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Are you looking for fun local activities to celebrate Halloween this year? Well look no further…we've got all the local Halloween festivities listed below!
The Scream Haunted Adventure – Decatur
Friday and Saturdays Oct. 3 – Nov. 1 from 7:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. plus 7 – 10 p.m. on Sunday Oct. 26. Tickets $9-$20. http://www.decaturscream.com/
Two Haunted Adventures: One Eerie Location
The Scream Haunted House
Watch your back as you travel through over 14,000 square feet of fright including 30 horrifying scenes, double vortex tunnels, a grave crawl, and squeeze wall, built inside an empty warehouse inhabited by zombies, beasts, monsters, and roaming sinister characters.
The Scream Haunted Warehouse Tour
Back by popular demand, the Haunted Warehouse Tour guides patrons through abandoned portions of the warehouse that are rumored to be haunted. Similar to the TV show, "Ghost Adventures," this flashlight tour is a paranormal experience where a small group of explorers visits the creepy remains of a once buzzing cafeteria, kitchen, and locker room of the old Mueller warehouse.
October 17-18 & 23-31
Boo at the Zoo
5:30-8:00 p.m. (3:00-8:00 p.m. on weekends)
Admission $4.50 Collecting Treats, $3.50 No Treats (Under Age 2 – No Treats – Free)
Train $2.50 Non-Members, $2.00 FOZ Members.
Carousel $2.00 Non-Members, $1.50 FOZ Members.
Celebrate a safe Halloween with fun for the entire family! Dress up or come as you are, as hundreds of Jack-o'-lanterns guide you through the spooky treat stations. Take a ride on the Fright Night Express and the Endangered Species Carousel.
October 24
March of the Living Zombies, Join an afternoon of Halloween Family fun!
Meet at Dr G's BrainWorks store (south corridor)
1-4pm Play zombie and halloween themed games for FREE in front of Dr. G's BrainWorks
2pm Zombiefications courtesy of Mr. John's Esthetics Students
3pm March steps off will circle south end of mall and end at center stage
Awards for best zombie family, cutest couple, scariest zombie, cutest zombie
Halloween Hoopla, Children's Museum of Illinois, 55 South Country Club Road, Decatur, 423-KIDS (5437), http://childrensmuseumofil.com/event/halloween-hoopla-2015/
Cerro Gordo PTA Halloween Spooktacular, 10:30am-3pm
209 S Monroe St, Cerro Gordo – Cerro Gordo PTA Facebook or email@example.com
Richland Community College, Trunk or Treat
5-7pm, Parking Lot B RCC
Come in your costume and trunk or treat for some candy!
October 25
Millikin Halloween in the Halls– Richards Treat University Center, 12-3 pm
Student Housing Council will be hosting its annual Halloween-themed trick-or-treating tour through Millikin University residence halls. (Last tour starts at 2:45 pm)
More info 362-6410
Trunk or Treat at Antioch Christian Church, 3-5 pm
5409 US-36, Decatur, 864-3444 www.accdecatur.org
October 28
Decatur First Church of the Nazarene Trunk or Treat, 6-8pm
1177 W Hickory Point Rd., Decatur 875-0616 www.firstnazarene.org
Tabernacle Baptist Church Trunk or Treat, 6-8pm
650 N. Wyckles, Decatur, 877-5653 www.tbc.church/
GT Church, 500 S. 27th Street in Decatur
1st Annual Trunk or Treat from 6-7:30pm
The whole family is welcome at this free event for ages 2 year to 5th grade. For more details call 217-233-8400 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
October 30
Jackson Ford 3rd annual Halloween Spooktacular event
4pm-7pm. Offering safe trick or treating and a costume contest ages 0-12 years. The winner is chosen by the amount of Facebook likes on their uploaded photo. The two lucky winners get to pick out their own bike from Walmart (up to $100 value!)t
October 31
Macon County Animal Control
October 31, 12-3 pm
2820 E Parkway Drive, Decatur, 425-4508, www.dmcasf.org
(not for publication – more info: Tracy 791-1025)
Akorn Pharmaceuticals, Trunk or Treat
150 S Wyckles Rd
from 4pm-6pm
Trunk or Treat, at Mt Zion United Methodist Church, 5-7:30pm
1220 W. Main St. Mt. Zion 864-4813, www.mtzunitedmethodist.com
Trunk or Treat at St. Paul's Lutheran Church (Decatur, IL), 6-8pm
1 Bachrach Ct, Decatur, 423-6955, www.spldecatur.org
Trunk-R-Treat at South Shores Christian Church, 6-8pm
230 Bristol Dr. Decatur, 428-5683, www.southshores.net
Trunk or Treat at Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church on Franklin St. 6-8pm
2055 S. Franklin Street Road, Decatur 428-0641, www.mtcalvaryweb.org
Trunk or Treat at Forsyth United Methodist Church from 6-8pm.
210 Ruehl St., Forsyth, 877-1441, www.forsythumc.com
Harvestfest with Trunk or Treat, Heartland Community Church, 6-8pm
3253 N. Brush College Rd., Decatur, 877.9529, www.heartlandcc.net/calendar–events.html
Trunk or Treat at Holy Family School/Church, 6 pm
2400 S. Franklin St. Rd., Decatur, 423-7049, www.hfcschool.org
Trunk or Treat at First Baptist Church, 6-8 pm
1320 W Arbor Dr, Decatur, 875-8034, www.decaturfbc.com

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1 Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia 2 The Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia 3 School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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In the afterglow of last week's election - better known as deep depression - I've tried to learn some lessons.
Here's what I think I learned.
We can all look at the same set of numbers and have starkly different "take aways."
It's easy enough to see the obvious racial divide in the election results. And it's equally easy to see the different political preferences in dozens of demographic breakdowns, i.e., age, religion, gender, etc.
But far and above is the major political gulf between urban centers and the rest of the nation.
Ignore the pundits - just look at the map and let your eyes tell you the differences.
The final election results' map is a virtual sea of red - literally from coast to coast - with bright blue in the densely populated cities.
Measured by counties, it was a GOP sweep. Measured in land mass, once again it's overwhelmingly GOP dominated.
But we all know, that's not the way our system works.
Pick virtually any state and they were red-dominant at first glance.
Closer inspection, of course, shows the huge urban masses were saturated with blue voters and those numbers don't lie.
What's needed is a massive exchange program between urban and rural areas.
Only when we sit down with our urban counterparts will we start to understand the basis of our differences and eventually build some bridges of understanding.
For decades, millions of American families have hosted foreign exchange programs. These exchanges in culture and background help to forge understanding and find common ground.
Many communities have adopted "Sister City" programs with foreign communities for the same purpose.
Until we break down the urban/rural divide, many voices (ours) will be less effective in having substantive input into our national agenda.
But the problem, of course, is not geography.
The urban/rural differences include values, expectations and views on the purpose and scope of government.
By most metrics, we still live in a center-right country.
Yet the urban centers clearly don't reflect this national view.
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UEFA said the Italian hosts had been charged over racist chanting by their fans, missile-throwing and also because their team arrived late at the Stadio Olimpico. The Group J match ended 0-0.
"Charges relate to the alleged racist behaviour of Lazio supporters...Proceedings will also be instigated against Lazio for throwing of missiles and/or fireworks by their supporters, incidents of a non-sporting nature, late team arrival at the stadium, and late handling of the team sheet," said UEFA.
"UEFA will also commence proceedings against Tottenham Hotspur FC, who face charges related to crowd disturbances."
A group of Lazio supporters chanted "Juden Tottenham, Juden Tottenham" ("Jews Tottenham, Jews" in German) when the game got underway and unfurled a banner saying "Free Palestine".
Tottenham have a large contingent of Jewish supporters while Lazio have long had fans with extreme right-wing sympathies.
There was also trouble on the eve of the match.
Ten Tottenham supporters were injured, one of them seriously, during an attack in Rome.
The 10, nine British and one American, were attacked outside a pub near the centre of the city by dozens of masked men.
UEFA fined Lazio 40,000 euros ($51,300) for racist chanting directed at black players in the previous match against Tottenham in London in September. (Writing by Brian Homewood in Berne; Editing by Mark Meadows; firstname.lastname@example.com; +41 79 917 1402; Reuters Messaging: email@example.com)
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Queens Botanical Garden's verdant landscape is the perfect location to enjoy music under the stars. We are honored to welcome superb artists celebrating the diverse cultures and performance styles that make Queens such a unique borough. All performances part of this series are Free with Garden Admission, seating is limited—first come, first served.
Upcoming Performances:
Sunday, July 24, 3:30 to 4:30pm
High and Mighty Brass Band
Co-mingling band members from New Orleans, NYC, and a host of other cities across the globe, this dynamic krewe has the unique ability to combine classic New Orleans Funk and R&B with more modern Afro-Beat and Hip Hop influences. Their live performances are both fiercely entertaining and refreshingly inspiring, connecting the band with each and every audience member. Just catching a single performance will make it abundantly clear why HMBB is known as "a party in progress!" Sponsored by Kupferberg Center for the Arts.
Sunday, August 28, 3:30 to 4:30pm
¡Retumba! a multi-ethnic, all-female music and dance ensemble, interweaves traditional rhythms, and beautiful ancient melodies with its very own unique interpretation of the music and dance of Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean. Sponsored by Astoria Bank.
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Sunday, May 15, 2 to 4pm
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The highly acclaimed Quintet of the Americas returns with "A Celebration of Nature," featuring Samuel Barber's "Summer Music," Amy Rubin's "Trois Oiseaux," Adashi's "Song of the Birds and March of the Gypsies," Nicholas Scarim's narrated "A Garden at Night," and music by Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, James Cohn, Villa-Lobos, William Grant Still, as well as short pieces from Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, and Mexico.
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NEW YORK (AP)Celeb watchers wont have to survey the stands at the U.S.Open because the stars will be on the courts.Will Ferrell, Queen Latifah and singer Taio Cruzwill be among the celebrities participating in the tennis tournament in NewYork, it was announced Wednesday. Ferrell will join John McEnroe and Jim Courier during a doubles exhibitionon Sept. 8.Latifah will be part of a somber moment as the tournament pays tribute to911 victims on Sept. 11. Its the last scheduled day of the tournament, themens final.The Aug. 29 opening-night ceremony will include a performance by Cruz andGreyson Chance. Festivities will kick off the week before with a concert by GirlTalk and Matt & Kim in Manhattan.
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Good day watch lovers!
It has been a while since we last updated the blog, but interesting things has been going on here in the workshop.
Due to the celebration of the 150th anniversary of one of the most prominent watch boutiques in Sweden, we have made our very first watch!
When it comes to craftsmanship we can proudly say that there is a lot to this watch.
Just finishing the movement takes us several days.
The dial of the watch is 0.8 mm thick and made of 925 sterling silver, the hands are Swiss vintage blued steel of finest quality and the balance cock is hand engraved by master engraver Jochen Benzinger in Germany.
Every part of this beautiful watch is made in Europe.
Case, dial, base movement have been made of highest quality and every tiny detail has been under our supervision before leaving the workshop since long lasting quality is very important to us.
That is all we can tell for now, but we promise to soon be back whith pictures of the workmanship that goes in to making this watch. Until then we show some pictures of our first prototype.
Gustav, Anton and Fredrik.
Hi all!
It has passed some time since we wrote anything new here. So I thought it would be perfect with an article of a very interesting man, Jochen Benzinger.
Jochen Benzinger lives and works in Pforzheim Germany, an old watchmaking town where you can also find for example the watch brand Stowa and you can find dial and case makers. In the early 20th century there was a lot of movement makers active there, for example Durowe (Deutsche Uhren-Rohwerke) and Laco. Mr Benzinger is specialized in hand engraving, skeletonizing and hand guilloché (engine turning) with antique manual machines.
He has his own brand of watches (Benzinger) and he also works together with the watchmaker Grieb, they have a company called Grieb & Benzinger, they make very high end watches (unique pieces) usually based on antique Patek Phillip movements, with for example advanced chronograph and minute repeating mechanisms.
Benzinger also works for big brands like Glashütte original, IWC and Fabergè.
I'll show some pictures that I took during our visit.
Finally here after a long trip!
A wall of watches is meeting us while we walk in to the workshop.
Some more! With the amazing IWC tourbillon watch in the middle, skeletonized, engraved and engine turned by Benzinger. Amazing how many watches he has made.
Glashütte Original Tourbillon. Engine turned dial.
Finally at place in the workshop, lots of fine old machines. Here Anton and Fredrik is talking about watches with Mr Benzinger, while waiting for the coffee :)
No less than five engine turning machines, each one adjusted for its specific task. It's an art just to use them, one needs to apply exactly the right pressure and use precision in every move. Doing one fault will ruin the result.
Deep discussions about design and technical subjects. Mr Benzinger is a very humble and nice person to talk to, and a real enthusiast.
Benzinger Regulateur Black dial. Engine turned chapter rings and wave patterns on the bottom.
Benzinger Regulateur white dial. This is our favorite dial of Mr Benzingers current watches.
Engine turned silver dial with genuine Breguet frosted finishing.
Benzinger skeleton watch with a lot of engine turned parts! Even this skeleton dial is engine turned and frosted in classical Breguet style.
The back of his skeleton watch, just as beautiful as the front! The watch cases are also made in Pforzheim and are of very high quality.
We want to end this article with a video showing the artists at work with one of their nicest creations, The Blue Danube. Here you can see the work in progress and the skill that is needed for making such pieces.
See you next time!
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Obama pledges to support Louisiana flood victims 'after the TV cameras leave'
Standing amid piles of waterlogged debris, President Barack Obama today promised a sustained national effort to rebuild flood-ravaged southern Louisiana "even after the TV cameras leave," The Associated Press reports.
The president's visit to Baton Rouge was aimed in part at stemming campaign-season criticism that he has been slow to respond to the disaster. As he toured a battered neighborhood and spoke to reporters, Obama reassured residents that the federal response would be robust and he tried to buck up beleaguered residents of the water-soaked region, many of whom have said they feel their plight has been ignored by national officials and the media.
"This is not a one-off, this is not a photo-op issue," the president said. "I need all Americans to stay focused on this. … I know you will rebuild again."
Obama's visit was a reminder of the political dangers and opportunities that natural disasters can pose. The president has been criticized for waiting until after his New England vacation to tour the flooding. The timing, coming amid a heated presidential campaign, drew criticism from some local officials and Republican political opponents, including GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, who visited Baton Rouge on Friday.
Obama told reporters he doesn't "worry too much" about politics and said he saw Americans coming together to help. Going door-to-door and trailed by cameras, he offered sympathy to residents as they took a break from the cleanup to talk about the damage.
"I wish I was coming at a better time," he told one resident, as he put his arm around her and walked into her home for a brief tour. "But I'm glad to see everybody is safe, at least."
Obama was met at the Baton Rouge airport by a bipartisan group of officials, including Democratic Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, and Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser, a Republican. Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy and David Vitter also met the president on the tarmac.
Also while in Baton Rouge, Obama will meet with the family of Alton Sterling, a black man whose death last month by Baton Rouge police sparked protests and mass arrests. Obama planned to meet with Alton Sterling's relatives at the airport in Baton Rouge before returning to Washington this afternoon.
The White House says Obama will also meet with the families of officers killed or injured nearly two weeks later by a gunman, apparently in response to Sterling's killing. Obama was also criticized for not visiting Baton Rouge after those two incidents.


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In 2003, the most recent year for which data are available, national spending on long-term care totaled $183 billion, and nearly half of that was paid for by the Medicaid program, the joint federal-state health care financing program that covers basic health and long-term care services for certain low-income individuals. Private insurance paid a small portion of long-term care expenditures--about $16 billion or 9 percent in 2003. With the aging of the baby boom generation, long-term care expenditures are anticipated to increase sharply in coming decades. The projected spending on long-term care presents a looming fiscal challenge for federal and state governments. As a result, some policymakers are looking for ways to reduce the proportion of long-term care spending financed by Medicaid and promote private insurance as a larger funding source. The Long-Term Care Partnership Program is a public-private partnership between states and private insurance companies, designed to reduce Medicaid expenditures by delaying or eliminating the need for some people to rely on Medicaid to pay for long-term care services. Individuals, who buy select private long-term care insurance policies that are designated by a state as partnership policies and eventually need long-term care services, first rely on benefits from their private long-term care insurance policy to cover long-term care costs before they access Medicaid. To qualify for Medicaid, applicants must meet certain eligibility requirements, including income and asset requirements. Traditionally, applicants cannot have assets that exceed certain thresholds and must "spend down" or deplete as much of their assets as is required to meet financial eligibility thresholds. To encourage the purchase of private partnership policies, long-term care insurance policyholders are allowed to protect some or all of their assets from Medicaid spend-down requirements during the eligibility determination process, but they still must meet income requirements. Congress asked that we provide summary information about the Long-Term Care Partnership Program. We examined the demographics of program participants, the types of policies purchased, and the benefits accessed by policyholders. This letter formally conveys our findings.
The average age of partnership policyholders at the time of purchase ranged from 58 to 63 in Connecticut, Indiana, and New York. The median age of partnership policyholders in California was 60. Most partnership policyholders were female, married, and purchasing long-term care insurance for the first time. In California and Connecticut surveys of persons who purchased a partnership policy, most policyholders reported being in good or very good health. In the three states that surveyed a sample of partnership policyholders--California, Connecticut, and Indiana--the majority of policyholders in each of these states reported that their total assets were greater than $350,000. About half or more of the policyholders in each of these three states also reported average monthly household incomes of greater than $5,000. In 2004, the number of partnership policies purchased ranged from about 4,000 in Indiana to nearly 10,000 in California. The number of partnership policies purchased each year has increased significantly since the programs began in the early 1990s, though there has been a decline or leveling off in the number of policies purchased in recent years. The amount of coverage purchased by partnership policyholders varies across the four states. The average daily benefit amount for nursing home care in Connecticut was approximately $188 per day. The most common daily benefit amounts purchased for nursing home care in Indiana were $110 and $120 per day. Average premiums for partnership policies differ across states and are based on age and benefits purchased. Less than 1 percent of active partnership policyholders are currently accessing their long-term care insurance benefits. Since the programs began, 251 policyholders in all four states have exhausted their long-term care insurance benefits. Of those 251 policyholders, 119 (47 percent) have accessed Medicaid. The remaining 53 percent have not accessed Medicaid. According to interviews with state officials, this may be because they are spending down income or unprotected assets, their health has improved, or their families provide informal care. More policyholders have died while receiving long-term care insurance benefits (899 policyholders) than have exhausted their long-term care insurance benefits (251 policyholders), which could suggest that the Long-Term Care Partnership Program may be succeeding in eliminating some participants' need to access Medicaid. However, it is difficult to determine whether and to what extent the Long-Term Care Partnership Program has resulted in cost savings to the Medicaid program because there are insufficient data to determine if those individuals who have purchased partnership policies would have accessed Medicaid had they not purchased long-term care insurance benefits.
Aug 5, 2016
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act:Information on Approval Process for State Innovation WaiversGAO-16-637R: Published: Jul 6, 2016. Publicly Released: Aug 5, 2016.
Aug 1, 2016
Medicare Part B:CMS Should Take Additional Steps to Verify Accuracy of Data Used to Set Payment Rates for DrugsGAO-16-594: Published: Jul 1, 2016. Publicly Released: Aug 1, 2016.
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting:Existing Federal Efforts to Increase Awareness Should Be ImprovedGAO-16-645: Published: Jun 30, 2016. Publicly Released: Aug 1, 2016.
Hospital Uncompensated Care:Federal Action Needed to Better Align Payments with CostsGAO-16-568: Published: Jun 30, 2016. Publicly Released: Aug 1, 2016.
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Drug Shortages:Certain Factors Are Strongly Associated with This Persistent Public Health ChallengeGAO-16-595: Published: Jul 7, 2016. Publicly Released: Jul 7, 2016.
Jun 23, 2016
Defense Health Care:Availability and Quality Measurement of Women's Health Care Services in U.S. Military HospitalsGAO-16-596: Published: Jun 23, 2016. Publicly Released: Jun 23, 2016.
Jun 20, 2016
Federal Autism Activities:Agencies Are Encouraging Early Identification and Providing Services, and Recent Actions Could Improve CoordinationGAO-16-446: Published: May 20, 2016. Publicly Released: Jun 20, 2016.
Jun 15, 2016
Food and Drug Administration:Comprehensive Strategic Planning Needed to Enhance Coordination between Medical Product CentersGAO-16-500: Published: May 16, 2016. Publicly Released: Jun 15, 2016.
Medical Product Oversight:FDA Needs More Strategic Planning to Guide Its Scientific InitiativesGAO-16-432: Published: May 16, 2016. Publicly Released: Jun 15, 2016.
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Medicare Fee-For-Service:Opportunities Remain to Improve Appeals ProcessGAO-16-366: Published: May 10, 2016. Publicly Released: Jun 9, 2016.
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On Monday, Hassan opened the budget hearings with a caution that agency requests are unrealistic.
Agencies requested $3.3 billion in spending from state tax sources � a 26 percent increase over the current budget � and $11.9 billion from all funding sources or a 19 percent increase.
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One of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and transition. In this remarkable book, Dr. Kübler-Ross first explored the now-famous five stages of death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Through sample interviews and conversations, she gives the reader a better understanding of how imminent death affects the patient, the professionals who serve that patient, and the patient's family, bringing hope to all who are involved.
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- Identifying the plot area, chart area, gridlines, legends, and more
- Selecting the right chart type
- Creating charts instantly with shortcuts
- Choosing a layout
- Dealing with empty and hidden cells
- Switching rows and columns for a different view of the data
- Moving and resizing a chart
- Inserting pictures and shapes
- Adding labels to a chart
- Analyzing existing and future data with trendlines
- Changing a chart's data source
- Printing charts
Skill Level Intermediate
Three other types of unusual charts are Doughnut charts, Bubble charts, and Radar charts, all of which have specialized uses. A Doughnut chart, which we're about to create on this sheet, is sometimes used as an alternative to overcome the limitations of a pie chart. A lot of you may know that if you were interested in showing this data as a pie chart and you hadn't used pie charts very much, you'll probably be surprised. I'm going to go the Insert tab and choose Pie, and either 2D or 3D pie.
How about a two-dimensional pie here? And right away, you might be saying, "Yes, but I chose Europe and Asia, and I'm only seeing Domestic." Well, the limitation, and the major one for a pie chart, is that it only picks up one series-- that means either one column or one row of data--even though we highlighted more data here, and shrinking this or expanding it has no impact whatsoever on the chart. Would we want to see all this data on a single chart so we could see the proportions? You might have tried some other variations here on the Insert tab, maybe a Column chart that's stacked 100%.
How might that look? Is that going to work? Well, that has some merit potentially too. Variation on a pie does show us percentage breakouts, although they're not so clear. Let's try, simply by converting this one into a so-called Doughnut chart. On the Design tab, Change Chart Type, and under Doughnut chart at the bottom of our list here, this one right here. And I think you can see, that's going to be difficult to read. We'll have to apply some data labels. The first thought might be let's go to Chart Styles on the Design tab, make it be more three-dimensional looking, and it still doesn't help a whole lot.
If we start to add labels here, it's going to get really crowded. Now possibly you could say, well, maybe we could try this for only a six-month period. So I'm going to shrink the data amount here to be just the first six months, January through June. Perhaps that has more merit. Even there, if we start putting labels on here, it might be crowded. Maybe three months. So you might have to make some kind of an executive decision that says okay, we're willing to try this. The other aspect of this you wouldn't exactly guess is that we can change the size of the doughnut hole by right-clicking on the series here, go to Format Data Series > Doughnut Hole Size.
Now it looks like it might be set at the smallest value, so drag this around a little bit, right and left, and it does that. We're still not dealing with the issue of how readable is this going to be if we start to add data labels. Now there are so many variations here. I just want to show you the impact of what adding a few of these might mean. And so if we do go to the Layout tab and choose Data Labels and then go right into More Data Label Options, first you can see what's happened here. We've got values on every single one of these.
As I slide this to the right, recognize the colors represent the different months. Checking one of the boxes here, Category Name. Now we've only chose the inner ring, so what have we added now? The months, that doesn't buy us much because we see them in the legend anyway, so that's not a good choice at all, but how about Series Name? Now we're seeing that those are Domestic. And that word takes up some space, and it's there six times. We might want to change the wording in the chart. I think you're getting the idea here. These have some limitations, these kinds of charts.
If once again, we reconsider the timeframe here and show only three months, obviously, we're getting less data, but maybe that's going to be a little bit more readable. But you'll have to decide here and there how many different series you want to cover within these. They do allow us to show more series on a pie chart, and here and there they do have their uses, although I think it's limited. Another kind of chart is a Bubble chart, and a Bubble chart is very similar to a Scatter chart, but it does give us the advantage of showing a third dimension as well.
We don't mean 3D in that sense, but a third measure. So clicking on the data here where we're showing different ages of people and their salaries and their job rating, we can show all three of those by way of a Bubble chart. Choose Insert > Other Charts > Bubble. I'm going to pick the second one, Bubble with a 3D effect. At first glance here, it doesn't look so good, but let's make some changes to it. First of all, the ages here go from about, we can see across the bottom, 20 to 60.
So I'm going to simply right-click on the bottom here and activate the Format Axis dialog box, and under the Minimum amount here, change that to be 20, and then jump into the Maximum amount, make that be-- well, it's currently 60-- let's make it be 55. I think the biggest Age here is around that. And then we can see what happens. That's going to help a bit. The size of the bubbles is a bit large too. We'll deal with that. Let's first deal with the salaries. It looks like the lowest salary is above 20,000, but if we were to click on the left vertical axis, the value axis there, change the Minimum value to be 20,000 and the Maximum value to be about 70,000.
Now the size of the bubbles relates to the Job Rating that we're seeing in column C. So the bigger the bubble size, the higher the rating. But they're all sort of clustered and here we can't see around them very easily. That's a bit difficult to read, so why don't we scale the bubble size to be 50? And perhaps that's a bit better. Maybe even 25, see how that's going to look. That might look even better. Maybe that's too small, so you might kick that around a little bit. I'll make it be 40. That was just to change the size of the bubbles.
So this bubble right here, it looks like it might be the largest, and as we point to it, that's a Job Rating of 9, representing someone is making 64,000 here. And so in our list over to the left here, we could scroll up and down, for example, and check out that if we wanted to. So I think you can begin to see, it's like a Scatter chart and yet the size of the bubbles represents the rating coming out of column C. One of the big problems with Bubble charts of course is almost always you have to spend a certain amount of time explaining how to read the chart.
So it's not to say that you shouldn't use them, but they certainly have some limitations there. Another kind of chart, and very unusual, is a Radar chart. And I must say I've rarely seen these, and I'll create one of the data that we're seeing here. We're simply trying to show, based on this data-- let me zoom in a little bit on this-- tracking month after month of data, we realize our orders occur differently on different days of the week, and we even have orders on Saturday as well too, and our shipments do too. Let's compare the two of these.
And certainly a variety of different chart types might work here, but a Radar chart might show us some spikes. So let's simply click in the data here, go to the Insert tab, choose Other Charts, and a Radar chart. I'm going to choose the first one here. And we see this. Let me zoom back a little bit or make this a bit smaller, and we'll see what's going on here, and close this dialog box. There we go! So based on the data and looking at the chart, I think you can begin to see what's happening. There is one day where the shipments exceeded the orders, one day of the week.
It looks as if on Wednesdays we do more shipping than we actually get orders. And you can see in the chart here how the red line which represents shipments sticks out a bit farther here. And we can see the relative comparison of the two on other days as well. So it's a different way of viewing the data. Don't try and view this as a three-dimensional object as I have done at different times. It looks like a cube. Ignore that part of it. Think of it as a web perhaps. It's called a Radar chart. Not that frequently used. You might see them from time to time, definitely specialized use, as we saw earlier with Bubble charts and Doughnut charts.


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Note: Things move pretty fast in the social media world. When I started shooting weddings, having a LiveJournal as your blog was a perfectly appropriate thing to do, even if you weren't Russian. Now we have Facebook pages and Tumblr and Google+ and so much more, and the way we communicate as people and businesses keep changing. Ryanbrenizer.com will always be my most important space because, hey, look at the name. But this year I am going to reserve it primarily for telling stories and the occasional equipment review. Random pretty photos will primarily be added to my Facebook page. Nearly all of these stories will be of weddings and couples because that's where a big chunk of my time and my heart is. (The other biggest chunk, my girlfriend, prefers not to be mentioned here for SEO reasons. Now that's a modern relationship.)
But this is not a wedding story. Kelsie most likely has a lot of other stories to live through first. (I'm sorry to all other photographers, but when it happens, I call dibs.) But this is a story that I feel needs to be told, because it is harrowing, because it has consumed a big part of me recently, and most importantly because I think Kelsie's spirit and incredible, soulful singing is something the world needs to know about. Also, there are lots of photos waiting at the end. So with her permission, here we go.
Warning: Some of what I will describe is fairly graphic, although I will leave out the worst bits. Also, further down there are some pictures of a model in her underwear, though largely obscured by focus or artistic lighting. If either bother you, skip the rest and go straight to her singing, and make special note of the top comment. Otherwise, continue on…
When I was a kid, I didn't really know how the life of a professional photographer worked. All I knew was what popular culture told me. I pictured it like an agent, looking through head shots and saying "My god, who is that? I have to photograph her!"
But it never really works like that, at least not for me. What keeps me excited about going to work every day — and in a photographer's case, "every day" tends to be literal — is telling stories about real things. How people relate to each other. How we react under the forces of joy and love and stress. Who we are at any particular moment. Out of the shoots I do every year, 97 to 98 percent are with people completely untrained in being in front of a camera — and that's great, because it's easier to see the real person there, even if they start out as a nervous real person.
In July, the [FRAMED] network flew me out to Boise to film a show about how I do some of the things that I do. I was eager to escape the 90-degree-heat of New York, only to find it replaced with the 106-degree heat of an Idaho heat wave. I was staying with dear friends and fellow photographers Sara and Dylan, and while we were getting ready for the show we were watching some previous episodes of their shows. They do such a great job with production that I just sit back and let myself be entertained for episode after episode."
Somewhere around the third episode we watched, a fireball of hair and smiles and charisma bounced onto the screen, and it finally happened.
"My god, who is that? I have to photograph her!"
"Oh, that's Kelsie," Sara said. "She's my friend, and she's amazing. Want me to see if she can come out for a shoot?"
At this point, I had just photographed six weddings in eight days, and flown out to find blistering heat waiting for me. I needed some rest. I needed to not pick up a camera until the next wedding. I needed …
"Of course! Let's shoot!"
Never mind.
Who is Kelsie? From the photos below you might think that she is constantly sensual and sophisticated, pensive, aloof and longing. But that's just because I photograph real stuff 97 percent of the time, so when I get to that three percent of sitting down and making a picture I want the photos to be an unanswered question, to make you linger.
But here's Kelsie as I see her:
There is the wild determination of someone who said "My dress is getting tangled while we shoot underwater … do you have any scissors?" There's the fun and energy she showed when we taught each other how to Dougie. And there's that laugh. The photo on the right is, to me, the real Kelsie.
You can probably tell that I love this girl. But not like that. I'm in the midst of my own love story that is so fierce I make my friends both delighted and a bit nauseated. Also, when Kelsie was born, I was eagerly awaiting my first day at high school. Friends are the extra family that you choose for yourself, and right from the start I had the protectiveness of an older brother. The photo at the top was photoshopped to mask the ways that she was being firmly held to the ground. When Kelsie begged to stand on the ledge, I went to full-fledged Dad mode: "If you so much as put your foot on the ledge I am putting my camera down and not picking it back up again." I might as well have added "Young lady!"
The world is a better place with Kelsie in it, and if I can help her navigate it safely, all the better. Which is what makes this next part so hard.
Kelsie was back in Idaho with her family, planning her next steps, making recordings, resetting herself after some global travels. She was up in the mountains, soaking up the sun, fresh air, and cool water. "My day couldn't be any more peaceful," she wrote.
If not for an incredible series of circumstances, that page would have been her memorial.
On her way back, driving down winding mountain roads, the car suddenly spun out of her control, careering off a cliff. She saw sky and ground and no road at all, and she floated off of her seat, and she knew she was going to die.
She had time to think "Please God don't let this be it. Please don't let this be my time." And then the car hit the ground. Everything went white. "This is it," she thought. "I'm dead."
And then she was ejected out the back window. Somehow she made it through the window alive, but deeply gashed all over by the glass. One piece had missed a nerve that would have caused permanent brain damage by less than an inch. She somehow landed sitting upright on the back of the car, like she was lounging with a good book.
I do not want to share the full extent of her injuries here, despite her permission. But when a mutual friend got to her hospital room and heard the full rundown of injuries, she immediately passed out. "Really? You passed out?" I asked her, and then she told everything to me. I felt faint and had to lie down.
So as you can imagine, she was losing blood fast, sitting at the bottom of a ravine, completely invisible to traffic above. She realized that she had survived the crash but would quickly bleed to death. Somehow, that wild persistence of hers gave her the strength and presence of mind to make her shirt into a tourniquet for her arm, but she wouldn't have long.
"Hello down there, are you OK?" a woman called. She'd been driving in a car full of people and said "I thought I saw a car drive off the road. Did you see anything?" No one had, but she stopped anyway. From her vantage it looked like the girl sitting upright on the edge of the car must be fine, but she wanted to check. Kelsie screamed for help.
Help was there. One of the people in the car was a lifeguard. They scrambled down the cliff and helped stabilize her long enough for a rescue team to come by helicopter. She would live.
Here's another thing that's important for the story: Doctors are heroes. The worst cut went straight over one of Kelsie's eyes, but in overnight surgeries the medical team managed to save it. Even after multiple surgeries she had major cuts all over her body and on her face, and a broken foot would keep her unable to walk.
Even with all this, the first worry she told me about was that she'd lost her car, so how would she get to work? There's the determination.
Thousands of miles away, I didn't find out all of this until the next morning, when her friends posted on Instagram and Facebook. No, no, no! I pestered our friends, even though they were shooting a wedding. What happened? What hospital is she at? What can I do?
The flip side of being a problem-solver is that I can't not solve problems. Being unable to help, unable to make things work, is my greatest frustration. I even found myself saying "5 on AP Bio, 800 on Bio SAT IIs, why didn't I become a surgeon?"
Oh, right, because when her injuries were even described second-hand I almost passed out.
I did all the normal things — I got her flowers, I spoke to her on the phone. For the whole call, she was relentlessly upbeat. She remembered everything, she remembered staring down death, so even being battered and broken and scarred, all that mattered was she was alive.
I had to do more. Weddings are in full bloom so I couldn't go there. But I wanted to make sure she knew that people cared, that her dreams were still within reach, I wanted to do something that, if even just for a moment, would make her forget the long road of recovery ahead.
Wait. Lana Del Rey. One of Kelsie's idols. Known to my parents as Lizzie — the name she went by when they taught her in high school. Our families know each other well. Even just a quick call would be that "Holy s***" moment. It's silly, I guess, but it's what I could do.
I threw a Hail Mary, going from my mother to hers. I've been put in a sort of state of micro celebrity by my photography, and I know how much stress and feeling of constant obligation there can be even for me — I cannot imagine what it all feels like for a rocketing "real" celebrity like Lana. She was going through a grueling promotion schedule for Gatsby in Cannes, which only sounds fun until you really think about it. I thanked everyone involved for being so kind, but it didn't look like we'd be able to get through.
After a few days, Kelsie came home, and sure enough, she went to work. She'd had one of her first studio sessions a few weeks before, and had first seen the video of a cover she sang the morning before the accident. She watched the video again, and the words struck her in new ways.
When I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Will you still love me
When I got nothing but my aching soul?
By this point I figured Lana was unreachable, but I sent a note on. "Hey, thank you so much for everything. I won't bother you again, but I just wanted you to see this."
I figured that was it. But the next day, I saw this:
It was the holy s*** moment. Kelsie flipped out. Our mutual contact told me that it was definitely written by Lana, not her publicist. Thank you Lana, they raise 'em right in the North Country. It is going to be a long time until Kelsie is back able to dance the Dougie with me again, and any trauma will leave physical and emotional scars. But no one makes scars look so good. In every way, Kelsie will continue to be beautiful.
This is the longest story I've ever written on this blog several times over. But it's not over yet. That's my favorite part — Kelsie's story is just beginning.


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Authorities in Leake County are asking for help from the public in locating a man wanted for murder.
Lebrian Dontae Bolton is wanted for the shooting death of Wayne Lewis from Lena, Miss.
The shooting happened around 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Bolton, 27, is six feet tall and weighs about 250 pounds.
Bolton is believed to be driving a 2001 white Chevy extended cab Silverado truck with the tag number LJ4-236.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Leake County Sheriff's Department at (601) 267-7361.


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A team from the Maggie L. Walker Governor's School placed second in the nation in the "We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution" national finals, which took place in April in Washington, DC. This is the third year that a team from MLWGS has placed in the top three in the nation. "We the People" team members study a broad range of topics related to American government and constitutionalism and prepare for simulated congressional hearings, during which judges ask questions and score units based on knowledge and articulation. Henrico students on the team were: Sameer Sarkar, Eileen Wang, Kathryn Marqueen, Andrea Yeh and Jesse Zhao, Class of 2012; and John Darr, Gray Whisnant and Matt Ruskan, Class of 2013.
Taylor Stephen Wilson, of Richmond, recently was named to the dean's list for the spring 2012 semester at Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C. To be eligible for the dean's list, students must earn a grade point average of 3.6 or higher.
Davis & Elkins College women's basketball team member Amy Turner has been named to the commissioner's honor roll by the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference for the 2011-12 athletic year. The commissioner's honor roll recognizes junior and senior student-athletes who have obtained a 3.3 cumulative GPA at the end of the term in which their sport concluded. Turner, a physical education major, is the daughter of Marcus and Diane Turner, of Glen Allen.
Gov. Bob McDonnell has appointed local residents to several boards and commissions: Board of Health Professions – Jeffrey Levin, of Richmond, general dentist with Commonwealth Prosthdontics; and Blair H. Nelsen, of Richmond, owner of Nelsen Funeral Home; State Board of Health – Dr. John W. Seeds, of Richmond, physician educator at VCU School of Medicine; State Rehabilitation Advisory Council – Julie Triplett, of Henrico, disability rights advocate for the Virginia Office of Protection and Advocacy; Virginia Board for People with Disabilities – Jessica Gainous Philips, of Henrico, vice president and CEO of Commonwealth Autism Service; and Virginia-Israel Advisory Board – Paul H. Grossman, Jr., of Richmond, director of international trade and investment for the Virginia Economic Development Partnership; and Jay M. Ipson, of Richmond, president and executive director of the Virginia Holocaust Museum and Holocaust survivor.
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text: Posted October 1, 2012 LOL. King is the one who wrote that entertainer and icon BS. Cam then snubbed him at TC and now he is butt hurt. King using Torrey Smiths tragedy last week to get an extra shot in on Cam was extremely unprofessional. That was something I'd expect to read on a message board not from the nfl writer of the year. Ah ... I see. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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There's a little architect inside all of us. Bring it out in your child with this 40-pc. Deluxe Cardboard Blocks Set by Melissa & Doug. Stack, build and create all day with these red, blue and yellow blocks. The combinations are endless with these lightweight blocks made of heavy-grade cardboard. Ages 2 and up.
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40 total pieces
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Made of a strong, heavy-grade cardboard
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Educational Focus: Motor Skills
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Volume 91, Issue 6, 15 March 2002
Optical diffraction from a liquid crystal phase grating91(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1446216View Description Hide Description
The finite-difference time-domain method has been used in the numerical analysis of the optical diffractionproperties of a liquid crystal phase grating. The grating is formed using a nematic material that is switched using striped electrodes with a unity mark-space ratio. Three different surface pretilts have been investigated: 0°, 30° parallel, and 30° antiparallel. The tilt geometry determines the degree of suppression of the zero order and the asymmetry of the diffraction. Highly efficient beam-steering devices are shown to be possible using the antiparallel tilt alignment.
Large absolute and polarization-independent photonic band gaps for various lattice structures and rod shapes91(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1450022View Description Hide Description
Despite the considerable amount of research undertaken on various lattice structures, the photonic band gap(PBG) for a triangular lattice remains the largest both in the transverse magnetic (TM) and transverse electric (TE) modes. The PBG for a square lattice can be doubled by using square air holes rather than air cylinders. Reducing the symmetry was effective in terms of a honeycomb lattice in that the PBG can be increased 40% by deforming the lattice and using oval dielectric rods instead of cylindrical rods. The PBGs for all the examined structures increase monotonously as the refractive index is increased. The overlap PBG between the TM and TE gaps (polarization-independent PBG) is the largest for a triangular lattice of circular air rods. The overlap PBG for a hybrid square lattice of air rods is the next largest, and is twice as large as that for the well-known honeycomb lattice consisting of dielectric cylinders. When the refractive index of a dielectric material is increased to more than 3.50, the magnitude of the overlap PBG for almost all the photonic crystals that exhibit an overlap PBG saturates or decreases, except for the largest and next largest overlap PBG's mentioned above.
Waveguide structures using one-dimensional photonic crystal91(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1450035View Description Hide Description
This article reports on the numerical analysis of the reflectivity of electromagnetic waves for several one-dimensional photonic crystalstructures. A waveguide consisting of one-dimensional photonic crystal is shown to be promising for optical interconnection on a semiconductor wafer.
Current-directionality-induced giant absorption dichroism in III–V semiconductors and its potential for polarization control in vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers91(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1450029View Description Hide Description
We theoretically analyze the effect of current-directionality induced dichroism of fundamental absorption in III–V semiconductors with a high nonequilibrium carrier density. Band filling is shown to provide giant values of relative absorption difference for two orthogonal polarizations near the transparency point. Self-adjustment of the transparency point to the incident photon energy due to absorption saturation at high incident optical powers leads to large absorptiondichroism in a broad spectral range. The situation we model is relevant to polarization modulation in vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser diodes. A specialized laser construction to achieve this purpose is proposed.
Raman spectra of fluorine-doped silica glasses with various fictive temperatures91(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1452779View Description Hide Description
We have demonstrated the change of the Raman spectra in F-doped silicaglasses with various fictive temperatures, and have also presented a useful peak-deconvolution technique for evaluating the relative concentration of and bands that could be attributed to four- and three-membered ring structures. The intensities of and bands are mainly dominated by the fictive temperature, and they are not almost affected by the F content at the same fictive temperature. It has been made clear that the intensity of band as well as band has a linear relationship with the IR peak position around 2260 cm−1 that is correlated with the average Si–O–Si bond angle, irrespective of the F content. The "activation energies" of and estimated from the Arrhenius plot, are 0.26 and 0.41 eV, respectively.
Terahertz electroluminescence from superlattice quantum cascade structures91(2002); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1448393View Description Hide Description
Intersubband electroluminescence is reported in a quantum-cascade structure based on asymmetric superlattice active regions and designed for emission in the THz range (λ≈80 μm). Comparison with a structure based on a "vertical transition" in a single quantum well shows an increased full width at half maximum (2.8 vs 0.9 meV) of the emission line. In both cases the dependence of the optical power on the injected current is linear or sublinear and remains in the pW range.


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text: Gospel Music Remembering The Legacy Of Sister Rosetta Tharpe By Charlie Shelton & Frank Stasio • May 24, 2016 ASSOCIATED PRESS Listen Listening... / 19:20 'Greensboro's Tribute To Sister Rosetta Tharpe'. Before there was rock 'n' roll, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe. She was a leading figure in birthing rock 'n' roll from gospel music in the mid-20th century. A group of Greensboro musicians will honor Sister Rosetta Tharpe with an evening of storytelling and music. Southern Music Pioneers Come To 'The Lawn' Thursday Night By Charlie Shelton • Aug 12, 2015 Tim Duffy / Music Maker Relief Foundation American music can be traced back to the blues, jazz, and many more roots music. The legacy of these roots comes alive this Thursday, June 13, with a roundup of Southern roots musicians from the Music Maker Relief Foundation. Josh Moore Shares His Soul In The Long-Awaited 'Parted Ways' By Charlie Shelton & Eric Hodge • Jun 12, 2015 Soleil Konkel Josh Moore has been pouring coffee in Carrboro and playing music for years. His smooth and soulful vocals have backed up local acts Mandolin Orange and Skylar Gudasz, but Moore is now stepping to the center stage with his long-awaited solo album, Parted Ways. LISTEN: Grammy Winner Lisa Fischer Sings "Breath of Heaven" Live By Carol Jackson, Anita Rao & Frank Stasio • Jul 25, 2014 flickr/ aka Francois aka Mister Pink Lisa Fischer has made a career singing backup vocals for artists from Mick Jagger and Luther Vandross to Dolly Parton and the Nine Inch Nails. She sang this solo rendition of "Breath of Heaven" live on The State of Things: Dark Water Rising Diversifies Southern Music By Anita Rao & Frank Stasio • Apr 4, 2014 Listen Listening... / 19:25 Charly Lowry and Aaron Locklear of Dark Water Rising play live in our studio Chapel-Hill based band Dark Water Rising mixes southern rock, gospel harmonies, and traditional Lumbee influence to create their "rocky soul" sound. They got together in 2008, when none of them had any formal music training. Since then, they have gained local and national recognition throughout Native American communities. 5 Great Musicians You Might Not Know Are From Eastern North Carolina By Nicole Campbell • Dec 13, 2013 Library of Congress via Flickr Eastern North Carolina has yielded a rich crop of nationally recognized African American musicians. People like jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk. But many musicians hailing from this part of the state have gone unnoticed. A new book, African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina, takes readers on a musical journey through this overlooked region. Here are five musicians whose roots run deep in Eastern Carolina:


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New cleaning company assists recovery center
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Italian American Club of Maui presents scholarships
July 31, 2016 The Italian American Club of Maui recently presented scholarships to two Maui High School graduating senior. more »»
New board members
July 31, 2016 Janet Betsill (from left), Sarah Hambek, Mitch Mitchell and Karen Oura were recently installed on the board of directors for Hale Makua Health Services. more »»
Maui Hawaiian chamber seats new board and officers
July 31, 2016 Members of the Maui Native Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce have elected officers for the coming year and welcomed two new members to serve on the board of directors. more »»
Award recognizes efforts to keep invasive species out of Maui County
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Lions clubs hold joint installation
July 24, 2016 A joint installation of officers for the Lions clubs on Maui was held June 14. more »»
Free workshops for grieving adults
July 24, 2016 Dayle E. more »»
Lions project will help Hospice Maui
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Bright future for UH-MC hospitality and tourism grads
July 24, 2016 Everyone knows the visitor industry is the engine that drives our economy — throughout the state of Hawaii as well as right here in Maui County. more »»
Cemetery conservation taught at Kalaupapa National Historical Park
July 24, 2016 Thirty-five students and professionals from around the Hawaiian Islands and the Pacific Rim gathered June 1 at Kalaupapa National Historical Park to learn the art of cemetery preservation. more »»
Four women receive academic scholarships
July 24, 2016 Cendall Manley, a recent Molokai High School graduate, was the recipient of a $2,500 STAR scholarship awarded by the Philanthropic Educational Organization. It was sponsored by PEO Maui Chapter H. more »»
Maui Rotary clubs celebrate induction of club presidents
July 24, 2016 For the third consecutive year, the presidents of each of the 10 Maui County Rotary clubs were inducted into their positions at one all-island ceremony. more »»
In the Service
July 24, 2016 U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Kevin G. Talon graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texa. more »»
Seminar about farming program
July 24, 2016 An AgCurious seminar will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. Aug. 2 in the ag building, ULU Room 104, at University of Hawaii Maui College. more »»
Michael H. Lyons II Palaka Celebration tickets on sale; Haynes to receive award
July 17, 2016 The Rotary Club of Kahului's 2016 Michael H. Lyons II Palaka Celebration & Golf Ball Drop will take place at 4 p.m. on Aug. 12 at the King Kamehameha Golf Club. more »»
Maui Rotarians host friendship exchange
July 17, 2016 Rotarians from across Maui hosted three days of activities in a friendship exchange with their fellow Rotarians from Mexico. more »»
Plantation life focus of festival on July 23
July 17, 2016 Queen Ka'ahumanu Center will hold its inaugural Plantation Festival from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on July 23. more »»
The 'Ahahui Ka'ahumanu Chapter IV Wailuku Society awards 4 scholarships
July 17, 2016 The 'Ahahui Ka'ahumanu Chapter IV Wailuku Society awarded $500 scholarships to three graduating high school seniors and one college student during a ceremony held on June 4. more »»
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July 17, 2016 Wailuku woman hiking for children Sue Elliott, a 65-year-old Wailuku resident, started her ambitious trek in March to raise funds for War Child, an organization which supports refugees and children... more »»