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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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You don’t even have to be a lady, there are several

  • My last name is culturally important to me
  • His last name is something like Cox or Boner and it’s just not worth it
  • I got a doctorate before I met him and don’t want to change it
  • I don’t want to change my name on all my documents and have people assume I’m stealing my own identity in the early months of our marriage
  • I would rather keep my own last name out of personal preference
  • I would rather keep my own last name to make a political statement
  • I want my husband to take MY name
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It’s 2018 and people ARENT PROPERTY

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Luke Skywalker was unlike any of the leading men I’d seen before. The typical hero machismo that Harrison Ford played up with undeniable charm as Han Solo was nowhere to be found in Mark Hamill’s portrayal of the less butch son of Skywalker. All the ingredients that make a great hero were still there — courage, strength, honestly — but because they weren’t dripping with the trappings of traditional masculinity, Luke resonated with me on a level I’d never experienced before. Looking back, I now understand why my heart beat a little faster every time a scene of Luke training on Dagobah in his sleeveless undershirt flickered across the screen or why I gasped when Darth Vader sliced off his son’s hand during their lightsaber duel. Luke was my first crush. Hamill’s portrayal of a kinder, gentler hero made the character feel approachable, and I was infatuated with him by the time the end credits rolled.
Jase Peeples, Why Star Wars Still Gives This Gay Kid Hope (via the-ice-castle)
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Antimicrobial Resistance

(including antibiotic resistance) 

“this serious threat is no longer a prediction for the future, it is happening right now in every region of the world and has the potential to affect anyone, of any age, in any country.“  (x)

Antimicrobial resistance is the ability of a microbe (eg bacteria) to resist the effects of medication that could previously successfully treat it. These then require alternative medications or higher doses of antimicrobials, which can be more expensive, more toxic, and less effective. 

  • can be multidrug resistant (MDR).
  • Extensively drug resistant (XDR)/totally drug resistant (TDR)="superbugs”

This makes the disease caused by the microbes ‘incurable’ as there are no drugs that can treat it.

All classes of microbe can become resistant through:

  • natural resistance 
  • genetic mutation
  • one species acquiring resistance from another
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Preventive measures

  • Only using antibiotics when needed
  • Narrow-spectrum antibiotics -only target specific organism, avoiding creating resistnance in other types that happened to be present
  • Proper sanitation

Notable examples

  • Resistance to the treatment of last resort for life-threatening infections caused by a common intestinal bacteria, Klebsiella pneumoniae–carbapenem antibiotics–has spread to all regions of the world. K. pneumoniae is a major cause of hospital-acquired infections such as pneumonia, bloodstream infections, infections in newborns and intensive-care unit patients. In some countries, because of resistance, carbapenem antibiotics would not work in more than half of people treated for K. pneumoniae infections.
  • Resistance to one of the most widely used antibacterial medicines for the treatment of urinary tract infections caused by E. coli–fluoroquinolones–is very widespread. 
  • Treatment failure to the last resort of treatment for gonorrhoea–third generation cephalosporins–has been confirmed in Austria, Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Norway, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden and the United Kingdom. An estimated 106 million people are infected with gonorrhoea every year.

Antibiotic resistance causes people to be sick for longer and increases the risk of death. For example, people with MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) are estimated to be 64% more likely to die than people with a non-resistant form of the infection. 

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