So how many of your sportsball crazy-fanatics got suckered by the TubiTV ad? Apparently it pissed a lot of people off.
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2023 1:27 pm
by RTH10260
Mississippi hit by 900% increase in newborns treated for syphilis
Bracey Harris
Mon, February 13, 2023 at 6:15 PM GMT+1
JACKSON, Miss. — The number of babies in Mississippi being treated for congenital syphilis has jumped by more than 900% over five years, uprooting the progress the nation’s poorest state had made in nearly quashing what experts say is an avoidable public health crisis. The rise in cases has placed newborns at further risk of life-threatening harm in a state that’s already home to the nation’s worst infant mortality rate.
In 2021, 102 newborns in Mississippi were treated for the sexually transmitted disease, up from 10 in 2016, according to an analysis of hospital billing data shared by Dr. Thomas Dobbs, the medical director for the Mississippi State Department of Health’s Crossroads Clinic in Jackson, which focuses on sexually transmitted infections.
Dobbs, the state’s former health officer, said he’s spoken with health care providers who “are absolutely horrified” that babies are being born with the disease, and in rare instances dying from it.
“This seems like something that should have happened a hundred years ago, not last year,” said Dobbs, who is also dean of the John D. Bower School of Population Health at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. “There’s really kind of a shock.”
The Mississippi State Department of Health does not formally track congenital syphilis deaths but said there was at least one baby who died in 2021.
Congenital syphilis occurs when the infection is passed from a mother to her child while she’s pregnant. If untreated, a pregnant woman with syphilis has an 80% chance of passing it to her baby.
Babies infected with syphilis may not initially show symptoms, but for those who are not treated within three months of birth, complications can be severe. Syphilis can damage a baby’s organs. The disease can pummel a child’s nervous system and imperil their vision and hearing. In the gravest cases, newborns die.
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Mississippi hit by 900% increase in newborns treated for syphilis
Bracey Harris
Mon, February 13, 2023 at 6:15 PM GMT+1
JACKSON, Miss. — The number of babies in Mississippi being treated for congenital syphilis has jumped by more than 900% over five years, uprooting the progress the nation’s poorest state had made in nearly quashing what experts say is an avoidable public health crisis. The rise in cases has placed newborns at further risk of life-threatening harm in a state that’s already home to the nation’s worst infant mortality rate.
In 2021, 102 newborns in Mississippi were treated for the sexually transmitted disease, up from 10 in 2016, according to an analysis of hospital billing data shared by Dr. Thomas Dobbs, the medical director for the Mississippi State Department of Health’s Crossroads Clinic in Jackson, which focuses on sexually transmitted infections.
Dobbs, the state’s former health officer, said he’s spoken with health care providers who “are absolutely horrified” that babies are being born with the disease, and in rare instances dying from it.
“This seems like something that should have happened a hundred years ago, not last year,” said Dobbs, who is also dean of the John D. Bower School of Population Health at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. “There’s really kind of a shock.”
The Mississippi State Department of Health does not formally track congenital syphilis deaths but said there was at least one baby who died in 2021.
Congenital syphilis occurs when the infection is passed from a mother to her child while she’s pregnant. If untreated, a pregnant woman with syphilis has an 80% chance of passing it to her baby.
Babies infected with syphilis may not initially show symptoms, but for those who are not treated within three months of birth, complications can be severe. Syphilis can damage a baby’s organs. The disease can pummel a child’s nervous system and imperil their vision and hearing. In the gravest cases, newborns die.
This is both truly tragic, and completely avoidable. But then, they really have to give a shit about both mother and child.
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2023 1:39 pm
by Volkonski
Come on. It is not like we don't know how to treat syphilis.
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2023 3:09 pm
by raison de arizona
neonzx wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 11:37 am
So how many of your sportsball crazy-fanatics got suckered by the TubiTV ad? Apparently it pissed a lot of people off.
neonzx wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 11:37 am
So how many of your sportsball crazy-fanatics got suckered by the TubiTV ad? Apparently it pissed a lot of people off.
It was annoying as shit, worse than setting off Alexa. Two thumbs way down.
But you will remember it, and you will remember Tubi. And that's all an ad has to do.
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2023 3:26 pm
by Foggy
Rihanna only uses one name, but so far we're 5 and 4 on spelling it correctly, and no, I'm not gonna fix four posts that misspelled it, just saying ... names are important.
And she didn't just spray-paint a car "F*ck Donald Trump".
In 2018, she had her attorneys send a cease-and-desist letter to his campaign, because they were playing her song "Don't Stop the Music" at rallies.
That lady is just not a yooge fan of "Trump".
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2023 3:39 pm
by neonzx
Foggy wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 3:26 pm
Rihanna only uses one name, but so far we're 5 and 4 on spelling it correctly, and no, I'm not gonna fix four posts that misspelled it, just saying ... names are important.
No*hmm* I dunno, they really are not. Not in this realm of entertainment. Do you think I would ever address "Bono" as such in person? No. It would be "sir". For Rihanna or Madonna, it would be "ma'am". The names they take on mostly are just part of the costume/persona.
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2023 5:07 pm
by Foggy
Ah, but suppose you are not going to actually meet any of those people. Which, I am not.
And further suppose that instead of planning to meet them, you are using an internet discussion forum and you would like to post something you learned about the lady who sang at the football game yesterday - she had her lawyers send a C&D to "Trump" in 2018.
And further suppose that you actually do know how to spell her name, and you decide to use the Search function to find the thread where people have been writing about her, so you can put your post in the right place.
But now you also have to suppose that a good 44% of the posts that mention her name are spelled wrong. You are not going to find the posts you are looking for.
So therefore, you are not going to find the most relevant and appropriate thread to use, because you spelled the name correctly when you searched. Oops.
And if you want to see all the relevant and appropriate results, you have to deliberately misspell the name a few different ways, to make sure you get a complete picture.
So the bottom line is, never mind.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2023 12:26 am
by jcolvin2
Azastan wrote
MsDaisy wrote:
How many of Fogbowers out there have green eyes? I do, I got them from my Dad. My mom & sister both had brown. I take notice of eye color in people that I meet, but I very rarely encounter another green-eyed soul. Do we have any others here?
I do.
My father had brown eyes, mother had blue. Two siblings had blue eyes, two of us had brown, two of us had green.
Both of my parents have green eyes. My sister's eyes are green, with a hint of blue-gray. My eyes are green, but more sea green like our parents. Of course, as children, my sister's hair was also more blonde than mine. She was definitely the more recessive child.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:57 am
by RTH10260
we need no stinkin' catalytic Wieners
Wienermobile in a pickle after falling victim to catalytic converter thieves The Oscar Mayer crew didn’t relish their time in Las Vegas after the vehicle had to be towed to an auto body shop
Abené Clayton
Tue 14 Feb 2023 08.29 GMT
One of the US’s most easily recognizable vehicles is back on the road after it fell victim to a crime that has grown more common in recent years: catalytic converter theft. While parked in Las Vegas ahead of a Super Bowl weekend appearance, the Wienermobile, a 27ft-long bright yellow-and-red hotdog on wheels, was disabled after someone took the vehicle’s hardware.
The Wienermobile is actually a fleet of six vehicles used as a promotional tool for the celebrated Wisconsin-based hotdog brand Oscar Mayer. The Wienermobiles are driven across the nation by “hotdoggers” who claim the job for a one-year assignment. The morning after the converter was taken, the Wienermobile was towed to a nearby auto repair shop where mechanics installed a temporary converter that would allow the Wienermobile’s crew to drive it.
“A hotdog truck, no way,” Joseph Rodriguez, parts administrator for the auto shop where the Wienermobile was serviced, told Eight News Now, Las Vegas’s CBS affiliate. “Imagine like a huge hotdog in the middle of your bay.”
This is not the first time the Wienermobile has made national headlines. In late-January 2020, the roving shrine to processed meat was pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy in Waukesha, Wisconsin, for disobeying traffic laws.
So, so far there are about six of us with green eyes?
Since I had read once that a lot of Hungarians have green eyes, then read in the link MsDaisy posted that most were from Central and Eastern European background, I wonder how many of us are of that background?
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:33 pm
by Patagoniagirl
AndyinPA wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:22 pm
So, so far there are about six of us with green eyes?
Since I had read once that a lot of Hungarians have green eyes, then read in the link MsDaisy posted that most were from Central and Eastern European background, I wonder how many of us are of that background?
I don't know for sure about my ancestry but I have green eyes, as do both of my sons. Oldest is bi-racial and has predominantly green with flecks of gold. Youngest has pure green.
+1 for me and green eyes.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:34 pm
by Patagoniagirl
AndyinPA wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:22 pm
So, so far there are about six of us with green eyes?
Since I had read once that a lot of Hungarians have green eyes, then read in the link MsDaisy posted that most were from Central and Eastern European background, I wonder how many of us are of that background?
I don't know for sure about my ancestry but I have green eyes, as do both of my sons. Oldest is bi-racial and has predominantly green with flecks of gold. Youngest has pure green.
+1 for me and green eyes.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:34 pm
by Jim
what about hazel eyes? Do they count? Sometimes green, sometimes blue.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:45 pm
by MsDaisy
Jim wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:34 pm
what about hazel eyes? Do they count? Sometimes green, sometimes blue.
I am Celtic (Scotch and Irish)/Saxon with 10% Norwegian (thanks to the ancestors in Yorkshire) and there is about 3% Ashkenazi Jew in me.
No known Hungarians.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:20 pm
by AndyinPA
Azastan wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 5:34 pm
I am Celtic (Scotch and Irish)/Saxon with 10% Norwegian (thanks to the ancestors in Yorkshire) and there is about 3% Ashkenazi Jew in me.
No known Hungarians.
I always thought that green eyes were also common in the Irish.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:29 pm
by jez
My mother had dark green eyes, my father has dark brown eyes. My brother has dark brown eyes. Somehow, mine ended up gray/green with a dark blue ring and a splotch of brown around the pupil. Go figure.
Azastan wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 5:34 pm
I am Celtic (Scotch and Irish)/Saxon with 10% Norwegian (thanks to the ancestors in Yorkshire) and there is about 3% Ashkenazi Jew in me.
No known Hungarians.
I always thought that green eyes were also common in the Irish.
It seems to go with the red hair, eh?
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2023 5:00 am
by Kriselda Gray
I'm have very dark brown eyes and dark blah-brown hair
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2023 5:27 am
by neonzx
Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 5:00 am
I'm have very dark brown eyes and dark blah-brown hair
So, you are normal looking with boring features like me. (although I had very light hair and blue eyes as a baby -- that went away fairly quickly)
Apparently it pissed a lot of people off.
Come on. It is not like we don't know how to treat syphilis.
