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Advanced Hearing & Balance Center
1490 E Foremaster Dr Ste 360 Saint George, UT 84790
Clinic staff
Kimball Forbes
Kimball B. Forbes, MCD, has been in the St. George area for the past 27 years and is a co-owner of Advanced Hearing & Balance Specialists. His wife's name is Jonna and they are the proud parents of 8 children and 4 grandchildren. Kimball is passionate and enjoys helping to build better relationships through better hearing. He is the longest tenured Audiologist in southern Utah. In his early years in practice in southern Utah and Nevada, he established 11 hearing clinics which are thriving today under his direction and leadership. Kimball graduated with his Master's of Communication Disorders in Audiology from Brigham Young University in 1982. He specializes in: Hearing Aid Sales, Service and Counseling Specialist Earmold and Hearing Protection Specialist Diagnostic Medical Hearing Assessments for Adults and Children
Lance Greer
Dr. Lance F. Greer, Au.D., FAAA, grew up in Heber, Arizona and has been in the St. George area for the past 14 years and is a co-owner of Advanced Hearing & Balance Specialists. His wife's name is Shannon and they are the parents of 5 children. They enjoy traveling and spending time with their team of swimming children. He has been a member of the Dixie Sunrise Rotary Club and enjoys serving others in the community. in 1998, Dr. Greer developed the newborn hearing screening program at DRMC and currently serves as the Director of this program. He graduated with his Masters of Science in Audiology in 1997 from Brigham Young University and was conferred his Doctor of Audiology degree from the PCO School of Audiology in December 2003. Dr. Greer specializes in: Hearing Aid Sales, Service and Counseling Specialist Earmold and Hearing Protection Specialist Diagnostic Medical Hearing Assessments for Adults and Children Diagnostic Balance and Dizziness Assessment of Adults Vestibular Rehabilitation Specialist Industrial Hearing Conservation Specialist
Clinic reviews
Read 8 verified patient reviews for Advanced Hearing & Balance Center! Their average review score is 5 () from 8 reviews.
"He was nice and he explained things in detail before he did them."
"He was efficient. He was caring. He came in special for an appointment that didn't exist. He came in on a day that he wasn't supposed to be in but, he came in to accommodate me."
"He was really good with my child."
"We worked with three different ones and they were all excellent."
"My consultation was with Dr. Kimball Forbes. I appreciated the integrity of the man, he is a wonderful man."
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About this clinic
At Advanced Hearing & Balance Specialists, we are dedicated to providing our patients the most elite level of service and technology. We work with many of the world's top manufacturers in order to provide our patients with the most cutting-edge products that fit each individual's unique hearing lifestyle needs. We promote value packaged prices that are backed by our 100% service satisfaction guarantee. We also provide complete diagnostic hearing testing for many of the local physicians. Many of our patients include testing for dizziness and imbalance. Advanced Hearing & Balance Specialists provides services in St. George and Cedar City, UT and Mesquite, NV. We are providers of many local and nationwide insurance plans. We are biased, but if you want the absolute best in hearing healthcare by professionals who really care, please give us a call. Our Audiologists and staff are eager to serve you.
Clinic services
- Adult and pediatric hearing evaluations
- Hearing aids
- Hearing aid fitting and programming
- Tinnitus evaluation and treatment
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Entropy 71 by BibireWatch
©2011-2016 Bibire
May 2011
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Acrylics, pencils, Ink and sgraffito on experimental photo.
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If the black holes were sewers, above the ground would be a city. But it could be anything really, as usual Magnificent work again Jon!
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surreal-abstracto-conceptual....i love chocolate and its effect in others...glad you like my work...is coming from my passion for colors and forms...
I like that description of your work. Everyone says they like my stuff because it looks like anime.. but i hate anime. Its the worst. haha.
And yes, I enjoy seeing your work in general. Whats your inspiration?
And yes, I enjoy seeing your work in general. Whats your inspiration?
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man ray and salvador dali were good surreal artists too. I actually wrote a report on surrealism this year. I think the reason i got a D on it though was because of how bad i did on the work cited page. :/
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UMSS Sprints At St. Croix Valley Raceway Sept 17
Stillwater, MN
By: Greg Parent, UMSS Media Director
With the sale of the former Kopellah Speedway not completed until July and the May 27 show postponed because of the pending sale, the Upper Midwest Sprintcar Series (UMSS) and St. Croix Valley Raceway have rescheduled the May 27 winged sprint car date to run during the second night of a two night Final Showdown special event culminating on Saturday September 17. "If the weather permits, this will be the third and final Thunder in the Valley UMSS show of the season at SCVR," stated Ron Bernhagen of the UMSS and St. Croix Valley Raceway. It is also slated to be the 17th race of the UMSS season with just three more shows to follow, as the race for the GRP High Five Championship Title and the battle for the GRP Motorsports/BP Trading Company Rookie of the Year heats up. Currently Jerry Richert, Jr. sits on top of the championship point standings ahead of Andy Jones and Cody Hahn while Anna Kouba leads Chad Patterson and Kevin Bradwell in the rookie standings.
The winner of the UMSS feature race on Saturday September 17 will receive $1,000 thanks to some sponsorship help from GRP Motorsports. The GRP Past Champion Bonus will also be in effect. The first two UMSS shows at St. Croix Valley Raceway have provided fans with some exciting winged sprint car racing action. Joining the winged sprints on the program will be the popular TSCS nonwinged sprint cars. The 1/4 mile semi-banked dirt oval is well-suited for both types of sprint car racing. This will be the final opportunity for race fans to watch the sprints in action at St. Croix Valley Raceway in 2011, as the facility is slated to receive some improvements and upgrades before the 2012 season kicks off next spring. Come out and join area race fans in celebrating the final sprint car racing event of the season at St. Croix Valley Raceway and help the track close out its sprint car racing season in style with a good turnout of cars and fans.
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>Crescent City California News, Sports, & Weather | The Triplicate
By Cornelia de Bruin
Triplicate staff writer
On Saturday, Robert Owen plans to pay tribute to friends who lost their lives more than 35 years ago in Vietnam.
"I've been waiting a long time for this," Owen said. "I was in boot camp with eight guys who died. I'm doing this for them."
Beginning 12:01 p.m. Saturday, Owen will lead a group of bikers from Del Norte County and Oregon down to Victorville to join together and head for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., in time for Memorial Day.
Owen is the Wall Road Captain for the Del Norte County and Oregon Bikers.
The 20-year-old rally, in support of veteran's and prisoners of wars rights, is a first for the Del Norte County/Oregon group.
Many of the riders, like Owen, have a mission.
Owen hasn't seen Vietnam since his tour of duty there ended in the late 1960s, but has been waiting for years to honor some of the men he served with there.
Owen served as a U.S. Marine lance corporal from 1967-1970. He saw combat 240 miles north of the demilitarized zone, and was permanently injured there. He was part of Phoenix Operation, a covert foray into North Vietnam.
After waiting years for a chance to pay his respects to his former buddies, Owen and a friend plan to leave Del Norte Fairgrounds at 3 p.m. Saturday.
They'll take Owen's Honda Shadow in the back of his pickup truck. Owens will alternately drive the truck and ride the bike.
In Victorville, the route turns east, heading to the Navajo Nation and points beyond.
Owen will relinquish his captaincy to "Chaplain" Joy Jeannette, president of Rolling Thunder Inc. Chapter One, of California.
"I'll give him a chance to captain again," Jeannette said. "It's a great honor to be a Road Captain with this group."
Every 500 miles or so, the group will camp at KOA campgrounds, meeting up with other bikers, partying and sharing memories of those who never came home.
"We're really honored to serve our vets by riding for those who can't," Jeannette said.
Once the group reaches Washington, D.C., Owen and the pack of 35,000 bikes from Crescent City and the rest of California will lead the cross-country riders into the nation's capital  Owen driving his 1952 Henry J. Street Rod.
Owen invites those who can't commit to ride cross-country and back to at least join his group to Eureka, Fortuna or Garberville, then send them off to D.C.
"I hit it when I could finally go," Owen said. "This year nothing can stop me."
Join the Rally
To join Owen's and fellow bikers' trip to the Vietnam Wall, call 458-3910.


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Votes: 48
38. Shaolin Abbot (1979)
R | 84 min | Action, Adventure
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Votes: 136
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45. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)
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Votes: 10,478
46. Soul of the Sword (1978)
85 min | Action, Drama
Writers: Kang Chien Chiu, Chan Wei Lin | Director: Shan Hua | Stars: Lung Ti, Chen Chi Lin, Feng Ku, Hui-Ling Liu
Votes: 161
47. The Proud Youth (1978)
92 min | Action, Adventure
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Votes: 33
48. Zi yue shi si xing ye (1978)
101 min | Drama, Romance
Sensual Pleasures features a collection of three, ghost story, sexual vignettes starring a viscerally sensual trio of hardcore experience with the well endowed Chen Ping, Chinese adult film... See full summary »
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Votes: 29
49. Chivalrous Killer (1978)
101 min
A young man learns about the secrets hidden in the Heavenly Sword and the Dragon Sabre to become the head of the Kung-Fu world, while unifying the Chinese Zoroastrianism Cult, and eventually overthrows the Mongolian Dynasty.
Writers: Louis Cha, Yuen Chor | Director: Yuen Chor | Stars: Tung-Shing Yee, On-On Yu, Li Ching, Lieh Lo
Votes: 55
50. Yi tian tu long ji da jie ju (1978)
98 min | Action, Drama
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Votes: 47


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Thursday, June 23, 2016
#canneslions bronze winner for Bayer makes fun of consent
I first saw this ad on Twitter, shared by marketer Cindy Gallop, with the comment "Don't use this to sell aspirin, male-dominated ad industry, & don't award it, male-dominated juries. #canneslions"
Seriously. I'm a male Creative Director in this industry, and I think it's awful.
The ad is part of a series by AlmapBBDO of Brazil for Bayer. It won a Bronze Lion at Cannes 2016 in the Outdoor category.
The other two in the winning entry were a little less explicit:
These are part of a over-arching campaign that describes situations that might give the listener/victim a headache. They play all kinds of stereotypes about ex-wives and protective fathers, and are mostly harmless.
But not "'Don't worry, babe, I'm not filming this'.mov"
I see a lot of regressive ads coming out of Brazil, and I'm used to a certain kind of humour in them. But this one, translated into English for an international awards show, is really bad timing for a joke about non-consensual filming of sex.
Yeah, yeah. Call me an "SJW" if you want. But I'm trying to raise a son into a man who doesn't exploit and abuse women. The idea of filming and possibly sharing an intimate sex tape of a woman without her consent is just not funny anymore. It's the kind of bro-attitude that we should be denormalizing, rather than normalizing, along with jokes about other kinds of sexual violation.
Bayer, BBDO, and Cannes should do better than this. It's 20-effing-16.
UPDATE: Cindy Gallop added, via Facebook, some further context as to why this ad's timing is so bad.
UPDATE 2: Adweek reports that BBDO global creative chief David Lubars, who stated: "I learned last night that one of our very own agencies had a pretty scammy ad in the festival, and it won a Lion, I told them to return it. Because I don't want that kind of Lion. BBDO doesn't want that kind of Lion."
It turned out that the sexism was one thing, but what the global ad giant couldn't stand was that AlmapBBDO had paid for their own media placement. Even though Bayer had signed off on the ad, the agency paying to make it official is against the rules.
Posted by Tom Megginson at Thursday, June 23, 2016
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Grey Singapore wins Bronze Lion for failed App
Well, isn't that awkward.
ADWEEK reports that Grey For good Singapore's I SEA App, intended to use "the power of crowdsourcing to monitor the vast sea and make an impossible task possible" has been removed from Apple's iTunes a few hours before it won a Bronze Lion at Cannes.
To add insult to injury, the "client," Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAT) denies that they had anything to do with it, stating, "All we can say on the developers' behalf is that the app probably sounded interesting in concept form but failed miserably in execution. We were asked to support the launch of the app in concept only. So we were included in a press release."
The App was supposed to assign a square of Mediterranean Sea to each of an assumed thousands of observers, who would opt-in to keep an eye on the water via live satellite feed, then report any suspected migrant boats to MOAT for possible rescue.
But, according to ADWEEK, "...various tech outlets downloaded and tried to use the app and found that it was not functional. The primary issue concerned a GPS feature which promised to provide real-time screenshots of areas in the Mediterranean Sea where migrant vessels might be located but did not appear to work."
But, according to ADWEEK, "...various tech outlets downloaded and tried to use the app and found that it was not functional. The primary issue concerned a GPS feature which promised to provide real-time screenshots of areas in the Mediterranean Sea where migrant vessels might be located but did not appear to work."
Tech blogger @SwiftOnSecurity called the app out as "fake" and stated, via several Tweets:
"Tried it, the app is completely non-functional. It's a marketing stunt for the developer to get press articles.
The point of the articles isn't even to get people to use the app, it's to make readers feel better that other people are doing something.
Someone who DM'd me familiar with international advertising thinks this was an in-progress intern proof-of-concept they pushed as finished.
HOWEVER, it does not explain how the "I Sea" app ever hoped to get high-resolution, near-real-time satellite imagery of entire Mediterranean.
Nor does it explain the entire concept of how laypersons are supposed to identify stranded refugee boats from old blurry satellite imagery.
Note that I intuitively knew this app was fake within 20 seconds of using it. It screams unfinished interface mock-up, doesn't act right."
Incredible. Cannes has a bad reputation for awarding lions to "fake" campaigns, but this one is a special kind of fail.
ADWEEK has still not heard back from the Cannes Lions' PR department.
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Monday, June 13, 2016
Father's Day ad suggests daughters give Dad "a threesome"
A friend received this by e-mail and sent it with the comment, "Thought you might appreciate the insane inappropriateness of this spam email I received. Can't imagine how someone thought this was a good idea.
I love that this offer is for "ethical" coffee.
I haven't seen any "gift" ideas for dads this twisted since Genesis 19:36...
Posted by Tom Megginson at Monday, June 13, 2016
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Monday, June 6, 2016
Should a media company refuse one party's political ads?
BuzzFeed certainly has its faults, but on the upside it can occasionally surprise you. Maybe it's the occasional hit of well-written hard news, or a cartoonist giving Disney princesses their viscera back. Or in this case, banning an advertiser for its politics.
That's what just happened:
"Earlier today, BuzzFeed informed the RNC that we would not accept Trump for President ads and that we would be terminating our agreement with them," [BuzzFeed CEO Jonah] Peretti said. "The Trump campaign is directly opposed to the freedoms of our employees in the United States and around the world and in some cases, such as his proposed ban on international travel for Muslims, would make it impossible for our employees to do their jobs."
Mr. Peretti went on to compare the ad ban to banning cigarette ads as "hazardous to our health."
But what is this, really? It comes off as principled, but it can also be seen as grandstanding. Banning ads based on the advertiser's politics, sight unseen, could also raise questions about media ethics.
But here's another point of view, expressed by a PR professional named Eliot Harrison in the comments:
If Trump's campaign has shown anything, it's that he hasn't needed advertising. He's getting millions of free advertising through the 100's of articles and stories written about him. THIS article is yet another one that will only serve to embolden his supporters.Hmm... The man has a point. And since I am only adding to the problem here, perhaps I should stop writing now.
What's your take on this?
Monday, April 11, 2016
#carbonaragate: Marketing fail, or brilliant troll?
Europeans are very entertaining sometimes.
Last month, French lifestyle site demotivateur posted a video recipe for a pasta "alla Carbonara" that was nothing like the eggy spaghetti dish beloved by Italians.
Even among Italians, there are variations in the recipe, which is a "tradition" less than a century old. However, the French version almost seemed like a parody of French food by Italians. Dry pasta, bacon, and onions are simmered in water, then the mix is tossed in crème fraîche and cheese and pepper sprinkled on. Finally, a raw egg yolk is cracked on top. What?
The video went viral in Italy, according to Huffington Post, with Italians loudly bemoaning the "death of carbonara."
But let's look at that video again.
Nice product placement, eh? When I first saw the original video (now gone) I swear I saw Barilla branding at the end as well. I suspect, as some Italian commenters do, that this was just a piece of content marketing gone awry.
And yet the company denied everything on the Sai cosa mangi? Facebook Page, and offered a link to alternative recipes on their own site.
So, either this was rogue content marketing by Barilla's French team that went very badly, or it was a brilliant trolling of Italians. Either way, Barilla is benefiting from clicks, mentions, and visits by outraged Italians and curious foreigners.
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BASF Taps Finance Chief as Next Deal Beckons for Chemical Maker
BASF SE's choice of Kurt Bock as the next chief executive officer of the world's largest chemical maker underscores a focus on acquisitions as the company prepares to clinch its next transaction this month.
Bock, a company veteran of more than two decades, will succeed Juergen Hambrecht in May 2011, BASF said yesterday. Martin Brudermueller, 49, will become his deputy. Bock, 51, was the only candidate presented to the supervisory board, said a member of the panel who voted on the appointment.
"The entire chemical industry is and remains driven by M&A, and somebody who already has a lot of experience with it is certainly well regarded as CEO," said Lutz Grueten, an analyst at Kepler Capital Markets in Frankfurt. "The times when the classic chemist should lead the company are over."
Bock and Hambrecht, who assumed their posts in 2003, loosened BASF's reliance on bulk chemicals with about $16 billion in acquisitions to gain specialty products including catalytic-converters and construction chemicals. BASF is preparing an offer for Cognis GmbH, people with knowledge of the plan said in April, in what is set to be one of Hambrecht's last deals and the biggest in the industry so far this year.
Price Discipline
Bock helped BASF earn a reputation for price discipline with acquisitions, said Jochen Schlachter, a credit analyst at UniCredit in Munich. BASF may bid about 3 billion euros ($3.7 billion) for Cognis, the Monheim, Germany-based maker of ingredients for cosmetics, according to the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks are private.
BASF is unlikely to announce its bid for Cognis before next week, two other people close to the talks said yesterday.
"BASF made sizeable acquisitions under Bock and built a good track record," Schlachter said. "They are rather conservative and not known to overpay."
BASF shares have more than doubled in value since May 2003, when Bock was appointed CFO, until the end of last month, outpacing the 18-member Bloomberg European Chemical Company Index. Under the stewardship of Hambrecht and Bock, annual sales swelled to 50.69 billion euros in 2009 from 33.36 billion euros. Net income rose to 1.41 billion euros from 910 million euros.
Bock worked about five of his past 12 years at BASF in the U.S., with the remainder at the company's Ludwigshafen headquarters. Besides the finance department, he leads the North American operations as well as the catalysts division. Bock, who is married with three children, still lives in the U.S. Apart from a six-year stint from 1992 at Robert Bosch GmbH, Bock spent his entire career at BASF after joining the company in 1985.
No Outsider
By tapping an insider, BASF deviated from the path chosen by German competitor Bayer AG. The maker of Aspirin in September appointed Marijn Dekkers, the former head of Thermo Fischer Scientific Inc., as CEO. BASF's supervisory board will consider a successor to Bock early next year, it said today.
"There is no reason for a major overhaul, so there was no reason to bring in an outsider," said Tim Albrecht, a fund manager who manages 1 billion euros in equities at Frankfurt-based DWS Investment GmbH. "The company has performed very solidly in the past."
BASF's is the second executive reshuffle to be announced in a month among the companies listed on the DAX 30 benchmark Index. ThyssenKrupp AG, Germany's largest steelmaker, on May 4 appointed Siemens AG divisional head Heinrich Hiesinger as CEO to succeed Ekkehard Schulz.
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Acquisitions that Bock has helped engineer include catalytic-converter maker Engelhard Corp. for about $5 billion, and Degussa AG construction chemicals business for 2.2 billion euros, both in 2006. The company agreed to pay 3.45 billion Swiss francs ($3 billion) for Ciba Holding AG on Sept. 15, 2008, the same day Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy.
Assets for disposal include the styrenics business, a low- margin subsidiary that BASF has agreed to exit.
Bock helped steer BASF through the global economic slump that followed Lehman's demise. BASF reported a loss in that year's fourth quarter, and reduced its 2009 dividend for the first time in 16 years.
The company also cut capacity at more than 200 production sites, and placed 4,000 employees in Germany on shorter hours. The measures helped return BASF to profit, which reached 1.03 billion in the first quarter of 2010.
Unlike Hambrecht, a trained chemist, Bock has an education in management and finance. He studied business administration in Muenster and Cologne in Germany as well as at Pennsylvania State University. He also holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Bonn, according to BASF's website.
'Verbund' Production
"I don't have the deep, scientific knowledge, and a finance person has a bit of different perspective from the science person or a production guy," Chemical Week cited Bock as saying in an interview last week. Still, the CFO is "heavily involved" in corporate strategy, he told the trade publication.
Founded in 1865 as Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik to produce coal tar dyes, BASF grew into the world's largest chemical company, with 103,632 employees globally as of March 31. The company spearheaded the so-called Verbund production principle that aims to integrate operations at major facilities to save resources and energy and cut back on logistics costs.
BASF operates Verbund sites at its Ludwigshafen headquarters, as well as at sites in Antwerp, Belgium, in Geismar, Louisiana, and Freeport, Texas, as well as two Asian Verbund sites in Kuantan, Malaysia, and Nanjing, China.
"Bock will not have to re-invent BASF, but Hambrecht set the bar pretty high," said Juergen Meyer, who holds 1.8 million BASF shares in his SEB Aktienfonds, the maximum the fund is allowed to own. "It will be a challenge to repeat the success of the past 20 years."


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For pediatric patients in need of heart transplants, buying time until a donor heart becomes available is crucial. Median wait times in the U.S. for a child age 10 or younger to get a heart are about 2-1/2 to three months, according to the United Network of Organ Sharing.
One reason for this wait time is the rarity of donor hearts for youth in that age group. Until recently, pediatricians and pediatric nurses had few options, such as ECMO, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, to offer pediatric patients whose hearts werent strong enough to survive the wait for a transplant.
But a new device known as the Berlin Heart is being used to extend the length of time a child can wait for a heart while also improving their quality of life.
About 50 hospitals in the U.S. are using the Berlin Heart, a bridge-to-transplant ventricular-assist device that sits outside the body and pumps blood into the heart through implanted cannulas. Made by Berlin Heart GmbH in Germany, it is specially developed to help pediatric patients. The mechanism about the size of a computer mouse is attached to a mobile driver and computer. Its pumps and cannulas come in different sizes so it can be used in patients from a few days old to adolescents. It has been used as short a time as 23 hours to more than 374 days with a worldwide survival-to-transplant rate of more than 75%, says Bob Kroslowitz, vice president for clinical affairs at Berlin Heart Inc., a U.S. division.
After implantation, nurses provide one-on-one care and monitor patients intensely for signs of blood clots, stroke, and infection. The pumps are transparent, so nurses see the blood circulating and can check for clotting, which is a major risk. They use high-powered flashlights hourly to look for white fibrin deposits that can be the size of a pinhead, says Suzanne Courtwright, MS, CPNP, nurse practitioner in pediatric cardiothoracic surgery at Childrens Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City.
Nurses measure any deposits that appear, track the location, and watch to make sure the pieces dont turn dark brown or black or grow bigger, causing a blood clot.
At the bedside, the nurses … are the ones who are going to see them first. Its their assessment that is crucial to the [pediatric patients]survival, Courtwright says.
Not Yet FDA Approved
The Berlin Heart is used more widely in Europe than in the U.S. It has not yet been approved for general use in the U.S. by the Food and Drug Administration. So a case-by-case compassionate use appeal must be made to the FDA each time the situation arises.
Since its first use in 2000 in the U.S., the device, also called EXCOR, has been implanted in more than 260 patients in the U.S. and more than 600 worldwide, Kroslowitz says.
The company is in an FDA-approved IDE (investigational device exemption) study. We hope to file our application for [FDA] approval sometime in 2010, Kroslowitz says.
Costs for the equipment alone are substantial. Though some, if not all, costs are typically covered by insurance and Medicaid, the minimum kit for supporting one ventricle costs about $92,000, says Eileen Hughes, RN, MA, ANP, clinical director for cardiothoracic services at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. Renting the small-refrigerator-sized drivers that churn the blood and send it back into the body can cost an additional $15,000 per month, and replacing a blood pump in the case of any clotting would cost another $37,000, Hughes says.
Mount Sinai has been using the Berlin Heart about five years and implants about three a year, Hughes says.
Pediatric cardiothoracic critical care nurses at Mount Sinai are trained at the center, updated on all developments, and must pass annual competency. The nurses never leave the bedside, Hughes says. Theres intensive hemodynamic monitoring that goes on. You are watching the function of every organ. If were doing it right, the lungs are perfused, the liver numbers are normal, the kidneys arent going to fail. Nurses also constantly watch for infection along the cannulas that enter the body.
Second Chance at Life
Samuel Weinstein, MD, chief of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery at the Childrens Hospital at Montefiore, has implanted two Berlin Hearts this year. Because the device can be used for long periods of time, he says its a better option for some patients than ECMO. Typically used less than a month, ECMO is a machine outside the body that works like a heart-lung bypass.
I was very happy with the way the device functioned in both patients, Weinstein says. This device allows them to get better, eat, and become interactive.
His most recent patient, 16-month-old Jeter Villacis from the Bronx, named by his dad for Yankees star Derek Jeter, used the device for seven weeks before he received a heart transplant Oct. 9. (He) was able to achieve developmental milestones that he was not able to prior to the device as well as put on significant amounts of weight, Weinstein says. To be on ECMO, you need to be sedated and on a ventilator in bed. With this device you can breathe on your own, you can get out of bed, eat, and play.
Though Jeter used the Berlin Heart for seven weeks until his transplant, some patients in other hospitals have had the device in for more than a year. We put [Berlin Hearts] in when the risk of not supporting the patient is greater than the risk of placing the device, Weinstein says.
That risk paid off for Jeter and his family a little more than a month ago. Jeter finally was able to go home Nov. 5, with a backpack full of Yankees memorabilia from the Turn 2 Foundation, established by Derek Jeter, one day after his namesakes team won its 27th World Series.


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ENJOY this peaceful, beautiful two-story home surrounded by tropical landscapes and 180 degree ocean, beach and coastline views! This gorgeous property has been recognized and has won the prestigious award of 'TOP VACATION RENTAL in Captain Cook for 2012 , 2013 AND 2015! This unique property has 1/3 acre surrounded by tropical and lush gardens. Two minutes by car to our private beach and secluded crystal clear and warm water bay where you can snorkel, swim, kayak and more!
Panoramic ocean views span the horizon as far as your eyes will take you; this property is considered to be in the 'favored zone' due to the perfect elevation, climate and proximity to local parks, 1 hour to Volcano National Park, just 20 minutes to Kealakekua Bay, 10 min to Hookena Beach where the dolphins rest and where you can swim easily with the dolphins. Honounou National Historic Park is only 15 min. from this beautiful property. Hiking trails abound, horseback riding (20 minutes away). Hilo is two hours away--great location!
Also, the home is only two minutes from the wonderful BLACK PEBBLE BEACH, Kaohe Bay, at the bottom of the street. The average water visibility is 40 feet and more. It is calm almost every day of the year. For the beachgoers, we are stocked with snorkel gear, boogieboards, umbrella, beach chairs, beach blankets, coolers and more.
The panoramic ocean and coastline views are simply mesmerising, with the 1000 ft surrounding lanai where you can rest and enjoy dining with the gas grill barbeque! Embrace a sense of peace the minute you walk through the tropical gardens leading to this private home.The sun pours in through the stained glass windows and vaulted ceilings with high-reaching windows offering a sense of openness, light and views of the tropical gardens below and ocean abound.
Kona Leilani is a perfect retreat for groups and families. A gourmet kitchen is fully equipped for entertaining. The three large bedrooms will wow you with their openness to beauty. Beautifully furnished and filled with unique art, the two bedrooms upstairs will encompass you with quiet elegance. Three "full" bathrooms (one bathroom is downstairs in the ohana) allows for stress-free mornings.
The home boasts an additional separate OHANA (family) quarters downstairs complete with full bathroom, kitchenette, queen sofabed and its own private lanai that has its own entertaining and meditation area. All ocean view. A queen sofa bed and full aerobed are available downstairs in the ohana for additional guests.
You will love the space in the master bedroom which has a comfortable queen size bed with a walk in closet and full bathroom with walk in shower. It even leads to a private lanai, so you awake to a view of tropical flowers from your bedside. Each of the bedroom suites are enhanced with custom furnishings and decor to captivate a mood of relaxation, tranquility and comfort.
Children love this home since there is room to play and explore the gardens and the mini-lava caves right on the property. As one of our guests have said; 'This is a magical garden and perfect for group settings.' It is both elegant and spacious; perfect for weekly or monthly stays with family or friends, or a romantic get away for a couple.
Sweet island fragrances will surely awaken all your senses, as you explore the 1/3 acre of lush landscape and the plentiful plumerias, papayas, mangoes and tropical flowers right in your yard, and experience the flora and fauna of the Big Island from the privacy of your lanais. The surrounding lanai, with complete ocean views, allows for private seating and resting areas from each bedroom and from the dining and living room areas. The downstairs lanai has its own ocean view and garden views.
We also offer our guest EXCLUSIVE SPECIAL DISCOUNTS!!
*20% of ON KAYAK RENTALS, snorkeling tours and more!
*20% Discount on Fair Winds Charters--this is a must-do adventure with charter tours and night-time manta-ray diving!
*10%-15% SPECIAL DISCOUNTS FOR OUR GUESTS to ISLAND SPIRIT SPA in Kealakakua Bay (20 minutes from property)!
*20% off dolphin/whale excursions with Dolphin Essence!
PLEASE VISIT our new website for video, additional photos and travel tips and links to Big Island travel information.
We want this to be a vacation of a lifetime for you. Our many guests have enjoyed this beautiful home. We want to create a memorable, joyful and enjoyable holiday experience to you so that you will fall in love with our beautiful Kona Coast and the Big Island.
Keywords: Our 'KONA LEILANI' is a spacious private home on 1/3 acre with coastline and panoramic ocean views & tropical gardens! Two large bedrooms and two full bathrooms upstairs, with a spacious separate ohana (extra studio) downstairs complete with queen size bed, kitchenette, full bath and its own 700 foot lanai and outdoor dining area. Fantastic 1,000 ft. lanai surrounding top floor with panoramic ocean view so you can enjoy your breakfast, lunch and dinner outside! Lanai overlooks palm grove and plumeria, mango & kukui nut trees. Located less than 2 minutes from the wonderful secluded BLACK PEBBLE BEACH, perfect for snorkeling, diving, swimming, kayaking & sunbathing. Close to coffee plantations, Captain Cook town, Volcano National Park, Kealakekua Bay and MORE!
My husband and I love the ocean. We are both artists and have taken our home and turned it into an artistic getaway! We enjoy being in Hawaii and the Big Island, as it stills has the feeling of 'olde Hawaii,' and country. You will love the location and the smell of plumerias outside the bedroom windows. The blue warm ocean is perfect for swimming with much of the time sunny. We really love providing a wonderful vacation experience for our guests.
Michele Croci purchased this house in 2007
We bought this home as our retreat from the big city. We wanted a space where we could create and Ron, as a professional artist, could paint. So now Ron has created so many beautiful paintings that decorate this beautiful home. It makes it even more special for us.
You will enjoy the quiet and the privacy of the tropical gardens. The ocean and coastline view is 180 degree and you can see all the way down the coast on clear days! This is a very special property and we know you, your friends and family will enjoy all the great amenities, privacy and great beach location!!
We thoroughly enjoyed our stay at your beautiful home. Thank you for sharing it with us. Our family especially liked the black pebble beach and snorkeling as well as the bird wake-up call. The home's location could not have been better to reach all different points of interest on the island. We had a wonderful family time. Thank you once again!
Dennis and Julie
I need to start off by saying WOW this house is exactly as shown, beautifully landscaped, clean, amazing, quiet location. if your looking to be close to Kona this is not the house for you it is 30 min. south. but if you want to sit on this incredible balcony and drink your morning coffee and watch the whales swim by this is the house for you, if you like watching incredible sunsets this is the house for you. I can go on and on why this house was incredible for our family, I'm a seasoned traveller with realistic expectations so trust me when I say WOW. If your going to be on the Big Island your going to need a car to see everything so this is the house for you and it is the perfect starting point to see all that the Island has to offer. the south route is the nicest and quickest to the other side of the Island and volcanoes. black beaches, captain cook monument all, fantastic snorkeling are all within 10 min. in close Michele thank you, you were the best to deal with, very professional and a joy to talk to, thank you again.
Lovely home & the most equipped rental we've ever stayed in! Owner was very accommodating & gave clear instructions.
There were some minor maintenance issues...but I reported them & believe they were taken care of for the next renters.
If we ever get the opportunity to return to the island, we would definitely stay here.
My husband said, "Best vacation to date!"
We recently stayed in this beautiful home with our two sons and mother in law. This home is a great getaway for peolple wanting to get away from crowds and city sounds. The home looks out to the ocean and the upper lanai provides an excellent view. At night we could hear the surf down the hill. The house was very clean and decorated very nicely. My mother-in-law stayed in the downstairs room and loved it. She felt pampered and did not want to leave.Lots of towels and linen, beach towels, etc. The kitchen had most of the basics and there was a new bag of coffee waiting for us also ! This home is well equipped with beach gear and we put the boogie boards and snorkel gear to use at a few of the local beaches.
The home is about 45 minutes from Kailua-Kona, so there are no quick trips to the big stores, but it also put us closer to the beaches we wanted to be at. South Kona fruit stand has killer smoothies and Mac nut tarts. The location also puts you a lot closer to volcano, with is worth the trip.
The local guy that is your contact while you are there, larry, was one of the nicest people we met on the trip. He gave us great advice on a few things and was very kind.
Clean, well equipped, quiet, spacious, relaxing...what more do you need ? We will stay there again.
Thank you so much Ron and Michele for sharing your home. It was our 2nd stay! We loved trying all the various beaches. Black, White, Green, Kaloko Honokohau National Historical Park and Hapuna Beach State Park. We loved snorkeling and the sea turtles. We loved going to Black Pebble beach and listening to the pebbles return to the surf. Thanks for sharing your snorkel sets, boogie boards and sand chairs.We loved coming "home" and grilling dinner on the lanai while watching the sunset. We enjoyed listening to the birds, watching the geckos and also the turkeys on the driveway.We again enjoyed hiking at Volcano National Park to see the Petroglyphs. Thank you Ron for your beautiful art work displayed throughout your home. We have enjoyed reading and learning about your very accomplished career.
Everything about the house turned out to be as advertised. This was our first try at renting a house. It was like living in an art gallery.The owners have thought of everything. We used the whole house! Spectacular sunsets. We were very well pleased with every aspect of the property. Landscaping was fantastic. Other reviews as from Jim C. and Bruce A. are right on. I highly recommend this property.
The design and layout of this property combined with the view from the spacious lanai was everything we hoped for. If you are considering this property after viewing their site, look no further and make your reservation. Many beaches, each different, well within reach with a vehicle. We didn't swim or snorkel the same place twice.
Enjoy the community's private beach, Black Pebble Beach and Kaohe Bay. Wonderful snorkeling diving, swimming and hiking near by. Visit the coffee plantations and tours nearby. Visit the South Kona horseback riding also. Volcanoe National Park is 1 hour away. Visit Green Sands beach at Southpoint about an hour away. Papa Bay and Miloli'i Fishing Village is 20 minutes south. National Parks located 15 minutes south of the Kona Paradise subdivision.
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University of Georgia police are continuing their search for the person who took a vehicle for a drive between the hedges at the University of Georgia's Sanford Stadium early Friday morning, causing thousands of dollars of damage to the turf.
Today's football game between Georgia and LSU will proceed as scheduled, with kickoff at 12:37 p.m., UGA Athletic Association officials said Friday.
Authorities said the stadium was entered through Gate 10, in the western end of the stadium below the Sanford Drive bridge and adjacent to Tate Student Center.
UGA police discovered the damage about 5:30 a.m., and were guessing that the vandalism had occurred an hour earlier.
The vehicle tore swaths of grass out of the field from the western end zone to the 20-yard-line on the eastern side of the field. Some of the ruts were as deep as 18 inches.
University of Georgia Athletic Association grounds crews work with crews from local lawn maintenance companies Friday to repair damage to the Sanford Stadium turf. Temporary repairs to the turf will allow today's game with LSU to proceed as scheduled. Complete repairs could cost as much as $100,000.
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University of Georgia police had no suspects late Friday, and were offering no details on the vandalism as their investigation moved forward.
While ground crews spent Friday replacing the damaged sod, UGA Police Chief Chuck Horton was asking for help from the public.
''I'm hoping that maybe they'll (whoever is responsible) run their mouth a little and somebody with a conscience will give us a call,'' Horton said. ''Those that are great Georgia supporters will probably view it as some type of sacrilege.''
Anyone with information on the vandalism can call UGA police at (706) 542-2200.
In the eyes of Ray McEwen, associate director of facilities for the UGA Athletic Association, the damage to the carefully manicured field represents something far worse than a prank.
''It will cost $10,000 just to make the field playable for Saturday,'' McEwen said Friday morning. ''This goes beyond a prank ... beyond vandalism. This should be severely punished with monetary fines and jail time.''
Work by Athletic Association grounds crews and lawn maintenance companies in Athens provided nothing more than a temporary repair to the turf.
''There are going to be some visible marks on the field at game time,'' McEwen said.
It is possible that the entire field will have to be replaced ''because of the structural damage done,'' McEwen added.
Bringing the field back to original condition could cost up to $100,000, according to UGA spokesman Pete Konenkamp.
In a prepared statement, UGA Athletic Director Vince Dooley said the vandalism ''was certainly a dastardly thing to do,'' but he was ''confident the field will be perfectly playable'' for today's game.
The vandalism also forced the repainting of the trademark ''G'' in the center of the field, along with yard markings and end zone lines.
The Bulldogs normally hold a ''walk-through'' -- practice in T-shirts and shorts -- on the Sanford Stadium turf on Fridays before home games.
Because of the vandalism, the walk-through was held on the practice fields off Lumpkin Street at Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall.
Staff Writer Marc Lancaster and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Matchless: An Illumination of Hans Christian Andersen's Classic "The Little Match Girl" (Paperback)
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"This 're-illumination' of the Hans Christian Andersen tale 'The Little Match Girl' was originally commissioned by and performed on NPR by the Maguire himself. Accompanied by Maguire's line drawings, this story is told in his inimitable style, and his fans will love it."
— Jackie Blem, Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, CO
The beloved New York Times bestselling author of Wicked reimagines Andersen's "The Little Match Girl" for modern readers, putting a new twist on a timeless classic.
In Matchless, Gregory Maguire adds a different dimension to the story, exquisitely intertwining the match girl's tale with that of Frederik, a young boy who builds a city out of trash, and whose yearnings are the catalyst for a better future for himself and his family. Maguire uses his storytelling magic to rekindle Andersen's original intentions, suggesting transcendence, the permanence of spirit, and the continuity that links the living and the dead.
About the Author
Gregory Maguire is the New York Times bestselling author of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister; Lost; Mirror Mirror; and the Wicked Years, a series that includes Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz. Now a beloved classic, Wicked is the basis for a blockbuster Tony Award winning Broadway musical. Maguire has lectured on art, literature, and culture both at home and abroad. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.
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"The little match girl's story is now getting its due thanks to novelist Gregory Maguire of 'Wicked' fame…. Matchless glows with aching beauty."
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Ein fantastisches 5-Sterne Hotel, Qualit�t und Service waren sagenhaft, habe nur eine Beschwerde: das Essen. Sehr guter Standard aber hautps�chlich etwas f�r westliche G�ste, es schienen sehr viele all-inklusive Touristen hier zu sein und so richtete sich das Hotel danach. Wo war das Curry? Es tat mir so Leid, dass man sich mehr am westlichen Geschmack anlehnte und nicht das eigene, fantastische Essen kochte. Hatte aber sonst nichts am Hotel auszusetzen. Riesige, gem�tliche Zimmer. Reizende Restaurants und Pools. Toller Strand, war allerdings schmutzig. An manchen Stellen sah man noch die �berreste vom Tsunami. Ansonsten aber ein toller Ort f�r einen Strandurlaub.
Oh Dear
This was our last 48 hours in Sri Lanka having travelled and stayed in varying standards of hotel. We also travel Asia frequently.
The Lobby is wonderful the gardens are nice, the pools large.
You really could be in a nice luxury resort.
Firstly the rooms, as a group we always have 2 rooms.
Both were Very damp and swarming with mosquitos and several cockroaches. During our stay the roof above our block was under repair. We were not told of this either when we booked or checked in.
So noisy we could not use our rooms by day.
The beach is long and very pretty, too rough in August to go in though.
The Hawkers here were the most aggressive we met during our 2 weeks in Sri Lanka. I actually wanted some souvenirs being the last 2 days of our trip but they were so pushy (the first also during our trip to continually refer to the Tsunami) I did not buy any from them and found later a vendor in town that was not forceful.
The food. Unfortunately two of our group become very sick and had great difficultly flying home.
There were a lot of people here on full board. There were a lot of noisy large groups of English people being Brits abroad not leaving the pool bar by day, drinking heavily into the night. Lots of football songs.
Sri Lanka is such a beautiful country and the people benefit greatly from our tourist spending so I strongly recommend people should visit. But do not feel that if you visited this hotel you would have a very good impression of Sri Lanka or the Beautiful people.
Lovely Place, Enthusiastic Staff
Having read some of the previous reviews we expected a good if dated hotel. We were pleasantly surprised as the room and hotel grounds were well laid out especially the pool area. The main restuarant was fine with a number of theme nights. Many of the guests were all inclusive and the fact that we were not seemed to confuse the staff no end. However the advantage was you could eat at the other restuarant "The Orient" where they had a fusion menu which for the standard dishes was really good and not overly expensive. The only downside with this hotel was the lack of places outside to eat, allthough admittedly we didn't look very hard.
The staff were all attentive and courteous. If you are here you must get out and see the real Sri Lanka. We took a 2 day 1 night trip to Kandy which took in the elephant orphanage, botanical gardens and the following day a trip to Sigiriya and Dambulla. Other places to see were Kosgoda (turtle sanctuary) and Galle for the old town.
excellent hotel, personnel competent et attentionne, chambre spacieuse et bien entretenue.
piscine immense, nourriture, abondante diverse et delicieuse quoique parfois un peu trop �pic�e pour nos estomac occdentaux.
Five Star hotel
Fantastic five star hotel-qulity and service amazing-only one grumble- the food. Very good standard but mainly catering for westerners and seemed to be filled with lots of all-inclusive tourers so catered for this. Where was the curry? Was so sad that they were catering more for the western pallete and not promting their fantastic food. HOwever could not fault anything else about hotel. Huge plush rooms. lovely restuarant areas and pool. Lovely beach although dirty(Tsunami wreckage still in some places) but otherwise a great place to stay for a beach rest.
Fantastic !!!
We returned from our holiday in Sri Lanka last week. Had a fantastic time. The accomodation was very clean and the service excellant- pity there was not more people staying. All the staff were very friendy and nothing was too much trouble. The swimming pool is very clean as is the surroundings. Outside the hotel there is some begging and it is a bit of a culture shock but no different to some other countries we have visited. We found the locals nearby are genuinely friendly don't hassle you as they are eager for tourists to return to Sri Lanka. A 10 out of 10 holiday.
Damp rooms, unattentive staff - food OK
Just arrived back from a rather disappointing stay at the Royal Palms.
Both rooms given to our party were very damp. While one one dried out after a few days, the other remained musty for the full 10 days.
Most of the guests at the hotel seemed to be staying on an all-inclusive basis. This seems to be strangling the local economy as any foray outside the guarded front gates or onto the beach are met with an onslaught of people begging you to eat at their restaurant, drink at their bar, travel in their "toot toot" (taxi) or buy from their gift shop. Many of them are not happy to take no for an answer so you end up having to be quite rude to get rid of them.
On the plus side, the spa was excellent, the food was generally of a high quality and the large pool is a refreshing temperature.
The staff are a mixed bunch. At meal times you could often be swamped with waiters hanging around the table, fussing about so much you want to tell them to back off. Other times you could be left for 10 minutes or so while desperate to order something to eat or drink. The reception staff were generally more professional.
Also, not mentioned at the time of booking, we arrived on Christmas Day and found we were unable to buy an alcoholic drink in the hotel as it was a religious holiday. The mini bars in the room were the only outlet. Also without warning they also refused to sell alcohol on New Year's Day although this time they didn't specify any religious reasons.
Only average...
This was our 3rd time back in the past 4 years, and we noticed the standards have dropped considerably. The food is below par and not what you'd expect in a 4/5 * hotel. The waiters hover over you the whole evening, and it's a struggle to keep your plate on occasion ! The rooms are very damp, but then again always have been but the standards of cleanliness in the general dining and bar areas were dreadful. e.g) Found a fly in the soup terrine, the bar staff picking the wax from their ear, and washing glasses in cold water without detergent ! Unfortunately, we won't be back....
Standards have slipped
This was our second visit to the Royal Palms in the last 4 years. We came away a little bit disappointed with our stay. The Staff are still excellent and cannot do enough for you, but the Hotel is starting to look a bit tied, the food was not up the same standard as our last visit and when we were there, was about 90% full of German 'all inclusive package' holiday makers.
A Truly Wonderful Expeience
I have been lucky enough to stay at the Royal palms twice in the last four years and am going back in november in this year to get married. The Hotel itself is laid out beautifully the choice of food is superb and the a la carte resteraunts actually are which is unusual for se asia. The beech is spectacular but on certain days may not be suitable for weeker swimmers as it shelves rapidly. To walk along it is an experience not to be missed though. the pool area and gardens are wonderful and informal with more than enough areas and loungers.
What truly makes this hotel an experience though are the people, Sri Lanka has some of the friendliest people I have ever had the pleasure to meet but from top to bottom the staff of this hotel are exceptional, friendly, caring and efficient, people to be relied upon to make your time a time to remember.
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... the first trip, then return for us. They headed off. We waited over 45 minutes and decided to make our own way, back to the hotel, via a shop near the Australian Embassy. The TukTuk driver was not sure but after asking someone along the way managed to take us to 'Masterpieces'. Some interesting larger pieces of further, particularly a large solid wood coffee table that was just being unloaded. After that we asked the driver if he knew where Odel was, Hotel?, no Odel, yes Odel, I ...
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... Malaysia there is another 2,5h time difference in the other direction. Why for god sake not 2h or 3h? As if that half an hour is going to make the difference?! Very annoying to make international appointments if you ask me. Dat was weer vroeg opstaan. Om 5h ging de wekker en ik was pas om 2h gaan slapen... Ik zal dus maar proberen op het vliegtuig een beetje bij te slapen. This morning it was very early again. At 5h the alarm went off and I only went to bed ...
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The country's top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Motors Corp. have been ordered to recall over 160,000 cars for problems with brake light switches, the transportation ministry said Wednesday.
The faulty light switch could stop the brake lights from illuminating even when drivers step on the brake pedal, but it can also cause the cruise control not to work properly, according to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.
It may also cause the push-to-start button to fail to work properly. The same problems recently led to a recall of over 1.8 million cars in the United States alone. The recall affects 115,326 Hyundai Avante compacts, Santa Fe sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and Veracruz SUVs from 2008 to 2011. Also subject to the recall are 47,183 units of Kia vehicles from 2010 to 2011.
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"IF YOU BELIEVE IN FANTASY..." Ilha de Paquetá Off The Beaten Path Tip by janaina
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You can get carried away by some of the stately facades of the colonial homes,painted in white and pastel shades.
Some of these really nice properties are avaluated in/around million dollars!
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