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Responsible for timely and accurate patient registration.?
Interviews patients for all pertinent account information and verifies insurance coverage.
Interview patients at workstation or at bedside to obtain all necessary account information.?
Bed-side registration performed utilizing carts/computers on wheels ?????????
Ensure charts are completed and accurate ?????????
Verify all insurance and obtain pre-certification/authorization ?????????
Calculate and collect patient liable amounts ?????????
Ensure that all necessary signatures are obtained for treatments ?????????
Answer any questions and explains policies clearly ?????????
Process patient charts according to paperwork flow needs and established productivity standards ?????????
Welcome patient and family members in a professional manner.?
Contact the nursing staff for emergency medical needs and answer patient and visitor questions ?????????
Interview incoming patients, his/her relatives, or other responsible individuals to obtain identifying and biographical information with insurance and financial information ?????????
Assign I-plans accurately and research Patient Visit History to comply with the Medicare 72 hour rule ?????????
Search MPI completely and assign the correct medical code number.?
Notify Medical Records for any duplicate unit numbers ?????????
Verify insurance benefits and determines pre-certification status.?
If pre-certification is needed, call the insurance precert department and initiate review or verify authorization number provided by scheduling staff.?
Enter all information and authorization numbers into the registration system.
Secure all signatures necessary for treatments, release of medical information, assignment of insurance benefits, and payment of services from legally responsible parties.?
Obtain copies of necessary identification and insurance cards.
Explain policies regarding services, charges, insurance billing, and payment of account.?
Request full or partial payment for services rendered according to collection policies.?
Issue a Business Office letter to all patients according to policy ?????????
Obtain proper authorization for treatment and approval codes from the insurance carrier for patients presenting for treatment insured by an MCO.?
Collect co-pays, deposits, and deductibles and documents collection status in the system and chart.?
Issue waivers for signatures when appropriate.
Inform former patients or their representatives of delinquent accounts and attempt to obtain payment.?
Refer delinquent accounts to the Manager/Supervisor for further action ?????????
Receive and receipt payments from patient for services rendered.?
Prepare daily deposits and maintains the integrity of the cash drawer ?????????
Produce paperwork on each patient for distribution to appropriate departments.?
Align pertinent documents for establishing the patient's medical record and financial file ?????????
Register and admit all patients after the other registration departments are closed.?
Route admission documents and forms to appropriate departments ?????????
Price, key, and detail patient charges.?
Burst charts for distribution to physician's billing service, medical records, ancillary departments, and the business office.?
Check for double charges on all accounts ?????????
Work with physician offices and ancillary departments, providing information when necessary or forwarding relevant documents ?????????
Document complaints received from patients, the medical staff, and ancillary departments on an incident report form and refer to coordinator for follow-up action ?????????
Acknowledge, file, and send MOX messages via Meditech ?????????
Check for physician orders and attaches them to the patient medical records to ensure that patients are receiving appropriate tests ?????????
Escort patient to his/her destination or refers patient to an available escort ?????????
Activate all pre-registered patients that have reported for services EXPERIENCE ?????????
At least one year of registration experience preferred


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intervalnoun abeyance, break, gap, halt, hiatus, interlude, intermission, interregnum, interruption, intervallum, intervening time, lapse, lull, pause, recess, respite, rest, spatium interiectum, spell, truce
See also: abeyance, cessation, discontinuance, duration, hiatus, moratorium, pause, pendency, period, point, recess, remission, space, term, time
INTERVAL. A space of time between two periods. When a person is unable to perform an act at any two given periods, but in the interval he has performed such act, as when a man is found to be insane in the months of January and March, and he enters into a contract or makes a will in the interval, in February, he will be presumed to have been insane at that time; and the onus will lie to show his sanity, on the person who affirms such act. See Lucid interval.

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This climate climate zone covers from about 44°N to 50°N latitude mostly east of the 100th meridian in North America. However, it can be found as far north as 54°N, and further west in the Canadian Prairie Provinces and below 40°N in the high Appalachians. In Europe this subtype reaches its most northerly latitude at nearly 61° N. Areas featuring this subtype of the continental climate have an average temperature in the warmest month below 22°C (22°F). Summer high temperatures in this zone typically average between 21-28°C (70-82°F) during the daytime and the average temperatures in the coldest month are generally far below the -3 °C (27°F) mark.
The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Dfb". (Warm Summer Continental Climate).
The average temperature for the year in Rock Hill is 46.5°F (8.1°C). The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of 69.5°F (20.8°C). The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of 17.4°F (-8.1°C).
The highest recorded temperature in Rock Hill is 98.0°F (36.7°C), which was recorded in July. The lowest recorded temperature in Rock Hill is -12.0°F (-24.4°C), which was recorded in January.
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Rock Hill is 48.5" (1231.9 mm). The month with the most precipitation on average is June with 4.7" (119.4 mm) of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is February with an average of 2.8" (71.1 mm). There are an average of 124.0 days of precipitation, with the most precipitation occurring in May with 12.0 days and the least precipitation occurring in February with 9.0 days.
In Rock Hill, there's an average of 57.3" of snow (0 cm). The month with the most snow is January, with 14.2" of snow (36.1 cm).


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Its almost that time of year again – BlogHer Conference is next week! Last year I discovered I wasn't alone in experiencing some separation anxiety before the big trip so I decided to write a post about how I and others were dealing with it. It was the first time I'd left my kids for more than an overnight stay and I was worried about how they would do and how I would do as well.
This year my anxiety disorder is much more under control and I'm feeling good about the trip. I still worry a little of course. As a mom, how can you not? Did I mention last year while I was gone Julian stuck a peanut in his nose and, because Jody thought it came out, it was actually in there for SIX DAYS!!? He sneezed it out after I was home from BlogHer! I've stressed to Jody that this time he is to take the kids to the doctor if he suspects anything. Anything. 😛
Anyway, I've decided to recycle that post this year for any moms out there experiencing some anxiety about traveling away from their children. I think it helps to know you aren't alone.
Reducing BlogHer Separation Anxiety for Mom and Kids
After taking part in a recent discussion on Twitter with @NTFFC, @feelslikehome and @phdinparenting regarding the fact that we all were experiencing various degrees of separation anxiety about leaving our kids to go to BlogHer, I felt certain that we weren't the only moms feeling this way. Moms and children alike have dealt with separation in the past, but I began wondering what ways there were to get through it that would make it easier on everyone involved.
I should first note that I'm writing this article from the perspective of a mom who practices Attachment Parenting (AP) with her children. It's what I know, it's what I do, so it makes the most sense that I write from that angle. That said, every mom knows their child's and their own needs better than anyone else. I'm not trying to tell anyone how to parent, just offer suggestions for those who are looking for help.
Although I really wanted to go to BlogHer last year, I didn't feel the timing was right. My youngest, Julian, was a little over a year old at the time I would've needed to commit to the conference. He was still nursing (and never took a bottle), and I knew that several days apart wouldn't go well for either of us. Although I whined about it plenty on Twitter, I knew I made the right decision for us to stay home. As it was I was still able to virtually attend BlogHer in Second Life from my own house, where I met some new people and had a great time. Not the same thing, but it allowed me to experience a small bit of the awesomeness that is BlogHer.
Fast-forward to this year. Julian is a year older, night weaned (though still nursing during the day), no longer co-sleeping (with me, though he shares a room with his sister Ava), will go to sleep for someone other than me (if I'm not home), and can comprehend that mommy is leaving for a few days (just like daddy sometimes does for work) and that I will be back. I feel it will go much more smoothly. And so, after four and a half years of blogging, I am attending my very first BlogHer(!!) and leaving my kids for an extended period of time for the very first time as well. The only other time I've been away overnight from my kids in five years (yes, five years!) was when my husband and I went to Boulder for a night away two weeks ago while the kids were with my parents and my sister. My kids (ages 2.5 and 5) did really well, but we were gone for less than 24 hours. My BlogHer Chicago trip will require me to be gone for three nights and yes, I'm a little nervous about it.
However, I was much more nervous about it before Jody and I had our night away. I think of that getaway as kind of a trial run for the kids. They did great with my parents and sis here and I feel quite confident that they will do just as well, if not better, when it is daddy taking care of them while I'm away. I'm sure I will be OK too, but I have a feeling that for me and many other moms it will be harder on us to be away from our kids than it will for our kids to be away from us.
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That said, I believe that there are ways to make the separation easier on the children and, if they are old enough to comprehend what's going on, they should be prepared in advance for mom's departure. I also believe that moms know their children best and can likely tell if leaving them in the care of another for a few days will be minimally disruptive to them or if it will cause more difficulty than its worth. If the separation would be too much, there's also always the option of bringing little ones with you either to keep with you (in a sling or carrier) during the conference (perhaps have a relative or friend stay with you to allow you some time sans child or, if your child is up for it, take advantage of BlogHer's childcare option) or bringing the whole family and letting your partner and the kids enjoy a little vacation too, but still have the opportunity to hook up with you during the conference as needed.
Annie at PhdinParenting (who will be my BlogHer roomie) has some great suggestions for minimizing the separation anxiety for the children and for mom.
- Having an attached dad helps. If your partner is more than just a "babysitter" then the kids will feel comfortable with him.
- Waiting until the kids are old enough to understand that Mommy is going away for a few days and will be back soon (rather than just being distressed that she isn't there). My first time away from my son was when he was almost 2 years old. I wouldn't have considered it before that. My daughter is now over 2 years old and I think she is ready.
- Getting help while you are away from another relative or friend that the kids trust to take some of the stress/pressure off of your partner. My mother-in-law will be here while I'm away at BlogHer, so my husband will have help and the kids will be distracted by her being there.
- Take photos with you to look at and show others.
- Set up a time to call your kids and check in with them. Having a time set in advance ensures that you are both available and there for the call and no one is disappointed.
- Give them something to look forward to. Promise a special gift from your trip or a special activity upon your return.
- Have your partner plan some fun activities while you are away. Special outings or play dates or special foods.
Alison at GreenMe jokingly said that mommy BlogHers should update their kids via Twitter and perhaps do some Skyped bedtime stories during their absence, but is that really that far off the mark? Others don't seem to think so. Even Alison admits that her friend Skyped her 18-month-old every night when she was away for a recent trip and the child barely noticed mom was gone!
Maria from A Piece of my Mind said when she has to leave her son for an extended period of time, "I talk to my son about my leaving, how long I will be gone, if he will visit, what I am doing, etc. I also call/video conference with him."
Ally from In the Middle of Somewhere said the longest she's been away from her one-year-old daughter is five hours and they were "not easy" on her. Her daughter, on the other hand, didn't notice she was gone until she returned. Ally said taking a picture of her daughter with her would've helped her separation anxiety and if she was gone longer than five hours she thinks Skype would have come in very handy.
Sandy from Between Lightning suggests making some recordings of you reading their favorite books. And for babies, "I've also heard it helps to give them your shirt for scent."
Bits of Myself, who is currently battling cancer for the second time, offered up what she does for her daughter when they have to be apart. "When Nugget (age 2) and I have to be apart for chemo or hospitalization, we talk about what will happen, what she can expect, visiting, who will be helping to care for her, etc. We also make a special Build-a-Bear together for her to hold when mama's away."
Lynn from Organic Mania has this AP approach:
Explain to them that you're taking a trip, show them on the map where you are going, talk to them about the plane (so fascinating!), promise to call from the plane, tell them what type of plane, call when you land, call every night for night-night routine, and promise to bring back a present (eco-friendly, of course). Begin talking to them about a week prior…then remind them the day before, tell them when you'll be back, what you'll do….I think the message here, as with Attachment Parenting, is that you want them to KNOW what you are doing, and to be ENGAGED and INVOLVED. NO hiding. No sneaking around.
Angela from Breastfeeding 1-2-3 suggested some tips she gleamed from a friend.
When a friend of mine needed to be apart from her children for several days while she recovered from a planned surgery, she made a book of photographs for each of her children. That could be done like a scrapbook or photo album, but she used an online photo site to print and bind an actual book. The book included photos of the child, the mother, and the family, and it was meant to be read both before and during the separation.
It could also help to have a calendar — possibly made together as a craft — to count down the days apart. Another idea is to make a construction paper chain to count down the days, just like many children do before Christmas. The mother could take the idea one step further and write a little note on each of the 'rings' so that there would be a special message from Mom for the child to read each day.
Lisa from Crazy Adventures in Parenting said:
When I went to Disney Mom Bloggers Mixer two months ago, only bringing my breastfeeding infant, I called throughout the day to my husband and children, and they were told to call me if they missed me. I had the phone on me constantly. We had good practice with mommy being away with the birth of our youngest, luckily she latched to sleeping with just hubby pretty well while I was in the hospital delivering. My toddler is definitely more of a daddy's girl now. We reiterated his putting her to sleep just before we left, and now it's his job because, as I said, she's a daddy's girl and she loves him and prefers him now! My older children coped well because I called a lot and emailed them pictures.
Books are a good thing to turn to when you need help with a new situation. One that is great for kids who are facing an upcoming separation from mom is "The Kissing Hand" which was recommended both by my mom and by Angela from mommy bytes in her post Separation Anxiety and Mommy Guilt. Another helpful book is Mama Always Comes Home recommended by Katherine.
Amy at Resourceful Mommy offers up a good reminder that we need to take care of our own needs as well as those of our children, and she views attending BlogHer as a way of recharging her batteries. "Breathing new life into ourselves will leave us ready to face the challenges of caring for our children."
So what am I personally going to do to make this separation easier on all of us? I think a little bit of everything. I plan to:
- Talk to my kids about my trip about a week before I go, and then remind them a few more times as the day gets closer.
- Leave them some special notes to find while I am gone. (I will likely have my husband place a few around the house each day.)
- Call them at least once a day and tell them they can call me too.
- Email them pictures and ask them to email me pics of them too (with daddy's help).
- Help my husband plan out their days with a few special activities before I go so the kids have some things to look forward to.
- Get the book "The Kissing Hand" to read before I go.
- Bring them both home a present.
- And I will definitely have some pictures of my kids with me.
Do you have any suggestions on how you have or will reduce separation anxiety for your children or yourself? Leave a comment and share your tips.
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Los Angeles is the jack of many trades. Not only does it have an amazing art, history, and music scene, but it also is the home to many great eateries and wineries. Bridging the gap and bringing it together on a picturesque backdrop is the Taste of Venice. The Taste of Venice, formally 'Taste of Abbot Kinney' comes back for its' fifth year!
The Taste of Venice will be held on November 3rd at the Electric Lodge, which is a solar-powered and ecologically minded performing arts center in Venice. Guests can expect to munch on decadent bites provided by: Chaya Venice, Cafe Gratitude, Piccolo Venice, Sauce on Hampton, Barnyard, Larry's Venice Ale House, Groundwork Coffee Company, Joe's, Hal's Bar & Grill, Pork Belly's, Willie Jane's, The Otheroom, Lemonade,Local 1205, Primitivo, Abbot's Pizza, and more.
Supporting the local charity Inside Out Community Arts which strives to make a better life for our future generations both Inside and Out. Through arts and media education Inside Out brings cultural, geographic, socioeconomic and differently-abled boundaries to the forefront in order to empower and infuse confidence and inspiration to underserved youth in Los Angeles.
This year The Taste is hosted by Adam Gertler, host of Food Network's primetime series 'Kid in a Candy Store', and celebrity chefs Jet Tila, Iron Chef America, as well as Jennifer Sommer, Food & Wine's Los Angeles correspondent. Guests can expect to sample signature dishes from local favorites while enjoying wine, beer, and cocktail tastings.
Grab your ticket and check out the extraordinary culinary talent Venice has to offer!
Taste of Venice:
Sunday, November 3rd, 2013
VIP Reception: 3:00-4:30pm
Tasting Tour: 4:30pm-6:30pm
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What's that? Another post from Stew in less than 6 months?!? How can this be? We'll it's a new year and being timely is on the agenda! So here goes: my GF and I recently went to the Steam Haus Gastro Pub in Corona last weekend for a late lunch. It was kinda slow but the service, beer and food was great despite what Yelp reviewers had to say.
The list goes from right to left as noted above…
What can I say about the Delirium that hasn't already been said. It's good, it's Belgian so there you have it. The Inland Empire Brewing Company Victoria is an American Strong Ale that comes in at a whopping 11%. Very citrusy, very hoppy and very strong, what can I say, it was great! Next up was the Big Daddy IPA from Speakeasy. A good west coast IPA that wasn't too strong, in at 6.5%. And last but not least in the flight was the Goose Island Mild Winter, American Mild Ale. I've never had anything from Goose Island before and this wasn't overly strong but had a lot of flavor. Perfect to finish out the flight.
The MUSTACHE BURGER – Pat LaFrieda Beef* Patty with Portabella Mushroom Cap & a Horseradish Cream Sauce (not bad at $10 but no fries) And yes, we got some parmesan fries! And bacon mac n cheese!
More Info: (for those of you familiar with the area, it's in the Dos Lagos shopping center across from Dos Lagos Golf Course).
2785 Cabot Road
Suite 110
Corona, CA 92883
That is all for now. Make the trek to Corona or if you're in the neighborhood stop in, get a flight, a good burg and enjoy!


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The 32nd FAI World Gliding Championships have been characterised so far by the selective and demanding weather conditions of very strong wind and blue thermals.
After a well-deserved rest day and a cancelled day on Sunday, we are getting to the heart of the competition with 6 days still to go.
In the overall score, Mario Kiessling from Germany is the current leader, followed by the reigning Junior Standard Class World Champion Felipe Levin, also from Germany..
In Club Class, the current Junior world champion Tim Kuijpers, from Netherlands, is first in the overall scores and Matias Pasztor, from Hungary, is the leader in World Class.


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In a coincidence that's meaningful to no one but me, I decided to start writing under my real name (and fantasizing about developing a broader readership) right around the same day I first heard about Kathy Sierra. Since then, I've been following the endless discussions about cyberbullying, anonymity, blog civility, to what degree this is the natural consequence of the internet's fundamental character, and to what degree it's the natural consequence of a misogynistic culture (online or off).
Everyone seems to agree it's the natural consequence of something, anyway, and was therefore totally predictable. Being viciously, persistently attacked for the crime of Writing While Female is something practically everyone with an opinion on the matter regards as par for the course–regardless of whether they believe that fact is outrageous and deplorable or merely, you know, the way the cookie crumbles. (And regardless of whether they believe Sierra's real mistake was Writing While Female or Writing While Having a Legal Name or Writing While Writing 'Cause Hey, Welcome to the Internet, Sport!)
And this agreement that
bitch should have seen it coming the real problem (whatever that may be) is old as the internet leads many, many people to the same handful of conclusions. It fascinates me to see how, sometimes in the same breath, people offer the following advice to bloggers, as if every bit of it is perfectly obvious, consonant with all the rest of it, and guaranteed to end the problem:
- Anyone with half a brain will take precautions, including but not limited to: writing under a pseudonym, making that pseudonym male or gender-neutral if you're one of them lady bloggers, disabling anonymous comments, masking one's personal information, being circumspect about publishing identifying details, and not writing anything that might inflame the crazies. (Like, you know, a tech blog.)
- If you fail to take all of those precautions and thus attract yourself a crazy, the proper course of action is as follows: quit being a whiny titty-baby, because no one ever carries out online threats, and it's probably some 14-year-old in his parents' basement anyway.
- If you're pretty sure it's not some 14-year-old in his parents' basement and your safety is legitimately threatened, contact the authorities. Then quit blogging if you can't take the heat.
- Either that or keep blogging, because if you don't, the terrorists have won.
- Special bonus advice for women: be afraid, be very afraid. The threat is especially real for you.
- Special bonus advice for women, part 2: if you'd just quit living in fear, the threat would go away, because it's all in your head. Liberate yourself!
Taking all of that in in dribs and drabs, separated by lots of intelligent debates and lots of pointless horseshit, I had the same reaction a lot of women have when trying to process information about online harassment and safety. It goes like this:
Half of brain: Oh my god, I'm not doing enough to protect myself. I'm such an IDIOT! Why am I using my real name? Why am I writing about issues that I know people fucking freak out about? What kind of a narcissistic twit am I anyway to think my little voice will add anything useful to the blogosphere? Why do I feel the need to do this at all? What have I already published that people could use against me? What if there are already crazies out there Googling me? They could find out where I live in ten seconds. Should I be walking the dogs alone at night? What do I need to go back and delete? The whole thing? Should I start using a pseudonym? Why did I even name my blog after myself instead of at least coming up with a clever title for this one–like, could I trumpet "KATE HARDING" just a little louder? Could I be more fucking arrogant? What is wrong with me? WHY AM I SO STUPID?
Other half of brain: Wait, WTF? All I'm doing is publishing writing under my own name–i.e., the thing I've wanted to do most in the world since I was six. (Okay, the thing I've wanted to do most in the world since I was six was actually to publish writing under my own name and get paid for it, but that's a trivial distinction.) I take responsibility for every word I've written, and I'm even proud of a lot of them. Why should some imagined psycho stop me from doing what I love and taking credit for it?
First half of brain: Because that imagined psycho might turn out to be real and come after me.
Other half: Well, you know what? FUCK HIM.
First half: Way to ask for it, dumbass.
Other half: Isn't this all moot until I have more than four readers?
First Half: That psycho could be number five. You have no way of knowing.
The conversation continues in an endless loop, but I trust you get the gist. My favorite part of Chris Clarke's awesome post on how not to be an asshole was where he acknowledged not only that women have heard all this shit a thousand times before, but we've heard it from ourselves. THANK YOU. Jesus.
Both the conversation I have with myself and the advice above it, for all their contradictions, have one clear message running through them: it's my problem to fix. Not the psychos'. Not the culture's, to whatever extent it fails to discourage and punish the psychos, who are often not even proper psychos but perfectly sane, if very angry, assholes. Mine. Alone.
That blows.
And yes, it certainly blows for men as well as women. The only person I know who's suffered serious harrassment as a result of expressing opinions on the internet is my very large boyfriend. When it was happening, he felt frightened and powerless, which was the harassers' secondary goal–the primary one being to make him shut up forever. They didn't succeed at the primary goal, and this is all well in the past. But when I met him, not quite a year ago, and Googled him, as you do, I instantly found a site devoted entirely to explaining why and how my soon-to-be-boyfriend was a pathetic bitchass vile fuckwad who sat around in his parents' basement trying to abridge people's freedom of speech and had the i.q. of a fencepost and smelled like a monkey and deserved to be killed slowly and painfully and didn't know shit about shit BUT OH HE WOULD LEARN WHEN TEH INTERNETS ROSE UP AGAINST HIM which was totally forthcoming and also he'd never seen a naked woman in his life.
That was still up, after all those years. Which was cool insofar as it made me laugh my ass off (followed promptly by my making damn sure he'd seen at least one naked woman in his life); much less cool insofar as it represented the merest taste of what he'd actually been through. So my boyfriend bristles when people talk about online harassment as a women's issue. Understandably.
And to that I say, honey, I love you more than anything, and I don't mean to diminish what you went through one bit, but maybe you should close this window now.
Because online harassment is still a women's issue.
It's a women's issue because those goals up there–making somebody feel afraid of speaking, making somebody feel powerless to stop what's being done to them, making somebody feel like the only recourse is to shut up and hide out forever–are the goals a whole lot of men still hold dear and work towards for all women.
You, dear male reader, are totally not one of those men. I know this, and I appreciate it. I really do. But here's where all this victimy girl shit concerns you:
- every time you don't tell your buddies it's not okay to talk shit about women, even if it's kinda funny;
- every time you roll your eyes and think "PMS!" instead of listening to why a woman's upset;
- every time you call Ann Coulter a tranny cunt instead of a halfwit demagogue;
- every time you say any woman–Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Phyllis Schlafly, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, any of us–"deserves whatever she gets" for being so detestable, instead of acknowledging there are things that no human being deserves and only women get;
- every time you joke about how you'll never let your daughter out of the house or anywhere near a man, 'cause ha ha, that'll solve everything;
- every time you say, "I don't understand why thousands of women are insisting this is some kind of woman thing";
- every time you tell a woman you love she's being crazy/hysterical/irrational, when you know deep down you haven't heard a word she's said in the past 15 minutes, and all you're really thinking about is how seeing her yell and/or cry is incredibly unsettling to you, and you just want that shit to stop;
- every time you dismiss a woman as "playing the victim," even if you're right about that particular woman…
You are missing an opportunity to help stop the bad guys.
You're missing an opportunity to stop the real misogynists, the fucking sickos, the ones who really, truly hate women just for being women. The ones whose ranks you do not belong to and never would. The ones who might hurt women you love in the future, or might have already.
'Cause the thing is, you and the guys you hang out with may not really mean anything by it when you talk about crazy bitches and dumb sluts and heh-heh-I'd-hit-that and you just can't reason with them and you can't live with 'em can't shoot 'em and she's obviously only dressed like that because she wants to get laid and if they can't stand the heat they should get out of the kitchen and if they can't play by the rules they don't belong here and if they can't take a little teasing they should quit and heh heh they're only good for fucking and cleaning and they're not fit to be leaders and they're too emotional to run a business and they just want to get their hands on our money and if they'd just stop overreacting and telling themselves they're victims they'd realize they actually have all the power in this society and white men aren't even allowed to do anything anymore and and and…
I get that you don't really mean that shit. I get that you're just talking out your ass.
But please listen, and please trust me on this one: you have probably, at some point in your life, engaged in that kind of talk with a man who really, truly hates women—to the extent of having beaten and/or raped at least one. And you probably didn't know which one he was.
And that guy? Thought you were on his side.
As long as we live in a culture where the good guys sometimes sound just like the misogynists, the misogynists are never going to get the message that they are not normal and that most people–strong, successful men included–do not hate women.
When you trivialize what even the women you love are saying to you, when you let sexist remarks slide, when you insist that women view things from your perspective (rational! calm! reasonable!) because you don't feel like trying to see theirs (emotional! hysterical! nuts!), when you sit around laughing with other men about how crazy chicks are before you go home to the wife and daughters you love more than life and always treat with respect, when you say the fact that online harassment disproportionately affects women somehow doesn't mean we should be considering it through the lens of women's experiences in particular, you're not fucking helping. You're being willfully obtuse. You're enjoying the luxury of not having to take what we're telling you seriously–and that's why we get so goddamned frustrated and angry and hysterical. Because we don't have the option of not caring about this shit, and you just keep telling us not to.
And because the really bad guys don't pop out of thin air as fully formed misogynists. They need encouragement and reinforcement in order to completely miss the fact that there's something deeply fucking wrong with them. Subtle sexism gives them that. Keeping your mouth shut about overt sexism gives them that. Not really listening to the women you love, let alone women you don't even know–thereby being one more guy sending a message to women that we're only worth listening to on men's terms–gives them that. Telling yourself and anyone who will listen that that's just the way it is, and people need to quit whining gives them that. How can they clue into the fact that there's something deeply fucking wrong with them when so many guys are acting just like they do in public, or at least never calling them out?
And that goes double on the internet. It's all well and good to advocate for ignoring trolls, except for the part where they don't go away. They replicate like fucking Gremlins, and not a few of them are nakedly hostile toward women just for being women. And whenever a woman says, "Hey, anyone else notice how trolls especially go after women and say some shockingly hateful shit, apparently just because we're women?" tons of good men come out of the woodwork to say, "Hey, trolls do this to everyone, not just women!" and "Maybe they just don't like what those particular women were saying!" and "The reason you're not taken seriously is that you insist on playing the victim!" and "I'm not a dick, so this hurts my feelings!" Not nearly as many say, "Yeah, wow, good point."
(In case my beloved ignored my directive to get lost earlier: Thank you for being one of the latter, especially in light of your own experience with harassment.)
I read a lot of feminist blogs. I read what fat acceptance blogs there are out there. I read the comments–the moderated comments–and from those, I know bloody well the only reason I haven't yet heard I'm a worthless cunt who deserves to be raped is that nobody knows I exist yet.
If the internet ever figures out that I exist, you can be damn sure I'll hear that and worse. And if it escalates into something truly frightening, one of the first things people will say is that it could have been avoided if I hadn't been so stupid as to blog under my own name, to make it so easy for people to hurt me.
This theoretical trauma could also have been avoided, of course, if I'd never blogged at all. If I hadn't fallen in love with writing when I was six. If I'd developed a talent for something else. If I'd been born male. If I'd not been born at all–shit, if I'd only had the foresight not to be born at all, I wouldn't have been raped when I was 17, either. Seriously poor planning on my part–everyone knows the more invisible a woman is, the safer she is. You can't get more invisible than not existing!
My generation of women was taught to believe we could grow up to be anything we wanted to be. All I can ever remember wanting to be is a writer named Kate Harding. Not a firefighter or a cop or a soldier or an astronaut or a dogcatcher or anything anyone worried might be remotely dangerous. Just a writer named Kate Harding.
So that's what I am, and will continue to be, because I love it and I don't know how to be anything else. But it is fucking dangerous, as it turns out. Dangerous because I use my real name and especially dangerous because it's a female name.
But hey, that's my problem to deal with. I should probably quit whining now.


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The oncology department is located in a General Public Hospital, a county emergency hospital in Alba Iulia, the capital of Alba county, Romania. It is the only oncology department in the whole county (covering 350,000 inhabitants) and has its own recently-renovated facilities within the hospital.
Department profile
The department structure includes five services: an out-patient clinic (with three out-patient consulting rooms and a spacious waiting room), one day-care-ward (comprising 17 day-chemotherapy chairs), a palliative care unit (with six beds), haematology ward (with five beds) and oncology in-patient-ward (with 25 beds). A multidisciplinary team includes five doctors, nurses, nurse-aids, psychologist, social worker and the hospital priest, as well as all the patients' spiritual caregivers.
The doctors' team is represented by three full-time medical oncologists, with a competency in palliative care, one full-time haematologist and one full-time specialist doctor with a competency in palliative care. The department treat more than 1,000 patients a year, with all tumour types and cares for more than 2,500 patients a year in the day-care ward.
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In-patient facilities in the palliative care unit include three rooms with two beds each, a private bathroom, and a single-bed room for terminal cases, offering the needed privacy for such moments. The oncology and haematology in-patient-ward includes eight rooms with four beds each, and a semi-private bathroom (one bathroom per two rooms). The oncology department provides 24-hour comprehensive, individualised nursing care for in-patients based on their assessed nursing needs.
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Amid pleas by "Lost Boys" actor Jason Patric and other sperm donors to receive the greater legal rights afforded to fathers, California lawmakers on Tuesday began wrestling with this sensitive issue: Who can claim fatherhood of a child conceived in a lab, and under what circumstances?
Mr. Patric – whose ex-girlfriend last year won custody of a son, now 3, conceived through in vitro fertilization – spoke at a hearing where state lawmakers are considering a bill that would give judges in child-custody cases greater latitude to take into account the interests of the men involved.
Whether and how much to adjust the balance of maternal and paternal rights is a longtime question, made more complicated by modern advances in reproductive medicine that allow for "test tube babies," pregnancies through surrogates, and other innovations. The stakes are high for the men and women involved, but also for the children growing up in a society in which lineage can be confusing, if not outright mysterious, say some family studies experts.
"We're at an unusual point for families in general," says Randal Day, a family studies professor at Brigham Young University, in Salt Lake City. "We're racing ahead at a breakneck pace of change without really knowing how it's going to affect us down the road."
Patric is currently appealing a judge's decision that gave full custody of Gus, his son with Danielle Schreiber, to the boy's mother, in large part because the pair had no written agreement as to the parental arrangement. Patric assumed he would stay involved with the boy; Ms. Schreiber said that was never part of the deal.
Either way, Patric was involved in the boy's life until Schreiber decided to fight for sole custody. Turned aside by the courts, the actor appealed to the California legislature to address what he sees as a parental injustice and institutional prejudice against men.
"The fact is, I had a little modicum of fame to bring light to a problem that's going to affect in such a horrific manner children and families," he said. "I didn't donate my sperm; I gave my sperm to have a child…. I want my son back," he said during an interview with ABC's Katie Couric in June.
In emotional but measured testimony Tuesday, Patric said he went to "great lengths," including surgery, to become a father. He said both he and Schreiber signed an "intended parent" document, but that current California law prevented him from making his case before a judge. Other men have complained about the same thing, he said.
The emergence of sperm banks and the high success rate for in vitro fertilization have created markets where would-be moms can shop for the right attributes in a sperm donor without having to deal with the actual man. They have opened new options for older unmarried women, as well as for same-sex couples who want to raise children who are biologically connected to one of them.
But the effects of those advances concern some researchers, including Mr. Day.
"There's a fundamental contribution that men make," but it's being tested by an emerging view among some mothers, or would-be mothers, that "'I want your sperm because you're good-looking, you have a high IQ, and you do OK on personality tests, but basically I don't want you around," he says.
Day cites the unknown effects of what he calls "intergenerational confusion," in which traditional roles such as fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles, and grandparents are upended in part by government policies such as welfare but also by changing cultural mores in which women hold increased power over child-bearing and in determining family structure.
Worry that women would see their parental rights erode is why the National Organization for Women and some other feminist groups oppose the bill considered Tuesday by a panel of the California Assembly. Giving judges greater discretion on custody cases involving in vitro fertilization, they argue, would whittle away at women's autonomy by ceding some power to sperm donors who suddenly want a greater-than-planned role in raising the child.
"Parents, reliant on a sperm donor's agreement not to parent, could have allowed the donor to develop a close relationship with the child, without thinking that he could later come in and demand paternal rights," warned Assemblyman Tom Ammiano in a letter to the Assembly Judiciary Committee in June.
Assemblyman Jerry Hill, who introduced the measure in the lower chamber after it passed the state Senate without opposition, says the tweak is succinct enough to give judges options only in cases where fathers have made a significant and involved contribution to the rearing of the child.
"This is truly about the modern family, and it has raised questions and issues for the courts that haven't kept up with changing times," he told the Associated Press. Last month, Mr. Hill told Ms. Couric that some groups fear "sperm donors will be coming out of the woodwork, flooding the courts to test parenting rights with children that they have created." But the reality, he suggested, "is that there's only a small universe of individuals that this [California bill] really affects."
The committee voted 5-to-2 Tuesday to hold the bill in committee for further discussion. Hill said after the hearing that he will continue to work with various parties to reach agreement on the legislation.
Anthropologist Peter Gray of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, author of "Fatherhood: "Evolution and Human Paternal Behavior, agrees that the number of men affected by the suggested tweak in California law is probably small. But he argues that the issue is nonetheless important. "This [bill] is conceptually important, because it's trying in a sense to lay out a framework that will accommodate men who want to be involved in quite variable genetic or social backdrops."
The case also resonates because it contradicts social and even biological stereotypes about men, says Mr. Gray.
"More broadly, we're often surprised if men want to stick around beyond sperm donations when they have the opportunity to leave, which is part of what makes this [Patric-Schreiber] case so interesting," he says. "This guy wants to be involved, even though it's an uphill battle."
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Striking semi-manuscript school-girl map of the British Isles.
1823 (undated) 18 x 14.5 in (45.72 x 36.83 cm)
The manuscript geographical data and detail throughout is altogether outstanding. The work is completed in a fine hand adept at decorative text and the rendering of rivers and mountains. The geography follows the conventions of the period though is exceptionally detailed throughout, reflecting no doubt the manuscript cartographer's origins and familiarity with the British Isles.
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James Wyld I (1790 - 1836) and his son James Wyld II (November 20, 1812 - 1887) were the principles of English mapmaking dynasty active in London during much of the 19th century. The elder Wyld was a map publisher under William Faden and did considerable work on the Ordinance Survey. On Faden's retirement, Wyld took over Faden's workshop acquiring many of his plates. Wyld's work can often be distinguished from his son's maps through his imprint, which he signed as 'Successor to Faden'. Following in his father's footsteps the younger Wyld joined the Royal Geographical Society in 1830 at the tender age of 18. When his father died in 1836, James Wyld II was prepared to fully take over and expand his father's considerable cartographic enterprise. Like his father and Faden, Wyld II held the title of official Geographer to the Crown, in this case, Queen Victoria. In 1852 he moved operations from William Faden's old office at Charing Cross East (1837 - 1852) to a new larger space at 475 Strand. Wyld II also chose to remove Faden's name from all of his updated map plates. Wyld II continued to update and republish both his father's work and the work of William Faden well into the late 1880s. One of Wyld's most eccentric and notable achievements is his 1851 construction of a globe 19 meters (60 feet) in diameter in the heart of Leicester Square, London. In the 1840s Wyld also embarked upon a political career, being elected to parliament in 1847 and again in 1857. He died in 1887 following a prolific and distinguished career. After Wyld II's death, the family business was briefly taken over by James John Cooper Wyld (1844 - 1907), his son, who ran the firm from 1887 to 1893 before selling the business to Edward Stanford. All three Wylds are notable for producing, in addition to their atlas maps, short run maps expounding upon important historical events - illustrating history as it was happening - among them are maps related to the California Gold Rush, the New South Wales Gold Rush, the Scramble for Africa, the Oregon Question, and more.


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Finding time to write is the biggest difficulty and complaint I hear from authors. It is even a bigger problem than procrastination. In fact, I think procrastination is simply the result of not finding time to write.
The real problem is not lack of time to sit down and write. The problem is that when we do sit down before the computer, we procrastinate because we don't know what to write, and we don't know what to write because we haven't spent any time thinking about writing before we sat down. After all, it's not easy to pump out a few thousand words just because it's the hour when you're supposed to write, and it's not easy to spend that time thinking about what to write when a blank screen or page is staring at you screaming, "Fill me!"
When is the real best time to write? When you're not writing. Or let me put it another way: Whenever you can find time to think about your book.
Now, I know what you're thinking: "But if I can't find time to write, how will I find time to think about my book?" But we all have plenty of time to think about our books. In truth, time is all around us, and the real problem is that we simply haven't learned to discipline our minds. Here's a case in point. The author Agatha Christie managed to write something like eighty novels. Granted, she came from a well-to-do family and lived at a time when women weren't supposed to work, other than doing housework, so you might think she had time, and I'm sure she learned to set aside time regularly to do her writing, but when did she say was the best time to write? She is often quoted as saying, "The best time to plan a book is while you are doing the dishes."
Christie might not have had a pen in hand while she was washing and rinsing and wiping plates and glasses, but she had a mind that was able to function while her hands were busy. And truthfully, most great books are written as the result of an idea, as the result of taking the time to think about your book. Considering that Christie is the world's all-time bestselling author with 2 billion books sold, who are you to argue with her?
I firmly believe that if you discipline your mind to think about your writing whenever a few minutes of time present themselves, rather than wasting that time by letting your mind wander, you will have ideas, be able to create characters, and plot out plots for your novels, or come up with interesting topics, arguments, and supporting evidence for your non-fiction. And once you know what you want to write about and get excited about it, you'll be able to find an hour or two a day, or even just fifteen minutes a day, to focus on getting those words onto paper.
So when is the best time to write? Whenever your mind has a free moment. Here are fifty examples of when you can discipline your mind to focus on your writing.
- While doing the dishes.
- While waiting in the waiting room of the dentist's office.
- While lying in the chair at the dentist-provided your hygienist isn't too chatty.
- While waiting in the line at the bank.
- While waiting in the line at the car wash.
- While in the car wash.
- While riding the train.
- While riding the bus.
- While driving the car.
- When you first lie down to take a nap.
- When you go to bed and are waiting to fall asleep.
- When you wake up at 3 a.m. and can't fall back asleep.
- When you wake up at 5 a.m. and can't fall back asleep.
- When you wake up at 7 a.m. and don't feel like getting up yet.
- When you're dusting the house.
- When you're vacuuming the house.
- When you're washing the windows.
- When you're cooking dinner.
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We are a family resort called Jellystone Park at Rustic Creek Ranch. See our website at http://www.rusticcreekranch.com to get a feel of our park. We are adding a large water play structure and a family entertainment center both with a Pirate theme. We would like to develop a logo for our water play structure.
Families, specifically mothers with children 2-14 years of age.
Very colorful, tropical theme.
Appeal to adults as well as children.
Unique, grand, textured logo that's FUN!
Logo should shout - "We want to go here to explore and play!"
Not sure I should write this, but Wild & crazier the better.
A logo that will be remembered.
Possibly use any of the following in our logo - Pirate, Palm or Banana trees, Pirate Ship, Shark, Ship Mast, Ropes, Parrot, Red Tropical Flowers
To give a feel for what others have done and what we are building, I have uploaded two files. One showing what other water parks have done with their logo and the other showing photos of the play structure we are installing.
We don't necessarily have to have a pirate in this logo. We welcome any ideas you have.
We want a textured, layered logo.
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The wonderful Lumia 800 is finally available in the US. Awesome. But only in a preposterous $900 bundle at the Microsoft Store. Guhhhhhhhh.
The bundle—which includes the phone, a few headsets, and a speaker—"officially" goes on sale February 26th, but apparently you can get it now if you "can't wait." We'll let you know when you can get the beautiful little phone at a price that doesn't punch you in the crotch while calling you a dumbass. [Microsoft Store]


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August 26, 2013
During his remarks today at the State Department, Secretary Kerry exploited the shock value of the chemical attack last week in Syria but did not provide a shred of verifiable evidence that the attack was the work of Bashar al-Assad and his military. Kerry said Syria destroyed any evidence by shelling the Jobar neighborhood outside of Damascus where the attack allegedly occurred. He failed to mention, however, that the government of Syria is involved in ongoing hostilities with so-called "rebels" who are CIA mercenaries consisting primarily of al-Nusra and al-Qaeda terrorists and shelling enemy positions is normal activity during war.
Kerry's remarks on Monday are a precursor to a WMD rationale. It will be reminiscent of the Bush administration's WMD pretext prior to the invasion of Iraq. Despite then Secretary of State Colin Powell's ludicrous theatrics at the United Nations when he famously wagged a model vial of anthrax and presented other fabricated evidence like mobile biological weapon labs, it was clearly determined before and after the invasion that Iraq did not possess nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
A House committee in 2004 identified "237 misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq that were made by President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary Rumsfeld, Secretary Powell, and National Security Advisor Rice. These statements were made in 125 separate appearances, consisting of 40 speeches, 26 press conferences and briefings, 53 interviews, 4 written statements, and 2 congressional testimonies." According to the committee, at least 61 separate statements "misrepresented Iraq's ties to al-Qaeda." A Senate investigation in 2006 also found the Bush administration and its coterie of neocons had lied to the American people.
Prior to the first Iraq invasion perpetuated by the Bush senior administration, a fraudulent story surfaced during a congressional hearing held on October 10, 1990, claiming that Iraqi soldiers had thrown babies from incubators after invading Kuwait. Following the invasion of Iraq it was learned that the girl who testified before Congress about the incident was in fact the 15-year old daughter of a Kuwaiti emir. She had been coached by the public relations firm Hill and Knowlton to provide false testimony and thus provide valuable pre-war propaganda.
Over the next few days the Obama administration, collaborating closely with its international partners in crime, will exploit the unsubstantiated and highly dubious claim that the government of al-Assad used chemical weapons on his own people. This will serve as a pretext to commence a bombing campaign in Syria. Similar to previous bombing campaigns in the former Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya, the latest effort will not merely concentrate on al-Assad's military capability, but the country's civilian infrastructure as well.
The idea is not to stop a brutal dictator from abusing his own people as the government and the establishment media claim. It is designed to destroy Syria and reduce it to a failed state like Iraq and Afghanistan. The "New Middle East" did not begin with the so-called Arab Spring, but with the Anglo-American-Israeli "military roadmap" drawn up to balkanize the region and foment instability, chaos, and violence extending from Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria to Iraq, the Persian Gulf, Iran, and beyond.
Secretary of State Kerry's remarks follow:
Well, for the last several days President Obama and his entire national security team have been reviewing the situation in Syria. And today I want to provide an update on our efforts as we consider our response to the use of chemical weapons.
What we saw in Syria last week should shock the conscience of the world. It defies any code of morality. Let me be clear. The indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of women and children and innocent bystanders by chemical weapons is a moral obscenity. By any standard, it is inexcusable. And despite the excuses and equivocations that some have manufactured, it is undeniable.
The meaning of this attack goes beyond the conflict on Syria itself. And that conflict has already brought so much terrible suffering. This is about the large-scale indiscriminate use of weapons that the civilized world long ago decided must never be used at all, a conviction shared even by countries that agree on little else.
There is a clear reason that the world has banned entirely the use of chemical weapons. There is a reason the international community has set a clear standard and why many countries have taken major steps to eradicate these weapons. There is a reason why President Obama has made it such a priority to stop the proliferation of these weapons, and lock them down where they do exist. There is a reason why President Obama has made clear to the Assad regime that this international norm cannot be violated without consequences. And there is a reason why no matter what you believe about Syria, all peoples and all nations who believe in the cause of our common humanity must stand up to assure that there is accountability for the use of chemical weapons so that it never happens again.
Last night, after speaking with foreign ministers from around the world about the gravity of this situation, I went back and I watched the videos — the videos that anybody can watch in the social media, and I watched them one more gut-wrenching time. It is really hard to express in words the the human suffering that they lay out before us.
As a father, I can't get the image out of my head of a man who held up his dead child, wailing while chaos swirled around him, the images of entire families dead in their beds without a drop of blood or even a visible wound, bodies contorting in spasms, human suffering that we can never ignore or forget. Anyone who could claim that an attack of this staggering scale could be contrived or fabricated needs to check their conscience and their own moral compass.
What is before us today is real, and it is compelling.
So I also want to underscore that while investigators are gathering additional evidence on the ground, our understanding of what has already happened in Syria is grounded in facts, informed by conscience and guided by common sense. The reported number of victims, the reported symptoms of those who were killed or injured, the firsthand accounts from humanitarian organizations on the ground, like Doctors Without Borders and the Syria Human Rights Commission — these all strongly indicate that everything these images are already screaming at us is real, that chemical weapons were used in Syria.
Moreover, we know that the Syrian regime maintains custody of these chemical weapons. We know that the Syrian regime has the capacity to do this with rockets. We know that the regime has been determined to clear the opposition from those very places where the attacks took place. And with our own eyes, we have all of us become witnesses.
We have additional information about this attack, and that information is being compiled and reviewed together with our partners, and we will provide that information in the days ahead.
Our sense of basic humanity is offended not only by this cowardly crime but also by the cynical attempt to cover it up. At every turn, the Syrian regime has failed to cooperate with the U.N. investigation, using it only to stall and to stymie the important effort to bring to light what happened in Damascus in the dead of night. And as Ban Ki- moon said last week, the U.N. investigation will not determine who used these chemical weapons, only whether such weapons were used, a judgement that is already clear to the world.
I spoke on Thursday with Syrian Foreign Minister Muallem, and I made it very clear to him that if the regime, as he argued, had nothing to hide, then their response should be immediate: immediate transparency, immediate access, not shelling. Their response needed to be unrestricted and immediate access. Failure to permit that, I told him, would tell its own story.
Instead, for five days the Syrian regime refused to allow the U.N. investigators access to the site of the attack that would allegedly exonerate them. Instead, it attacked the area further, shelling it and systematically destroying evidence. That is not the behavior of a government that has nothing to hide. That is not the action of a regime eager to prove to the world that it had not used chemical weapons. In fact, the regime's belated decision to allow access is too late and is too late to be credible.
Today's reports of an attack on the U.N. investigators, together with the continued shelling of these very neighborhoods, only further weakens the regime's credibility. At President Obama's direction, I've spent many hours over the last few days on the phone with foreign ministers and other leaders. The administration is actively consulting with members of Congress, and we will continue to have these conversations in the days ahead. President Obama has also been in close touch with the leaders of our key allies, and the president will be making an informed decision about how to respond to this indiscriminate use of chemical weapons.
But make no mistake: President Obama believes there must be accountability for those who would use the world's most heinous weapons against the world's most vulnerable people. Nothing today is more serious, and nothing is receiving more serious scrutiny.
Thank you.
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Charlie Sheen has opened up about his romance with Georgia Jones, insisting he has found love with the former adult film star.
The unlucky-in-love actor has been married three times but has seemingly fallen head-over-heels for Jones, who is 23 years his junior.
In an interview with U.S. TV host Piers Morgan, Sheen gushed about the relationship and admitted that he was already a fan of Jones' work before he met her.
He says, "She's terrific… I was a fan before I met her. She was on the Internet. Just girl-girl. You can do a lot of research before you meet them. No joke, right. But I'm a bigger fan since. She's fabulous.
"You know, she's – I don't want to say a female version of me. But no, we have very similar traits and qualities. She's a lot younger, and she's hotter than the word itself. And she's fun as hell. She's fun as hell."
Sheen is adamant that Jones' job never bothered him, as it is the reason they met.
He adds, "(She left the adult entertainment) a couple (of) years (ago). And that stuff is all out there, but it's the reason we met. So how can I criticise it. You know what I'm saying? I'm a hypocrite if I do, right?"
When asked if he was in love with Jones, Sheen answered, "Yes, I am. Actually, yes. There's a part of me that is, absolutely. I think that there's different types of love."
This isn't the first time Sheen has fallen for a porn star – he dated Bree Olson in 2011.


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For the second year in a row, Turkey was the world's leading jailer of the press, with 40 journalists behind bars, according to CPJ's annual prison census. Authorities continued to harass and censor critical voices, firing and forcing the resignation of almost 60 reporters in connection with their coverage of anti-government protests in Gezi Park in June. The government tried to censor coverage of sensitive events, threatened to restrict social media, and, in one case, used social media to wage a smear campaign against a journalist. Peace negotiations between the government and the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, did not result in the expected release of Kurdish journalists. Legal amendments undertaken by the government did not result in meaningful reform of anti-press laws. In March, the Turkish Parliament began examining a bill known as the "fourth reform package," aimed at aligning the country's laws with international standards. The bill, adopted in September, introduced modest advancements, such as limiting the scope of a provision of the anti-terror law—"making terrorist propaganda"—that has been used against journalists, especially those who had reported on opposition parties. But the amendments did not address one of the most problematic articles of the penal code—"membership of an armed organization"—under which more than 60 percent of the imprisoned journalists in Turkey as of December 1, 2013, were charged. The jailing of journalists, the conflation of criticism with terrorism, and the government's heated anti-press rhetoric, which emboldened prosecutors to go after critics, marred Turkey's press freedom record and thwarted its aspirations to be regarded as a regional leader and democratic model.
For the second year in a row, CPJ found that Turkey was the leading jailer of journalists. Most of those behind bars are Kurdish, charged under vague anti-terror laws.
Azerbaijan: 8
Bahrain: 3
Bangladesh: 1
China: 32
Democratic Republic of Congo: 1
Egypt: 5
Eritrea: 22
Ethiopia: 7
Gambia: 1
India: 1
Iran: 35
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: 3
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Jordan: 2
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Macedonia: 1
Morocco: 1
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Russia: 2
Rwanda: 1
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Somalia: 2
Syria: 12
Thailand: 1
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United States: 1
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Vietnam: 18
In June 2013, Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek began an inflammatory Twitter campaign against a BBC reporter. Gökçek called Selin Girit, a reporter for BBC's Turkish service, a traitor and a spy, in apparent relation to the BBC's coverage of anti-government protests.
Paradoxically, the mayor used Twitter to target the journalist while Turkish authorities have called the social network a "menace." Turkish citizens are increasingly getting their news from the Internet because the space for independent information in the traditional media has shrunk.
At least 22 journalists were fired and 37 were forced to quit in connection with their coverage of anti-government protests in Gezi Park in June, according to the Turkish Union of Journalists. Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters and journalists covering the demonstrations. The union did not say who gave the order to fire journalists or force them to resign.
The personnel moves related to Gezi Park were the culmination of years of repressive policy by the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Mustafa Balbay, a columnist with the leftist-ultranationalist daily Cumhuriyet, was imprisoned for almost five years in connection with his alleged involvement in Ergenekon, a shadowy conspiracy that authorities claimed was aimed at overthrowing the government in a military coup.
Balbay was detained in March 2009. In August 2013, he was sentenced to 34 years and eight months in prison. At least 19 other journalists were sentenced in the same case.
On December 9, Balbay was released from prison after Turkey's Constitutional Court said he had been held without a conviction for an unreasonably long time. The court also said that by having jailed him—an elected member of Parliament—authorities had violated the people's right to be represented.
Balbay's release stirred hope among press freedom advocates that more journalists held on similar charges and in similar conditions could be released.


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Dinner & Cruise with Live Music
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Indulge in fine dining and listen to live music, while enjoying unique views of the Budapest panorama on a cruise with music on the Danube!
In Budapest, the mighty Danube River runs majestically through the center of the city, creating a panorama which was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site list for its aesthetic and historic value.
Experience the views on a dinner cruise with live performance of popular classical melodies. The program combines a romantic candlelight dinner with a concert on the Danube Cruise Ship. The salon music is performed on violin, viola and double bass by three members of the Zoltan Kodaly-awarded Hungaria Orchestra. The performance also features the traditional Hungarian instrument, the cimbalom. In addition to the planned program, the audience has the chance to request favorite tunes.
The delicious warm buffet dinner is prepared by world champion food sculptor Attila Tanács. After the concert, you can also admire the panorama from the open upper deck of the ship.
Dinner & Cruise® meeting point: Please be at the meeting point which is indicated on your order confirmation at least half an hour before the beginning of the cruise.
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For Dinner & Cruise at 7pm
6:30pm meeting at Danube Palace (Zrínyi utca 5)
7pm beginning of 2-hour-long cruise
For Dinner & Cruise at 10pm
9:30pm meeting at meeting point
10pm beginning of 1.5-hour-long cruise
Cold starter:
Spiced cottage cheese cream and traditional greaves cream
Alföld style goulash with small dumplings
From autumn to spring: Vegetable cream soup
Summer time: Cold fruit soup
Warm main courses:
Mini stuffed cabbage
Traditional chicken leg 'Paprikasch'
Roasted chicken breast with basil-cheese sauce
Spicy pork rib with thyme-mustard sauce
Roasted sea fish with Chardonnay sauce
Garnishes and vegetarian:
Grilled polenta with feta cheese
Grilled vegetables
Homemade dumplings with spinach and mustard-mushroom sauce
Steamed jasmine rice with corn
Hash-brown potatoes
Steak potatoes
Fresh seasonal salads with dressings
Italian pasta salad
Caesar salad
Sweet corn salad with mayonnaise
Homemade strudel
Somló style sponge cake
Mini tarts
Dessert variations Európa style
Seasonal fruit basket
1 glass of red or white wine + 1 bottle of water (0,33) or soft drink
- Folk Ensemble (Orchestra) The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble (Budai Vigadó), the Danube Folk Ensemble and Hungária Folk Orchestra and Ensemble (in the Danube Palace) are three of the best Hungarian folk ensembles with the longest tradition. Each ensemble consists of about 30 artists.
The first ensemble was formed in 1951, and the second ensemble in 1957. Their choreography is based on authentic dances. Some were collected in isolated villages and date back hundreds of years. The dances offer a broad view of the music, dance, and costume heritage of Hungary and the Hungarian inhabited areas.


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text: National Aquarium, Baltimore, will welcome chefs from some of the area's best restaurants for the 2013 Fresh Thoughts Sustainable Seafood Dining Series. This is the fifth year the Aquarium has hosted the series celebrating one of the National Restaurant Association's Top 10 Trends for 2013, sustainable seafood. Chefs from Laurrapin Grille, The Oregon Grille and Bagby's Fleet Street Kitchen will headline the 2013 series themed around sustainable seafood choices that are available in the Mid-Atlantic region. Each dinner features a cocktail reception of regional wines and cooking demonstration led by the guest chef, followed by a fine dining experience that includes a four-course menu created solely for the event, all while overlooking the Baltimore Harbor. The event concludes with a stroll through the Aquarium. "National Restaurant Association's Top 10 Menu Trends for 2013 highlights how important sustainable seafood is these days," said Steven Schindler, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for National Aquarium. "This is a trend we've been celebrating and promoting for years. The Fresh Thoughts dining series is a great way for people to learn about the importance of sustainability while enjoying an incredibly prepared meal. Just because it is good for you, doesn't mean it can't taste good!" Laurrapin Grille, located in historic downtown Havre de Grace in Harford County, serves seasonally inspired American cuisine with a commitment to using local and sustainable food. Dishes prepared by Chef Bruce Clarke reflect the true flavor of the food and honor the bounty of Maryland the Chesapeake Bay region. Chef Clarke will host a dinner on February 5, 2013. The Oregon Grille is the area's premiere steak house serving the finest prime dry-aged steaks, large lobsters and seafood. The restaurant has been recognized by Baltimore magazine as one of the area's "Best Restaurants" and has received accolades from Zagat, Wine Spectator, and OpenTable. The Oregon Grille will host a dinner on March 19, 2013. Chef Chris Becker of Fleet Street Kitchen returns to the Fresh Thoughts series after a great showing in 2012. Locally owned and operated, Fleet Street Kitchen features contemporary American cuisine and has received praises from critics at The Baltimore Sun and Baltimore magazine. The menu is an ever-changing collection of seasonally inspired selections with a strong emphasis on locally sourced, ethically raised, sustainable ingredients. Chef Becker will host a dinner on May 21, 2013. Previous guests chefs have included some of the area's most celebrated chefs, James Beard Award nominee Bryan Voltaggio (VOLT), Jason Ambrose (Salt), Top Chef Timothy Dean, Thomas Dunklin (B&O American Brasserie), Chad Wells (Alewife), Top Chef Jessie Sandlin (Vino Rosino), Top Chef Jill Snyder, John Shields (Gertrude's), Antonio Baines (Tapas Teatro), Chris Becker (Fleet Street Kitchen), Top Chef Tamesha Warren (The Oval Room), Galen Sampson (The Dogwood) and Mark Miranda (Rusty Scupper). Tickets for each dinner are priced at $79 for National Aquarium members and $99 for non-members, or all three dinners can be purchased as a package with a discount of $10 per dinner. Tickets can be purchased at www.aqua.org or by calling 410-576-3869. Fresh Thoughts Sustainable Seafood Dining Series dinners take place at 6:30 p.m. at National Aquarium, Baltimore located at 501 E. Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202. The dates of the dinners are February 5, March 19 and May 21, 2013. National Aquarium is proud to partner with Classic Catering for the Fresh Thoughts Sustainable Seafood Dining Series. Categories:


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"Soooooooo .... you're pregnant too."
"Um, yep. Yep I am."
"Good ... that's good."
Please, almighty clipboard. Please let my name be next.
- Leaning forward and having my belly easily rest on my legs. The best way to feel ginormous and sweet relief at the same time.
- Baby Registries. Here people! Buy me stuff! I kind of despise them.
- Sitting at a desk all day causes burning shins and swollen ankles. Funny, I thought that was from walking. Welcome to the lose-lose portion of pregnancy!
- Walking full-speed ahead towards the check-out line at Walmart. Clearly, not browsing for anything. One of the associates stops, looks at me and says "OK, I found it. The mango salsa is on aisle 9." Of course I'm thinking this guy is kind of a nutbag ... but I say, "Great. Thanks". Only to realize the woman behind me says thanks too. And the nutbag-turned-not-nutbag-but-actually-a-helpful-associate gives me the "your poor brain must've up and died" look.
Actually ... yes.
- The fact that I KNEW I'd be producing milk at some point. But having a "what the CRAP is going on down there?!" moment, pretty much every time it happens.
- Women who don't tell me their birthing horror stories. I love it when they don't tell me those.
- Giving someone the stare-down until they give me their seat. My bump is passive aggressive.
- Running out of my favorite body-saver Shea butter and being pleasantly surprised by the fact that I don't have to order it online and wait 7-10 days anymore. They have a store! yay! I don't live in Idaho! yay!
- Root beer? Since when?
- Waking up in the middle of the night as per usual. And then hearing the rain outside the window. Sleep is somehow always easier after that.
- Actually having good stuff to make packing his lunch that much easier. It's the simple things.
- The weekend. Where whole afternoons can be spent in bed talking. And talking and talking. So glad I didn't marry somebody boring.