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Nizhny Novgorod
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Nizhny Novgorod (Russian: Ни́жний Но́вгород NEEZH-nee NOHV-guh-ruht), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is Russia's fifth largest city, ranking after Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg. It had a population in 2005 of 1,297,600. It is the economic and cultural center of the vast Volga economic region, and also the administrative center of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and Volga Federal District.
From 1932 to 1990 the city was known as Gorky (Го́рький), after the writer Maxim Gorky. Following the fall of the Soviet Union, the old name was restored.
The city was founded by Grand Duke George II of Russia in 1221 at the confluence of two most important rivers of his principality, the Volga and the Oka. Its name literally means Newtown the Lower, to distinguish it from the older Novgorod. A major stronghold for border protection, Nizhny Novgorod fortress took advantage of a natural moat formed by the two rivers.
Along with Moscow and Tver, Nizhny Novgorod was among several newly-founded towns that escaped Mongol devastation on account of its insignificance and grew up into important centers of Russian political life during the period of Tatar yoke. For a short period of time it was the capital of the Suzdal Principality and competed with Moscow for the power in the region. However the competition with Moscow was lost and in 1392 the city was incorporated into Muscovy. Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin was built in 1508-1511 (under supervision of the Italian fortress engineers) and became one of the strongest Russian citadels. There is a legend saying that the project was initially developed with participation of Leonardo da Vinci. However there is no documented proof of Leonardo's work for that project, the only thing the legend is based on — the striking resemblance of Leonardo's sketches and the actual kremlin schemes. The fortress was strong enough to withstand Tatar sieges in 1520 and 1536.
In 1612, the so-called national militia, gathered by a local merchant Kuzma Minin and commanded by Knyaz Dmitry Pozharsky expelled the Polish troops from Moscow, thus putting an end to the Time of Troubles and establishing the rule of the Romanov dynasty.
In 1817, the Makariev Fair, one of the liveliest in the world the 16th-18th centuries, was transferred to Nizhny Novgorod, which thereupon started to attract numerous visitors and by the mid-19th century it turned Nizhny Novgorod into trade capital of the Russian Empire.
Under the Soviet rules the trade connections of the city were abandoned and Nizhny Novgorod turned to become an important industrial centre instead. During the communist time the city was closed to foreigners to safeguard the security of Soviet military research. The physicist and the Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov was exiled there during 1980-1986 to limit his contacts with foreigners.
The climate in the region is humid continental and it is similar to the climate in Moscow, although colder in winter, which lasts from late November until late March with a permanent snow cover.
The city is divided by the river Oka into two major parts: the Upper city (Nagornaya chast) on the hilly right side and the Lower city (Nizhnyaya or Zarechnaya chast — what literally means "the part over the river") on the left bank of the river. The Upper city is the old historical part of Nizhny Novgorod, whereas the Lower city is larger, newer and consists of more industrial districts.
The Upper city is administratively divided into three districts (rayons):
The districts of the Lower city:
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By train
Trains are probably the best and the most convenient way to get to Nizhny Novgorod. Most of the Trans-Siberian trains (including the legendary train No.1 between Moscow and Vladivostok and the train from Moscow to Beijing) pass via Nizhny Novgorod.
Note: In train timetables the old name of the city, "Gorky(Горький)", is still used as the destination name instead of Nizhny Novgorod.
By train from Moscow:
The fastest option is to take Sapsan [6] that will carry you for 3h 55m. The other option is Burevestnik express which commutes between Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod twice per day (departure from Moscow's Kursky station at 1400 and at 1655). It will take around 4 and a half hours to get Moskovsky station in Nizhny. There are also comfortable overnight trains departing from Moscow's Kazansky station at 2225 and from Kursky station at 2355. Of course it is possible to use other trains going eastward departing from various Moscow's stations.
By train from Saint Petersburg: the night train "Volga" departs everyday at 1732 and arrives to NN at 0850 next morning.
There are also direct train connections with Kazan, Samara, Kirov, Yaroslavl and other cities of the region (there are mainly night trains). As well as with Vladivostok, Beijing, Ulaanbaatar, Irkutsk, Astrakhan, Simferopol, Novorossiysk and many others.
By plane
The international airport of Nizhny Novgorod (GOJ) is situated in Strigino district what is about 30-40 minutes by taxi from city centre (if there are no traffic jams). The airport is very small. There are several daily flights to Moscow, also there are connections with Baku (Azerbaijan), Frankfurt (Germany), Kaliningrad, Novosibirsk, Surgut, Vienna (Austria), Yekaterinburg and Yerevan (Armenia). Most of the flights are operated by the Russian airlines, but there are also regular flights by Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines.
You can get to the airport by buses number 11, 20, T-29 or by taxi (normal price from city centre will be around 700 roubles — appr. 30 USD).
By car
Nizhny Novgorod is situated on M7/E30 road. The road is quite ok and it usually takes about 4 hours to get to Nizhny from Moscow. However the traffic jams in the suburbs of Moscow can make the way longer. The story about speed regimes and the road police will follow soon ...
By bus
There are regular state-owned daily bus connections with Moscow (from Kanavinskaya bus station in Nizhny to metro Schelkovskaya in Moscow) but the buses are very slow (it can take up to 10 hours with several stops in all the towns along the road) and rather uncomfortable. There are also faster private daily and overnight buses between Kursky railway terminal in Moscow and Moskovsky railway terminal in Nizhny Novgorod.
Also there are buses to Chuvashia, Mari El, and Mordovia (from main bus station near pl. Lyadova).
By boat
River cruises [7] [8]] down the Volga operate during the summer months (early May to end of September). Dozens of boats operated by different companies run from Moscow to Astrakhan and back. One way or return cruises may be reserved to/from practically any city along the Volga.
Get around
The map of transport routes could be downloaded here:[9]
There are two lines in Metro, both connected in Moskovskaya station. The first line goes from Burevestnik. The second one goes to Park Kultury. Several stations are going to be built. Working hours: 05:15am - 12:00pm. Price: 12RUB. Railway station is above the Moskovskaya station.
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Tram communications were opened in 1896 and now there are about 30 lines operating in the city.
Extensive network of 25 lines.
Historical center
Note that the walks on the Kremlin's wall are cariied out from 1, May to 1, October.
Shopping malls
By phone
If you are planning to spend in Russia more than several days and you are going to communicate with your Russian colleagues by mobile (and send SMS to your home country) it would be reasonable not to spend on roaming and to buy a local SIM-card. There are five GSM networks in the city: three major Russian mobile networks ("big three": MTS, Beeline and Megafon), Tele 2 and NSS (HCC). Also there is a network working in AMPS/DAMPS standard and there was one in NMT-450 (not sure if it's still there). The prepaid tariffs are more or less the same in all GSM networks. A SIM-card can be purchased in numerous shops, kiosks, and special salons. Usually it costs you just to pay some 3 or 4$ for your future calls.
However if you come to Nizhny Novgorod with a SIM-card bought in Moscow or Saint Petersburg be aware that you will be charged higher prices for your calls since providers consider this as inner-Russian roaming (basically the country is divided in several huge roaming zones). Mobile numbers registered in Nizhny Novgorod are of the Volga region zone.
There are payphones in the streets however you can buy phonecards only in the post-offices and in few newspaper kiosks.
By internet and wi-fi
There are several wi-fi spots for free internet access in the city. For example, there is wi-fi coverage in the cafe at KARO cinema on the top floor of "Shokolad" (Chocolade) shopping-mall in Belinsky Str. Free Wi-Fi (with the purchase of a meal/drinks) is also available at a cafe called "Artbus" ("Артбус", wordplay on the Russian word for "watermelon" - "arbuz"). Be aware, though, that this cafe has a monthly bandwidth limit, so if you try to use the Wi-Fi there toward the end of the month, you may not succeed.
In the Upper city (Nagornaya chast' Нагорная часть):
In the lower city (Zarechnaya chast' Заречная часть):
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Bearded iris, Iris germanica, is a hardy, long-lived perennial that require a minimum of maintenance. The flowers have six petals; three upright petals (called standards) and three hanging petals (called falls). A fuzzy line or beard runs down the middle of each fall. Flowers come in many colors including blue, pink, purple, reddish, white, yellow, and bi-colors. Most bearded iris flower in the spring (April to June depending on cultivar), but some of the new cultivars re-flower in the summer and fall. The second flower display is not as showy as the spring display but last into the fall. Many re-blooming iris are fragrant.
Bearded irises are classified into several types: miniature dwarf (height 8 inch or less, 1 to 2 inch diameter flowers), standard dwarf (height 8 to 15 inches), intermediate (height 16 to 27 inches), miniature tall (height 16 to 25 inches, small flowers), border (height 16 to 27 inches), and tall (height 28 to 38 inches). The shorter iris flower first, followed by the intermediate, and then the taller irises.
Iris have thick, fleshy, underground stems (called rhizomes) that store food produced by the sword-shaped, semi-evergreen leaves. The rhizomes grow best when planted at or slightly below the soil surface with feeder roots penetrating the soil below. Each year underground offsets develop from the original rhizome. Buds produce a large fan of leaves and several flower stalks. Success with iris depends on keeping the rhizomes firm and healthy. In general, this is done by providing the rhizome good drainage while the feeder roots below remain moist but not wet.
A full sun exposure is preferred; however, some of the delicate pink and blue iris hold their color better in partial shade. Excessive shade will reduce or prevent flowering. Good soil drainage is essential to prevent rhizomes from rotting. It may be necessary to plant the rhizomes in raised beds (at least 6 inches high) to obtain proper drainage.
Iris will grow in many soil types but a light, loamy soil with a pH of 6 to 7 that has been amended with organic matter is preferred. A tight clay soil may keep the rhizome too wet and should have organic matter (pine bark, compost) incorporated to improve drainage. Manure is not usually recommended for iris but can be used if well-rotted and incorporated at least 6 inches deep into the bed (should not come in contact with rhizomes).
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Before flowering, water plants often enough to keep the soil moist but not wet. Reblooming iris should be watered during the summer, while spring-flowering iris will tolerate drought. After flowers fade, cut flower stalks back to an inch or two above the rhizome to prevent seed formation. Plants that are growing well (good green foliage) may not need fertilizing. If you fertilize, apply ½ cup of 5-10-10 fertilizer per iris clump after flowering. Fertilizer can burn the rhizomes; it should be applied around but not directly on them. Reblooming iris should be fertilized in the spring as new growth begins and after spring flowering ends. Iris respond to shallow (1 to 2 inches) cultivation and should not be mulched. In early fall, cut leaves 6 to 8 inches from the ground, especially if foliage disease occur.
After 3 to 5 years, iris generally become crowded and should be divided. Iris can be divided any time, but many growers prefer to divide 4 to 6weeks after the flowering period. Cut the leaves to one-third their length. Dig the clump and wash soil off with a hose. Cut rhizomes apart so that each section has at least one healthy fan of leaves and firm, white roots. Older rhizomes may seem firm but should be discarded since they have limited flowering capacity.
Poor flowering -- is normally due to planting in excessive shade, using excessive nitrogen fertilizer, or planting the rhizomes too deep. Limited flowering may also occur if plants become too crowded and need dividing.
Bacterial soft rot -- is the most serious iris disease. Bacteria enter through injuries or cuts to the rhizome. Soft rot causes the rhizomes to become mushy and have a disagreeable odor. Use of fresh manure or excess nitrogen, coupled with poor drainage, contribute to soft rot development. Dig up and destroy diseased rhizomes. If the rot is not extensive, cut off and destroy diseased plant parts.
Crown rot fungus -- causes a rot at the base of leaves where they join the rhizome and causes them to fall over. It is identified by reddish-brown "mustard seeds" which are produced by the fungus. Trim leaves to admit more sunlight and air movement to the rhizomes; carefully remove and destroy all diseased leaves.
Leaf spots -- After flowering, leaves may become dotted with small, brown spots. Bacterial leaf spot has a watery, streaked appearance. Water-soaked margins around the spot turn yellow. Fungal leaf spots are rust-colored, drier, and more confined. Since disease organisms overwinter on old foliage, cut and destroy leaves of infected plants in the fall. Spray with a registered fungicide during extended periods of high humidity or rainy seasons.
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Iris borer -- The first symptoms of iris borers are small notches on the leaf edge or small accumulation of sawdust frass in early spring. Iris later develop loose, rotted bases and holes in rhizomes. Bacterial soft rot readily attacks borer-infested plants. Carefully remove and destroy old leaves, stems, and plant debris in the fall. A registered insecticide can be applied to the rhizomes in the spring as new growth occurs.


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I bought the new Dish Network Hopper satellite TV system for our home. And not only did this dirty man buy the new Dish Network Hopper system for our home, I also agreed to purchase the Hopper system equipped with something known as the "Sling."
Hear the word "dirty" and all sorts of images might pop into your brain. There's the most literal meaning, which might involve actual dirt…your kids playing in the mud or something, or maybe pigs flopping around in some slop. You might think of something more on the erotic side, with a flirtatious couple talking "dirty" to each other while enjoying a private moment. Maybe it's a couple of kids telling "dirty" jokes that their parents might not think they're not old enough to be telling. Maybe it's more on the negative side, with someone getting away with a "dirty" trick or playing a game in "dirty" fashion, with a late hit or a cheap shot. Or maybe when you hear the word "dirty," you can't help but start humming the iconic hip-hop tune from a few years ago by the rapper Chamillionaire: "They see me rollin', they're hatin', patrollin', tryin' to catch my ridin' dirty. Tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty, tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty…"
Until a couple weeks ago, any one of those images relating to "dirty" could have randomly popped into my mind upon hearing the word.
And while the good folks at Webster's Dictionary probably don't know what it means, exactly, to ride "dirty," it's a safe bet "dirty" in the dictionary is followed by many of the definitions mentioned in this column's first paragraph. But the Webster crew needs to print up a new, special edition and add another meaning. Or maybe no words are necessary; maybe they should just add a picture of me, with a morose, dreadful and guilty look on my face.
You see, I bought the new Dish Network Hopper satellite TV system for our home. And not only did this dirty man buy the new Dish Network Hopper system for our home, I also agreed to purchase the Hopper system equipped with something known as the "Sling." So what's the "Sling"? Well, by owning the Hopper with "Sling," my family can watch anything we want through our Dish Network system on any other device we own that has access to the Internet. That includes the laptop computer in the kitchen, a tablet and three smart phones. Anywhere in the world, we can turn on our "Dish Anywhere" app on our phones or visit Dish Anywhere on the web and watch anything we want.
Mike Jobe is a local Dish Network retailer and installer. We bought a new TV in December but our old Dish Network system came equipped with only one high-definition signal. I told Mike I needed a new Dish system with a second HD signal, but didn't want anything fancy. He showed up with the Hopper, and yours truly - who a few short months ago dedicated most of a column to making fun of the redneck, hillbilly, simple-minded sloth angle that the Dish Network brass unleashed upon humanity in the form of the "Hopper" advertising campaign – almost ran screaming from the house. I didn't need the Hopper. I didn't want the Hopper. I had to be man of principle.
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So what's it capable of doing? It's capable of compelling me to show just about everyone I come in contact with how I can watch anything I want anywhere I want on my smart phone by accessing that virtual, techno "cloud" floating out there somewhere in cyberspace.
At the end of my little demonstration, reactions range from the envious – "That is so cool!" – to the sympathetic – "You may be the saddest loser I've ever known. Don't speak to me again."
To date, I don't think I've watched TV on my smart phone via Dish Anywhere for more than 30 seconds. The guilt is too crushing, and I find myself immediately forcing images of my wife and children to pop into my head so I can think of reasons to go on living.
Have you seen the latest "Hopper" commercial on TV? No matter where the pathetic family with the Hopper w/Sling system is in their house – on the steps, on a bed, at the kitchen table, etc. – whatever they're sitting on is transformed into a makeshift recliner as every member of the family praises the Hopper's capabilities. It ends with grandpa, sitting on the toilet, of course, which reclines, sending his bare legs and pants pulled down to his ankles into the air while he's watching TV on his smart phone. "Shut up!" he yells. "I'm tryin' to watch TV!"
I bought the Hopper. With the "Sling." I have Dish Anywhere. That family in the commercial? They're my people now. My peers.
My wife and sons, my wife and sons…my…wife…and…sons.


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I don't want to seem ungrateful, pumpkin spice calzone. But I'll take my chances.
The whole collection has not been unboxed yet, but a generous soul has just given me half a box of newspapers dealing with the Oliver North investigations, and two boxes of newspapers dealing with the election and inauguration of Barack Obama. I have been promised that there is at least one box of magazines dealing with September 11.
"These are real collectibles," she told me.
I cannot argue with that. They ARE real collectibles. They are also NOT really valuable.
I've mentioned this before, cranberry latte: they ARE collectible, and I wish YOU'D collect them. I'd rather wait, oh, sixty or seventy years. 125 years might be better.
See, it was a phase the nation went through in the 60s and 70s. We all discovered that old newspapers and comic books and baseball cards and political buttons were helpful in bringing back a bygone era. A candy wrapper from 1935 can tell you things you may not have realized about the past. (For one thing, there was once a time when the government didn't warn us about the calories and fat content of food. (This is why we call them the Good Old Days.)
And people starting collecting stuff. I'm in favor of this, I see no harm in it, and I sneer at those of you who are muttering "Hoarder". All I object to is that assumption that these things are of huge and remarkable value.
"The library should probably keep this: it's historic" said one of my constant advice-givers, on seeing the New Yorker issue with the solid black cover for September 11.
Yes, it is historic, and roughly 120,000 households in this country kept a copy for that very same reason. Allowing for coffee spills and overflowing dishwashers, I would guess there are probably 119,987 pristine mint copies sitting out there waiting to be donated to a Book Fair.
Where is that newspaper with the account of the assassination of President Lincoln? Now THAT would be valuable. (spoiler: but there have been plenty of forgeries, so watch it.) I'll tell you where it is. Your Great-Great-Great Aunt Booney saved a copy because she thought it was historic. So did everybody else on the block. So her grand-daughter (Great-Aunt Rosalie—the one who ran off the Canada with the lard salesman) threw it away because it had been sitting around in the cupboard so long and, anyway, nobody wants old newspapers.
That's what has to happen for your real collectible to become a saleable collectible: it has to outlive its contemporaries. And because of that nostalgia boom of the 60s and 70s, a lot of fine collectibles are still not in the First Issue of Superman class, even after half a century.
Hey, did you know that in 1960, the Richard Nixon campaign came up with the slogan "Click With Dick" and put out a lot of little metal clickers? This didn't click with the public (It was no "I Like Ike") but it was something different. A Click With Dick clicker in excellent condition, with his face on it, is worth…well, maybe two or three of these Ollie North newspapers.


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If only Durangoans could go back to their high school days when they were endlessly teased for braces, thick eyeglasses and dorky clothes.
Now, they'd be considered the cream of the crop.
Locals dug deep to find their inner geek and let it shine at the annual Fashion Do's & Don'ts Luncheon on Wednesday.
Well, maybe not too deep.
"It's hard to tell who is in costume and who isn't," said announcer Suzan Lane, decked out in a Hello Kitty outfit.
The luncheon is one of the first events to kick off Snowdown and certainly one of the most risqué. This year was no different with the wine and beer flowing as scantily dressed participants got their geek on.
Another, now legal, substance may have been involved.
"Who likes marijuana?" Jeff Mannix asked in his revitalized role as Gene Pool Gaultier, after recounting a story about the drug being popular only in big cities. The audience answered with applause and loud cheers.
Most of the women wore their hair in pigtails, while the men wore plaid. In fact, plaid was everywhere: plaid skirts, shirts, hats and every other clothing the pattern is available in was on full display. Every gender was rocking suspenders.
In an odd twist of fate, several eyeglass wearers broke their bifocals right down the middle. Luckily, they had the good sense to tape them up and continue wearing them.
The event was held at the La Plata County Fairgrounds for a second year. All of the tables were filled and plenty of attendees were left standing along the walls.
Gaultier – a caricature of French designer Jean Paul Gaultier – designed this year's fashion masterpieces.
If his line becomes a success, Durango could start seeing hippie, '70s-era clothing come back into style now that marijuana is legal in the state.
Those hitting the slopes could see skiers dressed in "Eurotrash"-style neon pants and shirts.
Four brave men walked the runway in very tight tights and shirts. While the designer boasted that "butt cracks" would be a feature of the design, none were in display.
Lucy Ricardo arose from the dead to strut her stuff down the runway and try out for the Snowdown Follies, but, alas, Ricky told her "no."
Participants saw librarians in a new light at the luncheon. Librarians may be quiet and proper in the confines of their four walls of books, but they really let loose once out on the town. Don't be surprised to see them clad in corsets with their hair down on a night out.
In true Durango fashion, model Adele Nielsen mocked the lack of cellphone coverage in the area with "Lost Verizons."
"Can you hear me now?" she asked the audience.
But the most popular models on the runway were Doug and Diana Hill in their rendition of "50 Shades of Geek" – based on the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey.
Durango Public Library had a long waiting list for the book, and people were buying it in droves at Maria's Bookshop.
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I'm glad to see you're giving all of the bold claims of Orthodoxy due investigation, and are not acting passionately in either rejecting or embracing them. A real conversion takes time, careful thought, and most of all, prayer. Wherever you end up, if you continue your path with the same diligence, I think you will find a relationship with God more fulfilling than ever before.
CDHealy,You may be right. But didn't John the Baptist say WTTE: "I baptize with WATER; Christ baptizes with FIRE and the HOLY SPIRIT" (Matt 3:11)? Perhaps this could indicate that the two--water and spirit baptism--are not always synonymous. Also, the author of Hebrews (Paul?) in Heb 6:2 mentions the "doctrine of baptismS (plural)". Could it be that he's referring to Spirit baptism and water baptism as being two different things? Or is something else in view here?I'm not trying to be contrary. I'm just trying to come to terms with whether long my long held beliefs actually correspond to the truth.God Bless.
I'm guessing that what you're thinking about (correct me if I'm wrong), is how can a Baptism really have its affect on a child if that child is then raised without much contact with the Church or Christ, and only later if ever really takes Christianity seriously? Well in Baptism we are restored, we enter the Church, and we are able to receive all the other Sacraments. But if we don't continue in the Christian way, we will sin and become again separated from Christ by our sin, until we confess our sins to Christ before the preist and are absolved of our sins. So if someone receives the grace of Baptism but doesn't use it, it doesn't necessarily have much affect on their lives since they're not using Confession & Communion to stay in the narrow way. Christ talked about this when He washed St. Peter's feet. He said that if we've already washed (Baptism), we don't need to wash again, we just need to have our feet washed (Confession), so in considering this issue it's important to consider the affect of Baptism and Confession together, otherwise it won't make sense & it'll sound like we're talking about magic.
When the gentiles were given the Holy Spirit, and then St. Peter responded by Baptising them, this was not to become the normal way of doing things, rather it was an exception where God did things out of the normal order to show the early Church that it must include gentiles and not be a Jewish movement.
Maybe I should get her to read this thread, though I don't think she's too keen on the idea of confessing sins to a priest.
Can't help with the orthodox pov .You might like my Spiritual Director's 'definition', bearing in mind that I was a nurse.He suggested I told him all the signs and symptomsHe would then make the diagnosis and prescribe the medicine/treatment.
Okay...now I'm really confused. I've seen some people reason that infant baptism was the practice from the beginning and others claim it was not. I guess I've got some investigating to do.
Is it that big of a stretch to conclude that one is justified in staying in whatever denomination he's already in as these denominations merely reflect the wide variety of baptismal beliefs present in the one "undivided" church? Why shouldn't I remain a Baptist, or at least join the Church of Christ?
Why shouldn't I remain a Baptist, or at least join the Church of Christ?
Something else that I just remembered and wonder why no one else thought of it. It wasn't enough to be born a Jew to be Jewish, you HAD to be circumcised and it HAD to happen eight days after being born. I can't imagine the church thinking any differently about baptising infants. Certainly for Jews who became Christians, I suspect that baptism simply replaced circumcision.John.
.Our paradigms impose meanings on the words of the Bible--and exclude other senses. Your choice, Doubting Thom, is to find the paradigm that existed in the Greek-speaking world of the first century . . . and then go with it. Paul uses energy terms 26 times; James, once.
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They snipped the backs of their neckties down to a few threads. If someone tried to choke them, the tie would fall apart.
They stopped along the way to purchase jockstraps, the steel ones that football linemen wear. They were young, and still interested in having families.
Were Joe Griffith and his three male cohorts from Cornell University apprehensive when they boarded a train in New Orleans and headed to Jackson, Miss., in May 1961?
Very, admits Griffith, now 77 and a decade-long resident of Durango. Others whod gone before them had been battered, bruised and bloodied by bigoted mobs.
They feared for their lives. At the least, We were expecting to get beaten up.
The 436 men and women, white and black, who put their bodies in harms way that spring and summer are known as Freedom Riders. They entered the segregated Deep South to challenge the racist and illegal system that prevailed. The U.S. Supreme Court had established in 1946 that interstate buses and trains could not be segregated. So the Riders sat at the front of buses and in whites-only waiting areas.
Today, the Freedom Riders are heroes. In 2011, the 50th anniversary of the rides, their story was told in a two-hour PBS documentary and on The Oprah Winfrey Show 178 of them, including Griffith, gathered on Oprahs set in Chicago.
Earlier this month, Griffith was a guest at Fort Lewis College professor Andrew Gullifords U.S. history class. The 30 students and this reporter watched part of the documentary and heard Griffith talk about the temper of the times.
The Yankees defeated the Rebels to settle the slavery issue, but prejudice takes longer to die. Southern states passed Jim Crow laws, keeping the races separate in public places. Despite federal laws that integrated schools and buses, Southern whites refused to let go easily of a system that, for them, had worked just fine for centuries.
The Freedom Riders, trained in work sessions to react nonviolently, were looking to provoke a reaction and attract attention. Whose attention? The sympathetic publics, for one. But also that of the Kennedy administration, which had won the 1960 election only with the cooperation of Southern governors, and was reluctant to act on the segregation issue.
On May 4, the first 13 Riders left Washington, D.C. On May 14, Mothers Day, the riders split into two groups in Atlanta, some boarding a Trailways and some a Greyhound, both bound for Birmingham, Ala.
The Greyhound bus was halted by a mob outside Anniston, Ala., the windows broken and a firebomb hurled inside. Passengers, choking on smoke, escaped only after the gas tank ruptured, causing the mob to back off. Many were beaten upon leaving the bus, and several hospitalized.
Meanwhile, the Trailways bus was boarded at the last moment by informed Klansmen, who tormented and physically attacked several of the Freedom Riders. When the Trailways passengers reached Birmingham they were met by Klansmen and their police allies ... armed and ready to do what had to be done to protect the Southern way of life, according to the 2006 book Freedom Riders by Raymond Arsenault.
The attackers used fists, baseball bats and pipes to pummel the Freedom Riders, black bystanders and journalists. Although the riot sent several to the hospital, no one was killed.
Despite the dangers, the Freedom Rides continued. Mississippi took a different tack, simply arresting the incoming riders for disturbing the peace. A call went out for other Freedom Riders to follow and fill the jail in Jackson, Miss.
As the documentary played in the FLC classroom, an emotional Griffith pointed out himself in a scene with his Cornell classmates. I cant watch without tearing up, he said, dabbing his eyes.
At age 26, Griffith already had a wife and two children. But buoyed by his political convictions and supportive activist wife, he joined four others who saw the injustice.
We were certainly nervous going down, Griffith said last week in a separate interview. A native Texan and Oklahoman, he understood Jim Crow thinking. He knew that blacks were kept in their place with threats and beatings, imprisonment and periodic lynchings.
We were very aware of the condition of the country not being what it ought to be, and this was outrageous.
The five piled into a ratty Ford convertible and drove 36 hours from the Ithaca, N.Y., campus straight to New Orleans for training. A day later four of them boarded a train for Jackson.
Police were waiting. But the precautions of cutting ties and wearing jocks proved unnecessary.
We were totally surprised how gentlemanly they were, Griffith recalled of his arrest on May 30. And thrown off by it, because we expected to do something to make publicity.
After a few days eating beans and molasses in the city jail, they decided a hunger strike might help to achieve that publicity. Its amazing what changes happen to your body after 10 days without food, said Griffith, who spent two weeks in jail, then paid $50 bail. Others stayed weeks or months in the city jail and a state prison.
To some, the Freedom Riders were rabblerousers causing trouble. Many even believed they were communists. Ultimately, the rides galvanized a generation of activists and pushed the issue along. The big victory came Sept. 22, 1961, when an Interstate Commerce Commission decree, pushed along by Attorney General Robert Kennedy, prohibited racial discrimination in bus transit and required this to be posted on interstate buses.
Soon after, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
After the Freedom Rides, Griffith participated in desegregation sit-ins in D.C., and in the summer of 1964 spent time in Fayette County, Tenn., helping to register black voters.
The struggle to overcome Jim Crow wasnt over, but huge strides had been made. Griffith had put his life on the line as a soldier of peace.
Im proud to have been part of that.
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Billy Rhodey, age 49, of Clinton, Tenn., passed away Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012, at his home.
Billy Rhodey, age 49, of Clinton, Tenn., passed away Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012, at his home.
He moved to Indianapolis in the '70s, worked as a welder, and then returned to Tennessee in 1996 worked at DOE as a welder. Billy loved NASCAR, football, and enjoyed fishing with his Uncle Charles. He was a member of Poplar Creek Baptist Church in Clinton, Tenn. Billy was preceded in death by his father, William C. Rhodey.
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Billy's family received his friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, in the chapel of Jones Mortuary.
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Posted: Thu 02 Sep 2010, 07:43
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Legacy OS released (Formerly TEENpup)
Hello Everyone,
Today sees the release of Legacy OS Linux, formerly TEENpup Linux. After 8 months of development I am proud to now offer Legacy OS for download.
This release marks the moving away of Legacy OS from a teenager based Distro to a Distro which sole purpose is to rescue 5 to 10 year old PC's / laptop's from ending up in Landfill. To do this it has to be usable in a real world environment and provide compliance with current online standards. A user wants to be able to connect online and have an acceptable Internet experience. Legacy OS comes with Opera 10.10 Web Browser as default which is also the default Email Client. Some System Files have been updated to allow the current version of Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Java 1.6 and other required Plugins / Codecs to operate in what in reality is a Legacy Operating System. By building on a system base that is now 4 to 7
years old, gives a User access to a base of System Drivers that are no longer supported by the majority of Linux Distro's available today. Because of the Legacy nature of the Operating System, a very large selection of useful Applications come standard with the Distro and most users won't feel the need to install any extra software. In this release you'll find no Open Office? Why? It was felt that Abiword and Gnumeric would allow a user to still write the odd letter and may be do a spreadsheet. Open Office takes up a large amount of MB's on the CD that could be put to better use. This has allowed the inclusion of a large number of extra Applications that would otherwise not find themselves included. Legacy OS comes with a new Dark Look Theme as default. Both KDE and GTK2 based Applications and some Java Based Applications use this theme. Some will love it and some will hate it. So why the Dark Look? It was felt that a Dark Theme would appear more modern than the Light Themes that have been used in the past and to move Legacy OS away from the "Windows Vista" Look TEENpup 2009 Legacy had. A lot of testing was done during the development of this Dark Look Theme to make sure all Applications still displayed their font colors correctly and fonts simply didn't just disappear into the background. This is a "Long Term Release" and with this in mind has been developed for a user to install and use for 2 to 3 years before updating.
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Legacy OS 2017 has been released.
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Posted: Thu 02 Sep 2010, 10:04
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Well done, johnbiles. D/l in action right now.
[But I think you mean formerly?!].
Ooooh! Everything seems to work, even video. Now there's a nice surprise!
Looks good, too. Runs comfortably in 256/liveCD which probably means OK in 192/installed.
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Posted: Sat 04 Sep 2010, 03:13
Post subject: wire connection
Subject description: no go
tried legacy this morning and would not find my etho internet connection.
other pups, like, 214x rc4 and 214x top3 worked fined.
maybe i did something wrong.
i am trying to find out about driver r1000 pci. at least thats what the other
214x's say they found.
looks great though and is loaded with everything you would need.
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Posted: Sat 04 Sep 2010, 05:11
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Subject description: teenpup legacy
hello john biles
i am running teenpu 2010 mini right now and it is nice.
i noticed its from 421 and legacy is from 214.
yes i am stupid, but everything connects to etho
but legacy.
anyway teenpup 2010 mini is real nice.
any help you can give this idiot, (me), will be appreciated.
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Posted: Sun 05 Sep 2010, 03:28
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Legacy 2010 is listed on Distrowatch.
Way to go!
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I saw the listing on Distrowatch, too! Since I'm on this blasted slow dialup,...looked for Legacy on some of the better online Linux stores. Yup,...it's there, all right! Getting a copy ASAP. This looks
, john biles.
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Posted: Sun 05 Sep 2010, 14:34
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Looking forward to trying Legacy OS. John Biles has helped me with some problems that I posted on the forum, for which I am grateful, so I eagerly tried to download Legacy.
I have DSL connection ,which is just barely OK, and am running Lupup 5.1 using Seamonkey; first attempt resulted in the download manager saying it was "finished" when only 60.2 MB were received. It was a slow connection if that is any clue. The info on the downloader said that the iso was 696MB total. Needless to say, the disk I burned of the iso did not work.
Second try, the connection speed was up to par but I only got 490 MB before the downloader said "finished". I tried retry, pause, start but the rest of the file would not come.
I post this FWIW as I don't have any idea what the problem is but the info might help someone else with a similar experience.
Regards, retry
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john biles
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Location: Australia
Posted: Sun 05 Sep 2010, 20:25
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Hello retry3,
Seamonkey always had a habit of claiming that a download had finished even though it hadn't even on small files. You need a downloading Application like "Prozilla" Do you have an earlier copy of TEENpup as Prozilla is included. I have downloaded 100's of iso's even on Dial Up with no problems.
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Posted: Mon 06 Sep 2010, 12:40
Post subject: Legacy OS #1 on Linux Softpedia
Hi John, congratulations! Legacy OS is #1 on Linux Softpedia 7 Day Top Download list.
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Hello retry3,
Seamonkey always had a habit of claiming that a download had finished even though it hadn't even on small files. You need a downloading Application like "Prozilla" Do you have an earlier copy of TEENpup as Prozilla is included. I have downloaded 100's of iso's even on Dial Up with no problems.
Thank you John Biles, it looks like you were right to point the finger at Seamonkey.
First I tried to get Prozilla from the #5 Pet Repo but since it was not listed I opted for "Filezilla" because it was in the "zilla" family. There was a notice that I didn't have some sort of X server that apparently was needed to run Filezilla (Vesa is needed on this laptop under Lupu 5 because of the ATI graphis I was informed) but I went ahead anyway, and of course it didn"t work.
Next I tried the Uget Pet from the repo but that didn't work for me either.
Next I thought about the browser angle you brought up and switched to Barry's Simple Network Browser and started another download. It was going fairly fast until @ 50MB it froze the PC.
Then tried the "..secure downloader" in the internet menu and it worked like a charm.
Am now using Legacy OS to send you my thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
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Posted: Tue 07 Sep 2010, 11:08
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Hi John
Just trying LegacyOS
214R has always been a favourite of mine, and Opera 10.10 makes all the difference, though full screen youtube struggles [SIS/ALI mobo 1.8Ghz AMD/256mb ram]
As usual, I still find the network wizard doesn't correctly get me on the net
I find with UK Virgin ISP, that for some reason, I get dns failure - hence no network....and the only ones I can easily remember are Verizon's 220.127.116.11 and 184.108.40.206....which work well
I also often recommend OpenDNS 184.108.40.206 and 220.127.116.11.
Will let you know how everything else works
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Posted: Tue 11 Oct 2011, 06:23
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having to redownload LegacyOS
Subject description: dics just growing legs and going walk-about
I dont know if this is of interest to anyone but,
I pulled out an old IBM ThinkPad A21m last night, yep thats right designed for Win98 and Win 2000 (professional) , its going back a bit.
Known Specs:
- 128 meg Ram
- 8 meg Video Card (not sure of branding)
- DVD Rom
- CPU 800Mhz
- cirius 46XX sound fusion
and yes LegacyOS was working on it, not sure about the audio n video stuff (I think I screwed that up accidently hence the re-down-loading of the iso).
what was i able to achieve, read some news, logged into facebook (update) youtube, cd plays fine.
ok so maybe I wont be able to play the really high n fancy games and i had swap set at around 800megs, but hey I was online (using ethernet connection, I think WIFI would have been pushing it)
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Posts: 1469
Location: Australia
Posted: Thu 13 Oct 2011, 04:57
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Hello cretsiah,
Thanks for the info and specifications. Legacy OS 2 won't work on everything, but when it does a user can get some life back out of what most would call an item only useful as landfill.
Your posting might get others to try Legacy OS 2 as well
Legacy OS 2017 has been released.
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Posts: 130
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Posted: Wed 28 Dec 2011, 12:23
Post subject: Frugal install Legacy OS
Can I run Legacy OS as a frugal install on a WinXP notebook without creating a partition for it as I don't wish to accidentally mess up WinXP? Btw,I already have quicksetwary511 and 214X-TOP9 frugal installed and wish to do the same for Legacy OS. My notebk specs: Acer Travelmate TM632 (since 2002) with Pentium4 cpu 1.6 Ghz, ALI chipset motherboard,512MB ram,80GB harddisk,integrated graphics NVidia Geforce2go using shared memory 16MB, and wireless pcmcia adapter DLink DWL-G630(hopefully this works on Legacy OS 2). And I would like to create a swap file 512MB,not swap partition, and read somewhere doing so using GParted in Linux on NTFS is not advisable;better to do it in WinXP but not sure how. Any suggestion,advice or pointers would be greatly appreciated. If Legacy OS works fine on this notebk, I might try it on a few other lower specs notebooks,eg Toshiba P3 1GHz cpu with 256MB RAM (another one has only 128MB) and WinXP OS. Wonder if youtube videos runs reasonably OK on such machines as this is what my young nephews and nieces enjoy watching besides online gaming. Thanks in advance.
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john biles
Joined: 17 Sep 2006
Posts: 1469
Location: Australia
Posted: Thu 29 Dec 2011, 00:39
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Hello PenguinPupLin,
Legacy OS 2 allows frugal installs and you should find the installer to be very similar to other Puppy versions. I reworded some of the installer to hopefully make it easier for someone to install. Run the installer ignoring using Gparted and at the correct time chose frugal instead of a full install.
Just remember you do this at your own risk!!! Good Luck!
Legacy OS 2017 has been released.
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How is this a trap?
After capping this match-up Cincy -3 is just right.......better squad @ home going in opposite directions Cincy up Cowgirls down!
Only thing we MUST factor is Big-D's current loss........emotional distractions either discourage or encourage.
We'll find out tomorrow morning if Dallas fights for the their fallen brother!! GOD BLESS!!!!!!!!!!!!
I personally do not like to bet vs issues as such
Possible NO PLAY
Reason : database
OVER 45.5 LARGE !!! Both teams can put 30 a piece.
Cincinnati - 27 Dallas - 14
Bengals -3 under 45.5
Cincy has had ats success vs the Pokes, don't see why it shouldn't continue today.
Bengals - Under
BenJarvis Green-Ellis, 3 straight 100 yd games
Dallas down to the 3rd string NT
Bengals lead the league in sacks
Dallas' offensive line = garbage
I can see Tony Romo getting sacked for the 7th time, start throwing a fit, only to have that intercepted too.....
Bengals -3.5
The Cowboys were made aware of the Brent/Brown tragedy while on their charter flight yesterday afternoon. One of their teammates killed, the other being arraigned today for intoxicated manslaughter. That's tough and has gotta play a factor in the team's performance today.
The Cincinnati defense, which leads the NFL with 39 sacks, gotta be licking their chops. Dallas QB Romo's looking at a very rugged outing today in Paul Brown Stadium. Meanwhile, with Green-Ellis pounding the line… I see plenty of Dalton-to-Green connections for the hometown Bengals.
Teams with lesser offenses than Cincinnati having no problem lighting up the scoreboard, with Dallas' opponents ringing up 114 points L4W!
Cincinnati's sizzling four game win streak (that began with 38-13 spanking of the NY Giants) continues this afternoon.
ThePredictor Sez:
Cincinnati -3
btw....darn jerry brown and that other stupid person
Since he became head coach, Jason Garrett has not covered the spread the week after playing Philadelphia....


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Gamma Beta chapter of ESA, 4-H groups and others will host a chili feed from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10 at the Pratt Municipal Building.
The dinner is a fund-raiser for the three daughters of Kris and Roger Adelhardt, who have all three been diagnosed with the rare auto-immune disease, Behcet's Disease. Medical and travel costs for the family are astronomical, according to Linda Broce, a Gamma Beta member.
An Adelhardt Medical Fund has been established at The Peoples Bank


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With cold and flu season at its peak the Oklahoma Poison Center, along with the American Academy of Pediatrics, advises against giving over-the-counter cough and cold medications to children under the age of 4 without a prescriber's recommendation.
These medications can cause side effects that include difficulty breathing, dizziness, increased heart rate and high blood pressure.
Acetaminophen is often used to reduce fever and pain associated with the common cold and flu. However, it can be very toxic to children when they are given too much, are given the medicine too often or are given the medicine with another product that contains acetaminophen.
The Oklahoma Poison Center is asking caregivers to read the drug facts box on medication containers to see how much medicine to give, when to give medication, and what the active ingredient is in the medication.
The specialists at the Oklahoma Poison Center warn against giving children medication that is meant for adults. If you are unsure about the right medication for a child or you do not understand the medicine's instructions, check with your doctor or pharmacist, or call the Oklahoma Poison Center at(800) 222-1222.
The Oklahoma Poison Center offers the following alternatives to treating the symptoms of the common cold and flu in children:
saline nose spray will help to ease stuffy noses warm fluids (apple juice or water) can help relieve congestion and soothe sore throats flavored ice pops can provide a source of liquid that soothes throat and hydrates the body hot and cold packs: apply around congested sinuses. Both can make you feel more comfortable, but avoid a hot pack if the child is running a fever; it will raise the temperature chicken soup: it is warm, easy on the tummy and the steam ventilating into the nasal passages can serve as a natural decongestant petroleum jelly: place a small dab on the upper lip to lessen chafing from a runny nose peach syrup: drain the heavy syrup from canned peaches and drink it to help soothe sore throats honey is often recommended to help soothe sore throats but should never be given to children less than 1 year of age because of the risk of infant botulism, a rare type of food poisoning only affecting little ones
The Oklahoma Poison Center suggests contacting a doctor if your child is experiencing the following:
a fever accompanied by vomiting or rash difficulty breathing: child is breathing fast (more than 40 times a minute) or working hard to breathe a child has a fever of more than 102° (a baby under 6 months of age with a fever of 100º should be seen by a doctor) if a child is sick for more than a week signs that something is wrong: a child who seems lethargic (overly tired); or a child who, after being given medicine, does not engage in any periods of play
If you have questions about medication or believe a family member is having a reaction to medication, call the Oklahoma Poison Control Center for more information and treatment advice at (800)222-1222. The Poison Help-line is answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week and 365 days a year by trained specialists.
The Oklahoma Poison Control Center serves as a valuable resource for Oklahomans, providing immediate, free and expert treatment advice, including medication information, when an actual or suspected exposure to poisonous, hazardous or toxic substances occurs.
The Oklahoma Poison Control Center, a program of the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy at the OU Health Sciences Center, is one of 57 accredited regional poison control centers in the United States.


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Do you read food labels? Chances are, you don't know what all those mystery ingredients are. The more processed the food, the more ingredients. Most are not harmful, but there are a few that are best avoided. The following is a list of ingredients to watch for.
Do you read food labels? Chances are, you don't know what all those mystery ingredients are. The more processed the food, the more ingredients. Most are not harmful, but there are a few that are best avoided. The following is a list of ingredients to watch for.
This is a commonly used preservative added to prevent rancidity in foods that contain oils. Unfortunately, testing on mice, rats and hamsters shows that it is a carcinogen. But, because it causes cancer in their forestomachs (something humans don't have) it is believed to be safe for human consumption in low doses. BHA is commonly found in potato chips, butter, cereals, instant mashed potatoes, baked goods and chewing gums.
Parabens are synthetic preservatives used to inhibit mold and yeast formation in food and cosmetics, including lotions and deodorants. There has been some speculation that parabens, especially those in foods, may disrupt the body's hormonal balance by increasing estrogen production and lowering sperm count. Parabens are added to cakes, pastries, icings, cereals and potato-based snacks. They are often listed as methyl, ethyl or propylparaben.
Partially Hydrogenated Oils
These are also known as trans fats. Just because the food label says there are zero grams of trans fat per serving does not mean that the food is trans fat free. The FDA allows the manufacturer to say there are 0 grams if the amount is less than .5 g per serving. When you consider that the upper limit of trans fat in our diet should not exceed 2 grams per day, you can see how those partial bits of trans fat can quickly add up. Avoid foods that have partially hydrogenated oils in the ingredient list.
Sodium Nitrate
Nitrites and nitrates are used to inhibit botulism-causing bacteria in meats and to help retain the pink color in processed meats. The problem with nitrites is that when eaten, they form nitrosamines, a carcinogenic compound. Adding vitamin C seems to help thwart that process, which is why you may see vitamin C added to your bologna. Nitrates and nitrites can be found in lunchmeats, hot dogs and bacon.
Caramel Coloring
A common additive in sodas, caramel coloring seems harmless. The problem is that it is often made by treating sugar with ammonia, which can produce carcinogens. There's no way to know from the label how the caramel coloring was made.
Food Dyes
Artificial food coloring is commonly found in fruit flavored candies and sugary cereals. Most are harmless, but some may cause problems. Yellow #5 has been linked to hyperactivity in children. Yellow #6 and Red #40 may contain carcinogens. Look for artificial colors in any highly processed, colorful food.
Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein
This is a savory flavor enhancer that starts out as a plant protein (soy) that is broken down into amino acids. One of these is glutamic acid, which can combine with sodium in your body to form MSG. MSG is known to cause adverse reactions in some people who are sensitive to it. If you are sensitive to MSG, you might want to avoid foods containing hydrolyzed vegetable protein. It is found in veggie burgers, gravy mixes, soup mixes, chicken nuggets and other processed foods.
Your best bet for good health is to stick to minimally processed foods. Start with raw food, cook from scratch and leave the other stuff on the shelf.
Anita Marlay, R.D., L.D., is a dietitian in the cardiac rehab department at Lake Regional Health System in Osage Beach, Mo.


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I strongly resent Byron Maduska's letter to the editor in the Jan 31 edition of the Times.
To the editor:
I strongly resent Byron Maduska's letter to the editor in the Jan 31 edition of the Times.
I was a diehard Republican for almost 40 years until the party turned too far to the right for my beliefs. So, as a Democrat, Maduska would call me an elitist anti-American?
As retired military, and then as a retired government contractor, I served my country for 42 years around the world. On more than one occasion, I have taken an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Still, Maduska would call me an elitist anti-American.
In a democracy, we have the right and privilege to believe and say what we want as long as it causes no clear and present danger. So, Maduska has the right to say what he said. But, in a democratic society, to call someone with different views a name that is offensive is not what one should do. We vote, and who wins, wins until the next election.
People with differing views should debate them by citing facts and personal feelings without having to resort to name calling.


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An April 27 wedding is being planned by Julieanne Scott of Chicora and Chad Bell of Petrolia.
The bride-to-be is the daughter of William and Patricia Scott of Chicora. Parents of the prospective bridegroom are William and Beverly Bell of Petrolia.
The bride-elect is a 2008 graduate of Karns City High School and a 2011 graduate of Butler County Community College where she studied in the massage therapy and physical therapy assistant program.
She is employed by Blue Sky Therapy at Sugarcreek Rest.
Her fiancé graduated in 2006 from Karns City High School and in 2011 from Penn State University where he studied electrical engineering.
He is employed by Allegheny Ludlum in Brackenridge.


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Today's story is written by Julius Cord, a friend of the family.
Today's story is written by Julius Cord, a friend of the family.
I have spent half of my life on boating both for pleasure and commercial fishing. I have boated from the cloudy Missouri River around Fort Leavenworth to the sea; the "clear to the bottom" waters of Northern Michigan's Lake Superior to the unspoiled wild country surrounding Lake Kabinakagami about 200 miles north of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan- Canadian border.
I have rarely been concerned with my personal safety mainly because I could see trouble coming and I have taken steps to avoid any confrontation. This includes small boat handling in the ship channel in Galveston, Texas, and the small sailboat I sailed on Lake Michigan. All this was without personal injury to my vessel, to me or to my passengers.
My most frightened experience on the water occurred when a good friend, Bob Swiderski, and I were building a hunting duck blind on the eastern shore of the Missouri River near the small town of Kickapoo, Kansas.
The blind required a lot of work and we felt if we had an early start we could finish the construction in one day. We loaded up our tools and left our dock at Leavenworth to go by a duck boat some 12 miles north to our blind location.
We got started while it was still dark. By the time we had gone a couple of miles we ran into a heavy fog. We motored into an area where we had several cross-overs and we agreed it safe enough to keep going if we could keep the boat moving into the current.
It was early fall and the U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers had not yet restricted the flow of water from the big dams on the upper Missouri River. This meant there was still some barge and tow boat traffic making their way south through St. Louis and Memphis for the winter.
We had not gone very far when we heard what we determined to be a large boat coming downstream directly at our small boat. We were waiting for a whistle from the boat telling us that we were seen and what side of us the large boat would pass us according to the "rules of the Road" for river traffic.
We were entering a place on the river where there were big bends and it made the big boat seem like it was a lot closer than it really was. Still there was no whistle and we stayed in the channel prepared to make rapid adjustments to our direction and hoped the big boat would pass us safely.
I kept remembering that we were close to an area where my grandfather was moving a large raft of logs during a record-breaking flood when the waves forced him against the Kansas bank where the current undercut the shore and a big section of bank collapsed on the raft, over-turning the raft and, according to an eyewitness, my grandfather and two men working for him were thrown into the river and lost. This was during a record-breaking flood in 1881 and, thankfully, the eyewitness was in error and all three men were somehow saved.
We were somewhat relieved when the big boat, much closer now, turned on his gigantic search light and this meant surely he could see us now, but no whistle sounds were forthcoming telling us on which side of us he was going to pass us. So we decided to stick close to the Missouri side of the river.
We were on the river at a place called Weston Bend and we were still in the edge of the current and very close to the Missouri shore and it seemed like forever for the boat to reach us. Then he was upon us.
The roar of the diesel engines was deafening and then we heard a big blast from the horn and we knew right then that was not a boat sound, that was a freight train sound, and then the big diesel engines were to pass us not 100 feet away and the horn was "blowing a crossing" notifying anyone within ear shot that the train was about to cross a road at Beverly, Mo., not a half mile away.
When we took a few minutes to calm down we continued our journey up stream to our duck blind site. Needless to say, that was our last trip on the Missouri River when fog was present
A few weeks later I was working at Rapid City, S.D., and after an extended weekend in Kansas I took a commercial flight from Kansas City to my new home in Rapid City. I noticed some fog on the water when we crossed the Missouri River.
The small airplane made seven stops between Kansas City and Rapid City. Consequently, he did not attain too much altitude and I had a good bird's eye view of the fog laden Missouri River all the way to Nebraska City, Neb. our first stop.
The river had lost its gloomy tan color and with the fog still in place from bank to bank it was, in the brilliant clear sun, a magnificent silver white.
It looks like Mother Nature was making up to me for frightening me so badly.
Annie Johnston is a Leavenworth resident and wife of the late J.H. Johnston III, former Times publisher.


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That angular Bugs is an amazing drawing. It's not a bunch of arbitrary angles like today. They are in perspective and all aiming at the gag. It's to exaggerate Bugs acting like a hunting dog: a pointer. Clampett's seemingly crazy ideas always have a purpose - to be attractive and fun for sure, but also to direct you to be involved in the story. His crazy ideas, animation and graphics are inspired by the storyline and always in context.
Some people assume this is a Rod Scribner scene, but it isn't. It's Bob McKimson, the conservative solid animator - being pushed by Clampett, so I asume Clampett roughed out the extreme keys and positions for McKimson, and McKimson wrapped the roughs in his super solid forms.
This is one of the handful of Bugs cartoons actually drawn in the style of the 1943 Clampett/McKimson model sheet. He still has an arched back and bent legs and small proportions. Soon after this he grew taller and a bit older and stood up more straight. I like this Bugs best; he's younger and more playful. Still a comedian himself rather than the straight man (rabbit) he soon became.
Look at these magically difficult back poses. You can really feel that fluffy tail! (If that's your thing)
There's something entertaining in pure skill itself. Witnessing something that no one you know can do. Like watching gymnasts at the Olympics. Or hurdlers. I think that's why (classic) Disney cartoons are so impressive. The stories are as boring as church, but they are just so well executed and pretty that you can't help marvel at them.
Clampett combines superhuman skill with character, gags and entertainment.
Here's a Clampett stretch as Bugs anticipates to toss the gun away. All the poses, even though funny, are drawn with elegance, because they are part of a ballet: Tales Of The Vienna Woods.
One of the things I liked about Corny Concerto is that it seems to be a cartoon going through a transitional stage at the WB studio. It's packed with new ideas, and the new Bugs design and not everyone on the crew has had time to practice all these new things, so that there are scenes with some rough edges and a slight bit of awkwardness here and there. They aren't pencil tested to death like Bambi where everything is meticulously perfectly balanced - and stale. This cartoon feels like a bunch of really fun adventurous guys were bursting with energy and just had to get every idea out that they could, so they could get to the next cartoon full of new experiments. So only 85% of it is perfectly polished. But the energy, excitement and invention is so extreme that it more than compensates for the slightly less polish.
Direction tip: Porky and the dog look clearly offscreen left at the end of the scene. This directs our attention to where they are looking - into the scene cut and makes the scenes flow into each other. I use this a lot and have to remind my layout artists about it frequently.
Here's what they are looking at. That look in this direction makes the cut flow smoothly and keeps the audience involved in the characters' concerns.
Everything moves in a fun way in a Clampett cartoon. Nothing is just animated for pure continuity. It's not just to get you from here to there. Even this inanimate object sails into the tree in a beautiful arc.
I may be confusing 2 stories here. Maybe Milt Gray can clear it up for us. It might have been Sasanoff that went to see Fantasia with Bob.
Beauty, elegance and comedy all neatly wrapped up together. A gift from the cartoon Gods!
This scene is on for such a short time that you'd probably miss it if not for the extreme rubbery exaggeration of the way this Disney squirrel whips it out of his hole.
When I first saw the cartoon, the scene stood out in my mind and sent my own brain reeling, as Fantasia did to Bob. It seems like such a little thing, but it really showed me that cartoons were their own medium with their own much broader language than other media. It is the medium of fun, without the filler.
The way it snaps from floppy to rigid rattles my senses even after the 100th time watching it.
Compare these drawings to the ones of the characters at the top of the post. They have all of a sudden lost their solidity, which makes me suspect another animator has picked up where McKimson left off.
This almost looks like Friz animation to me. Creatures made of jelly moving underwater.
But it happens so fast and hits the dynamic key compositional poses that it works anyway.
I still think the best drybrush effects ever are in Clampett cartoons. Again, he doesn't use them just to connect poses functionally. Every tool in Clampett's arsenal is used as part of the art and fun itself. Can motion blur ever come close to this?
I want this drybrush cel setup on my wall!
Back to jelly friends.
This last key below looks like McKimson drew it. They become solid again. Maybe he did the key layouts in the scene and someone else animated it.
I love how the cute Disney squirrel decides to murder the stars of the cartoon with his rubber rifle.
The barrel retracts artfully - while giving it 10 times the power.
Somehow Clampett always seems to get the worse transfers on the DVD releases, even though his cartoons are the most fun to watch; someone feels they just have to ruin them for some reason but won't ever admit it.
Watch the fuzzy action above. If you have the old Turner video tapes or laser disks, it looks a lot better.