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Monday, January 02, 2006
Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Artistic Expression
Meanwhile Newspaperindex.com reports on twelve caricatures of the prophet Muhammad published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten last September.
Apparently the newspaper commissioned these deawings just to check and see if religious fundamentalism was affecting the freedom of the press in Denmark. The response has been pretty strong - apparently "United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - has appointed two UN experts on racism to carry out a detailed investigation into what Arbour characterizes as a "disrespect for belief."" and now Franco Frattini, the Deputy EU commissioner for Justice, Freedom, and Security, noting the publication as "foolishness and indiscretion" has condemned the cartoons. Meanwhile Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rassmussen is standing up for "freedom of speech and thought".
Well, the queen is the head of the Church of England, and I wouldn't like to see images of her having sex on billboards in the UK - nor of any other head of a religion or religious group. But the cartoons seem fair comment to me - I wouldn't like to see them banned under Labour's new laws.
Nor do I like the idea of the UN investigating "Disrepect for belief". I thought it was my right to be disrespectful to any belief if I want to be. There's a difference between disrespectful and being racist or hateful, isn't there?
Or am I being Islamophobic here?
3 comments:
- dirty dingus said...
If you want to see the Muhammed cartoons I have them here
- 02 January, 2006 23:11
You may call this freedom, but mark this. You will end up creating a hell right here. There is no limit to freedom. There are no boundaries. If this or rest ever is okay, why make any law or rules, because you do not have any religion. Go ahead and make any obscene caricature of anything.
Islam is a core religion. Rest you all, do not have any basis left in your faith. That is why you play with everything. I suggest you first completely dump your faith, christianity or whatever and then turn to Islam to have fun with or with muslims.
Islam is life. There is no joke in Islam.
Non muslims, really!. See for youself, you do not have any life.
- 03 February, 2006 00:19
- Chris Black said...
Hi Anonymous.
A few serious questions...
You say "Islam is life. There is no joke in Islam".
So do you really think there is no humour in life?
Secondly , do you think the Prophet Muhammed had a sense of humour?
Thirdly, I bought a copy of the Koran when I was twelve. It is sitting on my lap as I write. I read in the 35th chapter that God furnished Angels with two , three and four pairs of wings. Is it from this chapter that you form most of your criticism for what I call thinking freely?
Fourthly, do you have any questions for me?
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So, my wedding is in a month (freaking out time!!!!!!), and this is the dress I will be wearing:
When I purchased the dress at Davids Bridal last year, I also bought a crinoline/petticoat (the fit and flare/mermaid one, where it just poofs out on the bottom). I had the dress altered there along with the petticoat because the back of it needed to be adjusted because of how low the back is on the dress.

Well, my alterations with the dress didn't go as well as I had hoped at Davids Bridal. I took my dress home after the third fitting and stayed awake all night worrying about how bad the dress looked (the butt looked really wrinkly and lumpy and the lady couldn't figure out how to fix it and tried to convince me no one else would notice). So the next morning I found a local tailor who had great reviews and took it in there. In a few fittings he fixed the dress (he said they took too many short cuts, were only taking in one side of the dress, and doing weird stuff to avoid messing with the beading in the back, which was making my butt look like a lumpy pancake…) ANYWAY, I am happy with the way my dress fits now, but I'm hung up on the fact of whether or not I should wear the petticoat with it. The tailor said he didn't think I needed it, that the dress holds it shape pretty well on its own. He said they just sold it to me because they could.
I don't really WANT to wear the petticoat. It's pretty uncomfortable and makes going to the bathroom and getting dressed more complicated (I can just step into the dress if I don't have the petticoat on, instead of putting it over my head).

BUT I dont want to look dumb if it really looks better with the petticoat. I don't want to look at my pictures and regret not wearing it!
I think I am looking for validation that this dress looks okay as it is. I googled online to try to find a real person in this dress and I found this: http://www.preownedweddingdresses.com/dresses/view/100576/Galina-SWG564-Size-6.html

It doesn't look like she has any sort of petticoat on under it?
These are pictures of me in the dress. They are not very flattering but they show the change in the shape of the dress. The ones on the left have the petticoat (and were taken before I got it altered the second time and pressed…. ) You can see the outline of my belly button without the petticoat and that is bothering me as well but I will start stressing out over that after I have this sorted in my brain.


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TROY - Troy University accounting freshman Slay James of Vestavia Hills is, in many ways, the typical college freshman.
In the fall, he entered college and pledged Sigma Chi Fraternity. He got into the sport of Ultimate Frisbee and became involved in Campus Outreach and Chi Alpha, a Christian student organization. He's looking to get more involved in campus life. Like many freshmen, he struggles to find that balance between school life and social life.
And, he's trying to find time to write.
James came to TROY with a nearly-edited draft of his first novel, "Hero." It was published in September 2015 by Books-A-Million.
A good student in high school and a track athlete, James admitted the novel's roots are found in a daydreaming session during Algebra 2 class at Vestavia Hills High School.
"It was my junior year and I was sitting in math class," he said. "I flipped to a blank page in my notebook and just started writing. I had the mindset that I was going to write."
That idea would take him through his senior year. He readily admits he was inspired by the "Harry Potter" and "Aragon" series as well as superheroes such as "Batman" and "Spiderman," but "Hero" is the story of a high senior who gains three supernatural abilities and then uses them to fight crime. "Hero" is the first of what James has dubbed "The Changeling Series."
When he finished the novel, "I was excited and wanted it published immediately," he said. A trip to the local Books-A-Million at Birmingham's Brookwood Mall, where the store has an "Espresso Book Machine," led to an editing process.
"When I went to the self-publishing machine, the guy who was helping me with it asked if the book had been edited, and suggested some editors. One met with me in person and she edited the book. Then, it took me another year to make the changes and I finished that draft earlier in the (fall) semester," he said. "I took it back home over the weekend - a birthday weekend for me and my dad – and we published the book."
The book became the in-store bestselling local author in October and November and the overall best seller for the winter quarter. The book can be purchased in the Brookwood store, or through Books-A-Million online.
Now, books two and three are in the planning stages.
"Most of my free time is schoolwork and homework," he said, laughing that he might be procrastinating just a little on writing.
"I came to TROY because of the business school, and that's my top priority right now. I may want writing to be my top priority, but I'm good with numbers and accounting is my main goal," he said.
James said he became interested in TROY because of running track. His first experience on campus was a track camp, then attended a Trojan Day during his junior year. His choice came down to TROY and Piedmont.
"I really wanted to come to TROY because of Dr. Grice. I decided in my senior year that I didn't want to run anymore and that solidified my decision to come to TROY," he said.


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Here's what Nick had to say, I'll add a footnote at the bottom:
I was excited to be back on this track because last time it was really challenging and the conditions didn't help at all. This time around there had been some alterations to the course from rider feedback, and thankfully the weather forecast was a damn sight better.
First uplift came around, tryin' to remember the best way to hit the tricky rock and the drops at the top and just couldn't get it clear in my head so put some foot work in to check it out and watch what other riders were doing. The majority were hitting the 'chicken run' but this added at least 10 seconds, it was completely out of the question. I hauled it, hitting the rocky section and the drop first time and then straight on down over a small step into an off-camber left, it was a real struggle to control the speed into it. All through Saturday was much the same, pretty damned sketchy but made it through each time, so I was happy. The NDH Series organiser, Carl, told me there were four racing in my Expert category, there was a real low turn out due to the rider reports and feedback from the last event, this course is full-bore hardcore and it scared a lot of riders. As the day progressed it was apparent that two of my category hadn't turned up and that James Scott was a late entry, I was looking forward to racing with James as he's a bloody fast rider. Unfortunately he crashed out in the morning injuring his hand and so had to pull out, damn!
Photo courtesy of Rich Easton, http://www.photo-moto.co.uk/
Come Sunday the course was pretty rutted and slippy, spike tyres were a must! I was really chuffed and sticking to my lines consistently, kept my flow, really cool. Decided to do 2 or 3 practise runs on Sunday. On my first run I hit the most difficult part of the track with aplomb although slipped into a faster line that I hadn't noticed before, bonus! Pushing wide to the right I found a really smooth and fast line into the next corner, it opened it all up which was absolutely bang on. Tried it all out on the second run and nailed it again, fast as hell, real happy.
When I went up for my first practise run I was more nervous then I would have been at any other race, it was crazy! This was because although wasn't any competition in my category, I knew I had to finish to get the result and this course is quite insane. Thought I would take it 'nice and steady' you know but once I was on the track, I was absolutely loving it! I was standing 3rd overall and only 5 seconds off, pushed a little harder and knocked a further 2 seconds off that time with the final race run.
Photo courtesy of Rich Easton, http://www.photo-moto.co.uk/
It was a really good weekend, and there's a lot of interest in the bike. Frank's made a top notch product.
Top weekend for Nick there. The Alwinton course begs the question as to why British riders won't push themsleves to do the harder courses, we need up and coming racers to follow in the footsteps of the Peaty, the Athertons, Lewis Buchanan, Ruaridh Cunningham, Danny Hart et al. These are the type of courses that we need. Could we be seeing an British National Downhill Series event at Alwinton in 2011? Time will tell.
On another note it was great to see one of the old Development Team riders competing again as a privateer, Marc Purkiss, he pulled off the third place in the Masters category - well done Marc! It's nice to know I have so many old and new riders keeping it hardcore out there!


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The Sacking of Coruscant was the crowning moment of the Sith Empire, and a crowning moment of my moc abilities...
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Description: The Sacking of Coruscant. It was the crowning achievement of the Sith Empire's ambitious military strategy and the moment that changed the history of the Old Republic forever. You may have read about it before, but our first cinematic trailer captures this event with breathtaking action and beautiful detail.
Republic leaders have traveled to Alderaan to engage in promised peace talks with the Sith Empire. The most powerful Jedi have accompanied them to safeguard against an Imperial deception. The Empire's real motive, however, was simply to lure the Republic's strongest defenders away from Coruscant and set the stage for an audacious attack. Under the command of Lord Angral, the Sith fleet approaches the Republic's capital planet for the first time in centuries. In advance of the fleet, the strongest Sith Warriors have flown a stolen Republic ship into Coruscant's orbit. Their mission is critical – to destroy the planet's defense grid mainframe hidden in the heart of the Jedi Temple
(Main photo, Favorite)
Side view of the battle
A group of jedi fighting back to back.
The force is strong in this one...
Commander A Makes his appearaence here after asking to aid me with this project.
Finished with his job above this jedi desides to face the sith head on, poor crazy sap.
the sith attackers.
If I saw an army of sith heading my way i'd have the same look here too....
But not to worry you have your own army to aid you through the wave of blood thirsty sith.
The left walk way defender.
Debris from an explosion.
Lord Angral Leaving the devastation he left upon the jedi.
Poor guy was hired today, little did he know that this would happen.
~Pictures of empty temple~
Not entirly empty shot.
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Well guys i'm back, and I know what your going to ask, "can you check out my latest 50,000 creations?" well i can only do so much at once so try to reduce on amount for me.
Otherwise i'll be glad to comment.
~Star Ship (Time left to make, 2-3 weeks)
~Fed moc (a couple of days to a week)
(Sorry guys but I'm as clueless as you are as to why fed left)
~Speeder (Ready to post but waiting a til Saterday for Beach reasons)
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Admiral Varkov
January 30, 2012
Great Job! The battle is amazing!
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Geoff & Craig Reid
February 20, 2010
SWEET!!! I see the light! great job on the Jedi Temple, full of action packed goodness, well done. I must add some lighting to my future projects. You are invited to view & comment on my Battle of Endor MOC which is now finally complete. Link to The Battle of Endor MOC:
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ODST serial 142-761
February 19, 2010
cool temple, I thought that the red on the ground was blood lol.
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Commander Bloy
February 13, 2010
Cool!Could you check this out when you have time?
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Maj. Forge Macfarley
January 26, 2010
I'm back T! It's me Zealot how ya doin'? I love your moc. Can you take a look at my new Creation?
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Flare-i-cious .
December 8, 2009
Nice, T, I love it! ;)
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Sebeus I
October 29, 2009
Nicely done, great scene, I love the Jedi Temple, very detailed and accurate, great job
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October 14, 2009
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General Qua-cor Peala
September 12, 2009
I have changed my site and added a new moc, check it out when you get the time....please?
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General Warren.
August 24, 2009
Love the SNOT mixed with studs, oh can you check out my latest 50,000 million creations, thanks (LOL kidding)
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General Warren.
August 24, 2009
Love the SNOT mixed with studs, oh can you check out my latest 50,000 million creations, thanks (LOL kidding)
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The Incinerator
August 23, 2009
well done this is really a high quality moc I love every detail of it very well built!!
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General Qua-cor Peala
August 20, 2009
Nice! you saw that too! I never knew who he was. When i saw that I almost died! I'm going to play that game. I already joined the site! Are you? if so, what's your name? I'm JediTemple.
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Cody Carrigan
August 20, 2009
Can I please get into the aot?
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James Theodore
August 20, 2009
Stunning... nice piece of work Fett, also, when is the game coming out? Can you also see this:
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Arc Commander Crash CC-798
August 19, 2009
please join the group starwars lego creations we have a contest there.
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Cody Carrigan
August 18, 2009
cool! and can I get into the army of the trinity?
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Michael Sloper
August 16, 2009
Hey T Fett, great moc and all. All of the details put into the floor is great and the walls look good too. You also have a good amount of Jedis. But can you do me a favor? Phaze left mocpages and made you admin. So, I was wondering if you could make me admin?
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Seth N.
August 15, 2009
Awesome! One of the best Jedi Temple's I've seen! This captures the essence of the trailer extremely well. Keep up the good work.
I made it
T Fett
August 13, 2009
Quoting Commander Brutus .
awsome and by the way the sith guy at the start was Darth Malak you sholud play the game man but anyway awsome!!!!!
The game is based 300 years after SWKOTOR 1 and 2 so malak wouldn't be in the new game.
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Commander Brutus .
August 12, 2009
awsome and by the way the sith guy at the start was Darth Malak you sholud play the game man but anyway awsome!!!!!
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Capt.ryan Miller
August 11, 2009
MAN ! I can't belive the jedi lost !
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Lt. Colonel Ghostman
August 10, 2009
Great to see you back, and you brought a great moc with you! Wow, the temple is just amazing. I've never seen such a great temple. And with the fighting with the Jedis, it makes it more greater. Well done. Hope to see those future mocs you got in plan. ~ Ghostman :)
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Commander Bullsharc
August 8, 2009
sweet moc!!!
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Allarand Arcadia
August 7, 2009
Welcome back! 5/5! VERY NICE! The double lightsaber idea is really nice! The statue isn't very good but the stairs and the rest are great!!! I had already seen the video a couple of days ago and that inspired me to do a Jedi Temple. In a couple of days it will be on Mocpages: I hope you will see it and comment! Continue the awesome work!
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August 7, 2009
Hey there! Great moc! The figs are so nice! They have a feel of "Old Republic" Great work! Lawrence_
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Firas Abu-Jaber
August 7, 2009
Good to see you came back, and came back strongly and with quality! I mean wow! that's really a fine piece of art, the Temple itself without the action battle looks amazing, and of course the bloody battle completes the awesomeness of this great MOC, keep up the good work and hope to see you post again soon :) >>> peace.. Firas
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Grand Admiral Darren .
August 7, 2009
Wow! Exactly like SWBF2 And I love the ruin effects!
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Ben Parker
August 7, 2009
Looks great, there are so many lightsabers!
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Al truelove
August 6, 2009
This is very good! Next time use beige though. Can you see my new Felucia type dio?
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Kir Kanos Kalinka
August 6, 2009
holmes whered you go?
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Padfoot .
August 6, 2009
Awesome, but 'Thursty' Is spelled Thirsty. sorry, but spelling/grahmer mistakes annoy me. 1,000,000,000/5 stars!
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Rocky Marciano
August 6, 2009
Fantastic! Glad to see you back!! 40billion/5!
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Robo Man
August 6, 2009
Dude that is great, the detail is superb! Ya and I wish I knew why Fed left too.
I made it
T Fett
August 6, 2009
Quoting Ben Tice
Why I still stay on this site..... for MOC's like this one. great job the best of these MOC's I have seen. The only problem i have is the mix of yellow and tan fleshies.
not every ones the same color on earth so why not in lego star wars as well was what i was thinking.
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August 6, 2009
Great to have you back! Great job, and that video is just awesome! Check out my new comic and new mocs if you can!
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Commander A JFett
August 6, 2009
Nice job dude I wasn't expecting the added pics
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August 6, 2009
My cakes, he lives yet. I'm sure you're aware that much has changed since your leave of absence. Nice MOC too.
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August 6, 2009
Nice to see you back in action. Moving on, the MOC is grand. The sheer size and detail makes this very much so a piece of eye candy. I believe you've caught every critical portion of the reference and have made this into an excellent rendition. All-in-all, excellent work and I can't wait for more.
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August 6, 2009
Wow you haven't added a moc in a century! I like the temple! Good to see you back.
I made it
T Fett
August 6, 2009
Quoting Padfoot .
Awesome, but 'Thursty' Is spelled Thirsty. sorry, but spelling/grahmer mistakes annoy me. 1,000,000,000/5 stars!
Thanks for the correction
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August 6, 2009
It's great to see you back! Nice moc with all those jedi's n sith. Those arches look awesome. I can't wiat to see wat the new kotor game is like.
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August 6, 2009
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CHARLESTON, S.C. - Jason Miller connected on the walk-off single with one out in the bottom of the 11th inning as Charleston Southern completed the weekend sweep over visiting Hofstra on Sunday afternoon with the 8-7 win.
Miller connected on a 0-2 pitch from Hofstra reliever John Ryan (0-2) for a shallow single into centerfield scoring Chris Singleton from second to cap the Bucs' (8-2) third win over the Pride on the weekend and sixth CSU victory in a row. Singleton drew a full-count walk and advanced to second on a failed pickoff attempt before easily crossing the plate in front of the relay home to set off a celebration on the field in the Bucs' second walk-off win of the 2017 season.
Tyler Weekley (1-0) went the final three innings of the contest for the Bucs with the redshirt sophomore reliever allowing four hits while striking out two in his first win of the season. Weekley pitched CSU out of jams in both the ninth and 10th frames with inning-ending strikeouts, before retiring the Pride in order in the 11th in his first extended appearance of the season.
Miller finished the game 3-for-6 from the plate with a double, two RBI and a run scored in leading a CSU offense that rapped out a season-high 13 hits and four doubles in the win. Nate Blanchard connected on a pair of doubles in the first inning, while Chris Singleton and Kyle Vesnesky had two hits apiece for the Bucs in the contest. Mike Sconzo added his first collegiate home run with a two-run shot in the bottom of the first to keep his seven-game hitting streak alive.
Kyle Dyson earned the no-decision on the mound following his third start of the season. Dyson allowed six hits and three runs through 5.0 innings before turning the ball over to the CSU bullpen. Eddie Hiott pitched around a solo home run to strike out the side in the seventh inning, while Wil Hartsell, Daniel Johnson, and Cody Smith all saw time on the mound before Weekly closed out the contest.
Ryan (0-2) suffered the loss on the rubber for Hofstra (2-8) with the right-hander going 3.1 innings before giving up the game-winning run in the 11th. The Pride bullpen went 9.2 innings in relief of starter Teddy Cillis allowing six hits and an unearned run in the loss.
Hofstra took the early 3-0 lead after the first inning behind a pair of RBI singles by Mikey Riesner and Parker Quinn. Quinn's single through the left side brought home David Leiderman and Vito Friscia to give the Pride the early advantage.
The Bucs responded by sending 12 batters to the plate in the bottom half of the frame and scoring a season-high seven runs in the first inning. Blanchard and Singleton led off the inning with back-to-back doubles, while Miller followed with a RBI single to right field to narrow the gap to 3-2. Sconzo followed with a two-run shot that cleared the left field fence two batters later to give CSU the 4-3 lead. Kyle Vesnesky singled in Aaron Miller later in the frame and Blanchard's second double, a ball that short-hopped the fence in right field, brought home Vesnesky and Adam Andrew to give CSU the 7-3 lead.
Dyson settled in after the first inning and retired 12 of the next 14 hitters before turning the ball over to Hartsell in the sixth. Hofstra's bullpen matched Dyson's efforts with the Pride retiring 10 CSU batters in a row before Brandon Gragilla singled through the right side to lead off the fifth.
Hofstra started its comeback in the top of the seventh as Vito Costello greeted CSU reliever Hiott with a solo home run to left field narrowing the gap to 7-4. Hiott recovered from the home run with a trio of strikeouts to end the inning including getting Nick Bottari looking at strike three to set the Pride down in order.
The Pride took advantage of a trio of walks in the eighth to even the contest. Rob Weissheier drew a bases-loaded walk bringing home Friscia for Hofstra's first run of the frame. Costello followed with a two-run double to the left centerfield gap scoring Riesner and Leiderman to tie the game up at 7-7 before Cody Smith retired the final two batters to limit the damage.
Ryan and Weekley traded zeroes until the Bucs won on Miller's walk-off single in the bottom of the 11th.
Buccaneer Notables
- Jason Miller's walk-off single was the Buccaneers' second game-winning hit in the 2017 season as the redshirt sophomore third baseman drove in Chris Singleton to lead the Bucs to the win over the Pride. Cole German had the Bucs' first walk-off this season with a solo home run in the Bucs' 3-2 win over Delaware State on February 18.
- CSU finished the weekend on a six-game winning streak since taking the final two games of the VCU series on February 25-26. The Bucs need one more win to even their longest streak in the past two seasons since CSU won seven in a row from April 8-18 in 2015. CSU topped Clemson, Gardner-Webb, and Campbell during the stretch.
- Tyler Weekley's victory in Sunday's series finale was the redshirt sophomore's first win since March 8, 2014, when the then-freshman went the distance in a complete-game effort in CSU's 2-1 victory over Toledo. Weekley scattered five hits and one run while striking out five in the win.
- Chris Singleton remains perfect on the year in stolen base attempts (6-for-6) with the junior centerfielder swiping a pair in Sunday's win over the Pride. His effective base-running directly led to the game-winning run as an errant pickoff throw allowed him to move up 90 feet before Miller's game-winning single.
Coach's Comments
"It was a good weekend for us. Tyler Weekley did an unbelievable job throwing three scoreless innings and he made big pitches when he needed to. Jason Miller came through and had the big hit there for us at the end. It felt like we were close all game and had runners in scoring position, but couldn't get that big hit to add onto the lead until Jason came through for us with the walk-off," – Interim Head Coach Adam Ward on the Bucs' sweep over Hofstra.
"We strung together a lot of good at-bats consecutively in the first inning and had a lot of good swings. Mike Sconzo highlighted that with the first home run of his career and the guys all put it together and had a good approach in the first," – Ward on the Bucs' first inning offensive output.
"We need to continue to get better and take it one day at a time. We've got to get better each day this week in practice and get ready for a challenge at FIU on Thursday," – Ward on next weekend's opponent.
Up Next
Charleston Southern makes its first road trip of the 2017 season next week as the Bucs travel to Miami, Fla. and the FIU Baseball Field for a three-game series against Florida International starting on Thursday, March 9. First pitch in the opener is set for 7 p.m. The Bucs-Panthers will continue the series with a 7 p.m. first pitch on Friday, while closing out the series with a 1 p.m. start time on Saturday.


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Successful implementation of European Directive 1999/93/EC on a Community framework for electronic signatures [Dir.1999/93/EC] requires standards for services, processes, systems and products related to electronic signatures as well as guidance for conformity assessment of such services, processes, systems and products. In 1999 the European ICT Standards Board, with the support of the European Commission, undertook an initiative bringing together industry and public authorities, experts and other market players, to create the European Electronic Signature Standardisation Initiative (EESSI). Within this framework the Comité Européen de Normalisation / Information Society Standardisation System (CEN/ISSS) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute / Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures (ETSI/ESI) were entrusted with the execution of a work programme to develop generally recognized standards to support the implementation of [Dir.1999/93/EC] and development of a European electronic signature infrastructure. The CEN/ISSS Workshop on electronic signatures (WS/E-SIGN) resulted in a set of deliverables, CEN Workshop Agreements (CWA), which contributed towards those generally recognized standards. The present document is one such CWA. The purpose of this CWA is to give guidance on the use of electronic signatures. Whilst the focus often has been on "qualified electronic signatures" as specified in Article 5.1 of the Directive, a side effect was that the requirements of employing general electronic signatures (referred to as "5.2 signatures") in e-commerce were not sufficiently addressed. The purpose of this part of the CWA is therefore to describe the general legal and technical aspects of electronic signatures, and thus extend the work to e-commerce scenarios, paying special attention to technologies with a high deployment capacity, to enable trust, without the need to meet all the strict requirements for "Article 5.1 Signatures". This part of the CWA is intended for use by both legal and technical experts in the area of electronic signatures, as well as designers of systems and products in this area. The CWA consists of the following parts: · Part 1;Legal and technical aspects (this part) · Part 2;Protection Profile for Software Signature-Creation Devices This version of this CWA Part was published 2004-03. A list of the individuals and organizations which supported the technical consensus represented by this CEN Workshop Agreement is available to purchasers from the CEN Central Secretariat.
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From durable wooden phone cases to covers made of sleek ostrich skin, The Mobile Spa has something for everyone.
If you can't find it in New York City, it probably doesn't exist.
The designer's Bowery shop is in the old CBGB space and features plenty of apparel & accessories for a rock star look.
The sale begins today, with items starting at $5!
The country's largest art and antiques center is celebrating two decades in business with fun-filled events April 7.
The venerable candy company is getting a new flavor this summer, and you can vote for your favorite choice!
Yesterday, I got a chance to check out the new Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH, which features the first Gilt in-store shop.
Effortlessly transition from winter to spring with these fashionable finds.
In the market for a new handbag? Visit this aptly named downtown shop.
Ladies like to look stylish, so it's nice to have a diverse wardrobe for any, and every, occasion.


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Adolescents with type 1 diabetes may exhibit hallmark symptoms -- insulin resistance, impaired exercise capacity, and cardiovascular dysfunction -- more commonly associated with type 2 diabetes, a small study found.
Glucose disposal rates were significantly lower in young patients with type 1 diabetes compared with matched controls (9.6 mg/kg/min versus 15.3 mg/kg/min, P<0.01), which was consistent with significant insulin resistance, Kristen J. Nadeau, MD, and colleagues from the University of Colorado, Denver, reported online in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
While insulin resistance is associated with cardiovascular dysfunction and impaired exercise capacity in type 2 diabetes, it has not generally been considered contributory in type 1 diabetes.
However, some studies have suggested abnormal peak oxygen uptake (VO2) in type 1 diabetes, and one study found an inverse relationship between cardiopulmonary fitness and insulin resistance in these patients.
To examine these relationships in adolescents with type 1 diabetes, Nadeau and colleagues recruited 12 patients with type 1 diabetes and 12 controls matched for age, body mass index, pubertal stage, gender, and physical activity level. An additional group of 12 patients with type 2 diabetes were previously reported in another publication.
Mean age was 15.2 years and mean duration of diabetes was 7.5 years.
Patients were similar to controls on multiple metabolic parameters, including triglycerides, triglyceride:HDL ratio, and free fatty acids, but had higher total and LDL cholesterol and higher fasting glucose and hemoglobin A1c.
Peak respiratory exchange rate and heart rate during exercise testing was similar among patients and controls, suggesting equivalent maximal effort, but measures of exercise function were significantly lower in patients than controls:
- VO2, 1,813 mL/min versus 2,319 mL/min, P<0.02
- VO2/kg, 31.5 mL/kg/min versus 40.4 mL/kg/min, P<0.04
- VO2/lean kg, 42.9 mL/lean kg/min versus 53.1 mL/lean kg/min, P<0.02
Peak work rate also was significantly lower (154 watts versus 220 watts, P<0.02), according to the investigators.
Blood pressures were similar between the groups, and while resting systolic function was normal, the type 1 patients had mitral valve abnormalities consistent with diastolic dysfunction.
In addition, 22% had increased indexed left atrial volume, indicating left ventricular hypertrophy, and peak forearm blood flow was lower in the type 1 patients than in controls, correlating inversely with LDL (r=−0.4, P=0.045).
On univariate analysis, insulin resistance correlated with peak VO2, as did several other factors:
- Forearm blood flow, r=0.65, P=0.001
- LDL, r=−0.617, P=0.003
- Hemoglobin A-1c, r=−0.53, P=0.007
- Peak early mitral inflow velocity: peak late mitral inflow velocity, r=−0.41, P<0.05
In contrast, fat distribution, triglyceride:HDL ratio, and inflammatory markers did not correlate with peak VO2.
In a multivariate regression analysis controlling for age, Tanner stage, body mass index, and physical activity, only forearm blood flow, LDL, and insulin sensitivity (r=0.61, P=0.007) were significant predictors of peak VO2.
Elevated LDL "could directly interfere with endothelial function and limb hyperemia, and subsequently to reduced exercise capacity," the investigators wrote.
"Endothelial dysfunction could also contribute to [insulin resistance], tying together our primary predictors of reduced exercise capacity."
And the finding that the peak mitral valve velocity ratio correlated with peak VO2 in univariate, but not multivariate analysis, suggests that there may be overlapping effects of insulin resistance, LDL, and vascular dysfunction on cardiac and exercise function, the authors explained.
Type 1 diabetes clearly causes premature cardiovascular disease and early mortality, but conventional risk factors cannot account for all of the excess risk "and were clearly not major contributors in the present study," they said.
Insulin resistance, in contrast, "may provide a missing link," since this metabolic abnormality has been strongly associated with cardiovascular disease in other populations.
Moreover, the link of insulin resistance with impaired exercise capacity may help explain these patients' shortened life span, with poor fitness being closely associated with cardiovascular mortality.
"Taken together, our observations present a distressing constellation of [insulin resistance] and exercise and cardiovascular dysfunction in normal-weight [type 1 diabetic] children, despite short diabetes duration and absence of typical [insulin resistance] related comorbidities."
The data also suggest that insulin resistance may be an integral component of type 1 diabetes pathophysiology, and further elucidation of the mechanisms involved can help direct future research into therapies for these patients.
Insulin resistance in this study was not correlated with the usual metabolic syndrome characteristics seen in patients with type 2 diabetes.
The investigators were supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the American Diabetes Association.
There were no other financial disclosures.
- Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner
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Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and MetabolismSource Reference: Nadeau K, et al "A unique phenotype of insulin resistance in adolescents with type 1 diabetes: Implications for cardiovascular function" J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2009; DOI: 10:1210/jc.2009-1756.


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FooCamp, BarCamp and now DemoCamp?
November 23, 2006
I was at DemoCampToronto on Monday. DemoCamp is a lightweight un-conference style event which is similar to BarCamp and O'Reilly's annual FooCamp. Basically, DemoCamp is a free event where you can watch small companies show off and discuss cool new web applications as well meet new people and network. There is only one rule at DemoCamp. No power point presentations. You have to show a working demo of your product or service.
The only demo that caught my interest was Design Bibliography Beta. It's a wiki that
"exists to collect and annotate resources of interest to the human-computer interaction, social-computing, participatory design and information systems design communities."
Basically, it's a place to find useful resources and summaries of papers for design and usability academics.
It has a pretty small sampling of resources, but it's bound to pick up speed in the future. This service will likely be good for everyone who wants to read summaries of papers on design and usability rather than reading an entire article only to find it was completely useless.
This month's DemoCampToronto was for the most part, a pretty boring event. BarCampToronto was much more enlightening. I admit that BarCampToronto won me over with their free food, but that's what happens when you have sponsors for your events. I hear BarCampUSA is in the planning stages and will be available next year.
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|Report on the Second International Workshop on interim positron emission tomography in lymphoma held in Menton, France, 8-9 April 2010.
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|One hundred and fifty hemato-oncologists and nuclear medicine specialists from more than 20 countries joined in April 2010 the 2-day Second International Workshop on interim PET in lymphoma. During the nuclear medicine session the advantages of the five-point scale Deauville criteria for interim PET reporting over the other sets of visual criteria were presented. The specific problems of PET reporting in escalation/de-escalation trials in Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) were addressed as well as the limitations of visual analysis for early PET evaluation in non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). The applicability, efficacy, and reproducibility of quantitative criteria (ΔSUV(max) analysis and tumor/liver SUV ratio) for interim PET in NHL were reported. In retrospective and prospective series. Some of the interim PET-based clinical trials ongoing worldwide in HL and NHL were reported. In early-stage HL, three trials aimed at determining the feasibility of omitting radiotherapy in interim PET negative patients, and in advanced-stage HL two PET-based ABVD escalation or BEACOPP de-escalation trials, in NHL two studies reported preliminary results of interim PET in follicular lymphoma, in DLBCL a round-table discussion pointed out the lack of definite criteria for interim PET, and a few observational studies in DLBCL reported the comparison of the various techniques of interim PET reporting (visual versus quantitative). The preliminary results of two international validation studies of the five-point scale criteria in HL and NHL launched in 2009 were reported. The presentations of the meeting are available on http://eitti.free.fr.
|Michel Meignan; Andrea Gallamini; Corinne Haioun; Aaron Polliack
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Twenty shops were razed yesterday at a popular market at Ifeleye in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
Goods worth several millions of Naira were also lost in the fire, which is the second in six months.
Director of the Oyo State Fire Service Mr. Olukunle Gafaru confirmed the incident.
It was learnt that fire fighters were not contacted early, but they put out the fire when they arrived.
It was gathered that the fire started from a room in the market around 9:30am.
Chairman of the Electrical Electronics Union, Feleye Market, Christian Umechukuwu said the fire was caused by "human mistake" and urged the government to assist them.
Mrs. Benard Egwuatu said two of her shops were burnt.
Mr. Lukman Owolomose said: "I just saw smoke in my shop and ran out to see what was happening. I saw people shouting. Before I knew it my store had been engulfed by fire."
He said the fire started from the room of one of the landlord's sons called Waheed.
According to the traders, Waheed (a.k.a Labour) is mentally unstable.
One of them said: "Waheed took to his heels immediately the fire started. We found out sometimes ago that he was cooking in his bedroom with firewood and bought him a stove"
Officials of the State Emergency Management Agency and the police were on the scene.


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Today is November 11th, 2011, and this post is scheduled for 11:11. This only happens once (unless you count both AM and PM)! This is a wishing post…a post with wishes of my own, and also a post about wishing. In this post, you will find an explanation of how the act of wishing can produce tangible and positive results in our lives and our world.
We all know that wishes do not always come true, but sometimes come true. Why wish for things? The main motivation behind wishing is that wishing for something makes it more likely for the wish to come true. The reasons for this are actually so simple that they are almost self-evident, without any need to resort to mysticism or supernatural explanations:
- When we wish for something, it is primed in our consciousness. Even when we are not consciously thinking about the wish, it is lurking somewhere in the back of our minds, and we become more likely to notice things in the world around us that are related to the wish. Wikipedia has a detailed article on the phenomenon of priming, if you want a full explanation.
- Once the wish has primed us to things around us related to a specific event, occurrence, or goal, we will be more likely to see or notice opportunities in the world around us that can help us make our wish come true. We thus become more likely to make our wish a reality, through our own actions and choices.
- Because we generally wish for positive things that make us feel good, the act of visualizing these things can put us in a more positive mood and mindset. There is a large degree to which being in a positive mindset and mood can make it more likely for us to have good experiences. The reason for this lies in the phenomenon of positive feedback loops. Positive feedback loops are a characteristic feature of nearly all complex systems, and are ubiquitous both in the human mind and body, and in social networks and economic systems. Wikipedia also has a very good article on positive feedback in systems. In terms of how you are thinking and feeling, positive feedback operates through the way you are thinking and feeling influencing your actions and decisions in ways that reinforce the same thoughts and feelings. This can happen both with positive and negative emotions: anger can produce hostile or hurtful actions, which can provoke more anger, causing escalating conflict, or love and generosity can bring out generous and loving qualities in others, leading to positive human relationships. Wishes can help us leap into a new, positive place, using the power of our imaginations.
How to wish?
It seems silly to ask how to wish; most young children know how to make wishes, and do so frequently. But, as the examples above show, the ways in which wishing operates are rather complex. I prefer to think about wishing as a skill, something that can be cultivated and developed. I'm not an expert wisher, but I do have a few ideas of what makes a good wish, and how to carry out the wish. I actually want to start though with the how, rather than the what.
- Give yourself a justification for the wish. The justification can be genuinely spiritual, or it can be superstitious or even completely made up. For example, I am posting this post on 11:11, 11/11/11, because this is a good wishing time, as this time is attention-getting and has a culturally accepted significance for making wishes. Although this post is primarily about wishing, not about prayer, if you are religious or believe in God, you might also find it helpful to pray instead of wishing. But I want to emphasize that your justification or grounds for the wish do not need to be deep or serious, and you do not need to believe in any sort of global significance to them. The act of wishing can be fun and lighthearted, so it is often best to pick a silly justification for your wish. Culturally-accepted events to wish upon (such as the first star you see at night, blowing away the seeds of a dandelion plant, or blowing out candles) can be good options, but you can also create your own traditions and share them with your friends and family.
- Focus on your wish and experience the act of wishing, rather than letting it happen as a fleeting thought. The reason for the importance of this lies in how priming works in the brain. If we are exposed to a stimulus and ignore it, it actually becomes less likely for us to recognize (and thus act on) that stimulus when we encounter it in the future. This phenomenon is called negative priming, and explains, among other things, how some people might repeat prayers in church, to use an example, out of rote or habit, without being mindful and focusing on them, and then go out into their lives and act in direct conflict with what they just prayed about. Others, who are mindful of the same prayer and say it deliberately and focus on it, might find the same repeated sayings to translate into positive actions in their lives.
Now that we've reflected a little on how to wish, I want to move towards the question of what to wish for.
What to wish for?
I have two pieces of advice about how to determine what to wish for: look for what you want rather than what you are told to want, wish big, and make your wish something you can actually imagine. The first of these tidbits of advice is the easiest of the three to grasp.
Look for what you want, not what you are told to want:
There are a lot of suggestions and temptations in our society of things to wish for, both for ourselves and for others. Many of these suggestions are a direct result of marketing and advertising that we are inundated with from a very young age. Young children are induced by advertising on television and in other media to want specific toys, or other material goods. Adults as well are told by advertisement what to want, and we are usually told to desire material things, because this produces the greatest profit, and thus payoff, for the advertiser. But these things are not what we really want.
Another source of temptation of things to wish for are the expectations and demands placed on us by other people. Some people have parents who want them to follow a specific career path, or exhibit a certain type of "success" in life (often manifested in education, job, wealth, status, or marriage and raising children). Other people may have a boss in a job, or a teacher, or an academic advisor, who always wants more work, better work, or a different sort of work. Various other people face demands on their time, from responsibilities in clubs or charitable organizations they are involved in, or from friends, romantic partners, or family members.
It is generally a good thing to be concerned with other people, and it is also perfectly okay to wish for material things, as we all need some degree of material resources in order to live our lives and pursue deeper and more meaningful things. However, when wishing, it is important that you ask yourself what you really want. If you wish instead for what others tell you to want, you may remain unsatisfied even if the wish comes true. By wishing for what you really want, you not only make it more likely that your wish will result in an outcome you really want, but, through the act of wishing, you will help yourself to become a more honest and whole person, more assertive and open about your own needs and desires.
Wish big:
One way that wishing can go wrong, or at least be ineffective, is if we wish for things that are too small and too specific. Life is unpredictable, and we don't always know what we're going to end up with in the end. Sometimes wishing for something specific can be empowering, such as wishing you get a job, directly before going into an interview for that job. But in the long-run, if you wish about a highly specific job or career that doesn't exist and is not realistic to create, you may not find it, and you may remain frustrated. If instead, you broaden your wish, such as wishing for a fulfilling, meaningful job, you may see and be able to take opportunities that you did not notice when your sights were more narrow.
I'm also a big fan of wishing big, that is, wishing for miracles, things that seem impossible, out of reach, or at least highly unlikely. Examples of these sorts of wishes include healing or recovery from terminal illnesses or conditions that seem impossible to overcome, or broad-scale cultural or political changes that we often feel powerless to influence. And miracles and broad-scale changes do sometimes happen, as anyone who has seen a loved one live far longer than the doctors predicted, or anyone who has seen the fall of an oppressive system like apartheid in South Africa, will testify to.
But, if wishing is to be effective, the practice of wishing big must be tempered by a third piece of advice, one anchored in realism and our limitations as human beings.
Make your wish something you can actually imagine:
One of the big cliche wishes which doesn't seem to come true in spite of many people wishing for it is world peace. I'm a very optimistic person, and I actually believe that world peace is possible and will some day be attained, although to be realistic, we will probably always have some form of conflict. But why, if so many people are so often wishing for world peace, do we still have so much war? This seems like one of those questions that is impossible to answer, but I want to offer a possible explanation.
My explanation is that "world peace" is too vague a wish, and too hard to imagine in a way that is real and relevant to our lives. (Contrast this with a wish to end a specific war or conflict, which always eventually comes true.) What does "world peace" mean? Most people don't even have a grasp of what "world" means. We don't have an intuition for how large the world is, and for how many people there are in the world. And most of us know little to nothing about many or all of the places where we are supposedly wishing for peace.
Overly vague wishes are limited in the degree to which they can actually empower us to positively influence our world, in part because they do not involve vivid imagery of what the outcome of the wish would look like, to us, in our own lives. They don't prime us for anything directly related to the goal. There are thus few opportunities for us to act in our daily lives in ways to actually bring our desired results into being. If we are to wish for the end of a conflict, we need to feel some sort of connection to the people and places involved in the conflict, and we need to have a picture of what peace would look like. Then, and only then, will we be able to let wishing do its magic, and begin to seize opportunities to actually make the wish into a reality through some sort of concrete action in our daily lives.
I want to clarify that I'm not telling people to avoid wishing for (or working for) world peace or other global goals. But I will say, if you really want to achieve such goals, your best bet is to think carefully about vivid ways to visualize them, and make them as relevant to your life as possible.
My wish:
My wish is that people throughout the world will take time to stop and reflect on what they really want, not what consumerist marketing or societal expectations tell them to want. And I wish that people will take time to do this not once, but on an ongoing basis, setting aside time in each day to do so, to think about the broader, longer-term things in life, so that their actions can be more purposeful in a global sense.
I wish that people will stop and look critically on the obsession that dominates not only American culture, but many cultures in the global economy: the obsession with self-advancement and competition, which manifests in working ever harder and longer hours to earn money, focusing on getting good grades in school, advancing in one's career, and achieving other tangible material measures of success. I wish that people will step back and take some time to ask deeper questions about what they are really working for, and do everything in their power to make choices that produce the best results for society as a whole, rather than just trying to advance themselves in a big game of status and power. And I wish that people will become more aware of how their actions give power to or take power away from those in authority, and that, to whatever degree possible, they will give their power to those placing the best interests of society as a whole first, and find ways to keep power away from those who are merely working to advance themselves.
I think I have a good idea of what society would look like if we did more of this. I think a large number of problems would start to solve themselves. I also think I have a lot of ideas about how to bring this vision into being; if you want to learn more about some of these ideas, read more of this blog.
What is your wish?
Share a wish here in the comments, or write a blog post of your own about your wish! It doesn't matter if you missed the wishing time, 11:11 on 11/11/11. I wrote this wishing post to open up an unlimited amount of wishing by an unlimited number of people!


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Life is sweet at Sugar Factory American Brasserie
There are many reasons to try the new Sugar Factory American Brasserie at Fashion Show—its location overlooking the Strip, with a nice view of the lights to the north and the Wynn across the street, the Chocolate Lounge upstairs, the completely ginormous menu and, of course, the huge offering of tasty cocktails.
You really must start with a drink, whether it's one of the massive goblets that Sugar Factory has become known for or a decadent martini. Those goblets are created with a variety of alcohols from rum to vodka, fruit juices, energy drinks and even suckers and gummy worms among many other ingredients.
The martinis and cocktails are equally as decadent, with flavors such as caramel macchiato, s'mores, peanut butter cup, root beer float and Lemon-head. A German chocolate version rimmed with coconut-pecan frosting smells exactly like the cake. Exactly! All of the goblets and cocktails here can be made alcohol-free.
Some of your favorites are surely on the appetizer list, and the sampler's the way to deal with that. Onion rings, Buffalo wings, chicken fingers and mac-and-cheese lollipops come with several dipping options. As seems to be the case with many of Sugar Factory's offerings, the mac-and-cheese balls are big, so big.
And that's the case with the burgers, too. The "monster burgers" come close to the size of your head, with grass-fed Angus topped with everything from pancetta and roasted peppers to brown gravy and an egg. There are relatively normal-sized burgers, too, with some cool iterations like the pizza burger (mozzarella, provolone marinara and pepperoni) and a white chocolate burger, which has garnered praise for a crazy combination. But man cannot live by burger alone (well, technically…), so go ahead and order salad, steak, sandwiches, tacos, pizza, crepes, waffles, heck, just name it.
But dessert could end up being your main dish here. Sugar Factory features four sweet pizzas, such as the Ultimate Nutella pizza, with sweet ricotta, berries and banana. For a more traditional dessert, try carrot cake, apple pie or turtle cheesecake, with an Oreo bottom and chocolate chips, marshmallow, caramel sauce and pecans layered in a delicious bite. Sundaes are over the top, too, with the King Kong sundae holding 24 scoops of ice cream and serving up to 12 people.
But the milkshakes are probably the most eye-catching, amazing thing you've ever ordered. You can tone it down with an old-fashioned version, but they still come gussied up with everything from rainbow sprinkles to rock candy and marshmallow fluff. But why stop there? The restaurant's Insane Milkshakes may send you over the edge. Take for example, the Caramel Sugar Daddy Cheesecake extravaganza: A chocolate-covered glass with crushed graham crackers is topped with a slice of cheesecake, a full-size Sugar Daddy, an enormous rainbow lollipop and whipped cream, and that's before you even get to the creamy shake below.
As you roll on out of here, fill up a bag or two in the retail shop. You'll probably need it for the ride back to your hotel, 'cause guaranteed you're not gonna walk.
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An Australian court on Thursday rejected the 2Day FM station's petition, paving the way for the country's media watchdog to conclude its probe into handling of a royal prank call by the Sydney-based radio station that led to the death of an Indian-origin nurse in the United Kingdom.
With the ruling handed out by the federal court, the Australian Communications and Media Authority can now conclude its investigation into the handling of last year's prank call to see if any law were breached by the radio station that led to death of 46-year-old Jacintha Saldanha.
Federal Court Judge Richard Edmonds dismissed 2Day FM's plea to permanently restrain ACMA from finding that it committed a criminal offence or breached the conditions of its broadcasting licence, according to media reports.
The application followed after ACMA's said in its interim report that 2Day FM had breached regulations by recording and broadcasting the prank call that preceded Saldanha's suicide. The radio station argued that ACMA was acting as "policeman, prosecutor, judge, jury, prison warden and parole officer" when it delivered a preliminary finding in June.
ACMA denied the 2DAy FM claims and stressed that it had operated within its powers and the preliminary report issued in June was not a final ruling.
Upholding the ACMA's argument, Edmonds dismissed 2Day FM's plea and ordered it to pay the watchdog's legal costs.
"Whatever the means, or combination of means, of reasoning employed by the ACMA, and whether the opinion is favourable or adverse to the licensee on the point, it does not amount to the ACMA making a judgement to the licensee's criminal guilt, still less determining an appropriate punishment for criminal guilt," Edmonds said.
Media report further said the FM station's counsel has demanded that ACMA's interim report remain suppressed from publication while his client "considered its options in terms of an appeal".
Justice Edmonds agreed to suppress the report for two weeks.
Australian DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian made the hoax call to the King Edward VII's hospital in London, posing as the Queen and Prince of Wales when Prince William's wife Kate was being treated for a rare form of pregnancy sickness.
Saldanha, who transferred their call to a colleague, who then described Kate's condition in detail, was found dead in her room a few days after the incident, sparking a backlash against the 2Day FM DJs.
Image: Indian-origin nurse Jacintha Saldanha killed herself after the hoax call from 2Day FM's DJs


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on 2/24/2017 11:04:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
It is a nice warm and sensual fragrance, that isn't too girly. I feel empowered when wearing it, and often get compliments. However, I think I might try something after I use up this (my first) bottle.
Sadly I really hate the packaging. I think it looks cheap and a bit too masculine.
on 6/19/2016 8:14:00 PM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
I have always been either a Calvin Klein (Euphoria) or Gucci (Gucci) girl, but wanted to try a new fragrance and thought I would try Deep Red. Well what can I say, I absolutely adore it! I have found it last so well on my skin and the compliments!!!!
Will definitely be buying this one again :)
on 4/17/2016 8:58:00 AM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Coarse
Eyes: Brown
Just purchased this perfume, blind bye. Just based on reviews on Fragrantica and MUA. I was not dissapointed. I love the warm, cosy smell. Probably not in my top 3, but still very nice fragrance. I always ask my 8 year old what she thinks when she smells a new fragrance on me and she said: hmm, nice but slightly like a man.. It reminds me of my uncle (my brother?!). Oops.... I don't know. That doesn't sound like a compliment, but she has it right. There's a definite masculine tone in this one. However, still like it and let's see what men think of it when I start wearing it in the office. For now, I'd recommend.
on 2/21/2015 11:05:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Blue
This has been my signature scent for fall/winter for two years now. I'm easily sold on warm/oriental/vanilla/amber/ginger scents and this was an immediate favorite. I don't have many perfumes so for me to deem one as a "signature" scent AND re-purchase it speaks volumes. It sticks with me for a good long time and whenever I put on a scarf that has it lingering I smell deeply and smile.
on 2/9/2015 1:56:00 AM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Blue
I have just finished this scent I have had in. My collection for a few years. I will miss it for sure. It is an energetic, alluring, playful fruity oriental or sorts. It does actually smell like "deep red", so it was very well named. Hugo Boss is known for solid perfumes, and this is certainly one of them.
on 8/30/2014 3:52:00 PM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Oily, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
This was my favorite scent when I was with my ex. Him and I actually picked it out together, and I think he bought me a set, although I can't exactly remember now as it has been a long time. I loved this perfume, and only got rid of it because I had to make a new beginning. I won't buy it again, but only because it reminds me of the past. Otherwise, this is a very nice perfume. Much better than Valentino V Absolu, which is somewhat similar, although not as nice.
on 2/22/2013 7:42:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Blond, Curly, Medium
Eyes: Green
Deep red is quite pleasing. There are not too many perfumes that strike a neat balance between young - playful - flirty - fruity with some edge and character. I'd rather call it an introduction to orientals than a fruity floral, actually.
Starts with an intense blast of fruits (mostly clementine, mandarin, blood orange and blackcurrant) which are very delicious. I often find fruity notes hard not to end up into something generic and here they don't.
Then I get the exotic kick of ginger and at last it develops in a playful mix of juicy fruits, mildly spicy ginger, the lovely sandalwood and not too sweet grown up vanilla.
The flowers are not really noticeable to me but judging by the notes I find the idea of combining the dramatic tuberose with the delicate freesia and the salty hibiscus quite unusual.
This perfume unfolds as time goes by and every stage is more interesting than the previous. It certainly evokes the feeling of warmth and inner tension, has good longevity and silage is nearly perfect: neither nuclear strength nor close to the skin.
I wouldn't call it sophisticated but for a fun night out with girlfriends it would be a perfect match.
on 1/30/2013 9:02:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Other, Olive, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
An all-time favourite, I first bought Deep Red when I was 16, I�m 22 now and always re-purchase when I run out! It�s dark and sexy, I would describe it as a �fruity-floral� with some woody tones. Again it�s a really strong, long-lasting fragrance, on me it smells sweet and musky, with a hint of spice. It�s meant to be more of an evening fragrance, but I really enjoy 1-2 spritz of it on my skin in the mornings, such a feminine and sensual fragrance.
on 12/29/2012 3:56:00 AM
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Normal, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Other
Eyes: Hazel
YES , YES AND YES! This perfume is sooo amazing. Currently is too expensive for me but I will definitely buy it again ;)
on 6/12/2012 11:54:00 AM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Normal, Olive, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Hazel
I like it, but it's not so special really. I could take it or leave it...it just smells so much like several other fragrances.
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Back in January, in addition to becoming a volunteer at the New Rochelle Animal Shelter and walking Waylon, I also attended the orientation for Habitat for Humanity, then spent an afternoon, with my eldest son, working at a Habitat house in Yonkers. But January ended, and February went rolling right along, and I never got to write about it – or to go back.
So in the month of March, I decided to make a once-a-week commitment to Habitat. There is a Habitat house under contraction about five minutes walking from me. The house is a modular one, so there's much less work to be done on it than on a typical Habitat house, and consequently, many fewer days that it is being worked on.
Still, my schedule and the White Plains house's schedule converged one Wednesday in the first week of March, and I made plans to join the work crew. The day dawned cold and overcast. I layered up as best I could, and headed to the work site.
Rain the previous night had soaked the ground and turned the work site into mud pit. Although the house is modular, it didn't come with front steps; those will be built by Habitat volunteers. In the meantime, there is a stepladder where the front steps will be. I climbed up the ladder and into the house, where a crew was operating a power saw in what looked to be the kitchen. I asked one of the guys where I might find the site manager. I to look for Steve in the basement.
Steve had been the site manager when my son and I worked at the Yonkers house back in January, and I was glad to hear I'd be working with him again.
First, Steve is unwaveringly cheerful and positive. Faced with a steady stream of manually challenged, inexperienced nincompoops, such as myself, he has to act like he's happy to see us and then come up with jobs for us to do. Real, actual building-a-house-type jobs. Which he does. Cheerfully.
Second, Steve teaches as he works. At the Yonkers house, I'd been given the task of sanding down the spackle that had been puttied over the screws holding up the drywall, and circling with chalk any screw heads that poked up through the sanded spackle. My son, wielding a power drill for perhaps the second time in his life, re-screwed-in the screws I chalked, so that they could then be re-spackled. I assumed that this job was being done for aesthetics – to make nice, smooth walls. However, Steve told us that the spackle over the screws actually has a safety-related purpose. Drywall, he explained, is fire-resistant. But to be truly effective, it needs to be airtight, so the fire can't seep through any cracks. That's why the spaces between pieces of drywall are spackled. Metal screws also needed to be covered with spackle because they can heat up in a fire, and then pop out, creating little air holes that the fire can travel through.
The whole January afternoon with Steve had been filled with a steady stream of this kind of interesting information, making our hours of rather tedious spackling and drilling fly by.
In the basement in White Plains, Steve was excitedly instructing three Wall Street-types, who were holding rulers and chalk line markers. (They were wearing jeans and sneakers, but there was no doubt in my mind they were Wall Street guys.)
"Hi," I said, interrupting the pow-wow.
"Hey, Cathleen! Great to see you," Steve responded. He pulled off one work glove and held out his hand to shake mine. "Thanks so much for coming. Let me just finish up with these guys and then we'll get you going on a job."
I wandered around the basement, which was filled with pieces of wood, a pile of metal pipes, an assortment of stepladders, and fair amount of mud. The basement was divided roughly in half, with the Wall Street guys working in one half, and another group of four guys working in the other half, cutting and measuring wood that they were then using to create a partition in the basement.
Steve gave me a choice of jobs. The first involved testing screw jacks for the scaffolding that they would be putting up around the house. The second was to join the Wall Street dudes measuring, marking, and drilling holes through the joists.
The first option seemed like make-work, and I would be doing it alone, which didn't sound fun, so I took option two.
This gave Steve a chance to do a little teaching. The Wall Street guys had already started working, but Steve explained to me that we were marking and drilling the holes in order to run wires through them. The wires would hold up insulation that was being put in to make the house as energy-efficient as possible. (The insulation Habitat uses is made from recycled blue jeans, by the way.) The joists were about 9 inches tall, but the insulation was only 7 and a half inches thick, so we had to measure and drill holes about an inch and a half up from the bottom of the joist because, in order to be effective, the insulation needed to be touching the floor above it.
The marking process was a multi-step one. First, we had to measure the length of the ceiling joists and figure out how far apart we could space the drill holes so that there would be no more than 17 inches between wires. Then we marked the drill points on two joists, one at each end of the room. We then stretched the chalk line marker between the two marked joists so that it would chalk all the joists in between. Then, on each joist, at each chalk mark, we had to measure an inch and a half up from the bottom and draw a dot there, to signal exactly where to drill. Two of the Wall Street guys were already working on one section. I paired with the third guy and we set to work, measuring and marking, then hauling out the chalk line.
Once we had chalked our joists, we started schlepping – schlepping the ladder from one place to another, then schlepping up the ladder to mark the point that would be drilled, then schlepping back down, and repeating the whole process over.
It was repetitive and boring. To mark up a single joist, I had to schlep the ladder to three different spots. And there were a lot of joists to mark. The basement was cold and muddy. Mud transferred from the bottoms of my shoes to the steps of the ladder, then onto my jeans as I leaned against the ladder for support.
I kept at it until all of the joists we had chalked had been marked.
Then I picked up a power drill, thinking, "Hey, I drilled four holes once. I can do this."
I went back to the first joist I had marked, and began drilling holes through each of the black dots I'd made. I still had to move the ladder three times to drill all the holes on one joist. I was still muddy and cold. But I kept at it.
I would like to say that we finished the job that day, but we did not. The Wall Street guys left at lunch. I stayed another hour, drilling alone, until the other crews packed up. And then I regretfully took my leave of the basement and the mud and the power drill.
Even though I was chilled to the bone, and my pants were crusted with mud, and I had accomplished very little, it felt like good work. Mindful work. I had done one small, repetitive job with my whole heart. That, combined with other small, repetitive jobs, will one day result in a cozy, well-insulated house.
Someday, the people who will own this home will walk across their floor, and it will feel warm, and they won't even notice that warmth. They will take it for granted. But a little piece of that warmth will be because of my marking and schlepping and drilling.
What more could a woman want?


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The University of Leicester is one of only small number of universities to have won the highly prestigious Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education on more than one occasion.
These prizes are awarded for excellence in research and teaching.
In 1994 the University of Leicester celebrated winning the Queen's Anniversary Prize for its work in Physics & Astronomy. Leicester is home to the biggest University based space research group in Europe. The prize citation reads: "World-class teaching, research and consultancy programme in astronomy and space and planetary science fields. Practical results from advanced thinking".
The University was chosen from 200 universities and colleges that entered the prestigious national awards scheme - adding significantly to its status as one of Britain's leading universities.
Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning
The department is a member of the Pi-CETL collaboration of three university physics departments with a track record in teaching and learning innovation. The Physics Innovations CETL is the only Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Physics. It was funded for 5 years (2005-2010) by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Pi-CETL involved collaboration between the Open University and the Universities of Leicester and Reading, and focused on curriculum innovation, the use of modern technology, the development of personal and professional skills, positioning physics in a broader scientific context and widening access.
Awards for Individual Members of Staff
Listed below are a selection of the many national and international prizes awarded to our staff since 2002.
- Prof. Andrew King (2014), Royal Astronomical Society Eddington medal for research in theoretical astrophysics, including major contributions to the topic of intermediate mass black holes.
- Prof. George Fraser (2014), Royal Astronomical Society Jackson-Gwilt medal for 'invention, improvement, or development of astronomical instrumentation or techniques or for achievement in observational astronomy'.
- Prof. Mark Lester (2014), Royal Astronomical Society award for Services to Geophysics, for his leadership, both nationally and internationally, of the ground-based radar community.
- The Cassini magnetometer team (2014), Royal Astronomical Society Team award for Geophysics.
- Dr Tom Stallard (2014), title of 'Hoku Kolea' awarded by the Mauna Kea observatories, Hawaii for 'outstanding commitment to the volunteer program and nightly stargazing programs.'
- Prof. Ken Pounds FRS CBE (2013), University of Leicester Distinguished Honorary Fellowship.
- Prof. Steve Milan (2013), Royal Astronomical Society Chapman medal for 'investigations of outstanding merit in solar-terrestrial physics.'
- Dr Richard Alexander (2013), Phillip Leverhulme Prize.
- Dr Mervyn Roy (2013), University of Leicester Teaching Fellowship, for 'proactive, empathetic and innovative contributions to the teaching and student support activities of the Department of Physics and Astronomy.'
- Prof. Derek Raine (2012), Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for 'services to science education.'
- Dr Graham Wynn (2012), University of Leicester Teaching Fellowship, for 'contributions to teaching, learning and assessment in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, including the development of Group Industrial Projects designed to enhance the employability of physics students.'
- Dr Paul Abel (2012), University of Leicester Teaching Partnership award, for his 'excellent contribution to the teaching of physics and interdisciplinary science students.'
- Prof. Stan Cowley (2011), Fellow of the Royal Society.
- Dr Emma Bunce (2011), Phillip Leverhulme Prize.
- Prof. Tudor Jones (2011), Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for 'services to science.'
- Prof. Andrew Blain (2010), Wolfson Merit Award.
- Prof. Jim Hinton (2009), Phillip Leverhulme Prize.
- Prof. Ken Pounds FRS CBE (2008), COSPAR Space Science award.
- The Swift Gamma Ray Burst mission team (2007), Bruno Rossi Prize of the AAS High Energy Astrophysics Division.
- Prof. Derek Raine (2006), Institute of Physics Bragg medal for 'his work on the teaching of physics in universities.'
- Prof. Stan Cowley (2006), Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- Prof. Stan Cowley (2006), Julius Bartels Medal of the European Geophysical Union.
- Prof Terry Robinson (2006), Royal Astronomical Society Harold Jeffreys Lecturer.
- Dr John Remedios (2006), NASA Group Achievement Award, for 'work on the UARS project'.
- Dr Steve Milan (2006), ESA science award, for 'work on the Cluster mission.'
- Dr Steve Milan (2006), URSI Young Scientist Award.
- Prof. Martin Barstow (2005) Isaac Newton memorial Lecturer.
- Prof. Stan Cowley (2003), medal of the University of Helsinki.
- Prof. Andrew King (2002), Wolfson Merit award.


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Friday, August 4, 2000
LESBIANISM may be all the rage, but what does it have to do with an artist's work?
"Amazons in the Drawing Room: The Art of Romaine Brooks," a handsome re-examination of the work of the late expatriate American painter known for her penetrating, early 20th-century portraits of female aesthetes and aristocrats, says: a lot. Others, including Meryle Secrest, the author of a 1974 Brooks biography, say: not very much. "Call her a traumatized child or the unlikely ornament of a vanished age," wrote Secrest in a recent letter to The Washington Post, "but please don't judge her by the sex of the people she went to bed with."
O tempora, O mores!
Today we've got "queer studies" and "identity politics." The old rules don't apply. National Museum of Women in the Arts guest curator Joe Lucchesi writes in his introduction to the "Amazons" catalogue: "In the thirty years since Brooks's death, a methodological transformation of art historical scholarship has opened up works of art to considerations of gender, class, and sexuality as both social conditions of artistic production and determinants of meaning. Recognizing this methodological shift, the present exhibition not only considers Brooks's individual aesthetic achievement but also investigates the ways in which her identity as a woman and a lesbian impacted her visual production."
Methodological transformation . . . determinants of meaning. But does any of this change the way we look at the pictures? Well, in a way, how can it not?
Francis Bacon had George Dyer (not to mention numerous other anonymous romantic dalliances). After Bacon's lover killed himself while sitting on the can in a Paris hotel room, the painter revisited the scene time and time again in his art. Can we appreciate these paintings without knowing this (or the fact that Bacon's canvases of rotting slabs of meat were necessary because he couldn't afford to pay a model)? Yes. Biography--and sexuality for that matter--is inessential, but it doesn't hurt. To fixate on it to the exclusion of other considerations is foolish, but to ignore it seems deliberately myopic at best and prudish at worst.
Not that Brooks's sexuality is the revelation here. In fact, compared to the directness of the catalogue, the exhibition wall text sometimes seems to dance around the by now fairly well-known issue of her orientation, using such euphemistic phrases as "women like Brooks" and "like many other people in her situation." Her 50-year relationship with writer Natalie Barney for instance--portrayed lovingly on canvas and described bluntly in the catalogue as Brooks's "partner"--is euphemistically refered to at the museum as a "personal and professional collaboration." What, did they open a bakery together?
But no matter. What seems like equivocation may be because Brooks's love life was, as love lives often are, complicated. Born Beatrice Romaine Goodard in 1874, the artist entered an early marriage of convenience with gay British pianist John Brooks in 1902. Weakened by friction (he wanted her to maintain at least the outward appearance of the good wife; she preferred independence and mannish suits), the union fell apart after just one year. Some years later, the artist began a torrid affair with the poet Gabriele d'Annunzio, whose portrait against a backdrop of crashing waves is the only painting of a male in the show.
But "Amazons" is only peripherally about sex anyway, most obviously in the sequence of eight nude photographs taken by Brooks of her lover, the Russian dancer Ida Rubinstein, with whom Brooks became involved while still entangled with d'Annunzio. Looking at somewhat exhibitionistic photos of the boyish lover stripping for the camera feels vaguely voyeuristic, and it's likely the pictures were never intended for public display.
They're only a small part of the show, though, placed in the corner of a room with several painted images of Rubinstein, Brooks's only subject (not counting her own self-portraits) that the artist returned to more than once. After seeing Ida in the flesh, so to speak, the women in the Rubinstein portraits look less like an identifiable person than versions of some Brooks-imagined goddess--an archetype seen again and again in these galleries of long-necked, gray-skinned, androgynous sylphs. Several portraits stand out from the parade, particularly "Baroness Emile d'Erlanger," a true Amazon with a flame-red shock of hair, broad shoulders and an animal-print gown. Like all of Brooks's mature portraits, the gaze is direct and fearless, heroic.
One of Brooks's most distinctive works is "Muriel Draper" of 1938. After the '20s, Brooks pretty much gave up painting, focusing on finishing her autobiography ("No Pleasant Memories," never published) and creating a series of almost graphite drawings, 28 of which are included here. One of the last paintings ever made by Brooks, the Draper portrait shows Brooks's always meticulous attention to the face, but it moves in a direction away from the more familiar, Whistler-like monochromes composed in charcoal, slate and taupe to a bleached palette of off-whites and a sinuous line whose draftsmanship is a direct descendant of her explorations with pencil and paper.
It's a shame Brooks never more fully developed this new style.
Ultimately, "Amazons in the Drawing Room" is neither celebration nor survey of the gay subculture of the roaring teens and '20s in which Brooks was such a player: The artist was the model for the character Venetia Ford in Radclyffe Hall's controversial 1928 novel of lesbianism, "The Well of Loneliness," and Hall's lover, "Una, Lady Troubridge" is the cross-dressing subject of Brooks's most comical painting. The show's more a paean to womanhood.
Some find something cold and dead about the waxy skin and sculptural impersonality of Brooks's immortal ladies. They say they don't look like real people. Neither do the faces on Mount Rushmore.
AMAZONS IN THE DRAWING ROOM: The Art of Romaine Brooks -- Through Sept. 24 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW (Metro: Metro Center). 202/783-5000. Web site: www.nmwa.org. Open 10 to 5 Mondays through Saturdays; Sundays noon to 5. Admission is by suggested donation of $3; $2 for students and seniors.
Public programs in conjunction with the exhibition include:
Aug. 16 at 7 -- Two films by French feminist Germaine Dulac: "The Smiling Madame Beudet" and "The Seashell and the Clergyman." $5. Call 202/783-7370 for reservations.
Sept. 23 from 1 to 4 -- Symposium: "No Color, Only Nuance: Romaine Brooks, Her Circle, and Her Legacy." $20. Call 202/783-7370 for information and reservations.


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Dolutegravir plasma levels after gastric bypass
Four HIV-positive patients who had undergone gastric bypass were treated with dolutegravir containing antiretroviral therapy. Three of the patients had undergone bypass operation before HIV-infection while one patient was HIV-positive before the surgical procedure. Seventeen dolutegravir plasma levels were measured at different time points. Drug levels were well above IC90 and mostly comparable to historic data. The authors conclude that sufficient drug levels are achieved with standard therapy of 50 mg QD but speculate that a transient decrease in plasma levels may occur in the early phase after surgery and that a temporary dosage increase to 50 mg BID could be considered.
Piso et al. AIDS 2017;31:1052-1054
Comment: Gastric bypass has become a common procedure and it is important to study the pharmacokinetics of antiretroviral drugs in these patients. It is reassuring that adequate drug levels
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The port of Baltimore reported a 6.5 percent increase in general cargo at state piers during the first quarter of the year, but a big surge during the first two months stalled in March when general cargo tonnage declined 15.4 percent.
Two weeks ago, the Maryland Port Administration released cargo statistics showing that the port enjoyed a 21.7 percent increase in tonnage for the first two months of the year. While both imports and exports showed growth, exports of general cargo were particularly robust, rising almost 40 percent from the levels of January and February of last year.
The port was unable to keep the growth going through March.
Total general cargo handled at state piers totaled 426,905 tons in March, compared with 504,406 tons in March 1990, a decline of 15.4 percent.


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Swiss Council of Religions united against proposed minaret ban
(Photo: Minaret of Zurich's Mahmud Mosque, 23 May 2007/Christian Hartmann)
The Swiss Council of Religions, which is composed of leaders from the country's Christian, Jewish and Islamic organisations, has issued a statement rejecting a proposed ban on minarets. A group of right-wing anti-immigrant politicians has gathered more than 100,000 signatures to support the so-called Minaret Initiative, saying the minarets threaten law and order. The vote is due on November 29.
The Swiss federal government has warned that the referendum vote was organised legally but a ban would violate international human rights and the country's constitution. "Such a ban would endanger peace between religions and would not help to prevent the spread of fundamentalist Islamic beliefs," its Department of Justice and Police said in late August.
The Council statement, the first it has made on a political issue since it was formed in 2006 to foster interfaith dialogue, denounces the bid as an affront to the tradition of diversity in the multilingual Alpine country. Here are some excerpts from the statement:
"The Swiss Council of Religions decisively rejects the Minaret Initiative. The Council, which consists of leaders from the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities, is dedicated to protecting religious peace in Switzerland and to strengthening trust among the churches and religious communities. The Minaret Initiative would bring about just the opposite. It instrumentalizes religion for political aims and engenders mistrust among the populace…
"Switzerland has known cultural diversity for a long time. It is part of its history and characteristic of the Swiss identity. The people of this country have developed rules and systems of coexistence in the course of a long common history. The resulting rules are such an integral part of the cultural tradition of the country that its people are hardly aware of them in explicit terms; and at the center of this democratic self-image lies in the recognition of the freedom of each individual within the framework of a legal order that is equally binding for all…"
(Photo: Steeple and minaret in Wangen bei Olten, 7 August 2009/Michael Buholzer)
"The dialogue among the churches and religious communities of Switzerland shows that differences of religion, culture, tradition, and social-political views do not preclude a deep common belief that all people share the same inalienable dignity. The fundamental rights to the freedom of belief and conscience apply equally to all. The right to construct mosques and minarets can therefore not be made to depend on whether religious minorities enjoy the same religious freedoms in other countries. Answering injustice with further injustice would be a betrayal of Swiss values…
"The minaret initiative does not solve any problems. On the contrary, it only contributes to suspicion, mistrust, and aggression against people of Muslim faith…
"The signatures gathered for the referendum initiative lend expression to the people's fears and concerns. What messages will be preached in the mosques? Is Islam more than just a religion? What significance do human rights, democracy and rule of law, and the equality of men and women have from a Muslim point of view? Does Islam seek the status of an exception in Switzerland due to its religious precepts? These questions and others like them will be asked and require discussion…"
Swissinfo.ch has an interesting interview with Council Secretary Markus Sahli that starts right off with the question — what does this interpretation of religious freedom mean for the debate over women wearing Muslim headscarves? "The headscarf issue is a difficult one. The Council has come to the conviction that one cannot give an overall answer to this question. One must respond to it case by case…"
According to the Basler Zeitung, the Swiss government is concerned that the November 29 referendum could spark protests in the Muslim world and is preparing an information campaign to explain it abroad. The issue has not aroused much interest in Muslim countries so far, it says, so there are no plans now to start an information campaign that might only draw attention to the issue.
(Photo: Istanbul protest against Swiss publication of Prophet Mohammad cartoons, 10 Feb 2006/Ahmet Ada)
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