City Manager Phil Kamlarz announced this week that Berkeley services won’t shut down one day a month this year as he had threatened they might have to, and one city swimming pool will be spared closure this winter.
Kamlarz backed down on these two controversial budget-cutting proposals as he unveiled his proposed 2006 budget that seeks to close an $8.9 million structural deficit to the City Council Tuesday.
If the council approves his plan, residents can expect reduced fire services, a scaled-down police force, fewer youth programs and school crossing guards and cutbacks to the animal shelter, art programs and disabled ride services.
Berkeley’s senior centers remained untouched in the budget plan due mainly to a city proposal to start a case management program that would receive $300,000 in Medi-Cal reimbursements.
Although the council does not have to approve a budget until late June, they have already begun tinkering with Kamlarz’s numbers.
On Tuesday, councilmembers declared their support for funding,—with as much as $100,000—the Creeks Task Force efforts to revise the city’s creeks ordinance. Those funds are not accounted for in the budget for fiscal year 2006, which begins July 1.
In other matters Tuesday, the council approved spending $52,000 to start a bond fund to pay for clean energy products, voted to help a homeless woman recover her impounded truck and dogs, and to allow long-term Berkeley tenants to convert their units to condominiums without paying a fee.
Berkeley plunged into the red three years ago as stagnant revenues failed to keep pace with rising employee benefit costs. Under the city manager’s revised budget forecast, Berkeley faces structural deficits of $8.9 million for fiscal year 2006, which would decrease to $1.6 million in 2007, $1.3 million in 2008 and $0 in 2009 under his recommended cuts. In 2007, the state is scheduled to restore $1.8 million in city revenue, as required under Proposition 1A approved by voters last November.
The key to balancing the budget in 2009, Kamlarz said, is controlling employee costs. He has proposed offering no raises to city employees for the first two years of future contracts. The budget also projects that the real estate boom, which has supplied the city with nearly $5 million in unanticipated tax revenue this past year, will continue and that the economy will improve.
Kamlarz has reached a tentative agreement with officials from several city unions to forgo their contractual right to carry over vacation time beyond 320 hours and have the city buy back excess vacation days. The agreement is an alternative to shutting down non-essential city services one day a month, which would have saved $3 million next year. The vacation deal is anticipated to save $3 million over the course of three years.
Also, under pressure from pool users, Kamlarz has backed off his proposal in March to close all three city pools this winter. The city will use $52,000 in unanticipated revenue and another $40,000 from administrative cost savings to keep open one pool, most likely the pool at King Middle School, Kamlarz said.
With employee costs comprising 77 percent of city spending, Kamlarz has proposed cutting 57.24 full-time positions in fiscal year 2006, most of which are already vacant. No city employees would lose their jobs under the plan.
To save $1.1 million on employee overtime costs, the Fire Department is proposing to rotate engine and truck company closures throughout the year and at times reduce the minimum staffing requirement from 34 firefighters to 28.
With most of the budget news already released in March, and a public hearing scheduled for next week’s meeting, the council offered few comments on the budget proposal. During public comment, several elderly and disabled people protested planned cuts to the city’s paratransit program, and two members of Service Employees International Union Local 535, which represents city employees, expressed concerns about cuts to city positions.
The major question before the council is whether they will dip into more than $7 million in available funds next year to save social programs. Kamlarz has proposed spending the bulk of it on capital projects like street repair, storm drain improvements, a new police dispatch system and improved customer service technology.
Elizabeth Gill, a long-time Berkeley homeless woman, left Tuesday’s meeting feeling more confident that she will soon recover her pick-up truck and two dogs. On Feb. 13, she parked her truck at the Berkeley Bowl to go shopping and returned to find it lifted on to a tow truck while her two dogs were set to be carted off to the animal shelter.
Because many of the parking fines she had accumulated dated back more than one year, Gill did not qualify for community service to work off the tickets and had no way to pay the fines to regain her truck. And without her truck, she said, she had no place for her dogs, which she chose to leave at the shelter.
By a 7-0-2 vote (Olds and Wozniak abstain) the council directed City Manager Kamlarz to waive the one-year deadline for low-income people to work off their fines, to notify the Department of Motor Vehicles that the fines would be removed and to try to help the woman find housing.
Additionally, the city has waived fees for boarding the dogs at the animal shelter, which had climbed to $4,000. Now Gill must pay the $1,000 towing fee to get the truck out of Hustead’s lot in West Berkeley. She said friends in local organization’s Copwatch and Women in Black have already raised about three-quarters of the money.
Gill said she looks forward to being reunited with her two German Shepherd mixed dogs. “They’re like my kids,” she said.
Changing city policy to help one woman left several councilmembers concerned, although most backed the proposal in the end.
“It’s not a good way to do policy, folks, but sometimes you have to act,” Mayor Tom Bates said after the vote.
Tenancies in Common
Tuesday’s meeting also proved beneficial to four residents of an Oxford Street apartment building who may soon be exempt from city fees for converting the building they recently bought into condominiums.
The tenants, all of who had occupied their units for more than 10 years, purchased the building last year from the landlord as a tenancy in common (TIC).
TICs are usually considered a risky investment because shareholders do not hold title to specific units as they do for condominiums, and owners can have more trouble obtaining financing. To convert the units to condominiums, the tenants, under current Berkeley law, would have had to have paid the city about $50,000 per unit, which they said they couldn’t afford.
To help remedy their predicament, the council voted 5-4 (Maio, Worthington, Spring, Anderson, no) to authorize the city attorney to change the rule so that tenants who have lived in their units since 1995 would be exempt from the fee.
After the vote, Councilmember Betty Olds, who has co-sponsored the resolution, hugged the residents outside council chambers, telling them, “I’m thrilled to death. I don’t usually win.”
While the council made it easier for long-term tenants to convert their units to condos Tuesday, they made it more expensive for other would-be condo owners. By a 5-4 vote (Bates, Wozniak, Capitelli, Olds, no) the council raised the fee for condo conversion from 10 percent of the unit’s sale price to 12.5 percent. The fee will go to the city’s housing trust fund, which leverages affordable housing projects. Opponents of the fee hike feared that it would serve as a disincentive for owners to convert to condominiums and instead they would buy properties as TICs.
By a 7-2 vote (Wozniak and Olds, no) the council authorized Kamlarz to pay $52,000, either to for-profit venture capital firm Power Factors Inc. or to a non-profit firm to work on establishing a bond fund to help local businesses pay for clean energy projects.
Berkeley is still waiting for Oakland to also authorize money for the project. Speaking in opposition, Wozniak thought the bond was a good idea, but questioned why the city was giving money to a venture capital firm when it wouldn’t have ownership of the equipment.
“I’m not convinced we got the best deal,” he said.


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On Tuesday, March 21, Lower School students celebrated World Down Syndrome Day by participating in the WDSD #LotsofSocks Campaign. Our students chose to wear colorful and wacky socks as the perfect opportunity to start a conversation about WDSD.
Inspired by a beloved family member diagnosed with Downs Syndrome, two Lower School students challenged the whole of Lower School at last week’s assembly to support World Down Syndrome Day by wearing fun colored and wacky socks to school. The girls talked about the importance of people with disability and the contributions they make to our world. Head of Lower School, Mrs. Faasee commented: “The girls did a fantastic job discussing what Down Syndrome is and how it is something that doesn’t stop you from dreaming, doing and achieving.”
One in every 1000 babies born in the United Kingdom will have down syndrome and one in 700 in the United States. Down syndrome occurs when an individual has a full or partial extra copy of chromosome 21. This additional genetic material alters the course of development and causes the characteristics associated with Down syndrome. Recognizing these unique people and the difference they can make to the community and how much they can achieve is a vital part of reducing the stigma surrounding disability. All valid lessons for our students, parents, and faculty to learn.
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Youth icon Fahad Fazil has signed a project with Satyan Anthikkad. The untitled project is expected to go on floors by June of this year.
The screenplay is by Iqbal Kuttippuram who has penned the script of Lal Jose's 'Diamond Necklace'. According to the director, he is in search of a heroine for his new film, who has a role of almost equal importance as the hero.
The movie will be produced by Central Pictures. Let's hope that Satyan Anthikad, as usual, will bring in a simple and realistic film which is related to Malayalees day to day life.

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I wish he'd just be straight out and say if I am not someone he really would see himself with rather than be so distant. Maybe you have just started it or maybe you are coming close to your end date. No head games says it like it is. I completely broke down after the break up and was moping for over a week. To make your ex boyfriend miss you right? We had another good chat and we resolved a lot of things, he has said that he will consider going to counselling. We spent happy times together thought it was forever but after a month, he needs to go back home and to his main work.
All these indirect messages showed me that he didn't really understand why I stopped all contacts with him since then. But if we do, it has to be a new relationship — not the old one. What do you want from this guy? I miss a guy…but I think I miss the moments when he was still in love with me. He has gone back to his hometown and re-connected with people he claimed he hated and has given up his tenancy on his flat I heard through a friend to move back to his home town, away from where I live. Allow the actions and events of this relationship to influence you in the future.
I think that was why he was annoyed at himself for calling me yesterday. When you do that great things can happen. Whatever his reasons, he has decided that he does not want to try and this is a glaring signal for you that instead of focusing on him and praying that he will come back, that you actually need to focus on you, feel the pain, grieve and move forward. Because there's something we do with ambiguous situations like this. He said he had never thought about it because we had happened so fast and that 2 months ago he had never even thought about marriage.
The last thing I want is a rebound relationship. Cheating is absolutely not ok unless you have agreed to be in an open relationship. Too many people fail to realize that being in love has one big negative, loss. That means he actually cares about you enough to check in with you at all times of the day! As tough as it is, and as illogical as it seems, your best bet is giving him some space. To me, closure is self-imposed discipline. He has introduced me to his parents who are phenomenal. If I call or text him he answers and we talk or he texts me back… but he never calls or texts me first.
Make him prove himself — through his actions. He didnt want to talk, didnt want to see me. We got into a fight and he tild me that he needed space and not to contact him unless it was an emgerency. JuJu Let your falling off the face of the earth to him be the mystery he ends up living with. We were still sexually involved but he had sex with another woman and would choose friends he just met over me. We always had issues with his friends and family.
What you do as a single mom is nothing short of amazing! I had this terrible experience where a guy tried to get my attention, put in efforts, started getting closer and more physical kissing and hugging …was thinking he could be the one to move forward for a new relation and suddenly everything crashes when I found out that he has been fooling around with many other girls historically and even when was seeing me. He got sick; I was by his side. Is that something you are willing bear? Reading your comment, I interpret this guy as someone who's not logical. Many stories surfaces after I found out the real him…. He said he would give me one last chance and that he would hit me if I torture him or refuse to leave again. I was put on the guestlist, and was supposed to be there and go home with him after the show. Ah well, tell always tells in the end, I suppose.
And all I can concentrate on is this moronic excuse for a man. There's a reason it's still on your mind. He showed interest in me when he checked-in but I ignored him because it is not proper and we are not allowed to have relationship with any of our guests. He took what I said with a lot of neutrality, only dissenting when I told him I felt like he was expecting the same relationship we had except without sex. You do not accept poor hygiene of yourself why would you accept it of another? I think you handled it really well. He texted me back one word yes after I told him people in disaster were okay. Have you read this article on? I have a life,,, tell what time ok,, other wise talk soon.
I have done some really shameful things when I have been ignored in the past. We were crying all night and I stayed at his place but nothing happened, all he did was comfort me and tell me how amazing and important I am. I instead ended it, and told him I deserve better treatment. If he didn't write back, then he did me a huge favor! He then said that he had the same argument each week for three years. It's because of what we go through that we come out the other side to a place we could never otherwise have seen.

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As a staggering 12,000 species of wildlife are pushed closer to the brink of endangerment, The Alliance for America’s Fish & Wildlife (Alliance) today unveils a means for Tennessee residents to help ensure our fish and wildlife habitats remain intact to allow future generations to pursue the outdoor activities we enjoy today.
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This week's DIY is a t-shirt DIY — which is, in case you haven't guessed, one of my favorite kinds of do-it-yourself project, because of the ubiquity of the raw materials. And this t-shirt DIY comes to you with the help of a very special guest: fashion designer Natalie Chanin, of the label Alabama Chanin. She showed me how to do the most incredible things with a needle and thread.
In addition to the acclaimed Alabama Chanin collection — for which Natalie has been nominated for a Council of Fashion Designers of America award, and which you might have seen in the pages of such magazines as Vogue — Natalie Chanin runs sewing workshops and sells DIY supplies, clothing patterns, and kits on her Web site. She's also the author of three DIY books. That hands-on focus is unusual in high fashion, to say the least, which often likes to preserve as many illusions as possible about where (overseas?) and how (proprietary!) and by whom (paid?) it is made. And Alabama Chanin definitely is high fashion — its clothing can retail in the thousands of dollars.
Chanin is out to challenge the idea that "fashion" is about the designer, and "sewing" and "craft" is about the home-made. As she puts it, making things needn't be viewed as a competition between the "auteurs" and the "amateurs." (This view also has a gendered dimension that is itself inherently problematic — "fashion" connoting that which is hierarchical and male, "craft" that which is humble and female.) When she started selling her patterns, she says, others in the industry told her, "You just killed your business." But sales of her collection remain robust, she says — probably because the many hours of work that go into most pieces make them difficult to truly replicate — and the DIY side of Alabama Chanin has meanwhile grown to nearly match the fashion side.
Natalie Chanin lives in Florence, Alabama, where her design workshop is located (and where her clothing is made, by local seamstresses who earn a living wage in an area of the South that has been ravaged by unemployment and industry flight). But this week, when Chanin came to New York for the Makeshift conference on sustainability and DIY culture in fashion, I jumped at the chance to meet her. We drank chamomile tea and talked DIY and did DIY. I learned things.
If you're like me, you believe that making things can be powerful. It's an exercise in autonomy, and it's a demonstration of thrift. I find sewing a purse, even if it takes me a week's worth of evenings (maybe because it takes me a week's worth of evenings) much more empowering, and certainly more satisfying, than I do buying one.
Here's how to do the t-shirt DIY we chose.
You will need, clockwise from top left: 1) A stencil. 2) A t-shirt. 3) Butcher paper, or old brown paper bags, flattened. 4) Fabric paint. 5) Sewing scissors and embroidery scissors. 6) Beads and sequins that you want to use. 7) Scrap fabric if you want to do appliqué. 8) Pins, needles, and a pincushion. 9) A Sharpie. 10) Thread. 11) Beading needles. You will also need a hairdryer, a sponge, and a plate, not pictured.
To prepare your shirt for stenciling, fold a piece of brown paper to size and push it up into the shirt. This will hold the shirt flat, and prevent the fabric paint or Sharpie pen from soaking through to the back of the shirt. Click any photo to enlarge.
Pour out a little fabric paint — you can buy it at any craft store, or online — and dab it on the inside hem of the shirt to test the color. Point the hairdryer at it until it sets. I decided I wanted a kind of tone-on-tone effect with gray paint on a gray shirt, so I tested two grays. One was a little too tone-on-tone, because once it dried you could hardly see it. I went with the lighter gray. Another great option if you don't want to use fabric paint? Chanin suggests using a Sharpie to color in the stencil, because they're permanent and they come in so many colors.
Lay out the stencil over your shirt. Decide where you want the design to be placed. If you only want to use part of the stencil — say, if you want to place a big flower or another design element at the hem or over the bust — then put another piece of butcher paper between the unused areas of the stencil and the shirt. I'm using a stencil that is available on Alabama Chanin's Web site — you can either buy a laser-cut plastic stencil like this one, or you can download the pattern for free, enlarge it, and cut it out of a piece of plastic yourself — but there are plenty of other stencil sources out there. Chanin suggested stencil books published by Dover, which cost $1.50-$2 for a whole booklet of designs.
When you've decided on your stencil placement, use glasses of water (or cans of beans, or whatever you've got that's heavy) to weight the stencil. Then pour the fabric paint into the plate and start sponging it onto the stencil.
Ta-da! Chanin says that with most fabric paints, you should wait three weeks before washing the garment. Fabric paint continues curing after it dries, and the paint will live longer if you let it cure completely before getting it wet. She says you can machine-wash any fabric paint without fear, unless otherwise indicated.
Use the hairdryer to speed the drying time. Once the t-shirt was dry, I repeated the stenciling on the back of the shirt.
Now it's time to sew on some embellishments. You can use beads, you can do appliqué, you can sew on sequins — whatever is your wont. But first, you need to thread your needle. Natalie Chanin had some needle-threading wisdom to impart that I would like to share.
First, you need to consider your needle and thread very carefully. You need thread that will be strong enough to secure some heavy elements, and you need a needle with an eye big enough to contain that thread, but small enough to pass through a tiny glass seed bead. Chanin likes Coats Button Craft thread, a strong, rigid thread with a polyester core wrapped in cotton. It's made in Mexico; there aren't many U.S. factories that make specialty threads these days. As for needles, Chanin likes Richard Hemming & Son Milliners Large-Eye Needles in size 10. The eye is totally flush with the barrel of the needle, but it's big and round and just fits a Button Craft thread.
But there's more to threading your needle than just having the right equipment. Chanin told me that you should always thread the end of the thread that comes right off the spool — you shouldn't unspool a length of thread, cut it, and then push that cut end through the needle's eye. This is an old wives' tale, but it turns out it's based in physics. Any thread has torsion because it's made of many smaller fibers twisted together. When thread is rolled onto a spool, it picks up torque — meaning that when you cut it, thread is more likely to twist in one way than another. When you cut into a thread that comes off the spool, says Chanin, the fibers in that thread shrink back and twist more tightly around each other — making that cut end easier to navigate through the eye of a needle. The other end of the thread, by contrast, starts to untwist when it's cut. Always thread right off the spool. And always cut the thread at an angle, to make a sharp, twisted "point" that will go through a needle's eye with relative ease.
"There's another old saying," said Chanin. "You don't thread your needle, you needle your thread." Don't take the thread to the needle. Hold the thread securely between thumb and forefinger, and bring the needle's eye down onto it.
Never sew with a thread that's longer than two times the distance from your thumb to your elbow. It's not ergonomic, and a thread that's too long undergoes too much stress from the violence of pushing through your fabric repeatedly. A thread that's too long will get weak from abrasion; that weakness will affect the lifetime durability of your garment. Chanin says that at the sewing workshops she leads periodically in Florence, she always tells people that the last step to threading a needle is to work out some of the torque and torsion in the thread by stroking it repeatedly. This step, which she calls "loving the thread," leads to a less-twisty sewing thread that's also less likely to knot. And you should talk to your thread, says Chanin. While you're smoothing it with your fingers, you should tell the thread about the qualities that you want the wearer of your garment to feel when she puts it on — wisdom, peace, beauty, intelligence, confidence, however you want her to feel. Chanin says that you have to love your thread, and love your work, because sewing is time-consuming and should only be done out of love.
Chanin also told a story about how to knot the thread. Big, bulky knots are a signature of Alabama Chanin clothing — because when you work primarily in cotton jersey t-shirt fabric, you need a big knot to hold your work together. (Cotton jersey is a knit, and up close, like all knits, it's riddled with little holes a small knot could slip through.) "There's a story my granddaddy told me when I was a little girl," said Chanin. He told her to pick up all the sticks she could from the yard and bring them to him. When she did, he took one stick and asked her to break it. "So I did," she said. "Then he had me pick up the whole bundle, and he asked me to break all the sticks. And of course I couldn't. He said, 'That bundle of sticks is like your family. And nothing can break it apart.' You need your family of threads to have a big, strong knot, or your work will come apart." She was wearing a floor-length skirt covered in hand-sewn appliqués in the shape of leaves; each was secured with a large knot. It had taken over a month to sew, she said. And in years of machine washings, not a leaf had come undone.
I decided to sew on some sequins, using a chain stitch. Here's how you do a chain stitch: first, push up through the fabric from the wrong side. Pull the thread all the way through.
Push a sequin down onto the thread. Insert the needle into the center of the sequin, back the way you just came.
When you've pulled the thread almost all the way back through, leaving a little loop in the middle of the sequin, poke the tip of your needle back up through the fabric at the edge of the sequin. Catch the loop in the tip of the needle. Pull the needle all the way up and tug the stitch so it's snug.
Then add another sequin, make another loop, and catch it in your next stitch. See how each subsequent sequin overlaps, and hides, the stitches in the chain?
I decided to use the sequins to fill in all the areas of the pattern on the shoulders of my shirt, and to progressively fade the sequins out farther down. I like the texture of the sequins. The top part of the pattern will be super sequin-encrusted, while the bottom sections might just have a sequin or two here and there.
This is about five hours' worth of sequin-sewing, and as you can see, the shirt is wearable but my sequin-encrustation plan is not quite fully realized. I think this is going to be one of those projects I come back to periodically, sewing and adding to when I feel moved.
Natalie and me. I will never thread a needle again without thinking of her.
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Wednesday June 14th, 2017
The La Rabida Children's Advocacy Center (CAC), based in Park Forest, IL, recently increased its delivery of trauma services for youth in the south suburbs by 204%. Ted Slowik of the Daily Southtown interviewed the Center’s Program Director Christina Ayala, MSW, on why the changes were necessary. To read the story, click here.


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VENICE — Maya Kowalski received 55 doses of ketamine over a nine-month period, including one given the day before her mother demanded that emergency room doctors at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital administer more of the drug to the 10-year-old girl, an attorney for the hospital told a Venice court Thursday.
Ketamine, an anesthetic, has been used to treat complex regional pain syndrome, a disorder that Maya had been diagnosed with by a pain specialist. But All Children’s doctors were reluctant to agree to Beata Kowalski’s request that her daughter, who at the time was on 21 other medications, get a 1,500-milligram dose of the drug, said Howard Hunter, the hospital’s lead counsel.
“They had a child being given levels of medication they had never heard of before, that the literature did not support,” Hunter told the jury.
Opening statements in the civil trial brought by the Kowalski family provided competing accounts of the events following Maya’s arrival at the hospital on Oct. 7, 2016. Medical staffers’ decision to twice report the girl’s mother to the state’s abuse hotline led to a judge ordering Maya Kowalski be removed from her family and sheltered for three months at All Children’s. After 87 days with no physical contact with her daughter, Beata Kowalski, 46, took her own life.
Greg Anderson, lead counsel for the Kowalski family, told the jury that evidence will prove that the hospital misdiagnosed what was causing Maya to vomit and feel severe pain, which led it to go to extreme lengths to hide their mistake. The hospital wrongly accused the girl’s parents of medical child abuse, he said, and later tried to prove that Maya was faking her illness.
During her stay at the hospital, employees restricted who Maya could see and took her holy water, prayer book and rosary beads away, he said. The girl was stripped and photographed against her will and placed in a room where she was videotaped over a two-day period without permission from either the family or a court, Anderson said.
“Maya Kowalski was falsely imprisoned and battered,” he said. “She was denied communication with her family; she was denied communication with the outside world. She was told her mother was crazy.”
Throughout the proceeding, Maya, now 17, sat in the courtroom between Anderson and attorney Nick Whitney. Her father, Jack Kowalski, and brother Kyle, 15, sat on a bench behind them.
Tears appeared on her face when Anderson detailed to the jury the exact way her mother took her own life in the family’s Venice home on Jan 8, 2017. Behind Maya, the shoulders of her brother gently shook.
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The opening skirmish of the trial provided a first glimpse at how hospital attorneys plan to overcome a flood of negative publicity around the case. The Netflix documentary “Take Care of Maya,” which tells the story of the family’s tragedy, was viewed almost 14 million times in the first two weeks following its June release. The family’s story has also made international headlines.
Hunter said the hospital acted out of reasonable caution and was pursuing what it believed was the best treatment plan for Maya. The high doses of ketamine and the other medications the girl was on were grounds to be skeptical about the care the girl was receiving, he said. The decision to remove Maya from her family was made by the Florida Department of Children and Families, and the hospital was obliged to follow court orders regarding her care.
“A doctor’s concern about how much she was being given and the frequency with which it was being given is very well placed and vindicated,” he said.
The decision to photograph the girl was to document whether lesions on her body were spreading, he said. The treatment regime that doctors recommended for the girl, including physical and behavioral therapy, improved her health during her stay in the hospital, during which time she put on 4 pounds, Hunter said.
The 2018 lawsuit the Kowalski family filed against All Children’s in Sarasota County is seeking both compensatory and punitive damages.
It alleges that hospital employees battered and falsely imprisoned Maya., that the hospital was negligent in its medical treatment of the girl., and that the hospital caused severe emotional distress to the family, which was a factor in the mother’s suicide.
It also alleges that the hospital fraudulently billed roughly $536,000 for treatment for the disorder that hospital doctors claimed Maya did not have.
According to news reports, the Kowalskis are suing for $55 million in compensatory damages and $165 million in punitive damages.
The case continues Friday with witnesses appearing for the family. It is estimated the trial could run for up to 8 weeks.


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The world population will cross 8 billion today, India will lead the population next year
The report ‘World Population Prospects’, released on Earth Day, says that between 2022 and 2050, the population of 61 countries could decrease by one percent or more. There will be reasons like migration after this. Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, said, “This year’s World Earth Day comes on a day when we are estimated to be more than eight billion people in the world.” And there is an opportunity to build on the achievements of the medical field in increasing life expectancy and reducing maternal and child mortality rates.”
With this, Antonio said, “Although we are reminded of our common responsibility to take care of our planet, it is also a moment of reflection where our bonds to each other fail.” Eight countries will account for more than half of the world’s population growth by 2050. These countries include India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Philippines, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Congo and Egypt.
China is the most populous country in the world from the last several countries. However, due to strict regulations implemented by the Chinese government, the rate of population growth has decreased significantly. Because of this, next year China is expected to drop to second place in terms of population. In other countries such as Japan, the birth rate continues to decline. In India also the central government has implemented other population control programs. Despite this, the country’s population growth rate remains high. Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state in the country. The average global life expectancy at birth increased three years earlier to 72.8 years. This is an increase of almost nine years since 1990.


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It seems there is a test for every medical problem. Demand is high for better, faster, more sensitive tests, but did you know some of these tests may not be useful or even approved by the FDA?
This is especially true of laboratory developed tests or LDTs. Some examples of LDTs are tests for genes or proteins linked to rare diseases or cancer. LDTs were intended to be simple new tests or variations designed by specific laboratories for use in their facilities. For instance, a hospital that specializes in treatment of rare cancers might develop a genetic test to identify patients with these rare cancers. The genetic test would be used only in that hospital and only for patients receiving treatment in the hospital.
LDTs were not intended to be marketed or used outside of a single facility and so FDA decided not to regulate LDTs. Since FDA isn’t regulating them, the FDA does not require extensive testing or independent evaluation of the proof that LDTs work, which they require for most medical tests. However, a growing number of companies are widely advertising LDTs as diagnostic tools and neither doctors nor patients realize the LDTs are not proven for this purpose. Doctors send patient samples to a company who performs their LDT and sends the doctor results to be used to make a diagnosis. Doctors may not know how to correctly interpret results from new tests, putting patients at risk for misdiagnosis.
Two Examples of Questionable Tests:
The standard test for Lyme disease is known to be inaccurate. In 2011, a company produced a new test for Lyme disease that it claims is more accurate, and doctors and patients assume it is. Unfortunately, there is no published data proving the accuracy of the new test.
The usual test used to diagnose prostate cancer measures prostate specific antigen (PSA), but experts criticize the PSA test because it identifies cancers that are unlikely to ever harm the patient. A new genetic test can better identify cancers that are more aggressive and could be fatal. However, 19% of men who are categorized as having low risk cancers based on the new test die of prostate cancer — making the new test too inaccurate to help men decide which cancers require treatment. With a high price tag (the test costs $3400) and low confidence in the test, this LDT seems to be an expensive but mostly useless test in terms of helping patients and their doctors make treatment decisions.
Here are some points to think about when deciding if a test will be useful in diagnosing or treating disease:
- Do not get a test without consulting a doctor you trust.
- Ask your doctor if the test is proven to work in published studies or if it is a new test that might not yet be proven. If a test is only performed by one facility, it might not be widely accepted or validated.
- Do not get a test unless there is a good reason (family history, you’re experiencing symptoms that are only related to a particular disease). If you think you have a particular illness, talk to a doctor FIRST instead of insisting on a test. There might be another explanation.
- Before getting a test, ask your doctor if the results of the test would influence your treatment. If the answer is no, it’s an unnecessary test. CLICK HERE for more information about the Choosing Wisely campaign to avoid unnecessary medical tests.
All articles are reviewed and approved by Dr. Diana Zuckerman and other senior staff.
- Food and Drug Administration (2010) Accessed 6/21/2013 http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/NewsEvents/WorkshopsConferences/ucm212830.htm#background
- Center for Disease Control (2011) Accessed 6/21/2013. http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/faq/index.html#accurate
- Advanced Laboratory Services (2011) Accessed 6/21/2013 http://researchednutritionals.com/Announcements/LymeCultureTest.pdf
- New York Times, May 8, 2013. Accessed 6/21/2013 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/business/prostate-cancer-test-from-genomic-health-assesses-risks.html


An inquest into the death of cricketer Bradley Raper has been adjourned as hospital and ambulance service reports are still needed.
Ambulance response times in Norfolk have steadily climbed since the start of the new year, with health chiefs blaming difficulties in recruiting emergency staff.
A man in his 40s remains in hospital in a critical condition after a fatal collision in Scarning on Monday.
"They are heroes, but if my accident had been after midnight, there's no way I'd be here now."
Locks of hair were falling like rain onto the floor of a Norfolk salon, as 20 people braved the shave to help a poorly little girl.
Inquests have opened into the deaths of two people who died after falls, including a man who died on Christmas Day.
A charity head shave organised in support of a young girl diagnosed with a brain tumour is set to raise much-needed funds for her family and show her that "being bald is beautiful."
A young boy battling a rare form of cancer will benefit from a bingo night.
The family of 24-year-old Bradley Raper, who died after being involved in a car accident near Thetford, are raising money for the East Anglian Air Ambulance in his memory.
An inquest has been opened and adjourned into the death of a popular 24-year-old who died after a road crash near Thetford.


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I was quite sad to see loads of local bars and brothels displaying "US NAVY WELCOME HERE" signs whilst walking through Wan Chai the other day.
It meant that for a few days Wan Chai would change and become a totally different animal. I was with a few friends when we spotted the ominous signs and one of them quite rightly said that for the next three days they were not leaving the flat.
Luckily though I have since discovered that China intervened on our behalf.
On Nov. 20, the Chinese refused to allow two minesweepers, the Patriot and Guardian, to come into Hong Kong to refuel and take refuge from a storm. The next day, the Chinese refused to permit the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk and its strike group to make a scheduled four-day port call to Hong Kong for the Thanksgiving holiday" (Source)


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The Golden Bride Takes the Stage at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
The production was nominated for two 2016 Drama Desk Awards.
The Phantom of the Opera's Rachel Zatcoff Joins The Golden Bride
Zatcoff made her Broadway debut as Christine Daaé last year.
The Phantom of the Opera to Welcome a New Christine and Raoul to Broadway
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical runs at the Majestic Theatre.
Broadway's Phantom of the Opera to Welcome Two Principal Cast Members
Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running musical will say hello to new stars.
Rachel Zatcoff to Make Broadway Debut in Phantom of the Opera
Broadway veteran Craig Bennett will step into the role of Monsieur Firmin.


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Before Eagle Rock turned into the hipster haven it is today, it had a rather rich history dating back to the Tongva Indian tribe, who lived peacefully in the canyons surrounding the famed Eagle Rock and drank from a deep well in the vicinity of today’s Yosemite Playground. In colonial days the land was part of the San Rafael Rancho given to Jose Maria de Verdugo by Spanish governor Pedro Fages and was eventually subdivided and sold off after statehood (31 parcels of land were divvied up, and the Eagle Rock portion was purchased by Benjamin Dreyfus).
For years the land was used for truck farming and orchard planting with the hills and dales connected by a wagon road to Glendale. The valley was described as “a picturesque bit of country scenery tucked away by itself far from the main roads of travel.” To the rest of the city the place was mostly known for its marvelous strawberries (Gates) and winter vegetables. Then came Mr. Huntington’s streetcar connections to Los Angeles in 1906, and the farmland became real estate.
Eagle Rock was described in local newspapers as “high dry health” and “a pretty little suburb” where one might sink down roots in bucolic bliss with the hustle and bustle of L.A. just a handful of miles away. This tract map was created at the time of incorporation where the 600 residents of the city were developing a residential community with unlimited potential.
Long before the existence of lines outside Casa Bianca Pizza or the Oinkster, local farmers bemoaned early “gentrification” of the valley. Even though many of the names changed over the years, the big streets are on this cadastral map: Colorado and the picturesque Hill Drive are in place along with Central (which later became Eagle Rock Boulevard). Linden and Fairmont became Maywood, Paloma was to become Shearin, Castle was to become Caspar and Sycamore turned into Yosemite.
By 1914 they had lured Occidental College to set up one of the nicest campuses in the West on a hill called “Mt. Fiji,” and when the population zoomed toward 5,000 by 1920, they petitioned the big city to the south and became Los Angeles annexation number 46.
Above: Map of the City of Eagle Rock, William F. Bixby, April 1911
Los Angeles Public Library map librarian Glen Creason shares a map from the Central Library’s collection at CityThink each week.

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Rosé Rumble, June 19, 2019
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Immerse yourself in our industry-style tasting of the best rosés you can find in the area. Taste them, talk to those that import them, learn where to buy them.
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The man jumped out of the window onto the car and calmly went about his business
A resident of Krasnoye village in St. Petersburg spectacularly went out onto the street, landing from a third-floor window onto a parked car. Judging by the recording from the surveillance camera, the man did not suffer any serious injuries after the hard landing. He rolled onto the sidewalk and went about his business carefree.
It is noted that the incident occurred on the night of November 16 on Lenin Avenue. There was a significant dent on the roof of the damaged car and a cracked windshield. It is known that the owner has not yet contacted the police. According to media reports, he is independently trying to find his extreme neighbor using recordings from video cameras. As for the culprit of the incident, he did not go to local hospitals. Doctors reported that patients with injuries typical of a fall from a height did not contact them.
Local residents say they heard someone shouting “jump” on the night of the incident. There were some jokes about the untimely return of her husband

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READING West MP Alok Sharma has been promoted to Secretary of State for the Department for Business, Energy
& Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
Mr Sharma, whose constituency includes Theale, Pangbourne Purley-on-Thames and Tilehurst, was promoted to business secretary in today's cabinet reshuffle.
He will also be the minister in charge of organising the upcoming COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November.
Mr Sharma was made Secretary of State for International Development following Rory Stewart's resignation in July 2019.
He had previously served as Employment Minister and Housing Minister, and had to deliver the Government's response to the Grenfell Tower fire.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who for months resisted efforts to launch impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, announced a formal inquiry on Tuesday, saying that the president’s growing Ukraine scandal marked a “breach of his Constitutional responsibilities.”
“This week the president has admitted to asking the president of Ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically,” Pelosi said.
“The actions of the Trump presidency revealed the dishonorable fact of the president’s betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of our national security, and betrayal of the integrity of our elections,” she continued. “Therefore, today I am announcing the House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry.”
Pelosi said she was formally directing the House’s six committees that have jurisdiction over impeachment, oversight and other related matters to “proceed with their investigations under that umbrella.”
“The president must be held accountable,” she said. “No one is above the law.”
Pelosi’s change of heart comes as dozens of House Democrats — now more than two-thirds of the caucus — have come out in support of an impeachment inquiry in the wake of reports that Trump may have withheld aid to Ukraine to pressure officials there to investigate the son of political rival Joe Biden.

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"We may have a generation long battle against the new totalitarianism just as we did its predecessors," she said in a speech to the CER in London. "And just as we did faced with totalitarian regimes past, we have a moral responsibility again do our bit to help those who flee to survive."
If every area took ten families, Britain could 'do its bit' to stop the suffering of refugees. "I'm asking the Prime Minister, I'm asking Scotland and Wales, I'm asking councils, I'm asking communities, I'm asking faith groups, I'm asking campaigning organisations, I'm asking everyone," said Yvette Cooper during her speech at the CER.
Speaking at the CER, Miss Cooper said: "If every city took 10 refugee families, if every London borough took 10 families, if every county council took 10 families, then in a month we'd have nearly 10,000 more places for vulnerable refugees fleeing danger, seeking safety."
Speaking at the CER on Tuesday, Cooper said Britain was "stuck in political cowardice that assumes British voters' unease about immigration means they will not forgive anyone who calls for sanctuary – even though our nation has given shelter to the persecuted for centuries, and sometimes moral leadership is needed".

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Preparing for Economic Downturns: Strategies for Business Resilience
In today’s rapidly changing business environment, economic downturns are a reality that every business must be prepared to face. From global financial crises to industry-specific recessions, these downturns can significantly impact businesses of all sizes. However, with careful planning and proactive measures, businesses can become more resilient and better equipped to weather the storm. In this blog post, we will discuss some strategies for businesses to prepare themselves for economic downturns.
1. Diversify Revenue Streams:
One of the most effective ways to prepare for an economic downturn is to diversify your revenue streams. Relying heavily on one source of income leaves your business vulnerable. Consider expanding your product or service offerings, targeting new markets, or exploring untapped customer segments. By diversifying your revenue streams, you can reduce your dependency on a single market or customer base, making your business more resilient during economic downturns.
2. Build a Cash Reserve:
During an economic downturn, cash flow becomes even more critical. Building a cash reserve is essential to ensure your business can withstand temporary disruptions or slowdowns. Creating a cash reserve means actively saving and setting aside a portion of your profits during good times. This reserve can serve as a financial buffer during lean periods, allowing you to continue operating and investing in your business while competitors struggle.
3. Review and Optimize Expenses:
Another key strategy to prepare for economic downturns is to regularly review and optimize your expenses. Analyze your cost structure and identify areas where you can reduce or eliminate unnecessary spending. This might include renegotiating contracts with suppliers, finding more cost-effective alternatives, or implementing energy-saving measures. By optimizing your expenses, you can improve your business’s financial health and increase your overall resilience during economic downturns.
4. Focus on Customer Retention:
When faced with an economic downturn, one of the first obstacles businesses encounter is a decrease in customer spending. Therefore, developing a strong customer retention strategy becomes crucial. Provide exceptional customer service, build deeper relationships with your existing customers, and offer incentives to encourage repeat purchases. By prioritizing customer retention, you can minimize the negative impact of an economic downturn on your revenue and maintain a loyal customer base.
5. Invest in Innovation and Development:
While it may seem counterintuitive to invest during an economic downturn, allocating resources toward innovation and development can position your business for long-term success. By developing new products, services, or process improvements, your business can adapt to changing market demands and differentiate itself from competitors. Investing in innovation and development can also help you identify new revenue streams or optimize existing ones, making your business more resilient during economic downturns.
6. Continuously Monitor and Adapt:
Finally, preparing for economic downturns requires continuous monitoring of market trends, industry changes, and customer preferences. Stay informed about economic indicators to anticipate potential downturns and adjust your strategies accordingly. Regularly review and update your business plan to reflect new market conditions and adapt your operations to stay ahead of the curve. By proactively monitoring and adapting to changes, your business can remain resilient in the face of economic downturns.
In conclusion, economic downturns are a reality that businesses across industries must be prepared to navigate. By diversifying revenue streams, building a cash reserve, optimizing expenses, focusing on customer retention, investing in innovation, and continuously monitoring and adapting, businesses can enhance their resilience and increase their chances of thriving during challenging times. By implementing these strategies, you can future-proof your business and ensure its long-term success.

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I am thinking about getting a rear view camera. I would like one that is wireless (for easy installation) and would operate when the trailer is moving both forward and backing. I am seeing a lot of dash cams and rear view cams on Amazon but I am unsure how they would work with my 13 foot Scamp
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NFL : Which coaches will be fired, and which hired.
The coaching carousel is ready to begin spinning again, and we’re approximately to take you thru all of the rumors. but the whole thing desires to be prefaced with the reality that, on this year’s market, deliver is lagging in the back of call for. There have been 50 education changes inside the beyond seven cycles, extra than seven in line with 12 months, and that’s dried out the pipeline. And with eight-10 openings predicted this year, a few teams may also attempt to get innovative.
An exchange isn’t always the simplest manner teams should think outdoor the container to find the proper guy in January. a few would possibly dip their toe into the university pool (Stanford’s David Shaw will get calls), others may additionally look to place coaches (Philadelphia QB train John DeFilippo) or unique groups coaches (Kansas city’s Dave Toub), in the event that they’re no longer satisfied with the class or can’t get one in all its belles.
In this week’s recreation Plan, Matt Ryan will take us in the Falcons’ mentality with their season on the road on Sunday; John Lynch will explain why invoice Belichick’s actions added to life his hobby in Jimmy Garoppolo, and we’ll have a look at the unrest in Oakland and Dallas, and spin you via all of the ultra-modern rumors.
The expectancy is that John Fox can be long past. What’s less positive is whether or no longer standard supervisor Ryan tempo receives to select the subsequent coach, and whether or no longer the coaches pursued with the aid of the Bears dictate tempo’s fate.
Marvin Lewis’ drawing close departure has been at the table from the moment he and the group decided now not to do every other one-year Band-resource extension, which despatched him right into a settlement 12 months. phrase is, the Bengals will lean closer to coaches they realize, that is why Jackson and Jay Gruden’s names have been referred to, as have inner applicants Paul Guenther and Darrin Simmons.
With the Lions removed, I moved this one from the “perhaps” pile, as rumblings have held for some weeks that Jim Caldwell would be in problem if he ignored the playoffs. I’d assume Patriots protective coordinator Matt Patricia to be a consideration if Caldwell receives whacked, with the possibility that Jim Bob Cooter and the offensive body of workers live.
Chuck Pagano saved his team competitive, and the the front office respects the activity he and workforce have performed. That said, GM Chris Ballard is nearly certain to fire Pagano and rent his very own guy. The beauty of the job Ballard will offer is, of path, tied to Andrew luck’s health. two of his ex-chief co-workers, Toub and offensive coordinator Matt Nagy, were linked to this one, and there are whispers that Indy may want to make a run at Pats offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels.
Plenty will rely on who the team hires as trendy manager, and plenty of accept as true with that Dave Gettleman may be concerned within the remaking of the scouting operation, be it as the lease or in some other senior role. at the same time as the eye has been on McDaniels, and a McDaniels/Nick Caserio package deal has been rumored to be a attention, I’d expect each Patriot coordinators to be considered.
Jack Del Rio is underneath settlement through 2020, and so a big query right here is whether or now not Mark Davis could be willing to eat three years on a contract.
However with the future of numerous large defensive stars in question, and a likely overhaul of the roster coming, may want Pete Carroll, 66, retire to Southern California? It’s no longer the wildest idea available.


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The Canton Police Department is turning to the public to help identify the man whose body was found behind the Canton Marketplace on Sunday morning.
The man is being described as a 20-30 year old Hispanic, standing at 5'6" and weighing 150 to 160 lbs. He has brown eyes and black hair and has no scars or tattoos.
He was discovered wearing blue jeans, a gray button down shirt and a gray and black Aeropostale brand fleece jacket. He was also wearing black Sperry Topsider shoes, black Joe Boxer socks and gray Calvin Klein boxer briefs.
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Danny Williams and Reading might be facing a really short turnaround, but they have every reason to get up for their next game.
Williams and Reading will continue their dream run in the FA Cup on Friday when they take on English Premier League side Crystal Palace in a quarterfinals bout at home. The Royals are eyeing the tournament’s trophy after getting so close to the finish line, but have the challenge of needing to overcome a quick turnaround. Reading played an English Championship tilt on Tuesday, and will have to dig deep and push past tired legs in order to knock off a better-rested Crystal Palace squad that has not played since this past Sunday.
Bobby Wood might not be competing in a tournament match this weekend, but he is seeking to extend his current scoring streak in the 2. Bundesliga. Wood has netted in his last four matches for FC Union Berlin, and might be able to add another game to that impressive stretch when the club visits MSV Duisburg on Saturday. The U.S. Men’s National Team striker seems to have a good shot at finding the back of the net, too, as cellar dweller Duisburg has not won in nine straight games and has gone six matches in a row without recording a shutout.
While Wood will be hoping for goals, Ethan Horvath certainly will not as he returns to action. Horvath and Molde FK kick off their Eliteserien campaign on Sunday with a showdown at home against Tromso, and the 20-year-old goalkeeper will be keen on getting off to a good start ahead of the U.S. Under-23 Men’s National Team’s Olympic Qualifying Playoff vs. Colombia at the end of the month. Horvath and his club have the advantage of entering this game with some competitive minutes under their belt, as they recently took on Sevilla in a pair of UEFA Europa League encounters.
Here is who the Americans Abroad tussle with this weekend:
Danny Williams and Reading play Crystal Palace in the FA Cup.
Gedion Zelalem and Rangers play Greenock Morton.
John Brooks and Hertha Berlin play Schalke 04.
Cole Grossman and Stabaek IF play Aalesund. (Grossman is out injured.)
Jorge Villafana and Santos Laguna play Omar Gonzalez and Pachuca.
Sebastian Saucedo and Veracruz play Atlas.
Tim Howard and Everton play Chelsea in the FA Cup.
Geoff Cameron and Stoke City play Southampton.
Tim Ream, Emerson Hyndman and Fulham play Bristol City.
Duane Holmes and Huddersfield Town play Burnley.
Cody Cropper and Milton Keynes Dons play Hull City.
Eric Lichaj and Nottingham Forest play Sheffield Wednesday.
Lynden Gooch and Doncaster Rovers play Bradford City.
Fabian Johnson and Borussia Moenchengladbach play Timmy Chandler and Eintracht Frankfurt.
Alfredo Morales and FC Ingolstadt 04 play VfB Stuttgart.
Aron Johannsson and Werder Bremen play Bayern Munich.
Bobby Wood and FC Union Berlin play MSV Duisburg.
Desevio Payne and FC Groningen play Excelsior.
Andrew Wooten and SV Sandhausen play Fortuna Dusseldorf.
Jose Torres and Tigres UANL play Pumas UNAM.
William Yarbrough, Miguel Ibarra and Club Leon play Jonathan Bornstein, Luis Gil and Queretaro.
Edgar Castillo and Monterrey play Morelia.
Michael Orozco, Greg Garza, Paul Arriola, Alejando Guido and Club Tijuana play Jaguares de Chiapas. (Guido is out injured.)
Brad Guzan and Aston Villa play Tottenham.
Jonathan Spector and Birmingham City play Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Christian Pulisic and Borussia Dortmund play Mainz.
Shawn Barry and FSV Frankfurt play Caleb Stanko and SC Freiburg.
Terrence Boyd and RB Leipzig play TSV 1860 Munich. (Boyd is out injured.)
Alejandro Bedoya and FC Nantes play Angers.
Rubio Rubin and FC Utrecht play ADO Den Haag.
Ethan Horvath and Molde FK play Tromso.
Joe Corona, Sonny Guadarrama and Dorados de Sinaloa play Toluca.
Ventura Alvarado and Club America play Chivas de Guadalajara.
AJ Soares and Viking play Valerenga.
Which of these matches are you most looking forward to? See Williams and Reading winning on short rest, or will the quick turnaround prove too difficult to overcome? Predicting that Wood will score yet again?
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Discipline is not something that comes to you one sunny day on a Monday morning.
Discipline is a result of doing the smallest things that make you feel stronger over time.
– Writing that blog
– Publishing that video
– Writing that cold email
– Making that code that you have thinking of for making, for the longest time.
When nothing works, discipline works wonders.
Discipline is not a gift that you may or may not get. It is a muscle, that you have a choice to build.

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The country’s fifth Contractor General, Dirk Harrison, was on Monday, February 25, sworn into office by Governor-General, His Excellency the Most. Hon. Sir Patrick Allen.
Addressing the swearing-in ceremony at King’s House, the Governor-General commended Mr. Harrison on accepting the charge to serve his country, in a capacity that is often challenging.
The Governor-General noted that much is required of the new Contractor General, pointing out that Jamaicans expect his office to ensure that the public sector contractual arrangements are transparent, above-board and “free from every hint of corruption”.
“Jamaicans expect that through the faithful discharge of the mandate of this office, our country can rely on the public sector’s accountability, integrity and efficiency in the management of our national resources,” he said.
Citing a 2011 Don Anderson Market Services survey, which revealed that the Office of the Contractor General was ranked as earning the highest level of public satisfaction in the fight against corruption in the country, the Governor-General reminded that Jamaica will look to Mr. Harrison and his team to ensure that corruption is reduced, or totally eliminated, thus enhancing the country’s international profile.
“Our nation anticipates the day when Transparency International will positively report on our fight to free our country from corruption…I charge you, therefore, to inspire and lead your team effectively, so that the Office of the Contractor General will achieve its mission and deliver the results for which it was established,” he said.
Prior to his appointment, which becomes effective on March 1, Mr. Harrison served as Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions. He succeeds Mr. Greg Christie, whose tenure ended on December 1, 2012. Mr. Craig Beresford has been acting as Contractor General since that time.
A graduate of the Norman Manley Law School, Mr. Harrison has more than 12 years experience as a prosecutor on a wide range of criminal matters in Jamaica’s Courts, including the Court of Appeal. In his previous post, he served as Head of the Anti-Corruption Unit, as well as of the Coroners Unit and the Environmental Law Unit.
Mr. Harrison’s expertise has been recognised internationally. He participated in the United Nations review of Jamaica’s anti-corruption laws and practices and is a member of a UN-selected team for evaluation and review of countries’ implementation of the UN Convention Against Corruption. He has also represented Jamaica at several international conferences against corruption.


Thursday 22 September saw the Cairo Opera House launch its new season 2016 / 2017 with an unforgettable gala concert at the Main Hall. More than 300 artists from the Cairo Opera Ballet Company, the Cairo Opera Choir and the Cairo Opera Orchestra conducted by David Crescenzi, participated in the concert, enthralling the audience with their fine performance.
The evening which was directed by Abdalla Saad, featured various scenes from the most important ballets and concerts that this Cairo Opera season will present. Saad masterfully brought together all the elements of the evening, creating an ebullient mood.
Living through the audience
The legendary tenor Hassan Kami, one of the pioneers of opera singing in Egypt, delivered a warm opening speech in which he stressed that a musical artist “lives through his audience”.
Mr Kami said he had started his opera-singing career in 1963 and that now, more than half -a-century later, he is with his students and fellow artists reaping the fruit of the good seed they planted back then. He proudly referred to the Cairo Opera House’s progress and expansion over the past years. He said that today, 14 companies affiliated to the Cairo Opera perform musical arts on seven theatres in Cairo, Alexandria, and Damanhour. “This constitutes a vibrant, dynamic wealth of musical activity that Egypt alone in the Arab region can boast of,” he said.
The show then began. The curtain lifted to reveal a skeletal model of the Cairo Opera House on stage. Around it were posters of the main shows the season will offer. This impressive work was the design of Mahmoud Haggag, and the dazzling lighting was engineered by Yasser Shaalan.
Foretaste of what’s to come
A scene from Camille Saint-Saëns’s Samson and Delilah started the concert; Valentin Barts choreography brought out the ballet dancers’ grace and harmony in movement.
Arias from the most famous classical operas followed. Soprano Iman Mostafa and Bass-Baritone Reda al-Wakil took the audience’s breath away with Mostafa’s performance of In quelle trine morbide from Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, followed by Wakil’s depiction of Come dal ciel precipita from Verdi’s Macbeth, and Le Veau d’Or from Gounod’s Faust. The masterful performance of Baritone Mostafa Mohamed Toreador’s aria from Bizet’s Carmen was among the evening’s highlights. Mezzo Soprano Jolie Faizy and Sopranos Dalia Farouk and Rasha Talaat kept the audience on their toes with the freshness and strength of their voices. Faizy performed Chanson Bohème from Bizet’s Carmen, Farouk sang a fresh Ah je veux vivre from Gounod’s Romeo and Juliette, and Talaat reached new heights with a vibrant The kiss Waltz song by Arditi.
The Cairo Ballet Company then presented a scene from Borodin’s the Prince Igor. Soprano Iman Mostafa and Tenor Hisham al-Guinidi performed a duet of Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia from Madame Butterfly by Puccini, followed by Soprano Mona Rafla’s moving performance of Ebben! Ne andrò lontana from Catalini’s La Wally.
The concert ended on a high note when all the soloists joined Baritone Elhamy Amin, Tenor Ibrahim Nagui and Bass-Baritone Abdel-Wahab al-Sayed in singing an Arabic version of a scene from The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar. The audience got so carried away that they chimed in with the soloists.
The Cairo Opera’s Erminia Kamel choreographed the ballets that accompanied the singing performances, and which were presented by the Cairo Ballet Company.
Comeback for the internationals
This Cairo Opera House’s upcoming season promises a plethora of pleasant surprises, especially that many international companies which had not come to Egypt since the Arab Spring turmoil in 2011 are coming back. We can expectantly await performances by Bolshoi Belarus, Antonio Gaddis, Flamenco de Madrid, Quadro Nuevo, and Bollywood India, in addition to other performances by international soloists and composers. This in addition to shows by Egyptian companies and soloists, as well as theatrical modern dancing groups. The Cairo Opera’s seven theatres in Cairo, Alexandria, and Damanhour will buzz with excitement as eager spectators converge on them to indulge in experience of fine musical art.
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The TUC tells us that wages have fallen in recent years:
Workers in the UK saw their wages fall by 1% a year in the period following the financial crisis, putting the country in 103rd place in a global ranking of pay growth compiled by the TUC.
The trade union umbrella body said wages rose in many parts of the world between 2008 and 2015, but average pay in the UK fell once the impact of inflation was taken into account.
Well, yes, no one's very happy about it but that is what happens in a recession. It's also nothing at all to do with the financial crisis - however much that might have led to the recession.
For what is really going on in a recession is that wages are ahead of productivity. It therefore doesn't make sense for people to employ workers - the value of their output is less than the cost of employing them. This is true whatever the cause of the recession. And the solution is entirely obvious, wages must fall relative to the value of the output. That is, a fall in real wages.
Again, no one likes this but it is the solution. We can do it by lowering nominal wages but as Keynes rightly pointed out people don't like this. The internal devaluation of Greece is a harsh, harsh, thing. We can also do it by a bit of inflation, nominal wages are static or even rise, real wages fall and we're less grumpy about it because we are prey to the money illusion.
But it is still true that the solution for labour being too expensive to employ is for labour to become less expensive.
And we even have managed to construct a labour system which does this with minimal pain. Back at the start of the troubles there were predictions that unemployment would rise to 4 or even 5 million. Mass unemployment being another way in which real wages get screwed down. This didn't happen - and it didn't happen because we now have a labour system flexible enough that real wages, when necessary and unfortunately, can and will fall without imposing that sort of pain.
Contrary to the bleating here from the TUC this past decade has been a massive triumph of the British system as it is. We've managed to build a system where the outcome of the largest recession in near a century is a mild decline in real wages rather than mass unemployment. This is what success looks like.

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