Finally in the zone, the canning comfort zone. Really, for most people isn't this why they got into canning in the first place? Solanum lycopersicum, the garden tomato. When reading through plant catalogs it is the siren of summer, with her beguiling aliases: Mortgage Lifter, Brandywine, Cherokee Purple, Cuore Di Bue, Green Zebra … She seduces you into ordering dozens of plants with the anticipation of this very moment, the canning of the tomato.
Was there ever any doubt what this month's can jam theme would be? It had to be her. And as comforting as this ingredient is to me, it was still hard. Hard to do something other than make sauce. Because I horde sauce. I dream of sauce. I have nightmares about running out of sauce. There can never be enough sauce in my larder to make me think that I have enough.
But sauce is pretty boring, and I wanted to do something a little interesting. Not all like crazy weird I'll never use the product, but something a little more complex. So I allotted some of my precious tomatoes to this task – and if tasting is any indication it was an acceptable gamble.
The Hardware: see The Canning Thing, 3 – 4 pint jars (or any combination of half pints and pints to hold between 3 & 4 pints), food mill, potato masher and a cheap a$$ serrated knife. Now, I don't usually spend a great deal of time on hardware, I just assume if you are cooking you know what you like to cook with. But I want to take a moment to talk about cutting tomatoes.
I am a knife snob. Sharp and strong is the way I like them, I don't have many but the ones I have are choice. All last year during tomato canning I worked with a combination of my Henkel paring and bread knives, using the paring to cut out cores and such then the bread knife for cutting the bad boys into pieces. This year I had a rude awakening. I realized that the cheap block-o-knives steak knives that my hubby brought into our relationship, the ones that were relegated to the gulag of the junk drawer, were the best knives to use for processing my tomatoes. The pointy tip will cut out bad spots and the serrated "never sharpen" edges saw through tomatoes like buttah. I am chagrined.
Remove cores and bad spots from tomatoes, slice in half or more depending on size, chuck into goodly sized non-reactive pot. Sprinkle with a bit of salt and squoosh with a potato masher. Bring to a simmer and cook until you can mash the biggest piece on the side of the pot with a spoon. Run through food mill and return to pot. Feed all scraps to chickens.
Add everything else except the lemon juice to the pot and simmer until the onions are soft – run through food mill a second time. (You might want to hold off on the chili paste and add that to taste depending on how spicy you like things.) Return everything to the pot (including the stuff that wouldn't go through the mill – I like chunkies) and simmer until reduced to desired thickness. You know, pizza sauce thickness ie: thicker than a standard sauce but not paste consistency.
Add 1 T of lemon juice per pint and 1 1/2 t for a half pint – fill using your fancy canning gear and stir up a little to mix the lemon in before you lid up. 1/4 inch head-space, Boiling Water Bath for 35 minutes (sea level) adjust for your altitude.
Yeah, I am happy I made this. Now I can have instant pizza sauce whenever I desire. It was hard, because for that 10 lbs of tomatoes I could have had 4 – 5 pints of sauce. The reducing kills me, I feel like I am simmering away precious tomato goodness. But I know that is silly.
Unfortunately my tomato plants are not producing as I would like this year. I managed to pull this off with home-grown, but if I am to have a larder that will allow me to sleep at night I might have to resort to the farmer's markets. Tell me truthfully, for you, how much is enough? Do I have a problem?
ps: If I had known then what I know now, I might have held off on my Salsa Verde post and put it here instead. I am afraid that the tomatillo isn't going to get the face time it should in this months round-up. The green stuff vs the red stuff is a Sophie's Choice kind of conundrum for me. So take a moment and give some love to the little green guy.
I am going to have to write this in bits and pieces, because for some reason I decided at 9:00 pm that I really needed to make banana muffins. Actually, I decided a couple of hours ago when I pulled 5 frozen bananas out of the freezer and chucked them into a bowl to thaw. Of course, I didn't have a recipe to speak of, so I had to trawl food blogs for one.
This one from Whipped caught my eye. And I had had my hubby get a bag of chopped pecans out of the freezer to thaw – so it looked like good planning. Maple Pecans Banana Bread – how awesome!
Except I had too many Bananas so I decided to double the recipe. Then I didn't have enough butter or Maple Syrup – so I made up the difference in fat with canola oil and in sweet with honey. And I was using eggs from my chicken flock, who apparently failed to attend the USDA standard egg sizing class – so I had to finagle the number of eggs I was using.
The view from in front of my stove/oven.
Here I am cooking along merrily (I made Avgolemono soup for dinner – we ate it with a side of left over homemade Parmesan nuggets. Yay meal planning not) and this is what I see when I glance to my right. Here's the thing, it doesn't bother me at all. My approach to housekeeping is, how shall we say, flexible. But it isn't that I am completely lazy, I think I just have different priorities.
I don't mind that there are toys strewn all over my house. That when I go to get in bed and flip my covers into something resembling a sleep-able bed I uncover several cars who had been residing in the "garage" that had been built out of my quilt. And this view, this view is something that makes me happier than I have ever been in my life.
I am sure I should be trying to impart some responsibility or some such approved parenting stuff by making my little man clean up all of his toys and keep them in one spot. But you know what? My stuff is all over the house too, it's my house. It's his house too, I don't believe in restricting him to one designated room that can be closed off so that we can pretend that there isn't a child in the house and everything is presentable.
It took us five years to have this child. The process of having him almost killed me – but it was worth it. Every time I glance up and see a little reminder that he is in my life I am happy. This little truck, standing sentinel over my cooking while he sleeps away in his bed keeps him close to me. I wouldn't have it any other way.


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Tomblin reviewing potential state BOE candidates
By Samuel Speciale
The Charleston Daily Mail
A spokesman for Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said Thursday that a list of potential candidates to fill vacancies on the state Board of Education is still being reviewed, though he could not give a timetable for when an appointment would be made.
Tomblin issued a similar statement in June when asked about the state of his search.
The board has two vacant seats, one of which has been empty since December 2012 when former...
Judge's denial that Marple's suit be dimissed is appealed
By Ryan Quinn
The Charleston Gazette
The West Virginia Board of Education is appealing to the state Supreme Court after a lower judge refused to dismiss an ousted state superintendent's suit against the school board.
Jorea Marple sued the board and individual member Wade Linger in April, arguing that Linger led a "covert agenda," violating open meetings laws, to get other members to agree to vote to fire her in November 2012. Along with defamation and other...
State BOE approves pilot program for more flexible school days
Members of the state Board of Education unanimously approved Wednesday a pilot program that will give school districts more flexibility in planning their instructional days.
All 55 county school districts may apply, said Betty Jordan, executive assistant to the state schools superintendent. The few districts accepted at a later board meeting, likely in the spring, will receive permission to break current state education policy...
Some state lawmakers caution against ending Common Core
By Joel Ebert
Attempts to repeal Common Core once Republicans take control of the state Legislature could be detrimental to the state, say several departing Democratic lawmakers.
"Republicans want to dismantle what is in place and that will truly set West Virginia students back," said state Sen. Erik Wells, D-Kanawha. Wells served as vice-chairman of the education committee during the 2014 session but was defeated by Republican Ed Gaunch on Nov...
W.Va. standardized test scores drop
By Ryan Quinn, Staff writer
More West Virginia students failed to hit proficiency marks in the 2013-14 school year, according to the Westest standardized test scores published Friday — several months after the results are normally released.
Fifty-eight percent of students in grades 3 through 8 and 11 failed to show proficiency in math — an increase from 55 percent in the 2012-13 school year and the highest the failure rate has been since the 2009-10 school year, when 58...

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Let's face it. If you're raising a child with a disability, then your life is anything but typical. More like fragile, complex, overwhelming, exhausting. After battling the everyday challenges that never seem to leave you alone, there is not much left in the tank. You may also be in the situation where caring for your child for the rest of your lives is becoming more and more real. The older you get, the more difficult it will become to embrace that reality.
Not surprisingly, families of persons with disabilities are at a high risk of relationship breakup as they slog through the day-to-day stresses of trying to provide just the basics for their child. They are less equipped to deal with even the simplest of unplanned and unexpected events, sometimes just one step away from a complete breakdown.
Rather depressing, I know. And perhaps I'm just describing my world, not yours.
I lay in bed, unable to fall back to sleep, and my mind started playing with my overtaxed state-of-being. I started down the slippery slope of wondering how I could carry on with supporting Ben if something happened to Jan. You see, she had just left on an early-morning, work-related trip stateside and I was alone, and would be for the next 3 days.


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Q: Read csv file and remove duplicate from csv file and sum specific column enter image description here
above image part no 2, 8 is found duplicate value, so how to sum "Qty" value,  see part no 2 Qty sum value will be = 4 and part no 8 and Qty value will be 16
bellow is my expected result
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I need result like this
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A: This should be pretty easy with pandas. I am not too familiar with the library, but I found that this should work:
import pandas as pd

df: pd.DataFrame = pd.read_csv("test.csv")
df = df.groupby(["part", "description", "LotNumber", "ExpirationDate", "Location", "LocationGroup"])["Qty"].sum()
df.to_csv("result.csv")

You can change the file to read from and the output file as well. It was also quite hard to see the name of one of the columns, so make sure that the names are right.

There should be a better way to do this, but as mentioned I am not that good at pandas.
And to use pandas you will need to install it from pip: pip install pandas

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Fable 3: PC Gamers Finally Get Confirmed Release Date
by Tina Chubb February 24, 2011, 23:45 2 Comments
When the Fable 3 game was released for the Xbox 360 back in October last year, the PC version was meant to have been launched alongside it. However, PC gamers were left feeling rather disappointed, when Microsoft announced it was delaying the PC version in order to optimize for the Windows platform.
We now have a bit of good news for those of you that were hoping for it to launch on PC, as Microsoft has finally confirmed a release date. According to Mike Jackson over at computerandvideogames.com, Fable 3 will arrive for the PC on May 17th in the US, and May 19th in Australia, New Zealand and Europe.
Microsoft recently detailed some of the changes that will be found in the PC version, including the same content found in the console version, the Limited Collector's Edition2 digital content such as a brand new quest, outfit, region and dog breed and a PC-only hardcore mode offering a higher difficulty level.
As Jay Acevedo from gamefocus.ca recently reported, PC gamers will also be able to take advantage of the full 3D functionality, which has been made possible thanks to NVIDIA technology. Xbox 360 gamers will soon be able to download the "Traitor's Keep" DLC pack, which will arrive on Xbox Live on March 1st.
You can read more about the DLC via the gamefocus.ca website.
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This is a well-known laptop with good build quality, sharp and color accurate display and great performance. But I've never worked with the ProRes codec, and I'm a new guy to Davinci Resolve. So, I don't know, is it a good idea to edit ProRes footage in Resolve on a Windows laptop, or I should buy a MacBook?
Therefore, I have a few questions. Does encoding/decoding in ProRes works fine in Davinci Resolve on Windows? Is there any difference in performance and overall stability of Davinci Resolve for Windows and for Mac? In general, are there problems with the ProRes on Windows in 2019?
I want to choose the most optimal set of hardware and software for comfortable work with BMPCC 4k. What do you think? Should I stay with Windows or should I switch to Mac for these specific tasks?


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Cross Street(s): On the Plaza, btwn Old Santa Fe Trl. & Lincoln Ave.
This primarily ice cream shop opened on the Santa Fe Plaza in 2014 serving H�agen-Dazs, chocolate confections, and coffee. They're not too slouchy, given that they use a two-group Synesso machine - albeit beans from a Minnesota roaster of unknown origin. The shop has dozens of seeats for mostly ice cream patrons, and there's a pretty quick rotation where the patrons don't linger. They pull shots with a darker to medium brown crema of modest thickness. What's notable is the full, syrupy body in the white ceramic cup (Richard Ginori discount cups of the "Coffee Line RGG Linea Caff�" line). It has a pungent flavor with darker notes of spices and some chocolate. Not bad. Served on a tray with a side of sparkling water.


Full range of office gynecological care, office procedures and GYN surgery including hysterectomy, sterilization, problem bleeding and incontinence.
My goal is to provide high quality, individualized gynecologic care to help women of all ages maintain their best possible health and lifestyle.
My husband and I live in Kenmore. We have two adult daughters (one an OB, one a dancer) and currently share our home with two retired racing greyhounds. I enjoy skiing, sailing and reading.
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I have been a patient of Dr. Brumfiel for 20 years, she been with me when my children were born and when i was diagnosis with breast cancer. She is a wonderful, caring, intelligent human being.


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 Diego Castillo (pitcher) (born 1994), Dominican baseball pitcher
 Diego Castillo (infielder) (born 1997), Venezuelan baseball infielder
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A Little Bolt of Life: High Fives!
Monday was my birthday and one of my coworkers brought me the cutest mini ice cream cake! It totally made my day that much sweeter (see what I did there?!) and was the icing on the cake (ok I'll stop) for the perfect birthday!
We've moved on from cereal and have begun real foods! So far she has had broccoli, green beans and sweet potatoes. She hasn't met a food she doesn't like so here's to hoping she isn't picky like her mommy and daddy!
I got some requests for Lilly fabric bows and koozies which gave me the perfect excuse to purchase a few prints! These are all going to be available in my shop over the weekend! I especially LOVE the 4th of July print!
My friend got me a new Alex and Ani bracelet for my birthday and I LOVE it! It's the perfect addition to my collection, AND it's pink!
Of course the highlight of my week was being able to celebrate my husband's first Father's Day! The love he has for Charlotte is more than I could have ever imagined. Seeing the two of them together just melts my heart.
I absolutely love Alex and Ani- my friend works at a jewelry store, so she always gets the most thoughtful ones for me for Christmas! :) Love it!


here at the Challenger Learning Center of RCSD1!
A $50 deposit is required to reserve your child's summer camp registration.
This deposit is applied toward the summer camp fee.
For example, if the summer camp fee is $75, you will need to pay $50 to reserve your child's spot. You still owe $25 for the remaining camp fee.
or you may pay online using a credit card (through PayPal).
Camps have limited enrollment! Register early to get the camp you want!
2019 Summer Camp PERMISSION FORM.
or we will have a copy for you to sign on the first day of camp.
All campers should bring a bag lunch and a drink for all camps!
All campers receive a Challenger t-shirt!
except Advanced Aviation and Advanced Drone (which run 9:00am-2:00pm).
Parents, don't let your kids have all the fun! Attend camp with your child!
2019 Family Fun Day REGISTRATION.
Scroll down for descriptions of camps.
Be a rocket scientist! Learn how to build and launch rockets! Campers will keep the rockets they construct. Campers are encouraged to bring sunglasses to wear during rocket launches.
Learn about careers in the aviation industry and the basics of flight all in one. This camp focuses on hands-on learning how to fly through simulation. Students will also get an opportunity to learn about the history of flight, airplane structural designs and basic flight maneuvers.
For students who would like to earn their Private Pilot Certificate, our Advanced Aviation ground school includes seminars on topics tested on the FAA's Private Pilot Knowledge Exam.
Build and fly your very own drone! Campers will construct a drone and learn how to fly it safely and ethically. After learning about the principles of flight, campers will learn drone flight maneuvers and participate in flight control and accuracy challenges. At the conclusion of camp, campers will keep the drone they built.
To legally earn income from flying a drone (even by selling a photo or video taken with a drone), the drone pilot must have a Remote Pilot Certificate issued by the FAA. Our Advanced Drone camp includes seminars on topics tested on the FAA's Remote Pilot Certification Exam to prepare students for the exam.


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The Popular Sources of Political Authority
Documents on the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780
Edited by Oscar Handlin
Mary Flug Handlin
Center for the Study of the History of Liberty in America
POLITICAL SCIENCE: Constitutions
POLITICAL SCIENCE: Political Ideologies: Democracy
HISTORY: United States: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
HISTORY: United States: State & Local: New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Rarely is it possible to hear the voice of the people in a revolution except as it filters through the writings of articulate individuals who may not really be representative. But on several occasions during the effort to draft a constitution for Massachusetts after 1776, the citizens of the Commonwealth were asked to convene in their 300 town meetings to debate and convey to the legislators their political theories, needs, and aspirations. This book presents the transcribed debates and the replies returned to Boston which constitute a unique body of material documenting the political thought of the ordinary citizen.
In an important, extended introduction, the editors, interpreting the American Revolution and its sustaining political framework in light of this material, analyze the forces that were singular and those that were universal in the shaping of American democracy. Comparisons are made with popular uprisings in other parts of the world and at other times, and the whole is integrated into a general discussion of the nature of revolution and its relationship to constitutional authority.


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Apple iPhones get bigger and pricier, Watch turns to health
LONDON: Apple Inc introduced its largest-ever iPhone and a watch that detects heart problems in an attempt to get customers to upgrade to more expensive devices in the face of stagnant global demand for smartphones.
The relatively small changes to its lineup, following last year's overhauled iPhone X, were widely expected by investors, who sent the company's shares down 1.2 percent to $221.07.
The strategy has been successful, helping Apple's stock up more than 30 pct this year and making it the first publicly traded US company to hit a market value of more than $1 trillion.
Apple's new iPhone XS, pronounced "ten S," has a 5.8-inch (14.7-cm) screen, and starts at $999. The XS Max, the largest iPhone to date and one of the biggest on the market, has a 6.5-inch (16.5-cm) screen, and starts at $1,099.
"They have finally added a larger-screen phone so that they can directly compete with the Galaxy Note9 products," Gartner analyst Annette Zimmermann said at the event at Apple's Silicon Valley headquarters, referring to rival Samsung Electronics, which has led the trend toward big-screen phones.
"The larger screen will be very important in China to turn around the trend there, because they have lost some share in the last few years, partly because of screen size," she added.
Apple also introduced a lower-cost 6.1-inch (15.5 cm) iPhone XR made of aluminum, starting at $749.
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I Am Fire and Air (Swedish: Jag är eld och luft) is a 1944 Swedish drama film directed by Anders Henrikson and starring Viveca Lindfors, Stig Järrel and Olof Widgren. It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in Stockholm and at the city's Grand Hotel. The film's sets were designed by the art director Bibi Lindström.

Cast
 Viveca Lindfors as Jenny Ahrman
 Stig Järrel as 	Pharmacist Edvind Franzen
 Anders Henrikson as Hegert
 Olof Widgren as 	Sven Dahl
 Hasse Ekman as 	Tore Ekström
 Olof Winnerstrand as 	Lennart Broberg
 Hilda Borgström as 	Augusta Condé
 Linnéa Hillberg as 	Mrs. Ahrman
 Åke Claesson as 	Ahrman, Jenny's Father
 Britta Brunius as 	Clara
 Jullan Kindahl as 	Mrs. Frida Sundelin
 Stina Ståhle as 	Actress at the theatre
 Hilding Gavle as 	Helge Brenner
 Kolbjörn Knudsen as 	Actor at the theatre
 Carl-Gunnar Wingård as 	Actor at the theatre
 Olga Appellöf as 	Ester, maid
 Renée Björling as 	Miss Schultze
 Bellan Roos as 	Linnéa
 Margaretha Bergström as 	Greta Linden
 Göran Bernhard as 	Jenny's Son
 Gösta Gustafson as 	Erik Jans
 Emmy Albiin as 	Old woman selling flowers
 Karin Alexandersson as Café hostess
 Carl Deurell as 	Party guest
 Lars Ekborg as 	Helmsman
 Erik Forslund as 	Janitor
 Axel Högel as Veterinary
 Stig Johanson as 	Shop assistant
 Marianne Löfgren as Harlot
 Erik A. Petschler as 	Prompter
 Aurore Palmgren as 	Nurse

References

Bibliography
 Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.

External links

1944 films
Swedish drama films
1944 drama films
1940s Swedish-language films
Films directed by Anders Henrikson
Swedish black-and-white films
Films shot in Stockholm
Films based on Swedish novels
1940s Swedish films


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Q: COUNT(1) + COUNT(DISTINCT()) much slower then doing 2 queries separately Query explanation:

*

*Person (identified by PersonID) may have or not have a corresponding Job (identified by JobID).

*If there's a corresponding Job, binding is stored in table PersonJob (PersonID <=> JobID).

*Person without Job are ignored.

*Job also has CityID.

*Per every Job.CityID, query wants to know total count of Person and also count of unique Person.HouseID
Query:
SELECT
  Job.CityID, COUNT(1) NumTotal, COUNT(DISTINCT(Person.HouseID)) NumDistinct
FROM
  Job
  INNER JOIN PersonJob ON (PersonJob.JobID = Job.JobID)
  INNER JOIN Person ON (Person.PersonID = PersonJob.PersonID)
GROUP BY
  Job.CityID

Stats:

*

*SELECT COUNT(1) FROM PersonJob ~ 600.000

*SELECT COUNT(1) FROM Person ~ 800.000

*SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(Person.HouseID)) FROM Person ~ 10.000

*SELECT COUNT(1) FROM Job ~ 500

*MS SQL Server 10.50

Problem:

*

*COUNT(1) part of query, when run separately, runs in 0.25sec.
SELECT
  Job.CityID, COUNT(1) NumTotal
FROM
  Job
  INNER JOIN PersonJob ON (PersonJob.JobID = Job.JobID)
  INNER JOIN Person ON (Person.PersonID = PersonJob.PersonID)
GROUP BY
  Job.CityID

*COUNT(DISTINCT(Person.HouseID)) part of query, when run separately, runs in 0.80sec.
SELECT
  Job.CityID, COUNT(DISTINCT(Person.HouseID)) NumDistinct
FROM
  Job
  INNER JOIN PersonJob ON (PersonJob.JobID = Job.JobID)
  INNER JOIN Person ON (Person.PersonID = PersonJob.PersonID)
GROUP BY
  Job.CityID

*Entire query runs in 3.10sec  - 3 times slower, why?
Execution plans:

*

*I'm no expert in reading those, sorry.

*As far as I can tell, the problem lies within COUNT(DISTINCT)

*In partial query:

*

*25% Hash match (Aggregate) (output Job.CityID)

*15% Hash match (Inner Join) (output Job.CityID, Person.HouseID)

*

*30% Index scan (output Person.PersonID, Person.HouseID)

*14% Index seek (output PersonJob.PersonID)

*In full query:

*

*03% Hash match (Partial aggregate) (output Job.CityID, COUNT(*))

*31% Hash match (Aggregate) (output Job.CityID)

*29% Table Spool (output Job.CityID, Person.HouseID)

A: This is a known issue in versions of SQL Server prior to 2012.
You could try this rewrite based on the code here.
WITH T1
     AS (SELECT Job.CityID,
                Person.HouseID
         FROM   Job
                INNER JOIN PersonJob
                        ON ( PersonJob.JobID = Job.JobID )
                INNER JOIN Person
                        ON ( Person.PersonID = PersonJob.PersonID )),
     PartialSums
     AS (SELECT COUNT(*) AS CountStarPartialCount,
                HouseID,
                CityID
         FROM   T1
         GROUP  BY CityID,
                   HouseID)
SELECT CityID,
       SUM(CountStarPartialCount) AS NumTotal,
       COUNT(HouseID)             AS NumDistinct
FROM   PartialSums
GROUP  BY CityID

SQL Server 2012 has some improvements in this area. See Is Distinct Aggregation Still Considered Harmful?

A: After reading workaround provided by Martin Smith, I have decided the workaround is too difficult to read and understand and will become total mess should the need for additional DISTINCT column arise. I have decided to LEFT JOIN partial queries as follows:
SELECT
  Job.CityID, NumTotal.Value, NumDistinct.Value
FROM
  Job
  LEFT JOIN
  (
    SELECT
      Job.CityID, COUNT(1) AS Value
    FROM
      Job
      INNER JOIN PersonJob ON (PersonJob.JobID = Job.JobID)
      INNER JOIN Person ON (Person.PersonID = PersonJob.PersonID)
    GROUP BY
      Job.CityID
  ) NumTotal ON (NumTotal.CityID = Job.CityID)
  LEFT JOIN
  (
    SELECT
      Job.CityID, COUNT(DISTINCT Person.HouseID) AS Value
    FROM
      Job
      INNER JOIN PersonJob ON (PersonJob.JobID = Job.JobID)
      INNER JOIN Person ON (Person.PersonID = PersonJob.PersonID)
    GROUP BY
      Job.CityID
  ) NumDistinct ON (NumDistinct.CityID = Job.CityID)
GROUP BY
  Job.CityID

This runs in 0.70sec, while the "workaround" sql runs in 0.60sec. That means that LEFT JOIN'inig is 5x faster then "original full query" and only 20% slower then "workaround", while being much easier to read and extend.


Why read and carefully study this letter?
will trials rule me? Or, as I cling to his Word and draw near to him, will his Spirit of life direct my steps?
This is a letter approved and sent by Christ through his servant Paul to be interpreted in a church setting by the Holy Spirit. Conditions for attentively reading this letter still exist today.
Although Paul at some point may have traveled through Colosse as the route of a journey further west (Hendriksen, 8-9), it is all but certain that he did not "meet and greet" many of the soon-to-become Christians there (Colossians 2:1). Epaphras did the evangelizing of the folk in his hometown (Colossians 1:7; 4:12), having apparently been discipled by Paul.
In view of the fact that Paul had not founded the church at Colosse, nor even met its people, but had heard about them, most likely from Epaphras, he lays a carefully diplomatic and lengthy foundational introduction before he launches into the meat of his practical exhortation to them. Both the foundation and exhortation center upon consideration of Christ's centrality and all-sufficiency for each and every Christian and for the church as a body.
All of the above includes only positive statements in the sense that Paul gives no hint of any lack among the Colossians nor of exhortation of any kind, except for mentioning in 1:23 the general requirement that Christians must continue in the faith in order to receive the blessings of being in Christ.
Application: Do I use Paul's techniques in my own correspondence, including email and text messages?
NIV Colossians 1:13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. 15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
By Christina Wilson in A. Bible Studies, Colossians Bible Study, Colossians Bible Study By Week on June 20, 2016 .


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The situation that arose is one of the classical isolated pawn positions, in which White's mobility and attacking possibilities compensate for the structural weakness.
Keene recommends 11....b6. Black gave away too soon his plan to dominate the blockade square d5.
Black's last move prevents 15. Bxf6 Bxf6, 16. Bxh7 Kxh7, 17. Qh5+ and 18. Rh3.
This move may seem odd at first, but after a few moves the objective becomes evident.
Better was 15....Nc6! 16. Bh6 Qxd4! and Black breaks White's attack by sacrificing the exchange.
Raymond Keene wrote "Apart from capturing the bishop Black has two other defenses: a) 19...Bf8 20 Bc2+ Kh8 21 Bxf8 Rxf8 22 Qd2 Ng8 23 Rh3+ Kg7 24 Rh7+ (Fritz gives 24 Qf4) 24...Kf6 25 d5+-; b) 19...Bd6 20 Bxf7+ Kxf7 21 Rg7+ Kf8 22 Qf3+-. In this position Black is quite helpless, in spite of his extra material."
Keene commented that b1 is the best square for the queen in a mating combination, but neither 20 Qd3 Ne5 nor 20 Qc2 Ne5! 21 dxe5 Ne4 (exploiting the pin on the c-file) would be good enough for White.
Of course not 22....Bxe4, 23. Rxg6+ Kh7, 24. Qxe4 and White wins.
What more could we say? This game is considered as one of the most brutal chess attacks of all time.


Monster Jam is roaring into London for three big shows. Featuring eight Monster Jam trucks - more than ever before at Budweiser Gardens, including superstars Monster Mutt, Zombie and Northern Nightmare. One weekend only – February 27th and 28th. We have enjoyed Monster Jam as a family a few times now and we can not wait to go again this year.
Monster Jam is the most exciting family motorsports entertainment on the planet. Twelve feet tall, 10,000 pound Monster Jam trucks will bring you to your feet, as they race and rip up a custom track full of obstacles to soar over or smash through.
Each high-powered performance includes Monster Jam truck racing and freestyle competitions. The family friendly shows also feature other motorsport mayhem such as Quad Wars and freestyle motocross. At the Party in the Pits, fans have unparalleled access to collect autographs from the superstar drivers and take photos with the 1,500 horsepower Monster Jam trucks.
I am giving away a 4 all age tickets to one of my lucky readers who can be at the London Ontario Show at Budweiser Gardens on Saturday, February 27 at 12:30pm. The tickets will be at the box office for you the day of the event.
If you do not want to wait to see if you win and get your tickets now I have a special code for you to save.
Pizza Pizza kids tickets are $15! *Restrictions and fees may apply.
to Monster Jam on February 27th at 12:30pm!
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Although craft fairs can be found all over New England during the summer months, the Craftsmen's Fair at Mt. Sunapee Resort in Newbury, N.H., is considered to be the oldest continuously held craft fair, dating back to 1934. The fair features more than 200 craftspeople who sell their work and display their skills through demonstrations in such diverse areas as decoy carving, printmaking, weaving and spinning, basket making, embroidering, pipe making, and blacksmithing. Visitors to the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen's Fair can buy clothing, pottery, leaded glass, lampshades, character dolls, marionettes, jewelry, blown glass, leather goods, and just about any other craft they can imagine. There is also a juried craft exhibit, which is open only to members of the League.
The league sponsors the nine-day annual Craftsmen's Fair, one of the largest events on the state's tourism calendar, which draws 30,000 visitors every August.
Through our annual Craftsmen's Fair and galleries, the league and its juried members contribute more than $4 million in sales each year to the creative economy of New Hampshire.
The semiannual Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair (July and October) spotlights beautiful crafts along with bluegrass and country music.
Call it, if you will, "smart park"--a farmer's market, a jazz festival, company softball, perhaps a craftsmen's fair.
On November 30 and December 1, more than 60 artisans will gather at Corbett Canyon Vineyards, about 5 miles north of town at 2195 Corbett Canyon Road, for its annual local craftsmen's fair.
And one of the organizations that has long made a big economic impression on the state is the League of NH Craftsmen, with seven retail stores as well as the annual Craftsmen's Fair at Mt.
The economic impact of the arts in New Hampshire, and the league's annual Craftsmen's Fair in particular is very significant, as many small businesses reap the benefits, perhaps most notably the craftspeople themselves, who are running their own small businesses," said Susie Lowe-Stockwell, executive director of the league.
Sullivan Creative's winning entries included: a consumer catalog for Boston University's summer term program; a direct mail postcard series for the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Gallery 205; an integrated marketing campaign for NH Open Doors; a print invitation and corresponding landing page for Polaris Direct's corporate anniversary party; a direct and electronic mail campaign for the IBM Cognos Forum; and a YouTube video for the Annual League of New Hampshire Craftsmen's Fair.
Sunapee becomes the backdrop for the annual Craftsmen's Fair, a celebration of New Hampshire's handcrafted heritage.
There is something for everybody at The League of New Hampshire Craftsmen's Fair," Fusaro said.


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Samsung Galaxy J8+ hits Geekbench with Snapdragon 625
Peter, 12 March 2018
The Samsung Galaxy J8 is back at Geekbench, but this time with a different chipset. A couple of weeks ago we saw it with an Exynos 7870 chipset at its heart (that was the SM-J800FN version), now there's a Snapdragon 625 there (this is the SM-J805G version).
This could be a "Plus" model, Galaxy J8+, with a slightly faster chipset and more memory. Both versions of the phone ran Android 8.0 Oreo.
This J805G model has 4GB of RAM while the previous model we saw had 3GB. Both chipsets have octa-core Cortex-A53 processor but are clocked differently – 1.8GHz vs. 1.6GHz in favor of the Galaxy J8+.
Even so, the performance is essentially the same:
GeekBench 4.1 (single-core)
Galaxy J8+(SM-J805G)
GeekBench 4.1 (multi-core)
Galaxy J8+ (SM-J805G)
We suspect that the storage will be different too with the appropriate increase in price. It remains to be seen if there will be a non-Plus version (J800) with a Snapdragon chipset or not.
That aside, the FN version will likely be available in Europe, Asia and the Middle East while the G version is probably headed to South America and parts of Asia.
Samsung Galaxy J8 spotted on Geekbench
Samsung Galaxy J6 is in the works, Geekbench reveals
Upcoming Samsung Galaxy J4 pops up in a benchmark
Samsung patents Galaxy J3 Star and Galaxy J7 Star monikers
I really doubt if samsung team has thinktank with them..I know SD625 is capable enough but selling it for $200 would be bad idea nowadays
Mirkran
These scores match the SD450, not 625. Furthermore SD450 has eight Cortex A53 cores at 1.8GHz. SD625 has them running at 2.0GHz. Compare the scores of this and the Mi A1 or the Moto G5S Plus AND you'll see.
8xA
Those scores are awfully low (by 10-14%) for a S625 based phone, and simultaneously too similar to the 7870 ones.
KnM


Coming soon to Las Olas in Fort Lauderdale: A two-story, 31,500-square-foot building that will bring additional shops, restaurants and offices to the trendy downtown boulevard.
The Las Olas Company, a Fort Lauderdale-based developer and owner of office, retail, restaurant and hospitality properties, broke ground on the project in July. It's located at 788 E. Las Olas Blvd., just east of the Riverside Hotel, and will include 16,000 square feet of upscale retail space on the ground level and 15,500 square feet of office space on the second floor.
The building will also feature a rooftop event space that can accommodate more than 500 guests and will offer views of both the neighborhood and the nearby New River.
The project is at the corner of Southeast Eighth Avenue and East Las Olas Boulevard. Completion is scheduled for the summer of 2017.
The Comras Co. of Florida, a retail leasing, investment and development company in Miami Beach, will handle leasing for the project. "They have a presence in the national market and great connections," Padgett says.
Michael Comras, president and chief executive officer of The Comras Co., says there is demand today for downtown neighborhoods that offer opportunities for people to live, work and play. "Having a street like Las Olas, and then elevating it with the right mix of tenants, can create the right kind of vibe for the street," he says.


Jollof rice is a comfort food like no other.
Others might have their chicken soups and mac 'n' cheeses, but us west Africans are prepared to spend hours arguing over Jollof's rightful origin because, well, it's just so good.
So when someone comes along with a new way of serving it up, we're not exactly overjoyed.
Take African Chow, for example.
The food channel dedicates its time to making incredible grub inspired by every corner of the continent and now they've come up with a 'Jollof rice sushi roll'.
i love jollof. I love sushi. I don't know…how…to feel though….
And we think it looks pretty good; granted, your gran probably wouldn't approve but it'd probably work well for some kind of finger buffet situation.
Just one thing – who would think of serving a Jollof of any kind without a pot of shito to dip it in?
That's the real crime here.


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Stand in solidarity with federal workers
Thousands of union members and working people will take to the streets of thenation's capital today while the House and Senate hold special sessions to give legislators the opportunity to speak out against anti-worker, anti-democratic orders being issued by the Trump administration. Click here to RSVP for today's rally, starting at 12:30p at John Marshall Park (see Calendar for details). "These executive orders are yet more thinly veiled attempts to roll back workplace rights across the country," said AFGE, which is hosting the rally. "These hardworking women and men do the day-to-day work that keeps our country running," added the AFL-CIO. "This attempt to roll back the freedoms of working people will not further our democracy or even the economic playing field for workers."


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Dosimetrists, also commonly referred to as treatment planners, are specially trained in radiation oncology treatment planning procedures. After the Radiation Oncologist provides the Dosimetrist with guidelines, the Dosimetrist will customize and optimize radiation treatments for each patient.
The goal of a Dosimetrist is to design treatments through the use of computers, CT scans, and other diagnostic studies that effectively target cancer regions while protecting normal tissues. The treatment plans are overseen and approved by a senior Medical Physicist and your Radiation Oncologist to ensure that you are getting the best possible care.
Many Dosimetrists begin their careers as Radiation Therapists, graduating from a two-year educational program or with a four-year Bachelor of Science degree. Then, with very intensive training, they can continue on to become Dosimetrists. Others are graduates of one- to two-year dosimetry programs. Board certification is earned through the Medical Dosimetrist Certification Board.


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7 Must-See Summer TV Shows: Breaking Bad ain't all that's worth watching
AMC's last promo for Breaking Bad's last ever episodes dropped this morning, reaffirming our belief that this show is one you just cannot miss this summer, but it's just one televisual gem worth following over the coming months.
July and August aren't traditionally the best for new drama on telly, but with the likes of this lot hitting our screens, all that is most definitely about to change. So, without further ado, here are 7 shows you quite simply cannot miss this summer:
1. Breaking Bad - August
Forgive us for stating the obvious, but everyone wants to know what happens to Walter White. We don't know too much about the series finale yet, but if Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul and Vince Gilligan's comments are anything to go by, there will be no happy ending for Heisenberg. And y'know, we kind of can't help thinking that's how it should be... Keep your eyes peeled for news of a spin-off, and if you're really feeling sad without Breaking Bad in your life, there's always the Spanish re-make...
2. The Newsroom - July
I cut my teeth in a real life newsroom so HBO's fictional one is most definitely my summer pick (Sorry Bryan, you just can't compete with Jeff Daniels and Dev Patel). There's something for everyone on this show, from the current affairs junkies to the TV researchers, the romance lovers to the Jane Fonda fans. It's smart, it's snappy and it's written by the man who gave us The West Wing. What more do you want? Expect lots of familiar names to pop up as the show heads out on the presidential campaign trail, Occupy Wall Street hits the headlines, and Will ends up with his foot in his mouth.
3. Dexter - July
Everyone's favourite serial killer is finally hanging up his, err, instruments of torture, as Season 8 brings Dexter to a close once and for all. As with Breaking Bad, there's been very little given away when it comes to Mr Morgan's fate, but Michael C Hall told Entertainment Weekly that he has a "good sense of the [finale's] broad strokes" and that he is "intrigued and compelled where things are headed". He mentioned something about the serial killer not being able to live forever too, but we rather hope he was just engaging in a bit of trolling there now...
4. The Killing - June (You should be watching it already...)
Season 3 of The Killing (the American version that is) takes us off on a whole new adventure with Sarah Linden and co, and to make life even easier, it's available to stream on Netflix almost instantly after it airs in the US of A. Sound. Linden's been avoiding the oul detective work since the end of her last case, but when the investigation into a runaway girl leads Stephen Holder to discover a string of murders that connect to one of Sarah's old cases, she's dragged back in.
5. Supernatural - July
Ok so we know it aired in the US earlier this year, but Supernatural returns to Sky Living this summer, making the whole series a lot easier to keep track of. Dean's been chilling in purgatory for the past few months, so when he comes back and discovers that Sam's been leading a pretty normal life, it's safe to say he gets a bit of a shock. We can never say no to a bit of Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki.
6. The Walking Dead - July
As with Supernatural, The Walking Dead's third season has already hit TV screens stateside, but for those of you who don't go mad for the oul internet spoilers, it's airing on RTE Two this summer. When we catch up with the gang they're trying to find a new safe haven, which ain't exactly easy now that Lori's very very pregnant. We're sure the good old sheriff won't let any harm befall her: I still see him in Teachers every time I watch though.
7. Orange Is The New Black - July
The last time we saw Jason Biggs he was... well, we'll just always associate him with American Pie won't we? He's joining Taylor Schilling and Laura Prepon (Donna off That 70s Show) for this brand new Netflix original. The show is based on the memories of Piper Kerman, a young Brooklynite who ended up in prison after her relationship with a drug runner caught up with her. Biggs is the fiance, Prepon the drug pusher, and Weeds creator Jenji Cohen is in charge of the tale. This one is apparently so good that they've already given the green light for a second season. Hemlock Grove, House of Cards and Arrested Development had best watch their backs. Catch all 13 episodes on Netflix UK and Ireland from July 11th.
Honourable Mentions: The Bridge (US Version), True Blood, The Borgias, Luther, Love/Hate (they're showing all of it again on RTE)
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If you want to build your community, connect with the heart first, mind second. Here's a video that does just that. Kimi Werner, a diver and spearfisher, shares her story about striving to find her place in the ecosystem.
Werner is a Patagonia spearfishing ambassador. The company shared the video with its community via email and on the web. Patagonia uses stories to build a community that shares the company's commitment to protecting our environment.


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Q: Ghost image on D'n'D from canvas 2d into canvas 3d I'm trying to create an ghost image while performing an awt.dnd operation from a canvas 2D which is in a panel on top of the program into a canvas 3D which is also in a panel in the middle of the program. The D-n-D stuff is implemented and working, with setDragImage().  I can easily get my ghost image, but I need to get it working for Java 1.6, where this method is missing.
Now I tried a lot with glass panels etc :

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*Glass panel is working except over the Canvas3D (heavyweight component)

*If I use a AWT glass panel (Frame) it paints my ghost image but the whole program black

GHOST drag and drop, over multiple windows:
saw this interesting link to create a JDialog, also created it but I don't know how to get my dialog non opaque: WindowsUtils.setOpaque(d, false); is no class I have and I can't find it. It is necessary because Ii need this 1 pixel space on my cursor to get focus on my canvas3d. I hope anyone has any suggestions I cant find anything useful for my problem on Google anymore, thanks

A: You're in for a lot of work.  I'm not farmiluar with canvas3d or canvas2d, but as you say, they seem to heavy weight components, these tend not to support transparency.
Per-Pixel Alphering was introduced into Java 6.10 as a private API and has begin made public with Java 7.
You can access the private APIs, but it is not recommended, the next question you need to ask, is what to do when the API's don't exist?!
public static void setOpaque(Window window, boolean opaque) {
    try {
        Class<?> awtUtilsClass = Class.forName("com.sun.awt.AWTUtilities");
        if (awtUtilsClass != null) {
            Method method = awtUtilsClass.getMethod("setWindowOpaque", Window.class, boolean.class);
            method.invoke(null, window, opaque);
        }
    } catch (Exception exp) {
    }
}


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Green groups attack government resistance to EU climate change goals
Green campaigners and industry experts have hit out at the government's plans to block new EU-wide renewable energy targets, which they say are essential to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and creating a green economy.
Ed Davey, the energy and climate secretary, is to set out on Monday the UK's position on energy and climate change targets within Europe. He will oppose any new goals on increasing the share of renewable energy in electricity generation, but will argue for climate change goals that would be tougher than any yet agreed in an international forum.
Targets of generating 20% of the EU's energy from renewable sources by 2020 have been credited with spurring huge growth in the sector, which accounts for tens of thousands of jobs in the UK, with more in the supply chain and wider economy.
Wind turbine manufacturers are deciding whether to build factories that will entail tens of billions of pounds of investment, but have been holding off because of uncertainty over the coalition's support for such development. Industry experts said these potential investors were likely to be further spooked by the government's announcement.
Robert Norris, of Renewable UK, which represents the green power industry, said: "If the government does not send the right signals, then major international companies deciding where to build their big wind turbine factories will go elsewhere. We can't afford to let this opportunity slip through our fingers. It's absolutely vital to set targets on emissions and renewables for 2030 as soon as possible. The wind industry urgently needs long-term clarity to attract the billions of pounds of investment to build the massive next round of offshore projects that will create tens of thousands of jobs."
Ruth Davis, political adviser at Greenpeace UK, said: "The UK has some of the best renewable energy resources in Europe, and a renewables industry with huge potential for growth. An EU target would create a new market for that industry, and in doing so attract vital investment into our economy. In opposing a renewables target, not for the first time the irrational prejudices of the Tory right seem to have trumped the interests of working people in Britain."
But a CBI spokeswoman said a renewables or low-carbon energy target was not needed, as long as the EU was forcing industry to pay for carbon emissions. However, the EU's carbon price has plunged to record lows, with little chance of picking up before the end of the decade.
Davey wants the EU to agree a target of cutting carbon by 40%, compared with 1990 levels, by 2030, and to go for a 50% cut if other countries agreed similar goals. The EU is on track for most of the emissions cuts that would entail, partly as a result of its pursuit of renewable energy, and the UK already has targets for cutting carbon to 2027, which would in themselves produce the cuts needed to meet an EU target of halving carbon by 2030.
Davey's decision to push for a new target on emissions but not on renewables, was seen as a compromise that allowed the Lib Dem secretary to declare a strong emissions target, but also as a victory for George Osborne.
The chancellor has opposed any firm new targets on renewable energy beyond 2020, when the target of generating 20% of energy from renewable sources, such as sun and wind, runs out. The renewables industry and other low carbon green industries are one of the few areas of the UK economy that have shown clear growth during the financial crisis and recession.
Written by Fiona Harvey and first published by The Guardian
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Labels: economics, employment, energy, environment, Lib Dems
A Referendum on UK Membership of the European Union
Well, as UKIP surge in the opinion polls and the Tory party goes into one of its perennial spasms about the European Union, and gay marriage and the fact that we don't live in the 1950's anymore, foreign observers must think that the British have gone completely mad. And to an extent I'd be inclined to agree with them, because there is crazy feeling about our politics at moment, but it is largely limited to only a section of the people, whilst more are worried about their economic security and many other issues before the European Union.
One of the paradoxes of the rise in support for UKIP at the expense of all of the main parties (though particularly the Tories), is that opinion polls show increasing support for staying in the EU, though all the polls do have majorities in favour of having a referendum on the issue. UKIP are the voting receptacle of protest votes in by-elections and local elections, for all sorts of reasons as written about previously. This is not a deep insight, and surely must be obvious to all involved in politics, but a section of the Tory party have decided that this is the best chance they will get to quit the EU, and they are certainly not going to waste it.
For the record you can read the Green party's policies on the European Union here and you will note that we have a vision of a very different Europe, one which prioritises the interests of the people of Europe, over that of multi-national corporations, which is how things stand at present. That sort of change would need referendums in all nations of the EU, but that kind of choice is definitely not what we in the UK or elsewhere will be getting.
Let's take the Prime Minister's plan for a referendum, 'in or out' in 2017, after he (if he's still Prime Minister, which looks doubtful) has renegotiated our terms of membership of the EU as our starting point. On the face of it, this looks to be a reasonable position. It is likely that there will be changes in the EU, given the problems with the Euro. And there are problems a plenty with the how the EU works. The Common Agricultural Policy is one obvious example, and unfair tariff and trading rules with developing countries, is another.
But these things are not what David Cameron wants to renegotiate. He will try and get some deal on limiting immigration from eastern Europe, though I don't think he will be very successful. He also wants to protect the City of London financial services industry from possible EU regulation, which he might get some concessions on. Where he probably will get somewhere, is over employment regulations, like the working time directive and agency workers regulations. So, less control over the industry that precipitated our current economic crisis and fewer rights at work, as the new settlement.
That will be the choice, 'in' the newly the negotiated EU without the same worker protection as the rest and a free-wheeling finance sector, or 'out'. We probably won't even get the option of staying in on our current terms, let alone anything better, if the Tories get away with it.
Luckily, enough Tory MP's seem hell bent on pursuing this issue until they get their referendum, splitting the Conservative party and the Coalition with the Lib Dems in the process, which makes it much more likely that they will not get the opportunity to determine the terms of any referendum on the UK's membership of the EU, any time soon.
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Labels: ConDems, democracy, privatisation, Tories, UKIP
UKIP and the Anti-Establishment Vote
The big story of the local elections in (rural) England was the rise in the vote for UKIP, gaining 139 council seats and gaining almost a quarter of the vote, and finishing second in the South Shields by-election. Certainly, that is how the mainstream media have portrayed it, and of course it was huge stride forward for UKIP.
To place this into context though, the Green Party made on the surface of it, only a modest net gain of 5 seats, but this was in going from 17 to 22 seats, an increase of nearly a third to our representatives, which is good result for us. And even though now UKIP are now slightly ahead of the Green party in numbers of local councillors, who in the mainstream media ever made a story of us being well ahead of them before?
The media do tend to give a disproportionate amount of attention to UKIP and they have done so with the BNP in the past, although we have many more elected representatives than they have ever had. So, I think the media have played a part in the success of UKIP, almost a self-fulfilling prophesy, but I don't think that this explains everything.
Nationalist parties are gaining ground all over Europe in this time of imposed austerity, and in some ways UKIP are more benign than other right wing nationalist parties scattered across the continent. With the failure of the economic system in Europe (and the US) people's living standards have been slashed and in circumstances similar to the 1930's, simplistic, scapegoating solutions have again bubbled to the surface.
For UKIP in Britain, there is almost the perfect storm. The UK government blames our economic woes on Europe and immigrants, the Coalition parties have failed to improve the situation and Labour is still held responsible by many for getting us into the mess, and so a desire to protest and look for politicians untainted by the present problems, becomes an attractive option. At least at local or by-elections, whether this will all carry to a general election, I have my doubts.
But we should not be complacent about the rise of UKIP, but more we should question why people vote for basically another shade of grey, rather than a truly radical party of the anti-establishment, the Green Party?
As mentioned the media and simplistic solutions play a part, and UKIP have a lot more money than we do, so the challenge for the Green party is to effectively communicate the message that the system has failed, and needs to be radically overhauled. No tinkering with immigration rules or human rights laws is going to change the fact that we have an economic system that is failing to deliver for the vast majority of people in the UK and across Europe. And all of this, with little money and not much in the way of favourable media coverage.
And this is hard message to sell anyway, even in the dire straits we find ourselves in today. To pretty much tear down the system and start again with a sustainable, socially just political agenda is a scary concept for many people, so we have our work cut out to be sure. But if we prove by our actions and deeds, where we do have democratic influence, and by campaigning hard around issues that illustrate the failures of the status quo, maybe we can ride the anti-establishment zeitgest too, which is so obviously a real feature of electoral politics today in this country.
Labels: budget deficit, democracy, economics, elections, local government, socialism, UKIP
Benefits cap leads to eviction notices in Haringey trial area
Tenants participating in a trial of the government's controversial benefit cap are being sent eviction letters because the welfare changes mean they "may not be able to afford the rent" and they may have to leave their homes within 14 days, according to documents obtained by the Guardian.
In the first tangible proof that the cap would lead to rising levels of homelessness, one of Britain's biggest social landlords, Genesis, has issued a warning to tenants in Haringey – a London borough chosen by ministers to test plans to limit benefit payments to £26,000 a year – saying that it will now need to start legal proceedings to "terminate our lease".
The letter from Genesis says it has been forced into taking these steps because of the "significant changes being currently introduced to the welfare benefit system". The letter warns that, if the tenants do not offer a defence, a court can force eviction within 14 days.
The overall benefit cap set at £500 per week, or £350 for single people, was introduced in four London local authorities – Enfield, Bromley, Croydon and Haringey – in mid-April, and will be rolled out nationally later in the year. The Department for Work and Pensions has estimated that 56,000 households will be hit, with an average weekly loss of £93. The majority will be families with children.
Haringey council says it is "astonished by the premature threat" of eviction – which raised the possibility that scores of families may end up on the streets. It has 660 households who face an average £50-a-week loss because of the cap – and is spending £1.5m over three months to offer them homes within 1.5 miles of the borough.
Claire Kober, the Labour leader of Haringey council, said she knew of a number of social landlords using the threat of eviction since the benefit cap was introduced. "This behaviour of housing associations is completely unacceptable, especially given their stated social mission," she said. "But this underlines to me that the fears that we expressed to government about the consequences of the benefit cap are coming true. The benefit cap is not addressing the cause of the rising housing benefit bill – just the symptoms."
The government, wary of how councils would cope, deliberately slowed the implementation of the benefit cap, with councils applying the cash limits to just 60 claimants a week.
Duncan Shrubsole, policy director at the charity Crisis, said: "What's happening in Haringey is an example of how brutal it is out there. Enfield council is considering moving 330 people out to places like Birmingham and Bradford. Every council testing this benefit cap has teams of housing officers warning tenants that they face some stark choices."
In February, the Guardian revealed that Camden council in north London said 700 families faced being moved up to 200 miles away because the coalition's benefit cap would mean they would be unable to afford their current accommodation or any other home in south-east England.
A spokesperson for Genesis at first denied that letters had been sent out. When confronted with the text of the letter, the social landlord, which manages about 30,000 homes across London and south-east England, said there had been a "cack-handed attempt" to explain the situation in Haringey to "some clients". "That letter should not have been written that way. We are working with tenants in Haringey to help them out of arrears."
Last month, the government was accused of misrepresenting statistics to claim that the cap on benefits had driven 8,000 people to find work.
The Department for Work and Pensions said: "We have been working hard over the last 12 months to support claimants who might be affected by the benefit cap – with Jobcentre Plus, councils and housing associations providing practical help, such as training to get into work and advice over housing options."
The letter available for download has been altered at Genesis' request to protect the privacy of a
junior member of staff
First published at The Guardian
Labels: haringey, housing, housing benefit, local government, welfare
The Kilburn Manifesto's challenge to the neoliberal victory
The crisis in the global economic system triggered by the banking collapse of 2006-08 has precipitated a new moment in the evolution of global capitalism. But its novelty is not generally understood.
Some previous crises, most famously the great crash and depression of the 1930s, produced radical social change: the welfare state and New Deal, as well as the rise of fascism. In the past five years protest groups such as Occupy have appeared, and resistance to austerity has grown. Yet there has been no rupture in the system or its governing ideology. Indeed, elites have used the crisis in Europe and north America to advance the neoliberal project, as unrelenting attacks on living standards, the NHS and the welfare state in Britain show.
The disintegration of the British postwar settlement was the central project of one of the new right's most politically divisive figures, Margaret Thatcher. Her funeral last week was designed to install her as the emblem of a unified nation, and set the seal on three decades of work by three political regimes – Thatcherism, New Labour and the coalition – to fundamentally reshape Britain. As David Cameron told the BBC: "We are all Thatcherites now." Thatcher is dead, long live Thatcherism.
What is new about this phase of capitalism? Its global interconnectedness, driven in part by new technologies, and the dominance of a new kind of finance capitalism mean that, while a crisis of this system has effects everywhere, these effects are uneven. So far the Bric countries seem relatively unscathed, while the impact of economic devastation has spread from Asia and Africa into Europe.
The breakdown of old forms of social solidarity is accompanied by the dramatic growth of inequality and a widening gap between those who run the system or are well paid as its agents, and the working poor, unemployed, under-employed or unwell.
The crisis has revealed a new, international and ethnically diverse super-rich. The Sunday Times Rich List is topped by two Russian oligarchs and an Indian billionaire. They live a life totally divorced from and almost unimaginable by ordinary people, fuelled by an apparently unstoppable appetite for profit.
Neoliberalism's victory has depended on the boldness and ambition of global capital, on its confidence that it can now govern not just the economy but the whole of social life. On the back of a revamped liberal political and economic theory, its champions have constructed a vision and a new common sense that have permeated society. Market forces have begun to model institutional life and press deeply into our private lives, as well as dominating political discourse. They have shaped a popular culture that extols celebrity and success and promotes values of private gain and possessive individualism. They have thoroughly undermined the redistributive egalitarian consensus that underpinned the welfare state, with painful consequences for socially vulnerable groups such as women, old people, the young and ethnic minorities.
Corporate exploitation of cheap labour, natural resources and land has worsened the crisis in the developing world. Environmental degradation, poverty, disease pandemics, poor education, ethnic divisions and civil wars are paraded as inevitable postcolonial failures and provoke the old powers to intervene to safeguard the conditions for capitalist accumulation.
The neoliberal victory has reasserted the powers and position of the dominant classes. But this victory was not inevitable. No social settlement is permanent, and this one was fought for, from the coup in Chile and the defeat of the miners in Britain to current attacks on workers' rights and the benefits system. There is more than one way out of the current catastrophe. There is always an alternative.
Today – Wednesday – the founding editors of Soundings, the new left journal first published in 1995, launch a manifesto that will attempt to outline ways forward. Over the next year we and our collaborators will, in a series of monthly instalments, examine different aspects of the current crisis and try to frame a more systemic set of questions than is usually asked. We do not offer policies but alternative approaches and demands that we hope will contribute to the broader debate that is the environment in which policymakers operate.
New Labour's collusion with the neoliberal project – through an agenda of privatisation, outsourcing and the marketisation of the public sector – has left the party unable to draw a clear line with the coalition. Having driven forward many of Thatcherism's gains under Tony Blair, it is constrained by timid leadership, by a lack of clear vision and new ideas.
Outside party politics new social movements, including environmental, anti-cuts and feminist groups, have not come together sufficiently with the old, defensive organisations of the working class to produce the coalition that might make them an effective political force. Yet there are indications of how such a compromise might work, for example in the short era of Ken Livingstone's GLC and the radical experiments under way in Latin America. By contrast, turmoil in the Middle East shows us what happens when democratic demands are not met, while in Europe resistance to austerity is twinned with the revival of fascism.
This is no time for simple retreat. What is required is a renewed sense of being on the side of the future, not stuck in the dugouts of the past. We must admit that the old forms of the welfare state proved insufficient. But we must stubbornly defend the principles on which it was founded – redistribution, egalitarianism, collective provision, democratic accountability and participation, the right to education and healthcare – and find new ways in which they can be institutionalised and expressed.
All of us who oppose the current direction, whether from inside or outside party politics or other organisations, must invent. We must set about disrupting the current common sense, challenging the assumptions that organise our 21st-century political discourse. We hope our manifesto will open a dialogue with a new generation shaped by different political experiences. This is a moment for challenging, not adapting to, neoliberalism's new reality, and for making a leap.
After Neoliberalism: The Kilburn Manifesto, by Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin, is launched in London today, Wednesday 24 April, and online
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Born in San Diego, California, Deborah Butterfield has had two passions throughout her life – horses and art. As a student at University of California, Davis, she planned to become a veterinarian but soon abandoned medicine for sculpture. She and her husband moved to Montana, where she could raise horses and have the space she needed to create art. Moving in the direction of realistic art in a period that valued abstraction and conceptual work took passion and courage. This direction was soon rewarded with grants and exhibitions in major museums and the path became clear: the art world embraced and celebrated the young artist's equine forms.
Since the 1970s, Butterfield has experimented with a variety of materials to create her horses, including wood, metal, mud, straw, and most recently branches and twigs, which she sends to a foundry in Walla Walla, Washington to be cast in bronze.


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by Staind
Album: The Illusion of Progress (2008)
Charted: 83
This plea for acceptance and understanding was premiered worldwide on the Los Angeles radio station Star 98.7.
Guitarist Mike Mushok blogged on the band's MySpace site about the song's cross-country video: "It's about a guy who plays guitar and wants to move to the west coast. The filming started in Springfield, Massachusetts (the band's hometown) and they took a week and drove across the country filming their experience's along the way. It's kind of like a reality video and it came out really cool!!"
Mushok explained the album title to Artist Direct: "That came from Aaron (Lewis) and Johnny (Wysocki) talking when we were working on the songs. It goes back to one of the things that I described. You can spend all day getting tones for 15 seconds of music, but there's an illusion of progress. You think you did it, but you really didn't do anything with a whole day [Laughs]. That's my take on it. I know from hearing Aaron talk about it, that concept can be applied to a lot of the songs. I think that's why Aaron felt it was a very appropriate for the title of the record."
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John from Atlanta, GaIts about a person who is trying to become successful, and probably promised his significant other it would happen soon, and for other reasons it has not yet...So he is asking her to just keep believing in him, because he is doing everything he can to make it happen, but fighting the devil, in whatever it is he trying to do, but wants her to understand that whatever it is he is is chasing is his dream, so without it , he can not be truly happy, and neither can she, because he will always chase it, and needs it, in order to love her fully and purely, so he can complete himself, and focus on their love, so please believe in him.
Betty from Dayton, OhThis is the song my husband dedicated to me when we were going through a rough patch when we first got together....i have my own meaning to this beautiful song :)
Glen from Baltimore, MdRobert, for you to call Jen ''stupid'' is a very ignorant and narrow-minded statement in and of itself. The beautiful thing about music and more specifically, lyrics, is that just one line could mean a million different things to a million different people. The best songs are those that can entice an emotion in everyone, regardless of what they've been through. I'm sure most bands and artists, Staind included, would agree with that assumption. -Glen
Robert from Los Angeles, CaJen, you're stupid. That's not at all what its about. Think outside the confines of love and break-up songs. Its something much deeper, something you would never understand unless you lived it. Apparently you haven't, otherwise you would not have said "Its about a guy who breaks up with a girl, but realizes he was wrong so if she believes in him he'll come back to her". Be realistic, Jen. People don't do it that way. The members of this band would be ashamed that you would even think to make such a narroe-minded statement about their songs.
Eddy from Forest Park, GaAaron Lewis said the song is about when they started the writing process and he was having writers block. It is to those people like the producer and record execs who were waiting for something to come out.
Jen from Omaha, NeI think this song represents a guy that has left a girl, but realizes she was the best thing to happen to him. She has to deal with people telling her she's stupid for missing him, and has to deal with that "s@#$" and has to fake a smile to the world. She's missing him, and he misses her. He's promising her that if she believes in him he will get through it, and come back to her in the end!
Anthony from Tarrant, Txyes i love this song it sounds like it comes from the heart
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Lines in Cinque Terre | Oh, the Places We See . . .
As we stood with our tour group in Cinque Terre to listen to our guide, we couldn't help but notice other lines in the landscape. From clotheslines holding towels on colorful balconies . . .
to boats lined up and waiting at the base of the famous postcard-pretty hillside where small apartments and houses vie for space on the mountainside.
Half-opened shutters exposed their lines to the morning sun.
while two churches stood out among other buildings with their distinguished lined facades.
Find more lines — straight and curvy — at Weekly Photo Challenge: Lines.
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Easy to fall in love with CT. Beautiful images!
You're so right, Amy. We were there on a busy touring day in the hot, blazing sun. I envied those who were renting some of the little homes for a few days. I'd love to do that so I could integrate myself into the culture and look out the door at that gorgeous scenery every day!
Italy is our next trip and Cinque Terre is one of our destinations. Can't wait! Thanks for the preview!
Although Cinque Terre is almost overrun with tourists, it's easy to see why so many of us want to go there. The charm of those clustered buildings right next to a blue, blue sea just begs you to take pictures and memories back home!! Hope you get there.
Thanks for smiling with us. We found this whole area to be welcoming and comfortable. Would go again just for the hospitality!
I've really taken to photographing doors and shutters lately. Love looking at these humble but necessary openings and wondering who goes in and out, who enjoys the view, etc. Shutters — even the ones in disrepair — are almost art in and of themselves!
I love the boats and the umbrellas! A great selection for the challenge!
We loved those boats and umbrellas, too. In fact, we ate at a restaurant right beside those umbrellas and watched as people swam, toweled off, shared picnics, etc. Just like we do at home!!!
Thanks so much. I don't usually look for geometrics. These just sort of leaped out at me when I went into my Italy album!
Wish I could 'see' things as you do. I am only aware of them when someone points them out. Hope I make up for this lack in some other way!
I don't know that I have a knack for seeing things well. I just take lots of photos. Later, I edit, pitch some out, etc. But I love these photo challenges. They force me to look through my old pictures for something new. Best wishes to you for finding new things to photograph each day!
Thanks for the compliment! We took a one-day tour, focusing mostly on Manarola, the one town you see on most postcards. But then a train took us to the beach town with the umbrellas (can't remember the name of that one) and into town to see the churches. Would love to go again when it's not 105 degrees!!! Hope spring is good for you.