The Festyy.com is just one of the many webpages of the so-called 'ad' type. It's created to fill the internet browser's constant stream of ads, or reroute the Firefox, IE, Chrome and Microsoft Edge to not expected and intrusive advertising web-pages. If the Mozilla Firefox, IE, Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome are rerouted to the Festyy.com then it's possible that your browser is infected with the 'ad-supported' software (also known as adware). The ad supported software is made in order to provide third-party advertisements to the user without asking his permission. The adware takes control of installed web-browsers and reroutes them to undesired web-pages like the Festyy.com every time you surf the Internet.
The 'ad supported' software that causes internet browsers to show annoying Festyy.com pop-up advertisements, can attack your PC's web-browsers such as the Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Edge. Maybe you approve the idea that the pop-ups from it is just a small problem. But these undesired Festyy.com ads eat personal computer resources. Even worse, it be able to collect your browsing history and personal information, including passwords and credit card numbers. In the future, confidential information can be sold to third party companies.
The adware often modify all web-browser shortcuts that located on your Desktop to force you visit various intrusive ad pages. As a result, your browser can still redirect you to an intrusive ad web page despite your computer is actually free of ad supported software and other malicious software.
We suggest you to remove adware and clean your PC from Festyy.com pop-up advertisements sooner, until the presence of the adware has not led to even worse consequences. You need to follow the step by step guide below that will allow you to completely delete the redirect to Festyy.com annoying page, using only the built-in Microsoft Windows features and several free malware removal utilities of well-known antivirus software companies.
The answer is right here on this page. We have put together simplicity and efficiency. It will allow you easily to clean your computer of adware that responsible for browser reroute to the intrusive Festyy.com webpage. Moreover, you can choose manual or automatic removal solution. If you are familiar with the computer then use manual removal, otherwise use the free antimalware tool made specifically to remove adware. Of course, you can combine both methods. Certain of the steps below will require you to exit this web-site. So, please read the instructions carefully, after that bookmark or print it for later reference.
The following instructions is a step-by-step guide, which will help you manually get rid of Festyy.com pop up ads from the Microsoft Edge, FF, Google Chrome and IE.
It is of primary importance to first identify and remove all potentially unwanted programs, ad supported software programs and browser hijackers through 'Add/Remove Programs' (Windows XP) or 'Uninstall a program' (Windows 10, 8, 7) section of your Microsoft Windows Control Panel.
In order to restore all web browser new tab, search provider by default and start page you need to reset the Microsoft Internet Explorer to the state, which was when the Microsoft Windows was installed on your computer.
First, open the Microsoft Internet Explorer, then press 'gear' icon . It will display the Tools drop-down menu on the right part of the internet browser, then press the "Internet Options" as on the image below.
In the "Internet Options" screen, select the "Advanced" tab, then press the "Reset" button. The Microsoft Internet Explorer will open the "Reset Internet Explorer settings" prompt. Further, click the "Delete personal settings" check box to select it. Next, click the "Reset" button as shown below.
Once the task is finished, click "Close" button. Close the Internet Explorer and reboot your computer for the changes to take effect. This step will help you to restore your web-browser's new tab, homepage and default search provider to default state.
If your Google Chrome internet browser is rerouted to unwanted Festyy.com page, it may be necessary to completely reset your internet browser program to its default settings.
It will open the Chrome menu. Choose More Tools, then click Extensions. Carefully browse through the list of installed addons. If the list has the addon signed with "Installed by enterprise policy" or "Installed by your administrator", then complete the following steps: Remove Chrome extensions installed by enterprise policy.
The Chrome will open the confirmation prompt as shown on the image below.
You need to confirm your action, press the "Reset" button. The internet browser will start the procedure of cleaning. Once it is finished, the web browser's settings including search provider, new tab and start page back to the values that have been when the Google Chrome was first installed on your machine.
If your FF internet browser is redirected to Festyy.com without your permission or an unknown search provider opens results for your search, then it may be time to perform the internet browser reset.
Click the "Refresh Firefox" button at the top right of the Troubleshooting Information page. Select "Refresh Firefox" in the confirmation dialog box. The Firefox will start a procedure to fix your problems that caused by the adware responsible for Festyy.com advertisements. When, it is complete, click the "Finish" button.
When the adware is started, it can also change the web browser's shortcuts, adding an argument similar to "http://site.address" into the Target field. Due to this, every time you open the browser, it will open an annoying page.
Open the properties of the web-browser shortcut. Right click on the shortcut of infected web-browser and select the "Properties" option and it'll display the properties of the shortcut. Next, select the "Shortcut" tab and have a look at the Target field as shown on the image below.
In order to fix the infected shortcut, you need to insert right path to the Target field or remove an address (if it has been added at the end). You can use the following information to fix your shortcut files which have been altered by adware that cause undesired Festyy.com advertisements to appear.
Once is complete, click OK to save changes. Repeat the step for all web browsers which are redirected to the Festyy.com undesired website.
Once installed, the ad supported software can add a task in to the Windows Task Scheduler Library. Due to this, every time when you run your computer, it will display Festyy.com intrusive site. So, you need to check the Task Scheduler Library and delete all harmful tasks that have been created by malicious application.
Press Windows and R keys on the keyboard at the same time. This opens a dialog box that called Run. In the text field, type "taskschd.msc" (without the quotes) and click OK. Task Scheduler window opens. In the left-hand side, click "Task Scheduler Library", as shown on the image below.
In the middle part you will see a list of installed tasks. Please select the first task, its properties will be open just below automatically. Next, click the Actions tab. Pay attention to that it launches on your PC. Found something like "explorer.exe http://site.address" or "chrome.exe http://site.address", then delete this harmful task. If you are not sure that executes the task, check it through a search engine. If it's a component of the 'ad-supported' software, then this task also should be removed.
It is not enough to remove Festyy.com redirect from your browser by completing the manual steps above to solve all problems. Some the adware related files may remain on your PC and they will restore the ad supported software even after you remove it. For that reason we advise to run free anti malware utility like Zemana, MalwareBytes Free and HitmanPro. Either of those programs should has the ability to detect and remove adware related to Festyy.com redirect.
We suggest using the Zemana Anti-malware. You can download and install Zemana Anti-malware to look for and remove Festyy.com popup ads from the Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge internet browsers. When installed and updated, the malicious software remover will automatically scan and detect all threats present on your system.
Click the following link to download the latest version of Zemana Anti-Malware (ZAM) for Windows. Save it directly to your Microsoft Windows Desktop.
After the downloading process is finished, close all applications and windows on your PC. Open a file location. Double-click on the icon that's named Zemana.AntiMalware.Setup.
Once installation is done, click the "Scan" button to begin scanning your system for the adware that causes browsers to show unwanted Festyy.com pop up ads. Depending on your PC, the scan can take anywhere from a few minutes to close to an hour. While the Zemana Anti-Malware utility is scanning, you may see number of objects it has identified as being infected by malicious software.
After that process is finished, Zemana Free will display a screen which contains a list of malicious software that has been found. Next, you need to press "Next". Once the task is finished, you can be prompted to restart your machine.
HitmanPro is a free program which developed to delete malicious software, potentially unwanted programs, hijackers and 'ad supported' software from your system running Windows 10, 8, 7, XP (32-bit and 64-bit). It will help to identify and get rid of adware that causes annoying Festyy.com pop up advertisements, including its files, folders and registry keys.
After downloading is complete, start the Hitman Pro, double-click the HitmanPro.exe file.
In the Hitman Pro window, click the "Next" . Hitman Pro program will scan through the whole computer for the adware related to Festyy.com advertisements. This task can take some time, so please be patient. While the HitmanPro program is checking, you can see count of objects it has identified as threat.
Once the scan is done, you can check all items detected on your personal computer. Once you've selected what you want to delete from your PC click "Next". Now, click the "Activate free license" button to start the free 30 days trial to delete all malware found.
Get rid of Festyy.com pop-up ads manually is difficult and often the adware is not completely removed. Therefore, we recommend you to use the Malwarebytes Free that are completely clean your PC. Moreover, the free program will help you to delete malicious software, potentially unwanted applications, toolbars and hijacker infections that your personal computer can be infected too.
When the download is done, close all apps and windows on your system. Open a directory in which you saved it. Double-click on the icon that's named mb3-setup as shown in the following example.
When the install begins, you'll see the "Setup wizard" that will help you install Malwarebytes on your computer.
Once installation is complete, you'll see window as displayed in the figure below.
Now click the "Scan Now" button . MalwareBytes Free program will scan through the whole machine for the adware that cause annoying Festyy.com pop ups to appear. A system scan can take anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes, depending on your PC.
When the scan get completed, you will be displayed the list of all found threats on your PC system. Make sure all threats have 'checkmark' and press "Quarantine Selected" button.
The Malwarebytes will now start to delete adware which causes intrusive Festyy.com advertisements. After finished, you may be prompted to restart your computer.
The following video explains few simple steps on how to get rid of hijacker, ad-supported software and other malicious software with MalwareBytes.
It's important to use ad blocker applications like AdGuard to protect your PC from malicious pages. Most security experts says that it's okay to block ads. You should do so just to stay safe! And, of course, the AdGuard may to block Festyy.com and other unwanted web-pages.
In most cases, the default settings are enough and you don't need to change anything. Each time, when you launch your PC system, AdGuard will run automatically and stop pop ups, web-pages like Festyy.com, as well as other harmful or misleading websites. For an overview of all the features of the program, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the AdGuard icon, that can be found on your desktop.
Many adware are included in the freeware installer. Most commonly, a user have a chance to disable all included "offers", but certain installers are created to confuse the average users, in order to trick them into installing the ad-supported software which causes intrusive Festyy.com pop-ups. Anyway, easier to prevent the adware rather than clean up your computer after one. So, keep the web browser updated (turn on automatic updates), use a good antivirus programs, double check a freeware before you launch it (do a google search, scan a downloaded file with VirusTotal), avoid harmful and unknown web-pages.
After completing the few simple steps shown above, your machine should be clean from this 'ad supported' software and other malware. The Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, FF and Microsoft Edge will no longer show annoying Festyy.com web site when you browse the Net. Unfortunately, if the tutorial does not help you, then you have caught a new adware, and then the best way – ask for help.
Please start a new thread by using the "New Topic" button in the Spyware Removal forum. When posting your HJT log, try to give us some details about your problems, so we can try to help you more accurately. Wait for one of our trained "Security Team" or Site Administrator to provide you with knowledgeable assistance tailored to your problem with the undesired Festyy.com advertisements.


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Q: Find the count of name in the table which may not contain a character 'a' or 'A' given a correct Name using the sql functions In table StudentData, containing columns
(ID, Name, City),
there was an error in the keyboard used for entering student names. It's 'A' key was not working properly, and sometimes the letter 'A' or 'a' did not get typed. So Rahul got entered as Rhul, Sanjay got entered as Snjy. Write a function that takes as input a valid name, and return the total number of students with
that name (with our without correct entry for 'a')
Here is a code i wrote
DELIMITER $$
create function myfun(nameInput varchar(50)) RETURNS int DETERMINISTIC
BEGIN
DECLARE count int;
select COUNT(*) INTO count from StudentData where name = nameInput;

return count;
END$$
DELIMITER ;

the above code does not consider the names which don't have the character 'a' or 'A'.
how do i write a logic for the given question

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A$AP Twelvyy – "Strapped" (Video)
blame it on Meka July 18, 2017
One of the more overlooked and underrated members of the A$AP Mob, A$AP Twelvyy has been quietly delivering some of the best music to come out of the came as of late. Now, with his long-awaited solo debut on the horizon, Glock Rivers drops a visual for A$AP P On The Boards-produced single "Strapped."
Presumably off said solo debut, the tentatively-titled 2127301090 (the number even makes a "cameo" appearance in the video), the video matches the audio in terms of its grittiness. Hopefully this means that Twelvyy's album makes an appearance in 2017 as well.
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Q: Angular google map display in grey color My map is only partially loading the map controls but not rendering the actual map:
my HTML

                        <ui-gmap-google-map center="map.center" zoom="map.zoom" draggable="true" options="map.options">
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        };
        $scope.options = { scrollwheel: true };
        $scope.marker = {
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            coords: {
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            },
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        };

In CSS:
.angular-google-map {
                height: 100%;
            }
            .angular-google-map-container {
                height: 100%;
            }

This Above screenshot is in mobile.
And in desktop or tablet, it displays properly.And If we resize mobile screen in chrome then also map render properly.
Thanks.

A: Simply I Added ng-if condition where there is map div.
In My HTML:

     <ui-gmap-google-map center="map.center" zoom="map.zoom" draggable="true" options="map.options">
         <ui-gmap-marker coords="marker.coords" options="marker.options" events="marker.events" idkey="marker.id">
         </ui-gmap-marker>
     </ui-gmap-google-map>

In My Controller:
$scope.render = false;
$timeout(function () {
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},0);

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Wiki reference for issue name
Added by Yuri Astrakhan over 12 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.
It would be very useful to have an ability to show the title of the issue on a wiki page by number, not just the link with a number itself.
For example, writing #654321 shows a link to an issue, but does not include the title of that issue.
Duplicates Redmine - Patch #29488: ##123 syntax for linking to issues with tracker name and ... Closed
#1 Updated by Mischa The Evil over 12 years ago
It does show the issue title when you hover above the link with your mouse. See e.g. FAQ for an example. Hover above the closed (striked-through) #100 and you'll see the title in the "tooltip".
Can you confirm?
#2 Updated by Yuri Astrakhan over 12 years ago
Yes, the tooltip does show up, but it would be very nice to be able to create a long list of issues that automatically include the title - it would not be easy to move the mouse over all of the issue in a list to read their titles. This could be a template, although i suspect it might be slow to do many queries against the database for each issue. Thanks!
#3 Updated by Dipan Mehta almost 9 years ago
+1. This is very important to have.
#4 Updated by Go MAEDA over 3 years ago
A very similar feature was implemented by #29488.
Duplicates Patch #29488: ##123 syntax for linking to issues with tracker name and subject added


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Dawniej używana nazwa – Karyckie.

Historia
W czasach zaborów folwark w powiecie wilejskim, w guberni wileńskiej Imperium Rosyjskiego

W latach 1921–1945 folwark leżał w Polsce, w województwie wileńskim, w powiecie wilejskim, od 1927 roku w powiecie mołodeczańskim, w gminie Gródek.

Według Powszechnego Spisu Ludności z 1921 roku zamieszkiwało tu 6 osób, 5 były wyznania rzymskokatolickiego a 1 prawosławnego. Jednocześnie 5 mieszkańców zadeklarowało polską a 1 białoruską przynależność narodową. Był tu 1 budynek mieszkalny. W 1931 w 1 domu zamieszkiwało 11 osób.

Wierni należeli do parafii rzymskokatolickiej i prawosławnej w Gródku. Miejscowość podlegała pod Sąd Grodzki w Rakowie i Okręgowy w Wilnie; właściwy urząd pocztowy mieścił się w Gródku.

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One Tough Road
November 17, 2009 February 1, 1997 by Staff
Article by Sharon Chickering
Leadville Transition – February 1997 – Colorado Central Magazine
During winter months, the sun hasn't begun to lighten the sky over the Mosquito Range when parents begin dropping off children at The Center day care facility in Leadville. Buses, either from Avon-Beaver Creek Transit, or from individual hotels and resorts, pass by The Center and other locations to pick up these parents for jobs in Eagle and Summit counties. The resulting ten- to twelve-hour days are long for both children and adults.
Lake County, accustomed to the boom-and-bust cycles of mining, is experiencing a boom of another sort — that of a bedroom community for the ski industry — a boom for which it did not prepare, and which may not be entirely welcome. Although few remain employed in the industry, most residents still see Leadville as a mining town, and the transition to something else is proving difficult.
After a history of dependence on mining companies to provide life's amenities, the community has little prior training in "pulling itself up by the bootstraps."
County Commissioner Earl Boeve acknowledges the conflicting emotions: "If it hadn't been for the ski industry when Climax shut down [in the early 1980s], there probably wouldn't still be a Leadville. However, we set ourselves up for these problems [with the ski industry] by not working to provide jobs."
Because few jobs are available in Lake County, many residents are taking employment along the I-70 corridor at wages much lower than they have been accustomed to receiving, and with scant or no benefits.
A plus however, is that middle-class families from the I-70 corridor are buying in Leadville — after being priced out of the inflated real estate market around Vail and Breckenridge. In 1995, over 34% of the Lake County workforce (approximately 1160 individuals) was employed outside the county, the majority in Eagle County.
But housing is no longer "cheap" in Lake County either. Local real estate agents estimate that housing costs have risen 25 to 28% over the last three years. With trailer park occupancy at historic highs, a "little, old house" might rent for under $400 a month, but most rents are closer to $500 a month and up. And, to make meager paychecks stretch further, two and three families (ten to fourteen people) may share one living unit.
Purchase prices for very modest homes begin at $65,000.
Nearly everyone agrees that the most pressing problem for communities around ski resorts throughout the state is lack of affordable housing. It is one thing to choose to drive fifty miles one way to employment, and another to be forced to because of lack of available housing. Although Vail Resorts plans a marketing budget of $20 million after its merger with three other resorts, there is a seeming unwillingness on its part to face more mundane problems concerning employee health, safety and comfort.
John Ozzello, Lake County Director of Social Services spoke about the effect on families of long work days and crowded conditions. Even with low-cost day care available, more children, even as young as ages four and five years, are being left alone during the day. Likewise, school-aged children have more unsupervised hours.
"How do you tell parents they're being bad parents by going to work (to support their families)?" Ozzello asks.
With these added burdens, family stress levels increase. All it takes is for the teenaged son to make some wisecrack, and his parent lets him have it. After white-knuckle drives over icy mountain roads in lines of traffic that look more like rush hour in Denver, adults are too tired to participate in school or community activities, leading to low neighborhood attachment. Besides, the outlying trailer courts where many live lack facilities for group meetings even if there was a need or desire for community interaction.
The Center opened in 1988 as one response to the growing number of families with two working parents. Because parents had less time to spend with their children, kids were beginning school less prepared. With its own nationally recognized program as well as Head Start, The Center has helped bridge developmental gaps. This year the facility, which offers a sliding fee scale based on family income, is providing seven to eight hundred hours of care per day, but hopes that will increase as the ski season gets underway.
"We're second-best to home," acknowledges director Kathy Brendza. "Parents don't want to leave their kids here so long each day, but it's a survival thing for them. . . The parents are good people. They work long hours for not a whole lot of money and not a lot of job gratification." Brendza estimates that 60% of the children at The Center have parents working in Summit or Eagle County.
Lake County has always had an interesting mix of ethnic minorities drawn by the promise of wealth and a better life. The cycle is repeating itself as the ski industry lures Mexican nationals and other Latin Americans to the area with promises of good paying jobs. When the ski industry asks for state permission to bring in workers from Latin America, it promises to provide certain levels of housing, transportation and health benefits. But, according to Ozzello, the state does not check to see if the agreements are being carried out.
Leadville Mayor Pete Moore is adamant when he speaks of this situation: "There is a great deal of exploitation going on…. The Mexicans are being treated as pieces of equipment — when the ski industry is finished with them, they are discarded and replaced by others…. I don't fault [the Mexicans] — they are only trying to improve their lot."
Although some of the Latinos have work permits, there are as many as 750 undocumented workers in Lake County alone, or 10,000 in the five -county region making up the Rural Resort Region (Lake, Summit, Eagle, Garfield and Pitkin counties). Ozzello blames the ski industry along with the state government for this situation.
"Tourism drives Colorado," he says. "The state won't allow us to do anything to kill the sacred cow. . . If the INS (Immigration & Naturalization Service) did its job and deported every illegal, the resort and construction industries would shut down the same day. . . It's all economics."
Most families can't afford to live on a wage of six or seven dollars an hour, but compared to the one or two thousand dollars year the Latinos were making back home, it seems like a lot of money. In addition Ozzello says: "Only about ten percent of ski area employees get benefits. Ski areas are notorious for laying off people just before they qualify for benefits."
Abuses are common. Some undocumented workers will work up to four weeks, especially in the construction trade, but when it comes time to be paid they are let go. Because they have no work papers, they have no legal recourse. Furthermore, if an undocumented is injured on the job, there are no Workmen's Comp or health insurance benefits to help with medical expenses. How often does all of this happen? "More often than people think," says Ozzello.
Five years ago, most of the newly arrived Latinos were single males between the ages of 25 and 35. But now there are many young families with children, thus providing a better social support system for that population. Although most local businesses and government agencies now hire some employees who can communicate in Spanish, the impact on the Lake County School District R-1 has been even greater. During the 1990-91 school year, there were eleven Limited English Proficiency (LEP) students enrolled. In the current year, there are one hundred thirty-four — an increase of 1118%.
Feeling they were not adequately serving the LEP population, the school district wrote a Transitional Bilingual Education Grant for grades K-5. With the $125,000 received in each of three years, the district has been able to hire one ESL (English as a Second Language) Resource teacher, and three and a half bilingual paraprofessionals, as well as provide additional training for other staff. This is the last year of the original grant, but the district hopes to get a continuation for another two years.
From 1991-94, Lake County health facilities were hit hard with indigent care. In 1994, of the 120 births at St. Vincent's General Hospital, forty were for Eagle County residents. Although Eagle County medical facilities began accepting Medicaid patients in 1994, Leadville's hospital still provides much free and reduced-fee care each year. Some reduced fees are covered through Medicaid and other state-funded health care programs, but the slack is indirectly taken up by increased property taxes and higher charges.
The Catch-22 for undocumented Mexican nationals is that even though they may qualify for emergency Medicaid (as in the case of childbirth), when salaries are checked as part of the application process, the employer may immediately dismiss them.
There is no question that workers who live in Lake County are positively affecting the economies of Eagle and Summit Counties. Because of available services, vacationers flock to the area, the ski industry thrives, and sales and property taxes are up. Eagle County has an assessed valuation of $970,977,700 and taxable sales of $675,724 and those of Summit County are $550,174,350 and $565,448, respectively. With an assessed valuation of $47,933,760 and taxable sales of $27,828, Lake County's figures look like peanuts.
In addition, given the provisions of the Gallagher amendment to the state constitution, the Lake assessed valuation is going down (if the total valuation of county property goes down — which it will with the decrease in mining — the value of residential property must go down proportionately).
While Summit taxpayers can spend over $27 million to build a new high school, Lake taxpayers felt an $8 million bond issue for essential repairs and renovation on several school buildings was too costly. While the Eagle County Library District, which passed a $6 million bond issue to build two new library buildings in the last two years, has a budget equivalent to $47.50 per capita, the Lake County Public Library's budget is closer to $14.00 per capita. Lake County workers' efforts go toward providing amenities to more affluent citizens while their own children make do with less than the best.
In an effort to balance some of the inequities in the five counties composing the Rural Resort Region, public officials have been meeting for more than three years. A project coõrdinator, whose job it will be to develop benchmarks in fiscal resources, housing, child care, health care, and transportation, was recently hired.
However, Lake County Commissioners are somewhat pessimistic. Unless the private sector is willing to "step up to the plate" and be part of the solution, answers will be limited. It may also take action by the State Legislature to effect equitable remedies: some form of revenue restructuring such as using a percentage of the sales taxes generated by Eagle and Summit Counties to help provide services in Lake County might be a possibility.
Commissioner Bob Casey assesses the situation when he says: "The community is more aware of the inequities that the current system allows. . . There is growing animosity against Eagle and Summit Counties. That animosity didn't exist ten years ago."
But, in spite of everything, community residents agree that Lake County is still a good place to raise a family. Alice Pugh, Director of the Full Circle Project, a program of prevention in the areas of substance abuse, violence, teen pregnancy, juvenile delinquency and school drop-outs says: "You can do things here. If you and I sit here and decide we're going to do something, we probably can."
Pugh cites agency coõperation, children's programing at The Center and Lake County Public Library, and Colorado Mountain College as important community assets.
County Sheriff Dave Duarte acknowledges that rates of domestic violence are high, and that if he had the fiscal resources he could keep a person busy full-time working on drug cases. There are also some problems with differences in cultural expectations between long-term residents and newly arrived Latinos, but only a small number of the latter actually get into trouble with the law. And to Lake County's credit he adds: "We have a bunch of darn good kids in this county. Juveniles are the least of our problems."
Both Lake County's strengths and weaknesses stem from its insular character. The residents' historic individualism has helped preserve the integrity of the area — those unique qualities that many people seek in a small mountain town. However, when it comes to planning the future, those traits, as well as the great diversity of opinion, prevent the community from implementing concrete strategies. About the only thing on which everyone agrees is that they do not want to see Leadville become another Aspen or Breckenridge.
Without a doubt, Lake County will continue to be a bedroom community, even if more jobs can be created to lessen people's need to travel "over the mountain." But the question remains whether residents can come together to direct that future, or will allow it to happen by default, and whether the ski industry can be made to foot its fair share of the bill.
Sharon K. Chickering lives and works in Leadville, thus sparing her the commute over a pass.
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Flyers/NHL
Second-period eruption carries Flyers to easy win over Vegas; Michael Raffl leads way
A 4-0 second period enabled the Flyers to cruise past Vegas and even their record at 3-3-1.
The Flyers' Michael Raffl, right celebrates his goal against the Golden Knights with teammates during the second period at the Wells Fargo Center.Read moreSTEVEN M. FALK / Staff Photographer
by Sam Carchidi
The Flyers seem intent on demonstrating the relative insignificance of shots on goal.
They were outshot by a 17-12 margin in the second period Monday by a Vegas team that was coming off its best performance of the season.
But Flyers goalie Brian Elliott was at his best, and the Flyers used a 4-0 second-period advantage to cruise to a 6-2 win over the Golden Knights and end a four-game losing streak.
"Moose [Elliott] was lights out," right winger Joel Farabee said after his NHL debut.
With a loud, animated crowd watching at the Wells Fargo Center, the Flyers got second-period goals from Kevin Hayes, Michael Raffl, Matt Niskanen, and Oskar Lindblom to take a 5-0 lead en route to evening their record at 3-3-1.
Raffl had two goals and an assist, and Lindblom, and Travis Konecny had two points apiece to spark the Flyers. Elliott stopped 33 of 35 shots.
"We gave up a lot in that period, but Moose was outstanding," Raffl said. "It looks way more [lopsided] than it actually was out there."
Vegas, coming off Marc-Andre Fleury's 3-0 win in Pittsburgh, slipped to 6-4.
The Golden Knights used backup goalie Oscar Dansk, and, yes, there is a huge dropoff between him and Fleury, a likely Hall of Famer someday.
That, however, shouldn't diminish the Flyers' performance. They swarmed the net, created numerous chances with their active forecheck, and had their highest-scoring output of the young season.
In their previous two games, the Flyers outshot their opponents (Edmonton, Dallas) by a combined 91-38 but were outscored 10-4.
"I know we didn't have the result we wanted in those two games," captain Claude Giroux said, "but if you really look into the game ... you understand we played great games. We played good enough to win the games, but sometimes you don't get the bounces. Sometimes it'll happen like that. Sometime we'll play a bad game and you'll win. Overall, I think our game is good."
"We got luck on our side tonight," Raffl said, "and it's about time that happened."
Second-period goals by Hayes and Raffl 44 seconds apart increased the Flyers' lead to 3-0.
Hayes, from the side of the net, put a shot between Dansk's legs for his second goal of the season. With 13:04 remaining in the second, fourth-line left winger Raffl made it 3-0 as he tipped in a shot taken by Ivan Provorov from near the wall above the left circle.
Elliott, meanwhile, was razor-sharp. He made a glove save on Jonathan Marchessault from the high slot (his second big stop on the center) and denied Cody Glass from the doorstep while the Vegas were on a second-period power play. Elliott stopped all 25 shots he faced in the first 40 minutes before Marchessault and Reilly Smith scored in the third period.
Later in the second, Niskanen (power play) and Lindblom scored 55 seconds apart to make it 5-0. Niskanen scored after Konecny alertly lifted Jon Merrill's stick with his stick, allowing Sean Couturier's pass to get through to the defenseman.
"In my mind, that could have been our least-effective period in the last eight, but we found a way to win that period, 4-0," coach Alain Vigneault said. "Sometimes it works out that way."
Vigneault didn't like the team's puck management in the second period, "but when they [Golden Knights] made a mistake in the second period, we really made them pay, which we haven't been able to do for quite some time."
The Flyers took a 1-0 lead as Konecny, who is tied with Lindblom for the team lead with four goals, took a slick pass from Lindblom and beat Dansk from the right circle with 15:45 to go in the opening period. It gave the second power-play unit one more goal (four) than the top unit (three). The second unit later added its fifth goal, from Niskanen.
Before the game, Farabee took a solo lap around the ice – a tradition for a player making his NHL debut – before warmups started.
"It was definitely awesome," the 19-year-old Farabee said. "Just to be out here playing in my first NHL game, it's something I've always dreamed about."
Sam Carchidi
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Greater than 5,000 attorneys signal a letter in opposition to Amy Coney Barrett's SCOTUS nomination
Amy Coney Barrett (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
As attorneys, we have taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and it is our duty to take a stand at this critical moment in our nation's history. The fundamental rights of hundreds of millions of Americans are at stake. The rush to reaffirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett will irreparably damage public confidence in the Supreme Court, the rule of law and our democracy.
– Traci Feit Love, President of Lawyers for Good Government, comments on the open letter the organization, in partnership with Alliance for Justice, submitted to the United States Senate to object to the Supreme Court appointment of Amy Coney Barrett. The letter is signed by more than 5,000 lawyers from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, including 165 law professors and 13 judges. Click here to see the letter.
Staci Zaretsky is Senior Editor at Above the Law, where she has been working since 2011. She would love to hear from you. Please send her an email with tips, questions, comments or criticism. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.
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Aichi cops: Male corpse found with stab wounds in former hotel confirmed as Iranian
By Tokyo Reporter Staff on April 30, 2017
Aichi police have confirmed that the body of a man found in an abandoned hotel in the town of Toyoyama belongs to an Iranian national
AICHI (TR) – Aichi Prefectural Police have confirmed that a male corpse found earlier this month with multiple stab wounds at an abandoned hotel in the town of Toyoyama belongs to an Iranian national, reports the Yomiuri Shimbun (Apr. 29).
On Friday, police said that the body of a 29-year-old Iranian male, was found inside a room of the abandoned Hotel Sun, located in the Toyoba area, on April 6 with stab wounds to the back.
He is believed to have been stabbed within about two days prior to the discovery. The cause of death was determined as shock from loss of blood.
Police arrived at the hotel after being tipped about a suspicious car parked in its parking lot. The Iranian was found collapsed face-down in a bathroom of one of the dozens of rooms of the two-floor hotel. Bloodstains were also found inside room and the vehicle.
According to police, there is no record for when the Iranian entered the country. He was identified after a foreign female acquaintance visited police to report him missing.
The hotel fell into ruins after its business ceased several years ago, according to a previous report.
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Here's a peek at our upcoming events for June. We'll update this post as new things are added, but these are all listed on our events calendar as well. Most descriptions are from the events' respective sites.
Zachary Smith, our VP of Technology, will introduce the Cambia Grove community to Design Thinking. Through a hands-on and experiential workshop, attendees will learn what Design Thinking is and how it is applicable to the challenge of innovation. This event will be a fast-paced and collaborative session with the goal of giving attendees fun new ideas and activities to take back to their teams and communities.
Mind the Product is THE product management conference, and it's finally coming to San Francisco. We bring together product leaders from around the world to explore the intersection of design, technology and business, inspiring you to build better products.
NeoCon is the largest commercial interiors show in North America, taking place at The Merchandise Mart in Chicago since 1969. NeoCon today remains the premier platform for connecting, learning and doing business in the industry. The three-day event attracts nearly 50,000 design professionals and showcases more than 700 leading companies.
E3 is the world's premier trade show for computer, video and mobile games and related products. At E3, the video game industry's top talent pack the Los Angeles Convention Center, connecting tens of thousands of the best, brightest, and most innovative professionals in the interactive entertainment industry.
Join more than 800 business, academic and government leaders at the premier annual event for Washington's innovation community. The 2015 State of Technology Luncheon will feature a keynote presentation by Steve Singh, CEO at Concur.
Clean Sweep is a Capitol Hill tradition. For the past decade the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce has gathered neighborhood residents, business owners and their friends to do some Spring cleaning on the commercial streets of our neighborhood.
Generocity, a night to learn, celebrate, and enjoy the non-profits and individuals that make our city the most generous on earth. This is your chance to meet nearly 40 Seattle-based nonprofits working to make a difference both locally and globally. Become a volunteer, donate your time, or simply revel in the amazing accomplishments of your fellow Seattleites that are changing the world.
A movement to ignite, accelerate and amplify design-driven social change Design for Good is a platform to build and sustain the implementation of design thinking for social change. This platform creates opportunities for designers to build their practice, their network, and their visibility. This matchmaking event pairs design teams with food-focused nonprofits and organizations to execute on the projects defined in the Sprout and Paper Airplane events.
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Q: Convert function to odbc filedsn Classic Asp Code. I have a simple redirect function opendb that uses a DSN
Response.Redirect("launchsearch.asp?DSN=database&Name=databasename")
I need to convert to a fileDSN or mappath. The trouble I'm getting into is the lanchsearch.asp. Here is the code for it.
`dim bDbFound
bDbFound = False
Session("DbName") = ""

if not IsEmpty(Request("DSN")) then
  Session("DSN") = Request("DSN")
  bDbFound = True
end if

if not IsEmpty(Request("Name")) then
  Session("DbName") = Request("Name")
  bDbFound = True
end if

if bDbFound then
  Response.Write("<script>" & vbCrLf)
  Response.Write("parent.location.replace('searchform.asp');" & vbCrLf)
  Response.Write("</script>")
else
  Response.Write("Unknown database: " & Request("DbName"))
end if'


Boobage. Glitz. Death Stares. It's The Univision Red Carpet!
Here's one way to describe the Univision Premios Juventud Awards at Miami's BankUnited Center: awesome. Here's another: Shakira was in a plunging sparkle mini...and was among the most demure getups there.
If the evening had a theme, it'd have to be not-so-virginal white. Exhibit A: TV personality Karla Martinez and her Medieval shoes.
B? TV personality Elizabeth Lopez's mangy milkmaid.
Disney alum Selena Gomez actually plays it straight, looks chic and cool.
NB: Alejandra Espinoza is wearing a romper.
Musician Ivy Queen looks pissed off that we can see so much of her breasts. Hey, we don't like it either.
Shakira: restrained, in a Byzantine sort of way.
Remember when Wlmer Valderrama dated, like, everyone? Even though he always had this smug, knowing thing going?
We could debate for hours what's most disturbing about this image.


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Q: Number of days item present on a report I have a table that stores daily runs of a particular report.
DateAdded NodeId Field1Value Field1Threshold etc

I now have a new requirement to list how many days NodeId has been present on the report. So if DateAdded is listed as
2013-03-01   <-- Run date
2013-02-28
2013-02-27
2013-02-26   <-- End of date sequence.  Return 4 days
2013-02-13
2013-01-07

This is also about identifying the break in the date sequence
EDIT 10:54 am my time
This is the where clause from my sp with the first suggestion
        t.etc,
        t.blah,
        CASE WHEN ras1.NodeId IS NULL THEN 'N' ELSE 'Y' END as AlertStat,
        fl.NodeId as fl_NodeId,
        DATEDIFF(day, fl.LastDate, fl.FirstDate) as [DaysOn]
FROM    vwTrips t left join
        (
            select distinct nodeId
            from    CustLogs.dbo.ReportAlertStats ras
            where   ras.DateAdded between @RasStart and @RasEnd
        ) ras1 on  t.NodeId = ras1.NodeId left join
        (   SELECT NodeId,
                    MIN(DateAdded) [FirstDate],
                    MAX(DateAdded) [LastDate]
            FROM CustLogs.dbo.ReportAlertStats
            GROUP BY NodeId
            --ORDER BY NodeId, DateAdded
        ) fl on t.NodeId = fl.NodeId
WHERE   t.TripStart between @ReportStart and @ReportEnd

A: SELECT fl.NodeId, DATEDIFF(day, fl.FirstDate, fl.LastDate) [Days On] FROM
(SELECT NodeId, MIN(DateAdded) [FirstDate], MAX(DateAdded) [LastDate]
FROM DailyRuns
GROUP BY NodeId
) fl

For NodeId that appears only once it will show the same result as if its first and last appearance happen on the same day.
SQL Fiddle: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!3/ea373/7

A: Does this answer your question?
select nodeid, count(distinct dateAdded) as NumDays
from DailyRuns dr
group by nodeid


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Privacy Security
New cyber insurance provider for SMBs moves into Canada
Howard Solomon
@howarditwc
Published: July 10th, 2020
Small and medium-sized Canadian businesses have a new choice for cyber insurance after a U.S. based company called Coalition decided to offer its service north of the border.
Supported by re-insurer Swiss Re, as well as Lloyd's of London, and Argo Group, Coalition is offering up to $20 million of comprehensive insurance coverage to companies with up to $1 billion in annual revenue.
In an interview CEO Joshua Motta said it's a differentiator from well-known giant insurers is that Coalition offers customers passive monitoring of their internet-facing attack surfaces, including email servers, internet gateways, databases and virtual private networks.
The service can tell if a customer has devices with exposed Windows remote desktop protocol, unprotected databases and employee credentials for sale on the dark web, Motta said. It also monitors for unpatched software vulnerabilities.
The company also offers policyholders round the clock incident response experts to help after an incident. Using Coalition's incident response staff where possible means those costs don't come out of policyholder's deductible, he said. The company also has access to partner firms with expertise in law, crisis management and public relations.
"Historiallcaly people treated cybersecurity as a technology problem," Motta said in an interview. "If you just installed anti-virus and firewalls and things like that you could protect your business. But we view it as a risk management problem."
Coalition cyber insurance is offered through 100 brokers here.
Motta was careful about outlining premiums, saying they depend on variables including a company's risk profile, size and amount of data being protected. Generally, a small business would pay between $1,000 to $3,000 a year for $1 million of coverage, while a mid-sized firm would pay between $7,500 to $15,000 a year for $1 million of coverage.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Coalition began operations in March, 2017 and has been funded by venture capital. In January it bought internet scanning provider BinaryEdge. The coalition will integrate BinaryEdge to help customers better map their Internet attack surface and monitor risk exposures.
Logan Rohde, a research analyst at InfoTech Research who recently did a study on the cyber insurance industry, said the entry of Coalition is an example of how the sector is trying to find a standard way of measuring an organization's exposure to cyber risk.
There's still a worry among businesses that cyber insurance isn't worth it, Rohde said, based on fears providers will find ways not to pay out claims. In particular organizations assume providers have a list of obligatory cybersecurity practices customers have to follow and if there's any slight lapse — sometimes called a 'failure to maintain' practices — the policy will be voided.
"In the past this language was more common," says Rohde. But, he added, "I was able to interview an underwriter whose firm had recently surveyed the industry and found this had all but disappeared." Instead claims are being looked at on a case by case basis on what reasonable current cybersecurity practices are.
"That being said," he added, "cyber insurance is not a 'Get out of jail free card'. You are still expected to maintain basic security controls, such as encrypting sensitive data."
Often organizations are required by insurers to do a self-assessment of their security controls before coverage starts, Rohde said, and if there is a mistake it is the insured's responsibility to correct it.
The other major worry is insurers will label a cyber attack not covered due to a 'war and terrorism' exemption. The prime example is the 2017 NotPetya attack which most experts agree was aimed at Ukraine but escaped into the rest of the world. Among the biggest victims was pharmaceuticals manufacturer Merck, which made a claim for US$1.3 billion to cover restoring or replacing servers and PCs and loss of business.
However its insurers have refused to pay, arguing the incident was an act of war even though it wasn't an armed attack. The dispute is still before U.S. courts.
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Q: top 3 ranks corresponding to every partition in 3 different columns in SQL Server Following is my table in SQL Server
ID      NAME    SALARY
10      A       10
10      B       5
10      C       20
10      D       20
11      E       40
11      F       40
11      G       30
11      H       50
12      I       50
12      J       35

My objective is to add six other columns first_value,second_value,third_value, first_rank, second_rank, third_rank corresponding to each ID.
The output should look like as following:
ID  NAME    SALARY R1   R2    R3     R1_name    R2_name    R3_name
10  A       10     5    10    20     B          A          C
10  B       5      5    10    20     B          A          C
10  C       20     5    10    20     B          A          C
10  D       20     5    10    20     B          A          C
11  E       40     30   40    40     G          E          F
11  F       40     30   40    40     G          E          F
11  G       30     30   40    40     G          E          F
11  H       50     30   40    40     G          E          F
12  I       50     35   50    NULL   J          I          NULL
12  J       35     35   50    NULL   J          I          NULL

Following is the insert query:
CREATE TABLE EMP(ID NVARCHAR(10), NAME NVARCHAR(20), SALARY MONEY)

INSERT INTO EMP
VALUES
(10, 'A', 10),(11, 'E',40 ),(10,'B',5),(11,'F',40),(12,'I',50)
,(10,'C',20),(11,'G',30),(12,'J',35),(10,'D',20),(11,'H',50)

Thanks in advance.

A: ;WITH TOUpdate AS
(
  SELECT ID,
         MAX(case when RN=1 THEN SALARY ELSE 0 END) AS R1,
         MAX(case when RN=2 THEN SALARY ELSE 0 END) AS R2,
         MAX(case when RN=3 THEN SALARY ELSE 0 END) AS R3,
         MAX(case when RN=1 THEN Name ELSE NULL END) AS R1_Name,
         MAX(case when RN=2 THEN Name ELSE NULL END) AS R2_Name,
         MAX(case when RN=3 THEN Name ELSE NULL END) AS R3_Name
  FROM(
        SELECT *,ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY ID ORDER BY SALARY) AS RN
        FROM @EMP
                  ) X
WHERE X.RN<4
GROUP BY ID
             )

SELECT *
FROM @EMP E
INNER JOIN TOUpdate U
ON E.ID=U.ID

A: Quite ugly but it works, you could try
DECLARE @EMP AS TABLE(ID NVARCHAR(10), NAME NVARCHAR(20), SALARY MONEY)

INSERT INTO @EMP
VALUES
(10, 'A', 10),(11, 'E',40 ),(10,'B',5),(11,'F',40),(12,'I',50)
,(10,'C',20),(11,'G',30),(12,'J',35),(10,'D',20),(11,'H',50)

;WITH temp AS
(
   SELECT e.* , row_number() over(partition by e.ID ORDER BY e.SALARY ASC) AS Rn
   FROM @EMP e
)
SELECT e.*, t1.SALARY AS R1, t1.Name AS R1_Name, t2.SALARY AS R2, t2.Name AS R2_Name, t3.SALARY AS R3, t3.Name AS R3_Name
FROM @EMP e
LEFT JOIN temp t1 ON e.ID = t1.ID AND t1.Rn  = 1
LEFT JOIN temp t2 ON e.ID = t2.ID AND t2.Rn  = 2
LEFT JOIN temp t3 ON e.ID = t3.ID AND t3.Rn  = 3
ORDER BY e.ID ASC

Demo link: Rextester

A: We can actually achieve your desired output by doing a single join to a CTE which ranks the salaries for each ID.
WITH cte1 AS (
    SELECT ID, NAME, SALARY,
           ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY ID ORDER BY SALARY) rn
    FROM EMP
),
cte2 AS (
    SELECT
        ID,
        MAX(CASE WHEN rn = 1 THEN SALARY END) AS R1,
        MAX(CASE WHEN rn = 2 THEN SALARY END) AS R2,
        MAX(CASE WHEN rn = 3 THEN SALARY END) AS R3,
        MAX(CASE WHEN rn = 1 THEN NAME END)   AS R1_name,
        MAX(CASE WHEN rn = 2 THEN NAME END)   AS R2_name,
        MAX(CASE WHEN rn = 3 THEN NAME END)   AS R3_name
    FROM cte1
    GROUP BY ID
)
SELECT
    t1.ID,
    t1.NAME,
    t1.SALARY,
    t2.*
FROM EMP t1
INNER JOIN cte2 t2
    ON t1.ID = t2.ID

Output:

Demo here:
Rextester


I'm using the official Cura 4.0 trying to print a model (attached).
When I try to slice it everything goes fine except the shoulders - they appear hollow without material in them (see attached picture). However if I rescale the model to 50% then the shoulders are fine and well sliced.
Thanks a lot for the reply @smartavionics! I checked the X-ray view and found the issue, will report it to the original author of the model!
By the way, is this "Mesh Tools" a plugin I can add to Cura, or something I should activate? It looks very useful!
Hello @carlosgalvezp, yes, it's a plugin and you can install it from the Cura marketplace dialog.


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Designer clothes are the next trend
Designer clothing has never been so trendy, and it looks like it could be here to stay.
According to a new survey, the trend is now attracting more men than women.
The survey by British clothing retailer J Crew was carried out by the London Fashion Institute (LFI) and surveyed more than 1,500 men and women in the UK and found that men are increasingly interested in fashion and designers.
More than half of the men surveyed (52 per cent) said they were now more likely to wear designer clothes than women, with the majority of men preferring the style over that of their peers.
However, the survey also found that women were also becoming more into designer clothes.
Men were more likely than women to own designer shoes, while the proportion of women who said they wore designer clothes was the same at 50 per cent.
This trend is especially apparent among men, with men in their 40s and 50s more likely now than ever before to own and wear designer clothing.
The fashion industry is also booming with new brands emerging, and the trend of designer clothing has grown as well.
J Crew's latest range, "The Complete Collection", is a collection of top-selling items for men, women and children.
The new collection features a range of designer shoes and men's accessories, including a range featuring men's jackets, suits and trousers.
"Our collections and collections of accessories are designed with a timeless aesthetic, with a range that's both affordable and modern," a spokesperson for J Crew told The Independent.
"We also offer our customers the opportunity to purchase designer clothing, shoes and accessories online."
The UK has seen a resurgence in the popularity of designer clothes over the past few years, and according to J Crew, this is likely due to the increased availability of designer goods in the market.
"The UK is the number one market for fashion in the world, and we've seen a lot of new brands emerge in recent years, particularly in the fashion industry," the spokesperson said.
"While the vast majority of our clients are women, there is a growing interest in designer clothing for men."
The LFI says this trend is just the latest example of a rising trend of men seeking to be more comfortable and more creative with their wardrobe.
"It's a trend that's certainly becoming more visible, but also one that we've never seen before, with more men buying designer clothes and accessories than women," LFI's Chief Executive Paul Goggins told The Sun.
"So we're seeing a rise in men buying more designer clothes in general, and that's also really pleasing for our clients, and also for the fashion community as a whole."
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sneaking through sheer breezy curtains.
She rocks a cradle I've not seen.
Her eyes are closed. She smiles a secret.
my legs surprisingly short and pudgy.
cloth diaper scritching my thighs.
yet I persist, seeking, seeking.
I want to coddle with you, I announce.
Yet all I can say is MAAAMMMAAAA.
I clutch at her arm, a hard wooden branch.
She ignores me, her eyes closed. She hums.
hoping to inhale her mother song.
that revel her soul and identity.
I am mercifully startled from this nightmare.
of my son in the Moses basket next to my bed.
His calls to me cries of I need you, your life and touch.
and I declare to that mother in the cold moonlight.
Be gone. You have no hold on me.
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There are now 3.1 million Last Time Buyer households in the UK, who between them own £938bn of UK housing stock, rising to the £1 trillion mark this year, new research has revealed.
According to the study, by Legal & General and Cebr, the number of these homeowners who have considered downsizing has risen from 32% to 39% in the past three years, demonstrating the demand for better later living options for over-55s. Last Time Buyers make up over a quarter (26%) of all UK households over the age of 55.
The study notes that the UK has a chronic undersupply of age-specific properties, with only 7,000 homes delivered to this sector last year making it the most under-supplied area of the housing market. Legal & General's research shows that of the Last Time Buyers who had considered downsizing in the last five years but didn't, 49% said it was because there were no suitable properties available, with a further 29% stating that the properties that were suitable were too expensive.


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Notes from the Field: Multistate Outbreak of Postprocedural Fungal Endophthalmitis Associated with a Single Compounding Pharmacy — United States, March–April 2012
On March 5, 2012, the California Department of Public Health was notified of nine cases of clinically diagnosed fungal endophthalmitis at a single California ambulatory surgical center. The initial investigation, led by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, determined that in all cases patients had undergone vitrectomy with epiretinal membrane peeling using a dye called Brilliant Blue-G (BBG) from Franck's Compounding Lab, Ocala, Florida. This investigation has since expanded to involve intravitreal injection of triamcinolone-containing products from Franck's, an overall total of 33 cases in seven states, and collaboration between state and local health departments, CDC, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This report describes the current investigative findings. Clinicians should be aware of the ongoing investigation and should avoid use of compounded products labeled as sterile from Franck's during this ongoing investigation.
A probable case is defined as ophthalmologist-diagnosed fungal endophthalmitis occurring in a patient who underwent an invasive ophthalmic procedure, including but not limited to vitrectomy, corneal surgery, or intravitreal injections on or after August 23, 2011, the production date of the contaminated BBG lot. Confirmed cases meet criteria for probable infection and also have fungi identified from the affected eye by culture, genetic sequencing, or histopathology. Active case-finding in this investigation has included calls for cases through Epi-X postings, FDA MedWatch alerts, ClinMicroNet microbiology laboratories, e-mails sent to all members of two professional ophthalmology societies, and state and local health alerts.
As of April 30, a total of 33 confirmed and probable cases have been identified, with earliest onset of symptoms in November 2011. Of these, 20 cases (13 probable and seven confirmed) are associated with BBG dye use, and 13 (two probable and 11 confirmed) are associated with triamcinolone use. All BBG or triamcinolone products administered to patients reportedly were purchased from Franck's. All available isolates from the seven confirmed cases associated with BBG dye use were identified by culture or genetic sequencing as the mold Fusarium incarnatum-equiseti species complex. All available isolates from the 11 confirmed cases that occurred following intravitreal injection of triamcinolone-containing products have been identified as the mold Bipolaris hawaiiensis. Both Fusarium and Bipolaris are ubiquitous molds present in air, soil, and water. Among the 30 patients for whom data are available, 23 (77%) have suffered some degree of vision loss, ranging from partial to severe, or worsened vision because of infection; 24 (80%) have required repeat ophthalmic surgery.
Culture of unopened bottles and intact (unused, pharmacy-prepared) syringes of BBG dye collected by FDA yielded multiple bacterial and fungal species, including F. incarnatum-equiseti species complex, Rhodotorula, Bullera, Pseudomonas, and Enterobacter species. Microbiologic testing of triamcinolone-containing products from Franck's is ongoing. On March 9, Franck's recalled all BBG dye lots; on March 31, a single lot of triamcinolone was recalled. The investigation to identify the root cause of product contamination is ongoing. The pharmacy has not recalled or halted production of other sterile compounded products, which, in addition to ophthalmic preparations, include chemotherapy and numerous other medications administered by injection (including intrathecal and epidural), inhalation, and intranasal routes.
Postprocedural endophthalmitis is uncommon, complicating 0.04% of either intravitreal injections or pars plana vitrectomies (1,2). The majority of these infections are bacterial; fungal infection is rare and often is diagnosed only after a patient has failed empiric antibacterial therapy. Clinicians are encouraged to be vigilant for postprocedure adverse events, particularly among patients who have received a product labeled as sterile from Franck's, and should consider methods to confirm and treat possible fungal infection.
Compounding pharmacies, which combine or alter medications from standard preparations, provide needed formulations that often are not available from pharmaceutical companies. Compounded sterile preparations must be prepared according to aseptic practices recommended by organizations such as the United States Pharmacopeia, as stated in United States Pharmacopeia-National Formulary (3). However, contamination of compounded sterile preparations has caused outbreaks. Since 1990, FDA has learned of approximately 200 adverse events associated with 71 compounded products (4). A recent outbreak of bacterial endophthalmitis following intravitreal injection of contaminated bevacizumab occurred after breaches in aseptic technique at a different compounding pharmacy (5).
Because of the seriousness of endophthalmitis and because the full extent of the outbreak and root cause of contamination remain unknown, CDC recommends that, at this time, clinicians avoid use of compounded products labeled as sterile from Franck's. Health-care providers should maintain a heightened suspicion for infections among patients who received compounded products labeled as sterile from Franck's and should report suspected infections to their local and state health departments for further investigation. Patients also should avoid use of compounded products labeled as sterile from Franck's and report adverse events or suspected infections promptly to their physician.
Suber Huang, MD, Pravin Dugel, MD, American Society of Retina Specialists, Chicago, Illinois. George Williams, MD, American Academy of Ophthalmology. Moon Kim, MD, Kelsey Oyong, MPH, Clara Tyson, MSN, Laurene Mascola, MD, Los Angeles County Dept of Public Health. Kavita K. Trivedi, MD, California Dept of Public Health. Julie Duran, MPH, Colorado Dept of Public Health and Environment. Shannon Millay, MPH, Indiana State Dept of Health. Stephanie Black, MD, Chicago Dept of Public Health; Judith Conway, Illinois Dept of Public Health. Susanne Straif-Bourgeois, PhD, Louisiana Office of Public Health. Rick Sowadsky, MSPH, Nevada State Health Div. Ellen H. Lee, MD, New York City Dept of Health and Mental Hygiene. Tom Török, MD, Benjamin Sun, DVM, Career Epidemiology Field Officer Program, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response; Shawn Lockhart, PhD, Julie Harris, PhD, Benjamin J. Park, MD, Div of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; Rachel Smith, MD, Christina Mikosz, MD, Raymund Dantes, MD, Yoran Grant, PhD, EIS officers, CDC. Corresponding contributors: Christina Mikosz, dex0@cdc.gov, 213-240-7941; Rachel Smith, vih9@cdc.gov, 404-639-7738.
Chen E, Lin MY, Cox J, Brown DM. Endophthalmitis after intravitreal injection: the importance of viridans streptococci. Retina 2011;31:1525–33.
Eifrig CWG, Scott IU, Flynn HW, Smiddy WE, Newton J. Endophthalmitis after pars plana vitrectomy: incidence, causative organisms, and visual acuity outcomes. Am J Ophthalmol 2004;138:799–802.
Kastango ES, Bradshaw BD. USP chapter 797: establishing a practice standard for compounding sterile preparations in pharmacy. Am J Health Syst Pharm 2004;6:1928–38.
Food and Drug Administration. The special risks of pharmacy compounding. Silver Spring, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration; 2007. Available at http://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/consumerupdates/ucm107836.htm. Accessed April 30, 2012.
Goldberg RA, Flynn HW, Isom RF, Miller D, Gonzalez S. An outbreak of streptococcus endophthalmitis after intravitreal injection of bevacizumab. Am J Ophthalmol 2012;153:204–8.e1.
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The BBC is flagging
Remember those 12 regional flags I posted here last week? Go on, scroll down to last Monday and remind yourself - it'll be important later. The regional flag idea came from Tony Wilson's campaign for a North West identity, and was picked up by Radio 4's Today programme and BBC Online's Magazine. They invited people to email in their designs, in jpeg format, so I did. And they promised to publish some of them this week, which they have.
At 7:15 yesterday morning the Today programme discussed regional flags again. Or rather John Humphries was lectured by some bloke who believes in England but not in regions. Nothing about flags at all - they don't work well on radio, flags - although John did mention there were some listeners' designs on the programme's website. And there are. Take a look - the page is here. There are three flags displayed on the website, all alternative flags for the North West. Very nice they look too. And then there's one of those special BBC online picture gallery things, in the column down the right-hand side. There are 15 flags in that BBC online picture gallery thing. Guess how many of my 12 flags made it into the 15 flag picture gallery. Go on, guess. Then click on the picture gallery link and take a look.
So, well, cor blimey, what an honour to have one's work showcased by the BBC. It's almost worth the licence fee in itself. I assume that only four people bothered to send in any designs but, well, hey, national recognition at last. OK, so they kicked off with my Cheshire flag, which I thought was one of the weaker ones, but 80% of that gallery is mine, all mine. Can't complain. Well, actually, yes I can. My 12 flags were quite small (96 pixels by 64) but the other people's designs must originally have been rather bigger and more detailed. And the good old BBC have displayed all of our flags in size 300 by 200. Jpegs aren't the sharpest of image formats so they don't expand well, so all my 12 flags look really blurry. But hey, they're BBC blurry. Respect.
I have one particular reason for a broad smile this morning. One of my 12 flags the BBC have posted on their website is this white flag here, labelled 'Flag design for the BBC by dg'. It's meant to be a flag of surrender, symbolic of the board of Governors' capitulation to the Hutton Report. I have a special message to the BBC lackey who lovingly snipped up my 12 flags and inserted them on the Corporation's website. "This was irony. I suspect you missed that". I really think the Today programme should check their sources more carefully. Have they learnt nothing?


Which sentence is a proper example of parallel structure? A.) Sophia wants not only a dog but also a cat. B.) Sophia not only wants a dog but also a cat.
How did the role of women change after the Industrial Revolution(cerca ~1750s)?
Women had the opportunity to find waged work outside of the home, in factories, mines, or as domestic servants. This was a vital step into the public sphere for women and opened the door for later rights to be secured by giving women as means of financial independence.
What were the primary differences between the "old" European immigrants to the U.S. of the early-to-mid 1800s versus the "new" European immigrants to the U.S. of the mid-to-late 1800s?
The aforementioned "old" immigrants were primarily from northern and western Europe, typically Protestant Christians, and arrived in much smaller numbers than the latecoming "new" immigrants, who were primarily from southern and eastern Europe, and typically Catholic.