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Rikkie Valerie Kollé was crowned Miss Nederland 2023 (Miss Universe Netherlands 2023) on Saturday, July 8 at the AFAS Theater in Leusden. The 22-year-old Dutch-Moluccan model and actress living in Breda succeeds Ona Moody and will now prepare to represent the Netherlands at the 72nd Miss Universe (Miss Universe 2023) in El Salvador. Nathalie Mogbelzada, 26, from Amsterdam, was named first runner-up while Habiba Mostafa and Lou Dirchs were awarded Miss Congeniality and Miss Social Media, respectively. Reigning Miss Universe R'Bonney Gabriel of the USA graced the glittering event as a special guest. The new Miss Universe Netherlands made history...

Exactly what you would expect - and want to see. Donny being adoring and gracious and Betty pretending (or not pretending) to get steamy. The volume is low, so turn it up if you need to.

Objective General practice receptionists provide an essential function in the healthcare system but routinely encounter acts of incivility and aggression from patients, including hostility, abuse and violence. This study was conducted to summarise what is known about patient-initiated aggression towards general practice receptionists, including impacts on reception staff and existing mitigation strategies. Design Systematic review with convergent integrated synthesis. Eligibility criteria Studies published at any time in English that examine patient aggression experiences of reception staff in primary care settings. Information sources Searches of five major databases were performed (CINAHL Complete, Scopus, PubMed, Healthcare Administration Database and Google Scholar) to...

The state of California is making efforts to produce its own supply of naloxone nasal spray. On Thursday, the California Department of Health Care Access and Information took the next step in creating the supply by issuing a request for information. This step assesses the ability of suppliers to fulfill the state's needs. Private partners can now bid to develop, manufacture and distribute generic naloxone nasal spray. Naloxone can reverse an opioid overdose. The most common form of the medication is Narcan nasal spray. California's Department of Health Care Services pays $44 per two-pack of Narcan. In the RFI, the...

Help me formulate a good argument that cancel culture is not the same thing as our conservative boycott of Bud Light, target and Disney. I don't think they're the same. Cancel culture is opposition to any opposing voice. In my mind our boycotting is not an opposition to alternative viewpoints , but opposition to immoral targeting of children. Thank you.

There’s no American anti-war movement in the Vietnam War, Syrian War or Afghan War sense of the term. That’s because there is a genuine US strategic interest at stake in fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian, and further. No comparable strategic stake existed in the earlier wars. The stake in the war against Russia is the preservation of the US occupation of Germany and the empire in Europe and the UK, together with the credibility of US weapons which must be sold worldwide at prices to match their reputations in combat. Losing the war on the Ukrainian battlefield and in...

Hospitals ask patients a lot of personal questions. Medical history? Medications? Preexisting conditions? Smoke, drink or do drugs? As of Saturday, you’ll have one more question to answer: What’s your immigration status? Florida hospitals that accept Medicaid will be required to query patients about that, although a person can decline to answer. The measure is just one of many in a new bill, SB 1718, approved by the Florida Legislature and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in May to crack down on the flow of illegal immigration into the state. The new law does not apply to other healthcare providers,...

A 14-year-old girl who’d gone missing after running away from home last month was found inside the barracks of Marine Corp Camp Pendleton, according to authorities. An officer of the U.S. Marine Corps was taken into custody in San Diego in connection with allegations of sex trafficking involving the minor. The girl, who has learning disabilities, ran away from home on June 9. Her grandmother reported her missing to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department a few days later. “The grandmother reported to deputies that the teen had previously run away before, but always returned home quickly,” Melissa Aquino, SDSO’s...

"We are running low on cisplatin." "The e-mail came. We are out of carboplatin." "How do I prioritize which patients can receive the chemotherapy drugs?" "I can't give my patients the life-saving chemotherapy that they need." These are comments that have been shared in the media by oncologists throughout the country as a response to the chemotherapy drug shortages that started earlier this year. While drug shortages do happen often, the extent of this chemotherapy shortage appears unprecedented as it may be impacting as many as 500,000 Americansopens in a new tab or window. As an oncologist, I aim to...

AMARILLO, Texas– Two people were killed and 5 more were injured in a shooting that took place at a shopping center just before 1:00 a.m. on Sunday, according to a press release from the Amarillo Police Department. According to the release, the shooting happened in the 3500 block of South Georgia Street. Officers found seven people shot and one of the victims died at the scene. The remaining victims were taken to three different emergency rooms by Amarillo Medical Response and private vehicles. Another victim died at the hospital. The victims were identified as Semagea D Smith, 32, and Dequincton...

The boycott in response to Bud Light's outreach to transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney has had notable staying power. Why it matters: The ferocity of this particular boycott — which has entered its third month of headlines — is due in large part to the brand's misalignment with key consumers, easily accessible competitors and the poor corporate response.

Martin Scorsese's upcoming 'Killers of the Flower Moon' examines the origins of an agency that forged a relationship with the entertainment industry in the 1930s, cementing the tropes audiences see today.Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon is the latest turn in a long motion picture tradition of pilfering FBI case files for screen scenarios. Originally, Hollywood coveted the validation of the bureau (“based on actual FBI case histories!”) and the personal imprimatur of its lord high ruler, J. Edgar Hoover (who in 1945 actually read life insurance commercials for NBC radio’s This Is Your FBI)....

Grovel, grovel, grovel -- what better for a Bidenite than to project American submission? Before a U.S. dignitary makes an overseas visit to a vital country abroad, such a person is briefed by the State Department -- about how to properly present oneself as a representative of the United States of America to a foreign national in terms they can understand, without unintentionally giving offense or sending the wrong message. But then there's Janet Yellen, whose trip to China sent a very clear message to China, just through her body language, but presumably not the one she meant: [kowtow video...

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Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon doctor who claims to have experienced the afterlife during a seven-day coma, says the experience was like Plato’s world of ideals. In 2008, Dr. Eben Alexander went into a coma after catching an acute bacterial infection that had a severe neurological impact on his brain. For seven days, he lay unconscious. When he awoke, he described seeing a beautiful spiritual guide on a butterfly wing that took him through a wormhole. Sharing his story with the U.S. Sun, Dr. Alexander described a land of “beautiful very lush forests and meadow waterfalls into crystal blue pools, absolutely...

A new ban on daytime homeless camping legally took effect Friday in Portland, but one wouldn’t know it by walking around the City of Roses. Tents spilled over sidewalks and those who have made their homes on public property say the new policy isn’t likely to create meaningful change. “It’s bulls—,” Michael, who has been homeless off and on since the ‘90s, told Fox News bluntly. “I’m tired of moving. They’re gonna have to make me move.” The city council passed the ordinance with a 3-1 vote last month, changing city code to only allow people to camp in nonrestricted...

On Saturday, a video emerged online of a historic Orthodox church in Izmir being used as a nightclub. The decision to host an electronic music dance party in a religious building has been deemed disrespectful by some Christians and others who have seen the video. The church in question is Agios Voukolos, dedicated to the first bishop of Smyrna, the ancient Greek name for the city of Izmir. The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs has weighed in on the controversy, condemning the use of the historic Orthodox church in Izmir as a nightclub. “Desecration” of a historic Orthodox church in...

It is not Israel's settlement blocks but rather the Palestinian ideological blockade that constitutes the biggest barrier to peaceful arrangements . The Jew-hatred in this region must no longer be played down as a kind of local custom

Mathematician Per Enflo, who solved a huge chunk of the 'invariant subspaces problem' decades ago, may have just finished his work.This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Nathan Brownlowe, Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney. Two weeks ago, a modest-looking paper was uploaded to the arXiv preprint server with the unassuming title "On the invariant subspace problem in Hilbert spaces". The paper is just 13 pages long and its list of references contains only a single entry. The paper...

"And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils." "For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother." "The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil...