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1 There was a girl named Franny working there as head waitress. She was 24 and five years older than I. She was nothing special, but she was not bad either. And she was a girl. I had earned a little 1936 Ford coupe, mostly by selling hand soap to garages, and with this piece of modern machinery - which I doctored endlessly - and Franny, I made some further experiments in the processes by which Nature intended there should be more of us. Later, with more experience, I would have had no trouble discovering and experimenting with the process itself, but, with my Victorian upbringing and- ideas and my utter ineptness in the matter, I allowed Franny to hold the experiments to preliminary investigations and what you might call 'dress rehearsals'.
2 Nevertheless, these sessions were so profoundly exciting that the thoughts and images they provoked interfered seriously with my growing interest in music, art, literature and philosophy. I found myself wondering, as I read The Crito, whether Socrates had had similar experiences. Then, remembering Xantippe and her reputation as a termagant, I decided that if they had shared such experiences, Socrates wasn't adept at it or had given up too early.
3 At the Green Shutters, I also learned about old ladies and discovered some effective methods of dealing with them. Their endless empty chatter disgusted me. Nothing but stories of teashops, giftshops, difficulties with other old ladies, sly remarks about still other old ladies and their friends. It was depressing to a lively youth who had just discovered the fabulously interesting world of ideas, sex, music, philosophy, etc. How could these corsetted blimps survive each other's empty conversation about nothing for years and years and years? It was a mystery to me and still is.
4 But there was no mystery about their dispositions. There were a few sweet ones, but these old war-horses of grammar school and high school were mostly arrogant, imperious tyrants with us waiters and waitresses. Nothing, absolutely nothing was quite right for them. Nothing quite satisfied them. I remember all the same kind of teachers I had had and began to cast about in my mind for methods of innocent revenge. They would have me move their mattresses from one cottage to another through the woods when they would complain of nonexistent "lumps" and then dismiss me imperiously - with no tip. They would call me interminably from table to table to complain of small discrepancies in the portions of food or other injustices and indignities to their too-too-dignified persons.
5 But I discovered there was one thing that drove them crazy: sticky handles on the pancake syrup jars at breakfast. They were a finicky old lot and sticky fingers wereunbearable to them. So I carried a sticky rag with me and dosed up their door knobs, their pocketbook handles, their light switches and anything else I could find where they would get into the mess. The effect was thoroughly, delightfully satisfying. I was called out at all hours, of course and the proprietress and her son were scolded no end for the mysterious plague of stickiness, but nobody could figure it out - except us waiters and waitresses and we had no interest in spoiling all that fun.
6 There was one fat, old killer-whale in particular who drove us mad at the table. She was always discovering that there were air bubbles in her scoops of ice cream and insisting that the terrible deficiency be made up to her. So one evening I decided to be sure her ice cream,was rich enough to suit her. I took a square of butter, which was kept in the same freezer as the ice cream and built her a nice ball of ice cream around it. Then I served it up to her with great style. We all watched from behind a little screen, looking out between the cracks and holding our breaths until she came to the butter. I was going to explain that it was an accident, that the butter must have fallen into the ice cream, which it could have, when she squawked. But she didn't squawk. Instead, we saw her look down at the dish, bend over and hack at it with her spoon a few times. Then she took a large bite of he butter and an almost lascivious smile spread across her ocean of face . She loved it!
7 I was called for immediately and dutifully came to attention beside her. "Young man," she commanded, "this is the finest and richest ice cream I have ever tasted. What kind is it"
8 "Turner Center," I told her truthfully.
9 "Well, I want another portion right away and I will have some of this kind every night. See that Mrs. Clayton orders this kind in the future, not that watery stuff we've been getting."
10 I fetched her another portion and this time packed the butter in almost solid. The staff was suffocating and dying, holding onto the door jams and retreating in agonies of laughter to the kitchen when they couldn't stand it any more.
11 Perhaps the Freudians will have me carted away to the booby hatch for this too. If they do, it will have been worth it! As I write this, I am suffused with a hugely satisfying glow as I recall that stupid human dirigible waddling away from her table, imagining herself mistress of all she could stuff down her ravenous gullet. I was learning, even then, how people work!
12 I had been accepted at Brown University during the summer by Bruce Bigelow, the director of admissions who gave me my first clue that I might be different from other people. He frankly told me that, in view of my six years in high school and other vagaries of my student career, I had the worst scholastic record of anybody ever admitted to Brown, but the highest grade on the College Aptitude Test, which shows intelligence, of all the students ever tested. He warned me that I was to be admitted strictly as an experiment to see what would happen, when the immovable object of my disinclination for scholastic achievement was placed against the irresistible force of my native intelligence in the atmosphere of a college.
13 I entered Brown in the fall of 1938, literally in a hurricane. That was the year New England was struck fearfully by winds of over a hundred miles an hour and thousands died in masses of wreckage. My aunt and 80 year old grandmother were at the beach called Barrington, on Narragansett Bay, when the storm hit and I was up in Providence with my Aunt Margie. As soon as we knew how terrible the thing was, I got down to the beach, where we had heard chilling rumors of death and destruction and discovered the rumors to be no exaggeration. Whole cottages had been swept away with their inhabitants and my heart stopped until I could see the wreckage of my Aunt Helen's place where my grandmother was staying. Bodies were floating against the beach as I picked my way over the piles of tom-up lumber, roofs, beds, etc., to the cottage. inside, to my huge relief, I found my folks alive and well - even if uncomfortable.
14 I was about to meet my first wife.
15 I had started to work on the wreckage, when a little teenage girl behind me somewhere on the pile yelled with infinite impudence, "Hey, you: Brown Pants! Grab the other end of this!" and poked some debris at me. This little character was as fresh-looking as she talked - wearing pigtails and flirting her talk around like a jay bird, and twice as sassy.
16 She was something I had never seen before. Her fresh wholesomeness attracted me irresistibly and her bossy manners repelled me almost as much. Here among the wreckage of the hurricane, though, her super-cheerful easiness and "Let's get with it, boys!" helped erase the atmosphere of tragedy and death. I tried to sass her back, but wasn't equal to it. There was no squelching this pert young lady. I couldn't forget her. Some other people there said her name was Judy Aultman who lived nearby and that's all I found out for another year.
17 There was plenty to keep my mind busy as I entered college. There were endless tests to see what courses we needed and one of the major surprises and shocks of my life was when I discovered that I had passed the fairly difficult tests for Freshman English and Freshman French, a relatively rare occurrence. I couldn't believe it, considering my agonies in high and prep schools, but passing showed me I had discovered a new technique in the struggle to avoid school work, a system I have since called the "total situation" approach. In writing those English and French tests, I had been faced with technically difficult problems, but had solved them, not by relying on my rote memory and rules, but by fathoming the minds of the preparers of the exams, the minds of those who would grade the exams - and coming up with an overall impression of virtuosity which would sell the grader on my ability. In addition, I had used logic and reason to come up with rules when I needed them, the same way that the rules were originally developed by those who parsed the language in the first place. Above all, I prepared my essays in such a manner as to avoid what I was sure were the standard errors the graders were used to and were looking for.
18 Time after time, since then, I have discovered that I do not have to study the usual rote memory portions of most subjects to succeed or even excel in performance on tests or use of the knowledge. By learning the most fundamental logical development of the subject, I am usually able to develop any other portion of the subject, as I need it - very much the way a Navy ship does not need to carry around spare parts for every piece of the ship, but carries, rather, the plans and raw materials which can be worked up as needed for any desired part in the machine shop.
19 It is my belief that this technique should be the most fundamental part of the education of our youth, instead of the present stuffing of young minds with millions of unrelated facts and unevaluated ideas or the chaotic development of personal whims and prejudices called "progressive education". Once the principle of a subject is learned, the details can be developed at will in most cases. The beauty of this system of mental discipline is that it leaves the mind free to do creative work, rather than burdening it with billions of confusing separate facts. It is my contention that the failure to teach young minds today the principles of all logical development, accompanied by the positive emphasis of the insane idea that absolutely everything is "relative" and "grey", rather than black and white where principles are concerned, kills the ability to think in our youth. Phenomena which exemplify principles can indeed be on a sliding scale of "greys" and always are, in fact. But the principles themselves, such as force prevailing over weakness, are not relative, but eternal laws of logic which would prevail even in an empty universe.
20 Once the internally consistent body of principles governing a mental discipline is learned, and then the system of deriving the details -by logical building therefrom one can master subjects well enough to use them successfully in a ridiculous fraction, of the time usually frittered away in courses taught at schools and universities. This is the method, for instance, whereby I have been able to hold my own and even win a good many victories in the courts as my own attorney, without a day's training in the law. I have discovered that law is, by and large, a system of common, ordinary horse-sense, based on a few fundamental and simple principles - at least until our Supreme Court got at the matter. But in our ordinary courts, knowledge of the fundamental principles, a will to succeed and the application of brainpower to the principles will make any man his own lawyer and a more successful one than many court-appointed attorneys who don't have your motivation.
21 This is not to assert that a trained, expert and highly-paid lawyer is not a good investment, nor does it mean that I will not make use of such legal genius when I can afford it. But when it is necessary to have a lawyer and none will take your case, as has happened to me as a Nazi - and you can't pay them besides then a knowledge of how to master a subject well enough to use it in a few days by the use of principles plus logical building of details is invaluable.
22 Incidentally, while I am on this matter, I have also learned that even such majestic subjects as the law are as vulnerable as everything else I have found in this world to human motivational study. Lawyers, judges and other officials are human. I have discovered that even the best of them make fearful mistakes, omissions and blunders, even in their robes and/or wigs. By calculating not only the law, but their emotions and their probable thought processes, I have more than once won victories by something beside the unvarnished use of the law and the facts.
23 My first year at Brown was perhaps the happiest of my life. There was no responsibility, compared to later life; instead, there were flowering abilities in all direction, an absorbing interest in everything and everybody, all sorts of opportunities to drink beer, experiment with women and discuss the entire world as a 'master' with other young 'masters-of-everything' in the fraternity house. Although I was only a freshman, I launched the college humor magazine which had been dead for a long time, together with sophomores Vic Hillary and Bob Grabb, my best pals at Brown. I was art editor and Grabb was the editor. Hillary was editor of the college paper, The Brown Daily Herald. I worked with endless creative pleasure for both publications and more than once got called over to the Dean's office for my exuberance. I developed a horror style of cartoon years before Charles Adams and these were frequently reprinted in other college papers, such as The Annapolis Log. I was also to see stacks of these works of kid-college humor in the District of Columbia Municipal Court on July 26, 1960, where I was on trial as a lunatic. These exuberant works of over twenty years ago were diligently gathered together by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, photostated and presented to the Prosecutor, who testified that he "didn't know where all the photostats came from." These cartoons were used to 'prove' that I was a sadistic monster, although in the twenty-two years since producing them, I had risen from an enlisted man to a commander in the Navy; been selected to command three squadrons; successfully established three businesses and had never eaten a single baby or carved up a wife.
24 It was at Brown in 1939 that I first ran head-on into Communism, although I didn't know or even suspect it. I don't remember even thinking about it any more than I did Thugeeism in India or Mormonism. I was still blissfully and totally ignorant of Communism, Jews, Negroes and the assault of the masses of the world, led by the master-mongrels - the Jews - against the White Race and its elite. in a way, I am glad of this long-maintained ignorance, because today, when I meet young college men and women who are full of conceit of their 'knowledge', 'liberalism' and 'understanding' of our social problems, I can be patient with them. I can imagine my own reaction if I had been told there was a Jewish or any other kind of world conspiracy. I was sure, at that time, that my 'deep' studies into the profundities of knowledge would have long ago revealed any such monstrous conspiracy and even if not, that my professors and men of learning would surely have known of it. I would have been angry at such effrontery, just as the young college boobs I meet today are at first angry - until I ruthlessly use logic to beat them out of their disgusting and monumental conceit by driving into them, one after the other, the explanations of how come they never ran into such facts.
25 But then, in 1939, I sat in "Sociology I" class and tried my best to make some sense out of it all. I had been happy at the chance to study sociology, as it appeared to me logical that there must be some fundamental principles of the development of the social relationships of life, as I had discovered simple basic principles of other affairs I had looked into. I was most eager to learn these basic principles of the operation of human society so that I could understand the events around me and perhaps even predict sociological occurrences in accordance with the principles I would be taught. I have since learned that there are such principles, particularly in Adam's The Law of Civilization and Decay and even better, in The Crowd by LeBon.
26 But it would be many, many years before I would fight my way into the intellectual sunshine of such simple, fundamental and logical presentations of the facts of social life. In Professor Bucklin's classroom on society, all was the most depressing darkness and confusion. It all sounded most enlightening, of course. There were lots of brave new words, ethnic groups, etc., but try as I might, I could not get to the bottom of it all to find any idea or principle I could get hold of. Everything was "by and large" and "in most cases" and "on the other hand" and "So-and-so says, but Dr. So-and-so says absolutely not." Muddiness of mind was not deplored, but glorified. I buried myself in my sociology books, absolutely determined to find out why I was missing the kernel of the thing.
27 The best I could come up with was that human beings are all helpless tools of the environment; that we are all born as rigidly equal lumps and that the disparity of our achievements and stations was entirely the result of the forces of environment - that everybody, therefore, could theoretically be masters, geniuses and kings if only we could sufficiently improve everybody's environment. I was bold enough to ask Professor Bucklin if this were the idea and he turned red with anger. I was told it was "impossible" to- make any generalizations, although all I was asking was for the fundamental idea, if any, of sociology.
28 I began to see that sociology was different from any other course I had ever taken. Certain ideas produced apoplexy in the teacher, particularly the suggestion that perhaps some people were no good biological slobs from the day they were born. Certain other ideas, although they were never formulated nor stated frankly, were fostered and encouraged - these were always ideas revolving around the total power of the environment. Slowly, I got the idea. At first, I just used it to get better grades. When I wrote my essay answers in examinations, I poured it on heavily that all hands in the civilization in question were potential Leonardo da Vincis, no matter how black they were, nor how they ate their best friends for thousands of years; and that with a quick change in environment, these cannibals too would be writing arias, building Parthenons and painting masterpieces.
29 But then I began to wonder "how come"? Certainly, environment was important. Anybody could see that. But it was obviously negative. You can make a helpless boob out of a born genius by bringing him up in a dark closet, but you can't make a genius out of a drooling idiot, even by sending him to Brown. Was it just old man Bucklin who was insane with environment? Or was it the whole subject? I went to the library and read more sociology books. They were universally pushing the same idea.
30 I began to make fun of sociology in the college paper in my column and got into more trouble. Some of the columns were 'killed' before seeing the light. I was still too ignorant to know that I was fighting Lysenko and Marx and the whole Soviet theory of environmentalism - which has captured and hypnotized or terrorized all our intellectuals - and I imagined I was battling just one foolish college course!
31 During my second year at Brown, my picture of the world darkened as I discovered more and more intellectual dishonesty in this university which had first seemed almost heaven itself to me. I still knew little or nothing about Communism or its pimping little sister, 'liberalism', but I could not avoid the steady pressure, everywhere in the university, to accept the idea of massive human equality and the supremacy of environment. In every course, I was repelled by the intellectual cowardice of the faculty in failing to stand up for any doctrine whatsoever.
32 I majored in philosophy and, while I admired the intellectual brilliance of my professors, particularly Professor Ducasse, I was hugely disappointed in the headlong retreat of all the faculty whenever they were asked their own opinions as to the objective truth in any matter. I was told that "eternal seeking" is the way to knowledge and there is no denying that, but lively discussion is also vital to any advance of knowledge and you cannot have any lively discussion where the opposition either doesn't exist or melts away like a wraith when you seek to take hold of it.
33 I was running into the disease of our modern life: cowardice and pathological fear of a strong personality or strong ideas. Dale Carnegie has codified and commercialized this creeping disease as "how to win friends and influence people", which boils down to the essential principle of having no personality or strong feelings or ideas and becoming passive and empty so that "the other fellow" can display his ideas and personality. But he, too, is trying to become popular by being passive and dispassionate, so that the result is like connecting two dead batteries: no current. Such human robots are suited to enslavement by a 1984-type society, but not to life in a bold, free society of men. This is the way women should be, perhaps, but not our men and especially not our leaders.
34 I found the same feeble feminine approach in every subject except in the sciences, and for these last, I was very grateful. In geology and psychology I could find a few principles and laws which stayed there when I reached out to grasp them, and so I reveled in these subjects and rebelled to the limit of my capacity in the others. In sociology I went so far as to write an insolent examination paper which almost got me thrown out of Brown. We were asked to write an essay answer on the factors leading to criminality and delinquency.
35 I wrote nothing but a fable about a crew of scientific geniuses who set out for Africa to see what made ants act like ants. They searched around until they found a lot of anthills, observed them for many years and finally came up with the discovery that when ant eggs were hatched in tunnels in a certain kind of hill in Africa and grew up among six-legged creatures called "ants", they themselves were so affected by this strong environment that they became, themselves, ants and waved their antennae like ants, scurried around aimlessly like ants, looked like ants and were ants!
36 Once again, I was hauled up before the administration for this impudence and almost thrown out. However, I was given another opportunity to write the exam and for the sake of my dear good grandmother and my patient, loving Aunt Margie, I sat down and wrote what I knew they wanted - a piece showing how unfortunate and most excellent babies were invariably driven to stealing from their parents, relatives and friends, robbing strangers at gunpoint and finally axing somebody in sheer desperation at their nasty environment. This was passed with a C plus.
37 Meanwhile, I was learning mightily from my endless 'bull sessions' with Vic Hillary and Bob Grabb, my constant companions. Both of them were soused to the ears with the prevailing 'liberalism', although I still did not know what it was. I simply discovered that almost all my ideas clashed violently with theirs. My ideas that socially-significant novels were dangerous because they allowed ideas to sneak into the mind while it was hypnotized was especially aggravating to both of them as we all aspired to creative careers, they as novelists and great writers. My attack on the very social novels they were aiming to write was painful and their reactions, particularly Hillary's, were most passionate. Far into the night we would battle over this matter, with the usual results: no progress. But in the process, I learned the art of controversy.
38 At first, I was too sincere and ingenuous to do anything but try to make my opponent see the truth- of my position with the utmost force and sincerity. But then, I found that I would fall victim of the dirtiest kind of tricks. My position would be enormously and ridiculously exaggerated and then it would be flung, into my face in triumph, to the great laughter of the audience of listeners or participants. I could not understand when even my revered friends did this to me. I was more than once too hurt by such tactics to defend myself.
39 But, as with everything else in my life, when I discovered the inevitability of such illogical skullduggery, I schooled myself in it and one day turned the tables on my 'liberal' friends. Since I was usually alone in my 'conservative' position, surrounded by voluble and hostile 'liberals', I had more than the usual share of difficulties in gaining one of the phony 'victories' which are the only ones possible in such a battle, wherein truth means nothing. Under such circumstances, where the listeners as well as one's opponents are all hostile, one must capture them emotionally, in spite of themselves, with a lightning, unexpected stroke, usually of overwhelming humor or sarcasm, so that they laugh at your opponent and even themselves, in spite of themselves. Then you must decamp with a flourish, but with haste, before they can recover, and lay loud claim to victory. Such practice has served me handsomely, many times since then, in political battles, particularly in courtrooms when prosecutors get oratorical and too big for their britches. One has only to find the man's weak point in such circumstances to turn his unfair attack against himself with judge, jury and spectators.
40 More and more at Brown, I came into basic conflict with the prevailing "'liberalism', still without realizing what it was all about. My companions, my courses, my professors, the latest 'erudite' books: everything seemed to me to be touched with madness. I fought it fiercely and, for my ignorance, powerfully, but mostly by instinct. I simply had never heard of Communism as anything but a fiendish and insane doctrine held by a few fanatics someplace overseas. That the campus, dorms, fraternity houses and classrooms of Brown University were crawling with the filthy thing, I would never have believed and would have laughed to scom anybody who had tried to tell me such a 'fantastic' thing - then.
41 It was during my second year at Brown, at the first fall dance at Faunce House that I recognized one of the freshman girls - my future wife - from Pembroke, the girls' section of Brown. I saw the same sassy little jaybird I had met in Barrington after the hurricane. Only this time, she was in a party dress. She still looked fresher and more wholesome than any girl I had ever seen, but she looked more than just wholesome in the pretty dress, as she swept across the floor with a succession of partners who cut in on each other. I was busy chasing a few women myself, but I noticed when she disappeared outside into the darkness with somebody. I strolled out onto the campus and over by University Hall, which was behind a fence as it was being remodeled. I saw her come out the door of the fence with her escort and was immediately irritated, but I kept control, strolled nonchalantly over and said "hello" to her. She recognized me and I couldn't resist asking her what she had been doing in the deserted hall.
42 "Ringing the bell," she said, which I insisted on taking with a double entendre, but which did not embarrass her in the least. I was a sophomore, far above such silly little freshman girls, but she apparently refused to recognize this great difference in our social stations. I resolved to ask her for a date and did so the next opportunity.
43 From then on, my life was a hell of glorious hope and miserable despair. She would seem to be as desperately in love with me as I was with her, only to cut me to pieces with some unheard of cruelty. She was the most popular girl in the freshman class and played the field with calculated cunning and cold manipulation. Such were the agonies of pursuing the girl who was to be my first wife.
44 She would take my fraternity pin, full of love and even traces of passion, only to thrust it back at me a few days later, for no special reason. I later got to know her mother and suspect her dainty hand in this sort of affair. But she had roused in me that fatal acceptance of challenge which is my most fundamental quality. Since she seemed impossible to tame or to attain, I had to have her and I doubled and redoubled my efforts to that end. I still don't know who got whom and I don't think she does either. Always, I was being bounced from heaven to hell by this sassy young thing I sought to corral.
45 But such emotional badminton didn't stop my development politically. Roosevelt was campaigning for re-election for his third term and I was not only outraged at this conceited flaunting of tradition, but Roosevelt's masterful but obvious demagoguery repelled me beyond endurance. I remember getting a harsh lesson from this Machiavellian "man of the people" when I heard a Republican program wherein different speeches of his were played in sequence, so that the impudent lies of the man were horrifyingly obvious. In one excerpt you would hear this political snake declare his undying devotion to one principle, only to hear him denouncing the very same thing the next moment, with passionate and self-righteous venom. I rejoiced at this genius of the Republicans and was sure no political leader could survive this devastating exposure of total lack of principle and utter depravity of character. Roosevelt was dead; I was positive! His subsequent landslide election victory taught me once for all that the ability of the people to know, to weigh and to judge facts per se is almost zero.
46 When FDR would take to the airwaves with his undulating, calculatingly charming voice, the women would be overcome with his "masterful" leadership and the males would be scrambling over one another to do homage to this great "liberal". My college mates absolutely staggered me with their apparent blindness to this foul liar and cheat. Grabb and Hillary formed committees to get Roosevelt re-elected and the campus was alive with a passion for Roosevelt. When I tried to point out the wild lies and inconsistencies of the man's words and acts, his demagoguery which should have been obvious to any ass and his grossly insincere and studied mass-manipulation techniques, I was greeted by a reaction which I have since learned is typical of these phony 'intellectuals' who pride themselves on their 'liberalism': invective! I was called a "reactionary", a "tory", even a "fascist" - a word I knew nothing of at that time. There was no attempt to show that my arguments or charges were wrong or ill-founded - only sneers, jeers, curses and name-calling.
47 It is typical of my political naivete in that time that when the hate propaganda about Hitler began to be pushed upon us in larger and larger doses, I swallowed it all and was unable to suspect that somebody might have had an interest in all this and that it might not be the interest of the United States or our people.
48 Charlie Chaplin was one of my favorites (and still is) and when I saw his "Great Dictator", I was not only brought to tears by the funny parts, but I was brought to bursting indignation by the impassioned speech he makes at the end against dictatorship (except for Stalin's brutal dictatorship which was depicted as benevolent love for his people, including the massacres of "enemies of the people"). The only dictators attacked by Mr. Chaplin were Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo, which I have since found easy to understand when we learn that Charlie is so red even our pinko State Department has banned him from the U.S.A. - and the even more significant fact for a capitalist who has made millions here in our hospitable land, that Chaplin's real name is Israel Thonstein.
49 But in 1940, all of this was hidden from me, as it is still hidden from our people for yet a little while longer. And so I grew to hate this "vicious monster", Adolf Hitler, as much as anybody in the country. It became obvious that we would have to get into a war to stop this "horrible ogre" who "planned to conquer America", so we were told and so I believed.
50 I was having the time of my life in college, but my idealism would not permit me to enjoy it as long as I sincerely believed, as I did, that my beloved country was in immediate and deadly danger of being enslaved or murdered and destroyed. I made preliminary inquiries about enlisting in the Navy.
51 The president of Brown, Henry Merrit Wriston, called me into his sacred chambers to remonstrate with me. "How can you expect to become an important man if you don't finish college?" he asked.
52 Sitting on the edge of my chair in awe of this grand person, I replied that there was no use trying to become an important man if America was to be destroyed. I said that I felt it my duty to do what I could immediately to stop any conquering of my country and I wondered how anybody could do differently. This fetched him up short, as he took it as a personal slur on his courage and patriotism. Waving a big stack of papers at me, he fairly shouted, "See all these papers? I have just signed them! I sign my name over a hundred times a day! This is what it means to be important! Nobody will want you to sign your name if you do not finish college!"
53 This seemed to me then and seems, to me now, a pretty sorry argument for finishing college or for being a success, especially for a man who has been asked to reorganize our Foreign Service and is looked up to as a mastermind. Facing him as a young squirt, I found him to be something less than a Socrates or even a good Scout Leader and I realize that such pompous and relatively empty-headed 'leaders' are, and will be our lot until we can conquer the Jewish money-power, which can only survive as long as our leaders are either consciously in on the filthy red scheme or as I think in the present case, are too slow-witted to see what stooges they are.
54 So another student and I went ahead and enlisted at the First Naval District headquarters in Boston. How my life changed then!
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Rushing + Razor = 1 1/2 Results
I saw a great little device on television the other day and immediately drove to the store and made my $9.95 purchase. It was a razor – a tiny razor – that ran on a triple "A" battery. What it did (or was supposed to do) was marvelous: it could shave the little hairs that mysteriously appeared on my upper lip or between my eyebrows or on my chin! No plucking – ouch! No waxing – double ouch! Just zip and it was done. Easy? Absolutely! Quick? Done in seconds! What could possibly go wrong? Nothing…unless you were in a hurry and tried to use this "great little device."
Two days later I was getting ready for my job and running late. As I made one final inspection of my makeup before I left, I noticed about 8 unruly hairs above my left eyebrow. Each had a mind of its own, heading in 8 completely different directions! I was thinking "Now what?" when I remembered the razor. Within seconds the hairs would be gone from my face and I would be gone to my job. Grabbing the razor, I turned it on and quickly positioned myself to shave the hairs when the unthinkable happened: my arm slipped.
Oh, the 8 hairs were gone in an instant…but so was half my left eyebrow! I'm sure I raised BOTH my eyebrows in astonishment at what had happened…but only the right eyebrow was visible in the mirror! The left one could not respond to the look of shock on my face because half of it wasn't there.
At first the realization of what had happened threatened to turn into tears of frustration but my sense of humor prevailed. I contemplated (briefly) shaving off half of the other eyebrow and telling people it was a new style. Then I considered restyling my hair and doing a Donald Trump comb-over so that half of my bangs would cover half of my eyebrow. Fortunately, common sense prevailed and I dug in a drawer to find an old but usable eyebrow pencil. At that point it didn't matter that it was dark brown and I am blonde. All I knew was that an eyebrow needed to appear quickly above my left eye.
I made it to work with three seconds to spare, two eyebrows on my face, and one important lesson in my head: never rush with a razor! And I memorized a great Scripture, should this ever happen again: Proverbs 31:25 (NIV) "…she can laugh at the days to come." Even with one and a half eyebrows.
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2018 Toyota C-HR Specs, Release Date, Price – What 2018 Toyota C-HR has in its shovel, its shape and proportions are interesting and somewhat fun to look at. Low, angular and fast-looking, the new C-HR is a head turner.
The 2018 Toyorta C-HR is smaller and more affordable than the RAV4 model. Basically it was developed for the discontinued Scion brand, which mostly describes C-HR's sporty handling and funky style. These two keys, along with an extensive list of standard safety features, are the main reasons for considering the 2018 Toyorta C-HR .
Trim, Features and Engine
The 2018 Toyota C-HR is a four-seat subcompact crossovers with coupe style. It's offered in two trim level: base XLE and XLE Premium.
Standard features for the 2018 Toyota C-HR XLE include 18-inch wheels, a rear spoiler, LED daytime running lights, automatic headlights with automatic high-beam control, unlocking and locking remote, a cargo cover, a rearview camera, an auto-dimming rearview mirror, adjustable driving modes, dual-zone automatic climate control, a driver information display, height-adjustable front seats, a leather-wrapped steering wheel, a 60/40-split rear seat, a 7-inch touchscreen, Bluetooth and a six-speaker audio system with USB port and HD radio.
For convenience and safety features include brake hold at stoplights, traffic-adapting cruise control, lane departure warning and intervention and forward collision warning with automatic emergency braking.
Steping to the XLE Premium trim you'll gets foglights, keyless ignition and entry, power-folding mirrors, two-way power lumbar for the driver, heated front seats, blind-spot monitoring with rear cross-traffic alert.
The 2018 Toyota C-HR is powered by the all-new 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine that produces 144 horsepower and 139 pound-feet of torque. It pair to a continuously variable automatic transmission (CVT) and sent the power to the front wheels. In performance testing, the 2018 Toyota C-HR run from zero to 60 in 10.5 second, which is painfully slow. EPA estimates fuel economy is competitive at 27 mpg city/31 mpg highway/29 mpg combined.
Inside, the 2018 Toyota C-HR driving quality never gets rude on the rough pavement. The front seat supportive and is comfortable, it handles the long-distance driving well. But the tire noises overflow at high speed on the freeway, and the loud engine at high rpm is very annoying.
The steering wheel is not a telescope very far, but most drivers can still find a good sitting position. The headroom is spacious enough, but makes a small amount for leg room. There is a significant blind spot because the rear window is small.
There are not many places to keep your personal belongings apart from a small basket in front and that are in an awkward position of cupholders. For the cargo space, the 2018 Toyota C-HR provides 19 cubic feet behind the second row, which is average for the class. Folding the rear seats, the cargo space increased to 36.4 cubes.
Price and Release Date
You are looking for a funky alternative to style and not bothered by the lack of Apple CarPlay, all-wheel drive or factory navigation will find the 2018 Toyota C-HR in showroom this April with price starting at $23,460 for XLE base and $25,310 XLE Premium models.


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Party Guide: Halloween 2013
Show your great costume at one of the many events that are happening around the city. Here's a list at some of our favorites. Check back often as we are going to update them with fabulous parties.
Hosting your Halloween party? Here are ten ghoulish (and yummy) cocktails to get you started.
- NYC's 3rd Annual Haunted Mansion Party hosted by Playmates!
- Thursday, October 31st, 2013 9pm-4am
- 1 Hour Vodka Open Bar, 9pm-10pm
- Tickets (and available packages) available at Joonbug.com
- For one night only, the staple NYC destination for drinks, dancing and bowling morphs into a supernatural pleasure dome that will spike the P.K.E. meter. Imagine all the shocks and thrills you'll have within the cobweb-lined walls of this 90,000 square foot, multilevel entertainment complex. With multiple bars and plenty of space for the walking dead, it's a scream. There will be several areas each boasting a different theme of sinister delights at the Bowlmor Times Square Halloween.
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- Thursday, October 31st, 2013 9pm-4am
- 1 Hour Vodka Open Bar 9pm-10pm
- Deep within the inner sanctums of Manhattan's most divine private event spaces rises Capitale's Devil's Debauchery Ball. Lose yourself surrounded by decadent debauchery, hellfire energy, sinful escapades and naughty masquerade
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The Royal's "Better Late than Never"Halloween Bash!
Join us on Saturday November 2nd to extend the hair-raising good times. Enjoy music by DJ Delro and make sure to come decked in your best costume as you could be the lucky winner of a cash prize!
Katch has partnered with Growing up Astoria to throw a gathering of goulish proportions!
The night will feature a number of contests & giveaways. Guests are expected to come masquerading around as their favorite characters for a prize. Enjoy drink specials from $4 Katch House Brews, Katch Pumpkin Brew, and Stella Artois, Figenza Vodka Cocktails, and Pimms Cups. The Beers and Pimms will also be available in Pitchers for $15 and $4 bottles of Budweiser and Bud Light. Budweiser girls will be around the bar from 8-10PM handing out prizes.
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Original tape date: September 19, 2013.
First aired: October 9, 2013.
The Center for Educational Innovation-Public Education Association honored Chancellor Emeritus Matthew Goldstein, presenting him with the Colman Genn Leadership Award for his outstanding 14 years of service as Chancellor of The City University of New York. Dr. Goldstein expressed his thoughts on higher education, outlining changes that institutions must consider in order to prepare students for a changing society.
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Mr. Seymour Fliegel President CEI-PEA, Center for Educational Innovation-Public Association
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To the very special person reading this e-mail:
Hello. I pray this e-mail finds you happy and with peace of mind. Not everything that glitters is gold. Be very wary of people who talk a good game but do not back it up with action. Right now is your season of blessings & overflow. Opportunities are happening for you & will be coming your way. You have god's favor, grace & mercy on your life. Don't you think if you have it going on that people who may not mean you good will try to stop you or get part of your blessing? Therefore it is mission critical for you to pray for discernment. To watch people's actions versus their words. People will show themselves to you. And when they do, BELIEVE IT. A leopard cant change it's spots & a zebra cant change its stripes. So dont waste time with people, places, or things who arent elevating you & taking you to the next level with their actions. Lastly, please continue to take time for yourself. I pray so much that you are taking care of you & loving & liking you. Now that things are happening for you, I dont want you to be so tired that you cant enjoy your blessings. Continue to get plenty of rest, eat properly, exercise and ENJOY each day. This is the best time of your life. Often we pray for times like these to come & yet when they do, we dont savor the moment. Enjoy the blessings that you have in your life. Be in the present moment and exhale. You have a good life. And part of having a good life, is knowing when to stop and enjoy what you have. Remember if you start to feel overwhelmed, that God is in control & Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through Jesus Christ who strengthens me". Seek Gods face on a daily basis to uplift you and guide you and you will be fine. Lastly, like I mentioned on Taboo Talk radio show, cultivate a deep & personal relationship with the holy spirit, god&jesus. It is the relationship that you have with them that is your greatest asset.
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This is a guest post by Gregory Ciotti of Sparring Mind.
As 2011 comes to a close, now is a better time than ever to evaluate your blog, its performance, and most importantly, what you can do to improve your blog in 2012!
A point I always like to drive home is that you will never find blogging success by turning into an "eternal student", one who always consumes information but never creates or takes action.
As I am in the process of taking a step back from my own blog to reevaluate what things I could do better, I wanted to present Problogger readers a list of actionable tips that they could act on right now to improve their blog for the new year.
So check this list out, bookmark it for later (or tweet it out to your fellow bloggers), and make sure you go through and see what quick actions you can take to improve your blog!
1. Optimize (or start) your email list
Had you email list become stagnant, with a slow trickle of subscribers rather than a huge flow of new signups? Have you not even started building a list yet?
Now is the time to take action, because your mailing list is the most important aspect of your blog's long term success. So if you haven't already, create one now.
If you have a list, let's think of a few ways to optimize it…
- Make sure sign-up forms are in the best locations (sidebar, feature box, at the end of posts).
- Create a "toolbox" of freebies that only subscribers get access to (think of it like the free ebook strategy, only kicked up a notch).
- Create newsletter only content just for subscribers (makes the newsletter more worthwhile for them).
Last but not least, make sure there is an option to subscribe on the pages of your site with the most traffic. I'm talking about your intro/about page, your resource pages, and any other pages that visitors often visit from your homepage.
Start building your list now the right way. You won't regret it in 2012!
2. Make a list of every blogger (who writes quality content) in your niche
You might be wondering why bother to do this. Certainly if you at the intermediate stage of blogging, you already know about the power of guest blogging and the kind of traffic and
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By Rhoda Collins
"But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap; He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and He will purify the priests, the sons of Levi, and refine them like gold and silver, that they may offer to the Lord offerings in righteousness." Malachi 3:2-3
How does God purify us through fire?
One of the ways that the Bible describes the process of being broken and made whole is through the example of the refiner. In Malachi 3:2-3, it says that when the Lord comes to work on us (His temple) … He is changing us into His image. As we yield or surrender to Him, we let our flesh be purified though His refining fire. When we don't surrender to God, preferring instead to do our own will, how can His will be done in us and through us?
There is a story of a man who purifies gold in the fire to take out all the impurities. He says that it has to stay in the fire, but the fire has to stay at just the right temperature. If it gets too hot, the gold will be destroyed. On the other hand, if the fire dies down too low, then the gold will harden with the impurities still in it. So, he has to work on the gold and make sure the temperature stays just right. The man also said that the gold is pure and ready when he can look and see his reflection in it. Day by day as we come in the presence of the Lord, God refines us, removing the impurities in our character.
After our body and soul have been dealt with, then we can begin the process of being reformed in His image and likeness. This process of reformation can occur only after the flesh and the soul have been dealt with through the process of the Lord's pruning and His all-consuming fire.
James 1:21 "So get rid of all uncleanness and the rampant outgrowth of wickedness, and in a humble (gentle, modest) spirit receive and welcome the Word which implanted and rooted [in your hearts] contains the power to save your souls."
It is the Lord's intent and desire to restore us to His image and likeness. He is a willing Potter ready to do the work necessary to shape us as He wills. Our job, again, is to yield and submit to this process.
"But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand" (Isaiah 64:8).
Very often many people can be Christians all of their life and yet never be taught what it means to die to self. If we feed our Spirit with the Word of God, it will become strong enough that we will no longer let our flesh rule us.
"For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart." Hebrews 4:12
If we want God's best we must endure the fire of purification. It is necessary to complete the transformation that the Lord wishes for all of us to go through.
Surrender means pain before pleasure. Ultimately, only a select few will go through this process. As soon as pain starts, many run away. They won't continue to go through the process. How unfortunate. This is the road to restoration. This is the road to intimacy with God. This is the road to the greatest depth in and with God. The pruning deals with our flesh. The consuming fire deals with our soul. After these have been dealt with, then the Potter can transform the clay, the dirt, from which He made the original Adam, into His image and likeness. This is His desire. I would ask you Saints, is it your desire?
"Then said Jesus unto his disciples, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself (Luke adds the word daily), and take up his cross, and follow me" (Matthew 16:24).
He wants to complete this process in us for the rewards for us are great. We have His Word that He will commit to this process, if we will allow Him to. We allow Him to by being totally yielded vessels and by remaining soft and pliable in His hands, as He reshapes and forms us.
As always, we must be led by the Holy Spirit in all that we do. We must pray for discernment to know when to climb back onto the Potter's wheel, to allow Him to continue to perform His work in us.
The fire of God comes to burn up all the useless things in our lives and leave what is left, to burn brightly for Him. Sometimes the fire of God comes through unpleasant circumstances and here God wants us to remain stable and display His character, as we go through tough times. We must learn to be content as we go though His fire. God will never put on us, more than we can bear.
Everyone wants to enjoy God's benefits, but few are willing to go though the purification process.
Accept God's refining fire in your life. Ask Him for the strength to endure whatever He needs to put you through. He wants you to be a success! To fulfill your destiny as a royal priest and joint heir with Jesus!
"But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold." Job 23:10


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A couple of sharks swimming in the Sea of Japan have achieved something that George Bush and the US army have failed to in the last 2 years.
They actually found some Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) floating alongside them while doing their daily laps.
That's right. North Korea has test fired 7 long range ballistic missiles in the last 2 days. But they all failed midway and landed in the Sea of Japan. Hmm…….several long range missiles fired…….all failed and misdirected………..sounds like Roberto Carlos' and Brazil's story in the World Cup doesn't it?
Everyone's worried that North Korea has nuclear weapons. The UN is preparing its response. It is sending a team of 5 International delegates to NorthKorea. They are expected to return back 2 days later when the North Korean President laughs in their face and asks them to go eat pudding. As usual.
You know what's common to singer Madonna and the UN?
They are both international bodies that no one listens to anymore.
North Korea is actually threatening the US with a nuclear war. How ironic would it be if they attacked America right now with most of the US troops busy in Iraq raping and shooting local Muslim women?
Back to India. The IITs have screwed up their admission process. Nearly 4,000 students are likely to lose the seats promised to them due to some technical software hitch. The quota system is not even begun and 4,000 are on the losing end already……not a good sign…..
I guess IIT stands for 'Institute for Incompetent Technology'.
After the court decision to stay Venugopal's dismissal, the doctors promptly ended their strike and abandoned their protests. Wow……we have so many strikers who know how do get the job done……ever wonder why we don't all that well in football?
I think AIIMS stands for 'Always Involved In Monthly Strikes'.
Rumours are that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has quit office over the UPA government's volte-face on disinvestment with the NLC. I think this is childish. Why does he have to bring in the concept of principles each time into the decision making process? If he is going to behave like this for every politically based move, he could fast become an embarrassment to all politicians in the country…..
The PMO has officially denied the rumours. "They are all false reports. Absolutely not true. All is well with the PM and the Congress"…………..which probably means the rumours are cent percent spot on!!!!!
Lalu Yadav may soon be in the curriculum in Harvard due to his work as the Railway Minister. Well………if you thought Kavya ruined India's reputation at Harvard, just wait for a Lalu to make his mark…..


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Norfolk Southern Corp. projected first-quarter per-share earnings that missed analysts' expectations, which the railroad operator attributed to lower-than-expected revenue as coal shipments remain under pressure from declining exports.
Shares fell 3.3% to $101.46 in recent after-hours trading.
For the current quarter, the company forecast per-share earnings of $1 and revenue of roughly $2.6 billion. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected per-share profit of $1.25 and revenue of $2.67 billion.
The company said the weaker revenue also reflects reductions in fuel surcharge revenue and a decline in average revenue per unit linked to the mix of business.
First-quarter expenses declined by 3% as lower fuel expenses were partly offset by higher costs related to adverse weather, increased hiring and training expenses and a labor agreement signing bonus.
The company expects volume will rebound in the current quarter, with the exception of coal shipments. Norfolk Southern said the continuing efforts to restore service levels should lead to gradual improvement in the current quarter and a return to normalized levels in the second half of the year.
Chief Executive Wick Moorman said in a news release Monday "with operations showing sustained improvements, and with better weather and enhanced infrastructure and personnel, we look forward to stronger results in the second quarter and the second half of the year."
During January, Norfolk Southern reported disappointing fourth-quarter results, as weakness in its coal business led to a slight decline in profit.
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The Checkmates, Ltd. — Glad For You / Capitol M- £25 I really rate this 45, different that 'Kissin' Her And Cryin' For You' more of a mid tempo Group sound, but its equally as good. Flip is a take on the Whispers release I guess. John Washington - Burn The Calendar / Sandwich M- £80 Fabulous soulful 45, very mint condition label and vinyl... The Faithful Wonders — Ol' John (Behold Thy Mother) / Tad off Mint (dh) Checker £70 Stunning track, the music and disc, doubt this has been touched since the day it was returned as unsold stock. The Enjoyables - Push a Little Harder / Well Find a way / Capitol VG++ £45 bit of surface wear but a nice copy none the less... Jimmy Gilford - Heartbreaker - I Wanna be Your Baby / Solid Hit WD M- £45 lovely looking White demo of a Detroit classic... two beautiful sides by the 'Man'! Lorraine Ellison - Don't Let it Go to Your head / I Dig You baby / Mercury Issue M- £20 Absolute spanker of a copy, scan does not do this 45 justice, its really beautiful which is uncommon for Mercury 45's.. brill double sider. Wayne Anthony - A Sure Case of Love / A Thousand Miles away / Roulette VG++ £20 Used to play this one on a radio show I co hosted in Australia, strangely it reminds me of an awakening Goliath!! Brilliant building song, great vocal and piano! Bobby Copney - Aint No Good / Tuff (Dj Copy) Ex++ £15 Cracking oldie, bit of ring dirt on label but otherwise a nice copy... Johnny Newbag - Sweet Thing / Port Records M- £45 Beautiful copy, really nice mid tempo 45 from Johnny... Brooks O'Dell - You Better Make up Your Mind / Slow Motion / Bell Demo EX++ £30 Stafford track I think, he never made any bad records Brooks... 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Black & Blue - What I Got / Goin Back To Miss Annie Mercury Red Issue £120 This is the Red Issue with the brilliant flipside; you don't get this on the common Demo's, two brilliant crossover tracks for your money… C.O.D.s - I'm a Good Guy / Kellmac EX++ £10 Not a single bad track on this label, and certainly not from this group, quality Chicago soul for a tenner!! Junior Wells - Your Tuff Enough / Blue Rock EX++ £15 Killer R&B record from Junior wells, I bought this in San Fransisco years ago, spent a day going through a basement shop in China town, for one solitary 45, which is this... Johnny & the Expressions - Shy Girl / Now That You're Mine / Josie VG++ (xol) £15 This is a brilliant double sider to finish with, nice Josie demo too...notice Ralph weeks on writing credits there as well, he did a great track as 'Ralph Weeks & The Telecasters' - Something deep inside...wonder if he was in the Expressions?? The Manhattans - I cant Stand For you To Leave me / De Luxe M- (dh) £10 One of their best on this label, next to 'Give him up'... they never cut any bad tunes did they... Doris Duke - congratulations baby / RRG M- £15 Jerry Williams arranged and produced, Gary Bonds in the writing credits, and Doris on Vocals... no grey area there, quality song and recording all the way, spanking issue... Derek Martin - You Better Go / Roulette EX++ £20 Reduced to £10 Heard him sing this at Cleethorpes, every home should have one track, produced by Teddy Randazzo no less. Jimmie 'Bo' Horne - If You Want my Love / Alston EX++ £20 Fabulous modern/seventies track from Mr 'Horne'. nice red issue... Ruby Andrews - Casanova / Zodiac M- £15 Spanking copy, and the original of this song thats been covered in every decade as far as I can tell, Josie Armstead yet again! Listen here... Teddy Pendergrass - it's You I Love / Philly International VG++ £10 One of his best this one, Nice copy... 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On 19-21 June, Branson McKinley, the director general of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), will pay a visit to Baku. The goal of the visit is to participate at the 33rd session of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Trend reports.
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Copeland's of New Orleans Puts a Cajun Spin on Thanksgiving Classics
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Looking to spice up your
Thanksgiving menu? Copeland's of New Orleans has some enticing ideas. The
restaurant, which is located inside the Southlake Hilton, is serving
traditional holiday favorites with a Cajun twist. Whether you dine in or opt
for full-service catering, Copeland's can make your holiday meal-planning a
breeze, allowing you to spend more time with friends and family.
On Thanksgiving Day, the restaurant will offer dine-in guests the Pilgrim Platter, a mouthwatering selection of Cajun-fried turkey, Louisiana oyster dressing or cornbread dressing, mashed sweet potatoes with pecan amaretto cream sauce, garden fresh green bean casserole, corn macque choux, cranberry sauce and a hot buttered biscuit.
If you have a party, office lunch or business meeting, you can take home an entire Cajun-fried turkey with optional accompanying side items. Although fried turkeys are available all year long, the Cajun specialty is especially appropriate for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Orders may be placed online or by phone, but require a 24-hour notice.
Don't forget to wrap up the meal with something sweet. Copeland's has an in-house bake shop with a variety of desserts for purchase. To reserve a table on Thanksgiving Day or to place a catering order, call 817.310.2199.


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Mr. & Mrs C.W. Anderson
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(Carl) Walter Anderson (January 11 1901) and Elsie (Elizabeth) Shaffer (July 6, 1902) were married at the Methodist parsonage in Greenville, Iowa by the Rev. C A. Carlson on June 5 1929.
They left immediately in a four cylinder Whippet for a grand tour of the East Coast, returning to Madrid were Walter began his job as assistant cashier at the Farmers Savings Bank, in Madrid on July 1.
Walter's father, Charles (Oscar) Anderson (December 3, 1869 to January 29, 1909) was born in Karlskrona, Sweden and served in the Swedish naval career. His mother, Amanda Teresa Johnson (September 25 1874 - ) was born on the day on Danstorp area of Smoland, Sweden coming to America at the age of 13. She married Charles on a return trip to Sweden to visit her family, and they made their first call in Chicago. Walter recalls horse drawn fire engines and streetcars, the Lincoln Park zoo, the organ grinder with a monkey, Christmas decorations on the pancake wagon. His Sister Barbara EBBA born July 24 1899 N he were both born in Chicago.
The family moved to Rockford, Illinois, then to a farm near pilot noun, Iowa, were Charles then blacksmithing. Charles nay, and the family moved into town. Walters responsibility included hole when a large family garden, bringing in the coal and wood, walking to the country for a bucket of milk 5 cents for a quirk plus Sir Leon N delivering water qualls. He always hurrying to finish as lessons at school, so he could draw. His drawings earned him the nickname day in, after the famous the Moines cartoonist J. M. Dana DING darling. The local barber often exhibited Walters works.
Later, Walter got to work on the railroad as a section and for three summers, and went to business college that Mankato during the school year. In 1920, he graduated and was hired a shopkeeper in the Pilot Mound Savings bank. When his mentor, Dave Christiansen, moved to take charge of Farmers Savings Bank at Madrid, they found a place for him there, and, on December 1, 1923, Walter became a bookkeeper as a teller in Madrid. Walter, Earl Brown, and Clarence Friday drove to Des Moines nights to take additional courses at the American Institute of Banking. He finished the course by attending two nights a week of the first year of their marriage.
Else's mother, Christina (Marie) Anderson (July 20, 1874) and the youngest brother, Frances Alden (June 3, in 1872) were the only children of Carl Anderson (March 28, 1920 - 1894) and Stina Lisa Johnson August 11, 1832 deaf September 9, '19 OA born in Jasper county, Iowa married June 18, 1850, Carl Bernstein Elisa face poverty and Smoland SMOL a ND, Sweden, where their first child, and S. Mendes Alfred, died at the age of two Koreas in 1866, Carl and their two eldest sons decided to seek a better life in America, and to send forced Dinah and the five smaller children later.
In the spring of 1868, word came first I enough to start out. Two of the little ones, Gustav and Albin, who died in quarantine, of measles, in Liverpool. Another, Stina Marie Evalina, was elder in the entire journey, and died shortly after reaching Jasper county. Stina was always grateful that her daughter had not had to be buried in C. The remaining two, Alfred Annus and Carl Mangus, helped their mother by carrying in the wooden trunk laden with food and the family belongings, while they made their long journey to their new home.
In the fall of 1868, while the family was digging potatoes at their new home, the house burned down. The only items save was Stina's as spinning wheel at the bottom of her trunk which it come from Sweden. By working shares with neighbors, Stina was able to shear sheep, spin yarns, and make each of her five "men" a suit by Christmas.
In 1877, the family moved to Dallas County. Alfred, Carl, and J.P.A. married. J.P.A's wife, Maggie, died, leaving two year old Orville. Christine, who was then living in Madrid to the small child, and Stina Lisa moved in to help.
In 1901, Christine Marie Anderson marriage George W. Schaefer. They move to a small three -room house, at the north edge of Madrid.
George was the youngest Shaffer. His father was Frederick Shaffer (March 15, 1816), and he married Ann Rinker (July 26, 1817) on June 28, 1838, in Indiana. They moved to Swede Point in 1851.
On June 22, 1854, Frederick purchased Lot 3, Block 15, in Swede Point, from Anna Dalander for the sum of $8.00. Frederick and Ann's children were: Mary Magdaline; Joseph M.; Nancy Jane (Otto); Barbara Ellen; Malinda Catherine; Sarah H.; Lydia M.; and George Washington. George lived in a two-room, unpainted, rough board house from his birth on March 16, 1855 until 1899, when he bought the house where he and Christine Marie made their home.
George worked for the Hopkins family, and thought Elsie Hopkins (Nance) such a wonderful person, that he named their daughter, Elsie Elizabeth, after her. George also worked in Uncle Billy Johnson's store for a time.
There were many Swedes moving then to the area in those years, and though George was a 100 percent German, he spoke Swedish well. He would ask a newcomer, 'What part of Sweden did you come from?" After listening to their reply and when they would ask him, he would solemnly reply, "I broke out of the penitentiary." He love to joke and surprise, although he was unschooled, and could neither read nor write.
George became ill of an unknown cause, and died September 3, 1903, leaving a small child, Elsie, at the age of six weeks.
In 1899, Elsie's Uncle Francis bought the old Christian Church, which with a few partitions, became the family home for her Grandma Anderson, Cousin Orville, Uncle Francis, Uncle Claus, Elsie, and her mother.
Elsie remembers that her Uncle J.P.A. organized the local telephone office about 1895, with eight subscribers. Sometimes Francis and Claus helped as operators. The two Emmas, Emma Hull and Emma Walroth, were the daytime operators. Later years brought Helen (Thompson) Swanson - - how she kept track of all of us! Francis became rural mail carrier for 14 years, beginning in 1903. His old team began so slowly, going west, that everyone wondered if the mail would "go through," but at 4 o'clock, as they stopped at the last mail box coming home from the north, people thought they were run-aways.
When Cousin Orville was eight, J.P.A. married a lady named Margaret. She had a surrey with fringe on top, a horse the family named "Dan Patch," and Elsie remembers her and Mrs. Sturgeon and Mrs. J.S. Kenison out for an afternoon call in their moire taffeta dresses, with big hats and gloves.
She also remembers Zylph Hutton's Sunday School, the fascinating way C.L. Lucas's beard bobbed up and down when the minister called on him to pray, looking through open doors at the big wheels and belts of Madrid's electric light plant (run by Richard Westerberg - - where the present fire station is located), the fountain for people and horses, across north from the Larson Agency, and Uncle Claus's big car which was one of Madrid's firsts. She remembers her first school teacher, Kathryn Campbell, who roomed at the neighbors, the VanZandts', and how interested the children were when Edwin Sundberg began courting her. She remembers the heartwarming laugh of Mrs. M. Jones, the auctioneer's wife, and the gold-headed canes of the men members of the birthday club.
Other memories include Emma Dalander, who clerked in the Johnson and Johnson store; Marie Dalander and Addie Pettit, who gave piano lessons at 35 cents per lesson (Mrs. Pettit also helped customers choose from the wonderful confections at Pettit's Confectionary, her husband's store); the first strawberry sundaes, at Granddaddy Hughes' Bakery, after he put in two ice cream table and chair sets - - one for adults and one for children; the row of horse collars hanging at Gus Peterson's; ostrich feathers for sale at the Fair Store, where Mrs. Toubes was the saleslady; the tailor, who sat sewing at the window of Berg's tailor shop; getting a picture taken at Peelstroms; greeting "Big Ole Olson," the policeman; stacks of newspapers in Mr.Feheilsen's lumber office; and the BeeHive.
Elsie's mother did cleaning and laundry. Uncle Claus moved to Dakota to "prove up" on a claim, in 1907. On May 30, 1909, Uncle Francis married, and Christine and Elsie moved back to their three-room home in the north part of town. Elsie's class in 1916 was the first to enter the new building at the beginning of a school year. On October 21, Christine married her bachelor neighbor, Albert Peterson (Sept. 24, 1870). They moved into his home, a block north, which had running water, a furnace, electricity, and a room for Elsie. A daughter. Cleone, was born January 31, 1918.
Claribel Woodroff brought Camp Fire to Madrid that year, and many lasting friendships were begun. The girls camped in the Bolle family pasture, where they built dams and swam. Elsie graduated in 1920, in a class of 15 girls and 3 boys. There were more boys who entered school in 1916, but the military service took its toll.
In mid-August, Elsie went to college in Iowa City, accompanied with classmates Glenn Blome and Laura Bolle (who later married). These were the days of Marcel waves, oxford shoes, floppy golashes, and bare heads. The well-to-do students had raccoon coats. After taking a year off to teach in Gray, Iowa, Elsie graduated from Iowa City with a BA, in August, 1924. She began teaching in Mediapolis on August 24, which usually planned for and had one week of "mud vacation" each school year. No paving yet.
In the fall of 1926, Elsie returned to Madrid to teach. The new teacher, Donavan Carlson, introduced her to Walter, and they were married in 1929. 1929 wasn't the best time to get married, though the financial downturn didn't hit Madrid until 1931-32. The Madrid State Bank had gone into receivership, and times were jittery. Mr. Carlson, Walter's boss, died, and Walter was promoted to head the bank. When Roosevelt closed all the banks on that March day in 1933, everyone was numb.
Walter had become active in Epworth League while living in Pilot Mound, and attended summer institutes in Indianola, and was a national delegate in Chicago, in 1924. He served as district president of Epworth League for four years, helped organize the Methodist Men in Madrid, served as district Lay Leader for three years, and as conference Lay Leader from 1963-1967. In 1966, he was appointed by Bishop Thomas to the World Methodist Conference in London. He also served as chairman of Madrid's MidSummer celebrations (discontinued because of World War II, in 1941) for five years, is a 50-year Mason, and was master in 1932; served as Madrid School District secretary for 21 years, was chairman of the Sixth Banking District, and therefore, a member of the State Banking Council.
Banking with L.M. Lanning at the City State Bank was full-time and rewarding work. Once, a couple of fellows were overheard surmising who was the "real boss" at the City State Bank. The other spoke up, "Well, I don't know, but if one of them tells you something, the other backs it up!" When Larry and Walter heard it, they laughed, and said, "That's just the way we want it."
On March 25, 1934, Barbara Ellen was born, and on September 24, 1935, Mary Sue joined the family. Sewing, teaching Sunday School, serving as Bluebird, Camp Fire, Horizon Club leader, belonging to church circles and being a charter member of Chapter ID, PEO kept Elsie busy. During the years, she has served as substitute teacher, and a member of the Madrid Library Board.
Daughter Barbara graduated from Madrid High School in 1952, attended Simpson College for three years, and married Alvin D. Lund on December 18, 1955. Their children are Ken D. (1957), Kristine K. (1960), and Nancy Eileen (1962). Ken married Rosalie Reinhart April 16, 1977.
Daughter Mary Sue graduated from Madrid High School in 1953, from Methodist Hospital as an RN, in 1956, and from Simpson College, with a BA, in 1972, and a M.S. from the University of Illinois, in 1978. She married William W. Garton June 2, 1956, and they are the parents of Steven (1957), Scott (1959), Kevin (1961 - Sept. 29, 1978), and Jeff (1965). Steven Garton married Toni Gonzalez August 16, 1977.
Walter and Elsie are retired now, and live in Boone. They spend their winters in Tucson, where they are active with golf, church, Lions, and Hi-12. Their good friends, Glenn and Laura Blome, occasionally travel with the Andersons, having gone together to Sweden, Denmark, and Alaska. They also neighbor in Arizona, where they are able to reminisce about their early days shared in Madrid.


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The Chairman of the commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, made this known while receiving EU Observer Mission to Nigeria led by Mr Santiago Ayxela on Thursday in Abuja.
He said the provision of the goggles was part of the commission's efforts to ensure inclusiveness in the elections.
"We are doing a lot about inclusiveness for women, youths and people living with disabilities in terms of access to the polling units and participation in the elections.
"One of the things we have done in this regard in forthcoming Anambra elections is provision of magnifying glasses in polling units to enable people living with albinism to see logo of parties and make their choices," he said.