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1. Get sugar drinks -- and other calorie-dense foods -- out of the house. They are a constant temptation. Such drinks include soda pop, juice drinks, sports drinks and, to some degree, fruit juice. Instead, drink more water and other lower-calorie liquids. Substitute low-fat or skim milk for higher-fat milk.
2. Almost any regular physical activity will help you. It's much better than losing weight with no physical activity. Park a little further from the store. Take the stairs. Find something you like and do it, even 15 minutes a day.
3. Eat breakfast. It should be a non-sugar meal with no sweetened cereals. Try an egg, nuts, oatmeal, or cheese. It'll fill you up and keep you from getting hungry again in a few hours -- and help you think better.
4. Portion control is critical. You can eat anything, as long as the portion is small enough.
5. A little bit of fat is good for you and should be part of a balanced diet. It contains essential vitamins, is a good energy source and helps control hunger between meals.
6. Start with one thing you know that you can do. You can't change everything at once. People need to make small changes every day, not big changes that they can't maintain.
7. Starving yourself sets you up for failure. Your body slows down its metabolism when you don't feed it regularly, and it becomes harder to lose weight.
8. Eat slowly. It takes the body at least 20 minutes to recognize that you have fed it and to feel full. Give your body time to send you the message that you are no longer hungry.
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Tony Award winning actress Trezana Beverley returns to Baltimore for a production at Coppin State this week. Beverley—who graduated from Western and went on to win a Tony for her performance in the Broadway production of for colored girls who have considered suicide... when the rainbow is enuf —will direct five performances of Constant Star, a musical about Ida B. Wells, the legendary African-American journalist and civil rights figure.
Beverley, who was in the original production of Constant Star, says it's a timely play to stage. "Ida Wells spoke up for folks who were disenfranchised and put her life on the line," she says. "These days, there are so many people who need a break and could use someone up there speaking for them. Folks could use a good dose of Ida Wells."
Five actresses will portray Wells—including Coppin student Christian Harris and Coppin alum Nickole Scroggins—and perform various spirituals in five-part harmony. Beverley has been impressed with their vocals, especially Harris's lyric soprano, but adds that she's been challenging the cast and crew to step up to the task at hand. "The students here are wonderful," she says. "They are my crew, so, except for the designers, we don't have a professional crew. That means the young people need to make good choices and work hard."
Still, she realizes that resources are thin, and this isn't Broadway. She also realizes that Coppin is trying to take its theater department to the next level. "Coppin has provided me with as much as they can," says Beverley. "We've had to make a few compromises, but we're doing this with as much artistic integrity as possible. Doing this is very, very important, because these professors are very eager. We're all pulling the wagon."
She praises Dr. Garey Hyatt, the chair of Coppin's Visual and Performing Arts Department. "He has tremendous vision," says Beverley. "He is moving this program forward, and I am happy to share my talents with this group."
Beverley, who taught for awhile at Baltimore School for the Arts, notes that she didn't have these type of opportunities growing up in Baltimore. "I got all my theatrical training at the church and at the YMCA," she recalls. "My first acting class was at the Y across the street from the Enoch Pratt Library. I loved it! There might not have been a School for the Arts at that time, but I found that necessity is the mother of invention. Opportunities were rare, but they were there."
She also credits her mother, who got her Masters at Coppin and won the school's Fannie Jackson Coppin Award. Beverley says her mom will be in the audience on opening night.
Constant Star runs from March 3-7 at Coppin's James Weldon Johnson Auditorium. The show starts at 8 pm, except on Sunday, when the curtain goes up at 3 pm. Tickets are $15.
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October 2013
- Fall Festival To Start Thursday With Taste Of Newton
- New Student Numbers Up Significantly For Fall 2013
- Mothering Mennonite Symposium Slated For Oct. 26
- Admissions Office To Attend School Fairs
- Museum Program To Focus On Mennonite Settler, WPA Art
- Worship And The Arts Symposium
- Hege To Give Program At Living Endowment Dinner
- Mennonite Foodways Topic For 2013 Menno Simons Lectures
Fall Festival To Start Thursday With Taste Of Newton
There are a few changes in the autumn air for Bethel College's 43rd Fall Festival, Oct. 3-6 this year with most events taking place Oct. 5 on campus. "Though many of the longtime traditions will continue, a few will be ended, downsized or relocated in 2013," said Fall Festival organizer Dave Linscheid '75, Bethel director of alumni relations.
To start, the Fall Festival buttons are being retired. "Instead, we invite you to spend a little extra to support the many groups raising money at Taste of Newton and the Fall Fest fair," Linscheid said.Taste of Newton downtown is the first major event, from 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3. Taste of Newton features a wide variety of food from local restaurants, and church and civic groups plus live entertainment ranging from square dancing to choral music to jazz to tae kwon do to Newton's Azteca Dancers.
The star of Friday, Oct. 4, will be a brand-new limerick book produced by the Bethel College Women's Association. "A BC ABC Book: Bethel College of Kansas in Art and Rhyme" will be introduced in convocation at 11 a.m. in Krehbiel Auditorium and celebrated in a book launch party from 5 to 7 p.m. in Mojo's Coffee Shop."A BC ABC Book" features limericks by 17 Bethel alumni and illustrations by 27 alumni artists (class years ranging from 1947 to 2014). It will be for sale at the party and in the BCWA Market on the Green tent on Saturday, with proceeds going to support Bethel College.
The 7th annual STEM Symposium begins at 1 p.m. Friday in Krehbiel Auditorium, this year honoring chemistry at Bethel. Alumni speakers are Daniel Unruh '06, Kalona, Iowa, and Sharon Thieszen '94, Sheboygan, Wis., on Friday, and Don Miller '85, Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Saturday (keynote, in the Ad Building chapel). All lectures are free and open to the public.
The Fall Festival theater production this year is the classic comedy "You Can't Take It with You" by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, with the first performance at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4 (additional shows 3:30 p.m. Oct. 5 and 2 p.m. Oct. 6, all in Krehbiel Auditorium). Tickets are on sale at Thresher Bookstore in Schultz Student Center during regular business hours or one hour before each performance, subject to availability, in the Fine Arts Center ticket office.
New Student Numbers Up Significantly For Fall 2013
Bethel College enrollment is up slightly from fall 2012 but an even more important figure is the significantly higher number of new students (first-time freshmen and transfers).
"The class of 2017 is the largest class in recent memory," said Todd Moore, vice president for admissions. "It has eclipsed the size of any class since the turn of the century.
"I am pleased with the diversity of the class, as well as the additional number of students who are attending from different parts of the United States," Moore added.
The class of 2017 includes 10 valedictorians, with 15 percent of freshmen coming from the top 10 percent of their high school graduating class and 34 percent from the top quarter.
Other characteristics of Bethel's fall 2013 student body: first-time freshmen come from 18 states (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey,New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Texas, in addition to Kansas) with three new international students, from China, Manitoba and Sweden; first-time freshmen represent 39 different Kansas high schools; and 25 first-time freshmen are legacy students, meaning a parent, grandparent or sibling has previously attended Bethel.
Bethel's overall enrollment for fall 2013 is 482. First-time freshmen number 123 and transfers 74. Transfer students come from 15 states.
There are two additional students from Germany, from the Bergische Universität in Wuppertal, as part of the exchange program that has been in place since 1951.
Mothering Mennonite Symposium Slated For Oct. 26
A "Mothering Mennonite Symposium" will be from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 26 at Bethel College.
The event will feature a day of readings, presentations, conversations and panel discussions about what it means to be a mother in a Mennonite context.
Based on a new book of the same title (Demeter Press, 2013), co-edited by Rachel Epp Buller '96, this symposium brings together writers, historians, stay-at-home mothers, church workers, social activists and professors from several Mennonite colleges.
Topics will include Old Colony mothers, gender roles and stereotypes, mothers in the mission field, infertility, sexuality, step-mothering and other-mothering.
The cost for the day is $10, which includes lunch. Preregister by emailing <email@example.com> by Oct. 15.
The event is sponsored by the Marpeck Fund and the Bethel College Women's Association. Learn more about the event on Facebook.
For more information on the book, visit the publisher's website.
Admissions Office To Attend School Fairs
Personnel from the Bethel College Admissions Office will attend the following college fairs in Kansas, and they encourage children of Bethel alumni to go meet with them:
Oct. 1
- 8:45-10:30 a.m., Garden City High School.
- 1:30-3 p.m., Seward Community College.
- 6-7:30 p.m., Ulysses High School.
Oct. 2
- 1-2:15 p.m., Pratt Community College.
- 6:30-8 p.m., Kansas State University-Salina.
Oct. 7
- 8-9:30 a.m., Arkansas City High School.
- 1:15-2:30 p.m., Butler Community College.
- 6-8 p.m., Wichita Future's Fair.
Oct. 8
- 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Wichita Future's Fair.
Oct. 9
- 9-10:30 a.m., Newton High School.
- 1:30-3 p.m., McPherson High School.
- 6:30-8:30 p.m., Kansas City College Expo.
Oct. 10
- 1-3 p.m., Topeka Expo Center.
Oct. 14
- 9-11 a.m., Manhattan High School.
Oct. 15
- 9:30-10:30 a.m., Highland Community College.
- 1:30- 2:30 p.m., Junction City High School.
- 6:30-8 p.m., Lawrence High School.
Oct. 16
- 1-2:30 p.m., Osawatomie High School.
- 6:30-8:30 p.m., Shawnee Mission East High School.
Oct. 17
- 6-7:30 p.m., USD 500-Schlagle High School.
Oct. 21
- 9:15-10:55 a.m., Hutchinson High School.
Oct. 22
- 9:50-11:10 a.m., Russell High School.
- 2-3:05 p.m., Hays High School.
Oct. 23
- 9:15-10:30 a.m., Thunder Ridge High School.
- 2:30-3:30 p.m., Decatur Community High School.
Oct. 24
- 9-10:15 a.m., Colby Community College.
- 1:30 -2:30 p.m., Great Bend High School.
Oct. 28
- 9:30-11 a.m., Labette Community College.
- 1-2:30 p.m. Oct. 28, Pittsburg High School.
Oct. 29
- 9-10:30 a.m., Coffeyville Community College.
- 1-2:30 p.m., Allen Community College.
- 6:30-7:30 p.m., Emporia High School.
Oct. 30
- 9:30 -10:30 a.m., Valley Heights High School.
- 1-3:30 p.m., Abilene High School.
- 7-8:30 p.m., Leavenworth High School.
Museum Program To Focus On Mennonite Settler, WPA Art
Art historian Reinhild K. Janzen '63, Newton, will speak on "Art Born of the Great Depression: Newton's Mennonite Settler and Roosevelt's New Deal" at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 13 at Kauffman Museum.
Janzen's involvement with the Mennonite Settler began in 1992 when she led the local initiative to restore the statue under the national Save Outdoor Sculpture (SOS) initiative.
The illustrated talk on the only known monument to a Mennonite farmer in the United States will tell the story of the sculpture in the context of public art created with government funding, as well as the role of government and private citizens in saving art.
The Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum program complements the current exhibition "Art That Worked: WPA Art in Newton, 1939-1943."
The program is free and open to the public.
For more information on the lecture or the exhibition, contact Kauffman Museum director Rachel Pannabecker at email@example.com or 316-283-1612.
Worship And The Arts Symposium
The Worship and the Arts Symposium will be Nov. 16 at Bethel College.
Keynote speakers include Thomas G. Long, Bandy Professor of Preaching at Candler School of Theology at Emory University at Atlanta; John Ferguson, Elliott and Klara Stockdahl Johnson Professor of Organ at Church Music and cantor to the student congregation at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn.
Long will speak about "Re-Claiming the Christian Funeral" during the 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Plenary Session in the Fine Arts Center, and Long and Ferguson will have a response and conversation time during the 11 a.m. to noon Plenary Session. Long and Ferguson will take part in other activities that day, as well.
Ann Resnick will be the guest artist. She will give an artist presentation from 4 to 4:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center on "Inconsolable." Her recent art explores the transitory nature of life and our connections to others. As she considered the visual arts aspect of Bethel College's Worship and the Arts Symposium, Rachel Epp Buller thought of Resnick.
Epp Buller, assistant professor of art, schedules the exhibits for the college's Fine Arts Center Gallery. The biennial symposium will be centered on exploring how cultural realities influence Christian practices of marking life transitions.
Epp Buller knew Resnick's recent art has explored "memories and rituals around the end of life." Resnick's exhibit that will open at Bethel Nov. 1 is titled "Inconsolable" and will include work focused on "themes of commemoration and renewal."
Resnick also is collaborating with local residents to create one of the major pieces for that exhibit.
On Sept. 7 and 11, Resnick had paper-cutting workshops in North Newton with interested residents of Kidron Bethel Village's independent living, assisted living and health-care facilities.
As part of the symposium, there also will be concurrent workshops from 2 to 2:45 p.m. and from 3 to 3:45 p.m. in the James A. Will Family Academic Center. Workshops include "Telling Our Funeral Stories: Panel Discussion of Pastors and an Undertaker" and "Bedside Liturgy: Rituals of Healing and Dying."
The registration fee is $50, which includes lunch and supper. For more information, call Mary Regier at 316-284-5250. The symposium is made possible by the Reimer-Boese Worship and the Arts Endowment, and Lucille Graber Estate.
For more about Ann Resnick, visit Bethel's website.
You can find additional details and registration info for the Worship And The Arts Symposium on Bethel's website.
Hege To Give Program At Living Endowment Dinner
Daniel Hege '87, Jamesville, N.Y., music director and conductor of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, will be the featured speaker Sunday, Oct. 27, at Kauffman Museum's annual Living Endowment Dinner. The event starts at 6:30 p.m.
After a reception featuring a string quartet of recent and current Bethel students and a gourmet dinner around the circle hallway in the Fine Arts Center, guests will adjourn to Krehbiel Auditorium where Hege will speak on his journey from Bethel College to recognition as a conductor at the national and international level. After his presentation, "Podium Perspectives," Hege will entertain questions from the audience.
Reservations ($125 per person) may be made using a credit card by emailing or contacting the museum at firstname.lastname@example.com or 316-283-1612, by stopping at the museum, or by mailing your donation to Kauffman Museum, Bethel College, 300 E. 27th, North Newton, KS, 67117. Reservations are required.
Please direct questions to Andi Schmidt Andres '84 at Kauffman Museum at the number and email above.
Mennonite Foodways Topic For 2013 Menno Simons Lectures
A Canadian historian and professor will give what may be the first-ever Menno Simons Lectures at Bethel College to focus on food as
a marker of Mennonite identity.
Marlene Epp, professor of history and peace and conflict studies and director of Mennonite studies at Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo, Ontario, will deliver the 61st annual lectures on the overall topic "The Semiotics of Zwieback, Sauerkraut and Spring Rolls: Mennonites and Foodways," Oct. 27-29.
The schedule will deviate slightly from past lectures, with the first one being given in the afternoon rather than the evening and in a different location.
The first in the four-lecture series, "Eating Like a Mennonite: Food and Identity," will be at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 27 at Bethel College Mennonite Church.
The second and third lectures will be Oct. 28. "Are We Eating 'Just' Food?" will be the convocation presentation at 11 a.m. "Eating Across Borders: Mennonite Missions and Migrations" will be at 7 p.m.
The final lecture, "'Just' Recipes: Re-reading Mennonite Cookbooks," will be at 7 p.m. Oct. 29. Lectures 2-4 will be presented in Krehbiel Auditorium in Bethel's Fine Arts Center.
Opportunity for questions and discussion will follow each lecture. All sessions are free and open to the public.


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But I do get to travel a bit, like she and Collin do.
Thanks to my husband.
So here's a few of my favorite places:
positano, italy
i'm simply crazy over this seaside italian village.
crazy, i tell ya.
if you head there, don't forget to stop by Le Sirenuse for a drink and take in the view.
I never thought I'd like this town.
But I completely fell in. deep. un-quenching love with it!
When you're there, don't forget the floating flower market.
which almost induced a heart attack it was that pretty.
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There was a busy agenda this evening and after taking an executive session break the Board came back and announced more appointments to community boards.
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Here in northeast Dutchess County, it was dairy farms and we were the Milk Bottle of New York City. But the dairy farms closed and different animals were brought to graze our pastures — horses. Now we're Horse Central. And along with the new animals came new people and traditions. And new trades. One of […]
They said it would be sold on the court house steps. They were not exaggerating. Just not the front steps, the back ones. I had to see it with my own eyes. If you want to see what a foreclosure auction of a community center and library building looks like, take a look: The […]
It's the tradition. Every year, at 3PM the Saturday after Thanksgiving, Pine Plains decorates itself with Christmas Lights. And then, at 5, just when it is dark, Pine Plains becomes the Center of the Universe…. well, at least the Northeastern Dutchess County part of the universe. Neighboring fire companies, ambulance corps, farms, businesses, organizations, they […]
Every year, come Halloween, Jack O' Lanterns, dozens of them, show up and glow on the bridge at Patchin Mills. This is the story behind them. If you have a good connection, enjoy the show full screen in HD! The music is the Symphonie Fantastique, the fifth movement with the Dies Irae theme, conducted by […]
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A fun way to get some fresh air, some good food, and get to know a local farmer — visit a local farm! Here, at Rocky Reef Farm, the public is welcome to enjoy the bounty of the Hudson Valley. There are many local farms in our area to visit and Pine Plains Views will […]
Every year the Stissing Mountain High School chapter of the Future Farmers of America runs an ag fair. I've filmed different parts of it before, but this year I've pretty much stuck to the tractor pulls and the barn where kids show cows. Also, this year a new agricultural business introduced itself to the community: […]
After a four year run, the Wild Hive Farm, Store & Café Bakery closed. I made this film on its last night to preserve how its customers celebrated its contribution to the community. I could ramble on about how much this place meant to me, but I think the film shows it. Every meal was […]
Wheels of Time, the shop of dreams and fond memories. Whether you prefer stories about people over cars or cars over people, you can't go wrong here! See for yourself! A Pine Plains treasure.
It finally had to happen! This much-beloved resort where friendships and even families were formed closed down a few years ago. The regulars hoped that somehow it would re-open and they could get their memories back. I hate to be the bearer of bad news…
If this looks as if a man is trying to disappear into that hole in the brush, well, that was the whole idea. It leads to where a huge moonshine operation had been hidden since The Prohibition in a warren of underground rooms and tunnels. I've heard about this for years and was finally able to take a tour. Come on along.
It's great when a community pulls together for a cause. In this case it was pulling pork as a fund-raiser for the local historical society. Two hundred tickets were sold and late-comers had to be turned away. Perhaps some vegetarians had to look away…
Right here in Pine Plains! A fleet (what do you call a flock of Porsches, anyway?) of all vintages of Porsches as the Hudson Valley Chapter of the Porsche Club of America landed on our own John Corson's lawn to visit his garage.
Although it is a race course, it really is a park where the public can watch from under the trees and on the hills without the confines of grandstands. They can meet the drivers, crews, all the people who put the cars on the track.
They're always talking about what we import from China. Well, here's what we export to back to them. WARNING: Not for the mechanically squeamish!
For those of us in Pine Plains who crave good Chinese food it means hitting the road. But we are fortunate that just up the road is a chef and caterer who will not only bring the food but can show us how to make it. This is an entertaining series about making Chinese dumplings. Another thing you can do in Pine Plains!
A great introduction to Pine Plains is the Memorial Day Parade. If they're not actually in it, they're watching it! This was in 2000. The rest of the world, but not the parade, has changed a lot since. See for yourself as it is in 2011.
I often drove by an old building on the outskirts of Pine Plains and wondered about what it used to be. It was by a mill pond so I naturally assumed it was some kind of abandoned water mill. When I saw some activity going on around it (actually more underneath it) my curiousity got […]
This is about a dairy farmer, Barry Chase, who is about to sell his herd of milking cows. I visited with him and his wife, Rosey, a few days before their herd leaves.
The first triathalon of Pine Plains. The race itself was the shortest part of the story. It took months of planning, organizing, recruiting and training local residents to be part of something they had never even seen before.
Local folks who like to play bluegrass, they have been getting together on Wednesday nights for over 40 years. They never had a name for their group so I just call it The Wednesday Jam. When I came across them they had been playing in Pete and Cindy Howe's kitchen where I took these videos.
In 1939, Carolyn Howe got married. One of her wedding presents was a 16mm movie camera. She took pictures of life around her in Falls Village, Connecticut. These are absolutely amazing scenes of farm life and equipment of that time.
An old farmhouse was resting on a warped frame that could no longer support it. But this house is not going to be torn down. It will be restored after it is jacked up and moved onto a new foundation. Ever wonder how they jack up a whole house and move it? Well, see for yourself! It's all revealed in this story.
The farmers may be leaving their farms and the farmland, even if preserved, may be left only as viewscape. But a culture and tradition of agriculture remains. Each year the Agriculture Fair, put on by the Future Farmers of America in Pine Plains, grows as an area attraction.
WARNING: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME! We had this tree… well, up until recently it had been 3 trees, a triple crown, but when two of them came down in the field the third one was leaning more and more perilously over our backyard and… We had to call the Wallendas of Pine Plains.
A video visit with Verne Tower, stone-cutter, as he re-creates an elaborate marble stoop for a historic mansion in Hudson, NY. While Verne may be doing wonderful restoration and preservation of historical buildings, he is also preserving skills and technology that are disappearing faster than the buildings he works on.
The 4- H Club dairy cow competition was a proud event for Pine Plains at the Dutchess County Fair. Gina Brooks and her brother, Patrick, showed two of her cows, a Brown Swiss and a Holstein, which she has been keeping in Barry Chase's barn.
Because it sets itself apart from the ordinary by striving to do things better and living up to its motto: Love Where You Live, it was able to invite its customers in the community to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
It's often referred to as "that old house by the bank parking lot" by people who do not remember the name, Louis Graham/Brush House. I confess that I was, up until I started filming its restoration, one of them.
Field work — literally — when Vassar College students milked cows, fed turkeys, picked fruit, mucked stalls and wrote ethnographies as part of an anthropology course.
Once the world was flat then it became round. Now it is flat again… The high school cafeteria was filled with the sounds and sights of Chinese in a welcome to the delegation from High School #29 in Nanjing (China).
I came to Pine Plains by choice, not by chance of birth.
But the small-town rural community I chose is changing. The farmers have, for the most part, sold to people from the city and fields are becoming lawns.
And, like the land, people, too, are becoming subdivided as difference breeds distance rather than discourse.
I have been making these videos to preserve and reconstitute what I can of a changing way of life and to share it with the community.
On a more personal level, I am making this website as a way of holding on to the reasons why I came here.
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One crash to flash of life
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John Cook, 79, of Sequim, is looking up even after coming down hard in a plane crash last year.
Cook survived the crash of his 2005 Remos airplane on April 9, 2009, at Jefferson County International Airport in Port Townsend.
"I'm looking forward," he said. "I'm not looking back.
"I enjoy the 'back' and my memories, but that's what they are and I've still got a few things to do."
The plane was totaled, and Cook spent months in rehabilitation in Issaquah and Sequim.
Doctors repaired the left side of his crushed face by installing four plates and a plastic eye socket. His right leg is reinforced with steel, and it took extra time for a separated vertebra and cracked ribs to heal.
Time wasn't up
"I feel very fortunate," Cook said.
"No one knows when his time is going to be up and, frankly, mine wasn't."
A pilot since 1964, Cook said he was eager to take out his plane the day of the crash after a maintenance hiatus.
"I thought, 'I've got it all ready, why not do a circuit (a lap around the field),'" Cook said.
Cook remembers making his final approach before the engine cut out.
"Within a second or two, the aircraft moved almost 90 degrees," Cook said.
"That airport is famous for its wind gusts and wind shear. I was either too close to the ground when I was hit by the wind or my wheels were only a few feet from the ground and it flipped us over."
His next memory was waking up while being transferred to a rehab center nearly a month later.
Cook can't recall much after the crash.
"I can tell you up to the point where they took me out of the plane," Cook said.
"Other than that, I lost a month."
Cook doesn't plan to pilot anymore because of the wreck.
"I've been up with a friend but my family doesn't want me to do it (alone)," Cook said.
As an agriculturalist working with fruit flies, Cook traveled the world several times, so flying isn't the problem, he said.
"An accident is an accident," Cook said.
"My problem is I'm not as fit as I was 10 years ago and not even two years ago before the accident.
"It has to do with if you feel you have the quickness and coordination. Who knows what could happen up there?"
He feels the risk is small but present.
"At 80, you have to recognize that and, if you don't, then you'll have a miserable life," Cook said.
Snapshot of a pilot
Following the accident, Cook's family and friends encouraged him to do something new.
"I needed to plan some sort of life, so I put aside 2010 to find some interests and take a break now and then," Cook said.
His first goal was taking up photography again by buying a new high-end digital camera.
"I've always been an avid photographer," he said.
"I've been very fortunate to photograph almost every major place in the world because of my business."
Flying had been out of Cook's mind for several years before the accident because his wife, Lenore, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2000.
He served as her round-the-clock caregiver for the past 10 years except when caregiver Helen Beegle filled in two days a week to give Cook a break.
He chose to take up flying again.
Reinvigorated interests
"With the grind of a 24/7 caregiver, Helen helped a great deal," Cook said.
His wife later moved to Dungeness Courte Alzheimer's Community.
"It was quite an adjustment to come to a home that's all my own now."
Due to his commitment to Lenore, hobbies still were put on the back burner.
"I've taken very few photos," Cook said.
"You get into a mental condition where the only thing you've been thinking about is taking care of someone."
Now he's going through old photos and cataloging them on his computer.
Family members introduced him to iTunes for creating his own music library along with photo files.
He said the combination could drive him or anyone crazy with fun.
Traveling again
Testing his comfort level and finding comfort were Cook's goals when he took a recent vacation with a cousin to Pacific Grove, Calif.
He said he and Lenore used to love going there. Being in its serene environment for a few weeks let him know if he was capable of more traveling.
Travel DVDs from Greece, Italy and other countries scattered in his living room indicate leaving Sequim for vacation isn't just a passing interest.
"I'd like to start revisiting my favorite places in the world," Cook said.
A few favorites he listed were Goa, India; Shanghai, China; Singapore; and Chile.
He plans to look up old friends from his business days.
What did he learn?
Cook turns 80 this month but his pace only slows when reflecting on the people he's met through tragedy.
He said being immobilized for some time showed him that impaired people epitomize true strength and encouragement.
"When you become one of them for a while and you are lucky enough to finally escape back to a normal life, you have a greater appreciation for these people who are bound for the rest of their life," he said.
"They're the big heroes."
Since hundreds of pounds of metal compacted around him a year ago, Cook sees himself as a survivor, not a hero.
"The experience has been bad on one side but given me another look at life on the other," he said.
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Structural Basis of DNA Loop Recognition by Endonuclease V
Structural Basis of DNA Loop Recognition by Endonuclease V
Structure, Volume 21, Issue 2,
Pages 257-265,
Publication Date 10 January 2013
Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2012.12.007
Ida Rosnes
Alexander D. Rowe
Erik S. Vik
Rune Johansen Forstrøm
Ingrun Alseth
Magnar Bjørås
Bjørn Dalhus
Department of Microbiology, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, P.O. Box 4950, Nydalen, N-0424 Oslo, Norway
Department of Medical Biochemistry, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, P.O. Box 4950, Nydalen, N-0424 Oslo, Norway
Corresponding author
► Structure reveal base flipping as a mechanism to recognize loops in DNA ► Flipping of normal bases into the nucleotide binding pocket is key to loop recognition ► The wedge motif in endonuclease V recognizes distorted DNA ► DNA is cleaved on 3′ side of the flipped adenine
The DNA repair enzyme endonuclease V (EndoV) recognizes and cleaves DNA at deaminated adenine lesions (hypoxanthine). In addition, EndoV cleaves DNA containing various helical distortions such as loops, hairpins, and flaps. To understand the molecular basis of EndoV's ability to recognize and incise DNA structures with helical distortions, we solved the crystal structure of Thermotoga maritima EndoV in complex with DNA containing a one-nucleotide loop. The structure shows that a strand-separating wedge is crucial for DNA loop recognition, with DNA strands separated precisely at the helical distortion. The additional nucleotide forming the loop rests on the surface of the wedge, while the normal adenine opposite the loop is flipped into a base recognition pocket. Our data show a different principle for DNA loop recognition and cleavage by EndoV, in which a coordinated action of a DNA-intercalating wedge and a base pocket accommodating a flipped normal base facilitate strand incision.


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his career and is 8-0 in the majors. He has won 12 in a row from the 36-hole lead, dating to the 2004 EDS Byron Nelson Championship . "I would go along the lines that it's got to break at some stage," said Padraig Harrington, one of
Romo rallies with 69 to win amateur golf tourney
tried to qualify for several professional events. In 2004, he unsuccessfully attempted to qualify for the EDS Byron Nelson Championship . He endured the same fate when he tried to qualify for the 2005 U.S. Open. Most recently, he failed to
Cog Hill auditioning to host a future major
doctors will either drain and patch it or remove it completely. Scott, whose last victory came in the 2008 EDS Byron Nelson Championship , started the season strong with a tie for second in the Sony Open in Hawaii, but he did not finish in the