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A Cancer Patient’s Best Friend

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The New York Times - SULEIKA JAOUAD, 9/27/12

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When I was growing up, my dream was to one day become a veterinarian. In fourth and fifth grade, I volunteered every day after school at a veterinarian’s clinic. I didn’t view it as an “internship” — in my mind, I was apprenticing for a certain future in the field. When I was 10, I asked for an incubator for Christmas. By spring, I was carting around a dozen baby chicks in my purple doll stroller. In middle school I walked dogs at the local animal shelter. But as I got older, there was college, summer travel, then my first real job, at a law firm in France. I was entering the “real world,” as they say in commencement speeches. And there was no room in my adult life for a dog.

Ex-Pierce Commercial Bank VP pleads guilty to loan-fraud charges

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The News Tribune - John Gillie, Updated 9/19/12

A Puyallup banker whose prodigious generation of home loan applications made him one of the nation’s top mortgage loan originators during the housing bubble told a federal judge Tuesday that many of the loans were based on false information.

Shawn Portmann, left, leaves U.S. District Court in Tacoma on Tuesday with his attorneys, Krista Bush and Robert Chadwell, after pleading guilty to loan fraud. (PETER HALEY/Staff photographer)

A Puyallup banker whose prodigious generation of home loan applications made him one of the nation’s top mortgage loan originators during the housing bubble told a federal judge Tuesday that many of the loans were based on false information.

Banker weeps at UBS rogue trader trial

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The Telegraph - Harry Wilson, 10/2/12

A former UBS trader wept in court as he gave evidence at the trial of alleged "rogue trader" Kweku Adoboli.

Kweku Adoboli outside Southwark Crown Court Friday.

Former UBS trader, Kweku Adoboli, is accused of making unauthorised trades that cost UBS $2.3bn Photo: Neil Hall/Reuters
 

A former colleague of the UBS “rogue trader” accused masterminding a fraud that cost the bank $2.3bn (£1.43bn) wept in court as he admitted to making unauthorised trades.

John Hughes, 30, told Southwark Crown Court that he had also made unauthorised trades while working as a trader on UBS’ exchange traded funds desk.

Recent Earthquake Activity

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Source: USGS.gov
10-degree map showing recent earthquakes

October 7, 2012

 

OFF THE COAST OF EL SALVADOR: 4.5

NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA: 5.3

SAMOA ISLANDS REGION: 4.7

LUZON, PHILIPPINES: 5.6

TONGA: 4.7

 

October 6, 2012
 

SOUTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA: 4.7

SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS: 4.5

5.6 Tremor Hits Northern Luzon

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Manila Bulletin - Freddie G. Lazaro, 10/7/12

SINAIT, Ilocos Sur  — A strong earthquake with 5.6 magnitude in the Richter scale hit Northern Luzon provinces shortly before noontime of Sunday, but no damage to property as of press time were reported, said the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) based here.

Phivolcs researcher Porferio De Peralta said that the 5.6 magnitude tremor occurred at 11:14 a.m. Sunday with its epicenter located 30 kilometers northeast of Pagudpud,  Ilocos Norte with a depth of 26 kilometers.

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UK MPs shocked over BBC 'complicity in tax avoidance'

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Press TV - 10/6/12

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been accused of complicity in tax avoidance for more than 25,000 of its employees.
 

The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said discovering the scale of fraud at the BBC was quite shocking as the corporation could not provide evidence that these individuals are paying the appropriate amount of tax.

“We were shocked to discover that the BBC has about 25,000 off-payroll contracts. Some 13,000 of these are for individuals who are on our screens and on the radio every day. They are the public face of the BB,” committee chairman Margaret Hodge said.

To read the rest of this story, visit PressTV.ir.

Dragon Spits Shooting Stars

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National Geographic - Andrew Fazekas, 10/5/12

Draconid meteors appear to radiate from Draco constellation in the northeast evening sky. Credit: Starry Night Software

Draconid meteors appear to radiate from Draco constellation in the northeast evening sky. Credit: Starry Night Software
 

This long weekend skywatchers get to see the annual peak of the Draconid meteor shower. While not the most prolific cosmic fireworks show it reliably puts on a nice display and this year with the moon out of the way – sky conditions are set to be ideal.

Like other meteor showers the Draconids get their name from the constellation they appear to radiate out from in the sky – in this case Draco, the dragon – which appears nearly overhead around local midnight throughout the northern hemisphere. The constellation is the 8th largest in the entire sky and is so large that it wraps itself around the North Star, Polaris. Famous neigbouring constellations include Ursa Minor and Ursa Major – the small and great bears of mythology.

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