Happy Valentine's Day, 110 Million People In America Have Sexually Transmitted Illnesses

Two new studies released today paint a pretty grim picture of the sexual health of the country. Sexually transmitted illnesses (STIs) will unfortunately be a popular gift tonight.

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Alright, two new sexual health studies have been released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), analyzing data from 2008.

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According to the studies, there are 110,197,000 cases of STIs in total in the United States right now.

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People between the ages of 15 and 24 make up about 20% of that 110 million.

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Coconut Oil & Ketosis and Weight Loss

Obesity is a serious problem in the United States, and carrying around extra weight can put you at a higher risk for many conditions, such as heart disease and diabetes. Thus, beginning a weight loss plan can have a very positive impact on your life. But many weight loss plans, such as ketogenic plans, may involve radically different foods and lifestyle considerations than those to which you are accustomed. To be safe and successful on such plans, make sure you understand them first. Consult your doctor prior to starting any weight loss plan.

WNG652

WNG652

City of license	El Paso, Texas
Broadcast area	El Paso metropolitan area
Branding	Radio del Tiempo de NOAA
Slogan	La Voz del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional
Frequency	162.550 MHz
Format	Weather/Civil Emergency(Spanish)
Power	100 Watts
Class	C
Owner	NOAA/National Weather Service
Website	www.srh.noaa.gov/epz

WNG652 is a NOAA Weather Radio (Radio del Tiempo de NOAA in Spanish) station that serves the El Paso metropolitan area and surrounding cities. It is programmed from the National Weather Service forecast office in El Paso, Texas with its transmitter located in El Paso. It broadcasts weather and hazard information in Spanish for El Paso & Hudspeth counties in Texas and Doña Ana & Otero Counties in New Mexico. It is one of few NOAA Weather Radio stations across the United States to broadcast in a Spanish language.

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Active radar homing

Active radar homing is a missile guidance method in which a guided missile contains a radar transceiver and the electronics necessary for it to find and track its target autonomously. NATO brevity code for an active radar homing missile launch is Fox Three.

Advantages

There are two major advantages to active radar homing:

• Because the missile is tracking the target, and the missile is typically going to be much closer to the target than the launching platform during the terminal phase, the tracking can be much more accurate and also have better resistance to ECM. Active radar homing missiles have some of the best kill probabilities, along with missiles employing track-via-missile guidance.


• Because the missile is totally autonomous during the terminal phase, the launch platform does not need to have its radar enabled at all during this phase, and in the case of a mobile launching platform like an aircraft, can actually exit the scene or undertake other actions while the missile homes in on its target. This is often referred to as fire-and-forget capability and is a great advantage that modern air-to-air missiles have over their predecessors.

Disadvantages

There are three major disadvantages to active radar homing:

• Since the missile has to contain an entire radar transceiver and electronics, it was until recently difficult to fit all of this into a missile without unacceptably increasing its size and weight. Even with today's miniaturisation making this possible, it is quite expensive to make these missiles since the sophisticated electronics within the missile are inevitably destroyed upon impact.


• There is very little chance that targets with capable modern radar warning receiver would be unaware that an incoming missile is approaching them. This gives them sufficient time to take evasive action and deploy countermeasures. However, given the accuracy of this homing method, unless the target is especially maneuverable or the missile is not, there may not be much they can do to avoid being intercepted.


• ARH-type missiles lose their effectiveness the closer the target is. Therefore, these types of missiles with this mounted equipment are only effective in long range confrontations.

Passive radiation homing

Many missiles employing this type of guidance have an extra trick up their sleeves; If the target does attempt to use noise jamming, they can in effect turn into an anti-radiation missile and home in on the target's radiation passively. This makes such missiles practically immune to noise jamming, in addition to removing the second disadvantage. Since they already have the radar receiver on board, this should not be a difficult feature to add (at least, it requires extra processing logic but little extra hardware).

Operation

Active radar homing is rarely employed as the only guidance method of a missile. It is most often used during the terminal phase of the engagement, mainly because since the radar transceiver has to be small enough to fit inside a missile and has to be powered from batteries, therefore having a relatively low ERP, its range is limited.^[1] To overcome this, most such missiles use a combination of command guidance with an inertial navigation system (INS) in order to fly from the launch point until the target is close enough to be detected and tracked by the missile. The missile therefore requires guidance updates via a datalink from the launching platform up until this point, in case the target is maneuvering, otherwise the missile may get to the projected interception point and find that the target is not there. Sometimes the launching platform (especially if it is an aircraft) may be in danger while continuing to guide the missile in this way until it 'goes active'; In this case it may turn around and leave it to luck that the target ends up in the projected "acquisition basket" when the missile goes active. It is possible for a system other than the launching platform to provide guidance to the missile before it switches its radar on; This may be other, similar fighter aircraft or perhaps an AWACS.

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Dixie Inn, Louisiana

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Dixie Inn is a village in Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 352 at the 2000 census. It is located off Interstate 20 at the old Shreveport Road some twenty-six miles east of Shreveport. Minden, the seat of Webster Parish, is located some two miles to the east. Dixie Inn is part of the Minden Micropolitan Statistical Area.

 

Most of the original houses in Dixie Inn were built during World War II to serve munitions workers at the former Louisiana Army Ammunition Plantlocated off U.S. Highway 80 to the east.

 

Dixie Inn was incorporated in 1956. The Clyde A. Stanley (1910-1959), was the first mayor of the village, having defeated James William "Tinker" Volentine (1915–1982), 69-54 votes. All but seven of the registered voters participated in the election

 

Historic Antioch Baptist Church

 

The Antioch Baptist Church in Dixie Inn was first established in September 1858 as the Gum Spring Church near the site of the much later Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant. The church moved eastward to the existing site effective February 25, 1872. The church observed a centennialceremony on that day in 1972. In 1882, fire destroyed the building and all records. The structure was rebuilt and new rooms were added over the years. In 1943, the church called J.R. Hearron as its first full-time pastor.^[2]

 

A new and larger facility was built in 1957 during the tenure of pastor Millard R. Perkins. Soon the educational building was razed by fire and had to be rebuilt. On October 7, 1959, the church held its first service in the current sanctuary and adjoining rooms. Since Hearron, the pastors have included Cecil Basham, J. Guy Allen, Perkins, T.E. Windsor, Jack Edwin Byrd, Sr., Charles W. Wallace, and Malcolm Self. Wayne Reeves was called from Antioch as a pastor in Many.

 

Demographics

 

As of the census^[5] of 2000, there were 352 people, 146 households, and 88 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,163.9 inhabitants per square mile (453.0/km²). There were 189 housing units at an average density of 624.9 per square mile (243.2/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 81.25% White, 16.76% African American, 1.14% Native American, 0.28% from other races, and 0.57% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.28% of the population.

 

There were 146 households out of which 32.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 32.2% were married couples living together, 19.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.7% were non-families. 32.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 13.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.41 and the average family size was 3.03.

 

In the village the population was spread out with 28.7% under the age of 18, 9.7% from 18 to 24, 31.8% from 25 to 44, 18.2% from 45 to 64, and 11.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females there were 90.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.7 males.

 

The median income for a household in the village was $21,500, and the median income for a family was $19,750. Males had a median income of $28,000 versus $20,500 for females. The per capita income for the village was $12,303. About 27.2% of families and 29.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 40.5% of those under age 18 and 13.3% of those age 65 or over.

 

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