text: Frequently Asked Questions Money matters can be confusing. Our Patient Accounting Department will help you understand your bill.FAQ Who can I call if I have questions about my hospital bill? During your hospital stay, please contact Financial Services at (949) 347-6046. If you have questions after you have left the hospital, please contact Patient Billing at (949) 365-2197. Hours are Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Can I get an estimate of my bill? Financial services can provide you with an estimate of what your balance may be after your insurance carrier pays all benefits for your care. Please call them at (949) 347-6046. Does the hospital bill include physician fees? No. All physicians who treat you in the hospital will bill you separately for their services. You may be billed by your primary physician as well as by your anesthesiologist, pathologist, radiologist or any other physician(s) your doctor consults regarding your care. How does the hospital bill get to my insurance company? The hospital will submit your bills to your insurance company as a courtesy and will do everything possible to expedite your claim. But your policy is a contract between you and your insurance company and you have the final responsibility for payment of your hospital bill. Co- pays and deductibles will be collected at the point of service, if applicable. We have several payment options available to assist you in paying the balance your bill. What form of payment do you accept? Mission Hospital accepts cash, check, traveler's checks, money orders, and the following credit cards: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. What is reflected on my bill? Your bill reflects all of the services you receive during your stay, aside from physician fees. Charges fall into two categories: Basic Daily Rate - your room, meals, nursing care, housekeeping, telephone and television Special Services - items your physician orders for you, such as x- rays or laboratory tests I don't recognize a physician's name on my bill. If you have certain tests or treatments in the hospital, you may receive bills from physicians you did not see in person. Those bills are for professional services rendered by the doctors in diagnosing and interpreting test results while you were a patient. Pathologists, radiologists, cardiologists, anesthesiologists, emergency room doctors and other specialists perform these services and are required to submit separate bills. If you have any questions about those bills, please call the number printed on the statement you receive. Can I make payment arrangements? If you believe you might have difficulty paying your hospital bill, call Patient Billing at (949) 365-2197. A representative will be glad to help you with financial counseling and will answer any questions you may have regarding payment. If you are unable to pay your hospital bill, our Patient Accounting department will determine if you are eligible for a fee reduction or discounted services through our Patient Financial Assistance Program. What does my insurance cover? Your insurance may not cover certain procedures, or have special requirements, such as a second surgical opinion or pre-certification for certain tests or procedures. Some physician specialists may not participate in your health care plan and their services may not be covered. It is your responsibility to make sure the requirements of your plan have been met. If your plan's requirements are not followed, you may be financially responsible for all or part of the services rendered in the hospital. What if I don't have health insurance? If you are not covered by health insurance and you will be paying your own bill, we ask that you pay at the time services are rendered. We have several payment options available to assist you. Please contact Financial Services at (949) 347-6046 for screening for financial assistance and government programs. How soon after I leave the hospital will I receive a bill? You will receive a letter five days after discharge confirming the insurance information we have on file is correct. You can then expect a bill once we have received payment or denial of payment from your insurance company. If you are paying your bill without filing with an insurance provider, you should receive a bill within 10 days. I would like a copy of my hospital bill. How can I request one? To request a copy of your hospital bill call (949) 365-2197 or visit the patient billing section on mission4health.com. You can expect to receive a copy of your bill within 7 to 10 days. Why am I getting multiple bills from one hospital visit? Depending on the type of care you received, you may have separate hospital accounts with different account numbers. Some examples of hospital services that may be billed separately are: inpatient stays, outpatient labs, outpatient radiology, outpatient surgery, emergency room visits and ongoing therapies. You may receive separate bills from physicians (including radiologists, surgeons, anesthesiologists and other specialists) and other providers involved in your care. I just got a letter from a collection agency. Why? As part of our normal billing process, we make several attempts to contact and inform you of the portion of your bill for which you are personally responsible. We determine this amount after we have received payment or denial of payment from your insurance company. You may receive notice from a collection agency if, after repeated attempts to contact you, we have not heard from you or if we receive returned mail. How do I dispute an error in my bill? Please notify us in writing if you think your bill is inaccurate. Written disputes should be mailed directly to Mission Hospital at the address listed on the front of your bill. Please include: Your name and account number The charge you feel may be inaccurate An explanation of why you believe the bill is in error After we received your written concerns, we will: Acknowledge receipt of your letter within 30 days Suspend all formal collection attempts until we have responded to your concern Provide you with a final response or explain the delay within 60 days of receipt Make appropriate correction when an error is verified If you wish to discuss your concerns with an account representative, we invite you to call Patient Accounting at (949) 365-2197 or any of the phone numbers listed on the front of your bill. Will I be asked to make any payment when I come to Mission Hospital? Depending on the type of insurance you have, you may be asked to pay your deductible and/or coinsurance. Do I need to bring anything with me when I come to Mission Hospital? In addition to anything your physician may ask you to bring, please bring your insurance card and any other documents that will be useful in the registration and billing process. For example, you should bring in any referral or authorization form that your primary care physician has given you indicating the need for the services you will receive. If this is your first visit to Mission Hospital, we ask that, in addition to your insurance card, you bring in a photo ID such as a driver's license and a check or credit card if you will have a co-payment amount. Why do I have to give my insurance information every time I visit Mission Hospital? Patients and/or employers change insurance policies with great frequency. Therefore, we ask for your insurance information every time you visit to ensure that our records are accurate and up to date. This gives us the opportunity to ensure your insurance coverage and benefits are verified, allowing us to process your bill quickly and accurately. Should I contact my insurance company before coming to Mission Hospital? That depends on the services you are going to receive and your particular insurance policy and benefits. In general, it is a good idea to review your insurance policy and benefits before receiving medical services. In some cases-for instance, if you are coming in for laboratory tests or a chest x- ray-you may not need to notify your insurance company. However, for many other services-such as an inpatient admission, ambulatory surgery or any invasive diagnostic test/procedure-your insurance company may require that you notify them in advance. Lack of such notification could result in reduced benefits. I have Medicare insurance. What should I expect when I visit Mission Hospital? If you are a Medicare patient, you will be asked a series of questions regarding your status including other insurance you may have, and your retirement status. These questions are required by law and must be asked each time you visit us. If you are covered by Medicare we will submit your claims to Medicare on your behalf. We are required by Medicare to provide only those services approved by Medicare and deemed medically necessary. In the event that Medicare does not cover the service, we may ask you to sign a notice that makes you financially responsible for the services provided. Additionally, we will bill you and/or your supplemental insurance carrier for services not covered by Medicare such as self-administered medications and routine health exams. However, if neither plan covers these services you will be responsible for payment for these services. How much is my deductible and coinsurance? Your deductible and coinsurance amounts are determined by the insurance plan in which you are enrolled. This information should be included in your insurance benefits handbook. If you cannot find this information or have other questions, contact your insurance provider. I am also covered on my spouse's insurance policy. Will you send bills to both insurance companies? Mission Hospital's Patient Accounting Department will coordinate benefits for patients covered by more than one insurance policy. If I don't have any insurance, how do I know how much to pay? Whom do I pay? If you have questions regarding the expected cost of your services at Mission Hospital, contact Patient Accounting at (949) 365-2197. The Financial Counselor will be able to give you an estimated cost of your hospital service. You may pay your hospital bill prior to service at the Patient Access office. A receipt will be issued to you for your payment. Major credit cards are accepted. I keep getting bills from you. Why don't you bill my insurance company? Mission Hospital's billing department will send you letters 30-90 days after the date of service. Please read this correspondence carefully, as it contains important information regarding the status of your account. If you are covered under an insurance policy or another party is responsible for your hospital bill, yet you receive a letter stating that you are responsible for the bill, contact Patient Accounting at (949) 365-2197. Please be prepared to provide your patient account number, which you will find at the top of your bill, and your insurance information. Your Patient Accounting Representative will re-issue a bill to your insurance company. Does Mission Hospital provide financial assistance for patients that cannot afford to make complete payments? Please contact our Patient Financial Services office at (949) 347-6046 and one of our financial counselors will be able to assist you in applying for various government programs.


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August 17, 2010 in Tree news | Tags: abc.net, Asutralian Federal Government Endangered Species Act, Bat Advocacy, bat dispersal and Australian Federal Court, Budgewoi, Canton Beach, caravan parks in NSW, concrete, Cumberland Plains woodland, endangered flying foxes, endangered shale transition forest woodland, Environment Minister Peter Garrett, Express Advocate Wyong, Flying Foxes, food crisis for bats, grey-headed flying foxes, Hills Shire Council, Hills-Shire Times, Humane Society International, Kellyville, legal implications of grey-headed flying foxes, National Parks and Wildlife, Norah Head, NSW State Government BioBanking Agreement, Orange City Council, Parramatta Advertiser, Parramatta Council, Parramatta Park, Parramatta River, Professor David Gloldney, Royal Botanic Gardens Trust Sydney, starving bats, Sydney Central, Toowoon Bay, tree news, Withers Rd Kellyville, Wyong Council | Leave a comment
Conservation group Bat Advocacy with funding from Humane Society International is taking Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens Trust to the Federal Court to contest Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett's decision to allow the bats to be dispersed using noise. I had not realized that permission was given for the noise dispersion to occur for the next 20 years.
The Royal Botanic Gardens Trust recently announced that the relocation, expected to start in July, has been postponed until next year, because of the inability to tag enough flying foxes. Dr Tim Entwisle, the executive director of the Botanic Gardens Trust, said many of the bats were too underweight to tag. Bats are also starving all over Australia & leaving QLD & flying as far as Adelaide & Tasmania in the search for food. http://sydney-central.whereilive.com.au/news/story/group-to-challenge-bat-relocation-in-court/
Up to 7,000 grey-headed flying foxes, a threatened species in NSW, have moved in to Parramatta Park along the banks of Parramatta River. They have come to this location due to severe food shortages in their usual habitat. I hope Parramatta Council don't decide to use dispersion or chop the trees down. http://parramatta-advertiser.whereilive.com.au/news/story/bats-put-residents-in-a-flap-over-fruit/
Adjunct Professor at Charles Sturt & Sydney universities, Professor David Gloldney has been employed by Orange City Council to look at ways of preventing flying foxes returning to central western NSW. He says so far he has been looking at the legal implications of the recent arrival of the grey-headed flying foxes. "To look at the various acts under the National Parks and Wildlife and DECCW [the Department of Environment, Climate Change & Water] & the Federal Government's Endangered Species Act." http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/29/2967437.htm
Yet more critically endangered Cumberland Plain & endangered shale transition forest woodland is at risk of development in Kellyville. Hills Shire Council wants to clear 10 hectares of its own woodland at Withers Rd Kellyville despite massive community opposition. They have applied for a State Government BioBanking Agreement that would allow it the Council to clear this land in return for protecting land somewhere else. The community met a fortnight ago as part of Council's community consultation. http://hills-shire-times.whereilive.com.au/news/story/fight-to-save-woodland-at-kellyville/
Wyong Council has directed that all gardens around caravans & mobile homes be removed in all caravan parks in Budgewoi, Canton Beach, Norah Head & Toowoon Bay. Another win for the fans of concrete. http://express-advocate-wyong.whereilive.com.au/news/story/anger-over-council-order-to-turn-beautified-caravan-sites-ugly/

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Sorry guys, Megan Fox is apparently off the market for real this time.
The screen stunner got engaged to on-again, off-again boyfriend Brian Austin Green earlier this month, according to Us Weekly. Never mind that in all the excitement, the newly-betrothed beauty lost her two-carat ring. They'll figure that one out.
"I saw her jumping up and down," a witness tells Us Weekly of the beachside proposal at the Four Seasons Hualalai hotel on the Big Island in Hawaii. "Later, I saw a half dozen staff sifting through the sand."
The ring, which the pair picked out together at Excalibur jewelry store in Beverly Hills, remains missing, according to the mag.
"Security and maintenance staff spent a couple of hours looking for it," another source said. "No one found it."
Green, 36, and Fox began dating in 2004 but called off their previous two-year engagement in February 2009.


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The A2400 IS is a small, lightweight, and attractive camera. It easily slips into a small pocket without weighing you down and its metal casing makes it look and feel nicer than all plastic.
Part of the reason it is so small, though, is that Canon went with a 2.7-inch LCD; 3-inch displays are not uncommon at this price. It's not a bad size, though, and the screen gets bright enough that you can use it in the sun and still see well enough to frame shots.
|Key specs
|Canon PowerShot A2400 IS, A2300
|Price (MSRP)
|Dimensions (WHD)
|A2400 IS: 3.7 inches x 2.2 inches x 0.8 inch; A2300: 3.7 inches by 2.1 inches by 0.8 inch
|Weight (with battery and media)
|A2400 IS: 5 ounces; A2300: 4.4 ounces
|Megapixels, image sensor size, type
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|LCD size, resolution/viewfinder
|2.7-inch LCD, 230K dots/None
|Lens (zoom, aperture, focal length)
|5x, f2.8-6.9, 28-140mm (35mm equivalent)
|File format (still/video)
|Highest resolution size (still/video)
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|Image stabilization type
|A2400 IS: Optical and digital; A2300: Digital only
|Battery type, CIPA rated life
|A2400 IS: Li-ion rechargeable, 180 shots; A2300: Li-ion rechargeable, 230 shots
|Battery charged in camera
|No; external charger included
|Storage media
|Bundled software
|CameraWindow DC 8.7 transfer utility, ImageBrowser EX 1, PhotoStitch 3.1/3.2 (Widows, Mac)
Also helping keep the A2400 IS slim are its flat buttons, which can be difficult for those with larger fingers to press accurately. I found the Func. Set button at the center of the control pad was particularly tricky to press. Also, past Canon models either used a knob or switch to change between Auto and other shooting modes. With the A2400 IS it's done with the top of the control pad, which is too easy to accidentally hit.
One thing that is nice to see is the new Help button that brings up a menu of topics including explanations of shooting options as well as shooting advice.
On the right side of the camera is a Mini-USB port for connecting to a computer or TV. The battery and SD memory card compartment is in the bottom of the camera behind a sliding door. It doesn't lock and slides open a bit too easily if you're going to be keeping this in a bag unprotected. Battery life is below average; you get about 180 shots per charge, less depending on your settings and use of the zoom lens and movie capture.
|General shooting options
|Canon PowerShot A2400 IS, A2300
|ISO sensitivity (full resolution)
|Auto, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600
|White balance
|Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H, Custom
|Recording modes
|Auto, Program, Live View Control, Portrait, Face Self-timer, Low Light, Fisheye Effect, Miniature Effect, Toy Camera Effect, Monochrome, Super Vivid, Poster Effect, Snow, Fireworks, Long Shutter, Discreet, iFrame Movie
|Focus modes
|Normal AF (Face, Tracking, Center), Macro, Infinity
|1.2 inches (Wide); 3.9 feet (Tele)
|Metering modes
|Evaluative, Center-weighted average, Spot
|Color effects
|Burst mode shot limit (full resolution)
|Unlimited continuous
The A-series models are pretty much meant to be left in Canon's Smart Auto, which recognizes up to 32 scene types and adjusts settings accordingly. For more control, the Program mode lets you select things like white balance, ISO, and autofocus mode. Sadly, Canon dropped the My Color options from previous models that let you, among other things, adjust contrast, sharpness, and saturation. However, you do get the Live View Control mode, which enables you to adjust brightness, color, and tone with onscreen sliders and see what the photo will look like as you make the changes.
All of the shooting modes are laid out in one long row, requiring you to hunt through them all to find what you want: Program, Live View Control, Portrait, Face Self-timer (sets off a timed shot when a new face enters the frame), Low Light, Fisheye Effect, Miniature Effect, Toy Camera Effect, Monochrome, Super Vivid, Poster Effect, Snow, Fireworks, Long Shutter (exposure settings from 1 to 15 seconds), Discreet, and iFrame Movie (a format made for easy editing and viewing on mobile devices). There's plenty here to experiment with, but if you just want to leave it in auto, it does very well.
If you're looking for an easy-to-use camera to slip in your pocket before you go out to an event or a walk around town, the Canon PowerShot A2400 IS is a safe choice. It might not be the fastest camera or the best deal, but you'll get reliably good results leaving it in auto. However, I can't recommend getting the A2300; the cost savings isn't worth giving up optical image stabilization.


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NEW DELHI — When his chance came to go to America, Ranjit Singh promised his wife and three young children they would not be separated for too long. He was taking a position at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and hoped his family might join him there. Until they did, he would send back money. He would call.
Weeks became months became 16 years. His two preschool daughters grew up and each married. His infant son became a teenager. Mr. Singh became a voice on the telephone, calling almost daily, asking about school, scolding or praising, a proud if absent father, promising that the family would be reunited as soon as his green card application was approved.
His last call came on Sunday, a short, mundane chat with his son. Hours later, Mr. Singh was killed in the shooting rampage at a Sikh (pronounced Sik-kh) temple in suburban Milwaukee that left six people dead and three wounded. His stunned family members, having lived for so long without him, are now preparing, finally, to travel to Wisconsin. They will collect his body.
"He was a part of my life," said his younger daughter, Jaspreet, 20, who was 4 years old when her father left. "He has done so much for us. Even today I miss him and want to meet him. I've never seen him before."
For many Sikh families, separation — in extreme cases lasting for years — is an expected sacrifice, as a father will leave to earn money to pay for his children's schooling or to buy a home. Men like Mr. Singh may live abroad for years, supporting children they barely know, sustained by religion and a sense of duty. Within India, some lower-income Sikh families remain divided for many months of the year, as the wives and children stay in the state of Punjab, the ancestral homeland, while the men work in New Delhi or other big cities, as taxi drivers or in other jobs.Continue reading the main story
In the Wisconsin shooting attack, Mr. Singh, 49, was not the only victim still tightly tethered to India. Among the dead was his younger brother, Sita Singh, who divided his time between India and the United States, working as a preacher in different Sikh temples, as his family lived in New Delhi. Two of the wounded, Santokh Singh and Punjab Singh, were also Sikh priests who traveled between the United States, Canada and India.
On Wednesday afternoon, as a monsoon shower poured down on New Delhi, a gloomy bureaucratic exercise was conducted at the United States Embassy. Families arrived at the consular office to apply hurriedly for visas so they could retrieve the bodies of their loved ones or visit those who survived.
Lokinder Kaur, the wife of Ranjit Singh, staggered out of the visa office, her face a mask of grief and exhaustion. A friend guided her to a covered bench, where she collapsed. Earlier in the day, in her family's apartment in the west Delhi neighborhood of Sham Nagar, Mrs. Kaur and her children struggled to grasp the senseless death of a man who had supported them for so long from afar.
"Whatever he had in his pocket, he would send to us," said Mrs. Kaur, noting that he usually sent $100 a month or more, enough in India to support a family. Now, all they have from Mr. Singh is a two-year-old photograph taken in a studio in Wisconsin, showing him wearing a purple turban.
He left 16 years ago, carrying two small bags, one with his clothes, the other with his drum, or tabla. As a young man, Mr. Singh had undertaken religious studies, learning to perform the tabla during Sikh services, as well as singing and reciting prayers. In India, he worked at temples, or gurdwaras, in different cities before the family moved to New Delhi more than two decades ago.
At one service in New Delhi, Mr. Singh's performance caught the attention of a Sikh priest visiting from Wisconsin. The priest offered to sponsor Mr. Singh for a visa to serve at the Oak Creek temple. In Wisconsin, Mr. Singh lived for many years on the grounds of the temple, eating his meals there. He eventually got a job in a convenience store, his family said, while continuing his work at the temple.
"He used to miss his children a lot," said Magan Singh, a family friend in New Delhi.
Immigrants around the world often endure similar separation from their families. Millions of people from India and other South Asian nations work far from home — in the West, in Persian Gulf countries and elsewhere — sending back billions of dollars in remittances every year.
Surinder Singh Jodhka, a professor of sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, once lived in Wisconsin and said many of the Sikhs in the Milwaukee area were working-class migrants. He said that Sikhs in Punjab commonly aspired to go abroad and that long separations were typical. He said a strong sense of family duty was critical.
"That gives you a sense of satisfaction and keeps you going," he said.
Sikhs began migrating to the United States about a century ago, and gurdwaras have since been erected across the country. Two of the men who were hurt, Santokh Singh and Punjab Singh, are traveling priests, Indian citizens, who shuttled between gurdwaras in Canada and the United States while their families remained in India. The son of Punjab Singh said different congregations would sponsor his father for weeks or months at a time because he had earned a reputation as a learned religious speaker.
"People loved his explanations," Raghuvinder Singh said of his father. "People learned from him. He would go to Canada. He would go to England. He would go to the U.S.A."
Ranjit Singh never held such lofty status and did not travel because of his lack of a green card — and lack of money. His immigration status could not be confirmed on Wednesday because the government treats such matters as confidential; the authorities in Wisconsin could not verify details of the life he described in his phone calls home. But his family and friends said he always spoke of his desire to bring his family to America.
"He had one wish: that the kids would be able to move to the U.S.," said Avtar Singh, a brother-in-law. "The reason he stayed as long as he did was because he needed the green card to be able to get his kids there as well."
Mr. Singh's daughter Jaspreet said she talked to her father so regularly that he never seemed absent. She knew he was sending back whatever money he could to support the family. He had regretted missing her wedding and that of her sister. And he never seemed to lose faith that one day he would see his family again.
"He used to say, 'I will come get you all from there in a couple of months,' " his daughter recalled.
An article on Thursday about the lengthy separations that several victims of Sunday's shooting rampage at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin had endured from their families in India misstated the pronunciation of Sikh. It is sik-kh, not sick.


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Follow-up on the Goldstone Report, HRC, Geneva - on 22 March 2010, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), which originally dispatched the Goldstone Mission, also convened a follow-up session on the implementation of the Goldstone Mission's recommendations. Badil, together with 14 NGOs,2 lobbied the Council inter alia to: (1) Use all means at its disposal to hasten the process of accountability and achieve justice for the victims as indicated in the Mission's Report; (2) Call upon the GA to establish an independent committee of experts to monitor and assess the effectiveness and genuineness of domestic investigations carried out by the parties to the conflict; (3) Call upon the GA to establish an escrow fund for Palestinian victims as called for in the Goldstone Report; and (4) Continue to review the implementation of the Mission's Report.3 The Human Rights Council eventually passed a resolution calling upon the High Commissioner to explore and determine the appropriate modalities for the establishment of an escrow fund for the provision of reparation to the Palestinian victims. Moreover, the Council decided to establish a committee of independent experts in international humanitarian and human rights law to monitor and assess any domestic, legal or other proceedings undertaken by both parties to the conflict.4
HRC resolution on Israel's violations in the OPT - Badil, together with PCHR and WACLAC, intervened with another oral statement on ongoing forced internal displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian population, while emphasizing that the land confiscation, settlement expansion, house demolition, forced evictions and the construction of the Wall are measures used by the Israeli occupying power to illegally change the demographic composition in the OPT. The Human Rights Council condemned Israel's continued construction of settlements in the OPT, including East Jerusalem, and reaffirmed that settlements, the separation Wall, as well as demolition of homes and evictions are illegal under international law and constitute an obstacle to the peace and threaten to make a two state solution impossible. Moreover, it demanded Israel to "immediately stop its illegal decision to demolish a large number of Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem, including in the neighborhood area of Al-Bustan in Silwan, and the evacuation of Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah area of East Jerusalem, which is resulting in the displacement of more than two thousand resident Palestinians of East Jerusalem."5
Lobbying against PLO/PA deferral of the Falk Report - another item scheduled for discussion by the Human Rights Council was the periodical report of Prof. Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967.6 Shockingly, this report was removed from the agenda of the Council following the request of the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the UN in Geneva. In his report, Professor Falk supported the full implementation of the recommendations of the Goldstone Mission's report, yet he addressed some of the shortfalls in the findings of that report. For instance, he criticized the Mission for failing to make a finding of aggression in Israel's act of launching the attack on the Gaza Strip, and that it took for granted the dubious proposition that Israel was entitled to act against the Gaza Strip in self-defense. Falk also questioned whether the rather restrictive legal framing of the fact-finding mission's inquiry was suitable for this one-sided or asymmetric encounter, in which the Palestinian side lacked any substantial weaponry to defend itself against one of the world's most powerful armies, while Israel defined its military targets as extending to the civilian infrastructure of the Gaza Strip. Falk also urged the members of the Human Rights Council to convey to their governments a call for the implementation of the Goldstone report in relation to the exercise of universal jurisdiction. In addition, he addressed Israeli settlement activities in the OPT and its impact on the enjoyment of human rights and the continuing blockade of Gaza.
Professor Falk's courage in upholding human rights is exceptionally prominent in the two final sections of the report. The first of these is one in which he called upon those engaged in the peace process to muster the will to address the Palestinian refugee question and uphold the rights of Palestinian refugees. The second is one in which he called on the members of the Human Rights Council to consider the Campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) as a means of implementing human rights, including the right of self-determination, and to provide guidelines for such campaign.
Instead of supporting the Special Rapporteur's report and lobby state members to endorse its recommendations, the PLO representative to the UN lobbied for the deferral of the report to the June 2010 session for reasons that can at best be described as incoherent. A letter signed by almost twenty NGOs was sent to President Mahmoud Abbas expressing concern about the PLO's stance regarding the Falk report. It also called upon the PLO to withdraw its request for deferral.7 Similar letters were sent to the members of the PLO Executive Committee and the Secretary-General of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
In addition, Badil, together with twelve Palestinian and international NGOs, sent letters to each member state of the Human Rights Council, the Council's President, and the High Commissioner expressing concern over the removal of the Special Rapporteur's Report, and stressing the urgent need to defend the independence of UN Special Procedures. The letter asked the member states to act immediately to ensure that the report be kept on the Council's agenda. Without the support of the PLO representative, however, the civil society request and concerns were ignored, and the Council did not discuss the report.
Mamilla petition and BADIL side-event at the HRC - on 18 March 2010, Badil organized a side-event to the Human Rights Council's session in Geneva's Palais des Nations titled Palestinian cultural rights and religious freedoms in light of Israel's persistent violations of international law. The main purpose of the side-event was to raise awareness and lobby the seventy governmental and NGO delegates who attended the side-event, includeding the Palestinian Deputy Ambassador, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs special envoy to the session of the Human Rights Council, the Ambassador of the League of Arab States, as well as the ambassadors of Greece and Egyptian and Saudi Arabian diplomats.
Professor Georges Abi-Saab, Honorary Professor of International Law at the University of Geneva, was one of the panelists, and spoke about the status of Jerusalem in international law and ways to make the HRC more effective in addressing Israeli violations of cultural and religious right. Ms. Huda Al-Imam, Director of the Center for Jerusalem Studies at Al-Quds University shared her personal experience in Jerusalem and addressed the denial of cultural and religious freedoms under Israeli occupation, presenting the cases of Al-Haram Al-Ibrahimi, Al-Haram Al-Sharif and the Mamilla Cemetery. The third panelist was Ms. Rania Madi, Badil's representative in Geneva, who used her detailed knowledge of the Human Rights Council and related legal instruments and processes to place religious and cultural issues in the broader human rights context, linking them to the question of displaced persons, evictions, protection of refugees and the Judaization of Jerusalem. During the presentations, Badil presented a slide-show of 100 new and captioned photographs of settlers roaming through Haram al Sharif under military escort (immodestly dressed in some cases), flags over the city walls, tunneling, the new Hurva Synagogue and other settler outposts in the old city, preventing worshipers from reaching holy sites.
In the same vein, Badil endorsed the petition led by the US Center for Constitutional Rights that called for urgent action on human rights violations in Ma'man Allah (Mamilla) Cemetery in Jerusalem by Israel. This petition is a response to the ruling of the Israeli Supreme Court that the construction of the "museum of tolerance" on Mamilla Cemetery was lawful, thereby allowing the excavation of ancient tombs and removal of hundreds of human remains from part of the historic cemetery.8 The UN Human Rights Council expressed its grave concern regarding the above and called upon Israel to immediately desist from such illegal activities therein.9
1. UNGA, Follow-up Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (II), A/64/L.48, 23 February 2010.
2. Adalah - The Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel; Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association;Al Mezan; Al-Dameer Association for Human Rights-Gaza; Al-Haq; Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights; Arab Association for Human Rights (HRA); Defence for Children International (DCI) - Palestine Section; International Committee of the National Lawyers Guild; Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR); Physicians for Human Rights- srael; The Gaza Community Mental Health Program; The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions; The National Center for Community Rehabilitation; and Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC).
3. Badil and others, More than One year after "Operation Cast Lead": Distressing Lack of Accountability and Justice for the Victims of the Conflict, Joint Oral and Written Statements to the Human Rights Council, March 2010.
4. UNHRC, Follow-up to the report of the United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, A/HRC/13/L.30, 22 March 2010.
5. UNHRC, The Grave Human Rights violations by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, A/HRC/13/L.29, 19 March 2010.
6. UNHRC, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Richard Falk, A/HRC/13.53, January 2010.
7. Badil and others, The Palestinian Position regarding the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967 A/HRC/13/53, A letter to President Mahmoud Abbas, 25 February 2010 (in Arabic).
8. HCJ 52/06., Al Aqsa Association for tge Development of the Assets if the Muslim Waqfin the land of Israel ltd. V. The Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum Corp., 29 October 2008.
9. UNHRC, The Grave Human Rights violations by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, A/HRC/13/L.29, 19 March 2010.


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When I was a child, my father would scrimp and save all year long so that he could take our family to Bolivia for the summer. After several days of packing, more than six hours on a plane, and after suffering a few days of altitude sickness, my siblings and I were ready to enjoy several weeks with our grandparents, aunts, uncles, and many, many cousins.
Every day held a new adventure, a new food, a new game, a trip to the park, the movies, a picnic, a party. One very special memory of mine is captured in a photo of a wooded place, a campfire burning in the background, and several cousins and myself gathered around an uncle with a guitar. I remember the place was called "Mallasa", an hour or so drive from the city of La Paz. We would go there for Dia de campo (a day in the country). Our parents would load up an uncle's truck with baskets of meat, bread, corn, salad, fruit, and sodas, as well as a radio and a guitar. Another truck would carry all the kids in the back (ahhh, those were the days when folks weren't so afraid) and another vehicle would transport the rest of the adults.
It was a glorious time. I love to look at that picture, and all of the others we've saved from our summers in Bolivia. These pictures take me back to a childhood that was, for the most part, wonderful.
Photos are valuable treasures we can share with our children. They are also useful as prompts or inspiration in the classroom. A book that I love to share with my students is Family Pictures/Cuadros de familia, by Carmen Lomas Garza. Please read my review of this great selection over at the LBBC blog.
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Thanks so much for sharing this! I love to read stories like yours because it is so much like the ones that my students share. It has been instrumental in understanding their culture and the way that they learn to have them come into the classroom and bring in those photographs and artifacts and share them with the rest of us. :)
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Sulfarish Rock, slightly warm to the touch. Can be ground up and used for alchemy, providing heat to a forge, and firearms.
Discovered in less than habitable places, this rock absorbs ambient magical vibrations granting it some near magical powers.
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Grimrock can be set afire and it will burn long and hot for quite some time.
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The secret to this smoothie's magical color is frozen blueberries. Whenever there is an abundance of natural color, there is usually an abundance of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and other great stuff. This smoothie is no exception, and I feel lucky to have access to such nutritional wealth! And to top it off, the opulent indigo hue makes me feel fancy, like I'm drinking some kind of beverage fit for royalty.
In addition to the rich color, this smoothie boasts a wonderfully creamy texture, a result of blending the blueberries with soaked steel cut oatmeal and hemp seeds. Soaking does more than soften the oats for easier blending - it also breaks down the phytic acid and allows for easier digestion. Hemp seeds to not contain phytic acid, and are easily assimilate by the body and do not need to be soaked.
If you've never used hemp seeds, this smoothie is an easy way to start. For more information about hemp seeds, I recommend reading this post by Food Renegade. According to the post,
Hemp seeds contain all the essential amino acids — those building blocks of protein which our body can not manufacture on its own. Flax seed also contains all the essential amino acids, but unlike flax seed, 65% of the protein found in hemp seeds is globulin edistin. What is globulin edistin? It's a simple protein that our bodies need to build the immunoglobulins necessary to repel infection. The best way to ensure your body has enough amino acid materials to build these globulins is to eat foods high in globulin proteins. [see References for source]
Pretty cool, right? With each sweet sip, you are getting all sorts of things your body needs. It has a beneficial balance of complex carbohydrates, protein, and fat, and provides bioavailable nutrition that will keep you satisfied. I love this smoothie as a breakfast-on-the-go - as long as you do a little planning ahead the night before to soak your grains and nuts/seeds, it takes mere moments to prepare in a busy morning. It would also make a great recovery drink for after a good exercise routine.
I'm including this recipe in February's SOS Kitchen Challenge, which features stevia. My co-host Ricki and I are encouraging our readers to use stevia in delicious, sugar-free recipes this month. Four lucky participants will receive a stevia prize from NuNaturals, our favorite brand of stevia.
Each prize contains:
- a box of 50 packets of NuNaturals stevia powder
- a 2-ounce bottle of NuNaturals Vanilla flavored stevia liquid
For full Challenge guidelines, please see this post, then check out the Linky below the recipe to enter your recipe in the round-up and be eligible for the giveaway! Good luck, and we can't wait to see what you make with stevia this month.
This recipe is linked to Slightly Indulgent Tuesday at Simply Sugar & Gluten-Free, written by Amy Green. As a side note, Amy just released her new cookbook and it looks fantastic, so check it out!
Blueberry Soaked Oatmeal Smoothie
yield: 2 cups
I use hemp seeds in this smoothie. Hemp seeds are high in protein, omega fatty acids, and amino acids, and have a nutty, warm flavor that I love. Unlike other nuts and seeds, they do not contain phytic acid, an antinutrient that can inhibit digestion. If you do not like, have or tolerate hemp seeds, feel free to use 2 Tbsp of any other nut or seed, and soak them with the oats to break down the phytic acid and allow for optimal digestion (and creamier blending).
- 1/4 cup gluten-free steel cut oats, soaked for 6-12 hours in 1 1/2 cups water and 1 tsp raw cider vinegar, raw coconut vinegar, whey, or lemon juice
- 1 cup frozen blueberries
- 2 Tbsp hemp seeds
- 1 cup filtered water
- 1 Tbsp finely ground flax seed or chia seed
- 2 tsp flax oil or hemp oil
- plain or vanilla stevia liquid, to taste (I like NuNaturals brand)
Place steel cut oats with 1 1/2 cups water and acidic medium in a bowl, cover lightly with a cloth, and let soak for 6-12 hours. Drain and very rinse well.
Place soaked oats and all remaining ingredients in blender, and blend on high until smooth. Sweeten with stevia to taste. Serve immediately, or refrigerate until ready to serve.
February SOS Kitchen Challenge: Stevia
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It has a 45° jointing capability as well as the standard 90°. The handle has a comfortable, ergonomic shape and the screws are designed so they can be tightened with a 25¢ piece (to accommodate skiers).
In the shop, it is invaluable for jointing scrapers and handsaws; the fence is relieved next to the file to accommodate tooth set. Anodized aluminum with solid brass screws. Use with a 6" or 8" mill file (not included).
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Apparently, Warren Sapp isn't finished talking about the Pittsburgh Steelers' defense.
Back in 2011, the NFL Network analyst made enemies galore in the Steel City when he slammed Pittsburgh's aging D after a Week 1 drubbing at the hands of the Baltimore Ravens.
"They're old and slow," Sapp told "The Dan Patrick Show," saying he saw "old, ornery veterans get whooped" up and down the field.
Asked Wednesday on NFL Network's "NFL Total Access" if he'd still call the Steelers' defense "old and slow," Sapp didn't hesitate.
"Old and slow? Yes, I would," Sapp said. "Because seven of the 11 starters are 28 years or older, and that's around the time, in this league, they go to questioning, you know, 'Where's his legs? Should we look for the backup?'
"And Brett Keisel, bless his soul, No. 99 in your program, No. 1 in your heart, he turns 35 the first month of the year. And three of the four secondary guys there are 32 years old or older."
Yes, the Steelers are flooded with blue hairs, but we doubt they're listening. That "old and slow" Pittsburgh defense started out ugly in 2011 but finished as the NFL's top unit. For an encore, the Steelers went out and did it again last season.
The constant here is 75-year-old defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau, who has been coaching since Richard Nixon roamed the White House and probably doesn't watch much NFL Network. LeBeau just coaches. Old players, slow players and some of the league's best.
UPDATE: Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey was asked about Sapp's comment Thursday morning on NFL Network's "NFL AM." He was not worried: "You know everybody has their own opinion," Pouncey said. "But I was just out there with the guys yesterday, they seem pretty good to me."
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Connecticut forward DeAndre Daniels dunks the ball during the second half of the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball semifinal game against Florida Saturday, April 5, 2014, in Arlington, Texas.
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When Connecticut started this NCAA men's basketball tournament, DeAndre Daniels was the inconsistent third wheel.
The junior forward was the kind of player who could score 23 points against Boston College and then get only seven points against Indiana the next night, as he did in November, or string together a week like this in late January: 23 points and 11 rebounds vs. Memphis, 3 and 4 vs. Louisville and then 31 and 12 against Temple.
Since the start of the tournament, Daniels has been a model of consistency but was still considered something of an X-factor for Saturday's showdown with Florida in the Final Four.
But this X marked his spot earlier this week when he told former coach Jim Calhoun, who recruited Daniels to Connecticut from Los Angeles, that after Saturday everyone would be paying attention to Daniels.
He backed up those comments by scoring a game-high 20 points and grabbing 10 rebounds as Connecticut beat No. 1 overall seed Florida, 63-53 to advance to Monday's national championship game. The performance extended Daniels' career-best streak of double-digit scoring to nine consecutive games and marked the third time in the last six contests that he's collected 10 boards.
"I just wanted to step up big time," Daniels said after the game.
It was Daniels -- not Connecticut All-American guard Shabazz Napier -- who hit 3-pointers on each end of an 11-0 first-half run to pull the UConn within 16-15 of Florida.
It was Daniels who cleaned up the defensive boards in the second half when centers Amida Brimah and Phillip Nolan were on the bench with four fouls apiece.
It was Daniels who Napier and Ryan Boatright found for easy baskets that forced the Gators to abandon their 1-3-1 zone.
And it was Daniels who played all 40 minutes, when even Napier took a two-minute breather.
"When he plays with energy like this, he's unstoppable," Connecticut head coach Kevin Ollie said of Daniels.
Connecticut, the first No. 7 seed to make the national title game, will need one more big effort from Daniels come Monday.
"We know for a fact that he's going to come in and take care (of business), he's been doing it the whole tournament," Napier said.
-- Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.


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Going International
I found a few other sites linking to voo2do thanks to a referrer log analysis. Not counting link logs, there are a few mentions I missed before:
- German: voo2do -Aufgabenmanagement mit viel AJAX (Google translated: "The application is easily operated, makes fun and shows, how applications of Web should present themselves today.")
Undetermined Cyrillic languageUkrainian: postman31′s livejournal
- Undetermined Chinese/Korean/Japanese(?): Jacky's Blog, yam.com and Xuite
Spanish?Catalan Oriol
- And finally English: zen damage, decomplicate, and blog blog blog.


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Rand Paul Calls for Immigration Overhaul
Republican Sen. Rand Paul called for an overhaul of immigration laws that would allow millions of undocumented immigrants to remain permanently in the U.S. Aaron Zitner reports. Photo: Getty Images.
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Employers stepped on the accelerator last month, hiring briskly enough to bolster the recovery but likely not enough to prompt the Federal Reserve to turn off its easy-money spigot.
The U.S. added 236,000 jobs in February, notching gains in almost every corner of the private sector. February's gains were well above the 195,000-job-a-month average of the previous three months and pushed the jobless rate to a four-year-low of 7.7%....


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's campaign Thursday conceded Florida's 29 electoral votes to President Barack Obama.
"The numbers in Florida show this was winnable," Brett Doster, Florida adviser for Romney, told The Miami Herald. "We thought based on our polling and range of organization that we had done what we needed to win. Obviously, we didn't, and for that I and every other operative in Florida has a sick feeling that we left something on the table. I can assure you this won't happen again."
Election results in Florida still aren't certified, prompting some residents to express discomfiture their state was making Election Day headlines again.
America woke up Wednesday to the news Obama was re-elected, Republicans retained control of the U.S. House, Democrats still held sway in the U.S. Senate and Florida's balloting was too close to call because of long lines on Election Day -- some precincts reported the last voters cast ballots after Romney had conceded the presidential race -- and tens of thousands of absentee ballots uncounted.
Unlike the 2000 tilt between Republican Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Democratic Vice President Al Gore, the 2012 election did not rest on the allocation of Florida's 29 electoral votes.
"We're such an embarrassment," Tya Eachus of Miami, who waited in line for 3 hours Tuesday, told the Los Angeles Times. "It's always a fiasco with us."
With 8.3 million Florida votes in, Obama held a 46,000-vote lead over Romney. Election workers were counting thousands of absentee ballots, and race trackers, mindful of the 2000 confusion, refrained from calling Florida until all the votes were in -- even by Thursday.
Results were due by noon Saturday, said Chris Cate, a spokesman for the state elections department.
Miami-Dade finished tallying more than 31,000 absentee ballots early Thursday, The Miami Herald said. Two other counties were reported still counting theirs.
Elsewhere in the Sunshine State, a congressional race with national implications was still undecided. Rep. Allen West, the Republican incumbent, railed his Democratic opponent, Patrick Murphy, by 2,465 votes with all precincts reporting.
West, first elected in 2010 and a favorite of the Tea Party, was refusing to concede on the grounds that some provisional votes remained to be counted, The Palm Beach Post reported.
Hearings were scheduled for Thursday and Friday on motions filed by an attorney for West to impound ballots and voting equipment for a potential recount in St. Lucie and Palm Beach counties.
By Florida election law, ballots must be recounted if the election is decided by less than 0.5 percent of the vote. Murphy's lead is barely larger than that -- 0.7 percent of the vote.
West's refusal to concede prompted Murphy to email supporters seeking post-election donations in what could turn into a protracted legal battle.
The troubles at some polling places throughout the state put an exclamation point to a long and uneasy election cycle for Florida that featured fights over a proposed voter purge by Republican Gov. Rick Scott and a highly contested law pushed through by Republicans lawmakers that restricted early voting hours.
John Camp, an attorney with a non-profit coalition called Election Protection, told the Times most of the Miami-Dade County workers really tried to keep long lines moving. Still, he said, there were problems.
"I agree, it does seem like we don't ever seem to get it right," Camp said, "even though we keep trying."
In a radio interview with WLRN-FM, Miami, Republican U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said the election "was a disaster."
Miami attorney Kendall Coffey told the Herald the governor could have eased the situation by going with former Gov. Charlie Crist's plan to add extra early voting days.
Scott, during a news conference Wednesday, said his administration needed to review how it managed its election process while being fiscally prudent.
"Whenever you finish a project, in this case an election," he said, "[officials must] go back and look. What went right? What can we improve?"


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After all these years, they've reopened "The X-Files." Mulder! Scully! Skinner! Cigarette Smoking Man! Aliens! The gang reunited for the first of six all-new episodes on Sunday, Jan. 24 and everything you know about the show has been turned on its head. Sort of.
Here's what you need to know: Joel McHale, a longtime fan of "The X-Files," burst onto the scene as Tad O'Malley, an Internet talk show host who contacted Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) about an abductee. This abductee, Sveta (Annet Mahendru) said she's been impregnated, tested on, can read minds and has alien DNA. But it's not aliens who took her babies, it's men. Tad also took Mulder to see an alien spaceship because why not. So, the aliens aren't trying to colonize Earth, it's men. The government. They've been behind it all, using alien technology. Everything Mulder thought he knew was wrong.
But that's when Sveta changed her story and claimed Tad paid her to lie. The government got to her. As she fled town, she was destroyed by an alien ship.
And as you may recall, Mulder and Scully are no longer living together nor are they together romantically, but they still care about each other very much. Oh yeah, Sveta did have alien DNA and so does Scully.
That's when Skinner reopened "The X-Files" and brought Mulder and Scully back in. (Cue the theme music).
So, do you still believe? Are you a first-time believer? Will you return to The X-Files for the next five episodes?
"The X-Files" airs Mondays, 8 p.m. on Fox.
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CENTER VALLEY, Pa. (Sept. 10, 2013) – Penn State Lehigh Valley is offering a number of part-semester courses for students still seeking to earn credits this fall. Students may register for these classes on eLion and can speak with their adviser for more information.
ART 020: Introduction to Drawing (three credits)
Begins Oct. 19, Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Introductory experience in making of art through drawing media; designed for non-majors seeking general overview of studio practice. (GA)
Instructor: R. DeLong
BA 322: Negotiation Skills for Business Professionals (three credits) Check Prerequisites
Begins Oct. 21, Online
Emphasizes the preparation and conduct of business negotiations in a range of situations.
Instructor: J. Sinisi—Schuylkill Campus
CRIM100: Introduction to Criminal Justice
Begins Oct. 24, Thursdays, 6:30 to 9 p.m. Online work required
Overview of the criminal justice system, including legal foundations, processing and collection of offenders, extent and types of crimes, victims. (GS)
Instructor: D. Peters
GD 100: Introduction to Graphic Design (three credits)
Begins Oct. 29, Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
A beginning level graphic design course. Instruction touches on the practice, theories, history and processes of the graphic design industry. (GA)
Instructor: C. Galbiati
HIST 173: Vietnam in War and Peace (three credits)
Begins 10/21/13, Mondays, 6:30 to 9 p.m. Online work required
Rise of nationalism and communism; origins of conflict; United States involvement; impact on postwar regional and international politics; contemporary Vietnam. (GH; IL)
Instructor: D. Longenbach
KINES 081: Wellness Theory (three credits)
Begins Oct. 21, Online
Focused on preparing and engaging students in the attitudes and behaviors that enhance quality of life and maximize personal potential. (GHA)
Instructor: D. Hochstetler
MATH 034: The Mathematics of Money (three credits)
Begins 10/21/13, Thursdays, 6:30 to 9 p.m. Online work required
Simple interest, simple discount, compound interest, annuities, investments, retirement plans, taxes, credit cards, and mortgages. (GQ)
Instructor: M. Kiani
NUTR 100: Contemporary Nutrition Concerns (one and a half credits)
Begins Oct. 16, Wednesdays, 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Interpretation of nutrition principles in relation to contemporary problems in selecting a diet to promote a healthy lifestyle. Students who have received credit for NUTR 151 or NUTR 251 may not schedule this course. (GHA)
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2011 Japanese Cosplayers Comiket Expo Part 03
"Comiket (コミケット Komiketto?), otherwise known as the Comic Market (コミックマーケット Komikku Māketto?), is the world's largestdōjinshi fair, held twice a year in Tokyo, Japan.[1] The first Comiket was held on December 21, 1975, with only about 32 participating circles and an estimated 600 attendees.[2] Attendance has since swelled to over a half million people.[1]"


text: This Fox & Friends interview with Angela Rypien, quarterback for the Lingerie Football League's Seattle Mist, makes for some depressing — if illuminating — viewing. When Brian Kilmeade asks her if she'd like to wear a less-revealing uniform someday, she responds with an unqualified yes. But according to Gretchen Carlson, that question was just a joke — of course she'll continue to wear undies on the field, because that's why dudes watch! Unless of course she'd like to design some new uniforms, using her lady fashiony skills that she has. To review: guys like boobs, girls like fashion, and trying to play actual football for the Lingerie Football League is a losing game.


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Logitech Keys-to-Go Ultra Slim Keyboard with iPhone Stand
Logitech Keys-To-Go is an extremely slender, handy and ultra-portable keyboard for your iPad or iPhone — thanks to the convenient stand that's included. The durable FabricSkin stands up to spills, drops or the occasional crumb under the keys. It packs light, types comfortably and wipes clean so you're never at a loss for words.
Ultra-portable wireless Bluetooth keyboard for a range of iPhone, Apple TV and iPad models
Fits easily in a coat pocket, purse or briefcase
Durable Fabric Skin material lets you easily wipe away spills and dirt and protects from drops
Comfortable typing thanks to well-spaced, full-size keys
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Logitech Keys-to-Go keyboard
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Weight: 180 g/6.35 oz.
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Housing Outlook for 2014: Steadier, Sturdier
As Mortgage Rates Tick Up, Supply-Demand Balance Should Encourage Building
The strength of the housing recovery was a welcome surprise this year. If forecasters are correct, the sector is finally ready to start picking up the rest of the economy in 2014.
That's because the market is changing in important ways.
Experts like Jed Kolko, chief economist at real-estate website Trulia, expect the mix of buyers in the coming...


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Default deniers scoff at apocalypse
The looming debt ceiling fight may look like a classic "who will blink first" Washington debate, with a ticking time bomb waiting at the end.
But for lawmakers like Pat Toomey, Steve Scalise and Daniel Webster, there's no reason for Republicans to blink — because the time bomb is a dud.
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( Also on POLITICO: Lisa Murkowski opposes debt ceiling showdown)
Call it the return of the default deniers. To these conservatives, hitting the debt ceiling is no Armageddon, and the idea of "default" is just a scare tactic – and they claim not to be frightened.
"No treasury secretary or president would actually default on the debt, even if they couldn't borrow more money," Toomey (R-Pa.) told POLITICO.
Toomey calls President Barack Obama's warnings of imminent default an excuse to "keep spending and never address the underlying problem."
Scalise, the new chairman of the Republican Study Committee, a huge bloc of House conservatives, has been making the same case. "President Obama is the only person in town right now saying the federal government will not meet its obligations; that's just not the case," he told POLITICO.
Reprising a role they played in the 2011 debt ceiling standoff, the lawmakers are arguing that U.S. creditors will continue to be paid if the government crashes into the debt ceiling — and that what's really at stake is a government shutdown, not a debt default.
( Also on POLITICO: Gingrich: Obama bullying House GOP)
Never mind the array of corporate leaders, analysts and establishment Republicans who say they're dangerously off-base, and Obama's warnings at a Monday news conference that markets would "go haywire" and Social Security payments would be delayed if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling in the coming two months.
It's a train of thought that runs surprisingly deep in the House and Senate GOP.
And this time, it comes amid widespread GOP frustration with the tax concessions made to Obama in the fiscal cliff deal and a desire to fight on spending. Their message could stifle the sense of urgency Obama, the Democrats and business and financial leaders have built around the need to raise the debt ceiling by early March — and complicates matters for Republican leaders who may want to defuse the default fight.
( Also on POLITICO: Debt debate: No easy path to avoid chaos)
To solidify their point, Toomey and Webster are reintroducing legislation to require Treasury to prioritize interest payments and a handful of other bills in the event of a debt ceiling breach.
Top GOP leaders never embraced the idea last time around, although nearly half of Senate Republicans signed on to Toomey's bill and more than 100 House members added their names to a House companion measure.
But they already have plenty of supporters lined up.
"We collect money every day; it just depends on how you spend it," rising Republican star Jason Chaffetz of Utah, a prioritization supporter, said in the House basement Monday. "We're just talking about slowing down government spending."
And Webster, a Florida Republican, thinks his proposal has a better shot at moving to the floor for a vote this time around. In 2011, Webster told POLITICO, he got a sense that GOP leaders were nervously remembering the 1995 government shutdown — which helped Bill Clinton win reelection over Bob Dole. But with the 2012 election passed, "now we have to set some priorities," he said.


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Poll Shows Only 9% Of UK Public Think Richard O'Dwyer Should Be Extradited
from the will-of-the-people deptA poll conducted in the UK has found that only 9% of those surveyed agreed that student Richard O'Dwyer should be extradited to face criminal charges in the US for creating TVShack, a site that let people link to videos hosted elsewhere. So far, the government has been ignoring public cries not to allow the extradition, but this poll really seems to suggest that the public is not too keen on shipping O'Dwyer overseas.
Only 9% of the British public believe he should face trial in the US for his actions, according to the YouGov research. The largest group, 46%, said O'Dwyer should not be prosecuted at all, while 26% felt he should be tried in the UK.At some point, something has to give. The UK Home Office can't keep pretending that this is a minor issue that it can brush under the rug to keep the American government (and Hollywood) happy.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Ash Wednesday
4 comments:
- Jack Miller said...
Fr. Hart,
Excellent article, more accurately, homily that takes one where one ought to be taken. I'm not just one who sins, but I have become something, someone who due to his pollutions is deserving of death. There is no escape from that fact, as you well point out. Thus, the gospel, which alone brings forth faith and repentance as we gaze on Him who bore our penalty, our disease, our death that we might be forgiven, sanctified, and changed in order to live unto the very righteousness and holy God we had rejected.
Thank you for leading and setting direction for the sheep.
- Anonymous said...
I'm glad I stopped here to graze this morning. Thank you Father. Jack's right. You got me back on path.
Father Ed Ruhlander+
- Anonymous said...
We have two Fathers, and we have two births. "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit" (John 3:6). "He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit" (John 1:33).
And if we have two Fathers, and two births, we also have two bodies. "It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body there is also a spiritual body... The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of heaven" (1 Cor 15: 44-49).
- RC Cola said...
Once again you have given a the sermon I wish I had heard on Ash Wednesday.


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I am looking for DAVIS of Sand Rock, Alabama.
My grandfather was a DAVIS, who married Lula Catherine BECK, around 1906. I do not know his name, and will greatly appreciate any information anyone might provide. Their first child, E. T. DAVIS, was born in 1906 and died in 1924 of TB. He is buried in a marked grave at Sand Rock Cemetery, Sand Rock, Alabama. Their second child, Mattie Odell DAVIS, was born in 1914 and died in 1992. She married Francis Grady HUSKEY. Lula remarried in 1917 to Stephen Smith "Steve" Kirk. Thank you, Randy
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2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Our Top Picks for Your Wish List!
Well, well, well, Bike Commuters – the 2012 Holiday Gift guide is here, in case your favorite mail-order catalog is all out of Leg Lamps for you, your bikey friends and family. We've reviewed a ton of products this year but only a few made the list! Click on the images to link to the product's shopping website. (FTC Disclaimer)
Gifts for Under $20
Fyxation Loop Eva Bar Tape: The quality, durability, low price and color choices make it a great product for any bike commuter to use. $13.95 and available in 5 colors: black, pink, orange, green, and white.
Planet Bike 25g Twinpack CO2 Cartridges: Need to fill a high-volume tire on the go? You could carry a handful of smaller cartridges or just one of these mini-SCUBA tanks from Planet Bike and be on your way in no time! Two for $20.99.
JIMI Wallet: clip your keys to it and stash it in your pack, jersey, fannypack, whatever. Water resistant and with a lifetime guarantee (I've tried it and they sent me a new one!) and comes in many colors for $14.95.
O2 Rainwear Calhoun Jacket: This quality jacket performs admirably when the weather turns sour. Rainproof, windproof, and you don't feel clammy! It looks nice, it has good features and visibility, and it is packable enough that there's really no excuse not to bring it with you.
Lululemon Duds: Lululemon makes small batches of high quality, stylish commuter clothes for women and men. We loved the Pedal Power commuter fall lineup for women, especially this snazzy blouse/windbreaker. The lineup is constantly changing… a nice gift with a nice price, since all the Pedal Power items are on final sale for half the price.
We liked the Planet Bike Borealis "lobster" gloves because they bring together a warm inner liner and a windproof outer shell. They also keep your last 2 digits a lot warmer than regular separated gloves, without losing any of the function you need while riding. All for the cozy price of about $42.00. Matt also recommends the Novara Stratos gloves, which are along the same lines as the PB Borealis but without the removable liner, and with the addition of handy draw cords for a windproof fit!
Though this item was not necessarily reviewed on BikeCommuters.com, our sister site MtnBikeRiders.com loved these unique socks that are partially made with Possum hair…yes Possum hair! We figured the BikeCommuters.com readership would appreciate them: Pearly's Possum Socks
For those of us who don't have the option of dressing down, the Henty Wingman is the best suit-carrying pack we know of. A pricey option, but if you are wearing suits to work, it's worth it for a $180 suit bag. For any distance on a bike that requires carrying a suit with you, this pack is the way to go.
We reviewed two Velo Transit packs (women's Module 25 and men's Edge 40) and came away really impressed by both. Waterproof, comfortable, and with pockets for everything, the only reason not to get these is price (about $160 for the women's and $225 for the men's)… but we'd still recommend getting these and scrimping elsewhere (ramen really isn't that bad…). Get one and you'll thank us! Velo Transit has several size options and colors to fit any commuter's wish list.
Bikes and Components
Xootr Swift: If you know anyone who's looking to get into the fold, without sacrificing the speed on their commute, the Xootr Swift could be your new best friend! Hills are a breeze with the multiple speeds and the BMX tires ensure a durable commute. The Swift packs up fast and light for $750.
Freedom Cruz Tires proved to be great for those with 29ers (or 700c bikes with lots of clearance) wishing for a road-oriented tire. Big and smooth-rolling, they'll make you question why you ever thought 700×25 was a good idea. $34.99 to upgrade your ride.
Motiv Electric Bicycle. We liked Motiv because there are so many options you can go with when ordering a bike. From tire, rims, cockpit colors and battery/power options, a person can customize their bike to have it built just the way they want it.
Ridekick E-Trailer. We liked it because it turns any bicycle into an e-bike, plus it has storage capabilities. The RideKick is a great way to repurpose your old ride with extra speed and extra space. The price for the trailer ranges from $699 to $1359, depending on features. It's a blast to ride, too!
We recently featured Balance Insurance for the sake that it would be a great thing to have for bike commuters. With annual premiums as low as $63, you just can't go wrong.
As cyclists we all know that at some time we might come off our bikes and hit the ground hard. Most cycling accidents are relatively minor. Some will require medical attention. And then there are those life altering accidents that can cause hospitalization, permanent injury or death. For those latter injuries we created Balance For Cyclists. Balance For Cyclists pays large lump sum cash benefits over and above other insurance to cyclists who are injured in serious cycling accidents. Limits are available between $50,000 and $250,000 and all benefits are paid directly to the insured or their family.


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Design of railway transport facilities
Design of railway transport facilities
Special sections:
Civil Defence and Emergency Management
Environmental protection
Project for sanitary protection zone
Project for recovery of disturbed shelterbelt forest
Project for recultivation of disturbed lands
Method Statement (MS)
Special auxiliary structures and equipment (SASE)
Buildings and structures of the railway infrastructure:
Service and technical buildings
Rest houses for locomotive crews
Amenity and administrative buildings
Railway car maintenance centers
Locomotive and car shops, including painting and assembly shops, car washing units, railway car maintenance shops and etc.
Engineering structures:
Noise protection screens projects
Protection of the earthworks, river banks against washout and water protection
Snow protection structures
Railway, high-way, pedestrian bridges, tunnels, overbridges, overhead roads; protection, regulatory and rockfall protection structures, including anti-deformation measures
Passenger facilities:
Automated systems of payment, control and registering in local trains
Passenger platforms and ticket offices
Transport and transfer complexes
Station buildings
Railway lines, tracks and stations:
Complementing motor roads
Access and on site tracks
All types of track repairs
Railway terminals and stations (reconstruction)
Existing railway lines
Additional main tracks at the existing railway lines
New railway lines
Engineering survey in construction
Engineering survey in construction
- Testing of construction materials for compliance with the requirements of P SSFZhT 05/ПМГ39-2003 (P SSFZhT /PMG39-2003);
- Engineering and geophysical studies;
- Condition survey of bottom soils of buildings and constructions, as well as their engineering structures;
- Local examination of soil and ground water contamination;
- Testing of soil construction materials;
- Local monitoring of environment components;
- Engineering and geotechnical surveys;
- Engineering and ecological surveys;
- Engineering and hydrometeorological surveys;
- Engineering and geological surveys;
Design of electric power supply and electrification systems
Design of electric power supply and electrification systems
Reconstruction of electric power supply equipment
Performance of tractive and electric computations
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Railway substations
Catenary system
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Development and introduction of RAT systems and communication systems
- Design and development of automatic cleaning turnouts (airblower and defroster);
- Design of air-mail for the purpose of sending documents;
- Design of railway radio communication systems for data communication between devices of different information and control systems of railway transport;
- Design of railway communication systems for communication of video and audio information between participants of videoconferences in studios and office facilities;
- Rendering of services related to certification of tests and introduction of equipment and automation, telemechanics and communication facilities;
- Performance of designer supervision over construction and reconstruction of automation, telemechanics and communication facilities, participation in the work of committees with regard to commissioning of such facilities;
- Development and implementation of automatic control systems and design systems for engineering and other companies;
- project development of organization of maintenance and repair of technical facilities of RAT;
- Development of circuit designs and development of communication and data transfer tools;
- Design of systems of mechanization and automation of technological processes at railway yards;
- Design of computer information centers;
- Development of complex construction projects for automation, telemechanics and communication facilities;
Industrial and civil engineering
Industrial and civil engineering
Design of accommodation facilities:
Out-of-town residential buildings, cottages.
Apartment buildings
Design of commercial real estate:
Administrative buildings
Office and business centers
Shopping and exhibition complexes
Architectural, construction and technological solutions for social and cultural facilities:
Religious buildings and structures, including temple and memorial complexes
Consumer services enterprises
Shopping and catering facilities
Polyclinics, hospitals, cultural and educational establishments, including cultural and recreation centers
Sports and fitness centers
Research and development, design, public companies
Children's preschool and educational establishments
Architectural, constructional and technological solutions for industrial buildings, structures and complexes of companies of different industries:
Communication and energy production
Transport sphere
Environment protection and rational nature management
Material and technical supply
Agricultural industry
Production of structural materials
Development of town planning documentation:
Projects of engineering and transport infrastructure
General layouts of city and rural settlements, including land improvement projects
Development of regulatory and technical documents, as well as development of software
Development of regulatory and technical documents, as well as development of software
- Development of design software for railway infrastructure facilities;
- Development of guidelines for participation in protection and for coordination of design and estimate documents with expertizing bodies and other companies;
- Development of guidelines for design and construction;
- Development and review of JSC "RZD" standards;
Design of engineering equipment, networks and systems
Design of engineering equipment, networks and systems
- Air supply systems;
- Electric power supply, electric lighting and electric equipment systems;
- Gas network;
- Heat and cold supply systems;
- Heating, ventilation and conditioning systems;
- Water supply, water disposal systems and sewage treatment plants;
- Complex safety systems (intrusion and fire alarm, access control and administration, data protection);
- Dispatch and control systems of engineering utilities;
- Communication, broadcasting and television systems;


text: A foodie's guide to Beijing that I wrote and photographed is in this month's Theme, a glossy culture and lifestyle magazine out of Brooklyn. As part of their Olympic issue, they have contributions from a bunch of Beijingers, including gallery recs from the art editor of Time Out Beijing and club recs from the sound engineer of D-22. If you're in Beijing or plan to go soon, check out the guide, complete with street food introductions, Chinese and Western restaurant recommendations, and photos from Appetite for China. There are also a few recommendations from two other correspondents as indicated by **. I don't vouch for the spots personally, but to each his own taste! Bon appétit, or 干杯 (gan bei).


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|Cabal often needs to do slightly different things on specific platforms. You probably know about the os however using that is very inconvenient because it is a string and different Haskell implementations do not agree on using the same strings for the same platforms! (In particular see the controversy over "windows" vs "ming32"). So to make it more consistent and easy to use we have an OS enumeration.
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