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Palestine, TX: The first Fray reactions to the disintegration of the Space Shuttle Columbia are filled with prayers for the astronauts and their families. Shelia repeats the Challenger memorial here:
We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, ….., as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God."
And while there are partisan snipes back and forth, Cicero points to a bigger problem here (and here):
The Columbia most likely went down as a combination of mechanical failure and body fatigue. Twenty-two years in service is too long. I blame government for this, but not specifically the conservatives. NASA assured our government that a shuttle is good for 100 missions, discounting chronological age as unimportant. It's not the conservative government's fault. It is government's fault, period.
Finally, locdog makes this comparison with the attacks on September 11th and America's national image:
in no way could this tragedy ever compare to what we experienced on that black day except one, and in that one it perhaps exceeds it. NASA has never been about anything practical. but throughout its existence, it has served as the most visible symbol of our technological might, intrepid spirit, and national pride. it is one of the few worthless government programs that no one minds seeing the billions pour into because everything that we like to believe is good about ourselves rides up with those brave young men and women in a burst of sound and fury, signifying everything … part of america dies with every NASA tragedy, a part not told in the numbers or the dollars … 8:15 a.m.
Friday, Jan. 31, 2002
Syllogisms at ten paces: Michael Kinsley pits Bush's evident gravitas against the logic of the State of the Union here. J_Mann takes issue here:
"your policy is not logically consistent" is an argument only slightly more convincing than "I don't like your grammar." The questions should be (1) will the world be better off if we topple Saddam and (2) will we be better off if we topple Saddam. Kinsley doesn't answer either question.
Mann already has several good responses, including this from Gamebird, apropos of the point that "Kinsley doesn't answer either question":
Neither does Bush. The important difference is that Bush is president and it is his job to explain his answer to those questions. Bush has failed to explain how the world will be better off if we topple Saddam. What sort of government will be put into the vacuum? The same sort of slip shod, ill-equipped government we see failing over in Afghanistan? And how will we be better off? Are we going to get free oil out of this invasion? …
For those of you dynamically scoring at home: WatchfulBabbler gets to the heart of Bush's "growth solves deficits" proposition here:
Readers can be excused for checking their closets for skinny black ties and acid-washed jeans, because the fiscal rhetoric of 2003 sounds suspiciously like that of 1983: that old economic shark fin, the Laffer Curve, has found a new shoal in the Bush Administration …
Farce de frappe: Chris Suellentrop argues that French opposition to American foreign policy is part of a longstanding effort to serve as the voice of an independent Europe. The_Slasher-8 explains that this is a clash between national leaders and not between ordinary folks here. But if the real animus is between leaders, that hatred comes from somewhere. Thrasymachus explains:
Where does this image of America as a militaristic nation of naive cowboys actualy come from? Most likely, the same fantasyland in which France is a nation skilled in the art of diplomacy.The truth is, America is a power built on diplomatic successes; the naive military hegemon is France. During the Cold War, French intransigence was downright dangerous, to NATO and even to themselves. Nobody needed the French to "pursue their own defense" at the height of the Cold War… or to appease Hitler prior to World War II…or to fail to negotiate with Kaiser Wilhelm prior to World War I.
He goes on to detail France's century of "diplomatic blunders, military defeats, and humiliating rescues by their allies" and American successes …
Totalitarianism's Terpsichore: Mark Scheffler describes the goose step as part of "the toxic grandeur of mass ideology." gry notes here:
Orwell knew what he was talking about when he said, "The goose-step…is the vision of a boot crashing down on a face." The USMC teaches it to this day as part of their Linear Infighting Neural override Engagement (LINE) system. Bottom line, a boot to the face will kill you dead …
Frum-tum-tugger: Tim Noah sees David Frum's account of the State of the Union as damnation (of Karen Hughes) with faint praise. Frum's response can be found at the bottom of the piece. Churchill, who would clearly be a star if only he had more time to waste, er, devote to the Fray, saw Frum Monday night. His report on is here. When asked "Did you find it difficult to write for such a bumbling orator?" Frum replied
with something along the lines of: While 43 may not be the most articulate speaker - bumbling over words from time to time - he is a very effective one. That is, if by an effective orator, one means a speaker who gets his point across …Well, if Bush's style really is no style at all, why would Frum be at all surprised at a "typical state of the union address, with the usual long list of priorities and ideas…"? If you're going to be self-aggrandizing, at least be consistent with it, David …
Early adopters: The Book Club Fray discussion of Strangers and Kin includes many personal stories of adoption. The two best posters in this Fray are Gamebird, wholooks at orphanages and foster care here and the panic over infanticide here, and DeaH, who catalogues of women's reactions to open adoption here …
Rover boys: Under the influence of the palpable excitement preceding the State of the Union, I, as Fray Editor, offered a prize to the winner of the State of the Union Bingo contest—the chance to rewrite a single paragraph of the speech and have it run here. I was hoping the winner would pick a graf like this "The best way to address the deficit and move toward a balanced budget is to encourage economic growth, and to show some spending discipline in Washington, D.C. (Applause.)" and make a simple change—for "Applause" substitute "Hoots of derisive laughter from both sides of the aisle; the chamber drowns in echoes as the camera pans through faces of legislators, each one fixed in a rictus of hyperpower." Something like that.
It turns out there was a tie. And both winners were rather long winded. So I have adopted a Solomonic solution and lopped their entries in half. You can find the second halves here.
First, J_Mann, who kicked off today's Fraywatch:
My fellow Americans, together with my discussions of education, drug-addiction, and mentoring, I would like to talk about the ongoing problem of race in America. We know that government can only do so much to address this problem, and that most of the work that must be done is in the hearts and minds of all of us Americans of every race. Nevertheless, I pledge to you that what government can do, it will. I know that many Americans are concerned about the current debate in our courts about affirmative action. The majority of Americans, including the majority of African-Americans, believe that addressing our racial history by granting preferences solely on the basis of race should be a last resort, if any, and so do I.
The other winner was chango, who has so abused the privilege that I will, in all likelihood, never offer another prize to a contest prize to anyone.
Enter President George W. Bush and Karl Rove
Karl Rove: Mr. President, it's about your speech….
Dubya: What, still not enough folksy Texan drawl?
Rove: No, your accent is fine Mr. President.
Dubya: Oh, well, then is it my synapse that's goin' all heather and yawn again..
Rove: Um, that's SYNTAX Mr. President, and no…your diction is about as good as it's going to get.
Dubya: Well, now are we talking about a sin tax? Or my private parts. You're getting me all confused again, Karl.
R: MR. PRESIDENT. SIR…I'm talking about your State of the Union Speech.
D: The States in the Union speech? You mean I have to remember the names of all 53 of them?
R: How many times do we have to tell you sir: Puerto Rico, Canada and Afghanistan aren't states.
D: Well, they should be.
R: Sir, let's focus on the speech.
D:speaking slowly and loudly
R: No you talk fine, George. I mean your address tomorrow…
D: Tomorrow? You mean I'm gonna have to move again? Are my four years up already?
R: Mr. President. Look at me. No, not at Secretary of State Powell's shiny metals…look over here. That's right. Now, George…Dubya…you have a speech tomorrow night. The speech is called the State of the Union address. You are gonna tell the American people how far we've come in the last year…
D: I don't know how far is it from Texas to Washington, Karl! And has it already been a year?
R:shouting MR. PRESIDENT!!!
D:looking over shoulder, in a panic Daddy? Where?
R:tossing papers toward Dubya Never mind. Forget I said anything … 2:00 a.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2002
Locke's stock: I have been trolling for a good Gary Locke post, and I got one. Naturally, it comes from Zathras. He zeroes in on Locke's big mistake here:
[H]e stuck to a Democratic script that seems to assume that everyone will realize how terrible Bush's domestic policies are and how superior are the Democrats' positions, and that all a Democrat need do is make gentle allusions to these ineluctable realities. If I were a Democrat—and especially if I were a Democrat who wanted a chance of saying anything that would be remembered more than 15 minutes after I said it—I would have tossed out that script.What Locke should have done is make one, focused criticism of Bush's domestic policy proposals. My choice would have been that each one of them benefits and was inspired by specific contributors of large amounts of money to Bush's campaign … 11:15 a.m.
Credit where it's due (date): Geoff's long post makes two excellent points.
1. Bush is "passing along" a problem to future generations: deficits.
If you're a 60-year old conservative now, you can have your tax break and your 4 percent spending increase, and your five simultaneous wars abroad all at the same time, because you're going to be dead by the time I get hit with the bill for your profligacy. The decision to fund America's priorities on layaway is selfish, and it's a betrayal of younger Americans who will inherit a government with staggering debts.
2. The push to end the marriage penalty and increase the child tax credit is social engineering.
[O]ur president is telling us that being married and having children ENTITLES us to a lower tax burden … and even a TAX PAY-OFF. "Send us the checks, Mr. President! We delivered the babies you asked for!" I find it nauseating. It was nauseating when Clinton started it, and it's getting worse … Ten years ago, everyone was OUTRAGED that black mothers were getting larger welfare checks to help them deal with extra kids. But now the "soccer moms" are getting them, and it's just returning "their money." Even if the IRS' check is larger than their tax burden!
Bright side: If this encourages people to have more kids, their share of the structural deficit is less. …
Pandermonium: Poindexter was roused by the final two-thirds of the speech here. But …
That was a real surprise because the first third of the speech was painful to watch; sort of like when an Olympic ice skater keeps falling down and the two minutes begins to seem like a hellish eternity; you just want them to get off the ice. BU$H seemed to be going through the motions on domestic policy and his sudden discovery of the decades-old African AIDS epidemic was the most transparent Sister Souljah moment in American politics since, well, the Sister Souljah moment.
Don tries to shift the discussion away from John Kerry/Gary Locke's barbers to Locke's performance here.
AndrewLynch (see below)has already been remarkably gracious in defending himself; for example here. … 8:30 a.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2002
"Otherwise dealt with": State of the Union discussion is all over the Fray. Most of the traffic will be in This Just In—early on AndrewLynch "pretends" he is a middle American and finds himself "impressed" by "strategists' attempts to make Bush sound like he was busy, busy, busy" here.
There is plenty of action on the BallotBox Fray: e.g., TC3 objected to the fuzzy math of African AIDS relief here; BFD noted that Bush "talked about fiscal discipline but didn't use the term 'spending cuts' and then announced a 4% increase in discretionary spending" here.
And in the swamped Breakfast Table discussion, The_Slasher-8 explains the perils of thinking Bush is a clever hayseed in "The Myth of Andy Griffith." …
Good World Cop/Bad World Cop: Even before Will Saletan's good news/bad news/no news analysis, WVMicko sees the SOTU as good news/bad news for Bush's Iraq policy:
The bad news: There is no clear evidence on Iraqi WMD …The good news: Bush is prepared to make his case for war on grounds other than convincing evidence of actual weapons or programs.
For WV, the best of the non-WMD reasons for war is humanitarian:
However, I was encouraged by Bush's indictment of the Baath regime on human rights grounds. He made it a point to make the horror graphic and unmistakeable. I have always felt that it is legitimate—and manifestly liberal as well—to make war on humanitarian grounds. If the Holocaust taught us anything, it is the potential depth and cost of evil, and why it is the duty of the free world to stop it, even if people die in the process.
Still, WV thinks it must be a multilateral effort, and the remainder of his long, compelling post expains why. …
The end of irony? Not in the Fray: Betty_The_Crow goes point for point here; two funny bits:
On Bush's crowing over his domestic agenda:
Some might call this a good record.
Some might call William Shatner singing "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" a good record. Probably the same people.
On Cars of the Future:
A simple chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen generates energy, which can be used to power a car producing only water, not exhaust fumes.
Thank you Dr. Science. Can we get a little help on mileage standards in the meanwhile? …
A TIA for the DJIA: Daniel Gross argues that the Dow Jones Industrial Average avoided the worst of the tech meltdown because it is so antiquated. Right off the bat, Pacimini has figured out what may be the real consequence of the Dow's obsolescence here:
Although the Dow may be ignored by professionals, it is more closely followed than the S&P or Nasdaq by the broader public … If the Dow had been as sensitive to the tech bust as the Nasdaq, [if] it had fallen 74 percent from its high of 12,000 (or so) and currently be at 3,100, I can't help but think that such a precipitous decline in the Dow would have had a depressing effect on consumer confidence and resulted in a much sharper decline in the total economy. Right now, consumer spending is the thin thread that keeps the economy hanging between stagnation and recession. If the Dow were more of an honest barometer, maybe things would be a lot worse.
This makes so much obvious sense, I wonder what the responses will be. Check back here. … 10:20 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 27, 2002
No E*Trade monkeys! That bit of good news aside, The Fray is down on the crop of Super Bowl ads. Take AnyaFanya here:
Instead of the side-splitting philosophy of reptilian swamp-dwellers, the pathos of children who actually aspire to positions in middle management, or even the momentary chuckle inspired by a new catch-phrase, most breaks were filled with blatant, highly offensive sexism and/or bodily function jokes.
Zarkhov tries to get our priorities straight here:
If only this much excitement could be generated over the upcoming "State of the Union" address, what kind of ads would we see between major "plays" of Mister President's speech? We'd see lots of monkeys. SUVs. Recruiting pitches for the armed forces (well, maybe not National Guard). Investment companies handing out dividend checks. Maybe sexy sightgags of some kids left behind.
Rudie_can't_fail's "long, annoying" post is also extremely funny. Find it here.
3-into-the-4: Virginia Heffernan quite enjoyed Jimmy Kimmel Live. Athairic decidedly did not here: "[T]his was the great TV magic that was replacing 'Politically Incorrect'?"
Who had the over? Oh, and the game. Rob Weintraub disses Oakland, ABC, and the officials. Sarvis objectsto the "Why I love the Lombardi Trophy" monologues:
Was anyone else put off by those pre-filmed spots where the stars cuddled with the trophy and waxed philosophic about what it means to win it … ? REALLY poor taste.If there ever was a sign of the coming End Of Football As We Know It, it has to be these graceless, shameless bits of bad karma. Hell, NHL players won't even get in the same room as the cup beforehand.
BOTF SOTU=BUST FOOT forward: The Best of the Fray is a place to go for advice—sometimes financial (as in this thread)—sometimes unsolicited, as in locdog'soffer to give the Bush administration some help with the Iraq war part of the SOTU here:
in essence, it's the famous speech bush made to the league of united nations delegates last year, with a reminder of the threat hussein represents to domestic tranquility mixed in for good measure … [reagan speechwriter peggy] noonan wants bush to think globally but act domestically, to forget about that speech and give the one the critics are howling for, but in the long run he'll be worse off for doing so. so will everyone but for a few unimportant diplomats. locdog thinks bush needs to base the case for iraq on iraq, not america.
The best response—and it's prickly—comes from daveto, "the curve, and where you are on it":
This is precisely what they've spent the last year trying to do. They've failed miserably. if you believe that you're smarter than the Bush team perhaps you should put something together for them, you still have the better part of a day.
As for the case for war (as opposed to the speech for the case), Engram apologizes for running through an old argument here; daveto's response here dispatches with several points quickly:
[R]educing or eliminating state-sponsored terrorism from Iraq depends on what happens after the war, and you haven't addressed that at all. (It could easily be argued that the resumption of the multi-billion dollar drug trade in Afghanistan is fueling terrorism to a degree that rivals or surpasses what was going on there in during the halcyon days of the drug-free Taliban gang.)In fact, given that there is virtually no state-sponsored terrorism in Iraq right now (otherwise the likelihood is extremely high that we would have been provided proof by now), installing or ensuring a successful, friendly and clean post-war government is paramount to declaring "success" for any Iraqi intervention scenario.
Rub-a-dub-dub, it's SOTUB: But BOTF is also the place to go for State of the Union Bingo! Historyguy is running it this year; I'll kick in a prize: the chance to rewrite any paragraph of the speech and have it run in Fraywatch (subject to the usual caveats).
You've got debt: In his analysis of AOL Time Warner's decision to sell its publishing arm, Daniel Gross makes this comment: "If AOL was really serious about slashing its debt and ridding itself of units that aren't growing, it would keep the books unit and jettison the AOL unit instead." Geoff pounces here:
[Gross actually] makes a wonderful argument for WHY AOL-TimeWarner should jettison it's book publishing. Yes, it's profitable. However, as he points out, it's one of the odd ducks in the conglomerate's line up. It's operations cannot be easily consolidated. …What's more, it's worth money and AOL isn't. … Let's say you're a buyer. … Do you want to grab the $9 billion worth of debt-laden flailing distressed assets? No. You want something that will make you some money. Meanwhile, as the conglomerate sheds it's profitable, detachable units, it preps itself for a bankruptcy too… the easiest way to weasel out of $9 billion in debt payments.
Later in the thread, RobertMolineaux quips:
This whole business of planning ahead to use Chapter 11 to force concessions from bondholders (outside stockholders being long since forgotten about) is coming to resemble an American version of the Japanese zombie corporation.
MVPosters: Joining the star ranks are baltimore-aureole (for Prudence, and the Kathleen Kennedy Townsend watch), Betty_The_Crow (for this [the best post ever?], and much else), ElboRuum (because I got tired of checking the funny ones), Retief (for solid citizenship all round), and WVMicko (one of Kaus's sharper needles). I have already tagged them (just to make sure they are starred in time for the big speech), but they should still drop by Best of the Fray for their kudos … 11:40 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 26, 2002
Pirates of Mission Bay: Bucs fans or citizens of Raider Nation, many Fraysters don't buy Romesh Ratnesar's takedown of the West Coast Offense. Two key points.
1. W.C.O. is about control from the box:
Ratnesar: In the WCO, a quarterback's imagination and creativity are subordinate to timing, accuracy, and strict adherence to "the system"; the actual strategizing is done by groups of coaches watching the action from stadium skyboxes.Gaucherre-2 (here): Sorry, mister, but the Raiders often play no-huddle style, and Gannon frequently (like 50% of the time or more) changes the play when he sees how the defense is lined up against them.
2. Disrupt the timing, and the W.C.O. goes down.
Ratnesar: The Bucs are loaded with the kinds of big, fast defenders who can disrupt Gannon's rhythm, hound his receivers, and prevent them from turning short passes into big gains.Johngcecil (here): it is almost impossible to "disrupt the timing" of the west coast offense AS LONG AS THE RECEIVERS GET OFF THE LINE QUICKLY, because the quarterback takes such a short drop and the pass is off in about half the time of a traditional 7-step drop passing set. this ability to get off the line is the specialty of jerry rice and tim brown - that, and running really precise patterns. you don't think that every team who played the 49ers in their prime didn't try to "disrupt the timing" of the west coast offense?
(Undiscussed is the recent conventional wisdom 180 on Raiders Offensive Coordinator Marc Trestman, whose flavor of W.C.O. was long blamed for Jake Plummer's arrested development. Call: Fraywatch doesn't like the Raiders, but we respect them, even giving the points. Update: Dwayne was right (see below); bring back the old Trestman c.w.)
Finally, TonyAdragna and macbob intelligently battle over Al Davis's legacy beginning here. …
Dwayne took the Bucs, but that was with the old helmets: Jackson Lears and Eric Banks describe an America locked in a perpetual struggle between the aleatory and W. Edwards Deming. Flyn still remembers Sister Mary Petronella's warning: playing marbles "for keeps" is a mortal sin.
Silly as it may sound in this century, there is no doubt in my mind that a nation that makes bucks off the weakness of the citizens deserves the Roman ending it will see.
And speaking of Roman endings, Joe_JP remembers Caesar's remark upon crossing the Rubicon: "alea iacta est." But Joe also answers Flyn's Sister here:
Gambling also gives different classes of people something to do and a reason to come together. Take guys … women talk all the time … heck they spend more time talking in the bathroom than most guys do to each other on a daily basis. Poker games puts them together to bond and such. Bingo games serve the same function for old people … btw that sister of yours probably doesn't think that is a mortal sin … Lotto games forces poor people to take part in making the tax system even less progressive than it is.See, totally logical, really … 8:10 a.m.


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The rapture 2.0 is now only 11 days away. Anyone got last minute cold feet? time to repent now if you do.
Seriously though the nuts out there have completely disregarded their May 21 claims and are now focusing on October 21.
The paper bag head guy is spruiking this again at http://judgementday2011.com/ (watch video.. worth the price of admission)
Look down further however and he claims Steve Jobs got taken to heaven ahead of the rapture because he was rich. This is despite being a renounced catholic who was budhist and worse of all... and this is a direct quote
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Implanted digital chips? I thought it was just a sim card
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On January 11, 2018, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida issued an Order Granting Plaintiffs' Ex Parte Application for Entry of Temporary Restraining Order and Setting Hearing on Motion for Preliminary Injunction Order ("TRO").
Please be advised that a hearing on Plaintiffs' Motion for Entry of a Preliminary Injunction will be held on January 29, 2018, at 9:00 a.m. in the United States Courthouse located at 400 North Miami Avenue, Miami, Florida 33128, Courtroom 12-3.
Defendants are hereby on notice that failure to appear at the hearing may result in the imposition of a preliminary injunction against them pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 1116(d), The All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a), Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65, and the Court's inherent authority. You have the right to file an Answer with the Court in response to Plaintiffs' claims.
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Clerks Entry of Default as to The Partnerships and Unincorporated Associations Identified on Schedule "A" – Motions Terminated: 22 Motion for Clerks Entry of Default. Signed by DEPUTY CLERK on 3/13/2018. (ls) (Entered: 03/13/2018)


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A traffic study ordered by county commissioners says a proposed Dollar General store would have little impact on travel along U.S. Highway 64 in Horse Shoe.
A traffic impact study that county commissioners ordered for a proposed Dollar General store in Horse Shoe has been completed. The report says the store would have minimal impact, other than adding to morning rush-hour backups near the Banner Farm Road intersection.
Last month, commissioners delayed a rezoning request to allow a 9,100-square-foot Dollar General next to Horse Shoe Baptist Church until developers submitted a traffic impact study. The board will again consider the rezoning at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the Historic Courthouse.
The study submitted to the county and state highway officials by J.M. Teague Engineering of Waynesville says that at full build-out, the Dollar General would "only minimally" increase traffic delays, volumes and backups at the store's entrance and the nearby Banner Farm intersection.
However, some residents question the study's validity. Fred Diehn, who lives next to the proposed retail site, said traffic consultants parked at the church and counted cars for just two hours on April 10, from 9-10 a.m. and from 5-6 p.m.
"On a Wednesday, so it wasn't even a busy weekend," Diehn said. "This is totally slanted towards development, against the wishes of residents."
Commissioner Grady Hawkins, whose undergraduate degree is in mathematics, said Monday he also wonders about the value of one day's worth of traffic counts.
"They made one sampling and generated 51 pages of data from that," Hawkins said. "Statistically, I don't know how valid that is."
Despite safety concerns voiced by residents and church leaders, the J.M. Teague study found only one crash occurred near the proposed store entrance from March 2003 to February 2013, which the engineers called "likely an anomaly" that "does not represent any particular crash pattern."
Engineers found eastbound traffic on U.S. Highway 64 at the Banner Farm signal might back up past the Dollar General entrance during morning rush hour, blocking store visitors from turning into its parking lot and stopping westbound traffic in the intersection.
Creeping traffic could decrease the gaps between cars such that drivers attempting to pull out into traffic "may be inclined to enter Highway 64, even when not safe," the study said. However, engineers said traffic backups could be alleviated by changing the timing of the Banner Farm traffic light to optimize movement.
In a letter to the county's planning office, the N.C. Department of Transportation agreed with the engineers' report but asked J.M. Teague to report back its recommendations for optimizing timing of the Banner Farm traffic light.
The DOT will also require store developers to reimburse the state for clearing vegetation within the right-of-way to provide better "sight distance" to the west of the store's proposed entrance. The standard formula for safe viewing is 100 feet for every mile per hour the speed limit is, said NCDOT District Engineer Steve Cannon.
"If it's posted at 45 (miles per hour), we need to be able to see 450 feet," Cannon said.
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Wabash College's Music Department invites you to a concert given by the Chamber Orchestra. The orchestra will present their concert at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, December 2, in Salter Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Center.
The program will consist of Mozart's Overture to Don Giovanni and Dvo?ák's Symphony #9 "From the New World."
Under the direction of Alfred Abel, the orchestra has performed works by a wide variety of composers from the 16th to the 20th century including not only great masters like Bach, Bartok, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Brahms, Ravel, Vivaldi, Haydn, Handel, and Mozart but also composers who are less frequently performed by today's orchestras, including very early composers such as Rameau, Mouret, Purcell, Byrd, and Jenkins.
The Chamber Orchestra draws its members not only from the Wabash student body, but also from musicians on the faculty and staff, from professional and amateur musicians out of the surrounding area.
Wabash students participating in the concert are: Henry Giesel '13, Sean Grannan '16, Adam Neal '15, Joseph Rangel '15, Kelly Sullivan '15, Andrew Sunde '16, Ian Sunde '16, Zachary Thompson '13, and Brent Tomb '16.
Wabash faculty/staff members are: Larry Bennett, Eileen Bowen, and Deborah Woods. Community members include: Dennis Beach, Patty Bymaster, Janet Campbell, William Carrington, Julie Chalmers, Amy Hathaway, Rosemarie Hutcheson, Gary Ketchum, Elizabeth New, Tim McCormick, Clayton Peters, Shannon Reese, Carolyn Ronning, Cara Ruark, Diana Ruark, Anne Sexton, Christina Sharp, Alexandra Thomas, Brian Thompson, Tiberius Thunell, Rhiannon Thunell, Zachary Weldon, and Barb Wilson.
The concert is free and open to the public.


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For hotel operators, health club owners, and college Athletic Directors, choosing the right equipment to put in their facility
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of the brand. Because guests or clients or students judge exercise facilities by the brands they choose.
At Cybex, we think our brand is pretty powerful.
Take the Stephen King NY Times bestseller "Duma Key". Stephen King is the author of more than
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were made into movies that can still be seen in re-runs.
In King's latest novel, Duma Key, Edgar Freemantle is a successful Minnesota builder who faces the ordeal of rehabilitation
after a terrible construction accident severed his right arm, scrambled his brain, and imploded his marriage. Freemantle
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"For a moment he said nothing. Then: It's the only brand I know".
Really – it's in the book on p. 203-204.
Cybex didn't pay for this kind of recognition. It is the result of a brand that has stood the test of time and become known
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And... it can work for Cybex customers. Some exercisers don't know and don't care what brand they work out on. But those
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Tom Wolfe's book "I am Charlotte Simmons" is another example. Tom Wolfe wrote "The Right Stuff", "Bonfire of the Vanities", and "A
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Wolfe paints a picture of an upscale college campus that abounds with Cybex equipment. "He had begun working out on the
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stainless-steel weight axles, all doubled in number by the mirrored walls."
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to reveal his Cybex-MAXED upper arms". "The tall guy with the CYBEXED BICEPS left the line." "Size and build. It's a hell
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The ultimate compliment for a product brand is when the brand becomes the product... people saying "Kleenex" when
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Cybex has more mentions in Google Alerts than any other brand. The two largest industry manufacturers are mentioned less
than 25% of the times Cybex is talked about and next nearest competitor is less than 85%.
The standard measurement in professional sports has become "The Cybex Test". Wikipedia defines it: The Cybex Test
is a fitness examination that is usually given to prospective National Football League players who are entering the NFL
The Cybex brand is one that can work for health clubs, hotels, colleges and all who offer Cybex equipment in their facility.
When prospective clients know Cybex exercise is the equipment offered, they know it is a fitness center that is focused
on safety and efficacy. That it is a place that cares about their clients' results.
So why does the Cybex brand matter? It is a brand that can help Cybex customers build their business – and a healthy business
for customers is important to everyone at Cybex.
About the author: Joan Carter, Cybex International, Inc.
Joan Carter is Vice Chairman of the Cybex Board of Directors and President of UM Holdings, Ltd., a major Cybex shareholder.
Her business background spans almost 30 years of involvement with a wide variety of businesses in healthcare and related
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Whats up guys,
Continuing on with our spring announcements, we're stoked to present: NARUTO SPIN-OFF: ROCK LEE & HIS NINJA PALS!!!
This will launch tomorrow April 3, at 2:30 am PDT for worldwide users except for Japan, Belgium, France, and Switzerland.
Here's a little breakdown of what you can expect:
"Watch out! This is a new addition to the iconic NARUTO franchise which represents Japanese animation. Ideal for those who are looking to stay a moment away from the breathtaking battle scenes and the serious ninja rivalry, the spin-off series offers an alternative Naruto world with all characters super-deformed and comically retouched.
A spotlight is cast on Rock Lee, the prank-loving imperfect ninja kid who scores low with ninja techniques but who never gives up to achieve his goals. Comical happenings in the ninja village in NARUTO SPIN-OFF: ROCK LEE & HIS NINJA PALS are sure to attract a new generation of fans."
Earlier today we announced the addition of: Yurumate3Dei!!!
This light-hearted comedic short will be avail to worldwide audiences except for Japan and will kick off on April 6 at 10:30 am PDT.
Yurumate3Dei follows Yurume, an 18-year-old high school graduate who has yet to be accepted into college. In an effort to study for exams, she moves to Maison du Wish, an apartment complex on the outskirts of Tokyo which is full of other out-of-school "rōnin." Maybe that has something to do with the rumor about Maison du Wish: no one who lives there passes the entrance exam.
Stay tuned in, as we have more announcements coming your way!
3/5 - Hiiro No Kakera
3/5 - Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos
3/29 - Space Brothers
3/29 - Folktales from Japan
3/30 - You and Me 2
3/30 - Saint Seiya Omega
4/2 - Yurumate3Dei
4/2 - Naruto Spin-Off: Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals
4/3 - ???
the other announcement today better be for Lupin
CR is sucking this season. When are we gonna get some good shows?
Wow they are not done yet, give it a chance.
Work hard, play hard, watch anime.
Wondering what the other announcement for today will be...
Anyway, I'll check this one out when it's released, hope it's good
What even
The next announcement is gonna be the Naruto SD rock lee crap. Adding more trash to this season.
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This light-hearted comedic short will be avail to worldwide audiences except for Japan and will kick off on April 6 at 10:30 am PDT.
So this is going to be a delay-cast? (The show airs today in Japan in U.S. time).
Unlikely. Lupin doesn't air until Wednesday U.S. time, so there is little reason for CR to announce it today, especially when 9 other shows premiere ahead of it (meaning even if CR only had 1/3 of those, it would be more than enough to fill today's slate).
There is also a good chance today will have 3 announcements.
Let me know what you consider "some of the good shows" and perhaps I can try and answer your question.
With the exception of You and Me 2, The April announcements have been going close to the order the shows have been premiering in Japan.
Yes, that's my real age
so far not very good this spring season. with all the new anime I've seen on other sites CR comes out with another short. Come on
I echo what TheAncientOne said. What are "the good shows" to you?
And I have 6 series on my watchlist for this season(3 are continuations: Area no Kishi, Bodacious Space Pirates and Fate/Zero) which include Nyarko-san, Ozma and Space Brothers. I don't consider it a bad season at all for Crunchyroll and they may not even be half done with the annoucements.
And for the new stuff(and Fate/Zero), they have a nice variety so far:
Shoujo: Hiiro no Kakera
Comedy: Nyarko-san Another Crawling Chaos, Yurumate3Dei
Science Fiction: Ozma, Space Brothers
Family shows: Folktales from Japan
Slice of life: You and Me 2
Shounen Action: Saint Seiya Omega
Seinen Action: Fate/Zero
And I think you are probably right about the Rock Lee anime being the next annoucement(although if there are 3 annoucments today, I think Lupin III will be the third one, although Medaka Box, Natsuiro Kiseki or even Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? of the Dead, which is a longshot, are possible)
Let the rest of the series get announced before you pass judgement on the season.
Living life in the Far Far West
Any worldwide licensed anime makes my happy
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Dow AgroSciences adds to the 2008 corn herbicide market a new product designed to help stem weed resistance problems. SureStart is soil-applied herbicide with a flexible application time ranging from preplant to 11-in.-tall corn. It is registered for control of grasses and small and large broadleaf weeds for up to six weeks.
SureStart will complement a two-pass program with glyphosate, according to Bruce Maddy, product technology specialist for Dow AgroSciences. "The use of SureStart is a critical first step in a two-pass program," he says. "It allows growers to follow with a single post-glyphosate application at a labeled rate to later-emerging weeds that are smaller, more uniform and easier to control." He recommends applying 1.5 to 2 pts./acre of SureStart as a preemergence application.
Dow's new herbicide contains three modes of action that help it control tough weeds such as giant and common ragweed, waterhemp, lambsquarter and foxtail, according to Damon Palmer, Dow production manager. Because it does not contain atrazine, it fits into a LibertyLink herbicide program with Herculex hybrids. It is easily tank mixed with 2,4-D, atrazine and glyphosate. For more information, visit www.SureStart.com.
Dow AgroSciences also adds a new high-load glyphosate to its herbicide lines. The company describes Durango DMA as a third-generation glyphosate salt that offers improved handling and tankmixing properties over previous glyphosate products.
Durango DMA is tankmix compatible with fungicides, insecticides and herbicides. According to the company, it will consistently control more than 100 broadleaf weeds and grasses in a high-load formulation and will treat more acres per gallon with fewer reloads.
Dow AgroSciences recommends using Durango DMA as the second product sprayed on Roundup Ready crops after SureStart is used for the first application. Growers who want respray assurances with their glyphosate herbicide may purchase Dow's other glyphosate product called Duramax. This product is similar to Durango DMA, but includes a performance service policy. For more information, visit www.DurangoDMA.com.


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The verdict is in. The jury in the Apple versus Samsung case has found that an overwhelming number of Samsung phones infringed Apple's patents and trade dress claims. While not all of Samsung's phones were found to infringe on Apple's intellectual property and design, the jury did grant Apple $1,051,885,000 in damages – a far cry from the original $2.5 billion Apple was hoping to get, but certainly a lot more than any of us expected.
Naturally, Apple is ecstatic about its victory, claiming that the jury's final verdict send a message to Samsung and other that "stealing isn't right."
We are grateful to the jury for their service and for investing the time to listen to our story and we were thrilled to be able to finally tell it. The mountain of evidence presented during the trail showed that Samsung's copying went far deeper than even we knew ... We applaud the court for finding Samsung's behavior willful and for sending a loud and clear message that stealing isn't right.Apple
In Samsung's case against Apple, the jury found that all of its utility patents were valid, but they did not see any evidence of Apple actually infringing upon them. Samsung even took a hit with the '516 and '941 patents which the jury summed up "patent exhaustion" since Intel had already licensed the patents from Samsung in order to produce the chips. The only victory that Samsung got was with its tablet devices. The jury found that Samsung's tablet designs were unique and did not infringe on any of Apple's trade dress claims.
While the jury may have gotten through the deliberations at least a week sooner than most expected, we're sure this isn't the last we'll be hearing about this case. We expect Samsung will file its first of many appeals on the verdict sometime next week and Apple might do the same if they feel the jury missed the boat on the tablet trade dress claims.
Samsung's response to the outcome was a bit ominous, claiming that Apple's victory is a loss for consumers which will be presented with fewer competitive products in the marketplace which may lead to higher prices.
Today's verdict should not be viewed as a win for Apple, but as a loss for the American consumer. It will lead to fewer choices, less innovation, and potentially higher prices. It is unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners, or technology that is being improved every day by Samsung and other companies ... This is not the final word in this case or in battles being waged in courts and tribunals around the world, some of which have already rejected many of Apple's claimsSamsung
So what does all this mean for Android? Not much at all. We might see tap to zoom get re-engineered or completely removed and the bounce back feature was removed quite a while ago. We're sure Apple will be using these patents against other Android OEMs in the coming months unless they can work out a deal outside the courtroom.
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Everything went according to plan today. The three Nicks arrived on time and two of them were promptly interviewed for tomorrow morning's BBC Radio Derby programme (between 10 am and 1pm).
(It's for this reason that we always inform the police beforehand, lest anyone tries to report that someone is raiding a peregrine nest!)
The corpse on the nest was a lapwing, with the remains of a teal beneath it. This was replaced so the birds are not deprived of their meal (although it was hardly fresh!).
The adult birds have already been displaying and nest scraping.....so the omens are good for the coming season....watch that (web cam) space!


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There's something very special about this band. We see it every weekend in the beaming faces of our clients, when they come up to the bandstand at the end of their affair, bubbling over with thanks and praise. I often marvel at the response we inspire, and try to put my finger on what creates the magic... I think it's a quality of spirit. There are other bands with great singers and musicians, but the joy is not there! "THE JK BAND" is a joy machine. It's always been my contention that you can put the best musicians in the world onstage and there's no guarantee of a great party. The crucial difference is spirit.
Let's face it, there are some affairs where the people are so pumped up you could put a cassette deck in the middle of the dance floor, press play, and everyone will be up and dancing. We love that kind of crowd. Any band can look great under those circumstances. But most dance parties can go either way, and that's where a great band like "THE JK BAND" can make the crucial difference. Our spirit is contagious, and people respond to it!
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John Lin is Miami. While that might feel like a bit of hyperbole, just hear us out: As the Head of Communications for the store that has firmly positioned Miami as a fashion heavyweight, John Lin is responsible for the buzz The Webster seems to never stop enjoying. Which is quite a lot these days— the store just received incredible accolades for the Miami-influenced Target collection, and is constantly launching all sorts of exclusives with the likes of Proenza Schouler and BLK DNM, and is even expanding further with some of the best e-commerce shopping our computer screens have landed upon. And, right in the middle of all the action is, you guessed it, Mr. Lin.
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You can't take a shrimpy slot receiver 11th overall.
No way, no how.
That's what my head keeps telling me whenever my eyes say, "Wow, Tavon Austin in a Chargers uniform – now that's exciting."
Austin is a smaller Percy Harvin, a bigger Darren Sproles.
He may be the next Wes Welker, only faster.
Austin is an ankle-breaking, quick-and-fast receiver and return man.
Did I mention he averaged 8.9 yards per rush last year?
I call him "Liquid Man." Attempting to smash the 5-foot-8 1/2, 174-pounder, defenders find nothing solid to hit.
Austin is smaller than some eighth-graders, but thrives in a violent world. He's a fast-twitch marvel to whom muscle pulls are foreign. He never missed a game in four years at West Virginia. Didn't miss one in high school either, he says.
Every time I watched the Mountaineers the last two years, I started out by fixating on quarterback Geno Smith and edge rusher Bruce Irvin (who had eight sacks for the Seahawks last year).
Then Austin popped off the screen. He showed himself to be not only the team's best player, but the best player on the field, whether the opponent was Texas or Oklahoma.
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All In The Family... Life in Christian County, Kentucky...
A friend from church brought out a comfy old recliner one day this week for Dennis to use. I don't know if it's a loaner or a keeper, but we're grateful for it. It gives Dennis another place where he can stretch out and rest, and he can get up from it without assistance.
Meanwhile, a friend who works at the newspaper called to say she had taken an ad for a recliner. I called the owner, a Mr. Covington, and made arrangements to look at it this morning.
On the drive over to Guthrie, Kentucky, I saw lots of evidence of the heavy rain and wind we received during the night. I guess we're having an equinox storm. I couldn't find any evidence on the weather maps that we're in the fringe area of any tropical depressions or such.
Wind-blown leaves and small branches are scattered across the smaller roadways. Weeds and tall grass along the ditches are still bent from the torrent of water that washed over them in the night. In Elkton, a little stream is completely out of its banks. I drove through occasional showers all the way over to Guthrie.
I found Mr. Covington's house easily, using the directions he gave me: "Go to the pink elephant and...". The pink elephant at the junction of Highways 79 and 41, the Pachyderm of Tinytown, is a well-known landmark in this part of the state.
Mr. Harry Covington is an interesting gentleman. He's about 75 or 80 years old, and he lives in a brick ranch home with a circle drive that he built 40 years ago.
On the wall of his office, he has an old photograph of a horse-drawn milk wagon. When Mr. Covington was a boy. his father and mother and the nine Covington children milked 30 Jersey cows and delivered milk in glass bottles all around Guthrie. Mr. Covington pointed out that Guthrie was a boom-town in those days because two major railways intersected there.
I asked him if he remembered Robert Penn Warren who was born and raised at Guthrie, and Mr. Covington described how the poet used to stroll down the sidewalks in town, wearing long stockings and old-fashioned pants that ended just below his knees.
When this old white-haired gentleman heard that my husband had just come home from Iraq, he told me that he prayed every night for peace on earth, and he had done so ever since he came home from World War II. He said he had been a Marine at Iwo Jima, and he'd never forgotten what he saw there.
On the walls of his office, Mr. Covington has pictures of his children, many newspaper clippings with stories about himself, various awards, and his Kentucky Colonel appointments from two different governors. His business card says that he is the chairman of the Guthrie Industrial Development Commission, Inc.
But back to the recliner. It's a small, sturdy recliner that sits very nicely. Mr. Covington is going to take it over to Clarksville to a shop that steam-cleans upholstery, and I will pick it up there next week.
On the way home, I stopped at the Country Pantry, an Amish bulk food store located between Guthrie and Elkton. Half a dozen automobiles were parked outside, and their "English" owners were in the store. I bought flour, yeast, flaxseed and a pound of Amish sausage.
Some things at the Amish store are amazingly cheap (like spices and yeast), while other things are surprisingly expensive They offer a larger variety of flours than any other store I know of. I always enjoy looking around there, and I'll have another excuse to stop in when I drive over to Clarksville to pick up the recliner.
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About a year ago, Cheryl Tooke found herself in the last place she ever wanted to be. She weighed 268 pounds, and her doctor had just diagnosed her with type 2 diabetes.
"It was devastating," Tooke says. "I always knew it was a possibility for me. My pediatrician told my mom when I was a child that given our family history, it was more than likely that at least one of her four children would develop diabetes."
Tooke's family history with diabetes was extensive. Her father's mother and sister both had diabetes. Her mother, several of her mother's first cousins, and her mother's
siblings have all suffered horrible effects of the disease. After seeing their struggles, Tooke had always sworn that she would do whatever it took to keep diabetes at bay.
"I always felt that I would take care of myself and never allow myself to develop type 2," she says.
Her motivation kept her active throughout her twenties and early thirties, but then events started to get in the way. First, a knee injury kept her sedentary for a long time. Then she had children, adding to her weight issues.
"Life happened, and three years ago I found myself at the thresholds of diabetes," Tooke says. "I started seeing all my bad habits come home to roost, and I knew that I was really at risk for having my life shortened."
Making a Change
Even though Tooke knew she had to modify the way she was living, at first she didn't know where to start. Determined to stay off medication for diabetes, she convinced her doctor to let her try simply monitoring her food intake and glucose. Tooke lost about eight pounds on her own, but last June her blood glucose and cholesterol numbers were still climbing steadily.
"I told my husband, I can't do this anymore," Tooke says.
She considered gastric bypass surgery, especially after medical studies determined the surgery's positive effects on those with type 2, but the procedure wasn't covered by her insurance. "If it had been, I would have started filling out the paperwork, because I didn't think I could lose weight on my own," Tooke says.
Despite these frustrations, she was determined to get healthy. That's when she discovered Medifast, a pre-portioned meal replacement program designed to create a calorie deficit so that users loses weight. What initially impressed Tooke was the plan's connection with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "I work for a hospital, and Johns Hopkins has such a great reputation," she says. "I read the success stories, and I told my husband I just wanted to try it for four weeks." In the first week, Tooke lost nine pounds and had a morning blood glucose reading of 89. "I told my husband, 'This just might work!'" she says.
Tooke found the plan simple enough: replace breakfast and lunch with a bar, shake, or other meal selection, have a lean protein and vegetable for dinner, and include two snacks throughout the day. The combination of properly portioned protein and carbohydrates kept her from feeling hungry. In fact, she says there were times when she had to make herself eat the last snack of the day. But most importantly, she says, the food actually tasted good. The plan she was on included online support forums and professionals to help her stick to her goals. "I've been on every diet you can name, and this is not only the only one that ever worked, it is also the easiest I ever went on," Tooke says.
Overall, she lost 134 pounds in less than a year. The best part, though, came last January.
Reaping the Rewards
Tooke went to see her doctor about her diabetes, and it was there that she received the best news of all: her fasting blood glucose was 92.
"It was incredible," Tooke says. "It made everything that happened over this past year, the food I couldn't eat while I was on the plan, it made it all worthwhile. I couldn't think of a slice of pizza or a brownie that was worth anything like hearing my doctor say those words."
What gives Tooke real joy, though, is passing on the health. After getting so many questions about how she'd lost her weight, Tooke became a health coach for Medifast and now provides one-on-one support for 54 clients, including several people with diabetes.
"They're losing weight, and most of them have had their insulin cut in half," she says. "It's been really exciting for me to see not only the weight loss and turnaround in my own health, but to see that repeated in the lives of other people I'm working with." While she's proud of the success of her clients, no change could make her happier than the one she has inspired within her own family.
Tooke's husband, John, watched her yo-yo diet for years without finding any lasting success. That all changed when she started on Medifast. "He saw me sticking to it and did everything he could to support me," Tooke says. "He would eat the lean protein and the vegetable with me for dinner. He said, 'Whatever you need to eat, I'll eat.'"
After seeing the success of his wife, John started the program last January and has lost 50 pounds. "Between my husband and me, we joke that there's 184 pounds less weight on our mattress," Tooke says.
Tooke's mother, who is 79, also started on the plan three months ago, after suffering from diabetes for years. Now she's down from taking four to seven units of insulin after every meal to only one dose in the evening, and her glucose readings are stable in the 90s.
"She's amazed," Tooke says of her mother's transformation. "She went from feeling like this was just how it was going to be to being very hopeful. She's optimistic that once she reaches her goal weight, she might not need any insulin at all."
Quality of Life
Besides these rewarding results, Tooke's quality of living has improved immensely since dropping the weight. Before she started her diet plan, she did everything she could to avoid being the center of attention. Every time she walked into a room, she would do a quick assessment to see if she was the heaviest person there. "If I didn't see anyone heavier than me, I felt bad," Tooke says. "If I did, I felt relieved, and then I felt really shallow." She had to worry about fitting between tables at church functions and being able to snap her seatbelt on planes—even crossing her legs was a challenge. All that changed over the past year.
Now Tooke travels and lives her life with as much adventure as she can. A recent trip to Cozumel brought snorkeling, rappelling, and scaling a 60-foot rock-climbing tower. "Four years ago I went to Cozumel and just walked around and shopped, and I felt exhausted," she says. "I did all this stuff this time and got back to the ship, did dinner, saw a show, and went to a karaoke bar!"
Tooke's weight loss has had another side effect besides extra energy: increased self-confidence. Recently at her nephew's wedding, Tooke had no qualms about joining her friends and family on the dance floor. "I would not have done that before," she says. "But I was dancing, and I looked great. I'm so much less self-conscious. I just want to go out there and do things and have fun."
Breaking the Cycle of Comfort Food
Although she knows she couldn't have gone through her metamorphosis without Medifast, Tooke also credits her faith with helping her get over her issues with food. "I made the decision to stay on the plan, so there was a lot of emotional and spiritual growth that happened," she says. "I understand now that food is incapable of providing comfort." By relying on her faith instead of her next meal for emotional reassurance, Tooke was able to break away from a cycle of overeating and self-loathing.
Her makeover may seem monumental, but Tooke knows it all began with a simple step: deciding to make a change in the way she was living her life.
"My big takeaway message is that it's never too late to turn things around. It's never too late to make positive changes in your health," she says. "It doesn't matter if you're in your fifties, sixties, or seventies, if you've just received a diagnosis of diabetes, or if you've been on insulin for decades. It's possible to make positive choices that will change your health. What you're dealing with now is not inevitable."
Relying on her inner strength, her faith, and her support systems, Tooke made incredible strides in improving her health and value of life.
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As a rookie, Dustin Penner helped the Anaheim Ducks to the first Stanley Cup title in franchise history last season. They haven't fared nearly as well without him.
For the first time since signing with the Edmonton Oilers in the offseason, Penner returns to Anaheim on Sunday night to face his former club.
Penner had 29 goals and 16 assists during the regular season in 2006-07, and added three goals and five assists in the postseason during the Ducks' title run. But Anaheim chose not to match Edmonton's five-year, $21.25 million offer sheet to Penner, paving the way for the Ducks' second-leading scorer to join the Oilers.
The move triggered an ugly public spat between Oilers general manager Kevin Lowe and Anaheim counterpart Brian Burke. Lowe said he thinks Burke overreacted when the Oilers offered the big contract, and doesn't plan on speaking to Burke during Sunday's game.
"In some respects, Brian has tried to make it personal. But I'm not going to comment on that publicly," Lowe said Saturday. "He's certainly entitled to say what he wants to say. But there's people in this business who feel that any news is good news for the National Hockey League, and I think Brian subscribes to that theory."
Anaheim's title defense has gotten off to a rocky start. The Ducks (4-7-1) are near the bottom of the league as they're averaging 2.08 goals per game. They've also totaled only three goals during a three-game losing streak - one shy of their season-high from last season.
"I think the biggest thing is for us not to panic and start pointing fingers," Anaheim defenseman Chris Pronger said. "We're all making mistakes out there. It's a fine line between winning and losing. Those little mistakes we're making are costing us games."
Anaheim's defense stepped up on Thursday, but its offensive woes continued with a 1-0 loss to Phoenix. The Ducks have been shut out three times already this season - half their total from 2006-07 - and after scoring at least two goals in each of their home games last season, they've already been blanked twice at the Honda Center.
"Obviously we're squeezing our sticks," Anaheim coach Randy Carlyle told the Ducks' official Web site on Thursday. "Tonight, we missed open nets and we missed glorious opportunities. We seemed to get frustrated as the game wore on. The work ethic is there. The commitment to playing hard is there."
The Ducks could benefit from the return of Ryan Getzlaf, the team's leading scorer with seven assists and 10 points. He missed Thursday's game with an upper body injury. Rob Niedermayer also sat out with a groin injury and is day-to-day.
The Oilers (4-7-0) have lost seven of nine since opening the season with back-to-back victories. Despite getting their league-low third power-play goal of the season, they fell 4-1 at Los Angeles on Saturday.
"We've got to elevate our game and start turning these games where we play pretty well and lose into wins," Oilers coach Craig MacTavish said.
Penner had one goal and two assists in two games before Saturday, but was held scoreless against the Kings. Overall, he has two goals and three assists in 11 games.
Edmonton goalie Dwayne Roloson is 6-6-1 with one tie and a 2.61 goals-against average in 14 career games against Anaheim. Roloson, though, was in net for Saturday's loss, so Sunday's start may fall to backup Mathieu Garon.
Garon is 3-5-3 with a 3.68 GAA in 11 career games against the Ducks, but was 1-0-2 with a 1.62 GAA in three games - two starts - against them last season while with Los Angeles.
Anaheim goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere, meanwhile, is 4-9-1 with a tie and a 2.87 GAA in 16 career games against the Oilers.
The Oilers went 1-2-1 against the Ducks last season, losing both games at the Honda Center by a combined 11-3 score. Edmonton, however, won five of its previous six games in Anaheim.


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Notes on the Nation
By Jorge Guitart
"It helps having a sixth sense"
said the psychic.
Then she asked me who I was.
I said, "Forget it"
And she said "I don't get it,"
which convinced me that her faith
remained strong.
Then the shining on the hill
seemed to be stopping,
with the republic looking
more and more like the banana type.
Mistakes had been made, the leaders offered.
And I felt like offering
that mistakes had made themselves
as they say in the prettier languages
like Italian and French — this to make
further fun of the scoundrels.
But they were not in their last refuge
but rather in a fortress, inexpugnable,
an installation with all the amenities.
JORGE GUITART will join poet Gunilla Kester in the Readings at the RIC Series at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Research and Information Commons of Daemen College, 4380 Main St., Amherst. He is a longtime professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo.


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SEATTLE & NEW YORK – June 16, 2012 – Amazon.com customers around the world cast their votes and this evening, Amazon.com, Penguin Group (USA) and CreateSpace announced the winners of this year's Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (ABNA) at a special ceremony held at The Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle. Alan Averill is the Grand Prize winner in the general fiction category for his novel, "The Beautiful Land," while Regina Sirois was awarded the Grand Prize in the young adult fiction group for her novel, "On Little Wings." Both authors have received a publishing contract from Penguin Group (USA) that includes a $15,000 advance. "The Beautiful Land" and "On Little Wings" will be published by Berkley Books and Viking Books for Young Readers, respectively. The novels are now available for pre-order on Amazon.com at www.amazon.com/abna.
This year's competition drew thousands of submissions from aspiring writers around the world – the most entries in the history of the contest. Through several rounds of judging, six finalists rose to the top. An expert panel of authors, agents and editors weighed in with comments on the finalists' work, and in the end, Amazon.com customers voted to select the winners.
"Today's winners were chosen by Amazon.com customers, which is one thing that makes ABNA so special," said Nader Kabbani, Director of Independent Publishing at Amazon. "This contest not only recognizes talented authors but also connects them directly with readers looking to discover great new writers. We congratulate Alan and Regina, whose work clearly resonated with customers."
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Hailing from Seattle, Alan Averill, a former "video game script doctor," wrote a draft of "The Beautiful Land" as a part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), a movement that challenges writers to complete a novel in 30 days. "The Beautiful Land" is a story of two people in love from the moment they met but destined to be apart forever. Thanks to a time machine and a mysterious invention buried deep in the Australian Outback, they now have one more chance to get it right. One customer reviewer writes: "From the opening statement to the last quote, [it] had me excited all the way through. The prose is strong, descriptive in a quirky way, charming, and unique. The characters are extremely memorable. I can't wait to read how they will be interacting with one another later in the story."
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Senate prepares $300 million bonding bill
ST. PAUL - Workers will fix roofs and walls, renovate buildings and, in general, improve state facilities later this year if some key legislators' wishes come true.
Sen. Keith Langseth, DFL-Glyndon, on Tuesday announced he plans to push a $300 million public works bill, nearly three times what normally would be expected this year. Langseth, chairman of the Senate committee that approves public works project funding, said that his proposal would provide two advantages - fix buildings that long have needed work and provide at least 4,000 jobs during a recession.
"It's probably going to do more than anything else," Langseth said about putting people back to work.
At least half of the money would be used for routine building repairs, including many roofs that have leaked for years. The rest would go mostly to more extensive renovations, such as old college buildings.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty's spokesman, Brian McClung, said that construction trades will do fine with jobs provided by federal economic stimulus money.
McClung said Pawlenty only would consider a public works funding measure - known as a bonding bill - if federal stimulus money sent to Minnesota requires the state to pay part of a construction project's costs.
"Gov. Pawlenty might be willing to consider a bonding bill to address matching funds for construction projects envisioned by the federal stimulus bill," McClung said. "But he believes a bonding bill should remain focused on those projects."
Federal economic stimulus funds probably will not require state money to proceed, Langseth said. Despite Pawlenty's reluctance to embrace a bonding bill, the senator said the governor probably will accept one.
Bonding bills often feature big, new buildings. However, Langseth said, this year he wants at least half of any bonding money to be spent on previously neglected repair projects. Other senators agreed during a Tuesday meeting in which they heard a long list of deferred maintenance items in many state agencies.
Langseth estimated that University of Minnesota and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities systems have at least $1 billion in repair needs themselves.
Higher education officials said most repair projects on their campuses can be started in one to four months. Senators sought projects that start quickly to be the most help to the economy, but Sen. Sandy Pappas, DFL-St. Paul, said that the recession will continue into next year and even projects that start then will help.
"Anyone who thinks this recession will be over in a year had their head in the sand," Pappas said.
Repair and energy-conservation work proposed for college campuses should save the state money, Sen. LeRoy Stumpf, DFL-Plummer, said.
"This appears to be the ideal time to be building," Sen. David Tomassoni, DFL-Chisholm, said, referring to lower construction costs.
The administration is concerned that the proposal to borrow $300 million would add too much debt to the state budget, which already is over state officials' self-imposed debt limit. But Langseth said that Minnesota has the 43rd largest debt among the states, so a little more would not hurt.
Langseth said he will wait until he sees details from the federal stimulus package before preparing a detailed bill. He said he expects his committee to pass a bill within two weeks.