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Morning Prayers: Next Brings Cheer To UK High Street
UK retailer Next kicked off the annual round of Christmas trading statements this morning with Next's retail stores reporting a better-than-expected sales increase of 4.6% and its Directory business surging ahead by 6.8%.
The clothing retailer said sales in the run up to Christmas were "markedly stronger in the final two weeks as the weather turned colder."
We believe that two factors contributed to sales finishing ahead of our November guidance. Firstly, the consumer environment was more stable than expected, with only modest falls in employment, low inflation and continuing low interest rates. Secondly, we believe our ranges improved across the board as we continued our efforts to more aggressively back new products and trends.
Group like-for-like sales – the crucial industry measure which excludes contributions from newly opened stores – increased by 3.2%, though excluding Directory the rise was a more modest 1.6%. [Read the statement.]
Over in the misery riven financial services sector, news that National Australia Bank may be considering a bid for the UK's Northern Rock may well boost the latter's shares today.
According to a report on The Australian's Web site, NAB has emerged as the frontrunner, although the paper did not cite sources.
NAB is on the verge of appointing advisers for a bid in the next few months, with Credit Suisse, Lazard, Citi and Morgan Stanley understood to have pitched to lead the campaign, the Web site reported.
NAB is apparently keen to get its hands on Northern Rock's retail banking activities. A deal could cost it up to A$2.25 billion, based on the U.K. government's most recent capital injection into Northern Rock, the Web site said.
Separately, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that NAB may be eyeing a three-way merger of its Clydesdale and Yorkshire U.K. regional banks, as well as Northern Rock, as part of its "bulk up, or get out" plan for its operations here.


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12/15/2008 EAP joins Boston-based advocacy group
In December 2008, the EAP joined the MEJAC, an advocacy group that is working to revive Massachusetts commitment to environmental justice. In addition to attending the semi-regularly meetings of MEJAC, on March 30, 2009, EAP submitted a memorandum of law to the group discussing Environmental Justice under the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act.
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Civil Society Call For Urgency In TB Control
Some 100 TB activists marched through the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre on the afternoon of 14th November 2012, landing at the opening ceremony of the 43rd Union World Conference on Lung Health, just as delegates from over 120 countries were taking their seats in the Plenary Hall.
They were an outspoken crowd, demanding more ambitious targets for stopping TB, increased funding to meet those targets and an end to the use of impolite and negative language in the TB community.
"The Union conference is the one place where everyone in the TB world comes together. If it were to pass without any significant activist visibility, our calls for action would remain just words. This year we wanted to make our presence felt in a much stronger way," said Blessina Kumar, Vice-Chair of the Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board and a representative for communities affected by TB. "The urgency to address TB is somehow absent. We need that urgency as people are dying every minute. We as activists are willing to do anything to ensure that this urgency is there at the forefront of the minds of governments, funders and those who are setting global targets for TB."
Some of the protesters carried placards calling for "zero TB deaths", "more funding for TB", or "nothing for us without us". Others placards were blazoned with the messages "50% won't cut it" and "no blood on our hands" (both referring to the proposed target of reducing TB deaths by 50% in the post-2015 era - which would still leave 600 000 people dying per year).
Many held up signs calling on the TB community to ban some standard TB terms, like "defaulter" and "suspect", which smack of an overtone of something criminal and illegal. Such derogatory terms are now under scrutiny as they tend to negatively influence the attitudes and behaviour of health workers and the TB-affected community.
It is not only the discriminatory attitude of society that affects the TB patients but the medication too boasts of depression as a side effect. In the absence of proper and continuous counselling form healthcare workers, we will have to involve the family and the community for the crucial mental support to the patient. The family and the community have to be involved in the entire process through treatment education and active participation. The family has to live with the TB of a near and dear one more closely than governments and donors. So the community insight is very important and cannot be overlooked. No TB control programme will be able to deliver the goods, no matter how well meaning it is, without patient centric care which will need the support of the family and the community.
So it is imperative to involve communities at every stage of the process as we aim for universal access for TB care. The hitherto fragmented TB community will have to join hands and act together. Like the AIDS community they must agree that there can be 'Nothing for us, without us'. It is not enough for a handful of activists to be involved in conferences like this. The larger community needs to be involved in this global cause of eliminating TB. Only then can we share the mutual responsibility of ensuring a sustainable response to the health challenges we face today.
William Mbewe, a musician from Zambia turned activist, summed up his reasons for participating in the march to Citizen News Service – CNS: "I suffered from TB. Over the years lots of my friends passed away because of stigma. So I decided to stand up as a public figure and talk about suffering from TB, hoping that lots of other people will come out of the darkness."And please, can all delegates at the conference find time to collectively observe a two minutes silence as a mark of respect and condolence to all those whom we lost to a lung disease in that year?
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The Catholic Tradition of Health Care
Thomas Nairn, O.F.M.
St. Anthony Messenger magazine
Sunday, May 23, 2010
When we hear the term
Catholic health care
, we may think of the last time we visited someone in the hospital. Perhaps we imagine a chaplain visiting patients or a parish minister bringing the Eucharist to a bedside. Or maybe we remember a crucifix in front of the hospital or hanging on the walls in patients' rooms. I would bet, however, that the images we associate with social justice have nothing to do with our images of Catholic health care.
When we think of social justice, we might have historical images of the civil-rights era, or contemporary images of those advocating for immigrants or protesting the war in Iraq. Some might think of a family working in a soup kitchen or student volunteers helping the poor here and abroad. Seldom do we think of health care as social justice. Yet social justice and Catholic health care cannot be separated.
From the very beginning of Catholic health care in this country through to the present, one of the important reasons for the very existence of Catholic hospitals has been the care of the sick poor. In this article, I would like to reflect on this connection between health care and social justice, first in a practical way, then by looking at some official guidelines that shape Catholic health care in this country today.
The Church is concerned about health-care reform in this country today because the Church has been part of health care in this country from the beginning.
In fact, the Church's involvement in health-care systems long precedes the United States, going back to the Middle Ages. During those years, various religious groups—vowed and lay, composed of women or men—cared for the needs of the sick and often lived among the sick poor.
This happened in many ways. Let's take a look at the Franciscan movement as an example. Even the early history of the Franciscan Order shows that the brothers considered care for the sick as part of their vocation. Soon, care for the sick poor also became a special task for those lay members of the Franciscan family called the Third Order (or more commonly today, the Secular Franciscan Order).
St. Elizabeth of Hungary, the patroness of the Third Order, is often singled out as a special example of a person who embodied concern for the sick. As more people followed St. Elizabeth's example, the task of caring for the sick poor came to be seen more as an individual vocation rather than a communal one.
This changed again in the 18th and 19th centuries as more and more religious communities of women were founded to carry out particular apostolic activities. Caring for the sick once again became a communal vocation. When these religious communities came to the United States, hospitals were among the institutions that they founded.
In 1727, the Ursuline sisters became the first Catholic congregation of women to come to America. Their apostolic works included the care of the sick. They were involved in the founding of New Orleans' Charity Hospital, the second-oldest hospital (by six weeks!) in the United States. It was originally called Hospital of St. John or The Hospital for the Poor. In the 1800s came more Catholic sisters who saw their task as caring for the physical and spiritual needs of the Catholic immigrant population.
The explicit mission of many of these communities was care for the sick poor. Education and health care became the hallmarks of these congregations. About five of the 16 religious communities of women that were in the United States in 1849 were involved in health care. By 1875 there were 75 Catholic hospitals. By the beginning of the 20th century there were almost 400.
Many of the hospitals founded by these religious communities served a dual purpose. On the one hand, they were founded to serve where social institutions discriminated against Catholic immigrants. On the other hand, Catholic hospitals were open to all, providing not only for their patients' medical but also for their spiritual needs. They even arranged for visits from Protestant clergy if so requested by patients—at a time when Catholic clergy were often not welcome in many public or private hospitals.
This tradition of care for the poor has continued to the present day. It is expressed in the mission statements and the lists of core values that are now part of Catholic health care.
In these mission statements, one sees a strong relationship between health care and a commitment to social justice. These core values are similar across Catholic health-care systems. They emphasize human dignity, care for the poor, the sacredness of life, service, integrity, justice and compassion.
Almost invariably the mission and/or vision statements of the various Catholic health-care systems articulate that the work of the system is a participation in the healing ministry of Christ, which includes a commitment to the poor and vulnerable.
As Catholic health-care systems worked more closely with other health-care institutions over the years, a need arose for some guidelines on how our faith informs practice in a Catholic facility. This need became especially pressing in modern times, as U.S. health care began taking on increasingly complex ethical issues. The U.S. Catholic bishops created such guidelines and revised them over the years. Their latest version, issued in 1994 and revised slightly several times since then, was updated last fall in areas related to end-of-life issues.
These guidelines are published in the
Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services
. The aim: to help guide Catholic hospitals and other Catholic health-care facilities as they serve in the name of the Church.
Ethical and Religious Directives
s) should not be seen simply as a list of do's and don'ts for Catholic health care. Rather, they primarily do two things: First, they attempt to explain the
Catholic identity
of hospitals and other such facilities as part of the health-care ministry of the Church. Second, they seek to clarify how these institutions act with ethical integrity.
Various editions of the
s have appeared over the past 60 years. They have addressed pertinent ethical issues facing Catholic health care at the time, especially those concerning the prolongation of life for dying patients and procedures relating to procreation.
The current guidelines begin with a section devoted to the social responsibility of Catholic health-care institutions. This section offers specific directives for Catholic hospitals regarding the Church's social teaching. But first it lays out five values regarding the social responsibility of Catholic health-care institutions.
The five values that relate Catholic health care to the Church's justice tradition are: human dignity, care for the poor, common good, responsible stewardship and rights of conscience. Two of these values, human dignity and the common good, are the very foundation of Catholic social teaching. And those two values are actually two complementary aspects of the Catholic understanding of human nature.
The common good, as the Church has taught in many places, refers to human flourishing. The Second Vatican Council, for example, explained that the common good is the sum total of those conditions needed for the well-being of individual persons and the groups of which they are a part.
From these two pivotal values, the guidelines derive three other principles of our social-justice tradition and apply them to health care: care for the poor, responsible stewardship and the rights of conscience. The
document recognizes care for the poor as a biblical mandate. In the document's introduction, there is an important reference to the Gospel parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:29-37—
see box
), which the
s call an example of "authentic neighborliness to those in need."
In this spirit of "authentic neighborliness," they challenge Catholic health care to give particular attention "to the health care needs of the poor, the uninsured, and the underinsured."
The next value that the document discusses is that of responsible stewardship. Here, the bishops acknowledge that care for the poor needs to be carried out mindful of an institution's limited resources. They explain that "responsible stewardship of health care resources can be accomplished best in dialogue with people from all levels of society...with respect for the moral principles that guide institutions and persons."
Emphasizing this value shows the realism that is part of the Catholic social tradition. Catholic health-care institutions continuously need to find the proper balance between genuine care for the poor and an appropriate use of their financial resources. On one hand, care for the poor should not bankrupt a facility or system; on the other hand, the institution ought not hoard resources. Hoarding has never been the mark of genuine Catholic health care.
This section of the guidelines ends by acknowledging the pluralism of American society. Again, the guidelines try to strike a balance. They acknowledge the rights of individual conscience but at the same time maintain that the Catholic hospital itself has what might be called an "institutional conscience," safeguarded by its leaders.
Catholic health-care institutions take into consideration the consciences of both their employees and the patients they serve. Catholic health care asks that its employees respect the fact that the institution's leaders, too, must follow their consciences and the moral stance of the Catholic Church. That issue of conscience has generated lots of press recently in the health-care reform debate.
From the five values, the
Ethical and Religious Directives
then articulate in greater detail several specific areas of Catholic health care's social responsibility.
For example, one directive speaks about the need for a "spirit of mutual respect" that helps caregivers serve the sick "with the compassion of Christ." Another further describes this respect as involving "advocacy for those people whose social condition puts them at the margins of our society and makes them particularly vulnerable to discrimination."
s also challenge Catholic health-care institutions to be workplaces of justice. For example, one directive states straightforwardly that a "Catholic health care institution must treat its employees respectfully and justly."
For most Catholic health-care systems, these values, and the dedication to the Church's social-justice tradition that they represent, are not simply marketing tools; they really represent what Catholic hospitals aspire to be.
I have heard time and time again from hospital administrators that the mission of their institution is to provide health care to all in need, regardless of the ability to pay. Especially in the current economic recession, stories abound about the amount of charity care undertaken by Catholic hospitals. I've also heard about creative ways which Catholic health care found to ensure greater access.
Through prevention and wellness programs, Catholic health care has partnered with other groups to work toward better community health, especially for the poor and vulnerable. Returning to the founding vision of the first sisters who came to the United States, many Catholic hospitals have even looked beyond the borders of the United States to enhance the delivery of health care in developing countries.
This attention to the Catholic social tradition, however, has not been without conflict. The needs of the community are likely always to be greater than the capacity of Catholic health care to satisfy those needs.
In some situations hospitals find that the values from the Church's directives are in conflict with one another. The call to be responsible stewards, for example, limits the amount of charity care a hospital can give. The hospital must, along with ensuring care for the poor and vulnerable, pay its employees a just wage.
Although Catholic health care aspires to embody the Catholic social-justice tradition, it is not always successful. Critics often point to Catholic health care's resistance to unionizing as one example where its actions have not lived up to its words.
Ethical and Religious Directives
conclude by suggesting that "Catholic health-care services rejoice in the challenge to be Christ's healing compassion to the world." Yes, Catholic health-care institutions face limits and value conflicts. Catholic health care, like individuals all through the Church, is not perfect. In spite of it all, though, Catholic health care continues to be a sign of Christ's justice and compassion for all.
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cooking, pots?
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One time use, assuming it's the same as the trays of cakes/pies etc which have the same description
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It has unilimited uses in that 5 minutes. They have good use in WvW.
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Mutual Funds
Recap: stocks are a little bit of ownership of a company and bonds are a little bit of a company's debt.
Now, you can buy those suckers individually, or you can choose a bunch of them in a mutual fund. Mutual funds are professionally managed groups of stocks and bonds, and they let you buy a diversity of shares without a huge bill.
If you were to buy 12 shares of Google, 18 shares of Coca Cola, 15 shares of General Motors, and a bunch of other shares, you'd get a nicely diversified investment. If the tech—or, uh, soda—sector suddenly started to go bad, you wouldn't have heart palpitations when checking your investments. Unfortunately, buying all those individual stocks would also cost you a ton of money and a ton of time.
Mutual funds take care of these problems.
A professional money manager chooses a bunch of stocks and bonds for you, so you don't have to wade through spreadsheets comparing companies. Since managers combine a bunch of small-potatoes investors like you into one big investment opportunity, they get a "volume discount" so that your new portfolio is affordable.
And who doesn't love a bargain?
Money for Nothing? The Costs of Mutual Funds
Mutual funds aren't free.
There's a fee for managing the fund that you'll have to pay along with a "load" (a sneaky word for "commission"). There are "no load" funds, but you'll still end up paying for them one way or another. Money managers need to pay for their fancy lunches somehow, you know.
Traditionally, mutual funds were sold through brokers, who charged between 1.7 and 7 percent commission. How much you paid was based on the track record of the fund, how much you paid into the fund, and how much the brokers thought they could get away with charging.
Then, mutual funds hit something of a wardrobe malfunction. While brokers were busy convincing buyers that mutual funds were a great buy, newspapers and cold, hard facts (they ruin all the fun, don't they?) showed that mutual funds didn't do as well as indexes. Mutual funds decided to up the ante and broker their own funds (rather than leaving it to money managers).
A bunch of brokers began to offer wide ranging financial services, including wholesaling of funds. Their promise was that they knew money better and could get investors better returns. Fact? Fiction? The jury's still out on that one, but these services sure became popular. Heard of Fidelity or Schwab? Those are your guys.


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Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre's Comrades and Rivals
Your favorite critic has plenty of frenemies.
Simone de Beauvoir
I met this fine, feminist smarty-pants in 1929 at the École Normale (she was studying at the Sorbonne at the time). She called me ''Sartre,'' I called her Simone (sigh.) Although I was known as the Big Man on Campus among 20th-century existentialists, Simone was no slouch back then either. And she's become a distinguished philosopher, writer, and feminist in her own right.
We love to challenge all ridiculous cultural and social notions we've been taught to blindly accept, and live life rejecting everything that's bourgeois (marriage, family, religion, conformity, and so forth…). Our relationship is based on loving each other as free human beings, not about possessing each other. It's bliss.
To be fair, we don't always agree. But no matter what our intellectual beef of the day is, we're inseparable companions for life. Of course we aren't monogamous, though. That's way too bourgeois for our tastes. In fact we haven't have sex for the last thirty-three years of my life—with each other, I mean. We've shared many other lovers. TMI? Maybe, but I own it, and she does, too. We've always been super tight and have plans to share a gravestone. Ours is a life-long relationship of the philosophical mind.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
M.M.P. and I went to the École Normale Supérieure together in the late 1920s, and we've been tight buds ever since. In May 1941, Maury and I established this underground group called Socialisme et Liberté. His big thing is that we see the world (our "perception") through our eyes, but that our eyes are in our bodies, so we experience life as beings with bodies—not like two eyes that move around like a camera. Sure, that sounds about right.
Raymond Aron
Raymond's another pal from my École Normale Supérieure days. Sure, we've had our differences. Never a fan of double standards, he used to get pretty riled up at how French intellectuals diss criticism of capitalism and democracy and turn around and support Marxist oppression and atrocities, but we're lifelong friends in spite of that little disagreement.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
That's right, I'm down with Che. In fact, Simone and I kick it with him and Fidel, and I've even said that Che is "not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age" (source).
He's a real man of his words, and I respect that—even in a brutal and ruthless revolutionary known to dispatch death squads to murder enemies. Hey, you can't have everything.
Bertrand Russell
This British philosopher and I see eye-to-eye on the Vietnam War, which we're both strongly opposed to. In fact we created a tribunal to put the heat on American foreign policy and military intervention in Vietnam.
Albert Camus
For a long time, Albert and I were tight. (We met at a rehearsal for my work The Flies.) We shared a lot of beliefs—we still do—and I published an article or two in his newspaper Combat.
Things went south though because Albert doesn't think communism's as great as I do—and he's not down with my support of violence for political purposes. Oh boy, then there's that book The Rebel, which basically flushes communism down the toilet and says I didn't make as big a stink about the Nazi occupation as I could have. That was low, Al.
Louis Althusser
So it all started when I decided to embark on an intellectual defense of Marxism in this little book called the Critique de la raison dialectique (Critique of Dialectical Reason) in 1960. I just felt like people weren't giving credit to the "human side" of Marx.
Enter Louis, all hot and bothered and claiming that even if Marx had had humanist values in his early life all that went to hell in a handbasket when Marx got all scientific later on. I just wasn't having it. Still ain't.
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Hi this is a story that I am working on. The first chapter is short but hopefully this is well received. This is what it will be about.
Pyrania is a dragon born on the King's land. Rescued and befriended by him, she is allowed to live in a cave nearby.
Times pass and they are happy. But unease and speculation occur from every place but the King. When the King is brutally murderded, Pyrania is quickly brought in and eventually blamed for the murder.
Knowing that she will be killed,, she escapes and begins an epic quest to find the real murderer. But a mysterious assassin is hot on her trail.
Chapter 1
I awoke to the smell of human and rose up blinking the last traces of sleep from my eyes. What was going on that caused anyone but the King to visit? Humans were naturally afraid of my kind, going out of their way to avoid us.
Something must be up to cause them to break away from their fears and approach something that was capable of ripping them to shreds. Not that I would, but their fear clouded the rational part of the brain.
Out of respect for Him, I would always hunt on another part of the land. The King found my egg and instead of doing what another would have done, he raised that egg. When I finally hatched, it was love at first site. He named me Pyrania bease of my love of fire.
I had to live in the cave a little ways down from the castle. He would always visit so I was almost never lonely. But people in the village nearby had an aversion to dragons and almays made the sign of warding off evil when they saw him carrying me back to the cave.
He always assured the warders that I was harmless but they would never listen. I loved the King as sometimes he would tickle behind my ears that one spot that I just adored. He was my everything and looking back there was nothing I wouldn't do for him.
I made my way out of the cave and was stopped sharply at the site of fifty armed soldiers glaring up at me with such hatred that my hearts (dragons have two) broke ten times over.
"Well dragon, you surely are a curse from hell." What was he so angry about? Sensing my confusion he all but shouted his next words. "Our beloved King is dead!
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Since When Is Going to the Gyno a Spa Experience?
Usually we're all giddy about spa openings, but sometimes even we have to stop and say, no, really? Phit, a 58th Street newbie (as seen in today's Times' Thursday Styles section), is a … different kind of spa. Because it's for your below-the-belt region, and we ain't talkin' bikini waxes. It's a "gyno spa." Wait a second, let it hit you. Yes, we said gyno spa.
Basically, you book an appointment at Phit — which stands for Pelvic Health Integrated Techniques — to check if your goodies are too tight, loose, strong, or weak for overall "pelvic fitness." To put it bluntly, you go to Phit to tone your vag. For example, one of their vaginal-rejuvenation treatments is called "The Other Face Lift." Go ahead, fill in the blanks. The founder, gynecologist Dr. Lauri Romanzi, tells the Times her treatments are "the dental floss of feminine fitness." We just crossed our legs even more.
We have issues with this. See, "gyno spa" and "pelvic fitness" are medically-unfounded terms, hence the overusage of (very necessary) air quotes. Also, Phit's being marketed to Suzie Shopgirl in terms of one-stop shopping to beautify and rejuvenate the skin within. For example, Phit's signature treatment tests your vaginal strength by Romanzi sticking her finger up there while you squeeze. Too much information? Absolutely. And she charges $150 for that action. That's actual insertion, which takes "spa" experiences to a whole other level compared to an awkward-yet-necessary bottoms-up Brazilian wax.
Then, the fact that Phit is called a spa only twists the knife. Surely, we should let Romanzi know that all spas are not created equal. Would you voluntarily walk into a torture chamber with stirrups and jelly? There's a reason why women find it hard enough to visit the gyno once a year. And a spa is relaxing. This? Not so much. Just call it anything but spa. What about something more medical, like The Labia Lab? We hear that store name isn't taken yet. —Sharon Clott
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Combined, the businesses supply Contra Costa County residents with tools for life: from a doctor's latest technology in Brentwood, to practicing Pilates in Concord, having shoes repaired in Martinez, and filling insurance needs in Danville.
Each honored recipient was a tidy package and nestled in their "thank yous" was a shared story of resilience.
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It's rare that the feds indict a sitting judge. But that's what happened yesterday when U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent was indicted on charges of abusive sexual contact and attempted aggravated sexual abuse of a female employee. The Houston Chron reports that the indictment puts Kent on the wrong side of history: he's the first federal judge to be charged with federal sex crimes and the first in Texas indicted in recent history. Here's the four-page indictment.
The federal criminal investigation was launched in November 2007 after Kent's former case manager, Cathy McBroom, complained that the judge physically touched her under her clothing twice and often made obscene suggestions during the six years she worked for him.
Through her attorney, McBroom released a statement yesterday: "After a very difficult 17 months, I feel like I have finally been validated. I have listened and read with horror as Judge Kent's lawyer suggested that what happened to me was 'enthusiastically consensual,' " wrote McBroom, who remains a federal court employee. "I am relieved to find that even federal judges are not above the law, and that sexual abuse in the workplace is never acceptable, no matter the status of the offender."
But Kent's attorney, Dick DeGuerin, repeated his description of the incidents in the indictment as consensual and part of a close personal and professional "relationship" the two shared. He told the Chron: "To charge Judge Kent of conduct of which he is absolutely innocent based on this kind of flimsy evidence is inexcusable and we will fight it to the bitter end." DeGuerin said Kent has no plans to resign or retire.
Rusty Hardin, who repped Roger Clemens in the steroid scandal and has been described as slicker n' deer guts on a doorknob, is McBroom's attorney. He told the Chron: "I'm extremely disappointed that Dick would choose to try the victim and in this case he just totally ignores the evidence."
Under an agreement between prosecutors and DeGuerin, Kent will surrender Wednesday for an initial court appearance.
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Fraud seems to be very much the crime du jour. For earlier this week, former Chairwoman of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce, Lily Chiang Lai Lei, prepared for her release from jail today by launching an appeal against her conviction. One thing you have to say for Lily is that doing time hasn't changed her. She went into Lo Wu Correctional Institution completely loopy, and she's coming out of it 21 months later batshit crazy.
While you've got to give Lily full marks for an obsessive refusal to live without all the comforts offered by denial, one has to wonder if a rational person would fly in the face of established judicial practice by attempting to get the Court of Appeal to revisit points of fact rather than points of law.
You see, according to Lily, when her trial finally took place nearly two years ago after all her attempts to delay it or prevent it from going ahead at all, the judge, Albert Wong Sung Hau, made a "fundamental flaw in the fact-finding exercise". The silly old District Court judge wasn't able to reckon on just how slowly Lily can walk if she really puts her mind to it. No wonder they never promoted him to the Court of First Instance.
In essence, the debate rages around how long it took Lily, who's no slouch fitness-wise, having apparently completed the 100-kilometre Trailwalker race on more than one occasion, and her secretary to perform the following simple operations:
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3. Boss takes cash to bank vault.
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On the last count, at any rate, we have the, albeit subjective and necessarily partisan, testimony of Lily's own barrister to the contrary, for the current incumbent of the job – Lily's been through a few of them – one Clare Montgomery, QC, says it takes a full 43 seconds to walk from the bank entrance to the vault. (For the purposes of full disclosure, Ms Montgomery does not specify whether she did the trial run weighed down by 2 million dollars in bank notes or not.)
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RBS 6 Nations preview: Ireland v France
Updated: Saturday, 09 Mar 2013 12:22 | Comments
By Tadhg Peavoy
The groundswell of desire for Declan Kidney to be deposed as Ireland head coach as soon as possible has mounted to extreme levels this week.
The general public sentiment has been that the Munster man has had his shot and that it's time to go.
This may well be the case for Kidney, and this could be his last Six Nations Championship tie against France; however, he and his team will not be focusing on the game in those desperate terms.
Instead, master of calm Kidney will be looking to steady the ship and tweak the issues which have dogged Ireland over the last number of weeks, while gently coaxing his new players along with the experience given by the old heads in the side.
With this in mind, expect little change tactically from the last three games; the difference one must hope to see is that the execution will be different. If Ireland cut out their high error count, then they have a chance in this one.
The lineout must improve
The lineout was awful against Scotland and this basic platform is a must to attack with speed in rugby. If Rory Best can align his darts better and Ireland can attack from this set piece with clean ball, one major building block will be put in place for Ireland.
Another area that Ireland have been poor in over the last two games has been attacking the opposition lineout.
The challenge by Ireland on the opposition throw – especially against the set-piece strong French – would potentially slow down Les Bleus' attack and give the Ireland defence that little bit extra as they come up in union to make the hits.
However, whether the Ireland brains trust will employ this technique is uncertain.
Healy's return and the scrum battle
Cian Healy's return in the front row at loosehead prop is huge for Ireland.
Like tighthead prop Mike Ross, Healy is one of the first names on the Ireland team sheet. With those two pillars in place Ireland stand a far better chance of parity up front.
Kidney will be praying for no injuries to either player because the French will come to Dublin to take advantage of Ireland's weak scrum.
If Nicolas Mas and Thomas Domingo don't win a couple of key penalties in this department, it will be a surprise.
The challenge for Healy and Ross is to keep Mas and Domingo at bay as much as possible.
France steadily improving
The entire France team raised their game for Le Crunch with England at Twickenham, and only when Philippe Saint-André emptied the bench, bringing off several of France's key players, did Les Bleus lose the game against the Red Rose.
The old cliché about the France team rings true here once more: which France will show up, the team that dominated England for 50 minutes or so, or the team that wilted against England for 30 minutes.
Mercurial outhalf Frederic Michalak returns at No 10 for France, partnering Morgan Parra at scrumhalf; this is the third halfback duo France have had in this championship.
While much has been made of Michalak's inclusion ahead of Francois Trinh-Duc - who was solid and reliable for France against England prior to being replaced by Michalak - it may not be as big a boost to Ireland as has been depicted.
With Parra on, long-range kicking duties will be taken away from Michalak, relieving him of that pressure, which could in turn loosen him up to play the ball-in-hand game he is famed for.
More options in the Ireland backline
Intriguingly, Ireland's No 10 Paddy Jackson is in a similar position to his opposite number.
He place kicked badly against Scotland, but ran the back line well. He will start with kicking duties against France, but with Fergus McFadden starting on the wing, Ireland have a back-up kicker.
If Jackson is feeling the pressure duties can be handed on to McFadden, while the Ulster No 10 handles the rest of the outhalf responsibilities.
With Ian Madigan on the bench providing utility back cover and another place kicking option, this match-day 23 looks a lot more varied than the group that was named to play Scotland.
France pose a greater test than Scotland
The problem is that France are a far better outfit than Scotland. Yes, they have stuttered through this championship, but their run of defeats will end soon, and they will very much fancy taking on Ireland.
Wesley Fofana is playing in his preferred inside centre slot and Luke Marshall will be severely tested by his opposite No 12.
If Marshall's inexperience gets the better of him, we could see two or three tries, either being scored by, or originating from, that centre channel. That would be game over.
Brian O'Driscoll's experience could be the key in guiding Marshall through this stern examination.
Outside Fofana, the inclusion of Vincent Clerc on the wing will strike fear into the heart of every Ireland supporter.
Clerc has a superb record against Ireland, scoring more tries in this fixture than any other Frenchman with eight.
Included in that tally was the winning try in Croke Park in 2007, which ultimately denied Eddie O'Sullivan's Ireland the Grand Slam that season.
Maxime Medard's free-running attack-minded play has been missing from France's game for the last year; his return in the back three is also a boost.
Heaslip's chance to shine
The other hate figure over the last number of weeks – in addition to Kidney – has been captain Jamie Heaslip.
He has been subjected to dog's abuse over his supposed lack of leadership, decision-making and suitability as captain.
This is his chance to silence those doubters - for now at least.
A strong performance from the No 8 will a) prevent more vitriol being sent his way by the press and public in the build-up to the Italy game, and b) end his own run of average form, which will inspire those around him to do likewise.
It's a massive game for the former Newbridge College student and Ireland need a big show from him.
One of his best performances in a green shirt came in Ireland's 30-21 win over France in 2009: he must channel that performance into his play on Saturday.
Massive pressure on both head coaches
Two solid performances, preferably with the outcome of four points, is what Kidney needs as he bids to have his contract renewed by the IRFU.
Ireland have looked more rudderless in their last two games than ever before under Kidney.
This game could be the one that decides his fate and he will have some choice words to rally his troops in the bowels of the Aviva on Saturday.
France supremo Saint-André is also under immense pressure with his side right in the Wooden Spoon dogfight; Les Bleus last won the championship's booby prize in 1999 and if his team claim the award this year, the player who was known as the Piglet could be squealing for mercy from the FFR.
With so much at stake, expect a very passionate and tightly matched game.
If Ireland fail to raise their execution levels they should be soundly beaten.
However, my hunch is that this will be a greatly improved Ireland performance, but one that may fall just short of a much improved 80-minute performance from France.
France to win by six.
Twitter: @TPeavoy
Ireland v France, RBS 6 Nations, Aviva Stadium, Saturday 9 March, kick-off 17:00:
Ireland: 15 Rob Kearney 14 Fergus McFadden 13 Brian O'Driscoll 12 Luke Marshall 11 Keith Earls 10 Paddy Jackson 9 Conor Murray 1 Cian Healy 2 Rory Best 3 Mike Ross 4 Mike McCarthy 5 Donnacha Ryan 6 Peter O'Mahony 7 Sean O'Brien 8 Jamie Heaslip (captain).
Replacements: 16 Sean Cronin 17 David Kilcoyne 18 Stephen Archer 19 Donncha O'Callaghan 20 Iain Henderson 21 Eoin Reddan 22 Ian Madigan 23 Luke Fitzgerald.
France: 15 Yoann Huget 14 Vincent Clerc 13 Florian Fritz 12 Wesley Fofana 11 Maxime Medard 10 Frederic Michalak 9 Morgan Parra 1 Thomas Domingo 2 Benjamin Kayser 3 Nicolas Mas 4 Christophe Samson 5 Yoann Maestri 6 Yannick Nyanga 7 Thierry Dusautoir (captain) 8 Louis Picamoles.
Replacements: 16 Guilhem Guirado 17 Vincent Debaty 18 Luc Ducalcon 19 Sebastien Vahaamahina 20 Antonie Claassen 21 Maxime Machenaud 22 Francois Trinh-Duc 23 Mathieu Bastareaud.
Referee: Steve Walsh (Aus).
Touch judges: Wayne Barnes (Eng) and Greg Garner (Eng).
TV: Nigel Whitehouse (Wal).
Live RBS 6 Nations coverage on RTÉ Two and RTÉ.ie (Ireland only) from 2pm on Saturday 9 March (Ireland v France 5pm) and 2.30pm on Sunday 10 March.
Live radio coverage of Ireland v France on Saturday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ.ie (Worldwide) from 2pm.
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While eating cereal we watched cartoons, and, brother, we watched the good ones like "Heckle & Jeckle," "Foghorn Leghorn," "Mr. Magoo" and "Felix the Cat." Our favorite TV show was always "The Three Stooges." What? Too violent? How about these video games so popular with the kids these days, showing realistic war and death and dismemberment? No, I call BS on my cartoons being called too violent. Yes, the Three Stooges knocked a few heads around, but nobody ever got seriously hurt -- that is, unless they really pissed Moe off!
Speaking of TVs, back in the 1960s you were lucky if you had a color TV. Dad was a welder and Ma was a housewife. Color TVs were very expensive, so we made out just fine with a black-and-white TV. Remote control? Are you kidding me? The only remote control we had in our house was when my Dad would yell, "Rickey, Randy, change the dang channel on the TV set!" I'll tell you another thing, back in the 1960s we had one TV set and it was in the living room and we watched whatever my Dad was watching. On that TV set we had three standard channels (ABC, NBC and CBS) and one public service channel that nobody I knew ever watched.
It's a wonder we survived the 1960s. We drank water directly from the water hose in the front yard, rode our bikes without a helmet and rode in the back of Dad's pickup truck. We also had a "jug of water" in our "ice box" that everybody in the family drank from.
Let me tell you a few other things that we didn't have back then, and somehow we survived. We never heard of car seats, microwave ovens or "childproof" medicine bottles. I'll tell you what we DID have: drive-in movies, S&H Green Stamps, rotary dial phones and a milkman that came to our house every morning. And every dang house in the neighborhood had a clothesline in the back yard. We grew up in a three-bedroom house with six people. Me and Ran shared a room, as did my two sisters. We only had one bathroom for all six of us, and we took turns. Our phone line was a party line, meaning we shared it with our nosy neighbors.


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Why I Want To Be A Pharmacist
How do you adequately describe your life's aspirations while being able to convey the passion behind it?
As you all have gathered, I am a massive pharmacy and chemistry nerd which is evident in some of the decorations I own that the wife does not care for. Actually, I can somewhat understand since I am an uber nerd, but I digress.
That aside, there is something about pharmacy that is innately fascinating. No other medical profession do you have such a direct impact on a patient's life.
Doctors, in some ways, are showered with all of the glory. I will not argue that some of it is deserved, but pharmacists are always over looked. Often,when explaining my choice of pharmacy over medicine, I explain that doctors often save the lives of the patients. Pharmacists are here to make their quality of life better.
I like interacting with people, its what fuels my day. The fact that I could use my knowledge of chemistry and the processes of the human body to increase the joy a person has during a day is immensely rewarding to me. Pharmacists can offer so much to their patients and rarely is this fully realized.
Even more so is the fact that pharmacy is still evolving. Really, who knows what pharmacists will be doing 10-20 years from now? Those who graduated twenty years ago, could you imagine MTMs, vaccination clinics, prescribing abilities (in some states), etc etc? It's almost exciting in a way.
Most of all its where I feel at home. Yes, I flirted with medicine for a while and its probably something I could have done well. It was, however, not something that I felt fit with me.
My whole goal in life is to give back in some way. I want to be able to look back on my life and see that I had a profound impact to not just my patients, but the world in general. Maybe I'm overly ambitious and insightful due to my youth, but I want to change the profession. I will not be one to sit idly by as the profession storms by.
And I feel that pharmacy, specifically retail pharmacy, is where I can most efficiently give back.
Sappy and overzealous? Perhaps, but its what I want to do with my life.
I was once told that in the grand scheme of things the only thing that matters is if at the end of your life you can look back and ask the question 'Was I a good person' and answer yes. The path you may take may have many twists and turns, but ultimately you wind up at that answer.
My path is taking me through the field of pharmacy... and damnit, I cannot wait to start.
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- Grumpy, M.D. said...
That is awesome.
Health care needs people like you, regardless of what branch you enter.
We all have to work, so might as well do something you like.
- March 12, 2010 at 5:52 AM
I certainly agree with you, unfortunately not all people see the positive aspects of your description. Specifically those who think that retail pharmacists *still* just count pills and label things. And as the post on what people say when you're applying to pharmacy school, don't listen to them, they're full of it. Especially if they've already done it - even more so if they were accepted to pharmacy school more than 3 years ago. Just my take :) and I'm still rooting for you!
- March 12, 2010 at 10:12 PM
- PharmJam said...
I am rooting for you! I hope you hear good news soon.
Keep up the nerding!
- March 13, 2010 at 11:37 PM
- The Redheaded Pharmacist said...
It seems we have a few things in common with regards to our view of the profession of pharmacy and our respective places in it. I too felt very similar to you when I made my decision to go into pharmacy. And I can honestly say I've never looked back and regretted it once. I hope you'll be able to say the same and I think you will when it is all said and done.
- March 19, 2010 at 10:32 PM
- Angie Kay said...
I love your writing, I am in awe with the industry myself. I am just mustering up the courrage to make it through a PharmD program by 2012. I am a business major currenly and just dont get excited about work anymore. I love what I do, just can see babysitting adults and only get paid 40-60k for it. I need something I get more enjoyment out of! the thought of working with medication just gets me excited. You now have a new reader. Thanks for sharing your experience and thoughts! Angie
- May 14, 2010 at 12:50 PM
to be a pharmacist I was like
I never thought that world can be this weird iam a senior pharmacist in one of the most difficult pharmacy collage in my country but never loved chemistry
my dream was to study physic weird right out of 7000 student that fights for the place am setting on it world can be unfair for so many people 90 people was excepted including me now I got it when I don't like it the collage told me to chose something between beeing dentist or doctor or a pharmacist and here to be a pharmacist u have to study 6 years but better than medicine 7 years of studying something u don't like is torture believe me after am done with my study of pharmacy I will come to us seeking a good physic school in any way iam prying for u to be a good pharmacist . to study something u love its one of greatsist blissing
- October 29, 2010 at 5:46 AM
"Improving quality of lives rather than saving lives"....Its so true just insuring people are happy with their meds and adherent has such an impact on QoL.
- March 18, 2011 at 10:14 AM
all the above ppl are deluded. pharmacy all about profit margins and mark-up, getting the best price for cheap drugs. you forget all the chemistry pharmacology one year after college then you become a salesperson. It was the biggest mistake of my life becoming a pharmacist, I hate every minute of it.
- March 7, 2012 at 5:47 PM
I work at a pharmacy and I wish I could feel what you feel about this profession because honestly, working in retail has killed my soul a bit. My enthusiasm has waned.
I thought i'd be helping people but instead it seems they don't want to be helped and prefer to complain. This entitled mentality I keep seeing has got to stop. It's always our fault and never the insurance company's fault when something goes wrong.
I'm hoping that when I get an internship at a hospital things will be better.
- July 4, 2012 at 9:42 PM


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As a random observer and connoisseur of egotistical Internet postings, I would say no. I can see how Mr. Sigman's posting style would ruffle feathers, but he does answer questions and people did say he provided excellent material in person. It seems he can walk the walk. I've yet to see anyone who's met one of the Internal Guys(tm) come back and say they already knew what they did, so your implicit claims are rather dubious. All you've done from the get-go is intimate that you know everything he knows. The most suspicious and illogical part is that since you've never met him, you can't even know what his set of skills actually consists of, ergo there is no logical basis for your position. So, implying that you know them is rather silly and puts the ego squarely on your end, if you're interested in keeping score.
Thats just plain wrong. I've usually been known to imply that Mike is probably better at this stuff than me by virtue if nothing else that he's been at it longer, same for other guys too. I've also got no interest in promoting myself as being some great IMA master, nor have I done so. My point is however, often that it takes a large ego to tell someone from another art that they're doing their own art wrong. Its not something I'd do.
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Perhaps when there are people who have met you in addition to the Internal Guys(tm) then we'll see the names Dan, Mike S., Rob, Akuzawa, and Mike H all mentioned in the same breath.
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Yes, cloning Pokemon in Emerald is possible. This only works on Emerald, not RS or FRLG.
1. Save in front of the PC in the Battle Tower.
2. Deposit the pokemon you want to clone in an empty box.
3. Leave the PC and save again.
4. Go to the PC one more time and withdraw the pokemon you want to clone, the one that's in an empty box.
5. Talk to the lady on the far right, and she will ask you to join a Multi Battle.
6. Select Yes and choose any two pokemon.
7. When she asks if you want to save, select Yes.
8. If everything so far has been done correctly, the game will wait about one second before doing anything else.
9. then the save screen will come up Turn off your game
10. turn your game back on, and now the cloned pokemon is both in the PC and in your party.
here is a video of how to do it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRzzGBdV7bQ
WARNING - SIDE EFFECT: When you clone in Pokemon Emerald all your battle facility records will be deleted. (I have 35 wins in the Battle Arena, then POOF).
EDIT by pokemonmaster50246: u can also clone items in the same way here is a video of how to do this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_FVE-aoV-0 this video shows masterballs being cloned but it works with all items
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how did you lose your records? i never lost any with mine... maybe they ironed that out with the english version... anyways cloning is only good in moderation.


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Bodies in motion: a computer modeling trick developed at Goddard allows us to simulate what our solar system looks like to aliens
A few years ago, a University of Maryland graduate student, Christopher Stark, crossed paths with NASA astrophysicist Marc Kuchner. "He landed in my office and asked me if I had any projects," Kuchner recalls.
Stark needed to do some interesting and original science so he could become a professional scientist instead of a professional student; Kuchner needed help with his interesting and original research on how planets sculpt the disks of dust and gas in alien star systems, creating features like rings, gaps, and clumps.
And maybe, just maybe, by imaging those rings, gaps, and clumps in disks of dust around alien star systems, we might be able to discover planets. In other words, we might find planets by spotting their gravitational pull on their surroundings, as opposed to taking a picture of the actual planets, which is a rare and delicate trick.
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Fast forward to summer 2010. Stark finishes his PhD thesis on computer modeling of dust disks around alien stars, gets a sweet job at Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., and is the lead author on a paper describing aforementioned interesting and original science in the September 7, 2010, Astronomical Journal. Life is good!
Read the Goddard Space Flight Center press release and video for the science details. Stark and Kuchner basically simulated the dust in our own solar system and showed what it would look like to alien astronomers observing from afar. (Hint: they can see a ring-shaped collection of dust with a gap due to the influence of Neptune.)
Here, let's talk about how Stark and Kuchner simulated dusty solar systems in the supercomputer down the hall from me.
The "debris disks" around stars contain an unimaginable number of tiny grains of dust — "dust" being tiny clots of crusty minerals and frozen vapors. Fluffy interplanetary dust bunnies, really.
As planets orbit, their gravity can induce rings and clumps in the dust. And because warm interplanetary dust radiates infrared energy, telescopes trillions of miles away can actually SEE the rings and clumps even though they can't see the planets creating them.
Kuchner and Stark decided to build a more realistic computer simulation of dusty disks with planets. It could prove a pretty handy tool for spotting planets someday.
The problem: too many dust bunnies! Getting a computer to track the movements and interactions of so many bits of stuff is, well, practically impossible.
Ever heard of the "three body problem"? For physicists of olde like Sir Isaac Newton, calculating the motions of three gravitating bodies in free space was enough to induce cardiac arrest. Dauntingly, terrifyingly, slide-rule-breakingly hard.
"How," Kuchner asks, "do you figure out the answer without having to figure out a billion billion billion collisions?"
Stalking dust bunnies
Tracking a billion billion billion dust bunnies is not even worth considering, even with the formidable computing resources down the hall from me at Goddard, that being the Discover supercomputer.
But Stark and Kuchner found a way. They call it the collisional grooming algorithm.
An algorithm is a precise set of mathematical rules that describes how to solve a problem. Stark and Kuchner used it to simulate 75,000 virtual dust particles and track their motions and number in response to grain-grain collisions and the gravitational tug of planets.
But what about all the other dust bunnies, the billion-billion-billion?
"We allow each single integrated particle to represent many dust grains," Stark explains. "We scale the number of dust grains up and down to control how much dust is in the disk, even though we only actually integrate 75,000 particles."
But let nobody leave the room thinking that approximating the behavior of 10 billion billion billion dust bunnies is easy.
At Goddard, we have a supercomputer called Discover. The thingies that do the actual data processing in a computer are called processors, and Discover presently has about 15,000 of them. That's the number of processors in 7,500 MacBook Pro laptops like the one I used to write this blog post. Which is to say, my laptop packs an Intel Core Duo, or two processors, whereas the Discover supercomputer packs about 15,000 processors. Soon, Discover will double in capacity to nearly 30,000 processors.
To run Stark and Kuchner's interplanetary dust bunny simulation required about 3,000 processors — the equivalent of 1,500 MacBook Pro's — running for 24 hours!
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