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NEW YORK (AP) — Jeff Bezos' idea to let self-guided drones deliver packages may be too futuristic for Washington to handle.
The Amazon CEO is working on a way to use the small aircraft to get parcels to customers in 30 minutes or less. While flight technology makes it feasible, U.S. law and society's attitude toward drones haven't caught up with Bezos' vision.
Amazon.com Inc. says it's working on the so-called Prime Air unmanned aircraft project but it will take years to advance the technology and for the Federal Aviation Administration to create the necessary rules and regulations.
The project was first reported by CBS' "60 Minutes" Sunday night, hours before millions of shoppers turned to their computers to hunt Cyber Monday bargains.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in the interview that while his octocopters look like something out of science fiction, there's no reason they can't be used as delivery vehicles.
Bezos said the drones can carry packages that weigh up to five pounds, which covers about 86 percent of the items Amazon delivers. The drones the company is testing have a range of about 10 miles, which Bezos noted could cover a significant portion of the population in urban areas.
Bezos told "60 Minutes" the project could become a working service in four or five years.
Unlike the drones used by the military, Bezos' proposed flying machines won't need humans to control them remotely. Amazon's drones would receive a set of GPS coordinates and automatically fly to them, presumably avoiding buildings, power lines and other obstacles.
Delivery drones raise a host of concerns, from air traffic safety to homeland security and privacy. There are technological and legal obstacles, too —similar to Google's experimental driverless car. How do you design a machine that safely navigates the roads or skies without hitting anything? And, if an accident occurs, who's legally liable?
Delivering packages by drone might be impossible in a city like Washington D.C. which has many no-fly zones.
But technology entrepreneur and futurist Ray Kurzweil notes that "technology has always been a double edged sword."
"Fire kept us warm and cooked our food but also was used to burn down our villages," says Kurzweil.
"It's fascinating as an idea and probably very hard to execute," says Tim Bajarin, an analyst with Creative Strategies who sees Bezos as an unconventional thinker. "If he could really deliver something you order within 30 minutes, he would rewrite the rules of online retail."
Amazon has already done that once. In 1995, with investments from family and friends, Bezos began operating Amazon as an online bookseller out of a Seattle garage. Over nearly two decades, Amazon grew to become the world's largest online retailer, selling everything from shoes to groceries to diapers and power tools.
Amazon spends heavily on growing its business, improving order fulfillment and expanding into new areas. Those investments have come at the expense of consistent profitability, but investors have been largely forgiving, focusing on the company's long-term promise and double-digit revenue growth.
The company spent almost $2.9 billion in shipping last year, accounting for 4.7 percent of its net sales.
There is no prohibition on flying drones for recreational use, but since 2007, the Federal Aviation Administration has said they can't be used for commercial purposes.
"The technology has moved forward faster than the law has kept pace," says Brendan Schulman, special counsel at the law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP.
Schulman is currently challenging that regulation before a federal administrative law judge on behalf of a client who was using a radio-controlled aircraft to shoot video for an advertising agency. Autonomous flights like Amazon is proposing, without somebody at the controls, are also prohibited.
The FAA is slowly moving forward with guidelines on commercial drone use. Last year, Congress directed the agency to grant drones access to U.S. skies by September 2015. But the agency already has missed several key deadlines and said the process would take longer than Congress expected.
The FAA plans to propose rules next year that could allow limited use of drones weighing up to 55 pounds. But those rules are expected to include major restrictions on where drones can fly, posing significant limits on what Amazon could do. Many of the commercial advances in drone use have come out of Europe, Australia, and Japan. In Australia, for instance, an electric company is using drones to check on remote power lines.
"The delay has really been to the disadvantage of companies here," Schulman says. "Generally, the government wants to promote the advancement of science and technology. In this case, the government has done exactly the opposite and thwarted the ability of small, startup companies to develop commercial applications for this revolutionary technology."
Amazon isn't the only company awaiting guidelines. A Domino's franchise in the United Kingdom released a test flight video in June of the "DomiCopter," a drone used to deliver hot pizza.
"We think it's cool that places like Amazon are exploring the concept," says Domino's spokesman Chris Brandon. "We'd be surprised if the FAA ever let this fly in the States — but we will surely stay tuned to see where this all goes."
Matt Waite, a journalism professor at the University of Nebraska and head of the university's Drone Journalism Lab, says a bigger problem for Amazon is that the rules are not expected to allow autonomous drones, so a remote pilot would have to be in command of the aircraft at all times.
Indeed, the FAA said Monday that it is moving forward with "regulations and standards for the safe integration of remote piloted (drones) to meet increased demand." The agency reiterated that "autonomous (drone) operation is not currently allowed in the United States."
Given the slow pace at which the FAA typically approves regulations, Waite calls Bezos' prediction of four or five years for approval unrealistic.
Safety concerns could be the real obstacle in delaying drones for widespread commercial use.
"You're putting a device with eight rapidly spinning blades into areas where people are assumed to be," Waite says. "The threat to people on the ground is significant."
It's not hard to imagine that the world's biggest online retailer has some significant lobbying muscle and might be able to persuade the FAA to alter the rules.
Amazon spokeswoman Mary Osako says the company has been in contact with the FAA "as they are actively working on necessary regulation."
One of the biggest promises for civilian drone use is in agriculture because of the industry's largely unpopulated, wide open spaces. Delivering Amazon packages in midtown Manhattan will be much trickier. But the savings of such a delivery system only come in large, urban areas.
Besides regulatory approval, Amazon's biggest challenge will be to develop a collision avoidance system, says Darryl Jenkins, a consultant who gave up on the commercial airline industry and now focuses on drones.
Who is to blame, Jenkins asked, if the drone hits a bird, crashes into a building? Who is going to insure the deliveries?
There are also technical questions. Who will recharge the drone batteries? How many deliveries can the machines make before needing service?
"Jeff Bezos might be the single person in the universe who could make something like this happen," Jenkins says. "For what it worth, this is a guy who's totally changed retailing."
If Amazon gets its way, others might follow.
United Parcel Service Co. executives heard a presentation from a drone vendor earlier this year, says Alan Gershenhorn, UPS' chief sales, marketing and strategy officer.
"Commercial use of drones is an interesting technology, and we're certainly going to continue to evaluate it," Gershenhorn says.
The U.S. Postal Service and FedEx wouldn't speculate about using drones for delivery.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal consumer finance watchdog is expanding its oversight to Sallie Mae and other companies that collect student loan payments.
A rule issued Tuesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau extends the agency's supervision to nonbank companies that manage large volumes of student loans on behalf of lenders.
The CFPB already oversees banks that service student loans, but it says most student loans are serviced by nonbank companies. It says the scrutiny is needed to ensure servicers comply with consumer laws at a time when more people are falling behind on their student loan payments.
Nonbank loan servicers like Sallie Mae manage borrowers' accounts and answer their questions. Borrowers have complained that the companies lose paperwork or fail to credit payments.
Sallie Mae also is the biggest U.S. student lender.
Martha Holler, a spokeswoman for Sallie Mae, said that as the largest U.S. servicer of student loans, "We have been engaged with the CFPB in the review of our lending, servicing and collections operations."
In addition to Sallie Mae, formally known as SLM Corp., other nonbank companies that service student loans include American Education Services, Nelnet Inc. and ACS Education Services, which is owned by Xerox Corp. The seven largest servicers cover a combined total of about 49 million borrower accounts, representing most of the student loan servicing market, according to the CFPB. The agency said it expects all seven companies will come under its supervision.
Outstanding student debt in the U.S. totals about $1.2 trillion, according to the CFPB, and an estimated 7 million student loan borrowers are currently in default.
Under the new rule, which takes effect March 1, any nonbank student loan servicer that handles more than 1 million borrower accounts will be subject to the agency's oversight. That means the agency will monitor the companies and examine their internal procedures, data and other information.
While borrowers usually can choose their student lender, they normally have no choice over which company services the loan.
"Student loan borrowers should be able to rest assured that when they make a payment toward their loans, the company that takes their money is playing by the rules," CFPB Director Richard Cordray said in a statement. "This rule brings new oversight to those large student loan servicers that touch tens of millions of borrowers."
The agency is the primary federal supervisor for a range of industries, including payday loan companies, student lenders, mortgage companies, credit bureaus and debt collectors. It was established by the 2010 financial overhaul law enacted in response to the crisis that started in 2008.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida Lottery officials say a winning Mega Money ticket worth $1.3 million remains unclaimed.
The ticket expires Dec. 15, which is 180 days after it was purchased. The numbers for the June 18 drawing were 10-28-34-43 and the Megaball was 19.
Records show the ticket was purchased at a Miami store, Davis Grocery. Lottery officials are encouraging players who may have gone to that store to go back and check their old tickets.
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1520 Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict demanding that he recant, or face excommunication.
1787 Thomas H. Gallaudet, a pioneer of educating the deaf, was born in Philadelphia.
1861 The Confederacy admitted Kentucky as it recognized a pro-Southern shadow state government that was acting without the authority of the pro-Union government in Frankfort.
Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded on this date to: President Theodore Roosevelt (1906); Jane Addams (1931); Ralph J. Bunche (1950) and Martin Luther King Jr. (1964).
1962 "Lawrence of Arabia," David Lean's epic film starring Peter O'Toole as British military officer T.E. Lawrence, had its royal gala premiere in London, with Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, in attendance.
1967 Singer Otis Redding, 26, and six others were killed when their plane crashed into Wisconsin's Lake Monona.
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Dec. 10, 1937, in The Star: After settling several other items on its agenda last night, the Anniston City Council turned to talk of a city swimming pool in an effort to get that project going again. At one time a swimming pool had been approved as a Works Progress Administration project, but apparently was dropped due to a change in WPA policy. A pool for the city's black residents was also pointed out as an additional need. An editorial commends the city councilmen "on their perspicacity" for raising the topic again, despite the sub-freezing temperatures these days that would cause most people to avoid thinking about aquatic recreation.
Dec. 10, 1987, in The Star: Some Anniston city councilmen may have attended a secret meeting with black leaders last night to discuss efforts to have 15th Street named for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But the councilmen either deny they attended a meeting or refuse to discuss the meeting — during which black leaders met at least twice, once with council members apparently present. Rev. Freddy Rimpsey has for some time now led an effort to get the street's name changed and is now at the stage where he says he has solid support for a black boycott of Anniston businesses if the renaming doesn't take place in a timely manner.
Birthdays of Monday, Dec. 10:
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Untold History of the United States, 7 p.m. on Showtime The documentary series continues with the new episode "The '50s: Eisenhower, the Bomb & the Third World." President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, take over from Harry Truman. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin dies, but the Cold War only grows colder. The episode also explores the hydrogen bomb, the doctrine of nuclear annihilation and U.S. policy toward the Third World.
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Mel Brooks Strikes Back! 8 p.m. on HBO Mel Brooks opens up for an intimate evening of show-and-tell comedy with the BBC's Alan Yentob. From his childhood "potty humor" influences to his ascension to the comedy A-list, this 60-minute conversation underscores the brilliance and continued playfulness of Brooks' fertile comic mind.
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The Good,the Bad,and the Ugly: Game 15 vs the Nets
|Posted by shawn cassidy on November 30, 2012 at 6:30 AM
Now let's get back to the game that was. Here is the rundown of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
The Good
I honestly have nothing basketball related that was good from the game. So let's focus on what happened. Actually the Celtics beat the Nets in points in the paint 42 -38. It could be because Lopez played just 17 minutes.
The Celtics showed a glimpse of that old Celtic defense. They held the Nets to just 40% shooting. The Celtics allow 45-45% right now. Not the norm in this defense.
The Bad
The rebounding effort was okay. The Celtics hung around in the totals for awhile, but in the end the Celtics lost the battle of the glass 50-40. Brooke Lopez also had issues with foul trouble. He played just 17 minutes, and he grabbed 10 rebounds. Imagine if he played another 15-20 minutes. Not good..
The Celtics allowed 10 three's. And that's one of the reasons why the Celtics lost to the Nets. It's been one of the weak links of what the Celtics defense is all about. I've been saying it all season long. But the Celtics haven't been guarding the three that well since the last two games in the East Finals. It needs to change, or the Celtics won't get far at all.
The Celtics actually lost the defensive glass by one 33-32. The offensive glass is awful. The C's were out rebounded 17-8 on the offensive glass, and it's an issue that hasn't died.
The Ugly
It kind of goes hand, and hand with the three ball. But Jerry Stackhouse should never go off for 17 points against the Celtics. He made the Celtics look like fools, and Jerry looks like he's 30, and not 38 years old.
The Celtics had 15 of their 17 turnovers in the first half. I thought that was a sign that the Celtics really wanted to win this game for Rondo. They really played together, and they moved the ball well, but the shots weren't falling.
I think this game was misleading, but the Celtics still got their asses kicked. In a seven game series the Nets won't win. But in the regular season they have the Celtics number. The Celtics need to turn this thing around. The Nets haven't been together that long. So It's quite amazing that they have gelled so early.
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Big Fat Fake
The Atkins diet controversy and the sorry state of science journalism.
It was exactly what millions of obese Americans wanted to hear: Diet guru Robert Atkins has been right all along; conversely, the "medical establishment" that has routinely criticized him has been entirely wrong. Unlimited-calorie, high-fat meals are the key to low-fat bodies. So claimed award-winning science writer Gary Taubes in an 8,000-word New York Times Magazine blockbuster that appeared last July, "What If It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?"
The magazine's cover was even juicier than the title: It featured a slab of steak topped with butter and asked, "What If Fat Doesn't Make You Fat?" In fact, Taubes declared in his article, the consumption of too little fat could explain the explosion in obesity.
Atkins quickly wrote an editorial for his Web site claiming the article "validated" his work. Gushingly favorable follow-up stories appeared on NBC's Dateline, CBS' 48 Hours, and ABC's 20/20. Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, with 11 million copies already in print, shot up from No. 5 to the top spot on the New York Times paperback bestseller list for "Advice, How-To, and Miscellaneous" books. It went from No. 178 to No. 5 in Amazon's rankings. Taubes himself landed a book contract from publisher Alfred A. Knopf for a big fat $700,000.
But there were serious problems with this revolutionary argument about one of our nation's most serious health problems. For example, Taubes omitted any reference to hundreds of refereed scientific studies published during the last three decades that contradicted his position. Researchers from whom he could not pull even a single useful quote supportive of his thesis were banished from the piece, while many of those whom Taubes did end up quoting now complain that he twisted their words.
"I was greatly offended by how Gary Taubes tricked us all into coming across as supporters of the Atkins diet," says one such source, Stanford University cardiologist John Farquhar. "I think he's a dangerous man. I'm sorry I ever talked to him."
Upon closer examination, Taubes' "What If It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?" turns into a big fat mess. The misguided hoopla over the New York Times Magazine article and the Atkins Diet is a short study in the sorry state of scientific and medical reporting, not to mention a diet industry that routinely panders to people's worst impulses.
The Fat Shall Set Ye Free?
In Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, Robert Atkins claims that by simply minimizing your carbohydrate intake you can quickly lose massive amounts of weight, even while pigging out daily on fatback, pork rinds, and lard. He also claims his diet will relieve "fatigue, irritability, depression, trouble concentrating, headaches, insomnia, dizziness, joint and muscle aches, heartburn, colitis, premenstrual syndrome, and water retention and bloating."
Claims like those should make anyone suspicious, even those who have barely scraped through high school biology. Gary Taubes has gone well beyond that level. He's a contributing correspondent to America's preeminent scientific journal, Science. He has won the National Association of Science Writers' Science in Society Journalism Award three times -- the maximum allowed. Only one other writer has ever achieved that status.
Nonetheless, at the very outset of his piece (viewable in its entirety at www.atkinsdiet.com) Taubes set forth the proposition that Atkins was crucified by the "American medical establishment," which claimed his diet was ineffective and possibly dangerous and in so doing encouraged the "rampaging epidemic of obesity in America."
There is a nugget of truth in Taubes' criticisms of establishment dietary fat advice. Well-meaning but misguided health officials and health reporters, joined by opportunistic anti-fat diet book gurus, have convinced much of the public that the major culprit -- perhaps the only culprit -- in obesity is dietary fat. Avoid fat, we were told, and you won't get fat. Given license to eat as many calories as we wanted from the other nutrient groups, many of us have done exactly that. This goes far to explain why almost one-third of us are obese and almost two-thirds of us are overweight. But even here Taubes is no pioneer; the damage caused by fat-free fanaticism was pointed out long before. (See, for example, my own 1997 book, The Fat of the Land.)
Moreover, the Atkins-Taubes thesis of "fat won't make you fat" encourages obesity in a similar way: It offers carte blanche for consuming limitless calories, only this time swapping carbohydrates for fat. Taubes made that swap while presenting a far less scientific case than is presented in an Atkins infomercial.
Ask Stanford endocrinologist Gerald Reaven. He's best known for calling attention to "Syndrome X," a cluster of conditions that may indicate a predisposition to diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease. Among Reaven's recommendations for lowering the risk of that syndrome is to reduce consumption of highly refined carbohydrates such as those present in soft drinks and table sugar. But that's where the overlap with Atkins ends.
"I thought [Taubes'] article was outrageous," Reaven says. "I saw my name in it and all that was quoted to me was not wrong. But in the context it looked like I was buying the rest of that crap." He adds, "I tried to be helpful and a good citizen, and I ended up being embarrassed as hell. He sort of set me up." When I first contacted Reaven, he was so angry he wouldn't even let me interview him.
But his position on Atkins was all over the Internet in interviews posted long before Taubes talked to him. Do "low-carb diets like The Zone [by Barry Sears] and Atkins work?" one asked. Answer: "One can lose weight on a low-calorie diet if it is primarily composed of fat calories or carbohydrate calories or protein calories. It makes no difference!"
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Having read all three pieces in this debate, Fumento's critique of Taubes is so wholly inadequate I feel embarassed for him, and disappointed that Reason didn't vet Fumento seriously before publishing his original critique of Taubes. Taubes' position is increasingly permeating the research community and will likely be vindicated, leaving Fumento's piece as an embarassing example of Reason failing its mandate to provide critical analysis of contemporary debates. Reason's standards should be higher than merely being a forum for dissent -- you should have some standards for the dissent, and recognize dogmatic clinging to establishment thinking when you see it. The sooner the Lipid Hypothesis dies and refined carbs are recognized for their negative health effects the better the health of the world. We owe Taubes a serious debt of thanks for his integtrity and iconoclastic pursuit of reason. He shouldn't have had to offer this defense, likely only read by a fraction of those who read the original critique.
Taubes responds to this (google Taubes response to Fumento) and it's pretty devastating. I love Taubes, he's awesome. Read his Good Calories Bad Calories
Ya, he has no education in nutrition or medicine, so let's put faith in his writing. Until you do, you have no idea how strenuous and rigorous the education truly is. For example, "his low carb diet will reduce headaches." Interesting. Since glucose is a necessity to the and astrocytes at the blood brain barrier are selective in allowing substances to pass into the cerebral cortex, I find that extremely hard to believe. Read a textbook one time, not a BS journalists made up science.
Did you read his book? I wonder, as a registered dietician (presumably that is what R.D. stands for in your handle) are you just a little worried that you might be responsible for promoting faulty dietary advice--we tend to defend practice which we become dependent upon for our livelihood. I'm just sayin'...
In other words, you have nothing with which to debunk the dietician, so you try to slander him instead? Nice. Not.
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Interesting how low carb "doesn't work" considering I lost over 120 lbs in 8 months after only being able to lose (at most) a handful of lbs on low fat. I've kept it off for nearly 7 years now. My cholesterol, blood pressure and A1c all dropped to textbook levels on it. And BTW, why would I care how "original" a diet is if it works to make me healthier?
Fumento quotes Seeley, "If you're only allowed to shop in two aisles of the grocery store, does it matter which two they are?" Wouldn't it matter to you which two you eat from exclusively?
Two aisles: "HBA" and "Paper Products."
Two aisles: "Candies" and "Pastries."
Two aisles: "Meats" and "Produce."
Amazing. The arguments against Taubes' conclusions are no more than continued repudiations based on the very faulty assumptions Taubes refutes in his book. Naysayers cite the seemingly sensible but scientifically weak arguments which have caused the spike in overweight, obesity, and disease. Remember Galileo? I hear he had this funny idea (not completely original) about the Sun. You see, it might look light it rises and sets, moving around the earth, but in truth we had it backward. Our observations were limited by our presumptions and assumptions. Hear it didn't go to well for ol' Galileo, but the rest of us have benefitted immeasurably because other scientists had the humility and curiosity to pursue study which had already resulted in exile and denunciation. Seems the more things change the more they stay the same.
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Having read the dodging and weaving of Taubes' "response" slander, and juxtaposing this against Guyenet's recent analysis of the moneybags cherry picker's conclusions, it's hard for me to read a comment calling Taubes "awesome" because of the tears of laughter in my eyes. What seems awesome to me is the amount of money Knopf paid for this hill of beans. Er, pork rinds.
Shame I didn't read this tripe earlier I'd have saved myself the easiest time loosing 80 pounds, dropping my blood pressure, looking ten years younger, and a six pack to boot. Lets cut the crap, low carb is right.
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Wow...I thought that the name of this site was "Reason" not "misrepresentation of a position and sloppy thinking"?
I've read a lot of hit-pieces and this is one of the more blatant examples.
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I was wanting to reply to this thread, but had to find a fat picture of me. Around 10 years ago I weighed around 250 pounds, and then lost close to 100 pounds. I now weigh 150 to 155 pounds depending. I never ran or exercised to lose any of my weight, but rather just started eating healthy.......and quit the all you can eat buffets - like 3 times a day
My heavy picture below on the left is a picture of a picture....all I could find. I was a bull and had a 19 inch neck / 46 inch waist. Now I'm a weakling, but became a marathon maniac in 2010
The thin / fit picture below is me after the swim portion of a successful 1/2 Iron man (my first) The people that didn't know me then, can't believe the difference. Now with all my running and working out, my weight is ez pz to maintain, but still eat healthy most of the time.
Running has given me the courage to start, the determination to keep trying, and the childlike spirit to have fun along the way - Run often and run long, but never outrun your Joy of running!
That is amazing! Major kudo's to you!
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Wowzers! That is fantastic. Congrats. I would never guess that it is the same person in those pics.
I want to do it because I want to do it. -Amelia Earhart
Crap...I might as well do this
Before - Feb 99 - 200+ lbs
After Sept 2003 - 145 lbs
I have to be honest, though. Between 2006 and now I went back up to over 200 lbs. I've lost 30 lbs since Feb, so, I'm somewhere in the middle of those two pictures right now. In another few months, I'll be back down to 155 or so.
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Agreed. This is a great thread. Great job to all those heading down the path to a healthy body!
Live the Adventure. Enjoy the Journey. Be Kind. Have Faith!
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just spent a few moments going back over the old posts. Some pics are gone but wow. I just love this thread and the modivation it gives me!!
"It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop."Wisdom of Confucius
just spent a few moments going back over the old posts. Some pics are gone but wow. I just love this thread and the modivation it gives me!!
You need to post your new pictures! You look awesome!
You need to post your new pictures! You look awesome!
you are too kind. lets see....
Wow! Congrats to so many of you for your dedication and commitment!! Keep it up!
Wow!! Looking Great!!!!
My original before and after pictures are on the top of page 14. I'm posting a picture of me 4 yrs later & still running
You look great, Janice! I love this thread... Thanks for posting.
MTA: How is it that you haven't aged in 4 years?
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2012: Earned honorable mention All-Southland Conference honors after having a record-breaking season for Lamar ... Set school records with 11 wins, a 1.18 goals-against average and a save percentage of .844 ... Tied the school mark with six shutouts ... Tied the single-game record for saves with 18 in a 4-0 loss to UC Davis on Sept. 21 ... Named Second-Team Southland Conference All-Academic player ... Named to Southland Conference Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll.
2011: RedshirtedPlayed one game at forward, collecting two shots in 17 minutes against Texas Southern
PRIORTO LAMAR: Played varsity soccer for four years at Hardin-Jefferson High School, earning District 37-4A Goalkeeper of the Year honors all four seasons ... Served as team captain ... MVP of Lady Highlander Tournament ... Led Hardin-Jefferson to a 20-3 record as a senior ... Played club soccer for Albion Hurricanes ... Member of the National Honor Society ... Listed in Who's Who Among American High School Athletes.
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Listen, if you're one of the 11 people to go to Marlins games, you can get away with doing something other than watching the game. However, if you're watching one of the best teams in baseball, if not the best team, you can whip out the laptop and do you taxes, like these two Nationals fans did Thursday night.
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Virginia Waste Bill Is 'Garbage': Market Advocates Decry VA Assembly 'Betrayal' of Free Enterprise and State Residents
Virginia Waste Bill Is 'Garbage': Market Advocates Decry VA Assembly 'Betrayal' of Free Enterprise and State Residents
February 08, 1999
Washington, D.C., February 9, 1999 – Environmental analysts decried the solid waste bills passed at crossover by the Va. assembly as a betrayal of free enterprise and the benefits it brings to rural, financially strapped communities in Virginia. "This Republican initiative will harm poor, rural Virginians the most, while providing no environmental benefits," commented Angela Logomasini, director of risk and environmental policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
The key elements of legislation are caps on the amount of trash that landfills may take as well as caps expanding the sizes of landfills. "It is ironic that Republican lawmakers – the so-called guardians of free-enterprise – have decided that it's okay to cap economic growth of entire local economies," said Logomasini. Apparently, they don't care much if these communities won't be able to meet growing needs or if localities have to raise taxes to meet such needs. For poor individuals, capping growth and opportunity as well as increasing pressure for higher local taxes represents a cruel political compromise."
Also included is the trash barge ban. "It's absurd that lawmakers have prohibited the safest way to transport solid waste," said Logomasini. Lawmakers claim that the barge ban won't increase truck traffic, which some have claimed, because the capacity limits and landfills will keep out-of-state trash out anyway. Logomasini questioned that justification. "If that's true, then why impose the barge ban at all? Still, this policy won't to even allow barges to replace the trucks already found on the state's congested highways. In that case, lawmakers are simply capping current congestion, highway fatalities, and pollution levels, rather than leaving open the possibility for the safer, more environmentally sound option." said Logomasini.
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Simon Prast: From playing the son to playing the father...
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