Iogna-Prat, Dominique, Ordonner et Exclure: cluny et la société chretiènne face à l'hérésie, au judaisme et à l'islam, 1000-1150. Paris: Aubier, 1998 . Pp. 508. 2-700-72287-6.
Reviewed by Tom Burman, University of Tennesee at Knoxville, teburman@utkux.utcc.utk.edu.
n the first lines of the concluding chapter of this important study, the author observes, following Lessing, that "paradoxically, what unites mankind. . . is, at the same time, that which divides" (p. 360). It is not at all inaccurate to say that the burden of this book is to show just how true this was for that church-within-the-Church, the Cluniac order, and its leading twelfth-century thinker, Peter the Venerable. The author makes clear that Anglo-American scholars such as R. I. Moore and John Boswell inspired this exploration of the rise of intolerance toward minority groups in the High Middle Ages, but unlike them Iogna-Prat has adopted an intriguing "micro-historical analysis" (p. 367) in which Peter the Venerable's treatises against the Petrobrusian heretics, the Jews, and Islam are used to show how "the persecution and diabolization of the Other" became "a structural necessity" (p. 32) for Peter the Venerable because of a specific sort of ecclesiological anthropology that had developed within the Cluniac order. What unites society--an intensely sacramental view of the church as united and sustained by the monk-priest's presiding over the eucharistic sacrifice--is that which divides, for Petrobrusians, Jews, and Muslims are excluded from this unity by their refusal to recognize the validity of the Mass. This approach to Peter's writings against heretics and non-Christians is eminently useful. First of all it serves to ground the analysis of Peter's treatises in the concrete experience of a very particular abbot of a very particular monastic order (a type of grounding much needed in the analysis of such works). Secondly, since the Cluniac order was, in its vast geographical extent and remarkable diversity, something of a microcosm of the Church anyway, the micro-historical analysis assayed here turns out to shed a great deal of light on the macro-historical experience of the Latin Church. This is, in short, a very intelligently wrought book, one that will make a great contribution to our understanding of European attitudes toward non-Catholic Christians both within and without Christendom.
The first of the book's three parts, "Monks and the Order of the World," provides the reader with an extensive overview of Cluny's history and organization. Chapter 1 summarizes the development of Latin-Christian views on the ordering of society, and especially of the Gregorian conception of a Christian society regulated by the clergy. The much longer second chapter ("A Monastic Church within the Church") then describes how Cluny and its far-flung dependencies to a substantial degree incarnated this view. The emphasis here is--ironically--on inclusion. As Cluny gained prestige and privileges, it incorporated into itself not only monks from other houses (a result of its right to receive outside monks in need of penitence and reform) and whole monastic foundations, but also, Iogna-Prat argues, lay society as well through its hospice for travellers, its extensive almsgiving, and, most importantly, its close connections with powerful families who gave great wealth to Cluny and sent many of their children to become professed religious at its houses. Moreover, Cluny exercised influence not only through the foundations that were juridically dependent upon it, but also through the monks that, having been elevated to the prelacy, were no longer subject to Cluny's authority, but continued to bear "the indelible mark" (p. 53) of their Cluniac profession, and through houses such as Nouaille that merely adopted its customs though they remained independent. Its authority extended even into the parish network because of the many churches it possessed. With its many daughter houses and dependent parishes, therefore, with its affiliated convent for women (Marcigny-sur-Loire), its ties to non-Cluniac foundations (including Grande-Chartreuse), its hermits living under Cluniac authority, its refuge-seeking penitents (both clerical and lay), pilgrams, and poor, and its manifold links to the secular and ecclesiastical aristocracy, Cluny tended, Igona-Prat points out, to see itself as "une manière d'Église en reduction" (p. 52) or even to identify itself with the Church as a whole (p. 44).
But this voracious inclusiveness became exacting exclusiveness when Peter the Venerable confronted those who rejected the principle of unity that bound all this diversity together. In Part 2 Iogna-Prat clarifies both what this unifying principle was and how the heretical followers of Pierre de Bruis denied it through a painstaking analysis of Peter's Contra Petrobrusianos. This refutation of the Petrobrusians' five essential heretical teachings--that infants should not be baptized; that all places are equally holy to God (so physical churches should not be built); that crucifixes should not be venerated; that the Eucharist is invalid; and that the dead should not be memorialized with prayers and offerings--"sketches," Iogna-Prat argues, "the contours of a sociology of Christendom in the feudal age" (p. 255). Chapters 3 and 4 set forth the necessary background to this argument by analyzing the genre of Contra Petrobrusianos and its "defensive argumentation" in particular, and by outlining the development of the Petrobrusian movement. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 outline Peter's response to the Petrobrusian denials. In the course of attacking these denials, Peter lays out an ecclesiology in which Church and society are identified with each other, and the foundation of both is held to be the sacrifice of Christ, both originally at Calvary, and repeated over and over again in the Eucharist. Baptising infants is necessary to preserve the holistic unity of this Christian society; building physical churches merely provides a special place, which "all religions require," where the most important acts of worship, the Eucharistic sacrifice included, can occur; venerating the cross merely means honoring the instrument of torture transformed into an instrument of glory in the original sacrifice itself; prayers and offerings for the dead are the natural consequence of the Church's extension into the hereafter. Undergirding all this is the sacrifice itself. When Petrobrusians deny the validity of the Eucharist that reenacts it, they deny the mystery that makes Christian society possible.
As Iogna-Prat goes on to argue in Part 3 of Ordonner et exclure (Chapters 9-12), the "logique englobante" (p. 363) of this Cluniac ecclesiology naturally led Peter the Venerable to find contemporary Judaism and Islam particularly troubling as well, for not only did they deny the sacrifice at the core of this view of Christian society, but they also rejected priestly celibacy which, as Iogna-Prat puts it, "institutes the clergy and puts them in the position of managing the exchanges with the hereafter that occur in the eucharistic sacrifice" (p. 366). These other religions, then, represent not only a rejection of Christian belief, but also a denial of the specific Christian ecclesiology that explained the great prestige and power of Cluniac monk-priests. This is what accounts, Iogna-Prat suggests, for the bitter tone of Peter's Adversus Judeos, Summa haeresis Sarracenorum, and Contra sectam Sarracenorum: those who so obviously seek to overturn the very structure of society must be either inhuman or inspired by the devil.
The first part of his treatise against the Jews fits well within the age-old tradition of Christian apologetic--Peter arguing, for example, that verses such as Psalm 109:3 in the Vulgate ("Among the splendors of the saints, from the womb, before the dawn I engendered you") counter the Jewish claim that God has no son, while the miracles that accompanied the expansion of the early church are clear evidence of God's favor. But the last part of the work is an innovative attack on the "ridiculous fables" of the Talmud, a text of which western Christians had been largely ignorant. Using what seems to have been an anthology of passages from the Talmud and other related works, Peter proceeded to argue that people who could believe the sort of wild tales that he cites (involving, for example, heavily anthropomorphized depictions of God) are not only unbelievers: they are inhuman as well (p. 304).
While Peter's stubborn refusal to understand the tone and purpose of these Talmudic tales is dismaying to modern readers, we cannot help but admire his industrious seeking out of authoritative Jewish texts to use in his arguments against Judaism. His approach to Islam is very similar, for, as is widely known, Peter commissioned the translation of the so-called Collectio toletana, a set of Arabic texts, including the Qur'an, for use in Christian apology and polemic. For the first time Latin Christendom possessed a substantial body of basically accurate information about Islam. But then Peter uses this information, Iogna-Prat shows in Chapter 11, to demonize Islam. His Summa haeresis Sarracenorum, which accompanies the Collectio toletana in many manuscripts, is an introduction to Islam; his much longer Contra sectam Sarracenorum is a refutation of it. In the former Muhammad is portrayed as an uneducated Arab led astray by the devil through his contacts with heretical Christians and Jews, and whose teachings represent "the sum of all heresies" (p. 340). In the longer treatise Peter takes on Islam directly by arguing that the Qur'an itself requires that Muslims accept the validity of Christian scripture, and by attempting to show that Muhammad is not a prophet since his life does not conform to what Peter sees as the Old-Testament model of prophecy. Peter was heavily dependent on earlier Arab-Christian portrayals of Muhammad and Islam, yet his response to the Prophet's religion, like his more innovative response to Judaism, is undergirded by the same view of the church and society that his attack on the Petrobrusians was. Just as those heretics struck at the very structure of the Church and Cluny itself by attacking the eucharist, so, in Peter's mind, Islam, "a religion without priest and without sacramental mediation," (p. 358) represented, with Judaism, a threat to the very sacrificial foundations of Christendom.
Iogna-Prat has done a great service in demonstrating the close connections between these treatises and between them and the specific Cluniac world out of which they grew, and for doing so with such precision and richness of detail. Ordonner et exclure is the fruit of enormous labor. The author's knowledge of the secondary literature is vast, and his careful analysis of Peter's works against heretics and non-Christians is unequalled (though John Tolan has very valuable things to say along these lines in an article published at virtually the same time: "Peter the Venerable on the 'Diabolical Heresy of the Saracens,'" in A. Ferreiro, ed., The Devil, Heresy and Witchcraft in The Middle Ages: Essay in Honor of Jeffrey B. Russell [Leiden, 1998], pp. 345-67). Iogna-Prat's book should serve as a model both for how a medieval thinker's response to the religiously other can be elegantly contextualized within the particular concerns and tendencies of a sub-community of the Church, and for how such a "micro-historical analysis" can be made to illuminate general attitudes toward outsiders as well. For having shown to what extent Cluny, as "une Église en réduction," recapitulates many of the tendencies of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Iogna-Prat also manages to suggest the powerful ways in which that age's inclusive attempts to order Christian society inevitably involved exclusion as well.


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Lord Lexden is the ISA President: an honorary role, elected by the Membership, with a five-year term of office. He became President of the ISA in 2013 and the current term of office lasts until 31 August 2024.
Alistair Lexden OBE has made significant contributions in three spheres of activity: education, politics and authorship. He was created a Conservative working peer with the title of Lord Lexden in December 2010. He is official historian to the Conservative Party and of the Carlton Club. He is also President of the Council for Independent Education (CIFE). From 1997 to 2004 he was General Secretary of the Independent Schools Council (ISC); he is a faithful friend to ISA and a champion of independent education in this country.
Lord Lexden writes "I am delighted to be part of a successful, expanding organisation working on behalf of over 500 schools where high standards are matched by excellent pastoral care."
The ISA Lexden Prize is a national award, named for our President and is presented at a ceremony in the House of Lords each year to the sixth former in one of the ISA Members' schools (over 500), judged to be the "most remarkable student"; following nominations received from the head teachers themselves.
Further details about our President's activities can be found on his website.
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Lighting the Lamp
Lighting The Lamp: The Blue Jackets' Fight For Respect
You might recognize the "Lighting the Lamp" feature from the Game Time paper. Rick Ackerman has been nice enough to send over his column for the website. "Lighting the Lamp" will be featured weekly every Thursday afternoon, as well as every home game day.
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The bruised, battered, bedraggled Blues finally return home after an arduous road trip that saw them win three in a row, lose one in regulation and lose another in overtime on a fluky goal. One might think the regulation loss to San Jose was a home game, yet due to major travel difficulties in Vancouver Monday, it might as well have been a road game since the boys didn't get back to St. Louis until around six a.m. on Tuesday, game day. That's the way it is during this shortened season as NHL teams face the prospect of playing four games in seven days and then having almost a week off. After facing the Blue Jackets tonight, the Blues will have five days until they play Chicago Thursday. At least it prepares them for the playoff grind come May. (Yes, the Blues will qualify for the playoffs this year.)
In 1997 the 26-team NHL decided to expand (again) in order to balance out the two divisions in each conference. The Atlantic and Pacific Divisions had seven members; the Northeast and Central only had six. Columbus entered an expansion bid, as did several other cities, including Minneapolis/St. Paul, Atlanta, Nashville, Hamilton (Ontario), Quebec and Seattle. Nashville and Atlanta (Thrashers) started play in 1998 and 1999 respectively since they had suitable arenas. The Minnesota Wild and Columbus franchise would have to wait until 2000 when their buildings (The Xcel Center in St. Paul and Nationwide Arena) would be completed.
Many hockey pundits and self-professed experts were mystified when Columbus was selected for an NHL club and more traditional markets, especially in Canada, were bypassed. That choice was made because of one man, John H. McConnell, an Ohio businessman (Worthington Industries, a steel product manufacturer), who purchased the franchise and used his influence to persuade Nationwide Insurance Co. to buy a 30% interest ($52M) and pay almost $30M over ten years for the naming rights to the new $150M arena. That became necessary when the voters of Columbus rejected a referendum to use public money to finance construction. A history buff, McConnell selected the name "Blue Jackets" in homage to Ohio's rich Civil War heritage. Apparently uniform jackets worn by Union soldiers were made by factories in Columbus.
They fire off a model Civil War cannon after Blue Jacket goals, too. Columbus did not choose any Blues' players in the expansion draft in 2000, although St. Louis signed one of the free-agent players the Jackets claimed from Phoenix, Dallas Drake. Columbus did choose wisely, though, taking goaltender Dwayne Roloson from Buffalo, defenseman Lyle Odelein (Phoenix) and forwards Geoff Sanderson (Buffalo), Bruce Gardiner (Tampa Bay), Kevin Dineen (Ottawa) and Drake. In the amateur draft, the Jackets chose highly regarded defenseman Rostilav Klesla, who would later be traded to Phoenix in 2011.
The Blue Jackets finished fifth and last in the division and missed the playoffs three years in a row, despite the addition of scoring star Rick Nash in the amateur draft of 2002. They did manage to finish ahead of the Blackhawks in 2004 yet still failed to qualify for a shot at Lord Stanley's Cup. Despite the additions of rugged defenseman Adam Foote and superstar center Sergei Federov for the 2005-06 season, Columbus would fail to make the playoffs yet again. The following season Ken Hitchcock was named the new head coach and finished fourth in the division, but out of the playoffs. Under Hitch for an entire season, the team would see improvement, yet by the end of 2007-08, once again the club would have to watch the playoffs on television. Nevertheless, in July Hitchcock was signed to a three year extension as head coach, and eight months later was rewarded with a slot for the Jackets in the 2009 playoffs, the first (and only) time in franchise history. They would be swept by the Red Wings in four games.
Despite many changes, Columbus has not qualified for the playoffs since then, finishing last in the division the last three years in a row. In February, 2010, Coach Hitchcock was relieved of his duties and eventually left the organization to sign with the Blues in November, 2011 (resulting with Hitch winning the Jack Adams Award in June, 2012, as best coach in the league). Rick Nash left in a July, 2012, trade with the Rangers. John Davidson left St. Louis to become the President of Hockey Operations for the Blue Jackets in October, 2012, and replaced long-time (six years) general manager Scott Howson 12 days ago with Jarmo Kekaleinen, who worked with Davidson in St. Louis and had been the general manager of the Jokerit hockey club in the Finnish Elite League.
Davidson has his hands full. Columbus is currently fifth in the Central Division and has the second worst record in the entire NHL. The more things change, the more they stay the same, for the Blue Jackets, at least.


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Nvidia Shield TV (2017) review: The daddy of 4K HDR media streaming
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When the original Nvidia Shield TV came out in 2015 it was far and away the most powerful, most capable media streamer out there. Powered by Android TV and being 4K ready, it obliterated the competition with Ultra HD video support and offered a tasty sideline in enhanced gaming to boot.
It was pricy though – already more expensive than its peers and the remote control had to be bought as a £50/$75 optional extra. That made it very much a premium purchase and one that was never going to make much of a dent in the sales figures of Roku or Amazon's Firedepartment.
Now a new version of the box is available and Nvidia is confident enough to keep it around the same price: £190/$285. This time, however, you get a game controller with a mic for Google Assistant voice control (pending a software update), plus an improved version of the wireless remote included the box.
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These two packages, frequently found in law departments, raise similar issues. In fact, all databases raise issues of this kind, including intellectual property databases, document management systems, and corporate entity repositories.
Accountability for updates. Databases are a pain in the neck to keep current. Disputes arise over who should be responsible for their care and feeding and with what expectations of promptness.
Parameters for inclusion. What is the definition of a contract, a matter, a record, or other item that should be captured in the database (See my post of March 26, 2008: definitions of matters for purposes of databases.)?
Reporting. Everyone struggles with which reports are most effective, who can modify parameters of reports, and how to reconcile data across reports.
Security. Among other issues, this involves who has access to the system, at what levels, and can they do more than only read information.
Technical. Whether to license or build, whether to host the database on your own computers or with an ASP, support by IT, cost and ROI, and more (See my post of June 16, 2009: Information Technology support with 23 references and 1 metapost; and Feb. 25, 2009: Application Specific Programs with 6 references.).
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Kristijan Balteanu was born in Zrenjanin (Becskerek/Petrovgrad) at the beginning of December 1974 but never actually lived there. From his earliest childhood, he was breathing the air of Pančevo and walking her streets. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Romanian Studies, in Novi Sad with a degree in Romanian Language and Literature. He teaches Romanian Language and Culture and spends his spare time on journalism, music, drawing and poetry. He is a certified Romanian translator.
He was exposed to journalism at an early age and grew up in the newsroom of the publication Libertatea where his mother worked as a journalist. Throughout school, he wrote for school newspapers and, while at university, became editor and host of a Romanian language youth radio show called Saturday on Medium Wave for Radio Novi Sad. He writes for the newspaper Libertatea and the youth magazine Tineretea and works as a reporter on the information desk at Radio Television Pančevo. He is one of the founders of the Romanian language show Banatica on TV Pančevo and edits and hosts the shows Eco Patrol and Urban Turbans on Radio Pančevo. He is a contributing journalist to the weekly local paper Pančevac, writes for the weekly Vreme, the daily newspaper Danas, the bulletin XXI Century, the magazines Urban Bug and Quick Look, the magazine Cuvantul Romanesc, the internet portal Exilium and, as a phone reporter from Pančevo, his modest contribution provides to Radio Studio B. He remains active in journalism as a freelancer and Program Coordinator for Youth Radio Omnibus.
As a certified translator of Romanian, he translates the most critical projects involving cross-border efforts between Romania and Serbia, in addition to poetry and prose.
He is a member of the Pančevo Library and the rock and roll group EL BUZZ
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At Infusion Church, we welcome all people because we believe that the Gospel has the power to change anyone and everyone. It is only by the power of the Gospel that God's redemption is brought to broken cities, cultures, families, and people. Because of this, our community reflects people from all walks of life, who are becoming more and more like Christ.
At Infusion Church, we sing "psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs" (Eph 5:19) that are theologically rich, gospel-centered, and accessible. Generally our songs are ordered to follow the "liturgical" pattern of Creation-Fall-Redemption-Restoration-Glorification. While there are Sundays that we sing along with acoustic instruments, most weeks we have a full band play.
At Infusion Church, we believe that the central theme of the whole Bible, both of the Old and New Testaments, is the sufferings and glory of Christ (Luke 24:26-27). Therefore, we preach the whole Bible (even the laws, the ceremonies, and the history of Israel) as being fulfilled in Christ. We avoid "moralistic lessons," but preach the gospel - trusting that it is the gospel that saves, and that it is the gospel that brings growth. Typically our Sunday morning messages are preached by one of our elders, and range from 30-45 minutes.
At Infusion Church, our members along with visiting believers, celebrate the Lord's Supper every week. During the Lord's Supper we eat bread (representing Christ's body broken for us), and drink wine or grapejuice (representing Christ's blood shed for us). The Lord's Supper is a tangible reminder of the gospel, and a means of grace to sustain us.
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Elizabeth was born on 17 Mar 1750 in Mt. Airy, Richmond, Virginia, the daughter of John II Tayloe and Rebecca Plater.
She died on 17 Feb 1825 in Wye House, Talbot County, Maryland.
Her husband was Edward IV Lloyd, who she married on 19 NOV 1767 in Easton, Talbot County, Maryland. Their seven known children were Ann (1769-1841), Rebecca (1771-1848), Elizabeth Phoebe (1774-1849), Eleanor (1776-1805), Edward V (1779-1834), Maria (1782-1868) and Mary Tayloe (1784-1859).
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Woman killed by husband had dreamed of law school
Angelina Collier halted her plans to go to law school when she realized she would not be able to afford it once she filed for divorce.
Woman killed by husband had dreamed of law school Angelina Collier halted her plans to go to law school when she realized she would not be able to afford it once she filed for divorce. Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/1lMys8L
Corina Vanek, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 10:46 p.m. MT July 6, 2014
Angelina Collier was shot and killed by her husband on April 13. Her three children were in the apartment at the time of the shooting.(Photo: Courtesy of Raquelle Rodriguez)
The 33-year-old mother of three had already written her application essay and begun to fill out applications before having to postpone her dream, according to friends.
Collier was shot and killed by her husband, Robert Collier, on April 13. Her husband fled the scene, but was found dead after an apparent suicide near 15th Avenue and Indian School Road later that night, police said.
Her body was found in their Phoenix apartment, along with her children who were safe. Police think the children were sleeping at the time and did not witness the murder.
Friends of Collier said that she had previously worried that her husband might be a danger to himself or to the children. He was seeing a therapist after being diagnosed as suicidal, said Collier's friend, Raquelle Rodriguez.
Rodriguez met Collier through an online group for atheists, where Rodriguez said friends could share ideas and advice.
Before she was killed, Collier posted a picture of herself to the group's page showing her smiling and saying she had petitioned for divorce.
Rodriguez said she knew Collier for about a year before her death. Collier did not talk about her husband very much, but she did worry about her family's well-being.
After shooting Collier, her husband texted a photo of her body to some of her friends and family, including people that only knew her online through the group.
Rodriguez did not know exactly how many people received the photo, but said someone in the group reached out to police and family to try to find out what happened to Collins.
Prior to her death, Collier worked as a legal secretary in a law firm, Rodriguez said. After she died, her co-workers collaborated to help pay for some of her children's expenses after they were suddenly left without parents.
People in the online group cooperated to share Collier's story and assist the children.
"Everyone, even though they did not know her in real life, wanted to help," Rodriguez said. "She just had that effect on people. People wanted to give money, and they all wanted to help the kids."
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Q: System.out.println prints the string but System.out.print does not I am trying to store the words in a file separated by coma in a java array
The file is
Age,Income,Student,Credit Rating,Class: Buys Computer
Youth,high,No,Fair,No
Youth,high,No,Excellent,No
Middle aged,high,No,Excellent,No
Senior,medium,No,Fair,Yes
Senior,Low,Yes,Fair,Yes
Senior,Low,Yes,Excellent,No
public class Test {
  public static void main(String args[]) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException{
    FileInputStream f=new FileInputStream("F:\\pr\\src\\dmexam\\inp2.txt");
    int size,nr=7,nc=5,j=0,i=0;
    char ch;
    String table[][]=new String[nr][nc];
    size=f.available();
    table[0][0]=new String();
    while(size--!=0){
         ch=(char)f.read();
         if(ch=='\n')
         {
             i++;
             if(i>=nr)
                 break;
             table[i][0]=new String();
             j=0;
             continue;

         }
         if(ch==',')
         {
            j++;
            table[i][j]=new String();
            continue;
         }
          table[i][j]+=ch;
    }
    f.close();
    System.out.println("The given table is:::---");
    for(i=0;i<nr;i++){
       for(j=0;j<nc;j++){
         System.out.print("  "+table[i][j]);
         System.out.print("  ");
       }
     }
 }
}

But the output is

The given table is:::---

But if the for is changed like this
System.out.println("The given table is:::---");
for(i=0;i<nr;i++){
    for(j=0;j<nc-1;j++){
        System.out.print("  "+table[i][j]);

        System.out.print("  ");
    }
    System.out.println(table[i][nc-1]);
 }

The output is

The given table is:::---
Age    Income    Student    Credit Rating  Class: Buys Computer
Youth    high    No    Fair  No
Youth    high    No    Excellent  No
Middle aged    high    No    Excellent  No
Senior    medium    No    Fair  Yes
Senior    Low    Yes    Fair  Yes
Senior    Low    Yes    Excellent  No

I want to know  "why System.out.print is not workig???"...

A: The PrintStream that System.out uses has an internal buffer, since writing to stdout is relatively expensive -- you wouldn't necessarily want to do it for each character. That buffer is automatically flushed when you write a newline, which is why println causes the text to appear. Without that newline, your string just sits in the buffer, waiting to get flushed.
You can force a manual flush by invoking System.out.flush().

A: Okay let me try to help you out here. So you are making your life really rough at the moment. Have you tried to look at different libraries like BufferedWritter/FileWritter?
You can easily import these into your project using:
import java.io.BufferedWritter;
import java.io.FileWritter;

It is also recommended to catch errors using the IOException library:
import java.io.IOException;

As for the separation of the words, these libraries give you tools like control over the delimiter. For example we can do something like this:
//this is if you are creating a new file, if not, you want true to append to an existing file
BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("test.txt", boolean false));
try
{
    // write the text string to the file
    bw.write("Youth,high,No,Fair,No");

    // creates a newline in the file
    bw.newLine();
}

// handle exceptions
catch (IOException exc)
{
    exc.printStackTrace();
}

// remember to close the file at the end
    bw.close();

Now that is for hard coding the data, but we can do this with a for loop. We can add delimiters in the function within the for loop, for example: (I am not sure how you have the data stored, but I am assuming you save it in an array. I am also assuming there will ALWAYS be 5 sets of data per line)
BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("test.txt", boolean false));
for (int i = 1, i <= listName.size()+1, i++) {
    if (i % 5 == 0) {
        bw.write(listName.get(i-1));
        bw.write(", ");
        bw.newLine();
    } else {
        bw.write(listName.get(i-1));
        bw.write(", ");
    }
}

This would write to the file:
Youth,high,No,Fair,No
Youth,high,No,Excellent,No
Middle aged,high,No,Excellent,No
Senior,medium,No,Fair,Yes
Senior,Low,Yes,Fair,Yes
Senior,Low,Yes,Excellent,No
This may make your life a little easier (if I am understanding your needs clearly). Next time please make sure to flesh out your question more than you did.
DISCLAIMER: I did not test all of the code, so if you find an error please let me know and I will edit it as needed. If I get time I will make sure it works.

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# Atti-Android [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/Atti-kmu/Atti-Android.svg?branch=develop)](https://travis-ci.org/Atti-kmu/Atti-Android)

독거노인의 무료함과 고독감, 소외감을 줄이기 위하여 친구를 쉽게 만날 수 있게 도와주는 어플리케이션

# Development Stack
* Language : JAVA
* Framework : Android

# People
* Developer : Kim BoWoon, Lee Woong, Min GyeongMin

# License
MIT License
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2 Tbs of sugar * only if you are using plain graham crumbs. No need to add if using the chocolate grahams.
10-12 chocolate covered strawberries for decoration on top. Simply get some good melting chocolate you can get this in the grocery store in produce, melt as directed and dip cleaned dry strawberries then lie on wax paper to let harden for decorating.
So let me start off by saying that you will want to set out the cold ingredients at least an hour before you get started. I leave out the cream cheese, sour cream and butter I don't worry about the eggs as they mix fine straight from the refrigerator.
We will start with mixing the crust. We first need to crush the graham crackers. By the way, plain works just as well for this. Place the butter in a small bowl and microwave on low until melted and set aside. Combine 9 whole crackers ( it is one wrapped package out of the box) in a food processor with the sugar and blend. If you don't have a food processor, you can put them in a plastic freezer bag and start pounding! When pulverized, pour into a bowl and add the melted butter. Once mixed, pour this right into the spring form pan and press into the edges of the pan, forming a nice crust on the bottom. Set aside and preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In your KitchenAid or a large bowl ( this is where my mother and I differ. She mixes everything by hand with that wooden spoon of hers, but I bought my KitchenAid to do the work for me). Add the softened cream cheese, sugar and vanilla extract. Beat on low then switch to medium until blended, scraping the sides if needed. You want it to be nice and smooth. Then add each egg one by one until each is blended. When all ingredients are blended, stop the mixer and add the sour cream. Return mixer to low to fold in the sour cream and you're done! Do not over mix. While this is mixing you can melt your chocolate. Pour the bag into a glass bowl and microwave for 30 second intervals stirring between each until nicely melted.
It is time to add the mix to the pan. Pour the mixture right in. Then grab your bowl of melted chocolate and pour that into the pan right on top. You are going to take a knife and slide this through the filling carefully not to nick the crust at the bottom.
When this is baked the top will be Chocolate and the bottom Vanilla(You'll see! Don't scroll down yet, we're not done!) When you're finished swirling, take your spatula and smooth out the top.
It is ready to place in the oven for approx. 1.5 hour it may be a little less depending on your oven temp. When it's done, look for it to be not too firm but definitely not too jiggly. I can give you temperatures:(The ideal temperature for a cheesecake is around 160 to 165 degrees) but to tell you the truth I have never used that. The truth is that it is trial and error and each will be different until you find your favorite texture. But the 1hour 1/2 mark will ensure it's done and I used this yesterday and it was perfect! I also place a large pan of water in the oven for a little extra moisture. When finished, turn off the oven, but allow it to remain sitting there for about 20min to cool down, then gently pull it out. Slide her right into the fridge and let it set overnight. NO LESS is advised. Trust me on this … if you listen to nothing else I have said, listen to this: let it set OVERNIGHT. OK! let's see how it turned out!! I KNOW what you're thinking! "WOW that's an ugly cheesecake!" lol Well, yes they all are until you fix 'em up!! So let's get started. About an hour before you are going to serve this up, you take a hot wet knife and glide it over the cracks you will see it start to magically heal itself and get smooth again! Decorate it anyway you like on top, drizzle chocolate, add gnache, put fresh berries on it … there is no right or wrong way to decorate! Carmel would be decadent on this as well. Here is what I did, and see I told you it's all pretty in the end!!! Need more details on this, just email me and I'll be happy to post more pictures. I'll just have to make another. *wink*.
AND THIS is what it looked like within the first 3min of bringing it into the office lol. The husband got none and he was none too happy, but after all this was for a special co-worker, not the husband, and she loved it!
looks great! nice fix, btw. lucky co-worker!
Which is always a good thing!


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I love how you've teamed these adorable Nitwit papers with this cute house & flowers!!!!Happy New Year and thanks for entering our challenge this week at Card Crafter's Circle and hope to see you again next week!
Hi sweetie gorgeous card I love the house image & the papers hun are lush.
Hi Doreen, and happy new year to you! So many cards since I last visited, and all as gorgeous as ever.
Gorgeous card Doreen luv those papers.
Beautiful card Doreen love the colours and your gorgeous design, it looks terrific.
Iseeing blue and it is fabulous. The papers are goreous alog with the image. A perfect card to welcome someone to their home. Thanks for joining us at Robyn's Fetish this week and hope to see you back next week.
Gorgeous card Doreen, I like the papers and the flowers.
Gorgeous card with a beautiful vintage feel.
Great card. I love all the distressing.
Just fab Doreen! I love that mix of papers and the soft distressing!
This is a lovely card Doreen, so sweet !
Such a lovely card, Doreen and a beautiful colour.
Just Fabulous Doreen! LOve your papers! The sentiment is awesome!
lovely card doreen, great papers.
Gorgeous card Doreen, love your choice of papers and the image is great.
This is super - I love the colours, perfect for a new home! Thanks for sharing with us at Card Crafter's Circle - remember to follow our rules so you qualify for our prizes!
Very pretty card. Thanks for joining the Delicious Doodles Challenge this week, good luck. I hope you'll join us next time.
Fabulous New Home card Doreen, love the papers and great image.
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This is gorgeous Doreen, the image is adorable.
Fabulous card, great image and love the distressing!
Fantastic! Love the soft colors and DP. Sweet image as well.
Beautiful card Doreen, what a fab looking house and those papers are gorgeous!
Hi Doreen this is fab, love that quirky image and those papers and design look wonderful.
love your distressing and roses!!
Love your card Doreen, fabulous as usual!!
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Fabuuuuuluss - love those distressed edges and the colours are super. Thank you for joining us at Delicious Doodles.
This is fabulous Doreen! :) Utterly gorgeous!
Wow! Doreen, A stunning card. Thank you so much for joining us at Joanna Sheen this month. Good luck in the draw.
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FaceLift: The Official Starship Collection Issues 132 and 133
One of the marks of the starships collection has been it's desire to do everything on screen including a hell of a lot of variants.
The Miranda Class variants in the Reliant, Saratoga and Bozeman (and soon to include the Lantree); the upcoming Keldan Class Cardassian ship is a spin on the Galor Class, the versions of the Arctic One; the Smugglers' Ship/Bajoran Freighter...the list goes on and now we have the third of four versions of one of the hero ships from Star Trek in the form of Warship Voyager.
We've had the original, the armoured version from Endgame and we will soon have the Borgified variation as a bonus edition but now here's a twist on the Intrepid Class that I've certainly been keen to acquire.
On the whole the main spaceframe for USS Voyager remains unchanged due mainly to the time and cost it would have swallowed up to make even more dramatic alterations to the ship.
Eaglemoss have brought this one out most likely thanks to huge demand and while there are visible changes to the upper hull and rear, it is ostensibly the same mould that was used for the original ship nearly 5 years ago. So what has Eaglemoss done to improve on that issue six craft alongside the new weaponry that's bristling all over the surface of the starship?
The answer to that question is - quite a lot.
In fact it has to be said that the work that's been done on this almost makes you want Eaglemoss to go back and completely overhaul the issue six Voyager because it's almost chalk and cheese. Let's start right at the front for example. The forward sensor platform at the tip of the primary hull now has distinct segmented panels running up to it in the dipped section of the hull but that's only the start.
Take a good look at the two hulls side by side and you can see that on this Warship the panelling is far superior and much more defined rather than looking as if the factory painted it far too thickly. Every line can be made out, the phaser strips are sharper because not only is that hull finish more precise and clean but the weapons emplacements themselves have a darker finish and a razor sharp edge to them.
Lifeboat hatches are also more finely implemented although, as usual, both they and some of the painted on windows along the side of the saucer don't quite match their hull dimples. However what is noticeable is that there are a lot more windows that you can physically make out on the surface because it's not overpainted especially towards the rear of the primary hull either side of the central "lump".
Looking then to that centre piece and the bridge, the markings here are again a light year ahead of the original; darker, defined, seemingly even machined better to really highlight the detail of the command module and surrounding features.
Sweeping back towards the secondary hull, the neck section is a delight to behold with the service hatch and the twin torpedo launchers much easier to make out with much better contrast of colours and darker shades to really pick out the parts. Now the clever thing is that, because the upper hull section is in metal it's the only piece that Eaglemoss have actually had to do any work on. I'm taking a pot shot guess but the lower hull is identical in its makeup below that join line that mates the plastic to the metal.
Aside from the impressive hull upgrades, Warship Voyager does have some distinctive differences that weren't seen that much on screen but have meant that it's been a desired item for a while in my collection.
There are now three large gun emplacements (plastic) inserted into the primary hull either side of the registry and centre between the two curved phaser banks. Moulded into the metal there are a further two cannons mounted slightly further back and below the phaser strips as well as some rather menacing fins that jab out from the rim of the primary hull.
Along with two prong attachments either side of the shuttlebay, as well as two further bolt ons just above the warp engine pylons, these aren't a lot of differences but - from above - they do change the appearance of Voyager a teeny bit.
But that's where the big changes end because in terms of the pylons themselves and the engines it's exactly what we got in issue six and will likely see again when the Assimilated Voyager turns up next year as a bonus edition.
One thing I have noticed with this ship is just how badly the RCS thrusters have been marked on. The finish is blotchy, hurried and barely filling the defined slots around the edge of the primary hull. Tut tut Eaglemoss it's something that stands out against the improvements in every other respect.
The definition of the bussard collectors, coils and transparent warp field grilles on the engines are lovely and identical to the original although once more the painting on the hull sections (pylons) is much more precise and the story continues unabated on the bottom too.
The're nothing different in comparison to the hero vessel except you can see the fins to the sides of the primary hull but look straight to all the other features and you can see that Eaglemoss have gone to town to get this so much more intricate and actually enjoyable to look at than they did before.
The finish is clean and once more the colours feel as though the producers turned their work up to 11 meaning everything is distinct. There's no washed out panelling; phaser strips arc effortlessly round the hull, decals are perfectly aligned and recessed lines don't just blend into their darker neighbours. Even the main deflector is cleanly finished and seems somewhat brighter - it's amazing how much of a difference just changing the paint work can do to a model and this is a great example of learning from the original and improving on it. I know a lot of people might have complained about getting another Voyager but this is definitely worth seeing.
The stand position has also changed to the same place as is used on the XL version. Rather than a rear grip around the pylons, here Voyager is caught behind the ears(!) with the clear plastic holder slipped around the rear of the main hull. It's a better, more central hold and feels like it takes the weight of the ship much more ably than that rear position.
Issue 132 covers the essential elements of Living Witness and recounts the story with a little focus on the ship but not much. It then turns to designing the alterations for Voyager which, shockingly, weren't actually as many as you might recall and were limited since the production team didn't want to cause any damage to the Voyager hero CG. Oddly this section does lean into giving us more details on unseen features of the original Voyager physical model rather than swaying towards details of the features added for Living Witness.
Finally Tim Russ, who directed the episode, is interviewed about his experiences on Living Witness plus some of his favourite moments from the seven years of the show. It's seamlessly worked in given Russ' background link to the episode but as with the story of designing the Warship, it tends to veer off into relatively unrelated territory.
Over to issue 133 and we stay with Voyager but race on over into season seven for a ship from Drive; Irina's Racing Ship
This is one of those times that the previews make it look dreadful and you're considering leaving it in the box for all eternity but then it turns up and oh my is it something else indeed.
Lesson one is never go with the promo shots (take note of the Fortunate for one and the Arctic One for another) because what turns up may well knock you for six and this is another one of those times.
It is a shade smaller than we are used to with the Starships Collection but it more than makes up for that in terms of features and finish. Right across the hull we have some very intensive panel lines that fill the whole surface of the craft and even seem to line up precisely if you run them from one engine, across the bridge and onto the second engine.
It's pinpoint accurate as is the definition of the red stripe that runs front to back. It remains tightly packed into a very small area of the ship and at no point does it appear to bleed out into the golden main hull colour.
Amazingly the blacked out bridge windows to the front are aligned to their respective recesses but there are only four and they are close together which might be why it's been managed so effortlessly in this instance.
While for the most part the hull is golden with that red racing stripe, there are also numerous pebble-like markings around the central spine of the ship, to the rear and again underneath and out onto the warp pylons. The alignment of paint to bump is perfect in every single case here and it has to be a small win for Eaglemoss that they are actually getting better at matching things up across the miniature fleet.
For something this small there's a good bit of weight behind it with the whole top section of the Racing Ship, its pylons and the upper halves of the engines all being metal. Perhaps the cleverest piece here has to be the construction of those engine pods though. The back halves are a metal/plastic combination but the front half is pure plastic.
Now initially that might seem a bit boring but Eaglemoss have used transparent pieces painted over in sections with gold and red. It gives a deeper sense of worth to the model and something a bit different to the usual inlaid strips for warp field grilles with a significant area of the ship given a more thought out finish that works with the light to make it stand out that little bit more.
On the underbelly all the markings are emphasised even more with more grey and red call outs packed into a very confined hull surface. With the cockpit gone on the ventral side, is there again but also extenuated with a metallic-coloured area just at the rear of the bridge module. The plastic bottom is just as well completed as the top, mirroring the "ZZ3" style decals on both the engines as well as the raised "braille" panels on the pylons.
In the show this wasn't anything to write home about given that a lot - if not all - of the racing ships featured in Drive were rehashes of already seen craft. What Eaglemoss have managed to do is turn something that was screen fodder into a tightly worked, excellently painted model that's a little gem hidden in the folds of the collection, overshadowed by the big names.
Irina's Racing Ship wasn't an eye-turner on the page but in metal and plastic it's presented well given it's size. Display is pretty decent too with the stand clipping around the sturdy engine pylons for a good mid-ship balanced pose.
The accompanying magazine offers up better CG than we got in the series alongside some technical details around the Racing Ship and it's speedy capabilities. There are call outs to the events of Drive but what I felt here was that it was kept more relevant to the craft than had been managed in the Warship Voyager magazine.
Designing the craft is a little quick to skim through given that it was a reuse of an alien vessel from Latent Image which was only glimpsed for a second or so. As with the Warship this does - and very quickly too - diverge into a summarised discussion of the other competitor ships for the race and their scrappy origins as well.
Last but not least there's six pages of text and pics recounting the writers' experiences of season seven and bringing Voyager home. There's more of a focus on the range of stories that the show told as it wound down towards Emdgame rather than focusing on the series' final episode so we have recollections of not just Drive but also Workforce, Shattered, Prophecy, Lineage and Homestead to single but a few out. Some of the original ideas for the final year are discussed too, providing a new look at what might have been...
A good month again from Eaglemoss with both Warship Voyager and Irina's Racing Ship raising the stakes and providing us with two great models for display. Voyager's changes are pretty cool and this is one I've been waiting for but the overall finish and look of the Racing Ship model makes that this one's winner by a pointed nose - and it's odd for me to be saying that a random alien craft is better than a pimped out version of the namesake starship from the series...but it's true.
Next two editions coming our way will be the Carbon Creek Vulcan Survey Ship and secondly, adding to our range of craft from these big players, the Xindi Humanoid starship.
What are you liking about the Racing Ship? Has it made enough of a difference to make fans want it?
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One Person Killed in Pauma Valley Traffic Crash
by Christine Huard April 30, 2020 May 1, 2020
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A 57-year-old motorcyclist was killed, but his 16-year-old daughter suffered only minor injuries, when they crashed on a rural section of state Route 76 near the Rincon Indian Reservation, authorities said Friday.
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The rider lost control of his Honda motorcycle for unknown reasons around 4:40 p.m. Thursday as he was riding west around a curve on SR-76 near Rincon Ranch Road, California Highway Patrol Officer Kevin Smale said.
The motorcycle veered off the roadway and overturned, ejecting both the father and his daughter, Smale said. The rider, a Vista resident whose name was withheld pending family notification, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The girl suffered minor injuries and was expected to make a full recovery, the officer said. The circumstances leading up to the crash were under investigation, but intoxication was not a factor.
Updated at 6 a.m., Friday, May 1, 2020
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Scaling Greater Heights for the Rescue
Given Singapore's high-rise terrain, there is a need for a more advanced vehicle which can be deployed for high-rise fire and rescue operations. Unveiled in SCDF's Workplan Seminar 2019, the Combined Platform Ladder 60m (CPL60) is the latest variation of CPL that can reach a maximum height of 60 metres, or the equivalent of a 20-storey building.
The CPL60 incorporates technological advancements as part of SCDF's drive to increase operational efficiency through technology. It is equipped with a water monitor capable of discharging water at a rate of 3,800 litres per minute and a rescue cage that can hold a weight up to 500 kilograms.
With the addition of the CPL60 to SCDF's existing fleet of Combined Platform Ladder 34m (CPL34) and Aerial Ladder 56m (AL56), they provide The Life Saving Force with a range of tactical options in the deployment of high-rise fire and rescue operations.
The Combined Platform Ladder 60m (CPL60).
An aerial view from the highest point of the CPL60.
LTA Mohammed Salih Shaik Dawood with the CPL60.
Meet LTA Mohamed Salih Shaik Dawood, a Deputy Rota Commander of the Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (DART), who has been with the Force for 24 years. LTA Shaik Dawood, then a second Warrant Officer (WO2), and his team were alerted to a HDB fire at Bukit Batok in 2019.
"It was a raging fire! The window panes were shattering due to the intense heat. Our first priority was to get into the house and rescue the casualties immediately," recalled LTA Shaik Dawood. In a flash, hoses were laid and firefighters broke into the heavily smoke-logged unit armed with water jets.
"We saw the first casualty leaning unconscious against the wall outside the kitchen toilet. It was an elderly woman and we immediately rescued her out of the burning unit. We also noticed two male casualties, a father and his son, standing precariously on the window ledge of the kitchen," said LTA Shaik Dawood. "Due to the heat and fatigue, both of them could not climb back into the unit even though we tried to assist. The only way was to rescue them from the outside. And that was when the CPL60 was utilised."
While waiting for the deployment of the CPL60, LTA Shaik Dawood rushed to the ground level and strapped on a safety harness to prepare for the height rescue. LTA Shaik Dawood also ensured that there was ample deployment space for the CPL60.
"I was worried for the two trapped casualties. I waved at them and shouted 'Wait out! We will rescue you very soon! Hold tight!' and my heart was pounding so fast at that time!" recalled LTA Shaik Dawood. "And when the CPL60 was deployed, I immediately grabbed a large bottle of mineral water and two blankets for the casualties and boarded the rescue cage."
The two casualties were brought down safely from the high-rise building and were handed over to the ambulance crew for medical attention.
"It was a very intense experience for me. I was grateful for the swift decision and effective coordination that made the high-rise fire and rescue operation a successful one," remarked LTA Shaik Dawood.
OTHER HIGH-RISE FIRE & RESCUE VEHICLES
Besides the CPL60, SCDF also has CPL34 which evolved from its earlier counterparts, CPL32 and AL56.
CPL32 with its outriggers in deployment.
The CPL32 was the primary aerial firefighting vehicle in SCDF for many years before it was replaced by CPL34 in 2012. It had a firefighting cage mounted on the telescopic ladder and a control centre located at the base of its turntable.
The Combined Platform Ladder 34m (CPL34) in deployment.
The CPL34 is an upgraded version of CPL32. It has a display panel that shows the outreach diagram and position of the vehicle during deployment, thus increasing the situational awareness of the operator. It also has a full electronic control system for the deployment of the outriggers. These outriggers are required to stabilize the vehicle during a height rescue operation.
Similar to the CPL60, CPL34 possesses a water monitor capable of discharging water at the rate of 3,800 litres per minute. In addition, it has a rescue cage platform that can hold a maximum load of 500 kilograms and can extend to a maximum height of 34 metres, the equivalent of 11-storey.
The Aerial Ladder 56m (AL56)
The AL56 can extend its ladder to a maximum of 56 metres and is used primarily for aerial rescue operation. It is equipped with a sky lift, rescue cage, and stretcher support for quick and safe aerial evacuation of casualties.
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The term "physician compensation" could be among the top phrases in health care this year.
Though it's always been a hot topic, it got hotter when the Trump administration announced a proposal that would affect nearly 40 percent of Medicare payments. That plan would have replaced a fee scale that compensated doctors more for seeing sicker patients with a flat-fee model that reimburses them at the same or similar rates regardless of the condition being treated or complexity of the visit.
In various spheres of health care, from private equity investors pricing out purchases of physician practices to specialists negotiating salaries or recruiters seeking to draw the best talent to their practices, compensation is often a big lever to pull.
To better understand the compensation landscape, we scoured MGMA's 2018 Physician Compensation and Production Report — based on 2017 data from 136,000 providers working in small and big practices across the country — for anomalies that might be instructive.
Non-metro areas rule. Salaries are higher in big cities, so the thinking goes, than they are outside of them. That's not always the case in health care. Take anesthesiologists as an example. In our data, the median income for a metro-area anesthesiologist was $444,846. In non-metro areas (defined as areas with populations of 50,000 or fewer), the median anesthesiologist income was $469,057. An extra $25,000 a year sounds pretty good — even more so if that anesthesiologist is residing where the cost of living is likely lower than it is in the nearby metro area.
There's a good reason for the bump: When trying to attract specialists, health care companies and organizations have to pay more to get the good ones. Of course, there are anomalies within the anomaly. This trend doesn't hold true for every specialty — rural cardiologists make about 10 percent less than their urban colleagues — but we found it was true for the majority of them.
Quality is still ignored. Value-based care and quality incentives are supposed to be the future of physician compensation. While that may eventually be the case, at least 80 percent of compensation plans in 2017 did not include quality incentives. Productivity remained the core metric when it came to pay. The inclusion of quality incentives in compensation plans depended on practice size: Independent and smaller practices were much less likely to provide any kind of quality incentives, while larger providers and hospitals were more likely to include them.
Compensation flattens over time. In most industries, workers earn more as their careers progress. Physicians can throw that notion out the window. For primary care physicians, the upward trend holds true for the first few years. But under current compensation models, most max out sometime around year eight.
Why? In their first years on the job, primary care physicians are building their base of patients. Their compensation grows with the size of their patient panels. But there are only so many patients a physician can see in a day or week or year, and sooner or later he or she will max out. At that point, compensation in primary care tends to level off.
The compensation trajectory looks different for specialists, and tends to follow a bell curve. We looked at orthopedic surgeons, who start off in years one to two making an average of $543,000 per year. That number tops out at $750,000 in years 13 to 17, then drops back down to $530,000 after 23 or more years of practice.
The gender gap. There's a massive difference in physician compensation between men and women. But, as with many things in health care, this anomaly is more complicated than what you see on the surface.
Looking at male and female doctors in years one to three who are working in the same specialty, the compensation difference can be quite large. Male orthopedic surgeons, for instance, make more than 40 percent more than their female counterparts. The salary gap between men and women in pediatrics, meanwhile, is just 2 percent. And, much like the technology field, the health care industry isn't always good at keeping women working after they've taken maternity leave.
Knowing that women might be offered less money to start and face greater challenges staying in the field while growing a family will, we hope, empower women to seek equitable compensation early in their careers. Achieving equitable pay with male counterparts at the outset of their careers seems to be an essential strategy for narrowing disparities later on.
It's possible, of course, that this gender gap will look completely different 20 years from now, if the trend holds that more women than men enroll in medical school.
Productivity and RVUs. Medicare pays physicians for their work based on what it calls relative value units (RVUs). These are an attempt at valuing the productivity that has been assigned to more than 7,500 services that physicians provide. To calculate an RVU, Medicare determines how much work a physician puts into delivering the service, the expenses of the physician's practice, and professional liability insurance. Medicare then calculates a fee by multiplying the RVU for a service by a dollar conversion factor.
On average, physicians are typically paid $42 per RVU performed. A physician who performs 3,000 RVUs in a year should make about $126,000. If only it were that simple.
Look at a physician who's just embarking on her career. Perhaps she is working with a guarantee of $200,000 per year. But since she is just getting started, she might complete only 1,000 RVUs during the year. That means she is getting paid $200 per RVU.
Fast forward to a more productive time in her career. She is now completing 10,000 RVUs a year. As a more productive and more experienced clinician, she should be earning more compensation per RVU, right? But crunch the numbers and it turns out she isn't even earning the average. The most productive physicians are actually making closer to $37 per RVU.
It's a strange mathematical anomaly, but one that will hold true as long as current compensation models remain in use.
These anomalies aren't just odd data points that make you say, "Huh." They are important for anyone who wants to better understand physician compensation, which is far more than just a number.
Salary figures can do everything from help push medical students to the right school — why pay more in tuition than you'll make once you graduate? — to providing material proof that some practices are more successful than others. They can start and steer a career, make the difference between a practice that thrives and one that struggles, and provide that extra layer of certainty needed before making a big decision.
These five anomalies might not make or break physicians' lives in medicine. But as with anything else in such a complex field, it's always better to have a little more information at your disposal.
Halee Fischer-Wright, M.D., is the president and CEO of MGMA (formerly the Medical Group Management Association). Todd Evenson is the company's chief operating officer.


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Posts tagged "Klu Klux Klan"
Where did the KKK get its bizarre titles for its hierarchy, such as "Imperial Wizard," "Grand Goblin," "King Kleagle," and "Cyclops"?
The Reconstruction Klan emerged out of the minstrel tradition. It was a theatrical, racial performance, with the moral being follow the racial dogma of the Confederate South or great harm will come to you.
This is especially present when we look at the origins of the Klan. In Pulaski, Tennessee, the processor Klan organization was "The Midnight Rangers." (Rangers being something akin to highway men of the south, roaming armed men of questionable legal status.) Here is an early photograph of them. These proto-Klansmen did not brandish the musket, but armed themselves with a different kind of weapon that showed their early roots in the minstrel or local folk tradition, musical instruments. In order to understand the Klan, one must understand the theatrics of the minstrel tradition.
The minstrel tradition was well established in the south before the Civil War. The Reconstruction Klan was always in line with local customs, and fed off these costumes in order to create the juggernaut of hate that it became–nothing develops out of nothing. It was a theater trope, that often allowed for stories to be told. Primarily, these stories were those that one must adhere to the racial dogma of the day. Just as these stories often had pranks at their base, the Reconstruction Klan viewed what it was doing as a theatrical prank, which is where I guess OP is getting the term lark. However, it was only a prank for those who assented to the racial dogma. For those on the margins of the southern racial systems–freedpersons and whites who worked with blacks and freedpersons–the Klan was terrifying. But terror lacks full explanatory power for understanding the Reconstruction Klan. Surely, if the Klan was just about terrifying those race traitors, then why bother with such elaborate robes? Wouldn't pistols do the trick?
Indeed, the robes also derive from the minstrel tradition. Namely, the Klan was also about performance and theatrics. Thesis that argue that the Klan used such robes for the sake of concealing their identity are lacking. If they were trulyjust used robes for the sake of remaining anonymous, then why did they wear such elaborate robes, likes these? The robes were another indication of the theatrics. The Reconstruction Klan, unlike the Second Ku Klux Klan, did not standardize their uniform, but allowed for folks to build their own to fit the theatrics of the context. For example, in the most popular story about the Klan in the Reconstruction period, a Klanman kept a bucket between his legs, and then moved to drink a whole bucket of water, with the water filtering down to the bucket, to show that he was no mere mortal. But southern blacks were not the only ones with their eyes on the Klan.
The Klan also used theatrics due to the legal liminal space of Reconstruction. The Klan wanted to test the limits of reasserting political white supremacy, but the new found political reality of being reabsorbed into the Union was ambiguous. The Klan used their costumes to place them more into theater than politics in order to downplay their movement as a political movement. Indeed, a North Carolina Republican judge, in his historical novel, discussed the Klan as a "farcical," stating that the Klan was "a piece of the broadest and most ridiculous fun." For this judge, the Klan was not a political movement, but was in line with the minstrel tradition only.
(Without understanding these elements, we are left with a really superficial understanding of the Klan.)
December 1, 2013 | Categories: History, Stunt Queens, The Drama Of It All | Tags: AMERICA, Civil War, Confederate, Confederates, History, kkk, Klu Klux Klan, Racism, Racist, Reconstruction, south, White People | 1 Comment


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