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10 Tips to Kick-Start Positive Change In Your Love Life
All right, ladies, you're going to make some changes to put some romance in your life. Put simply, stagnation is never good. When you refuse to change or embrace new challenges, you're not going to get any of the good stuff that comes with opening yourself up to new experiences.
What's keeping you from doing that? If you're reading this, I can only assume you want to find a fantastic man to share your life with.
How long have you been on the soul mate search?
If you keep doing the same things the same way, your romance situation isn't going to change. If a rabble of Mr. Rights haven't been beating down your door, then logic dictates it's time to try something else.
Life Can Be Good Without Romance, But Can It Be Great?
Chances are pretty good that your long-term singlehood has meant you've built a lovely life for yourself. I'd be willing to bet you're happy with who you are on a basic level, but wouldn't you love to be extraordinary? That's how it's going to play out if you find that special someone to share your days and nights with.
But I know that's not how it is right now. You have to step up to the plate and make it happen. Setting out with that intention means accepting that you're going to have to do a little growing and learning.
To find the man who's going to be your perfect partner and best friend, you're going to have to commit to becoming the absolute best "you" that you possibly can. I speak from experience, ladies. For almost three decades I lived with an "I'm-happy-without-a-man-but-I-sure-would-like-to-have-one" attitude. I waited for Mr. Right to stumble across my path, believing I'd eventually nab a guy who was perfect for me.
But over time, I got bored, frustrated and just a little bit angry at this approach. That's when I admitted to myself that I'd have to be way more proactive. I committed to making some fundamental changes in my lifestyle and in myself, and now I'm married to the man of my dreams.
Want to know how I did it? To find the man who brought untold love and affection into my life, I had to do things differently. You can do the same thing.
Don't panic yet! Your change doesn't have to life-altering or desperately drastic. Take baby steps, changing things just a little at a time to see how the shift feels. Take the time to determine how it impacts your daily experience and the way you feel about it.
How Do You Invite Romance In?
Here are ten tips to get you started. They're all simple, so don't limit yourself to choosing just one. The more you try, the more success you'll find!
1. Ask for a man's assistance with something. It can be something as simple as giving you directions or recommending a good book. When he helps you (And don't think for a minute that men don't love it when a woman asks for help with something simple.), make sure you offer a sincere smile and a gracious thank you.
2. Take the time to do something sweet for a man you just met. Offer a compliment on his cufflinks or tell him you love the way his eyes crinkle when he laughs. A simple sincere communication of this sort will stay with him, and he'll revel in the memory for a week.
3. Ask the man behind you in line a simple, no-brainer question. Ask him what he's going to make with the Roma tomatoes and olive oil in his grocery basket.
4. Approach a woman who's striking style you admire and ask her what salon she uses. Then make an appointment for a new hairstyle or a girly manicure.
5. Talk to two men you trust and ask them to give you an example of one thing they wish every woman knew about dating. Take their insight to heart, and explore how you can make it work for you.
6. Scope out the singles events in your locale or online and sign up. Google will come through for you if you put in something as simple as "singles book club+[your city]."
7. Buy a new bra that's feminine as well as functional. While you're at the department store, swing through the lingerie and see what strikes your fancy.
8. The next time you see an attractive man—whether you're in line at the DMV or sitting on a park bench enjoying a brown bag lunch—make eye contact for three full seconds. Don't forget to give a little smile.
9. Talk with three people whose judgment you trust and tell them you're ready to find a great guy. Then ask each to help you meet two new men. That's six potential dates—and one of them may change your life!
10. Shave your legs and put on some lipstick. You'll instantly feel more attractive—and men you meet will notice that confidence.
I said I'd give you ten tips for romance, but I'm feeling generous and want to give you an extra. Starting today, you have to do one more incredibly important thing differently: stop listening to the voice in your head that's been steering you wrong regarding how you respond to men and handle relationships with them. I know you know what I'm talking about. This is the voice that says, "I'm too tired/shy/embarrassed/scared to say something to a man I've never met at the gym."
Ignore that voice; in fact, silence it altogether—if only for one day. This kind of self-talk sabotage isn't doing you any good, and it's probably doing you some harm. It won't be easy to do at first, but with practice you can banish those negative self-fulfilling prophecies.
One small step today can set you off on a journey of incredible change and fulfillment tomorrow. Set the intention to feel powerful, look pretty, connect with others and learn something new about yourself. I promise you it won't be so scary as you think to change your approach. Prepare for some delightful discoveries about yourself, and be sure to have fun along the way!
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This is not a story about foiled plans and what's the use of trying anyway. This is precisely a story about making things- making stories, making plans, making lists, and making love- in the face of the inevitable messiness we will encounter.
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~Mary Karr, Summons
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Growing up as a middle-class Indian in the 1990s and 2000s, I had access to two very different kinds of comic books. On the one hand, the Amar Chitra Katha imprint produced hundreds of slim volumes drawn from Indian mythology. On the other, there were western comics with their charming imperial adventurers (Tintin), war-mongering ancients (Astérix), and young American consumers (Archie). Though they represented different cultural universes, these two bodies of work shared one trait: they had absolutely no connection to my life. Indeed, I never imagined the comics would be more than a fundamentally escapist medium for me.
That all changed in 2004 with the publication of Corridor, Sarnath Banerjee's debut graphic novel. Rendered in a mixture of photographs, drawings, and text, Corridor followed the lives of three ordinary men who whiled away their time in a second-hand Delhi bookstore. The world it depicted—one of roadside hustlers and garish billboards, of liberated college students and their conservative landlords, of trendy parties and shady markets—was, for the first time, entirely familiar.
Though rooted in the local textures of Delhi street life, Corridor was driven by an assured, cosmopolitan sensibility. Banerjee made it his business to gleefully make collide east and west, culture and kitsch, high and low—to make Baudrillard wash himself with the local Liril soap. His early aesthetic, in which characters drawn in a sparse western comic style are often superimposed on billboards and street photographs of Delhi, brilliantly mimicked the mentality of post-colonial urbanites who straddled different cultures.
Corridor didn't make him millions (the graphic medium has yet to find a commercial footing in India) but it brought Banerjee critical acclaim, as well as a cult following amongst high school and college students, your present correspondent included. Corridor also paved the way for other Indian graphic novelists to have their work published. Three years later, Banerjee followed it up with The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers, a more ambitious project that used the symbolic figure of the wandering Jew to examine forgotten (and perhaps fictitious) episodes from Calcutta's colonial history. Like Corridor, Barn Owl was bracing in its cosmopolitanism.
In 2011, Banerjee released the The Harappa Files, an encyclopedic collection of illustrated micro-stories featuring middle-class Indian characters. The book was obliquely inspired by early Mughal and eighth-century Iranian sources, and marked a stylistic breakthrough for Banerjee. Where Corridor and Barn Owl included a mashup of visual styles—from political caricature to zany punk to rough pencil sketches—Harappa unfolded in a careful sequence of lush, atmospheric watercolors, entirely appropriate to its darker political matter. This January, Banerjee published All Quiet in Vikaspuri, a dystopian, prescient (and very funny) story that depicts Delhi in the throes of a water war fought across class lines.
While his books vary in terms of formal structure, Banerjee's central concerns remain constant. Time and again, he delves into the psyche of middle-class India—that fraught zone of consumerist aspiration, post-colonial angst, and conservative leaning—and emerges with reports on its citizens' yearnings and fears. Yet Banerjee's books are never didactic. He has a special affinity for the ultra-rich deformed by their own money and addresses dark episodes from colonial history, but his take on these subjects is sly, playful, and at times even absurd.
It helps that Banerjee draws well—so well, in fact, that he's become a visual artist in his own right over the past few years. His images have been displayed at various international biennales and at the MoMA. In 2008, Banerjee was even commissioned to design billboard art for the London Olympics, a series he titled A Gallery of Losers.
Banerjee grew up in Calcutta and Delhi, but has been living in Berlin for the past five years. This interview was conducted over two long Skype sessions, one early in the morning EST, one late at night BST. As an interlocutor, Banerjee is maddeningly free-spirited. Instead of answering my questions, he'd use a phrase or idea from them to set off on a digression that, like his books, nimbly jumped from one topic to another. Even if I had wanted to, there was no stopping him once he set off like this.
—Ratik Asokan for Guernica
Guernica: You were a pretty big deal in my high school. Students put on plays of both Corridor and The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers.
Sarnath Banerjee: You went to Rishi Valley, right? I was very honored by that. It's more meaningful to be accepted in certain places as compared to others. There are different reasons why people write: for themselves, or for other writers, or to get prizes, or keeping an audience in mind. In my case, it felt really nice that a certain type of readership read the book and liked it, even though my readership is not as wide as certain popular books.
Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working.
Guernica: Whom do you imagine as your ideal reader?
Sarnath Banerjee: Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't want to challenge their readers; they want to produce exactly what their reader expects them to produce. I'm not like that.
I want to make sense of things, to understand the world, but my work is never really instructional. I have no wisdom to impart or give, so I think my dream readers would be people who just use the book as an excuse to get into their own cycle of thoughts. The book is just like a map. It's just a jotting-down of things that you can interpret in your own ways.
My books also serve as archives of thoughts and emotions, like a tonal history that captures how I felt at a certain time of my life. It's not very informational. You're not going to get comprehensive knowledge about the Han dynasty of China or about India's Emergency. But you might learn how one person felt about the Los Angeles Olympics.
Guernica: What drove you to become a graphic novelist in the first place?
Sarnath Banerjee: I used to make documentaries for Business India TV. I made a few, and they were probably quite mediocre. The problem was that I felt constrained by the conventions of industry, although BIT, at that time, was one of the most adventurous TV channels. All the stories I wanted to do were considered unimportant and banal by others. They were rich with tonal detail, but people said they were just an exercise in tonality.
Guernica: Could you give an example?
Sarnath Banerjee: In Bhopal I met a man who, on the night of the tragedy, had conducted hundreds of autopsies. And from the gas trapped in his lungs he got himself gas-affected. Now, this man had an amazing private archive that he called his biodata. This archive consisted of laced cigarettes, forced-aborted babies, a finger chopped as a kidnapper's ransom, a knife that was used with such force that it bent—things he had collected from years of forensic work. I was very interested in that kind of detail. The man himself used to wear this very nice double-breasted suit. Every day I met him, he would come in this pastel-colored suit.
People are infinitely more interesting than characters that I come up with.
Guernica: He sounds like a character from your books.
Sarnath Banerjee: People are infinitely more interesting than characters that I come up with. Because the characters I come up with are basically combinations of people I've met. Combinations. You select certain details, that's all.
Anyhow, this man required an entirely different treatment—he's a film in himself. But the film wouldn't have a script point. A broadcasting guy would say, "That's all very fun. It's like a nice drawing-room conversation. But we can't see the point of doing this." People are interested in more relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details of life.
Likewise, if you planned to make a film on Delhi, it had to be something 'big' about Delhi. You couldn't make a film—like Corridor—that was just about people who sat around Connaught Place, endlessly. You couldn't make a film that simply questioned what happened in their heads. You couldn't make a film that followed a common hustler, a property agent who shows people houses everyday. But there's nothing common about a common hustler–property dealer. He is interesting; he's a dream maker; he makes you imagine a household, and the sunlight falling at a diagonal through the window. He makes you imagine drinking Earl Grey tea while looking out at a golf course.
This hustler is creating a fantasy, and I'm interested in the tonal details of that fantasy. I'm also interested in the secondhand bookseller who is an autodidact, who knows everything from lightweight boxing to chemistry to Bhatnagar's chemical experiments. I wanted to create the full texture of a city, an encyclopedia of characters. But that wasn't possible in a film, because it had no 'plot point.' And that's what drew me towards graphic narratives.
Guernica: Interest is one thing, execution wholly another. A close friend and I embarked on several 'Sarnath Banerjee–style' graphic novels in high school; we never got far. How did you end up actually writing the book? I mean, for kids of my generation, Corridor was some mysterious form of contraband. It came out of nowhere. India's first graphic novel!
Sarnath Banerjee: Aside from working on the documentaries, I was pitching these graphic ideas to people, but they were going nowhere. Then, finally, I got a commission from this gentleman named Rajib Sarkar who was the editor of—he has disappeared now by the way, he's absolutely disappeared from earth—Gentleman Magazine. Sarkar was the biggest bibliophile I've ever met. He worshipped books. And at that time in India, the early 90s, a magazine could actually run features like "5 Canonical Texts Retold in a Bombay Setting." So, for example, The Metamorphosis would be happening in Borivilli [a suburb of Bombay]. Each story would be done by a writer and a cartoonist, and I was commissioned to draw one story.
Rajib introduced me to a writer who later became one of my all-time favorites: Isaac Bashevis Singer. I was to do the visual treatment for a retelling of "Gimpel the Fool." The Indian writer I was paired with set the retelling in a Parsee neighborhood. I didn't know much about how the Parsees of Bombay lived. In fact, I didn't know much about Bombay either at that time. So to learn about them, I befriended Sooni Taraporevala. Do you know her? She is the writer of the films Mississippi Masala and Salaam Bombay. She also made Little Zizou. She's also an award-winning photographer; she made this book called The Parsees.
Guernica: I've seen that.
Sarnath Banerjee: Yes, everyone seems to have. So Sooni gave me a lot of the photographs of Bombay Parsees. She has been such an important influence in my life. A lot of my visualizations are actually like Sooni Taraporevala's visualizations. She has the ability to use her camera to probe into the deeper, funnier, more eccentric aspects of people. She's amazing. You should see her work. So I looked at her photographs, tried to learn from them, and did the project.
And I was deeply satisfied with my work. The process was very important, because it made me realize that, fuck, man, this graphic medium will allow me to explore a new subject every day. It's going to give me an excuse to get into different people and different ways of looking at things.
After that I kept on doing comics, and no one would publish them. I think it's really good not to get published. It sounds crazy but it's true. People want to get published very soon, but the moment that happens, you lose a bit of your originality. Once you publish, you are always doing things made-to-order. You stop being a weaver and become a tailor. You are tailoring things to suit other people's fashion. I did a lot of very interesting work during the time I remained unpublished. Then one day I got the MacArthur grant.
Guernica: You got a MacArthur grant before your first book!
Sarnath Banerjee: Yeah.
Guernica: On the basis of a few clips?
Sarnath Banerjee: No. It was a combination of luck, the documentaries I had made—some people thought they were nice—and the strength of the proposal. This is not the MacArthur "genius" award that is given to American citizens. This is something similar but given to Asian people. I was in amazing company that time: Vikram Patel, who is one of the most important experts on depression, he's a psychiatrist; Amar Kanwar, the artist. It was a great gang, and the MacArthur helped us a lot. Remember, in India we don't have a lot of arts grants like in the west. I also got tons of money. Money I didn't know what to do with.
Guernica: When you say tons of money, do you mean by an artist's standards or a CEO's standards?
Sarnath Banerjee: An artist's standard—which, I suppose, is equal to what a CEO makes in a month. I went completely bonkers with the money. I worked and worked. But I didn't have the confidence to draw. I didn't have the confidence for a whole graphic novel.
So I took my ideas to Orijit Sen—who, by the way, actually wrote India's first graphic novel, River of Stories, back in 1994; it was a graphic novel, but it wasn't marketed that way—hoping that he would illustrate them. I actually went all the way there from Delhi to Goa, where he was living at that time. Now Orijit was phenomenally helpful, and we spent a lot of time working together, but for some reason the collaboration did not work. Nevertheless, he was instrumental in encouraging me to draw.
Then I drew it myself. I started at the deep end. I learned while writing the book. I started drawing all the time after that. Like a maniac. My ex-wife recently told me that when she was cleaning up our house she found trunks—I had forgotten about this—trunks and trunks full of notebooks on which every surface had been drawn. I drew everything. I drew toasters, air conditioners, chairs, people and flowers. I was a maniac. I drew, drew, drew, drew, drew. And that's how I learned. Purely by doing. In Japan there's a phrase for it, it's called aware karada, which basically means learning through your body. You practice something to the point where you don't think anymore about it. It just comes out. The brain and hand barrier is absolutely taken out. So I think now I don't think about my drawing at all. It just comes the way it comes. Another thing that was good about working in this entirely new medium—new to India at least—and not getting published was that it makes you learn everything from scratch. Which is why I feel that every graphic novelist from India—Amruta Patil, Vishwajyoti Ghosh, Orijit Sen, Appupen—is phenomenally original.
Anyhow, Corridor came out of the MacArthur, and after countless rejections from publishers, it was finally accepted by Penguin.
As a non-western artist, you have to ask yourself a question fairly early in your life: do I want to become a bridge maker, do I want my culture to be understood by the west? I have no intentions of doing such things.
Guernica: Corridor is about the lives of three people from very different social backgrounds who happen to visit the same secondhand book dealer in Delhi. The loutish Anglophile middle-class intellectual, Brighu, I understand, but how did you come to write about Digital Dutta, a Marxist IT guy, and Shintu, who comes from a much less westernized background?
Sarnath Banerjee: I have been a loiterer all my life. I've met these people. The truth is, you have to lead a certain lifestyle to write a certain kind of literature. Corridor comes out of my sustained experience with Delhi. I think what you're getting at is less a class thing and more a western versus non-western thing. Because Corridor's protagonists are all just middle class. You relate with Brighu because he's an Anglophile, and, as we all know, European and American sensibilities are not underexpressed in our culture. If anything, they are overexpressed, which is why you find Brighu familiar. And the reason you might find Digital and Shintu a little unfamiliar is because I've not tried to explain them.
As a non-western artist, you have to ask yourself a question fairly early in your life: do I want to become a bridge maker, do I want my culture to be understood by the west? I have no intentions of doing such things. I'm fine being a little strange to a non-western audience. It doesn't bother me if my book doesn't change a generation of American readers, like Jhumpa Lahiri's books are doing, or Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's books are doing. In order to write universal literature, you have to iron out a lot of particularities. And I'm not interested in making things friendly reading for Americans. We come from huge landscapes: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh. If you put that world together, it's a lot of people.
Who gives a fuck about New York? What's great about being in one small section of the bookshop in the Strand? I don't think it makes me feel any culturally greater. I think that age has gone: of having my work understood in New York, or by an Anglophile Indian for that matter. It's not my intention to be understood. I will continue writing for a readership that is fundamentally local. Because if you want to produce universal writing, you run the risk of losing your local knowledge. Your views are so universalist that the street aspect disappears.
Guernica: And the street is very important to Corridor. Especially the street hustlers.
Sarnath Banerjee: Hustlers, yeah. Hustlers are lovely people. They have so much personality. They are such charismatic people. But we are all hustlers. Whom I'm especially interested in are the downgraded hustlers. The juice wallah who is also a property dealer who will also fix your erectile problem. These downgraded hustlers are the most charismatic people.
Guernica: You portray them so well: without sentimentality, and yet with great warmth. How did you come up with your unique visual idiom? I know no one who captures everyday Indians like you do. Who were your early visual influences?
Sarnath Banerjee: Everything you draw is influenced. It's like yogurt. You need a little bit to start the next batch. So there were a lot of people. Taraporevala has been a very strong influence because she had the ability to use her camera to probe into the deeper, funnier, more eccentric aspects of people. Her photos are so narrative. I absolutely love her work.
If I start listing my influences our interview will never end. But I'll try to tell you some people whom I can immediately think of. There's of course William Blake, and Goya. And Albrecht Dürer. These are the westerners that I'm absolutely fascinated by. Tintin, without any doubt. In terms of cinema, Alain Resnais; his visual technique, his way of telling stories was very important. Night and Fog is an amazing film.
By the time I had acquired enough confidence to work on a local idiom, I got really interested in a lot of local stuff, like Sai Paranjpye, who made Chashme Buddoor. Basu Chatterjee. Their cinema I started liking. So not just the highbrow stuff like Satyajit Ray and Ghatak and all. I got interested in people who really made it their business to make their art available to people.
The whole idea is to make knowledge available without hiding behind big names.
Guernica: Another thing that strikes me about Corridor, and the rest of your work, is how easily the highbrow stuff sits with the lowbrow: like, Benjamin will share a page with a hustler selling sketchy aphrodisiacs. Baudrillard and Phantom comics are evoked in the same discussion. You incorporate Cartier-Bresson and Vigée Le Brun without acknowledging their names.
Sarnath Banerjee: I like what you say about the heavy knowledge sitting beside things that are almost silly or banal and profane. That tonality is partially shaped by Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, who in the seventeenth century started the Scriblerus, where they postulated that the only way one can display learning is by playing with it. Because the truth is that there's something embarrassing about displaying heavy knowledge. You feel sort of Bengali, sort of annoying.
Also, quoting big thinkers—though they certainly affect my thinking—reminds me of being an MA student. And I don't want to sound like an MA student. The whole idea is to make knowledge available without hiding behind big names. Maybe it is not a rejection. It is simply having the confidence to speak without having to quote people.
This also leads me to the difference between fiction and nonfiction readers. People who read nonfiction want to dispense knowledge. Even if they don't mean too, it comes across in their writing. They know everything about Siachen [a glacier in the Himalayas], they know everything about psychology, they want to tell you why Syria is happening. They're constantly trying to find a solution to things. Fiction readers, on the other hand—and I'm one of them—don't have this compulsion. They don't have an arrogance which leads them to display their knowledge. Because often there isn't any knowledge that you acquired. What fiction does is bring you closer to the essence of truth, as opposed to simply giving you the truth. And there's no knowing truth. Truth seekers are all charlatans. You can only feel the truth of something. Blake, for example, had a sense of heaven and hell. But he never really tried to postulate what they were.
Guernica: Barn Owl is structured as a false history. I say false, but most people—or me, at least—have no idea which parts of that book are true, and which parts are made up. You evoke the historical era so well. What got you so interested in history?
Sarnath Banerjee: I find the historical method very interesting. Philology. The idea of reading different texts and creating an interpretation of them—history is in its interpretation. As you know, that's an important issue currently in India. History textbooks are being… you already know this. [In 2014, the Gujarat state government introduced several dubious books into its elementary school curriculum. Written by right-wing Hindu nationalists, these books freely merged myth and history, and even claimed—citing the Hindu epic, the Ramayana, as primary evidence—that airplanes existed in ancient India. Prime Minister Modi is from Gujarat and used to be its chief minister. He even wrote a preface to one of these 'textbooks.']
I feel history is more of a story than a lesson. Okay, I know this idea of presentism: this idea of constantly evoking the past to justify the present moment. A lot of people will tell you, "history is how we got here." And learning from the lessons of history. But that's imperfect. The Russians tried to learn from the lessons of Napoleon and decided—after Lenin died—to evict Trotsky because he was too willful a man. Their solution was to give the top job to an ambitionless bureaucrat. That's how they ended up with Stalin! So if you learn from history you can do things for all the wrong reasons.
This history as presentism is not entirely true. I agree with it, to an extent, but I'm not interested in it. I'm interested in history because it's a discipline that requires a lot of effort from the imagination. You need to put in a lot of imaginative effort to figure out how people lived in an era that is not yours. And in that understanding of people from a different era, I feel, is an important gateway into humanity. Because you understand human behavior. In order to understand humanity, history is important.
And I like historians. They have good interpretive skills. They are also often great storytellers. In fact I'm more interested in historians than I am in history. Which is why I'm planning this history biennale.
Guernica: You're setting up a biennale for historians?
Sarnath Banerjee: It's a sort of joke. But all my projects begin as jokes. I shared the idea with Kamran Asdar Ali, who teaches at the University of Texas (he heads the South Asia Institute there, and is also a remarkable scholar and anthropologist) and he told me, "tum bade joke karte ho" [you joke a lot]. So I said, fine, I'll put in some money. And now he's going to put in some money so the biennale stops being a joke. And then Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar, who wrote this amazing book on partition, called The Long Partition, she invited me to come to Brown and start talking about it. So I'm raising money from all these people.
And then Gyan Prakash, a professor at Princeton, who wrote Mumbai Fables, which was made into a film called Bombay Velvet—he's a rockstar historian, he joined. Then a few others from Columbia. These guys are all supporting the project. And I'm going to get ten historians to work with ten visual professionals, not necessarily artists—animators, illustrators, set designers, architectural model makers, fashion people, I don't know—to give their research a form that you and I could read. Perhaps they can make historical sets.
This idea came from Barn Owl, of course. Because my historical research for that book didn't just involve reading one text after another. It involved going to the British Museum India office and trying to figure out what twentieth-century guns looked like. What were dresses like then? In my line you have to do a lot of visual research. And research is so much fun! The seeds of the biennale idea came at that time.
I'm not interested in, and not capable of, direct politics.
Guernica: How do you think that historical research affected the next book, Harappa Files, which is a series of graphic vignettes about today's middle-class India?
Sarnath Banerjee: I'm not interested in, and not capable of, direct politics. What I can do—I try to figure out the underlying principles. I'm interested in the psychological forces that divide us as a nation. What forces create this mass conservatism? Why is India's middle class so conservative? Why are our parents so conservative? In order to be secular liberals do we have to be elite? These are the questions I was trying to ask.
Because you have to live with these people. They're like bad cousins. Siblings gone astray. Harappa was my effort to understand the roots of Indian conservatism. Why is our default politics conservative? Why are we such a conservative country? And I never mentioned these questions—not once—in the book. The book doesn't spell out answers to these questions. It just explores them.
Guernica: You say you're not interested in politics, but the latest book, All Quiet in Vikaspuri, is very directly political. I mean, what could be more political than a dystopian Delhi torn about by a class war fueled by water shortage? In fact, I heard your original publisher backed off after seeing the manuscript.
Sarnath Banerjee: They called me a communist! But the truth is I don't like direct comment. I'm not an activist-artist. It's not that I'm not interested. I'm not particularly good at it. There are other people who are good at it. I'm a little more Zen about it. I would like to, you know, not pull out my sword from my scabbard. There's an old samurai saying that the sharpest sword remains inside the sheath. Not that I'm the sharp sword, but still.
Having said all that, I should acknowledge that the Vikaspuri book grows out of my obsession with our country's obsession with development. I've told you a lot about love and empathy and liking people, but I find it very difficult to relate to India's new middle class. This very patriotic and neoliberal group that mixes religion and economics together. I find them very irksome. Very difficult to like. They are privileged, but they don't want to talk about their privilege. It's difficult to find poetry amongst these people. Some sort of hidden spirit of beauty. But I tried with this book to mock the South Delhi people. They don't just have a caste system: they have instilled a caste system amongst their staff, from the driver to the gardener they have a caste system. It's almost as if whatever they touch they turn into a caste system.
Guernica: I see your willingness to depict, to actually draw, non-privileged people as a political statement in itself. I mean, it's a big middle finger to the standard middle class mentality that our drivers and maids are less than real people.
Sarnath Banerjee: Absolutely. Look at our country. We have had years of this Brahmanical hegemony; years of casteism; years of subservience to these ideas of growth and colonial practices. I now live in Germany, a society that's relatively classless. Or at least it aspires to be classless. And being here you realize that, my God, India has sanctioned phenomenal injustices for years and years and years. And normalized it. And we are carrying that burden. And then some twenty-four people decide what nationalism is and tell us what to do. There is no sympathy in these right-wing voices. They are all trying to cover their backs. There is no understanding of what it means to be born into a class that has been denied basic human dignity for generations and generations.
We all grew up being told that Hinduism is a benevolent religion. Santana likes it. Madonna likes it. How can it be bad? "We Hindus are all tolerant. Hinduism is not a religion. It is a way of life"—I'm sure you remember uncles saying these things to you. But what Hinduism has achieved is a process of relentless othering. They have successfully dehumanized Dalits. Just because a person is Dalit, they say, he has another coefficient of suffering. That he is genetically equipped to deal with more suffering than you because you are princely and you can't bear that kind of hardship. You can't till land in 52 degrees centigrade. But those guys, they can.
Guernica: Both Corridor and your subsequent book, The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers, are very much concerned with cities—with their psychic and physical cartographies, from the fleeting relations between residents to the relationships between people and the city itself.
Sarnath Banerjee: The Scottish writer Alasdair Gray said that the city does not exist unless it's been written about. I completely agree with him.
Imagine you own a roadside bookshop. You know where the books on geography are, where the medical textbooks are, where the SAT preparation books are, where Auden's poetry is, where the contemporary South African fiction is, where the Tintins are. But if you don't write this down, and you die, then the catalog dies. It just becomes a mess. It doesn't exist as a catalog anymore.
Somewhere down the line, a city is a bit like that: a gigantic group of cluttered books. But a writer or artist has a way of making sense of it, of understanding how it is cataloged. The catalog lives in the writer's head. Only if you write will the city-catalog be expressed. If you don't, it slips into chaos.
And the most important part of a city is its people. In fact, people for me are like little cities. When you meet someone, it's like you've found a new city to explore. You take a tram, visit the museums and operas and cafes. I have a genuine lust for people, and every time I meet someone I'm in absolute lament that I don't know him better: that I don't know what he does, what he thinks, what his secret world is, what his deepest passion is, what his victories and defeats are, what his sense of foreboding is, what his nightly dreams propelled by his state of digestion are.
But I'm normally not interested in these posturers or these grandstanding big guys, who pronounce their opinions. In Delhi you find a lot of those types: mollycoddled from childhood, elite. Those guys are not very interesting. The people who are interesting are those you would not really think about, like a plumber. I'm obsessed with my plumber. Or the telephone cleaner who eats rice pyramids. The interest is not sentimental at all. It is just love. There is a degree of love involved. You just want to eat up all these people. Cannibalize them somehow. Because they are delicious.
Guernica: It's wonderful that you love the everyman. I'm not sure if the same can be said about the everywoman. Indeed, women are woefully underrepresented in your work.
Sarnath Banerjee: It's a handicap. It's a serious handicap. I don't know what to do about it. I'm mostly with women. Most of my friends are women. I'm phenomenally close to them and it doesn't reflect in my writing. It's very embarrassing and I cannot seem to come out of it. What I am doing now is a series for Vogue called Women I Know that's basically an attempt to depict, in the standard graphic and text format, the personalities of women I actually know.
A lot of these historians I work with are women. Hopefully that changes things. It's an issue, I understand. But I haven't figured out an intelligent way to get more female characters into my stories, although I seem to hang out with them, and am mostly influenced by them. It's a weakness, and I have to work on it. Thanks for reminding me.


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"Cranked" and "Search and Rescue" will join the playlist in Call of Duty: Ghosts' multiplayer this year, offering variants on the game's team deathmatch staples.
As discussed at today's multiplayer event in Los Angeles, in Cranked, a kill will boost a player's speed and other attributes but it'll also start a countdown clock; get another kill before it expires or your player will be blown up.
Search and Rescue is a team mode that allows downed teammates to be revived. Players who shot down drop a dogtag; if a teammate picks it up, they'll be revived. If an enemy picks it up, they're killed.


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Public engagement is one of the many ways that research can have positive impact beyond the four walls of the University – not to mention benefits to the researcher. Done well, it can boost your communication skills, give you fresh perspectives on your research, inspire others and maybe even lead to a practical change in how society does things. But how do you get started? And would members of the public honestly be interested in what you do?
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- Identify the next steps you need to take in developing your public engagement skills
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See the study guide for this poem in the column to the right for an explanation and discussion questions.
Poem in Word document: the-story-of-god-and-man-jesus-poem.doc
Jointly, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
Endeavored to create a being
Similar to themselves,
Unlike anything ever seen,
Symphonious to Heaven's Trinity.
January of God's creation,
Each atom and cell
Sparkling like the morning dew
Under the sun's rays
Shouting of God's glory.
Jehovah's breath of life
Enters the fresh clay form
Sanctifying body, soul and spirit.
Unafraid, Adam opens his virgin eyes
Seeing at once all that is love.
Just one man alone,
Endowed with life and power,
Sovereign over his paradise,
Unable to gain completion,
Searching for a part of himself.
Judiciously, Adam examined and named
Every animal, large and small, that lived
Safely with him in the garden.
Unsatisfied remained his desire:
Someone to share this happy life.
Jubilantly, God awoke Adam
Ecstatic about this new surprise.
Sleeping Adam had forfeited a rib
Used by God to create an absolute
Soulmate and lover for his son.
Jouncing from the earth,
Eve blossomed to full height.
Seemingly clothed in a rainbow,
Undaunted by the man before her,
She touched his lips with hers.
Jumping into paradise,
Evil came disguised.
Sweet-talking benumbing serpent,
Ugliness defined yet hidden beneath
Slick multicolored deceiving skin.
Juniper fragrances enshrouded Satan's
Electric lies and illusions
Slipping into the innocent
Union of Adam and Eve to corrupt
Sons and daughters of God.
Juxtaposed in their souls
Elements of evil and good battled.
Succumbing to temptation,
Untrusting of their maker's words,
Sumptuously they ate the forbidden fruit.
Jet streams blew icy air;
Everything felt a chilling weight
Settle upon the verdant utopia.
Unholy and naked Adam and Eve
Skulked to hide from their searching God.
Jostling through Eden's gate,
Eve cried and Adam trembled at
Sin's wasteland of promised death.
Unctuous in his cursed success,
Satan grinned contortedly.
Jaded not at all in his purpose,
Elohim's desire for childrens' communion
Stayed resolute and steadfast.
Unwavering was his love.
Sin and not God's dream would die.
Jilted by those he
Espoused, The Lord of Creation
Sent a downpour and flood
Upon all he made on earth
Submerging what had become a regret.
Japheth, Ham and Shem,
Entitled by birthright from Noah,
Sequestered with their family in the ark
Underway with two of every animal
Selected from above to begin again.
Job feared the Living God.
Everyday was better than before.
Seven sons and three daughters were his.
Uz knew no man so blessed.
Seasons however come and go for all.
Jaundiced by his loss of
Everything he held dear,
Sons and daughters dead and gone
Ultimately, Job proved God and
Spent his latter days well blessed.
Jockeying their camels to
Enter a far off and promised land,
Sarah and Abraham sought a blessing.
Upbeat, righteous and faithful Abraham
Saw the Lord's day and rejoiced.
Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham,
Evolved into the man Israel.
Struggling with God and destiny,
Urgently seeking a blessing, he
Sired twelve sons, a nation.
Joshua was sold by his brothers to
Egypt where he sufferend
Slavery and imprisonment
Until God raised him up
Setting him at Pharoah's hand.
Jethro's son-in-law Moses led the
Exodus of Israel from bondage.
Splitting the sea, guiding Israel
Under his cloud and fire, God
Sentenced Egypt's army to death.
Jordan's waters ceased to flow.
Each of Israel's warriors
Stepped across the river
Upon dry ground as God
Sent his angel, Captain of his host.
Jericho's walls fell as Israel
Entered the terrible city
Sacking all that was in it
Unnerving all the cities around
Signaling the Lord of Host's power.
Jawbone in hand
Enraged and furious
Samson ruled but was
Up and down until he
Stood tall against the enemy's pillars.
Judges failed to satisfy and
Eli's sons corrupted the
Sanctity of the priesthood.
Unified, Israel begged for a king.
Saul received and lost the reign.
Judah's tribe was chosen
Especially David's line
Someday to produce a king,
Unmatched by all rulers ever,
Saving all from death and sin.
Jettisoned from the promised land,
Evicted to bondage for sins
Seemingly forgotten in their oppression,
Universally, Israel mourned its former glory
Searching for that promised coming king.
Jeremiah lamented Israel's
Enduring rebellion in
Slavery and rejection of repentance.
Useless were his cries to these
Sheep scattered among wolves.
Jonah ran from God and
Embarked in a ship to
Sentence Ninaveh to destruction.
Up from the depths came a fish to
Swallow and spit Jonah to a saving mission.
Judah Maccabbee and his brothers
Erupted to remove the desolation,
Sacrifice of abomination. The Hammers
Ushered in a respite of
Self rule for Israel.
Jagged iron teeth of Rome
Eviscerated the beast's enemies
Subjecting Israel to tyranny,
Usurping the Temple's authority,
Setting puppets in Moses' seat.
Joseph and Mary were soon to wed.
Enveloping Mary in Holy love, the
Spirit of God conceived in her a son.
Understanding came to Joseph while he slept.
Silencing his fears, an angel with the truth.
John prepared the way of the Lord.
Echoing in the wilderness, his prophetic voice
Sounded the coming of the Messiah.
Urged by John and their consciences,
Scores received the baptism of repentance.
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Jay-like the Spirit fell,
Empowering Jesus to enter
Severe temptation and testing
Unrivaled by what man has ever known.
Steadfastly, he faced down Satan and evil.
Journeying throughout the land
Emanating love, wisdom and power,
Son of man, strong in sorrows.
Unwilling to ignore a single sheep,
Son of God, strong in spirit.
Joining Jesus were the twelve,
Elected by God, called apostles,
Servants of the Most High.
Uniformly, they left family and home
Setting out to lose and gain their lives.
Jubilee year of the Lord
Excitedly was proclaimed,
Sick were healed, bound were
Unfettered and made whole again,
Springs of life flowed into deserts.
Jesus performed great works for many,
Educated the poor and wandering,
Signs and wonders abounded.
Unknown to the multitudes and his friends,
Sacrifice was his mission and end.
Jews and gentiles came to see and hear.
Energy flowed from his hands.
Some said he was king and prophet.
Undesirable to Jesus were the treasures of men.
Seclusion with the Father was his sanctuary.
Judea and Galilee hearing the news,
Erupted with anticipation
Suspecting that Israel would rise
Up again behind this Son of David.
Suggestions of rebellion circulated the land.
James and John coveted thrones
Equally at Jesus' left and right.
Sons of Thunder could taste
Unending glory beside their king.
Sternly, Jesus offered service not status.
Jealousy gripped the religious.
Examining Jesus, they frowned,
Scorning his wondrous deeds.
Umbrage was taken at his
Saying his Father was God.
Judas wanted a kingdom
Existing in this world.
Spoils of battle he craved and became
Usurped by greed and corruption.
Silver lured him to betray his Lord and friend.
Jangles of accusation and spite
Exuded from the mob
Storming to arrest the Passover lamb.
Utterly conformed to the will of God,
Submissively Jesus went of his own accord.
Judgment was levied,
Execution then demanded,
Skin was torn and ripped,
Unruly crowds spat and yelled,
Sunshine ceased as light was crucified.
Jolted by the death of God's son,
Earth shook and sky thundered,
Souls of men quaked with fear.
Upon the cross, Jesus finished the work.
Supernaturally, he died our death.
Justice was done at the cross
Eliminating the debt of every sin
Since Adam and Eve fell.
Uncompromising death,
Satisfied now by the offering of God.
Jailed in the stony tomb without
Eulogy or blessing Jesus' body lay.
Sabbath day his friends mourned and hid,
Utmost grief consumed their souls.
Sunday morning brought ecstasy when Jesus rose.
Joy spiraled through heaven,
Exhilaration among angels and saints.
Stone door was rolled away,
Upward Jesus flew to paradise
Sitting down beside his Father's throne.
Justified by the death and life of Jesus,
Expunged of sin, people can be born again.
Salvation is in his name alone.
Ubiquitous evidence of eternal life fills
Stories of old and the Body of Christ today.
Journals will be filled with victorious
Expressions of God's good works.
Spiritual Battles will rage in the world
Until Christ comes again to earth.
Still, Hell's gates shall not prevail.
Jots and tittles of the word
Endure, and all will
See promises fulfilled as the
Unshakable Kingdom of Heaven
Succeeds and prospers under His Rule.
Jewels shine in the exalted king's crown,
Every knee will bow to his throne,
Songs and praises laud him forever.
Unlike any person or angel,
Savior, Lord, Beginning, End–Jesus.


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I learned so much from the Ray-Stitch workshop today. I've always wondered what some of the mysterious stitch styles were on my home sewing machine. Being able to sew a blind hem has always baffled me and I'm not one for hand sewing (who has time for that!) so finding out about the mystery of the blind hem was a real joy.
First of all you'll need to know if your machine has the settings for a blind hem stitch. At the Ray-Stitch workshop we were using Janome SMD5018 sewing machines and I have a basic Janome (disguised as a John Lewis machine at home) which has the blind hem stitch function. The stitch style looks similar to a heart beat (see picture further down which illustrates this), with good machines they may already come with a blind hem foot similar to this one:
On our Janome machines the stitch style looks like this setting (helpfully it also has a picture of the foot needed), see G in this example:
If not you'll need to buy a blind hem foot that suits your machine, plenty of those here.
An adjustable foot is useful (see the screw and plastic guide in the previous photo) to help you guide the stitches into the hem as you sew. Every third stitch goes into the hem creating the single 'invisible' stitch on the facing side.
Blind hems are perfect for cotton fabrics and trouser and skirt hem lines. Blind hems (with a sewing machine) do not work so great with man-made fibres as the stitches tend to bunch up, so cottons or linens are ideal.
In the workshop we were using a 3cm seam allowance, so we measured and pressed that. Turning the fabric (calico) to front facing, fold the flap back up so 1cm peeps over the top like this photo shows, the 1cm is peeping out on the right:
To start sewing you'll need to adjust your blind hem foot so that the first two stitches only stitch the right side of the fabric and the third stitch connects with the fabric on the left. I found it useful to use the sewing machine's handwheel to see where the first two stitches are going to hit the fabric. A little bit of adjustment of the screw to align the plastic guide will be needed to start you off. When I was sewing the plastic guide helpfully sat directly opposite the needle, but may not always be the case for you.
In this photo you can see the example of where the two stitches hits the right side of the fabric and then the single stitch (bigger zig-zag) on the left:
Turn your fabric over and press. In the example below (front facing) you can barely see the single stitches showing through (sorry calico and cream thread doesn't show up so well in photos) but you can see where the fabric is pulled about two inches apart. It's quite difficult to see in this photo which I'd say that was a success!
It was really useful to keep these examples as reminders after the workshop to know how to do them again. All three of us took notes throughout! I'll definitely be using the blind hem on future projects. How about you?


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So DC is bringing back Wally West, and he's the same as the old Wally - except that he's black and has a new "street" backstory. Sure, the change adds character diversity, but how successful was the transition?
Bobby Joseph has a great write up on the topic at Bleeding Cool- I highly recommend you give it a read.
This highlights an on-going concern for modern comic book companies. In the early years, comic book heroes were almost always white, and predominantly male. There were a few notable exceptions - like Marvel's Mr. Wu - but for the most part non-white heroes were relegated to really unfortunate racial caricatures. See Marvel's Gypo, Whitwash or Slow-Motion Jones, or Fawcett Comic's Steamboat.
Compounding the problem is that the bullpin behind the scenes was often fairly diverse, as seen in this 1948 picture of the Marvel (then Timely) offices. We see Ray Hollaway (back left), Syd Shores (back right) and company.
Now there's a bigger push to have more diversity in comics, some of which has taken the form of old characters presented with new backgrounds, others with new characters filling old roles.
Some are successful (see Nick Fury), others not so much...
So now Flash is introducing a new take on Wally West that grew up on the streets, in and out of trouble with the law, and lacking a father-figure in his life.
A step in the right direction, or did the plan for diversity go off-track?


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October 13th, 2017
Prayer and Fasting
Ezra 8:15-36
So I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, who were leaders of the people. I also sent for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of discernment. I sent them to Iddo, the leader of the Levites at Casiphia, to ask him and his relatives and the Temple servants to send us ministers for the Temple of God at Jerusalem.
Since the gracious hand of our God was on us, they sent us a man named Sherebiah, along with eighteen of his sons and brothers. He was a very astute man and a descendant of Mahli, who was a descendant of Levi son of Israel. They also sent Hashabiah, together with Jeshaiah from the descendants of Merari, and twenty of his sons and brothers, and 220 Temple servants. The Temple servants were assistants to the Levites—a group of Temple workers first instituted by King David and his officials. They were all listed by name.
And there by the Ahava Canal, I gave orders for all of us to fast and humble ourselves before our God. We prayed that he would give us a safe journey and protect us, our children, and our goods as we traveled. For I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to accompany us and protect us from enemies along the way. After all, we had told the king, "Our God's hand of protection is on all who worship him, but his fierce anger rages against those who abandon him." So we fasted and earnestly prayed that our God would take care of us, and he heard our prayer.
(Ezra 8:16-23)
Ezra knew God's promises to protect his people, but he didn't take them for granted. He also knew that God's blessings are appropriated through prayer, so Ezra and the people humbled themselves by fasting and praying. And their prayers were answered. Fasting humbled them because going without food was a reminder of their complete dependence on God. Fasting also gave them more time to pray and meditate on God.
Too often we pray glibly and superficially. Serious prayer, by contrast, requires concentration. It puts us in touch with God's will and can really change us. Without serious prayer, we reduce God to a quick-service pharmacist with painkillers for our every ailment.


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International Education Week is Packed with Events
Staff, faculty, and students can learn about studying abroad, supporting international students, or obtaining a Fulbright Fellowship for undergraduate or graduate students.
Students, staff, and faculty are invited to attend workshops, information sessions, and panel discussions relating to education abroad programs at UCR.
These events are part of UCR's International Education Week, which takes place Nov. 7-10. Each day provides attendees information that ranges from Fulbright Fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students, to travel possibilities for undocumented students, as well as details for faculty-led summer programs.
Here is a recap of the week's events:
Monday, Nov. 7
- International Discussion Group
5–6:30 p.m., Surge 308
This weekly program of informal discussions covers a wide range of topics. Led by students, for students. Join them as they exchange views within a relaxed setting and engage in important cultural issues.
Tuesday, Nov. 8
- Supporting International Student Success (for UCR faculty and staff)
10 a.m.–Noon, Surge 367
Deepen your awareness of the unique experiences of the more than 1,500 international students, plus develop intercultural skills and resources to support their success. Register now.
- Fulbright Fellowships Information Session (For undergraduate and graduate students)
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., HUB 260
Looking for funding to do research or teach abroad? This session will focus on how a Fulbright Fellowship might fit into your academic plan. Experts will outline the application process and timing.
- DACAmented Students & Study Abroad, in partnership with Undocumented Student Programs
3–4 p.m., Surge 367
Get helpful information about studying abroad and the advance parole paperwork process at this seminar by Undocumented Student Programs and Education Abroad.
- International Game Night
5–7 p.m., Surge 308
In celebration of International Education Week, join the game night at the International Affairs office suite. Play board games, meet new people, and enjoy refreshments with friends!
Wednesday, Nov. 9
- International Affairs Appreciation Lunch
11 a.m.–1 p.m., Hinderaker Lawn (RSVP required)
Current international students, international scholars, and returning study abroad students
are invited to a special picnic lunch.
- UCR Goes Global — International Fair (open to entire campus community)
11 a.m.–1 p.m., Highlander Lawn
Come out to this fun multicultural event to learn about different UCR organizations, departments, and groups related to global issues and culture. Visit 10 tables & get a free cupcake! (While supplies last)
- Visiting Fulbright Speaker: Ortesis Kalogirou
"Biomedical Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles," hosted by the Department of Bioengineering
11:10 a.m., Winston Chung Hall 205–206
Kalogirou's laboratory is dedicated to studying different aspects of the biomedical applications of Magnetic NanoParticles (MNPs), especially magnetic particle hyperthermia, which is among the promising approaches for fighting cancer.
- Education Abroad Information Session
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1–2 p.m., HUB 355
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2–3 p.m., Surge 367
Stop by the 2017 Summer Study Abroad information session to hear about the short-term, faculty-led summer programs. Learn more about earning UCR general catalog credit.
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This week, the art world converges on Miami, where from December 2-5, Art Basel Miami Beach, celebrating its ninth year, anchors a week of happenings, which include satellite fairs (Design Miami, NADA, Scope and Art Miami, among others), splashy museum exhibitions (Jonathan Meese at MOCA; Susan Rothenberg at MAM; "Art and Design in the Modern Age" at the Wolfsonian? and, of course, parties (Larry Gagosian and Dasha Zhukova's dinner; Vanity Fair's do at MOCA Miami, to name just two of too many to even think about). -Reports 1st Dibs
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Ford Performance Locking Fasteners
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All Stage 8 Locking Fasteners are engineered to keep critical bolted joints tight in the severest operating conditions. Guaranteed. Stage 8 Locking Fasteners are also available in custom sizes and material by special order.
Click the section option that fits your needs best; for Ford we have header bolts, collector bolts, harmonic balancer bolts, oil pan bolts, valve cover bolts, starter motor bolts, intake manifold bolds and other fastener kits.
The Stage 8 Sales and Tech departments are also available to assist with your order.
- Bolts Are Aircraft Quality Grade 8– 4130 Alloy Steel
- Bolts Plated With A Duplex Nickel Finish
- Retainers are 5052-H32 Polished Aluminum
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- Clips Are Plated With Duplex Nickel Finish
Stage 8 Locking Fasteners install easily and are available in U.S. and Metric sizes. The bolts are application specific as either hex head with a 3/16 recessed Allen head or 12 point.


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I've another project underway: a novella free-read to be used as a sample of my ebook files. Sounds easy for a writer, doesn't it?
Sure, except I've never written fiction shorter than 75k in my life. How the *&%$ do you people do this?
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Perry Football Fundraiser – Thursday, August 11th
Help support the Perry football program by attending the Thursday, August 11th fundraiser at the Nut House Saloon (map) from 4 PM – 11 PM. Basket raffle tickets will be available for purchase. A portion (15%) of the proceeds will be donated directly to the Perry Football Booster Club to help continue their support of the Perry football program.


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The Elsa Outfit is one of the Twe12ve exclusives from MooLaLa. This outfit includes a sweater, a jeans/boots combo, a bracelet, earrings and nail appliers.
The Elsa Sweater has long sleeves with a cuff at the bottom and a neckline that drops down on one shoulder. It has a pretty white snowflake pattern and a HUD that gives ten background color options. This sweater is made for Maitreya, Slink and five fitmesh sizes.
Included in the Elsa Outfit is a pair of large black hoop earrings made up of many thin hoops joined together at the point where the earring attaches to the ear. There is also a bracelet made up of white circle pieces bordered in black.
The last piece of the Elsa Outfit is a jeans/boot combo. The boots are thigh high with a lace-up section in the back. They also have a thin high heel and a high toe. The jeans have two pockets in the front and two in the back with a stitched wing pattern. The HUD included offers a black leather option as well as five colors for the jeans. The jeans/boots combo is made for Belleza Freya/Isis/Venus, Maitreya and Slink Hourglass/Physique.
The group gift for December at MooLaLa is the Sasha Sweater. This is a drop shoulder sweater with long sleeves that are fluted at the bottom. The HUD included offers seven color choices for the wide band at the neckline and the main part of the sweater. The Sasha Sweater is made for four fitmesh sizes, Belleza and Maitreya.
Twe12veA monthly event that begins on the 12th of each month and ends at the end of the month. Each month will have a different theme and the designers participating will offer exclusives that fit the theme. The theme for December is Festive.
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What I'm Wearing
Body - Lara Mesh Body [Maitreya]
Head - Annie Mesh Head [Catwa]
Shape - Lisa [Amacci]
Catwa Applier - Jolie Mixed Type [DeeTalez]
Eyes - Hope Eyes - Rustic [IKON]
Hair - Xia [Truth]
Sweater/Jeans/Boots/Earrings/Bracelet - Elsa Outfit [MooLaLa @Twe12ve]
Sweater - Sasha Sweater (December Group Gift) [MooLaLa]
Ring - Florentine [JCNY]
Relevant Links
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Marketplace - https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/113193
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4 May, 2017
In our current world we can see that, so many people have interest to start and run a business. The main reason for this is that, business is the only field which doesn't need any strict professional and education qualifications. Also people have more options and choices with regard to select their business field. Another important thing is that, comparing to other professions and jobs, the businesses are the best way to earn money in a short period. Especially people can start their business according to their capacity. For example, people can start a small, medium or large scale business according to the capital value which they have. Another important factor in this business field is that, we cannot expect the profit in our earlier stage, we have to be patient and work hard in order reach the success. Always we have to follow the terms and conditions and business ethics in order to achieve our business target. Most of the business doesn't last long because they breach the business ethics in order to earn money faster.
These days we can see that most of the people start small businesses in an innovative method with small capital value. Most of these people use the social network to operate their business. Actually it is an easiest way to make money. But the problem is these small businesses don't have professional storage services. However to solve this issue, the only thing which we can do is, find a good self-storage services in order to store our goods safely.
Also, these days we can see that some businesses are started only for a short period in order to earn a small profit. But the issue is no one encourages these temporary business plans because it can only profit the owner of that business and no other. Especially people have to face so many challenges to find storage facilities in Singapore, temporary business premises and temporary business setups. The reason for this is that, the risks and dangers in these temporary businesses are very high.
Also, when we are planning to start a business we have to study that business area. Especially we have to get to know about the business environment, competitors and dangers and risks in that business field. Then only we can prepare ourselves to face these challenges. Especially by doing a market researches and surveys we can get some brief ideas about our business.


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LifeShare Products are a great form of communication! I can communicate directly to residents, families, and even staff members (using the device in our breakroom). It's also an exciting form of communication, rather than just looking at a boring flyer. It's interactive! Who doesn't want to show off photos to their loved ones?
I love that some residents who are unable to verbalize their day-to-day activities are able to still show their families the exciting things they participate in daily.
4 ways LifeShare gives us a competitive advantage:
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2. Menus (informative for residents)
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Probiotic+ Powder 100g (with fibre)
A complementary pet food for dogs and cats formulated to help maintain the good health of the digestive system by supporting the growth of the natural bacteria within the bowel. Pre/Pro Biotic blended with ground whole psyllium seed for added fibre to aid the function of the digestive tract and anal glands.
Great addition to the First Aid box.
Composition: Chicory Inulin, Live Yeast, Ground Whole Psyllium Seed.
Feeding Guide:
|Cats & Toy Dogs (Up to 5kg)
|¼ teaspoon
|Small Dogs (5 - 10kg)
|½ teaspoon
|Medium Dogs (10 - 20kg)
|½ - 1 teaspoon
|Large Dogs (20 - 30kg)
|1 - 1 ½ teaspoons
|Very Large Dogs (30kg+)
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Add to food daily. Store in cool dry place
Please ensure that fresh drinking water is available at all times. Should you have any concerns regarding your pet's health, please consult a veterinary surgeon immediately


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A friend of mine found this amazing Saki MAD. It was too good not to share, especially if you're a mahjong fan like me. It combines the mahjong play of Saki with the addictive beats of the tap-dancing finale song of Zatoichi to fun and compelling effect!
How do I stop watching?


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(CNN) - The political world may not yet know who the next Democratic vice presidential candidate will be, but Barack Obama does.
The Illinois senator told USA Today Thursday he has made up his mind on who he will ask to join him on the Democratic presidential ticket.
"Yes," Obama said matter-of-factly when asked if the decision had been made.
But Obama refused to say whether the newly-minted Democratic VP had been informed yet. "I won't comment on anything else until I introduce our running mate to the world," he said. "That's all you're going to get out of me."
Obama is expected to appear at a rally with his running mate in Springfield, Illinois Saturday. It remains unclear just when the campaign will announce the VP choice via text message.
UPDATE: CNN's Chris Welch reports Barack Obama confirmed to reporters in Virginia he has made up his mind.
"I did say that I've made the selection and that's all you're going to get," Obama said.
Hillary! Hillary! Hillary!
The Democrats are so self-destructive! How can anyone with a brain larger than a bird ask Obama to choose Hillary (and Bill) to return to the White House.
Such a choice will wake up even DEAD Republicans to return to the pools. Let the active Hillary supporters understand that Hillary (or Bill) is NOT fit to return to that White House.
Like Bill, McCain is loaded with past sins that will forever hunt America, if he were to be President. Cindy McCain stole somone else's husband.
If it's me, just tell me.
Breaking News,
Obama announces HILLARY as VP!!!!!!!!!!
Obama ... landslide 2008.
hillary for the win
Evan Bayh is the best choice. Moderate from a red state, very popular, even among Republicans in Indiana.
He has my vote regardless.
If it is Hillary, at least we know she knows how to attack.
Hillary or Biden However whoever he picks I will vote for Him Obama 08/ No Way MCSame we all will be BROKE
Anything short of Al Gore will be a disappoinment.
There is a good side and a bad side to any choice he makes. Putting Hillary on the ticket would probably mobilize the conservative republican base to fully support McCain.
No Matter who it is. If we want to fix this country and get jobs back, then we need to stand behind him and put behind our differences, that is the only way we can solve problems. If we don't then the economy will continue to suffer and more jobs will be loss.
Please everyone come out and vote Democrat this November.
We need to give Obama a chance!
I just got the word......its Richbidenkaine.
Deroy–You are so right. Putin would be a good VP for him. After all, his leftist policies lie pretty close to communism.
Tony...Who really sounds like a 16-year old???
I wanna know NOW...I can't wait....Its not fair.....you're dumb....
I WHAna know NOW....whaa....whaaa
Any man, any campaign that can be this closed lip deserves our vote. This is amazing.
Meanwhile....McCain's campaign is playing the POW card again.
aide Brian Rogers, in full damage-control mode, acknowledged that his boss had "some investment properties and stuff," but added: "This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years - in prison."
If Obama does not put Hillary on the ticket I think he deserves to lose!!
Also, I blame the T.V. Pundits!!!
I suspect Obama has his own timeline (sorry, aspirational time horizon) and is not concerned that you want to know now.
Gee Erik ....Guess what Obama will win without Clinton.
If you feel you need to something nice for Hilary , why dont you get a hold of a bunch of pumas and guys like you that voted for hertogether and take up a collection and help pay off her debt......I think she would really like that.......
You just are going to have to get used to the idea that Obama will be president and theres nothing you can do about it..........
There's VP candidates I'd like to see, but short of a neoconservative Republican there's not a lot of people Obama can pick that will keep me from voting for him. My least favorite pick would be Hillary, but I'd tolerate her. I'd be very worried about Obama's health after next January, but I'd tolerate her regardless. Outside of that, I'd like to see Hagel (strange, I know, but I think he'd bring a lot to the ticket), Kaine, or Sebelius.
I kinda wish it was Hiliary Clinton. I think they would make an awesome team. However he does not need her to win!!
Who cares?
Franly all this cloak-and-dagger intrigue involving the VP choices (from both parties) is tiresome. Just name them already.
Not that it matters. People don't vote for VP. Edwards didn't help Kerry win any of the South.
I'm not sure where my vote's going yet – but I do know this – I won't vote for the candidate that only agrees with my personal beliefs on select issues. My vote will be cast for the candidate that I believe will do what's best and most needed for our entire country right now – reduction of our debt and an end to the war.


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This sensory and Valentine's Day science experiment activity was not planned but happened as a result of the aftermath of our Love Potion Science Experiment for Kids.
The love potion explosions made such cool glittery bubbles that my daughter just couldn't resist playing in it. I thought that this would be a fun activity even outside of the science experiment and thought I would share it with you.
For Valentine's Fizzy Brew You Need:
- Vinegar
- Baking Soda
- Glitter
- Kool-aid Packet
- Cookie Cutters
Step 1. Put an even layer of baking soda in the bottom of a baking pan.
Step 2. Mix the vinegar, kool-aid packet, and glitter
Step 3. Pour the vinegar in the baking sheet and observe the cool fizzing effect.
Step 4. Add your cookie cutters and play!
Step 5. She loved how it fizzed and bubbled
And of course couldn't resist putting her hands in it!
She loved pushing the cookie cutters in the brew which caused the baking soda at the bottom to fizz
It was so pretty and so much fun!
This Valentine's Science Experiment Fizzy Brew activity was a huge hit. It was so easy to throw together and I dumped it into a plastic bowl with a lid for future use.
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OK, after more experimentation, I got it to where I'm happy. Well, as happy as I ever get, with cooking. Like when I travel, I don't like going the same way twice. When making food, I don't like using the exact same recipe twice. I'll almost always fiddle around with them. 'Cause you never know when you might come up with an even better version.
So I'll give you the basics, then some variations I like.
- 4 tbsps sugar (powdered)
- 4 tbsps flour
- 2 tbsps unsweet cocoa powder
- 1/8 tsp baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp oil
- 8 tbsp water
Add the dry ingredients to a glass (I use a 8-oz measuring cup). Mix them up so they're well distributed. Then add the liquid ingredients. Mix some more until smooth and there aren't any dry bits. Stick in the microwave and cook on high for a minute and a half. Take out, let it cool, eat.
Adding the extra water seems to help make it puffier, yet more cakey, which is how I like it.
Optional additions I've used:
- Dried mint
- Cinnamon
- Nutmeg
- Cardamom
- Fruit-flavored liqueur (not citrus-ey, unless you like that)
- Nut-flavored liqueur (like Amaretto or Frangelico)
- Sweet'n Low (in place of some of the sugar)
Other additions I've not tried, at least in the microwave version:
- Chocolate chips
- Instant coffee
- Fennel seeds
- Herb-flavored liqueur (like Anisette)
I think you get the idea. Don't be afraid to experiment, though. The way I like it mayn't be how you prefer. Since this is so simple to make, and relatively inexpensive, even the mistakes are pretty edible. Enjoy!


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Pune school girl rape: Accused van driver tries to kill himself in police lockup
On Saturday, a day after his arrest, Sandeep Kumbhar started sobbing and screaming for forgiveness, then banged his head against glass windows, supposedly to kill himself
After the police arrested a 30-year-old school van driver for raping a six-year-old student inside his van, the suspect apparently tried to end his life on Saturday by banging his head on a glass window inside the police station's interrogation room.
Suspect Sandeep Kumbhar (30), a resident of Shivne, was arrested late on Friday night after the assaulted child's mother (25) lodged a complaint at Warje Malwadi police station. A case was lodged against him under sections 376 (2) (rape) and 354 (molestation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and also under sections 4, 5 and 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
On Saturday, he was produced before a special judge and remanded in police custody. Later the same day, following his self-destructive actions inside the police station, assistant inspector Jagannath More lodged a separate case against him under IPC section 309 for trying to commit suicide.
Inspector (Crime) K S Pujari said, "After Kumbhar was produced in court on Saturday, we got his police custody for two days. But the same day, around 9.20 pm, while he was inside the lockup, he suddenly started shouting and crying. We brought him near the interrogation room, only to hear him scream out that he regretted his deeds, that everyone should please forgive him and that he didn't want to live anymore. Then he banged his head on the windowpanes in the interrogation room in a bid to kill himself."
"Kumbhar has a permit and has been rendering his driving services to the school on a private basis for four years," he said, adding, "The girl is out of danger and we have recorded her statement."
'He raped her'
Meanwhile, investigations revealed that the girl arrived late at school for the three days that she was brutalised. Inspector Ganpat Pingle of Warje Malwadi police station said, "The victim was sexually abused from November 11 till November 13 near the school gate inside Kumbhar's van. While questioning school staffers, we came to know that on these three days she was marked late: she had not been reaching her class on time."
The cops later learnt why. "Kumbhar would make her stand last in the queue filing out of the van, then grab her and take her on his lap to finger and rape her. Back at home, the child's mother observed that she was unusually quiet, could not walk properly, and kept going to the bathroom. When she noticed that her daughter's private parts were swollen, she rushed her to a private hospital in Karvenagar and then to Sassoon general hospital.
We came to know about the incident from Sassoon, following which we zeroed down on Kumbhar, who is married and has two daughters as old as the victim."
Pingle continued, "The girl has identified the suspect. We have interrogated other children who commuted with the victim, and they confirmed seeing Kumbhar make the child wait at the end of the queue while the rest of them were asked to go. We are checking CCTV footage to gain more information."
Pune regional transport officer Jitendra Patil said, "On Monday, a prosecution team of my officers will visit the school and hold an inquiry. The school cannot claim that the victim was plying in a private van, so they have no role to play. The conclusion will be drawn after our team has spoken with the school committee on transport."
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Price: $6.00
When: January 25, 2018, 11:45 AM
Reservations: Recommended
Verdict? Recommended
Our current visit to the River Belle Terrace isn't off to a great start. We've ordered the Creamy Pimento Cheese Dip, and found it pretty underwhelming. Time to rally.
The House Salad looks interesting. And, at $6, seems a bargain.
One, please.
This is a small, simple salad, nicely presented. It's candied pecans, gorgonzola cheese, and dried cranberries, all sitting on a bed of arugula. It looks good, and smells even better.
The first bite is … terrific.
Fresh. Clean. Delightful on the tongue. The ingredients are simple, but well-balanced and good quality. The arugula has a nice, earthy, garden taste, while the cranberries, pecans and gorgonzola provide great flavor counterpoints. The dressing is a light viniagrette, and perfectly proportioned – the salad's not too wet, not too dry.
This was good from the first bite to the last. It's a side-salad portion, which makes it a wonderful (and inexpensive) way to start your meal. This is also one of the better House Salads in the park.


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12 kinds of pets & 2 appealing destinations
Cats, dogs, hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, rabbits, ferrets, fish, horses, pet birds, rats, mice. Pick a pet. Although these 12 creatures are listed as pets by the Humane Society of the US, there's not much information out there about most of them after cats and dogs.
Tiny to large, furry or finny, tame or not, popular or . .
.strange. It would be interesting to know more about pet rats or mice. For
instance, do those who fancy them have other pets too (probably not cats)?
In the fish department, are "pet fish" more often tropical
or not? Do koi count as pets if they live in outdoor pools? And if not, what
makes an indoor fish a pet? How many
of the pet birds are solitary and how many share a cage?
Horses – their size alone makes "pets" seem like the wrong word
to describe them.
And finally, are there still other pets out there besides the animals in these 12 categories?
Please let us hear from you if your pet's in one of these categories beyond cat
and dog, or if your pet's in a category of her or his own. Tell us why you
chose this pet, and how, and what his or her lifestyle is like (food, play,
interactivity, lifespan . . . ).
If you can send an image of your pet, all the better. Hoping to . . . see from you soon!
A show to go . . . to
For readers whose love for their pets of all kinds carries
over to animals of all kinds, an exhibition in Manhattan may be just the thing for a spring
day trip. The Morgan Library Museum (225 Madison Ave, at 36th St, New York City; themorgan.org) is the
destination and "In the Company of Animals: Art, Literature, and Music at the
Morgan" is what to see.
Enthusiastically reviewed in the New York Times earlier this month, the show is about animals, their interactions with humans and how
humans have perceived and written about animals. In many cases, the works on
view will probably be familiar. They range from Argos, Odysseus's faithful old dog to Snoopy,
of "Peanuts" fame, and from Barbar the elephant to "The Raven" of Edgar Allan
Besides two-dimensional images of animals, the things you
can see in the exhibition include a children's board game; a cylinder seal from
the fourth millennium B.C.; a first edition of Orwell's Animal Farm; and music scores that like everything else here, have
to do with humans and animals.
The exhibition – "In the Company of Animals: Art, Literature
and Music at the Morgan" – runs through May 20.
New home for deserving
Township's new animal
shelter opens Saturday, March 31, and a grand opening is planned onsite to mark
the event. Scheduled for noon, a ribbon-cutting ceremony will include introductions
of Virginia Preesado, Ewing's new health
officer; the township's animal control officers; and the three shelter staffers
who have moved with the animals to their new home.
Festivities will run from 12-4 pm that day (rain date:
Sunday, April 1), behind the Ewing
Municipal Building
on Jake Garzio Drive.
Activities will include shelter tours and adoptions. Representatives of the businesses,
organizations and friends of the shelter who have helped over the years will
staff tables around the area.
Members of the EASEL Animal Rescue League, which helps with
adoptions, will be on hand.
The public is invited — and that includes well-behaved pets
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Bhagavad Gītā 4:17
Bhagavad-gītā kiñcitadhītā" One śloka a day – 4.17
कर्मणो ह्यपि बोध्दव्यं बोध्दव्यं च विकर्मणः |
अकर्मणश्र्च बोध्दव्यं गहना कर्मणो गतिः || १७ ||
karmaṇo hyapi boddhavyaṁ boddhavyaṁ ca vikarmaṇaḥ|
akarmaṇaśca boddhavyaṁ gahanā karmaṇo gatiḥ || 17 ||
Action (enjoined by the scriptures) is to be known. Forbidden action and actionlessness must also be known. (This is) because the nature of karma is difficult (to understand).
Don't think: "Work is well known in the world. Exertion of body etc., is work, while non-work is its absence or immobility. What is there to know about them?" Why? Listen:
Indeed, one ought to know about the work enjoined by the śāstra, of bad or forbidden work, and keeping quiet or immobility. Because the ways of "work" is profound – hard to understand.
Madhusūdhana Saraswatī
Arjuna: That action consists of functioning of the body, organs etc. and inaction is sitting quiet is well-known. What have You to say in this regard?
Kṛṣṇa: there is something to be known about the true nature of action (enjoined by scriptures), prohibited action, and inaction. For the ways of action, inaction and prohibited action are inscrutable.
Pūjya Swami Dayananda Saraswati
Kṛṣṇa says what is to be done, what is not to be done, and what is the meaning of inaction – all of these are to be known. Why is this analysis needed? Because one should not take karma in a simplistic way. Nor is it easy to understand.
Here the knowledge of karma does not mean simple do's and don'ts. It means the knowledge of the very nature of karma. If one understands the nature of karma, one has to understand Brahman, everything being connected as it is.
My take home points
- PSDSji's commentary puts the matter in perspective. This śloka is not about do's and don'ts, as it is commonly misunderstood. It is about understanding the very nature of karma, which means the karta also has to be understood. Without understanding the karta, there is no understanding of karma.
- If we take this śloka to mean the do's and don'ts of karma, then there is no end to knowing about them.
- It is also interesting to note that both Śaṅkara and MS have interpreted karma as śāstra vihitam, that which is prescribed by śāstra; they regard as karma only that which is prescribed by the scriptures.