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Lady Luxe winces as her car door swings open and Leila glares down at her, her eyes wild with uninhibited rage.
For almost a month, Lady Luxe has spent every waking moment – and occasionally, even sleeping moments – worrying about the day her friend would discover the truth about her relationship with her boyfriend, either through a mistake of Lady Luxe's own, or Mohamed's careless attitude towards hiding his identity. She has plotted and planned, lied and avoided, and even persuaded her cousin to pretend to be her alter ego in order to ensure that the subject of her nightmares would never materialise.
And now, for the first time in twenty-two years, Lady Luxe finally understands what God means when He says he is the Greatest Planner.
No amount of scheming or hypothesising has prepared her for this moment. In all the scenarios she has imagined, one thing she never expected was for her mindless brother to actually be disrespectful enough to bring his girlfriend to his father's house. How difficult would it have been to hire a hotel room for the night, or even take her to one of the many extra family villas scattered around the city? But no. The obnoxious fool had to bring her to the main home – the one her Grandfather had given his eldest son when he finally let go of his inappropriate Western wife and agreed to marry a more suitable bride – the home that symbolised all that the X family stood for; respect, culture and loyalty.
What an idiot.
For all his lectures on honour, shame and dignity, Mohamed was really nothing more than an ignorant boy, ruled by the anatomy on the lower part of his body, completely oblivious to the consequences of his hormone-induced actions. And it is Lady Luxe who has to pay the price.
Staring back at her friend with a thudding heart and a dry throat, she suppresses the urge to drive away with the door still open and instead, persuades herself to climb out of the car as gracefully as possible, trying hard not to let her legs wobble. She takes a deep breath and turns around to face her furious friend.
Leila's face is contorted with anger, but beneath the fire, Lady Luxe knows there is a deep sadness. Once again, she fell for the charms of a wealthy, handsome and enigmatic man who lacked the most crucial characteristic in a relationship: loyalty. And once again, Leila was embarrassed in front of Lady Luxe, who had warned her against such predators right from the start.
It is this pain, this shame, and this humiliation, that Lady Luxe knows she will have to exploit in order to protect herself. After all, everyone knows that all is fair in love and war.
"You fucking bitch," Leila begins, her body heaving as she visibly tries to control herself, her rising voice shattering the previous silence. The watchman's light turns on and Lady Luxe begins to panic. The last thing she needs is Mohamed waking up.
"You fucking backstabbing bitch," Leila continues, the intensity of her venom causing spittle to spray out of her mouth. "Of all the guys in
"Control yourself, you silly tart," Lady Luxe snaps with slight defiance. "Why are you staring at me like I'm some kind of traitor when you're the one who is imposing on my territory?" It is my territory, she justifies to herself. Although not in the way I am implying.
"What?" In an instant, Leila's voice plummets to a whisper, the blood draining from her face. She clutches onto the Ferrari for support, her knees almost buckling from the shock. Surely she doesn't mean what she thinks she means? Her mind spinning, she stumbles, and Lady Luxe is forced to grab onto her before she falls to the ground.
The contact between her hands and Leila's quivering body sends a pang of guilt shooting through Lady Luxe's body, and she swallows, trying to push the intense feeling of unease aside. You have to look out for number one, she tells herself, still holding onto Leila frail frame.
"Look Leila, it's not a good idea to talk here. Let's go for a drive," she finally says, letting go of her friend. Leila doesn't reply, so she ushers her friend into the car and looks back at the watchman who is watching her intently. She gives him a quick smile and a wave before slipping into the driver's seat, igniting the engine and rolling out of the grounds.
The street is dark and quiet, as it always is after midnight, with the dim streetlamps providing only enough light for haggard stray kittens that to observe their surroundings. The only sound to be heard is the Ferrari, which slices through the silence like a knife through butter. In the distance, the silvery grey Burj Khalifa juts into the cloudless sky, standing tall, proud and imposing; a reminder of
Lady Luxe glances over at Leila who is staring straight ahead, almost as if she is in a trance. She looks away, guilt poking her again, and continues to drive. She has a good idea what Leila is thinking, and it is exactly what she wants her to think. But if things are going the way she is planning, why does she feel so terrible?
They reach Umm Suqeim public beach, without a single word uttered between the two of them during the entire journey. Lady Luxe pulls over next to a group of young Emirati boys sitting on the low wall, blasting traditional Khaleeji music from their white Land Cruiser. She ignores their stares and kicks off her shoes, rolling the legs of her jeans up to her shins.
"Let's walk out onto the sand and sit here for a bit," she suggests, looking back at Leila who is still inside the car. Lost in her own thoughts, Leila obliges without uttering a word. She too takes off her shoes and follows Lady Luxe onto the sand. It is cold underneath the clammy soles of her feet, and she welcomes the sensation.
Dropping to the ground, Lady Luxe draws her knees to her chest and looks out into the ocean and at the illuminated Burj al Arab in the near distance. The beach is unusually quiet, but at three am on a Thursday night, she guesses most people are either sleeping soundly or wandering drunk out of one of
"So? Are you going to tell me what's going on?" Leila finally ventures, unable to stomach the suspense any longer. She looks over at Lady Luxe, who has a strange expression on her face, one that Leila has never seen before. She wonders if she should just get up and walk away, without listening to the explanation and without looking back. Although she would love to just pretend that all this never happened, she knows she cannot. As much as the reason is sure to pain her, she needs to know exactly what has been going on without her knowledge. What kind of ride she has been taken on. How much of a naïve fool she has been.
Lady Luxe, knowing that whatever comes out of her mouth next will determine her immediate fate, mulls over the various explanations one last time before she takes a deep breath and clears her throat.
"Mohamed is…" she begins hesitantly. Leila's anxious face has distorted into a mixture of pain and anger, and Lady Luxe's words get caught in her throat. Should she confess the truth and relieve of her pain, or should she utter a lie to protect herself? Whatever she says, she is inextricably connected to Mohamed now, and whatever she says, Leila will have the opportunity to blackmail her. However, if she does lie and profess to be a girlfriend, there is a small possibility of Leila being angry enough with Mohamed to cut him out of her life once and for all. If she tells the truth, that she is only his sister, Leila may still believe she has a chance with the handsome Emirati and use her new-found knowledge as lifelong leverage.
"…my husband."
"What?" Leila feels as she if has been punched in the stomach and she struggles to breathe.
"We got married about a year ago, while I was still in
Lady Luxe cannot look Leila in the eyes for fear of revealing the truth, so instead, she stares at the sea and digs her toes further into the sand. Please just accept what I say and then just leave me and my family alone.
"W-why didn't you tell me something sooner?" Leila asks shakily, remembering the night they came across Moe and the way Lady Luxe practically shoved him onto her. So that was why she couldn't get away fast enough. That was why she was so condemning of their relationship. And that was why she had been avoiding her like an epidemic and had refused to meet the two of them together.
"What was I supposed to say?" Lady Luxe retorts, her voice dripping with sarcasm. "The guy you manhandled in the alleyway was actually my husband? You should know me better than that, Leila."
"Turns out I don't know you at all," Leila replies quietly, looking straight at Lady Luxe.
She believes me, Lady Luxe thinks with sheer relief as she stares back at Leila's confused eyes that are brimming with tears."I'm sorry," Lady Luxe says simply. Leila accepts the sentiment with a nod, completely unaware that her friend is not apologising for hiding her marital status, but apologising for lying about it.
"Me too," she says after a while, digging her toes into the sand and wrapping her arms around her cold body. "Listen… I kind of need to be alone right now. Do you mind if I just hang out here by myself?"
"Of course not," Lady Luxe answers without pausing. "I'll see you soon okay?" She is thrilled at the opportunity to exit, but before she leaves, she leans over and gives her friend an unexpected hug. I'm sorry, she says silently before she hoists herself off the ground and walks to the car, leaving Leila's dejected silhouette behind.
Neither girl looks back at the other.
Lady Luxe drives down Al Sufouh on the slow lane almost at a snail's pace, ignoring the curious looks her pink Ferrari receives from passers by. She realises that her knuckles have turned white from clutching onto the steering wheel and she flexes her fingers in a lame attempt to relax them.
"It should be illegal to drive a Ferrari that slowly!" an Aussie voice shouts out to her from a gigantic red pick-up truck that pulls up beside her, slowing down to match her pace. Lady Luxe ignores the intrusion and looks straight ahead, a scowl on her lips. Why can't a girl ever drive in peace around here?
"What's your name, sweetheart?" The man tries again, raising his voice over the loud engines of both vehicles.
"Fuck off," Lady Luxe replies, and although it is against the law, sticks up her finger to reiterate her point. Let's see you try to report me you prick, she thinks, closing the window and stepping on the gas. The car roars to life and she shoots forwards like a bullet, leaving the pick-up far behind in a cloud of dust.
Sniggering to herself, Lady Luxe continues driving without thinking, her mind still focused on Leila and Mohamed. She absent-mindedly takes the first exit onto the Palm and is surprised to find herself outside a familiar villa.
A recent birthday present from her father, the villa she is parked outside is also supposed to be part of her inheritance, yet Lady Luxe feels like an intruder as she walks through its gates. Upon handing her the keys, her father specifically told her that she could do whatever she pleased with it after she got married, but until then, it was hers in name only. Thus, the blissfully naïve X has no idea that his daughter has taken his sentiments with a pinch of salt (after all, it was like handing a lollipop to a baby and telling it not to taste it), and has actually been visiting it every few weeks whenever she needs a little time out from her stifling social life.
The exterior of the modest villa is inspired by Islamic art and it is decorated sparsely with traditional berber and shaami furniture. Although a cleaning service cleans it every week without fail, no one uses it, and whenever Lady Luxe does venture into her respite from the outside world, she feels guilty and nervous, as if she is a trespasser. Hence, for the most part, the villa sits abandoned and derelict, like a beautiful virgin bride whose husband refuses to touch her. A complete and utter waste.
Still shaken from the confrontation with Leila, Lady Luxe feels light-headed as she leans against the front door and tries to regulate her breath. When she finally manages to calm down and her pulse returns to normal, without turning on a single lamp, she walks through the house and into the garden facing the artificial beach and sea. With her abaya still covering her body, she lies down on one of the two sun loungers by the pool and stares out into the sea, aching to hear it crash against the shore. But it doesn't. It sits still and silent, much like her.
* * *
From the moment Lady Luxe awoke up to the brutal wails of her alarm clock, she was confronted with a nervous sensation in the pit of her stomach, warning her of the events that were yet to occur.
After dragging herself out of bed, she bumped into Mohamed, whom she can barely look in the eye following the staircase incident. He muttered 'salaam' to her, their brief encounter putting her off her breakfast. Dismissing Claudine's delicious waffles, she changed into a plain abaya coupled with a hot pink sheila and went to meet her cousins who were due to fly out that evening.
Moza and Rowdha, anxious to remain in
Bored of their endless moaning, Lady Luxe tuned out and listened to the low hum of conversation around her instead. Anything to take her mind off the growing sense of unease she was experiencing.
A strong
A blast of air conditioning from the vent directly above her head soon destroyed the daydream, and Lady Luxe opened her eyes and inwardly sighed. It was far too cold indoors and far too sunny outdoors for her to be in
Get over it, those days are gone, she told herself, trying not to think of her glorious three and a half years studying in
"What the hell's wrong with you?" Rowdha, who detested public displays of emotion, wrinkled her nose, shooting Moza a dirty look upon receiving a sharp dig in her ribs for her brutal approach. "What? Why did you just assault me with your pointy elbows?"
"Can't you be a bit sympathetic for a change?" Moza scolded, taking Lady Luxe's hands into hers. "Ignore her habibti. She's just pissed off because we're going back to Saudi tonight. Now tell me. What's wrong?"
"Nothing," Lady Luxe mumbled, pulling her hand away and staring out of the window at the happy people walking by, enjoying
"What exactly about your over privileged life is upsetting you today?" Rowdha continued, almost as if her sister hadn't spoken. "What? It's true! Look at you. You're young, beautiful, healthy, rich. You live in a gigantic villa, you drive a Porsche and a Ferrari, and to make things worse, you're even a successful businesswomen. So please, enlighten me. What exactly about your life is so shitty?"
Lady Luxe remained silent, knowing that what her cousin said was harsh but true. She didn't want to try to explain that she was always disorientated, that she never, ever felt truly comfortable, even in her own home. Especially in her own home. She didn't know how to describe the ache in her gut whenever she heard a British accent, came across a picture from her student days in
But most importantly, she didn't know how to adequately convey the fear that was slowly creeping its way around her entire body, warning her that things were about to blow up in her face. And she didn't know which was worse. To be beaten by Moe, kicked out of the family or killed in order to protect their honour.
"Nothing," she said shortly. "My life is great. And so was Hend's I'm sure."
There was a discomforting silence.
It had already been five years, yet a mere mention of the circumstances that lead to Hend's disappearance was enough to send shivers down the spines of all the girls in the X family.
The product of a consanguineous marriage, Hend was both her father's sister's daughter and her father's cousin's daughter, a common practice in the X family. She was bright, fun loving and feisty, and when Lady Luxe is being honest with herself, she acknowledges that there were great similarities between them both.
Externally, they could not have been more different. Hend's hair was jet black and unruly, her skin was a smooth mocha and her eyes were framed with the thickest, darkest eyelashes Lady Luxe had ever seen. Unlike Lady Luxe's slight, athletic frame, Hend had a curvaceous body that could rival the likes of J-Lo and Beyonce, and she loved to show it off in skin-tight glittery gowns whenever they went to weddings. She was loud, she was smart and she had no qualms about speaking her mind. Everyone knew when Hend was in the room.
Beneath the lively exterior however, was a deep sadness that only those extremely close to her could detect. When all the cousins would get together and joke about their other family members, amidst laughter and giggles, Lady Luxe would look over at Hend to find her staring into the distance with a pained expression on her face. When their eyes collided, Hend would always smile at her younger cousin, but Lady Luxe, even as a teenager, was aware that the smile was hiding a sorrow that could not be articulated.
When news of Hend's disappearance made its way to Lady Luxe's ears, when rumours of Western boyfriends, stolen chastity and shameful acts travelled through the grapevine, everyone knew exactly what had happened. But no one had the nerve to say it.
They stopped visiting Hend's house and for a while, the inhabitants of the house stopped visiting everyone else. When they finally made their way back into the community, all mentions of Hend stopped. It was as if the parents had raised two sons and no daughter.
Two years later, Lady Luxe paid a visit to her sick Aunt. Her Aunt's health had completely deteriorated following the disappearance of her only daughter. Dark, deep circles rimmed her eyes, her sallow skin was sickly and thin, and she had lost most of the hair on her head. Towards the end of the customary visit, Lady Luxe claimed to need the toilet. Ignoring the bathroom door altogether, she slipped past the wandering maids, crept up the stairs and sought out Hend's bedroom.
She pushed open the door and stepped inside, bracing herself to be assaulted by memories of her missing cousin. But she didn't have to, for the pink walls were now a clinical white, the countless photographs were nowhere to be seen and there was not a single pretty ornament in sight. It was almost as if Hend never existed.
Feeling nauseous, the eighteen year-old Lady Luxe turned away and closed the door softly behind her. Tears falling down her face, she ran back downstairs and for the first time in two years, confronted her Aunt.
"Where have all of her things gone?" she demanded upon returning to her Aunt's bedside, unable to contain her emotions.
Her Aunt looked over at her niece and saw in her hazel eyes her own tempestuous daughter.
"Habibti," she began, her voice quivering with uninhibited pain. "There is no place in this family for shame. Not one member, even those who profess to love you, will spare a girl who soils our name with dishonourable acts. Never forget that."
* * *
Lady Luxe shivers, the thin cloth of her abaya providing little warmth from the ice that has numbed her body. Thinking about Hend always has this effect on her. No one knows exactly what happened to her cousin. What they did to her; if they were kind enough to drive her out of the country, if she had voluntarily left and never looked back, or if they got rid of her forever. She is not sure she wants to know.
"Salaam'alaykom," a voice calls out to her and she sits up straight, startled at the intrusion. Pulling her sheila onto her head, she looks around to see a solitary figure in the adjacent garden looking out into the sea, and she scowls, wishing the walls separating the two were higher.
"What do you want?" she snaps in English, shooting him a cutting look that goes amiss in the darkness.
"Sorry, you just looked a little lonely so I thought I'd keep you company," the man replies sheepishly, also in English but with a strong Arabic accent.
"What makes you think I'm lonely?" she asks, adjusting her abaya to cover her body properly.
"Well, for starters, you didn't deny it."
"Oh, we have a jester on the
"Every queen has a jester," he flirts back, and Lady Luxe laughs at his audacity. He too laughs and edges closer to the wall. "May I request the pleasure of your company this evening, my lady?
"Ahlan," she replies with a smile, welcoming the distraction from her painful thoughts. She would rather indulge in meaningless conversation with a flirtatious stranger than be left alone with haunting memories of Hend or Leila.
She watches the man jump over the wall, his fluid movements catching her attention and she readjusts her abaya to expose one slim, smooth ankle. Before he turns around, she lets her sheila drop to her shoulders and hastily rearranges her fringe. After all, with her naked face and her drab abaya, there isn't much else she can do to make herself more attractive for this intriguing stranger.
"Mind if I take a seat?" Without waiting for a response, he hops onto the lounger beside her and stretches, his fitted t-shirt rising to expose a taut stomach. Lady Luxe feels a stirring within and she swallows nervously. It has been a long time since she has sowed her oats, and the combination of the sensual moonlight, the seductive breeze and an attractive stranger is making her feel a little flustered.
"Sure," she croaks, too worried to look at his face in case he senses her feelings. She watches him lie back onto the lounger from the corner of her eye and then turns to look at him, ready to get a proper look at the mystery man by her side.
Despite the darkness that surrounds them, despite the shadows playing on the angles of his face, there is absolutely no denying the familiar dark eyes and messy hair. Lady Luxe, overcome with sheer horror, stares at the man - no longer a stranger and definitely no longer attractive - not knowing whether to get up and run or throw herself into to the sea in front of her. Either way, she is completely and utterly screwed.
"So," he says, turning his body to face her. "How are you my dear future bride? And pray tell, how is our mutual friend Jennifer?"
* * *
A million light years away from the luxury man-made island, Leila sits alone in her bare bedroom in Discovery Gardens staring at the blank wall in front of her. Unable to digest what she has recently come to know, she feels weak, queasy and stupid. She wonders what Lady Luxe was thinking all those times she gloated about Moe's attentiveness, his full lips and his big hands. When she boasted about all the gifts she had received and how she would return the favour.
She was thinking you were an old, delusional tramp who could never bag a single man, a cruel voice taunts her, causing her heart to wrench in shame and agony. She didn't tell you sooner because she wanted to prove you a fool.
"Shut up," Leila mumbles, unaware that she is actually speaking out loud to herself.
She wanted to mock you, to jeer at you, to snicker when your back was turned, the voice continues, relentless in its sadistic - or perhaps masochistic - pursuits.
Rocking back and forth, her knees drawn to her chest, Leila begins to cry. She weeps for herself, her achingly lonely self who had been played a fool all over again. She weeps for her heart, in love with a man who was married to her friend. And she weeps for this friend - stuck in a loveless marriage with a man who brought his conquests to their marital home.
Thinking back to the opulent villa with its marble floors and crystal chandeliers, Leila feels another emotion that suddenly replaces the previous emotions of pain. Envy.
She has all of that yet she's still not happy, she thinks, her mind taking a more dangerous course. Plenty of men cheated on their wives, but at least their wives were not alone. They had someone who came home to them at the end of the day. They had someone to look after them. They had someone to raise children with. What did she have? A shabby little apartment in the middle of the desert?
She needed a man. She needed a husband. She needed someone to spend the rest of her life with. She wouldn't have minded sharing him with someone else if it meant that she was taken care of.
I could have made him happy, she thinks wistfully.
And then, a tiny seed plants itself in the darkest depths of her mind.
I can still make him happy.


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Celebrating The Dandy at RISD's "Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion" in Providence
PROVIDENCE, RI - The Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design announced that "Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion" will open in the spring of 2013 as the first exhibition of its kind to focus on the persona and history of the distinctively dressed figure of the dandy.
The exhibition features more than 200 objects, including innovative garments, bespoke clothing, works on paper, and paintings, drawn from the Museum's collections and loans from individuals and national and international institutions.
Beginning with the elegant dandy George "Beau" Brummell (1778-1840), the exhibition traces artist-dandies throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The role of exquisite craftsmanship in custom design, the dandy's role as both fashion icon and caricature, and the contributions of today's style leaders, such as Thom Browne, Rick Owens, Ouigi Theodore, and Waris Ahluwalia are explored. An illustrated book accompanies the show, which runs from April 28 to August 18, 2013.
The exhibition breaks ground by emphasizing the personalities of well-known fashionable men, focusing on the enduring bond between identity, creativity, and self-presentation. "The exhibition and its companion book offer a sumptuous view of the power of clothing and fine craftsmanship. It comes at a time of renewed appreciation for the nuances and attention to detail of traditional tailoring but also innovation and boldness in menswear design. The dandy, a historical figure, is central to this development," says RISD Museum Director John W. Smith.
Diverging from recent exhibitions that have explored the general topic of menswear or even the 19th-century notion of the dandy, Artist/Rebel/Dandy proposes a new line of inquiry that examines, deconstructs, and expands on popular definitions of the dandy "from one solely concerned with flamboyance and flash to a figure who is innovative, rebellious and profound in thought," say exhibition curators Kate Irvin, Curator and Head of the RISD Museum's Costume + Textiles Department, and Assistant Curator Laurie Brewer.
Unlike chronological approaches to the history of fashion, Artist/Rebel/Dandy mingles personalities and time periods with original materials to present the dandy in his full spectrum.
For example, the clothing and caricatures of artist Max Beerbohm are on view adjacent to the garments of Vogue magazine's Hamish Bowles and the clothing designs and social messages of Ouigi Theodore and his menswear emporium Brooklyn Circus.
Words and images of Charles Baudelaire feature alongside the clothing and style snippets of the late RISD Painting Professor Richard Merkin and the designs and slogans of impresario Malcolm McLaren. The fabrics and designs of the firms Dashing Tweeds and Luciano Barbera are represented by the designers themselves, the contemporary dandies Guy Hills and Luciano Barbera.
The fully illustrated book, co-published and distributed by Yale University Press (2013), includes essays by curators Irvin and Brewer, fashion editor Christopher Breward, and Barnard College English professor Monica L. Miller.
Menswear designer Thom Browne writes the preface, and 15 additional writers contribute "musings" on the topic of artist-dandies, including Glenn O'Brien, contributor to GQ magazine, past editor of Interview magazine and New York bureau chief of Rolling Stone, who writes on style icon Beau Brummell; musician, author, and photographer Patti Smith writes on Charles Baudelaire; biographer Merlin Holland writes on his grandfather, Oscar Wilde; scholar and RISD Museum educator Horace D. Ballard Jr. writes on W. E. B. DuBois; and photographer and author Scott Schuman of the Sartorialist blog writes on Luciano Barbera.
Organized thematically, gallery sections include a four-part introduction: "Beau Brummell" illustrates the style of this forbearer of "man at his best"; "Sketches and Definitions" introduces the often contradictory definitions and images of the clothes-wearing man; "Crafting the Dandy" addresses the workmanship and detail that makes up an aggressively individual style of male fashion; and "Relics" brings together garments and accessories that epitomize certain iconic dandies.
While the exhibition stresses the many ways in which the dandy eludes exacting definition, five themes offer a framework for viewers to explore the individual personalities, suggesting kinship across chronological and geographic borders: Historians, Connoisseurs, Revolutionaries, Romantics, and Explorers.
Such figures as Thom Browne, founder and head of design for American fashion label Thom Browne; Waris Ahluwalia, jewelry designer, actor, and columnist for Style.com; W. E. B. Du Bois, noted scholar, editor, and African American activist; Stephen Tennant, author and member of the "Bright Young People" social set, and Motofumi "Poggy" Kogi, director of the Japanese label United Arrows & Sons, buyer for United Arrows, and previously of the fashion label Liquor, Woman & Tears, embody these themes respectively.
The exhibition acknowledges these classifications as fluid and porous and the individuals as capable of spanning several, perhaps even all, categories. Just as they are all simultaneously artists, rebels, and dandies, the figures represented in Artist/Rebel/Dandy are historians, connoisseurs, revolutionaries, romantics, and explorers, each living his productive and creative life in pleasure and enjoyment of his clothing.
"Connecting the actual garments of the creative men who wore them with portrayals of the dandy throughout history offers the viewer fresh insights into the power of fashion and textiles as a male pursuit," say curators Irvin and Brewer. "This line of inquiry not only brings to light collections of the RISD Museum and other institutions, but it also presents clothing as expressions of individual personality and as art," adds Museum Director Smith.
Artist/Rebel/Dandy is supported by the Coby Foundation, Jake Kaplan's Jaguar, the RISD Museum Associates, and the Artist/Rebel/Dandy Leadership Committee.
Book Signing with André Leon Talley
Friday, April 26, 1 pm | Chace Center Lobby, RISD Museum
André Leon Talley, contributing editor at Vogue and a Brown University alumnus, visits the Museum for the opening of Artist/Rebel/Dandy. In this special event, Talley signs his new book, The Little Black Dress (Rizzoli, 2013). Free, RSVP at risdmuseum.org after April 1.
Museum Associates Annual Gala Fundraiser
Friday, April 26, 6:30 pm | RISD Museum
Join the Museum Associates and special guest André Leon Talley, contributing editor at Vogue, in celebrating the opening of Artist/Rebel/Dandy with cocktails, an exhibition preview, dinner, music, and dancing. Tickets: $500 each. For tickets and information, contact Special Events Manager Pam Kimel at 401 454-6505.
Member Preview Day: Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion
Saturday, April 27, 10 am-6 pm | Chace Center Galleries, RISD Museum
RISD Museum Members are invited to be among the first to view this highly anticipated exhibition. Not a member? Visit risdmuseum.org/join to sign up today!
Member Event: Contemporary Dandy
Saturday, April 27, 2 pm | Location TBA
Accomplished artists, designers, and writers reflect on their personal style and its place in constructing identity and cultural perceptions. For Museum Members, by reservation only. RSVP at risdmuseum.org.
Tweed Ride PVD
Sunday, April 28, time TBA | Depart from Kennedy Plaza
Stylish and well-wheeled gents and ladies enjoy a leisurely bicycle parade through downtown Providence in the city's first-ever Tweed Ride, complete with high tea!
All welcome, more details to be announced at www.risdmuseum.org.
Southeastern New England's only comprehensive art museum, the Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, also known as the RISD Museum, was established in 1877. Its permanent collection of more than 86,000 objects includes paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, costume, furniture, and other works of art from every part of the world, including objects from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, and art of all periods from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, up to the latest in contemporary art.
The RISD Museum, with entrances at 224 Benefit Street and 20 North Main Street in Providence, RI, is open Tuesday through Sunday, 10 am-5 pm, and 10 am-9 pm every Thursday. Closed Mondays, January 1, July 4, Thanksgiving Day, and December 25. Admission: $12 adults; $10 senior citizens (ages 62+); $5 college students (with valid ID); $3 youths (ages 5-18); always free for Museum members and children under 5, as well as students, staff, and faculty of member institutions. Free admission every Sunday, 10 am-5 pm, and the third Thursday evening of each month, 5-9 pm.
For more information, call 401 454-6500 or visit www.risdmuseum.org


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LEXINGTON – This James Bond was not a 007, but he was enough for Harlan County last Thursday night.
Bond got his golden fingers on a loose ball, then, just as his more famous counterpart, found a view to a kill – in the form of an open lane to the basket – Anderson County's hope of an improbable championship in the Sayre Holiday Classic.
LEXINGTON – Anderson County seemed poised to rout host Sayre, scoring the first seven points, then building a lead as large as 33-16 early in the third quarter, but had to hold on to defeat the Spartans, 57-48, in the Sayre Holiday Classic opener last Tuesday night.
"We will take it," Anderson coach Glen Drury said. "The kids are going to get better. This was the first time we have had to play with a lead and the kids did not have the experience to know how to protect the lead."
Now the real season begins for Anderson County. Well, sort of.
The Bearcats' main concern is to get better each week, hoping to peak when tournament play begins. However, Friday's game with 30th District foe Collins will be a factor in how things shape up in seeding the district tournament.
"We want to play well in all of our seeding games, so this game is very important," Anderson coach Glen Drury says.
A first-year school formed out of Shelby County, Collins has gotten off to a 7-4 start under veteran coach Curtis Turley, who coached at Shelby in the late 1990's.
Anderson County jumped to a 14-6 lead after a quarter and never looked back as the Lady Bearcats trounced host Henry Clay in girls' high school basketball action on Tuesday night.
Freshman Mackenzie Cann buried five 3-point shots and scored 20 points to lead Anderson, which improved to 10-4 on the season. Another freshman, Eriel McKee, scored 13.
Henry Clay fell to 2-7.
Both Anderson County High School basketball teams recorded victories in holiday tournament play Tuesday night.
The Bearcats jumped to a quick 7-0 lead and never trailed in defeating Lexington Sayre, 57-48, in the Sayre Holiday Classic. The Bearcats led by as many as 17 points in the third quarter but needed to hit 10 straight free throws in the final three minutes to hold off a furious Sayre rally.
The Spartans cut Anderson's lead to four and had a chance to get closer, but the Bearcats hung on.
LEXINGTON – Perry Central's win over Anderson County in the Republic Bank Classic last Wednesday was a lesson in how basketball used to be played and how it is played now all wrapped into one 32-minute lesson.
Both Anderson County basketball teams will be in action this week as they close out the December portion of their schedules in central Kentucky tournament play.
The Lady Bearcats will be in action in the Mercer County Titan Christmas Clash through Thursday, Dec. 30. Anderson was to have played Monticello in the first round on Monday. Due to holiday publishing schedules, that game and a second-round game against Nelson County or Maysville St. Patrick was played after press deadlines for this edition of The Anderson News.
Something clicked for Anderson County basketball last week.
It happened over 100 miles from home, in the obscurity of McCreary County, down along the Tennessee border. And it clicked just when the Bearcats looked like they would be kicked and, perhaps, on the way to a disastrous season.
No, Anderson did not win the Arby's/KFC Classic at McCreary Central High School. Far from it. The Bearcats split four games and still were looking at a 3-4 record heading into last night's game against Lexington Sayre.
Three members of the Anderson County High School football team were listed as honorable mention selections on The Courier-Journal All-State team, announced in Sunday's editions of the state's largest newspaper.
Offensive lineman Todd DeWoody, defensive lineman Steve Sims and place-kicker Bill Rose were honored in voting by the state's coaches.
Some of Kentucky's best wrestling teams will be descending on Woodford County High School for the Yellow Jacket Invitational to be held on Monday, Dec. 27 and Tuesday, Dec. 28.
Anderson County, which has several impressive wrestlers early in the season, will be part of the field.
In the recent Bearcat Duals, held on Dec. 11, Anderson wrestlers Shea Sparrow (130 pounds), Austin Dillow (135) and Jacob Vincent (145) were undefeated in their respective weight classes.
T.W. Stockton and Chris McDaniel went 4-1 at 160 and 125 pounds respectively.
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The challenge and burden of historical time: socialism in the twenty-first century
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An extraordinary new work by the leading Marxian philosopher of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, The Challenge and Burden of Historical Timerepresents a breakthrough in the development of socialist thought. It can be seen both as a companion volume to his earlier pathbreaking Beyond Capitaland a major theoretical contribution in its own right. Its focus is on the "decapitation of historical time" in today's capitalism and the necessity of a new "socialist time accountancy" as a revolutionary response to the debilitating present. Extending Mészáros's earlier analysis of capitalism as a social-metabolic system caught in an irreversible structural crisis, it represents a crushing refutation of the view that "there is no alternative" to the current social order. Mészáros's wide-ranging analysis explores the forces behind the expansion of world inequality, the return of imperial interventionism, the growing structural crisis of the capitalist state, and the widening planetary ecological crisis--along with the new hope offered by the reemergence of concrete socialist alternatives. At the heart of his book is an examination of the preconditions of Latin America's historic Bolivarian journey, which is producing new revolutionary transformations in Venezuela, Bolivia and elsewhere. The Challenge and Burden of Historical Timeis a work of great political as well as philosophical importance, one that defines the challenges and burdens facing all those who are committed to a more rational, more egalitarian future.
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Japan is an interesting model for the in many ways. We share the challenges of: US
The best that can be said of a disaster is that sometimes we can learn something, if we are wise and attentive, that will make for a better outcome in the future.
I just finished reading a great essay, Lost and Found in
, on the World Futures Society website. The author, Patrick Tucker, reports on his travels to several villages in Japan that were devastated by the tsunami that struck on March 11, 2011. Japan
Tucker notes "Events like the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan illustrate just how little control we have over the future, despite our actions. Contrary to common hubris, you cannot plan for the unthinkable. You can only pay attention, listen, and learn in order to build stronger, react smarter, survive better when the unforeseeable occurs."
An aging society (In the tsunami-affected prefectures of Iwate,
, and Miyagi, an average of one in four people is over the age of 65. Today, 1 in 8 Americans are older than 65. In 2034, the ratio will jump to 1 in 5.) Fukushima
Growing disparity in wealth (in
Japan, "kakusa "—the society without evenness). See this article on the US Congressional Budget Office report released this week documenting that the top 1 percent of earners more than doubled their share of the nation's income over the last three decades. sakai
Rising unemployment (especially notable among relatively well-educated youth—which is known in
as the Lost Generation). Japan
Increasing distrust in government(though that is kind of perpetual in the
Watching how the consequences of this natural disaster play out in Japan—demographically, technologically, culturally, politically—sheds light on what the US might face in the future from natural and man-made catastrophes.
Some things that jump out at me, when I read Tucker's observations:
1) The way that large numbers of volunteers, largely young people, many from the ranks of the under- or unemployed, flocked to help after the tsunami. This dramatizes the potential in both our populations of people ready and able to do good and necessary work, if only we can provide productive channels for their energy, altruism and discontent. Contrast the focused, organized and productive response of volunteers to disaster relief in
Japan with general dissatisfaction in the that has given rise to still unfocused rage at social inequality expressed through Occupy Wall Street and its sister protests. US
3) The huge difference that a single nonprofit can make. Tucker highlights the work of Peace Boat, a Japanese NGO founded by students in the 1980s to promote world peace through cultural tourism. In the aftermath of the tsunami, Peace Boat directed its fleet and its staff towards relief efforts—bringing in and coordinating volunteers, and evacuating local youth to "summer in a healthy, dynamic and creative environment, where they can learn new skills, enjoy new experiences and gain a fresh perspective on the future, while enabling their parents to focus on rebuilding their community." Tucker notes that Peace Boat may well bankrupt itself in the process, but what a glorious way to go!
4) The scale of the response required for a disaster of this scope, and the daunting gap between needs and resources. Tucker reports that the Ishinomaki authorities plan to build 150 government-subsidized housing units. However, 8,000 families have applied for temporary housing, and that number is expected to reach 10,000. What role can the NGO and private sector play in filling that gap? Tucker mentions the work of David Lopez, a
architect who's promoting new approaches to emergency housing. His focus: "shelter solutions that allow communities to stay together, as close to their original dwellings as possible, after disasters," enabling people to stay in their neighborhoods and house themselves by making low-cost, adaptive use of debris. Baltimore
5) The hyper-local approach to disaster relief taken in
, in which communities make most of the key decisions about how to deploy government resources, from how to group neighbors together in emergency shelters, to how to rebuild. Contrast this with the often ham-handed federally-driven approach taken to relief in Japan post-Katrina. "If there is anything to be learned from the events that played out in New Orleans after the tsunami," notes Tucker, "it is that our public response to disaster must accommodate and encourage this vital urge to keep community physically intact." Japan
The coming decades will inevitably challenge the
with floods, fire, tornados and earthquakes as well as creeping threats such as drought or rising sea levels, and wildcard events such as terrorist attacks. What role can and will museums play in preparing their communities to respond to these challenges, and in uniting and preserving communities in the aftermath of disasters? US
Please share your museum's experiences in helping communities deal with disaster. Email stories to firstname.lastname@example.com or post in comments, below.


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MONTREAL, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- A father's diet before conception plays a crucial role in the health of his offspring, researchers in Canada suggest.
Sarah Kimmins, a researcher at McGill University in Montreal, said the study focused on vitamin B9, also known as folate, which is found in green leafy vegetables, cereal, fruit and meat.
It is well known that in order to prevent miscarriages and birth defects mothers need to get adequate amounts of folate in their diet, Kimmins said. It is for this reason that some countries fortify some food with the vitamin and why newly pregnant mothers-to-be are given vitamins.
"Despite the fact that folic acid is now added to a variety of foods, fathers who are eating high-fat, fast-food diets or who are obese may not be able to use or metabolize folate in the same way as those with adequate levels of the vitamin," Kimmins said in a statement.
"People who live in the Canadian North or in other parts of the world where there is food insecurity might also be particularly at risk for folate deficiency."
Kimmins and colleagues compared mice offspring of fathers with insufficient folate in their diets with the offspring of fathers whose diets contained sufficient levels of the vitamin. They found paternal folate deficiency was associated with an increase in birth defects of various kinds in the offspring, compared to the offspring of mice whose fathers were fed a diet with sufficient folate.
"We were very surprised to see that there was an almost 30 percent increase in birth defects in the litters sired by fathers whose levels of folates were insufficient," said Dr. Romain Lambrot, of McGill's Department of Animal Science. "We saw some pretty severe skeletal abnormalities that included both cranio-facial and spinal deformities."
This study showed sperm carries a memory of the father's environment and possibly even of his diet and lifestyle choices, Kimmins said.
"Our research suggests that fathers need to think about what they put in their mouths, what they smoke and what they drink and remember they are caretakers of generations to come," Kimmins added.
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- All proposals need to be submitted via the web (emailed proposals will no longer be accepted), and all student proposals need to be reviewed by their faculty advisor who must submit an email confirming that he/she has approved the proposal before proposals will be reviewed by the IRB.
- Student proposals that are not approved will be returned to the student with comments about ways to improve the proposal. Students will need to work with their faculty advisor to address these comments before resubmitting their proposal.
- The faculty and students of Willamette University are actively engaged in research on campus. Because of the large volume of research that is conducted on campus by members of the Willamette community and the high demands for research participation placed on our students, we have made the decision not to allow research on our campus that is conducted by individuals who are not affiliated with Willamette University. Collaborative research between members of the Willamette community and members of outside institutions are supported and encouraged. However, in order not to place increased demands both on students and the IRB, the IRB will not review or approve research proposed by individuals not affiliated or who do not collaborate with members of the Willamette University community.
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Watch the Sarah Palin SNL Video – See Palin Shoes and Palin Eyeglasses; Palin is a Trend Setter
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Last night, September 13, 2008, SNL (Saturday Night Live) hosted by Olympic great Michael Phelps, did a Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton skit. It was hysterical. If you haven't seen it, watch it now. It really gets to the heart of the matter… from Palin saying that she is running for President, to Clinton having wanted the White House sooo bad… to the lip stick jokes, to Palin's mannerism and feminism. It's harmless good old fashion funny.
Click Here for direct link to see the SNL skit
Tina Fey, former "Saturday Night Live" head writer played Sarah Palin – but she did such a great job you had to think twice as to whether it was Fey at all – or maybe it was in fact Palin herself. There is an unbelievable resemblance between the two ladies. Fey did come back to the show to do an appearance. She left the show a few years ago to do "30 Rock." I was able to find a clip showing the two ladies side by side.
Click Here to see if Fey resembles Palin
Sarah Palin has become the fashion trend setter just as Jacqueline Kennedy did just a few decades ago (OK, it was more than just a few decades, but time goes by so fast.)
Ever since Palin spoke at the RNC, her signature eye glasses, rimless frames made from titanium, created by the Japanese designer Kazuo Kawasaki (Style series 704, Color 34) have been selling so fast that according to the manufacturer, they are currently on back order.
As for her red shoes, there is a question as to exactly what shoes was she wearing.
Were they Naughty Monkey Double Dare Pumps or Apepazza Musa?
They are both similar in style. My vote goes for the Naughty Monkey.
Either way, they are a nice shoe. And sales are up 50% on Amazon for the red pump.
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HTC Touch Pro2 (GSM) / Tilt 2
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Sep 14, 2009 by Eric M. Zeman
HTC has customized its Touch Pro 2 smartphone for Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless. Each specific version has small advantages over the others, but all versions offer a bevy of features aimed at the business user. read review ›
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Don't underestimate this one
I had this phone for about 2 weeks, i have T-MOBILE. One of my requirements in a phone is a slide down keyboard that can handle my big hands. This phone is GREAT for those with big hands and that text a lot.
This is a powerful piece of technology! You can use the phones modem to get connected online (never used it thus far), has a wifi connection, It uses windows, not the popular android. For those familiar with smart phones i think you will appreciate this phone, there's so much you can do, I have not had a chance to really look into its full abilities.
The touch screen responds well, speaker phone is GREAT! the screen is HUGE! although the device is kinda heavy, not a deal breaker but it should be noted.
pros thus far:
comfortable keyboard (esp those with big hands)
nice touch screen
internal modem (its new to me :))
quality speaker sound
huge screen (great for online viewing)
interesting texting layout
cons thus far:
a little heavy
no camera flash
I'm sure there are more cons but for my less than tech savvy ass I'm happy so far.
Not A Bad Phone
I just got this phone a few days ago. I had a Samsung Intrepid. I ended up having to warranty the phone out 4 times in less than a month, and the manager of Sprint swapped my phones for free.
So far, this phone isn't bad. The ringer isn't as loud as the Samsung's, but its not bad either. I LOVE the touch screen. I don't know if its my bluetooth or the phone, but whenever I have the bluetooth connected and on and someone calls it shows I am connected, but there is no sound coming out of the bluetooth until I turn off & back on again. So that could be an issue.
The store failed to tell me that when I upgraded to Windows 6.5 that it would delete everything on the phone, they were the ones who transferred my contacts and shouldn't have done that knowing that it would erase them and send me back to the store to have them transfer the contacts again!
I am not sure how I feel about the charger, I would have rather had a normal charger and a separate USB cord, rather than an all in one with detachable USB cord. Now I gotta go find another USB cord and spend money on it so that I can take a cord with me in my computer bag and leave my charger at home where it belongs.
*Touch screen
*Windows Phone
*Clear sound when on a call
*Very responsive when you touch buttons
*The screen adjusts depending on if you have the key pad out or not
*Some what user friendly
*Battery life is horrible! I know its a high tech phone, but my Samsung was able to go 2+ days on a charge with me doing everything I am doing on this phone.
*Ringer is really quiet.
*The charger is interesting
*Figuring out how to upgrade the software to Windows 6.5
*Minor screen issue when texting, the screen is all glitchy, donno if its just my phone or all
Other than a few minor bad things, I really like this phone.
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Tilt 2 for ATT Great device
The tilt 2 for ATT is a great device for many reasons.
First, if you enjoyed the Tilt 1, you will love the Tilt 2. Second, the size, setup of the keyboard and all design additions and features are exceptional.
The device works very well, and the screen quality is really excellent.
The only reason I gave the device a 4.5 is because, although I like win mo, I still don't think I am quite sold on the HTC UI. It looks great, but for practical purposes, it takes too many steps to accomplish a task. Second reason is because of the battery life. It is not bad, but only fair.
Finally, when reading the reviews, my suggestion would be that everyone identify which HTC Touch Pro 2 (Tilt) they are rating. There quite a few glitches with the initial release with T-Mobile. Those glitches have been removed or don't exist with the ATT Tilt 2. So, if someone rates the device poorly, it reflects on the overall phone ratings. Accordingly, please read each review and make sure it applies to your carrier.
Thank you.
Just got the titl 2 for AT&T and so far i have found it to be one great device, it is built very solid and classy. Windows 6.5 is a worthy upgrade to 6.1. if you lovd the old titl youll love this one even better, texting is a breeze with the fold out keyboard, the best i believe on the market today.would have given a 5 star if the browsers were better
Pros, keyboard is great,
screen is sharp and clear
Gps is good
No lag,
Call quality is great, NO problems with loudness
touch screen very responsive, 3D works very well.no glitches so far
CONS, no many.
Not a fan of Opera or explorer but works ok, somewhere theres got to be a better browser.
Great Pocket Computer
I have AT&T's version of the Touch Pro 2 and have found it to be a really functional pocket computer. The screen is so crisp- do a side by side comparison to the iPhone, and you can see the difference. You can read a webpage without zooming in on the Tilt2 (800x480), not possible on the iPhone(480x320).
I also come from the Palm world, and I may be one of the few people that likes handwriting recognition. So when I found out that this thing had a stylus and would let me write away, I was sold. It does all the Palm input types (on screen, text box, one stroke characters vs multi-stroke characters). The names of the options are different though, more generic, likely to avoid infringement.
With a few tweeks such as downloading a new PIM manager (such as Pocket Informant) and this phone can cover all the bases while on the road. Being able to bang out Word documents and Spread Sheets, attach them to emails, and navigate websites as if you were at a desktop, it lets you travel light.
-Awesome Screen (movies are so crisp)
-Handwriting Recognition!
-Very usable keyboard
-Full email w/spell checker and attachment
-Very Customizable
-Battery life (~2-3 days w/my usage, no 802.11)
-Windows Mobile ability to be cusomized
-The Windows Mobile learning curve
-A bit laggy
-No 3.5mm jack, but BT headphone work
Lastly, the TouchFlo is a pretty quick interface, and also fairly customizable. Great smartphone
love it
Wow. was not what i was expecting,i use to have the LG Incite going from that to HTC is huge. i got this phone shipped to me 2 days ago. absolutely wonderful.
screen is amazing.
speaker phone, very clear and powerful
slide out keyboard is fast
tilt screen is great
battery is not bad.
dose not have WM 6.5
no 3.5 mm jack
onscreen keyboard. not quite what i expected
one of the real PDA phone you should get, no matter the cost
I think I seldom to recommend branded phone
this one is an exception, a big exception.
The phone itself is very expensive, probably the most expensive after BB 88xx and 8900.
Voice: it's fantastic, no matter through earpiece, a headphone plugged in HTC 3.5 headset adapter, or bluetooth, both earpiece and mic are exceptionally good, the noise cancelling is also good, the friend on the other side even didn't notice I was watching TV when talking.
Reception: 2G is so-so, don't expect to have decent quality if it has 2 bars or fewer, however, 3G is another story, the voice and internet are pretty workable even it only has 1 bar.
A side note: there's an antenna at the camera area, that keep hands off, and you'll be fine.
Screen: it's a big plus, WVGA can make a whole world of difference!!!
Control: the QWERTY is very good, pretty text-friendly; touchscreen is also very good, it's just right even it's resistive; lacking D-pad, or trackball, or optical mouse (BB 8520 style), controlling when closed may be a bit difficult, though you can "slide" the screen.
Storage: the info is confusing, but mine shows 256MB RAM; it takes 16GB microSD, and the cover is located on left side, rather easy to open.
Audio: I mentioned talking part, the music is up to what player you're using, I have pocket player installed, it works just fine, and audio is good through Sennheiser headphones (PXC350); the player supports streaming wma out of the box, you can get GSPlayer to add shoutcast and local ogg playback.
Software: PIE isn't that great, it has problem rendering some sites and pics, and it makes things worse because you can't use D-pad when it closed; Opera works well, and recommended.
You can also opt for Iris Browser, it works OK, but I experience some crashing.
Camera: the pic quality isn't that good, it has some washed out problem; I didn't try the video recording, it claims it can take VGA 30fps mp4.
Conclusion: you should get it if you have enough money, not to mention it can be tethered.
Upgrade Worthy!!!
I previously owned the Tmobile MDA which was my introduction to the world of HTC. I skipped the Wing as it was just not the step up I was looking for.
I was hooked on the TP2 and price or not I was gonna have it. That being said.
Pros:Great Qwerty Keyboard, great speaker phone. Call quality in Portland Oregon is great. Solid built. TouchFlo finger friendly. Opera browser included. Great pics for 3.2 MP.
Cons:Default Browser not Opera. Menu not intuitive.(People who have fave five plans but dont want fave five to be home icon have to change it in fave five settings not touch flow settings. No flash on cam. Only 3.2 MP. Screen orientation only in selective programs. Lacks 3.5mm jack.
Surprises:Touchflow hides windows really well. On screen keyboard better than expected. Extension not that big of a hassle.
Touch Pro2..my mini laptop/phone/camera/camcorder/dumbell
I thought I'd let everyone know how great this phone is, by writing my review from my, Touch Pro2.
To be frank, I'm actually using the unlocked version of the TP2, but, both of these phones are equally superb.
Everyone needs to get the iphone out of their head for just a second, and the N97 as well, and just tinker around with this. I think you'll find yourself to be quite pleased with this phone. Especially after you get familiar with all of its functions and OS. It was very heavy upon unboxing. I wasn't sure if it would have what it takes, but, now, I can honestly say that this is 1 finely crafted piece of technology u got here. Like I said I'm writing my review with it and typing away pretty comfortably.
Pros: Touch Pro 3D is great
sharp screen
able to dl many programs
actual web (and have the option to view full sites)
great keyboard
easy to use (as long as you know how windows runs things)
nice looks and feels sturdy
Cons: battery life
doesn't feel as handy as the N97
a bit slower than the iphone 3gs and nokia n97
web browser doesn't detect links from far zoom super great (unless u use the stylus, or, zoom in a bit, or use the arrow keys)
no flash
for the unlocked version, the back cover seems to come off a little bit too easy (could just be my phone cuz i bought it off a private seller)
Overall, I am extremely satisfied with this phone. It has many features yet very simple to use. Great for business and a great sight to see. I intend to use this phone for many years even if better phones come out. It has everything you've needed the past 5 years and then some. TP2 this aint a R. Kelly album but u sure can play it on here.
TP2 3rd times a charm
I reviewed this phone before as a bad phone because I had a hearing sound problem. I stated that I got a replacement and had the same issue. I was going to give up but I was talked into a 3rd phone. 3rd time was a charm. Not sure what was wrong with the 1st two phones but the 3rd sounds great. Thus I have nothing Negative to report on this phone. Well maybe I do.
Feels good in your hand.
3 ways of texting; touch as a bar, touch horizontally and slide it open. all full qwerty.
Display is beautiful and large
Finger friendly.
Overall Great Phone
No 3.5mm Jack.. (Heard Sprints Version is getting the 3.5mm)
Camera is good but would like to have seen 5mp or better.
No flash.


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South African Journal of Child Health
On-line version ISSN 1999-7671
Print version ISSN 1994-3032
S. Afr. j. child health vol.8 n.3 Cape Town Sep. 2014
SKINNY - Skin thickness and needles in the young
K MarranI; D SegalII
IMB BCh, MRCP, Cert Paed Endo; Department of Paediatrics, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, South Africa
IIMB BCh, FAAP, FACE; Donald Gordon Medical Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
BACKGROUND: Intensive diabetes management requires the use of multiple daily injections. Inappropriate insulin injection technique, inadvertent intramuscular (IM) injections, needle phobia and insulin omission negatively affect glucose control.
OBJECTIVES: To document skin and skin plus subcutaneous skin thickness using high resolution ultrasound (US) in a group of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. In addition, injection technique, needle re-use and injection site analysis was performed.
METHODS: Commonly recommended injection sites were examined using high-resolution US. Patient characteristics such as age, body mass index, frequency of injections and favoured sites were analysed.
RESULTS: A total of 40 paediatric and adolescent children aged 4 years 3 months to 18 years were examined. The maximum skin thickness at any site was 2.93 mm. A high rate of IM injection was predicted with the standard 8 mm needle and was reduced but not eliminated with the use of the shortest available 4 mm needle. As the subcutaneous skin thickness increased across injection sites in the following order: arm, thigh, abdomen and buttocks, the risk of IM injection declined.
CONCLUSION: Choice of needle length, injection site and injection technique are important considerations in diabetes management in the paediatric population and are likely to affect quality of glycaemic control. Shorter needles are more acceptable and reduce the risk of IM injections.
The primary goal of diabetes mellitus management is the attainment of near normoglycaemia. The importance of glycaemic control in reducing or delaying microvascular, renal, neuropathic and other complications of diabetes is well established. The Diabetes Control and Complications Study demonstrated that good metabolic control, resulting from intensive insulin therapy, reduces the risk of progression or development of retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy in type I diabetes.[1] Intensive insulin therapy requires multiple daily injections. One of the major obstacles to achieving tight control is the omission of insulin. Fear of injections and pain reduce the frequency of injections, and intramuscular (IM) injections increase the risk of low blood sugar reactions that can lead to inappropriate insulin dose reductions or avoidance behaviours, which lead to higher overall blood glucose targets. In addition, inappropriate insulin injection technique has been shown to negatively affect glucose control.[2-4]
In recent decades, the technique of insulin injection has begun to be approached in a scientific fashion. Research on the subject has shown that correct performance of injections is as important to good glucose control as the type and dose of insulin delivered.[5,6] Ideally, injected insulin should be deposited into the subcutaneous (SC) fatty tissue, which has a slow and predictable absorption rate. The primary determinants of injection depth are the needle length, the use of a 'pinched' skin fold and the anatomical injection site. Injecting too shallow into the dermis causes pain, and too deep into the muscle results in bruising; both result in insulin delivery into compartments that have highly variable blood flows, which significantly affects insulin pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.[7,8]
A number of other studies have confirmed the frequency of inadvertent IM injections and have highlighted their deleterious effects on overall glucose control.[2-4,9] Muscle blood flow is greater than that through SC tissue and changes up to seven-fold with exercise. IM injections therefore lead to more rapid insulin absorption and greater risk of hypoglycaemia, which is compounded by exercise.
Concern over the frequency of IM injections resulted in the recommendation to pinch up a skin fold into which the needle should be inserted. Nevertheless, even a pinch-up may not protect children from IM injections when using 12.7 mm and 8 mm needles.[10] These reports suggest that needles even shorter than 8 mm may be needed in children, and needle lengths of 6 mm, 5 mm and 4 mm are now available.
A study comparing a 5 mm needle without a pinch-up to an 8 mm needle with a pinch-up in children found no significant changes in glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) levels (p=0.59). The pain of injection (standard deviation (SD)) was rated by the children to be significantly lower with the 5 mm needle (1.2 (1.1) v. 4.2 (2.6) on a ten-point scale; p=0.001) and there were fewer hypoglycaemic events during the period in which the 5 mm needle was used (p=0.05). There were no differences in leakage or bleeding at the injection site. The children clearly preferred the 5 mm over the 8 mm on subsequent questioning. The investigators concluded that 'the improvement in hypoglycaemic events could have been a result of fewer IM injections, and the pain and preference advantages of the 5 mm needle may have positive effects on wellbeing and compliance in paediatric populations.'[11]
Newer 4 mm needles are now available. A recent publication on skin and SC thickness in children and adolescents confirmed the reduction in risk of IM injection with 4 mm needles, and that the younger the child and lower the BMI, the greater the risk of IM injection with longer needles.[12]
Our objective was to document the skin-to-muscle distance in various routinely recommended injection sites across a range of ages in our South African (SA) population. This would enable us to compile evidence-based guidelines for injection techniques and to educate patients and caregivers on age- and site-appropriate injection techniques that would hopefully translate into improved clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction and safety.
The study enrolled 40 children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes, aged 4 years 3 months to 18 years, as they presented consecutively to the outpatient diabetes clinic at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH). There were 17 males and 23 females. All subjects fulfilled the inclusion criteria: having type 1 diabetes and being on insulin for >1 year. None were excluded due to pathology that could have affected the distribution of SC fat, such as lipodystrophy syndromes. Patients were divided into three groups based on age: 2 - 6, 7 - 13 and 14 - 18 years. These categories were chosen to allow comparison with other paediatric studies on this topic and also to factor in pre- and postpubertal physiological and hormonal differences.[12]
The study was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of the University of the Witwatersrand and was conducted between October and December 2012.
The following demographic data were obtained on each subject: date of birth, sex, height, weight, date of diagnosis of diabetes, number of injections per day, use or not of a lifted skin fold (pinch-up) for injecting, needle length, perpendicular or angled approach to injection, most common site of injection and whether or not they practised site rotation. The body mass index (BMI) was calculated from height and weight values.
The thickness of the skin and SC tissue was then measured using ultrasound (US) at all injection sites by a single observer. All sites were included whether or not the child injected there. The measurement location was standardised using skin surface or palpable landmarks in order to reduce intersubject measurement variability. The following four sites were measured: arm (5 cm directly inferior to the acromium process in children <13 years, 10 cm in older children); thigh (5 cm directly inferior to the greater trochanter in children <13 years, 10 cm in older children); abdomen (5 cm directly lateral to the umbilicus in children <13 years, 10 cm in older children); buttock (the upper outer quadrant, 5 cm below the iliac crest in children <13 years, and 10 cm in older children). No US measurements were made over areas of visible or palpable lipohypertrophy.
Because previous studies have not shown a correlation between HbA1c and skin, or skin and SC thickness,[12] we decided not to measure the level of blood glucose control in our study cohort. Previous studies have also shown a high degree of correlation between the measured skin thickness between the left and right sides of the body, and for this reason we chose to measure a single side only.
The MyLabTouch portable US unit with a 33 mm, 13.6 MHz linear transducer/probe ideal for imaging superficial structures (ESAOTE Biomedica Deutschland GmbH, Germany) was used. After ultrasonic gel was applied, the probe was placed perpendicularly to the predetermined area of the body site without a spacer. During the scanning process, the probe was moved within the marked area to obtain clear and focused images. After identification of the landmarks, the images were frozen and measured in triplicate. All images were taken by a single operator.
Our sample size allowed for description of site dimensions with 95% confidence margins of ±0.09 mm for skin and ±0.72 mm for SC measurements. Mean, median, SD, minimum, maximum and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were measured for the entire population, for each paediatric subgroup, and for other grouping parameters such as gender and BMI. Comparisons of subgroups were performed using χ2, analysis of variance, and log linear models, and the threshold for statistical significance was set at α=0.05.
Subject demographics
A total of 17 male and 23 female children ranging from 4 years 3 months to 18 years was enrolled. Patient characteristics are summarised in Table 1. The majority (n=35 (88%)) were using 8 mm needles - standard government issue at CMJAH - and 12% were using 5 mm needles that had been specially bought in as they were not on tender.
Only two subjects (5%) were not using a pinched-up skinfold for injections as was taught in the clinic. Of the subjects, 80% were using a perpendicular and 20% an angled injection approach. Six subjects (15%) were on 2 injections per day, 27 (67.5%) on 3 injections per day and the remaining 7 (17.5%) were on 4 injections per day. The mean number of daily injections in our study cohort was 3 (range 2 - 4). Policy in the state hospital pharmacy dictated that 10 needles were dispensed per patient per month; the average number of injections per needle was 10 (range 3 - 30). Of the 40 patients, 34 (85%) practised site rotation, and the most common injection sites in order of frequency were the abdomen (55%), thigh (25%), buttock (12.5%) and arm (7.5%).
Skin and SC thickness
Mean values for the thickness of the skin, and skin plus SC tissue at each injection site are presented in Table 2. Similar to other studies, our study also found that the mean skin thickness increased across sites, from the lowest value in the arm (1.34 mm, range 0.89 - 2.08 mm) to the greatest thickness in the buttocks (1.79 mm, range 1.11 - 2.93 mm), and the thigh thinner than the abdomen.[12] The maximum skin thickness measured at any site was 2.93 mm. The mean values for the thickness of the skin plus SC tissue, i.e. surface-to-muscle distance, are presented graphed against BMI in Figs. 1 - 4 with a 4 mm threshold highlighted, corresponding to the shortest needle currently available. The same general trend as for skin thickness was found in the skin plus SC thickness. The estimated risk of IM injections at the different sites, assuming a non-pinched-up skin fold and a perpendicular injection angle, using different needle lengths currently available is represented in Table 3. The risk of IM injection predictably increases as the needle length increases. The risk also increased across sites with the greatest risk in the arm, followed by the thigh and abdomen. Injecting into the buttocks carries the lowest risk for IM injection.
The results of our study are in alignment with others published on similar age groups.[12] and provide additional data on skin and SC thickness in an SA population of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes. As in other studies, the skin thickness increased with increasing age and increased progressively across common injection sites from the arm, to the thigh, abdomen and buttock. The skin thickness did not exceed 3 mm at any site, across all ages and BMIs studied. Of all currently available needle lengths, the shortest (4 mm) would comfortably enter the SC space while avoiding an intradermal injection.
The greatest risk of pain, bruising and hypoglycaemia in children and adolescents comes from IM injections. This study found an unacceptably high predicted risk of IM injections in all ages at commonly used and recommended injection sites with the arm, thigh and abdomen presenting the greatest risk when injecting with needle lengths >4 mm using a perpendicular injection technique, without a pinch-up.
The risk of IM injections in the arm is extremely high because it has the smallest distance from skin to muscle and the option of a pinched skin fold is technically difficult for a child administering his/her own injections; this even applies to the use of 4 mm needles. The site with the lowest possibility of IM injection, the buttock, also happened to be the least favoured injection site of choice for self-injection. The abdomen and thigh were the preferred injection sites; even at these sites, using a 4 mm needle, the risk of IM injection was 12.5%, i.e. 1 in 8 injections.
In paediatric studies, the use of shorter, finer needles achieved the same level of glycaemic control but with less pain, no difference in reported insulin leakage and greater patient satisfaction[13, 14] Our data and those of others support the use of 4 mm needles as the safest available option to minimise this risk of IM injection. Other clinically proven options for reducing IM injections apart from using shorter needles are to use an angled injection approach or a skin fold pinch-up. Hoffman et al.[15] showed that an angled injection would more consistently deliver the insulin into the SC space with longer needle lengths. There are, however, technical difficulties in younger children with conceptualising and actualising a 45° injection angle. Use of a 4 mm needle with an angled approach may be limited by the foreshortening that could occur due to the needle hub abutting the skin, resulting in shallower intradermal injections. Therefore, injections using 4 mm needles should be given perpendicular to the skin. A skin fold pinch-up does not always alleviate the risk of an IM injection, especially in younger thinner children and when using longer needles.[10] It is important to be consistent in injection recommendations so as to reduce confusion.[16]
Choice of needle length and injection technique are important considerations in the paediatric population. Other considerations include age, injection site and self- v. carer-administered injections. This study highlights the need for a uniform set of guidelines regarding insulin injection techniques. As far as possible, shorter needles should be used in younger children, and children and adolescents with lower BMIs. A pinched-up skin fold and possible angled injection approach should be used if the risk of IM injection is rated to be high based upon the available needle length and planned injection site. Shorter needles should be made more available and accessible to children with diabetes.
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13. Birkebaek NH, Solvig J, Hansen B, Jorgensen C, Smedegaard J, Christiansen JS. A 4 mm needle reduces the risk of intramuscular injections without increasing backflow to skin surface in lean diabetic children and adults. Diabetes Care 2008;31(9):e65. [http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc08-0977] [ Links ]
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