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Diabetes has become such a health problem in America that 18 more cases are reported each minute. It’s estimated that one in two Americans is either diabetic or pre-diabetic, which is obviously a serious health concern. One major issue with diabetes is that many feel it can only be managed through insulin and not cured. Dr. Joel Baumgartner put together the Biblical Diabetes Solution as a natural remedy to not just managed diabetes but possibly reverse and eliminate it.
What is the Biblical Diabetes Solution?
The Biblical Diabetes Solution is a for anyone that wants to control their diabetes. It’s packed full of Biblical techniques to reverse diabetes naturally. It was compiled by Dr Joel Baumgartner, a diabetes sufferer that researched more about the disease and how to treat the root cause rather than managing the symptoms. The results of his research became the Biblical Diabetes Solution.
What do you Get with the Biblical Diabetes Solution?
The Biblical Diabetes Solution is packed full of techniques and findings based on natural foods including sacred spices. All of the foods listed in the program can be found at the local supermarket and it doesn’t involve any kind of crash dieting or medication.
Every technique mentioned in the guide has been based on the Bible and is backed up by scientific study to naturally improve insulin sensitivity and control blood sugar levels. Diabetes is caused by problems with insulin sensitivity so anything that can naturally treat this will be a big help.
After minimizing blood sugar levels, the solution gets to work on the metabolism, helping one to achieve a true insulin balance and prevent the glucose spikes caused by diabetes. It enables users to start living a healthy life and keep their blood sugar levels balanced.
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Apr 11 2014
Daily News Flash with Maya Rockeymoore on Sebelius Resignation, Better-Off Budget, and Albuquerque Police Abuse
Uprising’s guest expert Maya Rockeymoore, President of the Center for Global Policy Solutions, a social change non-profit dedicated to making policy work for people and their environment, analyzes today’s news headlines:
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has publicly announced her resignation just weeks after the Obamacare enrollment deadline. Ms. Sebelius, former Kansas Governor, came under fire for the botched roll out of the Affordable Care Act. But Think Progress reports that “Sebelius leaves the office having enrolled some 10 million people in health care coverage. This was only possible because she convinced numerous Republican lawmakers in bright red states to extend health care coverage to the poorest Americans.” President Obama has tapped Sylvia Matthews Burwell, director of the Office of Management and Budget, to replace Sebelius at Health and Human Services. Click here for a New York Times article and here for a Think Progress report on the story.
Republicans in the House narrowly passed a federal budget that was unremarkable for its resemblance to previous budgets. CNN.com published an op-ed calling it “An Assault on the Middle Class.” But some progressive Democratic thinkers like Jared Bernstein are instead calling attention to a budget proposed by the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Bernstein, a former adviser to President Obama, wrote in his column on the Huffington Post, that the CPC’s so-called Better Off Budget is “a smart and progressive one,” that attempts to “achieve a set of venerable goals.” Click here for a Huffington Post article about the story.
Concluding a 16 month investigation into police abuses in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Justice Department yesterday said they found a “pattern or practice of use of excessive force.” There have been at least 37 instances of excessive police force in just 4 years, a pattern that human rights activists in Albuquerque have been calling attention to with marches and demonstrations. According to the New York Times, the Justice Department found that “officers kicked, punched and violently restrained nonthreatening people, and seldom were the officers reprimanded. Many of the victims suffered from mental illnesses, and some were disabled, elderly or drunk.” Click here for a New York Times article about the story.
And finally a bus carrying dozens of high school students, many of them from the LA area, was hit by a FedEx big rig last night just north of Sacramento. Ten people including the drivers, 3 adult chaperones and 5 kids were killed. It is not known yet whether any of the dead are from Southern California. The bus and the truck caught on fire after the crash. The majority of people on the bus managed to escape through windows and a fire exit. The students were on a visit to Humboldt State University.
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|L-R: Dave Hanson and Chris Sullivan in WAITING FOR WAITING FOR GODOT|
Waiting for Waiting for Godot (WFWFGodot), now playing at the Kraine Theater on East Fourth Street in Lower Manhattan as part of FringeNYC 2013, is not only a terrific meta-reworking of the original Beckett classic but is also a delicious send-up of the entire Beckett canon. In this production, set in a dingy backstage dressing room rather than on a country road, Val (Dave Hanson) and Ester (Chris Sullivan), are understudies for the roles of the two hobos, Vladimir and Estragon, in Waiting for Godot, and are themselves awaiting the arrival, not of Godot but of their play’s Director, in the hopes that he will come to tell them that he intends to give them an opportunity to play their roles onstage.
In Beckett’s The Unnamable, the novel’s unidentified protagonist, after a long disjointed monologue, proclaims “…you must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on” – a sentiment at the core of Beckett’s work but one that is not very different from that hoary theatrical mantra: “The show must go on.” And, indeed, for the multi-talented Dave Hanson, who wrote WFWFGodot and who also plays the role of Val, the distinction between Beckett’s words and the theatrical mantra would appear to be a distinction without a difference: the play must go on and so must the two understudies, if not onstage, then at least with their own lives.
Val and Ester are consumed by the same absurdist existential questions that tormented Vladimir and Estragon and fare no better in their struggles than do their alter egos. In Waiting For Godot, it is an unnamed boy who arrives to tell the two hobos that Godot won’t be showing up that day after all; in WFWFGodot, it is Laura (Amy Weaver), the perky Assistant Stage Manager, who informs them that the Director they had been hoping to see won’t be making an appearance that day either. The consequences are the same: despair
But WFWFGodot is much more than just a retelling (or even a meta-retelling) of the Waitng for Godot story, simply set in a different venue with Ester’s vest substituting for Estragon’s boot: it is also a delightful parody of Beckett’s signature style. When Ester gives Val an acting lesson, emphasizing the “miserly” approach to acting wherein an actor does nothing but repeat another actor’s lines, the verbal repetitions and repetitions of repetitions constitute an hysterical send-up of Beckett, culminating in what I took to be a similar send-up of James Joyce as well.
Hanson plays the role of Val with comic genius and Sullivan turns in an equally impressive performance as Ester. In sum, this production is likely to go down as one of the very best of the FringeNYC 2013 and if the show’s not yet sold out and you can still manage to get tickets for one of the few remaining performances, I’d strongly urge you to do so.

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Teterboro AirportAirport Teterboro
The Teterboro Airport (IATA: TEB, ICAO: KTEB, FAA LID: TEB) is a general purpose airport in the Teterboro, Moonachie and Hasbrouck Heights districts of Bergen County, New Jersey. 3 ] It is held and administered by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and maintained by AFCO AvPORTS Management.
Located in the New Jersey Meadowlands, 19 kilometres from Midtown Manhattan, the airport is very much appreciated by business and leisure travellers. It has a 45,000 kg (100,000 pounds) restriction on aeroplane weights, which is not intended to make it usable as a passenger airport. Teterboro Airport occupies almost all of Teterboro and comprises 827 hectares (3. 35 km2): 90 hectares (0. 36 km2) for hangars and office space, 408 hectares (1. 65 km2) for planes and airstrips and 329 hectares (1. 33 km2) green.
More than 1,137 people are employed at the airport, of whom more than 90% are full-time equivalents. The Teterboro Airport extends over 340 ha (830 acres) at an altitude of 2.7 meters (9 feet) above mean sea-level. Neteen of the airport's Shanghai airport hangers have a combined area of approximately 38,300 m2 (412,000 sq feet).
There are two large central offices, one on 90 Moonachie Avenue and the other on Fred Wehran Drive, which hosts the Department of Homeland Security. New Jersey Airport includes the Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey. Construction of the FAA inspection turret on the eastern side of the airport began on 29 October 1975.
Originally the turret is not in operation, but is still part of the Atlantic Aviation's former wood hanger on Industrial Avenue. It' s on the north east edge of the shed. The 6-24 is 1,833 meters (6,013 feet) long and 46 meters (150 feet) broad, with High Intensity Runway Lights (HIRL).
Landing strip 6 is fitted with an Instrument Landing System (ILS) and a Medium Approach Lighting System-R (MALS-R). Landing strip 24 is fitted with both a Precision approach Path Indicator (PAPI) and runway end identification lights (REIL). In 1987 the runways 6-24 were completely covered and grooved. Take-off and landing runways 1-19 are 2,100 meters (7,000 feet) long and 46 meters (150 feet) broad, with HIRL.
Landing strip 1 is fitted with a VASI system. Landing strip 19 has an Illumination Signal Signal (ILS) and a Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI). Take-off and landing runways 1-19 were covered and fluted in the 2000 season and involved the fitting of midline and touch zones illumination. Slope 19 is the favourite slope for measures to reduce noises.
Approximately 6.8 km (4.2 miles) of taxiway exists at the airport. The Teterboro Airport can be accessed from the Port Authority Terminal in Midtown Manhattan on the New Jersey Transit buses 161 (regular service), 165 (restricted weekly service) and 144 (peak working days). Teterboro is the nearest train stop along NJ Transit's Pascack Valley Line, but Wood-Ridge is also south west of the airport.
Between 1956 and 1958, Thomas Fitzpatrick flown stole planes from Teterboro and ended up landing them along the roads of the town in the Hudson Heights, Manhattan area. The Piper Aztec, which went to Teterboro Airport, fell in June 1966 in Hasbrouck Heights, a twin-engine plane, hit a boom and missed houses on Burton Avenue near Route 46.
A Piper Saratoga with a Canadian family took off from Teterboro Airport on September 9, 2002 and plunged into a residential complex in Hunterdon County 10 min later. A small General Aviation aircraft, a Cirrus SR20, took off from Teterboro on October 11, 2006 and went down in New York City at 14:42 hours CET.
These two airborne crashes took place over the Hudson River with planes taking off from Teterboro, one in 1976, and one in 2009. December 20, 2011, a single-engine TBM700 on Interstate 287 near Morristown went down after it left Teterboro Airport for Georgia. A Learjet 35 crash hit about 1/4 miles away on May 15, 2017, around 3:30 p.m., as it approached RV1.
There were no other air travelers on the aircraft at the moment of the accident. Briefly before, the aircraft had taken off from Philadelphia International Airport. FAA Airport Master Record for TEB (Form 5010 PDF). The Federal Aviation Administration. IATA Airport Code Search (TEB: Teterboro). How to get to and from the airport, Port Authority of New York & New Jersey.
"The Teterboro Airport is situated in the districts of Teterboro, Moonachie and Hasbrouck Heights in Bergen County, New Jersey. The Teterboro airport and the Bendix Diner. Archives from the originals on 10 March 2016. Teterboro Airport story. "Like another outburst of spirit next year when Godfrey, an enthusiastic aviator, got mad at the flying orders given to him for his DC-3 and an airport checkpoint in Teterboro, N.J., buzzed."
House of Representatives Licenses Rothman Action to Keep Boeing Business Jet Away from Teterboro Archive 2007-04-28 at Wayback Machine. "Congressman Steve Rothman (D-NJ9) took a decisive leap forward in his effort to safeguard the lives of northern New Jersey residents last evening by having the U.S. House of Representatives approved a motion he had written to prevent the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from removing the 36-year-old 100,000 lb heavy threshold at Teterboro Airport.
" "Filed copy." Archives from the originals on 28 April 2007. Home Page, Aviation Hall of Fame und Museum of New Jersey. Teterboro Air Crash kills pilot: Teterboro Air Crash: "The Teterboro airport gets $1 million for the airport takeoff and landing project." Archives from the orginal on 5 May 2014. Teterboro is approaching the air accident:
The Cessna 177 crashed as it approached Teterboro Airport on 2 September 2005". hasbrouck-heights.com. "Hudson 1976 Flashback". Archives from the orginal on 26.04.2012. Teterboro Airport Airstrip Crossing by a Private Jets. Walther C. Teter, 66, founding member of the Teterboro Airport & Communities, New Jersey; after a brief period of ill health; in Manhattan.

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The Frequency Converter FCV300 EVO is an external module that combined with a field strength meter, displays frequencies between 2000 MHz and 3000 MHz
The Frequency Converter FCV300 EVO is an external module that combined with a field strength meter, displays frequencies between 2000 MHz and 3000 MHz. The main measurable signals are Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, MMDS and others signals in this frequency band. The displays of converted carrier will be into IF SAT band ie in the range of frequencies between 1000 MHz and 2000 MHz.
If the field strength meter has the Max Hold function, you can see the random signals (not continuously present), otherwise they are impossible to measure for their inconstancy.
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Bhutan, a Buddhist kingdom on the Himalayas’ eastern edge, is a land of monasteries, fortresses (or dzongs) and dramatic topography ranging from subtropical plains to steep mountains and valleys. In the High Himalayas, peaks such as 7,326m Jomolhari are a destination for serious trekkers. Taktsang Palphug (Tiger’s Nest) monastery, a sacred site, clings to cliffs above the forested Paro Valley.
The Takin is Bhutan’s national animal and it also has a rich primate life, with rare species such as the golden langur, and a wide variety of wild life including tiger, leopard, bear, deer and marmot amongst others. More than 770 species of bird have been recorded in Bhutan with the globally endangered white-winged duck added recently.
The Eastern Himalayas have been identified as a global biodiversity hotspot and counted among the 234 globally outstanding ecoregions and more than 5,400 species of plants are found in Bhutan, Fungi forming a key part of Bhutanese ecosystems.
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- Sopranos star James Gandolfini dies in Italy |
- Special Report: Syria's Islamists seize control as moderates dither
- End to Fed stimulus, China slowdown spark world sell-off
- Arizona killer who asked for speedy execution found dead in cell
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EU governments agree new sanctions against Iran - EU statement
LUXEMBOURG Oct 15 (Reuters) - European Union governments agreed major sanctions against Iran's banking sector, shipping and industry on Monday, tightening financial pressure on Tehran over its nuclear programme amid foundering diplomacy.
"Restrictive measures and conclusions on Iran (were) adopted," said an EU statement from a meeting of foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
The new sanctions mark one of the toughest pushes against Iran by Europe to date and a significant change of policy for the 27-member bloc, which has so far focused on targeting specific people and Iranian companies with economic restrictions.
The measures include a ban on financial transactions, with some exceptions for those involving humanitarian aid, food and medicine purchases and provisions for legitimate trade, an EU diplomat said.
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By Noreen Marcus, Florida Bulldog.org
The group that’s supposed to independently screen candidates for an opening on Florida’s highest court has had a couple glitches along the way.
First of all, the Florida Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission (JNC) had to deal with an enthusiasm gap. Only two judges and one practicing attorney stepped forward in bids to replace Justice Ricky Polston, who resigned effective March 31. The last opening drew 17 applicants.
The falloff in applications reflects a general perception that the fix is in – for obsequious conservatives only. The power of “one set of political views … makes application by any lawyer with a different philosophy seem futile and even dangerous for future representation of clients,” Supreme Court historian Neil Skene has said.
JNC chair Fred Karlinsky responded – after checking with Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office – by extending the deadline two weeks to April 17.
Now, the JNC has a beefed-up roster of 15 applicants. Still there’s the nagging question of why a 16th applicant, Tampa lawyer Belinda Noah, was left off the May 3 interview schedule. Since the Florida Bar didn’t post a complete list of applicants, her absence might have slipped beneath the radar.
But Noah, one of the first three to apply, couldn’t help but notice it. She called Karlinsky.
His explanation left her perplexed and disappointed, Noah said when Florida Bulldog called her. “I just really wanted to serve the people, to base my decisions on the law and the Constitution,” she said.
Karlinsky cited the rule that lawyers must have at least 10 years of experience before they’re eligible for a Supreme Court nomination. Because Noah, a Florida Bar member for 40 years, was suspended for a month in 2014, she isn’t entitled to an interview, Karlinsky told her.
NOAH INTERVIEWED IN 2020
“They said that was a break in my admission to the Bar, in my service, so that meant I hadn’t been a member for the requisite 10 years,” Noah recalled.
She said the suspension, which was punishment for mishandling a bankruptcy case, was about an attempt to help a friend that backfired. The client failed to pay court costs, according to Noah.
Despite her record, the JNC interviewed Noah in January 2020 for one of two Supreme Court openings created when President Donald Trump named Justices Robert Luck and Barbara Lagoa to the federal appeals court in Atlanta. Ultimately, Justices John Couriel and Jamie Grosshans took those seats.
A professional misstep alone doesn’t preclude a Supreme Court appointment, at least not in theory. The Florida Constitution sets out residency and voter requirements and the 10-year rule. That’s all.
So if Noah’s suspension didn’t prevent her from interviewing in 2020, why is it a problem now?
Karlinsky answered the question by sending Florida Bulldog an appellate court ruling from August 2020, seven months after the Noah interview. The First District Court of Appeal held that Gainesville Democrat Beverly McCallum was ineligible to run for state attorney because she’d been suspended for 15 days in 2019, interrupting her required five years of practice.
The lawyer who won that case for Republican state attorney candidate Brian Kramer was Daniel Nordby, Karlinsky’s predecessor as JNC chair in 2020.
JNC SEEN AS DESANTIS ‘T00L’
Last Friday Noah announced she’d withdrawn her application. She said she realized that trying for an appointment was futile.
For the 15 applicants who will have 20-minute interviews with the JNC the question is: Will it matter?
Critics say the nomination process is a sham because DeSantis pre-selects judges. They say the JNC goes through the motions of talking to all the applicants before giving him a short list of three to six names; one of them is the governor’s designated choice.
“The JNC has come to be perceived as a tool of the governor,” said state Sen. Geraldine Thompson, D-Windermere. She sued DeSantis twice over his judicial appointments and prevailed once.
In 2020 Thompson prevented DeSantis from promoting then-Palm Beach Circuit Judge Renatha Francis to the Supreme Court because Francis hadn’t reached 10 years as a licensed attorney — a violation of the same rule Karlinsky used to deny Noah an interview.
DeSantis’s second Francis appointment in 2022 was unopposed. When he replaces Polston, he’ll have handpicked five of the court’s seven members.
FEDERALIST VETTING MACHINE
DeSantis is guided in his choice of judges by a whole other vetting system that runs parallel to the official JNC one. He consults the Federalist Society, the conservative powerbroker, through his chief of staff James Uthmeier, the administration’s point person for shaping the judiciary.
As DeSantis wages culture wars in his run-up to a presidential campaign, he’s made abortion one of his signature issues. Late in the evening of April 13, he quietly signed into law a six-week abortion ban that’s among the nation’s toughest constraints on reproductive health care.
The governor’s evident litmus test for judges is abortion opposition. By this standard two of the newer Supreme Court applicants emerge as frontrunners for the Polston seat. They join an earlier applicant, Chief Judge Meredith Sasso of the Sixth District Court of Appeal (DCA).
One is John Stargel, a judge on the Sixth DCA and former Republican legislator. His wife, state Sen. Kelli Stargel, R-Lakeland, introduced the 2022 law that criminalized abortion in Florida after the 15th week of pregnancy.
John Stargel stands out also because of his connection to Jared Smith, the other candidate with strong anti-abortion credibility.
STARGEL, SMITH AND ABORTION
Last year when he was a trial judge in Tampa, Smith made national news by denying a teenager an abortion and blaming her grades. A panel of the Second DCA voted 2-1 to reverse his decision; Stargel was the dissenter who supported Smith’s ruling.
Smith went on to lose his reelection race to attorney Nancy Jacobs by more than 7,000 votes. But instead of stepping down, he stepped up when DeSantis tapped him for the new Sixth DCA in Lakeland, where he works with Stargel and Sasso.
“Smith got lots of bad press off that abortion ruling but it caught the governor’s eye in a very favorable way,” said a lawyer who follows this sensitive topic closely and spoke on condition of anonymity. “DeSantis only cares about the will of the voters if it coincides with his will.”
Thompson wouldn’t be surprised if DeSantis transforms Judge Smith of the Sixth DCA into Justice Smith of the Florida Supreme Court.
“Governor DeSantis is stacking the Supreme Court with right-wing ideologues who share his beliefs and viewpoints,” she said. “This has done tremendous damage to the independence of the judiciary.”


Government must do more to temper impact of Brexit
Labour member of the Seanad Brexit Committee, Senator Ged Nash, has welcomed the committee’s report and called for a number of measures to be introduced to temper the impact Brexit will have on Ireland.
“Every party has been talking about Brexit, but only Labour is proposing tangible actions that would protect Irish jobs against a hard Brexit. For example, we believe that the €1 billion rainy day fund must be deployed for capital investment from 2019, and a €250 million Brexit Trade Adjustment Fund set up to directly support business suffering from trade upheaval with the UK.
“For many months the Labour Party has been calling for changes to the Stability and Growth Pact fiscal rules. We have followed that call with action, and the Party of European Socialists has established a working group, at our request to bring forward actionable proposals. Fine Gael now needs to take a lead on this with their own colleagues in the EPP. Our economy is growing, as is our population. We need to invest more. We need to Brexit proof our economy. The proposed extra €2.65 billion for capital spending is not enough when you factor in the demands on the budget, and construction inflation. The Rainy Day fund of €1 billion a year should be deployed in 2019 for investment.
“As Labour spokesperson on Labour Affairs and Workers’ Rights, I am anxious that an Early Warning System is introduced to help protect Irish workers and industries that are vulnerable to Brexit.
“The all-Island warning system would bring together trade unions, employers and other stakeholders to identify sectors and firms at particular risk as market conditions change and adapt.
“What we do know however, is that some sectors will be particularly exposed to market shocks as a result of Brexit. We need to move fast to identify these, and ensure that the proper supports are in place to support the sectors and workers in the face of such challenges. If a company is in trouble, there should be a clear pathway in place for State agencies to be informed, and the necessary supports put in place, even where companies are not Enterprise Ireland or Local Enterprise Office clients.
“As the Labour Senator for Louth, I have long argued that the Border Counties are in a unique position when it comes to Brexit, with many businesses relying on Northern Ireland for trade. However, as we are now facing a situation where the devaluation of Sterling is likely to be a semi-permanent feature of the landscape and a hard border may be in place, it is clear that a long term strategy needs to be developed to counter the effects.
“The Government should also seek to amend the rules of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund so that it is available to retrain any workers who lose their jobs due to Brexit. We are also calling for the Fund to be used to help companies- identified by the Early Warning System- to stem losses and re-skill staff to adapt to new market conditions.
“Brexit will have a huge impact on the Border area and we need to put in place policy responses now. I am calling on the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise and Innovation, and the Taoiseach to pursue these sensible solutions before it is too late.”


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I shot some images with the Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 12mm f1.4 on my Olympus E-M1 III this morning. Processing the files, I found the denoise options – HQ, Prime, DeepPRIME – were missing. Further investigation revealed there are no camera-lens modules for this gear combination. But the software had no notification the modules were needed. I had to look.
I filed a support ticket.
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Changing a password
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Meter connection using ION Setup.
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Failure to follow these instructions can result in equipment damage.
- Open ION Setup > select the meter > Setup Assistant.
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I was driving my family home after seeing the live-action Little Mermaid, and I offhandedly said to my wife, “The only thing that could have made that movie more inclusive was if Ursula was played by a drag queen.” It was a rookie parenting mistake, because I was immediately peppered with “what is a drag queen?” questions from my 10- and 7-year-old boys, only I hadn’t thought through how to explain the concept to children who think it’s a given that people will dress how they want.
I started with a good, technical answer: “When a person of one sex dresses in clothes traditionally worn by members of the opposite sex.” But that just made my 10-year-old ask bemusedly, “So like when Mommy wears pants?” I pivoted to the idea that the clothes had to be worn as a “costume” and “makeup” as part of a “performance.” That prompted the 7-year-old to get involved: “So am I a drag queen because I like to paint my nails?” (The kid has been on a nail-painting kick. Nobody has escaped… not even me). It was a long drive home as my wife and I tried to explain why our world responds differently to two people wearing the same basic outfit, because of their sex. It’s an idiotic distinction, especially when you try to explain it to a child.
Defining “drag” to the satisfaction of children is difficult. Defining drag so that you can ban people from performing in it is, or should be, constitutionally impossible. That hasn’t stopped bigoted Republican legislators and governors from trying. Happily, they’re discovering that translating their irrational fear of drag shows into legal prohibitions tends to run afoul of constitutional law and common sense.
Last week, a federal judge blocked Tennessee’s first-of-its-kind ban on drag shows. The Tennessee legislature (which did nothing to stem the sale of guns after a school shooting in Nashville, other than expel two legislators who protested the endless violence) attempted to criminalize “adult cabaret entertainment” that is “harmful to minors” in “any location” where the show could be seen by a minor. It then defined “adult cabaret entertainment” as any show featuring “male or female impersonators” (as well as “topless dancers, go-go dancers, exotic dancers, strippers…or similar entertainers”).
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It’s a definition of drag shows that wouldn’t last a car ride with my children. Male or female impersonators could be anyone from a man cosplaying as Mulan disguised as a man to the stars of an all-girl Catholic high school production of Hamlet. I can do an awesome karaoke rendition of No Doubt’s “Just A Girl,” but arguably my performance would also be banned in Tennessee.
It’s also a definition that didn’t survive its first contact with the First Amendment. On June 2, US District Judge Thomas Parker—a man appointed by Donald Trump, by the way—ruled that the Tennessee law was an unconstitutional restriction on free speech. It’s easy to see why. Judge Parker brings up the example of an Elvis impersonator (this is Tennessee, after all), and notes that a man who dresses up as Elvis and makes indecent but not “obscene” gestures would be allowed to, but a woman who put on the very same show would be jailed.
People get to dress and look how they want to look in public. They can also sing and dance while dressing how they want. The constitutional principle here is neither new, confusing, nor controversial. Unfortunately, instead of just accepting the fundamental right to freedom of expression, a different set of bigots, this time in the Texas state legislature, seems bound and determined to find some other, ostensibly constitutional way to ban wearing a dress while sporting an Adam’s apple.
Texas legislators, most legal commentators, and really anybody with even a passing understanding of how the First Amendment works, could have anticipated that Tennessee’s ban would be struck down. Texas lawmakers hope to avoid Tennessee’s fate, and last week, the Texas House passed a sweeping so-called anti-obscenity bill, SB-12, aimed at accomplishing the same goal of banning drag shows, without the constitutional issues. To do this, Texas legislators took out the language of the bill that explicitly targeted drag performers or “cross-dressing.” That may seem counterintuitive, to attack drag performers by taking them out of the bill, but, as I’ve explained, prohibiting drag outright flies right into the face of the First Amendment.
Instead, Texas opted for an entirely different form of unconstitutional overreach. The bill purports to ban any “sexually oriented” performances that appeal to a “prurient interest in sex” where minors might be present. Then, it defines sexually oriented as “sexual gesticulations using accessories or prosthetics that exaggerate male or female characteristics.” The bill fines business owners $10,000 if they put on such a show, and it would charge performers with a class A misdemeanor, which is punishable by a $4,000 fine and up to a year in jail.
Congratulations, Texas lawmakers. You just banned… the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders. Think about it: At halftime of the next football game—an event where minors might be present—a troupe of women will perform a show that appeals to a prurient interest in sex by using sexual gesticulations. Some of them will certainly (certainly) be sporting “accessories or prosthetics” that exaggerate their characteristically female profiles.
We shouldn’t even have to wait for a court to strike down this mess. We should only have to wait until Cowboys owner Jerry Jones learns that he is to be fined $10,000 every time his team scores a touchdown and this sideline entertainment will be hauled off to jail. At that point, I’m guessing he’ll call up Texas Governor Greg Abbott and order him not to sign this bill into law.
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In case it wasn’t obvious, these anti-drag bills are stupid as a matter of law. Yes, they’re bigoted and puritanical and dangerous, and a crude attempt to engage in queer-bashing under the guise of legislation. But they’re also fundamentally really dumb; they fail at the most basic technical level as laws that people can understand, abide by, and enforce.
These bigoted legislatures can’t do what they want to do because what they want to do is facially unconstitutional. Trying to write a law that somehow tricks people into violating the First Amendment all but ensures the writing of a bad law.
As I learned from talking to my kids in the car, you can’t ban “drag queens” without limiting the freedom not only of drag queens but also of everybody else. Because there’s nothing about drag that’s fundamentally different from putting on the clothes that happen to be in your closet and then going out in public, other than how certain tight-ass people react to it. On the ride home, my wife ended up Googling pictures of Rupaul to show our kids, and the older one said, “Oh, she looks good. Daddy, could you look like that if you wanted to?” Yes, son. With a gym membership and a little more self-confidence, yes, I could. Because I live in a free goddamn country.
Elie MystalTwitterElie Mystal is The Nation’s justice correspondent and the host of its legal podcast, Contempt of Court. He is also an Alfred Knobler Fellow at the Type Media Center. His first book is the New York Times bestseller Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution, published by The New Press. Elie can be followed @ElieNYC.

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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is currently the most common solution proposed for reducing CO2 emissions. But surely there must be an alternative to just burying the greenhouse gas.
California-based Carbon Sciences thinks the answer to our CO2 problem is calcium carbonate—specifically, the company has invented a process to convert CO2 into calcium carbonate that can be used in everything from cosmetics to ceramics.
The transformation process works by using waste mineral products from mining operations— also known as tailings—as a feedstock to transform CO2 into mineral carbonates. The particles are processed into fine mineral particulates to maximize available surface area for reacting with CO2.
The process can use CO2 that has already been buried by CCS as a “seed” for transformation. And getting the CO2 out of the ground may actually be the safest thing we can do. While CCS is a useful way to take greenhouse gases out of the air, it has notable flaws. According to Carbon Sciences CEO Derek McLeish, an earthquake could release buried CO2 in a matter of seconds.
“There’s an infinite timeline when you bury CO2,” said McLeish. “Transforming CO2 into a high value product is much more like recycling.” Additionally, the commercial value of the product offsets the cost of traditional CCS.
Carbon Sciences plans to have a mini pilot plant ready in 24 to 36 months. And the company wants to move quickly from there. “We’ll be developing relationships and business opportunities the second we get through the mini pilot plant phase,” said McLeish.
If Carbon Sciences is successful, maybe we’ll be casually toting around CO2-derived products in our bags instead of hoping that a major quake doesn’t blow the stuff out of the ground.
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MOSCOW, Idaho – Fox News contributor and former Washington, D.C., detective Ted Williams believes the Nov. 13 murders of four University of Idaho students are “more personal” than a possible “Peeping Tom” scenario.
Police in Idaho are investigating all possibilities of what drove the killer(s) to fatally stab four young men—Ethan Chapin, Jana Karnodle, Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen—as they have yet to announce a suspect.
“There’s been a lot of speculation. There’s been some information released about peeping toms. … Those are all … things that I think law enforcement has dismissed,” Williams told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. “It’s more personal.”
He added that the suspect or suspects “took a knife” and stabbed the four, which the former detective believes makes it “highly unlikely” that investigators are “looking for a peeping tom.”
University of Idaho student killed: Timeline of events
Officers were seen searching a steep hill behind the home for evidence over the weekend, as they temporarily expanded the crime scene. The second floor of the house has a door that meets the ground because the structure was built into the back hill.
Idaho code killer: FBI profiler reveals possible characteristics of suspect
A road and apartment buildings are located at the top of the hill, prompting some locals and burial sleuths to speculate about the possibility of a stranger hiding in the house.
A law enforcement source told Fox News on Sunday that authorities are investigating the possibility of Tom peeping. Idaho State Police Communications Director Aaron Snell would only say that investigators are exploring all theories.
Idaho college murders: Experts ‘stunned’ by mistakes in investigation
Williams said officers are working methodically to sort through evidence and test blood for DNA that may not belong to one of the four victims.
“It’s still a very active crime scene. If you notice, some vehicles are still parked here. The scene is frozen in time a little bit. That’s what law enforcement is doing: they’re deep scrubbing that house,” he said. “The medical examiner…reported that there was a large amount of blood in the house, and they were processing it[ing] That blood and trying to determine if they can find a DNA match.”
Idaho police are investigating whether the killer was hiding in the woods before the College Code massacre
Examining that evidence and conducting toxicology reports can take weeks to months. Authorities are also collecting evidence that could be useful in future trials if a suspect is caught and faces charges.
“They know the community is hurting. They know the community wants to arrest someone yesterday, but law enforcement has to take their time and go above and beyond to not only execute and arrest, but prosecute the person who committed this crime. to do,” Williams said.
According to the former detective, the more time passes, the more difficult it may become to catch the killer.
The Moscow Police Department first responded to the scene on November 13. Authorities later said the 911 caller thought one of the victims had passed out and wouldn’t wake up.
Community on Edge among new reports of harassment of women in Moscow, Idaho; Police termed the claim as ‘baseless’
Authorities described the incident as an “isolated, targeted attack” but did not say why the killings were isolated and targeted.
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On November 17, the Latah County Coroner announced that the four students killed were all stabbed to death, possibly while they were asleep. Some of the victims had defensive wounds and each had multiple stab wounds, according to authorities.
Officials said Wednesday that victim Kaylee Goncalves made comments about a “stalker.” Investigators “looked extensively” at those reports and “pursued hundreds of pieces of information” related to the stalker tip. As of Wednesday, they were unable to confirm the information or identify a stalker.
Fox News’ Haley Chi-Sing and Stephanie Pagones contributed to this report.


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FORMER children's TV presenter Mary Kingston has no intention of returning to our screens until her own youngsters are grown up.
The once pink-haired Cork woman, best known for her shows Scratch Saturday and the Disney Club, left RTE following the birth of her daughter five years ago.
And she has now revealed that she wanted to focus on her own children rather than entertain the country's.
"I had Fionn, who's now seven, and kept going with the presenting, but when I had Siofra five years ago I just decided to give it a rest -- I couldn't give 110pc anymore," she said.
"I want to pick them up from school, to talk to them about their day."
Despite her long-standing career in entertaining a generation of Irish children, Mary (42) laughs that her own two are completely indifferent to it.
"They haven't even seen any of it. I've done reports on daytime telly on RTE and they've seen them but they take it with a pinch of salt."
She added: "I have such great memories from my time as a kids' presenter. I made so much great friends, and got to do some amazing things. I got to film warthogs from a hot-air balloon in Kenya, lemurs in Madagascar, penguins in the Galapagos Islands, but I wouldn't go back. I simply don't want to work full time anymore, the kids are my priority."
The Dalkey resident is currently doing reports for the Derek Mooney show, and says that she is enjoying her new experiences working for radio.

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Sarasota, Florida- Opening night for the 16th Annual Sarasota Film Festival was a sell out at the Van Wezel Performing Art Hall Friday night. The film festival has attracted more than 100 filmmakers and stars, and more movies this year than ever before.
The Red Carpet was rolled out and the paparazzi captured the who's who of this year's Sarasota Film Festival. The stars at opening night were the unsung heroes of the Last Days in Vietnam.
"We are military guys. We do our jobs; we don't want recognition," said retired Captain Paul Jacobs.
It's their story, Emmy winning producer and director Rory Kennedy tells in her documentary called "Last Days in Vietnam"- Americans who go against US policy and evacuate South Vietnamese.
"Our film focuses on celebrating these American heroes whose story was never told," explained Rory Kennedy.
Sarasota Film Festival opens with Rory Kennedy's "Last Days in Vietnam". Over 10 days, the festival will show 252 films WTSP 10 News
"We went from men of war, to humanitarians in six hours- handling women, pregnant women, babies whatever," recalls Jacobs.
Jacobs served as the Commanding officer of the USS Kirk during the evacuation from Saigon. Jacobs says his ship had room for one helicopter to land at a time, and once it emptied he made room for more.
"Five more were stacked up there," said Jacobs. "I said 'push them over the side',"...meaning overboard, into the water.
Corporal Mike Sweeney helped with evacuations from the embassy. "We are soldiers, and also human beings who have a heart."
"I'm a great fan of history and what it teaches," says Rory Kennedy. She appears at the Sarasota Film Festival with her mother Ethel Kennedy her daughter Bridgett and Gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist.
"I love documentary films. I learn something new; every project has taken me on a different journey."
What do mover goers think of Kennedy's Film? Kathleen Knapp says the movie shows the difficulty and heartache suffered at the time.
One movie down and 251 more to go- from documentaries, to short films and features, and even kid-friendly ones too! There are 10 days to see them all. Most movies are showing at the Regal Cinemas Hollywood 20 in Downtown Sarasota.


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Ten years ago the annual cost of the federal food stamp program was about $250 million. Today, through a series of changes that almost no one noticed as they occurred, it has grown more than twentyfold to an annual cost of more than $5.6 million.
Because the increasingly controversial coupon program is up for renewal this year in Congress and because many of its implications still are poorly understood, the Congressional Budget Office issued a report on it yesterday.
The report's main point is that food stamps need to be thought of, not as a food program, but as a general welfare program. The CBO's researchers point out that food stamps are the purest welfare program the government has, the only one in which the only test is that recipients be below certain income levels.
For other kinds of government benefits it is not enough to be "poor." For Social Security a person must be retired or disabled or a surviving parent of young children; for Medicare a person must be disabled or over 64; and the payments we call welfare go only to the aged, blind and disabled or to mothers of young children whose husbands have left home (or, in some states, whose husbands are unemployed)
Food stamps are "the only national program providing assistance to all needy families," CBO Director Alice M. Rivlin notes in a preface to the report, and the report itself adds that food stamps today are "essentially the only federal income assistance to aid working-poor households."
The stamps now go to more than 17 million people, or about 1 out of every 13 persons in the country.
The report, written by CBO staff member G. William Hoagland, makes these other points about the coupons:
The stamps increase the purchasing power of those who receive them, and only part of that increase - 57 per cent, on average - is used to purchase additional food. The other 43 per cent represents income "freed for nonfood purchases." This is true even though the stamps can only be exchanged in stores for food. The average receiving family simply does not increase its food purchases by the entire amount the stamps increase the family's purchasing power, so that after buying food it has more dollars left over than before.
The stamps also serve in the same way as an increase in the federal share of regular welfare payments would, to even out the level of welfare benefits nationwide by narrowing the benefit differences between high-paying and low-paying states.
The way the complicated stamp system works the lower a family's cash income, the more the family can increase its purchasing power through the use of stamps. Thus welfare families in low-paying states gain more from food stamps than those in states where welfare benefits are relatively high.
In September, 1975, for example, welfare benefits averaged $291 a month in the mid-Atlantic states, $127 in the southeastern - a $164 a month difference. But welfare families in the southeastern states gained an average $121 from food stamps, while those in the mid-Atlantic region gained $70.
Counting welfare payments and food stamps together, mid-Atlantic welfare families ended up with $361 a month, southeastern welfare families with $248; the stamps reduce the regional differential to $113.
The Census Bureau has never counted food stamps as income in measuring poverty in the United States. The CBO report says that if it did, as perhaps it logically should, the number of people found to be poor would be reduced by about 4 million, or nearly 30 per cent.
The CBO report also suggests the phenomenal growth of the stamp program in the last several years is unlikely to countinue.
Part of that growth was due to changes in the law, particularly in 1971. Part was also due to the rates at which food prices rose in the period 1973-75, rates unlikely to be repeated anytime soon; food stamp entitlements are pegged to food prices by law.
The high unemployment rate of the last several years has also increased the number of families elgible for stamps, and hopefully unemployment also will recede, the report says.
Congress considered a number of proposals last year for changing the food stamp law, some of which would have had a restrictive and some a liberalizing effect. But nothing was passed.
CBO Director Rivlin urged that Congress act cautiously as these proposals come up this year. Welfare reform is one of the major items on the incoming Carter administration's agenda, and Rivlin noted that decisions made on food stamps will also have "implications for . . . reform of other welfare programs."
Congressional sources say one possibility is that Congress might simply extend the food stamp program for another year this year, to allow more time for the stamp and other welfare programs to be considered together.

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The 10U softball Cougars are fired up for the 2022 season after posting a 6-4 record last fall. Head Coach Leah Turpin credited her girls, many of them Cougar rookies last season, for working hard, hustling and improving in all aspects of the game.
“This team features a good combination of second-year players and travel ball newcomers ready to learn and develop at a higher level,” Turpin said.
“Transitioning from ‘house’ leagues to travel ball poses challenges for any player, but our girls tackled those challenges head-on, showing no hesitation in trying new positions or facing faster pitchers,” Turpin said. “I'm proud of their dedication to becoming better ballplayers and of the team's overall effort, execution and energy.”
Looking ahead to the 2022 season, Turpin said she’s “confident our team is well-positioned for success.” The team opens the season April 20 at Bloomingdale (the team’s scheduled opener April 13 was postponed due to adverse weather).
Tournaments the 10U Cougars will compete in include the TNT Cornhole Summer Sizzler, July 15-17 in Carol Stream, IL.
“We've got an up-and-coming pitching rotation, speed on the bases, good gloves and hitters who can drive the ball,” Turpin said. “With our experienced core combining with new talent, we will be a force to be reckoned with in the 2022 spring season. Can't wait to get back on the fields!”


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