I left Wilmington this morning at 10:55. CDF, MDF, and I had left the house around 9:30 and got to the airport in plenty of time. I had time to check in and then walk around and look at the shops for a while. By the time I got back to the gate, they were already loading, so overall, timing was good.
The plane to Charlotte was small, but not too small. The inside was tight, I had to duck my head to keep from bumping the exit sign in the isle, and if I stood up straight, my head could touch the ceiling. It had about 18 rows of four seats, so it could probably hold 70-80 people. The flight from ILM to Charlotte was very smooth and I was looking forward to the rest of the morning.
The plane going to Washington was bigger, it looked like it could hold 120+ people. I got stuck in the middle seat of 3. I started out on the isle seat, but then ended up moving over one so a late passenger wouldn't have to climb over me. I don't know if that was the best idea or not. The guy to my left, John Anderson by the ticket stub he forgot, was slightly gruff to start off with and got grouchier as the flight progressed.
They served refreshments (peanuts and a drink) on this flight, but then forgot to give the guy to my left his coffee which he complained about for the rest of the flight. The guy on my right was a young man who's father had apparently been a pilot — at least one of the flight attendants had flown with the guy's father. So because of that the flight attendants paid him a lot of attention, which only irritated the guy to my left, since they still hadn't brought his coffee (he did get cream and sugar).
The captain has said that it was cold and windy in Washington, and we might have a rough landing, but I didn't realize just how rough. As soon as we started on the approach to the airport, the plane started bouncing around in the turbulence. After a few minutes I started feeling sick. Fortunately my stomach held together, but my hands and legs got all tingely like they had gone to sleep — who knows where all that blood was going. But we made it down safely, and the worst was over. Strangley enough I started having hiccups as we taxied along, and they didn't go away until I was out of the airport.
I had to take the Metro to the hotel, but the station was one escalotor ride away from the bagage claim area, so it was very convientient. It felt a little like riding trains in Japan, except I could read all the signs this time. I bought a ticket for $1.35 which would take me to the Wardman Hotel/Zoo station. I had to switch tracks once, but didn't have a problem finding which one. I had to wait for about 10 minutes at the intermediate station — which was under Chinatown — and stood in a big underground area beside a black family. The mother was telling the (i'm assuming) father not to take the baby's pacifier away unless he wanted the baby to start singing, which most other people with think was screaming. Hmm… Also there were a bunch of people with cameras, either a tourist group or a photographers convention I guess — probably tourists, since they seemed to think they could take pictures of the whole subway station from the balcony and use their flash to light it up — which I thought was doubtful.
Finally I got to the exit station and went up two sets of escalators. The first was very long, almost made me dizzy and sick again looking up it. But soon enought I was up and out of the subway tunnels, and only one block away from the hotel! It actually took me longer to walk around to the front of the hotel, than it did to get to it.
So now I'm in the hotel, registered for the conference, and thinking about what I want to eat for supper. I saw Joel in the hallway and he suggested Chinese, or Mexican down the street. He's going to go eat with friends, but we will both be at the reception at 7 PM tonight. I got some coffee and a muffin from Starbucks after deciding $8.00 for a sandwitch was too much at the hotel's gourmet "take-out" shop.
I took vacation time the first week of November and we went out to the Outer Banks of NC. We stayed at the Outer Banks Beach Club in Kill Devil Hills — not a mile away from the Wright Brother's Memorial.
The resort was right on the beach, though we were the second row of buildings so we didn't have a view of the water. We stayed on the third floor in a three bedroom condo — including a kitchen — and had a view of the pool. Of course it was too cold to swim in the outdoor pools, but MDF liked to look out at them and gave each one a name: the adult pool was the Momma pool, then there was the Baby Pool for little children, and the hot tub was the Sister Pool. She really wanted to swim, and one day we did finally go over to the indoor pool and swim for half an hour, but even then we froze!
We spent a lot of time on the beach, and the weather was great for it. It was around 75 degrees during the day, and so we spent a lot of time walking around on the beach, "in our toesies," looking for shells, and just playing in the sand. Every once in a while we'd stick our feet in the water, but it was chilly already.
We took our bikes with us, and one day rode up to the Wright Brother's monument and park. Unfortunately the traffic light was one that required a car to trigger a change, and one never came by. So with all the traffic going up and down Highway 508, we never did cross and go into the park. But we got to see the monument and area from distance before we turn back and just enjoyed the ride.
This was our first real day on vacation. Yesterday we had gone out on the beach a little and walked around the resort some, but hadn't done much of anything.
After spending some more time in the morning on the beach (I think it was MDF's idea), we took our bikes out to ride around. We headed north on Hwy 12 — which has become nothing more than a side road since Hwy 58 took over, but that was good for us. We actually went out to the main highway to try to cross over to the Wright Brother's memorial, but traffic was constant, and our bikes wouldn't trip the traffic light for us to cross. We waited for a while to see if a car would come along that wanted to turn, but nothing did. So instead we turned around and rode back to the resort.
Yesterday we had promised to take MDF swimming in the inside pool, so when we got back to the beach house, we got our stuff ready and went across the street to the office/pool. In spite of being inside, the pool was still cold. Too cold for me to get in past my hips, but CDF and MDF managed to get in nearly all the way. MDF had a good time regardless of the temperature, and probably would have stayed longer, but we took her out because she was starting to shiver.


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The International Spyware Scandal Runs Deeper Than Pegasus
by NH Politician July 24, 2021 July 24, 2021
The Spyware Scandal Runs Deeper Than Pegasus
By Ken Silva
Much attention has been paid this week to bombshell allegations that Israeli-created spyware may have been used to target journalists, dissidents, and other enemies of the state—but the Pegasus scandal is a mere microcosm of the larger issue of governments using private companies for surveillance operations.
On July 18, the Guardian and 16 other media outlets began publishing a series of stories about the Israeli-based NSO Group, alleging that foreign governments used the company's Pegasus software to surveil at least 180 journalists and numerous other targets around the world.
Developed by former members of the elite Israeli Unit 8200—comparable to the U.S. National Security Agency—the Pegasus software allegedly infects iPhones and Androids, enabling operators to extract messages, photos and emails, record calls and activate microphones in secret.
Alleged possible targets of Pegasus surveillance include the slain Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi, France president Emmanuel Macron, and Indian opposition legislator Rahul Gandhi, along with numerous others. NSO explicitly denies its software was "associated in any way with the heinous murder of Jamal Khashoggi."
Allegations about the NSO Group's wrongdoing have been in the media for years. Facebook sued the NSO Group in U.S. federal court in 2019 for allegedly exploiting a vulnerability in WhatsApp, allowing Pegasus users to spy on the calls and messages of victims, including journalists and human rights activists. This case is pending appeal in the Ninth Circuit, where the NSO Group has argued that it should have sovereign immunity from civil litigation.
But while Pegasus was already public knowledge, this week's reporting casts doubt on the NSO Group's longstanding contention that it only intends for the software to be used in counterterrorism and other major criminal probes. The Guardian and other media reportedly obtained a copy of the NSO Group's targeting database, which has a list of 50,000 phone numbers that clients may have targeted for surveillance—suggesting that the only way the NSO Group did not know the identity of its clients' targets was through willful ignorance.
The NSO Group has continued to deny wrongdoing, saying that the media outlets misinterpreted the data.
"The [reports are] full of wrong assumptions and uncorroborated theories that raise serious doubts about the reliability and interests of the sources. It seems like the 'unidentified sources' have supplied information that has no factual basis and are far from reality," the NSO Group has said publicly. "After checking their claims, we firmly deny the false allegations made in their report. Their sources have supplied them with information which has no factual basis, as evident by the lack of supporting documentation for many of their claims."
"In fact, these allegations are so outrageous and far from reality, that NSO is considering a defamation lawsuit," the Israeli company added.
Law enforcement in France and Hungary have already launched investigations into the use of Pegasus, and the Israeli parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee has formed a committee that will look into the matter.
Meanwhile, the Moroccan government has hit back against some of the Pegasus reporting, filing a defamation lawsuit in Paris against two French-based organizations for allegedly publishing false claims that Moroccan investigators illegally used Pegasus to target government officials.
The Moroccan government "does not intend to let the multiple lies and fake news spread these past few days go unpunished," the government's lawyer reportedly said Thursday.
The NSO Group may be the object of wrath after this week's reporting, but NSO is hardly the only company in the business of selling surveillance equipment to governments. Before the Pegasus scandal hit the headlines, the Canada-based research group Citizen Lab released a report on the Israeli company Candiru—named after the infamous fish known for swimming up a man's urethra—alleging that the firm has engaged in many of the same activities as NSO.
Nor are private surveillance firms exclusive to Israel. In the United States, a company called Clearview AI has received notoriety over the last year, after the New York Times reported that the company was scraping billions of photos to develop facial recognition software for law enforcers at home and abroad. It was also revealed last year that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other agencies had been purchasing data in bulk from private companies.
Legal scholars have raised concerns that surveillance companies pose a particularly onerous threat to privacy in the United States, because the Fourth Amendment restrictions on surveillance do not apply to private companies.
"If law enforcement agencies can buy their way around the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement, the landmark protection announced by the Supreme Court in Carpenter will be in peril," the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a public statement last December. "Despite federal agencies spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on access to cell phone location databases, those agencies have not publicly explained their legal justifications or internal limitations on access to this invasive information."
U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced legislation in April intended to address some of the constitutional issues presented by emerging surveillance technologies. Their Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act would place warrant requirements on government purchases of bulk data, and would take away the U.S. attorney general's ability to give civil immunity to companies that unlawfully sell bulk data to government agencies.
But even though the Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act has the bipartisan support of 19 cosponsors, the bill has yet to receive a hearing.
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White House Report Card: Biden's shrinking presidency stalling out
By Paul Bedard Washington Secrets Columnist This week's White House Report Card finds President Joe Biden and his agenda stalled out, leaving him little to brag about ...

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Nonprofit Strikes Deal In EEOC Sex Harassment Probe
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A South Dakota social services agency has agreed to pay $320,000 after an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation found that the organization failed to stop its executive director from sexually harassing co-workers, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader reports.
The EEOC found that the Black Hills Area Agency on Aging didn't do enough to stop its executive director from having an affair with a subordinate.
The investigation also found that the agency failed to report the affair to the state's Department of Social Services, the agency's inspector general, or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, according to the New York Daily News.
The investigation was prompted by a complaint from a woman who said she had been harassed by the agency's executive director for two years, according to the EEOC's report.
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Q: MS PowerPoint CheckBox remains linked when slide is duplicated Hoping you can help me as I have searched a lot of forums and did not find the same question, never mind the answer I need :)
I have a power point pack which I have put together. It is built to be a template for my team to use repeatedly and is set up using slide masters to control the layout. Each layout slide in the slide master includes two checkboxes to identify either a pass or a fail. My problem is that when you insert a new slide (by either duplicating an existing slide or adding a slide from the slide master layout), and change the checkbox value it also changes on the other slide. Is there a way either using some quick VBA or otherwise to stop this from happening and break the link between the two slides.
Any help would be really appreciated.

A: In a weird way, this is reasonable behavior from PowerPoint, though it certainly does seem bizarre.
Shapes on a master layout appear on any slide based on that layout. Though they appear on the slide, they're not editable on the slide; it's as though the slide were a clear layer above the layout, one that you can add more stuff to but that you can't "penetrate" to get at the stuff on the layout below.
Placeholders are a special case and so, apparently, are ActiveX controls like your checkboxes, which DO allow editing.  So what's happening is that when you change a text box, you're changing the text box on the layout, not on the slide itself (the checkbox doesn't even exist on the slide ... you can't select and move it in normal view, for example, unless you go to the layout in Master view).
When you change the checkbox, you're changing the one on the layout, and since the checkboxes appear on any slide based on the layout, when you change the checkbox, you're changing the one on the layout, ALL of the slides based on that layout get the changed checkboxes.
Some mildly tricky VBA could look at each slide and if it's based on the layout that contains the checkboxes, COPY them to the current slide from the layout and finally make the checkboxes on the layout invisible.
The simpler solution might be to supply a sample slide with the checkboxes ON the slide and let the users copy/paste it into their presentations.
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I've reported this to MS as not so much a bug as a design oversight; the behavior may make sense, but it's not useful and can mislead users (as you well know).
I'd suggest that you visit https://powerpoint.uservoice.com and suggest that ActiveX objects on masters/layouts behave more like placeholders ... spawn new instances of themselves when a new slide based on the layout is added rather than letting the user THINK that's what's happened.

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I grew up in Roseburg, OR in the beautiful Umpqua Valley and graduated from Roseburg High School. I received a BA in Music from Simpson University. Graduated from Western Oregon University with an MA in Teaching along with my teaching credential, and then completed my Initial Administrative License coursework at the University of Oregon.
While completing my BA I began working as a Worship Pastor. After graduation, I began to substitute teach while still working as a Worship Pastor. I fell in love with the classroom environment while substitute teaching and decided to pursue education as a career. After receiving my teaching license from WOU I taught music in the Roseburg area for 5 years. I relocated my family to Redding, CA to begin administrative work in 2015 where I was the Assistant Principal at Parsons Junior High. The next year I moved to my current position as Principal of Alta Mesa Elementary.
I am married to my beautiful wife Kristina, and we have three wonderful daughters. We love to enjoy the outdoors as a family. One of my most recent life accomplishments was surviving a short triathlon. When I'm not working (which isn't very often) you might find me enjoying my family, working out, or playing keyboard for the worship team at church.


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Clever, colorful, appetizing post, young lady!
Wonderful photos to go along with a great piece of writing. Nice!
Thanks for the comment! This one was easy: text and photos came together without much work on my part. I'd love it if all my writing could go this nicely. —Jadi.
The humor punctuating your story just makes it a lovely read.
I've just recently tried salsify. I think it's coming into its own here in the states.
We used to spilt a CSA basket with another family and one week I discovered sandy black stalks of— something… in it. I'd never seen salsify and had to go through cookbooks looking for a photo (this was before the ease of Googling!) Then I had to seriously read up to figure out how to prepare it and which parts could be used. But man, is it versatile and yummy. ! I'm sure you're enjoying beautiful Mexico and the flavors!


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Career Change Spotlight: Betsy
In hopes of inspiring others who are contemplating a change in their own professional lives, here is another story for y'all. Betsy is a former coaching client who has changed careers twice, and shows that you CAN come home again...it just looks different when you arrive.
As many of us know, when you leave a profession to try something different in your career, it's often hard to find a road back many years later. Technologies change, people move on, and companies aren't always open to hiring those who have gaps in their relevant history. Betsy proves that you can return and rock that return! She started out in training development, then moved to construction for eight years, and after a lot of hard work, found her way back to the field, this time focusing on e-Learning and instructional design. Here's what she had to say…
What do you do for a living these days?
I'm an eLearning Developer with an organization working with schools, districts, and communities across the country on comprehensive, research-based solutions to the challenges they face.
What career were you in before this?
I have a background in technical training; however, I had spent the past 8 years as the managing owner of a remodeling company that specializes in vintage homes. Additionally, I have a lengthy work history in film & video industry.
What inspired you to make this transition?
I always wanted to return to learning development, and was sparked by the new tools and technologies available to create meaningful learning experiences that matter.
What were your biggest challenges in changing careers?
The biggest challenge I faced was how to package my wide skillset into a concise, marketable format. Beyond that, I hadn't written a resume or participated in the interview process for years, and needed to expand my network in the direction I envisioned for my career.
What advice can you share with others thinking about moving into a new line of work?
Follow your heart and go for it! Take time to look at what skills you have to offer, and hire a coach to help you get started on the right foot. Also, build up a solid LinkedIn profile and don't be shy about asking for recommendations. Attend networking events and schedule brief informational interviews with a range of people. You never know when you'll connect with the right person at the right time!
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Amid this digital era, the awakening of each new day sees an increasing number of people joining the bitcoin bubble. While a significant number of users take comfort in storing their crypto coins in desktop or software wallets, a good number users are going for wallets that are more secure. This isn't a bad idea, especially for cases involving long-term investment. The use of hardware wallets is recommended on the grounds that besides offering great security, they can as well be used for carrying out your day-to-day transactions.
Hardware wallets, guarantee more enhanced security as compared to software or desktop wallets in the event of theft or swindles. Furthermore, with a hardware wallet, you can rest assured that your coins are kept safe even if your PC is hacked or in case you lose your hardware wallet. Considering the latter case, that is in the event of losing your hardware wallet, you can always acquire another wallet and have all your coins restored on the new wallet, for as long as you have your recovery seed key.
What is a Bitcoin Hardware/Paper wallet?
A bitcoin hardware wallet is a tamper-proof electronic gadget modeled to store your coins private keys in an offline environment. The wallet generates these private keys as well as digital signatures that are required to carry out bitcoin transactions.
It is as such VERY IMPORTANT that you save your seed key or rather recovery phrase and have it stored safely. Also, it is highly recommended that you make at least two copies of the seed phrase and have it distributed in different locations. And since these keys are offline, the danger of getting hacked is mitigated.
So far, there have been no cases of theft or bitcoin loss from a hardware wallet reported. While a number of hardware wallets come bundled with security grid cards, others have tiny digital screens with a UI (User Interface) used for purposes of verifying transactions. In the event of your hardware wallet getting damaged or lost, you can always have your bitcoins restored by using your seed key.
At the moment, bitcoin hardware wallets can as well be used to store altcoins.
A France-based startup product, the Ledger Nano S is a hardware cryptocurrency wallet with a glossy and ravishing European touch to its design.
Among its elemental features are the backup seed key for your bitcoins recovery, a user-friendly OLED interface, and a flash-drive-like feel with 2 buttons on its side that are used for interface navigation.
This hardware is a USB-pluggable battery-less gadget that can be connected to a personal computer or a mobile device.
The Ledger Nano S, besides its ability to support up to 9 digital currencies, is so far the cheapest multi-currency hardware wallet available, with a price tag of 79.00 €.
Developed by SatoshiLabs, the Trezor Bitcoin hardware wallet is the world's first secure Bitcoin hardware wallet. It resembles a small-sized calculator with an organic light-emitting diode screen interface.
Designed to randomly generate 9-digit pins as well as a 24-word recovery phrase key, this device guarantees absolute security in the event of its loss or damage. It is primarily used for storing private keys and signing transactions offline.
The Trezor Bitcoin hardware wallet can be used with Android devices, as well as with such applications as the Multibit HD, TREZOR Wallet, and Mycelium.
Trezor at the moment supports up to 8 digital currencies and comes with a USD 99 price tag.
The KeepKey hardware wallet is yet another hardware gadget for storing bitcoins available in the market.
As compared to Trezor or the Ledger Nano S, this device doesn't have much to offer. In addition, it is not as convenient to carry in the pocket since it is slightly more than double the size of its peers.
Like its peers, the KeepKey hardware wallet has a backup recovery key feature with an enabled pin code, and it works in a similar way as the other hardware wallets. At the moment, it supports up to 6 digital currencies, including Bitcoins, and like Trezor, it costs USD 99.
Whilst a good number of cryptocurrency holders take comfort in the idea having their crypto coins stored in desktop or software wallets, a significant number of users are opting for wallets that prove to be more secure. This isn't at all a bad idea, especially for cases involving long-term investment. The use of hardware wallets is highly recommended due to the fact that besides offering great security, they can as well be used for carrying out your day-to-day transactions.
Be that as it may, while the main advantage of using hardware wallets is that they are a guarantee of absolute security for your cryptocurrencies, they similarly come with a few flaws. If, for example, you lose or are unable to remember your PIN code and/or recovery seed key, then you'll be denied access to your coins.
As such, you are AT ALL TIMES required to remember these details. It is likewise recommended that you keep a backup of your recovery seed key, with at least 2 copies of the same in different locations. All in all, considering all the variables from a user's point of view, Hardware wallets are so far the most secure means of storing your crypto coins.


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Abortion bill leads to late night debate at NSW Parliament after heated clashes
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Photo: Tensions are high as protesters from both sides clash outside NSW Parliament. (ABC News: Jonathan Hair)
The first round of debates for a historic abortion bill has run late into the night after a day of clashes between protesters outside NSW Parliament.
The abortion bill was debated until about 11.00pm and will continue on Wednesday
Police cautioned some protesters on Tuesday morning, with both sides chanting slogans and holding signs
The bill has sparked heated debate from medical and religious groups
Police cautioned some protesters, as large groups took over Macquarie Street on Tuesday morning following an overnight vigil from those opposed to abortion.
The ABC was told of physical altercations between the two sides however no official complaint has been reported to police.
Inside Parliament, politicians thrashed out their views on the issue.
Tanya Davies, the Liberal Member for Mulgoa, said the bill did not offer enough support to women.
"There must be inbuilt requirements for pre- and post-abortion counselling if we are truly to be caring and compassionate to the women," she said.
"[The bill] simply sees it as a medical procedure akin to removing an ingrown toenail almost."
Photo: Pro-abortion supporters outside NSW State Parliament this morning. (ABC News: Jonathan Hair)
Opposition Leader Jodi McKay said due to a lack of confidence in the medical industry, only 1 per cent of doctors in NSW were even qualified to perform terminations.
"So there is great inequity to access … and we should not accept that there are two systems of health care; one for the bush and one for the cities" she said.
"Women [in regional and rural areas] have to travel and pay for accommodation on top of only being able to access a private provider for a medical procedure."
Later in the evening, the Member for Castle Hill, Ray Williams, broke down tonight as he told the chamber about his younger brother who suffered immensely before passing away at age two due to cerebral palsy.
"My mother insisted that if she had known the suffering my brother was to endure she would have had an abortion, thereby preventing his suffering," he said.
However, Mr Williams said his mother also instilled in him the belief that sexually active people have a responsibility not to bring unwanted children into this world.
"This bill in my mind promotes a sense of apathy towards that responsibility … I oppose this bill."
However, Greens MP Jenny Leong shared her own experience of getting an abortion while backpacking in Europe as a 20-year-old.
"It was a … choice made less traumatic and less stressful because I was able to access the healthcare that I needed, when I needed it, from people who knew what they were doing," she said.
"I am outraged that it has taken this long and am offended there are so many men who think that they have the right to dictate what we do with our bodies."
The bill, introduced by independent MP Alex Greenwich last week, would see the end the 119-year criminalisation of abortion in NSW.
It would also allow abortion after 22 weeks' gestation, with the consent of two doctors.
No other state or territory in Australia has its abortion primary framework in criminal law.
The bill has created a wedge on the Liberal side, with about half a dozen Berejiklian Government MPs — including Police Minister David Elliott — opposing the proposed legislation.
Photo: The large crowd that spilled onto Macquarie Street this morning. (ABC News: Jonathan Hair)
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard was the first to speak to the bill on the floor of Parliament.
He said he believed the bill reflected, and was in step with, the expectations and views of the majority of the NSW population.
"We have the opportunity to right a wrong enacted into law 119 years ago," Mr Hazzard said.
"A law that no-one has had the courage since to change, a law that put women's reproductive rights into the criminal code.
"A law that was enacted when this place had legislators that were all men."
Right to Life NSW chief executive Rachel Carling said her anti-abortion protesters had been there since Monday afternoon.
"This is a very, very bad bill, very bad for NSW and we're here to let MPs know we don't accept the way they're rushing through this without consultation," Dr Carling said.
NSW abortion bill stirs religious, medical debate over late-term termination provision
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-04/nsw-abortion-bill-debate-over-late-term-terminations/11381824
Tell NSW MPs to vote against the abortion bill! – Thx to ozi@ozTruthseeker for this Article – Mick Raven
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Report: Milwaukee Used More TIF Money Than Any Other City To Fund The Hop
Wisconsin Tax System Gave City No Other Option, According To Wisconsin Policy Forum
Friday, September 13, 2019, 12:30pm
Milwaukee's reliance on tax increment financing (TIF) to fund its streetcar system is unusual compared with how other cities have funded their streetcars, according to a new report by the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
The report by the nonpartisan organization compared The Hop to nine peer cities that have developed streetcar systems in the last 20 years.
Of the 10 cities studied, Milwaukee is the only one to use TIF as its primary local revenue source for streetcar development, the study found.
The city used $59 million in TIF funding to construct the first phase of the $124 million Hop and is proposing to use another $51.8 million for extensions.
The remaining part of the project was paid for using federal grants.
Jeff Fleming, spokesman for the Milwaukee city development department, said while other cities have found other resources to pay for their streetcar system, using TIF is not unheard of.
"More significantly, Wisconsin's tax system limits the kinds of taxes that we can raise for general operating purposes or to support any project, is the property tax," Fleming said. "Milwaukee's hands were tied on this and while not common, there is precedent for using TIF for a capital project such as a streetcar."
TIF dollars paid for 47 percent of Milwaukee's streetcar project. Only two other cities used TIF financing to pay for their systems, Cincinnati and Portland, which used 12.4 percent and 8.2 percent, respectively.
Rob Henken, president of the Wisconsin Policy Forum, agreed. The study found that most financing mechanisms used by other cities to develop their streetcar systems are not available to Milwaukee under current state law.
TIF subsidizes a development by diverting a portion of the project's taxes to help finance the project. Typically, a TIF district is created by a local government. The money a city invests in TIF projects is often obtained through the sale of bonds, which are then repaid over time by the property tax revenue generated by the new project. If the incremental revenue is not enough to pay off the bonds, the local government has to make up the difference.
For the first phase of the streetcar project, the city extended the life of existing TIF districts. For the second phase, the city will extend the streetcar to Milwaukee's lakefront, a new TIF district that is being created.
In May, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett announced a plan that would add 2.4 miles to the 2.1-mile streetcar system. This would extend the streetcar to Milwaukee's convention center and into Walker's Point, just south of the Historic Third Ward, and north into the city's Bronzeville neighborhood.
The extension would be paid for with money from property tax revenue generated from new development in six tax financing districts near downtown. The streetcar extension would cost $47 million. A public plaza connected to the city's convention center downtown would cost an additional $5 million, according to city plans.
The city council has postponed voting on that extension several times.
"Regardless of whether one agrees with spending public dollars on a downtown streetcar, it is important to understand why city leaders felt compelled to use TIF and the strengths and weaknesses of that approach compared to other options," Henken said.
Fleming said it's important to note Milwaukee used federal grant dollars and TIF financing to protect local taxpayers from incurring the costs.
"Doing so tapped into the increased property values immediately surrounding the streetcar," Fleming said. "There's no question that property values are increasing within a quarter mile within the streetcar line."
He acknowledged people have raised questions if the streetcar is responsible for increased property values.
"There is no way to determine if that is in fact the case," Fleming said. "However, we do have direct information from developers that they are choosing to do projects (based on the streetcar)."
Henken said future streetcar debates will probably not focus on whether TIF is the correct approach, rather if the streetcar itself is worthy of additional major public sector investment.
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Tag: fireball on Jupiter
What Caused the Recent Explosion at Jupiter?
An impact on Jupiter captured about 6:35 am on Sept. 10, 2012 from Dallas, Texas USA. Credit: George Hall.
A bright flash was spotted on Jupiter early on the morning of September 10, 2012, and astronomers were hoping to later see an impact "scar" which would provide more information about the object that slammed into the giant gas planet. Was it a comet, asteroid or a smaller meteor? But alas, no impact scar or debris field showed up on Jupiter's face and the nature of this explosion may remain a mystery.
"By performing spectroscopic measurement of the debris field we hope to be capable of determining the nature of the impactor," SETI astronomer Franck Marchis told Universe Today via email. "Without debris field it is virtually impossible since the bolide burned in the upper atmosphere. One day we may be capable of recorded a spectrum of the meteor itself (during the impact) but right now we don't have such capabilities."
The flash was first spotted by Dan Peterson, an amateur astronomer from Racine, Wisconsin who saw the flash as he was looking through a telescope, but he wasn't recording his observations. He posted about his sighting on the Association of Lunar & Planetary Observers message board (ALPO), reporting the explosion, which occurred inside the southern edge of Jupiter's northern equatorial belt of clouds.
Astrophotographer George Hall of Dallas, Texas happened to be shooting video of Jupiter at the time – although he wasn't actually watching Jupiter himself. When he heard about Petersen's visual, Hall reviewed his video and saw he had captured the flash at 6:35 a.m. CDT.
Video © George Hall. All rights reserved, used with permission.
Many astronomers were waiting for the next day when the impact region would be visible again to look for a debris field, as the explosion looked very similar to an impact that occurred in June 2010, which left an impact scar that was visible for several hours.
However, astronomer Mike Wong from the University of California, Berkeley had stayed up all night to estimate the amount of energy delivered by this fireball. As he posted on his blog, he predicted "that this event is too small to create a visible impact scar."
He ended up being right.
Since there was no impact scar, the space telescopes like Hubble weren't activated to take a look.
But some ground-based telescopes, like NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility did take a look. Astronomer Glenn Orton, a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory used the IRTF 3-meter telescope to look at Jupiter in the near-infrared, but came up empty in finding any debris or scar.
Observations of Jupiter taken with the IRTF telescope and the SpeX guide camera. The dark circle indicates the location of the flash observed on September 10 2012 (credit: G. Orton, Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Orton was quoted in an article on ABC that he thinks a frozen comet may be the culprit.
"Most things in that part of the solar system are called Jupiter-family comets," Orton said. "They're ice balls that move in and have started co-orbiting around Jupiter."
But Marchis said that since the object appears to have not entered the inner part of the planet atmosphere, the IR observation confirms that it was most likely a meteor.
And another scientist, Dr. Tony Phillips, an astronomer and the person behind Spaceweather.com, was interviewed on NPR's Science Friday last week and he said the explosion was probably a small asteroid hitting Jupiter, but added, "We'll probably never know for sure,"
But whatever it was, the event demonstrates how different astronomy is now from what it was just a few years ago.
"What is remarkable today is that amateur astronomers can detect such an event, and by using modern communication tools, the world of astronomers is instantaneously aware of it," Marchis said. "Our solar system is full of those transient events (impact, volcanoes, storms), their early detection and monitoring is a great opportunity to characterize these planets or satellites, shining light on area of these bodies that cannot be seen when they are in their calm state."
But there were a few dissenters, too. A small number of those posting on the astronomy community message boards said that since there wasn't any scar visible, that the event really didn't happen, and that Hall and Petersen were just seeing things. This may have been fueled by an initial discrepancy between Hall and Petersen's timing report, but it was solved when Petersen found out that his clock was running 26 seconds fast. Others came up with different ideas about what it might have been, which included light from one of Jupiter's moons, Adrastea, which was entering the eastern limb of Jupiter at about the same the time, to other, more wilder notions that might have involved alien spaceships.
But most astronomers concur the event did occur.
"Two observers reported the same event at almost the same time does not look to me that we could argue about the genuineness of the event," Marchis said, noting that previous events like this have occurred in the past, with no impact scars. "Several events were observed in 1981 and 2010 as well and there were no scar as well. We can simply assume that the impactor was too small to reach the inner part of Jupiter atmosphere. It burned before reaching the lower deck because it was relatively small."
Phillips mentioned that years ago, astronomers were skeptical that impacts like this happened in the Solar System today, but that all changed when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacted Jupiter in 1994, and with hundreds of telescopes watching the event, including the Hubble Space Telescope, "we got to see what a comet impact looked like, and analyze the chemical signature," Phillips said.
But in this case, astronomers will very likely never know what caused the flash on Jupiter on September 10, 2012. But don't worry – this won't be the last time something like this happens. Marchis said in a comment on his blog that based on the current observations, it's estimated that 50 meteors like this — or ones even more energetic — could be seen on Jupiter per year. We just don't happen to catch very many of them in the act of occurring.
And if you're excited about seeing explosions on other worlds, Jupiter isn't the only place this happens. All our planets and moons get smacked occasionally, as the impact craters on the rocky bodies can attest. The best place to see this happening might be our own Moon. If you have a big enough telescope, you can join a group run through the Marshall Space Flight Center that has been watching the dark terrain of the Moon. They have observed over 260 explosions in the past 7 years.
Marchis said a better organized network of amateur astronomers watching Jupiter is important.
"I think it is important to organize a network of small telescopes that will monitor continuously Jupiter over a long period of time to be capable of estimating the flux of meteors in the outer part of the solar system, helping us to better estimate the age of icy satellite surface of Jupiter but also Saturn," he said via email. "This is something we could do by combining professional and amateur astronomer efforts."
Look for future updates as astronomers are trying to organize such a network.


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Happy Sunday to you all! It was a pretty good one for me if I do say so myself. I got up early to the sun shining through the blinds of my window (isn't that one of the best feelings...?) and got ready for church this morning. Service was really great from the music to the sermon and I left feeling very rejuvenated and uplifted.
After that, I got together with my friend Courtney who has been disciplining me throughout this semester on a weekly basis. If you're unfamiliar with disciplining, it's a Christian term just meaning she talks with me every week about things I'm going through, encourages me, and we read the bible together! It's been really nice and she's a wonderful friend to have.
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Camping is an international platform of workshops, a unique experience bringing together artists from the international choreography scene, a unique artistic camp that makes all the poetic experiences of dance possible. For two weeks in Pantin, in the Île-de-France and in Lyon, Camping offers a programme of classes, workshops, talks, film screenings, professional encounters, public presentations and performances. Camping is aimed at everyone involved in dance, whether they be students, teachers, performers, choreographers or researchers, as well as a broad public of dance enthusiasts and spectators.
As the Centre National de la Dance the Institut francais du Nigeria think that workshops offer the best insight into an artist's working method. That why we invited 2 Nigerians dancers to the CND workshop titled Camping.
Camping is an international platform of workshops, a unique experience bringing together artists from the international choreography scene, a unique artistic camp that makes all the poetic experiences of dance possible. For two weeks in Pantin, Camping offers a programme of classes, workshops, talks, film screenings, professional encounters, public presentations, and performances. Camping is aimed at everyone involved in dance.
Angela Okolo.She is a masters student at the University of Benin. She received a B.A degree in 2015 with a dance major. She worked for the federal ministry of arts and culture while doing one-year compulsory national service also presently working at a dance company called Qdance center.
serving as the Artistic/creative director for ERA Services (Epic Royal Art) in Kaduna, Nigeria.
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Internet Service Provider - ISP
The Internet Service Provider (ISP) is an organization that provides access to the Internet to homes and businesses. An ISP can provide Internet access in different ways whether it's through telephone lines, cable, or satellite.
ISPs provide a subscriber with an IP address - a unique number identifying a specific computer that is connected to the ISP, and an e-mail address. Some ISPs also offer service like web hosting and data storage. Although these services may be limited in size they are often sufficient enough for an average user who doesn't want to pay extra money for same services from a third party.
The Internet was first introduced as a service on a closed network between government's research laboratories and certain parts of universities. As Internet became more popular, universities began to grant access to it to more students and staff. Eventually, this brought up a lot of interest from businesses who saw potential for profit. Internet service providers began to offer access to the Internet to any person willing to pay. In 1989, a company out of Massachusetts was the first one to offer Internet access to the general public, which was done through the dial-up connection.
Internet Classification: Tiers
ISP can be categorized into different classes that determine the company's size and capacity. When shopping around for an ISP you may have seen such abbreviations as T1, T2, and T3.
Tier 1 is a category of large Internet Providers, telecommunications companies, and organizations that provide infrastructure to, which connects numerous networks and Internet accessible devices that comprise the Internet.
Tier 2 is the most common category of Internet Providers. ISPs in this category peer with other netwroks, but also have to purchase IP transit to access some parts of the Internet from Tier 1 providers.
Tier 3 is an ISP that operates solely through purchasing IP transit from Tier 1 and Tier 2 providers to access the internet. These are usually small local companies with uncertain long-term prospects.
Types of ISP services:
- Hosting ISPs provide email, FTP, and web-hosting services. An ISP will provide the storage space for its subscriber to run their own website. There is one drawback, however, when hosting a website through your ISP because the URL of your website will include the name of your ISP. This might become a problem in the future if the subscriber decides to change providers while still having an active website. Some other services the Hosting ISPs may offer could include virtual machines, clouds, or entire physical servers on which customers can run their own software.
- Some ISPs may also engage in peering, where multiple ISPs, big and small connect at peering points allowing data to be transferred between networks without charging one another for the data transmitted.
- A Virtual ISP (VISP) is an operation when a smaller ISP purchases services from another ISP, and resells it to its customers. This allows the VISP's customers to access the Internet using services and infrastructure, which is owned and operated by a larger (wholesale) ISP.
- Free ISPs are ISPs that provide services free of charge. The way that free ISPs make money is through display of advertisements while the user is connected. In a way free ISPs are selling the users' attention to the advertiser. This is a similar concept to television advertisements. Other free ISPs, which are often called freenets, are run nonprofit by mostly volunteer staff.
Inside look of an ISP:
How users can connect to the Internet:
- Dial-up
Dial-up ISPs offer Internet access through telephone lines. This type of service was the first one to be offered to general public. While it was a very popular service for a long time, mainly due to its low cost, it has now become almost obsolete due to its very slow connection speed. It is still being used by some consumers, however, who live in an area where Cable or DSL Internet service is not available and Satellite service is too expensive. The most popular examples of Dial-up ISPs are AOL and NetZero.
Cable ISPs use fiber optic lines to transmit data to the subscriber. These fiber optic lines are the same ones that are used to transmit cable television signals. The benefit of using Cable ISPs is faster data transfer speed than DSL and wouldn't require an additional modem if a subscriber already has a cable box for the TV. However, it is also slightly more expensive than DSL and if a lot of people in the subscriber's area subject the line to heavy data usage then the upload and download speeds may drop to speeds at or below those of a DSL connection.
- DSL
DSL or Digital Subscriber Line ISPs is currently one of the most popular choices for Internet subscribers. DSL offers much higher upload and download than dial-up while still using telephone line connection. It is a more expensive service than dial-up and requires the use of a special DSL modem that can be either bought separately or leased from an ISP.
Satellite Internet service is the best choice for a consumer that lives in a rural area where DSL/Cable Internet isn't available, but who still wants data transfer speeds faster than Dial-up. Satellite ISPs service would require an installation of a satellite dish for two-way data communication. Satellite dish would have to be installed with a clear view to the south since that's where the satellites orbit the earth, over the equator area. The biggest downsides to Satellite Internet are that data upload speed is slower than DSL, and the cost of the service is significantly higher.
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Organised by Wallpaper magazine and Dubai Design District exhibition called Middle East Revealed presented emerging artists and designers from seven countries from Lebanon to Iran, Jordan to UAE.
An art exhibition at the Truman Brewery in East London. "Edge of Arabia was founded by a small collective of artists who met in the mountains of Aseer, Saudi Arabia, in 2003. What began as a border-crossing collaboration, against the backdrop of the last gulf war, is now an established platform which has grown bold through the successful realisation of international projects & the grassroots support for its mission".


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Groups challenge voting changes; Adams, Beshear offer different views
Steve Rogers,
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – Kentucky's new Voter ID law has been challenged in court and the same groups want the vote-by-mail system in place for the June 23 primary used in the November general election to extend the same health and safety protections.
Secretary of State Michael Adams and Gov. Andy Beshear had different responses, although being sued for an issue he supported caused Beshear to chuckle.
The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Kentucky, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Covington & Burling filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday.
According to a release, the lawsuit was filed on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Kentucky, the Louisville Urban League, the Kentucky State Conference of the NAACP, and several individuals.
The groups are challenging a number of issues, including ones that put residents at "dire and unnecessary risk in order to vote, including a new photo ID requirement that would increase Kentuckians' risk of exposure to COVID-19 by forcing them to visit ID-issuing offices to exercise their right to vote," the lawsuit argues.
"Kentuckians should not be forced to choose between their health and their vote. Kentucky can and should protect voters by eliminating the photo ID requirement and allowing vote by mail in the November election because the spread of COVID-19 will remain a risk. Our lawsuit seeks sensible solutions to safely allow people to exercise their right to vote in a pandemic," said Ceridwen Cherry, a staff attorney with the ACLU's Voting Rights Project.
The provisions being challenged include:
A photo ID requirement to vote in-person and by mail-in absentee ballot. Senate Bill 2 was recently enacted and requires voters to present photo ID to vote in-person, and it requires voters applying for a mail-in absentee ballot to include a copy of the voter's photo ID with the ballot application.
This unreasonably burdens the fundamental right to vote of Kentuckians who are practicing recommended physical distancing to protect the health and safety of themselves and their communities.
The photo ID requirement is set to take effect July 15.
A requirement that voters qualify for one from a narrow list of excuses to vote by mail before there is a COVID-19 vaccine — meaning the vast majority of eligible voters would have to physically go to their polling places, threatening both public safety and the health of individual voters.
These requirements disproportionately impact older voters, voters with disabilities, black voters, and voters with underlying medical conditions, the group says in the lawsuit.
Secretary of State Michael Adams, who pushed the Voter ID law and worked on the by-mail vote for June responded harshly.
"Because the far left is too extreme to win elections, they regularly seek to have courts, rather than legislators, write our laws. Today, several left-wing organizations sued me in an effort to have an un-elected federal judge rewrite our election laws for November," he said in a statement.
"If these self-described advocates for democracy actually believed in democracy, they would let the democratic process work and let elected officials make policy. Instead, this lawsuit seeks to have lawmaking powers stripped from elected officials accountable to the people – the General Assembly, the Secretary of State and even the Governor. I will uphold my oath to our Constitution, which places the power to establish election laws with elected officials, rather than judges; just as I vigorously enforce our laws, I will vigorously defend our laws," Adams concluded.
When asked about it during his daily briefing, Beshear said it was interesting be sued over Voter ID when he vetoed the measure earlier this year.
"I agree with their reasons," Beshear said, referring to the concern of people having to go to local clerk's offices to get a driver's license.
"I wish they'd done it next year when we were over this," Beshear added.
"I think we ought to be able to do no-excuse absentee voting in every election…we can monitor it and prevent fraud," Beshear said, noting the federal government allowed people to go online a request stimulus checks and had confidence it could prevent fraud by tracking identities.
As of Tuesday, four days after they became available, more than 100,000 people requested absentee ballots to vote in the June 23 primaries in the state.
The primary was supposed to take place May 19 but was pushed back due to Coronavirus concerns.
All 100 House seats are up for grabs in November. Currently, Republicans control 61 seats in the House with Democarts occupying 39 seats.
Half the Kentucky Senate is up for reelection where 29 seats are held by Republicans and 9 Democrats.
Adams Kentucky voters are taking advantage of govoteky.com to request their absentee ballots for the June 23 election.
"Voting absentee is easy, secure, and wildly popular," Adams said. "I'm grateful to the Kentuckians who understand that we have fewer voting locations available and fewer poll workers available because of COVID-19 – not only are these Kentuckians being good citizens by voting, but by voting absentee they're being good citizens in relieving the pressure on our voting locations and our poll workers."
To keep voters safe from COVID-19, Adams says the number of in-person voting options across Kentucky are limited.
Adams announced four ways to vote in the June 23 primary. Voters can mail-in an absentee ballot, drop off an absentee ballot to a secure county election site, vote early in-person by absentee ballot or vote in-person on election day.
Every registered voter can apply for an absentee ballot through the state portal HERE.
Upon introducing the absentee ballot request portal on Friday evening, Adams noted that:
* it requires a voter to verify identity with date of birth and social security number
* ballot envelopes have bar codes for tracking
* election officials will verify that each voter signature on an absentee ballot envelope matches the voter's signature of record
Absentee ballots may also be obtained from a voter's county clerk, in-person or by phone, fax or email. Absentee ballots are treated as securely and secretly as any other ballot, and can be either delivered by a voter personally to the county clerk's office, or mailed back with no postage due.
The deadline to request an absentee ballot for the June 23 election is Monday, June 15.
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You heard of an opportunity to take over a polyclinic facility nearby. Sadly, you have to give it a miss. You realise that you do not have enough resources and lenders are hesitant to offer loans since you have a poor credit score.
Your CIBIL score is what speaks of your creditworthiness in front of banks or other financial institutions when you apply for a loan. An individual with low or bad CIBIL score is usually denied loan sanctions. Having a bad CIBIL score can hinder your chances of availing a doctor loan.
Why Is CIBIL Score Important to a Doctor?
To expand their practice and business, you as a doctor might need financial help for it. A CIBIL score can help you get the finances you need. Having a good credit score can fast-peddle your loan application for further formalities.
But, seeing a bad credit score, banks or other financial institutions are known to reject applications.
What Will Affect Your CIBIL Score?
Lenders need to know that their money is returned to them in the time given. If you have a payment dues on your credit card, or have ongoing loans, it will tend on influencing your credit history. The CIBIL score helps lenders know how credible you are for a loan. A bad CIBIL score will lessen your chances of getting credit without any hassles.
Having many loans and credit cards reflect that you have pending dues to pay. The amounts of those also matter. It is commonly known that the amount of credit you use from what is available to you shows how you manage your funds. It is advisable that you use only 30% of the total credit available to you and pay the bill on time.
Availing too many unsecured loans reflect bad credit score. There should be a healthy balance between secured and unsecured loans in your name. This shows the lender that you have securities that you have given for a loan. It holds up your CIBIL score and assures the lenders about your credibility.
Going a long while without checking your credit scores can land you in trouble. It is possible that you may have missed some information. Checking your credit score regularly will ensure that you have no wrongly put information or any technical error. It helps in keeping your credit history clean.
If you have too many debts, lenders will be hesitant about lending you money. More so, if the debts have bad repayment history. Keeping your records clean, paying your EMIs regularly and keeping a track of your credit are all ways of avoiding too many debts.
Availing a loan when you have recently applied for credit cards or other loans reflect badly on you. It may also give the lender the impression that you are greedy. Your CIBIL score is, hence, affected and it lessens the chances of you getting a loan when you actually need one.
To get a doctor's loan, your best bet is to always maintain a good CIBIL score. It is certainly a boon. Having a healthy score not only improves your chances of being approved for a loan easily but also helps you earn lower rates of interest. Bajaj Finserv offers a range of doctor loans at affordable rate of interest. You can use the credit given to you on a flexi-loan basis that saves you interest. The doctor's loan from Bajaj Finserv comes to you in times of need.


A sore throat is an infection that can be either viral or bacterial. It is most commonly caused by a contagious viral infection, although more serious throat infections can be caused by a bacterial infection. Bacterial sore throats respond well to antibiotics while viral ones do not. For viral based infections, there are many natural remedies that you can take to cure a sore throat. Some of these folk remedies work within an hour or two, others take effect overnight.
# Common viruses, and even the viruses that cause mononucleosis and the flu, can cause a sore throat. Some viruses can also produce blisters in the mouth and throat.
# After treatment with antibiotics, chemotherapy, or other immune-compromising medications may be due to Candida, commonly known as "thrush."
# Sinus drainage may cause a sore throat.
# A sore throat can also be caused by bacteria. The two most common bacteria to cause a sore throat are Streptococcus� and Arcanobacterium haemolyticum. Arcanobacterium causes sore throats mainly in young adults and is sometimes associated with a fine red rash.
# Water/salt Mix a teaspoon of salt in eight ounces of quite warm water. Gargle the whole mixture several times a day. This will increase the blood supply to the area by washing away mucus and dilating capillaries, thereby enabling better circulation of infection-fighting antibodies.
# Chlorophyll Use � teaspoon to � cup of water and gargle three times a day.
# Goldenseal Boil a pint of water and add � teaspoon of powdered goldenseal root. Drink hot. Goldenseal is well known for its antibiotic properties.
# Lemon Add the juice of one lemon and one teaspoon of salt to one cup of warm water. Gargle three times a day for one minute.
# Mustard Grind one tablespoon of mustard seed and combine with the juice of half a lemon, one tablespoon of salt, one tablespoon of clear honey, and 1 1/4 cups of boiling water. Leave this mixture, covered, for 15 minutes and use as a gargle.
The best way to hold sore throats at bay is to avoid picking up the viruses and bacteria that cause them. Thoroughly and frequently wash your hands and avoid sharing such things as cups and towels. Within reason, avoid touching public surfaces and avoid second-hand smoke and air pollution.
If you have been trying to get rid of a sore throat longer than a week, be sure to see a doctor. Most sore throats resolve themselves within a week. A sore throat that lasts longer could be a sign of something more serious. Go to the doctor to be checked for a more complicated medical condition. You could have mononucleosis, strep throat, acid reflux, or other health concerns. Left untreated, these conditions can lead to more complicated problems.


Often, I organise a picnic in the evening at home. I buy champagne, snacks and chocolates. I spread a warm blanket on the ground. My girlfriend and I lie down on the blanket together and gaze up at the stars, and eat chocolate and drink champagne.


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SUICIDE CHOPPERS IS KING OF VERONA!
out of the ten nominated custom bikes, Koh from Japan won the MBE Award King of Verona!
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Аллен, Роджер Макбрайд (Allen, Roger MacBride) (р. 26 сентября 1957, Бриджпорт, Коннектикут [Bridgeport, Connecticut]) - американский писатель-фантаст.
Жена - Элеонора Фокс (Eleanore Fox), дипломат (1994-). Вместе они были в Бразилии (1995-97), Вашингтоне, О.К. (1997-2002), Германии (Лейпциг, 2002-2005). Сын - Мэтью Томас (Matthew Thomas) (р. 12 ноября 1998).
Предисловие автора //Аллен Р. Факел чести: Роман. - М.: Армада, 1997. С. 5-6.
The Shores of Tomorrow. - Bantam Dell, 2003.
Evolving Conspiracy (ss) //Dinosaur Fantastic /Ed. by Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg. - DAW, 1993.
Monkey See (nv) //Whatdunits /Ed. by Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg. - DAW, 1992.
Young as You Feel (nv) //Far Frontiers. Vol. VII /Ed. by Jerry Pournelle & Jim Baen. - Baen, 1986.
Winged Mysteries—The Soviet Shuttles (ar) //Far Frontiers. Vol. VII /Ed. by Jerry Pournelle & Jim Baen. - Baen, 1986.
[JC] Allen, Roger MacBride //The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. - N.Y.: St.Martin's Press, 1993. P. 21.
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On December 8th, Congressman John Lewis was presented with the Aspen Institute 2013 Preston Robert Tisch Award in Civic Leadership.
John Lewis has dedicated his life to protecting human rights, securing civil liberties, and building what he calls "The Beloved Community" in America. His dedication to the highest ethical standards and moral principles has won him the admiration of many of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle in the United States Congress.
While still a young man, John Lewis became a nationally recognized leader. By 1963, he was dubbed one of the Big Six leaders of the Civil Rights Movement and at the age of 23, was an architect of and a keynote speaker at the historic March on Washington in August 1963. During the height of the Movement, from 1963-1966, Lewis was named Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which he helped form. SNCC was largely responsible for organizing student activism in the Movement, including sit-ins and other activities. Lewis is the recipient of numerous awards from eminent national and international institutions, including the highest civilian honor granted by President Barack Obama.
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America's Cup 36th edition: It's on and racing!
If you are a water sports enthusiast, The America's Cup, one of the oldest and most spectacular international sporting trophies combining history, innovation and prestige, is sure to ring a bell. Since 1851, and despite fierce rivalry, only four countries, including Switzerland, have appeared on the list of the legendary duel of sails. The OMEGA company will embark on the adventure for the first time in 1995, supporting Team New Zealand, led by the great navigator Sir Peter Blake. She brings to the team its values of excellence and precision. The kiwis' victory that year resolutely foreshadowed the coveted role of official timekeeper then assumed by OMEGA in 2000 and 2003. History repeats itself today. Indeed, OMEGA is once again on the seas of New Zealand to tick off the seconds of the 36th edition of the event.
America's Cup: The pinnacle of sailing
From the end of the 19th century to the present day
The America's Cup, first contested in 1851, predates the modern Olympic Games by not less than 45 years. The coveted prize, affectionately dubbed the "Auld Mug" (Old Mug) is the oldest trophy in international sport. For 170 years, the 27-inch high trophy fashioned from 134 ounces of Sterling Silver, has been the source of fierce international rivalries and spectacular duels. It takes many wins on the water to claim the prize – and there's no second place – either you win or you lose, simple as that.
Eye on the prize
Photograph: Emirates Team New Zealand
The competitive crews can certainly place their trust in this year's Official Timekeeper, given OMEGA's reputation for split-second precision. In addition to delivering a flawless performance at the world famous regatta in 2000 and 2003, OMEGA has also served as Official Timekeeper at almost every Olympic Games since 1932. Throughout the years, adventurous sailors have also relied on OMEGA's high-precision marine chronometers for navigation, including French sailing legend Eric Tabarly, winner of the OSTAR east‑west transatlantic race in 1964 and 1976. OMEGA's robust and highly water-resistant Seamaster has proven its worth countless times since. Today, OMEGA's strong nautical links include partnerships with top competitive sailors and sailing events.
A unique trophy!
Photograph: OMEGA
First offered as the Hundred Guinea Cup on August 20, 1851, by the Royal Yacht Squadron of Great Britain for a race around the Isle of Wight, the trophy was renamed the America's Cup as a tribute to the winning boat – America – a 100-foot (30-metre) schooner from New York. Today, schooners are more likely to be sailed by the event's spectators. The latest AC75 monohull boats are in a different league. They literally fly, they can go up to 50 km/h! Unique features include T-wing hydrofoils mounted on port and starboard, a double-skinned semi-battened mainsail andthe absence of a keel.
At the heart of the America's Cup
Photograph: COR 36/Studio Borlenghi
Here's how the Match Racing drama will unfold in 2021. The Race Course on Auckland's Waitemata Harbour is around 1.7 nautical miles long (roughly 3km). It's also between 0.5nm and 0.8nm wide (0.9km to 1.5km), and boats must remain precisely within the set boundaries throughout the race. Since March 9th, the Defender Emirates Team New Zealand will face the winner of the PRADA Cup, Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team, in a 13-race Match. The first team to score seven points will lift the "Auld Mug", and also become the Defender of the 37th America's Cup
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Ted Tollner: Wikis
Ted Alfred Tollner (born May 29, 1940) is a football coach who has worked as a head coach in college football and is the current passing game coordinator of the Oakland Raiders
1 Playing career
2 Coaching career
2.1 High school
2.2 College
2.3 NFL
He attended California Polytechnic State University, where he was a quarterback on the 1960 team that suffered a plane crash in Toledo, Ohio in which 22 people were killed, including 16 team players.
He began his coaching career as the offensive coordinator (and later head coach) at Woodside High School in California in 1963.
He then coached at College of San Mateo from 1968 to 1972. He served as the offensive coordinator for San Diego State under Claude Gilbert from 1973 to 1980. He also served as the quarterbacks coach at Brigham Young in 1981.
He became offensive coordinator of the USC Trojans football program under head coach John Robinson in 1982, and succeeded to the head coaching position a year later when Robinson stepped down to take an administrative post at the university (Robinson departed soon afterward to become head coach of the Los Angeles Rams). During his four-year tenure Tollner compiled a 26-20-1 record. He led the Trojans to the Pacific-10 conference championship in 1984. That team defeated Ohio State in the 1985 Rose Bowl game. He was replaced as the USC head coach by Larry Smith after the 1986 season after going 1-3 in the UCLA-USC rivalry and 0-4 vs. Notre Dame in the Notre Dame-USC rivalry.
In 1994, he returned to San Diego State, this time as the head coach. He coached there for 8 years. Tollner was known for scheduling a tough non-conference schedule including schools like Washington, Wisconsin, USC, Arizona, Arizona State and Oklahoma. His Aztec teams posted eight-win seasons in 1995 and 1996, the first time it reached that level in consecutive years since 1977. Overall, he led the Aztecs to a 43-48 record until his firing in 2001.
He served as the wide receivers coach for the Buffalo Bills from 1987 to 1988. He served as the offensive coordinator for the San Diego Chargers from 1989 to 1991. He served as the quarterbacks coach for the Los Angeles Rams from 1992 to 1993. In 2002, he then became the quarterbacks coach for the San Francisco 49ers. After two successful seasons, he was promoted to offensive coordinator in 2004. When Dennis Erickson was fired as head coach, he was not retained. In 2005, he became the offensive coordinator of the Detroit Lions. When Steve Mariucci and several of his assistants were fired 11 weeks into the season, Tollner was demoted to Tight End Coach for the remainder of the season. [1]
In late 2006, he was listed as a potential candidate for the head coaching opening for the University of San Diego that later went to Ron Caragher [2][3].
In late 2007 it was announced that he would serve as offensive assistant for the San Francisco 49ers in a late season attempt to revive the lacking offense and is expected to help Jim Hostler in the play calling.[4]
In early 2008 Tollner was named quarterbacks coach/assistant to the head coach for the San Francisco 49ers to get a permanent role in the organization again.[5]
On December 30th, 2008, Tollner was dismissed from the 49ers along with running backs coach Tony Nathan and offensive coordinator Mike Martz.
On February 4th, 2009, Tollner was introduced as a part of the Oakland Raiders' coaching staff as he was named the passing game coordinator of the team.
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The Bulldogs' Sam Snodgrass (24) shoots a '3' over the out-stretched hand of 6'1" senior Jack Eaton (20) at Chesterton High School on Friday, 01-18-2019. Snodgrass led CP in scoring with 19 points, including 3 of 6 shooting from behind the arc.
Chesterton's Nick Mullen (21) looks for an open teammate to pass the ball off to during the CP-Chesterton high school boys basketball game Friday, 01-18-2019.
As this jump shot hangs in the air, CP's Sam Krutz (30) attempts to box-out the Trojans' Jake Wadding (23) in anticipation of a rebound during the battle of 2-0 teams in the DAC. Chesterton eventually won 55-49 on 01-18-2019.
The Bulldogs race down the floor following a defensive steal by senior guard Chris Karakozas (21). Karakozis was also credited with three assists in 6:23 minutes of relief play for CP in their game at Chesterton on 01-18-2019.
On the same play one second later the ball slowly rolls over the rim into the net for the Trojans' Vanderwoude final field goal of the night. The senior 6-4 forward finished with 8 points in Chesterton's 55-49 victory over CP.
During the pregame, it was the "5th Annual Alley-Oop for Autism" special event as Chesterton high school special education students pose for a photo with Crown Point and Chesterton varsity players, all wearing the commemorative powder blue T-shirts on 1-18-2019.
Chesterton special education students had the court all to themselves (and the Trojans' mascot) before a crowd of about 1,200 fans during the pregame event Chesterton High School on 01-18-2019.
Revised: January 22, 2019 .
CROWN POINT (47) Matt Hanlon 2-0-5, Ty Smith 0-0-0, Chris Karakozis 1-0-2, Sam Snodgrass 6-4-19, Sam Krutz 0-0-0, Elias Gerodemos 5-2-14, Sam Decker 4-0-9. TOTALS 18, (6-6) 49.
CHESTERTON (55) Travis Grayson 0-6-6, Kolton Cardenas 1-1-4, Tyler Nelson 2-1-6, Jack Eaton 2-2-8, Nick Mullen 1-0-3, Jake Wadding 6-8-20, Alex Schmidt 0-0-0, Jake Warren 0-0-0, Drew Vanderwoude 2-4-8. TOTALS 14, (22-25) 55.
FREE THROWS: CROWN POINT (6 of 6, 100.0%); Sam Snodgrass 4-4, Elias Gerodemos 2-2. CHESTERTON (22 of 25, 88.0%) Travis Grayson 6-6, Kolton Cardenas 1-2, Tyler Nelson 1-2, Jack Eaton 2-2, Jake Wadding 8-9, Drew Vanderwoude 4-4.
3-GOALS: CROWN POINT (7-13, 53.8%); Matt Hanlon 1-3, Snodgrass 3-6, Elias Gerodemos 2-2, Sam Decker 1-2. CHESTERTON (5-9, 55.6%); Kolton Cardenas 1-3, Tyler Nelson 1-2, Jack Eaton 2-2, Nick Mullen 1-2.
TURNOVERS: CROWN POINT 13; CHESTERTON 15.
CHESTERTON (01-18-2019) Heading into their Duneland Athletic Conference match-up against the Chesterton Trojans, it seemed that momentum favored the Crown Point Bulldogs.
Despite losing their previous game at home to the Griffith Panthers six days earlier, the Bulldogs entered play having won both of their conference games, to Michigan City and Merrillville.
Chesterton entered the night, having lost back-to-back contests, to LaPorte and Andrean.
In the end, the Trojans used home court to their advantage with a 55-49 win at Chesterton High School on Friday, Jan. 18.
Chesterton improves to 11-4 overall, 2-1 in the DAC. Crown Point falls to 7-6, 2-1 in the DAC.
For these two schools, this marked the second time they met this season, as Chesterton prevailed 55-53 on Dec. 27, part of the Noblesville Tournament, a game considered non-conference.
Before the game, Chesterton High School held its fifth annual "Alley-Oop for Autism" event. This event consisted of special education students with autism playing a 10-minute basketball game. Also, the Trojans in pregame warm-ups wore powder blue shirts as part of the event.
Once Crown Point and Chesterton tipped off, the Trojans took control from the start, outscoring the Bulldogs 15-10 in the opening quarter.
However, Crown Point took their first lead on dramatic fashion as senior guard Sam Snodgrass hit a three as time expired for the first half.
The Bulldogs led 27-26 at halftime.
"We felt that was a good boost going into the second half," Bulldogs' Head Coach Clint Swan said on Snodgrass's go-ahead three pointer.
However, the Trojans outscored the Bulldogs 18-11 in the third quarter and prevailed from there.
Chesterton got a strong effort from junior forward Jake Wadding, who had 20 points, as Chesterton shot 56 percent from the field.
Crown Point got the production of Sondgrass' 19 points, followed-up with senior forward Elias Gerodemos, who chipped-in with 14 points.
For Chesterton, this marked a victory that they felt was much needed.
DOG NOTES: The loss to Chesterton drops the Bulldogs to 4-5 in games away from Crown Point High School, road games and neutral site contests. They hold a 3-1 mark at home.
Of the next three games for Crown Point, two will match-up against DAC schools. The Bulldogs will face conference foes LaPorte at home on Jan. 25 and at Portage on Jan. 31. The Jan. 26 game at South Bend Washington marks the Bulldogs lone non-conference game in this stretch.
USA-365.com/Indiana-Sports.com Broadcast Note: The next scheduled Crown Point Bulldogs' broadcast on USA-365.com/Indiana-Sports.com will be on Friday, Jan. 25 when the Bulldogs host the LaPorte Slicers in a Duneland Athletic Conference showdown. The pregame show begins at 6:45 p.m., with tip-off at 7 p.m. (CST).


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De La Soul Said You Can Stream Their Music In March
January 04, 2023 Posted by NNAMDI ARINZE
Hip hop icons De La Soul are making their back catalog available on streaming services for the first time. After much negotiation with the original sample providers, agreements have been made and now fans can listen to their music on major streaming platforms. To celebrate this major moment in music history, the group has scheduled numerous events and live streams throughout March. Let's take a look at why this is such an important milestone for music fans everywhere.
De La Soul was ahead of its time when it came to sampling techniques, pioneering an entire genre of hip hop that was innovative, creative, and heavily reliant on samples from other records. Their influence can be seen in countless other artists who have come after them, including Kanye West and Outkast. By making their music available on streaming services, fans will have unprecedented access to the group's extensive back catalog that spans over three decades.
The process of clearing samples is not only expensive but also incredibly complex; many sample providers had never worked with streaming services before so there was a lot of unfamiliar ground being tread here. Additionally, the amount of legal paperwork required for each individual song was massive; even more so when you consider how many songs were included in De La Soul's back catalog! It was definitely no small feat to get everything sorted out but thankfully it all worked out in the end.
To commemorate this special occasion, De La Soul has created an official playlist featuring their favorite tracks on all major streaming platforms as well as hosting multiple live streams throughout March on their official website. Additionally, listening events are being hosted at locations across the country where fans can come together and celebrate this momentous occasion.
De La Soul's reissue is a win for music fans everywhere who have waited years to hear some of hip hop's most iconic songs through streaming services. The group has gone above and beyond by creating events and live streams to honor this special moment—so make sure you don't miss out! Now is your chance to experience one of hip hop's most influential groups like never before! Don't forget to visit de la soul's website for details about upcoming events near you!
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DANA Air has been announced as official airline of the House Representatives 2016 Legislative Summit on Sustainable Development Goals, scheduled to hold on the 22nd and 23rd of November 2016, at the NASS Complex, Abuja.
This year's summit with the theme 'Understanding and Stimulating Legislative Roles and Responsibility in Achieving the Sustainable Goals in Nigeria,' is a 2-day Summit organized in partnership with 1stDevHub Nigeria and other relevant international development and SDGs Advocate.
Commenting on the initiative, Mrs Christina Ude, Consultant to the House Committee on the SDGs and Team Lead expressed delight at the partnership and that "the world today is more interconnected than ever before and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can only be realized with a strong commitment to national and global partnership" she said.
Speaking further , 1st DevHub Nigeria's Senior Partner and Coordinator of the Summit, Kenneth Nwokoro mentioned that this year's Summit is focused on improving Legislators understanding of the SDGs and how their roles impact on the attainment of the Goals in Nigeria. He stated that Mr Thomas Gass, United Nations Assistant Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs is confirmed as the keynote speaker, Professor Kevin Urama of the African Development Bank, Abidjan will chair the event while His Excellency, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is expected as the Distinguished Guest of Honour.


The horses have been a huge help for my MS. Riding again. Movement. I haven't ridding in some 15 years but it's coming back. And for once since my illness attacked me I feel as if I can do something useful. Not just brain work but really useful for me and the animals. I'm feeling a bit MS-ie lately but its because I'm not taking the best care of myself. Yesterday was a very emotional day for me. Among things not so pleasant I was asked to ride a young quarter horse coming down from Oregon. She just needs mileage in a cutting saddle. I can do that. Want to do that. The horses need to be a part of my life right now. Along with my friends and family. Work and school. I have a full plate. The other parts of my life can chill for awhile. Must get to school work - just a note to remind you MSers that it's OK to take a chill break. We need them. We deserve them.


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Construction Design-BuildProposal EvaluationSolicitation Requirements
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protests denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Nan, Inc. regarding the award of three multiple-award contracts to P&S Construction, Inc., under a request for proposals (RFP), which was issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command for design-build construction
Johnson Controls, Inc., B-407337, November 20, 2012
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Johnson Controls, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers Disposition: Protest Denied. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: In procurement conducted under two-phase design-build selection procedures, protest of agency's decision to eliminate protester's phase 1 proposal from further competition is denied where the record shows that the agency reasonably found the proposal
AMEC Earth & Environmental, Inc., B-401961; B-401961.2, December 22, 2009
Construction Design-BuildDiscussions
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: U.S. Coast Guard Disposition: Protest sustained. Keywords: Construction Design-Build; Discussions General Counsel P.C. Highlight: It is a fundamental precept of negotiated procurements that discussions, when conducted, must be meaningful, equitable, and not misleading. —————————————————————————————————————————– The U.S. Coast Guard (Coast Guard) issued a request for proposals (RFP) for design-build and construction services for
CTI-NAN JV, LLC, B-400979, April 6, 2009
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Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Naval Facilities Engineering Command Disposition: Protest denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: In design-build acquisition for construction of new, complete multi-story military housing facility, agency reasonably excluded protester's proposal from further consideration based on its finding that firm's experience was limited to renovation, and that it had no experience building such facilities. General