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How to import email from another computer into outlook express ? I want to import mail form my old computer to Outlook express. Is anyone know how to do that ?
How to import email from another computer into outlook express ? I want to import mail form my old computer to Outlook express. Is anyone know how to do that ?
On the computer running Windows XP, do the following:
- The folder that contains the Outlook Express messages is marked as a hidden folder in Windows. To view this hidden folder, click Start, and then click Control Panel. Click Appearance and Themes, and then click Folder Options. Click the view tab, and under Hidden files and folders, click Show hidden files and folders.
- Locate the folder named Outlook Express. In Windows XP, this folder is located here by default: C:\Documents and Settings\your user name\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{your Windows user identity number}\Microsoft\Outlook Express.
- Copy the Outlook Express folder and all its contents to the Documents folder on the computer running Windows Vista. (You can store this copy of the Outlook Express folder in a location other than the Documents folder, as long as you remember where to find it.)
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- Open Windows Mail by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking All Programs, and then clicking Windows Mail.
- Click the File menu, point to Import, and then click Messages.
- Click Microsoft Outlook Express 6, and then click Next.
- Make sure Import mail from an OE6 store directory is selected, and then click OK.
- Click Browse, find the Outlook Express folder you copied to this computer, and then click the folder once to select it. (Do not open the folder when you select it.)
- Click Select Folder, and then click Next.
- Click All folders to import all the folders, or click Selected folders and select which message folders you want to import, and then click Next.
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Carris stepping down from state SenateStaff Report | December 12,2012
Rutland Sen. William Carris announced today that he is resigning his seat effective Monday.
The three-term Democratic senator from West Rutland said problems with his back and ankle prompted the decision.
"The pace is pretty frenetic up there," he said. "People don't know how much running around you do."
"I'm pretty sad about it. It was a real tough decision," he added.
Carris, who just won re-election to a fourth term last month, said he underwent corrective surgery this fall that he hoped would make it easier to walk.
But with less than a month before the start of the next legislative session, Carris said he doesn't believe he is physically capable of doing the job.
Carris said he sent his letter of resignation to Gov. Peter Shumlin on Monday and alerted the president pro tem of the senate as well as fellow Rutland County Senators Kevin Mullin and Margaret Flory.
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After going on Millionaire Matchmaker and hitting it off with her date James, Real Housewives of Atlanta's Kenya Moore was surprised to find out that he is actually a married man, she claims.
Moore – who saw a relationship fall apart on her first season of RHOA and, in March, confronted her trust issues with Patti Stanger – wrote on Instagram Tuesday: "Unfortunately, I just learned today that the man I met and fell in love with from Millionaire Matchmaker was married a week after the show aired."
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Nene Leakes has a lot to say following the first part of the Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion that aired Sunday night on Bravo.
During the special hosted by Andy Cohen, Kenya Moore accused Leakes of flirting with Cynthia Bailey's husband Peter.
"Now see, she went too far ... they played me right there," Leakes said on NBC's New York Live on Monday.
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There was no delay with the drama as part one of The Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion started on fire and just kept getting hotter.
"My husband definitely has a temper, and he can get out of hand," Phaedra Parks said about estranged husband Apollo Nida, who stormed into her home this season before starting his eight-year prison sentence for fraud.
"Did he ever get physical with you?" asked Andy Cohen.
"I just don't know if I need to discuss that with you, to be honest," Parks finally stated after a very long silence, looking as if she were holding back tears.
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On Sunday's season finale of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, NeNe Leakes made a curtain call on Broadway and Apollo Nida made a surprise call from prison.
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After a peaceful trip to the Philippines last week, things went downhill fast on Sunday's The Real Housewives of Atlanta once the ladies returned home.
"My boys miss their father," said Phaedra Parks, whose ex-husband Apollo Nida was sentenced to eight years in prison for fraud. "I want to give my sons and others strong black role models."
Parks organized a "Save Our Sons" rally to empower and encourage boys and fathers to be better men by having successful African-American leaders mentor them.
Parks had the wives serve lunch at the rally – the first time they had all been together with NeNe Leakes since she stormed out of the counseling session she organized.
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In the aftermath of the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, SLC faculty, staff and students have struggled for a way to make sense of the tragedy and respond to the ongoing humanitarian crisis. While images of profound grief and suffering have been prominent in the news, an analysis of Haiti's history, the vibrancy of its culture and the importance of its political struggles have not been discussed as much. Please join us for a Teach-In on Haiti with four SLC faculty members who will provide historical, political, economic and social analysis on the current situation.
Speakers: Alwin A.D. Jones (Literature), Matilde Zimmermann (History) , Gina Philogene (Psychology) and Jamee Moudud (Economics).
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I got the Device (TIMR) info from this post by MasterChief. Your DSDT looks to already have the fix.
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Describe sample spaces and conduct probability simulations.
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Grunt plugin for testing requireJS code using mocha in phantomJS and regular browsers
Grunt plugin for testing requireJS code using mocha in phantomJS and regular browsers
The purpose of this grunt plugin is as follows:
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If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:
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Comma-separated list of files to test relative to the "base" option. If this option is passed in then the list of files will take precedence over the files passed in via the GruntFile.js.
This file is used to kick off your test code. You should do any requireJS and Mocha configuration in this file. e.g.
requireconfig paths: chai: '/node_modules/chai/chai' ; mochasetup ui: 'bdd';
Within your bootstrap file you will need to use requireJS to load your unit tests and execute Mocha. To do this a global var named testPathname is made available and should be used like so:
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You do not need to create any HTML runner files. Simply create an AMD module that runs your test like so:
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The main purpose of this plugin is to provide automated testing via phantomJS. However, you can manually run tests in regular browsers also - sometimes this is necessary for debugging. To do so you need to
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Targeting Israelis: Indications Point to Iran in Bulgarian Bombing
The attack on Israeli tourists in Burgas, Bulgaria is a nightmare for Israeli security officials. For months, terrorists have been trying to strike at Israeli targets abroad -- and have now finally succeeded. It is thought to be part of the country's shadowy war with Iran and Hezbollah.
An image taken from a surveillance camera purporting to show the suicide bomber who attacked a bus full of Israeli tourists in Burgas, Bulgaria on Wednesday.
The suicide bomber was wearing plaid Bermuda shorts, a bright blue T-shirt, baseball cap, sunglasses and long hair. It was the perfect disguise; the young man looked just like a normal tourist. For more than an hour on Wednesday afternoon, he lingered in the parking lot of the airport in Burgas, the Black Sea coastal town in Bulgaria, according to video taken by surveillance cameras. When 44 Israeli tourists climbed onto a bus at 5:30 p.m. on their way to a beach-front hotel, the imposter boarded as well.
An additional clue to the Wednesday bombing is provided by the fact that Western documents were found on the attacker -- often an indicator of Iranian or Hezbollah involvement. Investigators found a forged Michigan drivers license on the corpse of the suicide bomber, Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said on Thursday. DNA tests are currently being undertaken in an attempt to identify the attacker.
Targeting Israelis Overseas
It would likely come as no surprise to Israeli security were it determined that he came from either Iran or Lebanon. Intelligence officials in both Israel and abroad believe that recent months have seen an increase in attempts to stage terror attacks targeting Israelis traveling overseas. Evidence indicates that most of those attempts were steered from Iran or from the southern suburbs of Beirut, where Hezbollah is based.
In 2012 alone, terrorists made several attempts to target Israelis.
- In January, authorities in Azerbaijan arrested two locals who, together with an Iranian agent, were planning to assassinate the Israeli ambassador in Baku and the senior rabbi of the city's Jewish community.
- In February, the wife of an employee of the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi was injured when a bomb attached to her car exploded. On the same day, a similar attack was prevented in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. The double attack came on the fourth anniversary of the death of Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh, who was killed in a February 2008 bomb attack in the Syrian capital of Damascus. Hezbollah has blamed Israel for being behind the attack.
- Just two days later, a plot aimed at the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok was uncovered when several explosions went off just a few blocks away. The first blast, likely the result of carelessness, damaged the terror team's hideout. Iranian papers and money was later found in the house. Two of the three attackers, all of whom were Iranian citizens, were captured. One managed to escape.
- On July 2, it was revealed that the Kenyan secret service arrested two Iranians who ultimately led them to a location where they had hidden explosives. The two men are suspected of having planned attacks on a vacation resort frequented by Israelis. They had enough explosives to destroy a mid-sized hotel, according to Kenyan officials.
- On July 14, Cypriot police arrested a 24-year-old Lebanese citizen following a tip-off from the Israeli secret service agency Mossad. The man was carrying a Swedish passport that was likely forged. According to Cypriot media reports, officials believe that the man had been planning a rocket attack on an airplane belonging to the Israeli airline Arkia.
Israel, for its part, has not shied away from engaging in the proxy conflict. It is thought that the country is behind several deadly attacks in Tehran in recent years targeting nuclear scientists. Officially, Israel has made no comment, but behind the scenes some have boasted that the "long arm of Mossad has reached Tehran."
Meanwhile, Defense Minister Ehud Barak discouraged criticism of Israeli intelligence services over their inability to stop the attack. The fact that the experts did not predict the bombing was a "mishap," not "negligence," he said.
"The world is big and full of places where these people act," he added. "The success of our intelligence and of others has been great, but there are days that are painful, and yesterday was one such day."
David Böcking assisted in compiling this report
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The Sarcee are Native Americans of Canada. Their name is sometimes spelled Sarsi. The Sarcee call themselves Tsuu T'ina. They live near the city of Calgary, Alberta. They may once have been part of the Beaver people, who lived to the north.
- Sarcee - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
An American Indian people, the Sarcee live near the city of Calgary in the Canadian province of Alberta. They may have lived among the Beaver people in what is now northern Alberta before moving south to the Great Plains near the end of the 17th century. Their name is sometimes spelled Sarsi. They call themselves Tsuu T'ina, meaning "many people."


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I am trying to apply a hotfix for the mil-24 hind that a BI dev said can be applied via six updater.
Devs said use the hotfix in SU for the hind only.
I've searched this on google, but couldn't find an answer.
I just want to verify and repair the folder that contains the hind info, but all i can seem to 'verify and repair' in SU is the actual mod folders.
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Vice President Biden Meets With Peace Corps Volunteers And Staff In Costa Rica
While traveling in Chile and Costa Rica to consult with Latin American leaders regarding the Summit of the Americas, the Bidens met 20 Peace Corps Volunteers and six Peace Corps staff members at a reception held on Monday, March 30, at the U.S. embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica.
Third-year Volunteers Deborah Winiarski from Battlecreek, MI, and Porter Searcy from Atlanta, GA, were among the Volunteers attending the reception. Said Winiarski, "As Volunteers, we truly appreciated the Vice President taking the time with us and expressing his genuine interest in who we are." Searcy added, "It was a real morale booster for all of us!"
The Peace Corps has a long and rich history of cooperation with the Costa Rican government and people. Over 3,200 Peace Corps Volunteers have served in Costa Rica since the program was established in 1963, 46 years ago. Volunteers in this central American nation are dedicated to their work in the areas of child and youth welfare, community economic development, and rural development. Currently, 140 Volunteers and trainees are serving in Costa Rica.
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He has been running a restaurant for the last 10 years.
He is requesting his fourth loan from the micro-finance institution Turame. He will use the loan he obtains from Kiva to increase his capital and buy a large quantity of beans, cassava flour and rice, that he will cook and sell in his restaurant.
Over the coming years, he would like to buy his own plot of land and see his children continue their studies.
Il fait le commerce de restaurant depuis 10 ans.
Il est à son quartiième crédit à Turame. Avec le crédit KIVA qu'il obtient, il va augmenter son capital et acheter une grande quantité du haricot, de la farine de manioc, du riz,…à revendre cuits dans son restaurant.
Dans les prochaines années, il voudrait acheter sa propre parcelle et voir les enfants poursuivre les études.
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In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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AMD has revealed the Radeon R9 295X2, the flagship card in its latest range of gamer-centric GPUs. The new card features a powerful dual-GPU setup that utilizes factory-fitted liquid cooling and boasts a full 8GB memory. The GPU is aimed to compete with NVIDIA's rival Titan cardsRead More
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At least 25-30 million people worldwide have age-related macular degeneration (AMD), one of the leading causes of blindness in middle-aged and older adults. The Israeli start-up Nano Retina has announced their new Bio-Retina, a tiny array of photodetectors which can be implanted directly on the retinal surface. Ready to enter clinical trials in 2013, the Bio-Retina restores vision to AMD sufferers almost immediately following the simple implantation process.Read More
AMD has taken the wraps of the Radeon HD 7970 graphics card. Billed as the world's fastest single GPU graphics card and the only GPU based on 28nm production technology, the new arrival pushes AMD ahead of NVIDIA in terms of miniaturization. The HD 7970 uses a new Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture that AMD says results in a 150 percent performance/sq mm jump over the previous 40nm-based generation, is compatible with PCI Express 3.0 and features 3GB of GDDR5 memory and 925MHz engine clock. It also supports Direct3D 11.1 to be released with Windows 8.Read More
CompuLab has taken the time between announcing its fit-PC3 back in January and actually releasing it to give the low power, fanless mini computer a bit of a redesign. There's more processing and graphics power on offer, support for more memory, two casing designs and something the company has called the FACE Module, which alters the system's I/O capabilities to suit different needs.Read More
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A couple of weeks ago, NVIDIA released the GeForce GTX 580M laptop GPU, claiming it was the fastest graphics chip on the market. AMD has just unveiled a quick response, in the form of its Radeon HD 6990M GPU for laptops. The new graphics chip outpaces "any other announced notebook enthusiast GPU" by 25 percent, according to the Sunnyvale-based chipmaker.Read More
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Since there was going to be a GRS transit tonight I decided to see what I could pull in with my C6SGT. The CSC called for good seeing and the jet stream data showed very slow upper level winds which gave me hope for the night. Both images were acquired with my DBK618 color camera attached to a 2x barlow, images have been resized 1.5x in PS:
Jupiter solo
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I think with my smaller aperture and a color camera this is probably about as good as it's going to get until opposition, and since I'll be moving house over the next couple of weeks it will probably be that long before I get another opportunity. Thanks for looking!
Jupiter 29OCT12, GRS from AZ
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Posted 04 November 2012 - 01:45 PM
Kevin that is a good shot for a 6 inch ota.
Posted 04 November 2012 - 08:44 PM
Nice work Kevin! You might play a little more with wavelets. I suspect one of the higher layers was set too high magnifying that limb arc on the left side. Still a great image for your scope!


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They're probably just jealous of his sick wheels.
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Although the small circuit board of MSI's Geforce 8400 GS comes equipped with 256 MB of DDR2 memory, the card's Forceware driver reports 512 MB. The remaining 256 MB are "borrowed" from the system memory using a technique Nvidia calls Turbo-Cache.
With all options set to maximum quality (through the game menu), Dark Messiah, Doom 3 and Prey are playable without FSAA. If you want to play at higher resolutions or want better performance, you'll have to reduce the quality a good deal. The chip lacks the processing power to run games such as Oblivion with HDR-rendering enabled. The Geforce 8400 GS offers an overall performance of 351.3 fps. For reference: The Geforce 8500 GT has a cumulative frame rate of 504 fps, the 8600 GT even scores 991 fps.
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0mactronix , 6 October 2007 06:27Im a bit lost for words really i had come to expect more from you guys.
How come i started reading a review about entry level cards yet when we get to the benchmarks we have the full Nvidea range on display including a 8800gts.Its just rediculous.The title clearly says DX10 on a budget so how is a 8800gts relevant?
I can understand having the 8600gts in the benchmarks but why no review ?is it by chance that the MSI card isnt really a 8600GTS as it dosent even have a referance chip and the pcb is different?
Even if im wrong on that and you havent used the T2D256E-HD-OC as i suspect you have from the results then why on earth is the 2600XT running 7.6 drivers and the PRO 7.9.
You cant possably hope to conduct a fair and unbiased set of tests if you are not using the same drivers.
There are so many holes in this im wondering if you havent taken the Nvidea dollar as it sems so biased towards them and there products.
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0danielcoles1989 , 13 November 2007 19:07Mactronix, I dont think that they are suggesting that a 8800GTS is a budget segment card. Instead i believe that they are using this card as a 'benchmark' to show how the budget segment shape up to mainstream. This way you can see the performance gap between 8600, 8400, and 2400, 2600 and how they relate to the 8800GTS. This will hepl people decide wether it is worth them investing a little more money. This is reinforced by the fact that they didnt include it in the 'look at performing cards' and at all in the conclusion either.
0mactronix , 14 November 2007 01:59While i understand what you are saying it dosent bear out simply because they havent included the 2900 in the benchmarks and if they were trying to compare to the mainstreem then surley it should have been there?
0flashmahn , 17 February 2008 19:21While I do not assume to know everything PC related, this card has been a dissapointment in that no matter what config I try it does not boot to bios when using the DVI cables with LCD monitors.. No matter what I try I can not access BIOS and it will give a blank screen and then open Windows 30 seconds later. However when I use the VGA cables it boots to boot screen and I am able to get into bios.. Any ideas? I have tried different monitors and cables and the results are the same. I really dont want to have to use two converters when I have 2 dvi monitors and the outlets for them std. Feel like this should not even be an issue on such a modern board


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Drug use among the general population and young people
A general population survey on drug use has been carried out in Finland every two to four years since 1996 among people aged 15–69. It is conducted online (since 2010) or via a postal questionnaire, with the exception of the survey carried out in 2000, when a face-to-face interview method was used.
The 2010 survey results indicate that almost one in six people aged 15–64 reported trying illicit drugs at least once during their lifetime, which is a slight increase compared with 2006. In the 15–64 age group 18.3 % reported that they had used cannabis at least once in their life. Lifetime prevalence of amphetamines was reported by 2.3 % of respondents, ecstasy by 1.8 %, cocaine by 1.7 % and LSD by 1.0 %. Last year prevalence of cannabis use was 4.6 % and last month prevalence was 1.4 %. For all other substances, last year and last month prevalence was lower than 1 %. The highest rate of drug use was recorded among 15- to 34-year-olds. Some 29 % of respondents in this age group reported ever having used cannabis in their life, while 11.2 % had used it in the last year and 3.3 % in the last month. Amphetamine was the second most prevalent substances used by this age group, but prevalence of recent use was below 2 %. Comparing these data with the results from the 2002 study, last year cannabis use shows a stabilising trend, especially in the 15–24 age group, while among those aged 25–34 it has almost tripled. It is interesting to note that the proportion of males and females who have used drugs is almost the same in younger age groups, but divergence occurs with ageing, with drug use sharply declining among females aged 25–34.
The most recent European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) results for 15- to 16-year-olds, for 2011, indicate that 11 % of respondents had ever tried marijuana or hashish (8 % in 2007; 11 % in 2003; 10 % in 1999). The reported lifetime prevalence of cannabis use was 12 % for males and 10 % for females. In 2011 the lifetime prevalence of inhalants use was the same as in the previous study (10 % in 2011; 10 % in 2007; 8 % in 2003; 5 % in 1999). Lifetime prevalence of the use of ecstasy and other illicit drugs was reported by 1 % of the sample. Last year prevalence of cannabis use was 9 % (6 % in 2007; 8 % in 2003) and last month prevalence was 3 % (2 % in 2007; 3 % in 2003).
Drug experimentation has increased in Finland since the first ESPAD survey was carried out in 1995. The surveys indicate that pupils who are doing well in school use substances of any kind less than do pupils who are performing poorly. By contrast, the educational background of the pupil's family does not significantly influence experimentation.
Look for Prevalence of drug use in the 'Statistical bulletin' for more information
Substance use prevention in Finland is part of the wider concept of the promotion of well-being and health. It falls under the responsibility of both central and local governments, with local government focusing on practical measures and coordination of activities. It is recommended that local authorities have in place strategies for mental health and substance use services at health centres, but a 2008 survey of health centres showed that about one-third of centres do not have such a strategy in place. Quality criteria have been determined for substance use prevention. Substance use prevention also includes prevention of smoking and functional dependencies.
School-based prevention is focused on all school levels and aims to create safe and risk-reducing environments for pupils. Substance education is a part of compulsory health education. In addition, counselling and support in substance-related problems are offered by health and social services in schools. All schools have a substance use prevention strategy as part of their student welfare plan, comprising guidelines for substance use prevention and substance-related problems, together with information on cooperation and networking with local stakeholders. Individual schools can decide independently about specific school-based drug prevention activities, but these activities are not systematically reported. The most popular approaches are knowledge transfer, experimental pedagogy, life-skills education, affective education and alternatives to substance use. Substance abuse prevention is also embedded in general prevention programmes for young people, but manualised substance abuse prevention programmes in schools are rarely implemented, since the whole system is focused on offering a protective school climate.
With regard to selective and indicated prevention, the National Institute for Health and Welfare has published a guide for social welfare and healthcare professionals on the early identification of mental health and substance abuse problems. In 2009 guidebooks were published on the management of substance use problems and on the identification and screening of mental health and substance abuse problems. Risk prevention activities targeting school dropouts or young drug users are mainly implemented through health counselling centres, outreach youth work teams run by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), sheltered youth homes, rehabilitation units and workshops for young people. The family support centre, Free from Drugs, a volunteer organisation, provides family-oriented substance use prevention services. In Finland, as in some other European countries, drug testing has been introduced in workplace settings to facilitate early interventions and referral to support services for those who may need it. A low-threshold web service, Addiction, is an additional tool to provide information and self-help for high-risk populations.
See the Prevention profile for Finland for more information.
High-risk drug use
Up to 2012 the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) defined problem drug use as injecting drug use (IDU) or long duration/regular use of opiates, cocaine and/or amphetamines. However, in 2012 a new definition of 'high-risk drug use' was adopted. The new definition includes 'problem drug use', but is broader (mainly in its inclusion of high-risk use of more substances). Details are available here.
The latest estimates of high-risk drug use populations using the capture–recapture method are available from 2012 and are based on data from the police information system (including driving under the influence), hospital discharge register including outpatient data and opioid substitution treatment and national infectious diseases register. Nearly 13 900 high-risk drug users used amphetamines (sensitivity interval: 10 980–17 760). There were about 13 800 high-risk opioid users (sensitivity interval: 12 700–15 090), or 4.12 per 1 000 inhabitants aged 15–64 (sensitivity interval: 3.78–4.49). The opioid most commonly used was buprenorphine. It is estimated that in total there are between 18 400 and 30 200 high-risk drug users Finland and large proportion of them use both amphetamines and opioids.
The previous estimates of problem amphetamine and opioid use were reported for 2005, but should only be used for comparison with great caution due to considerable differences in the sampling and statistical methods applied between both studies, as well as improvements in the registration practices and treatment availability.
The prevalence of frequent cannabis use was estimated based on 2010 general population survey data, which indicated that about 0.2 % of 15- to 64-year-olds used cannabis daily or almost daily.
Look for High risk drug-use in the Statistical bulletin for more information.
Treatment demand
In 2013 drug treatment information was collected by the National Institute for Health and Welfare from 39 outpatient and 26 inpatient treatment centres and one prison. Data were collected on 1 099 clients admitted for treatment, of which 161 were new clients entering treatment for the first time.
As the drug treatment information system is voluntary and there is no official register of drug treatment centres, several treatment centres, in particular general healthcare centres, do not report data. The last studies carried out in 2004 and 2011 to estimate the level of data coverage in specialised drug treatment centres indicated coverage of around 32 %, varying according to facility type. The Finish drug treatment reporting system is currently being reformed in order to enhance coverage and quality of data.
In 2013 some 64 % of all clients entered treatment due to opioid use (mainly injecting buprenorphine), followed by cannabis at 15 % and stimulants at 12 %. Among the new treatment clients, 40 % reported that opioids were their main problem drug, followed by cannabis at 34 %, and stimulants at 13 %. Injection rates remained high among all treatment clients (82 % for opioids and 74 % for stimulants) and new treatment clients (73 % for opioids and 48 % for stimulants). It should be noted that more than half of all treatment demand clients were polydrug users, as they reported using three or more substances before entering treatment services.
In 2013 the mean age of all treatment clients was 30 years, while the new treatment clients were on average 27 years old. With regard to gender distribution, around 65 % of all treatment clients were male and 34 % were female. A similar gender distribution was reported among new treatment clients, with 63 % male and 37 % female.
Look for Treatment demand indicator in the Statistical bulletin for more information.
Drug-related infectious diseases
The National Institute for Health and Welfare in Finland operates the National Infectious Diseases Register. In 2012 it recorded 159 new cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection (176 in 2011; 187 in 2010). In 2012 seven and in 2013 three cases of HIV were attributed to injecting drug use. In 1997 only two cases of diagnosed HIV infection were attributed to injecting drug use, increasing to 85 in 1999. The number of cases has decreased significantly since then. The national prevalence rate of HIV infection among people who inject drugs (PWID) for 2007 was estimated at 1.2 %, based on a sample of 722 people. In 2009 a sample of 684 current injecting drug users in nine needle and syringe programmes indicated HIV prevalence at 0.7 %.
In 2013 some 1 172 new cases of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection were diagnosed (1 160 in 2011; 1 132 in 2010); approximately half of the cases had been contracted through injecting drug use. HCV prevalence among 682 clients of nine needle and syringe programme sites was 60.5 % in 2009. In 2013 some 20 cases of acute hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection were diagnosed; the means of transmission were identified in a small proportion of cases, and only one was attributed to the injecting drug use. In 2013, of 248 chronic HBV cases, three had contracted acute infection through injecting drug use.
In general, there has been a significant decline in HIV and HBV infections linked to injecting drug use over the past decade, which is largely attributed to the work of health counselling centres, including the exchange of used needles and syringes for clean ones and provision of the HBV vaccination free of charge to risk groups. However, the prevalence of HCV has remained fairly stable.
Look for Drug-related infectious diseases in the Statistical bulletin for more information.
Drug-induced deaths and mortality among drug users
The National Cause of Death Register (General Mortality Register — Statistics Finland) and the Special Registry provide data on drug-induced deaths in Finland. Data from the Special Registry are based on forensic toxicological examinations that must be conducted in cases where death is unexpected or sudden. Data extraction and reporting is in line with the EMCDDA definitions and recommendations.
A third indicative source is the Hjelt Institute, which provides data on the number of cases with positive chemical findings in forensic autopsies. The drug is not necessarily the direct cause of death for these cases.
According to the standard definition for the general mortality registries there were 201 drug-induced deaths in 2013, which is down from the 213 cases reported in 2012. Over the past 11 years the number of drug-induced deaths has generally increased and there was a fairly sharp increase in 2011 and 2012, mainly due to an increase in opioid- , amphetamine-, and cannabinoid-induced deaths. In 2013 a total of 164 deaths involved opioids — mainly opioid-containing medications such as buprenorphine, usually in combination with other psychoactive substances, e.g. alcohol or benzodiazepines. According to the General Mortality Register, 40 % of drug-induced deaths in 2000 involved people under the age of 25. This trend has since levelled off, and in 2013 the proportion of drug-induced deaths involving people under the age of 25 decreased to about 14 %. In 2013 the mean age of the victims was 38.9 years and the majority of the deceased were male (148). Some cases were related to new psychoactive drugs, of which MDPV was the most commonly found among the stimulant type of drugs.
The drug-induced mortality rate among adults (15–64) is 54.3 deaths per million, more than three times the European average of 17.2 deaths per million in 2012.
Look for Drug-related deaths in the Statistical bulletin for more information.
Treatment responses
The provision of drug treatment falls under the responsibility of the regions and municipalities and is regulated by the Act on Welfare for Substance Abusers, the Social Welfare Act, the Mental Health Act and a Decree governing detoxification and substitution treatment for opioid addicts.
Specialised services are mainly provided by social welfare, while a trend to move drug treatment to primary health is increasingly noticeable. In particular this can be observed in the provision of opioid substitution treatment (OST), which has increasingly been transferred to health centres or pharmacies. Drug treatment is mainly funded by the public budget of the communities and delivered by NGOs or foundations, or public treatment agencies; however, long waiting times, the attitude of primary health providers and the distance to a specialised service are mentioned as obstacles for accessibility of treatment services.
Problem alcohol use is a much greater problem in Finland than is illicit drug use. Thus, there are more generic addiction treatment facilities than specific facilities, and this is the case for both outpatient and inpatient facilities. Drug treatment can be divided into five main categories: outpatient clinics; short-term inpatient care; long-term rehabilitation units; support services; and peer support activities. Outpatient services provide treatment for all kinds of addictions, and also include specialised youth outpatient services and outpatient services for problem drug users. They provide an assessment of mental and somatic status, counselling, individual, family or group therapy, referrals, detoxifications or OST. Short-term inpatient care refers to inpatient detoxification treatment, which is usually arranged in rehabilitation units, detoxification units or specialised healthcare services. The duration of the detoxification period varies from 24 hours to four weeks. Long-term rehabilitation includes residential psychosocial treatment for problem drug users, residential services for youth and psychiatric services for problem drug users. Support services include rehabilitative day-care centres and housing services. In addition, income-related activities, living and employment assistance are provided to facilitate treatment and recovery. Specialised medical care for addiction is also provided in emergency clinics and mental health services. It should be noted that available treatment is often focused on the needs of opioid users, while long-term treatment options for amphetamine users remain limited. The care guideline on the treatment of drug abuse was updated in 2012 and now incorporates guidelines for the treatment of users of new psychoactive substances and cannabis, emergency care cases, pregnant women, and ADHD and intoxicants users.
OST is provided in inpatient and outpatient settings. It is typically initiated in specialised inpatient units, after which clients are transferred to social outpatient services or health centres. General practitioners and pharmacies are increasingly involved in the provision of these services. Methadone was introduced in Finland in 1974 and buprenorphine became available in 1997. The buprenorphine/naloxone combination was introduced in 2004, making Finland the first country in Europe where this substitution medication became available.
In 2011 a total of 2 439 clients were reported to be receiving OST, of which 931 were on methadone and 1 508 were on buprenorphine-based medication.
See the Treatment profile for Finland for additional information.
Harm reduction responses
In 1998, when the HIV epidemic began among Finnish drug users, public attention focused on preventing the disease being transmitted among people who inject drugs. Based on the Communicable Diseases Decree of 1986, which stipulates that the local level (municipalities) is in charge of the prevention of infectious diseases, harm reduction services were established and are implemented by municipal bodies.
Current harm reduction responses in Finland include outreach work and local health counselling centres. In addition, some harm reduction activities are carried out at treatment units. Outreach work mainly involves street patrols, with the aim of mediating between drug users and the official care system. Peer work is used in several locations and focuses on reaching the most excluded and hardest to reach groups of drug users.
Health counselling centres are low-threshold facilities catering for problem drug users, offering: referral to treatment; case management; information on drug-related diseases and risks such as overdoses; needle exchange; testing of infectious diseases and vaccinations; and small-scale healthcare. It should be noted that referral to treatment is considered an integral component of harm reduction services in Finland. However, there is some variation in service provision, depending on the facilities. The health counselling centres that provide sterile injecting equipment to prevent infectious diseases are located mainly in cities of over 100 000 inhabitants, and are available at about 35 locations across Finland (25 fixed sites, two sites serviced by outreach workers and 13 sites serviced by needle and syringe programme vans).
A decree on vaccinations passed in 2004 recommends, as part of the general vaccination programme, free vaccination against hepatitis A and B viruses for people who inject drugs (PWID), their sexual partners and individuals living in the same household. The most recent data indicate that more than one-third of PWID in contact with the drug treatment system had received all three vaccine doses and more than half had received at least one.
According to available data, the number of clients using the needle and syringe programmes at health counselling centres has significantly increased during the period 2001–10, from 8 400 to more than 14 000 individual clients reached. In recent years, client numbers seem to have stabilised at around 11 000. The number of syringes given out has increased year on year from 950 000 in 2001 to 3.8 million in 2013. Needles and syringes can also be purchased without medical prescription at most pharmacies in Finland, and pharmacies play a key role in needle and syringe provision in areas where there are no health counselling centres.
In Finland the HBV vaccine is recommended for several high-risk groups, including prisoners and injecting drug users.
See the Harm reduction overview for Finland for additional information.
Drug markets and drug-law offences
Finland is not a prime target of the worldwide drug trade; however, the drug trade is professional and dominated by organised crime groups with strong international connections to the neighbouring countries of Estonia and Lithuania. Because of its location, Finland is increasingly seen as a route to Russia for cocaine and hashish, for example.
While the Finnish drug market is fairly stable, there is concern over an increase in the domestic cultivation of cannabis and its professionalisation, and the smuggling of amphetamines, ecstasy and other synthetic psychoactive substances and narcotic pharmaceuticals. The supply of hashish mainly originates from Morocco, reaching the Finnish market from central or eastern Europe. Amphetamine is smuggled to Finland mostly via Sweden and Estonia, primarily from western European sources. The availability of heroin in the Finnish market plummeted after 2001, and it was replaced by buprenorphine. The number of Subutex tablets seized, smuggled into Finland from France, increased. Smaller amounts had been brought in mainly from diverted foreign prescriptions, primarily from Estonia. However, since it is no longer possible to import Subutex legally under prescriptions signed in Estonia, other countries like Sweden, the United Kingdom, Lithuania and countries in the Far East (via the Internet) have emerged as potential sources. The increased availability of new psychoactive substances (NPS) is one of the emerging trends of the Finnish drug scene, and they are usually ordered online from abroad. In 2010, for the first time ever, police discovered a local production site of synthetic drugs and the quantities of mCPP tablets seized indicated that the production was intended for export. NPS are mainly imported via mail or express cargo services from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Poland and Germany.
In 2013 the number of seizures of cannabis products continued to increase when compared to the previous years. A total of 122 kg of cannabis resin, 285 kg of herbal cannabis and 23 000 cannabis plants were seized in 2013. The quantity of amphetamine seized decreased from 124 kg in 2012 to 84 kg in 2013, and the amount of methamphetamine seized continued to decrease from 28 kg in 2011 to 7.4 kg in 2013. In 2013 an exceptionally high number of ecstasy seizures (795) resulted in a total of 121 600 tablets seized, which is the largest amount seized since 1967, when drug seizures began. Cocaine has been appearing on the market more frequently in past 10 years, but it remains rather marginal. In 2012 an exceptionally large amount of cocaine was seized: about 26 kg, of which 20 kg was en route to Sweden. In 2013 a total of 4.5 kg of cocaine was seized. As heroin has been largely replaced by illegally obtained Subutex, it is worth noting that more than 37 000 Subutex tablets were seized in Finland in 2013.
In 2013 a record number of 22 636 drug-law offences were reported, and more than 56 % of all reports were use-related offences.
Look for Drug law offences in the Statistical bulletin for additional data.
National drug laws
The central framework for drug legislation in Finland is based on the Narcotics Act. The provisions for drug offences are laid down in Chapter 50 of the Penal Code. Use of drugs and possession of small amounts of drugs for own use constitute drug-use offences punishable by a fine or a maximum of six months' imprisonment. Prosecution and punishment can be waived if the offence is considered insignificant, or if the suspect has sought treatment specified by the Decree of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health.
A 'drug offence' includes possession (whether for personal use or supply), manufacturing, growing, smuggling, selling and dealing. There is no specific offence of dealing or trafficking. The penalties for a drug offence range from a fine to a maximum of two years' imprisonment, while an aggravated drug offence is punishable by 1–10 years' imprisonment. Aggravating circumstances for a drug offence include, for example: substances considered as 'very dangerous'; large quantities of drugs; considerable financial profit; or if the offender acts as a member of a group that has been organised for the express purpose of committing such an offence.
In 2014, the Narcotics Act was amended to address both narcotics and 'psychoactive substances banned from the consumer market'. These latter substances are listed in a Government Decree following a defined procedure of evaluation, and unauthorised supply is classed as an offence endangering health and safety, punishable by up to one year in prison.
Go to the European Legal Database on Drugs (ELDD) for additional information.
National drug strategy
The principles and objectives of Finland's drug policy were described in its 1997 National Drugs Strategy, and subsequent resolutions outline action for specific periods. Following resolutions for the periods 2004–07 and 2008–11, the Government Resolution on the Action Plan to Reduce Drug Use and Related Harm was adopted in August 2012. Covering the period 2012–15, it is primarily concerned with illicit drugs and represents continuity with the approach set out in the 1997 strategy.
The 2012 Action Plan addresses five areas: (i) preventive work and early intervention; (ii) combating drug-related crime; (iii) treatment of drug addiction and reduction of harm from drug use; (iv) the European Union's drug policy and international cooperation; and (v) information collection and research regarding drug problems.
Coordination mechanism in the field of drugs
In 1999 the Government set up the National Drug Policy Coordination Group, which is composed of representatives from all involved ministries and is re-appointed every four years. This group has the task of coordinating national drug policy and intensifying collaboration between authorities in their effort to implement and monitor the Government Resolution on Cooperation regarding national drug policy for 2008–11. It is coordinated by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and is attended by representatives from the Ministry of the Interior, the National Police Board, the Ministry of Justice, the Office of the Prosecutor General, the Ministry of Finance, the customs authorities, the Ministry of Education and Culture, the National Board of Education, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the National Institute for Health and Welfare and the Finnish Medicines Agency, Fimea.
Each municipality has a substance abuse worker who coordinates local actions, mainly in the field of prevention. These substance abuse workers are coordinated and supervised by the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). Provincial governments have cross-sectoral working groups for alcohol and drug issues, which coordinate and supervise the implementation of actions by the municipalities.
Public expenditure
The Finnish Government approves an annual drug budget that is in line with its drug strategy and action plan. Annual estimates of expenditures are also provided and include both labelled and unlabelled expenditures (1,2). The method used to estimate total drug related expenditure was updated in 2012, and data for that year is not comparable with previously reported data.
In 2012 total drug-related expenditure represented 0.2 % of GDP (Table 1), with 61 % spent on public order and safety, 25 % on transfers for social protection and 13 % on healthcare.
Trend analysis shows that in 2012 total drug-related public expenditure remained broadly unchanged in real terms (it varied by –0.6 % compared to the previous year); nonetheless, the increase of 2.6 % registered in nominal terms.
|Expenditure (thousand EUR)
|% of total (a)
|(a) EMCDDA estimations.
(b) According to the United Nations Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG) Eurostat data sources: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/ (general) and http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regcst.asp?Cl=4
Source: National Annual report of Finland (2011).
|COFOG classification (b)
|Public order and safety
|244 500
|Social protection
|101 500
|53 300
|399 300
|% of GDP
- (1) Some of the drug-related public expenditure is identified as such in the budget ('labelled'). Often, however, the bulk of drug-related expenditure is not identified ('unlabelled') and must be estimated by modelling approaches. The total budget is the sum of labelled and unlabelled expenditures.
- (2) Unlabelled expenditures are estimated on the basis of the method developed in Hein, R. and Salomaa, J. (1998), 'Päihteiden käytön haittakustannukset Suomessa vuosina 1994–1995. Alkoholi ja huumeet' ['Harm-related costs of substance use in Finland 1994–1995: alcohol and drugs'], Tilastoraportti 4 Helsinki: Stakes.
Drug-related research
Greater emphasis was first placed on drug-related research in the 1990s, as experimentation and use of drugs and their related harms were increasing. In the past 10 years drug-related research has evolved from a global approach and setting up the basic indicators for monitoring the drug situation to detailed research based on the development of the drug situation. The current policy guidelines include a section on information collection and research. Major actors in this area include the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), the National Research Institute on Legal Policy and several university departments. The state budget and the Academy of Finland are the main funding sources of drug-related research. The Nordic Centre for Welfare and Social Issues (NVC), based in Helsinki, also plays an important role in promoting and supporting research cooperation amongst the Nordic countries. The main channels for disseminating research findings are the drug situation report, published online by the Finnish National Focal Point, the scientific journals that publish drug-related research and Internet portals. Recent drug-related studies mentioned in the 2014 Finnish National report have focused on responses to and consequences of drug use, but research on prevalence and on methodological issues has also been reported.
Key national figures and statistics
b Break in time series.
e Estimated.
p Eurostat provisional value.
1 Gross domestic product (GDP) is a measure of economic activity. It is defined as the value of all goods and services produced less the value of any goods or services used in their creation. The volume index of GDP per capita in Purchasing Power Standards (PPS) is expressed in relation to the European Union (EU-27) average set to equal 100. If the index of a country is higher than 100, this country's level of GDP per head is higher than the EU average and vice versa.
2 Expenditure on social protection contains: benefits, which consist of transfers, in cash or in kind to households and individuals to relieve them of the burden of a defined set of risks or needs.
3 Unemployment rates represent unemployed persons as a percentage of the labour force. Unemployed persons comprise persons aged 15 to 74 who were: (a) without work during the reference week; (b) currently available for work; (c) actively seeking work.
4 Situation of penal institutions on 1 September, 2012.
5 Share of persons aged 0+ with an equivalent disposable income below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold, which is set at 60 % of the national median equivalised disposable income (after social transfers).
|EU (28 countries)
|5 451 949
|506 824 509 ep
|Population by age classes
|12.0 %
|11.3 % bep
|31.5 %
|34.7 % bep
|20.7 %
|19.9 % bep
|GDP per capita in PPS (Purchasing Power Standards) 1
|Total expenditure on social protection (% of GDP) 2
|31.2 %
|29.5 % p
|Unemployment rate 3
|8.7 %
|10.2 %
|Unemployment rate of population aged under 25 years
|20.5 %
|22.2 %
|Prison population rate (per 100 000 of national population) 4
|Council of Europe, SPACE I-2013
|At risk of poverty rate 5
|11.8 %
|16.6 % e
Data sheet — key statistics on the drug situation
|EU range
|Country data
|Reporting Countries
|Problem opioid use (rate/1 000)
|All clients entering treatment (%)
|New clients entering treatment (%)
|Purity — heroin brown (%)
|Price per gram — heroin brown (EUR)
|Prevalence of drug use — schools (%)
|Prevalence of drug use — young adults (%)
|Prevalence of drug use — all adults (%)
|All clients entering treatment (%)
|New clients entering treatment (%)
|Purity (%)
|Price per gram (EUR)
|Prevalence of drug use — schools (%)
|Prevalence of drug use — young adults (%)
|Prevalence of drug use — all adults (%)
|All clients entering treatment (%)
|New clients entering treatment (%)
|Purity (%)
|Price per gram (EUR)
|Prevalence of drug use — schools (%)
|Prevalence of drug use — young adults (%)
|Prevalence of drug use — all adults (%)
|All clients entering treatment (%)
|New clients entering treatment (%)
|Purity (mg of MDMA base per unit)
|26 mg
|144 mg
|Price per tablet (EUR)
|Prevalence of drug use — schools (%)
|Prevalence of drug use — young adults (%)
|Prevalence of drug use — all adults (%)
|All clients entering treatment (%)
|New clients entering treatment (%)
|Potency — herbal (%)
|Potency — resin (%)
|Price per gram — herbal (EUR)
|Price per gram — resin (EUR)
|Prevalence of problem drug use
|Problem drug use (rate/1 000)
|Injecting drug use (rate/1 000)
|Drug-related infectious diseases/deaths
|HIV infections newly diagnosed (rate/million)
|HIV prevalence (%)
|HCV prevalence (%)
|Drug-related deaths (rate/million)
|Health and social responses
|Syringes distributed
|3 834 262
|124 406
|9 457 256
|Clients in substitution treatment
|2 439
|172 513
|Treatment demand
|All clients
|1 099
|101 753
|New clients
|35 229
|All clients with known primary drug
|1 099
|99 186
|New clients with known primary drug
|34 524
|Drug law offences
|Number of reports of offences
|22 636
|426 707
|Offences for use/possession
|12 738
|397 713
Additional sources of national information
In addition to the information provided above, you might find the following resources useful sources of national data.
European overviews
The products listed below provide overviews at European as well as, to some degree, at national levels.
- European Drug Report: Trends and developments
A top-level annual overview of the long-term drug-related trends and developments at European level, while homing in on emerging problems in specific countries
- EU drug markets report
Published every three years, this provides a comprehensive overview of illicit drug markets in the European Union
- New psychoactive substances annual implementation report
Annual report on the information exchange, risk assessment and control of new psychoactive substances in Europe
Data sources
The information below forms the basis for the EMCDDA's analysis of the European drug situation and provides greater detail on each national drug situation.
Thematic resources by country
These products generally focus on one particular aspect of national drug-related information, in some cases making it easy to compare situations between different countries
- Health and social responses profiles
Overviews of health and social interventions through interactive maps and timelines
- Legal topic overviews:
Legal approaches to particular areas of drug use (personal possession, driving, cannabis, precursors, harm reduction, etc.) by country
- Prevalence maps
Interactive maps showing patterns of drug use throughout Europe
- Prevention profiles
An overview of prevention responses by country in Europe
- Treatment profiles
An overview of treatment responses by country in Europe
- Harm reduction overviews
An overview of harm reduction responses by country in Europe
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I love stories written from Pokemon's POVs.
Vato! I decided to check out your fic, since I haven't read any of the previous versions of this one. So everything is completely new to me.
I like how the story is going to be. An adventure traveling around trying to rescue someone, especially when those travelers are ones that haven't seen the world? I like it already. (Especially dragons. Love them.)
The one thing that I have to comment on is your grammar. It's still readable, so I wasn't distracted by it enough to not enjoy your story. Plus, I understand that since English isn't your first language, that there would be some mistakes. Most of them, though, were typos that you could catch yourself with a read-through once you finish your first chapter. The main one I noticed was one that a lot of people have some difficulties with: punctuating dialogue.
"Good luck" says the Pikachu, with a big smile in his face, and I mean a very big one.
"Thanks" I whisper.
Here, you don't have any punctuation for the dialogue. That is, before the closing quotation marks. For both of these, you'll need a comma. You use a comma when you use a dialogue tag ("said", "whisper") because you're describing how the words are said. So:
"Good luck
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Like that.
If there is no dialogue tag, then you'll use a full stop.
{quote]Good luck
" Pikachu smiled
I was going to explain further, but it seems like you have a handle on the rest. It's just remembering to punctuate when you don't use a question mark or an exclamation mark for your dialogue.
If you have any questions on this, feel free to ask. I'm also willing to look over your chapters and help you with grammar before you post them, if you'd like.
Looking forward to more. Can't wait to see Pikachu and Minccino start their adventure!
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The City Council voted "yes" Wednesday night to a plan that would bring minor league baseball to Escondido, but council members said several changes would be needed before a final agreement is approved in February.
After a four-hour public hearing, council members voted 4-1 in favor of spending $50 million in redevelopment money to build a ballpark just north of downtown that would be home to a Triple-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres for the next 30 years.
While the vote is a loud and clear sign that the council thinks 30 years of minor league baseball is worth $50 million, the council and Padres owner Jeff Moorad will each have several opportunities to back out of the deal before ballpark construction is scheduled to start in January 2012.
Councilman Ed Gallo voted "no" Wednesday, saying the city can't afford to spend so much of its redevelopment money on a project with so little guaranteed return on investment.
The other council members praised the ballpark as a catalyst for development and job creation that could turn the city around financially, but Mayor Sam Abed and Councilwoman Olga Diaz said they wanted several changes before the agreement is finalized in February.
Abed balked at giving Moorad and his investors an exclusive option to buy city land next to the ballpark. Abed also requested that the investors agree to cover up to $10 million in potential land and infrastructure cost increases, instead of the $5 million previously agreed to.
Diaz requested that the city receive some share of revenue from the ballpark, complaining that the deal allowed the investors to keep all money from ticket sales, concessions and naming rights.
But Charles Black, an attorney hired by the city, said transferring any such revenue to the city could jeopardize the tax-exempt status of the project and sharply increase the interest the city would pay on money it would borrow to build the ballpark.
The requested changes were so significant that the council decided not to approve the actual agreement presented to them, but instead voted to direct City Manager Clay Phillips to use the agreement as a "template" for a more formal deal that the council is scheduled to consider Feb. 16.
Moorad said he was OK with that approach, but emphasized that he didn't want to revisit all the issues that had already been resolved.
"I don't know that the deal can withstand a complete re-opening," Moorad said.
But Moorad adviser Steve Peace indicated there was some wiggle room.
"We're not agreeing to anything here, but we haven't got up and run out of the room," Peace said.
Moorad has already agreed to several other concessions this fall, including compromises on sites for parking and who would cover cost overruns on ballpark construction. And Wednesday, he agreed to cover the "possessory use" tax that the county will charge the city for the ballpark.
Moorad had sought a strong message of support from the council Wednesday because he is slated next Monday to finalize his purchase of the Portland Beavers, the team that would play in Escondido beginning in April 2013.
Council members Michael Morasco, who was appointed last week, and Marie Waldron gave the kind of message Moorad sought.
Waldron said the ballpark could make Escondido a destination city and would boost city revenue enough to help fix up old neighborhoods and hire new firefighters.
Morasco was less effusive, but said he liked the way the deal was headed.
"We've been offered a diamond and I'm willing to get engaged," said Morasco, noting that some things still had to be worked out before the deal became a marriage.


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How about both? When you read shopping cart data, check your session first. If it's there, you save a trip to the database (if your session isn't backed by a database). When you write, write to session and persist to the database. That way, you get speedy reads and the user doesn't lose their cart when they close their browser.
If your shopping cart software can make the most of abandoned carts (send reminders that maybe they should come back and finsh the sale ect) and flush them from database and does good database housecleaning then keep them in the database.
If it only allows a return user to continue with current cart items then keep them hashed in cookie.
If you want a fresh cart on a return visit then maybe leave in session.
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