. I just got my 2nd dose 2 days ago and had a fever the very night of the shot. I’m worried that my fever after the first shot was from HIV and I am freaking out. I have an exam scheduled at my local student health center.The Air Force significantly narrowed the criteria allowing members found guilty of sexual assault to remain in the military, according to an internal guidance document published June 24.
“These revisions will significantly improve our ability to discharge those unworthy of calling themselves airmen and guardians,” Air Force Under Secretary Gina Ortiz Jones said in a statement.
Officials are no longer allowed to consider personal, family or financial circumstances, medical or mental health or even good character or service record when making their discharge decision, the service said in a statement.
Mental health factors and military service may be considered only when it comes to the characterization of the final discharge.
Under the new guidance, commanders are mandated to initiate discharge proceedings on members found guilty of sexual assault.
Service members facing the new default discharge for sexual assault must prove that “exception criteria” exist to receive consideration for a lesser consequence.
However, no exceptions will be granted in cases of sexual assault against a child. The previous policy allowed airmen to remain in service if the conduct was “not likely to recur,” a threshold service officials found too subjective.
In addition, members will be denied retention if they have had other substantiated allegations of sexual assault against them, assaulted a victim who was incapable of consenting, used violence during an assault or used their position or rank against a victim.
The Air Force consistently has the lowest sexual assault rates among the services, according to Defense Department data.
(Newser) – Paul Ryan unveiled a Republican budget plan today that would slash $5.1 trillion in federal spending over the coming decade and balance the government's books with wide-ranging cuts in programs like food stamps and government-paid health care for the poor and working class. About 40% of Ryan's projected savings would come from the repeal of ObamaCare, reports the Wall Street Journal. Ryan's budget claims balance by 2024, but relies on $74 billion in savings in that year from the macroeconomic effects of cutting deficits, which CBO says would have a long-term positive effect because it would free up savings and investment capital. Democrats are sure to seize on the maneuver as phony math; without these projections, however, Ryan's budget plan would fall almost $70 billion short of balance.
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10 years? Cut the military that's how we got a balenced budget and surplus in 1996. The pentagon has spent 4 trillion on a plane that doesn't work. I'm sure there are plenty of other programs just like that.
I believe in a balanced budget, but not doing it on the backs of the poor. There should be a balanced budget amendment in the Constitution now...not in 10 years. We need to stop starting wars and take care of our own. Unless our national security is threatened we should mind our own business.
Ryan has had only one job in the federal goverment, and he is worth over 3 million dollars and owes nothing. Question is are we paying him too much or is he getting kickbacks from the milatary contractors. I think he is a clone of George Ryan ex governor of Illinois and ex con.A Station Marblehead rescue boatcrew launched aboard a 33-foot Special Purpose Craft-Law Enforcement boat and arrived at the scene, a half mile west of Cedar Point, at 4:27 p.m.
Once there, they found the man sitting atop his capsized sailboat, wearing a lifejacket.
The SPC-LE crew took the man aboard and transported him to the Cedar Point Fuel Dock, where they transferred him awaiting EMS from the Sandusky Fire Department. He was reportedly showing signs of hypothermia, according to the SPC-LE crew, and was taken to Firelands Regional Medical Center in Sandusky.
The sailboat was salvaged by a commercial company and towed to a nearby dock, where it was righted and safely moored.
The Coast Guard urges boaters to always wear lifejackets while underway. It is much more difficult to locate, access, or don a lifejacket at the moment an accident occurs.
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When Very Best Friend came out for a visit the other day, she brought a catalog with her and announced, “Well here it is – the answer to all our problems!” All I could think was that she’d brought me a catalog of rich, single men.
Alas, she had not. Instead my eyes glanced down to see “As We Change” a catalog that claimed, “Anti-aging made easy!” As I flipped through this catalog, it was apparent their marketing department was targeting the Fifty Plus Woman who still had bucks to spend and a penchant for looking 39 forever.
Not me. I’ve earned every one of my wrinkles and I’m starting to get attached to my extra 12 pounds of belly fat.
I do feel it my civic duty, however, to share some of the catalog offerings with you women who are still trying to age gracefully. Let’s jump right in, shall we?
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