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Community Briefs
Norma Carter, author of “Without Warning: Successfully Coping with Sudden Loss” will be the featured speaker at the Dec. 16 bereavement luncheon hosted by the Visiting Nurse Association. Carter will be speaking on coping with the holidays.
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Community Briefs
Norma Carter, author of “Without Warning: Successfully Coping with Sudden Loss” will be the featured speaker at the Dec. 16 bereavement luncheon hosted by the Visiting Nurse Association. Carter will be speaking on coping with the holidays.
Read more on The Rowlett Lakeshore Times

Year in Review: Baltimore Messenger’s Top 10 Stories of 2010
YEAR IN REVIEW 1. Walmart-Lowe’s shopping center approved by city The planned big-box shopping center in Remington is now so close to fruition that a job fair is tentatively planned in January to fill construction jobs for the project, and a steering committee is…
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Boomers on rocky road to retiring
CHICAGO – Through a combination of procrastination and bad timing, many baby boomers are facing a personal finance disaster just as they’re hoping to retire. Starting in January, more than 10,000 baby boomers a day will turn 65, a pattern that will continue for the next 19 years.
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Baby boomers facing retirements in jeopardy
Through a combination of procrastination and bad timing, many baby boomers are facing a personal finance disaster just as they’re hoping to retire.
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Comparison of overseas health insurance online

Travel insurance in India is picking up momentum. The rising incidences of flight delay and flight cancellation, especially during winter, medical attention in a foreign land, loss of passport, loss of baggage, etc. are the key boosters. Besides for certain destinations, overseas travel insurance is mandatory; for example traveling to any country in Europe would require you to submit the same for Schengen visa purposes. When you get a plethora of benefits with a meager single premium that hardly affects your budget, why not get a travel health insurance from India before you commence your trip?

If you are traveling with your family for a long trip abroad, their health care should be considered as well. Buy the family overseas travel insurance plans offered by some reliable company. Do read all the terms and conditions, the benefits covered, etc. before you buy it. Only a trusted name will take care of all your requirements as mentioned without leaving any scope of grievance in case any such inconveniences crop up.

If you are busy with your hectic schedules after buying your flights tickets and getting reservation done for a hotel and you are not able to buy your overseas medical insurance, you need not be bothered. Getting online travel insurance is feasible with a click of the mouse. Visit EIndiaInsurance.com, a pioneer in offering Indian insurance policies. Over 20,000 customers have satisfactorily availed its services so far and the count is increasing by the day. You will come across all the trusted names of the Indian insurance industry here right from TATA AIG, Bajaj Allianz, ICICI Lombard, Reliance, Future Generali to Apollo DKV, Iffco Tokio, Cholamandalam, and more. This online insurance provider has developed user friendly web tools, facilitating customers make informed decisions while buying online travel insurance or health insurance or other insurance products. Using its user friendly insurance comparison tool, the buyer can get free insurance quotes in no time. Based on the inputs, results of the comparison of overseas medical insurance plans can be derived instantly. Using your credit card or debit card, you can buy your desired overseas health insurance right here.

China Day Ahead: Rare Earth Embargo Ends; Sinopec Profit; Obama-Hu Meeting
China ended its undeclared embargo of exports of crucial strategic minerals to the U.S., Europe and Japan, although shipments to Japan still encountered difficulties, the New York Times reported, citing four unidentified rare earth industry officials.
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Letters 10-29-10
Paul Gauvin, in his Oct 22 column, refers to the Republican party as the party of “no” in a pejorative sense.
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October 24: Global Perspectives in Digital Media: A Panel


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Digital technology and emerging platforms have opened up new ways of reflecting life around the world. We will share some content and begin a discussion with producers of five projects that have taken advantage of new technologies and novel production methods to bring global stories to North American and European audiences. What are the agendas in bringing these stories home? How do producers negotiate these cross-cultural exchanges? What strategies are used to engage audiences with distant lives and experiences?
This evening will feature a panel conversation with video clips from Video Nation (BBC 2), WSJ.com, Global Lives, Breakthrough, and Metropolis (VPRO), with producers in attendance for a panel discussion. Complete information on each participant below. Curated with Mandy Rose.

Video Nation was a ground-breaking access television and participatory media project which was co-founded in 1994 by producers Chris Mohr and Mandy Rose of the BBC’s Community Programmes Unit. Fifty people across the UK were given camcorders and training and recorded aspects of everyday life during the course of a year. Selected recordings were broadcast on BBC2 with the best known output, the Video Nation Shorts, broadcast on weeknights forty weeks a year for nearly six years. The project won a Race in the Media Award and the European Prix Iris. During Video Nation’s first decade ten thousand tapes were shot and 1,300 shorts were screened on TV. The project migrated to the web in 2001 and continues today in a new format as Video Nation Network.

Mandy Rose is an award winning producer who has overseen participatory and interactive projects including the BBC’s pioneering digital storytelling project Capture Wales (2001-2008), Voices (2004) & My Science Fiction Life (2005) the latter both webby nominated. Between 1994 and 2000 she was co-founder and producer of Video Nation. In addition to the UK project for which fifty people made recordings about everyday life, Video Nation travelled to the Caribbean, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Africa, and the Balkans, bringing vivid, first person perspectives from these regions to BBC screens. Mandy blogs at collabdocs.wordpress.com/

WSJ.com, the online arm of The Wall Street Journal, aims to tell the stories behind the numbers and increasingly utilizes multimedia tools and videos on the web to give the audience a glimpse of the lives of people all around the globe.

Hilke Schellmann is a producer with WSJ.com, her first initiative being the multimedia project Faces of Health Care. The videos which were narrated by the protagonists themselves, showed the struggle of every day people in the US with health insurance. It was pegged to almost all the WSJ.com stories about health care reform. In March, Schellmann reported an influential video story about the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. She met with the stakeholders in Germany and made a very moving video, in which the victims talked about their plights and the church also addressed these issues directly.

The Global Lives Project is a collaboration of more than 700 filmmakers, photographers, artists and everyday people working together to create a video library of human life experience. They have produced ten recordings of 24 hours of daily life of individuals in Brazil, Malawi, Japan, China, Indonesia, India, Serbia, Lebanon, Kazakhstan and the US. Their multi-screen video installations have been shown at museums, galleries, universities and public spaces around the world including the United Nations University in Tokyo and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Currently they are developing an interactive web version of the installation that allows for dynamic navigation within the video content, tagging, participatory subtitling, geolocation and hypervideo navigation, as well as a feature-length film. Producers Rahul V Chittella and Khairani Barokka in attendance.

Breakthrough is an innovative, international human rights organization using the power of popular culture, media, and community mobilization to transform public attitudes and advance equality, justice, and dignity in India and the United States. Through initiatives in India and the United States, Breakthrough addresses critical global issues including violence against women, sexuality and HIV/AIDS, racial justice, and immigrant rights.

Madhuri Mohindar is a Multimedia Manager of Breakthrough’s video documentary campaign Restore Fairness which deploys new media tools like online video, blogs, democracy in action tools and and social networking to mobilize action on fair immigration and racial justice. Its documentaries include “Face the Truth: Racial Profiling Across America” produced with the Rights Working Group, a coalition of 275 organization across America, ‘Restore Fairness’ documentary produced with 26 leading human rights and immigrant rights organizations, and ‘Death by Detention’, voted as ‘Best Long Form Video’ for the 2009 DoGooder TV Nonprofit Video Awards.

VPRO Television’s Metropolis is an award-winning TV show and new media project featuring content produced by a network of more than 60 documentary filmmakers from around the world. In each episode, Metropolis brings viewers a geographically diverse collection of short films, all grouped around a weekly theme. From obesity and the lives of fifteen-year-old girls, to self defense, outcasts and Elvis impersonators, Metropolis presents a new ‘global view’ every week, and exposes the surprising differences and similarities between people and cultures worldwide. The televised version of Metropolis has been airing in The Netherlands since 2008. All short films produced by Metropolis —over 600 in total—are also available worldwide on the show’s website, which recently won a special commendation from at the 2009 Prix Europa Awards.

Kel O’Neill (US) & Eline Jongsma (NL) have been US correspondents for Metropolis since the project’s inception. In addition, they are currently working on a new media project entitled Empire, which investigates the legacy of European corporate-colonialism in former Dutch East India Company colonies and trading posts in Asia and Africa.

Obama On A Mission To Accelerate Recovery
President Barack Obama says his mission is to accelerate the economy’s recovery. He’s calling attention to a proposal he says would create jobs, grow the economy and help businesses.
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State and federally prosecuted public corruption cases in Rhode Island
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International Health Insurance To Cover Potential Health Risks

With certain hazards involved in international travel, international travel health insurance becomes an important consideration. A traveler could run risk of developing stomach illness as a result of drinking contaminated water more in a country that is not much developed.

While in some other countries travelers could be prevented from catching different serious illnesses like those that are insect borne or food borne and may have to necessarily get on to medications as well as inoculations in order to recover. When travelling to countries that are listed among the health risk nations, caution is clearly encouraged.

Today, a number of reputed international health insurance providers have their own websites and looking through these websites is the best way of finding health insurance online. Ask for necessary quotes and try and find out details on what they have to propose. Understanding the policy gets easier and your time too gets economized.

It helps a lot to research on the offered premiums and coverage principles and international health care insurance quotes. With good comparison shopping it is possible to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of the insurance policies. Clinics, hospitals, physicians have contracts with the insurance companies and you can find out information from their websites too.

Getting insurance with online comparisons:

1. A policy of making international insurance quotes available to the general public is followed by most online health insurance companies. To gather appropriate variants you can easily use online tools.

2. To find varied information on different medical procedures, fees and rates of doctors and hospitals, surgery costs or any other information that is relevant different flexible charges are available for comparison online.

3. All necessary insurance policies can be double checked via references from the list of cases which are already insured fro you to understand the health risks covered under particular policies.

4. Mindful and careful, safeguard your interests while considering international health insurance.

For the traveler, web based resources are available to offer plenty of information on international travel health insurance. Most common within them is the provision of different kinds of information like:

* different types of immunizations and inoculations

* ways to avoid different illnesses

* detailing which risks to health are most common in certain countries

* updates on specific countries

You could be taking certain potential health risks while traveling to another country, so first check out different heath risks involved and get insured to minimize the risk. A lot of detailed information is available on the Internet these days on international travel health insurance issues. It helps a lot to nose around a bit and get the most lucrative deal under the belt.

This is mainly so, because when in need of fiscal help for medical purpose in an alien country, it is this insurance cover that will help you avail of a cashless facility. Go for a holiday, not to endanger yourself health-wise or carry along tension when travelling with a baby or with bigger kids. Insurance is available and with a little research you can get a policy to fit your individual needs.

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Choose Your Expat Health Insurance According To Your Stay Abroad

Leaving your home country and becoming an expatriate may force you to part with many things close to your heart, mind and body. But, your health security should be inseparable from you as it is the most dynamic and the most unpredictable part of you. Every expat bag & baggage has a different tale to tell, one may be taking a short stay in a foreign land or perhaps, one may be parting for a long duration of stay. That is why it is all the more important to buy international health travel insurance plan as per your needs, duration of stay abroad and budget. Most expat health insurance schemes may have different time durations for individual policies, whatever be the variances they are however commonly divided into two main branches-short term and long term health insurances. Since expats do not necessarily qualify the norms of local health insurance expat seeking coverage in both native country and the foreign country is a frequently observed trend among expatriates.

Short Term Expat Health Insurance

The short term expatriate health insurance programs that major health insurance providers offer may range from mere 5 days to 3 years. These are specifically tailored international health travel insurance that are less expensive and may lack annual policies features especially recommended for expats traveling overseas for a few weeks or days. In most cases these types of insurance coverage expires on return to the home country. These short term travel insurance policies serve excellent purpose in covering you with medical assistance in case of injury and sickness and/or in providing assistance during medical emergencies abroad. Irrespective of the length of the policy time frame, short term expat medical insurances usually covers emergency evacuation feature that holds pivotal value in life and death situations. In other words, the policy holder if faced with serious health condition is allowed evacuation to the nearest center of medical excellence.

Long Term Expat Health Insurance

As the name suggest these expat health insurance premiums generally offers worldwide coverage with the minimum requirement of one year of policy term. International travel health insurance of this sort is best for expatriates planning to settle in a foreign country for a longer period of time. In addition, this type of plan can also cover you in your country and allow for multiple visits in a year.

Just like short term expat health insurance coverage, long term medical insurances also offer emergency evacuation to nearest center of medical excellence in the event of serious illness or medical conditions. Insurance Expat, a leading expatriate insurance service provider offers high quality expat insurance packages with emergency evacuation facility provided in all of them. In some policies repatriation coverage may also be available in extreme medical contingencies. Long term expat medical insurance or Medical Travel Insurance usually has additional benefits like maternity, pre-existing coverage and preventive although it might attract ‘waiting period.’

What you do today will pave the way for your tomorrow. Either you learn from others mistake or you learn from your own is entirely your call. But, traveling abroad without expat medical protection can be may be like plunging into a big risk.

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Does your Health Insurance Go the Extra Mile When you Travel

International travel can be an exciting adventure, provided you are aware of the need for travel health insurance. You need to be aware that travel can, and does throw up any number of unpredictable situations.

Probably the most serious risk is the chance of an accident or illness occurring while you are overseas. Requiring emergency medical care, while in another country can be not only inconvenient but extremely problematic as well, if you do not have the right cover.

First of all, there is an unfamiliarity associated with being in a foreign country, with a completely different culture and a different medical system, which can intensify the already problematic issue of being in an accident or requiring any other kind of emergency medical help.

Trying to communicate with people in a different language is enough of an effort, without factoring in the currency conversions, international claims administration of the country of travel, and the time difference. If this is to be further complicated by a lack of insurance cover, one might find oneself totally lost, and “at sea”.

Whether you are residing in or visiting the US, your travel may throw up challenges for your existing healthcare cover. Both brief trips and extended vacations and relocation expose you to health risks not covered by your existing, domestic medical insurance.

Sometimes, tourists and immigrants, even regular business travelers, overlook the need for travel health insurance, simply assuming that their medical plan provides enough coverage. However, as a rule, never leave home without extra, supplementary travel health insurance.

Ask the travel agent who does your bookings, the financial institution you deal with regularly, or your doctor for references and suggestions. Supplemental travel health insurance is a must.

It is not wise to rely on your domestic health plan to cover sicknesses or injuries while you are in the US. In the worst case scenario, the policy might be useless in the US, in the best; it may only cover a small portion of the expenses.

Some international credit card companies now make it a part of their services to offer travel health insurance to their cardholders. Check with your card company; don’t just assume that coverage is included.

The card alone may not provide adequate health coverage. Some of these companies will charge a fee for travel insurance coverage; others may require you to pay for your travel using that particular credit card. In any case, make sure you know the conditions, requirements, and limitations of the provided cover before you leave for the US.

Available travel health insurance policies include short and long-term plans, as well as individual & group plans for international travelers, international students to the US, traveling business executives and even foreign missionaries.

Always carry the proof of insurance cover with you, and leave a copy with someone at home, in case of emergencies. Tell your travel agent, or a friend or family member, as well as your traveling companion how to get in touch with your insurer, in case you are incapacitated.

Anyone traveling outside their country of citizenship needs to be adequately covered by ample travel health insurance, regardless of where you are traveling to, and this is especially true of foreign nationals who are traveling to the USA.

From the basic set of vaccinations to emergency medical care, whatever the situation is, a good travel health insurance policy can give you complete peace of mind, on your trip to the US.

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