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Clinton James after Clint Buchanan, they called him 'CJ'. Kinda tragic that that is the sort of stuff I remember. I cannot see either of them wanting an Hispanic name although Lauren herself is Hispanic.

As far as I can recall, it was always part of Captain Kangaroo; each episode was just a few minutes long. I think it moved to Nickelodeon once Kangaroo was cancelled, but was still just a brief segment between shows.

There are patches that carry medication like nicotine, estrogen, birth control; so the general idea that a patch could administer antibiotics is not too far fetched. However, anyone with any knowledge of infectious disease would know that the organisms involved in most infections treated with antibiotics, ie bacteria, are not found in the bloodstream at the early stages of infections. There would only be bacteria in the bloodstream at the point where sepsis develops. At that point, the patient is very sick with a high fever, shaking chills, and is going to know they're sick and seek help. If the idea of the patch is to diagnose and treat infections before the patient becomes seriously ill, this is not the way. Also, even in susceptible people with immunocompromise, how often would they get sick and with what organisms? Even if someone was prone to UTI's or strep throat or whatever, they would have to wear the patch 24/7/365 to get a jump on a new infection which, as I noted, isn't even in the bloodstream anyway and would only occur in a small percentage of patients on any given day. The cost would be astronomical. Then, the patch would have to be loaded with multiple different antibiotics because the sorts of bacteria that cause UTI's are not the same as the ones that cause strep pharyngitis and the antibiotics needed to treat each could be different. Then, there are people allergic to certain antibiotics, the risk of a false negative or positive test and the risk of someone who wasn't known to have an allergic reaction to a specific antibiotic developing one and having a life threatening anaphylactic reaction as the antibiotic is pumped directly in their bloodstream. Same with Elizabeth's idea of putting the machine in the battlefield. First off, soldiers are young and healthy so it isn't like they would have serious underlying conditions that would require immediate assessment and their basic blood work is normal. Second, things like low blood counts from bleeding develop over time. If you check someone's count shortly after they begin bleeding heavily, it will still be normal. That's why medics are trained to assess the wound and estimate blood loss on what they see. They then administer blood products based on their assessment and the vital signs. Everybody who is wounded gets antibiotics, so that is covered, too. They are preventative, so no blood work would be helpful. Of all of the options for assessment and treatment of a war casualty, blood work is pretty low on the list in the immediate aftermath.

I hope he didn't include a live demonstration with his diatribe.

The woman is class, pure class. That is all.

BME don't dance, it's sinful.

But, if she was the photographer, every photo would be a selfie with her front and center. I don't know that she could resist.

Same story different parents. I was 15 when my 40 year old mom got pregnant. I remember talking to my sister, aged 16, about it and the two of us speculating:" It had to have been the first time in years! Two old people like that (Dad was 42) having sex, they're lucky one of them didn't have a heart attack!" I agree that most teens would find the prospect of their widowed mother getting together with their late father's best friend to be pretty icky. Kevin would not have been alone in thinking that.

The only places online where I can find the 'news' of Chrissy's spectacular weight loss are gimmick sites full of ads for pills to lose weight while you sleep and such. They all seem to include one of two obviously photoshopped pics of her to 'prove' she's lost weight. One in a leather jacket, one in a black gown. Same photos, every site. None of them actually include any quotes from Chrissy herself about this miraculous event or any information as to how she actually managed to do this. It's just clickbait. As far as how she looks in the red dress; 1) nobody should shy away from wearing a color they like because another color might make them look thinner. If she wore black, she'd look 5 pounds thinner. Who cares? and 2) I think that Chrissy tends to go for dresses with empire waists because her particular body type is geared to central obesity. That means she carries much of her weight in her gut/abdomen. So, if she wants to wear something that flows and doesn't cling, she needs a high waisted dress. I'm not particularly fond of the ruffles, but she looks pretty and like she's happy with the way she looks, so good for her. My only other quibble is that this would look terrific with a statement necklace and some bangles and rings. The solid color of the dress would be a great setting for some bling.

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Willow isn't a baby who needs color on the walls for stimulation, but she is a very verbal preschooler who probably has an opinion about the color of the decorations on her bedroom walls. Maybe Josie could've asked her and made at least a few of the flowers her favorite color. Kids Willow's age like to feel part of things and it is her room, after all.

I believe they didn't just want another NDA, they wanted him to recant his interview with the WSJ reporter, to deny that he ever said the things that were quoted or to say he was angry about being fired and fabricated it all, They were in full damage control mode at that point. I presume the additional NDA was to prevent him from discussing anything about the agreement to recant since he was no longer an employee and the original didn't cover him anymore.

When I traveled in Norway, even the Norwegians would joke about lutefisk and how awful it was and how no one would eat it these days, that it was the sort of food for Viking explorers spending months on a ship who had no other options. Sounds about right to me. Because there are a limited number of these super duper fundie types and David and the Rods are the best they can do?

Thanks for the reminder that FF isn't the only person to not be prosecuted or serve time for child molestations and that the majority of these crimes are never reported to the police. It's not a fundie thing or a Duggar thing; it's a human thing.

My older dog, Maggie, has a built in clock and she knows when it is 5:30 PM and time to eat! She's a little more flexible in the morning. The time change in the fall nearly kills her. She starts coming up to me and nudging my leg to remind me it's time to fill that dish at around 4:15 PM in the fall and gets more and more assertive until she is in full meltdown mode by the time 5:30 gets here. I try not to cave, but sometimes I just cannot deal with the doggie tantrums. Now, this spring forward stuff is fine by her.

Didn't Derrick have a big boy haircut right before FF's trial? I seem to recall his hair looking more professionally styled than usual.

What they are rolling in most likely is donor Bibles, probably in English. I would expect that a large portion of the 'supplies' they want to bring into Ukraine are religious tracts of some sort. It would make a little sense if these were in Ukrainian or even Russian, which many Ukrainians can speak and read, but I'm not sure they've had the time to get that together. I am sure the locals will be so relieved to have access to an unlimited number of KJV's in English, what more could they possibly need?

That is why NDA's are so effective when the employer has been shown to have the will to enforce them legally. Theranos had one of the top law firms in the country for this sort of litigation. They can and did sue former employees for violating their NDA. Once you get served with the suit, it requires a response, usually pages and pages of legal gobbledegook that is not possible for a non-lawyer to produce. So, you go to a law firm that specializes in civil litigation. They will want a retainer; $10,000 cash upfront would be in the ballpark, to defend you against this corporation with bottomless pockets. If the thing progresses beyond the initial stages, those fees are going to go up and up. Anything that gets to the court stage is going to be $30,000 in legal fees easy. And, if the corporation isn't interested in collecting from you (they're not, they want you to retract prior statements and shut up); their fancy lawyers will file motion after motion, all of which require a response and you are in triple digits pronto. For example:

I don't think we ever learned what happened. We know Sam was in NICU and that he had an IV and was on oxygen based on pics that Derick and Jill posted. It could've been meconium aspiration, it could've been sepsis, it could've been birth asphyxia. As far as the timeline for Derrick and Jill leaving the show, it wasn't announced at the time. Jill and Derrick returned from El Salvador with Israel in the spring of 2017, Sam was born in July and Derick's tweets about Jazz happened about a month later. TLC was not showing new episodes at that point and I think it wasn't clear at the time that Sam was born whether TLC had filmed any of it. It was only months later, after Derrick's hatefulness was on display publicly that TLC issued a statement that said that he was no longer a part of Counting On and hadn't been for some time. Whenever the actual parting of the ways occurred, nobody announced it publicly. Based on TLC's announcement, it seems like it happened before Sam was born. Considering that a major part of Derrick's beef with TLC was that they refused to pay Israel's hospital bills, I could see both TLC and Derrick deciding that Sam's birth wasn't going to be filmed, even if the Dillards were still part of the cast.

I agree, they can probably get into Ukraine fairly easily, presuming they can walk or find a vehicle. They can even take a train to some areas. Those trains bringing refugees to the border are also bringing supplies back into Ukraine and a lot of Ukrainian men who have been living elsewhere in Europe are returning to fight via those trains. The US State Department has issued a strong warning to Americans advising against any and all travel to Ukraine and actually providing information to any Americans currently in Ukraine who they are advising to leave ASAP. The US consulate has set up mini-consulates in tents at a couple of the border crossings into Poland to assist Americans who need help getting out of the area. 'they also remind people that the US government cannot and will not be able to help them within Ukraine's borders should they encounter problems. I think that's the idea. They figure they can advertise all the wonderful things they can do for the people, bring them to the churches for assistance and then have the preacher start evangelizing them. I expect there are quite a few people there who need a safe, warm place to stay or a hot meal or some blankets or flashlights or whatever who would be willing to go to the fundy church down the road if they thought they could get them there.

Yes to both. That's why, when blood is drawn for multiple tests, it is put into multiple tubes with different colored tops. For example, if you're testing the blood's ability to clot, you don't want any artificial anticoagulant in the vial which would interfere with the test. Meanwhile, many blood tests are run on machines which require the blood to flow freely through them. So, those tests are drawn into tubes with a little anticoagulant solution in the bottom that mixes with the specimen and prevents it from clotting before the test can be done. Taking a single drop of blood and trying to do it both ways is not terribly realistic at this point in time. It'll happen eventually, but it won't be someone like Elizabeth who does it. If she had even gotten a summer job in college working as a phlebotomist in a hospital lab, she'd have at least had some realistic notion of what was required. Then again, the whole notion that people could have the machines in their homes and run tests themselves randomly and somehow discover heart disease or cancer before they had symptoms is completely ridiculous, too. There are a couple of blood tests that can help with early diagnosis of cancer in specific situations, but they also require defined circumstances. You can try to assess risk factors for heart disease like cholesterol, but it doesn't mean anything without context. For me, one of Elizabeth's main issues is that she didn't know what she didn't know. She dropped out of Stanford early in her second year. Even if she did con her way into a graduate seminar, it seemed clear that she had only a very rudimentary understanding of fluid engineering which was key to the device she 'invented'. We never saw her working with the actual technology at all; she didn't have even basic understanding of how the thing could work. It seemed like, from childhood, she felt that all she needed was an idea and she could start her own company and become wealthy. She skipped over the part where she needed more than an idea, she needed a concept to explain how it might work. Instead, she decided what the device would be without any consideration as to how feasible it was with current technology and expected real engineers and scientists to figure it out on her timeline, using her parameters. Just because Gates, Jobs and Zuckerberg were able to start their companies without finishing college doesn't mean that Elizabeth was capable of it. She seemed to feel that, if she wanted it bad enough, it would happen; completely unrealistic.

He is listed as an RN with a BSN from Penn State on the other mission website. It also says he graduated in 2014 and worked as a nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit before leaving to go into full time ministry. So, he has fewer than 8 years of experience in nursing, probably a lot less and his experience is in ICU work which is not what Medic Corps is going to be providing. He can probably start an IV and do CPR on little kids which could come in handy in some cases, but his experience has got to be very limited.

I read online that over 6000 Americans have contacted the Ukrainian Embassy here in the US volunteering to fight and only about 100 were accepted. I presume this is because they don't have the time or ability to train them, so they're only taking people with actual combat experience. That being the case, I find it hard to believe that Medic Corps is going to be approved by the Ukrainian government to help with supplies or medical care. This would be why they are plugging the churches that they have lined up to help them. It probably is also not in their favor that, on their very own website, Medic Corps makes it clear that there is no free lunch with them; they are going to spread the Gospel and any aid they provide is secondary to that.

Most of the images shown seemed like stock footage probably available online from various news agencies. If the ER physicians who are part of Medic Corps are there, they would have some trauma training. If one or more of them actually served in Afghanistan, I'd be shocked, but it would give them someone with specific training in war injuries. However, these guys wouldn't know any more about trauma that the typical Ukrainian ER doc, so unless there is a huge shortage of those, I don't see the point. Then, from the video, it appears that these guys are not working with the Red Cross or Doctors without Borders or any other group that might be specifically providing medical care outside of the regular healthcare system, but coordinating with them. Since it doesn't look like they have access to medical facilities, I presume they are talking about providing first aid at the various churches, etc which is probably not a bad idea. Let them show off their basic first aid training to non-medical locals, that could be helpful as could supplying stuff like bandages and antiseptics, etc. In the field, they certainly won't be flying anywhere unless they'd like to see a Russian MIG up close and personal. They'd need some sort of vehicle to serve as an ambulance with at least the ability to provide IV fluids and oxygen and transport victims to a hospital, which, I suppose somebody from one of their churches might be able to provide. Of course, they'd also need gasoline and tires and parts should it break down and that could be problematic. Since it looks like they are only seeking to deal with fundamentalist churches, which must be a very small number in Ukraine, I expect that what they will do is fill a church basement with cots and blankets and serve hot coffee and donuts or something. The guys will go out and 'rescue' people and bring them back to the church with promises of a hot meal, flashlights and aspirin or some such and then the pastor will step up to the pulpit and tell them they are all sinners and that's why God sent the Russians to kill them and they'd better repent and find the 'right' Jesus pronto. Just because the Ukrainian Orthodox church is thousands of years old, can trace itself back to the actual Jesus and has been the faith of generations for two millenia; doesn't mean they don't need saved, after all.

Yep, it served as a plausible explanation for TLC audiences as to why Josh' other siblings never went in there,