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Dental pain is extremely discomforting and often costly to mend, especially overseas. Many policies have a sub-limit for dental coverage that is far less than what the table of benefits indicates, so make sure your travel insurance policy offers an adequate level of dental cover.
Additional expenses
Should you become sick or suffer an injury that makes you unfit to travel, you could not only be stuck with expensive medical bills, but also the cost of additional accommodation and transportation costs.
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Make sure you check out whether the policy you're considering taking offers adequate cover for you. Cover-More policies provides cover for pregnancy up to the 23rd week, but conditions apply. If there have been complications with this or any previous pregnancy or the conception was medically assisted, you will be required to complete an Assessment Form prior to cover being considered. Cover-More policies do not cover childbirth or the health of a newborn child, irrespective of the stage of pregnancy at which the child is born.
If I cancel my policy before travelling, can I get a refund?
If for some reason you change your mind about your insurance purchase, Cover-More policies give you peace of mind by offering a 15-business day 'cooling off period'. During this time you can obtain a full refund (provided that you haven't made a claim and your departure date has not passed). If you need to cancel your policy, please phone 133 133.
What happens if things go wrong?
If something goes wrong in a foreign county, the experience may be very confusing, complex and costly. Check whether your travel insurance policy gives you access to a 24 hour emergency assistance team. Whether you become seriously ill and need to be hospitalized or simply lose your passport and are stuck, every Cover-More policy gives you access to a 24 hour Emergency Assistance team. This team can offer you practical support and guide you through your crisis 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. You can rest easy knowing that with a Cover-More travel insurance policy, you're never alone in your moment of need.
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After purchasing a Cover-More policy, if you encounter difficulty overseas and wish to make a claim you will need to complete a Claim Form. When filling out the form, take care to provide as much detail and supporting evidence as possible regarding the 'event' you are claiming for.
Limits, sub-limits, conditions and exclusions apply. Flight Centre is an Authorised Representative of Cover-More Insurance Services Pty Ltd (ABN 95 003 114 145, AFSL 241713) who administers insurance on behalf of the underwriter Zurich Australian Insurance Limited (ABN 13 000 296 640, AFSL 232507). Any advice is general advice only. Please consider your financial situation, needs and objectives and read the Combined FSG/PDS before deciding to buy this insurance.


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Raj Patel needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 135 designs submitted by 37 freelance designers.
MeghaNine or Megha9 or Megha Nine
We are the first cloud computing vendor in the Middle East that provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). We are based in exciting Dubai Internet City. Our products and services help companies in Dubai and the greater Gulf countries migrate their traditional computing environments to the cloud! We are innovative, entrepreneurial, and bold like Dubai!
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This is a new market globally but especially in Dubai. Small and medium sized businesses would be our target, initially. We sell them processing power (CPU) and storage on demand. They want a cloud company that is secure, stable, and inexpensive (the value proposition of cloud computing). Similar companies are Cirrus9, Enomaly, 3Tera, etc.
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I need a cool logo that reflects the new innovative paradigm shift of cloud computing. The word "Megha" means "of the clouds" in Sanskrit (oldest language in the world). I was thinking of ways to make the 9 into a cloud above the word megha. Maybe a lighting bolt in the tail of the 9. Or just use the full words Megha Nine. Need a new way to depict a picture of a cloud in the logo unlike how many companies do it traditionally.
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HOUSTON — Sick of losing on Election Day, they huddled candidates on their 2014 statewide ticket in a hotel ballroom and bristled at being outspent and outnumbered by political rivals in Texas who they talked up as sophisticated and savvy.
But this was no meeting of hapless Texas Democrats.
They were top Republicans, including George P. Bush and Gov. Rick Perry's possible successor, bemoaning big cities such as Houston already voting Democrat and sounding alarms about the brains behind President Barack Obama's re-election now trying to turn Texas entirely blue.
In a sharp pivot from a decade of Republican swagger in Texas – a bravado that comes with controlling every statewide office – conservatives are muffling mocking tones about Democrats and now openly calling them formidable. The worries come through in political ads that urge donors to "Keep Texas Red" and rallies like one in Houston that vowed to "Take Back Harris County."
Rousing this new conservative unease is Battleground Texas, a new political action committee led by Obama campaign veterans, and its support of a rare jewel for Texas Democrats: a charismatic gubernatorial candidate with national star power in state Sen. Wendy Davis.
"They've proven to be effective in some other states. They've proven to be well-organized," said Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who stockpiled more than $20 million over the past several years in his bid to replace Perry next year.
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn appears likely to escape a viable Republican or Democratic challenger in 2014, but nonetheless OK'd his campaign beginning a "Keep It Red" message this summer. His aides say nearly 13,000 supporters have signed a pledge and the campaign is coordinating block walks and social media-training – efforts that mirror Battleground Texas.
The dread over a Democratic resurgence discomfits with an opponent that hasn't won a statewide office since 1994. Conservatives' grip on Texas has tightened every year since, and peaked only two years ago when Republicans won a rare supermajority in the Legislature and rammed through pet measures such as new voter ID laws.
But Republicans insist the fear is real despite their dominance and the long odds that Davis faces next year, and that their concerns aren't a feigned ploy to shake down donors. Cornyn's campaign says 98 percent of its nearly 500 donors to "Keep It Red" have given $100 or less.
FreedomWorks, the deep-pocketed conservative group that funded Ted Cruz's victory to the Senate in 2012, also has unveiled its own "Come & Take It Texas" drive.
"We said this is something we need to take seriously. Then it became, 'OK, we need a plan,'" Cornyn campaign manager Brendan Steinhause said.
At an upscale Houston mall, Abbott and Bush headlined a rally that warned of a possible turning tide. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said it was time "to draw a line in the sand," starting with the nation's fourth-largest city and surrounding county, which Obama carried in 2008 and 2012.
Up later was Bush, the nephew of former President George W. Bush who is running for state land commissioner: "If anybody from Battleground Texas tells you they're about to turn Texas blue, we're going to say?"
"No way!" the crowd returned.
A table outside the entrance hawked $20 T-shirts emblazoned with red-meat messages such as, "God, Guns and Guts Made America – Let's Keep All Three!" On every chair inside the ballroom, a petition on yellow paper called on lawmakers to defend the Texas Constitution's definition of marriage and rued the rise of domestic partner benefits in the workplace.
It wasn't a packed house – and the rank-and-file who came weren't the younger and Hispanic voters that Republicans need. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples, who said he thinks Davis' filibuster riled up Democrats enough to cost Republicans seats as soon as next November, reminded the audience that the party's average age of delegates is 58.
Lauren Martinez, 26, noticed with disappointment that there weren't many others her age around. She said she's been surprised to see friends lining up behind Davis.
"As a young person, I see a lot of my friends supporting her," Martinez said. "People that I would have thought were more conservative."
Davis, a two-term state senator, is still regarded as a long shot despite a national celebrity propelled by her nearly 13-hour filibuster over abortion restrictions in the Texas Capitol this summer. Battleground Texas is out to give her a fighting chance.
Launched in February, the organization has since made nearly two-dozen hires and expects to eventually have a staff of 100, executive director Jenn Brown said. She said Battleground Texas has signed an additional 10,000 volunteers.
But Democrats need money as much as bodies, and Battleground Texas' prowess as a fundraising arm remains to be seen. It raised $1 million in its first month, the same amount that Abbott reported receiving in both July and August.
Brown, who wouldn't reveal the current balance of donation, said Republicans have taken Texas for granted. She said roughly 8 of 10 donors in its first month were in-state but acknowledged party interest beyond Texas borders.
"Obviously, there is national excitement from Democrats about being more competitive in Texas," Brown said.
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Leaping toward new challanges Anthony Lazzeri, Carol Warren, and Richard Wynkoop have taken a new perspective for group projects at the Ohio Supercomputer Center.
"My original idea for our animated project was to fly into an ENIAC computer and compare the Ferrite (a type of Iron Oxide) cores to a modern silicon chip, but when I presented the idea to the group, they were on a roll. Boom, boom, boom, idea after idea. Talk about brainstorming, I've never worked with a more intellectual and enthusiastic group before," said Carol Warren.
Our animated project was created from ideas never thought of before in past SI years.The ending result of our creative brainstorming and hard work was a "Computer Fly-Through" in which the camera was set as if the veiwers were the ones standing there, what was on the screen was what the viewers would see if they were flying actually flying through themselves.
"It took a lot of time and effort, but we learned from our mistakes and creaded a promising result," commented Richard Wyncoop.
Instead of going into an ENIAC and taking a Ferrite Core out to compare to a modern silicon chip, we decide to explore the insides of a T3D computer (a modern computer by CRAY), including the chip board and a fly through the wires to the monitor. Once we hit the monitor, the the camera changes hands and an imaginary person takes the camera from inside the monitor where we are to the outside and shows our faces smashed against the inside of the monior.
"The most valuable lesson I learned was that in a group situation, cooperation is the key. If you don't cooperate, all you do is waste time and cause more problems in the long run. This is a life lesson which I will never forget and definetly use in the future," explained Anthony Lazzeri.


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Opinion: Mexico's Teacher Unions Put Students Last
WSJ's "Americas" columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady talks with James Freeman about the tension between teachers unions in Mexico and newly elected President Enrique Peña Nieto. Photo: Associated Press.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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The National Association of Realtors published median single-family existing home prices across the major metropolitan areas for the first quarter of 2014. Clicking on the map above will show prices (in thousands of dollars) over the last three years, as well as the first quarter, and the percentage change in prices from last year.
The median price nationally in the first quarter for an existing single-family home was $191,600, a rise of 8.6% from a year ago, though that masks incredible variations by area.
The top five most expensive markets were San Jose, Calif. ($808,000); San Francisco ($679,800); Honolulu ($672,300); Anaheim-Santa Ana, Calif. ($669,800) and San Diego ($483,000).
The least expensive were Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, Ohio ($64,600); Decatur, Ill. ($69,600); Toledo, Ohio ($72,100); Rockford, Ill. ($73,100) and Cumberland, Md. ($81,400).
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Last week I rolled The Red Shark from her darkened cavern into a weak sunshine that lapped at her pale skin for the first time in many long winter months. Seven days shy of the ides of March, I fired her up and the glorious sound of a 5-liter Porsche V8 hit the sterile air and bare trees with a reverberating and authoritative thump that transcends anything Detroit ever bolted together.
I pressed a button and opened the sunroof, and as the late winter sun fell upon my receding hairline I swear I heard the heavens open in a crescendo of violins, harps and angel song. I considered that the fuel she was burning was several months old, but The Red Shark was ingesting it with a gusto that divulged her inherent and lusty hunger, and within moments the windows were down and I sparked a smoke to commemorate the occasion, feeling expansive and perhaps even a bit imperious as I blew my noxious fumes into the frigid wasteland of my birth.
I pulled into a diner that advertised breakfast for $3.99, and shutting down the big Porsche 928S4 I intended to load up on a hideous mountain of scrambled protein, animal bi-products, and cured, salted meat. I found myself at the counter with two ancient codgers, and one of them leaned over towards me, his breath foul with the odious scent of processed meat, and he said, That's a nice car you got there, boy. Betch'a put in a lot of extra hours for that little trophy bride, eh? And he and his pal degenerated into the low and knowing chuckles of pernicious wisdom.
My three-egg Lumber Jack Special was delivered with all the fanfare of the previous 10,000 plates which came before it. Yup, he added. I'm sure that Dolly cost you a pretty penny. He took another bracing slug from his bottomless cup of coffee, his hundredth of the day, and as he tried to refocus his eyes on me he added, Had me a fancy car once, with a rumble seat and a metalflake paintjob. Just had to have it--Lord knows why.
You don't say, was all I could think to say. A rumble seat, huh? Was that an option?
What are you, some kind of wiseacre? he asked heatedly. What else do you think they'd put in that spot? A satellite dish? A microwave oven? He looked at me as though I were an idiot.
Well, I began, fumbling, I've never actually sat in a rumble seat
Figures, he spat. Let me tell you something. It was never actually worth the cost. Oh, it looked like a good deal, that leather seat gleaming in the sunshine, but I never actually got to sit in it, to enjoy it. I was always too busy working to make the payments on time! It breaks my heart to think about the time I've wasted driving to work, droning along in the passing lane at a crawl, day after day, week after week. I don't think I ever enjoyed a minute of it. I'd like to have all that wasted time back.
It was then that I decided to take leave of my breakfast companions, and I stepped into the sunlit promise of a spring day in early March. I drew a full breath of fragrant and inspiring air into my lungs and felt infused with the potential for rebirth. I looked at my car across the lot, sitting pretty against the drab backdrop of late winter, a brilliant red mechanical jewel contrasting the empty nakedness of the dreariest New England months. I found myself once again admiring her lines and long curves, the stance of the machine, the way the rear of the car transitions so beautifully into the sideso unmistakably Porsche. I climbed in and twisted the key and for the second time on that wonderful day the bare trees echoed with the thumping and rhythmic sound of a Teutonic V8.
I watched the gauges spring to life and thought about what that old geezer had said. I'm sure that when I get to his point in life I'll have my own set of unimpeachable gripes, and that, like him, I'll be more than willing to heap them onto anyone who'll listen. But one thing I'm sure of, my dear Hanzy, one thing I'm absolutely sure of, one of them won't be moaning about time I've spent driving to work in my car.


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Susanne Friedrich was born in Vienna, Austria, and received her cello training at the Vienna Conservatory, studying with Victor Görlich and Josef Luitz. She received a Masters degree in cello performance as well as a cello pedagogy degree from the Vienna Conservatory. She participated in a master class with Mischa Maisky.
Friedrich taught as Josef Luitz's assistant at the International Chamber Music Festival Allegro Vivo for 9 years, as well as taking part in the Payerbacher Meisterkurse, directed by Eva Salmutter. While already a freelance cellist and teacher at the Vienna Conservatory Preparatory School she spent one year studying baroque cello at the Innsbruck Conservatory (State of Tyrol) with Max Engel. This brought her into period performing and established the contact with Paul Angerer's group Concilium Musicum, with whom she performed as their only cellist for many years, touring all of Austria and Europe as well as Southeast Asia.
During Friedrich's years in Vienna she played regularly with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Wiener Kammeroper (Vienna Chamber Opera), for whom she also contracted the orchestra. In 1997 she moved to the Boston area to establish herself as a freelance player with many of New England's orchestras. She is assistant principal of Symphony New Hampshire and plays regularly with many other ensembles. She founded Trio Orione (piano trio) together with Katharina Radlberger and Roy Imperio, as well as the Vienna Waltz Ensemble, which performs Strauss' waltzes and polkas, and is a member of Trio con Brio, two flutes and cello, with Wendy Vignaux and Laura Wilkins. Susanne teaches cello and chamber music at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, Dana Hall School of Music, and Rivers School Conservatory.
M.A. (Univ. of Vienna, Austria), M.M. in cello performance and pedagogy (Vienna Conservatory); studies with Josef Luitz and Mischa Maisky on modern cello, with Max Engel (Tyrol State Conservatory, Innsbruck) on baroque cello; former faculty Vienna Conservatory, Preparatory School.


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Inside the NBA's New Style Wars
The rivalry among the NBA's elite has spilled off the court and into an arena where athletes have historically feared to tread: high fashion. Players show up for games wearing leather pants, lensless glasses, and printed silk shirts—and that's just Russell Westbrook. GQ's Steve Marsh spent a week trailing basketball's biggest names—Kevin Durant, Kobe, D-Wade, LeBron—to find out how they're turning the league into a runway for the world's tallest peacocks
The moment Russell Westbrook steps off the bus in Denver for the Oklahoma City Thunder's game against the Nuggets, you get the feeling that something insane is going to happen tonight. He's wearing red leather motorcycle pants, a Superdry bomber jacket, black Doc Martens with the laces undone, and his trademark superfluous eyeglasses. A meager runway gallery awaits him—just a few security guards, OKC's team photographer, and me—but he still disembarks with purpose. Even in a league that's warped from "pinstriped spinnaker on draft night" to "pure line cut slim enough to make Beckham look like a slob," Russ is a radical: His style is a punk provocation, a sartorial troll, and most crucially a full-on style, not just a series of outré outfits that no other player has the guts to wear. He's swinging a leather Dopp kit with his right arm in a repetitive motion that could only be described as swag—young, black, and Oi!—and generally looking like he's striding out of Malcolm McLaren's London SEX shop in 1976. Every element of hiscostume is an extension of the identity he projects: part worldly NBA superstar, part suedehead hooligan.
A few hours later, in what NBA bloggers now refer to as "the queso incident," Westbrook lives up to his look. It all starts during a time-out when Rocky the Mountain Lion, the Nuggets' plushy yellow mascot, heaves up a perfect-looking half-court shot. If he makes it, everybody in the Pepsi Center wins a free side of queso from Qdoba. But as the ball slo-mos toward the rim, Westbrook races over, leaps up, and pulls a supervillain move, intercepting it and inspiring the most scornful cascade of boos I've ever heard.
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Westbrook's style-provocateur act has already become renowned in the NBA, because he stars on one of the league's two best teams, appears regularly on nationally televised games—where coverage of that short catwalk from the bus to the locker room is de rigueur—and is expected to return to the NBA's fashion week, the Finals, in June. But he is only one point of light in the league's new style-savvy firmament, just one Instagram account in a sea of vanity-mirrored baller selfies. After all, the Thunder are merely watching the Heat's (bespoke-tailored) throne. While Kobe Bryant can stand outside the Lakers locker room and proclaim to me, "I'm the Valentino of the NBA," as he explains that he's leaving "the preppy-hipster look" to the younger generation, Miami's swaggy Big Three—LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh—cannot relax. Not in a league where Amar'e Stoudemire can be found posting up in the front row of the Lanvin show at Paris fashion week, where Rajon Rondo's retinue is trying to persuade Givenchy to pour a custom mold exclusively for his size 13 feet, where Steve Nash can pull the faux-disaffected Clooney, brushing off my questions about his style with an "I don't take it that seriously" while going Gatsby (that's Kobe's nickname for him) in a suit from a Canadian made-to-order Internet clothier that he has a financial stake in.
A few days later, Westbrook's publicist tells me that within certain rarefied fashion circles, RW is known as "the Kate Moss of the NBA." Evidently somebody at Vogue wrote this to her in an e-mail. When I ask Russ how he feels about being compared to a female British supermodel famous for making heroin chic and saying things like "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels," he assures me he's cool with it. "It's a little different," he says. "But I think it got said because some people are not afraid to do certain things or wear certain stuff. You have to have a certain swagger about you." Even Westbrook has his limits, of course—Kanye's infamous leather kilt, for instance. Though in his next breath Russ allows that he'd "be open to it if it were a slimmer fit."
The NBA has had fashion moments before—Clyde Frazier wearing his wide-brimmed Borsalino on the cover of Esquire, the introduction of the Air Jordan in the mid-'80s, Allen Iverson bringing cornrows, baggy jeans, and garish jewelry from the hood to the hardwood in the late '90s—but the sine waves of high fashion and locker-room style have never synced up quite like they do right now. More than in any other sport, basketball showcases the individual; we can see each player's tics and idiosyncrasies when he's on the court, and that's how we begin to decide who we think he is. And at least as far back as Frazier, no sport has been more enmeshed in the allure of black culture and style. But recently, whether it's sparked by the explosion of social media or the imposition of David Stern's corporate-friendly dress code, or whether it's just the logical outcome of the ongoing gene splice of NBA superstars to multinational apparel companies, the players are more self-aware than ever, more cognizant that personal style is a prerequisite for personal brand. Whether they actually love fashion or not, they understand the need to be perceived as style leaders, at least of some kind, in order to maximize their shoe-company contracts.
Consider the OKC Thunder. When they're in uniform, Westbrook and his All-NBA teammate, forward Kevin Durant, are the league's youngest, most exciting Batman-and-Robin act; in street clothes—the term feels nearly archaic—they are two opposite fronts in the NBA's escalating style wars. If Westbrook is the NBA's Kate Moss, then Durant is trying to become its Kate Middleton—aristocratic and punctilious. Whereas Westbrook invites regular hazing from Charles Barkley and three-quarters of Twitter for dressing like a badass Ziggy Stardust in glammy Neil Barrett silver-leather shirts and Givenchy hoodies, Durant keeps it on the Take Ivy tip, seldom venturing far from the prepped-up hipster look favored around the league of late, pairing his Air Jordans or AF1s with various combos of custom-tailored cardigan, collared shirt, and corduroys. He's running for president, not leading an insurgency.
Compared to the NBA's established style kings, Durant is still on the climb, newly intrigued, still searching for his look. "I always wanted to be fly," he tells me outside a Barneys in Santa Monica, where he can't find one piece of off-the-rack clothing to fit his super-elongated limbs. "I always put stuff together," he says. "But it was hard for me to find clothes, since I was so tall, my feet were so big, my arms were so long."
For many of these guys, that's the biggest barrier: Not one designer in the industry—not one—is thinking six feet nine, 235, with a plus wingspan when determining next season's look. Another is functionality: NBA players sweat for a living. They're most comfortable in workout clothes, because that's where they live. Until last season, Durant was that guy. Then he was approached after a game by Regi Puckett, an enterprising stylist in Chicago, who told him he could push his look beyond the schoolboy knapsack-with-the-safety-strap gimmick he made famous during the previous year's playoffs. Now Durant can screen-grab a picture of a peacoat or a pair of slacks that he sees in a magazine or a blog and send it to Puckett, who will get the piece constructed to Durantula proportions.
Westbrook, on the other hand, is normal-human-sized (he's six feet three) and can buy straight off the rack. He's loved shopping since his mother brought him to downtown L.A.'s fashion alley as a little kid. Now, he says, "if I get bored after working out, I'll find some shops and go check it out and see if they have some new stuff. See what's good. I go to Barneys; I go to Gucci, Louis, YSL. I go everywhere—Rodeo Drive, Vivienne Westwood, Marc Jacobs, Joyrich. I'm all around."
He's found friends within the haute couture scene, tagging along with _Vogue'_s André Leon Talley during New York's Fashion Week last fall. "ALT's not really into sports," he says, "but we were able to conversate about the history of fashion, and I was able to get his perspective on the shows and how the fabrics and the clothes fit on the different girls and guys." Westbrook is especially proud that, unlike his peers around the league, he's never hired a stylist. So proud, in fact, that he's hired a publicist to trumpet the fact that he's never hired a stylist. "I know people at stores that will hold stuff for me. I know people that can get me clothes," he says. "But it's not like I have somebody that comes to pick out my outfits."
The surest sign that Westbrook has crossed over as a style icon is the venom he inspires. When I ask Puckett who the most stylish man in the NBA is, he insinuates that it's Kevin and takes a playful jab at Russ in the process. "I'll say he shares a locker room with the guy that has the most people talking about what he's wearing."
Durant immediately defuses style-rivalry talk. "When I look in the mirror and I feel good about myself, that's the only person I'm trying to impress." Later, when I talk to Westbrook, he doesn't rise to the bait, either, but it's clear where he rates in his own mind. I tell him Durant admitted to me that he tunes up his look when he's in a big city like Los Angeles. Does RW also try a little harder in his hometown?
"Nah," he says, dismissively. "I dress up everywhere."
Time-wave zero for the modern era of NBA style is 2005, when the league adopted its new dress code. Vague enough in its language—dress slacks or dress jeans, dress shoes or dress boots; collared shirt on the way into the locker room; no chains, pendants, or medallions worn over clothes; no hats, etc.—it was strictly enforced upon introduction. You may recall some controversy. There were cries of racism, complaints that the league was cracking down on hip-hop fashions in deference to squirrelly corporate sponsors. The architect of the code, NBA commissioner David Stern, has always dismissed that idea. "Our guys were photographed coming into buildings looking like they were going to a day at the beach," he explained to me.
What no one disputes, Stern included, is that a cottage industry bloomed in the code's wake. At this moment in 2013, the NBA's fashion axis stretches from Waraire Boswell, a six-foot-seven bespoke tailor with a showroom in downtown Los Angeles (his clients for suits and separates include Blake Griffin, Chris Bosh, Amar'e Stoudemire, and Tyson Chandler), to Laure Heriard Dubreuil, a well-connected French owner of a 20,000-square-foot multi-luxury-brand boutique in Miami Beach called The Webster, to the woman who has elevated the league's sartorial game higher than anybody else, the Harlem-based stylist Rachel Johnson, a former _Essence_assistant who went on to do video shoots for Jay-Z and N.E.R.D. before landing big-name NBA clients like LeBron James.
This network cajoles American and European designers into expanding the top end of their size runs—Dubreuil has successfully lobbied Givenchy to offer menswear sizes up to 62—and ensures that the players get dibs on items from seasonal lines. (Just before New York's spring Fashion Week, I accompanied Johnson on a mission to Calvin Klein's midtown showroom to pull olood blazers for Stoudemire; STAT's measurements are then sent to Milan, where the jackets are sewn to his size). Johnson claims the stylists have convinced the fashion houses that an NBA player can help "masculinize" their clothes. "Anybody with any insight understands a 'real guy' looks to an athlete before he looks to a waify model," she says, "or even an actor."
Stern freely admits he never saw this coming, and then goes on to imply that he kinda saw this coming. Right after the code was instituted, "a lot of players would whisper to me, I don't know what the fuss is about. _Let's go! _There was a sense that this allowed players to express their sense of style. Our players, individually, took it as a catalyst to show themselves off. And suddenly the response from the public was so overwhelmingly positive that, you know, it's getting to be like the red carpet at the Grammys. Who's dressing you tonight? Armani. Now they are among the best-looking, best-shaped models in the world."
When I first hook up with the Miami Heat, we're in the visiting locker room at the Oracle in Oakland, where they've just knocked off the Golden State Warriors. LeBron scored the 20,000th point of his career tonight, making him the youngest ever to reach this milestone, and the media scrum around his locker has hardened into a callus. Across the room from Bron, Chris Bosh is in one corner, already dressed in a light fern, unbelievably slim custom Waraire Boswell suit and a "CB" tie bar, with a hardcover of Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken visible from his unzipped black Parabellum bag. Dwyane Wade is pulling on a pair of electric-blue Scotch & Soda trousers, which he hikes up to showcase his multicolored hosiery as he hollers, "You need to raise your sock game," in Ray Allen's direction.
This kind of style smack is constant in the Miami locker room, says veteran swingman Shane Battier—so constant that "it's when they stop talking about you that you know you're in trouble." Battier, who limits his own aspirations to "suburban-dad hot" (tailored button-ups under V-neck sweaters with jeans), says that the pressure on Miami's Big Three to dress well every day can be too much for even the most tasteful global icon. "LeBron falters occasionally," Battier declares. "And when he does, we let him know about it."
Bosh, who also works with Rachel Johnson, tells me that while he and Bron "like to be stylish and comfortable," he thinks Wade is more willing to suffer for fashion. Wade agrees. "I take more risks, knowing there are going to be jokes," he says. "Chris doesn't take many risks—he dresses very nice, but he keeps it simple."
Perhaps Wade's most famous risk to date is the pink-chocolate-yellow patent leather Louboutins he wore to the White House on January 28 for the Heat's traditional congrats-on-that-NBA-title photo op with President Obama. Wade admits he was nervous about wearing the sneakers on such an official state visit and had to be nudged by his stylist, Calyann Barnett (who, incidentally, is Rachel Johnson's former assistant).
"I'm always more nervous than her, because I'm the one who has to put this stuff on," he says. "This is my second time going to the White House as a champion. This time I decided on the gray suit. I knew everybody was going to go with something dark, so I wanted to do something different. And I had the gray-white-and-black shoes out that went with the suit, and then there was [the pink pair]. So we sat and thought about it: 'Okay, I can go with the gray-white-and-black ones, but that's typical, and I don't do typical all the time, so let's do something a little different.' And it worked!"
At the ceremony in the East Room—and apologies in advance for the logrolling, especially since military-industrial-fashion-plex logrolling is the worst kind, but I have to do it, if only for the benefit of the archivists—Obama said the following: "We saw Dwyane Wade, the heart and soul of this team, continue to do whatever it takes to win, including leading the team in blocks, and at the postgame press conferences he dressed well enough to land himself in _GQ _magazine." The president then turned away from the podium and, in a scene reminiscent of Lyndon Johnson's CGI'd bemusement with Forrest Gump's bare ass, called out, "Show 'em your kicks here, Dwyane." Satisfied, Obama turned back to the crowd. "If any of you can pull this off other than Dwyane Wade, let me know."
"Fashion is fun to me," Wade tells me later. "I feel like the way that I dress says a lot about my personality. A lot of people will not get a chance to talk to me, but when they look at me, they can get an idea of who Dwyane Wade is."
While the Heat are in D.C. hanging with the president, I pay a visit to Johnson's Harlem office, where she shows me her "inspiration board." On the wall behind her desk is a black pinboard with a collage of looks from fashion magazines cut and pasted underneath each one of her famous clients. It all feels so imperial—courtiers of the court! Can you imagine Magic or Larry ever having an inspiration board? But Johnson has a specific trajectory in mind for LeBron and Bosh for the second half of the season. She wants to continue putting distance between them and the preppy look that David Stern affectionately refers to as "nerdwear." Wade and Barnett, meanwhile, have their own plan for the spring: draining the color from Wade's look and focusing on texture and silhouette, partly to showcase Wade's "maturity" and partly as a cross-promotion for the Chinese shoe company Wade promotes, Li-Ning, whose spring line is the Black Collection.
When I reconnect with the Heat in Brooklyn two nights after their White House trip, it's the team's first-ever visit to the Barclays Center, two weeks before the All-Star break. Wade steps off the bus wearing a beaver-fur bomber hat—his teammates are calling him "the Black Russian"—and a dark green motorcycle jacket by the young British designer Adrien Sauvage. Wade is not quite in Westbrook territory—he loves clothes but hates to shop. "My stylist has done an unbelievable job of opening my mind," he says. "Without her I would be behind the curve. She helps me be in the now and in the future."
After the game, a blowout win for the Heat, the visitors locker room is predictably jam-packed. There's a GQ photographer in here, and plans for a show-offy shot are being hatched, but D-Wade has to shout across the locker room at LeBron to be heard over this din: "HEY, WE GONNA DO THIS PICTURE?" LeBron looks confused amid all the commotion. He shouts back, "I DUNNO. YOU GONNA DO IT?"
They decide to do something unusual: They walk out together, sharing the runway, LeBron wearing an entirely different outfit from the one he wore coming into the arena. It's dressier. This time it's an A.P.C. peacoat over a crisp white shirt and tie. He has a black watchman's cap tilted on his head. Wade is still rocking the Black Russian.
The two of them are flanked by security guards who are mean-mugging through the phalanx of lingerers in the Barclays loading dock. LeBron and Wade get caught in an eddy against a wall, where they smile and say hello to a pair of female fans. The photographer is told to stop shooting, because nobody wants this to look weird. But we're running out of catwalk. Finally, the girls leave.
Wade turns to LeBron and says, "Let's give GQ this money shot."
Steve Marsh is a writer based in Minneapolis.


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My good friend Helen Jupiter just put up an article about little old me on Blogging L.A. It's nice. But who's the creepy guy in the Hawaiian shirt?
Helen is (was?) the lead editor at the Suicide Girls newswire and is the one responsible for getting me the gig over there, for which I shall be eternally grateful. Which reminds me, I gotta go work on the next Suicide Girls piece.


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|This specification defines how the Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (BOSH) technology can be used to transport XMPP stanzas. The result is an HTTP binding for XMPP communications that is useful in situations where a device or client is unable to maintain a long-lived TCP connection to an XMPP server.
|Ian Paterson, Peter Saint-Andre, Lance Stout, Winfried Tilanus
|© 1999 – 2018 XMPP Standards Foundation. SEE LEGAL NOTICES.
|Standards Track
|Last Updated:
NOTICE: The protocol defined herein is a Draft Standard of the XMPP Standards Foundation. Implementations are encouraged and the protocol is appropriate for deployment in production systems, but some changes to the protocol are possible before it becomes a Final Standard.
1. Introduction
2. <body/> Wrapper Element
3. Session Creation Request
4. Session Creation Response
5. Authentication and Resource Binding
6. remote-stream-error
7. recipient-unavailable
8. Security Considerations
9. IANA Considerations
10. XMPP Registrar Considerations
10.1. Protocol Namespaces
11. XML Schema
12. Acknowledgements
A: Document Information
B: Author Information
C: Legal Notices
D: Relation to XMPP
E: Discussion Venue
F: Requirements Conformance
G: Notes
H: Revision History
The BOSH (XEP-0124) [1] protocol defines how arbitrary XML elements can be transported efficiently and reliably over HTTP in both directions between a client and server. This document defines some minor extensions to BOSH that enable XMPP streams (as specified in XMPP Core [2]) to be bound to HTTP.
If the BOSH <body/> wrapper is not empty, then it SHOULD contain one of the following:
Note: Many existing XMPP-specific implementations of BOSH clients and connection managers do not specify the namespace of <message/>, <presence/>, or <iq/> elements, since that allows them to forward stanzas without modification (the XMPP <stream:stream/> wrapper element used with TCP typically sets the default namespace to 'jabber:client'). They instead simply assume that the full content of the 'jabber:client' namespace is a subset of the 'http://jabber.org/protocol/httpbind' namespace.
Note: Inclusion of TLS negotiation elements is allowed but is NOT RECOMMENDED. The definition of how TLS might be implemented over BOSH is currently beyond the scope of this document. Instead, channel encryption SHOULD be completed at the HTTP (transport) layer, not the XMPP (application) layer.
The client SHOULD include a 'version' attribute qualified by the 'urn:xmpp:xbosh' namespace in its session creation request. This attribute corresponds to the 'version' attribute of the XMPP <stream:stream/> element as defined in RFC 6120 [2]. The connection manager SHOULD forward the value to the XMPP server accordingly.
POST /webclient HTTP/1.1 Host: httpcm.jabber.org Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 104 <body content='text/xml; charset=utf-8' email@example.com' hold='1' rid='1573741820' to='example.com' route='xmpp:example.com:9999' wait='60' xml:lang='en' xmpp:version='1.0' xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/httpbind' xmlns:xmpp='urn:xmpp:xbosh'/>
The connection manager can use the 'from' and 'to' attributes to populate the same attributes on the stream header sent from the connection manager to the XMPP server, or can use them for session management purposes specific to the connection manager implementation.
Note: Unlike the protocol defined in Jabber HTTP Polling (XEP-0025) [3], an opening <stream:stream> tag is not sent to the connection manager (since BOSH <body/> elements MUST not contain partial XML elements). Any XML streams between the connection manager and an XMPP server are the responsibility of the connection manager (and beyond the scope of this document).
The connection manager SHOULD include a 'version' attribute (qualified by the 'urn:xmpp:xbosh' namespace) and a <stream:features/> element (qualified by the 'http://etherx.jabber.org/streams' namespace) in a response as soon as they are available, either in its session creation response, or (if it has not yet received them from the XMPP server) in any subsequent response.
If the connection manager supports stream restarts, it MUST advertise that fact by including a 'restartlogic' attribute (qualified by the 'urn:xmpp:xbosh' namespace) whose value is set to "true" [4]. It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED for all XMPP connection managers to support stream restarts, since they are an integral aspect of stream negotiation in XMPP. However, note that some older BOSH implementations do not explicitly advertise support for stream restarts.
Note: The same procedure applies to the obsolete XMPP-specific 'authid' attribute of the BOSH <body/> element, which contains the value of the XMPP stream ID generated by the XMPP server. This value is needed only by legacy XMPP clients in order to complete digest authentication using the obsolete Non-SASL Authentication (XEP-0078) [5] protocol. [6]
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 674 <body wait='60' inactivity='30' polling='5' requests='2' hold='1' from='example.com' accept='deflate,gzip' sid='SomeSID' charsets='ISO_8859-1 ISO-2022-JP' xmpp:restartlogic='true' xmpp:version='1.0' authid='ServerStreamID' xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/httpbind' xmlns:xmpp='urn:xmpp:xbosh' xmlns:stream='http://etherx.jabber.org/streams'> <stream:features> <mechanisms xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-sasl'> <mechanism>SCRAM-SHA-1</mechanism> <mechanism>PLAIN</mechanism> </mechanisms> </stream:features> </body>
If no <stream:features/> element is included in the connection manager's session creation response, then the client SHOULD send empty request elements until it receives a response containing a <stream:features/> element.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 483 <body xmpp:version='1.0' authid='ServerStreamID' xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/httpbind' xmlns:xmpp='urn:xmpp:xbosh' xmlns:stream='http://etherx.jabber.org/streams'> <stream:features> <mechanisms xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-sasl'> <mechanism>SCRAM-SHA-1</mechanism> <mechanism>PLAIN</mechanism> </mechanisms> </stream:features> </body>
Note: The client SHOULD ignore any Transport Layer Security (TLS) feature since BOSH channel encryption SHOULD be negotiated at the HTTP layer.
TLS compression (as defined in RFC 6120 [2]) and Stream Compression (as defined in Stream Compression (XEP-0138) [7]) are NOT RECOMMENDED since compression SHOULD be negotiated at the HTTP layer using the 'accept' attribute of the BOSH session creation response. TLS compression and Stream Compression SHOULD NOT be used at the same time as HTTP content encoding.
Note: The 'version' attribute qualified by the 'urn:xmpp:xbosh' namespace SHOULD also be included on the request and response when adding new streams to a session.
A success case for authentication and resource binding using the XMPP protocols is shown below. For detailed specification of these protocols (including error cases), refer to RFC 6120 [2]. The server MAY offer the SASL-EXTERNAL method, for example when BOSH is used in conjunction with HTTP authentication or TLS authentication on the HTTP level.
POST /webclient HTTP/1.1 Host: httpcm.example.com Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 231 <body rid='1573741821' sid='SomeSID' xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/httpbind'> <auth xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-sasl' mechanism='SCRAM-SHA-1'> biwsbj1qdWxpZXQscj1vTXNUQUF3QUFBQU1BQUFBTlAwVEFBQUFBQUJQVTBBQQ== </auth> </body>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 294 <body xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/httpbind'> <challenge xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-sasl'> cj1vTXNUQUF3QUFBQU1BQUFBTlAwVEFBQUFBQUJQVTBBQWUxMjQ2OTViLTY5Y TktNGRlNi05YzMwLWI1MWIzODA4YzU5ZSxzPU5qaGtZVE0wTURndE5HWTBaaT AwTmpkbUxUa3hNbVV0TkRsbU5UTm1ORE5rTURNeixpPTQwOTY= </challenge> </body>
POST /webclient HTTP/1.1 Host: httpcm.example.com Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 295 <body rid='1573741822' sid='SomeSID' xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/httpbind'> <response xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-sasl'> Yz1iaXdzLHI9b01zVEFBd0FBQUFNQUFBQU5QMFRBQUFBQUFCUFUwQUFlMTI0N jk1Yi02OWE5LTRkZTYtOWMzMC1iNTFiMzgwOGM1OWUscD1VQTU3dE0vU3ZwQV RCa0gyRlhzMFdEWHZKWXc9 </response> </body>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 149 <body xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/httpbind'> <success xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-sasl'> dj1wTk5ERlZFUXh1WHhDb1NFaVc4R0VaKzFSU289 </success> </body>
Upon receiving the <success/> element, the client MUST then ask the connection manager to restart the stream by sending a "restart request" that is structured as follows:
When SASL-EXTERNAL is used in combination with BOSH the BOSH <body/> element SHOULD include the 'from' attribute upon stream restart. This because constrained clients can not always know what credentials were used to authenticate on the HTTP level. The server MUST try to associate the provided 'from' with the credentials that were provided on the other level.
The following example illustrates the format for a restart request.
POST /webclient HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 240 <body rid='1573741824' sid='SomeSID' to='example.com' xml:lang='en' xmpp:restart='true' xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/httpbind' xmlns:xmpp='urn:xmpp:xbosh'/>
Upon receiving a restart request, the connection manager MUST consider the previous stream with the XMPP server to be closed. It MUST then initiate a new stream by sending an opening <stream:stream> tag over the same TCP connection to the XMPP server. If the connection manager receives a <stream:features/> element from the XMPP server, it MUST forward that element to the client:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 221 <body xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/httpbind' xmlns:stream='http://etherx.jabber.org/streams'> <stream:features> <bind xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-bind'/> </stream:features> </body>
The client can then complete any mandatory or discretionary stream feature negotiations.
POST /webclient HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 240 <body rid='1573741825' sid='SomeSID' xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/httpbind'> <iq id='bind_1' type='set' xmlns='jabber:client'> <bind xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-bind'> <resource>httpclient</resource> </bind> </iq> </body>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 221 <body xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/httpbind'> <iq id='bind_1' type='result' xmlns='jabber:client'> <bind xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-bind'> <jid>firstname.lastname@example.com/httpclient</jid> </bind> </iq> </body>
The content of the <body/> element is zero or more stanzas followed by a copy of the <stream:error/> element [9] (qualified by the 'http://etherx.jabber.org/streams' namespace) received from the XMPP server:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 68 <body condition='remote-stream-error' type='terminate' xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/httpbind' xmlns:stream='http://etherx.jabber.org/streams'> <message email@example.com' email@example.com' xmlns='jabber:client'> <body>I said "Hi!"</body> </message> <stream:error> <xml-not-well-formed xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-streams'/> <text xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-streams' xml:lang='en'> Some special application diagnostic information! </text> <escape-your-data xmlns='application-ns'/> </stream:error> </body>
It is possible that a connection manager will receive a stanza for delivery to a client even though the client connection is no longer active (e.g., before the connection manager is able to inform the XMPP server that the connection has died). In this case, the connection manager would return an error to the XMPP server; it is RECOMMENDED that the connection manager proceed as follows, since the situation is similar to that addressed by point #2 of Section 11.1 of RFC 6121 [10]
When an XMPP server receives a <message/> stanza of type "error" containing a <recipient-unavailable/> condition from a connection manager, it SHOULD store the message for later delivery if offline storage is enabled (see Best Practices for Handling Offline Messages (XEP-0160) [11]), otherwise route the error stanza to the sender.
This protocol does not introduce any new security considerations beyond those specified in BOSH and XMPP Core.
This document requires no interaction with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) [12].
The XMPP Registrar [13] includes 'urn:xmpp:xbosh' in its registry of protocol namespaces.
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <xs:schema xmlns:xs='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' targetNamespace='urn:xmpp:xbosh' xmlns='urn:xmpp:xbosh' attributeFormDefault='qualified' elementFormDefault='qualified'> <xs:annotation> <xs:documentation> The protocol documented by this schema is defined in XEP-0206: http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0206.html </xs:documentation> </xs:annotation> <xs:attribute name='restart' type='xs:boolean' default='false'/> <xs:attribute name='restartlogic' type='xs:boolean' default='false'/> <xs:attribute name='version' type='xs:string' default='1.0'/> </xs:schema>
Thanks to Dave Cridland, Steffen Larsen, Matt Miller, Jack Moffitt, Stefan Strigler, Mike Taylor, Winfried Tilanus, Ashley Ward, and Matthew Wild for their feedback.
Thanks to Kevin Winters for his assistance with the schema.
Series: XEP
Number: 0206
Publisher: XMPP Standards Foundation
Status: Draft
Type: Standards Track
Version: 1.4
Last Updated: 2014-04-09
Approving Body: XMPP Council
Dependencies: XMPP Core, XEP-0124
Supersedes: None
Superseded By: None
Short Name: xbosh
Schema: <http://www.xmpp.org/schemas/xbosh.xsd>
Source Control: HTML
This document in other formats: XML PDF
JabberID: email@example.com
JabberID: email@example.com
URI: http://stpeter.im/
JabberID: firstname.lastname@example.com
The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is defined in the XMPP Core (RFC 6120) and XMPP IM (RFC 6121) specifications contributed by the XMPP Standards Foundation to the Internet Standards Process, which is managed by the Internet Engineering Task Force in accordance with RFC 2026. Any protocol defined in this document has been developed outside the Internet Standards Process and is to be understood as an extension to XMPP rather than as an evolution, development, or modification of XMPP itself.
The primary venue for discussion of XMPP Extension Protocols is the <firstname.lastname@example.com> discussion list.
Discussion on other xmpp.org discussion lists might also be appropriate; see <http://xmpp.org/about/discuss.shtml> for a complete list.
Errata can be sent to <email@example.com>.
The following requirements keywords as used in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119: "MUST", "SHALL", "REQUIRED"; "MUST NOT", "SHALL NOT"; "SHOULD", "RECOMMENDED"; "SHOULD NOT", "NOT RECOMMENDED"; "MAY", "OPTIONAL".
1. XEP-0124: Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0124.html>.
2. RFC 6120: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6120>.
3. XEP-0025: Jabber HTTP Polling <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0025.html>.
4. In accordance with Section 220.127.116.11 of XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes, the allowable lexical representations for the xs:boolean datatype are the strings "0" and "false" for the concept 'false' and the strings "1" and "true" for the concept 'true'; implementations MUST support both styles of lexical representation.
5. XEP-0078: Non-SASL Authentication <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0078.html>.
6. Separate 'sid' and 'authid' attributes are required because the connection manager is not necessarily part of a single XMPP server (e.g., it may handle HTTP connections on behalf of multiple XMPP servers).
7. XEP-0138: Stream Compression <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0138.html>.
8. It is known that some connection manager implementations accept an XML stanza in the body of the restart request and send that stanza to the server when the stream is restarted; however there is no guarantee that a connection manager will send the stanza so a client cannot rely on this behavior.
9. Earlier obsolete versions of this protocol specified that the <body/> element should contain only the content of the <stream:error/> element.
10. RFC 6121: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Instant Messaging and Presence <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6121>.
11. XEP-0160: Best Practices for Handling Offline Messages <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0160.html>.
12. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the central coordinator for the assignment of unique parameter values for Internet protocols, such as port numbers and URI schemes. For further information, see <http://www.iana.org/>.
13. The XMPP Registrar maintains a list of reserved protocol namespaces as well as registries of parameters used in the context of XMPP extension protocols approved by the XMPP Standards Foundation. For further information, see <https://xmpp.org/registrar/>.
Note: Older versions of this specification might be available at http://xmpp.org/extensions/attic/
Incorporated patches from community review.(ls/wt)
Added 'restartlogic' attribute per XSF ticket SPEC-8; added note about use of the 'from' and 'to' attributes from XEP-0124 in relation to XML stream headers as specified in RFC 6120.(psa)
Clarified handling of xbosh restart -- client MUST send the restart and the body MUST be empty; removed IM session establishment examples because that protocol is deprecated in RFC 6121; corrected XML schema.(psa)
remote-stream-error includes full <stream:error/> element (not just its content) and optional stanzas(ip)
Initial version (extracted from XEP-0124 version 1.5); deprecated non-SASL authentication and authid attribute; multiple clarifications and restructuring without changes to protocol itself; added optional version and restart attributes.(ip)


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The tax was based upon an assessed valuation of the facility at $2.3 million. In 2007, Blue Mountain Hospital paid $507 in property tax, based upon 8.67 acres of vacant land valued at $30,000.
County Assessor Howard Randall said that the not-for-profit hospital met the federal and state requirements for tax exempt status.
In other business, the commission approved the hiring of Krista Keyes as Monticello Librarian and approved a building permit for a residence and garage in Bluff.
The commission also discussed the renewal of the county insurance coverage for employees, and decided to renew the coverage changing the stop pay to $75,000 and also making changes to encourage the purchase of generic prescription drugs.
The commission also expressed concern over the 30 percent increase in administration fees and commented on plans to accept competitive bids in the spring.
Commissioners are concerned about more than $1 million in property taxes owed to local government entities by the Lisbon Valley Mining LLC, which operates the Lisbon Valley copper mill. Lisbon Valley has yet to pay nearly $900,000 in property tax from 2008 and an additional $281,033 in property tax that is due by December 1, 2008.
Commissioners have investigated a number of options to secure the property tax. The Lisbon Valley copper mine ceased operations and laid off more than 100 workers in early 2008. The mill is still extracting copper from the previously mined ore.
Lisbon Valley officials apparently secured contracts to sell large amounts of copper, but soon learned that the milling operation couldn't keep up with the contract amounts. As a result, the company buys copper on the open market to meet the contract deliverables.
Copper is currently valued at roughly $1.65 a pound, down from a high near $4 a pound before the recent economic downturn.


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Redistricting complete; now the lawsuits
The Doyle Report
November 11, 2011
Three lawsuits have been filed regarding the recent redistricting of the West Virginia House of Delegates. One lodges a general complaint that the entire plan is unconstitutional....
I prefer gerrymandered districts to look like gingerbread men or women. Salamanders are old school.
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Rush Limbaugh, the Armed Forces Network and Women in the Military
I know. You say, not another story about Limbaugh and his faux pas; not another example of selective outrage; not another piling on Rush.
Perhaps, perhaps not.
Because Limbaugh is — I believe — quite popular with our military; because his show is broadcast to our troops overseas via the Armed Forces Network (AFN) radio and, last but not least, because his unfortunate remarks were directed against a woman and — as you will read below –"Women now represent 17 percent of the force …" I decided to do a very unscientific survey of the reactions of some of our military, retired military, veterans, DoD personnel and dependents.
What better source than the "Letters to the Editor" section of the venerable Stars and Stripes published for our troops and DoD personnel serving abroad.
So, without further ado, the following is a cross-section of the letters on the Limbaugh subject published in the last ten days in the Stripes. Actually, unless I missed one or two, these are all the letters on this subject.
First, from a Chief Warrant Officer stationed in Germany who is "Sick of selective outrage":
As the outrage on the left continues over what Rush Limbaugh said, where is the outrage over the real point? A 30-year-old woman going to Georgetown (a Jesuit university) wants taxpayers to pay for her birth control. She knew full well that the school's health plan did not cover birth control but decided to go anyway in the hopes she could change their policy. She spoke at a trumped-up press conference held by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., because she was not allowed to speak at the Senate hearing trying to determine if it was legal for the president to order Catholic schools/hospitals/businesses to cover contraception and morning-after pills in their insurance plans when it is against their beliefs. Sandra Fluke has no expertise in this area and that was why she was not allowed to testify before the Senate panel.
As to the name-calling that Limbaugh did toward Fluke, I agree 100 percent that it was not called for. But where is the outrage over the double standard on civility? Bill Maher called Sarah Palin names that were a lot worse than "slut" and "prostitute" and then donated a million dollars to the super PAC that supports President Barack Obama. Where was the outrage?
Wanda Sykes performed at a White House Correspondents Association dinner with the president there and said she hoped that Limbaugh's kidneys failed and also that he needed to be waterboarded. Where is the outrage?
When conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart died, Rolling Stone posted the following headline: "Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche." Where is the outrage?
As long as it is the left/liberals/Democrats saying the hate speech it is OK, but when anyone else says anything it needs to be immediately condemned and repudiated?
A woman in Wiesbaden, Germany, claims that this is "Not a war against Limbaugh" and makes the following points:
1) Sticks and stones: We need to admit that words injure, especially in our digital age when the vast majority of communication revolves around the digital pen. When Limbaugh uses the portmanteau word "feminazi" or the less creative slur "slut," it triggers deep emotional responses. Those who use hate speech, like Limbaugh, deserve our scorn — as this type of mentality encompasses everything that is wrong with civilized society. Discriminatory words echo dark phases and phrases in human history that we must not repeat.
2) If it bleeds, it leads: As any veteran (I'm one) knows, the only thing that looks like a war zone is a war zone. Often we read headlines that revolve around wars. While it is true that tornadoes, hurricanes, fires and floods leave behind a path of destruction, such damage is generally characteristic of natural elements alone. Nature's chaos does not generally stop with human intervention, and comparisons between storm destruction and a war zone reduce the impact of human conflict.
Other word inflictions have to do with word pairings. Class warfare is one such word combination that proves problematic because it plays off the visualization of live ammunition and a real battlefield. Additionally, words, parodies or symbols juxtaposed or branded with Nazism, anti-Semitic sentiment and racist attitudes severely diminish the horrors and genocide of an entire people.
3) Fool me once, shame on you: If we take into consideration the multitude of times Limbaugh either [implies] or uses sexist, racist and misogynistic language, it only proves one thing — his rants do not hold up against a claim of ignorance. In fact, Limbaugh's apology is a lie. Apologies are a good start, especially in the case of ignorance, but sometimes not enough. To ignore Limbaugh's hate-filled messages is to support a cycle of abuse against women and civilized people. If we take the microphone away from Limbaugh, it removes but one hateful liar from the broadcast airwaves. Nevertheless, one at a time we can make a personal choice not to listen to individuals who speak about women in cruel ways.
4) The pen is mightier than the sword: While words do not literally shoot bullets, they do puncture. This is not a "war" against Limbaugh. We do not want to "kill" Limbaugh. Likewise, if we repeal support for Limbaugh, it is not a bullet fired directly into the heart of the First Amendment. It is sensational to call a stand against Limbaugh a "war" on freedom of speech. Action against hate speech is simply action against old mentalities. We need action if we ever hope to change our world and strive toward a future where equality is the goal.
The following letter, from a retired woman Navy Commander, is built around the premise that:
The 21st century in America is not the America of the 1960s when I joined the Navy and the force was only 2 percent women, with major restrictions on women's service. The roles and influence of military women mirror those across the nation today. Women now represent 17 percent of the force and opportunities for, as well as attitudes about, military women have dramatically changed, including combat roles.
And that in the absence of appropriate legislation to pull Limbaugh's radio show, "Pentagon leaders must step up to the plate and make this decision for the following reasons":
Limbaugh has been able to get away with his misogynistic remarks for decades, but not now. Women have come too far to allow such slanderous remarks as he used against Fluke. His recent comments are the culmination of years of his negative rants about "those feminazis" and thorough disrespect of the female gender.
Americans are for the First Amendment and free speech, but Limbaugh's remarks are exponentially more serious than just a pundit making a fool of himself. He influences many people who listen to his show, including young military men and women.
Five times a week AFN, funded by taxpayers, airs Rush Limbaugh's radio show, a show popular among the troops; juxtapose this fact with another: For many years military-politico leaders have been deeply concerned about high rates of sexual assault on and rape of women in the services by their male counterparts.
A policy decision by the Department of Defense tacitly to endorse Rush's form of talk by broadcasting his show on a closed network, paid for by taxpayers and with minimal competing viewpoints, demands immediate reconsideration. To permit someone on AFN who consistently calls women feminazis, who uses disparaging language that [some believe] encourages discrimination and violence against women is both wrong and unacceptable. It is unacceptable to the military, its standards and ethical values, and unacceptable to the nation and its vision for equality and opportunity for women. Needless to say, to correct this problem should inherently be a nonpartisan decision.
High statistics regarding sexual assault against our military women constitute sufficient cause alone for DOD to remove Rush Limbaugh's show without delay. Any justification for the U.S. military not to take a strong stand opposing this type of broadcasting is purely political.
Finally, a man at Camp Walker, South Korea also addresses the AFN issue saying "Limbaugh [is]unfit for AFN"
After summarizing Limbaugh's offensive comments, he says:
The Department of Defense has a zero-tolerance policy on sexual harassment. How can it keep Rush Limbaugh on American Forces Network radio after such unacceptable statements? If he was in uniform, he would be facing a Uniform Code of Military Justice hearing.
What does it say about all of the work that military sexual assault response coordinators do if AFN will not remove Limbaugh's show from its programming?
I am sure our readers will find other reactions from our troops in other publications. Please give us a sense of the overall direction.


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When Bowers & Wilkins set out to create the world's best loudspeaker, we asked ourselves some fundamental questions. Is it possible to create a theoretically perfect speaker – one that produces next to no distortion? Does a speaker have to be a box? If you remove the box, what would a speaker look like? More importantly, what would it sound like? The result was Nautilus.
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Crucial drive unit components are made using a mix of hand-assembly techniques and semi-automatic production. For example, voice coils are wet-wound with high-temperature resin, then baked in a special oven to ensure enhanced performance and durability. This perfectionism makes for a slow production process, but ensures we consistently reach world-class levels of quality.
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Nautilus comes in three standard colours: silver, black and midnight blue. But, as befits such a unique speaker, we also offer a special service that can match any colour you specify from a sample or colour reference.
Our founder, John Bowers, always dreamed of building the perfect speaker – one that brings sounds to the listener exactly as they were recorded. His dream inspires all Bowers & Wilkins designs. And it's why we set out on the groundbreaking, five year research and development programme that resulted in Nautilus. The result is the dream of a visionary audio engineer made into reality.
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Gross overweight or obesity is spreading like a pandemic. In 2006, WHO estimated that half of all adults and one fifth of all children in Europe are overweight. Of these, about one third is considered obese.
In 2009, these figures were confirmed for Germany in a micro census by the Federal Statistical Office: Fifteen per cent of Germans were classified as obese. Today, over ten times more children in Europe are obese than in 1970. Obesity is responsible for numerous diseases including such severe ones as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer.
Obesity results when the body stores excess energy in the form of fat molecules in white fat tissue. Large deposits of white fat can be found, for example, at the stomach, hips and buttocks. However, apart from white fat cells, there is a second type of body fat, the brown fat tissue. Unlike energy-storing white fat tissue, brown fat tissue burns energy by converting it to heat.
Until recently, scientists believed that in humans, only babies have active brown fat. In 2007, several research groups discovered this tissue type also in adult humans. Last year, a research team led by Stephan Herzig of DKFZ showed that prostaglandin, an inflammatory hormone in our body, stimulates the formation of brown fat-like cells within white fat.
These findings could lead to a completely new way of fighting obesity. Activating or regenerating only small amounts of brown fat tissue would significantly increase the breaking down of white fat, consumption of glucose (blood sugar) and, thus, an individual's output of energy. This is also confirmed by the observation that lean people have – relatively speaking – more brown fat tissue than overweight people. Researchers are therefore looking for ways of stimulating brown fat to proliferate or to produce more heat by dietary measures or drugs. Some scientists have even considered transplanting brown fat cells. "Estimates suggest that an additional 50 grams of brown fat tissue would be enough to increase an adult person's energy output by 20 per cent," said Herzig. "What we are trying to achieve here is not to help people attain what they believe to be a perfect body shape. Instead, our aim is to treat severely obese people by repairing a defective glucose tolerance, for example, improving the effect of insulin, and thus to combat type 2 diabetes."
To this end, Herzig's group has teamed up with 19 partner institutes from 12 European countries. The European Union will provide funds of six million euros for this research project over the next four years. The consortium has named itself "DIABAT", a made-up word combining "diabetes" and "BAT", the acronym for "brown adipose tissue", or brown fat tissue. Herzig is pleased: "This is the first time that research into the promising properties of brown fat tissue is being supported on a large scale in Europe."
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Their newest release is this Dramatic Memory Rouge Liquid Lip Colour! This stuff offers higher coverage than a normal gloss and is supposed to last longer too.
The whole range is a rather natural, rosy collection:
I picked out two shades, PK-1 and RD-3. To be clear, PK means PINK and RD means RED – this type of lettering system is very common with Japanese cosmetics. The number indicates that it is from the same colour family but is a different tone, usually (not always) getting darker the higher the number gets.
When they arrived I was surprised by how similar they looked:
Red? Pink? They both look more like coral peaches to me!
Anyway, the packaging is lovely – really study, well made heavy tubes with a soft doe-foot applicator.
Lavshuca packaging is always lovely really:
Even next to each other these shades are far too similar for my liking. Hmph. That aside I am totally in love with this lip gloss.
It definitely has a thick texture – not gloopy but certainly thick, hydrating and very glossy. It fills in the lines on the lips and is quite opaque so covers any lip pigmentation.
Both of these have a faint shimmer that is quite natural and pretty:
PK-1 is my favourite of the two but they are quite similar!
I love both of these glosses but I can't see a huge variation between shades so am not tempted to buy more right now. Nevertheless, these glosses are wonderful if you want something with good pigmentation, high shine, a lush finish and slightly sticky, so that it really stays in place all day.
I bought these from adambeauty.com for $13 each.