Thursday, June 30, 2011

Hail to the "Dick"?

O is in town tonight collecting some big checks at David Cohen's crib up in Chestnut Hill. It must be nice. As if Comcast needed more of an edge over their competition. BTW David, my service sucks lately.

I know who won't be at O's fund raiser; my man Mark Halperin. It seems he went a little overboard on MSNBC this morning.  Mark, this could be a "Game Changer" for your ass. I hear that the White House called MSNBC to complain. (A little thin skinned aren't we there O?)

But this begs the question; would a "well respected" journalist call any other president of these divided states "a dick"? I doubt it. But such is the case with O, he is......different.

Halperin is no fan of his Oness, so I guess it was just hard for him to control him self when he saw O acting all uppity "dick" like.

Personally, I don't think that MSNBC should have suspended Halperin, --you all know how I feel about free speech. But it's just interesting to see certain people struggle to contain their inner "color arousal" (thanks for that word, Francis) in public.

Got My Tour Poster Up





30 DAY CINEPHILE CHALLENGE: DAY 7

http://www.facebook.com/pages/30-Day-Cinephile-Challenge/184987868220596

Day 7: A film you would love to share with everyone – ZOETROPE (2011, Rouzbeh Rashidi, Ireland). The sunlight in this film made me cry.

http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2011/04/zoetrope-2011-rouzbeh-rashidi-ireland.html




30 DAY CINEPHILE CHALLENGE: DAY 6

Day 6: The biggest disappointment from one of your favorite filmmakers – TSUGUMI (1990, Jun Ichikawa). The film is fine. I consider it a disappointment only when I compare it to BU SU (1987, Jun Ichikawa). Both BU SU and TSUGUMI deal with a lonely young girl. But I find TSUGUMI "averagely good" while BU SU is "excellent". Moreover, I don't feel much involved with the heroine of TSUGUMI, while I feel totally involved with the heroine of BU SU.

This is Peter Nellhaus' review on TSUGUMI:
http://www.coffeecoffeeandmorecoffee.com/archives/2008/07/tsugumi.html





HOW ARE YOU TODAY? (2010)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpoMC7svRQY

Sid Vicious auditions for X-Factor

Vitamins Help You Lose Weight Effectively



And 'know that vitamins are essential nutrients for the human body, and can support a range of physical activity. You know that vitamins can also help you lose weight effectively? Almost all of the vitamins in food every day, and play an important role to accelerate the metabolism of the human body.

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Gassed


Gassed by John Sargent

Lady Agnew


Lady Agnew of Lochnaugh by John Sargent

Those mean liberals.


It seems that Glen Beckkk is upset because someone (allegedly) spilled wine on his wife at a park in New York.

 "Reuters) - Glenn Beck, the conservative television and radio host, has taken to his Web site and radio show to complain of a "hostile" reception he and his family met from New Yorkers when they attended an outdoor film screening at a park in midtown Manhattan.

Beck told radio listeners that one person at the Bryant Park movie screening of Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" on Monday evening shouted at him and his family: "We hate conservatives."

Another spilled a cup of wine on his wife, Tania, which Beck said he believes was a deliberate act of malice.

"As we got up to leave the movie, the crowd broke out in applause that we were finally leaving," he told listeners on his syndicated radio show..." [Article]

Question: Is there a more pathetic individual in this country than Glen Beckkk? The guy makes millions of dollars by being a polarizing figure and a lightning rod, and he cries a river because he gets the business at an outdoor park. Besides, it's not like the guy doesn't have his own security detail with him everywhere that he goes. It must be nice. If someone wants to step to me and try to kick my ass I have to go Kingston 12 on his ass all by my damn self.

Anyway, as is always the case with wingnuts; it seems that Mr. Beck might have been stretching the truth a little bit.

  "It was my friend that spilled the glass of wine on Tanya -and I can assure you that it was a complete accident. A happy one, to be sure, but nonetheless a complete and utter accident. As soon as the wine spilled (and I question how Tanya became soaked from a half glass of wine) apologies were made and my friends pretty much scrambled to give Tanya & co napkins -no doubt aware that it would look terrible and that their actions could be perceived as purposeful. No words were exchanged after that, as I think that it became pretty clear to Beck & co that my friends and I were doing everything in our capacity to help clean the “mess”.    

That quote was from a lady named Lindsey Piscitell who claims that Beckkk is full of it. In fact, from all accounts, it was Beckkk and his bodyguards who made everyone in the park tense.

Still, it is clear from the accounts that I have read that Ms. Piscitell has no love for Beckkk, so the truth could be somewhere in the middle.

Beckkk has once again put himself in the spotlight by crying "woe is me". And, of course, his minions are eating it up. "Those liberals are so mean and nasty." 
Stop it! Nothing was going to happen to Glen Beckkk or his family, and if someone even thought about stepping over the line, those well paid bodyguards would have done their jobs.

So Glen, here is a suggestion: Next time dial up Netflix and watch "Birth of a Nation" in that beautiful home theater you have there in your Connecticut estate.

color your life

I'm in a very colorful mood these days! I also am very anxious cause tomorrow is my uni's fashion show! If you are in athens you should join us :) xx




 









(topshop dress, benetton denim vest, doc martens boots, furla bag, vintage rings)

EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL 2011

Thanks to Chayanin for telling us about this.

7 กรกฎาคม (พฤหัส)
1300 - Bad Bank (Hungary, Csaba Káel, 2002)
1510 - Erratum (Poland, Marek Lechki, 2010)
1655 - Camino (Spain, Javier Fesser, 2008)
1920 - The Escape (Denmark, Kathrine Windfeld, 2009)

8 กรกฎาคม (ศุกร์)
1400 - With Friends Like These (Belgium, Felix Van Groeningen, 2007)
1550 - Above the Street, Below the Water (Denmark, Charlotte Sieling, 2009)
1740 - The Last Pulcinella (Italy, Maurizio Scaparro, 2008)
1920 - When We Leave (Germany, Feo Aladag, 2010)

9 กรกฎาคม (เสาร์)
1130 - Kooky (Czech Republic, Jan Sverák, 2010)
1315 - Weekend with My Mother (Romania, Stere Gulea, 2009)
1610 - The Hell of '63 (Netherlands, Steven de Jong, 2009)
1810 - Camino

10 กรกฎาคม (อาทิตย์)
1130 - The Magic Tree (Poland, Andrzej Maleszka, 2009)
1310 - The Escape
1515 - With Friends Like These
1705 - Bad Bank
1910 - The 1000 Euros Generation (Italy, Massimo Venier, 2009)

11 กรกฎาคม (จันทร์)
- หอศิลป์ปิด -

12 กรกฎาคม (อังคาร)
1500 - The Paper Will Be Blue (Romania, Radu Muntean, 2006)
1645 - The Hell of '63
1845 - Run If You Can (Germany, Dietrich Brüggemann, 2010)

13 กรกฎาคม (พุธ)
1400 - The 1000 Euros Generation
1540 - Celda 211 (Spain/France, Daniel Monzón, 2009)
1715 - An Ordinary Execution (France, Marc Dugain, 2010)
1910 - Above the Street, Below the Water

14 กรกฎาคม (พฤหัส)
1400 - The Wedding Photographer (Sweden, Ulf Malmros, 2009)
1600 - Dust (Austria/Luxembourg, Max Jacoby, 2009)
1745 - Erratum
1930 - Exit Through the Gift Shop (USA/UK, Banksy, 2010)

15 กรกฎาคม (ศุกร์)
1400 - The Last Pulcinella
1540 - The Paper Will Be Blue
1725 - Celda 211
1930 - Weekend with My Mother

16 กรกฎาคม (เสาร์)
1100 - The Magic Tree
1240 - Dust
1420 - An Ordinary Execution
1615 - Run If You Can
1925 - Exit Through the Gift Shop

17 กรกฎาคม (อาทิตย์)
1100 - Kooky
1245 - The Wedding Photographer
1445 - When We Leave
1730 - Forbidden Fruit (Finland/Sweden, Dome Karukoski, 2009)

2011, Tour de France teaser

How To Choose The Best Pair Of Sunglasses In The Summer



Summer is considered one of the best times to be on the beach with his family, friends and lovers. Of course, before going to the beach, there are things you need to take with you. There are sunscreens, new logs, and of course his new pair of sunglasses.  They are one of the most important things that people, especially men, want to have if they're going to the beach. How to choose the best pair of sunglasses in the summer is very important. If you want to look good on the beach and if you want a good eye protection against radiation, which must carefully choose their sunglasses.

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The Designers Present Their Collections For The Menswear Spring-summer 2012 Season



 Men's long been among the ladies. Not only because you get to see a lot of gentlemen dressed in a track, but also the reason we have to start planning to equip our friend for next season, thus ensuring that coordinates with our own. So let's start organizing what men are made in the spring-summer 2012.

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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Justin's big adventure.

"ass hole knee grows you are the biggest bunch of racists in america and are only good for turning where ever you live into a cesspool.just like field knee grow did to jay-may-key.i wish you knee grows would come on to my property and threaten me because i have a nice high capacity present for you.field knee grow you are just a dumb ass commie traitor. go fuck up jay-may-key some more and take detolit with you." ~ Anonymous poster~

Festus, save your "high capacity present", there are plenty of those right here in my hometown. Besides, I don't work in the pest control business, so I doubt seriously if I will be coming on your property anytime soon.

Don't you just love haters?

Anywhoo, I want to talk about the botched Negro award show that was held recently. No, not the teleprompter screw up. (Can't BET do anything right?) But rather something else that some of you Negroes are writing about.

"Most talk about Sunday’s BET Awards centered on the Chris Brown-Rihanna screw-up, however, I heard little to nothing regarding the skit involving rapper Nicki Minaj and teen heartthrob, Justin Bieber.

During the segment in which both artists rambled about who had the strongest fan base, Bieber began to flirt with the female MC. Minaj, 26, responded by asking the 17-year-old if he could drive, implicitly suggesting he is too young for her. While it rendered as a harmless crush — as would a student have for his older, attractive teacher—things got a little inappropriate when Minaj posed the question to Bieber, “Can you handle curves?” The comment was an apparent sexual innuendo and reference to her infamous rear end. Bieber replied with a resolute “Yes I can.”

Though I understand the skit had no intention to be inappropriate or offensive, it unfortunately turned out to be just that.

Since when was it OK for a minor to be implicated in such sexualized language?
17-years-old or not, Bieber is still underage, not to mention most of his fan base (most of whom stood with him on the stage) are preteen and teenage girls. The blame could be placed on Minaj and Bieber, but truthfully BET is the ultimate culprit. The network’s attempt to be provocative fell flat into a dangerous and highly sensitive locale.

But where is the public scorn?

There’s no way this would have passed if the circumstances were different. If the skit featured a male hip-hop artist and an underage girl (God forbid even white), the media would have thrown pebbles at BET and the artist himself. I guess it’s excusable if it’s a female rapper and an underage Canadian.

This isn’t the first time Justin was involved with inappropriateness regarding older women. Bieber raised eyebrows when he and Kim Kardashian, 30, befriended one another in what seemed a bit improper. Personally, I feel Bieber is growing up too fast and it’s much too soon to be involved in such raciness. While this is purely entertainment, in the real word it reaps punitive implications.

I suggest BET, Bieber and Minaj be a little more careful the next time they decide to partake in an immodest 'joke.”' [Article]

I must confess that I didn't see the skit, and, if I did,I am not sure that I would have even noticed what the writer is clearly so upset about. (Am I being sexist?)

But since he put it out there, what do you think?
   

Trust

Everytime that I'm with my friends without Mike being there, if I call him I often ask suspiciously where he is, what he is doing, and whether he is cheating on me.

And without fail anyone who overhears my conversation will be like "OMG how can you not trust your own husband?"

LOL. I don't. Why should I? Name me ONE upside to blindly trusting ANYBODY. And my attitude has nothing to do with Mike. I'd explain.

Just look at all those who have suffered from being cheated upon. What do they say?

They say things like...

"I can't believe he would do this to me."

"I can't believe he has been sleeping with her for 4 freaking months and I didn't even know! How was I so blind and stupid?"

"All those times he said he was on a company dinner there was no dinner! I believed him for 18 freaking times and he went prostituting ALL THOSE TIMES!"


and most commonly of all...

"I can't believe I trusted him."


And this doesn't just apply to cheating. What about all those girls with sex tapes leaked out by their ex boyfriends? You think they are stupid and they trusted the wrong dudes? That your partner will NEVER do that to you? That you are the clever one? Wake up. I've seen the MOST unlikely men cheat.

Cecilia Cheung trusted Edison Chen to never show the close-up shots of her long-haired vagina to anyone. And there is it, on the net, forever. Sure he didn't mean to distribute it - but if she never trusted that he could safekeep it forever, this would never have happened to her.

So back to me and my attitude towards trust. It seems silly to me that people put so much heart into that little word. They say "He would never hurt me. I just know. I trust him. "

And I think... So what if you don't? Is it a bad thing, really? Is that supposed to be an insult on his character? Is he supposed to be ANGRY?

Nothing to be angry about what. Everyone needs to safeguard their self-interests.

You say you trust someone... To what extent do you do that? Do you give him your bank password? Would you let him do a video tour of your genitalia? Would you place him and Megan Fox on a deserted island with a condom? Probably not. Nobody trusts ANYBODY that much, unless they are completely naive.

As for me, I trust that Mike will never choose a banana over an orange. Because he hates bananas and these things don't change. I'm willing to put a $1,000 bet on it. But probably not my whole fortune.

I trust (not 100% but maybe 95%) that Mike will not, for example, see a girl at some event and go ask for her phone number. Because I know his character is shy and he is afraid someone might see him do this and report to me. But if he is drunk... Who knows?

Trust is such a funny thing. People always say it needs to be earned, needs to be built.

After some time of interacting with something, certain things can be depended on.

Like I trust that my blackberry will push my emails on time because it has never once failed to do it in 2 years. I trust that my McChicken will taste the same as it has always tasted.

Over the course of 5 years, never once has Mike flirted back with girls who show interest in him, whether online or in real life. Yet I don't trust that he would never cheat on me. Why?

1) People change. Today he is madly in love with you. Tomorrow he is bored. The next day he is bored AND drunk. Day after that he is bored, drunk, horny and had a fight with you. Who knows? The only thing you can depend on is... People change with time. Even if their personalities remain identical, their feelings towards you might change.

2) Circumstances change. Sure, in these 5 years Mike has never met a girl he liked so much he is willing to give up everything with me. Tomorrow... Who knows? If he meets and gets to know 1,000,000 girls, there has got to one he finds is better than me, no matter how much he loves me. Right?

3) Consequences are bigger. And this is the best reason not to trust that your partner will not stray. CONSEQUENCES. It is my fucking heart at stake here! And my marriage! It is easy to trust when the consequences are small. I pay $2 to my usual chicken rice stall because I trust it will be yummy as always. Not yummy no big deal, I'd buy from another stall - net loss $2 and some time.


But if I believe Mike will never stray, when he does, I'm gonna be fucked.

You are shaking your head, thinking, "You dumb blonde, even if you don't trust, either way you are fucked. If it happens it happens!"

You are wrong. Sure, I'd still be heartbroken. But wait...

Prevention is better than cure

I know I've mentioned this many times.

When you remain vigilant about your partners actions, you are working hard to PREVENT him from committing a mistake. He knows you are checking his phone - there goes flirty smses. He knows you have all his passwords - can't woo girls online.

If you know where he is every minute, he can't go to a hotel without arousing your suspicion. Sure he can work his way around all these but it is hard work. That's another deterrent. If he is willing to do all that to cheat, so be it. But I sure won't make it easy for him.

He wants to go to a dirty KTV bar with his gross colleague. He swears he won't do anything with the girls there. Put your foot down and don't allow! You want to trust he won't get a hooker or prevent him from meeting one? Which has worse consequences? Explain to him why it makes you uncomfortable, then placate him with a blowjob.

And if you find out some chick is mildly interested, you confront her, shame her, threaten her. You puff up your feathers and make sure she knows you will not go in peace. Worse come to worst you be nice to her so she gets so guilty she stops her nonsense.

When you are so suspicious, won't it piss him off?


If he has nothing to hide, he would not get angry. Obviously I don't do my routine checking in an awful way. I just log in to his fb, take up his phone to read when he is sleeping. He doesn't even know. If your man gets annoyed, it is the first sign that he IS possibly cheating on you. Maybe not full out cheating, but flirting, yes. Or that he wants to be able to. He is probably hiding something. Am I paranoid? Maybe. But from personal dating experience, those demanding privacy and space are the exact ones who are cheating.

Mike has never once got angry with me when I checked his phone or facebook. "Go ahead," he says. "You are just wasting your time." And he is right, I was. And he reads my shit too, in case you think this only goes one way.



Cheating is just like cancer - you want to win it, you've got to find out early. Half the battle is won when you kill the sapling before it turns into a full grown weed, throttling your relationship.

If he is just at the "getting to know" stage with some girl - you find out, you have a talk with him to resolve things. Make sure he won't see her again. You want to wait till he is in love? Too late.

If he is already sleeping with someone else, when you find out you can plan your next step. If you are married, you can hire a PI - submit evidence to court and get half his fortune. Cease sleeping with him in case you get some disease. Cut off his penis. Or forgive him, depending on the severity of his crime.

Why, do you want to wait till he had an affair for months and impregnated the slut before you say "OMGWTFBBQ KILL ME NOW MY KID HAS A STEP SIBLING AND I HAVE AIDS"?

Some of you might be saying... Why work so hard to prevent that seems unavoidable? If he cheats, he won't be worth it anyway.

Rubbish. ALL men would cheat if there are no consequences. I sincerely believe that. Some don't because they don't wanna hurt us. Some because they are scared of losing us. Some because of kids, social ramifications, anything.

Most commonly of all, men cheat because they made a mistake, thinking with their penis, enjoying the attention - THINKING THEY WON'T BE CAUGHT.


And when you blindly trust, that's when they are most certain they will never get caught.


Every few days I remind Mike how his life will be like if he is dumb enough to cheat. And I WILL find out. Money be gone/he will never find someone as good as me again/penis cut etc. Just in case he forgets.


I'm sure a lot of you don't agree with my school of thought, saying, "You must be all sad, paranoid and worrisome all the time. That's not how love is supposed to be like. I pity Mike."

LOL duncha worry. Mike and I are happy and in love.

Obviously I *do* trust him because he is a good man with principles. But just not enough to 1) fully believe he will NEVER cheat and 2) not do my best to try to prevent it from happening.

If the day comes and he strays, I'd say "Oh well at least I tried my best. And at least I was not duped for ages."

What do you think? Do you trust your partner?

Those of you who got cheated on, did you trust your partner? Do you still trust now?

30 DAY CINEPHILE CHALLENGE: DAY 5

http://www.facebook.com/pages/30-Day-Cinephile-Challenge/184987868220596

Day 5: The best movie from your favorite filmmaker:

DYING AT A HOSPITAL (1993, Jun Ichikawa). The film observes old people waiting for death at a hospital. Their scenes are interrupted from time to time by scenes of young people walking in the streets. The film made me cry a lot.




30 DAY CINEPHILE CHALLENGE: DAY 4

Day 4: Most overrated filmmaker of all time:

I can't answer this question. But if the question is "Name a very famous filmmaker whose films you have some personal problems with", I may answer Yasujiro Ozu. I have seen only 4 of his films. I admire his style or his aesthetics very much. But most of the family relationships portrayed in his films make me feel "very distant" from the film. I admire his films a lot, but I can neither say that "I personally like them" nor say that "they touch my heart". In conclusion, Yasujiro Ozu is not overrated at all. I'm sure I will completely change my mind about him after I see more of his films.





FAVORITE OLD SONGS 115: BILITIS (1976) -- Francis Lai

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpKeN6O-4Dw

FAVORITE OLD SONGS 114: EMMÈNE MOI DANSER CE SOIR (1978) – Michèle Torr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqBCzbg3iUQ

Thanks to Graiwoot for telling us about this song.

What Is The Best Neck Anti Wrinkle Cream



As we age and our skin ages, collagen breaks down and wrinkles appear. The areas most severely affected and significant in our body are the hands, neck and face. Wrinkles on the neck appears, and it becomes very uncomfortable because it makes you look much older, even if you have a smooth skin, your neck reveals your real age.

People look in the mirror, taking into account the folds and lines on their faces. At the same time they see some wrinkles in the place where the head rests. After observing these lines the person will think and ask "what is the best neck anti wrinkle cream." Fortunately, there are products on the market, can prevent neck and other body parts, aging so fast. The answer lies in the ingredients.

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Venus and Cupid, the Rokeby Venus



Venus and Cupid by Diego Valazquez. The painting is variously known as The Toilet of Venus, Venus at her Mirror and The Rokeby Venus after Rokeby Park in Yorkshire where the painting was first hung after being brought to England. The Spanish Inquisition were active during the period in which Velazquez painted, few Spanish nudes were painted and few have survived.


In 1914 the painting was damaged with a cleaver by the Canadian Suffragette Mary Richardson, she said about the act “I have tried to destroy the picture of the most beautiful woman in mythological history as a protest against the Government for destroying Mrs Pankhurst, who is the most beautiful character in modern history. Justice is an element of beauty as much as colour and outline on canvas. Mrs Pankhurst seeks to procure justice for womanhood, and for this she is being slowly murdered by a Government of Iscariot politicians. If there is an outcry against my deed, let every one remember that such an outcry is an hypocrisy so long as they allow the destruction of Mrs Pankhurst and other beautiful living women, and that until the public cease to countenance human destruction the stones cast against me for the destruction of this picture are each an evidence against them of artistic as well as moral and political humbug and hypocrisy."

Richardson went on to join Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Facists and rose to become head of the women’s section of the movement.



The Expulsion From Eden

c. 1424-28, Fresco, Brancacci Chapel, Florence, by Massacio.  The painting is shown here in its restored form, three centuries after the fresco was painted, Cosimo III de' Medici - the Grand Duke of Tuscany, ordered that fig leaves be painted over the genitals of the figures, these were removed in the 1980's.

Monday, June 27, 2011

Le Dejeuner Sur l'Herbe


The painting Le dejeuner sur l'erbe by Edouard Manet



Detail from The Judgement Of Paris by Marcantonio Raimondi



Full engraving of The Judgement of Paris

The Nude

Sir Kenneth in the library at Osterley Park, p...Image via Wikipedia
“The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience” – Kenneth Clark
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Here comes another one!

I see that Michele Bachmann has officially declared that she is running to become president of these divided  states.(Just look at that picture. If that isn't "Americana" I don't know what is.) Unfortunately for her, there were some issues. Michele, you can't confuse an A-merry-can icon with a serial killer. You just can't. And I am not sure  that I would have launched my presidential campaign from a place called Waterloo. But that's just me. Still, I hope the cynics will believe me when I say good luck to Ms. Bachmann. This is what a democracy is all about; different people with different points of views being able to run for the highest office in the land.

Michele has some strong opinions about government and the role that government should play in our lives. She believes that it should be limited, and she does not believe that people should depend on the government for handouts...........Wait, somebody get out the Windex. I think we might have a lot of glass to start cleaning around Michele's house.

"Rep. Michele Bachmann has been propelled into the 2012 presidential contest in part by her insistent calls to reduce federal spending, a pitch in tune with the big-government antipathy gripping many conservatives.

But theMinnesota Republican and her family have benefited personally from government aid, an examination of her record and finances shows. A counseling clinic run by her husband has received nearly $30,000 from the state ofMinnesota in the last five years, money that in part came from the federal government. A family farm in Wisconsin, in which the congresswoman is a partner, received nearly $260,000 in federal farm subsidies." [More]


Oh My! I wish the main stream media would leave Ms. Bachmann alone. They won't stop until the drive away all the good people running for public office. Oh well, take heart Michele, there is always FOX NEWS.  





     

obsessed

I am sooo obessed with mirrored sunglasses at the moment, I'm definitely buying a pair!
The specific ones are the ones that theyskens for theory used on the resort collection and they are selling them online.
Vote for your favourite and let me know which one you think will suit me!





 

(last two pictures via google)