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HMAA set to become 2nd largest health Insurance in Hawaii
Community
Feb 16, 2010
Hawaii Medical Assurance Association announced it plans to buy the fully insured health insurance membership of Summerlin Life and Health Insurance Hawaii. If the deal is approved state Insurance Division, the aquisition will create the state’s second-largest preferred-provider health insurer.
Hawaii ranks high in happiness in Poll
Community
Feb 15, 2010
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Hawaii residents had the highest well-being rate in the United States in 2009, pulling ahead of 2008 leader Utah, Gallup Poll results indicated |
First Lady Obama says "Let's Move It" for healthy kids
Community
Feb 13, 2010
| THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON – First Lady Michelle Obama today announced an ambitious national goal of solving the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation so that children born today will reach adulthood at a healthy weight and unveiled a nationwide campaign – Let’s Move – to help achieve it. |
Honoring Pioneers of Integrated Medicine in Hawaii R. CYRUS W. LOO / 1918-2010
Community
Feb 13, 2010
| R. CYRUS W. LOO / 1918-2010
Dr. Cyrus W. Loo was a Renaissance man, a doctor who integrated Eastern with Western medicine, who was athletic, played and wrote music and was a certified handwriting analyst, said friends and family.
"He was unusual -- a real thinking-outside-the-box kind of guy," said his daughter, Dr. Chalsa Loo.
The 91-year-old Honolulu dermatologist, noted for practicing holistic medicine and an advanced form of acupuncture, died Jan. 27 2010 |
Mardi Gras Carnaval 2010 in Hawaii
Community
Feb 11, 2010
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On Fat Tuesday, February 16, 2010 from 5:30pm to 10:30pm, the Arts District Merchants Association will present “Mardi Gras Carnaval 2010,” the tenth anniversary downtown celebration of Mardi Gras. |
February 14 – Welcome the Year of the Tiger
Community
Feb 11, 2010
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A poetic conjunction of events celebrates Valentines Day and Tibetan/Chinese New Year ushering in the year of the metal Tiger. Those in the know describe this Tiger time as a mood swinging, vigorous and hard-working year. |
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