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What follows is the introduction to the second edition (1922) of Emily Post's Etiquette: In Society, In Business, In Politics and at Home, as swiped from Project Guttenburg. It's pretty lengthy. I had intended to cut it down a bit, but as I was reading it, I found that there wasn't anything I could eliminate. Sometimes we get so caught up in the "rules" that we forget why the rules are there in the first place.
Richard Duffy
Many who scoff at a book of etiquette would be shocked to hear the least expression of levity touching the Ten Commandments. But the Commandments do not always prevent such virtuous scoffers from dealings with their neighbor of which no gentleman could be capable and retain his claim to the title. Though it may require ingenuity to reconcile their actions with the Decalogue--the ingenuity is always forthcoming. There is no intention in this remark to intimate that there is any higher rule of life than the Ten Commandments; only it is illuminating as showing the relationship between manners and morals, which is too often overlooked. The polished gentleman of sentimental fiction has so long served as the type of smooth and conscienceless depravity that urbanity of demeanor inspires distrust in ruder minds. On the other hand, the blunt, unpolished hero of melodrama and romantic fiction has lifted brusqueness and pushfulness to a pedestal not wholly merited. Consequently, the kinship between conduct that keeps us within the law and conduct that makes civilized life worthy to be called such, deserves to be noted with emphasis. The Chinese sage, Confucius, could not tolerate the suggestion that virtue is in itself enough without politeness, for he viewed them as inseparable and "saw courtesies as coming from the heart," maintaining that "when they are practised with all the heart, a moral elevation ensues."
People who ridicule etiquette as a mass of trivial and arbitrary conventions, "extremely troublesome to those who practise them and insupportable to everybody else," seem to forget the long, slow progress of social intercourse in the upward climb of man from the primeval state. Conventions were established from the first to regulate the rights of the individual and the tribe. They were and are the rules of the game of life and must be followed if we would "play the game." Ages before man felt the need of indigestion remedies, he ate his food solitary and furtive in some corner, hoping he would not be espied by any stronger and hungrier fellow.
It was a long, long time before the habit of eating in common was acquired; and it is obvious that the practise could not have been taken up with safety until the individuals of the race knew enough about one another and about the food resources to be sure that there was food sufficient for all. When eating in common became the vogue, table manners made their appearance and they have been waging an uphill struggle ever since. The custom of raising the hat when meeting an acquaintance derives from the old rule that friendly knights in accosting each other should raise the visor for mutual recognition in amity. In the knightly years, it must be remembered, it was important to know whether one was meeting friend or foe. Meeting a foe meant fighting on the spot. Thus, it is evident that the conventions of courtesy not only tend to make the wheels of life run more smoothly, but also act as safeguards in human relationship. Imagine the Paris Peace Conference, or any of the later conferences in Europe, without the protective armor of diplomatic etiquette!
Nevertheless, to some the very word etiquette is an irritant. It implies a great pother about trifles, these conscientious objectors assure us, and trifles are unimportant. Trifles are unimportant, it is true, but then life is made up of trifles. To those who dislike the word, it suggests all that is finical and superfluous. It means a garish embroidery on the big scheme of life; a clog on the forward march of a strong and courageous nation. To such as these, the words etiquette and politeness connote weakness and timidity. Their notion of a really polite man is a dancing master or a man milliner. They were always willing to admit that the French were the politest nation in Europe and equally ready to assert that the French were the weakest and least valorous, until the war opened their eyes in amazement. Yet, that manners and fighting can go hand in hand appears in the following anecdote:
In the midst of the war, some French soldiers and some non-French of the Allied forces were receiving their rations in a village back of the lines. The non-French fighters belonged to an Army that supplied rations plentifully. They grabbed their allotments and stood about while hastily eating, uninterrupted by conversation or other concern. The French soldiers took their very meager portions of food, improvised a kind of table on the top of a flat rock, and having laid out the rations, including the small quantity of wine that formed part of the repast, sat down in comfort and began their meal amid a chatter of talk. One of the non-French soldiers, all of whom had finished their large supply of food before the French had begun eating, asked sardonically: "Why do you fellows make such a lot of fuss over the little bit of grub they give you to eat?" The Frenchman replied: "Well, we are making war for civilization, are we not? Very well, we are. Therefore, we eat in a civilized way."
To the French we owe the word etiquette, and it is amusing to discover its origin in the commonplace familiar warning--"Keep off the grass." It happened in the reign of Louis XIV, when the gardens of Versailles were being laid out, that the master gardener, an old Scotsman, was sorely tried because his newly seeded lawns were being continually trampled upon. To keep trespassers off, he put up warning signs or tickets--etiquettes--on which was indicated the path along which to pass. But the courtiers paid no attention to these directions and so the determined Scot complained to the King in such convincing manner that His Majesty issued an edict commanding everyone at Court to "keep within the etiquettes." Gradually the term came to cover all the rules for correct demeanor and deportment in court circles; and thus through the centuries it has grown into use to describe the conventions sanctioned for the purpose of smoothing personal contacts and developing tact and good manners in social intercourse. With the decline of feudal courts and the rise of empires of industry, much of the ceremony of life was discarded for plain and less formal dealing. Trousers and coats supplanted doublets and hose, and the change in costume was not more extreme than the change in social ideas. The court ceased to be the arbiter of manners, though the aristocracy of the land remained the high exemplar of good breeding.
Yet, even so courtly and materialistic a mind as Lord Chesterfield's acknowledged a connection between manners and morality, of which latter the courts of Europe seemed so sparing. In one of the famous "Letters to His Son" he writes: "Moral virtues are the foundation of society in general, and of friendship in particular; but attentions, manners, and graces, both adorn and strengthen them." Again he says: "Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or reflected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world." For all the wisdom and brilliancy of his worldly knowledge, perhaps no other writer has done so much to bring disrepute on the "manners and graces" as Lord Chesterfield, and this, it is charged, because he debased them so heavily by considering them merely as the machinery of a successful career. To the moralists, the fact that the moral standards of society in Lord Chesterfield's day were very different from those of the present era rather adds to the odium that has become associated with his attitude. His severest critics, however, do concede that he is candid and outspoken, and many admit that his social strategy is widely practised even in these days.
But the aims of the world in which he moved were routed by the onrush of the ideals of democratic equality, fraternity, and liberty. With the prosperity of the newer shibboleths, the old-time notion of aristocracy, gentility, and high breeding became more and more a curio to be framed suitably in gold and kept in the glass case of an art museum. The crashing advance of the industrial age of gold thrust all courts and their sinuous graces aside for the unmistakable ledger balance of the counting-house. This new order of things had been a long time in process, when, in the first year of this century, a distinguished English social historian, the late The Right Honorable G.W.E. Russell, wrote: "Probably in all ages of history men have liked money, but a hundred years ago they did not talk about it in society.... Birth, breeding, rank, accomplishments, eminence in literature, eminence in art, eminence in public service--all these things still count for something in society. But when combined they are only as the dust of the balance when weighed against the all-prevalent power of money. The worship of the Golden Calf is the characteristic cult of modern society." In the Elizabethan Age of mighty glory, three hundred years before this was said, Ben Jonson had railed against money as "a thin membrane of honor," groaning: "How hath all true reputation fallen since money began to have any!" Now the very fact that the debasing effect of money on the social organism has been so constantly reprehended, from Scriptural days onward, proves the instinctive yearning of mankind for a system of life regulated by good taste, high intelligence and sound affections. But, it remains true that, in the succession of great commercial epochs, coincident with the progress of modern science and invention, almost everything can be bought and sold, and so almost everything is rated by the standard of money.
Yet, this standard is precisely not the ultimate test of the Christianity on which we have been pluming ourselves through the centuries. Still, no one can get along without money; and few of us get along very well with what we have. At least we think so--because everybody else seems to think that way. We Americans are members of the nation which, materially, is the richest, most prosperous and most promising in the world. This idea is dinned into our heads continually by foreign observers, and publicly we "own the soft impeachment." Privately, each individual American seems driven with the decision that he must live up to the general conception of the nation as a whole. And he does, but in less strenuous moments he might profitably ponder the counsel of Gladstone to his countrymen: "Let us respect the ancient manners and recollect that, if the true soul of chivalry has died among us, with it all that is good in society has died. Let us cherish a sober mind; take for granted that in our best performances there are latent many errors which in their own time will
come to light."
America, too, has her ancient manners to remember and respect; but, in the rapid assimilation of new peoples into her economic and social organism, more pressing concerns take up nearly all her time. The perfection of manners by intensive cultivation of good taste, some believe, would be the greatest aid possible to the moralists who are alarmed over the decadence of the younger generation. Good taste may not make men or women really virtuous, but it will often save them from what theologians call "occasions of sin." We may note, too, that grossness in manners forms a large proportion of the offenses that fanatical reformers foam about. Besides grossness, there is also the meaner selfishness. Selfishness is at the polar remove from the worldly manners of the old school, according to which, as Dr. Pusey wrote, others were preferred to self, pain was given to no one, no one was neglected, deference was shown to the weak and the aged, and unconscious courtesy extended to all inferiors. Such was the "beauty" of the old manners, which he felt consisted in "acting upon Christian principle, and if in any case it became soulless, as apart from Christianity, the beautiful form was there, into which the real life might re-enter."
As a study of all that is admirable in American manners, and as a guide to behavior in the simplest as well as the most complex requirements of life day by day, whether we are at home or away from it, there can be no happier choice than the present volume. It is conceived in the belief that etiquette in its broader sense means the technique of human conduct under all circumstances in life. Yet all minutiae of correct manners are included and no detail is too small to be explained, from the selection of a visiting card to the mystery of eating corn on the cob. Matters of clothes for men and women are treated with the same fullness of information and accuracy of taste as are questions of the furnishing of their houses and the training of their minds to social intercourse. But there is no exaggeration of the minor details at the expense of the more important spirit of personal conduct and attitude of mind. To dwell on formal trivialities, the author holds, is like "measuring the letters of the sign-boards by the roadside instead of profiting by the directions they offer." She would have us know also that "it is not the people who make small technical mistakes or even blunders, who are barred from the paths of good society, but those of sham and pretense whose veneered vulgarity at every step tramples the flowers in the gardens of cultivation." To her mind the structure of etiquette is comparable to that of a house, of which the foundation is ethics and the rest good taste, correct speech, quiet, unassuming behavior, and a proper pride of dignity.
To such as entertain the mistaken notion that politeness implies all give and little or no return, it is well to recall Coleridge's definition of a gentleman: "We feel the gentlemanly character present with us," he said, "whenever, under all circumstances of social intercourse, the trivial, not less than the important, through the whole detail of his manners and deportment, and with the ease of a habit, a person shows respect to others in such a way as at the same time implies, in his own feelings, and habitually, an assured anticipation of reciprocal respect from them to himself. In short, the gentlemanly character arises out of the feeling of equality acting as a habit, yet flexible to the varieties of rank, and modified without being disturbed or superseded by them." Definitions of a gentleman are numerous, and some of them famous; but we do not find such copiousness for choice in definitions of a lady. Perhaps it has been understood all along that the admirable and just characteristics of a gentleman should of necessity be those also of a lady, with the charm of womanhood combined. And, in these days, with the added responsibility of the vote.
Besides the significance of this volume as an indubitable authority on manners, it should be pointed out that as a social document, it is without precedent in American literature. In order that we may better realize the behavior and environment of well-bred people, the distinguished author has introduced actual persons and places in fictional guise. They are the persons and the places of her own world; and whether we can or can not penetrate the incognito of the Worldlys, the Gildings, the Kindharts, the Oldnames, and the others, is of no importance. Fictionally, they are real enough for us to be interested and instructed in their way of living. That they happen to move in what is known as Society is incidental, for, as the author declares at the very outset: "Best Society is not a fellowship of the wealthy, nor does it seek to exclude those who are not of exalted birth; but it is an association of gentlefolk, of which good form in speech, charm of manner, knowledge of the social amenities, and instinctive consideration for the feelings of others, are the credentials by which society the world over recognizes its chosen members."
The immediate fact is that the characters of this book are thoroughbred Americans, representative of various sections of the country and free from the slightest tinge of snobbery. Not all of them are even well-to-do, in the postwar sense; and their devices of economy in household outlay, dress and entertainment are a revelation in the science of ways and means. There are parents, children, relatives and friends all passing before us in the pageant of life from the cradle to the grave. No circumstance, from an introduction to a wedding, is overlooked in this panorama and the spectator has beside him a cicerone in the person of the author who clears every doubt and answers every question. In course, the conviction grows upon him that etiquette is no flummery of poseurs "aping the manners of their betters," nor a code of snobs, who divide their time between licking the boots of those above them and kicking at those below, but a system of rules of conduct based on respect of self coupled with respect of others. Meanwhile, to guard against conceit in his new knowledge, he may at odd moments recall Ben Jonson's lines:
"Nor stand so much on your gentility,
Which is an airy, and mere borrowed thing,
From dead men's dust, and bones: And none of yours
Except you make, or hold it."


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Joseph and Kerri Silva of Warwick announce the birth of their son, Bradley Richard Silva, on February 2, 2013 at Kent Hospital. He weighed 8 lbs. 7 oz. and was 21½ inches long at birth. He is also welcomed by his sibling, Cameron, age 3.
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Kolkata: With the BJP and the Left sticking to their demand for a discussion on FDI in retail under a rule that entails voting, former UPA ally Trinamool Congress on Wednesday said it would take a stand only after Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar took a decision, but ruled out voting in favour of the government.
"We shall take a stand only after the Speaker takes a decision and communicates it. Our party will then take a stand. The Trinamool has to oppose FDI. We cannot vote in favour of the government under any circumstances," senior TMC leader and former Union Minister Saugata Roy, who is now in Delhi, said.
Without elaborating further, Roy, TMC Lok Sabha member, said the Parliament logjam should end and that the House should transact its business.
He criticised the Congress-led coalition and said his party withdrew support to the government in the wake of hike in diesel prices, cap on LPG cylinders and the decision to allow 51 per cent FDI in multi-brand retail.
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WORCESTER, Mass. - Jim Marois poured in a season-high 23 points to help host WPI defeat MIT 68-47 in NEWMAC men's basketball action on Saturday afternoon. With the win, WPI improves to 19-2 overall and 9-1 in NEWMAC action while MIT drops to 12-11 and 5-6 in conference play.
After a tight first half that featured four lead changes and five ties, WPI used a 8-0 run to close out the stanza and take a 35-27 advantage into the locker room at the break. The home-standing Engineers then opened the second half with a 13-4 spurt and would not see their lead slip into single digits the rest of the day.
Marois did much of his damage in the first half, connecting on 6-of-7 shots from the floor en route to collecting 16 points. He finished the night with four three-pointers in six attempts while playing just 23 minutes. Marois, who had scored 17 points in each of the last two games, missed his career-high, established last January at Clark, by a single point.
Jerome Kirkland added to the WPI attack with 11 points and four steals while freshman R.C. Grady chipped in with 10. Adam Lirette scored seven points and dished out a game-best five assists without committing a turnover.
The MIT defense did a good job on both of WPI's top scorers, holding Ryan Cain and Antoine Coleman to six points apiece. Coleman gobbled up a team-high six rebounds while Cain dished out three assists and was credited with a pair of steals.
Jimmy Bartolotta played well for MIT, scoring 19 points and grabbing eight rebounds while dishing out four assists. Rookie Erich Bracht notched a double-double on the afternoon, tallying 12 points and grabbing a game-best 11 rebounds while Alex Krull tossed in 11 points and hauled in five rebounds for the visiting Engineers.


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Got a creepy ex-boyfriend story? Hopefully it doesn't come close to this one. Craig Jaret Hutchinson is facing 18 months in jail after he pricked holes in his girlfriend's condoms. The girlfriend -- well ex-girlfriend these days -- ended up pregnant with a baby she never wanted and ended up getting an abortion.
Hutchinson, meanwhile, was hauled into court. He's been convicted on charges of sexual assault. What in heaven's name would make a guy think this was OK?
Apparently Hutchinson and the woman identified only as N.C. had been together nine months and things were getting a little rocky. He told cops in Nova Scotia he thought a baby would bring them back together.
So he forced her to have unprotected sex without her consent?
Not the answer, folks. Not even close. Obviously the key to any relationship is trust, and Hutchinson violated that one big time.
But this particular method -- sabotaging birth control -- is troubling because it stole away this woman's right to choose what happens to her own body. Sure, she said yes to sex, but she very deliberately made use of condoms because she was not ready for what results when having unprotected sex. And then she was stuck dealing with that aftermath anyway because her boyfriend was a sicko!
N.C. had to go through the heartwrenching decision of having an abortion she never should have had to have, an abortion she was actively trying to prevent just as she was trying to prevent pregnancy by using condoms.
What Hutchinson -- and really anyone -- needs to learn is that you can't make someone else's decisions for them. We have free will, free reign over our own bodies. Violating that is violating the most personal of human rights.
Does this qualify as a crime worth 18 months in jail in your book?
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Cochlear implant devices have made use of electrode pulses as a method of nerve fiber stimulation since their early conception. Electrode stimulation is limiting in both quality and consistency, and a new method is required if significant improvements to implant devices are to be made. By using a micro-strip waveguide with dispersive properties, it is shown that constructive interference of two propagating waves is possible, and can be utilized as a means of nerve stimulation. In the future, generating a proper interference pattern suitable for nerve stimulation with a full-length micro-strip will be investigated.
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OSWEGO – The annual SUNY Oswego Honors Convocation on April 19 will recognize more than 100 academic achievers and feature a talk by an Oswego alumna who has built a career in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.
The formal ceremony recognizing student academic achievement will take place at 3 p.m. in the Campus Center convocation hall and arena. Together with the students being honored, an audience of family, friends and campus colleagues of the honorees will witness the procession of faculty presenters in academic regalia, applaud students receiving awards, and hear from 1981 communication studies graduate Rosemary Cardamone Crane.
Crane has more than 30 years of experience in commercialization and business operations, primarily in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.
She is currently a partner and head of commercialization at Apple Tree Partners.
Before joining Apple Tree, Crane was the president and chief executive officer of Epocrates.
Before that, she served as a company group chairman for the over-the-counter, specialty and nutritionals businesses of Johnson & Johnson, after serving as executive vice president of global marketing for the pharmaceutical group of Johnson & Johnson. She spent two decades at Bristol-Myers Squibb, working her way up to president of the U.S. Primary Care Division.
After earning her bachelor's degree from Oswego, Crane earned a master's of business administration from Kent State University. She is a former member of the Oswego College Foundation board of directors and the School of Business Advisory Board.
Originally from Utica, she now resides in Langhorne, Pa.
Honors Convocation is the culmination of SUNY Oswego's Honors Week, which includes induction ceremonies for a range of honorary organizations across many disciplines and Quest, the college's signature symposium dedicated to the scholarly and creative pursuits of faculty and students.
The convocation will be followed by a reception in the Campus Center activity court.
The events are free and open to the public. Visitors without a SUNY Oswego parking permit may purchase a $1 visitor's permit from the Parking Office at oswego.edu/administration/parking


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|2010-04-04, 21:34
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Wow, that was a pretty entertaining watch.
I had 0 expectation for this show from the premise, but it was pretty funny. I think this will be like Iketeru Futari (more ecchi up front, but way less after with the romance ramping up like crazy).
Will continue to episode 2.
|2010-04-04, 21:52
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That was honestly better than I had expected. A great deal of irony that she is after 100 sex partners but is pretty clumsy socially. Considering how that episode ended it's good she didn't pick someone other than Kosuda. Would go pretty badly for her if someone was much more aggressive than that guy. Was a pretty funny first episode.
|2010-04-04, 22:18
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Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Ah.... sex comedies for the win - goofy fun.
Last edited by Vexx; 2010-04-06 at 12:10. Reason: the negrep seems to say I'm not allowed to laugh at silly comedies because of my age. How... naive? No, how prejudiced.
|2010-04-04, 23:00
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concerning her friend, is it normal for girls with big breast to have heat-rashes there?
|2010-04-04, 23:20
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Alto x Ranka :)
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Location: New York City
Either way, I'll definitely be keeping up with this anime, if only for the laughs.
|2010-04-05, 06:01
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It can be hard for well-endowed women, from what I've seen. They do indeed have heat rashes etc. underneath, back pain from the extra weight, and then there's the matter of gravity (I suppose you could say the bigger they are, the faster they sag).
If this girl ever does make it to a bed, then pregnancy would definitely be a risk, and a very good potential plot element. Even if she is "responsible". I've known people who had been devoutly committed to protection, extremely careful, and that didn't matter. Condoms, jellies, pills, none of them are 100%; those methods that are absolutely effective are tend to be too risky for official approval. It would be interesting to see a show that actually deals with the slim but real possibility for things to happen in spite of proper protection. Of course, I can see why people might not want to show such things, sort of like bringing attention to cases where medications don't work.
Of course, pregnancy is not likely to become an element of the story for a long while at least, since it looks a bit like it might take her a few decades to manage to get a guy. It's nice to see a pretty girl that awkward, and to see an average guy get some chance with her. Normally it's either a bishonen or a perv who ignores social rules who takes the girl, and the average-looking guy who's actually NICE is left alone.
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Considering how Yamada comes across as a total freak in her behavior, I would not be surprised if she doesn't even come close to having any intimate relations anytime in her highschool life.
Her ideals of sex is kinda like a gradeschooler's.
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The club that has the most points from the round robin will be promoted into the OWL.


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A lot of the locals will say that 'It's always hot for the fair', or that 'It always rains when the Fair's going on'.
But the 2013 Watonwan County Fair kind of dodged those weather bullets.
A lot of the locals will say that 'It's always hot for the fair', or that 'It always rains when the Fair's going on'.
But the 2013 Watonwan County Fair kind of dodged those weather bullets.
The one good rain over the course of the Fair's run happened in the overnight hours, so it didn't put the damper on Fair attendance.
Wednesday and Thursday were on the warmish to hot side, but it wasn't blazing hot. The temps were not up around 100 degrees F. with a heat index in the 120 degree range.
No, by the time the main Fair attendance days of Friday , Saturday and Sunday rolled around the weather was delightful!
Temperatures were seasonal and in the low 80s, the humidity was low and the rain stayed away. The Watonwan County Fair attendees couldn't have asked for anything better.
Well, maybe not such a strong north wind on some of those County Fair Days would be a request.
There's a reason the animal buildings are at the north end of the fair grounds. On a typical July day with the wind blowing out of the south, those farmyard fresh smells would be blown away from the rest of the fairgrounds.
On Friday, with the winds out of the north, all fair visitors had a chance to sense what some of the important activities of the Watonwan County Fair were.
Bill Brown and his family received the Watonwan County Family Farm of the Year Award on Saturday.
Colin Hoppe won the Burt Lofgren Memorial Award on Saturday.
The award is given to a student who best exemplifies the way in which Burt lived, said Vonnie Mathistad.
"He was a very good farmer, and a perfect guy all the way around," said Vonnie. "He was involved in church council and was president of so many things."
FFA and 4-H boards observe students throughout the year. Judges then determine whether a student's attitude and willingness to help others will make them a candidate for the award. They then chose Hoppe based on those observations.
For the most part, fair goers experienced a delightful stretch of weather where people could take in the Midway, hop on some of the rides, mostly lose at the games of chance, eat the fair food, play bingo and watch the various truck, tractor and horse pulls.
Fair Board President Terry Braaten said things went pretty well at the Watonwan County Fair this year. He thought that people enjoyed the 2013 Watonwan County Fair.
An early estimate was that Fair attendance was a little less than last year's Fair. As of Sunday afternoon, Braaten was satisfied with the way the 2013 Watonwan County Fair turned out.


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September 16 2009, 02:41PM
Freaking woo hooo! That's going to make life a LOT easier! Nice one.
September 16 2009, 02:41PM
Like it! So reading through the forums, Shopify mentioned that it was working on a solution to perhaps making it so you could download all orders and open directly into Quickbooks…is this still under consideration?
September 16 2009, 02:41PM
Me again. Just tested this out – for some reason the orders come through in a random order? Not ordered by Order #. Easily fixed with the sort feature in Excel but would be better not to have to!


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Not according to the official White House transcript. As the Packers visited the President to celebrate their Super Bowl victory, Obama's remarks regarding Rodgers were limited to calling his one of the greatest quarterbacking performances in history, and wondering if he could get traded to the Bears.
Unlike the mean-spirited rumors surrounding a certain Studio Princess, no one was sloppy drunk, and no one blurted out anything embarrassing. And certainly no one from the Executive Branch of government settled for a night with Clay Matthews.
Green Bay Packers congratulated by President Barack Obama at White House [Green Bay Press-Gazette]
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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The Los Angeles Police Department is facing new questions regarding the circumstances leading up to the death of a father of three who was stopped on a traffic violation earlier this month.
The confrontation unfolded Aug. 2, when officers with the Newton Division stopped 37-year-old Omar Abrego Figueroa after receiving a report of erratic driving.
The LAPD said in a written statement issued Aug. 11 that before stopping Abrego, two sergeants working gang detail were informed by a pedestrian of a "suspicious car driving erratically."
Not long after, officers reportedly spotted the vehicle they say was driven by Abrego allegedly traveling at a high rate of speed and weaving in and out of traffic. According to police, the vehicle nearly struck a pedestrian.
It was at that point officers stopped Abrego, whom they allege ran, and an altercation ensued. Abrego reportedly struck his head, and was taken to an area hospital where he died the following morning.
However, one witness to the confrontation told CBS2's Dave Lopez that Abrego didn't run and didn't fight. Tamila Boglin told Lopez that she was standing outside around 5 p.m. when the confrontation unfolded.
Another neighbor, who did not want to be identified, provided cellphone video that shows a handcuffed Abrego on the ground while officers try to subdue him.
The LAPD says one officer sustained a fracture to a hand while the other injured a knee.
No video has surfaced depicting a foot chase leading to Abrego's arrest.
Lopez reports that three investigations are underway.
Meanwhile, Abrego's mother told Lopez she's convinced the LAPD beat her son to death. An attorney representing the family says he plans to wait for the release of the final autopsy report before determining the next step.
Abrego is expected to be buried Saturday.
The deadly confrontation marked one of two this month involving the Newton Division. On Monday, a deadly shooting claimed the life of 25-year-old Ezell Ford.


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