tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83319328786470355942024-02-21T04:30:21.702-08:00The Naturalist - on nature, travel, natural healthThe Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-38966457350674643302020-11-18T10:24:00.004-08:002020-11-20T15:27:32.657-08:00Cooking With Plastic is Just Wrong<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwb6d9jmpwxlnDJ7xDTUmegZhcWxPNZHarS06059jkS9-4Oni5vIKmHBA8k6N5ZzIk3mwuB0GJOn56hvmVws2rYfeJ25lUqARFH_9R3U3ActVdcsrF8CFNmhZlLwJOWIWZdOMtv104kakv/s581/meat+in+plastic.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="437" data-original-width="581" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwb6d9jmpwxlnDJ7xDTUmegZhcWxPNZHarS06059jkS9-4Oni5vIKmHBA8k6N5ZzIk3mwuB0GJOn56hvmVws2rYfeJ25lUqARFH_9R3U3ActVdcsrF8CFNmhZlLwJOWIWZdOMtv104kakv/s320/meat+in+plastic.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Food Network Image on Storing Meat<p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> I saw this thing online called "REAL EATS," which is kind of a joke. It is making it out that boiling meat in a plastic bag is okay. I wrote and asked about BPA and other chemicals that could leach/migrate into the food itself. So far, I haven't heard back from them.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Are we "so" lazy that we can't put a piece of meat in the oven? Even the microwave would be healthier than cooking (boiling) with plastic. Plastic is NOT the answer for everything. The "DailyFresh" people have the right idea. They "send" you the fresh ingredients and you stir fry them up. Much better.</b></span><br /></p>The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-18452300250139515172020-11-18T10:08:00.001-08:002020-11-18T10:08:30.774-08:00I Miss My Cat<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq9HGrj_jXdyD0Ni6O1AZrKXZyKrFnfJtlg3EJal2zvdWX2dMK2XBzhZeq4Sdb42Yvx1lgwGfquZt35BGBRb3sDD-LJ8N6uprf0H22VW8HBYexujTqa96tPw5SC3U_nJYfqtko81LcdIbG/s640/CAT+on+deck+Solar-Dermatitis-in-Cats-283581704.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq9HGrj_jXdyD0Ni6O1AZrKXZyKrFnfJtlg3EJal2zvdWX2dMK2XBzhZeq4Sdb42Yvx1lgwGfquZt35BGBRb3sDD-LJ8N6uprf0H22VW8HBYexujTqa96tPw5SC3U_nJYfqtko81LcdIbG/s320/CAT+on+deck+Solar-Dermatitis-in-Cats-283581704.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;"> It's on cold and sunny days like we've had for the past few days that I think of my cat "Sammie" (Samantha, from Samantha Brady of <i>All My Children</i> TV fame, a similar feisty female). Sammie would lie in sun in winter, on our back deck, but also sometimes in our paved driveway, soaking up the rays and the heat while she did what most cats spend a lot of time doing -- sleeping. I suppose that is because they originated in the desert and probably had periods of hibernation. That's "my" guess.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;"> Sammie had heart trouble (a rapid heart beat that made it almost impossible for her to sleep) and had to be euthanized last November. It was the humane thing to do. I think she'd previously suffered a heart attack. She was fourteen and a half. Now, when it is sunny, with cold temps and/or a cold wind whipping up, I think it is a Sammie day. </span></b></span><br /></p>The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-36740259383568358802020-10-27T09:15:00.000-07:002020-10-27T09:15:18.498-07:00On Pumpkin Bread -- gluten free<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjkJEIl77PNN8bnsMPBFGTX6psQOhXY4nhdeWug5tusl3RrkD1SZFDlxhyphenhyphenhSCkYsYVpA2Lt5S54j4BkN7_j2qeWeIbcV8tpl9fvGqbZzt97fYMElA0YB0M_Mf3XRMIlVYXGSIYe4QYGn6S/s1320/Pumpkin-bread-800-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1320" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjkJEIl77PNN8bnsMPBFGTX6psQOhXY4nhdeWug5tusl3RrkD1SZFDlxhyphenhyphenhSCkYsYVpA2Lt5S54j4BkN7_j2qeWeIbcV8tpl9fvGqbZzt97fYMElA0YB0M_Mf3XRMIlVYXGSIYe4QYGn6S/s320/Pumpkin-bread-800-2.jpg" /></a></div><br /> Pumpkin Bread -- YUM<p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <b>Pumpkins are associated with autumn, harvest and Halloween. Pumpkin "bread," which is actually a dessert, as opposed to regular baked bread, can be very sweet, very delicious. Strange, because pumpkins are really quite healthy.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> Since pumpkins are orange, they have beta carotene, which becomes Vitamin A -- you know, the carrot vitamin. Vitamin A is good for our skin, eyes, mucus membranes, and ALSO, our immune systems. So that makes pumpkin bread at least "semi" healthy.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> But what if you have a gluten sensitivity, like me? I actually found this great box cake/bread recipe in Kroger (but only once, so far). So I bought it again recently online-- "Simple Mills Pumpkin Muffin & Bread" mix, with almond flour. It also uses coconut sugar, arrowroot, pumpkin (of course) and the organic spices of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves. I don't think I could have made something from scratch this good. I have found that so called "1 to 1" gluten free flours may not be up to the task for something like banana bread or pumpkin bread. But this recipe is great.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> I think I found it on amazon.com, but you can also get "Simple Mills" pumpkin muffin & bread mix at vitacost.com and thrive market as well. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> So don't deprive yourself. Get some. </b></span> <br /></p>The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-86999422414790992532020-09-14T14:41:00.000-07:002020-09-14T14:41:01.807-07:00 TRAVEL AND INDEPENDENCE<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrNbWMPNBFIbz7KtZP9z7pQ2pBKo64XE9IvxU6pbjMxB5NILxV4IrNlQwQ3Nkdkw9wHb1yvuh5etcUI9sf8BJrQwqlyROs7njISD5EOTiKtVpVvTywUZQ2-Acd8IyLg63IdzGWsJW7u-wL/s450/grayson-county-recreation-park1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrNbWMPNBFIbz7KtZP9z7pQ2pBKo64XE9IvxU6pbjMxB5NILxV4IrNlQwQ3Nkdkw9wHb1yvuh5etcUI9sf8BJrQwqlyROs7njISD5EOTiKtVpVvTywUZQ2-Acd8IyLg63IdzGWsJW7u-wL/s320/grayson-county-recreation-park1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> We walked a paved path at Grayson County Recreation Park in Independence<p></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"> We took a little trip recently to Claytor Lake, and then wanted to go to Rural Retreat (VA), but the driver (my spouse) didn't "know the way to San Jose" or the Rural Retreat lake and park, so we got lost-- winding up in the small town of Independence. I understand the town came about in 1850 because two communities were arguing about where to put the county seat, so someone asserted some "independence" in the matter. Our being here, a ways from home during this pandemic, was a bit of a declaration in itself. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"> As we entered the town I noted a faded caboose to the left, part of a small town park near some water. The caboose used to be very important in train travel. It was an office for the conductor and had to do with signalling a brakeman to, well, put on the brakes to stop the darn thing. In the 1980s they found an electronic way to do the latter and the caboose didn't seem needed any longer. I know that my sons have utilized a caboose-- as a place of entertainment, for birthday parties, which seems kind of silly. And they're housed at parks so families can go and see, well, this was part of a train!</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"> We couldn't find the part we were looking for, but after a meal at Aunt Bee's -- my spouse says the Aunt Bee's in Hillsville is more like a restaurant than the fast food place we visited, booths marked off and people wearing masks-- we asked directions of a woman and "found" a park to go to!</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"> The Grayson County Rec Park didn't look too big, and had a nice, mostly level trail a short ways from the pool that had kids yelling and rock music blaring. I guess they were having fun (though maybe it wasn't all that safe with the coronavirus still around). Our trail was pleasant, partly shaded, with various wildflowers along the banks, such as ferns, vervain, goldenrod, maybe also lobelia?</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"> We passed a lot of barns, wingstem wildflowers, some political signs, small homes, and church steeples. My spouse "swears" that this Rural Retreat park could be found at an intersection or crossing where there was a white church. We probably passed three or four churches, and no intersection. So much for finding "that" park. We got a bit of exercise and got out of the house for three or four hours, so that was an accomplishment, right? </span></b><br /></p>The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com0Independence, VA 24348, USA36.6223478 -81.150922999999992-5.1570039724959642 -151.46342299999998 78.401699572495971 -10.838422999999992tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-3771919010351539702020-04-20T10:11:00.000-07:002020-04-20T10:11:21.558-07:00Getting Out of House During Coronavirus -- Claytor Lake wetlands<div>
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part of the food web. Frogs show up and "sing" for their female mates. And salamanders also make an appearance, bringing chemical "pheromones" into play, this glandular substance attracting the girlfriend as he waggles his tail in a mating dance. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> We NEED wetlands (or ponds, which is a year round pool with trees and other vegetation in it), to keep the food web going. And the pond I visited did have signs of critters. I noticed a little gray backed (probably a painted) turtle or two, briefly sunning themselves on a big log before they saw us and scooted into the water and disappeared. Then there was a "schoosh" and splash, briefly followed by what appeared to be a squeak. It sounded like the squeak of a baby toy, which was kind of cute. It was so fast I could only barely make out that the long legs of a frog were involved. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> I understand the name "Wasena" comes from a Native American wfor "beautiful view," and I think you can say that for the part of the Roanoke River flowing by it. After picking up restaurant meals at Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen at the Valley View Mall, we followed directions and roads I'd seen on Google Maps. It was down Orange Avenue, which, oddly, had a lot of white blossom cherry trees "snowing" their petals down on the road, this being the first full day of spring. Then I believe we quickly hit Franklin and then Elm Avenue. In no time at all we were crossing the bridge that went over the river.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> But we somehow missed Winchester (Ave/St) and hit Main Street (which eventually takes you to Rt. 419/Electric Rd) and I knew we'd gone too far because the river was to our left. So we stopped by a store and asked a young woman where to go. We had missed the right turn just off the bridge, so we took that, THEN we hit Winchester and the entrance to this roomy park, with its modern playground and old rail road tracks (but no train in sight -- the official railroad was across then above Roanoke River).</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> And though we were in the midst of an epidemic, there must have been a dozen or so people taking in the almost 70 degree weather, even as the clouds darkened and rain threatened. One woman, almost skeletally thin, with a loose blue polyester sweater hanging off of her, commented it was a good idea, taking our meals --- the spouse dug into a smokehouse burger and I ate my tasty blackened salmon with rice and broccoli --- outside on a picnic table the newspaper said had been sanitized earlier in the week. (Well, the restaurants won't "let you" eat inside so this is our option, and we weren't close to anyone, unless they happened to jog by, which I hoped was okay.)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> After our meal we ventured toward the river and the rust brown bridge that looked like a former train trestle. With the coronavirus, walking is one of the few things you can do for entertainment. So we spied in some spots churning, fast flowing water and headed toward some of the so-called Greenway. But the spouse wasn't wearing his walking shoes, so he went back, but not before we came upon a little meadow of marsh marigolds (THAT was my observation) close to the edge of the water.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> As he walked back I noted other spring beauties, like Shepherd's purse, Pennsylvania creases (some here and on the other side, the park side), a few lone, delicate violets (which are actually edible), a few dandelions coming up early. We had a warmer than normal winter so these wildflowers were blooming rather early.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> There was also a short walkway off the Greenway with odd sculptures in bronze, wood. It was very nice to be outside, early spring an optimistic showing of nature, though the nature of the virus is really rather ominous, worrisome. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> We are back home and guess we will stay here (except taking my sister to the grocery store and maybe a trip to the college library, which has only a few people in it at this point). </b></span><br />
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The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-28980138341872942462019-10-14T12:26:00.000-07:002019-10-14T12:26:33.134-07:00Tea Bags, Kidney Stones, and Health <b>When the spouse found out that he had a kidney stone I learned a thing or two about that particular health issue. It's important to drink a lot of fluids to clean out your system. I had a friend who was told by her doctor to give her ailing husband lemonade to help his kidneys, which is apparently better than cranberry juice.</b><br />
<b> But when you "do" drink a lot of fluids, the more natural the better. Soda, whether with sugar or "fake" sugar, has a lot of chemicals in it. That's a lot of extra work for your liver and kidneys; water or tea is better. But tea isn't perfect either. Some tea bags actually have plastic fibers (!) in them. That sucks. But Lipton has assured the writer of one blog,"Https://Happilyhomegrown.com," that<u> its</u> bags are compostable and therefore, do NOT have plastic. That's a relief to know!</b>The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-84082520687626662018-11-20T10:08:00.002-08:002018-11-20T10:08:17.223-08:00Did you know -- Lectins and tomato frogs (both can be unhealthy) <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> In 2006 in Japan, over 1,000 people got sick after trying a new food fad (no, this isn't about the tomato frog-- that comes later). This "fad" instructed them to toast white kidney beans, then grind them up in a coffee mill. THEN, put them on their rice, to help them lose weight.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> Many experienced vomiting and diarrhea, with 122 going to the hospital. Their problem? Lectin poisoning.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> What on earth are lectins? Lectins are special proteins in many legumes, fruits, and beans. They are actually used as a defense mechanism against insects trying to eat them. They are NOT digested easily. (Have you ever been advised to not eat a kidney bean raw?) Over time lectins can damage the intestinal lining, possibly causing "leaky gut" and immune disease.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> But if they(beans) are cooked thoroughly the lectins shouldn't be a problem. Raw kidney beans have 70,000 lectin units, but if soaked overnight and boiled fifteen minutes, it goes down to 200-400 lectin units. And they have interesting health benefits. They can actually modulate inflammation. According to reporter Cara Rosenbloom, these proteins stick together, are antimicrobial, and have anti-cancer potential. Dr. Michael Gregor cites research where lectins limited tumor growth. They could even "extinguish" colon cancer cells and help them differentiate back into normal cells. (This research has only been done with animals and in petri dishes, but researchers are encouraged by this.)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> And speaking of tomatoes (was I?), there's a unique, almost comical looking frog found only in Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa. From the genus </b>Dyscophus<b>, the tomato frog is a red-orange (even redder in females) frog that lives in a rain forest. Its body is wide and squat, a fat, round shape that almost looks like a tomato slice on top, a dark brown body stripe running from behind the eye to the rear leg on each side. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> They will even "inflate" their round body and extend their legs out to appear larger when threatened, their reddish color no doubt a hint to predators that, hey, we're toxic, stay away. They actually give off a white substance, which irritates people's hands if they try to touch one. (I don't know if I could ever find this freaky frog in the forest -- its' only three inches long, five inches for the female.) And when they mate, a female can lay up to 15,000 eggs!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> The Highlands Festival brings artists, writers, and the curious to the town managing the state theater of Virginia, The Barter Theatre. My spouse Frank and I stopped there on the second day of our weekend visit. I couldn't believe my college friend Kenny was behind the counter at the gift shop. He commented how he liked being in management at this unique theater (where people would bring cabbages and other produce to feed struggling actors during the Great Depression), and that we could volunteer as ushers, even if we lived far away.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> The Barter sits on Main Street, where the regional Shriner's group drove some 1920s open cars during the parade that is part of the festival. This we watched from the arts and crafts fairgrounds that are to the left of the historic Martha Washington Inn and Spa. The inn has been a women's college and hospital, and boasts ghosts AND wonderful fine dining (and dessert carts!). But I needed to see the great variety of art, which included old Christmas post cards showing cherubic children I was very tempted to buy. And the food tent with a nutella and banana based wrap was original (but a little too mushy).</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> There was a play and '60s beach band near the town's farmers' market area, but we chose to relax at the family owned Alpine Motel, very reasonably priced. That afternoon I listened to various writers talk about method (selling and writing) at the Higher (kind of a theme in this mountainous town that is part of Appalachia) Education Center, even getting a few tips from Adriana Trigiani. Trigiani has made herself known with her book made into a movie, <i>Big Stone Gap</i>, and discussed her love of directing. She also suggested you could "dream up" a story. Well, it's not THAT simple. At another writers' conference I went to an author said if you wrote down a question for your story next to your bed and thought of it as you went to sleep, you'd wake up the next day with your answer. I don't know if that's true, but, hey, why not give it a try.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> The various memories I have of Abingdon will have me coming back again. It's where history and art come alive.</b></span><br />
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<br />The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-73408203931807054762018-06-08T19:51:00.002-07:002018-06-08T19:51:51.929-07:00Did you know -- Zucchini is a foreigner (but good)? <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <b>They may not be space invaders, but they "do" come from a foreign country. I'm not talking about starlings, snakehead fish, or British soldiers (during the 1700s). I'm talking about my favorite summer vegetable, that dark green summer squash, the humble, versatile zucchini.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> It has a rather foreign sounding name, said to come from the Italian word for squash (zucca). But Italians brought it over to America in the 1920s and it started getting popular, even though it was already being grown in places like Mexico and South America. I had always found it pretty easy to plant and grow, and sometimes, it comes in a deluge! In fact, one summer I had so much I basically substituted celery for it, and called my recipe "Zucchini Chow Mein." Of course, that presupposes I wasn't using much chicken, but it was in there, along with the bean sprouts, onions, soy sauce, a dash of sugar and some rice on the side. The Bristol Herald Courier (VA.) daily liked it and gave me a white (with red border) "potluck" apron for my efforts.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> I've since learned that this low cal phenom is loaded with vitamins. It has a whole "set" of vitamins, such as vitamins A, C, K, B6, as well as potassium and magnesium. And it has such a mild taste that is great in soups, salads, chow mein(!), or in the kind of sweet bread recipe used for bananas. I so look forward to this favorite fruit (it has a lot of seeds in it, as a fruit does). But last summer it didn't do as well, as it needs certain insects (bees) to pollinate it. People can help pollinate the female flower (the male flower is much smaller) using a Q tip, if needed. I may try that. But I did put marigolds nearby and wonder if they didn't distract or repel the bees last year.<br /> </b></span>The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-25936149167034034772018-04-11T10:55:00.000-07:002018-04-11T10:55:57.744-07:00Did You Know -- A few things to know about Snow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>This winter season it seems we had "more" snow in March and April than actual winter! (Climate change, perhaps?) And our next to last snow, right around the beginning of spring, was 13 full inches! But the next day it was sunny and warmer, most of it melting away in one day. So why wasn't the area flooded?</b></span></div>
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<br />The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-7853585842288964852018-03-13T20:14:00.000-07:002018-03-13T20:14:53.511-07:00Snowdogs in the future?<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We received "some" healthy fresh air when we went outside the other day to build a snowman. I tried something a tiny bit different -- I gave the snowman a smile shaped from yellow squash. It surprises me that there even "is" squash this time of year. This time of year this vegetable is probably trucked in from Mexico and been sprayed with a half dozen noxious chemicals, no doubt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> This winter all the big snows have gone to the south or north of us. So Mr. Snowman was a long time in coming. We're not kids anymore but so what? It's fun to get out and do something in the snow. Right as we were finishing our messter-piece, my spouse suggested we should have done something more original, you know, like a snowdog or even a snowcat. But what would you use for whiskers, straws? Blades of grass? Long pieces of material plastered to the side of the head to represent dog ears?</span></div>
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The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-29449348999010652502018-02-11T14:06:00.002-08:002018-02-11T14:06:33.735-08:00Was the groundhog wrong -- warm February and weather concerns <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Is this climate change or is this just "the usual" for February? Living in the southeast a number of years, there seems to always be a bit of a thaw the end of January or mid February. But now it's staying warmer for longer periods -- yet now too long, as my daffodils have yet to come up.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> I know we need the moisture, but all this rain has turned part of our unpaved parking lot into mud! Mud remains me of the name of that doctor who infamously tended to John Wilkes Booth's leg during his escape from D. C. after shooting President Lincoln. That occurred in April, one of my favorite months of years in the weather department. Wilkes Booth ran north (well, not literally) for a while and then headed south, about 25 miles from D. C., perhaps in rainy weather himself. For a short time he and an associate stayed at the Garrett farm, where they had heard little of his serious act. But he was tracked down to the Garrett's tobacco barn, almost going out surrounded by a blaze of fire, after being shot by Sergeant Boston Corbett in a burning barn. Booth was dragged out the of barn and died a little later of a neck wound. Whether the day was warm or cold, it didn't turn out well for Booth.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Here is hoping February warms a bit (without all the rain), leading us into March and the optimistic hope of green plants growing and spring! </span><br />
The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-78160262902717598482018-01-24T18:54:00.001-08:002018-01-24T18:55:29.670-08:00DID YOU KNOW -- 16 FROGS A NEAT OUTDOOR WALK<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"> If you were to visit New York City's 843 acre Central Park, you'd find yourself being surprised every so often by the statues you'd see along your walk. Like the one of Christopher Columbus, and a brown looking, well, brown bear. There's also a bronze of Alice in Wonderland, the literary character with a Cheshire cat and Mad Hatter surrounding her, and heroic sled dog Balto in the distance. Statues make any walk more interesting. Some even have a purpose.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> The bronze frogs in and around downtown Blacksburg (VA), the Virginia Tech college town, do indeed have a purpose, showing off the town watershed, among other things. On a cold day in mid January I set out with some hearty hikers (good alliteration there) to discover where exactly the 16 different frogs were.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> At twenty degrees, it was NOT the ideal day for a hike around town. But the sun was out and we bundled up in layers (like two layers of socks in my fur lined boots), so with a coat, insulated gloves, a hat and scarf covering part of my face, I set off with several others. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Just what are the 16 frogs? They were four inches of bronzed statues, some attached to a lily pad, some not, set in different places throughout Blacksburg to point out the waterways that once provided life giving drinking water to town residents. (The New River has since taken over that task.)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> How much value do we place in our waterways, streams and creeks that feed into rivers that feed into big lakes that may feed into really major waterways, like the ocean? These creeks are living worlds for fish and mayflies and salamanders. The frogs in the area need them as well. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> We walked all over downtown to different spots. I liked the one by a fountain at the renovated Black House on Draper Road. One of the walkers said I was nuts to sit on the cement area next to the frog and lily pad attached (cemented?) to it. But hey, I had on my good winter coat, jeans, and three layers under that! When our leader Pauletta took a pic of the group, I was the one pointing to this dark gray colored frog.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> A few frogs were noticeably glued in place. I was told a few had already been "stolen" -- really, too cheap to go to your own nearby garden supply store for decorations? Or perhaps they were big animal lovers. Not long after this we took a break and warmed up at the Squires Student Center. But there were parks, bridges, and other places still to explore. </span>The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-51979455118998460302017-12-04T13:53:00.000-08:002017-12-04T13:53:04.794-08:00FALL HAS FALLEN AWAY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It would appear that finally, fall has fallen away. The true colors of the leaves have given way to a dreary landscape of standing tall grayish sticks on dull brown land, trying to go to sleep. If it snows in the near future, the forest will undeniably be at rest, dormant, with little movement.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> What is surprising, though, is that even at this late stage of near winter, some salamanders move about-- well, it's really more during moments of winter with a bit of thaw and rain. But in late fall into winter you can still see squirrels jumping about, and if you leave out enough seeds and it snows the red hued, male cardinal will make his presence known. So much most of the forest will be preparing to go off for a winter's nap, but not everything will. </span>The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-79342025881417245942017-10-24T20:03:00.002-07:002017-10-24T20:03:55.751-07:00DID YOU KNOW -- CHESTNUTS MAKING A COMEBACK <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> Did you know that chestnuts need to make a comeback?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> There was that ol' Nat King Cole song with the phrase "chestnuts roasting on an open fire" that was popular decades ago. As a young adult I actually "did" roast some (more like "toast") some chestnut tree nuts in a broiler. They were good, and Hot! (But roasting does give them extra flavor.)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> But can you even do that now? Maybe, in the future. In Virginia the "Chestnut Foundation" is trying to bring them back. The East coast was once the home of thousands and thousands of chestnut trees, some as big around as the grand giant sequoias (of the redwood family) in California forests.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> The beginning of the 20th century, a foreign fungus was discovered, some saying it was brought in to the Bronx Zoo in New York City. This "blight" on the American chestnut killed the cambium, the growing layer of the tree inside the bark. The blight, at one time, killed over billion trees! This changed the Eastern forests. No more roasting chestnuts or stuffing them in turkey for Thanksgiving.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> But in recent years tree experts had created a hybrid, an American-Chinese blend of chestnut to withstand the terrible fungus. Today, with 110 middle school students, a rep from the Chestnut Foundation said we were planning (I'm told) fully American chestnut saplings, to hopefully one day become the big, fat trees they were supposed to be from the past. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> The students I helped supervise at Heritage Park (Blacksburg, VA) seemed more knowledgeable about trees than I was at that age. They told me about having wild blackberry bushes on their property, and their uncle telling them how to dig and plant a tree. Certainly planting a tree, getting kids outside and around nature, away from all their durn electronic gadgets, was worth the effort.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> After planting the trees and having a sit down lunch they had brought themselves, we then also did something they don't usually do at school -- we walked through the park. How many students, outside, identifying chestnuts and learning about trees, would benefit from being in the "outdoor classroom" that is a park full of trees, chestnut or otherwise? In some schools they even give up outside activity for art. Trees are important and so is being outside and exercising. And learning about chestnuts outside seemed like the perfect thing to do.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> One of many brands of eclipse glasses.</b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> but it is worth noting that certain natural
phenomena don’t come around all that often. For a few hours, on August 21, the
country decided, hey, let’s have fun for a few hours. Let’s forget about
political disagreements, No. Korean craziness, rising oceans, terrorism, and
the price of gas. Let’s appreciate a natural experience – a solar eclipse!</span></b>
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the U. S. Since, according to a Radford University planetarium program, the
moon has about a five degree tilt or difference in front of the earth it goes
around, the moon won’t line up in front of the sun every month. So lining up
the moon “exactly” in front of the sun is a big deal!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People came
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assistant told me you needed these glasses because looking at even a partially
covered sun would tempt you to look at the sun too long. You could permanently
damage your eyes’ retinas. They say Sir Isaac Newton hurt his eyes looking at a
solar eclipse. So I was determined to look through what looked like those 3-D
movie glasses. Though these were much stronger, to keep ultraviolet rays out.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a
crowd! I got there 15 minutes before the assigned time mentioned online and
there were already 60 people in line. Then came the bad news – they’d only hand
out the glasses to those going to a planetarium show. You couldn’t just take
the glasses and run. With so many people quickly lining up behind me, I was
guessing a lot would leave disappointed, though they did have several shows
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the
planetarium itself the hostess spoke with R.U. students who were setting up
equipment in Nashville where there’d be a 100 percent solar eclipse. For about
two whole minutes. I managed to get a “ticket” for the 11 0’clock showing and
went to the college library for a while, then came back (around 10:35 so I
wouldn’t lose a place in line).</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
planetarium show they can quickly move things across the inside sky. During the
show we were given a view of the earth from the moon, tiny planets that circled
the sun during the eclipse, and how the eclipse would pass across the United
States. During a solar eclipse it isn’t a dark spot, but more a dark gray that
spreads out as it moves across the country. Interesting.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew
people who drove several hours away to get to Nashville or some part of
Tennessee for the full solar eclipse. Just for those two minutes! During the
two minutes of total coverage, it is almost like night. Here in Virginia, at 93
percent coverage, there was a tiny crescent of light at the top of the black
circle of the eclipse. And yet, it didn’t seem to affect the light outside.
Well, maybe a little bit. It certainly wasn’t anything like nighttime.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This moment
in time reminds<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>me of what
environmentalist Rachel Carson said, that we need to have a “sense of wonder”
about nature. As a Master naturalist member, I do.</span></b></div>
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The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-8937530721861956062017-08-05T17:39:00.001-07:002017-08-05T17:42:29.548-07:00DID YOU KNOW-- TURTLES HAVE PERSONALITIES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Your common Eastern box turtle, a solitary soul in the woods.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> At Claytor Lake (VA) there is a "discovery center" where I've volunteered as a Master naturalist. And I noticed something about the turtles in the fish tank. First, fellow volunteer Judy M. noted the female box turtles have brown eyes, the males red (though they seem kind of orangy to me). But more than that, it was the way the two box turtles in the small tank interacted -- not that well at all.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Judy and I both noticed that when Emily the interpretive ranger tried giving both turtles worms that one just stood there, its head facing the tank glass. The other turtle aggressively climbed over a rock to get at the worms and ate them both. When she wasn't eating she was trying to climb on the other turtle, like it was a rock to get out of the tank, making its shell dusty with dirt.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> On this day, Emily put wineberries into the tank that had more dirt than leaves in it (I'm not sure why). Once again, the aggressive female turtle went over to get those berries. The other stood by the glass. Finally, Emily moved the more aggressive one to an open plastic container so she could more easily return the timid one back to the wild. Judy, who owned two snakes and knew a thing or two about reptiles, pointed out box turtles didn't even need to be together. I guessed one the facing the wall, like actress Marlene Dietrich, "wanted to be alone."</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> When kids visiting the center asked where the turtles were, I went to get "aggressive Gertie" myself. Not only did she show no fear about being picked up, but she wiggled around and her claws scratched my hand!</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> You never think that creatures as instinctive as reptiles would be all that different. But some are bolder than others. Some are more adaptable to different environments. And some are just plain aggressive and "want to get out" of their human environment. That is why we only keep them around a month, to return them to their natural habitat, something they are genuinely used to. And as for box turtles, I hope they are returned to the almost exact location, as they appear to have a territory they want to spend their lives in, much like those who grow up in a small town may prefer to stay there all the time. In that way we might actually be alike. </span></span></b>The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-11416487149254235152017-03-13T19:37:00.000-07:002017-03-13T19:37:41.371-07:00DID YOU KNOW THAT -- STUFF ON TURKEYS<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Gobble, gobble, the vocal turkey says.</span></b><br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large;"> Simple yet noble is the humble turkey. Founding Father Benjamin Franklin declared the bald eagle "lowly" in nature, while the turkey was more respectable. Columbus discovered this uniquely American bird on his 4th voyage to the Americas, and the Spanish brought them back from Mexico. They found they actually enjoyed eating them.</b><br />
<b style="font-size: x-large;"> So why is an American bird named after a country in Eastern Europe? It seems that once Spain brought over these big birds they began to raise them on poultry farms far and wide. There was an odd but somewhat similar looking bird with white polka dots on its black feathers and flesh over its beak (called a "snood," if you're interested). It was called Guinea fowl, supposedly referring to a region of Africa.</b><br />
<b style="font-size: x-large;"> There was also a bird called a Turkey cock, from the country of Turkey, of course. Somehow, the Turkey cock was brought to England and got confused with our American bird, which they then began calling "turkey".</b><br />
<b style="font-size: x-large;"> Turkeys are funny looking and sociable beings amongst their own kind. The ruffled flesh (partly) around and below their throat is called a "wattle," and changes to red when the male "tom" turkeys are trying to attract turkey hens. But if they are afraid the wattle can actually turn blue!</b><br />
<b style="font-size: x-large;"> Guinea fowl, who they've been confused with, are also good eating, I've been told, said to be low in fat and high in protein. And if you raise the guineas they are said to be guard dogs and keep trespassers out of your yard.</b><br />
<b style="font-size: x-large;"> And this past Thanksgiving two really lucky white turkeys named Tater and Tot had their lives spared. They were pardoned by President Obama, then were transported to some property at Virginia Tech. Lucky birds!</b><br />
<b style="font-size: x-large;"> I'll end this with a funny phrase I learned as a kid: Turkey slipped on Greece and broke some China. (Get it?)</b>The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-86251725035867168512017-02-20T12:38:00.000-08:002018-09-11T09:54:43.111-07:00For workFor work I am providing a page with information so that there is a link (because copy and paste is not working)<br />
Writing/Work Samples (in the areas of history, health, travel, religion, nature) with (an older) Resume to Follow:<br />
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Years ago comedic actor Jackie Gleason was asked how he was able to lose weight. He stated that he was losing because he was tired of eating eggs on his diet, so he hardly ate at all. I know what he meant. I’ve been on a high protein diet once myself, which helps you lose weight, at least for a while.</div>
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Dieting for most people is no fun. You have to plan your meals in advance and can’t run out for a mouthwatering pizza when you feel like it. You’re also supposed to exercise along with staying on a food plan that is restrictive and many times hard to stick with. Depending on the diet, most people experience varying degrees of success, but not the healthiest success because of something that is left out.</div>
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Did I Say Dieting is No Fun?</h3>
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Sure I did. Take my own experience with a high protein diet. Years ago I’d “heard” about this food fad called the <a href="http://www.healaway.com/silly-diet-mistakes-lose-fat/www.dietsinreview.com/diets/the-stillman-diet/" style="border: 0px; color: #289dcc; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stillman high protein diet</a>. It was a diet developed by Dr. Irwin Maxwell Stillman, so it had to be healthy, supposedly. I didn’t know till later that you were supposed to eat three meals and then snack to three meals a day. So the spouse and I stuck to three main meals, and sometimes a snack.</div>
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After all, why would you want to eat a lot? The diet was terribly restrictive: lean protein and cheese, mostly. My husband and I wound up eating eggs for breakfast, luncheon meat or a hamburger for lunch, steak or chicken or turkey and cheese for dinner. And lots of water was required, alternating with diet soda or tea. And there was nothing about exercise.</div>
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The extra water was a requirement because of a side effect. Eating all that protein all day caused a buildup of urea, a protein byproduct that can be hard on the kidneys. So you drink a lot of water and scurry back and forth to the bathroom like a dog peeing on every tree it passes. And you do lose weight. But who can stay on diet like this, and no accompanying exercise? So, sure we lose several pounds, but guess what? They eventually came back.</div>
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Exercise Should Be a Part of Any Diet, Exception None</h3>
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Exercise today is becoming more and more a part of a successful diet plan. Whether it’s more high protein (like the Atkins diet) or just calorie counting, dieting alone doesn’t totally work, at least for women, because there is the issue of hormones like insulin and cortisol affecting weight loss. Stress or grabbing the wrong kind of food can spike insulin levels. Yet if you <a href="http://www1.cbn.com/health/why-counting-calories-doesn%27t-work" style="border: 0px; color: #289dcc; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">exercise along with a sensible diet</a> that includes good lean proteins and some fats each meal, it can stimulate the liver to produce glucagon to help break down body fats.</div>
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But as you get older, your hormones become even less cooperative, and I am finding that as I count “points” on the Weight Watchers plan. It encourages exercise, but isn’t really specific. After twisting my knee recently, making me even less able to exercise, I told my physical therapist I was going to diet so there was less weight on that knee. He said if I really wanted to lose weight and fat, as opposed to needed muscle, that I should be lifting weights as I diet.</div>
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Weight lift expert <a href="http://www.healaway.com/silly-diet-mistakes-lose-fat/bodytransformationfitness.com/heavy-weight-training-for-fat-loss" style="border: 0px; color: #289dcc; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Parnell Dean</a> agrees that weight lifting as you work to lose weight will help you to maintain muscle mass. This applies to weight lifting men and women, but also can apply to women fighting stress and hormones who want to lose fat and not muscle as they lose weight. It’s recommended if you’re going to seriously weight lift that you eat enough protein, like a gram of protein per pound of lean body weight, which you can figure out by knowing your body fat percentage. (See <a href="http://www.active.com/fitness/calculators/bodyfat" style="border: 0px; color: #289dcc; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Body Fat Calculator</a> ).</div>
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Health experts say aerobic exercise, like running a long distance, fast walking, and swimming, burns calories at that moment. Anaerobic exercise (meaning without oxygen), such as weight lifting, stresses the muscles and will burn more fat in the hours afterwards as your body is recovering from the stress of the workout.</div>
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It is recommended as you diet that you <a href="https://experiencelife.com/article/lift-to-lose-weight/" style="border: 0px; color: #289dcc; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">lift weights</a> three to four times a week but not every day. Pick a weight heavy enough for 12-15 repetitions four times, or six to eight times if you have been lifting weights already. Rest about a minute between reps. And you should exercise all parts of the body. Contact your local rec center or gym if you have questions on specific exercises to do. We can all afford to gain some muscle mass, and lose fat as we diet, for more permanent weight loss. It’s a sensible way to go.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The Amish people make up a unique religious community that can be found in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as well as mid-West states and Ontario, Canada. Amish society rejects modern technologies such as cars and electricity, advocating a simple lifestyle that brings them close to God. They began a major migration to America in the early 1700s. Different factions, like the Mennonites and Beachy Amish, have broken with the “Old Amish” to utilize phones, cars, and electricity when needed. In spite of modern challenges such as mental illness and employment issues, few youth stray from this close-knit, simple living community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Amish culture dates back to the sixteenth and seventeenth century Protestant Reformation in Europe, which produced numerous religious sects in different regions. Swiss Mennonite church leader Jakob Amman felt his church should more closely adhere to Biblical principles, and emphasized a simpler, pastoral lifestyle. His followers broke away from the Mennonites between 1693 and 1697, setting off for America. In this patriarchal society, men made the major decisions regarding church rules, outward appearance, gender interaction and what, if any, technology their community used.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From an early age Amish girls and boys are dressed differently and given gender specific roles and rules to follow. The girls’ and women’s domain involves childcare, the home and family garden, while boys and men take care of the farm, finances and running the church. Both learn to speak English and German dialects, the latter important at church.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At church there are also distinct male and female roles. Religious services are always conducted by male ministers or bishops. The women prepare a meal served after the service. Men and women will eat and socialize at the gathering in separate areas. During <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rumspringa</i> (which loosely translates to “running around”), young people, generally ages 16- 21, gather in coed gangs and socialize away from home, before they decide whether to get baptized and join the church. Although some experience alcohol, ride in cars and carouse around, nearly ninety percent will stay with their Amish community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1948, seventy-five year old Bishop Samuel Hochstetler was sentenced to six months for chaining his forty-one year old mentally ill daughter to her bed whenever he left home, for her<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>safety (Nolt 133). Mennonites, an Amish sect able to attend college, have used their education to help open mental health facilities to help Amish members with grief or other issues. In Lancaster County, a “People Helpers Movement” is also working to involve ministers in addressing mental illness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With farm prices down or less farms available, some twenty-first century Amish have opened their own businesses, selling everything from custom made quilts and shoo-fly pie to dry goods and cabinetry. Since they only receive eight years of education, some can experience financial difficulties. Thirty-six year old Amish father Marlin Hostetler was laid off from his RV factory job, requiring him to accept a low paid furniture store position. He was later rehired by the factory, but then owed twenty-five thousand in credit card debt (Raley 721).</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Bibliography</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Amish.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Encyclopedia Americana.</i> International ed. Vol. 1.2005. Print. 30 vols.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Castillo, Linda. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Breaking Silence.</i> Waterville: Thorndike Press, 2011. Print.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Frey, J. William.“Pennsylvania Dutch.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Encyclopedia Americana</i>. International ed. Vol. 21.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2005. Print. 30 vols.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hostetler, John A. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amish Society</i>. 4<sup>th</sup> ed. Baltimore: John Hopkins U. Press, 1993. Print.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nolt, Steven M. “Moving Beyond Stark Options: Old Order Mennonite & Amish Approaches</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To Mental Health.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Journal of Mennonite Studies</i> 29 Jan. 2011:133- 151. Web. 19 Jul. 2013.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Raley, Gage. “Yoder Revisited: Why the Landmark Amish Schooling Case Could – And<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Should – Be Overturned.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Virginia Law Review</i> 97:3 (May 2011): 681-722. Web. 20 Jul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Johnson-Weiner, Karen M. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Amish:Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, 2010. Print.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kraybill, Donald B. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Riddle of Amish Culture</i>. Revised ed. Baltimore: John Hopkins U.</span></div>
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(This appeared in the Bristol Herald Courier, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Bristol</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">VA</st1:state></st1:place>, on April 17, 2008, page A1 and A5)<o:p></o:p></div>
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At Mike McGrath’s house in rural <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Lehigh County</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Pa.</st1:state></st1:place>, spring brings a morning symphony of chickadees, nuthatches, cardinals and the like.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He said he’s had chickadees as close as 6 inches from his face because “they feel safe” on his 1.5 acres, which is an organically managed homestead.<o:p></o:p></div>
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McGrath, organic gardening author and host of the National Public Radio Show “You Bet Your Garden,” will be the featured speaker at this weekend’s 11<sup>th</sup> annual Mid-Atlantic Garden Faire in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Abingdon</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">VA.</st1:state></st1:place><o:p></o:p></div>
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McGrath didn’t come to organic gardening naturally. He explained in a recent phone interview that he grew up in a <st1:city w:st="on">Philadelphia</st1:city> row house, where he mowed a lawn the size of a “postage stamp.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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He remembers his mother tending some roses when he was a child. He also recalled hawkers who walked the streets in the summertime, singing out that they had <st1:place w:st="on">Jersey</st1:place> tomatoes or sweet corn for sale.<o:p></o:p></div>
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McGrath didn’t go organic until much later in life, when he fell in love. Now 56, he met his future wife, Kathy, at a party when he was in his late 20s.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He said she raved about her parents’ and grandparents’ gardens, where they picked tomatoes, raspberries and herbs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She wanted someone to grow raspberries for her, so he did.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Starting out with “a couple of trash cans of horse manure and a lot of enthusiasm,” McGrath decided against harsh chemical fertilizers for the raspberries and vegetables he’s grown for more than 20 years.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And he experimented.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He used suet on his peach trees to attract meat-eating birds like chickadees, titmouses and woodpeckers. The birds stuck around to eat the bugs that emerged in the spring, naturally keeping their population down and his plants healthier.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Birds are actually a part of one of McGrath’s “Seven Secrets of Organic Gardening,” the name of one of his presentations he will share with local residents at the garden faire.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Attracting wildlife like birds to your property helps cut down on garden pests in the summer. McGrath said attracting wildlife should also include utilizing the elements of earth, air, water and fire.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In his sometimes self-deprecating style, McGrath pointed out that he got into writing and radio “because I have no real skills.” Then he added that he won the English prize offered by the Sacred Heart Society when he was an eight grader at St. Bartholomew’s.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After many years as a successful entertainment editor for <st1:place w:st="on">Philadelphia</st1:place>’s <i>The Drummer</i> and feature writing for publications like <u>The Philadelphia Inquirer</u>, his interest in explaining the health side of medicine helped him land a position as a health writer for <i>Prevention</i> magazine. He later became editor in chief of <i> Organic Gardening</i> magazine.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In his health and garden research he’s learned some interesting trivia, such as the fact that after World War II munitions plants went from producing ammonium nitrate bags for fire bombs to promoting them as fertilizer for farmers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The hardwood forests for thousands of years provided mulch and compost for plants, and he thinks people could go back to the natural, organic way of growing plants.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On his syndicated show “You Bet Your Garden,” now in its 10<sup>th</sup> year, McGrath has tried to make “everybody feel comfortable gardening…there are no stupid people; there are no stupid questions.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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His latest book is “Mike McGrath’s Book of Compost,” which he said offers plenty of simple information.<o:p></o:p></div>
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McGrath said he is looking forward to meeting area gardeners on Friday and Saturday.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>What: </b> The 11<sup>th</sup> annual Mid-Atlantic Garden Faire<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>When: </b> From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.,Friday and Saturday,<o:p></o:p></div>
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And from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Where: </b> Southwest Virginia Higher <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Education</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place><o:p></o:p></div>
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Off Exit 14 of Interstate 81<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Niagara Falls – A
Treasure For All Seasons<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></u></div>
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By D.J. Mathews<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1415words (later condensed
for Bristol Herald Courier, Va, TRAVEL section)</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When
46 year old daredevil George Strathakis went over Niagara’s Horseshoe
Falls in 1930 he probably didn’t realize the water at the bottom
of the 173 foot falls was deeper than it was tall. His airtight wood and steel
barrel made it over the falls intact, but came up and got caught behind the
falls’ pounding waters for 22 hours. Strathakis suffocated – but his 150 year
old pet turtle survived. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Many
other have successfully crossed the churning waters of the Niagara
River by tightrope walking or barrel <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>riding, or survived a trip over the Canadian
side falls. But today’s visitors are not drawn to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>just crazy stunts. Named by “The Today Show”
the tenth most beautiful spot in America,
Niagara Falls,
with its natural beauty and many area attractions draws not only for newlyweds
but also couples and families of all ages. And it can be as enjoyable to visit
in autumn and winter as the traditional summer vacation time.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Bud
Wittenburg, a local speech teacher from Bolivar, New York,
has been to Niagara Falls
numerous times and never tires of its beauty. He feels “a trip to the falls isn’t
measured in how many breaths you take, but in how many moments it takes your
breath away.”</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On
his most recent visit he stayed on the 32<sup>nd</sup> floor of Embassy Suites
Hotel because his room had “an incredible view of the falls.” On the Canadian
side of the Niagara River are the best views of both the semi-circle shaped Horseshoe
Falls and the smaller American Falls on the U.S. side of the river. Other
luxury hotels on the Canadian side include the Sheraton, Radisson Hotel,
Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt Regency. These luxury hotels can offer package
deals, which can include such extras as a ride on the Maid of the Mist, casino
entertainment, family game rooms and indoor pools, to the tune of several
hundred for a few days’ stay.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Embassy
Suites offers a romance package, for example, that includes a dinner for two at
the Skylon Tower (an $80.00 value alone). The
couple will also receive strawberries dipped in chocolate with complementary
champagne, cooked-to-order breakfast and tickets to the casino, falls and
shuttle to nearby attractions like the IMAX Theater, Niagara Skywheel, or
family oriented Canadian Midway, with some 300 indoor games.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If
you don’t want to spend a bundle on lodging on either the Canadian and American
side of the Niagara, rates are cut dramatically<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>in late September and October. One of the cheapest, at under $49.00, can
be found at Howard Johnson’s in Niagara
Falls, New York.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Parks
border the falls, and when autumn brings color changes Niagara Falls “has its own special beauty,”
according to Wittenburg. Because the waters warm up the land around it “there’s
no frost till late in the fall,” Wittenburg points out. Temperatures average 44
to 66 degrees in the fall, and he’s seen geraniums and roses bloom there in
November. In winter the mist coming off the falls creates an ice layer that has
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a “Fairyland” effect kids and adults
alike can enjoy, he says.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
cheapest way to see the falls is to take Route 81 to Syracuse
then take the NY Thruway to the Robert
Moses Parkway to reach the free parks bordering the
American or Canadian sides of the Niagara River.
The U.S. side has 412 acres,
including the Niagara
Reservation State
Park, and on the Canadian side is Queen Victoria
Park. Queen Victoria Park officially opened on May 24, 1888, three years after
the U.S. Park received its charter, and is part of a Canadian system stretching
for 35 miles, up to Lake
Ontario. By Queen Victoria <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Park you
can find the Refectory Restaurant and picnic area, the big hotels, Skylon Tower
and renowned Table Rock Pavilion, where you can dine, buy souvenirs, and buy
tickets to a tunnel behind the Horseshoe Falls. (Of course, on the Canadian side you now need a passport in order to get across the bridge.)</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On
the American side you can hike or pay two dollars to ride a scenic trolley or
one dollar to go up the New York
State Observation
Tower for some good
views. You can also buy tickets for the Niagara
Reservation State
Park Master
Pass ($27.50 for adults, $19.50 for
kids 5-12) for eight attractions, including the Maid of the Mist ride, Prospect Point Observation
Tower, Old Fort Niagara
and the Cave of the Winds.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>An
elevator takes you down about 175 feet down to the “Cave of the Winds,” the
bottom of the smallest falls, Bridal Veil. Although there is no longer a cave
behind the falls, it is still a thrill to take a wooden walkway and come within
20 feet of the falls. Raingear is provided so that the wind and mist don’t
totally drench tourists. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>American
Falls and Bridal Veil are separated from the much more impressive 2200 foot
wide Horseshoe Falls by Goat Island. Horseshoe Falls throws up a much grander mist and spray
of water when it hits the river, and creates a continuous rainbow. To get close
to this huge falls people ride on the Maid of the Mist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In existence in some form since the 1850s,
the ride now cost about $14.00 and requires that all on board wear a raincoat
and hat. Getting as close as they dare, “the falls are so tall it looks like
it’s coming down right on you,” says Wittenburg. Bolivar resident David Herne
agrees that the Maid of the Mist ride “is one of most powerful experiences of
your life.”</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
falls are so powerful that they turn turbines at the bottom of the falls. They
are capable of four million kilowatts of electricity, which both countries
share. There are free tours of the New York Power Authority for those
interested in how it all works and helps the region.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If
you go two miles north of the falls, on the US
side, you will enter Whirlpool
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>State Park.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The park has two levels: you can fish,
picnic or take your child to the playground on the first; on the second you go
down a series of steps that takes thirty minutes, where you can view the
Whirlpool, an oddity of nature wherein rapids in the river gorge are pushed by
rocks around in a circle. The Niagara
Parkway on the Canadian side has the Niagara River
Recreation Trail for hikers and picnickers. It is so scenic that when Winston
Churchill visited the area in 1943 he called it “the prettiest Sunday afternoon
drive in the world.”</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Wittenburg
says there are tour vans that can take you to historic sights on the Canadian
side, where there are old churches and wineries. Or you can go on the “sky
screamer” amusement ride at nearby Marineland. Or visit Ripley’s Believe It Or
Not or 4D Moving Theater or Butterfly Conservatory. On the American side are a
number of reasonably priced museums, such as the Niagara Falls Aquarium, the Niagara Gorge
Discovery Center,
Castellani Art
Museum or Mark Twain Museum,
the latter 15 miles away in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Buffalo.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Also
reasonable is the eleven dollar elevator ride to the observation deck of Skylon Tower,
on the Canadian side of the river. Several years ago Wittenburg actually
tutored an at risk student with reward of visiting Niagara Falls if he qualified for a regular
diploma and passed all his tests. The school system gave him some money and
Wittenburg took the senior to the Skylon
Tower for the great views
and family center at the bottom, where they rode go carts. They also visited
some museums, which was a “very nice experience” for the teen, he says.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>At
520 feet Skylon Tower affords many grand views of the
three falls. “On a clear day you can (also) see the skyline of Toronto” over 100 miles away, Wittenburg
says. </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>With
two countries promoting the falls and a variety of cuisine in the area,
Wittenburg believes “Niagara Falls
has a very international feel.” He has seen a lot of foreign visitors dining at
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the French, Korean, Italian and German
restaurants around the falls. But because of government taxes and the value of
the dollar everything costs more in Canada.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Crossing
over to the Canadian side may be a challenge in January 2008. Then both
governments will require you carry a passport with you to help cut down on
terrorism. Now a driver’s license and a birth certificate are the recommended I. D.
to take. It’s recommended you apply for a passport now if you plan to visit Canada
early in the new year.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
seven dollar mug with an image of the falls on it Wittenburg uses during daily breaks
at his school. It is a daily reminder of Niagara
Falls, a scenic destination worth the visit in fall,
summer or any time of year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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If
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General Information:</div>
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<a href="http://www.niagarafallsstatepark.com/">www.niagarafallsstatepark.com</a> </div>
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<a href="http://www.infoniagara.com/">www.infoniagara.com</a> </div>
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Attraction
Passes:</div>
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Great Gorge
Adventure Pass</div>
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($34.95 for adults)
1-877-642-7275</div>
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<a href="http://www.marineland.ca/tickets">www.marineland.ca/tickets</a></div>
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($38.95 adults/$31.95
kids 5-9)</div>
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Grayline Tours</div>
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1-(800)-695-1603</div>
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<a href="http://www.niagarafallsalive.com/">www.niagarafallsalive.com</a> </div>
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1-(888)-640-8647</div>
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Howard Johnson’s</div>
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1-(716)- 283-8791</div>
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Embassy Suites</div>
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1-(888)-488-6090</div>
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<a href="http://www.niagarafallsbesthotels.com/">www.niagarafallsbesthotels.com</a>
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Taking a flight to Buffalo:</div>
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<a href="http://www.pinpointtravel.com/">www.pinpointtravel.com</a> </div>
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Food:</div>
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Buzzy’s NY Style
Pizza & Restaurant</div>
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(716)- 283-5333</div>
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<a href="http://www.niagarafallsrestaurants.net/">www.niagarafallsrestaurants.net</a>
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What follows is my 408<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>word piece for the Sacred and Mundane column of <i>Orion</i>, about my relationship with
nature through chemo. I hope you find it worth reading.</div>
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<u>Sacred and Mundane
– A cancer patient and spring<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></u></div>
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By Denise (D.J.)
Mathews</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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Getting through
something as difficult and tiring as chemotherapy, prescribed after Dorothy was
found to have Stage II breast cancer, made everything seem a bit grayer. She
took most of my treatments during the winter months, when the outside world was
already brown and drab, trying to survive in its own way the extreme cold, snow
and barrenness of the moment. It was not a particularly amusing time, and at
one point she was put in the hospital for fatigue and dehydration. That time
was discouraging too.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But
she managed to “weather” this internal storm. The hospital doctor gave her
medicine to improve her energy and outlook. As Dorothy’s energy level rose she took
a few walks in a nearby park with her husband. The steps were tentative; just
being outdoors was a tremendous boost to her thoughts of survival and getting
through this unpleasant treatment. She wanted to see new life again. She wanted
to see spring.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So it was with
more than a little enthusiasm that Dorothy embraced the coming warm weather and
all that came with it. She had her last treatment as birdsfoot violets were
dotting the ground on her front lawn and at a town park nearby called Oxbow
Lake. The burst of white, large-flowered trillium blooms up the park hillside
was welcome after her winter of (discontented) illness. The ladder-like leaves
of polemonium and upside down “pants” of Dutchman’s breeches amused her on her
walks around Oxbow’s mile wide circumference. Everything seemed wonderfully pretty
and bright. Dorothy was really appreciating all the little things God and
Mother nature had to offer.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Not
long after the April wildflowers’ blooms finally shriveled up, Dorothy visited
the cancer clinic where she’d received the dreaded treatments. During a
discussion about payment options with the bookkeeper, she pointed out that one
of her chemo drugs, Adriamycin, had been so expensive because of where it came
from. Adriamycin is flown in from the rain forests of South
America. It comes from the soil, and is a tremendously
strengthened antibiotic, a red medicine sent through the veins to kill cancer
cells in the body. She’d had no idea the woods had anything to do with this.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Most
people don’t make time to have a connection with the woods. In more than one
way, without even trying, she had. The woods mean even more to her than before,
after what she had experienced.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And spring will always be
her favorite season.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , serif; font-size: 36.0pt;">Knights
Times</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Glenmary<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Grand Knight - Phone 395-3063</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Volume 2 Issue 2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>March/April 2005<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D.J. Mathews, Editor (more below)</span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chute</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Recorder:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Irvin Bass</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Advocate:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Trustee 1<sup>st</sup> Yr:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Irvin Bass</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Trustee 3<sup>rd</sup> Yr:Richard </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">J.T. Caruso</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Robert Isaac</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">David Nauss</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Irvin Bass</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Joseph Moralit</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Kenneth Slater</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">February guests (L-R): Bruce Shine, State Secretary </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Michael Lazzuri, Glada
Lazzuri, State Deputy Ray-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mond Wycoff, and District
Deputy Kevin Legge.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">APPRECIATION
DINNER HELD FOR AREA</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">RELIGIOUS
AND CLERGY</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Valentine’s
Day our beloved religious and clergy of far southwest Virginia were treated to a special catered
dinner, courtesy of K of C members. About fifty people attended the event,
including the Knights, their families, nuns and priests. State Knight Council
members who broke bread with us included Our Worthy State
Secretary Michael Lazzuri, with his wife Glada, and Our Worthy District Deputy
Kevin Legge, who came all the way from Roanoke.
Our Worthy State Deputy Raymond Wycoff came from
even farther away, Springfield
being so far north he thought it would take days to fight ice and traffic
congestion to reach us. He was pleasantly surprised how quickly he reached our
welcoming mountains.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a
“Glenmary welcome” by District Deputy Kevin Legge, Wycoff provided some
statistics on the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>K of C organization,
whose membership will soon approach 1.7 million members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(….. continued on back)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">DAY
OF THE UNBORN CHILD OBSERVED</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Gothic";">The International Day of the Unborn Child will be observed April 4.
It would normally be celebrated on March 25, which falls on Good Friday this
year.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "wide latin" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Appreciation
Dinner<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">(cont’d)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">He pointed
out <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Virginia led the country in the highest
disburse- ment of charitable funds, with $2.7 million handed out in 2004.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was</span></b></div>
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</span>appreciative<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">our construction project to help the Turner family of
Castlewood with an addition to their trailer for their wheelchair bound son. He
proposed going even further, sugg-</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">esting the Knights set aside a dollar a day during the
Lenten season so that the Turners could have a new home.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plaques of
recognition were handed out by Grand Knight Anthony Willis to Deputy Grand
Knight Doug Chute and Knight John Hayes, for all their hard work on the Turner
project. Bob Isaacs and J.T. Caruso also received plaques, for organizing
Special Olympics picnics the past seventeen years. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "rockwell" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">PRAYER FOR
THE SICK:</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "rockwell" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O
SACRED HEART OF JESUS, WE COME TO ASK OF YOUR INFINITE MERCY, THE GIFT OF<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>HEALTH<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>AND STRENGTH, THAT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WE</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "rockwell" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">MAY <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SERVE <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>YOU MORE <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FAITHFULLY AND LOVE <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>YOU MORE SINCERELY THAN <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>IN THE PAST. WE WISH TO BE WELL AND STRONG, IF
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THIS <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>YOURGREATER GLORY. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AMEN</span></i></b></div>
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</span></span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; text-effect: outline; text-shadow: auto;">Knights times,
continued</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Tony Willis and Sister Julia</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , serif;">RETIRING SMG
SISTERS LAUDED BY ATTORNEY</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Our special guest speaker at the apprec-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">iation
dinner was Kingsport, TN attorney D. Bruce Shine. Shine joked
about being an Anglican Catholic, but was serious in his praise of the work of
retiring Sisters Julia Dennehy, Mary Coughlan and Loretta O’Connor. He spoke at
length about the life and teachings of Mother Teresa, who said we can’t see
Christ to express our love to him and should express it to others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These Irish sisters came to this country
from England
in the 1950s and became part of the staff of St. Mary’s Hospital in Norton.
Sister Julia worked in admini- stration,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and Sr. Mary had been an assistant<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>administrator. All have been for patients’ rights. “We want the total
person taken care of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--- body, mind and
spirit,” Sr. Loretta said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their hospital has been taken over by the
for profit organization Health Management Associates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Times are now uncertain for those needing
affordable healthcare.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "high tower text" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">From
Grand Knight Anthony Willis:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Inviting a fellow Catholic <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>be <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a member<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Knights is a wonderful opportunity.</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Mother Teresa once said:</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Yesterday is gone. </b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” </b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Membership</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Dues</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Some of you may have already received
your second notice<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for dues for<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the 2005<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to 2006 K of C fiscal<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>year.
Please remit<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as soon as possible. Our members<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>impor- tant to us and we do not want to lose any due to nonpayment of
dues.</span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Think Spring!</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">djmathews@radford.edu
</span><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Denise J. “D. J.” Mathews<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Phone:
540- 731-1819 Blog: </span><a href="http://naturethinker.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">http://naturethinker.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (That’s Mathews with “one” t) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">OBJECTIVE --</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A position using Editing, Proofreading and/or Educational
skills in the writing field. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">QUALIFICATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Have
worked as a part time professor/adjunct at R. U. teaching writing and logic<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Experienced
<b>editor/writer </b>in many areas,
including general news, feature articles, newsletters, PR, some fiction,
education, nature, travel, some health.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Knowledgeable
in computer software, including PowerPoint
2007, Excel 2007, Microsoft Publisher 2003<b>,</b>
Microsoft Office 2007. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Have
a LinkedIn presence<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Have
taught logic and <b>writing</b> in Core
201/202 classes at Radford University, Radford, VA. <b>Promoted logical thinking and writing</b> through the application of
deductive and inductive logic, used in both research based writing and public
speaking. Worked closely with students and <b>edited
</b>APA cited student work, especially in textual/argument analysis and working
directly with them at research paper conferences and on other assignments. <b>Taught</b>
students 2010-2015. Some
knowledge of MLA, Chicago Manual of Style.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Interviewed
area residents for <b>freelance</b> <b>feature articles</b>, covered government
meetings. Wrote news and some sports. <b>Assisted
</b>with layout at <i>The Lebanon News, </i>VA. Photographed subjects for feature articles
for various publications in Virginia and elsewhere. Publications have included <i>The North Country Catholic, Rome Weekly
Patriot (NY), Clinch Valley Times, Catholic Virginian, Virginia Libraries,
Virginia</i> <i>Wildlife (VA), Appalachian
Trailway News </i>(National)<i>, Geico (</i>National<i>), </i></span><a href="http://www.sparkaction.org/"><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">www.sparkaction.org</span></i></a><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">, Blue Ridge Country </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">and others. Also written news and feature articles
2007-2009 as a stringer for<i> </i>the <i>Bristol Herald Courier</i>, Bristol,
Virginia. Mostly recently published in <i>Blue
Ridge Country, </i>Roanoke, VA and <i>The
Roanoke Times(</i>Roanoke.com). <b>Researched</b>
and <b>wrote </b>encyclopedia entries on
airline industry for Golson Media (NY), 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>edited </b>and <b>primarily wrote</b> newsletters for nonprofit organizations in past. Contacted schools and radio stations for yearly
local festival<b>. Promoted local nature preserve</b> with
columns in area newspapers in Russell County, Virginia in 1990s. Wrote articles
about upcoming aerospace education workshops at area community college. Spoke to school groups about my book <i>Let’s
Run Our Schools Together</i>.<i> </i>Editor/reporter for Knights of Columbus
newsletter, Norton, Virginia 2004-2006. <b>Created
newsletters</b> for the New River Valley Master Naturalists of Blacksburg, VA,
2013-2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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JOURNALISM </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Supervised
journalists as well as covered my own territory in 1990s. <b>Recorded
special</b> <b>interviews </b>with regional
and national figures, reported on meetings and “FOCUS” segments for the next
morning. Live broadcasts of special
events, like election coverage, as</span><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Broadcast Journalist,
WLRV Radio, W. Main Street, Lebanon, Virginia. Directed other journalists. Interviewed
public figures, such as Lt. Col. Oliver North and Dr. Arun Gandhi for special segments,
and covered governing board meetings<b>.
Edited and proofread</b> incoming material for regional and local news stories.
Read news on air. Recorded news
segments.</span><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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search engines used to assist students with homework. <b>Researched grants</b> online for a student organization <b>Team Estonoa,</b> for environmental funding,
2002.Interviewed area residents for history article and input history
information in Excel sheets for local library. Conducted market research by
telephone for Issues and Answers; contacted residents for addresses and
supervised those who did the same. Attended federal <b>grant research workshop</b> offered by Taryn Chase at Radford
University, May 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in English</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">,
Radford University, Radford, Virginia, 2010. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Writing and American Literature classes, Teaching Writing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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State University of New York at Potsdam in the past.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the student newsletter and mentored students for high school Team Estonoa Ecology
class in St. Paul, Virginia, 2002-2003. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Let’s Run Our Schools Together, </i>available
at <u>www.buybooksontheweb.com</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the news department at WLRV radio station, Lebanon, Virginia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fundraisers for a battered women’s shelter, Norton, Virginia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of Appreciation from Clinch Valley Community Action for PR articles, 2001-2003.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Award for R. U. English Club’s “Funniest Horror Story,” October 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-49721082820293866692017-02-20T09:33:00.000-08:002017-02-20T09:33:46.949-08:00DALLAS AREA FOR THE HOLIDAYS<br />
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The Vitruvian Park Christmas lights in Addison, near Dallas, December.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">When you think about Christmas, Dallas does not immediately come to mind. After all, there is little chance of snow "whitening up" the landscape, even this far north in Texas. Son Adam, a native for several years, points out the weather in winter is highly unpredictable, the mercury reading being anything from 20o to 60o F, so an extra jacket or coat for your visit will be necessary.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> Once here there are a number of things for any tourist to pursue, like the Kennedy "6th Floor Plaza" or free Dallas city art museum, the latter with an interesting sculpture garden nearby. And you can try out the unique dessert at the mock closed factory look at the Whiskey Cake restaurant. But what about holiday fare?</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> When the weather doesn't produce rain in cold sheets, early December has the wonderful "Children's Health Holiday" parade, with floats featuring actual patients. And through November and December the Christmas spirit can be seen at the big resort hotel just outside of Dallas, the Gaylord Texan. Around since April 2004, the Gaylord Texan is a luxury hotel where three can pay $200 for a good steak dinner. Or you walk along its indoor "Riverwalk" where you can eat cafe style near a gently flowing manmade waterfall. You can even go on a jogging trail on the outside of the hotel for exercise.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> You can also get exercise at the Gaylord Texan by going through their special event for the holidays, called "ICE!". Although "ICE!" is not free at the Gaylord Texan ($29.99 at peak times for adults, $20 for seniors, $16.99 at peak times for kids ages 4-12), it is different. This year featured a story about Santa's life, with three foot ice figures colored and shaped like cartoon characters. Before you entered to walk the exhibit you had to pick up a long parka with a fur lined hood so you could withstand the 9o F temperatures needed to keep the ICE's ice from melting. A rendering of a fountain, a fifteen foot angel and a manger scene, uncolored, were expertly done.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> And if you wanted to get more exercise than walking you could go down ice slides, or go tubing on snowy ice at ICE! Cold but a cool hotel entertainment. And they offered cupcakes and hot chocolate you could purchase at the end of it. The central sky high atrium at the hotel with its tall Christmas tree and massive toy soldiers is also an impressive holiday sight.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> Taking a walk outside for the holidays around Dallas can also be colorful. In nearby Addison there are the Vitruvian Park lights, a December evening delight. On the holly, oak, and other small trees strings of tiny lights, all one color, are strung around tree trunks and branches that border the walkways and bridge of this special park. In the dark they light up the stream close by with flashy light orange, blue, red, and green colors. They present themselves as a forest, though Vitruvian Park is part of a recreational community, not a true forest. You could spend all evening at Vitruvian Park just taking pictures.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> One thing we needed for son Adam's apartment was some kind of Christmas tree. But he wanted to be a minimalist. We wound up buying some fake "branches" at a nearby IKEA store and taping them to a door to form the outline of a tree (as though it had died in the apartment). Well, the city itself is memorable for any planning to visit in December. </span></b><br />
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<br />The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-77450377175268999832017-02-12T20:11:00.000-08:002017-02-12T20:11:20.997-08:00My Own version of "Forest Bathing" at Tom's Creek Trail <br />
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Tom's Creek Trail, near Blacksburg, Virginia<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">It was a "much" warmer than normal day and after a satisfying church potluck I decided to stretch my legs a bit and get some exercise. Many of us have suffered through colds and the flu because of this crazy warm again, cold again weather. But today, even as rain threatened, I decided upon a walk in the woods.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"> John Muir said you should go to the forest for its "glad tidings," and today I wanted to do just that. There is a lot out there as you traverse a paved path, and I wondered what I would find off Tom's Creek Road. There is a handy little parking area close to the start of the trail, and a picket fence of sorts welcomes you. Walk just a short way and you'll come upon a sign that points out that Tom's Creek is so cold that if you get too close you'll feel a chill in the air -- which isn't all that easy, between the fencing and the various nonnative vines entangling the fence and blocking part of the view.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"> It was fairly quiet on the first part of my quest, around trees that had dropped off small limbs and walking past grape vines thrown about some small trees. There were a few Virginia pines that had dropped their cones, and I was reminded of the Japanese name for relaxing in the woods: Shinrin-Yoku, which translates into "forest bathing".</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"> If we Americans saw more value in being in the woods, which Japanese studies have found lowers blood pressure and can even help the immature system, there would be less weight problems, less diabetes, less in the way of healthcare costs. It could be a greater industry than it is now. Maybe even Trump would endorse forest bathing and being the woods. Shinrin-yoku could be emphasized in schools, over standardized tests. Forest bathing and cover pursuits in the woods could really make a difference if someone would stop to look at it. </span></b><br />
<br />The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-50774942248845550782016-10-18T18:39:00.001-07:002016-10-18T18:39:43.905-07:00Indoor Health Adventure at the Public Pool<b> </b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> Christiansburg Aquatic Center</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> When you're a kid, you really look forward to splashing around with water in the summer, whether it's from a sprinkler out on the lawn or at a pool or beach. Having a backyard pool is a nice thing for a family to have in the hot weather and makes for an interesting, enjoyable summer. But what if you want to go swimming as the weather cools off?</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> Unless you live near a boat dock and the temperatures stay the same all year, you'll need to find an indoor place to go for a swim in cooler temps. And it's a healthy thing to do as well.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> Pools are actually quite a popular enterprise, for the buyer and seller. According to Aquaticnet, there are over three million above ground pools in America, and 270,000 commercial pools. And we were going to try out one of the latter.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> It was sad when "our" indoor pool, part of Radford University, was closed because of a shortsighted former president. At one point our town had an outdoor pool at the park by the river, then one in the central park (right before integration, when the town gave it up). Now the nearest indoor community pool is down the road, in Christiansburg. But as we were residents from the nearby town without a pool, we were given a free pass (for now). </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> Christiansburg's aquatic center is fairly generous in size, though most of its parking is well below the center; it requires negotiating a lot of stairs (not too convenient for babies or the elderly). It has a "competition" pool with several lanes and is seven feet deep all the way around, handy for swim meets. Though you will get your hair wet as you have to swim under the thick lane dividers to get to a ladder to climb out.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> In another room -- there is a glass wall dividing them -- is a big family pool. It starts at three feet near the steps into the water, which is convenient, and only gets as deep as five feet. There is also a fun pool area for little kids, with a curved water slide, colored buckets that toss water on you every so often, and what looks like a continuous, unmoving sprinkler above everyone's heads. Rather unique, an outdoor water experience brought to an indoor pool.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> If you go by mid-afternoon (close to 2) there is almost no one in the pool at all. We shared a huge area with a couple, who shot baskets with a little ball that went into a small rim on the edge of the water, trying to get their baby to do the same. Needless to say, he couldn't. Those durn lap dividers weren't in the way so swimming was more comfortable in this big family pool.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"> We hope to go back. It's all a matter of scheduling, as we don't usually swim in cold weather. It would be one way, though, of keeping in shape, especially around Christmastime.</span></b>The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-12567574107391213262016-09-20T10:44:00.001-07:002016-09-20T10:44:42.203-07:00RAIN, RAIN, EVEN MORE RAIN AT MT. ROGERS CAMPSITE!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The northern gray cheeked or Jefferson salamander (Virginia)<br />
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This looks like nodding trillium, in the Mount Rogers woods.<br />
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There was rain, rain, and even more rain, wind whipping through the campground. It actually created "wind rain," and a discovery that a slippery, grayish salamander was hiding out UNDER the tent!<br />
Grindstone Campground in the Mount Rogers Recreation Area (VA) has three camping loops: the opossum, the cottontail, and the groundhog. I reserved a spot in the cottontail, the middle group of sites that seemed the least crowded, reservation-wise. Though I wish that now we'd known someone with a great big RV to take us in at the different loop.<br />
The bath house with its tiny light made me a bit nervous as I strode toward it in almost pitch blackness. Of course, I'd just finished reading a passage of Bill Byrson's <i>A Walk in the Woods</i> about nasty encounters with bears in the woods. Not a great time to have just read that. There were too many "bear scares" in his book for comfort. My son Zeb once spent in the car during a campout because he heard a big rustling of leaves in the woods and thought a bear was close. Supposedly, black bears aren't that aggressive, but they are still bears. And I forgot one night I had a muffin and other food in my camp shirt pockets. (Perhaps the downpour kept any away. That is what I like to think.)<br />
It rained both nights of our August stay -- grrr, grumble, grumble -- but what do you expect out in the woods? Weather made to order? At least it wasn't too hot. The second night we tried to dry out towels over an open fire. Then it began to rain, first slowly and then, never ending. I had to read in the car (9 p.m. is too early for me to sleep) with my flashlight. Being so sleep deprived from the night before (sometimes a first night in a tent is like visiting a new place your body can't get used to) I think I "conked out" at 10:30, a record for me. The rain didn't quit and lulled me to sleep.<br />
Next morning, it was raining again, only not as hard. We had to pack our tent while it was soaked, to be aired out later, and ate brunch in town at a KFC place. On the way out a camp rep did a survey with us. I mentioned the rain and two stupid women who took their two threatening dogs into the bathroom. I couldn't even relax in there and read in a good light.<br />
The trips to discover butterflies and old rocks with others were interesting. But the constant rain at night was aggravating. And this was well before any hurricane came!The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331932878647035594.post-56901695072088725152016-09-20T10:03:00.000-07:002016-09-20T10:03:10.964-07:00Marshmellow, anyone?<span style="font-size: large;"> <b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> At a recent campout we dined with a group of people at a picnic shelter in the Mount Rogers Recreation Area (VA). I had brought along a bag of marshmellows and thought the kids there would "jump" at the chance to bite into one, and be raring to go into the woods to get sticks to put them on for roasting. I actually had all the ingredients for a s'more (which stands for "some more" -- you know, marshmellow that is melted and put between a piece of Hershey's chocolate and graham crackers), but no one bit, so to speak.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> Maybe their parents were total, extreme vegans. It's an interesting thing about marshmellows. You probably think, since they are white, that they are totally made from white sugar. Well, not quite. There is also some corn syrup thrown in and gelatin with water, whipped up and made into the cylindrical shapes you see in bags sold in the supermarket. And the gelatin can come from pigs! Yes, gelatin is processed protein from animals to help make things fibrous and strong. And you thought it was totally vegan -- surprise!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> Some people may think that if it is from an animal it must be from horse hooves -- no, those are used in glue, not gelatin, not marshmellows. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> Many decades and centuries ago, Europeans used a specific plant, <i>Althaea offincinalis, </i>the marsh mallow plant. It is said parts of the plant could be used for a cough or sore throat, but then some people discovered that mixing ingredients, the plant's sweet sap, with egg whites and sugar, could make a white sugary treat. In 1948 Frenchman Alex Doumak came up with a process using gelatin and creating long tubes of the stuff, then cut into the shapes we see today. According to "Candy USA," we spend $125 million a year on marshmellows. And fifty percent of them are roasted over an open fire in the summer. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> Does this fact make me less likely to eat marshmellows? Actually, the sugar content melting on my teeth does, not the gelatin background. So I took my bag of marshmellows home and turned on my electric burner, with a fork through my white dessert, for a really fast, sugar high! </b></span>The Writerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01691446862373715777noreply@blogger.com0