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July 2011
30 Years of Taking it Off
for a single chapter. This success is due to all the members’ hard work but also to the very capable leadership of Josephine Moses. Over the past 9 years Josephine has been an outstanding leader. Many lives have been changed and not a few likely saved because of her faithfulness and selfless dedication to our chapter and our community. So, what’s involved in membership? Each chapter hosts weekly Omerine Pettit lost 13 pounds &. meetings with the goal of Pictured holding the banner left to right: Josephine Moses, Carolyn Hunter, Larry Robichaud lost 6 ½ pounds. providing help and support for Our Congratulations to them! Faye Young, Audry Heimbold, Sally Haight, Sandy Frey and Gerald Frey. members’ weight loss efforts. TOPS #FL407 (Take Off Pounds 175 pounds! Others have lost 80 about a better way to live! This help includes food health Sensibly) is celebrating 30 years pounds and more than a few The FL407 chapter has grown programs with nurses and of successful service to our have dropped those pesky 20 steadily from 30 members to doctors presenting education community. Both men and pounds or less that just seem to about 135, but there is always on diabetes, healthy living women attend the weekly hang around. room for more folks to get and cutting edge health chapter meetings. Many of But this weight loss has not involved. Of the 270 chapters management techniques. their members have been just increased the members’ in Florida, our chapter has Weight goals and healthy exceptionally successful in taking comfort. Living a healthier consistently stood out, including benchmarks are determined off the weight and keeping it off. lifestyle and keeping the weight two Florida State Kings, one with the help of each member’s Individual achievements include off has led to many members no Florida State Queen and even an physician. We maintain an open one man who lost over 160 longer needing to take insulin or International King runner up! This door policy and are committed Continued on Page 2 pounds and a lady who lost over blood pressure medications. Talk much recognition is very unusual By Adam Porter, EIC NOKP A few weeks ago my A/C gave up the ghost. Again. This near death experience would mark the third for my cooling unit in about a year. The two previous occasions the hired air conditioning professionals came out to the house and considered the problem. They then “fixed” the issue. Here’s the interesting part. Both diagnosed the same problem… but recommended very different methods of treatment. Trusting their “I do this every day” to trump my “tinkered on units a few times” I bowed to their supposed professional advice and went forward with treatment suggested. And did so enthusiastically because, of course, I was worried they would tell me that we needed a new unit. Nope, just a bit of a tune up, Mr. Porter, nothing at all to worry about. The first treatment commenced about a year ago. That course of treatment took 2 days. The “cure” lasted all of four months. Then…BAM…same problem. We called the service provider asking them to honor their “6 month guarantee.” It seems they guarantee to honor this agreement in their own good
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time. After 3 days of phone tag I finally heard back. The A/C had been broken (again) now for nearly a week and my family was plenty steamed. No matter, the repair folks volunteered to be out in two or three days. This was after three days of phone tag, mind you. I hung up and called someone else. Fast forward through a similar experience. Now, over a week into the heat – and wondering how in the world people lived in FLA before air conditioning – I called a 3rd company. A “Company 3” tech came out, looked at the unit and gave us the bad news. Simply fixing the part attached to the problem had only delayed the inevitable and caused more serious problems. Now, I don’t know why this happened. It could be that the
other two companies were just trying to save us some cash. Or maybe they honestly did not understand the cause and effect involved with this particular mechanical system; but, whatever the reason, their lack of service was now costing us big. It was time to replace the unit. Now, I have no idea whether or not fixing the original problem when it happened a year ago would have added more years to the life of my A/C unit. But the point is, now I’ll never know. At least Company 3 had the guts to tell me the truth. In fact, not only did the technician explain the bottom line – you need a new unit – he described what happened and how it happened. Then he did something remarkable. He described, without any prompting from me, the steps taken by the previous two companies and why those halfway efforts had not only not fixed the problem but, potentially, contributed to the overall demise of the unit. Now, many of you may be thinking: “yeah, but I bet they use that line on everybody.” Well, maybe. But remember, I do have some experience in this area – more than I wish too, really Continued on Page 3
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