Confirmed: Fleshlight Is STILL Developing an iPad Case You Can Have Sex With (NSFW)
By Kyle Wagner
You were getting worried, weren’t you. It’s been the better part of a year since we confirmed that the iPad sex toy case was going to (probably) be a real thing. I was worried. So we checked in with Fleshlight, who told us, Yes!?This is still going to be a thing!?
A Fleshlight spokesman told us, “We are developing the iPad attachment. Beyond that, we cannot comment.” Mystery!
If anyone has any information, or spy shots from Fleshbot’s supply chain, email us at tipbox@gizmodo.com.?
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The lines of New York area motorists scrambling for gasoline lengthened on Friday, as a third day of "panic buying" intensified and tempers flared even as pipelines and oil tankers resumed limited shipments.
The restoration of power to more than half the 8 million homes and businesses knocked out by Hurricane Sandy offered the best hope for boosting fuel supplies. Still, operations remained constrained across the complex New York Harbor network of storage tanks and pipelines. Two New Jersey refineries were still shut, with reports of severe damage at one.
Many service stations lacked the power to accept new fuel, even as tankers began to discharge millions of gallons of gasoline that had been stuck offshore since Sandy tore through the area. As many as three-quarters of the area's filling stations were shut, either because of lack of fuel or a lack of power, by one estimate.
New York City cab driver Mohammad Sultan parked his yellow taxi at Hess station on Coney Island Avenue at midnight on Thursday so he could be first in line when a rumored fuel shipment arrived at 6 a.m.
Three hours later, with 180 vehicles behind him, the pumps were still empty. The city's Taxi and Limousine Commission said 24 percent fewer cabs were on the road at 9 a.m. Friday morning than at the same time last week.
"Because of the gas problem, there are thousands of yellow cabs sitting around wasting time and money," Sultan said.
The lack of fuel -- and lack of electric power to pump it -- had a noticeable impact on morning travel in the dense New York City and New Jersey area four days after Sandy smashed into the U.S. Northeast. Traffic through the Lincoln Tunnel was down more than 50 percent, authorities said, despite closure of the Holland Tunnel to the south. Some taxi drivers and frustrated commuters said they chose to stay home rather search out scarce fuel.
Authorities scrambled to address the issue, but without power for pumps and oil tanks, the supply chain cannot work.
The U.S. government waived the Jones Act barring foreign-flagged vessels from carrying fuel between U.S. ports. This could boost supplies from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast.
Still, such tankers would not arrive for a week, and could not discharge their cargo without power.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he would temporarily lift tax and registration requirements on tankers docking on the New York Harbor, which had just reopened to oil vessels. One ship carrying 2 million gallons of gasoline had docked overnight in Newburgh, 60 miles north of New York city.
The situation is wearing on New Yorkers. Juliana Smith, a full time student, spent 2-1/2 hours in line to fill two five-gallon containers on Friday, an hour more than Thursday.
"It's psychotic," she said. "People are angry. We have no power. No heat. We need gas for the generator and our Ford Explorer which is a monster."
PIPELINE RESUMES, FLOWS LIMITED
There are signs the situation could improve in the coming days as wholesale markets begin to work again.
Colonial Pipeline, a 5,500-mile (8,900-km) network that runs from the Gulf Coast refining center all the way up the eastern seaboard, said late on Thursday it had resumed fuel deliveries at its Linden facility in New Jersey and began sending deliveries to a nearby terminal.
"Linden operations are relying on portable generators, pending the resumption of commercial service," the company said.
Fuel barge shipments into New York Harbor will be allowed on Friday, the Coast Guard said, if they have a place to offload.
Still supplies remain constricted with two New Jersey refineries idle. The Phillips 66 Bayway refinery in New Jersey, the second-largest in the region, may be shut for weeks due to flood damage, a source familiar with operations said on Friday. The company has not given a timeline for restarting.
HEARD IT ON FACEBOOK
There was "panic buying" in the region, an executive from Hess Corp said on a conference call. The company has managed to resume sales at most of its own outlets, but estimates that as many as 80 percent of all service stations in the greater New York City area were without power or fuel.
Motoring group AAA said on Thursday that less than 40 percent of the stations it monitors in New York City and New Jersey were able to sell fuel.
Travel across the three main bridges and tunnels to Manhattan was down 47 percent from normal on Friday morning, according to data from the Port Authority.
"This is in part due to the gasoline shortages. It's probably also due to people staying home today - they've really had to fight to get where they want to go over the past few days," said NY Department of Transportation spokesman Adam Levine.
Rumors circulated on social media about which sites had gas or were due to take a delivery.
"I heard it on Facebook," said Manuel Ortiz, 33. He was first in the line of more than 60 people waiting with red and orange gasoline canisters.
Two police officers placed a blue barrier in front of Ortiz, who said he had been waiting since 2 a.m.. A fist fight broke out earlier, he said, when one driver tried to cut in front of another.
"I just want the gas. I don't care how long I have to wait," said Ortiz, a delivery driver whose car was costing money by the day. "The car is getting ticketed. I have to get gas."
(Additional reporting by Soma Das in Bangalore, Joshua Schneyer and Jonathan Leff in New York; Editing by James Dalgleish and David Gregorio)
Jenelle Evans, Leah Messer and Amber Portwood aren?t the only famous Teen Moms!
While most celebrities in Tinseltown wait until they are old enough to drink to start making babies, a few handfuls of stars have given birth to children while still in their teens. RadarOnline.com has photos and details about 10 real life celebrity teen moms and dads.
PHOTOS: 10 Celebs Who Were Teenage Parents
Grammy Award winning rapper Lil Wayne didn?t even have his driver?s license when he started having kids. The Lollipop singer welcomed his first child when he was only 15, and at 30 years old has a brood of four!
Niki Taylor and Natalia Vodianova both got their careers as supermodels and as moms started really young, welcoming their first children when they were only 19.
Aretha Franklin has admitted that she got pregnant just three months after her thirteenth birthday, welcoming her first child, Clarence at the age of 14. She went on to have another son when she was 16, and an additional two when she was an adult.
New Zealand actress Keisha Castle-Hughes gained international fame in her youth, becoming the youngest Best Actress nominee at 13 for her role in Whale Rider. Four years later at 17, she welcomed a baby girl.
Before Fantasia Barrino became an American Idol, she was an American mom! The season 3 winner had a child when she was just 16.
Which other stars were teen parents? Find out by clicking here.
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When Steve Jobs returned to Apple from NeXT he famously found their product lines confounding. When Tim Cook inherited Apple, an argument could be made that Steve Jobs' greatest product, Apple itself, was confounding. Steve Jobs' solution, famously, was to draw a simple grid and in each of its four quadrants, place a core product -- laptop and pro laptop, desktop and pro desktop. Tim Cook just did the same thing, drawing up a simple grid, and in each of its four quadrants, placing a core person -- software and services, design and technology.
Steve Jobs took Apple from a plethora of ill-defined and overlapping computers to a clearly defined product line that removed internal overhead and customer confusion alike. While the iBook (MacBook) and PowerBook (MacBook Pro) and iMac and Power Mac (Mac Pro) have once again grown into a larger product line, and one now in adolescent-like transition, once that transition passes, Apple will likely return to a simpler scheme -- iPhone and iPads, MacBooks and Macs. Tim Cook is now taking Apple from an overlapping group of people, some responsible for iOS and some OS X, some responsible for hardware design and some software, some responsible for some services but not others, and clearly defining roles and responsibilities that remove internal roadblocks and hedge against the fiefdoms that plague other, large, second generation leadership teams. Jony Ive, Bob Mansfield, Craig Federighi, Eddy Cue will each set up teams to support their new roles, and industrial and interface design, chips and antennas, iOS and OS X, and data centers and ecommerce, and more, will all still get individual attention, but they'll benefit from better collective leadership.
Phil Schiller remains the product guy, Peter Oppenheimer the money guy, Dan Riccio the hardware guy, Jeff Williams the operations guy, Bruce Sewell the legal guy, and Tim Cook remains the oversight guy, but the core of Apple has been reinvented. Tim Cook's Apple has been reinvented.
Now we get to see how well this simplified, clarified team can envision the future and execute on it.
Health inequalities could be reduced by more effective health care, says new studyPublic release date: 31-Oct-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Steve Levene lsl7@le.ac.uk 44-011-629-58282 University of Leicester
Research led by University of Leicester discovers how effective healthcare can reduce toll from major diseases like stroke, heart disease and cancer
Wide differences in death rates from disease still persist throughout England but effective healthcare can help to reduce these inequalities, a new study has discovered.
Researchers from the University of Leicester led a two-year project funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) into why differences in death rates from diseases like heart disease, strokes, lung disease and cancers still persist.
They found that age and poverty were among the biggest factors that accounted for the differences but they also discovered that effective delivery of healthcare could lessen the impact of these health inequalities.
The research, published in PLOS ONE and funded by the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Research and Care (CLAHRC) for Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland, was led by a University of Leicester team including Louis S Levene, honorary clinical fellow, John Bankart, lecturer in medical statistics, Kamlesh Khunti, Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular Medicine and Richard Baker, Professor of Quality in Health Care and Director of the NIHR CLAHRC.
Dr Levene, a full time GP, said: "Our research examined the wide variations in death rates from major diseases between different areas in England, despite an overall steady decline.
"Our aim is to better understand what factors, particularly in the delivery of healthcare, might explain these variations in death rates. This knowledge could help local health authorities to focus on those measures (such as detecting more people with high blood pressure) that are more likely to reduce these 'health inequalities' over time and to tailor the delivery of these measures to the needs of the local population.
"Looking across all the primary care trusts in England, the main predictors of variations in death rates were population characteristics, especially age and socio-economic deprivation. However, the study showed that for each additional 1% of people known to have raised pressure, there is a decrease in coronary heart disease death rates of 3% and in stroke death rates of 6%.
"Also, for each 1% increase in the percentage of patients recalling being better able to see their preferred doctor, there was a decrease in lung disease death rates of 0.7% and in cancer death rates of 0.3%. These effects are independent of the other factors studied. Variation in the performance of GPs was generally not associated with variations in death rates."
Dr Levene said that, previously, it has not been entirely understood why there are still such variations in death rates in different primary care trusts in England.
He added: "This study successfully tested a new conceptual model that variations in death rates are mainly predicted by variations in the characteristics of populations, but that these effects are altered by some healthcare activities."
Professor Richard Baker, Director of the NIHR CLAHRC and based in the University of Leicester Department of Health Sciences added: "At a time of big changes to how the NHS, especially in the community, will deliver healthcare and associated financial constraints, those who commission healthcare need information about what aspects of healthcare are most likely to benefit the health of populations as a whole. Despite the universal provision of healthcare by the NHS, there remain huge variations in health outcomes.
"This study reminds us all of persisting health inequalities, and challenges for the future of healthcare. Health inequalities are mainly predicted by variations in the characteristics of local populations; healthcare can only partly combat this effect, but it is important that it does so through interventions that include measuring blood pressure, and offering a service that enables people who want to to see the same doctor.
"Healthcare system reforms should therefore aim to deliver cost-effective evidence-based interventions to whole populations, and foster sustained patient-doctor partnerships."
Dr Levene concluded: "It is gratifying to have completed a challenging project, which has the potential to inform and influence decisions about how healthcare needs to be delivered to local populations. It also demonstrates that our Department has increasing expertise in analysing important public health issues. Personally, I am excited by the opportunity that I, an ordinary full-time GP, have had to work with high-powered academic colleagues and to complete a piece of research accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed academic journal."
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The views arising from this independent research are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health.
Note to newsdesk:
For interviews contact:
Dr Levene on lsl7@le.ac.uk; 0116 2958282
Professor Baker on rb14@le.ac.uk; 0116 252 3202
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Health inequalities could be reduced by more effective health care, says new studyPublic release date: 31-Oct-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Steve Levene lsl7@le.ac.uk 44-011-629-58282 University of Leicester
Research led by University of Leicester discovers how effective healthcare can reduce toll from major diseases like stroke, heart disease and cancer
Wide differences in death rates from disease still persist throughout England but effective healthcare can help to reduce these inequalities, a new study has discovered.
Researchers from the University of Leicester led a two-year project funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) into why differences in death rates from diseases like heart disease, strokes, lung disease and cancers still persist.
They found that age and poverty were among the biggest factors that accounted for the differences but they also discovered that effective delivery of healthcare could lessen the impact of these health inequalities.
The research, published in PLOS ONE and funded by the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Research and Care (CLAHRC) for Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland, was led by a University of Leicester team including Louis S Levene, honorary clinical fellow, John Bankart, lecturer in medical statistics, Kamlesh Khunti, Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular Medicine and Richard Baker, Professor of Quality in Health Care and Director of the NIHR CLAHRC.
Dr Levene, a full time GP, said: "Our research examined the wide variations in death rates from major diseases between different areas in England, despite an overall steady decline.
"Our aim is to better understand what factors, particularly in the delivery of healthcare, might explain these variations in death rates. This knowledge could help local health authorities to focus on those measures (such as detecting more people with high blood pressure) that are more likely to reduce these 'health inequalities' over time and to tailor the delivery of these measures to the needs of the local population.
"Looking across all the primary care trusts in England, the main predictors of variations in death rates were population characteristics, especially age and socio-economic deprivation. However, the study showed that for each additional 1% of people known to have raised pressure, there is a decrease in coronary heart disease death rates of 3% and in stroke death rates of 6%.
"Also, for each 1% increase in the percentage of patients recalling being better able to see their preferred doctor, there was a decrease in lung disease death rates of 0.7% and in cancer death rates of 0.3%. These effects are independent of the other factors studied. Variation in the performance of GPs was generally not associated with variations in death rates."
Dr Levene said that, previously, it has not been entirely understood why there are still such variations in death rates in different primary care trusts in England.
He added: "This study successfully tested a new conceptual model that variations in death rates are mainly predicted by variations in the characteristics of populations, but that these effects are altered by some healthcare activities."
Professor Richard Baker, Director of the NIHR CLAHRC and based in the University of Leicester Department of Health Sciences added: "At a time of big changes to how the NHS, especially in the community, will deliver healthcare and associated financial constraints, those who commission healthcare need information about what aspects of healthcare are most likely to benefit the health of populations as a whole. Despite the universal provision of healthcare by the NHS, there remain huge variations in health outcomes.
"This study reminds us all of persisting health inequalities, and challenges for the future of healthcare. Health inequalities are mainly predicted by variations in the characteristics of local populations; healthcare can only partly combat this effect, but it is important that it does so through interventions that include measuring blood pressure, and offering a service that enables people who want to to see the same doctor.
"Healthcare system reforms should therefore aim to deliver cost-effective evidence-based interventions to whole populations, and foster sustained patient-doctor partnerships."
Dr Levene concluded: "It is gratifying to have completed a challenging project, which has the potential to inform and influence decisions about how healthcare needs to be delivered to local populations. It also demonstrates that our Department has increasing expertise in analysing important public health issues. Personally, I am excited by the opportunity that I, an ordinary full-time GP, have had to work with high-powered academic colleagues and to complete a piece of research accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed academic journal."
###
The views arising from this independent research are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health.
Note to newsdesk:
For interviews contact:
Dr Levene on lsl7@le.ac.uk; 0116 2958282
Professor Baker on rb14@le.ac.uk; 0116 252 3202
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AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
When you are a person that enjoys spending hours of fun in the pool it can become boring at times. There is a great way to always ensure you have a lot of fun every time you are in the swimming pool and that is with the perfect accessories for swimming pools.
There are a number of swimming pool accessories that will help any person, no matter how old you are have a lot of fun each and every time you are in the pool. For anyone that wants to learn how to always have fun in the pool, the following are the most needed accessories for you to have.
One: Foam pool noodles - This is a must have for every person, especially when you have children. Simple foam pool noodles are inexpensive and a lot of fun for each person.
You can buy a number of noodles to utilize for a floating device, to play games with and to just have a lot of fun. If you have the other accessories mentioned here then you will have a lot more uses for your pool noodles that will make them even more fun.
Two: KnoodleKnuckles - This is a simple attachment that is made to attach pool noodles together. You can attach just two of them or you can use a few KnoodleKnuckles to attach multiple noodles together to form a raft you can float on to work on your suntan.
With this simple accessory you and your family or friends can bend the noodles into various fun creations, shape the noodles to play games with them like water horse shoes and many other things. Everyone will be able to have a good time in the sun with this accessory and noodles and it won't cost you a lot of your hard earned cash to get either one of these.
Three: HydraKnoodles - This is a must have for any person that spends time in the poo. because it is a very easy, but effective way for you to stay well hydrated. Not staying hydrated when you are in the water and sun can create health problems for any person, no matter what your age is.
With a HydraKnoodle you can spend as much time in the sun and water as you want, but stay well hydrated so you avoid health problems. What exactly is a HydraKnoodle?
Basically, it is a foam pool noodle that has a built in drink container that is insulated to keep your beverage cold and to keep the pool water out. There is a long tube for a straw on the end of it that makes getting a drink very simple.
Plus, with the container being in a foam noodle you can utilize a KnoodleKnuckle to bend it into a teardrop shape for carrying it over your shoulder. You can also use the foam noodle as a floating device or floating seat while enjoying your beverage in the pool.
Staying well hydrated is a definite must for people of any age when in the water and sun and this easy accessory provides you with a fun and creative way to accomplish this goal.
These are the top accessories for swimming pools that everyone needs to own. With all of these inexpensive, but fun accessories your family and friends can enjoy a lot of time in the pool without ever getting bored with it.
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