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Paul Meyer's Baseball Notebook: The Braves' new world
The Atlanta Braves, winners of 14 consecutive division championships, fell 13 games behind the runaway New York Mets in the National League East while coming up empty on a three-night fishing trip to Miami.These are not exactly uncharted waters for the Braves, who, if you recall, used to be terrible. But these are waters the Braves haven't sailed in for years.
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Workshop enables teachers to become computer literate
To further enhance the computer skills of local primary and high school teachers, the Jack Hayward High School hosted a 'Teachers Workshop' that began Monday and ended yesterday at the school.Shantell Rolle, one of the co-ordinators and computer teachers at Jack Hayward High School gave an outline of some of the events that took place at the workshop.
"The teachers did a summer computer workshop for four days and they were being introduced to Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel and some other programmes that they will be using in the classroom," Rolle said.
"This computer workshop was held to heighten their abilities to work with the students in the classroom."
The workshop was well represented by various primary and high school teachers in Grand Bahama who attended with the hope of gaining a headstart on what they will be doing in the upcoming school year.
Greedy policy companies hit
Many sick Bahamians are left to shoulder the burden of expensive medical bills or suffer with their illnesses because of money-hungry insurance companies who turn their backs on the sick, it was claimed at the Annual General Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. Minister of Health and National Insurance Dr Bernard Nottage revealed the depth of the problem yesterday at the meeting when he stressed the "importance and significance" of the proposed National Health Insurance plan. Dr Nottage said that while trying to put together the NHI programme, the government has been able to shed light on some of the drawbacks and downfalls that many Bahamians face when looking for affordable health insurance coverage. The mere fact that some people are being turned away from private insurance companies, he said, drove government officials to push even harder for the NHI plan.
Discovery Could Rock Archaeology
NEW PORT RICHEY - A tireless prophet with a salt-and-pepper beard and an inviting grin, John Saxer knows that mainstream archaeologists, journalists and folks in Tarpon Springs think he's nuts.They reject his Greek mythology- and archaeology-based theories that Tarpon Springs is the center of the biblical Garden of Eden and the Tampa Bay area coastline was the seaport of Atlantis.
It's been a tough sell, acknowledges Saxer, a 55-year-old bicycle mechanic and bartender who was homeless for much of 2004.
Saxer has been ignored by archaeologists nationwide for the past 18 months, despite offering evidence of what he claims are 6,500-year-old stone ark anchors abundant on land near shorelines in New Port Richey, Holiday and Tarpon Springs.
"It gets scary when you're in front of the field," said Saxer, an amateur archaeologist since his college days at the University of Wisconsin.
Tourism needs 'new ideas'
Outgoing president of the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA), St Lucian hotelier Berthia Parle, has urged tourism officials to keep upgrading performance levels in order for the Caribbean to truly attain world class status.Speaking at the opening of the four-day Caribbean Hotel Industry Conference (CHIC) at Hyatt Regency Hotel, in Miami, Parle said this was necessary to meet consumers' demand.
She told more than 900 delegates: "Consumers today demand an authentic Caribbean experience delivered by warm, caring, hospitable employees with the highest performance levels.
"As we all seek to promote the sustainability of our destinations, our products and services must also be of a sustainable nature. We must open our minds to new marketing ideas and communicating initiatives, to stepping out of our comfort zone and living up to our principles," said Ms Parle.
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Through much of her adult life, Kathy Kersting was afraid to step on a bathroom scale. "It was like not opening a bill when you get it in the mail," says Kersting. Now a healthy, vibrant woman in her mid-30s, she’s seated at a Bearden-area Panera bakery, though her table is conspicuously devoid of pastries or frothy cappuccino. "You don’t owe the bill if you don’t see it."Like too many Tennesseans nowadays—like too many Americans in any locale, for that matter—Kersting was overweight. And not just a little, either; at 5 feet 6 inches tall and roughly 280 pounds, and with a Body Mass Index over 40, she was what many dieticians classify as morbidly obese.
But while the severity of her condition was unusual, the way she got there was all too familiar.
Tough teacher is on the ball
Canadian-born, Robin Fuller may look petite but this vibrant woman proves that dynamite does come in small packages.Dolls and frilly dresses were never her forte, she says, and ever since she could remember sports has always been her fancy.
"I started playing soccer when I was three years old, thanks to my dad who played semi-professional soccer in Scotland. I guess I was the son he never had," she jokes.
"Sport has always played a huge part in my life." At high school Fuller joined the rugby team and was hooked ever since. She then attended Brock University in Ontario, Canada, where she completed her Bachelor of Physical Education and Bachelor of education degrees concurrently.
"I played rugby throughout university and even joined the varsity wrestling team," she said.