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Friday, April 13: Cinderella
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What: A classical ballet performance of Cinderella.
Where: Baton Rouge River Center – 220 St. Louis St Baton Rouge, LA 70802
When: 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Price: $25 – $45
Friday, April 13: Live After Five Featuring Chris Leblanc & Friends
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What: Free concert series in Baton Rouge.
Where: City Hall Plaza, Downtown Baton Rouge
When: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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Saturday, April 14: Zapp's International Beer Festival
More info: http://rurallife.lsu.edu/
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What: An event for patrons 21 years and over featuring more than 200 foreign and domestic beers, ales and homebrews.
Where: Rural Life Museum – 4560 Essen Lane Baton Rouge, LA 70809
When: 3:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Price: Advanced ticket purchase required.
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Price: $50 for adults and free of charge for kids
Sunday, April 15: Sunday in the Park Featuring Jst David
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When: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Price: free
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Today, Monday, October 22, marks the 83rd anniversary of the opening and dedication of Northrop Memorial Auditorium at the University of Minnesota. This is an important milestone when considering that this performance hall and concert venue is currently closed, undergoing a major reconstruction and revitalization to preserve and update the facility. Northrop is an important building in the history of WAM, as it is the building where the museum resided for 59 years prior to moving into the Frank Gehry designed stainless steel clad Weisman building in 1993 (the museum's "home" for nearly 20 years).
This anniversary reminds us of the enduring legacy of buildings and facilities at the University of Minnesota. The Northrop Auditorium building, named after University President Cyrus Northrop, opened in 1929 to fanfare and musical celebration. As described in a MN Daily article, "University Opens Doors of Auditorium At First Dedication Program Tonight," the opening ceremony was complete with performances from the symphony orchestra, a piano solo, and the University band. In addition, "A cannon at the head of the mall will be fired near the close of the concert, in accordance with the custom of giving a military salute at the dedication of a state building."
The October 23, 1929 edition of the MN Daily, which covered the opening celebration, reported that although nearly every seat was filled, the opening festivities were not pitch perfect. The grand cannon salute – which was scheduled to fire during the finale performance of the "1812 Overture" to represent the guns fired during the infamous battle for which the piece was written – did not go off as planned. As John Harvey of the MN Daily explained:
"'Did you hear the cannon?' With those words, Henri Verbrugghen, director of the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra, finished the first of a series of dedicatory exercises for the Cyrus Northrop Auditorium last night after a concert with Eunice Norton as soloist.
High winds broke wires that were to have taken the signal to representatives of the military department and prevented the firing of a cannon as part of the finale of Tchaikovsky's '1812 Overture' in which the University band joined with the symphony orchestra."
Despite the (technical?) snafu, the tradition of commemorating a state building was not forgotten. Harvey reported that, "After the crowds left the campus, 10 shots rang out saluting belatedly the opening of the building."
In the early years of the building, the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (now known as the Minnesota Orchestra, which moved from Northrop to Orchestra Hall in downtown Minneapolis in 1974) regularly held concerts, and the University Artists Course hosted a wide range of musical and theatrical performances. It wasn't until 1934, nearly 5 years after the commemoration of the building, due to the fortuitous insight and dedication of University administration – to include President Lotus Coffman and Assistant to the President Malcolm Willey – that a "little" art gallery would open on the 4th floor of the facility. Though no cannons were used in commemoration of the gallery, the festivities planned to celebrate the opening of a new space for the exhibition of original artwork on campus was befitting of the tradition of the building. Read more about the "Little Gallery" opening ceremonies from a 2011 WAM Files blog post.
View past photos of and about Northrop Auditorium on the UMedia Archive.


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If you hate Cam Newton, then yesterday was your Christmas because, in the span of roughly four hours, the Broncos defense systemically took apart Newton's offense, his season, and his reputation. I spent the entire fourth quarter of that game expecting to Newton rediscover his mojo and make the game competitive. Instead, every possession got worse and worse. By the end, Newton and the Panthers had been reduced to the same middling, dull, painfully mediocre team they'd been before this season. Their garbage receivers turned back into garbage. Riverboat Ron turned back into Standard-Issue Ron. Mike Shula turned back into Mike Shula.
And Newton had every last trace of confidence excised from his body, which should never happen to a man of that size and ability. When Cam goes under center, he looks like a giant trying to piss in a kiddie urinal. And for the better part of 2015, his confidence and stature overshadowed the entire league. He had found IT: that elusive, unflappable confidence that makes a kickass QB a kickass QB. And then, over the course of that single, final game, it all vanished.
You can go ahead and blame Michael Oher for that if you want, since Oher couldn't pass block for shit (maybe Cam shouldn't have begged him to come play with him). But there's no covering for the fact that Newton played horribly last night, almost as horribly as the winning quarterback. He overthrew virtually everyone. He never settled into anything resembling a rhythm. Even when he had time, he let passes sail. And when things fell apart, he undeniably reacted poorly:
You know what that means. That means we're in for AT LEAST another year of this shit. Outside of Cam's brilliant regular season play, were treated to the ongoing Politicization Of Cam in 2015. There were angry Tennessee soccer mom takes and angry 12th man Facebook takes and pro-Cam takes and anti-Cam takes and anti-anti-Cam takes to anti-Cam takes that may or may not have existed. It was a goddamn black hole of Cam thinkpieces, and it will only grow deeper and darker from here because, in part, of Cam's overt desire to be the NFL's dominant personality. In the lead-up to this game, he talked about his image a LOT, and defended it a lot. He's not a fool. When he prays before lining up behind center, he knows that you know that he knows you can see him pray.
And there's nothing wrong with that. When Cam said he wanted to be an entertainer and icon before he was drafted (and Peter King bitched him out for it), it wasn't that big of a deal to me because, in my mind, you can be a great player AND groom your image at the same time if that's your thing. Russell Wilson remains a great player despite accidentally and hilariously A-Rod-ing his image every other day. But if that's a burden you want…then you better be ready for people to dump on you when you fuck it up.
I can't celebrate Cam's exuberance and then just gloss over the fact that he spent the postgame presser last night acting like the Wendy's drive-thru gave him the wrong order. This site goes in on the idea of "optics" a lot: the idea of people foolishly emphasizing how things LOOK more than how things ARE. But sometimes those two things are closely related. Newton had an MVP season in part because of his bravado, and his gameplay essentially cut off oxygen to ANY stance against that bravado. And with this Super Bowl, he had a chance to snuff it out for good. Instead, everything that could go wrong did, and now Cam's body language in gonna become A Thing again, in part because his body language WAS legitimately crummy. I'm not gonna just reflexively defend Cam in that spot just because I've done it all along. You can't demand the spotlight and then push it away when you deem it inconvenient.
I remember when Peyton Manning blew a playoff game once and, at the postgame, said, "I'm trying to be a good teammate here, but we had problems with protection." Just completely threw his line under the bus. And I was like, "Fuck THAT guy." And the reason why I couldn't stand Peyton (still can't) was because he was the Crown Prince of Football and was all too happy to bask in the role UNLESS things went wrong. When things went wrong, he turned into a glowering, mopey imbecile. And he deserved shit for it. And so does Cam. Cam had his chance, and he blew it.


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Scandinavian Homes Ltd is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Scandinavian Homes Ltd may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 31/5/23.
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We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
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I think it a fantastic time of year for most of the things I like to do in spite of the inevitable 5:15 PM thunderstorms and the usual 5-10 days of 99 degree temperatures.
Row a boat, paddle a canoe, work on your paddle tennis game, walk in the sand of many bodies of water, drop an ice cream cone, and cheer at the baseball park. Take a vacation even if your travels are limited to local pools and nearby state and national parks. Go watch a little league game and take some pictures. Have a picnic. And never get frustrated by the amount of sweat you produce.
Although there is no account of the season in which G-d created the universe within the Torah, Koran, or Old Testament, it strikes me that summer is a most glorious achievement. I conclude it must have been the first season.
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McNamara has taught history and civics at Corinth Holders High since Aug. 2010.
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Payoneer is a unique online funds transfer service, through which you can withdraw the funds transferred to you online using a MasterCard debit card, in an ATM, anywhere in the world.
Like most other online payment services, Payoneer demands that you sign up for an account with it, before being in a position to make full use of its cash transfer functionality. Again, as is the case with most other online payment services, the account you get to create on Payoneer is based on your email address. Of course, you have to provide many other personal details when signing up for the account. But all you have to give to someone, in order to have them transfer funds to your Payoneer account, is your email address.
What Makes Payoneer Unique?
What makes Payoneer unique is the fact that it has its own MasterCard debit cards, to facilitate withdrawals, and these cards are available to people from all parts of the world (and they can be used in all parts of the world).
Many of the other online payment services operate under a system where people signing up for accounts have to 'tie up' debit or credit cards they already have to the online payments accounts. They can then withdraw funds into those debit or credit cards. But it often happens, due to difficulties in many countries' banking systems, that funds can't be added directly from an online account to a (local bank's) debit or credit card. What Payoneer does is issue its own MasterCard debit card to everyone who signs up for an account with it (at a very low cost). The person hence issued with the card gets to 'load' funds into the card from his or her Payoneer account. Those are funds that he or she can withdraw from any MasterCard branded ATM. Those are also funds that he or she can use to pay for stuff (just like funds in any debit or credit card).
Payoneer Service Costs
One would expect an online payment service of Payoneer's sophistication to be very expensive. But as a matter of fact, Payoneer's services are not very expensive. They are quite affordable. This is a summary of the costs associated with the Payoneer funds transfer service.
- Sign up costs: it costs nothing to sign up with Payoneer.
- MasterCard costs: a nominal fee is charged, to cater for the cost of producing the MasterCard debit card and to cater for the cost of shipping the card to the user.
- Account operating costs: there are no ledger fees associated with Payoneer accounts.
- Loading funds: at a certain level, the Payoneer account and the MasterCard debit card associated with it are viewed as separate entities. Transferring funds from the Payoneer account to the debit card (so that they can be withdrawn in an ATM or used to pay for stuff) is referred to as 'loading' the card. A small fee is charged when you (as a user) load funds into your Payoneer MasterCard debit card from the Payoneer account.
- Withdrawal costs: a small fee is charged when you use your Payoneer MasterCard to withdraw funds from an ATM.
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Think Again: Power
The United States may boast a massive economy and whopping defense budget, but wielding true global power takes more than just greenbacks and green berets. These days the tools for projecting power are more varied and dispersed than ever. And as the clout of terrorist networks, diplomatic alliances, and international financiers seems to expand, lasting global supremacy may hinge on the skillful deployment of an increasingly elusive resource: moral authority.
"Military Dominance Makes the United States the World's Greatest Power"
"Military Dominance Makes the United States the World's Greatest Power"
Yes, but military dominance depends on other factors. The German thinker Max Weber once characterized the modern state as claiming a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. Although such a monopoly is impossible in the global arena, international power sometimes seems to depend on monopolizing the most sophisticated means of perpetrating violence. Today, the United States enjoys a technological edge enjoyed (briefly) by a few West European powers in the 19th century, when their possession of ironclad steamboats and Maxim machine guns put the world at their mercy.
Just consider the sheer size of the U.S. defense budget. Yale University historian Paul Kennedy used to worry about U.S. overstretch. No longer: "The Pentagon's budget is equal to the combined military budgets of the next 12 or 15 nations," he wrote last September in the Financial Times. "In other words, the US accounts for 40–45 per cent of all the defence spending of the world's 189 states." The European Union's (EU) member states collectively spend around $170 billion annually on defense, but the United States spends more than $300 billion per year and could comfortably increase that figure by 60 percent without exceeding 5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) — once seen by Kennedy as the overstretch threshold.
Indeed, dollars alone understate the extent of the United States' military lead. The most compelling evidence was revealed to the world's television viewers in 1999 in Kosovo and in 2001 in Afghanistan. In both conflicts, the technical superiority of U.S. forces allowed them to annihilate enemy troops, weaponry, and other military "assets" while sustaining minimal casualties.
Yet there are two caveats. The first is that one can easily underestimate the speed with which such technological gaps have closed in the past. The British launch of the Dreadnought in 1906 rendered all other battleships obsolete. But within a few years, all the great powers had them. The United States' monopoly on the atomic bomb was equally ephemeral. Today, a great deal of the accuracy of U.S. fighters and bombers depends on the software that assists pilots in their split-second decision making — software that could soon replace pilots altogether. Anyone familiar with the civilian software business will know that it is extremely hard to monopolize a software breakthrough for long. And technologies are transferred especially quickly when national survival is at stake.
Second, U.S. military superiority has been facilitated by the United States' extraordinary economic growth of the 1990s, which made substantial defense expenditures suddenly seem insignificant in relative terms. And in turn, that economic growth could only be harnessed because the United States' political institutions have been remarkably successful, at least since World War I, in convincing voters to pay taxes or approve government borrowing to maintain and improve national defense. So power is not just military power; or rather, military power depends on economic growth and political institutions.
"Diplomacy Allows Weak Powers to Counter Strong Ones"
Correct. This argument has special appeal to Europeans. They know the EU is a military pygmy, even though Europe's NATO members have, between them, more people under arms than the United States. But by acting collectively and through the institutions of the postwar international order — such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, and NATO — Europeans may be able to restrain Washington. Harvard University political scientist Samuel P. Huntington once argued that European integration was the "single most important move" as the rest of the world responded to U.S. power and that it would ultimately lead to a "truly multipolar" 21st century. The energy and time the United States expended trying to persuade European powers (France in particular) to approve of military action against Iraq suggests there is at least some truth to this view.
Certainly, the ability to form alliances can more than compensate for a power's relative weakness. No one wrote better about the way that system works than historian A.J.P. Taylor, whose 1954 work The Struggle for Mastery in Europe remains the classic study of diplomatic power. For it was as much shrewd diplomacy as military superiority that led Piedmont and Prussia to triumph over their superficially stronger continental rivals, Austria and France.
There is a nice irony here. Devotees of balance-of-power diplomacy, such as Henry Kissinger, have tended to dismiss institutions such as the United Nations and its predecessor the League of Nations, which were established at the instigation of arch-idealists Franklin D. Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, respectively. But now, European powers are using such supranational institutions — erected in the name of collective security — in the most realpolitisch way imaginable.
"A Strong Economy Makes a Nation Powerful"
Not necessarily. It's tempting to assume that power is synonymous with a large economy — that big GDP equals big power. Hence many analysts point to China's huge economy and rapid growth as evidence that the country will soon gain superpower rank, if it hasn't already. Just project forward the average annual growth rates of the past 30 years, and Chinese GDP will equal that of the United States and exceed that of the EU within just two decades.
But GDP doesn't stand for great diplomatic power. If institutions aren't in place to translate economic output into military hardware — and if the economy grows faster than public interest in foreign affairs — then product is nothing more than potential power. The United States overtook Great Britain in terms of GDP in the 1870s. But it was not until World War I that the United States finally overtook the British Empire as a global power.
In any case, national growth rates in the next 20 years are unlikely to match those of the last three decades. Depressed Japan's will almost certainly be lower, while growth in the United States might conceivably be higher, if there is any truth to the claim that investments in information technology during the 1990s permanently boosted U.S. productivity. And China will have trouble sustaining average annual growth rates of more than 5 percent in the coming decades. Already the Asian behemoth is suffering serious social growing pains as market forces rend asunder what was once a command economy. Before 1914, Russia had the fastest growing economy in Europe. But the ensuing social polarization and war caused Russia's collapse in 1917.
"Access to Oil Is the Key to Power"
No. Sustained economic growth is only possible with access to plentiful, cheap oil. So if petroleum reserves are the key, wouldn't true power lie with the oil-producing nations of the Arab world?
The realities here are stark. The Middle East accounts for 31 percent of world oil production but just 6 percent of consumption. North America accounts for about 18 percent of world oil production but consumes 30 percent. Even more sobering, however, are the figures for world oil reserves: The United States has just 6 percent of them; the Middle East 65 percent. Right now, the U.S. economy depends on the Persian Gulf — mainly Saudi Arabia — for about 14 percent of its oil consumption, but that figure is bound to rise. Some experts predict that starting in 2008 supplies of non-OPEC oil will fall steeply and that, barring major technological breakthroughs, there will be an effective world shortage from 2010.
Nevertheless, oil doesn't necessarily make one powerful, though it certainly can make one rich. The strategic importance of Middle Eastern oil makes it a safe bet that the United States will seek to increase rather than diminish its influence in that region. Not only Iraq but even Saudi Arabia itself — already an unstable ally and a breeding ground of the al Qaeda terrorist network — may have to become de facto U.S. protectorates in the foreseeable future, just as Germany and Japan did after World War II.
"True Power Resides With Global Financiers"
Not at all. Sub-Marxist teenage demonstrators from Seattle to Florence like to claim that power lies with international financial institutions, particularly the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This notion is as silly as it gets. The two agencies like to criticize one another, but they share one thing in common — they are trying to help less developed or transitional economies. Their medicine may not always be palatable or effective, but that's another matter. If anything, these institutions are not powerful enough. Much of the time, all they can do is lend money to flaky governments and exhort them to be less flaky. Some power. Their resources are also far more limited than the anti-globalization rent-a-mob seems to realize. What the IMF calls its "total resources" amount to approximately $290 billion, but its net lending capacity is just $69 billion. That's less than a sixth of the annual U.S. social security budget.
Of course, others argue that IMF & Co. are just public-sector fronts for the real powerhouses: multinational corporations (MNCs). This line of argument is more serious. Between them, the three largest companies in the world (according to Fortune magazine) have assets worth $550 billion and revenues of a similar order. They employ more than 1.8 million people. Yet it would be a bold claim to say that Wal-Mart Stores — the biggest of the three — has power. And even if it seems more plausible to attribute power to the next largest corporation — ExxonMobil — the case shouldn't be overstated.
History has witnessed companies exercising power so directly and successfully that they themselves became states. The East India Company is the most famous case. No MNC today comes close to wielding the power that company did when it ruled most of the Indian subcontinent, paying for one of the largest armies in the world (and one of the largest corporate debts) by relentlessly annexing new territories and taxing their inhabitants.
But today's multinationals exercise power indirectly. Other than in regions of the world where state power has crumbled away or become hopelessly contested, they prefer to coexist with governments rather than replace them. And with good reason — from Russia in 1917 to Iran in 1979, the 20th century repeatedly demonstrated that even powerful oil companies can be summarily expropriated in the wake of revolutions. That is not to say that multinational companies have not been known to topple or buy governments. But, in general, the large and immobile assets of most MNCs make them as vulnerable as their vast resources make them strong. Nor should it be forgotten that MNCs are owned by multitudes of shareholders. Powerful though CEOs may be, their power can swiftly be removed if they fail to deliver positive returns to investors.
So is it the global investors who are powerful? New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has argued that real power in the age of globalization is vested in the "electronic herd" of international investors. When they dumped the Thai baht, the whole Asian economy promptly faltered. It's certainly convenient for finance ministers to blame their travails on such anonymous forces: the "gnomes of Zurich," as British Prime Minister Harold Wilson called them after sterling had taken yet another postwar dive. But it's only in fairy tales that gnomes have power. Saying that global investors rule the world is like saying plankton rule the sea. There may be an awful lot of them, but without a unifying intelligence they can quite easily get gobbled up by passing whales. It was international investors, after all, who poured money into countries like Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, and Russia in the decades before 1914. However, when those countries decided to default on their foreign loans, it turned out that investors had no power at all.
"The United States Exerts Influence Through Soft Power"
Not really. Harvard political scientist Joseph S. Nye Jr. coined the concept of "soft power" — the notion that nontraditional forces such as cultural and commercial goods can exert influence in world affairs. And since so many of the world's largest multinationals are of U.S. origin, some argue that the products they sell make American culture attractive and are the key to the real power the United States wields.
But the trouble with soft power is that it's, well, soft. All over the Islamic world kids enjoy (or would like to enjoy) bottles of Coke, Big Macs, cds by Britney Spears and DVDs starring Tom Cruise. Do any of these things make them love the United States more? Strangely not.
Well, perhaps it is not so strange. In the 19th century, Great Britain pioneered the use of soft power, though it projected its culture through the sermons of missionaries and the commentaries in Anglophone newspapers. Yet it was precisely from the most Anglicized parts of the indigenous populations of the British Empire that nationalist movements sprang. The archetype was the Bengali babu — better able to quote William Shakespeare than the average expatriate Brit — who worked for the British by day but plotted their overthrow by night. Anti-globalization protesters smashing McDonald's windows while clad in Gap khakis and Nike trainers are today's version of the same Janus-faced phenomenon.
"Consumers, Activists, and Terrorists Wield True Global Power"
No. U.S. consumers may be the motor of the world economy, but they have a qualified kind of power — the power of the herd, capable of being either an immovable mass or, like those global investors, a stampeding horde. Indeed, the numerical strength of consumer power tends to be in inverse proportion to the degree to which it is organized and led.
It has become a cliche that nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are now powerful international actors in their own right, the pillars of a nascent global civil society. The figures are doubtless impressive: Membership of the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), for example, has increased 10-fold since the mid-1980s to around 5 million, and Greenpeace has 2.8 million supporters. These NGOs have considerably more resources than most international governmental organizations: The World Trade Organization's annual budget is roughly $100 million, less than a third of the WWF's budget. But the WWF's current campaign to stop overfishing of the world's oceans is likely to be frustrated by the countless millions of — you guessed it — individual consumers who just like eating fish more than they like thinking about the future of the planet. The biggest check on the power of those who actively organize may be the indifference of those who passively shop.
Others worry that, rather than consumers or activists, the individuals who wield the greatest power are now lone lunatics with access to large-scale weapons. The historic cheapness, smallness, and destructiveness of modern weaponry no doubt greatly enhance the power of terrorists. In the face of this kind of power, even the biggest state and the richest economy seem impotent. That, for many commentators, was the lesson of September 11: The suicide bomber will always get through.
But the question remains whether blowing oneself and others up is an effective way of deploying power to achieve a political objective. Killing British civilians has not (yet) secured a united Ireland for the Irish Republican Army. And somehow it is hard to imagine the United States meekly withdrawing its military personnel from the Middle East in response to a sustained campaign of terror — if that is indeed what Osama bin Laden wants to achieve.
"Moral Appeals Have Little Power in International Politics"
Wrong. Didn't Joseph Stalin once ask how many divisions the Pope had? None, it's true. But we should never underestimate the power of ideology and religion — which certainly has proved more enduring than the power of the Red Army. Indeed, some would say that, after Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan, no one did more to bring down communism in Eastern Europe than Pope John Paul II. Faith, then, is perhaps as important a component of power as material resources.
Moreover, a final dimension of power cannot be left out: the psychological. Two things can greatly magnify or diminish the ability of any entity to project power: first, its own legitimacy in the eyes of its individual members and second, its credibility in the eyes of other powers.
These are the unquantifiable — but perhaps most important — elements of power. And the world would do well to remember them. For in the war against global terrorism declared by President George W. Bush in September 2001, they may prove to be the deciding elements.
As things stand, the United States and the terrorist diaspora have both firmly established their credibility, the latter by destroying the World Trade Center towers, the former by overthrowing the Taliban regime. At the same time, both appear to have legitimacy in the eyes of their respective constituencies. Certainly, the U.S. public mood was dramatically changed by September 11. And certainly, support for al Qaeda among young Muslims seems to remain strong from Karachi to Riyadh. Some deem American patriotism a civil religion as formidable in its way as Islamic fundamentalism. But is it?
Stamina — the ability of any human organization to sustain a collective effort — depends as much on moral as on material factors; that is one of the oldest lessons of military history. The Russian army collapsed in 1917 under far less severe conditions than the Russian army endured in 1942, when Stalin's totalitarian combination of propaganda and coercion preserved his regime's legitimacy.
In theory, democracies should prove equally resilient, even though they rely on consent through representation more than on coercion. But no one knows for sure. No democracy has ever suffered privations as colossal as those the Nazis inflicted on the Soviets; the United States in particular has got off amazingly lightly in all the wars it has fought against external enemies.
Power, then, is partly about monopolizing as far as possible the means of projection (of power), which mainly include material things: guns, butter, people, money, oil. Today, many of these elements are becoming more evenly distributed because of differences in growth rates and the speed with which knowledge — including knowledge with military applications—can be distributed. In that sense, power per se is becoming dispersed. One nation with a nuclear missile is quite powerful. Twelve nations with nuclear missiles are each much less powerful. The more proliferation, the less power.
But power is also about morale. In a world characterized by the diffusion of most of the material elements of power, real power may therefore come to depend on having credibility and legitimacy. Faith cannot move mountains. But it can move people.
Correction, Feb. 11, 2016: This article appeared in the January/February 2003 print edition of Foreign Policy. The online version of this article originally had it dated incorrectly as published on Nov. 3, 2009.
Niall Ferguson is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and author of Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe. Twitter: @nfergus
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Barbwire columnist Gina Miller is reacting reasonably to the announcement that some Boy Scout troops will march in New York's LGBT pride parade this weekend:
Back when the leadership of Boy Scouts of America bowed down at the altar of "Big Gay" by allowing openly homosexual boys into their ranks, we warned you that the militant homosexual activists would not be satisfied with this terrible capitulation. No, they wanted openly homosexual men to be allowed as troop leaders and other administrators. They're still pushing for this. The latest in-your-face statement is being made this Sunday in New York's homosexual "pride" parade.
This is so sick on so many levels. The sugary words here are a devilish covering for the dark, demented truth of what this is: a perverse attack on young boys who are being used as little tools by an evil movement of sexual degenerates who cannot reproduce, so they must recruit.
Moral straightness is also a scouting virtue that its leadership has flushed down the sewer that is the radical homosexual movement. The Boy Scouts organization has chosen the world over God's moral truth, and it's not going to get better for them, because the insatiable lust for power of the radical homosexual movement will be satisfied with nothing short of complete capitulation to its detestable will.


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Ok, favourite George memory:
When George phoned me at work on 17th July 2012.
I was lucky enough to win a competition on Heart radio where George phoned and spoke to me at work live on the radio and gave me tickets to his Symphonica show on 17th October 2012. I couldn't believe my luck, I sobbed down the phone to him so much I could barely breath let alone speak to him! All I remember was screaming down the phone to him saying 'George Michael has just said my name!!' It was the most amazing feeling! I really couldn't believe that I was talking to my idol on the phone, I was in complete shock and I was on such a high for months afterwards! Later that day I tweeted him saying: 'I SPOKE TO MY GORGEOUS GEORGE EARLIER!! I can't believe it, so shocked and I FEEL LIKE THE LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE! ;-)'
I really couldn't believe it when he re-tweeted my tweet and replied with: 'It was nice to speak to you too Kelly……' (I've attached a photo of the tweet!)
That day was like a dream, I truly felt like the luckiest girl alive!
HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY GEORGE! Have a wonderful day, I hope you get very spoilt, sending all of my love and BIG kisses on your special day! Love you lots and lots!


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"The past ten years I have allowed myself to let the scale determine my mood, my day and my emotions. I have let it control me for far too long and I no longer need that. I want to feel sexy and strong. I want to feel great in my skin and I no longer want that to center around a certain number. I want to feel luminous after a good, sweaty yoga practice. I want to feel invigorated after a boxing lesson and I want to feel strong and challenged while trying my hand at trapeze.
It's time I started thinking about how I FEEL in my body. It's time to stop feeling badly because I'm one pound heavier today than I was yesterday. It's time to fall deeply, madly in love with myself and continue to guide others on this path. It's time I ditched my scale for a hot date with my husband!"
I wrote these words a little over a year ago on my blog. I was talking about the day I decided to quite weight watchers and instead become a healthy watcher and although I still believe in those words wholeheartedly, this is where I am now.
In the past year I have gained AND lost 20 pounds. In November of 2013 I weight around 147 lbs, I gained 13 pounds before March of 2014 and have since lost 17 pounds.
This is my current story. Our stories change from year to year and often from moment to moment. My hope with this story is that you will find some inspiration below. Do not be afraid of change, and always remember to continue loving yourself throughout the entire process.
A lot of things had happened: We moved out of our beautiful 3 bedroom ranch in the Cape and straight into the open arms and open door of my in-laws house. My husband had an amazingly new (and stressful) position and I had found myself without a solid career path. I had lost my footing and didn't feel grounded.
I used chili beef, mutton curry and biryani to comfort my soul and re-ground me to this world. I connected through food and wrote my blogs on the couch or the kitchen table, forgetting to use movement in my daily life and instead using the library, cafes and our living room as my place of sanctuary. I lost touch with my meditation practice and couldn't find my soul. I knew it was there, just as I knew my physical body was there (and growing at that), but I couldn't CONNECT.
When I opened the Shala in March, everything changed. My heart was re-charged and I honestly felt as though my soul had once again arrived in my body. It was almost as though it were waiting for me to find my place of calm and sanctuary before allowing itself to drift back into its home.
In May I woke up one morning and realized I couldn't do this journey alone. I felt defeated and ashamed walking back through the weight watchers front door. But then, the most miraculous thing happened, I could hear myself saying these beautiful words to myself as I did to you back in June of 2013:
"You are exactly where you are supposed to be, and it's perfect."
Just because I walked back does not make me a bad person and should NOT fill me with shame. The act of weighing in each week is my way of being a health watcher. The number on the scale no longer depresses me if I am up (.2) lbs or down (1.8) lbs. What matters is the journey itself.
I began ENJOYING food again, and appreciating each bite instead of shoveling food into my mouth. I began to reconnect to my physical body by not only teaching 20 classes a week, but by TAKING my own yoga classes and connecting to my meditation practice. I began receiving massages and getting my nails done, I let my hair down (and let it grow) thus allowing myself to relax and re-ground.
By the time the summer rolled around this year, I was not at my goal weight yet, but I FELT amazing. I felt divine and radiant and alive… and that is what mattered to me most.
There are days when I wish the scaled would say "you're radiant" instead of "you're down (.4)" but those are the days when I tell that to myself. I look in the mirror and say YOU ARE RADIANT, YOU ARE HEALTHY, YOU ARE LOVED.
And it works.
A journey is just that: a journey or a process. I have been proud of myself every step of the way, whether in the beginning a few months back or in the middle as I am today, I feel great.
A combination of yoga & weight watchers is what has always worked for my body and I'm proud to be as strong and radiant as I am today. I no longer feel bloated, I have tons of energy and feel healthy in all my decisions (even if I do grab that extra bit of chocolate at bedtime I know it's okay).
I'm rooted, grounded and in-tune with my body, mind and soul.
As such, this is a PSA and a reminder to you: YOU ARE RADIANT, YOU ARE HEALTHY AND YOU ARE LOVED. I mean it from the bottom of my heart. I'm so proud of you wherever you are on your journey.
In the comments below, please share your own journey either with health or weight loss. I would love to connect with you!
Get out there– do yoga & make life sparkle!


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Use the "Save Source File" buttons to save the content in the top pane (so you can change it later).
What is UkePDF?
UkePDF is a graphical program for most computers (Mac, Windows, Linux, etc.) that converts song lyrics & chord names into PDFs like those found at DoctorUke and our own handouts page. Here's a screenshot:
Chords in square brackets (e.g.: [Am]) get turned into ukulele chord diagrams above the lyrics.
Download UkePDF software here. You must have a computer capable of running Java. On most computers (Windows 8+ & Mac 10+), double-clicking the JAR file will run the program.
How To Use
Enter some lyrics in the top pane (this is the source file). Add chords in square brackets (like [C]) right before the place where the chord changes. Hit the "Refresh PDF" button to view the output in the bottom pane.
You can download this sample input file (Folsom Prison Blues), and then hit the "Open Source File" button to load it. Hit "Refresh PDF" to see the output in the bottom pane.
Title & Artist information
Add the following to the top of the source file to specify a song title and artist:
[$title=Folsom Prison Blues]
[$artist=Johnny Cash]
Indented Sections
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[section start;Chorus:;36.0]
These two lines will be indented by half an inch (72 points = 1 inch).
It will have a label above it that says "Chorus:".
[section end]
Chord Definitions
If you want to define your own chords, add lines like this to your input:
[define C2=C:5,4,3,3]
Then you can use the new chord [C2]. "C" is the chord label, and the numbers are the g-, c-, e-, and a- string fret numbers. Use a fret number of -1 to put an X in the chord diagram.
Section Labels
If you want to add a label (displayed in bold) you can add this:
Tab SectionsTo add a section of monospaced font (great for tablature, but doesn't have to be tablature) you can do this:
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Folsom Prison Intro Riff:
[tab end]
Page BreakIf you want to add a page break you can add this:
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Tips & Tricks
Pressing <Ctrl> + Enter will quickly refresh the PDF view (this is the same as hitting the "Refresh PDF" button).
Pressing <Ctrl> + d will delete a line of input.
Drag and drop selected text to move it easily within the input pane.
Hold <Ctrl> while dragging & dropping to copy the selected text.
Right-click in the top pane for a menu of quick codes to add:
Use the "Save PDF" buttons to save a PDF that you can share with the world.
Change the window width to change the output view zoom.
Drag the pane separator to give more or less room to the output view.
Questions? Problems?
Email firstname.lastname@example.com with comments, questions, problems. Feel free to send cash if this program is saving your sanity from Microsoft Word hell. =)


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Motorola Disney Classic 53669 review: Motorola Disney Classic 53669
Motorola Disney Classic 53669
This is a real Mickey Mouse phone--and that's not an insult. Designed specifically for kids, this 2.4GHz from Motorola has buttons shaped like mouse ears, an antenna shaped like a magic wand, and Disney ring tones. While this model is more fun to use than your run-of-the-mill 2.4GHz phone, it suffers from some performance problems, and we feel 50 bucks is a bit too expensive for what's otherwise a basic model. Still, if your kids are in the Mouse Club, this fun phone will keep them smiling.
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The red handset sits upright in the yellow dome base, and both are topped with a plastic antenna that looks like a magic wand. The base has only one button--a handset pager--and two LEDs that indicate when the phone is charging or when you have a voicemail message pending (if you subscribe to a local phone company's service). There's no answering machine. The peanut-shaped handset feels solid and is contoured so that you can cradle it on your shoulder. Adults won't be enamored with the small keys, but they're fine for the kids' grubby fingers. Another note on the keys: Instead of the usual electronic chirping, this phone emits gentle cricketlike sounds.
This phone's feature set is functional but basic. You get 10-number speed dial, caller ID, call waiting, a handset locator, and a voicemail indicator LED on the base. Ring tones are all Disney. You can choose from the default organ chord or electronic versions of "The Mickey Mouse Club March," "It's a Small World," "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah," or a tune sung by Mickey himself. When you press the pager button on the base, Mickey chirps, "Over here, pal!" While these sounds are entertaining--and you'll certainly know whose phone is ringing--none of them are loud, even when the ringer is set to High.
Earpiece sonics, however, are plenty loud, if a bit tinny. Because the phone offers only analog technology, it was more prone to interference than 2.4GHz digital models in our tests. That antenna may look cartoonish, but we were able to wander 75 feet from the base before the crackles started--not bad but a bit shorter than others in its class. The battery lasted double its rated six-hour talk and six-day battery life, however. There is a low-battery indicator but no meter that tells you how much juice is left.
While performance is a mixed bag, this phone still makes a perfect gift for Disney-crazed kids who are willing to overlook its faults in favor of its fun features. If your child prefers mermaids over mice, have a look at this phone's sibling, the Disney Princess, which comes in pink and features ring tones from Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid.


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The kids at coding club have decided that we should write an implementation of pong in python. I took a look at some options, and decided tkinter was the way to go. Thus, I present a pong game broken up into stages which are hopefully understandable to an 11 year old: Operation Terrible Pong.
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This is the second post about the coding club at my kid's school. I was away for four weeks travelling for work and then getting sick, so I am still getting back up to speed with what the kids have been up to while I've been away. This post is an attempt to gather some resources that I hope will be useful during the session today — it remains to be seen how this maps to what the kids actually did while I was away.
First off, the adults have decided to give Python for Kids a go as a teaching resource. The biggest catch with this book is that its kind of expensive — at AUD $35 a copy, we can't just issue a copy to every kid in the room. That said, perhaps the kids don't each need a copy, as long as the adults are just using it as a guide for what things to cover.
It appears that while I was away chapters 1 through 4 have been covered. 1 is about install python, and then 2-3 are language construct introductions. This is things like what a variable is, mathematical operators, strings, tuples and lists. So, that's all important but kind of dull. On the other hand, chapter 4 covers turtle graphics, which I didn't even realize that python had a module for.
I have fond memories of doing logo graphics as a kid at school. Back in my day we'd sometimes even use actual robots to do some of the graphics, although most of it was simulated on Apple II machines of various forms. I think its important to let the kids of today know that these strange exercises they're doing used to relate to physical hardware that schools actually owned. Here are a couple of indicative pictures stolen from the Internet:
So, I think that's what we'll keep going with this week — I'll let the kids explain where they got to with turtle graphics and then we'll see how far we can take that without it becoming a chore.
Coding club day one: a simple number guessing game in python
I've recently become involved in a new computer programming club at my kids' school. The club runs on Friday afternoons after school and is still very new so we're still working through exactly what it will look like long term. These are my thoughts on the content from this first session. The point of this first lesson was to approach a programming problem where every child stood a reasonable chance of finishing in the allotted 90 minutes. Many of the children had never programmed before, so the program had to be kept deliberately small. Additionally, this was a chance to demonstrate how literal computers are about the instructions they're given — there is no room for intuition on the part of the machine here, it does exactly what you ask of it.
The task: write a python program which picks a random number between zero and ten. Ask the user to guess the number the program has picked, with the program telling the user if they are high, low, or right.
We then brainstormed the things we'd need to know how to do to make this program work. We came up with:
- How do we get a random number?
- What is a variable?
- What are data types?
- What is an integer? Why does that matter?
- How do we get user input?
- How do we do comparisons? What is a conditional?
- What are the possible states for the game?
- What is an exception? Why did I get one? How do I read it?
With that done, we were ready to start programming. This was done with a series of steps that we walked through as a group — let's all print hello work. Now let's generate a random number and print it. Ok, cool, now let's do input from a user. Now how do we compare that with the random number? Finally, how do we do a loop which keeps prompting until the user guesses the random number?
For each of these a code snippet was written on the whiteboard and explained. It was up to the students to put them together into a program which actually works.
Due to limitations in the school's operating environment (no local python installation and repl.it not working due to firewalling) we used codeskulptor.org for this exercise. The code that the kids ended up with looks like this:
import random # Pick a random number number = random.randint(0, 10) # Now ask for guesses until the correct guess is made done = False while not done: guess = int(raw_input('What is your guess?')) print 'You guessed: %d' % guess if guess < number: print 'Higher!' elif guess > number: print 'Lower!' else: print 'Right!' done = True
The plan for next session (tomorrow, in the first week of term two) is to recap what we did at the end of last term and explore this program to make sure everyone understands how it works.


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The Old Maid and the Thief
In this American one-act opera, a handsome vagrant takes up lodgings with a lonesome old maid and her young, chatty housemaid. His presence must be kept secret to avoid a scandal and little white lies quickly escalate to desperation and questionable decision making. Commissioned by NBC, Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief was among the first operas written specifically for the radio.
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- Bob – Jeffrey Taylor
- Miss Pinkerton – Annie Smith
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This meditative sequence will boost your body balance and free your mind from thinking—all while toning that core. You won't even feel like you're working out.
Meditation is about stopping the thoughts that are constantly circulating in our heads. Though it can be a daunting practice for most of us, it's not that hard to calm down your mind when you bring single-pointed focus to your attention. So, if you focus your attention on a single point and balance on one leg, your mind stops thinking. Suddenly all the mind chatter shuts up and before you know it, you're meditating.
It's really about putting the mind on the back seat, and allowing yourself to be fully present in this moment. And the added bonus? Balance tones your core.
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Few Words About Cascading
Cascading provides circuit breakers placed downstream of a limiting circuit breaker with an enhanced breaking capacity. The limiting circuit breaker helps the circuit breaker placed downstream by limiting high short-circuit currents.
Cascading makes it possible to use a circuit-breaker with a breaking capacity lower than the short-circuit current calculated at its installation point.
Area of Cascading Application
- Concerns all devices installed downstream of this circuit-breaker,
- Can be extended to several consecutive devices, even if they are used in different switchboards.
For downstream circuit-breakers, the ultimate breaking capacity Icu to be considered is the ultimate breaking capacity enhanced by coordination.
Implementation Techniques
As soon as the two circuit-breakers trip (as from point IB), an arc voltage UAD1 on separation of the contacts of D1 is added to voltage UAD2 and helps, by additional limitation, circuit-breaker D2 to open.
The association D1 + D2 allows an increase in performance of D2 as shown in figure 2 below:
- Limitation curve D2,
- Enhanced limitation curve of D2 by D1,
- Icu D2 enhanced by D1.
In actual fact, in compliance with the recommendations of IEC 60947-2, manufacturers give directly and guarantee Icu enhanced by the association of D1 + D2.
In a cascade system, both the upstream and downstream devices are expected to operate simultaneously so that the fault energy is shared by the breaking devices. Unless the combination is tested for the required fault level, the performance of the combination cannot be guaranteed in the field.
After a major fault is cleared both the devices of the combination need to be thoroughly examined and replaced if necessary to ensure safe operation during any future fault in the system.
Advantages of Cascading
Cascading allows benefit to be derived from all the advantages of limitation. Thus, the effects of short-circuit currents are reduced, i.e.:
- Electromagnetic effects,
- Electrodynamic effects,
- Thermal effects.
Installation of a single limiting circuit-breaker results in considerable simplifications and savings for the entire downstream installation:
- Simplification of choice of devices by the cascading tables,
- Savings on downstream devices. Limitation enables circuit-breakers with standard performance to be used.
Thanks to cascading, circuit breakers with breaking capacities less than the prospective short-circuit current may be installed downstream from a current limiting circuit breaker. It follows that substantial savings can be made on downstream switchgear and enclosures.
Resource: Merlin Gerin/Schneider Electric Circuit breaker application guide
2 Comments
- DiscrimnationMay 22, 2017
Hi to anyone who reads this, so do both cascaded breakers trip when there's a fault? Or will be be total or partial discrimination whereby only the downstream trips with upstream breaker still supplying other downstream circuits? Thanks…
- ahmed elnhasOct 12, 2014
all what i get is that upstream CB will trip before the fault current at downstream CB reach its maximum value , is that true ???
and if it true , doesn't that mean that the continuity of the system will be affected if the upstream CB energize multiple parallel feeders


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by Laura Parker Roerden
A flower is
not just
a flower.
It's an invitation
to dance,
to fall into
a time
and a tempo
not of
your own
wherein lies
the meaning
of being
made of
soil and sun,
in place
of rain.
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Passive Keyless Entry/Go
Passive Keyless Entry/Go Systems ensure high levels of convenience when it comes to accessing vehicles and starting their engines.
Vehicle users no longer need to search for their keys in bags or pockets, or physically handle their key to operate push buttons. Just touching the door handle is enough to unlock the doors, but only if the authorized key is detected by the system in advance. And switching the engine on and off is actioned by pushing a start/stop button – once the authorized key is detected in the vehicle's passenger compartment. Locking the doors is also simple, achieved by touching a dedicated area on the exterior door handle.
Our modular system platform allows our customers to benefit from what we already have in place today, or what is in our development pipeline. We follow our guiding principle "re-use as much as is reasonable, and then tailor to project-related requirements", so that we progress from a proven base. We design, develop and produce full-scale passive keyless entry/go systems for leading passenger and commercial vehicle OEMs – and upon request stand alone products such as e.g. keys and electronic steering column locks (12 and 24V).


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Gird your loins, kids. I'm about to go on a little rant. Or maybe a big rant. We'll find out together, eh?
Food & Wine magazine's tumblr account recently made me aware of two things I did not know before:
– A body of alleged authorities on all things sausagey exists. It is called the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council.
– They believe themselves to be the highest authority in the land on how to eat a hot dog.
Being a ruling body, you know these folks are making up some rules. Rules about the proper way to put a hot dog in your body. This instantly makes me feel rebellious. Who died and made them Hot Dog Gods? I mean, I think we all generally get the idea. It's a fucking hot dog. It's not that crazy puffer fish thing that has to be prepared in such a way so as to avoid deadly neurotoxins. It's a hot dog.
Before my head explodes too soon, let's get into this thing.
I'm not going to list every single "do" and "don't" because I honestly can't believe there's even a list, let alone a list that long. I mean, click that link. It's like, potentially anxiety inducing.
Put hot dog toppings between the hot dog and the bun. Always "dress the dog," not the bun.
Condiments should be applied in the following order: wet condiments like mustard and chili are applied first, followed by chunky condiments like relish, onions and sauerkraut, followed by shredded cheese, followed by spices, like celery salt or pepper.
So the bun isn't that important, right? It's just a vehicle for getting the hot dog and toppings to your mouth without making a mess, right?
Also, heaven forbid you want the cheese to melt a little. It won't. It won't be anywhere near the heat source that is your hot dog. It's going to sit on top of all those cold condiments.
But wait! This just in…
Serve sesame seed, poppy seed and plain buns with hot dogs. Sun-dried tomato buns or basil buns are considered gauche with franks.
So the bun is important. But only in the sense that it should absolutely taste like nothing, nothing at all. Do not try to get fancy with your bun. The Hot Dog Police will show up and write you a citation for Just Going Too Far.
Also, can we discuss the use of the word gauche in relation to hot dogs? Isn't the very act of putting food directly into your mouth hole with your arm shovels kind of negating any concerns about being gauche?
It gets super confusing when you consider these little nuggets of tubesteak wisdom:
Use a cloth napkin to wipe your mouth when eating a hot dog. Paper is always preferable.
Eat hot dogs on buns with your hands. Utensils should not touch hot dogs on buns.
Use paper plates to serve hot dogs. Every day dishes are acceptable; china is a no-no.
Condiments remaining on the fingers after eating a hot dog should be licked away, not washed.
So we're worried that it's the sun dried tomato hot dog bun that's going to make us appear gauche? It's not the paper napkin or the eating with our hands or licking our fingers or the paper plates?
Take more than five bites to finish a hot dog. For foot-long wiener, seven bites are acceptable.
Ma'am, I've been counting your bites and it would appear you've violated Rule 4, subsection 2.1 of the Hot Dog Consumption Code. You're going to have to come with me.
I've got a bite you can count.
Use ketchup on your hot dog after the age of 18.
Mustard, relish, onions, cheese and chili are acceptable.
File this one under Oddly Specific. Imagine getting carded for condiments.
I don't like ketchup on my hot dog, but I am not gonna tell you not to have it. When you eat food, you want it to taste good to you, right? It doesn't have to taste good to High Lord and Emperor of Hot Dog Land, just you. Put ketchup on your hot dog if you damn well want. Open your mouth. Put it in your face. You're getting to eat while that guy is still over there dressing his dog in layers like this is a flipping fashion show and not a back yard picnic.
I can't even go on. It's just too much. I just have one final message for the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council…


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Cooper Earns Rally Excellent
10/09 – Cooper earned his Rally Excellent Title Oct 24, 2009 in Jackson Mississippi. Earned 2nd place Saturday and Sunday also. Cooper also earned 4th place in Pre Novice Obedience.
Cmt Working Man Blues, RE, NA, NAJ
11th Show- AKC Rally- Oct 2009 Jackson, Mississippi
We earned our RE Title with a score if 98. We also attempted Pre Novice obedience. It wasn't pretty but we got 4th place.


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Othello: Act V, Scene ii
Othello. Act 5, Scene 2. Othello
This speech is used in our interview with Debra Ann Byrd.
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- It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul,–
- Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!–
- It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood;
- Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow,
- And smooth as monumental alabaster.
- Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.
- Put out the light, and then put out the light:
- If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,
- I can again thy former light restore,
- Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,
- Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,
- I know not where is that Promethean heat
- That can thy light relume. When I have pluck'd the rose,
- I cannot give it vital growth again.
- It must needs wither: I'll smell it on the tree.
[Kissing her]
16. Ah balmy breath, that dost almost persuade
17. Justice to break her sword! One more, one more.
18. Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee,
19. And love thee after. One more, and this the last:
20. So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep,
21. But they are cruel tears: this sorrow's heavenly;
22. It strikes where it doth love. She wakes.


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10 comments:
He is definitely cocky! Love this guy! It's so interesting to see how you got this from a blurry photo. Thanks for sharing that.ReplyDelete
Wow... and you got that awesome painting from a blurry photo! You have inspired me to try painting my chickens. I had them for several years and have many photos of them. Mine won't be nearly as artistic as yours but it's as start! I really enjoy visiting your blog and seeing your art, Carol.ReplyDelete
Another great one...I hope you are paying him good wages!ReplyDelete
Well done, Carol! You are amazing to be able to put in all the color and value nuances from a photo that may not be the ideal. I love the painting!ReplyDelete
Thanks for your kind comments!ReplyDelete
Terrific Carol- the power of the color and shapes is perfect for this character!ReplyDelete
C'est ce que l'on appelle être majestueux! belle toile!ReplyDelete
Now that is one handsome rooster!ReplyDelete
Very impressive to work with a blurry reference picture, Carol.ReplyDelete
You did a beautiful job!!!
Cocky is darn good looking. Great colors. Great brush strokes. Nothing too fussy. I love it!ReplyDelete


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