Whenever you come to Ha Long Bay, do not forget to pay a visit to Titop (or Titov) island, only 2km from Surprise Cave and about 7 – 8 km from Bai Chay Wharf. Leaning against the Cua Luc bay, Titop Island comprises a gorgeous view with Bo Hon Island in front and Dam Nam Island in the right. Located in Ha Long area, the crescent-shaped island is becoming well-known not only for its breath-taking seascape but a variety of beach activities as well.
The name 'Titop' itself has a story behind. In 19th century, the island is called "Cat Nang". In 1962, President Ho Chi Minh and a former Soviet Union astronaut had an unexpected trip there. Dedicated to friendly relationship between two countries, the island is named after his companion, Gherman Titov.
Small though it might be, the crescent-shaped island wins tourists' hearts for quiet and airy atmosphere, crystal and warm water, as well as spectacular panoramic view captured when you are at the peak. The winding snow white sandbank encompassing the island even makes it more special.
The beach boasts pristine white sand, clear water and small waves, which make it ideal for some adventurous sea sports besides swimming such as: parachuting, diving, sea motorcycle, etc.
Titop island has coast with one side being abrupt and another side being smooth sands slopping gently to the sea. For that reason, tourists have the chance to enjoy relaxing moment not only when lying down at the beach but when climbing to the highest spot of the island and taking a panoramic view of cruises Ha Long Bay at the height of 100m from the sea.
Titop island with complex of beauty is on the way to become one of the highlighted spots which is must-see in Ha Long Bay. Thanks to the prominent advantages, Ti top island becomes an ideal destination that attracts thousands of tourists to visit every year, especially international tourists.
To visit this wonderful island besides enjoying Ha Long Bay, if you are a fan of backpacking, you can easily book ticket, bus, hotels by yourself there. Otherwise if you love to enjoy a better comprehensive vacation, you can book a tour via a traveling agency online or in Hanoi for a cruise such as Indochina Sails cruise, Violet cruise, or Jasmine cruise, etc. Titop Island welcomes tourists for all seasons to come and enjoy its scenic beauty and interesting outdoor activities.


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I (24F) am feeling both concern and frustration towards my boyfriend's (24M) health issues.
TLDR: I'm feeling repeatedly let down by my boyfriend because he cancels on our plans together due to his very intense headaches. I've noticed that the past five times that this has happened, we've had plans to go to a party together. Am I being selfish in feeling frustrated and doubtful of him when he initially says he wants to go with me and then cancels, and should I be more empathetic and considerate of him and just focus on him getting better? Or is there a way for me to talk to him about this, without hurting his feelings or pushing him away?
I've been dating my boyfriend for a little over three years, and we were close friends for four years before that. Our relationship has been amazing, we've had our conflicts but we've both been really good about talking it through and supporting each other, and we truly care for each other. I'm not sure how to go about this latest issue though, which is why I could really use some advice.
My boyfriend tends to fall sick much more often than I do, at least once every two to three months he'll be sick with a cold and as a result has cancelled many plans with me in the past because of it. On top of that, over the past two and a half years, my boyfriend has also been occasionally suffering from these intense headaches, so intense that he sometimes takes whole weekends to rest and recover from them. One time last year his headache lasted an entire month and it was really rough (I explain more below).
We're in a semi long distance relationship (an hour or so drive away from each other), plus we both work full time so we only see each other once during the week and on the weekends. Every time he's gotten these headaches, he's had to cancel our weekend plans, and on top of my growing concern for his well being, I do feel sad that I won't get to spend any time with him that weekend and that I have to wait to see him until the following week. But I don't want to make his headaches about me, since he's the one who's dealing with them, and it's not like he can control them. So I try to be as kind and understanding as I can be, by offering to bring him anything he needs, offering to take care of any of his errands, or just being there for him in any way he wants so that he can just focus on resting and feeling better. I try my best not to let my disappoint show through. He never takes me up on my offers but I think he appreciates the support and consideration.
During the time last year when his headache was constant for whole month or so, I urged him to see a doctor for it. It took a lot of pushing on my part, and it seemed like he just didn't really want to think about it or deal with it. He admitted that he was a bit embarrassed that he would have these headaches that were so bad that he would have to lay in bed entire weekends in order to feel better. And as much as I tried to be empathetic and supportive, we clashed a lot because I wanted him to do something about his headaches and figure out what was causing them, and he didn't really want to, but finally he came around and saw a doctor. The first doctor he saw wasn't able to offer any insights, all of his tests came back normal, and he was just told to drink more water because apparently he was dehydrated. But after this visit he decided that the best course of action was to just take care of himself more by eating better and more regularly, as well as exercising more regularly too. To his credit, he has kept both up since last year and continues to do what he can to keep himself healthy.
The headaches persisted, so I suggested that maybe he should get his eyes checked. He went to an optometrist, and sure enough, he was wearing glasses with an entirely incorrect prescription. Not just off by a few numbers here and there, but completely off; I don't really know how he could see through those glasses. He got it corrected and for a while, his really intense headaches disappeared. He would still occasionally have a headache if he hadn't slept well or was otherwise sick, but they were more manageable for him and he would still be able to spend time with me. Then this year, for the last month and a half, the headaches have been coming and going, with varying intensities. He decided to see an optometrist again recently and his glasses prescription did get worse by just a small amount, so he ordered new lenses. Those glasses haven't arrived yet, but he wears his contacts for 90% of his day anyways (which are the correct prescription), so I'm not so sure that his glasses are causing them.
During these years that he's been dealing with the headaches, we've been trying to figure out what else could be causing them, but they don't seem to be linked to the amount of sleep he gets, or how stressed out he is, because even when he's well rested and has had an easier week at work, he still gets them. It's worth mentioning that he's a software engineer so he spends about 40 hours a week staring at a computer screen (plus additional screen time outside of work), and I think his headaches could possibly be linked to that, especially since his vision has gotten slightly worse since he started working. But there hasn't been a solid correlation between his headaches and anything else, so we still have no idea what's actually causing them, they seem to happen randomly. It's been driving me crazy because I don't want him to suffer and I wish we knew if there was something he could do to prevent them, and I'm sure he feels the same way, but when we talk about it he just chalks it up to lack of sleep or a stressful week at work, decides he shouldn't worry about it too much and just needs to sleep it off, and the conversation gets left at that.
I want him to feel better and to enjoy his free time on the weekends, but I feel really guilty that a part of me also wants him to get better for my sake. I would love for him to hang out with and get to know my friends and my coworkers, and so every now and then I'll invite him to things. I try to be very mindful of how often I ask him to go with me to things, and intentionally keep the frequency low because he's more introverted than I am and I don't want him to feel bad for saying no to me too much. I've also tried to be careful of not unintentionally pressuring him to come just because I want him to, and I've always been very clear that I would be okay with him saying no for any reason. For the past two years, I have invited him to a total of six events, with the seventh one being my friend's St Patrick's day party this past weekend (excluding two additional events with my family), but he's only ever come with me to two out of 7. It's been almost a year since he last came with me to anything.


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Posted 8:50 am, April 24, 2018, by Dallas Franklin and Cassandra Sweetman, Updated at 08:54AM, April 24, 2018
CRAIG COUNTY, Okla. – After 18 years, authorities say they now know who is responsible for killing an Oklahoma couple and kidnapping two teen girls.
Lauria Bible and her friend Ashley Freeman, both 16, disappeared on December 30, 1999 from Welch, Okla.
Lauria was at Ashley's home for a sleepover.
That night, the Freeman's mobile home went up in flames, and the charred remains of Ashley's parents, Danny and Kathy Freeman, were found inside.
Danny and Kathy both suffered gunshot wounds to the head, an autopsy showed.
But Lauria and Ashley were nowhere to be found.
Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible (family photo)
The Craig County sheriff called OSBI special agents to help investigate.
For years, agents and many other investigators followed numerous leads, interviewing a multitude of possible witnesses and suspects while searching wells and other possible burial sites.
More than 12 people kept their mouths shut in case of Oklahoma girls missing since 1999
In December 2017, officials said they discovered new leads that could be a turning point in the case.
In December 2017, Craig County Sheriff Heath Winfrey provided investigators with previously unknown notes and documents he discovered referencing the Freeman/Bible case left from the previous sheriff's administration.
Authorities identify man arrested in connection to case of 2 Oklahoma girls missing since 1999
Those notes and documents have proven extremely valuable.
The probable cause affidavit states the documents contained "some information pertaining to Warren Phillip "Phil" Welch II, David Pennington, and Ronnie Busick, as being involved in the murders and missing girls. The crate also contained names of individuals that may possess information."
An OSBI agent and District 12 District Attorney's Office investigator interviewed several people who possessed knowledge about the murders and the missing girls.
Through those interviews, investigators determined Welch, Pennington and Busick murdered Danny and Kathy Freeman, set their home on fire, and kidnapped Ashley and Lauria, and eventually killed them as well.
Warren Phllip Welch (deceased), Ronnie Busick and David Pennington (deceased), are suspected in the 1999 disappearance of two Oklahoma girls.
More than 12 people kept their mouths shut about the murders
Court documents reveal more than a dozen people said they knew or had even seen evidence of the crimes.
More than a dozen interviews are cited in the probable cause affidavit.
Many of those interviewed apparently dated and lived with the accused men.
Suspect in custody in connection to case of 2 Oklahoma girls missing since 1999
All of the witnesses said either Phil Welch, David Pennington, or Ronnie Busick bragged about the murders, and threatened to kill anyone who went to police.
Welch and Pennington were allegedly known to cook methamphetamine together, and several of those interviewed reported the three killed the Freemans over money owed for drugs.
A woman identified as TW lived with Phil Welch in the months following the murders.
She stated she heard conversations between the three men in which they implied "the people 'who were killed in Welch, Oklahoma, had owed them money and had been murdered for that debt. They had taken the two girls that were missing from Welch with them and eventually killed them. Pennington and Busick indicated they had set fire to the home of the murdered people.'"
She also told police she discovered Welch had briefcase full of Polaroids of the girls bound and gagged with duct tape, lying on a bed she recognized to be his, and "in some of the Polaroids she observed Welch lying next to the girls."
TW told investigators she confronted Welch about it and he told her, "don't you ever tell anybody or you will end up in a pit in Picher (OK) like those two girls."
A friend of TW, identified as CM in court documents, said TW showed her a Polaroid of the two girls on a bed, bound and gagged, facing each other, and said they looked "emaciated."
She said Welch threatened to kill her and her children several times, and throw them in the same pit as the two girls.
A woman who lived with Pennington, identified as LE told investigators he talked about the missing girls all the time she was with him.
The affidavit states LE said he called it a "bad drug deal," and that he "told her that if she ever left him that he would kill her too."
RE, the son of LE, told investigators while he and his mother were living with Pennington, Welch and Pennington showed him the Polaroids of the girls and "told him that they killed the girls by strangling them."
Witnesses reportedly overheard Welch and Pennington talking about the girls and said "if they wouldn't have taken off running…they would still be alive."
A man identified as RH said Busick admitted to him his involvement in the murders and the missing girls.
According to the affidavit, RH stated that "Busick told him about how the girls were tied up in a trailer house in Picher where they were raped and tortured."
He said Busick told him Welch was the shooter the night the Freemans were killed, but that Busick and Pennington stayed behind and started the fire.
RH said Welch threatened to kill him as well.
A man identified as JR was interviewed while he was incarcerated, and told investigators he walked into a trailer while Pennington, Welch, and Busick and one other unnamed man were looking at the Polaroids of the girls.
Others interviewed include friends of one or all of the men accused, friends of their lovers, and even Pennington's brother.
No one investigators spoke to could say where the Polaroids are today.
Some witnesses reported they were told by the three men the girls were thrown in a pit, others that they were dropped down a mine shaft in Picher, "later covered in concrete."
Witnesses told investigators that Welch had nailed the teens' missing poster to a wall of his mobile home.
Private Investigators Allegedly Told To Stop Investigating the Case
Throughout the interviews, the OSBI and DA investigators learned a private investigative team had also begun an investigation immediately following the incident.
Joe Dugan, a private investigator living in Miami, OK, and his partner Tom Pryor had interviewed several people and discovered one of Welch's ex-girlfriends' car insurance verification form near the Freeman's burned down house.
The vehicle the insurance card was registered to was thought to be the car the men were driving when they kidnapped the girls.
When the OSBI/DA team went looking for the Dugan and Pryor, they discovered Dugan had died in 2009.
Pryor told them Dugan's family tried to give the files on the Freeman case to the Craig County Sheriff's Office, but that the sheriff's office refused to take them at the time.
Eventually the family destroyed the records.
Pryor also said he was told by law enforcement to stop investigating the case.
The Arrest of Busick
On Sunday, authorities arrested Ronnie Dean Busick, 66, for the crimes.
He's charged with four counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping, and one count of arson.
Ronnie Dean Busick
Welch and Pennington both died during the investigation.
In 2017, investigators interviewed Ronnie Busick three times before he was arrested.
At first, the affidavit states that when Busick was asked about Welch, "his response was that the name 'sounds familiar,'" that he "remembers the name."
As the interviews continued, he admitted that the three of them "were pretty tight back in those days."
When asked about the murders, he went from saying he remembered hearing about them on the news, to conceding that Welch was probably responsible and that Pennington may have been as well.
The investigators criticized him for never directly denying he was involved when they accused him of being there the night the Freemans were killed.
After that, the affidavit shows he vacillated between denying his involvement and claiming he couldn't remember.
The final interview with Busick was conducted November 2, 2017.
It lasted several hours, during which time he was primarily interrogated by OSBI Agent Michael Dean.
The affidavit states Dean asked him what was keeping him from being truthful, if it was fear of what his (Busick's) sister would think.
The affidavit states "Busick responded by stating, 'Well yeah.' Later Agent Dean stated, 'You're scared of what your sister would think about you if you told truth. That's what it is, right?' Busick responded, 'yeah.'"
The affidavit states that "Agent Dean told Busick that he believes this has been 'eating' at him for the past 17 years and that he would be in relief once he told the truth. Busick would listen and nod, but never disclosed his involvement."
Where Are The Teens' Bodies?
Investigators say this case is not yet over.
They are still searching for Ashley and Lauria's remains.
Authorities believe there are people who may have information that could lead them to the girls.
Anyone with information is urged to call the OSBI at 1-800-522-8017 or email at tips@osbi.ok.gov.
Officials said the private reward of $50,000 still stands for information related to the location of the girls.
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UCI-led research advances potential for decreasing post-stroke disability
Home-based telerehabilitation is just as effective as clinic-based therapy at restoring arm function among stroke survivors, according a research presented by UCI Health stroke neurologist Steven C. Cramer MD, MMSc, at the American Stroke Association's 2019 International Stroke Conference in Honolulu.
"Many patients receive suboptimal rehabilitation therapy doses after stroke due to limited access to therapists and difficulty with transportation," said Cramer, the study's lead author and professor of Neurology, Anatomy & Neurobiology, and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the University of California, Irvine. "This can be addressed by telehealth, which enables patients to access high doses of rehabilitation therapy in their home."
Researchers conducted a randomized, assessor-blinded, non-inferiority trial with 124 stroke survivors, average age 61, at 11 U.S. StrokeNet Clinical Trial Network sites. Survivors underwent six weeks of intensive rehabilitation therapy targeting arm weakness. Each was randomized to receive therapy either in the clinic using traditional methods or in their home using a telerehabilitation system.
"A computer-based telerehabilitation system delivered to patient's homes uses 'game-ified' therapy activities, exercises and educational sessions, such as 'Stroke Jeopardy,' " Cramer said. "Therapists can assess progress via videoconference. In clinic-based therapy, patients drive to the clinic and perform standard exercises and therapeutic activities with a therapist without a computer and without 'game-ification' of these activities."
Compliance was high and similar between both groups. Arm function improved substantially and equivalently in both groups.
"We demonstrated that home-based telehealth methods provide comparable benefits to traditional in-clinic methods," Cramer said. "In the future, telehealth approaches to post-stroke rehabilitation might help patients reduce disability by accessing large doses of therapy."
Co-authors are from The NIH StrokeNet Telerehab. The National Institutes of Health funded the study.
Cramer's research has had a longstanding focus on neural plasticity and stroke rehabilitation.
"Stroke remains a major source of human disability and new treatments are needed that can reduce this," Cramer said. "Approved therapies such as tPA are only accessed by a small percentage of patients, in part due to the narrow time window when they are eligible to receive it. We need therapies that have a wide time window that can be accessed by most patients and that reduce disability."
He said increased attention has been paid to restorative therapies, which aim to promote brain repair and neural plasticity and thereby reduce disability.
In 2017, Cramer received the received the International Stroke Conference Stroke Rehabilitation Award for research into the use of monoclonal antibodies in stroke rehabilitation.
"One category of brain repair therapy is monoclonal antibodies, a therapeutic class that has changed the face of therapy for arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, many cancers, psoriasis, and more," Cramer said. The objective is to change activity in a key biochemical pathway after stroke as has been successful in these diseases, he said.
According to the American Stroke Association stroke is the No. 2 cause of death worldwide and a leading cause of serious disability. The Association's annual International Stroke Conference in is the premier meeting dedicated to the science and treatment of cerebrovascular disease for researchers and clinicians.
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This chapter applies to disruptions of adoptive placements which occur prior to an Adoption Order having been made. Where a disruption takes place after an Adoption Order has been made, a Disruption Meeting may be held as part of the adoption support provided to the child and adoptive family - see Adoption Support Procedure - in which case the principles of this chapter may be followed.
Also see Placement for Adoption Procedure.
Where an agency adoptive placement breaks down prior to the granting of an Adoption Order, a Disruption Meeting must be held to identify the reasons for the breakdown and to learn lessons from the events surrounding the breakdown.
The Disruption Meeting will be held no sooner than 28 days after and no later than 42 days after the placement breaking down, and will follow a set agenda.
The Adoption Manager will arrange for the meeting to be chaired by an independent person.
2. The Disruption Meeting will be convened by the child's adoption social worker in consultation with their supervisor, who will invite the prospective adoptive parents, the supervising social worker for the adopters, the current carers, the child's Independent Reviewing Officer and any other relevant people. The Practice Supervisor for both the child's adoption social worker and the prospective adopters' supervising social worker must also attend. The child's social worker will also ensure that the child's views and feelings are given to the meeting in the most appropriate way.
Where the child is subject to a Placement Order, the need to seek revocation of the Order.
Lessons for future, points for future planning.
The child's adoption social worker and the prospective adopters' supervising social worker for an in-house approved family should attend the Adoption Panel to present a report from the Disruption Meeting. The Panel should also receive copies of the Panel minutes recommending the adoption plan for the child, the prospective adopters' approval and the placement with the particular prospective adopters, to enable learning points to be shared.
The child's adoption social worker should contact the Panel Administrator to book a date for the Adoption Panel to consider the matter and copies of the relevant documents should be sent to the Panel Administrator 3 weeks before the Panel meeting.
5. Where an Adoption Placement Plan is terminated before the adoptive placement takes place, the child's adoption social worker and the adoption supervising social worker for an in-house approved family, or the child's adoption social worker in the case of an inter agency placement, will prepare a report for the Adoption Panel. The report must outline the reasons for the breakdown.
6. In all such cases, the Adoption Panel may consider whether the plan for the child should be reviewed and/or whether the prospective adopters' approval should be reconsidered, and these issues may need to be further investigated and reports be presented to a subsequent meeting.


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Kannauji is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Kannauj region of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Kannauji is closely related to Hindustani, with a lexical similarity of 83–94% with Hindi. Some consider it to be a dialect of Hindustani, whereas others consider it a separate Western Hindi language. Kannauji has at least 9.5 million native speakers as of 2001.

Kannauji shares many structural and functional differences from other dialects of Hindi, but in the Linguistic Survey of India it has been added as a variant of Braj and Awadhi.

Kannauji has two dialects or variants of its own: Tirhari and Transitional Kannauji, which is between standard Kannauji and Awadhi.

Geographical distribution
Kannauji is not a standard dialect of Hindi and can be assumed to be the transitory phase between Braj Bhasha and Awadhi. Eastern parts are heavily influenced by Awadhi whereas Western districts are Braj speaking. Kannauji is predominantly spoken around the historic town of Kannauj in the following districts of the Ganga-Yamuna Doab:

Kannauj
Kanpur Dehat
Kanpur Nagar
Farrukhabad
Auraiya
Etawah
In the non-Doabi areas, it is spoken in Hardoi, western parts of Lakhimpur Kheri and Sitapur districts in Awadh and Shahjahanpur and Pilibhit of Rohilkhand.

A distribution of the geographical area can be found in volume 9 of 'Linguistic Survey of India' by George A. Grierson.

The population of the region is 22,011,017.

Works

Phonology

Consonants

Grammar
There is no published grammar of Kannauji till date, but some of the basic features of Kannauji, which can be observed easily, are as below:

Kannauji is a Prodrop language. In such languages pronouns are dropped for the convenience of the speaker. (This feature includes pronouns of WH category, too.) For example,

 ka: tum huan jaiyo:

can also be said huan jaiyo:

Word formation processes
Word formation processes of Kannauji are more or less like of Hindi, but some processes of word formation of Kannauji are not found in Hindi. Here are the word formation processes of Kannaiji:

Borrowing words
In borrowing something from other language is taken directly into a language. It is a very common and very productive process of word formation.

On the lexical and semantic basis we can divide borrowing in two types:

Lexical borrowing (loan words)
In lexical borrowing a word is directly taken into a language from other language. Lexical borrowing is very common in Kannauji.

Sometimes a word is not borrowed as it is. Some phonetic changes are made to it to match the properties of target language. The word is localised for ease of native speakers. For example:

Semantic borrowing (calque)
In semantic borrowing some concept from another language is taken into a language, but the words used to express that concept are made in the target language. In this type of borrowing concepts/words are localised. For example:

Coining
Coining is a less frequent and a less productive word formation process. In coining meaning of a word is extended up to an extent that it starts being used as a category. Here are some examples of coining.

chyawanpra:sh was a product made by Dabur. After that, many other companies launched their similar products. The name of chyawanpra:sh became so popular that now every such product is known as chyawanpra:sh.
 pachmo:la: When Vaidyanaath launched its digestive tablets it named them pachmo:la:. This product became so popular that afterwards all such products are known as pachmo:la:.

Word formation by addition
In Kannauji new words are formed by inflection old words, too. According to different properties this process is divided into two main types:

Inflection
In inflection a new word is formed from an old word by adding something in it. It is the most common process of word formation in Kannauji. This process is category specific. The grammatical category of a word remains same even after inflection.

For example:

-ini

ladka    +    '-ini' = ladkini

(boy)                 (girl)

Here '–ini' is used to make a feminine form of the word ladka. Here is another example of inflection:

sangi   +     '-ini' =   sangini
(mate- male)             (mate- female)

Derivation-
In derivation, too, new words are formed by old words using affixes. This is a very common process like inflection. There are three types of affixation found in Kannauji.

Prefix
In this type of affixation an affix is inserted initially in a word.
'ap-'
'ap-' + jash → apjash

(evil)    (fame)

'par-'
'par-' + dosh → pardo:sh

(others) (defects)

'ap' and 'par' are prefixes here. New words are being formed by adding them to two old words 'jash' and 'dosh'.

Suffix
In this type of affixation an affix is inserted at the end of a word; this way a new word is formed.

'-aevo'

dikha:na: + -aevo → dikhaevo

(showing)

rakhna: + -aevo → rakhaevo

(keeping)

'-pan'

apna + -pan → apno:pan

(self)

Infix
In this type of affixation an affix inserted somewhere in the middle of the word.

'-la-'
dikh aevo: + -la- → dikhlaevo:

(showing)(making something show by some other person)

'-va-'
hasa evo: + -va-  → hasavaevo:

(to make laugh)(causing people laugh by some other person)

Blending
Blending is the process in which parts of two words (which are already present in that language) are joined to make a new word.

choti: + bit͜ti:  →chotit͜ti:

(small) (girl)

badi: + bit͜ti:  →badit͜ti:

(big)   (girl)

bade: + dad͜da: →badid͜da:

(big)  (brother)

Compounding
In compounding two words are stringed together to form a new word. This process is a common word formation process. This type of formation process is used more by educated persons.

For example:

guru + ghantal = gurughantal

Here gurughantal is made by stringing guru and ghantal and the meaning referred by the stringed word is reflected by the words. Although it is not necessary in every condition. For example:

am͜ma aur dad͜da → am͜ma: dad͜da:

Conversion
Conversion is a very productive but less frequent process of word formation. In this process a word starts being used as another word (having some similar properties).

In this process a word of some grammatical category starts being using as word of other grammatical category, too. Here are some examples of conversion.

wao: baura: hai  (He is a moron)
baurane: kahe: hau: dadda: (Why are you behaving like a moron?)

Baura is an abstract noun. In the first sentence baura: is used as an abstract noun. After conversion it started being used as a verb also, as in the second sentence.

Suppletion
In suppletion another relative form of a word is formed without any morpho-phonological similarities with the previous one. These forms do not relate morphologically or phonologically. For example:

ja:t and gao:

ja:t - ham ja:t hai

gao: - wao gao: hato

'ja:t' is present participle for very 'go' whereas 'gao:' is the past participle form.

Reduplication
Reduplication is a very common process of word formation in Kannauji. Most of the reduplicated forms are made by adjectival and nominal words. This is not a productive type of word formation process; instead it adds stylistic effect in conversation. For example:

ghare-ghare

Here ghare is formed following the word ghare so it is an example of reduplication.

Echo formation
Echo formation is a similar process to reduplication. In echo formation, a similar-sounding word is made from nominal and adjectival. There is no logic behind why this formation is done but it increases the stylistic effectiveness of conversation. For example:

tasla-wasla

Here wasla, a similar-sounding word is formed after word tasla so it is an example of eco formation process. Some other examples are

 haldi-waldi
 ata-wata

Metaphoric expansion-
In metaphor a word is objected on another one because of some similarity. In metaphoric expansion a word is used in different situations and environments due to one similar quality. The meaning of a word is expanded metaphorically in this word formation process. For example:

dama:d  → sarka:r ko dama:d

dama:d is a person who is preferred very much in his/her in-laws family/house. So sarka:r ko dama:d is used to refer a person who is favoured very much by government. Here is another example of metaphoric expansion-

shekhchil͜li: → gao ke shekhchil͜li:

Onomatopoeic words
Onomatopoeic words are supposed as absolute or original words. They sound like the actions and things they are related to. For example:

 khatar-patar It is a sound made by friction of two heavy objects.
 dhum-dhama:ko: It sounds similar to firing something.
 satar-patar

References

Further reading
 http://www.sumania.com/lang/allindi4.html

 Dwivedi, P., & Kar, S. (2017). On documenting low resourced Indian languages insights from Kanauji speech corpus. Dialectologia: revista electrònica, (19), 67-91. https://www.raco.cat/index.php/Dialectologia/article/view/328489
Dwivedi, P., & Kar, S. (September 2016). SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND PHONOLOGY OF KANAUJI. In International Conference on Hindi Studies. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pankaj_Dwivedi4/publication/308198142_Sociolinguistics_and_Phonology_of_Kanauji/links/57ea51bd08aed0a291332dc2.pdf
Dwivedi, P. &Kar, S. (2018). Phonology of Kanauji. In Sharma, Ghanshyam (Eds.) Advances in Hindi Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics (1). 189-220. Germany: Lincom Europa.

Hindi languages
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When I was pregnant the first time, I didn't know much about old wives' tales and how they are known to predict a baby's gender. Then people starting making comments to me about how I was carrying the baby, and asking if I was having heartburn, and asking what foods I was craving. Now I realize, they weren't being nosey. They were trying to figure out whether or not I was going to have a boy or a girl. Since I didn't find out my baby's gender until the day he was born, everyone in my office at the time was making bets based on these old wives' tales.
I suppose there is a bit of truth to them, but not every woman's pregnancy is the same. And of course, relying on old wives' tales to predict your baby's gender can lead to disappointment. If you choose to use these to try and determine what your baby's gender is, I'd suggest just doing it for fun. Once your baby is born, you can take a look back at these and see how many were true for you.
Pregnancy cravings can be quite strange. I didn't have any incredibly strong ones, but some women do. I just had a huge appetite and ate anything that would stay down! But according to an old wive's tale, your pregnancy cravings determine what your baby's gender is. If you're craving sweets, it's a girl. If you're craving salty foods, it's a boy.
2. Pregnancy Glow Or Acne, Oh No!
My skin didn't improve while I was pregnant, but it did get a bit worse. For many women, acne becomes an issue during pregnancy. For other moms-to-be, that "pregnancy glow" we hear about does appear on the face. It's said that when you break out during your pregnancy, it's because you're expecting a girl, and she's stealing all your beauty. Whereas if your complexion improves, you're having a boy.
It's not always easy to tell whether you're carrying the baby high or low, but you can sort of guess based on how close your baby bump is to your breasts. If you're carrying the baby high, it's supposedly a girl. A low carried baby is supposedly a boy.
It makes sense that an old wive's tale suggests you might be more moody if you're carrying a girl. Girls are more moody. That being said, if your mood is generally mellow, relaxed and pleasant, it's probably because there's a less dramatic boy growing inside of you.
Even your feet can be affected by pregnancy. Not just from swelling (hello, cankles!) or growing in size, but also from the possible temperature change. You might not experience it, but if your feet are unusually cold during pregnancy, it's probably because your baby is a boy. On the other hand (no pun intended), warm feet means it's more likely to be a girl.
Trying to get a good night's sleep while you're pregnant is hard. (But it's a great way to prepare you for motherhood.) If you tend to sleep more on your left side, the old wive's tale says you're having a boy. But if your right side is your comfortable sleeping position, a little miss is probably who's moving around inside.
The body parts that changed the most for me during and after pregnancy were my breasts. Before I was pregnant, they were small. During pregnancy, they got big. And after my babies were born, they were huge. But if yours are different sizes during pregnancy, it might be an indication of your baby's gender. A right breast that is larger means a boy is probably on the way. If your left breast is larger, start prepping for a girl.


I have started my collaboration with The Huffington Post today. I will be blogging about fashion, arts and culture in relation to my favourite subject – emerging Europe. Here is my first entry.
'Every Lithuanian helps' – this is what comes into my mind when I reflect on the mainstream British media perception of the Eastern Europe. It was a cartoon by the British newspaper The Independent that portrayed migrant workers (i.e. Lithuanians and Poles) as a value pack of cheap meat in Tesco. This cartoon with the above mentioned slogan (mimicking Tesco's original slogan) has been published after one of the many debates about Eastern European migrants who come to Britain and become cheap labour 'stealing' vacancies from the British.
This is the mainstream vision of who I am. It is not worth fighting stereotypes, they don't exist without a reason. Other legends say that Eastern girls are tall and pretty (Irina Shayk, Edita Vilkeviciute, Emily Ratajkowski), the beer is cheap and the language is Russian. And just the latter is false. Even if these facts are partially true there is so much more to Eastern Europe than that. Geopolitically, Eastern Europe is often referred to as Eastern Bloc – former Soviet countries that have been formed or reformed after the collapse of the Soviet Empire. These are relatively young countries with unique history and quite different projections of the future. Together and separately they can offer a very rich cultural and artistic scene that is usually underestimated or overshadowed by other subject matters (hence, cheap labour). It might be a good timing to see the less popular part of the Europe in a different light.
Although one might think that Eastern European fashion is glitter and gold chains (yet another partially correct stereotype) it is so much more than that. It has been almost 25 years since the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, which is enough time to seed and cultivate an independent sense of creativity in fashion. Ukrainian fashion scene is a perfect example of the creative potential in Eastern Europe. Ukraine has been hosting two separate fashion weeks and both have become the to-go destinations for the international fashion publications. Every year Ukraine is raising a new generation of talented and super original fashion designers from the colourful Anna K to the conceptual Dzhus. Poland, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Bulgaria and other former Eastern Bloc countries are the ones to watch. Fashion is so much more than New York, London, Milan and Paris. It is enough to open the eyes to see more.
A London based creative project Fashion Bloc (standing for Eastern Bloc) is bringing Eastern European fashion scene closer to the International audience. By introducing hand-selected designers, fashion and culture news and hosting a gallery-like curated online shop Fashion Bloc is trying to shed the light on the brightest talent and most interesting fashion happenings from Eastern Europe. With a mission to spice up the European fashion selection it also aims to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western Europe. Fashion in this case has become a tool for cultural enlightenment. Although migration debates and cheap-labour is still prime-time topics related to Eastern Europe it is time to open the horizons and discover new fashion destinations.


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Anderson named Magazine Photographer of the Year, his second major competition win in less than a week.
By Andrew Shafer
Christopher Anderson has won the Magazine Photographer of the Year award at the 64th Pictures of the Year International contest. Anderson, a Magnum photographer, has captured the human side of the front lines in Iraq, Afghanistan, Gaza, Lebanon and Venezuela. His personal style of photography, which he calls "shooting stories at eye level," has garnered him work in publications such as The New York Times Magazine and U.S. News and World Report. Judges of photography competitions have also heaped on the praise: In 2000, he was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal; in 2001, he was named Kodak's Young Photographer of the Year; in 2003, he took home second place in the Magazine Photographer of the Year category at the 60th POYi competition; and just last week he won one of the Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography for his photographs documenting the socialist revolution in Latin America.
Also at the POYi competition, The New York Times's Tyler Hicks was named Newspaper Photographer of the Year. His photos documented the rehabilitation of U.S. military personnel severely wounded in Iraq, military action in Afghanistan, the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, and the streets of Camden, N.J., one of the country's poorest and most dangerous cities.
Other POYi winners include Yoon S. Byun of Ohio University for the Community Awareness Award; Renee C. Byer of the Sacramento Bee for the World Understanding Award; Jose Cendon, a freelance photographer, for magazine issue reporting story; Farah Nosh of Getty Images/Time magazine for magazine portrait; Linus Meyer, a freelance photographer, for magazine feature picture; Redux photographer Q. Sakamaki, on assignment for Newsweek, for magazine general news reporting; Dar Yasin of The Associated Press for magazine spot news; Dean Curtis of the Springfield News-Ledger for newspaper feature picture; Lisa Krantz of the San Antonio Express-News for newspaper portrait; Mohammed Ballas of The Associated Press for newspaper spot news; Donald Miralle of Getty Images for sports portfolio; and Andrew Craft of the Fayetteville Observer for newspaper general news reporting.
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Hebei Chengxin Company Ltd Becomes a Signatory to International Cyanide Management Code
The International Cyanide Management Institute (ICMI) announced today that it had accepted the application of Hebei Chengxin Company Limited to become a signatory to the International Cyanide Management Code for the Manufacture, Transport and Use of Cyanide in the Production of Gold (Code). The Code is a voluntary industry program for companies involved in the production of gold using cyanide and companies manufacturing and transporting this cyanide. Hebei Chengxin is a cyanide manufacturer located in Hebei Province, China.
By becoming a signatory, Hebei Chengxin commits to follow the Code's Principles and implement its Production Practices, and to have verification audits of its operations conducted by independent third-party auditors within three years of its initial application, and every three years thereafter. Operations will be certified if found in compliance with the Code, and will be de-certified if ICMI determines that they no longer comply with the Code.
The Code was developed under the aegis of the United Nations Environment Programme by a multi-stakeholder Steering Committee. The Code is intended to complement an operation's existing obligation to comply with the applicable laws and regulations of the political jurisdiction in which the operation is located.
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Cryptocurrency transaction speeds – When it comes to processing transactions, intermediaries such as banks have been traditionally seen as a necessary nuisance. In reviewing and authorising payments, they have provided a vital service. But depending on where payments are made, where they're being sent. The amount being sent, this can take some time: international transactions in particular can take up to three to five days.
Cryptocurrency transaction speeds is a real pain point for consumers, and one that – you guessed it – blockchain technology can help alleviate. This decentralised, digital distributed ledger technology can log any payments made without the need for an intermediary. This means faster transaction processing and lower transaction fees.
We can see here that Visa is clearly in the lead. It's not altogether surprising that a 60-year old company that's had decades to improve its transaction infrastructure. That would have an advantage when it comes to payment processing.
Where blockchain-based cryptocurrency networks are concerned, Ripple registers the best performance. With 1,500 transactions processed per second, it's almost eight times faster than PayPal. Bitcoin Cash has the third-fastest speed (and the second-fastest among cryptos). But Bitcoin Cash is only able to process 60 transactions per second. There's a considerable gulf between it and Ripple. Litecoin (56) and Dash (48) are somewhat comparable, while Ethereum (20) and Bitcoin (7) bring up the rear. Their escalating popularity seems to be outpacing network processing capabilities and causing delays. (Comment (Jacob) – Ripple doesn't use an adversarial method (proof of work) for deciding which transactions get processed but rather uses a cooperative one (distributed agreement).
What determines cryptocurrency transaction speed?
As detailed in the previous lesson, transaction fees and cryptocurrency transaction speeds are closely intertwined. If the user has paid a larger fee, crypto miners will prioritise their payment over others. Accordingly, high-value transactions are typically the quickest.
The Lightning network theoretically allows Bitcoin transactions and micro transactions to occur instantaneously: no delay necessary. Where the current process relies on mining rigs, in which computers solve complex math problems before payments can be recorded on the ledger. The Lightning Network instead requires participants to agree to conduct a transaction via a separate offline channel. The blockchain would then update to reflect this external transaction. This is much quicker and may even help cryptocurrency compete with other instant payment platforms.
Don't know which cryptocurrencies to invest in? Make sure you always Do Your Own Research (DYOR)!


OKLAHOMA CITY — Record-busting rainfall in Oklahoma led to a day of dramatic rescues from swift floodwaters, but officials and residents acknowledged the outcome could have been far worse.
No one had to be hospitalized Monday, according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health. There was just one unconfirmed report of a death, in Lawton on Monday night. Stranded motorists climbed trees and waited for rescuers, including one crew whose boat sank and had to be saved themselves.
Fire officials in Oklahoma City and the nearby suburb of Edmond launched more than 60 swift-water rescues after a barrage of thunderstorms dumped as much as 10 inches of rain in some areas in a matter of hours. More rain fell Monday night, and the National Weather Service said the 7.62 inches at Will Rogers International Airport in Oklahoma City topped the previous record of 7.53 inches set on Sept. 22, 1970.
Cynthia Banister said fire crews had to rescue a man clinging to a tree near her Edmond home after water topped his SUV.
One boat carrying rescuers in Oklahoma City sank just as it reached a 17-year-old girl, forcing the firefighters to take to treetops and await help themselves.
The heaviest rainfall was reported across sections of northern Oklahoma City, forcing the closure of some roads and interstates. The torrential downpour sent creeks and rivers over their banks, and the raging currents ripped asphalt from roadways and blew manhole covers from pipes.
KSWO-TV in Lawton reported on its website that witnesses told police a taxi driver drowned Monday night while trying to push his car out of high water. Police and sheriff's department dispatchers would not confirm the death, and a spokesman for Comanche County — about 80 miles southwest of Oklahoma City — did not return a call.
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Are there considerations when using 100 wt thread on the Prostitcher??
When I first started using the MicroQuilter thread, the thread started breaking every minute, not frayed, just a clean break. Currently I can sew across a 90 inch quilt with only 3 breaks. Very frustrating.
Bobbin stands up in my hand and slowly free falls to the flour. That seems OK.
I did loosen the top tension quite a bit and that seemed to help but I can't make a clean run across one row without the thread breaking.
I haven't upgraded my software since the April 2017 release since I've been having great luck with the Omni. Primarily I want to show the texture and not the stitches on the quilts I quilting on the longarm.
Are there considerations that I have not mentioned? The pattern I'm sewing right now is the HQ Stars and Loops. Also I slowed the speed down. Speed is approximately a third of the way up the rabbit measure.
I am sorry that you are having problems with your thread breaking. MicroQuilter is a 100 wt. thread, so it if a very fine thread. You shouldn't have to go to larger needle with this thread. Because it is a finer thread it needs less tension. I think you need to loosen your top thread more. You may even need to loosen your bobbin so it stands up in your hand and falls a little faster. This thread works great once you have your tension set correctly.
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// .NAME vtkProperty2D - represent surface properties of a 2D image
// .SECTION Description
// vtkProperty2D contains properties used to render two dimensional images
// and annotations.

// .SECTION See Also
// vtkActor2D

#ifndef vtkProperty2D_h
#define vtkProperty2D_h

#include "vtkRenderingCoreModule.h" // For export macro
#include "vtkObject.h"

class vtkViewport;

#define VTK_BACKGROUND_LOCATION 0
#define VTK_FOREGROUND_LOCATION 1

class VTKRENDERINGCORE_EXPORT vtkProperty2D : public vtkObject
{
public:
  vtkTypeMacro(vtkProperty2D,vtkObject);
  void PrintSelf(ostream& os, vtkIndent indent);

  // Description:
  // Creates a vtkProperty2D with the following default values:
  // Opacity 1, Color (1,1,1)
  static vtkProperty2D *New();

  // Description:
  // Assign one property to another.
  void DeepCopy(vtkProperty2D *p);

  // Description:
  // Set/Get the RGB color of this property.
  vtkSetVector3Macro(Color, double);
  vtkGetVector3Macro(Color, double);

  // Description:
  // Set/Get the Opacity of this property.
  vtkGetMacro(Opacity, double);
  vtkSetMacro(Opacity, double);

  // Description:
  // Set/Get the diameter of a Point. The size is expressed in screen units.
  // This is only implemented for OpenGL. The default is 1.0.
  vtkSetClampMacro(PointSize,float,0,VTK_FLOAT_MAX);
  vtkGetMacro(PointSize,float);

  // Description:
  // Set/Get the width of a Line. The width is expressed in screen units.
  // This is only implemented for OpenGL. The default is 1.0.
  vtkSetClampMacro(LineWidth,float,0,VTK_FLOAT_MAX);
  vtkGetMacro(LineWidth,float);

  // Description:
  // Set/Get the stippling pattern of a Line, as a 16-bit binary pattern
  // (1 = pixel on, 0 = pixel off).
  // This is only implemented for OpenGL. The default is 0xFFFF.
  vtkSetMacro(LineStipplePattern,int);
  vtkGetMacro(LineStipplePattern,int);

  // Description:
  // Set/Get the stippling repeat factor of a Line, which specifies how
  // many times each bit in the pattern is to be repeated.
  // This is only implemented for OpenGL. The default is 1.
  vtkSetClampMacro(LineStippleRepeatFactor,int,1,VTK_INT_MAX);
  vtkGetMacro(LineStippleRepeatFactor,int);

  // Description:
  // The DisplayLocation is either background or foreground.
  // If it is background, then this 2D actor will be drawn
  // behind all 3D props or foreground 2D actors. If it is
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Pauline West
Candlemoth
After Ice
A road trip can change your life
After a tough spring and summer (losing our little one, a crazy busy season) we're drying our wings in the sun...
On the Road, working remotely, sleeping in fields... as we drive our new motorcycle (with sidecar!) from Oregon home to South Carolina, via national parks, crazy byways and one library hot spot after another. Filling up with new stories, taking the space just to think, explore and be close.
I'm (erratically) posting our travel journal on Insta: @sidecarsideshow :)
With the Ural's top speed around 55 mph... we're gonna be on the road quite a while.
Lately I'm doing more thinking than writing, but have been 'getting' some plot pieces I've needed for the novel I've been obsessing over since I was on residency three years ago, before I started working with Andrew.
In my previous role (purchasing) at the company, it was easier to write short stories rather than novels, but they've now moved me into a more expansive position that opens up the whole world.
It changes everything. I'm so excited, and so grateful, to be warm again.
Here's to lightness, love and freedom: may they be yours.
Hello Mr. Sky/ Hello Darlin
My honey's coming to visit next week!
He's been traveling all month: Casablanca, Rabat, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Amsterdam. Running around with school heads and crazy-pants vendors; they're planning to throw a wild cocktail party in Capetown this spring. A jazz band, a mansion, a pool with a view. Shipping school supplies to international American & British schools; shit, who knew? He's been building this wonderful thing out of his blood-sweat-tears forever, and now it's paying off. Half the year working his tail off in his warehouse, half the year rubbing shoulders- I'm awfully proud of my man :)
And man, it's almost November: we haven't seen one another since August when I rolled out for New Orleans. This is far and away the longest we've ever been apart. I've missed him so badly. It's given me nesting fever.
But this:
"The two of you like the sun and moon, free to go far from one another, yet crossing every night— each forever circling the other. That is the real marriage— a marriage made of eternity. Not a metal band simply wrapped around fingermeat."
When he gets in I'm gonna surprise him with a belated birthday feast. All his favorites at once: homemade soup dumplings, mac & cheese, jello shots, an Elvis trifle. Mill around town together a couple days, maybe check out some hot springs. Naked and steamy in the falling snow: all my favorites at once :)
Then we've got to run down to Tucson, where his childhood bestie is getting married. So many beloveds there we haven't seen in too long. It'll be wonderful, and probably I won't write a word.
The White Place.
My Andrew:
John Collier called this part of the country The Red Atlantis, and it does have a lost, enchanted quality. "Ha, it's quarantine!" somebody here called it, recently. (The man with the storyboard tattoos.) But it pulls at you, it strikes you.
There's that quality in O'Keeffe's work, too. A certain- deepening. Of color into form, form into flowering; other times, of that just about to happen. That was what it was like, standing there outside her place in Abiquiu. Clouds and mountains and fields and mountain roads, and so lovely to be in all of it, deepening. You wanted to stand there silent a long time. That dreamscape of colored air, everything so open, so near and far at once.
I'm so glad you're coming to see me, and to have this with you in it. And then to have it in us both, after. But of course it was you, adventuring in Tucson, who said, oh, let's move here- to this corner.
Oh these lovely corners, dancing edges! Everything beautiful seems to happen at the edges; wild things come from the edges. And what is wild is beautiful, at least to you, to me, who are uninterested in taming things, beveling rough into smooth...
Waiting for you, my heart with your heart,
Snow Q xxx
In other news. To have this gift of time, three months of Sundays! All Babes is coming along beautifully. I've got four more scenes to hit before I have to stop and research. A huge portion of the
novel has turned out to take place in 1950s Charleston.
So my last weeks of residency: snow on the ground and these gorgeous wild-open skies, I'll be here, pen in hand, books in my lap. Eating lentils. Tapping in.
"More than Sixty"- Jack Gilbert
Out of money, so I'm sitting in the shade
of my farmhouse cleaning the lentils
I found in the back of the cupboard.
Listening to the cicada in the fig tree
mix with the cooing doves on the roof.
I look up when I hear a goat hurt far down
the valley and discover the sea
exactly the same blue I used to paint it
with my watercolors as a child.
So what, I think happily. So what!
The Waitress, pt. 2
"Your ex-wife, what was she like?"
Paige was tracing her fingers over his arms now. Her touch was soft and flickering, heatless: that was how he realized he'd been talking out loud.
"She was- unhappy. Pills, you know," he said.
"Yeah." Max looked away, remembering snake-green eyes. "Military wives. It's a fucking cliche, man."
"That's okay," she said.
"She was fun though." He lifted the waitress up in the air like she was weightless, a kid. "You're fun too, you wanna get married?" Paige squealed and he kissed her on the nose. "Babe, you got any beers?"
Light of the refrigerator in the dark. She came over to him with two beers in one hand. He was sitting on the bed. He took the beers, grabbed her.
"Do something for me," Paige said, bumping her hips into his face. She put the tips of her fingers in her mouth, smiling at him around them.
"Nm," Max said, pulling her down.
"I want you to hurt me," Paige said. Her voice scratchy and warm. "Hurt me."
"What do you mean, baby?" he said. Rolling her over, bouncing a little. Playfully, he hoped. A pretending lightheartedness, but he knew that more and more of his dark was slipping out through his eyes. He kissed her deeply, her neck warm in his hands.
But Paige knew, she did, that it was there.
"Mm, a big guy like you, you could really… I mean…" Paige glittering at him. Her mouth was blurry, wet, chemical with the vodka. She rustled off her jeans. Her little cotton panties, her little kid thighs. "I can see it in you, that you like it, too. It's at the edge of everything you do." She lifted herself up on her spine and hissed it in his ear, urging him on.
"You got a sexy violence." Hitting the x's and c's hard with her small pink tongue, her white-trash tongue, her legs locked around him, and Max felt his blood sinter to a ferric edge.
Suddenly she clawed him, hard, fast as a cat, trying to make him angry, to make him do the thing she wanted, that she knew he could give her. And there was a knife he always carried, enveloped secretly in a leather slot at the back of his belt- for unexpected handcuffs, certain situations- and now his awareness of it burned exquisitely against his spine; and her softness, her yielding. He was lightheaded with it.
"Do you think so?" His fingers rounded up on her small shoulders, her tiny shoulders. The fauna of desire, flooding in and out of the vast green world; these inclinations that live like beasts inside us. To dissolve within another, to possess them, to destroy.
Or were we ourselves tiny beasts within them, these inclinations?
They were gods, maybe, each separate type of desire. Separate gods, each with its own weathers, tides, intractable flowing- and so this wasn't him, this wasn't his fault, no, it was some vaster thing that he was swept up within.
Paige's warm, tiny fingers husking away his jeans. "I can make you hurt me," she said, low. "I can make you give me what I want." Quick as a snake, she bit his mouth.
He yelled, bleeding maybe, trying now to bat crazy Paige away, but his big arms, heavy as clubs, spring-loaded to judo speed, one of them flailing just brushed her jaw. And she was such a tiny thing that's it was enough, she arced back beneath him, her little heart shape face sling-shot back hard into the pillow.
A bright arc of blood hung frozen in the air as it hit him, too, what he'd done, and then it came up jack-lit in the rusty dark of his mind. This memory of his mother; her dark eyes rolling cow-like towards the slow opening bedroom door, towards his child's silhouette, as a cowboy without a face goes on hammering into the soft hills of her body. The dirty light sawed with dust, exhaustion.
And Paige the bloody jack'o lantern, now she's leering up at him, a little demonically in the weird shuttery light in this, her streetside room.
She was making his cock sow into her, the rhythm she wants, lolling her hair back and forth her eyes shut thankfully now, thank god, and he took up big fistfuls of her hair capturing her flat against the screaming bed, the pillows. Their bodies like twisting snakes.
"I want to fuck you forever."
The knife was in his hands, it was in Paige's mouth, it clicked against her teeth. Her eyes went wild and hot; she turned still.
Max yanked her hair, bending her neck still farther. His thumb with the knife deep in her mouth, the edge of it was against her cheek. He could curve it upwards, pierce into the fruit of her brain. And oh she was so pliant, so humid.
"Kiss it, suck it. I want to see you suck it."
The animals in the jungle floating in and out of the shadows.
She panted silently, eyes paralyzed on his. Wet, frothing wet.
"Come for me, baby," he said, and she did, in hard, sudden stabs, never blinking. The fullness of her tongue still against the pressing blade.
They broke apart, maybe a little too quickly, panting, and the next time Max looked at her he saw a tiny red burst vessel beneath Paige's left eye. A tiny red star.
It quickened him, the way she like a crushed plant, fragrant in his hands, he couldn't keep himself away from her.
But with his touch he turned her to rain, and he could swear he smelled the sweetness of it, the damp minerals and softening earth. "I'm sorry," Max said; only women aroused him impossibly when they cried. The rush of makeup, a heated face and neck.
Paige drifting in his hands, sighing against him. There was simply nowhere else for her to go, of course, but he sensed it anyway, that for maybe a secret part of her, this felt like home.
He thought of a broken statue he'd seen in field, crashed down on its side in the dusty street. Its broken hands, face blinded by a rock, a bullet, something. That mute resignation, an acceptingness, and at the time the thing had moved him in some half-articulate way. While he half wanted to finish smashing it, in the same harmless way you wanted to finish a girl's warming beer.
"I don't know," he said, gathering Paige to him. Paige was limp, crying, as if released from some physical thing that had trapped her, made it hard to breathe. She clung to him wetly.
To him, the vampire, emissary darkness. And could you let it out only a little, he didn't know. "I don't know about you, girl," he said. "This, I don't know."
"I do," Paige said, "I do, please. Again, again."
From All Babes Are Wolves.
Image by Mishe
The Waitress, pt 1.
He watched her, grinning. There was something scrappy about her, she was from Virginia, maybe. Working class parents, hand to mouth, whiskey evenings. "What's your name?"
"Paige," she said.
"I'm Max."
His drink came up and she jumped up and brought it over from the bar for him and then sat next to him again, mopping up the condensation on their table with the edge of her apron.
"Paige the sweetheart," he said.
He was looking at her tank top, the twisted strap of it, and then she did what he wanted to do, running her fingers thoughtfully along her neck, and Max thought simultaneously of Katerina, how she'd loved to brag about being his last fiance. He was always getting engaged, all throughout college; never had girlfriends, just a long conga line of fiances- he thought of Katerina and then how his cock would feel inside the tight, wet interior of the waitress, the soft hungry jellyfish spasms inside her sponging tight around him, his balls slapping her ass like a flag snapping in the wind.
Paige the sweetheart, the smirker, the cheap whore, easy, he thought what her face would look like without a jaw like the girl he'd seen in Stanland, blown off by the door of a bombed truck, just sitting there in the dust in shock, swaying slightly, her face unhinged and dripping, eyes brown, trachea amazingly unhurt. The inside of a girl was as wet and full of shapes as his mother's fruit jello.
"How you like Charleston?" Paige said.
The images still coming. The more of his past he pushed away, the more of it he seemed to create: that is, it bubbled forwards through Max's fingers, swelling, threatening, cold and wet, uncontainable. "It's pretty cool," he said.
Marta, by Alessandro Vetrugno.
Then they were at her apartment, sloshed on vodka. He'd realized what it was about her. That bony ass, it was like his babysitter's when he was ten. And she had a surprisingly clean place and dorky pillows everywhere that made his heart squeeze a little.
The damp close air of the room, her windows shut up all day. You could tell how someday- the writing was already in the air- she'd be a divorcée, living on her own in a dump just like this one. The fridge smelly and empty- the place dark and burbling. There was a humidifier left on somewhere, and the space was small enough that he could smell her bed in the dark, sour.
He walked to the air conditioner without turning on the light and stood against it, holding his hand in the cooled air.
Looking at her, waitress, college-girl, she was probably a Communications major, what's her name again.
She's standing there framed there in the light from the door. The streetlight. Strands of her hair damp against her neck.
She closed the door.
For a moment they circled one another, their eyes adjusting to the dark, to what they might do. He'd had an easy air of possessiveness over her when they were with the others. Now that they were alone, here, the two of them adults, they were both a little shy, self-conscious. She stretched her mouth, he popped his neck. It was hard to look at her directly.
"You wan' a joint?" Paige said, finally.
"You go ahead," he said, coming up behind her, his hands circling her waist as she picked up the twist of soft paper.
"There's somethin' about you," she said, "I feel like there's something different about you- you're real mysterious, you know? I keep wondering what you're thinking. Guys around here, they're not like you."
He kissed her neck, saying nothing.
"Do you even think I'm pretty?" she said, suddenly.
"I think you're delicious." He couldn't think of anything else to say, and then he was silent even though he knew she wanted- she needed- more from him.
More words.
Girls, Max believed, were used to expressing themselves. It was their way of being in the world.
Evaluating, backpedaling, worrying. It was why they were easy to talk with; when you began a conversation with one, most of them usually just continued with the same stream of thought they'd been on anyway, only this time out loud. Always assuming that you were interested in whatever boring shit they'd been thumbing over in their minds.
He believed it took them no special effort, as if women were natural conduits or something.
Now, whether or not what they had to say was interesting, that was another story. He'd said as much to the marriage counselor, a kooky bastard he hadn't minded, truth be told.
The guy had just given him half a grin, using of course the side of his mouth that Katerina couldn't see as she turned and started in on him.
You self-satisfied fucking prick all you care about is your fucking self
Paige the waitress, her bony ass in his hand was like a kid's, and he thought of Katerina the first night he'd snuck her into his mother's basement.
Kat's ass was big and tight the way he liked, the two of them kissing each other hungrily in the driveway, waiting for the AC to roar on to cover the sound of the garage door opening, of his leading Katerina inside, down the creaky carpeted hallway to his room.
The minute they were inside it, his hand was coming towards her in the dark, going lower now, a pilot touch, tracing warmly over the strip of skin exposed between Katerina's scanty top and the front of her jeans. Her naked pelvis was deliciously hot in the cool air, permissive.
"Take deeper breaths," he said, like his buddy told him to, and she had. He'd learned how to make her consciousness bloom inside the boundary lines he gave it, girls loved that, being dominated, defined: they were like water diverting into a creek bed.
"I'm gonna make you feel so good," he said to her. Letting his fingers spread, his hand lifting slightly as she inhaled, pushing down when she exhaled, and her want of him rose into his fingers, Katerina curled towards him like an opening flower, wilder now, a jungle flower. He felt his consciousness slipping over hers, harnessing her, he was going to carry her along, take her down the dark ecstatic river, make her scream. Exhilarated, his yearning for her uncharted interiors. Her pelvis tip-pressing up into him, and each place his body met hers hummed.
Now she was firmly on her back, now he lay between her legs. Folding over her, pressing his face into her neck. So white and clean- the word for it-
"Your shoulders are like snow," he said, shyly. The words coming out sweeter than he'd meant them to sound.
And the girl who would be his girlfriend, his ex-girlfriend, and then his college girlfriend; his last fiancé and then most finally of all, his ex-wife, a pillar of salt, that's what she was, not snow at all, but he hadn't known that then: Katerina touched her shoulder, wanting to feel what he saw in her, and then she smiled at him. Mockingly.
"Warm snow?" she said.
He pressed the side of his face against Kat's. "Very warm. You're melting." He felt her sigh, and then, ever so slightly, she moved away.
"You're thinking about your boyfriend?" he said. Too eager, seventeen. Just let me hold you, let me take you there.
"I never feel this way with him. Anyway, he's not here." Katerina's wicked laugh. "And you don't know him! It's fine, he's no hero. Me, I'll tell you the truth about me, you think I'm just some sweet little slip of a thing, mm-? Little 4.0 band-theater-babe-in-the-woods, mm-? Do you know I used to fuck Lauren's father?" Saying this as if she wanted her words to slap him.
"Well, it was more complicated than that," she said. "Her mom was putting me up because things got crazy at my house. That was fun, me and Lauren and her mom. It was a little art house, a real sisterhood for a minute. Supportive. But then Kendra, the mom, she got uterine cancer. It happened fast. And she died."
"Jesus, I didn't know. Lauren-?"
"It was terrible. Then I started fucking Kendra's husband. Ex-husband? Widow, I guess. That happened fast, too. You know, he was lonely, I'm hot, I've always loved older guys. We tried to keep it a secret as long as we could. I'd sit there next to him on the couch, and Lauren would be in the chair looking at us, and I would wonder if this was how Kendra had felt. She was so cool, you know, I'd always looked up to her. It was like I'd just slipped into her skin. Real creepy, kinda."
"Bad girl, huh?"
"I wanted to do it. So I did." Katerina said, shrugging her lovely shoulders. "She and I, we aren't friends now. But maybe we wouldn't have been anyway, and I got to have the experience that I wanted to have."
His smile had been faint, observing.
"You like my story?" Kat said, rolling away. "You like bad women?"
Was it that simple?
"I like interesting women."
 From All Babes Are Wolves.
Rest of the chapter next Thursday :)
Hsin-yao Tseng.
Pauline West's first novel, EVENING'S LAND, is winner of the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Award and recipient of the Carol Marie Smith Memorial Scholarship for the NOEPE Center of Literary Arts.
West's writing has been shortlisted for The International Aeon Award, and featured in International School Leader Magazine, Reddit's NoSleep channel, The Art Mag and The Sierra Nevada Review.
Pauline West's books on Goodreads
Candlemoth: A Holy City Romance
Evening's Land
Candlemoth Volume 2: How To Spend It
Candlemoth Book 3: A Twist of Fate
Stalker: A Gothic Thriller
All Babes Are Wolves
Children: The Kids Are Not All Right
Stalker A Gothic Thriller
Stalker: An Erotic Horror Story


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Chiltern House by WOW Architects features a rooftop lily pond to attract birds
Luke Tebbutt | 30 November 2015 1 comment
Plants and ponds are incorporated into the roof, walls and terraces of this concrete house in Singapore to make it feel like it is "enveloped by a garden" (+ movie).
Chiltern House was designed by Maria Warner Wong, design director of WOW Architects in Singapore, for herself, her husband, and their two sons, aged 18 and 22. It occupies a 400-square-metre site that was once the garden of a larger house.
To replace the lost green area of the previous home's garden, Warner Wong incorporated a range of plants and water features around the house.
These include cables with climbing plants at the sides, which act like curtains to provide privacy and shade. There is also a lily pond on the roof outside the master bedroom, which attracts a range of birds and offers reflections of the sky.
"Our desire was for a home enveloped by a garden," Warner Wong told Dezeen. "At the core of our mission is a belief that connecting with the environment is the key to wellness in a fast-paced urban life."
"As we look out the window of our home, we are surrounded by thousands of apartments with balconies used for drying laundry," she continued.
"We thought, what if we instead incorporate a cable vine system that welcomes sunbirds and bumble bees, and shrouds the concrete jungle in a web of vines? How will that impact our collective perception of the environment?"
Warner Wong built the house with concrete because it requires no exterior finish. She believes it offers a truer reflection of the location than other materials.
WOW Architects opens art and design venue in converted Singapore shophouse
"Concrete is unique to its place in a way we often overlook. Though most construction materials might be imported from anywhere in the world, the sand that is added to cement to make the concrete is almost always local," she explained.
"In Singapore, our sand is a yellowish ochre colour and it gives the concrete a unique tone."
The concrete was mixed with a waterproofing compound to prevent it from ageing and darkening in Singapore's rainy, humid climate, and was cast on-site with timber formwork.
The formwork has left an imprint of the wood's rough texture on the surface of the concrete, intended to create a memory of the construction process.
"For our family, building this home fulfilled a deep longing for a place of our own, and we all participated in its creation," said Warner Wong.
"The memory of the construction process marks the passing of time and reminds us of the effort, desire and realisation of this dream."
Other homes that use their construction materials to create interesting textures and patterns include a Belgian house covered in a mixture of hemp, lime and water to give it a streaky rock-like surface, and a Mexican house built with layers of rammed earth, which have been pigmented to create a stratified pattern.
Chiltern House has four storeys, with a guest room in the basement; a kitchen, living room and dining room on the ground floor; a study and two bedrooms on the first floor; and master bedroom suite on the top floor.
The rooms open up to each other to allow for clear views through the home, and long windows stretch across the length and breadth of the house to create views to the garden and city beyond.
"There is a complex interplay of large and deep spaces, and connections that stretch across the length of the house in various directions," said Warner Wong.
"These visual connections within the rooms, as well as from space to space, help to unite us as a family and make us aware of each other's movements within the house, and strongly link the house to its surrounding environment."
WOW Architects designed the planting scheme with landscape designer Eliam Eng from the Nyee Phoe Flower Garden. Eng was involved from the very beginning of the project, to ensure drainage and irrigation were properly integrated.
The aim of the landscape design was to create direct connections with nature, and a sense of separation from the city.
The kitchen terrace at the rear has an edible garden to encourage a tree-to-table food chain; the pool outside the living room provides a buffer zone between the house and the street; and leopard trees around the ground floor were chosen for their tiny leaves that flutter in the wind, providing a visual barometer of the breeze.
"We have choreographed opportunities to marvel at the miracle of nature," said Warner Wong.
"In the bathroom, we can stand in front of a full-height window and observe butterflies around the jasmine flowers, and in the master bedroom, we can open the blinds in the morning to see a family of herons fishing in the lily pond."
To create a sense of continuity inside the home, Chinese granite was used for all floor surfaces on the ground floor, including the interior tiles, the paving for the terraces and the pool, and the cobblestones of the driveway.
Wire-brushed cypress veneer was chosen for wall panels on the ground floor to match the tone and texture of the exposed concrete, and teak provides the flooring on the first floor.
Photography is by Aaron Pocock.
Basement floor plan – click for larger image
Ground floor plan – click for larger image
First floor plan – click for larger image
Second floor plan – click for larger image
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