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    Seniors' Corner: For a Better Life
    Seniors' Corner: For a Better Life
    Seniors' Corner: For a Better Life
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    Seniors' Corner: For a Better Life

    By Ray Kania

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    After decades of overdoing it, pushing beyond my limits and stumbling full speed ahead through hazards of all kinds, I've finally decided to reign in my competitive nature and take a more measured pace through the rest of life. It's time to slow down and smell the liniment.

    FOR A BETTER LIFE has 21 articles that will benefit those who are moving into the next classification, senior citizen. It means maintaining a healthy lifestyle, dealing with those who prey on the older generation and doing things you've never done before. It also means a healthy, inquisitive mind as well as a healthy body, developing friendships as you grow older so you won't become lonely, and helping those in need. And leave a legacy that will inspire others and you will have done well, my friend.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRay Kania
    Release dateMay 11, 2012
    ISBN9781476055664
    Seniors' Corner: For a Better Life
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    Ray Kania

    Ray Kania is a writer whose work has appeared in a variety of publications, from scholarly journals to the sports pages of newspapers. Ray is also an artist and photographer (Magazine covers of of Florida Living,The Orlando Sentinel Insight, newspapers, articles and books.) Ray uses pen and ink, and color pencil.Kania, a former Vietnamese/Thai-Lao interpreter, was the senior coordinator (USAFSS) for National Security Agency intelligence gathering missions along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. During this period, as a personal project, he collected information that would lead to an ethnography of the So people of Northeast Thailand. Included in the study is a phonetic alphabet, the first for this spoken language. (Documentation)As a licensed private investigator in the early 1980s he worked undercover for a NASA contractor.Kania signed a SAG agreement to work in movies and commercials from 1984-85. He did work on the CBS series SPACE and in the movie D.A.R.Y.L., including precision driving for chase scenes so the stunt drivers could do their thing on the Orlando East-West Expressway.As a Marshallese police officer, he was directly involved with operations against Russian (Soviet) special forces units at Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands from 1986-1988. He was part of an operation against the Russian efforts to gather data from the impact zone on Illeginni Island on Feb.13,1987 on orders from President Reagan (Documentation)Kania also worked on a contract for the Air Force Space Command at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida and later as a federal officer at Kennedy Space Center, protecting the space shuttle, astronauts and KSC facilities. Click image.He has written about a number of diverse subjects as a result of his travels and eclectic interests. They include: Southeast Asia (politics, sociology, and language), sports, physical fitness, nature, Pacific Islanders, intelligence gathering, and human interest. His latest effort has been the publication of his 7 epub books.He has participated in several sports (primarily basketball and soccer) at several levels, from college to a prison league. Along the way he has collected BA degrees in philosophy and political science from the University of Central Florida. Among his language skills are a working knowledge or better (speaking, reading and writing) of Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese and Arabic. (little or no active use for over 15 years.)Partial list of credits/clients:Asian Survey, September 1980, Volume XX, Number 9, Explaining Recent Vietnamese Behavior, Lee E. Dutter and Raymond S. Kania.Florida LivingSt. Petersburg Times, high school sports, North Suncoast.The Asia MailThe Orlando Sentinel (Insight) Tropical Isles Play Lab For U.S. Defense Tests. Oct. 30, 1988.South Pacific’s Paradise Lost: Ebeye Has Become Slum In The Marshall Islands. April 23, 1989.Journal of the Siam Society, January 1979, Volume 67 part 1, Patron, His Majesty the King, The So people of Kusuman, northeastern Thailand, Raymond S. Kania and Siriphan Hatuwong.Vietnam MagazineRay Kania's ThelastGringo.com is archived in the University of Texas, San Antonio Immigration/Borderlands Web Collection. It contains well-documented articles on the uncontrolled immigration across the U.S. southern border.Ray has been a member of the Eastern Florida State College Foundation Heritage Society since 2002 and a sponsor of the annual Eastern Florida State College (Melbourne Campus) Student Art Exhibit at the King Center for the Performing Arts. He provides scholarships for best of show in two dimensional, three dimensional, and the Ray Kania Award of Excellence categories.2004 – Ray was the model for the winning image in the SEPPA, Southeastern Professional Photographers of America contest, international competition. It was the First Place winner in male image, illustrative category, and Best of Show. The image was also on the 2005 SEPPA calendar and at the Imaging Asia convention in South Korea.

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      Seniors' Corner - Ray Kania

      Seniors' Corner: For a Better Life

      © 2012 Ray Kania, All Rights Reserved

      ISBN # 9781476055664

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      More ebooks by Ray Kania:

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      * * * *

      After decades of overdoing it, pushing beyond my limits and stumbling full speed ahead through hazards of all kinds, I've finally decided to reign in my competitive nature and take a more measured pace through the rest of life. The body parts just don't heal anymore.

      Therefore I've decided to put together a collection of good advice for men and those women who also have that competitive gene in their makeup and won't be satisfied with just winning but making it a route. It's time to slow down and smell the liniment. There are other problems that will demand your time.

      FOR A BETTER LIFE has 21 articles that will benefit those who are moving into the next classification, senior citizen. It means maintaining a healthy lifestyle, dealing with those who prey on the older generation and doing things you've never done before. It also means a healthy, inquisitive mind as well as a healthy body, developing friendships as you grow older so you won't become lonely, and helping those in need. And leave a legacy that will inspire others and you will have done well, my friend.

      2004 – Ray (then age 59) was the model for the winning image in the SEPPA, Southeastern Professional Photographers of America contest, international competition. It was the First Place winner in Male Image, Illustrative Category, and Best of Show and is now the cover graphic for this ebook. The image was also on the 2005 SEPPA calendar and at the Imaging Asia convention in South Korea.

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      Table of Contents

      That deadly rearview mirror

      Self-diagnosis of your illness on the internet?

      Exercising your brain and your body

      Enzymes: Vital for good health

      Smoking cigarettes: You lose

      The view from the top

      Crime prevention Tips when shopping

      Avoiding Scams

      Aqua Aerobics for Everyone

      If you feel pain, stop

      Seniors: A computer is your open door to the world

      Americans must watch for contaminated food and drugs from suspect nations

      When your leg cramps up

      Free Trade Agreements harmful to People

      Working on the CBS miniseries SPACE

      Running with Weights: Good or Bad?

      Time to give up driving?

      Seniors: Things to do before that Foreign Vacation

      Volunteer your Time in Service to the Community

      Think safety first when your grandchildren come to visit.

      A Power Meal For Your Workouts

      About Ray Kania

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      That deadly rearview mirror

      A car stopped at an intersection, then pulled out onto the highway, turned left, and was either T-boned or hit from behind. When interviewed afterward, the driver of the car that was struck said: I looked both ways but I never saw the other car.

      This scene has probably been played out thousands of times over the years. People were injured or killed and property destroyed, making insurance rates go up. The offending driver was given a citation for failure to yield to traffic but no effort was made to discover the cause of the collision.

      I had the same thing happen to me three times in a week after I had bought a new car many years back. But I

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