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One of my favorite days is coming up,
this week and I’d like to celebrate The Pinup
Blog way. Happy Earth Day
everybody!
Every so often I
hear the nonsensical and chauvinistic
claim that female environmental
activists are “grimy”, “dreadlocked” and
“hairy”. While I argue that dreadlocks
are lovely and can be just as kept as
any other hairstyle, I also argue that
leg shaving is my last pitfall as a
feminist and I seriously hope, to one
day, get over the need to moderate my
body in order to be “socially
acceptable”. “Grimy”… well, see how you
look after 2 years up a tree Today’s ladies are
gorgeous, inventive and environmentally
conscientious, and some are willing to
sacrifice a lot for their cause. Proving
(yet
again) that green is sexy.
“Fool” is surprisingly a very common word
in love songs. This year, the first of April
takes a serious turn with 10 gorgeous and
diverse pinups that sing about fools.
Today’s top 10 April Fools pinups have little
in common. They come in all shapes, colors
and sizes and sing in various styles and
genres. All of them, however, have phenomenal
talent and all will be singing songs that
have the word “fool” in them. Enjoy the show!
#10 Aretha Franklin - Runnin’ Out of
Fools
We start with the 1964 classic, Runnin’ Out
of Fools, with a young and sweet, but very
mature Aretha Franklin. It’s always
fascinating to see the alternative images
sold at the time to the public and better
yet, through an incredible performance, like
this one.
The “exotic” fantasy has always existed
in the pinup realm and long before. The Pinup
Blog takes a look at the social aspects of
one of its favorite fantasies.
I love the diversity that’s offered in the
pinup world. Beautiful images are produced
with the assistance of cultural symbols in
clothing and accessories and, of course, the
diversity of the models themselves. I touched
on this subject in
my article about Palestinian pinups.
Rather than repeat what could have made a
great opening for this article, I’d like to
start with this whimsical, clever and
beautiful young woman, Natalie, who’s totally
an “exotic” pinup girl of her times.
Just a random find.
A picture of Marilyn Monroe (labeled
“Marilyn 3” ) that caught my eye, on a
smashing fashion blog, Hello
Dollface. For a moment, it reminded me
of what I love so much about pinups, and I
thought I’d share. Enjoy!
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Wow! The Bi-Weekly
Bombshell has reached the 200 mark! To
celebrate, I’d like to do what this
mini-column is all about and share with
you a fantastic pinup link! Take a look
at the gorgeous neo pinup calender, the
Brazilian magazine, Contigo!, put up.
Each bombshell is a famous model or
actress, all dolled up in that retro
pinup style we love so much. Enjoy!
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Not exactly cheesecake and not exactly
beefcake, but definitely sexy! It’s time to
feast your eyes on the butch pinup.
Feeling comfortable
in your own skin is the number one
ingredient for sex appeal. Not every
woman feels sexy in heels and lipstick,
and as a result, not every woman
is sexy in
heels and lipstick. This week, The Pinup
Blog takes a look at the diverse and
beautiful butch women, who prefer men’s
shorts over panties, and sideburns over
curlers.
Young, gifted, black and smoking hot!
Classic African American Pinups!
Young, gifted and black, in a time where just
being so was an act of resistance. This
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, The Pinup Blog
would like to count down it’s top 10 classic
African American Pinups. Women who didn’t
have it easy and are now finally coming into
some hard-earned fame.
#10 Victoria Spivey
Blues singer and songwriter Victoria Spivey
took part in the Soundie revolution, when she
was cast by film director King Vidor, in his
first talking film, Hallelujah!. She would
continue taking roles in films throughout the
1930’s and 1940’s, but focused on her music
throughout her life.
Dorothy Dale
Kloss is the oldest living showgirl in the
world. At 85, she’s a lovely adition to The
Pinup Blog’s diverse collection of
bombshells. Enough talk, watch this lady go!
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In 2007, Tendance
High Tech declared the year to “lead
with force, the come-back of the
neo-retro pin-up girls style.” As an
opener, they supplied this retro-esque
image of Scarlett Johansson. So in hopes
that 2010 will continue the neo-retro
pin-up girls style (with force
), I open the new year
with that same image. Happy, sexy new
year to all!
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Nothing makes a celebration like music,
and no Christmas is complete without a sexy,
stripping Santa!
They are gorgeous, they
dance, they sing, they strut and occasionally
strip. It’s The Pinup Blog’s top 10 sexy
musical pinups!
#10 The Caburlesque Kittens do Sweet
Candy
The
Caburlesque Kittens are a burlesque
group from San Diego County. Keeping it
clean, they’re almost a family show and
perfect for some light Christmas
dancing. They also get Pinup Blog props
for injecting a little diversity into
the classic Christmas pinup fantasy.
Loads of vintage fun at
Retrospace (newest
addition to the sidebar). Be it music,
television, movies, or those silly ads
from way back when, Retrospace covers it
all. Good humored and very diverse, go
have a look, and enjoy the special
Christmasy surroundings, too!
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For all you vintage
vultures, there’s tons of fantastic
photography at The Selvedge
Yard. From pinups to beefcake, to
oddities only your grandma could explain.
It’s the newest addition to the sidebar,
because it’s just that good! Enjoy.
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Is an icon different than an object? Does
a contemporary female pinup artist create
differently than a classic female pinup
artist?
Last time I’ve
analyzed a specific pinup piece it was
Zoë Mozert’s Bubbles. I was looking to
see what a female pinup artist does
differently than male pinup artists. In
Mozert’s case, we came to the banal gender
outlook, in which women portray women in a
soft manner, and yet still, as typical of the
genre, the woman in the image was
objectified. Today we look at radically
different Olivia de Berardinis and her piece
Belle Du Jour (1987).
Line, Blot, Shape, Texture and
Pattern
Once again, we start at the
basics. And again we talk about the fact that
the lines in pinup art are usually
suggestive- the meeting of two color
surfaces, creates the illusion of a line.
This, of course, creates the realism, so
typical of the genre. There are, however, the
white lines in the background, which seem to
serve as a pattern. These lines have a
compositional importance that we’ll get back
to later on, but also seem to serve as a
design element, hinting of Art Nouveau, which
is quite typical in de Berardinis’ work. The
straight, vertical lines conjure up guitar
strings, and- in conjuncture- the wavy lines
may remind us of music, loosely conversing
with abstract greats such as Paul Klee and
Wassily Kandinsky.
Blots are also rendered softly, in order to
create the illusion of reality. But unlike
Zoë Mozert’s piece, de Berardinis’ work has
sharp edges that rarely blend into one
another. Something we’ll get back to in the
lighting section.
Grassroots third wave feminism manifest
in the revival of the Roller Derby.
Pinup, today, is not
just an art, but a lifestyle. With it’s
own brands of fashion, music, art and of
course, sports. Roller Derby, the choice
sport for those living this lifestyle,
is much more than a bunch of skimpily
outfitted young women bashing away at
each other. It’s a place for women to
organize, express themselves, and take
part in some seriously badass contact
sports. If they can be campy while doing
it- all the better!
It’s a tough
search, but somebody’s got to do it! For some
reason, turkeys are not the typical animal to
accompany a pinup image. Nevertheless, I’ve
managed to find some pro-turkey holiday
cheesecake!
Classic Pinups- A Vegan Peek at
Sexualized Speciesism
I thought we’d
first take a look at the problem. Yes, they
are gorgeous, and girl-next-doorsy, and
goddamnit- that’s Marilyn Monroe! But I can
only hope that the classic pinups with this
message have gone extinct:
Is
that a carcass on your platter,
Umm… Is this
theLeave
it to
Lady, You could be Marilyn
or are you just happy to see me?
Turkeyset?
Monroe, for all I care, just
get the gun outta my face!
#174 The
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First impressions matter, and as film
makers know, one way the ultimate way to make
a woman attractive, is to give her a
dramatic, well produced entrance.
When a
sexy woman enters the room, for the first
time in a film, she can’t just come in.
Sensuous close ups and leering long shots
must be exercised to their fullest,
preferably with a singing number and over the
top sexual innuendo. Today we take a look at
gorgeous women first appearing on the screen
and the men that gawk at them.
Uma Thurman as Venus - Renaissance
Pinup
It seems appropriate to start with the mother
of all desirable women, Venus. In The
Adventures of Baron Munchausen, a fresh faced
Uma Thurman makes for one of the most
ethereal and soft entrances in cinema.
Heavily based on Botticelli’s version of
venus, the painting comes alive with sound
and motion, leaving the audience and the men
struck by a pure, but not un-sensual beauty
of a time long ago.
It is hard
to say what exactly
causedthe shift in
the Sci-Fi genre- from an almost
exclusive male interest, to a genre that
has more and more female readers,
writers and watchers. All of a sudden,
it became OK for a girl to like the
genre, and more and more girls started
to take interest. (According to some
polls- 80% of the genre readers are
girls, but I am not sure of their
accuracy). Such a shift has to (and did)
cause a change inside the genre- there
was a whole new crowd to satisfy, but
still keep the older crowd interested.
Sexy female
pin ups have been part of the Sci-Fi
fantasy genre since it’s creation.
Monthly magazine in the 30’s 40’s and
50’s feathered sexy half dressed woman
on their covers, usually fighting some
sort of horrible monster.
For most of the 20thcentury, the
sci-fi fantasy genre was male dominated, and
female roles were usually confined to the
generic female roles- the sexy babe or the
damsel in distress. While Tolkien and Asimov
had some more feminist female roles-
likeEowynand Dr.Susan
Calvin, those
characters where few and far in between.
Most female characters where for show, the
love interest of the brave male hero, the
sexy temptress etc.
Halloween is coming up and it’s time to
get horrifically sexy with a look at the
pinups of horror television (and one movie).
And ask a few questions about what it all
means?
Lust and fear come
together in the horror entertainment
industry. Basically, where there’s a
scary monster, you’ll find a beautiful
lady, making for a good star-crossed
lovers tale. Many times, however, you’ll
find the lady is actually the monster,
claiming archaic ideas that a woman’s
lust is a dark desire that will consume
you. All this and so much more
allegories, in The Pinup Blog’s
Halloween special.
This was not the first time men had
admired pin-ups of physically non-existent
fantasy women, but certainly the first time
they would ogle a 3D
representative.
Although
video game pin-ups have existed since
the revival of interest in consol games,
in the mid 1980s, most consisted of
cartoonish depictions of various scenes
representing the game’s story line; Such
as Nintendo’s hero, Link, from the
popular Legend of Zelda franchise,
slaying a multi-headed dragon, or a
whimsical forest scene of Sega’s Sonic
the Hedgehog. The classic pin-up genre
featuring suggestively posed women was
introduced to video game art posters in
1996 with the inception of the British
company, Eidos’s Tomb Raider series,
starring who can now be credited as the
first massively popular digital sex
icon, Lara Croft.
It’s actually more rare than you think.
The teacher fetish is a classic fantasy, but
when you look for classic images, you might
be surprised.
The teacher fetish
is one of those natural occurrences.
Young boys, in their teens, won’t be
able to ignore the refreshing sight of a
good looking educator. If a boy was
lucky enough to actually have an
attractive teacher, odds are he’ll
remember her fondly, for years to come.
Thus the teacher fetish is born. I made
every effort to avoid porn and keep it
classy. It’s a challenge, but someone’s
got to do it.
We’ll start off with a vintage soundtrack, to
get you in the mood: Frankie Avalon’s
Teacher’s Pet:
Suits for women would
come and go throughout history. When
women dress in suits they often don’t do
it to look like a man, but to project
strength. Our perceptions of
masculinity, as a synonym of strength,
is so deeply embedded that a unique
thrill tingles within us, when we
witness a woman in men’s clothing. Our
curiosity peaks, especially if she
balances the masculine facade with a
feminine one.
The female Elvis Presley, the Queen of
Rockabilly, Wanda Jackson rocked like no
other woman. With a raspy voice and done up
finger nails, she’s a spunky blast from the
past, I thought you’d all enjoy.
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Melanie Brown, a.k.a “Mel B”, a.k.a “Scary
Spice” of the Spice Girls, decided to join
the world of burlesque with a high energy
performance, including singing, dancing and,
of course, partial stripping. The show is
“very Vegas”, with many costume changes and a
big ensemble. It looks like a lot of fun, so
if you’re in Las Vegas any time soon, go
ahead and give it a peep.
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Making art in pasties is no joking
matter, but it is a lot of laughs.
Burlesque was
always more about tease than strip. I looked
far and wide and found that many burlesque
artists take it a notch higher, with more
than raunch in mind. I also found some
fantastic pieces in “family” variety shows
that aren’t considered burlesque per se, but
would have a huge audience in the burlesque
crowd. It’s artsy, it’s fun, it’s full of
thought, it’s sexy, it’s burlesque!
They’re fierce, they rock, they rap,
they’re retro, they are the diverse women of
Indie Rock!
From the poppish Pipettes, to the rapping
M.I.A, to the rocking Peaches, I bring you a
list of the fierce and divers ladies of
contemporary Indie rock. Though each act has
her unique style and statement, I can’t help
but reminisce of the days of 1980’s Blondie,
who seems to be the spiritual mother to many
of these ladies of Indie.
Peter Gowland, the
legendary glamor photographer, has a
beautiful site that features many of his
works. Witness the 1950’s till today
through this glitzy and unique lens.
From glamor, to old friends, Gowland’s
site is more like a well organized and
well photographed personal album... OK,
it’s the album you wished your auntie
had, when she was telling you all her
mind-numbing stories from her last
vacation. So get a load of this!
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A 1970’s sepia tint, 1980’s hair and make up,
1990’s neon-colored under garments,
21st century tattoo. Stacey Mark takes
a bit of everything and comes up with
contemporary pinup photography with that
vintage feel. Beautiful works, simply laid
out on her site. A must-peak!
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Beach balls, ice cream and polka dots.
Today’s post is all lighthearted fun, with a
lineup of my 10 favorite summer pinups!
#10 Pinup Girls of
Summer
Aerosmith’s videos are full of naughty girls
not giving a fuck. Here’s the version of this
narrative, updated for the 21st century, to get
you in the mood
Thank you Billy, for
sending me this treasure! Newest on the
sidebar, Vintage Ladies
is pages upon pages of quick-loading,
black & white, vintage erotic
photography. From celebrity pinups to
anonymous muses. From the turn of the 20th
century to the early 1960’s. All placed in
this simple Tumblr design, reminiscent of
a plain, old and magical photo album.
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One piece of clothing that drove women to
self mutilation. THE symbol of the social
subjugation of women, for generations and yet
we still love it. So much so, that even after
it died, we revived it several times.
Women’s clothing have always been
controversial. Trying to balance comfort and
beauty has never been the goal of top
designers. Corsets, today, are a choice and a
fashion statement. They also don’t
necessarily mean body modification, by way of
cinching the waist, although some go for this
unhealthy practice. As a wise commentator
said, on the YouTube page of the video to the
left:
“Very
sensual, but after a point it becomes
grotesque. Part of the art is knowing how far
to go and have it still look good, not
deformed.”
What does Elvgren’s girl next door have
to do with Masuimi Max’s tattoos? It’s all a
web of pinupology. Watch the evolution as it
happens!
The pinup girl
evolution isn't, a linear one. Like most
genres of art, each school would
interpret it differently, geography
would change the aesthetics, and post
modernism- and much more recently- the
pluralism of the internet would implode
any possibility of linearism. My goal
then, in this article, is not to create
a time line, but to follow the
evolutionary branching out of the rare
and beautiful species-The pinup.
Palestinian women come in all shapes,
colors and sizes, with different beliefs,
different religions and different ways of
life. This isn’t a well known fact, yet. In
this article I’d like to look at the beauty
from within as well as from without.
I can’t ignore the fact that I’m Israeli and
pro-Palestinian and the reactions this
article may bring my way (or just this
sentence). Nevertheless, it’s
important to me to create a bridge, where
walls are being biult- around Palestinians
and Arabs and Muslims in general. Most
important to me, is to show off, to people of
the West, the beauty and individuality of
each woman I feature. You can’t group
Palestinians into crude stereotypes, as you
can’t group any other group of people. If you
do it, you miss out on the beautiful
diversity of the world.
“She was smart. That was a trick that she
tried to keep from people.” ~Ryan
O’neal
Farrah Fawcett dies
at the way too early age of 62. A woman
who would present herself simpler than
she really was, and was profoundly
human. There was a real person behind
those pearly whites, and I’d like to
take you behind the pinup.
Father’s day is coming up and in that
context, it’s a great time to talk about that
ever-so-taboo fetish:
Lolita.
Nabokov wasn’t really talking about
pedophilia, but the shock value seems to
overshadow the existential value of the
novel, Lolita. The cultural significance is
found between the pages of the dictionary:
“Main Entry: Lo·li·ta
Pronunciation: \lō-ˈlē-tə\
Function: noun
Etymology: from Lolita, character in the
novel Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
Date: 1959
: a precociously seductive girl”
And also found on celluloid (as seen above).
Most people find it disconcerting that grown
men may feel attracted to young ladies. Or
that grown women act like little girls, in
order to attract grown men. As a result,
culture has given rise to some interesting
phenomena.
Hot Rod is very much an art form. It has
to do with restoration of old vehicles, so
it’s easy to see why the artists are usually
male. And where there’s a male hub, there are
always sexy ladies.
Gil Elvgren - Vintage Feminism and the
Origin of the Hot Rod Pinup
It may have
completely happened by mistake, but we can
trace the traditional hot rod pinup way back
to the early 50’s. When Elvgren took them out
of the home and into the car. I love the few
examples, where the Elvgren pinup is
daintily, yet competently, handling the car,
or the one, where she’s the competent driver.
In the process of
LIFE magazine’s converting of their
archives to the digital realm,
fascinating photos pop up. The latest
find is a series of
pre-fame Marilyn Monroe shots.
Twenty-four and fresh faced, LIFE turned
down the images, photographed by Ed Clark,
asking “Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe?!”
Here she is, reading a screenplay, at
Griffith Park, in Los Angeles.
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I usually make my own magic lists, but I
stumbled upon The Huffington Post’s Lesley M.
M. Blume’s “6 Of The World's Most Beautiful
Older Women” and just couldn’t agree
more.
I don’t know if
I’m getting older, or older women are getting
more beautiful, but without a doubt, today,
there are numerous beautiful women who
respect their aging nature. Lesley M. M.
Blume, who wrote this list, said it
beautifully:
“...these ladies know better than to try
to look like you're 20 when you're 50. The
real trick: to look like a beautiful
50-year-old when you're 50.”
I loved Blume’s list and thought
it was right on. So in the name of
non-plastic aging and the appreciation of the
diversity of all that’s beautiful in this
world, here’s the embellished
list of 6 Of The World's Most Beautiful Older
Women:
#1 Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren, 64,
always had guts, when it came to
choosing her roles, but also taking off
her clothes. From the sweet and innocent
young lass in The
Age of Consent to to the sultry and
depressed wife of a sadistic tyrant in
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her
Lover to the tough and introverted
detective on Prime Suspect, Mirren always
carries herself with a very attractive
dignity. And of course she’s the perfect
woman to open this list, as part of the cast
of Calendar Girls:
JFK just isn’t the pinup type, so I’m
sure he wouldn’t mind if The Pinup Blog
ignore him and take a look at Jackie,
instead.
Let’s face it,
between the two of them Jackie was the
pretty one and this is
The Pinup Blog. So we’ll leave Jack out
of this post, but acknowledge that she’s
here because of her husband. Jackie was
also arguably the best dressed First
Lady in American history, only to be
rivaled by the current Mrs. Obama.
They’re pregnant, their hot and their not
afraid to show it. It’s the top 10 hot mama
pinups mother’s day special!
Ever since Demi
Moore, sexy mamas are everywhere. They
carry a whole baby in their body, 24
hours a day and they still look
gorgeous. This is a tribute to all those
sexy mamas that won’t let a little thing
like hormonal imbalances cramp their
style.
Repulsed by portrayal of women as used in
Cinco de Mayo ecards, The Pinup Blog went on
a hunt for Sexy Mexican culture with self
respect.
It’s a little hard
to balance my feminism with my love of
pinups, but sometimes I’ve got to say
“no”. Usually when a holiday pops up, I
just Google “sexy Christmas/Halloween”
to start my search. The results for
“sexy Cinco De Mayo” kind of grossed me
out. I’d expect stereotypical images
that identify a culture, like the
glittery myspace retro pinup to the
left- the attention to detail (in what
must have been the original vintage
piece) shows a love and respect towards
it. But there’s a thin red line, between
that and the booty
shaking, “booz me up” image, next to
it. So I decided to celebrate Cinco de
Mayo by celebrating some beautiful,
respectful Mexican pinups.
Sexy pinups demonstrate environmental
awareness- an Earth Day special on The Pinup
Blog.
It’s not easy to find conscientious
pinups, especially in the environmental
department. But it’s already looking better
than
last year. This Earth Day, I’ve got a
great list of green beauties for you; From
animal rights, to energy conservation.
Another interesting project is the TyK (Thought
You Knew) and CWHC (Chicago Women’s
Health Center) collaboration. This
project is actually geared toward
healthcare, but it’s run by a group of
Chicago ladies that love to ride and I
thought may be appropriate. With the
help of CWHC, Tyk has created a
beautiful retro pinup calender with the
theme of bicycles. Following through
with TreeHugger’s thesis that just
supporting the notion that bikes are
sexy, promotes this alternative
transportation method, I put a spotlight
on these cycling beauties.
Listal is yet
another social network. A friend of mine
did a random pinup search and found
a glorious
list of 52 celebrity pinup images.
From Isla Fisher to Claudia Schiffer, you
can see both a “typical” picture of the
starlet and a 50’s pinup stylized one. The
list is full of diversity, thus you can
find the gorgeous black Meagan Good
alongside the Italian Giovanna Mezzogiorno
and the mysteriously
Asian-looking-but-apparently-Caucasian
Summer Glau.It’s a bit of a long load, but
totally worth the wait!
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Today’s ladies are
gorgeous, inventive and environmentally
conscientious, and some are willing to
sacrifice a lot for their cause. Proving
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Wow! The Bi-Weekly
Bombshell has reached the 200 mark! To
celebrate, I’d like to do what this
mini-column is all about and share with
you a fantastic pinup link! Take a look
at the gorgeous neo pinup calender, the
Brazilian magazine, Contigo!, put up.
Each bombshell is a famous model or
actress, all dolled up in that retro
pinup style we love so much. Enjoy!
Loads of vintage fun at
Suits for women would
come and go throughout history. When
women dress in suits they often don’t do
it to look like a man, but to project
strength. Our perceptions of
masculinity, as a synonym of strength,
is so deeply embedded that a unique
thrill tingles within us, when we
witness a woman in men’s clothing. Our
curiosity peaks, especially if she
balances the masculine facade with a
feminine one.
Peter Gowland, the
legendary glamor photographer, has a
beautiful site that features many of his
works. Witness the 1950’s till today
through this glitzy and unique lens.
From glamor, to old friends, Gowland’s
site is more like a well organized and
well photographed personal album... OK,
it’s the album you wished your auntie
had, when she was telling you all her
mind-numbing stories from her last
vacation. So get a load of this!
The king of satire knows
all about sexy kitsch and takes beefcake
back to it’s roots. With the character
of Bruno, 
