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Tuesday, July 05, 2011
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Skoda Sales figure fire up
Today, as reported in the capital by reliable sources, there is an increase of 69% in sales figures of Skoda Auto India in the month of June this year. The Company sold 2,611 units this year as, compared to 1,639 units in the same month previous year.
Skoda Auto India Board Member, Sales and Marketing stated to an industrial source, the Company is satisfied with car buyer's response and the growth in the month is due to providing great products and value offering to the customers. The company will focus on dealership network, customer feedback and better after-sales services.
Furthermore, the growth of the company is consistent from the beginning of this year and will continue to do so for the rest of the years.
Some of the popular hatchback models in the Indian auto market are Toyota Etios Liva, Ford Figo, Maruti Swift, Hyundai i10, Chevrolet Beat and Volkswagen Polo. Apart from these popular models, cars going to hit the Indian roads this year are Chevrolet Beat Diesel, Maruti Cervo and New Ford Fiesta.


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President Hotel, Chisinau
- Free cooked-to-order breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
- Collect nights
More great choices
What's around President Hotel, Chisinau
- Zimbru Stadium - 40 min walk
- Rose Valley - 6.2 mi / 10 km
- Government House - 8.4 mi / 13.5 km
- Stefan Cel Mare Park - 8.4 mi / 13.5 km
- Arcul de Triumf - 8.4 mi / 13.5 km
- Holy Gates - 8.4 mi / 13.6 km
- National History Museum - 8.5 mi / 13.7 km
- United Nations Development Program - 8.6 mi / 13.8 km
Getting around
- Chisinau (KIV-Chisinau Intl.) - 5 min drive
- Free self parking
- Extended parking
- RV, bus, and truck parking
- Airport shuttle (surcharge)
- Train station pick-up (surcharge)
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 25 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 4 floors
- 24-hour check-in
- Check-out time is noon
- Express check-in/out
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
- If you require a visa to enter the country, your property may be able to help with the supporting documents needed to obtain one *
Travelling with others
- Up to 3 children (12 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Airport shuttle (available 24 hours) *
- Train station pick-up *
- Free self parking
- Extended parking
In the hotel
- Free cooked-to-order breakfast daily
- 2 restaurants
- Bar/lounge
- Swim-up bar
- Poolside bar
- 24-hour room service
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Barbecue grills
- Beach sun loungers
- Beach umbrellas
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Outdoor tennis courts -
- Spa services on site
- Steam room
- Playground on site
- Tennis lessons on site
- Beach towels
- Waterslide
- Sauna
- Free pool cabanas
- Swim-up bar
- Pool sun loungers
- Pool umbrellas
- Conference space
- Conference space size (feet) -
- Conference space size (meters) -
- One meeting room
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers -
- Year Built
- Elevator/lift
- ATM/banking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Garden
- Terrace
- Television in common areas
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Sleep Number by Select Comfort mattress
- Separate sitting area
- Balcony
- Private bathroom
- Shower only
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Plasma TV
- Cable TV channels
- Desk
- Free newspaper
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
Also popular with travelers from the USA
Special features
DiningPrezident - Overlooking the pool, this restaurant specializes in fusion cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and light fare. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). Open 24 hours.
Crama - This restaurant specializes in local cuisine and serves lunch, dinner, and light fare. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. Open 24 hours.
President Hotel, Chisinau's small print
Also known as
- Prezident
- Prezident Chisinau
- President Hotel Chisinau
- Prezident Hotel Chisinau
- President Chisinau
If you require a visa to enter the country, your property may be able to help with the supporting documents needed to obtain one. To learn more, you can reach out to the property via the contact details included on your booking confirmation. The property may charge for this assistance, even if you end up cancelling your reservation. All arrangements are solely between the property and yourself.
Children under 12 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool without adult supervision.Parties and events are allowed on site.
For transfers, guests must contact the property 24 hours prior to arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Optional extras
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of USD 12 per vehicle (one way)
Train station pick-up service is offered for an extra charge
We have included all charges provided to us by this property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the unit you book.
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MIDDLEBURY — The Helping Overcome Poverty's Effects (HOPE) food shelf in Middlebury is seeing a substantial uptick in demand from Addison County residents who are having a hard time making ends meet.
That, in itself, is of major concern to HOPE Executive Director Jeanne Montross. But the problem is compounded by the fact that this demand is occurring before the toughest winter months, and Montross knows there are many other hungry people in more distant reaches of the county who simply can't get to the HOPE food shelf.


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Teds Woodworking Plan Review – Does It Really Works?
Do you have a passion for wanting to learn DIY but are unsure as to where you might find the right quality information that you need to get started? You might be someone that wants to be creative and feel proud about making your own unique piece of furniture, that you can say 'I made that'. If you like DIY and being creative and enjoy projects and making individual wood items then Ted's woodworking plan is going to be a great addition to your knowledge. When you have decided to attempt to undertake any form of woodwork or carpentry than you can expect some uncertainty as to guidance for the project that you want to begin.
You have the skills and basic knowledge, now all you need to get going is the plan. Whilst it can often feel daunting to know the right way to approach a woodworking project, Ted can help you with this in providing the tools to get started. Here is our Teds Woodworking detailed review.
Ted's Woodworking Plans Review
Who is Ted
The specialized woodworking plans have been expertly crafted and created by Ted McGrath. Ted is a woodworking craftsman who has a collection of over 36 years of woodworking skills under his carpentry tool belt to share. Whilst Ted did not automatically lean towards being a carpenter, his father was a professional carpenter and when he died Ted decided that he would follow in his father's joinery career footsteps. At first Ted said that he did make many mistakes and spent money in buying product information and individual woodworking projects. Ted realized that taking his time and learning he gradually improved his woodworking skills.
Over the years Ted went on to be successful, using his talent to make the kind of furniture that was unique and that other people would admire. People would constantly want to know how they could make furniture and ask him for advice and the right way to plan a furniture making project. Slowly and overtime Ted went on to be successful in becoming adapt at furniture making. Ted was making the furniture that other people would admire and they would ask him if he could show them the skills to become as accomplished at woodworking projects as he was. Arising from this time and over the years is Ted's woodworking plan that is the blueprints of many wood furniture projects that he has completed himself.
What's Included In the Product?
When you buy Teds woodworking plan's it offers an individual access to separate woodworking plans for over 16,000 different wood working projects. The plans can be individually downloaded or can be purchased as a separate unit in the form of a DVD and in this format can be immediately viewed. If you choose the standard version when viewed you simply select the project that you want and download the detailed plan to access it.
The plans when seen explain in detail the different steps that are required to achieve your finished item of furniture. There is a standard version of the woodworking plan and there is also the opportunity to choose the deluxe extra version. Extras that are included are a guide on 'How to start a wood working business and there are around 150 videos aimed at woodworking amateurs included. Each of the projects shown come with detailed clear instructions and color designs that are clear to follow.
What are the benefits I should know about?
You have the unique access to individual wood working projects quickly and easily online when you want at any time of the day. You can take your time in choosing a plan that you want and then making the furniture at your pace. Woodworking plans can be bought separately for projects but this would end up costing much more for much less. Ted's woodworking plans are an extremely cost effective way of gaining access to over 16000 woodworking projects. At a cost of 67 dollars the cost per actual woodworking plan is minimal and extremely cost effective. The woodworking plan comes with a 60 day money back guarantee offer that means that you can just relax and take your time in browsing the material and plans offered. If after looking through the plans you decide that it is not for you then you can be reassured of receiving a no quibble refund on the product. So far Ted's plans have been used by thousands of people, here are just a few of the positive testimonials we have found.
Are there any negatives aspects of the product?
It is difficult to criticize the woodworking plans as they are great value however if you choose the downloadable version of the woodworking plans, then this process can take some time to download depending on the size of the file being downloaded. One thing that also needs to be understood is you have to have dedication to learn the steps Ted teaches, as with anything if you want to get good at it, you will need to practice.
Our Verdict
We think that Teds woodworking plan is a great opportunity to have access and instruction blueprints to a large array of woodworking downloadable projects that represent great value for money. With the woodworking plans you simply get what it says on the tin, which is unlimited and easy access to the plans of numerous wood working furniture projects. We have found that these plans are great value and give detailed information and advice for anyone that wants to make their own piece of furniture.
There are so many different furniture projects available that it is difficult to find something that is not there, overall there is a plan for almost every type and design of furniture there could be. There is definitely a plan here that you would find useful as there is something for everyone here to want to start work on. The furniture making plans and woodworking plans that are made available to be downloaded have been put together and devised by Ted McGrath who is someone who is credible in the skills of carpentry. Ted shares over 16000 blueprints for woodworking for almost every woodworking project that you could think of. Purchasing separate woodworking plans for similar types of projects would cost a certain amount per plan. Here you have at your fingertips much more offered and more plans for less cost.
Where to find Teds woodworking?
The product is only available to purchase from teds official site and is priced at $67. The product comes supplied with a full 60 day money back guarantee, which really will give you a reasonable amount of time to find out if the product works for you or not. You will also receive 4 additional bonuses with Ted's course if you act quickly, these bonuses are worth the price of the entire course and more in our opinion. Follow the link below to be taken to the official site to purchase your copy of Ted's Woodworking Plans.
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Kim Kardashian Hair Extensions are the Best
By LindsayMorgay on 3/9/2013
Hair extensions are something very eye-catching to me because in my point of view, long hair in a woman is very important. I can feel the sexy, arrogant attitude in a woman with longer hair which is very different from a woman having a short hair style. My only concern of not having the hair extensions was that after reading so much about the damage that it did to Paris Hilton or to Jennifer Aniston; it is a very scary proposition for trying to enhance the look that will end up in being bald. I took a look at Kim Kardashian who is always wearing hair extensions, she has no complaints, no negative comments whatsover. Searching for the response, it was clearly right there, hair infusion extensions. They cause no damage, not even pain. I rushed up to Rodolfo Valentin to have a consultation, next to me was Caroline Kimmel, the wife of the Hollywood film producer. She told me straight ahead, " I came from Los Angeles to New York just for this, for the hair infusion extensions". That comment meant everythingto me to decide having them right away which I did. I am extremely happy, just like how Kim Kardashian is!
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Visit Best Hair Salons of NYC
By lisapeterson on 1/7/2013
There is no dearth of Hair Salons NYC. The city is full of hair and beauty salons. But if you do not want to end up getting a bad hair experience at these sub standard salons, I recommend you Rodolfo Valentinâs hair boutique. Wide range of services that they give includes hair extensions, color, infusion additions, hair styling and much more. The best thing is that they are experienced professionals and have mastered the techniques. They will listen to you attentively and leave your hair smooth, damage free and shining.
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By adrianelingsper on 12/22/2012
The price of hair extensions is different from salon to salon, but most of them are charging over 2,000 dollars for them. The biggest difference about hair extensions are the quality of the hair, the technique employ and the technician applying them. To find these three settings together is very difficult almost impossible. Most of the hair extensions technicians are okay by handling the systems that they know, but most extensions are not made from good hair, which is very dramatic when your natural hair does not match with the extension hair, it not only tangles, but separates from your own making it very visible that you are having extensions. If they tell you that are custom made, do not believe it at least if you can see it with your own eyes, about the technique to apply them? Here is the BIG DRAMA, if the extension uses HEAT a must NO NO! This means the technique is using glue stronger than crazy glue! This can give you an idea of the damage that you can have in your own hair. After years of probing the only hair extension that accrue the 3 conditions is the hair infusion extensions, no heat, no crazy glue, great human hair, fast technique under one hour, custom made and reusable what makes it affordable. the down part? they are only available at the Rodolfo Valentin salons in New York City or Long Island, every other salon offering them is a fake copycat.
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By berryalamos on 12/21/2012
I have thinning hair since I was a child without hope more than a wig.When extensions fashion began i rushed for it. I got all, the same that damaged Paris Hilton hair,same that damaged Beyonce hair and same than others suffered hair damage:great lengths. Great lengths uses heat,hot scissor,hard glue to attach them; also endless hours to apply the result is like having spaghettis hanging. They are obvious showing trough the natural hair.Tired of spending, suffering pain, scalp itching,losing them together with my hair from which hanging -A truly disaster.I convinced myself to accept be a thinning hair girl. Hair infusion extensions open up the hope again.I rushed to the salon. I felt in love with the staff so welcoming.I immediately have the feel that I was in the right place.Several people were having the hair infusion extensions.I have the opportunity to talk to them. No one have something wrong to say-Caroline Kimmel, wife of the movie producer Sydney Kimmel told me that she lives in LA nobody can do hair extensions like Rodolfo does. She cames several times a year to NY just for the infusion.I asked them to put them on. A little patience Rodolfo said. After two hours I finally got them on.I can say that I finally found heaven. I am so happy like I never have been, finally I found myself pretty,secure of myself. Do not trust any other salon,jealousy from competitors is huge.Go there,talk to people having them on, feel the fabulous salon,feel in heaven.
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By jucabso on 12/21/2012
I have been going to Rodolfo Valentin salon for the past five years. I get my color cut and highlights in that beautiful and chic salon. I see a lot of clients who wears their famous extensions and I'm always in awe for how natural it looks. I can't even figure out who has it and who doesn't. I have a naturally thin hair. One day I just woke up and can't stop wondering how I would look with Rodolfo's famous hair extensions. I have to try it.....after five years of fascination seeing women with gorgeous hair, I finally decided to give it a shot. I can't believe I didn't try this Hair extensions earlier. Now, my curiosity has made me the happiest woman when it comes to my hair.
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By Anitalupe on 12/20/2012
Suffering many years for hair loss caused for using great lengths hair extensions I truly did not find any other solution for my thinning hair. I was tired of expending money in hair extensions that ended up in the garbage after 3 months and have to spend several thousands in a new ones that were damaging my hair. I was very lucky to have my best friend introducing me to RODOLFO VALENTIN creator of the unique safe and reusable hair extensions in the world. I asked why I was not able to have them before, the answer was very clear HAIR INFUSION EXTENSIONS are only available at their salons in New York or Long Island and most competitors are envious or frustrated for not having them. I paid 2800 hundred dollars and they are reusable! INstead of buying a new one every 3 months I can reuse them and have them serviced just for 500! The best.
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Rodolfo Valentin Salon â Ideal Place to Visit for People having Hair Fall Problems
By josephj on 11/22/2012
Rodolfo Valentin salon is undoubtedly the ideal place for the people suffering from hair problems, as right from hair fall treatments to amazing hair cut services to hair extension, hair fusion and hair addition, all the hair care services are rendered by the expert and proficient team of hair experts under the able guidance of Rodolfo Valentin. Clients from all across the U.S prefer to pamper themselves with the amazing and magnificent hair and beauty services offered by this legend of beauty industry. The beauty and hair treatments offered at Rodolfo Valentin salons are simply incomparable and clients visiting once will love to come again and again.
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Hair Extensions NYC, the best one
By richarddee on 11/22/2012
It was Rodolfo Valentin who first cared to help the ailing cancer patients get their hair back after the painful chemotherapy treatment process. My friend too lost all the hope of regaining hair after he got away with the cancer. But he is all praiseworthy to the owner of one of the Best Hair Extension Salons with whose efforts he (my friend) thankfully started regaining his hair via Hair efforts of the Extension Salons NYC. I donât know if it was a miracle or really some human being on the earth did the trick, but for sure, he has reinstated the confidence in himself. Every time I see him, I realize that there is no point of losing hope, for there is solution to every problem in life. All you need is to find it out, thankfully in this case; he found one of the best Hair Infusions Extensions specialists.
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World's Best Hair Extensions Plus Best Hair Color Salon
By valerielagasforte on 9/25/2012
Worlds Best Hair Extensions plus best hair colorists in NYC. This is the merely hair color salon I only trust my hair color. I am using Rodolfo Valentin hair colorists; crowd since the past three years I can guarantee that they are the best hair colorists in town, no matter who prepares my hair. I love Pia the most experienced hair colorist there but if for some reason she is not there for some reason like because she is busy in their Long Island location or at their hair boutique, then I let any of the others hair colorists, at all times good, steadily same outcomes, they follow the computer formulation and they share same methods. Worth it very single penny. By the way they are also slightly more reasonable in prices than the other top hair color salons in New York offering by far enhanced service. Highly recommended.
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Best Hair Salon in NYC with Affordable Prices That Helps!
By dirnaponce on 9/20/2012
Congratulations of being named as the New Yorker of the Week, you deserve it! I get at Rodolfo Valentin Salon in New York the best hair color and great hair extensions, also a wonderful haircut by RV of course! The most important that they are very affordable in this strange economy that does not stop of hurting us, but I must say, Rodolfo Valentin salons prices are making it very easy for me and allows me to keep my hair care budget without hurt my pockets so deeply. I paid here 125 for color and 350 for haircut with Rodolfo Valentin himself. I truly was very tired of spending the double of that in other celebrities' hair stylists' salons and also I must say, Rodolfo Valentin hair services are superb and the staff is not snobby at all. I think to be snobbish is a thing of the past and they are super friendlier.
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On this day in 1665, Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary:
"[T]o my great trouble, hear that the plague is come to the City, though it hath … since its beginning, been wholly out of the City; but where should it begin but in my good friend and neighbour's, Dr Burnett, in Fenchurch Street: which, in both points, troubles me mightily".
The 1665 outbreak of Bubonic Plague – the "Great Plague" – killed at least 70000 people in London, and possibly as many as 100000 – far more than the "Black Death" of 1348-9, although far fewer in proportion to the overall population. The "Bills of Mortality" show that of the 70000 recorded Plague deaths, only 10000 were in the 97 parishes within the walls of the City – possibly because a significant proportion of those inhabitants who could afford to do so had fled to the country. The remaining 60000 Plague deaths were in the 16 parishes without the walls, the 5 in Westminster, and the 12 in Middlesex and Surrey. Stepney was the worst affected, with 6500 deaths.
Bubonic Plague was diagnosed by painful swellings or buboes in the groin or armpit. It is now known to be caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, in turn generally transmitted by the bite of an infected rat-flea of the species Xenopsylla cheopis (such as was common in the conditions in which people, livestock, pets and vermin lived, cheek-by-jowl, in London in the Medieval to post-Medieval period). In the Medieval to post-Medieval period, it was thought to be spread by cats and dogs, which were therefore rounded up and killed in large numbers (the resulting reduction in predation ironically allowing rats to proliferate). The 1348-9 outbreak, now referred to as the "Black Death", caused so many deaths in such a short time that epidemiologists suspect that it was a particularly deadly and infectious – possibly pneumonic or septicaemic – strain of the disease, capable of being passed directly from infected person to person without the involvement of the vector flea. Perhaps significantly in this context, the "Black Death" was able to continue to spread and even to spike over the winter of 1348-9, when the vector flea would have been inactive, as it is everywhere today at temperatures of less than 10degC.
The Parish Clerks' "Bills of Mortality" for the Plague Year of 1665 are examined at the church of All Hallows Staining on our "London Wall" standard walk, and on our "Tudor and Stuart London", "Tudor and Stuart City highlights" and "Great Fire of London" themed specials. The bulk of the church collapsed in 1671, the foundations undermined by plague burials.
Further details of all our walks are available in the Our Guided Walks section of this web-site.
Bookings may be made through the "Contact/Booking" section of the web-site, or by e-mail (firstname.lastname@example.com).


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Canon EOS 350 D: Digital SLR At A Compact Price
Great Value For The Money
Often the purchase of a digital SLR is a choice that, for many, remains difficult. The high costs often lead the amateur photographer to fall back on compact cameras, but going from the extremely high megapixels of the digital SLRs to the compacts, results in poor performance. The Canon EOS 350 D has been able to be produced and marketed at a contained price point and seems like a camera that all in all provides an affordable price and offers respectable performance. It's a camera for those with special needs in terms of quality, but whose requirements do not transcend the purely professional field.
The lack of dedicated ring of diaphragms (like the Nikon D40 and D40x models) is a fair price to pay in terms of comfort, especially if the result is a substantial savings in money. Basically just a little practice is all that's required and the aperture can be adjusted easily. The sensor C-MOS 8-megapixel image quality ensures excellent imaging quality, with very few aberrations or artifacts, even at high sensitivity.
A Camera With A Lot Of Pros
Some of the pros include: A flash of basic good compromise and good scope, intensity and excellent balance, which makes almost obsolete the ubiquitous function in most cameras of red eye elimination. The viewfinder is quite comfortable, giving good indication of the autofocus point, which incidentally is very precise even in tricky lighting conditions. Effective and continuous shutter speed (such as the memory utilization of the Compact Flash Ultra II). Respectable software bundle for editing images in post-acquisition. Excellent sensitivity with very few chromatic aberrations. Battery supplied excellent durability and is generally available at low prices, because it is fairly standard to other Canon equipment, such as other cameras. Seven points of focus. Metering balance. Elegant design. Comfortable ergonomic grip. Ready in 0.2 seconds. Fast memory access (CF Ultra II).
Good Feature Set Considering The Price
However, the camera also has faults: Lack of ring diaphragms, unfortunately, replaced by a touch button system in manual mode; you have to press a button to set the rotation of the ring normally used for the exposure timing. It would be a nice feature, if only the critical adjustment was not located in an awkward position and accessible only by overly stretching the thumb, preventing a smooth coordination with the other fingers. The controversial system for choosing the point of focus, for which we must make a maneuver similar to the ring of diaphragms is just as badly engineered. In this sense, the Canons cannot compare with the more comfortable Nikon models, in which the point of focus is chosen with the push of a button. The size of the LCD is also not exactly generous, but still is one of the devices which the engineers had to minimize in order to cut costs, therefore it should not still be considered a defect.
All in all, this is a great purchase for the advanced amateur photographer who has always taken pictures with a compact, yet suffered from the lack of features, resolution, and clarity of image, or who needs an SLR that has all the manual functions, but simply cannot afford models which may allow for more advanced abilities due to their elevated prices. This Canon is a respectable entry level camera which will allow you to enter the world of photography at a very low price, making you forget the compact from the first shot you take!
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I like the pictures you have taken--the bee one is great!
Maybe she is charmed at Photoshop.
I am no matchmaker. Write her a hub. Or him. Or whatever is behind the avatar. Do you think I am a horse stuck in a bird house?
I did get the Photoshop image and I immediately added to my Helsinki Smash Rod hub. Verily thou dost rock.
I'm a programmer. C++ is a universal language. :)
< is "less than"
> is "greater than"
The sites I referred to don't accept photos that are *less* than 10 megapixels.
BTW: still awaiting a picture of a Helsinki Smash Rod...
I have noticed that some of the photo sites won't accept submissions that are < 10 megapixels. I don't know the photographical significance of this number, but it might be a consideration when shopping for a camera.
Pat writes - sounds good, but I am in the market for a little camera that I can carry in my pocket or tuck into a handbag. At the moment I am using the camera built into my phone (which I chose on the basis of the camera qualities, rather than the phone features), but the quality is not really quite good enough.
Hey mentor, I was wondering if you could cobble up a picture of a Helsinki Smash Rod for my new hub: https://hubpages.com/living/helsinki-smash-rod
You are guaranteed full credit. :)


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"Imagine Me with the Three Owls" encourages children use their imagination to bat away stress.Using nature, the book walks parents and children through relaxation techniques.
Hemmings and O'Keefe provided Metro a few tips on how to help kids relax:
Simple belly breathing exercise
A simple way to relax our mind and body is to slow our breathing down to a steady rate. Start by asking your child to take some deep slow breaths. Continue until they settle. Then, ask them to put their hands on their belly. When they breathe in, they can feel their belly rise, and when they breathe out they can feel their belly drop. Keep doing this until they feel more relaxed and settled. This can be very useful for anxiety or panic attacks or just simply to relax.
Positive self-talk
What we think influences how we feel and also how we act. Positive thoughts can help children feel better about themselves so they can be happy and calm. To help change the thoughts that they don't want to have and help put good thoughts in their minds, they can think of some positive words or affirmations. Affirmations are positive words that remind us of how we want to think, feel or act. Some examples: "I am calm," or "I am confident." Have fun making positive thoughts together with your child. It can take time and perseverance to learn to be positive.
Relax the body
Relaxing the muscles in our body from our toes to the top of our head is a great activity to help children relax or to help them with sleep. Find a quiet space. Start by sitting or lying down. Ask your child to close their eyes and relax the part of the body as you say it. Read in a slow, steady voice.
Imagine a special place
Children often have great imaginations. Help them to use this imagination to create in their mind a special place, such as a beautiful garden, forest or sunset where they can go anytime. Use this example: "Close your eyes ... imagine you are watching the sun setting over the mountains. Look at the beautiful colours of the sunset, and how each color blends into the next one. There are different shades of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and gold. Imagine the colors are flowing into your heart ... You feel peaceful." Then for fun, ask them to share what they imagined or draw it.
Encourage expression of feelings
When a child feels worried they can feel alone, and if they can't share it with someone, it can lead to stress and anxiety. If they tell you they are feeling worried about an issue, always validate how they are feeling, which helps them feel safe to talk about things. Explore what they are feeling and what it is like for them. What is small to an adult can be big to a child. If they can't express it in words ask them to try drawing it, or use colors to describe how they feel. Be patient -- they may not know straight away what is bothering them.


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Our March releases are here, and we're so excited to share them with you! We've got lively pop-ups, push-pull-turn mechanisms, models to construct, unique activities, and much more. Learn more about the fun and innovative books that will be hitting bookstores this month!
Books for Ages 1 & up
First Stories: Cinderella
"Cinderella, you shall go to the ball!" First Stories: Cinderella is a perfect introduction to this classic fairy tale. Push, pull, and turn mechanisms bring the story to life and introduce all the main characters: Cinderella, her stepsisters, the handsome prince, and of course the fairy godmother. Also available: First Stories: Beauty and the Beast
Children can look, point, touch, count, and say goodnight to all their animal friends! This sturdy board book is perfect for teaching little ones about different facial features. Children can point to the lion's sleepy eyes, and then identify their own eyes. Plus, the peekaboo mirror at the end will delight and surprise! Also available: Look at Me!
Books for Ages 3 & up
Popposites: On the Farm
Up or down? Awake or asleep? With Popposites: On the Farm, young farm fans can learn about opposites and have a fun pop-up adventure. Kids will love recognizing the colorfully illustrated farm animals that appear on every spread. The combination of vibrant colors, appealing animals, fun pop-ups, and lively text will engage young readers to learn early concepts.
Books for Readers 5 & up
The Big Book of Amazing Activities
Mazes, doodling, puzzles . . . and more! The Big Book of Amazing Activities is jam-packed with hundreds of activities perfect to keep kids entertained on rainy days and long road trips. The Big Book of Amazing Activities will keep young minds sharp while sparking creativity.
Noah's Ark (Storybook Gift Set)
This retelling of the story of Noah's Ark is a fun and lively version of the classic tale, in which Noah builds an ark with room for his family and all the animals to save them from the flood. Children can reenact the story with the cardboard characters and animals included as well! Also available: Beauty and the Beast (Storybook Gift Set)
Read Build Play: Backyard
The backyard is home to a variety of fascinating creatures, and Read Build Play: Backyard reveals the amazing natural world that exists in all types of urban environments. Tiny insects, colorful birds, scurrying mammals, and nighttime visitors are featured in the fact book, and the accompanying plastic animals, models, and play scene can be used to create a vivid backyard diorama.
Shopkins: Doodling Fun!
Come down to Shopville and spend the day playing with everyone's favorite Shopkins pals! This activity book comes with fun games, quizzes, doodle pages, and of course, pencils and Shopkins pencil toppers! © 2013 Moose
Books for Ages 8 & up
Explore a Frog
Frogs swim, they leap, they hop, and some can even fly. Uncover the secrets of this amazing animal, layer by layer, in this new title in the popular Explore series. Young frog fans will love dissecting all the weird and wild facts, cool illustrations and diagrams, and unique 3-D layered model of a frog. Also available: Explore the Human Body, Explore a Shark, and Explore a T. Rex


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Advance Review: From writer/director Christopher Guest (This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show) comes the new improvised HBO series Family Tree, starring Bridesmaids' Chris O'Dowd as a laid-off accident investigator who inherits a trunk of odds and ends from his great aunt. There are occasional moments of heightened lunacy here, in the pilot episode "The Box," but mostly Family Tree is a modestly humorous look at a directionless character trying to find his footing in the world. In fact, the show is often so subtle that many scenes aren't actually played for straight laughs as they are simply trying to capture a "mockumentary" feeling.
Family Tree doesn't contain a cavalcade of creative expletives like Veep, or tailored water cooler moments like Girls, but it stands out as HBO's most endearing offering; with every character naturally well-meaning and slightly whimsical. The episodes are written by Guest and and Jim Piddock (himself an alum of Guest's films) and will come to feature a ton of familiar Guest players such as Bob Balaban, Ed Begley, Jr., Fred Willard and, of course, Guest himself. One gets the feeling though, from this first episode, that this 8-episode series would benefit from binge viewing, because after 25 some-odd minutes of "The Box," I felt as if the story had been barely breached.
It's all good, just incomplete. Because if you didn't know what this show was about at the outset, you really wouldn't get a sense that O'Dowd's character, Tom Chadwick, would be continuing along on his lineage quest after this chapter. As it stands though, Tom's odd investigation into an old inherited photo which he believes to be of his great grandfather leads him to an unexpected dead end/major head scratcher.
As I said, the show feels nicely effortless, using banal chit chat to lead us into funny, awkward scenes; some involving Tom's sister, Bea, and her therapy monkey puppet and another involving an item from his aunt's trunk which Tom believes to be an old wooden wind instrument. Guest's fellow Spinal Tap-er, Michael McKean, dusts off his British accent to play Tom's dad, Keith, a layabout inventor obsessed with cooling shoes, and ventriloquist Nina Conti plays Bea, who often talks through (and to) her monkey puppet due to childhood trauma involving a deviant puffin.
Tom also has a best mate named Pete (Tom Bennett), who, despite the format, really does feel like a good friend. He's not designed to be dim, just more extroverted than Tom - who's taken an unhealthy liking to his own wallowing. There are moments when Family Tree delivers familiar Guest film "beats," but overall (and so far) it feels more like a natural journey than some of his other works that involve situations more ripe for satire.
I do imagine that as Tom delves deeper into what appears to be his comically complicated ancestry -- causing more guest stars to pop in -- that the show will pick up steam in the laughs department, but for now it plays well being light and lovely.
Family Tree premieres on Sunday, May 12th at 10:30pm on HBO.
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and on IGN at mattfowler.


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The Overcrowded Suburbs of Mexico Come to Toronto's Commuters
Artsy Editorial
Photographer Alejandro Cartagena delves into Latin American urban, labor, and environmental issues through documentary-style landscapes and portraiture. In his "Suburbia Mexicana" series (2006-09), he revealed the layers of growth and decay intrinsic to the urban sprawl around Monterrey, Mexico, documenting how new housing and commercial developments transform the natural landscape. Rather than overtly condemning these development projects, Cartagena critically examines, as he describes, the line between economically driven development and society's yearning "for a fairer world in which to live." His well-known recent "Car Poolers" series captured striking, bird's-eye-view images of Mexican workers commuting to their jobs in the beds of pickup trucks.
Dominican, b. 1977, Dominican Republic, based in Monterrey, Mexico


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Monday, February 01, 2016
Emily Dickinson - Three Series
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Many years ago a prof essentially ruined Emily Dickinson for me by pointing out that most of her poems can be sung to the tune of Yellow Rose of Texas. Now I cannot not sing them.ReplyDeleteReplies
That sucks! I'm glad I don't know what song that is... and if it's ruined Dickinson for you, I'm not looking it up.Delete
I admire your fortitude in reading through how many thousand poems she wrote. I was doing some prep work for a teacher this week which involved looking in poetry anthologies and every single one had more poems by Emily Dickinson that any other poet. I read The Yearling for my SPIN book. I would be honored if you would look at my review. Thank you. The YearlingReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks. They are beautiful poems, but they take forever to read. I had read Dickinson previously in anthologies, that's one of the reasons I wanted to read the collection.Delete


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Melissa & Ramzy's Tons of Light Townhouse
Name: Melissa Milakovic
Location: James Bay in Victoria, BC, Canada
We met and fell in love in Edmonton and within weeks, Ramzy was told he was being posted to Victoria, BC. Newly in love we decided to head to the West Coast together to see what it was all about. With very little time to find a home, we found this amazing townhouse in the heart of James Bay, one of the most sought after neighborhoods in Victoria, only one block away from downtown and the ocean. We've been here for a little over one year.
Our home is our refuge. When we bought it, it was a horrendous shade of beige (and had been a rental for over a decade) — including doors, baseboards, blinds and walls — so we got right to work. With new paint, light fixtures and an updated kitchen we were able to decorate a home we began to love.
I love every single room (minus the bathrooms as they are last to be renovated) in our home equally. My studio is my sanctuary, my kitchen my comfort, living room my refuge and our room a soft place to land. Each room has its own magic and feel. The house as a whole would be considered eclectic and warm.
On paper, we might seem like opposites but in life, we are very similar. So when it came to decorating, it was easy. We love to scour vintage and thrift shops for interesting bits and bops and most of our home is fitted with such furniture and trinkets. Our love of travel is also apparent in our home with souvenirs and postcards to remind us of the places we've been and hope to go.
My inspiration comes from what I like. I don't ever try to match anything, I simply find something I love and find a place for it in our home. Our home is an extension of both our personalities — vibrant, energetic and interesting.
I knew we had a beautiful home when we had a new friend over for dinner and her very words were: This is the best decorated home I've ever been in. That is quite a compliment.
Thanks, Melissa !
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text: A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it everyday. He climbed to the treetop, ate the apples, took a nap under the shadow... He loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him. Time went by...the little boy had grown up, And he no longer played around the tree every day. One day, the boy came back to the tree and he looked sad. "Come and play with me," the tree asked the boy. "I am no longer a kid, I do not play around trees any more" The boy replied. "I want toys. I need money to buy them." "Sorry, but I do not have money... But you can pick all my apples and sell them. So, you will have money. " The boy was so excited. He grabbed all the apples on the tree and left happily. The boy never came back after he picked the apples. The tree was sad. One day, the boy who now turned into a man returned And the tree was excited "Come and play with me" the tree said. "I do not have time to play. I have to work for my family. We need a house for shelter. Can you help me? " Sorry", But I do not have any house. But you can chop off my branches To build your house. " So the man cut all the branches of the tree and left happily. The tree was glad to see him happy but the man never came back since then. The tree was again lonely and sad. One hot summer day, The man returned and the tree was delighted. "Come and play with me!" the tree said. "I am getting old. I want to go sailing to relax myself. "Can you give me a boat?" "Said the man". "Use my trunk to build your boat. You can sail far away and be happy. " So the man cut the tree trunk to make a boat. He went sailing and never showed up for a long time. Finally, the man returned after many years. "Sorry, my boy. But I do not have anything for you anymore. No more apples for you... " The tree said". "No problem, I do not have any teeth to bite "No more trunk for you to climb on" "I am too old for that now" the man said. "I really cannot give you anything... The only thing left is my dying root," The tree said with tears. "I do not need much now, just a place to rest. I am tired after all these years" the man replied. "Good! Old tree roots are the best place to lean on and rest, " The man sat down and the tree was glad and smiled with tears... This is you and the tree is your parent. !!!!! عش في الحياة كعابر سبيل، يترك وراءه أثراً جميلاً، وعش مع الناس كمحتاج يتواضع لهم، وكمستغن يحسن إليهم، وكمسؤول يدافع عنهم، وكطبيب يشفق عليهم، ولا تعش معهم كذئب يأكل من لحومهم، وكثعلب يمكر بعقولهم، وكلص ينتظر غفلتهم، فإن حياتك من حياتهم، وبقائك ببقائهم، ودوام ذكرك بعد موتك من ثنائهم، فلا تجمع عليك ميتتين، ولا تؤلب عليك عالَمين، ولا تُقدِّم نفسك لمحكمتين، ولا تُعرض نفسك لحسابين، ولحساب الآخرة أشد وأنكى


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The Lastolite RayD8 c5600 Continuous Lighting Kit provides an entry-level studio lighting system for product and portrait photography. It includes two light heads, two 10" reflectors, two 85W fluorescent bulbs, two light stands, and two removable diffusers. The high-output, compact fluorescent bulbs (equivalent to 400W) offer color-corrected light at 5600K (daylight). These compact fluorescent bulbs run at a low temperature, making them suitable for photographing food, people, and other temperature-sensitive subjects.
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If You Care Certified Compostable Tall Kitchen Bags are made from potato starch. The potatoes are non-GMO starch potatoes blended with a certified, fully compostable polymer. No Plastics are added to the bags.
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Potato starch is a mixture of a linear (amylose) and a branched (amylopectin) polymer of glucose. Corn or wheat starch has a lower percentage of amylopectin than Potato starch. Amylopectin gives starch its structural strength, so it helps make If You Care Certified Compostable Tall Kitchen Bags stronger than your typical bags made from corn or wheat starch.
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At least 80 million tons of waste that ends up in landfills every year is material that can be turned into compost. This includes food scraps, yard trimmings and non-recyclable paper. In a landfill environment, this organic material (leaves, grass etc.) releases methane gas (a greenhouse gas) that contributes to global warming. Diverting food scraps and yard trimmings from landfill to compost facilities – either municipal or commercial in areas where available – contributes significantly to preserving our planet and natural resources. If You Care Certified Compostable Bags are made from 100% GMO free potato starch and a fully compostable polymer. These bags are completely polyethylene-free and plasticizer-free.
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Students who wish to take part in this program must make separate applications and gain admission to both the School of Law and a participating department of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Students must be admitted to a PhD program at the Graduate School to participate (there is no JD/MA dual-degree program).
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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Omnibus Final Rule Summary
The federal government has published its long awaited
final regulations implementing
"Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act," enacted as
part of the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" (ARRA), described by the head
of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as
"the most sweeping changes to the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules since they were first
implemented." In general, the new rules expand the obligations of physicians and other
health care providers to protect patients' protected health information (PHI), extend these
obligations to a host of other individuals and companies who, as "business associates," have
access to PHI, and increase the penalties for violations of any of these obligations. The
American Medical Association (AMA) will be publishing more detailed guidance concerning the
impact of these rules onphysicians. The following outlines the changes physicians will need to
consider as they implement the new HIPAA requirements necessary by the September 23,
2013, compliance date.
There are three areas that physicians will need to focus on to comply with
the new rules:
Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification policies and procedures (and in some cases,
new workflows and forms);
Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP); and
Business Associate (BA) Agreements.
The following summary provides a helpful overview o
f the steps physicians will need to take
in each of these areas to meet the new requirements. Physicians also should be familiar with
their state patient privacy and confidentiality laws, which may be more stringent than HIPAA.
Privacy and Security Policies and Procedures
The new rules will likely require changes to a physician practice's HIPAA policies and
procedures in at least the following areas:
Breach notification requirements
The obligation to notify patients if there is a breach
of their PHI is expanded and clarified under the new rules. Breaches are now
presumed reportable unless, after completing a risk analysis applying four factors, it is
determined, that there is a "low probability of PHI compromise." The physicians must
consider all of the following four factors:
the nature and extent of the PHI involved
issues to be considered include the
sensitivity of the information from a financial or clinical perspective and the
likelihood the information can be re-identified;
the person who obtained the unauthorized access and whether that person has
an independent obligation to protect the confidentiality of the information;
whether the PHI was actually acquired or accessed, determined after
conducting a forensic analysis; and
the extent to which the risk has been mitigated, such as by obtaining a signed
confidentiality agreement from the recipient.
This rebuttable presumption of breach and four factor assessment of the "risk of PHI
compromise" replaces the previous, more subjective "significant risk of financial,
reputational, or other harm" analysis for establishing a breach. The new rules further
clarify that there is no need to have an independent entity conduct the risk
assessment and indeed, no risk assessment need be conducted at all if the breach
notification is made (although, physicians will want to undertake an appropriate
review and steps to mitigate the harm and reduce the likelihood of future breaches in
any case). The new rules further confirm that the breach notification requirement may be delegated to a BA, and physicians are encouraged to coordinate with their BAs
so that patients receive only one notification of the breach. The new rules do not modify the actual reporting and timeframe requirements for Breach Notification; that is, covered entities must still adhere to requirements for
individual notification, HHS notification, and where applicable media posting of the
Disclosures to health plans
At the patient's request, physicians may not disclose
information about care the patient has paid for out
pocket to health plans, unless for treatment purposes or in the rare event the disclosure is required by law. This
change updates the previous HIPAA Privacy Rule governing patient requests for
restrictions on the use or disclosure of their PHI. Previously, while physicians could
refuse to abide by any such request, the new rule requires physicians and other health
care providers to abide by a patient's request not to disclose PHI to a health plan for
those services for which the patient has paid out-of-pocket and requests the
restriction. Of all the changes made by the new rules, this change is likely to have the
greatest impact on physician practice workflow both in terms of documentation and
follow up to ensure the restriction is adhered to.
Marketing communications
The new rules further limit the circumstances when physicians may provide marketing communications to their patients in the absence of the patient's written authorization. Generally speaking, the only time a physician may tell a patient about a third
party's product or service without the patient's written authorization is when: 1) the physician receives no compensation for the
communication; 2) the communication is face-to-face; 3) the communication
involves a drug or biologic the patient is currently being prescribed and the payment is limited
to reasonable reimbursement of the costs of the communication (no profit); 4) the
communication involves general health promotion, rather than the promotion of aspecific product or service; or 5) the communication involves government or government-sponsored programs. Physicians are also still permitted to give patients
promotional gifts of nominal value (e.g., pamphlet).
Sale of PHI
The new rules clarify that the prohibition on the sale of PHI in the absence of the patient's written authorization extends to licenses or lease agreements, and to the receipt of financial or in-kind benefits. It also includes
disclosures in conjunction with research if the remuneration received includes any
profit margin. On the other hand, the prohibition on PHI sales does not extend to permitted disclosures for payment or treatment nor to permitted disclosures to patients or their designees in exchange for a reasonable cost b
based fee.
Childhood immunizations
Under the new rules, physicians may disclose
immunizations to schools required to obtain proof of immunization prior to admitting
the student so long as the physicians have and document the patient or patient's legal
presentative's "informal agreement" to the disclosure.
The new rules allow physicians to make relevant disclosures to the
deceased's family and friends under essentially the same circumstances such
disclosures were permitted when the patient was alive; that is, when these individuals
were involved in providing care or payment for care and the physician is unaware of
any expressed preference to the contrary. The new rule also eliminates any HIPAA
protection for PHI 50 years after a patient's death.
Copies of e-PHI
Physicians will now have only 30 days to respond to a patient's
written request for his or her PHI with one 30-day extension, regardless of where the
records are kept (eliminating the longer 60-day timeframe for records maintained
offsite). They must provide access to EHR and other electronic records in the
electronic form and format requested by the individual if the records are "readily
reproducible" in that format. Otherwise, they must provide the records in another
mutually agreeable electronic format. Hard copies are permitted only when the
individual rejects all readily reproducible e-formats.
Emailing PHI
Physicians must also consider transmission security, and may send PHI in
unencrypted emails only if the requesting individual is advised of the risk and still
requests that form of transmission.
Charging for copies of e-PHI or PHI
The new rules modify the costs that may be charged to the individual for copies to include labor costs (potentially to include
skilled technical labor costs for extracting electronic PHI and supply costs if the
patient requests a paper copy, or if electronic, the cost of any portable media (such as
a USB memory stick or a CD)), assuming state law does not set a lower reimbursement
rate. The rules also clarify that physicians may impose a separate charge for creating
an affidavit of completeness.
Research authorizations
The new rules permit physicians to combine conditioned and
unconditioned authorizations for research participation, provided individuals can opt
in to the unconditioned research activity. Moreover, these authorizations may
encompass future research.
Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP) Physicians must amend their NPPs to reflect the changes set forth above, including those
related to breach notification, disclosures to health plans, and marketing and sale of PHI. To
the extent physicians engage in fundraising, they will also have to amend their NPP to inform
patients of their right to opt-out of those communications. As the rules presume these are all
material changes, physicians will have to post the revised NPP, and make copies available at
their office, to all new patients and to anyone else on request. Physicians who maintain a
website are cautioned to post the updated
NPP on their website as required by the existing HIPAA Privacy rule. The new rules also eliminate requirements to include information on communications concerning appointment reminders, treatment alternatives, or health
benefits or services in NPP
s, but the rules do not require that that information be removed
Business Associates (BAs)
The new rules expand the universe of individuals and companies that must be treated as
business associates to include Patient Safety Organizations and oth
ers involved in patient
safety activities, health information organizations like e
prescribing gateways or health
information exchanges that transmit and maintain PHI, and personal health record vendors
physicians sponsor for their patients. Thus, physici
ans must review their relationships and
determine if they must enter new BA agreements with these entities or others that create,
receive, store, maintain, or transmit PHI on their behalf.
These rules also modify the requirements for BA agreements:
icians no longer must report failures of their BAs to the government when
termination of the agreement is not feasible, as HHS has concluded that the BA's
direct liability for these violations is sufficient.
BAs are now responsible for their subcontractors
BAs must comply with the Security and Breach Notification Rules.
Physicians are liable for the actions of their BAs who are agents, but not for the
actions of those BAs that are independent contractors.
Physicians have until September 23, 2014, to bring
all their BA agreements into
conformance with the new rules.
BA agreements that have not been renewed or modified
between March 26, 2013, and September 23, 2013, will be deemed compliant until the date
the BA agreement is renewed or modified or until Sep
tember 22, 2014, whichever is earlier.
Enforcement and Penalties
The new rules clarify the four penalty tiers as follows:
Lowest tier
cases in which the physician did not and reasonably could not know of
the breach.
Intermediate tier
cases in which
the physician "knew, or by exercising reasonable
diligence would have known" of the violation, but the physician did not act with
willful neglect.
Highest tiers
cases in which the physician "acted with willful neglect" and either
corrected the problem w
ithin the 30
day cure period, or failed to make a timely
HHS must conduct a formal investigation and impose civil monetary penalties in cases
involving willful neglect, and is now free to provide PHI to other government agencies for
t activities. The assessment of penalties must be based on five principal factors:
(1) the nature and extent of the violation, including the number of individuals affected; (2)
the nature and extent of the harm resulting from the violation, including repu
tational harm;
(3) the history and extent of prior compliance; (4) the financial condition of the covered
entity or business associate; and (5) such other matters as justice may require. The number
of violations may be based on the number of individuals a
ffected or by the number of days of
The rule further clarifies that the 30
day cure period begins when the physician knew or
should have known of the violation.
Other Changes
The new rules also make changes that will likely affect physicia
ns, but only indirectly. The
most sweeping is the expansion of the obligations of BAs to include both direct liability under
most of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, and the obligation to enforce these rules with
respect to their subcontractors. The
new rules also implement the Genetic Information
Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), which generally prohibits health plans from using genetic
information for underwriting purposes.
Next Steps
With the potential for $1.5 million fines, not to mention serious re
putational injury, these
new rules must be taken seriously. Clearly, physicians will need to develop a plan to make
these required changes in a timely fashion. The AMA will provide more specific guidance with
respect to each of these three areas, includi
ng sample NPP and BA agreements.
The information contained herein is general in nature and is based on authorities that are subject to change. It is not inte
as legal advice provided by the American Medical Associa
tion and should not be relied upon as a substitute for legal advice or
opinion. This material may not be applicable to, or suitable for, the specific circumstances or needs of the reader, and may
require additional consideration of other factors not described herein.


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Back in 2005, at the nadir of the Iraq War, Charles Ferguson was an independently wealthy documentary film junkie who was appalled to discover that no one in his favorite field was making a serious inquiry into American war policy. So he did it himself. No End In Sight, Ferguson's first documentary, was a searing, clear-eyed indictment of the war and it earned an Oscar nomination in 2008. The film's power sprang not so much from the startling revelations it uncovered—though there were plenty—as from the remarkable tapestry of top-level figures who Ferguson had gathered to testify about the war's folly. Put another way, it wasn't just what they were saying, it was who was saying it. (The film's talking heads included Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's chief of staff when the war began, and General Jay Garner, who briefly ran the Iraq reconstruction effort before he was fatefully replaced by Paul Bremer.)
In Ferguson's new documentary, Inside Job, which arrives in theaters today, the filmmaker delivers the same treatment to the global financial crisis that he gave to the Iraq war a few years ago. And once again, it's not so much the revelations that startle as the people making them. This is high-level, hard-hitting work. And it firmly establishes Charles Ferguson as the man America should turn to whenever we want to leave a movie theater really, really angry.
For those fuzzy on the financial details, but irate about the outcome, Ferguson put together this exclusive syllabus for GQ. Read and watch all of them, and you'll understand exactly how—and how badly—we all got screwed. After the jump, Ferguson makes his picks and explains why they're so essential.
In the May 2009 issue of The Atlantic, there appeared a brilliant article by Simon Johnson, an eminent economist, telling painful truths about what the financial sector and its money have done not only to the American economy but also to its political system. Read it here. Simon is Australian by birth, and in our filmed interview with him, he spoke quite affectingly about his having chosen to become an American citizen. He has done his country a great service by speaking out, in this article, in his book 13 Bankers, and in his blog with James Kwak, The Baseline Scenario.
Late in 2007, my longtime colleague Charles Morris sent me the manuscript for his forthcoming book, The Trillion Dollar Meltdown. I read it and called Charlie. "Very scary," I said to him, "but Charlie, aren't you exaggerating a little? It can't really be that bad. A trillion dollars? "Just you wait," replied Charlie. The book was published in February 2008, one month before Bear Stearns collapsed. I called Charlie again. "Well, you were right, Charlie," I said, "that was bad." "Oh no, Charles," he replied, "we're just getting started." Well, when I watched Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and AIG fall apart within forty-eight hours in mid-September of 2008, I started taking my friend a little more seriously. The second edition was entitled The TWO Trillion Dollar Meltdown. I called Charlie again. "Please," I said, "no more editions, this is getting expensive."
3. The Jon Stewart Show
Jon Stewart is hilarious. Very depressingly, he has also been far more informative and insightful about the financial crisis, financial regulation (and the absence thereof), Congress, and the Obama Administration than 99 percent of the so-called serious media. Mr. Stewart is a national treasure, and he should run for President. Seriously. If you want the real skinny on what's been going on, watch his shows starting with mid-2008. My dream ticket would be him and Senator Carl Levin. Speaking of which...
4. CSPAN archives of the Congressional hearings chaired by Waxman and Levin
For the most part, Congress gets a dismal grade for its shameless role in deregulation, lack of oversight, lack of inquiry, and lack of response to the crisis. But two members of Congress and their committees—Henry Waxman in the House, Carl Levin in the Senate—held a series of hearings starting in the fall of 2008 that simply can't be topped. Watch the regulators, the bankers, the ratings agencies, the lobbyists, and the paid-for experts squirm. Watch Goldman Sachs ecutives pretend to be stupid and innocent, and then watch their facades crack. Watch the CEO of AIG try to explain with a straight face why it was OK to block the attempted audit of AIG Financial Products, and then to pay its former CEO a $1-million-per-month consulting fee after he blew the company up.
5. The Best Bloggers: Yves Smith, Nouriel Roubini and Felix Salmon
There are zillions of financial blogs and bloggers, but several stand out. Yves Smith's tart, smart, tough Naked Capitalism will keep you current and angry, but with one cute animal picture every day. Nouriel Roubini's wonky, expensive, but very good site—modestly named Roubini (Nouriel says it with a grin)—is in fact an excellent monitor of the world's macroeconomic condition as well as Dr. Doom's latest pronouncements. And if that's not enough, witty Brit Felix Salmon gives you good information with style at his blog for Reuters.
6. Has Financial Development Made the World Riskier, by Raghuram Rajan
Seriously wonky but very worthwhile, this 2005 paper is still one of the best writings about the crisis. It's also the one that Larry Summers publicly denounced as retrograde, unnecessarily alarmist, and Luddite. To read this paper, then to know that when it was delivered, the audience included Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, Larry Summers, and most of the world's central bankers, is to realize, definitively, that finance is way too important to be left to the financiers. It's online here.
**7. Insidejobfilm.com **
Yes, it's a shameless plug for my movie. But it's also true. We did an enormous amount of research for the film, and my patient and tireless associate producer, Anna Moot-Levin, compiled a master document with all the links, articles, websites, documents, and presentations that we archived, and we've placed all of it on our website. Read it and weep.


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In addition to the last ode to Valerie Leon, anyone who has any interest in perhaps the great living example of the ultimate English rose might be interested in seeing her giving an illustrated talk about her career:
Forever My QueenPosted in Random Talk on October 7, 2009 by eibonblog
An Ode to Valerie LeonPosted in Random Talk on October 6, 2009 by eibonblog
Of all the beautiful film actresses associated with cult films (or any films for that matter) my very favourite of all time has always been Valerie Leon. I first saw her in a Carry On film, and ever since that point I have been in love. I just wish she had appeared in more films. Anyhow less talk, and more homage to the incredible beauty that is Valerie Leon…
As Pentagram once sang… forever my queen. She's still pretty gorgeous today at 64.
Here's a wonderful recent-ish interview with her
The Monster Of Venice (1965) – Giallithon #4Posted in 1965, Giallithon, Giallo on October 6, 2009 by eibonblog
Creepy is the word you would use most to describe this strange horror/giallo mix from 1965 which is also known by the name The Embalmer but Monster Of Venice is much closer to the original Italian name of Il Mostro di Venezia.
This low-budget film owes an awful lot to the story of the Phantom of the Opera, except here we have a crazy mortician who stalks beautiful women in the canals and catacombs of Venice. He does this by hiding in the water of the canals in full scuba gear, and grabbing them to take down to his subterranean lair. There he changes into a monk's cassock and a skeletal deathmask, then embalms and stuffs the women to add to his collection.
Sounds pretty grim right?
It's actually an excellent idea for a film, and themes from this were explored again in other films such as Amsterdamned (1988) and Don't Look Now (1973). Films based in cities that are composed of many canals are eerie, it's now a proven fact.
The film itself was written and directed by Dino Tavella, who went onto do precisely nothing after this film. You can kind of see why. Although the film has a brilliant premise, the execution can be extremely lackluster. The characters are either highly annoying, or pretty vacuous. The script is pretty terrible, and doesn't pull you into the proceedings much. The cast is full of people that didn't pop up much, if at all again in other films. There are comedy characters that just don't work, and the women just aren't beautiful enough to be part of a Giallo.
Where the film does excel is creating eerie foreboding atmosphere that peaks in the underground lair of the killer. It's a rotten place of death, filled with the skeletal remains of dead monks from seems to be an ancient subterranean sect. The Embalmer's victims are displayed in his trophy cabinet, as he stalks around in the dark kicking skulls from his path.
Tavella excels in some great camerawork, and maybe this is where his real strength lay. It's a shame that this film didn't have any involvement from a strong scriptwriter such as Gastaldi, or even a great director such as Bava who really could have made this into a macabre masterpiece of cinema.
As such it's still an entertaining film that can drag in places, and border on the ridiculous in others. There are moments of brief flashes of genius, especially near the climax where the killer disguises himself by hiding among the corpses of the long dead monks to surprise a potential victim.
There is a decent version of this on DVD from Retromedia/Image Entertainment, but unfortunately the DVD version I own is in the wrong aspect ratio. As you can see from the screenshots it's 4:3 stretched to 16:9, and therefore everything looks squashed. However it's a fine print with little damage, and strong blacks so you can easily make out what lurks in the shadows of the catacombs beneath the streets and canals of Venice.
Worth searching out if only to see the creepy climax.
Libido (1965) – Giallithon #3Posted in 1965, Giallithon, Giallo on October 6, 2009 by eibonblog
This was to be the legendary scriptwriter Ernesto Gastaldi's first foray into the world of Giallo, and here he actually gets behind the camera and directs this early Giallo under the alias of Julian Berry. He actually co-directed this with Victor Storff aka Vittorio Salerno. The script was written by Gastaldi's wife Mara Maryl, who also is one of the four main stars of the film, the others being Giancarlo Gianni, Luciano Pigozzi (here as Alan Collins), and Dominique Boschero.
This was also the first Giallo to bring up the much used theme in the Giallo genre of a primal scene (thanks Freud), where something that happened to one of the main characters in their childhood goes on to have a big significance in the film.
In this case, our main protagonist is Christian (Giancarlo Gianni) who as a young boy witnesses his sexually depraved father murdering his mistress in his secret sex room full of mirrors. His father then apparently committed suicide by jumping off the cliffs into the sea at the family home… although his body was never found.
We then find ourselves back to present day 20 years later (well the mid-60s here) and we have our 4 main characters driving towards the cliff-top mansion of Christian. We have Christian's fiancee Eileen (Boschero), his best friend and legal guardian Paul, and Paul's girlfriend Brigitte (Maryl). In the years after Christian's father killed himself, Paul has taken guardianship of the estate and looked after the interests of Christian. As they head towards the mansion, we find out that Paul has arranged it so that Christian can finally claim his inheritance including the mansion.
Cue the worst camel toe ever in a Giallo!
Once we arrive at the house, the trauma of the past events starts to haunt Christian, and his friends start to get dragged into a vortex of sleaze and violence. Can Christian overcome his demons?
The plot is pretty simplistic compared to later Gialli but you have to remember that this was one of the first films to treat this ground, and it does so very well. Gianni perhaps overcooks his acting a bit with a wild and frenzied performance, but the real stars here are the two lady leads. Maryl does the blonde but mysterious role excellently, and the beautiful Boschero is both lovely and tragic.
This is a highly recommended essential early Giallo, and as such must be seen by all fans of the genre. Unfortunately it's one of those classic titles that still languishes without any DVD release, and the only versions that seem to exist are very ropey hard subtitled VHS rips (as you can see from the screenshots). These are also badly cropped from the original aspect ratio, and are missing the sides of the picture.
It's criminal that it hasn't had a proper release yet, and I can only hope that someone who will do it a lot of justice will get hold of a good source and give it the release it deserves.
Normal Service ResumedPosted in General on October 4, 2009 by eibonblog
Oops. I do apologise for going AWOL. My computer took a lot longer to build than I intially thought, but I now have a power house Home Theatre PC (HTPC) that has every single one of my films all stored on the hard disks in lovely uncompressed format. It's a thing of beauty.
Expect normal service to resume soon with more Giallithon reviews, and other news.
Bad Computer!Posted in Random Talk on July 8, 2009 by eibonblog
Sorry for the lack of updates recently. My computer that I do all the hard work on has died, and I am in the process of building a new ultra home cinema/gaming PC. The Giallithon is still continuing though, so expect a load of reviews to come all at once!
Blood And Black Lace (1964) – Giallithon #2Posted in 1964, Giallithon, Giallo, Mario Bava with tags 1964, Giallithon, Giallo, Mario Bava on May 22, 2009 by eibonblog
There are no two ways about it… Mario Bava's Blood And Black Lace (1964) is a genre defining classic. Not only did it lay much of the groundwork for many giallo films to come, it upped the ante and included the kind of savagery that came to characterise these films over and above thrillers that were being made in the USA. It also laid the groundwork for a new genre of films, that wouldn't actually really take off until the late 70s and early 80s… stalk'n'slash, or slashers as they are affectionately known by fans. This was the first film to feature a seemingly unstoppable killer who lurked in all the shadows that stalked and murdered victims in a brutal and vicious way. Bava then further cemented the genre with the excellent Bay Of Blood (1971) taking things a step even further. It was also the first film where the director started to employ point of view (POV) shots from the eyes of the killer, to further bring the audience into the film and help them identify with the killer. Lastly, another of the big giallo genre staples was the killer being dressed all in black, with a black fedora, and black leather gloves. The giallo killer's favourite weapon was also introduced… the cut throat straight razor.
The story follows a seemingly pretty simply premise. Contessa Cristina (Eva Bartok) and Max Marian (Cameron Mitchell) run the exclusive Christian haute coutre fashion house populated with beautiful models and fashion designers. One stormy night the model Isabella (Francesca Ungaro) is murdered on her way into work at the fashion house and is discovered dead in a cupboard. Soon Isabella's diary is found, which highlights some seedy corrupt goings on at the fashion house. Soon each model that comes into contact with the diary, or seemingly knowns more about what's going on… are murdered in various gruesome ways. Only Inspector Sylvester (Thomas Reiner) can discover the truth…
What ensues is an exhilirating mix of brutal violence, highly stylised visuals, beautiful women, numerous red herrings, and the required unexpected twist (or two). Bava directs with so much gusto and beligerance against the usual standards of the thrillers coming out of the USA, or even the Wallace inspired Krimi films. He deliberately focus on everything that is visceral in the World that his characters inhabit, and fills it with sleaze, violence, drugs, and sex.
When pivotal plot devices are introduced, such as the discovery of Isabella's diary, he deliberately uses the camera to make everyone look like a suspect. Each character gives uneasy looks, as if they are all hiding some terrible secret. Bava wants his audience to question every little detail he throws in front of them, and to keep them guessing right up to the big reveal (which is only about 3/4 of the way through this film!).
Bava was advised to shoot the film in black and white, as he did with his previous The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963). Being Mario Bava, he filmed this film in glorious Technicolor and deliberately filled the screen with as many bright styles and fashions as he could cram on. From the highly stylised opening sequence where we are introduced to each character as the cool jazzy soundtrack from Carlo Rustichelli indignantly blasts forth, to the extremely visceral killings.
All the lead performances are very strong, particularly from Mitchell and Bartok. Reinher's Inspector Sylvester never appears to be ahead of the killer, and always on his heels… and as such he is a much more minor character than you would probably expect. We don't even really have a main character who is pivotal in the investigation… Bava is quite content to just let things play out in their own inexplicably macabre manner.
There's not really much that can be said about this film that has not already been said. It is a true classic in every sense of the word, and possibly one of the most influential films of all time. It's a shame that it's not heralded a true classic in the Citizen Kane (1941) sense of the word, as it's every bit as important as that film or even Hitchock's Psycho (1960).
The version under review here is the truly excellent Hande Weg German DVD (as Blutige Seida). This is by far the best transfer of the film available in it's original aspect ratio of 1.85:1 presented here anamorphically. Every visceral detail is presented with stunning colour, and great clarity. It's certainly an improvement from the VCI releases of the film. There are also some great extras including a comparison of the murders from the censored version of the film and the complete uncut version. It also has 11 great trailers of other classic Mario Bava films. Highly recommended if you can find it, but unfortunately out of print and commanding high prices on such sites as eBay.
Essential viewing for every giallo fan.


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HALLANDALE — The owners of a trash-filled, five-acre lot that has been called a potential public health hazard are cleaning up the trash in the face of a $750-a-day fine imposed by the city`s Code Enforcement Board.
The board, ruling that the property at 300-310 Ansin Blvd. is a threat to the health and safety of residents, ordered the trash and debris cleaned up within 48 hours.
The board also ordered that if the property is not cleaned up within that time, each of the three owners must pay a fine of $250 a day until it is cleaned up.
The owners of the lot in the city`s warehouse district are listed as Hollywood attorney Mark F. Butler, trustee, and Patricia B. King and Sally S. Butler. None appeared at the Code Enforcement Board hearing to contest the charge. According to testimony of city officials, Butler has said he is responsible for the property.
Pending the results of the city`s actions, the Health Department charges will not be pursued, environmental health specialist Warren Abrahams said. According to Susan Pierce, city code compliance supervisor, the owners began cleaning up the lot one day after the 48-hour ``grace`` period ended. Fines continue accumulating until the work is completed.
``The property had been wild and overgrown,`` City Attorney Richard Kane said. ``Circuit Judge James M. Reasbeck ordered it clean, and Butler plowed it down and began filling it to get rid of the standing water. In the process, outsiders began dumping on the lot.``


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Following on from my last post, here are the remaining 5 tips to ensure you have a safe and happy holiday with your canine companion.
6. Places to walk
There are a ton of great places to take your dog on island. For helpful trail maps and information visit Nantucket Dog Walk. Please remember though that there is a leash law and your dog must always be under your control. While your dog may be "friendly" it doesn't mean everyone else has to or wants to say hello to him/her! As for the beach, your dog should not be with you on beaches where there is a lifeguard in attendance. And please don't forget to pick up the poop.
7. Dinner time
For health and safety reasons, dogs aren't permitted inside restaurants. There are a few places to eat with outside terraces where it's possible to sit fairly close to your dog without them actually being in the food service area. If you can't leave Fido back in your accommodation you'll need to arrive early to ensure you have your choice of tables. Lunchtime is definitely easier – think sandwich spots like Something Natural, Bartlett's Farm, Claudette's in Sconset or Millies in Madaket. All are great picnic spots. While well-mannered dogs are welcome at Cisco Brewery, be warned that this is one of the busiest spots on the island after a day on the beach. With lots of people, children running around, live music and other dogs, is this really going to be a happy outing for you and your pup?
8. Doggie supplies
If you've forgotten any of Fido's essentials Geronimo's and Cold Noses are the places to go. From eco-friendly poop bags to Nantucket themed collars and leashes, you should be able to find anything you might need. For prescription diets Offshore Animal Hospital may also carry your preferred brand – worth calling them first before you drive over.
9. Pet services
There are dog walkers and pet sitters aplenty on the island but do your research and book well ahead of time. The adage "you get what you pay for" is as true on the island as it is anywhere else. Offshore Animal Hospital offers outside daycare within an enclosed area making it a good choice for pups that might otherwise stray. And for the times when Fido finds something super stinky to roll in, clean him off at The Dog Wash.
10. Lost pets
With all the bunnies, deer and fabulous places for a dog to run, it's no wonder that pups and people do get separated. Store this number for just such an emergency: 508-825-2287. This is the phone number for Nantucket Island Safe Harbor for Animals (NISHA) – the island's shelter for lost and abandoned animals. Any stray dogs picked up by the Animal Control Officers, or by the public, are brought to NISHA. You'll need your check book, proof of identification and a rabies certificate to be reunited with your four legged friend. Consider a visit to them in any event and see first-hand the great work they do on the island. And their logoed merchandise could make pretty cool souvenirs too!


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The new Affinity…and beyond
We've had to sharpen a few pencils and clean up some dust, but we are very proud to re-introduce ourselves to the creative community, shiny and new! The team here at Affinity has been busy for years at our home in Scottsdale, creating brilliant designs, direct mail, logos, and all things creative for our many wonderful clients. But like many great marriages, we suddenly realized we were putting so much of our time and effort into someone else, that we'd kind of let ourselves go…So, being the over-achievers that we are, we got back to the gym. Call it, a revitalization.
Many companies and brands will eventually find themselves in a similar spot. Time passes and it's difficult to critically self-exam ones' image. But identifying your weakness is critical for improvement. Taking that time to evaluate your brand and your business will not only reveal some flaws, but could potentially highlight some new assets. Here at Affinity, we carefully examined our team and identified the new skills we had acquired. And now, we're confident in moving forward, to affinity, and beyond.