This Guy Serves and Slices Fruit with a Custom Air Cannon

Wanna serve some sliced fruit to your neighbors from your own yard? That’s what Ben Cusick aka NighthawkInLight did with this awesome air cannon. He built a custom end for the weapon which has slicing blades, so you can shoot fruit all day long and serve it up sliced to perfection. This gun will put fruit ninjas out of business.

It can accept several different slicing blades for different sized fruit bullets too. He demonstrates how to build the specialty barrel for his custom high power air cannon in the video below:

It looks like a pretty easy build if you have even a little experience building things, but be careful, this could really hurt someone. After all, you want to enjoy the fruits of your labor.

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Tesla drops price on 75kWh Model S, upgrades for 60kWh batteries

The past few days have seen some pretty big changes to Tesla‘s EV lineup. Tesla kicked things off by discontinuing its 60kWh Model S, which saw its last day of availability yesterday. Now that it’s no longer being offered, Tesla is making some pricing and feature changes to the rest of its lineup. For starters, the 75kWh Model S has … Continue reading

12 Comics To Remind You That You're A Flawed But Amazing Human Being

Tori Press, the woman behind the Instagram account revelatori, creates illustrations for times when you’re doing fine, but could be better. 

You know, like when you can’t stop ruminating on negative thoughts: 

Or feel heartsick for home:

Or for when you start to feel like you’re the sum of your mistakes, instead of a deeply-flawed-but-still-great human being: 

Press, 35, told The Huffington Post that she draws to help herself cultivate more mindfulness, gratitude, and self-acceptance.

“I draw the messages I really need to hear, not because I’ve fully internalized them or even because I always believe them myself, but because drawing is a part of my path toward that goal,” she explained. 

Initially, the Los Angeles-based illustrator only shared the doodles on her personal Instagram and Facebook accounts. But after receiving positive feedback from family and friends, she made them public. 

“I found so many people responding ‘me too!’ or ‘I really needed to hear this message!’ that I realized my struggles are more common than I thought,” she told HuffPost. “I hope I inspire a little more peace, joy, gratitude, and self-love in the world through my art.” 

See more of Press’ comics below and be sure to check out her Instagram feed for more:

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Here's What Happens During A Fentanyl Overdose

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Deaths due to opioid overdoses have risen sharply in the past few years, partly due to a particularly potent drug called fentanyl. Fentanyl is between 50 and 100 times more powerful than another opioid, morphine, and its use seems to be on the rise in the U.S.

In Massachusetts, for example, from 2013 to 2014, 32 percent of opioid overdose deaths involved fentanyl. During the first half of 2016, the percentage of fentanyl-related opioid deaths had more than doubled, jumping to 74 percent, according to a new report.

In an effort to better understand the effects of this powerful drug, as well as educate first responders and bystanders on how to best identify and treat people who have overdosed on fentanyl, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention interviewed more than 60 people from southeastern Massachusetts, who were recruited from harm-reduction programs. [America’s Opioid-Use Epidemic: 5 Startling Facts]

All of the people in the study had either used the drug in the previous year and survived an overdose in past six months, or had witnessed an overdose between October 2014 and March 2015.The researchers asked them about their experiences, knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about opioid overdoses. In addition, the researchers gathered information from death records to track fatalities that occurred during the same time period.

The interviews shed light on the fast-acting and sometimes gruesome nature of fentanyl overdoses — as well as how widespread the drug has become — according to the report, which the CDC published today (April 13).

When the researchers asked the participants why there had been an increase in opioid overdose deaths in recent years, 88 percent of the respondents placed the blame on fentanyl. (In fact, when the CDC researchers reviewed death records for nearly 200 people who overdosed on opioids during the study period, they found that two-thirds tested positive for fentanyl.)

Fentanyl can be used legally — doctors prescribe the drug for people with chronic pain. The drug comes as a transdermal patch, which slowly releases the drug into the person’s body at a rate that is considered safe.

But the drug can also be found in an illegal, powdered form.

In the interviews, the participants said that fentanyl powder can be purchased on its own or mixed with heroin. They also said that sometimes, people didn’t know if the heroin they had purchased also contained fentanyl.

The death records revealed that 82 percent of the fatalities involved the illegal powdered form of the drug, and just 4 percent involved the prescription patch. In 14 percent of the cases, the form of the drug that the person had used was not known.

The researchers noted that some of the people interviewed said that they specifically sought out fentanyl.  Others said they had tried to avoid the drug, but they also said that the possibility that they might wind up with fentanyl, or fentanyl-laced heroin, didn’t stop them from seeking opioids, the researchers found. [10 Interesting Facts About Heroin]

One of the major characteristics that the respondents described was the speed of a fentanyl overdose: Seventy-five percent of the respondents said that the symptoms occurred within seconds to minutes.

When a person overdoses on heroin, he or she may take the drug and then proceed to carry on a conversation for a few moments, one respondent said. Then suddenly, that person stops talking and “you look over and realize that they’re overdosing,” the respondent said.

But with fentanyl, the same respondent said that the effect is immediate: “I would say you notice it [a fentanyl overdose] as soon as they are done [injecting the fentanyl]. They don’t even have time to pull the needle out [of their body] and they’re on the ground.”

Injecting fentanyl was the most common way that a person overdosed on the drug, accounting for 75 percent of the overdoses witnessed, according to the respondents. The remaining 25 percent of the overdoses resulted from people snorting the dug, the researchers said.

The researchers asked the respondents to describe what happened during a suspected fentanyl overdose. The most common characteristic, described in 20 percent of the cases, was that the person’s lips immediately turned blue, followed by gurgling sounds with breathing (16 percent of the cases), stiffening of the body or seizure-like activity (13 percent), foaming at the mouth (6 percent) and confusion or strange behavior before the person became unresponsive (6 percent), according to the report.

Fentanyl overdoses can be reversed with the same antidote that is used to treat other opioid overdoses — a drug called naloxone, which is sold under the brand name Narcan.

In the report, in 83 percent of the cases when naloxone was used, one dose was not sufficient. Instead, the respondents said that two or more doses of the antidote were needed to revive the person who had overdosed, according to the report.

Indeed, some opioid users are aware of the dangers of both fentanyl and heroin: According to the report, 30 percent of the respondents said that, in order to help protect themselves against a deadly overdose, they don’t use the drugs when they are alone.

Originally published on Live Science.

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The Trans Teen Artist Fighting Discrimination With Wearable Works Of Art

“Adulthood is bullshit,” multi-hyphenate creative Hunter Schafer told Dazed when she was selected as one of the Dazed 100, a list that highlights the next generation of youth culture. “And I think some of the most successful and radiant people are those who have been able to get back to that instinctive and child-like part of their selves again.”

It’s an amusing comment coming from someone who, at 18 years old, has accomplished more than many twice her age. Schafer, who has been drawing since she can remember, is a gifted illustrator and comic artist, tweaking the styles of influences like Tim Burton and Skottie Young to create aqueous ink and watercolor images that combine moody fantasy with teen angst. “My parents were really good about not sitting me down in front of a TV,” Schafer told The Huffington Post. “They really nurtured the creative part of me.”

When Schafer got an Instagram account, she started exploring the potentials of photography. Today, with almost 5,000 followers, she uses the platform to hone her artistic vision and weave visual stories about herself and her community. “I became more aware of an aesthetic that I was interested in and wanted to uphold,” she explained. “I realized that just drawing things wasn’t enough for me; I could convey my voice artistically through other mediums outside of two-dimensional, surface work.”

Influenced by David Bowie, Schafer is a quickly evolving artist driven by experimentation, self-discovery and play. Her works break down binaries of all kinds ― between exterior and interior, personal and political, authentic and artificial, serious and fun. 

Schafer is also an activist, specifically advocating for trans youth. Having transitioned at 14 years old, Schafer has actively protested North Carolina’s House Bill 2, which forces transgender individuals to use bathrooms that don’t reflect their gender identity. After the bill passed, Schafer joined a lawsuit filed by the ACLU and began sharing her experiences through art and writing. Though HB2 was technically repealed in March, the compromise passed in its place perpetuates the discriminatory views that propelled the original law, and does nothing to protect trans populations from prejudice or abuse. 

As a high school student based in North Carolina, Schafer has firsthand knowledge of the emotional damage and physical danger inflicted upon trans teens when they are denied the basic liberty of using a bathroom. “Every time I use a public bathroom, I have to make a choice,” she wrote for Teen Vogue. “Do I break the law, or do I disregard my comfort and face the risk of harassment and violence?”

Initially, Schafer viewed art and activism as separate parts of her life. But more recently, she’s begun to experiment with the ways creative expression and political resistance can bolster one another. For her high school senior thesis project, Schafer is working on a series of garments aimed to fight discrimination against trans communities, exploring how imagination can wrestle the body away from binary understandings of gender.

One of Schafer’s recent wearable creations is a pair of bulky red underwear with two large hands covering up the wearer’s genitals. Lettering across the unorthodox undergarments reads: “Peel away every perception.” On the item’s backside is a black-and-white line drawing of a wrinkled face, lips pursed in what resembles judgment. The garment speaks to the absurdity of discerning one’s identity with one particular body part we rarely even, if ever, see.

“The piece is dealing with how people perceive me versus how I feel,” Schafer said. “I am encountering new facets of being trans every day. I need to process that through my work. They’re almost like journal entries.”

Another biographical ensemble, titled “Puberty,” is a yellow two-piece featuring felt cutouts of writhing torsos placed atop the wearer’s breasts. The outfit, with its exaggerated, proportions, visualizes the changes a body undergoes during puberty, or gender transition. Awkward, unruly and ultimately beautiful, the outfit visualizes the experience of inhabiting a changing body. 

Schafer also communicates her personal experiences through illustrations, like this 2015 series on Rookie, which navigates the difficulty of dressing up for formal events like school dances, where a strict gender binary was especially enforced. “I longed to escape, and to express what I felt inside me — not what was expected of me,” she said in a statement.

So far, Schafer has enjoyed incorporating the spirit of activism into her art. “I want to do something meaningful with my work,” she said. “Being able to translate my experiences as a trans person into my artwork, and using my work as a platform to support marginalized communities in general, those are things that are really important to me now. They’re definitely becoming part of my artistic identity.”

Aside from the many media she’s already successfully dipped into, Schafer is beginning to explore modeling and modern dance as other modes of storytelling. In part, she credits the internet for eliminating rigid boundaries between artistic disciplines and encouraging young artists to create without limitations.

“The internet is changing the young artistic scene because we have such a fast way to share and react and create our own platforms,” Schafer said. “I think the internet has empowered young artists to create these online personas and carry out aesthetics that they want to try out. We can receive direct feedback from other young artists, react to them, and share and spread our ideas. It’s completely youth led and that’s what is so wonderful.”

Schafer is currently finishing up her final year of high school and is planning to take a gap year before college to live and make work in New York City. Her contributions as an artist and activist are wildly impressive, regardless of the fact that Schafer is still a teenager. Thankfully, the young creative force shows no signs of slowing down or growing up anytime soon. 

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Black U.S. Babies Still More Likely To Die Than White Infants

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<span class="articleLocation”>(Reuters Health) – Even as infant mortality rates are declining nationwide, there are some U.S. states where black babies are much more likely to die than white infants, a recent study suggests.

Overall, infant mortality rates decreased 13 percent in the U.S. from 2000 to 2013, the study found. By the end of this period, however, the black infant mortality rate was 11.1 deaths for every 1,000 live births, compared with just 5.1 deaths for every 1,000 white newborns. The rate is calculated based on the number of babies who die before their first birthday.

Eliminating this gap would have saved almost 65,000 black babies during the study period, the researchers estimate in the American Journal of Public Health.

“I’d like to see racial equality in infant survival in my lifetime, and some states are on the right track,” lead study author Dr. Joedrecka Brown Speights of Florida State University College of Medicine in Tallahassee said by email.

For the study, researchers used government records to calculate infant mortality rates in 35 states; some states had too few deaths to analyze meaningful differences between the groups of babies.

By the end of the study, state-level black infant mortality rates ranged from 6.65 to 13.77 deaths for every 1,000 live births.

All states improved infant mortality rates for black babies during the study period, though none achieved equality. The three states with the biggest improvements were Arizona, Iowa and Massachusetts, which reduced infant mortality by at least 30 percent during the study period.

Based on the rate of improvement in each state, researchers calculated that 18 states would achieve equal infant mortality rates for black and white babies by 2050.

Researchers also looked at how black babies fared relative to white infants and found wide variation among states.

Massachusetts reduced the racial gap in infant mortality by 24 percent during the study period, followed by Tennessee with a 23 percent reduction and Arizona with a 22 percent decline.

The gap widened in three states, expanding by less than 1 percent in New Jersey and Illinois and increasing almost 12 percent in Kansas.

The leading causes of black infant mortality for newborns are low birth weight, preterm deliveries, birth defects and pregnancy complications, researchers note in the American Journal of Public Health. Over the first year of life, the leading causes of death for black babies are birth defects, sudden infant death syndrome or accidental injuries.

One limitation of the study is that it didn’t include all states nationwide or assess how certain state policies might influence differences in infant mortality rates. Researchers also didn’t examine mortality rates for Hispanic babies or other racial and ethnic groups that make up a substantial proportion of the population in certain states.

“This is good news that the black-white gap in infant mortality is generally declining, and I think one contribution of the paper is simply to draw attention to the fact that the pace of improvement in the gap varies between states,” said Sam Harper, a public health researcher at McGill University in Montreal who wasn’t involved in the study.

“We should be interested in that variation, and understand why some states are doing better than others,” Harper said by email.

Women can do many things to make infant deaths less likely, including eating well, avoiding smoking, and getting good prenatal care during pregnancy, Harper said.

“That being said, it certainly helps to live in a community that provides access to high quality prenatal and post-natal care, affordable insurance, good doctors and nurses, and high-quality community resources,” Harper added. “Black women are less likely than white women to have access to all of these resources, and that is clearly a place where state health and social policies could make a difference.”

 

SOURCE: bit.ly/2oceBJu American Journal of Public Health, online March 21, 2017.

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Mom Responds To Unsolicited Advice About Improving Her Postpartum Body

One mom’s Facebook post about how society views postpartum bodies went viral last week. 

On April 12, Kelly Howland wrote about a trip she took to a Target store in Mishawaka, Indiana, with her 2-week-old. She told The Huffington Post that while she was looking through the value bins at the front of the store, a woman approached her and asked a few questions about her newborn.

The woman turned out to be a salesperson for a skin care and nutrition brand and gave Howland her contact info in case she was interested in the company’s products, which include body-contouring wraps for tightening and toning. 

In her post, Howland wrote that she knew why the woman chose to advertise to her as she carried her “baby billboard of being brand new postpartum.”

“We all know that this culture hammers into postpartum women a lot of physical insecurity about their bodies after delivering their miracles from their wombs,” she wrote. “I don’t think I have to spell out for a single woman the cultural pressure that postpartum mothers face regarding their physical appearance. We know. We all know. She knew. And that’s why she approached me.”

The mom also made it clear she wasn’t upset with the woman or even with the company. She did use the moment, though, to suggest an alternate way to view postpartum bodies. 

“Can we PLEASE not perpetuate the pressure, the impossible expectations, and therefore keep alive the insecurities that we newly postpartum women face regarding our new and changing bodies as we enter motherhood?” she wrote. “Instead of leaning into superficial ideals imposed upon us, can we PLEASE start bucking the system and instead start praising each other for being the amazing, life giving, creation birthing vessels that we are?”

When asked if there have been other times where she felt pressured to change her body after becoming a mother, Howland told The Huffington Post she used to struggle with body image, but now, after giving birth to three babies, she feels no need to alter her looks. 

“I love my body for what she does for me on a daily basis,” she said. “I love myself and my body for who I am. I wear the physical evidence of my life experiences on my body, particularly my motherhood, and I by no means think that is something to try to hide or erase.”

Howland told HuffPost she has received “overwhelmingly positive” feedback on her post, which has been shared more than 15,000 times as of Monday afternoon. She said it seems to have resonated with other women and mothers who have had similar experiences. 

For Howland, her body is “physical evidence” of the lives she brought into the world. And she aims to celebrate that, not hide it.

“My body doesn’t need to be wrapped or squeezed or changed,” she wrote in her post. “It needs to be valued and revered for the incredible life it just brought into this world. THAT is beauty and THAT is all it needs.”

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Bernie Sanders Throws His Hat In With Montana Populist Rob Quist

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced plans Monday to campaign with Rob Quist, the banjo-strumming populist Democrat running for Montana’s open seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

“Rob Quist is the only person in this race who understands that we need a government in Washington that works for all Montanans and all Americans and not just the special interests and the billionaire class,” Sanders said in a statement. “I look forward to campaigning with him in May and working with him in Congress.”

Quist, a legendary folk musician who co-founded the Mission Mountain Wood Band, won his party’s nomination in March after barnstorming the state, encouraging supporters to organize Democratic committees in counties long dominated by the GOP. He defeated a handful of state legislators to win the nomination for the special election called for May 25 after Ryan Zinke, who had won re-election for the House seat, became President Donald Trump’s secretary of the interior. 

Until recently, top Democratic officials had largely ignored the Montana campaign, even as voters clamored for the party to focus on down-ballot races that could flip historically red congressional seats.

But Sanders’ organization, Our Revolution, recently endorsed Quist. And earlier this month, the Vermont senator, who caucuses with the Democratstold The Huffington Post he’d offered to make a stop in Montana on his national tour with Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez sometime after Easter.

The campaign has yet to announce dates for Quist’s appearances with Sanders, but voters can sign up with their contact information to receive alerts.

“I’m excited that Bernie Sanders recognizes that our grassroots campaign is building momentum and has the best chance in decades to take back Montana’s U.S. House seat for the rest of us,” said Quist, who endorsed Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary last year, in a statement. “In the U.S. House, I’ll be a voice to protect our public lands, fight for working families, work for better health care, and stand up to Wall Street and special interests.”

The Quist campaign initially bristled at comparisons to Sanders, despite the two men’s shared support for single-payer health care and abortion rights, and their similar dismay over the ongoing concentration of wealth and power among a small class of elites. Quist, 69, is selling himself as a hometown maverick and champion of public lands access, a core issue in a state where the federal government owns 29 percent of all acreage.

Greg Gianforte, the tech millionaire running against Quist on the Republican ticket, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Sanders won Montana’s Democratic primary last June. Trump won the Republican nomination in Montana and went on to handily defeat Hillary Clinton in the state in November.

Gianforte lost his bid to unseat Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) in November. It was a costly defeat: Gianforte spent at least $5.1 million of his own money on the campaign, which aired 30,661 television ads, more than any other state candidate in the country. Quist has sought to depict Gianforte, whose last campaign left him with strong name recognition, as an out-of-touch rich guy from out of state. Born in California, Gianforte lived for years in New Jersey, a fact of which Democrats have been quick to remind voters. Gianforte had a reported income of $220.5 million between 2005 and 2014 on his tax returns, and in 2011, he sold his software firm RightNow Technologies to the tech giant Oracle Corp. for $1.5 billion.

Quist, by contrast, is the son of ranchers from Flathead, Montana. He struggled financially due to a pre-existing condition that prevented him from getting health care, forcing him to pay out of pocket for a series of surgeries in the early 2000s.

“Congress right now is dominated by politicians who worry about the needs of their wealthy campaign contributors,” Sanders said. “We need members of Congress like Rob who will work to rebuild the shrinking middle class, who will fight all attempts to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and will oppose tax breaks for the very rich.”

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27 Relatable Tweets That Capture Married Life Oh So Perfectly

It seems impossible to condense the diverse experiences of married life into just 140 characters or less. But somehow these husbands and wives did it ― and with humor too!

Below, 27 marriage tweets that are right on the money. 

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DNC Announces Members Of Unity Reform Commission

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WASHINGTON ― Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez announced the complete list of people on the 21-member Unity Reform Commission on Monday.

The panel was created at the party’s national convention in July as a last-minute compromise between supporters of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and those of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who were demanding the elimination of super-delegates from presidential primaries.

The commission will now begin the process of discussing reforms to the party’s presidential nominating process, including hot-button issues like the role of superdelegates and caucuses. It will present its recommendations to the DNC by January 2018.

“At the 2016 convention, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and national delegates agreed that in order to capture the energy of Democrats from across the country it is critical that we enhance the nominating process that continues to embrace the big tent of our party,” Perez said in a statement. “This includes everyone, from lifelong Democrats to 18-year-olds who cast their first ballot in 2016.”

“A Democratic Party that gives every Democrat a voice in the process will make enormous gains from the school board to the Senate this cycle and it will take back the White House in 2020,” he continued. “We already see this incredible energy in a number of highly competitive races across the country.”

Below is a complete list of the commission members:

  1. Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, Chair, District of Columbia

  2. Larry Cohen, Vice Chair, District of Columbia

  3. Charlie Baker, Massachusetts

  4. Jan Bauer, Iowa

  5. Jeff Berman, District of Columbia

  6. Lucy Flores, California

  7. Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio)

  8. Maya Harris, New York

  9. David Huynh, Louisiana

  10. Elaine Kamarck, Massachusetts

  11. Jane Kleeb, Nebraska Democratic Party Chair

  12. Nomiki Konst, New York

  13. Yvette Lewis, Maryland

  14. Gus Newport, California

  15. Jorge Neri, Illinois

  16. James Roosevelt, Jr., Massachusetts

  17. Emmy Ruiz, Texas

  18. Nina Turner, Ohio

  19. Jeff Weaver, Virginia

  20. Wellington Webb, Colorado

  21. Jim Zogby, District of Columbia

The 21-member commission includes 9 members selected by Clinton, 7 members picked by Sanders, 3 picked by Perez, and the chair and vice chair ― selected by Clinton and Sanders, respectively.

Aside from Chair Jen O’Malley Dillon, a Clinton pick, the members selected by Perez and Clinton are not public.

Sanders had also already named his selections to the commission. They are Cohen, the vice chair; former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner; former Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver; former Sanders New York delegate Nomiki Konst; Jim Zogby, founder of the Arab-American Institute; former Berkeley, California Mayor Gus Newport; former Nevada Assemblywoman Lucy Flores; and Nebraska Democratic Party Chair Jane Kleeb.

The commission’s first meeting will take place in Washington, D.C., on May 5-6. All of their meetings will be public.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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