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Sean Cooley with his waste management truck. Photo courtesy of Justin Cooley.
This Little Boy Will Become a Garbage Man for a Day Thanks to Make-A-Wish Colorado
Make-A-Wish Colorado is granting its 5,280th wish this weekend to a local six-year-old who has an immunodeficiency and loves garbage trucks.
By Meredith Sell • June 19, 2019
Sean Cooley can't wait to watch a car get smashed on Friday. The six-year-old from Northglenn is a bouncing bundle of energy who's rarely seen without a toy garbage truck—and if he's not carrying a toy truck around, he's talking about some aspect of trash collection and processing. His waste management truck is his favorite, and he can rattle off terms for different kinds of garbage trucks at will.
"Are we gonna use a forklift garbage truck for the garbage route, or a grabber truck?" he asked last week at the Make-A-Wish Colorado headquarters in Greenwood Village, when I met him, his big sister Emma, and his dad Justin.
"I don't know," his dad replied.
"If we're going to a building and we're picking up their trash, it has to be a forklift garbage truck," Sean said excitedly.
This weekend, Sean will get an up-close look at how waste management works, thanks to Make-A-Wish Colorado, GFL Environmental (currently rebranding from Alpine Waste & Recycling), and EVRAZ Recycling. The wish—the 5,280th to be granted in Colorado (no affiliation with 5280)—is kicking off on Friday, June 21 with a tour of GFL's Denver recycling facility, followed by lunch and a drive up to Commerce City to see a car get crushed at EVRAZ. On Saturday, Sean will ride shotgun in a garbage truck through Denver, making stops at Broncos Stadium and Denver Fire Station 6, among others.
"We're going to put him in one of our front-load trucks," says John Griffith, GFL's regional vice president. "He'll get a chance to…see how we use the truck and the joystick in the truck to dump the containers into the back and pack the garbage."
At the Make-A-Wish office, Sean was bursting with excitement about the whole thing—chasing his sister around the room, spinning in circles with his face to the ceiling and yelling "Donuts!" as if he was a motorized vehicle burning rubber in a parking lot. Almost every time someone asked him if he was looking forward to his wish, he responded with some form of, "Yes—when's it coming?"
His energy is so vibrant that it's easy to forget why Sean is getting his wish come true. He suffers from an immunodeficiency called chronic granulomatous disease (CGD). His immune system is impaired, leaving him at an increased risk of bacterial and fungal infections, particularly in his lungs. As a baby, he kept getting sick and his parents kept bringing him to the hospital to be treated.
"They'd keep us in, usually just enough for insurance to kick us out, and then we'd be home for a few days," his dad says. A few days later, the infection would return and back to the hospital they'd go. "Finally, about a year in, they decided they're going to keep us in until they figured out what it was."
Sean had pneumonia, and because CGD makes his lungs more prone to infection and impairs his body's ability to heal, the sickness was life-threatening. His CGD diagnosis brought the relief that comes when mystery is replaced with knowledge, but then Sean had to play catchup with his recovery. The kid who can now sprint around a room while telling his big sister what to do (whether she listens or not) was hooked up to oxygen and picc lines for antibiotics, while his parents waited on their insurance to pick up the tab. "We had to buy our own mini-fridge just for his at-home medicines," Justin says.
It took about a year before his symptoms calmed down and the oxygen and picc lines were removed. In the four years since, they've had a few scares, some that required hospitalization and involved other respiratory infections (though no pneumonia). His parents have learned how to read his white blood cell count. They give him anti-fungal and antibacterial medicine twice a day and injections three times a week. If he gets a little bug, they take him to the hospital.
At some point, Sean came across a waste management garbage truck at a therapy session and decided garbage trucks were basically the best thing ever. He has a collection of them at home that he drives around his room, moving fake trash. "With his condition, for him to love this profession…" Justin says with a smile, trailing off and shaking his head.
Last year, Justin was at a conference to learn more about Sean's condition when he learned that his son was eligible for Make-A-Wish's services. He applied, and before long, Sean was invited to come and meet the Make-A-Wish staff.
Whenever a kid comes into Make-A-Wish, the staff guides them through the colorful star-studded halls where past wish recipients have signed their names to the Wish Room, which looks like something out of a fairy tale. A fake tree stands in the center, with a circular table built around it. A throne sits at the edge of one side of the room, and the whole space is decked with more colors than you can count.
Here, the wish granters get to know the kids, asking them about their favorite colors and foods and games and what they like to do for fun. Sometimes, a theme emerges early on: A little girl is obsessed with Minnie Mouse and wants to go to Disneyland. Other times, the wish requires more imagination.
"[Sean] actually was one of those kids that answered every question with 'garbage trucks,'" says Francesca Vecchiarelli, wish coordinator at Make-A-Wish.
It wasn't hard to get the waste companies on board.
"I've been in this business for 20 years, and when you think about Make-A-Wish destinations, trash companies don't normally come to mind," Griffith says. "For us, it's just a thrill to have a small part in this day for Sean."
The major obstacle was getting medical approval (immunodeficiency and trash don't mix). But by planning the right precautions—bags of fake trash, a mask for Sean, keeping him in an enclosed space during the car smash—Make-A-Wish got his doctor's approval.
Sean is looking forward to riding in the garbage truck and seeing how the recycling center works from the inside. But he's most excited about seeing a car get smashed. Last week, he grabbed some crumbled up paper and moved it in and out of the back of his toy garbage truck.
"This is a car and I'm gonna smash it!" he said, pounding the paper between his hands.
Get involved: To help more local kids like Sean get their wishes granted, make a donation to Make-A-Wish Colorado. You can also submit an application to become a volunteer.


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When we set out to create the content for the Diversicon Impact Loan we made sure to put a lot of effort into the process and display our business model in a comprehensive way. However, it wasn't possible for us to foresee all questions in advanced – what may appear as detailed to one person may seem lacking in detail to another.
Based on the discussions we've had with our Companists since our campaign began, it's become apparent which topics are most frequently inquired after. Given that we're the first company with a socially-oriented business model on Companisto, we received many questions directed to this topic and, by extension to this, our business plan. Additionally, some questions were directed at auticon GmbH, which Dirk Müller-Remus founded in 2011.
We hope to clarify some of these topics with our FAQ and in doing so answer some of your questions. The answers to questions aimed at auticon GmbH are also included here.
A.1. What is the difference between Diversicon and auticon?
auticon is a consulting company for IT solutions whose consultants are permanently employed at auticon. The consultants on the autism spectrum are placed with IT projects onsite with customers. They have special interests in computer science. In this regard, Diversicon complements auticon. Our aim is to take care of the target group of individuals with autism who have skills to offer outside of the IT sector. Given that we expect to deal with people from a diverse range of different professions and career tracks, we developed the Diversicon model.
We enroll in unemployed individuals with autism into the Diversicon academy, teach them career-specific competencies, and then either pair them directly with customers or place them in a temporary position. After three to nine months, these customers are to then become their permanent employers. If they're then hired, then a job has been created.
A.2. What do you have in common with auticon?
A.3. Is Diversicon competing with auticon?
No. Both companies complement each other's meaningful work to permanently integrate people on the autism spectrum into the labor market: If we notice that a Diversicon participant has special IT skills, then we would notify auticon of this individual, and in this case, auticon would be the customer. Conversely, if auticon has an applicant that doesn't fulfill the necessary requirements of an IT consultant, then this individual can be forwarded to us and placed elsewhere.
A.4. In contrast to Diversicon, why is auticon a normal limited liability company (GmbH)?
With its outstanding services in the IT sector, auticon competes with notable IT consultancy firms and does so with its own generated financial means. We have received many questions on the reasoning behind our decision to declare Diversicon as a company with social benefit.
B.1 Can any company declare itself as a business with a social benefit?
No. There's a catalogue of company purposes, which are recognized as having social benefits (see §52 German fiscal code). A company with social benefit must exclusively dedicate itself to promoting one or more of these goals (§56 AO). The following points apply to our business model: "Promoting public and occupational education" and "promoting the aid of disabled persons".
B.2 What are the advantages and disadvantages of this type of business model?
Business with social benefits are exempted from both commercial and corporate tax. What's more, such companies are also allowed to receive donations and issue tax-deductible donation receipts. Many funding programs from institutes and the public sector are also exclusively geared towards companies with social benefits.
The strict regulations associated with this business model present a disadvantage: Administrative expenses are high and there is much monitoring from the tax office. Also, it is difficult to change the business purpose.
B.3 Are companies with social benefits permitted to make profits?
Yes, as no company can be sustained in the long-run by running losses. The difference between this business model and a commercial business model lies in the way in which funds are used: Generally, profits are earmarked for specific use and are utilized in a timely matter. What's more, profits may not be distributed as stipulated by §55 of the German fiscal code.
B.4 How would you officially outline the reimbursement of the impact loan?
B.5. Why did you decide to use this business model?
Despite their competencies, individuals on the autism spectrum are unemployed at a disproportionately high rate. To help solve this societal problem, we'd like to make a positive contribution through our entrepreneurial approach. To this end, we could have founded a "normal" limited liability company. Throughout many preliminary talks, however, we were able to determine that only a company with social benefit would be able to offer the necessary credibility for this particular subject area.
What's more, we want the Diversicon's societal goal to be pursued in a sustainable way and avoid a situation that would put profits in the forefront at the expense of those that we aim to help. In other words: It's our goal to remain profitable without pursuing a profit-maximization strategy at the expense of our founding principles. The social benefit aspect of the company provides a legal and business framework that ensures a meaningful, long-term balance between the company's goals and profit.
C.1. Why don't you offer any equity capital investments or any other profit sharing options, like other start-ups?
Given that this option wouldn't be attractive to most investors, we decided to take the path of the Impact Loan: A fixed interest loan serves as a substitute for an equity investment.
C.2. Why don't you get your financing from banks / KfW (German government-owned development banks) / state-sponsored start-up support programs?
Due to their inherent institutional guidelines (Basel III), banks have to carry out a risk evaluation and collateralize their credit accordingly. In general, start-ups are associated with many risks and little collateral. For this reason, very few start-ups are financed by banks. This is why Germany has the state-owned KfW Bank: It offers special funding programs and relieves commercial banks of credit risk. Simply put: The sate acts as a guarantor for start-ups in order to allow new, innovative companies to exist. Other forms of this kind of safeguarding include guarantor banks as well as the BBB.
Problem: Lending programs are only designed for collateralized investments, like real estate, machines, and inventories. And financing programs for new companies are all based on performance-based models, like equity investment shares or profit participation loans, which, according to §55 of the German fiscal code, is forbidden for us. As a result, the state's own laws exclude companies with social benefits from its programs for start-up support.
Thus, a loan from borrowed capital with fixed interest rates (in addition to donations and non-interest bearing deposits) remains the only financing option for businesses with social benefits. Following this, the Impact Loan offers us a replacement for equity investments, which in turns allows us to start our business operations. For this, we'd like to once again thank all of the Companists involved with the impact loan!
C.3. How would you financially outline the impact loan?
The Impact Loan acts as a start-up round of financing for taking on an operational activity. After this step, we're allowed to - unlike conventional for-profit businesses - to take advantage of subsidies. The fact that ongoing business operations of the three Diversicon modules are profitable over the long-term has been presented in our financial projection. Here, we've always made sure to take a conservative approach. Through our scaling measures (additional locations, including individuals with other disorders), we believe that we'll be able to expand our revenue after the break-even in 2020. Even if lower return rates are achieved, the required reserves for final repayments should be built up by 2023.
All in all, the high fixed costs associated with service providers makes it important to quickly scale up the business operation in order to achieve optimal profitability through maximum utilization of the available capacities. Even if we've prepared Diversicon well and are convinced by its business model, there still remains an investment risk, like with every start-up. For more details on this matter, please consult the details of our financial projection.
C.4. Why don't you pay more / less interest?
On the one hand, investors want a fair return on the risk they've taken. On the other, the tax office pays attention to companies with social benefits and wants to see that the interest rate is at market rate so as to ensure that no hidden profit distribution takes place. Furthermore, in the framework of our business model, the interest rate needs to be economically manageable. Against this backdrop, we made sure to educate ourselves on this topic and spoke to many tax advisers.
With Companisto and the Impact Laon, we're certain that we've developed an offer that equally addresses all of these concerns.
We hope we could sufficiently clarify all your questions with this update. Lets keep on working together for a successful future of Diversicon! We are happy about any further investments aswell as more feedback and advice from you.


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IOM, Canada Donate Document Fraud Detection Equipment to Ghana Immigration Service
Accra – IOM Ghana has donated document fraud detection equipment to the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) with funding provided by the Government of Canada. The equipment included passport reference manuals, compact magnifiers and document verification devices.
The 50 compact magnifiers will allow frontline GIS officers, in direct contact with travellers at entry/exit points to increase their document examination capacity on the ground while the document authentication and verification devices will ensure greater scrutiny in case of referrals for secondary level examination.
In addition, the donation included 45 copies of IOM's Passport Examination Procedures Manual (PEPM) which is one of the world's leading reference tools of its kind. It is designed for use by frontline immigration and border management officials and provides a standardized approach to the inspection and identification of fraudulent travel documents.
IOM Ghana Chief of Mission, Sylvia Lopez-Ekra said, "The project has made great strides with multi-country trainings on counter smuggling for land and maritime officials but also Training of Trainers (ToT) workshops successfully rolled out and duplicated in the three countries."
She added, "This has created a sizable pool of trainers on counter-smuggling in Ghana. The new equipment will help these officers operationalise the training they have received and facilitate the detection of fraudulent travel documents at the borders".
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War, relative to the sale of the military reservation at Fort Ripley.
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War, transmitting the report of Colonel Johnston's survey of the
southern boundary line of Kansas. Letter of the Secretary
War, transmitting reports of Captains Sitgreaves and Woodruff of
the survey of the Creek Indian boundary line. Letter of
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War, in answer to a resolution of the House, calling for the report
on the wagon road from Fort Defiance to the Colorado
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road from Fort Defiance to the Colorado river. Letter of
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DECEMBER 8, 1857.-Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, and ordered to be printed.
DECEMBER 16, 1857.-Resolved, That there be printed, for the use of the members of the House of Representatives, twenty thousand extra copies of the President's Annual Message and accompanying documents.
CORNELIUS WENDELL, PRINTER.
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR.
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, December 5, 1857.
SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the condition and operations of the army during the past year.
The army consists of nineteen regiments, divided into ten of infantry, four of artillery, two of dragoons, two of cavalry, and one of mounted riflemen. The whole strength of the army, as posted, consists of about 17,984 men; and the actual strength, on the first of July last, was 15,764. In addition to the movements which the troops have been called on to make this year, which are set forth in a separate paper, prepared by the Adjutant General and herewith transmitted, this force is called upon to garrison 68 forts of a large and permanent character, so far, at least, as it is possible to supply men for the purpose; and to occupy 70 posts less permanently established, where the presence of a force is absolutely required. The area over which these forts and posts are spread embraces a circuit of about 3,000,000 square miles, and requires a journey of many thousand miles to visit the principal ones of them.
The external boundary of our country, requiring throughout a more or less vigilant military supervision, is 11,000 miles in length, presenting every variety of climate and temperature, from the inclement cold of our Canada frontier to the tropical regions of southern Texas. But the occupation of this long line of frontier is a trifling difficulty in comparison with that of protecting the double line of Indian frontier, extending from the Lake of the Woods to the banks of the Rio Grande, on the east side of the Rocky mountains, and from beyond the river Oregon on the British frontier to the head of the Gulf of California, on the western slope of those mountains. Superadded to these lines, requiring to be occupied, are the great lines of intercommunication between the valley of the Mississippi and the Pacific ocean, which imperatively demand that protection which only the United States troops can furnish. These lines are very long, and are now extremely important, whilst every year renders them more and more. From our western frontier of settlements to those of northern Oregon the distance is about 1,800 miles; from the same frontier to the settlements of California, via Salt Lake, is 1,800 miles; from the frontier of Arkansas, at Fort Smith, by Albuquerque or Santa Fé, to Fort Tejon, is about 1,700 miles; and from San Antonio, by El Paso, to San Diego, near the borders of the white settlements, is 1,400 miles; constituting an aggregate line of 6,700 miles which ought to


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Children's church and nursery care are provided during service times.
The Grace Baptist Church Praise Team is committed to providing an aesthetically pleasing musical experience during Sunday service, specifically intended to prepare the congregation for the Sunday sermon.
The youth and children's ministry consist primarily of our Sunday School program and Teen Chapel held at 10 a.m. each Sunday morning during the school year.
Through this ministry we are seeking to connect with those who are in their 20's and 30's as they journey through the most consequential time of their lives.
Our Men's Ministry is not driven by programs or scripts. It's driven by our men. A cup of coffee, an open Bible, and men engaged in uplifting conversation around a table.
Growing together in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, and bringing Him glory (2 Peter 3:18) - that is the goal of our ladies ministries.
To download a sermon, click on the sermon link to access that sermon's download link.
Visitor and handicap parking are available, and children's church and nursery care are provided during service times for parents.
Sunday Service starts at 11:00 am.
There is Jr. Church during Morning Worship.


Crank up the AC and ditch the CDs because this Summer playlist is seriously hot! Crack open a cold one and let the backyard BBQ's begin as these beachy tracks from every genre and decade complete the soundtrack to your best Summer yet.
Pairs perfectly with our Summer Soiree Pinterest Board.


The first 300 cars with engine start blockers was added to the company's vehicle fleet in Voronezh, Moscow, Rostov, Samara, St. Petersburg, Tula and Yaroslavl.
Lars Lehmann is appointed to Carlsberg Group's Executive Committee (ExCom) as Executive Vice President (EVP) for the Eastern European region and President of Baltika Breweries; Jacek Pastuszka will change from EVP for Carlsberg Group's Eastern Europe region to Western Europe.
The very first Carlsberg beers were brewed by Carlsberg's founder J.C. Jacobsen in Copenhagen 1847. Today, Carlsberg is enjoyed all over the world!


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07/26/2018 A Star Is Born / Blu-rays / Books / Discography / DVDs / Latest News / Movies / On This Day... / The Wizard of Oz
On This Day In Judy Garland's Life And Career – July 26
"If I am to name the performer I admire the most, it would be Judy Garland." – Diahann Carroll, 1957
July 26, 1937: Watching the Stars Eat. Judy with Robert Taylor, Betty Jaynes, and Clark Gable.
Also on this date, Judy's eighth appearance on Frank Morgan's limited series of 15-minute shows. Little is known about these shows outside of what the newspapers tell us, which do not include the actual contents, just schedule listings. No recordings are known to survive.
Judy was listed as being a part of the shows that aired on June 6th, 14th, 21st, 28th; July 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th; and August 2nd & 9th. She's not listed in the final three episodes on August 16, 23, & 30. No recordings are known to exist of any of the shows nor is there any information as to what Judy sang.
For other Garland radio performance from this era and other eras, check out The Judy Room's "Judy Sings! On the Radio" pages.
July 26, 1941: According to Norman J. Zierold in his limited series of articles about "The Child Stars" as published in February 1966, Judy and David Rose were dining with Judy's mother, Ethel, and her stepfather, William Gilmore, when they "made the decision to marry immediately, a move which was probably hastened by increasing studio opposition to the romance. 'The Real Thing' lasted a year and a half, until February 1943, when a long separation began that ended in divorce in June 1944. Conflicting careers said the self-appointed experts. The studio was, in fact, always calling. And Judy, for whom the sweet smell of success was growing intoxicatingly strong, always obeyed."
On this day, MGM noted that the company of Babes on Broadway was shut down for the day due to Judy being ill and nothing could be filmed without her. The next day Judy, David, her mother, and stepfather went to Las Vegas.
Photos: Judy and David Rose in 1941; Judy and her mom also in 1941.
July 26, 1942: Decca Records recording session at the label's studios in Hollywood, California. Judy was joined by her For Me And My Gal co-star Gene Kelly. Together they recorded "For Me And My Gal" and "When You Wore A Tulip." Judy then soloed on "That Old Black Magic" and "I Never Knew."
"That Old Black Magic" had been written by Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Harold Arlen (music). Mercer wrote the lyrics about Judy, whom he was in love with at the time. It's unclear if Judy ever knew this fact or not. I like to think that she did.
Listen to "For Me And My Gal" here:
http://www.thejudyroom.com/songs/For-Me-And-My-Gal-Decca.mp3
Listen to "When You Wore A Tulip" here:
http://www.thejudyroom.com/songs/When-You-Wore-A-Tulip-Deca.mp3
Listen to "That Old Black Magic" here:
http://www.thejudyroom.com/songs/That-Old-Black-Magic-Decca.mp3
Listen to "I Never Knew" here:
http://www.thejudyroom.com/songs/I-Never-Knew-Decca.mp3
Check out The Judy Garland Online Discography's "Decca Records" section for details about all of Judy's Decca recordings and albums.
Disc images from the Rick Smith Collection. Thanks, Rick!
July 26, 1948: Columnist Bob Thomas wisely notes that Judy's recent health issues were due to being overworked.
July 26, 1949: Now available! The original soundtrack album to In The Good Old Summertime. The original album was not the standard four-disc, eight sides album but two discs with four songs in the gatefold format. The four songs presented were "Put Your Arms Around Me Honey"; "Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland"; "Play That Barbershop Chord"; "I Don't Care."
Check out The Judy Garland Online Discography's pages on the soundtrack to In The Good Old Summertime here.
Check out The Judy Room's Filmography Pages on In The Good Old Summertime here.
July 26, 1954: Judy rehearsed and recorded parts of the "Born In A Trunk" number for A Star Is Born, specifically "When My Sugar Walks Down The Street" and "I'll Get By." From 4 – 5 p.m. she rehearsed, then recorded from 5 – 5:25 p.m. then rehearsed some more from 5:25 – 6 p.m.
Check out The Judy Room's Extensive Spotlight on A Star Is Born" here.
July 26, 1955: Erksine Johnson reported on the fact that Judy apparently turned down an offer to appear on TV preferring to tour with her show, "The Judy Garland Show." However, after Judy's concert in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on July 19, her husband and manager Sid Luft publicly announced the cancelation of the rest of the tour by citing a clause in the contract that stated Judy could cancel the dates without repercussions if she was needed for film or television work. The result was Judy's first TV special which aired on September 24, 1955, not long after Judy signed a recording contract with Capitol Records that August.
Meanwhile, The Wizard of Oz was still enjoying brisk business for its second theatrical rerelease. Included here is an article about, published on this date, about O.O. Ceccarini who worked out the mathematics of the sound effects of the cyclone in the film.
Check out The Judy Room's Spotlight Section on The Wizard of Oz here.
July 26, 1957: The young, up-and-coming singer Diahann Carroll says that Judy is her idol. Carroll went on to enjoy a fantastic career, including appearing with Judy on Judy's TV series as Judy's guest on Episode Twenty-One taped on January 31, 1964, and aired on February 16, 1964.
July 26, 1967: Judy and kids Lorna and Joe Luft posed under the marquee at The Palace Theater. Judy opened her third, and final, engagement at the theater on July 31, 1967.
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.. go documentation master file, created by
   sphinx-quickstart on Wed Jun  1 15:01:39 2016.
   You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
   contain the root `toctree` directive.

Welcome to Go's documentation!
==============================

This project serves as handy command-line utility for jumping to different systems
via SSH. I created **Go** as a utility that I could use day-to-day for managing
the access details of various systems.

Features
----------

- Printing out an interactive menu of added devices
- Automatically opening a shell session with a device using hostname
- Interactive editor mode for adding new entries to the database
- Bulk uploading via a CSV file

Basic Usage
------------
Here's an example of basic usage::

    $ ./go.py

    ############################################
     GO - INTERACTIVE SHELL MANAGEMENT CONSOLE
     Make a selection or use Ctrl+C to exit.
    ############################################

      1) host1.example.com
      2) host2.example.com
      3) host3.example.com

      Please enter your selection:

This will print all entries in the current configdb and prompt for a selection.

Advanced Usage
--------------

If you want to specify a specific entry instead of using the menu-driven interface,
you can specify an entry in two different ways. First you can use the beginning
portion of any existing entry in the configdb. For example if we had a FQDN of
test1.test.example.com, the following would all be valid options::

    $ go.py -d test1.test.example.com
    $ go.py -d test1.test.example
    $ go.py -d test1.test
    $ go.py -d test1

Alternatively, if there's a specific host which you know the database entry you want
to connect, you can specify that with the -i argument::

    $ ./go.py -i 3
    [*] Looking up ID # 3
    [*] Attempting to connect to host3.example.com on port 22 using username ebeahan ...

Contact Information
-------------------

Find my contact information at `my site <https://www.ericbeahan.info>`_.

Config Database
---------------

.. code-block:: text

    $ go.py -db /path/to/configdb

If no option is specified with the -db or --database argument, one is created by
default in $HOME/.go/.configdb. A specific sqlite database can be specified with
the -db or --database argument.

API Documentation
------------------

More information on the API can be found in :ref:`api`.

Contents:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   api

Indices and tables
==================

* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`


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Voting software under scrutiny, as GOP officials call for investigations into allegations
Many researchers and GOP officials are questioning the reliability of voting machines used by state and local officials in the 2020 presidential election, and concerns have mounted as information surfaces that some of the machines glitched in favor of Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
Although no states have called the election, the main stream media, to include Fox News, has named Biden the presumptive winner of the U.S. Presidential elections. The move to do so has caused significant concerns among the 70 plus million Americans that voted for President Donald Trump in the election.
The use of the machines operated by Dominion Voting Systems, as well as Election Systems, register "votes in bar codes that the human eye cannot decipher," according to a story written by the Associated Press in February. The rush to use these machines, as well was, mail-in-ballots (universal ballots) was based on the COVID-19 scare and the rush is criticized by many as it did not afford the states or local officials the time to test and ensure the sanctity of the voting process, analysts and GOP officials contend.
In fact, Dominion Voting System was a huge concern in Texas. After a review of the system Texas rejected it saying the states inspectors encountered "multiple hardware issues." They also noted that it could not certify it was "safe from fraudulent or unauthorized manipulation."
Dominion Voting Systems could not be immediately reached for comment but the company disagreed with the decision by the state of Texas and stated that their system was safe to use by voters.
On Nov. 6., Rep. Paul Gosar, R- Arizona, called to urgently "investigate the accuracy and reliability of the Dominion ballot software." He made his statement after reports of glitches in the software in other states, including Michigan.
In Michigan roughly 6,000 votes in one district that were meant for President Donald Trump, were given to former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, whose been named the presumptive President-Elect by main stream media outlets, including Fox News.
1. I am calling on @dougducey to call a special session of the AZ Legislature under Article IV of our state constitution to investigate the accuracy and reliability of the Dominion ballot software and its impact on our general election. @Leo4AzHouse @FannKfann
— Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) November 7, 2020
"I am calling on @dougducey to call a special session of the AZ Legislature under Article IV of our state constitution to investigate the accuracy and reliability of the Dominion ballot software and its impact on our general election," Gosar said.
Georgia implemented the Dominion Voting System this year and the Atlanta Journal Constitution warned in October that the system was open to cyber attacks and hacking.
"Georgia's new electronic voting system is vulnerable to cyberattacks that could undermine public confidence, create chaos at the polls or even manipulate the results on Election Day," stated the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in October.
In October, despite promises that the system was secure the AJC noted:
Instead, an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office weakened the system's defenses, disabling password protections on a key component that controls who is allowed to vote.
The report added that computer scientists, voting-rights activists, U.S. intelligence agencies and a federal judge have continuously warned of security deficiencies in Georgia's system, but state officials have dismissed their concerns.
Moreover, despite Dominion's disagreement with the findings the report from AJC noted that the manipulation of the votes could not be detectable until after the election took place, if at all.
Officials tell voters to verify their selections on a paper ballot before feeding it into an optical scanner. But the scanner doesn't record the text that voters see; rather, it reads an unencrypted quick response, or QR, barcode that is indecipherable to the human eye. Either by tampering with individual voting machines or by infiltrating the state's central elections server, hackers could systematically alter the barcodes to change votes.
Such a manipulation could not be detected without an audit after the election.
The new voting system "presents serious security vulnerability and operational issues" caused by "fundamental deficits and exposure," U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg wrote in a recent order, in which she criticized state officials for not taking the problems more seriously.
"These risks," Totenberg wrote, "are neither hypothetical nor remote under the current circumstances."
You can follow Sara A. Carter on Parler @SaraCarterOfficial and on Twitter @SaraCarterDC
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