A "power of attorney" is a legal document in which a person (the "principal") appoints another as his or her "attorney-in-fact". The attorney-in-fact has the authority to do those acts that are specified in the power of attorney. The terms of a power of attorney can be drafted to give the attorney-in-fact the authority to act for the principal in a broad range of circumstances. This is called a "general power of attorney". On the other hand, the power of attorney may be narrowly drafted and only apply to a specific set of situations (e.g. executing real estate documents). This is called a "special power of attorney". In Hawaii, Hawaii Revised Statutes Chapter 551D embodies the Uniform Durable Power of Attorney Act, which provides guidance on how a power of attorney should be treated.
While the differences between a "general power of attorney" and "special power of attorney" refer to the scope of authority given to the attorney-in-fact, when a power of attorney becomes effective and when it terminates are also important distinctions to consider.
Regular Power of Attorney: Generally speaking, a power of attorney ceases to become effective when the principal becomes incapacitated. A power of attorney can also be given a termination date (e.g. authority terminates one year after signing). However, a power of attorney can remain effective and survive the principal's incapacity if it contains language that makes it "durable".
Durable Power of Attorney: A durable power of attorney is effective immediately, but the main distinction is that it remains effective even upon the principal's incapacity. A durable power of attorney must contain language that states that it will not terminate upon the principal's incapacity.
Durable Springing Power of Attorney: A "springing" power of attorney only becomes effective upon the occurrence of an event, usually when the principal is deemed incapacitated. Therefore, an attorney-in-fact usually cannot use the power of attorney unless is is accompanied by a physician's letter or court order attesting to the principal's incapacity.
"Limited" or "Special" Power of Attorney: A power of attorney can be modified and tailored to a give a person authority to only act in a particular situation. A limited or special power of attorney can limit the time the authority is effective and restrict the authority bestowed upon the agent. An example would be giving a person a special power of attorney to sign documents for a real estate transaction.
A power of attorney is revoked upon the death of the principal, but it can also be revoked by giving notice to the attorney-in-fact. It is generally sound practice to have a written revocation drafted and given to the attorney-in-fact and any institutions that may have been given a copy of the power of attorney. It is important to note that under Hawaii Revised Statutes Section 551D-4(a), the death of a principal does not revoke or terminate the authority of an attorney-in-fact who does not have actual notice of the principal's death. Therefore, if an attorney-in-fact acts after the principal's death, but he or she does not have actual knowledge of the principal's death, the attorney-in-fact's act will bind the principal's successors-in-interest.
As you have probably surmised, a power of attorney is a powerful document that has the potential to be easily abused. In Hawaii, as elsewhere, there has been an increase of financial abuse involving powers of attorney. Given Hawaii's large and growing elderly population, people must be vigilant about such exploitation and cautious about who they themselves select as their attorney-in-fact.
At the same time, a power of attorney does have its limitations. In Hawaii, there is no statutory requirement that anyone or any institution accept a power of attorney. For example, banks in Hawaii sometimes prefer that their forms be used if the power of attorney presented does not have language that they are comfortable with.
Still, a power of attorney is an essential document in any estate plan because it can be used as a cost-effective alternative to a conservatorship and serves as a useful backup document in the event non-trust assets require management.


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Forget me not the tailor
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I've never owned clothes that were made by a tailor especially for me. I've never wanted any; ready-to-wear is fine. But I'd read an account by a friend of a friend of having some things made for her while on a trip to Vietnam. That was several years ago, but when I was researching this trip, it became clear that getting tailor-made clothes still ranks high on the agenda of many visitors.
Historic Hoi An
I'd read that Saigon and Hanoi both are places where you can have outfits whipped up in 24-48 hours. But Hoi An is a particular Mecca for clothes lovers, and there appeared to be plenty of other reasons to linger in this town on Vietnam's central coast. A World Heritage Site, the old quarter was said to be both atmospheric and architecturally distinguished. Superb restaurants abound. So I planned for a two-night stay during which getting some clothes made would be our central mission.
To prepare, I did some online research and found one traveler's fairly recent account of her interactions with a tailor who went by the name of "Ms. Forget-Me-Not." She was not pushy, charged fair prices, and did excellent work, attested the writer (an exuberant looking blonde who included a photo of herself in Ms. FMN's stall — #20 in the cloth market. Some recommendation seemed better than nothing.
After arriving in town, we ate lunch at the Mermaid Restaurant, Hoi An's first restaurant (opened in 1992). Since then hundreds of others have opened, but the simple Mermaid ranks among the best. For $12 we got superb crispy wontons, thick noodles with pork, delicate seafood dumplings, and 2 16-ounce local beers. Then we walked the two blocks to the cavernous building labeled "Hoi An Cloth-Market." From storefronts along the street, hawkers implored us to let them make our custom garments. We marched on, into the dimly lighted building, moving through narrow aisles, scanning, scanning for #20. "What number you looking for?" women shouted. "I make anything you want! Very good! very cheap!" We tried to ignore their siren cries (Come to me! To me!), but the stall numbering system was completely random. I broke down and confessed what we were looking for.
"She move," a woman declared. Indeed in the vacant space where she led us, a sign taped to the wall announced that Ms. Forget-Me-Not could now be found at #37 Phan Chau Trinh. Our map indicated the street was just a few blocks away, so we exited, leaving a sea of disappointed seamstresses in our wake.
Within the open-front shop at #37, the walls were stuffed with thousands of fabric bolts. I recognized Ms. FMN from her photo online. She and her sister ("Rose") and a third sister whose name I never learned greeted us warmly. I have to confess my heart sank to see they were already working with another customer, a chatty young blonde from Britain. She'd been there the year before, loved what she'd bought, and had returned for more. Within a few minutes, two more young Englishwomen joined us. I'm not sure what they wanted because by then we were immersed in the serious business of deciding what to order.
Interior of Ms. Forget-Me-Not's shop
Savvy shoppers bring photos, but all I had was the notion that I should get a couple of pairs of pants made (since it's rare to find ones in any store that fit like a glove). Along the way, Steve had also persuaded me to order up an ao dai — the traditional Vietnamese slit-skirted top and pajama bottoms. I in turn insisted that he get a nice short-sleeved shirt or two. The ladies slapped big scrapbooks in front of us, filled with magazine images of all manner of clothing items. We fumbled a bit but found a couple styles we judged would do. Next we picked out fabrics — a gray checked cotton and regal jade green silk for Steve's shirts; a pretty floral crepe for my ao dai top; solid black and turquoise blends for my two pairs of slacks. Rose prised the fabrics from the jam-packed shelves and Ms. FMN told us what it would cost: $32 for each of my pants, $15 for Steve's cotton shirt and $20 for the silk one, and $55 for my complicated ao dai. That seemed fair.
Over the next hour, I began to feel like I was in a friend's workroom. Outside, the threatening skies opened up with a deluge that filled the street with maybe half a foot of water, but we were busy being measured — chests, waists, neck and crotch, multiple points along my arms and torso. Informed that we were leaving town early Saturday, the sisters told us to return at 2 p.m. the next day (Friday). When we did, we were sticky from all the walking and bicyling we'd done in the heat and humidity. My pants and ao dai top were a little hard to pull on, and I worried: were they too small? But once in place, it was clear: both my outfits and Steve's shirts fit just the way I'd hoped they would.
Ms. FMN checks the fit of Steve's silk shirt.
Ms. FMN wasn't completely satisfied. She suggested letting out the black pants by a quarter inch; adjusting the torso of the ao dai top by a smidge. We agreed to return and pick up the final products later that evening. (The sisters live upstairs over the shop.)
And so we did. We covered a lot of ground in the 22 hours we had between our first and second visits to #37 Phan Chau Trinh: visited some glorious old houses and temples, strolled the pedestrian streets bedecked with silk lanterns and lined with a million and one tempting things to buy. We hired a motorboat for a 45-minute ride on the Thu Bon river, rode creaky old bicycles past flooded rice fields and water buffalo and cranes. Ate meals that ranked among the most delicious I've ever had. Swam in an exquisite disappearing-edge pool.
The pool at our hotel, with the river just beyond.
But when I think back to Hoi An, I'm pretty sure what will stand out is our time joking with Ms. FMN and her sisters. ("Nice ass!" she cracked as she and I surveyed how her handiwork fit me.) I'm impressed by what an intimate and personal thing it is to craft clothes for one particular body. I expect Steve and I will wear our clothes from Hoi An for years (except for maybe that ao dai top), and every time we do, we'll feel the presence of the tailors.
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Chukanedi /=bush people, grass people,/ jedan od klanova Huna Indijanaca (kolušansko pleme) s južne Aljaske, koji pripada fratriji (bratstvu) Wolf. U prošlosti su bili na nižoj društvenoj ljestvici. Njohov amblem je bio morsko prase, manji sisar srodan kitovima i dupinima, a pripada porodici Phocoenidae.

današnji klan Chookaneidí sastoji se od segmenata Naanaa Hít (Up The Bay House), Xáatl Hít (Iceberg House), Xóots Saagi Hít (Brown Bear's Nest H.), Wandaa Hít (Around The Edge H.), Xóots Hít (Brown Bear House), Yan Wulihashi Hít (Drifted Ashore H.), Aan Eegayaak Hít (Iceberg On The Beach House), Shux'aa Xaay Hít (First Yellow Cedar H.), Kadakw.ádi, Xáay Hít (Yellow Cedar House).

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The dry winter air strips your skin of its moisture. That is why "a good moisturizer is central to good winter skincare" says Dr. Tchelebi. Some of the best moisturizers for dry skin contain lipid molecules called ceramides. These lipid molecules strengthen your skin's water barrier that keeps moisture in.
You put your skin through the wringer during the winter. Give it a much-deserved break at your local skin spa with a professional winter skincare treatment. Microdermabrasion is a great way to exfoliate dry winter skin and Hydrating facials infuse your skin with powerful, moisturizing ingredients.
Taking steamy showers or soaking in a hot bath is especially enjoyable when the weather is cold and dry. But hot water only exacerbates dry skin. Dr. Anca Tchelebi recommends keeping your hot water use to a minimum. Make hot showers quick, and when you wash your face, use lukewarm water.
Winter acne is a common skin malady. Dr. Tchelebi explains that during the cold, dry months "dry skin cells build up on the outer most layer of the epidermis and can easily clog the pores, leading to acne breakouts." To avoid pimples caused by dry skin cells, Dr. Tchelebi suggests weekly exfoliation. "Exfoliating removes the outer most layer of dead skin cells and stimulates cell renewal. Not only will you slough off dead skin cells and other debris that clog your pores and dull your complexion, you will reveal a fresher, more radiant layer of skin.
We may not feel as thirsty when the weather is cold, but your skin still needs you to drink up. Hydrate your skin from the inside out during the wintertime by meeting your recommended daily water intake.


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Corporation Re-applies to Destroy Kootenay Creeks
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It would spell disaster for some Kootenay blue-listed fish populations and streamside wildlife habitats. It would cut right through the heart of rare old growth forests and protected wilderness areas. It's the Glacier-Howser Independent Power Proposal (IPP) — and it's back from the dead.
AXOR Power recently made a second application to the B.C. government to get tenure for its controversial Glacier-Howser-Birnam-Behrman-Suck Creeks Diversion project—a project regional environmental groups say is anything but green.
AXOR made an initial application last year that was denied.
"Wildsight is extremely supportive of green power," said Dave Quinn, Wildsight's Purcells program manager. "But this proposal is not green—it affects fish, grizzly and goat habitat and rare intact old-growth forests. Simply put, 100 megawatts isn't worth the environmental destruction to this sensitive area."
AXOR wants tenure to five streams that drain into the Duncan Reservoir north of Kaslo. The Quebec company would divert portions of the streams through two massive tunnels, large enough to drive a dump truck through, into power plants on the reservoir. From there, it would shunt power east across the Purcells to Invermere. The new transmission line—over 90 kilometres'-worth — would cut right through the protected old-growth and wilderness areas of upper Howser and Stockdale creeks.
"Glacier-Howser is one of the most controversial IPPs in B.C. right now," Quinn said. "It involves the damming and diverting of water from five creeks – Glacier, Howser, Berhman, Suck, and Birnam — and would drastically reduce the flow in critical riparian ecosystems, including important spawning habitat for blue-listed bull trout – all in a region that has already lost much of its valuable valley bottoms under the Duncan, Mica, Revelstoke, Whatshan, and Arrow reservoirs."
AXOR made its latest application to the provincial Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) in early May, but the Environmental Assessment Office was unable to give an exact date.
"The EAO has 30 days to accept or decline the application," Quinn said. "After that, public meeting dates for Invermere, Meadow Creek, and Kaslo will be announced."
Conservation groups are calling for a two-year moratorium on all IPP water licenses until the B.C. Energy Plan is updated to revoke Bill 30, to take care of the "50-megawatt" loophole, and to account for cumulative impacts.
The Province introduced Bill 30 in 2006. "Bill 30 took power from the regional districts," Quinn said. "Suddenly, they suddenly had no local zoning authority over IPPs. Companies like AXOR aren't held accountable to any local level of government.
"The loophole is that any IPP under 50 megawatts doesn't require a provincial environmental assessment—so there are a lot of 49-megawatt proposals right now."
There are more than 70 applications like Glacier-Howser in the Kootenay region, where huge swaths of rich riparian habitat (300 kilometres, by some estimations) have already been sacrificed to hydroelectricity and flood control. "This makes creeks like Howser and Glacier even more important as remaining intact riparian habitats," Quinn said. "And it's important to look at the cumulative effects of all these impacts."
A moratorium will ensure the projects are "green"—not "greed"
"Green energy is good," Quinn said. "But what's happening now is a liquid gold rush, a 'free-for-all'—not green energy. There are no checks and balances to make sure corporations use public lands responsibly.
"Some IPP proposals in areas close to towns, areas already impacted by development, make sense as green energy," Quinn said. "But right now local citizens have no way to help determine which projects make sense, and which projects—like Glacier Howser—make no sense at all. And that's why we're asking people to join us—ask the Province to put a moratorium on all IPP licenses for two years. We need to reestablish what is acceptable and what is out of bounds.
"Once the waterways are diverted, and the pristine valleys cut up with transmission lines, they're irrevocably damaged," Quinn said. "Kootenay citizens need to do everything they can to protect our wild rivers—if we don't, no one else will."
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The Geva Theatre Center Inc. is in line for federal support to help cover the cost of $11 million in renovations.
The National Park Service is providing a 20 percent tax credit to Geva through the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program.
The program encourages the preservation of certified historic structures. Rehabilitation must retain and preserve the historic character of the property, including distinctive features, finishes and construction techniques.
Geva announced in September the completion of a seven-year renovation of the former New York State Arsenal and Rochester Convention Hall.
The state invested 25 percent of the funds needed for the work, with more than 160 individual, foundation and corporate donors contributing the remainder.
The project included roof replacement, masonry restoration and new seating.
Geva said it received tax credits for renovations to the building, not the artist housing or endowment funds that were part of the original campaign. It received tax credits on $3.5 million of the entire project.


A leader in the no-kill movement, Best Friends Animal Society is committed to helping homeless pets.
Best Friends works locally in cities such as Atlanta, New York, Salt Lake City and Los Angeles to reduce the rate of animals entering shelters.
Best Friends is poised to serve as a model for how the entire nation can become no-kill, with no pet ever having to die in a shelter again simply because they do not have a home. Here's how we're doing it.
At Best Friends, we believe that collaboration with local pet shelters and animal rescue organizations is key to ending the killing in America's shelters. Learn about our Best Friends Network partners.
Read more about our lifesaving initiatives — and the many ways that you can make a difference.
Spay/neuter not only reduces the number of animals who enter shelters, but may also prevent medical and behavioral problems from developing in a cat or dog. Read more.
Learn why it's so important that your next pet is adopted from a shelter, and not bought in a pet store.


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Can you describe rain/precipitation and all it's functions in terms that a third grader will be able to understand?
Precipitation in the form of rain or snow occurs when particles of water or ice are large enough to reach the ground. The chief difference between a cloud drop and a rain drop is size. A typical rain drop has a volume that is more than a million times that of a cloud drop. Thus it takes many cloud droplets to make up a single raindrop. Raindrops can be produced by the collision and merging of cloud droplets. Collisions take place because the terminal velocity of a water drop increases as its size increases, over the normal size range of cloud droplets and raindrops. Large droplets fall faster then collide with and merge with smaller ones. When two rain droplets merge, "coalescence" has taken place. As a result of coalescence, the large drops can grow fairly rapidly.
Raindrops are also produced by the melting of ice crystals, snowflakes, and other frozen particles. When ice crystals exist in the presence of "supercooled" water droplets in subfreezing air, the crystals grow as the droplets evaporate. There is a pressure force driving the water molecules from the water to the ice, resulting in a rapid growth of ice crystals in the presence of liquid cloud droplets.
As ice crystals grow, the heavier ones fall. As a result, collisions and merging occur. A snowflake can be made up of a group of crystals stuck together. When such a particle falls through a layer of air whose temperature is above freezing, the crystals melt and raindrops are produced. In mountainous areas during the winter, valley locations often experience rain while snow falls at higher elevations.
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Forecasting model allows Pakistan to anticipate heat waves
Pakistan experienced 126 heat waves of varying durations from 1997 to 2015. Copyright: Caroline Suzman/World Bank [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0]. This image has been cropped.
Statistical model can help Pakistan prepare for heat waves, researchers say
Pakistan experiences an average of seven heat waves annually
Wind and humidity are major factors in Pakistan's deadly heat waves
By: Saleem Shaikh
[ISLAMABAD] A new statistical heat wave forecasting model can help Pakistan predict the triggering and progress of the deadly weather events that plague the country every year, say researchers from Malaysia and Pakistan.
Pakistan experiences an average of seven heat waves a year. A single heat wave in May 2018 left 65 people dead in Karachi city, while in 2015, heat waves caused the deaths of more than 1,200 people across the country.
A study of the Quantile Regression Forests (QRF) model, due to be published on 1 June in the journal Atmospheric Research, says that it is based on daily maximum temperature data from Princeton University's Global Meteorological Forcing from 1948 to 2010 and data from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) of the US.
"I can confidently say that the QRF prediction model holds the key to achieving heat wave resilience in Pakistan,"
Najeebullah Khan, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
The research team used Princeton's data for the reconstruction of historical heat waves and reanalysed NCEP data to select appropriate sets of predictors to forecast heat waves in Pakistan with a lead time of 1 to 10 days, using the QRF model.
The team tested the model to 'predict' 18 heat waves that occurred between 1992 and 2010 by calculating humidity and wind patterns during the summer months. They found the model capable of predicting the triggering and departure dates of heat waves at varying levels of accuracy.
Najeebullah Khan, study author from the faculty of civil engineering at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, tells SciDev.Net: "In view of the study results, I can confidently say that the QRF prediction model holds the key to achieving heat wave resilience in Pakistan."
Data source: Report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Heat waves are defined as spikes in temperature above 45 degrees Celsius in the plains and above 40 degrees Celsius in hilly areas. Average maximum temperatures of 42 degrees Celsius with a 5 to 6-degree Celsius rise, lasting eight days or more, are also considered heat waves.
According to a Pakistan-specific heat wave study published June 2018 in Atmospheric Research, Pakistan experienced 126 heat waves of varying durations from 1997 to 2015.
The study suggests a 75 per cent rise in heat waves by 2030 as compared to the 1997-to-2015 period, a 189 per cent rise by 2060 and a 277 per cent increase by 2090. This means the country will experience around 12 heat wave events annually by 2030, 20 such events by 2060 and 26 events by 2090.
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Ghulam Rasul, former director-general of the Pakistan Meteorological Department, says that Pakistan's climate system is passing through a highly dynamic phase that is bringing surprising changes in thermal, moisture and wind regimes.
"While rapidly shifting weather patterns, including rising average summer temperatures, warming, humid days and shifting rainfall patterns, are leading to a rise in frequency and intensity of heat wave events, deploying statistical models can enhance the country's heat wave preparedness and response ability," Rasul tells SciDev.Net.
According to Omar Mahmood Hayat, chairman of Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority, heat waves, being short-term phenomena, are difficult to forecast and always associated with high uncertainty.
"We will consider how this new heat wave prediction approach, which provides adequate response time between heat wave forecasting and triggering, can be deployed in the country to overcome heat wave-related fallouts," Hayat tells SciDev.Net.
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We have had a chance to look at low-temperature solder alloys and indium in particular. Now it is time to look at high-temperature solder and braze alloy options. Bernie Leavitt is our Senior Product Specialist for high-temperature solder and braze alloys. Bernie has some important observations about reliability in high-temp alloys used for hermetic sealing and bonding.
"When we think high reliability we think of products that need to have a very low risk of failure. For our gold and braze products used in hermetic sealing and bonding, it means much more than that. It also needs to stand the day-to-day operations which can include extreme conditions in harsh environments.
Products made by aerospace companies, for example, require high reliability.
Thermal cycling is experienced in space satellites in temperatures that range from -170C to 123C because their orbit takes them from being in direct sunlight to being on the backside of the earth. Solder or braze needs to withstand the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of the base materials. High silver-bearing braze alloys perform very well in these applications and have a tendency to outlast the base materials they are bonded to.
Creep resistance is a positive attribute of gold alloys because they are resilient enough to hold their form through thermal cycling and mechanical stresses, where other alloys will deform to relieve stresses. 80Au20Sn performs are ideal for high power LED die-attach applications where the solder is exposed to quick heat up and designed to dissipate heat quickly (which adds stresses when turned off).
• For high reliability, an alloy needs to wet well to limit voids. Optimizing all potential bonding surfaces increases shear strength and decreases the chance of pathways for leaks.
• A strong intermetallic layer is where the solder/braze material and base material form a new alloy. Typically, with nickel coated base materials you only want a 1-2µm intermetallic layer. The intermetallic thickness is the result of the amount of time over liquidus during reflow, so having a good profile is key.
If you have an application where you need a recommendation on the right alloy or if you are looking for help with your reflow process, the Indium Corporation Tech Support Team has engineers that have hands-on experience to help optimize reflow profiles and troubleshoot issues. Please contact me, Bernard Leavitt (bleavitt@indium.com), if you have additional questions or like to get some literature on these alloys."


By Nov. 1, eight homeless veterans in Fairfield County will have a place to call home, if only for a couple of years.
Lutheran Social Services has pooled grant money from the Veterans Administration and its agency to buy a home on North Columbus Street that will offer hope to the homeless veterans and show them a way to go forward, said Eddie Rapp, director of Faith Housing of Fairfield County with Lutheran Social Services.
The first thing LSS provided at the emergency shelter was space set aside for veterans who could stay for 90 days while getting help and specialized counseling.
"Right now, we have 10 veterans with us," said Paul Wymer, case manager for veterans with Lutheran Social Services.
Wymer said the VA also wanted a longer-stay facility for homeless veterans that could last two years.
Using a 65 percent grant from the VA, Lutheran Social Services bought a two-story home at 843 N. Columbus St.


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Japan's ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) tax committee held a meeting on Dec. 15 and approved a proposal — initially tabled in August — which removes the requirement for crypto companies to pay taxes on paper gains from tokens that they have issued and held.
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The latest move from the government appears to signal that its hunger to promote and develop the domestic crypto and Web3 sector hasn't waned despite the FTX disaster,
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida emphasized in October that NFTs, blockchain and the Metaverse will play important roles in the nation's digital transformation. The PM cited the digitization of national identity cards as an example.
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Title: Vice Versa
Genre: AU
Rating: NC 17
Summary: Justin and Daphne are on the brink of becoming parents when Brian enters the picture. An angst-free little AU, comprised of equal parts canon and non-canon. How many twists can you spot, accounting for the title?
A/N: Many thanks to techgirl_on_ij for rising above and beyond the call of a normal beta,
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VICE VERSA - CHAPTER SIX
"Justin?"
"Yeah?"
"Tell me again why our bathroom is all torn up, our lives are disrupted by an endless chorus of sledge hammers and power tools all day long, and our driveway is cluttered with dirty pickup trucks all the time?" Brian folds the front section of the Pittsburgh Daily News and lays it on the kitchen table next to the egg-white omelet Justin's cooked for him.
"Dirty trucks," Missy repeats, chewing a mouthful of Cheerios.
"Brian?"
"You're being cranky again." Justin slides the sugar bowl over to him. "Put some more sugar in your coffee. We're doing this 'cause we want to, we can afford it, and the house is gonna be great when it's done." He sits down to dig into his pancakes, preparing one for Missy on a separate plate. "Just keep thinking about how good it'll feel to come home after a long, hard day of work and unwind in the Jacuzzi with a glass of Beam."
Brian dumps more sugar in his cup and stirs it around. "Well how much longer will it be?" he whines. "The shower in the hall bathroom isn't nearly big enough for . . . you know." He smiles at Missy, reaching over to steal a bite of her pancake.
"Roberto said two more weeks, but that was four weeks ago. Brian, I asked you if you wanted pancakes with your omelet, and you said-"
"I don't eat pancakes."
Missy giggles and picks up another syrupy piece of her breakfast with her fingers, placing it in Brian's mouth when he leans toward her.
Justin wipes her hand with a napkin. "Daphne's annoyed, too. Sleeping in Missy's room during the remodel is making her crazy. I just hope her side of the house is big enough for her and Matt when it's finished." Sighing, he looks Brian in the eye, both reading the unease that festers in the other's mind.
"I've gotta get to the office." Brian changes the subject, but he knows it's not over, the Matt Dilemma never seeming to get resolved. He stands up and pulls Justin with him, their lips sealing together while their tongues say good-bye. Then he bends to whisper in his ear before he heads out the door. "I don't really like the way Roberto stares at your ass."
Justin raises an eyebrow, exhaling louder than necessary.
"Cranky. I know."
"Kick, Missy! Kick those feet faster!" Justin holds his three-year-old daughter horizontally in the shallow end of their backyard pool, her swimming lessons progressing nicely for the second summer in a row. "Come on! We want to show Mommy how well you're doing when she gets home from her class."
Missy kicks as fast as she can, the late afternoon sun shining down on them while she tries to add the overhead scooping arm movements Justin's been trying to teach her.
"You're doing great, honey! We need to take a break and put more sunscreen on, though." Standing her on the steps, Justin helps Missy out of the pool, barely slathering her with the lotion before she wriggles away from him and runs toward her swing set in the yard.
"Matt!" Justin looks up to find Daphne's fiancé staring him in the face. "I didn't see you come in. How did you . . .? Um, Daphne gave you a key?"
"Yeah. I hope you don't mind. I heard you and Missy out here in the pool, so I let myself in."
Actually, Justin does mind, a litany of problematic issues running through his head. Daphne marrying this guy, for one. Him moving into their house with them. Missy acquiring a stepfather. With less than a month before the wedding, Justin still hopes his instincts are off. And Brian's, too.
"Daphne will be home in a few minutes. We're going out to dinner." Matt looks around and takes in the construction site their property has become. "Roberto's really whipping his crew into shape. How much longer till it's done?"
"A few more weeks. Missy and I were just going inside. She's getting tired." Leaving Matt in a patio chair, Justin walks over to the swing set and gathers his daughter in his arms.
"I want you push me on the swing, Daddy."
"We're going in now. You know why?"
"We're gonna paint!"
"Paint?!" Missy hugs Justin's neck. "I finish my picture?"
"Yep. Let's go get some dry clothes on you and finish it up today!"
Brian writhes on his satin sheets, his dick crammed so far down Justin's throat they're going to have to send a search party after it. "I'm gonna fuck you so hard, Justin. So hard . . ." His balls seize up as Justin sucks faster, ropes of come boiling out of them and into Justin's mouth.
Justin drinks him down in long swallows, leaving soft little kisses all over the head of Brian's cock before he crawls up into his arms.
Brian holds him close and kisses his lips. "How did you learn to do that?"
"I, um, learned from the master?" Justin smiles and nuzzles his face into the side of Brian's neck, his dick twitching and swelling when Brian's hand roams downward and fondles his ass.
Justin's perfect ass. All for Brian. Rolling him onto his stomach, he separates Justin's legs and slips between them, licking the crack of his ass down to his clean-shaven balls and back up again. A thousand times in a row. Making him wet and insane.
"Fuck me, Brian." Justin's hard cock throbs to be touched, his ass aching for Brian to fill it. "Fuck me really hard, like you said."
"After I taste you." Brian holds Justin's cheeks apart with his thumbs, kissing his asshole and licking all around his rim. Drenching him with saliva, he pushes his tongue in and out of Justin's hole, eating his ass while his own cock comes to life again. When his lubed middle finger plunges into Justin's body, he curves it down and feels for the right spot, pressing on it and wiggling it back and forth. Massaging Justin's prostate with the pad of his finger, Brian watches him raise his ass in the air and clamp his fist around his thick shaft.
Jacking off while Brian rubs him from the inside, Justin closes his eyes and shudders, a white river of come shooting out of his slit. Quivering with sensation as Brian slides his finger out, Justin's ass still craves Brian's dick.
His impossibly long, granite-hard, beautiful naked dick. Brian nudges the spongy head between Justin's cheeks, groaning at the feel of its swelled-up ridge squeezing through his tiny hole. Inching in slowly to fuck him raw, Brian gradually starts pumping his hips.
Justin rocks backward on every thrust. "I love you, Brian. So much. Come in my ass. I want to feel your come dripping in my ass."
Brian hovers on the verge of orgasm and wills himself not to come over and over, finally slamming into Justin so hard he thinks he might break. He freezes while he bathes the inside of Justin's body with hot milky liquid.
Collapsing onto Justin's back, Brian eases them over to their sides. Sticky and spent, spooning as usual, neither can drift off to sleep anymore unless Brian's bare cock is up Justin's ass, his arms holding him fast.
"Hey. How was dinner? Where'd you guys go?" Justin reaches into the fridge for a bottle of water, rubbing his eyes and stifling a gaping yawn. Waking up thirsty in the middle of the night, he jumps at the chance to talk to Daphne alone in their moonlit kitchen. "Want a yogurt?"
"Sure. I couldn't sleep either." Daphne takes the container from Justin and grabs a spoon out of the drawer. "We just ended up going back to Matt's place because he said all the nice restaurants were booked and not taking any more reservations." She opens her peach yogurt and sits on the cushioned bench in front of the bay window.
Justin takes a drink of his water and sits beside her. "That's strange. Matt was here around four this afternoon, saying he was gonna take you out to dinner. He would have had plenty of time to make reservations somewhere." He studies Daphne's eyes, checking for any telltale signs of trouble that might have cropped up between her and Matt. "I didn't know you gave him a key to the house."
"Well, he'll need one when we get married and he moves in."
Nope. No trouble. Shit! Justin runs a hand through his hair, dreading what he's going to say. "Daph, are you sure this wedding is a good idea? I mean, maybe you should think about it a little more."
Daphne looks at Justin, a sneaky grin on her face. "I know what this is." She leans over and kisses his cheek. "You're jealous, aren't you? But you don't have to worry, Justin. Matt's never gonna replace you in my life. We'll still be as close as we've always been after I get married. Matt and I love each other just like you and Brian love each other, but no one can ever come between you and me."
"I know that, Daph. The bond we have can never be broken. By anyone or anything. That's not what I'm worried about." Justin sighs audibly. "I just don't know about Matt. He seems . . ."
"What are you trying to say, Justin?" Daphne's grin turns upside down as she drops her spoon into the yogurt container. "He seems what?"
"Well, just that . . . I'm sure he loves you, but I don't know if he's okay with Brian and me. And he doesn't have any rapport with Missy at all. He's going to end up with all of us when he marries you. Brian and I are trying to give you guys your own space with the addition to the house, but still, we're all going to be living here together. He seems . . . uncomfortable with everything."
"He's fine with it." Daphne glares at her best friend since fifth grade in a way that makes him hate this conversation. "He's never said it's going to be a problem."
Justin's stomach knots up. "I don't think he likes Brian and me very much, Daph. The whole thing just feels . . . wrong."
"Feels wrong?" She flings her half-eaten yogurt into the trash. "He's marrying me, not you and Brian. And it doesn't feel wrong to me. God! You're supposed to be happy for me, Justin!" Stomping out of the kitchen, Daphne leaves him shaking his head in the dark. "And I wish you'd tell Roberto to hurry up with this remodel!" she shouts. "Sleeping in Missy's room sucks!"
Justin hangs his head and rubs the back of his neck. He flinches when Missy's door bangs shut.
Brian stirs when Justin crawls back into bed, reaching for him and pulling him close. "Is Missy okay? I heard her door."
"Missy's fine." Justin nestles into Brian's side, throwing a leg over his. "Daphne hates me."
"You talked to her? I thought we were going to do it together."
"No sense having her hate both of us. We were alone in the kitchen, and I just went for it. It wasn't pretty."
Brian's arms encircle Justin's body. "Maybe we're wrong about him."
"I fucking hope so."
"Missy, go tell Mommy I made waffles for breakfast." Justin sets four places at the table, determined to make things right with Daphne before she and Missy go to the seamstress for their final fittings.
"Waffles?" Brian walks into the kitchen wearing his gray sweatpants and sleeveless tee shirt, ready to work out after breakfast. He sidles up to Justin and whispers in his ear. "I can still feel your cock in my ass. You already had your workout this morning."
Justin gives him a quick peck on the lips before he sits down. "Don't worry. I made you an omelet. Heaven forbid you consume anything, you know, delicious. Well, you do eat me," he says into the fridge, reaching for the pitcher of orange juice. "I guess that counts."
"Morning, guys." Daphne helps Missy climb up into her booster chair and sits next to her. "These look great, Justin."
Brian smiles at her and cuts into his omelet. "Ready for the final wedding gown fitting?"
"Ready as I'll ever be. I shouldn't be having this waffle, but . . ." Daphne takes one from the serving platter for herself and one for Missy. "Weekends are the only days I get to splurge. I have to leave for school way too early during the week."
Justin sets the butter dish in the center of the table. "Daph, I'm really sorry about last night. I never should have said-"
She stops him with a raised palm. "It's okay. I'm sorry I stormed off. I shouldn't have done that."
"Pre-wedding jitters. For both of us." Justin kisses her forehead, finally sitting by Brian and filling his plate. "That's all it was."
Daphne nods at him. "I thought about what you said, though, and you're right. There can't be any tension if we're all gonna be living under the same roof. I'm going to talk to Matt about everything again and make sure he knows what he's getting himself into. I mean, I'm a packaged deal." She laughs at the sound of it. "If he wants me, he gets all of us."
Missy looks around the breakfast table, checking out everyone's plate. "Daddy, how come you get two waffles? Me and Mommy only got one."
"Mommy and I," Justin corrects her. "I'm only having one. The other one's for Brian to rob, bite by bite, when he thinks nobody's watching."
"I don't eat waffles," Brian reminds them all, licking a drop of syrup off his lip.
The kitchen erupting in laughter, Missy giggles loudest. "Bri steals my pancakes!" she tells her mom just before the plastic sippy cup slips out of her hand and its lid pops off. "Oh, no! It falled!" she cries, orange juice splattering everywhere.
"That's why you have your bath after you eat." Daphne sops most of it up with napkins. "Did you remember you're coming with me today to try on your pretty flower girl dress?"
Justin tosses the fallen cup and lid in the sink, reaching into the cabinet for a clean one. "Do you want more juice, honey?"
Brian stands in the doorway of Justin's studio, dabbing at the beads of perspiration on his forehead with a towel. "Time for my swim. Can you take a break?"
"Yeah. I was only waiting for you to finish." Justin rinses his brush and lays it out to dry. Walking over to Brian, his fingers creep up under his sweat-dampened tee shirt and tickle his abs. "I peeked into your workout room when you were on your four thousandth sit-up. How do you do that anyway?"
"Easy." Brian laughs. "I just picture you leaving me for someone your own age, and I'm good for five hundred more. Works every time." He pulls Justin with him into the bathroom down the hall and turns on the shower.
"Good thing I'm into prime aged cock, isn't it?" Justin strips and joins Brian under the spray, washing the paint from his fingernails and hair. "Speaking of which," he says to Brian's rising dick.
Brian smiles at his boy, glancing down at his youthful pink boner. "I thought we were talking about your twenty-one-year-old hard body. Come here."
Making out in a hot shower is just one aspect of Saturday mornings that Brian and Justin treasure. They know there are more, yet neither can think of just what they could be at this particular moment. Soon grasping for the other's cock, they twist and tug and knead, never breaking the kiss while their orgasms build and their come finally eddies down the drain.
"I love you, Justin. You know that, right?"
"I've had an inkling for awhile now." Justin grins at Brian. "I'd never look at anyone else. My age or any other age. You know that, right?"
"I've had an inkling for awhile now."
Brian finishes his daily ten laps and backs Justin up against the side of the pool to rest. Blanketing his face and neck with kisses, he rubs their crotches together. "You're getting hard again."
"I wonder why." Justin smooths Brian's wet hair out of his eyes. "Do you think our bathroom will be done any time soon?"
Brian laughs. "That Jacuzzi better be worth all the gawking at your ass I've had to put up with from Roberto. I'm serious, Justin. He stares! Every chance he gets. I wonder how old he is."
"Yeah, they're loaded. Both of them. They're probably worth millions. You should see this house. It's decorated up the ass, and they're in the process of having it remodeled right now."
Brian and Justin sink lower down the side of the pool, careful not to splash as Matt's voice carries out to the backyard over the intercom system they'd bought when they first moved in. Needing to hear one-year-old Missy's cries from anywhere in the house back then, they had monitors installed in every room and out on the patio, too. Now they never know whether it's on or off because Missy likes to play with the switch.
"I guess he let himself in with his key," Justin whispers. "He must be on his phone."
"I'm telling you, Steve. I marry her, move in here, and I've got it made. Probably won't even have to work. Hell, they support her. Why not me, too?" Matt's maniacal laughter turns Brian's stomach, anger flashing in Justin's eyes.
"If I can stand it, though. Her kid's father is a goddamned fag. Can't keep his hands off his boyfriend. Who's twelve years older than he is, by the way. It's so disgusting. I can just imagine what they do to each other in their part of the house."
"I'm gonna fucking kill him." Justin wants to get out of the water and commit murder in his living room.
"Shh. No, you're not. I'm sure the federal penitentiary won't grant us conjugal visits. Let him keep talking. We need hard evidence for Daphne."
"If I can't stand it here, I'll talk her into getting our own place. The kid? I don't know. Kids grow up all the time living with only one parent. She'll just have to see him every other weekend."
Now physically restraining Justin from climbing out of the pool, Brian's thankful that he works out religiously and that he's significantly taller.
"Or better yet, I'll get her to leave the kid here with him. Then we wouldn't have to be bothered with her. Let the fags deal with the brat."
"Matt?! What the fuck?" It's Daphne, back from her final wedding gown fitting, standing in the living room with her fiancé.
"Oh! Hi, baby! I didn't hear you come in. Talk to you later, Steve." Matt flips his phone shut, nearing Daphne and her aforementioned brat.
Backing away from him, Daphne picks Missy up and holds her close. "What are you talking about? Let the fags deal with the brat? What the fuck is that?"
"I didn't mean it like that. Well, they are homosexuals. I just meant if we got our own place, Missy could stay here with them."
"Are you out of your mind?" Daphne screams. "I would never leave my daughter! And how dare you talk about Justin and Brian like that! I think you better get out of here!"
"Come on, Daphne. You don't mean that." Matt inches toward her with open arms. "I love you."
"Leave me alone!"
"You heard her!" Brian shouts, he and Justin bolting into the house dripping wet. "Stay away from her!" He comes at Matt with fire in his eyes, standing toe-to-toe with him.
Justin races over to Daphne and takes Missy from her. At this age, she's not easy to hold. "You okay, Daph? Did he hurt you?" Slinging his arm around her shoulders, Justin draws her into his side.
Daphne leans into Justin's chest and starts to cry, Missy clinging to her daddy in confusion.
"Did he hurt you, Daphne?" Justin asks again. Looking at Brian, he knows Matt's fate depends on her answer.
"No," she sobs into his chest.
"Get out!" Brian explodes in Matt's face. "Now!" Swinging their front door open, he hopes he doesn't do something to him he'll regret. "If you ever come near Daphne or Missy again, I'll kill you!" He slams the door shut when Matt pauses on the threshold for one last appeal in Daphne's direction.
"Daph, I'm so sorry. I didn't want you to hear all that." Justin guides her over to the sofa, his arm still around her shoulders and Missy still attached to the front of him as they sit.
"Don't cry, Mommy." Missy pats Daphne's arm. "What's a fag?"
Daphne sniffles, reaching out for the tissue that Brian hands her. "All that? What else did he say?"
"I guess he didn't see us out in the pool. The intercom was on. He must have let himself in and thought nobody was home."
"Shit!" Daphne conks her forehead with the heel of her hand. "The key!"
"It's okay. We can have the locks changed."
"Tell me what he said."
Justin catches Brian's eye. They'll give her the toned-down version. "Uh, he liked the house."
Brian nods. "And our money. He was thinking of quitting his job."
"Oh, my God! He never said anything like that! What else?"
"Well, he was concerned about our part of the house." Justin glances up at Brian. "And Brian's age."
"I've been so naive." Daphne dabs at her eyes with the tissue again. "I thought he loved me."
"It's not you he doesn't love. It's . . . Justin and me." Brian shrugs one shoulder, gesturing down at Missy in Justin's lap. "And he wasn't too crazy about becoming a stepfather."
"So you've had the right impression all along, Justin." Daphne looks at him, her eyes bright red. "You tried to warn me. I was so blind."
Justin kisses her cheek. "I think it's good you found out his true colors now. Just imagine the problems you would have had later with him trying to persuade you to move out and leave Missy here."
"Daddy? I a brat?"
"No, honey." Justin hugs Missy and kisses her nose. "You're the best little girl in the world. Sometimes grown-ups say things that aren't true because they're ignorant and scared." He hopes the memory of her mother's almost-marriage to a hate-filled homophobe fades with time.
"Daddy, what's ig-ar-ant?"
"Missy, you know what?" Daphne tries to pull herself together for her daughter's sake. "We're going to explain all these things to you when you're older. Right now, I think you should put your bathing suit on so you and Daddy can show me how well you're learning to swim." She looks to Justin for help. "How does that sound?"
"Perfect! You won't believe how fast this girl can kick!" Justin helps Missy climb off of him and watches her run down the hall to her room. Then he stands and gives Daphne a hand up. "I love you."
"I know." She musters a tiny smile. "Love you, too, Justin. I guess I'll call Emmett and tell him to cancel all the wedding plans. Do you think you can get your money back on the reception hall?"
"It's okay if I can't. It's worth it to me to have this train wreck stopped before it goes any further."
Brian opens his phone, scrolling for locksmiths. "Why don't you let me deal with Emmett? I'm gonna find someone to change the locks, then I'll call him."
"Thanks, Brian." Daphne gives him a peck on the cheek and follows Missy down the hall.
"Jesus." Justin sighs, looking up at Brian. "I can't believe what happened here. That fucker really hurt her."
"I'm just glad it's over." Brian rests his forehead down on Justin's. "Daphne's strong. She'll be all right in time."
"Come on, Daddy! Let's go swimming!" Missy runs through the living room in her little one-piece swimsuit, stopping short at the patio door. She knows she's not allowed in the backyard without an adult. "We go in the pool now? Please?"
"You gonna come out with us?" Justin tips his face upward and kisses Brian's lips.
"Yeah, after I make these calls."
Walking over to Missy, Justin holds her hand and takes her outside. "Thank you for waiting for me. See? I told you you're the best little girl in the world."
Daphne emerges from the war zone she calls her half-completed suite of rooms in a bikini top and cutoff jeans. "I'm getting a hellacious headache. I need drugs."
Brian fishes in the kitchen cabinet for the Tylenol and gives her the bottle. "For the record, Matt's loss is gonna be someone else's beautiful gain one of these days." He gets a water out of the fridge for her. "He didn't deserve you."
"Aw, I bet you say that to all the girls, don't you?" She doses herself up and grins at him.
"Daphne, can I talk to you before you go out?" Brian reaches down for the intercom panel on the side of the lower cabinet and flips the switch off. "I don't want Justin to hear this." He looks through the window above the sink, smiling while he and Daphne watch Missy start the day's lesson. "Okay, here it is. And I will absolutely not take it one step further if you don't like the idea in any way, shape, or form, but you know how all the preparations are pretty much set for a wedding and reception on June twenty-fifth?"
"Whoa, Missy! You've gotta come up for air sometime!" Justin hoists his daughter up out of the water and holds her over his shoulder, thumping her several times on the back. "You can't breathe when your face is in the water! I guess we know what to work on next, don't we?"
Missy coughs and sputters as she catches her breath. When she pulls her hair out of her eyes, she looks up and focuses on the kitchen window. "Daddy?"
"What, honey?"
"Mommy kissing Bri."
"Yeah, Emmett? It's Brian. Listen, I've gotta talk to you. Are you working at Torso right now? ...You've got a customer? ...I'll hold on while you get rid of him. I mean, while you sell him some fabulous article of clothing." Brian rolls his eyes at his phone, wondering why Emmett is wasting his time in retail when his talents clearly lie in wedding planning. Every time they've had him out to the house to discuss Daphne's dream wedding, he's come up with one brilliant idea after another.
"...Yeah, I'm here. ...Daphne? She's fine. ...Matt? He's history. ...Wait! Emmett, wait a minute before you start freaking the fuck out! I still wanna go through with all the plans you've made. That's what I wanted to talk to you about. Can you substitute two different people for the bride and groom? ...Fuck! I think you just pierced my eardrum with that squeal of yours. Calm down, would you? We're gonna need matching dark Versace suits. Do you still have his measurements I gave you when I bought him the leather pants? ...Good. I'll give you mine, too. ...Yeah, everything the same. The place, the time, and the food. Were you able to locate the golden gardenias? ...Good. Keep those, too." Brian holds his phone out away from his ear while Emmett goes off on a tangent about the Sichuan, Banna mountains in southern China.
"...Emmett? You're really good at this shit. How would you like to start your own wedding planning business? ...Capital? ...Collateral? That's what I would be for. ...Yes, I'd do that for you. ...Because I don't have bad ideas."
Brian holds his phone out again while Emmett thanks him profusely. Then he suddenly remembers a vital piece of information his wedding planner needs to hear. "And Emmett? Zip up those loose lips of yours. I don't want this making the rounds on Liberty Avenue. Or anywhere else, for that matter. ...Because I haven't asked him yet!"
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Peabody acquires former Holloway Prison site
Housing association Peabody has acquired the former Holloway Prison site from the Ministry of Justice, with plans to collaborate with developer London Square to construct a 1,000-unit residential scheme — designed by AHMM — which will be 60% affordable. The site will also comprise play areas, local shops, green spaces and a women's centre.
Subject to planning consent, work should begin on the site by 2022, with the first affordable homes completed in 2026.
The deal has been funded with a £42 million loan from the Mayor of London's Land Fund, which Peabody will pay back in full.
Calling the development a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to deliver a considerable amount of much-needed, genuinely affordable housing for local people," Islington Council had put measures in place to ensure that any development of the old prison site would provide at least 50% affordable housing, which Peabody is set to deliver comfortably.
Brendan Sarsfield, chief executive of Peabody said: "We are committed to working with LB Islington and the GLA to deliver an exceptional new housing scheme on this historic site. We are pleased to confirm we will deliver 60% level of genuinely-affordable homes integrating existing Islington communities with a new Peabody estate. As well as providing new homes we will also ensure social infrastructure and placemaking are at the heart of our proposals. We are pleased to be working with London Square which is a continuation of our longer-term relationship across a number of sites in London."
Adam Lawrence, chief executive of London Square, added: "We are honoured to be working with Peabody and the GLA to deliver this important new scheme for the capital. We have a strong track record of delivering high quality, sustainable and mixed communities in London and are delighted to be part of this high-quality team."


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Metrics of High-Density Lipoprotein Function and Hospital Mortality in Acute Heart Failure Patients.
The functionality of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) is impaired in chronic ischaemic heart failure (HF). However, the relationship between HDL functionality and outcomes in acute HF (AHF) has not been studied. The present study investigates whether the metrics of HDL functionality, including HDL cholesterol efflux capacity and HDL-associated paraoxonase (PON)-1 arylesterase (AE) activity are associated with hospital mortality in AHF patients. The study was performed as a prospective, single-centre, observational research on 152 patients, defined and categorised according to the ESC and ACCF/AHA Guidelines for HF by time of onset, final clinical presentation and ejection fraction. The mean age of the included patients (52% female) was 75.2 years (SD 10.3) and hospital mortality was 14.5%. HDL cholesterol efflux capacity was examined by measuring the capacity of apoB depleted serum to remove tritium-labelled cholesterol from cultured macrophages. The AE activity of the HDL fraction was examined by a photometric assay. In a univariable regression analysis, low cholesterol efflux, but not AE activity, was significantly associated with hospital mortality [odds ratio (OR) 0.78, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.64-0.96, p = 0.019]. In multivariable analysis progressively adjusting for important clinical and laboratory parameters the association obtained for cholesterol efflux capacity and hospital mortality by univariable analysis, despite a stable OR, did not stay significant (p = 0.179). Our results suggest that HDL cholesterol efflux capacity (but not AE activity) contributes to, but is not an independent risk factor for, hospital mortality in AHF patients. Larger studies are needed to draw firm conclusions.


As part of our continuing commitment to prioritise quality, LAIC are proud to announce that we have started to implement requirements to obtain ISO/IEC 27001:2013 international certification.
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Diagnosing autism
Photo: Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre's Dr Josephine Barbaro
A diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is based on behavioural observation and developmental history and involves a multidisciplinary team of health professionals. There are now calls for the introduction of a more standardised approach to assessment and diagnosis, writes Karen Keast.
There is no one simple test to assess and diagnose autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Best practice for a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder involves a multidisciplinary team of health professionals, including a paediatrician or a child psychiatrist along with a psychologist, speech pathologist or an occupational therapist.
Diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder
Dr Josephine Barbaro, a research fellow at the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre (OTARC) at La Trobe University, says a diagnosis can only occur through behavioural observation and through developmental history.
"That involves interviewing parents and observing the child; we don't have any concrete biological markers that we can pare up with our observations at this stage," she says.
When making a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, health professionals will use the latest version of the standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - the DSM-5, produced by the American Psychiatric Association in 2013.
The new edition, which replaces the fourth edition of the DSM, introduced major changes to the diagnostic definitions of autism and its related conditions.
The fifth edition features a single diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder with a severity ranking of levels one, two or three, depending on the amount of support the child requires.
Under the DSM-5, a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder replaces the previous range of conditions such as Autistic Disorder, Asperger's Disorder and Pervasive Developmental Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS).
Health professionals now diagnose autism spectrum disorder on the basis of difficulties in two areas.
The first area is social communication deficits, where the child rarely or never uses language, doesn't respond to people or doesn't copy people's actions.
The other area is fixated interests and repetitive behaviours, where the child has an intense interest in certain objects and plays with them in a particular way, such as lining objects up.
This area includes sensory sensitivities, where a child will overreact or under-react to stimuli such as the sound of a ticking clock or the noise of a hand-dryer in public toilets.
The DSM-5 includes a new diagnostic label of Social Communication Disorder (SCD).
SCD is similar to ASD but is diagnosed based on difficulties with both verbal and non-verbal social communication skills and does not include the ASD definition of fixated interests and repetitive behaviours.
Under the change, some children who would previously have received a diagnosis of ASD may now receive this new diagnosis of SCD.
Importantly, those diagnosed under the previous DSM retain their diagnosis and are not required to be re-assessed.
When it comes to diagnosing autism, there are a range of diagnostic assessment tools clinicians use, including two considered to be gold standard - the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2) and the Autism Diagnostic Interview (ADI-R).
Dr Anne Chalfant, a clinical psychologist who specialises in autism and is director of Annie's Centre, says the ADI-R is a structured interview conducted with parents or the primary caregiver of the child.
"For a hypothetical example, John is three and when he and his parents come in for assessment about John, the clinic should sit down with the parents and go through this standardised interview process, asking the parents questions all about John's developmental history to date and his milestones," she explains.
"They're very detailed questions looking for what we call behavioural evidence - so concrete behaviours that we can code using the assessment tool to do with his social and communication skills and repetitive behaviours.
"All of the questions are basically designed to bring to life, if you like, the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder in a way that clinicians can then analyse and in a standardised way, in a way that's reliable between one clinician and the next, and makes sense of the information that the parent gives them."
The ADOS-2 is a standardised diagnostic measure used to observe the child which targets the symptoms of autism spectrum disorder.
Dr Chalfant says the tool focuses on mostly play-based activities.
"Those activities are designed to draw out the features of an autism spectrum disorder if they're present for that child," she says.
"Another hypothetical example is if you have a two-year-old coming for an assessment at the clinic and they had very little language and there was high suspicion of autism, the tool might involve things like the way they play with certain toys, certain play routines, things like peekaboo, pretend birthday parties, games to do with bubble or balloon play, etc.
"What you're looking for, in a standardised way, is a certain type of response from the child - so you're looking for things like repetitive behaviours, lack of eye contact, all of the things that are part of the diagnostic criteria for autism.
"We have these activities in order to draw them out and again code them in a way that is standardised and normed against other children their age, against other children with other types of difficulties, so that we can make solid conclusions as to whether it seems like there is quite a high likelihood that the child has a diagnosis or not."
Clinicians require training to use the gold standard diagnostic assessment tools.
Training is available through Annie's Centre in Sydney, La Trobe University and Monash University in Melbourne, and through a Graduate Certificate in Autism Diagnosis at the University of Western Australia.
Push for a standardised approach
The Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism (Autism CRC), which works in partnership with OTARC, is examining diagnostic practices for autism spectrum disorder across Australia and aims to establish a baseline of current assessment processes.
The study is an essential first step towards developing national standards for autism spectrum disorder diagnosis in Australia.
Dr Chalfant says for too long, assessment of autism spectrum disorder has varied from clinician to clinician depending on their interpretation of social and communication deficits as well as fixated and repetitive behaviours.
That variation can lead to different professional opinions on a child's diagnosis which can steer the family in the wrong direction for intervention.
"We need a standardised assessment process because we want to be making sure that we are getting it right when we are diagnosing these kids, that we are picking up on the right kind of children and that we are not missing anybody but equally that we are not over-assessing or over-diagnosing," she says.
Dr Chalfant says a gold standard assessment should involve a medical review, the use of the ADOS-2 and ADI-R tools, plus observation of the child in their natural setting, either at home, kindergarten or school.
She says clarity around assessment will ensure children access the right type of early intervention.
"We want to make sure these children can access the funding support they so desperately need to fund intervention, because intervention hours are huge and they cost a lot of money," she says.
"Equally, from the taxpayer and the government's perspective in terms of limited funds and scarce resources, we want to ensure we are not over-diagnosing children and stretching the funding dollar too thinly across children who don't warrant that diagnosis and could perhaps be assisted through other types of intervention that may not attract funding."
Rewards of diagnosis and intervention
Dr Chalfant says it's incredibly rewarding working with children with autism spectrum disorder and their families.
"These children are quite incredible - their interests, even when they're strong, fixated interests can be fascinating," she says.
"You see children with a great spread of abilities, so children who essentially in terms of their functioning are non-verbal and very low functioning but who can read, so the mix of presentations that you see can be quite challenging but so interesting."
Crucially, an accurate diagnosis provides families with valuable information about their child's needs and points them in the right direction with intervention, Dr Chalfant adds.
"It's rewarding knowing you can assist and make a difference in that family's life and in that child's life rather than them going around in circles, chasing their tails, and not understanding what their child's needs are."
Did you know? OTARC has launched a free smartphone app, ASDetect, that enables parents, caregivers and health professionals to identify autism earlier. The app does not provide a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, instead it's designed to provide parents with an indication as to whether they should seek professional opinion.
Researchers flag autism diagnosis issues
Autism spectrum disorder research and developments


Following the cancellation of the Special Competition, the Ghana FA Normalization Committee has pugnaciously described Ghana Premier League clubs as greedy and selfish persisting they are the cause of the quashing.
The confrontational statement which seeks to pitch the Ghanaian public against the clubs failed to nail the reasons for the cancellation but aimed at the clubs in a truculent manner.
While the clubs insisted on knowing the entire financial plan for the tournament and also called for an upward adjustment of the appearance fees, the Normalization Committee assumed an almighty posture, forcefully calling the shots and ignoring the concerns of the clubs.
The Committee after announcing the tournament in December last year failed to see the competition alive in January but rescheduled it to February 6 which was subsequently rescheduled to February 15 following administrative challenges and lack of transparency in budgetary allocations.
The Premier League clubs finally accepted to play the purposeless competition after negotiations with the committee for some increment in the financial package for clubs.
The last meeting between the clubs and the committee paved way for the release of fixtures for the competition, ten days to the start of the tournament.
Ghanaians were, therefore, taken aback to see the competition being cancelled with the committee blaming Premier League clubs for the cancellation.
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The crash happened at the Route 114 South Smyrna exit shortly before 10 a.m.
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Q: Data is UTF-8, Ajax is returning some characters incorrectly I have spent a lot of time searching the web and seeing a lot of similar answers, but cannot find anything that works for my situation.
I spent some time converting my MySQL database to UTF-8 from latin1 (the default). I emptied the tables (truncate), and re-imported the data from a text file. I have set the headers for my pages to use the meta tag to UTF-8:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html" charset="UTF-8" />

And that's being used everywhere. When I read data via PHP and output it into forms, and such, the data appears correctly, text like: Königstadt appear as one might hope. Saving them (update set ...) they seem to be okay, because when I re-read them from the data the display in the form is correct. (The display in PHP Admin shows "Königstadt", which is weird, but when I read the data it seems to be correct ... -- I am hoping this is some oddity of PHPAdmin)
Where everything seems to be falling down on me is my Ajax code, when I retrieve data via PHP using Ajax. The following is a relatively simple routine that calls a PHP program to generate the option tags for an SELECT:
     function get_branches()
     {
        // numeric values that need to be passed to the
        // routine (so we show the correct item selected)
        var region = document.getElementById("search_region").value;
        // the code in load_branches needs this, but ...
        var branch = document.getElementById("search_branch").value;

        $.ajax
        ({
           type: "POST",
           url: "<?php echo $Roster_html_RootPath; ?>lookups/load_branches.php",
           data: {
                   'region' : region,
                   'local_branch' : branch
                 },
           //cache: false,
           success: function(data)
           {
              // load contents of DIV tag with id of branchoptions:
              $("#branch_options").html(data);
           }  // end success
        }); // end ajax call
     }; // end function get_branches()

  }); // end document.ready ...

Most of the records returned are fine. However the one shown above (Königstadt) looks like: Königstadt in the HTML Select that is returned.
I have been trying to find a solution, such as setting contentType for Ajax, here are things I have tried:
contentType: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=utf-8",

This one doesn't seem to make any difference at all. Nothing changes.
contentType: "application/text; charset=utf-8",

(or application/json)
This kills the values being passed to the PHP file -- the data array doesn't seem to get there, because I get errors from PHP:
Notice: Undefined index: region in C:\xampp\htdocs\Heralds\Roster\lookups\load_branches.php on line 32

Notice: Undefined index: local_branch in C:\xampp\htdocs\Heralds\Roster\lookups\load_branches.php on line 33

I am at a complete loss how to return the values correctly. I need versions for both text or html (where I return an html table or the option tags as here), but I also need to use the json array for some of my code to return the values correctly. None of them seem to work properly with UTF-8 encoded data. I have been working on this for some time now, and am very frustrated. The explanations I am seeing are not working or in some cases not making sense ...
PHP lookups/load_branches.php
<?php
// if session has not started:
session_start();

// load some basic configuration, including relative paths
// and variables needed ...
include_once( "../includes/configuration.php" );

// data connection
include_once( $Roster_RootPath . "includes/connect.php");

// values from Ajax code:
$region       = $_POST["region"];
$local_branch = $_POST["local_branch"];

// open the roster_branches table and get list
if( $region > 0 ) // check only needed for find_by_branch.php
{
   $branch_statement = "select * from roster_branches where region=" .  $region . " order by local";
}
else
{
   $branch_statement = "select * from roster_branches order by local";
}

// first, get the data from the table:
$branch_result = mysqli_query( $connect, $branch_statement );
if( !$branch_result )
{
   $out = "";
   $out .= "
";
   $out .= "
Error in SQL statement ...
";
   $errornum = mysqli_errno( $connect );
   $out .= "MySQL Error Number: " . $errornum . "
";
   $out .= "MySQL Error: " . mysqli_error( $connect ) . "
";
   $out .= "SQL Statement: " . $branch_statement . "
";
   $out .= "
";
   echo $out;
   die;
}
else
{
   $out = "";
   // create select:
   $out = "<select class='form-control' id='local_branch' name='local_branch'>\n";

   // need the blank option:
   $out .= "   <option value=0 selected></option>\n";

   while( $branch_row = mysqli_fetch_array( $branch_result ) )
   {
      $id = $branch_row["rb_id"];
      $local = $branch_row["local"];
      $selected = "";
      if( $local_branch == $id )
      {
         $selected = " selected";
      }
      $out .= "<option value=" . $id . $selected . ">" . $local . "</option> \n";
   }

   $out .= "</select>\n";
   echo $out;
} // we have something

?>

A:
my MySQL database to UTF-8 from latin1 (the default).

1) I used "utf8_unicode_ci". 2) I have no idea what "multibyte safe functions" you're talking about. I use mysqli_real_escape_string() when reading data from $_POST, and the usual mysqli_query() and so on functions

This is the cause of your issue.
There are 3 main places to work to correct this:
1)
You need to enable true UTF-8 (4-byte) in MySQL so that data stored in your SQL is stored as the correct UTF-8 characters. by universally using collations and character sets with the utf8mb4_ prefix.
2)
To ensure data from your application/PHP is saved correctly you then need to ensure that the data is passed to MySQL as UTF-8 4-byte characters by setting the connection character set to full (4-byte) UTF-8  in your PHP:
$mysqliObject->set_charset('utf8mb4');   // object oriented style
mysqli_set_charset($connect, 'utf8mb4');    // procedural code style

3)
Finally; you need to ensure that any processing PHP does with the resulting data is multi-byte aware; by using the mbstring set of functions.
Most notably:

*

*mb_http_output() — Detect and convert HTTP output character encoding

*mb_internal_encoding() — Set PHP's  internal character encoding

So your top of each PHP page should look like this before any browser output)
mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
mb_http_output('UTF-8');

Then if you do anything with str_<whatever> functions (and some others) you know it won't break you strings before they're output to the browser (ajx in this case).

*

*If you can't use mbstring functions for any reason then check out here [how to install them](http://www.knowledgebase-script.com/kb/article/how-to-enable-mbstring-in-php-46.html
).

*Please also review this excellent Q&A has helped you at all?

*Further reading about solving the MySQL side of things can be found here.

A: ö is "Mojibake" for ö.  See "Mojibake" in Trouble with UTF-8 characters; what I see is not what I stored .
But the real problem probably happen when you converted from latin1.
The tables needed to be converted via ALTER TABLE .. CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4.  Any other technique is likely to make a mess.
Any connection to MySQL needs to be specify utf8mb4.

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Ragi Milkshake | Healthy Milkshakes ~ Full Scoops - A food blog with easy,simple & tasty recipes!
Ragi is an excellent source of calcium, even better than milk! It's wonderful to include Ragi in our diet but except for this ragi sevai, I have not tried anything else with ragi. But that's going to change. I have been exploring many recipes to include ragi and this is one of them.
This Ragi Milkshake makes a healthy and filling drink for the evening or even for breakfast.
1. Take the ragi in a sauce pan and add the water to it and mix well.
2. Add the cocoa powder and mix again.
3. Heat this mixture in medium flame, keep stirring until the mixture becomes thick.
4. Take it off heat and let it cool.
5. In a blender, add 1/2 cup milk and add the ragi mass. Add the cane sugar and blend till smooth.
6. Add the remaining milk and blend again until smooth.
1. You can use sugar instead of cane sugar.
2. To keep this healthy I did not add ice cream. You can add a scoop of ice cream if you prefer.
3. You can skip the cocoa powder if you don't like it.
Refreshing and of course healthy too..
I like the addition of the cane sugar for this power packed nutritious shake.