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We will work hard to make sure our transition to a paperless environment will have a minimal impact on you. Many of our providers are already Palmetto Paperless Providers. These providers currently access our Web sites to view and download the online remittance advices and payment information via My Insurance ManagerSM and My Remit Manager.
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I appreciate your response, I know what the problem is, I put that in the first few emails to Bravo Co that are in my post. The pic attached at the bottom of my first post shows daylight between the can and shoulder. Thunderbeast is fixing the problem.
My point is that Bravo Co is telling me about how I need to "time" my thread on can with shims. How can a major manufacturer be so clueless? Not only that, but it's like they're not even reading the emails and I'm corresponding with the Bravo Co secretary who doesn't know anything.
I was kinda wondering if anybody has had this issue before and is there a working phone number to actually speak to someone who knows what's going on? I called the one I could find (not on their website) and its just a recording saying to email them. This whole thing is inexcusable.
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7 Meaningless Phrases Everyone Uses On Their Resume
According to a survey of hiring managers by OfficeTeam, these are seven phrases you should avoid putting on your resume, because they're OVERUSED and MEANINGLESS. Here they are, along with the ways to REPLACE them.#1.) "Highly qualified." Instead, you should list specific qualifications.
#2.) "Hard worker." Show how meeting deadlines and handling a large volume of tasks PROVES you work hard.
#3.) "Team player." Give examples of how you worked well with other people.
#4.) "Problem solver." Highlight a problem you were able to solve.
#5.) "Flexible." Mention a major change you responded to at your job.
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Quite right Dave, I have a reputation to live up to!
I am a miserable,old git whose legs don't work, have a :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r:ey heart, plastic arteries, failing kidneys and a shot back - and you think I am in the least bothered what people 'think' about me??? Go play with your balls!


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In last week's decathlon of a press conference, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie categorically, completely, and without reservation denied any knowledge whatsoever of September's impostor "traffic study" orchestrated by his deputies. As we now know, the misbegotten experiment required a multi-day closure of several lanes of traffic on the George Washington bridge and caused a traffic jam the likes of which New Jersey has . . . probably seen before.
If investigators find that Christie did have advance knowledge of the faux traffic study's implementation and raison d'être (believed, at this point, to be revenge upon the mayor of a town in the bridge's vicinity), it would be rather unfortunate for the governor: two hours' worth of unequivocal, unambiguous denials leave him little wiggle room for technicalities and subsequent admissions.
Or do they?
As with Bill Clinton's celebrated "Oral Sex Isn't Really Sex, Am I Right, Brosefs?" defense, might Christie find a linguistic loophole within his own seemingly straightforward rebuttals? We've reviewed the transcript of Christie's press conference and identified potential places for backtracking.
Original denial: "I was done with my workout yesterday morning and got a call from my communications director at about 8:50, 8:55, informing me of this story that had just broken on the Bergen Record website. That was the first time I knew about this."
Proposed justification: "Eight-fifty" was a date, not a time. Chris Christie has known about this story since August 1950. Is Chris Christie a time traveler? That's not important. What's important right now is that he's not a liar. Original denial: "Listen, all I can do is apologize for the conduct of people who worked for me. I can't do anything else. I can't reverse time. If I could, believe me, I would, but I'm just going to apologize."
Proposed justification: Just because he can "time travel" doesn't mean he can "reverse time." They're not the same thing. Read a book, you idiots. Original denial: "I had no knowledge or involvement in this issue, in its planning or it execution, and I am stunned by the abject stupidity that was shown here."
__Proposed justification:__He meant in like a "surprise party" sense. He knew-knew—obviously—but he didn't, like, know the specifics. Of course he knew. Grow up. Original denial: "Prior to yesterday, I believed that if I looked someone in the eye who I worked with and trusted and asked them that I would get an honest answer."
Proposed justification: Christie interviewed his staffers about their knowledge of the "traffic study" while everyone was wearing sunglasses. There was no eye-to-eye contact. Original denial:"I knew nothing about this. And until it started to be reported in the papers about the closure, but even then I was told this was a traffic study."
Proposed justification: In Christie's office, "traffic study" is slang for "disproportionate political revenge," like how there's this intern named Chris and everyone calls him "Chris L." because there's already another Chris, and it's Chris Christie. Different things have different names in different contexts. Original denial: "So what I can tell you is if people find that hard to believe, I don't know what else to say except to tell them that I had no knowledge of this—of the planning, the execution or anything about it—and that I first found out about it after it was over."
__Proposed justification:__After it was "over," like, in the sense that no one in Christie's office thought it was funny anymore. Like, they were "over it." Original denial: "I found this out at 8:50 yesterday morning."
Proposed justification:"8:50 Yesterday Morning" is the name of a restaurant. Christie was eating there in September when his staff told him about the awesome plan to bludgeon Fort Lee with traffic. Original denial: "[T]here is nobody on my staff who had any knowledge of this issue until after the issue was already done."
Proposed justification: He was referring to a "staff" like a friendship stick, which is a long wooden stick upon which Chris Christie has carved the names of his best friends. No one whose name is carved on that staff was involved in Bridgegate. And no, you may not see the friendship stick, because a man's friendship stick is a very personal thing. Original denial:"I had no knowledge of this and neither did the chief of staff."
Proposed justification: Homophone: by "no" he meant "know." He had know knowledge. He stuttered. Know-knowledge. It would be a cruel political system indeed that holds a man's affliction against him. Original denial: "I mean, I'm telling you: I had nothing to do with this."
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When you enroll your child in the free club, they will receive a FREE copy of Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus, activity pages and a membership ID card. The Starter Kit with the free book will arrive sometime in July, according to the sign-up page.


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Well, Well!
In Evil Avatar's forum thread for Clone Wars, I saw something very interesting: a link to another forum thread.
This other forum thread, found on the site for Edge Magazine, talks about a new GBA - and not just back-lit, like everyone has been saying since the old one came out. They're talking about four face buttons, a cell-phone style battery pack dense with energy, and a vagina. I know!
A word of warning before you go over to that link - I think the people on there might be English.
I'll go over and see if Planet GameCube has anything to say about this.


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" Brand: Swatch / Watch for: Unisex "
A number of new additions have been made to my collection of Swatch watches and this includes the 'Spontaneous Time' model. The watch differs from a lot of my Swatch watches in that it has a number of colours on the strap and casing and although the colours aren't the most vibrant it is something a bit different. What isn't clear from the picture is that the strap doesn't follow most Swatch watches in the fact that it doesn't have a plastic or plain leather strap. This watch has a leather strap, but has a textile finish to it in the shape of the white, black and khaki green stripes. The stripes vary in width for added effect and the casing continues with this colour theme.
The face of the watch has a brushed aluminium finish to it, and the day and date function is the same colour green as is on the strap. The casing of the watch is a translucent hard plastic and the buckle of the watch is also the same material. I like the whole look of the watch and something you will notice when owning a Swatch watch is that they are all very well designed and like nothing else you will wear. I believe the design is not a new model, but I have enjoyed wearing it since buying it a few weeks ago.
This watch keeps with tradition by being a high quality timepiece and my opinion of Swatch is ever growing with my collection. The colour of the watch would make it more masculine in my opinion but it is sold as a unisex watch. I also feel that it doesn't suit as many outfits as other watches but is therefore quite unique.


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- Visit one or more local hospitals in Vietnam
- Treating orthopedic patients
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Dear Body,
I'm writing to you in hopes that you'll accept my sincerest apology. I won't beat around the bush: the things I've said about you over the years are completely horrendous and unacceptable.
I've called you every negative name in the book, twice over. I spent years shielding my eyes from your reflection in the mirror, and countless hours pinching and poking all those trouble spots.
I hate myself for calling anything on you a trouble spot, Body. A tumor, a missing limb, a body suffering from third degree burns – those are trouble sports worth bitch about.
SKIN on my stomach? DIMPLES on my ass? Not so much.
Body, I know I'll never have rock hard abs or arms like Jillian Michaels, but that's not your fault, it's mine. I love Sweet Frog and french fries and cocktails too much.
Body, I am so thankful for my muscles that work, for my eyes that see, for my ears that can hear, and for the overall health you produce. I'm thankful for my smile and my laugh and my obscure mind that has the ability to make a joke out of the most inappropriate situations.
Body, I'm so thankful that you haven't turned your (my?) back on me and never believed anything I said about you. You knew I'd come around one day. You knew I couldn't hate you forever. You knew, that someday, we'd finally enter into a mutual love affair.
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Anchor Leigh Moody leaves Bay News 9; general manager Mike Pumo leaves Tampa NBC affiliate WFLA-Ch. 8
Palm Harbor native Leigh Moody was fired from her anchor job at Bright House Networks' 24-hour local cable newschannel Bay News 9 on Monday.
Both Moody and officials at Bay News 9 declined to provide specifics, saying it was an internal personnel decision, though the anchor acknowledged she wasn't the first local TV personality to lose a job in recent months.
"I don't think this is anything surprising, given the current economic state," said Moody, who anchored weeknights and overnights on the channel. "It's certainly not unusual for the business."
The newschannel has already posted notices seeking a replacement, indicating cost cutting may not have been an issue. Moody, a broadcast journalism graduate from the University of Central Florida, anchored at Bay News 9 for nine years, coming to the Pinellas County-based newschannel after stints in Orlando, Charleston, S.C. and Flint, Mich.
Across the bay in Tampa, Mike Pumo has left his job as general manager of Media General-owned NBC affiliate WFLA-Ch. 8, according to an email circulated to staff.
The email was sent by John Schueler, president of Florida Communications Group, the arm of Media General which runs WFLA and all of the company's locally-based platforms. Schueler said he would take over Pumo's duties, which also included supervising advertising sales for other Media General outlets in Florida, such as TBO.com and the Tampa Tribune.
Pumo is the second high-ranking manager to leave Media General's Florida outlets in recent weeks; on Dec. 18, Tampa Tribune executive editor Janet Coats left the company to join her husband in Knoxville, Tenn..
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- 2 1/4 cups cake flour
- 1 cup milk at room temperature-Skim
- 6 large egg whites at room temperature
- 2 teaspoons almond extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon table salt
- 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, softened but still cool
- Heat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare two 8-inch cake pans.
- Make sure milk and eggs are room temperature.
- Pour milk (I used skim) , egg whites, and extracts into medium bowl and mix with fork until blended.
- Mix cake flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in bowl of electric mixer at slow speed. Add butter, cut into cubes and continue beating on low for about 1-2 minutes.
- Add all but 1/2 cup of milk mixture to flour mixture and beat at medium speed for 1 1/2 minutes. Add remaining 1/2 cup of milk mixture and beat for about 1 minute.
- Pour batter evenly between two prepared cake pans.
- Bake until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 27 to 30 minutes.
- Allow cake to cool to room temperature.
- Frost cakes with favorite frosting.
- Just barely adapted from epicurious, taken from Cooks Illustrated.
AEeek. Haven't tried that one, but I've done...and LOVED sweetopolita's fluffy vanilla cake. It's a similar method, I follow it to a T and it never fails.
Sometimes I feel like my cake turns out gummy on the bottom if my butter is too soft. I guess it could be considered dense when that happens.
Hope that helps:/
AI used this recipe for the first time the other day and again today, and it came out very well. The only difference I made was to use whole milk as that's what I bake with and had on hand. I'm not sure what could've gone wrong??
AAh ha. Totally didnt see the recipe called for skim. I always use whole anytime a recipe calls for milk. Need that fat!
Glad it worked out.
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I have a question regarding the need to file prior year return. I need to file 2014 return. I filed for an extension using Form 4868 on my 2015 return, but I never filed that past-year return. I should receive a refund on my 2015 taxes. Can I file a 2015 return now since I did request extension?
Yes, in general you have three years from the original filing date, without extensions, to claim a refund. H&R Block has prior year programs you can download to file prior year return(s). Go to www.hrblock.com:
- Click Download Software.
- Scroll down to Need to File Prior Year Returns? and click Learn More.
- Click on the appropriate year.
- Locate the level of software you need.
- Follow the instructions to download the software.
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So how much will you get (or owe) this year? That's the million-dollar question. We happen to have three very useful calculators to help you estimate your refund or balance due.


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fter he becomes inordinately excited over the gift of a sewing machine, the other house-mates begin to wonder if Xandir is actually homosexual. He denies it at first, but after undergoing a number of tests, he finally in confronted with the undeniable truth. Meanwhile, Ling-Ling turns out to be an expert at sewing, inspiring Spanky to put him to work making knock-off sneakers. This angers the army of child garment workers who show up to put and end to the unwelcome competition.Résumé de IMDb.com
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April 12-13, 2014. 2-day trip.
Learn to climb Multi-Pitch routes outdoors with WP! This 2-day course will cover multi-pitch climbing techniques in an institutional setting.
Participants must be comfortable with lead belaying, hanging belay, extreme heights, being solo at anchors, exposure, and be able to climb 5.9.
Course location to be determined by weather! If it is nice, we'll climb at Taylor Canyon. If it's snowing/wet, we may head to Independence Monument near Grand Junction. Either way, it will be an incredible trip!
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In 2014, UNH received its second gold rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education's STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System) program under STARS 2.0. UNH received its first gold rating in 2011 and was one of just 22 campuses in North America to do so.
UNH STARS Data & Information
STARS is the only program of its kind that involves publicly reporting comprehensive information related to a college or university's sustainability performance. Unlike other rating or ranking systems, STARS is open to all institutions of higher education in the U.S. and Canada, and the criteria that determine a STARS rating are transparent and accessible to anyone. AASHE developed STARS with broad participation from the higher education community, including UNH, which piloted the program.
"Our STARS gold rating is reflective of the breadth and depth of UNH's commitment to being a sustainable learning community," said Tom Kelly, UNH's chief sustainability officer and founding director of its endowed sustainability program, the UNH Sustainability Institute, in 2011. "Piloting and then becoming a charter participant in STARS is one way UNH is using its history and experience in sustainability in collaboration with other higher education institutions to move sustainability forward."
UNH received credit in STARS for its many sustainability achievements, including:
- A wide range of sustainability academic programs and courses, such as the dual major in EcoGastronomy
- Sustainability internships, study abroad, student organizations, and other co-curricular sustainability learning for students
- A comprehensive diversity and inclusive excellence strategic plan, office, and faculty, staff and student engagement and programming.
- A wide variety of sustainability outreach communications on and off campus, including speakers and the website www.sustainableunh.unh.edu.
- Operational best practices including a climate action plan, local and regional food purchasing, a landfill gas-to-energy project and revolving energy efficiency fund, alternative fueled transit and campus vehicles, sustainable purchasing, green cleaning, green IT, and more.
"STARS was developed by the campus sustainability community to provide high standards for recognizing campus sustainability efforts," says AASHE executive director Paul Rowland. "UNH has demonstrated a substantial commitment to sustainability by achieving a STARS gold rating and is to be congratulated for their efforts."
STARS participants report achievements in three overall areas: 1) education & research, 2) operations, and 3) planning, administration and engagement. To date, 286 campuses have registered for STARS, and ratings range through bronze, silver, gold, and platinum (not yet achieved by any institution). Because STARS is based on credits earned for specific actions, it allows for both internal comparisons as well as comparisons with similar institutions. More information is at www.stars.aashe.org.
Chosen to be one of 60 STARS pilot campuses in 2008, UNH become a charter participant in 2009 and is also in the leadership circle member of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment. Home to the oldest endowed sustainability program in U.S. higher education, the UNH Sustainability Academy, UNH is an award-winning leader in integrating sustainability across curriculum, operations, research and engagement. Learn more at www.sustainableunh.unh.edu.
Why UNH participates in STARS
UNH signed on to a Charter Participant in STARS 1.0 in order to:
- Help further refine STARS development.
- Collaborate with members of the sustainability in higher education community
- Be transparent about campus sustainability efforts.
- Use the data and information collected to help build the next phase of susatinability on campus and to continue to expand UNH's role as a model sustainable learning community.
UNH as a STARS Pilot Campus
- In early 2008, UNH Durham was one of 90 college and university campuses selected to participate in the piloting of STARS. UNH's chief sustainability officer was a member of the technical advisory committee helping AASHE develop STARS.
- Lead by UNHSA in partnership with Institutional Research and Assessment, UNH piloted STARS throughout 2008 by working with offices and departments across campus to collect as much of the data called for as possible. Along with the data, feedback from UNH offices and departments on the categories and credits in STARS were submitted to AASHE in January 2009.
What is STARS?
- The Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS®) is a transparent, self-reporting framework for North American colleges and universities to gauge relative progress toward sustainability.
- STARS was developed by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) with broad participation from the higher education community -- including UNH and UNH's Chief Sustainability Officer, Tom Kelly -- and has been been in development since 2007.
- STARS 1.0, which launched on January 19, 2010, after a three-year development process, is the first version of STARS in which participants can earn a rating. STARS scores range from Reporter to Platinum.
- STARS collects data and information in three overarching categories of campus activities:
- Education & Research. These credits assess the presence of sustainability in the classroom, in undergraduate and graduate programs, and in research conducted by faculty, staff and students. This category also measures sustainability in co-curricular activities such as sustainability in new student orientation, publications, outreach, etc. "Tier two" credits document sustainability in student groups, residential experiences, campus events, and more.
- Operations. These credits assess the sustainability of how a campus is run, from transportation to buildings to food served in dining halls. Additional credits cover waste management, water use, purchasing policies, and more.
- Planning, Administration, and Engagement. These credits assess how sustainability is integrated through campus policies, including campus master plans, human resources, endowment management, public engagement, and more.
- Innovation. Institutions can report up to four achievements or activities under the Innovation category that are otherwise not covered by the three other credit categories.
- UNHSA's associate director is a STARS Technical Advisor.


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From the BBC today:
Most people say they are ready to make personal sacrifices to address climate change, according to a BBC poll of 22,000 people in 21 countries.
Four out of five people say they are prepared to change their lifestyle, even in the US and China, the world's two biggest emitters of carbon dioxide.
Three quarters would back energy taxes if the cash was used to find new sources of energy, or boost efficiency.
Pretty strong results, and completely at odds with what we're hearing from Bush, etc.
I saw that this morning as well.
...completely at odds with what we're hearing from Bush, etc.
Well, hey, what else is new? ;-)
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There were very similar things found in the McKinsey sponsored survey of Dutch opinion '21 minutes'.
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on "geoengineering" remedies for global warming .
These types of solutions should not be exotic, they should be simple, low risk and straight forward. My recomendation is to recapture and store carbon using 'artificial forests' that don't give back carbon
Here are the steps:
1) Develop an efficient and clean (solar, wind, nuclear )carbon capturing process that transforms carbon dioxide into calcium carbonate.
2) extract the carbon dioxyde fron 1000 cubic KM per hour. This represent 1 million carbon extractors each processing 250 cubic meters per second. (This would reduce total atmosheric carbon by 0.1 % every year.
3)store de calcium carbonate on the ocean floor (where it shoud be)
The carbon extractor sounds huge but so are our carbon burning faclities. A match between the two is needed. It is as simple as that.
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I propose a simpler solution:
Use existing technology to HALF the amount of energy we use.
Build solar/wind/geothermal/etc (all existing, prove technologies) instead of coal/oil/nuclear plants.
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Right Andrew,
In Tahiti we asked our governemnt to tak free green products as they unaffordable. As our islands are small enough, each could use solar to feed the cars.
Money runs the world, money.
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4th Annual Walt Chambers Golf Outing
Thursday, July 21, 2011
The Galion Community Hospital Foundation's 4th Annual Walt Chambers Golf Outing is Thursday, July 21 at the Galion Country Club. Proceeds benefit the Galion Community Hospital Cardiac Rehab Unit. The event is a four player scramble, with men's and women's divisions. Your entry fee includes green fees, cart, lunch, dinner and prizes. Fee is $100/individual, $400/team. You can register on line at http://www.avitahealth.org/waltchambers
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New Photography Products
Here is a peek at what is hot and new in photography equipment: Nikon announced the D2XS professional digital SLR, which shares many features with the D2X, but has a 2.5 inch LCD, with a 170 degree viewing angle. The new 12.4 MP camera offers an exclusive high-speed crop mode and refined viewfinder performance. For more information… Epson introduced its new PowerLite S4, an almost six pound 3LCD projector, designed for showcasing presentations, photography, and video on the go. The projector offers sharp detail and rich color, along with delivering up to 1,800 ANSI lumens of brightness and SVGA resolution. … Continue reading


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Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Special Education, Police Rights
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RAY SUAREZ: Yesterday and today, the high court heard arguments in cases that, while they won't decide major constitutional issues, may have practical application in Americans' everyday lives. NewsHour regular Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal joins us to report on both.
And today's case, Winkelman v. Parma City, seems to get right to the heart of whether regular people without a lawyer can petition the government for redress.
MARCIA COYLE, National Law Journal: Absolutely, Ray. This case rises under the federal law known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. That act gives money to states to help them provide a free and appropriate education to disabled children.
It also sets up a process whereby parents who disagree with the plan a school district comes up with can go through a series of administrative hearings without a lawyer to challenge it.
At the end of those hearings, if anyone is still dissatisfied, the law says any aggrieved party can bring an action into federal court. The issue before the court today was whether parents can go into federal court without a lawyer and bring that action.
Is using a lawyer necessary?
RAY SUAREZ: Because the Winkelman family, who were appealing for their own son's educational plan, reached a point where it was difficult for them to afford a lawyer, right?
MARCIA COYLE: They did. This case really plays out against a very serious problem, and that is the ability of parents of disabled children to afford attorneys. And that's against the larger problem of the ability of low- and middle-income families to afford a lawyer for their legal problems.
RAY SUAREZ: Well, this is a federal statute. How did the justices receive this question about whether regular people always need lawyers?
MARCIA COYLE: Well, the Winkelman's attorney was first up. And he argued that the language of the statute, the purpose of the statute, makes it very clear that parents have a right to go into federal court on their own, without a lawyer, to bring any claim that the statute allows.
Some justices raised public policy concerns. You know, lawyers are officers of the court, said Justice Scalia. They protect the court from frivolous actions. If we give this right to parents without a lawyer or to the public at large without lawyers, we may have more cases. District judges will have more work.
But Winkelman's attorney said that those public policy concerns are way outweighed by the fact that two-thirds of disabled children in this country come from families that can't afford lawyers or can't find lawyers to take these very complicated, lengthy, emotional cases.
RAY SUAREZ: What about the city of Parma, Ohio's, schools? Did they stick up for the idea that, at some point, a family would have to retain a lawyer to continue its fight?
MARCIA COYLE: No. Actually, Parma believes that the statute is -- that the section that says any aggrieved party can go into federal court is silent on whether it's the parents and says that the rights under this statute really belong to the child. And it's the child that has the right to press them in court.
Parma says that these cases, again, are very complicated. In a way, you may be doing a disservice to the child to let a parent go into federal court without a lawyer. And the school district also relies on this very old common law presumption against laypersons representing the rights of others in court.
RAY SUAREZ: So you were, in effect, watching nine lawyers get asked whether you always have to hire a lawyer.
MARCIA COYLE: Yes, that's true.
Police force in car chases
RAY SUAREZ: Now to our second case. It involves a high-speed car chase. Six years ago in rural Georgia, police officers pursued a teenager. As seen in this video, an officer rammed the rear end of Victor Harris' car, causing it to spin out of control. The resulting crash left the 19-year-old paralyzed from the neck down.
And what was at issue, Marcia, in Scott v. Harris?
MARCIA COYLE: Well, unlike the first case we discussed, this is really a case involving the interpretation of the Constitution. The Fourth Amendment protects us from unreasonable searches and seizures. There's no question that this was a seizure, in the sense of the Constitution. The question is: Was it reasonable?
RAY SUAREZ: So this was really an excessive force case?
MARCIA COYLE: Yes. The court has evolved a test over the years in case law for what is unreasonable use of deadly force.
There are certain factors that have to be presented: The defendant threatened the officer with a weapon. The underlying crime was serious and involved a serious risk of harm to others. Or there was a serious risk of harm from the defendant's actions.
The attorneys for the officer here argued that this test should not apply to this situation, that the test should be whether, from the officer's perspective, there was a reasonable risk of serious harm. And in this case, the officer felt there was, and he used the force necessary in order to stop that harm.
RAY SUAREZ: Well, what did the attorneys for the now 25-year-old disabled man argue in his behalf?
MARCIA COYLE: He argued that the test that the court has developed over the years does apply here. And as the lower court found, this young man, at the time he was driving, was driving unsafely. He wasn't driving violently or aggressively, and so something less than deadly force could have been used.
The justices reacted not very sympathetically to this argument. In fact, there was a lot of sarcasm and jokes. Justice Scalia called the chase "the scariest chase I've seen since 'The French Connection,'" referring to the movie. Justice Alito said he thought, after seeing the video, that there was a terrible risk of serious harm here.
And on and on it went, so the lawyer had a difficult job. Only Justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg pressed the lawyer for the officer on whether there were reasonable alternatives to ramming the vehicle. What about roadblocks? You know, what about letting him go and arresting him later? The underlying offense here wasn't serious; it was a traffic misdemeanor.
Using video in court
RAY SUAREZ: Did the presence of the video change or shape the way the argument went down in court?
MARCIA COYLE: Absolutely, it did. In fact, it was most obvious, I think, in the words of Justice Breyer, who said that as he read the briefs in this case, he went back and forth, back and forth. But once he saw the video, it was very dramatic for him.
He said, OK, I've seen the video. And the lower court says, though, that the factors, the test for deadly force, were not here. So who do I believe? Do I believe -- and he quoted Chico Marx -- "Do you believe me or what I see?"
RAY SUAREZ: So the balance -- it's interesting that here the officer is suing the person who was rammed, because the young man is still pursuing that officer back in Georgia courts, right?
MARCIA COYLE: The young man is suing the officer for violating his Fourth Amendment right to a reasonable seizure. This case has never gone to trial, so part of the issue here is whether it does go to a jury.
The officer, even if he's found to have acted unreasonably, can still seek what they call qualified immunity. That's, again, something the court has developed over time, saying that, if the law was unclear at the time the officer acted, then he's entitled to immunity from this suit.
His lawyer said today it was clear from the arguments and the questions from the justices that the law is very unclear.
RAY SUAREZ: Marcia Coyle, thanks for being with us.
MARCIA COYLE: You're welcome.


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After hate - getting support
As a victim or witness of hate, there really isn't a book to read to tell you how to 'get over' your experience.
The truth is that varying aspects of it will be forgotten quickly while others may continue to affect you for a much longer period of time.
The experience is wholly personal so, although others may have been through a similar incident, no-one can truly know how you feel. This is why it is so important to talk about it.
You may not want to at first, but close family and friends can be great sounding boards or just good to have near while you work through it - remember that you don't have to suffer alone.
Of course, professional help is available. The usual practice across forces in the UK if you report a hate incident is that your case, with your permission, will be passed over to Victim Support who will be in touch very soon after the event.
They offer emotional support and can talk to you about what you have experienced from a knowledgable point of view, but they also offer practical help for getting your life back on track - help dealing with the police, filling in forms, security advice and more.
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On December 24, 2011, a forty foot (twelve meter) beached sperm whale was discovered by a dog walker in Old Hunstanton, Norfolk, UK. In the days that followed, crowds gathered; a colony of insect-people, mourners, reverends, scavengers, paparazzi and freakers. In the moments before de-gloved hands tentatively reached out to touch the cracked, clammy, damp, salted, marbled hide, and fingers pushed into the firm spongy blubber, and dogs tip-toed into the salted ionic crimson pool that seeped from the severed tongue, a question slipped around the gathering like an eel: "Can I touch it?".
Almost exactly 146 years earlier, a blue whale was discovered alive and beached near Näset on the west coast of Sweden, October 29, 1865. This fifty-three foot (sixteen metre) juvenile creature became The Malm Whale (Malmska valen). His skin was scraped and dried in sections, his organs preserved, and his hide laboriously fixed back together to become "the only stuffed blue whale in the world". Transformed from fleshy, bodily, oily, salted hide, to polished "jewel of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum". Malmska valen was discovered alive by a fisherman, and sold, after it's killing, to August Malm, the then curator of the museum. A lengthy and painstaking preparation ensued, where after it toured Europe, starting at the Stockholm Industry and Art Fair, 1866, then Copenhagen, Hamburg, Berlin, Paris and London. The skin was screwed back together onto a whale shaped wooden form in highly irregular sections; the jaw, fixed on a great hinge, now allows visitors inside to visit Father Christmas.
After my visit to the Hunstanton whale in December 2011, a chain of events followed. They arrived silently, crept into liminal spaces, and unfastened a series of ruptures. An unprecedented rise in dolphin beachings; the first killer whale ever spotted from my local coast; three weeks in Gothenburg with Malmska valen; a conversation about conservation in a museum of natural history… fissures opened in my human world, and animals fell through them. But still, a distance remained, both physically and psychologically, between me and the other animals.
Touching the Whale considers thresholds of contact and distanciation between us and other animals, and the things that fill them. These spaces seem to mediate and perplex our understandings of animality, corporeality, and of animals "in place". Whether constructed or happened upon, these experiences open questions about life and death, wildness and taming, seduction and aversion, in a place where "Can I touch it?" plays a fundamental role.
The project focuses initially on specific cases of whale death and exhibition, as a template for thinking more broadly about the freaked animal, and the spaces that exist (or are removed) between us and other animals. Our chance to touch the whale, to attempt a connection to wildness through physical contact, seems to overcome most common aversions. The instinct to touch is a milked reaction. That act seems both taming and confirming of otherness; it also reveals a shortcoming, an inability to know enough, despite physical proximity. It seems to mediate life and death, wildness and taming, desire and aversion.


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My interest in the Latin American region and the Spanish language led me to Global Voices. Global news distribution and actual reaction by people (or blogs) on the ground make this site enjoyable and educational to read.
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"Should Scotland be an independent country?"
— the formal question in the Scottish referendum to be held Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014
I have a bet with my son — a brilliant and learned fellow who is a much more astute and pragmatic political observer than I am — about the upcoming Scottish referendum on independence from Great Britain.
His position — probably the winning one — is that the majority of Scots will vote to remain within the warm embrace of the so-called United Kingdom.
My betting position is that the Scots will buck up their courage and shed the shackles of centuries of English domination, re-assert their native independence and say "Up yours, Whitehall b'stards!"
I'm pretty sure I'm going to lose this bet. So be it. We all choose our own destinies.
Here's a link to the Wikipedia entry on the Scottish independence referendum if you want to delve more deeply into the complexities of the issue. I urge you to do so. You may come to a different conclusion than I do, and that's fine by me.
But consider this …
What if Canada was Scotland and the United States of America was the United Kingdom or Great Britain or whatever you want to call the island queendom?
After all, Britain wasn't "Great" until the English bribed and cajoled and bullied and manipulated and cheated their way into political mastery of Scotland three centuries ago.
I know, I know — that sounds like some ancient blood feud, but it's not. Three centuries is a mere blink of the eye in the grand scheme of things. People in the Mideast, Europe and Asia are still killing each other over things that may or may not have happened 500 years ago or a thousand years ago or two thousand years ago.
And there were many times — four at a bare minimum — during those three centuries that the present nation of Canada could easily have been absorbed into the hungry maw of the United States of America.
That was, after all, the ultimate plan of the U.S. founding fathers and their successors — Manifest Destiny, the creation of a grand empire encompassing the entire North American continent. Great America, in other words. Much bigger and better than piddly Great Britain over on the other side of the Atlantic.
And that annexation could have occurred many times over if not for the likes of John A. Macdonald and his ilk. And luck. And fortuitous timing.
Now I'm not putting the U.S. down here. I was, after all, born in the U.S. and I'll defend to their early graves the suicidal and/or homicidal right of all Americans, regardless of their mental state, to bear arms and slaughter each other and their children and their children's children. I just think it's a dumb approach to life.
But, hey, I don't live in the U.S., so it's not my problem any more.
If Canada was Scotland and had been absorbed by the more powerful and populous nation to south, the border would be meaningless and America's problems would be the former Canada's problems.
Granted, Canada and the U.S. are joined at the hip economically — although the U.S. War on Terror is doing everything it possibly can to impede the free flow of trade between two sovereign nations.
And granted, Canada is — as that subversive separatist (separating Canada from the U.S.) Pierre Trudeau put it so picturesquely — a mouse sleeping in the same bed as the American elephant.
Canada is definitely a junior partner in the North American consortium.
But …
Canada is not part of the U.S.
Canada is surviving quite fine, thank you, despite the fact that Canada's natural resources could probably be exploited more efficiently and profitably if completely under the umbrella of American law and corporate dictate.
And, yes, that efficient, profitable exploitation of Canada's natural resources — and Canadian whiskey too, I guess — might mean a slightly higher income for the average Canadian.
But at what cost?
Would you, as a Canadian citizen and national stakeholder, willingly give up the independence — however illusory — of your country to our southern neighbour?
Would you trade your Canadian birthright for swift approval of an oil pipeline or cheaper six-packs of beer? (By the way, Canada could — and should — have much cheaper beer without giving up national sovereignty. It's just a case of government cutting back a little bit on the usurious taxes imposed on alcohol.)
We are so lucky.
We don't have to step into the unknown. We don't have to try to wrench our society and our economy out of the larger organism of Great America. I think it would be almost impossible to do so, just as it is probably impossible for Scotland to break free from the only form of government and dependence that 15 generations of Scots have known.
Scotland's predicament could so easily have been Canada's.
Canada could easily have been absorbed by the United States in 1867 — the same year the U.S. bought Alaska from Russia — instead of becoming an independent nation.
Canada beat the odds. Scotland didn't. That's the only difference.
Do you really think the London money men would give two figs about Scotland — or give Scotland a dime — if it didn't have oil? Do you really think the New York money men would give two figs about Canada — or give Canada a dime — if we didn't have oil and water and other coveted natural resources?
And the only difference is that Canada is an independent, sovereign nation and Scotland is a … bump on the rump of England. What a terrible place to be.
Imagine if, when Scots go to the polls on Sept. 18 to vote in their referendum, Scotland was an independent nation and the Scottish people were voting on whether or not to join England in a new union.
Do you think they would really vote to give up their independence and nationhood in that circumstance any more than Canadians would?
I certainly don't.
Instead, Scotland has been held in thrall for so long that comfortable but recalcitrant subservience seems the normal state of being, not an unacceptable abberation.
And the fear mongers do their job well: "If you venture outside the harem, you will starve on the streets."
It's hard not to compare Scotland's relationship to Great Britain with Quebec's relationship to Canada.
I, for one, always had a problem with using threats and holding a hammer over Quebec's head to maintain Canada's territorial integrity. I don't think threats and warnings of dire consequences and implied violence are a good basis for nationhood any more than they're a good basis for a personal relationship.
So I'm glad we're through that phase of the Quebec-Canada relationship and into a more positive, aspirant interlocution.
Yes, it's going to be interesting to see what happens in Scotland's Sept. 18 referendum.
As I've already said, I think the majority of Scots are going to opt for the safe, the known, the tolerable, the secure option of remaining a junior clerk in the United Kingdom counting house. They may have a twitch and an itch before marking their ballots, but the majority will almost certainly go down on their knees.
I'm just glad Canadians aren't in that position. Yet.
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Panera Bread Rethinks Their Pay-What-You-Can
Panera Bread was testing this new "pay what you can" feature at some of their restaurants. However, after a few weeks they've pulled it from all of their test stores. What gives?
Here's the deal. Panera Bread was testing this "pay what you can" for their classic Turkey Chili in a bread bowl. Now, you'd think a lot of people would abuse the system. However, it seems that just as many people paid MORE for their chili than those that paid LESS.
The whole reason Panera began the "pay what you can" was to raise awareness for those in need. So, if you could pay more for the chili, you should to make up for someone who couldn't pay enough.
Panera said that the decision to take the feature away was not a financial one. They just thought there were other ways to make a better impact on needy persons.
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I've had a few run-ins with this wacky retired chemist and obsessive creationist, and recently pestered Jeffrey Shallit. There's a good tip in that account; Shallit just mentioned my name, and Skell fled. I guess I've become an anti-creationist talisman now.
#1 kzelnio December 30, 2009
He is a professor at Penn State. RPM from the former evolgen blog and I used to anxiously await his questions about complexity at each evolution talk! He would go on and on and on… basically monopolizing any time he could grab to speak about absolutely nothing. My favorite was when he asked my advisor during one of his talks about how sight could have possibly evolved in the deep sea. His talk was about the ecology of animals at hydrothermal vents… Anyways, Phil Skell is very well known to the Penn State people and generally laughed down upon.
#2 Gyeong Hwa Pak, the Pikachu of Anthropology December 30, 2009
Skell is well-known for his monomania: claiming that the theory of evolution is not relevant to medicine or experimental biology,
Only religious dogma can make you that blind.
#3 stand.myopenid.com December 30, 2009
Wow, I'll have to remember that! I promise to only use the talismanic powers of PZ for Good.
#4 PZ Myers December 30, 2009
I'm pretty sure vampires flee in terror when they see me, too. At least, I've never encountered one.
#5 sasqwatch December 30, 2009
Lay off the garlic.
#6 Cycle Ninja December 30, 2009
I'm pretty sure vampires flee in terror when they see me, too.
How good are you with Zombies?
#7 jcmartz.myopenid.com December 30, 2009
"I guess I've become an anti-creationist talisman now."
I should make a necklace with your name on it to keep the creationist/ID crowd at bay.
#8 Romeo Vitelli December 30, 2009
"I guess I've become an anti-creationist talisman now."
If you're taking on divine attributes, does that mean Atheism is obsolete now?
#9 steve December 30, 2009
What is it with some chemists? This guy is a creationist, I'm sure many of you have seen Richard Dawkins's interview with chemist/creationist Nick Cowan, we all know Michael Behe, and in C&E News there were 6 letters in one issue supporting IDiocy (July 6 2009).
Please be assured that the views on evolution of Behe, Cowan, Skell and those who wrote in the aforementioned C&EN issue do not represent the views of the chemistry community. Many chemists (myself included) have no problems at all with evolution and put it as science right up with atomic theory, the gas laws, MO theory and so forth.
#10 nejishiki December 30, 2009
Not sure what Behe's deal is, considering he's a Biochemist, so his training is a bit different than your standard organic or physical chemist.
But one explanation is that creationists who don't want to have to learn or use evolutionary ideas might prefer to go into chemistry, where these issues don't arise because it's not an historical science like Biology or astrophysics. Chemistry (and engineering) thus become an ecological niche for creationism.
#11 Rutee, Shrieking Harpy of Dooooom December 30, 2009
"If you're taking on divine attributes, does that mean Atheism is obsolete now?"
Only after the divine attributes are verified with rigorous testing and replicable.
#12 CanonicalKoi December 30, 2009
@ #7 – I'm making a sign for my door:, "I read Pharyngula by P.Z. Myers, daily." I'm hoping it'll cut down on the number of nutcakes banging on my door wanting to "save" me.
#13 speedweasel December 30, 2009
PZ said,
I'm pretty sure vampires flee in terror when they see me, too. At least, I've never encountered one.
I have a rock that keeps tigers away.
#14 Rev. BigDumbChimp December 30, 2009
I have sweet handlebar moustache that keeps bothersome people away.
It's magic!
#15 a_ray_in_dilbert_space December 30, 2009
Re: Vampires.
On a recent vacation to Sri Lanka (highly recommended btw), we were served garlic curry. Yes, it is just what it sounds like–garlic curried in coconut milk and spices. Not only did it keep garlic away, I noticed it got us extra spaces on the busses, too!
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Follow the journey of denim over at Oki-ni with this illustrated timeline. The world's favourite fabric has an oft told story but we never tire of hearing it. From the mines to the wild west, bikers to Bing Crosby's favourite tux, as the authors themselves put it 'Worn by everyone from pensioners to presidents, denim has come a long way in a relatively short space of time. This is the short and riveting history of a fabric with a life of its own: denim'
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Sunday, 15 July 2012
GBBD: Rosa 'Kew Gardens'
Rosa 'Kew Gardens' is a new addition to my garden. So new it hasn't been planted yet. I obtained it as a gift from David Austin Roses when I visited Easton Walled Gardens recently. I hadn't intended to have a new rose, but somehow it ended up in my arms.
It seems right to have a rose which has a resonance with happy times at Kew (meeting David Attenborough and organising volunteer weekends there) and has a simple flower which echoes the rugosa roses which are planted around the estate. My nose crinkled with pleasure many times on the way home as its scent wafted from the back seat over to me in the front. It's thornless, has tiny red hips for the winter, grows to about 5 feet in height and repeat flowers. The perfect rose for my garden.
It'll form the centrepiece to the revamping of my terraced beds. Since we had the sentinel conifers chopped down earlier in the year, I've been pondering what to do with the space they've left. Slowly I'm removing much that was around them: the self-sown Cotoneaster to the left and the sword-like Crocosmia to the right are both due to go and the space currently has some temporary Dahlias for late summer colour this year.
I haven't really decided what will go there, but some thoughts are taking shape. I was pondering having an arch (which was in the original design), but I'm currently favouring a 'basket' like the ones I saw at Easton Walled Gardens to show off my new rose.
I'm also thinking about Salvias. I've already taken the plunge and bought S 'Hot Lips' (which I've since planted in the wrong place) and I fell in love with S 'Amistad' when I saw it at Capel Manor last month. I also like S 'Caradonna' very much, despite it being used pretty much in every show garden I've seen recently.
Today I'm off to see Karen for a few days and then on to Elizabeth's and the delights of Tatton Park flower show. These Blooms Day notes aren't just so I have my current thinking about the garden in order, I hope they'll help my discussions with Karen and Elizabeth. Talking through planting opportunities with gardening pals will be such a treat over the next few days :)
Garden Bloggers' Blooms Day is hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens.
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That rose is very pretty, and I like the idea of it being thornless. I need to "dig in" to find some more information to see if it would be hardy in my garden. Thanks for joining in for bloom day and for the picture of your terrace. It's lovely!ReplyDelete
I followed your link over at Carol's GBBD - that rose is very pretty! And it sounds like you have endless possibilities for that new garden bed. Enjoy your planning!ReplyDelete
I just love David Austin roses! I bought three in February this year and I could just sit and watch them grow - if it hadn't been for all the rain! I found you on GBBD at Carol's, will be back to see more some other time :-)ReplyDelete
Sometimes simpler is better, and that rose definitely is. I'm having trouble envisioning what your plans will look like, but then I always have such trouble. Would Helictotrichon work for you or maybe one of the Schizachyriums? Or are they not blue enough?ReplyDelete
I love the rose--so pretty! I'm always tempted to add more roses, but our garden is so shady that I'm afraid it's futile. Happy GBBD!ReplyDelete
I totally agree...the Stachys with the Dahlia is magical...wonderful contrast!ReplyDelete
Hi everyone - so glad you like the rose :) I'm trying to find a suitable support for it - NAH has offered to make one for me using his welding kit!ReplyDelete
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BROOKSVILLE — There was some talk that Nature Coast Technical High had a shot at creating a bowling dynasty on the state level after last season's Florida High School Athletic Association team crown. All of that talk was silenced in one fell swoop as the school did away with its bowling program this month.
In November, both the boys and girls programs made the state finals, and with a stellar lineup, the boys team won the state crown, becoming only the sixth team to win a FHSAA state title in Hernando County history. Bowling has been a sanctioned sport by the FHSAA since only 2003, and Nature Coast is on a list with DeLand (2003 and 2004), Sebastian River (2005) and Timber Creek (2006) as team champions.
After that success, parents want to know why there won't be a return trip to the finals in 2008. According to Nature Coast athletic director Travis Lamle, the funding just wasn't there anymore.
"There is no coach available on campus, and there is no supplement available to us to fill a coaching vacancy (for bowling)," Lamle said. "It's a shame because we've funded this program internally for three years."
Lamle and Nature Coast principal Tizzy Schoelles conferred and decided it wouldn't be acceptable to have a nonteaching volunteer to take over the program. Because bowling is almost exclusively an off-campus activity, there would just be too much liability for the school.
The Hernando County School Board was asked to use some of the athletics funding in the budget to hire a new coach for the bowling program, but that request was denied.
Although the program has now folded and there are no plans to reopen it in the future, backlash may be unwarranted. Nature Coast is the only high school in the county that has ever had an FHSAA-sanctioned bowling program, and nothing can take the Sharks' 2007 title out of the books.
RUNNING: Gulfside Regional Hospice is holding its second annual Hike for Hospice on Nov. 8.
There will be 5K events on both sides of the county that day. The first hike starts at 8 a.m. at the New Port Richey Recreation and Aquatic Center, 6630 Van Buren St., New Port Richey, and the second hike begins at 11 a.m. at Zephyr Park, 38116 Fifth Ave., Zephyrhills.
The fee is $35 for adults, $15 for children 10 and younger. All proceeds go to patient care at Gulfside hospice. All hikers will get a snack, beverages, a T-shirt and a goodie bag with registration.
To sign up, call Jennifer York toll-free at 1-800-561-4883 or visit active.com and search on "Hike for Hospice."
TENNIS: Hernando County Recreation and Strings and Things are offering tennis lessons from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursdays at Hernando Park in downtown Brooksville. One-hour lessons are $42 for six.
For information, call (352) 754-4031.
TRIATHLON: The Inaugural Chaotic CoteeMan Triathlon will be at the New Port Richey Aquatic Pool and Recreation Center, 6630 Van Buren St., starting at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Participants will swim 200 meters, then bike 11 miles and run a 5K through downtown New Port Richey. The cost is $70.
Relay teams can run as well, for $95. For online registration, go to www.active.com and type "Chaotic CoteeMan Triathlon" in the search field.
Times staff writer Mike Camunas contributed to this report. Submit upcoming events, registrations and info to communitysports@ tampabay.com.


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|I consider my current partner their father, btu they will never look like him, it is breakign my heart on some levels.
The truest answer to violence is love. The truest answer to death is life. The only prevention for violence is for the heart to have no violence within it. We cannot prevent evil through any system devised by mankind. But we can grapple with evil and defeat it, but only with love—real love.
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Hi hawkfeather. I can understand what you mean when you say that you resent the things in your children that remind you of their father who was abusive toward you. I encourage you to let go of that. I have struggled with bits and peices of that in the past myself. I thought enough of my daughters father at one time to have a child with him, and you mentioned that you have 4 children with your ex. I encourage you to only think about the good things that your children might get from your ex. Certainly he must posses some good qualities. And trust that your children will grow up to be intellegent individuals who will cast away any bad habits that you or their father might have passed on to them. If he is abusive why is he still seeing them regularly?
Please take a moment to look at that statement. Across the board I never encourage this. Your children already have a father who they see every weekend. While you replaced your husband you did not replace their dad. And I am sure that they are very fortunate to have a wonderful step-dad as a bonus parent, but he is not their father. I don't mean to sound judgemental but I am sure that alot of the other parents in the forum would not appreciate their ex invalidating the job they still do as a parent(inspite of the fact that the marriage is over) by replacing them in their minds with their new spouse.
I encourage you to stick around here and continue to ask for advice b/c as a btdt parent I know there is alot of great advice to be given for those who are coming into new situations with blended familys.
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but when your beautiful daughter makes an exact face at you, that in the past proceeded with a punch, even if not fear it makes me sad.
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Maybe find something that is uniquely beautiful to you about each of your children and try and focus on that when you have these feelings? When dd makes that face, instead of thinking about your ex,
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Taking on the English wind in plenty of volume and one my favourite colour combos around. A little more adventurous than the usual black and white, but in my mind just as wearable. Plus let's be real, it's all about the texture and silhouette anyway.


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He's been compared to Moodymann and Lindstrom but Irishman John Daly has a sound all his own pulling influences from techno to deep house to everything in between.
The legendary Francois K took notice of the man's talent and released his tracks on his seminal Wave Music label after Daly had sent him some of his own material from his label Feel Music in the hope of scoring a US distribution deal.
He's just recently released his first long-player after working on it for the past four years. It's called 'Sea And Sky' and is out on Wave Music and combines some older tracks that have been previously available on EPs as well as brand new material.
Now Daly hits our shores for the first time headlining the latest Co-Op gig at the Civic on Saturday night in an epic 4-hour set. To be sure to be sure!
He took a little moment to answer a few questions.
I read an interview where you said you wanted to be in Iron Maiden when you were a kid? From rock to electronic music – when was the change? What turned your on to beats?
I still want to be in Iron Maiden! I guess it was the massive dance music scene we had in Cork when I started to go to college in the city in the late nineties - it was everywhere...you couldn't help but get into it. It was a very inspirational time for me.
Do you secretly get out 'Number Of The Beast' and rock out every now and then?
In my spare time, I only really listen to rock music.
Living in Ireland, how was the scene there and when did you start clubbing?
See above.
Who was your inspiration to become a DJ?
All my friends and I got into it around the same time. It was a very natural transition and was exciting for me at the time.
Tell us about your first gig? Everyone has some story to tell about their first performance behind the decks?
It was to promote a compilation CD of local promoters. I turned up with a load of David Bowie and Led Zeppelin records, needless to say I was swiftly removed from the decks.
When did you start producing and how did that come about?
I started to mess around with recording when I was in a rock band, in my late teens. But really, I still consider myself a musician first, producer second.
How would you describe your sound when you first started producing and how do you think it's changed to, let's say, on your new LP?
Back then I was making hip/trip hop, loungey type stuff. It took me a while to get my head around making house music, but I guess then the album isn't really house either...I just sit down to it and whatever comes out, does. I don't impose genre restrictions on myself.
How did the connection with Francois K come about? Were you awe-struck when you first met him?
I sent stuff to wave hoping to get American distribution for my label, they didn't do that anymore at that point but they did want the tracks for themselves, so of course I was delighted.
Tell us why you set up your own label? Was it just so that you could release you own tracks?
Pretty much. I didn't want to go down the road of sending demos to labels. I never really did that. It puts you in too weak a position.
How do you go about writing new material? Can you let us in on the process and hardware/software you use?
I use a combination of hardware and software, each has its advantages...I don't have a set method of working, I just play around until something jumps out at me, then I follow it. It's different every track.
Can we expect to hear your production-style sound in your DJ set?
I guess so yeah. I take DJing very seriously. I don't just play music, I try to connect with the crowd, otherwise it just feels like work.
Give me a track that you have to play at every gig cause you love it so much?
Bas Noir 'My Love Is Magic' (Nu Groove Records).
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