27-12-2011 14:43 Hotel and Resort photography and video by PhotoWeb (photowebusa.com) Choose Our Upscale Miami International Airport Hotel Experience unparalleled service and convenience when you stay at the Crowne Plaza® Miami International Airport Hotel. An ideal choice for both business and leisure travelers, we are located only a half-mile from the airport, and we provide a 24-hour complimentary airport shuttle. As "the Place to Meet" near Miami International Airport, our hotel offers 5300 sq ft of flexible space in seven meeting rooms. With a 2-hour RFP response guarantee, a Daily Meeting Debrief from a Crowne Meetings Director, our detail-orientation creates perfect events. When it's time to work, we have free basic Wi-Fi access, a business center and remote-printing capabilities. More than just an airport hotel, we are centrally located near some of the area's top attractions, making us one of the most convenient hotels in Miami, Florida. Enjoy shopping for deals at the popular Dolphin Mall, which offers shuttle service to and from the hotel, or test your luck at the nearby Magic City Casino. We are also just 15 minutes from University of Miami, South Beach and the Port of Miami. Our hotel amenities are sure to exceed your expectations. Take a refreshing swim in the tropical outdoor pool or get an invigorating workout in the 24-hour fitness center, equipped with the latest cardiovascular equipment. Our Miami International Airport hotel also has a full-service restaurant featuring a ...

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02-01-2012 15:44 PEOPLE PLACES and THINGS PHOTOGRAPHICS Our team photographed the newly redesigned Fairfield Inn and Suites at 216 East Ontario Street Downtown Chicago featuring 15 stories in the heart of the Magnificent Mile for First Hospitality Group. We travel in US providing high-quality photography, HD video and graphic design services for the Hospitality industry. Kevin Beswick, Commercial Architectural Photographer. Pamela Beswick, Graphic Designer | Photo Stylist | Video TALENTED TEAM; REMARKABLE RESULTS

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FRANKFORT — The chief of Kentucky's embattled Cabinet for Health and Family Services will step down on Feb. 29 to seek other opportunities, Gov. Steve Beshear announced Tuesday.

The resignation of Janie Miller comes at a difficult time for the agency that oversees Medicaid, child-protection, public health, programs for the elderly and other social services.

The cabinet has been under fire from health care providers, many of whom say they have not been paid or are receiving minimun payments since the state transitioned 560,000 Medicaid recipients to managed care on Nov. 1.

Under Miller's leadership, the cabinet also has lost legal battles with Kentucky's two largest newspapers over disclosure of state records regarding child abuse deaths.

One key lawmaker called on Miller to resign in December, saying the cabinet operates in a "shroud of secrecy," but other leading lawmakers have praised Miller and called her resignation on Tuesday a "travesty."

Miller, who joined Beshear's administration in 2007 and makes $125,332.32 a year, is leaving to pursue other unspecified opportunities.

"I have been blessed with a long and fulfilling career in public service," Miller said in a statement that praised her fellow state workers. "I am excited about the future."

Beshear lauded Miller, saying she has done "extraordinary work in an especially difficult time."

Kerri Richardson, a spokeswoman for Beshear, said Miller's resignation "was entirely her decision."

"If the governor had his way, Janie Miller would still be his Secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, but he understands her desire to move on to other opportunities," Richardson said.

Deputy secretary Eric Friedlander will serve as interim secretary of the cabinet as Beshear searches for a permanent replacement. Friedlander has served in the cabinet in a variety of roles since 1985.

Many praised Miller's leadership over the past four years, saying it was her experience that allowed the cabinet to weather so many rounds of budget cuts with minimal impact to vulnerable citizens.

Beshear said the cabinet has made great strides in providing more efficient services to Kentuckians.

Since 2007, the cabinet has overseen the improvement of care at Oakwood and Central State facilities and replaced aging infrastructure at Eastern State Hospital, Central State and Glasgow Nursing Facility. Oakwood had lost its Medicaid funding because of ongoing problems at the facility for the mentally disabled, but funding was restored under Miller's leadership.

The cabinet also has streamlined the qualification process and enrolled more than 60,000 children in the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program (KCHIP) and Medicaid, Beshear said.

Perhaps the most significant challenge to the cabinet, Beshear said, was the transition of 560,000 Medicaid recipients to a managed care program in less than nine months. The move is projected to save taxpayers $1.3 billion over three years, including $375 million in state General Funds

Rep. Jimmie Lee, D-Elizabethtown, worked closely with Miller over the past several years as chairman of a House budget review subcommittee on health. Miller was one of the most competent and qualified people to ever be secretary of the cabinet, he said.

"It's a real blow," Lee said. "She is the one that negotiated the contracts" with managed care companies.

Rep. Tom Burch, D-Louisville, said Miller's departure "is just a travesty."

"She's been a very good public servant for years," Burch said.

Burch, who is chairman of the House Health and Welfare Committee, said he does not believe Miller was forced out.

"I've never known her to cave under pressure," Burch said. "She's an iron horse."

Sen. Julie Denton, R-Louisville, called for Miller's resignation in December after holding hearings about the state's child-protection system and Medicaid.

Denton wished Miller well in her new endevours on Tuesday, but said she has no concern that switching secretaries will negatively affect the transition to managed care.

"I don't think it can get any worse than it already is," said Denton, chairwoman of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee. "We have so many provider groups out there who are owed millions of dollars that are not being paid."

Others said they were worried that Miller's resignation could make it even more difficult to iron out problems with three new managed care companies

"The timing of it is particularly problematic," said Sheila Schuster, executive director of the Kentucky Mental Health Coalition. "The community mental health centers and other providers are having so much trouble with the managed care organizations in terms of payment in a reasonable time period. ... It's really too bad to lose the secretary at this particular time. She certainly was knowlegable."

The cabinet has also been in a protracted legal battle with the Lexington Herald-Leader and The Courier-Journal of Louisville over records about children who were killed or nearly killed as a result of abuse and neglect.

A Franklin Circuit Court judge has ruled the cabinet must turn over such records. However, the cabinet and the newspapers are still arguing over what information can be redacted or edited from those files.

Terry Brooks, executive director of Kentucky Youth Advocates, which has pushed for more transparency in the state's child-protection system, said he thought Miller was "accessible and responsive."

"She took my compliments and my criticisms with a good degree of grace," Brooks said. "I think it would an unfair label to act as if Janie was the problem and now the problem's gone."

Still, he said the cabinet had been "tone deaf and defensive" about its handling of child fatalities.

In choosing the next secretary, Brooks said Beshear should focus on "accountability, transparency and openness."

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29-10-2011 13:50 I'm in the process of "remodeling" my daughter's Monster High Doll House. I've found a lot of good thrift store finds to add to her set up. It's still very much a work in progress and I will be posting another video when it's finished. I made the sofa myself, my daughter asked for more seating for her dolls. The boys room originally had a bunk bed in it, but that got broken. 🙁

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07-11-2011 04:00 In 2005, third-grade-teacher Eric Schneider bought as big as an apartment as he could afford in Manhattan. He paid $235000 for a 450-square-foot studio with a tiny kitchen. Then he let architects Michael Chen and Kari Anderson of Normal Projects design a way to pack more density into his small space. In order to fit more apartment in a small footprint, they created an object that's bigger than furniture, but smaller than architecture and that morphs with the changing activities of a day. It's a large, blue, oversized cabinet that houses all of the walls/bed/tables/shelving/closets needed for at least 4 full-sized rooms. By continuing to unfold, or fold differently, Schneider can create a bedroom with accompanying built-in nightstand and closets, but an office plus library, a guest bedroom, and a living room. Or close it up entirely and simply flip down the small bar and the room becomes entertaining space for a dozen. The Normal Projects architects called their creation the Unfolding Apartment, though given Schneider's affinity for the Japanese sense of space (he spent his first year post-college living and teaching in Japan), it could as easily be called the Origami Apartment. In total, Schneider spent $70000 total remodeling his new apartment and this includes not just the cabinet, but the bathroom renovation, all cabinetry, kitchen appliances, furniture and dishes. In this video, Chen shows us his custom cabinet of rooms and Schneider unfolds a few of his favorite ...

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08-12-2011 00:03 We decided to update our living room with new floors and paint, so why not make a timelapse? Song is: Pretty Lights - Solamente

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1. Castle in the Sky on TV

Anime movie Laputa: Castle in the Sky was televised in Japan on Dec. 9, 2011. The movie was made in 1989 by famed director Hayou Miyazaki, who also directed Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke.

During one point in televised broadcast in 2011, viewers joined forces, sending tweets at the same time to symbolically help the movie's characters cast a spell.

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Twitter records continue to fall left and right as more and more people -- 100 million active users at last count -- continue to flock onto the microblogging service every month. Half of those users log in every day to get their 140-characters-or-less dose of tweets.

The records they tend to break most frequently are the top tweets-per-second moments, many of which involve sports, entertainment or Japan.

The number one simultaneously tweeted event, by far, is the televised showing of 25-year-old anime movie Castle in the Sky (watch the trailer below) when it broadcast in Japan on Dec. 9, 2011. During one point in the TV broadcast, viewers joined forces, sending tweets at the same time to symbolically help the movie's characters cast a spell. They sent 25,088 tweets in one second.

Castle in the Sky dethroned Beyonce's MTV Video Music Awards pregnancy revelation. On Aug. 28, 2011, Beyonce sang “I want you to feel the love that’s growing inside me,” confirming she and husband, Jay-Z, would be having a baby. At the end of the song, she dropped her mic, unbuttoned her top and rubbed her baby bump. Blue Ivy was born Jan. 7 and immediately made a vocal cameo in Jay-Z's song “Glory.”

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The MTV moment is now number five on the tweets-per-second list, having fallen behind three sports-related incidents. Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow's 80-yard touchdown pass in overtime on Jan. 8, 2012, pushed Beyonce down the list first.

Then, on Feb. 5, 2012, two Super Bowl moments slipped into the number two and three slots: Twitter reaction reached 12,233 tweets per second at the end of the Giants vs. Patriots game and 10,245 TPS during Madonna’s halftime performance. Last year's most-tweeted moment at the Super Bowl hit 4,064 TPS.

The recent additions bumped off newsworthy events from 2011, including an earthquake on the U.S.'s East Coast in August, the raid on Osama bin Laden in May, the MLB Home Run Derby in July, the Super Bowl in February and the UK Royal wedding in April.

Which moments are you surprised to see in our top 15 ranking? Sound off in the comments.

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