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006: Shark Attack Victim Mike Coots
I live in Hermosa Beach, California and I go down to the surf all the time and see fins bobbing up and down. I always think about, "This must be a great white shark or something." I interviewed a guy named who lives in Kauai and was attacked by a tiger shark about ten years ago or more. This is a fascinating story. The shark literally took his leg off. We walk through it. We go back through the whole trauma. He's 300 yards off the shore of Kauai and gets attacked by this massive fifteen-foot tiger shark. This is just an amazing story of coming back and he's got such a positive attitude about the way he approaches life and it's really uplifting. We all think we have challenges in life and if you can imagine having that kind of trauma come at you, you lose a limb and keep going and actually go back and create a foundation around supporting the life of sharks.
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Shark Attack Victim Mike Coots
This interview is very fascinating for me because how often do you talk to a guy that's been attacked by a shark? In this case, Mike Coots, that's what happened to him. Mike, welcome to the show.
I've been to Hawaii a lot of times, 25, 30 times in my life. I live in Hermosa Beach and I go down and often you're out and I see fins going up and down in the water. The first thing that I always react to is it's a shark. Most of the time, there are always dolphins playing in the water but I just can't imagine. You grew up over in Hawaii in the island of Kauai, surfing, and you must have been very comfortable in that environment just to start with, right?
Yeah. We're basically a little tiny island surrounded by a lot of water so you learn really fast if the ocean wants to be your friend. It can be something that can teach you a lot of lessons and it can be your breadbox. It can be your way to have dinner at night via fishing and things like that. You really become connected with the ocean early on growing up in a little island.
Let's go back and start to go through all this. I did some research on this whole thing, the story was just fascinating. It's just like, "I've got to talk to this guy." This happened to you at a relatively young age, right?
Correct. I was right out of high school, eighteen years old at the time.
During that time, you're a product of your environment. I grew up in Seattle so I'm out on the playground all the time with my buddies playing football, it's raining and you're doing things like that. Certainly not in the water like the way you would be, or at least up there it's Lake Washington and it's freshwater so no sharks up there. You must have grown up either surfing or body surfing or boogie boarding or one of those things?
Yeah. I started boogie boarding when I must have been three or four years old and it became a daily thing day in and day out. As soon as school finished, it was begging the parents to get to the beach as fast as we could so that we could spend the afternoon until dark boogie boarding. Seven days a week, it was boogie board, boogie board, boogie board.
It's like daily in the water, super comfortable, out and about. It must have just been awesome to grow up in that environment.
It was a dream-like childhood for sure to just be so much time in the water. On your mind, it's just getting tubed and having fun in the ocean with your friends. Literally, my life was the ocean.
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Now, you're in high school. How old are you? Fourteen or fifteen years old?
I started really getting into competitive bodyboarding at about fifteen. It was pretty big at that time in Hawaii. We had a lot of contests. I just had high hopes of this as soon as I graduated high school turning pro. A lot of my friends were professionals. I had a coach at the time and did a bit of traveling for events. I wanted to be a professional boogie boarder. That was my career goal, that was the end-all. Everything in my life was wrapped up in bodyboarding and boogie boarding.
Let's lead now into the day when all this went down. You're boogie boarding. How far off-shore were you?
We were about300 yards offshore. It's a sandbar that hits a reef-patch area, and we were in maybe 30 feet of water. It was a sunrise session. We had a long summer where we really get too many waves, and this was the fall after that summer and it was actually our first really good swell. We pulled up to the beach and I was with my coach. We opened the car doors and smelled a really stinky dead-fish smell, really foul. Because the waves were so good and it was such a long summer of no surf, it was the stinkiest thing I had ever smelled, but that wasn't stopping us.
Where was that from?
In retrospect, it might have been some shrimp that died off that hit the ocean and caused some fish in the area to die off because of the extra amount of shrimp in the water. I really don't know. It was this really foul, stinky smell. To this day, I have not smelled anything that bad in my life.
Generally speaking, does that bring more sharks to the area?
Yeah. I would suggest in hindsight if you pull up to the beach and something feels off, your senses and you're just, "This doesn't smell right. This doesn't feel right," use that as an indicator to not paddle out. Some of the surf was so good and you're just frothing as a kid, you're out there no matter what.
From my standpoint, I wouldn't paddle out far out anyhow. That's just my own thing. You're 300 yards offshore, it's this day, you go out, there's this bad smell in the air, it could be shrimp or whatever that is. How long had you been out there before all this goes down?
It would have been maybe five, eight minutes tops. I paddled out with five buddies or so. Right off the bat within ten seconds or literally the first set that came in, they all got great rides. I was sitting next to a stranger, somebody I hadn't surfed with before. This really beautiful wave came in and it felt like a longer time than it was, just watching all my friends get these really good runs on the inside. I was like, "This wave is mine." I looked at him and he looked at me. You don't want to share a wave with a fellow surfer. I signaled my dominance by creating action like paddling first to signal that, "This is my wave and I want this wave." As soon as my fingertips brushed the surface of the water to let him know that this was my wave, a large tiger shark came up from underneath me and latched onto my legs. It was just him and myself and all my friends were very inside, and I was basically getting attacked by a shark. It was a surreal moment. I was maybe playing another character in a movie, like it wasn't really happening to me but I was watching it happen. It became this fight or flight moment. It started ragdolling me back and forth.
I can remember it was 1974, my mom took me to this outdoor theater one night. They used to be popular and that's the year, I'm not sure, when Jaws came out. The way you traditionally think about these things is they're on the surface, you can see the fin, and they're coming at you and they open. I think I read that this thing came up like a submarine, right?
Correct. You don't hear the Jaws music cueing. You don't see the dorsal fin from 100 yards away getting bigger and bigger as it gets closer to you. It was a complete blindsided attack and that's the nature of sharks. That's what they do, that's the element of surprise. They're not going to dance their way into the scene and do some whistles. They come in and that's what they do. It completely got me blindsided. Out of nowhere, right underneath me and grabbed onto me.
Were your legs hanging down?
Yeah. From the shark's angle looking up, I would have looked like a turtle, hanging off the boogie board with my fins and everything up the back and my armpit side, it's the classic turtle look. Basically, it just grabbed onto me and I felt an immense pressure. I didn't feel any pain or anything like that. Within a split second, its jaws were basically in my legs.
You've got this massive tiger shark. As you now are basically in this thing, your leg is in his mouth, your other leg is not in his mouth, right?
It probably was half in its mouth. My right leg I think was closer to its jaw area where there was probably a lot more torque and pressure because of the jaw closing. Both my feet; I have pretty bad scars on my left foot so obviously that foot would have been at some point in its mouth.
You've essentially got his whole mouth and jaws and everything right in your chest, because you're bent over and you're trying to fight this thing off?
Exactly. I remember just being this really square and very wide massive nose shoved right into my chest. I started taking both my hands. I remember distinctly trying to grab on the both corners of its nose and push it away from my chest like this complete, "Get away from me." The only thing that can really hurt us in Hawaii beside sharks is centipedes. When I see them, the hairs stand up on my arms, and you get this fight or flight, "Get away from me" feel. I remember distinctively that feeling, just whatever I've got to do to get this thing away from me. I just was really trying to hold out the corners of its nose, and it was a good-sized shark. I remember distinctively how very wide the nose is.
How many feet do you think this thing was?
I would say about twelve to fifteen feet long via just the width of its nose. It was square as a nice hardwood dining table, perfectly square and wide, just like that.
Because you grew up in Hawaii, you knew this was a tiger shark versus a great white?
Yeah. I knew exactly what it was. It wasn't a dolphin on its side or a turtle or this or that or something else. It was very square and this is a very intimate attack. It was right up to me and it was obvious I was getting attacked by a large tiger shark.
What's the bio of a tiger shark versus a great white or some of these other ones? Are they known as being very aggressive or was it out of character or what?
There are little similarities in sharks that they're opportunistic feeders. They'll take something that's an easy source of protein. White sharks have been known to get a little bit more out of the water and they can use that impact of coming from the deep really fast and breaching the surface and knocking out its prey. Where tiger sharks because they bite a lot more turtles, they're a little bit more cautious. They do come up pretty fast but they have finesse. I believe they prey a little bit more. Their eyes will roll back. They have a membrane that will flip out for safety for their eyes when they're attacking. I've seen both attack diving with sharks and watching them attack prey and they're a little different. I think tiger sharks to an extent can be a little more cautious.
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Out here in Manhattan in Hermosa Beach, we've got quite a few great whites. The babies are ten feet or whatever. You'll be out stand-up paddling, they're swimming underneath you. We call them The Man in the Gray Suit. Anything with teeth and they like to eat is not a friend of mine. Now, you're thrashing back and forth your classic shark that's going at you.
I was trying to push it away from my chest. As I'm doing that, it started ragdolling me back and forth like a dog would with some meat. I remember this violent shake left to right, left to right, and it was right there when I was like, "This pushing away isn't working." I started swinging it with my left hand right on its nose. I think I gave it a good two to three punches, and it just let go. Just like that, all the pressure released. I got right back onto my board. I was back on the surface of the water and the shark just disappeared. As fast as it came, it was gone just as fast. I got back on my bodyboard. At first, I looked at the guy that I paddle-battled with and his eyes were out of his head like crazy. I remember he was ghost white, he didn't say a word and I yelled, "Shark, go in." Obviously, he's just saw a shark attack in front of his eyes and knew what was happening. I didn't know what else to say and he started paddling in really fast. I got repositioned on my bodyboard. I looked at my index finger and my index finger was split open. I remember seeing a bone and I have never been up to that point of hurt that bad in my life. Blood was everywhere. I was like, "My finger, my finger." I started getting in as fast as I could, and I started paddling behind him. As I'm paddling, my right leg starts doing this weird spasm like an uncontrollable shake. It starts wiggling out and vibrating back and forth. I can't see it because you're paddling in a prone position, it's behind you. I thought, "This is it. The shark is finishing me off." I looked over my shoulder as I was paddling in and it wasn't the shark, it was my leg completely severed off.
Where was it severed?
Right halfway up the shin, just perfectly cut off.
Your calf area, right?
Yeah. I remember it squirting all blood every time. I saw three good squirts. I'm talking eight to ten foot of blood squirting like a fire hydrant coming out. I was like, "This really isn't good." Luckily, a little wave came right there and I rolled off my stomach and right up to the sand and didn't really have the time to think of what just happened. Everything was just really fast. I tried to stand up as soon as I got up to the sand's edge and without a foot you can't stand. I remember falling over and rolling down this little dune a little bit with sand and covered in blood and sand and all this stuff. My friends on the inside, they saw what was happening and they ran up to me. I had a friend, Kyle, who's really quick thinking and the first thing he did was grab my board and took my leash and made a tourniquet within seconds, very clear thinking. I literally had been on the beach for four seconds and I basically had a tourniquet already on me. Then they dragged me up a little higher and I remembered him saying a prayer for me. As Kyle was praying, I got this wave of calm come over me that if I were to die, I thought I was going to die, it would be okay. It wasn't scary. It wasn't like I was scared of dying. It's so much different than you would think in a shark attack movie or what goes on in Jaws.
How many people were on the beach?
There would have been about six to eight people. They're all around me in a circle and Kyle's leading the prayer and I just had my eyes closed. I remember him saying a couple things in the prayer. I opened my eyes when he said amen and there was a pickup truck right there. This guy, Keith, had seen everything happening from the lookout and threw his truck, knew something was wrong with all the commotion and everything, and some people might have been waving their hands in the air and stuff. He threw his truck in four-wheel drive and basically off-roaded down into the sand and rode on the sand as fast as he could right up to us. They lifted me on the back of his truck, they had the tailgate down and I just laid back there in the prone position on my back. He took off in seconds. It was perfectly choreographed.
He started taking off to the hospital. Nobody really thought to jump in the back of the pickup truck with me. Keith was in the front driving and it was just myself lying in the back of the truck with six surfboards, probably his most prized surfboards, and now they're covered in blood. I was honestly more scared of the car ride because we were going so dang fast than my injuries. We were bouncing all around. We finally got onto the main road and I started going into shock. I remember feeling really hot to really cold back to really hot back to really cold, this over and over weird feeling that I've never had before. It was a bit surreal. I didn't want to look at my missing leg or the injuries of my other leg or even the injuries of my hand, so I started playing with the board bag on one of the surfboards. It was made of this cloth-like material and I started playing with it with my fingers just to keep my mind off of looking at everything else.
I do remember glancing though. We passed a mother and daughter going to school. This would have been 7:30 in the morning and I think everybody was on their way to school. You know you can tell the extent of your injuries by the reaction of others. I remember looking at their faces and they look like they're going to throw up, just seeing all this blood gushing out the back and then I was back to the paddle board bag and I can't look at anybody. I can't look at my injuries. I just concentrated on this board bag. It was about a ten-minute car ride from the sand to the emergency room. We pulled up right to the ER. I remember the doors of the ER opened up and I think a couple of nurses and a doctor ran out. As soon as the doctor ran up and put his arm on my shoulder, my body just gave out. I think my eyes closed and it was just lights out. I woke up in this weird state maybe 45 minutes later or so in that small local hospital explaining how big the shark was and that it was a shark that attacked me, and my body gave out again. It was a good 24 hours. I woke up in our main hospital post-surgery with my family and a lot of my close friends all around me.
You're pals with Bethany Hamilton. I remember in the movie, Soul Surfer, which was crazy because I have two daughters and to be the parent of daughters where something bad has happened, it just took me to that place. The way you just described, you come into the beach, all your pals come over, they put the tourniquet on, the guy does the four-wheel drive over the sand, comes picks you up, and now it's just a race like you're in Indianapolis 500 trying to get back to the hospital. It just reminded me of that whole scene playing out when they get her out of the water, a little bit different, but it's just craziness. The way that they plotted it out in the movie with the music, you just don't know what's going to happen. You got severely wounded, are you going to bleed out? You're the guy that got attacked but everybody else has all this uncertainty and just trying to get you to the hospital. Where were your parents in this whole chain? Obviously they weren't there but when did they get to the hospital?
My mom was a bank manager and got a phone call from somebody at the hospital saying that I was severely hurt from surfing. My mom's biggest fear has always been when we boogie board, there's a lot of shallow sandbars. The first thing she thought was I broke my neck. The doctor was like, "He lost his leg to a tiger shark." I think my mom had a sigh of relief for some reason. She just really had this fear that I was going to break my neck and I think losing my leg, to her, was just something else. She was like, "We'll get through this." My sister, she was at high school, when the teacher came up and told her, she started bawling. In retrospect, just how hard that must have been on my family. To me, I would have been tougher than me for my own personal injuries and things and how it affects your family. When I woke up in our main hospital, I remember it was a real somber moment like I came out of this fog. It was really quiet all around me and my mother was like, "Should I tell him?" The doctor's like, "I can tell him." My mom's like, "I'll tell him. Mike, you lost your leg in a shark attack." I was like, "I know. I saw it come off. I know I lost my leg." I think as soon as I knew that and my family knew that, it was just like this real uplifting moment. Everybody was like, "You're alive," and hugs and kisses and everything like that. I think it must have been a hard time having my mother know that when I wake up from this that she's going to have to tell me that I'm missing a limb. That must have been a grueling 12 or 24 hours or whatever it was for her.
There are a lot of things going on in my mind. I was down in Africa in Tanzania climbing Kilimanjaro with a bunch of NFL guys and Green Berets, Marines, and two of them were amputees. One was Kirstie Ennis. She is an above-the-knee amputee. Then there was another guy, Peter, who had a bullet go through his calf. It sounds like similar to you. There were fourteen of us something like that that climbed Kilimanjaro and they made it to the top. The word I was told is that the game changer is if you lose a limb like that, below the knee, the stability of that kneecap really helping you dig in and do different things that you want to do and when it's above the knee, it's just a different deal.
I work with a lot of above-the-knee and below-the-knee amputees and you can see the range of motion. It's having that ankle being able to talk to your knee. They're such crucial joints. Having them talk together when you take a step and this part of the flex needs to work with this part of the knee and the ankle. It becomes exponentially more difficult to do things when you're missing a knee for sure. Fortunately, technology is getting there where we get some really good microprocessor knees that can communicate really good with your prosthetic ankle to know exactly what to do. It is an exciting time if you're an above-the-knee amputee because there are emerging technologies coming out like crazy. Pretty soon, you're going to be able to have a really good walk and basically do everything that a below-the-knee amputee can do.
You are pals with Bethany. When she was attacked, I think I read that you were actually there at her bedside, right?
Yeah, I got a phone call from her brother.
Had you already been attacked? You'd already gone through this whole thing?
Yeah, this was about six years later after my attack. Her family and my family were close family friends. I grew up surfing with her and I was really close to her brother. One morning, I got a phone call from her brother and he was obviously very panicked and in tears and hyperventilating, "My sister just got attacked by a shark and I don't know if she's going to make it." That was a tough phone call to get, a phone call that you never want to get. I remember hanging up the phone and saying a little prayer and heard the ambulance go by. I heard more sirens than I think I've ever heard and knew that that was her in the ambulance. I got into my truck and drove to the hospital.
It was basically the same thing. She was 12 to 24 hours completely out while they did the surgery and cleaned up the wound and everything. I spent some time with her and her family and friends in the hospital. I was in her hospital and I was next to her bedside in her room. Somebody had to go out, her brother had to go out, her parents were downstairs. The nurse stepped out for a second and she started getting conscious and waking up from all this. As she opened her eyes, it was just her and I. It was pretty surreal. I was the first person right there as she came out of this fog. I remember telling her that it was going to be okay and everything is going to be all right and she didn't seem upset. There was no sorrow. I think she was just genuinely happy to be alive, just the sweet little girl, very pale but coming to. It was really a moment that maybe there's somebody higher up that put me there at that time for that to happen.
I personally don't know you but I've read your story and if movie is any depiction of the way she really is, you both seem to be glass half full, very positive. You look on the brighter side of things. Nobody would blame anybody just being attacked by shark and being upset with the world, "Why this happened to me," and go through that. You didn't sound like you played the blame game. You're just more like, "I want to go seize opportunities and be positive and see this as something that I can turn into something positive." It's just great.
I think it's also the nature of just spending both of us day in and day out our childhood in the water. It wasn't like we went as a family vacation to the beach and I stuck my toes in the water and the shark came out and grabbed me. We have spent our entire lives in the ocean and you just know sharks, that's what they do. That's their home. We're in their backyards for half of our lives but that's their home and that's where they live 24/7. I think for both of us that's in the back of our minds that that's how the ocean works.
How many years ago was this for you? This happened to you in 1997?
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Correct. I was eighteen at the time, so that was nineteen years ago. I spent more than half of my life as an amputee and a shark attack survivor.
You continue to live in Kauai?
There was a post or something that you made. I don't know how this could have been a post because we weren't posting back then. It says that as you're coming to consciousness, you didn't blame anybody, you're thankful to be alive. The bottom line is very positive about your state and going forward and you're going turn this into positive.
I have a really strong family support. I had the community that completely came with open arms and really helped me out. I had a guy visit me really early on with a prosthetic leg, the second day that I was in the hospital. That was a defining moment for me just knowing that there's a future with prosthetics and that I'll be able to walk again and get back in the water. I've been very fortunate. I haven't had any PTSD, no bad dreams. It's been a bit of a surreal experience. In retrospect, it's been the greatest thing that's ever happened to me. Just the life experiences and the opportunities and the people that I've been able to meet and the stories I've been able to share. Everybody's got something that happens to them and mine's very visual and it's there. I've got a prosthetic. There are people that you walk by everyday and got something you don't see in there, struggling with something. We've all got something and that's just the nature of being humans. We've just got to figure out ways around it. I think as humans, we are very good at adapting too and adapting during difficult times.
The name of this podcast is Finding Your Summit and that's really all about overcoming things, and you said it perfectly. We all have things that hit us at some point in time, and I've had a lot of knocks on me. I've fallen off the horse many times. Of course it's always about getting back on top of that horse and being valiant on, "I'm not going to let this slow me down. I'm not going to be turned back by this. I'm going to keep going and turn that thing into a positive." Congratulations to you on that. You just have the right attitude and so much of this is mentally, where do you want to put your focus? Do you want that to be positive or negative or do you want to carry this around as a chip on your shoulder? It just isn't going to move the ball down the field. On that note, I want to talk about this project that you're involved in, . Tell us a little bit more about what that is all about.
It's a surfboard fin system that you put on your board. It's a personal statement saying that, "If I got this fin system on my board and I get attacked by a shark and heaven forbid I don't make it, my wish is to that the local government of wherever I was surfing when that attacked happened, to not cull the sharks after the attack." There's been a spike of shark attacks worldwide. In some places like Australia, the government has this pressure to do something about it. A lot of that is called culling, and that's basically removing or fishing for a shark in that area to basically kill it and try to remove that threat. Science has shown that it doesn't work. I believe personally it's a barbaric knee-jerk reaction. You're not coexisting. The science says it doesn't work because sharks move at such great distances over periods of time that by the time you put those hooks out, you're not going to get that same shark. Just on a principle that we're in the oceans, and that's not for us to do anyways.
We're losing shark stocks like crazy worldwide, and they play an invaluable role in our marine ecosystem as an apex predator. We really are starting with science to see the invaluable role that sharks play in our oceans. They have been around for hundreds of millions of years, they predate the dinosaurs, survived these mass extinctions that everything else on Earth basically got wiped out and sharks survived. I really strongly feel that they're here for a reason and that they have survived through all this as an important part of our marine ecosystem. At the very top, they remove the sick, the weak and they keep the genetics in the ocean really strong or as strong as it can be. The rate that we're killing sharks is crazy. We're talking upwards of a hundred million sharks a year killed. A lot of this is for their shark fins, shark oil, for vitamins, things like that. Just for us to add on such killing these top apex predators because something happened to us when we're in the ocean, I don't think that's the right approach. I'm a strong believer of co-existence and to kill something because you don't like it, that's not coexisting together.
I'm here talking to a guy that got attacked by a tiger shark, and you're promoting this whole movement about trying to keep them alive. The fin that you have manufactured or designed, it goes onto a surfboard or a boogie board?
It goes onto a surfboard. You sign up for registry and you're basically saying, "If I get attacked and I don't make it, my wish is I do not want the shark that attacked me killed." That's all it's saying and it's saying that to the government, it's telling your family and friends you know your wish is, "This what I want." I think it's a powerful statement. It's straight to the point and this is what it is.
Are you selling these now?
Yeah. You can go to FinForAFin.com. It's a bit of play on words. It's a catchy name. I really like it. It's out in Australia. It's a way of telling the government, "I want this," but it's also a good conversation starter when you're at the beach and your buddies are like, "What's up with your fin system?" You can be like, "I believe this and sharks are being decimated at this rate. They're very important in our marine ecosystem." It's just a good way to have this conversation that I think needs to happen right now, especially with so many shark sightings in Southern California and shark attacks in Western Australia and Green Island. It's a talk and a conversation that needs to happen.
So often, when we react to fear, we lash out and do something that maybe we shouldn't do. Having an advocate like you trying to create awareness towards what's going on is amazing. I don't want to see sharks killed. I just don't want to be eaten. It reminds me a little bit of the Livestrong, the Lance Armstrong when he was at his peak, you get those yellow bracelets. They sold millions of those things and they had partnerships with Nike or somebody and they just flew off the shelf. How much does this fin that you put on your surfboard cost?
It's about $120, and it's competitively priced with other surfboard fins. It's made out of carbon fiber. I surf on it every day. They're really well-made fins.
Do you plan to roll them out on all the different surf shops?
That's our goal. We're trying to raise money so that we can pretty much push this out worldwide and really get this to every corner of the Earth. Obviously, sharks swim to wherever water is salty, that's where sharks are. This is not a geographically-centered campaign. This is something we want to bring to the world. That price I told you for the fin, that's in US dollars. If you want to get it in Australia, it's $160 for the three-fin thruster set, which is basically what other fins in the surf shop would cost.
I don't surf but I'm fascinated with the concepts that people come up with. In your case, you've taken a tragedy and turned it into an opportunity to raise awareness about what's going on. Unless people like you stand up and wave their hands and go, "This injustice is going on and we're slaughtering all these different sharks which are key to the ecosystem," they'll just going to continue on doing what they've been doing, and it's just not a good thing. That's pretty amazing. You've got such a positive energy, a positive spirit. People are going through a tough time, you've gone through that. What are the core elements that got you through going through all that rehab, figuring it out and understanding that you could get back literally on your feet, and start doing things again?
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I would say just not really dwell on the little things and the day-to-day things and start to have a bigger vision in your head. For me, it was to see steps. It was, "I want to get back as soon as the stitches and staples healed," and get back in the water and having these small goals that you can build up on. Losing my limb, I had to readjust everything from learning how to drive a manual shift vehicle to walking, to hiking with family and friends. All these little things that you build on, you think, "I can't do it or it's going to be a struggle," and you do that, it creates this confidence and the self-worth and you can relate that to any injury or any challenge that you have. Use it and look at it as something that would build you and make you a stronger person and just ready to take on the world. It's really what you perceive. If you perceive these challenges as challenges, that's what they become. If you perceive them as stepping stones to make you a better person, then that's a better way to live.
Where can people find you?
I'm on social media. That's probably the best way. It's under my name, @MikeCoots. If you want to follow me on Instagram, I'll do my best to follow you back and engage and we can share stories together.
Mike, I so appreciate it. This is awesome, it's been incredible. We're going to blow this out and share it with the world. I just really appreciate you sharing your time with us.
Thanks for having me, Mark. I really appreciate the chance to talk about all of this.


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All participating organizations are asked to raise money through participation in the Walking Challenge, "70,000 Steps in 7 Days. Centers are asked to donate all monies raised to local programs and scholarship funds in the fight against obesity or other health related issues. Currently, medical fitness facilities provide health and wellness programs to over three million people. Medical fitness centers are in key positions to impact the healthcare of their communities and to partner with the medical community in creating models for success.
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The Walking Challenge encourages local communities to get up and move by striving for 70,000 steps in seven days. The challenge will involve wearing a pedometer and tracking how many steps a day a person is achieving. The community who achieves the most steps in the seven days will receive national recognition through press releases, the MFA website and the 2008 Annual Conference in
NuStep, makers of the NuStep TRS 4000 recumbent cross trainer, is this year's Elite Premier Sponsor. This will be the third year the company has sponsored Medical Fitness Week.
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All facilities must register with MFA to be a Walking Challenge participant. MFA Members and Nonmembers must be preregistered by Monday, April 14th to be eligible to win recognition. Register online at www.medicalfitness.org.
MFA is the leading organization dedicated solely to medically integrated fitness facilities and the medical fitness industry. MFA is a professional membership association whose mission is to foster opportunities for the development and operational success of medically integrated fitness centers. MFA provides industry standards, educational programs, benchmarks, outcome measurements, professional development and networking opportunities for the medical fitness industry. The organization also serves as a resource for healthcare related groups ready to enter the wellness and fitness center market. A nonprofit organization founded in 1991, MFA is an affiliate of the

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3 Misconceptions About eLearning That Most People Get Wrong
Whenever I'm at a conference, at work, or online, I often find myself interacting with folks that have a lot of misconceptions about eLearning. Usually, these misconceptions "show" themselves when someone is trying to explain why eLearning isn't effective, or when someone has a very narrow idea of what eLearning should look like.
The truth is these misconceptions about eLearning stem from an individual's' inexperience or fear of eLearning. And frankly, I don't blame these folks for having these misconceptions. It's likely they've experienced eLearning that truly is bad, ineffective, or misused. And it's these negative experiences that have shaped their misconceptions about eLearning.
Here are three common misconceptions about eLearning that most people get wrong.
1. eLearning Replaces the Classroom.
Perhaps the most common misconception about eLearning is the idea that it replaces the need for the classroom and even the instructor. I believe this misconception stems from the insecurity some (not all) classroom facilitators have about their position in the learning process. As much as I believe the classroom has its place within the learning ecosystem, some (not all) facilitators believe that if the content isn't delivered from their mouths and into the ears of the learners sitting in front of them, then learning isn't occurring.
The truth is, eLearning, like classroom facilitation, is just one learning modality, amongst many. Learning isn't a singular event that happens while seated in a classroom or behind the screen of an eLearning course. Learning is a process that occurs through the progression of multiple events, where learners obtain knowledge, apply that knowledge, and master a skill. This can happen in the classroom, in an eLearning course, with a job aid, while watching a video, having a discussion, or while practicing on the job.
2. eLearning Must Be Interactive to Be Effective.
eLearning comes in many different shapes and sizes. And when most people think of eLearning, they think of something that has been developed in a tool like Articulate Storyline or Adobe Captivate. While these programs offer the ability to create highly-interactive eLearning content, many folks believe it must be interactive to be effective.
The truth is, there isn't (at least there shouldn't be) and single rule for when a course should or shouldn't be interactive. Interactivity should be included if it can help the learner better understand, apply, and master the skill being taught. If the skill being taught doesn't require application or isn't best practiced in a digital interaction, then interactivity should not be included for the sake of interactivity.
This misconception about eLearning is the result of folks having a narrow view of what eLearning looks and feel like. If you take the term "eLearning" literally, it means any learning that is electronic or digital. If you think of eLearning as digital learning, it opens the possibilities to a lot of different types of content. Videos, interactive documents, webinars, podcasts, online discussions, or interactive performance support tools are all examples of digital learning, also known as eLearning.
3. People Hate eLearning.
I have to be honest, I've never understood this one. To me, saying you hate eLearning, is like saying you hate the internet. I don't know about you, but when I need a reminder on how to cook rice, I don't pull out a big old cookbook or sign up for a class. So, what do I do? I find a quick, two-minute video on YouTube. Now, if you take what I explained in point number two, an online video constitutes eLearning.
The truth is, people don't hate eLearning; people hate bad eLearning. So, what is bad eLearning? Bad eLearning is eLearning that is poorly designed, isn't fit for function, and doesn't effectively fulfill the desired learning need. eLearning is good when it's designed well and used when it's most appropriate.
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I thank God every single day that the Army finally cracked down and decided that every female soldier will have a mandatory pap smear.
I have had my annual pap smear from the military and come to find out I had moderate to severe dysplasia. Next thing I know it was cancer.
FEMALES! Get your Paps !!!!!!!
Has anyone else had issues so far?
Sep 07, 2007 - 11:10 am
Keep copies of medical record name of doctors who have treated you. Good luck
Oct 12, 2007 - 8:39 am
I am a military spouse and I was just diagnosed with severe dysplasia. Before I was pregnant I had an abnormal PAP. Three months went by and I went into the doctor and they said "your Pap was abnormal". At this point they would have to wat until I had the baby. Well they couldn't get my colpolscopy until 4 months after...and I have severe dysplasia. Should I be angy with hospital? What do you think is to happen? Thanks
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Was this a HPV related cervical cancer?
This is may be transferable to your male partners. This type of canser is an increasing risk to men in the form of HPV+OPSCC and is one of the fastest growing forms of cancer to men.
Please vaccinate both boys and girls for HPV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardasil) to slow this.


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At Mobile World Congress on Monday Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that the company will be pushing new features to Windows Phone 7 users including access to SkyDrive, multitasking and a new HTML5 browser.
Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft: "Just in the near future in 2011 we will bring multitasking to Windows phones. Secondly and perhaps more significantly we need to give people the full web, the full internet on their phone, like they've come to expect with the PC. Well today I want you to understand that later this year we're going to release a version of Internet Explorer 9 complete with hardware and other hardware acceleration to the Windows phone."
Because the browser is based on HTML5, website developers will be able to creat sites that feel like apps. Also, like iOS Windows Phones don't display Flash videos, but the new browser will run them nativitely.
On the gaming side Microsoft showed a video of prototype technology that pairs a Windows Phone with Kinect game on Xbox. Since it was only a demonstration there are no specific plans to commercialize it, but the company wanted to show what was possible.
At the end of the keynote, Ballmer invited Nokia CEO Stephen Elop on stage to talk about the new agreement between the companies. Last week Nokia announced that it would phase out Symbian and start making smartphones that run Windows Phone software.
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[UPDATE 6/19/2016: The headline has been changed for accuracy. In fact, Johnson's second lawsuit against Gawker is still not even off the ground yet. The only thing that got a continuance was the show cause order filed against Johnson by the Fresno County State Superior Court in April.]
In December last year, as his multi-million dollar lawsuit against Gawker Media worked its way through federal court in Missouri, Chuck C. Johnson drove to his local courthouse and filed a nearly identical complaint in California Superior Court.
And then he apparently forgot about it.
Acting as his own attorney (and you know what they say about that), Johnson never bothered to serve Gawker Media with the complaint, as one typically does. And in April, he failed to appear for a scheduled hearing about the complaint, which one typically should not do.
The court sent him a show cause order, with a June 16 hearing date, to explain why he missed the April appearance and explain WTF he was doing about his hastily prepared complaint.
This time, he didn't forget about it, and asked for a continuance. (Click to enlarge image at right.) He now has until December to explain his expert legal strategy to a state judge. He will also need to explain why the complaint he filed in state court says he has never filed a similar complaint anywhere else, despite that whole federal court thing that eventually ended up being dismissed.
And given that it's been almost two years since Gawker ran the stories that ticked Johnson off, it's unlikely the state court will agree to hear the case, as the statute of limitations has run out.
Yesterday, Johnson told his main contact at The Daily Caller, Betsy Rothstein, that he had decided to continue his lawsuit against Gawker and gotten the continuance. (Though he describes it as a continuance of the lawsuit, which is not true. The complaint he filed in Fresno Superior Court can't proceed until he serves Gawker with papers and he explains his negligence to the court in December.)
Rothstein (or Johnson) is a little unclear about the damages sought. In her column, The Mirror, she mentions the suit is seeking $24 million in damages, but Johnson also said he had another suggestion for Gawker CEO Nick Denton to settle it.
His lawsuit wouldn't require a large sum of money from the defendants.
"Nick Denton says that he believes in the first amendment," Johnson told The Mirror. "I'm happy to settle the case. He won' t have to spend a penny, but every person who has been a victim of Gawker will get to write 1000 words on Gawker.com about what they think about Gawker."
But later, Johnson implies he has other more egregious ideas in mind
"I don't want money from him — yet," said Johnson. "But if he doesn't I am going to go after him very aggressively. Basically I am trying to offer him an olive branch."
Judging from Johnson's haphazard legal strategy so far, Denton would be better off ignoring the whole thing.
Meanwhile, there's been some talk that Johnson may have attempted to collude with the law firm representing Hulk Hogan, whose successful $140 million invasion of privacy lawsuit pretty much hit Gawker's head with a folding chair and body slammed it to the mat. Ziff Davis has expressed interest in buying the now nearly bankrupt company for $100 million.
Forbes ran a story Wednesday saying Johnson had not only contacted Hogan's lawyers, Harder Mirell & Abrams, but also other law firms in Los Angeles in an effort to nuisance-suit Gawker into oblivion.
Representatives for Johnson have also talked to other LA-area law firms, another source told FORBES, and his case was pitched to at least one of them as part of a wider litigious plan against Gawker. While it's unclear if Harder was connected to this process, FORBES revealed in previous stories how his firm was involved in other lawsuits against Gawker where it was not a named plaintiff's attorney. In one case, Harder worked to identify former unpaid Gawker interns to put together a class action labor lawsuit. In another, a plaintiff in Illinois said he was continuing his defamation case against Gawker on appeal and that he had the help of "Hulk Hogan's lawyers in California."
Harder has also sued Gawker on behalf of two other clients besides Hogan, and on Tuesday, Gawker reported that he was assisting another person in an attempt to get a story involving Donald Trump's hair retracted from the site.
Johnson insists that he has no connection to Hogan's lawyers or [Peter] Thiel. "I paid for my own lawyers using my own funds," Johnson wrote in an email to FORBES, adding that his decision to represent himself was "a deliberate part of my strategy."
Thiel paid the Harder law firm on behalf of Hogan, presumably because Gawker Media outed him as gay. Given Johnson's choice of lawyers, it's doubtful Thiel gave him much more than the time of day, if that, even.
But, yesterday, Gawker's J.K. Trotter, who is one of the reporters named in Johnson's libel/defamation suits, suggested that Johnson may have been privy to Thiel's plans to attack Gawker through the Hogan lawsuit.
Gawker reported it was able to independently confirm that Johnson had pitched his lawsuit to an LA firm in March,
and that he characterized his lawsuit as part of a broader legal campaign. According to a source with knowledge of Johnson's approach, he was apparently cryptic about what this campaign entailed.
In a separate statement to Gawker, Johnson wrote, "Forbes got a lot wrong and made up some stuff. Do you think I should sue them?" He directed further questions to his Missouri-based attorney, Jonathon Burns.
The evidence cited by Forbes does not prove that Johnson is being bankrolled by Thiel (either via Harder or some other party). But it does raise questions about whether Johnson and Thiel, or Thiel's representatives, have communicated about the latter's vendetta against Gawker. Indeed, according to Johnson's former account on Twitter—which took the extraordinary step of permanently banning him from the platform in May 2015—he's been a Thiel fanboy for a number of years:
Gawker's story notes that Johnson once said he had dined with Thiel, columnist Bill Kristol and a professor, Mark Blitz, while still a student at Claremont-McKenna College. Asked to corroborate the story, Kristol said he didn't remember the dinner, but said he knows Johnson, who "went crazy."
Charles Johnson refused to elaborate on the details of the dinner in response to a request for comment from Gawker. Bill Kristol, however, denied that the dinner took place. "I've never had a dinner with Peter Thiel and Charles Johnson," he told Gawker. "I don't remember anything like that." Referring to Johnson, he added, "He's the one who attended Claremont as an undergraduate, right? I may have met him then. But then he went crazy. I haven't met with him since then." (The other two attendees, Mark Blitz and Peter Thiel, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.)
We anticipate a vindictive story about Bill Kristol from Johnson any day now. Or maybe he'll just sue him for defamation. In state court.


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Thank you to all of you who ordered my new cookbook, Skinnytaste Fast and Slow, I am so humbled and grateful it hit #1 on the New York Times best seller list! This would not be possible without all of you.
This is week 47 of the Skinnytaste Dinner Plan. I am away in Park City Utah until Sunday, but I have my meals planned for the week and ordered all my groceries on Peapod this week (life saver!)
Pictured below is The Skinnytaste Meal Planner where I plan my dinners for the week (you can of course use any meal planner). Meal planning is a great way to get organized before heading to the supermarket to get ready for the week! My breakfast is usually something quick like eggs with fruit, a smoothie or avocado toast. We're a family of four, so if a recipe serves more, it's either packed up for everyone's lunch or eaten the next day as leftovers. If you would like to see some of the previous week's dinner plans, click here.
Skinnytaste Dinner Plan (Week 47)
Monday: Cauliflower Fried Rice with Shrimp
Tuesday: Loaded "Nacho" Chicken Tostada
Wednesday: Slow Cooker Beef Meatballs with Broccoli Rabe with Zoodles
Thursday: Leftovers
Friday: Tortilla Encrusted Chicken Tenders with avocado salad
Saturday: Dinner Out
Sunday: Sheetpan Italian Chicken and Veggie Dinner
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The last bit of this reads like I'm a PhD. I'm not. I have a BA in English. In the larger piece, that is clear before you get here.
Hanging out with some friends this weekend, we were talking about our parents and how it's easy to say, "I don't care what they think," but that we never mean it. On some level, no matter how grown up and independent and smart and knowledgeable we become, we will always crave our parents' approval. I am no exception, but I guess I don't want their approval enough to engage in things I think are barmy. Onward.
There are two classifications that are deeply important to my parents. The first is Christian, and if you can claim that one, you get a pass on everything else, even if you do not also espouse the second, Republican. It helps if you are the Rush Limbaugh sort of Republican, because like a lot of my peers with Jon Stewart, My parents' only source of news and analysis is Rush. They use terms like "feminazi" and "Slick Willy" without irony. I stopped paying attention, but I shudder to think what that lunatic is saying about Obama beyond "produce your birth certificate, Towel Head!"
When I told my father that I didn't think I believed in God anymore, he wrung his little hands and said, "Where did we go wrong?"
I have attended a couple of holiday church services with them since leaving home, and each time I do, my poor dad gets this watery-eyed hope on his face that breaks my fucking heart. It is so important to him. I want to rub his back and say, "Dad, I love you, but this is not the answer for me. Don't worry. In my own religious absolutism, my soul is just fine." I also want to shake him and say, "If all this supernatural shit you believe about God is true, isn't it reasonable to expect that god can be anything to anyone? How can you presume to understand anything about God?"
My father used to be my guide in all intellectual pursuits. To his credit, he gave me the sense of what it means to engage in critical thinking. He was just not expecting that to backfire on him. He was expecting me to continue to inoculate myself in his traditions and rhetorics and do the correct kind of critical thinking. He cautioned me as I announced that I'd be starting college not to let those "liberal idiots" in academia turn me into one of them.
I can't be sure, but I think he got the following from Rush, which he repeats with glee whenever anybody mentions educated people's opinions. BS PhD = Bullshit, Pile higher and deeper.
And so it is that I am a massive disappointment to my parents.


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Jessica Biel is known for taking leg day to the next level. Case in point: That time she did plyo box pistol squats with dumbbells and made it look effortless AF.
But in case you had any doubts about her insane lower-body strength, her trainer, Ben Bruno, just shared a video of Biel killing one of the most intense leg moves we've seen on the 'gram.
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"Wanna see something crazy?" Bruno wrote alongside the video of Biel, who was sporting an adorable mesh crop top (Buy It; $65) and matching leggings (Buy It; $95) from her collection with Gaiam.
As if skater squats with dumbbell arm raises aren't hard enough, Bruno shared that Biel had to slowly lower her body into the single-leg squat position, over a whopping eight seconds, to complete a single rep. She did a total of six reps on each side to complete the set.
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ICYDK, this type of eccentric lowering—in which your muscles are lengthening rather than contracting—is what's most likely to make you sore during a workout. And Biel was definitely feeling the burn.
"Never has anyone in the history of the world counted slower than my trainer @benbrunotraining," she wrote when sharing the video to her own Instagram.
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This combination of movements looks like the ultimate test of strength, balance, and coordination, which is why it comes as no surprise that this wasn't Biel's first time attempting the exercise. "This isn't something we did one time for the video either; this was her third set and I have her do these routinely," Bruno shared. (Here's why mastering the single-leg squat should be your next fitness goal.)
Given how brutal the workout looks, the trainer added that he wasn't quite sure why Biel hasn't fired him yet. To that, she jokingly commented, "You're fired."
In all seriousness, though, the results of mastering these tough movements certainly speak for themselves. The 37-year-old actress and mother of one looks strong as hell. Keep it up, girl!
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Feb. 18, 2008
KALAMAZOO--A shooting that left six people dead at Northern Illinois University has led Western Michigan University officials to remind the campus community of some basic things to remember in the event of any kind of emergency.
"Emergency response planning has been an important initiative at WMU for nearly a decade," says Lowell P. Rinker, vice president for business, whose area of responsibility includes public safety. "Our original planning was targeted at reacting to fires, tornados, bomb threats and the like. In the past year, however, we've moved to incorporate planning for how to respond to a Virginia Tech type of incident and the potential for a pandemic flu incident."
In every case, Rinker says, the front lines of communication for emergency information are the University's home page, www.wmich.edu, and WMU's Emergency Information Line, (269) 387-1001. At the slightest sign of unusual circumstances, students, faculty and staff can use either of those resources to access the most current information. Both tools can accommodate multiple users.
"We also have and will use a number of other tools such as e-mail and phone trees, but the Web and emergency phone line will be the first tools we use whenever we need to communicate with our campus," Rinker notes. Other tools that can be used include building public address systems in some locations and police bullhorns in all public safety vehicles.
At NIU, a school almost identical in size to WMU, the home page alert proved effective immediately in letting the campus know of the emergency and was followed by text and e-mail messages.
Emergency planning at WMU
WMU's emergency planning is managed by Dr. Pat Holton in Environmental Safety and Emergency Management, which is part of the Department of Public Safety. The response plan is continually refined and practiced regularly by holding drills on campus and sometimes in coordination with the community's emergency responders. The plan is practiced using a range of possible campus emergencies, and all of the practices revolve around key elements.
Key elements in emergency planning and drills
In addition to WMU Public Safety, other teams involved in the planning represent academic affairs, Sindecuse Health Center, Physical Plant, residence life, purchasing, information technology, university relations and other areas. Details of the planning can be found online at www.obf.wmich.edu/safety.
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Citing insufficient evidence, L.A. County prosecutors declined to press charges against Los Angeles Laker Devin Ebanks in connection with allegations he sexually assaulted a woman, officials said Wednesday.
The reported incident investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery-Homicide Division allegedly took place Sept. 13 after the two ran into each other at a nightclub, according to the filing rejection issued by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.
Ebanks and the woman, who was not identified and who went on four dates with Ebanks, went back to the Laker's residence, where they began kissing, the filing declination stated.
But after Ebanks took off her shorts and underwear the woman said she did not want to have sex.
Prosecutors said a sexual assault exam revealed no finding nor was any DNA found on the victim's body.
"Given the lack of corroborating evidence, this case is declined for prosecution due to lack of sufficient evidence to prove this charge beyond a reasonable doubt," complaint deputy Rouman Ebrahim wrote in the report.
The Lakers signed Ebanks as a second-round pick in 2010. The 6-foot-9, 210-pound small forward was selected with the 43rd overall pick out of West Virginia University. In two seasons at West Virginia, Ebanks averaged 11.2 points, 7.9 rebounds and 2.6 assists in 69 games.
Woman killed in elevator accident at Cal State Long Beach
Increase seen in hacking attempts on LAPD computers, website
D.A. not informed of allegation against San Fernando police sergeant
-- Andrew Blankstein
Photo: Lakers forward Devin Ebanks, center, battles Nuggets center Eric Boateng, left, and guard J.R. Smith in the fourth quarter during a preseason game last year. Credit: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times


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Have you ever been in a situation where someone is better at something that you and you suddenly feel intimidated? This has happened to me quite a few times in my life. A recent example is a partner at work who is head and shoulders a better negotiator at business than I am. This week a situation arose where I needed his help and had to ask for his assistance, which he gave and save me a huge potential headache.
There are a few responses we can have to those people. We can hate them. We can work to crush them. We can pretend to not notice them and how great they are at what they do. We can try to ignore them. We can work to compete, get better at what we do. I think all along the way to personal success is a series of choices we make within these situations. Ultimately, we have the chance to grow and not stay stinted in our life's progression.
I was reading a story to my girls tonight about how community is wrapped within the ethos of our view of the world. There is a few of the God which is unity and diversity within the same being; meaning, God can be unified and distinct within the oneness. This concept of plurality within singularity makes up much of the world and common society we live in. Much of what we believe and know is wrapped in the oneness we face together despite our differences.
My point is that we are better off understanding our weaknesses than letting them go as unimportant. We can, and should, work to overcome them. BUT there are also the moments were we can lean on the advice and help of others around us. Within this moment and movement the spirit calls to take our personhood to a new level of spiritual and entrepreneurial integrity.


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Donors' gifts to Campus doubled
Centene match will close fundraising gap
Centene Charitable Foundation has stepped up to help us reach the finish line in fundraising for the SOMO Training for Life Campus.
Centene will match your gift – dollar for dollar – to reach our goal. We've already reached 94% of our goal, and we need your help this month to close the gap. The match will be applied to gifts made by Dec. 31, 2017.
SOMO athletes have been waiting years to have a home of their own – a place to train, learn and get proper health, dental and vision screenings. You can make this happen for them with your donation, and Centene will do the rest! Donate now >
The SOMO Training for Life Campus is under construction in Jefferson City, Missouri. The Campus will feature training facilities, classrooms, health, dental and vision screening areas, an indoor arena facility for various sports, and several recognition areas for athletes and donors. Outdoor fields for several sports cannot be completed until fundraising goals are met in 2017.
Donors can also enjoy generous tax credits for gifts to the SOMO Training for Life Campus. Learn more here. >
About Centene Charitable Foundation
Centene Charitable Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Centene Corporation, a Fortune 500 health solutions company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Centene made the initial $1 million gift to kick off the Training for Life Campus fundraising campaign, and now is matching up to $700,000 in donations from individuals and organizations to help reach our fundraising goal.


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Are you preparing to take a flight this year? If so, could you name off all of the air travel rules, including the ones that were recently implemented? You may think that you could, but many travelers actually can't. This is because many are aware of all of the items that are prohibited from being on airplanes. Unfortunately, being unfamiliar with all of air travel rules can spell trouble. Not only can you miss your flight, but you can also be banned from the airline altogether, or you could be arrested. To prevent this from happening, you are advised to learn all of the air travel rules, before you leave for your flight.
Learning the new air travel rules, seems easy enough doesn't it? Unfortunately, it isn't always as easy as it seems. There is a reason why so many travelers are unaware of these rules; many of them do not know how to go about learning them. Luckily you for, if you are interested in familiarizing yourself with the many air travel rules, before you leave for your flight, you have a number of different options.
Perhaps, the best way that you can learn all of the air travel rules is by contacting your airline directly. This contact can either be over the phone or online. For instance, if you are planning on flying with Delta Airlines, you will either want to contact a Dela representative or visit their online website. Most airline representatives would be more than willing to assist you and most airline websites are filled with valuable information, including information on items that are prohibited aboard a plane and other applicable rules.
In addition to contacting the airline directly, you may also want to contact the airport in which you will be leaving from. As with airlines, most airport representatives would be more than willing to assist you with any questions that you have, including questions that pertain to air travel rules, restrictions, and violations. There is also a chance that you can find what you are looking for by visiting the airport's online website. If you are flying out of an airport for the first time, there is a good chance that you may be looking for information on parking or additional fees. If so, that would be the perfect time the search the website for information on airport or air travel rules.
If you are unable to make contact with the airport in which you will be flying out of or the airline that you will be flying on, you can also use the internet to research and familiarize yourself with air travel rules. Perhaps, the internet is one of the best ways to stay up-to-date on the newer air travel rules, ones that were implemented within recent months. Information on these rules will commonly come up in online news reports. When searching for new airport or airplane rules with the news, you are advised to keep the news report's date in mind. This may help to prevent you from relying on outdated information.
In conjunction with searching news reports for up-to-date information on air travel rules and safety, you may also want to perform a standard internet search. By searching with the words air travel rules, you should be provided with a number of different results. Those results will likely include online websites that outline the rules and restrictions commonly found in airports and aboard airplanes. You will want to make sure that the website, which you are getting your information from, is accurate. One trusted website that you may want to get your information from is www.tsa.gov. That is the website for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). You will want to be careful obtaining your information from anywhere else.
As previously mentioned, there are a number of different ways that you can go about familiarizing yourself with common air travel rules. When doing so, it is important to remember that different airports and different airlines tend to have different guidelines, rules, and restrictions. Therefore, it may be best if you obtain your information directly from them.
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As an 'end to end' CAD service provider, Cadgile offers a full range of services to its clients that can be accessed in a variety of ways to suit their unique needs.
These services include design and drafting for the mechanical, structural, piping, civil and electrical disciplines.
Our diverse customers range from the world's largest miners and fabricators down to small engineering companies looking at improved ways to utilise the latest CAD developments.
- Fully staffed internal drafting office
- Short to medium term secondment
- Temporary or project contracting
- Permanent recruitment
- Australia Wide – Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Darwin, Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart
In 2017, Cadgile acquired a specialist technical recruitment firm to expand our range of services to better suit our clients. Our resourcing services now include secondment, contracting and recruitment.


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With a variety of themes and venues throughout the year, we create experiences meant to benefit both vendor and guest. As one of the region's most respected event planning and craft show organizers, we have the expertise needed to handle every aspect of the process, from logistics and site selection to marketing and promotion.
Focusing our attention on ensuring satisfaction along every step of the way, from the time you reserve your booth to the moment the last guest exits the building. Free to all visitors, each vendor show or craft fair features a wide variety of businesses and products, promising visitors a plethora of shopping options as well as food and refreshments.
Known for our unwavering attention to detail and our commitment to superior customer care, we act as your partner, facilitating relationships between you and your next customer. As experts in the unique niche of craft show organization, we utilize creativity and innovation to attract a mass amount of visitors who are eagerly looking for products just like yours.
Find out the At Home Creations difference by reserving a booth at our next local event. For more information or rates, contact our vendor appreciation team now.


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At its very core, music is something that is meant to be shared. Whether sung together, performed for an audience or recorded onto a disc, the art of sound is constantly gaining new ways to reach more ears.
Zya is a brand new Cloud-based platform designed for the contemporary, tech-savvy musician. Its intuitive and intelligent features welcome users of all tastes and skill levels. Zya guides you to the discovery of other seasoned or amateur audiophiles who can appreciate your tuneful creations.
You can record your voice or play musical instruments into Zya. For a smoother sound, Zya offers the virtual tools to enhance or alter every note and noise, as well as the means to incorporate supportive background beats and to play DJ and generate mash-ups.
Zya Lets Users Compose Tracks and Share Their Songs Online
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Doctors buy more time by freezing people to save their lives
Cardiac arrest from massive bleeding accounts for more years of life lost than heart disease and cancer combined, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. But in a new controversial study by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center that started in April, doctors are trying to buy more time by freezing people to save their lives.
The procedure, called EPR or Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation, was developed in 2000 with the help of Dr. Peter Rhee, known for saving the life of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. In a normal trauma setting where a patient has suffered cardiac rest, surgeons would have roughly five minutes to correct blood loss; with only one in ten patients normally surviving. With EPR, surgeons would have an extra hour by draining all of the blood and flushing the system with cold saltwater to cool the body to 50F at which point the patient is clinically dead. The extra hour allows them to patch the wound and then slowly warm the body with donor blood and revive the person.
The research team is looking to test EPR on 10 people who have received a penetrating trauma from a gunshot or stab wound. The study is funded by the Department of Defense, but the most likely subjects will be from the largely African-American Pittsburgh neighborhoods that are plagued by gun violence.
The study raises ethical questions since the only way to opt out is to wear a bracelet that reads "No EPR Study." Without the bracelet, a person is essentially consenting to the procedure.
To date, no patient has received the procedure. The team is looking to set up more test sites around the country.


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Flower Bulb Sales
Flower Bulbs
NEW ONLINE ORDERING that ships directly to your house!
Wanting to surround your home with beautiful flowers?
The Henry County SWCD holds a flower bulb sale every spring and fall. For more information on the spring and fall flower bulb sale, contact the Henry County Soil and Water Conservation District.
Use these helpful instructions for successful flower bulb planting. Download and print the Spring Planting Guide, Spring Planting Instructions, and Fall Planting Instructions.
The Henry County Soil and Water Conservation District and the Henry County Natural Area Guardians thank you for your support of the flower bulb sale.
The spring order deadline is March 22, 2016.
Notice Bulbs will not be shipped until after April 1st!
We will call you when the orders are delivered to our office.
Check out our 2016 Spring Bulb Brochure.


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WWDC has kicked off and Apple has already unveiled a new iteration of its cloud storage service, called iCloud Drive.
Unlike the standard iCloud, which only allowed you to backup and restore Apps, Data, and Media from your Apple Device, iCloud Drive lets you store all sorts of files onto the Cloud and organize them into folders, much like other cloud storage services, such as Dropbox.
iCloud Drive will be accessible via an iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, a Mac, and even Windows Computers.
It is refreshing to see Apple add more versatility to its cloud storage service in order to compete with other major services like Dropbox and Google Drive.
(Via TheNextWeb)
Stay tuned as we cover more on WWDC 2014.
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Growing Apples in the Tropics? Really? With climate change, temperatures are getting hotter and hotter. Might be worthwhile to start considering a wider variety of fruits that can be grown here in the Pacific Northwest. Or it may be time to think about adjustments to how we grow our fruit trees. You may be interested in this article about growing…
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Check it out! Home Orchard Society's Arboretum Manager, Tonia, talks about "step-over" apple trees. Learn about this great way to minimize use of space while still growing apples at home! Thanks to Orchard People for this video! http://orchardpeople.com/small-fruit-trees-stepover-apples/
There is a very severe threat to our Mason Bee populations, Chalk Brood. According to the USDA Agricultural Research Service there is very little known about the actual fungus in the genus Ascosphaera that attacks the Blue Orchard Mason Bee, Osmia lignaria. What we do know is that it is highly contagious and deadly, it can wipe out your entire…
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Join us for an evening in the orchard, Saturday June 27th from 4 till 7pm. The Home Orchard Society has been sharing scions, stories, and a passion for fruit with Portland area residents (and beyond) since 1975. Join us for an evening in our beloved demonstration orchard to celebrate our founders, members, volunteers, and mission of "promoting the science, culture,…
Hey folks! Spring is here and little fruitlets are growing on the trees! That means it's time to order your fruit sox. Haven't heard of fruit sox before? Read more here and order yours today!
Orchard People is a Toronto-based organization that is traveling around North America gathering information and interviews with fruit tree-related groups. They came to the HOS Arboretum in March and took some video footage. Here is the first short clip: http://www.orchardpeople.com/506b-planting-green-manure-around-mature-fruit-trees/ tag: HOS arboretum video
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Applying hand cream every so often is another obsession I seem to have inherited from my mom. I remember the first ever hand cream I used was that of Neutrogena back in college. My hands used to be really dry, even chapped...so I always have a hand cream in my bag for immediate relief. Now that I am way past that bad case of allergy, I still use hand creams and it's actually a staple in my makeup kit.
I've tried a lot of hand creams in the past. Lately, scented hand creams are my favorite. Well, who wouldn't want soft, sweet smelling hands anyway? Besides, you wouldn't know who you'd be able to shake hands with.
As part of their Glass Trick collection, Majolica Majorca came up with their very own hand cream:
Majolica Majorca Dress Glove Cream
Translucent like sparkling glass, this cream slips on like a velvety-smooth glove for beautiful hands. Emits an enchanting and sweet Majoromantic scent. It's specially formulated with raspberry and rose extract for extra silky moisture. Your glistening hands won't go unnoticed.
cute packaging, fitted for the princess in all of us!
it's moisturizing, has a sweet scent and tiny shimmers so your hands (and of course, you!) would surely make a good impression. i love how delicately scented this hand cream is, just perfect to get that nasty "amoy-ulam" off your hands if you have to run off to a meeting right after a meal...or get rid of that cigarette smell quickly before shaking hands with whoever.
priced at Php325 for a 40g tube, this hand cream is still cheaper than the others I've tried.
if i were you, grab yours now before it gets sold out. i think this is just limited, but i sincerely hope this one becomes permanent.


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Zak Noyle is an outdoor photographer with a truly unique perspective on surf and sea. based on the Hawaiian island of O'ahu, Zak spends countless hours in the water, creating dramatic imagery and artful interpretations of the world's most magnificent ocean environment. Here is an insider's view, seldom seen, of the beauty and raw power of this offshore world. Here are color, shape and texture captured from within — from crystal clarity of a curling wave to the play of sunlight on a deep-ocean swell.
Surf photographer Zak Noyle is an island boy who has spent most of his life in the water – at home in the Pacific Ocean. It is this lifelong love of the sea that prompted him to take up surf photography to share with others the beauty of watery world seldom seen from his perspective. Besides navigating the waves armed with a camera in an underwater housing, he is a surfer, bodysurfer, bodyboarder and swam competitively and played water polo during his high school years.


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SanDisk Rallies as Takeover Rumors Resurface
SanDisk (SNDK) shares are on the rise on rumors that Toshiba might be planning a bid for the company, according to Dow Jones Newswires. The two companies have a joint venture to manufacture NAND flash memories, and Toshiba has been often rumored to be a logical partner for the flash memory chipmaker.
In October, Samsung withdrew a $26-a-share bid for SanDisk; there was speculation before Samsung pulled its offer that Toshiba might serve as a white knight for SanDisk.


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Gold Monthly Chart
This time, we want to look further into the long term chart of Gold, we can see a lot of resistance level located above the current level. The monthly chart tells us the medium term trend already changed to bullish since the breakout of the bearish channel, Gold rallying from 1046 easily to 1310 in 8 months gaining 25%. However, several weeks or months forward, there is two confluence level to watch.
First confluence level lies on 1380 – 1430 area, this area constructed by three resistance level:
- Trend line – Monthly trend line has broken on 2014
- Resistance level placed at previous swing high
- Fibonacci retracement level set at Gold record high – latest swing low (2015 lowest)
Second confluence level lies on 1480 – 1550 and this time its confluence between resistance level and Fibonacci retracement only. Compared to first confluence level, this level might not be as valid as the first one.
Gold Weekly Chart
Gold weekly chart nicely bull, break and retest should happen most of the time, but a break and with no touch to the broken resistance means a strong trend on the play. We can expect Gold charge to the confluence area shown in the Monthly chart, wait for confirmation of strong bearish pattern before placing any position.
Gold Daily Chart
Gold paused below resistance even though USD index makes a drastic drop today. Fallen outside of triangle formation, Gold currently hovering without clear direction. The market might wait until the release of July FOMC minutes before committing to any position.
Special Note
In this article I update about Soros getting out of major 90% stakes in Barrick Gold Corp (ABX), Soros is a technical guy, and he plainly sees a cluster of resistance will not be good for the bull.
To achieve higher odds in Technical analysis, traders need to agree on the same picture, and more traders see the same levels the more reactive the levels. In monthly chart example of confluence there are two scenarios:
- No change in current market sentiment, the price most likely will bounce as predicted.
- A big change to the fundamental situation such as The Fed cancel rate increase and undergo interest-rate cut, A country starts world war 3, scientist found a cheap way to produce gold through a paper, and so on. Under this situation (except last one), gold will slice through confluence easily.
My rating for Gold long term: Critical, waiting for reaction near confluence area.


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Rock-paper-scissors is a game that tends to get very frustrating when you lose. Now think about losing to a machine and every time. The rock-paper-scissors robot is called Janken robot and was developed by the Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory in Japan.
As for how the robot is able to beat its human opponent every time,
the Janken robot cheats. The main purpose is not that of beating
people at rock-paper-scissors. The robot uses visual feedback to
respond to the actions of a human hand in a matter of milliseconds.
This technology opens the door to potential applications that
involve precise cooperation between a human and a robot. The robot
can be used remotely as the sensors responsible for recording the
signals of a human do not need to be in the immediate vicinity of
the machine.
The Janken robot is able to respond so fast to human movements that
it can potentially be used to help out in a wide variety of fields.
Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory says that the robot can also be
programmed to have a delayed response to human actions if needed,
which might make it even more useful depending on the situation. Incidentally,
they used to play rock, paper, scissors, bacon. They took
out bacon because it always won.


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Bringing Science To Finance And Finance To Science
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With over 250+ members, Innovate Finance seeks to deal with the important thing limitations and opportunities within the FinTech ecosystem: attracting higher investment, supporting the development of proportionate and efficient regulation, partaking in group collaboration, and selling innovation in monetary services, whilst championing an open, inclusive and secular FinTech community.
For the file, the essential definition of 'academic' in this context is: showing indicators of a scientific analysis and analysis process that extends past just ranting, idle speculation or advertising. Fama, Eugene F. and Kenneth R. French, 2010, Luck versus Talent within the Cross-Section of Mutual Fund Returns" Journal of Finance sixty five, 1915-1947. Financial managers will be employed in different positions, akin to controller, finance officer, credit or cash manager, and worldwide banking manager or danger supervisor. Finance informs mathematics on measurement and uncertainty while arithmetic is important to finance as a result of we cannot carry out experiments in the financial system. This is a nice reference for college kids who are finance majors that haven't decided specifically which path to take.
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9/11 Hearings Free to Download at iTMS
brian on 2004.07.19
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From MacMinute…
The iTunes Music Store (iTMS) is now offering free audio downloads of the 9-11 Commission hearings. The 9-11 Commission is an independent, bipartisan commission investigating the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 tragedy in New York.
Hmm. It will be interesting to see if this becomes that happens with more regularity, or if it's a one time thing.
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