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"Welfare" - The Great Delusion
We have long argued that at its core, modern society, at least on a mathematical basis - the one which ultimately trumps hopium every single time - is fatally flawed due to the existence, and implementation, of the concept of modern "welfare" - an idea spawned by Otto von Bismarck in the 1870s, and since enveloped the globe in various forms of transfer payments which provide the illusion of a social safety net, dangles the carrot of pension, health, and retirement benefits, and in turn converts society into a collage of blank faces, calm as Hindu cows. Alas, the cows will promptly become enraged bulls once they realize that all that has been promised to them in exchange for their docility and complacency has... well... vaporized. It is at that point that the final comprehension would dawn, that instead of a Welfare State, it has been, as Bill Buckler terms it, a Hardship State all along. Below we present the latest views from the captain of The Privateer on what the insoluble dilemma of the welfare state is, and what the key problems that the status quo will face with its attempts at perpetuating this lie.
From The Privateer
The Great Delusion - "Welfare"
For the best part of the last two decades, it has been accepted as an indisputable fact even by the mainstream media that the two great pillars of the welfare state - medicare and social security - will break the government which offers them. Today, every nation in the world makes at least some pretense of providing "welfare" to its citizens. Since the "developed" (or "rich") nations are those where these systems are most "developed", these are the nations most at risk of crumbling under their burdens.
Welfare has many antonyms, but "hardship" is particularly apt in this context. Wikipedia's entry on "welfare" ends like this: "... this term replaces "charity" as it was known for thousands of years, being the act of providing for those who temporarily or permanently could not provide for themselves." As usual, the defining characteristic is missed. Charity is voluntary. "Welfare" as practised by government is compulsory. This makes the two terms opposites. It also brings about the opposite results. Charity is a voluntary act made by those who have a surplus to assist those who do not. "Welfare" is a system guaranteed to end up in hardship for everyone but particularly for those who are forced to be "charitable".
The insoluble dilemma of a "welfare state" is twofold. First, it results in a situation in which the majority of people who vote are partially or wholly dependent on the state for their sustenance. In every "advanced" nation today, those who vote for a living outnumber those who work for one. It is true that not everybody, or even a majority of those eligible in many cases, bothers to vote at all. It is equally true that the "wards of the state" have much more incentive to vote than do those who are to provide for them.
The second dilemma is the issue of the unfunded liabilities. The US government divides its budget into discretionary and NON discretionary items. The bulwarks of the welfare state, social security and medicare, fall into the second category. They are considered untouchable. There are only two problems here. First, the unfunded liabilities of these two programs are somewhere in the order of $US 80 - 120 TRILLION. Second, any talk of sharply lower annual deficits (let alone talk of a return to a budget balance) are puerile without MAJOR surgery being performed on medicare and social security. They are gigantic millstones around the neck of the US economy as they are on the economies of all other nations.
In the hands of government - "welfare" becomes its antithesis - "hardship". Today, this is being illustrated in real time in Greece. But no nation can afford a welfare state in the long run.
It appears that the "Captain" is on to something here. A few short hours ago none other than Goldman Sachs was forced to come out with a report attempting to justify this most fundamental social illusion, in "Is Health Spending Unsustainable" - that only Goldman, and potentially the San Fran Fed, could put this question for serious debate when it is well known that the unfunded liabilities associated with such luxuries is in the triple trillion digit ballpark, speaks volumes. Yet, since even Goldman is now floating various "trial balloons", we can only assume that this is about to become a big issue for policy, especially ahead of the Supreme Court's hearings later this month on the constitutionality of the national health care law.
From Goldman Sachs
I. Is Health Spending Unsustainable?
Health spending in the US exceeds that of any other developed nation, topping the next largest spender by nearly half again as much (as a share of GDP). Spending has also tended to grow faster in the United States than elsewhere (Exhibit 1). Unchecked spending runs the risk of destabilizing public finances, reducing competitiveness with trading partners, and ultimately crowding out other productive uses of resources. This is particularly the case if health spending is inefficient (Exhibit 2).
However, the case that health spending is "unsustainable" isn't as clear cut as the debate has sometimes made it out to be. After all, dedicating a larger share of future income gains to improving health could be a more productive investment than increasing other forms of personal consumption. Moreover, while health spending within federal programs is clearly unsustainable under current policies and growth trends, whether broader health spending should also be deemed to be growing too quickly depends on whether increased spending improves outcomes and whether it affects the ability of the rest of the economy to grow.
What Drives Health Spending?
From 1970 through 2010, nominal health spending grew at an average annual rate of 9.7%, well in excess of nominal GDP growth of 6.8%. Excess growth was greatest in the 1970s and 1980s, declined in the 1990s, and reaccelerated somewhat in the last decade (Exhibit 3). Continual growth in excess of GDP growth has led health spending to reach 15% of GDP (Exhibit 4). Notably, this has occurred while the out of pocket costs to patients and consumers have declined, replaced by indirect costs such as insurance premiums and taxes that fund public programs, as well as federal borrowing.
There is no single cause for excess growth in health spending, but a large body of research has focused on the drivers of growth and has reached qualitatively similar conclusions, as shown in Exhibit 5:
Technology. Advancement in the state of technology typically increases cost over existing products or procedures, though it may produce savings in other areas. Academic work has typically attributed residual spending growth to technology, after accounting for other measurable factors. More recent work has tended to find a slightly smaller though still large contribution from technology to total health spending.The exact magnitude is necessarily imprecise in any case, given substantial interaction between the availability of new technology and willingness to pay for it due to rising incomes and greater insurance.
Income. Differences in income explain a good deal of international variation in the health spending to GDP ratio (Exhibit 6). This implies that as societies become richer, they devote a greater share of additional income gains to health rather than other forms of consumption. We find that regressing excess cost growth through 2010 against real GDP growth with a one year lag produces a statistically significant coefficient similar to the estimates shown in Exhibit 5.
Insurance. The RAND Health Insurance Experiment conducted in the late 1970s found an insurance elasticity of 0.2, which implies that around 10% of the increase in real per capita spending growth since 1960 is attributable to increased insurance coverage. A more recent study examining the effect of coverage in Medicare found a much greater effect, suggesting increased insurance coverage could be responsible for as much as half of the increase in per capita spending. (See Amy Finkelstein, "The Aggregate Effects of Health Insurance: Evidence from the Introduction of Medicare," 2006.)
Demographics. The contribution of aging of the population to spending growth is more certain but even here there are differences in estimated magnitude. Clearly, aging will become a more important source of health spending growth over the next two decades, but as spending on the "baby boomer" generation peaks, income growth and technology are likely to be more important factors over the long run.
What do official projections assume?
Despite chronic health spending growth in excess of GDP growth (an average of 2.1 percentage points on a real per capita basis since 1975) official estimates of Medicare solvency had until about ten years ago assumed a long-range growth rate essentially equivalent to GDP. This was eventually increased to GDP plus one percentage point, where it remained until passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Following enactment of that law, the official Medicare projections reported annually by program trustees are now based on growth of GDP minus 0.1 percent.
The ACA permanently reduced annual payment increases for Medicare providers and sets in motion a number of payment policy reforms that could lower utilization, so a reduction in future Medicare cost growth of this magnitude seems reasonable. However, these new lower projections have upside risk given that some of the reduction in growth stems from sizeable payment reductions that might eventually be reversed. Moreover, while the ACA improved Medicare finances, these savings as well as new taxes go to finance insurance expansion, which will raise total health spending in the medium term (Exhibit 7).
When Does Health Spending Become Unsustainable?
One of the difficulties in determining how long health spending is likely to grow as a share of the economy is that the US health care system has not existed for all that long in its current form. Commercial insurance companies only began to offer health insurance on a large scale around World War II (partly due to the employer response to wage controls), and federal health insurance programs (Medicare and Medicaid)were not established until the 1960's. That said, some trends would likely prompt a reduction in health spending growth:
Public finances become strained. Since health spending totals about 15% of GDP but 23% of federal outlays, when health spending grows in excess of GDP, government spending as a share of GDP will necessarily expand. The demographic mix of publicly vs. privately insured individuals will add to fiscal pressures. Exhibit 8 shows the trajectory of spending assuming that historical excess cost growth gradually slows to zero and that certain cost containment policies are not maintained over the long term.
Whereas the private sector can gradually respond to increased health spending, the public sector—and particularly the federal—reaction is apt to be much slower, leading to deficit spending until changes are adopted. As shown in Exhibit 8, health spending if left unchecked would not only crowd out other spending but would also eventually exhaust all federal revenues.
Of course, we would expect the situation to be addressed long before this happens.
Health spending begins to crowd out real non-health consumption. This is not such a hard test to meet over the medium term, mainly because of the "low" base from which health spending as a share of GDP starts. Real per capita spending growth of around GDP+1.5% would slow but probably not reverse nonhealth consumption growth over the next 75 years, though this depends greatly on real growth and demographic assumptions (Exhibit 9).
Increased health spending begins to weigh on growth, creating a vicious circle. This appears quite distant, if it ever occurs. The main concern here would be that rising health spending crowds out other productive activities (for instance, fixed investment or education), reducing potential output and further increasing relative health spending. Alternatively, higher taxes (to pay for public programs) or insurance premiums (to pay for private insurance) would reduce workers' take-home pay, with potentially adverse incentive effects at a certain level.
Finally, there is some evidence from businesses that excess health costs reduce employment and output. (Sood et al, find that a 10% increase in excess cost growth (i.e., about 20bps) leads to 121,000 fewer more jobs and $14bn in lost value added. See Neeraj Sood, Arkadipta Ghosh and Jose Escarce (2009) "Health Care Cost Growth, Employer Provided Insurance and the Economic Performance of U.S. Industries," Health Services Research, Vol 44.)
When the Time Finally Comes…
If costs are ultimately deemed too great (or projected growth too fast) what can be done? The decision before policymakers, employers, and individuals falls along two lines: first, what share of total output should be devoted to health care instead of other goods and services, and second, what is the optimal mix of public vs. private payment for whatever share is decided. This leaves three options:
1. Limit growth in health care costs regardless of payor, because activities that would otherwise be crowded out by health spending are deemed more important. Reaction to rapid growth in the 1980s— health spending consumed around 25% of overall per capita real income growth—led to Medicare payment reductions and broader use of managed care. This, along with strong growth elsewhere in the economy,stabilized the health share of GDP temporarily. Future restraint in health spending is likely to come from elsewhere, particularly given that Medicare cuts were already used to finance new spending under the ACA, so those savings have already been captured. A reduction in the geographic disparity of health spending is one option for future savings—patients in some areas of the country receive much greater intensity of treatment at greater cost than patients in other parts of the country, but show little medical benefit. (See for instance "Health Care Spending, Quality, and Outcomes; More Isn't Always Better," Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, 2009) Use of information technology to increase medical and administrative efficiency is another.
2. Allow health spending to rise, but reallocate payment responsibility from the public sector to the private sector, in order to avoid the fiscal consequences that would follow, i.e., tax increases or spending cuts elsewhere in the budget. Since most of the public policy discussion regarding the rise in health spending relates to Medicare, and to a lesser extent Medicaid, it is quite possible that policymakers will find it sufficient to shift the financing burden for health costs away from the federal budget. This could mean an increase in the burden on state governments (they already face growth in Medicaid spending under the ACA), and would almost certainly imply increased cost-sharing for Medicare enrollees, thus shifting some of financing burden back to the private sector in the form of higher out of pocket spending. Under some proposals, such as that offered by House Budget Committee Paul Ryan, Medicare spending would be capped at GDP+1. The Bowles-Simpson proposal would apply the limitation more broadly, limiting federal health spending and the tax exclusion for employer sponsored benefits to GDP+1, though it is not specific on how this would be accomplished.
3. Allow public health spending to rise and reallocate resources to pay for it. While it is unlikely that public-sector health spending growth would go completely unchecked, it is possible that additional health spending restraint could be modest, with a greater focus on reallocating resources to cover increasing state and federal health costs. The result would likely be higher taxes in this scenario, since in 2011 Congress already capped discretionary spending (annual appropriations by Congress) and automatic cuts set to take effect next year would reduce this segment further (we assume these will be pushed back past 2013). We estimate that the primary budget deficit (i.e., excluding interest) will average around 2% of GDP over the next ten years and it is politically unrealistic to imagine that such a large amount of savings can be found in the 13% of the budget that excludes appropriations, health, and Social Security. The upshot under this scenario would most likely be a tax increase of a magnitude similar to our estimated primary deficit of around 2% of GDP (roughly the size of the 2001/2003 tax cuts set to expire at year end). However, this would be the minimum under such a scenario, for two reasons: first, health spending would continue to rise, requiring additional tax hikes later on. Second, eliminating the primary deficit over the medium term is the minimum—a primary surplus is needed to bring down the ratio of debt to GDP.
The ultimate outcome is likely to be a combination of all three scenarios, though we suspect public policy will focus on the second and third options since they have less ability to influence the growth of privately financed health spending. It is also worth noting that health spending may naturally slow as its ratio to GDP rises; a simple regression of excess cost growth against the lagged ratio of health spending to GDP shows a coefficient of around -0.25, implying a gradual slowing in the growth rate even as the level of health spending continues to increase.


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Editorials: Trudeau must turf first-past-the-post system once and for all | Kelly Carmichael/National Observer
Editorials: Trudeau must turf first-past-the-post…
In the 2015 election, the Liberal Party committed to a platform they called "Make Every Vote Count." Now, they are poised to embark on a process that could make Canada fairer and more inclusive for all voters. The stakes couldn't be higher for democracy. So what's the problem we're trying to fix? On October 19, over 9,000,000 voters (51.8 per cent) were unable to make their vote count and elect a representative to bring their voices to Ottawa. The country elected a majority Liberal government, but as usual did so with less than a majority of the vote (39.5 per cent). Most Liberals in Alberta and Saskatchewan, New Democrats and Conservatives in Toronto and Atlantic Canada— and Greens nearly everywhere— elected no representation to Parliament. That's a big problem. When your vote means nothing, it disempowers citizens and breeds disdain for democracy— and widespread apathy.
And problems with majoritarian systems like first-past-the-post (FPTP) don't end on election day. When parties can easily win 100 per cent of the power with as little as 39 per cent of the popular vote, they can lose their majority just as quickly. To say the least, this undermines stable solutions. FPTP voting creates an endless cycle of policy lurch, where the new government reverses the policies of the previous government at a huge cost to citizens.
Stephen Harper spent his term undoing Liberal policy and infrastructure and now the Trudeau Government will start over and rebuild what was lost: Canada Post, the long form census, pulling troops out of Syria, rebuilding our Coast Guard, unmuzzling scientists, rebuilding our criminal law system, restoring healthcare for refugees… you get the point.
Thus "winner-take-all" electoral systems force parties to focus policy decisions on four-year cycles, with constant campaigning aimed at winning another 39 per cent majority. Long-term solutions on issues Canadians care about are sidelined in favour of inaction, pandering, or quick fixes that don't always last.
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November 1, 1956 ~ December 12, 2018 (age 62)
Mr. Curtis Snell, 62, of 114 Capron Court, Vance, SC departed this life on Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at his residence. Curtis was born November 1, 1956 in Vance, South Carolina to the late Daniel and Minnie Mae Small Snell.
He was educated in the Vance public schools and graduated from Roberts High School, Holly Hill, South Carolina. He was baptized at the Springfield Missionary Baptist Church in Eutawville, South Carolina and sang on the gospel choir. He later became affiliated with the St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Creston, SC and continued his singing ministry. He was asked to sing at many funerals and did his best to perform, "JESUS IS ALIVE AND WELL." Back in the day to name a few, Curtis enjoyed playing baseball with his cousins, Bobby Jefferson, Earl Snell, and Nathaniel Snell.
In his daily occupations he was a machine operation technician for ZEUS, Carpentry Technology, Holly Hill Lumber Company, Holly Hill Sewing Room, state park, and restaurant work. Most recently he offered his services to the Vance Senior Citizens Group. He loved the Lord, his family and had a genuine smile that will be missed by everyone who knew him.
Mr. Snell is preceded in death by his father, Daniel Sr.; mother, Minnie Mae (Mrs. Peter); sisters, Elder Ida S. Brown and Sarah S. Sumpter; brother, Johnny Lee Snell; and Little Ruby who died in infancy.
He leaves to cherish his fond memories: brothers, William (Mike) Snell of the home, Daniel Snell, Jr. of Sheldon, SC, James-Bill (Malqueen) Snell and Charles Snell of Amityville Long Island, NY, and Tommy Lee (Vincette) Snell of Edinburg, TX; his sisters, Jacqueline (Herman) Shaw of Vance, SC, Pearl (Frank) Goodwin of Eutawville, SC, Rev. Mary S. Washington, and Georgia Gloria (Simon) Gilmore of Orangeburg, SC; a very special dear aunt, Mrs. Jacqueline Young Small of Jamaica, New York (owner of Calvary Cemetery, Hwy. #6, Eutawville, SC), and a host of nieces, nephews, other family members, and friends.
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1. lipnja (1.6.) 152. je dan godine po gregorijanskom kalendaru (153. u prijestupnoj godini).
Do kraja godine ima još 213 dana.

Događaji
 1855. – Američki pustolov William Walker osvojio je Nikaragvu i vratio ropstvo.
 1906. – Finska je kao prva zemlja na svijetu novim izbornim zakonom dala ženama pravo glasa i pravo da budu birane.
 1967. – U Velikoj Britaniji objavljen je album The Beatlesa Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
 1991. – osnovana 114. brigada HV "Škorpioni", Split
 1992. – Hrvatska u Parizu primljena u punopravno članstvo Organizacije UN za obrazovanje, znanost i kulturu (UNESCO).
 1995. – Diverzantsko-teroristička skupina srpske paravojske, prešavši gumenim desantnim čamcem rijeku Kupu, ušla je u mjesto Brest Pokupski, prošla pokraj lokacije dan ranije ukinutog stražarskog mjesta (zbog poštovanja Zagrebačkog sporazuma), te zarobila 22-godišnjeg MLADENA BRLEKOVIĆA, vojnika 12. domobranske pukovnije Petrinja. Vrativši se preko Kupe ispred promatračnice UNCRO-a u mjestu Novom Selištu, odveli su ga u tada okupiranu Petrinju. Crtu razgraničenja ("Ružičasta zona") na podučju Petrinje (tzv. Sjeverni sektor) tada su pokrivali danski, ukrajinski i jordanski bataljuni, a na traženju nestalog zarobljenika djelovali su UNCIPOL, UNHCR i MOCK, kao i hrvatska komisija za razmjene zatočenika koja je vodila bezuspješne pregovore sa srpskom stranom da bi se Brleković zamijenio za Peru Radetića iz mjesta Brđani kod Sunje (zarobljen je 15-ak dana ranije). Početkom akcije "Oluja" 4. kolovoza 1995. zatočeniku se gubi svaki trag...
 2001. – Nepalski kraljević Dipendra na banketu je pobio vlastitu obitelj. I sam ranjen, umro je tri dana nakon što je okrunjen.
 2016. – Otvoren je najdulji tunel na svijetu, Gotardski bazni tunel u Švicarskoj dugačak 57.09 km.

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import logging

from rockit.plugins.razberry import constants as c
from rockit.plugins.razberry import models

class RazberryParser(object):

    def __init__(self):
        self.logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

        self._supportedCommandClasses = {
            '134': lambda n,k,c: self._parse_node_version(n,k,c)
        }

        self._ignoredCommandClasses = {
            '37':  True, # SwitchBinary
            '39':  True, # SwitchAll
            '32':  True, # Basic
            '38':  True, # SwitchMultilevel
            '34':  True, # ApplicationStatus
            '43':  True, # SceneActivation
            '49':  True, # SensorMultilevel
            '50':  True, # Meter
            '70':  True, # ClimateControlSchedule
            '96':  True, # MultiChannel
            '112': True, # Configuration
            '114': True, # ManufacturerSpecific
            '119': True, # NodeNaming
            '129': True, # Clock
            '133': True, # Association
            '138': True, # Time
            '143': True, # MultiCmd
            '152': True, # Security
        }

    def parse_command_classes(self, node, commandClasses):
        if node and commandClasses:
            unknownClass = list()

            for key in commandClasses:
                if key in self._supportedCommandClasses:
                    self._supportedCommandClasses[key](node, key, commandClasses[key]['data'])
                else:
                    unknownClass.append({ 'name': commandClasses[key]['name'], 'value': key })

            if len(unknownClass) != 0:
                self.logger.debug("Unsupported commandClasses %s" % unknownClass)
        else:
            self.logger.warn("Cannot parse command classes, node or command classes are empty")

    def parse_devices(self, devices):
        result = list()

        if devices:
            for key, device in devices.items():
                data = device['data']

                node, created = models.Node.objects.get_or_create(device_id=key)

                node.device_type = self._get_value(data['deviceTypeString'])
                node.manufacturer_id   = self._get_value(data['manufacturerId'])
                node.manufacturer_name = self._get_value(data['vendorString'])

                node.listening = self._get_value(data['isListening'])
                node.routing   = self._get_value(data['isRouting'])
                node.awaken    = self._get_value(data['isAwake'])
                node.beaming = self._get_value(data['beam'])
                node.failed  = self._get_value(data['isFailed'])

                node.save()

                self.parse_instance(node, device['instances'])

                result.append(key)
        else:
            self.logger.debug("Cannot parse devices, devices are empty")

        return result

    def parse_instance(self, node, instances):
        if node and instances:
            for key, instance in instances.items():
                self.parse_command_classes(node, instance['commandClasses'])
        else:
            self.logger.warn("Cannot parse instances, node or instances are empty")

    def _get_value(self, data, defaultValue=""):
        if data and data['value']:
            return data['value']
        return defaultValue

    def _get_value_as_version(self, minor, major, defaultValue=""):
        if(minor and major):
            result = "%s.%s" % (self._get_value(minor), self._get_value(major))

            if len(result) is not 1:
                return result
        return defaultValue

    def _parse_node_version(self, node, key, commandClass):
        version, created = models.NodeVersion.objects.get_or_create(node=node)

        version.sdk = self._get_value(commandClass['SDK'])

        version.application = self._get_value_as_version(
            commandClass['applicationMajor'], commandClass['applicationMinor'])

        version.zw_library  = self._get_value(commandClass['ZWLib'], 0)
        version.zw_protocol = self._get_value_as_version(
            commandClass['ZWProtocolMajor'], commandClass['ZWProtocolMinor'])

        version.save()

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As humans, it's in our nature to fit in. Whether or not you're actively seeking it, deep down, you want the same validation amongst your peers as they do. The feeling of belonging is just something that we naturally seek, and there's nothing wrong with acceptance among the people that you love in your life. In fact, it's perfectly normal to seek this.
However, for those who have struggled with alcoholism or other drinking-related problems in the past, the idea of socializing with peers in a drinking environment can, understandably, make them feel uncomfortable. Moreso than other states, Colorado has a fairly relaxed and casual attitude toward alcohol and marijuana consumption, especially when you consider the prevalence of dispensaries, breweries, and distilleries. It's no wonder that people tend to unload all of their stress from work at one of these places.
Front Range Clinic wants to let you know that if you're recovering from an alcohol addiction, it is possible to go out with your friends, family, or coworkers and have a great time socializing all while abstaining from drinking. There's something to be said about the otherwise unspoken and often-implied nature of consuming alcohol in social settings, and whether this peer pressure stems out of a desire to fit in or is due to deeper, underlying reasons, we'd like to address this matter a little further.
Our alcohol treatment centers in Colorado are strategically placed throughout the Front Range (hence our name), spanning from Fort Collins all the way down south to Pueblo. Know that Front Range Clinic is able to provide addiction services that are specifically designed to help individuals work through — and overcome — issues related to alcohol. If you have any questions or you're in need of assistance, please don't hesitate to reach out to us.
A polite but hard "no" when offered an alcoholic beverage should be enough for your friends or peers to understand that you're not going to drink. Remember that, though this might be difficult to say, there's no shame in mentioning that you're intentionally abstaining from alcohol due to past problems. If the people you're with are truly your friends or really value you, then they'll either know that ahead of time, or respect your words in the moment.
There's nothing wrong with enjoying some juice, a soda, or another delicious beverage with zero alcohol in it. If "fitting in" is more about physically holding a drink and casually sipping it during conversation than anything else, then it only makes sense to opt for an alternative beverage. Water is also a great choice because it's always going to hydrate you, and you can encourage your peers to hydrate a little bit more, too.
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Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi, High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardised and sanskritised register of the Hindi-Urdu language based on the Khariboli dialect of Delhi and Western Uttar Pradesh. It is one of the official languages of the Republic of India.
Colloquial Standard Hindi is mutually intelligible with another register of Hindi-Urdu language called Urdu. Mutual intelligibility decreases in literary and specialized contexts which rely on educated vocabulary. Due to religious nationalism and communal tensions, speakers of both Hindi and Urdu frequently assert that they are distinct languages, despite the fact that native speakers generally cannot tell the colloquial languages apart. The combined population of Hindi-Urdu speakers is the fourth largest in the world. However, the number of native speakers of Standard Hindi is unclear.
The constitution, adopted in 1950, declares Hindi in the devanagari script as the official language of the Federal Government of India. It should be noted that English continues to be used as an Official language of India along with Hindi. Hindi is also enumerated as one of the twenty-two languages of the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India, which entitles it to representation on the Official Language Commission. The Constitution of India has stipulated the usage of Hindi and English to be the two languages of communication for the Central Government. Most of government documentation is prepared in three languages: English, Hindi, and the official state language. To correct a common misunderstanding, it should be noted that Hindi is not the National Language of India (India is a multi-lingual country; that is, it has multiple national languages as opposed to a single national language).


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Plumas County, California
Camagh, Ballinamuck, Co. Longford ; Portola, Plumas County, Cali;
Resident at Camagh
Our Mother of Sorrows Cemetery, Reno, Nevada, USA
John was born in Camagh, between the 7 December 1891 and the 1 January 1892.
John emigrated to the US on the RMS Caronia, on the 13 April 1910 with his brother Patrick*, and later moved to Plumas County in California. By 1917, his was working as a lumberjack with the Sloat Lumber Company in California, where his brother James also worked.
John was drafted for WW1 service, and was formally called up in April/May 1918.
After WW1, John married Matha Harriet (Matie) Kiely. He moved to Portola, California, where his brother Felix lived, and ran a mercantile business there; John later worked for the Plumas Water Company.
John's brothers James and Edward also served in WW1, sadly Edward was killed in action in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
*They noted their sisters Maggie Reynolds and Mrs Mary Dunleavy of Pelham Manor, New York, on their shipping manifest.
Link to Civil Record of Birth; notice of death, Feather River Bulletin; entry on Find A Death;


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Edmonton shoe shop 'ransacked' in brazen robbery, up to $30K stolen
CTVNewsEdmonton.ca Digital Producer
Andrea Dion
An Edmonton shoe shop is estimating a loss of about $30,000 after a robbery late last week.
Shane Breau, the owner of the Shoe Shine Shack, said 30 pairs of shoes were taken Friday morning after three people smashed out his store window.
"Some of them were collectors items that customers brought in for us to sell," Breau explained. "Some of these shoes they purchased for around $300 and with the way the resell market works, they're selling them for around $600 to $700 depending on the shoe."
Breau told CTV News Edmonton replacing the stolen shoes isn't just the cost of retail, it's actually the price of what they would go for on the market.
"They go up and down like the stock market," he said.
But for others, the robbery also represents a loss in sentimental value.
"Sometimes you're not able to put a price on that," he said. "Some of these shoes may have belonged to their parents, who may be deceased."
"A lot of these shoes are very valuable to the clients whether it's just their shoes or they belong to somebody in their family. So we're trying to put a dollar amount on these items and it's quite difficult."
Breau has been in business for four years and said this is one of the "more stressful" things he's ever had to deal with.
"I started this business from an idea to where we are today," he told CTV News Edmonton.
"We've donated thousands of shoes to the homeless community here in Edmonton and it's very unfortunate this has happened to us right before Christmas because we do need to replace all these shoes for our customers and I'm trying to do everything I can to keep my employees in work," he said.
Most of the stolen shoes were from the front window display featuring Louis Vuitton and Yeezy's. Breau said it was completely "ransacked."
So far five pairs of the shoes have been returned, according to Breau. However, he said Edmontonians should be wary if they see high-end footwear without a box up for sale.
"Not many people are buying shoes over $500 without a box," he said.
"If you do see any of these shoes, especially with tags on them and no box included, you can almost guarantee that these shoes are a stolen item."
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import React from 'react'
import { ListGroup, ListGroupItem } from 'react-bootstrap'

const ProfileRankedStats = ({summoner, rankedLeagues, aggregateRankedStats}) => (
    <ListGroup>
        {renderRankedLeagues(rankedLeagues[summoner.id])}
    </ListGroup>
)

const renderRankedLeagues = (rows) => (
    rows.map(row => renderRankedLeague(row))
)

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const renderRankedLeague = (row) => (
    <ListGroupItem key={`league_entry_${row['entries']}`}>
        {row['queue']}{' '}

        {renderEntries(row['entries'], row['tier'])}
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)

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        {tier}{' '}{row['division']}{` (${row['leaguePoints']} LP)`}

        {row['playerOrTeamName']}

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Home Biography & Net Worth Andrew McCollum Net Worth 2022: Age, Height, Weight, Wife, Kids, Bio-Wiki
Andrew McCollum Net Worth 2022: Age, Height, Weight, Wife, Kids, Bio-Wiki
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Andrew McCollum
Gretchen Sisson (m. 2012)
CEO of Philo, Co-founder of Facebook and an angel investor
Andrew McCollum is among the five guys that founded Facebook. He is well known for being an internet entrepreneur and an angel investor. Andrew also did co-found JobSpice, which is an online resume preparation tool. Andrew is currently acting as an Entrepreneur in Residence, on New Enterprises Associates and Flybridge Capital Partners.
Maybe you know about Andrew McCollum very well But do you know how old and tall is he, and what is his net worth in 2022? If you do not know, We have prepared this article about details of Andrew McCollum's short biography-wiki, career, professional life, personal life, today's net worth, age, height, weight, and more facts. Well, if you're ready, let's start.
Andrew McCollum was born in the year 1983 on September 4th. He was born in California, United States of America. His parents are David McCollum and Sally McCollum. Andrew McCollum got married to Gretchen Sisson. Sisson is a very remarkable sociologist. His personal life remains so guarded, and very little information is available about his siblings. He attended Harvard University.
In Harvard, he studied Computer Science. He completed his college degree in the year 2007. In his college days, he was part of the Harvard Team that completed the 31st Association for Computing Machinery international collegiate Programming contests in Tokyo. They finished in the second position, right behind the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Being born on 4 September 1983, Andrew McCollum is 38 years old as of today's date 19th January 2022. His height is 1.92 m tall, and his weight is 86 kg.
The career of Andrew McCollum started back at his days at Harvard University. He met with Mark Zuckerberg, and they were able to develop a friendship. They were in the same class. The class they attended together mostly included the Operating system. One of their shared interests was the founding of Facebook.
At one point, Mark emailed him detailing him on the progress Mark had made on the development of the Facebook prototype. Mark requested Andrew to add appealing graphics to the site. At first, Andrew was very hesitant. The reason he did not agree quickly was that he was not very skilled when it came to web design. However, Mark pushed him until McCollum decided. He is the guy behind the logo and icons for the website.
Andrew fell in love with a project to the extent that he decided to drop out of college to concentrate fully on the project. After he completed the project, he decided to go back and finish his college degree. He says that it was a great experience and an eye-opener for him. To them, as a group, they thought it was a joint project. Everyone now knows about Facebook. They believed in the potential this project held. It is correct to say that Facebook has a life-changing site for many people.
Apart from Facebook, Together with Adam D'Angelo, they developed a file-sharing system that got linked to Facebook. The file was known as Wirehog. During the development of the graphics of Facebook and Wirehog, they faced many challenges. However, the resilience to succeed kept them going. They believed in everything that they did.
Andrew did join Facebook from the year 2004 to the year 2007. He decided to quit Facebook to go back to school and complete his college degree. His decision was a courageous one as the site had gained much popularity and was doing very well. In addition to that, he was a successful developer. He went ahead and founded the JobSpice site. He is the CEO of an internet small screen platform.
Andrew has been a brilliant computer programmer who has been able to develop very many apps up to date.
Net Worth & Salary of Andrew McCollum in 2022
Andrew McCollum Net Worth
As of January 2022, Andrew has a net worth of over $25 million. His wealth has come from his involvement with the development of high profile sites such as Facebook and JobSpice.
His success story is an excellent example of what determination can make you achieve as he is the man behind some of the most critical sites in the world, including Facebook and JobSpice. He is currently working at Flybridge Capital Partners and New Enterprise Associates.


Queenhith alderman John Little mentioned in a deed.
Enrolment of deed testifying that whereas Thomas Frithebek, citizen and saddler of London, in his will bequeathed to Alice his wife for her life all his lands in the city of London, to wit, all those tenements which he acquired of John Romburgh, lynga armourer, at le Brokenewharf in the parish of St. Mary Somersete, London, those which he acquired of Robert de Bristouwe in Goderounlane in the parish of St. Vedast, London, those [p. 666:] which he acquired of the executors of the will of William de Causton in the said lane and parish, those which he acquired of John de Blithe at the corner of the said lane in the said parish, and the tenement which he acquired of John Brauncestre, goldsmith, in the lane and parish aforesaid, to be sold after Alice's death by William Baldewyne and Richard Brok, executors of his will, and the money arising therefrom to be spent in masses and other works of charity and for his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, the said executors have sold the said tenements to John Baldewyne, citizen and saddler of London, to hold after Alice's death for a sum of money paid down; Simon Dolsali being then mayor of London, John Chichestre and Simon de Benyngton sheriffs, John Chicestre alderman of the ward of Farendon within, and John Little alderman of the ward of Queenhithe (Ripe Regine), London. Witnesses: John Hiltoft, Nicholas de Farndon, John de Blithe, John Crepulgate, Hugh de Waltham. Dated London as aforesaid.
Memorandum, that William and Richard came into the chancery at Westminster on 22 January and acknowledged the preceding deed.
Membrane 3d of the Close Roll for 33 Edward III. Italics as in printed source. IRHB's brackets.
[Hinds, Allen B., ed.; Bird, W.H.B., ed.; Maxwell-Lyte, Henry Churchill, introd.]. Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public record Office: Edward III. Vol. X. A.D. 1354-1360 (London, 1908), pp. 665-66.
↑ [Hinds, Allen B., ed.; Bird, W.H.B., ed.; Maxwell-Lyte, Henry Churchill, introd.]. Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public record Office: Edward III. Vol. X. A.D. 1354-1360 (London, 1908), pp. 665-66.


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"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
"Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murders, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always."
"Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image."
"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."
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"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."
"Hate the sin, love the sinner."
"The future depends on what you do today."
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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."
"The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
"But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth."
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"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
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"It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man."
"Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter."
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"True beauty lies in purity of the heart."
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Q: Backoffice and Frontoffice to separate projects I'm building a project using mvc framework.
I'm at a point where i need to decide if I should separate frontend and backoffice to two mvc applications
This is to make my solution tidy and well structured. But at the same time I don't want to increase maintenance on the long run. Can you please share with me your experience on the long term when application becomes quite large, if it is better to have two seperate projects or just have a Backoffice folder under the main web project.
Another concern that I am realizing is how do I handle images between these two projects.. User uploads photos from backoffice to a folder that reside under backoffice application then how do I display these photos through frontend or vice versa..
Thanks

A: One way to think about this is to ask "Are the fundamental actions and desires of the users different".  Then ask, "What's the scale of the back office site".  The larger, the more likely I'd split it.  If it was just a handful of admin pages or a couple reports, I'd live with it in the original project.  In addition, "Do the front and back offices need to scale at different rates?"  1 million hits / hour vs 20 fulfillment staff to make numbers up out of no where.  And thirdly, "Do the front and back office customers live in different security domains" Being able to deploy the back office code behind the firewall would make it a tocuh safer.
There is overhead for the developer, but sometimes that's okay if you get clarity, security, or simplicity.
A suggestion, assuming you want to split it, split into three projects: Two web front ends and a library that holds shared code and resources, like some basic database access code.  Actually, three may be two few projects if you want to share helpers, etc.

A: I'm a huge fan of separating the apps as the advantages tend to outweigh the advantages in most cases. Ball points out a number of the big points, mainly revolving around the different use cases and security contexts. The other big kickers for me are:
a) You can get moving on the back office stuff while some of the front-end details are still up for discussion. IE--you are not blocked by marketing being all wishy/washy about what template and color scheme to use.
b) You can make different technology choices depending on app. EG, your back office could use traditional ASP.NET webforms because you are not concerned with SEO and other webby behavior as well as can guarantee what browsers and bandwidth capabilities you will have to deal with.
Overhead-wise, there really isn't too much additional work IMHO. And most of those problems are pretty solvable. For example, your images issue could be handled by either storing the images in a database or making a common file store that both apps could reference.

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Q: Schoenberg's rational polygon problem
"A polygon is said to be rational if all its sides and diagonals are rational, and I. J. Schoenberg has posed the difficult question, 'Can any given polygon be approximated as closely as we like by a rational polygon?'"

This is a quote from

D.D. Ang, D.E. Daykin, and T.K. Sheng. "On Schoenberg's rational polygon problem." Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society 9.3-4 (1969): 337-344.
  (journal link.)

I seek to understand the current status of this question. I know (from D.E.Daykin, "Rational polygons," (journal link)) that
Mordell showed that the set of all rational quadrilaterals is dense in the set of all quadrilaterals. I am only finding ~40-yr-old papers, none of which are easily accessed online.
(Added:)
As Aaron Meyerowitz and Gerry Myerson point out, it is unknown if there even exists
a single rational octagon.
But I am interested in the dense question.
For example, is it already known that the
set of all rational pentagons is not dense in the set of all pentagons?
If not for pentagons, then for hexagons? Heptagons?

MathWorld image of a rational quadrilateral

A: This is an answer to your last question.  As far as I know, it is still open whether there exists a dense subset $S$ of the plane with all pairwise distances rational.  Such a set $S$ would imply a positive answer to Schoenberg's Problem.  Thus, no one has currently shown that the set of rational pentagons is not dense in the set of all pentagons.  Same for hexagons and heptagons.


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This morning, my neighbor E, to whom I gave the silk, sent me photos of the finished blouse. It's amazing and I wanted to share them. E is from Australia and was a teacher. Her training is Home Economics but her schooling is from back in the day when Home Ec was considered science, domestic science, so she is a lot of things — a nutritionist, a gardener, a master at knitting, crocheting and sewing — and more. She's truly amazing.
All the music today is vintage so I figure I'll start with a vintage radio show. Enjoy!!
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Who are the sons [the children] of God?
And how can His children come to know Him as their heavenly Father?
In the above passage, we see that those who are led by the Spirit of God, they are the children [sons and daughters] of God.
Through Messiah Yahushua [Christ Jesus], the children of God are the adopted children of the Most High God, Yahuwah Elohim [the LORD God], walking according to His Word.


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package com.example.template4fx.control.dialog;

import com.example.template4fx.fx.DialogEvent;
import com.example.template4fx.fx.Displayable;
import com.example.template4fx.skin.DataPickerSkin;
import javafx.collections.FXCollections;
import javafx.collections.ObservableList;
import javafx.scene.control.Skin;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;

public class DataPicker<T extends Displayable>
    extends AbstractDialog
{
    private final ObservableList<T> available;

    private final ObservableList<T> selected;

    public DataPicker( String header, String svg, Collection<T> available, Collection<T> selected )
    {
        super( header, svg );
        getStyleClass().add( "data-picker" );

        this.available = FXCollections.observableArrayList( available );
        this.selected = FXCollections.observableArrayList( selected );

        this.available.removeAll( selected );
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    public void close()
    {
        setClosed( true );
        fireEvent( DialogEvent.successEvent() );
    }

    @Override
    protected Skin<?> createDefaultSkin()
    {
        return new DataPickerSkin<>( this );
    }

    @Override
    public String getUserAgentStylesheet()
    {
        return getUserAgentStylesheet( DataPicker.class, "DataPicker.css" );
    }

    public void add( Collection<T> items )
    {
        available.removeAll( items );
        selected.addAll( items );
    }

    public void addAll()
    {
        Collection<T> items = new ArrayList<>( available );
        available.clear();
        selected.addAll( items );
    }

    public void remove( Collection<T> items )
    {
        selected.removeAll( items );
        available.addAll( items );
    }

    public void removeAll()
    {
        Collection<T> items = new ArrayList<>( selected );
        selected.clear();
        available.addAll( items );
    }

    public ObservableList<T> getAvailable()
    {
        return available;
    }

    public ObservableList<T> getSelected()
    {
        return selected;
    }
}


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JEDDAH: The first Islamic-European forum for examining ways of cooperation to curb hate speech in the media began on Friday at the Press Club Brussels Europe, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
During the opening session, the head of the Council of Journalists Union in Brussels, Peter Knappen, spoke about the importance of press freedom and stressed that it should be used responsibly and follow ethical and professional values.
Director of the information department of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Maha Mustafa Aqeel explained that the forum is part of the OIC's media strategy to counter Islamophobia.
"Our strategy focuses on interacting with the media, academics, and experts on various relevant topics, in addition to engaging with western governments to raise awareness, support the efforts of Muslim civil society bodies in the West, and engage the latter in developing plans and programs to counter Islamophobia," she said.
Aqeel said that, since 2005, the OIC has adopted many resolutions that call for clear and tangible measures to address Islamophobia and counter-terrorism resulting from it. These efforts have included establishing the Islamophobia Observatory, which issues an annual report on countering Islamophobia.
She also pointed out that the OIC has made efforts to engage the media, western governments, civil society and regional and international organizations such as the European Union and UNESCO in order to fight Islamophobia.
Aqeel explained that the OIC established a ministerial Contact Group of European Muslims in 2016 to communicate more closely and regularly with officials and communities in Europe, in addition to establishing a correspondence center to respond to the arguments and fatwas of extremist groups.
"The OIC is in the process of establishing a global press award for journalists who contribute to the promotion of inter-cultural dialogue and tolerance," she added.
The forum's sessions discussed press freedom from legal and religious perspectives, and introduced attendees to the contents of the OIC Media Strategy to Counter Islamophobia and ISESCO's Program for Training Media Professionals on Redressing Stereotypes about Islam and Muslims.


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import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
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 * JAXB class binding for the xml type definition.
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 * complex type definition containing the schema element declaration.
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 * then <tt>nil</tt> must be <tt>true</tt>. The converse is not true to enable
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 * that <tt>value</tt> is non-null so it can hold the value of the attributes
 * associated with a nil element.
 *

 *
 * @author Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Joe Fialli
 * @since JAXB 2.0
 */

public class JAXBElement<T> implements Serializable {

    /** xml element tag name */
    final protected QName name;

    /** Java datatype binding for xml element declaration's type. */
    final protected Class<T> declaredType;

    /** Scope of xml element declaration representing this xml element instance.
     *  Can be one of the following values:
     *  - {@link GlobalScope} for global xml element declaration.
     *  - local element declaration has a scope set to the Java class
     *     representation of complex type defintion containing
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    final protected Class scope;

    /** xml element value.
        Represents content model and attributes of an xml element instance. */
    protected T value;

    /** true iff the xml element instance has xsi:nil="true". */
    protected boolean nil = false;

    /**
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Abigail H. Natenshon Combines Feldenkrais with Traditional Psychotherapy to Treat Eating Disorders
Abigail Natenshon, MA, LCSW, GCFP
on the work of Moshe Feldenkrais
"The work of Moshe Feldenkrais can be used advantageously to augment the more traditional approaches to treating patients with eating disorders and body image disturbances. Particularly effective in treating long-term sufferers of eating disorders, victims of rape, sexual abuse, and self-mutilation, the technique creates a novel experience of body and self. For those patients who feel "uncomfortable in their own skin," this work accesses the brain in a wholly unique way, creating alternative ways to appreciate and more accurately perceive the body and self, and to use the self with more freedom and flexibility to solve problems."
"Feldenkrais represents a revolution in human health. Through this method we can learn to improve our living circumstances not only physically but also emotionally, intellectually and spiritually." -- Smithsonian Magazine
"I recommend The Feldenkrais Method to patients whose movement has been restricted by injury, cerebral palsy, stroke, fibromyalgia, or chronic pain. I find it to be much more useful than standard physical therapy. I also believe that the Feldenkrais Method can help all of us feel more comfortable in our bodies." -- Andrew Weil, M.D., author of 'Spontaneous Healing'
"The exercises are so simple and so ingenious...It is so clever to develop the body by making the mind and senses become aware of each side of the body separately. It increases the subtlety of sensation." --Yehudi Menuhin, concert violinist
"What I'm after isn't flexible bodies but flexible brains." -- Moshe Feldenkrais
Moshe Feldenkrais, D.Sc. (1904-1984), was a distinguished scientist, physicist and engineer. He earned his D.Sc. in Physics from the Sorbonne and was a close associate of Nobel Prize Laureate Frederic Joliot-Curie at the Curie Institute in Paris, where they conducted research together. He was also a respected Judo instructor and author of many books on the subject. Living in England in the 1940s, Feldenkrais found himself unable to walk after suffering a serious knee injury. He began an intense exploration into the relationship between bodily movement and healing, feeling, thinking, and learning. As a result, he restored his ability to walk and made revolutionary discoveries culminating in the development of the method that bears his name.
Feldenkrais®, The Feldenkrais Method®, Awareness Through Movement®, ATM®, Functional Integration®, FI®, and Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner(cm) are registered trademarks of The Feldenkrais Guild®.(The above quotes are taken from the web site of Robert Cowie.)
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Eating disorder group therapy is available to individuals seeking the integrative, experiential mind/body work of Anat Baniel Method© / Feldenkrais Method©. This form of somatic education, when used as adjunct treatment in combination with more traditional approaches, by providing integrative movement with attention, enables autonomous shifting out of old habits and into useful new ones. It facilitates learning "from the inside out;" enhancing sensory-awareness and re-integrating neurological function that goes far to re-create a core sense of self. (Read Abbie's article, The Feldenkrais Method © and Anat Baniel Method © in the Treatment of Eating Disorders, published in the Feldenkrais Educational Foundation of North America SenseAbility Newsletter,Spring 2011, pages 8-9.)
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The Therapeutic Effects of the Feldenkrais Method "Awareness Through Movement" in Patients with Eating Disorders
by Laumer U, Bauer M, Fichter M, Milz H.
University at Regensburg
[Original Article in German]
Based on the movement-pedagogical concept of Feldenkrais and the findings-of disturbed body perception by eating disordered patients this research aimed at studying the therapeutical effects of the Feldenkrais Method "Awareness through Movement" with eating disorder patients, 15 eating disordered patients treated at the Roseneck hospital for behavioural medicine rated-by means of a questionnaire consisting of scales of the Body Cathexis Scale (BCS), the Body Parts Satisfaction Scale (BPSS), the questionnaire for body perception (Fragebogen zum Korpererleben; FKE), the Emotion inventory (Emotionalitatsinventar; EMI-B), the Anorexia-Nervosa-Inventory for Self-rating (ANIS) and the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 (EDI)-various aspects of their eating disorder before and after participating in a nine hour course of the Feldenkrais Method.
The data of these patients were compared to those of the members of a control group, also consisting of 15 eating disordered patients who did not participate in a Feldenkrais course.
The participants of the Feldenkrais-course showed increasing contentment with regard to problematic zones of their body and their own health as well as concerning acceptance and familiarity with their own body.
Other results were a more spontaneous, open and self-confident behaviour, the decrease of feelings of helplessness and decrease of the wish to return to the security of the early childhood, which indicates the development of felt sense of self, self-confidence and a general process of maturation of the whole personality.
The outcome points to the therapeutical effectiveness of the Feldenkrais Method with eating-disorder patients within a multimodal treatment program."
This information came from an abstract translated into english from German in Entrez-PubMed called The Therapeutic Effects of the Feldenkrais Method "Awareness Through Movement" in Patients with Eating Disorders by Laumer U, Bauer M, Fichter M, Milz H University at Regensburg
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Absolutely, for me, my best friend's name is Keno. She has been by my side through my divorce, raising three children on my own, my remarriage, the integration of my blended family and has rightfully earned a place in my heart and in our family.
So when she ventured off into the unknown the other night, and could not be found, a slight panic ran through our household. The morning came and a search plan was developed. Each member of our family had their own idea of how to find our beloved dog.
Ideas included driving/biking around the neighborhood, knocking on doors, jingling treats, making fliers, employing my familiar whistle, and enlisting friends to aid in the search. As we each set out on our quest to find our dog, we soon realized, through different channels, that Keno was safe and sound.
It turns out; she was found a short distance from our house by a neighbor who lives in the adjacent neighborhood. After trying a few houses he brought Keno to his home, and having a wounded dog at home himself, he called a friend in yet another neighborhood to see if Keno could be kept overnight.
Then a posting went out to their neighborhood listserv; a listserv that I had not known existed. So, by the time our family set out to find our missing dog it only took one exchange to find out that Keno was safe. Each member of our family was told the same thing…they had read a posting on their listserv that a black dog had been found last night. The whole neighborhood was already on alert!
Now, had I known of the conversation and taken part, I could have expedited our search exponentially.
The power of social media has tremendous value. Had it not been for this neighborhood listserv (via Yahoo Groups), I might still be knocking on doors. They say it takes a village to raise a child, and I'd like to add it takes a village to keep our animals safe.
To the WBCA community and the members of the BR/WOS and especially AL and KO… my family and I thank you for taking the time to care for, and safely return, a very important member of our family.
I loved reading this. Made my eyes water. The first lost dog I ever returned predated listserves. I found the dog wandering the neighborhood and asked a friend to watch my baby in the stroller as I ran him to his house and put him in the back fence. The owner returned home and found it strange that they had an extra dog in their back yard as I had returned the dog to the WRONG house. Luckily in Keno's case, the listserve ferreted out the correct owner and he is home safe and sound.
Thanks again so much for your time…and caring!
So happy your beloved Keno was found!
A great story! and another example of the power of social media. Thanks for sharing.
Social Media: from driving social change in Egypt to helping us keep track of our loved ones!
Touche! Hope you are well.
Was so glad that you were reunited with your dog! Love neighbors looking out for one another.
Thanks! Lessons learned, but glad there are still so many caring people.
Nice. This is what happens when nice people and technology work together.
Thanks for the nice word and comment.
New technology isn't always bad.


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Un lector de pantalla es una aplicación software que trata de identificar e interpretar aquello que se muestra en pantalla. Esta interpretación se representa a continuación al usuario mediante sintetizadores de texto a voz, iconos sonoros, o una salida braille.

Introducción
los lectores de pantalla se han vuelto tendencia en mundo de la discapacidad visual, misma que está permitiendo que las personas con discapacidad visual sean incluidas en las aplicaciones tecnológicas existentes.

Los lectores de pantalla son una forma de tics educativos creados por PCD para PCD, existen algunas como JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, teléfonos inteligentes, entre otros, se incluye SIRI. Todos estos programas ayudan a que las personas con discapacidad se sientan al mismo nivel de las otras personas sin discapacidad.
con estos lectores la persona con discapacidad visual podrá tranquilamente salir de casa con una guía desde su teléfono inteligente, así podrá evitar tener accidentes con obstáculos que estén en las calles o al cruzar las mismas.

en la actualidad ha sido de mucha ayuda para personas con discapacidad visual que se han empeñado en superar su discapacidad y llevar una vida cotidiana normal, como la de cualquier otra persona.

Tipos de lectores de pantalla

Lectores de pantalla con voz

Algunas opciones de lectores de pantalla con voz o también llamados navegadores parlantes que utilizan las personas con algún grado de limitación visual son:
NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA), Jaws for windows, Voice Over, PwWebSpeak, Orca, Home Page Reader o terminales Braille. Estos lectores de pantallas permiten al usuario con limitación visual desplazarse por todas las áreas que aparecen en pantalla y acceder a las aplicaciones del ordenador solo con el manejo del teclado, haciendo uso de diferentes comandos.

CLI (texto)

En sistemas operativos más antiguos, como MS-DOS que empleaban una interfaz de línea de comandos (CLI Command Line Interface), la pantalla constaba de caracteres directamente mapeados en un buffer de memoria y una posición del cursor. La entrada se hacía con el teclado.

En los 80, el RCEVH (Research Centre for the Education of the Visually Handicapped) en la Universidad de Birmingham, desarrolló un lector de pantalla para el BBC Micro y el portátil NEC.

GUI

Modelo fuera de pantalla

Con la llegada de la interfaz gráfica de usuario (GUI) la situación se complicó. Una interfaz gráfica tiene caracteres y gráficos dispuestos en la pantalla en posiciones concretas, y por tanto, no hay una representación puramente textual de los contenidos gráficos de la pantalla. Los lectores de pantalla están por consiguiente, forzados a utilizar nuevas técnicas de bajo nivel, para recuperar mensajes del sistema operativo y usarlos para construir el "off-screen model" (modelo fuera de la pantalla), una representación de la pantalla, en la que se almacena el texto necesario.

Por ejemplo, el sistema operativo puede enviar mensajes para dibujar un botón con su texto. Estos mensajes son interceptados y utilizados para construir ese modelo. El usuario puede alternar entre los controles (como los botones) disponibles en la pantalla y las etiquetas y los contenidos de los controles podrán ser leídos o mostrados en un dispositivo braille (por ejemplo una línea braille).

Los lectores de pantalla también pueden comunicar información de menús, controles, y otras construcciones visuales para permitir a los usuarios ciegos interactuar con estas construcciones. Sin embargo, el crear el "off-screen model" (modelo fuera de la pantalla) es un desafío técnico importante.

API de accesibilidad

Los diseñadores de sistemas operativos y aplicaciones han intentado atacar estos problemas proporcionando vías de acceso a estos lectores para acceder a los contenidos sin tener que mantener ningún "off-screen model" (modelo fuera de pantalla). Esto implica la provisión de un acceso alternativo a lo que se muestra en pantalla a través de un API. Entre las API existentes, caben destacar:

 Apple Accessibility API.
 AT-SPI.
 IAccessible2.
 Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA).
 Microsoft UI Automation.
 Java Access Bridge.

Aplicación con voz

Algunos programas, en sí mismos incluyen mecanismos para generar eventos sonoros que pueden ayudar a personas ciegas o a personas que no pueden ver la pantalla. Estos programas pueden ser otra forma de tecnología asistida si están diseñados para eliminar la necesidad de utilizar lectores de pantalla.

Lectores basados en web

Un campo de desarrollo, relativamente nuevo, son las aplicaciones basadas en web como los Talklets que utilizan JavaScript para añadir funcionalidad texto-a-voz al contenido web. El público principal de este tipo de aplicaciones es aquel con dificultades de lectura porque posee dificultad de aprendizaje o barreras lingüísticas. Aunque la funcionalidad está limitada en comparación con aplicaciones de escritorio, el mayor beneficio es el incremento de accesibilidad de dichos sitios cuando se muestran en equipos públicos donde los usuarios no tienen permiso para instalar su propio software, dando a la gente mayor libertad.

Lectores

Referencias

Véase también

 Síntesis de habla
 Reconocimiento del habla
 Procesamiento digital de voz
 Vinux

Enlaces externos
 Accesibilidad Web: Lectores de pantalla Lista de lectores de pantalla.

Aplicaciones informáticas
Accesibilidad informática
Tiflotecnología


I last made a Crepe about two years ago, and despite a couple of silly mistakes I was pretty happy with that dress. I'm not really sure why I haven't made another since. Although I have made a couple of skirts using the same pattern.
My friend Mary picked out this fabulous fabric for me recently knowing I would love it, and of course I did! I couldn't decide between making a full circle skirt or a dress, of course it had to be a dress really.
I wanted to make a Crepe, but it soon became apparent that with such a large one way design there was no way I had enough fabric for the wrap skirt.I tried various lay outs, but nope, I couldn't squeeze the extra out no matter how I tried. About to give up, I had a thought that maybe I could keep the wrap back bodice, but stitch it into the skirt to become a kind of faux wrap. The wrap back would mean I could fit the dress over my head, and if I added an underarm invisible zip too....it might just work?
I added some vintage buttons, which I can just about fasten myself. And on the whole I think it's worked, for a dress I was improvising as I went along. I think if I were to make another I would cut the inner back bodice wrap differently to fit neatly into the waist of the skirt.
I lined the entire dress, but treated the skirt lining as an underlining, mostly because the cotton lining was quite slippy and fine, it felt like it needed the stability of being attached.
I wasn't really happy with the sleeve/armhole, and since these photos were taken yesterday I have trimmed a bit off the sleeve/armhole edge and finished the raw edges with pink bias binding, they feel much more comfortable and less restricting now.
A good dress for a walk in Florence's wood, for piggy backs, and picnics .
Designer, seamstress, teacher, mother and wife.
Don't be shy, say hello!
I was right about the fabric being perfect for you! I love the dress!
Looks like you did a good job with the dress! The scale of the print really suits the dress. Lucky you for having such a good friend!
Lovely dress! I love the fabric too!
Hi, I love to hear from readers, hate to think I'm talking to myself here, so don't be shy say hello!
I'm Jeanette, designer, seamstress, teacher,Mummy to six and wife to Woody, living in a chaotic Edwardian house in the UK. Blogging here since 2005.


The purpose of this policy is to set forth policies and guidelines for access to the school district computer system, and acceptable and safe use of the Internet for all students and staff.
The school district is providing students and employees with access to the school district's computer system, which includes Internet access. The purpose of the system is not merely to provide students and employees with general access to the Internet. The school district system has a limited educational purpose, which includes use of the system for classroom activities, professional or career development, and limited high quality, self discovery activities. Users are expected to use Internet access through the district system to further educational and personal goals consistent with the mission of the school district and school policies.
The use of the school district system and access to use of the Internet is a privilege, not a right. Depending on the nature and degree of the violation and the number of previous violations, unacceptable use of the school district system or the Internet may result in one or more of the following consequences: suspension or cancellation of use of access privileges; payments for damages and repairs; discipline under appropriate school district policies, including suspension, expulsion, exclusion or termination of employment; or civil or criminal liability under other applicable laws.
conduct a business for unauthorized commercial purposes or for financial gain unrelated to the mission of the school district. Users will not use the school district system to offer or provide goods or services or for product advertisement. Users will not use the school district system to purchase goods or services for personal use without authorization from the appropriate school district official.
B. If a user inadvertently accesses unacceptable materials or an unacceptable Internet site, the user shall immediately disclose the inadvertent access to an appropriate school district official. This disclosure may serve as a defense against an allegation that the user has intentionally violated this policy. A user may also in certain rare instances access otherwise unacceptable materials if necessary to complete an assignment and if done with the prior approval of and with appropriate guidance from the appropriate teacher.
Use of the school district computer system and use of the Internet shall be consistent with school district policies and the mission of the school district.
An individual investigation or search will be conducted if school authorities have a reasonable suspicion that the search will uncover a violation of law or school district policy.
The Internet Use Agreement Form must be read and signed by adult and student users and the student's parent or guardian. The proper use of the Internet, and the educational value to be gained from proper Internet use, is the joint responsibility of students, parents and employees of the school district. Internet access by a student requires permission of and supervision by the school's designated professional staff. Monitoring of staff use of the Internet occurs in an informal manner through evaluation, technology support, and IP addressing which enables time and workstation accountability. Monitoring of student use occurs with password protection software in all computer labs, as well as adult supervision. Additionally, a district proxy server provides Internet filtering services. The district technology coordinator is responsible for maintaining and monitoring the district proxy and email servers; for reviewing and revising Internet acceptable use and safety guidelines on a regular basis; and for monitoring student and staff instruction and compliance with the district Internet Safety and Acceptable Use Policy.
Use of the school district system is at the user's own risk. The system is provided on an "as is, as available" basis. The school district will not be responsible for any damage users may suffer, including, but not limited to, loss, damage or unavailability of data stored on school district diskettes, tapes, hard drives or servers, or for delays or changes in or interruptions of service or misdeliveries or non deliveries of information or material, regardless of the cause. The school district is not responsible for the accuracy or quality of any advice or information obtained through or stored on the school district system. The school district will not be responsible for financial obligations arising through unauthorized use of the school district system or the Internet.
Using the student's image/name in marketing productions such as a school brochure.
All subject matter on Decorah School District Web pages and their links must relate to curriculum and instruction, school-authorized activities, or information about the Decorah School District or its mission. Staff or student work may be published only as it relates to a class project, course, or other school-related activity. Neither students, staff, nor other individuals may use the district's web pages to provide access to their personal pages on other servers or online services.
All work must be free of any spelling or grammatical errors. Documents may not contain objectionable material or point directly to objectionable material (i.e., material that does not meet the standards for instructional resources specified in other related district guidelines). The judgment of the teachers and district webmaster will prevail.
No student work shall be published without permission of the student and parent or guardian.
All communications via the district web pages must have no offensive content. This includes religious, racial, and sexual harassment, violence, and profanity.
Any deliberate tampering with or misuse of district network services or equipment will be considered vandalism and will be handled as such.
At the bottom of the page, there must be a link that returns the user to appropriate points in the district pages. This would normally be a return to the district home page.
Standard formatting is used; Browser friendly HTML editors or word processor programs that save files as HTML files may be used.
The authorized teacher who is publishing a final web page will edit, test the document for accurate links, and ensure that the page meets the content standards listed above. In addition, the teacher will assume responsibility for updating the links as needed.
Pages may not contain links to other pages that are not yet completed. If further pages are anticipated but not yet developed, the text that will provide the link should be included but may not be made "hot" until the further page is actually in place.
Graphics should be in GIF or JPEG format. Other formats, including sound or video, may be used only in special circumstances and after consultation with the district technology coordinator.
Directory structure will be determined by the district webmaster.
I have read and do understand the school district policies relating to acceptable use of the school district computer system and the Internet and agree to abide by them. I further understand that any violation of the policies above is unethical and may constitute a violation of law. Should I commit any violation, my access privileges may be revoked, school disciplinary action may be taken, and/or appropriate legal action may be taken.
As the parent or guardian of this student, I have read the school district policies relating to acceptable use of the school district computer system and the Internet. I understand that this access is designed for educational purposes. However, I also recognize it is impossible for the school district to restrict access to all controversial materials and I will not hold the school district or its employees or agents responsible for materials acquired on the Internet. I hereby give permission to issue an account for my child and certify that the information contained on this form is correct.
I have read and do understand the school district policies relating to acceptable use of the school district computer system and the Internet and agree to abide by them. I further understand that any violation of the policies above is unethical and may constitute a violation of law. Should I commit any violation, my access privileges may be revoked, school disciplinary action may be taken, and/or appropriate legal action may be taken. I further agree to promote these policies with the students.


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Web's Value as a News Source Showcased After Diana's Death
By Jared SandbergStaff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
Millions of people turned to their television sets over the holiday weekend as word of the death of a charitable and elegant princess unfolded over the airwaves. But not John Wilson.
The 24-year-old disk jockey in Charlotte, N.C., quickly went on-line Saturday night to listen to the BBC radio reports that are broadcast over the Internet. A British citizen, Mr. Wilson routinely logs onto the BBC's Web site (http://www.bbc.co.uk/ ), which offered full text of stories and statements surrounding the death of Princess Diana as well as slick TV broadcasts. "To get a lot of information quickly, that's where I go," he says.
While a small number of people have been venturing on-line for years to digest and discuss major news events, Princess Diana's death is showing how the Web, the multimedia portion of the Internet, is fast coming of age as a legitimate news medium, teeming with substantial resources chronicling current events.
Fast and Comprehensive Coverage
Once the playground of scientists and academics, the Internet has subsumed many of the advantages of other media as it evolves into a mainstream consumer information venue, merging text, television and radio into one. Rather than having to sit through the news cycle on radio or TV to hear the latest information, you can choose items you want to see with the click of a button.
The Web's coverage of Princess Diana's death has been fast and comprehensive. MSNBC, the on-line service of NBC News and Microsoft Corp., features an interactive slide show of the life and times of Diana with an audio narration. The New York Times's Web site is running a photo essay with many more pictures than the number available to readers of its print paper. Britain's Guardian newspaper is transmitting reconstructions of the crash and a retrospective of tabloid-newspaper headlines on its Web site.