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By: Steve Milano
Published: 08 July, 2011
ASA Softball Rules on Obstruction
How to Explain Baseball to Kids
The Baseball Rules: What Happens to a Runner When One Is Hit by a Batted Ball?
ASA Official Softball Rules
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Home Sports Baseball
Simple Baseball Rules for Children
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Baseball is one of the most popular sports for kids, who play it in their backyards, at school, during picnics and in organized leagues. While there can be many rules for games played in official leagues, the basic rules of the game are very simple. Knowing the most common rules of baseball can help you have a fun, fair game and make sure everyone has a good time.
The most basic rule of baseball is that a batter gets three strikes before they are called out at the plate. A strike is considered swinging at the ball and missing, hitting the ball out of play or tipping the ball into the catcher's glove. Hitting the ball out of play is called a foul ball. A foul ball cannot be the third strike, and a batter cannot be called out on strikes if he hits a foul ball. In many leagues, there is no limit on foul balls, and the batter can stay at the plate, hitting foul balls without being called out.
Other Outs
If the batter hits the ball and a player on the other team catches the ball in the air, the batter is out. If the batter hits the ball on the ground, she is out if a member of the other team gets the ball and touches the batter or first base before the batter touches first base. A force out is when a base-runner has to run to the base in front of her because one of her teammates is running to or on the base behind her. If a player on the other team touches the base-runner with the ball while she is running to the base, or they touch the base in front of her before she gets there, the base-runner is out.
Inning Length
A baseball game is made up of nine innings in most adult games.Typically, coach-pitch leagues for six to eight year-olds play six innings, nine and up play seven innings. An inning is over after both teams have a chance to bat, and each team makes three outs.
Players on the defensive team must allow a base-runner to go to a base without getting in her way. Even if they are playing a rolling ball, they cannot touch the base-runner or stand in her way to make the play, unless they have the ball; then, they can try to tag her. A base-runner cannot purposely interfere with a player trying to make a catch or field a ground ball, if the base-runner can easily avoid the defensive player. If the base-runner goes out of her way to get in the way of defensive player, she has interfered. Interference by a defensive players results in the base-runner being safe. Interference by a base-runner results in the base-runner being out.
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Sam Ashe-Edmunds has been writing and lecturing for decades. He has worked in the corporate and nonprofit arenas as a C-Suite executive, serving on several nonprofit boards. He is an internationally traveled sport science writer and lecturer. He has been published in print publications such as Entrepreneur, Tennis, SI for Kids, Chicago Tribune, Sacramento Bee, and on websites such Smart-Healthy-Living.net, SmartyCents and Youthletic. Edmunds has a bachelor's degree in journalism.


This is a link to a petition from a translator working in the family courts.
Declares that the interpreter works in family court proceedings translating for families who speak Czech and Slovak.
She has been shocked at the way in which a judge was partial in proceedings and the evidence that was accepted which would never be accepted anywhere else in courts. There was a social worker who was interrogated by both sides who was asked whether the grandmother behaved appropriately with her daughter in the contact centre and the social worker said "yes she did". The next question was whether she would behave appropriately in her own house. The social worker said that she could not say that she would and hence the court decided not to place the child with the grandmother. Furthermore the grandparents were criticised for approaching the media in England.
In a second case the family had signed documentation that they did not understand thereby giving their children to the local authority and this documentation was used to get the children adopted.
In other cases really flimsy evidence is accepted and parents are misled by their legal advisors into accepting the case against them because they may then get the children returned. The parents then find that the children are adopted using the fact that the parents had accepted the case against them as evidence.
Additionally a mother was forced to sign documents disowning Slovak nationality for her child on the basis that otherwise she would be imprisoned.
The Petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons establishes an inquiry into the quality of evidence accepted in family court proceedings.


Very cool- wish I had the materials to do this…I feed the birds here in a lid of a pan…would look neat hanging in the tree. Thanks for all the great ideas !!
I absolutely LOVE this! We feed the birds every day, in a pretty spot right in front of our deck and this would look so beautiful out there. Genius idea Jeremy!
Love the birdfeeder, espcially the copper shell. Yes, I remember the Golden Girls, and now I am one! Jeremy, your projects are useful for everyday living. I voted a big YES on the "Dream Jobbers" website. Thank you for bring easy, inexpensive projects for the "non-crafter" to enjoy.
I love love love it! Looks super simple to make. We are diy people do a lot ourselves! We watch more diy shows than anything else! Lol thanks for the new idea Jeremy! Would really like one of your feeders would look great with the boot birdhouse we got for Christmas!
My birds are eating me out of house and home, plus I'm forever filling up 7 feeders!
What a great idea, and it's so much cuter than the store bought ones.
I also need something large enough to accommodate the woodpeckers and their Young.
I never thought about using a bundt pan for a bird feeder. So love the idea. Will be making this. Thank you for all your good ideas I really love your show. Can't wait to see what else you come up with.
Birds are some of the most amazing creatures on Mother Earth. We feed on average 35 lb. a month and could much more.
Your DIY feeders are wonderful. Always look forward to watching you on our favorite station KY3.
I love my feathered friends. These bird feeders are adorable and I love the fact that they can be used with recycled items! Way to go Jeremy!!
I love this birdfeeder. I am a huge fan of birdfeeders. Ever since my Grandma passed away she was a huge bird lover/bird feeders. This reminds me of her. I would really like this so I can remember her and I love how you made this. Very creative and crafty. Great job! Love it!


As a resource nurse who has worked in many specialties and units all over the hospital setting, I have discovered that I am an ER nurse at heart. Here are the reasons why I think being an ER nurse is the best.
I love the camaraderie in the ER.
In between the traumas, code brains, septic patients, strokes, fast track and other walk in emergency room patients, ER nurses communicate frequently with each other. It's all about teamwork. In the ER nurses often have their own sections, but there are also many "resource" nurses on the floor to assist with additional patient care. When a patient arrives with a more serious condition, there are always nurses who come in to help.
When it gets stressful in the ER, the nurses depend on each other to get the work done. Many patients come into the ER in urgent situations where the cause of injury or disease isn't yet known. Nurses have to work together to triage and effectively treat patients, often times without all the facts. Doctors, nurses, techs, pharmacists and other medical professionals cohesively work together to give fast life-saving medical treatment.
On med surg floor units, nurses are assigned to the same patients for an entire day without much, if any, overlap with other nurses. At times I have often felt lonely on med surg units because I miss the camaraderie of working together with other nurses.
I start several IVs and do all my own blood work in the ER.
Before I became an ER nurse, my IV start skills were mediocre at best. Now, my IV skills are so much better and I am able to get intravenous access in some of the most difficult veins. This is a result of having frequent opportunities to start IVs during each ER shift.
The very best IV nurses are the ones who are constantly challenged with patients who are difficult IV sticks. To gain valuable IV start skills you want to put yourself in position to have as many opportunities to learn as possible. The ER is a perfect place for that.
It makes sense that ER nurses are great at starting IVs. In emergencies ER nurses need to be able to gain access fast for testing, various medications, pain and nausea relief, IV hydration and antibiotic therapy, among other things. Many of the nurses I work with have been in the ER for a decade or longer and their IV skills are unbelievable. Several nurses are even trained to do ultrasound guided IV starts on patients with hard-to-stick veins.
I love caring for a varied patient population.
Every day is an adventure. Sometimes it can be overwhelming, but it's never boring in the ER. I have had patients ranging in age from 2 days to over 100 years old. Patients come to the ER with every type of illness, injury and trauma you can think of. Our patient loads include, but is not limited to: various types of trauma patients, septic patients, elderly patients, organ transplanted patients, patients with cancer or autoimmune diseases, psych patients, small children and babies, and so much more. There is rarely a dull moment and always something new to learn.
I love the organized chaos in the ER.
It is never boring or tedious in the ER, or at least not for long! The emergency room is a fine-tuned machine with each nurse component working semi-gracefully around one another. From the outside it might look like craziness, but the madness always has a method.
I often struggle with the tediousness of tasks when working on a med surg unit. It is often extremely busy, but very task-based. The to-do lists can get a little ridiculous.
I love the intellectual stimulation I get in the ER.
I maintain my sense of humor in the ER.
Sometimes things just get so odd that I can't help but laugh. There are days when I see people come into the ER saying that they are dying, but end up having a diagnosis of constipation. Once I had a college student come in for a temperature of 99 degrees. I'm like, seriously? How do you even get through the day?
The emergency room is also a very emotional place. Patients never want to be there and usually don't understand, for example, why they have to wait in the hallway an hour or even much longer until their test results are completed or the medical team decides on a plan for them. They get upset and tired of waiting. Sadly, sometimes they take out their frustrations on the people working the hardest to get them the medical treatment they need: the nurses.
I have had so many "I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried" experiences in the emergency room to last me a lifetime. But that's one of of the reasons I like being in the ER versus other parts of the hospital. It can get weird, but I'm always learning. And I'm so grateful for the opportunity to keep learning.
What specialty do you love? If you could change and do one thing what would it be? I love hearing from readers. Please leave a comment!


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The Urbanna Farmers Market is celebrating its 11th year in 2015 in the historic harbor town of Urbanna in Middlesex County. Visitors stock up on home grown and homemade goodies: choice perennials, annuals, flower arrangements and topiaries, just-picked produce, fresh baked goods, artisanal cheeses, clothing, jewelry, soaps, candles and who knows what else. Free live music keeps things hopping and parking is always free too.
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Q: How To Limit User Input In Java The amount of investment must be positive and can be any value.
The period of investment is in years so should be positive.
The annual rate of interest can be between 0.25% to 14%.
import java.util.Scanner;

public class InterestCalculator{

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO code application logic here

        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

        // Entering the interest rate
        System.out.print("Please Enter the annual interest rate between 0.25 to 10 : ");
        double annualInterestRate = input.nextDouble();

        double monthlyInterestRate = annualInterestRate / 1200;

        System.out.print("Enter number of years: ");
        int numberOfYears = input.nextInt();

        // Entering the amount earned
        System.out.print("Enter Amount: ");
        double Amountofinterest = input.nextDouble();

        // Calculating
        double moneyearned = Amountofinterest * monthlyInterestRate;

        // Displaying the results
        System.out.println("The money earned is $" +
        (int) (moneyearned * 100) / 100.0);
        int i;

        for (i = 1; i <= numberOfYears * 12; i++) {
            double Balance = Amountofinterest + moneyearned;
            Amountofinterest = Balance;
            monthlyInterestRate = moneyearned + 0.01;
            System.out.println(i + "\t\t" + Amountofinterest
                    + "\t\t" + monthlyInterestRate + "\t\t" + Balance);

        }

    }
}

I have made the basic program but, I don't know how to add restrictions.

A: You can use loops that repeatedly ask for input until it's valid:
double annualInterestRate = 0;
while (annualInterestRate < 0.25 || annualInterestRate > 10){
    System.out.print("Please Enter the annual interest rate between 0.25 to 10 : ");
    annualInterestRate = input.nextDouble();
    if (annualInterestRate < 0.25 || annualInterestRate > 10){
        System.out.println("Please enter a value between 0.25 and 10");
    }
}
//if you reach this point, input is valid because it is neither <0.25 or >10

You can do this for all values that need to meet certain criteria. Just make sure you initialize the variable before the loop and set it as an invalid value, otherwise the loop won't run.
Other variables:
int numberOfYears = -1; //or 0 is you don't allow 0 years
while (numberOfYears < 0){ //or <= 0 if you don't allow 0 years
    System.out.print("Enter number of years: ");
    numberOfYears = input.nextInt();
}
double Amountofinterest = -1; //or 0
while (Amountofinterest < 0){ //or <= 0
    System.out.print("Enter Amount: ");
    Amountofinterest = input.nextDouble();
}

A: Are you talking about this :
while(input.nextDouble()<0){
         System.out.println("Please enter positive investment");

     }

A: Ok you could then use a while loop like this:
    int numberOfYears = -1;
    System.out.print( "Enter number of years: ");
    while(numberOfYears < 0){
    numberOfYears = input.nextInt();
    }

A: I'd like to offer a more elegant way of getting data via CLI, where the risk of exception or any other input hazard is minimised.
I've written this function and think it may well cover the Integer, Double and String objects, but you may continue expanding it further:
public Object securedInput(String intro, String type, int maxLength)
{
    //Apply Scanner
    Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

    //Show intro
    if(intro != null)
        System.out.print(intro+" ");

    //Get user's input
    String  inStr = input.next(); //always get a string

    //Enforce length
    if((maxLength>0)&&(inStr.length() > maxLength))
        inStr = inStr.substring(0, maxLength);

    String  result;

    if(inStr == null || inStr.length() < 1)
        return null;

    switch (type)
    {
            case "int":
                result = inStr.replaceAll("[^0-9]", "");
                if(result.length() < 1 || result.length() < inStr.length())
                    return null;
                else
                   return Integer.parseInt(result);
            case "double":
                result = inStr.replaceAll("[^0-9.]", "");
                if(result.length() < 1 || result.length() < inStr.length())
                    return null;
                else
                    return Double.parseDouble(result);
                //break;
            case "string":
                result = inStr.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z .-]", "");
                if(result.length() < 1 || result.length() < inStr.length())
                    return null;
                else
                    return result;
            default:
                return null;
    }

}

Here,as you can see I first take the input as String, then clean it according to my need, and then try to convert it without the risk of getting any exception.
And if something is wrong you simply get a null.
This can be used like this:
    Integer i = (Integer)securedInput("Enter an integer:","int", 3);
    Double  d = (Double)securedInput("Enter a double","double",4);
    String  s = (String)securedInput("Enter a string","string",2);

You can add further arguments, such as range, and forbidden characters and even output errors according to the problem.
Hope this had helped.

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You can still donate to the Have a Heart for Homeless Pets telethon!
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9NEWS and Dumb Friends League host Have a Heart for Homeless Pets telethon
The telethon will run all day March 1. It's sponsored by the Dumb Friends League.
Donate to the Dumb Friends League, get invited to a pizza party with puppies
Do you want an invite to one of Denver's most exclusive parties?
A glimpse at this year's Puptown puppies
On March 1, 9NEWS will have a live stream of dogs for the duration of the telethon, which includes the five puppies below. Get to know them!
The Dumb Friends League by the numbers
The Dumb Friends League does a lot more than adoptions. It offers a voice for animals that can't speak for themselves.
9Things to know about the Dumb Friends League
Learn more about the Dumb Friends League on Thursday, March 1, during the "Have a Heart for Homeless Pets Telethon" airing throughout the day on 9NEWS KUSA and KTVD. The event is sponsored by the DFL.
Are you ready for the Have a Heart for Homeless Pets telethon?
Maia Brusseau with the Dumb Friends League talks about the Have a Heart for Homeless Pets telethon
Are you ready to adopt a pet? Expert advice from the Dumb Friends League
If you're in the market to add a new member to the family, Denver's Dumb Friends League urges you to keep a few things in mind.
Expert advice to get the best picture of your pet
If you're like a lot of pet owners, you take hundreds of pictures of your animals – but how do you get the right picture?
Puppies take over 9NEWS for Dumb Friends League telethon
9NEWS partners with the Dumb Friends League for a day-long telethon on March 1.
Dozens of cats take private plane to Denver
Dozens of cats, got a first class ticket to Denver – in fact, they had their own private jet. The Dumb Friends League received 36 cats through a transfer from several shelters around Los Angeles on February 15th.
Meet this year's Puptown puppies!
Dumb Friends League telethon raises more than $375,000
Thursday's "Have a Heart for Homeless Pets" Telethon raised more than $375,000 for the Dumb Friends League.
Meet the Puptown puppies
KUSA - You can watch cute puppies play in Puptown during the Dumb Friends League's "Have a Heart for Homeless Pets" telethon Thursday.
Donate today to our telethon
The Denver Dumb Friends League has 56 animals come into their shelter almost every day. 9NEWS at 8 a.m. 2/11/2016.
Horse rescue in Colorado
Have a heart for homeless horses. 9NEWS at 8 a.m. 2/11/2016.

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Q: Add observablearray index value to observablearray I have an observable array containing mapped Json data. The data is already sorted by 'Performance'.
What I need to do is add a ranking to the array so my foreach renders the numbered rank. So far, I've been using $index which works fine until I use sorting and paging extenders that change the array index. Am I right in thinking the best approach would be to add each index value to the array?
Something tells me this should be quite simple but I've yet to discover the right approach.
viewModel.integerlists = ko.observableArray([]);

function IntegerLists(data) {
    this.IntegerListID = data.IntegerListID;
    this.Performance = data.Performance;
    this.Direction = data.Direction;
    this.Integers = ko.observableArray(data.Integers);
}

$.getJSON("/Home/GetIntegerLists", function (allData) {
    var mappedIntegers = $.map(allData, function (item) { return new IntegerLists(item) });
    viewModel.integerlists(mappedIntegers);
});

A: If you use pagination then simple solution would be to remember which page you are on and just show (page-1)*(number_of_items_per_page) + $index.
If you use filtering, then there is nothing you can do on client side because you wouldn't get back items that are filtered out, unless you keep all data on client and then filter them out which is, in my opinion, bad. In case you go to server for data, all I can see doing is get all items from database ordered by performance, then you use extended class:
public class ExtendedMyClass
{
  public MyClass theObject{get;set;}
  public int rank{get;set;}
}

and return it like that. This way, your server will have most recent and most accurate data, process it pretty fast and return to you only what you need. Of course, after adding rank, you should process how you filtered data - which page you want and which filters you applied.
On the other hand, if you have ALL data on client, you can simply iterate through it and dynamically add rank. You wrote they are sorted so following code should do:
var counter = 1;
mappedIntegers.forEach(function (singleInteger){
  singleInteger.rank = counter;
  counter++;
});


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Ted Cruz Wins Republican Iowa Caucus; Clinton Holds Slim Lead
CNN made the projection just after 10:30 PM ET.
Posted By NewOne Staff
Updated: February 1, 2016, 10:30 PM ET
In a big win for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, CNN has projected the Texas Senator to win the Iowa GOP caucus, while Democratic contender Hillary Clinton holds a slim lead.
Time reports:
With about 65 percent of precincts reporting in the Republican race, Ted Cruz was edging out Donald Trump, 28 percent to 25 percent.
Marco Rubio was in third place with 21 percent, in line with where his campaign had set expectations after a late surge. But as he looks to consolidate establishment support after the race moves past Iowa, news broke that popular South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, whose state votes later this month, would endorse Rubio.
With about 80 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton was clinging to a one-point lead over Sanders, 50 percent to 49 percent.
Watch guest host Jeff Johnson and the NewsOne Now panel break down the Iowa Caucus results in the video clip below.
TV One's NewsOne Now has moved to 7 A.M. ET, be sure to watch "NewsOne Now" with Roland Martin, in its new time slot on TV One.
In another bit of news, one-time Republican presidential front-runner Ben Carson announced plans to take a break during a critical point in the race. Early poll numbers showed him in fourth place.
The Huffington Post reports that Carson "will leave Iowa on Monday night and head to Florida to get some clean clothes. His aides said he was not ending his faltering presidential bid."
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and Democratic presidential candidate announced plans to suspend his campaign after failing to receive enough viable votes.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Republican presidential contender also announced plans to suspend his campaign.
SOURCE: Time, Huffington Post
After all of the political excitement this election season, including the dizzying and ceaseless Donald Trump Show, we will finally find out the winners of the Iowa Caucuses after the polls close at 10 PM CT on Monday.
The Washington Post reports that Democratic presidential front-runner and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Trump, her Republican counterpart, were both cautiously optimistic Monday morning ahead of the first nominating contest of the 2016 election, which is widely viewed as an early indicator of the eventual nominee.
Instead, the paper notes that both were busy urging supporters to "get out and vote." The push comes as the Hawkeye State faces warnings that a massive winter storm was headed its way, which could impede voter turnout.
Per the Post:
"You have to be a little bit nervous, and you know I like to win," Trump said on ABC's "Good Morning America" show on Monday morning. "This is actually my first election night. I've gone through many election nights, but it was always for somebody else."
"We've got such a great campaign organization. We've got thousands of volunteers. We knocked on 125,000 doors this weekend. There's just so much excitement," Clinton said on NBC's "Today" show Monday morning. "We hope that even though it's a tight race, a lot of the people who are committed to caucusing for me will be there and standing up for me. And I will do the same for them in the campaign and in the presidency."
Republican officials predicted record turnout on their side regardless of the weather, fueled in part by Trump's appeal to voters who have not traditionally caucused. Jeff Kaufmann, who chairs the Iowa Republican Party, said his office has been receiving five to six times as many calls compared to past years.
Iowa is where Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign unraveled to a third-place finish. This time, she faces Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Via the Los Angeles Times:
In the large Republican field, billionaire Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas have battled for weeks for first place in Iowa polls, with Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida showing signs of a late surge.
Crowds swarmed candidates scurrying throughout Iowa on Sunday, volunteers and campaign organizers knocked on doors and dialed their way through voter contact lists, and a barrage of radio and TV ads — many of them scorchingly negative — provided a harsh soundtrack to an otherwise sunny and unseasonably mild day.
Clinton made her final full day of Iowa campaigning a family affair, stumping with her husband, former President Clinton, and their daughter, Chelsea. "I really love the fact that she brought my granddaughter with her to Des Moines," Hillary Clinton told a crowd in Council Bluffs. "I get to have a little time with Charlotte."
The results will help determine the order of the race, notes the Times, especially in the crowded GOP field. The next contest is Feb. 9 in New Hampshire, followed by races in South Carolina and Nevada later this month.
Do you plan to watch news broadcasts as results roll in? Let us know.
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When Alexander Graham Bell first ushered the words to Thomas Watson over the telephone line he probably did not know he was starting at least two new industries through his invention. One, of course, ...
When Alexander Graham Bell first ushered the words to Thomas Watson over the telephone line he probably did not know he was starting at least two new industries through his invention. One, of course, was the telephone, but the other was the necessity of developing an answering service San Diego citizen would come to know to answer the telephone. This new industry did not develop right away as it took many years before the telephone become a household device that people used for personal and business reasons. However, once the telephone became popular, the need to know who had been calling also grew in popularity.
Margaret Smith has been recognized as the founder of the first answering service in the United States. She was an aging woman who had great difficulty moving around and spent much of her time on her bed laying next to her telephone. Her doctors would come and visit and see how she was doing from time to time as they made their calls to their patients homes. Mrs. Smith started wondering how they could be getting their phone calls if they were out traveling. This lead to her pursuing an idea.
Mr. Smith started to ask the doctors if they would like someone who could answer the phone and take messages for them. A few of the doctors thought this was a god idea and decided to hire her as their official person to answer their calls. She kept abreast of where the doctors would be on any given day and made sure that the received their messages.
All this happened in 1923 when Mrs. Smith formed Mrs. Smiths Doctors Exchange and it lasted under her guidance until 1925 when she passed away. Her children knew that she was on to something and kept the business going. They eventually grew the company to be a much larger outfit.
Within a few years the children decided to expand the business. They offered their services to other doctors and business people who were often on the go and hard to track down. The business was expanding at the same time many others were having trouble surviving.
Then the Great Depression came and created havoc for businesses and people all over the world. But the company that Mrs.Smith founded was about to experience one of its best fortunes because there were not any jobs around. Mrs. Smiths son got tired of looking elsewhere for economic opportunity and starting focusing exclusively on the operation his mother started. Within a few years they were moving the company out of the house and into a commercial building.
Other companies starting to do the same type of work and the industry started to prosper. The companies often consisted of women who sat at a table with wires that plugged into holes to answer an incoming call. That would speak to the person, write down their message , and either track down the recipient or wait until they called in for their messages.
There are still companies providing the answering service San Diego residents started using years ago. They work in much the same way as Mrs. Smith did as she laid on her bed. The difference now is that new technology is starting to replace the old technology and people can often leave messages directly on the telephone people carry around with them.
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Q: How does Java determine 'file.encoding' system property? I thought Java determines 'file.encoding' system property by system locale.
But in my system while system locale is 'ko_kr.UTF-8', 'file.encoding' is 'ANSI_X3.4-1968'.
How does Java determine 'file.encoding' system property?

A: Native code populating properties from the below link(for solaris,Linux operating system )
Below native method loading system properties.
private static native Properties initProperties(Properties props);

Below link is the native code link for loading properties( after line number 187)
Source for setting java properties


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Orlando massacre provokes feelings of isolation for LGBT Muslims
Dominique Hernandez holds up her fist painted in the colors of a rainbow, with a heart on her pulse, attends a vigil in memory of victims one day after a mass shooting at the Pulse gay night club in Orlando, in Los Angeles, California, U.S. June 13, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
Qais Munhazim woke up on Sunday to reports that an Afghan-American gunman had rampaged through a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in an attack apparently motivated by support for militant Islamist groups.
Tearful and disconsolate, Munhazim, a gay Muslim man who is originally from Afghanistan, made plans to attend the University of Minnesota's vigil the following day for the victims.
The Orlando shooter killed 49 people and injured 53: the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history and also the worst attack in America on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
"The moment I introduced myself to someone who is also part of the (LGBT) community, she asked me what my nationality is and I said I am Afghan," said Munhazim, a doctoral political science student at the university, on Tuesday.
"Immediately her answer was, 'this is not the right time or place for you.' I went there trying to be among my own community, to grieve together with them. Even my grieving was questioned because of my identity."
Munhazim's experience illustrates the isolation some Muslims in the LGBT community in the United States are feeling.
"Coming (to America) I found that freedom but at the same time I definitely always found myself marginalized and discriminated because of my faith, because Islamophobia has been propagated by a lot of politicians in the U.S.," Munhazim said.
This referred to remarks by some politicians, most prominently Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, following the Orlando shootings and previous such attacks, that have cast a shadow of suspicion on Muslims in America.
While Islam has a wide variety of laws and customs across the world's more than 1.6 billion Muslims, gay sex is illegal in many Muslim-majority countries. In some countries such as Iran, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, homosexual acts can be punishable by death.
According to Hussain Turk, a Pakistani-American Muslim lawyer from Los Angeles, what makes it difficult for Muslims to be both gay and religious is the idea that Islam is a monolithic faith with a single set of rules stemming from the Koran, the religion's holy book.
But he argues, "What I've learned is that Islam is a dynamic religion at its core. Islam wasn't meant to be this anti-progressive monolith."
Nonetheless, Turk, a gay Muslim man who also served as editor-in-chief of the University of California, Los Angeles' Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, said there are Muslims, gay and non-gay, who say Islam's resistance to change is what gives it its appeal as a religion.
There are about 3.3 million Muslims of all ages living in America, according to a Pew Research Center study in 2015. There are no statistics on how many LGBT Muslims are in the country.
Mona Siam, a Jordanian Muslim woman who is also lesbian, was granted asylum in the United States in 2011 after she said she was hit by a stray bullet fired by police who were attempting to scare off guests at a gay-friendly bar in Beirut, Lebanon.
Despite coming to the United States, Siam said that she still feels some animosity from Americans because of her religion and her sexual orientation.
"I feel conflicted in the U.S. because I came here for safety and I feel like every part of my identity is being attacked," Siam said on Tuesday.
"We are afraid of being Muslim in public or queer in public in a country where that shouldn't be happening. It's open-minded; you have thousand of cultures and identities. It's America."
Seeking to help Americans conflicted about their religion and sexuality, the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity has hosted the Retreat for LGBTQ Muslims and Partners annually since 2011, attracting nearly 100 guests for a weekend of spiritual building.
Tynan Power, a representative for MASGD, said that gender identity and diverse sexual orientation have had substantial support in both the Sunni and Shi'ite branches of Islam.
"There are Muslims who believe that the Koran forbids homosexuality, just as there are Christians who believe the Bible does," said Power.
"There are also Muslims who believe that honoring their God-given capacity to love is a form of worship. Ultimately, no one perspective can define a religion for all other people of that faith."
Garrett Fugate, a Greek Muslim man who identifies as queer - a multi-faceted word that describes Fugate as someone who dates people of various sexual orientations - said that the MASGD Retreat allowed him to find his home as a Muslim.
"When I was coming out I went from being very accepted to being very ostracized from the Muslim community," said Fugate, a graduate student at Boston University in Boston. "When I think of community I think of that retreat."
(Story refiles to correct typographical "and" to "a" in last paragraph.)
(Reporting by Gina Cherelus; Editing by Frances Kerry)


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'The Outlaws' returns with a chaotic Season 2 trailer
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By Sam Haysom on May 26, 2022
The Outlaws, Stephen Merchant's Bristol-set comedy-drama about a mismatched group of lawbreakers carrying out community service together, is back with a Season 2 trailer — and it looks every bit as silly and chaotic as the first.
Following on from where Season 1 left off, the trailer catches us up with the core group — played by Rhianne Barreto, Gamba Cole, Merchant, Eleanor Tomlinson, Darren Boyd, Clare Perkins, and Christopher Walken — as they go up against a drug dealer who wants to know where his suitcase of money has disappeared to.
Season 1 made our list of the 25 best British TV shows and movies of 2021, so Season 2 is well worth keeping an eye out for.
The Outlaws Season 2 will be available to stream on BBC iPlayer(Opens in a new window)(opens in a new tab) from June 5 in the UK, and Prime Video(Opens in a new window)(opens in a new tab) in the U.S.
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Q: How to create reference to /dev in a chroot jail that is deletion-proof? I need to create a chroot jail for my program. The program needs the contents of /dev to execute properly. I don't want to copy the contents of /dev in the chroot jail, because I want to avoid the duplication of elements in the jail.
I have found 2 solutions to this problem, but none of them are fully solving my problem:

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*Mounting /dev: works, but a sys admin can delete /dev if he deletes the chroot jail through "rm -rf". This is bad...

*Symbolic link on /dev: does not work because symbolic links that are pointing outside of the jail do not work.

Do you know a solution that avoids duplication, is secure on deletion and works?

A: On linux :

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*You can mount devfs filesystem :
mount -t devtmpfs none /jail/dev

On freebsd :

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*You can mount devfs filesystem :
mount -t devfs none /jail/dev

*Or for mount a folder (not recommended for dev) :
mount_nullfs /dev /jail/dev

If you want no duplication, you need to umount before delete the jail.
You can mount in readonly, but you can have problems with softwares (depends of jail use).


This winter you might start seeing rainbow stickers showing up in store fronts around the valley. This is due to the newly formed San Luis Valley Pride initiative and its Safe Space/Safe Zone program. For the past 3 months a group of individuals from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning/Queer (LGBTQ) community and their Allies have been meeting in Alamosa in an attempt to create community and visibility within this group across the valley.
The first meeting on October 16th at Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative (our first designated Safe Space!) in Alamosa and was a huge success with over 30 people gathering together. At that meeting the group decided on 3 primary focus areas. The first is simply to create outings and community building events like bowling nights, book clubs, ice skating, holiday parties, etc. The second primary focus is to create visibility around the valley which is where the Safe Space program was born. We will work to find businesses who want to self identify as a Safe Space and we will be adding all of these businesses to a growing "Purple Pages", a public list of all self identified Safe Space businesses. Our third and final initiative is to organize a San Luis Valley Pride Event for the public during the summer of 2019. The group met again on November 27th at Milagros Coffee shop and began to actively work on these initiatives, breaking out into work groups and addressing envelopes, scheduling activities, and identifying local businesses that may be interested in a safe space designation.
This is an undertaking that has never been done before in this way for the San Luis Valley. There are many places an initiative like this can grow into. We have had discussions about creating a youth drop in center or creating formal LGBTQ Safe Zone trainings for local school districts. All decisions will be made through the monthly gatherings from those directly involved in the community and as funding allows. We are so excited to see this initiative take off and grow so quickly. You know you are headed in the right direction when so many people jump on board to help!
If you would like to designate your business as a Safe Space, receive a sticker for your store front and be added to our fast growing "Purple Pages" directory or sign up for our emailing group to receive further information about events, etc. please send us an email at sanluisvalleypride@gmail.com or call 303-563-9767 for more information. Please spread the word and join us for our next meeting at the Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative in Alamosa in February. Email us for details!


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I'm sure you've seen them all over Pinterest as of late but in case you haven't noticed, Moroccan rugs have made a huge comeback in the last few years. Quick history lesson: what most call the "black and white diamond" rugs are actually born from the "Beni Ourain" rugs - these rugs originally came from the mountains of Morocco - women would weave them as a method of cover during the cold winter months - literally creating a thick fur blanket. Traditionally, the patterns on the rugs would reflect major life events such as births, weddings, fertility, femininity or religious beliefs. These rugs aren't news to the design world though - they were praised by the early modernists such as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Charles and Ray Eames for their luxurious minimalist designs and primitivist nature.
The more colorful iteration of these rugs- Azilal - are woven in the Azilal mountanous region of Moroco.


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From M1 Southbound: Leave the M1 at Junction 28, signposted to Derby A38, Matlock (A632) and join the A38 towards Derby. Leave the A38 at the slip road for the A610 towards Ambergate and the A6. At the A6, turn right towards Matlock for two miles and then turn left onto the B5035 towards Wirksworth. In Wirksworth, at the T-Junction with the B5023, turn right and then left to rejoin the B5035. Continue for four miles to find Carsington Water on your left.
From the M1 Northbound: Leave the M1 at Junction 25 (signposted to Nottingham, Derby, Ilkeston A52) and join the A52 towards Derby. Travel through Derby following signs for the A52 and Ashbourne. In Asbourne, follow signs towards Buxton but before leaving the town, turn right onto the B5035 toward Carsington Water. Carsington Water is six miles from Ashbourne.
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Two years ago, after newly elected President Trump said he was nominating then U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) as Attorney General, a palpable chill was felt throughout the cannabis industry. Prior to the announcement, investors, entrepreneurs and advocates had been jubilant after eight states voted to legalize recreational and medical marijuana; now they were alternately nervous and apprehensive—and rightly so. Sessions was known to be a vehement critic of the space and the attempts to legalize. For many, Trump's move was seen as contrary to his campaign stance, which supported medical marijuana and the states' right to legalize.
With Sessions being forced out by Trump a day after the midterm elections, which saw the Democrats regain control of the House of Representatives and Republicans retain the Senate, the legal marijuana community is breathing a collective sigh of relief. Although the industry was no doubt elated to learn that Michigan voted to legalize recreational marijuana while Utah and Missouri voted to legalize medical cannabis, the news of Sessions' resignation added a special frisson to the joy. Unsurprisingly, it had a buoyant effect on the stock market: Cannabis stocks such as Tilray surged 30 percent.
Perhaps it's still too early to gauge the repercussions of Sessions' exit from the Trump Administration on the cannabis industry; yet some leaders and professionals are feeling exultant, hailing it as an important step in the movement toward legalization.
Currently, Trump has named Sessions' Chief of Staff Matthew Whitaker as Acting Attorney General. Other than being known as a Trump loyalist and expressing criticism of the ongoing Mueller probe, it is unknown what Whitaker's position is on cannabis.


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Cheaper airfares among sops for Pakistanis to remit cash digitally
Syed Zulfiqar Bukhari, Special Assistant to Pakistan PM Imran Khan on Overseas Pakistanis and HRD (centre); with Ghulam Dastagir (third from right), Pakistan Ambassador to the UAE; Ahmed Amjad Ali (second from right), Consul-General of Pakistan in Dubai; and Pakistani businessmen Imran Chaudhry, Iqbal Dawood, Ahmed Shaikhaini and Shabbir Merchant.
Dubai - The incentives will be rolled out in the next two months.
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Published: Mon 27 Jul 2020, 12:00 AM
Last updated: Tue 28 Jul 2020, 6:00 PM
The Pakistan government is all set to roll out sops like cheaper airfares and additional luggage on flights, to encourage its citizens to remit money through digital channels.
Syed Zulfiqar Bukhari, Special Assistant to Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development, said that a "whole new set of incentives" will be rolled out in the next two months.
"The government has told private banks to work towards digitisation. We have given them 65 recommendations which will make remitting funds easier for overseas Pakistanis. In the next two months, you will see incentives like a points system which can be redeemed for cheaper airfares, more luggage and for accommodation in hotels, etc."
The government will also launch a pension scheme for overseas Pakistanis. "We are going to bring informal workers like labourers, drivers, cooks and other domestic workers in the Employees' Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI). They will have the opportunity to contribute towards their pension. So we are bringing in an informal economy that has about 45 million Pakistanis. With Pakistan being a huge economy, we have to think out of the box and make the EOBI the largest pension fund in the country.
This came as Bukhari visited the Khaleej Times headquarters on Saturday.
He revealed that the government has increased pension under the EOBI from Rs5,250 to Rs8,500 in the past 18 months. "The plan is that before we end our term, the pension should match with the minimum wage of Rs15,000."
Covid-19 impact on Pakistanis
During his two-day visit to the UAE, Bukhari met UAE Minister for Human Resources and Emiratisation Nasser bin Thani Juma Al Hamli to discuss challenges faced by Pakistanis in the UAE and opportunities for them in the post-Covid period.
On Saturday, the Galadari Brothers committed Rs10 million for the repatriation of stranded Pakistanis in the UAE.
Bukhari said there was a 29 per cent increase in the number of skilled workers coming from Pakistan to the UAE, "which resulted in increase in remittances even during the pandemic".
He said the government would be testing a new voting system for overseas Pakistanis in the upcoming Gilgit Baltistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir elections.
Tourism next big thing in Pakistan
Bukhari said tourism is the "next big thing in Pakistan". "Tourism is a dark horse ... We don't realise just how much employment it is going to generate in the country," he said.
During a meeting with Bukhari on Saturday at the Khaleej Times headquarters, Suhail Galadari, Co-Chairman of Galadari Brothers, pledged to invest in the hospitality and tourism sector of Pakistan in line with Prime Minister Imran Khan's tourism vision, which is being effectively implemented by Bukhari.
Bukhari said the Pakistan government was all set to launch a tourism campaign called 'Brand Pakistan' in April, but the Covid-19 pandemic delayed the launch. "We made a 10-year tourism policy along with a 5-year action plan. The 'Brand Pakistan' website portal was all set, which would help tourists book holidays, give them weather updates and information about new destinations, traffic control, standardisation of guest houses and resorts. The Pakistan Prime Minister was all set to launch the campaign on April 18 and then Covid-19 hit," Bukhari said.
He said the government is taking inputs from overseas Pakistanis in the decision making. "We restructured the Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) and are hiring about 70 people who are experts in this field. The government has no plan to become an operator, but will introduce and regulate policies. Under the PTDC, there are about 32 guest houses which we are putting on a 33-year lease to national and international firms. They will renovate and develop them," he added.
"In the next two years, Pakistan will have 32 ideally located resorts opening in 3- to 4-star standards. That itself will create thousands of jobs in the country."
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Koichi Sawada, Susumu Kokeguchi, Hiroshi Hongyo, Satoko Sawada, Manabu Miyamoto, Hiroshi Maeda, Fusanori Nishimura, Shogo Takashiba, Yoji Murayama
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Subtractive hybridization was employed to isolate specific genes from virulent Porphyromonas gingivalis strains that are possibly related to abscess formation. The genomic DNA from the virulent strain P. gingivalis W83 was subtracted with DNA from the avirulent strain ATCC 33277. Three clones unique to strain W83 were isolated and sequenced. The cloned DNA fragments were 885, 369, and 132 bp and had slight homology with only Bacillus stearothermophilus IS5377, which is a putative transposase. The regions flanking the cloned DNA fragments were isolated and sequenced, and the gene structure around the clones was revealed. These three clones were located side-by-side in a gene reported as an outer membrane protein. The three clones interrupt the open reading frame of the outer membrane protein gene. This inserted DNA, consisting of three isolated clones, was designated IS1598, which was 1,396 bp (i.e., a 1,158-bp open reading frame) in length and was flanked by 16-bp terminal inverted repeats and a 9-bp duplicated target sequence. IS1598 was detected in P. gingivalis W83, W50, and FDC 381 by Southern hybridization. All three P. gingivalis strains have been shown to possess abscess-forming ability in animal models. However, IS1598 was not detected in avirulent strains of P. gingivalis, including ATCC 33277. The IS1598 may interrupt the synthesis of the outer membrane protein, resulting in changes in the structure of the bacterial outer membrane. The IS1598 isolated in this study is a novel insertion element which might be a specific marker for virulent P. gingivalis strains.
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Subtractive Hybridization Techniques Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Porphyromonas gingivalis Agriculture & Biology 95%
suppression subtractive hybridization Agriculture & Biology 85%
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Sawada, K., Kokeguchi, S., Hongyo, H., Sawada, S., Miyamoto, M., Maeda, H., Nishimura, F., Takashiba, S., & Murayama, Y. (1999). Identification by subtractive hybridization of a novel insertion sequence specific for virulent strains of Porphyromonas gingivalis. Infection and Immunity, 67(11), 5621-5625. https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.67.11.5621-5625.1999
Identification by subtractive hybridization of a novel insertion sequence specific for virulent strains of Porphyromonas gingivalis. / Sawada, Koichi; Kokeguchi, Susumu; Hongyo, Hiroshi et al.
In: Infection and Immunity, Vol. 67, No. 11, 11.1999, p. 5621-5625.
Sawada, K, Kokeguchi, S, Hongyo, H, Sawada, S, Miyamoto, M, Maeda, H, Nishimura, F, Takashiba, S & Murayama, Y 1999, 'Identification by subtractive hybridization of a novel insertion sequence specific for virulent strains of Porphyromonas gingivalis', Infection and Immunity, vol. 67, no. 11, pp. 5621-5625. https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.67.11.5621-5625.1999
Sawada K, Kokeguchi S, Hongyo H, Sawada S, Miyamoto M, Maeda H et al. Identification by subtractive hybridization of a novel insertion sequence specific for virulent strains of Porphyromonas gingivalis. Infection and Immunity. 1999 Nov;67(11):5621-5625. doi: 10.1128/iai.67.11.5621-5625.1999
Sawada, Koichi ; Kokeguchi, Susumu ; Hongyo, Hiroshi et al. / Identification by subtractive hybridization of a novel insertion sequence specific for virulent strains of Porphyromonas gingivalis. In: Infection and Immunity. 1999 ; Vol. 67, No. 11. pp. 5621-5625.
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Mondays and Wednesdays are lecture days. Tuesdays and Thursdays are screening days for those who chose to see the films on 'the big screen.' All films will be streamed to facilitate working schedules and the possibility of review. Queer Theory considers the discussion of "female" and "male" bodies as visual text from the 1980s to present. What do gender and sexuality mean? What has gender to do with representations of sexuality? When and where do we begin to consider a transitioning body? Students will look at moments of intersection between race/ class/ gender and sexuality as they complicate political agendas and blur binaries between male and female, gay and straight. We will look at the emergence of queer theory as it becomes central to feminist theory and queer cinema as it begins to form its own directions in the context of international independent queer and feminist narrative and documentary film.
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Q: How to select parents and children rows in SQL Server I want to select all itens related to user_id 53 (parents and children) from the following table. It should be: 1, 2, 4, 8, 9.
my_table
--------------------------------------------
id    parent_id   user_id   sequence   depth
--------------------------------------------
1     null        50        1          1
2     1           52        1.2        2
3     1           52        1.3        2
4     2           53        1.2.4      3
5     2           52        1.2.5      3
6     3           52        1.3.6      3
7     3           51        1.3.7      3
8     4           51        1.2.4.8    4
9     4           51        1.2.4.9    4

With CTE I could select all children or parents, but I could'nt select children and parents with just one query. Below is the cte I'm using to select children.
Item and children
with cte as (
    select t.id, t.parent_id, t.user_id
    from my_table t
    where t.user_id=53

    union all

    select t.id, t.parent_id, t.user_id
    from my_table t
    inner join cte c on (c.parent_id=t.id)
)
select t.* from cte t;

Item and parents
with cte as (
    select t.id, t.parent_id, t.user_id
    from my_table t
    where t.user_id=53

    union all

    select t.id, t.parent_id, t.user_id
    from my_table t
    inner join cte c on (c.id=t.parent_id)
)
select t.* from cte t;

Thanks.

A: It is very convenient that you have the sequences.  The parents have a sequence matching an initial subset of the one you are looking for.  The same is true for the children, but in reverse.
The following comes close to what you want:
select mt.*
from (select sequence from my_table where USER_ID = 53) theone join
     my_table mt
     on mt.sequence like theone.sequence+ '%' or
        theone.sequence like mt.sequence + '%'

However, you have to be careful with 10 matching 1, for instance.  So, let's add an additional period where appropriate:
select mt.*
from (select sequence from my_table where USER_ID = 53) theone join
     my_table mt
     on mt.sequence like theone.sequence+ '.%' or
        theone.sequence like mt.sequence + '.%'

A: The problem here is, that you want a recursive SELECT. A DBMS is not made for such a query. But it's of course possible.
SELECT t1.* FROM Table1 t1 WHERE user_id = 53

UNION ALL

SELECT t2.* FROM Table1 t1, Table1 t2
WHERE
  (t1.id = t2.parent_id OR t1.parent_id = t2.id) AND t1.user_id = 53

This query would give you each 1st degree relative.
For a recursive SELECT, have a look here: Recursive select in SQL

Solution for your query here: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!6/e1542/10/0
with cte as (
    select t.id, t.parent_id, t.user_id
    from Table1 t
    where t.user_id=53
),

cte1 as (
    select t.id, t.parent_id, t.user_id
    from cte t

    union all

    select t.id, t.parent_id, t.user_id
    from Table1 t
    inner join cte1 c on (c.parent_id=t.id)
),

cte2 as (
    select t.id, t.parent_id, t.user_id
    from cte t

    union all

    select t.id, t.parent_id, t.user_id
    from Table1 t
    inner join cte2 c on (c.id=t.parent_id)
)

select t.* from cte1 t

UNION

select t.* from cte2 t

A: declare @Rownumber int;
CREATE TABLE #GetSeqUser (
    RowNumber int,
    UserId int,
)
INSERT INTO #GetSeqUser Select ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY EmpId ASC) AS ROWNUMBER, EmpId FROM  dbo.TreeSystem
set @Rownumber = (select ROWNUMBER from #GetSeqUser where UserId = 3 )
set @Rownumber = @Rownumber + 1
select UserId from #GetSeqUser where ROWNUMBER = @Rownumber

A: declare @Rownumber int;
CREATE TABLE #GetSeqUser (
    RowNumber int,
    UserId int,
)
INSERT INTO #GetSeqUser Select ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY EmpId ASC) AS ROWNUMBER, EmpId FROM  dbo.TreeSystem
set @Rownumber = (select ROWNUMBER from #GetSeqUser where UserId = 3 )
set @Rownumber = @Rownumber + 1
select UserId from #GetSeqUser where ROWNUMBER = @Rownumber


Lincolnshire Home Independence Agency (LHIA) has just been awarded Home Improvement Agency Service of the Year at a glittering awards ceremony held at The House of Lords, and organised by Foundations, the national body for home improvement agency and handyperson services.
LHIA has a mission to help people facing illness, disability and older age to live independently at home. It received the award in recognition of its leading role, as a member of Lincs Independent Living Partnership, in delivering Lincolnshire County Council's Wellbeing Service until the end of March 2018. It helped to reduce falls and tackle social isolation and fuel poverty through a range of interventions and dealt with more than 5,000 referrals in 2017-18.
The award is also in acknowledgement of the fact that, with significant pressures on local welfare and health budgets, LHIA has embarked on an ambitious restructure to enable it to reach more vulnerable people. This includes increasing collaboration with other local charities and establishing a wholly-owned subsidiary, LHIA Adaptations Ltd, to install specially-adapted bathrooms, including walk-in showers, for people with mobility issues.


There have been testimonials from numerous brands saying their customers lost weight eating their products. What better grassroots marketing do you need than a customer saying they ate a sandwich and slimmed down a few pants sizes? That is marketing gold! But for some brands, you can never tell which success stories are real or fake. For Smoothie King franchisee Rick Van Alphen, he is living proof this isn't a gimmick.
Van Alphen, who runs a franchise in Orlando, said he lost 45 pounds by exercising regularly, moving to a low-calorie diet, and sipping on his favorite Smoothie King beverages—Muscle Punch being his favorite—while working at his franchise. He is one of Smoothie King's #ChangeAMeal Challenge success stories. The brand's annual challenge is a way to promote healthy habits by having its customers swap out one meal a day for a nutrient-packed smoothie. When coupled with regular exercise and healthy food choices, the challenge has helped dozens of customers shed pounds.
Simply getting a delicious Smoothie King product wasn't enough to trim down—he said that he also had to change his lifestyle in order to lose weight. He said it took him eight months of drinking smoothies and improving his overall diet to get the job done.
Before opening his first franchise in Orlando, Van Alphen was a work-from-home travel agent, and he spent a lot of his days visiting prospective travelers. Being a road warrior can be an enticing part of working at a job, but any worker bee will tell you that when you are in the zone or bogged down by work at your job, you may grab some empty calories, as opposed to healthier options. Van Alphen said he was looking for quick fixes to suppress his appetite and wasn't thinking about what was going into his body. This way of life started to weigh on Van Alphen, so he decided it was time for a change—he wanted to open his own Smoothie King franchise to help him out.
Today, Van Alphen said he feels like a million bucks. He is no longer on cholesterol medicine and has more energy to assist him in keeping off the pounds and running his successful Smoothie King Franchise.
For more franchising information about Smoothie King, click here.


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South Elgin strikes early vs. Glenbard North
Sisler scores twice in 1st 11 minutes to lead Storm to 4-2 win
By Gary Larsen
SOUTH ELGIN -- South Elgin graduated a lot of scoring punch from last year, so senior mid Alex Kirkby saw this year's Storm as a question mark.
"Going into the season I didn't think we'd be a team that could score more than two goals in a game," Kirkby said. "We graduated four of our five forwards from last season. So it's nice to see our forwards coming together and get four goals today."
South Elgin's 4-2 nonconference win over visiting Glenbard North on Thursday featured a pair of goals from sophomore striker Anthony Sisler, scored in the game's eighth and 11th minutes, to quickly put Glenbard North in deep water.
South Elgin (7-8-2) gave up two set-piece goals to Glenbard North (2-10-2) in the second half, but kept the lead throughout with goals from Nick Flores and Chris Stanczyk after intermission.
"We scored some goals, which was good," South Elgin coach Simon Brinklow said, "but I don't think we played that well, to be perfectly honest.
"But we just talked about trying to win some games over our last few games and get some momentum (for the postseason). So without playing particularly well, I'm glad we won. It's important to get the win."
Senior mid Stanczyk assisted on Sisler's first score and Elijah Patrick earned the helper on the second.
South Elgin is the 10th-seed of this year's Class 3A Streamwood Sectional, and Glenbard North is seeded 15th at Conant's 3A sectional. Glenbard North is in a regional play-in game against 18th-seeded Bartlett on Oct. 14 at West Chicago, while South Elgin opens the postseason in a regional semifinal at 6th-seeded Guilford on Oct. 17.
With those dates fast-approaching, both teams entered Thursday's game aiming to gain some late-season momentum. Unfortunately for the Panthers, Sisler's two early goals didn't get them off on the right foot.
"It's Groundhog Day," Glenbard North Gregg Koeller said. "We had a two-minute span in the first half where we just broke down. It's 2-0 at half, we change our formation to a 4-5-1, and come out and make it 2-1 and we're pushing and we're pushing. But we allowed a couple soft goals early, and we can't afford to do that."
The dreaded two-goal lead that tends to haunt soccer teams had its effect on the Storm, which eased up in the face of Glenbard North's increased intensity.
"I definitely felt it, and it shouldn't have happened, because if they score one goal then they're back in it," Kirkby said. "Luckily we closed out the game and we did what we needed to do but we can't let that happen."
Glenbard North attacked hard for much of the second half and cut the Storm's lead in half when senior mid Best Emena sent a corner kick to the near post at 56 minutes.
Senior striker Fabrizio Guajardo received it in the post, whirled and fired, and senior defender Evan Scott was there to clean it up with a shot that rolled inside the far post from eight yards.
The Storm answered with attacking pressure and 10 minutes later were rewarded with a free kick, 30 yards from goal. Flores blistered it to the right-side upper ninety to get his side back to a two-goal cushion.
Stanczyk took a pass from Flores at 77 minutes and scored from outside the top of the 18-yard box to make it 4-1.
Glenbard North got its final goal when Guajardo scored from point-blank range after another Emena corner kick hit the carpet in front of the Storm's net.
"The other day we gave up two goals on throw-ins, and we can't be conceding those," Brinklow said. "Over the course of the game I think we played okay, but those (lapses) are going to cost us at the end of the season if we concede goals from corners like that."
Emena is the quick and skilled catalyst of the Panthers' attack and he dribbled around defenders through the midfield consistently in the second half, sending quality passes up each touchline throughout.
Kirkby and Emena have previously played on the same club team, so the South Elgin midfielder was infinitely familiar with the danger presented by the Glenbard North senior.
"We're friends," Kirkby said. "During club season, the first few months that he came to my team, I didn't how to defend him at all. I finally figured out just to stick my body on him to try to show him who's boss."
Kirkby is a defender on his club team but plays center mid for the Storm. He and his midfield mates have worked hard all year to gain a rapport with their new core of strikers.
"It's been hard, but we've built chemistry over time," Kirkby said. "We've had a lot of captain's practices, and we're all hanging out off the field, too, which I think helps a lot. In recent weeks we've gotten close. You might not think it's as important as it is, but as we hang out off the pitch more we've developed a spirit to fight for each other, where we didn't have that before."
Brinklow applauded another consistent day's work put in by Kirkby and appreciates what Sisler has been giving him. Sisler's two goals earned him Chicagoland Soccer's Man of the Match honors.
"(Sisler) is a sophomore, and he has grown through the season," Brinklow said. "He's been contributing a lot for us over the last four or five games."
Emena's exceptional play as a midfield distributor also showed the progress that a bevy of varsity newcomers have made this year.
"The nice thing is that our really young outside mids are starting to be there when the runs are made," Koeller said. "It's taken two months, but I knew it would."
Koeller was asked if Glenbard North seniors Emena, Guajardo, Brian Dasso, Sam Pauling, Erik Lopez, and Josh Lopez have struggled with a team of young players still finding their way as varsity soccer players.
"They've been frustrated but never aggravated, and mainly frustrated with the scoreboard," Koeller said. "But we've talked long and hard about the fact that the scoreboard doesn't define who you are or what you're trying to do.
"As a coach I'm a realist so I understand this is their senior year, and it's all they have. But they've been great, they really have. We've had no internal strife. We've played teams that are beating us, and they're chirping at each other, and our kids never do that. And that's not always easy when you're 17."
GK Brian Dykstra
D Sergio Briones
D Jacob Zupan
D Zack Rys
D Kevin Guerrero
M Eduardo Carillo
M Rolando Martinez
M Alex Kirkby
F Chris Stanczyk
F Anthony Sisler
F Jack McCall
GK Martin Argirov
D Ben Solano
D Evan Scott
D Danny Le
D Andres Sanchez
M Ode Emena
M Best Emena
M Abood Nasr
M Nestor Dominguez
M Jesse Aragon
F Fabrizio Guajardo
Chicagoland Soccer Man of the Match: Anthony Sisler, so. F, South Elgin


Identity is the theme of a series of writing and performance workshops for pupils at Aconbury Centre, St David's Centre in Hereford and John Masefield High School in Ledbury in February and March 2015.
Joelle Taylor is a spoken word artist, slam poet, playwright, novelist and cultural terrorist. She has performed across the UK as well as internationally for the British Council (Zimbabwe, Botswana) taking in a diverse range of venues from Dingwalls, the 100 Club, the 02 Arena, the Royal Festival Hall and Ronnie Scott's to the Royal Court, the Globe, the ICA, Buckingham Palace and both Pentonville and Holloway prisons.
Her first collection Ska Tissue was released on MotherFoucaultPress in 2011 and after a summer festival tour is now in its second edition.
In 2001 she she co-ordinated the first London wide youth slam championships for the Poetry Society and is currently the Artistic Director of SLAMbassadors UK, the national youth slam championships.
Students will have an opportunity to film themselves performing their poems and to enter the Poetry Society's Slambassadors youth slam.