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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of COMMUNICATIONS
Novel Approach for Optimization of Cell Planning and Capacity
Ali Hakan Isik, Inan Guler
Abstract: Configuration, Cost, base station output power are important resources in cellular mobile radio systems. The main idea of cell planning is the maximize capacity in another words number of subscribers and minimize cost at the same time. In a GSM system, where coverage areas are divided into cells in planning phase, the division method and its parameters have a great importance. This study explains GSM system and cell planning process, and gives information about the features of fuzzy logic algorithm. Fuzzy logic solves problems better than other control algorithms in which initial parameters are needed to be assigned by the designer, which have variables that aren't defined well and change with time and where system expert's knowledge and experience have great importance in design process. Cell planning has same important problems that it's variables aren't defined well, change with time. These important problems of cell planning are the cell radius, base station number and power, TRU (transceiver unit) number, N (number of cells per cluster), cost, CIR (channel interference ratio), D (distance between two cells which use same frequency at the same time) are found for urban, suburban and rural areas by using omni or three sector antennas. GSM cell planning is simulated by using fuzzy logic algorithm, a computer program is written to determine what kind of configuration changes have to be made so as to minimize the number of base station, and hence the total system cost, and also to maintain the requirements of the maximum traffic demand. In addition, input and output data can be defined through the interface which is created in C++ Builder programming language.
Numerical Analysis of Raised-Cosine Sampled Chirped Bragg Grating for Dispersion Compensation in Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing Systems
Fethallah Karim, Omar Seddiki
Abstract: In this paper, a numerical investigation of raised-cosine sampled chirped fiber Bragg grating (SCFG) has been presented. This multi channel filter is modeled by coupled mode theory and simulated by transfer matrix method. The optical period changes linearly at each section of the grating according to a negative period variation. To reduce ripples and side lobes, a raised-cosine apodization is applied. SCFG is proposed for the purpose of dispersion management in dense wavelength division multiplexing systems. Numerical results show that SCFG presents five channels in a bandwidth of 0.6 nm and with a dispersion of -1400 ps/nm. The wavelength spacing between two neighboring channels is 0.8 nm.
Fingerprint Watermark Embedding by Discrete Cosine Transform for Copyright Ownership Authentication
Chi-Man Pun, Ioi-Tun Lam
Abstract: In respect to the issues on protecting intellectual property, particular for artistic works in electronic form, some sorts of techniques could be put on a copyright material image to ensure its ownership authentication. In this paper, signatories' biometric fingerprint watermark message in digital format will be embedded into a copyright material image by Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) for copyright ownership authentication. During the embedding process, copyright material image and the fingerprint watermark message will be adaptively partitioned and then DCT method will be applied to each partition for embedding and extracting the watermark message. Experimental results from our prototype system show that the proposed method is successfully tested for message embedding and extraction. In case that the watermarked image has been attacked, the embedded digital fingerprint watermark message can still be extracted with a certain degree of tolerance.
Performance Evaluation of XML Web Services for Real-Time Applications
Hazem M. El-Bakry, Nikos Mastorakis
Abstract: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been becoming one of the most widely used methodologies for building and integrating different types of software applications. This because the extreme benefits that it offers to their adopters including agility, dynamicity, and loose-coupling. These benefits are usually missed in traditional software terminologies and practices. XML Web Services is the most used technology for realizing SOA because it is easy to use. Furthermore, it allows high interoperability between different systems due to its dependency on standards that are widely accepted and supported by almost all large software vendors. However, XML Web Services suffers from a number of drawbacks such as low performance, bad utilization of hardware resources, and high network latency. These pitfalls may prevent some adopters from utilizing SOA in large and complex systems. Therefore, these issues should be first addressed and resolved before leveraging it into real-time systems. Here, an experimental evaluation for the performance of XML Web Services in real-time business systems is presented. Moreover, this study offers some tactics and strategies that might be used to enhance the overall performance of XML Web Services.
New Aspect on Wireless Communication Networks
Marius-Constantin Popescu, Nikos E. Mastorakis
Abstract: This paper provides a detailed picture on computer networks and especially on wireless networks, focusing on specific characteristics of wireless systems. By using MIMO technology (Multiple Input Multiple Output), network logon ca be realized at distances much greater. The use of antennas allows reception and transmission of multiple data streams simultaneously, and the router gives a much better quality of data transmission and added safety. For network security is available WEP encryption on 64 or 128 bits. Technology and wireless services now offered by manufacturers and retailers are moving quickly to satisfy all communication needs. Requests for services and improved functionality, both in public domain and in the business domain, led to the development of wireless technology to offer type services of "anywhere / anytime" for transparent interconnection of voice / data / video with existing network and Internet access through service providers.
Creating a Service Oriented Architectural Model for Emergency Vehicles
Jyri Rajamaki, Timo Villemson
Abstract: E.g. Finnish police cars have about 40 different user interfaces (radio, navigation, command and control systems, radar, alarm lights, etc.) on the deck beyond the cars' standard user interfaces. In cold weather conditions, not all police vehicles are creating enough electricity for intensive operations. Also, wiring and ergonomics are problematic. The annual delivery amount of emergency vehicles is, however, so low that traditional business models, where devices and systems are sold to the end-user, do not motivate suppliers to do invest significantly in system development. Therefore, other business models, such as digital service concepts, are needed for security services. In this paper, the concept vehicle is a Volkswagen transporter used by the Finnish police, but the possibility of extending this concept to other emergency vehicles is also discussed. A new mobile platform for police cars is proposed, and the digital service design parameters of the ICT integration solution are defined. Further research subjects are also presented.
A Printed Monopole Antenna for Cellular Handsets
M. Bank, M. Haridim
Abstract: In this paper we propose a modified monopole antenna for use as internal antenna in mobile handsets. In this antenna, called the MB antenna, the radiating element (monopole) is implemented in parallel to a ground plane, without degradation of its radiation characteristics. Simulations show that the MB antenna performs similar to the conventional monopole antenna and has superior performance over PIFA. The proposed antenna can be used as an embedded antenna in compact cellular handsets, and seem promising for application to MIMO antenna systems subject to space limitation.
An Intelligent Distributed Algorithm for Efficient Web Image Retrieval
Alaa M. Riad, Ahmed Atwan, Hazem M. El-Bakry, Sameh Abd EL-Ghany, Nikos Mastorakis
Abstract: Web image retrieval is a challenging task that requires efforts from image processing, web text retrieval, and link structure analysis. General web image retrieval engines such as Google and Yahoo retrieve images according to the meta-data or the context in which the images are found. Hence, the results search engines are far from expected regarding the semantics of the images and the user can be overwhelmed by thousands of results, of which few are valuable. In order to become an effective complement to traditional Web-scale text-based image retrieval, content-based image retrieval must address scalability and efficiency issues. This paper presents a framework for distributed content based web image retrieval. The proposed framework is based on multi-agent system where agent autonomously searches for images over the internet to find images matching a given example. During image retrieval, the system can decide an optimized retrieval strategy by automatically analyzing the query input, thus a search agent is routed only to the image sources that maintaining categories of images similar to the query in content (color and shape). The mobility enables the search agent to perform local image match at image sources, which is expected to improve retrieval speed and reliability by minimizing network traffic and dependence on network status.
A Mobile Disaster Management System Using the Android Technology
Jovilyn Therese B. Fajardo, Carlos M. Oppus
Abstract: The Philippines is one of the countries in the world vulnerable to natural hazards because of its geographic location. It also lacks an efficient disaster management system that will help in times of need. One common scenario during disasters is that the activity of rescue and relief is not well-coordinated. For this reason, there is a need for a system that will help in the efficient provision of rescue and relief to disaster-affected areas. Since the use of smart phones is gaining interest in people, the disaster management system was implemented as a smart phone application using Google's Android operating system. The disaster management system Android application known as MyDisasterDroid determines the optimum route along different geographical locations that the volunteers and rescuers need to take in order to serve the most number of people and provide maximum coverage of the area in the shortest possible time. Genetic algorithm was applied for optimization and different parameters were varied to determine the most optimum route.
Analysis of SAR Reduction of Mobile Phones in Heterogeneous Media
M. Haridim, B.Levin, Z. Ibragimov, M. Bank
Abstract: The mutual effect of symmetrical electric dipoles located in the near region of each other is considered. The problem is solved with due account of the space heterogeneity. The results are applied to the compensation method for losses reduction in head of phone user. The cellular phone antennas PIFA and MB are compared with each other. The SAR reduction ability combined with the compact size and high gain characteristics of the MB antenna make it a promising candidate for compact and safe cellular handset applications. It is shown that the use of linear array of additional radiators, instead of a single auxiliary radiator is an effective method for increasing the dark spot dimensions.
Throughput and Power Consumption Comparisons of Zigbee-based and ISM-based Implementations of WSAN
Rosula S. J. Reyes, Jose Claro Monje, Marc Ericson C. Santos, Lorlynn A. Mateo, Roma Lynne G. Espiritu, John Vianney Isiderio, Carlos Miguel M. Lacson, Ray Edwin T. Ocfemia
Abstract: Wireless sensor and actuator networks have expanding applications which requires better throughput, power efficiency and cost effectiveness. This study intends to contribute to the growing pool of knowledge on WSAN especially in the design for novel applications such as image or video over WSANs, and solar energy and RF energy harvesting for the WSAN nodes. Two basic scalable wireless sensor and actuator networks were implemented and characterized in terms of throughput and power consumption. The two WSANs are the Zigbee-based WSAN which is based on the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol, and the ISM-based Zigbee which makes use of the industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) radio bands. The star topology was used for both WSAN implementations. The throughput is quantified with varied factors including distance from node to node, obstructions in between nodes and co-channel interference. As distance and obstructions between nodes are increased, the throughput for both networks decreases with varying degrees. Co-channel interference is also considered. The ISM-based WSAN network is weak in dealing with co-channel interference and error rate as compared to the Zigbee-based WSAN, thus requiring it to have a better data encryption. Power consumption is generally larger for the ISM-based WSAN as compared to its Zigbee-based counterpart. However, the ISM-based nodes consume the same power even up to a few hundreds of meters distance and are thus practical for covering large distances. Therefore, the Zigbee-based WSAN system is more appropriate for closed environment, such as in room automation and home automation applications where distance from node to node is relatively shorter. The ISM-based WSAN prototype, on the other hand, can be developed further for applications in larger areas such as deployment in fields and cities, since transmission is not generally limited by distance and obstructions.
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Subsidised buses – services all running, money saved
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The work continues on subsidised bus routes for Brighton & Hove. You can read the story so far in my previous posts. We made some important decisions at yesterday's Policy & Resources Committee.
In summary: To cope with government cuts the council budget, agreed by all parties, included the need to find a saving from the bus subsidy budget. Combined with the pressure of increasing fuel costs and a government cut to bus operator subsidy this made for a challenging, pressured issue.
Strictly speaking the law requires bus companies to not run any routes or parts of routes which are unprofitable. This was probably intended to prevent anti-competitive 'loss-leader' services by one company to undercut another. The result however is that some routes don't operate without a council subsidy.
Two key issues at hand were school bus routes, some of which were costing the council over £1,000 per child per year (plus the £240/year parents pay for a pass) while child numbers are declining and also some non-school routes which were costly to keep going.
As we have long said, we are working on alternative approaches to school transport. So yesterday Greens proposed, and the committee agreed, that we procure one year contracts for services on the 74 and 96 school routes. These will be for smaller vehicles under more flexible terms which we estimate will be half the cost of the services as they were currently run. These will be funded from one-off funds.
For the other services, as I have said many times, only by proceeding with the procurement as we did last month could we flush out which services could continue commercially, without subsidies. It was a strong approach which has shown that a number of evening services will now continue without council taxpayer support.
The one change to the services previously run is the 52 route which will now terminate at the Marina. There was also a very unfortunate administrative error which resulted in one route being given to the incorrect operator – that is being corrected, and everything has been reviewed by senior officers to ensure it's all now proper and correct.
Still now with the information we have from the commercial bus companies, which was only possible by the approach we took, we are in a position to keep services going on all routes that were previously subsidised but with a saving of £230,000 per year.
The opposition, particularly the Labour group, have been continuing to claim that they did 'deals' with the largest bus company to 'save' routes and also that their 'campaign' including a petition had pressured us into changes. This continues to be complete nonsense. We said we'd do what we have, and we have. No deals have been done with the bus companies – Roger French has made absolutely clear that there hasn't been a deal. Indeed it wouldn't be legal, the bus companies have to make their own commercial decisions on which routes they run. The remainder have been procured through EU rules.
Both opposition parties have been in administration and know the way you have to negotiate procurements with bus companies, as we have successfully done. Their comments and campaigning indicate that they are either naive over these processes or being intentionally misleading about how they work. Either way it's not good for them. They've been completely wrong-footed by our actions.
So let's remember, we've delivered on what we said we do and all the services keep running with a significant saving for council tax payers.
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Labour dishonesty on buses serves nobody
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There has been, understandably, some controversy since the council proceeded with a reduction in bus subsidies. This was a reduction agreed at budget council which we have now had to implement at a recent Policy & Resources Committee meeting. The impact was exacerbated by a government cut in the bus operator subsidy as well as increasing fuel costs. Still we have proceed with the smallest reduction in subsidies we've been able to identify compared to any other council, affecting less than 0.33% of bus passenger journeys in the city. You can read much more on this in my previous posts.
Two points to re-iterate from my earlier posts are that:
We have been saying since January that we will be looking to provide school transport in different, and lower cost ways. Some school bus routes were costing over £1,000 per child per year (in addition to the £240 their parents were paying for a bus pass each year).
We have always said during this bus subsidy procurement process that it was likely we would see some services being continued by the bus operators on a commercial basis, even after the subsidies were withdrawn.
Despite the decision on the procurement having been properly agreed by a committee of the council, the opposition have been threatening to suspend the rules at the next full council meeting, ignore administrative law and revert the committee's decision to save the services at risk.
This would be a very foolhardy approach by the opposition, for reasons I am likely to need to go into in another post soon. However, as I also did before the Policy & Resources Committee meeting, I have been speaking to the opposition group leaders to see if there was another way through all this. Now, as is usual, these are private discussions and negotiations. Regardless of whether they succeed or not, they are not for public consumption. Those private conversations are key to successfully finding productive compromises and seeking out agreement. Sadly that privacy was breached today.
I rang Cllr Gill Mitchell, leader of the Labour & Co-operative Group, to discuss an offer in reply to her opening pitch. She asked me to explain my reasoning, and I did so. She then said that she would "get back to me" on the offer. She didn't. But Labour then put out some tweets and a press release partially quoting what I said in that call.
This was a clear breach of trust. I am left with the need to explain what has happened. The confidence has been broken so I will expand on discussions I would ordinarily not have explored publicly.
In seeking to negotiate the opposition haven't budged their positions one inch and were looking to commit the council to almost £200k more of spending each year for the next 4 years (the Tory request was marginally cheaper than the Labour one, but the same order of magnitude). I couldn't commit to spend that much extra money as we don't have that amount of spare cash in the budget as recurring income. One-off spend from last year's underspend or capital investment could not be used to support such a four year commitment.
The offer I made this morning was just over £55k a year being used to procure more cost effective school transport for the 96 and 74 routes. (I seek to treat each opposition leader equally. However I had not been able to speak to Cllr Geoffrey Theobald for the Conservatives, but managed to speak to Cllr Mitchell, who I was told was at work.)
It seems to me that Labour had no desire to find an agreement nor common ground, otherwise they could have responded to me with a counter-offer or some kind of comment. But they didn't, they went straight to the press.
Not only did they partially report our conversation, Labour also claimed that they had negotiated a 'deal' with Brighton & Hove Bus Company to save a number of routes at no cost the council. Yet this was completely untrue. As I confirmed this afternoon with Roger French, who heads the bus company, no deal was done with anyone. He was going to make a commercial decision, on his own, to keeping running some of the services after the subsidy went. Just as I have been saying was likely for some time, and indeed happened before in the past when subsidies were withdrawn.
For Labour to suggest they had made this happen was simply untrue, and not in their gift. There was and is no deal there, and the bus company have confirmed this to the media. The council ran a procurement, companies won different subsidised routes to operate out of that, then they make commercial decisions on what else they run. This is the proper and legal way in which buses have to operate outside of London in this country.
It's sad that Labour are seeking to make short term political points out of the bus issue, even more disappointing that they've done so by attempting to mislead.
These are difficult times for the council and our local economy, all parties should be putting the city before politics. But there is good news… so far since the new parking charges came in Roger French reports a 4 to 5% increase in bus journeys on an average week, and visitor numbers continue to go up.
Why our city's political culture needs to change or how Labour and Tories are misleading residents
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The Labour Party via twitter are suggesting that Greens are 'diverting' money from buses to support One Planet Living.
Other than the fact that this continues to show that they don't understand, support nor appreciate the benefits of One Planet Living for improving this city and saving the council money, it's an outright lie.
The buses budget is a recurring budget – that is money that we spend each year on contracts with bus companies. For this financial year it's about £1m funded from parking income.
The One Planet Living (1PL) money they refer to is how we have chosen to allocate £250k of the council's £4 million underspend generated in the last financial year.
So you can see they are very different beasts – buses is recurring money, 1PL one-off money left over from the last year.
You cannot run a 4 year contract for buses with a sliver of one-off money. But you can save recurring money we spend each year on our water and energy bills with the input of a one-off funded spend to save project. Is that so hard for Labour to understand?
Misleading statements
It is downright untrue and misleading to the people of the city to suggest money has been 'diverted' from any budget to 1PL and Labour should be ashamed of making such a suggestion.
Just to run down the full history of the issue in addition to my previous post and one from my party. Back in 2004 I'm told the then Labour administration tried to make cuts to bus subsidies, including the 96 bus when times were good for councils.
Now we're facing harsh austerity measures and yet we've managed to affect less than 0.33% of passenger journeys in the face of cuts and fuel inflation. And both opposition parties Tories and Labour had lots of time to engage with this issue.
Back in September & October 2011 they participated in the 'star chambers' for budget proposals including saving money from the bus subsidies budget was mentioned. The draft budget was then published in December 2011 and a scrutiny panel did examine buses as well as school transport. The Green administration made clear then, as we have now, that we were reviewing school transport to ensure it was as cost effective and sustainable as possible in the face of cuts.
No objections from Tories or Labour in October or February
Furthermore in October 2011 a public Cabinet Member Meeting discussed the criteria through which the bus subsidies would be reviewed and re-procured. For the first time this created a systematic process for ranking services open to public scrutiny and thereby not vulnerable to 'pork barrel' politics of councillors being tempted into saving services to their wards even if they were not financially justifiable (see especially appendix 2 of the reports for that meeting). The minutes show that opposition councillors present at that meeting raised no objections to the criteria which has produced the decisions we have now had to make.
Come budget council in February 2012 the opposition councillors presented a number of amendments, but none of them sought to remove the reduction in the bus subsidy. They voted for the budget including this reduction. It's a basic concept of administrative law that you only vote for something if you support it, otherwise you abstain or vote against. Bizarre claims in recent days that the opposition "didn't really support this" don't wash.
As I've mentioned previously, both opposition leaders had two briefings at which they could have further raised issue with any aspect of the bus procurement process, but they didn't. Then they both chose to present last minute amendments on the day of the committee meeting where we had to decide.
The Labour one failed to recognise that we did a 4 year procurement to get better prices – the £226k they wanted to raid wouldn't even get them a year's worth of the bus services they wanted, and we would have needed to spend months on a new 1 year procurement process. As this would take 3-4 months we would then be in a situation of having less than a year until having to do the procurement again. All costly, expensive and un-costed by Labour.
The Tory amendment was calculated by finance officers to cost at least £508k which they had not found whatsoever, and also they hit the issue of needing to do a new 1 year procurement which would result in much higher prices.
Playing around with the council's democratic decision making
Now Labour have in a press release said that they will seek to overturn this decision somehow at a Full Council meeting. Legal advice confirms my own view that committee decisions are final (other than the call-in procedure which at most can only force a decision to be taken again). This was explicitly discussed with Labour's deputy leader as part of the constitutional reforms: committee decisions have to be final otherwise the system won't work, and basic principles of administrative law.
Ultimately a four year procurement was the best way to get value for money, trying to push one-off money into one year services is not going to go very far in resolving these issues which all parties long knew were coming. I'm saddened that the Coalition Government has forced councils in to this situation where services are reduced . But in times of limited cash, we cannot justify the cost of over £1,000 per pupil per year on one of the school routes that wont be subsidised any longer. We can now look at other options such as smaller, cheaper school transport options and bus companies seeking to run services on a commercial basis on the routes where subsidies have been withdrawn.
Opposition councillors haven't found the money to 'save' services over the 4 years of the procurement we've undertaken, and none of us know how much more expensive the prices would be for 1 year contracts – but we know it will take months to complete that procurement which seems hardly worthwhile for just a year. Rather than creating more uncertainty for contractors and all those people affected, as Labour have done with their latest statements, we should be spending that time and resources on finding solutions.
Short-term media 'wins' at any cost
Just as at the budget-setting this February, we see the opposition parties going for a short term media 'win' at the long term expense of residents and council services. In February it was the £3.66m hole they added to next year's finances so that they could force the council tax freeze into the budget. Of course they failed to identify how that £3.66m would be paid for nor which services would have to be cut to do so. Now with the buses there will be at least a £0.5m if not more cost over the 4 years of this bus contract if the opposition have their way. Once again there is no mention of which council services they will cut in the coming years to pay for this.
It's a shameful way of behaving, it does a disservice to local politics in this city and all those who depend on us to make the difficult judgements necessary to balance competing needs for services in times of ever decreasing budgets.
I recognise that most people will never read this level of detail, but those interested I do think it's important that there is an awareness of what is truly going on. We need to change the political culture in this city and I'm doing what I can about it. Thanks for reading.
The June 2012 Policy & Resources meeting or how Labour & Tories connived to campaign against bus cuts they voted for
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This week saw the first full meeting of Policy & Resources committee under the new system of decision making on Brighton & Hove City Council.
There were many important issues on the agenda including revising the corporate plan for the next year and agreeing a letter to government in support of equal marriage proposals. You can read the full agenda here.
However the vast majority of the meeting and the interest was focussed on two reports. The first was the final budget update on the last financial year which ended this April. This showed that in its first year the Green administration had, despite biting government funding cuts, been able to carefully manage the council to a £4.37m underspend. This was good news as it gives us a bit of flexibility in dealing with the unexpected. But context is important as this amounts to being just 2% off a fully balanced budget (one that was neither under nor overspent), so not much in the grand scheme of a large council like ours.
Much of the report was on the detailed management and accounting logistics needed when projects run over two financial years with grants needing to be carried forward. It also noted that we achieved £7.53m in savings from the Value for Money Programme in the last year. Which rather took the wind out of the sails of the opposition who had been focussed on attacking Greens for being reckless, idealistic and unable to manage things.
So of course rather than acknowledging the the first year's finances had gone well (and I should admit a personal interest here having been the Cabinet Member for Finance in that year!) they took a new tack by attacking the underspend.
Now most of that underspend, £3.187m to be precise, was already spent in the February budget-setting meeting to help with the budget year we are now in. The opposition were more than happy to raid it for their amendments back then. This left £1.183m to be allocated at the committee this week.
It is important to note that this underspend is one-off money, it's not a recurring amount we can count on each year like income from rents or council tax. So when it's spent, that's it. Our report proposed leaving £521k to cover costs relating to Saltdean Lido and to help with unexpected pressures in the 2013/14 budget-setting.
Then we sought to put £662k into a number of areas (full details are at the bottom of this document) including one year cover for a childcare service associated with Brighton Womens' Centre until a new government funding stream comes through and funding to support the huge number of events we will be seeing in the city this summer. Vitally we allocated £150k to fund a bid for £5m in government grants to get ultrafast broadband in the city. We hope to tie this in with free wifi in the city and continuing to support the high growth digital sector we are lucky to have. Unfortunately there are some very complex legalities associated with the bidding process, which is why need to put money aside for it, but it will deliver huge benefits for the city's economic future.
Our long term thinking vs opposition's short termism
We also allocated £250k for projects including automatic water metering and energy audits of key council buildings. These projects will be led by the sustainability team and help us meet our One Planet Council targets, but ultimately they save us money. With pilot work in the Brighton Centre we've already saved the council tens of thousands by changing how energy and water are used.
Regardless of the good sense of these plans, unfortunately the opposition decided these were 'pet' or 'vanity' projects and sought to attack them suggesting saving money and resources, and the economic development of our city, were unnecessary distractions. Personally I want to see a vibrant, digital city and I would rather be spending council funds on positive things than wasted water and heat!
Labour councillors proposed an amendment to take all the money from the sustainability projects and spend it on buses apart from £24k on the Mobile Library. This related to their amendment to the budget in February which only partially funded a new Mobile Library back then. They've been hoping someone else will step in to fund the gap in their amendment, but so far we've had no offers. The one-off £24k they sought in the amendment was still not enough (it's recurring annual budget we're short of) and we cannot buy a new mobile vehicle if there's no annual budget to run it – that would be utterly irresponsible.
The sum for the bus budget was also unable to make much of a difference because we were about to be debating a 4 year contract which a one-off sum of £226k Labour wanted to throw in didn't make much sense, but more on that in a moment.
The Labour amendment, despite Tory support fell. But rather than vote for the positive items in this budget report such as on ultrafast broadband, childcare, summer events and so on all the Tory and Labour councillors voted against the report so I used my casting vote as chair to ensure it passed.
The bus issue
So, as colleagues have explained on this blog post, we had to review subsidised bus contracts. The government has cut its support to bus operators by 20%, fuel prices have increased and councils have had their budgets cut substantially by government.
Even if we had been able to keep our budget unchanged, the increased costs bus operators were experiencing meant we'd have only ever been able to afford to support fewer bus services. But sadly we had to reduce our budget. Why? Ultimately because the central government are cutting council funding harder and faster than for any other part of government.
In spite of the scale of the cuts, we sought to take a much smaller reduction from the bus subsidy budget than other areas of the council budget, because we know how important buses are. At the budget council meeting this February both Labour and Tory groups presented an array of amendments – none of which sought to change our proposals on the bus subsidy budget. Furthermore all the opposition councillors very unusually voted for the whole budget including the unamended bus subsidy section.
They absurdly claimed this week that this didn't mean they supported everything they had voted for: if you don't support something don't vote for it! Opposition groups usually abstain on the council budget and they could have done again so this February.
So let us be absolutely clear that both Labour and Tory groups voted for these reductions in the bus subsidy budget. Then both leaders of the opposition groups more recently had the offer of one-on-one briefings with the officers on this topic. Additionally they attended a meeting that I chaired with officers to review the draft agenda for this week's Policy & Resources committee.
They were even shown extra print-outs of all the bus route data and tendering process at that meeting. Did they ask a single question, raise any concerns or seek to amend any of the reports? No, they had absolutely nothing to say, they agreed that the papers should proceed to publication.
If they were genuinely concerned about the principle, the detail or the process they had been given many opportunities to do something about the bus subsidies, but they didn't. However in the last few days suddenly they have decided to "save the buses" and continue now, such as with this Labour online post.
Let's call their behaviour what it is – cynical positioning to seek political capital. Their amendments, as the copious notes from the Finance Director showed, were highly problematic and short-termist (see here and here). Robbing good spend-to-save plans such as on water usage to show that they wanted to be seen to save the buses, in ways they knew couldn't and wouldn't succeed. Major procurements are difficult and complex procedures which cannot be altered by amendments submitted on the morning of a meeting. Again, when they had so much notice of what was happening why did they not prepare amendments earlier?
We have sought to cause the minimum harm possible in the face of cuts and inflation. So while other authorities are slashing millions from supported bus routes, and some counties are seeing 47 schools lose services, we kept it to a minimum with less than 0.33% of passenger journeys affected. Overall less than 2% of all routes in the city are subsidised, but we ranked them all to ensure those we did stop supporting would cause these least harm possible.
School routes are particularly difficult to arrange. They are costly, the 96 which was the source of some controversy this week would be costing us each year about £1,000 per child plus the parents were paying £240 a year for a pass. Most big operators aren't interested in running school buses which are just one way in the morning, once, and a single-homeward trip. But we have been saying for months, I note including at the Budget Scrutiny meetings this January, that we are reviewing all school transport options. I said it again at the meeting this week. Not all school transport has to be by a large bus with a route number associated. Only those big spending routes need to go through the procurement we discussed at committee this week.
There are other options for transport, which we will keep discussing with parents, children, schools and providers. But of course people were understandably very concerned and if the service that runs by your home is affected, that it is only one of 0.33% is small comfort. It is also worth keeping in mind that in the past commercial operators have sought to continue some services even when the subsidy ended, because they found a way to make it commercially viable. So the end of a subsidy does not always mean the end of a route.
It was a difficult meeting and I take no pride or pleasure in moving these challenging items forward. The government is intent of forcing communities into fighting over scant resources, which is so damaging to our resilience and sense of collective wellbeing. Even the Tory chair of the Local Government Association recently called some of the cuts to councils "impossible".
I know that Greens are working hard to manage our city as sensitively and responsibly as possible in the face of the austerity agenda we oppose. But what pains me most is how Tory and Labour councillors cheapened the debate with their empty posturing. They had every chance to do something more about this if they really cared, and their respective governments too. Of course we're not going to always agree, but the public deserve informed debate not last minute posturing. Transport is a difficult issue for our city, and the council is only one part of the picture. I intend to keep working with everyone to find the best, sustainable and affordable solutions possible in these tough times.
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In September, 2017, Theatre Lunatico will end its years of nomadic venue hopping and move into its very own home. We will be moving into La Val's Subterranean Theatre. This space has a lot of history! We hope to honor that history by building a vibrant hub of ensemble theatre work.
Just as we like to produce big theatre in small spaces, we have big plans for this small studio. We intend to establish a laboratory space for our ensemble theatre approach, providing classes, performance opportunities, discussions and workshops.
Theatre Lunatico includes a Youth Mentorship Program where young, teen-aged actors are invited to work alongside our adult performers and to experience rehearsal and professional performances. With our new residency at La Val's Subterranean Theater, we plan to expand our youth mentorship program by offering additional training and experience to upcoming young artists, as well as forging a connection with UC Berkeley students to offer an outlet for practical experience in the theatre.
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Ernst Haas (1921–1986) is acclaimed as one of the most celebrated and influential photographers of the 20th century and considered one of the pioneers of color photography. Haas was born in Vienna in 1921, and took up photography after the war. His early work on Austrian returning prisoners of war brought him to the attention of LIFE magazine. He declined a job offer as staff photographer in order to keep his independence. At the invitation of Robert Capa, Haas joined Magnum in 1949, developing close associations with Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Werner Bishof.
Ernst Haas received the Hasselblad award in 1986, the year of his death. Haas has continued to be the subject of museum exhibitions and publications such as Ernst Haas, Color Photography (1989), Ernst Haas in Black and White (1992), and Color Correction (2011). The Ernst Haas Studio, located in New York, continues to manage Haas's legacy, aiding researchers and overseeing all projects related to his work.
1999 Contour and Colour: Ernst Haas an Exhibition of Colour Photography, Connoly's, London, U.K.
1998 Only Time will Tell, Michael Hoppen Photography, London, U.K.
Ernst Haas in Black and White, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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1983-1985 Vienna, Graz, and Linz; Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum und Kunstlerhaus, and Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz. Geschichte der Fotografie in Österreich. (The History of Photography in Austria).
1980-1981 New York, International Center of Photography; Tucson, University of Arizona; The	Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Long Beach, The Art Galleries, California State University; Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum.
Photographie als Kunst 1879–1979, Kunst als Photographie 1949–1979, Innsbruck, Linz, Graz, and Vienna; Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Neue Galerie am Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts.
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Gwen Stefani has gone through a lot of life changes in the past decade, but none as dramatic as the last six months as we watched her 13-year marriage with Gavin Rossdale come to an end. But the Gwen Stefani we have come to know never lets bad vibes keep her down for too long, and she bounced back with a brand new makeup collection with Urban Decay and rebounded into a budding romance with The Voice co-star Blake Shelton.
Last week, the singer-songwriter announced that she would be releasing a new solo record titled This Is What the Truth Feels Like on March 18 via Interscope Records. Following a post of the album's track list, she dropped the audio for a Shelton-inspired song called "Make Me Like You." (It's basically the polar opposite of "Used To Love You.") Rewind to last night at the Grammys where Stefani not only performed the new single, but also filmed and debuted the official music video live on stage.
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As the province with the most significant number of religious people, Henan continues to suffer Cultural Revolution-style crackdown on its churches.
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Churches continue to be closed down and repurposed, their assets plundered, crosses dismantled, and Bibles burnt. Even the government-approved Three-Self churches cannot escape the hurricane of the anti-religion campaign launched by the Chinese authorities.
Government officials are burning Bibles and Christian books.
On March 15, about ten officials from the local United Front Work Department and police officers stormed into a meeting venue run by the Three-Self Church in Dahou township of Yucheng county, under the jurisdiction of Shangqiu city. After searching the place, they piled all Bibles and other Christian books, as well as the religious symbols that they managed to find and burned them. They took away all the chairs, musical instruments, and other valuables from the meeting venue.
The salvaged burned Bibles.
The church's leader sought to reason with the officials, saying that members of the congregation purchased all of the things and that the government had no right to confiscate them.
Even chairs have been taken away from the church.
One official chided, "People are not allowed to believe in anything that the government doesn't allow. Anything that has religious overtones must be confiscated."
A co-worker from the church said that the authorities ordered the meeting venue to stop holding gatherings in September 2018. Therefore, the officials came to do what they directed and took away the church's property.
In late August, a Three-Self meeting venue, built with more than 500,000 RMB (about $74,200) donated by members of the congregation, was forcibly shut down in Guodian town under the jurisdiction of Xinzheng city. The township government said that it did not have a religious venue registration certificate.
In early March this year, village officials destroyed the three cone-shaped symbols at the top of the entrance to the meeting venue, which was later converted into the "Xiaosi Village Party-Masses Service Center."
The government forcibly took over the church and converted it into the "Xiaosi Village Party-Masses Service Center."
A month earlier, a Three-Self church in Sanmenxia city's Lushi county was also forcibly closed down. When the village Party secretary ordered to shut down the church, its leader said that the church was approved by the Two Chinese Christian Councils for believers to congregate. The secretary replied ruthlessly, "The government is closing churches now, it means they do not allow you to believe [in God] anymore, and so you can't develop or spread the gospel. You elderly believers are getting older and older, and minors are prohibited from entering churches. In this way, Christianity will be eliminated."
Two days later, the Party secretary coerced one of the church's deacons into handing over the keys, and forcibly closed down the church.
The church's leader revealed that nearly 40 Three-Self meeting venues in Lushi county were shut down between August 2018 to April 2019. He said that this is the most severe campaign to "annihilate religion" since the Cultural Revolution.
A cross symbol and the characters meaning "God Loves the World" at the entrance of Babu Church were torn down.
In March, Babu Church, located in the township of Kongji in Ningling county, under the jurisdiction of Shangqiu city, was also forcibly taken over by the village committee.
The cross on the exterior wall of Babu Church was destroyed.
Babu Church was cleaned out.
One government official commented, "It's the second Cultural Revolution now. Xi Jinping is taking the old path of Mao. Anyone who resists will be punished and sent to prison. Nowadays, the government doesn't allow churches to exist and is occupying them. Just like during the era of Mao Zedong, territories were occupied and turned into a revolutionary base."
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Kate Faulkner, one of the UK's leading property experts discusses reviewing your portfolio to see how it's performing.
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You can search on various property sites and the Land Registry to find out how house prices are performing in your postcode area and a good local agent should be happy to give you a free market appraisal. If your capital value doesn't seem to be keeping up with local averages, you may need to spend money on making some improvements. Take advice from letting agents to find out where spending money might allow you to increase the rent and reduce void periods.
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"You're so beautiful for a black girl".
Our experience of past and present depends on the emotion we succumb to when we visualize pleasant or unpleasant events. Digging and scrapping through emotions brought to the surface by past struggles of being what was deemed "BEAUTIFUL" as a black South African rural girl relocating and having to grow up in an all white , western environment . The experience of having to mimic a certain way of appearance and behavior differed greatly from where I grew up(Limpopo), which waged battles of beauty and what that was suppose to look like opposed to what I looked like. Growing up where your color, tradition and way of naturally being was suppressed by everyone who wanted you to survive, including yourself. In my work I have used negative space to represent the two opposing worlds of black and white 'beauty'. The negative spaces structuring what is the past and what has moulded my appearance and character thus far. The white spaces discuss the western influence in my African adornment and what a great influence it has been. The black space representing the heritage and color that is me, the past and the present. These series of self portraits speaks to the esthetic of beauty and what that means for me as a black woman in a western world. This is the experience of my identity and how that has been moulded by two contrasting worlds.
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Born in Limpopo Province, in 1991, Manyaku Mashilo is a self taught visual artist and illustrator who has passionately seeked out the observation of human anatomy and its intricacies . This resulted in a key interest with visual documentation of not only the human form but specifically the human face. In time this has led her to develop a passion for traditional portrait drawing which takes on an array of projected identities through fusing negative space, detailed pencil and ink work.
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We have launched a brand new website InYourArea.co.uk allowing you to stay up to date with what's happening near you. Simply type in an item and hit the "Enter" button after each one. Tulchan Communications LLP ocado@tulchangroup.com 85 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1AE Tel: +44 (0) 2073 534 200 Fax: +44 (0) 7770 745 454. Whether it's giving UK families over 150,000,000 hours of free time back, pioneering technologies which reduce the world's food waste, or inspiring the next generation of computer scientists through our Code for Life scheme, the work you do is always relevant and recognised. View Emma Glen's profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Ocado Group is aiming to have its Sunderland operation up and running before the end of 2019 and plans to have people in post by November. Engaged Employer. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. 681 Reviews. THE BEAM is part of a £500m city centre vision, with the wider city investment total standing at more than £1.5bn to 2030. Ocado Group is aiming to have its Sunderland operation up and running before the end of 2019 and plans to have people in post by November. Whether you're after a career-defining role or a job which gets you out and about, we'll offer you the training and support you need, alongside exceptional and inspiring people. We love that we're a team with different life experiences and backgrounds, able to bring new ways of thinking to what we do every day. Sunderland City Council revealed it had attracted Ocado Group to the city last year, with the firm committing to a 15-year deal to let the top two floors of the building. Overview Overview. Ocado has appointed a range of customer service-based roles, and staff are beginning to move into its new office in the city centre, with recruitment set to continue this year. Ocado Group was built off the back of its retail business in the UK, Ocado Retail Limited, which is a separate legal entity today. Ocado Press Office pressoffice@ocadogroup.com. You definitely get the feeling of trust, autonomy, freedom, openness and honesty. Looking for the latest news in your postcode? Coun Graeme Miller, leader of Sunderland City Council, said: "The Beam is a real flagship building for us, and attracting Ocado Group to move into it was a huge coup. Helping both local and global communities, as well as our employees, we're here to make a positive impact on everyone we work with. THE BEAM is part of a £500m city centre vision, with the wider city investment total standing at more than £1.5bn to 2030. No matter where you work, you'll be changing the way the world shops. THE BEAM, Sunderland Ocado, a world-leading e-commerce business is set to create up to 300 new jobs in Sunderland, after it was unveiled as the … At Ocado Group we pride ourselves on the quality of our goods and people; that's why we pick them wisely! 232 Interviews. Staff at their Hatfield Centre in north London are being asked to reclocate to Sunderland in Tyne and Wear, accept alternative and possibly lower paid jobs with Ocado, or face redundancy. When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Emma Hental , Contact Centre Team Manager. I love the Contact Centre and I really want to stay here. It also has an app. It's fantastic to see the company moving its team into this stunning new development that was sorely needed in the city centre. The online grocery giant has signed up for two floors of The Beam at Riverside Sunderland, on the old Vaux Brewery site, Sign up to our newsletter for the latest Sunderland news. You start with a smile and finish with a smile. 740 Salaries. We're proud of the difference we make to people's lives, and hope that you will be too. Legal and General announced £100m of investment in the city in November, which will fund the development of City Hall and two further buildings on the Riverside Sunderland site. Ocado Group | 53,497 followers on LinkedIn. Learn about salary, employee reviews, interviews, benefits and work-life balance Sustainability is more than just a list of requirements. Debbie Wilson, head of service delivery support, who heads up the business' contact centres, said she was delighted to see the first cohort of employees move into Ocado Group's new base. "We were always very confident that Ocado Group would be impressed by the talent and skill of Sunderland people, and I have no doubt that the response they had during the first phase of their recruitment process vindicated their decision to open a base here. I hope in the future I can progress and take on an Operations Manager role. To get breaking news sent to your phone, download the ChronicleLive app here. Emma has 3 jobs listed on their profile. Shift pattern: Our Contact Centre is open 7 days a week from 5:30am to Midnight.We need people that can fully commit to shifts between these days and times. Jade Watson ... Senior Commercial Marketing Executive at Ocado Retail Ltd Camberley. About Ocado Group. We're leaders, not followers. 273 Ocado Group jobs. We develop the innovative software and systems that power Ocado.com, the world's largest online-only grocery retailer as well as the global 'Ocado Smart Platform'. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Emma's connections and jobs at similar companies. Ocado Group's move into Sunderland is one of a string of positive developments in the city. Grocery business Ocado Group has moved into THE BEAM in Sunderland, welcoming 30 new recruits. You can unsubscribe at any time. 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التوافق النفسي و الاجتماعي لدى عينة من المعلمين المتقاعدين بمدينة القبة
volume 47, April 2020
عبد الجواد أبوبكر, د.أبوبكر; المبروك صالح, د. حامد; صالح حمد, أ. نجلاء; فائز زكري, أ. احلام
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Q: CASE condition issue in Clickhouse I wrote this code in mySQL and it runs fine there. But having some syntax issue in clickhouse db on CASE Condition :
select
BTOP.id,
BTOP.customer_id,
BTOP.brand_id,
(case when (SELECT count(customer_id) from c_bill_transaction where customer_id = BTOP.customer_id AND added_on < '2023-01-01 00:00:00') <=0 then "new" else "exiting" end) as  "customer_type",
BT.id,
BT.status,
BTOP.added_on
from c_bill_transaction_online_precheckout BTOP
Left Join c_bill_transaction BT on BT.precheckout_id = BTOP.id
where BTOP.added_on > '2023-01-01 00:00:00'

Error Clickhouse is throwing :
ClickHouse exception, code: 1002, host: 127.0.0.1, port: 8123; Code: 47. DB::Exception: Missing columns: 'BTOP.customer_id' while processing query: 'SELECT count(customer_id) FROM c_bill_transaction WHERE (customer_id = BTOP.customer_id) AND (added_on < '2023-01-01 00:00:00')', required columns: 'customer_id' 'BTOP.customer_id' 'added_on', maybe you meant: ['customer_id','customer_id','added_on']: While processing (SELECT count(customer_id) FROM c_bill_transaction WHERE (customer_id = BTOP.customer_id) AND (added_on < '2023-01-01 00:00:00')) AS _subquery8: While processing ((SELECT count(customer_id) FROM c_bill_transaction WHERE (customer_id = BTOP.customer_id) AND (added_on < '2023-01-01 00:00:00')) AS _subquery8) <= 0: While processing multiIf(((SELECT count(customer_id) FROM c_bill_transaction WHERE (customer_id = BTOP.customer_id) AND (added_on < '2023-01-01 00:00:00')) AS _subquery8) <= 0, new, exiting) AS customer_type. (UNKNOWN_IDENTIFIER) (version 22.7.1.2484 (official build))

A: You are using a subquery that refers to a column value from the outer query.  This is called a correlated subquery, and is not yet supported by clickhouse.  Per https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/6697 this may become supported this year.
You can instead join c_bill_transaction and group by BTOP.id. Something like:
select
    BTOP.id,
    BTOP.customer_id,
    BTOP.brand_id,
    (case when count(BTcust.customer_id) then "new" else "exiting" end) as  "customer_type",
    BT.id,
    BT.status,
    BTOP.added_on
from c_bill_transaction_online_precheckout BTOP
Left Join c_bill_transaction BT on BT.precheckout_id = BTOP.id
left join c_bill_transaction BTcust on BTcust.customer_id=BTOP.customer_id and BTcust.added_on < '2023-01-01 00:00:00'
where BTOP.added_on > '2023-01-01 00:00:00'
group by BTOP.id

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