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A child of pioneer lineage, Judge Harlan Rippey was raised in an austere and frugal environment typical of a devout Scotch-Presbyterian family of the time. Well before his election to the Court of Appeals, he had achieved an illustrious legal and political career, earning the respect of his colleagues on the bench and bar. As Court of Appeals Judge Marvin R. Dye put it, "Judge Rippey possessed a strong and rugged character which never permitted him to compromise his principles in order that the expedient thing might be done. This forthright and sturdy philosophy, coupled with an unquenchable zeal and untiring habits of industry, stood him well, and he became one of the truly great leaders of his generation."1
Harlan Watson Rippey was born on September 8, 1874 in Greigsville, a small town located in Livingston County, New York, the son of Joseph Nelson Rippey and Hester Lynd Rippey. As a youth, Rippey learned the rewards of hard work and physical labor, walking or driving five miles to school every day and working on farms in the summer. After finishing his classical course of study at Geneseo Normal School in 1894, he went to the University of Rochester where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1898. Rippey worked his way through college by tutoring, selling advertising, and by working nights in the mail room of the Democrat and Chronicle, and later as a reporter for the Post-Express. He also taught mathematics as a professor at Wagner College from 1898-1899 while simultaneously earning his Master of Arts degree from the University of Rochester. Upon graduation, Rippey decided to study law and entered the office of George Raines, who acted as his preceptor. He was admitted to the bar in 1901.
He worked in Raines's office until 1908, when he began his own practice. On June 30 of that year, he married Harriet Catharine Smith. As an attorney, Rippey handled more than 2,500 motions and appeals, and conducted over 500 trials.2 He quickly earned a reputation for being a skillful and resourceful trial lawyer who was always thoroughly prepared, and his extensive law practice took him to courts from Chicago to Boston.
In 1913, Rippey began an active political life when he was appointed as the Monroe County Inheritance Tax Appraiser. He worked in that post until 1915 and later served as the Inheritance Tax Attorney for the county. Rippey was active in the Democratic Party for a number of years prior to 1918, when he was named the chairman of the Monroe County Democratic committee. He remained the head of the Democratic Party in Monroe County, either in name or in fact, until 1934. During that time, he was said to have "attained greater prominence than any man who ever held the leadership [in Monroe County]."3 A strong supporter of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he served as a presidential elector in the 1932 election and a delegate to numerous state and national conventions. From 1930-1934, Rippey also served as Liquidation Attorney for the New York State Superintendent of Banks and U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, as well as a member of the Mastick Commission to reform the state's tax laws.4
Rippey embarked on his distinguished judicial career in 1927. In March of that year, upon the creation of an additional judgeship in Supreme Court for the Seventh Judicial District, Governor Alfred E. Smith appointed him to that seat until elections could take place later that year to select a permanent Justice. Tellingly, he had the recommendation of eight Supreme Court Justices, all but one of which was a Republican, as well as the bipartisan support of numerous leaders of both parties. In fact, he was the first Democrat named to the Seventh Judicial District bench in 44 years. During his brief nine-month tenure as Supreme Court Justice (he retired in December 1927), he disposed of an unusually high number of cases without break and earned the praise of many leading attorneys.
President Roosevelt appointed him to the federal bench in 1934 as a United States District Court Judge for the Western District of New York to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Judge Simon L. Adler. Judge Rippey typically stayed in his office until late at night, often bringing work home with him to do into the early hours of the morning. He was known as "the man who doesn't know how to take a vacation."5 In contrast to other judges who might seek more time to work on their decisions, Judge Rippey was more than willing to take additional cases. He served as a federal judge for two years, before retiring in 1936 to serve on the New York Court of Appeals.
In November 1936, Judge Rippey was elected to the Court of Appeals in a landslide victory over Republican candidate James P. Hill. When he first took the bench, he was described as a man with "bright, twinkling eyes and a firm handclasp" who had a "determination to see that justice is seasoned with mercy and understanding."6 Judge Rippey was a delegate-at-large to the 1938 Constitutional Convention7 and served on the Court until 1944, when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 70. He died on March 11, 1946, and is buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York. Upon his death, he was remembered this way:
His period of service on this court was short in years but long enough to impress upon his associates and members of the Bar his sturdy character, his ability and legal scholarship. He performed his work with meticulous care and, aided by a rather unusual intuition, he quickly arrived at the essence of the controversy in a difficult case and proceeded to its decision with painstaking and convincing logic. . . . He had an unswerving zeal for doing what he considered the right and just thing and, even though such attitude might, and at times did, take him from the conventional course of his fellow men, opposition did not lessen his conviction or dull his enthusiasm. Whether in agreement or dissent one was obliged to recognize his sincere and forthright character, compelling as it did, and as such conduct always must, among reasonable and discerning men, a wholesome respect and admiration.8
Judge Rippey left a widow, the former Harriet Catharine Smith, and was survived by a son, Joseph Smith Rippey, a lawyer who died childless in 2002 at 92 years of age.9 He also left two daughters, Mrs. Catharine Adele Rippey and Harriet Bertine Eisenberg, who died on October 18, 1990 leaving her husband Richard F. Eisenberg of Monroe County, who taught engineering at the University of Rochester. None of Judge Rippey's children had offspring.
This biography appears in The Judges of the New York Court of Appeals: A Biographical History, ed. Hon. Albert M. Rosenblatt (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007). It has not been updated since publication.
Sources Consulted
Dewey Joins in Tribute to Judge Rippey: Career Praised by Leaders of Bench, Bar, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Mar. 13, 1946.
Eminent Members of the Bench and Bar of New York 1943, C.W. Taylor, Jr., San Francisco, 1943, at 15.
Ex-Judge Rippey Dies in Rochester, New York Times, Mar. 13, 1946, at 29.
Feldman, A Constitutional Convention in New York: Fundamental Law and Basic Politics, 42 Cornell L.Q. 329, 342 (1957).
From Farm Boy to State's Highest Court, Rise of Harlan W. Rippey, Tireless Worker, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Jan. 4, 1937.
In Memoriam, 295 NY (1946).
Obituary, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Aug. 22, 2002, at 4B.
Peck, History of Rochester and Monroe County, Harlan W. Rippey, at 754.
Remarks on Retirement, 294 NY (1944).
Rippey Named to Judgeship by Governor, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Mar. 31, 1927, at 1.
Rippey Rites Scheduled on Saturday, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Mar. 13, 1946, at 15.
The Depression and Reform: FDR's Search for Tax Revision in New York .
University of Rochester Central Catalogue (1850-1928), at 1898.
Welch, Rippey Preparing to Take Oath as Judge this Week, Rochester Times-Union, Oct. 4, 1934, at 1.
Published Writings Include:
The author has been unable to identify any published books or articles by Judge Rippey.
- Dewey Joins in Tribute to Judge Rippey: Career Praised by Leaders of Bench, Bar, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Mar. 13, 1946.
- Rippey Named to Judgeship by Governor, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Mar. 31, 1927, at 1.
- Welch, Rippey Preparing to Take Oath as Judge this Week, Rochester Times-Union, Oct. 4, 1934, at 1.
- See generally The Depression and Reform: FDR's Search for Tax Revision in New York .
- From Farm Boy to State's Highest Court, Rise of Harlan W. Rippey, Tireless Worker, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Jan. 4, 1937.
- Id.
- See Feldman, A Constitutional Convention in New York: Fundamental Law and Basic Politics, 42 Cornell L.Q. 329, 342 (1957).
- In Memoriam, 295 NY (1946).
- Obituary, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Aug. 22, 2002, at 4B.


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It is well recognized that a person who has suffered abuse will tend in life to either become a perpetrator of further abuse or become self-destructive.
Why? Why would a person who has suffered the emotional horrors of abuse ever afflict another human with such degradation, shock and horror?
The diagnosis provided by psychological examination leaves the question unanswered, admitting that there is no hope of understanding, let alone of cure.
The mental health paradigm holds that the best that can be done for the victims, and perpetrators, of abuse is to help them to contain and maintain their trauma.
Of these non-corporeal beings, there are those with which we have a mutually beneficial interaction, such as Spirit Helpers, Guides and Allies. Then there are those which are so other' that we can have no concourse with them whatsoever. Still are there those which are purely instinctual in nature, having no conscious volitional will of their own, possessing only the drive to survive and propagate their own kind. It is within this classification of Spirits, the instinctual, that we find one type which is parasitic to us humans. Spiritual Parasites' propagate themselves through the agency of directed, violent, emotional transference, in a word: abuse.
An individual becomes infected with a Spiritual Parasite through transference from a host (perpetrator) during the victimization of abuse, whether this abuse be sexual, physical or the complex of emotional/mental/verbal abuse. A spawn of this Parasite passes from the host to the victim. It latches into the solar plexus, and can be felt by the victim as if one had received a blow, akin to that of having one's breath knocked out of them. After hooking itself into the center of one's Power base, the Parasite draws upon the victim's life force, feeding on the new host's vitality. The victim, meanwhile, becomes weaker and more debilitated as time goes on, having lost vast amounts of energy to the Spiritual Parasite.
As the Spiritual Parasite feeds, it grows, containing the life force stolen from the new host in a sack' (All these processes, though described in physical terms, are non-physical, the Spiritual Parasite itself being of a non-physical nature.). This sack grows to full extension, during which time the spawn is maturing to its propagation cycle. As it reaches maturity the Spiritual Parasite extends two tendrils, tentacles, as it were, one into the victim's Will, usurping it, the other deadening the person's moral integrity. Once the sack has reached fullness, and the Parasite maturity, the False Will of the Parasite takes over, directing the individual to commit an act of abuse. This occurs as an instinctual mechanism which the individual perceives as the presence of something foreign within the body. Just as if someone had eaten contaminated food, this instinct seeks to expel the intrusive substance.
The Spiritual Parasite uses this biological mechanism to time its own propagation. During the commission of the act of abuse, the perpetrator has no discernment of right or wrong, their moral integrity having been deadened, nor are they aware of what they are doing, their Will having been usurped by the Spiritual Parasite. During the act of abuse, the perpetrator feels a great sense of release as the sack deflates, rushing, as it does, into the new victim, carrying with it the spawn into a new host. The perpetrator, having had this immense release, then realizes what s/he has just done, and swears up and down that they would never do this to anyone, that it is not me' who committed this act of horror. Having their moral conscience back on line now, as well, the perpetrator is filled with shock, self-loathing and remorse, promising that they will never do such a thing again. The Spiritual Parasite itself, however, has not been expelled, only its spawn. The originating Parasite now feeds, grows, and cycles through again and again, causing the person to become a repeat offender.
Thus are we able to see, from a Shamanic perspective, the answer to why a person who has been abused may tend to become an abuser themselves. Should the person so infected be able to resist this compunction to abuse, through their own innate strength, or through personal involvement in methods to strengthen one's moral integrity in support of their Will, such as meditation, spiritual practices, therapy or religion, a new situation arises. Now the Spiritual Parasite has no release. The sack continues to fill beyond its trigger point. This bundle of stolen power, like a balloon overfilled, becomes taut and resonant with the emotional content of the originating traumatic abuse. This tautness is experienced by the body as an internal agitation, a pressure from within. In response to this irritation, a deeper biological mechanism is triggered. The same instinct is witnessed in a pair of wild animals captured from freedom and put into a cage they will refuse to eat or propagate, they will choose death rather than live in captivity and enslavement, or bear young into such circumstances. How this instinct looks within us humans, when activated, is that we move into social and/or sexual withdrawal and isolation from the world and the ones we love. We begin to sabotage our intimate relationships and exhibit a variety of self destructive behaviors: alcohol or substance abuse, depression, immunological disorders, suicidal thoughts and tendencies. A whole panalopy of dysfunctional and destructive behaviors may result from the triggering of this one deep seated instinct. That instinct: the preservation of the species.
This instinct for the survival of the species is engaged when a threat to the sanctity and preservation of those we hold in honor is detected by our perceptions. Instincts, however, are purely bio-physical. They have no mentative capacity. They are unable, therefore, to make a discernment between the actual threat the presence of the Spiritual Parasite and the infected person's physical body. As far as the instincts can perceive, the threat to the sanctity of Life is the very person who is inflicted. In response, the natural forces of the body and mind are marshaled together to isolate and/or eliminate the danger to our loved ones around us. Again, that instinctually perceived danger is sensed to be none other than our own Self, body and mind. Now our autonomic systems, which regulate our immune system, brain chemistry and emotional states, must contend with the liability which we, the invaded, appear to represent. The process of self-destruction sets in. We find ourselves acting out behaviors for which we can find no rational underpinning. Our health, physically, mentally and emotionally, begins to deteriorate. Suicidal thoughts, unbidden, may well up from within us. Candida and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Epstein-Barre) and rampant physical parasitic infections are significant features of Spiritual Parasite contamination as well.
All these conditions are but symptoms. They are not issues', for they have no basis in our own history. Remove the source of that which is triggering the instincts to go into preservation-of-others mode, remove the Spiritual Parasites that are the true cause of the disturbances, and the secondary phenomena of disintegration and debilitation cease. By removing the Parasites, and allowing the autonomic system to once again take up its normal task of maintaining the integrity of our own health and welfare, we rapidly move towards a condition of renewal and stability. We experience freedom!
The preeminent Shamanic method of removal is that which is referred to as extraction sucking'. Practiced globally throughout time and in all indigenous cultures, sucking Doctoring' is utilized to remove any number of dysfunctional energies of spiritual origin. The Shaman prepares the infected site and suctions through a tube placed upon the skin of the patient. Employing prayers and the help of Spirits, the Shaman is then able to remove the irritating spirit.
With the removal of the Spiritual Parasite and the reinstitution of health within the client, immediate and dramatic alterations are experienced by the patient. No longer does one feel compelled to abuse others or self. Things that previously would have caused the person to become agitated or depressed are now seen as within resolve. The individual enthusiastically experiences an exhilaration and enthusiasm for life!
All material contained herein is under the Spiritual, Intellectual and Ceremonial caretakership of Jade Wah'oo Grigori and may not be utilized, in part nor in whole, by any person without his express permission.


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Qualcomm has given a peek at the graphics capabilities of its new Snapdragon 810 chipset, which it confirmed will start shipping in tablets and other devices early next year.
It was a brief demonstration, but it showed that the chip is working and close to release, and gives an idea of what Qualcomm thinks will set the 810 apart from rivals—namely, it's ability to render high-definition graphics in real time.
At its Uplinq conference in San Francisco Thursday, Qualcomm showed the chip rendering a 3D image of a sports car in a computer-aided design program on an Android tablet. Changing the car's color and outer material showed how the chip could render the reflections and surface texture at the car turned.
Snapdragon chips are widely used in smartphones and tablets and Qualcomm hopes the 810 will help keep it competitive. Nvidia has shown its Tegra K1 processor doing similar rendering tricks, though the Tegra hasn't taken off in mobile devices in the same way.
Just months away
Qualcomm has received the first samples of the Snapdragon 810 from its manufacturer and the chip will be in products in the first half of next year, said Raj Talluri, head of product management, in a speech at the start of Uplinq.
A lot of its capabilities come from the chipset's Adreno 430 GPU, which allows devices with native 4K displays. The current Snapdragon chipsets can play 4K video when connected to an external display, but not on the device itself.
The 810 has eight ARM CPU cores and can download data over some LTE networks at up to 300 Mbps, according to Qualcomm. More detailed specs are available at the company website.
Qualcomm also got a boost Thursday from Activision, which said it ported a new version of its hit game "Skylanders" to the current Snapdragon 805 chip, which means the game will be available on tablets for the first time.
An Activision engineer showed the game, "Skylanders Trap Team," running on an Android tablet and said the game will be out next month.
"It really does blur the line between the console experience and the tablet gaming experience," he said.
Uplinq is Qualcomm's conference for developers and lasts two days. As well as promoting its smartphone chips, it's using the event to push Snapdragon chips in robots, smartwatches and virtual reality headsets.
It comes as Qualcomm faces a legal challenge from Nvidia, which claims that both Qualcomm and Samsung have infringed its intellectual property related to graphics chips. Qualcomm and Samsung have yet to respond to the complaint.


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Winona church responds after Islamic Center fire
WINONA, Minn. (AP) — When a fire destroyed the Winona Islamic Center this week, officials at the nearby Central Lutheran Church told the Muslim worshippers, "Know that we're here for you."
A Winona Daily News report says members of the Islamic Center were grateful for the gesture.
Center founder Ahmed El-Afandi says the Winona community has revealed its generosity by opening its arms and doors to his members.
The Islamic Center was one of three buildings destroyed by a fire Friday. No one was hurt.
Fire officials say the cause hasn't been determined. There were no immediate signs of arson.
El-Afandi says the fire is a test of faith and a chance to make a new beginning. He says he hopes the tragedy helps strengthen bonds between local Christians, Jews and Muslims.


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People to People
Arturo Toscanini, the late, famous conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, received a brief, crumpled letter from a lonely sheepherder in the remote mountain area of Wyoming:
"Mr. Conductor: I have only two possessions—a radio and an old violin. The batteries in my radio are getting low and will soon die. My violin is so out of tune I can't use it. Please help me. Next Sunday when you begin your concert, sound a loud 'A' so I can tune my 'A' string; then I can tune the other strings. When my radio batteries are dead, I'll have my violin."
At the beginning of his next nationwide radio concert from Carnegie Hall, Toscanini announced: "For a dear friend and listener back in the mountains of Wyoming the orchestra will now sound an 'A.'" The musicians all joined together in a perfect "A."
The lonely sheepherder only needed one note, just a little help to get back in tune; he could go on from there. He needed someone who cared to assist him with one string; the others would be easy. Then, with all strings in tune—in harmony—the lonely sheepherder would have a source of companionship and joy and could play uplifting strains.
My expressions and encouragement this morning are to God's children whose batteries may be low or with strings in need of tuning, those whose souls were one time touched by the words and teachings of the Master and His servants but have been attracted away into other interests and activities. Some may have been neglected or not sufficiently involved in a meaningful Church responsibility or may have a feeling of injury or hurt or even unworthiness.
Some have allowed themselves to get out of tune. They may have lost the pitch and drifted from the original score. The Savior of the world gave rules to live by and taught principles of love that encompass concern and encouragement:
"Come unto me, all ye that labour," he said, "and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
"Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
"For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." (Matt. 11:28–30.)
He did not limit or say "all who are perfect come unto me" or just the rich, or just the poor, or just the healthy, or those without sin, or those who pray the longest, or just the sick. His invitation is to all: "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," comfort, peace; "for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
His plea to all is to love God, love His children, keep His commandments, and believe that Jesus is the Christ, born of God. (See 1 Jn. 5:1–3.)
Some who accepted the teachings of the Savior and were baptized into His Church are now temporarily lost from the fold, some through their own choosing, but others, many times, by our neglect of them.
Matthew tells of the disciples' last earthly visit with Jesus. They had assembled on the mountain as directed, waiting for their Lord. He was the center of their lives. They worshiped Him. They now know He will soon leave them. Where will they go? What will they do? Eleven against the world. And what will He tell them?
"And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
"Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." (Matt. 28:18–20.)
Those final instructions were not only to find and baptize, but to teach. The future of the disciples was now clear—as with the Church and its members today—to bring new souls unto Christ and teach them. Teach them the commandments, teach them the principles of the gospel, teach them the love of God and love for one another, teach by the Spirit, teach with love. Then they can and will obey and live the commandments.
None are to be lost, but everyone is to feel the love of the Master through His servants. He knew that to carry the message of the gospel to all nations would require active participation by everyone baptized—not just some, but everyone.
There were strong social barriers among the Jews at the time of Christ, yet the Savior mingled freely among the publicans and sinners—far different from the Pharisees, who believed sinners should not be guests in their houses.
Christ rebuked their unkindliness, saying, "They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick." (Matt. 9:12.)
His enemies complained that Jesus mingled and ate with sinners, but Jesus justified His ways and taught more clearly the purpose of God's love toward repentant sinners and the joy there is in heaven over one sinner that repents:
The Savior asked them, "If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
"And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
"Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish." (Matt. 18:12–14.)
And then He continued, "And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.
"I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance." (Luke 15:6–7.)
Michael Duffy related: "I didn't catch their names or pay much attention to what they were saying, except they were from the Mormon Church. Somehow they had found out I was a Mormon and asked if I wanted home teachers. I hadn't been to Church for sixteen years!
"I don't know exactly why I said yes. It seemed that many events had fallen into place to convince me that there was a missing link in my life. Previously, we had lived next door to a Mormon family. We did not go to Church, but I was reminded that our two sons had never been blessed and had never attended Church.
"My wife was not a Mormon, not even a Christian. Yet she agreed that something was missing.
"Home teachers soon contacted us and began regular visits. This started a process that would take many months, and change my family forever.
"I began attending priesthood meeting—infrequently at first, then regularly. I was finally able to overcome my Word of Wisdom problem. Our oldest son, now five, started attending Sunday School. We even began paying a little tithing. My wife supported me, but was not interested in the Church.
"Then one day two missionaries knocked at our door. After many months, having just been ordained an elder, I baptized and confirmed my wife a member of the Church. We were later sealed as a family in the Washington Temple."
He continued, "As I look back on the many circumstances that took place, I fondly remember the love, prayers, and fellowship of the bishopric, elders quorum presidency, and others.
"We were truly blessed to be living in a ward that actively worked with less active members, that the elders quorum president (the position I now hold)," he said, "placed special emphasis on reactivation, and even a member of the stake presidency took a personal interest in us."
The Prophet Ezekiel warned: "Ye feed not the flock.
"The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost." (Ezek. 34:3–4.)
Driving to the Los Angeles Airport with a busy radio executive, I learned that he and his wife, though born in the Church, had never participated. Their social life of parties and weekends for fun and escape dominated their lives.
After eight years of marriage and three children, they were becoming concerned about their lives but did nothing about it.
Different sets of home teachers came and went. A new home teacher—a true shepherd—came into their lives, and after a time this new home teacher committed this man to go to Church once. Brother Adamson said he would not give up smoking and drinking. He had made a firm resolve not to live the Word of Wisdom, and if he was not welcome in Church because of it, that was fine. The home teacher said, "You are welcome, and I will pick you up."
The first Sunday Brother Adamson attended Church he waited for someone to move away from him because of the strong tobacco odor, but that didn't happen. "They will ask me to pray or work in the Church," he thought. That didn't happen either.
The home teacher did not phone on Sunday mornings to give him a chance to make an excuse and back out but drove to his home and would say, "Are you ready?" This home teacher picked him up every Sunday for over a year.
The Adamsons began reading A Marvelous Work and a Wonder and found that the Church consisted of much more than just the Word of Wisdom, which he had heard so much about all his life (and because he didn't live the Word of Wisdom, felt the Church had nothing to offer him).
This couple soon learned it is a Church of love, not a Church of fear. They learned of the mission of the Savior and of our Heavenly Father and of repentance. They became so proud of the Church they had been born into that the Word of Wisdom no longer was an important issue. He didn't go through the pangs of quitting. It just happened. There were so many other principles of the gospel that now were so important in their lives.
He said, "I found myself working on our new chapel and then one day quietly telling the bishop, 'I'm ready, now. You can call on me to pray.'"
The Savior taught Peter, "When thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." (Luke 22:32.)
Souls are committed to the care of the Church—to watch over and keep them in the right way, to remember their names and nourish them. (See Moro. 6:4.)
An older couple living in a little Mormon community in Idaho had been members of the Church all their lives. The husband was eighty-six years old and his wife eighty-four. He was still a priest in the Aaronic Priesthood. New home teachers who had heard about this family's lack of interest toward the Church asked if they could come to their home.
This older couple was pleased that someone cared about them. The teachers taught the principles of the gospel. The couple responded. This eighty-six-year-old man became an elder and, with his wife, earned the privilege of going to the temple and being married for time and eternity.
If thoughtful home teachers had not visited this family, they would have probably died without having received essential blessings of the gospel. Caring shepherds could have reached this couple years before when their family was growing up. The couple was grateful that home teachers finally had the courage to come.
People who drift away from the true doctrine usually know in their hearts something is missing. The kernel of truth, though small, remains—never to be replaced with fame or money or worldly pleasures.
The Savior placed a little child in the midst of the disciples and taught that they must become as little children in order to enter into the kingdom of heaven. He said, "For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost" (Matt. 18:11), and to call all sinners to repentance.
Michael Weir said:
"My marriage had failed. I was living a life contrary to the principles of the Church. Not only was I inactive but had lost confidence in my ability to go back. I became successful in business, drove the nicest car, and bought expensive clothes. I had everything that the world would want.
"One day, my company hired Ken Wheeler, whom I knew to be a Mormon by the way he acted. We became friends, and he invited me to Church. I wanted to go but didn't feel worthy. He continued to invite me, and I continued to refuse. I wanted to get back, but I didn't have the strength to do it.
"One night, alone in my apartment, I became very depressed and broke into uncontrollable sobs. I prayed to the Lord and begged for His help. The next day Ken asked me how I was doing; he could sense something was wrong. Putting his arms around me, he said, 'He still loves you, and we do, too. Why don't you come back home?' That was the answer to my prayers; that was the help I had begged for the night before.
"I came home! I felt uncomfortable at first, but the feeling that everyone cared made it easier. Today, I don't drive the nicest car or wear the fanciest clothes, but I feel richer than ever."
He continued, "Those who have fallen away want so badly to come back, but they are afraid to make the move. They don't lose their testimony; they lose confidence in themselves."
Those that stray need a friend—but they need one who knows the Shepherd. Seldom do people cease coming to Church because of doctrine; they are waiting for a show of genuine love and friendly fellowship to heal their hurts or doubts.
Nephi testified "that the Lord God worketh not in darkness.
"He doeth not anything save it be for the benefit of the world; for he loveth the world, even that he layeth down his own life that he may draw all men unto him. …
"… he saith: Come unto me all ye ends of the earth. …
"Hath he commanded any that they should not partake of his salvation? … Nay; but … hath given it free for all men; and … hath commanded his people that they should persuade all men to repentance." (2 Ne. 26:23–25, 27.)
We are his people. God expects us to find, teach, and recover those whose strings may need tuning. May we be directed by the pure love of Christ to sound for them the perfect note of an "A."
God lives. Jesus is the Christ. This is His work, to which I testify, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.


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The Free Lance Star began on 1 September 1926 published by the Free Lance Newspaper and Job Printing Company, Josiah P. Rowe Jr., managing editor. The Free Lance Star merged a morning and an evening newspaper, The Free Lance and the Fredericksburg Daily Star, into a daily newspaper. The two newspapers had been under common management of A. P. Rowe since 1892 and the change to a single paper came quickly after his death in July of 1925. The Free Lance Star continues publication today.
The index was prepared by Robert Hodge. The newspaper issues were scanned for items deemed of value to the LOCAL historian and genealogist. Each entry consists of essentially four parts: Name, Reason for being, Publication date, and Page/Column numbers. Names included in lists (schools, fair awards, socials) were not indexed, but notations identify where these lists may be found. County columns were not indexed for all names, only for deaths and marriages. These contain 'news notes' about residents' activities. Robert Hodge stopped indexing The Free Lance Star with the issue of 17 August 1928. The electronic version of the index was created by the Center for Historic Preservation at Mary Washington College by scanning a copy of the index text and then modifying the format to fit a table. Comments, or corrections to this index should be sent to Gary Stanton at Mary Washington College. email@example.com
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Sprucing up the office computers is a lot more affordable than replacing them.
Your PC is a year or two old. It takes forever to boot. It runs slower. And you're running out of disk space.
Time to buy a new one, right?
Nope. The problem isn't your computer—the problem is what you've allowed to happen to your computer.
According to Chris Cope, the founder and CEO of SlimWare Utilities, a company that provides a suite of products to clean, repair, update, and optimize personal computers, removing optional applications and unnecessary start-up items can increase boot speed by over 40 percent—and free up a ton of hard drive space.
So I asked Cope for simple ways to dramatically increase the performance of any PC.
We'll start by pretending—since the same advice applies to an old computer—that you just bought a new computer and want to get off to the right start:
What to remove: New computers come with a variety of pre-installed programs. Many run at start-up and stay running in the background. Applications you probably don't need include games, programs that provide support and documentation, online shopping applications, a browser (or two) you'll never use, games, and some antivirus software.
Go to Control Panel –> Add or Remove Programs and remove what you don't need. Or use SlimWare's SlimComputer; it's free.
Keep in mind most pre-installed antivirus programs are the result of an arrangement between the computer manufacturer and the antivirus provider. Since you need antivirus protection, first determine if the installed program is one you already own, since many subscription-based applications can be transferred.
If you don't own antivirus software and don't want to pay, there are several good free antivirus programs. Microsoft Security Essentials is one, and AVG and Avast are also very popular.
"Decide which antivirus software you'll use," Cope says, "and make sure you uninstall any you won't use, including, if you're not going to pay for it when the trial runs out, whatever came pre-installed. A lot of people have two or more antivirus programs installed, and leaving two running is a leading cause of lockups, blue screens, and other problems."
What to update: Always keep Windows updated. Go to Start –> Programs –> Windows Update and turn on automatic updates.
Then update your installed drivers; some have bugs that have been fixed. If you don't know how to find and update your drivers, try SlimDrivers, SlimWare's free driver maintenance and update utility.
Then update Adobe Acrobat (or Reader) and Java. "Adobe and Java are two programs that, if not updated, create significant risk of infection," Cope says. "When a security flaw is found, they update their software and announce the reasons for the update. If you don't install the update, that's a little like telling criminals how to break into your house. Always keep those two programs updated."
What to install: Then install any programs, like Office, that you plan to use if not already installed.
"Just don't install 'maybe' programs," Cope says. "You won't remember to uninstall them."
Then once your computer is cleaned up, updated, and antivirus protection is in place, use imaging or back-up software to create an optimized back-up. Norton Ghost is one popular product. That way if something happens later you can easily restore your computer.
Now let's look at how to improve the performance of an older computer.
What to clean up: Start with files. "Computers that haven't been cleaned in about a year," Cope says, "typically have about 10 gig of data files: history files, log files, temp files, recently stored files, etc. That makes your hard driver work harder and perform slower."
One way to clean up old files is through Start –> Acessories –> System Tools –> Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter. Or you can use SlimWare's SlimCleaner, a tool that uses community-sourced feedback to clean and optimize PCs.
Then focus on removing unused applications and programs. You may have installed a program by accident or downloaded a program you stopped using and never removed. Check out all your applications and make sure they're still relevant and necessary.
Then check out your browser. Over time you probably installed a number of plugins, toolbars, and extensions that not only slow down your browser but also clutter your screen—and make you more vulnerable to viruses, especially if you don't keep them all updated. Remove what you don't need (which, if you're like me, is about 80 percent of what you've installed.)
What to add: "Once your computer is clean," Cope says, "the best way to further boost performance is by adding RAM."
In most cases you can double the amount of RAM on your computer for $100 or so. (I tripled the RAM on my old computer for about $130.)
How it turned out: I decided to test Cope's advice on a computer in my office that's at least eight years old. (Hey, it's a great conversation starter.)
I'm reasonably computer savvy so I started by removing programs and drivers manually. That got old really fast so I tried SlimWare's free tools: First I ran SlimComputer, then SlimDrivers, then SlimCleaner.
They're easy to use, and they work. I found a lot of stuff I didn't know was on the computer. And it was cool to see what the SlimWare community says about specific programs and applications. In some cases I took the crowd's advice, in others I didn't, but either way I learned a lot.
So what were my results? I freed up 33 gig of hard drive space. I removed 17 programs, including four that ran at start-up. Even before I added RAM the computer booted up in less than half the time, applications like Photoshop started up about 20 percent faster, and memory-intensive functions within Photoshop also ran a lot faster.
Performance improved even more after I added RAM.
Time to buy a new computer? Nope.
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Well, i haven't posted on here for AGES, but that doesn't mean I haven't been making bread! The oven is just as busy as ever! however I did buy myself and iPad back in August, and I'm unable to post from this (don't know what the IT problem there is - maybe something to do with flashplayer? Any suggestions Maedi?), so I have to remember to bring my laptop home from work, which I seem to be a bit slack at! So anyway, I have a few loaves to add to my Local Breads blog . . . ..
Starting with this Pane casareccio di Genzano which despite having yeast in it as well as levain I really liked. As I've metnioned with the other Italian breads so far in the book, all of them are either yeasted or hybrids, which does irk me somewhat, but I am perservering as per my quest to make and blog about every bread in the book. This is a MASSIVE loaf, that I decided to make into 2 loaves the second time I cooked it. It has a wonderful dark, thick crust and a very moist crumb. The dough does require a lot of mixing so I used Mr Purple my trusty Kitchen Aid for the hard work. It is also a very wet and sticky dough, which was a challenge to handle and shape.
So here we go:
The biga natural to start is made from 28g f your favourite starter – it says you can use liquid, stiff or rye – along with 140g water and 200g high gluten flour (total weight of starter 368g). Note: this recipe uses all of the starter you make, there is none left over to keep, so you might want to adjust your measurements to make a bit more for next time. Leave the biga to ferment for about 8-12 hours at RT. I was at the stage where I needed to give all of mine a feed, so used a mixture of all 3 to make the bread – 100g stiff white, 130g 100% rye and the remainder my 130% white.
Starter bubbling away and ready to go
The dough: cover all of your biga with 400g tepid water and break it up a bit, then add 500g high gluten flour (I just used AP), ¾ tsp dry yeast, 15g salt (I used 20g salt as always find these recipes a bit under-salted for my taste) and mix till a very wet dough forms. I then put my mixer bowl on the stand of Mr P and gave it a mix at about speed 6 for 10 minutes, and boy did the mixer have a good trot all over the kitchen bench, so for heaven's sake don't leave the room! You will need to stop it a few times and scrape the dough off the hook as it does work its way right up to the top. Once this 10mins is up, turn the mixer up to full blast for another 10mins! After about 4mins into the 2nd knead my dough was starting to clear the sides of the bowl. Part way through this 2nd knead Mr P just stopped and I thought he had overheated! But no, he had just given the knife block a bit of a shove into the power point and had turned the switch off!! Phew!
Once I had a lovely window pane, I let the dough ferment at RT for about 1.5hrs, then gave it a fold – it was VERY sticky, but easy enough to handle with oiled hands.
It went back in the bowl at RT for about another 1.5hrs.
Before shaping, coat your large banneton(s) or colander with bran and sprinkle the bench with flour (I shaped the dough into 2 rounds as my round banneton is too small for all this dough). Turn the dough out on to the bench and gently shape into a round as best you can. Because the dough is soft and sticky, handle as little as you can. Put the shaped loaves smooth side down into your banneton/ colander(s), coat with more bran and then put inside a plastic bag and leave to rise for about 1.5hrs.
Once proofed, tip the loaves gently out onto a peel covered in baking paper that has been sprinkled with bran. The loaves were baked at 230C (450F) on my baking stone with steam for 30mins, then turn the oven down to 200C (400F) and bake till quite dark, almost charred looking – 20 or 30mins more.
I have kept very shoddy records of my bread lately, and I'm not entirely convinced those last 2 photos are the Genzano loaf. Colour seems to pale and the crumb not moist enough, but the photo dates seem about right.
Regadless, despite the yeast in the mixture it was a good bread!
K.Happiness is making bread!


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Monday, September 1, 2008
Country Fried Okra: A Summer Table Staple for Generations
When growing up, okra was used in the kitchen as a fried compliment to purple hull peas and other fresh garden vegetables. It was also used as a thickener for vegetable soups. Fresh vegetable soup is not the same without a generous supply of sliced fresh okra, cabbage and fresh tomatoes. I can also remember my mom placing fresh pods of okra on top of boiling peas or beans and letting the vegetable slow cook in the pot.
A member of the mallow family related to cotton, hibiscus and hollyhock, okra has a long tradition in the South. It has been said this vegetable was brought to the Caribbean and American colonies from western Africa during the 1700's, In Louisiana, the Creoles learned from slaves the use of okra (often called gumbo) to thicken soups and it is now an essential ingredient in Creole Gumbo.
Around these parts, most every family garden have a row or two of okra. Such varieties as Cajun Delight, Cajun Jewel, and Clemson Spineless are favorites and okra even comes in varieties that are red and burgundy.
My favorite method of cooking okra is pan frying. To me, the frozen and heavily battered deep-fried okra usually served in restaurants in no way resembles the home fried okra I have always enjoyed. The best way to prepare pan fried okra is to select small tender pods. After slicing the okra into a bowl, a simple generous dusting with corn meal and an ample supply of black pepper is all that is needed. After tossing the mixture, and adding a little salt, the okra is then pan-fried over medium heat until the batter is a golden brown. The result is a tender fried vegetable with a light crispy crunch.
A history of okra from: http://www.foodreference.com/html/artokra.html
2 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Sounds like you grew up liking the "same recipe" my mother used in frying okra "fresh out of the garden" in the summertime. How would you like to eat that same quality year 'round? Since I can no longer grow my own okra, I have found a very acceptable substitute and that is the frozen sliced okra that I buy at the grocery store. I do not thaw before adding to my cast iron skillet containing a small amount of Crisco. I place it in a strainer/colander and rinse quickly and dipping a handful at a time in my cornmeal generously seasoned with salt and pepper and shaking it to rid excess cornmeal before placing in the hot skillet. If fried on a medium heat, this okra will taste just like fresh from the garden. It is an interesting side dish I serve at Thanksgiving or Christmas. "Try it, you'll like it." bettye
- September 3, 2008 at 6:08 PM
- Bob Franks said...
Thanks for writing Bettye. I'm going to have to try that frozen sliced okra. I have never tried it before. I've had the frozen battered okra like they serve in many restaurants, but its nothing like what I was raised on. The batter is simply too thick and too sweet. I think the difference between that and what we were raised on is the difference in the okra being heavily battered and simply being "dusted" with cornmeal.
- September 4, 2008 at 8:32 AM


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The Most Racist City In America: Memphis?
Gawker is on a quest to determine the most racist city in America. Your contributions are vital to the cause. Please add your insights in the discussion system below. Or if you'd like to nominate another city please send an email here. Today... Memphis.
City: Memphis, TN
Population: 652,000
Ethnic Breakdown: 29% White, 63% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Latino (NOTE: Percentages don't add up due to people marking themselves down as belonging to more than one race)
History of Racism: See below.
Hear it from Memphisians!
I can't believe a lot of people haven't voted Memphis to be the most racist city. My husband and I traveled to Nashville on motor cycles two years ago. We were part of a group of three couples. We were welcomed in Nashville with open arms. Our second stop was Memphis and except for visiting Elvis's mansion we were barely paid any attention. At the hotel desk when we checked in, two girls behind the desk barely looked at us and were not friendly at all. Later in the day (after we went to use the swimming pool) we asked a different girl at the desk for a wine bottle opener and she would not even acknowledge us. Our group took a ride on a street car behind our hotel the next evening (in regular casual dress) and when we asked the driver of the train about local points of interest he wouldn't answer. Needless to say, we won't travel there again, ever!!!!!
I. Prior to the civil war, Memphis was one of the largest slave trade centers in the US, with more than 1/4 of the city's population comprising of slaves.
II. Nathan Bedford Forrest Lived here most of his life, making a fortune in the slave trade in Memphis. He was responsible for the killing of over 600 black union and white southern unionist soldiers during the war. He also because a grand wizard of the KKK after the war. We have a city park commemorating him with a huge statue of him.
III. In May of 1866, there was a riot after a white police officer got into a fight with some black men who were discharged union troops. Forty-six blacks were dead and 285 had been victimized in one way or another. However, no arrests were ever made for murder, rape, theft, or arson, although many of the rioters were well known to the victims who later identified them to a congressional committee.
IV. In the 1890's during the population rebound after the yellow fever epidemic, control of the city was taken by white migrants moving to Memphis from outlying rural areas. The white migrants reinforced the city's devotion to the 'lost cause'…In seeking to keep alive the 'noble traditions of bygone days,' white Southerners embraced a complex credo, which included an insistence on black inferiority.
As this new generation of whites assumed power in Memphis, they took measures to control the African American population and to ensure white supremacy. By 1905, blacks were segregated on the city's streetcars and were not allowed to visit the city's parks. At the turn of the twentieth century, "Memphis presented a strange paradox - a city modern in physical aspect but rural in prejudice, and rural in habit."
V. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis.
VI. And the most important fact: "The Political Cesspool" was conceived and is broadcast in Memphis. For those who do not know...
The Political Cesspool describes its philosophy as "pro-White" and "against political centralization". Its statement of principles, borrowed from the Council of Conservative Citizens, reads:
The Political Cesspool Radio Program stands for The Dispossessed Majority. We represent a philosophy that is pro-White and are against political centralization. You can trust The Political Cesspool to give you the "other side of the news"-to report on events which are vital to your welfare but which would otherwise be hushed up or distorted by the controlled press.
We make no attempt to give you "both sides." We'll leave the establishment side to your daily newspaper, television and other radio shows. We will bring to you some of the most renowned thinkers, writers, pundits, activists, entertainers and elected officials each broadcast as our guests.
Furthermore, we pledge that The Political Cesspool will correct any meaningful error or fact. Make up your own mind who is being honest with you: the establishment media or The Political Cesspool Radio Program.
1. The United States government should be independent of any international organization of governments and American law should not be imposed by organizations such as the United Nations.
2. America would not be as prosperous, ruggedly individualistic, and a land of opportunity if the founding stock were not Europeans.
3. Since family is the foundation of any strong society, we are against feminism, abortion, and primitivism.
4. Private property rights are inviolable. They come from our God-given right to life.
5. We wish to revive the White birthrate above replacement level fertility and beyond to grow the percentage of Whites in the world relative to other races.
6. Issues such as education, environmental law, and police should be decentralized down to the lowest level to insure natural rights and efficiency.
7. Secession is a right of all people and individuals. It was successful in 1776 and this show honors those who tried to make it successful in 1865.
8. We are cultural conservatives because we have certain morals to which we adhere. We are against homosexuality, vulgarity, loveless sex, and masochism.
9. We wish for American government to stop interfering politically, militarily, and socially outside of the borders of the United States of America. We want non-interventionism.
The majority of the staff is proud to claim and does so often that they are descendants of confederate soldiers.


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Calmer Canines in Masterton
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Safer rowing in Porirua harbour
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All abilities aboard in Titahi Bay
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Budgeting for a brighter future
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Te Kura o Papatuanuku Wairarapa Earth School
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Swimming in Tairawhiti/Gisborne receives a big boost from NZCT
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Community Groups receive more than $2.422 million
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Southland art showcased on world stage
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ILT Foundation supports Southland Art.
Family fun and cycle safety in South receives support
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Supporting the well-being of Southland families is at the forefront of Plunket Invercargill's programmes.
New kākahu for Thames High School's kapa haka group
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The Middlemore Foundation
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Olympic Ambassador Programme inspires school children
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Howzat for good female cricket numbers!
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Welcome spruce up for favourite beach retreat
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2017 Community Distribution
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2018 Community Distribution
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Class 4 Gaming proceeds are returned to the community. Proceeds from 32 societies operating in the Class 4 gamning sector in the 2018...
Otago Medical Research Foundation's Summer Scholarship Programme
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Te Araroa Trail's final section set to be completed
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Te Araroa Trail's final section set to be completed
Invaluable improvement to Mt Wellington Playcentre
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Lego play among services offered by Autism New Zealand
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He Waka Tuia - Museum for Invercragill
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Spreading the joy of reading
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Music therapy changes lives
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A new roof for Raukokare Anglican Church
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Wairarapa Dragon Boat Club
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Hearing for the first time
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Getting kids active
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Community-led Science Education
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First Health and Wellness
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Boxing Academy giving youth a fighting chance
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Safer Roads thanks to Community Funding
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Students hands-on help for Homeless
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EpiPen Partnership a Lifesaver
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New Ambulance for Southland
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Aotearoa Gaming Trust supports K9MD
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Trusts support the Tour of Southland
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Locomotive embarking on another journey
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Louis Armstrong – Moon River
Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter, singer and an influential figure in jazz music.
Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an "inventive" trumpet and cornet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the focus of the music from collective improvisation to solo performance.
With his instantly recognizable gravelly voice, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. He was also skilled at scat singing (vocalizing using sounds and syllables instead of actual lyrics).
Renowned for his charismatic stage presence and voice almost as much as for his trumpet-playing, Armstrong's influence extends well beyond jazz music, and by the end of his career in the 1960s, he was widely regarded as a profound influence on popular music in general.
Armstrong was one of the first truly popular African-American entertainers to "cross over", whose skin color was secondary to his music in an America that was severely racially divided.
He rarely publicly politicized his race, often to the dismay of fellow African-Americans, but took a well-publicized stand for desegregation during the Little Rock Crisis. His artistry and personality allowed him socially acceptable access to the upper echelons of American society that were highly restricted for men of color.
Literature, radio, films and TV
Armstrong appeared in more than a dozen Hollywood films, usually playing a band leader or musician. His most familiar role was as the bandleader cum narrator in the 1956 musical, High Society, in which he sang the title song and performed a duet with Bing Crosby on "Now You Has Jazz".
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Using JavaScript as a script engine in XNA/C#
A scripting engine is a useful component in any game-engine. It allows you to execute modified code (aka scripts) in real time while your game is running. This gives you immediate feedback, allows for easy debugging of scripts and gives you true rapid prototyping abilities.
Scripting engines are also easier to work with than a full blown programming language, an error in a script is easy to recover from and because the scripts aren't compiled it's easy for the script interpreter to give helpful debug information. Even better: you don't have to compile the script and the game keeps running so immediately after you fix the bug in your script you can see the result.
Script engines gives opportunities for 'other'-programmers (gameplay, leveldesign, animator, etc..), they might not wish to delve into the intricacies of the programming language and frameworks you're using for the game engine but they will be more than willing to write some script to modify the behavior of that new enemy.
So, why write a scripting engine for XNA? Well after reading the article 'Embracing Dynamism' by Niklas Frykholm on #AltDevBlogADay I got interested again in scripting engines. Shortly after that I heard that someone wrote a full JavaScript interpreter for C# called JINT , well 1 + 1 = 2 so I started working on integrating JINT into XNA and see if I could set up an external IDE in WPF that, while the game is running, could load, modify and execute script code. After a few tries I finally succeeded and I'm pretty proud of the result.
All the wrapping and magic happens in the JintXNA project. The code, as it is now, works fine on Windows but Windows Phone and Xbox 360 support isn't there yet out of the box since JINT is targeted at the full .NET 4.0 framework. However there is a port of JINT which targets the .NET Compact Framework which should run on WP7 and the 360, I haven't tried this yet though.
You can download the full source code of JintXNA here this package includes the JintXNA project, the IDE and a sample project and script as seen in the video.


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Are you tired of all those other women who expect an emotional connection? Are you fed up with wasting all your precious time building a rapport before she gives in and sleeps with you? Well, listen up, because I have got a deal for you! For the next 60 minutes, I'll be offering a complete package—that's my full attention, conversation, and uninterrupted alcohol-facilitated sexual contact followed by a late-night cab ride to my place at no cost to you—in exchange for only two drinks and an inquiry into how my night is going. This is the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have your lazy eye and bad breath ignored that you can't afford to miss!
Act now to take full advantage of this poor lighting and a temporary lapse in judgment!
I've slashed my hopes for finding Mr. Right and adjusted my height, weight, and personal-hygiene requirements to their most pathetically flexible yet. This is the drop in self- respect you've been waiting for, so why not pull up a bar stool and tell me about your buddy's 4x4? For a limited time, I will even pretend I find this subject matter positively riveting!
It takes absolutely no sincerity to get started, and if you are not completely satisfied with how sexually promiscuous I seem in the first 15 minutes, I'll throw in a misleading and clearly desperate suggestion of bisexuality—absolutely free!
But wait, there's more! You'll also receive a lifetime's supply of low self-esteem compensated for with disproportionate displays of affection just for trying!
How on earth can I offer my still-attractive 26-year-old figure and college education at these low, low standards, you ask? I'll tell you how: by cutting out the unnecessary criteria standing between you and that feeling- me-up-next-to-the-jukebox opportunity you've been hoping for all night. I'm standing by to take your leering glances, and I've reduced my needs to levels unheard-of for any woman under the age of 50! Now there's nothing keeping you from enjoying what literally hundreds of men could also enjoy if they try a moment before you do.
I've got a surplus of romantic disappointments, so all remaining shreds of dignity must go!
Now, I know some women might try to get you to buy into pointless, time-consuming schemes like discussing the music playing in the bar or your respective STD statuses, but not Karen Lohtse on March 4 a half hour before closing time at Skeepers! I recently found out my ex-boyfriend is getting married, and I'm transferring that hopelessness directly on to you—the good people who haven't left with someone else yet. Back hair? One-bedroom apartment with roommate? No hablas inglés? If you've got a compliment about my eyes and a pulse, let's make a deal and get you inside me immediately.
I'm practically giving myself away!
How much would you give for this unique opportunity to have such awkward, emotionally deficient, anonymous sex with me that I'll begin to regret it as it's happening? Fifteen minutes of your time? Twenty minutes? Twenty-five minutes?
Whatever's better for you. I just want to get this over with.


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Do the Constitution's separation of powers and concomitant duty to compromise apply to all presidents save for President Obama?
Few things enrage this rooster more than to have our intelligence insulted by vacuous excuses for cowardice from those who know better, yet expect political allies to share their glazed-over looks and accept them as reasoned arguments. So it goes on Sunday political shows and The Panel Fox News's "Special Report," where usually reliable conservatives dismiss, out of hand, the notion that Republicans holding Article I's power-of-the-purse could force the holder of mere Article II veto-power to compromise on Obamacare to prevent a government shutdown.
The best we can get out of Charles Krauthammer & Co. are combinations of the following:
- Republicans can't govern holding only one-half of the legislative branch of government;
- Republicans lost the 1995-6 Gingrich-Clinton government-shutdown showdowns; and
- Republicans will be blamed by the media for any government shutdown at President Barack Obama's hands.
The above are usually summed up with the even more logically persuasive, Republicans "just can't" win. These were the arguments that prevented Republican Reagan from slashing income tax rates and rebuilding national defense given a Democrat Congress; and the Gingrich GOP House of Representatives from enacting welfare-work requirements and balancing four budgets despite a Hillarycare-Democrat in the White House, right? Not.
I just can't buy it 'cause Can't never could do nothin', especially when Democrats can't govern holding only the executive branch and one-half of the legislature, unless the GOP let's Obama off the separation of powers-hook that all previous Presidents have been forced to abide. And in what sense, other than the sound of pundits' lips flapping, did Newt Gingrich "lose" to an impeached President Clinton who faced a Republican congress every year of his presidency after the government shutdowns?
There is no risk-free path for Republicans to de-fund or repeal Obamacare; hold the House; and/or win back the Senate and the White House.
No, Harry Reid's Senate will not allow a vote on the House bill funding all of Big Government sans Obamacare and even if he did, we doubt that grassroots pressure before a shutdown would yet force enough Democrats to pass it. And even if it passed, President Obama would surely veto it. Any serious effort to de-fund Obamacare was always, and remains, destined to devolve into a game of government-shutdown chicken. But contrary to the Einstein-like " GOP just can't win" excuse, Republicans are not destined to always play the role of the chicken.
Yes, the media is still a solely-owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party, as it has been since Republican Nixon somehow defeated Democrats Humphrey, Wallace and McGovern; Reagan stomped Carter and Mondale; Bush41 slaughtered Dukakis; Republicans ended forty consecutive years of Democrat control of the House; and Bush43 topped Gore and Kerry. Thank God those Republican victors weren't intimidated by the "just-can't" GOP geniuses aka Rockefellers of their day.
After all, as NRO's Andrew McCarthy succinctly points out:
[T]he current defunding effort is a put-your-money-where-your-mouth-is moment: Risk a government shutdown over Obamacare funding under circumstances where Republicans could be blamed, but where (a) Obamacare is very unpopular and its downside consequences are just beginning to kick in; (b) the defunding strategy includes a commitment to fund the rest of government so it can be demonstrated that Obama would really be the one shutting down the government over Obamacare; and (c) Obama himself has already unilaterally and unconstitutionally defunded aspects of Obamacare, including repugnant accommodations for big corporations, Obama insiders, and members of Congress — such that, if the government shuts down, Republicans can compellingly argue that they are only insisting that the American people get the same relief from this awful law that Obama cronies, the ruling class, and the politically-connected get.
It may not work. Even if it doesn't, though, it could have long-term benefits as Democrats up for election in 2014 and 2016 — Democrats who have gotten Obamacare fixes for themselves — are forced to defend Obamacare in the light of day. And for conservatives, it is a chance to see which Republicans are for real and which ones talk a good game as long as it's just a game.
The current battle in the Senate is a necessary constitutional exercise, but any effort to de-fund Obamacare must always come down to whether Speaker Boehner and the House will have the courage to face-down our reckless, man-on-a-ledge Chief Executive who will be happy to allow a shutdown to go on for weeks, if not months or even until he is scheduled to leave office on January 20, 2017. But even Nero was eventually persuaded to put down the violin and the Roman senate wasn't blamed for the burning.
Mr. Speaker, was this CR defunding Obamacare just a one-step-further-than-usual attempt to fool the tea partiers, that made your elevation to third in the line of succession possible, before your inevitable cave-in at Obama's hands lest Andrea Mitchell keep you from getting invites to her and Mr. Greenspan's next D.C. cocktail party love-in?
Why aren't you, at this moment, passing a Defense Department-only appropriations bill out of the House to send to the U.S. Senate after they reject the continuing resolution? We JUST CAN win arguments if we lay the groundwork for them and make them. Or do you prefer to wait till the last hour before a shutdown and surrender, claiming you have tried, when in fact your effort was only half-hearted?
You JUST CAN prove me wrong if you are willing to take a thimble-full of the risk millions of Americans have taken every day of this five-years-long-and-counting Obama-jobs-depression with increasing deleterious effects from Obamacare on the jobs, insurance premium, and doctor-shortage fronts.
If one man with courage can make a majority, surely 217+ in the House can.
Mike DeVine's Right.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." – Andrew Jackson


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Debt Nightmare: Does Anyone Actually Care That Our Exploding National Debt Is Destroying Our Future?
When will America finally wake up? The borrower is the servant of the lender, and we now have a colossal 20 trillion dollar chain around our collective ankles.
We have willingly enslaved ourselves, our children and our grandchildren, and yet our addiction is so insatiable that we continue to add more than 100 million dollars to our debt load every single hour of every single day.
The national debt is sitting at a grand total of $20,162,176,797,904.13 at this moment, but now that the debt ceiling has been lifted that number is expected to shoot up very rapidly toward 21 trillion dollars by the end of the year.
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The national debt had been held down by accounting tricks to keep it under the debt limit for many months, but every time this has happened before we have seen the national debt absolutely explode back to projected levels once the debt ceiling was raised.
But very few of our "leaders" in Washington seem to care that we are in the process of committing national suicide.
There is no possible way that we will be able to continue to be the most powerful economy on the planet if we continue down this road.
During Obama's eight years in the White House, we added more than 9 trillion dollars to the national debt.
That certainly improved things in the short-term, because if we could go back and take 9 trillion dollars out of the economy over the past 8 years we would be in an absolutely nightmarish economic depression right now.
But even with all of this borrowing and spending, our economy has still only grown at an average rate of just 1.33 percent a year over the last 10 years.
And by going into so much debt, we are literally destroying the future for our children and our grandchildren.
What we are doing to them is beyond criminal, and people should be going to prison over this.
But instead, we just keep rewarding these Congress critters by sending the same cast of characters back to Washington over and over again.
Are we insane?
The feds are now projecting that the official yearly budget deficit will reach 1.4 trillion dollars by 2027.
Of course, federal projections always end up being far more optimistic than reality.
And we are already spending about 500 billion dollars a year just on interest on the national debt, and by 2027 that number is projected to jump to 760 billion dollars a year.
This is complete and utter insanity, and yet we just can't control ourselves.
The government continues to throw around money as if there is no tomorrow, and our tax dollars are being wasted on some of the most ridiculous things imaginable.
For instance, the U.S. military is spending 42 million dollars each year on Viagra.
We must stop this madness, and we must stop it now. I really like how an editorial in the Houston Chronicle made this point…
Tax-and-spend politics are bad, but borrow-and-spend is worse. While we have some control over whether our lawmakers raise taxes, our children and grandchildren don't get a vote on whether we burden them with debt.
Over the long run, huge government debt takes cash out of the economy and drives up interest rates, slowing economic growth and hurting private enterprise.
To protect the U.S. economy, Republicans need to nip plans to eliminate the debt ceiling in the bud and then get to work balancing the federal budget.
Will we ever learn?
Since the beginning of our nation, many of our most prominent statesmen have been warning about the dangers of accumulating government debt.
For example, during his farewell address President George Washington instructed the country to "avoid … the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions of expense but by vigorous exertions to discharge the debts, no throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear."
And Thomas Jefferson famously said that he wished that he could have added one more amendment to the U.S. Constitution which would have banned government borrowing…
"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of it's constitution; I mean an additional article, taking from the federal government the power of borrowing."
This is one of the primary reasons why we must abolish the Federal Reserve system.
The Federal Reserve was actually designed to create a government debt spiral from which we could never possibly escape.
That is why the size of our national debt has gotten more than 5000 times larger since 1913, and we are never going to permanently solve our national debt problem until we get rid of the Fed.
Most Americans don't realize this, but the path that we are currently on is not sustainable by any definition.
Debt levels are growing much, much faster than GDP, and that is a recipe for disaster.
The following is an excerpt from one of my previous articles…
We are living in the greatest debt bubble in the history of the world. In 1980, total government and personal debt in the United States was just over the 3 trillion dollar mark, but today it has surpassed 41 trillion dollars.
That means that it has increased by almost 14 times since Ronald Reagan was first elected president.
I am searching for words to describe how completely and utterly insane this is, but I am coming up empty.
We are slowly but surely committing national suicide, and yet most Americans don't even understand what is happening.
According to 720 Global, total government debt plus total personal debt in the United States was just over 3 trillion dollars in 1980.
That broke down to $38,552 per household, and that figure represented 79 percent of median household income at the time.
Today, total government debt plus total personal debt in the United States has blown past the 41 trillion dollar mark.
When you break that down, it comes to $329,961.34 per household, and that figure represents 584 percent of median household income.
Sadly, most people are entirely clueless about what we are doing to ourselves.
Investors are the most optimistic that they have been in years, and most of the talking heads on television seem to believe that the party can go on indefinitely.
But that is simply not possible.
And the same thing is true from a global perspective as well. The following comes from Chris Martenson…
First: our entire economic model, which dependent on borrowing at a faster rate than income (GDP) grows, is something that simply cannot be maintained at its current rate or level. Check.
Second: depleting species, soils and aquifers are all wildly unsustainable practices that are accelerating. Check.
Last (and most glaring of all): the world's leadership (and we use that term very loosely) continues to insist on adhering to the indefensible idea that infinite growth on a finite planet is possible Checkmate.
The clock is ticking, and disaster awaits at the end of this road.
Will somebody please do something?
Article posted with permission from The Economic Collapse Blog
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