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If you have long hairs, then for sure there are many chances that you would be facing a hard time of detangler as well. It is a frustration condition for the women who have long hairs. Hair detangler is basically known as the secret elixir that would be smoothing away your hairs and give it a soothing effect.
As you would be getting into the review of detangler, you will be coming into the timeline with so many ingredients that are part of detangler. These all ingredients would be working as in order to alter the surface of the hairs.
Hair detangler is hence known out to be the type of hair conditioner that smooths your hair. It is one of the best dreadlocks shampoo. It would be giving out the soft effect to the hairs as by coating the hairs with the oil or the polymer. In the end, you will be finding your hairs surface to tighten up as all smoothing the scales on the hair's outer surface.
Silicone such as dimethicone or Cyclomethicone is hence the form of apolymer that would be adding some gloss into your hair by binding to its surface.
Acidifier is the form of chemical that would be reducing the pH of the detangler. In the end, it would be strengthening the hydrogen bonds as in the midst of the Keratin molecules in hair.
Cationic Surfactants is also one of the common chemicals that is part of Hair DetanglerSchoolSA. This chemical will be providing the surface of the hairs with the smooth effect.
Oil will be helpful as in filling up the pore against any dry or damaged hairs.
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I'm reviewing the Brother MFC-L2700DW which is a mono laser, multifunction printer (MFP). It's mainly for office use though it has been employed for the kid's homework upon occasion. It has multiple connection options (mine is currently in USB mode) and supports printing for mobile devices such as Apple iOS iPads / iPhones which is very handy.
Connecting to my MacBook Pro was the usual (and now to be expected) piece of cake - plug it in, turn it on and my Mac immediately asked if I wanted to install it (no need to look for a driver disk or search for a driver download site - it installed automatically without any intervention from yours truly).
It's fast and quiet enough for my needs, running at 26 pages per minute for pure text - I didn't time it but I'm never left hanging around for long. Twin the reasonably fast print speed with a quick startup time and I feel that I'm onto a winner.
The output quality has been fine for me as I print mostly text and the occasional graphic but if you want really high quality image printing then I would look for a printer which is dedicated to the task rather than an MFP which generally isn't. Saying that, don't get me wrong - the quality is crisp, sharp with a nice deep black - more than good enough for most office printing. The scanner is a real boon as well - nice and quick and with great results. Once again, it was immediately detected via the Image Capture software on my MacBook Pro so setting it up was as easy as it gets.
Being a metal cargo container, my office gets cold and occasionally humid (below freezing during the recent cold spell) but the Brother slogs on without seeming to care too much. I did - I cared very much because it was unpleasantly cold. Roll on summer, when I can have the door open!
Currently, the price for the printer is between £120 and £150 with minimal shopping around and a generic 2600 page toner cartridge costs around £20. It has a decent, energy star compliant rating as well so however you look at it, it's not heavy on the wallet.


EECS faculty member Srini Devadas has been named as a recipient of a 2019 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. The award, given in recognition of outstanding achievements, will be presented during IIT's Institute Day in April.
Devadas is Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). An EECS faculty member since 1988, he also served as associate department head from 2005 to 2011.
Devadas has taught widely in EECS, lecturing classes in VLSI, discrete mathematics, computer architecture, algorithms, and software engineering. His research interests span computer-aided design (CAD), computer security, and computer architecture, and he has received major awards in each discipline. These include the IEEE/ACM A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation, the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award for inventing physical unclonable functions and single-chip secure processor architectures, and the IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award for contributions to secure hardware.
His work on hardware information-flow tracking received the Most Influential Paper Award from the ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), and his papers on analytical cache modeling and the Aegis single-chip secure processor were included as influential papers in "25 Years of the International Conference on Supercomputing."
He is a Fellow of both IEEE and ACM. He is also a MacVicar Faculty Fellow and a recipient of the Everett Moore Baker Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, considered MIT's two highest undergraduate teaching honors.


There are three types of filling materials in common use today: (Composite (White), Amalgam (silver) & Gold). Each has different preparation requirements. Here at Bannerwood you get three choices, Silver; White; or let me pick what is going to last you the longest.
-Composites: are a tooth colored resin which is light cured after placement. We match the color to your tooth's color.
-Amalgam: is a metallic gray, silver & mercury alloy which hardens or cures overtime after placement. There have been concerns about mercury fillings, especially on the internet. I let you the patient make an informed decision about amalgam:.
– Here is the statement by the American Dental Association.
– Here is the FDA statement.
– Here are other organizations concerns about amalgam.
– Here is the journal literature review.
– Here is the straight talk.
-Gold: Will be your best option. Here is link information about Gold, with examples.
The following are examples of the different fillings.


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City of London Guide Lecturers Association
Walks & Tours
Discover Official Walks & Talks
Stories of Fleet Street Guided Walk: Thursdays
THIS WALK STARTS ON THURSDAY 17 DECEMBER 2020
Printing, pubs and Pepys
Called the Street of Shame, there's more to this road between the City of London and the City of Westminster than its newspaper heritage. Follow the trail left by monks and monarchs, press barons and literary giants along the highway and down its twisting alleyways.
On this literary walk you'll:
Walk along narrow lanes south of St Paul's Cathedral, learn about the important Blackfriars' Monastery and come across a 17th century livery hall
Hear stories about Bridewell Palace and Hospital and the infamous Fleet Prison
See a plaque to the renowned writer Edgar Wallace
Admire the spire of St Bride's Church, the inspiration for wedding cakes
Learn about the dominance of the newspaper barons and compare the architecture of the impressive Daily Express and Daily Telegraph buildings
Meet Samuel Pepys, whose famous diary has left us with a unique insight into 17th century life, and Samuel Johnson - and his cat Hodge!
Discover another hidden place of worship, the Whitefriars Priory
Find out all about the infamous Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Please note: children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE
Photos: courtesy of Niki Gorick
From Sunday 20 December 2020 we're suspending our walks
Sadly we've had to stop our walks once again, following the latest government guidelines. We hope to restart them in 2021 as soon as we can.
Virtual Walks and Talks
We are pleased to be working in partnership with the Temple Bar Trust. You are invited to join us for series of live-broadcast, virtual walks around the City. The series includes the fascinating history of Temple Bar, Paternoster Square, St Pauls, the life, and work of Sir Christopher Wren and some of the wonderful but often overlooked statues and sculptures nearby. Find out more and book here: https://templebartrust.org/walks
Note: We try to make our walks as inclusive and accessible as possible.
If you want a walk or lecture for a group of people, then please use our Find a Guide section.
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At Least 4 Dead After Train Struck Bus Carrying Senior Citizens In Mississippi
"It's a terrible, chaotic scene," the local police chief said.
By Nick Visser
Multiple people were killed in Biloxi, Mississippi, after a charter bus was struck by a train and pushed more than 300 feet along the tracks, local media reported Tuesday.
The bus was carrying around 50 people, many of whom were believed to be senior citizens, when it was hit by the train around 2:15 p.m. local time. At least four have been pronounced dead and 35 have been hospitalized, including several who had to be airlifted to area hospitals, according to ABC affiliate WLOX. The train crew was not injured.
"It's a terrible, chaotic scene," Biloxi Police Chief John Miller told NBC News. "We're not sure about the bus itself, why it was stopped, if it was having engine problems or what."
A Biloxi city spokesman said he was unsure where the bus was headed, The Associated Press reported, though charter buses often travel to Biloxi's casinos. The bus originated in Austin, Texas.
A video posted to Facebook by Victor Williams, a reporter with WLOX, shows rescue officials working at the scene to remove those on the bus through emergency windows.
A spokesman for CSX, the train company involved in the accident, said the crossing where the bus was struck had "flashing lights and crossing gates," according to MS News Now.
Nick Visser
Senior Reporter, HuffPost
United States Train Accidents Biloxi, Mississippi


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The Plot Against Gaza
January 19, 2009 at 8:41 am	(Uncategorized)
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Israel has justified its assault on Gaza as entirely defensive, intended only to stop Hamas firing rockets on Israel's southern communities. Although that line has been repeated unwaveringly by officials since Israel launched its attack on 27 December, it bears no basis to reality. Rather, this is a war against the Palestinians of Gaza, and less directly those in the West Bank, designed primarily to crush their political rights and their hopes of statehood.
The most glaring evidence contradicting the Israeli casus belli is the six-month ceasefire between Hamas and Israel that preceded the invasion. True, Hamas began firing its rockets as soon as the truce came to an end on 19 December, but Israel had offered plenty of provocation. Not least it broke the ceasefire by staging a raid into Gaza on 4 November that killed six Hamas members. Even more significantly, it maintained and tightened a blockade during the ceasefire period that was starving Gaza's 1.5 million inhabitants of food, medicine and fuel. Hamas had expected the blockade lifted in return for an end to the rockets.
A few days before Israel's attack on Gaza, Yuval Diskin, the head of Israel's domestic security service, the Shin Bet, noted Hamas' commitment to the ceasefire and its motives in restarting the rocket fire. "Make no mistake, Hamas is interested in maintaining the truce," he told the cabinet. "It seeks to improve its conditions — a removal of the blockade, receiving a commitment from Israel that it won't attack and extending the lull to the Judea and Samaria area [the West Bank]." In other words, had Israel wanted calm, it could have avoided invading Gaza simply by renegotiating the truce on more reasonable terms.
Israel, however, had little interest in avoiding a confrontation with Hamas, as events since the Islamic group's takeover of Gaza in early 2006 show.
It is widely agreed among the Israeli leadership that Hamas represents a severe threat to Israel's ambition to crush the Palestinians' long-standing demands for a state in the West Bank and Gaza. Unike Fatah, its chief Palestinian political rival, Hamas has refused to collude with the Israeli occupation and has instead continued its resistance operations. Although Hamas officially wants the return of all the lands the Palestinians were dispossessed of in 1948, at the establishment of Israel, it has shown signs of increasing pragmatism since its election victory, as Diskin's comments above highlight. Hamas leaders have repeatedly suggested that a long-term, possibly indefinite, truce with Israel is possible. Such a truce would amount to recognition of Israel and remove most of the obstacles to the partition of historic Palestine into two states: a Jewish state and a Palestinian one.
Rather than engaging with Hamas and cultivating its moderate wing, Israel has been preparing for an "all-out war," as Ehud Barak, the defense minister, has referred to the current offensive. In fact, Barak began preparing the attack on Gaza at least six months ago, as he has admitted, and probably much earlier.
Barak and the military stayed their hand in Gaza chiefly while other strategies were tested. The most significant was an approach espoused in the immediate wake of Hamas' victory in 2006. Dov Weisglass, former prime minister Ariel Sharon's fixer in Washington, gave it clearest expression. Israel's policy, he said, would be "like an appointment with a dietician. The Palestinians will get a lot thinner, but won't die."
John Wolfensohn, envoy to the Quartet of the United States, the United Nations, Europe and Russia through most of 2005, has pointed out that the US and Israel reneged on understandings controlling the border crossings into Gaza from the moment of Israel's disengagement in summer 2005. In an interview with the Israeli media, he attributed the rapid destruction of the Gazan economy to this policy. However, although the blockade began when Fatah was still in charge of the tiny enclave, the goal of Weisglass' "diet" was to intensify the suffering of Gaza's civilians. The rationale was that, by starving them, they could be both reduced to abject poverty and encouraged to rise up and overthrow Hamas.
But it seems the Israeli army was far from convinced a "diet" would produce the desired result and started devising a more aggressive strategy. It was voiced last year by Israel's deputy defense minister, Matan Vilnai. He observed that, if Hamas continued firing rockets into Israel (in an attempt, though he failed to mention it, to break the blockade), the Palestinians "will bring upon themselves a bigger shoah because we will use all our might to defend ourselves." The Hebrew word "Shoah" has come to refer exclusively to the Holocaust.
Though his disturbing comment was quickly disowned, Vilnai is no maverick. He is a former major general in the army who maintains close ties to the senior command. He is also a friend of his boss, Ehud Barak, the Labor leader and Israel's most decorated soldier. The reference to the "shoah" offered a brief insight into the reasoning behind a series of policies he and Barak began unveiling from summer 2007.
It was then that hopes of engineering an uprising against Hamas faded. The diet regime had patently failed, as had a Fatah coup attempt underwritten by the United States. Hamas struck a pre-emptive blow against Fatah, forcing its leaders to flee to the West Bank. In retaliation the Israeli government declared Gaza a "hostile entity." Barak and Vilnai used Gaza's new status as the pretext for expanding the blockade of food and medicines to include electricity, a policy that was progressively tightened. At the same time they argued that Israel should consider cutting off "all responsibility" for Gaza. The intention of Barak's blockade, however, was different from the Weisglass version. It was designed to soften up Gazan society, including Hamas fighters, for Israel's coming invasion.
Far from being threatened by the intensifying blockade, Hamas turned it to its advantage. Although Israel controls two of the land borders and patrols the coast, there is fourth short land border shared with Egypt, close by the town of Rafah. There Gaza's entrepreneurs developed a network of smuggling tunnels that were soon commandeered by Hamas. The tunnels ensured both that basic supplies continued to get through, and that Hamas armed itself for the attack it expected from Israel.
From March 2008 Barak and Vilnai began pushing their military strategy harder. New political formulations agreed by the government suggested the whole population of Gaza were to be considered complicit in Hamas actions, and therefore liable for retaliatory military action. In the words of the daily Jerusalem Post newspaper, Israeli policy makers took the view that "it would be pointless for Israel to topple Hamas because the population [of Gaza] is Hamas."
At this point, Barak and Vilnai announced they were working on a way to justify in law the army directing artillery fire and air strikes at civilian neighborhoods of Gaza, as has been occurring throughout the current Gaza campaign. Vilnai, meanwhile, proposed declaring areas of the tiny enclave "combat zones" in which the army would have free rein and from which civilians would be expected to flee — again a tactic that has been implemented over the past three weeks.
Although Israel is determined to crush Hamas politically and militarily, so far it has been loathe to topple it. Israel withdrew from Gaza precisely because the demographic, military and economic costs of directly policing its refugee camps were considered too high. It will not be easily dragged back in.
Other options are either unpalatable or unfeasible. A Fatah government riding in on the back of Israeli tanks would lack legitimacy, and no regime at all — anarchy — risks losing forces more implacably opposed to a Jewish state than Hamas, including al-Qaeda. Placing Gaza under a peacekeeping force faces other hurdles: not least, the question of which countries would be prepared to take on such a dangerous burden.
Instead Israel is planning to resort to its favorite diplomatic maneuver: unilateralism. It wants a solution that passes over the heads of Hamas and the Palestinians. Or as Tzipi Livni, the foreign minister, put it: "There is no intention here of creating a diplomatic agreement with Hamas. We need diplomatic agreements against Hamas." The formula currently being sought for a ceasefire will face opposition from Israel unless it helps achieve several goals.
Israel's first is to seal off Gaza properly this time. Egypt, although profoundly uncomfortable at having an Islamic group ruling next door, is under too much domestic pressure to crack down on the tunneling. Israel therefore wants to bring in American and European experts to do the job. They will ensure that the blockade cannot be broken and that Hamas cannot rearm with the the help of outside actors like Iran. At best, Hamas can hope to limp on as nominal ruler of Gaza, on Israeli sufferance.
The second goal has been well articulated by the Harvard scholar Sara Roy, who has been arguing for some time that Israel is, in her words, "de-developing" Gaza. The blockade has been integral to achieving that objective, and is the reason Israel wants it strengthened. In the longer term, she believes, Gazans will come to be "seen merely as a humanitarian problem, beggars who have no political identity and therefore can have no political claims."
In addition, Gazans living close to the enclave's northern and southern borders may be progressively "herded" into central Gaza — as envisioned in Vilnai's plan last year. That process may already be under way, with Israeli leafletting campaigns warning inhabitants of these areas to flee. Israel wants to empty both the Rafah area, so that it can monitor more easily any attempts at tunneling, and the northern part because this is the location of the rocket launches that are hitting major Israeli cities such as Ashkelon and Ashdod and may one day reach Tel Aviv.
The third and related goal, as Barak and Vilnai proposed more than a year ago, is to cut off all Israeli responsibility for Gaza — though not oversight of what is allowed in. Ghassan Khatib, a Palestinian analyst, believes that in this scenario Israel will insist that humanitarian supplies into Gaza pass only through the Egyptian crossing, thereby also undercutting Hamas' role. Already Israel is preparing to hand over responsibility for supplying Gaza's electricity to Egypt — a special plant is under construction close by in the Sinai.
Slowly, the hope is, Gaza's physical and political separation from the West Bank will be cemented, with the enclave effectively being seen as a province of Egypt. Its inhabitants will lose their connection to the wider Palestinian people and eventually Cairo may grow bold enough to crack down on Hamas as brutally as it does its own Islamists.
The regime of Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank, meanwhile, will be further isolated and weakened, improving Israel's chances of forcing it to sign a deal annexing East Jerusalem and large swaths of the West Bank on which the Jewish settlements sit.
The fourth goal relates to wider regional issues. The chief obstacle to the implementation of Israel's plan is the growing power of Iran and its possible pursuit of nuclear weapons. Israel's official concern — that Tehran wants to attack Israel — is simple mischief-making. Rather Israel is worried that, if Iran becomes a regional superpower, Israeli diktats in the Middle East and in Washington will not go unchallenged.
In particular, a strong Iran will be able to aid Hizballah and Hamas, and further fan the flames of popular Muslim sentiment in favor of a just settlement for the Palestinians. That could threaten Israel's plans for the annexation of much of the West Bank, and possibly win the Palestinians statehood. None of this can be allowed to pass by Israel.
It is therefore seeking to isolate Tehran, severing all ties between it and Hamas, just as it earlier tried — and failed — to do the same between Iran and Hizballah. It wants the Palestinians beholden instead to the "moderate" block in the Arab world, meaning the Sunni dictatorships like Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia that in turn depend on Washington for their security.
The prospects of Israel achieving all or even some of these goals seems improbable. Too often Israeli meddling in its neighbors' affairs has ended in unintended consequences, or "blowback." It is a lesson Israel has been all too slow to learn.
Slaughter in the Name of Self-Defense
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Shaykh Muhammad Ali Elahi
Do the followers of Judaism realize that Jews and Muslims need to live in peace and respect? Israel's military attack in Gaza is perpetuated by a military industrial complex promoting an ethnic tyranny, not a religion with morals and honor. Israel is slaughtering Palestinians with the support of some Arab dictators and President George W. Bush's disgraceful diplomacy.
Israel is trying to break the back of any resistance and to punish Palestinians in Gaza for electing representation by Hamas in a fair, free and democratic vote, and to prevent them from doing the same in the future. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is trying to get more seats in the Israeli Knesset by bombing and burning Palestinian babies.
What Israel is doing is not self-defense but racist genocide, a crime against justice, international laws, the United Nations charter, the Geneva Convention, and human conscience. It is a holocaust in the true sense of the word. The Old Testament calls for an eye for an eye, not 500 eyes for one eye, yet that is the godless Zionist ideology.
The Los Angeles Times reports that 81 percent of the Israelis actually back the Gaza massacres. Apparently, 41 years of occupying, kidnapping, torturing, killing and depriving a civilian population of 1.5 million of food, water, and medicine was not enough, so Israel had to use almost one thousand airstrikes and repeat its invasion of the area with tanks and heavy fire against one of the poorest places on this planet?
Their own behavior is so extremely embarrassing for the Israeli government and army that there has been a media blackout, and journalists have not been allowed into the area. Zionists know that their ugly actions are indefensible. I feel horrible for many members of the Jewish community both inside and outside of Israel who would love a logical solution for this conflict but are shamed by those who are trying to turn the 21st century back to the Dark Ages, thinking they can solve every problem by killing and cutting the heads of anyone who doesn't submit.
Where are religious leaders to promote peace and love among Abraham's children? Where are the Pope and the rabbis? Where are the Christians? Aren't there any honest and courageous leaders to stop this bloody game and bring some dignity to their leadership positions? Silence may protect them from the Israeli lobby and media, but it won't save them from God's justice and the consequences of this barbaric blood bath.
This war, poverty, and racism against Palestinians couldn't last that long if the religious leaders and especially the rabbis had blessed their nation with the light of love, logic, justice, and reconciliation.
Making clear the Zionist position on human rights, Rabbi Yaacov Perrin said in February 1994: "One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail." Zionist Christian leaders, who fuel the fire with the Armageddon ideology and promote war and destruction, are partners in killing the poor and powerless. Using F-16s to bomb mosques, schools, ambulances, hospitals, and family homes is the exact opposite of what Jesus would do.
Why are Americans allowing their tax money to financially sustain a country which goes completely against our national values of equality and anti-racism, and whose ongoing criminality threatens our own national security?
Thank God the people of the world will not suffer from this kind of leadership crisis forever. The Bible and the Qur'an explain that the earth will eventually be inherited by the righteous and honorable people and those corrupt, cowardly criminals who just care for their palaces and have no sympathy for humanity won't be in power for long.
If rockets from Gaza are the cause for this bloodbath, why did Israel murder 45 Palestinians in the West Bank in 2008? Israel invaded Gaza 41 years ago. After destroying the infrastructure, Israel withdraw its forces three years ago but never ended its sea, air, and land blockade and continued to assassinate Palestinian leaders. Hamas agreed to continue the cease-fire with two conditions: Israel ends the blockade and stops targeting and killing the citizens of Gaza. Israel rejected both conditions and made this bloody choice for its petty political purposes.
While the starving people encaged in Gaza have been shooting homemade projectiles for a while, Israel deliberately chose the Christmas season for its mass murder spree, knowing that with schools and offices closed and people away from the internet enjoying the long weekend with relatives, the public would be slow to react to the horror and organize protests. Israel chose the New Year to take advantage of the world leaders' vacation time to finish the Gaza resistance, but so many days later, there is still no news of any Israeli victory, just ever-worsening reports of barbarism and blood. Israel disrespected the Christian holiday celebrating the birthday of Jesus, who was born to bring peace and end injustice and oppression. Jesus was a Palestinian.
Billions of people are watching Gaza. Israeli writer Uri Avnery writes that an entire generation of hate will result of this aggression: "That is a terrible price, which we will be compelled to pay long after the other results of the war have been forgotten in Israel."
Billions of people all around the world are watching this Israeli experiment in Gaza. They see the horrific pictures, they see so many corpses spread out on the ground, they see a family which has lost all its children, they see hospitals without medicine, and they see the wounded without anesthetics. Israel is using radioactive bombs and liquid phosphorous on a crowded civilian area.
We Muslims don't hate Jews and have nothing against Judaism. Ironically, we believe in the prophethood of Moses more than majority of the Jews. Yet we hate this genocide in Gaza and have no hope in any of the present Jewish leadership.
Depending on petty puppets like Mahmud Abbas and Hosni Mubarak is wrong. They will end up in the junkyard of the history. The Jews and the Muslims need to live next to each other with peace and respect as we do here in America.
The Palestinians deserve to live with freedom, justice, dignity, and peace. Israel has no justification for depriving them from these basic rights. The Palestinians are human beings, not snakes, scorpions, or cockroaches like some Israeli religious and political leaders have called them. The Palestinians didn't occupy anyone's land. They have suffered insults, humiliation, and discrimination for 60 years. All good Americans respect the struggle against tyranny. As Patrick Henry said on March 23, 1775, "Give me liberty or give me death."


Christine Lagarde turned to a fitting analogy to describe the economic outlook from a press conference in Alpine Davos.
"What do you like when you're a cross country skier? Good visibility, no uncertainty, you like when it's kind of stable and eventually when it's a little bit downhill – risks down, no hazards along the way. The third thing you like is everybody skiing in the tracks."
Sadly, these conditions are not prevalent - prompting the IMF to revise its forecasts for global growth downwards. The latest update to the World Economic Outlook projects global growth at 3.5% in 2019 and 3.6% in 2020, 0.2 and 0.1 percentage points below last October's projections.
While Lagarde didn't forecast a full-blown recession looming on the horizon, she painted a picture of rising risks as trade tensions, China's slowdown and geopolitical uncertainty all took their toll on the global economy's recent upswing.
Policy-makers needed to work together - to ski in the same tracks - to solve common challenges, Lagarde argued.


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Coming Soon To Dufferin Street
3621 Dufferin Street, Toronto, ON, Canada
Dymon Group of Companies
DUFFERIN STREET CONDOS
Occupying a convenient site adjacent to both transit access and major highways, this development brings contemporary living space to a neighbourhood that's slated for major growth. Featuring condominiums, office and retail space, it will be a fantastic addition to the redeveloping area, likely setting the standard for other new projects nearby. 3621 Dufferin Street is a pre-construction condominium development proposed for Wilson Heights neighbourhood.
This project, currently being designed by TACT Architecture, will house a mix of uses in a tasteful midrise building, rising nine storeys. 141 residential units are proposed, including a mix of ten studios, 98 one-bedroom, 18 two-bedroom and 15 three-bedroom units. Residents will have access to 3,3035 square feet of indoor amenity space, connected to the same amount of outdoor amenity space, which will be divided between the eighth floor and the ninth floor's rooftop. Almost 40,000 square feet of retail space will be included at street level, acting as an extension of the nearby retail hub in this neighbourhood, while just over 62,000 square feet of office space will occupy the building's second floor.
WILSON HEIGHTS
Condos in Wilson Heights are increasing in number, particularly in the immediate area surrounding Wilson Station, just a few minutes' walk from the Building site. Dare we say this neighbourhood is North York's next major transformation? A variety of big-box retailers are just steps away, including a major retail redevelopment taking place adjacent to the condominium site. Shopping and dining options are at your door and it's a single subway stop to Yorkdale Shopping Centre, North York's primary upscale retail destination. The recently expanded mall features over 250 stores and services, including its "luxury wing," where you'll find brands such as Holt Renfrew, Michael Kors and Swarovski. It's also a single subway stop to Downsview Park, over 500 acres of greenspace that features orchards, walking paths, athletic fields and a variety of recreation programs. Dog walkers, recreation lovers and families flock to the park on a regular basis, which is easily one of the city's most underrated greenspaces. It also features music festivals and markets all-year round, serving as a major gathering space, especially during the warmer months.
TRANSIT ACCESS
The Wilson Heights neighbourhood is great for commuters of all types. From Wilson station, it's an efficient 20-minute trip into the heart of downtown Toronto, while easy access to Allen Road and Highway 401 make getting elsewhere in the GTA equally easy. The subway line has recently expanded into Vaughan, marking the transit company's first foray outside of Toronto. With the number of new proposals and buildings under construction here, we're expecting to see a significant population growth in the neighbourhood, along with streetscape improvements and a pedestrian-friendly retail landscape. Investing in property here is a great opportunity to be part of one of North York's up-and-coming pockets.
Close to Wilson Subway Station
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many shops near by
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In terms of both his quantity of work (at least 40 books and several thousand newspaper columns) and the consistently excellent and crystal-clear quality of his writing, I don't think any living free-market economist even comes close to matching Sowell's prolific record of writing about economics. And I don't think there is any writer today, economist or non-economist, who can match Thomas Sowell's "idea density" and his ability to consistently pack so much profound economic wisdom into a single sentence and a single paragraph.
1. Knowledge. The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today.
2. Obamacare. If we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical drugs now, how can we afford to pay for doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical drugs, in addition to a new federal bureaucracy to administer a government-run medical system?
3. Economics vs. Politics I. Economics and politics confront the same fundamental problem: What everyone wants adds up to more than there is. Market economies deal with this problem by confronting individuals with the costs of producing what they want, and letting those individuals make their own trade-offs when presented with prices that convey those costs. That leads to self-rationing, in the light of each individual's own circumstances and preferences.
5. Predicting the Future. Economists are often asked to predict what the economy is going to do. But economic predictions require predicting what politicians are going to do– and nothing is more unpredictable.
6. Politicians as Santa Claus. The big question that seldom— if ever— gets asked in the mainstream media is whether these are a net increase in jobs. Since the only resources that the government has are the resources it takes from the private sector, using those resources to create jobs means reducing the resources available to create jobs in the private sector.
7. Health Insurance. Whatever position people take on health care reform, there seems to be a bipartisan consensus— usually a sign of mushy thinking— that it is a good idea for the government to force insurance companies to insure people whom politicians want them to insure, and to insure them for things that politicians think should be insured. Contrary to what politicians expect us to do, let's stop and think.
Why aren't insurance companies already insuring the people and the conditions that they are now going to be forced to cover? Because that means additional costs— and because the insurance companies don't think their customers are willing to pay those particular costs for those particular coverages.
It costs politicians nothing to mandate more insurance coverage for more people. But that doesn't mean that the costs vanish into thin air. It simply means that both buyers and sellers of insurance are forced to pay costs that neither of them wants to pay. But, because political rhetoric leaves out such grubby things as costs, it sounds like a great deal.
8. Diversity. If there is any place in the Guinness Book of World Records for words repeated the most often, over the most years, without one speck of evidence, "diversity" should be a prime candidate. Is diversity our strength? Or anybody's strength, anywhere in the world? Does Japan's homogeneous population cause the Japanese to suffer? Have the Balkans been blessed by their heterogeneity — or does the very word "Balkanization" remind us of centuries of strife, bloodshed and unspeakable atrocities, extending into our own times? Has Europe become a safer place after importing vast numbers of people from the Middle East, with cultures hostile to the fundamental values of Western civilization?
"When in Rome do as the Romans do" was once a common saying. Today, after generations in the West have been indoctrinated with the rhetoric of multiculturalism, the borders of Western nations on both sides of the Atlantic have been thrown open to people who think it is their prerogative to come as refugees and tell the Romans what to do — and to assault those who don't knuckle under to foreign religious standards.
It has not been our diversity, but our ability to overcome the problems inherent in diversity, and to act together as Americans, that has been our strength.
9. Greed. Someone pointed out that blaming economic crises on "greed" is like blaming plane crashes on gravity. Certainly planes wouldn't crash if it wasn't for gravity. But when thousands of planes fly millions of miles every day without crashing, explaining why a particular plane crashed because of gravity gets you nowhere. Neither does talking about "greed," which is constant like gravity.
10. The Anointed Ones. In their haste to be wiser and nobler than others, the anointed have misconceived two basic issues. They seem to assume: 1) that they have more knowledge than the average member of the benighted, and 2) that this is the relevant comparison. The real comparison, however, is not between the knowledge possessed by the average member of the educated elite versus the average member of the general public, but rather the total direct knowledge brought to bear through social processes (the competition of the marketplace, social sorting, etc.), involving millions of people, versus the secondhand knowledge of generalities possessed by a smaller elite group.
11. There's No Free Red Tape/Obamacare. Do you seriously believe that millions more people can be given medical care and vast new bureaucracies created to administer payment for it, with no additional costs?
Just as there is no free lunch, there is no free red tape. Bureaucrats have to eat, just like everyone else, and they need a place to live and some other amenities. How do you suppose the price of medical care can go down when the costs of new government bureaucracies are added to the costs of the medical treatment itself?
And where are the extra doctors going to come from, to treat the millions of additional patients? Training more people to become doctors is not free. Politicians may ignore costs but ignoring those costs will not make them go away. With bureaucratically controlled medical care, you are going to need more doctors, just to treat a given number of patients, because time that is spent filling out government forms is time that is not spent treating patients. And doctors have the same 24 hours in the day as everybody else.
When you add more patients to more paperwork per patient, you are talking about still more costs. How can that lower medical costs? But although that may be impossible, politics is the art of the impossible. All it takes is rhetoric and a public that does not think beyond the rhetoric they hear.
12. Helping the Poor. It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who got us off the ground, not the Federal Aviation Administration. It was Henry Ford who ended the isolation of millions of Americans by making the automobile affordable, not Ralph Nader.
Those who have helped the poor the most have not been those who have gone around loudly expressing "compassion" for the poor, but those who found ways to make industry more productive and distribution more efficient, so that the poor of today can afford things that the affluent of yesterday could only dream about.
13. Income Mobility. Only by focusing on the income brackets, instead of the actual people moving between those brackets, have the intelligentsia been able to verbally create a "problem" for which a "solution" is necessary. They have created a powerful vision of "classes" with "disparities" and "inequities" in income, caused by "barriers" created by "society." But the routine rise of millions of people out of the lowest quintile over time makes a mockery of the "barriers" assumed by many, if not most, of the intelligentsia.
14. "Giving Back." All the high-flown talk about how people who are successful in business should "give back" to the community that created the things that facilitated their success is, again, something that sounds plausible to people who do not stop and think through what is being said. After years of dumbed-down education, that apparently includes a lot of people.
Take Obama's example of the business that benefits from being able to ship their products on roads that the government built. How does that create a need to "give back"? Did the taxpayers, including business taxpayers, not pay for that road when it was built? Why should they have to pay for it twice?
What about the workers that businesses hire, whose education is usually created in government-financed schools? The government doesn't have any wealth of its own, except what it takes from taxpayers, whether individuals or businesses. They have already paid for that education. It is not a gift that they have to "give back" by letting politicians take more of their money and freedom.
When businesses hire highly educated people, such as chemists or engineers, competition in the labor market forces them to pay higher salaries for people with longer years of valuable education. That education is not a government gift to the employers. It is paid for while it is being created in schools and universities, and it is paid for in higher salaries when highly educated people are hired.
One of the tricks of professional magicians is to distract the audience's attention from what they are doing while they are creating an illusion of magic. Pious talk about "giving back" distracts our attention from the cold fact that politicians are taking away more and more of our money and our freedom.
15. Government Assistance. Do people who advocate special government programs for blacks realize that the federal government has had special programs for American Indians, including affirmative action, since the early 19th century — and that American Indians remain one of the few groups worse off than blacks?
16. Statistical Disparities and Discrimination. Many of us have been so brainwashed over the years — by sheer repetition, rather than by either logic or empirical tests — that statistical disparities are automatically taken to mean discrimination, whether between races, sexes or whatever. The plain fact that different individuals and groups make different choices is resolutely ignored, because it does not fit the prevailing preconceptions, or the crusades based on those preconceptions.
Women make different career choices than men, and wisely so, because men do not become mothers, and being a mother is not the same as being a father. And we can't make them the same by simply calling them both "parents" or saying that "the couple" is pregnant. Discrimination can certainly cause statistical disparities. But statistical disparities do not automatically mean discrimination.
17. Black Lives Matter. We keep hearing that "black lives matter," but they seem to matter only when that helps politicians to get votes, or when that slogan helps demagogues demonize the police. The other 99% of black lives destroyed by people who are not police do not seem to attract nearly as much attention in the media. What about black success? Does that matter? Apparently not so much.
We have heard a lot about black students failing to meet academic standards. So you might think that it would be front-page news when some whole ghetto schools not only meet, but exceed, the academic standards of schools in more upscale communities. There are in fact whole chains of charter schools where black and Hispanic youngsters score well above the national average on tests.
If black success was considered half as newsworthy as black failures, such facts would be headline news — and people who have the real interests of black and other minority students at heart would be asking, "Wow! How can we get more kids into these charter schools?" But the teachers' unions are opposed to charter schools — and they give big bucks to politicians, who in turn put obstacles and restrictions on the expansion of charter schools. These include politicians like New York's "progressive" mayor Bill de Blasio, who poses as a friend of blacks by denigrating the police, standing alongside Al Sharpton.
18. The Legacy of Slavery vs. the Legacy of Liberalism. If we wanted to be serious about evidence, we might compare where blacks stood a hundred years after the end of slavery with where they stood after 30 years of the liberal welfare state. In other words, we could compare hard evidence on "the legacy of slavery" with hard evidence on the legacy of liberals.
Nearly a hundred years of the supposed "legacy of slavery" found most black children [78%] being raised in two-parent families in 1960. But thirty years after the liberal welfare state found the great majority of black children being raised by a single parent [66%]. Public housing projects in the first half of the 20th century were clean, safe places, where people slept outside on hot summer nights, when they were too poor to afford air conditioning. That was before admissions standards for public housing projects were lowered or abandoned, in the euphoria of liberal non-judgmental notions. And it was before the toxic message of victimhood was spread by liberals. We all know what hell holes public housing has become in our times. The same toxic message produced similar social results among lower-income people in England, despite an absence of a "legacy of slavery" there.
If we are to go by evidence of social retrogression, liberals have wreaked more havoc on blacks than the supposed "legacy of slavery" they talk about.


What does successful aging look like? In one of the more influential papers on the subject published in 1987, Rowe and Kahn describe successful aging as involving freedom from disease and disability. This definition has been adapted over time but is still being used today. Take a recent study published in CMAJ defining "successful aging" at 60 years of age or older as satisfying each of following criteria . . .
Rafael Romo, Alex Smith, and colleagues recently published a paper that further challenges the notion that "successful aging" is aging without disability.
It is better to die dry than wet. At least that is the gist of traditional thinking in hospice and palliative care, where parenteral (IV or subcutaneous) fluids are often avoided at the very end of life to prevent fluid buildup in the lungs and other organs.
The problem is that delirium often complicates end of life care as well. It is one of the four most common emergency calls for individuals receiving palliative care in the home and a common reason for admissions into inpatient hospice units. Reduced oral intake, a part of the natural dying process, may result in dehydration in some but not all individuals at the end of life, and may be a factor in the development delirium. Studies in the geriatric literature suggest that early recognition of dehydration and volume repletion is an important component of delirium prevention.
So, how do we reconcile our desire to avoid the unintended consequences of IV hydration in those at the end of life with that of treating dehydration to prevent delirium? Some argue for a greater use of parenteral fluids in these patients to improve quality of life, at the very least for those with some evidence of dehydration. However, the question remains, does IV hydration improve quality of life and decrease incidence of delirium, or will it just worsen symptoms at the end of life?
Dr. Eduardo Bruera and colleagues from MD Anderson add some evidence to how best to manage fluids at the end of life thanks to a study recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The authors randomized 129 individuals with advanced cancer from 6 hospices to either parenteral subcutaneous hydration of 1 L per day of normal saline or placebo. In order to maintain blinding for both patients and staff, the placebo was a 100ml a day of saline injected over a similar 4 hour period per day as the fluids in the intervention group.
Inclusion criteria included advanced cancer, reduced oral intake of fluids with evidence of mild or moderate dehydration, at least mild symptoms of fatigue, hallucinations, sedation, and myoclonus, a life expectancy of less than 1 week, , and a Memorial Delirium Assessment Scale (MDAS) score less than 13 (i.e not severe delirium). Those with severe dehydration were excluded as were individuals with renal failure, congestive heart failure, or a history or clinical evidence of bleeding disorders.
The authors did find some differences in some measures such as night-time delirium scores, which was worse in the placebo group. However, given the numerous secondary outcomes (47 of them), I wouldn't place much weight on this, as by pure chance at least two of these outcomes will be positive using a P of 0.05.
One big limitation of the study was that it was underpowered. The planned sample size was 150 patients, but funding issues required termination of the study after 129 patients. This was likely due to the strict inclusion and exclusion criteria. So, you can argue that the authors didn't find a difference because they didn't enroll enough patients (a Type II error). This may be a classic Type II error where no significant difference between groups are reported when in fact such a difference exists. I would be surprised though if the authors enrolled another 21 patients that a clinically significant result would have materialized for the primary outcome since it didn't look like a trend was developing (-3.3 vs -2.8, P=0.77).
So in the end, we have some data to suggest that IV hydration of 1 liter is unlikely to provide a meaningful benefit to most hospice patients with advanced cancer with mild to moderate dehydration (but not severe).
This is a guest post by Dr. Ronald Pies in response to this week's GeriPal post about the removal of the Bereavement Exclusion from DSM-5. Dr. Pies is the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Psychiatric Times, Professor of Psychiatry and Lecturer on Bioethics & Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts USM.
Though it's still early after his wife's death—and some clinicians may want to defer a final diagnosis for another week—all clinicians should be very concerned about Mr. Smith. He easily meets DSM-IV (and now, DSM-5) symptom and duration criteria for MDD. (A previous bout of MDD in his history would strengthen the likelihood, as would several other clinical findings I have omitted). And yet, under the present DSM-IV "rules," Mr. Smith probably would not be diagnosed with a major depressive illness. He would simply be called "bereaved." Why? Because he is still within the 2-month period that allows for use of the bereavement exclusion; and because Mr. Smith doesn't have the DSM-IV features that allow the clinician to "override" use of the BE; namely, severe functional impairment, suicidal ideation, psychosis, morbid preoccupation with worthlessness, or extreme guilt. It's important to note that the DSM-IV exclusion rules did not apply to any other type of loss, such as losing one's job or becoming homeless. Ironically, if Mr. Smith's wife had left him for another man, he would meet MDD criteria, using current DSM-IV rules!
Many of us who have specialized in the treatment of mood disorders found the DSM-IV criteria not only illogical, but also inimical to good clinical care. We were concerned that many bereaved patients like Mr. Smith–who meet all symptom and duration criteria for MDD, but who happen to have lost a loved one within the past two months– would be shunted out of the mental health care system. In the view of many (though not all) mood disorder specialists, the risk of overlooking MDD, with its high potential for suicide, far outweighs the less serious risk of "over-calling" MDD—the so-called "false positive" scenario.
The elimination of the bereavement exclusion (BE) by the DSM-5 does not mean that "grief is now a mental disorder," as some have claimed. Nor does it mean that anyone who is grieving within two weeks of a loved one's death—i.e., most people!—will be diagnosed with major depressive disorder. (Two weeks is the minimum duration required for MDD, under DSM-IV and DSM-5 criteria). First of all, studies have shown that most bereaved persons will not meet full DSM-5 criteria for MDD. Second: it would be extremely rare, in clinical practice, for a bereaved person to seek psychiatric care within two weeks (or even a month) of the death of a loved one, unless something very unusual or dysfunctional were going on—for example, the bereaved person has developed a psychotic-level disturbance; is severely incapacitated; or has become suicidal–in which cases, the bereavement exclusion would not apply anyway. And, contrary to the strident claims of some, nothing in the diagnosis of MDD will prevent bereaved patients with MDD from receiving the love, support, and solace of family and friends.
To be sure, physicians and other health care workers need a much better understanding of the key differences between ordinary grief and major depression. For example, bereaved persons with normal grief often experience a mixture of sadness and more pleasant emotions, as they recall memories of the deceased. Anguish and pain are usually experienced in "waves" or "pangs," rather than continuously, as is usually true in major depression. The grieving individual typically maintains the hope that things will get better. In contrast, the clinically depressed patient's mood is almost uniformly one of gloom, despair, and hopelessness–nearly all day, nearly every day. The bereaved individual usually maintains a strong emotional connection with friends and family, and often can be consoled by them. The person suffering a severe major depressive disorder is usually too self-focused and emotionally "cut off" to enjoy the company of others. Indeed, Dr. Kay R. Jamison has pointed out that "The capacity to be consoled is a consequential distinction between grief and depression." My colleagues and I are now developing a screening questionnaire (the PBPI) based on these distinctions. We don't yet know the final wording of the DSM-5 text, which we hope will emphasize and clarify the distinctions between ordinary grief and major depression.
In conclusion: eliminating the bereavement exclusion means essentially this: the death of a loved one–a common precipitant of major depression—-will no longer be a "disqualifying" factor in diagnosing MDD, within the first few weeks after bereavement. This emphatically does not mean that we should be starting everyone with bereavement-related MDD on antidepressants! Some depressed and bereaved patients will heal and recover with "tincture of time"; some will benefit from cognitive, supportive or grief-oriented psychotherapies. More severely depressed, grieving patients–those, for example, with melancholic features or pronounced suicidality–may require concurrent medication and psychotherapy.
No, indeed: we must not "medicalize" normal grief. But neither must we "normalize" major depression, simply because it occurs in the context of bereavement.
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Acknowledgments: Thanks to Laura Dunn, MD and Sidney Zisook MD, for suggestions on earlier drafts of this blog; however, the views expressed here are my own.
Have you been tearful and sad after the death of a loved one? Did you notice changes in appetite, difficulty sleeping, troubles concentrating, and decreased energy for at least two weeks after the loss? Did you think that was a normal, healthy, and adaptive response to a major loss? Well, if you believe the new DSM-5 criteria approved today by The American Psychiatric Association's (APA) board of trustees, you would be wrong, as your reaction would now fit the criteria for Major Depression.
Under the current DSM-IV criteria, you would have been right, as the bereaved would have not qualified for depression unless symptoms persisted for longer than 2 months or were characterized by marked functional impairment, morbid preoccupation with worthlessness, suicidal ideation, psychotic symptoms, or psychomotor retardation. It made sense to do this as most individuals successfully cope with the loss of a loved one without medical intervention, even though the first few weeks to months following a loss is associated with significant distress.
Now there are some persuasive arguments for this change. Probably strongest is that there is little difference between the development of depression from that of bereavement versus other life stressors, such as being diagnosed with advanced cancer or having gone through a marital breakup. In other words, if you have an exclusion for bereavement, shouldn't you also have an exclusion for other significant losses in life?
In addition, grief seen in bereavement is not completely benign. There are a minority of bereaved individuals (approximately 10-20%) in which grief can become complicated and prolonged. For these individuals, complicated grief has been shown to have a significant detrimental impact on their ability to function and quality of life. There are also individuals who truly developed profound depressive episodes shortly after the loss of a loved one. However, the current DSM-IV criteria clearly allows a diagnosis of Major Depression to be made in these instances, although the bar is set higher.
bereaved individuals will adjust to a new life without their loved one, but this takes time – certainly longer than 2 weeks.
Why will more individuals use Medicare SNF Benefit at the end of life?
There will be little incentive to prevent more and more individuals with limited ability to improve with skilled care to move quickly from hospitals to SNFs. It is easier, quicker, and often feels "safer" to send someone to a SNF from a hospital than it is to spend hours on having difficult discussions about a patient's end of life preferences and goals. And please make no mistake about it, this is a hospital to SNF problem, as SNF's are the discharge pathway of choice for those at the end of life.
John Boscardin, Lynn Flint, and Alex Smith.
One in every 11 (9%) decedents died while receiving the SNF benefit.
The 1990's showed a dramatic increase in SNF benefit at the end of life among community dwellers, increasing from 20% to 31%. Since then, things have been somewhat stable in regards to SNF use in the last 6 months of life, hovering in the low 30%'s.
Why will the ability to provide high quality palliative care to these individuals be diminished?
This one is easy. Most patients enrolled in the SNF benefit are not eligible to receive concurrent hospice care, and furthermore, they likely would not have access to any other form of palliative care.
Medicare regulations prohibit dual enrollment in both the SNF benefit and the hospice benefit for the same diagnosis. Occasionally individuals can receive both benefits if the SNF care is for a diagnosis unrelated to the hospice diagnosis, but this is a rarity. It also means that the hospice benefit will likely lose out if someone is considering which one to enroll in, as Medicare will pay for room and board with the SNF Benefit as well as reimburse the nursing home at a higher rate. No such luck with hospice care.
only 0.5% of all decedents were enrolled in hospice during their SNF stay, although 9% of decedents died while enrolled in the SNF benefit.
What about other forms of palliative care? This study does not address whether these patients were receiving other forms of palliative care, but it is unlikely considering the low penetrance of high quality palliative care into skilled nursing settings.
What Will Need to Be Done to Address this Problem?
Rethink whether the hospice benefit and the SNF benefit should continue to be mutually exclusive.
It's time to up the ante on the push to get more GeriPal readers on twitter. Today, we have Nancy Lundebjerg (@nlundebjerg), Deputy Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the American Geriatrics Society, answering some questions on why twitter matters. She also just gave me word that all Reynolds Grantees Attending #DWRF12 can win an iPad by tweeting and successfully answering short daily questions via @theBlueCast (for more info on the game check out AGS's website here.
Widera: In your opinion, why should we get on twitter?
Lundebjerg: It's a very powerful tool for getting the word out about geriatrics and palliative care You can use it to communicate to the world and with each other. Most politicians are on twitter and we have not yet begun to tap the power of including a mention of them in our twitter messages.
Widera: Can you give an example of an interesting way twitter can be used in geriatrics or palliative care?
Lundebjerg : There are two debates left to go – use it to message about what needs to happen in care for older adults.
Lundebjerg: Yes. I use it to bring some personality to the meeting (see Where in the World is Jim Pacala) and to share inspiring statements from speakers with peers who are not in attendance.
Lundebjerg: I follow an eclectic bunch of people on twitter – making it a great news feed. I generally pop in about 3-4 times a day to see what is going on. Retweeting something takes a nanosecond and modifying a tweet takes slightly longer. You don't have to respond to everything nor do you need to read everything.
Widera: Do you use twitter to talk about something other than geriatrics or palliative medicine?
Lundebjerg: Yes, I've used it to get refunds for terrible service. Right now I use it mostly for work but plan to transition to include tweets from my blog or Pinterest. Some people have more than one handle and I'll probably do that for when I want to tweet about my personal blog or Pinterest. By the by, I am waiting for someone to crack the mystery of Pinterest when it comes to family caregiving. The demographic is exactly right but anything remotely serious seems to go just go thud.
Lundebjerg: Following others is a great way to build up a follower base. People will generally follow you back if you follow them. Don't use the approval process for letting people follow you – it's pretty easy to weed someone out if they are inappropriate. Start by retweeting and build your original tweet muscle up slowly – it does take practice to get to where you can say something pithy in 140 characters but you will get there. Have fun!
Widera: Who do you follow?
Lundebjerg: I follow you (@ewidera), Ken Covinsky (@geri_doc), Diane Meier (everyone follows Diane!) and am now following any Reynolds attendee (go to @TheBlueCast for a list of those folks). I also follow a bunch of tech folks, the usual suspects in terms of organizations, reporters that cover health and Washington politics, and a number of medical journals.
Widera: You keep on mentioning @TheBlueCast. What is it and what are you trying to do with it?
Lundebjerg: Our Titter team grappled for a while with what handle to use and decided that because we are running a special contest for Reynolds attendees, we would create a new handle. From there, it was a question of whether we wanted to do something a little mysterious with the potential to go viral (we dream of being Big Bird here at AGS!) and TheBlueCast was born. The interesting thing about the handle is that it could easily be used to illustrate problems with activities of daily living throughout the year so the handle may live on beyond the meeting!


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Q: Flutter Package URI doesn't exist inside package's test Inside the Flutter project directory, I created a package with the following command :
 flutter create --template=package emoji_support

After it completes creating the package and completes flutter get.
But..
Files inisde package's /test directory can't find files inside package's /lib directory :
import 'package:flutter_test/flutter_test.dart'; is resolved ✅
But...
import 'package:emoji_support/emoji_support.dart'; is not resolved ❌

File structure

What error am I making here?

A: I created a package inside my project flutter_example_file_picker with flutter create --template=package emoji_support

Then in the pubspec.yaml of the project (not the one inside the plugin) flutter_example_file_picker > pubspec.yaml I added to the dependenceis the package
dependencies:
  flutter:
    sdk: flutter
  emoji_support:
    path: ./emoji_support

and the problem resolved, I could run the test with no problem, also tried with a relative path without adding it to the dependencies and worked too

UPDATE
I think I undestand how to fix it without adding it to the pubspec, when creating a plugin inside a project, the flutter plugin of AndroidStudio (or VS) is still working in the main route (check the terminal dir and it will be C:/.../Workspace_Android\hundreddaysofflutter> so it doesnt detect the inner plugin) and doesn't update to detect the new folder. Even if it's red and says it cannot detect the URI.
You can ignore it and try to run the test and see if it detects the inner dart_tool with package_config.json, then it will run succesfully and the problem will dissapear. The second option is to move to the folder where the plugin is (in the terminal cd my_plugin_name_folder or just file open and open the plugin).
Run flutter get pub (it does it automatically when creting the first time a project but sometimes when you create one inside another it doesnt do it) to run for the first time the package and create the package_config.json inside dart_tool (the dart_tool of the plugin), at the end of the file you can see the name and rootUri of the package, now you can use it in your test nad it should detect it correctly. Sometimes it's generated but it seems it doesn't update correctly and the IDE doesn't know even if it's there.

A: This is just a problem that occurs , when you are adding new sub_directories in vsCode.
just a simple exist and re-open will fix the issue.
tell me if that fix it.

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Rural Communities Housing Development Corporation holds grand opening for Willow Terrace Apartments, offering permanent supportive housing for low-income individuals with mental illness
Ukiah, CA (April 23, 2019) — (RealEstateRama) — Thanks to a committed collaboration among nonprofits, local government and private funders, 37 people with mental illness who were formerly homeless or at risk will live in a new community that will offer tailored mental health services.
This morning, Rural Communities Housing Development Corporation (RCHDC) held the ribbon cutting for the Willow Terrace housing development, located at 237 E. Gobbi Street in Ukiah. Because this new community will serve people with serious mental illness, it will provide not just housing but also wrap-around supportive services tailored to the individual needs of each resident.
"Willow Terrace will significantly improve the lives of some of our community's most vulnerable people," said RCHDC CEO Brad McDonald. "This development shows that with the right partners, it's possible to create better opportunities for people who have often had very few."
Realizing this project meant bringing together multiple financing sources and responding to community concerns. In 2015, the Mendocino County Health and Human Services Agency selected RCHDC to develop affordable housing for this population. Since then, RCHDC had been collaborating with funders and service providers to leverage $1.3 million in seed money from the California Mental Health Services Act to build this $12 million project. The project includes a $3.6 million reserve, funded by Housing Credit equity, to ensure 20-year financial viability.
Eighteen months ago, RCHDC was awarded nearly $9 million in Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (Housing Credits), the federal program that supports the development of more than 90 percent of all affordable housing in the U.S. To ensure those funds produced quality, supportive homes, RCHDC chose to work closely with Enterprise Housing Credit Investments (Enterprise), the development's primary investment partner. US Bank purchased the California State Low Income Housing Tax Credits.
RCHDC also used the construction period to demonstrate that providing homes and supportive services not only improves the lives of residents, it saves the community money. Those with mental health needs are less likely to require expensive resources like law enforcement, emergency first responders, and hospital emergency care if they receive proper treatment. Willow Terrace will provide wrap-around services for its residents through the Mendocino County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) and other providers, a compassionate and an economically sound approach.
"Willow Terrace helps fulfill a critical need by providing housing and services for people who are mentally ill and homeless or at risk of becoming homeless" said Mendocino County Supervisor John McCowen. "This project is a great example of RCHDC working with multiple state and local partners to complete a project that will dramatically improve outcomes not only for the individuals being housed but also for the general community."
Willow Terrace consists of 26 single-room occupancy units and 11 one-bedroom units, as well as one three-bedroom manager's unit. All are in a two-story, "L"-shaped building, and each of the ground floor apartments are ADA-accessible or adaptable. The property also has a community building with a large meeting room with a full-service kitchen available to all residents, three offices for service providers, ADA community bathrooms and laundry facilities.
Willow Terrace is designed to be an all-electric, net zero energy project. A wide array of photovoltaic panels are found throughout the site, and these panels will provide energy to the residential units as well as the common areas.
The two buildings share a courtyard that will be the focal point for gathering and creating a sense of community among residents. This design balances the desire to integrate every resident into the Willow Terrace community with each person's need for privacy. Willow Terrace is located near HHSA and Redwood Community Services, making it easier for residents to receive services.
"We were excited to support an organization with RCHDC's commitment and experience to serving low-income people, including those with mental illness, in rural and smaller communities," said Philip Porter, vice president, Enterprise. "Developments like Willow Terrace are crucial to both providing residents with greater opportunities and enabling communities to use public dollars wisely."
Though it had to overcome several financial and political hurdles, Willow Terrace may serve as a model for other communities. RCHDC has two similar projects now in pre-development.
Pacific Builders was the construction company and RCHDC will manage the property.
RCHDC's mission is to provide decent and affordable housing to low and moderate income persons. Learn more at rchdc.org.
Enterprise is a proven and powerful nonprofit that improves communities and people's lives by making well-designed homes affordable. We bring together the nationwide know-how, partners, policy leadership and investments to multiply the impact of local affordable housing development. Over 35 years, Enterprise has created nearly 585,000 homes, invested $43.6 billion and touched millions of lives. Join us at www.EnterpriseCommunity.org.
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Leander ISD expects 7,000+ students by 2026; community members create bond proposal for new schools
The Citizens' Facility Advisory Committee will present a bond proposal to help with growth within LISD.
Author: Mari Salazar (KVUE)
Published: 9:46 PM MDT June 8, 2021
Updated: 9:46 PM MDT June 8, 2021
LEANDER, Texas — Leander ISD expects 7,814 new students by 2026. Building new schools and buying new resources would be a solution to accommodate that growth, but the district said it needs more money.
LISD's Citizens' Facility Advisory Committee, or CFAC, is presenting a $933.4 million bond to the school board on Thursday, June 17, with several project plans.
"The growth is all over the place, but we're always one step ahead. I think we have to be ahead in a district," said Jeremy Trimble, one of the co-chairs for LISD's Citizens' Facility Advisory Committee. "I've also realized just from my own student's education, and they've been at several elementary and middle schools, I've just seen the resources that are available because of these bonds."
Below is a list of the projects in the proposal, according to LISD's website:
Elementary schools:
Building five new elementary schools
Renovating and capital improvements at Bagdad, Block House Creek, Bush, Cox, Cypress, Deer Creek, Faubion, Giddens, Knowles, Mason, Nauman, Plain, Pleasant Hill, Rutledge, Steiner Ranch, Whitestone and Winkley
Expanding and improving all elementary school playgrounds
Middle schools:
Building one new middle school
Renovating and making capital improvements at Cedar Park, Canyon Ridge, Henry, Leander and Running Brushy
High schools:
Constructing a new building for New Hope High School, the district's current alternative high school for credit acceleration and recovery, an Early College High School and one additional school of choice – high schools offering students a small, specialized program. Leander ISD said building these new buildings will delay the need for a seventh comprehensive high school.
Constructing a new building for the district's 18+ transition services program, serving students who qualify for special education services after high school graduation
Renovating and making capital improvements at Leander, Cedar Park and Vista Ridge high schools
Replacing old instruments for high school band programs
Ancillary services:
Building a new bus terminal facility in the southern part of the district to reduce fuel and vehicle costs by $435,000 per year
Adding, renovating and installing secure vestibules at district facilities, including both transportation facilities, administration building and annex, support services building, technology building and the LEO Center
Replacing classroom projectors with interactive panels to create more instructional space and increase functionality
Refreshing student, teacher and staff technology devices, including laptops
Updating network infrastructure to improve internet access
"I think one of the priorities for us as a steering committee is to make sure that every student is going to be impacted by these projects," said Trimble. "It's ultimately on how we communicate that and how we get the word out there to our community to make sure they understand everything that's involved here."
The CFAC said a bond proposal like this would be vital to help the thousands of future students that will attend LISD. Danielson Middle School Principal Mark Koller said this investment is important for advancing public education in Central Texas.
"We do our best to set them up for success," said Koller. "That investment, I think, comes out to our kids and our kids then invest back into our community."
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"I've been actually invested in this area as a principal at an elementary school, as a principal at my previous middle school and this one. And so, I've seen a lot of these kids grow," said Koller.
On June 17, the committee will present the bond to the school board and Trimble said he has high hopes that board members will move forward with the proposal. LISD said there's also $41 million in project savings from the 2017 bond for the board to consider. The school board has until Aug. 16 to call an election.
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Q: Ruby rspec Mocking a class I have a file with two classes in it.
class LogStash::Filters::MyFilter< LogStash::Filters::Base

and
class LogStash::JavaMysqlConnection

JavaMysqlConnection has methods initialize and select. It is in use by the MyFilter class, and is used to query the database as you may have guessed.
How do I mock the initialize and select methods to return nil and an array respectively?
I tried using:
before(:each) do
  dbl = double("LogStash::JavaMysqlConnection", :initialize => nil)
end

but this did not work, as I am still seeing a communication link failure.
I have rspec version 2.14.8
Thanks in advance.
PS. I am new to Ruby

A: Following on from Andrey's response, the solution that worked for me was:
 before(:each) do
    mock_sql = double(:select=> sql_select_return)
    allow(LogStash::JavaMysqlConnection).to receive(:new).and_return(mock_sql)
end

A: Bad (working): Read more as to why exactly it is a bad practice
allow_any_instance_of(LogStash::JavaMysqlConnection)
  .to receive(:select)
  .and_return([])

Good:
let(:logstash_conn) { instance_double(LogStash::JavaMysqlConnection) }

allow(LogStash::JavaMysqlConnection)
  .to receive(:new)
  .and_return(logstash_conn)

allow(logstash_conn)
  .to receive(:select)
  .and_return([])

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RSpec

A: Using RSpec stub_const
describe 'No User' do
  let(:user)       { double }
  let(:attributes) { { name: 'John' } }

  before do
    stub_const 'User', instance_double('User', new: user)
  end

  it 'creates user' do
    expect(user).to receive(:update!).with(attributes)

    User.new.update!(attributes)
  end
end


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Hounslow London Borough Council
Former Hounslow mayor under investigation after using "Mayor's parlour" as address on business cards
Darshan Grewal, who served as mayor a decade ago, is still using cards which give his address as 'The Mayor's Parlour'
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Former Hounslow mayor Darshan Grewal
An investigation has been launched following a complaint about a former Hounslow mayor using business cards which list his address as 'The Mayor's Parlour'.
Darshan Grewal was mayor in 2005/6 and a Labour councillor for Hounslow Heath ward until 2014.
He admits still using business cards which feature the borough crest and a photo of him in the mayoral chains, and which give his address as 'The Mayor's Parlour, London Borough of Hounslow', followed by his home street and house number.
But he claims the cards were printed when he was still mayor and says they clearly state the year of his premiership so there is no intention to deceive.
One of the business cards being used by former Hounslow mayor Darshan Grewal
He believes the complaint is part of a smear campaign by political rivals against him and his family.
His daughter Puneet Grewal is a councillor for Hounslow West, and his son Vickram Grewal ran for selection as Labour's candidate in the upcoming Cranford by-election .
"The cards make it clear I was mayor in 2005/6, which is when they were printed. Other past mayors have similar cards," he told getwestlondon .
"People are only complaining because they want to make trouble for me and my family."
A spokeswoman for Hounslow Council said: "We have received a complaint and are now investigating."
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Oaks, Serrano, & Vernon Middle Schools awarded AVID Site of Distinction, 2nd year in a row!
For the second year, the AVID Center awarded Oaks, Serrano and Vernon Middle Schools the AVID Site of Distinction. AVID is school-wide, when a strong AVID system transforms the Instruction, Systems, Leadership, and Culture of a school, ensuring college readiness for all AVID students and improved academic performance for all students based on increased opportunities. Sites earn this prestigious award by meeting three Process Metrics and two Impact Metrics to implement AVID strategies school-wide.
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Its summer 2018, kids and teenagers are desperately seeking for experiences that will expose them to trending and 21st-century cutting-edge skills that will help prepare them for the future as they await the commencement of the 2018/2019 academic session.
Here comes the awesome experience that they can't afford to miss.
We are excited to officially announce and bring to you TeenHack 2018 Summer Code Workshop, a Social and Technology Learning Project powered by RAD5 Tech Hub to empower 100 kids and teenagers to become self-reliant and independent in this 21st-century workforce by giving them a lifetime coding and innovative skill leveraging technology.
TeenHack is a call to raise competent young creators and innovators that are self-reliant and independent.
Today, technology has given everyone the opportunity to become great regardless of their career. But many young people don't even know where to start.
TeenHack is the way forward.
Below are few things you ought to know about this year's TeenHack Summer Code Workshop.
Mobile Application Development using the MIT's App Inventor.
Games and Animation Designs using Scratch Programming.
Virtual Reality using Google Cardboards and many others.
Logical thinking and reasoning etc.
Participants will be paired to enhance teamwork.
Each team will have access to a computer system with internet connection.
Each team will be assigned a coach.
Participants will be assigned to either games/animations, web or mobile app design session.
The grand finale would feature exhibition/competition amongst the team.
Top 3 teams with the most amazing and innovative solution will be awarded.
TeenHack Project is official powered and brought to you by RAD5 Tech Hub one of the leading technology innovation and software space in Southeastern Nigeria and supported by Google Developer Group, Aba and Abia State Polytechnic, Aba.
TeenHack was launch in 2015. The first edition was in collaboration with Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PINigeria) to train over 50 teenagers on web application development.
Through TeenHack 2017 Summer Code Workshop, 10-year-old Victoria became the youngest game and animation programmer as hundreds of other kids benefited too from the project.
You can take a moment to see some photo highlights of the 2017 edition: http://goo.gl/photos/6tSdRaZ1DFLpuKk39.
You can also check out the report here: http://blog.rad5.com.ng/2017/08/23/teenhack-2017-10-year-old-victoria-became-the-youngest-computer-and-game-programmer-in-abia-state.
This year, we are providing a more personalized learning experience with more available facilitators, coaches, and volunteers coming from Aba, Umuahia, Uyo, and Port-Harcourt. We will also be extending the support to more untapped and under-served kids and teenagers in Abia State.
The principal objective of the project is to inspire kids and teenagers to become self-reliant and independent in leveraging the knowledge received from TeenHack workshops.
Are you a parent? Do you own a school or have a child under your care?
Your kids and wards can be part of this upcoming TeenHack 2018 workshop by registering them via the TeenHack official website – http://www.teenhack.org.ng.
Our funding capacity will only empower 100 kids this summer.
Are you genuinely passionate about the Africa child and education? Do you want to contribute to making Africa a better place?
You can be part of the Teenhack Support Program through which we bring a better and quality experience and transformation in the society.
For organizations and individuals, your donations would be appreciated.
Donate today to support kids for TeenHack Project – https://www.teenhack.org.ng/make-donation.
Note: In our support plan, every supporter or donor retains the right to define how he/she wants his/her support to be used and channeled. And can request reports from time to time.
For more information about the TeenHack Project, visit – www.teenhack.org.ng.
To see who is behind the TeenHack project, visit – www.rad5.com.ng.
Thank you for being part of the 2018 TeenHack Summer Code Workshop.