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Get an overview of this hotelOceanfront condo complex in north Kihei
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Near Sugar Beach
Located within a mile of Kihei shops and restaurants, this family-friendly Maui condo complex is 2 miles from Sugar Beach, 5 miles from Wailea shops and golf, and 12 miles from Kahului.
Leisure options
Tropical atriums open to palm-fringed grounds that stretch toward the shoreline; the pool area includes a splash pool, spa tub, children's wading pool, and gas barbecues with picnic tables.
Furnished lanais
Individually decorated in island style, all 144 air-conditioned condos and studios offer furnished lanais, free local calls, high-speed Internet access, and well-equipped kitchens.
Guest Highlights
- Good location
- Beach
- Pool
- Helpful staff
- Clean guestrooms
- Comfy beds
Kauhale Makai - Maui Condo & Home
Condo Amenities
Condo Amenities
Set in central north Kihei, this quiet oceanfront condo complex is within a mile of restaurants, shops, and beach parks. Sugar Beach is two miles away.
Two buildings with studios and condos frame palm-fringed grounds that stretch toward the shore. Leisure facilities include a pool area with children's pool, freeform splash pool, sundeck, and spa tub, as well as picnic tables and barbecues. A sauna is also on site.
Kauhale Makai - Maui Condo & Home provides coin-operated laundry facilities.
- Total number of rooms - 169
- Number of floors - 6
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Elevator/lift
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Laundry facilities
- Picnic area
- Free self parking
- Sauna
- Spa tub
- Outdoor pool
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Kitchen
- Laundry facilities
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- DVD player
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- DVD player
- Lanai
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Free local calls
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Kitchen
- Microwave
- Individually decorated
- Cable TV service
- Television
- Iron/ironing board
- Free WiFi
Where to Eat
Kauhale Makai - Maui Condo & Home does not have its own restaurant, but there are several dining options within the surrounding area.
Nearby restaurants:
Joe's Bar & Grill
Taco Bell
Nearby Things to Do
The hotel's parklike oceanfront lawn includes five gas barbecues with two picnic tables, a putting green, and a large sundeck with freeform splash pool, children's wading pool, and spa tub. Other activities include volleyball and shuffleboard.
Across the lawn is Kihei's sprawling shoreline, with a beach park and four public tennis courts. The beaches of Kihei include Sugar Beach, two miles to the north, and the three Kamaole Parks, four miles to the south. Water activities include snorkeling, kayaking, surfing, and boogie boarding.
During the winter months, whales can sometimes be spotted in front of the hotel.
The three championship golf courses at Wailea are five miles away.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Windsurfing nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Parasailing nearby
Condo Policies
Check-in time ends at 4 PM
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No rollaway/extra beds available
No cribs (infant beds) available
- Resort fee
- Pool access
- Beach access
- Self parking
- Parking
Condo Name
- Kauhale Makai Maui Condo & Home
- Kauhale Makai Maui Home
- Kauhale Makai Condo
- Kauhale Makai Maui Condo Home Kihei
- Kauhale Makai Maui Condo Home
- Kauhale Makai Maui Home Kihei
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Email isn't eDiscovery top dog any longer
Symantec has issued the findings of its second annual Information Retention and eDiscovery Survey, which examined how enterprises are coping with the tsunami of electronically stored information (ESI) that we see expanding by the minute.
Perhaps counter intuitively, the survey of legal and IT personnel at 2,000 enterprises found that email is no longer the primary source of ESI companies produced in response to eDiscovery requests. In fact, email came in third place (58%) to files/documents (67%) and database/application data (61%). Marking a departure from the landscape as recently as a few years ago, the survey reveals that email does not axiomatically equal eDiscovery any longer.
Some may react incredulously to these results. For instance, noted eDiscovery expert Ralph Losey continues to stress the paramount importance of email: "In the world of employment litigation it is all about email and attachments and other informal communications. That is not to say databases aren't also sometimes important. They can be, especially in class actions. But, the focus of eDiscovery remains squarely on email."
While it's hard to argue with Ralph, the real takeaway should be less about the relative descent of email's importance, and more about the ascendency of other data types (including social media), which now have an unquestioned seat at the table.
The primary ramification is that organizations need to prepare for eDiscovery and governmental inquires by casting a wider ESI net, including social media, cloud data, instant messaging and structured data systems. Forward-thinking companies should map out where all ESI resides company-wide so that these important sources do not go unrecognized.
Once these sources of potentially responsive ESI are accounted for, the right eDiscovery tools need to be deployed so that these disparate types of ESI can be defensibly collected and processed for review in a singular, efficient and auditable environment.
The survey also found that companies which employ best practices such as implementing information retention plans, automating the enforcement of legal holds and leveraging archiving tools instead of relying on backups, fare dramatically better when it comes to responding to eDiscovery requests. Companies in the survey with good information governance hygiene were:
- 81% more likely to have a formal retention plan in place
- 63% more likely to automate legal holds
- 50% more likely to use a formal archiving tool
These top-tier companies in the survey were able to respond much faster and more successfully to an eDiscovery request, often suffering fewer negative consequences:
- 78% less likely to be sanctioned
- 47% less likely to lead to a compromised legal position
- 45% less likely to disclose too much information
This last bullet (disclosing too much information) has a number of negative ramifications beyond just giving the opposition more ammo than is strictly necessary. Since much of the eDiscovery process is volume-based, particularly the eyes-on review component, every extra gigabyte of produced information costs the organization in both seen and unseen ways. Some have estimated that it costs between $3-5 a document for manual attorney review – and at 50,000 pages to a gigabyte, these data-related expenses can really add up quickly.
On the other side of the coin, there were those companies with bad information governance hygiene. While this isn't terribly surprising, it is shocking to see how many entities fail to connect the dots between information governance and risk reduction. Despite the numerous risks, the survey found nearly half of the respondents did not have an information retention plan in place, and of this group, only 30% were discussing how to do so.
Most shockingly, 14% appear to be ostriches with their heads in the sand and have no plans to implement any retention plan whatsoever. When asked why folks weren't taking action, respondents indicated lack of need (41%), too costly (38%), nobody has been chartered with that responsibility (27%), don't have time (26%) and lack of expertise (21%) as top reasons. While I get the cost issue, particularly in these tough economic times, it's bewildering to think that so many companies feel immune from the requirements of having even a basic retention plan.
As the saying goes, "You don't need to be a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows." And, the winds of change are upon us. Treating eDiscovery as a repeatable business process isn't a Herculean task, but it is one that cannot be accomplished without good information governance hygiene and the profound recognition that email isn't the only game in town.

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Ignorance is no excuse as a scourge rebounds
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Polio is making a comeback in our neighbourhood, writes Tony Parkinson.
An old enemy is on the march, and has arrived, stealthily, in Australia's neighbourhood.
This is not a reference to the revelation, scandalous though it is, that various fat cats from Saddam Hussein's brutal regime have found their way into Helen Clark's New Zealand, looking for a quiet life away from the prying eyes of war crimes investigators.
Rather it is the wretched news that polio has somehow returned to Indonesia.
The identification of two cases of polio in infants in a West Java village highlights fears that a cruel, debilitating and often deadly virus that seemed so close to eradication only two years ago is beginning to slip from the grasp of international health authorities.
Globally, the incidence of polio has been declining rapidly, from 350,000 cases in 1988 to fewer than 1500 cases in 2004. Its threat as a pandemic has receded, certainly when measured against HIV/AIDS and malaria, which each claim many millions more lives.
Indeed, the World Health Organisation had hoped mass vaccination programs in Africa and the Indian subcontinent would allow authorities to declare a worldwide victory over the polio virus by no later than the end of this year. Yet, sadly, exactly 50 years after the release of Jonas Salk's first vaccine, this vicious killer of the young is attempting a comeback.
Australians old enough to witness the scourge of polio epidemics in this country in the mid-20th century will never forget the dread of infantile paralysis. Routinely, youngsters were carted off in ambulances, their legs bound in splints and their breathing restricted. More than 30,000 children and teenagers were afflicted, and one in 10 faced a serious risk of death. Many spent their youth in calipers, wheelchairs or iron lungs.
But like the Americas, Japan and Europe, Australia embarked on mass immunisation in the 1950s, and the entire western Pacific was declared polio-free by October 2000.
This week, however, any sense of mission accomplished should have ended abruptly.
The latest outbreak in Indonesia is the first reported in that country since 1995, but it brings to 16 the number of countries in the past two years to report fresh cases. This has happened despite governments and private relief agencies, notably Rotary International, pouring more than $5 billion into a determined 20-year campaign to rid the world of the virus.
What went wrong? Tragically, and not for the first time in the polio debate, sensible public health policy has fallen victim to ignorance and blind prejudice.
The seminal event in the resurgence of polio was a fatwa issued by imams in the Islamic state of Kano, in north-western Nigeria, two years ago. Reacting angrily to the US-led intervention in Iraq, the clerics instructed Muslims to refuse polio vaccination for their children. They insisted the vaccine was part of an American plot to spread HIV in the Islamic world and render girls infertile. A ban based on this obnoxious propaganda lasted almost a year. As a result, 3.8 million children in Africa's most populous nation were put at risk. The edict was lifted in July last year. By then Nigeria had reported 600 cases of infantile paralysis. The virus had also spread to 14 other African states, along with Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
Now, the resurgent strain has crossed the Indian Ocean into South-East Asia. In effect, children in Muslim Indonesia are paying for the zealotry of co-religionists half a world away.
These are heartbreaking developments. In 2003, polio was cornered, endemic in only four nations in Africa, along with India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Now comes the grim news that an 18-month-old boy in West Java was struck down in March with infantile paralysis. Initially, World Health Organisation officials feared several other children in Sukabhumi province might be suffering early symptoms. Indonesian officials have since confirmed a second case in a 20-month-old girl.
Health authorities have moved quickly to conduct house-to-house vaccinations in the surrounds, and plans have been drawn up to vaccinate a further 5.2 million children under five in neighbouring provinces by July. Australia is helping financially.
The Indonesians say they are confident the threat can be contained. But, arguably, there is a strong case to be made for extending vaccination far beyond Java. What nightmare awaits, for example, if the virus migrates across the Sunda Strait to Sumatra, and finds its way to the devastated northern province of Aceh? For a population ravaged by the Boxing Day earthquakes and tsunami, the potential human costs do not bear contemplation.
After decades of conflict between Indonesian troops and the Free Aceh movement, the province has one of the lowest polio vaccination rates just about anywhere in the world.
Australia, despite its own history of scare campaigns, boasts child immunisation rates approaching 95 per cent. Indonesia sets a minimum national target of 80 per cent of all infants. In the Muslim communities of Aceh, immunisation rates are half that, or less.
As far back as June, 2000, Indonesian officials warned there remained large pockets of unimmunised and susceptible children in Aceh, due predominantly to civil unrest.
The effects of the tsunami have left communities highly vulnerable to the risk of water-borne contagion through exposure to open drains and raw sewage. These would be optimal conditions for the polio virus if it was to make its way to Aceh. This time, nobody can claim a lack of warning. Ignorance will be no excuse.
Tony Parkinson's column appears on Tuesdays and Fridays.
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What fans saw on Sunday was the emergence of a Superstar quarterback, Andrew Luck, and the arrival of the NFL's hottest head coaching candidate, Bruce Arians.
If the Chiefs franchise is going to turn around their recent failures by cleaning the house that stunk up Arrowhead's 1-7 record this season, they need to clone the blueprint the Colts used in 2012 to reach the playoffs this season.
Indianapolis parlayed the top overall pick and in Week 16 clinched a playoff birth that should send shockwaves around the NFL. Every single move they made this off-season hit pay dirt. And it's something that Kansas City must emulate if they want to be considered viable for an AFC West championship next September.
It's becoming clearer by the day that all signs point to mass firings in Kansas City. If rumblings continue to gain steam that both General Manager Scott Pioli and Head Coach Romeo Crennel and his staff, will be shown the door at the onset of the new year, then there is hope a year from now the Chiefs can be a relevant team once again.
However, it's not going to be easy.
There is NO Andrew Luck or RG3 type of talent at the top end of the 2013 NFL draft. Instead, you have six quarterbacks that should garner enough attention in the second round, that any of them, could impact a team like the Chiefs next season.
But if that's going to happen, the Chiefs have to put a premium on hiring Colts offensive coordinator, Bruce Arians, as their next head coach. What he accomplished this season during Chuck Pagano's battle with Cancer was nothing short of a miracle. For all practical purposes, Arians was the Colts head coach this season.
All he did was guide the Luck ship, the Colts offense and was a steady hand in the locker room that provided more than enough leadership to get Indy back into the playoffs without Peyton Manning.
Yes I know Chairman, Clark Hunt, has to fire Crennel first. But he better not waste too much time at seasons end in doing so because the coaching tree that's about to fall on Black Sunday, doesn't have sufficient enough replacements to fill all those jobs with competent men.
Because if the Chiefs are going to trade for a hired veteran like the 49ers, Alex Smith, and in my view draft the best overall college quarterback, the Razorbacks Tyler Wilson, in the second round - they need a coach like Arians to build an offense that plays to the talents of either quarterback.
If the Chiefs organization doesn't put a premium on such a vital combination, then it won't matter whom they fire or hire. What Kansas City has never been able to do in their franchise history is develop a young quarterback. And there isn't anyone in the front office or on the current coaching staff in Kansas City right now that can do that next season for the Chiefs.
With one game left (at Denver next Sunday), the miserable 2012 season for the Chiefs is longing for some fresh blood in Kansas City. We all want our owner to make moves but they have to be the right ones or this franchise is doomed for failure.
That means Hunt needs to move closer to firing Pioli, Crennel and company. And if reports are true of his interest in veteran General Manager, Bill Polian, they best get their house in order so when the Colts are eliminated from the playoffs, Arians has a seat at the head of the Chiefs table.
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A Melted Penny for Your Thoughts
The lowest value coin costs more to make than it's worth. Let's get rid of it—along with the nickel and the quarter.
The Obama administration has officially repudiated the idea of minting a trillion-dollar platinum coin to address some of its fiscal problems. Washington shouldn't stop there. Next to go should be not only the penny but the nickel, too.
Already each penny costs the U.S. government more than a cent to manufacture and distribute, and that cost is only rising without a suitable substitute for the raw materials. The coin has less...


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Beginning Monday, walking into the Wayne County Courthouse will mean walking through a metal detector and subjecting yourself to a search.
Over the last few years, the Ohio Supreme Court has issued mandates to local courts to develop and adopt formal security plans. With the courthouse renovation and expansion well under way, local officials believe now is the time to update and upgrade the building's security.
Considering the volatile nature of some of the proceedings in domestic relations court and in certain criminal cases, Sheriff Thomas Maurer said, the safety measures are not so much a response to constant incidents of violence, as as an effort to "stop the aggression at the door."
The most notorious example in recent years was an Aug. 23, 1980, courthouse murder in which a 38-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her 45-year-old ex-husband as they waited for their attorneys to complete a conference with a judge prior to a child custody hearing.
Two days later, the man committed suicide in his jail cell.
The courthouse now will be accessible only through its main Liberty Street entrance, with other doors functioning only as exits for visitors. Courthouse employees will be permitted access to the building through any door.
The single entrance will be controlled by a uniformed sheriff's deputy and all visitors will be directed to enter the building through a walk-through metal detector, a minimum standard of security that the state high court has recommended local courts implement.
The deputy will have the authority to search any individual who enters the courthouse, and also may open and inspect briefcases, purses or other packages being brought into the building by the public.
The metal detector to be stationed at the building's entrance already was being used in the courthouse, but was located at the entrance to domestic relations court.
Another change will be that incarcerated adults and juveniles who need to appear during a court proceeding will enter and be transported through the courthouse via areas not accessible to the public.
In addition to an officer at the door, a "roaming" deputy also will patrol the building, providing security during court proceedings and attending to any other concern that may arise.
Sgt. Gary Lee of the sheriff's office, the supervisor of courthouse security, said he anticipates the new measures to pose little, if any, inconvenience to courthouse visitors.
"Once they're used to it, it should be a pretty routine thing," he said of the building's guests.
Dave Rinard, chief officer of the Adult Probation Department and chairman of the advisory committee of judges, magistrates, attorneys, law enforcement and other court personnel that identified and determined how to address the courthouse's security issues, called the measures "long overdue."
Completion of the expansion project will mean more people will be using more space, he said, which makes now the right time to put measures into place that will ensure everyone's safety later.
Other security measures to be added to the building as the renovation continues include the installation of closed-circuit cameras in each courtroom and magistrate hearing room, and in places to monitor building exits.
Alarms also will be placed in each courtroom, hearing room and in areas where support staff work.
If activated, the alarm will sound to dispatchers at the Justice Center, who can immediately direct officers to respond to an emergency at the courthouse.


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Baum on Money: A Better Porta-Potty
Good morning, all. It's a new day, and finally some progress to report on efforts to reopen the government and raise the debt limit. While we await the outcome, you can check out what I'm reading this morning.
Obama wins, Republicans lose standing with public
Here's the latest from Politico. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have reached a deal that would reopen the government until Jan. 15, raise the debt ceiling until Feb. 7 and require both Houses to negotiate long-term budget issues by Dec. 13. If this sounds familiar, it is. Just don't call it a supercommittee. What did the GOP get for its efforts? "They barely nicked Obamacare and their poll numbers are in the tank," Politico writes. Doesn't sound like a very good trade. House Republicans have yet to weigh in. And, unless the current rancor dissipates, we can look forward to another confrontation in a few months.
Strange bedfellows or opposite sides of the coin?
When the Royal Swedish Academy announced the winners for the Nobel Prize in economics yesterday -- Eugene Fama, Robert Shiller and Lars Peter Hansen -- the reaction was pretty much the same: an odd mix. Fama is the father of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis; Shiller, a behavioral economist, is a critic of the theory. (Hansen's contribution is in the area of econometric modeling techniques, which you should read about elsewhere.) On further reflection, the Financial Times' John Authers says the award makes perfect sense. "Both Fama and Shiller are crucial figures in the ongoing academic attempt to understand how securities markets are valued," he writes. Not everyone was convinced. "Like giving a prize to the Yankees and the Red Sox," Nobel laureate Robert Solow tells Bloomberg News.
Supporters abandonsinking ship
What did the White House know and when did it know it? That's what the Washington Post's Ezra Klein wants to know about the problems associated with the Obamacare roll-out on Oct. 1. It's hard to know if there are "problems behind the problems" because the websites aren't functioning well enough to assess the reconciliation system between the federal government and insurers. "Glitches" seems to be a gross understatement for the failures of the online exchanges. For the record, a friend from California tells me she had no trouble with the insurance exchange website, which is being run by the state. Why am I not surprised that smaller is better when it comes to this stuff?
Hot housing markets coolingoff
For certain areas of the country, such as Phoenix and Las Vegas, a housing boom-turned-bust-turned-boom is cooling off. Using data from various regional Multiple Listing Services, the Wall Street Journal's Nick Timiraos reports a pullback in investor (or cash) purchases in these hot areas. The good news is "few signs of any shadow inventory of foreclosures" in Phoenix. And in Vegas, homes are selling for 10 percent less than they were a few months ago, with builders offering "generous incentives, such as home upgrades to buyers and commissions to real-estate agents, in order to stay competitive," Timiraos writes. Is there a third option, or is the choice between boom and bust?
What's the matter with a porta-potty?
When it comes to waste, fraud and abuse, no one does it better than the government. The National Park Service just supervised the installation of a "comfort station" at the Manassas National Battlefield Park, complete with faux stone siding. The cost: $578,000. And only after the government signed off on the 449-page proposal.
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If they came to a just swelling and suppuration, the patient was saved by this kind and natural discharge of the morbid humor.
There is no disposition to suppuration of the neighboring glands.
The sound side was found free from suppuration, but immense abscesses existed on the side of the cut nerve.
If the suppuration is extensive the process may terminate fatally.
If the wound be aseptic, no suppuration or decomposition takes place beneath it.
Preventing, or destroying the germs of putrefaction or suppuration.
The penetrating object is nearly always dirty—bacterially dirty, at any rate—and suppuration only too readily commences.
As a result of pyogenic infection, suppuration of the labyrinth may occur.
The disease may pursue an indolent course during months or years until some complication occurs, such as suppuration or fracture.
He felt as if an immense cyst of suppuration had burst inside of him.
suppuration sup·pu·ra·tion (sŭp'yə-rā'shən)
The formation or discharge of pus. Also called pyesis, pyopoiesis, pyosis.


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Today Hellshock (follow him!), one of my Italian tweeps made an awesome discovery. The Italian Microsoft site has a link to Surface within the "Products" section.
Of course I checked that for Germany as well, and in fact it is there, too:
Well, I know that this means nothing at the moment, but it is a sign that Microsoft will bring the Surface all over the World. Maybe Microsoft this time learned from their Zune HD, which was announced for the rest of the world, but never made it to Europe.
What do you think? Are we reading to much into it? Will you be excited?
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The 12th-century enamel box depicts the death of archbishop Thomas Becket, who was killed on the steps of Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.
The murder of the "turbulent priest" was carried out by four knights, supposedly on the orders of King Henry II.
The casket, worth more than £4m, is one of 50 made in Limoges after the killing.
It was bought by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1996 and is on loan to celebrate the centenary of the National Art Collection Fund, which helped purchase the casket.
Robert Willis, dean of Canterbury Cathedral, said: "It is a link all the way back to the time of Becket himself.
"We are sitting here in the place where he was martyred and it gives a great sense of excitement to the cathedral and its community."
King Henry II had hoped by making Becket Archbishop of Canterbury to have an ally in his view that the church was subordinate to the monarchy.
Robe soaked in blood
But Becket opposed his views and lost the king's favour.
News of Becket's murder spread across Europe, inspiring pilgrims to visit the scene of his death and admire relics of his body.
Marian Campbell, Victoria and Albert Museum curator, said: "Within days of his death, bits of his robe soaked in blood were being collected by the faithful.
"They rapidly achieved great fame and everyone wanted to have a relic but they were extremely rare and precious - so they were kept in valuable caskets."
Visitors can see the casket in the crypt for the next two weeks.


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John Schofield was a Union general in the American Civil War. He was born in 1831 in Ohio. He graduated from the United States Military Acadamy in 1853. He fought mostly in the Western Theater of the Civil War. After the war, he was Secretary of War from June 1868 to March 1869. He was the commanding general of the U.S. army from 1888 to 1895, when he retired. He died in 1905.


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Organized by the Association of Cive Oeil, the 5th Mediterranean Show of Visual Arts is in progress in the Arts and Culture Center of Oran until August 18. Liberte Algeria reports that 72 artists coming from Europe and the North Africa region, such as France, Spain. Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, are participating in the event. The diversity of displayed works ranges from different styles of traditional and modern paintings and various sculptures. Young artists like Tunisian painter Mohamed El Baati are taking part in this event representing the new trends in the visual arts.
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Thomas A. Kvamme • For the Mille Lacs County Times
PEASE – Christmas vacation is a special time of year as students take to the outdoors and record memories with friends and family that will last a lifetime.
On Dec. 28, an experience that started out as fun turned into trauma for a rural Pease family.
At 10 a.m. on that day, 12-year-old Abby Larsen, the daughter of Tracy and Todd Larsen, experienced something that will be with her for a very long time.
Abby was sledding with two cousins in her backyard. Her mother shared what happened next.
"Abby was sitting backwards in the sled and as the sled went down a small hill, it took a path that led right into a 2-inch-diameter tree," Tracy Larsen recalled.
That misdirection of the sled led to Abby's back hitting the tree and "it knocked the wind out of her lungs."
Abby got up and walked around a little as she tried to catch her breath.
"She was hurting and felt like she couldn't breathe, so her dad brought her in the house and laid her on the couch," Larsen said.
Tracy and Todd Larsen thought their daughter would have a pretty good bruise on her back, but they did not suspect that she had fractured her back because she had been walking around.
Hospital care
Because she was in a lot of pain, the couple decided to take Abby to the hospital emergency room in Princeton.
"It was a Saturday morning, so we didn't have a lot of options other than the ER," Larsen said.
The Larsens carried Abby in, and the hospital staff showed them to a room right away. Abby was lying on her side and was really hurting.
According to Larsen, when the physician came, she ordered an X-ray, and it showed a fracture in her spine in the middle of her back.
"We were advised that Abby should be transported by helicopter to the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital, so that's what we did," Larsen explained.
The next step involved placing Abby on a back board and putting a neck brace on her for the trip, Larsen said.
Medical officials said there was room for one parent to accompany Abby in the helicopter, so Tracy Larsen flew along with Abby to the hospital.
Larsen was impressed with a quick 15-minute trip and called it "smooth sailing."
She had nothing but praise for the crew.
"The pilot was fantastic, as were the two transport nurses who cared for Abby on the way. They kept her comfortable and calm and we were so lucky to have access to the care they provided," she said.
At Amplatz
"Once we arrived at Amplatz, I was overwhelmed with the medical staff's expertise and efficiency as they cared for Abby," Larsen said.
"Each member of the team who waited for us to arrive knew exactly his/her responsibility and worked together seamlessly. The neurologists checked her for feeling and watched her wiggle her toes and fingers repeatedly."
Larsen said a CT scan was ordered and she was allowed to be in the control room to watch the screen with the neurologists.
"It was amazing. How thankful we can all be that God has given us the medical technology we have today and that he has gifted, talented medical staff," she said.
The medical team could see everything going on in Abby's back, Larsen said. Once the CT scan was complete, doctors ordered an MRI.
While the MRI was done, Larsen waited in a family lounge for the rest of her family to arrive. While Tracy Larsen rode with Abby in the helicopter, Todd Larsen transported other family members to Amplatz.
For Tracy Larsen, this was the first chance she had to think about what was happening.
"I was very scared, but I knew we were in the best place we could be. I focused on the fact that Abby could easily move every single part of her body," she said.
Surgery next
After the MRI, doctors decided that Abby would have surgery the following day, which would give those who ideally should be present the needed time to arrive.
Larsen reported that during the surgery, Abby's spinal cord had to be continually monitored.
"It took an hour and a half to get everything set up with Abby in place before the actual surgery started," she said.
The surgery proved to be a complete success and the surgeon, Dr. Daniel Guillaume, informed the family that he was "more than pleased" with the results. This procedure stabilized Abby's back and prevented any further risk of damage to the spinal cord.
"I was not the only one to give Dr. Guillaume a big hug after he came to Abby's room and gave his post-surgical report," Larsen said.
Abby remained at Amplatz for one week and was fitted for a brace. She had physical and occupational therapy while she was in the hospital and will wear this brace for approximately three months while she heals.
In her case, Abby is able to remove the brace if she wants to lay down.
According to Larsen, her daughter can also leave the brace off while she sleeps.
"Abby should be able to resume her physical activities (swimming, volleyball, softball, dance) after six months. We will have regular check-ups to monitor her progress," Larsen said.
Lessons learned
"We are so thankful that Abby's spinal cord was not damaged and that she can walk. It really puts things into perspective when I think of how serious her injuries were and how lucky we were," Larsen said.
"Abby went through so much, and I learned through this accident how strong and courageous she really is. I think it made us love her even more," she continued.
Through all this, Larsen compiled a list of lessons that were learned from the experience.
• Never sit backwards while sledding.
•If the sled takes an unexpected course, the rider could possibly avoid a collision if facing forward.
• If any kind of back or neck injury is suspected, do not move the patient.
"Hindsight is 20/20, as we never suspected a serious injury had taken place, but all you can do is your best with the information you have at the time," she said.
Upon reflection
Tracy and Todd Larsen praised the medical and administrative staff at Fairview Northland who were, in their words, "absolutely wonderful and are to be commended on the care they gave Abby."
The couple also had high praise for Amplatz.
"Words cannot convey how amazing the medical and administrative staff at Amplatz Children's is. During such a critical time for Abby, I felt at peace and so very confident in their abilities. They are a group of people so talented, it's unbelievable," Larsen said.
For the Larsen family, this will be one Christmas vacation they will never forget.
However, the thing that they keep talking about that "might just be even more amazing is how our community wrapped us in their arms during this difficult time," Larsen said.
"It started the minute people found out we were at Amplatz, and it has not stopped. I cannot count how many phone calls, text messages, Facebook messages, emails, cards, gifts for Abby, visits, plates of cookies, hot meals and hugs we have received."
For the Larsens, families and friends have been invaluable, especially during the hard times.
"We prayed together many, many times, and I know that we could never be where we are today without them. People who have never even met Abby have loved her through her accident. Our community has supported us through it all. Family and friends are so precious," Larsen said.
Abby, who attends Community Christian School in Pease, is walking and back in school on a limited basis to keep up with her studies.


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Charles M. Whitaker, 53, was being held for investigation of threatening to bomb or damage property.
"Whether this man would have carried out his threats is uncertain, but we cannot afford to take chances," said Ian Canaan of the Federal Protective Service, a division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that provides security at federal buildings.
Authorities said officers found field manuals on bomb-making, booby traps and military explosives at Whitaker's residence, along with narcotics, and two semiautomatic pistols and ammunition at a storage unit.
Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman at the Immigration and Customs regional office in Southern California, said authorities were pursuing state charges first and were consulting with the U.S. attorney's office about whether federal charges are warranted. A bail hearing was set for Tuesday.
Authorities said they opened an investigation after a former roommate of Whitaker's reported that Whitaker had made repeated threats to blow up the VA office after being denied benefits.
In an affidavit, an agent quoted the ex-roommate as saying that Whitaker had said the VA "would pay" for denying his claim and that he "would get what he wanted from the VA one way or another."
According to the affidavit, Whitaker claimed he had extensive bomb-making expertise from his stint in the military. Kice said officers found discharge papers indicating Whitaker had served as a photography technician in the Army in the early 1970s.


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ObamaCare's bread & circuses
Liberal marketing gurus in Colorado are masters of ObamaCare distraction. While customers struggle to apply through the broken health insurance exchange and consumers grapple with cancellation notices, these hipster ad designers are partying it up.
Who cares about the insurance market meltdown? They've got keg stands and one-night stands!
The "Got Insurance?" campaign is the lame brainchild of two "progressive" outfits with dubious nonprofit status: ProgressNow and the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative. Modeled after the "Got Milk?" ads, the latest print and web promos pander to young people with pop-culture memes and entitlement-friendly appeals.
Last month, while federal and state ObamaCare exchange sites 404'ed, the Colorado marketing buffoons LOL'ed. Their "Brosurance" ads featured frat boys with red Solo cups guzzling beer, playing golf and celebrating government with a "Thanks, ObamaCare!" smile.
ProgressNow's Alan Franklin boasted about his coverage. Media coverage, that is: "Within the first few weeks, 'Brosurance' has been featured by The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, CNN, MSNBC, Conan O'Brien, Bill Maher and Roll Call, as well as the front page of BuzzFeed and Jezebel, just to name a few. Just in the first 24 hours of the campaign's launch alone, #Brosurance was mentioned more than 6 million times on Twitter, and #GotInsurance more than 1.7 million times. Yes. The ads went viral." Priorities.
On Tuesday, the groups launched phase two of their ObamaCare bread and circuses. Aimed at young women, the ads show party gals with shot glasses lined up on a ski; "Hey, Girl" gags involving a cutout of actor Ryan Gosling; and the Sandra Fluke-inspired promo featuring birth control-wielding "Susie" and her "hot to trot" date, Nate. The caption reads: "Let's Get Physical. OMG, he's hot! Let's hope he's as easy to get as this birth control. My health insurance covers the pill, which means all I have to worry about is getting him between the covers. I got insurance. Now you can, too."
It's bad enough that these ads reduce young people to partying boozers and traffic-bait boobs. But what's truly toxic is the ad campaign's cynical feint to draw attention away from ObamaCare's undeniable harm to responsible young people. Brosurance and Hosurance are trifling distractions from the federal law's Nosurance consequences.
Insurers started dropping child-only plans in Colorado, California, Ohio and Missouri in 2010 thanks to ObamaCare-induced premium increases. Colleges have canceled low-cost plans for students because of ObamaCare rules. Thanks to the ObamaCare mandate, young, healthy Americans face higher insurance premiums, decreased work hours and perverse incentives to enroll in Medicaid instead of remaining independent and off the dole.
Meanwhile back in Colorado, the state Division of Insurance reports that 250,000 people have lost their insurance policies in the past few months. And while the "bros and hos" circus masters urge young people to sign up "easily" on the state exchange, the overseers of the $200 million program are singing a different tune. Last week, IT expert and Colorado health insurance exchange board member Nathan Wilkes blasted the process as "painful," "odious" and "embarrassing."
Sober up, young America. The "Affordable Care Act" is the progressives' wealth redistribution party from hell — and you're paying for it.
Michelle Malkin is the author of "Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies" (Regnery 2009).


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You can't turn to your favorite news medium these days without encountering a story about the year 2000 problem (also known as the millennium bug). The Y2K problem stems from decades of programming practice that conserved memory and keystrokes by representing years with two digits instead of four (e.g., 99 rather than 1999). This worked fine from the dawn of modern computing until now. The problem with switching from "99" to "00" at the end of this year is that the second number is smaller than the first. Computers that aren't programmed to recognize 00 as 2000 may assume that anything that happens in 00 took place before 1999 (i.e., in 1900).
Someone said that the year 2000 problem is about 85% hype and 15% real. And the essence of the problem is that we don't know which 15% is real.
--Steve Dickson (F&A)
These questions have been on the minds of F&A's Steve Dickson and the seven other members of the UCAR Y2K Task Group at least since the end of 1997. With Steve as project manager, the group has developed a working document designed to keep UCAR moving forward on Y2K issues (see UCAR Web sites). The plan is part of UCAR's response to notification by NSF to "take all steps necessary to mitigate potential [Y2K] problems." Those steps must be taken within existing funding. How do you equip a multifaceted organization like UCAR to mitigate potential Y2K problems with no additional funds? Staff around the organization are making room by putting other projects on hold. "We just kind of squeeze it in," Steve says.
So far, that strategy is working. "Most of the problems," Steve notes, "the ones costing gazillions of dollars to fix that everybody's talking about, are COBOL code in large-production operations like banks, manufacturing, or utilities. . . . We don't have any of that in this organization.
I am not concerned about our ability to continue delivering data and computational resources to the UCAR community--outside of things that are beyond our control.
--Tom Engel (SCD)
It's a chaotic system, just like the climate, where small perturbances in one part of the world can cause calamitous effects in other parts of the world.
--Pete Peterson (SCD)
"The target is April to have all our systems upgraded to vendor-supplied, Y2K-compliant software," says Tom. While all the supercomputers have been upgraded, a few other systems might not make that target. "The time we have to become compliant keeps decreasing, and yet it's only been in the last one to three months that our major vendors have released Y2K-compliant systems and product sets. So we're trying to play this balancing game between becoming compliant and not destabilizing our production environment."
Waiting for vendors to supply upgrades has slowed the installation and testing process--not just for the supercomputers, but for desktop systems as well. For the many people running Microsoft's Windows NT, for example, Tom notes that Version 4.0, Service Pack 3 "was proclaimed Y2K compliant when it came out," but then some noncompliant features were identified. "I anticipate that the same thing is going to happen with Service Pack 4. And there may be patch sets that we'll have to obtain from Microsoft [to fix that]."
Basil Irwin is Y2K project leader for NETS. He says the current proposal "is scaled down but offers SCD testbed facilities that will be available for others." The new design uses equipment in the production network while keeping test traffic logically isolated from production traffic. Some money may need to be spent, according to Basil, to test host-based services like DNS (domain name service, a part of Web administration) and e-mail. (See UCAR Web sites for more on the testbed proposals.)
Nobody that's honest will tell you that the power grid definitely will not fail. Hopefully the probability is close to zero, but no one knows how close to zero it is.
--Basil Irwin (SCD)
Basil is disappointed in the lack of additional funds for testing. "My personal opinion? It makes me wonder how serious [NSF] is about really fixing things. The institutions that are serious about fixing this problem have spent hundreds of millions of dollars." Here at UCAR he sees a lot of effort to address potential problems at the grassroots level, but a lack of oversight. "I'm seeing bottom-up, but not top-down. There are lots of isolated pools of people dealing with it in a noncoordinated fashion." On coordination, Steve Dickson concurs: "It's not clear in all cases who's got operational responsibilities, and maybe that needs to be more centrally coordinated."
ATD: UCAR Y2K Task Group member Susan Stringer is a software engineer in ATD. "We're trying to inventory everything we have," she reports. Some of their computers, scientific equipment, and software were purchased off the shelf and some were built by ATD staff. "We have embedded processors in some of our equipment that someone put there 15 years ago and [that person] is no longer here." Once they've figured out where the problems are, they'll prioritize their mission-critical systems and start the upgrading process.
Although staff are spread thin, Susan isn't expecting a crisis. "We'll keep plugging away with the resources we have and see how it works. A lot of our problems are probably in our postprocessing software, where the date 00 will show up, but it's not going to stop the system."
Ron Ruth manages data for RAF. Most of the instruments on the NSF/NCAR aircraft are analog sensors that transmit voltages in real time. "We don't have a lot of date stuff going on." Ron is confident that in the few cases where dates are involved, fixes will be uncomplicated. RAF custom-built the data acquisition system for the aircraft it operates. "We have the ability to convert to four-digit dates when we do ground processing of resulting data sets," Ron explains.
RAF is examining two systems on the aircraft themselves: the inertial navigation system and the Global Positioning System (see It's not just the year 2000). Both are crucial for flying long routes over the oceans. "We've called the manufacturers and they've said 'We're not worried about it, but we're still working on it,' " says chief pilot Henry Boynton. "That's their business, so I'm sure they'll have fixes for it. It doesn't make any sense to worry about it." Still, Steve Dickson doesn't want to take chances with the aircraft, even if they're upgraded in time. "We probably will avoid flying at midnight on December 31st because the consequences of us being wrong are not tolerable. The risk is too great," Steve says.
ACD: Division administrator Brad Crysel, who also serves on the Y2K Task Group, has been making sure their administrative systems are compliant. "Our division director, Guy Brasseur, has made it an area of emphasis." They've purchased machines from the same vendor within the past year, at least partially to ensure Y2K compliance.
ACD systems administrator Tim Fredrick emphasizes the distributed nature of the problem. "Fixing the Y2K problem is really something that happens at many different levels. We're not in a position to fix models or applications that scientists have developed, but we are in a position to apply vendor updates to the systems on which those models run." Tim is hopeful that staff in the division will take a look at what they're responsible for and communicate with him. He points out that "each programmer who is responsible for code in ACD and at NCAR will need to take a careful look at that code to fix Y2K problems."
Tim has completed a good deal of testing on the division's central systems. He's hoping to attach clones of ACD's two primary servers to the NETS testbed "to further prove to myself that those systems will be able to provide the services on January 3 that they provide today."
UOP: Unlike NCAR's research divisions, most of UOP's activities were spun up in the past decade, when Y2K awareness was already starting to emerge. Thus, they have a head start on compliance. "We've talked to every program in UOP," says Kathy Strand, manager of budget and administration for UOP and the contact person for the office's Y2K effort. "Some problems were identified, but they're being taken care of. Overall, we are in good shape and feel as if we've checked things out."
We will try to touch base on everything we have. Routine maintenance should uncover most concerns.
--John Pereira (FSS)
If there are power fluctuations, SCD's supercomputers can be safeguarded in a number of ways. The uninterruptible power system (UPS) gives machine-room technicians about 15 minutes to power down, protecting delicate disk drives from power spikes. SCD's Infrastructure Support Group has installed a new UPS that, among other things, is Y2K compliant. (Problems in rebooting equipment after the UPS installation resulted in a computer shutdown that affected several SCD systems on Friday, 22 January.)
A history of cooperation and communication with Public Service Company provides UCAR with another level of protection. "We have an account representative, so we have direct contact," says John Pereira (FSS). After the snowstorm in April 1997 there were successive power outages the next day. "Problems started about seven in the morning," John recalls. Public Service "told us they couldn't guarantee stable power for the next 24 hours or so. So SCD decided not to bring everything back up until it had stabilized. . . . The decision to shut down happened about ten in the morning, and the computer room didn't have stable power until sometime after midnight."
If, as the most extreme Y2K warnings predict, the power grid were to go down for an extended period, UCAR facilities would close until power was restored, according to Steve Dickson. "We've got emergency procedures for closing the facilities, with all the steps and who's responsible. . . . We can essentially mothball our facilities. The chances of that are very remote, but it's the sort of thing we need to talk about."
The part of emergency planning that Steve Dickson would like to see develop further is communication. "The year 2000 problem is going to have at least a community-wide impact, not [just in] individual locations." He would like to see ongoing communication with UCAR constituents "so they understand where we are, what our problems are, and have confidence that we are giving them as much information as we can [and are working] to minimize the inconvenience."
Steve Sadler, who's been in charge of Health, Environment, and Safety, has just donned an additional hat as director of all those functions plus Security. As he settles into his new responsibilities, he'll be carving out some time to investigate Y2K issues and consult with others around the institution. "As far as security goes," says Steve Dickson, "we're interested in data security"--keeping hackers out--"and physical security. We'll be looking at both of those things to make sure that we're on our toes."
According to UCAR president Rick Anthes, "It's important that we all take the year 2000 issues seriously, but at the same time not overreact. UCAR and NCAR management are committed to taking all reasonable actions to make the transition from 1999 to 2000 as smooth and nondisruptive as possible. I am confident that everyone in the organization will help make that happen, so we can get on with our business of research and service."
So how does project leader Steve Dickson sum up UCAR's preparations for New Year's Eve 1999? "We've made an incredible amount of progress, and I'm pleased with that. But the problem is we're running out of time. As the deadline approaches, the attention will increase. But it's about time to turn on the afterburners and hit it. And I think we're doing that, in most areas." Zhenya Gallon
Staff Notes Monthly will revisit UCAR's Y2K planning as the year progresses.
Y2K resources and answers
The Whole Year-2000 Catalog: Y2K on the Web
It's not just the year 2000
Desktop systems
Getting in and phoning out
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January 15, 2008
Keith Olbermann Sides With Iran, Insults Fred Thompson
In case anyone wondered whose side Keith Olbermann is on in the longstanding conflict between Iran's terrorist regime and the USA, Olbie named Fred Thompson the "Worst Person in the World" for joking that Iranians could meet the promised 72 virgins by continuing to harass American ships.
Tinfoil hat securely in place, Olbie referred to the harassment that nearly got some Revolutionary Guard speedboats blown out of the water as a "supposed confrontation." Apparently he concurs with the Iranian regime, Huffington Post and CBS's Harry Smith that our Navy probably made up the whole thing.
The talking cockroach tried to discredit Thompson by drawing a meaningless distinction between Iranian-backed suicide bombers who believe their evil god will reward them with virgins and the terrorists of the Revolutionary Guard. He then dismissed Thompson's conservative candidacy as a Candid Camera stunt.
Via Right Wing News, here's a more uplifting take on Thompson's remarks and his candidacy:
On a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at January 15, 2008 7:34 AM
Yea! My off-topic comment is now on-topic. After publishing Overbite's "FoxNews is worse than Al Qaeda" comment, Playboy got so desperate to find an Olbermann defender they had to troll his fan-blog.
And since the Revolutionary Guard funds the terrorist genocide-bombers, there really any "distinction" between them is a distinction without a difference.
Posted by: V the K at January 15, 2008 7:53 AM
Thompson never really caught on - the best he can do now is be on the ticket as Vice President.
Fred would inject some needed humor into White House. I couldnt stop laughing when I heard the 72 virgins thing. LOL!
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'The Glee Project' Contestants Announced - See Them Here!
If you've been wondering what the next cast member of "Glee" might look like, feast your eyes on these young singers: the twelve contestants in the photo below are set to compete in "The Glee Project," the winner of which will have a spot in the "Glee" cast.
The reality show starts on June 12th on the Oxygen network, and will feature the contestants being mentored by guest stars (including Darren Criss, who plays Blaine on the hit Fox show). Ryan Murphy himself, along with casting director Robert Ulrich and choreographer Zach Woodlee, will help make the final decision as to who wins it all.
The contestants range in age from 19 to 22, and hail from all over the country. Some were discovered through submitted videos on Myspace, while others came in to open casting calls or went on industry auditions.
The three gentlemen at the top row are, from left to right, Damian, Bryce and Samuel. The five in the row beneath them, left to right, are Alex, Emily, Lindsay, Hannah and Cameron. The next three down are McKynleigh, Ellis and Matheus, and the redhead at the bottom is Marissa.
The photo comes courtesy of EW. If you want to read short profiles of all the contestants and find out where they're from, head over to EW.com.


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Warner Bros Records announced today that Celebration, a greatest hits collection featuring more than 30 hit tracks from Madonna's 26 year music career, will be released on September 28, 2009. Celebration will be available in a two-CD set as well as a single CD. And there will also be a DVD released which will include the Material Girl's best videos including several that have never before been available on DVD.
All the songs on the new album have been remastered and selected by Madonna and her fans. Some hits included are "Everybody," "Express Yourself," "Vogue" and "4 Minutes."
Here's part of the press release:
"Celebration, the CD will also include two new songs that were recently recorded in New York City. The first single, also titled, Celebration, co-produced by Madonna and Paul Oakenfold, will be released August 3rd. A video for the single, which will be included on the Celebration DVD was just filmed in Milan, Italy and was directed by long time Madonna collaborator Jonas ("Ray of Light") Akerlund. Several dance club remixes of Celebration are already headed to the clubs. The song will also be available on CD and vinyl maxi. Radio will receive the Celebration single on August 3rd.
The cover for "Celebration" was created by street pop artist "Mr. Brainwash" who is best known for "throwing modern cultural icons into a blender and turning it up to eleven."
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so i promised a while back that i would share the link and password for benny's first photo shoot. here they are! they are not touched up. if you like a picture, robin can edit them for you! please ignore super unphotogenic shannon. ;o)
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for family and friends that are interested, robin has it set up so you can purchase directly from the site. however, if you want something custom or have questions let me know i can give you that info. also, you don't have to do the shipping option. she can get them to me, and then i'll get them to you!
an example of her awesome custom jobs...
this super cool collage was a gift for grandmas and great grandmas this mother's day. for you out of towners, robin can also do custom things for you and ship em! she's awesome. if you're interested, again let me know!! she also does photo restoration and all kinds of other cool stuff. ;o) like my kick butt announcements...
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Heart Bypass Beats Stents for Survival in Obama-Backed Research
Older patients with fatty plaque clogging several of their heart arteries are more likely to survive if they undergo bypass surgery rather than getting stents to clear the vessels and hold them open, a study found.
The data presented today at the American College of Cardiology meeting in Chicago stem from one of the first studies conducted using U.S. President Barack Obama's 2009 stimulus funding, which provided $1.1 billion for clinical trials that compare rival therapies. The study analyzed data from 189,793 Americans ages 65 or older who received treatment in the community, providing what doctors call real-world results.
After four years, 83.6 percent of patients getting open- heart surgery were alive, compared with 79.2 percent of those treated with the less-invasive artery-clearing procedure known as angioplasty and stents made by Abbott Laboratories (ABT), Boston Scientific Corp. (BSX) and Medtronic Inc. (MDT) The study confirms earlier findings and gives patients more information about the long-term trade-offs of treatment, researchers said.
"This moves the bar along and may help us do things better," though it won't completely change care, William Weintraub, the lead researchers and chairman of cardiology at Christiana Care Health System in Newark, Delaware, said in an interview. "It is much larger than any other study, it covers the entire country" and the results apply to the general population, he said.
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Each year, about 1 million Americans undergo procedures to clear their arteries, a less-invasive way of restoring healthy blood flow to the heart. The approach avoids the need to crack open the chest, a painful procedure that requires weeks of recovery. No one should underestimate the recovery time from the bypass operation, Weintraub said.
"There is fear, and there is also discounting, where people value things more upfront rather than in the distance," he said. "Patients say I'll take less pain now, and I'll worry about dying in four years in four years. We should listen to patients when they say these things."
The research found patients benefited more from bypass surgery regardless of their age, gender or other medical conditions, said Fred Edwards, a senior author of the study from the University of Florida. Those results were unexpected and should lead patients to take another look at surgery, he said in an interview.
The study, funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, was simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
"This is another study that suggests in people with extensive disease, surgery is a better approach," said Douglas Weaver, chairman of cardiology at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, who wasn't involved in the research. "The pendulum has been swinging that way. Doctors are saying I'm not going to try to reconstruct arteries with stents. This paper shows that's the right direction to go."
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State, Abenaki Disagree on Federal Status
(Host) Supporters of an effort to have the federal government grant the Abenaki formal status as an Indian tribe say the protection of civil rights for the Abenaki is the chief reason they're seeking federal recognition.
Speaking last night on VPR's Switchboard program, Fred Wiseman, who is a member of the Governor's Commission on Native American Affairs, said tribe members have no interest in pursuing any gambling proposals if they win federal status. Wiseman says the most important issue is securing basic civil rights for all Abenaki:
(Wisemen) "That gives us the rights that are accorded to other minorities. For example, right now without federal recognition the Abenaki community has no protection as native Americans. As a minority we have capabilities of getting grants so there's that component of it. Basic civil rights the Abenaki over the years have suffered a lot of problems with civil rights and prejudice in the state of Vermont."
(Host) The State of Vermont is not supporting the Abenaki's application to win federal status. Chief Assistant Attorney General William Griffin says the Abenaki do not meet federal qualifications and Griffin argued that this issue has nothing to do with civil rights:
(Griffin) "Native Americans, whether they are Abenaki or members of another group, are Vermonters. They're Vermont citizens, they're entitled to all of the rights and privileges of any other Vermonter. There has been a suggestion that the rights of these Vermonters cannot be enforced unless tribal recognition is granted. In fact, the attorney general's office has pursued claims of discrimination made by native Americans."
(Host) A resolution supporting the Abenaki effort to win federal recognition has been sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee however it appears unlikely that the Committee will consider the resolution this session.


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Hempfield student will visit Costa Rica
Morgan Bellush, a freshman at Hempfield Area High School, will make her first foray into international travel this summer when she serves as a cultural ambassador.
Bellush will be among 40 students who will venture to Costa Rica, a Central American nation between Nicaragua to the north and Panama to the south, with the People to People Ambassador Program. It is designed "to bridge cultural and political borders through education and exchange," according to its website.
"Right now, I know very little right about the country or people, but the more I research I do, the more I am fascinated about the history and culture," said Bellush, 14. "This is my first trip outside the United States and I'm very excited about the opportunity."
The community is pitching in to give her that opportunity.
A Zumbathon, vendor fair and basket raffle will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday in Pitzer's Townhouse, 101 S. Fifth St., Jeannette. The venue, aerobic instructors, vendors and others are contributing to help Bellush raise money for the trip and People to People.
Bellush will visit a banana plantation and nature reserve, interact with students at various schools and an orphanage and engage in community service during the visit from June 30 to July 13. At the same time, the student, who is enrolled in French classes in school, will be getting a crash course in Spanish.
The group will be helping to refurbish schools, planting trees, repairing a rural lodge and clearing hiking trails in conjunction with a reforestation project at Nacientes de Palmichal. They will visit the National Institute of Biodiversity's rainforest station, where Bellush will work with biologists monitoring amphibians and participate in collecting data emanating from frog "songs" during evening excursions.
Erin Rogers, project manager for the Costa Rica trip, said the concept for People to People was developed during the administration of President Dwight Eisenhower in 1956. The ambassador program was initiated in 1963.
"Our mission is to bring American students closer to peoples and cultures of the world and provide direct and unique interaction of those American students with students of other cultures ...," Rogers said.
Bellush will spend two nights with a local family in Santa Ana, where she will be able to help prepare dinner and see what life is like for an average Costa Rican family. The travelers will also be given the opportunity to go surfing and whitewater rafting.
Bellush's cousin, Tyler Treadway, traveled to Europe with People to People several years ago, and her aunt, Sherry Purtymun, is an avid traveler who encouraged Bellush through the application process.
Bellush, the daughter of Jenifer and Tony Bellush, is associated with Girls on the Run, a nationwide program that fosters life skills and confidence among participants, and the Girl Scouts.
At Hempfield, she is a member of the French Club and the Spartan Army, a community service program that raises funds for various organizations. Bellush, a rec league softball pitcher and member of the Hempfield indoor track team, plans on playing softball for the Lady Spartans.
She has met once with her future traveling companions. Bellush, who will celebrate her 15th birthday before the trip, is preparing a presentation for the group about Costa Rica's history, geography and its capital, San Jose.
"Students grow during a trip of this nature," said Sarah Jones, the local contact for People to People. "They are more appreciative of other cultures as a result, and more appreciative of their own cultures and homes, and more aware of how fortunate they are to live in the United States."
Les Harvath is a freelance writer.


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The economy will grow at only 2.5 per cent a year over the next four years, according to a forecast by the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics that is far more bearish than Treasury's official prediction that growth will rebound to a long-term average of 3 per cent a year.
The federal government agency, which specialises in tracking the resources industry, says a looming investment gap caused by falling spending on big mining and energy products is "just too large" to be fully offset by record-low interest rates.
The forecast is also far lower than the Reserve Bank's 2.75 to 4.25 per cent growth forecast for 2015 and illustrates the new Coalition government's challenge to fire up the economy when a high dollar is hurting manufacturing and resources investment is waning.
The bureau said in its Resources and Energy Quarterly that while there would be several very large projects under construction over the next three to four years, there are few projects elsewhere to compensate for falling resources investment.
Prices for coal, Australia's second-largest export, will drop by as much as 19 per cent in 2013-14, while iron ore will be little changed, it said. By contrast, liquified natural gas prices will jump 25 per cent.
Budget experts said if growth is as weak as predicted by the bureau, the federal budget would take a $20 billion revenue hit over the next four years.
The growth estimate underscores how difficult it may be for Treasurer Joe Hockey to return the budget to surplus, which is one of the government's most important medium-term political goals.
The Reserve Bank left its benchmark cash rate at 2.5 per cent this week, partly to encourage businesses and consumers to invest in home construction.
Less than two months ago the Treasury's Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Outlook presented a relatively positive outlook for economic growth.
Report contributor and senior bureau economist John Barber said he was taking a "more cautious outlook" to economic growth because of the impact of the decline in mining sector investment.
"The record level of capital expenditure over the last two or three years has been very supportive of higher GDP growth rates . . . but now that the peak in that investment is starting to wind down, we think we'll start to see a moderation in the GDP growth rate," he said.
While lower interest rates would go part of the way, the "gap is just too large to fully offset the mining sector."
The bureau's executive director, Bruce Wilson, noted recent comments by Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens indicating the central bank was still to see evidence of a pick-up in non-mining sectors and was concerned.
"I think that's reflected a bit in our thinking," he told The Australian Financial Review.
Budget expert Chris Richardson, from Deloitte Access Economics, said the forecasts imply the terms of trade may fall around 2 per cent this financial year, less than half the 5.75 per cent drop anticipated by Treasury in the Pre-Election Outlook.
"The good news is that Treasury may have been too pessimistic on the big dollar commodity prices that affect not just national income growth but are major drivers of budget revenues," he said.
"The bad news is that BREE forecasts in the years when Treasury goes to an autopilot assumption of trend is that the economy's real growth will stay below trend.
"Theirs is a broadly pessimistic take that the [resources] construction cliff will leave a pothole that will be hard to fill."
In Mr Hockey's first press conference as Treasurer, he said that the federal government's finances continued to deteriorate, a warning that opens the door to tougher potential budget cuts or further increases in government debt.
Mike Henry, the president of HSEC, Marketing & Technology at BHP Billiton, will tell an industry conference on Thursday that China's resources needs are shifting towards potash and copper, and explain how that will affect operations in Australia.
Mr Henry's speech to the Australian National Conference on Resources and Energy will come after the industry claimed it faced among the highest tax rates in the world even if the carbon and mining taxes are repealed.
The Minerals Council of Australia's blueprint for the Coalition government says urgent changes are needed to the workplace and onerous levels of regulation to make Australia competitive.
In Wednesday's forecast the bureau said iron ore prices will average $US121 this year compared with $US117 estimated in June.
China will import 872 million tons next year, 8.3 per cent more than previously forecast, and by 2018 shipments from overseas may increase to almost 1 billion tons, it said.
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Tying up with various online website/brands/physical stores with expertise in different product verticals, Giveter also helps find gifts based on the recipient's personality and gifter's mood. "We have an inhouse gifting aggregation team which cherry picks unique giftable products. Once the user finalises a gift, presently we redirect the user to our partners, for payments. Currently we have a total of 2500 gifting option in different categories," says Avinash Saxena.
On the occasion of friendships day, Giveter introduced a new concept of Zip-Gift. With e-addresses becoming more real than physical addresses, people will be able to send, receive and share gifts on Facebook. The pilot was carried out on Friendships day and 10,000 zip-gifts were sent within 36 hours! "We also got many appreciation emails from people are really liking the idea. Now, we have a task at hand of shipping out the gifts. These gifts should reach their friend's doorstep by the end of the week." informs Mayank.
Mayank and Avinash are both from IIT Delhi (2006 batch). Mayank was a consultant with Schlumberger Business Consulting in his prior avatar while Avinash was the CTO at Zomato. With strong leadership at the helm, Giveter is working on the product and shall be expanding soon.
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