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14/01/2012 by Siddiqui Fayesal
Not long ago there was this crispy news article about madam Mayawati "ji" from the north (my native, btw) that she sent her private jet to Mumbai from Delhi to fetch her preferred brand of sandals. This was reported by Wiki Leaks in September recently. Although I have dire reservations about the sanctity of Wiki Leaks' so called "Leaks" and I am also not very sure whether to believe this incidence or not. Knowing her she probably did, but judging a priori let it be beneath that gray proverbial cloud where she's given the benefit of doubt. Though even when left at that, and coupled with our previous experiences drawn from the don't-give-a-damn attitude of our beloved politicians, we surely know that IF it were true we shouldn't be alarmed.
Because they can! And, because we let them walk away!
Mayawati (allegedly) spent Rs. 685 Crores on the 33 acre plot! The park is to "honour" those Dalits who cannot visit Lucknow.
This memorial is for so many Dalits who now live in the capital and also for the people of Western UP who can't visit Lucknow.
While doing the usual politician thing she said that the Congress has failed to pay tribute to Dalit icons like Ambedkar or Kanshi Ram and that "Now we have given them that honour."
She conveniently forgets to answer the Hows and the Whys of the situation while remaining aloof and ignoring outright the meaningless allocation of 18 Crores for fighting the menace of Japanese Encephalitis. And then she says that she has used only 1% of the UP budget for her "dream" project. I remember what Rohington Mistry had to say about Statistics when he wrote a cracker of an article directed at the Mumbai University's then Vice Chancellor.
He is, we are told, a PhD in statistics – a useful subject for dealing with permutations, combinations and probabilities but silent on the matter of moral responsibility.
The same can be said about such statistics shoved on to our faces by these politicians. They take us to be a large mass of crap and trash! The sorry part is that we let them crap over us. We crib and crib and crib some more… but that is where we stop. No initiative. Zilch. Nothing. Just empty space. Not to be unfair by singling out ONE politician we can add umpteen to our list. There is Advani who tried very very hard to get to the hot seat by throwing the Hindutva card to the population. He realised (too late) that people are NOT soooo dumb after all. Modi will meet his downfall. His "industrial outlook" and "vision" will fall short. I swear it will. I'd rather NOT have good roads and bridges if they are meant as an eye wash to cover up the blood shed! There is Lalu who thought his idiosyncratic (read lunatic) behaviour will be tolerated for ever. Nitish Kumar, without pomp and band bajaas, is doing a much much better job than him.
Anyways, what makes us such pitiable that we are mentally and intellectually raped every few years? How come we stand up for another gang bang as soon as one of the "rapist" is done with us? Firangis come here and are in awe of the "bounce backiability" of Mumbaikars. Little do they realise that they're thawing the vengeance that creeps within us! Little do they know that this is not something to be proud of. It is embarrassing to be able to keep a straight face when you know that you're just about to be screwed. People say it takes a lot of guts to board the local trains after the blasts. Yes, it does. Now really! Do we HAVE another option? Yeah yeah we can talk in our holier than thou monotones and say that we can stage a black armband march or a flash mob. Hello, it does NOT work! It's a step in the right direction, yes. But beyond that it's nothing! Very rarely does something constructive come out from just a flash mob.
What we, as the future generation, lack is called "Thairao" in Urdu. I don't really know how to explain it in plain English but it boils down to patience. We do not have the patience to look, and walk all the way, to the end of any situation. We get bugged. We get tired. We get impatient. We just fake a belief that we did what we could and now we cannot do anything further. And even after that initiative we took things do not go right we blame the victim. They let those people run over themselves, we say. They are never going to learn, we say! They are not bothered, we say!
Till the time you don't step into the shoes of an employee who has to work 11 hours every day to earn 8 grands a month we are in no position to say that these people don't do anything. That these people let them walk over them. It is the duty of us privileged folks to do it FOR them! If they come out for the march and andolan their wives will go hungry; their kids will be kicked out of school; their job will no more be a given. Do we expect a man with a hungry kid at home to be bothered more about the immediate hunger of his child or his well being in the long run? Arre yaar agar mar gaya toh kaahe ka well being???
I have decided that from now, this very minute I am going to do a tiny act of selfless service. Everyday! I'll do something that is small, very small, but i will see to it that I go along with it to the end! A beggar on the street? No money. I will give him/her food! A wrapper in a garden? No swearing. I will pick it up and chuck it in the bin!
Morons making noise? No sleepless night. I will call the nearest police station and make sure they shut up. At least try to. If I have the audacity to ride without my helmet I better be up to paying the fine if I'm caught! Own up to MY faults. I crib about corruption and readily pay a bribe if I'm caught. Bloody hell!
I hope I stick to this. A small act. Everyday! Allah has given me so much. I should learn not to be an asshole! I've probably spent the last 24 years cribbing. I hope I stop. If not I'm just as much to blamed for the dirt and squalor around my area than the esteemed corporator!
Siddiqui F.
13 thoughts on "Gimmicks and Nau-Tanki!!!"
Hmm.. That gives me an idea for a flash mob… Kidding! On a more serious note… What are you doing as a CA..?
Hmm… Great one,
I know u hate modi, but I like him… regarding his past no one knows the real truth, so please without knowing exact truth, I don't think one should make opinion about any one or comment on it, I like him because of work he has done in Gujarat, as far as controversial things about him, I avoid commenting or making an opinion as nor do I nor do anyone else I know the exact truth.
If I say you killed someone, their will few who belive me and start hating you, spread the bad words about you and when people start listening it very often they think its true, but what is excat truth, no one know its just their thoughts which were build by someone and hammered so many times that they believe it, its only you who know what is right…
Just give a thought to above para with a clear mind 🙂
That's what I tried to tell you long back, we pick up small-small things scattered around and come to our own conclusion (referring to bigger picture, if you remember we had a little discussion on that), no doubt politics is a bad game of bad people.
I just trying to say don't pull down a bad person (if you think he is) if he is doing little good along with few bad stuff unless you yourself wan take his place. At least he is doing little good rather than no good and that little good at his level is a big thing, as far as communities are concerned I have little to argue and frankly speaking I rather stay away from discussing such stuff.
Yes saying bad about his work, will definitely contribute to improving his work but please don't relate this to communalism that just create communal hate, you have a better way to say same thing, further commenting on someone's persona until you don't know him, just based on few articles and videos, which even you believe may be true may be not, nothing is reliable anything can be framed.. it's politics my friend… look at the larger picture look at society growth rather than communal growth
This is not all but just few words to say
If I ever make a political party I would defiantly want you to be my speaker.
You go on to extreme of everything I said, I agree with you in some way, whatever you wrote above.
My only point was not to make bad opinion about anyone may it be Modi or someone else until its proved or you have enough facts about that (I know you can write paragraphs on "enough facts", it's just to say until its proved considering all circumstances)
Am not saying not to crib about what happening in our front of our eyes in open, you will see many politicians saying rubbish on your face as they being extremist taking you away from main topic, that's what you do when you have extreme look on something
As far communal I was pointing to your line "Ask about it to the muslims and the under BPL populations living a ghetto life" it's just not Muslims or undefined BPL population people from every society suffer due to political gimmick whether be Hindu, Muslim or any other religion or be it Rich or poor, I just suggesting to avoid mentioning any particular religion.
You argued on point to point basis on what I wrote, this may be one way of dealing with it, I wrote all that keeping in mind macro level not on micro level (I don't want details discussion on macro and micro, just try to understand what I mean)
And when talking about someone unless you know him personally, I said "commenting on someone's persona until you don't know him" knowing someone doesn't mean you need to know him personally, I was trying to say that when you comment on someone you should keep in mind FACTS about that person (and by FACTS I mean proven and well known FACTS not controversial)
It may not be answer to all rather I am not trying to answer anything just putting up few points to think about
After writing this much I feel even I should start writing… 😀
My friend there's a hell lot of a difference between Believable facts and Proven Facts – Give a thought to it (back of the mind few old hind movies dramas)
In the past you may be right about your theories (its not the case always) about any event based on few believable facts.
My point in this argument is just that one should not put forth his theories based on a few believable facts (not proven facts) in such a way that it shows that his theories are true without any disclaimer.
Your theories may be true, may not be true, but when you put forth such thing please think about how it will be perceived by another person and its implication (this is in a very general sense). Chances of you being wrong may be very minimal but if they are wrong, and this is proven after few years, the person who believed you will have your thoughts all those years until it's proven otherwise.
Last thing i would say is that before saying anything negative about anyone or anything you should be careful as negative thoughts multiplyat twice the speed of positive thoughts.
Jayesh Rawal
Hey this discussion is never ending… but I am happy with the discussion we had last night, it's difficult to get the message from above discussion which I wanted to convey, but I think you got it last night what exactly was the issue I wanted to raise… I agree this is almost impossible to get on to any consensus so will leave it on you to think from my prospective…
Happy Ending


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What the G2210t lacks in ergonomic and connectivity features it makes up for with power saving savvy. In addition to the light sensorwhich detects ambient light and adjusts the screen's brightness accordinglythere's a Dynamic Dimming feature which decreases the brightness level when the current screen image is predominantly white or contains lots of brightly lit areas. This comes in handy when working with documents on a white background, or when viewing very bright Web pages. But the dimming feature takes a little getting used to as it changes brightness levels on the fly and can be a bit distracting.
There are three Energy Modes to choose from: Energy Smart Plus, Energy Smart, and Standard. The Energy Smart Plus mode is the most efficient as it doesn't allow the panel's brightness level to rise above 160 nits (maximum brightness is 250 nits), and it automatically enables the ambient light sensor function and the Dynamic Dimming feature. With this mode selected, the monitor drew around 10 watts while viewing the PCMag.com homepage (as measured by the Kill-A-Watt meter), as opposed to 20 watts while operating in standard mode (with all settings at their factory defaults). Similarly, the Energy Smart mode caps the brightness at 180 nits and enables the light sensor, but dynamic dimming is disabled. The monitor drew an average of 12 watts of power in this mode. Even with the brightness capped at 160 nits I thought the panel was quite bright and more than adequately lit for Web surfing and general office use, but you may want to switch over to standard mode to brighten up the picture while watching movies.
The G2210t turned in mixed results on the DisplayMate (www.displaymate.com) suite of diagnostic tests. The lightest shades of gray were compressed at the high end of the scale, resulting in some loss of highlight detail on my test photo. The panel also had trouble displaying the two darkest shades of gray, which appeared black. Still, overall image quality was quite good. Primary colors appeared bold and ramped evenly from dark to light on the 256 Intensity Level Color Ramp test, and the panel did a great job of displaying small text; Arial fonts set to 5.3 points were crisp and well defined. Viewing angles were as advertised (170-degrees horizontal, 160-degrees vertical). With a pixel response of 5 milliseconds pixel response rate (black-to-white), the G2210t did a good job of handling motion on my 3D gaming and DVD video tests. Fast action sequences during a round of Far Cry 2 played smoothly and were artifact-free. The BBC's "Planet Earth" DVD looked magnificent on the widescreen, too. Colors were sharp and the panel showed no signs of ghosting or blurring.
For a little more than $200, the Dell G2210t is a great choice for businesses and consumers alike. Its excellent power saving features and environment friendly design make it easy to overlook its grayscale performance and lack of ergonomic and connectivity features. If you absolutely must have a high degree of adjustability and a few more connections, consider the GreenTech approved HP LP2275w, but be prepared to spend a bit more.
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Periodontal Disease
Good oral health starts with a good brushing and flossing regimen, yet 20% of Americans admit that they never floss and nearly one out of four people have skipped brushing their teeth two days in a row or more. With these high levels of dental neglect, it's no wonder that periodontal disease is on the rise. Fortunately, if caught early, gum disease can be entirely reversed. We here at Rowan Family Dentistry know how to both quickly spot the first signs of gum disease and also how to thoroughly treat it, giving you back your healthy and beautiful smile that you can be proud of.
What is Periodontal Disease?
Periodontal disease, also known as gum disease, is an infection in the teeth and gums that arises from poor oral health. When tartar builds up along the gumline, the bacteria in it start to attack the soft tissue in your mouth, making them vulnerable to infection. This can lead to a host of complications, including bleeding when you brush and floss, swollen and puffy gingival tissue, receding gums, and even tooth loss.
When periodontal disease is still in its early stages, it is called gingivitis. Gingivitis is diagnosed by inflammation of your gum tissue and is often painless, making it all the more difficult to catch on your own. That's why regular dental appointments are so vital, giving you a chance to stop this subtle but dangerous disease in its tracks before it can progress and become worse.
If your gum disease advances, it becomes a condition known as periodontitis, which can be quite harmful. That means the disease has progressed to your bone tissue, increasing your risk of complications. It is diagnosed by the presence of pockets between your tooth roots and your gumline. Not only can you develop an infection and abscess in your mouth, but periodontitis is also associated with other conditions such as heart attack, stroke, cancer, and even death.
Fortunately, gum disease does not automatically mean that you are going to lose your teeth or your life. If spotted early, you can cure it on your own at home with a good oral health routine in place. This includes brushing your teeth twice a day, using a soft-bristled brush, for two minutes per session. You also need to floss at least once a day.
Floss after you brush your teeth to avoid pushing bacteria further up under your gums, using an 18-inch length of floss and working a fresh segment of gloss all the way over your tooth and under your gums. Antibacterial mouthwash can also be beneficial, but please be aware that it is no replacement for good brushing and flossing.
Treatment for advanced periodontal disease does require intervention from us, as it does not go away on its own. We may advise a procedure known as scaling and root planing or, if the disease has progressed severely already, we may have to perform a surgery on the affected teeth, such as a gum graft or root canal.
If you suspect that you may be suffering from periodontal disease, or if it has been longer than six months since your last dental appointment, please call our office here at Rowan Family Dentistry at (662) 598-0155 right away to schedule an appointment for a dental checkup and cleaning and, if necessary, treatment for periodontal disease.
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Once again, the political strongman, the dictator is vogue. But it's not like the old days, you can't just take the throne by the edge of a knife – here's how you do it.
Today, of course, is about voting. And voting, at the moment, everywhere in the world, is about political strongmen. From the generalissimo in the US to his Rear Admirals in Indonesia, Brazil, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Turkey, Japan, the Philippines and other places, the dictator is back with a vengeance. According to a poll of the Lowy Institute which I've quoted here before, more than half of young people prefer "other kinds of government" over democracy. And other age groups must like them too, because country after country is falling for the lure of the autocrat. So I thought it was time, for all the other would-be despots out there, to help them out with a how-to, a simple guide to totalitarianism.
Ask Joseph Goebbels: it all starts with some good old-fashioned promotion. Preferably part misinformation, part marketing, part fear-mongering. This is why a good dictator needs to be a great salesman. He (women are not as good at it) should have the gift of the gab. Mind you, that doesn't mean that he has to be a talented speaker. On the contrary: simple words, often repeated, are best. They cater for the lowest common denominator and that is where the build-up of numbers always starts. Jokes are good too, but never self-deprecating. And they can't be too complicated and have to be repeated often. Everything, really, has to be repeated often. Repeated often, so followers, not always the sharpest tools in the shed, can remember and tell others. Then, the speaker has to be fluent at body-language: wagging fingers, jutting out the chin, smirking, tugging the cuffs, bruising people's hands while shaking them, displaying gestures of power: especially the ring sign. You also have to have big signatures. BIG signatures. In fact, everything has to be big, bigger, biggest. You need to repeat that often too: I am the biggest, the best, the greatest. And you, because you believe in me, can warm yourself in my glow.
Choose your enemies
Far more important than having a program is having enemies. We know that from Australian experience. Tony Abbott won the elections on the back of saying no. We didn't know what he was saying yes to, but we didn't care. No felt like a powerful word, a word of action, a strong word. No, obviously, needs things to be against. And history tells us that people, groups of people, work best. Over time, there have been favourites, popular picks: Jews, the media, the "elite", migrants, people of colour in general, women and Indigenous groups. Unfortunately for would-be dictators, most countries have already either killed or kaltgestellt (as Goebbels called it) their Aboriginal people, so those are no longer an option. But there will always be migrants, who you can accuse of criminality, bringing in illnesses, fucking like rabbits and abusing your welfare system. So those are a good choice.
The media is lovely too, because they can't win. If they write the facts, you accuse them of bias. If they don't, you accuse them of bias. Best of all are female journalists, who you can catch when they wear tight skirts, or don't wear tight skirts. Or have their periods. Or don't. Obviously, all women are a good target. Not only because men will love you for it, but whole masses of women do too. Apparently, American women admire Trump's "strength, family mindedness and fun", which says a lot about the education system in the City upon a Hill, but still, if it works, it works. And schooling is a bad idea anyway. That leads to "elites", people who think. Before you know it, they will start asking questions. Don't want that.
In order to become a good dictator, language is important. First of all, there can be no greys in what you say. Statements have to be either white or black, and nothing in between. You have to promise things, but don't be specific. Say what you want (or preferably what you don't want), but not when you are going to do something, or how, or how much it is going to cost. Those are details and you are a man of the big picture. So are your followers. You need to remember that they only care about what sounds good, not what actually happens. Although, of course, you need to do something once in a while, but we will come to that in a minute. Whenever you speak, you have to exude confidence.
"Leave it with me," your words need to convey. "Don't worry your pretty little head about any of it. Just go to sleep and let me fix things." If you do this well, they will, in fact, trust you and go off to the Land of Nod. Which is when you can do whatever you want to do. Starting with things that profit you, obviously. By the way, lying is good too. The more, the better. After a while, they will get used to it, especially if you show them that you don't really care about whether something is real or not. This way you can create your own universe, where lies are just facts that haven't been "facted" yet. A new word I just thought up. You can do that too. Shakespeare did it, and look what happened to him.
Always a favourite with the punters is to tell them how important they are, and that they live in the best country in the world. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi! It would be my advice to start slowly. Give the reasons why your nation is the best and others are second-rate. Then say that the others are the cause of your country tanking in the top-100. Promise you will "make <insert-country-here> GREAT again". Accompany that with flag waving, then with uniforms and violence. If you've got them, sending troops to the border looks good too. Any border, it doesn't matter if it is a swamp. It is the optics, as they say in politics. It needs to look impressive, that's all. Obviously, important within patriotism is the cult of the leader, and that will be you. Oh, sorry: YOU. Your ego has to be at the centre, and all adoration should go to you. That is now mandatory. Whoever refuses will be picked up and shot. Or put in a camp and forced to print t-shirts with your face on it.
Once you've got the public where you want them, you have to make sure they are afraid all the time. It is important to fabricate a crisis every day, so they never have an opportunity to think. You need to orchestrate a life for them where they go to work, take care of their children and feel threatened 24/7. Anxiety is good, because it leads to depression, and depression leads to people under their doonas and on medication. And while they do that, you've got free rein. Fearful people are also looking for somebody to be a good father and take on their worry and dread. That, of course, will be you. Then you can promise them that you will solve all of their problems, as long as they give all power to you. When they do – and if you have followed my instructions to the letter, they will – you can get rid of this ridiculous election caper and the democracy attached to it. Job well done, you. YOU. And you, voters of the world. Congratulations!


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This road trip to moon will not end
through the shards of shattered,
small prints of sleep.
A ravaged nest lived behind tomorrow
in necklace of past apologies.
Hanging by fan was ending of today.
We talked of dirty nights and bright glasses
in the strange land of gobblers. The
greed was the keyward.
I was not ready to comb the promises.
Power of poverty and deprivation
has brought together the broken hearts.
Let's kill the syllables after inferno
dousing the truth of life. Who knows
when we will meet in darkness.
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Each week, Richard Brody picks a classic film, a modern film, an independent film, a foreign film, and a documentary for online viewing.
"Daisy Miller"
Peter Bogdanovich films Henry James's novella "Daisy Miller" with an acerbic humor that matches the horror of manners on which the drama runs. The 1974 movie stars Cybill Shepherd as the young American in Europe, whose free-spiritedness adapts easily to the romantic strains of European society and whose relationship with the expatriate American Frederick Winterbourne (Barry Brown) is spoiled by her uninhibited ways. It's a singular display of directorial style. Bogdanovich replicates the sinuous psychological intricacies of James's sentences in the filigreed opulence of the décor and the graceful and florid long takes that track Shepherd through a performance of exquisitely capricious and spontaneous choreography—the link between Katharine Hepburn and Greta Gerwig. The light and the settings are reminiscent of paintings by Renoir, even when the narrow refinement of behavior and the rigidity of morals lead to comedic absurdities that have no place in Impressionism but seem right at home in the American nineteen-seventies. Brown (who committed suicide in 1978, at the age of twenty-seven) gives a performance of a deft, coruscating irony; his style is the closest forerunner to that of Jason Schwartzman.
Stream "Daisy Miller" on Amazon, Google Play, and other services.
It's a singular act of directorial chutzpah to adapt Goethe's teeming page drama "Faust" into a movie—a silent movie, no less—but the German director F. W. Murnau, the most technically adept and grandly visionary filmmaker of the silent era, pulls it off on a colossal scale in this 1926 tour de force. (This was his last German film; he immigrated to Hollywood later that year.) Like Goethe's poem, Murnau's film embraces the great beyond, opening with a wager between God and the Devil. The debonair Swedish actor Gösta Ekman plays the tormented old scholar who trades his soul to Mephisto (the torrentially expressive yet subtle Emil Jannings) for the restoration of his youth. Murnau captures the supernatural effects—the bat-like Devil casting his cape over a village and smoking it with the plague, the science-fiction-like light rings of Faust's imprecations, his fiery rejuvenation, the Wagnerian flight over mountains—with a simple yet spectacular power. He looks at Faust's romance with Gretchen (Camilla Horn) with an agonized tenderness, and at Mephisto's courtship of the concupiscent Marthe (Yvette Guilbert) with rib-shaking ribaldry. The dramatic power Gretchen's cruel punishment reaches a tragic pitch that's among the most exalted in the history of cinema—then and now.
Stream "Faust" on Amazon and Kanopy.
"Effi Briest"
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1974 drama "Effi Briest" is an adaptation of the 1895 novel by Theodor Fontane, which is more or less the German "Madame Bovary." It's the story of a young woman of a romantic temperament (played by Hanna Schygulla) who, at age seventeen, marries a prosperous but soberly earnest government official (Wolfgang Schenck) and soon begins an affair with a flashy, dashing officer (Ulli Lommel), resulting in a wide spectrum of intimate tragedies. But Fassbinder's bold intentions are suggested in the movie's actual German title, "Fontane Effi Briest": though the movie is a straightforward dramatization of scenes from the novel, complete with meticulous costumes and elaborate period settings, he puts the chilled and precise performances in a virtual cinematic proscenium, filled with reflections and scrims, that have the effect of turning the dramatization into a series of quotations and transforming the immediate emotional affect into a mode of analysis. True to Fassbinder's career-long theme, it's a study of power—in particular, the oppressive and insidiously destructive power of norms and mores on the soul and life of an intelligent, capable, independent-minded woman who's deprived of any practical independence.
Stream "Effi Briest" on the Criterion Channel at FilmStruck and Kanopy.
"Hermia & Helena"
The young Argentinian director Matías Piñeiro has begun a career of transforming or refracting Shakespeare's plays into the lives of young, current-day artists. In his 2016 comedic drama, "Hermia & Helena," the play in question is "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and the settings are both Buenos Aires and New York. The center of the action is a so-called institute in an apartment in Chinatown, where two young Argentinian women trade places. Carmen (María Villar), a writer, is heading back to Buenos Aires—and separating from the institute's manager, Lukas (Keith Poulson), who is romantically interested in her. The institute's new fellow is Carmen's friend Camila (Agustina Muñoz), who is there to translate "A Midsummer Night's Dream" into Spanish and also hopes to reconnect with a former lover, a filmmaker (played by the filmmaker Dustin Guy Defa—there's a film-within-a-film that's a work of tender comedic ingenuity). There's also the prospect of a reunion with a long-lost family member (played by the filmmaker Dan Sallitt, in a character turn that's among the most justly celebrated in recent independent cinema); there are bold leaps back and forth in time, clever pivots on peculiar totem objects, and, above all, the sense of discoveries and abandonments, mysteries and wonders, that evoke the exquisitely tender exaltation of Shakespearean whimsy.
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A plain filming of a play onstage is, in effect, a literary documentary, but Shirley Clarke's twenty-minute video "Tongues," from 1982, is that and more. She videotapes the actor Joseph Chaikin performing a text by Sam Shepard that was expressly written for their collaboration, and includes the live percussion accompaniment by Skip LaPlante that Shepard planned. But Clarke, who expanded the notion of performance documentaries with her dance-centered films of the nineteen-fifties and the 1967 feature "Portrait of Jason," here relies on the pliability of the video image to transform Chaikin's performance by means of simple but highly expressive effects. The text is a polyphony of seemingly overheard voices, running from the trivial to the cosmic, the domestic to the momentous, which Shepard endows with incantatory repetitions and Chaikin distinguishes with a variety of tones and accents. Clarke inflects the text with rhythmic variations on the recorded image: stretchings and flattenings on the beat of Chaiken's delivery, striations, superimpositions, multiplications, tints, and other manipulations that create a kind of visual counterpoint to the recitation and the percussion accompaniment, turning a basic one-man show into an intimate extravaganza.
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- Striae distensae (SD) Striae distensae is a common form of dermal scarring that appear on the skin and is seen in all skin types, consisting of usually multiple, symmetric, well-defined atrophic lesions following the lines of tension (Langer lines).
- Initially appear as erythematous or violaceous elevated lines (striae rubra) and then fade to a wrinkled, hypopigmented, atrophic scar overtime (striae alba) in lighter skinned individuals. These are termed striae nigrae and striae cerulean respectively in darker skin due to increased melanization (1).
- System(s) affected: skin
- Synonym(s): stretch marks
Pediatric Considerations
During puberty, SD appear in areas that rapidly increase in size.
Pregnancy Considerations
Common finding on the abdomen, breast, and thighs of pregnant women, especially during the 3rd trimester—called striae gravidarum
Incidence range of 43–88% for women during pregnancy (1)
- Adult nonpregnant female: 35%
- Adult males: 11%
- Adolescent females: 72–77%
- Adolescent males: 6–86%
Etiology and Pathophysiology
- Specific etiology of SD is unknown.
- Three main theories are proposed as likely contributing to SD formation: mechanical stretching, hormonal changes, and innate structural disturbance of the skin (1,2).
- Mechanical stretching theorized to cause rupture of connective tissue framework
- Hormonal alterations in levels of adrenocorticotropic hormones, cortisol, and relaxin are most related to development of SD (1).
- Adrenocorticotropic hormones and cortisol are thought to promote fibroblast activity causing destruction and alterations of collagen and elastin fibers (1).
- Women who develop SD during pregnancy were found to have increased estrogen and androgen receptors in their skin and had lower measured serum relaxin levels than control groups who did not develop SD (1).
- Innate structural defects whether genetic or transient cause disruptions in the elastic fiber integrity of the skin. Generally, conditions with decreased relaxin and collagen content as well as reduced expression of procollagen and fibronectin genes are associated with higher prevalence of SD (1).
- In striae rubra, inflammatory changes predominate; dermal alterations visible on transmission electron microscopy include mast cell degranulation and macrophage activation leading to elastolysis in the mid-dermis (1).
- In striae alba, histologic findings include epidermal atrophy; thin, eosinophilic collagen bundles arranged horizontally, which is parallel to surface of the skin as is seen in other scar formation (1).
- Skin samples from SD can have marked reduction in visible elastin content compared to adjacent normal dermis as well as decrease in fibrillin content (1).
- This reorganization of fibrillin and elastin after a possible insult to the skin is thought to play a critical role in pathogenesis of SD (1).
Genetic predisposition is noted with positive monozygotic twin studies and multiple genetic connective tissue disorders.
Risk Factors
- Pregnancy, specifically young maternal age, large birth weight, later gestational age, increased weight gain during pregnancy, and polyhydramnios
- Positive family history
Commonly Associated Conditions
- Connective tissue disorders: Marfan syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, mitral valve prolapse, and pelvic prolapse (2)
- Immunosuppression states: HIV, TB, and typhoid
- Other medical conditions: Cushing syndrome, rheumatic fever, anorexia nervosa, chronic liver disease, obesity
- Surgery: breast augmentation, tissue-expanded skin, organ transplantation (immunosuppressed state), and cardiac surgery
- Medications: systemic and topical corticosteroids, HIV therapy, chemotherapy, TB therapy, contraceptives, and neuroleptics
- Other: pregnancy, puberty, and weight training
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SANAA, The Saudi authorities worked tirelessly to strengthen dictatorships in the wake of the Arab Spring. Saudi Arabia intervened militarily to crush the uprising in Bahrain, and provided billions to shore up the monarchies in Morocco, Jordan and Oman.
There is a manmade famine in Yemen, even if it has not been officially acknowledged. The man who made it is Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, and there is strong prima facie evidence that he should be charged with causing starvation in an international court. Along with the comparably culpable Mohamed bin Zayed, crown prince of the United Arab Emirates, Bin Salman launched a war against Yemenis in Yemen in 2015.
Mass starvation may not have been Bin Salman's initial intent, but it soon became evident that this would be the outcome. He nonetheless persisted in waging war using methods that had the predictable effect of depriving millions of people of food, clean water, medicine and other basic necessities.
Saudi Arabia's king, Salman, who came to power in 2015 at the age of 79, had long harbored plans to shake up the status quo of the al-Sauds' absolute monarchy. As the internal enforcer of family order during his 48 years as governor of Riyadh � which included running a private jail for misbehaving princes � Salman had become disillusioned with a system that relied on consensus among an ageing set of royals.
They seemed interested in little more than amassing power and wealth as the country remained almost entirely dependent on oil exports and stubbornly resistant to reform. As he aged, however, Salman recognized that he needed a younger man to implement his plans. He looked to his favorite son, Mohammed, to act as his avatar and eventual successor.
Some worry that the young prince in a hurry is moving too fast, overstretching himself and not being realistic about the prospects for success of many of his initiatives. Saudi, Yemeni and western officials point to Saudi Arabia's role in the Yemen war as a cautionary tale.
The kingdom launched a massive series of airstrikes in Yemen and announced the formation of an international coalition comprised largely of Arab countries. Saudi officials predicted a quick war of a few weeks or months at most. In March 2019 Saudi involvement in the conflict entered its fourth year, with no end in sight.
In the first weeks of a war, says Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation and an expert on peace processes. Ordinarily, the longer a conflict lasts, the more likely it is that it will be ripe for peace. On paper Yemen's war � which has lasted years, eviscerated the Yemeni economy, killed tens of thousands, led to mass outbreaks of cholera.
There has also been a systematic targeting of agricultural and fishing infrastructure � as well as medical facilities, water infrastructure and economic infrastructure (including civilian businesses that provide essential employment) � by aerial bombardment, as documented in part by the Yemen Data Project.
Military offensives in and near Hodeidah � the main port for the northern part of Yemen, through which most of Yemen's food, fuel and aid flow � have had an especially debilitating impact.
Taken together, over more than four years, these actions amount to the use of starvation as a method of warfare, which is prohibited by the Geneva conventions, the Rome statute of the international criminal court, and UN security council resolution 2417 on armed conflict and hunger, which was unanimously adopted in May.
Bin Salman could claim that the suffering of the Yemenis doesn't meet the necessary threshold of severity, because the UN hasn't declared famine in Yemen (although the UN's assessments show that millions of Yemenis have been suffering severe food insecurity for several years, and this is enough to kill in large numbers).
But with the collapse in salaried employment, millions of Yemenis are starving because they can't afford to buy food. That qualifies as famine, the Saudi leader would have known that Yemen was already vulnerable to food crisis, this makes his actions even more culpable. As for Saudi's humanitarian response, it's a small down payment for the billions of dollars in reparations for which the perpetrators of the famine would be liable if found guilty.
At the outset of the war, it might have been reasonable to hope that pressure would force the Houthis to submit. Since it takes months to starve people, a brief period of hardship would not have involved a level of suffering disproportionate to the military objective.
But, within months of the launch of the war, humanitarian agencies were warning of crisis, and there were no indications of Houthi surrender. By persisting with this method of war, Bin Salman knew for sure that thousands of Yemeni children would die from hunger and disease.
He killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has put the spotlight on Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, or MBS.
Since he outmaneuvered his rivals to become Saudi Arabia's de-facto leader in 2015, the 33-year-old has received favorable coverage in international media, with a multitude of reports focused on his economic and social reforms in the conservative kingdom.
However, the Khashoggi case has shifted the focus towards the darker side of Salman's record, one that includes the imprisonment of critics and human rights activists, thousands of civilian deaths in Yemen and a rapid rise of the number of executions since his ascent to power.
To date, no international court has prosecuted a case of starvation and killing crimes. Bin Salman would be an appropriate first accused.
Source: Yemen News Agency


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There will be three Council meetings per year and at least one special event for the group. Participation on a subcommittee will require three or four additional meeting time commitments per year.
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Auer deference, courts deferring to agencies' reasonable interpretations of their ambiguous regulations, is alive following the Supreme Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie. But, in the opinion of a few Justices, it is only on life support.
The State and Local Legal Center (SLLC) filed an amicus brief in this case asking the Supreme Court to overturn Auer v. Robbins (1997). In that case the Supreme Court reaffirmed its holding in Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. (1945), that courts must defer to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations.
As discussed in the SLLC amicus brief, states and local governments object to Auer deference because it gives agencies a lot of power. They both write regulations and may interpret them as they like without significant court scrutiny. Agencies aren't required to receive notice-and-comment related to their interpretations of regulations. New administrations may change the interpretations at their whim. And agencies may purposely write ambiguous regulations knowing courts will defer to their interpretations of them. If Auer deference wasn't available, courts would interpret regulations without deferring to agency interpretations of them.
In Moda Health Plan v. United States the Supreme Court will decide whether Congress may enact appropriations riders restricting the sources of funding available to pay health insurers for losses incurred that were supposed to be paid per federal law.
The Affordable Care Act's (ACA) risk corridor program provided that if a health insurance plan participating in the exchange lost money between 2014-2016 it would receive a payment from the federal government based on a formula defined in the statute. If it made money the plan had to pay the federal government based on a formula. The purpose of the program was to induce health insurance companies to offer plans on the exchange despite the fact they didn't have reliable data to price the plans.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) identified a particular funding source the federal government could use to make payments. Congress passed appropriations riders for all three years disallowing that funding source to be used to make risk corridor payments.
Rarely does a Supreme Court case implicate the work of state legislatures like Georgia v. Public.Resource.org. In this case the Court will decide whether a state may copyright statutory annotations.
Georgia, through a Code Revision Commission, made up of the Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House, members of the Senate and House, and others, contracts with Lexis to draft the statutory annotations published in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (OCGA).
Annotations include "history lines, repeal lines, cross references, commentaries, case notations, editor's notes, excerpts from law review articles, summaries of opinions of the Attorney General of Georgia, summaries of advisory opinions of the State Bar, and other research references."
The Supreme Court's holding in North Carolina Department of Revenue v. Kimberley Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust is narrow, precise, and unanimous. The presence of in-state beneficiaries alone does not allow a state to tax undistributed trust income where the beneficiaries have no right to demand that income and may never receive it.
The Kimberley Rice Kaestner trust is governed by New York law and its trustee is a New York resident who has "absolute discretion" to distribute the trust. When the trustees, Kimberley Rice Kaestner and her children, lived in North Carolina the state taxed the income of the trust even though no funds were distributed during the time period. The trust sued North Carolina seeking the $1.3 million it paid in taxes. The trust argued that the tax violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Let's hope Justice Kagan is wrong about this ominous prediction in her dissenting opinion in Knick v. Township of Scott: "today's decision means that government regulators will often have no way to avoid violating the Constitution."
In a 5-4 opinion the Supreme Court held that a property owner may proceed directly to federal court with a takings claim. In Knick the Court overturned Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City (1985), which held that before a takings claim may be brought in federal court, a property owner must first seek just compensation under state law in state court. The State and Local Legal Center (SLLC) amicus brief urged the Court to keep Williamson County.
In Gundy v. United States the Supreme Court held 5-3 that the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act's (SORNA) delegation of authority to the Attorney General to apply SORNA's requirements to pre-Act offenders doesn't violate the constitution's nondelegation doctrine.
SORNA, enacted in 2006, is Congress's third sex offender registry law. It was intended to be more comprehensive than the previous two. It covers "more sex offenders, and imposes more onerous registration requirements, than most States had before."
SORNA states "[t]he Attorney General shall have the authority to specify the applicability of the requirements of this subchapter to sex offenders convicted before the enactment of this chapter." In 2007 the Attorney General issued an interim rule stating that SORNA's registration requirements apply in full to pre-Act offenders.
McDonough v. Smith is a case about forgery, deceit, fabricated evidence…and statute of limitations.
In this case the Supreme Court held 6-3 that the statute of limitations for a fabrication of evidence claim begins running upon acquittal. The State and Local Legal Center (SLLC) filed an amicus brief arguing the statute of limitations should begin running earlier.
Edward McDonough, commissioner of the county board of elections, processed forged absentee ballots, which he claimed he didn't know were forged. Youel Smith was appointed to investigate and prosecute the matter. McDonough claims Smith "falsified affidavits, coached witnesses to lie, and orchestrated a suspect DNA analysis to link McDonough to relevant ballot envelopes." The first trial involving McDonough ended in a mistrial. He was acquitted in a second trial.
In his 2019 State of the State address, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, former CSG Toll Fellow, urged the Legislature to pass legislation granting universal recognition for occupational licenses, saying "workers don't lose their skills simply because they move to Arizona." HB 2569 which was signed into law by Gov. Ducey in April, makes Arizona the first state in the country that allows an individual licensed in another state to receive a comparable license upon moving to Arizona if they meet certain criteria.
The Bladensburg Peace Cross may stay the Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decision in American Legion v. American Humanist Association. According to Justice Alito, writing for the majority of the Court: "It has become a prominent community landmark, and its removal or radical alteration at this date would be seen by many not as a neutral act but as the manifestation of 'a hostility toward religion that has no place in our Establishment Clause traditions.'" The State and Local Legal Center (SLLC) filed an amicus brief in this case supporting the local government.
In late 1918, residents of Prince George's County, Maryland, decided to erect a memorial to honor soldiers from the county who died in World War I. The monument, completed in 1925, is a 32-foot tall Latin cross that sits on a large pedestal. Among other things, it contains a plaque listing the names of 49 local men who died in the war. Over the years, memorials honoring the veterans of other conflicts have been added to the surrounding area. In 1961, the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission acquired the Cross and the land it is on in order to preserve it and address traffic-safety concerns.


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Entrepreneurial schoolgirls shrug off talk of glass ceiling & boardroom quotas to get Ahead of the Game
Business minded school girls are shrugging off talk of glass ceilings and boardroom quotas. From north Yorkshire to Dorset, it seems their entrepreneurial spirit can't be quashed. They're even winning national awards.
A girls' school in Harrogate has won the Education Initiative of the Year category at the recent 2012 UK ISA awards for their innovative Business School with commercial sector role models and global mind set, while five girls from Dorset have won another national competition – Ahead of the Game – to acknowledge and inspire entrepreneurial drive and achievement.
Harrogate Ladies College launched the HLC Business School in 2010. Its all-female pupils study economics, accounting, business studies and psychology in a state of the art business-like environment which helps prepare them to play an active part in business in an increasingly global world. School principal and Girls' Schools Association member, Rhiannon Wilkinson, put a trained chartered accountant in charge.
The results have been profound. In two years pupils studying business related A levels increased from 24 to 63, pupils staying on for sixth form increased from 25% to 75%, every girl in the school has been offered an enterprise opportunity, 36 pupils (63%) of Lower Sixth are directors of an enterprise company, 30% of the school's Middle School have participated in the HLC Apprentice Challenge (Years 7-9), all Lower School pupils have participated in at least one enterprise challenge, the school's pupil role has increased from 278 to 333, and pupils have met over 20 role models introducing them to the realities of the commercial world including entrepreneurs and senior executives.
Karen Hubbard, executive director for store proposition at Asda, one of the participating companies, said: "I'm hugely impressed with what the school has set out to achieve. It is extremely important we encourage women to enter the world of business, to ensure employers can select the best candidates from the most diverse pool possible."
Meanwhile five girls from Dorset have battled their way to the top to win Ahead of the Game, a national Young Apprentice-style competition – backed by Royal Bank of Scotland, former Apprentice finalist Claire Young and Smart Study UK – to find the female entrepreneurs of the future.
The competition was open to Year 10 girls in over 170 Girls' Schools Association ('GSA') schools and other girls' schools. It culminated in a final battle between six finalists hosted by RiM Blackberry. Maddie Barber, Rachel Bucklow, Flora Ritchie, Alicia Baines and Andie Vinycomb from Sherborne Girls' School impressed the judges with their winning business plan for PictureIT, their company that provides photographic tours of their school as well as training in digital and social media.
Philip Reynolds of joint sponsor Smart Study UK said: "Choosing a winner was a close call but this was a great business idea that deserved to win. The girls had a clear USP providing digital literacy training and products for the 'grey' market, their start-up costs were low, the potential profit was clear from day one and importantly their business would be scalable via publishing."
The competition has raised £10,500 profit – which will be donated to local charities – and has involved almost 400 girls since its commencement in March. It was spearheaded by Girls' Schools Association president Louise Robinson who is also head of Merchant Taylors Girls' School. She said: "These are great achievements by girls and their schools. It's been suggested that an all-girls environment encourages a more risk-taking, entrepreneurial spirit in girls and here's more proof."
At another GSA school – Moreton Hall School in Shropshire – the girls run numerous businesses and seven on-site retail outlets, including a Rymans stationery store and a Barclays Bank. All the businesses are run entirely by sixth form students and last year the team generated a record turnover of £50,000.
Last month Charlotte Vere, who takes over as GSA executive director in January, said there can be no excuse for promoting anybody other than 100 per cent on merit and that women in business must feel truly equal, not that they are just there to make up the numbers.


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Pete McKee - Thud, Crackle, Pop
Monday 17th March 2014
"This is my homage to vinyl and the glory of the 12" sleeve, to those making a living out of vinyl, those DJs and record shop owners who dedicate their lives to the black stuff and to us who buy and cherish it."
Sheffield artist Pete Mckee has announced plans of an upcoming pop-up exhibition in London, celebrating all things vinyl. On the inspiration for the new body of work, Pete McKee said:
"It's a celebration of all things vinyl. While music is audible, vinyl brings that physical quality to it.
The whole process of playing vinyl is a performance, flicking through the racks, carefully pulling the disc from the sleeve and flipping to your preferred side, placing it on the turntable and gently lowering the arm on to the spinning black platter. Hearing the 'thud', 'crackle' and 'pop' before the track begins to play, sitting back with the sleeve admiring the artwork and reading the lyrics, it's all part of the joy of vinyl."
As with other McKee projects, all of the subcultures, in all their wonderous diversity are represented. For a sneak preview of three of the paintings from the show, see below:
'A Design For Loving' (below)
The Best thing about discovering some wonderful music is sharing with the one you love
'Grand Master Dub' (below)
Toast the pioneers of innovation
'My Bad' (below)
The day man's best friend became a very bad boy
As part of the exhibition Pete McKee has also asked some well-known friends about their top ten albums of all time, including Paul Weller, Irvine Welsh and Mary Anne Hobbs. These contributions will form the basis of a huge painting of an 'all-star' record store.
More details below, or head to www.thudcracklepop.com where contributors already include fellow artist and Specials bassist, Horace Panter.
Thud, Crackle, Pop.
Friday 23 and Saturday 24 May.
10am-5pm each day.
37 Kingsway,
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New Heartik ep out Oct 1 on Mistakes Music, Sébastien Léger remix included!
Wolfgang Lohr // Hirnholzraspel29 Sep
New single by Wolfgang Lohr featuring remixes by The Chosen Two, Kanzler & Wischnewski and Arts & Leni. Out soon on Ton Liebt Klang!
Sixteenofive // Platform Vol. 828 Sep
Happily cruising along with our eighth installment of our Platform series, we dive deeper into the groove with three cuts guaranteed to shake glutei maximi of any size. Amo, Navas and Maya kick things off with a rubber-band bass and high-pitched stabs over jacking drums, all making way for the obscure vocal that magically appears. Juan Ddd and Johan Dresser pick up from there and opt for an old-school rhythm section to hold everything down. A warped synth gets us in a quirky mode and the Boombox has, indeed, arrived. Raul Mezcolanza closes up with "Follow Me" and its rumbling sub bass. We are entering shuffle central from the get-go and get sucked in by the underwater vibe of the whole affair. (1605 SC, 2012)
Out now on beatport!
Justin Martin // Ghettos & Gardens Remixes Vol. 127 Sep
Justin Martin's Ghettos & Gardens Remixes Vol. 1 out next week on dirtybird! Below are a few picks, click here to hear 'em all!
_Justin Martin, Leroy Peppers – Riding Spaceships (Ardalan Remix)
_Justin Martin – Butterflies (Catz 'n Dogz Remix)
_Justin Martin – Molokini (French Fries Remix)
Randomer // We Laugh, We Scream26 Sep
Always look forward to releases from Randomer – this one out soon on Untold's label, Hemlock Recordings! Preview below then keep your eyes peeled for the release in October.
Arts and Lohr // Das Buffet Ist Eröffnet!26 Sep
Arts and Lohr ep, coming soon on Ostfunk Records!
Benjamin Damage // Swarm25 Sep
Bangin Benjamin Damage release out Oct 5 on 50 Weapons!
_Benjamin Damage – Swarm / Headache


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May 17-19: Direct Marketing Assn. Catalog Conference, Lakeside Center and Hilton Chicago and Towers, estimated attendance 5,000.
May 17-19: Euronext Next Forum, Hotel Allegro, estimated attendance 140.
May 18-20: CleanTech, Rosemont Convention Center, estimated attendance 5,000.
May 19-21: Equity Residential Properties Trust Leadership Conference, Wyndham Chicago, estimated attendance 275.
May 20-23: EyeQuest, Rosemont Convention Center, estimated attendance 4,000.
May 22-25: National Restaurant Assn., McCormick Place, estimated attendance 105,000.
June 14-16: National Cable Television Assn., McCormick Place South, estimated attendance 27,000.
June 14-17: Illinois Funeral Directors Assn., Rosemont Convention Center and Hyatt Regency O'Hare, estimated attendance 3,000.
June 15-16: Chicagoland Business Exposition, Navy Pier, public.
June 15-17: Plastics Fair, Rosemont Convention Center, estimated attendance 5,000.
June 18-23: Comptel, Fairmont, estimated attendance 1,200.
June 19-23: International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Assn., Regal Knickerbocker, estimated attendance 125.
June 20: SportCard and Collectible Show, Inland Meeting and Expo Center, public.
June 20-24; American Medical Assn., Hilton Chicago and Towers, estimated attendance 4,300.
June 20-24: American Water Works Assn., Lakeside Center and Hyatt Regency Chicago, estimated attendance 10,500.
For details about conventions, contact the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau at (312) 567-8500.


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is a photography series by British photographer Polly Penrose.
She studied graphic design at Camberwell College of Art, then went into Fashion Styling, before applying for an MA in Photography. At the same time, she was offered the job of being Tim Walker's Studio Manager, which she loves doing.
Her latest project, 'A Body of Work', is a series of nude self portraits, celebrating the female body for its strength, agility and beauty, while capturing a subtle touch of humour. The project, the entire of which Polly shot on self timer, is dictated by the locations in the shot; the images show her body's response to a space and its contents.
More about Polly Penrose and her works here.


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Don't ya just love Mondays???? LOL! Hello my dear friends! This lo is for the September Round Robin at SOE/SOD, which I am hosting this month. You wouldn't believe the gorgeous los that have been entered. The photo in this lo is of my Mom, Grandma, and my DM's sisters. It's a very rare photo taken in the 1960's. You wouldn't believe their Southern names...from left to right: Pearl, Ruthie, Eunice, O'Leta Faye (mom), Joyce and Georgiana. There are only 2 of them still living, my DM and Georgiana. I grew up around these women, and learned a lot about being a Christian and a lady. They were/are very special to me!
My inspiration for this lo comes from the fabulous DT Romy Veul! I love her layering so much, that I tried to see if I could do it. She is such a wiz and wonderful designer. Everything on this lo came from current and past SOE kits, which are the best! Thank you Mel!
Thank you for stopping by and for sharing your sweetness. My day is always a little brighter hearing from you! Big Alaska Bear Hugs!!!!! Kathy xoxoxo
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The third month of your child's life is a period of rapid physical development. You might notice that your baby no longer sucks everything he puts in his mouth and that he doesn't "walk" when you put his feet on the ground. This is because most innate reflexes disappear around the three-month mark. Don't worry; these reflexes are going away to make room for learned physical skills such as walking and crawling. They may seem like distant goals now, but these incredible developmental milestones are really only a few months away! Remember, each baby is an individual. If your child hasn't reached all of these developmental milestones, it's not necessarily cause for alarm. If you're worried, though, talk to your pediatrician just to be on the safe side.
Physical Development
- As your baby's nervous system matures, he may begin sleeping for stretches of six to seven hours without waking up to eat.
- Your baby will likely be on a semi-regular sleeping schedule, with two to three 2-hour naps per day.
- Your baby is gaining better control over her head and arms, and may even reach for objects.
- Your baby's senses are getting better, and you may notice that he's interested in bright lights and sounds.
Social Development
- Your baby can recognize familiar people up close, and may even begin preferring certain people.
- Your baby is likely smiling.
Your baby may gurgle and coo regularly, and may even "talk" in response to your words.
- May imitate some sounds, including the sound of your voice.
Intellectual Development
- Your baby is growing more interested in speech, and may quietly listen for brief periods when you read to him or talk.
- Although you don't know it yet, your baby's brain is rapidly laying down nerve connections for speech. Continue talking to her if you want her to have a good vocabulary.
- Your baby may develop a favorite comfort object, such as a stuffed animal or blanket.
- Your baby is now classified as an infant instead of a newborn.
How You Can Help
In addition to continuing healthy practices such as talking and reading to your baby, you can help expand her social and intellectual skills by adopting some of the following practices:
- Let lots of people interact with, hold, and play with your baby. This helps reduce separation anxiety and enables your baby to begin recognizing familiar faces. It also helps nurture nascent social skills.
- Sing to your baby. Babies exposed to music show better brain development when they get to elementary school.
- Keep breastfeeding your baby if you're nursing; the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusively breastfeeding for at least six months. If you're formula-feeding, don't switch to solid foods or cereal. Babies under six months shouldn't eat these items.


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Tournament Results Coming July 2019
You can click on the button and begin your lodging reservations. Seven Springs has been fantastic to work with on prices for the archers to stay and lodge at their wonderful facility. By putting in the event dates and using the group code: 8BT48V
Don't want to place your CC info online No Problem! Archers can call 7 Springs reservations department directly at 866-437-1300 and mention the OPA event and/or the group code above.


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Heather threw a slumber party last Friday.
At first it sounded like fun...pizza, hanging out, gossiping, doing nails, watching movies, drinking... But as the days grew closer, the more I dreaded the whole idea of it. Well actually, I just dreaded the thought of sleeping anywhere but in my own bed. I mean, after thirteen, who enjoys sleeping in a sleeping bag on the floor next to a bunch of people you barely know, when not camping or pretending that you're running away from home?
But when it came down to it, I really couldn't pass on Heather's super, strong cosmos and the rounds of Celebrity Taboo, 'I Never', and poker. 'I Never' is definitely a lot more interesting now that we're adults. ;)


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North Carolina has been named one of the top 10 travel destinations by Flight Centre Canada. According to their spokeswoman and contributor, Allison Wallace, the mid-Atlantic state is the top travel destination on their list. The News & Observer quotes Allison, who explained that North Carolina had topped previous favorites like Oregon and Utah for Canadian tourism.
"For people looking for something in the North American area, a little closer to home, North Carolina is suddenly jumping on the radar – kind of where Oregon and Utah were the last couple of years."
North Carolina is interesting on many levels, with rapid growth cities like Charlotte and Raleigh, as well as beaches and pristine mountain settings like Asheville, Boone, Blowing Rock, and Cherokee. Cherokee has a casino, and Blowing Rock has a theme park called Tweetsie that features a historic steam train.
Asheville, North Carolina, was also recognized as a leading travel destination by Forbes, making their "top 15 coolest places" list. Forbes called Asheville at once "hipster," and "classic Americana." Forbes voiced appreciation for the diversity of restaurant cuisine in Asheville, as well as the classic southern cooking the North Carolina mountains is known for.
Being a top international travel destination is new for North Carolina, but Allison Wallace says the state has a real future in world-class tourism.
"I think you're going to start hearing a lot about North Carolina. It's really interesting."
North Carolina has enjoyed a long, rich, and colorful history. Many of North Carolina's historic homes, businesses, and even coastal lighthouses have been beautifully preserved, and some are open to the public.
Nature in North Carolina is spectacular, with many national forests, scenic drives, local parks, and botanical gardens throughout the state. There is also the Carowinds theme park near Charlotte. Carowinds is on the North Carolina-South Carolina border. The tourist destinations in the videos below are just a few of the tourist attractions and venues in North Carolina.
North Carolina tourism is starting to flourish in a big way, as more world travelers discover the beauty and charm of Carolina nature, history, and climate. The state may, at first, seem unlikely as a world-class tourist and travel destination.
Even North Carolinians may be surprised to learn their home is becoming a haven for people who could go anywhere else in the world and prefer there state. Closer observation reveals an amazing diversity of attractions in North Carolina.
North Carolina's top vacation and travel destinations include the pristine beaches of the Outer Banks and the Great Smoky Mountains. Between is the lovely Piedmont region, rich in history, natural beauty, and a variety of local venues.
Nestled between Charlotte, North Carolina, and the Triad or Greensboro, Winston Salem, and High Point, in the center of the state, is Rowan County, rich in history and natural beauty. There is an impressive drive-through animal park, called Lazy 5 Ranch, as well as Salisbury's nationally acclaimed historic homes tour in October.
North Carolina has a lot to offer, and in most areas, prices for food and lodging are affordable. As Forbes mentioned, the quality of food is exceptional. There are a wide variety of tourist attractions, as well as hundreds of seasonal events, like festivals, historical reenactments, sporting events, and car shows.
North Carolina is famous for NASCAR, as well as Panthers football, but has a lot more to offer international tourists.


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Police are seeking a man who was injured when the stolen car he was driving smashed into a lamppost and a metal fence in a Rednal street this afternoon (Saturday 16th June).
Luckily no-one else was hurt in the collision on the busy local road.
The car involved, a Citroen C1, was stolen overnight (Friday 15th – Saturday 16th June) from outside a home in Waseley Road in Rubery where residents reported a number of other cars were broken into.
Just before 2pm today, the car exited Shepley Road into Edgewood Road by St Stephen's Church, smashing into a lamppost and a metal fence edging the playing fields of Rednal Hill Infant and Junior Schools.
A man, who appeared to be injured, was seen to exit the car and made off up Shepley Road.
The man was described as white, with a bald or shaven head and wearing a blue tracksuit. It is believed he may have entered a property in the area.
The car was recovered
Anyone with any information on the theft of the car or the accident is asked to call West Mercia Police reference 22/51059/18 or West Midlands Police, log number 1296 of 16/06/18
Alternatively, contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111 or visit www.crimestoppers-uk.org
We scoured the area for the bloke who ran off from it. A white male with bald head and wearing a blue tracksuit. Unfortunately I think he'd made it to an address. He must be in quite a state after that bump. Let's hope there's some forensic opportunities in the car.
— LongbridgePolice NHT (@LongbridgeWMP) 16 June 2018


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Small Businesses and the Power of SEO
Small businesses should focus on implementing marketing strategies that will increase brand awareness and revenue. However, it's likely that, as a small business owner, you have your hands full with a variety of duties. Because of your limited time and funds, you may not think that you should do much marketing at all. Fortunately, businesses of all industries and sizes can benefit from SEO. Here's why your small business should consider investing in SEO marketing:
- SEO helps you to stay competitive
Chances are your competitors are already using dynamic SEO strategies. This means that when your potential customers search for keywords that are relevant to your business, they will find your competitors, not you. If you choose not to use SEO, you could be missing out on many clients visiting your website.
- It helps you to reach the right customers
Whether your business appeals to the majority or a minority, you want to be sure it's seen by the right people who will take action and contact you. By using SEO, you choose a keyword that is relevant to your business so that when users search for that keyword, they come across your business. That means you're being seen by interested parties.
- It improves brand awareness
Even if you show up at the top of someone's search results, there is no guarantee that he/she will click on your website. However, your brand's presence alone may be enough to increase brand awareness. In essence, you can't always convert the customers that are searching for keywords relevant to your business, but you can still make them aware of who you are.
Now you know just a few of the key benefits of SEO, you may be wondering where to start. Fortunately, the team at GTK Analytics can help! Talk to our experts to learn how our SEO strategies can help your small business reach success.