Mary Austin Quotations

Working with Wal-Mart and SAM'S CLUB allows us to directly reach large populations affected by diabetes, many of whom do not know they are at risk for diabetes or possibly even have the disease, ... Diabetes can be managed and even prevented with diabetes education and the right care. That's what this event is all about.

There are many areas in the desert where drinkable water lies within a few feet of the surface, indicated by the mesquite and the bunch grass.

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker

Cattle once down may be days in dying. They stretch out their necks along the ground, and roll up their slow eyes at longer intervals.

From the time that he had first found, himself alone with them, Oliver had felt sure that the animals could come alive again if they wished.

I think it went very well. We can always find things to improve, that's why we do drills.

We have 60 hills of rhubarb now. When we bought the farm in 1946 we found it coming up in the pasture near the old greenhouse and moved it closer to the house.

We try to vary the drills every year to test different parts of our response efforts.

The Stoughton tornado was probably a motivator as well, because that could just as easily have been Monroe.

Our emergency preparedness is always an ongoing priority. We're constantly working on it at the Clinic and drills like these help us work even closer with the emergency agencies to build a closer, more effective relationship.

So wide is the range of the scavengers that it is never safe to say, eyewitness to the contrary, that there are few or many in such a place.

They felt our system plan worked very well but communications could have been improved,

There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a general preparedness thing. We drill annually because a disaster situation stretches our resources and goes beyond our normal scope of day-to-day operations.

If you are not at your ideal body weight and are not active, over time, you have a risk of diabetes.

You know, the chances of there being a nuclear or biological event in Monroe are slim but there is a chance of a chemical disaster simply because of all the industries we have in the area that use a wide variety of chemicals, ... So this really reinforces the importance of our ability to collaborate with other agencies.

These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity is being seen globally.