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Opinion: The Grinch that stole Christmas
President Joe Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci are vying for the title of the most insufferable Grinch.
Thursday, December 23, 2021 12:26pm
By Win Gruening
"I must stop Christmas from coming… but how? I mean — in what way?" — "How the Grinch Stole Christmas " (2000).
Dr. Seuss's beloved children's book and movie adaptation are playing out in real life as President Joe Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci vie for the title of the most insufferable Grinch.
When "How the Grinch Stole Christmas "was first published in 1957, it did not go unnoticed that the Grinch was the first adult and the first villain to be a main character in a Dr. Seuss book. Reviewers called the Grinch "easily the best Christmas-cad since Scrooge."
Amid rising inflation and bitter discourse, exhausted Americans are now approaching their third year of living under the crushing weight of pandemic mandates. The never-ending demonization of the unvaccinated and the politically acrimonious rhetoric of the Biden administration have divided America like no other time in recent history.
President Biden is now lecturing us that the omicron variant is spreading fast and that unvaccinated Americans are facing a winter of "severe illness and death."
Fauci, White House chief medical adviser, followed that grim prophecy with the possibility that more restrictions may be needed to curb the transmission of COVID-19 if cases continue to surge.
"If the counts keep going up and the test positivity keeps going up, we may need to be more restrictive." When Fauci was asked, "Are we ever going to get to a point where we won't need to wear masks on airplanes?", he responded, "I don't think so."
Those dire predictions contradict initial research that shows, while the omicron variant is highly transmissible (even among vaccinated individuals), the symptoms are typically mild and hospitalizations are significantly fewer. More importantly, COVID-19 treatments have come a long way since the early days of the pandemic. The availability of vaccines, effective monoclonal antibodies, and new therapeutics will continue to improve medical outcomes and apparently are useful against this variant in reducing severe symptoms. The increased availability of rapid at-home tests will help to further limit COVID-19 transmission. Some medical experts believe this variant could help us reach herd immunity and an endemic state where pandemic protocols will no longer be needed.
Nevertheless, the Biden administration and many politicians across the country continue to focus on number of cases and case positivity percentage while downplaying decreasing hospitalization and death statistics. Sadly, there is little recognition of the economic and social impacts of lockdowns and mandates — especially among young people. The relentless villainization and threats by Biden and Fauci haven't significantly improved vaccination rates and only promote resentment, anxiety and paranoia among the general population. They strain credulity and appear more designed to divert attention from administration-caused catastrophes home and abroad.
Will we ever reach the end of the story when the Grinch has a change of heart and strikes a kinder, more positive tone? Not if our leaders continue to believe politics is more important than the power of religious faith and hope.
As noted in Steve Malanga's City Journal article throughout history global events such as "famine, pestilence, and war have sent people seeking the comforts of religion."
This hasn't happened in this pandemic as evidenced by falling church attendance. This is likely due, in part, to government mandates and pronouncements over the last two years preventing or discouraging church goers from consistently attending in-person religious services. Many municipal and state governments labeled church activities as "non-essential," in contrast to liquor stores and cannabis dispensaries which were allowed to stay open.
This only exacerbated the overall isolation and disruption of social connections created by the pandemic that has resulted in mounting anxiety, depression, drug use, and suicide. As educators discovered after school closures, religious leaders found that virtual Zoom meetings were no substitute for in-person services and, in fact, "eroded the religious experience, disillusioning the faithful."
Christmas is a season of hope. Why can't our nation's leader craft a message of optimism instead of panic, fear and despair?
Americans should celebrate Christmas this year as they always have, with family and friends, encouraged and reaffirmed by our country's ability to persevere and overcome, just as it has so many times throughout history.
•A fter retiring as the senior vice president in charge of business banking for Key Bank in Alaska, Win Gruening became a regular Opinion Page columnist for the Juneau Empire. He was born and raised in Juneau and graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1970. He is involved in various local and statewide organizations. Columns, My Turns and Letters to the Editor represent the view of the author, not the view of the Juneau Empire. Have something to say? Here's how to submit a My Turn or letter.
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L'ermitage rupestre de Santiuste (en ) est un petit ermitage rupestre d'origine wisigothique situé à Castrillo de la Reina, dans la province de Burgos, en Castille-et-León.

Description
Creusé dans le roc entre le  et le , l'ermitage est situé à proximité d'une nécropole constituée de tombes excavées dans la roche, de type anthropomorphe. L'ermitage et la nécropole devaient faire partie d'un petit complexe monastique qui a disparu à l'exception de la roche.

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Voir aussi

Liens externes
  « Ermita rupestre de Santiuste », sur le site sierradelademanda.com
  « Ermita Semi-rupestre de Santiuste Castrillo de la Reina (Burgos) », sur le site enricvillanueva.wordpress.com
  « Ermita rupestre de Santiuste », sur le site mesonelmolino.com

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Monument historique en Castille-et-León
Église fondée au VIIe siècle

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Joining the 22V cordless tool line comes the Hilti SB 4-A22. The new Hilti 22V Cordless Band Saw can run longer on a charge and has improved reliability and better productivity according to Hilti.
The Hilti 22V Cordless Band Saw will be a good fit for cutting metal pipes and installation channels, plastic pipes, threaded rods, 1-2″ EMT pipes, and 1-5/8″ strut. Hilti specially designed this new saw to produce low noise and debris.
The SB 4-A22 features an LED light which provides a shadow-free view of the cutting line. Hilti reinforced this new saw and its battery casings with impact resistant fiberglass for improved durability in tough applications. At 8.8 lbs and 13.8″ x 9.9″ x 8.5″, the new Hilti 22V Cordless Band Saw is lightweight, compact, and designed to work in tight spaces.
Compatible with 28.875″ x 0.5″ band saw blades, the new Hilti band saw has a maximum cutting depth of 2-1/2″. It's also compatible with both the Hilti 18V and 22V battery platforms.
This band saw might not be the biggest deal in the grand scheme of cordless tools, but it introduces a new cordless class for Hilti. With a solid reputation on the commercial and industrial construction sites, the Hilti brand has a reputation for performing when the job requires a lot from its tools. There are other cordless deep-cut band saws on the market, but the new Hilti 22V Cordless Band Saw should have enough power to get the job done, despite its more compact size. Tool aside, Hilti backs up their cordless tools for 20 years and has one of the best batteries in the industry.
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A Report On Paints And Their Chemicals
Paint is a mixture of organic coatings that are applied to various surfaces which develops a film between the surface and the environment. This film or surface coating may have a pigmented or clear composition that dries to form an opaque solid film.Paint is made up of a complex mixture of chemicals, mainly polymers that each provide a specific function to allow the paint to work. These are placed in three categories: The binder, pigment and medium. The binder holds the pigment together and provides adhesion for the rest of the chemicals, and also provides integrity and strength to the dry paint film. It consists of high molecular weighted polymers, generally co-polymers that contain two or more monomers. These include methyl methacrylate, styrene and vinyl acetate which are mixed with butyl acrylate. They are submerged in water based paint so the hydrophobic polymer it is made out of is dispersed as microscopic particles in water. One of these microscopic particles contains many polymer chains and as the water based paint coalesces, it dries and evaporates which draws the particles closer together, so they fuse into a continuous plastic film. The pigment is a finely ground mixture of natural or synthetic particles or powders, that are dispersed in the paint to provide properties such as colour, opacity and the volume of gloss. They are classified as either prime or extender pigments. Prime pigments provide colour and opacity, whereas extender pigments provide the bulk of the paint at a low cost, as they extend it and also control the volume of gloss. The pigments are dispersed in the medium before the binder can be added. The medium, or solvent, is the liquid proportion of the paint which allows it to easily be applied the various surfaces as it fills all the cracks and fits the shape of any surface. When the paint is wet it consists of the pigment and the binder (solids) and the medium, and when it dries the medium evaporates leaving just the solids. Also added to the paint are the surfactants, which help wet the surface, the dispersants which are another group of surfactants that stops the pigments setting, the thickeners, that adjust the viscosity, and the defoamers, that...
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package org.jcodec.common.model;

import static org.jcodec.common.model.ColorSpace.MAX_PLANES;

import java.util.Arrays;

/**
 * This class is part of JCodec ( www.jcodec.org ) This software is distributed
 * under FreeBSD License
 *
 * The data is -128 shifted, so 0 is represented by -128 and 255 is represented
 * by +127
 *
 * @author The JCodec project
 *
 */
public class Picture8Bit {
    private ColorSpace color;

    private int width;
    private int height;

    private byte[][] data;

    private Rect crop;

    public Picture8Bit(int width, int height, byte[][] data, ColorSpace color) {
        this(width, height, data, color, new Rect(0, 0, width, height));
    }

    public Picture8Bit(int width, int height, byte[][] data, ColorSpace color, Rect crop) {
        this.width = width;
        this.height = height;
        this.data = data;
        this.color = color;
        this.crop = crop;
    }

    public Picture8Bit(Picture8Bit other) {
        this(other.width, other.height, other.data, other.color, other.crop);
    }

    public static Picture8Bit create(int width, int height, ColorSpace colorSpace) {
        return create(width, height, colorSpace, null);
    }

    public static Picture8Bit create(int width, int height, ColorSpace colorSpace, Rect crop) {
        int[] planeSizes = new int[MAX_PLANES];
        for (int i = 0; i < colorSpace.nComp; i++) {
            planeSizes[colorSpace.compPlane[i]] += (width >> colorSpace.compWidth[i])
                    * (height >> colorSpace.compHeight[i]);
        }
        int nPlanes = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < MAX_PLANES; i++)
            nPlanes += planeSizes[i] != 0 ? 1 : 0;

        byte[][] data = new byte[nPlanes][];
        for (int i = 0, plane = 0; i < MAX_PLANES; i++) {
            if (planeSizes[i] != 0) {
                data[plane++] = new byte[planeSizes[i]];
            }
        }

        return new Picture8Bit(width, height, data, colorSpace, crop);
    }

    public int getWidth() {
        return width;
    }

    public int getHeight() {
        return height;
    }

    public byte[] getPlaneData(int plane) {
        return data[plane];
    }

    public ColorSpace getColor() {
        return color;
    }

    public byte[][] getData() {
        return data;
    }

    public Rect getCrop() {
        return crop;
    }

    public int getPlaneWidth(int plane) {
        return width >> color.compWidth[plane];
    }

    public int getPlaneHeight(int plane) {
        return height >> color.compHeight[plane];
    }

    public boolean compatible(Picture8Bit src) {
        return src.color == color && src.width == width && src.height == height;
    }

    public Picture8Bit createCompatible() {
        return Picture8Bit.create(width, height, color);
    }

    public void copyFrom(Picture8Bit src) {
        if (!compatible(src))
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can not copy to incompatible picture");
        for (int plane = 0; plane < color.nComp; plane++) {
            if (data[plane] == null)
                continue;
            System.arraycopy(src.data[plane], 0, data[plane], 0, (width >> color.compWidth[plane])
                    * (height >> color.compHeight[plane]));
        }
    }

    public Picture8Bit cropped() {
        if (crop == null
                || (crop.getX() == 0 && crop.getY() == 0 && crop.getWidth() == width && crop.getHeight() == height))
            return this;
        Picture8Bit result = Picture8Bit.create(crop.getWidth(), crop.getHeight(), color);

        for (int plane = 0; plane < color.nComp; plane++) {
            if (data[plane] == null)
                continue;
            cropSub(data[plane], crop.getX() >> color.compWidth[plane], crop.getY() >> color.compHeight[plane],
                    crop.getWidth() >> color.compWidth[plane], crop.getHeight() >> color.compHeight[plane],
                    width >> color.compWidth[plane], result.data[plane]);
        }

        return result;
    }

    private void cropSub(byte[] src, int x, int y, int w, int h, int srcStride, byte[] tgt) {
        int srcOff = y * srcStride + x, dstOff = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < h; i++) {
            for (int j = 0; j < w; j++)
                tgt[dstOff + j] = src[srcOff + j];

            srcOff += srcStride;
            dstOff += w;
        }
    }

    public void setCrop(Rect crop) {
        this.crop = crop;
    }

    public int getCroppedWidth() {
        return crop == null ? width : crop.getWidth();
    }

    public int getCroppedHeight() {
        return crop == null ? height : crop.getHeight();
    }

    public static Picture8Bit fromPicture(Picture pic) {
        Picture8Bit create = Picture8Bit.create(pic.getWidth(), pic.getHeight(), pic.getColor(), pic.getCrop());

        for (int i = 0; i < pic.getData().length; i++) {
            for (int j = 0; j < pic.getData()[i].length; j++) {
                create.getData()[i][j] = (byte) (((pic.getData()[i][j] << 8) >> pic.getBitDepth()) - 128);
            }
        }

        return create;
    }

    public Picture toPicture(int bitDepth) {
        Picture create = Picture.create(width, height, color, bitDepth, crop);

        return toPictureInternal(bitDepth, create);
    }

    public Picture toPicture(int bitDepth, int[][] buffer) {
        Picture create = new Picture(width, height, buffer, color, bitDepth, crop);

        return toPictureInternal(bitDepth, create);
    }

    private Picture toPictureInternal(int bitDepth, Picture create) {
        for (int i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
            int planeSize = getPlaneWidth(i) * getPlaneHeight(i);
            for (int j = 0; j < planeSize; j++) {
                create.getData()[i][j] = ((data[i][j] + 128) << bitDepth) >> 8;
            }
        }

        return create;
    }

    public void fill(int val) {
        for (int i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
            Arrays.fill(data[i], (byte) val);
        }
    }
}

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#else
#include <GL/glut.h>
#endif
#include <math.h>
#include <cassert>

using namespace xn;

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Defines
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#define GL_WIN_SIZE_X	1280
#define GL_WIN_SIZE_Y	1024
#define TEXTURE_SIZE	512

#define DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MODE	DISPLAY_MODE_DEPTH

#define MIN_NUM_CHUNKS(data_size, chunk_size)	((((data_size)-1) / (chunk_size) + 1))
#define MIN_CHUNKS_SIZE(data_size, chunk_size)	(MIN_NUM_CHUNKS(data_size, chunk_size) * (chunk_size))

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Statics
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
SimpleViewer* SimpleViewer::sm_pInstance = NULL;

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// GLUT Hooks
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
void SimpleViewer::glutIdle (void)
{
	// Display the frame
	glutPostRedisplay();
}

void SimpleViewer::glutDisplay (void)
{
	Instance().Display();
}

void SimpleViewer::glutKeyboard (unsigned char key, int x, int y)
{
	Instance().OnKey(key, x, y);
}

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Method Definitions
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
SimpleViewer::SimpleViewer(xn::Context& context)
	:m_pTexMap(NULL),
	m_nTexMapX(0),
	m_nTexMapY(0),
	m_eViewState(DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MODE),
	m_rContext(context)
{}

SimpleViewer::~SimpleViewer()
{
	delete[] m_pTexMap;
	delete[] m_pDepthHist;
}

SimpleViewer& SimpleViewer::CreateInstance( xn::Context& context )
{
	assert(!sm_pInstance);
	return *(sm_pInstance = new SimpleViewer(context));
}

void SimpleViewer::DestroyInstance(SimpleViewer& instance)
{
	assert(sm_pInstance);
	assert(sm_pInstance == &instance);
	XN_REFERENCE_VARIABLE(instance);
	delete sm_pInstance;
	sm_pInstance = NULL;
}

SimpleViewer& SimpleViewer::Instance()
{
	assert(sm_pInstance);
	return *sm_pInstance;
}

XnStatus SimpleViewer::Init(int argc, char **argv)
{
	XnStatus	rc;

	rc = m_rContext.FindExistingNode(XN_NODE_TYPE_DEPTH, m_depth);
	if (rc != XN_STATUS_OK)
	{
		printf("No depth node exists! Check your XML.");
		return rc;
	}

	rc = m_rContext.FindExistingNode(XN_NODE_TYPE_IMAGE, m_image);
	if (rc != XN_STATUS_OK)
	{
		printf("No image node exists! Check your XML.");
		return rc;
	}

	m_depth.GetMetaData(m_depthMD);
	m_image.GetMetaData(m_imageMD);

	// Hybrid mode isn't supported in this sample
	if (m_imageMD.FullXRes() != m_depthMD.FullXRes() || m_imageMD.FullYRes() != m_depthMD.FullYRes())
	{
		printf ("The device depth and image resolution must be equal!\n");
		return 1;
	}

	// RGB is the only image format supported.
	if (m_imageMD.PixelFormat() != XN_PIXEL_FORMAT_RGB24)
	{
		printf("The device image format must be RGB24\n");
		return 1;
	}

	// Texture map init
	m_nTexMapX = MIN_CHUNKS_SIZE(m_depthMD.FullXRes(), TEXTURE_SIZE);
	m_nTexMapY = MIN_CHUNKS_SIZE(m_depthMD.FullYRes(), TEXTURE_SIZE);
	m_pTexMap = new XnRGB24Pixel[m_nTexMapX * m_nTexMapY];

	m_pDepthHist = new float[m_depth.GetDeviceMaxDepth() + 1];

	return InitOpenGL(argc, argv);
}

XnStatus SimpleViewer::Run()
{
	// Per frame code is in Display
	glutMainLoop();	// Does not return!

	return XN_STATUS_OK;
}

XnStatus SimpleViewer::InitOpenGL(int argc, char **argv)
{
	glutInit(&argc, argv);
	glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_RGB | GLUT_DOUBLE | GLUT_DEPTH);
	glutInitWindowSize(GL_WIN_SIZE_X, GL_WIN_SIZE_Y);
	glutCreateWindow ("OpenNI Hand Tracker");
// 	glutFullScreen();
	glutSetCursor(GLUT_CURSOR_NONE);

	InitOpenGLHooks();

	glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
	glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);

	return XN_STATUS_OK;
}

void SimpleViewer::InitOpenGLHooks()
{
	glutKeyboardFunc(glutKeyboard);
	glutDisplayFunc(glutDisplay);
	glutIdleFunc(glutIdle);
}

void SimpleViewer::Display()
{
	XnStatus		rc = XN_STATUS_OK;

	// Read a new frame
	rc = m_rContext.WaitAnyUpdateAll();
	if (rc != XN_STATUS_OK)
	{
		printf("Read failed: %s\n", xnGetStatusString(rc));
		return;
	}

	m_depth.GetMetaData(m_depthMD);
	m_image.GetMetaData(m_imageMD);

	const XnDepthPixel* pDepth = m_depthMD.Data();

	// Copied from SimpleViewer
	// Clear the OpenGL buffers
	glClear (GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);

	// Setup the OpenGL viewpoint
	glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
	glPushMatrix();
	glLoadIdentity();
	glOrtho(0, GL_WIN_SIZE_X, GL_WIN_SIZE_Y, 0, -1.0, 1.0);

	// Calculate the accumulative histogram (the yellow display...)
	xnOSMemSet(m_pDepthHist, 0, m_depthMD.ZRes()*sizeof(float));

	unsigned int nNumberOfPoints = 0;
	for (XnUInt y = 0; y < m_depthMD.YRes(); ++y)
	{
		for (XnUInt x = 0; x < m_depthMD.XRes(); ++x, ++pDepth)
		{
			if (*pDepth != 0)
			{
				m_pDepthHist[*pDepth]++;
				nNumberOfPoints++;
			}
		}
	}
	for (int nIndex=1; nIndex<m_depthMD.ZRes(); nIndex++)
	{
		m_pDepthHist[nIndex] += m_pDepthHist[nIndex-1];
	}
	if (nNumberOfPoints)
	{
		for (int nIndex=1; nIndex<m_depthMD.ZRes(); nIndex++)
		{
			m_pDepthHist[nIndex] = (unsigned int)(256 * (1.0f - (m_pDepthHist[nIndex] / nNumberOfPoints)));
		}
	}

	xnOSMemSet(m_pTexMap, 0, m_nTexMapX*m_nTexMapY*sizeof(XnRGB24Pixel));

	// check if we need to draw image frame to texture
	if (m_eViewState == DISPLAY_MODE_OVERLAY ||
		m_eViewState == DISPLAY_MODE_IMAGE)
	{
		const XnRGB24Pixel* pImageRow = m_imageMD.RGB24Data();
		XnRGB24Pixel* pTexRow = m_pTexMap + m_imageMD.YOffset() * m_nTexMapX;

		for (XnUInt y = 0; y < m_imageMD.YRes(); ++y)
		{
			const XnRGB24Pixel* pImage = pImageRow;
			XnRGB24Pixel* pTex = pTexRow + m_imageMD.XOffset();

			for (XnUInt x = 0; x < m_imageMD.XRes(); ++x, ++pImage, ++pTex)
			{
				*pTex = *pImage;
			}

			pImageRow += m_imageMD.XRes();
			pTexRow += m_nTexMapX;
		}
	}

	// check if we need to draw depth frame to texture
	if (m_eViewState == DISPLAY_MODE_OVERLAY ||
		m_eViewState == DISPLAY_MODE_DEPTH)
	{
		const XnDepthPixel* pDepthRow = m_depthMD.Data();
		XnRGB24Pixel* pTexRow = m_pTexMap + m_depthMD.YOffset() * m_nTexMapX;

		for (XnUInt y = 0; y < m_depthMD.YRes(); ++y)
		{
			const XnDepthPixel* pDepth = pDepthRow;
			XnRGB24Pixel* pTex = pTexRow + m_depthMD.XOffset();

			for (XnUInt x = 0; x < m_depthMD.XRes(); ++x, ++pDepth, ++pTex)
			{
				if (*pDepth != 0)
				{
					int nHistValue = m_pDepthHist[*pDepth];
					pTex->nRed = nHistValue;
					pTex->nGreen = nHistValue;
					pTex->nBlue = nHistValue;
				}
			}

			pDepthRow += m_depthMD.XRes();
			pTexRow += m_nTexMapX;
		}
	}

	// Create the OpenGL texture map
	glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_GENERATE_MIPMAP_SGIS, GL_TRUE);
	glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR);
	glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
	glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGB, m_nTexMapX, m_nTexMapY, 0, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, m_pTexMap);

	// Display the OpenGL texture map
	glColor4f(1,1,1,1);

	glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
	glBegin(GL_QUADS);

	int nXRes = m_depthMD.FullXRes();
	int nYRes = m_depthMD.FullYRes();

	// upper left
	glTexCoord2f(0, 0);
	glVertex2f(0, 0);
	// upper right
	glTexCoord2f((float)nXRes/(float)m_nTexMapX, 0);
	glVertex2f(GL_WIN_SIZE_X, 0);
	// bottom right
	glTexCoord2f((float)nXRes/(float)m_nTexMapX, (float)nYRes/(float)m_nTexMapY);
	glVertex2f(GL_WIN_SIZE_X, GL_WIN_SIZE_Y);
	// bottom left
	glTexCoord2f(0, (float)nYRes/(float)m_nTexMapY);
	glVertex2f(0, GL_WIN_SIZE_Y);

	glEnd();
	glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);

	// Subclass draw hook
	DisplayPostDraw();

	// Swap the OpenGL display buffers
	glutSwapBuffers();
}

void SimpleViewer::OnKey(unsigned char key, int /*x*/, int /*y*/)
{
	switch (key)
	{
	case 27:
		exit (1);
	case '1':
		m_eViewState = DISPLAY_MODE_OVERLAY;
		m_depth.GetAlternativeViewPointCap().SetViewPoint(m_image);
		break;
	case '2':
		m_eViewState = DISPLAY_MODE_DEPTH;
		m_depth.GetAlternativeViewPointCap().ResetViewPoint();
		break;
	case '3':
		m_eViewState = DISPLAY_MODE_IMAGE;
		m_depth.GetAlternativeViewPointCap().ResetViewPoint();
		break;
	case 'm':
		m_rContext.SetGlobalMirror(!m_rContext.GetGlobalMirror());
		break;
	}
}

void SimpleViewer::ScalePoint(XnPoint3D& point)
{
	point.X *= GL_WIN_SIZE_X;
	point.X /= m_depthMD.XRes();

	point.Y *= GL_WIN_SIZE_Y;
	point.Y /= m_depthMD.YRes();
}


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Godspeed (Hardcover)
By Nickolas Butler
In this riveting new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Shotgun Lovesongs, three troubled construction workers get entangled in a dangerous plan against an impossible deadline.
Why is it being built here, and why so quickly? These are the questions Cole, Bart, and Teddy, the three principals of True Triangle Construction, ask themselves when they are hired to finish a project for a mysteriously wealthy homeowner. Nestled in the mountains outside of Jackson, Wyoming, the house is a masterpiece, unlike anything they've done before. Once finished, it promises to be the architectural prize of Jackson and could put True Triangle on the map. But despite the project's lure, the owner is intent on having it built in a matter of months, an impossible task made irresistible by the exorbitant bonus that awaits them if they succeed. A bonus that could change the course of their business, and their lives.
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"Butler's award-winning talent as a storyteller (Little Faith) propels his characters on a heart-stopping, daring race with unexpected outcomes. Godspeed indeed." –Library Journal
"As in his previous three novels, Butler brings sympathy and insight to the familiar rituals and dynamics of male friendship....An exceptional tale, once it gets going, of what money can do to those who need it." –Kirkus Reviews
"This ambitious thriller from Butler highlights the conflict between wealthy transplants and blue-collar locals in the increasingly gentrified rural West." –Publishers Weekly
"From triumph and tragedy to pathos and redemption . . . As real as anything you are likely to read this year. . . . It's hard to walk away from Godspeed without being grateful for the life one has, and that in itself makes it more than worth reading." –BookReporter
"A fast-moving, highly addictive novel of ambition, obsession, and long-festering dreams of the haves and have nots. I loved this book from start to finish and marveled at the expert construction and storytelling." –Ace Atkins, author of The Revelators and The Heathens
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"A glorious novel, as lyrical as it is suspenseful—breathless, tense, and shimmering with the sweat of desperate men. Butler delivers mystery and tragedy against a beautiful, inhospitable backdrop, anchored in the struggles of a thrummingly vivid cast of characters." —Steph Cha, author of Your House Will Pay
"Is there a novelist writing today more adept at revealing the conflicts in the psyche of the American male than Nickolas Butler? In Godspeed, a novel that moves with the power and velocity of an avalanche, he's done it again—this time with a tale of men chasing dreams of riches—think The Treasure of Sierra Madre, though in the mountains of the American West—men whose desperation drives them relentlessly toward madness and murder. Butler's characters, partners in a Wyoming construction company, have agreed to build a woman's mountainside dream house. If they complete the project by what seems an impossible Christmas deadline, they'll become wealthy; if they fail, they'll walk away with nothing. As winter snows bear down on the Tetons, readers won't be able to turn the pages of Godspeed fast enough." –Larry Watson, author of Montana 1948 and The Lives of Edie Pritchard
"Set in an American West torn between its pinewood past and marble future, Godspeed is the story of three childhood friends and the construction contract that will make--or break--their lives. What begins as a novel of optimism and ambition morphs into a dark warning about the end-game of American capitalism. With his characteristically rich and transporting prose, Nickolas Butler continues the urgent examination of class and culture he began in his beloved debut, Shotgun Lovesongs." –John Larison, author of Whiskey When We're Dry
"Not many writers can turn any subject into gold, but Nick Butler is one of them. In Godspeed, he tells the story of three buddies and business partners who get an offer that may be too good to be true. What begins as a construction project full of good work and good cheer soon goes off the rails, with dire consequences. This novel is about addiction, ambition, and America at the crossroads of its own demise, and in Butler's brilliant, capable hands, it ends up feeling like a lived experience." –Peter Geye, author of Northernmost
"Once again the great Nickolas Butler has expanded his already estimable fictional territory, this time with a page-turner of the highest order set in the New, if quickly vanishing, West. Featuring an unlikely foursome of hardscrabble, fallible characters, and a plot as chiseled and severe as the Wyoming landscape, Godspeed has enough energy to shake a house. As captivating and as durable as No Country for Old Men. Impossible to put down. And even harder to forget." –Chris Dombrowski, author of Body of Water
"Godspeed reads like a modern fable or a contemporary western—a bloody and violent version of the American Dream in which ambition, addiction, and frailty are locked in what is at times an almost unbearably painful struggle with loyalty, love, and hope." –Carys Davies, author of West
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Q: Jquery user control I have a problem with jquery not loaded in an asp user control.
I want simply to add the click event when a checkbox is clicked.
Here is my javascript file
$(document).ready(function() {
    var arr = jQuery(":checkbox[id*='drpAccountType']");
    for (i = 0; i < arr.length; i += 1) {
        $("#" + arr[i].id).click(function() { alert(this.id) });
    }
});
if (typeof (Sys) !== 'undefined') Sys.Application.notifyScriptLoaded();

The user control pre render events:
Protected Sub Page_PreRender(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.PreRender
        ScriptManager.RegisterClientScriptInclude(Me, Me.GetType, "CheckboxdropdownScript", ResolveUrl("~/Scripts/CheckBoxDropDown.js"))
End Sub

the script is loaded fine but any usage of jQuery return undefined. Then only when the page is loaded I can excute the same code for the commande line in firebug. The jquery library is  loaded in the master page.
Whenever I'm using jquery within an asp user control I always find problems, and I always have to hack around to get it to work. I try all the entries in stackoverflow but I never found a one as general solution.
did any one found a simple solution to use jquery with master pages, user control in asp.net
I would appreciate  if someone can share such valuable information.
My manager is about to drop jquery from the application as we always waist lot of time just to find a workaround to have it to work with user controls.
Please help, I like jquery and I really want to use it for client script.
best regards

A: your script may be getting inserted into the page before the jquery library.  (You can verify this by checking the HTML output of your page.)
When script files execute JS inline, and especially when that JS depends on other libraries, it's safest to use RegisterStartupScript rather than RegisterClientScriptInclude. If you use this overload of RegisterStartupScript, you can construct a reference to the same external JS file and it'll run in the right place.
As an alternative, you could use <asp:ScriptReference/> tags in a ScriptManagerProxy in your user control rather than registering the script in Page_Load or Page_Init; in my experience, those scripts are added after scripts from the master page.

A: this is not exactly a direct answer but here are some jQuery ASP.net controls that might help:
http://clipperhouse.com/jQuery/
(Look for the bit about Callbacks.)
Also, you might not need the "for" loop if you simply give all your checkboxes a class name and use that as the selector.

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Over four years, mathematics and verbal skills of some 20,000 people in China were monitored by researchers from Beijing's Peking University and Yale University in the US. Researchers tested people of both sexes aged 10 and above between 2010 and 2014, with 24 standardised maths questions and 34 word-recognition questions.
Obesity Action Scotland's new research "Chips to Go" has found that the UK consume up to a quarter of their calories out of home. It also found that chips are the most commonly consumed takeaway item in Scotland.
Fife Council have launched new fast food vans to help deliver healthy snacks for Fife's secondary schools.
Hoarding has been classified as a medical disorder for the first time by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Young children in prams may be exposed to up to 60% more pollution than their parents at the kerbside, a study has suggested.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have published a rapid outbreak assessment following a multi-country outbreak of Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Agona (S. Agona) in the European Union (EU).
The Drinking Water Quality Regulator (DWQR) for Scotland's latest annual report shows that Scottish Water's compliance with the stringent standards for drinking water remains high at 99.91%.
Scottish Water take and analyse samples of drinking water from across Scotland 365 days a year. The report on Drinking Water Quality in Scotland 2017 states that a total of 305,459 regulatory tests were carried out on Scotland's drinking water last year. Of those taken from samples at consumers' taps, 99.91% met the required standards.
In an article, Michel Barnier, the European Commission's Chief Negotiator with the United Kingdom has said the UK Government has not yet agreed to protect 'Geographical Indications' (GI) such as Scotch Whisky.
The Scottish Government has been pressing UK Government to agree a need for a UK GI System post-Brexit.
The Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs Fergus Ewing said urgent action is needed from the UK Government in Brexit talks to protect Scotland's world-renowned food and drink produce.
The Green Apple Environment Awards, which began in 1994, is an annual campaign that aims recognise, reward and promote environmental best practice around the world.
Scottish companies and projects have two chances of success, because if you apply for a Scottish Green Apple Environment Award, that entry is also submitted into the UK category of the International Green Apple Awards. So, you could win a Scottish Award, presented in Scotland and a UK Award, presented in Houses of Parliament in London.


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November 3, 2014 November 3, 2014 ~ Anthony Camber	~ Leave a comment
Coinciding with the release of The Pauline Conversion, I've given my other three books new covers. In two cases tweaks rather than wholesale changes: in one, something entirely new. I want to delve a little into the process.
ATTENTION: INCOMING SUBHEADINGS.
To state the bleeding obvious, covers are the first part of a book encountered by potential readers. They're the first muddy hillock you need to urge them over on the obstacle course that ends with page one. If you can't get them over that first hurdle, it doesn't matter how perfect the words are. There are plenty of other books out there upon the miles of shelving, real and virtual, to choose from.
(None of this applies to those authors whose names take up half the cover: they could publish a collection of shopping lists called Nnnnggngg and it'd shoot to the top of the bestseller list. I don't have that luxury, or a collection of shopping lists.)
The only objective metric I have is sales. This measures a lot more than cover quality, but it's all I have. In an ideal world I'd test two covers (leaving everything else identical) and see which sells more — and then swap the poorer design for a new one, and repeat until Nnnnggngg. Marketing types and those that hang around them call this A/B testing.
It's tricky to perform an A/B test with print books, but what's stopping me doing it for ebooks? Amazon, I suppose. They could make it easy: let me have multiple variants of a book in the Kindle store, and use their big black box of twiddly knobs to show different variants to different people. But they don't let me do that. It's a shame. It's a way for authors — and themselves — to make more money. No other ebook vendor has the feature either, as far as I know.
In the absence of A/B testing, all I can do is change the cover of a book every now and then and see if, long term, the graph creeps up. But you never know if that's due to a better cover, or more books, or a media appearance, or any other variation between the two time periods. When you're A/B testing you want the only difference to be between A and B: the two covers. You can't test cover A in country X and cover B in country Y, or any other artificial variation, because you never know if that's the cause of the difference in sales, not the covers.
I'm left with hunches and feelings and rolls of the dice, and I can't make spreadsheets out of those, dammit.
For a while I've had a strong hunch the old cover for The Pink and the Grey wasn't doing a great job: I wanted to change that. The hunch wasn't so strong for Till Undeath Do Us Part or Disunited, but I was willing to explore alternatives.
Accompanying the various hunches were a couple of practical reasons for changing the covers. The aspect ratio (1:1.6) seemed a little off – too tall. More books seem to use the slightly fatter 1:1.5 ratio. More importantly, today there are more devices with high-density "retina" displays, and Amazon's recommended pixel dimensions for covers had increased. The old images weren't detailed enough: they're now 3200×4800, which is a step up from the 256×192 of my ZX Spectrum days.
Changing the "brand"
The previous covers shared certain elements, defining – if you like – the "brand". Changing all covers at once brought the possibility of updating these shared elements.
All three of the old covers used the same font for both the book title and author name (one of the thousands of variations of Univers), and included a diagonal design element top to bottom. I loved the concept of the diagonal, but it imposes what I shall politely call a "creative burden" on the designer (the "yeah, but how the hell can I shoehorn the diagonal into this one?" problem). Using the same font for all titles linked the covers well: but left no room for genre.
The new covers take a different approach. There's still a common font (now Avenir Next) but it's only used for the author name and media quotes (and printed book internals such as chapter titles). The book titles have unique fonts that better fit the story, I hope. There's no requirement for a diagonal element now (though I've kept it for two books, as it works for those independently of branding). Instead there's a loose theme of rich, solid colours.
Each book now has a tagline too, digging fractionally deeper into plot.
Enough common ground to link the covers when they're placed together. Enough flexibility to design for the genre and the story.
This cover has changed least.
The player is shifted left to accommodate the great press quote. The title font is much stronger, with a hint of newspaper headline about it.
The tagline tries to communicate the momentousness of the story: the huge change Danny and the sport go through. I'm also using "Out – and outnumbered" with this book. (Perhaps I should have called the book Outnumbered, but there's a sitcom in the UK with that title, which put me off it. Anyway, it's not changing now.)
The new cover reduces the background distraction at top right and presents the faces a little starker. The font is more dramatic and urgent, more typical in books in the horror genre, and the angle emphasises the urgency.
The tagline hints at the two paths of the story. It's ominous – and also faintly biblical, matching the title. I considered mentioning zombies explicitly, but felt the Undeath of the title served that purpose.
I considered a very different cover, showing King's College Chapel in a dramatic silhouette. It matches the other three new covers more closely, but tells you nothing about the story. People shown both covers preferred the existing cover: it links the title to two people, the main characters in the story, and hints strongly at plot.
These faces, incidentally, are part of the incredible, beautiful detail in the chapel's west window. If you get a chance to visit the chapel, do. It's a tremendous building.
Now the real change!
I love the old cover. Two quarters of the shield hint at the story, and it's full of fun if you look at the detail. But nobody sees any of that. People see a cover with a shield on it – and that's about it. Nobody sees the central circle as a camera lens. The title, of course, gives little away.
The new cover focuses heavily on the surveillance cameras in St Paul's College (they're not the whole story, but it's a mistake to cram too much into a cover). You can now tell at a glance the plot involves cameras, probably a lot of them, with hints of disagreements (cameras looking at cameras). This cover makes the book look humorous, too. It's a much better fit for the story than the last one.
The taglines for The Pink and the Grey and The Pauline Conversion have the same feel, reinforcing their shared universe (let's hope I can keep the pattern going for future books). Using four one-word sentences, with the last word slightly off-the-wall, helps convey the humour as well as the plot.
I have a notebook full of sketched ideas for this cover: despite the simplicity of the final idea it took a long time to get here.
The new covers are now published everywhere (the old covers persist only on sites like Goodreads that track each edition separately). I hope they'll convince more readers to get as far as page one, where the writing can take over. The truth is I have no idea: I'm far too close to the covers to be objective about them. We'll see. Come back in a year to see if my new book's called Nnnnggngg.
The Pauline Conversion: coming soon
October 10, 2014 ~ Anthony Camber	~ Leave a comment
Subscribers to my newsletter learned all about my new book, The Pauline Conversion, last weekend. It's time I passed the news on to the laggards…
After a detour to the world of football with Disunited, The Pauline Conversion brings me back home to Cambridge — the Cambridge of The Pink and the Grey, and St Paul's College.
I love this universe. In my head St Paul's lives and breathes: the university terms ever-cycling, like the undergraduates. And I think modern society — more open and accepting than ever — presents new challenges for the college. Is it relevant today? What is it for? Somewhere in college, over a dry sherry and a wet biscuit, those in charge are struggling to ensure it evolves to maintain its unique place in the university and the city.
This isn't new. The challenges of modernity are constant: only the details twiddle at the edges. Dip a time-travelling toe anywhere into the two centuries of college and you'll find its leadership wrestling with society's shifting moral sands. How did James Drybutter found the college? How did it cope in the late Victorian period, with Oscar Wilde on trial? What happened during and between the world wars? (Two, at time of writing.)
I have some ideas about those — for other books, perhaps.
The Pauline Conversion is set in a more modern era: the early 1970s, at the dawning of the twin ages of aquarius and colour television. This was a period of unrest across Britain, with strikes and power cuts and "women's lib" and student sit-ins and hippies. (In those days you had to ask the state-run General Post Office politely if they might consent to install a telephone in your house – and then wait several weeks until they wired, directly into your wall, something you didn't own and couldn't unplug.)
A different Britain, and yet not so different. In the news: the economy, immigration, war, terrorism, equality, rights, democracy.
The story takes place in February 1972. The miners are on strike for more pay. Chunks of the centre of Cambridge are being bulldozed and redeveloped. Students around the city have found their voices. Change is in the air.
And in the midst of all this is Dennis Sauvage. Readers of The Pink and the Grey will remember Dennis as a man of calculatedly indeterminate vintage with an impish sense of humour and a tendency to repeat himself, repeat himself. In The Pauline Conversion we see him in his pomp, already a quarter-century under his St Paul's belt — and with a nagging frustration his career has stalled.
The book opens in mid-air as Dennis tumbles from his bike. He's helped up by a homeless boy called Red who deserves better, and soon the academic has a cause to champion that might — might — earn him the chapter in college history he craves. (It's either that or a dismal footnote and a retirement lobbying former students for guest appearances in their autobiographies.) But Red has secrets, and even Dennis has enemies. His cause becomes a fight for his future — and the future of college itself.
Dennis isn't the only character from The Pink and the Grey to appear in youthful form — also present is Arthur, the porter. And many new characters, who you can discover for yourselves.
In case you're wondering, The Pauline Conversion isn't a prequel to The Pink and the Grey in any real sense, despite the overlaps. You can read the books in either order.
When will it be out?
Currently I'm mulling over the feedback from my beta readers before embarking on what should be the final draft. My goal is to publish the book at the end of October. That's only a few weeks away, which is exciting for all of us and terrifying for me, as it leaves me barely any time to procrastinate.
Meanwhile, here's an exclusive preview of the cover design:
The other covers are being changed or tweaked too, because this month clearly isn't busy enough already. Look for a blog post soon about that exercise.
I know it's been a long time since Disunited came out. The Pauline Conversion has been in gestation a while — I wrote the first words over a year ago. I hope you'll find the wait worth it. It's been so much fun colouring in some of the history of St Paul's, and even more so spending time with Dennis, a character I love.
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Q: Gradle - create Jar from Spring Boot project which consist only of .class files I have problem with Gradle. I have a simple spring boot project and I want to jar it with only the package and .class files inside. What I'm receiving now is 3 folders BOOT-INF, META-INF and org.springframework.boot.loader.

A: You need to remove the gradle plugin. It is only useful if you want to build a spring boot app.
Here is how to build a library (but still use spring boot):
buildscript {
  ext {
    springBootVersion = '1.5.2.RELEASE'
    dependencyManagementPluginVersion = '1.0.1.RELEASE'
  }

  repositories {
    mavenLocal()
    mavenCentral()
  }

  dependencies {
    classpath "io.spring.gradle:dependency-management-plugin:$dependencyManagementPluginVersion"
  }
}

repositories {
    mavenLocal()
    mavenCentral()
}

apply plugin: 'io.spring.dependency-management'

dependencyManagement {
  imports {
    mavenBom "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-parent:$springBootVersion"
  }
}

dependencies {
  compile 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web' // no need to specify version
}

A: If you're creating a .jar artifact of a Spring-boot project and want to use it as an external dependency in another app (eg. referring to a main class within), you can add this to your Boot app's build.gradle file in addition to the .jar publishing config:
bootRepackage  {
    classifier = 'exec'
}

(Source: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/commit/6565ff616a827c22b4235d8ce2fb9a94eb4ad4c8?short_path=1c5002a#diff-1c5002aface9c68d53c46740b5f095e5)


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Chartis Top Reads – Week of December 12 - December 18, 2021
One year ago this week, the COVID-19 vaccine was rolled out across the U.S. The vaccines have led to many positive developments in 2021. Over 95 percent of those 65 and older have had at least one shot; the nation's largest safety net, schools, have mostly been able to reopen; health systems created innovative solutions to treat patients and protect their staff; and telehealth use was accelerated.
There was hope one year ago that by 2022, the pandemic would be a thing of our past. Instead, the U.S. lost an additional 500,000 lives to the disease in 2021. The COVID-19 death toll continues to rise, though with a successful vaccine and approval for a booster, the majority of deaths are those who have remained unvaccinated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates those who are unvaccinated have a 14 times higher risk of death from the disease than those who are fully vaccinated.
With the ongoing pandemic, other healthcare concerns also remain. Hospitals and health systems have not been able to fully recover financially, mostly due to increased expenses over pre-pandemic levels for labor, supplies, and medication. Shortages in the supply chain and workforce are also prevalent. In a nursing retention study from earlier this year, over 20 percent of direct patient care nurses were considering leaving their position within the year, primarily citing insufficient staffing levels, the demanding conditions and emotional toll of the job. Health equity continues to be a serious concern, particularly access to care in rural areas. Over 125 rural hospitals have closed since 2010. All of these challenges will shape the healthcare system in 2022 as we face Year Three of the pandemic.
What should we expect for healthcare in 2022? What can we take away from the past year to create a better next year? Following are five outlooks we anticipate for 2022.
Strengthening and diversifying sourcing for the supply chain will be a key strategic priority to reduce health system costs. Markups for personal protective equipment (PPE) were up to 6000 percent during early days of the pandemic in 2020. While N95 masks are no longer seeing astronomical price hikes, the supply chain problem has continued in 2021, with over 90 percent of health system executives reporting supply chain shortages. For 2022, many health systems have invested in predictive modeling tools to help better estimate supply chain needs. Additionally, many hospitals are considering increasing their supply chain capacity and moving away from just-in-time inventory management, diversifying manufacturing sites, partners, and geographies so products are not solely sourced. They are also building their own new product development and innovation groups, including technologies to reuse or repurpose certain supplies.
Labor shortages will persist and could lead to further burnout and error. 61 percent of physicians surveyed by The Physicians Foundation in 2021 said they frequently experience feelings of burnout. 90 percent of nursing leaders surveyed expect a nursing shortage post-pandemic. The clinician shortage already exists, and if providers continue to leave the workforce in greater numbers than there are new entrants, workforce needs and burnout will only be exacerbated. High levels of burnout are shown to lead to increased medical errors and worse patient outcomes. Training programs and ensuring all roles are working at the top of their license will be vital to address workforce shortages in the near term.
Health disparities in rural America will remain. Lack of access to care, higher rates of chronic conditions, social disparities, and lower vaccination rates in rural America have led to COVID-19 mortality rates that are twice as high as urban areas. Federal aid and support is needed to provide better access to these communities, including through virtual care.
The pandemic has created an increase in behavioral health needs and growth of alternative models, specifically virtual care, will be necessary to meet demand. Nearly half of all adults reported some form of behavioral health need during the pandemic. For caregivers, 70 percent reported adverse mental health symptoms. Specific populations, including Black, Native American, Hispanic, Asian American, and LGBTQ groups, also responded that they had experienced higher rates of stress and mental health concerns and often had difficulty accessing care due to cost and insurance coverage. Drug overdoses saw the highest 12-month total ever recorded. Virtual and other innovative care models coupled with reimbursement reform are needed to meet the significant demand.
Alternative sites of care, specifically hospital at home, will continue to see an increase in patients. The pandemic created an urgent push for alternative sites of care as many patients without COVID-19 have wanted to avoid inpatient stays and emergency room care. There has also been a need to manage less critical COVID-19 patients remotely as beds and ventilators have been limited. Reimbursement had previously been a limiting factor for hospital at home, but COVID-19 aided in payment reform for alternative sites of care. Hospitals and health systems will need to continue to think about their assets beyond the four walls of the hospital. Hospital at home models enabled by remote patient monitoring technologies will be part of the future shift.
2022 Environmental Scan
Fierce Healthcare
Healthcare Industry Will Face Higher Medication Errors, Declining Patient Trust in 2022: Forrester
One Year of COVID Vaccines: Many Lives Saved, Many Needlessly Lost
Rural Health Disparities: New Challenges in Aftermath of Pandemic
Our analysis suggests that the socioeconomic disadvantages and health disparities dividing rural and urban communities may be widening. Particularly alarming are gaps in disparity measures between rural communities and those in which a rural hospital is vulnerable to closure.
Digital Behavioral Health: The First Digitally Forward Service Line?
The pandemic has only exacerbated the U.S. behavioral health crisis, but deploying digital behavioral health affords an opportunity to re-think the delivery of behavioral healthcare in a way that addresses the growing access issue.
What to Do Now? Clinician Burnout and Managing the Unsolvable
This special report triangulates the trends, draws conclusions about the future, and offers thinking on how to manage an issue that's gone past the boiling point.


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U of M Women - Addison, Tobel Earn First Team All-America on Day Two of NCAA Indoors
by RunMichigan Staff, Mar. 11, 2012
Provided by U of M
Site: Jacksons Indoor Track at the Idaho Center (Nampa, Idaho)
Event: NCAA Indoor Championships (Day 2 of 2)
U-M Team Result: 61st Place of 62 Teams (1.5 points)
Next U-M Event: Fri-Sat., March 23-24 -- at USC Trojan Invitational (Los Angeles, Calif.)
NAMPA, Idaho -- Junior Rebecca Addison (Spring Lake, Mich./Grand Haven) and junior/sophomore Kiley Tobel (Commerce Twp., Mich./Walled Lake Western) of the University of Michigan women's track and field team scored in the 800-meter and mile run, respectively, on the final day of the NCAA Indoor Championships on Saturday (March 10) at Boise State's Jackson's Indoor Track at the Idaho Center.
Michigan recorded 1.5 points on the final day to finish 61st out of 62 teams competing at the national meet. Oregon won its third straight NCAA title with 49 points.
After qualifying for the finals in the 800-meter run on the first day (Friday, March 9), Addison finished eighth with a time of 2:08.62 to tally one point for U-M and earn All-America first team honors for the second straight year.
Tobel, who entered the meet as the 16th seed, cleared a height of 4.20 meters (13-9.25) to finish in a tie for eighth place. She scored a half-point for the Maize and Blue and earned a spot on the All-America first team, the first Michigan pole vaulter to earn All-America honors in program history.
Also competing in today's finals was freshman Shannon Osika (Waterford, Mich./Mott) in the mile run. In her first national meet, she earned All-America second team honors, finishing just one spot out of the scoring positions in ninth, stopping the clock at 4:45.53.
Michigan capped the weekend with eight total All-America honors as junior Jillian Smith (Manahawkin, N.J./Southern Regional) was recognized as a second team All-American in the 800-meter and the members of the distance medley -- Osika, senior Brittani Williams (Detroit, Mich./Jackson), Smith and Addison -- also earned second team accolades following yesterday's competition.
Michigan will now turn its focus to outdoor track and field season, starting with the USC Trojan Invitational on Friday and Saturday, March 23-24.
Final Team Standings
1. Oregon 49
2. Kansas 30
3. LSU 27
4. Texas 25
5. Arkansas 24
5. Texas A&M 24
5. Clemson 24
8. UCF 23
9. Florida 22.
10. Iowa State 21
61. MICHIGAN 1.5
Event Winners/U-M Finishers (Day 2)
1. Tina Sutej, Arkansas 4.45m (14-7.25)
T8. Kiley Tobel, U-M 4.20m (13-9.25)
800-meter Run (finals)
1. Katie Palmer, BYU 2:04.42
8. Rebecca Addison, U-M 2:08.62
Mile Run (finals)
1. Lucy Van Dalen, Stony Brook 4:39.76
9. Shannon Osika, U-M 4:45.53
• Day 1 Results
N O T E S
• Shannon Osika was the only freshman to qualify for the NCAA Championships in the mile run and one of just two underclassmen to advance to the finals. Osika became the seventh Wolverine to earn All-America honors in the mile in program history.
• Michigan has now had 10 student-athletes earn All-America honors in the 800-meter run in program history.
• Michigan has scored points in the last two NCAA Championships and has now done so 23 times in program history.
Q U O T E S
U-M Junior/Sophomore Kiley Tobel
On becoming the first indoor All-American pole vaulter at Michigan ... "It's really exciting and it's such an honor as well. I'm really grateful that I had the opportunity to compete today and I'm glad I took advantage of the opportunity and did my best. It's such a cool title to have and I'm definitely proud that I compete for Michigan."
On representing Michigan on a national level ... "It feels great. It's great to compete against people from all over the country who are some really amazing athletes and be able to hold your own. It's great to wear the block M and I feel really proud of myself but also proud to be a part of this program."
On exceeding her expectations this season ... "Being an All-American was one of my goals in my career, so accomplishing it this early is going to help me set my goals higher and continue to have more drive to get better and stay on top of that competition and stay at that level. I want to keep working hard to keep improving because the field is always improving and everyone is always getting better. There are always new jumpers, there are always people setting new PRs, so it's great to know what success feels like and want more of it."


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Academics: ADMINISTRATIVE LAW II
Navigation tree of "Academics"
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW II
Subject matter: Administrative Law
Module: Public Law I
Department: Legal Science
Area: ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Administrative contracts. Patrimonial responsibility of public administrations. Forced expropriation. Sanctioning authority of the administration.
TARDIO PATO, JOSE ANTONIO ■ ■ ■
BELLMONT LORENTE, SALVADOR ■ ■
Base para gran número de oposiciones de ingreso a las Administraciones públicas:
Letrado del Consejo de Estado y Letrados de los Consejos Jurídicos Autonómicos
-Letrado de las Cortes Generales y Letrados de los Parlamentos Autonómicos
-Abogados del Estado
-Cuerpo Superior de Administradores Civiles del Estado
-Secretarios e Interventores de Administración Local
-Cuerpos y Escalas de Técnicos de la Administración de las Comunidades Autónomas.
-Escalas Técnicas de Administración Local.
-Escalas Técnicas de Universidades Públicas.
-Cuerpos y Escalas de Gestión correlativos a los Cuerpos y Escalas Técnicos señalados.
Libre ejercicio de la profesión como Abogado, en asuntos de la Jurisdicción Contencioso-Administrativa
Capacity to identify, interpret, formulate, and resolve problems and situations.
Ability to use the tools and instruments necessary for properly observing the systems under study.
Proper knowledge about government, businesses, institutions, public organisms and organizations in general, regulations, and procedures necessary for working and performing other activities.
Capacity for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling systems and processes within a framework that guarantees respect for values, rights and basic principles of the legal system, business competitiveness, protection and conservation of the environment, and sustainable development.
Skills for the efficient application of tools that lead to resolving problems.
Critical and analytical skills.
Capacity for evaluating, optimizing, and comparing criteria in decision making.
Ability to communicate in formal, graphic, and symbolic styles, as well as with oral and written forms of expression.
Ability to work with multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.
Ability to update knowledge.
Capacity to consolidate, expand, and integrate knowledge.
Disposition for methodologies and efficient self-learning skills to adapt to and update new knowledge and scientific advances, as well as to changing needs in order to adopt an aptitude for innovation and creativity in the profession.
Awareness about the importance of law as a regulatory system of social relations.
Obtain the perception of the unitary nature of the legal system and the necessary interdisciplinary vision of legal problems.
Interpret constitutional principles and values as a working tool in the implementation of Spanish, EU, and international legislation.
Manage legal sources (laws, jurisprudence, doctrinal).
Read and interpret legal texts.
Draft legal documents.
Acquire a critical awareness in the analysis of the legal system.
Use information technology to acquire legal information (databases on legislation, jurisprudence, bibliographies).
Understand and know the function of various governmental agencies and know how to relate properly with them.
Master the institutional system and the complex form of producing law at its different levels: local, autonomous, national, European, and international.
Develop and structure regulations.
Understand the legal position of citizens in their relations with government, and in general with public authorities.
Know the main public legal institutions.
Act upon various Spanish, EU, and international jurisdictional orders.
Manage and advise businesses, associations, and other entities from a legal perspective.
01Knowledge of the special judicial courts in Spain for the control of public Administrations.
02Knowledge of public procurement law and types of public contracts.
03Knowledge of the liability of public Administrations.
04Knowledge of compulsory purchase.
05Knowledge of sanctioning power of public Administrations.
06Education in the values of social-democratic Rule of law State in Spain and their impact on relations of public Administrations with citizens and on guarantees them against those.
U1La jurisdicción contencioso-administrativa
U2LA ACTIVIDAD CONVENCIONAL DE LAS ADMINISTRACIONES PÚBLICAS. LOS CONTRATOS ADMINISTRATIVOS.
U3LA RESPONSABILIDAD PATRIMONIAL DE LAS ADMINISTRACIONES PÚBLICAS
U4LA EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA
U5LA POTESTAD SANCIONADORA DE LAS ADMINISTRACIONES PÚBLICAS
2 U1,U2 3 1.5 3 7.5
10 U4 3 1.5 3 7.5
Tardio Pato, Jose Antonio. "Lecciones de Derecho administrativo Acto administrativo, procedimiento y recursos administrativos y contencioso-administrativos". Alicante Editorial Club Universitario D.L. 2011.
Martín Mateo, Ramón. Díez Sánchez, Juan José. "Manual de derecho administrativo". Cizur Menor (Navarra) Thomson-Aranzadi 2008.
García de Enterría, Eduardo 1923-. Fernández, Tomás-Ramón. "Curso de derecho administrativo". Madrid Thomson-Civitas 2011.
Cosculluela Montaner, Luis. "Manual de Derecho administrativo. Parte general". Cizur Menor (Navarra) Thomson-Civitas 2010.
Santamaria Pastor, Juan Alfonso. "Principios de derecho administrativo general". Madrid Iustel 2009.
Tardío Pato, José Antonio. Martín Mateo, Ramón prol. "La expropiación forzosa y acciones civiles". Pamplona Aranzadi D.L. 2000.
It includes two components:
1) Exam of theoretical knowledge that have a value of 95% of the total. It consists of a written exam about the lessons of the first part of the course program. It includes two questions of short or medium size, about 25-30 minutes each; but the two must be answered with a minimum score of 5 out of 10 (or 2.5 out of 5, which is the same), in order to pass the exercise. It will include also a final written exam. This will contain only two questions in part not subject to the exam of the first program part, for the students who passed the exam of the first program part. It will include 4 questions for the students who did not pass the exam of the first program part. To pass the final exam it is necessary to answer all questions of each part of the program with a minimum score of 5 out of 10.
First part of the program will be released with 5 scores or more, for the purposes of the final examination of the ordinary call. But either parts of the program (both the first and the second) will be considered released for ordinary or extraordinary successive calls, only if the student gets 7 scores or more than 7 in this part. Although it is also subject to the condition that the files where such notes are collected are not lost, because these marks are not in centralized databases of the University. Furthermore the student must indicate in which call he obtained this mark, so that it can be located.
2) Evaluation based on the resolution of legal cases and other activities. It has a value of 5% of the total.