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President Barack Obama celebrated his 52nd birthday on Sunday surrounded by friends at his Camp David retreat. Obama kicked off his weekend on Saturday with a round of golf at Joint Base Andrews with friends from his childhood home of Hawaii, Chicago, where he lived before becoming president, as well as aides past and present. It is reported that the winners of the game got to join Obama in the presidential helicopter while the losers had to take a long car ride to the retreat, in the Catoctin Mountains, Maryland.

As his top national security advisors gathered for an urgent Saturday meeting to discuss the terrorist threat that has forced the United States to close embassies overseas, President Obama was at Camp David celebrating his birthday with friends. Sixteen senior officials participated in the unusual gathering, according to the White House. Among them were National Security Advisor Susan Rice, who chaired the session, Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, and Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Lisa...

Golf course is Promised Land First Presbyterian's new home was revealed in a dream, but not all consider it heaven sent ____________________________________________ To the Rev. Dan Chun, senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Honolulu, it was nothing short of, well, a miracle. For years, Chun's church had been searching for a new, affordable location with adequate parking for its burgeoning congregation. And then, Chun told his congregation last month, it came to a church member one night in a dream. There was Chun preaching a sermon in an unlikely place: the clubhouse of Koolau Golf Course. Map art Now,...

Forgive me if I have posted this in the wrong area, I am not new to FR but haven't posted much. A group of my friends are going on a golf trip. There are 12 golfers playing 4 rounds of golf as foursomes. I have been asked to come up with a schedule that has each golfer playing at least one round of golf with the other eleven golfers. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.