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Cheney Heart Transplant

March 25, 2012 by · Comments Off on Cheney Heart Transplant 

Cheney Heart Transplant, Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney was recovering on Saturday after undergoing heart transplant surgery, a once risky procedure whose survival rates have improved over the years.

The 71-year-old Republican, who wielded unprecedented power as vice-president during the George W Bush administration’s war on t*rror*sm, was in the intensive care unit at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia.

Cheney, who has suffered five heart attacks, the first at age 37, had been on the cardiac transplant list for more than 20 months before he received the heart from an anonymous donor.

“Although the former vice-president and his family do not know the identity of the donor, they will be forever grateful for this lifesaving gift,” the spokesperson, Kara Ahern, said.

According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, about 88% survive the first year after heart transplant surgery and 75% survive for five years. The 10-year survival rate is about 56%.

Barack Obama Dick Cheney 8th Cousins

March 10, 2012 by · Comments Off on Barack Obama Dick Cheney 8th Cousins 

Barack Obama Dick Cheney 8th Cousins, Though they may spar across the political aisle, Vice President Dick Cheney is close enough to Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama to call him “cousin.”

Eighth cousin, that is. Lynne Cheney, the vice president’s wife, revealed this tantalizing bit of political trivia during a television interview Tuesday.

She said she uncovered the long-ago ties between the two while researching her ancestry for her latest book, “Blue Skies, No Fences,” a memoir about growing up in Wyoming.

“This is such an amazing American story that one ancestor … could be responsible down the family lines for lives that have taken such different and varied paths as Dick’s and Barack Obama,” Lynne Cheney told MSNBC.

According to her spokeswoman, Sen. Obama, D-Ill., is a descendent of Mareen Duvall. This French Huguenot’s son married the granddaughter of a Richard Cheney, who arrived in Maryland in the late 1650s from England, said Ginny Justice, a spokeswoman for Lynne Cheney.

The vice president’s full name is Richard B. Cheney.

A spokesman for Obama, who wants to be the first black U.S. president, offered a tongue-in-cheek response. “Every family has a black sheep,” said spokesman Bill Burton.

Lynne Cheney did not reference the ancestral ties between her husband and Obama in the book.

Maya Kassandra Soetoro-Ng

March 10, 2012 by · Comments Off on Maya Kassandra Soetoro-Ng 

Maya Kassandra Soetoro-Ng, Maya Kassandra Soetoro-Ng (born August 15, 1970 in Jakarta, Indonesia) is the half-sister to Barack Obama; they have the same mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. Her father and Obama’s step-father was Lolo Soetoro an Indonesian.

Although raised largely in Indonesia she lived with Obama in Hawaii with their white grandparents from 1973-1976.

Maya Soetoro-Ng teaches history at the private La Pietra Hawaii School for Girls and is an instructor for evening classes at the University of Hawaii. She is married to a Chinese-Canadian and they have a daughter, Suhaila. Soetoro-Ng was active in the Obama campaign.

She describes her mother as agnostic and her father a nominally Muslim. She philosophically describes herself today as a Buddhist.

Tania Peterson Top Chef Cast

January 1, 2012 by · Comments Off on Tania Peterson Top Chef Cast 

Tania Peterson Top Chef CastTania Peterson Top Chef Cast, While these were the worst boy names, former Top Chef Just Desserts contestant Tania Peterson and her husband Phil had the distinction of choosing the worst girl’s name with her choice of Zuzu Audrey for their daughter. More than 10,000 people voted on the poll carried out by website BabyNames.com.

The best celebrity girl’s name was Willow Sage Hart, the daughter of singer Pink and motocross star Carey Hart.

The best celebrity boy’s name was Mason Evan Smith, son of rapper/actor Ne-Yo and his girlfriend Monyetta Shaw.

Celebrities giving their children unusual monikers is nothing new but in recent years there has been a trend for even more outrageous names.

Jennifer Moss, founder of the website BabyNames.com said some of those chosen by celebrity parents have a chance of becoming popular.

“Celebrity parents have a huge influence on baby name trends,” the Daily Mail quoted Moss as saying.

“As long as the names aren’t too far out, you could see celebrity-chosen names hitting the top ten within a year,” she said.

Moss said the girl’s name Harper, chosen by David Beckham and his wife Victoria for their daughter, was at number ten on the most popular baby names of 2011.

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