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From $649 for a Two-Night Interislander/Coastal Wellington-Christchurch Escape for Two People, incl. Ferry Tickets with Interislander, Rail Tickets from Picton to Christchurch, & Two Nights' Accommodation (value $1,058)
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- Take in an astonishingly wide range of sights and activities from a uniquely charming vantage point.
- Grab a Coastal Pacific escape between Wellington and Christchurch (in either direction) for two adults, including two nights of accommodation for just $649.
- Crossing 175 bridges, this rail journey allows you to view spectacular scenery between awesome mountains, the rugged sea and the inland patchwork of the North Canterbury plains.
From wine to whales, from shopping to surfing, from wild rivers to wildlife – the trip between Wellington and Christchurch offers so much to travellers. Take it all in from the charm and style of an unforgettable rail journey.
Pay just $649 for a Coastal Pacific escape between Wellington and Christchurch (in either direction) for two adults, including two nights of accommodation. The rail journey starts (or ends) in Picton, and two Interislander ferry tickets between Picton and Wellington are included. Or pay $940 for return travel (via Interislander/coastal), or $768 for return travel, one-way on the Interislander and a one-way flight back.
Surging along 98 kilometres of spectacular rugged coastline, the Coastal Escape rail journey is an adventure involving some truly stunning scenery. Along the rest of your journey you'll cross 175 bridges, marvel at mountains and sea and ride through majestic Kaikoura, home of many equally majestic whales. With two nights of accommodation included, this deal is your chance to experience a large and truly magnificent part of New Zealand, all in style and comfort.
- All reservations must be made by 15th MARCH 2013.
- Travel from 20th Feb 2013 to 30th September 2013.
- Once all components of the package have been confirmed these arrangements cannot be changed/amended without incurring hefty amendment fees. All services are based on "instant purchase" rules and therefore the various Principals conditions apply. We strongly recommend taking out a Domestic Cancellation travel insurance policy to cover against unforeseen circumstances that may arise. Cost from $20 per person.
- The package price includes two persons travelling together and staying in the same room. Additional costs will be incurred should a third person (adult or child) wish to travel with the coupon holder (prices on application).
- Sailings are daily departing Wellington at 08:15am or 1:05pm from Picton.
- Stays must be consecutive days. Extra days can be requested (will incur an additional cost).
- Hotel details will be provided at time of confirmation. Hotel will be a 3.5-star in either Wellington or Christchurch.
- Hotel rooms can normally accommodate up to three persons utilising existing bedding configuration. Extra cost is incurred if the 3rd person is an adult. Rollaway (when allowable and available) will incur an extra charge. Not all rooms can accommodate a rollaway.
- High season surcharges may apply
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- An air option can be selected in the InterIslander/Coastal package. Seats may not always be available on every flight and will be subject to availability of seats in the Gitaway booking category. Your booking agent will discuss this with you when making your booking.
- Checked baggage is NOT included but can be added at the time of booking. Carry-on baggage is included up to 7kgs per person. Flights will be provided on Gitaway's selected carrier. At the time of requesting your travel arrangements you will be asked to select a departure time. Whilst we will endeavour to meet this request it may not always be possible due to the capacity control of seat availability.
- TRANZ SCENIC Coastal Pacific service leaves either Picton or Christchurch daily. Rail services are subject to operational necessities and can be affected by maintenance requirements. Where, for reasons outside of our control, any component of your package is unavailable (for example due to weather conditions, mechanical failure or maintenance, change of schedule or other circumstances) we reserve the right to substitute reasonable alternative components to your package. Any changes to your original bookings due to unforeseen circumstances may incur additional charges to you. Insurance cover is strongly recommended
- Reservations are based on Gitaway Promotions "L" pricing category.
- As stays in our hotels, especially during the peak season, may vary on a daily basis our booking agent will provide the various options to you while discussing your travel requirements
- Travel can be taken either between Wellington and Christchurch or Christchurch to Wellington.
- Bookings will only be accepted by using the Gitaway booking form.
- Where for reasons outside of our control any component of your package is changed or becomes unavailable (for example due to weather conditions,mechanical failure or maintenance, change of schedule or other circumstances) we reserve the right to substitute reasonable alternative components to your package. Additional costs may be incurred and therefore it is strongly advised that you have adequate insurance to cover these circumstances.
- Each replacement component of your package is subject to any additional terms and conditions of the relevant service provider. All services are subject to operational / maintenance necessities and can therefore can be affected by unforeseen requirements. Insurance is strongly recommended. Once all components of the package have been confirmed these arrangements cannot be changed/amended without incurring hefty amendment fees. All services are based on "instant purchase" rules and therefore the various Principals conditions apply. We strongly recommend taking out a Domestic Cancellation travel insurance policy to cover against unforeseen circumstances that may arise. Cost from $20 per person. The package price includes two persons travelling together and staying in the same room. Additional costs will be incurred should a third person (adult or child) wish to travel with the coupon holder (prices on application).
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Leapfrog's New Safety Report Card Alarms Hospitals
Some 25 hospitals, including 520-bed Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, received a failing grade of F, while another 121 hospitals, including the Cleveland Clinic, got a barely passing D in the release today of the controversial Leapfrog Group Hospital Safety Score, an effort to inform patients and payers which hospitals are most likely to cause avoidable harm.
The grades reflect the risk that a patient will suffer a preventable medical error, an injury, an accident, or an infection while hospitalized. The D and F grades, given today for the first time, "represent the most hazardous environments for patients in need of care," Leah Binder, Leapfrog Group's CEO, explained in a news conference Tuesday.
In an interview with HealthLeaders Media, Binder said that in talking with low-scoring hospitals, "Most realize they have a problem with patient safety, but they don't realize how serious that problem is until they see how their data compares nationally."
These scores should guide patient choices, she says. And if low scores impact hospitals' bottom lines, so be it.
"If it were me or someone in my family, frankly, I would hesitate before going to a hospital that scores poorly (below an A) on a hospital safety score, especially if there's an alternative hospital that got a higher score that meets my needs," she says.
Executives of several hospitals that received F scores were incensed said they were caught off guard. One declared that Leapfrog was attempting to "extort" hospitals to join Leapfrog's voluntary reporting system, while others said the methodology is flawed or unknown to anyone except Leapfrog.
"UCLA is clearly not an 'F' hospital in quality and safety," says Tom Rosenthal, MD, the hospital's chief medical officer. "And if UCLA is not an 'F' hospital, it seems to me there must be flaws in the Leapfrog methodology."
A nonprofit quality improvement group formed by employers 12 years ago, Leapfrog launched its first hospital safety report card in June. That gave 2,651 hospitals an A, B, C, or a "grade pending," which Leapfrog officials said was a surrogate for a D or F grade, to give the hospital six months for more recent data to show improvement. In today's update, all "grade pending" scores now are listed as a D or an F.
The grades are based on how each hospital scores on 26 separate measures of safety divided among three categories of harm or risk of harm:
- Preventable adverse outcomes of hospital care such as postoperative respiratory failure, pressure ulcer development, puncture or laceration, foreign object retention, bloodstream infections, or falls and trauma.
- Process measures such as appropriate use of antibiotics or prophylaxis for patients at risk of blood clots.
- Structural measures, such as whether the hospital uses computerized physician order entry systems or staffs an around-the-clock intensivist in its intensive care units.
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Roberta Hughes (12/1/2012 at 9:17 AM)
Interesting article, thank you for sharing. Whether LeapFrog rating system is flawed or not, it raises the awareness of patient safety and will influence where patients choose to receive care. As a healthcare image consultant, I "see" many safety and security issues. The appearance of healthcare professionals also impact patient safety. While on-site consulting with a client about their healthcare image and uniform program (or lack there of), a bomb threat occurred and 150,000 patient financial records were stolen. Hospital's relaxed uniform dress policies make it difficult to discern between patient and care provider, and between physician, nurse, or medical assistant, creating significant safety issues. While conducting an on-site image assessment, to the dismay of the hospital, we witnessed visitors enter restricted hospital areas. The appearance of the hospital and hospital staff play also play a key role in patient safety.
rn (11/30/2012 at 5:34 AM)
I communicated with LeapFrog and was impressed. I like the integrity of the people at LeapFrog. I think LeapFrog's compassionate ethics and skill comes across in the explanations and information given by Ms. Binder. The background of the people on staff at LeapFrog is superior and will give patients confidence in LeapFrog's opinions. Think about all the required patient safety defenses that UCLA doctors and administrators breach to receive an F from LeapFrog. UCLA's "F" is not about uninsured people draining the resources of a taxpayer funder hospital. An F from LeapFrog should frighten everyone into action – encouraging people to speak up and not let your family be a victim. Health care consumers' personal funds and taxpayer money should not result in preventable suffering. A score of F takes a "team effort" and bad leadership to become that bad and stay that bad. UCLA's organized pattern of patient abuse is beyond random chance and qualitatively different from negligence. LeapFrog's info. shows that the danger to patients is the quid pro quo amongst hospitals, health plans and California government that is supposed to be monitoring hospitals – especially taxpayer funded hospitals. Their tit-for-tat seems to include negligently retaining employees willing to harm patients. Other readers here may be interested in these MD's experience about UCLA. I think it will help people to understand how UCLA received an F Joseph A. Stirt, MD http://www.bookofjoe.com/2006/04/behindthemedspe_6.html www.anesthesiologyexpert.com/ Peter T Banos MD http://tryingforsense.blogspot.com/
concerned consumer (11/29/2012 at 7:04 PM)
I applaud what Leapfrog is trying to do, but what John Q. Public does not realize is that you cannot compare hospitals in the way Leapfrog is attempting. Their methodology does not take into account how sick or injured a patient is and they don't account for patients who don't follow doctors orders or who have language, cultural or socio-economic challenges. What Leapfrog doesn't tell the public is that they are a watchdog group funded by employers who want to use the scores to extort hospitals and insurance companies. As someone who lost their father because of an HCA-owned hospital's inappropriate care (that does not meet the legal definition of negligence), what I want to see is more transparency from regulatory bodies like CMS, the states and The Joint Commission. Any rating system from publicly-reported data is going to be skewed because the data is out-of-date by the time its published. Regulatory bodies are the ones who need to score hospitals and health systems, not an Angie's List type of organization like Leapfrog.
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Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 has a brand-new look: It's cleaner and primed for use on tablets and phones, so you can swipe and tap your way through presentations. Presenter View automatically adapts to your projection set-up, and you can even use it on a single monitor. Themes now come with variations, which make it simpler to hone in on the look you want. And when you're working with others, you can add comments to ask questions and get feedback.
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Instead of opening with a blank presentation, PowerPoint 2013 gives you several ways to start your next presentation using a template, a theme, a recent presentation, a not-so-recent presentation, or a blank one.
Presenter View allows you to see your notes on your monitor while the audience only sees the slide. In previous releases, it was difficult to figure out who saw what on which monitor. The improved Presenter View fixes that headache and makes it simpler to work with.
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Themes now come with a set of variations, like different color palettes and font families. And, PowerPoint 2013 provides new widescreen themes along with standard sizes. Choose a theme and variant from the start screen or from the Design tab.
Read more: Apply color and design to my slides (theme)
No more eyeballing objects on your slides to see if they're lined up. Smart Guides automatically appear when your objects, such as pictures, shapes, and more, are close to even, and they also tell you when objects are spaced evenly.
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Select two or more common shapes on your slide and combine them to create new shapes and icons.
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PowerPoint now supports more multimedia formats, such as .mp4 and .mov with H.264 video and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) audio, and more high-definition content. PowerPoint 2013 includes more built-in codecs so you don't have to install them for certain file formats to work.
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Now it's possible to interact with PowerPoint on most any device including a Windows 8 PC. Using typical touch gestures, you can swipe, tap, scroll, zoom, and pan your way through your slides, and really feel the presentation.
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The cloud is like file storage in the sky. You can get to it anytime you're online. Now it's easy to save your Office files to your own OneDrive or to your organization's site. From there you can access and share your PowerPoint presentations and other Office files. You can even work together with your colleagues on the same file at the same time.
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Now you can give feedback in PowerPoint with the new Comments pane. And you can show or hide comments and revisions.
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Medical research shows that creative outlets – whether they be through writing, painting, photography, or other activities – can lead to improved physical, mental and emotional health. Many patients utilize self-expression as a helpful way to cope with pulmonary hypertension (PH). These resources can help guide you towards your own form of creative expression.
To learn more on how creative expression can help you, read the handout, The Theory Behind Creative Expression (PDF), from the 2010 PHA Conference session, Words for Wellbeing.
Listen as an active artist and PH patient provides ideas, prompts and tips regarding art and creative expression for your health.
Learn more about the benefits that creativity can bring your physical and mental wellbeing from two PH caregivers.
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Looking for more information? View additional PHA resources on living with PH
Learn how other PH patients of all ages use different forms of creative expression as coping tools:
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Everquest turns 14 on March 16
Everquest is now old enough to wear coloured lip gloss to school, and won't shut up about boys, but at least it's stopped demanding a horse.0
EverQuest: Rain of Fear - 19th expansion for the MMO is live
EverQuest's 19th expansion, Rain of Fear, is now live, SOE has announced.2
EverQuest and EverQuest 2 expansions to release in November
The latest EverQuest and EverQuest 2 expansions have been dated by SOE. EverQuest's Rain of Fear, the 19th expansion to the MMO, will launch on November 28. EverQuest II's 9th expansion, Chains of Eternity, will launch on November 13. You can find out more information on each expansion through the links. Thanks, TenTonHammer.1
EverQuest expansion Rain of Fear enters open beta
Free-to-play MMORPG, EverQuest, is accepting open beta registrations for its 19th update, Rain of Fear. Details of the 13-year-old Sony Online Entertainment title can be found on the game's official website, while the full features of Rain of Fear are over here.1
EverQuest 2's ninth expansion Chains of Eternity will release in November
EverQuest 2′s ninth expansion Chains of Eternity will release in November. SOE posted the news via a producer's letter on the forums. The expansion takes place in EQII's version of the afterlife, Norrath: Ethernere. Adventuring and tradeskill will level cap at 95, new quests and prestige abilities are in the cards, and another event SOE […]0
SOE removes option to purchase DLC and expansion packs using Station Cash
SOE has announced plans to remove the ability to purchase DLC and expansion packs for some of its MMOs using Station Cash.1
Everquest celebrates free-to-play success
Sony Online Entertainment is pretty chuffed with how going free-to-play has revived 13 year old MMORPG Everquest.1
Everquest 13th anniversary details, events announced
SOE's announced details surrounding the 13th anniversary of Everquest, as well as free-to-play events for the shindig ahead of its jump to the F2P market. Details include 13 quests that remind of Everquest days past, the return of 40 previous events from past anniversaries, a new raid and a new feature called Hero's Journey. Details […]1
Everquest free-to-play conversion set for March 16
The grandaddy of Internet addiction jokes has put a date on its free-to-play conversion.1
Everquest to go free to play in March
After fourteen years of service, the Life Swallower is ready to absorb a new generation of subscription-free adventurers.0
SOE suspends 700 Everquest players
After a stern warning to unscrupulous Everquest players last week, Sony Online Entertainment made good on its threats. Seven hundred accounts were suspended today as Sony's wrath rang out through Norrath. "Remember that these suspensions are merely the first wave, and further action is on the horizon. We will not rest, but will instead continue […]0
EverQuest admins issue final warning to cheaters
A post on the Sony Online Entertainment forums has warned players of an imminent crackdown on those utilising exploits in the nearly 12 year old MMORPG, Everquest. The teams has "quietly invested significant behind the scenes effort" and advises cheaters to "take heed and reform. There will be no second chances." Thanks, Blue.1
Friday Shorts: Nevermind is 20, Daytona USA, China, Orcs, KOTOR
Hold on to your hats, there's a another big list of shorts for you today below the break.4
Saturday Shorts: Borderlands, Xperia, MineCon, EQ, Mega Man, sales
It's that time again, only it's Saturday.0
Thursday Shorts: Brave Company, Cthulhu, SFxT, Cave, Devil Survivor 2, FFXIII-2
It's time for your Thursday link dump, a.k.a. shorts. Head onward if you dare – it's rather large today.0
Original Everquest gets recruit-a-friend program
For those of you who still play the original Everquest you'll now have an opportunity to get friends in on the action with Sony's new recruit-a-friend program3
SOE content development continued through outage
Sony Online Entertainment has resumed service, and boy, has it been busy while we were away.0
SOE details its "make good" plan for subscribers
Sony Online Entertainment's put up a new blog post which details how it plans to compensate its customers and when they can expect its services to come back online.9
Wednesday Shorts, again: No PS4 talk, AssCreed the movie, Blizzard remains mum, EverQuest is 12
Wednesday is hump day, and not the kind you wish it were at home. Ergo, have another look at all the short stuff around the net. It's the closest you'll get to the real thing.2
Everquest II Destiny of Velious expansion launches today
History repeats today – depending on your time zone – as Everquest II benefits from the release of the Destiny of Velious expansion, based on the second add-on to the original game.0
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SOE suspends 700 Everquest players
EverQuest admins issue final warning to cheaters
Friday Shorts: Nevermind is 20, Daytona USA, China, Orcs, KOTOR
Saturday Shorts: Borderlands, Xperia, MineCon, EQ, Mega Man, sales
Thursday Shorts: Brave Company, Cthulhu, SFxT, Cave, Devil Survivor 2, FFXIII-2
Original Everquest gets recruit-a-friend program
SOE content development continued through outage
SOE details its "make good" plan for subscribers
Wednesday Shorts, again: No PS4 talk, AssCreed the movie, Blizzard remains mum, EverQuest is 12
Everquest II Destiny of Velious expansion launches today
Everquest II: Destiny of Velious screenshots are very cool
SOE considering a "Cataclysm " of its own for EverQuest II
SOE reveals working MMO title EverQuest Next at Fan Faire
Steam deal has EverQuest on sale for $2.50
Weekly MMO news round-up: Halloween comes early, free trials and welcome backs
Weekly MMO round up: WoW's Pirate Day, Aion provides a server listing, EVE is everywhere
Weekly MMO news round up: EQ bonus weekend, new EVE faction, Guild Wars I & II stuff
Weekly MMO news round-up: Fireworks, Copernicus, mystical powers, new servers
Weekly MMO news round-up: EverQuest and FusionFall expansions, Star Wars hitting Comic-Con
Rumor: SOE files trademark for new EverQuest titles
Weekly MMO news round-up: Star Trek timelines, EverCracked, EVE rocked by bank scandal
Weekly MMO news round-up: EVE Lore updates, EverQuest double XP, Bounty Bay hunts
Weekly MMO news round-up: NCSoft hiring, EVE Online gives career guidance, Chronicles of Spellborn has pretty pictures
San Diego declares March 16 Sony Online Entertainment Day
SOE MMOs hit Steam
Micro-transactions introduced to EverQuest
SOE shows E3 line-up
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