New bionic sex dolls are the “deepest” on the market and come with interchangeable heads
Introducing RealDoll, the male sex robot that “emphasizes the term ‘LOVE doll’ because they are so much more than a sex toy.”

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GOP Senator Jeff Flake to Compare Trump to Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin in Floor Speech

Senator Jeff Flake will compare Donald Trump’s rhetoric to that of Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin in a speech he’ll deliver on the Senate floor on Wednesday.

RELATED: Arizona GOP Senator Jeff Flake Delivers Blistering Rebuke of Trump, Says He Won’t Seek Reelection: WATCH

Flake says Trump’s remarks should be “a great source of shame” for the Senate and the GOP and says his attacks on the media are an “assault as unprecedented as it is unwarranted.”

CBS News reports:

“Mr. President, it is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own President uses words infamously spoken by Josef Stalin to describe his enemies,” reads the excerpt. “It bears noting that so fraught with malice was the phrase ‘enemy of the people,’ that even Nikita Khrushchev forbade its use, telling the Soviet Communist Party that the phrase had been introduced by Stalin for the purpose of ‘annihilating such individuals’ who disagreed with the supreme leader.”

“When a figure in power reflexively calls any press that doesn’t suit him ‘fake news,’ it is that person who should be the figure of suspicion, not the press,” he’s also expected to say.

In October, Flake announced he is not going to seek re-election and delivered a sharp rebuke of Trump on the Senate floor. Flake, the establishment candidate, was seen as highly vulnerable to a Trump-allied challenger.

 

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Facebook löscht Bilder von “Barbara”: Das macht ein Problem deutlich

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Carillion Goes Bust: George Osborne Mocked For Old Tweet Boasting About ‘Long-Term Economic Plan’
George Osborne has faced online mockery after a four-year-old tweet hailing Carillion’s part in his ‘long-term economic plan’ was shared widely as the construction firm went bust.

Tens of thousands of jobs and a host of government contracts are under threat  after the crisis-hit firm was forced to enter liquidation on Monday.

The Wolverhampton-based firm employs around 20,000 people in Britain and is involved in a number of government projects, including HS2, new hospitals in Liverpool and Smethwick, and the provision of school dinners for 30,000 pupils.

But not so long ago, Osborne, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, was keen to boast about the Tory government helping broker a deal for the company.

Carillion deal is first through new Direct Lending I announced at Budget, boosting exports is key part of #LongTermEconomicPlan
The tweet referred to Osborne announcing in the 2014 Budget that the Treasury would guarantee a £34 million loan that would allow Carillion to secure a contract with the Dubai World Trade Centre.

With Carillion on its knees, many on social media were anxious to point out the #LongTermEconomicPlan slogan – which was never far from a Conservative politician’s mouth in the run-up to the 2015 general election – may now ring hollow.

There’s an old Gospel song with the refrain: “How long, Lord, how long?”#ToriesOut#Carillion@George_Osborne -email-@ijbrads66https://t.co/Uk1VR3OOQx
It joins a growing gallery of messages from top Tories prior to the 2015 vote and EU referendum that now enjoy cult status.
Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice – stability and strong Government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband: t.co/fmhcfTunbm
If you want to avoid the chaos of Ed Miliband & the SNP, you need to #VoteConservative on Thursday #GE2015pic.twitter.com/MZxsFM9mId
Osborne did essay the reason for the Carillion collapse in his latest role as editor of the London Evening Standard.
Our second edition @EveningStandard: far-left seize control of Labour’s National Executive Committee, as Momentum wins 3 seats in a landslide. Centre-left routed and Corbyn takeover complete. Selections,discipline etc in his hands. Moment of huge significance for British politics pic.twitter.com/pryfDaCt0K— George Osborne (@George_Osborne) January 15, 2018
A Labour Party adviser questioned why the focus was on the internal machinations of a party last in power eight years ago. 
I wonder why @George_Osborne chose to focus on an internal election in Labour today, and not the effect that Carillion going under could have on Londoners…? ? t.co/yDCJIikmx0https://t.co/alnZjPazC3

January 15, 2018
Carillion was the focus in the second, shorter editorial in today’s newspaper.

In it, the op-ed asks why the state has “found itself so dependent on a few very large outsourcing firms” and pins the blame on civil servants, not ministers. It states:

“You can be in favour of private firms bringing innovation and efficiency to government services while still asking questions about Carillion. “Why has the state found itself so dependent on a few very large outsourcing firms? “The failure to use a variety of smaller, mid-size companies undermines innovation and leaves services hostage when things go wrong. “Why was Carillion awarded huge contracts by the civil service, with whom rather than ministers almost all procurement decisions lie after they knew it was struggling last year?”
Political journalists asked whether it was fair for civil servants to take full responsibility.

The Evening Standard seems to think that civil servants – not ministers – make procurement decisions. *cough cough cough* Is that a fair claim? pic.twitter.com/6hgT926rJ3

January 15, 2018
But appearing before a select committee of MPs, a senior civil servant suggested mandarins liaising with Carillion “played a blinder” in dealing with the firm.

Cabinet Office permanent secretary John Manzoni told the Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee that a senior civil servant had monitored effectively the contracts held by the company, ensuring “in almost all cases” join ventures were agreed so another firm could step in should a collapse occur.

“The horsepower has been provided by the full-time Strategic Partnership Manager for Carillion, who has played a blinding role actually in this particular circumstance,” he said.

When Labour MP Paul Flynn asked if that meant the civil servant involved had had their “eyes covered”, Manzoni replied: “[Blinding as in]’ ‘very good’…She’s done a really good job over the course of the last seven months.”

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Model Matt Law has no problem baring it all in new magazine spread
The images we’ve been waiting for.

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A Gay Couple’s Guide to 5 Great Things To Do In Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Puerto Vallarta is one of our favorite places to visit in Mexico. It’s extremely gay friendly, with awesome beaches, lots of gay parties, and of course, plenty of sexy friendly Mexicano locals.

“PV” is a resort town located on Mexico’s Pacific coast in the Jalisco state. It’s famous for being one of the most welcoming places for the LGBTQ community in Mexico and therefore many expats live here, so English is widely spoken.

These are our favorite 5 great things to do in Puerto Vallarta, which we tried, loved and highly recommend you try out too.

#1 Hang out at the Playa Los Muertos gay beach

This is the best beach hangout in PV. Playa Los Muertos (meaning “Beach of the Dead”) has several gay beach clubs. The two main ones are Sapphire Ocean Club and the Mantamar Beach Club. Both have their private beachfront area with deck chairs, along with pool and restaurants.

Sapphie is the smaller of the two and more intimate. We absolutely loved Mantamar, which is huge. The pool here is extremely popular with the gay boys and is usually the place where most of the famous gay pool or beach parties will be taking place. The only downside is the large number of vendors who will approach you throughout the day to buy souvenirs, beers, massages and more. A simple “no gracias” will send them off on their way.

#2 Dive in to the super fun gay nightlife

The nightlife in Puerto Vallarta is buzzing with life. There are loads of gay bars and clubs, mainly located in the South Side of the Romantic Zone area. The most popular bars to start the night at are Los Amigos, Reinas Bar and Mr Flamingo. We particularly love Reinas Bar, which has a strong British theme, and has a variety of outfits, wigs and shoes for guests to use, so you can play dress up with your friends.

In terms of clubs, the most popular are Paco’s Ranch, La Noche, and of course any parties happening at the Mantamar Beach Club. Most will feature a drag show and a few go go dancers. Latino pops rule the music scene here, so if like us you love dancing to Despacito, Shakira and Maluma, you’ll be in paradise here.

Puerto Vallarta also has an excellent Gay Pride week, usually on the 3rd week of May. For us, the Puerto Vallarta gay pride was one of the best we’ve experienced, with heaps of events, epic parties and some of the best drag queens, like Mama Tits (above).

#3 Have brunch at Casa Cupula

Casa Cupula is an institution in Puerto Vallarta. It is one of the finest male only, gay luxury boutique hotels. The in-house restaurant is called Taste, which is famous for its Sunday brunch.

We came here to nurse a hangover after a heavy night out partying on the previous Saturday. It’s a popular spot with other gay travelers in the city, so most people you met in the club the night before, will no doubt be hanging out here on Sunday.

Casa Cupula is located up on a hill in the Alta Vista neighborhood, so has some pretty impressive views of PV and Banderas Bay down below. The food is delicious, with a mix of local and international dishes, yummy mimosas and fresh fruit juices. This is one of the places you want to be seen!

#4 Water sports

There’s plenty to keep the adventurous travellers busy in PV. You can go snorkelling, kayaking, paddle boarding, scuba diving and jet ski.

We got a group of friends together and rented out a yacht for the day. We passed right up to the iconic Los Arcos islands and did some kayaking and paddle boarding around here, then just spent the rest of the time hanging out in the sunshine around Banderas Bay. We definitely recommend renting a yacht for the day to get the most out of the city’s different water sports.

#5 Visit a raicilla brewery

The Jalisco region of Mexico is famous for producing raicilla (pronounced rye-see-ya). Like tequila and mescal, raicilla is made from the agave plant, but it is only allowed to be produced in Jalisco.

In Jalisco, the agave is roasted in an above-ground brick or clay oven, so it has a more floral-like flavor and doesn’t have the smoky flavor taste you associate with mezcal drinks.

Raicilla is not yet famous internationally (yet), so this is the only place you can try it and buy a few souvenir bottles to take back home with you.

Stefan and Sebastien are a Greek/French gay couple who quit their jobs in 2014 to travel the world. You can read more on their gay travel blog.

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Moderatorin Megyn Kelly gibt absurden Abnehm-Tipp – und erntet dafür Hass

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Brit Awards 2018 Nominations: Our Predictions For This Year’s Show (Plus Who *Should* Win Each Category)
The nominations are out, the performers are (mostly) confirmed and the host has been revealed, meaning the countdown is on to this year’s Brit Awards.

We’ve still got a little while to go until we found out who is taking home some of the most coveted awards in British music, but now we know who the contenders are, we’ve put our thinking caps on, rounding up our predictions for this year’s winners (as well as which artists we think should be honoured during the ceremony).

Take a look at our Brits 2018 picks below…

British Male

Nominees: Ed Sheeran, Liam Gallagher, Loyle Carner, Rag’n’Bone Man, Stormzy

Who will win? Ed Sheeran. We’re also looking forward to the inevitable tweet from Liam Gallagher when he doesn’t win.

Who should win? Stormzy. While there’s no denying Ed’s commercial success over the last 12 months, the actual story is a little different to what you may have been led to believe.

’÷’ was met with mixed reviews upon its release in 2017 and ‘Galway Girl’ was named by plenty as one of the year’s most irritating singles, while his quest for the Christmas number one was met with rolled eyes from more cynical music fans.

On the other hand, Stormzy’s rise to household name status in 2017 was truly something to behold. ‘Big For Your Boots’ made a big impact on the charts, he spoke out on important issues both in the music industry and beyond it, and gave some of the year’s best TV performances on the MTV EMAs stage and on ‘The X Factor’. All this and more make him our top pick.

British Female

Nominees: Dua Lipa, Jessie Ware, Kate Tempest, Laura Marling, Paloma Faith

Who will win? Dua Lipa’s pretty much a dead cert, right? She’s the only one of this year’s nominees to have bagged a number one single this year, her self-titled debut album was lauded by critics and the ‘New Rules’ music video had people talking (we named it the eighth best of 2017).

Who should win? Dua Lipa. In truth, British Female is not the easiest category to get excited about this year, which is shocking considering winners in the past decade have been artists as important as Adele, Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse.

Based purely on how many times we’ve watched the ‘New Rules’ video, we’ll go with Dua, but we’re hoping the next 12 months sees a new flux of British female talent, so we can avoid this situation in a year’s time.

British Group

Nominees: Gorillaz, London Grammar, Royal Blood, Wolf Alice, The xx

Who will win? As the only past winners in this category, our money would be on Royal Blood.

Who should win? Wolf Alice. Honestly, it feels like everyone on this list could deserve it, but Wolf Alice are still the fairly new kids on the Brits block, having been up for British Breakthrough two years ago, so it’d be nice to see them take home the prize for British Group in 2018.

British Breakthrough Act

Nominees: Dave, Dua Lipa, J Hus, Loyle Carner, Sampha

Who will win? Dua Lipa. We’d argue it’s actually been a good few years since her actual “breakthrough” but there’s no denying that ‘New Rules’ was the track that cemented her place on the British pop scene.

Plus, this is one of two votes that are decided by a public vote, and we can’t imagine any of the other nominees’ fans pushing as hard as Dua’s.

Who should win? J Hus. Yeah, we’d be happy for Dua to take it, especially as she’s the only woman who made the cut, but part of us is rooting for J Hus too.

International Male

Nominees: Alicia Keys, Björk, Lorde, P!nk, Taylor Swift

Who will win? When we were making our Brits predictions earlier this month, this was the hardest category to narrow down to just five.

Alicia Keys’ place on the shortlist was a particularly surprising one for us, considering her album came out at the end of 2016 and acts including SZA, St Vincent, Katy Perry, Demi Lovato and Lana Del Rey all wound up missing out on the nomination, so we reckon she could be one to watch.

Who should win? Lorde. This is a strong category, but of the five acts on the shortlist, it’s Lorde who has impressed us the most over the past 12 months. Her album ‘Melodrama’ was a nostalgic dream, her Glastonbury set was a highlight of the whole weekend and her music videos have been characteristically intriguing and endearing.

Let’s just not talk about that bizarre VMAs performance…

International Group

Nominees: Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters, Haim, The Killers, LCD Soundsystem

Who will win? On 10 January 2018, Foo Fighters announced that they were performing for the first time at this year’s Brit Awards. On 13 January 2018, Foo Fighters were announced as one of five competitors for International Group at this year’s Brit Awards. You do the maths.

Who should win? Probably Foo Fighters. That being said… 2017 was a particularly huge year for a band that was already pretty huge to begin with, so if they do take home the Brit, we can’t say we’ll be too upset.

British Single Of The Year

Nominees: *deep breath* Calvin Harris – ‘Feels’, Clean Bandit – ‘Symphony’, Dua Lipa – ‘New Rules’, Ed Sheeran – ‘Shape Of You’, J Hus – ‘Did You See’, Jax Jones – ‘You Don’t Know Me’, Jonas Blue – ‘Mama’, Liam Payne – ‘Strip That Down’, Little Mix – ‘Touch’, Rag’n’Bone Man – ‘Human’

Who will win? Ed Sheeran – ‘Shape Of You’. One of the toughest categories, we could see this going any number of ways. But for the sheer size of its success, we reckon Ed is going to be the one to beat.

Who should win? Ed Sheeran – ‘Shape Of You’. This is probably the hardest one to choose a favourite in.

Little Mix’s ‘Touch’ immediately springs to mind (probably because it’s been hard to get it out of her heads since we first heard it more than a year ago), while Clean Bandit’s ‘Symphony’ made us want to dance and shed a tear all at the same time.

That said, ‘Shape Of You’ was quite literally the Single Of The Year, so if Ed does end up bagging the Brit, we’d be hard pressed to find an argument against it.

British Album Of The Year

Nominees: Dua Lipa – ‘Dua Lipa’, Ed Sheeran – ‘÷’, J Hus – ‘Common Sense’, Rag’n’Bone Man – ‘Human’, Stormzy – ‘Gang Signs & Prayer’

Who will win? They’re not going to bring Ed Sheeran out all that way and not give him the biggest award of the night, are they?

An album so impactful they literally rewrote the rules of the charts to accommodate it, ’÷’ hit the number one spot in 14 countries (including the UK, obv) and was 2017’s highest-selling album. No matter what you think of Ed’s music, there’s little you can do to argue with those numbers.

Who should win? Stormzy – ‘Gang Signs & Prayer’. Despite its success, should the winner of one of the most prestigious titles in British music go to an album that was so divisive among music critics? Particularly when you’ve got Stormzy offering ‘Gang Signs & Prayer’, an album that had people talking in 2017 for the right reasons, whether it was about his admirable work ethic, the wide range of topics covered on the album or the cross-genre appeal Stormzy displayed over its 16 tracks.

British Video Of The Year

Nominees: *another deep breath* Anne-Marie – ‘Ciao Adios’, Calvin Harris – ‘Feels’, Clean Bandit – ‘Symphony’, Dua Lipa – ‘New Rules’, Ed Sheeran – ‘Shape Of You’, Harry Styles – ‘Sign Of The Times’, Jonas Blue – ‘Mama’, Liam Payne – ‘Strip That Down’, Little Mix – ‘Touch’, Zayn – ‘I Don’t Wanna Live Forever’

Who will win? First of all, we should point out that this category was based on which videos had the most views on Vevo, which explains why some pretty terrible efforts from Little Mix and Harry Styles have made the cut.

The result is also determined by a fan vote on Twitter, and given how famously enthusiastic (translated: relentless and exhausting) those One Direction fans can be, we think ‘Sign Of The Times’ could wind up giving young Harold his first ever solo Brit. Let’s just hope he’s not stuck in the lav this time…

Who should win? Stormzy’s ‘Big For Your Boots’, obviously. But since it was deemed that his video didn’t receive enough views to be nominated, we’ll go with Dua Lipa’s ‘New Rules’.

Find out how accurate our predictions are when this year’s Brit Awards are broadcast live from The O2 Arena on 21 February 2018 on ITV.

For details on how you can vote in the British Breakthrough and British Video Of The Year categories, click here.

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