge on ice."
MPDCjock
Yea right! If MPDC ever makes officers pay for fuel, I'll opt for a foot beat!
Taylor13
Why not cut other expenses such as little projects going on by senators they don't need, or do they have them up there?
exdrip
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Thats not a whole lot to work with. I can see this going bad places.
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LA DEP
Guess we would just have to operate like the hosedraggers.....sit in the station till we get called......
I'll be DAMNED if I'm gonna pay for gas AT WORK...........
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My thoughts exactly....
Also wouldn't be legal in VA, even with a signed agreemet from the employee.
Of the many dumb ideas I've heard, this has got to be in the top 5.
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By the way.. They aren't "Clients" or "Customers" they're CRIMINALS... sheesh
As LA DEP said..... you would have a lot of cars parked somewhere waiting for a radio call.....ZERO proactivity. I dont see how they could legally make you pay for fuel doing an assignment they make you do...... do you get reprimanded if you dont respond to a call because you dont have anymore gas...... stupid, stupid policy. Im sure there are quite a few other areas that could be found for cost savings.
Bearcat357
Originally posted by LA DEP View Post
A couple of years ago when fuel was going up.....the part-time place I worked at (1500 residents) did that.....
We were either at the station or Sheriff's Office hanging out till we got a call....
We could cruise the streets a couple of times a night and were able to hang out at the 7-11..... but that was it. We had a 20 mile per shift limit.....
Guess what went up...? That's right....crime.....Crooks knew we weren't cruising as much so once they saw us go through town, they knew it was time to go to work......
It lasted about a month and the City Council opted to get off the Chief's *** and let us go back to regular patrols....
crazynova
I don't think the officers paying for gas thing would fly here. The union would have a fit and would have none of it.
NYJets44288
Their union has to be suing, right? I hope? How is that constitutional?
Originally posted by NYJets44288 View Post
Georgia is a right to work state and has no Police Unions if I recall.......
ComicGuy
Just gettin' along mostly
Originally posted by Bearcat357 View Post
Right to work or not, its a violation of civil/labor laws to make an employee pay for items used in the course of their employment.
I'd walk the fark out and file a class action lawsuit the first time they tried it with me.
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Originally posted by VA Dutch View Post
How about: "I'll be off the rest of the week, Sarge. I used up my gas quota for this month."
"Hosedraggers" LMFAO!!!!!
I'd guess that any department attempting to make officers pay for gas used in the performance of their duties might not get the patrol time they were expecting and may have some FLSA issues coming up in court!!!
On a five day work-week that would limit the officers to about six gallons a day; and, if they were fortunate to get 15 MPG they could be limited to driving no more than 90 miles of beat coverage. Heck, I used to put on 200+ miles per day. Their POA needs to go to court over this one and file a case for protection of the officers and their families.


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Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), operated under Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) in the Indian city of Bengaluru, has decided to construct a second runway and terminal (T2) in 2016.
The second terminal will be constructed in two phases to accommodate 35 million passengers annually.
The first phase, expected to be completed by 2021, will be able to handle about 20 million additional passengers every year.
The T1 and T2 combined are expected to handle approximately 55 million passengers.
"The combined capacity of T1 and T2 will be approximately 55 MPA."
BIAL was cited by The New Indian Express as saying: "When completed, T2 will cater to 35 MPA.
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Q: How i can i subtract two selected columns in the same query? select (select count(*) from tbl_account) as processed,
(select count(*) from tbl_rejected_account) as rejected,
processed -rejected as approved from tbl_control .

how can i get that 'approved' count without having to write two subqueries and subtract them later.
EDIT:
The original Query that i want to change:-
 select
ACTIVITY_DATE
,SYSTEM_NAME
,START_TIME
,END_TIME
,INSTANCE_NO as instance_number
,case status when '1' then 'Success'
when '2' then 'In process'
when '3' then 'Failed' end as status

,(select count(distinct account_number) from tbl_account_detail where   coretype=a.system_name and INSTANCE_NO=a.instance_no and a.activity_date=to_char(upload_date,'dd-MON-yy'))+

(select count(distinct account_number) from tbl_account_detail_exception where  system_name=a.system_name and INSTANCE_NO=a.instance_no and a.activity_date=to_char(upload_date,'dd-MON-yy'))
as AccountCount
,(select count(distinct account_number) from tbl_account_detail where  CREATOR='SYSTEM' and APPROVER='SYSTEM' and system_name=a.system_name and INSTANCE_NO=a.instance_no and a.activity_date=to_char(upload_date,'dd-MON-yy'))
as AutoApprovedCount
    ,(select count(distinct account_number) from tbl_account_detail where  coretype=a.system_name and INSTANCE_NO=a.instance_no and a.activity_date=to_char(upload_date,'dd-MON-yy')) +

 (select count(distinct account_number) from tbl_account_detail_exception where  system_name=a.system_name and INSTANCE_NO=a.instance_no and

a.activity_date=to_char(upload_date,'dd-MON-yy')) -

(select count(distinct account_number) from tbl_account_detail where a.activity_date=to_char(upload_date,'dd-MON-yy') and CREATOR='SYSTEM' and APPROVER='SYSTEM' and system_name=a.system_name and INSTANCE_NO=a.instance_no)
    as MaintenanceCount
    from tbl_control_file_status a where activity_type='MAIN' and activity_name='START';

clearly this is not what should be the proper way,kindly provide an alternative solution.

A: You can use a subquery to introduce aliases for use in the outer query:
select  SubQueryAlias.*
,       processed - rejected as approved
from    (
        select  (
                select count(*)
                from   tbl_account
                ) as processed,
                (
                select  count(*)
                from    tbl_rejected_account
                ) as rejected
        from    dual
        ) as SubQueryAlias
;

It's often more readable to use a common-table expression (CTE) as in Alex Poole's answer.

A: You can't refer to a column alias in the same level of query it is defined, except in an order by clause. That is because of the way the query is processed and the result set constructed, but also avoids ambiguity. This is mentioned in the documentatin:

Specify an alias for the column expression. Oracle Database will use this alias in the column heading of the result set. The AS keyword is optional. The alias effectively renames the select list item for the duration of the query. The alias can be used in the order_by_clause but not other clauses in the query.

You could use a CTE for each subquery, or inline views:
select ta.processed, tra.rejected, ta.processed - tra.rejected as approved
from (
  select count(*) as processed from tbl_account
) ta
cross join (
  select count(*) as rejected from tbl_rejected_account
) tra

Or if you really have a correlation with the third table:
select tc.id, ta.processed, tra.rejected, ta.processed - tra.rejected as approved
from tbl_control tc
join (
  select id, count(*) as processed from tbl_account group by id
) ta on ta.id = tc.id
join (
  select id, count(*) as rejected from tbl_rejected_account group by id
) tra on tra.id = tc.id

You haven't said what the relationship is so I've assumed a common ID column. Using CTEs rather than inline views that would look like:
with ta as (
  select id, count(*) as processed from tbl_account group by id
), tra as (
  select id, count(*) as rejected from tbl_rejected_account group by id
)
select tc.id, ta.processed, tra.rejected, ta.processed - tra.rejected as approved
from tbl_control tc
join ta on ta.id = tc.id
join tra on tra.id = tc.id

You may need outer joins and nvl if either subquery table might not have matching rows.
You don't really need to use subqueries, inline views or CTEs here though; you can just join the tables and have the aggregates in the top-level query - you need to duplicate the count not the whole subquery:
with ta as (
  select id, count(*) as processed from tbl_account group by id
), tra as (
  select id, count(*) as rejected from tbl_rejected_account group by id
)
select tc.id, count(ta.id) as processed,
  count(tra.id) as rejected,
  count(ta.id) - count(tra.id) as approved
from tbl_control tc
join tbl_approved ta on ta.id = tc.id
join tbl_rejected tra on tra.id = tc.id
group by tc.id

You can add more joins and conditions as needed of course.

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Transmeta Looks For a Different PC Boom - InternetNews.
Low-power chipmaker Transmeta is silently helping to shift the way you access the Web.
In the past few months, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based firm has scored several contracts to put its processors in not only laptops, but also in non-traditional desktop hardware as well as thin clients , blade PCs, Tablet PCs and what the company calls "Ultra Personal Computers".
Last week alone, Transmeta inked deals to put its new TM8000 Efficeon chip in products made by Hewlett-Packard and Wyse Technology.
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"The low thermal characteristics of the Transmeta Crusoe processor allow HP to design extremely small enclosures without the need for cooling fans," Transmeta senior vice president of marketing Art Swift.
The two companies have worked before, most notably through their marquee supply deal for HP's Compaq Evo Tablet PCs.
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Intel and AMD are also talking up their versions of a low-power processor for non-PC forms. Intel wrote the book on much of the thin client space and uses its Pentium lineup as its core model. The chipmaking giant has turned to its Centrino technology as its strategy for placement in Tablet PCs by Gateway, Acer and Motion Computing.
AMD's K6-2e and K6-IIIe embedded processors for thin clients, point-of-sale terminals and telecom devices have been out for several years now.
O'Donnell has said that the growth of non-PC adoption is understandable when one considers that the thin client space has a compelling value proposition for the enterprise market and that the devices can be deployed quickly in volume and are easily maintained. , blade PCs, Tablet PCs and what the company calls "Ultra Personal Computers".
O'Donnell has said that the growth of non-PC adoption is understandable when one considers that the thin client space has a compelling value proposition for the enterprise market and that the devices can be deployed quickly in volume and are easily maintained.


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