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COVID or Not, The Campaign Must Go On
Neelanjan Sircar
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, parties will be heavily restricted in hosting rallies or other large public events that are so crucial to a standard political campaign. But the campaign must go on.
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By Neelanjan Sircar
The upcoming polls, in Assam, Bihar, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, pose unprecedented challenges in election management. Even in the best of times, regulating the behaviour of political actors during elections is nearly impossible. Anecdotally, candidates regularly spend over the farcically low spending limits for candidates (although the official data show otherwise) and all manner of distribution of alcohol and cash occur in the days leading up to the polls. But this year has brought forth even more challenges. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, parties will be heavily restricted in hosting rallies or other large public events that are so crucial to a standard political campaign.
But the campaign must go on. I imagine that two campaign activities will be used as substitutes for the traditional campaign. First, in the absence of large public gatherings convened by high profile politicians, parties will have to rely much more on "within village" activities like door-to-door canvassing. Second, outreach to voters — especially from the party elite — will be far more dependent upon social media and other digital media.
This will likely generate advantages for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), by far the most well-funded party that has invested the most in its social media campaign strategies. For instance, data from the fiscal year 2017-2018 provided from Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) shows that the BJP received 210 crores out of the total of 222 crores from the controversial "electoral bond scheme" ushered in by the BJP, a staggering 95% of all electoral financing through the electoral bond method. This infusion of money has been crucial to maintaining electoral machinery that swells to impressive proportions during election time. For instance, in the 2019 national election, the BJP fielded an army of panna pramukhs (literally page chiefs), who were assigned to keep track of 30-60 voters each. While panna pramukhs were not fielded everywhere, the very fact that they can be fielded over a large swathe of the country indicates both the scale of funding available to the BJP and its commitment to building dense ground-level machinery during election time.
The existing investment in ground-level campaigning will be a huge asset for the BJP. In a time when movement is restricted due to the COVID pandemic, the ability of ground-level workers to mobilize and bring people to the polls is likely to have a greater impact. Furthermore, these same restrictions will make bureaucratic monitoring of elections and campaign behaviour more difficult, perhaps emboldening ground-level actors to use quasi-legal means to mobilize voters.
The BJP also has consistently demonstrated its proficiency in reaching voters through social media. The BJP of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah may not have been unique in their political appeals with respect to religion and caste, but it has been an innovator in campaign methods. Outside of the Congress, the (regional) parties that grew out of the 1990s built their campaigns in a particular manner that was labour-intensive and dependent upon the control of ground-level leaders that often had caste credentials. The BJP realized that if it had to spread beyond its traditional bases of support, it would have to develop a method of directly reaching the voter in places where it did not carry favours with local elites. The development of a strong social media campaign has created a direct channel between the central leadership, and Prime Minister Modi in particular, with the voter. This was a strategy that was effective, for instance, in the 2019 national elections in West Bengal.
Google search data provides a suggestive data point for BJP's dominance in social media campaigning. While it is true that users of Google are likely to be younger, wealthier, and more educated than the general population, the recent spread of cheap smartphones in the countryside has significantly broadened access to the platform across India. In Google searches about politicians over the 2019 election period, an extraordinary 75% of searches were about Narendra Modi, compared to just 12% about Rahul Gandhi. Of course, this is only the tip of the iceberg. The BJP purportedly has extraordinary advantages in most social media and peer-to-peer campaigning through platforms like Whatsapp.
Here too, the challenges of monitoring and auditing party behaviour are likely to be significant. During the elections, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has significant policing powers, regulating the content of campaigns and policy promises. As communication with the voter decidedly shifts towards social and digital media, where the content is less visible to third parties, the ECI is compromised in being able to regulate campaigns.
The 2019 national election exposed concerns about the impartiality of the ECI. A number of observers felt that, in the process of regulating content, the ECI showed biases towards the ruling BJP. This was in stark contrast to the narrative of the ECI that had started in the 1990s under TN Seshan and continued by subsequent heads of the ECI — which was seen as aggressively maintaining a level playing field for candidates and parties. The consequence of a level playing field was the democratization of the electoral space with new parties and new kinds of electoral appeals entering the system.
The real threat to democratic norms today is not a momentary shift in campaign tactics due to the COVID pandemic. Rather, it is the fear that new forms of campaigning that are effective in skirting regulatory norms will get locked in, particularly when the ECI has shown little interest in innovating to meet these challenges. For all of its pathologies, the Indian electoral system showed that simply allowing parties to compete on equal footing generating high turnover in ruling parties at both the state and national levels.
Today, as the very basis of equal political competition is being challenged, we must wonder if brute force and money are all that is required to win elections.
Neelanjan Sircar is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research and Assistant Professor at Ashoka University. His research interests include Indian political economy and comparative political behavior .
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Deià is a small and picturesque village located in the centre of the Tramuntana Mountain Range that for centuries has been the source of immense admiration amongst visitors and natives alike. It boasts countless charms, with the impressive view below to the sea being just one of them.
The village is situated on the slopes of El Teix, one of the highest mountains on the island that in turn lends its name to one of the most prestigious restaurants, "Es Racó d'es Teix", awarded a Michelin star. Deià's roots can be traced back to prehistory, but the village that we now know has its origins in the Muslim era.
Deià has always been considered a cultural centre of the island, and many artists, writers, musicians and other figures such as the Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria and Robert Graves have sought refuge here. It is also a perfect example of diversity and integration, where residents have always welcomed visitors with open arms.
Deià Cove is reached by a winding road that runs alongside the course of a torrent. The image of Deià Cove became well known after being used by the painter Matti Klarwein for the cover of the musician Carlos Santana's famous album, "Abraxas".
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Home » Fruit & Vegetables » Lettuce
Lettuce is the type of a vegetable that just about all plant breeders like to meddle with, hence the seemingly endless varieties! Ranging in colour anywhere from crispy green to crimson red, the flavours and nutritional values of the different varieties also vary greatly. Lettuce belongs to the Asteraceae family with the scientific name Lactuca sativa. With small annual plants, the leaves of Lactuca sativa excrete milk like liquid (sap) upon cutting. The name lactuca (lac meaning milk) is derived from Latin. Lettuce can be grouped into seven basic types with numerous sub-varieties in each. They are distinguished from one another based on formation of their heads and leaves. The leaf varieties tend to be a little bitter, but loaded with antioxidants. The main lettuce types are as follows:
Loose-leaf lettuces are generally multi-coloured, delicate with well flavoured leaves, and are a fast growing variety. They form loose open heads which makes it convenient to harvest just a few leaves or the whole head according to needs.
Butterhead lettuces are another group with open loose leaves and have a buttery texture. This variety is more popular in Europe.
Romaine (Cos) are upright, tall, and have open heads with deep green coloured leaves. The leaves carry a stronger flavour compared to the loose-leaf variety, and contain a prominent crunchy midrib that travels all the way to the tip of the leaf.
Buttercrunch lettuces are a cross between romaine and the butterhead varieties. The head has a more upright stature than romaine, with hardly any leaves touching the ground. This group is better able to withstand the cold weather than butterhead, with leaves that defy rotting.
Batavian Lettuces have crunchy, thick leaves. The leaves of Batavian Lettuces can tolerate heat better than all other varieties.
Heading lettuces curl their leaves inward forming heads similar to those of cabbages. These are the basic iceberg lettuces valued for their ability to resist disease and heat. They have a solid watery crunch and very little flavour or nutritional value.
Chinese lettuces are strong flavoured with rather stiff, long, non-head forming leaves. They are valued not only for their leaves but the stalks as well. They are slightly bitter in taste, but do well in soups and stir-fries.
History of Lettuce
Egyptians started the cultivation of lettuce from a weed at least 4500 BC, the seeds of which were used to produce oil. Depictions of lettuce can be seen in Egyptian tombs. The Egyptians used lettuce as fertility medicine. It spread to the Greeks and Romans, and both cultures valued it highly, both as a food and for its medicinal properties. The Romans named it 'lactuca', which eventually lead to the English 'lettuce'.
Several varieties of lettuce were known by 50 AD, and it was frequently named in medieval writings. From the 16th to 18th centuries, many additional varieties were developed in Europe. In the medieval era, it was believed that lettuce possessed medicinal qualities, and was prescribed for a number of diseases. It was used for appetite loss, blood pressure irregularity, as a tonic for the digestive system, and to limit sexual urges. Dried lettuce latex was prescribed for insomnia, as nasal drops, as an antispasmodic, and a sedative.
Lettuce had been grown in China as early as the 5th century. To the Chinese, lettuce represents good luck and is served on special occasions like birthdays, weddings and New Year's Day, etc. Christopher Columbus is credited with introducing lettuce to North America in 1493 during his second voyage. By the nineteenth century, the use of lettuce had spread to the rest of world. Today this leaf vegetable can be found in literally every corner of the planet.
Health Benefits of the Lettuce
Regular consumption of lettuce is believed to have numerous health benefits. It has dietary fibre and Omega fatty acids, both of which are important for general health. The roughage helps to enhance bulk in the intestines, thereby improving peristalsis and eliminating constipation and other stomach problems.
Additionally, the high folate content is good for maintaining cardiovascular health and for putting off arteriosclerosis and stroke. Minerals like potassium, phosphorus, and manganese, destroy free radicals which damage cells, improve immune system function, and offer protection against viral infections. The iron in lettuce aids in the transport of oxygen for cell growth and blood distribution within the body. This makes lettuce the ideal food for anaemic patients. It is also helpful for insomniacs as it contains substances that induce sleep.
It is said that the regular consumption of lettuce juice helps to improve the rate of fertility, raises sperm count, and also helps with erectile dysfunction and early ejaculation issues. Furthermore, it is believed to put a stop to habitual miscarriages and has an effect on progesterone release, something which is liable for lactation in mothers who are breast feeding.
Of the different varieties of lettuce available in the market, the three types that are most favoured include, leaf, head, and romaine (cos). Other types also have varying kinds and amounts of nutrients. The Romaine lettuce is considered the most nutrient rich among all the varieties, while iceberg lettuce has the least nutritional value.
Iceberg lettuce has almost no cholesterol and very little fat. It is abundant in dietary fibre and folate, has some fatty acids, and trace amounts of omega fatty acids. It has lower amounts of vitamin C, A, iron, potassium, phosphorous, zinc, sodium, magnesium, manganese, calcium and amino acids than its dark green leaved cousins.
Romaine lettuce is a good source of Vitamins B6, E, A, K, and C. It supplies some dietary fibre through its ribs and spine, carbohydrates, and protein. Additionally, it contains the minerals, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium, sodium, zinc (along with thiamin), riboflavin, niacin, and folate. It also naturally concentrates and absorbs lithium.
How to Use Lettuce
The best lettuce is purchased fresh and should have, crisp leaves that are devoid of dark or slimy spots. The best way to use lettuce is to ensure it is garden fresh, discard any tarnished leaves, chop to desired size, and throw away the lower stem. Wash the leaves under cold running water and then let soak in salt water for approximately ½ an hour to get rid of sand and any parasite worms and eggs. Finally pat dry before use.
Some serving ideas:
Fresh, uncooked lettuce may be used in sandwiches, burgers, salads or spring rolls.
It may be stir fried, stewed, and supplement noodles or fried rice.
It can be combined with seafood, green beans, and peas.
Traditional Use Methods
Traditionally, the Romans consumed their lettuce with an oil and vinegar dressing, while the lettuce with smaller leaves was just eaten raw. During the reign of Domitian (81 – 96 AD), the concept of serving lettuce before a meal started. In Europe, after the Roman rule, the tradition of poaching lettuce continued, especially with the romaine variety.
Little Lettuce Enfolds
This is a really nice alternative to the typical family meal. It is not only nutritious, but also something that kids really enjoy. It allows you to make alterations according to your tastes. In the recipe below I am using chicken, but there is no reason why you can substitute this with beef, tuna, or turkey.
½ pound of ground chicken
½ cup of water chestnuts, chopped
½ cup of mushrooms, chopped
1 small carrot, chopped
1½ tablespoon of soy sauce
½ tablespoon of oyster sauce
½ teaspoon of ginger
1-2 cloves of garlic, crushed
½ tablespoon of olive oil
Iceberg lettuce, separated leaves
In a small bowl, combine soy sauce, oyster sauce, and ginger, then place aside.
Heat olive oil over a medium heat in a large skillet. Add the chicken and stir-fry, breaking it up while cooking. When about half cooked, add the vegetables to the chicken, along with chestnuts and the sauce mixture. Continue to cook until most of the liquid disappears. Season with salt and pepper to taste (the sauce mixture is fairly salty, so take care with the salt!).
For serving; spoon the meat mixture onto the middle of the lettuce leaf, and wrap the lettuce around it making a cylindrical shaped rod.
As reported in the "Journal of Young Investigators" back in August 2007, The University of Central Florida cultivated genetically modified lettuce that has the potential to treat insulin dependent diabetics. The lettuce was able to stop diabetes in mice, but human trials are still inconclusive. The special genetically altered lettuce manufactures insulin that is housed in the plant's chloroplast cells, and is not damaged by the stomach's acid. The intestinal bacteria helps to release the insulin which then makes its way into the bloodstream to remove excessive glucose.
Wild lettuce has shown to have benefits for anxiety and anxiety related disorders. Some subjective evidence suggests that lettuce may relieve insomnia, a key anxiety disorder. The "Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine" published a clinical review in 2005 of the use of lettuce for insomnia. The lactucin, a component of wild lettuce, generated pain-eliminating and sedative like effects, according to another study published in the September 2006 issue of "Journal of Ethno pharmacology".
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – James "Ted" Roberts, a member of the Youngstown State University Board of Trustees, has been appointed to the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges Council for Student Success.
The council, established in 2021, will regularly convene to discuss strategic priorities across higher education and the obstacles and macro-level trends that university governing boards face.
"I am pleased to be a part of this distinguished group of my peers, and I appreciate the opportunity to make a difference as together we tackle the many challenges confronting higher education today," Roberts says.
Roberts, senior counsel of the Youngstown law firm of Roth, Blair, Roberts, Strasfeld & Lodge, earned a bachelor's degree from YSU in 1970 and a law degree in 1974 from the University of Akron.
Roberts, whose nine-year term as a YSU trustee expires this year, has served as a limited service instructor at YSU, in several leadership positions with the Ohio State Bar Association, as trustee and former president of the Mahoning County Bar Association, and as chair of the Ohio Council of School Board Attorneys. He has also served on the boards of the Stambaugh Auditorium Association, the Visiting Nurse Association, Rotary, March of Dimes, American Heart Association, Trinity United Methodist Church and the Youngstown Club.
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Marijuana Advocates Prepare For Crackdown Under Trump's Attorney General Pick
The president-elect said he would nominate Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions to run the Justice Department. Sessions is strongly opposed to marijuana use and legalization.
By Emma Loop
Emma Loop BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on November 19, 2016, at 2:37 p.m. ET
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The trimmings and buds of marijuana plants are seen during a harvest at Alternative Solutions, a DC area medical marijuana producer, April 20, 2016 in Washington, DC.
WASHINGTON — Marijuana advocates say they're worried that Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions, might dismantle legalization efforts and disrupt the drug's new, billion-dollar industry.
Sessions, a longtime federal prosecutor who now ranks among the Senate's most conservative members, has condemned marijuana usage and legalization, calling President Obama's stance on pot "one of his great failures." Trump, for his part, has said he supports the use of medical marijuana and that, though he isn't a fan of legalization, it's up to the states to decide.
More than half of states have legalized medical marijuana, while eight states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana altogether.
Marijuana remains illegal under federal law, but the Department of Justice has said it won't challenge states that have legalized the drug if they enact and enforce strict regulations. Some say that could change when Sessions takes the reins.
"There are a lot of people who are kind of running around and saying everything is fucked, and then some people who are trying to say everything's totally fine," said Tom Angell, founder of the pro-legalization group Marijuana Majority.
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Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions
"I actually think it's somewhere in between," Angell said. "I think we have a lot of good ammunition to hold the president-elect to his word, but there are going to be people in influential positions trying to get him to go back on that."
Angell said a crackdown from a Sessions-headed Department of Justice could mean anything from sending cease and desist letters to marijuana producers to taking the states themselves to federal court to challenge legalization.
Kevin Sabet, founder of Smart Approaches to Marijuana — which advocates for the decriminalization of possession of small amounts of marijuana, but opposes broader legalization efforts — says he expects a "seismic shift in how Washington treats legalization."
"I would say that if I was an investor in marijuana businesses on a large scale, I'd freak," he said.
Sabet says Sessions could crack down on the industry financially, which would "really dry up the supports for further drug law change, because the support has been driven by industry recently."
Legal marijuana is a billion-dollar industry in the US. One study said cannabis sales could reach $6.7 billion this year.
Sabet said a financial crackdown could include going after financial institutions that support the industry or telling state regulators they can't accept any more tax revenue from legalized marijuana.
"There's reverberations that could last a long time if an AG Sessions decided to go after the big boys funding the marijuana industry," Sabet said, noting that PayPal founder and Trump donor Peter Thiel has invested in the industry.
Serge Chistov, an original investor and business advisor to Honest Marijuana, a Colorado-based producer, called the news of Sessions' nomination "shocking" and said investors are planning to tread with caution.
"In the attitude of the investors, absolutely some people are taking a cautious position," he said. Investors, uncertain of how Session will handle marijuana, "want to see and hear more, which might delay some of the projects depending on the fundings," he said.
He said Sessions could tighten banking regulations or delay a review of IRS sections that deal with writing off expenses that might have allowed cannabis retailers to recoup costs.
However, Chistov — who said he had just attended a large marijuana expo in Las Vegas — said he doesn't believe the legalization movement is reversible. He also says that because of the president-elect's business orientation, he would be "shocked to see" the Trump administration interfere with the legal marijuana industry.
The upcoming challenge for legalization advocates like Angell, he says, "is going to be to convince the new president to do what he said he would do."
Angell also points to polling which shows that 57% of Americans think marijuana should be legal — a figure that is growing.
"From a political lens, I think reversing course on this and trying to shut down broadly popular state laws, that's going to be a huge distraction from all the other things they care a lot more about," Angell said.
"It's a fight that they don't want to pick."
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AZMAISH: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE SUBCONTINENT is a searing, provocative and deeply relevant documentary about the demise of liberal humanism in India and the rise of the Hindu-fascism. It contrasts this with the parlous state of Pakistan - a failed state dominated by an uneasy balance of militarism and Islamism that didn't even have the luxury of decades of Nehru-ism that India at least benefited from. Both countries now have a political discourse driven by discriminating against the Other, and are united in expressing this through the subjugation of women - an ironic commonality. The brave documentary who chronicles this slide into extremism is Sabiha Sumar, a child of Partition who grew up in Pakistan with her father's memories of liberal India. She takes her journey with Bollywood and arthouse actress Kalki Koechlin, as they move from articulate but petrifying dinner table conversations in Mumbai to feudal rural Pakistan. The over-riding conclusion is that India is wilfully throwing away its inheritance of liberal democracy in favour of Hindu populism, and they aren't afraid to point out that the ruling party has its own funded militant violent thugs, akin to the SS. And, as Kalki points out, if a new generation is raised in segregation, rather than in the diverse communities of the past, learning to hate from the cradle, "then we really are screwed". By contrast, the problems of Pakistan seem like a more acute version of the same - deep political corruption and an in-state terrorist organisation - the Taliban. As I watched this brilliant and brave film, I kept thinking of all the parallels with the Europe and the USA today - not just the obvious populist vote for Trump - but the degradation of liberal discourse - as much from the Left as the Right. A Hindu fascist argues in this documentary that critics of the new Indian government argue that the quality of discourse in parliament has gone down - but then that was only ever the discourse of the liberal elite and didn't reflect the concerns of the uneducated masses. We are seeing something of the same in the West today - the increased distrust of the learned expert, and the very institutions that underpin our democracy. And in the segregation of communities into the vegetarian building or the Hindu building or the Muslim building aren't we seeing a reflection of the liberal Left's fight for "safe spaces" and the protests against dissenting speech on campus? Apparently all diversity is good except diversity of thought. In the closing moments of this film, the director also makes the link to the rise of populism in the West. And I wondered why there weren't more films addressing this in the LFF line-up and being thankful for this one. I've long since been petrified by the slide of India into extremism and finally we have a spotlight onto this vitally important issue. That said, far be it for us to be complacent when we suffer from so many of the same problems. This is a must see movie.
AZMAISH: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE SUBCONTINENT has a running time of 85 minutes. The film played Toronto 2017. Tickets are still available for one of the screenings at the BFI London Film Festival.


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Michael Steinberg Fine Art March 21 – April 26, 2008
"From Heat To Sub-Zero" (2008). Oil, acrylic, copper, metallic silver paint and enamel on canvas. 84 x 192 in. Courtesy of the artist and Michael Steinberg Fine Art.
Remember Julie Christie in the weirdly creepy cult classic, Demon Seed (1977), where a computer named Proteus falls in love with her, holds her prisoner, and impregnates her? At the end of the film, the child born of this union speaks in the computer's voice: "I'm alive." Something of that porousness between machine and human is to be found in Lydia Dona's most recent exhibition, which consists of one large, three-panel painting (seven feet high and sixteen feet wide) and four prints. The ostensible subject is what lies behind the surface of upscale, urban lives, the designer-perfect condos that are part of New York City's building boom, which, if you have looked up Sixth Avenue recently, doesn't appear to be slowing down. A selling point for a building under construction in Chelsea is that it comes with individual elevators so you can park your car outside your door, even if you live on the third floor. Richard Meier is now called a "starchitecht." Look at the real estate ads, and what you learn is that everything is about displaying the right balance of wealth and taste. Minimalist ostentation goes a long way these days, and the goal for many seems to be to conduct their lives as if they were the topic of a magazine article on the immaculate taste of a perfect family living a spotless life. Some might call this desired lifestyle the simulacrum, but that gives too much credit to the virtues of superficiality and selfishness.
From Heat To Sub-Zero, the title of Dona's large, three-panel painting, evokes the perfect kitchen, complete with marble countertops and the must-have item for every urban sophisticate's kitchen: a Sub-Zero dual refrigeration system, often with a self-contained wine storage unit. The outer panels have the prevailing tones of copper on the far left and grayish-silver on the far right, while the middle panel is copper in the upper half and bilious green (or weathered copper) in the lower half. Layered over the grounds are diagrammatic views of machines, hoses, plugs, a meandering orange line (exactly the same color as the industrial electric cord you see at every interior building site), and areas of smeared oil paint, as if it leaked onto the surface. In addition, in the right panel, Dona has made diagrammatic vertical and horizontal lines that evoke the painting's stretcher bars, highlighting the fact that a painting is also a construction site. By refusing to make a tight, uniform surface, the artist reminds us that painting is a messy business that, contrary to many of her peers, need not deny this aspect of its materiality. Art doesn't have to become a spotless mirror (as in Jeff Koons' paintings) held up for preening collectors, unless you believe mutual narcissism is a worthwhile goal.
Emphasizing the contours of household appliances and internal combustion engines, but not their substance or interiors (a distinction that is important to the artist's project), the plugs, wires, and machine parts become signs and symbols of the eroticized body. While a number of observers have pointed out a connection between Dona's diagrammatic images and Picabia's mecanomorphic paintings and the role of machines in Duchamp's Large Glass, it seems to me that she has let the grittiness back in. Picabia and Duchamp tended to be pristine and precise, while Dona's paintings embrace a state of disorder that strikes me as being the result of what the painting demanded and the artist's insights. Decay and entropy lie behind every surface, even that of the shiny Sub-Zero refrigerator. Dona's diagrammatic machines are a rejoinder to the masculinity we associate with industry and with Picabia and Duchamp. But more crucial than being a rejoinder to Picabia and Duchamp, Dona answers the charge that abstraction cut itself off from the realm of human affairs and no longer could address modern life, which is transitory and contingent. (Aren't the curators of the Whitney Biennial implicitly supporting that charge by including the paintings of Olivier Mossett in their exhibition?)
Dona's machines are hybrid forms, both male and female, phallic and full of orifices. They seem to be depicted upside-down, with their hoses and plugs uncoupled. There is something pathetic about them. In the areas where the imagery is densely layered, everything exists in its own isolated realm. Nothing connects with anything else. And yet, the painting isn't heavy-handed, like so much non-painting agitprop we see these days. In choosing to show one painting, Dona wants to shift attention to the work itself rather than display the amount of production she has managed to achieve since her last exhibition. From Heat To Sub-Zero evokes what precedes as well as what awaits the perfect kitchen and the lives of its perfect owners. An emblem of utopian domestic life finally gets its comeuppance, and not a moment too soon.
Robert Zehnder: Ageless Machine
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Robert Zehnder's new paintings and sculptures all possess a strong visual symbology and psychologic indexicality, evocative of his most recent trip to Europe. Returning with a critical and philosophical attachment to the idea of hidden functions of certain architectures, namely those ecclesiastical in nature, Zehnder's intrigue into how these ideas can influence one's own spatiality, both internally and exteriorly, has produced Ageless Machine, the artist's first solo-exhibition with Mrs.
Willie Birch: Chronicling Our Lives: 1987–2021
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Willie Birch has exhibited his work in New York for the first time since 2000 at the Fort Gansevoort Gallery located in the Meatpacking District. Originally from New Orleans, Birch is no stranger to New York City. Aside from Broken Dreams (Tattered White Picket Fence) (2020–21), the exhibition centers on Birch's New York period (1983–1997).
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More than 180 of Meret Oppenheim's works—paintings, sculptures, object constructions, drawings, collages, and prints—are jam-packed into Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition, an ebullient if at times overwhelming retrospective.
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Gillian Laub with Jean Dykstra
NOV 2021 | Art
Gillian Laub has been photographing societal conflicts for more than 20 years. Her portraits of Israeli Jews and Arabs, Lebanese, and Palestinians whose lives were upended by the conflict in the Middle East were collected in the book Testimony (Aperture, 2007). Her series "Southern Rites," which began as a New York Times Magazine assignment to photograph segregated proms in Georgia, eventually became a decade-long photographic project that turned into a traveling exhibition and a documentary film about racial tensions and the legacy of racial inequality. She is used to swimming in turbulent social and political waters and taking viewers on a deep dive that goes beyond surface impressions. But the most painful subject matter personally has probably been the one she's explored in her new book, Family Matters (Aperture, 2021), also an exhibition by the same name on view at the International Center of Photography through January 10, 2022.


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Robert Mugabe: will Zimbabwe be let back into Commonwealth?
Today in Trinidad the Commonwealth leaders will for the first time in some years discuss whether or not they should allow their delinquent outcast – Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe – back into the 53-member club.
Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe to be let back into Commonwealth? Photo: REUTERS
By Graham Boynton
8:00AM GMT 28 Nov 2009
That this debate is actually taking place while the 85-year-old Mugabe is still president of the country he has ruined so dramatically is testimony both to the Commonwealth's ability to forgive and forget and equally to the wily dictator's instinct for survival. (Mugabe withdrew Zimbabwe's membership in December 2003, in protest at its continued suspension for rigging the country's elections.)
Despite setting new standards of tyrannical rule, socio-economic destruction and spectacular accumulation of personal wealth on a continent whose political leaders have cornered the market in such political malfeasance, Mugabe has managed not only to hang onto power but now appears to be a candidate for rehabilitation.
The Commonwealth caveat is that readmission will be linked to the reforms that Mugabe promised when he signed the so-called Global Political Agreement more than a year ago. The GPA was intended to be a power-sharing agreement that would lead to the completion of a new constitution by August 2010, followed by free and fair elections. Human rights abuses, state control of the media, illegal farm invasions and other undemocratic behaviour that has become the norm under Mugabe's ZANU-PF regime for the past ten years was also to be abandoned with the forming of a new coalition government.
Although Mugabe reluctantly swore in his old enemy Morgan Tsvangirai as prime minister in February, there have been problems in the coalition government from the outset, and Mugabe's ongoing autocratic behaviour offered sceptics evidence that he was using Tsvangirai and the illusion of power-sharing as a way of re-establishing himself on the world stage as an elder statesman rather than his current status of power-mad pariah. Insiders say that the travel sanctions imposed by the EU on Mugabe and many of his inner circle are a key factor in his show of democratisation. "Mugabe and his wife want to go shopping in Bond Street and the Rue Faubourg again. It's as simple as that," said one insider this week.
Kate Hoey, the Labour MP an outspoken anti-Mugabe campaigner who made a number of clandestine trips to Zimbabwe before travelling there this year for the first time at the invitation of Tsvangirai's MDC, says Mugabe "will be thrilled and delighted that the Commonwealth is talking about Zimbabwe coming back. But even though on the surface things appear a bit better inside Zimbabwe, the underlying problems are all still there -and Mugabe ignores international opinion anyway. Gordon Brown should use this Commonwealth conference to put pressure on the other African leaders."
A vivid example of the dysfunctional nature of the coalition government occurred last month when Manfred Nowak, the UN special rapporteur on torture, arrived in Harare with his team at the invitation of Tsvangirai and was denied entry on the orders of Mugabe. Nowak and his team spent the night at Harare airport's VIP lounge while mediators attempted to negotiate his entry into the country but at dawn Mugabe's will prevailed and they were put on the first flight out of the country.
An angry Mr Nowak said he had never been treated more rudely by any government and that "it is for me an alarming signal in relation to the non working of the unity government. If the prime minister can invite a UN representative and is not able to get clearance from his ZANU PF colleagues, this sheds light on where the power lies at the moment."
However, this week Morgan Tsvangirai said that he welcomed the move by the Commonwealth leaders as "a sign of confidence in the new coalition government despite the problems we are facing with the rule of law and the restoration of basic freedoms. Although the process is slow, it is an experiment in peaceful transition in Africa and Zimbabweans should be proud of what we have achieved so far."
The South African political commentator Allister Sparks agrees that Tsvangirai faces "a daily uphill battle as Mugabe and his people are systematically violating all the GPA agreements." However, Sparks says, there has been "some progress, most notably, in the sense that Tsvangirai and his finance minister Tendai Biti, by abandoning the country's worthless currency and dollarizing the economy, have been able to bypass the Reserve Bank, which has until now served as the piggy bank of the Mugabe regime. The economy seems to be slowly starting up again and there are now goods back on the shelves."
This week I spoke to a Bulawayo businessman who agreed that "the economy is just starting to wake up again." However, this was from a very low base, he said, as businesses in the country's second city had all but closed down for more than a year. "In this place the only activity has been from NGOs who are here sorting out cholera, dealing with water filtration and all the other social problems caused by a collapsed economy."
It was then that the businessman, who asked not to be identified, revealed that two weeks earlier an intruder had broken into his house and stabbed him 20 times, leaving him for dead on his living room floor. A typically phlegmatic white Zimbabwean, he said it was sad that things had come to this in Bulawayo, once a sleepy town that was a model of law and order, "but these guys are driven to crime because there have been no jobs, no food on their families' tables and no prospects. But we are just, in the last few months, getting the sense that there is a change."
Many Zimbabweans now believe there is a change, a sense of momentum that, despite the obduracy of Mugabe and the ZANU PF old guard, suggests the corner has been turned. It is for this reason that Senator David Coltart, the education minister in the new coalition government, says that a return to the Commonwealth is vital for the long-term rehabilitation of the country. "While I understand the Commonwealth's concerns about issues of governance, I have no doubt that being inside the Commonwealth will help us solve our problems. We always knew that the ZANU-PF hardliners would do everything to undermine and destroy the (GPA) agreement. People who don't want us back in the Commonwealth are playing into the hands of those hardliners."
Meanwhile, inside Zimbabwe Mugabe is, as always, planning for the future. Earlier this month he was photographed inspecting a passing out parade of the latest graduates of his "Green Bombers" youth league, an indoctrination programme that costs an estimated $6 million a year. The Green Bombers are the enforcers of ZANU PF's hardline policies, deployed in opposition strongholds and in the rural areas far beyond of the reach of the international media, terrorising ordinary citizens and suppressing by force any dissent.
If Mugabe does live long enough to contest another election – the one that, according to the GPA, will be free and fair – Zimbabweans fear it will be preceded by another campaign of killing, kidnapping and torture at the hands of the Green Bombers.
Zimbabwe has a long way to go to regain its liberation.
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(Juneau) The chairman of the Dodge County Board's Finance Committee says all options are still being considered when it comes to housing federal inmates for money at the county jail. The county board voted last year to close the old jail, referred to as J-Pod, reducing a longtime revenue stream and leading to a $490-thousand-dollar budgetary shortfall for 2018.
Finance Committee Chair Dave Frohling says any future infrastructure investments for new beds would come after the results of an operational analysis of the sheriff's office is completed. The county board last month hired the Matrix Consulting Group of California to look at the sheriff's office's budgeting and financial procedures, evaluate service contracts for food and medical, assess staffing levels and review the revenue generated from housing federal inmates.
Frohling says some decisions will need to be made on any one of several options. One option, he says, would be to build a new pod. A second option would be to renovate the newer portion of J-Pod; he says the oldest section would likely stay closed. Another option would be to leave the old jail closed and add no new beds.
The sheriff says the closure of the old jail led to a 38-percent reduction in the number of available beds last year; that resulted in a $2.68-million-dollar loss in contract bed revenue alone. Frohling says even with a $100-million-dollar county budget, that loss of revenue is noticed. He says it is a pretty big hit because it adds a considerable amount of tax levy to the operation of the sheriff's budget. "Was some of it expected 'yes," Frohling says, "Could it have been softened if we had done it in a different manner 'probably' but the decision was made to close by year's end." He notes that while it impacted the 2018 budget, the lower number of contract beds was planned for in 2019.
There will be a joint meeting of the Finance and Judicial and Public Protection committee's this Friday, February 8th to discuss how to address the shortfall.


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Q: Double Apple ID My iPhone 4s was recently stolen and I immediately changed my Apple ID password. Now I have an iPhone 5 and even though at first they asked for my regular Apple ID to restore backup, after then another Apple Id appear and I don't recognized it at all. When I want to download an app, the Apps store asks me for both Apple ID accounts.

A: The question is little unclear.
However, if you want to get rid of Unknown Apple ID, sign out of iTunes & App Stores and iCloud from your phone:
Go to Settings > iTunes & App Stores
Tap the very first Apple ID: abc@example.com
Sign Out
Similarly, in order to sign Out from iCloud.
Go to Settings > iCloud
Select Sign Out which is at very last.
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Huawei announces Q1 2019 business report, grabs 40 5G contracts
By NepaliTelecom Last updated Apr 22, 2019
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Huawei maintained its focus on ICT infrastructure and smart devices, and continued to boost the efficiency and quality of its operations, which has helped contribute to its solid performance in Q1 2019.
ALSO READ: Huawei organized Mini Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Nepal.
5G focus
2019 will be a year of large-scale deployment of 5G around the world, meaning that Huawei's Carrier Business Group has unprecedented opportunities for growth. By the end of March 2019, Huawei had signed 40 commercial contracts for 5G with leading global carriers, and had shipped more than 70,000 5G base stations to markets around the world.
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Sir Thomas Blunt gazed at the envelope again. Joviality and benevolence resumed their thrones.
Those were his amazing words. They slipped out. He could not stop them.
Sir Thomas was taken aback for an instant, but not seriously. He started as might a man who, stroking a cat, receives a sudden but trifling scratch.
"Twenty pounds, eh?" he said, reflectively.
Then the milk of human kindness swept over displeasure like a tidal wave. This was a night for rich gifts to the deserving.
His lordship replied that he did, please; and he had seldom said a thing more fervently.
He led the way to his dressing-room. Like nearly all the rooms at the castle, it was large. One wall was completely hidden by the curtain behind which Spike had taken refuge that afternoon.
Sir Thomas went to the dressing-table and unlocked a small drawer.
Lord Dreever muttered his thanks. Sir Thomas accepted the guttural acknowledgment with a friendly pat on the shoulder.
"I like a little touch like that," he said.
His lordship, crackling the four bank-notes, silently agreed with him.
He turned to the dressing-table and removed his collar.
His lordship tottered from the room. He did quite an unprecedented amount of thinking as he hurried into his evening clothes; but the thought which occurred most frequently was that, whatever happened, all was well in one way, at any rate. He had the twenty pounds. There would be something colossal in the shape of disturbances when his uncle learned the truth. It would be the biggest thing since the San Francisco earthquake. But what of it? He had the money.
He slipped it into his waistcoat pocket. He would take it down with him, and pay Hargate directly after dinner.
He left the room. The flutter of a skirt caught his eye as he reached the landing. A girl was coming down the corridor on the other side. He waited at the head of the stairs to let her go down before him. As she came on to the landing he saw that it was Molly.
For a moment there was an awkward pause.
"Er—I got your note," said his lordship.
She looked at him, and then burst out laughing.
He caught her eye. Next moment they were laughing together.
They clasped hands; and it was in this affecting attitude that Sir Thomas Blunt, bustling downstairs, discovered them.
Molly flushed uncomfortably; partly because she disliked Sir Thomas even when he was not arch, and hated him when he was; partly because she felt foolish; and principally because she was bewildered. She had not looked forward to meeting Sir Thomas that night. It was always unpleasant meeting him, but it would be more unpleasant than usual after she had upset the scheme for which he had worked so earnestly. She had wondered whether he would be cold and distant or voluble and heated. In her pessimistic moments she had anticipated a long and painful scene. That he should be behaving like this was not very much short of a miracle. She could not understand it.
A glance at Lord Dreever enlightened her. That miserable creature was wearing the air of a timid child about to pull a large cracker. He seemed to be bracing himself up for an explosion.
She pitied him sincerely. So he had not told his uncle the news yet! Of course, he had scarcely had time. Saunders must have given him the note as he was going up to dress.
However, there was no use in prolonging the agony. Sir Thomas must be told sooner or later. She was glad of the chance to tell him herself. She would be able to explain that it was all her doing.
"I'm afraid there's a mistake," she said.
Sir Thomas's always prominent eyes protruded still farther. The colour of his florid face deepened. Suddenly he chuckled.
Molly looked at him amazed. Sir Thomas was indeed behaving unexpectedly to-night.
She was aware that his lordship had emitted a hollow croak, but she took it as his method of endorsing her statement—not as a warning.
She broke off in alarm. With the beginning of her last speech Sir Thomas had begun to swell, until now he looked as if he were in imminent danger of bursting. His face was purple. To Molly's lively imagination his eyes appeared to move slowly out of his head, like a snail's. From the back of his throat came strange noises.
He gulped and tried again.
Lord Dreever, a limp bundle against the banisters, smiled weakly.
Sir Thomas eyed him with a baleful stare. Molly looked from one to the other in bewilderment.
There was a pause, during which Sir Thomas seemed partially to recover command of himself. Doubts as to the propriety of a family row in mid-stairs appeared to occur to him. He moved forward.
"Come with me," he said, with awful curtness.
His lordship followed bonelessly. Molly watched them go, and wondered more than ever. There was something behind this. It was not merely the breaking-off of the engagement that had roused Sir Thomas. He was not a just man, but he was just enough to be able to see that the blame was not Lord Dreever's. There had been something more. She was puzzled.
In the hall Saunders was standing, weapon in hand, about to beat the gong.
Dinner had been ordered especially early that night because of the theatricals. The necessity for strict punctuality had been straitly enjoined upon Saunders. At some inconvenience he had ensured strict punctuality. And now—— But we all have our cross to bear in this world. Saunders bowed with dignified resignation.
Sir Thomas led the way into his study.
"Be so good as to close the door," he said.
His lordship was so good.
Sir Thomas backed to the mantelpiece and stood there in the attitude which for generations has been sacred to the elderly Briton—feet well apart, hands clasped beneath his coat tails. His stare raked Lord Dreever like a searchlight.
His lordship wilted before his gaze.
He spread his feet farther apart. The years had rolled back, and he was plain Thomas Blunt again, of Blunt's Stores, dealing with an erring employé.
His lordship said that somehow, don't you know, there didn't seem to be a chance, you know. He had several times been on the point—but—well, somehow—— Well, that's how it was.
There was a very fair selection of evil-doers in all branches of business from which to choose. He gave the preference to the race-track.
His lordship's face betrayed the deepest consternation. He had been prepared for much, but not for this. That he would have to undergo what in his school-days he would have called "a jaw" was inevitable, and he had been ready to go through with it. It might hurt his feelings, possibly, but it would leave his purse intact. A ghastly development of this kind he had not foreseen.
"But, I say, uncle!" he bleated.
Sir Thomas silenced him with a grand gesture.
Ruefully his lordship produced his little all. Sir Thomas took it with a snort and went to the door.
Saunders was still brooding statuesquely over the gong.
"Sound it!" said Sir Thomas.
Saunders obeyed him with the air of an unleashed hound.
The butler's calm, expressionless, yet withal observant eye took in at a glance the signs of trouble. Neither the inflated air of Sir Thomas nor the punctured-balloon bearing of Lord Dreever escaped him.
He reserved his more polished periods for use in public. In conversation with his immortal soul he was wont to unbend somewhat.
Gloom wrapped his lordship about during dinner as with a garment. He owed twenty pounds; his assets amounted to seven shillings and fourpence. He thought, and thought again. Quite an intellectual pallor began to appear on his normally pink cheeks. Saunders, silently sympathetic—he hated Sir Thomas as an interloper, and entertained for his lordship, under whose father also he had served, a sort of paternal fondness—was ever at his elbow with the magic bottle; and to Spennie, emptying and re-emptying his glass almost mechanically, wine, the healer, brought an idea. To obtain twenty pounds from any one person of his acquaintance was impossible; to divide the twenty by four and persuade a generous quartet to contribute five pounds apiece was more feasible.
Hope began to stir within him again.
Immediately after dinner he began to flit about the castle like a family spectre of active habits. The first person he met was Charteris.
Two minutes later Lord Dreever had resumed his hunt.
The path of the borrower is a thorny one, especially if, as in the case of Spennie, his reputation as a payer-back is not of the best.
Spennie in his time had extracted small loans from most of his male acquaintances, rarely repaying the same. He had a tendency to forget that he had borrowed half a crown here to pay a cab fare and ten shillings there to settle up for a dinner; and his memory was not much more retentive of larger sums. This made his friends somewhat wary. The consequence was that the great treasure-hunt was a failure from start to finish. He got friendly smiles, he got honeyed apologies, he got earnest assurances of goodwill; but he got no money, except from Jimmy Pitt.
He had approached Jimmy in the early stages of the hunt, and Jimmy, being in the mood when he would have lent anything to anybody, yielded the required five pounds without a murmur.
But what was five pounds? The garment of gloom and the intellectual pallor were once more prominent when his lordship repaired to his room to don the loud tweeds which, as Lord Herbert, he was to wear in the first act.
There is a good deal to be said against stealing, as a habit; but it cannot be denied that, in certain circumstances, it offers an admirable solution of a financial difficulty, and, if the penalties were not so exceedingly unpleasant, it is probable that it would become far more fashionable than it is.
His lordship's mind did not turn immediately to this outlet from his embarrassment. He had never stolen before, and it did not occur to him directly to do so now. There is a conservative strain in all of us. But gradually, as it was borne in upon him that it was the only course possible, unless he were to grovel before Hargate on the morrow and ask for time to pay—an unthinkable alternative—he found himself contemplating the possibility of having to secure the money by unlawful means. By the time he had finished his theatrical toilet, he had definitely decided that this was the only thing to be done.
His plan was simple. He knew where the money was—in the dressing-table in Sir Thomas's room. He had heard Saunders instructed to put it there. What could be easier than to go and get it? Everything was in his favour. Sir Thomas would be downstairs receiving his guests. The coast would be clear. Why, it was like finding the money.
Besides, he reflected, as he worked his way through the bottle of Mumm which he had had the forethought to abstract from the supper-table as a nerve-steadier, it was not really stealing. Dash it all, the man had given him the money! It was his own! He had half a mind—he poured himself out another glass of the elixir—to give Sir Thomas a jolly good talking-to into the bargain. Yes, dash it all!
He pushed on his cuffs fiercely. The British lion was roused.
A man's first crime is, as a rule, a shockingly amateurish affair. Now and then, it is true, we find beginners forging with the accuracy of old hands or breaking into houses with the finish of experts. But these are isolated cases. The average tyro lacks generalship altogether. Spennie Dreever may be cited as a typical novice. It did not strike him that inquiries might be instituted by Sir Thomas when he found the money gone, and that suspicion might conceivably fall upon himself. Courage may be born of champagne, but rarely prudence.
The theatricals began at half-past eight with a duologue. The audience had been hustled into their seats, happier than is usual in such circumstances, owing to the rumour which had been circulated that the proceedings were to terminate with an informal dance. The castle was singularly well constructed for such a purpose. There was plenty of room and a sufficiency of retreat for those who sat out, in addition to a conservatory large enough to have married off half the couples in the country.
Spennie's idea had been to establish an alibi by mingling with the throng for a few minutes, and then to get through his burglarious speciality during the duologue, when his absence would not be noticed. It might be that if he disappeared later in the evening people would wonder what had become of him.
He lurked about till the last of the audience had taken their seats. As he was moving off through the hall a hand fell upon his shoulder. Conscience makes cowards of us all. Spennie bit his tongue and leaped three inches into the air.
"Halloa, Charteris!" he said, gaspingly.
Charteris appeared to be in a somewhat overwrought condition. Rehearsals had turned him into a pessimist, and now that the actual moment of production had arrived his nerves were in a thoroughly jumpy condition, especially as the duologue was to begin in two minutes and the obliging person who had undertaken to prompt had disappeared.
Spennie went reluctantly. Half-way through the duologue the official prompter returned, with the remark that he had been having a bit of a smoke on the terrace and that his watch had gone wrong. Leaving him to discuss the point with Charteris, Spennie slipped quietly away.
The delay, however, had had the effect of counteracting the uplifting effects of the Mumm. The British lion required a fresh fillip. He went to his room to administer it. By the time he emerged he was feeling just right for the task in hand. A momentary doubt occurred to him as to whether it would not be a good thing to go down and pull Sir Thomas's nose as a preliminary to the proceedings; but he put the temptation aside. Business before pleasure.
With a jaunty, if somewhat unsteady, step he climbed the stairs to the floor above and made his way down the corridor to Sir Thomas's room. He switched on the light and went to the dressing-table. The drawer was locked, but in his present mood Spennie, like Love, laughed at locksmiths. He grasped the handle and threw his weight into a sudden tug. The drawer came out with a report like a pistol-shot.
"There!" said his lordship, wagging his head severely.
In the drawer lay the four bank-notes. The sight of them brought back his grievances with a rush. He would teach Sir Thomas to treat him like a kid! He would show him!
He was removing the notes, frowning fiercely the while, when he heard a cry of surprise from behind him.
He turned, to see Molly. She wore the costume of a stage milkmaid, and her eyes were round with wonder. Leaving her room a few moments earlier after dressing for her part, she had almost reached the end of the corridor that led to the landing, when she observed his lordship, flushed of face and moving like some restive charger, come curveting out of his bedroom in a dazzling suit of tweeds and make his way upstairs. Ever since their mutual encounter with Sir Thomas before dinner she had been hoping for a chance of seeing him alone. She had not failed to notice his depression during the meal, and her good little heart had been troubled by the thought that she must have been responsible for it. She knew that for some reason what she had said about the letter had brought his lordship into his uncle's bad books, and she wanted to find him and say she was sorry.
Accordingly, she had followed him. His lordship, still in the war-horse vein, had made the pace upstairs too hot, and had disappeared while she was still half-way up. She had arrived at the top just in time to see him turn down the passage into Sir Thomas's dressing-room. She could not think what his object might be. She knew that Sir Thomas was downstairs, so it could not be with the idea of a chat with him that Spennie was seeking the dressing-room.
Faint, yet pursuing, she followed on his trail, and arrived in the doorway just as the pistol-report of the burst lock rang out.
She stood looking at him blankly. He was holding a drawer in one hand. Why, she could not imagine.
The sombre determination of his lordship's face melted into a twisted but kindly smile.
He waved the drawer benevolently, by way of making her free of the room. The movement disturbed one of the bank-notes, which fluttered in Molly's direction and fell at her feet.
She stooped and picked it up. When she saw what it was her bewilderment increased.
His lordship beamed upon her with a pebble-beached smile of indescribable goodwill.
"Opening drawer," said his lordship, affably.
Still she could not understand.
His lordship drew himself up.
His lordship gave the drawer a dignified wave.
His lordship raised his eyebrows.
"Wanted touch him twenty of the best," he explained, simply.
For the life of her Molly could not help laughing.
He removed the three notes and replaced the drawer.
"Honour of the Dreevers!" he added, pocketing the money.
His lordship wagged a forefinger very solemnly at her.
Molly wrinkled her forehead in her agitation. Men of Lord Dreever's type appeal to the motherly instinct of women. As a man his lordship was a negligible quantity. He did not count. But as a wilful child, to be kept out of trouble, he had a claim on Molly.
"But, Lord Dreever——" she began.
"Call me Spennie," he urged. "We're pals. You said so. On stairs. Everybody calls me Spennie. Even Uncle Thomas. I'm going to pull his nose," he broke off suddenly, as one recollecting a forgotten appointment.
"You look rippin' in that dress," he said, irrelevantly.
She took the notes from him, and replaced them in the drawer. He watched her thoughtfully, as if he were pondering the merits of her arguments.
She pushed him gently away.
"Something in that," admitted his lordship.
She stopped. She had closed the door earlier in the proceedings, but her quick ear caught the sound of a footstep in the passage outside.
She pushed him behind the curtain where the clothes hung, and switched off the light.
From behind the curtain came the muffled voice of his lordship.
She sprang to the curtain and slipped noiselessly behind it.
"But, I say——" began his lordship.
She gripped his arm. He subsided.
The footsteps had halted outside the door. Then the handle turned softly. The door opened and closed again with hardly a sound.
The footsteps passed on into the room.
touch: The informal sense of the word, meaning to ask someone for a loan (or, usually in practice, a gift) of money, dates back to the eighteenth century and is common among Wodehouse's idlers, but is rarer these days. Spennie's confusing this sense with Sir Thomas's reference to the romantic touch of letter-writing makes for a good opportunity to point out the older slang definition.
San Francisco earthquake: The April 18, 1906 quake (and its subsequent, far more destructive fire)—a relatively recent event when this was written.
Apollyon: a dragon-like archdevil in John Bunyan's allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. The image at right is an engraving by John Sturt for the 1728 edition.
fair old, rare old: The closing line of "Strolling Round the Town," an 1893 music-hall song by Harry Castling (1865–1933), was "We're a fair old, rare old, rickety-rackety crew." The line was also made famous as the caption of a Punch cartoon by Phil May.
toilet: here, the process of dressing or grooming one's clothing or hair; from Fr. toilette, small cloth or towel, such as a hairdresser or barber's protective wraparound.
Love laughs at locksmiths: title of an 1803 comic opera by George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) with music "composed and selected" by Michael Kelly (1762–1826).


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Assuming there even is an NFL season this year (even one that is only eight games long), the Miami Dolphins will find themselves once again in a tough quarterback situation. There's been murmurs about signing a free agent all off-season, and the latest rumors center around the Tennessee Titan's Vince Young.
With Chad Pennington not coming back, that leaves the hopes of the franchise squarely on Chad Henne's robotic shoulders. So, The Miami Herald reports that Dolphins brass may sign Young once the labor dispute has been adverted. The former Longhorn has had a notoriously spotty NFL career, but did have a solid, though not spectacular, season with the Titans last year.
Though, the Dolphins seem to be worried about Young's maturity level and how he would handle being Henne's back-up.
(One) official who has spoken with the Dolphins said there's concern about whether Young would be happy as a backup if Chad Henne beat him out. Remember, Young wasn't happy when he lost his job in Tennessee. Speaking about no one specifically, Dolphins general manager Jeff Ireland said, 'You can't guess about' a quarterback's 'accountability and dependability.' Those have been issues with Young."
Of course we want to see a full NFL season this year as much as anyone, but sometimes, in our deepest darkest hours of pondering the state of the Miami Dolphins, we think that the one upside of a missed season is the extra time the Fins would have to get their house and roster in order.


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The 'other' retirement talk everyone should have
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People meticulously plan their finances to be able to afford retirement. They hire financial advisers, save consistently during their working years and watch expenses. What they don't often do is prepare psychologically and emotionally.
"A lot of couples just aren't talking together about how they want to live'' in retirement, said Dorian Mintzer, co-author of The Couple's Retirement Puzzle: 10 Must-Have Conversations for Creating an Amazing New Life Together.
Several things can happen when couples don't talk about how they want to live in retirement, said co-author Roberta K. Taylor, a psychotherapist and retirement coach.
"Disharmony can occur when couples make assumptions about their spouse's needs and desires," she said. "If they have different visions for the future, one or both may feel abandoned or left out when their spouse becomes involved with new interests and activities. This can certainly lead to them growing apart."
The outcome can be severe.
"The divorce rate is increasing in the retirement population because people are living longer and thinking differently about the years ahead," Taylor said. "In the past where couples may have decided it was too late in life to divorce, people today are looking forward to possibilities and opportunities that never before existed. Many are not willing to stay in unhappy marriages."
For Dallas residents Gayla and Larry Engel, who've been married for 32 years, negotiating how much time to spend together is key.
Gayla, 63, a part-time physical therapist at a nursing home, considers herself retired because she fills in occasionally. She's active in volunteer activities.
"I've had to find ways to fill my time to give my life meaning and purpose," Gayla said. "I just can't go to lunch every day and shop at NorthPark. I've been used to having a fulfilling job where I was contributing, and I had to continue that at retirement."
Larry, also 63, is figuring out what he wants to do after he retires at the end of March from his job as a systems support specialist in employee benefits administration.
"My biggest concern is, what am I going to do when I don't have something to get up and do every day?" he said. "I don't know that I'm ready to not work. The question is, what am I going to work at?"
Larry has a creative side. He likes to build sets for amateur theater companies.
"I have an interest in music," said Larry, who sang with the Dallas Symphony Chorus. "I could volunteer at many theater companies, sing in choirs. I could probably fill my days and nights."
There's one thing that Gayla has made clear: She wants weekends with her husband.
"We both know that there's a limit to how much we can give ourselves away," she said. "He loves to do theater things, and we've already said, 'If you sign up to be in a play and you're gone every weekend for a month and you're gone every night for the last week or two before that show, that isn't good for us.'"
Larry understands the need to honor his marriage.
"That's something I signed up for 32 years ago, so I understand that," he said.
Taylor and Mintzer, a therapist and executive coach, said some key issues couples should address before retiring are:
Do we have enough money to support the lifestyle we want?
Should we retire at the same time or separately?
Do we stay put or explore new frontiers?
What's the best way to stay healthy and fit after 50?
How do we meet new friends and create new interests outside of work now?
What are our expectations of each other?
How will we balance time together and time apart?
"A lot of people think that when they have their finances in order, that's all they have to do," said Shellee Henson, a financial therapist at Financial Strategies Group LLC in Dallas. "People just don't stop and think how different this lifestyle is going to be. They really need some thinking time, some preparation time."
Couples also need to negotiate the more mundane aspects of retirement, said Henson, who teaches a continuing education class at Richland College called "Will Your Marriage Survive Your Retirement?"
"The division of labor in the house — is he going to take up some of the chores now that he's retired?" she said.
Then there's not driving each other crazy.
"For couples where the wife doesn't work or stopped working beforehand, the husband, when he retires, now he's in her space," Henson said. "She's created her routine and now he's there. That's an adjustment for her, as well as for him."
The Engels, who learned about the importance of having pre-retirement conversations in Henson's class, can attest to that.
"Lately, I've had more opportunities to work at home, and you tend to get in each other's way," Larry said. "She's used to having her routine; I'm used to having my routine, so there will be an adjustment to figure out who's going to be where and when."
Here are other tips for couples preparing for retirement:
Create a new life
"People tend to focus on what retirement is not," Henson said. "It's not working, and they don't really think about the fact that their retirement is going to last them 25 years or so. They really have to create a new lifestyle for themselves."
That's especially hard on "people who have worked all their lives and have been hard-charging career types," she said.
"To suddenly not have that purpose, a goal to be focused on, it's very unsettling," Henson said.
Take a different view
"It's helpful to think of retirement as a transition instead of a destination," Mintzer said. "Men often talk about being terrified — 'Where would I be without work?' — and feeling irrelevant."
Much of it comes down to how you view aging.
"What does aging mean to you?" Mintzer said. "It doesn't have to be all downhill."
Keep the lines open
"The bottom line is the importance of communication; being clear about expectations and knowing what's important to your partner and why," Taylor said. "When couples are able to communicate and appreciate each other's point of view, compromise and negotiation become possible."
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