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As winter arrives, airports dust off their deicing equipment and ready for another season of cold, snow, and ice. While a car may be safely operated partially covered in ice or snow, aircraft must be completely free of contamination to assure a safe flight. Deicing can sometimes lead to flight delays, but the alternative is far worse. We spoke with Andrew Poure, a former aircraft deicer, to learn more about what goes in to deicing a plane and how the orange or green liquid being sprayed on the plane actually works.

Using the SAVE data, the state found 186 noncitizens in the state were registered to vote, while 25 actually cast illegal ballots.

Alabama is one of 26 states that agreed to use the SAVE program. The system allows states to make bulk inquiries about citizenship, whereas previously a jurisdiction would have to analyze voter records individually. //

The Trump administration made the SAVE system available to state election officials as part of a larger executive order on election integrity.

Under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, and the Help America Vote Act of 2002, states are required to regularly update and maintain voter registration rolls to ensure ineligible voters, or voters who have left a jurisdiction, are no longer improperly registered.

On another front, the Justice Department has sued 23 states to obtain voter registration data to ensure compliance with the two federal laws. The agency announced the two most recent lawsuits against Arizona and Connecticut on Tuesday.

Every Alabama resident identified through the SAVE database was notified and allowed to respond by submitting documentation proving U.S. citizenship, according to the Alabama Secretary of State’s office.

This water butt tap is durable and smooth. Ideal for water cisterns, composting, home brew and wine making kits. It is also good for many home and garden applications.

• HDPE body & polypropylene spigot
• Gasket provides leak-proof seal (17351 only)
• Designed to fit through 1" hole in pail or drum sidewall
• High flow rate
• Handle turns independently of nozzle
• Smooth turning
• Item Number: 17351 -- $3
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Bebu sa Ware
"the last full Moon on Feb. 29 was in 1972, and the next will be in 2048"
Just in case you were wondering. ;)

If you trust some gratuitous browser AI that kicks off with:

People also ask "Has there ever been a full moon on February 29th?"
What people ? Not normal people surely ? El Rego commentards excepted of course perhaps.

Jonathan Richards 1
Re: "the last full Moon on Feb. 29 was in 1972, and the next will be in 2048"
See, this is the quality investigative citizen journalism that I come here for.

--> Friday pint behind the bar

Philo T Farnsworth
Re: "the last full Moon on Feb. 29 was in 1972, and the next will be in 2048"
I'm hoping to make it to 2048 since I'll be a power of 10 in a power of 2.

Yes, I'm an old geezer.

OPEN SOURCE POLICY SUMMIT 2026 SUSE recommends that companies should run on FOSS – but an accidental revelation from a company exec, live on stage, reveals it doesn't practice what it preaches. It's not alone.

For this vulture, the single most amusing revelation from any of the industry speakers at this year's Open Source Policy Summit was from SUSE's Dominic Laurie, who moderated the final panel discussion of the day, "Sovereignty and Procurement."

The panel ended a few minutes before the scheduled time, and he closed it with a surprising comment:

We'll give you three minutes back, as they say on Teams meetings!

The other panelists looked surprised, and one, Polish MEP Michał Kobosko, immediately picked up on it:

That was a bit of a giveaway!

It most certainly was. SUSE is one of the Policy Summit's Gold-level sponsors, alongside Red Hat. The tagline for the event is "Digital Sovereignty Runs on Open Source" – but apparently SUSE does not run entirely on open source. This leading European vendor of enterprise FOSS runs on Microsoft, or at least it uses Redmond's collaboration services.

• Item Number: 17352
• Nut for 17351 only

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One destination passengers were definitely not hoping to reach

Bork!Bork!Bork! As if to demonstrate that whatever one operating system can do, Windows can do it better, bluer, and upside down, we present a bus stopping only at bork.

Today's example of signage woes - thanks to reader Spike - comes from a Nottingham bus, headed for Recovery (though hopefully the right way up).

According to an eagle-eyed Register reader, the screen normally shows the next few stops, but now it is only displaying a baleful blue screen and a warning that Windows is very unhappy about something.

"Your PC/Device needs to be repaired" is not the message a bus's passengers expect to see.