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2018 Food Service Industry and Consumer Trend Conference was held December last year. It was an opportunity to review keywords of the consumer trend in food service industry 2017 and forecast 2018 trend. Then, what will be the key drivers to lead food service industry in 2018? Here is the outlook for 2018 food service industry defined with keywords.
The frequency of eating out per month in 2017 was 14.8 times, declining a bit from 15 times in 2016. The frequency of eating out alone increased from 3.7 times to 4.1 times in monthly average. The cost of eating out at restaurants started to decline from 2015 and food delivery service showed an increasing trend.
Looking at the keywords in food service industry 2017, it can be summed up as the boom of eating out alone, diversification in semi eating-out practices, premium fast food and rebooting of traditional Korean food. 'The boom of eating out alone' indicates that a table for one in food service industry becomes the norm as consumers are increasingly eating or drinking alone.
The trend of 'diversification in the practice of semi eating-out' means the place of eating out is not limited to restaurants and a growing number of consumers enjoy takeout food at home. 'Premium fast food' to enjoy healthy and premium food while eating fast food was another eye catching trend in 2017. Lastly, 'rebooting of traditional Korean food' meaning fusion Korean food becoming more popular was another factor to represent the food service industry trend 2017.
Now, let's take a look at the keywords to forecast food service industry trend in 2018.
The first keyword in food service industry 2018 is 'satisfaction for money.' Satisfaction for money is differentiated from value for money that compares product quality against price as it put priority on consumer satisfaction even if it means more money. The millennium generation born from 1980 to early 2000 is the ones who lead the trend of satisfaction for money.
Consumers seeking satisfaction tend to consume for refreshment. When they eat out, they put more value on the decoration of food, plating techniques or interior of the restaurant, rather than price. In the same context, the alley lined with pretty and fancy stores and restaurants serving unique menus are gaining popularity.
The 2nd keyword is 'Big Blur.' Big Blur means boundaries among businesses in food service industry are getting blurred as unmanned service and automation are introduced and expanded. Placing order to a machine, instead of service staff at a fast food store is an example of Big Blur.
Development of delivery app, kiosk and e-payment system tears down the boundaries between online and offline and this leads to big changes in food service industry, too. As AI is further advanced and more and more consumers seek ways of convenient consumption, the trend is expected to get stronger.
The trend of 'Semi- eating out' is expected to be widespread in 2018. Expansion of semi eating-out practices means the boundary between eating out and cooking & eating at home becomes blurred. As more consumers eat takeout food in places other than restaurants and also enjoy eating-out menu at home, using delivery service, now, the space of eating-out is not limited to restaurants.
The trend starts from increase of eating out alone and development of HMR (Home Meal Replacement). The choices for semi eating-out are expected to increase from Korean food to desserts. Also, takeout and delivery service for side dishes and ready-to-cook meals is expected to become more premium and further developed.
The last keyword to define 2018 food service industry trend is 'development of single item of Korean food.' Generally Korea food is served with many side dishes, along with steamed rice. Development of single items means breaking away from the traditional practice and reducing the number of side dishes to simplify the assortment of the food on the table.
Choosing and selling selective few menus to represent the restaurant is another trend in the same context. Consumers in Seoul metropolitan area love menus from each region like pork soup, Pyeongyang cold noodle and bean sprout soup and this shows how single item of Korean food is being developed. The trend is expected to continue in 2018 and service of restaurants is expected to evolve to be optimized for these single items.
We are all looking forward to seeing new changes in food service industry in 2018. Those working in the industry may need to study the keywords in food service industry trend 2018 and develop strategies to respond to the changes actively.


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Adam Levine is a sexy, howling beast
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By Claire Wood, For The Daily
I never thought howling could be so sexy.
Three minutes and six seconds into Maroon 5's latest release "Animals," heartthrob Adam Levine successfully proves me wrong, letting out a wolf-cry that makes girls squeal from California to Colorado. It's hot, animalistic, carnal and — fortunately for the band — rakes in over 157 million hits on YouTube.
But let's backtrack.
"Sunday morning / Rain is falling / Steal some covers / Share some skin."
It's classic Maroon 5: Adam Levine's velvet vocals over mellow piano. Their first album, 2002's Songs About Jane, defines their character. "Harder to Breathe" and "This Love" overlap plugged guitar with strong vocals. Or consider my heart-melting favorite "She Will Be Loved." Gentle percussion backing smooth voice, Levine has us all at the first line. "Beauty queen of only 18" — and, let's be honest, we're all wishing it was us.
It's this style — catchy, yet sophisticated — that we dig. It's real music with real instruments, from the snazzy percussion of "The Sun" to the tame piano of "Sunday Morning." This self-confident, genuine quality keeps the fans hooked. This authenticity defines the band.
Then 2011 rolled around, and BOOM: "Moves Like Jagger" happens.
Believe me when I say I didn't see it coming either — Levine took us all by surprise with that one. It's catchy, enticing, and … not Maroon 5. We're taken aback. In "Moves Like Jagger," the old jams of Songs About Jane erupt into pulsing percussion, pop verses and high-energy whistling.
This, however, is just the start. As single after single is released, Levine sheds his old identity. "Daylight" boasts electronic instrumentals. "Payphone" features high vocals, incessant beats and Wiz Khalifa. With their most recent release, "Animals," Adam Levine makes the transformation complete with a bestial howl at the work's climax.
Confession? I miss the old Adam. The real guitar, gentle piano, jazzy beats — I found it all rather classy, which just made everything sexier in my eyes. But that's just me talking, and — based on the popularity of their recent releases — it seems that new-and-improved Maroon 5 isn't doing so bad.
Can we blame them for the transformation? Not really. While the old-time hit "Sunday Morning" scored 54 million Youtube views, Maroon 5's latest, pop-ified release "Animals" has raked in over double that.
The brutal truth is that times change; people don't want the same thing forever. Artists morph alongside shifting consumer tastes. Where would we be without a little change in music, anyway? Just think — if preferences didn't change, we might still be stuck in the '70s (shudders in terror). Top 40 hits tailor to please the popular majority, i.e. the teenage population; thus, pop songs have to pop. They're played at frat parties and bars. John Lennon's "Imagine" is a real work of art, but it's certainly not your first choice to get people pumped at the Saturday-morning tailgate. "She Will Be Loved" is the same way: gorgeous, relaxing and just not what people are looking for. Teens want something that's vibrant, hot, electrifying. And with the band's transformation, Maroon 5 give them just that.

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Nu grönskar det är en sångtext skriven 1933 av Evelyn Lindström till en något omarbetad sats ur Bondekantaten (BWV 212)  av Johann Sebastian Bach.

Inspelningar
En folkpopversion av "Nu grönskar det" spelades in av Country Four 1966. 1994 gav rockgruppen Ultima Thule ut en inspelning av sången.

2004 hade gruppen Sarek med sången på sitt självbetitlade album.
2008 spelade Lars Winnerbäck in en version av låten som bonusmaterial till sitt sommarprogram i radio. 2011 använde Djurgårdens IF Fotboll låten i sin reklam.

Andra omarbetningar
De fem första tonerna i sången "Big Big World", som Emilia Rydberg noterades för en världshit med 1998–99, är desamma som de fem första tonerna i "Nu grönskar det", vilket bland annat uppmärksammats i TV-programmet Bumerang. 1999 använde Markoolio melodin som refräng till låten "Följ me, följ me" på albumet Dikter från ett hjärta.

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Nu grönskar det i dalens famn,
nu doftar äng och lid.
Kom med, kom med på vandringsfärd
i vårens glada tid!
Var dag är som en gyllne skål,
till brädden fylld med vin.
Så drick, min vän, drick sol och doft,
ty dagen den är din.

Långt bort från stadens gråa husvi glatt vår kosa styr,och följer vägens vita bandmot ljusa äventyr.
Med öppna ögon låt oss sepå livets rikedomsom gror och sjuder överalltdär våren går i blom!

Källor

Fotnoter

Vårsånger
Populärmusik baserad på klassiska verk
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Thoughts on the Anglican decision
November 21, 2012 by RJH
I was primed yesterday to cheer the Church of England's decision to allow women bishops . . . and then they didn't. Around three quarters of the church's General Synod voted in favour of women bishops, but requiring a two thirds majority in all three Houses (Bishops, Clergy, and Laity), the proposal fell short by six votes in the Laity.
The disappointment was palpable. The next Archbishop of Canterbury has described yesterday as "grim" and carpers on the left are talking about the church's "suicide."
To understand my interest in the internal affairs of another church requires an understanding of the Church of England's role in the United Kingdom. It is the nation's established church — its Supreme Governor (a woman, note the irony) is the Queen, its bishops sit in the House of Lords, its rituals (seen on state occasions) are part of the public religion. Thus the Church of England belongs in some sense to all of us.
I have four things to say about yesterday's vote and I would welcome your comments:
1. The British tolerate anachronism so long as it is not demonstrated to be harmful or ridiculous. Now that the exclusion of women from the episcopacy is in front of the nation I think it renders the Lords Spiritual illegitimate. To seat, by right, senior members of the Church of England in the upper chamber is one thing; it is another to exclude women from those seats. Now that this is made jarringly plain, I wonder if the Lords Spiritual can last much longer if women continue to be barred.
2. I essentially agree with Professor Oman that there is not a good case for continuing the exclusion of women from the priesthood. Certainly, the Bible gives no compelling reason to do so, unless you believe that ancient Jewish cultural norms somehow give insight into God's eternal and immutable view of gender roles. Having already allowed women priests, it is a nonsense to disallow women bishops in the church. It is a nonsense plain to see and does violence to that good old fashioned notion of English common sense that the Anglicans ought to embody. As a side note, Anglicans in Utah will have known a woman bishop and as far as I can tell, the sky did not fall.
3. John Fowles has remarked to me that however annoying the outcome, this was a victory for a robust notion of government by common consent. One hears the observation by some Mormons of how the CoE is hopelessly divided and thus compares poorly with the LDS church, but that is to compare apples and oranges. Mormons employ a closed, top-down ecclesiology that is not accountable to wider society and relatively easy to manage. Similarly, the Roman Catholic tradition has the power of proclamations given ex cathedra, and rules largely by fiat rather than consent. These are not criticisms, but a recognition that the Church of England has a very different role. It is the public church and thus must be seen to both do its business in public and employ a robust system of democratic voice. To do otherwise would be to threaten its privileged place. Of course, the result is the kind of messiness on display yesterday. I think that is to be applauded; to wish for greater unanimity would be also to wish for disestablishment.
4. I support establishment. Our society is overwhelmingly secular already and the benign influence of the church in government is a small attempt at counterbalance. One could call for a more inclusive religious representation — as in Charles' wish to be known as "Defender of Faith" rather than "Defender of the Faiths" — but I think that would result in a damp squib of nothingness.
An interesting day.
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KerbearRN says:
Just a questioning thought: Do you see contradiction in a church that is state-recognized not being accountable to the same laws of equality as other state-affiliated entities? Although I guess I am presuming (probably ignorantly so, and if so please pardon me) there is equality under law in England for genders, races, etc.
RJH says:
The United Kingdom is a mess of compromise and contradiction, but we muddle through. Equality in the UK is largely a matter of common law with some relation to the 1689 Bill of Rights. Our adoption of the European Convention on Human Rights ensures that there is statutory equality but at the same time there is a strong resistance to changing tradition for change's sake. My point #1 is that there is now the potential for that tradition and equality law to collide, however.
H. A. Worle says:
Another question for us uninitiated: There appears o be a contradiction incorporated in the second sentence of your post. Please explain what is meant by the "General Synod," of which you say roughly 75% were for the proposal, and the "Laity," which you say fell six votes short of a 66% vote for the proposal. If Laity means what it typically means, namely the non-clergy membership of the church, that would mean an extremely narrow defeat for this proposal, because there must be millions of them. I'm sure this is a total misunderstanding of how things work, therefore please explain.
The House of Laity is a representative body of the laity comprising around 200 members. The wiki on General Synod is your friend here!
Gabriel G. says:
@KerbearRN – Equality in England and Wales is largely mandated by the Equality Act 2010 (there are similar acts in force in Northern Ireland, such as the Relations Act 1976). The Equality Act 2010 puts a duty on the public sector, including persons who are not public authorities but exercise public functions, to advance equality and avoid discrimination based on certain protected characteristics, including sex (section 149). However, there are a number of excepted bodies, and the General Synod of the Church of England is one of them (schedule 18). Thus, equality legislation in the United Kingdom does not impose an obligation on the Church of England to have female bishops or female anything. If the Church of England moves in that direction, at least under the current legislative framework, it will have to be according to its powers of self-government.
Gabriel, your assesment of the law is correct, but my sense is that the English tolerate such anachronisms as the Lords Spiritual because they are not a conscious bother. However, now that their maleness is now made so stark, that tolerance may begin to wear thin.
Sam Brunson says:
Thanks, Ronan. I read the news yesterday with interest, but this helps me better understand the context surrounding the vote.
RJH, the Lords Spiritual are a strange thing indeed. I remember how odd it was to me (i am not British) when i first heard about them. What is just as strange to me is that there is an entire house of parliament that is largely appointed as opposed to elected. That to me is as anachronistic as having clergy sit in the legislature.
It is both anachronistic and wholly wonderful. An upper chamber that doesn't need to wade in the muck of electioneering? Priceless.
Jettboy says:
"Now that the exclusion of women from the episcopacy is in front of the nation I think it renders the Lords Spiritual illegitimate."
Only if it holds no actual powers; something that by all that I know (and that is limited to the usual American understandings) it already is illegitimate. Seems that the State Religion, like all Christian state religions in the modern era, is a figure head only with no actual governance beyond its religious borders. They might have a vote for what happens in the secular government, but there isn't any laws it can enforce.
" I essentially agree with Professor Oman that there is not a good case for continuing the exclusion of women from the priesthood."
That is unless you read his second and third paragraph that make a great case of why women shouldn't hold the Priesthood offices (I believe that a women who goes to the Temple already holds essential Priesthood, married or not). He basically argues for women getting the Priesthood (offices) and then automatically argues there has to be developed other gender differences to offset the change. If you are going to argue for equality then argue for it all the way, or not at all. I am voting for religious and theological reasons not at all. I also believe that the Bible is filled with arguments for men only Priesthood and yes, ". . . ancient Jewish cultural norms somehow give insight into God's eternal and immutable view of gender roles."
Number 3 is why most modern religions are becoming, and Christian state religions have become, irrelevant. They proclaim their beliefs and positions by the voice of the people and not of God. Western people today may be more comfortable with a democratic religion, but it loses any self-contained identity and therefore becomes soft while not keeping the loss of membership at bay any better than more strict organizations. I don't think religions are losing membership because people losing faith in institutions, but losing faith in faith. Organized religion has just become the "whipping boys" of an ego driven society.
"Our society is overwhelmingly secular already"
That is the Church's fault for not putting its foot down and fighting to consolidate power and authority at the state level. They could have made and enforced a law, for instance, that all citizens must attend state church, or with waiver another of their choosing so long as they attend. Who to blame for the disengagement of the religion in public matters I am not sure. If a reassertion is even desirable or possible is questionable.
All of this will probably be in 100 years mute as Islam starts to assert its control over England. The state religion will become de facto controlled by shari law in large parts of the United Kingdom as the Church of England continues to lose its tentative importance.
Good point re: number 3.
Latter-day Guy says:
All of this will probably be in 100 years mute [sic] as Islam starts to assert its control over England. The state religion will become de facto controlled by shari [sic] law in large parts of the United Kingdom…
Hmm. When was the last time you were in the UK, jettboy? I just don't see that happening.
Don't feed the troll, L-dG.
More interesting is this: one Labour MP is introducing a bill to remove all the church's exemptions relating to sex discrimination. This may all seem like ecclesiastical minutiae from the US, but this strikes at the heart of the English establishment in very interesting ways, which is why it has toppled Gaza from the headline spot over here.
There's also an interesting Tea Party analogue here. Both the population at large and the laity as a whole support women bishops, but the conservative wing has organised itself successfully enough to be an over-represented voice in the synod. A minority of activists have pulled the church far right of both its ordinary members and the country as a whole. The result is damaging to the church.
I'm still stuck in Gilbert and Sullivan:
Did nothing in particular,
And did it very well.
As long as the House of Lords continues to do nothing in particular, I'm not too concerned who or what is appointed a Peer. An orangutan? What difference does it make?
ji says:
It's strange, isn't it, and yet so common. If my side wins an election, then truth and justice have prevailed and the decision should be respected permanently — but if my side loses, then there is unfairness and we need to keep trying to overcome those benighted people who did prevail this time.
Sometimes, maybe even most of the time, the process is more important than the outcome.
Of course, the result is the kind of messiness on display yesterday. I think that is to be applauded; to wish for greater unanimity would be also to wish for disestablishment.
In the old days. there were arguments about altar rails and cleric dress and so forth, and people killed each other to get their way. I like the current process much better.
SisterX says:
Except, umm, the sky IS falling!
# of Episcopalians in the US in the mid-60's: 3.4 million.
# today: 1.9 million.
The result of following modern secular trends on women and gays = irrelevence, decline, and, ultimately, death.
Contrast that with the Catholic Church, which has continued to grow but not budged on women priests.
Of course, what the Church of England does and how it does it is their business, but there is something to the argument that letting popular trends govern your theology (and consequently your practice) simply waters down your belief system and makes it irrelevant because it offers nothing that is not to be found in a secularist worldview. If whatever current of doctrine flows out there sets your ship on a new course, there is no point in being in the ship. There was an op-ed piece about this in the New York Times ("Can liberal Christianity be saved?") which i found interesting.
I would like to politely push back against this assumption that the growth of decline in church membership is an accurate indicator of a denomination's alignment with God's will. Don't look now, but LDS membership in Europe is on the decline. As for the U.S. Catholic church, it is closing parishes all over the country. The growth is has experienced is almost exclusively due to the in-migration of Hispanic Catholics from other parts of the world and has nothing to do with the church's position on gays or birth control or female ordination. And the Vatican's position on homosexuality and celibacy is certainly implicated in the recent scandals, to say no more.
If the growth of church membership is a sign of God's approval, we need to quit being Mormons and start being Pentecostals or Jehovah's Witnesses. Their growth rates around the world are better than ours.
TMD says:
MB: The catholic church closes parishes because of physical demographic change more than numbers. The old 19-th to early 20th century parish structure was based on dense urban immigrant populations, often using 'old country languages,' etc. With the decline of those kinds of populations, they are no longer needed.
FWIW, the episcopal church has lost about a million members in since Gene Robinson was elected. There, it's not about general trends. It's really about a church deciding scripture wasn't important and then moving to actively drive out those who think it is.
TMD: Right. The Catholic church's decline or growth is all about demographics, not doctrinal positions in the culture wars.
As for the Episcopal church, thus sayeth Wiki:
"…the Episcopal Church's membership numbers were broadly flat throughout the 1990s, with a slight growth in the first years of the 21st century. A loss of 115,000 members was reported for the years 2003–05, which has been attributed in part to controversy concerning ordination of homosexuals to the priesthood and the election of Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire, but is a similar rate of loss to that which prevailed in the period from 1967–69, when the church lost 113,000 members, which has been attributed in part to liberal policies in an age of racial tension."
It's really about a church deciding scripture wasn't important and then moving to actively drive out those who think it is.
Wow. Do you always use this kind of charity in your interpretations of other folks' actions, or do you pull it out and dust it off just for the holidays? Suffice it to say, there are many Episcopalians that would strongly disagree with what you've just written. Just because they take a different position than you do on a given doctrine doesn't mean they decided "scripture wasn't important". Your characterization is neither accurate nor useful.
Amen to L-dG. Anglicans I know believe that scripture is very much important, they just sometimes interpret it differently to you. And remember, *all* scripture reading is interpretation.
Ditto also to Mark Brown's comment about LDS membership numbers in Europe.
For example, pro-female clergy Anglicans take Gal 3:28 and Mary Magdalene's witness of the resurrection very seriously. Their opponents take other passages seriously. What's left is interpretation.
Um, SisterX, it would be good to take note of some of the results of (among other things) not having women priests, and the resulting precipitous decline in participation among U.S. Catholics….
Also, here's a good response to "Can Liberal Christianity be Saved? http://www.patheos.com/blogs/exploringourmatrix/2012/07/can-non-liberal-christianity-be-saved.html
Left Field says:
Is there anything in the Doctrine and Covenants that prohibits priesthood from women? The closest I can think of is OD2, which acknowledges that faithful worthy men may be ordained, but which is silent on the ordination of women. All those revelations on priesthood, and it is curious that something allegedly so important was left out.
Personally, I think it's hard to argue that temple endowed women don't have the Priesthood. It's only outside the temple that they can't use it in the performance of ordinances and by being ordained to an official office in the Priesthood. Based on our history, I would say that restriction fits firmly into the place of policy – not immutable, divine doctrine.
Since the word "bishop" appears in the Bible in only six places, and since there is only one place where it can be read reasonably that it is a male office only, the issue of female "Bishops" is more an issue of holding to the restriction in 1 Timothy 3:2 of bishops being monogamous men – but we have gutted that restriction already by the extension of the office to polygamous men (and our general unwillingness to hold to a strict application of all Biblical practices), so it's hard for us to argue that position. Furthermore, we already have situations where women have organizational stewardship over Priesthood-holding, temple endowed men, so we can't argue against that structure as being opposed to divine will.
In other words, I think our current policy is rooted in the gendered language of the D&C and in the precedent of our early organizational structure. Since on-going revelation has allowed us to make some significant policy changes in the past, a change in policy to allow temple endowed women to use their Priesthood in the performance of ordinances and stewardship to include entire congregations wouldn't bother me in the least.
I still don't see anyone adressing the massive decine in Episcopalian numbers. I will conced that the Catholic counterpoint is confounded by immigration. Yet, still, you have massive declines in Episcopalians attendant to liberalization. And birth-rate is endogenous. Trying to push LDS down this same path is suicidal.
>Trying to push LDS down this same path is suicidal.
Do you think that if the church began ordaining women it would be suicidal?
Within the past decade the LDS church has closed over 900 wards in the countries of Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Peru.
I attribute this massive decline to our church's liberal policies on women and gays.
I still don't see anyone adressing [sic] the massive decine [sic] in Episcopalian numbers. I will conced [sic] that the Catholic counterpoint is confounded by immigration. Yet, still, you have massive declines in Episcopalians attendant to liberalization. And birth-rate is endogenous. Trying to push LDS down this same path is suicidal.
Though it's possibly (probably) stupid to do so, I'm going to bite on this one. You see, the problem here is an undeclared bedrock of presupposition. First, you (and doubtless many others) assume that the "massive decline" in the American branch of Anglicanism can be piled at the doorstep of "liberalization" and "modern secular trends". I'm not so sure the case is that clear; perhaps this is a situation in which we succumb to the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.
Second, and even more fundamentally, it seems there is an inclination to equate increasing membership with validity. But this inclination only lasts so long as it is advantageous, and it is quickly abandoned when the numbers do not work in one's favor. If membership of the favored group is rising, this is a sign of relevance and vitality. When it falls in the opposite camp, it signals "irrelevence, [sic] decline, and, ultimately, death." When the numbers demand it, though, the rhetoric conveniently stands on its head. Irrelevance is oh-so-easily re-branded as courage in the face of unpopularity, declining membership becomes a sign of a leaner, meaner, more faithful cohort rising to the top.
Episcopalians lose membership because of changes in their Church? Surely, it's a sign of what happens when we kowtow to The World™.
An increase of resignations from the LDS Church after Prop 8 in California? Well, we're a peculiar people, after all. This isn't a popularity contest.
Neither is convincing.
Anglican link provides excellent dissident coverage from within the epsicopal church. The words I used were not my own but the words of friends who are traditionalist anglican/episcopal clergy. For instance, one described the recent move to silence a set of bishops, for opinions on church polity divergent from PB Shori's (http://anglicanink.com/article/conciliator-appointed-fort-worth-quincy-cases), as "My bishops are now charged with fraud, financial misconduct, etc. by the 815 thought-police fascists."
In describing the nature of the arguments in TEC, look at the Bishop of South Carolina's recent speech to his convention (before it voted to leave):
"We have spent far too many hours and days and years in a dubious and fruitless resistance to the relentless path of TEC. And while some of us still struggle in grief at what has happened and where these extraordinary days have brought us, I believe it is time to turn the page. The leaders of TEC have made their positions known—our theological and creedal commitments regarding the trustworthiness of Scripture, the uniqueness and universality of Jesus Christ, and other precious truths, while tolerated, are just opinions among others; our understanding of human nature, the given-ness of gender as male and female, woven by God into the natural and created order, is now declared by canon law to be unacceptable; our understanding of marriage as proclaimed in the Book of Common Prayer "established by God in creation" and espoused by Anglicans around the world hangs precariously in the life of the Episcopal Church by a thin and fraying thread; and our understanding of the church's polity, which until the legal strategy of the present Presiding Bishop's litigation team framed their legal arguments, was a widely held and respected position in this church . Now to hold it and express it is tantamount to misconduct or worse to act upon it – is ruled as abandonment of this church. While one might wish the theological and moral concerns were on center stage, it is the Disciplinary Board for Bishops misuse of the church's polity that has finally left us no place to stand within TEC. So be it. They have spoken. We have acted. We have withdrawn from that Church that we along with six other dioceses help to organize centuries ago."
in moving against the SC diocese, "the Anglican Communion Institute noted the actions taken by the presiding bishop and the loyalist group violated civil and canonical law. The Episcopal Church has "no canonical basis for the actions that the Presiding Bishop and pro-TEC local parishes appear to be taking. There is no canonical authority for an 'Interim Bishop' to be 'appointed by the Presiding Bishop' in an existing diocese. Nor is there any canonical basis for a self-appointed 'Steering Committee' to attempt to 'reorganize' an existing diocese, to 'communicate with the Presiding Bishop' or be advised by other bishops of the church."
The ACI further stated the "absence of any canons authorizing what the Presiding Bishop and others are doing is proof that TEC is operating under a profoundly flawed understanding of the church's polity.""
Robert_Patterson says:
I don't know . . . the decline in Episcopal numbers is scary. Who's to say this wouldn't happen to us if we "liberalized"? What is the alternative explanation for their decline? It seems to me that all of the mainline, liberal Prot. churches are shrinking and only the. ore conservative groups are holding their own. The same is true with Jews in the US.
And as to believing in scripture, I mean, Shori's easter message didn't even mention Jesus this year. Nor the actual, you know, resurrection.
More enlightened students now know that scripture is the record of some writers written decades after Jesus died on the cross. It is their personal testimony from the oral tradition. As we all know, there are many ancient records that didn't make the cut. Theology was as varied in the ancient world as it is today. Scripture is valuable, once you strip away the myth because it's the only way we know Jesus even existed. His message of the Kingdom of God (people taking care of one another) has long been traded for salvation theology, which is a selfish "me" theology. Christianity has bought into that heresy.
Wait a minute… Don't we believe in revelation any more? If God were to give us the go-ahead on "liberalization" (however it be defined), isn't that what we should do? Or instead of actually consulting the Almighty, should we consult instead with the Episcopalians and make a decision based on what the Episcopalians predict will be the effect on our membership numbers?
JennyP1969 says:
My friends of Protestant faiths are leaving because they can no longer accept patriarchal systems that claim to serve women, minorities (including LGBT), the poor, the distressed, and the lost while never including these very groups in the governing body(ies) of decision-making policies, programs, and interpretation of doctrine. They prefer to worship God privately now because they do not see Jesus' teachings in their church's stands and proclaimed doctrines. They see too much preaching of condemnation of other religions or ways of life. They see more negative harping than inspiring words of holiness.
Margaret Blair Young says:
So, Jennyp1969, you're suggesting that the FAILURE to liberalize has resulted in conservative churches losing membership–particularly young members. So perhaps being a tail-light rather than a headlight is not terribly advantageous except in keeping the intact members comfortable. I believe in a dynamic doctrine, and share RJH's disappointment. I have long felt that the ideal presiding system would be a couple rather than just a man. That wouldn't work in Roman Catholic churches because of the celibacy rule, but the Anglicans could manage it. Too bad that didn't happen. But it will eventually, I'm sure.
Syphax says:
While there have been very visible exoduses from the Episcopal Church due to the major liberal decisions it has made, I think that (from the bit that I've read on the subject) the most long-term damaging "problem" in the EC and other liberal protestant groups is simply that liberals have fewer children. I attended an EC a few weeks ago and it was simply a service full of old people, or young families with perhaps 1-2 children. And I use scare quotes around "problem" because, as has been pointed out, a decline in numbers isn't technically a problem unless growth = truth. The RC can replenish its numbers despite major hemorrhages of de-converts because many Catholics have many kids. Now I'm not saying that's the only or even main reason the EC has declined so dramatically, but I think that it's the biggest "snowball" type contributing factor over the last half-century and shouldn't be overlooked in discussions like this.
I don't think one can separate the low birth-rates from the liberalization. They are causally interwoven.
Yes, dear Margaret, I am saying exactly that.


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Q: how to read the values from the object variable in C# I need to read the values from a variable which is of type object for e..g.., i have a variable called result as:
object result= h[key];

h[key] is a hash table which returns 5 values to result variable. How do I read the 1st value to my local variable of type string in C# script in SSIS package?
I can see only GetType, Equals, ToString() options for result variable.
Any help please?
there is the sample:
there is a sample; public void SQLLoop()
     {
        string bp,ap,ep,s,vs;
        LocationInfo info = new LocationInfo();
        string connection = "Server=Sname;Database=Dname;Integrated Security=SSPI";
        SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(connection);
    conn.Open();

   SqlCommand sqlcmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT Bp,Ap,EP,SL,VSr from Table1", conn);
   SqlDataReader rs=sqlcmd.ExecuteReader();

        while (rs.Read())
        {
            bp = rs.GetValue(0).ToString();
            ap = rs.GetValue(1).ToString();
            ep = rs.GetValue(2).ToString();
            s = rs.GetValue(3).ToString();
            vs = rs.GetValue(4).ToString();
            info.loadLocationInfo(ap, bp, ep, s, vs);
            h.Add(s, info);

        }
        conn.Close();

    }

public class LocationInfo
{
    String A;
    String B;
    String E;
    String S;
    String V;
    int id;

    public LocationInfo()
    {
    }

    public void loadLocationInfo(String a,String b,String e,String s,String v)
    {
        A =a ;
        B  =b ;
        E=e ;
       S =s;
        V = v;
    }

}

now
public void fun1()
{
var result = (object )h[subject];
   ///read values from the hash table
}

A: You have to cast result to the class or interface you are expecting.
var result = (IExpectedObject)h[key];

A: Supposing you know the type of the result you can cast the objectvar result = (MyType) h[key]
EDIT: use this inside your function to get first value var result = ((LocationInfo) h[key]).A

A: Update:
Ok well you have the LocationInfo class so do something like this:
LocationInfo result = (LocationInfo)h[key];

Then just make some properties on the LocationInfo class to retrieve your strings.
Your probably need to cast the object that is in the hashtable.  So something like:
result = (Type)h[key];

Here is an example of how it would work:
Person1 = new Person("David", "Burris");
Person2 = new Person("Johnny", "Carrol");
Person3 = new Person("Ji", "Jihuang");

//The Add method takes Key as the first parameter and Value as the second parameter.

try
{
    MyTable.Add(Person1.Lname, Person1);
    MyTable.Add(Person2.Lname, Person2);
    MyTable.Add(Person3.Lname, Person3);

}
catch (ArgumentException ae)
{
    MessageBox.Show("Duplicate Key");
    MessageBox.Show(ae.Message);
}

So when you want to retrieve from the table you would do:
Person result = (Person)h[key];

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The president rejects calls for the acting attorney general to recuse himself from overseeing the Russian Federation probe over comments he made in 2017 about the Mueller investigation.
Overseeing it all is Whitaker, a former college football player and USA attorney from Iowa who was brought into the Justice Department a year ago to serve as Sessions' chief of staff.
"I can tell you Matt Whitaker is a great guy", Trump said. And he was always extremely highly thought of, and he still is.
In fact, Trump has met with his hand-picked appointee more than a dozen times. He did not mention that White House chief of staff John Kelly had called Sessions beforehand to ask for his resignation.
He also said Mr Whitaker was well regarded by various Iowa Republican leaders and added: "I feel certain he will make an outstanding Acting Attorney General". Chuck Schumer, said he should recuse himself because of his comments on the probe. Rep. "I want to get the elections over".
"We don't have a king or a junta or a dictator, do we?" said Arlington Heights rally organizer Jerry Freda.
For about 90 minutes, he repeatedly rebuked questioning reporters for their probing questions about the negative tone of his midterm elections, including accusing one black newswoman of posing what he called a "racist question".
Trump is said to be a fan of Whitaker's appearances on cable television before he joined the Justice Department.
LOYALIST: Former Sessions chief of staff Matt Whitaker has taken over oversight of the Russian Federation probe.
The new position handed him oversight of Mr Mueller's investigation into possible ties between Russian Federation and Mr Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump has brushed off those concerns, saying Friday, "This only comes because anybody that works for me, they do a number on them".
Senate Republicans could confirm a new AG on a simple party-line vote.
The move made Whitaker supervisor of the investigation, which has hung over Trump's presidency.
In ordinary times, a president's decision to replace his attorney general halfway through his term wouldn't set off alarm bells about possible obstruction of justice. Trump argues that since Whitaker was confirmed 14 years ago as the USA attorney for southern Iowa, he doesn't need Senate confirmation.
"I think this seems to be planned like a murder", Dean told CNN's Jake Tapper on "CNN Newsroom". The recusal left the investigation in the hands of Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller two months later after Trump fired then-FBI Director James Comey. After Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders this week promoted a video created by right-wing conspiracy website InfoWars to attack CNN's Jim Acosta, one reporter asked Trump whether he was comfortable promoting a video that many experts say was doctored.
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He later tweeted that Iowa Gov. Joni Ernst, U.S. Sen. He later ran unsuccessfully for Senate and headed a conservative watchdog group. Whitaker also has ties to Andrew Miller, who has been called as a witness before a grand jury. The company admitted no wrongdoing and Whitaker was not personally named in the Federal Trade Commission investigation.


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With this perfect Mount Abu trip from Ahmedabad, tourists of all sorts including the nature lovers, history buffs, adventure enthusiasts and curious travellers can find something to keep them intrigued on this trip to Mount Abu. This tranquil hill station located amidst the Aravali Range offers a peaceful getaway to refresh your mind and put you at ease. The Ahmedabad to Mount Abu travel begins as you arrive in Mount Abu on the first day followed by a visit to the Nakki Lake in the evening. Enjoy strolling around and gorge on some delicacies of Rajasthan before heading back to the hotel. Set out for an amazing sightseeing tour to the most popular attractions here including the Dilwara Jain Temple, Nakki Lake, and the Brahmin Kumari Ashram. After a day of excitement, head back for a peaceful night. The third day marks the end of this Mount Abu trip as you leave with unforgettable memories to cherish always.
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Q: How to apply common JavaScript and CSS for all my jsp pages in the application? I am currently importing all the CSSs and JavaScript sources into each of the JSP pages in the application? How can we make it (apply CSS and JS to all JSPs) in one shot without repeating the code in every JSP?
Thanks,
MouliPC.

A: Separate a portion of the page like header, and put all imports there, then call that separated header to any of your JSP.

A: I think dividing the header, footer, body part and then adding them to the master page will be a good option for further maintenance of application. Call all your jsps inside the body part of master page rather than adding header, footer and all imports in all jsps.

A: You may try this, in your web.xml put this tag
<jsp-config>
  <jsp-property-group>
    <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
    <include-prelude>/header.jsp</include-prelude> <!-- use this -->
    <include-coda>/footer.jsp</include-coda> <!-- and/or use this -->
  </jsp-property-group
</jsp-config>

header.jsp
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Magic Leap Demo Flaunts Augmented Reality
Make sure to wipe the drool off your face after watching the video.
By Stephanie Mlot
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In the latest "OMG, I want one!" news, startup Magic Leap on Thursday teased its advanced augmented reality tech.
Unable to attend this week's annual TED conference in Vancouver, the company instead released a video showcasing an in-development game that will have you wiping drool from your chin.
"Unfortunately, we couldn't make it to TED, but we wanted to share one of the things that we'd planned to share at the talk. This is a game we're playing around the office right now," the YouTube video description said.
Based on Weta Workshop's steampunk brand Dr. Grordbort, the mysterious game is played with physical gun props and what is presumably a headset (unseen in the video).
As zombie-like robots attack, the player must aim and shoot with the fake pistol, leaving animated scorch marks on walls and floors. In-game weapons are also available, including a sort of futuristic cannon.
"No robots were harmed in the making of this video," the Magic Leap's description said.
The company revealed no additional information about the demo. A Magic Leap spokesman declined to comment to PCMag.
Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Florida, Magic Leap was born out of the idea that people should come first, and computing and technology should fit our needs, the startup said.
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Silicon Valley apparently agreed. Last fall, Magic Leap pulled in $542 million in funding from tech giants like Google and Qualcomm. As part of the deal, Google senior vice president Sundar Pichai now sits on the startup's board of directors.
In December, science-fiction writer and game designer Neal Stephenson joined the firm as "Chief Futurist."
Apple, meanwhile, is reportedly working on its own augmented reality technology, presumably to compete against the likes of Magic Leap, as well as to take on Microsoft's HoloLens, and any future iterations of Google Glass—both of which overlay digital information on the physical world.
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Montgomery County Office of Public Health receives 2,000 doses of Moderna vaccine
By Carl Hessler Jr. chessler@21st-centurymedia.com @MontcoCourtNews on Twitter
NORRISTOWN — Calling it "exceptionally good news" in the fight against the coronavirus, Montgomery County officials announced the county Office of Public Health took delivery of 2,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine on Wednesday.
"These first doses will be used early next week to vaccinate paramedics and EMTs, our public health nurses who will be administering vaccine and other critical frontline workforce," county Commissioners' Chairwoman Dr. Valerie Arkoosh said during a weekly news briefing as the county entered the 42nd week of the pandemic.
"We believe that this is the first of a regular weekly shipment of vaccine but we do not yet have confirmation on the frequency or on the number of doses of vaccine that we will receive," Arkoosh added.
Last week, county hospitals began receiving vaccine manufactured by Pfizer.
According to Pennsylvania Department of Health data, a total of 7,800 doses of vaccine were distributed directly to the county's nine hospitals through Tuesday to vaccinate frontline doctors and nurses.
"We will take whatever we can get. We are prepared to receive both (Pfizer and Moderna) vaccines and we will not turn anything down," Arkoosh said. "We've been told that we will get a weekly distribution but we haven't gotten confirmation of that yet."
Officials said vaccinations also will begin next week at county long-term care facilities for residents and staff through a separate contract between the federal government and CVS and Walgreens pharmacies. County officials do not have input into how that vaccine is distributed.
"There is light at the end of this tunnel. The vaccine is arriving. In a few short months there will be safe and effective vaccine available for our entire community but we need to hunker down between now and then to protect our first responders and hospitals, to protect our teachers, the staff, and the school bus drivers working in the districts whose school boards are choosing to offer in-person education," Arkoosh said.
While vaccine is becoming available in the county, Arkoosh warned residents not to become complacent in the fight against the virus.
"While having vaccine allows us to fight this virus head-on, we must continue to play defense. It will be a number of months before we have enough vaccine to vaccinate the general population. As a community we remain in this fight together," said Arkoosh, who was joined at the virtual briefing by fellow Commissioner Kenneth E. Lawrence Jr. "The choices each of us make regarding our personal conduct…impact all of us."
To flatten the current surge of COVID-19 cases in the county, Arkoosh has urged residents to wear a mask, to avoid social gatherings, to abide by handwashing recommendations, to fully cooperate if they receive a call from a contact tracer, and to download the free COVID Alert PA app onto their phone.
COVID Alert PA is a free mobile app, offered by the Pennsylvania Department of Health, that uses Bluetooth low energy technology and the Exposure Notification System, created jointly by Google and Apple, to notify and give public health guidance to anyone who may have been in close contact with a person who also has the app and has tested positive for COVID-19.
During the upcoming holidays, "the safest strategy is to celebrate only with the people in your household," Arkoosh reminded county residents.
Arkoosh pointed out there are more people currently hospitalized with the virus in the county's nine hospitals than were hospitalized during the initial spring surge.
On Wednesday, 464 individuals with COVID-19 were in the county's hospitals, a decrease from the 537 patients the previous week. Fifty-one of the current patients require ventilators.
"While there has been a reduction in the total number of hospitalizations since last week, some of our area hospitals remain near capacity limits. All of our hospitals continue to be impacted by staff who have been exposed or infected in the community due to the substantial amount of virus circulating right now," Arkoosh said.
"Our hospitals are going to extraordinary lengths to properly and safely staff the beds that our currently open. We need to work together as a community to reduce the spread of virus throughout our community to help protect our hospital staff," Arkoosh added.
The county's COVID-19 positivity rate decreased slightly during the last week, according to county data.
The overall 14-day COVID-19 positivity rate for the county, as of Dec. 18, was 10.9% which was a decrease from the 11.1% positivity rate for the 14-day period ending Dec. 11.
Health officials believe having a positivity rate less than 5% indicates a county is controlling the spread of the virus and keeping it suppressed.
Officials reported that the daily positivity rate in the county was above 5% every day between Dec. 5 and Dec. 18.
On Wednesday, officials reported 361 new positive cases of the virus, bringing the county's total number of cases to 30,446 since March 7, when the first two cases of the virus were identified in the county. Fourteen of the new cases were individuals who resided in long-term care facilities and 49 were reported at the county jail in Lower Providence, officials said.
The new positive individuals included 203 males and 158 females who ranged in age from 1 to 98 and resided in 55 municipalities.
Officials also reported five more deaths from the virus on Wednesday, bringing the county's death toll to 973 since the pandemic began in March. The five individuals ranged in age from 63 to 85.
Since March, a total of 511 females and 462 males, who ranged in age from 34 to 104, have died from the virus in the county.
Addressing the COVID-19 cases at the county jail, officials said the fourth round of facility-wide testing recently occurred at facility.
Between Dec. 7 and Dec. 18, a total of 716 inmates were tested, 90 of whom tested positive.
"Currently, all inmates who have tested positive for COVID-19 are in isolation and are stable without any symptoms," Arkoosh said.
A total of 287 staff members at the jail were tested during the same period and 51 staff members tested positive, officials said.
Testing is available for all county residents and those who work in the county and want or need to be tested. The county has established outdoor walk-up testing sites in Pottstown, Norristown, Lansdale, Willow Grove, Ardmore and Green Lane to accommodate those who want to be tested.
The six county-run sites provide self-administered tests at no cost, although insurance will be billed if you have it. The sites do require an appointment for testing.
Normally, each of the six testing sites is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Appointments can be made weekdays starting at 7 a.m. by visiting www.montcopa.org/COVID-19 and clicking on the county testing information button. Residents can also register for a test at any of the six sites by calling 610-970-2937 beginning at 8:30 a.m. daily.
However, due to the upcoming holiday, the hours at the six sites have changed. On Thursday, Dec. 24 all sites will be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. All the sites will be closed on Friday, Dec. 25.
In Pottstown, the testing site is located at the county's Office of Public Health Pottstown Health Center at 364 King St.
In Norristown, a testing site is located on the parking lot of the Delaware Valley Community Health Norristown Regional Health Center at 1401 DeKalb St.
In Lansdale, a testing site is located at 421 Main St. Another testing site is located at Deep Creek and Snyder roads in the Green Lane Park area.
In Ardmore, a testing site is located at 114 W. Lancaster Avenue. Officials announced the Ardmore location also will be open on Saturday, Dec. 26 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. For Saturday testing, appointments can be reserved online only beginning at 7 p.m. on Friday.
In Willow Grove, a testing site is at First Baptist Church - Crestmont, 1678 Fairview Ave.
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By Attorney David Engler
Have you ever received an Explanation of Benefits letter from your insurance provider and cannot figure out what you owe? You are not alone in deciphering a hospital bill. At http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-lopez-medicalcosts-20120325,0,6538717.column/ Steve Lopez describes how a father received a $5000 dollar emergency bill for his daughter's tummy-ache!
So they went to Providence Tarzana Medical Center's emergency room, where Moser handed over his insurance information. He had lost his job in TV production, and later bought his own medical insurance. To keep the monthly premiums manageable, he went for a plan with a $5,000 deductible.
"I kept asking, 'Is this really necessary?' " said Moser, who first questioned the emergency room staff about the need for an IV drip to administer a saline solution.
The staff agreed not to do the saline solution. After some blood work, the doctor recommended an ultrasound, which Moser questioned. He relented, though, when the doctor said it wasn't absolutely necessary but would rule out anything serious. And it did, so Ella went home with what was diagnosed as nothing more than an upset stomach, from which she quickly recovered.
But when the bill arrived, John Moser felt a sharp pain in his own gut.
The cost for just walking in the door of the emergency room? That came to $1,288. The ultrasound nicked him an additional $1,135. A comprehensive metabolic panel (blood analysis) was billed at $1,212.
Moser was also charged $158, accidentally, for the saline solution he had turned down. The total came to $4,852.55, not counting separate bills that would arrive later and total nearly $1,000, including $540 for pathology and $309 for the doctor.
"I was shocked," said Moser.
The first bill, $4,852.55, was confusing, as medical bills often are. It said "your health plan has recently made a payment on your account." It said the balance, $2,571.85, "is now your financial responsibility."
When Moser mentioned the bill to his father, Marvin Moser flipped.
"Yes, the fees in ERs are off the wall all over the country," the professor of medicine told me, but he found Tarzana's to be extraordinary. "The one thing that stands out, beyond belief, is $1,212 for a metabolic panel."
That's a test, Dr. Moser said, in which a technician draws blood for chemical analysis, and it takes just minutes. Moser questioned not only the charge, but the usefulness of the test in his granddaughter's case.
Out of curiosity, I went online to see what a lab might charge for a comprehensive metabolic panel.
Some labs advertise prices as low as $39.
Glenn Melnick, who teaches hospital economics at USC, was not surprised.
"By and large, these prices are fictitious numbers," said Melnick, who argued that Tarzana and most other hospitals routinely charge astronomical fees, especially for emergency room services.
Of course, and it's all part of a years-long game in which the charge for service, the true cost of the service, and the acceptable payment are in three different orbits. And that doesn't even take into account how the charges are adjusted up or down depending on who's paying them and whether they have worked out a deal. How can patients hope to make sense of such an indefensibly convoluted system?
Starting Monday, President Obama's healthcare reform act will get a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court. But how can you have an honest conversation about soaring healthcare costs and health insurance, Dr. Moser asked, without addressing the maddening fictions built into the system? Patients seldom know in advance what they are being charged, he said, and many later find themselves in "medical bill bankruptcy."
Melnick said hospitals argue that they lose money providing service to the uninsured, and by not getting reimbursed enough for Medicare or Medicaid patients. There's some truth to that, Melnick said, but prices are set artificially high to help balance the books on the backs of paying customers. In the case of a $1,200 charge for entering an emergency room, Melnick said, the Medicare reimbursement is likely to be $300 or less, and far closer to the hospital's true cost.
"Hospitals have figured out they can rapidly increase charges in the ER," Melnick said, "and that will lead them to get higher amounts even from insurance companies they negotiate with."
This is a very big deal, Melnick said, because half of all patients admitted to a hospital in California go in through the emergency room. Melnick said there's also been a huge increase in the number of patients who lost group coverage and purchased individual plans with high deductibles, making them more vulnerable to exorbitant charges.
"More and more, people are seeing their deductibles eaten up on one visit."
Melnick directed me to a state website (http://www.oshpd.ca.gov/chargemaster/) where every California hospital lists its fees. I did a little surfing and it appeared that the comprehensive metabolic panel for which Tarzana charged $1,212, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center lists a price of $786.45 and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center charges $350.
A Tarzana spokesperson, Patricia Aidem, sent me a statement defending Ella's care. "A child's life was in our team's hands and they acted accordingly…" said the statement.
It added that Providence hospitals spend millions each year on charity care for those who can't pay. Aidem also provided data from the state website showing higher fees at other hospitals than Tarzana charged in the Moser case, including $2,678 for an abdominal ultrasound at West Hills Medical Center and a $4,413.24 emergency room visit at Cedars.
But that's just the point. The price swings are so dramatic that they seem arbitrary, if not indefensible. I can't predict how the Supreme Court will rule on healthcare, but I'm prepared to issue my judgment: It's a mess.
(Look for a column in the next week on how the bill for Ella Moser's tummy ache was settled and tips on how to avoid going broke from a minor medical emergency.)
Attorney David Engler
http://www.DavidEngler.com Attorney Engler's website
Areas of Practice: Family Law, Elder Law, Domestic Relations, Bankruptcy, Criminal
Also published on Attorney David Engler's Blog on March 26, 2012 http://davidengler.wordpress.com// and Family Fault Lines Blog http://familyfaultlines.com//
Age and Its Awful Discontents
Elder Care, Guardianship, Seniors
In my earlier blog I wrote about my Mother finding a new friend in the weeks of her final dawn. "Wanda and Stella" was about the two WWII era nurses that made a pact to go to heaven together.
Mom died on February 3, 2012 and Stella died March 3, 2012. The following piece is from Louis Begley who writes with beauty about friends lost as we age. This was published in the March 18, 2012 New York Times.
"My mother died in 2004, two days short of her 94th birthday, and 40 years and two months to the day after the death of my father. He died at 65; for the preceding four or five years he had been in poor health.
My mother and I lived through the German occupation in Poland; my physician father, having been evacuated with the staff of the local hospital by the retreating Soviet army, spent the remaining war years in Samarkand. Left to fend for ourselves, my mother and I became unimaginably close; our survival depended on that symbiotic relationship. All three of us — I had no brothers or sisters — arrived in the United States in March 1947, and once here I began to keep her at arm's length. Especially during her long widowhood, I feared that unimpeded she would invade my life, the life she had saved. I remained a dutiful son, watching over her needs, but was at first unwilling and later unable to be tender.
My abhorrence of the ravages and suffering inflicted on the body by age and illness, which predates my mother's decline in her last years, is no doubt linked to there being no examples of a happy old age in my family. The grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins who might have furnished them all met violent deaths in World War II.
Unsurprisingly, dread of the games time plays with us has been a drumbeat in my novels. Thus, arms akimbo, majestic and naked, standing before a glass, Charlie Swan, the gay demiurge of "As Max Saw It," illustrates for the younger narrator on his body the physiology of aging: misrule of hair, puckered brown bags under the eyes, warts like weeds on his chest, belly, back and legs, dry skin that peels leaving a fine white snow of dandruff. Listening to him, the younger man is reminded of his own father in a hospital, permanently catheterized, other tubes conducting liquids to his body hooked up to machines that surround his bed like unknown relatives. He prefers his mother's "triumphant" exit. A headlong fall down the cellar stairs kills her instantly.
I have followed the progress into old age of Albert Schmidt, like me a retired lawyer, in three novels. Schmidt is 60 when we meet him in 1991; when we part on New Year's Day 2009, he is 78, therefore a couple of years older than I was then. Life has not been kind to him, but so far, Schmidt enjoys excellent health, marching up and down the Atlantic beach in Bridgehampton and New York City's avenues, and doing laps in his pool. Although he worries about performance, his libido is intact. Nevertheless, the reflection of his face in the window of a shop is frightening: he sees a red nose and bloodshot eyes, lips pursed up tight over stained and uneven teeth, an expression so lugubrious and so pained it resists his efforts to smile. My appreciation of my own charms is not very different. Like Schmidt, I see that nothing good awaits me at the end of the road, and that passing years will turn my life into a Via Crucis.
And yet my body, like Schmidt's, continues to be a good sport. Provided my marvelous doctor pumps steroids into my hip or spine when needed, it runs along on the leash like a nondescript mutt and wags its tail. My heart still stirs when I see a pretty girl in the street or in a subway car, but not much else happens. Except that, since by preference I stand leaning against the closed doors, she may offer me her seat. When last heard from, Schmidtie figured he had another 10 years to live. I have a similar estimate of my longevity. Such actions as buying a new suit have become dilemmas. The clothes I have may be fatigued and frayed, but won't they see me through the remaining seasons? Can the expense of money and waste of time required to make the purchase be justified?
My mother did not remarry after my father died. She lived very comfortably, but alone, in an apartment 15 blocks away from my wife's and mine. If we were in the city, we went to see her often and then daily as her condition deteriorated in the last two years of her life. Our children and grandchildren tried to see her often, too — and those visits brought her great joy — but they live far away and the happiness was fleeting. During her last decade she was very lonely. Most of the friends she had had in Poland had been killed. Those who had escaped and settled in New York one by one became homebound or bedridden, lost their minds or died. Or she found they bored her. Hearing poorly, tormented by arthritis in hip and knee joints, too proud to accept a wheelchair, she stopped going to museums, concerts and even the movies. She had loved sitting on a Central Park bench and putting her face in the sun. That humble pleasure was also abandoned; she couldn't get the hang of using a walker.
Having rehearsed the bitter gifts reserved for age, T. S. Eliot wrote in "Little Gidding" that "the end of all our exploring/ Will be to arrive where we started/ And know the place for the first time." The closer that place — the human condition — is to home, the harder it is to take in. I could speak movingly of Schmidt's loneliness after the loss of his daughter, calling his existence an arid plane of granite on which she alone had flowered. But it has taken me until now, at age 78, to feel in full measure the bitterness and anguish of my mother's solitude — and that of other old people who end their lives without a companion."
Louis Begley is the author of several novels, including "Schmidt Steps Back."
A version of this op-ed appeared in print on March 18, 2012, on page SR7 of the New York edition with the headline: Age and Its Awful Discontents.
Also published on Family Fault Lines on March 20, 2012 http://familyfaultlines.com/
Medicaid Is a Big Number
$$2,300,000,000.00
Medicaid is a means tested program. That means you have to be poor to receive the benefits. And fortunately for all the medical providers, drug companies, nursing homes and home health care providers, an ever increasing share of America fits the definition of poor.
60% of all nursing home residents are paid for by Medicaid. 37% of all childbirths are paid for by Medicaid. It is a joint state and federal program. The wealthier states receive 50% reimbursement and the poorer states a larger share. 67 million people are receiving some type of Medicaid benefit. The last national figures showed us spending 2.3 Trillion Dollars per year. That is a lot of pace-makers, nursing home stays, physical therapy visits and above all drugs.
When we see the candidates running for office talking about balancing the budget, they cannot help look at the fastest growing expense in our country. But it is not only the advocates for the poor who push back but the advocates of the wealthy who have made a nice living off of serving the poor with medical care.
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from msrest.serialization import Model

class MonitoringPolicyDescription(Model):
    """Describes the parameters for monitoring an upgrade in Monitored mode.

    :param failure_action: The compensating action to perform when a Monitored
     upgrade encounters monitoring policy or health policy violations. Possible
     values include: 'Invalid', 'Rollback', 'Manual'
    :type failure_action: str or ~azure.servicefabric.models.FailureAction
    :param health_check_wait_duration_in_milliseconds: The amount of time to
     wait after completing an upgrade domain before applying health policies.
     It is first interpreted as a string representing an ISO 8601 duration. If
     that fails, then it is interpreted as a number representing the total
     number of milliseconds.
    :type health_check_wait_duration_in_milliseconds: str
    :param health_check_stable_duration_in_milliseconds: The amount of time
     that the application or cluster must remain healthy before the upgrade
     proceeds to the next upgrade domain. It is first interpreted as a string
     representing an ISO 8601 duration. If that fails, then it is interpreted
     as a number representing the total number of milliseconds.
    :type health_check_stable_duration_in_milliseconds: str
    :param health_check_retry_timeout_in_milliseconds: The amount of time to
     retry health evaluation when the application or cluster is unhealthy
     before FailureAction is executed. It is first interpreted as a string
     representing an ISO 8601 duration. If that fails, then it is interpreted
     as a number representing the total number of milliseconds.
    :type health_check_retry_timeout_in_milliseconds: str
    :param upgrade_timeout_in_milliseconds: The amount of time the overall
     upgrade has to complete before FailureAction is executed. It is first
     interpreted as a string representing an ISO 8601 duration. If that fails,
     then it is interpreted as a number representing the total number of
     milliseconds.
    :type upgrade_timeout_in_milliseconds: str
    :param upgrade_domain_timeout_in_milliseconds: The amount of time each
     upgrade domain has to complete before FailureAction is executed. It is
     first interpreted as a string representing an ISO 8601 duration. If that
     fails, then it is interpreted as a number representing the total number of
     milliseconds.
    :type upgrade_domain_timeout_in_milliseconds: str
    """

    _attribute_map = {
        'failure_action': {'key': 'FailureAction', 'type': 'str'},
        'health_check_wait_duration_in_milliseconds': {'key': 'HealthCheckWaitDurationInMilliseconds', 'type': 'str'},
        'health_check_stable_duration_in_milliseconds': {'key': 'HealthCheckStableDurationInMilliseconds', 'type': 'str'},
        'health_check_retry_timeout_in_milliseconds': {'key': 'HealthCheckRetryTimeoutInMilliseconds', 'type': 'str'},
        'upgrade_timeout_in_milliseconds': {'key': 'UpgradeTimeoutInMilliseconds', 'type': 'str'},
        'upgrade_domain_timeout_in_milliseconds': {'key': 'UpgradeDomainTimeoutInMilliseconds', 'type': 'str'},
    }

    def __init__(self, failure_action=None, health_check_wait_duration_in_milliseconds=None, health_check_stable_duration_in_milliseconds=None, health_check_retry_timeout_in_milliseconds=None, upgrade_timeout_in_milliseconds=None, upgrade_domain_timeout_in_milliseconds=None):
        super(MonitoringPolicyDescription, self).__init__()
        self.failure_action = failure_action
        self.health_check_wait_duration_in_milliseconds = health_check_wait_duration_in_milliseconds
        self.health_check_stable_duration_in_milliseconds = health_check_stable_duration_in_milliseconds
        self.health_check_retry_timeout_in_milliseconds = health_check_retry_timeout_in_milliseconds
        self.upgrade_timeout_in_milliseconds = upgrade_timeout_in_milliseconds
        self.upgrade_domain_timeout_in_milliseconds = upgrade_domain_timeout_in_milliseconds


so give us a call at 816-356-4700 or email BurgeBirdRescue@yahoo.com.
If we don't have the bird you are looking for, be sure to check with Beak N Wings bird club at www.BeakNWings.org to see what birds they have available.
Meet Lily, she (or he) is a 5 year old peach face lovebird. While Lily is tame, she has a moderate medical issue. She will need to be adopted by someone that care for her medical need. Lily's previous owners were just not in a position to give Lily the needed care.
Max is an older blue and gold macaw. She has arthritis, but is able to get around her cage at a slow pace. She tends to favor men more than women. She will need someone who has experience with older birds; particularly macaws.
Adoption fee for this bird is $300.
Mango lived with a couple of different owners before coming to Burge Bird Rescue. She is an adult lovebird. She does best as an only bird.
Snow White and Maui. This pair of doves came to us with their four children. They are a very friendly pair. Snow White and Maui are looking for a good home to retire to. The adoption fee for the mom and dad are $10 each.
Romeo and Juliet are two older peach faced male lovebirds. Juliet has a severe head tilt, but he is able to get around and eat with the help of his brother. They are both quite shy and timid. They are looking for an experienced lovebird owner to adopt them. The fee for them, is $10 each.
Lola is a fourteen year old female Blue Crown Conure. She's very social and sweet bird. She prefers women. She does well as an only bird. Her adoption fee is $200.
Harry is a male, Blue Front Amazon with less blue on the front of his face above his beak. He came in with his mate Crackers. Harry is not very social or talkative. We do not know exactly how old they are. Crackers is quite social and can be very talkative. They will have to be adopted together. The adoption fee is $200 each.
Smitty is a nineteen year old ringneck dove. He is partially blind in one of his eyes. He would do well as an only dove. He is looking for a good home to go to. His adoption fee is $5.00.
Shamus is a nine-year old Green Cheek Conure. We do not know if Shamus is a male or female. Shamus used to be tame, with more handling, Shamus can become tame once more. Shamus prefers women. The adoption fee for Shamus is $125.
Jag is a seventeen year old Gold Crown Conure. He is somewhat tame. Jag does well in a calm environment as an only bird. He is looking for a good home to go to. The adoption fee is $170.
Freddie is a somewhat tame pigeon. We don't know how old or if Freddie is a male or female. Freddie is a bit shy at first. The adoption fee is $5.00.