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package sttp.client3.httpclient.fs2

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException
import java.net.http.HttpRequest.BodyPublishers
import java.net.http.{HttpClient, HttpRequest}
import java.nio.ByteBuffer
import java.util
import cats.effect._
import cats.effect.implicits._
import cats.implicits._
import fs2.{Chunk, Stream}
import fs2.concurrent.InspectableQueue
import fs2.interop.reactivestreams._
import org.reactivestreams.FlowAdapters
import sttp.capabilities.WebSockets
import sttp.capabilities.fs2.Fs2Streams
import sttp.client3.HttpClientBackend.EncodingHandler
import sttp.client3.httpclient.fs2.HttpClientFs2Backend.Fs2EncodingHandler
import sttp.client3.internal.httpclient.{BodyFromHttpClient, BodyToHttpClient, Sequencer}
import sttp.client3.impl.cats.implicits._
import sttp.client3.impl.fs2.{Fs2Compression, Fs2SimpleQueue}
import sttp.client3.internal.ws.SimpleQueue
import sttp.client3.testing.SttpBackendStub
import sttp.client3.{
  FollowRedirectsBackend,
  HttpClientAsyncBackend,
  HttpClientBackend,
  Request,
  Response,
  SttpBackend,
  SttpBackendOptions
}
import sttp.monad.MonadError

import java.util.concurrent.Flow.Publisher
import scala.collection.JavaConverters._

class HttpClientFs2Backend[F[_]: ConcurrentEffect: ContextShift] private (
    client: HttpClient,
    blocker: Blocker,
    closeClient: Boolean,
    customizeRequest: HttpRequest => HttpRequest,
    customEncodingHandler: Fs2EncodingHandler[F]
) extends HttpClientAsyncBackend[F, Fs2Streams[F], Fs2Streams[F] with WebSockets, Stream[F, Byte]](
      client,
      implicitly,
      closeClient,
      customizeRequest,
      customEncodingHandler
    ) {

  override val streams: Fs2Streams[F] = Fs2Streams[F]

  override def send[T, R >: PE](request: Request[T, R]): F[Response[T]] =
    super.send(request).guarantee(ContextShift[F].shift)

  override protected val bodyToHttpClient: BodyToHttpClient[F, Fs2Streams[F]] =
    new BodyToHttpClient[F, Fs2Streams[F]] {
      override val streams: Fs2Streams[F] = Fs2Streams[F]
      override implicit def monad: MonadError[F] = responseMonad
      override def streamToPublisher(stream: Stream[F, Byte]): F[HttpRequest.BodyPublisher] =
        monad.eval(
          BodyPublishers.fromPublisher(
            FlowAdapters.toFlowPublisher(stream.chunks.map(_.toByteBuffer).toUnicastPublisher)
          )
        )
    }

  override protected val bodyFromHttpClient: BodyFromHttpClient[F, Fs2Streams[F], Stream[F, Byte]] =
    new Fs2BodyFromHttpClient[F](blocker)

  override protected def createSimpleQueue[T]: F[SimpleQueue[F, T]] =
    InspectableQueue.unbounded[F, T].map(new Fs2SimpleQueue(_, None))

  override protected def createSequencer: F[Sequencer[F]] = Fs2Sequencer.create

  override protected def publisherToBody(p: Publisher[util.List[ByteBuffer]]): Stream[F, Byte] = {
    FlowAdapters
      .toPublisher(p)
      .toStream[F]
      .flatMap(data => Stream.emits(data.asScala.map(Chunk.byteBuffer)).flatMap(Stream.chunk))
  }

  override protected def emptyBody(): Stream[F, Byte] = Stream.empty

  override protected def standardEncoding: (Stream[F, Byte], String) => Stream[F, Byte] = {
    case (body, "gzip")    => body.through(fs2.compression.gunzip()).flatMap(_.content)
    case (body, "deflate") => body.through(Fs2Compression.inflateCheckHeader)
    case (_, ce)           => Stream.raiseError[F](new UnsupportedEncodingException(s"Unsupported encoding: $ce"))
  }
}

object HttpClientFs2Backend {
  type Fs2EncodingHandler[F[_]] = EncodingHandler[Stream[F, Byte]]

  private def apply[F[_]: ConcurrentEffect: ContextShift](
      client: HttpClient,
      blocker: Blocker,
      closeClient: Boolean,
      customizeRequest: HttpRequest => HttpRequest,
      customEncodingHandler: Fs2EncodingHandler[F]
  ): SttpBackend[F, Fs2Streams[F] with WebSockets] =
    new FollowRedirectsBackend(
      new HttpClientFs2Backend(client, blocker, closeClient, customizeRequest, customEncodingHandler)
    )

  def apply[F[_]: ConcurrentEffect: ContextShift](
      blocker: Blocker,
      options: SttpBackendOptions = SttpBackendOptions.Default,
      customizeRequest: HttpRequest => HttpRequest = identity,
      customEncodingHandler: Fs2EncodingHandler[F] = PartialFunction.empty
  ): F[SttpBackend[F, Fs2Streams[F] with WebSockets]] =
    Sync[F].delay(
      HttpClientFs2Backend(
        HttpClientBackend.defaultClient(options),
        blocker,
        closeClient = true,
        customizeRequest,
        customEncodingHandler
      )
    )

  def resource[F[_]: ConcurrentEffect: ContextShift](
      blocker: Blocker,
      options: SttpBackendOptions = SttpBackendOptions.Default,
      customizeRequest: HttpRequest => HttpRequest = identity,
      customEncodingHandler: Fs2EncodingHandler[F] = PartialFunction.empty
  ): Resource[F, SttpBackend[F, Fs2Streams[F] with WebSockets]] =
    Resource.make(apply(blocker, options, customizeRequest, customEncodingHandler))(_.close())

  def resourceUsingClient[F[_]: ConcurrentEffect: ContextShift](
      client: HttpClient,
      blocker: Blocker,
      customizeRequest: HttpRequest => HttpRequest = identity,
      customEncodingHandler: Fs2EncodingHandler[F] = PartialFunction.empty
  ): Resource[F, SttpBackend[F, Fs2Streams[F] with WebSockets]] =
    Resource.make(
      Sync[F].delay(HttpClientFs2Backend(client, blocker, closeClient = true, customizeRequest, customEncodingHandler))
    )(_.close())

  def usingClient[F[_]: ConcurrentEffect: ContextShift](
      client: HttpClient,
      blocker: Blocker,
      customizeRequest: HttpRequest => HttpRequest = identity,
      customEncodingHandler: Fs2EncodingHandler[F] = PartialFunction.empty
  ): SttpBackend[F, Fs2Streams[F] with WebSockets] =
    HttpClientFs2Backend(client, blocker, closeClient = false, customizeRequest, customEncodingHandler)

  /** Create a stub backend for testing, which uses the [[F]] response wrapper, and supports `Stream[F, Byte]`
    * streaming.
    *
    * See [[SttpBackendStub]] for details on how to configure stub responses.
    */
  def stub[F[_]: Concurrent]: SttpBackendStub[F, Fs2Streams[F] with WebSockets] = SttpBackendStub(implicitly)
}


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Q: How can I iterate local files and perform an 'import photo' action in ipad Shortcut? I have a bunch of photo currently sitting in my ipad, organized by date 01, 02... to 31.

First of all I don't see any existing action in Shortcut in that allows me to iterate local file. Is it possible at all?
Then there is no action in Photo that let me to import a photo file.
Is there any solution to the above issues? I am happy to explore third party app to get around this problem.

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Q: Button add dynamic div Hello I'm making a table using divs. I want to append in each div using a button. For instance I have a sunday div and in it I wish to append each row in. here what is look like http://jsfiddle.net/vFEd5/1/ . My button add row is disabled cause I don't know how to do it. So when I click add row I need to append project and lieu in sunday. How should I do this?
my code :

Feuille de temps

Jour de la semaine

projet

lieu

dimanche

  <input type="text" name="projet1" size="10" id ="projet2" class "lieu">

 <input type="text" name="prolieu1" size="10" id ="lieu1" class "lieu">

lundi

    <input type="text" name="projet3" size="10" id ="projet3" class "lieu">

 <input type="text" name="prolieu2" size="10" id ="lieu2" class "lieu">

     <input type="button" onclick="addRows();" value="Add Row" />

my code for autocomplete, I'll add it later
$(document).ready(function() {
  $(window).keydown(function(event){
    if( (event.keyCode == 13) && (validationFunction() == false) ) {
      event.preventDefault();
      return false;
    }
  });
});

});

    //------------------AUTO COMPLETE NUMÉRO DE PROJET----------------------
                $(document).ready(function(){
            //-------AUTO COMPLETE addrow PROJET-----
                    $("#name").autocomplete({
                        source:'name[].php',
                        minLength:1
                    });
    //------------------COMPLETE addrow DESC DIMANCHE----------------------
                function handleEnter(e, obj, field){

                    if (e.keyCode == 13 || e.which == 13){
                        if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
                          {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
                            xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
                          }
                        else
                          {// code for IE6, IE5
                            xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
                          }
                        xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
                          {
                            if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
                                {
                                    tempArrayInJS = JSON.parse(xmlhttp.responseText);
                                    $("#client1[]").val( tempArrayInJS[0]['cliName']);

                                }
                          }
                        xmlhttp.open("GET","completeclient.php?q="+obj.value,true);
                        xmlhttp.send();

                    }

A: Change from

dimanche

to

dimanche

and then try this in your JS file :
    var i=0;
function addRow(){
    var dimancheProject = document.getElementById("dimancheProject");
    var dimancheLieu = document.getElementById("dimancheLieu");

    var projectParagraph = document.createElement('p');
    var lieuParagraph = document.createElement('p');
    var inputLieu = document.createElement('input');
    var inputProject = document.createElement('input');
    inputProject.type = 'text';
    inputProject.class="lieu";
    inputProject.size="10";
    inputProject.id='project'+i;
    inputProject.name='project'+i;

    inputLieu.type = 'text';
    inputLieu.class="lieu";
    inputLieu.size="10";
    inputLieu.id='lieu'+i;
    inputLieu.name='lieu'+i;

    projectParagraph.appendChild(inputProject);
    lieuParagraph.appendChild(inputLieu);

    dimancheProject.appendChild(projectParagraph);
    dimancheLieu.appendChild(lieuParagraph);
    i++;
}

NB : Don't forget to adapt your table CSS when adding elements !

A: This method calculates your day from monday if no row already exists, if you want to allow later to choose manually the day it should be easier.
I removed from your dom p elements containing input as this is not allowed by HTML semantics, you may see that input width is different from those added manually, but this is css so I didn't bother and focused on the main problem.
Demo here
function addRows() {
    'use strict';
    var table = document.getElementById('calendarTable'),
        row = document.createElement('div'),
        cell = row.cloneNode(false),
        day = row.cloneNode(false),
        p = document.createElement('p'),
        input = document.createElement('input'),
        rows =  table.querySelectorAll('.Row'),
        rowCount = rows.length,
        days = ['lundi', 'mardi', 'mercredi', 'jeudi', 'vendredi', 'samedi', 'dimanche'],
        newDayIndex = 0; // lundi by default

    // build jour cell
    day.className = 'jour';

    // calculate next day
    if (rowCount) {
        newDayIndex = (days.indexOf(rows[rowCount-1].querySelector('.jour p').innerHTML) + 1) % days.length;
    }

    p.innerHTML = days[newDayIndex];
    day.appendChild(p);
    row.appendChild(day);

    // build projet and lieu cells
    cell.className = 'Cell';
    input.setAttribute('type', 'text');
    input.setAttribute('name', 'projet_' + rowCount);
    input.setAttribute('id', 'projet_' + rowCount);
    input.className = 'projet';
    cell.appendChild(input);
    row.appendChild(cell);

    cell = cell.cloneNode(false);
    cell.className = 'Cell';
    input = input.cloneNode(false);
    input.setAttribute('type', 'text');
    input.setAttribute('name', 'lieu_' + rowCount);
    input.setAttribute('id', 'lieu_' + rowCount);
    input.className = 'lieu';
    cell.appendChild(input);
    row.appendChild(cell);

    // then row
    row.className = 'Row';

    table.appendChild(row);

}

A: You could try using jQuery for this kind of DOM manipulation: Fiddle
var week = ["dimanche", "lundi", "vendredi", "mardi", "mercredi", "jeudi", "samedi"];

addRows = function () {
    var numberOfDays = $(".Row").length;
    console.log(numberOfDays);
    var row = $('

');
    var cell1 = $('

');
    var cell2 = $('

');
    row = row.append('

' + week[numberOfDays % 7] + '

');
    row = row.append(cell1.append('
<input type="text" name="projet' + (numberOfDays + 1) + '" size="10" id="projet' + (numberOfDays + 1) + '" class="lieu" />
'));
    row = row.append(cell2.append('
<input type="text" name="prolieu' + (numberOfDays) + '" size="10" id="lieu"' + (numberOfDays) + '" class="lieu" />
'));
    $('.Table').append(row);
};


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The Books You Need to Play Dungeons and Dragons
Cindy Butor Sep 9, 2017
If you've never played Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) before, it might surprise you to note that books play an essential role (unless you read this article). While those polyhedral dice (especially your D20) are necessary, it's awfully hard to play without knowing the rules, getting some guidance, or using a module. So for all you intrepid D&D noobs out there, here are the books you need to play D&D.
Essential: The Player's Handbook. If nothing else, you need to consult The Player's Handbook. Within the Handbook, you'll find everything you need to play from basic rules (What's initiative? How do you kill something? What are ability scores?) to creating your character (What extras does a halfling grant you? What's the best race if you want to be a barbarian? What are the different types of humans, elves, and dwarves?) to spells (What's the difference between druid, bard, and warlock spells? How do you cast Charm Person? How much damage does Magic Missiles do?). There are even neat little asides from D&D-based novels and tidbits about the multiverse. While it's possible to have another player explain the rules to you or to get a pre-made character from the Internet, D&D will always remain somewhat inscrutable if you don't at least glance through the Handbook. Believe me, I know.
Recommended: The Monster Manual and The Dungeon Master's Guide. If all you want to do is play Dungeons and Dragons, not Dungeon Master (DM) or submerse yourself into the culture, the Handbook is good enough. However, if you're hoping to make your own world or guide your own group of stalwart adventures through certain doom, you really should pick up The Monster Manual and The Dungeon Master's Guide. The Monster Manual gives you stats on dozens of different monsters, telling you how hard they are to kill (the challenge rating), what kind of damage they can do (under melee and ranged attacks), and what special skills they have (such as blindvision or resistance to certain types of damage). Paging through this can tell you about all the amazing monsters, beasts, and aberrations in the multiverse and is necessary if you want to structure a game. The Dungeon Master's Guide is a bit fluffier, but it does give you dozens of cool magic items to enhance your play, helps you calculate how characters live and work in the world, and gives you the framework to either understand the world or create your own. It's best used after you've already read The Player's Handbook.
My personal favorite is The Monster Manual. Go look up a flumph. It's adorable.
Nice to have: Modules. A module in D&D is essentially a pre-made campaign (or "story") that you can either play or run/DM. It will have "adventure hooks," which your characters can choose to take as well as maps of various areas, villains to fight, NPCs (non-player characters) to role play, and more. There are dozens of different modules to play, and they correspond with the different editions (versions of the game that are tweaked and released every few years). Right now, the newest version of D&D is 5th edition (5e), and the modules for that are The Lost Mines of Phandelver (the Starter Set), The Curse of Strahd, The Storm King's Thunder, The Princes of the Apocalypse, Out of the Abyss, Tales from the Yawning Portal, Hoard of the Dragon Queen, and The Rise of Tiamat (with more coming soon!). Each module offers the players different worlds, different monsters, and different opportunities to be a hero (or villain. You do you.). The best way to figure out which one you want to play is by paging through them or listening to a stream of people playing it.
I'm currently DMing this one, and it is EPIC. Just look at that bird lady!
Extraneous: Guides and companion books. For hard core fans or people really interested in the nitty-gritty and often unknown details of the multiverse, there are also guides and companion books. So far, you can choose from Volo's Guide to Monsters, Xanathar's Guide to Everything, Dungeonology, and Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide – plus some specialty books about different lairs, monsters, campaigns, etc. (There are a LOT of resources out there.). Each of these books offers something new such as new monsters to fighter and learn about, better ways to craft a dungeon crawl, and new races to play. None of these are essential reading, but they are pretty cool.
This, my friends, is a mind flayer. Kind of like an evil Ood.
So if Dungeons and Dragons is something you'd like to get into, head on over to your local comic book store or game shop, and pick up a book or two. Even though these books aren't traditional novels, you're bound to find them difficult to put down. There's just so much to learn and explore!
What about your, Rioters? Which one of these books do you think would be the most fun to read? Or which one of these Dungeons and Dragons books do you enjoy the most?

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Sex Ian Lecklitner May 15, 2019
Why It Took So Long to Get an FDA-Approved Anal Condom
The strange history of safe-sex regulation after the AIDS crisis
Some years ago, HIV activist Josh Robbins, who now serves as a spokesperson for the STI dating platform DatingPositives, was consulting for an LGBTQ publication in Nashville when a simple concern exposed a much larger issue. "I was curious about why there were no condom advertisements in the publication," he explains.
Further investigation led Robbins to the FDA, where he was told that condoms had never been specifically approved for anal sex, and therefore, the law prevented condom manufacturers from promoting their products as such — something that undoubtedly dissuaded them from advertising in an LGBTQ publication. "I started asking questions, and I quickly found that I was touching on a subject people absolutely didn't want me to touch," Robbins says. "I was asking questions that people thought I'd lost my mind for asking."
Officially, the FDA told Robbins that it couldn't discuss product submissions — condoms or otherwise — that failed its reviews, which led him to consider the possibility that some condom manufacturers may have devised an anal-dedicated condom that never passed FDA inspection.
So Robbins asked massive condom manufacturers Trojan and LifeStyles about their plans regarding a product line for anal sex, among other related questions. LifeStyles refused comment, and the vice president of marketing for Trojan responded as you might expect: "It's important to use a condom for every sex act including anal sex. Condoms are the best form of protection when having sex. As the most trusted brand for more than 90 years, we continue to make sex as safe and pleasurable for all those who are sexually active."
The FDA did provide Robbins with a peculiar statement made by the Surgeon General in 1987. The declaration essentially advertised condoms as the ultimate tool to prevent the transmission of HIV — the peculiar part being that the Surgeon General used a pen to replace the phrase "sexual intercourse" with "vaginal intercourse," indicating that he may have been uncomfortable suggesting that condoms are similarly effective for anal sex.
This, of course, convinced Robbins that the lack of FDA approval may have something to do with a lack of research concerning condoms and anal sex, which is valid. One 2015 analysis claims that several other studies suggest condoms are between 70 to 87 percent effective at reducing HIV transmission when used during anal sex. Yet, a more recent analysis proposes that those percentages are actually higher. The discrepancy might seem normal enough, but the data included in both analyses was collected more than 15 years ago, and as we all know, our anal habits have certainly increased over the ensuing years.
That said, we obviously haven't always been so chill about anal sex, which might be the real reason for the FDA's lack of urgency — that is, until the last decade or so, it was a sex act that wasn't readily accepted by the mainstream. "From a taboo perspective, internationally and in the U.S., nobody was talking about or regulating condoms for anal sex," says Melissa White, founder and CEO of Lucky Bloke, a company dedicated to better educating people about their condom options. "Truth doesn't seem to be the precursor for how sexual health is approached."
Which brings me to an interesting aside about how sexual education in the U.S. approaches condoms in regards to anal sex. "I was contacted by some educators in California, because they have a real problem with sex education in their schools," Robbins explains. "They have a state law that says they can only provide sex education tools and techniques approved by the FDA. Well, they're absolutely violating their state law by recommending condoms for anal intercourse."
Fortunately, though, that's no longer true, because in September, the FDA finally approved a condom designated for anal sex. Once (ironically) called the FC2 Female Condom, White tells me that it's long been used during anal sex within gay the community, even if "it wasn't advertised or marketed for this purpose." Now, however, those restrictions have been lifted. As such, it's been rebranded as the FC2 Internal Condom. (An inner ring helps with insertion of the condom, while an outer ring keeps it in place.)
But as with most change, it's both a step forward and a half step. Or as White emphasizes, "We still need to keep pushing."
Ian Lecklitner
Ian Lecklitner is a staff writer at MEL Magazine. He mostly writes about everyone's favorite things: Sex, drugs and food.
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import gtk
import sys, os

pixbufs = {
    "class" : None,
    "default" : None,
    "enum" : None,
    "enum_priv" : None,
    "enum_prot" : None,
    "field" : None,
    "field_priv" : None,
    "field_prot" : None,
    "method" : None,
    "method_priv" : None,
    "method_prot" : None,
    "namespace" : None,
    "patch" : None,
    "struct" : None,
    "struct_priv" : None,
    "struct_prot" : None,
    "variable" : None,
}

def initialise():
    for key in pixbufs:
        try:
            name = "%s.png" % key
            filename = os.path.join(sys.path[0],"classbrowser","pixmaps",name)
            if not os.path.exists(filename):
                filename = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),"pixmaps",name)
            pixbufs[key] = gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file(filename)
        except:
            print "Class browser plugin couldn't locate",filename

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Xbox One 3 Years Ago October 10, 2018
Chronus Arc Xbox One UK Release Date
The game Chronus Arc is already released on Xbox One in the UK.
October 10, 2018Confirmed
Chronus Arc
Venture through puzzle-filled dungeons to bring the past back to the present! The Chronus Fragments are needed to prepare for the Time Rewinding, which only takes place once every 10 years. On their way to the Chronus Shrine to get the Fragments, Loka and his teacher Teth are surrounded by a mysterious man named Geppel and his gang. They demand the Fragments. While Teth plays for time, Loka, the main character, rushes out of the cave on his own to fetch reinforcements. He is successful, but Teth and Geppel are nowhere to be found. Aiming to gather information about his missing teacher, Teth, and Geppel, who is trying to get his hands on the Fragments, Loka decides to set out on a journey with his friend Sarna. The game features familiar quests, but also dungeons filled with puzzles to solve, and characters who grow and can be developed as the story progresses with the class change system. Additional elements such as dungeons and special items are available for extra fun! Don't miss out on Loka and his friends' grand adventure!
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Aww: Guess which front-running Dem. candidate is linked with indicted Menendez crony?
Breitbart April 21, 2015
[Ed. – Somehow, you just knew.]
Aside from the foreign donations, though, Hillary has also now been connected to another politician's corruption investigation. It has been revealed that a man indicted on corruption charges along with Senator Robert Menendez (D, NJ) may have hosted both Bill and Hillary at a high-cost vacation getaway in the Dominican Republic.
As part of the case against Senator Menendez, Dr. Salomon Melgen has been indicted and accused of corruption, but he also has ties to the Clintons.
A recent article in The New York Post reports that Melgen had hosted the former President and First Lady at a vacation getaway at his villa in Casa de Campo, "a luxury seaside resort in La Romana." Records also show that Melgen and his wife donated thousands to the Clintons.
Clinton flack Terry McAuliffe, now Governor of Virginia, was also a frequent Casa de Campo guest. …
The Dominican Republic figures in with a second scandal comprised of allegations that Clinton took millions in donations from that country and others, both during and after she was Secretary of State.
Scooby van clocked going 92 mph on way to … dinner
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Pots, Kettles and Discrimination
Posted on March 28, 2010 by Cheryl
An interesting discussion transpired on Twitter this morning (sadly a very poor medium for serious discussion) about this BBC article. In it a group of bishops are complaining that the government discriminates against Christians. Specifically they are talking about people losing their jobs for wearing crucifixes.
As someone who has suffered employment discrimination (there is a good reason why I'm self-employed, you know), I'm fully supportive of anyone who is at risk of losing their job simply for wearing a religious symbol. So score one for the bishops there. However, like many things in life, this issue is a little more complicated.
To start with, losing your job for wearing a crucifix is not the only sort of discrimination that the bishops complain about. The "rights" that they want protected include the "right" to discriminate against, and spread hatred towards, other people; specifically LGBT people. Indeed, Church of England Bishops in the House of Lords have been in the forefront of every fight to prevent LGBT people gaining civil rights in the UK. Trans people, in particular, had to go to the European Court because there was no chance of their getting any rights in the UK without support from elsewhere. So while I feel very sorry for Christians at risk of losing their jobs simply for wearing religious jewelry, I think it is a bit rich for some bishops to complain about being discriminated against on the one hand, while pushing hard for the right to discriminate on the other.
There are, of course, many Christians who are wonderful people. I have a good friend who is a Catholic Priest, another who is a Methodist Minister, and one who is training to be a CofE vicar. They are not the sort of people who go around persecuting others. Unfortunately they get tarred by the bad behavior of other Christians. And that brings me to the thorny subject of symbols.
Symbols, religious or otherwise, are powerful things. They can convey a great deal of information, and a great deal of emotion, very effectively. I'm trying not to invoke Godwin's Law here, so apologies to any Jewish friends who may feel left out, but let's use the Confederate flag as an example.
I very much doubt that the people behind the Somerset Rebels speedway team had any political reason for the name and symbol they chose. For most people in Somerset the Confederate army has the vaguely romantic overtones of the underdog. Their generals tended to be more likable than Grant and Sherman. But to an African-American the Confederate flag means something very different and specific. It suggests that the person wearing it is proclaiming his racist views, and his hatred for African-American people. It suggests that because there are people who use it in that very way.
The same sort of confusion, these days, is true of a crucifix. A person who chooses to wear one may well think that doing so sends out a message of, "I believe in Jesus Christ and His gospel of love." Unfortunately an LGBT person seeing that crucifix may interpret the message very differently as saying to her, "I hate you and wish you dead."
This is where the whole issue gets very difficult. Imagine yourself in the position of an openly gay person who is seriously ill. Fortunately you are in the UK and are able to go to hospital. But once there you discover that one of the nurses wears a crucifix. Are you going to be comforted, or very frightened?
There are no easy answers to this. There are, however, things that we can do. Those of us who are not religious need to be supportive of the moderates in various religions who are prepared to stand up against the bigots. Equally, religious people who want our support have to be prepared to take a stand. They also need to be aware that their holy symbol may be a symbol of fear for others.
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24 Responses to Pots, Kettles and Discrimination
Anna Feruglio Dal Dan says:
Well said. I've got a lot of appreciation for the basic principles that inform most religions: be nice, be loving, clothe the naked, feed the hungry, be a peacemaker, comfort the grieving, all that stuff.
I find it not only a pity, but offensive to all of my religious friends who believe living their religion means doing the above, that for assorted hierarchies and preachers it all seems to come down to who you are fucking and with what organ.
Paul Cornell says:
I can't argue with that. I think in order to deserve continued existence, my people have to sort their own house out. Which doesn't stop me from being annoyed at the fascist type of atheism.
kev mcveigh says:
There are multiple issues here. The most unfortunate one, and hardest to overcome is the negative view. As you say, many crucifix wearers may be good people but the paranoid assumption is that they are bigots. I bet that a significant proportion just think it looks nice, and the ones who 'want to kill' you are a minority.
Consider this: some black people have mugged strangers, so if I were to treat every black person I meet as a mugger you would rightly condemn that. Yet those who call people like me homophobic bigots because some loud mouthed so-called Christians are that way don't get your criticism.
David Langford says:
That would be a good analogy, Kev, if important leaders of the black community were loud in their support of the moral need for strangers to be mugged. But they aren't. Cheryl isn't talking about random Christians in the street but bishops.
Christine Burns says:
One doesn't have a choice about the colour of one's skin. Being black is not an optional statement.
Wearing religious jewellery is .. and regrettably the symbol of the cross is increasingly coming to have far more negative associations than positive ones.
Perhaps I am not understanding this issue, but to me there is a significant difference between wearing a cross and wearing a crucifix. Are these conflated in the UK? Wearing a cross is a religious symbol that has negative connotations for me but which I do not find offensive. Wearing the figure of a crucified person- a crucifix, is offensive to me and frightening. I don't want to have to stare at a person being tortured while receiving public services or in my workplace. What people have at home, if legal, is their own decision
Petréa Mitchell says:
All this seems to me to only strengthen the argument to allow people to wear their crosses or crucifixes. If Christianity only gets mentioned when someone is telling people that they are evil and will burn in hell, that becomes representative of all of Christianity. If there are decent and tolerant Christians around too, they need to be allowed to be visibly Christian while being decent and tolerant, if they choose, to help counteract the negatives.
Sure, they should be aware that their religious symbol may make people wary, and keep that in mind when making a choice about whether to display it. But all the more reason why it should be out in the open for an honest discussion.
(Before anyone jumps to any conclusions about my religion, I'm a non-fundamentalist atheist, and very glad that most of my fellow USians have never even heard of Richard Dawkins, who is way outside his area of expertise when giving his allegedly scientific perspective on religion.)
Petrea I'm glad someone else shares my opinion of Dawkins.
David, fair point my analogy was flawed but there are leaders of most communities who espouse hateful views not shared by those loosely affiliated to the community. Not all Muslims are terrorists not all Christians are homophobic.
Christine, I don't think that's relevant. I was talking about the choice of the viewer not the viewed.
Are you saying I shouldn't wear a cross because someone else wears one and holds offensive views? Shall I grow my hair because a shaved head used to be the badge of nazi thugs?
G, the image of Jesus on the cross is not a symbol of torture, its a symbol of self-sacrifice to help others, and a symbol of overcoming wrongs.
Feòrag says:
Christian think tank Ekklesia seem pretty appalled by the bishops' letter: Bishops should put up or shut up over 'persecution'.
Kev- from the story as I have read it, a large number of people, of whom Jesus would have been one, were crucified in a terrible, long and painful death, against their wills. Not a pleasant symbol to me and one I don't want to have to look at while in non-private places. I feel the same way about burkhas: not while performing public services.
I'm still not understanding whether this is an issue with wearing a crucifix or a cross?
In European news, the supreme court in Italy, not a very independent organ, also states that children in public schools cannot be forced to stare at crucifixes in the classroom.
twilight2000 says:
This is beautifully written, Cheryl. I know my grandparents had made some pretty negative associations with any form of the cross (cross, crucifix, etc) because of how it was used/displayed in Nazi Germany – hardly a surprise for Jews in Poland.
I also think the argument (from commenters) that if only the haters wear the symbol, it becomes a symbol of hatred is a pretty fair statement.
Wearing the symbol – of Christianity, of Islam, of whatever – while actually following the precepts of that belief (instead of using it as blunt weapon to further one's hatred/paranoia) is vital to keeping the symbol from being forever changed. The Indian Wheel of Life symbol is one such that in the western world is going to be a LONG time before it's usable without the stink of what was done to it in the 1930's and '40's.
Supporting the moderates, of any stripe, is important – especially for those of us on the outside.
I don't want to express an opinion yet because I need to think about this, but it seems that just as much as people performing public services may want to avoid expressions of their religious belief while on the job, so too we need Christians who are not bigots to make themselves visible, both to make it clear that there are some Christians who can be trusted and to make it even more clear to conservative Christians that there are morally thoughtful people who do not agree with their homophobic (and other objectionable) views.
I am neither a Christian or an atheist, although I been in a position to make fear-driven assumptions about people wearing crosses or crucifixes, even though I know there are Christians who would not hate someone like me.
ARNOLD AKIEN says:
My own thought is that much depends upon how the wearer of any given religious symbol intends to use that symbol. If it is as an ever present reminder of their own faith then that is fine, as would be the intention to identify the wearer to fellow members of the faith. Who could quarrel with that?
If the symbol of the cross weren't so omnipresent as an item of jewelry then I suppose that they'd be less of an opportunity for confusion ..He/She is wearing a Cross and So it must mean something ,and maybe even be an invitation to debate the Meaning Of It All.
Dunno how you'd debate the Meaning Of It All on Twitter.
I have no quarrel with there being Bishops and similar ranked Clergy of other faiths and of those prelates freely expressing their views in non-violent debate but I do sway toward the American political view that .. as I understand it .. Church and State should be separated. The sooner our House Of Lords is transformed into an elected Senate with no automatic presence of the Bishopric .. I'm straining for the correct term here .. the better.
Mind you I will say that I find Evangelical Atheists every bit as repellent as I do Evangelical Christians and this despite recent manifestations of Christian Enthusiasm in British State funded 'faith' schools. For example …
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-382694/Pupils-confused-science-lessons-creationism.html
Yes, I know .. ' The Daily Mail ' .. but it was the first substantive reference that I could find quickly by google to an event that happened in my locality ..
"Leading scientists have launched an unprecedented attack on the teaching of creationist theories in Tony Blair's flagship academies.
Britain's most prestigious scientific body, the Royal Society, said children were being confused by the teaching of the Bible's creation story in science lessons.
It follows a recent revival in creationist thinking, most notably in three schools supported by multi-millionaire car dealer and evangelical Christian Sir Peter Vardy.
The schools – a city technology college and two city academies – are allowed to stray from the national curriculum under Labour's controversial scheme to give schools more autonomy if they win private backing.
In a statement issued today, the Royal Society defends Darwin's theory of evolution as the best explanation for life on earth.
It accuses the Government of failing in its duty to ensure pupils at state schools, including the academies, learn the value of genuine science. "
In essence, and at risk of error in detail, what happened was that students a local ' Faith School ' were given a standard biology lesson on Theory of Evolution at the end of which the Teacher, who had adhered to the the National Curriculum throughout his lesson, slammed a Bible down on his desk and declared that whilst he was obliged to teach what he had taught THIS was what he BELIEVED ! And then proceeded to spout Creationism as revealed Truth.
Incidentally, and out of a spirit of Genuine curiosity .. why do so many American Politicians of both the Democratic and the Republican persuasion wear a Symbol Of Faith, to wit a tiny American Flag, on their lapels? Couldn't this symbol be said to cause offense in some situations? British Politicians don't wear tiny Union Flags on their lapels … for fear that we'd laugh at them? I fear that I really don't understand American politics and its symbology despite my having watched every episode of The West Wing.
Incidentally, and out of a spirit of Genuine curiosity .. why do so many American Politicians of both the Democratic and the Republican persuasion wear a Symbol Of Faith, to wit a tiny American Flag, on their lapels?
Oh, that's easy: If they don't, their opponents will accuse them of being anti-American and they won't get elected. Pretty straightforward, really.
As they wouldn't if they didn't say they were Christians.
Personally, I don't wear crosses even when they are jewellery, because I would be appropriating a symbol that has a meaning. But I think the sacking of that woman over the crucifix was stupid and unfair.
Anna, the nurse in question Shirley Chaplin hasn't been sacked. She was told that wearing a necklace was inappropriate in her role just as I am not supposed to wear a tie for safety reasons. She refused and so was offered alternative roles where the risk of being throttled by her chain was no longer an issue.
Each NHS trust has its own policies, our staff are not supposed to wear jewelry or wristwatches under infection control guidelines. This seems to me to be a deliberate challenge sponsored by fundamental groups rather than a genuine human rights issue.
I had assumed this was still the BA employee. Which was slightly different, but Hal's extremely persuasive post has made me consider things in a new light.
When I worked for my old employer, at one point I asked if I could object on conscientious grounds to helping draft a presentation for a weapons firm. My staff leader laughed until rolling on the floor.
Hal Duncan says:
Seems to me that Chaplin and the bishops need to show that other staff are allowed to wear necklaces while carrying out the same role, or there's no discrimination here whatsoever. The trust in question is saying this is simply a matter of "agreed uniform policy and the safety of staff and patients," exactly as kev suggests.
Even if the trust *were* prohibiting the cross as a symbol of religious faith, I'm not sure there's a strong human rights argument here, as wearing it is not a requirement within the faith, like wearing the turban in the Sikh faith or similar prescriptions as regards other religions. It's an outward expression of personal belief that is discretionary on the part of the believer. As such it constitutes a communication of — maybe even of an advertisement for — those beliefs. The trust would, I presume, frown on staff handing out pamphlets advertising such beliefs, or evangelising to patients directly, urging them to pray, read the Bible, etc.. The question is, to what extent are they entitled to extend that policy to dress code?
I tend to think an employer is within their rights to say that such tacit physical expressions are inappropriate in a customer-facing role. If it were an inverted cross, they'd be entitled to ask the wearer to remove it, to avoid offending Christians. If it were a symbol of even a mainstream political party — Labour, Conservative, Lib Dems — it still seems fair to me for the employer to say, this does not belong in the workplace. Whether it was as brash as a slogan t-shirt saying, "Jesus was a lesbian," or as subtle as a badge with a Union Jack, a St. George's Cross or a St. Andrew's Cross, the customer-facing employee is representing their employer, and that employer has a right, I'd say, to veto symbols of allegiance, not least where such allegiance carries a suggestion of *opposition* to beliefs that may well be held by customers. I'd even go so far as to say that this sort of policy would equally apply to, say, a pink triangle badge as an expression of gay rights advocacy. If I believe passionately that such advocacy is crucial, an employer still has the right to tell me, not when you're representing us.
I'm not someone who's easily offended or even discomfited by such symbols, but for all the tolerant strains of Christianity out there and all the profoundly ethical Christians that subscribe to them, the liberalising reformations of Christianity are far from universal. At its historical core and in its mainstream expressions — in Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism and many if not most strains of Protestantism — Christianity retains, on the whole, a deep-rooted ideological opposition to homosexuality. I see a cross and it may not trouble me, I may even prefer to assume the individual is actually wholly tolerant, but this is despite a symbol which says to me, "I disapprove of your sexuality; I subscribe to a belief system which condemns your actions as sin."
So this message is… unwelcome to say the least. I don't see how a Christian has the right to express that message, albeit tacitly, in a physical symbol, any more than a Northern Irish Unionist has the right to wear a badge with the Red hand of Ulster on it when they're dealing with Catholic patients. I don't know that I'd argue for a veto of such symbols on principle, across the NHS, but I'd certainly support a trust which instituted such a policy as having the right to make that call on how their employees present themselves to patients.
David Moles says:
This is a bit of a tangent, but it's interesting that we "tend to think an employer is within their rights to say that such tacit physical expressions are inappropriate in a customer-facing role." There's something very industrial-age about that, the idea that your personal identity should be subsumed by your professional identity, that you should be read as an extension or pseudopod of the corporate entity whose uniform (visible or implied) you're wearing, rather than as, say, a person who happens to be wearing said uniform and paid by said entity to do some work. Or maybe it's older than that, maybe it goes back to livery and household service… or it's a rewriting (a fairly pernicious one I'd say) of a much, much older construction of identity as member of family/village/tribe first and individual much later if at all. I think it is the norm, and I think knowing that people are going to read you that way, it's not exactly unfair to expect you to write yourself that way, but I don't think it's something we should let go unquestioned. It would be nice to think that some day we could live in a world where "the opinions expressed here are my personal views and do not represent the views or policies of my employer" would be the rule rather than the exception.
David, if I'm wearing something that specifically identifies me as part of an organisation eg uniform or name badge and also some personal symbol doesn't that make it difficult to separate the two? So whilst I understand where you are coming from, I have to say I don't see it possible to achieve this Utopia.
There are employers who seek to restrict the out of work expression of individual lifestyle, which I find almost always unacceptable (I guess mcdonalds might reasonably object to an employee's spare time role as a PETA picket outside their diner). Within their work environment certain limits are necessary and acceptable though.
I think it's a lot less difficult in practice than you make out.
erink says:
This touches on an aspect of UK (and more broadly, European) culture that's been confusing me: the idea of a "secular society." I heard that public institutions routinely forbid expressions of personal religion – is that right? My main examples are cases that were publicized in the US where schools had forbidden Muslim students from wearing headscarves or Christian teachers from wearing visible cross jewelry. (I think the headscarf thing was in France.)
How does that work? Do they really expect an orthodox Jew to not wear a yamulke to school because it's the rule? How can a religious person choose to honor man's law over God's?
Or do people just not take religion so seriously in the UK as in the US? I mean, there is that whole history of "I want a divorce so I'm making up my own church" thing. 😉
(For the record, I grew up in the US in the '70s as an atheist child of liberals – to me, both the cross and the US flag seemed symbols of majority oppression.)
It is worth remembering that the UK has a long and bloody history of sectarian violence. When the idea of religious neutrality was first mooted it was to stop different types of Christians from killing each other. That made the idea a much easier sell.
I also note that in the UK clothing can be as much a mark of class as of religion, if not more so. UK schools have a history of regulating clothing as a means of stamping out class distinctions (or in some cases amplifying them).
But you are right that the UK is much less serious about religion that the US. Some rather old statistics here.
I still struggle with the correct technique for highlighting quotes so here goes the clumsy version …
" Incidentally, and out of a spirit of Genuine curiosity .. why do so many American Politicians of both the Democratic and the Republican persuasion wear a Symbol Of Faith, to wit a tiny American Flag, on their lapels?
Oh, that's easy: If they don't, their opponents will accuse them of being anti-American and they won't get elected. Pretty straightforward, really. "
The reply from Kevin does have the virtue of feeling RIGHT somehow.
There is a long history of Flags as Symbols of ones Clan and Family loyalties and so I suppose that tiny flags on lapels are the modern News Bite 24 /7 worlds way to identify the wearers Political Identify as a Right Thinking member of the Political class at an almost subliminal level.
Over here in the UK flag waving went out of fashion after the jingoism of the First World War and you will now only see it as the occasional outburst of pageantry or as a survival of tribalism – Northern Ireland comes to mind – and it is rather frowned upon by most people.
After Kevin's response I did dig around a little and discovered this …
http://conservativetimes.org/?p=4493
" I happened to be watching "Fox News Sunday" where Chris Wallace interviewed Sarah Palin. She had just recently given her speech at the Tea Party Convention and I noticed her lapel pin. There were two flags on it, the Israeli flag with the Stars & Stripes. No one is surprised that she's a proponent of the Israeli state, but I think it says something that she would wear such a thing to an event like the Tea Party Convention. This is yet another sign that the neocons may be using her as a "useful idiot" to co-opt this movement.
That said, it's truly bizarre that she would endorse Rand Paul while at the same time campaigning for John McCain's re-election bid. Bill Kristol expressed his disapproval of her endorsement of Paul, a sign that she has indeed moved off the neocon reservation just a bit. Still, one of the organizers of the Tea Party Convention emphatically stated his opposition to any third-party effort. I have become more and more skeptical of the Tea Party phenomenon and this attachment to the GOP certainly solidifies my skepticism."
I have a hard time understanding the complexities of British politics sometimes and it looks as if, ' West Wing ' fan or no, American politics may well be completely beyond my comprehension.


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The sale of glyphosate to non-professionals has been banned in Belgium. This ban went into effect on last Saturday. The sale of selective herbicides to non-professionals will be banned at the close of the year. A new study shows the CRISPR gene, a DNA-cutting enzyme used for genetic modification, can create large deletions and shuffle genes. The fields and back roads of eastern Arkansas were a crime scene this past summer when state inspectors stopped alongside fields to pick up dying weeds. The state inspectors tested the liquids in farmers' pesticide sprayers and in many cases, they found evidence that farmers were using a banned pesticide. Also in the news, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue praised the Department of Justice's decision to request a rehearing of a pesticide case before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. This come on the heels on the European Court of Justice's ruling requiring organisms developed using new genetic engineering techniques to undergo GMO risk assessments, and several new studies revealing "genetic havoc" as a result of gene editing, Friends of the Earth and Logos Environmental released a new report that highlights the risks to human health and our environment. The Santa Rosa City Council banned the use of synthetic weed-killers like Roundup at dozens of parks, buildings and medians around town. The Council's decision came on a unanimous vote — with Mayor Chris Coursey absent and low audience turnout — to approve a one-year extension of the contract with a company that has provided city landscape maintenance services since 2014. A former biotech insider wants his GMO crops pulled over concerns of human health dangers.
Glyphosate sales to non-professionals banned in Belgium
The Belgian government has published its long-promised ban on the sale of broad-spectrum herbicides (such as glyphosate) to non-professional users. The ban will enter into force on Saturday 6 October 2018. The sale of selective herbicides to non-professionals will be banned as of 31 December 2018.
Bees' Medicine Chest Should Include Sunflower Pollen, UMass Amherst Study Suggests
A new study by Jonathan Giacomini and his former advisor, evolutionary ecologist Lynn Adler at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with others, found that eating sunflower pollen dramatically and consistently reduced a protozoan pathogen infection in bumble bees and reduced a microsporidian pathogen of the European honey bee, raising the possibility that sunflowers may provide a simple solution to improve the health of economically and ecologically important pollinators.
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Despite A Ban, Arkansas Farmers Are Still Spraying Controversial Weedkiller
The fields and back roads of eastern Arkansas were a crime scene this past summer. State inspectors stopped alongside fields to pick up dying weeds. They tested the liquids in farmers' pesticide sprayers. In many cases, they found evidence that farmers were using a banned pesticide. Dozens of farmers could face thousands of dollars in fines.
Secretary Perdue Statement on DOJ Filing in 9th Circuit Chlorpyrifos Ruling
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue praised the Department of Justice's (DOJ) decision to request a rehearing of a pesticide case before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. DOJ has asked for a panel rehearing and a rehearing en banc in a case in which the court directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban chlorpyrifos, a common and useful pesticide, within 60 days.
New Gene-Editing Report Highlights Risks to Human Health and Our Environment
On the heels on the European Court of Justice's ruling requiring organisms developed using new genetic engineering techniques to undergo GMO risk assessments, and several new studies revealing "genetic havoc" as a result of gene editing, Friends of the Earth and Logos Environmental released a new report, Gene-edited organisms in agriculture: Risks and unexpected consequences.
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The Santa Rosa City Council banned the use of synthetic weed-killers like Roundup at dozens of parks, buildings and medians around town. The decision came on a unanimous vote — with Mayor Chris Coursey absent and barely any audience in the council chambers — to approve a one-year extension of the contract with a company that has provided city landscape maintenance services since 2014.
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Program Designed to Attract Docs to Rural Areas Receives Accreditation
Posted on May 15, 2020 in Access to Care, Scroll Images
The Sutter Rural Residency Program received a U.S. grant last year and this week was accredited and is ready to screen applicants. Leaders involved in the program include, from left, Dineen Greer, M.D., program director of the Sutter Family Medicine Residency Program; Sutter Amador Hospital CEO Tom Dickson; HRSA regional administrator Capt. John Moroney, M.D; Jackson Mayor Robert Stimpson; Sutter Valley Area Chief Medical Officer Ash Gokli, M.D.; former Sutter Amador CEO Anne Platt; and Robert Hartmann, M.D., longtime Amador County internal medicine physician and an instructor in the Rural Residency Program.
JACKSON, Calif. – Sutter Amador Hospital's Rural Residency Program this week received accreditation from ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education), the organization responsible for accrediting all graduate medical training programs for physicians in the United States. This Sutter Health program is designed to bring more primary-care physicians to rural regions, which have been hampered throughout the country by a shortage of family doctors.
The ACGME accreditation allows the Sutter Health Rural Residency Program to begin screening and selecting residency applicants. Those selected – two each year for six total in the program – will complete core inpatient training in Sacramento during the first year, with their next two years on the campus of Sutter Amador Hospital and in community medical offices.
The goal of the Sutter Health program is to develop a sustainable, accredited rural training track in Amador County and to ultimately expand the area's rural primary-care workforce. In Amador County, there is a high need for primary-care physicians (PCPs) in the area as the ratio of the population to one PCP is 1,760-to-1; the ratio throughout the state of California is 1,280-to-1, according to the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps website.
"This is welcome news for Amador County, as it will provide an influx of bright, young physicians into our community to care for our families and should give us a steady supply of primary-care physicians for years to come," said longtime Amador County internal medicine physician Robert Hartmann, M.D., who will be one of the instructors in the Rural Residency Program. "This is a major collaborative accomplishment between Sutter Amador Hospital, Sutter Medical Group physicians and the Sutter Family Medicine Residency Program."
The Rural Residency Program was made possible through a grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which allows not-for-profit Sutter Health to expand its successful Sacramento-based physician residency program to Amador County as part of the federal agency's efforts to provide better access to quality medical care in rural areas.
Since its inception in 1995, the Sutter Family Medicine Residency Program has graduated 139 physicians, all of whom passed their Board Certification assessments on the first effort. Currently there are 21 residents in the program, and the Amador County program will expand the program to 27 residents.
"We are working to strengthen the physician pipeline throughout our integrated network so our patients receive the same high-quality care no matter where they live," said Dineen Greer, M.D., program director of the Family Medicine Residency Program. "We have combined a strong, dedicated core faculty, community preceptors, innovative curriculum and access to Sutter hospitals so that our residents develop the skills needed to be outstanding family physicians and leaders in their communities."
The accreditation was welcome news for the state legislators who serve the Gold Country. State Sen. Andreas Borgeas said: "The physician shortage continues to be a prevalent issue in Amador County and many rural areas of California. I offer my sincere congratulations and gratitude to Sutter Health on the program's latest achievement, and for its targeted effort to bring much-needed family practice physicians to our community. This is a significant step to help expand access to quality care for our communities in the beautiful, remote areas of our state."
State Assemblyman Frank Bigelow echoed Sen. Borgeas' sentiment. "Sutter Health has long supported hospitals in more rural regions of California and they understand how family doctor shortages can have a negative impact on a community's health," Bigelow said. "I am so pleased they are pursuing this program and continuing their investment in bringing needed primary care physicians to Amador communities."
Drs. Greer and Hartmann expect the program to be successful in filling the need for well-trained, community-minded primary-care physicians in Amador County and the greater Mother Lode region.
"The medical students applying for this residency opportunity will enter the program with a strong desire to serve in rural communities," said Dr. Hartmann, "so their career focus will be the health and well-being of families in our towns and smaller cities. This is great for the future of health care in our community."
For more on the Sutter Family Medicine Residency Program, go to www.suttermd.com/education/residency/family-medicine
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Sutter Roseville Moves Up Opening of ER-ICU Expansion to Prepare for COVID-19 Patient Surge
Posted on Apr 27, 2020 in Access to Care, Scroll Images
Sutter Roseville Medical Center is opening its expansion a month early to prepare for a potential surge in COVID-19 patients.
ROSEVILLE, Calif. – Sutter Roseville Medical Center on Tuesday, April 28, is opening its expansion of emergency and critical care services a month early as part of its preparations for a potential surge of COVID-19 patients. Originally slated to open May 27, the 98,400-square-foot expansion doubles the Emergency Department and nearly doubles the number of critical-care beds, adding 58 more private rooms that can safely care for patients during a possible surge.
Sutter Roseville began the $178 million construction project in 2017 to meet the growing community's demand for emergency services, critical-care rooms and interventional cardiac and neuro procedures. It is connected seamlessly to the existing Emergency Department on the first floor and surgical and critical care services on the second.
"When our team met in late February to discuss surge preparations for COVID-19, it was apparent that we needed to move up the opening of this expansion to ensure we had the highest level of care available for the expanding needs of our community and region," said Sutter Roseville CEO Brian Alexander. "Our staff, construction partners, and state and local agencies all banded together and worked diligently to open this expansion 30 days early, but to the same high safety and quality standards."
As a Level II trauma center serving a seven-county region, Sutter Roseville provides a higher level of care in emergency situations and is regularly preparing for public health crises. The expansion was designed with elements that will assist in those emergencies, including two emerging infectious disease isolation rooms and options to convert the Emergency Department's expansive lobby into a treatment area in case of a large-scale disaster or patient surge.
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"When our care teams helped design this expansion, they took into account numerous possible health-crisis scenarios," Alexander said. "Because of their foresight and planning, Sutter Roseville is prepared to care for patients during this pandemic and other public-health emergencies."
The new expansion helps Sutter Roseville stay on the forefront of exceptional, innovative care. Its features include:
34 additional emergency beds in private treatment rooms, increasing the total number of emergency beds to 68;
Seven emergency triage areas that are equipped to provide treatment to patients;
24 additional ICU rooms, each equipped with the latest eICU telemonitoring capabilities that allow specialized physicians to assist in the care of the patients from a remote hub. Added to the 32 existing critical-care beds in the hospital, there will be 56 ICU rooms available for the sickest patients if a surge were to occur;
Two interventional labs providing the latest technology for cardiac catheterization procedures. A third interventional lab is currently being built with additional capabilities for neuro and radiological procedures.
New intensive care unit room
"California is being challenged in new ways during the COVID-19 public health crisis, and we are rising to that challenge in ways large and small across the state," said California State Sen. Jim Nielsen, R-Tehama. "Here in Northern California, one of the organizations stepping up to meet the challenge is the Sutter Health network, providing new levels of emergency and critical care at Sutter Roseville Medical Center that are so urgently needed across the region."
The expansion provides a critical need in the community beyond the current global pandemic crisis. The Sutter Roseville Emergency Department expanded in 2005 to treat up to 60,000 patients a year, but last year saw more than 84,000 patients. The additional ICU rooms and interventional labs are also necessary additions as South Placer County is seeing more elderly patients requiring a higher-level of care.
Emergency department isolation room
"Strong infrastructure is one of the hallmarks of a strong community, and our capacity for protecting and promoting public health is central to that," said State Assemblyman Kevin Kiley, R-Rocklin. "Sutter Roseville Medical Center's continued investment in our public health infrastructure helps drive our ability to prevent disease, heal after injury or illness, and respond to both chronic health challenges and acute ones like COVID-19. My thanks to Sutter Health for stepping up to help when and where they are needed."
This is the latest in a series of expansions Sutter Roseville Medical Center has experienced in the past two decades, transforming it from a community hospital into a regional, tertiary medical campus. The other expansions include:
A newly constructed Patient Care Tower with 90 new beds.
Expansion of the Family Birth Center to accommodate a community need as young families moved into South Placer County.
The addition of a Level III NICU with 16 licensed beds to provide advanced life-saving care to critically ill newborns.
The construction and expansion of Sutter Rehabilitation Institute, the region's only facility dedicated exclusively to acute rehabilitation services.
The Sutter Cancer Center, Roseville, a facility dedicated to and designed by those with cancer.
Three medical office buildings that house Sutter Roseville physicians, along with two parking garages for staff and patients.
"As a healthcare provider, as an employer and as a supporter of this community, Sutter Roseville Medical Center has already been a strong force for good here and across Placer County and the region," said Roseville Mayor John Allard. "Expanding its top-notch emergency service and critical care – especially now – builds on a decades-long commitment to serving the people of Roseville and beyond."
Posted by Gary Zavoral on Apr 27, 2020 in Access to Care, Scroll Images | Comments Off on Sutter Roseville Moves Up Opening of ER-ICU Expansion to Prepare for COVID-19 Patient Surge
COVID-19 Heightens our Love for Mother Earth, and One Another
Posted on Apr 22, 2020 in Community Health, Scroll Images
A message from Stephen H. Lockhart, M.D., Ph.D., Sutter Health Chief Medical Officer and Executive Sponsor of Sutter Health's Environmental Stewardship Program
With fewer cars on the road and less traffic in the skies, some news outlets have reported a climate benefit. While none of us wanted this short-term positive effect at such high health and economic costs, we are getting a peek at an environment with less human interference — a brief glimpse at what could be possible if we took steps to reduce waste and advance alternative energy solutions in the years ahead.
As champions of health, we know that nature holds a special place in our lives, supporting our mental and physical wellbeing. It's never been more important to take a walk outside, take a deep breath, enjoy the sunshine and wave at our neighbors — all while staying 6 feet apart, of course. Nature lifts our spirits and helps restore our hope.
Please join our Sutter team in celebrating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Mobilizing to care for our planet over the long term is one more way we're showing our love for our communities and one another.
Here are a few ways you and your family can get involved with Sutter's sustainability efforts:
1. Plant a garden. Digging your hands in the soil is good for your health. Welcome spring by planting native plants, fruits and vegetables. Take it a step further by starting a compost pile. Composting food waste reduces the amount of waste you send to a landfill, and once it fully decomposes, you're left with a fertilizer for your garden. Check out some simple tips on composting from the EPA.
2. Donate clothing. While spring cleaning, consider donating unwanted items rather than throwing them away. Each year, nearly 40,000 gallons of water are used in the production and transport of new clothes bought by the average American household.
3. Watch creativity grow. Promote your kids' love for our planet by encouraging them to create art from natural or recycled materials.
4. Conserve water. Install a low-flow shower head to reduce water use. In one year, a family of four can save up to 18,200 gallons of water.
5. Carry a reusable water bottle. Lessen your environmental impact by replacing your single-use plastic bottles with a stainless-steel water bottle or travel mug.
6. Calculate your carbon footprint. Simply reducing the amount of time we spend running errands, driving to work and to other activities plays a significant role in reducing our carbon footprint. Check out the EPA's Carbon Footprint Calculator.
7. Learn about sustainability efforts at Sutter Health. Did you know that Sutter completed five solar-power projects; launched a pilot program to reduce the amount of harmful anesthetic gasses released into the atmosphere during surgeries; and increased plant-based meals by 20% in our 24 hospital cafeterias? You can find out more here.
Posted by Gary Zavoral on Apr 22, 2020 in Community Health, Scroll Images | Comments Off on COVID-19 Heightens our Love for Mother Earth, and One Another
How a Pandemic Launched a NorCal Healthcare System
Posted on Apr 14, 2020 in Integrated Network, Scroll Images
A nurse takes a patient's pulse in the influenza ward at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 1, 1918. Photo courtesy of Library of Congress.
The pandemic started slowly in Sacramento. For weeks, residents of the city believed what was going around was just the usual flu that arrived every fall. But in just two months, thousands in the city had been infected and about 500 Sacramentans were dead.
That happened a century ago. Because of the inadequacy of the existing Sacramento hospitals to care for the numerous victims of the Spanish flu in 1918, local doctors and civic leaders banded together to build a new, more modern hospital to meet the growing city's needs.
Sutter Health was born.
Begun as a single Sutter Hospital kitty-corner to Sutter's Fort, Sutter Health now has a presence in 22 counties across Northern California, featuring thousands of doctors and allied clinical providers and more than 50,000 employees. As an integrated health system, Sutter is uniquely qualified and capable to care for residents during a health crisis such as COVID-19.
"A group of hospitals and doctor's offices are able to band together, share resources, skills and knowledge, and institute best practices to care more effectively and efficiently for our patients and the communities we serve," said Dave Cheney, the interim president and CEO of Sutter Valley Area Hospitals and the CEO of Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento. "We have systems in place that we test all the time to ensure we are prepared for many crises, including a pandemic like COVID-19."
Just a few years after the devastating Spanish flu, Sacramento physicians, nurses and civic leaders gathered to break ground in 1922 for the first Sutter Hospital.
Physicians Fill a Need in Sacramento
The deadly influenza commonly called Spanish flu killed about 50 million worldwide. From August 1918 to July 1919, 20 million Americans became sick and more than 500,000 died, 13,340 of them in California. In Sacramento, slow action by the city public health office delayed care and, within a couple of weeks, sick residents flooded the hospitals. The city library was even converted into a makeshift hospital. A Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento history recounts:
"The influenza epidemic of 1918 gave convincing evidence to Sacramento doctors that the city's two major hospitals were woefully inadequate to provide the health care services vital to the rapidly growing community. The flu epidemic had sorely taxed these facilities and highlighted the need for a modern, fireproof hospital. Recognizing the critical need for hospital care for their patients, 17 local physicians came together with civic leaders to create a new hospital."
The group incorporated as Sutter Hospital Association in 1921, naming it after its neighbor, Sutter's Fort, which cared for Gold Rush pioneers as Sacramento's first hospital. The first Sutter Hospital was built two years later and opened in December 1923 as "the most modern hospital to be found in the state," according to The Sacramento Bee. It was the first private, non-sectarian hospital in the city, and the first to offer private rooms.
The hospital became not-for-profit in 1935 and changed its name to Sutter General Hospital. It opened Sutter Maternity Hospital in 1937 two miles away and it soon expanded its services and was renamed Sutter Memorial Hospital. In the 1980s, the old Sutter General Hospital was replaced by a modern facility across the street from Sutter's Fort, and in 2015 all adult and pediatric services were combined under one roof when the Anderson Lucchetti Women's and Children's Center opened essentially in the same location as the original Sutter Hospital.
The first Sutter Hospital opened in December 1923 as California's "most modern hospital." Now, Sutter Health is an integrated healthcare system that includes 24 hospitals in Northern California.
A Health Network Grows
The 1980s and 1990s saw tremendous growth for Sutter. Struggling community hospitals in Roseville, Auburn, Jackson, Davis, Modesto and other nearby cities merged with what was then known as Sutter Community Hospitals. Then came the deal that more than doubled the healthcare system. In 1996, Sutter Community Hospitals merged with a group of Bay Area hospitals and physician groups known as California Healthcare System. These included such large, well-respected, historic hospitals as California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and Alta Bates in the East Bay. This new system became, simply, Sutter Health.
Now as a model of healthcare integration, Sutter Health provides a user-friendly system centered around patient care — a system that offers greater access to quality healthcare while holding the line on costs. This connectivity allows Sutter teams to provide innovative, high-quality and life-saving care to more than 3 million Californians. Sutter's integrated care model allows care teams and care locations to use the power of the network to share ideas, technologies and best practices, ultimately providing better care and a user-friendly experience, achieving healthier patient outcomes and reducing costs.
Grateful community members are thanking Sutter Health front-line workers throughout Northern California.
An Integrated Network Fights COVID-19
Today, Sutter Health's hospitals and physician groups don't operate in a vacuum. Each hospital is supported by a larger system that can share knowledge and send materials, equipment and even manpower to where they are needed most. The system is called the Sutter Health Emergency Management System, which is organized after the federal government's National Incident Command System.
Here's how it works: Part of the Sutter Health Emergency Management System is a team throughout the network that works on gathering and purchasing the necessary supplies and equipment needed during this pandemic, including N95 masks and ventilators. Another team monitors bed space to ensure that each hospital can care for a COVID-19 patient surge. Clinical team members across the network are working together to address any issues that may unfold and to share best practices as they treat coronavirus patients.
That's the power of a not-for-profit, integrated healthcare network.
"We are leveraging the strength of our united teams to increase our capacity and knowledge, and to provide the necessary equipment," Cheney said. "We are preparing all of our network hospitals in the event we see a surge in patients due to COVID-19. Thanks to the integrated system that has been more than 100 years in the making, we are prepared for a pandemic of this magnitude now more than ever."
Posted by Gary Zavoral on Apr 14, 2020 in Integrated Network, Scroll Images | Comments Off on How a Pandemic Launched a NorCal Healthcare System
The Surprising Place Where COVID-19 Can Appear
Posted on Apr 3, 2020 in Scroll Images, Wellness & Integrative Health
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – If your child is in diapers or is being potty-trained, don't poo-poo this advice. During this coronavirus pandemic, it may just save your life or that of a loved one.
Paul Walsh, M.D., medical director of the Pediatric Emergency Department at Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, says that babies and small children may not show any signs at all of being sick with COVID-19. But the "presents" they're leaving behind may be especially harmful as they could contain traces of the virus.
Dr. Walsh said hand-washing during this time is important for everyone, but it's critical for those who are changing diapers or potty-training toddlers.
"One of the cases that came out of China was a child who was orphaned at 6 months old because he was shedding lots of the coronavirus, but had no symptoms whatsoever," he said. "So remember to wash your hands thoroughly after every diaper change or potty time."
Dr. Walsh admits that everyone is at risk for catching the virus, but children usually handle such sicknesses much better than adults do.
"Children have vigorous immune systems," Dr. Walsh says. "It's not just with this virus, but with most colds and other sicknesses. Their bodies aggressively fight off the sickness."
With the first death of an infant who tested positive for COVID-19, Dr. Walsh said parents shouldn't be too anxious.
"There's no need to freak out," he said, "but be vigilant with hand-washing and social distancing. Observe your children in their activities. And, especially, keep them away from seniors. They're still the most at risk."
Dr. Paul Walsh treats a child in the dedicated Pediatric Emergency Department at Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento.
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Q: What is f-ing my data? I'm getting a NSData * and trying to get it byte by byte but the data is filled with f.
NSData *Data = getData();
cout << "The log way:" << endl;
NSLog(@"%@", Data);
cout << "The data way:" << endl;
char *data = (char *)[Data bytes];
for(int i = 0; i < [Data length]; i++)
{
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    cout << hex << (int)(data[i]) << " ";
}
cout << endl;

What I'm getting as output:
The log way:
/* something long about time and file */<1f9cb0f8>
The data way:
1f ffffff9c ffffffb0 fffffff8

How can I get this data as ints without all those f?

A: The char data type is of undefined signedness, and it seems your compiler (gcc or clang?) decided it should be signed. Therefore, when you cast a char to a larger type, sign extension is used, which fills the extra bits with the same value the most significant bit has. For bytes with a value larger than 0x7F, the most significant bit is set, so it breaks the enlargement.
What you want is zero extension, which zeroes the extra bits. You can get it by using the unsigned char type.
This should do it:
unsigned char *data = (unsigned char *)[Data bytes];

By the way, -[NSData bytes] return a const pointer. You should honor this and mark your pointer as const too:
const unsigned char *data = (const unsigned char *)[Data bytes];

A: That is data as ints, sort of. The data is split into bytes and sign-extended to ints. As bytes, your data is 1f 9c b0 f8. 9c, b0, and f8 are all negative, so they are sign extended by making the extra bits all 1, which is why you are getting a bunch of fs.


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Stories and Iyalogues: Visual Memories, History and Identity: Gomo George
a response to the exhibition by Gerry Atwell
For a non-visual artist, the prospect of writing about visual arts is intimidating to say the least. After visiting Gomo George's installation, Stories and Iyahlogues (Visual Memories, History and Identity) at Ace Art Gallery, however, I felt compelled to offer some personal impressions of his work. As a Black Canadian musician and writer, I have frequently written about race and identity, always with the hope of sharing perspectives, reducing obstacles and celebrating humanity.
I felt exhilarating pulses of comfort and recognition while visiting Gomo George's installation. George manages to distill complex aspects of the modern African-Canadian experience (invisibility, identity, beauty and power) into compact visual messages. There is a depth to the sculptures that may elude a superficial perusal so it helps to examine Gomo George's approach to the creative process, which, not surprisingly, involves African traditions.
In many African cultures, a flexible and complex social agreement about symbols, meanings and codes empowers the artist with a rich visual language to tell stories, effect commentary, spiritualize, jubilate or merely aggrandize. The viewer, usually an active participant in some kind of ceremony, completes the process by receiving, understanding and responding to the communication. The artwork is completed by this intra-dialogue between the artist and the audience, all within this transcendent language of agreed upon symbols, sounds and movements.
With Stories and Iyahlogues, George employs Africanized or Post-Diaspora appropriations of African art styles and processes. He consciously draws from African history and traditions while unapologetically incorporating the reality of his own Americanization, (Caribbean born and Canadian-ized in adulthood). Interestingly, it is during his use of Western, moreover pop-cultural allusions and materials, that George's art is most traditionally African in process. African art embraces the honesty of things familiar as a starting point, a popular meeting place for discourse and the eventual pursuit of truths. The Western art world may be guilty of failing to recognize the distinction between the concepts of "familiar" and "popular".
As such, George's use of literal meanings and specific representational intent via symbols and codes may cause some viewers to question the sophistication or depth of the artworks. Here a paradox begins in that the viewer is at the mercy of her own ability or willingness to explore the work for meaning. Not that understanding all the inner meanings of the works is necessary to appreciate the collection. Gomo George's sculptures and installations are visually compelling and provocative on their own. Walk through the installation first without the guide sheet to see what can be drawn from that string of giraffe-people, those bulbous tongues, the masks and the text. While George (like most artists) welcomes viewers to develop subjective relationships with his works, he seems to be waiting quietly for the more curious to beckon him to tell his stories. Eventually, even the most subjectively oriented viewer will be induced to guess at the meaning behind the etched text, dancing figures and those (almost too common) materials – cardboard, felt, avocado seeds and string.
Some works seem obvious. The visual directness of Taste with the tongues hanging out, for example, conjures well worn debates about the subjectivity of beauty in art and the Western (read-European) domination of it's constructs. A quick chat with Gomo George reveals sly literal gags underscoring the depiction of the outstretched tongues. Upon coming to Canada, George noticed that the stuck out tongue has specific and distinct meanings in different cultures ranging from his native Dominican (a dismissal) to North American (taunting) to Aboriginal Manitobans (acknowledgment of humour).
There are obvious political undertones behind each of the sculptures but not such that the human experiences are compromised. In fact, the role of politics in this body of work seems to have been in the artist's selection of which human experiences and truths to give a voice rather than in a desire to proselytize. A viewer's familiarity (or lack thereof) with the specific political issues of race, and the African-Canadian identity may effect the texture of the messages being received but not their depth. For example, George's installation entitled Tell My Horse, based on Haitian traditions, expresses how poor and oppressed people can gain empowerment from acknowledging the human frailties of their oppressors. Everyone, regardless of background, can appreciate the dignity and sophistication of the Haitian people who were able to develop such ingenious methods of coping with oppression and maintaining their own self-definition.
As one who has observed and written about race issues, I found Stories and Iyahlogues to be a fascinating lesson in the brilliance of concision. Gomo George manages to encapsulate politics, history, frustrations and even gallows humour into mild shock-pulses of humanity checks. There is a playfulness to the work that invites us to play along and a layering of detail and iconography that reminds us that there is depth in us all. We just have to be willing to see it.
Gerry Atwell is a musician and writer, born and raised in Winnipeg. As a keyboardist, he has performed with numerous bands and recording artists. In 1995, Gerry won the Prairie Waves II screen writing competition with his teleplay The Hands of Ida, which won a Blizzard award and was nominated for a Gemini award. His other writing credits include CBC Radio Drama: Soul Games, the stage play Soul in Ice, and the feature film script Barbara James (currently in post-production). His writing has been published in journals such as Border Crossings and Revue Noire (African Canadian Arts Revue). He is currently President of the Board of Directors of the St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre.
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