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In Lyon, an artist nicknamed Emem fills the pavement holes with mosaics. A man calls it the art of flacking - filling the sidewalks with small colorful ceramic tiles. In France it is called a ′′ pavement surgeon ", who heals the wounds of the city streets since 2016. This is truly a great way to make the world more beautiful.

Manhattan to Stop Prosecuting Prostitution, Part of Nationwide Shift

Somehow, I've never been able to figure out Apple TV. My current TV has internet connectivity, so I don't need that especially. It's a Sony and the user interface is kind of kludgy, so I'm thinking Apple's would probably be better. I think the thing I'm missing most is a way to get a few local channels so I can get all of my content off the internet and get rid of my cable box and, most especially, the 30-foot HDMI cable I need to run between the cable box and my TV. But I can't tell if the Apple TV would make that any easier than the same app running on my Sony TV. At $29, the AirTag has some appeal, but I have a real aversion to Apple - or anyone else - tracking my whereabouts - or my car keys' whereabouts - every minute of every day. It's not that I go anywhere particularly secretive these days, but I haven't totally given up hope.

Good article here: https://www.wired.com/story/everything-apple-announced-april-2021/ I did like the new purple IPhone as I have always wanted a purple phone. @Latbear4blkI have a 27 inch and love it. I have been using one since Stef Lacoste convinced me to move to the Apple brand. I still love them! What you can do to make this even better is to put another screen beside the IMac and you have two monitors. HEAVEN!

EU regulator finds possible blood clot link with J&J vaccine, but says benefits outweigh risks Published Tue, Apr 20 202110:14 AM EDTUpdated 3 Hours Ago Key Points The J&J shot was initially greenlit in the European Union on March 11. The EMA researched all available evidence, it said, including eight reports from the U.S. of serious cases of unusual blood clots — one of which had a fatal outcome. More than 7 million people had received the vaccine in the United States as of April 7, it said. LONDON — The European Medicines Agency said Tuesday the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine has possible links to rare blood clot incidents, but reiterated that its benefits still outweighed the risks. ″(The) EMA’s safety committee (PRAC) concluded that a warning about unusual blood clots with low blood platelets should be added to the product information for COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen,” the agency said in a press release. “Healthcare professionals and people who will receive the vaccine should be aware of the possibility of very rare cases of blood clots combined with low levels of blood platelets occurring within three weeks of vaccination.” The EMA researched all available evidence, it said, including eight reports from the U.S. of serious cases of unusual blood clots — one of which had a fatal outcome. More than 7 million people had received the vaccine in the United States as of April 7, it said. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this month advised states to suspend the use of J&J’s shot “out of an abundance of caution.” As a result, the pharmaceutical firm decided to delay the rollout of its vaccine in Europe while regulators assessed any risks. On Tuesday, the company confirmed that it would resume shipments to the bloc after the EMA’s review. The EMA already said last week that while reviewing the latest details, it was still of the view that the benefits of the vaccine outweighed the risks. The J&J shot, which only requires one does, was initially greenlit in the European Union on March 11. It now remains to be seen how the different countries will interpret the latest guidance from the EMA. France has already indicated it will only use the vaccine on people aged above 55. “COVID-19 is associated with a risk of hospitalisation and death. The reported combination of blood clots and low blood platelets is very rare, and the overall benefits of COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen in preventing COVID-19 outweigh the risks of side effects,” the EMA said on Tuesday, using the name of J&J’s Belgian unit. This is not the first issue with blood clots and a Covid-19 vaccine. More than a dozen European countries suspended the use of the AstraZeneca shot in March after some people who received the shot reported unusual incidents with blood clots, 18 of which were fatal. The EMA reviewed the cases and also said the vaccine was safe and should be used in the fight against the coronavirus. Nonetheless, a few days later, the EMA also said there was a “possible link to very rare cases of unusual blood clots with low blood platelets” and this should therefore be listed as “very rare side effects” for the AstraZeneca vaccine. Some countries adjusted the rollout of this vaccine, deciding to administer it only to people above 60 years of age, and Denmark went further by completely stopping its use. So far, there have been more than 103 million doses administered in the EU, according to data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

I have been anxiously waiting for the new lineup of products. I am happy to see the IPad come with the new processor. I know I'll be getting this one. I was disappointed to see the size of the new IMac go down from 27 inches to 24 inches. That is not what I wanted to see as I love the 27 inch size for my own personal use. I could also care less about the different colors of the IMac. Anyone else find anything that they will get during the coming months? https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/20/tech/apple-event-highlights-april-2021/index.html

Sorry @KeepItReal, it was indeed my bad English. I just read the full article and it is clearly spelled that clients will continue to be prosecuted.

I Told Sunset About You part 2 will be called I Promised You the Moon and will debut on May 27 https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/04/19/21/new-title-poster-of-thai-series-i-told-sunset-about-you-part-2-revealed

I'll probably add the new and larger Ipad and the Apple TV controller.

I saw it twice. Fran is a character. Knew her from our days at Interview. I would not let her near my house. No smokers allowed.

What remains puzzling to me is the failure of almost all articles on the subject to discuss the background rate of blood clots in the general population. In every article I've read, the background blood clot rate (the number of blood clot issues expected to be experienced by any population) far exceeds the rate experienced by the vaccinated population. If one believes those numbers, then one could conclude that there is far less likelihood that one would experience a clotting issue if one was vaccinated than not vaccinated! To simplify my comments, so far the US has experienced 8 serious blood clotting issues within the population of 7 million people who have been vaccinated with the questioned vaccine. According to the medical literature, the lowest number of blood clot issues expected (US history) would be 1 to 3 cases per year of 1000 people within the general population. Using the lowest number there (1 serious blood clot issue per year within a general population of 1000 people), then one would expect 7000 cases for a general population of 7 million people. One-sixth of that (or two month's worth) would be 583 serious blood clotting issues that would be expected. Sure sounds to me like a much worse number than the 8 cases reported.

Could make for an interesting hobby...by in litigious NYC I doubt I am willing to take on the liability!

I am glad that this jury was able to come to a verdict so quickly and this family gets some semblance of justice. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/20/derek-chauvin-trial-verdict/

I am not sure if there really is any justice when a member of a family has been murdered, especially by a cop. The cop can serve his prison term and still have a semblance of a life. George Floyd can never see his loved ones again. But I know what you mean. What I find extraordinary about policing in the United States is that when police fire a gun in trying to apprehend a person they believe to have committed some level of criminal activity or even just have a broken tail light or an out of date licence on the car, they always seem to fire and that almost always seems to result in death of the suspect. Why on earth are they not trained first to incapacitate? A shot in the shoulder or a leg would surely be as effective in stunning the alleged perpetrator in the first instance. A belief that a 13-year old child who has obeyed instructions to stop running, turn around and raise his hands might have a gun is no excuse in my view for murder of that youth. Similarly a long-term officer just happening to confuse a gun with a taser and then murders a 20-year old beggars belief.

I just bought an iMac 27', and the Apple TV 4K. My other Apple devices are all still functional. So no plans for any new auto-gifts. I guess my next decision to make will be when the need to upgrade my MacBook Air arrives. I will have to weight whether to buy a new laptop or instead to switch to an iPad Pro. Right now, I am loooooving the 27'. I never worked so comfortably with multiple windows open.

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It is, obviously, but we are at this juncture dealing with the bigger picture globally. I think that most people by now are aware how 67% effectiveness stands up compared to 90+%. And that if you can snag a product of that lower efficacy caliber purely in terms of its capacity for case and severity reduction when nothing else is available you take it. Low levels of vaccination hesitancy somewhat compensate for lesser efficacy, as does the ability to avoid delays in follow-up booster doses within the initial vaccination cycle. Chile is using as much of 3 of the vaccines you listed as it can get. Should it have waited to administer approximately 90% of vaccinations, the percentage attributable to CoronaVac given over the past few months, and substituted them with products with greater than 67% effectiveness yet some with complex cold-chain logistics, whenever they trickled in over their Autumn, trading off lives for snubbing a product that is now showing well above the threshold of efficacy for authorization? I don’t think so. I believe the take-home is that you need vast inoculation uptake, combined with their approximate existing 20% natural immunity within the population, in order to see results, outcomes that are likely already unfortunately compromised by immunity-escape and more contagious variants. Chile also tests at quite a high level, so the average true degree of case severity decreasing is not necessarily reflected in rolling new case incidence; reduced hospitalization and mortality is essentially a surrogate marker for vaccination apparently reducing symptom burden. Moreover, vaccine effectiveness calculations are often artificially lowered by relatively high levels of natural immunity in the population, as is the Chilean case. The true effectiveness is probably better than the recent 67% reported. Similarly, CoronaVac effectiveness is a metric comparing infection case variables between those inoculated, and not, with CoronaVac. Since close to 5% of the population not vaccinated with CoronaVac is partially or fully vaccinated with products clinically higher in efficacy rankings, the true effectiveness of CoronaVac in isolation is, again, artificially deflated because the two groupings do not start off with the same proportions of baseline immunity.

Please keep this Thread on Topic!! It is about Thailand, not the UK or the EU...

Most days I chat to a couple of other BMs here (and some of the boys as well) and invariably we sooner or later return to the topic of when we are likely to be able to return to Pattaya, some days we feel more optimistic, other days more pessimistic about our chances, depending on both our moods and latest revelations on infection numbers. Its all pretty futile at the moment as there are so many different things in play both at home and abroad that affect our chances. All have to fall into place to enable us to travel. The first major consideration for my Irish friend and I are vaccines. I am lucky in that I have now had both my shots (AZ), but he is still waiting for his first. Second our UK government currently forbids foreign holiday travel, but if our 'road map' is not blown off course, that particular restriction is due to be relaxed in a few weeks time, but there will probably still be a traffic light system of those countries considered safe to travel to - green being ok, but red for those countries where quarantine measures would be applied on our return home (bit more complex than that). Third our chosen country has to be prepared to let us in, all be it with their own quarantine regulations and other requirements. Currently Thailand is not doing well with either Covid numbers or vaccine roll-out. Fourth, there have to be flights available to us. And so we slowly build our own little road-maps back into Thailand as options become available to consider, but obviously all too aware that resurgences at home or abroad could set all that back months. So personally I still hope for October, but ............. ?

Yes, I recommend it. I think it preferable to the Pattaya FM one on Youtube , though that too is useful for those of us missing Thailand. The young Thai (Jet) is part American. It's reassuring to hear the correct pronunciation of Patta-YA, too. I always find the falang "Pa-TTA-ya" irritating. Silly of me, I suppose. Age!

I've decided to break my copyright rule. I know, that took about two minutes. If anyone objects, I totally understand if this post disappears. I don't know what the future holds. I recently read a moving post from the escort, peterhung85, and I wanted to share his words here. If the other site disappears, I thought his excellent writing should live on as long as possible. RIP Guy Fawkes/daddy I have just seen this topic. I still don't want to believe it... It was 2009, San Francisco, and my first ever review was published on Daddysreviews by a long-standing member here. I had no idea what this site was so I went to check it out and shortly after my cell phone rang. A gentleman introduced himself as "Daddy" and told me that my review got published on his website. He asked me a few non-intrusive questions that were geared towards finding out whether the money I make through this means is being invested for my future. Again, and I must emphasize this, he did that in the most non-intrusive way as one possibly could have. I felt that he just genuinely wanted to ensure that I am on the right path to creating financial independence for myself in the long run. We covered a few other aspects of the industry and he offered me a helping hand in case I ever needed a piece of advice. Soon after my first published review came the second, third --- 20th, and 30th, and my business has exploded and I was full of quality inquiries. Surely, providing a great service doesn't hurt but without the ability for people to research their next "date" on a platform like his, how would anyone know about my abilities? But business (while obviously in our lives is key) was truly NOT what Daddy was all about. He was in it to help people. Genuinely. I had the pleasure to meet him on numerous occasions at a variety of restaurants and many times at his apartment in Las Vegas. We even met during the pandemic (the chair was waiting for me at the entrance to sit on) while he distanced himself from me by being in front of his computer on the other side of the apartment and we were both wearing masks. The "HOW" never really mattered, but every meeting with him was always highly insightful and entertaining.... and very genuine. Many of you probably didn't get the chance to truly know who was behind this nickname/website and I am very grateful that I had the pleasure of conducting more than just superficial chit-chats with him. For those of you who don't know, he was a computer whiz and had incredible talents at forensics and used to be retained as a forensic expert in multi-billion dollar lawsuit cases back in the day. This speaks volumes of the in-depth knowledge he had about certain fields in computers. Talking about talent, he used to be an escort himself (waaaaaaaaaaay) back in the day. He wasn't always overweight and was rather hot. He told me so many funny stories about providing services in LA/Beverly Hills to some of the Hollywood elites. They were extremely entertaining stories. He never cared about the money. He went as far as to flat-out decline highly lucrative promotional/marketing/advertising offers if he disagreed with how the company conducted its business in the gay world, whether we are talking about advertising practices, treatment of others, or the mission the company stood for. He was a principles guy, yet - needless to say - non-judgmental. Every time we talked - without an exception - he had his "routine" questions: - Are you happy? - Do you put a certain percentage of your money aside and invest it? - Do you take time out to have fun and enjoy life too? This should tell you about the type of person Bill was. (With names redacted), he showed me all kinds of escort inquiries where the guys offered him free sessions in exchange for promotion/bad review removal/self-review postings. He NEVER abused his position and always maintained his integrity. He was a big fan of Latin guys with muscles and cute butts. Who can blame him, right?! Yet... never ran out of compliments for me when we met. We talked about a few side projects of his too. Some of you may not know, but a few years back he was running a website that was teaching the transgender community about proper accessorizing / makeup / wigs and how to start out. He was also running it on his own dime and received no compensation for it. On my last in-person visit during COVID, we actually started discussing either a joint business venture or a certain promotional opportunity about a website that would have served as an extension of DaddysReviews. We have never finalized the details and sadly, that will not happen anymore. It would have been great to work with him I am sure. I just want you gentlemen to understand how this person sacrificed most of his life to help our community. He never asked for anything in return and I know exactly how much of his life he sacrificed for others. He changed my life, and probably many of your lives I am certain or the very bottom line, his work made your life a little easier in this crazy world. I hope that he is in a good place now, his contributions, his helping hand, his guidance, and the amount of care and love he put out for all of us will be remembered (at least by me) for a LIFETIME. When @Cooper reached out to me, I was shocked to hear that I was probably the only person who knew his address. He was so loving, welcoming and open that I thought he kept company often times at his home. I also would like to take this opportunity to thank Cooper for taking immediate actions and for keeping everyone posted. I am so truly sorry it ended this way. :-( THANK YOU BILL/DADDY/GUY FAWKES WITH ALL MY HEART! ❤ If anyone doubted why many escorts and clients remained loyal to Daddy, peterhung85's words should put those doubts to rest.

three guys nicked Both ? they can use some inventiveness. First Both is the most cute of the whole bunch