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Pirates seize DryShips bulker
The latest ship to fall victim to Somali pirates is the DryShips, Inc.-owned, Maltese-flag 75,057 dwt capesize Saldhana, which was seized yesterday.
The hijacking was discovered when the ship, which had been in a protected shipping lane, showed up on the radar of HMS Northumberland heading directly towards Somalia.
According to the BBC's Jonah Fisher, who has been reporting from on board HMS Northumberland, the warship's helicopter was sent up to take a closer look while HMS Northumberland moved towards the Saldanha at top speed.
Two miles away radio contact was established.
According to Jonah Fisher, the Saldanha's captain reported that a "hostage situation" had developed, with the pirates issuing the demand that the warship stay away.
The captain of the Northumberland "was forced to watch as the Saldanha with its crew of 22 below deck drifted past the bridge windows and on towards the Horn of Africa."
According to Jonah Fisher's report, the mandate of the European Union taskforce--of which the Northumberland is part-- is to act as a deterrent and try and stop acts of piracy in process or about to take place. It does not have the mandate or capability to retake captured ships like the Saldanha.
It appears that the Saldanha was seized either at night or at first light about 60 miles (100 km) from the Northumberland's location.
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Offering drag and drop functionality via USB, the players support MP3, WMA and JPEG files and have "SuperScroll" navigation and a folder view.
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Lucille Esmeralda McGillicuddy Ricardo (portrayed by Lucile Ball) was born on August 6, 1911 in West Jamestown, New York. She once says that she is a Taurus, but she later reveals that her birthday is August 6th, making her a Leo.
Lucile was delivered by Dr. Peterson. She was from Scottish ancestry, her great-great-great-grandfather, Angus McGillicuddy, hailing from Kildoonan, a town in northern Scotland located between Golspie and Ullapool. Not much is known about her early childhood. She was babysat by Helen Ericson (now Helen Ericson Sears Kaiser) from very early on, who gave her the childhood nickname of "Droopy Drawers." Lucy got herself into sticky predicaments early on, as evidenced by how her baby buggy once rolled away from babysitter Helen and ended up in the middle of a street, stopping traffic! Later, in grade school, she was a little skinny girl with freckles, which earned her the nickname "Bird Legs." She was bitten on her left ear by neighbor Fred Bigelow's cat when she was very young, and she still has the scar. Her mother, Mrs. McGillicuddy (no first name ever provided), never mentions having any other children, and Lucy herself never talks about having any siblings. Her father is also never mentioned. She does have an Aunt Martha who made fabulous homemade salad dressing, though.
While she attended Jamestown High School in Celoron, New York, Lucy demonstrated a passion for the theater. She played the head of the petunias in a ballet recital, and she was Juliet in the senior play of Romeo and Juliet. Her high school drama teacher, Miss Hanna, said that she wouldn't be surprised if Lucy ended up as a Broadway star. Lucy also learned how to play "Glow Worm" on the saxophone so she could go on band trips with the football team; at the time, she was dating one of the high school's football players. This football player was probably the captain of the team Lucy refers to while listing her past romances. Her other high school romances inclued a nameless lifeguard, Billy, Maury, Jess, Jerry, Bob, Bennett, george, Phil, Martin, Danny, Argyle, Bud, Wilbur, Noble, Carl, Frank, and Henry. One blemish on her high school record is that she flunked Spanish when she took the course.
Early lifeEdit
Lucy lived in Jamestown until she was 17, but right after she graduated high school, she left for New York City. She went to an unknown college for an unknown major, and while there, she dated Tom Henderson, who is now the owner of a big fur salon downtown. In 1953, she said that she broke up with Tom Henderson "15 years ago," meaning her relationship with Tom at college must have ended in 1938. She also dated Kenny and Johnny while at "junior college."
In 1940, Lucy agreed to go on a blind date with a Cuban drummer that was set up by her friend Marion Strong. This "Cuban drummer" was conga player Ricky Ricardo. They fell madly in love. (Lucy says in 1955 that this blind date happened 15 years prior.) Lucy and Ricky seem to have gone dancing on their blind date, because Lucy once said that Ricky first asked what her name was when they first danced together. Lucy also made many blunders the first time she met Ricky. She says that she "said awful things, spilled stuff all over [Ricky], and acted like a first-class nincompoop." But this obviously didn't deter Ricky, who was head over heels for her.
In 1940, only a couple of months after they met, Lucy and Ricky got married at the Byram River Beagle Club in Greenwich, Connecticut. (Lucy once said she was 22 when she got married, but this doesn't match up with her 1921 year of birth or her 1940 year of marriage.) The date of their marriage is unclear. It was sometime in the spring, but Lucy once says her anniversary is on the 19th of the month, but another time, she says her anniversary is on the 7th of the month. The mystery month was most likely April or May. They went skiing somewhere on their honeymoon. It is rumored that they wanted to go skiing at Sun Valley on their honeymoon but were unable to afford it at the time. Lucy probably became a redhead before she met Ricky. Her natural hair color is mousy brown, and she gets henna rinses every two weeks. Nobody knows where Lucy and Ricky lived during the first eight years of their marriage, but it was likely somewhere in New York City.
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On August 6, 1948, the couple moved into a small brownstone apartment in Manhattan, located at 623 East 68th Street, although they would later claim many times that they lived at this apartment from the start of their marriage. They lived in apartment 4A until 1953, when they moved to apartment 3B (later named 3D) so there would be an extra room for Little Ricky. Lucy and Ricky quickly developed a very close friendship with their landlords/neighbors, Fred and Ethel Mertz. Lucy and Ethel became best friends and soon were inseparable. Ricky took a job as an orchestra leader/singer/conga drummer down at the Tropicana, a local nightclub. Lucy was forced to put aside her aspirations to have a career in show biz herself, as Ricky wanted his wife to be a typical American housewife who stayed in her "place." Lucy has tried many times to become part of Ricky's act down at the Tropicana, and she has succeeded in doing so many times. Despite Ricky always trying to squelch his wife's show biz desires, he can't deny that she has talent. While she's a horribly off-key singer, she's a great comedienne and dancer. She has been offered a comedy contract twice in her life, but, always loyal to Ricky, she turned both contracts down to stay at home and care for her family. A lover of celebrity, wealth, and status symbols, Lucy's dreams came true when she got to regularly meet celebrities in Hollywood on her 1955 California trip. She also was in heaven when she got to tour famous cities and landmarks on her 1955-56 European trip, which started a mere month after she returned home from Hollywood. Lucy was responsible for learning French for the trip. She made sure to learn how to ask the price of dresses and how to ask to buy a specific dress first, since that was the most important to her.
For the first 11 years of their marriage, the Ricardos were childless. Lucy finally became pregnant in 1952. It was a very unexpected and welcome surprise for her, and Ethel was the one who first suggested that Lucy might be pregnant. Lucy gave birth to Ricky Ricardo, Jr. (AKA: "Little Ricky") on January 19, 1953. Throughout her pregnancy, she considered many names for the baby, but none of these considerations was naming the baby after her husband. Making the baby her husband's namesake must have been a last-minute idea. Little Ricky is the Ricardos' only child.
In 1957, Lucy decided that she wanted to leave the city and move to the country. So, the Ricardos packed up their things and moved to Westport, Connecticut. This is their current living location. She also has some extra income coming in from selling the eggs her 200 hens lay each day for 60 cents a dozen. Throughout the period of 1958-1959, her husband's minor celebrity status has allowed Lucy to travel to even more exotic places, such as Las Vegas, Mexico, and Tokyo, Japan.
Lucy is involved in many activities. When living in New York, she was co-president (sharing the title with Ethel) of her women's club, the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League. (She used to be the club treasurer prior to becoming co-president.) Once she moved to Connecticut, she became a member of the Westport Historical Society and the local PTA. She was even chairman of the Yankee Doodle Day Celebration that the Westport Historical Society put together. Lucy is also a long-time member of a bridge club. Lucy loves playing cards in general. She enjoys bridge, canasta, and gin the best. Other interests of Lucy's include shopping for new clothes and hats, doing anything that involves celebrities, gossiping, and (of course) performing in all aspects of show business.
Lucy has many bad personality traits. She is scheming, manipulative, stubborn, very jealous, and always wants to be popular and have many status symbols. She also has a bad habit of stirring her coffee long after the cream is mixed in. But she's a good person overall. Most of her bad traits come from her great passion, ambition, and determination. She is a caring mother, a loyal wife, and (most of the time) a faithful friend. She also was very progressive for her time. While she sometimes would obey Ricky's orders submissively, she usually stood up to her husband and did what SHE wanted. For the conservative, pre-women's lib 1950s, Lucy was very ahead of her time as far as women's rights go.
So far, the list of countries Lucy has been to is as follows: United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Switzerland, Monaco, Japan and Cuba .


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2017 CN Awards - The winners
We are delighted to announce the CN Awards 2017 winners. Thank you to the readers that took the time to nominate their colleagues for an Award, those that voted and, of course, the companies that have sponsored a specific Award – without all of which this year's CN Awards would not have been such a great success.
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The Geoff Simmonett 'Commitment to Patient Care' Award
Mhairi Donald
Macmillan Consultant Dietitian, Sussex Cancer Centre, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton
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Paediatric Nutrition Professional of the Year
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Hi everybody!
Its been a year and some change since I'v updated this blog and I've been feeling that blogging itch. And since at the moment, I'm only working full time (rather than working full time and in classes full time) I have both the head space and the motivation to write a little bit again.
So on the weight front, very little has changed. I've basically been maintaining for well over a year. I got to a point where I just didn't have the brain real estate to actively diet. Plus I went through a long period where I was relying on food pantries and other such resources for a lot of my eating. I wasn't going to worry about calories or macronutrient ratios when I was ecstatic to get a jar of peanut butter. In a slightly funny or at least not-expected-because-of-narratives-I-bought-into twist, my diet improved a bajillion percent once I got SNAP benefits (food stamps in the common parlance.) Being able to afford fresh fruit and veggies again is something I hope never to take for granted.
Maintainance is its own kind of work. And working at maintanance as a fat woman (still in the 30s BMI-wise) is interesting in terms of everyone else. I might blog about it some time if these awful writing urges don't go away. So far, I haven't found it to be all consuming or especially difficult. I'm also aware that I'm less than 2 years out and things can most certainly change.
Whether or not I'm going to try to lose more weight is something I haven't decided. Some of my old goals still linger in the back of my mind. However, I don't think I'm in the right space now for it. I feel like any change to my eating or exercising would veer sharply into that Capital D – Diet area that drives me crazy. Before, when I wanted to lose, I would look at my life and find places where change would be easiest. "Oh hey, I'm eating this huge breakfast and it wouldn't bother me to cut a hundred calories from it. I can also replace my typical afternoon snack with a fruit smoothie and save another 150. And hey, I have all this time between 6pm and 8pm most nights where I'm just sitting on my keester. I bet I can find something a little more active that's still relaxing." Etc… Etc… Right now when I think of weight loss, I feel like any change would require sacrificing something I really enjoy. So for now I'm cool with where I am.
I hope everyone else has had a good year.
LuAnn permalinkJune 23, 2011 6:56 am
Welcome back; as a new reader, I gather you have been gone awhile. My two cents here, meager as it is, is to say that I think you should continue to write about all of your feelings about foo/relationship to self kinds of issues as you see fit–whatever those feeling are. The obsession for some, compulsion for others, and need for many to lose weight is, pardon me, such a "weighty" topic that I feel it deserves wide berth in our ranges of expression about it. Thanks and keep writing–whatever you are feeling.
September 23, 2011 10:30 pm
Hi Attrice! If you haven't read DebraSY's blog on weight loss maintenance, Debra's Just Maintaining, I think you'll really love it:
Stumbled across your blog, enjoyed reading, sorry to know that you've packed up shop, but here's hoping you've moved on to something you want to be doing…


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Story H/T: The Locke @ Skeptic Wars
by Steven Novella via NeuroLogica Blog
I love the documentary series, The Day the Universe Changed, by James Burke. It's a follow up to his equally good, Connections (I know, they have their criticisms, but overall they are very good). The former title is a metaphor – when our collective model of reality changes, for us the universe does change. When we believed the earth was motionless at the center of the universe, that was our reality.
But Burke was not arguing that the nature of the universe actually changed, just our conception of it. Thinking alone cannot directly change external reality. That is magical thinking.
Such thinking, however, lies at the center of much new age spiritual claims. The secret of The Secret is that you can change your world by wishing. Proponents of such ideas are desperate for scientific validation of their basic premise. Such evidence does not exist. In fact over a century of such research shows rather conclusively that there is no such effect in operation in our world to any significant degree.
A recent article claiming that there is such evidence has been making the social media rounds – 10 Scientific Studies That Prove Consciousness Can Alter Our Physical Material World. After some flowery Eastern mysticism, and rather gratuitously abusing the memory of Nikola Tesla, the author gives a quick summary of what they believe to be ten lines of evidence supporting the notion that consciousness can alter physical reality. It would take a full-length post to debunk each of these ten claims adequately. I am only going to give an equally quick summary here, but will link to longer articles when possible.
1 – Quantum Double Slit Experiment
You knew this had to be on the list. The claim is that the classic double slit experiments prove that consciousness affects reality at a fundamental level. Light (or other elementary particles, and even small atoms) traveling through one slit will shine as a blob on the other side, as if the particles of light were all piling up after the slit. If two adjacent thin slits are open, however, then we don't see two blobs but rather an interference pattern, as if the light were traveling like water waves and interfering with each other as they traveled through the slits. This is the core experiment that demonstrates the wave-particle duality of light – it travels like a wave but then interacts like a particle.
These experiments are often distorted into the claim that the experimenter has to be watching, that their consciousness affects the outcome. This is simply not true, however. All that is required is a detector, which physically interacts with the particles. "Detecting" forces the wave function to collapse into a particle. I discuss this further here.
2. Government Sponsored Psychokinesis Experiments
The claim is that government experiments demonstrated the ability to bend spoons and forks with the mind. The links provided as references, however, do not establish such claims. This, of course, is a theme of the article, providing links that give the appearance of evidence, even though they do not establish the claims being referenced.
ALSO SEE: NeuroLogica Blog » Can Thinking Change Reality Part II.


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Sweet redemption
UW-Eau Claire's Easker avenges indoor loss with outdoor win
LA CROSSE, Wis. — Goaded by three-month-old disappointment, Wisconsin-Eau Claire's Aaron Easker raced with more on his mind than the finish line Thursday.
Pounding through his first event in the 2013 NCAA Division III Men's Outdoor Track & Field Championships — the men's 10,000 meters — this senior from Eland, Wis., remembered his 5,000-meter, indoor-championship final in March, a race he'd felt he could win, but didn't because he ran out of gas.
"I had that race in my mind playing over and over," Easker said. "I did not want that to happen again outdoor."
It did not. Trailing a group of leaders that included Franciscan senior Bill Jones and North Central-Illinois junior John Crain, Easker kept pace and passed them during Thursday's final laps at the Veterans Memorial Field Sports Complex.
In doing so, he won his first Division III national title, and, equally important, avenged his sixth-place finish in the indoor 5,000-meter final.
"I was fortunate to have a nice pacer in the front," Easker said of Crain and Jones. "I was able to hang out in third for most of the race until the end. The last four laps I was able to move up a little bit. I couldn't have planned it any better. I ran smart. I ran a lot better than I did indoor, for the 5K. It feels really good to bounce back from that race and come out on top and accomplish my dreams."
Competing at host Wisconsin-La Crosse's Roger Harring Stadium, Easker was happy to follow the rabbits out front. Ranked second in the 10,000 meters behind the top-ranked Jones, he says he knew could stay with the leaders, but preferred his own path.
On a cool, sunny Thursday graced with a brisk wind, Easker eased into second place with four laps remaining. He followed Crain, then the leader, for a lap and a half, waiting until they both cleared the wind on the backstretch to take the lead.
"I was a little worried," he said of Crain trying to catch him. "But I was able to have a little more in the tank. It was an awesome finish."
Perhaps a bit tighter than Easker would've liked; his winning time of 29:48.25 nipped Crain's second-place 29:49.45, but the victor summoned another gear when it mattered most.
"I didn't know I had that extra little kick," he said. "But my dream of being a national champion was playing in my mind that last lap. I wasn't going to let anybody take it away from me."
Rewind to March's 5,000-meter indoor final in Napierville, Ill., when Easker faltered down the stretch. Ranked third at the time, he finished one of his specialty distance events without being a factor.
"I was in position with two laps in that race — or four meters left — about fourth place, and unfortunately I just didn't have the kick and I didn't have the energy," Easker said. "I kind of faded to sixth place. It was a little disappointment, but looking back, I'm kind of happy I learned from it and was able to bounce back."
The March indoor finals coincided with academic deadlines before spring break, and Easker says dueling pressures of schoolwork and the Division III indoor meet likely sapped his reserves. He spent his spring break at his parents' home in Eland, hitting surrounding country roads to plot an outdoor-season comeback.
"Everybody knows me around town as the runner," he said. "I'm the crazy guy that is running every day on the road and is taking up the space for the cars."
On Thursday, the first of this week's three-day Division III outdoor championships, that fire in the belly paid off.
"I was able to hang on to that front group," Easker said. "I knew I was capable of running with those two guys, John Crain and Bill Jones. And I was able to come out on top at the end and beat that caliber of runners."


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|Without a Paddle (2004)
Starring: Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, Dax Shepard, Burt Reynolds
Director: Steven Brill
Rating: PG-13
Category: Comedy
Watching director Steven Brill's new comedy without the sweet, finger-plucking sounds of "Dueling Banjos" in the background just doesn't feel complete. In fact, the producers of "Without a Paddle" managed to fulfill nearly every homage to "Deliverance" – including a cameo by Burt Reynolds – except for the heart-racing jungle tune. Don't start comparing the two films so quickly, though, because "Without a Paddle" just isn't up to par, censoring a group of talented young actors in place of a weak, been-there-done-that buddy flick that fails as an enjoyable visit to the movies.
Ten years after graduating and parting ways, three childhood friends (Seth Green, Matthew Lillard and Dax Shepard) are brought back home for the funeral of their fourth pal, Billy, when they discover that he planned out a journey to uncover legendary airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper's $200,000 loot deep in the woods of Oregon. Collectively agreeing that they owe it to their dead pal to embark on the treasure hunt they've been plotting since they were kids, the three guys rent a canoe, pack their camping gear and set off deep into the woods. After rowing their way over a waterfall and into the wrong direction, they hike through the hellish wilderness and run into a pair of gun-totting marijuana farmers who'd like nothing more than to shoot them dead.
Juggling the story between a slapstick comedy and a coming-of-age drama, the script for "Without a Paddle" is more lost than the characters themselves. The three actors propel the film as far as they can, but without any solid jokes it just floats in a canoe of mediocrity. Green is by far the best of the pack, enduring much of the comedic load the whole way through, but screen newbie Shepard also contributes in a few scenes.
A comedic field trip through the dangerous Oregon woods, "Without a Paddle" has small spurts of funny moments between the three friends, but ultimately falls short of its potential as a popcorn movie with a dull script lost in the idea of recreating the classic jungle thriller for a younger generation. See it if you must, but don't expect to get any bang for your buck; the best you can hope for is the snap of a twig.
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i feel like an outlaw when i cut fabric with my scissors.
like i'm breaking ALL the rules.
but you know what?!?!
i like it.
it's okay to feel like a bad mama jama sometimes.
like right now...i totally feel like iceman from top gun.
i can even spin my scissors like val kilmer and everything.


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Ernie Trefz, a Bridgeport business community titan for decades whose Downtown-based Trefz Corporation owned dozens of McDonalds franchises, commercial real estate and apartment buildings, passed away Saturday morning. He was a major benefactor of the University of Bridgeport including a business school named for him. He was 84.
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When college student creativity is available, you embrace it. Mayor Joe Ganim, unlike his predecessor Bill Finch, is leveraging the minds of University of Bridgeport students in the cause of marketing the city. Professor Susan Katz, who designed the OIB website, challenged her students in the Publicity Methods class to create a video, brochure and marketing […]
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660. Dr Wake, your explanation was very clear,
but within a PCT, if you spend money on health protection units,
you do not spend the same money on other things. What are the
tensions here and how are the priorities set?
(Dr Wake) At the moment, I would not say there are
tensions in all honesty. Money which has been spent on health
protection is protected and will continue to be spent. Money which
is in a PCT's baseline I would not say generally at the moment
is under great threat. The difficulty is when one is faced with
new infections or enlarging problems of infection control. Hepatitis
C is a very good example. It becomes quite hard at PCT level to
see where the new investment will come from, so my concern is
not about maintaining those services, although they are about
to change with the formation of the Health Protection Agency,
but is rather about understanding how we do all that is necessary
for infection within our existing budgets which grow at a certain
661. When you say expenditure is "protected",
do you mean it is protected by you or is it ring-fenced before
it comes to you in your allocation?
(Dr Wake) My understandingmy colleagues might
want to correct meis that there is no money now which is
truly ring-fenced. The best example of that which I am aware of
was around HIV, which was ring-fenced. The ring-fence from that
has recently been removed. I might suggest that the issue we may
face there is that we continue to give money we have traditionally
given for HIV, for example, to a trust. It becomes difficult for
us to enforce ring-fencing on the trust, so I think in all honesty
one cannot be sure that HIV money is spent within each trust on
what it was originally meant for.
662. Mr Brogan, you said that there is under-reporting
of infectious diseases by general practitioners. Are general practitioners
given guidance as to which infectious diseases they should notify
and is the under-reporting related to that?
(Mr Brogan) They are given guidance and they are regularly
reminded by our director of public health and the CCDC, but they
tell me that in fact it is widely recognised that there is under-reporting
across the country. I cannot prove that to you and I am just repeating
what they have told me. What they also say is that the under-reporting
is consistent, so at least you know the trends are whatever the
trends are, they are not due to artefacts of the reporting system.
663. If I understand you clearly, this under-reporting
is in seriously notifiable diseases. What would the PCTs do about
(Mr Brogan) There is not an awful lot we can do about
it. The danger of fiddling with the thing too hard is that you
would then cause a blip in the disease allegedly, which would
actually cause a problem with the reporting system, rather than
the actual incidence of the disease.
664. You said at one point that PCTs will work
with the HPA. Do you want to enlarge on that?
(Mr Brogan) We will have a memorandum of understanding
with the HPA, which will set out our relationship with them. We
work together now because the CCDCs are part of the PCT in my
particular office building looking after the health protection
of the four PCTs, including my own, in the Vale of Aylesbury,
South Bucks and Chiltern and Wycombe and Milton Keynes PCTs. We
shall continue to have the same relationship, at least to begin
with, but over time we shall have to work hard to maintain that
relationship because there is always a danger when people are
in different organisations that they will gradually drift apart.
We shall have to be very careful to ensure that does not happen.
It is not the only area where we have to collaborate with other
people across a wider area. We are doing this all the time with
our neighbouring PCTs. It should not be too difficult and people
recognise the importance of this subject and our public health
team are very committed to continuing to work with the CCDC as
the CCDC is very committed to working with them. I do not see
a major problem here.
665. Is there a contractual relationship? Do
you have to fund them to do something for you or vice-versa, or
is it simply a collaboration?
(Mr Brogan) It will be a contractual relationship
but it will not be a contractual relationship where money changes
hands in the sense of having a contract. As I understand it, the
money for the CCDC or health protection team, will be taken from
us and put into the HPA. The money will go with the people and
the money for the desks and computers and all the rest of it.
666. My question relates to performance targets
and monitoring. Both PCTs and hospital trusts have to respond
to a variety of performance targets and national service frameworks.
Do communicable diseases feature within these targets? If they
do, how does the control of infection rank compared with other
targets such as cancer or care of the elderly or cardiovascular
disease or waiting-time targets? How do you make the decisions
on how resources are allocated and how much do you allocate?
(Dr Wake) It is fair to say that communicable diseases
do not form a part of a specific NSF or performance targets generally.
I had a quick read of the new GP contract, which we are all grappling
with at the moment, and there is only one very small reference
to infection control in it which relates to the hepatitis B status
of NHS staff working in practices. The hepatitis C strategy does
attempt to set out certain indicators of success, but they are
not performance targets by any means. They are laudable aims really.
It is fair to say that infection control does not have quite the
same significance for PCTs as those targets which we are really
performance managed on, for instance within the NHS plan, or within
national service frameworks. That said, it should be remembered
that within our contractual framework, the framework we have with
primary care contractors, key immunisation targets are set, particularly
in relation to children's diseases and also for influenza in adults.
Infection control is certainly seen as a core function of the
PCT and I think that element of funding is protected and would
not seem to me to be at any risk in the way we prioritise care
at the moment. You may be aware that resources are allocated from
this year via a three-year plan called a local delivery plan,
which is an attempt for the first time to plan clinical services
in an area on a three-year basis. PCTs do have the freedom to
allocate resources to the control of infection and it remains
to be seen how well we do that. I can give you an example from
our own local development plan or LDP that in London it has been
agreed that the control of tuberculosis is a priority for investment
and that is certainly reflected as a commitment in our sectorwide
LDP. I know that one of our local trusts has also put in a bid
for additional consultant time in their chest unit, which will
again relate to work with tuberculosis. That is new money, so
it is certainly possible for new money to go into infection control.
The problem for PCTs is that we are performance managed on other
things and they are around access to primary care. We are performance
managed on the way that our hospital trusts perform, particularly
on waiting times in accident and emergency. We would have to see
these as our top priorities, but I would still argue quite strongly
that PCTs would see communicable disease control as of high importance.
667. When you say "we", do you mean
your particular organisation, or could another PCT actually look
at it in a totally different way, put a different ordering of
(Dr Wake) It would be impossible for me to speak on
behalf of other PCTs. I should be surprised if they took a dramatically
different view from that since these are resources which we have
invested for many years. It would be hard to take away from them.
The difficulty is that in certain areas of the country, PCTs and
their health authorities find themselves in a less easy financial
environment. I would not pretend that ours is easy, but it is
not the worst in the country and in areas further south, they
may have more difficult decisions to make in relation to that
and that is a perfectly fair thing to say.
(Mr Naylor) I can speak in relation to hospital trusts.
First of all, performance targets are numerous for hospital trusts.
Communicable diseases, particularly hospital acquired infection,
do feature in those performance targets, but I would say only
in the last year or so. In particular, the way we are measured
through the new star rating system, there are two levels of performance
measures which we have to take particular note of. The first level
of performance measures has what we call nine key indicators.
One of those nine key indicators relates to cleanliness in hospitals.
Around cleanliness of course is the major issue of hospital acquired
infection. Beneath those nine key targets there is a series of
36 sub-targets which of course are less important than the nine
key targets but still important targets to hit. Two of those 36
targets specifically relate to these issues. The first is to ensure
that hospital trusts such as mine have quality infection control
procedures in operation. The second target is to measure the rates
of MRSA bacteraemia which occur within the hospital trust. Both
of these latter measures are new measures for this year. Up until
this year, it would be fair to say that we have only measured
our performance very, very loosely in relation to these targets.
The government quite reasonably and rightly, have taken notice
of a number of reports, not least of which is the National Audit
Office report of February 2000 and more recently the Chief Medical
Officer's report Getting Ahead of the Curve, in increasing
the number and the weight of these targets which relate to hospital
acquired infection. It is now a key issue for us to be measured
on and indeed our star rating and therefore the reputation of
our hospital trusts and our individual hospitals will be measured
by the relative position that we sit within the star rating of
hospital trusts in the future.
668. Could I ask whether the PCTs would welcome
a performance target on control of infection or not, in relation
to what you have just told us?
(Mr Brogan) My instinct would be to say no more targets
669. I thought that would be the answer.
(Mr Brogan) We have about 360 of them already; although
I am very committed to this particular target actually. We have
11 key targets in our strategic health authority area and our
PCT alone has £2.5 million projected deficit next year. Our
local acute trust, Stoke Mandeville, which is joining with another
acute trust, has deficits in the order of £3 or £4 million.
It is extremely difficult to maintain priorities. I am not saying
we will change the financial flows we have going into communicable
disease control. We will keep them as they are. Were it to require
new money, that would be extremely difficult because we are cutting
everything at the moment in order to try to get into balance next
670. Are you consulted about the targets that
you are set? Is this an iterative process or do these just come
at you out of the blue?
(Mr Brogan) They come at us from the NHS plan, not
out of the blue. We all know.
671. But you feel you do not have input. If
a target were inappropriate, going to be clearly inappropriate
and distort what you were doing because of local circumstances,
would you be able to negotiate that one away and say it is not
sensible for you?
(Mr Brogan) No, is the short answer. To be fair, it
is extremely unlikely that ridiculous targets would be imposed
because they do go through an enormous sifting process and national
expert groups and so on. That is not something I fear, it is just
the weight of the number of targets.
(Dr Wake) Mr Naylor referred to star ratings which
made my ears prick up a bit. Primary care trusts have not been
star rated yet and I have not seen what we will be star rated
on. In fairness to those who set them, they do consult us about
them in general, there is an important process of consultation,
it is likely that star ratings would relate to some things which
could be related to communicable disease control and that would
be particularly around our success in immunising people against
the flu and probably children's immunisations as well. That would
be about the level of it.
(Mr Naylor) On the question of setting targets, I
think it would be fair to say that a number of people in the Health
Service are involved in the development of these targets and for
my sins personally, I was a member of the performance management
group which advised the NHS modernisation board on the setting
of targets which originally led eventually to the star rating
system. People such as myself are involved and although individual
PCTs and hospital trusts might not be involved, representatives
of trusts and PCTs will have been involved in the process. There
is a mechanism, either through colleagues or through professional
groups, to influence the development of the star rating system,
but it is quite correct for my colleague Shaun Brogan to say that
the targets do reflect government priorities and they were originally
derived from the NHS plan. These targetsas I have already
explained in relation to hospital acquired infectionare
emerging and developing to take account of reports as they are
developed through organisations such as the National Audit Office.
672. We have heard evidence that CCDCs and hospital
control infection personnel have felt undervalued and under-resourced.
Can we take it from your comments that this is changing and that
it will change in a much more positive way?
(Mr Naylor) I have no doubt that it has changed. I
also have little doubt that it needs to change further. The extent
of hospital acquired infection is still much too high. A lot of
that infection is preventable within hospitals and a lot of additional
investment needs to go in, both in terms of the experts we need
on the medical side within hospitals and their relationships with
primary care trusts, the Health Protection Agency and so on, but
also in the investment in infection control nurses who are the
key to controlling infection in hospitals and also the relationship
between hospital infection control nurses and their counterparts
in the community. You asked a question earlier on about the flow
of patients through the system and at the moment the flow of patients
occurs in quite discrete ways. Patients are seen in primary care
and are referred then into a completely new system which is the
hospital system. Once the patient has been through the hospital
system, they go back to the primary care system again. The connections
between these systems is not as good as it might be. Certainly
one of the things we are doing in my part of London in relation
to our PCT is talking through the development of joint infection
control nurses between the community and the hospital, so that
there is a rotation of such nurses, so that they see the problems
which occur in the hospital, but also follow the patients back
into the community. Bridging the gaps between the systems will
become an increasingly important factor in terms of control of
infection between the community and hospitals in the future.
673. How does NHS Direct fit into this surveillance?
(Dr Wake) I understand that they provide a good source
of high quality advice, both directly to individual patients and
to professionals as well. Their website acts as a good source
of advice to the public.
674. I was asking more about the overall picture
of surveillance of infections. How do the PCTs relate to it?
(Dr Wake) I am not aware that they have a role at
the moment, although over the next year things will change in
that NHS Direct will work much more closely with our out of hours
services. I understand that is likely to be one of the routes
through which patients receive out of hours care.
675. There has been an answer about CCDCs being
one of the key contacts for you in PCTs and the HPA. I gained
the impression you were talking about how it can and should work,
but I was not quite sure whether it is and will work in this sort
of way. Are we talking specifically about your own experience,
which is what you are relating to, or what PCTs in general will
feel? The reason I put it like that is because I hear from CCDCs
around that they are very uncertain to which PCT they should be
responsible and how they must work together. Can I probe you a
bit on that?
(Mr Brogan) I imagine that there is considerable uncertainty
amongst CCDCs because they are going through a period of change.
They are not the only people in the NHS feeling that way. All
of us feel it most of the time now, there is so much constant
change. The relationship is being clarified. The Health Protection
Agency is being set up. Discussions are going on and there was
a discussion yesterday in the Thames Valley Strategic Health Authority,
of which I am part, about the memorandum of understanding, about
public health doctors, public health consultants and directors
of public health and the CCDCsnot all of them but mostgetting
together to carry on working on the memorandum of understanding
which is now in its fifth version. Progress is being made. There
will be a new Health Protection Agency; that ought to give those
staff comfort in the sense of belonging to a national organisation
in the way they have not belonged to one in that sense before.
Whilst I can see difficulties ahead, not enormous difficulties
but difficulties which need to be recognised and overcome, in
overall terms I am optimistic about the future.
(Dr Wake) I would not dissent from that view. In my
own area, where we had a system which we feel works reasonably
well and where we understand our relationships, there is some
comfort. We are entering into a period of some uncertainty. A
lot of reassurance has been given that the PCTs will not feel
a loss of the CCDCs to themselves, though it must inevitably result
in some loss of control to them if they are no longer locally
but are nationally employed. Therefore I think we shall need to
work fairly strenuously together to ensure that we get the best
of what we want here. I have no argument with the direction of
travel. Clearly we need national co-ordinated services. Nobody
disagrees with that. Equally we do need to preserve and improve
on local services which are directed to infection control. These
memoranda must really work quite positively to ensure that local
services are protected.
676. May I follow that up a bit? You mentioned
CCDCs as being a very valuable local part of the HPA. Do you see
a relationship with the HPA beyond that in other ways?
(Dr Wake) I can imagine one and there are areas where
we have been much under-involved. I am afraid this goes outside
the realm of just infection. Our relationship to chemical incidents,
safety in factories and matters like that has been very inadequate,
I understand, and our director of public health has traditionally
not been involved with global, in the sense of general, environmental
health issues. I would see that as a positive influence, if that
is what you were meaning in the question.
677. I am sorry, I did not mention my interest.
A year or so ago I was Chairman of the Public Health Laboratory
Service. I have to say that for the record.
(Mr Naylor) In a wider sense everyone supports the
development of the national Health Protection Agency. It is clearly
very much in tune with the times in which we live at the moment.
There are concerns about the relationships between the various
bodies. PCTs still have responsibility for the health protection
in their population and therefore need to develop relationships
and memoranda of understanding between the PCTs and the HPA. Equally,
within NHS trusts, where we have a lot of expertise, both in terms
of pathology and in particular microbiology services and the strong
relationships with the old Public Health Laboratory Services,
we need to have relationships with both organisations as well,
particularly with the PCTs in the area of managing infection between
the community and the hospitals, but also with the HPA through
the reporting of microbiological results in major pathology departments
such as mine through to what was the PHLS and is now the HPA to
ensure that surveillance is kept up to standards so that we can
identify diseases as they develop.
678. I ought to express a former interest as
a member of the Hammersmith Hospital Trust board and I am occasional
adviser to FLE Ltd. May I ask to what extent you regard the arrangements
for communicable disease control to be satisfactory, just standing
back and taking a broad view? In particular, are there any policy,
organisational and/or resource changes which would enable a better
service to be delivered? As a rider to that, who do you think
should be responsible for R&D in communicable disease control?
I am not thinking of fundamental R&D but I am thinking, for
example, of establishing best practice in hospitals to control
the spread of communicable disease.
(Mr Brogan) I have a number of concerns. First of
all, where the teams are going to be based. There is an idea abroad
that they may be consolidated at strategic health authority level
rather than at PCT level as we have them at the moment in the
Thames Valley Strategic Health Authority area which covers Buckinghamshire,
Berkshire and Oxfordshire. That would be a mistake, because it
would be putting them too far away. They are already 20 miles
from the two PCTs at the southern end of Buckinghamshire, Wycombe
and Chiltern and South Bucks, operating from my PCT building.
To move them any further away would be to distance them from their
clients and I think that would be a bad move. I am concerned about
whether or not you can set up this national Health Protection
Agency at no extra cost and improve the service. It is extremely
unlikely. With the sorts of computer systems I was talking about
earlier, modifying GPs' computer systems or whatever is required
to deliver that much faster summary of surveillance back down
to the troops in the field and so on, you are going to need to
spend more money on it, perhaps not a fortune but some more money
on it in order to improve things, otherwise you will in effect
not be realising the promise of setting up a national Health Protection
Agency. There are difficulties with the shortage of staff in the
sense that for Buckinghamshire, where I work, we used to have
a director of public health and four public health consultants.
The director of public health has moved to the strategic health
authority as the director of public health in the strategic health
authority. One consultant has left and we have three consultants
remaining each of whom is the director of public health or the
acting director of public health on a PCT. They have corporate
responsibilities which, quite rightly, take them away from their
public health job and from liaising with the CCDC. There are difficulties
here. I am not saying they are insuperable difficulties, difficulties
which cannot be overcome, but they are matters which deserve attention
and need working on to get right in my opinion.
(Dr Wake) As we see it at the moment, I feel that
arrangements for communicable disease control are certainly satisfactory.
I do not experience problems at a local level. That is not meant
to sound complacent and that assumes the current level of risk
we have locally and nationally and that could change. I am sorry
if this is a plug for hepatitis C but it also probably applies
to hepatitis B and HIV. I would feel that we are not yet concentrating
resources in areas of maximum effectiveness for those diseases
and you can take that for an example in many areas. It is well
known that one of the biggest risk areas for these blood-borne
viruses is within prison and the prison population is a very difficult
population to deliver health care to. Nevertheless it is also
apparent that we have not got to grips with the level of investment
which is required there and it would seem to me obvious that we
need to devote resources to those places where the greatest amount
of infection exists and arises. PCTs will have a responsibility
once again in this area in that although I do not think arrangements
are quite clear on this, they will have an increasing role in
the development of healthcare services for prisons in their area.
I welcome that but it does need a big investment in resource as
well. At a local level, PCTs will really need to work with all
their employees and contractor services to improve infection control
and they are starting to do that. I meant to mention earlier and
this is quite important, that the remit of PCTs in the last six
months has also come to include dentists, community pharmacists
and optometrists and, particularly among dentists, infection control
will be quite important. Once again, I see that as quite an integrating
move and a sensible direction of travel. It will need quite an
improvement in our understanding of the need for screening of
health workers and some work has been done nationally which has
been published recently about that. We will have to develop a
modern approach to the provision of sterile equipment and that
will in fact lead on to further expenditure requirements either
for disposable instruments or for sterilisation using CSSDs. I
am not sure that we have got to grips with the financial implications
or the organisational arrangements which we will need to have.
I would not regard myself as an expert on the R&D question.
There is though, I would feel, an opportunity for the development
of teaching PCTs to improve our investment in R&D in this
particular area. I think PCTs should form part of it, but clearly
that will not be the only area where R&D can take place. R&D
is starting to take place at a PCT level and in our own area we
have recently appointed a professor of R&D in primary care.
(Mr Naylor) May I pick up the very last point about
R&D, which is something I have been musing on since you asked
the question but which is not something I had really thought about
until today. It does seem to me that there is potentially a strong
connection between the centralisation of expert resources in university
hospitals such as mine, particularly in the aggregation of pathology
services. If I might just digress for one moment, we are currently
in the process of putting together a proposal to bring together
pathology services across a whole range of hospitals in north
London. This is part of a series of recommendations which has
come through the NHS Executive and from government for a number
of years. We are really only now getting to grips with the centralisation
of pathology services. If these pathology services were centralised
in collaboration with universities, universities have enormous
power houses of intellectual capability around infection in general,
I could see the potential opportunity in the future for the HPA
to commission research jointly with PCTs and perhaps through joint
academic appointments between PCTs and institutions such as my
own. It is a very interesting question and one we need to reflect
on further.
679. I was also thinking of research at a much
more applied and practical level. In our travels and visits we
have seen very different models for managing isolation wards or
intensive care units, where the spread of infection is important.
Clearly there are some very good ideas there which are confined
locally. On the other hand, there has not really been any very
systematic study of how effective these are. People say they have
the feeling it would be better like this or like that and it does
seem to me that if control of infection is as important as we
are now all agreed it is, that is not quite good enough. I do
not know whether you have any comment on that from the University
College Hospital point of view?
(Mr Naylor) I agree with you that a great deal more
can be done and there are some excellent examples. If I may just
tell you about one that we have been working on in my trust over
the last year or so, you may recollect that my trust acquired
the Heart Hospital, which was a private hospital, from the private
sector and brought it into the NHS just over a year ago. One of
the things we have been able to do in that new environment, because
the environment is so superior, more akin to a five-star hotel
than a classical NHS hospital, and there is a very high proportion
of single rooms and a lot more space and capacity to be able to
develop those services, to put in improved policies to control
infection around the organisation because of the greater degree
of isolation. Not only that, we are about to publish some research
where there is a clear indication that by screening patients who
come into hospital prior to surgery, particularly for complex
invasive surgery such as cardiac surgery and dealing with their
infections before they come into hospital, there is a very substantially
reduced subsequent rate of wound infection which can be fatal.
There is a great deal of research which can be done in these kinds
of areas around screening patients prior to admission, particularly
for complex surgery, but also in hospital design. I am personally
a great believer in designing hospitals with a much higher proportion
of single rooms, moving away from the old Nightingale ward where
you might have 30 patients in one area to a situation in our new
hospital for example, in Euston Road, where, when it is complete
in 2005, we shall have a very substantial proportion of single
rooms, therefore our ability to control infection within the hospital
environment will be greatly improved. I would welcome further
research into that kind of detail within the hospital environment.


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The Medellín-born artist specifically focused on women's rights and the injustices associated with Colombia's unofficial civil war (known in Spanish as "la época de La Violencia") that occurred from 1946 to 1963. Arango's works cross the U.S. border during Sociales: Debora Arango Arrives Today, an exhibit at Mint Museum Uptown. $5-$10. Opens today and continues through June 16. Mint Museum Uptown, 500 S. Tryon St. 704-337-2000. www.mintmuseum.org.


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This is your place to talk about the funny, sad, outrageous things that are happening in your life -- whenever you're ready.
Growing up, I tried not to miss my mother.
When I fell in love with Jeremy in third grade, it was my older sister Jackie I confided in. She was the one who sat with me at the kitchen table and helped me with my homework. And when my father kicked me out when I was 16, Jackie gave up a scholarship to an out-of-town university so that she could get an apartment with me. She wanted to make sure that I graduated from high school.
But it wasn't until I had my son last year that I needed my mother. After an emergency C-section, my son was born with barely a heartbeat and had to be resuscitated. Hours later he was rushed to NICU.
I remember sitting in the parents' waiting room at the hospital with my husband and sobbing non-stop. I'd just seen my son's tiny body hooked up to wires in the incubator.
I was in England, where my husband and I lived. Later, as I spoke to my sister from my hospital bed, all I wanted was my mom to be with me. She never came.
My mother left our family when I was 5 years old. Although my father was barely out of his teens, he stayed with the four of us. Whenever I saw a plane, I thought that my mother was on it, coming to get us. My father never told us that she'd left us for good. It was only later that I found that out.
I was 17 when I next saw my mother. My sister found out that she lived in Connecticut, so we decided to go see her. I couldn't remember what she looked like, but I imagined that when I saw her she would hold me, all of the pain I'd felt all those years without her would disappear.
I thought that the memories of my father pushing me down the stairs and then trying to strangle me would fade away. Instead, I didn't recall her face. She was standing with a woman and as I walked off the bus platform, I heard the lady say, "That's your daughter? She looks white." The woman was speaking in our native language, Luganda. My mother looked down and said nothing.
As young kids in East Africa, we were ridiculed for being mixed. People used to spit at us and throw stones at us and called us Mzungu. My mother's brothers would say that when we grew up, we would clean their children's homes and be their servants.
When my mother's friend said white, she said it the way people used to say it to me as a child, before I was hit or spat at. My mother not saying anything felt worse than when my father punched me.
When my son was eight weeks old, my husband and I moved across the ocean to be closer to my sister and friends in Canada. Growing up in Kenya and Uganda, I knew that it took a village to raise a child. My mom didn't come to visit me when I had my son. She told our relatives that she had.
I knew that ticket prices from the States to London were expensive and I hoped that once I moved closer to her in Toronto that she would come to visit. I couldn't wait for her to meet my son. But she never came. She didn't meet my son until he was 10 months old, when I went to visit my sister.
This past Christmas, my mother said she would come to Canada to spend time with my son. The day my sister was to drive with her from New England, she called me to tell me that our mother had a heart attack. I felt as though she was talking about someone we vaguely knew. I was worried, but I wasn't sad or scared.
My sister, however, was very upset. She sounded disoriented. I told her not to come. I didn't want her to leave our mother alone and I didn't want her to drive.
Several hours later, we found out that although our mother had been to the hospital, she did not have a heart attack. She never ended up coming to Canada.
My mother has said she didn't have a happy childhood. She never knew her own father and she had my older sister when she was 13. Perhaps she was never able to connect with us because even though we needed her, she didn't need us.
I often wonder about what would have happened to my sisters and brother if our dad had also left. I imagine that we would have ended up on the streets begging for food.
My mother brags about our accomplishments even though she played no role in the people we are today. She still denies abandoning us and blames our father for her leaving. Now in her mid-50s, her priority is to secure her children's loyalties so that she doesn't end up alone.
I was terrified of becoming a mother because I thought that I would also leave my kids. It was easier to think that my mother had no control of what she did. My ego didn't want to believe that she left because she wanted to.
People used to say to me that I would understand my mom more once I became a mother. Watching my son take his first step, I understand her less.


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A collection of civic literacy resources for learning about the Charleston shootings and resulting actions
Supreme Court reviews Affordable Care Act - a good opportunity to explore healthcare law and the 3 branches of government
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The mystery of flight 370 offers rich opportunities for classroom discussion and critical thinking.
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South Dakota Proposes Restriction to Vital Records Access
According to this Associated Press Article, on Jan 26, 2005, the Senate Health Committe was presented with a bill to prevent access to vital record information.
The bill is intented to prevent identity theft. One case where a Utah man acquired a birth certificate from South Dakota which was used in an identity theft case.
Only family members and a few others, such as a funeral directors, doctors and others acting on behalf of families, would be allowed to get the records.
However, SB41 would allow birth records to become fully public after 100 years and death, marriage, divorce and annulment records to be unrestricted after 50 years.
There is presently no information on the South Dakota government website or on South Dakota State Genealogy web page.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Donald Trump won the Indiana Republican primary Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.
Voters turned out in huge numbers Tuesday to cast their ballots.
Trump campaigned in several Indiana locations over the last week. He appeared in Carmel, Terre Haute, Ft. Wayne, South Bend, Indianapolis and more.
He picked up several endorsements while in the state, including former IU basketball coach Bob Knight, former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz and former Purdue basketball coach Gene Keady.
Before polls closed Tuesday evening, the Associated Press reported Ted Cruz was preparing for a "somber" night. John Kasich says he will be staying in the race unless a candidate reaches 1,237 bound delegates before the GOP Convention.
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Fairly Legal Review: "Coming Home"Christine Orlando at . Comments
When it comes to her clients Kate Reed is fearless. When it comes to her personal life, not so much.
Kate was all smiles and flirty banter when she met Justin for dinner, right up until he mentioned their divorce. They filed for divorce six months ago and Justin wanted to hammer out the details. I never realized how much denial Kate was in until her face fell and she bolted for the door.
Turns out, Justin's tired of the great sex and fun conversation. Actually, he'd just gotten to the point where he couldn't pretend this was all he wanted. Despite the love, their marriage was broken and he was unwilling to stick his head in the sand and pretend their issues didn't exist. I could see his point.
When Kate used information Justin had given her to blackmail an opposing attorney, Justin was furious, but Kate made light of it. She tried to justify it and when that didn't work she tried to seduce him. As much as Kate cared about her client, she made Justin feel as though his concerns were unimportant. It's a definite character flaw that should be explored further.
Kate was comfortable keeping their relationship in this odd friends with benefits stage. Justin wanted to fix what's broken or move on. I love their chemistry... but I don't blame him.
Kate's mediation case in "Coming Home" pulled at the heartstrings, but Kate's initial reaction surprised me. She assured Sophia they could sit down with Claudia and work this out. Sophia had stolen Claudia's identity and ruined her credit. It seemed naive for Kate to be so blase about that. I would have hoped she'd approach Claudia first to gauge her anger before sticking these two women in a room together and announcing that Sophia was also an illegal alien. I found Claudia's phone call to the authorities anything but surprising.
On other fronts, Lauren was showing everyone why she should be in charge of Reed & Reed. When a client claimed Teddy had promised him better than the settlement Lauren had gotten, she called him on it immediately. She took charge of the staff meeting, addressing everyone's fears. She won Kate's case for her in court and she even spoke Mandarin. It was easy to see why Teddy fell for this strong, capable women.
We touched on the David Smith mystery again. So was guilt the only reason Teddy turned over a quarter of his fortune to Smith? I assume there's more to this story, or at least I hope so. I want to see Richard Dean Anderson back again.
I was left very curious as to how Justin and Kate will progress from here. Will they work on the marriage or begin to move on? Which scenario would you like to see?
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Vampire Detective releases a pack of teasers featuring its seductive cast
Vampire Detective, the upcoming OCN series that's a spinoff of Vampire Prosecutor, recently released a big batch of trailers featuring its seductive cast members Lee Joon, Lee Se Young, Oh Jung Se, and Lee Chung Ah, and the results are mysterious, sexy, and humorous all at the same time!
A part-time detective and full-time vampire (Lee Joon) must maintain his secret identity as he solves cases using his unique abilities in this spin-off of the popular Vampire Prosecutor series!
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