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YOUR NEWS FOR THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 2017

California affordable housing crisis may not be fixable

State lawmakers can pass all kinds of bills aimed at building more affordable housing. But they can’t repeal the fundamental law of supply and demand for desirable land, and land costs are what really drive up housing prices. Land costs are what really drive up housing prices and make homeownership increasingly beyond the reach of so many Californians. Rentals are virtually impossible, too, in attractive regions along the coast, especially San Francisco.(L.A. Times)

Google’s 5-minute quiz checks for clinical depression

Google, the Mountain View search giant, has just launched a tool for mobile devices that, with a one-word search and a couple of clicks, connects you to a clinically certified questionnaire that can tell you if it appears you have clinical depression. (Silicon Beat)

Study: Big companies not protecting against phishing

A study of top companies in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia has found a majority have not yet implemented Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance protections designed to protect against phishing attacks. (SiliconANGLE)

Uber books record revenue and rider numbers in Q2

Despite a seemingly never ending stream of negative publicity, ridesharing giant Uber Technologies Inc. has continued to go from strength-to-strength both in terms of revenue and rider numbers in the second quarter.(SiliconANGLE)

WPP will barely grow this year

Blaming spending cuts from major consumer packaged-goods marketers who provide 30 percent of its revenue, the world’s largest holding company, WPP, slashed its full-year forecast today to miniscule growth of zero to 1 percent. In a call with U.S. analysts, CEO Martin Sorrell cited a “trifecta of digital disruption, zero-based budgeting and active investors” that is pressuring ad spending from major consumer packaged-goods marketers in particular.(Ad Age)

For some craft brewers, sales are tapping out

Some of the country’s biggest craft brewers are struggling with falling sales, hurt by a glut of competitors crowding retail shelves and moves by megabrewers to scoop up some of their rivals.His company’s retail-store sales were off 7.5 percent this year as of July 16, according to Beer Marketer’s Insights. After years of strong gains, American craft brewers are now bracing for a shakeout. (Wall Street Journal)

Cargill takes stake in non-traditional meat producer

Cargill Inc. is betting you won’t always need cattle to make hamburgers. The Wayzata-based agricultural conglomerate has invested in Memphis Meats Inc., a startup developing technology to grow meat from self-reproducing animal cells. The stake marks the first investment by a traditional meat company in the nascent “clean meat” sector, where startups are creating products they say are better for the environment than meat derived from traditional feedlots and slaughterhouses. (Twin Cities Pioneer Press)

Small business’ struggle to find qualified employees, report

Driven by a positive outlook on the economy, small business owners nationwide are still wanting to hire new employees, but they say they’re struggling to find candidates properly prepared for the jobs they’re needing to fill. That’s among the prime takeaways from the MetLife and U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business Index for the third quarter of the year, a report released Wednesday(Business Journals)

IIHS: Blind spot detection, other safety tech reduce crashes

Lane departure warning and blind spot detection systems significantly prevent crashes, according to two new IIHS studies. Single-vehicle, sideswipe and head-on crashes are reduced 11 percent if the vehicle is outfitted with lane departure warning systems, IIHS found. The rate of injury-inducing crashes decreases 21 percent with the technology. The lane departure warning study included crashed General Motors, Honda, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Subaru and Volvo vehicles produced between 2009 and 2015.(Automotive News)

#Hashtag10: A Look Back At The 10 Tags That Shaped Advertising

Twitter gave birth to the hashtag, but it has since become part of the broader online vernacular. Hashtags are as essential to advertising as jingles and taglines — they’ve jumped from one screen onto the next in TV ads and even appear in print. The hashtag has #transcended. (Ad Age)

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Support Dreamers

Dianne for California

I’m not sure if you know this about me, but I am the daughter of an immigrant. My mother immigrated to the U.S. as a child, unable to speak English and with little education.

Like so many immigrants, she worked hard. She gave back to society. And she raised a daughter who would go on to serve her adopted country in the United States Senate.

But now, President Trump is on the verge of ending important immigration programs, including DACA, which protect more than 750,000 Dreamers from deportation.

I am standing with Democrats nationwide to condemn these latest attacks on Dreamers. Will you join us and tell Republicans to stop threatening to deport innocent Dreamers?

DACA allows Dreamers to register, pay a fee, and pass a background check in order to stay in the country they call home. Right now, over 750,000 young immigrants who came to our country as children have become productive members of our society.

Under DACA, Dreamers have been able to go to school, pay their taxes, and make lasting contributions to their communities as teachers, healthcare providers, small-business owners, and more. Deporting them would cost us more than $60 billion and reduce our nation’s economic growth by $280 billion.

We’ve invested in these young people, and they’re valuable additions to the diverse fabric of America. Not only is it senseless to detain them and deport them to countries that will benefit from the skills they’ve received in America, it’s heartless.

Yet, the attorneys general of 10 states are threatening to sue President Trump if he doesn’t end DACA. And now, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has refused to defend the rights of Dreamers.

It’s up to us, Connie. Please sign our petition in support of Dreamers and demand that the GOP and the Trump administration keep the DACA program in place.

Thanks for your help on this critical issue,

Dianne

Devastating poll: These numbers tell a brutal tale of Trump’s meteoric decline 

How doctors can borrow a scanner to measure anti-oxidant levels

Dear Doctor,

Email Connie at motherhealth@gmail.com to borrow the Phamanex scanner to measure anti-oxidant levels of your patients. The biophotonic scanner uses Raman Spectroscopy and is created by NIH. We can then tailor fit scanner certified and resets 92% of gene expression nutrition protocols.

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Grow black hair, sleep like a baby, reduce skin allergies, improve eye health, and get the endurance you need with high anti-oxidant quality pharma-based supplementation aside from whole foods of fruits and vegetables.  The scan is a 60 seconds test, non-invasive using a portable spectroscopy, validated by science and other institutions such as NIH and Yale.

This week two bay area doctors will demonstrate eye health anti-oxidant biomarker tools.

anti oxidant scan

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Can you turn back the clock by knowing how genes are expressed with the use of nutrition (pharmaceutical grade supplementation)?

Watch the power of measuring outcomes in the arena of nutrigenomics in a 5-min video by Dr Oz in YouTube.  See Dr Oz Pharmanex scanner score.

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Is the stock market crazy — or just giddy?

One study reasons that stocks aren’t trading far outside of what historical experience would suggest.

Train, bus, trotro: This is how people around the world get to work every day

We asked readers from around the world to tell us how they get around each day. From Toronto to Shanghai, here’s how they feel about their options.

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Trump’s welcome self-correction

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The hard work of school reform is paying off in the District

The gains in D.C. students’ college-readiness scores are a testament to the school system’s decade of reforms.

On gun-violence research, California sets an example for the nation

The state’s move contrasts with the dismal abdication of the federal government.

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Calling hatred Satanic just lets people off the hook.

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I was detained for protesting Trump. Here’s what the Secret Service asked me.

Instead of seeing a political dissenter, they saw a national security threat.

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Where do we learn that poverty is shameful and dangerous? At the movies.

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There’s never been a golden age of free speech at American universities.

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Five myths about missiles

We couldn’t necessarily destroy all of North Korea’s on the ground. Or in the air.

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The president would probably never order the use of nuclear weapons

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Montgomery County minimum-wage study was fatally flawed

The debate over a $15 minimum shouldn’t be dominated by one shaky survey.

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What the District could do to help curb prescription-drug abuse

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Health care news: CliniComp sues to stop VA-Cerner contract

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CliniComp, an EHR vendor that supplies software to the VA and Defense Department, says it might have been considered for the contract had the VA conducted open and competitive bidding.  READ MORE

Healthcare organizations ask CMS to harmonize EHR requirements

In comments on a proposed MACRA rule, healthcare organizations said they were happy that the CMS eased EHR requirements for the 2018 performance year, but they still want greater flexibility in which EHRs they could use.  READ MORE

Training staff to help gather data on patients’ race, ethnicity and language

It can be uncomfortable for staff members at hospitals to ask patients for personal information such as race and ethnicity. But experts say the data can help providers better address disparities in healthcare access and quality of care.  READ MORE
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A panel that advises HHS on outpatient hospital payments wants the CMS to drop a draft rule that could cut up to $1.65 billion out of the 340B discount drug program.  READ MORE
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An estimated 10% to 15% of the Bronx’s 120,000 residents from West Africa may be infected with hepatitis B. Montefiore has launched a community outreach campaign to inform the community about health risks, screening and treatment.  READ MORE

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