Some scams appeal to veterans' sense of loyalty and patriotism by employing affinity marketing – using military and US related paraphernalia.
Seen in this light, it's clear that all the paraphernalia we regard as the sign and substance of government may in fact merely constitute what a dynamicist would think of as a "local maximum".
My living room has got cowboy paraphernalia all over it.
The old walled towns are densely packed with medieval churches, Arabic forts, watchtowers, palaces, bodegas, tobacconists, scooters, bars full of bullfighting paraphernalia, kids on pink bicycles, and people eating fish at rickety tables that block the traffic.
We spent ages beforehand minimising the amount of damage we'd make – abandoning the pram in favour of a baby carrier, cramming all the assembled going-out paraphernalia into tiny satchels, deliberately picking a quiet train, and finding the most obscured seats in case he needed to breastfeed – and hoped against hope that he wouldn't cry.
The shelves are filled with paraphernalia such as pipes and bongs used for smoking cannabis, alongside the scales and "stench-proof" plastic bags popular with dealers.
The introduction of a similar law in Ireland in 2010 led to the disappearance of nearly 100 high street 'head shops' selling legal highs and drug-related paraphernalia.
Four people in their 20s are busy at a table, iced coffees in jam jars and technical paraphernalia spread out before them.
This may explain why most innovation in the industry involves changes in packaging and marketing, producing all that fussy paraphernalia, rather than changing what is in the bottle.Another implication, says Dr Roberts, is that it is probably best that people choose perfumes for themselves rather than for someone else unless they happen to know what the recipient likes.
Devolving these functions, in which Tory rule has been most irksome to the Scots, to an Edinburgh assembly should do little to disturb Britain's internal common market in goods and services.There is also little evidence that the Scots want to go on to acquire such things as armed forces, embassies, a currency or any of the other paraphernalia of full independence.
Men can be sold "deodorant" and possibly "aftershave", but the idea of all those dinky little bottles with their fussy paraphernalia is too much for the sensitive male ego.
