Living at Mile Marker 803.9 of the Ohio River in Downtown Henderson KY
A tweet this week made me laugh. Hope you find it funny too! Thank you @EvansvilleWatch and @CJ14News for posting!
On nights like this is best to just order Pizza from Dave’s Pizza in Henderson KY.
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Writers Note: Since writing this blog in January 2011, I have totally ditched using Firefox and started using Google Chrome. Look for a new blog coming soon about my thoughts on use chrome especially with as a independent insurance agent.
We have quite a selection of Internet browsers that we can use now days. I use a collection of several. I am required to use Microsoft Internet Explorer with many insurance related sites simply because that is what they require. Our agency management software at GoVaughn.com Insurance (AMS360 by Vertafore) will only work inside of IE. Hopefully that is going to change soon.
Insurance company websites such as the Progressive foragentsonly.com site are another example of ones that will only work in IE. The insurance industry in general seems to be uniquely woven into the Microsoft Internet Explorer experience to many agents dismay.
The Google’s Chrome Internet browser seems to be working quite well for me. It is fast and looks like a browser I will be using more of in the future.
The browser that I use most often is FireFox. Below are some add in programs that work in conjunction with FireFox. Many even work with Google Chrome but none of them work with Microsoft IE (Internet Explorer). Check them out and let me know which ones you like.
Add-on’s are programs that help your browser do and look the way you want it to. Many times they are free and quite beneficial. Below are a collection of several that I like and use inside of FireFox.
Adblock Plus stops advertisements from appearing on your pages. Sweet and simple. Regain control of the pages you like and not be annoyed by obtrusive online advertising.
IE View – Lets you make FireFox your default browser but then when a site requires IE it will automatically switch to IE and load the site. Example when we need to run our Vertafore Management System AMS360 the site only works in IE. If we type the url in FireFox it automatically invokes IE and loads the site in IE. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/35/
Readability a simple tool that makes reading on the web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you are reading. This is also nice when you want to print a book like PDF of just text on a blog or site. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/46442/
Screengrab captures what you can see in a window, entire page or just a section. Saves webpages as images either to file or clipboard. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146/
Smart Bookmarks Bar this little tool hides bookmarks names and just shows icons so you can squeeze more in. Bookmark names will be displayed on a mouse over. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4072/
Easy YouTube Video Downloader Ever need or want to download a YouTube video? This handy tool allows you to do so. It is updated often and works quite well. I use it a lot for church media work. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10137/
What are some that you like? Do you use other browsers? Which ones and why? I seem to be totally over using IE (Internet Explorer).
That was a question our bible study leader Rev. Mary Wrye proposed to our bible study group this morning. Several related scripture verses and their challenges of memorizing scripture at a young age.
Mine was different than that. My first recollection of the Bible was my namesake Miss Mabel Nisbet McLaughlin and rather small black New Testament that sat on a marble top table. I was always told it was a special book and was always to be on top of other books.
To this day, I cannot see a bible put at the bottom of any stack of books. Some in my group said they were taught that the bible was never to be placed on the floor. I wasn’t taught that one but if the bible was put on the floor it was to be on top of other books.
Granny Mable always told me that book was special. She said if I was to ever be elected president of the United States that would be the bible that I would be sworn in on. She had great expectations of me.
Many times in Mrs. Willis Butler’s 4-6 grade Sunday School classes at my growing up church we were charged with memorizing the books of the bible. I never could do that. Later we were involved with bible drills. I couldn’t do that either. I thought they should let us use Bibles with tabbed markers for the books, but they said that was cheating.
Always during Vacation Bible School each year we would do a pledge to the bible. I remember it being something like this:
I pledge allegiance to the Bible, God’s Holy Word. I will make it a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path and will hide its words in my heart that I might not sin against God.
Thank goodness there was church music! For without church music and hymns I would not have learned any scripture at all.
Tell me about your earliest memory of the Bible?
This is a story that Hugh Edward Sanderfur –a long time radio and newspaper reporter in Henderson KY wrote about the lady who gave me the name Nibby. He wrote the story upon her death in 1971. It was very unusual for him to write about people on their death. Granny Mable was very special to him.
(A reprint from Gleaner December, 1971)
This is the story of the Christmas card that will not be delivered. Not this year.
But it had been every Christmas for the past 45 years because of the constant thoughtfulness of one of the truly grand ladies of my life–Miss Mabel Nisbet McLaughlin.
“Miss Mabel,” as she was known by her many friends and admirers, died last week (December 7, 1971).
But she will never really be gone as long as there are those to remember her role in their lives.
A group of men, no longer young, will always be proud to be identified as “Miss Mabel’s boys.”
They were fortunate enough, when in their early teens, to have the influence of this woman as a Sunday School teacher at First Methodist Church for a longer period than usual. This was simply because they would not be promoted.
But the Sunday did come when it had to be done. True to her strength of character. Miss Mabel insisted that she be the one to break the news to us. She explained that it was the orderly thing to do, for the good of the total church program. She expressed regret in losing us but encouraged us to move on to another teacher.
But our resistance was so strong that we walked out of the church, which broke up the group. Some did not return.
I did. The next Sunday, because of the strong encouragement of another stabilizing force in my life–my mother. But this left a void that could only be eased by the annual Christmas card, along with notes of encouragement at many points along the way when she knew her encouragement was needed.
This same feeling is shared by at least a dozen of my age group scattered across the nation. This is a living and loving monument to a lady who did so much without realizing how significant and meaningful was her contribution.
Miss Mabel was a skilled office worker before her retirement and was employed at Imperial Tobacco Co., where the Imperial Building is now located at Third and Water streets.
Aside from her dedication to the affairs of her church, she was one of the charter members of the Henderson Business and Professional Women’s Club, and contributed to its growth and success in past years.
Her “bread on the waters” came in the form of a young couple, Mr. and Mrs. Norris Priest who, several years ago, “adopted” Miss Mabel and brought much happiness and security into her life in her closing years.
They even brought her “grandchildren,” (Nibby and Neal) who helped to fill her heart with love and interest in living.
The devotion of this fine young family to this lady, who had outlived all of her own family, would make a great story of life and its compensations for those who entertain the proper values.
Gone is the flash of pleasant recollection when a letter would bear her familiar handwriting. But that is not needed for my mind to recall the pleasant relationship that we shared. Those memories will be re-lived always.
By Hugh E. Sanderfur (1912 to 1973)
The Gleaner Henderson Kentucky December 1971
It has been 39 years since Granny Mable died. She would be so proud to know that the family is working and living in downtown Henderson KY and that her home at 324 N Main is still being used as a private residence.
Who is someone who made a difference in you and or your families life?
What can you do this 2010 Christmas for someone who has outlived their own family?
