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Posted on 10/14/2016 5:57:02 PM PDT by AZamericonnie
Oh Conor....permission granted & presence requested! Hope your health is in check & the clan is well! *Hugs*
Glad to see your still “Holding on” (tag) Ms Feathers & loverly to see you! Is the cold starting to set in your way? *Hugs*
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Good evening Mayor of the Canteen & elsewhere!:)Hope you & the family are doing well & thank you as always for our daily inspiration! *Hugs*
Cold hit hard last night, did not warm up very much in the day time. Shoot!
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Could this weekend not come any sooner? LOL
Some weeks are longer than others right? *Hugs*
http://www.kvoa.com/story/29020572/d-m-and-fort-huachuca-increase-security
ARIZONA
TUCSON – Military installations, including Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and Fort Huachuca, are increasing security because of an increased terrorism threat.
All Department of Defense facilities are at “Force Protection Bravo” for the first time in about 4 years. The increased threat level is not related to any specific danger, according to DoD officials.
Southern Arizona Congresswoman Martha McSally just returned from the Middle East where she learned more about the war against ISIS.
“Their intent is certainly not to just set up a territory and stay there, right? They want to set up a caliphate. They want to continue to have it grow. They want these governments in the Middle East to collapse,” McSally said. “And they certainly want to then attack us and our way of life.”
McSally said Americans acting on their own are the greatest terrorism threats, but citizens who have traveled to Iraq or Syria can also be dangerous.
“They can just come in through the airport and they’re here in America after they have been sort of trained on the battlefield,” McSally said.
Raytheon Missile Systems is also increasing security on its properties. Public Relations Director John Patterson emailed a statement.
“In alignment with U.S. government direction, Raytheon Missile Systems has implemented enhanced security measures at its Tucson operations,” Patterson wrote. “Employee safety is our top priority. We will remain at this increased security level until further notice.”
A representative at Davis-Monthan was not able to disclose the specific security changes, but entering the installation may take longer than usual.
Got a pot belly stove stoked?
It’s “Lynn-Dah” but she forgives you.
the “Lynn” part is her Labrador Retriever Heritage
the “Dah” part is her Chow-Chow Heritage
Spelling it as “Duh” implies that Chows are stupid.
While this is most like true it is BREEDIST! LOL!
And, Yes. She “reads” our posts!
Lynn-Dah is lying at my feet, listening.
Although she is functionally illiterate and quite deaf, she is STILL a very smart doggie!
Well heat is coming in through the heater next to my chair.
I should really think about winging down your way, I’ve to Finland, Alaska, Caribbean, Canada, etc.
How are you & that ever increasing family of yours doing?
I captured this pic of a plane banner flying over my home this evening.
It just seemed so random I had to snap a pic! :)
He was born in Peru, IN, on June 9, 1891, the only surviving child of a wealthy family. His father, Samuel, was a pharmacist, and his mother, Kate, was the indulged daughter of James Cole, “the richest man in Indiana,” a coal and timber magnate who dominated the family.
His strong-willed mother began his musical training at an early age: he learned the violin at age six, the piano at eight, and wrote his first operetta at ten. His father, a shy and unassertive man, played a lesser role, although as an amateur poet, he influenced his son’s gifts for rhyme and meter. Cole’s father had musical talent as a vocalist and pianist, but the father-son relationship was not close.
The Richest Man in Indiana wanted his grandson to become a lawyer and sent him to the Worcester Academy in Massachusetts in 1905. Cole brought an upright piano with him to school and found that music and his ability to entertain made it easy for him to make friends. He did so well in school that he rarely came home to visit. He became valedictorian and was rewarded by his grandfather with a grand tour of Europe.
Entering Yale in 1909, Cole majored in English, minored in music and studied French. He was an early member of the Whiffenpoofs, an a capella singing group; in his senior year, he was elected president of the Yale Glee Club and was its principal soloist.
Cole wrote 300 songs at Yale, including student songs that are still played today. He wrote musical comedy scores for his fraternity and the Yale Dramatic Society.
After graduating, Cole enrolled at Harvard Law in 1913. He felt that he was not destined to be a lawyer, and at the suggestion of the dean, he switched to the music school where he studied harmony and counterpoint. His mother did not object, but it was kept secret from the Richest Man in Indiana. At Harvard, he wrote five complete musicals for their music and dramatic societies.
In 1915, Cole’s first song on Broadway, “Esmeralda,” appeared in the revue “Hands Up.” Success was immediately followed by failure: his first Broadway production in 1916, “See America First,” a patriotic comic opera modeled on Gilbert and Sullivan, was a flop, closing after two weeks.
In 1917 with World War I, Cole served in the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. He transferred to the French Officers School at Fontainebleau to teach gunnery to American doughboys.
Not to put too fine a point upon it but Cole Porter was gay. Irving Berlin’s song, “I Got Lost in His Arms,” applied to him. He maintained a luxurious apartment in Paris where he entertained lavishly. His parties were extravagant and scandalous, with a lot of homosexual and bisexual activity, Italian nobility, cross-dressing, international musicians and a huge amount of recreational drugs, mostly cocaine. Decadent old Paris was notably tolerant of decadent lifestyles.
In 1918, Cole met Linda Thomas, a rich Louisville-born divorcee, who was eight years his senior. She was beautiful and well-connected socially. The couple shared mutual interests, including a love of travel, and she became his confidant and companion. They married the following year. She knew all about his sexual proclivities, but it was mutually advantageous for them to marry. For Linda, it offered continued social status and a partner who was the antithesis of her abusive first husband. For Cole, it bought a respectable heterosexual front. They were genuinely devoted to each other in their own way and remained married from 1919 until her death in 1954. Linda believed that classical music might be a more prestigious outlet than Broadway for her husband’s talents, and she used her connections to find him suitable teachers, but was unsuccessful. Cole enrolled at the Schola Cantorum in Paris where he studied orchestration and counterpoint with Vincent d’Indy.
The Porters lived the luxurious life of American expatriates in Paris after the war. In 1923, Cole came into an inheritance from the Richest Man in Indiana, and they began living in rented palaces in Venice. In the midst of this extravagant lifestyle, he continued to write songs with encouragement from his wife.
Cole’s songs were interpolated into various revue shows in America and England. He also composed a short ballet, “Within the Quota,” satirically depicting the adventures of an immigrant to America who becomes a film star. Written for the Swedish Ballet, it lasted 15 minutes, was orchestrated by Charles Koechlin, and shared the same opening night as Darius Milhaud’s “The Creation of the World.” It was one of the earliest symphonic jazz-based compositions, predating Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” by four months.
Now settled in New York, Cole had less success with his work on “Greenwich Village Follies.” He wrote most of the original score, but his songs were gradually dropped during the Broadway run, and by the time of the post-Broadway tour in 1925, all his numbers had been deleted. Frustrated by the public response to his work, he nearly gave up song writing as a career, although he continued to compose songs for friends and perform at private parties.
In 1928, he reintroduced himself to Broadway with the musical “Paris,” which became his first hit. This was supposed to have a been a Rodgers & Hart effort, but the guys were unavailable, so Cole got the job.
It features a string of suggestive and funny comparisons, preposterous pairings and double entendres, dropping famous names and events, and drawing from both highbrow and popular culture. Cole was an admirer of Gilbert & Sullivan, whose shows featured similar comic list songs.
The 1920s saw a sexual revolution that stood until the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s shattered everything in its path. The phrase “Let’s do it” was of course a euphemism for sex. This was a pioneering song to declare openly that sex was fun.
The song has lent itself over the years to the regular addition of topical lines. In 1955 the lines “Even Liberace, we assume, does it,” was added, although few at the time knew just what and whom Liberace was doing. Noel Coward, in his performances, even rewrote the song entirely.
This 1929 recording still utilizes a tuba instead of a string bass for the bass line even though electric recording had been introduced five years earlier. That’s Paul Whiteman’s band backing him up. In those days, Bing was working for Whiteman along with Bix Beiderbecke and others who would become jazz legends. In 1929 Bing was not yet America’s favorite crooner; he was still a badass, spending most of his evenings getting roaring drunk with Bix and the boys.
Oh holy carp....now I have fallen into “breedism”....the depths of my depravity know no bounds! Lynn-Dah, please understand I mean’t no disrepect. I’m just ill bred. *snicker*
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(One of the most egregious examples of breedism:)
How many dogs does it take to change a light bulb?
Border Collie: Just one. Then I’ll replace any wiring that’s not up to code.
Rottweiler: Make me!
Lab: Oh, me, me! Pleeease let me change the light bulb! Can I? Huh? Huh?
Dachshund: You know I can’t reach that stupid lamp!
Malamute: Let the Border Collie do it. You can feed me while he’s busy.
Jack Russell Terrier: I’ll just pop it in while I’m bouncing off the walls.
Greyhound: It isn’t moving. Who cares?
Cocker Spaniel: Why change it? I can still pee on the carpet in the dark.
Mastiff: Screw it yourself! I’m not afraid of the dark…
Doberman: While it’s out, I’ll just take a nap on the couch.
Boxer: Who needs light? I can still play with my squeaky toys in the dark.
Pointer: I see it, there it is, there it is, right there!
Chihuahua: Yo quiero Taco Bulb?
Australian Shepherd: First, I’ll put all the light bulbs in a little circle…
Old English Sheep dog: Light bulb? That thing I just ate was a light bulb?
Basset Hound: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
Westie: Dogs do not change light bulbs — people change light bulbs. I am not one of THEM so the question is, how long before I can expect my light again?
Poodle: I’ll just blow in the Border Collie’s ear and he’ll do it. By the time he finishes rewiring the house, my nails will be dry.
Golden Retriever: The sun is shining, the day is young, we’ve got our whole lives ahead of us, and you’re inside worrying about a stupid burned-out bulb?
Oh Ms Feathers...if you've walked around your living room you are most likely more well traveled than me. :)
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