Hottest September day in 4 years is due Wednesday! Depending on where you live

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Do you know what Fairy Rings are in the D.C. area? Are they Trump’s Fairy Halo? @washingtonpost

Do you know what fairy rings are? They’re sprouting in the D.C. area. https://t.co/1Kr880uEM8

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#Perth Airport – AFP asked everyone, incl. bar + cafe, form line to get sniffed by dogs

June Foray, versatile voice behind Rocky the Squirrel and countless others, dies at 99

In a long career, she provided voices for hundreds of TV shows, movies and commercials.

June Foray, a voice actress who portrayed croaky grandmothers, purring cats and the world’s most famous flying rodent — Rocket J. Squirrel, from “The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show” — in hundreds of animated movies, television series and commercials, died July 26 at a Los Angeles hospital. She was 99.

Her niece, Robin Thaler, said the cause was cardiac arrest.

Few actors — or everyday, ­performance-averse human beings, for that matter — maintained as much control over their voice as Ms. Foray, who received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and an honorary Emmy Award three years later.

She portrayed elderly women even as a child, going on the radio at 12 with the help of an acting teacher. In 2014, as a very senior citizen, she played the Looney Tunes role of Granny, owner of Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird, with the same good-
natured screeches and yawlps she used for the character a half- century earlier.

Ms. Foray sometimes drew comparisons to the actor Lon Chaney, known as the silent film era’s “man of a thousand faces” because of his ability to inhabit many roles. She was also placed in a virtuosic league of her Looney Tunes colleague Mel Blanc, who gave voice to Bugs Bunny — whom Ms. Foray pursued as the sinister Witch Hazel — and Daffy Duck and a host of other characters..

Source: June Foray, versatile voice behind Rocky the Squirrel and countless others, dies at 99 – The Washington Post

IUD: Best Birth Control. 1st Wife RIP, had this 23yrs NO Problems – But No One is Using it: Report Time Social

Just 9% of American women of childbearing age have an IUD and ONLY 3% AUSTRALIAN—compared with 23% of French women and 41% of women in China.

Up against bad PR and a lack of awareness, reproductive health groups are leading the charge to make the IUD a first line of defense against unplanned pregnancy. It won’t be easy.

Most women have been there: sitting in their gynecologist’s office, having yet another unsatisfying conversation about yet another unsatisfying form of birth control, wanting to try something new.

The IUD is a very small T-shaped rod inserted by a doctor into the uterus, where it emits either the hormone progestin or copper, both of which are hostile to sperm.­ There are three FDA-approved IUDs available in the U.S.—Mirena and Skyla, which are hormonal, and ParaGard, which is wrapped in copper coils—and they are all extremely effective, with a failure rate of less than one pregnancy per 100 women—compared with 9 per 100 women on the Pill.

So why the slow rate of adoption in the U.S.? It’s largely due to the fact that the IUD is still the subject of widespread misconceptions. The device is plagued by a troubled history dating back to the ’70s, when an earlier version of the device called the Dalkon Shield was yanked from the market after being linked to infertility and infections. Current versions are smaller and far safer, with almost none of the risks, but the stigma is hard to erase—both among women and also among the physicians who prescribe birth control.

“IUDs help women work on other parts of their life before they’re ready to have kids,” says Louise Cohen, vice president of Public Health Solutions. “We want to increase the degree to which women learn about them—whether through a physician or social media—and we will have them readily available when they want them.”

PLEASE READ MORE: The IUD: The Best Form of Birth Control is the One No One is Using

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Reality Winner: Accused leaker called Trump an ‘orange fascist’ on Twitter

The federal contractor accused of leaking classified information to an online news outlet regarding a 2016 Russian military intelligence cyberattack complained about the Trump administration and posted about leaks on what appears to be her public Twitter account.

Reality Leigh Winner, 25, was employed as a contractor with Pluribus International Corp., a government facility in Georgia from around February 13, according to an affidavit supporting her arrest. Her Twitter activity dropped significantly after that date.

The Justice Department announced charges Monday against Winner. She is accused of leaking classified information, used as the basis for an article The Intercept published Monday, detailing a classified National Security Agency memo.

Twitter account under Sara Winners

Winner posted on Twitter as Sara Winners but didn’t seem too concerned with concealing her identity. Her profile picture is a photo of herself, and she posted a selfie in February.

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One Nation bill to cut ties with Vatican over its refusal to comply into sex abuse. Why not?

Australia should withdraw its diplomatic recognition of the Vatican over its refusal to comply with the royal commission into child sex abuse, a One Nation senator believes.

Source: One Nation bill to cut ties with Vatican | Perth Now