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Morris Brown College closer to re-accreditation after settling $4 million debt with AME Church
Donnell Suggs - January 8, 2020
There's light at the end of the tunnel for Morris Brown College after settling a $4 million debt with the African Methodist Episcopal Church on Monday night.
From a church basement to a prestigious HBCU: the founding of Spelman College
Thomas Wheatley - April 8, 2019
Sophia Packard and Harriet Giles, two missionaries, traveled south to educate newly freed people after the Civil War. With the financial help of John and Laura Rockefeller, Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary is now known as Spelman College, one of the country's most prestigious historically black colleges.
Q&A: Morris Brown College's interim president wants to make sure the school's legacy continues
Donnell Suggs - March 21, 2019
Dr. Kevin E. James is the latest to take on the task of restoring Morris Brown College's accreditation, a crucial key in keeping the historically black college afloat. Here, he answers a few questions on his vision for the school.
Clark Atlanta's marching band was in critical condition. Tomisha Brock is changing the tune.
Jennifer Rainey Marquez - January 26, 2018
Tomisha Brock made history when she was named band director of Clark Atlanta University as the first woman to lead the band and the first female band director in the entire Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. We recently spoke with Brock about what makes marching band culture so unique at HBCUs.
By the numbers: Honda Battle of the Bands 2018
On January 27, the Honda Battle of the Bands will shine a spotlight on the high—stepping theatrics and thundering musicianship of historically black college and university marching bands. We look at the famously spectacular showcase.
Experience "showtime" at the Honda Battle of the Bands
Atlanta Magazine - June 7, 2017
At the annual showcase of the country's best HBCU bands, high-stepping drum majors with plumed hats and drill canes perform spins and splits, sequined majorettes and dance squads execute fierce routines, and the crowd roars and dances in their seats.
Morris Brown College used to enroll 2,500 students. Today, there are 40.
Thomas Wheatley - April 13, 2017
After losing accreditation and selling buildings, officials at the school—the first institution of higher learning in Georgia founded by black people, for black people—say it's rebuilding. Faith abounds, but is it enough?
Home between the hedges: Tour Mary Beth and Kirby Smart's Athens house
The Fox Theatre at 90: Nine iconic moments in Fox history
At the Harp in Grant Park, a wristband tracks how much beer you pour from the self-serve wall
For sheriffs, healthcare for inmates can be a burden. For one doctor, it has been the opportunity of a lifetime.
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New Nexus 7 tablet spotted in leaked Best Buy ad, apparently arriving on July 30th
On Jul 22, 2013 11:43 am, by AndrewH
If you follow Android hardware news on a regular basis then you've probably seen the plethora of leaked renders, specs and other details about an apparent new Nexus 7 tablet from Asus getting released soon. Many outlets have the official unveiling of this new tablet dated a few days from now when Google is planning to host a press event.
While there is a ton of leaked images of this new Nexus 7 tablet along with some leaked specs, it looks like there is some official confirmation about the tablet's imminent release thanks to a leaked Best Buy ad which shows the new tablet. Coming from @evleaks, who seems to be on a roll when it comes to leaking information like this as of late, this Best Buy ad has a few extra details such as the screen's resolution weighing in at 1,920 x 1,200. The model in the ad is the 16GB version of the new Nexus 7 tablet which is priced at $229.
Apparent new Nexus 7 press shot
The ad doesn't go into detail about any other hardware specs but the picture does seem to match other rumored changes to this refreshed tablet such as a 5MP rear-facing camera, a new design for the back, an off-center front-facing camera this time and a notification LED at the bottom. As for the internal specs, no real details have come out about any possible changes although there will most likely be something.
While the 16GB version is shown in the ad, there is also a rumored 32GB version to arrive as well priced at around $40 more than the 16GB edition. We won't have too long to wait though since Google's press event is scheduled for July 24th, 2013 at 9am PST so we will find out all the juicy details then. You can check out an apparent press shot of the new Nexus 7 tablet above as well as the Best Buy ad in the image below.
Websites Referenced: Engadget | @evleaks
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The dead member of the 'Fast' family might return one day.
Han Seoul-Oh, the beloved character who helped turn the Fast & Furious franchise timeline into a headache-inducing nightmare, might just be back for Fast 9.
While this is far from a confirmation that Han will come back from the dead for The 9 Furiously Fast Family Friends, it sounds like Morgan is considering it (or at least pondering a flashback).
"It's been a long day without you, my friend / And I'll tell you all about it when I see you again."
Han originally died in the second film, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, but a positive fan reaction to the character spurred Morgan to mix up the timeline, bringing Han into the all-important heist "Family" for Fast Five and Fast & Furious 6 to then die the same death again offscreen for Furious 7. Han is definitely dead, since his car was t-boned and exploded. But, hey, if the Family can be broken, then so can the chains of death itself.


East to recognize crested noisy bird frequents back yards throughout most of the US east of the Rockies. This member of the crow family has gained a reputation for robbing the nests of other songbirds eating their eggs and young. Although Blue Jays do this occasionally they primarily feed on acorns, berries and nuts.
The striking blue color in the blue jay's feathers is mostly the result of light refraction not actual blue pigmentation. The same phenomena that give some water fowl, like the wood duck, a bright glowing metallic shimmer.


The proposal of Hon. John W. Chanler in the House of Representatives, to levy a tax upon armorial bearings, has brought the subject of their use to a practical consideration. If the United States can derive any considerable revenue from this source, it is a matter worthy the serious consideration of the Committee on Ways and Means, to which the resolution was referred. If it be possible at the same time to remove from the national character a reproach to which it has been hitherto liable, the opportunity ought not to be neglected.
It would seem possible to accomplish both these results in a very brief time and at the expense of very little official machinery; and we will attempt to point out one way, not claiming, of course, that it is the only mode.
A simple enactment, that any one who uses a coat-of-arms shall pay an annual tax therefor, if couched in the same terms as that imposing the tax on carriages, yachts, watches and a few other specified luxuries, seems defective, inasmuch as these are well-known articles of merchandize. The use of armorial bearings approaches in its nature more closely to the employment of a profession or business. A man might obtain a license empowering him for one year to use such coat-armor as he pleased, in the same way that he now receives permission to pursue his ordinary business as a merchant or in any profession. Yet the law will not grant a license to carry on any business which in the opinion of Congress is injurious to the interests of the people. It may be added that such a license seems to be a recognition by Congress that the business or profession is one worthy of its protection. In the list of trades or occupations which now require a license are a few which many people hold to be morally wrong, yet it is not disputed that the majority of Congress holds a different view, and the licensees are protected in their respective employments. Some object to the manufacture of spirituous liquors, others to the managing of theatres, to vending lottery tickets, or to dealing in tobacco; yet the fact that these avocations are licensed removes them from the class of illegal or prohibited pursuits.
It would also be clearly unjust for the government to extort a tax even from the vanity of willing dupes, if it gave no fair equivalent therefor. As titles of nobility are prohibited in the United States, no tax can be levied upon the possessors of them; and it would be unfair and absurd to propose a tax on these purely fictitious titles which various societies confer on their members. Not to cite titles open to verbal criticism, the Free Masons bestow the title of Knight upon certain of their fraternity, and there can be no question that such is the name of a recognized order of nobility. In that it lacks the official recognition of government, however, this honor is defective in its essential point. Every man knows that a Knight is such only so far and so long as his associates choose to give him the name. It would be harsh and unjust, however, for government to single out such nominal Knights, and make them pay for their fictitious titles or abandon their social organization.
The use of coat-armor, however, is not prohibited by the Constitution, and yet, from some unwritten prohibition, it has never been officially allowed. Why should a man be obliged to pay an annual tax for the use of a certain device or combination of figures arranged in a certain way, rather than for the use of a monogram or a non- heraldic device? The answer is, of course, that in nearly all the civilized countries of Europe these few marks and combinations have a certain meaning and value, and that every government which recognizes their use is bound to assent to the general agreement as to their meaning.
We laugh at Soulouque and his sable peerage, his Dukes of Marmalade and Marquises of Lemonade, because we acknowledge a standard in the peerage of Great Britain, France or Prussia. Is it not possible that our foreign friends will laugh at a government which gives John Smith a license to display the coat-armor of the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Derby, of Prince Metternich or Count Bismarck ? Can any one deny that the government which collects a tax from the impostor has assumed the greater portion of the disgrace?
At this point indeed it might well be said that the wisest course for Congress to adopt would be to ignore the subject; and whatever sum of money might be thus collected, to refuse to entertain the subject in any way. It is not clear, however, that there is no alternative; and if this use of coat-armor be a privilege for which the public will cheerfully pay, we cannot afford to neglect this source of revenue. One thing is evident; every where in our cities the assumption of coat-armor is daily growing more frequent. We can no more avoid the imputation of being delinquents in this respect, than we can repel the criticisms formerly justly made on our national peculiarities. It is useless for our government to treat the matter as beneath its notice, for the subject of the costumes of its representatives abroad has been acted upon by Congress. It is certainly the wisest plan for our government to take, to prohibit the use or to insist upon proper regulations. Either method is sensible and easy, though we confess a preference for the latter course.
There seems indeed to be one sensible and dignified course of action which Congress can adopt, to which no exception can be taken abroad, and which involves no additional machinery for the collection of the tax. This is to put the use of armorial insignia on the same basis as trade-marks or copyrights. Let it be enacted briefly that as the use of certain devices is common in civilized countries to denote certain facts, and such use is restricted by certain well-known rules, this government prohibits the use of armorial devices except on the following conditions. First, that by the payment of an annual license fee of ten dollars, any one may be entitled to use such armorial bearings as he may have registered at the United States District Court in the district in which he is taxed; and that any one making use of any such insignia on any article without license, shall pay a fine of five hundred dollars, except where such insignia had been engraved or painted on some article of the nature of a monument or heirloom and no personal use was made of the same.
Secondly, that every one intending to obtain such a license should file in the District Court a statement of the armorial insignia he wishes to adopt, and should pay therefor the sum of Fifty dollars. In case he wished to show that such armorial arms were his by inheritance, the proofs should be cited in his statement, and verified by the oath of the applicant, and such statements should always be accessible to the public for inspection and publication.
Thirdly, that every coat-of-arms thus licensed should be the exclusive property of the applicant and his descendants, according to the rules of English heraldry, and any infringment on his exclusive right should be properly punished.
Fourthly, that every such coat-of-arms used under the license should have an indispensable portion of it, the date of the year in which the application was filed, or the date at which, as the applicant claimed, it was used by some paternal ancestor. The use of a false date in the claim should be punished by a heavy fine. In this way the government would simply take the position, that admitting the feeling which would prompt a family to possess some peculiar insignia for its exclusive use, it would agree to defend the owner in his property, only insisting that the truth was told as to the mode of acquiring it. Every one who has studied the science of heraldry will agree that this proviso of the date is perfectly in accordance with the rules, and entirely feasible. The figures may be placed on a scroll beneath or beside the shield, or on any suitable portion of the field; the only indispensable requisite should be that they were plainly set forth.
In fact this system would be entirely in accordance with our political institutions. Certainly we do not desire to prevent any man from distinguishing himself, nor his children from cherishing a proper pride in his acts. Moreover any system which will tend to strengthen the family tie among kindred, widely scattered as families will become throughout this immense country, must be a bond of union and an aid in preserving an identity of interest.
To induce persons to adopt this system and thus to make it a source of revenue, we have provided that any man may take his earliest date at which it can be proved any of his paternal ancestors used coat-of- armor. The fact of the use will remain any way, and by registering it and recognizing it, we offer a sufficient inducement perhaps to have the fashion established.
At all events the point will be simple. If any man has a coat-of-arms painted on the panels of his coach, let him be told at once that he may continue to use it, but the government insists that he shall also add the date of the acquisition of the property. If he be honest in his assertion that he values it only as an ornament or as a personal device, he will agree to let the date of 1868 stand as a part of it. If it be an heirloom, he will be glad to put the earlier date which will show the fact, and it can injure no one to have it known. The only malcontent will be the man who has hoped that in the lack of all rules and authority, his assumed coat has been believed to be an inheritance.
Lastly, we would propose that any officer of the army or navy who has been promoted for special gallantry in the field or for great ability in the discharge of his duties, shall have the right to substitute for the date, the name of the battle in which he won his promotion, and shall not be obliged to pay the registration fee. We should doubtless in this way meet the want which has been so strongly felt, of some mode by which a meritorious officer could be rewarded. Crosses, ribands, medals and other decorations have been but seldom employed by our government, but here the use of such a reward may be easily made a part of an important system.
The whole plan, in fact, would allow of those gradations which would meet the requirements of every class. Government would have the merit on the one hand of suppressing that ridiculous aping of foreign heraldry now prevalent, and would substitute a mode simple and republican. To the man of wealth it would offer an inheritance for his children, founded on a truth; to the man conscious of a distinguished ancestry, a recognition of the fact; and to the man who had risked his life for his country, an acknowledgment of his services, the more to be prized since it could always be borne without ostentation.
If all these inducements should fail to render the use of coat-armor popular, then surely it is time to prohibit it entirely. As it stands it is but a mockery, and nothing but the breath of authority can give it life. If it be declined after being proffered on such honest and intelligible grounds as those we have named, let us have no more of it, and let the law destroy it.
We incline, however, to the belief that it would prove a financial success, since it is well known that these insignia are of prime importance in many forms of decoration. Let us have an honest and manly system of American heraldry, and we do not fear that the number of applicants will be too insignificant.
1.—The use of coat-armor shall be prohibited to all but those who pay an annual tax.
2.—The description of the arms shall be filed in the District Court, and a fee of at least fifty dollars paid therefor; the record being always open for inspection. Officers now or formerly in the military or naval service of the United States to be allowed to record their arms without paying such fee; and in the case of an officer deceased, his children should be allowed the privilege of entering arms in their father's name.
3.—The date of entry at the Court is in all cases to decide the ownership, if two persons have entered the same arms, unless one party prove inheritance, in which case he shall have the exclusive right. In all cases the person dispossessed may amend his first description, and thus obtain a new coat-of-arms without further charge.
4.—The date of the year when the arms were assumed, to be a necessary part of them, except that the date of an inherited shield may be used instead; or by an officer of the United States, the name of any battle, &c.
5.—These provisions to apply only to personal use, and not to refer to existing monuments or records.
6.—After the record at the Court, the right shall remain although no use is made. The tax is to be only for such years as personal use is intended.
7.—In all cases where persons have paintings of arms, or engraved plate or seals, they must take out a license annually, though they need not file a description nor alter the existing shields by adding the date.


Yesterday I decided it was time to make the switch. It's not quite warm enough to wear sandals in NYC yet, but it will be soon and when that day comes I want to be ready!
I pulled my sandals out of their boxes and was actually quite bummed to see they were in as great shape as I remember. I hadn't exactly budgeted for having to spend a whole bunch of dough of new sandals, but luckily I stumbled upon an insane stash of gorgeous designer sandals over at Neiman Marcus Last Call. I'm talking Jack Rogers, Loeffler Randall and more for under $100!
Ready to say buh-bye to your winter boots? Get over to Last Call asap because sizes are going fast!


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Madness! Sunday's game in jeopardy!
The streak is on the line. We're scheduled to play a house game for a sixth consecutive weekend on Sunday, but the game is in jeopardy.
Host Peter Lokken was called away to Buffalo. He won't return until the late afternoon on Sunday. In addition, Peter Yeargin had to drop from the game due to a business trip. That has left us with five players without a home for the game.
Aash Anand
Nate Cockerill
Josh Kanto
Nadji Allan
Joaquin Aguilar
Standbys: Mike Morrison, Jim O'Kelley and Don Glass
Nate Cockerill has stepped up and is willing to host, although he may opt to do it at Cinner's rather than his home. His home and Cinner's are both in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood. I am willing to play, but I can only do so if I also host the game in Oak Brook. I have my son for a few days–I can keep him entertained at home and still play Dip. However, if I host, then one of the current players will have to drop, so either way, we're at five.
If you can help us salvage this game, please comment below, and let us know if you're available to play in the city, the suburbs, or both. Thanks!
Ted McClelland 15 Mar 2011 Log in to Reply
I am also willing to host, for the second weekend in a row. I have a very Diplomacy-friendly apartment, with many rooms and corners. I am willing to play if the game is in Chicago.
Don Glass 15 Mar 2011 Log in to Reply
I'm willing to play if necessary wherever the game ends up. I'm working graveyard Sat and Sun so I will be happy to defer to anyone else.
Jim O'Kelley 15 Mar 2011 Log in to Reply
Okay, the game will be in Chicago, hosted either by Nate (Lincoln Square) or Ted (Rogers Park), to be determined by Nate and Ted. Don Glass and I both are willing to round out this board if necessary — I was able to line up someone to watch Kevin on Sunday if necessary — but we'll give you a chance to play first, so speak up if you want the seventh and final spot…
Mike Morrison 16 Mar 2011 Log in to Reply
I'll play.
Ted will host the game at his place in Rogers Park. We're now at seven, counting Mike Morrison and Aash's friend. Don Glass and I will be the standbys, but hopefully we won't be needed.
Please note that Ted will provide soft drinks and some beer. If you want snacks, bring 'em. And be prepared to pitch in for pizza.
Nadji Allan 16 Mar 2011 Log in to Reply
I'm Aash's friend – name's Nadji Allan. I've heard a lot the group, and I'm looking forward to sunday.
I persuaded Mike to play by reminding him that he's topped the board in both games played at my place.
Aashirwad Viswanathan Anand 16 Mar 2011 Log in to Reply
Wow, we had better watch out for that pattern on Sunday! Also 5 out of 7 players in this game have topped a board this season. Should be good.
Joaquin Augilar, friend of Peter Lokken, is in; Mike Morrison joins Don and me on the standby list.
Mark Weiskircher 19 Mar 2011 Log in to Reply
This game is looking like The Lions v. The Lambs. Good luck Lambs! :-*
The Weekly Weasel — Week of Dec. 29
Read on for the latest news from the Weasels. There's a New Scourge in Town It's a well known fact that the apple doesn't fall
Peter Yeargin wins the Weasel Royale!
The game has finally ended at the start of the Fall 1909 negotiations. Peter Yeargin wins with a 10-center France! Details to follow, (hopefully) including
These Weasels love puppies!
Special thanks to the following Weasels for paying their 2017 dues! (Dues are $25, $10 if you're a student. You may pay your dues here.)


The Sleep Fairy is a lovely children's book aimed at young children who are perhaps a little reluctant to go to bed and stay there. I'm sure that's something that many parents are very familiar with though I'm glad to say those days are long behind me! The exhausted parents in this book tell their children about the very shy sleep fairy. She only comes if children are asleep and they will know if she's been by the sleep in the corner of their eyes when they awake. If they sleep all night, she will leave a small treat under their beds. After a few nights, she trusts them to continue sleeping through the night and they will only know she's been by that sleep in their eyes.
This would be a perfect book to read to your child last thing at night, particularly if they are not so good at staying in their beds. It would be a good way to gently encourage your child to sleep and by stressing the sleep fairy only comes when they are asleep will hopefully encourage them to stay in bed. Children will enjoy looking at the pictures and chatting about what the Sleep Fairy might bring the children in the book. It is beautifully illustrated throughout by Caitlin Truman-Baker and I must mention the calming, tranquil colours which are a strong feature of the book.
Having been there and done that, I'd say anything is worth a try when you need a good night's sleep! So if you have a little one who is reluctant to stay in their own beds and go to sleep at night, read them this book. You never know, it just might work.
Have YOU seen the Sleep Fairy? This is the story of a sleep deprived mother and father who are rescued by this shyest of fairies, who only comes out at night when all the children in the home are asleep. She helps children get into the habit of sleeping through by leaving tiny items of interest under their beds for a few days until she can trust them to sleep through on their own. This sweet story is simply told by the author and beautifully bought to life in this new illustrated children's story. Get your children into the habit of sleeping through by reading The Sleep Fairy to them and applying the idea to your family routine. Here's to you and a peaceful night's sleep.
About the author: Living in Chelsea, London with his wife and four children author T.K.R is no stranger to sleepless nights. When not writing children's books, he runs his own business, Captivate Marketing (Pty) Ltd which focusses on the tools and tactics associated with amplifying his clients' global brands.


The official app of the Russian-based online social media and networking service. VK stands for VKontakte and its users are able to message each other and share news, stories, images, videos, music and more. Watching videos and playing games are also supported.
This is the official Android app of the LinkedIn professional networking service.
Administer all your social media accounts from a unified location.
The official app for the movie rental service with the same name.
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The official app of the famous online movie database.


The Director of Operations is a key member of the Global Operations team and is responsible for developing and executing Operational strategy for assigned locations which satisfies Customer Demand and achieves Key Business Objectives. The Director is also an engaged member of the Kollmorgen North America Leadership Team. Kollmorgen is part of Altra (AIMC).
Manages a site(s) Operations team which fulfills internal and external customer demand.
Manages and delivers improvements in safety, quality, lead time, cost, and productivity through use of Kollmorgen Business System tools.
Manages and improves Working Capital through reduction of inventory and increasing inventory turns.
Leads Operational Reviews with site teams to ensure targets are met and rigorous problem-solving process is applied.
Develops associates in a manner which meets the future needs of the organization and prepares annual plan with HR partners to identify key contributors, areas of organizational and individual development, and succession planning.
Responsible for EHS and Environmental Risk Management for assigned locations.
Leads and influences Supply Chain team to provide further improvement in cost and effectiveness.
Leads PSI for assigned locations and works closely with Sales and Marketing to optimize resources needed to support customer demand.
Bachelor's degree required; Engineering highly preferred. Will consider additional years' technical experience in place of Engineering degree.


We asked Farrah to show us how to do some basic drag makeup using some cheap items we found at the drugstore.
In a very short amount of time, she helped transform one of our producers into her new drag daughter.
Farrah: We're gonna start first with this foundation stick. So, I want you to grab this.
Farrah: And just smear it all over your face.
Farrah: Yup. Make sure to really concentrate it on those parts.
Jake: Alright. It's really thick, that's okay?
Farrah: Oh, this is drag, babe. You don't have to do it too heavy, because you will blend, but I just wanna do this because it looks satisfying. Oh yeah, cover that beard. Now, you're gonna take your little beauty sponge.
Jake: Okay. Jake: And just work it in?
Farrah: Lemme feel it. Yup, it's perfect. Now, what you wanna do is just… Until it's evenly spread all over the face.
Farrah: Faster, harder! And not down, don't do downward. Pat in.
Jake: Pat it in, okay. Oh, I see. Farrah: Pat in. Jake: I'm very new to this.
Farrah: Have you ever done drag before?
Jake: No! When I was high school I went as Marilyn Monroe for a project, so I did a little lipstick and a wig. And that was the extent of it.
Farrah: Lipstick and a wig!
Jake: That was my drag experience.
Jake: Yeah. Farrah: Yeah, don't be afraid to really just beat that foundation in there, baby. You are clearly a man. And we are going to make you somewhat of a woman.
Jake: You're gonna have to work some magic.
Farrah: See how it's just very fast? And then, oh my God, look, your beard is gone! Wow. That's wild.
Farrah: None of us on our first time doing drag didn't have 5 o'clock shadow. In fact, mine might be growing in right now.
Farrah: Oh, don't forget your little pink ears.
Jake: Oh, I gotta do my ears too?
Farrah: Yass! Babe! Of course. At this point, the next step would be a cream contour. Oh my God, look! Drag! So you always wanna get the man out. So like, chisel the jaw, get that little cheekbone, contour that forehead, get so girly. So the line here gets rid of the double chin, and like, chisels everything.
Farrah: The line here hollows out your cheekbones and kinda gives your cheeks some shape, and kind of creates the illusion of a protrusion. A protrusion illusion?
Farrah: Yeah, it kind of tricks the world into thinking you have cheekbones.
Jake: I already see the points happening.
Farrah: Yeah, you see it! Do you feel like a queen yet?
Jake: Tingly a little bit, yeah. I get it.
Farrah: Oh my God, it's happening! You're gonna just take this little, and just blend it like that. Is that a woman? My God, I feel so proud! Are you gonna be my first drag daughter?
Jake: Sure! What does that mean? What are the responsibilities of a drag daughter?
Farrah: Oh well, the drag mother has all the responsibilities, clearly.
Jake: Oh. Farrah: What's your drag name gonna be? Jake: What should my drag name be?
Farrah: Well, if you were my daughter, since I'm Farrah Moan, I've always wanted a little baby girl named Hora Moan.
Jake: Hora Moan! You heard it here first. Okay, so cue lower third, I am now Farrah Moan's drag daughter, Hora Moan.
Farrah: Okay, next we're gonna set your face with powder. Relax that forehead or else you're gonna permanently put those creases in. Too late.
Jake: This drag queen is staying in her castle.
Farrah: Castle. Like, her one bedroom apartment.
Farrah: Studio for sure! Our next step is a good old liquid liner, and you know what, Hora Moan, this doesn't get any easier. Like, I have been doing drag for seven years now, and it's still hard, and I still hold my breath, and I still get very deep, deep, deep anxiety from doing this. Okay, so relax your eyes and kind of go like this, like you're really high.
Farrah: And inside of dragging the liner, just move your head.
Farrah: Yeah. That's what helps me. Oh, oh no, you're doing it on the bottom? This is for the top! This is the cat eye!
Farrah: This is the signature Moan cat eye.
Jake: Oh my gosh, I am sorry.
Farrah: Listen kids, you're all gonna look like this when you first start, and it's fine! Because eventually, you go from this to this. Oh my God you're doing so good! Here, let's let it dry a little bit. Oh that looks great, babe.
Farrah: You're doing a great job. Do you want a little sip?
Jake: Yes please, thank you. Jake: Mm! Okay. Oo, that's yummy.
Farrah: Bartender, can we get some more when you're available? Okay. Now we're gonna stick these f*cking lashes on. Normally when you put these on, you wanna, like, trim a little bit so that it matches your eye, but today we are creating a different fantasy. Now I don't trust you to try and do this yourself, because you can glue your eye shut.
Jake: Oh yeah. I see.
Farrah: Yeah, you can feel the fantasy? Do you feel like a woman?
Jake: Yeah. Yup, it's there. Farrah: See, the thing about fake eyelashes is it's, like, kryptonite to straight men. Oh my God, so when did you come out of the closet?
Farrah: While your eyes are closed, keep them closed, keep them closed, we're gonna put some lipstick on you. Yeah! Oh God, what brand? Oh. Oh my God! Look at this little baby girl, Hora Moan! You look just like me. It's crazy.
Jake: Just little baby Hora Moan.
Farrah: Very, very annoyed that she had to be born, but very thankful for the opportunity to inspire. Okay.
Jake: We'll make it work.
Farrah: This is a little bit MySpace. Okay. Look.
Jake: Oh! I dig it!
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Farrah: Do you feel it?
Farrah: Girl! Like a drag Reba McIntyre or something.
Farrah: Oh work! Like, oh my God, no. Kelly Osbourne.
Farrah: When she was a problematic teen?
Jake: Yes. 2002 Kelly Osbourne.
Jake: Yeah. Farrah, thank you so much for showing me how to use all this makeup. I had no idea how to do any of it. Now I feel so confident.
Farrah: And look, for your first time ever using it, I'm actually very impressed. Like, it took me a very long time to, like, figure out what all this… I didn't even know that you could set your face with powder for like the first year. I was just shiny as hell. Yeah, but the straight boys loved it. But I'm so happy I got to do this with you, and I hope that even though you are straight, you are going to continue on with this legacy of my name.
Jake: I will wear your name proudly.
-I'm giving you two thumbs up. Honestly, I am so proud of you.
-See the hair is on point.
-The makeup is on point.
-Charisma, I assume, is on point.
-I'll give this a thumbs up.
-This look is crazy! It looks good, overall. Good job, Jake.
– I give Hora Moan a big thumbs up.
Jake: My name is Hora Moan.
-Hora Moan? I love it.


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Group Exhibition Female Minimal: Abstraction in the Expanded Field
29 October—18 December 2020
I would like to ask the public to look at the work, as free as possible from preconceived ideas on art. These works are constructed on a very simple principle – a geometrical figure – sometimes broken, sometimes cut, sometimes divided, sometimes subdivided – until the relation of the lines to each other produce an aesthetic emotion.
– Marlow Moss, 1949
Female Minimal: Abstraction in the Expanded Field brings together pioneering female artists from Europe and the Americas who each contributed in her own original way to expanding the orthodox category of Minimal art.The artists on display expand on the traditional concept of minimalism to explore possibilities of the 'minimal' as a guiding force in their work – whether in their process, use of materials, or as forming the basis of their approach.
Featuring 13 artists from ten different countries, the exhibition will present a large selection of paintings, photography, installation and works on paper ranging from the 1920s to the early 1980s. Including some of the earliest examples of animation, algorithmic and kinetic art, alongside pieces from the fields of Neoplasticism, Concretism, (Post)Minimal and Land art, the display will show how these artists occupied a central position amongst period-defining groups such as Zurich Concrete in Switzerland, Abstraction-Création in Paris and Los Diez Pintores Concretos in Cuba. The history of abstraction is also a history of global turmoil, migration and transnational exchange, and many of the exhibiting artists were written out of art history due to gender inequalities and the politics of their time.
Abstract experimentations of the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s form the core of the exhibition, including a number of works that have rarely been exhibited in the UK and one of the few surviving films made by Argentine artists from the 1950s and 1960s. The exhibition will also feature groundbreaking female figures of the pre-war avant-garde movements, from Bauhaus to Neo-Plasticism, which have predominantly been documented through the accomplishments of male masters.
The British artist Marlow Moss (1889–1958) abandoned her birth name of Marjorie and adopted a masculine, dandified appearance in a queer attempt to parody a male-dominated art world. Playing a central role in the development of Neo-Plasticism, she introduced into her rigorous compositions the 'double line', a dynamising feature based on a detailed mathematical theory that was later adopted by Piet Mondrian, though he failed to credit her.
With her seminal photographs documenting the activities and objects of the Bauhaus school forming the earliest pieces (1924–1926) on display, Lucia Moholy (1894–1989) exemplifies the omission of female artists from traditional art history. Overshadowed by her husband, László Moholy-Nagy, she was later controversially omitted from the Bauhaus archives by Walter Gropius, which significantly contributed to the erasure of her authorship.
Magdalena Więcek (1924–2008)worked tirelessly to promote a modernist conception of sculpture in Communist Poland in the 1960s. Based in the Eastern Bloc, Więcek was afforded the opportunity to realize her sculptures through public funding and museum acquisitions, in contrast to female artists practising in the West under egalitarian ideology, demonstrative of the close relationship between art and politics at the time. The works on display present abstracted figurative forms rendered in brass or plastic and mark a radical breakfrom the Soviet traditions of representative sculpture.
The groundbreaking works of the 1960s by Hungarian/French artist, Vera Molnár (b. 1924)and American/British artist Liliane Lijn (b. 1939) represent some of the earliest examples of algorithmic and geometric art. Molnár invented an avant-garde process of systematically generating geometric images and later created computer-generated images and algorithmic paintings. Lijn is recognised for her pioneering practice connecting the arts to science and technology, as one of the first artists to introduce kinetic text into her work.
Ana Sacerdote (b. 1925) began painting at the age of 15, but did not have a solo exhibition until the age of 87 due to the political upheaval of an Italy under Fascism that resulted in her fleeing to Argentina. One of the few surviving films made by Argentine artists from the 1950s and 1960s, Essai de couleur animee (1959/1965) represents a pivotal moment in the artist's practice and the development of film, when she manually built a complex animation system, painting and filming each abstract frame.
The pioneering work of Mary Miss (b. 1944) was at the centre of the critical reception of Minimal art, although she later became known for her postmodern urban structures and environments. A unique figure amongst the Land artists of her time, with works uniquely comprising basic construction materials such as barbed wire or wood and often displayed in urban contexts, Miss featured as the opening artist in Rosalind Krauss's seminal October essay, 'Sculpture in the Expanded Field' (1979). The exhibition will present a large installation and sculptures from the late 1960s that have rarely been exhibited.
The exhibition will also present a monumental wall painting by Japanese-Brazilian artist Lydia Okumura (b. 1948), first realised in Sao Paulo in 1984 and reconstituted specifically for this exhibition.Okumara initiated the first Conceptual art show in Brazil with fellow students at the SESC Vila Nova in São Paulo, but she is known for her geometric abstractions.
Informed by the folkloric tradition of her native region – a village in Sardinia – Maria Lai (1919–2013) is best known for her cycle of Telai (Looms), sculptures in which painting and weaving are intertwined. In 1981, when asked to create a war memorial, she proposed instead a 'monument for the living': Legarsi alla montagna (To Tie Oneself to the Mountain), linking together the entire village with a blue ribbon tied from house to house, all the way up to the top of mountain, as in an ancient folk tale.
Also with a background in weaving and textile design Verena Loewensberg (1912–1986) was one of the four co-founders of the Zurich Concrete group. Passionate about music, especially jazz, she incorporated into her formalist painted compositions irregular shapes that challenged their balance, imbuing them with great freedom, poetry and musicality.
A generation late, also in Zurich, Shizuko Yoshikawa (1934– 2019) was the first female Japanese student at the Ulm School of Design in 1961. She started to create coloured reliefs in painted wood in the mid-1970s, before distancing herself from the Concretist use of strong colours by limiting herself to extremely light tones applied only to the outlines of the relief.
A pioneer of Cuban abstraction, Loló Soldevilla (1901–1971)achieved visual innovations in the Cuban 1950s Concretist movement while maintaining politically engaged writing activities in her native Cuba. She was one of the founders of the group Los Diez Pintores Concretos (The Ten Concrete Painters).
Rosemarie Castoro (1939– 2015) was part of New York's legendary Art Workers' Coalition in 1969, and one of the eight women interviewed in Linda Nochlin's groundbreaking 1971 essay, 'Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?'. A key figure of the 1960s and 1970s Minimal and Conceptual art scene in New York, she will be represented through a series of archival photographs and a large-scale 'Flasher' sculpture,one of the few remaining examples of her renowned series exhibited on the streets of Manhattan in the 1980s. The free-standing box forms combine the delicacy of the origami fold with the heavy weight of their metal construction and allude to the male, city-street 'flasher'. Blue Mist (1967-68) from the artist's Prismacolor series will also be on display, a monochrome piece built up through the dense repetition of single strokes and emphasising the importance of line that is implicit throughout Castoro's oeuvre.
The personal trajectories of the artists presented in Female Minimal demonstrate how their varied backgrounds and experiences have been a consistent driver of innovation and creativity. All are united by a desire to disrupt and expand the canon forged by the male-dominated avant-garde movements.


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Today I wanted to showcase another blogger who inspires me - Pia Jane Bijkerk. "Enhance the everyday" is her motto. And I couldn't agree more. Pia does this through her work as a stylist, writer and photographer, a path she turned to after running a homewares store as well as a teahouse in Sydney's Northern Beaches. Now she divides her time between Paris, Amsterdam and Sydney.
Pia's beautiful Parisian apartment (pictured, top) was featured as a before and after story here.
Which five words best describe you? Passionate, candid, rambling, quiet, flawed.
What's your proudest achievement? Any time that I am able to express myself clearly and succinctly I am a bit proud. It doesn't happen often.
Who inspires you? Right now I am totally inspired by my fellow bloggers and blog readers. I love blogging. In my humble opinion it's the best technological creation to date.
What are you passionate about? Life: mine and everyone else's.
What's the best lesson you've learnt? To just get on with it.
Which person, living or dead, would you most like to meet? Songwriter and musician Ani DiFranco who is able to not only express herself clearly and succinctly on a regular basis, but also has the ability of "getting on with it".
What's next? My first book will be published next year, and I have a few fun projects in the making that include more writing, more photography, more travelling, more styling, more drawings, and more music.
What are you reading? Just finished reading Mary Shaffer's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and have just started reading Sean Condon's My 'Dam Life. The two books couldn't be further worlds apart, but both inspire and intrigue me equally.
Thanks for getting Pia to chat about herself. She's always nattering about someone else - all of them amazing. She pointed to your blog from her blog and I noted The Divided Heart. I'd read about it elsewhere and jumped online to buy it just now. Oryx and Crake. Atwood's brilliant, just brilliant. I think I'll have to read it again too.
Hey Katiecrackernuts! I've almost finished The Divided Heart and will be sad to do so. It's fascinating to hear about how other mothers find the balance between pursuing their passion and raising a child. And I don't think you even have to be a mother to enjoy it - because almost everyone who works in a creative field has some sort of balance they're trying to strike.
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Miko - I'm in love with her illustrations, too. They're so darn cute.


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A Criminal Obligation: Marital Rape and its Premise
Family law, Blog, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Featured Posts, Human Rights / By Apoorva Singh and Rini Mehra / 5 August 2022 7 August 2022 / Leave a Comment
3 State of Play
4 Reliance on Coverture
5 The Paternalistic Hypocrisy
6 A Transformative Shift
This article traces the trajectory of a patriarchal legislation- the law that exempts a husband from conviction of rape committed upon his wife. The legislation, though a colonial legacy, is being erased from the law books of the West, but India still awaits the washing off of this stain from its Penal Code. The article maps a history of pedestalisation and ghettoization of women inside the precincts of matrimony, against which the Petitioners, perplexed by the split verdict of the Delhi High Court, are now knocking at the gates of the Apex Court.
The split verdict pronounced in the marital rape exception ("MRE" hereinafter) case offers a glimmer of hope for the vindication of women's rights in the fabric of conjugal ties. The judgement of itself reads like poetry while presenting to the audience two disparate views and the conflict it harbours between an all-embracing future and the past upholding archaic structures that seemingly cement our society for some. The 393 pager judgement, the appeal of which lies in the Apex Court, expectantly awaits its course that will ultimately break ground regarding the exercise of women's liberty and what the society makes out of it.
The demurral bubbling around striking down the MRE provision, a lesser liberalised borrowing from our colonisers, has a bearing on our socio-cultural and political fabric. It gives asylum to the potentiality of warping the undertones of patriarchy our civilisation seeks to uphold. Buckling down to the dissension recorded as regards defiance of Article 15 of the Constitution harks back to the age-old sanctitude accorded to marriage.
The grant of impunity to an offender by the agency of his stationing in matrimony invited the ire of one-half of the bench of the Delhi High Court. The predisposition of the other half of the bench towards the notion of 'legitimate expectation of sex within marriage' arose from under the folds of intelligible differentia nested in Article 14. It was the age-old piety associated with the union of two individuals, among other things, that escorted the defence to argue against striking down the MRE.
Reliance on Coverture
Our legislation being cut out from the heart of the Common Law bore signs and symptoms of the English Common Law doctrine, namely the doctrine of coverture, which identified a wife and a husband as one single unit and outrightly rejected the distinctiveness of a woman divorced from her role as a wife.
The law on adultery- the erstwhile section 497 of the Indian Penal Code- which has recently been held to be not an offence anymore in Joseph Shine v. Union of India[1], had the Doctrine of Coverture at its very foundation. The word 'adultery' means 'an action which corrupts'; and the offence was committed by a man, on another man, when the former had sexual relations with the wife of the latter. The wife being a chattel of the husband, could not have given consent to the relationship. The moral corruptness of the provision lay in its dehumanisation of the wife, with the offence of adultery being against not the body of the wife, but against the property of the husband. The Doctrine of Coverture, thus leading to the subsumption and erasure of the wife's identity, has given rise to the supposed rationale behind MRE. While under the law against adultery, the husband had a right to protect his wife's sexual resource from being exploited by another man, the MRE gave him an exclusive and absolute right upon the sexual resource that the wife's body was.
To wit, some judgements laid below stand as a manifestation of the aforementioned doctrine. They resound the dictate of the entrenched patriarchy.
The jurisprudence laid down in the case of Yusuf Abdul Aziz v. the State of Bombay, 1954 SCR 930, which no longer holds authority, denigrated women to the status of being mere chattels of their husbands by divesting them of their individuality and basing their judgement on their incapacity to flout the loyalty feature required in a union.
Harvinder Kaur's case decried the operation of Constitutional Law within the bounds of a marital relationship and denounced it for being a 'ruthless destroyer of the marriage institution and all that it stands for'. It disregarded the application of Article 21 or Article 14 in the private space of married life.
As we see it, the elimination of adultery as an offence in Joseph Shine (supra) sounded the death knell of the MRE; because when the rational basis of adultery being an offence against the husband has been denounced by the Apex Court, it recognises the autonomy of a woman over her own body, be her a feme solo or a feme covert. Joseph Shine (supra) did not merely decriminalise sexual fluidity, it dissolved the husband's absolute right over the wife's body. Therefore, when adultery has been bid goodbye to, it only makes sense that MRE must follow suit.
The Paternalistic Hypocrisy
The Court in C.B. Muthamma v. Union of India & Ors., 1979 S.C. 1868, patronised women by adopting a protectionist approach and holing them under the header of "gentler of the species", thereby ending up essentializing the theory of the natural difference and reinforcing their subordinate status by euphemising 'differential' treatment as 'preferential' treatment.
Appropos the paramountcy of marriage as held by our courts, the wrangling around the extension of discrimination (couched in the institution of marriage) against women can be gleaned from Air India v. Nergesh Meerza, (1981) 4 SCC 335: 1981 SCC (L&S) 599. The Court dumped the burden of rearing and nourishing the household onto women by upholding the airlines' restrictive regulations paring the avenues for female flight attendants to climb up the ladder, thereby lending a hand to perpetuate gendered stereotypes and the concomitant roles dictated to them. The authority factored in marital status as a point of differentiation between the classes before doling out benefits.
In K. Shanmukhan v. G. Sarojini, 1981 Cr L.J. 830 (Ker), the Court turned down the challenge to Section 124(b) of the Civil Procedure Code while constructing marital status as the nub of classification between married and divorced women. It precluded married women from demanding maintenance when not sharing a residence with their partner and aided in perpetuating discrimination based on assumptions. The Court, while disregarding the reasonable classification of economic dependency and economic need, which situates married and divorced women similarly, justified treating the two classes differently in matters of maintenance on the basis of the accepted differences.[2]
The Judiciary in Leela vs the State Of Kerala, 2004 (102) FLR 207, yet again refused to acknowledge women's agency and subtly, despite recognising the changing mores surrounding women's empowerment, deprived them of their right to practice their choice. Assuming a paternalistic role and reflecting its perception of women being the weaker sex, the Court justified the Parliament's enactment of a specific provision in the Factories Act that disallowed women to work in the factories between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m., thereby driving the Court to protect them against the hazardous jobs and to save them in spheres where the Parliament considered it necessary.
The reasoning employed to decide the slew of cases above speaks volumes of the apprehension harboured by the Courts to give much agency to a woman as an individual and the Court's adoption of a paternalistic role to justify its stance that a woman needs saving.
A Transformative Shift
To dig out the annals of our post-colonial past, we can catch sight of instances acknowledging a woman's individuality isolated from her obligatory role as a wife.[3] A Report of the Sub-Committee, part of the National Planning Committee Series (1947) in its chapter titled Women's Role in Planned Economy, while being conscious of the ills afflicting the institution of marriage, emphatically recommended the trade unions accept an individual as a unit while imploring them to deploy the principle of equality between men and women.[4] The report took note of the forces working to subdue the authority of women and dragging out their dependency on men. The framers vetoed the hold that marriage commanded and picketed its belief that matrimony shall not be treated as a condition precedent to the fuller realisation of equal civic status.[5]
An attempt to rectify or compensate for the exclusion of women in their claims of equality and their subjection seems to be afoot, as Courts, while taking note of foreign jurisprudence plying empowering measures to put in place non-discrimination, are bringing into play the same liberalised principles to avow enfranchisement of Indian women.
Of late, Judges in matters establishing equal footing between the sexes have helmed towards a more transformative approach while interpreting Article 15, bringing to the fore and empowering the subverted spirit of women.
While some of the Courts took a blinkered approach to the reading of Article 15, some benches have risen above and beyond their charted waters and settled upon the unemployment of Article 15 as a tool to discriminate against women.[6]
Sri Mahadeb Jiew and Anr. v. Dr B.B. Sen, Dattatraya Motiram More v. the State of Bombay, among others, bears considerable weight for taking a substantial approach to equality while interpreting Article 15, ergo, eschewing legal oppression of women within the bounds created and raised by societal and institutional structures.
Roping in American jurisprudence to steer us out of the passé perception of the holiness of marriage and the associated worthiness a woman derives from it, the case of City of Los Angeles, Department of Water & Power v. Marie Manhart [55 L Ed 2d 657: 435 US 702 (1978)] heads on this accepted belief by stating:
"It is now well recognized that employment decisions cannot be predicated on mere 'stereotyped' impressions about the characteristics of males or females. Myths and purely habitual assumptions about a woman's inability to perform certain kinds of work are no longer acceptable reasons for refusing to employ qualified individuals, or for paying them less… The question, therefore, is whether the existence or non-existence of 'discrimination' is to be determined by comparison of class characteristics or individual characteristics. A 'stereotyped' answer to that question may not be the same as the answer that the language and purpose of the statute command.
Even if the statutory language were less clear, the basic policy of the statute requires that we focus on fairness to individuals rather than fairness to classes. Practices that classify employees in terms of religion, race, or sex tend to preserve traditional assumptions about groups rather than thoughtful scrutiny of individuals."
Similarly, the UK House of Lords demolished the 150 year-old "common law fiction" of the MRE in R v. R. [1991] UKHL 12, expressing remorse at how the antique monstrosity of MRE had survived for this long:
"For over 150 years after the publication of Hale's work there appears to have been no reported case in which judicial consideration was given to his proposition. The first such case was R v Clarence (1888) 22 QBD 23, [1886(90] All ER Rep 133, to which I shall refer later. It may be taken that the proposition was generally regarded as an accurate statement of the common law of England. The common law is, however, capable of evolving in the light of changing social, economic and cultural developments. Hale's proposition reflected the state of affairs in these respects at the time it was enunciated. Since then the status of women, and particularly of married women, has changed out of all recognition in various ways which are very familiar and upon which it is unnecessary to go into detail …[O]ne of the most important changes is that marriage is in modern times regarded as a partnership of equals, and no longer one in which the wife must be the subservient chattel of the husband. Hale's proposition involves that by marriage a wife gives her irrevocable consent to sexual intercourse with her husband under all circumstances and irrespective of the state of her health or how she happens to be feeling at the time. In modern times any reasonable person must regard that conception as quite unacceptable….
On grounds of principle there is now no justification for the marital exception in rape."
Hence, Western common law jurisdictions have, as early as the 20th century, begun erasing their history of Victorian Paternalism and blatant patriarchy by way of judicial reform. It is ironic that we, who borrowed these concepts from their jurisprudence, are playing truant in following suit.
However, it would be wrong to allege that no progress has been made so far on the Indian front.
Divagating from the stereotype-based justification of protective discrimination, the Court in Anuj Garg v. Hotel Assn. of India, (2008) 3 SCC 1, instanced 'Romantic Paternalism' to hold a mirror up to the State and enjoined it to adhere to the two-pronged scrutiny before sustaining protective discrimination. The judiciary campaigned against vouchsafing legislation that seemed benign and came off as endeavouring to achieve parity, nonetheless ending up buttressing gendered social rules. The Court employed the following language to further its cause of mitigating discrimination:
"46. It is to be borne in mind that legislations with pronounced "protective discrimination" aims, such as this one, potentially serve as double-edged swords. Strict scrutiny test should be employed while assessing the implications of this variety of legislations. Legislation should not be only assessed on its proposed aims but rather on the implications and the effects. The impugned legislation suffers from incurable fixations of stereotype morality and conception of sexual role. The perspective thus arrived at is outmoded in content and stifling in means.
47. No law in its ultimate effect should end up perpetuating the oppression of women. Personal freedom is a fundamental tenet which cannot be compromised in the name of expediency until and unless there is a compelling State purpose. Heightened level of scrutiny is the normative threshold for judicial review in such cases."
Independent Thought of India, while giving a wide berth to the contention of the general question of marital rape of an adult woman, broached the liberalised standing taken by the Committee on Amendments to Criminal Law chaired by Justice J.S. Verma (Retired). It took note of the withdrawal of the immunity granted to husbands under the doctrine of coverture in most major jurisdictions. To reproduce the relevant paras from the judgement and throw light on the reformist outlook that the report sought to conjure:
"73 … In England and Wales, the House of Lords held in 1991 that the status of married women had changed beyond all recognition since Hale set out his proposition. Most importantly, Lord Keith, speaking for the Court, declared, 'marriage is in modern times regarded as a partnership of equals, and no longer one in which the wife must be the subservient chattel of the husband'. [R. v. R., (1992) 1 AC 599, p. 616 : (1991) 3 WLR 767 : (1991) 4 All ER 481 at p. 484 (HL)]
74. Our view is supported by the judgment of the European Commission of Human Rights in C.R. v. United Kingdom [C.R. v. United Kingdom, ECHR, Ser. A. No. 335-C (1995) : (1995) 21 EHRR 363] which endorsed the conclusion that a rapist remains a rapist regardless of his relationship with the victim. Importantly, it acknowledged that this change in the common law was in accordance with the fundamental objectives of the Convention on Human Rights, the very essence of which is respect for human rights, dignity and freedom. This was given statutory recognition in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, 1994."
The pronouncement in Yusuf Abdul Aziz v. the State of Bombay, 1954 SCR 930 was toppled over in Joseph Shine v. Union of India, 2018, wherein the Court moored the spotlight on the State, making it hark back to its legitimate interest in regulating many aspects of marriage. Albeit concerning Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code, 1897, the judiciary, while hinging the ratio on autonomy over one's sexuality, laid down the following:
"61…The hallmark of a truly transformative Constitution is that it promotes and engenders societal change. To consider a free citizen as the property of another is an anathema to the ideal of dignity. Section 497 denies the individual identity of a married woman, based on age-old societal stereotypes which characterised women as the property of their spouse. It is the duty of this Court to break these stereotypes and promote a society which regards women as equal citizens in all spheres of life- irrespective of whether these spheres may be regarded as 'public' or 'private'."
The importance of acknowledging the impact of recognition or invisibilising differences on the lives of women was foregrounded in this case.
"14….The true purpose of affirmative action is to uplift women and empower them in socio-economic spheres. A legislation which takes away the rights of women to prosecute cannot be termed as "beneficial legislation"."
The Court downright rejected the stereotype-based justification of a woman serving as the husband's property as failing to stand the test inherent in Article 14.
The unifying ideas in the precedents laid above knock off discriminatory legislation that compartmentalises classes based on stereotypes. They exhort us to harness a transformative approach while reading into legislations and probing into their nature, whether it is prejudiced or not. The importance of the disparate impact test gets magnified to study the law's systemic and institutional effects on the benefactors. Before birthing any law for the people in a society riven with stereotypes, its resonance and not the intent needs to be taken into account to echo the waves of change and social justice.
Though the Indian social fabric is intricate, it is not fragile. It is resilient to the winds of time, and that is how it has emerged as the longest surviving living civilization. It is probably high time, and yet not too late, to decry the contagions we imbibed in the process of colonisation but could not rid ourselves of during the decolonising process.
The days of yore might have sustained holiness tailed to matrimony and the enslavement of a woman in wifedom. However, the above notion steadily seems to be losing its hold in the light of the changing power dynamics in a society envisioned upon male values. Present-day dicta are trying to veer clear of the social prescriptions and are restructuring the social environment, refusing to enfranchise women upon the husband's qualifications.
Keeping in mind the above contiguous stances on the bearing of marital status in issues afflicting primarily the female gender, it would serve best if the Apex Court let itself be inspired by the current wave of modernity seeking to unfetter 'wives' from their supposed social obligations and recognising their agency and individuality.
(This article is written by Apoorva Singh and Rini Mehra, students of Campus Law Centre-1, Faculty of Law, Delhi University)
Joseph Shine v. Union of India, (2019) 3 SCC 39 ↑
Ratna Kapur and Brenda Cossman, 'On women, equality and the constitution: through the looking glass of feminism', (1993) National Law School Journal Vol. I 1, 42 ↑
Leela Kasturi, 'Report of the Sub-Committee, Women's Role in the Planned Economy, National Planning Committee Series (1947)' in Maitrayee Chaudhuri Feminism in India (2004). ↑
Ibid at 139. ↑
Id. at 2. ↑
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Q: jQuery AJAX in IE7 and IE8 refreshes the page I am trying to submit a form through ajax using GET method. It works fine in FF, CHROME and other browsers except IE7 and IE8. I am using jQuery 1.6 and I am validating the form using jQuery Validation Plugin 1.10.0
Form is getting validated but when I try to submit it refreshes the page instead of AJAX. In console its not displaying any error
Heres my JS Function
function formSubmit(formID, displayMssgID) {
    jQuery(function($) {
        var qstring = $('#' + formID).serialize();
        jQuery.validator.addMethod("notEqual", function(value, element, param) {
              return this.optional(element) || value != param;
            }, "Please enter your name.");
        var val = $('#' + formID).validate( {
            rules : {
                Mobile : {
                    number : true,
                    minlength : 8
                },
                Name: {
                    required: true,
                    notEqual: "Name"
                }
            }
        }).form();
        if (val) {
            $('.overlayss').fadeIn();
            $('#prospectLoading').fadeIn();
            $('#prospectLoading').append('
 Registering your Request ...
Please Wait ...
 ');
            $.ajax( {
                url : "index.php",
                data : qstring,
                cache:false,
                success : function(data) {

//                  resetFormFields(formID);
                    if(formID == 'siteVisit'){
                        $('#cart ul').html('');
                    }

                    //$('#' + displayMssgID).html('');
                    $('#prospectLoading').html('');
                    $('#prospectLoading').append(data);
                    //$('#' + displayMssgID).append(data);
                    window.setTimeout(function() {
                        $('#prospectLoading').html('');
                        $('.overlayss').fadeOut();
                        $('#prospectLoading').fadeOut();
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                }
            });
        }
    });
}

You can check the live example on this link http://www.silverline-group.com/projects/Bangalore-Properties.html
Fill up the form on the right sidebar in IE7 or IE8.
Am I doing anything wrong? Or is the validation plugin causing this problem.

A: i had same problem in IE7 when i used Jquery validation plugin 1.10.0 for my form control validation.
name attribute is not required for it to work anymore.
JQUERY PLUGIN VALIDATION
Another important thing,ID and Name must be specified for the elements you are validating as well as for the form and submit button. While FF and Chrome works without these, IE doesn't.
The tab-out validation does work without the name, but not the form submit validation.

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Teaching is tough and to think that we now need to add one more "thing" to teach can be daunting, but teaching growth mindset isn't a lesson; it is part of every lesson. If we can help our students gain a growth mindset, we are helping them tackle those tough standardized tests, equivalent fractions (eeeks), the standards, and all that jazz. So you are thinking.....great, this sounds wonderful....but how? Over the last few years, I have incorporated several ideas. I hope you can use a few in your room.
Whether you use ClassDojo in the classroom or not as a classroom management tool, you NEED these videos in your life! I have shown this particular set of videos for 3 years now and they help foster some amazing discussions! Each video is just about 5 minutes long and I show them one per day after my students come in all hot and sweaty (ew) from recess. It is the perfect length to allow them to cool down, calm down and get refocused. The first few videos are titled "Your Brain is like a Muscle," "The Magic of Mistakes" and my favorite, "The incredible Power of Yet." You can find this particular ClassDojo Growth Mindset video series here. While we watch the video, I jot down a question or two for a short discussion.
I find as many opportunities during the rest of the day to reinforce the question we discussed during all our lessons. In the second video above, Mojo (the main character) learns about the "Magic of Mistakes." After each video their is a discussion question. After our initial discussion, I try to reinforce our thoughts throughout the day/week. In this particular video the discussion at the end is that "mistakes make us stronger." I try to model this as often as possible. When I lose my Smartboard remote, I point it out and talk about how I should always put it in the "special spot" I have for my remote. I make a point to talk about this outloud everytime I put my remote away and how when I lost it earlier, I learned from my mistakes. When one of the students make a mistake (and they personally make it audible or visible to the class) I try to ask them what they learned from their mistake. If they can't think of anything, I pose the question to the class. I usually get responses like, "Now, we know the answer isn't __." or "Next time we will go back and check before ...." Although I would never point out someone's mistake purposely, I have plenty of opportunity because my students tend to blurt out when they make a mistake.
One of the discussions we always have is one of past experiences at home and school. We talk about how when they were a toddler, they didn't know all their ABCs and how to read, but now they do! This helps them understand that our minds can grow. Another experience that most have had is bike riding. We talk about how they grow from tricycles, to training wheels, to no training wheels but falling a lot, and then finally riding on their own. This helps them see that learning is a process. Sometimes it takes many steps and sometimes many failures before you can succeed.
I simply love this video of this squirrel faced with a challenge to remind my students it will take several tries and attempts to learn something, and then we don't exactly master it the first time either! What a great cool down video as they are coming back from recess.
Discuss with your students how their "talk" can be positive or negative. When we speak to ourselves with a positive attitude, we are more likely to be able to tackle harder tasks. I love this anchor chart from Janna Finch on Twitter.
We can also take our negative talk and turn it into something positive with "The Power of Yet." When I catch my students saying a negative statement, "I don't know how to do this." I add YET! at the end and repeat it, "I don't know how to do this YET!" It doesn't take long for my students to catch on and start adding YET to each others' sentences. It's a lovely thing! We are now changing our talk and turning a positive into a negative. I love having this Growth Mindset bulletin board display up in my classroom for my students to be reminded daily, and it is also an easy reference for me now because rather than saying anything outloud, I can just point. (Saving my teacher voice! Woor woot!) One teacher said, "I love this and I am surprised at how often my kiddos refer back to it! Fantastic!"
You can use any lesson (spelling, reading rate, even a writing sample) as the proof that your students can have a growth mindset. I like using math facts as my proof just due to the fact that it is quick and easy proof. I test my students on their multiplication facts the first week of school. I of course do not take a grade and they actually check the paper themselves. This information is for them. They get very upset thinking that they "don't know" all the answers and that they are going to fail 3rd grade, but I have them paste it into their own data binders and have them keep their work sample. This helps them understand that the information is for them and not me! After we begin practicing some of their multiplication facts, we test our knowledge again in a few weeks. I don't test them often throughout the year, but I do test them at least 5 times during the year so they can see their progress.
Seeing themselves as learners that can grow is the whole point of this data. It isn't for me (although I do love seeing what they have accomplished). After each testing session, I have them go back to their previous tests to compare. Then we discuss how our minds have grown and how we may not know all the answers YET, but someday we will. The students see how they didn't know many of the answers (YET) at the beginning of the year, but now they are learning more and more.
The Growth Mindset Power of Yet bulletin board display is available on TpT.
I have just had a student leave the school, out of my class (a geography thing, not dissatisfaction), who was quite open about her stance on growth mindset: "Nope, I don't care about getting smarter. This is too hard, so I just can't do it." When I reminded her about previous experiences where she had persevered and succeeded she would say, "Yeah, but I don't care about that this time." In the end I had to let her know I was not going to allow her to take that attitude, and I was going to require her to have a go. Teaching is a tough gig some days!
It absolutely is a tough job Tracy! What an amazing teacher you are though. You NEVER gave up on her. You never know what impact that may have in her future!
I like the tips which you have given to the teacher about the perfect way of teaching in a good and friendly atmosphere.I will be following it in my class too.
Awesome! I am so glad you found the tips helpful.
I am a third grade teacher, and I'm always trying to find new ways to promote and teach growth mindset in my classroom. I love the Class Dojo videos you mention - I had not know about these resources before.
I also really liked your ideas about using past experiences and changing your talk. I have found that we, as teachers, can be such powerful models for our students with the language we use, and I love finding those "teachable moments" when I make a mistake on something and can use the opportunity to show my students that we are all still learning and growing!
Thanks so much! I am so thrilled this was helpful to you! Have a wonderful upcoming school year.


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The Other Naughty Piglet is coming to Victoria's Other Palace Theatre
Written by Nancy Smallwood
Brixton neighbourhood restaurant Naughty Piglets is set to open a second restaurant in Victoria, and they'll be co-running it with none other than Andrew Lloyd Webber, with former The Clove Club's Joe Knowlden as head chef.
As the story goes, musical theatre impresario had dinner at Naughty Piglets and was so impressed with the whole affair that he suggested they take over the soon to be revamped St James Theatre's in-house restaurant. That's closing, to be renamed The Other Palace after a big refurb (as it's quite near the Victoria Palace theatre and Buckingham Palace).
Now, the Brixton couple are in the process of redoing the over the entire first floor, which we hear is under heavy construction as they get ready for the big launch in early February. There'll be 60 covers, with a large open kitchen, plus the original theatre bar.
The menu will offer more choice than Naughty Piglets, although very much in the same vein, and ditto for the wine list. As soon as we hear more about the new menu we'll add details but here's what's appeared on the menu in the Brixton original:
Lamb chops, fried cheek, mustard greens & anchovy
Blade of beef, celeriac , Ox hearts, Shimeji mushrooms .
Scallops, cauliflower purée, lardo, chamomile jelly,
Devon crab, peanut, picked cabbage , dashi .
Later on in the year, you can expect to see some wine-focused dinners, with a winemaker brought in for a special dinner based around the region they, and their wine, come from.
The Other Naughty Piglet will open on 13 February at The Other Palace theatre, 12 Palace St, Westminster, London, SW1E 5JA. There'll be a 50% soft launch discount for the week. Follow Naughty Piglets on Twitter @naughtypiglets and Instagram @naughtypiglets.


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Feingold hints at Senate run
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 3:42 pm on June 2, 2011
Will Russ Feingold try to get back into the Senate, now that his longtime colleague Herb Kohl has decided to retire? Or will he inadvertently bigfoot other Democrats and damage prospects for a Democratic hold on the seat? Feingold said that he's considering all of these questions in the first indication that he has an interest in defending the open Wisconsin seat:
"I am looking at it, but I feel I should take some time to think this through," said Feingold, the former senator who was defeated last fall for re-election after three terms. "For me the question right now is whether it's a good idea for me to go back into this sort of life."
After spending 28 years in the Wisconsin Legislature and U.S. Senate, Feingold called his break from politics "a healthy one for me to be doing something different at this point in my life."
Feingold said he has been approached by Democrats in Wisconsin about running either for Senate or for governor. Republican Gov. Scott Walker isn't up for re-election until 2014, though Democrats may try force a recall election next year. The Senate seat will be open because Kohl, a four-term Democrat, plans to retire after 2012. Feingold has had little to say until now about his potential interest in the seat. …
Feingold said Thursday he didn't want to draw out his decision in a way that slows down other Democratic candidates.
"My goal here is to make sure a Democrat wins this seat" and make sure it's "somebody who will be a good representative of the progressive tradition in Wisconsin."
I'm not sure if Feingold noticed it, but the "progressive tradition" took a beating in Wisconsin last November. Feingold lost his own election by seven points to newcomer Ron Johnson, who explicitly ran against Feingold's progressivism. Republicans took control of the state government by winning control of both chambers in the legislature and the gubernatorial race. The GOP-run government just announced a biennial budget that comes within $32 million of being in balance, the best proposal in over 15 years — and second place went to a Democrat proposal that came in at $1.5 billion in the red.
The Journal-Sentinel reports that Feingold polls well against other Republicans, referring to a PPP poll from last week. The poll has a D+5 sample advantage (37/32), but the exit polls from Wisconsin in the 2010 election showed a near tie, 37/36 Democrats. Feingold had a ten-point advantage in the poll which outstrips the sample advantage, but the more hard-Left Tammy Baldwin is shown as coming within a point of Thompson, which tends to give less confidence in the overall results. Furthermore, the other Republicans in the race have barely had a chance to become known yet.
Does anyone think that a state that narrowly rejected JoAnne Kloppenburg for the Supreme Court just weeks after the turmoil in Madison will hand the Senate seat to Tammy Baldwin or Russ Feingold? Neither do I, and as the dust settles from the PEU reform and the GOP budget gets implemented, the "progressive tradition" in Wisconsin will become even more of a liability.


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Louisiana Travel Information
By Zak
Louisiana became a part of the United States through the famous Louisiana Purchase. Named by Rene-Robert Cavelier, who claimed the territory for France, Louisiana means "Land of Louis" and was meant to honor King Louis XIV of France. Located in the southern portion of the United States, Louisiana is known for its ethnic diversity.
Because of its history, being at various times part of both the Spanish and the French empires as well as a history of slave trade, Louisiana is home to large Spanish, French and African American populations. While the largest city in the state is New Orleans, the capital is Baton Rouge.
Louisiana is the only state in the union to not divide itself into counties; instead it has divided itself into numerous parishes that function much like the county of other states. In recent years, Louisiana has been devastated by several hurricanes, most notably Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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Beijing bans exports of Chinese military grade processors to Russia
Tuesday, December 13, 2022 11:10:15 AM
The Chinese government has banned exports of Loongson processors, which use proprietary LoongArch architecture, to Russia, reports the Russian newspaper Kommersant.
The reason for the ban was that this technology was deemed strategically important by the Chinese authorities since it is used in the defense industry. Russian electronics manufacturers have already tested these Chinese processors in case the shipments of American Intel and AMD processors are blocked.
Kommersant notes that now it …
China suspected of providing military assistance to Russia
Monday, November 28, 2022 3:30:44 PM
China is reportedly providing military assistance to Russia. Russian An-124 Ruslan planes are flying almost daily to China and returning to Moscow the same day, reports the Ukrainian military news website Defence Express.
Flights to China of the cargo planes belonging to the Russian company Volga-Dnepr have been regularly reported by the freight tracking online services. According to Defence Express, some flights have been carried out secretly with Russian cargo planes flying with their …
Kazakhstan blocks supplies of Russian grain to Central Asia and China
Monday, November 14, 2022 11:00:00 AM
The Russian national railway company Russian Railways has asked Kazakhstan to reduce transit tariffs. Russia exports grain and other goods to the countries of Central Asia and China through Kazakhstan.
According to the Russian newspaper Vedomosti, in September the Russian Railways sent a letter to Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (Kazakhstani Railways) asking to reduce the tariffs but there have been no changes since then. On November 8, as the publication indicates, tariffs were discussed at a closed …
Chinese Huawei preparing to leave Russia
The Chinese manufacture company Huawei intends to leave the Russian market and is suspending it works with local counterparties. The manufacturer of smartphones and electronics intends to close its head office. The company has also stopped supplying new products to the Russian market, focusing on selling off the remaining inventory, reports the Russian newspaper Izvestia, citing its sources
"Huawei really does not supply its devices to Russia directly now," one of the sources close to one of …
China to send troops to Russia for joint military exercises
Wednesday, August 17, 2022 11:00:56 AM
China will send a contingent of its troops to Russia to participate in joint military exercises involving several other countries, including India, Belarus, Mongolia and Tajikistan, reports Radio Liberty, citing the Chinese Ministry of Defense.
According to the statement of the Chinese Defense Ministry, China's participation in the joint exercises "is not related to the current international and regional situation," probably implying a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, …
Zelensky: China can convince Russia to stop the war in Ukraine
Thursday, August 4, 2022 10:00:33 AM
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is looking for an opportunity to talk directly with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
"I would like to talk to the Chinese president directly. I had one conversation with Xi Jinping, that was a year ago. Since the beginning of the Russian large-scale aggression on February 24, we have officially asked for a conversation, but we have not had a single conversation with China, although I believe that this would be useful," the Ukrainian President said in an …
Russia says it's ready to help China in the event of an armed conflict with Taiwan
Wednesday, August 3, 2022 5:05:54 PM
Russia is ready to provide military assistance to China in the event of an armed conflict with Taiwan, said the First Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Vladimir Dzhabarov.
"I see no reason to refuse to help the Chinese. But I would like this interaction with China to be bilateral, that is, we should get some benefit from this cooperation," he said.
"In principle, nothing is impossible. We understand that sometimes it is a matter of chance. …
As part of secret agreements Russia avoids bombing Chinese-owned facilities in Ukraine
Russia avoids bombing Chinese-owned facilities Ukraine, reports the Ukrainian news website Nashi Groshi (Our Money).
According to media reports, this is due to non-public agreements between Russia and China in which China promised to avoid taking any side in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
At the beginning of the invasion, Beijing allegedly managed to negotiate with Moscow a permission to continue to independently manage its interests in Ukraine, regardless of the outcome of the war.
It is …
China's President declines Putin's invitation to visit Russia
Wednesday, July 6, 2022 12:01:00 PM
Chinese leader Xi Jinping declined the invitation of Russian president Vladimir Putin to visit Russia, reported the Japanese newspaper Yeimuri Shimbun.
Putin invited Xi Jinping to visit Russia during a private conversation that took place on June 15.
The head of the Chinese Communist Party refused, explaining that in the near future "it will be difficult to do this" allegedly because of coronavirus restrictions.
At the same time, Japanese journalists believe that in fact the reason was that …
US State Department says China on wrong side of history for backing Russia
Thursday, June 16, 2022 9:33:00 AM
After Chinese President Xi Jinping declared his support for Russia's "sovereignty and security" during a Wednesday phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the US State Department said countries siding with the Kremlin over the invasion of Ukraine will be "on the wrong side of history", the Washington Post reported.
Xi said China is "willing to work with Russia to continue supporting each other on their respective core interests concerning sovereignty and security," according to …


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Scenes from Wonder Woman being named UN ambassador
The DC Comics heroine is honored at a United Nations ceremony featuring appearances by Wonder Woman actresses Lynda Carter and Gal Gadot.
Oct. 21, 2016 3:59 p.m. PT
On Friday, Wonder Woman's 75th birthday, the iconic character was named the United Nations' Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls.
Here, "Wonder Woman" actresses Lynda Carter, from the 1970s TV series, and Gal Gadot, from the 2017 "Wonder Woman" film, pose with the United Nations' designation at the
UN's Manhattan headquarters.
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DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson, Lynda Carter, Gal Gadot, UN Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information Cristina Gallach and "Wonder Woman" director Patty Jenkins as Friday's ceremony began.
A Wonder Woman-themed backdrop calls attention to the designation.
Many children attended Friday's event, and both Lynda Carter and Gal Gadot waved to them often during the ceremony.
Cristina Gallach, UN Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, described the designation as one way the United Nations hopes to reach the widest possible audience when promoting gender equality.
DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson said a 2017 comic book will come out as part of the campaign, and for the first time in the company's history, it will be simultaneously published in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish.
Lynda Carter's speech drew several standing ovations, and actress Gal Gadot complimented her fellow Wonder Woman actress by saying she should run for president of the United States.
Gal Gadot spoke of being honored to portray the character, noting Wonder Woman's vision of a future with peace and acceptance.
UN Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information Cristina Gallach (right) officially presented the designation to DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson.
Tables at the Friday event displayed a #WithWonderWoman hashtag.
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