She was wearing a school issued suit. How is this her fault?
An Alaska high school swimmer who was disqualified from a race because a judge ruled that her school-issued swimsuit did not meet modesty requirements has had her heat victory reinstated.
>>>"I don't want to allow people that weren't supposed to be in the Bahamas to come into the United States including some very bad people," he added, referring specifically to gang members and drug dealers who fled to the islands.
It was not immediately clear what Trump was referring to.
I beg to differ. It’s perfectly clear who he’s referring to. He means brown people.
"I don't want to allow people that weren't supposed to be in the Bahamas to come into the United States, including some very bad people," he said.
>>>According to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, about 98% of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia "go into remission within weeks of starting treatment.”
But they want to treat him with CBD oil and a special diet.
Noah McAdams was removed from his parents' custody when they skipped a chemotherapy session and left the state in pursuit of alternative treatments.
People try that ridiculous, “oh! Canadian healthcare is terrible! The wait times are so long and getting in to see a specialist is impossible!” and I always shut them down with my own experiences waiting for months to see specialists, etc.
And don’t talk to me about “I don’t want anyone standing between me and my doctor!” There’s already someone there. The insurance company has situated itself firmly between patients and doctors and I find it ridiculous that people are ok with it.
From the MurderedByWords subreddit, where the discussion thread dismantles the lie that medical care in the United States does not involve a waiting time.
Dogs and kids are similar in a lot of ways, I say this because I have a dog and I was once a child, so I know. Trying to get both kids and dogs to do something they don’t want to do is like pulling hens teeth. When my parents tried to get my little brother to leave the house for preschool sometimes he would flop down on the floor and essentially play dead, which doesn’t sound impressive but somehow kids are able to make themselves have the same density as a dying star and become virtually impossible to move. I don’t know how they do it, but apparently dogs have similar tactics.
Whether it’s a bath, having their teeth brushed, or it’s time to clip their nails, no dog enjoys being groomed. Besides those fluffy pomeranians that are all over instagram, but those are paid actors and they don’t count. And some dogs will go to great lengths in order to avoid being cleaned and manicured.
Like this dog, the most dramatic of all pit bulls, who does not want her nails done.
You can tell immediately that this is a dog who knows exactly what’s up. Her owner motions for her to “shake a paw”, but she’s also got nail clippers in her hand so that is not gonna happen.
Marie Taylor is obsessed with her two Dobermans, Reuben and Malcolm. They’re both big, goofy and full of love to give, but all those wonderful traits aren’t why their mom loves them most. Her absolute favorite part about her dogs is their noses.
Taylor has always found her dogs’ noses to be ridiculously cute, so three months before her birthday this year, she took to Facebook to make a strange request.
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On a photo she posted of Reuben staring up at her and smiling, Taylor pledged her love to his nose and declared to the world that what she wanted, more than anything else, was a cupcake that looked exactly like it.
“I’ve told [my boyfriend] Jack I want it replicated EXACTLY out of icing and put onto cupcakes for my birthday,” Taylor wrote on Facebook. “It’s in 3 months’ time. He has plenty of time to organize it. I’m making this public so it happens.”
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Not long after Taylor made the post, Malcolm was rescued and adopted into the family as well, and suddenly Taylor had two adorable snoots to idolize. With two dogs to focus on, she quickly forgot about her silly birthday request — but her boyfriend did not.
“My boyfriend must've taken notice because he contacted a friend, Whitley Griffith who works at Sweet & Smooth in Oldham [in the UK], and she made them,” Taylor told The Dodo.
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On Taylor’s birthday, her boyfriend presented her with a box of cupcakes — and when she saw them, she couldn’t believe her eyes. There, on each cupcake, were her favorite noses in the whole world, perfectly recreated out of icing, just as she had wanted.
“I was over the moon,” Taylor said. “They were even better than I expected!”
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Taylor had each dog pose with one of their respective cupcakes …
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… and they hammed it up for the camera, showcasing their glorious noses …
The cupcakes looked delicious, of course, but Taylor was more focused on how beautiful they were, and how perfectly they captured her favorite snoots in the whole world.
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When Taylor first made her silly Facebook request, she had no idea how seriously her boyfriend would take it, and what a wonderful tribute it would end up being to her two furry best friends.
When Wisconsin children return to school this week, close to 50,000 of them will have waivers that exempt them from vaccines, leaving them vulnerable to measles at a time when the nation has experienced its largest outbreak in 27 years...
Immunization rates of 92% to 95% are considered necessary to provide what health officials call "herd immunity."... Not a single county in 2018 came close to the 92% threshold. In fact, 40 of the 72 counties had immunization rates below 80%.
Books have been instrumental in raising children for hundreds of years. Not only is reading to your kid great for bonding and for their development, but making stories up on the fly is hard as shit, and reading a fun book with colorful pictures is a much more effective and entertaining way to teach lessons rather than sitting your toddler down and trying to explain the facts of life point-blank.
Depending on how old your child is (aka how much information they’ll actually retain), there are also a lot of books out there that are just as fun for adults to read as they are for kids. Like Uncle Shelby’s ABZ Book, featuring such pages as “L is for Lye”. It’s definitely not something you’d want your preschoolers repeating to their teachers, but in my opinion anything below 2 years old is fair game. They’re not making memories, it’s fine.
One of the most famous of these probably-more-for-adults children’s books is one I’m sure you’re all familiar with, called Go the F—k to Sleep.
This book that says what every parent feels at some point or another, and the only way that it was made better was when the audiobook was released — because the reader was Samuel L. Jackson.
If there’s one person who was born to tell kids across the world to “go the fuck to sleep”, it’s Samuel L. Jackson.
Now the author of Go the F— to Sleep, Adam Mansbach, is coming back with another delightfully apt and crude children’s book. It’s a book for parents who’ve welcomed their second child and need to explain the new baby to their first offspring, it’s going to be titled F—k, Now There Are Two of You —
— and it’s going to be narrated by LARRY DAVID.
I don’t know how many of you out there have ever thought, “I really wish Larry David was here to read my child a bedtime story,” but I’m sure you’re all thinking it now, and amazingly, this is a wild, wild dream that’s going to come true.
F—k, Now There Are Two of You is going to be available on October 1st, but you can pre-order it here. Be sure to play the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme in the background for maximum effect.
Just as a point of reference: fentanyl is the most commonly used opioid (morphine-like drug) used in surgeries. We generally dose 50-100 micrograms/0.05-0.1 milligrams initially. This amount is enough to get most people to stop breathing for a few seconds to a few minutes, until the body’s respiratory stimulation defenses kick in. The body then immediately begins downregulating the number of opioid receptors.
This happens so quickly that a second, identical dose given a few minutes later will likely not cause the person to stop breathing at all. It also explains the constant need to increase the dose to get a similar high when abusing an opioid, and why it’s so hard for anyone taking opioids to feel “normal” without them - the body literally adjusts to create a new normal. Without more opioids, feeling “normal” just isn’t possible.
The fentanyl used in hospitals comes in a liquid form, with a concentration of 50 micrograms/ml. There’s very few problems with overdosing, since most of our pain/sedation drugs are given one ml at a time. (Example: morphine is given at 1mg/ml.) So even though the potency of fentanyl is greater than morphine, the dose that is given is less.
As mentioned below, much of the problem with street fentanyl is that it comes in a powdered form that has variable potency, especially after it’s cut. It doesn’t take much fentanyl to “improve” low-grade heroin. If your first hit of fentanyl-laced heroin is mostly heroin, no problem (lower potency heroin = lower dose opioid). If your second hit is mostly fentanyl, you’re dead (higher potency fentanyl = higher dose opioid). That’s how someone can die even when multiple hits have been taken out of the same bag.
TLDR: Medical-grade fentanyl has a very consistent potency and is relatively easy to dose, street fentanyl/heroin is a crap shoot.
If baguettes could run this is exactly what it would look like
I thought the world of sport couldn’t get any better once I learned that humans footracing in T. rex costumes exist, but I am delighted to say that I have been proven wrong. Dog races aren’t anything new, and when you think of a racing dog I’m willing to bet you imagine a greyhound or a whippet, something tall and lean that’s 80% legs and 20% tremble. But guess what, guys,
Corgi races are a thing.
If you’re unfamiliar with corgis, allow me to explain to you why this is so hilarious. Imagine a fluffy, pointy-eared dog of regular proportions, like a German shepherd or a husky. Now imagine that instead of legs, that dog is held up by four jumbo marshmallows. That is a corgi.
How they manage to actually walk, let alone run, is beyond me. They’re like the bumblebees of the dog world. Those legs should be far too small to be able to carry a regular sized dog, and yet, they manage to race.
And it’s exactly as ridiculous as you think it is.
Corgi racing is the sport you didn't know you needed #ESPNDogDay
I watched those clips probably seven times and I was so focused on the marvel that is corgis in a full sprint that I still don’t know who the actual winner was. I don’t even know if the videos ever say who the winner was. And I don’t care, it’s not important, they’re all winners.
Most Americans are familiar with the concept of "medical tourism" - traveling to another country to get necessary care at more affordable prices. An article in Kaiser Health News shows how far this concept can be taken. The patient from Mississippi traveled to Mexico, as did a surgeon from Wisconsin. Her total knee replacement prosthesis was made in the United States. And the entire process was paid for by her American medical insurance company.
The hospital costs of the American medical system are so high that it made financial sense for both a highly trained orthopedist from Milwaukee and a patient from Mississippi to leave the country and meet at an upscale private Mexican hospital for the surgery.
Ferguson gets her health coverage through her husband’s employer, Ashley Furniture Industries. The cost to Ashley was less than half of what a knee replacement in the United States would have been. That’s why its employees and dependents who use this option have no out-of-pocket copayments or deductibles for the procedure; in fact, they receive a $5,000 payment from the company, and all their travel costs are covered...
Parisi, a graduate of the Mayo Clinic, is one of about 40 orthopedic surgeons in the United States who have signed up with NASH to travel to Cancun on their days off to treat American patients. NASH is betting that having an American surgeon will alleviate concerns some people have about going outside the country, and persuade self-insured American employers to offer this option to their workers to save money and still provide high-quality care...
The high prices charged at American hospitals make it relatively easy to offer surgical bargains in Mexico: In the United States, knee replacement surgery costs an average of about $30,000 — sometimes double or triple that — but at Galenia, it is only $12,000, said Dr. Gabriela Flores Teón, medical director of the facility.
The standard charge for a night in the hospital is $300 at Galenia, Flores said, compared with $2,000 on average at hospitals in the United States.
The other big savings is the cost of the medical device — made by a subsidiary of the New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson — used in Ferguson’s knee replacement surgery. The very same implant she would have received at home costs $3,500 at Galenia, compared with nearly $8,000 in the United States, Flores said...
“It’s been a great experience,” she said two days after the surgery. “Even if I had to pay, I would come back here because it’s just a different level of care — they treat you like family."
As much as I would like to cluster all the Trump stuff into the q3monthly "Trump Clumps", there are times when it just gets to be too much and you want to scream at someone. So tonight I scream into the blog.
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A New Zealand teenager who visited Disneyland, Universal Studios, Hollywood tourist hot spots and the beach this month had measles and may have exposed others, public health agencies announced Friday.
The state-of-the-art building will have various features to thwart an attack, such as curved hallways to reduce long sight lines and impact resistant film on all windows.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has completed a three-week radiation course to treat a malignant tumor on her pancreas, the court announced Friday.
This has been a weird couple of weeks in the realm or art.
Earlier this month a 16-foot-tall statue of a human hand with a face was placed atop a building in Wellington, New Zealand, and we all recently learned that Jeffrey Epstein, frontrunner for Worst Human of the Decade, was the owner of an oil portrait of Bill Clinton wearing a blue dress. And after that it seemed pretty fair to say things couldn’t get any more outlandish.
But then they did, because of course they did, because there is no ceiling for how weird things can get anymore. The regular laws our world was governed by have been suspended. The train has been derailed.
The unofficial artist for the Trump administration and certified level 5 fanboy Jon McNaughton is responsible for a lot of bizarre portraits of the 45th prez of these United States, depicting Trump doing all sorts of weird shit that he (or like, anyone) would do either for the sake of an oil painting or naturally. Like Trump in a full suit sitting on a park bench teaching a slumped-over teen boy wearing a baggy sweatshirt who looks like he just came from a D.A.R.E. brochure how to fish, or Trump standing in a barren wasteland, clad in a military-style bomber with his hands tightly clasped together like a 7-year-old who just caught a big cricket, praying overtop of the world’s smallest teddy bear.
It’s all super uncomfortable.
Jonny Boy’s latest work features the president wearing a smock, gracefully clutching a well-used palette, surrounded by various art supplies in a beautiful studio that he, Donald J. Trump, The Don, host of The Apprentice, man who eats steak with ketchup, definitely has and frequently utilizes, staring right at the viewer with that classic shit-eating grin, beginning to lift a luxurious velvet sheet off of a canvas that he was clearly just working on so the canvas is still definitely wet so why the fuck would he drape velvet overtop of it Jesus Christ I hate this so much.
The painting was titled “The Masterpiece”, clearly alluding to whatever it is that Trump is going to unveil and using it as a metaphor for his presidency, and since it’s a completely indistinguishable mess with no clear picture I’d say that’s pretty accurate.
I will say, though, that this latest work inspired a lot of people out there to put their own spin on it — and some of them really are masterpieces.
COPENHAGEN—After rebuffing Donald J. Trump’s hypothetical proposal to purchase Greenland, the government of Denmark has announced that it would be interested in buying the United States instead.
“As we have stated, Greenland is not for sale,” a spokesperson for the Danish government said on Friday. “We have noted, however, that during the Trump regime pretty much everything in the United States, including its government, has most definitely been for sale.”..
If Denmark’s bid for the United States is accepted, the Scandinavian nation has ambitious plans for its new acquisition. “We believe that, by giving the U.S. an educational system and national health care, it could be transformed from a vast land mass into a great nation,” the spokesperson said.
Shit was fucking awful in the past, so let’s keep it that way.
U.S. Rep. Steve King is defending his call for a ban on all abortions by questioning whether "there would be any population of the world left" if not for births due to rape and incest.
A law was passed earlier this year in Kentucky made it so that every school in the state would have to display the national motto in a "prominent place."
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