No responsible person in or out of politics wants to cut Social Security benefits. That means no cut for any person receiving benefits and no cut to any benefits already earned. That leaves little room to make the program solvent and sustainable except to raise revenue.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget calculator indicates that after removing the cap on taxable wages Social Security remains insolvent. The trust fund will run out in 2067 at which point all beneficiaries will face a sudden 14% benefit cut. Only 76% percent of 75-year shortfall is closed (34% of shortfall closed in 75th year).
Clinton and others propose this change as a way to expand benefits. This begs the question how one uses the same money to do two separate things while not solving the main problem; making Social Security totally and permanently sustainable.
If we are going to fix Social Security, let's fix it rather than making more promises not paid for and requiring ongoing future changes. It can be done. Make the program self adjusting to remain sustainable as circumstances change in the future.
Members of the boomer generation (born 1946-1964) still have 13 years before the last of us turn 65. After they leave the work force for good, there will likely be a true labor shortage.
Just one mentioned way to keep people in the work force voluntarily is to stop the SS pay-roll tax once one hits a certain age, say 62 to 64. This gives an immediate boost to real income for the worker who then has an incentive to stay in the work force longer than s/he would otherwise, and still be paying federal income tax and not drawing SS annuity.
Vince, this would only help if the SS tax the employer pays would go to the worker. $96 more per month on each $25,000 in income after paying the 25 % income tax is not enough. I am not sure $192 per month or more is enough to keep many on the job. When they can take their SS benefit of $1250 per month or more, it l looks better than staying on the job.
Something worth pricing out. That's for sure.


Two years ago, student journalists with the Georgia News Lab asked the Cobb County Sheriff's Office for the agency's use of force policy, a public record readily available in every law enforcement agency's operations manual. Cobb fulfilled the request — 54 days later.
This year, News Lab repeated the exercise. Same request. Same policy. But Cobb sent the document the same day it received the request.
The office took deliberate steps to improve following the poor performance cited in the News Lab story from 2016, according to Cmdr. Robert Quigley.
"The sheriff made it very clear to the staff that we were going to do everything we could to meet the terms of open records (laws)," Quigley said.
Cobb County Sheriff's spokesman Robert Quigley said the department took immediate steps to improve open records compliance following a poor report in 2016.
The public depends on the state's sunshine laws to obtain information about the functioning of government and the performance of public officials. To test compliance with the law, in 2016 and again this year, the News Lab sent requests for routine public records to more than 140 local agencies and law enforcement offices in 13 metro counties. Law enforcement received a request for use of force policies, while governments received one for payroll records.
The investigations found that nearly half of the agencies tested provided records faster than in 2016 — in some cases by weeks. But nearly a third of the agencies failed to meet the law's requirement that they acknowledge a request within three business days and provide the records, or tell the requester when they will be available. The law requires agencies to promptly provide records that are readily available.
News Lab journalists also encountered problems with how agencies responded to requests, from inappropriate demands for fees to staff who were unfamiliar with what the law requires.
Georgia's sunshine laws made news this year after the AJC and Channel 2 Action News reported that senior officials in the administration of former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed frustrated requests for public records, prompting the Georgia Office of Attorney General to open the first-ever criminal investigation into violations of the open records act.
The administration of Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms enacted new compliance measures in response to a separate civil compliant the news organizations filed with the attorney general, which accused the city of systematic violations of open records law.
Atlanta's response times improved dramatically in 2018 under the new Bottoms administration.
In 2016, the Atlanta Police Department's open records division took 50 business days to provide its use of force policy.
This year, the department provided the document in six days — but not without difficulty. It first sent a link to a website where all the department's policies are posted. After a reporter sought clarification, the department sent the document along with details of where it was on the website.
The city's response to a request for payroll records also improved. In 2016, the city took 54 days to provide the records. This year, the city provided the record in four days — but with one hiccup. Three business days after submitting the request, a reporter received a call from press secretary Michael Smith asking what the information would be used for.
Carolyn Carlson, a retired communications professor from Kennesaw State University who trained public officials on complying with the state's sunshine laws, said it is not appropriate for agencies to ask why requesters want records.
Atlanta's proposed procedure for handling records requests from the media and the public will remove the mayor's press office from the process and place it under an independent transparency officer.
Many other agencies also provided records more quickly this year. In 2016, 17 agencies took more than 20 days to provide requested records or never produced them at all, compared to 13 agencies this year.
The DeKalb County Sheriff's Office sent records after three days but sent them by postal mail rather than emailing electronic copies as requested. In 2016, it took the office 54 days.
Stone Mountain police and the city's government provided records within three days that took the two agencies 46 and 19 days to provide in 2016.
In 2016, the Henry County Police Department sent its use of force policy in less than an hour and a half. This year, it provided the policy just 10 minutes after the request went out — the fastest response of either year.
More than a quarter of the agencies took longer to provide records this year. More than half of the agencies provided compliant responses both years.
Human error, technical failings and a poor understanding of what the open records law requires were often at the root of an agency's failure to comply with the law in a timely manner.
College Park police and the city government complied with requests in one day in 2016 but took 18 and 31 days respectively to do so this year. Reporters learned the city clerk, who handles requests for both the city and the police, left her position the day the requests were submitted and the new clerk said she did not receive the requests or follow up messages left with her predecessor.
Austell originally provided a cost estimate of $120 for its payroll records, including $100 for "attorney fees." The city clerk told a reporter the fee covered time the city attorney spent determining if the records could be released.
When the reporter informed the clerk that state law does not allow such charges, the clerk replied that she was "not aware" of that provision and lowered the fee to $20.
Technical problems were also an issue.
Requests emailed to Fulton County and its sheriff's office were entered into a new online system.
When the system showed the request for payroll records was still "processing" after nearly two weeks, a reporter emailed the designated records officer. She received an automated reply saying the officer's response times would be "rather delayed" because she would be "spreading Employee Engagement Cheer throughout Fulton County" during Fulton County Employee Appreciation Week.
In response to a request emailed to the Fulton County Sheriff's Office, a reporter received a response after six business days that the requested document was ready for downloading but she was unable to access the online system. She only gained access three weeks later, after calling the sheriff's office records custodian who created an account for her.
The East Point city clerk did not respond to records requests for more than a week. In response to follow up messages, the clerk's office explained that the clerk had been on vacation and had not received the requests.
The office sent the police department's use of force policy a week later.
For payroll records, the clerk's office sought copying charges of $6.70. They indicated they would not accept personal checks and that prepayment was required.
A reporter reminded them that the request was for electronic records and that the law does not require agencies to demand prepayment if estimated fees are less than $500.
The clerk sent the records four days later without charge.
She later wrote that the city changed its policy on Nov. 1, and no longer charges for electronic records.
Metro Atlanta's newest city canceled a request — without providing records.
In response to a request for payroll records to the city of South Fulton, the records administrator provided a fee estimate of over $57. After a reporter reminded the administrator that she requested the records in electronic form, the administrator responded that the document was ready at a cost of $28.85 for one hour's work.
The reporter made multiple requests for clarification of the work involved in processing the requests and whether the records would be provided as an electronic spreadsheet, as requested.
Without clarifying, the administrator eventually sent a message stating that the request would be "closed out" if the reporter did not sign a statement accepting the charges.
This story was reported and written by collegiate journalists in the Georgia News Lab, an investigative reporting collaboration among Georgia's leading journalism programs, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Channel 2 Action News. In early October, News Lab reporters emailed open records requests to 76 law enforcement agencies and 73 city and county governments throughout metro Atlanta. The requests asked for use of force policies from police departments and sheriffs' offices and payroll records from city and county governments. Reporters followed up with agencies that did not respond or provide records over the next two months. Agencies were considered responsive if they provided the requested records within three business days, or gave a written timetable for when they would be available. Students tracked responses in spreadsheets and compared response times to 2016, when an earlier News Lab class conducted a similar audit. Students interviewed more than two dozen agencies about their response times, and sought comments from experts on Georgia's open records law. News Lab reporters who contributed to this story were: Jade Abdul-Malik, Georgia State University; Mauli Desai, University of Georgia; Cierra Johnson, Clark Atlanta University; Sabrina Kerns, Kennesaw State University; Kaley Lefevre, UGA; Justine Lookenott, KSU; Erin Schilling, UGA; Ashley Soriano, UGA; Bianca Theodore, GSU; Tucker Toole, Morehouse College; Erin Valle, UGA; Anila Yoganathan, UGA.


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Crappa
Museum: Casa d'Angel
Casa d'Angel
The valley Lumnezia is one of the core areas of the Romansh in Switzerland. There is said to be 60.000 Romansh speaking Swiss, though only half of them note Romansh as their "first language". For many years, being Romansh meant being a poor peasant with little schooling. The feeling of inferiority still haunts the Romansh even in their own regions, being that many German speaking people take residence and neglect to learn Romansh. Even in Lumnezia with 90% Romansh speaking inhabitants, bilingual communication is usual, practically weakening the mother tongue through language switching and lack of usage in the public sphere. La Fundaziun da cultura Lumnezia seeks to sustain activities that preserve/develop the history, language, architecture, traditions and rituals of the local community.
Language preservation: Café Romontsch: a monthly, decentralized meeting between locals and new inhabitants who want to integrate themselves linguistically.
Publishing: The Fundaziun has published a "cultural guide on Lumnezia" and is now editing a book (in Romansh) on toponyms to preserve the local field names. The book will also contain local sayings and legends as well as descriptions of working procedures and traditions.
Guided tours: Eight different tours through the villages of the valley have been elaborated with specialists, showing not only the traditional architecture (profane as well as religious) but also describing the religious and everyday traditions that are still maintained.
Choir tradition: An important and strong tradition, choirs of the region are known throughout the country. The Fundaziun sustains this tradition through an annual choir week for locals and guests. The main repertoire is Romansh and the added economical value stays in the valley.
Cultural Archive: Preparations are ongoing for founding a cultural archive in Lumnezia, a place where the cultural heritage can be preserved in photography, plays, schoolbooks etc. The municipality has accepted the budget and the next step is to gather volunteers for the service.
Exhibitions: The Casa d'Angel uses the huge art collection Fundaziun Capauliana, by a native of the valley. Every year a guest curator is invited to create an exhibition of thematic relevance to the valley, in tight teamwork with the Fundaziun and by integrating the local community. The accompanying events always consider local artists and lecturers. In 2016 the renowned curator Beat Gugger created passadis über alle Berge, telling the stories of the mountain passages, interviewing locals on both sides of the mountains and using their private artefacts as exhibits.
The word crap is one of the oldest, pre-roman words in the Romansh language, crappa is the innumerable plural. The 2017 exhibition crappa | Steine in Casa d'Angel by guest curator and artist H.R.Fricker was based entirely on participation. While his scope was to examine the local relation to natural stones in and around houses, the inhabitants of the valley were invited to bring stones: natural stones they had found and carried home themselves, non-manipulated stones and non-precious minerals. The stone lenders were not only obliged to bring the stone in the Casa d'Angel (to secure their motivation and increase the acceptance of the institution founded only in 2015), they were also invited to tell the story of their stone(s): where and under what circumstances was it found, why did they carry it home, where do they keep it at home?
Ninety people participated and a few stones even had to be retrieved at the homes of elderly or ill persons who insisted on participating. The stones were then placed on low wooden blocks in the five rooms of the Casa d'Angel and next to the wood were placed the identification cards containing the name of the finder and place as well as their story reduced to a few sentences, once in Romansh and once in German. The stones were all singularly photographed and edited in a booklet, which was given to the participants when they retrieved their stones at the end of the season. H.R.Fricker also toured the valley taking photos of public squares and private gardens, showing the vast amount of stones used in walls or shrubberies etc. He then created a competition, where visitors could try to couple silhouettes on a piece of paper with the stones on the photos. More than ¼ of the visitors participated in this competition.
The accompanying events (more than 20 guides, workshops, concerts and lectures) were focused on stones. Guided tours by local stone masons and artists let the audience gain access to private workshops and hands-on explanations on the handling of stone. An archeologist lectured on Stone Age tools and let the audience try to make fire or handle the tools. A linguist lectured in Romansh on the word crappa and then everybody was invited to sing 'stone'-songs with a local ensemble.
The exhibition crappa | Steine was based entirely on participation. The inhabitants of the valley were invited to bring stones: natural stones they had found and carried home themselves, and they were invited to tell their story of how, when and where they found the stone in their preferred language. This was then translated, so that every story was published in Romansh and German. Ninety persons, young and old, locals and steady guests participated, which is quite impressive for a small valley of 2500 inhabitants.
Whenever possible and relevant for the accompanying program, local artists, musicians or Romansh speaking lecturers were invited to perform. Lectures and guided tours in Romansh were introduced. The accompanying program for schools and children also focused on participation: a local intermediator of art organized two workshops seeking and working creatively with stones. Two stone lenders - a boy of 12 years and his grandfather - were persuaded to conduct guided tours for children in the Casa d'Angel, telling their stories and legends about stones. During the school visits, children who had brought a stone were also allowed to show it to their class mates.
The theme of the exhibition, stones, is all around this mountain valley and has always played an important role as a natural source for building. When reading the legends, many stories tell about the Devil carrying giant stones to stop the Christians building more churches (and one rather immoral one about a lonely miller making a puppet girlfriend who makes the millstones mill too fast). The Lumnezians clearly gather and "expose" stones in and around their houses. Many go looking for minerals (cavacristallas) or tend to carry stones up or down the mountains, either in memory of the hike, for decoration of their homes - or to build "stone men" on the mountain tops. The only object permanently exhibited in the Casa d'Angel is one of the mightiest groups of crystals found in Europe, il cristagl dil Péz Regina, found by two local cavacristallas in the year 2000.
Now comparing this culture with the far eastern culture of Suiseki or even with the experiences made by the curator in urban areas of Switzerland, specific features started to show. More people chose to participate and the stones were generally bigger than in urban surroundings, and photographs from gardens and public spaces showed a high frequency of natural and local stones used for practical or decorative reasons.
© cover photo: H.R. Fricker
Anne-Louise Joël, born 1977 in Odense (DK) Master of Arts in History and Science of Religion from the Universities of Aarhus (DK) and Zürich (CH). Since 2014 managing director of the Fundaziun da cultura Lumnezia and daily manager of the Casa d'Angel in the Val Lumnezia, canton Grissons (CH). A certified tour guide and a passionate storyteller, she also engages in the intermediation of the local culture to tourists during the summer and winter seasons.
www.culturalumnezia.ch

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Q: javascript and html with brackets this is most likely a no brainier, but i have Brackets as a codding environment if you will, i think it covers like 30 langues or something crazy like that, and well i understand you need sorts of compilers and what not, but here im trying to add some javascript to some html externally, and i kinda plucked some code off the internet to make sure my test code wouldn't have any issues. any ways the real question is , do i need a compiler of sorts for java, if that's stupid (because i think it can be done with notepad honestly) then please take one sec to look at my code and tell me what i might be doing wrong, because i really try to be simple with my tests
THE HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>

        <Title>Lets Do Something</Title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="Index.css"/>

        <form>
            <input type="text" name="inputbox" value="">

            <input type="button" name="button" value="'Click" onclick="testresults(this.form)">
        </form>

THE JAVASCRIPT
function testResults (form) {
var TestVar = form.inputbox.value;
alert ("You typed: " + TestVar);

}
in fact, Below is the site i got it from, but changed from internal script to external scripting
https://www.javaworld.com/article/2077176/scripting-jvm-languages/using-javascript-and-forms.html
Any help would be great, thanks Bunches.

A: First of all, this is JavaScript and not JAVA. They are not the same.
In the code you posted, there is a small error that is causing the issue.
Replace onclick="testresults(this.form)" with onclick="testResults(this.form)".
Note that I have camel cased the testResults function name. This should give you the results.

function testResults(form) {
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Plans to deliver a new eye-catching modern office development at the heart of the City of Wolverhampton Interchange were on Friday (May 18) given the green light.
It has emerged as a scheme following the success of the award-winning i10 complex on the opposite side of the road, which was fully let within nine months of its doors opening.
i9 will provide 50,000 sq ft of stunning Grade A office space for a national or regional headquarters for a major business when completed in 2020.
The plans were well received at a public consultation event at the city's Light House in January.
It is the next step in building a thriving commercial quarter at the heart of Wolverhampton Interchange - bringing further investment and jobs.
City of Wolverhampton Council and Ion selected Glenn Howells Architects' design for i9 as the winner from a strong field of ten UK leading architects and urban design practices.
Councillor John Reynolds, Cabinet Member for City Economy, said: "Since i10 was completed we have seen increasing demand for quality office space in that location of the city, particularly from large space users.
"i9 was always envisaged to satisfy that demand, and it is great news that official planning approval has now been granted.
"We want this building to become the design and quality benchmark for future developments in the city and to demonstrate our ambition for the city centre.


WHEATON (Sun-Times Media Wire) - A west suburban woman has pleaded guilty to murdering her mother last year at their Lombard home.
Stephanie DeFalco, 29, entered a guilty plea Wednesday to one count of first-degree murder, according to a statement from the DuPage County state's attorney's office.
DeFalco is accused of strangling her mother shortly before 6:30 p.m. on March 20, 2018, after the pair argued in their home in the 100 block of Grace Street in Lombard, the state's attorney's office said. Officers found Judith DeFalco, 61, dead in her bedroom.
The daughter was taken into custody the next day, the state's attorney's office said. Prosecutors also accused her of stealing her mother's phone, jewelry and car as she left the home.
In exchange for the guilty plea, the state agreed to recommend a maximum sentence of 30 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for Stephanie DeFalco, prosecutors said. Her next court appearance is set for May 17.


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They first shared the same dugout in Florida 16 years ago, were together at Florida Auto Exchange Stadium this spring in Dunedin and Sunday at the Rogers Centre one veteran Canuck — LHP Jeff Francis (North Delta, BC) — threw to another — C Russell Martin (Montreal, Que.) becoming the Blue Jays' first-ever all-Canadian battery.
DUNEDIN, Fla. – It almost seems as though it had been a long time coming.
In the fifth inning of Monday's matchup at Florida Auto Exchange Stadium, where the Toronto Blue Jays hosted the Houston Astros, the home team had an all-Canadian battery, with Jeff Francis taking the mound and throwing toRussell Martin in a game for the first time in his career.
The left-hander's eight-pitch, touch-and-feel bullpen session earlier that morning was their very first meeting as pitcher and catcher, just before the four-up, three-down, scoreless inning good for his second spring training outing.
Francis and Martin first met almost 16 years ago, when the Vancouver-born southpaw was 18 and Martin was 16 years old and joining Team Canada for his first time. Back then, Martin was manning the hot corner for the Canadian Junior National squad, before thoughts of squatting behind the dish entered the Montreal native's mind.
A few years later, both players were part of the best draft class the country north of the border has seen to date, in 2002. The 6-foot-5, 220-pound hurler was taken ninth overall by the Colorado Rockies out of the University of British Columbia, behind Adam Loewen, the highest Canadian-born player ever selected in the draft with the fourth pick.
Martin was taken by the Los Angeles Dodgers out of Chipola Junior College in the 17th round.
Francis made his major-league debut in 2004, and has since pitched for the Rockies, Kansas City Royals, Cincinnati Reds, Oakland Athletics and New York Yankees, racking up 10 years in the majors. Martin debuted two years later, and in his nine years of service time the three-time All-Star played in the big leagues with the Dodgers, New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates. He faced the lefty 31 times out of the opposing dugout, hitting five singles, three doubles, walking six times and striking out in three at-bats, but had never caught him before Tuesday.
It's certainly not lost on Martin that he and Francis are two of the few players who remain in the game at the highest level from that Junior National Team roster so many years ago.
"We were definitely on some talented teams, but it's the longevity part of it," he said. "It's a lot of effort and some luck. You need to stay healthy and a lot of things need to go right in order for that to happen. I can't remember anybody else from those teams who is still playing.
A spot with the big-league club in Toronto this April is much less certain for non-roster invitee Francis than it is for Martin, who signed a five-year, $82-million US contract in November. But their first outing together was a solid one, and the catcher was impressed with what he saw from his Canadian teammate.


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(On TV, September 1998) Once upon a while comes a movie so radically different from a visual viewpoint that it transcends its own weaknesses and becomes something of a gem. La Cité des Enfants Perdus is such a movie. Story, script, characters: Okay, but could have been better. But the visuals, however, probably can't be improved. The vision is "steampunk", a dark and grimy fantasy world of high-tech concepts executed with Victorian-era technology made of glass and brass. None of director Jeunet's characters are beautiful; most are grotesque. The film is packed with delightful visual inventions. It is not enough to see it once. A very worthy video rental.


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At Doylestown Dental, we offer preventive services like exams and professional cleanings so you can avoid dental problems. Even so, decay or an injury may occur that requires treatment to correct.
Dental damage can occur for many reasons, and they're not all related to neglect. Biting down on a piece of hard candy may cause your tooth to crack, or you may lose a tooth because of an accident. Whatever the reason, it's critical to address the problem quickly so you can avoid further damage and discomfort.
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Dental crowns are a restoration we use to protect a damaged tooth and restore its function. Creating lab-fabricated crowns isn't complicated, but it is a process that is time-consuming and typically requires at least two visits to the dentist to complete.
Everyone's time is valuable, so we are always looking for new ways to streamline your visits to minimize the time you have to devote to your oral health. We are pleased to offer our patients state-of-the-art dental crowns made using E4D technology that produces durable esthetic crowns in just one visit to our Doylestown, OH dental office.
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From start to finish, the process takes less than two hours. During that time, we invite you to sit back and relax with a comfy pillow and blanket while you enjoy your favorite music or TV show.
It is always preferable to replace a lost tooth to restore appearance and function and avoid more complicated oral health problems. One type of tooth replacement we offer is fixed dental bridges.
Dental bridges are typically a fixed unit that consists of two crowns attached to adjacent teeth with an artificial tooth suspended between them. A bridge improves your appearance and allows you to smile with confidence again, and it also holds the space so adjacent teeth don't gradually drift into the empty space.
Since a bridge is made up of three pieces, we cannot complete the entire process during one appointment. We use the same 4ED technology to design your bridge and then send the specifications to a custom dental lab. However, since we do all the planning here, a new bridge takes about a week to complete.
At Doylestown Dental, we are excited to be able to offer you state-of-the-art treatments that streamline your visits and make them more comfortable and productive.
If you have dental damage or a missing tooth, please call us to arrange a convenient appointment with one of our doctors. Many insurance plans cover at least a portion of same-day crowns, so don't hesitate to let us know if you have any questions.
We look forward to helping you achieve a healthy, damage-free smile!
Dental enamel is strong, in fact, it's the hardest substance in the human body. But we depend on our teeth to do a lot of work over the years, and as strong as enamel is, it's not indestructible.
At Doylestown Dental, we use crowns to restore function and appearance when your teeth start to break down. One example is a tooth that has already had multiple fillings. In this case, a crown is often the best solution to provide support and protection. Also, clenching or grinding your teeth (bruxism) can cause significant wearing and erosion and can damage your teeth before you realize it. Another situation where our doctors might recommend a crown is after a root canal to add strength and protection.
We design esthetic crowns that are made of porcelain and customized to blend seamlessly with your smile. You have the option of choosing a lab-fabricated crown that requires several visits, or our doctors can talk to you about state-of-the-art same-visit crowns that allow you to leave our office after your appointment and get on with your life.
Our all-porcelain dental crowns are made to replicate the appearance of dental enamel so they enhance your appearance as well as protect your oral health. If one of your teeth is damaged and you think a dental crown might be a good solution, please call us to schedule a consultation with Doylestown dentist Dr. Jacko or Dr. Siefker.


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The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet, formerly National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Clearinghouse, is an internet resource that collects, collates, interprets, and presents evidence-derived knowledge on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health in Australia.

History
The HealthInfoNet  was established in September 1997 as the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Clearinghouse. It developed into a more comprehensive web-based resource for knowledge about Indigenous health and was renamed the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet in 2000 to reflect this broader purpose" Dr Wooldridge, the then Federal Health Minister, said at the launch of the renamed HealthInfoNet "In a truly innovative way, even by international standards, the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet uses the Internet to enable people from all around Australia and overseas to share readily ideas on what health interventions work, find out where resources are available and discuss how best practice health care can be provided."

Purpose
The purpose of the website is to make its evidence-based knowledge about Indigenous health issues readily accessible via the Internet to inform policy, practice, research, teaching and general community understanding. In this way it contributes to improving the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

In September 2017 at the 20th anniversary event of the HealthInfoNet, then Minister for Indigenous Health, Ken Wyatt AM, praised the website, saying "...whilst there are obvious benefits for government agencies, health practitioners, researchers and policymakers in providing a mechanism for evidence-based decision making, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are the real winners, as HealthInfoNet plays an important role in closing the gap in health".

Governance and funding
HealthInfoNet is part of Edith Cowan University in Western Australia. Its work is guided by a national Advisory Board of 13 members who are prominent in the field of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and provide cultural governance. There is also a national network of honorary consultants who have expertise in various areas of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.

Since its inception, core funding for the HealthInfoNet is provided by the Australian Department of Health through Edith Cowan University.

Target audience
The HealthInfoNet defines its target audience broadly as all people working, studying or interested in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. It aims to engage with key decision makers, influencers, users and front line health practitioners who work in the area of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health to facilitate the exchange and sharing of high quality knowledge and information. The ultimate aim is to bring about improvements in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.

The HealthInfoNet engages actively with various stakeholder groups:

 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community controlled health services and their representative bodies
 government departments of health and Indigenous affairs
 non-government organisations
 professional  associations
 health  service  workforce  (including  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers,  doctors, nurses and other health workers)
 research organisations
 academic institutions including tertiary and technical
 training organisations.

The resource
The resource provides comprehensive, up-to-date, evidence-derived information about Australian Indigenous health.
The website has a number of component parts including:
a comprehensive annual Overview of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
a searchable list of publications on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
a refereed e-journal
collated information on a range of specific health topics, information on health systems and workforce information
A separate Alcohol and Other Drugs Knowledge Centre web resource
A website supporting the national Tackling Indigenous Smoking workforce
A peer-reviewed Journal of the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet

The HealthInfoNet also supports a number of online yarning places (Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook) that enable people interested in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health to share information, knowledge and experience about specific health topics.

References

Further reading
Thomson, Neil. The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet: Knowledge Transfer to assist Decision Making in Indigenous Health [online]. In: The Power of Knowledge: The Resonance of Tradition, pp. 141-153. Taylor, Luke (Editor). Canberra, ACT: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005.
The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet: a model of knowledge sharing for the health sector by Thomson N (2003). 7th National Rural Health Conference 4 March 2003.

External links

Indigenous health organisations based in Australia
Australian health websites

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New version of Dailymotion launches in UK and Switzerland
Written by DTVE Reporter
3rd October 2017 @ 12:00
The new premium content-focused version of Vivendi-owned video portal Dailymotion has launched in the UK and Switzerland, following its debut in France in July.
The new version of the free Dailymotion platform is launching in the UK as the next stage in its global rollout. The focus of the new service is to provide more personalisation to users who are seeking entertainment from trusted publishers and networks based on their tastes as well as a focus on premium content.
Dailymotion's content partners for the launch include Vice, ITN, Endemol Shine, CNN and BeIN Sports. The new platform provides personalised streams of news, sports, music, entertainment and other content genres.
The service is prioritising premium content across the genres of news, sport, music and entertainment.
The video outfit is also placing additional emphasis on mobile content consumption. The Dailymotion mobile app is now available on the UK for iOS and Android devices, while a new desktop experience has been designed with lean-back entertainment experiences in mind.
New personalization features include a 'For You' feed where users can access recommended videos, an 'Explore' feature enabling the exploration of popular channels, topics and trends, 'Topics', a list of curated trending topics on breaking news, cultural movements and entertainment updates, and 'Library', a place for storing and viewing favourite content, featuring subscriptions and playlists. Viewers will also be able to watch library content offline.
The new Dailymotion also features a new HTML5 video player and new search algorithms.
"Video is the most emotive media format and the most powerful way to drive consumer connection—but the industry is not maximizing video to its full potential. We're pioneering a new paradigm for video in which people can more easily discover the content they love, in which advertisers can connect with consumers in a brand-safe environment, and in which publishers can extend the reach of their content to relevant, engaged audiences." said Maxime Saada, CEO and chairman of Dailymotion.
"We believe that the key to delivering a powerful user experience is to offer a combination of the web's best content alongside the best technology for recommending and serving that content. To this end, we've positioned ourselves as a leader in both content and technology, because this is what delivers on our mission of providing the very best video experiences for our users," said Guillaume Clément, chief technology officer and chief product officer at Dailymotion.
Dailymotion saw a dramatic decline in revenues and audience year-on-year in the first half of 2017, before the relaunch. The new version of the platform is designed to appeal to a slightly older demographic – 18-50 year-olds – than previously.
Tags: Dailymotion, France, Switzerland, UK, Vivendi
YouView names new CEO
Rakuten TV launches subscription offering with TalkTalk
TalkTalk TV to offer Amazon Prime Video via set-top
Bolloré replaces Bolloré on Vivendi board


Rich Goodrich took Overall and Double Stack honors. Great shooting Rich!
Come out and try your hand at Practical Pistol. All members are invited. You don't need to be qualified to shoot pistol on the outdoor range to participate!
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What will Trump's policies mean for Canada's future?
The equity markets south of the border have certainly cast a vote of optimism on Donald Trump's victory. The US markets have rallied strongly and investors clearly believe that the possible upsides of a Trump administration - growth in the short-term and tax cuts – outweigh the downsides: the threat to trade and the resulting long-term impacts. The Canadian markets have not reacted as much, but what could his policies mean for our economic future?
Although Canada's energy sector will likely get a boost in the short-term, Rogers does believe those positives will be outweighed by the trade disruption that Trump has been touting. "Before the election and in the immediate aftermath, I was taking the view that we shouldn't overreact too much about the rhetoric of tearing up NAFTA: my perception was that Trump was railing against Mexico and didn't have Canada in his sight lines," Rogers says.


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Geographies of Knowledge
Influences: Recognition
Posted on 11 May 2020 11 May 2020 by bierjess
This post is part of my Influences series, which is explained here.
"You tell me not to worry
About the simple fact I'm dead.
It'll go away by morning."
–Sleater-Kinney, "What if I Was Right?"
This is a post about the concept of recognition, which is the subject of debate in political theory. (See the summaries in these two different reviews of Patchen Markell's book on the subject.) Recognition usually is conceived of in terms of social groups in society, and in relation to political representation, asking questions like: "Should groups work to be recognized by the state, for example as official minorities?" That kind of state recognition can grant certain benefits and protections, but it also means conforming to the (potentially problematic) laws and definitions of the state itself. These are important questions, but here I want to take slightly different task and instead focus on individual recognition, for example of thoughts and feelings and forms of identity, with respect to questions like, "How do you know who you are? How do you know what you feel?"
With that in mind, the opening to the song above, "What if I was right?" can be read as an indictment of gaslighting, which involves manipulating someone so that they begin to question their own judgment. In the song, someone tells the speaker "not to worry" about a "simple fact," but it's an especially demanding request, because that "simple fact" is that she's dead, as if it's a temporary hiccup, a minor condition.
The song dramatizes the feeling of impossibility that gaslighting involves, a theme that's found in many Sleater-Kinney songs, like the second US-Iraq war protest song "One Beat," where they suggest that scientists need to "invent a world for me," (see also Afropunk, Poly Styrene, and Le Tigre). On the one hand, it may be impossible for the singer to be speaking given that she's no longer living. On the other hand the speaker is making herfeel impossible by manipulating her into questioning her recognition of both the facts of the world and of herself. She both can't be dead, according to the "you" in the song, and based on how she herself feels, she is already dead.
The song has an added dimension because the "you" doing the gaslighting is at the same time an individual, probably a romantic partner, and society more generally. So the song speaks at once to the power relations of her particular relationship and towards the ways women and gender non-conforming people are trained to questioning our own judgment on a more systemic, societal scale.
For this reason, the song can be read as making, in a few lines, a succinct form of the argument made famous by Betty Friedan in The Feminine Mystique–a classic catalyst of 1960s white US second wave feminism. Friedan argued that post-war US femininity was a trap whereby women were gaslighted (my terms) into believing that real (feminine) women didn't actually want "masculine" things like an education or a job outside the home. Friedan took down the old argument that many heard on a regular basis at the time: "You don't really want an education and a job. That would be unladylike and you're a real lady, aren't you?"
Such conceptions of gender normalize the idea that that masculinity and femininity are mutually exclusive: if you are one, then you can't be the other, and vice versa. Then, by definining certain things as masculine, and therefore out of bounds to feminine women by definition, people could systematically encourage feminine women to disbelieve any feelings they had about wanting such traditionally "masculine" things.en were gaslighted (my terms) into believing that real (feminine) women didn't actually want "masculine" things like an education or a job outside the home. Friedan took down the old argument that many heard on a regular basis at the time: "You don't really want an education and a job, do you? You're so feminine."
Although it's more commonly used in an psychology, I find the term gaslighting helpful for social theorists because it concretizes some of the ways that people can begin to question facts that otherwise might be considered obvious. But there's also an added dimension that gaslighting doesn't quite cover. And that's the idea that people always know what the facts are, what they want, who they are, and the gaslighting is the crime of denying what otherwise would obviously be true.
But I'd like to argue that there's a second, more pernicious side to systemic gaslighting: it shapes what people know and can know about ourselves. It affects what we can feel (what Foucault talks about as the "conditions of possibility," in this case for knowledge about oneself), and who we become. Gaslighting can become the reality. To continue with the above example about femininity: If everyone 'obviously' recognizes that having a job outside the home is masculine, then feminine people may not recognize any wish they have to hold a job as being a geniuing feeling worthy of sharing with others. Because you simply couldn't be a feminine person who wanted to hold a job. By wanting to hold a job, by definition you'd become unfeminine and, if in this case you consider yourself feminine, then whatever you're feeling must not be the feeling of wanting a job. So that must not be a real feeling. Instead it's just a momentary lapse, something that doesn't really exist.
That brings us back to recognition, because the second reading of gaslighting suggests that something more is at stake than simply recognizing an existing feeling, individual, identity or social group. (To be fair, the literature on recognition is more complex than this–see the links at the beginning of this post. I'm oversimplifying here to make a point.) Instead, part of recognition are a host of other prerequisites: determining whether something is there or not, whether it exists or not (elsewhere, I've called this specific aspect instantiation), whether you as a subject are allowed to feel anything to begin with, whether it's possible for you to feel it, and whether others would acknowledge that possibility or not.
This discussion may seem rather abstract, but it's crucial to things like definint what sexual harassment is–which involves recognizing that it's ok to feel terrible sometimes–din the context of the #metoo movement, and to the systemic disregard of women's bodies and feelings in health care. (Here's one popular, in the sense of widely read and not narrowly academic, book on sexism in health care that, full disclosure, I haven't read.) It also is relevant to victims of domestic violence who say some version of the phrase, "Oh, it's nothing," when someone notices your wounds. It's also something I think about when articles claim that COVID-19 affects men worse than women. How will practitioners know how COVID-19 affects feminine, female, gender nonconforming people, and BIPOC? Importantly, will our feelings and sensations be recognized and taken seriously if we ourselves can't even know what they are?
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The Roaring Twenty-Twenties: White Nationalism Rising and the Coronavirus
Posted July 3, 2020 June 2, 2020 Michael Loadenthal
Zion Miller
While the Prosecution Project's objectives primarily relate to how sociopolitical crimes are prosecuted, the Project also studies the trends of how and who commits sociopolitical crime change over time. Examples of past trends was a large right-wing anti-government movement during the 1990s, a massive increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes in the wake of 9/11, and the rise of Islamic terror attacks on Western civilian populations during the 2010s. As we enter a new decade, I have started to wonder what the defining extremist ideology of this decade will be. After the work I've done with tPP over the last semester and my own studies about extremism at Miami University, I believe that the 2020s will be defined by white nationalist violence on a scale that we have yet to see from the ideology.
The white nationalist movement has been steadily rising in popularity and violence ever since 2016. The Southern Poverty Law Center 2019 Year End Report details the numbers of the movement's rise: There was a 55% increase in the number of white nationalist groups in the United States from 2017 to 2019 (growing from 100 groups to 155) and a 17% increase in hate crimes committed from 2016 to 2017. Time Magazine reports that "since 9/11, white supremacists and other far-right extremists have been responsible for almost three times as many attacks on U.S. soil as Islamic terrorists…" The growth of the movement and the dangers it poses have not gone unnoticed. FBI Director Christopher Wray, in his July 2019 address to Congress, stated that, "I will say that a majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we've investigated [in 2019] are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence…"
The increased activity and violence we've seen from these groups is likely to grow over the next decade due to the rapidly increasing popularity of "accelerationism" in white supremacist movements. White nationalists who subscribe to accelerationism believe that a race war is inevitable and that the best way to win that war is by "accelerating" the timeline through acts of mass violence. This will polarize the population along racial lines, and ultimately cause the war to begin sooner than it otherwise would. Societal collapse is also a desired outcome, as they can then rebuild the structures of society in their image. The belief that the war must happen soon in order to achieve victory stems from the "Great Replacement/White Genocide" theory, which argues that the white race is being replaced both in numbers and in positions of power through immigration, declining white birth rates, and multiculturalism. These theories combine to create the white nationalist belief that if they wait for the race war to happen, the white race will be too weak to fight back. Adherents of these beliefs have already begun to act, with the Christchurch shooter, El Paso shooter, and others have all espoused these views in their manifestos. As these beliefs take further root in white nationalist groups, more violence on an even larger scale will inevitably occur.
The global insecurities created by the COVID-19 pandemic are providing new opportunities for white nationalist groups to recruit new members and plan attacks. An American University professor, Cynthia Miller-Idriss, has been studying white nationalist recruitment for some time. In a statement to NPR, Miller-Idriss said: "For extremists, this is an ideal time to exploit youth grievances about their lack of agency, their families' economic distress, and their intense sense of disorientation, confusion, fear and anxiety," Accelerationist groups are spreading disinformation about COVID-19 in order to further accelerate societal collapse and reveling in the chaos it causes, with one Telegram (a popular messaging app for white nationalists) commenting: "Oh nooo the white normies. The White man has lost his savings, job, & now he has no food. His bread and circuses have been canceled. What a terrible thing he has nothing left to lose. No more peaceful status quo." Some white nationalists are even attempting to weaponize the virus by creating spray bottles to aerosolize infected saliva for the purposes of infecting minority populations and governmental actors.
The full ugliness of modern white nationalism's newest form, accelerationism, has yet to be seen. Over the next decade, I predict that we will see it come into its fullness in very violent ways. The coronavirus pandemic opens the decade, affecting society in dramatic ways that play into the white nationalist's hands and sets the stage for years of societal uncertainty. The upcoming 2020 presidential election will likely further divide and polarize the nation, once again an environment in which white nationalism will thrive. With this foundation, I believe that white nationalism will grow as the years pass, both in membership and violence. I hope to be proven wrong.
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Macfarquhar, Neil. "The Coronavirus Becomes a Battle Cry for U.S. Extremists." The New York Times, The New York Times, 3 May 2020, www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/us/coronavirus-extremists.html.
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Wade, Peter. "Just When You Thought Things Couldn't Get Worse, Neo-Nazis Are Trying to Weaponize Coronavirus." Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2020, www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/neo-nazis-are-trying-to-weaponize-the-coronavirus-971002/.
⟵The Impact of COVID-19 on the Criminal Justice System and tPP
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Q: jquery onclick does not working I have autocomplete on input in bootstrap model. I am getting response from codeigniter as json and being seeing list as drop down but when I click on drop down list nothing heppens.
HTML Code

        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close">×</button>

Find Album

        <form class="form-inline" mehtod="post" id="generate-report">

                Album Name:
                <input id="search_album" autocomplete="off" type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="*">

        </form>

        <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>

jQuery code
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{
    $(document).on('keyup', '#search_album', function(e)
    {
        e.preventDefault();
        var status = 1;

        if($("#search_album").val().length > 2 && status == 1)
        {
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            var form_data = {
                ajax                : '1',
                search_album        : $("#search_album").val(),
                actioncall          : 'auto-complete-search'
            };

            $.ajax({
                type: "POST",
                url: "<?=site_url()?>itadmin/ajaxSongs",
                data: form_data,
                dataType: "json",
                success: function (data)
                {
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                    {
                        $('#DropdownAlbums').empty();
                        $('#search_album').attr("data-toggle", "dropdown");
                        $('#DropdownAlbums').dropdown('toggle');
                        $("#album_id").val('0');
                    }
                    else if (data.length == 0)
                    {
                        $('#search_album').attr("data-toggle", "");
                        $("#album_id").val('0');
                    }
                    $.each(data, function (key,value)
                    {
                        if (data.length >= 0)
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                            $('#DropdownAlbums').append('
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                    });
                    status = 1;
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                error: function(e)
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    $('ul.dropdown-menu').on('click', 'li', function ()
    {
        alert('here');
        $('#search_album').val($(this).text());
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Response I'm getting from post request as json

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What I have tried?
$(document).on('click', 'ul.album_list li', function()

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Screenshot

A: You should use $(document).on("click", selector, function(){}
Take a look to this code snippet:

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