| Mequitta Ahuja, Encounters
Mequitta Ahuja's work is charged with issues of personal and ethnic identity. Both African American and East Indian, her formally hybrid works embody her multiple cultural positions. As Mequitta says, she views "the position of the margin as a creative opportunity, which is my response to my own social lack of fit." The figures in her works operate from the same position. Mequitta's emblematic images of the individual, often the artist herself, laboring, roaming, imagining, and presenting herself in her own terms, depict identity as a real, mythic, and metaphoric concern. Expressed through imagery of the human in relation to and merging with animals and the land, the artist explores the notion of the hybrid or non-autonomous being. Her works are images of culturally complex female power and authority in tension with an alienating social position.
Roadside vendors find rewards among the restrictions
Size: There are 133 permitted mobile food units and 82 full-service food units in operation in Albuquerque, said Lorie Stoller, environmental health supervisor with the city. Mobile food vendors include things like ice cream trucks and people selling prepackaged items such as burritos and hot dogs, whereas full-service units contain kitchens and self-powered refrigerated storage areas. Estimates on nonfood vendors are difficult to come by because the business registration licenses they are required to obtain don't have a specific classification. Becoming a vendor: Depending on what you're selling, vendor license fees are annual and range from $35 to $95. Food vendors are required to get extra permits and regular inspections by the state Department of Health. Permits for special events like the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta are $45 and include a $35 business registration fee but are limited to the duration of the event.
Dubai to make Speed Limiters mandatory on all Tourist Vehicles
As part of its endeavor to ensure the safety of tourists and provide better service standards in the tourism industry, the Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) intends to make Speed Limiters mandatory for all tourist vehicles operating in the city limits and desert areas. The electronic device will help in ensuring that the drivers do not surpass the specified speed limits, both within the city limits and during desert safaris. Dubai will be the first in the region to introduce Speed Limiters for tourist vehicles for both city tours and desert safaris. Last year, Dubais 414 hotels and hotel apartments played host to an all-time record 6.4 million guests. See other recent news regarding: Dubai, UAE .
Britons trampled to death by elephant
A British father watched in horror as his wife and daughter were trampled to death by a rampaging elephant while on safari in Zimbabwe, it emerged yesterday. The two killed have been named by the Foreign Office as Veronica Parker and her 10-year-old daughter Charlotte. .
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