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  • Some pandemic practices are sticking around, like these …

    12/14/2022 8:02:41 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 21 replies
    The Hill ^ | 12/14/2022 | he Associated Press via Nexstar Media Wire
    NEW YORK (AP) — Dusting off old musical instruments, appreciating the outdoors more meaningfully, dumping the hair dye and letting the gray fly forever. The pandemic disrupted our traditions, practices and pursuits, how we mark milestones, what we do with our time, what’s important in routines. It replaced old with new, a kind of new that just might stick. Nearly three years after the World Health Organization declared the deadly spread of COVID-19 a pandemic, there’s plenty of old life mixed with the new. And, yes, the latter includes a whole lot of Zooming still going on among families, colleagues...
  • BBC drama king screenwriter behind War and Peace and Pride and Prejudice claims women bosses [tr]

    12/23/2018 2:46:15 AM PST · by C19fan · 11 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | December 23, 2018 | Chris Hastings
    In his illustrious 50-year career, screenwriter Andrew Davies has forged a formidable reputation for creating strong female characters. But now he says he is not allowed to make his women anything but feisty – by the powerful female executives who run television. Davies, who is known for adaptations of classics such as Pride And Prejudice and War & Peace, says bosses want to see an image of themselves projected on screen, and veto any 'droopy, soppy' girls he wants to pen.
  • The Practices of Prayer

    10/16/2016 8:00:25 AM PDT · by Salvation · 9 replies
    Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 10-15-16 | Msgr. Charles Pope
    The Practices of Prayer Msgr. Charles Pope • October 15, 2016 • Today’s readings speak to us of the power of persistent prayer. The first reading (Exodus 17:8-13) in particular depicts prayer quite powerfully. In it, we can discern six fundamental teachings on prayer. I. The Problem for Prayer – In those days, Amalek came and waged war against Israel. None of us like problems, but one good thing about them is that they help to keep us praying. Israel was at war and their enemies were strong; it was time to pray.In today’s Gospel concerns a widow who...
  • Will Any Sane Person Defend Homosexual Practices?

    05/30/2012 8:27:26 PM PDT · by John Leland 1789 · 67 replies
    Email Subscription From Dr. Boys | May 29, 2012 | Don Boys, Ph.D.
    Will Any Sane Person Defend Homosexual Practices? Homosexuals indulge in incredible, unbelievable, vile, vulgar, even violent activities detrimental to themselves and society such as fisting (don’t ask); rimming (don’t ask again); illegal drug use; eating or rubbing their bodies with a lover’s feces; autoerotic asphyxiation (about 1,000 die each year); sadomasochism, urine drinking; golden showers (water sports); insertion of bottles, flashlights and other objects up a “lovers” rear; and other repulsive activities. I would love to hear a defense of those activities. Even alleged “gay” animals never reached such depravity. It takes a human to live such a vile lifestyle....
  • Medical Practices and Health Insurers Must Use New Federally Mandated Medical Codes...

    02/07/2011 10:53:48 AM PST · by Nachum · 25 replies
    Cybercast News Service ^ | 2/7/11 | Susan Jones
    (CNSNews.com) - U.S. health care providers and health plans have two years left to adopt a new federally mandated system of medical coding--the shorthand used to list what's wrong with a patient and how much that patient should be charged. The new, vastly expanded coding system is intended to improve disease management, disease monitoring, and health care reimbursement. This will be the first major overhaul of the medical coding system in 30 years, and it is separate from the government’s push to have health care providers switch from paper records to electronic health records.
  • Mexico Lashes Out at U.S. Immigration Practices

    09/11/2010 5:01:45 AM PDT · by Son House · 59 replies
    FoxNews.com ^ | September 10, 2010 | FoxNews.com
    Mexican President Felipe Calderon said in an interview Friday that last month’s massacre of 72 migrants doesn't undermine Mexico's moral authority to demand better treatment for its own migrants. "Of course we have the moral authority, because Mexican officials are not shooting Central American youths at the border, but U.S. agents are shooting Mexican migrants," Calderon said in an interview with the Spanish-language Univision network. "If we are talking about responsibility, at the root of this, in the case of immigration, is the lack of immigration legislation in the United States that would recognize this phenomenon," Calderon said.
  • Kagan practices answers, poise in mock hearings

    06/22/2010 4:53:48 PM PDT · by Nachum · 15 replies
    yahoo news ^ | 6/22/10 | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
    WASHINGTON – For several grueling hours each day, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan sits at a witness table, facing a phalanx of questioners grilling her about constitutional law, her views of legal issues and what qualifies her to be a justice. They are not polite. It's all a rehearsal for Kagan's big performance next week during her confirmation hearings at the Senate Judiciary Committee. The "murder boards" are elaborately planned sessions where Kagan hashes out answers to every conceivable question and practices staying calm and poised during hours of pressure and hot television lights. About 20 members of President Barack...
  • Hiring Practices Influenced By Beauty

    01/03/2008 5:08:30 PM PST · by blam · 43 replies · 85+ views
    Science Daily ^ | 1-3-2008 | Blackwell Publishing Ltd..
    Hiring Practices Influenced By Beauty ScienceDaily (Jan. 3, 2008) — A new study finds that the attractiveness of interviewees can significantly bias outcome in hiring practices, showing a clear distinction between the attractive and average looking interviewees in terms of high and low status job packages offered. “When someone is viewed as attractive, they are often assumed to have a number of positive social traits and greater intelligence,” say Carl Senior and Michael J.R. Butler, authors of the study. “This is known as the ‘halo effect’ and it has previously been shown to affect the outcome of job interviews.” The...
  • CA: Assembly speaker calls for audit of CSU compensation practices

    07/18/2006 5:44:45 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 8 replies · 289+ views
    AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 7/18/06 | Samantha Young - ap
    Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez on Tuesday called for a legislative audit of California State University after revelations that the nation's largest public university system had secretly paid millions of dollars to outgoing campus presidents and top executives. "I'm deeply troubled by allegations that former high-level CSU officials have been given dubious positions after their tenures, collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars to do no discernible work while students have seen their tuition rise almost 30 percent in the past three years," Nunez, D-Los Angeles, said in a statement. An investigation by the San Francisco Chronicle showed that at least seven...
  • CA: State audit faults UC for shoddy pay practices

    05/02/2006 7:01:56 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 3 replies · 243+ views
    Oakland Tribune ^ | 5/2/06 | Michelle Maitre
    An independent state audit into University of California compensation practices portrays a pay structure run amok, where officials regularly bent the rules to secure better deals for top administrators and a shoddy centralized bookkeeping system provided inadequate checks and balances on pay matters. As a result, the university overpaid at least one employee nearly $130,000, padded the retirement-covered compensation of others, and provided housing allowances and other perks far in excess of amounts allowed under policy. The audit said many of the deals were not reported to the public and UC's own governing board. All told, UC handed out $334...
  • Hunter's widow files appeal

    03/06/2006 4:07:08 PM PST · by george76 · 72 replies · 1,699+ views
    The Associated Press ^ | March 06, 2006 | The Associated Press
    Suit says state at fault in grizzly mauling... The widow of a hunter mauled by a grizzly bear while he was gutting an elk has filed an appeal with the Montana Supreme Court after a district judge here dismissed her lawsuit against the state. Mary Ann Hilston contends negligent management practices led to the death of her husband...in the fall of 2001. She filed a lawsuit in federal court in September 2004, claiming the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks knew there was an aggressive grizzly bear with two cubs prowling the...
  • CA: Legislature orders audit of UC compensation practices

    01/17/2006 6:10:05 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 2 replies · 276+ views
    ap on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 1/17/06 | Tom Chorneau - ap
    SACRAMENTO (AP) - The state auditor will examine compensation practices at the University of California that allowed the system to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses and perks without public input, after a legislative committee ordered the review Tuesday. Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angles, requested the audit, calling the university's actions all the more glaring because they came when student fees were being increased to close budget gaps. "There has been a flagrant disregard for the use of taxpayer dollars by the UC president's office," Nunez said during an appearance before the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. "They...
  • Customer studies give an earful to wireless carriers about bad service

    12/25/2005 7:22:24 AM PST · by radar101 · 33 replies · 2,300+ views
    San Diego Union ^ | DEC 25, 2005 | Kathryn Balint
    Today's cell phones can do all sorts of things: surf the Web, show videos, take photos, play games, you name it. These newfangled features are nifty, except that even in this era of ingenious wireless technology, there are still occasions when you can't make a simple phone call. Thirty-two years after the first cell-phone call was made, and 200 million U.S. subscribers later, users continue to complain about the basics: dropped calls, dead zones and static. "All of the carriers are racing toward providing more and different services – location services, concierge services – and the core service that most...
  • Amid Probe, Illinois Governor Defends Hiring Practices

    10/27/2005 9:00:21 AM PDT · by ncountylee · 4 replies · 409+ views
    washingtonpost ^ | October 27, 2005 | Staff
    S PRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich defended the state's hiring practices Wednesday as a federal inquiry into the matter widened, and said he had nothing to hide. Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed the governor's office and the Department of Children and Family Services. State officials confirmed Wednesday that the Department of Transportation also was subpoenaed. "This kind of examination isn't a bad thing if you're confident that your systems are working and that you know that you try to do things honestly and ethically and responsibly," the first-term Democrat said after cutting the ribbon for the state's new emergency...
  • STAND FIRM FOR GITMO - for America, for the world!

    06/14/2005 1:04:47 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 29 replies · 878+ views
    WASHINGTON TIMES.COM ^ | JUNE 14, 2005 | EDITOR
    "Sure, a few may come back to haunt us," wrote New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in arguing to close down the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay. Who are the "few" that Mr. Friedman is thinking of, and what exactly does he mean by haunting? Perhaps the case of Mohammed al Qahtani, a Guantanamo detainee profiled in the current issue of Time magazine, offers insight. From a Guantanamo logbook, Time reports that interrogators did a number of unpleasant things to al Qahtani to get him to talk. These included shaving his beard, stripping him naked, ordering him to bark...
  • Nonprofit Hospitals Criticized - Tax-Exempt Hospitals' Practices Challenged

    01/28/2005 8:42:44 PM PST · by crushelits · 7 replies · 407+ views
    washingtonpost.com ^ | Saturday, January 29, 2005 | Ceci Connolly
    Tax-Exempt Hospitals' Practices Challenged46 Lawsuits Allege That Uninsured Pay the Most TUPELO, Miss. -- When Tim Gardner was born at the hospital here 53 years ago, it was just "one little building on the hill" in a town best known as Elvis Presley's birthplace. From those humble beginnings, North Mississippi Medical Center has grown into the largest non-metropolitan hospital in the country, a booming enterprise with a complex of glass and marble buildings and 40 satellite clinics stretching into Alabama and Tennessee. The company, incorporated in Delaware, has nearly $300 million in the bank and "exceptional profitability," according to one...
  • Tollway funding is question of control

    01/26/2005 5:06:47 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 55 replies · 2,059+ views
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram ^ | Tue, Jan. 25, 2005 | Gordon Dickson
    A company selected to build a toll road from Dallas-Fort Worth to San Antonio has a reputation for aggressively collecting money from motorists, treating customers poorly and frequently raising tolls without public input. Those are among the complaints lodged against Cintra -- selected in December to build the first leg of the Trans-Texas Corridor -- by motorists on the company's toll roads in Toronto and Chicago. Across North America, private companies such as Cintra are spending billions of dollars to build roads in exchange for the right to collect tolls for 50 to 100 years -- relieving taxpayers of the...
  • Kerry Prevaricates on War Against Corporate Fraud

    07/08/2004 7:29:50 AM PDT · by stevejackson · 3 replies · 860+ views
    www.netwmd.com ^ | July 8, 2004 | Andrew Jaffee
    Ken Lay of Enron Indicted and Arrested By Andrew L. Jaffee, July 8, 2004 Home   Search   Forum   Terms Enron’s ex-Chairman of the Board has been indicted and arrested on charges connected with his former company’s implosion in 2001. Corporate executives at Enron engaged in all sorts of financial manipulations to pump up the company’s stock price. They created complex “partnerships” to hide company debt from shareholders. In 1998, Enron’s share price was at about $20. By 2000, it hit $90. By 2001, the company’s stock was worthless. Enron’s collapse wiped out billions in shareholder value and employee pensions. Democratic Presidential hopeful John...