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FORT LAUDERDALE, OCTOBER 2005: There is a little Miss Cleo in all of us, and because of that we have the ability to prepare for what we already know will happen. We know that there will be a hurricane threat this summer. This winter we can predict a blizzard. And guess what? I’m seeing an election coming near the end of 2008 that will bring forth a new President for the USA.

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TWO LLUMINA AUTHORS ARE RUNNERS-UP IN 2005 DIY BOOK FESTIVAL

FORT LAUDERDALE, OCTOBER  2005:  The Ice Floe by Joyce Tracksler is a runner-up for the FICTION section of the 2005 DIY Book Festival, and Raped Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt is a runner-up for the BIOGRAPHY section. These books were chosen from hundreds of other POD books.

TRAIL TO TRANQUILITY IS THE CURE FOR STRESS! 

FORT LAUDERDALE, OCTOBER 2005:  Stress is a killer. We all know this; it’s been drummed into us for years – Type A Personality Versus The World. Stress has become so prevalent and significant in all reaches of society that this week a British Member of Parliament, often considered the most taciturn and stiff-upper-lipped people in the world, admitted to suffering under the pressure and has gone on “Stress Leave.” It’s a shame he hasn’t read The Trail to Tranquility, a self-help masterpiece by “Rabbi Rambo” Lazer Brody, on dealing with the demands of the world.

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RUTHLESS SISTER

LEAVES A BROTHER

DESPERATE TO SURVIVE

FORT LAUDERDALE, OCTOBER 2005:  Every week, in courts across North America, wars are being fought between siblings who are filing law suits to gain total control over family estates. Every week judges plant the last nail in the coffin, as they hand down verdicts and family members leave devastated. Unless it's a high profile case, these family feuds never make the news yet they are every bit as vicious as war itself. However, one man from Canada, a casualty of a brutal family feud, gives us a rare and sensational glimpse inside his life. We follow the deceit and betrayal of his sister as she destroys much of the estate trying to win a shallow victory.

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THERE IS A CONNECTION: CHRONIC DISEASE

AND POLLUTION

FORT LAUDERDALE, OCTOBER 2005: Fact: the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 7 out of 10 Americans die each year from chronic diseases. Fact: smog, a modern term combining the words smoke and fog, is the consequence of airborne toxins reacting together to create ground-level ozone. This year alone, smog is predicted to kill 5,800 people in a large Canadian city, and if the air quality doesn’t improve, about 10,000 citizens will perish annually by 2026. Joyce Hansel knows what pollution can do and, thankfully, has determined to let the rest of us know as well.

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THE JOURNEY OF

AN ENLISTED WOMAN

FORT LAUDERDALE, OCTOBER 2005: 90,000 Tons of Diplomacy.   Whenever, Where Ever.   That’s the unofficial motto of the USS George Washington, (CVN-73) the United States Navy’s largest nuclear aircraft carrier.  Rebecca Anne Freeman’s new book takes us below decks, recounting four years aboard this, the world’s largest warship. She pulls no punches as she describes the terror of life on the flight deck, the loneliness of six-month patrols off the coast of Iraq and the many small pleasures and irritations which make up a sailor’s life at sea.

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HOMBRECITO’S WAR STILL RAGES!

FORT LAUDERDALE, OCTOBER  2005: As amazing as it seems in these days of cellular phones, Global Positioning Systems, and the brand-new sub-dermal PLDs (Personal Location Device), the unforgiving deserts of the world are still claiming victims. The search for a missing man in the Mojave Desert, near Daggett, California, was sadly called off on June 7, 2005, after many days of intensive air and land searches failed to locate him. In the late 1800’s there were no helicopters to call on, no ATVs to employ, and no PLD to track, only the sharp eyes of expert trackers and the experience of men who knew the land.  

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LET'S NOT LET THE VICTIMS BE TRAMPLED BY OUR LIBERALISM

Fort Lauderdale, OCTOBER 2005:  When Karen and Sharon Sanders were abducted and brutally raped on a Louisiana May night in1977, they were only fourteen years old.  The twins and their twenty-one year old cousin were petrified that their attacker would come back to continue their torment.  He had promised to, if they told what happened, and their ravaged innocence gave them every reason to believe he would.  More than a week passed before Karen cracked and the secret was out. 

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HOME TO FREEDOM

Fort Lauderdale, OCTOBER 2005: With a war raging in Iraq, as well as in other areas of the globe, many of those forced from their homes can understand and sympathize with the ordeal author Heidi Howell endured. The surprising thing, actually, is that victims of war are ultimately able to pull their lives back together and live in peace once again.

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SHE DOESN'T LOOK DEAF

FORT LAUDERDALE, OCTOBER 2005: Governmental red tape; unknowledgeable and inflexible bureaucrats; bored, petty and self-important office workers in our neighborhood schools… It is amazingly clear that any person who has to deal with these officious pen pushers is in for a hard time, but when you add the strain of a disabled child into the mix the horrors are manifold. Corinne Cheatham knows these horrors…

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ANOTHER SMALL TOWN IMMORTALIZED

FORT LAUDERDALE,  OCTOBER  2005:  Fireside, Texas circa 1967 is the next small Southern town immortalized in literature in Marci Henna’s Ruby and the Stargazers.  In the tradition of Fannie Flagg’s Whistle Stop, Alabama, and Rebecca Wells’ Thornton City, Louisiana, Marci Henna’s Fireside, Texas is populated by quirky characters, hot gossip, Elvis, and cozy down-home Southern cooking. The local Fireside flavor combines with nostalgic details from those Flower Power years, as two sisters come of age with Ruby and Walt, grandparents who don’t act their age and whose love is legendary.

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  A FAMILY THAT DIVES TOGETHER, THRIVES TOGETHER

Fort Lauderdale, OCTOBER  2005: In these days of fragmented families, author Edwin English did something to cement his brood together.  He took up scuba diving!  English, father, author, businessman, was watching a documentary about scuba diving with his family.  Mentioning that he’d always wanted to try diving, English’s children expressed their interest in doing it with him.  Thus, a new family hobby—and his book, Scuba diving:  A Newcomer’s Point of View— evolved! 

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