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Arrive Arusha, lunch at Mount Meru Hotel, after lunch drive to Lake Manyara National Park for afternoon game drive, evening drive to Kirurumu Tented Lodge for dinner and overnight
After breakfast, depart with picnic lunch boxes and drive to Serengeti National Park game drive on route to arriving at Serengeti Sopa Lodge
Full day game drive in Serengeti National Park with picnic lunch boxes, evening return to Serengeti Sopa Lodge for dinner and overnight
Depart with picnic lunch boxes and drive to Ngorongoro onto Karatu area, arriving for dinner and overnight Ngorongoro Farm House Lodge
Full day game drive in the Crater floor with picnic lunch boxes, evening return to Ngorongoro Farm House Lodge for dinner and overnight
Depart and drive to Arusha, lunch at Shanga, after lunch transfer to Arusha airport for Zan air flight depart at 1400hrs arrive at 1520hrs met and transfer to Blue Bay Beach Resort – Superior HB
Spend the next four days at leisure, relaxing on the beautiful white sands and soaking up the sunshine. For those feeling active, there's a wide range of excursions available locally. Perhaps opt for a spot of snorkelling or scuba diving to see the incredible coral reefs teeming with exotic fish and perhaps the odd dolphin in the azure waters.


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You Think You Know Me?
By Carol Cain
I am a girl from Brooklyn, and am very American in many ways.
Depending on where I am.
In the Dominican Republic, I am "a gringa."
Here, at home, I am not.
In discovering what I am and am not, both for myself and in the eyes of others, I have developed an awareness, a sensitivity, towards other people's reactions to me.
I often forget that I have brown skin, and can't hear the faint accent that slips from my lips when I speak, but even as I walk around not thinking about it, others around me are very much aware, and often help to remind me.
I have, like many Latinos who look like I do, become accustomed to hearing the comments brought about by the perceptions and generalized ideas others have of me.
One of my first memories of becoming aware of these perceptions was during middle school, in an English class, in a school I just entered. I always loved English class. I loved reading and writing and thought it the best hour of my day.
On this one particular day, we were reciting from some required reading we had been assigned a few days before. It seemed that most of my class members had problems pronouncing some of the words correctly. When my turn came up, I recited my piece without flaw and felt very proud of myself. Then, my teacher stopped me as I was heading back to my seat, stood me in front of the class and said to my classroom:
"You should be ashamed of yourselves! Here is Carol, an immigrant, and she was able to recite without fault. Doesn't it embarrass you that she speaks better English than you who were born in this country?"
I was humiliated. And said nothing. I didn't explain to him that despite my last name at the time (Alvarez) I too was born in the U.S. I didn't explain to him that when my mother asked me to speak Spanish, I butchered the language in such a way that she would allow me to stop and finish in English. I didn't explain to him that the reason I could recite the reading without fault was because I studied and did the work asked of me, and was a good student, not a newly arrived immigrant who miraculously mastered the language overnight.
I didn't argue, because, at 13, I didn't see the point. And to this day, more often than not, the minute I walk into a room, I feel the perceptions, the generalizations, are there defining me before I even open my mouth.
Nowadays, I like to use these moments — and there have been many — to educate others about who I am and who we are as Latinos — about our varied backgrounds, beliefs, physical appearances and even accents. And to those who think they know me, this is my message:
There are so many different layers to me as a American-Latina, and as an individual.
There is no one way to define me as a people, as a culture, as a language, or a group.
I come in many shades, from the fairest to the darkest.
My language is colored with a variety of dialects and slang, the sing-song of my spoken word changing to the tune of the mother land that gave birth to my ancestors.
My history is that of the slaves, and the slave owners. For in my past, I am both.
I am Latina, born and raised, though my flag is American, my passport is blue. I've danced the Merengue and cried to Jazz tunes. I cook arroz con pollo and enjoy California wine and French brie.
I love my sons in Spanish, though we live in English.
Who I really am probably clashes with the definition of me that you have created for yourself.
I am American-Latina, and there's so much more to that than what you see in the pages of a book, or show, or magazine.
You think you know me, but you probably have no idea.
Carol Cain, a former publishing and public relations professional with an MBA in international relations, publishes NYCityMama.com.


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Single Stone on Mission Street is an intimate jewelry boutique in the heart of historic San Marino, California. The boutique invokes the comfortable and cozy atmosphere of a ladies lounge while showcasing some of the most eminent designers in contemporary jewelry. Innovative and carefully crafted pieces are key at Single Stone on Mission Street. The boutique offers its own unique designs, while also carrying notable designers Monique Pean, Irene Neuwirth, Jemma Wynne and Gurhan.
At Single Stone on Mission Street, we have a great appreciation for the symbolism of jewelry and a love for exquisitely crafted and detailed pieces. Here, clients experience the intimate art of adornment, as the staff takes time with each individual to select the perfect piece of jewelry.
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I am looking for some ideas to encourage elderly people with some activities to do with plants. In the hope of putting a smile on their face, and doing something creative. I wonder if anybody knows of anything like this, perhaps in a nursing home environment, or retirement home. I need some ideas on how to get the ball rolling, how to approach establishments, and what sort of activity would work best. I am thinking something like doing cuttings, and potting them up, and each resident could have the plant in their room. I dont know...any better suggestions. Thanks for your help. Popi I have training in Horticulture. |
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- Posted by agnespuffin (My Page) on Wed, Nov 22, 06 at 10:10
In the nursing homes, who do you think will take care of watering and tending those plants in the room? You can bet that few of the patients would be able to do it, either physically or mentally. Anyone that is still capable of having plants and caring for them, most likely already has a few in the room. You would also have a problem with available light. It will vary from room to room. And what if water is spilled on the floor as a patient tries to water the plant? That's very likely to happen. And then a patient slips in the water? What you want to do would require more work from the staff. Practically all such homes are understaffed. They really don't need to watch after your plants. As far as cuttings, some of the patients won't live long enough to see them root. I know you mean well, but what you are thinking about simply isn't a good idea on several levels. Not to mention the sorrow that a patient might feel should their plant die. May I suggest that if you are interested in brightening their day, check with the administation and see if there is an area where the patients can go to sit and look at special arrangements of some sort. Container gardens, etc. Ferns and blooming flowers with lots of color add so much. Annuals would probably be the best. You could put in new ones as the older ones finished blooming. I am sure that the administration would want you to see that the plants were properly maintained. They are not going to agree to assign staff to do it. This is a very thoughtful thing for you to want to do, it's just not practical. |
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I want to add some lime to my front lawn this fall. However, I have a lovely row of recently planted rhodies bordering one side of my lawn. How far should I keep away from them when adding lime to the lawn please? Thanks |
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Cadence, if you are applying just to your lawn, staying out of the drip line of your rhododendrons, you should be fine. I don't know of a formula to give you in measurement/feet, but staying outside the dripline (and you could always add a couple of feet to stay 'safe') would prevent lime over the root zone of your rhododendrons. Be careful if using a broadcast spreader for your lime that you don't overshoot your target grass :) I don't lime grass every year, but the years I have applied lime I haven't had a problem with it affecting acid loving plants/rhododendrons in borders or beds. |
It also depends on slope and drainage. Avoid areas above the rhododendrons where the lime can wash down. Avoid using lime near rhododendrons in low spots. This normally isn't a problem since rhododendrons need good drainage and are normally not planted in low spots. |
Great information, thanks. I've decided since I love my rhodies so much that I'm not going to lime my front lawn. I'll just add lime to the backyard where I have a lilac tree, butterfly bush and hydrangea. I don't think the lime will affect these. |
Typical blue and pink hydrangeas tend to be pink when the soil is alkaline such as with lime. If the soil is acidic and aluminum is present, they tend to be blue. Unfortunately aluminum is toxic to rhododendrons and azaleas, so the aluminum sulfate that is used on hydrangeas to encourage hydrangeas to be blue will eventually kill rhododendrons and azaleas. |
Here is a link that might be useful: How to grow rhododendrons and azaleas.
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I am already spayed, up to date with shots, good with kids, and good with cats.
Sweet Pea is such a doll, she came in with a litter of five kittens which have all found their forever homes. Now she sits with so much patience in her eyes waiting for someone to take her home. She would love to have a lap to curl up in and a family to call her very own.
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1 Light, space, zest - that's God! So, with him on my side I'm fearless, afraid of no one and nothing. | 1 The LORD is my light and my salvation-- whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life-- of whom shall I be afraid? |
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This is the years of the kids catching the big ones.
Last month we had a 10 year old Emma Turner with a 36.1 lb ling cod. This month we have another young lady, Kelly Hebner from Ontario, with a 23.4 pound Chinook. And another big ling cod of 34.4 pounds was caught By Jacopo Sandona.
The Cohos are starting to show up off the west coast now and should last till early September. Halibut in the last week have been averaging 25 lbs., with some well into the 30s. Hali numbers are picking up. Chinook sizes are also climbing upward as the season progresses.
The Ucluelet Salmon Ladder Derby has a 35 lb. 2 oz. Spring currently in the lead, caught by Dale Knoll.
All in all a great time to come fishing.
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Last winter I kept waking up at night with my nose stuffed as if I had a bad cold. When I got up in the morning all was fine after I washed my face.
At first I thought it was my feather pillows so I washed them and bought new covers for them. That didn't change the situation. So I started thinking about what I do when I go to bed that is different from any other time of day. The night cream was the answer. As soon as I stopped using it the problem went away. I tried numerous creams till it got to the point where I felt I was pouring money down the drain. Now all I use is pure olive oil or a bit of vaseline. Day creams and sunscreens are the same except that I get a sore throat and cold symptoms, watery eyes, etc. Again tried many brands, neutrogena, olay, avon, noxema, etc. My question is, do you have these senstitivites to creams and what is the specific thing in the products to cause these reactions. I am going back to my doctor in January and asking him to refer me to an allergist but in the meantime winter is here and I really would like to find an inexpensive night cream that will not cause these reactions. Thanks all. Valerie |
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- Posted by sylviatexas z8a Tx (My Page) on Thu, Oct 14, 10 at 14:46
That sounds puzzling & rare. I bet you'd have better odds of finding someone with similar experience if you were to post where a huge number of people read. You might try the Kitchen Table Forum (on the main That Home Site! menu page, about halfway between left & right, below the horizontal line on the menu). It's a very active forum, & the posters are almost to a person helpful & forthcoming. I wish you well. |
Valerie, had you thought at all about seeing a dermatologist and not waiting for your January appointment? My niece has just about the most sensitive, driest skin in the world, she gets a fragrance free prescription cream that the druggist compounds for her - it keeps her skin healthy and soft. If you want to know specifically what your irritant is an allergist might be the way to go but a dermatologist might be quicker route for relief. Your stuffy nose, eye irritating experiences with skin care products don't sound that odd to me, I wonder if added fragrance in those products isn't contributing to your issues. Perfumes/scents and the suncreens/blocks everyone preaches to us to slather on are both notorious for causing irritation, but I don't have a suggestion for you for an over the counter cream that is inexpensive and effective. Nothing is cheap if you can't use it and have to toss it :) |
- Posted by zeffyrose_pa6b7 6b7 (My Page) on Fri, Oct 15, 10 at 23:43
Valerie---I hope you can resolve this problem---- Morz---nice to see you posting--hope all is well with you. Florence |
- Posted by sylviatexas z8a Tx (My Page) on Sat, Oct 16, 10 at 17:02
I'm a dork; I didn't mean where a whole bunch of people read, I meant where a whole bunch of people who are tuned in to things like allergies & sensitivities read... like moms & stuff. sylvia shaking head at her own self & going off to find some gingko for brain function |
- Posted by onewheeler Z5 N.S. (My Page) on Wed, Oct 20, 10 at 5:42
Thanks for the advice. I bought a jar of vitamin E cream the other day to use as a night cream, it seems to working well. My skin gets so dry in the winter. I will go to that other forum as soon as time permits. I came here first as I know alot of you and trust you. :) Valerie |
- Posted by sylviatexas z8a Tx (My Page) on Wed, Oct 20, 10 at 15:50
I got a small jar of shea butter cream at Dollar General for $1, & it really helps my very dry skin. |
- Posted by onewheeler Z5 N.S. (My Page) on Thu, Oct 21, 10 at 5:36
well after only 4 nights of using the vitamin E cream I woke with the same stuffed sinus. that might narrow the field for what is causing this as there are only a few ingrediants in the cream. Drat, another ten bucks wasted. |
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Cars > mini90's Garage
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About me and my passion for cars
I love american muscle just recetnly got into tunning cars from my neon soon to be srt-4.
My first car
Dodge Neon 98
Car I wish I still had
My uncles 69 iroc camaro
My dream car
Mitshubishi Eclipse
Car clubs I'm in
Warc, WYOMING AUTO RACING CLUB
- Type of racing: Circle Track
- Driver: Dale Jarett or Dale Sr.
- Driving song: Remember the name, Fort minor
- Car movie: Days of thunder
- Car game: Grand Turismo 4
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Glory Days Racing Enthusiast
We're into Drag Racing, Street Machines, Hot Rods!! If goes fast and/or looks cool we're into it!! My big thing is Drag Racing as you can very well tell, but I like all forms of Motortopia!!!! We offer parts discounts to all members on the various parts we have and can get.GLORY DAYS RACING
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day inspired an uplifting school assembly during Monday's private school Open House. Along with the assembly, visiting families were able to experience a day in the life of a Besant Hill School student, attending classes, an informative panel discussion, campus tours, and a delicious lunch.
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Last Saturday was Ojai day, a celebration full of local art community and culture. BHS admission office had a booth to speak with local families while our students played on one of the five music stages. They were a huge hit.
From the new Doornink Grove to Phoenix Dormitory, our commitment to investing in, beautifying, and improving our campus and facilities can be seen all around us. With vision, patient planning, generosity and a lot of hard work by many at our school, it was a transformative summer on our campus.
Welcome all students and families! Student Government helped the admission team greet everyone to our community.
Our commitment to having a diverse, global community means that we travel extensively during the year, personally reaching out to recruiters and colleagues around the globe.
Thanks to our day student parents for joining us on campus this week. School begins on Wednesday!
The BHS Summer Programs are well underway. On campus there are 10 countries represented from USA to Russia and beyond. Students are studying ESL, SAT and Farm, while exploring areas of Southern California on the weekends.
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Are you interested in applying to BHS? If so, it is probably one of the most important decisions you will make in your life. The application to Besant Hill School contains the general application, parent and student questionnaires, transcript request, student essay and three teacher recommendations. Your application will be read by each member of the Admissions Committee, who will then reach a decision about your acceptance to the school.
Although a demonstrated responsibility for learning is the most important criterion, the committee also looks for qualities of character and maturity, as well as the ability and willingness to contribute to the life of the school community. Differences in background, circumstance and educational opportunity are also valued and weigh in our decisions. Above all, we strive to bring a well-rounded, interesting and diverse group of creative students to BHS. These students should be eager to take advantage of the many opportunities the school has to offer.
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"My first attempt at quiche and i used this recipe as a guideline basically. I always like to make recipes mine in some way. I used greek yogurt instead of mayo, and half cup of half and half and half a cup of nonfat milk. I also used fresh spinach and added green peppers since i had some on hand. The Quiche turned out awesome! Next time i will tr..."
Reviewed Pot Roast
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"When im in the mood for a hearty meal, this pot roast hits the spot. It has so much flavor and makes the whole house smell good while its cooking. I made mashed potatos with it so i could pour the gravy over those as well. Delicious"
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"Just the name of the cake tempted me to make it....Ive made it 3 times now and everyone loves it....I made this poundcake for christmas eve dinner and everyone told me it was there favorite dessert! One time i added coconut to the recipe just to try something different and because i love coconut and it turned out great as well
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This week's Humble Weekly Sale isn't filled with Android games, but it contains two goodies that are arguably worth the price of admission alone - NightSky and MANOS: The Hands of Fate. The former is available in the Play Store for $4.99, and the latter, $2.49. But if you pay over six bucks for this week's bundle, you can get both games along with seven additional titles for your PC and the Multimedia Fusion 2 game development software.
Humble Bundle With Android 6 was already a good deal before, as it offered seven games, five of which were debuting on Android for the first time. Now, three additional titles are joining the ranks. Those who have already bought the bundle will see McPixel, Waking Mars, and NightSky appear in their Humble Bundle libraries automatically. Those who haven't yet bought the bundle just have to pay over the average price paid thus far, which has yet to exceed $5.


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Thursday, January 31, 2013
It's the Egg, It's the Egg that Came First!
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I've always thought it was the egg, out of a certain romantic notion that it's the primordial egg from which everything comes from.
Anyway, finally somebody has made it their business to ponder the age-old question of which came first, the chicken or the egg?
That's one less mystery now in our world, although if you come to think of it, maybe it's better we didn't know at all. Some things are better left head-scratchingly unanswerable.
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When I was a kid, my family went out to eat approximately never. My mother will tell you that it was out of frugality, because my family was broke (not in a depressing, Charles-Dickens sort of way, but a charming and somewhat hilarious let's-throw-a-blanket-over-the-kids-so-we-don't-have-to-pay-for-them-at-the-Drive-In kind of way).
I'm sure our reluctance to eat out also had to do with the fact that restaurants don't like patrons who sit around the table for three hours after the meal is finished, yelling at one another about nothing. This is a part of Italian culture, and if you think that I am over-generalizing, then you have never had dinner with an Italian family.
Seriously, my family can fight about what time it is, if you let them.
I find it all rather hilarious, and I often just sit back and enjoy the conflict, occasionally stoking the coals ("Don't forget about daylight savings!" I'll innocently add, and another hour will be lost to the yelling). Sometimes I even make a bag of popcorn and nibble on it as I watch the show, and they don't even notice.
Before you judge me on my choice of entertainment, I will kindly remind you that it's in my blood: the ancient Romans used to watch people tear one another apart in the Colosseum; by comparison, our family dinners involve fewer casualties, though there is just about as much sword-wielding and yelling.
… I go on what I like to call a "rage bender."
On any given day, despite my desperate pleas to be left alone, I receive at least a dozen press releases from people asking me to try out a new product and review it on the blog. Most of the items they are schlepping seem to be odor-killing chemicals that you put in your toilet bowl before taking a crap, because apparently as a society, this is one of our biggest concerns: we literally want other people to think our shit doesn't stink.
I think global warming might be a problem, too, but whatever.
Without fail, I ignore these requests, and I'm going to tell you that it's for some noble reason, like keeping the integrity of my blog intact (such that it is). But I'd be lying if I didn't say that laziness had something to do with it, too.
Do you remember when Rand and I went to an island resort in the Great Barrier Reef, and it was wonderful and all, but the food was so expensive that I nearly passed out while simultaneously evacuating my bowels?
But then my body kicked in and said: WE CANNOT AFFORD TO LEAVE ANY NUTRIENTS UNDIGESTED. Not only did my bowels not evacuate, but I was constipated for a week while my tightwad intestines worked overtime to squeeze every last bit of value from our overpriced meals. When I finally went to the bathroom (which happened sometime after we got to Sydney), I'd so efficiently processed my food, that I released only a few little odorless pellets of pooh into the toilet. Like a rabbit. Or Gwyneth Paltrow.
I'm still sick, so I hope you'll forgive me for another brief blog post. I feel like wet concrete has been poured into my sinuses.
When I was a kid, my cousin would often come visit from Italy during the summer. He and his parents (and later, when they existed, his siblings, too) would stay with my grandparents in their tiny little bungalow (translation: non-air-conditioned house) not far from Cocoa Beach, Florida.
Soon after their arrival, I would drag a suitcase full of clothing over to my grandparent's and spend much of the summer there. On sunny days, my cousin and I ate junk food and went to the beach. When it rained, we'd eat junk food and play Monopoly.
He now owns a gelato shop and I eat or write about cake on an almost daily basis. I'm not saying that those two things are necessarily related to the amount of sugar we consumed as kids, but … well, it's interesting, isn't it?
I was walking around the 4th arrondissement in Paris when I saw this:
I had to stare at it for a few moments to fully grasp the awesomeness that was happening.
It's David Duchovny – FOX MOULDER HIMSELF – modeling for some brand that we don't have here in the states. It's bizarre to the point of being amazing, right? And it's so very random. I mean, if it were the mid to late 90s, I'd get it. That was Duchovny's heyday. But IT'S 2008, PEOPLE.*
I have this impression of the French (which I realize is overly generalizing and stereotypical and patently unfair) that they're all rather beautiful and dramatic and madly in love, and at the same time, miserably bored.
Like, "Luc, I love you desperately and I can't live without you, but I think my husband just found out about us, which wouldn't be a problem except that he's your son and … sigh. Pass the remote."
I find it all pretty fascinating, because my family is Italian, which means they're pretty much the same, except instead of boredom, Italians have mopeds and pasta and lots and lots of screaming. But the drama and the beauty and the passionate love affairs? That's all there. Totally.
But perhaps that measure of boredom that I've (mostly likely inaccurately) attributed to the French is a good thing, because it helps temper all that drama, and makes things like this possible:
If you are playing along at home, and are a little confused, fear not: I was, too. This was the display in a children's boutique window. To the best of my understanding, a baby doll has been used as a clothing mannequin, and has been sort of abandoned on a table. Oh, and the Eiffel Tower is rather brutally impaling a heart.
It's the sort of thing I can imagine a group of Italians screaming about, because, seriously, THAT IS TOTAL MADNESS AND A LITTLE BIT GHASTLY.
They'd throw up their hands and scream at unholy decibels that the shopkeeper has lost his or her mind. But I suppose the French would just sort of yawn and go on being beautiful, which they've somehow managed to turn into a calorie-burning feat.
And I'm thinking that I could use a little more of that in my life.
Like most couples who've been together for way, waaaay too long, Rand and I have started seeing things the same way.
I am acutely aware of how obnoxious this is for our friends and relatives. I will walk in to a room, and make an observation ("Hey! They have dry-cured olives! I love dry-cured olives!"), and a few minutes later Rand will walk in and do the exact same thing.
Hanging out with us is basically like watching the same episode of a TV show, twice. And it's not even that good of an episode.
I won't even touch on all the times we've each told the same corny joke, back-to-back, at the same party. Needless to say, it's a miracle anyone hangs out with us at all.


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One of the interesting things about "Millennium Approaches," Part One of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America," which opened last spring, was how often audience members talked about the naked body of Stephen Spinella, who played a man with AIDS.
The body, marked by lesions, was incredibly thin. Did the actor really have AIDS? The issue became so hot that The Paper of Record interviewed Spinella to assure readers he was not sick.
The reason Spinella's ascetic body took on such significance, I suspect, is that it was a more tangible image of the play's concerns than the fantasizing and intellectualizing preoccupying Kushner.
There is a comparable moment in "Perestroika," the 3 1/2-hour sequel. Roy Cohn (Ron Leibman), hospitalized with AIDS, in a fit of anger rips an intravenous tube from his arm. Immediately he begins to bleed. Here, too, is a reality far more pungent than most of the surrounding play. The danger of exposure to such blood has been the stuff of headlines, but Kushner doesn't focus on it.
Kushner is again after metaphorical rather than literal game. Part One ended with an angel breaking through the ceiling of Prior Walter's (Spinella) bedroom. In this play, there are a lot of angels. Like the Biblical Jacob, Walter wrestles with his angel, who gives him a glimpse of heaven (it resembles San Francisco) and then anoints Walter a prophet.
This enables Walter to fly around New York in search of the plot threads left dangling in Part One. He finds his former lover Louis, who deserted him as soon as he became really sick. He compiles a dossier on Louis' new lover, Joe, the Mormon Republican befriended by Roy Cohn. He even meets Joe's dour mother, Hannah.
When she discovers Walter is a homosexual, she asks if he's a hairdresser. "It'd be your lucky day if I was," he tells her. It is she who urges him to wrestle with his angel and secure a blessing.
Cohn is also visited by an angel, an angel of death in the form of an aloof Ethel Rosenberg (played ominously by Kathleen Chalfant, who also plays Hannah Pitt). It is Ethel who brings Cohn the news he has been disbarred. It is also she who recites for him the Jewish prayer for the dead, a prayer Louis confuses with the blessing over wine.
The fanciful plot and the bitchy humor reminded me of the plays of Ron Tavel, which were also subversive, but in a mirthful, unpretentious way. Kushner is always trying to invest his images with deep significance. (The dying Cohn, for example, is compared with America - "terminal, crazy and mean.")
In certain ways, "Perestroika" is more enjoyable than its predecessor because it is more playful. There is a funny sequence, for example, in which Hannah, her hapless daughter-in-law (Marcia Gay Harden) and Walter met at the Mormon Visitors Center. In a diorama of the Mormon migration, Kushner finds more evidence of America's yearnings after myth.
But he is never able to make his perceptions coalesce. The play is full of political humor (much of it already dated) and political points. The angels Kushner battles yield their blessings all too readily. Kushner the polemicist always wins out over Kushner the chronicler of the American psyche.
The cast (the same as in Part One) remains powerful, the physical production elegant. But "Perestroika," which, as its title suggests, describes a period of transition and pain, adds little to what we already know.
With heavenly wings flapping portentously, "Perestroika," Part Two of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America," arrived at the Walter Kerr Theater last night, joyously closing the circle on one of the most highly praised plays in recent history.
That cliffhanger of the play's first part, "The Millennium Approaches," - leaving the hero faced with both death and an angel - was confronted, and I suppose resolved, in the second part of this self-styled "gay fantasia on national themes."
Yet, marvelous attributes notwithstanding, a sense of disappointment - perhaps unreasonably - hung in the air. The very title "Perestroika" - or "Restructuring" in Gorbachev Russian - suggested a more solid solution or antidote to problems both gay and national than Kushner proffered, even though the man's a playwright after all, not a patent medicine.
Thus we were left with just a second installment of Kushner's melange of politics, sex and religion (not necessarily in that order), all seen as kind of part college strip-cartoon and part satirically observed soap opera.
It's a very long play by modern standards - like Part One, this Part Two lasts some 3 1/2 hours - but Kushner's command over his material makes it flash by, with its intercutting scenes, though no overlapping dialogue as in Part One, offering a mosaic-fantasia that spurts into very funny, usually gay-camp, humor at the very suggestion of tediousness.
For example wait for a simple joke about "Hairdressers," not only absolutely hilarious but archetypical of Kushner's anarchic sense of pained irony.
There is wonderful serio-comic writing here, all of it played to the hilt by the same cast as in Part One, staged as before with virtuoso fluency by George C. Wolfe, and with epically apt scenery, costumes and lighting by, respectively, Robin Wagner, Toni-Leslie James and Jules Fisher.
The disappointing aspect of the play is the way Kushner seems so easily lulled into cozy platitude and cliche - God should be sue, the World's too hard, Heaven is a City rather like San Francisco. Sure! And love will one day make the world go round and repair the gashes in the ozone layer. Right on!
Yet, unquestionably, there is some huge-screen vision here - some vast, windy concept of the problem of pain and injustice in our society - being evoked, if only sporadically illuminated. But for the aspiration - for that alone - enormous thanks.
And Kushner peoples his phantasmagoria with great, sharply realistic characters - the savagely comic Roy Cohn, played with expectorating, explosive bile by Ron Liebman, Steven Spinella's whimsically wicked, spindly, long-dying prophet and Jeffrey Wright's raw and motherly nurse, are luminously wonderful.
Then there are Joe Mantello's faint-hearted and smart-assed Jewish underachiever, the idiosyncratic Mormon complexities of the characters played by David Marshall Grant, Kathleen Chalfant and Marcia Gay Harden.
"Angels in America" is probably no masterpiece - it could have the kind of shelf-life suffered by John Dos Passos - still it is one of those plays defining an era, a work of today's imagination and sensibility, and today at least, can on no account be missed.
If you end the first half of an epic play with an angel crashing through a Manhattan ceiling to visit a young man ravaged by AIDS, what do you do for an encore?
If you are Tony Kushner, the author of "Angels in America," you follow the angel up into the stratosphere, then come back home with a healing vision of heaven on Earth. "Perestroika," the much awaited Part 2 of Mr. Kushner's "Gay Fantasia on National Themes," is not only a stunning resolution of the rending human drama of Part 1, "Millennium Approaches," but also a true millennial work of art, uplifting, hugely comic and pantheistically religious in a very American style.
Set at once in New York City in the real plague year of 1986 and on a timeless, celestial threshold of revelation, it has the audacity to ask big questions in its opening moments: "Are we doomed? Will the past release us? Can we change? In time?" And then, even more dazzlingly, come the answers, delivered in three and a half hours of spellbinding theater embracing such diverse and compelling native legends as the Army-McCarthy hearings, the Mormon iconography of Joseph Smith and the MGM film version of "The Wizard of Oz."
The opening questions are asked by a character who never reappears: a blind Russian man who is the world's oldest living Bolshevik. "Perestroika" is aptly titled not because it has much to do with the former Soviet Union but because it burrows into that historical moment of change when all the old orders, from Communism to Reaganism, are splintering, and no one knows what apocalypse or paradise the next millennium might bring. "How are we to proceed without theory?" asks the cross, aged Bolshevik. Not the least of Mr. Kushner's many achievements is his refusal to adhere to any theatrical or political theory. "Angels in America" expands in complexity as it moves forward, unwilling to replace gods that failed with new ones any more than it follows any textbook rules of drama.
Even so, Mr. Kushner does not neglect the intimate tales of the characters who captured the audience's imagination in Part 1. The show at the Walter Kerr Theater, where both parts will now play in repertory, is still driven by two antithetical AIDS patients, the 31-year-old free spirit Prior Walter (Stephen Spinella) and the closeted old right-wing cynic Roy Cohn (Ron Leibman). Louis Ironson (Joe Mantello), the leftist Jewish lover who deserted Prior, begins an affair with the Republican, Mormon lawyer Joe Pitt (David Marshall Grant) early in Part 2, even as Joe's wife, Harper (Marcia Gay Harden), continues to drift in a Valium-induced fantasy of Antarctica. Belize (Jeffrey Wright), the black former drag queen, turns up as Cohn's sassy hospital nurse while Joe's mother (Kathleen Chalfant), who has left Salt Lake City and now works at the Mormons' Visitor Center in New York, becomes an equally unlikely solace to Prior.
The collisions of these people are often more comic than you might expect. In classical terms, "Perestroika" is a comedy, for it brings all its characters' conflicts into more or less peaceful resolution, with much laughter along the way. When Louis and Joe go to bed, for instance, their irreconcilable political differences turn their coupling into a riotous ideological fistfight -- "a sex scene in an Ayn Rand novel," in Louis's aghast summation -- even though the utter selfishness of both men, guiltless conservative and guilty liberal alike, binds them closer than their knee-jerk party lines admit. When Ethel Rosenberg (Ms. Chalfant) returns from the grave to exchange wisecracks with Cohn and then say the kaddish for him, Mr. Kushner rebalances the scales of justice and revives the gallows humor of Lenny Bruce even as he blankets the scene with the reconciliatory poetic cadences of the prayer. How much more cosmically comic can you get?
Still more so, as it happens. The crux of "Perestroika" is the tying up of the greatest dangling thread from Part 1: that final-curtain arrival of the Angel who anoints Prior a prophet. As played by Ellen McLaughlin with down-to-earth puckishness, the Angel proves something of a comedian in Part 2. Up to a point. She is also, as Prior comes to realize, an angel of stasis and death. Pursuing a fever dream as vivid as the one that propelled Judy Garland to Munchkinland, Prior climbs to a heaven resembling the earthquake-shattered San Francisco of 1906. Given a red epistolary book and robe, if not red slippers, he encounters a conclave of angels on his way to deciding just what kind of prophet he will be when he returns to a home that God seems to have abandoned.
Prior's searching pilgrimage is echoed throughout "Perestroika" by the Mormon, Jewish and black characters and implicitly by their pioneer, immigrant and enslaved ancestors. As Prior journeys to heaven, so the Mormon mannequins in a wagon-train diorama come magically to life; Belize is possessed by the ghosts of Abolitionist days while Louis must wrestle with his discarded Jewishness. Only Cohn stays adamantly put, canonizing himself as "the heartbeat of modern conservatism" even as he consigns Henry Kissinger and George Schulz to history's dustbin along with the more expected names on his enemies' list.
It takes an artist of Mr. Kushner's talent and empathic powers to elevate Cohn, a mere scoundrel in real life, into a villain of such wit and cunning that he becomes mesmerizing theatrical company. Mr. Leibman, his face ashen, his eyes rimmed in red, his stooped posture wrapped in a demonic green robe, plays him with savage grandeur in "Perestroika," as a sweaty pulp of rage and hatred and blasted nerves. A whirligig of malevolence, he barks "Find the vein, you moron!" to Belize one moment, then blackmails Iran-contra conspirators for a supply of AZT the next. As always, his telephone serves as an extra appendage -- his last word in "Angels in America," like his first, is "Hold!" -- but now the cord is entwined with the many tubes of his illness. This does not stop Mr. Leibman, in an absolutely terrifying scene, from ripping loose of his IV, his poisoned blood spurting everywhere, to make one last hypocritical plea that Joe, his gay protege, return to his heterosexual marriage.
This patient from hell notwithstanding, George C. Wolfe, the director, and Robin Wagner, the designer, have slightly lowered the temperature of "Angels" for its second half, as befits a text in which hallucinations overwhelm any quarrelsome domestic or political reality. Much of the action takes place in a cool, dark limbo that, as lighted by Jules Fisher and flecked with jazz by the composer Anthony Davis, both captures the literal setting (largely New York City during a spring rain) and conveys the pregnant end-of-millennium mood. The roles that grow markedly in Part 2 -- Mr. Wright's agent provocateur of a nurse, Ms. Chalfant's no-nonsense yet strangely comforting matriarch and especially Mr. Grant's Joe -- are beautifully rendered. Like the impressive Mr. Mantello, Mr. Grant has an unusual knack for finding humor and shading in a character whose self-righteousness is matched only by his callousness to a partner in desperate need.
Yet the heart of the play is Prior Walter, as acted by the extraordinary Mr. Spinella. "I'm not a prophet," he protests early in Part 2. "I'm a sick, lonely man." Deserted by his lover, thin to the point of emaciation, covered with the lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma, Prior is the one who must bear the weight of the future on his slender shoulders. While Mr. Spinella looks like God's avenger in the quasi-clerical black cape and hood he wears for much of the evening, his performance is the opposite of Mr. Leibman's Cohn. He is beyond anger.
"The worst thing about being sick in America is you are booted out of the parade," Cohn says. Prior, who has an "addiction to being alive," refuses to be booted. He wants to "live past hope," he tells the angel of death. "I want more life." Appropriately, "Angels in America" is one play of the AIDS era that does not end at a memorial service but with the characters gathered in expectation, on a brilliant day, before Bethesda Fountain in Central Park. The year of this epilogue is 1990, and though Prior is now leaning on a cane like the Bolshevik of the prologue and is nearly as blind, Mr. Spinella radiates joy. "This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all," he says. "The world only spins forward."
People no longer build cathedrals, as they did a thousand years ago, to greet the next millennium, but "Angels in America" both spins forward and spirals upward in its own way, for its own time. If anything, Prior's description of statuary angels like the one in the fountain honoring the Civil War dead could stand for Mr. Kushner's fabulous play: "They commemorate death, but they suggest a world without dying."
"Bye now!" cries a smiling Mr. Spinella as this great epic draws to a close, raising his long arm and throwing it back in an ecstatic wave. His indelible gesture feels less like a goodbye than a benediction, less like a final curtain than a kiss that blesses everyone in the theater with the promise of more life.
The angel finally has touched down. Six months ago "Millennium Approaches," the first part of "Angels in America," swept Broadway off its feet while leaving two of the biggest question marks in the history of the Street: What was the fate of these characters whose interwoven lives were left tantalizingly unresolved, and, in concluding their stories, would playwright Tony Kushner equal the astonishing dramatic accomplishment of "Millennium"?
To the second question, the answer is an unqualified yes: "Perestroika" is as funny, heart-breaking, poetic and knowing as "Millennium." With its top price of $ 120 for both parts, "Angels in America" becomes the most expensive Broadway ticket ever and, with the two halves clocking in at over seven hours, among the longest. Yet now it's hard to imagine one without the other, for people attending "Millennium Approaches" will find it impossible to resist seeing the play's conclusion, while anyone opting for only "Perestroika" is likely to be confused about how this amazing group of characters came together and fell apart in the first place.
That interdependence is something the producers are banking on, for at $ 3 million and counting, "Angels" has also become Broadway's most expensive non-musical production. The gamble was riskier than anyone might have imagined, for not only did the producers plan to have the
cast rehearse "Perestroika" while performing "Millennium Approaches," but they went into it knowing, when Part One opened last spring, that Part Two still needed considerable work.
While Kushner has retained the soaring spirit of "Perestroika," he and his collaborators -- notably director George C. Wolfe -- have done a masterly job of pruning, reshaping, editing and rewriting the script.
"Perestroika" begins with a variation on the comic opening and apocalyptic finale of "Millennium Approaches." Before a red scrim, "the world's oldest living Bolshevik" (Kathleen Chalfant playing one of several male roles) speaks about the coming change in the Soviet order. "Will the past release us?" he wonders, adding, "Show me the words that will reorder the world or else keep silent"-- doubtless the playwright's own credo.
The scrim drops, revealing at center stage the winged Angel (Ellen McLaughlin) who has crashed through a bedroom ceiling to announce that the AIDS-ravaged Prior Walter (Stephen Spinella) is a prophet and that the "great work" can now begin.
Downstage right, Prior's deserting lover Louis (Joe Mantello) is seducing the vaguely reluctant Joe Pitt, a judge's clerk and Roy Cohn protege. Downstage left , Joe's abandoned wife, Harper (Marcia Gay Harden), filthy and in tatters, has managed to chew through the trunk of asmall pine tree in Prospect Park near the Brooklyn home that, until recently, she and Joe, both Mormons, shared.
Over the ensuing three hours, Kushner reconfigures these pairings and a few others into a series of unlikely alliances and failed rapprochements, each of which is finally heart-rending. Along the way is some devastatingly pointed hilarity in the face of disease and betrayal, much of it at the expense of the Mormons. This includes a couple of priceless scenes involving a diorama at the Visitor's Center displaying the Mormon hegira to Utah, and the depiction of heaven as a place of beauty much like San Francisco.
The most poignant connection is made in heaven between Harper and Prior, in a brief, sad conversation about the agony of loss that endows them with unexpected strength: Prior rejects both Louis and his heavenly mandate to spread the message of "migratory cessation" to the world, while Harper, no longer in Joe's thrall, finally sets out on her own.
"I want more life," Prior declares before a gathering of angels. "I can't help myself, I do." That message -- of grabbing life in the face of sickness, desertion, even death -- courses through "Angels in America" and gives the play its powerful grounding. In an epilogue four years after the action has ended, set at the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, Prior tells the audience that he's lived with AIDS for five years.
"We're not going away," he announces. "We won't die slow, secret deaths anymore." Echoing his defiance of the angels, Prior again declares, "More life!" That conclusion is tamer than the crashing finale of "Millennium Approaches." But it's also the inevitable coda to everything that has gone before and it tears right into the heart, for perhaps Kushner's most stunning accomplishment with "Angels in America" is an unashamed refusal to poison his anger with cynicism.
With a cast that has grown fiercer and more confident, Wolfe again delivers a sprawling, complex work with incomparable clarity and elegance. Spinella, Mantello, David Marshall Grant, McLaughlin, Chalfant and the mesmerizing Ron Leibman as a dying Roy Cohn have lost none of the fervor with which they attack their roles. Special mention should be made of Harden's now utterly haunting portrayal of Harper, and Wright's total inhabitation of Belize, the black queen who nurses Cohn.
Robin Wagner's settings are less abstract and more humorous than those for "Millennium," and Jules Fisher's lighting and Toni-Leslie James' costumes again add immeasurably to the atmosphere. The stagecraft has no equal on Broadway.
But of course, neither does the play. "Angels in America" is a monumental achievement, the work of a defiantly theatrical imagination that has no parallel on television or in the movies. It ennobles Broadway as no other work in recent memory has.


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It seems as if it's the year of the werewolf. Last month we had werewolf the beast among us by universal as well as game of werewolves from Spain. The latter a nice hammer asked classic werewolf tale, but we're not done yet. next on the list we have Hallow Point, sort of a werewolf love story. Check out the new poster trailer below…
"HALLOW POINTE is a chilling story about love, life and what lengths you go through to try and save someone; all told within the classic horror staple, a creature feature. The film is centered around Madeline's Closet, a quaint bed and breakfast hidden away from the world on a hidden dirt road in the woods. Henry and Jane are hoping a weekend there will help rekindle their love for each other.
Staying there, along with a few other guests, everything seems to be going as planned until the sun sets and the full moon lights up the sky. Instead of trying to save their marriage they must now work together to try and save their lives."
The film stars Ashley C. Williams, Leslie Easterbrook, Kane Hodder, Tiffany Shepis, Cody Deal, Lar Park Lincoln, Allison Kyler, Belinda Balaski, Brad Loree, Eileen Dietz, Sarah French, Cody Matthew Blymire, Stacey Dixon, Steven Barton, and Tony Todd.
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Keyshia Cole has understandably been keeping a low profile while her mother and oldest sister blanket the nation with enough niggatry to last us all a lifetime. And can you blame her? Long after the last cockroach stops scampering around inside the walls of the Killer Knowles Kompound the damage from The Frankie & Neffe Show will still be around.
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They're wedding shoes. :)
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Let me tell you a little story about how I purchased them for 37% off without any sales or coupon codes.
First, Google's shopping search found them for me for $84.45 at ShoeBuy, which was the cheapest price online. Next, I went to Ebates to see if ShoeBuy offered a rebate through them. They did! 10% back! Not only was that awesome, but they also informed me that if I bought them on a Thursday and used EBillMe to pay for them, I would get another 20% back.
So, it's Thursday. I got online this morning to purchase my Navy Satin Nina Evelixas and first went to Ebates (in case you don't know, Ebates is a rebate site for online purchases-- it's FREE to join and you get a $10 credit just for signing up) and Ebates sent me to ShoeBuy.
When you create a ShoeBuy account, you get 10% off your first purchase, so that brought my $84.45 shoes down to $76. Since it's Thursday and I used EBillMe to pay (it's where you send them a payment through your bank's online bill pay), I got $15.20 back. Now the shoes are $60.80.
Ebates will give me 10% back from the original $76 price, so another $7.60 off. That makes my shoes $53.20. Just doing a couple extra things that took me maybe one minute to complete saved me $31.25!
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1. ALWAYS go through Ebates before you make any online purchases.
2. Bookmark ShoeBuy for shoes and make purchases on Thursdays.


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Bateman, also making his feature directing debut, plays Guy Trilby, a 40-year-old proofreader who uses a technicality to force his way into a school spelling bee. Backed by online reporter Jenny Widgeon (Kathryn Hahn), Trilby makes his way to the finals of the Golden Quill spelling championship in Los Angeles.
There, the bee director (Allison Janney), surrounded by angry parents, vows to get rid of Trilby one way or another. He's assigned a storage closet for a hotel room, and during the contest somehow ends up with impossible words while his competitors breeze through examples like "nougat."
Trilby has no trouble psyching out his pint-sized opponents, and finds it easy to manipulate Jenny, who is trying to turn his story into a feature article. But since this is the first year the contest is being televised on public television, chief Bill Bowman (Philip Baker Hall) will do whatever it takes to eliminate Trilby.
Andrew Dodge's screenplay gets most of its kick from blistering insults that Bateman delivers with the perfect mix of spleen and indifference. The nicest term Trilby has for spelling whiz Chaitanya Chopra (Rohan Chand) is "Slumdog."
But the story has several lulls that Bateman as director can't quite work around. And for a movie that positions itself as defiantly raunchy and anti-sentimental, Bad Words reveals a soft, gooey core during its climax.
Given his character's mixed-up motives, Bateman is fascinating, turning invective into performance art. Chand is endearing as Chopra, a friendless but resilient nerd, adding depth to what turns out to be the movie's central relationship. An outstanding Kathryn Hahn manages to turn her distinctly unlikeable character into someone warm and appealing.
Even at 88 minutes, Bad Words feels stretched out, with Bateman sticking to some montages a bit too long. The ratio of hits to misses remains pretty high even as the movie seems to dawdle over scenes that lead nowhere. Viewers out to indulge in Bateman's venom won't mind the slow parts.


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Climate Action Employment
While there has been an ongoing surge in the availability of green jobs even as the economy in general fails to produce adequate employment opportunities for the population as a whole, it is climate action jobs that seem to be receiving the most notice among those who wish to pursue environmental employment opportunities.
Climate action jobs tend to be with organizations and agencies that take a "top down" approach to improving the environment, so rather than focusing on important, localized issues like recycling drives, home improvements that lead to less energy consumption, etc., climate action positions will typically revolve around trying to change policies and legislation related to environmental issues.
Most notable among the issues that climate action professionals are attempting to address is global warming and the factors assumed to be contributors to the earth's recognizable warming trend, including greenhouse gas emissions, automotive and other transportation emissions control, sustainable energy development, etc.
For those with experience in the field – and this can range from engineering expertise to a specialty in legislation and the law – there are still a wide array of employment opportunities, many of them with government agencies and non-profit organizations dedicated to climate action initiatives.
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Welcome to the Missouri Association Medical Staff Services (MoAMSS) website. MoAMSS is a state chapter of the National Association of Medical Staff Services, a national professional organization for credentialing and medical staff services professionals. MoAMSS was established in 1990 and currently has over 125 members representing hospitals, managed care, credentials verification organizations, physician/hospital organizations and other healthcare entities.
The objectives of MoAMSS are to provide the opportunity for continuing education and to promote the improvement of professional knowledge and skill by uniting persons who are engaged in medical and/or health care staff activities throughout the state. Participation in MoAMSS provides a unique opportunity to learn and grow as a credentialing professional. MoAMSS provides various networking and educational opportunities several times each year. MoAMSS is also a personal membership group of the Missouri Hospital Association. For additional information about MoAMSS, please feel free to contact a member of its 2014 leadership council.
The Kansas State and Kansas City Chapter separated to make the Kansas organization stronger and provide the State of Missouri an opportunity to organize. Dues between these two groups were divided equally.
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10/1989 | Organized |
1/1990 | Activated – Kansas City chapter and St. Louis Area chapter |
1992 | Affiliation agreement signed with Missouri Hospital Association |
9/1995 | Mid-Missouri chapter organized |
6/1996 | Membership voted to change identifying acronym from MAMSS to MoAMSS. |
6/1998 | State pin design approved |
12/2004 | Website developed |
2009 Sheryl Davis, CPMSM, CPCS, President NAMSS
2012 State Conference at the Capital in Jefferson City
2013 State Conference at Mercy Hospital Springfield
2014 CPCS Certification Prep Program at DePaul Health Center
2014 State Educational Conference - Lake of the Ozarks - April 10 - 11
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