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Gayer than Bravo?
We all know Bravo is far and away gayer than Logo or Here, but has ABC Family superseded either of them? Check out the two promos below for shows with young, hot, male protagonists, found in various states of undress. I think ABC Family might be prepared to give Project Runway and Top Design a run for their money.
HT points out that there's something to be said here about the tensions inherent in burgeoning tween sexuality; if I can wrap my head around Sanjaya, ABC Family, and the sexuality inherent in So You Think You Can Dance, you dear readers, will be the first to know.
Logo has a Good Show?
JP and I often discuss how abysmal most gay media is, and most of the content on Viacom's Logo network is no exception. However their new show Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World, an animated series featuring characters modeled after Lego people is actually fairly brilliant. There are moments when it makes me feel truly uncomfortable (one character fakes being HIV-positive in order to obtain medical marijuana) but overall it seems to be one of the most balanced, self-aware, and least sanctimonious portrayals of modern gay life I've ever seen. And it's really, really funny, especially when it gives its target audience the opportunity and permission to laugh at itself.
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At the Red Hook Ball Fields
What: Latin food carts line soccer grounds. This is the authentic stuff, people. Come and get it before their permits expire.
Why: Make the concession (stand).
When: When you âre in the mood for cornmeal pancakes, ceviche, and roasted corn on the cob.
Where: Corner of Clinton & Bay Sts., Red Hook. Eat for yourself, then sign up to Save Soccer Tacos."
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On one hand I'm overjoyed that the fight for the Red Hook ballfields is getting some airtime but on the other hand, I'm a little scared about what the fields will turn into after a car-service-fueled Daily Candy invasion.
Wow. That was spoken like a true second-wave gentrifier. I'll try to withhold judgment until I can actually order in Spanish instead of pointing and saying things like "Uhhh... quesadilla with uhh... como se dice oink oink, puerco? hold the crema, por favor?"


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Jay King: More Hayward: "I think the one thing that doesn't matter is how we play defensively. And when you can get stops and run none of that really matters."
January 23, 2020 | 7:34 pm UTC Update
I have been told by credible sources that Miami was in serious discussions with Sacramento about acquiring Trevor Ariza before he was ultimately dealt to Portland, though if I was aiming for a deep playoff run, I'd be aiming significantly higher than where Ariza is at this point in his career.
January 23, 2020 | 6:44 pm UTC Update
Former Miami Heat great Dwyane Wade isn't surprised that new Heat swingman and his good friend Jimmy Butler is having so much success with his old team. Wade, who spent 15 seasons playing in Miami, believes that Butler has the right kind of "crazy" to fit in with the Heat's culture.
"I think Jimmy's been very clear, and I think I've spoken a few times, it's conversations that we had about Miami early on, and it's certain people that you just know are Miami Heat guys when you know the culture," Wade said during a conference call Wednesday to announce his new role with Turner Sports. "And for me, I always thought that Jimmy was that — not knowing that this would actually happen — but I always thought that Jimmy's personality and his crazy is perfect for [Heat president] Pat Riley and [coach] Erik Spoelstra's crazy."
"I think it's all based off of honesty, truthfulness, hard work and intention," Butler told ESPN after scoring 24 points, dishing out 10 assists and grabbing 7 rebounds in a 134-129 overtime win over the Washington Wizards. "And I feel like when you talk about myself, you talk about Spo, you talk about Coach Pat, that's what all of this thing is based off of: how hard you work, how you can keep it real with one another and not take anything personal. It fits for me here. I'm loving it, man. They're constantly in my ear, and we're constantly going back and forth, figuring out ways that I can be better. How I can make everybody else better. But this culture — I'm super happy to be here. I'm fortunate to be here, man. This is a great group of guys. It's a great organization. But like [Wade] said, this is the right type of crazy for me."
January 23, 2020 | 6:33 pm UTC Update
Jenkins has given Crowder his blessing to speak up in such situations. Crowder's been a starter since Day 1 this season due in part to his ability to lead — both by example and with his sometimes harsh words. He barks at his teammates when they are not in position, and he speaks his mind when he disagrees with the coaching staff. And he might even applaud you if you pick up a technical foul.
"He's an unbelievable leader," Jenkins said. "Our first conversation, we sat down and had breakfast, and he was super excited about this opportunity. Obviously he's bounced around the last couple of years, but he's learned so much. He was freely sharing how much he'd learned from when he started in Dallas, the success that he had in Boston, going to Utah, a successful team. Obviously, as we started the season we had different expectations coming in. We didn't know what we were going to have. But he was excited about helping these young guys grow and taking on a new role."
Crowder arrived in Memphis as a piece in the Mike Conley-to-Utah trade. He was initially unsure about his place on the young roster and was apprehensive about playing on a team that many projected would be one of the worst in the Western Conference. Then the front office reached out to him and explained the team's goals for the season. The Grizzlies wanted Crowder to be a mentor for their young roster. It wasn't a role Crowder was accustomed to, but he accepted the challenge.
"I was like, 'I want to be a part of it, I'll buy into it,'" Crowder said. "Obviously it's a challenge for me, where I'm at in my career. … I've been in the playoffs the last five years. That's what I want to do. Obviously we've been winning games — we're in the playoffs now. I've just been trying to lead and be accountable for myself and accountable for my teammates."
Sarah K. Spencer: The Hawks fly to OKC this afternoon — that means Trae Young gets to watch from home with family as All-Star starters are announced. "Hopefully some good news comes out of it… For me being able to watch it and tune in, being in Oklahoma, and playing in OKC, that's a dream."
January 23, 2020 | 4:52 pm UTC Update
Mavericks, Sixers interested in Danilo Gallinari
Danilo Gallinari stands out as an option. Multiple playoff teams have expressed interest in the Thunder forward, including the Mavericks and Sixers, according to league sources. Gallinari is a potent scorer everywhere on the court, in any play type—whether he's posting up, isolating, or in the pick-and-roll as a screener or ball handler. Though Gallinari, 31, has never been an All-Star, he's played like one this season in Oklahoma City and last season with the Clippers. Gallinari can become an unrestricted free agent this summer, but few teams will have cap space, and most of them will be younger teams unlikely to pursue players in their 30s.
The Mavericks are continuously cited by league sources as a potential landing spot for Grizzlies wing Andre Iguodala, who could help them this season as a secondary ball handler without compromising their future cap space. The Mavs have also made offers to the Timberwolves for Robert Covington, but those have been declined, according to multiple league sources. Covington won't make many plays off the dribble, but he'd be an upgrade over Dorian Finney-Smith as a 3-and-D wing. It remains to be seen whether Dallas has the ammo to complete a trade, but it's clear that the team is looking to bolster its postseason odds.
Whereas Marc Gasol is positionally adept and can occasionally draw charges or make life difficult with his no-jump verticality, Ibaka makes a scorer pause, think and sometimes change his shot. Both players' defensive versatility is growing, though. "The good thing is this year we've been trying to give them the same coverages," Fred VanVleet said of the two centres. "It doesn't always work. But last year, it was like two different teams — when Serge was at the five and Marc was at the five, it was completely different. But I think this year, they're in the same coverages a lot. We're challenging them to switch and be up and move their feet. It gives us a lot in the toolbox at the end of the year."
"I think there's a plan of being more aggressive and looking at the basket as a first option," Gasol said. "And after that, just playing out of that. Some games, the ball is going to go in more, sometimes it's not, but I'm someone that always looks for the next play, next action, and try to get guys involved. … Sometimes I overthink the game, trying to get going some of the guys that are not getting going. And you know, by being sometimes too unselfish, you can be selfish in a weird way."
Justin Kubatko: Most triple-doubles by a player in his first five NBA seasons: 135 – Oscar Robertson. 59 – Magic Johnson. 36 – Nikola Jokic*. 29 – Grant Hill. 26 – Jason Kidd. 26 – Ben Simmons. * 19p/12r/10a last night.
Justin Kubatko: The @utahjazz have tied the team record for most consecutive 20-point wins with three. They also recorded three straight 20-point wins in December 1990, November 1995, and November 2004.
Nets Daily: DeAndre Jordan has received the NBA Cares Community Assist Award for December, presented in recognition of his efforts to brighten the holidays for children and families through his "6 Days of Giving" initiative.
January 23, 2020 | 4:04 pm UTC Update
Malik Monk on Knicks' radar
On the trade front: some in the Knicks organization see Charlotte's Malik Monk as a trade target worth pursuing, per SNY sources. It's unknown if the Knicks have had conversations with the Hornets about Monk, the No. 11 pick in the 2017 NBA Draft.
Multiple contenders continue to monitor the Marcus Morris situation with the hope that New York considers moving the veteran. As SNY previously reported, there are people in the Knick organization who see Morris as an important part of the club's future and would like to re-sign him.
"It's not something that I think the coaching staff was overly comfortable with, just conceptually. But I also don't really care. We've spent 14 weeks putting him in position to have a sustainable future, and we're going to be very mindful of that moving forward." David Griffin on Zion playing in limited minutes.
ESPN Stats & Info: Zion Williamson scored 22 points in 18:18 of action Wednesday, or 1.20 points per minute. That's the most points per minute in a player's NBA debut in the shot-clock era (since 1954-55). h/t @EliasSports
Justin Kubatko: Zion Williamson is the 48th player in the 3-point era to score at least 20 points in his NBA debut. Among those players, he's just the third to finish with more points than minutes played, joining Willie Burton and Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. pic.twitter.com/6daWElkyQd
That one stretch left Pelicans fans less bothered by the loss than downright giddy about what the future will hold. His teammates weren't that impressed, though, because they believe this is just the beginning. "I don't think we've seen anything yet. He had some explosive rebounds and explosive (plays) to the rim," said Brandon Ingram, who had 22 points on 6-of-22 shooting. "But I think as he gets comfortable, he can be even better."
Privately, though, expectations for the 2019-2020 Knicks were set during the team's first official meeting. Members of the front office addressed the players in the meeting and conveyed two distinct messages, according to SNY sources familiar with the discussions: 1. They said, in no uncertain terms, that they believed that the Knicks were a playoff team and anything less than that was a disappointment. 2. Players who were entering free agency in the summer of 2020 were told that they would be judged much more heavily on the team's win-loss record than their individual play.
Anthony Chiang: NBA All-Star starters will be announced today at 7 p.m. Bam Adebayo is not expected to make it in as a starter, but it's expected to be a close call for Jimmy Butler.
Why is LaMelo shutting it down now? We're six weeks out from the original injury, and questions were starting to arise about his future there. Few NBA executives are surprised by this news, and even fewer who have spoken with The Athletic believe this is wholly about the injury. There has been an assumption throughout league offices that from the time Ball injured his foot, he was going to shut it down. That's not to say the foot injury is illegitimate.
Simply put, folks within NBA front offices believed that Ball would come to the conclusion he had done enough to place himself into a comfortable position entering the pre-draft process. While one executive did make a case to me that Ball could legitimately help himself by playing, no one really expected it. Also, there wasn't much left for him to compete for from a team concept either.
Having said that, the early indications from scouts that I've talked to have been largely positive. He's put his head down and worked since he's been in Australia. People who have come into contact with him have come away impressed with his maturity level after he's had to deal with a lot of personal upheaval in his life over the last few years. His mother had a stroke. He was pulled out of high school. He's traveled the globe trying to find a basketball home. It's been a lot in the last 24 months. All of this occurring while achieving a level of viral internet fame that few people his age have received. And yet, sources say he's adjusted to it all and is a good kid.
Several veteran executives observing from the outside were surprised at the way things unfolded. "I don't think I've seen a coach address the media, coach practice and get let go," one exec said. "Terrible optics." When reached by SNY for comment on the information in this story, Fizdale declined to discuss the specific details. But he did say that he hopes Miller gets "a chance to stay on as head coach after this year." "I hope Mike, who I remain in touch with, and the players there can continue to build on what we started together," Fizdale added.
As the losses mounted early in the season, the preseason playoff expectations weighed heavily on some of the Knicks. "They were definitely playing tight," one person in touch with those players at the time said. "(Some of the players eligible for 2020 free agency) were already worried about next summer." Those early-season losses also led to immediate speculation about Fizdale's job security. The speculation increased, of course, after Mills and Perry held their impromptu press conference in early November.
Two people close to the head coach said that he is bothered by the suggestion, from some media reports, that he was content with being fired because he'd be collecting the money remaining on his $22 million contract. When asked about that theory after Miami's recent game in New York, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra strongly refuted the idea. "That's total BS. That's not him at all," said Spoelstra, who worked with Fizdale for 10 years in Miami. "I've worked with Fiz for a long period of time and he's a great teacher and committed to his craft. Being content with anything is not in his DNA."
January 23, 2020 | 12:53 pm UTC Update
The Hawks were close to a deal that would have sent Chandler Parsons and the Nets' 2020 first-round pick to Detroit for Drummond, but Atlanta was unwilling to add the pick because Drummond's contract extension demands are currently too high, according to multiple league sources.
The Spanish Charlotte Hornets player, Willy Hernangmez, said it will be "a dream to play again with Luka Doncic" before the 'NBA Pars Game 2020', the first regular season game on French soil in history to face the Friday Hornets and Milwaukee Bucks. "Of course it will be a dream to play again with Luka (Doncic) and with Kristaps (Porzingis), who have been my companions. You never know what is going to happen and where you are going to be, but right now I am focused on trying to take advantage of the opportunities, on playing anywhere and being able to give the maximum of m, "Hernangmez said. "With Luka we are always supporting each other, always playing the game console, talking on FaceTime… It makes me very happy for how he is playing, for how he is dominating the league and that he is always there, giving us courage to my brother and me, because he knows they are difficult times, "he added about the Dallas Mavericks Slovenian.
On Christmas Day, DeLooper, 28, of Fishtown, set off on an epic quest crisscrossing North America to see all 30 NBA teams play at home in 30 days. His goal: to get on every NBA arena's Jumbotron. As of Thursday, DeLooper had 29 very successful and very silly Jumbotron appearances under his belt, with just one more to go Thursday night.
His strategy, he said, is all about location, costumes, and "subpar dance moves." "It's definitely taught me a lot about myself," DeLooper said of his odd odyssey. "Be open to new things and put out good energy and good energy should return."
January 23, 2020 | 7:12 am UTC Update
Karl-Anthony Towns untouchable?
Despite recent rumors and speculation with the Feb. 6 NBA trade deadline quickly approaching, Rosas insists that Towns, 24, is Minnesota's franchise guy for now and the future. "Karl-Anthony Towns is as untouchable as they come," Rosas told ESPN. "He's the best player on our team and he's the guy we're building around. Everything we do is to help him become the best player and to help us become the best team we can be. He's a special talent that we're going to do anything possible to help him achieve his highest potential."
Brandon Ingram a max player?
The team is high on Jaxson Hayes and Nickeil Alexander-Walker moving forward. It also doesn't have a ton of cap flexibility with the expected restricted free agency offer sheets coming Ingram's way. League sources are expecting his play this year to earn him max money in offer sheets this summer.
Bucks not moving Eric Bledsoe?
The 39-6 Milwaukee Bucks have the best record in the NBA and have refuted a report that they would be willing to deal guard Eric Bledsoe if offered an enticing return package. "We have no talked to any teams about trading [Bledsoe], since the day that we traded for him," Bucks general manager Jon Horst told Bleacher Report's Howard Beck. "And I think it's evident, pretty strongly, in the fact that we extended Eric, what he means to us. The fact that we currently have the best record in the NBA, had the best record last year in the NBA, he's an All-NBA First Team defender and a guy that we feel strongly should be an All-Star for the Milwaukee Bucks this year. We have not had those conversations, and we are not going to trade Eric Bledsoe."


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It is precisely this measure of erudition among the scientific elites who support lavish funding of their research, and the young acolytes who believe in Science, that makes it easy to find signatories at the latest global
Wonder if Kate Knuth signed this one. . . .
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Story written and posted by Hayden Barbosa, Rivier University Assistant Sports Information Director
(Nashua, N.H.) The Rivier University Men's Volleyball team took a trip out to Thousand Oaks, California this spring break! In between catching rays and sight seeing they compteted in the 4th annual Cal-Lu-Fornia Invitational. The first match of four was against Adrian College (Adrian, Mich.)
The first set was neck and neck until freshmen Tedrick Gula (San Gabriel, Cali) took control and ended the first set in favor of the Bulldogs 25-19.
However it was the remaining sets where the Raiders shook the sand off and took the game over. The remaining sets scores were 25-20, 25-23 and 25-17.
Junior David Smith (Clinton, Ohio) hit .382 with 18 kills and collected 8 digs. Both senior Dashaun Graham (Highland Falls, N.Y.) and Jack Normandin (Clifton Park, N.Y.) tallied 8 kills apiece. Other contributors on the offensive side were junior Francis Kokoros (Braintree, Mass) who hit .312 with 15 kills. Senior Khaynen Yocca (Pittsburgh, Pa) hit an astounding .625 with 10 kills on 16 attempts.
On the defensive side, Cam Roth (Coventry, R.I) came up with 19 digs, while Kokoros came up with 7 of his own along with 3 blocks. Deshaun also contributed 4 blocks.


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In early May, Gov. Chris Christie arrived at the Liberty National Golf Course in New Jersey for a political fund-raiser. Donors, many of them longtime backers of his, enjoyed hors d'oeuvres and views of the Lower Manhattan skyline while he spoke of the important work to be done on issues like jobs and the economy.
Not a single check was written to Mr. Christie's campaign. Indeed, some of those in attendance were legally prohibited from doing so, because they had sizable contracts with state agencies and were therefore barred by New Jersey law from making large contributions to the governor.
Instead, the donors wrote checks for as much as $100,000 to the Republican Governors Association, an organization Mr. Christie helps lead that has collected $1.65 million from New Jersey donors during the first six months of the year.
The association has, in turn, poured $1.7 million into Mr. Christie's re-election effort, with television advertisements attacking State Senator Barbara Buono, his Democratic opponent in the election this year.
Mr. Christie's close relationship with the association provides a playbook for how carefully choreographed independent spending campaigns can undermine the rules meant to curtail the political influence of government contractors; New Jersey's pay-to-play law strictly limits the participation of state contractors in political giving.
According to an analysis by The New York Times, a third of the $1.65 million the association raised in New Jersey came from people and businesses who had significant contracts with the state, or from utilities, which are prohibited from making any contributions to candidates for governor.
That money has helped set the stage for what Christie allies hope will be an overwhelming re-election victory this November in a Democratic-leaning state, boosting his prospects going into the 2016 presidential race.
"I don't view it as a workaround," said Wayne J. Positan, a lawyer who attended the May fund-raiser and whose firm has earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in new state work since Mr. Christie took office.
"I view it as making a contribution to the R.G.A.," he added, "and they provide a really good forum for governors to work together."
Mr. Christie is to become chairman of the association next year, a high-profile position that will further strengthen his relationships with national Republican donors and give him a prominent platform in national politics as he considers a presidential candidacy.
"Governor Christie has been very active in the R.G.A.," said Gail Gitcho, a spokeswoman for the association. "He is helping raise money for the mammoth cycle we have next year, with 36 statewide races across the country."
Mr. Christie is not the only one benefiting from outside spending during the campaign. While Ms. Buono, who is subject to the same pay-to-play restrictions as Mr. Christie, has struggled to raise campaign cash, she has been lavishly backed by outside groups and unions.
One group, a nonprofit organization called One New Jersey, has already spent $2.8 million on television and radio ads attacking Mr. Christie for opposing tax increases on the wealthy and for vetoing an increase in the minimum wage.
Unlike the Republican Governors Association, One New Jersey is not required to disclose any of its donors. A person with knowledge of the group's fund-raising said a major source of its money was the New Jersey Education Association, the state teachers' union, which previously spent more than $13 million on issue ads attacking Mr. Christie during battles over the state education budget and his property tax cap proposal. New Jersey's pay-to-play restrictions do not cover unions.
While estimates on total advertising spending in the race vary, Mr. Christie's campaign has spent far more on ads than Ms. Buono, who has relied heavily on unions and outside groups to close the gap. Mr. Christie remains heavily favored to win the race.
Both sides in the race for governor described a kind of campaign finance arms race, especially in the area of independent expenditures, which faced few restrictions in New Jersey even before the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court forced many states to rewrite their election laws.
Four years ago, Mr. Christie relied heavily on advertising help from the R.G.A. in his underdog victory against former Gov. Jon Corzine, a Democrat and wealthy former Goldman Sachs executive who spent $25 million of his own money running for re-election in 2009. Mr. Christie, like other governors, has been a frequent headliner at the association's fund-raisers.
After Mr. Christie took office, friends and advisers, anticipating an onslaught of spending from labor unions, began raising donations outside the state's traditional campaign finance channels to pay for advertising in support of Mr. Christie's legislative agenda.
About $624,000 went to Reform Jersey Now, a nonprofit group that advertised Mr. Christie's attendance at one fund-raiser by advising donors that "contributions are not affected by the pay-to-play statutes." Reform Jersey Now shut down after six months and voluntarily disclosed its donors, many of them state contractors.
Ms. Buono was among those who criticized Reform Jersey Now, saying they "render our campaign finance and pay-to-play laws useless" and introducing legislation that would have required the group to disclose its donors. But after the group shut down, three Democratic consulting firms, including two that worked for Ms. Buono, started up One New Jersey to battle the governor. In May, allies of Ms. Buono in the State Assembly quashed a disclosure bill identical to the legislation she herself had sponsored.
Joshua Henne, a spokesman for One New Jersey, declined to comment on the group's donors, or to say whether any of them had contracts with state agencies or authorities covered by the pay-to-play rules.
All told, at least 15 New Jersey donations to the governors association this year have come from people or companies covered by the state's pay-to-play rules, including several who also backed Reform Jersey Now. Some had never given to the R.G.A. before.
"I think it definitely warrants concern, and it's something the state treasurer should look into for potential circumvention of the state pay-to-play law," said Heather Taylor, a spokeswoman for the Citizens Campaign, which has led efforts in New Jersey to pass state and municipal pay-to-play rules.
Some of the donations were reported last month by The Star-Ledger of Newark.
One guest at the May fund-raiser was Glenn R. Paulsen, an influential Republican lawyer. His firm, Capehart and Scatchard, held more than a million dollars' worth in state contracts last year and has given $100,000 to the governors' association since Mr. Christie's first campaign for governor, including $25,000 in May.
"I have a relationship with the R.G.A. and I assist them with their New Jersey fund-raising," Mr. Paulsen said, explaining why he attended.
Another notable contribution came from the New Jersey Laborers, which represents construction workers. The union has forged a close relationship with Mr. Christie and credits him with helping restore solvency to the state's bridge and road fund. In June, the union made a $300,000 contribution to the governors association, a rare union donation to the group.
"The Republican Governors Association and the New Jersey Laborers Union share a common goal: to see Chris Christie re-elected as governor of New Jersey," said Rob Lewandowski, a spokesman for the union.


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The Global Network of R2P Focal Points held its sixth annual meeting from 20 to 22 June in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The governments of the Republic of Korea and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste co-hosted the sixth annual meeting in association with the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. Senior government representatives from more than 50 countries from all regions of the globe participated.
The meeting was opened by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, H.E. Mr. Hernani Coehlo da Silva, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, H.E. Mr. Choi Jong-moon, and the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, followed by a video message from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The UN Refugee Agency's Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Mr. Volker Turk, also briefed participants via video message.
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Bee Shaffer and Anna Wintour were every bit the voguish mother-daughter duo on the red carpet of the 2014 British Fashion Awards, hosted on Monday (December 1) at the London Coliseum in London, England.
Bee Shaffer: She paid homage to the label that won the evening's Red Carpet Designer nod with her Alexander McQueen Spring 2015 metallic gold frock. Featuring a harness-inspired bodice and A-line skirt, the dress meshed its Midas touch with a power-warrior spirit and feminine edge, especially when styled with that super-sleek ponytail.
Anna Wintour: Coordinating but not matching her daughter, Anna donned a John Galliano for Maison Martin Margiela floor-length, printed black gown and furry ivory shrug as she picked up the Outstanding Achievement Award from the designer himself.
Perhaps both sets of sandals could have been improved upon, but I'll focus on the ankles up. Like mother, like daughter?
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Sooo, I missed last month!! Let's see what pictures I deprived you from ;0)
Sweet Salvage July's show rolled out the red carpet to bring you the Now Showing show!
This one is so much fun, it's full of items based on films! Here are the vignettes that caught my eye..
Heather's Willy Wonka
Stephanie's Titanic
Robert's Harry Potter (Banana and Starbucks not part of his creation, ehehhe)
Cindy's Vintage Envy Alice and Wonderland
Jody and Lisa's The Notebook
I chose Cinderella! If you you know me at all, you know I have a HUGE weakness for anything Disney! I had so much fun with this vignette.
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Let's go baby to the hole in the wall. I think this is one of Mel Waiters' most popular songs - it still hits the clubs pretty strongly and is sure to bring people to the dance floor. "Hole In The Wall" has been redone by several artists but this original is a classic.
I had my best times at the hole in the wall.
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BC: so you don't know how lucky we have it. Back then they were masters of battle. NOT ANYMORE. we could easily defeat them in our time period with all of our gun powder and explosives.Suggestion...go to medevil times.....and whats that you say..it's impossable, hmmm well yes yes it is...but you can just go to medevil times family diner/dinner and tournament..BEAST right sweaty guys beating the crap out of each other. Good price too. It includes smoke lights and a net just incase if you end up like that guy on page three. Here is the website just incase. HTTP://WWW.MEDEVILTIMES.COM END!!
FC: The dark abiss of MEDEVIL WEAPONS | BY:CHRISTOPHER ZIELLO
1: The weapons and armor were waaayyy different from today. The were less advanced and they did not have guns.
2: In medevil times they did not have guns...they had spears,swords,sheilds,flails,and jowsting sticks.
3: ABOUT THE WEAPONRY | The medevil weapons were not like our weapons today at all. The weapons back then were all lots of blood and grusum kinds of weapons. An axe for example...you know how heavy that is ... well imagine that heavy tree chopper peircing through your worst enimmies head.XD...anyway I would not want to be that guy. Same with the other w- eapons they hurt...waking some one with a 35 pound meatal ball is hurtful but on top of that you got spikes on the ball watch out..
5: Pop up Question | what were the jobs and duties of the knights | TO PROTECT THEIR KING AND FIGHT FOR THERE PEOPLE. ALSO TO BE chivleris to girls!
6: TYPES OF ARMOR | one type of armor was a chain linked fence type of thing.They were chains linked together to form body protection. | compared to the armor
7: POP UP QUESTION | WHAT WERE TOURNAMENTS | Tournaments were not and every day tradition with your whole family...Tournaments were a battle between two knights who jowst. I will get into jowsting later.
8: today I went to a tournament and thow were great at thee battle...ripping each person limb from limb. I myself loved it. I will always remember this day.JUNE 1432
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The lawyer for 18-year-old freshman Dharun Ravi says his client is innocent of a bias crime. Ravi, who, with another freshman, Molly Wei, allegedly taped gay student Tyler Clemente having sex with a man and secretly streamed it online for the world to see. Later Clemente committed suicide. If that isn't gay bashing, what is? Did the two perps ever tape the guy playing his violin, and stream that online? Adults and the legal system are entirely too lenient on despicable young people like this.
Ravi and Wei should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and if it doesn't put them away for at least 25 years, the law should be changed. As a form of bullying this behavior is unacceptable on any level.
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Fine-Grained Lazy Replication with Strict Freshness and Correctness Guarantees
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Eager replication management is known to generate unacceptable performance as soon as the update rate or the number of replicas increases. Lazy replication protocols tackle this problem by decoupling transaction execution from the propagation of new values to replica sites while guaranteeing a correct and more efficient transaction processing and replica maintenance. However, they impose several restrictions on transaction models that are often not valid in practical database settings, e.g., they require that each transaction executes at its initiation site and/or are restricted to full replication schemes. Also, the protocols cannot guarantee that the transactions will always see the freshest available replicas. This paper presents a new lazy replication protocol called PDBREP that is free of these restrictions while ensuring one copy serializable executions. The protocol exploits the distinction between read-only and general transactions and works with arbitrary physical data organizations such as partitioning and striping as well as different replica granularities. It does not require that each read-only transaction executes entirely at its initiation site. Hence, each read-only site need not contain a fully replicated database. PDBREP furthermore generalizes the notion of freshness to finer data granules than entire databases. Beside its architectural advantages, experiments revealed that PDBREP outperforms related lazy replication techniques. Show more
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Musées et Monuments Established by the Dominican Order, the Jacobins Convent is a masterpiece of medieval art. Read more
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Golf Pride Z-Grip Cord Review
Need all-weather traction from your grips? Look no further than the Golf Pride Z-Grip Cord.
Golf Pride MCC Plus4 ALIGN Grip Review
The Golf Pride MCC Plus4 ALIGN was created by adding a raised channel to the bottom of the ever popular MCC Plus4 golf grip. Want to know more? So did we.
P2 Putter Grips Review
P2 putters grips claim to use a unique alignment to create a more consistent stroke. Read our review to see if there's merit in their claim.
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Star Grips makes their grips in the USA and guarantees them for 3 years. Matt Meeker explores their performance in this review.
Lamkin Z5 Grip Review
Lamkin enters the multi-compound grip market with its new Z5 grip. Get all the details in our review of the Lamkin Z5 grip.
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MC55, MC65 and MC67 mobile computers now capable of capturing both bar code and RFID data
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.—Nov. 19, 2013—Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MSI), a leading provider of mission-critical communication solutions and services for enterprise and government customers, today announced the RFD5500 UHF RFID sled that can instantly turn the MC55N0, MC55A0, MC65 and MC67 mobile computers into lightweight, rugged, handheld RFID readers that deliver fast read rates and improved productivity for retail storefronts, warehouses and field applications.
• The easy-grip RFD5500 sled uses Motorola's leading UHF RFID technology that offers superior read range and coverage area. There is no need to precisely align the reader with the tag so RFID data can be quickly and accurately captured—even on the most challenging items.
• The RFD5500 offers a unique combination of intuitive audible and visual cues to quickly guide a worker to the precise location of any desired item. As the device moves closer to a specific item, a tone beeps louder and faster, while a sliding graphical bar increases in size enabling mobile workers to quickly locate any individual item.
• By building on the enterprise mobile computers' leading bar code data capture capabilities, the RFD5500 offers dual data capture functionality in a single device. Mobile workers can locate products, read non-line-of-sight RFID data, and capture damaged and poor quality bar codes without interrupting workflows.
• The RFD5500 is supported with a comprehensive portfolio of services including Service from the Start Bronze, which provides coverage for normal wear and tear and a three-day repair turnaround time. Service from the Start with Advance Exchange Support provides advance replacement of devices requiring repair and coverage of accidental damage to internal and external components. These services help minimize equipment downtime and significantly reduce unforeseen repair expenses.
Bob Sanders, senior vice president of Data Capture Solutions, Motorola Solutions
"Motorola Solutions' new RFD5500 sled expands the industry's broadest RFID reader portfolio adding state-of-the-art RFID functionality to the bar code scanning capability already available in the MC55, MC65 and MC67 mobile computers. By bundling two best-in-class data capture technologies in one accessory, businesses can now purchase and manage fewer devices helping improve productivity and lower their total cost of ownership."
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MCC-Penn Valley's College Kickoff event June 28 was at least three things: a celebration, a chance to make new friends, and an introduction to campus life.
The invitation list: Class of 2017 high school grads who have expressed interest in attending MCC-Penn Valley or have already been admitted.
The incoming and prospective students met some student leaders, faculty and staff, and learned about leadership opportunities, clubs and organizations, counseling, academic advising, career services and more. The event started with icebreakers and ended with cake and punch (otherwise known as "networking").
Students also entered raffles to win tickets to Worlds and Oceans of Fun, which had a booth there. UPS was on hand with snow cones and job opportunities.
This first-of-its-kind event at Penn Valley is one of two summer workshops intended to combat "summer melt," the phenomenon of students' motivation to attend college "melting" away during the summer after high school.
"Just as with other colleges, we were concerned about summer melt, as well as recognizing that some students could be more successful if they were more prepared for college expectations," says Yvette Sweeney, MCC-Penn Valley's dean of student development.
The second workshop, "Summer Sizzle: Becoming a Super Student" is set for 2-4 p.m. July 25. It will include sessions on study skills, test-taking strategies, Penn Valley technology resources and career services and, intriguingly, "ways to do academic work from your phone."
The new workshops do not, by the way, replace either the StART sessions (Student Advising and Registration Time) or New Student Orientation.
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The first influenza pandemic of the 21st century occurred in 2009–2010 and was caused by an influenza A(H1N1) virus. It was the first pandemic for which many Member States had developed comprehensive pandemic plans describing the public health measures to be taken, aimed at reducing illness and fatalities. For the first time, pandemic vaccine was developed, produced and deployed in multiple countries during the first year of the pandemic.
While most cases of pandemic H1N1 were mild, globally it is estimated that the 2009 pandemic caused between 100 000–400 000 deaths in the first year alone. Children and young adults were disproportionately affected in comparison to seasonal influenza, which causes severe disease mainly in the elderly, persons with chronic conditions and pregnant women.
Pandemics of the 20th century
Three influenza pandemics occurred at intervals of several decades during the 20th century, the most severe of which was the so-called "Spanish Flu" (caused by an A(H1N1) virus), estimated to have caused 20–50 million deaths in 1918–1919. Milder pandemics occurred subsequently in 1957–1958 (the "Asian Flu" caused by an A(H2N2) virus) and in 1968 (the "Hong Kong Flu" caused by an A(H3N2) virus), which were estimated to have caused 1–4 million deaths each.
Continuous learning
With each pandemic, researchers, public health experts and international organizations have gained a better understanding of the complexity and dynamics of influenza pandemics. With the improvement of surveillance and reporting systems, more data and characteristics of viruses can be documented than was possible a decade ago.
Researchers and public health experts are continuously learning more about the influenza virus, vaccines and response measures, and this knowledge is used to improve capacities related to both seasonal and pandemic influenza. Much of the knowledge acquired may also be applied to other areas of disease surveillance or to respond to other health threats.


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Your host Douglas Arthur is joined by Marissa Rapier as they discuss life in a big family and the ghosts of toys from Christmases Past! This heartfelt discussion covers everything from Milky, The Marvelous Milking Cow to Alien! The Toy! Originally released near Christmas, but a great listen any time of year!
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These are the SOL Republic Tracks Ultra. The company says these are its nicest, bestest headphones yet. But aside from the new name, the use of terms like "V12 Sound Engines," and a more expensive $180 price tag, there's no quantitative, or even qualitative, explanation as to why these are the company's new pride and joy. Um, cool.
And it's not like raw specs are all that matter. And it hs made good products in the past. But when a fairly new, fairly popular company can only muster a response about how it doesn't reveal spec sheets or product secrets, it starts to feel like we're all pawns of an elaborate marketing campaign. I guess we'll find out when we get our review samples. [SOL Republic]


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At an average $1,798-$2,346 per day, the cost of a hospital stay adds up quickly.
Lengthy hospitalizations also increase the risk of pressure ulcers, infections, falls, and other health care-acquired conditions that raise financial consequences even higher.
Plus, there's this simple truth: most patients would much rather recover in the comfort of their home rather than in the hospital. For these reasons and more, hospitals across the country are focusing attention on how to decrease patient length of stay (LOS).
By trimming LOS by mere hours, hospitals can realize huge financial gains, according to health care innovator Sanjeev Agrawal.
"[If] a 300-bed hospital with an average LOS of four days was able to reduce the average LOS by five percent (i.e., by five hours), they could treat over 1,350 more patients each year. That's a considerable increase in patient access and millions of dollars in additional income from the same fixed capacity," he explained in a LinkedIn article.
"In addition, addressing these issues also typically improves the patient and provider experience; it leads to reduced wait times in the emergency department, fewer issues with boarding, quicker discharge and an overall 'saner' experience for everyone involved."
Agrawal, president and CEO of LeanTaaS, provided a handful of practical suggestions on how hospitals can reduce LOS for their patients. Here are a few ideas from his piece:
At Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in Baltimore, average LOS dropped nearly a third after staff got serious about prioritizing discharge.
Specifically, the hospital expanded its rounding and discharge hours.
"We will discharge a child at 1 a.m. if that child is ready to go home, and this can make a real difference in terms of cost and convenience for families — it may mean one fewer day of work missed for a parent," pediatrician Akshata Hopkins, MD, said in a Johns Hopkins Medicine article.
The time between discharge order entry and actual discharge also decreased 30 percent.
"Expanding discharge hours and other initiatives have increased access and throughput, and I'm looking now at the impact on the bottom line," Dr. Hopkins said. "But the real value is how much our patients and families appreciate getting home as early as they safely can.
"It's just the right thing for the patient."
Does your organization have any innovative methods for shortening length of stay? If so, leave us a comment below.


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Greetings fellow stitchers! A lightning quick post today bringing you a super quick and fuss-free technique for gathering fabric. If you find yourself put off sewing full skirted numbers because the thought of painstakingly hand gathering metres of cotton makes you want to sew your eyelids shut, then we highly recommend you give this method a whirl. Better yet, all you need is a zigzag stitch and some string (or dental floss...)!
Step 1
Select the widest zigzag stitch your machine has to offer. Place your length of string or floss (which needs to be as long as the length you are gathering) about a centimetre and a half from the raw edge of your fabric - this needs to be the edge that you want to gather, for example, a skirt's waistline.
Start to zigzag over the string/floss. Keep going until you reach the end. You'll see that the zigzag stitches form a sort of casing for the string:
*In case you were wondering, the reason we recommend dental floss is that it is very strong and also kinda slippery, making the gathering process an absolute breeze!
Step 2
Keeping ahold of one end of the string/floss, gently gather your fabric by moving it along the length of string. Keep going until you're done gathering and your gathers are nice and evenly spaced.
Ta da! Now that wasn't so painful, was it....?
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Jun 07, 2019
Oh! What a great use for the miles of dental floss I have. I was searching Pinterest for this method and came upon this wonderful idea. Exasperated with breaking threads this gives me hope, will try later tonight.
May 14, 2018
Just goes to show you are never to old to learn new tricks, after a sewing career of 53 years I will now look forward to gathering something I have always hated doing.
Jul 20, 2015
Why did I not know this?
Years I will never get back! Thanks for sharing
Jul 18, 2015
Thank you for sharing this :-)
Jul 18, 2015
I'm a serial wonky gatherer. I can't wait to try this and see if I can finally get nice neat gathers. Thank you!


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Sales Enablement Planning and Budget Strategies for 2019
2019 is HERE. Time to at least start your planning and budget strategies. As this is December, it would be a better time to finalize and put the finishing touches on the plan for a successful 2019. Brevet partners Brian Williams and Ralph Grimse discuss the importance for Sales Enablement functions to begin 2019 planning and the corresponding budget strategies required to ensure success. They are joined by Membrain Founder and CEO, George Brontén to discuss how technology is relevant to the discussion.
About our Guest: George Brontén, Founder/CEO Membrain
A life-long entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in the software space and a passion for sales and marketing. With the life motto "Don't settle for mainstream", George is always looking for new ways to achieve improved business results using innovative software, skills and processes. In 2008, after realizing that the sales profession needs to evolve because of the Internet and global competition, George had a vision to increase b2b sales effectiveness using modern saas technology. Since then, George and his team have worked with thought leaders and studied research to identify the success factors behind successful sales organizations and build technology to help companies to consistently reach their targets.


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A new face may join the commission as soon as July 22, more than a month after Pat Flury's abrupt resignation in the middle of a City Hall meeting.
Political rookies and veterans – 20 in all – hope to be appointed to the commission seat formerly held by Flury. The longtime commissioner quit on June 11, saying she had grown tired of being followed around by a political foe who questioned whether she lived in Dania Beach.
Under the city charter, the vacancy must be filled by Aug. 10.
Candidates were required to submit applications by Friday.
The candidates are Richard Aube; Charles Camacho; former mayor Robert Chunn Jr.; former commissioner Jean Cook; Bryan Cowart, a former district chief for the Broward Sheriff's Office assigned to Dania Beach; Paul Fetscher, a resident appointed to the commission in October 2006 to fill the vacated seat of C.K. "Mac" McElyea; Bruce Hannover, who ran for the Dania Beach commission in November 2012; Douglas Hasty; Mark LaRocca; Charles K. McElyea, who served on the commission off and on since 1985; David Nuby Jr.; Ann Page, who ran for the Dania Beach commission in 2005; Terry Preuss; James Robert Ridgely III; Luis Rimoli; Clive Taylor; Louise Velo; Boisy Waiters Jr.; Teresa West; and Rebecca Yates.
Dania Beach commissioners plan to interview all 20 candidates on Monday during a special meeting at 6:30 p.m.
Mayor Walter Duke says he hopes to appoint a replacement that night.
"When I open that meeting up, I am going to make it clear that we are not leaving until we pick someone," Duke said.
The new commissioner will serve until the next city election on Nov. 4, 2014.
Commissioners have requested that the new commissioner not run in the next election, but Duke says such a requirement would require a change in the charter.
"If that person wants to run, they would have the constitutional right to run," Duke said.
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Just a quick post to let off a bit of steam. A bit of reassurance for all those other mamas having a bad day today too.
Today was one of those days where we thought, let's have a lazy day. We were all tired from our trip to Pembrokeshire followed by Bristol, not to mention Richard was feeling great this morning and O has been a bit iffy since last weekend.
Well, obviously it wasn't a relaxed lazy day. Firstly I have a hyper toddler, no matter how tired. He caused mischief and mayhem with his toys and his stupid 'doo' (dummy). My hatred for that doo is ten (gazillion) fold.
The man child was fine this morning, I mean he was ill 😷 which was annoying, but can't be helped. My house is a tip – the front room has nearly every single toy spread across the floor and my washing pile is ever growing with this awful weather. (I missed the good, sunny days whilst away. Typical.) To top it off there is no food in my house and all I want to do is sleep 😴.
Naturally, being super tired, on meds (that give me mood swings), hormones on high alert 🚨 and stuck in a booby trapped house with two moaning boys all day has driven me to the brink of insanity. I even shouted at the misbehaving potato letters I cooked for my son for dinner!!
But, of course, it's all my fault and I'm the bad guy.
I think I need some chocolate 🍫 and maybe some Tea ☕
I hope you mama's and daddy's are having better days then us.


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The mission of the RSLAAC is to promote the principles of the Republican Party in Palm Beach and Broward Counties, Florida. We support conservative Republican candidates at all levels of government, from township supervisor to President of the United States.
The Republican Party mobilized residents to register for the 2016 elections and was instrumental in President Trump election win of Florida . Given the dysfunctional nature of Washington D.C. politics, now is a more important time than ever to stand up for the beliefs that so many of us in Palm Beach and Broward Counties share. We must continue to advance the principles of limited government, lower taxes, pro-life and revisit the immigration law to safe guard the American people, secure our borders and protect our constitutional freedoms by supporting and electing Republican candidates for congressional districts like Rep Brian Mast and Senator Marco Rubio for the Senate seat.
Some of the important issues facing America today are national security, immigration, refugees, borders security, economy, jobs and healthcare. Mainstream media supported by domestic and foreign groups are feeding the left-wing groups to work hard on dividing our people, undermine our democracy and elected president. RSLAAC will be working hard on educating the public of past and present danger to our national security and educate the public of past historical events worldwide so we can apply proper security measures in the mainland and abroad.
The persecution and attempt for annihilation of religious minorities which started with the Armenians, Syriacs, Chaldeans or Aramaic-speaking Christians by Turkish Ottoman in 1915 where 1.5 million Armenians and 1/2 million Syriac were killed. We must educate the public and press our government to recognize the Armenian, Syriac Genocide which 20 countries worldwide have already officially declared the horrific events of 1915 a genocide, including Germany, France, Canada, and Russia. Another Genocide of religious minorities were the European Jews of The Holocaust by Nazi Germany during WWII 1941-1945 which 6 million Jews were killed. Recent events in Iraq and Syria are reminder that Christian minorities are facing Genocide by Islamic Extremism and ideology carried out primarily by ISIS and Alqaeda affiliates groups and exporting their terror to Europe and America with a direct threat to our lifestyle and national security.
2017-2018 there will be several elections, with great importance to the future of Palm Beach and Broward Counties of Florida. The club will be hosting series of events and invite notable speakers to talk about most important issues facing the counties, state and country. Also, It's important to have experienced and hardworking people fighting to ensure our Republican candidates are elected. Club members and non-members registered Republicans and supporters will play pivotal role in achieving the club's mission and goals.
Please consider joining our club, and be sure to add this website to your bookmarks and Like us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @ RSLAAC so you can continue to get the latest news and updates about the RSLAAC's activities locally and statewide. Thank you for your patronage and beliefs in the Republican principles.


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Renowned for their impeccable style and extravagant lifestyle, who better than Beyoncé and Jay Z to buy the ultimate wedding gift? It has been widely reported that in celebration of close friends' Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's upcoming nuptials, the superstar pair are planning to present them with a luxury yacht charter vacation.
Beginning of October
Starting out in 1981 as La Nioulargue, Les Voiles de St Tropez is a spectacular yachting rendezvous held annually at the end of the Mediterranean's regatta season.
The Antibes Yacht Show is the first International Brokerage & Charter show of the Mediterranean season.
9th - 9th Jun 2015
Attracting some of the best polo players in the world since its inception in 2009, the Polo Club St. Tropez will once again host British Polo Day this year as Britain take on France.
11 March 2019
The 41m/135ft motor yacht HEMILEA is now open to charter around Mediterranean hotspots such as Corsica and Sardinia.
11 September 2018
Discover the latest yachting action in Cannes with our hand-picked stream of images coming straight from the heart of the Cannes Yachting Festival 2018.
11 April 2018
With tourist figures reaching a ten year high, it seems that the South of France has enjoyed a resurgence as one of the world's hottest destinations- so what does this mean for superyachts?
13 September 2017
A new law which was beginning to have a damaging effect on superyachts in France was officially overturned last Friday.
12 September 2017
Get straight to the heart of the latest yachting action in Cannes with our live and hand-selected images from the Cannes Yachting Festival 2017.
17 August 2017
With availability from 24th August to 9th September, the 50m/164ft motor yacht ODESSA presents the perfect opportunity to escape to France this summer.
9 August 2017
As a brand new video reveals, the 50m/164ft superyacht 'Da Vinci' is perfectly designed for memorable charter vacations in France.
9 August 2017
The perfect way to round off the summer, the superbly modern 40m/131ft motor yacht 'Take 5' is available for charter in France this September.
8 August 2017
With notable politicians penning an urgent letter to President Emmanuel Macron, the situation in France has reached the point that local businesses are feeling the effects of fewer superyachts in the surrounding waters.
4 July 2017
Perfectly equipped for on-the-water fun, the 48m/157ft motor yacht 'Big Sky' is available for charter in the Mediterranean this summer.
29 June 2017
After completing a €30m refit, the 55m/182ft motor yacht ILLUSION is available for charter vacations in France and Italy this August.
27 June 2017
Coming into effect on 1st July, a new piece of legislation will mean that any member of yacht crew residing in France for more than three months in a year will have to enroll in the French social security regime. Such a drastic move leads us to ask if the French authorities are shooting themselves in the foot.
21 June 2017
The award-winning 40m/131ft Tecnomar yacht 'Cacos V' has been renamed as superyacht GIRAUD, and is now available for charter in Mediterranean hotspots such as France and Italy.
14 June 2017
A new law dictating that all crew members living in France for more than three months a year must contribute to the French social security system may soon be coming into force and, if it does, there are expected to be major repercussions for the superyacht industry.
1 June 2017
Offering something truly unmissable in France this summer, the 30m/98ft motor yacht SALU is available for half her usual rate between June 4th and 18th.
31 May 2017
Reducing her weekly base rate by €10,000, the 28m/92ft motor yacht ASHA is available for outstanding charter vacations in France this June.
19 May 2017
Reducing her weekly base rate by 15% in the stunning cruising grounds of France and Italy, the 45m/148ft motor yacht IPANEMAS is the perfect choice for a summertime charter this year.
17 May 2017
A seriously tempting proposal for a summertime yacht charter vacation, the 60m/197ft motor yacht 'Light Holic' will be available in the fine cruising grounds of France from next month.
28 January 2016
After spending winter in the Caribbean, the refreshingly modern 25m/82ft sailing yacht PTARMIGAN will be open for summer charters in the West Mediterranean.
4 January 2016
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Maritime Administrator has begun rolling out a new initiative for the dual use of superyachts cruising the waters of France and Monaco.
24 July 2013
Sailing yacht VOLADOR is now available for charter during July with a fantastic 25% discount.
18 July 2013
The 27 metre sailing yacht ICARUS is dropping her weekly base rate by 10% for all charters until 10th September in the Mediterranean.
1 July 2013
Book your yacht charter vacation now to benefit from VAT-free charter rates in France.
26 June 2013
The European Committee for Professional Yachting (ECPY) has received confirmation from Direction de la Législation Fiscale (DLF) of changes to VAT rules, which will come into effect from July 15th 2013.
16 May 2013
The 66th Cannes Film festival kicked off on Wednesday with red carpet glamour. Few events can compete with the sheer spectacle, star power and the quality of luxury super & mega yachts in attendance.
16 May 2013
The owner of Sea Shell has reduced her rates until 31st May in order to secure a booking.
10 May 2013
The 49.8m motor yacht Inevitable has had a charter cancellation, making her available for charter in the South of France once more.
7 May 2013
The 45m Bilgin motor yacht Tatiana is now available for charter at a reduced rate of €120,000 per week in May and June.
30 December 2012
Demand is back to what it was in 2009, making the charter market stronger than it has been for the past three years.
4 December 2012
Wheels is available to charter in the Mediterranean next season.
2 August 2012
The 35m motor yacht Aladina offers extensive exterior deck space over three floors, including a sundeck with a spa pool. She has extensive audio visual equipment and an immaculate interior by Zuretti.
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Bed bug bites should heal on their own, but may be itchy and swollen in the meantime.
Image credit: James Heilman MD, 2013
Bed bugs can bite anywhere on the body where there is skin. Typically, bites tend to occur on areas exposed during sleeping, such as:
- neck
- face
- hands
- shoulders
- arms
- legs
Many people do not feel the bite itself or develop clear symptoms other than the dots where the bug bit and some minor, surrounding inflammation or irritation. Others are considered hypersensitive to bites and develop more severe symptoms.
In most cases symptoms occur more or less immediately after the bite, but they can develop or progress over the following days as well. Without further irritation, symptoms typically resolve after a week or so.
Almost all bed bug bites will produce some degree of discomfort, typically itchiness and inflammation. Other signs and symptoms of bed bug bites include:
- a burning painful sensation
- a raised itchy bump with a clear center
- a red itchy bump with a dark center and lighter swollen surrounding area
- small red bumps or welts in a zigzag pattern or a line
- small red bumps surrounded by blisters or hives.
- papular eruptions or areas of skin with raised or flat patches that may be inflamed
- small spots of blood from bites often dried or stained onto sheets or bed clothing
- reddish or reddish-brown dried stains on fabrics due to bed bug droppings
- white or clear skins, shed by the nymphs as they mature
Individual characteristics of the bug's bite and the person who is bitten also influence the resulting sore.
While fairly rare, some people have or develop severe reactions and symptoms from bed bug bites. Serious symptoms that require medical attention include:
- difficulty breathing
- blisters
- fever
- feeling nauseous or flu-like
- swollen tongue
- irregular heartbeat
There are relatively few treatments options when it comes to uncomplicated bed bug bites.
The first recommended line of treatment involves cleaning the wound, ideally with soap and water.
For itchy bites, the following may relieve minor symptoms:
- over-the-counter hydrocortisone
- anti-itch creams
- antihistamines
Most wounds heal on their own within a week, sometimes two.
If severe swelling, inflammation, or itchiness occurs or persists, a person should seek medical attention.
A dramatic immune response may be a sign of an allergic reaction. If this is the case, one of the following may need to be administered:
- an injectable corticosteroid
- antihistamine
- epinephrine medication
If infection occurs, antibiotics may be prescribed.
Severe itchiness may result in further complications, such as infection or scarring. If severe itching is experienced, people may be prescribed corticosteroid creams and antihistamine pills or liquid.
Article Written By Jennifer Huizen, Medical News Today


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This is a small message, a brief stop along the mile post that is my writing life and, of course, real life. I've spent the last couple of weeks helping prepare my daughter's new house for occupancy while attending to my own obligations, including participating in Camp NaNoWriMo.
Whew! Exhaustion.
All the work culminated in a road trip to Salt Lake City to retrieve the belongings she has in storage there. I'm fortunate, for all I had to do was be supportive and drive now and again. No loading. No unloading. Just watching and looking after the granddog, Miya. Sweet little Miya, who's blind and doesn't act like anything is wrong.
I'll touch more on Camp NaNoWriMo more a different week, but I'll say here that the story I chose to tackle has stirred my writing blood more than any other in many years. It's more than a decade since I last attempted a new fantasy novel and I believe now it's a change that was past due. There's even a new map in the works! Even on days when I'd be cleaning from morning until night and struggling to maintain my O2 saturation I'd come home and find a way to write. The only struggle was remaining upright, for the story was flowing swiftly and the real work was turning off the tap when it was time to step away late at night.
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Combinatorics of the Tree Amplituhedron
Geometric and topological combinatorics: Modern techniques and methods October 09, 2017 - October 13, 2017
Location: MSRI: Simons Auditorium
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The tree amplituhedron A(n, k, m) is a geometric object generalizing the positive Grassmannian, which was introduced by Arkani-Hamed andTrnka in 2013 in order to give a geometric basis for the computationof scattering amplitudes in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Iwill give an elementary introduction to the amplituhedron, and then describe what it looks like in various special cases. For example, one can use the theory of sign variation and matroids to show that the amplituhedron A(n, k, 1) can be identified with the complex of bounded faces of a cyclic hyperplane arrangement (and hence is homeomorphic to a closed ball). I will also present some conjectures relating the amplituhedron A(n, k, m) to combinatorial objects such as non-intersecting lattice paths and plane partitions.
This is joint work with Steven Karp, and part of it is additionally joint work with Yan Zhang
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A series of black and white photos from Brazil's Boa Viagem beach of yesteryear opens Kleber Mendonça Filho's Aquarius and inaugurates a prolonged dance with nostalgia. It proliferates in the film's narrative span of some 30 years, from flashbacks of leisurely nocturnal car rides on the beach with 8-track tapes playing in the background, to birthday parties and generations of sexual encounters on a family heirloom of a cabinet. Such remembrances of things past are not merely incidental for a feature that has generated controversy in Brazil's political present.
In Aquarius, memories — of places, moments, music and lovers — balance imminent struggles to live well. Each recollection holds the story of a scar or persisting trace, like the grooves in the vinyl that its protagonist, Clara, collects. Good or bad, what is valuable about them is their material connection with the present. Conflict arrives when a handsome developer escalates attempts to buy, or otherwise coerce, Clara out of her beachside apartment in Recife so that it can be demolished to make way for a luxury condominium high-rise. A luminous Sonia Braga further ties the film to more than 30 years of Brazilian cinema history along with a delightful soundtrack that oscillates between bossa nova and anglophone rock. A child of the sixties — as the film's title suggests — and descendent of at least one feminist activist from that earlier moment of turbulence in Brazilian politics, Clara refuses to relinquish her home.
The ensuing tug of war is haunted by poetic reminiscence, as if the sensuous body of an aging Braga could foil gentrification by itself. Clara is the last holdout and sole occupant of the building, The Aquarius. Her children and her neighbors are ready for her to sell, but she stubbornly refuses in righteous indignation. She prefers her current apartment — which has been in her family for generations — to a new building in the same way that she values her records more than her MP3s.
But Clara makes for an ambivalent underdog. A professional music critic and member of Brazil's cultural elite, she employs a loyal domestic from a less privileged neighborhood and owns a fair deal of real estate herself, highlighting deeper layers of stratification in Brazilian society along lines of race and class. Lamenting the corruption and nepotism of Recife, she engages its methods to fight the developer. Her quest thus walks a fine line between being a virtuous microcosm of a national battle between local interests and rampant globalization, and an exercise in impetuous narcissism. Kleber Mendonça Filho undermines nostalgia, then, even as he presents it as the most obvious antidote to global capital's short-term memory problem — its willingness to indiscriminately uproot people and places in the service of profit margins.
At Cannes, the film's cast and crew used their appearance to publicly criticize the undemocratic ousting of Workers' Party President Dilma Roussef. The move generated enough of a polemic that it likely pushed the feature out of Oscar contention. Much like that gesture, Aquarius shines most brightly in its presentation of instances of strong-willed, resilient and vivacious feminine solidarity. Sonia Braga brilliantly embodies the battle-tested, still-willful and desirous Clara, and Mendonça Filho beautifully frames two distinct chapters of her life where past and present intermingle and collide.
Aaron Boalick (@FlixCritic) is a freelance film critic in New York City and Adjunct Faculty in the Film Division of Columbia University.
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We love the eclectic nature of our magazine. Literary fiction, poetry, Sci-fi, short comics, and so much more come together in each issue to offer a wide variety for the diverse palettes we are serving. Sometimes, the appearance of comics in a literary magazine can come as a shock, but we believe that when words and images come together, another layer of depth is added to the story.
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Anat Rabkin is one talented artist and writer whose work has been featured in Issue 9 with 'Forbidden Fruit' and Issue 13 with 'It Rained Then, Too'. Click here to browse back issues…
She is also the author and illustrator of the webcomic Seraphim: Tales of Love and Courage, set to return from hiatus before the end of 2017!
Currently, Anat is hard at work on a Kickstarter campaing with Cloudscape Comics. Her comic, 'Soundblind', is set to appear in their anthology, Swan Song, a massive, 12×12 anthology of comics about music, and life, and changing the world.
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Anat Rabkin returns to Pulp Literature in the upcoming Issue 17, Winter 2018 with her first prose-only short story, 'For the Love of Grey.' It's take on what awaits us in perdition, and one woman's determination to remain positive. You can pre-order issue 17 with a $2 discount until December 10th.
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