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Q: Optimize group by join MySQl Below is the query which takes around 76 secs.
Is there a way to optimize this?
FYI I have indexed the id and date fields.
Sorry I should have explained more:

*

*I have a bunch of ids, dates and conditions (=which are either 1s or 0s).

*I collect the ids and dates where the conditions are 1 and this resulting
group say Group1 is then queried to select the minimum date.

*This minimum date is then used to flag the accounts in the Group1 to 1 if their
dates are greater than the minimum dates.
I hope this helps. I apologize for being terse the first time.
SELECT
  o.id,
  o.date,
  IF(o.date > m.min_date,1,0) b
FROM tab o
  JOIN (SELECT DISTINCT
      (id),
      MIN(DATE)    min_date
    FROM tab
    WHERE cond = 1
    GROUP BY id) m
    USING (id)
WHERE o.id = m.id
ORDER BY o.id,o.date

A: Your original query and not having a unique key on any field called id in a table are strange practice, and it looks like you are after something like:
    SELECT o.id,
           o.date,
           m.date IS NULL b
      FROM tab o
 LEFT JOIN (
        SELECT account_id, MIN(date) min_date
          FROM tab
         WHERE cond=1
      GROUP BY account_id
           ) m
        ON m.account_id = o.account_id
       AND m.min_date = o.date
  ORDER BY o.id, o.date

This should be pretty fast. You may do well with a composite index on (account_id, date) for the inner grouped SELECT.
Here are some pointers in case you weren't aware:

*

*DISTINCT operates on all columns selected, DISTINCT(id), MIN(date) min_date will give you all the distinct combinations of id and min_date, id by itself may be duplicated and the brackets around it are meaningless. There is also no way to change the behaviour of DISTINCT to work on only a subset of the selected columns.

*SELECT id, MIN(date) ... GROUP BY account_id will not always return the id corresponding to the minimum date from the account_id group. The id returned can be any undetermined id from the group.. you will need to JOIN the rows to the minimum date or use another method to find the corresponding id.

Mazster's answer, which you have accepted, has a strange GROUP BY and unnecessary IF clause. I have rewritten it below in case this helps you, but am surprised if it runs quicker than the one I have updated above as it runs the subquery for each row. You would do well to examine the EXPLAIN plans for each as I believe you can get it faster using the above query:
  SELECT o.id,
         o.date,
         o.date > (
     SELECT MIN(DATE) min_date
       FROM tab m
      WHERE m.cond = 1
        AND m.id = o.id
        AND m.account_id = o.account_id
         ) b
    FROM tab o
ORDER BY o.id,o.date

A: I can see there is self join, what about getting rid of that? For instance:
SELECT
    o.id,
    o.date,
    IF(
        (SELECT
            MIN(DATE) min_date
            FROM tab m
            WHERE cond = 1 AND o.id = m.id
            GROUP BY account_id
        ) < o.date,1,0
    ) b
FROM tab o
ORDER BY o.id,o.date


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Archive for Bonnaroo
Bonnaroo Lineup: Phish, Radiohead, RHCP
{ February 14, 2012 @ 3:43 pm } · { Bonnaroo, Festivals, Phish Summer Tour 2012, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Skrillex, Upcoming Shows }
The long awaited Bonnaroo 2012 lineup was officially announced today, and as rumored Phish will return to the festival and make their second trip to the farm. Other big acts topping the bill include Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Beach Boys, Skrillex, The Roots, The Word, The Avett Brothers, and many many more! Smaller jamband and electronica acts include Umphrey's McGee, Big Gigantic, Mimosa, Trampled By Turtles, and SOJA. This year's lineup looks well balanced, tasteful and notably lacks big hip-hop or hard rock headliners so far. Here's the full announced lineup:
Bonnaroo 2012 Lineup
For Phish phans, this brings great excitement as we finally have a confirmed show on the calendar to look forward to. The big question remains when will Phish grace us with the rest of the summer tour dates? My guess would be that we are still a few weeks out and that dates will likely drop in early March. So hold tight people, and here's a highlight from Phish's last B'roo showing to help hold you over til' then!
Backwards Down The Number Line: Welcome To Now Turns 1
{ March 27, 2010 @ 8:52 pm } · { Allman Brothers, Audio, Bonnaroo, Bruce Springsteen, Dark Star Orchestra, Dead Tour 09', Disco Biscuits, Eric Clapton, Festivals, Furthur, Grateful Dead, Hampton, Phil and Friends, Phish, Phish Fall Tour 09, Phish NYE Run 2009, Phish Summer Tour 09, Ratdog, TAB Winter tour 2010, Trey Anastasio, Video, Warren Haynes }
Today we celebrate the one year anniversary of Welcome To Now! Founded on March 25th, 2009, WTN has been there over the past year along with all you freaks out there, sharing in the groove and digging the wonderful music taking place all across this great land. In honor of this special day, let's look back at the 10 biggest musical moments of the past year in Jam:
1. PHISH RETURNS
Phish @ Hamtpon - 3/07/09
Phish returned to the stage in 2009, with a more than triumphant year of playing. The reunion began with a historic 3 show run at Hampton Coliseum in March. Things just got better as the year went on for The Phish – the band released a new album, 'Joy', and hit the road for a big 2-leg summer tour, Halloween at Festival 8 in Indio, CA, an East Coast fall tour, and New Years in Miami. All in all, 2009 was a great year to be a Phish-head!
Hampton Fluffhead
2. PHIL AND BOBBY GO FURTHUR (JOHN K. LEAVES DSO)
Lesh, Weir, and Kadlecik - Dec. 09'
Phil Lesh and Bob Weir shocked deadheads everywhere in August of 09′ when they announced their newest post-Jerry Dead project: Furthur. Unexpected to all, Phil and Bobby called on John Kadlecik, aka 'Faux Jerry', aka 'The Ghost of Jerry', DSOs long-time axe-man, to join the band. The new project laid to rest indefinitely both Phil Lesh and Friends and Ratdog, and dealt a major blow to DSO, leaving them without a front man. In the 6 months the band has been together, they've played a big coming out 3-show run in Oakland, a brief Northeast December tour, New Year's run in San Fran, and a smoking Winter tour of the East Coast and Midwest. Coming up in 2010, the band will hit the stage for a Memorial Day Festival and a mini-tour of the Northeast in late June and early July.
Furthur NYE 2009 Poster
3. THE DEAD REUNITE FOR TOUR
The Dead - Spring 09'
Months before Furthur, the Core Four reunited for the first time in over 5 years for a one-off Spring Tour across the US. The boys were joined by Warren Haynes on lead guitar and vocals, and Jeff Chimenti of Ratdog on the keys. Check out a few tour highlights below for download!
The Dead 09 Logo
Download Tour Opener – 4/12/09 Greensboro, NC
Download Madison Square Garden, 4/25/09
Download 5/2/09 – Final show at the Spectrum
Download The Dead at Shoreline – 5/10/09
4. BISCO TAKES FANS HIGHER WITH BIG NOKIA NYE RUN
Bisco - Fall Tour 2009
The Disco Biscuits closed out a fantastic year of playing with their second Annual 5 show run at the Nokia Theater in New York City. By all accounts and from personal experience, this string of shows was top-notch and a real exclamation point on the year for the band. Check out choice downloads, videos, and news from 2009 in the Bisco Archive.
Bisco NYE Run 09 Flyer
5. PHISH FESTIVAL 8 & ROLLING STONES MUSICAL COSTUME
Phish - 10/31/09 Set 1
Phish re-launched two traditions on Halloween weekend 2009 with their first festival of Phish 3.0 along with a highly anticipated Halloween musical costume set – The Rolling Stones' 'Exile on Main Street'. Breaking new ground, the band also performed an intimate and picturesque acoustic set at Noon on Sunday, with complimentary donuts and coffee for phans. Truly a magical weekend, and it's now going to be seen like never before in a full length 3D film being released April 30th. Check out this crisp video/audio stream of the Sunday acoustic set here!
6. ABB BACK WITH A VENGEANCE: BEACON, MOUNTAIN JAM, AND MORE
ABB Beacon Marquis 2009
After canceling their annual Beacon run in 2008 due to Greg Allman's battle with Hepatitis C, the band returned in 2009 with a guest-filled 40th anniversary run at the Beacon Theater. The run included guest stops from a star-studded cast including Clapton, Lesh, Weir, Helm, Scaggs, Anastasio, and McConnell. The band kept trucking in 09′ with spring and summer festival appearances including Wanee and Mountain Jam as well as big summer and fall tours. The band just wrapped up a fantastic 9 show run at the United Palace in New York city, is sounding better than ever, and has more shows plotted for 2010 already. Check out setlist, vids, and a review of the final night at the United Palace here.
Haynes, Trucks, and Clapton - Beacon 2009
7. PHIL LESH CELEBRATES 70TH BIRTHDAY WITH SPECIAL PHRIENDS
Lesh, Robinson, Weir, Greene, and Kadlecik - 3/12/10
On March 12th 2010, Phil Lesh celebrated his 70th birthday (technically 3/14/10) with a big bash at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, CA. The evening featured a fun 3 set format complete with an opening acoustic set and 2 raucous electric sets featuring special guests from throughout Phil's solo career including John Molo, Chris Robinson, Jackie Greene, and Steve Molitz. Give it a listen here:
Download Link ~ Stream Link
8. PHISH DOES BONNAROO, JAMS WITH BRUCE
Phish at 'Roo 2009 - First Tube
Breaking with long-standing tradition, Phish played their first mainstream festival with 2 separate appearances (an extended late night set and a 2 set show) at 2009's Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, TN. The band realized a long time dream and provided the festival's highlight with a big collaboration with Bruce Springstreen, who also headlined the festival in 09′. The boss and the boys treated fans to a fun cover/bust-out of 'Mustang Sally', as well as performances of Bruce's own songs 'Glory Days', and 'Bobby Jean'. To re-live this special moment, check out this smoking video of Glory Days:
9. STRING CHEESE REUNITE FOR BIG ROTHBURY GIG
SCI @ Rothbury 2009
The String Cheese Incident reunited for a special one-off show at 2009's Rothbury music festival. The band put on a massive spectacle of a show enhanced with massive light and art installations. The show went off with flying colors, so much so that the band has decided to tour further in 2010, with gigs at Red Rocks and beyond already announced and more in the works. To get a taste of the Cheese to come, buy the Soundboard of the Rothbury show here.
SCI at Red Rocks
10. TREY BRINGS BACK CLASSIC TAB
Markelis, Lawton, Anastasio, and Paczkowski
Having brought back the core four of his Classic Tab Band – Russ Lawton, Tony Markelis, Ray Paczkowski, and, of course, Big Red himself – in the Fall of 2008, Anastasio hit the road with a bigger-and-better Classic TAB band a few months ago in the Winter of 2010. For the tour, Trey added to the core four with a 3-piece horn section featuring TAB vets Jeffier Hartswick and Russell Reminton along with new-comer cutie Natalie Cressman. The tour was a massive success and featured some of the most enthused and passionate guitar work from Trey since Phish's 2009 return. Check out lots of downloads, setslits, vids, and more in the TAB Winter Tour archive, enjoy!
And remember folks, WELCOME TO NOW!
Disco Biscuits Tour Preview
{ February 17, 2010 @ 9:35 pm } · { Bonnaroo, Disco Biscuits, Upcoming Shows }
Tomorrow, Bisco embarks on a long, 2-part Winter/Spring 2010 tour. Things kick off with a 4 show Northeast run this weekend hitting some of the band's favorite rooms including Ram's Head, Lupo's, and The Calvin. This run promises to be hot hot hot as Bisco always brings the heat for their home turf fans.
The band then takes a few weeks off before embarking on a more substantial east coast spring tour that runs from March 17th to April 25th and covers ground from New York to South Carolina and back again. The tour starts the day after the highly-anticipated Planet Anthem release date of March 16th and promises to offer a lot of new material and exploration. Full tour dates and ticket info below.
Bisco Inferno 2009
DISCO BISCUITS 2010 WINTER RUN
02/18/10 Rams Head Live Baltimore, MD
02/19/10 Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel Providence, RI
02/20/10 Calvin Theater Northampton, MA
02/21/10 Capitol Center for the Arts Concord, NH
DISCO BISCUITS SPRING TOUR 2010
03/17/10 The Town Ballroom Buffalo, NY
03/18/10 The Egg Albany, NY
03/19/10 House of Blues Boston, MA
03/20/10 The Wellmont Theatre Montclair, NJ
03/26/10 Ultra Music Festival Miami Beach, FL
04/14/10 Charleston Music Hall Charleston, SC
04/15/10 Lincoln Theatre Raleigh, NC
04/16/10 The National Richmond, VA
04/18/10 The NorVa Norfolk, VA
04/20/10 9:30 Club Washington, DC
04/21/10 Jefferson Theater Charlottesville, VA
04/22/10 Klein Memorial Auditorium Bridgeport, CT
04/23/10 F.M. Kirby Center Wilkes-Barre, PA
04/24/10 House of Blues Atlantic City, NJ
04/25/10 The Webster Hartford, CT
The band has also announced summer appearances at Bisco Inferno, Wakaruska, Bonnaroo, and of course Camp Bisco 9. More tour info can be found at the Bisco Tour Page, and you can get tix at Ticketmaster or BiscoTix.
Bonnaroo Lineup Announced!
{ February 9, 2010 @ 10:01 pm } · { Bonnaroo, Festivals, Upcoming Shows }
The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival announced its 2010 lineup today via a continually updated animation on the festival's MySpace page. A new artist was announced every six minutes between 12 Noon and 9 PM… This novel, yet extremely drawn out announcement process was not well received by the online community.
Bonnaroo MySpace Page - 2/9 9PM
This year's biggest names are Jay-Z, DMB, Stevie Wonder, Kings of Leon, The Flaming Lips with Stardeath and White Dwarfs performing "Dark Side of the Moon", and Weezer. This is probably the festival's least jam-influenced set of headliners to date, but the festival still offers a few solid jamband staples, including Les Claypool, The Disco Biscuits, and Lotus. Overall, this lineup won't get me to Tennessee this summer, but to each his own. Bonnaroo will announce a number of additional artists in the coming months including some big names, so stay tuned!
BONNAROO 2010 ARTISTS IN REVERSE-CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF ANNOUNCEMENT
Stevie Wonder, Hot Rize, Calexico, Against Me!, Mike Snow, Les Claypool, Dan Deacon Ensemble, Michael Franti & Spearhead, The Temper Trap, Blues Traveler, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Daryl Hall & Chromeo, B.O.B., Brandi Carlile, LCD Soundsystem, Kris Kristofferson, Miranda Lambert, Isis, Lucero, Diane Birch, The Disco Biscuits, Tinariwen, Here We Go Magic, Julia Nunes, Baroness, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Mumford & Sons, The Gaslight Anthem, Blitzen Trapper, Martin Sexton, Deadmau5, Rise Against, The Dead Weather, Kings of Leon, The Dodos, The Melvins, Tori Amos, Clutch, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Lotus, The Entrance Band, They Might Be Giants, Jamey Johnson, The Black Keys, Tenacious D, Needtobreathe, Damian Marley & Nas, Rebelution, Carolina Chocolate Drops, The Postelles, Jay Electronica, Jeff Beck, Manchester Orchestra, Dropkick Murphys, Local Natives, Dave Rawlings Machine, Dave Matthews Band, John Prine, The National, Zac Brown Band, Neon Indian, Baaba Maal, Dr. Dog, Japandroids, Kid Cudi, Tokyo Police Club, Jimmy Cliff, She & Him, Gwar, Thievery Corporation, Punch Brothers, Jay-Z, Monte Montgomery, OK Go, Norah Jones, Bassnectar, Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers, Wale, Mayer Hawthorne and the Country, Regina Spektor, The xx, Phoenix, Ingrid Michaelson, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Medeski Martin & Wood, Weezer, The Flaming Lips with Stardeath and White Dwarfs perform Dark Side of the Moon, The Avett Brothers
Bonnaroo Lineup Leak?
{ February 2, 2010 @ 12:06 am } · { Bonnaroo, Festivals, Rumors }
Update 2-02-2010 9:00AM: Thanks to all the readers who submitted comments regarding the authenticity or lack thereof of this poster. To clarify, this does not appear to be an offical festival flyer, BUT it does contain the latest and greatest in artist rumors. Stay tuned for the official announcment today, Feb. 2nd.
Update 2-02-2010 12:30PM: Bonnaroo has updated their official website stating that the artist announcment will come next Tuesday, Feb. 9th.
Update 2-02-2010 7:00PM: The Flaming Lips are confirmed for Bonnaroo 2010 – band to perform Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon'.
Roo' Sightings
{ June 14, 2009 @ 9:03 pm } · { Audio, Bonnaroo, Bruce Springsteen, Festivals, Gov't Mule, Phish, Phish Summer Tour 09 }
Some highlights from this weekend's 2009 Boonaroo Music and Arts Festival – Bruce, Trey, and Warren get funky in Manchester:
Phish @ Bonnaroo 6/14/09
Set 1: AC/DC Bag, NICU, Gotta Jibboo, Punch You in the Eye > Sparkle > Bathtub Gin, Character Zero >Tweezer > The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Run Like an Antelope, Mustang Sally (w/ Bruce Springsteen!), Bobby Jean (w/ Bruce Springsteen) >Glory Days (w/ Bruce Springsteen)
Set 2: Rock & Roll > Light > 46 Days Limb By Limb, Farmhouse, Backards Down The Number Line > Prince Caspian, First Tube
Encore: Suzy Greenberg > Tweezer Reprise
Trey and Bruce - 6/14/09
Torrent Link – Set 1
Bruce Springsteen @ Bonnaroo 6/13/09
Badlands, No Surrender, My Lucky Day, Outlaw Pete, Out In The Street, Working On, Dream, Seeds, Johnny,Youngstown, Raise Your Hand, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (sign request), Growin' Up (sign request), Thunder Road (sign request), Waitin' On, Sunny Day, The Promised Land, The River, Kingdom of Days
Radio Nowhere (w/Jay Weinberg on drums), Lonesome Day, The Rising, Born To Run
Encore: Hard Times, 10th Ave Freeze Out, Land Of Hope & Dreams, American Land, Rosalita, Glory Days, Dancing In The Dark
Bruce at the 'Roo 2009
Gov't Mule @ Bonnaroo 6/13/09
Brighter Days, Don't Step On The Grass, Sam, Banks of The Deep End, Trane (w/ A 3rd Stone From The Sun Jam)> St Stephen Jam, Helter Skelter, Creep, Beautifully Broken, One, Southern Man (w/ Grace Potter), Bad Little Doggie, How Many, More Years> Higher Ground Jam> How Many More Years, Soulshine (w/ John Ginty on Keys)
Check out this video of Warren from Bonnaroo 2009
Download – Torrent
Gov't Mule - 6/13/09
Phish @ Bonnaroo – 6/12/09 – Late Night on the 'What Stage'
Chalk Dust Torture, Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan, The Divided Sky, Possum, Down With Disease, Alaska, Stash, Golgi Appartus, Wolfman's Brother, Poor Heart, Kill Devil Falls > Free, Wading In The Velvet Sea, Harry Hood, Highway To Hell > 2001 > You Enjoy Myself > Wilson > You Enjoy Myself
E: A Day in the Life
Phish - 6/12/09
Check out tons of more great pictures over at Jambase of Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4.

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Northbound or bust: Costa Rica to the CA-4 + Ep. 6 VIDEO
By the time the clock ticked 7 o'clock on the morning of March 19th, we had already craned our anchor from the sandy bottom of Bahia Huevos. The sky was clear and the waters of the Golfo de Papagayo were glassy. We rarely crave such calm conditions at the outset of a passage, but the 50-knot lashings Mother Nature had doled out just weeks before, during the final hours of our trek into Costa Rica, were still fresh in our minds. We'd happily round Punta Santa Elena in peace if the option was ours!
Where to go and what to do
Our southbound push had been exhausting. During the month of February, we were at sea for 15 out of 18 days (Manzanillo to Chiapas, MX; and Chiapas, MX to Playa del Coco, CR), as we raced south to meet friends whose flights had been booked several months earlier. Our final night had brought with it the highest winds we'd ever experienced. Fifty knots.
The combination of our rapid pace and a series of unrelenting breakages led us to choose to adjust our plans and to delay our Pacific crossing until 2016. The modification meant we had several months to explore Central America before the onset of the rainy season. We needed to figure out what we to do and where to invest our time. I had my eyes on the Central American-4 (CA-4; Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua), nations we'd skipped during our hurry to get to Costa Rica. Neil was more ambivalent and posed the possibility of continuing south toward Panama. Commentary from those dialogues included statements, such as…
"If we don't turn around now, we won't be able to visit the Pacific coasts of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua on this voyage…and we may never see them by boat at all."
"If we go back north, we will have no choice but to risk facing again the Nicaraguan gap winds and Papagayos that bamboozled us on our return passage south."
"We've heard amazing things about the islands in northern Panama, near Boca Chica."
"Maybe we just really dig into Costa Rica. No, that won't work, it's simply too expensive to stay here."
Neil knew that visiting the CA-4 meant a lot to me, and his willingness to sail back north had hinged in large part on my desire to do so. Not that he didn't want to visit those countries; he really did. I couldn't figure out why he was hesitant to sail back north.
Memory serves each of us differently, and Neil and I experienced incongruent emotional recollections about the final stretch of our passage south. While I, too, remembered the anxiety and fear associated with the violent gusts of wind, the more salient aspect for me was the sense of elation and accomplishment I felt after the winds subsided. The three of us—Neil, The Red Thread, and I—had performed very well in aggressive conditions. The hours of foreboding remained most striking in Neil's mind. He hadn't shared the depth of his trepidation about the prospect of sailing that stretch of coast again, and it wasn't until we were midway across the Golfo de Papagayo that our divergent recollections became clear. I felt apologetic that I hadn't been more perceptive. That Elena, she's a feisty one!
We navigated toward Islas Murciélagos (i.e., Bat Islands) dragging two handlines from our aft cleats, as has become our practice. Craving tuna, dorado, or sierra, we caught and released six black skipjack and four bonito in less than two hours. We agreed that we'd have to be hungrier to settle for the likes of a dark-fleshed fish! The sun climbed higher into the sky, and a pod of pantropical spotted dolphins and bottlenose dolphins chased our wake in harmony, pirouetting to-and-fro, dancing before our bow. As we neared the southern point of Punta Santa Elena, the fluttering breeze that could've barely lifted a spinnaker morphed into 20- to 25-knot winds. Like a dragon awakening from its nightly slumber in a cave, the Papagayo winds were beginning to stir. We rounded the point, meeting winds directly on our nose. Ten to 15 miles of open water allows fetch to build rapidly across Bahia Salinas and Golfo de Santa Elena, and we bashed through waves that sprayed our decks with salt. We were the small valley of villagers that the crotchety dragon began to torment. Bashing is unpleasant. It's tough on the crew and hard on a boat. We felt a wave of relief as we motored into the waters of Bahia Santa Elena and dropped our hook at the foot of lofty green mountains. At the same time, the only account of piracy we had heard during our travels had occurred nearby just weeks prior. A sailboat in an otherwise empty anchorage some 30 miles north had been boarded by three men who held the five crew members at gunpoint while all the valuables (e.g., electronics, cameras, laptops), were stripped from the vessel. No one was harmed, but we felt more wary than usual. In the late afternoon, a southbound Aussie boat joined us in the anchorage. We hailed them to say hello and felt grateful to have company. Evening fell as 20- to 25-knot winds that had howled through the anchorage all afternoon began to subside, and an army of no-seek-ums swarmed from the mangroves. Nonetheless, we slept in peace.
Highlights from Mexico to Costa Rica…and our major decision to sail back north.
Northbound or bust
By the time we awoke, the Aussies had already departed. We debated about whether to spend an afternoon hiking but opted instead to continue north. Under a sunny sky, we hoisted our mainsail and got underway. The time was right; northbound or bust. We close-reached in 20 knots of wind from the northeast and sharp, 4-foot waves for the next 20 miles, before falling off into a comfortable beam reach. Sixteen hours later, at 1:30 am, I fired up the engine when the winds died and swell didn't. Within a couple hours, the winds returned and peace was ours once more.
We had a beautiful sail, hugging the Nicaraguan coast to avoid the risk of being besieged by nasty wind waves, should the Papagayos begin to rage again. We caught and released two crevally jack and one skipjack and enjoyed a tranquil day with consistent winds in the mid- to upper-teens. We maintained good speed, and it looked increasingly as if a passage we projected would last into the next morning might end at dusk. As the late afternoon heat beat down upon us, one of our strangest most horrific experienced ensued.
The great "bee-pocalypse"
Neil was down below, while I stood watch, a book in hand. A bee landed on my page. I brushed it away. Nothing too noteworthy about that, as even out at sea winged creatures routinely appear. Then another buzzed my ear. And then another. I hollered down at Neil to notify him how annoyed I was to be swatting bees away from my pages. I was enjoying my book. The buzzing grew louder.
I called for Neil to come up. And then I hollered again; frantically. He appeared in the companionway with a look that said, "Seriously woman, get a grip." His face changed, melting into an expression of confusion. There weren't 3 or 4 or 10 or 20 bees. There were dozens upon dozens of bees. We rushed down below, slammed the companionway door, and secured the hatches. We then proceeded to whack bee after bee, while pulling on long pants and jackets with hoods. We tugged hairbands around our ankles to prevent the little buggers from flying up our pants and continued to swat. The already-scorching tropical heat now felt like a baker's oven! For the love of God, what in the world was a massive swarm of bees doing five miles out to sea?! What kind of bees were they? Honey bees? Killer bees?!
I continued swatting feverishly in the cabin, all the while feeling remorseful about being involved in a bee massacre. Bees play a role on our planet that belies their small size, after all. Neil charged the cockpit to combat the brunt of the army. He tied a line to the handle of a 5-gallon bucket, filled it quickly from the sea, and repeatedly doused the top of our bimini and our wind generator, where the colony of bees was most densely abuzz. Minutes later, the aggressive drone had given way to oceanic silence, and the only evidence that remained of the onslaught was several dozen limp bee bodies that we gingerly swept overboard.
The only clue to explain the great bee-pocalypse was found in the plumes of smoke wafting from the shore. Sugarcane is burned before it is harvested to remove the leaves from the stalks, as they contain very little sugar and only add to the burden of hauling and processing the crop. Perhaps a hive had been threatened or destroyed by the fire, and the bees had escaped in the direction of the wind, finally ceasing their evacuation when they'd come across a potential new home? It was not to be.
Peace and feast
As if to console us after the frightening invasion, King Neptune offered us a gift not long after bee-pocalyse came to an end. We hauled in our first sierra, a 26-incher! Sierra, also known as Spanish mackerel, are beautiful fish, with narrow silver bodies and yellow polka dots that splay across their breast and belly.
Our fish book claimed that sierra are delicious. The book was spot on! That evening, I sweated a concoction of garlic, onions, and peppers in olive oil; added a few spices and chicken stock and brought the pot to a simmer; and poached one of the long flanks in the hearty broth. I laid the fish over a bed of quinoa that I had simmered in garlic and tossed with parmesan. Yum.
Dark skies and a damned starter
Our plan for a morning arrival in the Golfo de Fonseca had evolved into a hope we'd reach our destination by dusk. The reality, as it turned out, was that we would arrive in the middle of the night. Winds mellowed considerably, but we couldn't bring ourselves to start the engine. The last vestiges of light departed the sky as we neared the entrance to the bay, with nearly 17 miles still to go.
We do our best to plan our voyages for daytime arrivals, really we do. However, we clearly have not mastered the skill, as evidenced by nighttime arrivals in Santa Barbara (USA), Santa Catalina Island (USA), Turtle Bay (MX), and now Isla Meanguera (ES). I guess we should be glad that at the very least, we pack walkie-talkies when it's too dark to use our standard hand signals and have had the light of the moon on several occasions!
With a couple of hours to go, Neil went below for some bunk time, while I tended our sails and watched the mountainous shadows of El Salvadoran and Honduran islands creep closer. Sometime after midnight, I awoke the Captain. It was time to drop our anchor upon the sea bed of a new nation. My eyes were heavy, but my spirits were high. Until the engine didn't start.
The engine had turned over without incident just hours earlier, when we had attempted to outrun the wrath of bee-pocalypse. Now, here we were, bobbing in light wind under dark skies in an unfamiliar bay. Brilliant. Fucking brilliant. Neil flung obscenities vehemently into the blackness. I tried to play the "don't worry, we'll figure out something" card, which is useless in moments of perceived crisis. All's well that ends well, however, and with a couple love taps, the starter eventually kicked over the engine. The four tries it then took to set our anchor at 1:30 am (a record for us; we usually set on the first or second attempt) did nothing to ameliorate our aggravation. Still, I can't help but remember the beautiful moon that hung above the small island community ashore, a town that would steal my heart like none other during our journey thus far.
Cruising commentary
Bahia Santa Elena is a beautiful anchorage, with good holding and towering mountains. The mountains may offer false hope of calm protection, however. We met sailors in Bahia Culebra who had been holed up there for a week in December due to ferocious Papagayo winds. It's hard to imagine how brutal the coast must have been given that they described being walloped by 60 knot winds, while in the anchorage. That said, it is gorgeous, and tucking deep into the bay will prevent fetch from developing. Had we not been so eager and had a good weather window to march north, we would have taken time to explore ashore. Several lovely hikes that look well-deserving of at least a day are described in the Sarana guides.
Bahia Santa Elena anchorage waypoint: 10°55'.05 N 085°47'.31 W
*More detail on anchoring Isla Meanguera will be provided in a coming post. Passage perks
Point of departure: Bahia Huevos, Costa Rica — 03/19/15
Point of arrival: Isla Meanguera, Golfo de Fonseca, El Salvador — 03/21/15
Total time: 46.5 hours (total time underway; excludes overnight stop in Bahia Santa Elena)
Sails soaring: 33.5 hours
Jessie's musings: After spending a much-needed month cruising in a lower gear, I was ready to return to the sea and feel The Red Thread race. I've come to crave passages. For me, the highlight of this leg was the sense of elation I felt when we snagged our first sierra! I was thrilled. Whenever I look aft and see tension in one of our handlines, my heart immediately starts to palpitate with anticipation. Either Neil or I yank on our pair of stinky ole "fish gloves" and get to work hauling it aboard. Fish are beautiful creatures, and being self-sufficient is incredibly rewarding. The most dismal moments were during bee-pocalypse. The experience was creepy, like a bee version of the 1990s horror flick Arachnophobia. If you've seen that film, I bet you just got chills. I was glad I knew where the epi-pens were located had one of us been stung and had a reaction! Yiiiiiiiiiiiiikes.
Neil's reflections: Though we made the decision to head back North and visit the countries we passed by, it wasn't without trepidation. On our trip down we got walloped by the Papagayo winds and neither of us wanted to experience that again. Going north meant we'd have to pass by that area two more times, and it had my anxiety running amok with "what-ifs." Though we set out and our day started out nicely, we did run into head winds and heavier seas on the way to Bahia Santa Elena that made the trip a little uncomfortable. The mosquitoes in Bahia Santa Elena that night were a particular nuisance. However, we had one of our best sails in recent memory as we sailed north from Santa Elena to the Golf of Fonseca. We caught a sierra mackerel, pushed ourselves to not just kick on the motor by hand steering and leveraging our racing skills to get around a reef, and experienced an Alfred Hitchcock nightmare when "bee-pocalypse" struck. We made incredible time and ended up arriving before we expected, though that had us anchoring off Isla Meanguera in the pitch black (never fun). Regardless, it was the right decision to head north again, and my anxieties quickly faded after we left the troublesome areas of "Nicaraguan Gap Winds."
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William Smith says:
Hi Neil & Jessie Are you back in Seattle
We met while I was crewing on Sunday Morning with Tracy and Van
I live on my sailboat in Shilshole
Would really enjoy catching up with you at some point. I will buy you that drink you advertise for.
I am preparing my boat to head south in about a year
Really enjoy your post
Regards Bill Smith
Hey Bill! We definitely remember meeting you and, yes sir, we are back in Seattle as of a few week ago! Send us an email (sv.theredthread@gmail.com), and we can plan a time to catch up. You'd think we'd be tired of talking boats, but as it turns out, it never gets old! Good for you to be counting down. Perhaps we can meet aboard your boat? Can you tell we're craving boat time? Let us know what might work for you! ~Jessie
PS. I hope Tracy and Van are doing well — where are they now?
Those bees… wow!
A great recap……so sorry the bees invaded you guys!! We are now tied the dock in Westview, BC. We left Nanaimo this am at 6:30 and motored out the north end for about an hour. Raised the sails, were on the same tack all the way to Blubber Bay on the north end of Texada Island and then motored to our slip!!! Winds ranged from 10-30 and Fantasy speed was 9.1 tops!!! total time was under 9hrs. and 7 of it was sailing………wow what a day!!!!
We want to meet you guys when we get back in Sept. to hear all about your journey……
Hey Jeff! Good for you…sounds like damn good sailing 🙂 How far north do you plan to go? We will always wish we would have taken The Red Thread all the way to Desolation.
We'd love to meet up! We'll be kicking around Seattle thru the end of December, so give us a shout when you return! Maybe we can meet up aboard your boat — it would be fun to check out a sistership!
~Jessie
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Narchandupatti is a small town located 16 kilometres from Pudukkottai. Many members of the Nagarathar groups are among its inhabitants. The town contains historic temples. Various festivals and religious ceremonies take place here. There are many small villages around Nachandupatti including Pudur and Kottur.

Name
The original name of this place was Thirumalai Sam Uthiram. A fort was being built at Thirumayam for the residence of Oomaithurai (younger brother of Kattaboman). Good quality lime mortar (called sandhu or saanthu in Tamil) was prepared in this village. Hence, this place was also called Nar-Chandu-Patti or Nalla-Saanthu-Patti. Its name changed over a period of time to Nachandupatti.

General information
NACHANDUPATTI Village NACHANDUPATTI Panchayat THIRUMAYAM is situated in Pudukkottai District. People of this village are living in very peaceful manner. This village having a very proud history. Agriculture is the main profession of this village. Still, this village is waiting for Industrial development. Education, Drinking water, Road, and Electricity are the main concern of this village. The young generation is more attracted towards mobile, Laptop and computer technology these days. If banks and financial institutions proved loan and other financial support to the villagers, this village will see the real development. Medical and health services have to be improved.
Natchandupatti is located 69 km from Tiruchirapalli, 17 km from Pudukottai and Ponnamaravathi. It covers an area of 3.6 km2, with a population of above 3500 people.
Its pin code number is 622404.

This small village contains many Nagarathar houses built about 100 to 200 years ago, which are renowned for their architectural simplicity.

Each house of the village has a peculiar nickname like Kaattu Meeni Aayal Veedu or Subban Chettiar Veedu.

Demographics
In addition to the Nagarathar community there are people from other caste like Pillai too. Nagarathar caste people in Nachandupatti mostly belong to the following five nagarathar kovils Pillayarpatti, Vairavan Kovil, Elayathangudi, Ilupakudi, and Mathur.

Facilities

Public and commercial services
There is an ICICI bank, providing a locker division. An ATM of the Union Bank of India. is also present. There is also an Indian government post office. Other facilities include a public library and an Internet-browsing center. The state bank ATM service is available in nachandupatti.

There are three water tanks available in Nachandupatti with rain-water harvesting facility. Two of which are for non-drinking water and the third one is exclusively for drinking water.

A Sunday market (Sandhai) occurs every week near Sivan kovil oorani.

Education
There is a higher secondary school named Ramanathan Chettiar Higher Secondary School, and an elementary school called Sri Shanmuga Vilaasa Kalaasaalai.

Transport
Cab service is available round the clock. There are bus services to the nearby towns like Pudukottai and Ponnamaravathy, and direct bus services to Chennai and Madurai.

The nearest airport is Trichy airport which is just 55 km away.

Community activity
To take care of elderly Nagarathar residents, a food scheme "Nagarathar Nala Maiyam" was started by some Nagarathars from Nachandupatti. This scheme is the first of its kind in Chettinad villages and now has been embraced in many other Chettinad villages too. In this scheme, food is delivered three times a day to the doors of elderly people for a very nominal fee of Rs 1000 per month.
In addition the elderly residents receive a monthly free medical check. The expenses of the scheme are shared by local Nagarathar residents.

To safeguard the valuables of Nagarathars, a locker division has been established by local Nagarathars.

Rukmini Goshala at Nachandupatti is a cozy and divine home to the native breed of cows.

Religion
The deity Malayalingaswamy is worshipped here. The god Vairavar is also considered to be very powerful.

Thai Poosam is a famous festival in this temple. During Thai Poosam people perform Annadhaanam. Other ceremonies include Kavadi by devotees, and Thotti-Kattudhal for new born babies.

Adaikammai Appathal Padaippu function is celebrated every two years in the Tamil month of Adi, on the 3rd Friday, at Adaikammai Appathal Padaipu Veedu. Members of Ilupakudi Kovil from 36 villages assemble together during this function. 2nd Friday of Adi the function starts in Thuvar Kovil with paal pongal. On the day of function people prepare pongal and paniyaram. Food is presented to God. Auction is conducted on 3rd Saturday of Adi. The 'Paal Paanai' or 'Vinayaga Paanai' will be auctioned first. The person who gets the paal panai will be considered royal in the village.

No.1 Nagarathar website for Padaippu veedu, where you can get all the kovil happenings: http://www.adaikkammaiappathal.com/. World wide it has 85000 Unique website visitor.

Places of worship
There are many famous temples in and around Nachandupatti. One which is 200 years old is called 'Karrupar Kovil'.

During the Pallava regime, they carved temples within hills/ mountains. One such Shiva temple found in Nachandupatti is Malayakovil. Later a temple to Muruga was built by Nagarathars at the top of the mountain temple.

1. Chinna oorani Pilliyar

2. Sivan Temple

3. Murugan Temple

4. Sri Muthumariyyamman Temple [Pudur]

5. Perumal Temple

6. Iyyappan Temple

7. Mosque [Pudur]

8. Naga Devi Nallathangal Temple

9. Malaiakovil

10.Peraiyur Naganatha Swamy Temple

11. Azghai appathal padaippu veedu

The Sri Muthumariyyamman Temple [Pudur] is more than 500 years old. A yearly function is celebrated here throughout vaikasi month.

References

Further reading
 Hellmann-Rajanyagam, Dagmar: "The Politics of the Tamil Past", in: Jonathan Spencer (Hg.), Sri Lanka – History and the Roots of Conflict, London and New York 1990, SS. 107-122.

Villages in Pudukkottai district

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Home News $40M SkillsFuture fraud: Eight more charged; $20M still unaccounted for
$40M SkillsFuture fraud: Eight more charged; $20M still unaccounted for
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The number of people implicated in the $40m SkillsFuture fraud has increased, as eight more members of the syndicate have been charged, while some $20M is still unaccounted for.
This is the largest fraud committed against a public institution in Singapore to date.
SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) is a government agency that gives out grants and funding to Singaporeans for lifelong training needed for jobs in the future. This is one of the strategies that the government had come up with to help employees upgrade themselves as the economy grows.
It was in 2017 when the crime came into light after the SSG detected anomalies in the claims made. There were five people on the syndicate list: the mastermind Ng Cheng Kwee, 42, wife Lee Lai Leng, 40, Lee's brother Lee Chi Wai, 32, the Lee siblings' mother Tan Yoon Nooi, 60, and Ng's friend David Lim Wee Hong, 40.
According to SSG, "Preliminary police investigation reveals that the criminal syndicate behind these fraudulent claims operated an organised network that utilised nine business entities, comprising employer companies and training providers, to submit the fraudulent claims."
In order to submit fraudulent claims, the group operated a network that utilized nine business entities, which include CKL LLP, YK Design Firm, and KY and Lin Firm.
There were more than 8,000 course fee subsidy claims to SSG under these names, made via SSG's online portal, SkillsConnect, using the SingPass credentials of various people.
Submissions were based on the courses provided by the three training providers to about 25,000 employees of the six business entities.
SSG outlined the offences, which include "engaging in a conspiracy to submit forged documents to fraudulently obtain training subsidies from SSG, and to conceal the benefits from such criminal conduct".
Yesterday, the High Court denied for the bail filed for the fourth time by Lee Lai Leng, pleading that she needed to attend to her three children and that she wanted to seek medical help for depression, and asserted that it would be difficult to give instructions to her lawyers from prison.
The prosecutors argued that Lee played a "pre-eminent role" in the syndicate. She was an alleged mastermind of the syndicate together with her husband, Ng Cheng Kwee, among the five perpetrators.
She filed bail three times before the district court but was not granted.
Lee's lawyer Mr Bachoo Mohan Singh argued that her remand was "oppressive", given that other suspects, including some who had fled to China and withdrawn huge sums, have been granted bail.
But Deputy Public Prosecutor Jordon Li maintained that Lee should not be granted bail, given her "integral role" in the entire scam.
DPP Li also added that there was a real risk that Lee could further dissipate the proceeds and at risk of running away given with the lengthy prison term she faces if she was granted bail.
With the $39.9 million that was disbursed to the bank accounts of the nine companies, the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) has seized and frozen assets of about $18.5 million. This includes the $6.7 million, gold and about $11.1 million frozen in the bank accounts of companies and individuals that were used to receive criminal proceeds.
Lee has not been cooperative with CAD in divulging information that would help in the recovery of funds but instead; she gave false information that may jeopardize the whole investigation.
She was also pressed with four cheating charges for a separate scam aside from the 30 charges involving SkillsFuture fraud. The prosecution said that with these, Lee would face a heavier penalty.
Because of the scam that hit their agency as well as the government, SSG vowed: " to take a serious view of any individual, training provider or organisation that abuses its funding schemes, and will not hesitate to take action against those who contravene its funding rules and guidelines."
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A head injury sustained during an accident in a public place has led to a pensioner seeking compensation.
According to the Arbroath Herald, Valerie Payne was hit by debris falling from a building occupied by Clydesdale Bank - a financier now owned by the National Australia Bank Group - on Arbroath High Street last July.
The 72-year-old was waiting in the queue to withdraw cash from the machine at the branch when a fist-sized lump of masonry struck her on the head.
"It was only my stick that saved me from collapsing on the ground. The next day I was suffering from shock," she told the news source.
Ms Jenkins was taken to hospital in an ambulance following the incident, where the wound caused by the stone was glued back together and she added that she suffered with severe headaches for around two months afterwards.
She is therefore appealing to witnesses to come forward to help in her pursuit of damages.


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What to do with a freezer full of breast milk?
That's the dilemma Alexis Garrett faced in February when her son, Ansiel, was moving on from breast milk and she was still producing.
"I didn't think I could sell it, but I just googled 'selling breast milk' to see what would happen," Garrett says.
Garrett, 18, was finishing up at Stratford High School when she discovered OnlytheBreast.com, a site where mothers buy and sell breast milk by the ounce. The website is one of a few venues now available to mothers who can't breast-feed.
At OnlytheBreast, sellers set their prices based on their individual diet and lifestyle. Garrett, a nonsmoking healthy eater who was pumping 25 to 45 extra ounces a week, asked for $2 an ounce. Now, she has shipped milk in Styrofoam containers and on dry ice as far away as South Dakota.
"I think it's a win-win for both people," Garrett says. She compares her price with the higher prices charged at milk banks, the formal route for mothers in need.
At the banks, mothers who pump excess breast milk donate their milk for free, but not until they've been screened for disease. The bank then pasteurizes the milk as a safeguard, stores it, and sells it, mostly to hospitals, at a price that helps cover the cost of the safety precautions. WakeMed Mothers' Milk Bank in Raleigh, the closest bank to Charleston, charges $5 per ounce for individual buyers or $4 if they pick it up in person.
Tina Mackey, a stay-at-home mom in Greenville, needed milk when her fourth child, Isabella, was born in January. Mackey has a condition called insufficient glandular tissue.
"I get to a point where I hit a wall, and I don't make any more milk, so I always need to supplement something," says Mackey, 34. For her first three children, she supplemented with infant formula, but she thinks it might have given one of them stomach problems — and besides, experts say breast milk is the best milk.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the nutrients and antibodies transmitted in breast-feeding lower the risk of asthma, obesity, diabetes, and lower respiratory infections in children.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends breast-feeding as part of a child's diet for 12 months; the World Health Organization recommends it for two years and beyond. But a 2010 study by the Centers for Disease Control showed that only 30 percent of children in South Carolina are still breast-fed at six months of age, compared with a national average of 43 percent.
Milk banks sell milk to mothers like Mackey who are unable to produce enough milk, as well as to mothers who have HIV or who are taking certain medications and cannot safely feed their own children.
A milk bank quoted Mackey a price of $3.50 an ounce. Supplementing 16 ounces a day, she would have spent over $10,000 on baby formula over the course of six months. Instead, she started asking around in her group of friends and found some mothers who were willing to pump and freeze bags of milk for her for free. Then she found Human Milk 4 Human Babies.
HM4HB, as it is sometimes abbreviated, is a network of local Facebook pages that helps make connections between moms with too much milk and moms with not enough — for free. On the South Carolina HM4HB page, Mackey found enough milk to fill the gaps in baby Isabella's diet. All of the donors were in the Greenville area, and she spoke to all of them in person before accepting their milk.
On the giving end of the HM4HB equation, Jess Thompson of Summerville decided against giving to a milk bank because she believes that pasteurization kills the useful antibodies found in breast milk. And she decided against selling online because she thought it would be unfair.
"I don't want any money for my milk," says Thompson, 26. "It didn't cost me anything to make it."
Naomi Hambleton, leader of the pro-breastfeeding group La Leche League of Charleston, says Thompson's fear about pasteurization is a common misconception; studies show that the sterilization process leaves many of the important components intact. Her organization recommends against informal milk-sharing arrangements like the ones made on HM4HB or OnlytheBreast, as does the Food and Drug Administration.
Emma Kwasnica, the Montreal-based founder of HM4HB, says mothers using her site should meet up in person. Some mothers even ask to see blood work from potential donors. However, she questions the safety of selling breast milk at sites like OnlytheBreast.
"Once you introduce money into the picture, the motives for sharing milk are not the same," Kwasnica says. "They could dilute the milk. They could put formula in there. We don't know."
And the motivations of buyers can be different, too. Garrett says some of her sales on OnlytheBreast have been to men, including recovering cancer patients and a bodybuilder. She's also had to turn down a few "creepy" requests from men who wanted pictures or videos of her.
"Most people think it's really weird or nasty," says Garrett, who graduated from Stratford and will study nursing at Charleston Southern University this fall. "Young single mothers like me, I think they think it's more acceptable."
For the time being, Garrett still has a freezer to contend with. She adds, "I will continue to sell until all my milk is gone, and when I have more time, I may start pumping more to sell."


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Potential Partners Revealed for Alliance to End Homelessness
Potential partners in a pioneering Alliance to End Homelessness are revealed in a report going before Glasgow councillors on February 6th.
Third and independent sector organisations teamed up to bid to become partners in a ground-breaking Alliance to End Homelessness in the city. Bids from two groups were received for the contract which is worth more than £187million over a maximum of 10 years.
Glasgow – Everyone's Home group has been named as the preferred bidder to work with the city council to transform the planning, design and delivery of homelessness services in the city. Seven organisations – Aspire, Crossreach, Loretto Care, Mungo Foundation, Sacro, Salvation Army and YPeople – make up the group.
The council will retain sole responsibility for statutory homelessness services and be a member of the Alliance which will make financial and operational decisions on the provision of "purchased services" such as street and community outreach services, Housing First provision, emergency and supported accommodation, day services and specific outreach support for young people aged over 16 years.
Councillor Mhairi Hunter, Glasgow's Convener for Health & Social Care, said: "Glasgow's Alliance to End Homelessness will be the first of its kind. It is an ambitious and innovative approach to partnership working and offers a significant opportunity to demonstrate that by pooling our resources, skills and considerable expertise, we can deliver our shared ambitions for the transformation of homelessness services.
"Currently homelessness services in the city are quite traditional and, although there is already partnership working, services can sometimes be provided in silos. The Alliance will provide a more inclusive and collaborative approach to service provision and decision-making. It will create more flexible and adaptable services which can react faster to changing demands to help prevent homelessness, end rough sleeping and help people integrate into communities when they move out of temporary accommodation and into their own permanent tenancies."
Work to establish the Alliance has been ongoing since 2016 when a review highlighted the need to modernise services. People with lived or personal experience of homelessness were involved throughout the development process and will continue to be involved in the work of the Alliance.
A Director will be appointed to lead the Alliance which will have a budget of £23million in its first year. For the first two years, the council, will also provide a further £100,000 annually in set-up costs.
Susanne Millar, Interim Chief Officer of Glasgow's Health & Social Care Partnership, said: "The Alliance represents real cultural and whole-system change in the provision of homelessness services. It is about true collaboration – the decision-making will be shared and it will bring together considerable expertise to provide person-centred services. It will increase access to settled accommodation and support people to sustain their tenancies – reducing the cycle of repeat homelessness as well as addressing rough sleeping."
The report will be considered by council's Contracts & Property Committee on February 6th. It can be viewed here


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import ru.apetrov.model.User;
import ru.apetrov.model.UserStore;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Timestamp;

public class UpdateUser extends HttpServlet {

    /**
     * logger.
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        req.setAttribute("role", role);
        req.setAttribute("countries", this.userStore.showCountries());
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            String password = req.getParameter("password");
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            String email = req.getParameter("email");
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            String city = req.getParameter("city");
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            resp.sendRedirect(String.format("%s/show", req.getContextPath()));
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    public void destroy() {
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            log.error(e.getMessage(), e);
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The City of St. Augustine will be joining cities throughout the state in celebrating Florida City Government Week from October 22-26. Because city government is the government closest to most citizens, and the one with the most direct daily impact upon its residents, it is important that residents understand how their city operates, the services it provides and the importance of their active involvement.
Monday through Friday: City Commissioners, police officers and firefighters will greet elementary school students during morning drop-off, and then participate in morning announcements at a participating school each day.
Monday, October 22: Flagler College Student Government Association (SGA) Executive Committee will attend the City Commission meeting and accept a certificate of recognition for their active interest and participation in government as they serve as elected representatives of Flagler College's student body.
Tuesday, October 23: Sebastian Middle School Civics Class will visit City Hall and meet Mayor Nancy Shaver at The Alcazar Room to discuss her duties and responsibilities as the mayor of St. Augustine.
Tuesday, October 23: Flagler College SGA will host Mayor Nancy Shaver for a roundtable discussion at the college's General Assembly meeting.
Wednesday, October 24: Public tours of the Wastewater Treatment Plant will be offered at 9:00am and 2:00pm. Do you know the difference between flushable, non-flushable, and biodegradable products? Where does the stuff go when you flush a toilet? Learn how your own domestic habits affect the water quality of the Matanzas River. Register online to reserve your ticket. Space is limited so early registration is strongly encouraged.
Thursday, October 25: Public tour of the Wastewater Treatment Plant and the Solid Waste facilities will be offered at 2:00pm. If you ever wonder whether or not your recycling efforts really matter, or ask yourself what's the difference between flushable, non-flushable and biodegradable products, we will answer your questions. Register online to reserve your ticket. Space is limited so early registration is strongly encouraged.
Friday, October 26: Blind students from The Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind will tour City Hall. Students will walk the corridors of City Hall to familiarize themselves with navigating public spaces and learn about the roles of authority in city government.
Florida City Government Week, sponsored by the Florida League of Cities, is a weeklong celebration that raises awareness about the importance of municipal government and its daily impact on residents. The League is the official organization of the municipal governments in Florida.


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This DEC program involves a week-long orientation and professional experience visits, providing a snapshot of lifestyle and career opportunities for teachers in rural and remote areas.
Speak to our PE Office if you would like to consider a rural placement and they will find a school appropriate to your teaching area.
The Beyond The Bridge initiative gives you the chance to experience schools located in metropolitan areas that hold the greatest number of employment opportunities. During the visit, you'll observe the excellent teaching and learning strategies within these school communities and have the opportunity for discussions with a mix of beginning and experienced teachers.
In 2015, this will be a mandatory day for UNSW Education students and will count towards your BOSTES required days.
If you want to become a teacher in NSW public schools, you should apply for the NSW Department of Education and Communities' Graduate Recruitment Program (GRP) at any time during your final two semesters of study.
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When thinking about how to start their lives, many people think about where to work, or in fact, what kind of work they'll be doing. While these are, of course, very practical considerations, choosing the kind of community you want to live in is just as important.
There are various things to consider when choosing a place to live, and it will do you well in the long-run to think about each factor carefully and at length.
As mentioned, choosing a community where there are jobs that suit your profession is a very important consideration. While the rise of "telecommuting", that is, working from home via online conferencing, has lessened the need for people to be in the office physically, you still need to think about the spaces you'll be spending time in after work.
In one study, researchers found that cities with high volumes of creative people tended to have a culture that propagated artistic talent. In another study, cities with high concentrations of entrepreneurs saw a proliferation of a capitalist mindset. Researchers call this a "clustering force", and is the result of similar people flocking to the same physical space and elevating their expertise thanks to their proximity to one another.
Not only does moving to a community with high concentrations of people in the same industry as you a good way to improve in your industry, it also helps you find better employment opportunities and better career paths. The networks you can create in these specific communities can not only provide you job security, it also provides you an opportunity to mix and mingle with people of the same interests.
It might not be the first thing to consider, but the physical beauty of a city is actually an important factor in deciding where to move. According to a recent survey, people who gave high ratings for their community's aesthetics also enjoyed a higher rate of overall satisfaction with their community.
This is because being surrounded by aesthetically pleasing buildings, streets, monuments, parks, and other spaces can psychologically and emotionally uplift people. Studies conducted by researches in the University of Barcelona showed that cities with large amounts of greenery enjoyed a healthier and happier citizenry.
A pretty city, of course, is useless without recreational opportunities. When relocating, always consider the kind of rest and relaxation facilities that your community offers.
These opportunities, of course, depend on your tastes: a person who enjoys arts and culture might not have plenty of places to go in a city full of businessmen and entrepreneurs who enjoy clubbing and partying. Likewise, outdoorsy types who enjoy a little bit of hunting or fishing might not enjoy a community that focuses on museums and theater offerings.
Find a community that can satisfy your recreational passion and you'll find your day job so much more bearable, if not enjoyable.
It's been a comedy trope since time immemorial: people from the east coast are rude, but warm, while west coast types are lazy, but friendly. But is there actual science behind this?
The theory that climate affects behavior actually stems from the 19th century. In his "Frontier Thesis", prominent historian Frederick Jackson Turner posits that the American love for freedom and independence stemmed from the people's occupation of the frontier, with the wild, often harsh, landscape teaching people how to be innovative and building a hardiness that ensured a long life in vicious surroundings.
As time went on, this theory was used as an explanation for the different temperaments of people living in vastly different geographies: people in the east coast are subjected to brutal winters, which taught them the necessity of being curt, but also teaching them that community is essential to survival. Meanwhile, those living in the west coast enjoy balmy, more relaxed climes that allowed them to be more laid-back, while generations of immigrants from both further inland and across the seas taught them to be more open and friendly.
While it's not a hard science, considering the climate of your future community does play a significant role in shaping and affecting our individual personalities: those wishing to live in the northeast must have sturdier constitutions, while people seeking out warmer climates need to be able to relax and be open minded.
Setting out on your own and forging your own path is definitely exciting, but no man is an island. Eventually, we will long for the comfort of familiar faces, friends, and family.
Finding a community that is near family and friends is an important consideration to make before going to a new place. In fact, economists calculate that people who moved far away from their hometown spend around $135,000 a year just to see family and friends. So if you're moving to a new and far place, make sure that the community you move to will have jobs that can pay for your trips back home.
Perhaps one of the most important considerations when shopping for a new community, the cost of living can vary wildly depending on which part of the country you move to. People from the Midwest can be shocked at prices in the coast, while those moving from big cities to the heartland can find that their money can stretch out longer than back home.
While it would seem that moving to a city with a low cost of living is the obvious choice, it can have drawbacks; properties might not be to your liking, communities might not be a match to your personality, or other factors. Meanwhile, cities with high costs of living can have more opportunities, more great places to live in, but all for a high price.
Figure out whether or not your new job can afford you a life in your community of choice. Cross-reference various expenses you might make with the potential salary you can get.
No matter where you go, it's important to remember that any community can be home if you work hard enough. Be open-minded and get close to neighbors, and always try to find the positive in every situation. You'd be surprised at the kind of home you can build if you just keep your eyes, mind, and heart open!