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Coulomb's law
the principle that the force between two point charges acts in the direction of the line between them and is directly proportional to the product of their electric charges divided by the square of the distance between them.
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British Dictionary definitions for Coulomb's law
the principle that the force of attraction or repulsion between two point electric charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. A similar law holds for particles with mass
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Scientific definitions for Coulomb's law
A law stating that the strength of the force exerted by one point charge on another depends on the strength of the charges and on the distance between them. Since Coulomb's law is an inverse square law, higher charges entail stronger force, while greater distances entail weaker force. The force is understood as arising from the electric field that surrounds the charges. The force is repulsive if the charges have the same sign, and attractive if they have opposite sign.
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Jodi Duval,shares her favorite lessons for living happier, balanced, and more resilient lives through the wonders of herbal medicine. Jodi talks about health-boosting, stress resilience and performance-optimizing herbs. She shares her knowledge of compounding herbs for tackling anxiety and sleep issues.
Jody Duval is a functional naturopath with a bachelor's degree in health science. She's the principal naturopath at Revital Health, the CEO of Health Optimization Practice Australia. As a Functional Naturopath, Jodi combines traditional forms of medicine with cutting edge scientific research to treat the underlying causes of disease. She loves digging deep into peoples' health and she uses a large range of functional and in-clinic testing to learn about my patients' histories and genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors. Jodi and her team then work together to create a treatment plan to help them live with more clarity, energy and purpose; and maximise their long-term health.
Jodi's health obsession began in 2008 when she had a personal wake-up call that inspired her to help other people experience the same shift. So in 2012, after the birth of her son, Jodi opened Revital Health.
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It is missed by most Americans, I think, but British historians and the country's royal horsey set consistently demonstrate their pride in the treachery, cruelty and ghoulishness of the history of England and the British Empire. British history has got some ghouls, for certain, so while they were terrible people, it can be kind of entertaining in a spooky or macabre way, like visiting the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland, to study some of them closely. Oliver Cromwell is such a character and he rolled out the red carpet for the British Empire's Zionist enterprise, so he's pretty important.
Zionism is much more the product of European geopolitics than the legitimate child of European Jewry, but anyone who challenges the official narrative faces the charge of antisemitism from the camp of Zionism and its powerful supporters. The British Empire sponsored the political project of Zionism from the early 1800s, if no earlier. In her book Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour (1956), Barbara Tuchman lays out the interplay between imperial and religious considerations within British Zionism from the time of Cromwell and the Puritans to that of Lord Balfour.
Here is where I left off in a previous article: "The fanatical sect of English Puritans who settled in the American colonies were iconoclasts. However, since the Puritans' iconoclastic writings and actions were based on deceit, they marketed them to be seen as primarily theological, rather than political. Puritan iconoclasm of the 1640s was as notoriously slippery and insidious in its own time as the iconoclasm that remains today. The famous Puritan Oliver Cromwell who claimed war victory for satan holds the key. But it remains impossible to explain the achievement of Oliver Cromwell in any simple political terms, whether of the unification of the UK, or of colonial expansion and imperial policy."
In the year of our Lord 1599 Oliver Cromwell was born into a family which was, for a time, one of the wealthiest and most influential in the area. Educated at Cambridge University, he became a minor East Anglian landowner. He ranked near the bottom of the landowning class. Until 1640 he played only a small role in local administration, and no significant role in national politics. It was the Civil Wars of the 1640s which lifted Cromwell from obscurity to power. He was elected Member of Parliament for Huntingdon in 1628, and gained a reputation as a "religious" nut job by promoting revolutionary reform.
In order to talk about America, we need to talk about England. The problem is that this part of history is glossed over in the United Kingdom. All of the incriminating stuff has been surpressed. In Britain, in their history education, they learn about the Romans, the Middle Ages, the Tudors — and then skip to the First and Second World Wars. That ignorance travels across the Atlantic to America. As I have been saying, Oliver Cromwell holds the key to much of what is going down in the U.S. today. Puritans were educated to believe that God was fighting on their side. But the politics of Olivier Cromwell and his disciples is informed by the Old Testament, not the New Testament. Protestant Judeophile tendencies, begun with Martin Luther in Germany in 1523, continued to take root in Anglican England; these tendencies registered a new peak with the emergence of the Puritans.
In 1290 in England, King Edward l issued the "Edict of Expulsion" which banished Jews from the kingdom. This was not overturned until 1657, over 350 years later by Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector. Cromwell's protectorate readmitted the Jews to England. Kind of a big deal. Also, a lot of people don't seem to realize Oliver Cromwell was financed by those Jews. The Jews were invited back to England by Cromwell when he needed money after the Civil War. While Cromwell's weird Puritan fetish for Biblical Israel may have had something to do with it, in inviting back the Jews, Cromwell was mainly motivated by his determination to move the Amsterdam Jewish merchants to London to bolster England in her trade war with Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands, whose Jewish community was famed for its wealth, commercial know-how, and business contacts.
There is so much shrouded in mystery that I am personally open to explainations out of my reach. Particularly, this one. Oliver Cromwell, back in the 17th century, became a traitor when he acted as a paid agent of Edomite Jews who co-conspired with him to usurp the throne of England out from under King Charles I. These so called "Jews" were of the same ilk banished from England by King Edward back in the late 13th century. They were not of the blood line of Jacob/Israel, but were in fact descendants of Esau/Edom, as described in Genesis chapter 28. Isn't that just fabulous? It explains the minority of "evil Jews" (versus the majority of good Jews, of course). There's been an "evil" minority in every social group throughout history.
There's a lot of gossip to weed through. But we need to talk about Oliver Cromwell. After all, he's the ghost of our Israel Lobby in America, the Neoconservatives, not to mention the Bolsheviks who were behind the 1917 coup in Russia. Cromwell was an absolute nightmare and his creepy legacy lives on today with his lunatic disciples and their radical plan for rebuilding English government. I think the Loyalists of the ghost of Oliver Cromwell somehow made it to 2020. It's a cult, one of ethnic cleansing. To get a better understanding of today's Neoconservatives in America, read about Oliver Cromwell's deal granting Jews special rights and privileges to have the money to wage total war to exterminate non-White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Christian cultures and identities. One must also consider Ireland. Oliver Cromwell engineered the ethnic cleansing of Ireland and the murder of hundreds of thousands of Irish civilians. The Siege of Drogheda took place in 1649, at the outset of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. Drogheda was held by the Irish Catholic Confederation and English Royalists when it was besieged by Parliamentarian forces under Oliver Cromwell on September 11.
From Oliver Cromwell to George W Bush, WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) leaders have described their enemies as an "axis of evil" who hate liberty and God, seek world domination, care nothing for morality, will do anything to win, and rely on a fifth column of traitors within. Lord Cromwell established an espionage precendent that led to its formation, after signing an Act of Parliament that authorised the opening of selected items of mail. "To discover and prevent many dangerous and wicked designs . . ." Cromwell ran a spy network that was the nearest thing a 16th-century regime could get to the Stasi, saw off his foes with trumped up charges of adultery and revelled in the torture of his enemies. Oliver Cromwell installed a suzerainty and a spy network, do I really need to say anymore? Cromwell made England the most powerful state of his time, but also the most disliked. Oliver Cromwell pioneered a boutique industry and Zionism became the political enterprise. His policy is a first sketch of the British Empire. The roots of British imperialism.
Oliver Cromwell certainly seems to have been a real ham so I bet he is dying to talk us. When the ghost of armor-clad Oliver Cromwell rises from billowing clouds of dry ice, hands held out, his hair a costume store fright wig, I have a list of topics for him. I keep a list. I do. I keep a list of historical items that are personal to me. Here are some of the things on that list:
- The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution including the mass murder of 50,000 Orthodox Christians by the Bolsheviks —the Soviet terror campaigns including the gulags
- The Holodomor famine in Ukraine
- The Dreyfus Affair
- The Cold War
- Ukraine's "Revolution of Dignity" and the war in Donbas
- The cultural genocide of Poland and Ukraine and British cultural Marxism in America
- Roman Polanski
- Bolshevism, Neoconservatism, and genocidal revolutionary theory
- The British Empire's Zionist enterprise
I have plenty of questions about the mark he left on the world when we hold a séance, never mind the ins and outs of channeling and communicating with spirits. In fact, the legacy of the ghost of Oliver Cromwell deserves a fairground attraction at Disneyland. Not only would it be fun for the kids and the kids at heart, it would be highly educational for everybody.
Russian President Vladimir Putin once claimed that Stalin was no different to England's Parliamentarian leader Oliver Cromwell. A comparison simply frightening in its accuracy.


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Records made from graphite provide the foundational pieces of multidisciplinary Illinois artist Allen Moore's second album, Lived a deviL, his first for the Monastral label. Moore's visual art centers around the use of graphite, whether in drawings, paintings, or sculptures and on his debut, Solar Church, he brought that medium to sound. Lived a deviL expands on this work, adding okra leaves, Fender Rhodes, synthesizers, and other samples, to offer a deep narrative about famous and lesser-known Black historical figures.
Sonically, Moore treads in unexplored zones. Scratched-out voices fight through the static on pieces like "Dysonic 119" and "Prescient Wobble," the haunted voices beaming through time into modern corridors. Backed with subterranean rhythms, these grounded tracks flourish inside Afrofuturist dub matrices. Moore's meticulous and powerful soundscapes snap into shape with hollow pulses on "Tragic Star/Knocking On the Sky," moving through abandoned streets like a wrecking ball picking up speed.
Drones trace the surfaces of burnt-out buildings on the hypnotic "Black Pastures," casting affecting vocal symbols into glass. The effect is mesmerizing with the drawn-out tones drawing the ear closer to the message, allowing it to implant in the deepest reaches of the brain. It's such a powerful piece as it ends with the echoing words, "There's something more."
"Venture" sits near the middle, acting as a barrier with synth notes shining like aqueous torches trying to push back the discordant static made from sliced and processed voices in the surrounding darkness. It's an eerie presentation, the sound of hope desperately hanging on to dwindling threads, determined to find peace in the chaos. Moore does an incredible job lacing each of these 13 pieces with equal parts of pain, determination, aspiration, and longing for something better to rise from the ashes. Lived a deviL is a potent statement from an artist with a distinctive voice.
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So this is probably my new favorite fast food restaurant. I only really ever eat fast food on road trips, but this place I imagine I would go to anytime. The reason behind that being it is so gluten free friendly!
There are so many options for individuals needing gluten free food here. The best part is…wait for it…all of their chicken nuggets are gluten free. You read that right. Gluten free breaded chicken nuggets at a restaurant. On top of that no gluten ever goes into their fryers, so all the sides are gluten free too. I know right, it is amazing. Honestly revolutionary for the gluten free diner.
They do also sell hamburgers, but oddly enough do not have gluten free buns. It seems pretty odd, since they are so gluten free friendly. But honestly I did not care. I can get a hamburger anywhere. And nowadays many places do offer gluten free buns. So I'll get a hamburger at those places when no gluten free chicken nuggets are available.
Obviously if you could not already guess, I ordered chicken nuggets with tater tots. Because yes, sometimes I eat like a child. And yes I do want to be a dietitian, but with the intuitive eating mindset I can eat whatever sounds good. Oh and along with that however much feels right to my body at the time. On that night chicken nuggets sounded fantastic.
I helped pick up our food from the counter and brought it back to the table. And someone said "Alexa how do you know which ones are yours" and I giddily responded "it doesn't matter, they are all gluten free!" I picked my meal from the tray and dug in. The chicken was so good. I was just so excited and happy. It was nice to have breaded chicken nuggets at a restaurant. Sometimes it is really the simplest things that bring the most joy. The tater tots, were tater tots. I could have made them at home, but I enjoyed them.
As far as I could tell nobody was as excited as I was about the meal, but they did enjoy their meals as well.
The night I visited Hat Creek I was with a group. In this group there were some kids. They were bugging for dirt milkshakes. They are like dirt pudding, with Oreos and gummy worms. I had seen that they had milkshakes and wanted one too. But obviously if my milkshake was spun on the same milkshake machine as the dirt milkshakes were it would not be gluten free.
So we went up to order milkshakes after we were all finished eating and winding down. And I asked. I asked if they spun all the milkshakes on the same machine, and said I have celiac and have to be gluten free. The lady at the register helping us said they have separate allergy specific machines. One for gluten free folk, one for peanut free and now I can't remember the third allergen…sorry. This put me at ease and I was able to order a chocolate milkshake spun on the gluten free milkshake machine. The scary thing is, I've never thought of this before this night. I've ordered milkshakes from so many other places that do milkshakes with add ins, and never once thought of it before this. Just goes to show that even after 6 1/2 years of being gluten free you still do not know everything.
So I get my milkshake, and honestly it was fantastic. I may get kicked out of Texas for saying this, but I would buy their milkshake over a Whataburger milkshake. Everything about it was just right. It was the right consistency and had just the right amount of chocolate flavor for me. So definitely don't skip dessert if you chose to check out Hat Creek.
The Hat Creek restaurant chain can currently be found in Austin, and Dallas. From the website I learned the brand is growing into other Texas cities as well.
The restaurant is very much family oriented. They have seating both indoors and outdoors. There is also a huge playscape for the kids to keep themselves entertained while you wait for your food. It definitely does not have such an Austin feel, but more of a Texas feel. The outdoor seating was all picnic benches. The cover overhead looked like the roof of a barn. It had a fun feel to it and it was definitely a great option for that evening with the kids.
Overall I was very pleased with Hat Creek. I thoroughly enjoyed my food and my company that night. And I definitely will be visiting Hat Creek again.


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The Department of Defense (DoD) must address data reporting deficiencies to better prevent hazing and to improve response training.
From fiscal year (FY) 2017-2020, DoD reported 183 to 299 complaints, but a 2018 survey found that those numbers are understated by "tens of thousands" of hazing incidents. Further, DoD's reports to Congress did not include information on informal hazing complaints and other materials.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO), in a new report, is recommending that DoD should gather more complete reporting for better hazing prevention and response training.
"Better data that accurately reports the number of hazing incidents, includes data on informal hazing complaints and complaints from National Guard personnel in Title 32 status, and complete data will better position DOD and Congress to make decisions on how to prevent and respond to hazing in the military," wrote GAO in its report.
The Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI) hasn't assessed servicemember harassment prevention and response training, and told GAO that they didn't proactively review the services' training plans because "DEOMI did not have the resources to execute this responsibility."
Further, DoD certifies Military Equal Opportunity (MEO) professionals by training them to respond to complaints and as of 2021, approximately 76 percent of MEO professional billets in in DoD were filled with MEO professionals. However, the Army National Guard and Army Reserve have only filled 226 of 408 billets (55 percent) and 120 of 266 billets (45 percent), respectively.
"Army and Army Reserve officials said that vacant billets are a result of commanders not providing soldiers, or submitting the documentation needed, to staff their MEO programs," wrote GAO. "Until commanders in the Army National Guard and the Army Reserve provide soldiers for MEO professional positions, and the Army National Guard and Army Reserve plan to address shortfalls in MEO professionals, these organizations will be limited in their abilities to support commanders and respond to harassment complaints."
GAO is making 12 recommendations to DoD, such as taking steps to improve data quality in its reports, assess, and reinforce servicemember training, and filling vacant MEO billets. DoD generally concurred with the recommendations. Additionally, GAO is making a matter for congressional consideration to require DoD continue reporting hazing data to Congress.


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We read an interesting article by Nell Edgington of Social Velocity about nonprofit power. It got us thinking. In this episode, Nancy and Sarah talk about ways that nonprofits give their power away and ways that we can take that power back to better achieve our missions.
Questions to reflect on before you listen:
What power do you have? How do you use it?
Discussion questions:
- What resonated with you about this conversation? What would you like to take back to your organization?
- What is your personal reaction to the word "power"? Describe your comfort level thinking about power and how you can step deeper into your power to benefit your mission.
- Where do you see signs of a scarcity mindset within your organization? How could reframe scarcity to abundance?
- We talk about giving power away to funders and policymakers. How could you be a partner to a funder or policymaker?
- How do you take care of yourself so you can keep tapping into your power?


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NEW YORK (CNS) — "Miracleman," a 1980s British comic currently being reissued by Marvel, was an attempt at deconstructing superhero cliches. Violent and depressing, the series tells a story that's often as dated and hackneyed as the Superman tropes it seeks to dismantle.
It's too graphic and sexualized for young readers, and too weird and overwrought for older ones.
The title character first appeared in the 1950s, as a British version of DC Comics' verbally self-transforming Shazam; Miracleman's own magic cue being "Kimota!" Three decades later, the property was revived by Alan Moore, an eccentric English writer who would go on to create the celebrated graphic novel "Watchmen." Moore's exalted reputation among fans may account for the deluxe reissue of this earlier work.
In Moore's version, Miracleman's alter ego, a reporter named Mike Moran, discovers that his entire origin story is a sham.
"Miracleman" was considered groundbreaking when it first came out, and its ballyhooed reissue — both in comic and deluxe hardback form — implies that a serious work of art has been unearthed. But the themes of "Miracleman" were, and are, nothing new.
The image of the government as a shadowy manipulator of people and events was widespread in the popular culture of the 1970s, a decade before the revamped "Miracleman" appeared. As for conflicted heroes, they go back at least to film noir — even, arguably, to the Bible.
Over the past 20 years, of course, the brooding comic-book antihero has become a staple, from a dour Batman to the confused and conflicted Superman of the recent film "Man of Steel."
A lot of the writing in "Miracleman" is downright awful: "The crackling darkness rolls toward them across the sky, like a great black bull, stupid with pain, its flanks pierced by silver darts." "They are titans, and we will never understand the alien inferno that blazes in the furnace of their souls."
Moore tries to show profundity by quoting Nietzsche on the superman. But bringing up the German philosopher — who was a gifted prose stylist if a questionable thinker — just serves to emphasize the weakness of Moore's own authorship.
At one point, the writing was taken over by Neil Gaiman, who went on to become a best-selling novelist. But — perhaps because he was considerably younger at the time — Gaiman doesn't fare much better than Moore.
Among other dubious content, the series includes a very explicit rendering of childbirth when Miracleman's son is born. It was a controversial scene when the comic first ran, and remains in poor taste today.
Despite its title and its new publisher, "Miracleman," alas, is no marvel.
The comic contains intense action sequences, nudity, strong language and adult imagery. The Catholic News Service classification is L — limited adult audience, comics whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. The Marvel Rating System rating is Parental Advisory — appropriate for older teens.
Judge reviews comic books and video games for Catholic News Service.
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What is trauma?
Trauma is not a disease or sign of personal weakness, rather the result of our biological impulse to defend ourselves in the face of danger. When we have been unable to successfully fend off danger, our brain gets stuck in this defensive stance ("survival mode"), causing us to interact with the world differently. The impact of trauma can lead us to feel out of control. Very often, we experience physical responses to danger even after the trauma has passed, including heart palpitations and shortness of breath, stomach aches and trembling. Unwanted, intrusive memories might disrupt daily activities. We might begin to feel detached from loved ones. Increased irritability, fear, difficulty sleeping and concentrating are all results of trauma. These changes are normal reactions to abnormal events. In the same way that trauma shifts our behavior, we can learn concrete techniques to reduce these symptoms and create long-term change.
What is PTSD?
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is a new name for a condition that's been around for a very long time. Whether you call it shell-shock, combat fatigue, or the modern name of PTSD, it describes the set of lasting impacts caused by the traumatic event, or events. People living with PTSD live in a constant state of "survival mode", in which their environment triggers the reflexive fear responses that helped keep them alive when initially in danger. Though these responses were useful at the time, they can often become debilitating when activated in everyday life or in situations without an actual threat of danger.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Are The Signs Of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
It isn't a guarantee that someone who experiences a traumatic event, or events, will develop PTSD. One of the most challenging things about identifying PTSD is that it very often takes a while to notice the symptoms; people become used to living in this state of "survival mode", and many feel ashamed to seek help after experiencing trauma and time has passed.
A diagnosis of PTSD requires the presence of some of the following categories of symptoms:
- Intrusive thoughts or memories about the trauma
- Attempts to avoid reminders of the trauma
- Changes in thoughts about the world and mood
- Changes in behavior
For a lot of people who have experienced chronic trauma in childhood or as an adult, the onset of these symptoms is not as clear and might feel like the status quo. It doesn't have to be this way forever.
What Makes Some People Develop PTSD and Others Not?
In many cases what causes one person to develop PTSD over another isn't well understood. However, there are some indicators that can show a reduced risk, including the presence of a strong support system and coping mechanisms that were already in use before the trauma took place. Oftentimes, people who are able to foster connections with others tend to be at a lower risk of developing PTSD.
How Is PTSD Treated?
In many cases, PTSD is treated with a combination of medication and psychotherapy. It is important to remember that every case of PTSD is as individual as the person experiencing it, and their treatment is likely to be just as personal. Medications that have been shown to be useful for treatment include a variety of antidepressants and Prazosin in cases where nightmares are prevalent. Trauma-focused talk therapy should be tailored to the individual; short-term work (between 6 and 12 weeks) can be effective, but it is common for therapy to last much longer based on the person's experience.


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Laguna Niguel, Lake Area
As the name implies this section of the City surrounds the large man-made lake within the Orange County maintained Laguna Niguel Regional Park. Starting clockwise and using Streets for rough borders this area lies around and within the 73 Toll Road, Camino Capistrano, Crown Valley Parkway, Niguel Road, Highland Drive, and Alicia Parkway to Pacific Park Drive. The newest school, Laguna Niguel Elementary is not far from the Lake.
Besides the Regional Park and Lake, the Lake Area has the Crown Valley Park, Pool and Sprayground, El Laso Basketball Courts, Laguna Niguel Skate & Soccer Park, La Paz Sports Park, as well as other Parks and Trails. The other City maintained Parks include, Clipper Cove Park, Lilly Shapell Park (located in a guard-gated tract but accessible), Niguel Heights Park, Rancho Niguel Park, Ridge View Park and Yosemite Park. Trails include the northern trailhead to Aliso Summit Trail, the separated northern section of Salt Creek Trail and Niguel Trail which can be used as a Horse Trail and leads via a tunnel under La Paz Road to the Regional Park.Not far from the landmark Lake is another landmark the Ziggurat Building. Originally built by an aerospace company in the 1960's the U.S. Government now owns it and officially it is called the Chet Holifield Building. Many homes in the Lake Area have views of the Lake or the Ziggurat but some of the best views in this section of town are the views of the snowcapped mountains in winter, Aliso Creek and Woods Canyons and some even have ocean views and the cooling breezes that go along with that.
Laguna Niguel, Salt Creek Area
Salt Creek Beach is probably World renowned since above the bluffs of the beach is the Ritz-Carlton Resort. The Salt Creek Area of Laguna Niguel is bound by Camino Del Avion, Crown Valley Parkway, Niguel Road, Marina Hills Drive, and includes tracts on both sides of Golden Lantern. Even though the Salt Creek Area of Laguna Niguel is still about a mile from Salt Creek Beach it gets its name from Niguel Road. How, you ask? When Laguna Niguel was first developed and was referred to as South Laguna Beach or Sea Country, Niguel Road was call Salt Creek Road. Since Salt Creek Road runs down the middle of this section of the City it makes perfect sense to call it the Salt Creek Area.
Aside from the 5 Star Resorts along Niguel Road's beach end or maybe because of them, you will find some of the priciest tracts, homes and estates in Laguna Niguel. Oddly enough you will also find the lowest priced condominiums as well. These condos are actually old apartment conversions that were built in the City's early years and may become much more expensive as the new City Hall, Library and Shopping Mall development area is completed.This section of the City is the largest of the four areas and that's probably why it has the most Parks and Trails. The southern portion of the Salt Creek Trail follows Salt Creek along to the Pacific Ocean and has many connecting fingers to explore throughout this section of town. The somewhat uninteresting Bear Brand Park Trail makes use of otherwise unusable land that developers were made to put aside as open space. Finally the Long View Trail that is hidden behind a gated tract of million dollar homes, but is publicly accessible and has views of the ocean all the way down the coast to Mexico. Parks include: Bear Brand, Beacon Hill, Chapparosa, Long View, Marina Hills Park, Niguel Road Park, Ocean Breeze, Park-Vista, Pooch Park, Redondo View Node, Reef View Node, and Seminole Park.
Laguna Niguel, Sea Country Area
Possibly the oldest area of Laguna Niguel, the Sea Country section of town gets its name from the original marketing to potential home buyers by the developers Cabot and Forbes. Laguna Niguel was actually recognized with its own Zip Code by the Postal Service as South Laguna Beach in the early 60's. The developers used the term Sea Country to help you visualize an area that was still surrounded by ranches and stretched all the way to the Pacific Ocean, hoping someday unincorporated Monarch Beach would be so inclined as to be a part of Laguna Niguel. When our City finally incorporated in the late 80's, Monarch Beach voted to be a part of Dana Point. No one refers to the City as South Laguna Beach anymore and the Sea Country name and signs quietly disappeared.
This section is bordered by Crown Valley Parkway to the north, Marina Hills Road to the South, Camino Capistrano East and Niguel Road on the West. Within these borders the first elementary school in town, Crown Valley School, was built and not long after Niguel Hills Middle School. Among the oldest tract of homes is the Pacesetter Homes where the first homeowners put down roots. The newest place of interest in Sea Country is the Metrolink Station that can be accessed from both Camino Capistrano and Forbes Road.
There are a few parks, trails and recreation areas in this section of town and harkening back to the early days a horse trail too. The horse trail begins near the south terminus of Hidden Hills Drive. This is a trailhead for the separated Southern section of the Salt Creek Trail that leads all the way down to Salt Creek Beach. Two other trailheads can be found in Sea Country, the northern entry to the Colinas Bluffs Trail and the southern entry to Oso Creek Trail.
When it comes to parks you would think that the oldest section of town might have the most or largest parks. There are only 5 public parks in Sea Country. Hidden Hills Park, Juaneno Park, La Plata Park, La Hermosa Park and Vista Plaza Park. Most of these have recreation available such as Soccer, Baseball or Softball, playground equipment along with picnic tables and restrooms. Vista Plaza Park has only views to offer since it was reclaimed after several houses were lost in a landslide many years ago.
Laguna Niguel, Summit Area
Everything west of the intersection of Crown Valley Parkway and Niguel Road encompasses the Summit Area of Laguna Niguel. As the name implies this has the highest points in the City. Views, views, views. Views of the ocean, views of the mountains and views of the valleys below can be found in most of the tracts located in this area. In fact a few homes can boast about having all three views.
While the hubbub of the Towne Center, City Hall, Library etc. all fall within this section of the City there is plenty of open wilderness to see as well as Parks and Trails. It is possible, with a little knowledge, to hike the trails located in the Summit Area down to the beach or up into the mountains of the Cleveland National Forest. There are two trails in the Summit Area and both are spectacular for views, wildlife and peacefulness. Aliso Summit Trail can take you to other trails up into the mountains. Basically this trail follows the ridge above Aliso Creek and Woods Canyons. It is also possible to connect, via Pacific Park Drive, to the other trail in the Summit Area the Laguna Ridge Trail and stick your toes in the sand at Aliso Creek Beach in Laguna Beach.The City Parks in this area are equally impressive with views too. Although Niguel Woods Park does not have the views it is still a special small neighborhood park with a soccer area and a playground. For the views however you must plan to have a picnic on the ridge overlooking Laguna Beach at Seaview Park at the end of Talavera Drive. Another spectacular ocean view park is the Orange County maintained Badlands Park just before the gates at the end of Isle Vista. A plaque explains the reason for the name, but bad it is not. A great place to stroll and look for whales.


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Do you own shares of Canadian cannabis company
Hexo (HEXO)? If so we've
got good news and bad news. (And when we say "we," what we really
mean is Canadian investment bank BMO Capital).
BMO's Tamy Chen put out a new
research report on Hexo, the upshot of which was that Hexo was
doing both better, and also worse, than anticipated -- depending on
which aspects of Hexo's business you focused on. The analyst
reiterates a Market Perform rating on ACB stock, with $9.00 price
target. (To watch Chen's track record, click here)
Good news first: Hexo's new one million square
foot greenhouse (Number 89) is ramping production "better than ...
expectations," and also better than greenhouses operated by other
licensed producers of marijuana (LPs). Chen explains that this is
because, in contrast to other LPs, which have generally created
their greenhouses by repurposing existing structures to the
cultivation of marijuana, Hexo's "89" facility is a "greenfield
build" -- a new structure, purpose-built for cultivating cannabis.
Its "climate control infrastructure" is therefore more efficient.
On top of that, Hexo has built up "multiyear" experience growing in
greenhouses, whereas some of its competitors are still learning the
On the surface, this seems like unadulterated
good news for Hexo. It's one reason Chen believes that Hexo will
hit its target of doubling its revenue between Q3 and Q4 2019, and
why the analyst has raised her Q4 sales estimate for the company to
C$26 million -- and her FY 2019 sales estimate to C$58 million.
Chen also raised her estimate for volume of marijuana to be sold in
Q4 2019, and 2019 as a whole -- to 5,640 kilograms and 12,342 kg,
But here's where we get to the bad news: While
Chen is raising her estimates for 2019 production, she is lowering
estimates for 2020 to C$266 million -- up from 2019 levels, but not
up as much as the analyst previously expected.
Why is
Simply put: Because Hexo's marijuana-cultivation
is going so well, there's a risk that it may not have the ability
to process this marijuana into higher value-added cannabis
derivatives (such as oils for vaping). Here, Chen echoes fears
voiced by other analysts recently, to the effect that Hexo's new
Belleville processing facility may experience delays in obtaining
the necessary licenses to begin production, and/or delays in
ramping production. And if such delays do occur at Belleville, at
the same time as "89" ramps marijuana production, Hexo's existing
processing facilities in Quebec may be unable to cope with the
supply coming out of "89."
Is this something that should worry investors,
too? Perhaps.
Consider that Chen is currently modeling a
significant increase in marijuana retail prices -- from average
prices of C$4.50 per gram for recreational marijuana and C$7.94 per
gram for medical marijuana in 2019, to C$5.30 for recreational, and
C$8.75 for medical, in 2021. (That's about an 18% increase in
expected prices for recreational pot, and 10% for medical, in two
years' time).
And yet, with pot production ramping all across
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increase, not rise, right? But that's not what the analyst is
In order for this to make sense, it seems likely
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prices, earning fatter profits. If, however, Hexo is prevented from
processing all the marijuana it would like to, into these higher
value-added products it wants to sell, then logically Hexo would be
forced to sell more of the marijuana being produced at "89" as
simple dried flower -- and at lower prices, with smaller
When you think about the dynamics this way,
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makes a lot of sense -- at least, until the uncertainty surrounding
Belleville is resolved.
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[WATCH] Chicago Cop Faces Sentencing For Firing 16 Shots at Car Filled With Teens
A veteran Chicago police officer faces sentencing Monday for his excessive force conviction for firing 16 times into a moving vehicle filled with teens.
Marco Proano, 42, was the first Chicago cop in memory to be convicted in federal court of criminal charges stemming from an on-duty shooting.
His attorney is seeking probation, arguing the officer should not be punished for alleged systemic problems in the department and calling him a scapegoat "sacrificed to the furor" over police misconduct.
Prosecutors, however, are seeking up to eight years in prison, saying Proano could have killed the six teens when he fired indiscriminately into a reportedly stolen Toyota.
The 11-year department veteran was convicted by a jury in August of two felony counts of using excessive force in violation of the victims' civil rights. The December 2013 shooting was captured on video by a police dashboard camera.
In asking U.S. District Judge Gary Feinerman for probation, Proano's attorney, Daniel Herbert, said in a recent court filing that Proano had a decorated career before it was derailed amid protests against police violence and a civil rights probe by the U.S. Department of Justice — all sparked by the court-ordered release in November 2015 of video of the police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014.
The timing of Proano's September 2016 indictment "could not have been worse for him," Herbert wrote, adding that he should not have to "shoulder the blame" for a Police Department that the Justice Department, in its scathing report earlier this year, said has a decadeslong history of mistreating citizens.
"It would be naive to ignore the facts here and fail to recognize that Mr. Proano served as somewhat of a scapegoat in this case," Herbert said. "The situation was at a boiling point, and Mr. Proano was sacrificed to the furor."
But prosecutors said Proano's actions that night, as well as his attempts to later justify the shooting, were egregious violations of his training that further undermined public trust in the police.
"(Proano) gave the community reason to doubt law enforcement's intentions and reason to believe that it cannot have faith that law enforcement will serve all citizens equally," Assistant U.S. Attorneys Georgia Alexakis and Erika Csicsila wrote in their sentencing memo. His actions "impugned the integrity" of other officers, according to the filing.
Proano was the first officer to go to trial in a shooting case since the release of the McDonald video sparked protests and promises of systemic change from Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The department is seeking to fire Proano, who was placed on unpaid suspension after he was charged more than a year ago.
During Proano's trial, prosecutors said the dashcam video of the shooting — which unfolded in about nine seconds — showed Proano violated all the training he received at the Police Academy, including to never fire into a crowd, only fire if you can clearly see your target and stop shooting once the threat has been eliminated.
The video, played several times for jurors, showed Proano walking quickly toward the stolen Toyota within seconds of arriving at the scene while he held his gun pointed sideways in his left hand. Proano can be seen backing away briefly as the car went in reverse, away from the officer. He then raised his gun with both hands and opened fire as he walked toward the car, continuing to fire even after the car had rolled into a light pole and stopped.
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Manu Smriti on Shudras
Source: bhagwanvalmiki.com
Manu divides Hindus into four varnas i.e. casteism. He not only divide Hindus into four varnas, he also grades them. Besides prescribing rank and occupation Manu grants privilege to swarnas and imposes penalties on the shudras.The status of the Shudras in the Hindu society as prescribed by Manu the Law-giver and the Architect of Hindu society. There are so many Codes of the Manu Smriti against the Shudras which are below:
- For the welfare of humanity the supreme creator Brahma, gave birth to the Brahmins from his mouth, the Kshatriyas from his shoulders, the Vaishyas from his thighs and Shudras from his feet. (Manu's code I-31,)
- God said the duty of a Shudra is to serve the upper varnas faithfully with devotion and without grumbling. (Manu 1-91) Manu is not satisfied with this. He wants this servile status of the Shudras to be expressed in the names and surnames of persons belonging to that community. Manu says:
- Let the first part of a Brahman's name denote something auspicious, a Kshatriya's be connected with power, and a Vaishyas with wealth but a Shudra's express something contemptible. (Manu II. 31.)
- The second part of a Brahmin's name shall be a word implying happiness, of a Kshatriya's (a word) implying protection, of a Vaishya's a term expressive of thriving and of a Shudra's an expression denoting service. (Manu II. 32.)
- A hundred year old Kshatriya must treat a ten year old Brahmin boy as his father. (Manu 11-135)
- The Brahmin should never invite persons of other varnas for food. In case, the latter begs the Brahmin for food, the Brahmin may give them some left-over. Even these left-over must be served not by the Brahmin but by his servants outside the house. (Manu II2).
- He who instructs Shudra pupils and he whose teacher is a Shudra shall become disqualified for being invited to a shradha. (Manu III. 156.)
- A Shudra is unfit of receive education. The upper varnas should not impart education or give advice to a Shudra.It is not necessary that the Shudra should know the laws and codes and hence need not be taught. Violators will go to as amrita hell. (Manu IV-78 to 81)
- "Let him not dwell in a country where the rulers are Shudras." (Manu IV. 61)
- He must never read the Vedas in the presence of the Shudras. (Manu IV. 99.)
- Any country, where there are no Brahmins, of where they are not happy will get devastated and destroyed. (Manu VIII-20 to 22)
- A Brahmana who is only a Brahman by decent i.e., one who has neither studied nor performed any other act required by the Vedas may, at the king's pleasure, interpret the law to him i.e., act as the judge, but never a Shudra (however learned he may be). (Manu VIII. 20.)
- The Kingdom of that monarch, who looks on while a Shudra settles the law, will sink low like a cow in the morass. (Manu VIII. 21.)
- Any Brahmin, who enslaves or tries to enslave a Brahmin, is liable for a penalty of no less than 600 PANAS. A Brahmin can order a Shudra to serve him without any remuneration because the Shudra is created by Brahma to serve the Brahmins. Even if a Brahmin frees a Shudra from slavery the Shudra continues to be a slave as he is created for slavery. Nobody has the right to free him. (Manu VIII-50,56 and 59)
- A Shudra who insults a twice born man with gross invectives shall have his tongue cut out; for he is of low origin. (Manu VIII. 270.)
- If he mentions the names and castes of the (twice born) with contumely, an iron nail, ten fingers long, shall be thrust red hot into his mouth. (Manu VIII. 271.)
- If a Shudra arrogantly presumes to preach religion to Brahmins, the king shall have poured burning oil in his mouth and ears. Manu VIII. 272.)
- A Shudra who has an intercourse with a woman of the higher caste guarded or unguarded shall be punished n the following manner; if she was unguarded, he loses the offending part; if she was guarded then he should be put to death and his property confiscated." (Manu VIII. 374.)
- A Brahman may compel a Shudra, whether bought or unbought, to do servile work for he is created by the creator to be the slave of a Brahmana. (Manu VIII. 413.)
- No Shudra should have property of his own, He should have nothing of his own. The existence of a wealthy Shudra is bad for the Brahmins. A Brahman may take possession of the goods of a Shudra. (ManuVIII-417 & X129)
- A Brahman may seize without hesitation, if he be in distress for his subsistence, the goods of his Shudra. The Shudra can have only one occupation. This is one of the inexorable laws of Manu. says Manu. (Manu VIII. 417)
- A Shudra who wants to just fill his stomach may serve a Vaishya. If he wants a permanent means of living he can serve a Kshatriya. But if he wants to go to heaven or wants higher or superior birth in the next generation he must serve a Brahmin. (ManuIX334 & 335)
- The most sacred duty of a Shudra is to serve the Brahmins, always, reciting the words "Brahman" with utmost devotion. Such a Shudra will get salvation. Otherwise he will die a worst death and will go to the worst hell. (Manu X-121)
- But let a (Shudra) serve Brahmans, either for the sake of heaven, or with a view to both (this life and the next) for he who is called the servant of a Brahman thereby gains all his ends. (Manu X. 122.)
- The service of Brahmans alone is declared (to be) an excellent occupation for a Shudra for whatever else besides this he may perform will bear him no fruit. (Manu X. 123.)
- They must allot to him out of their own family (property) a suitable maintenance, after considering his ability, his industry, and the number of those whom he is bound to support. (Manu X. 124.)
- Brahmins to give Shudras food leftovers, old torn clothes, spoiled grain and old utensils (Manu X-125)
- No superfluous collection of wealth must be made by a Shudra, even though he has power to make it, since a servile man, who has amassed riches, becomes proud, and, by his insolence or neglect, gives pain to Brahmins. (Manu X. 129.
- A Brahmin shall never beg from a Shudra, property for (performing) a sacrifice i.e., for religious purposes. All marriages with the Shudra were prescribed. Marriage with a woman belonging to any of three other classes was forbidden.
A Shudra was not to have a connection with a woman of the higher classes and an act of adultery committed by a Shudra with her was considered by Manu to be an offence involving capital punishment. (Manu XI. 24.)1, 2 ,3, 4In the matter of acquiring learning and knowledge Manu's successors went much beyond him in the cruelty of their punishment of the Shudra for studying the Veda. For instance, Katyayana lays down that if a Shudra over heard the Veda or ventured to utter a word of the Veda, the king shall cut his tongue in twain and pour hot molten lead in his ear. Manu's law book and its strict compliance by the Brahmans, it may be summarized that men and women are not born equal. There is no room for individual merit and no consideration of individual justice. If the individual has the privilege, it is not because it is due to his/her personally. The privilege goes with class, and if it is his/her good luck to enjoy it, he/she is destined to be born in the privileged class. On the other hand, if an individual is suffering in a class, it is because he belongs to that class. Thereby, logically speaking from Manusmriti's point of view, the suffering of Shudras and women is because of their being part of their caste and sex respectively. Manu's 'social order' breeds 'social out-caste,' which in turn dishes out 'social injustice' to the underprivileged. Narda's 'Smriti' (law book), openly advocate slavery, but since Varnashram (a creation of caste system by the Manu) was critical and deviously interwoven into religion, to subjugate the Shudras through superstitions like opium to an addict, the Brahmans let the slaves die."5From-Casteism: The Eighth Worst Wonder by Dr. S. L. Virdi, Pages-39-43)
References: 1. Dr.Babasahib Saheb Ambedkar, Writings and Speeches, Vol. 5, Page 113 to 115 2. Kovena, Toward Emancipation, Page 57, 62 3. S.L.Shashtri, Manu Simiri ki Shav Preksha, concluded, Page 54 to 155 4. Author Coke Burnale, Hindu Polity (The Ordinances of Manu) concluded. 5. G.S.Thind, Our Indian Sub Continent Heritage, Page 145


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"Little Hazard Brook once powered sawmills and slate mills as it wound its way from Glen Lake, or Screwsriver Pond, to Lake Bomoseen. From the sawmill, Hazard Brook ran underground to the waterwheel in the slate mill. An old outlet near the Barlow house may have furnished water power for earlier mills. "-Bomoseen State ParkContinue reading "Old Mill and Dam: Slate History Trail"
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Remainder of Slate Mill
"The Slate Mill: In 1868, the slate company built a new mill for the preparation of purple and green flooring, billiard tables, sinks and washtubs. At the time the mill was constructed, it was one of the largest slate finishing mills in the country. The mill was powered by a waterwheel 24 feet in diameter.Continue reading "Remainder of Slate Mill"
Slate History Trail – COMPANY STORE with WORKER BELL! – Bomoseen State Park, Vermont: Part 3
"…All three buildings were built in the mid-1880's. The house to the left was the company store, built of slate and laid in cement. The store was also the company office and post office. The front of the building retains its bell, used to ring starting and quitting times at the quarries and mills. TheContinue reading "Slate History Trail – COMPANY STORE with WORKER BELL! – Bomoseen State Park, Vermont: Part 3"
Slate History Trail – GHOST TOWN MILLS – Vermont: Part 2
This video is ALL about the 2 mills. The first one was a sawmill and we're looking from the road into the woods at ruins. The second was a slate mill and we're following the trail into those woods to see what's left of the 1868 structure. I'm so close, I could have touched it! Continue reading "Slate History Trail – GHOST TOWN MILLS – Vermont: Part 2"
Slate History Trail Leads to GHOST TOWN at Bomoseen State Park!
"During the 1800s, the village of West Castleton, Vermont was bustling with activity centered around the slate industry. Now a ghost town, you can find remains of the abandoned village within Bomoseen State Park. By taking the Slate History Trail, you can hike through the remains of West Castleton and its fascinating history. Within theContinue reading "Slate History Trail Leads to GHOST TOWN at Bomoseen State Park!"


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Mumbai Varanasi Express Review: A ride of a lifetime!
Mumbai Varanasi Express Movie Review: This movie is a ride you will never forget. It's a 30-minute lesson in living, loving and leaving!
Mumbai Varanasi Express Movie Review: This movie is a ride you will never forget. It's a 30-minute lesson in living, loving and leaving!
By Martin D'Souza | Opening Doorz Editorial | April 12, 2017
Rating: 4.5 / 5
The essence: Mumbai Varanasi Express is a ride you will never forget. It's a 30-minute lesson in living, loving and leaving!
Very few films have you pondering and wondering over the many endings that could have been. Mumbai Varanasi Express, a short film by debutant director Aarti Chhabria, falls into that category. The moment the film ends is when you play out scenes in your mind on how you could have ended it. In fact, towards the end, when you do feel that this is it [this is how it will end], the film continues for a few more seconds… and then ends!
Mumbai Varanasi Express is a ride you will never forget. It's a 30-minute lesson in living, loving and leaving!
It's brilliant. It's awesome. It's fantastic. It's what Mukti Bhawan (Hotel Salvation) should have been but wasn't. The soul was missing in that film, and in case you missed it there, do log in to largeshortfilms.com who have launched it on their digital platform and youtube.
The screenplay, dialogues, sound design (Resul Pookutty) and the beautiful song Babaji by Kailash Kher all blend to bring out that essence of life which we are so restlessly running around to seek in this mad rush called living.
And just when we think we have arrived, is when we realize how far behind we really are from our actual destination. There are many connotations one can derive from this short film and therein lies the beauty. Aarti Chhabria has fleshed out the mature writing of Vipul K Rawal like a seasoned pro.
There is no spoon-feeding here and no over-lingering on a particular scene to send the message across to the viewer. You have to be involved in every scene and this is what makes the journey on Mumbai Varanasi Express even more inspiring and compelling. One simple scene whilst eating jalebis with a news item staring at the protagonist from the oily piece of paper sets the ball rolling in the reverse.
Krishnakant Jhunjhunwala (Darshan Jariwala) finds himself boarding the train to Varanasi to spend the last few months of his life, awaiting his death. He is suffering from the last stage of colon cancer. Death is inevitable. But after a month's stay, when he is not taken out on four shoulders (that is the rule at Mukti Bhawan), he has to walk out. He finds shelter at another location with the help of the cycle rickshaw driver, who is now his friend.
Jhunjhunwala is no ordinary Indian. He is the founder of a Rs 1500 crore business empire. He walks away leaving a letter in his cupboard for his family. He wants to move away from the 'noise of life'.
For a year (before he stumbles on the news item), he lives in the best of health and is in fact 'healthier than before'. Gone is the stress of everyday boardroom meetings and important 'turnover' talks. He is stress-free and is having the time of his life. There is also a spring in his stride!
He then makes that 'decision' that changes everything for him!
Chhabria has shown a rare maturity in handling such a complex subject that could have so easily turned out to be preachy. As a matter of fact, she keeps it plain and simple and stirs that something within your soul.
The best part of this film is that it keeps you figuring out ways of what Jhunjhunwala could/should have done, the route he could/should have taken and the life he could/should have lived towards the end.
Jhunjhunwala could be you! What would you do if you were Jhunjhunwala? Would you have boarded the Mumbai Varanasi Express, a second time?
Producer: Aarti Chhabria
Director: Aarti Chhabria
Star Cast: Darshan Jariwala, Shekhar Shukla, Vivek Singh, Gopal Gurjar, Master Ansh Tiwari
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The Green Bay have won their fourth Super Bowl following their 31-25 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night. The Steelers threatened to overtake the Packers at several points during the final half of play, even outscoring the Packers in the final 30 minutes.
The Packers led 21-10 at halftime on the strength of two Aaron Rodgers touchdown passes and an interception return by Nick Collins. Rodgers threw 29-yard touchdown pass to Jordy Nelson for the first score of the game in the first quarter and then a 21-yard touchdown reception to Greg Jennings in the second quarter.
The Steelers were able to put 10 points up on the board by way of a Shaun Suisham 33-yard field goal and an 8-yard touchdown pass from Ben Roethlisberger to Hines Ward.
The offenses started to open up in the second half. After the Packers punted on the opening drive of the second half, the Steelers went 50 yards on five plays to see Rashard Mendenhall score an eight-yard touchdown. Green Bay extended its lead to 28-17 following another Greg Jennings touchdown reception, but the Steelers answered back with a Mike Wallace 25-yard touchdown reception. The two-point conversion was successful, bringing the score to 28-25.
At 2:07 left in the game, Mason Crosby added a 23-yard field goal to put the Pack up, 31-25. The Steelers were unable to do anything on their last drive, turning the ball over after an incomplete pass on fourth down.


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There are some units that describes about there available space and even you can visualize your requirements. Some have video clips that will also help you in deciding how much space you require for storing your goods. But before consulting with providers disclose your requirement to them so that they can guide you properly.
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Ethics and Food Choices
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Posted on May 6, 2012
Not too many days ago the New York Times ran an essay contest about the ethics of eating meat. It was a frivolous topic, but none-the-less, the subject intrigued me.
I'm not sure that what we eat, other than cannibalism or the animals we consider pets, can even be considered as culturally ethical or a non-ethical source of nutrition. We are, after all, biologic creatures and out of necessity feed on Earth's biology. With the exception of a few organisms that feed on non-organic material, we and the rest of the Earth's biology are left no choice but to eat other biological life forms. Humans are naturally omnivorous, meaning that we eat all types of both plants and animals. It was we who evolved the brain that gave us the ability to trap and dispose of animals for sustenance. Vegetarians would have us change our eating habits to exclude animals. A strict vegetarian diet is a bit extreme and after doing some research, even a little humorous.
First and maybe at the top of a vegetarian's list is the sympathy for the plight of our food animals. For a vegetarian, they empathize with the animal and worry about the pain suffered during the butchering process. Most hurt animals express their pain very vociferously. There are a lot of people who find the whole idea of killing and consuming an animal distasteful and wrong.
These same people think nothing of approaching the rooted variety of the Earth's life form and using it as food. After all our rooted brothers (the plants) cannot scream, and cannot run. It is those limitations that attract the vegetarian. But if you take a closer look at a plant, if you cut it, it bleeds (exudes sap). Plants make the perfect target for squeamish eaters. But plants are ever-bit as aware of life as the ones free to move about. When possible, they turn and face the Sun and seem to revel in its light. Plants and algae's photosynthetic abilities keep us supplied with oxygen, cleanse the air we breathe, furnish us fuel, and provide us with building material.
According to Scientific American, May 2012 issue, plants also have the ability to smell. That's right, smell! There are predatory plants and the preyed upon plants. Vegetarians do not look at plants as being anything except a food source that doesn't have the ability to express pain (not to mention no ability to escape). Vegetarians haven't the slightest interest in the idea that plants are also communal entities complete with feelings. It is also known that if you are friendly to your houseplants and talk to them, that they do better.
And yet, this is the life form that the vegetarian makes war upon. Vegetarians have singled out this one important life form for food. After all, it can't squeal or show pain (as we know it); plants are an easy target that allows the vegetarian a clear conscience since they have not caused discomfort or pain (that they are aware of). Their narrow and thoughtless views are varied. Listed below are the many forms of vegetarianism.
There are a number of types of vegetarianism, which exclude or include various foods.
Do not interpret what I say as an indictment against vegetarians. It is just that they seem to relish proselytizing for their way of life and looking down on non-vegetarians. Maybe they should be taking a closer look at what they are doing.
Whatever we consume for survival is always at the expense of another living thing.
Whether our choice of foods is ethical or not is a false label meant to intimidate
anybody that makes different choices.
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Top 5 tips for people getting a shoulder replacement
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If you are considering getting a shoulder replacement, here are some 'real life' tips that we share with our many patients.
Over the years, with hundreds of patients just like you, here is what we advise, over and over again. These tips are what you WON'T hear from your surgeon.
Now, that doesn't mean that your surgeon is a bad guy or gal, it just means that they are focused on doing their job to the best of their ability. Their job is to replace a shoulder of a good surgical candidate with no complications.
Unfortunately, that means they don't always tell you these secrets that can make your post surgical experience much less worrisome and painful.
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Are you nervous? So is everyone else who has had it! Do you feel like a scaredy cat? Well join the crowd, so does everyone else! You are considering having surgery! Who looks forward to that? Not many! Recognize that this is an unknown (at least to you!), and it is totally natural to feel some level of apprehension and anxiety. What should you do? Talk about it with someone. Whether it is a spouse, a friend, a clergy, your family doctor, whoever. Talking about your fears and concerns is always helpful.
Understand why you are doing it.
The reason for the surgery is to decrease the pain. Not to increase flexibility or to increase strength. The surgery EVENTUALLY lets the shoulder hurt less.
This is temporary.
Initially, it will hurt MORE. That is from the surgery. It is to be expected. It will get less. Take the pain medicine, and don't worry about moving it (because at first you shouldn't). The first few weeks you will say 'why did I do this'. After that, you will say 'why did I wait so long to do this'!
Create an optimum healing environment.
The goal of the first 4-6 weeks is to LET THE SHOULDER HEAL! That means keeping the shoulder in the sling per the surgeon's suggestion. It will get stiff. That's good. We can always stretch out a stiff shoulder. How can you create an optimal healing environment? Walk, sleep, eat, poop, as close to your regular routine as soon as you can. Your body is going to be running faster because it is in 'healing' mode, so you need to make sure it has everything it needs to do that.
You are going to feel better before you ARE better.
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State Senator Dave Koehler believes that communities like Pekin, East Peoria, Washington and Gifford shouldn't have to shoulder the entire cost of cleaning up after the deadly tornadoes that tore through central Illinois last fall.
He is proposing a new law that allows the Illinois Emergency Management Agency to reimburse local governments in state disaster areas for the costs of debris removal and emergency protective measures. Though many homes and businesses in the affected communities were damaged or destroyed, the federal government chose not to provide financial assistance, leaving local governments to pick up the entire cost of these services on their own.
"The people who live in these communities relied on their local governments to clean up after these storms and help make their towns habitable again," Koehler said. "Clean-up work is expensive, though, and now the bills are coming due. At the same time, the tornado damage has reduced the tax base in those communities. They're facing serious budget challenges."


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A "hero" Battle of Britain veteran who flew Hurricanes with 601 Squadron in Exeter has died hours after celebrating his 100th birthday, taking the number of surviving members of The Few to five.
Archie McInnes, who flew Hurricanes during the battle in the skies over southern England, completed his pilot training at the age of 21 and was commissioned the next day.
He died hours after celebrating his 100th birthday on Wednesday.
His biographer and friend Jonny Cracknell wrote on Twitter: "It is with a heavy heart and incredible sadness to advise the tragic news that Battle of Britain hero Archie McInnes sadly passed away last night, just hours after celebrating his 100th birthday amongst friends and family.
"An inspiration and hero of a man - rest in peace, dear Archie."
He had earlier written to wish Flight Lieutenant McInnes a happy birthday, noting that he was the "last of the six remaining Battle of Britain 'Few' to become a centenarian".
Those who fought in the three-and-a-half-month Battle of Britain came to be known as The Few after a speech by prime minister Winston Churchill, who said of their sacrifices in battle: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
Battle of Britain veteran Archie McInness has died hours after celebrating his 100th birthday, taking the number of surviving members of The Few to five.
They are:
- Flight Lieutenant Maurice Mounsdon
Born on February 11 1918 in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
He joined 56 Squadron at Digby, Lincolnshire, aged 22, on June 3 1940.
He made two confirmed kills of German bombers and fighters, two probable kills and damaged two other fighters.
His Hurricane was shot down over Colchester, Essex, on August 31 1940 and he spent nine months in hospital.
- Wing Commander Paul Farnes
Born in Boscombe, Hampshire, on July 16 1918.
Trained as a pilot and joined 501 Squadron at Filton, Gloucestershire, on September 14 1939.
He flew Hurricanes and was credited with eight "kills' during France and the Battle of Britain.
In a previous interview with The Telegraph, he said: "I don't go along with this business of people saying how brave we were.
"It's a lot of nonsense, I don't think the average chap was brave at all.
"He was trained to do a job and he did the job and he did it well."
- Flying Officer John Hemingway
Born in Dublin on July 17 1919.
He served with 85 Squadron in France in early 1940 and destroyed a Messerschmitt on May 10.
His Hurricane was hit by flak over Maastricht in the Netherlands on May 11 and he made a forced landing.
Back in a Hurricane, he was shot down by a Junker on August 18 1940 over the Thames Estuary.
He parachuted into the sea and was rescued by a ship 12 miles east of Clacton, Essex.
On August 26 he was again shot down, this time by a Messerschmitt over Eastchurch, Kent, and forced to parachute to safety.
- Flight Lieutenant William Clark
Born in Croydon, south London, on April 11 1919.
Completed his training as an air gunner at the age of 21 and joined 219 Squadron in Catterick, North Yorkshire, on July 12 1940.
His crew intercepted and destroyed a Junker and a Heinkel plane in the Guildford area of Surrey on April 17 1941, and he shot down five further enemy aircraft during the war.
- Squadron Leader John Hart
Born on September 11 1916 in Canada.
He flew both Hurricanes and Spitfires during his RAF service, joining 54 Squadron in Catterick, North Yorkshire, on September 15 1940.
He moved to 602 Squadron at Westhampnett, West Sussex, on September 24 1940.
He destroyed a Messerschmitt on October 29 1940 and a Junker on November 1 1940.
In a previous interview he said the Spitfire was "beautiful to fly".
The British victory marked a turning point in the Second World War, but by the end of the battle 544 RAF pilots and aircrew had died.
Flight Lieutenant McInnes was born on July 31 1919 and joined the RAF volunteer reserve in 1938, the year before the war broke out.
He completed his pilot training in August 1940 and was commissioned the next day.
He flew Hurricanes with 601 Squadron in Exeter, later moving to 238 Squadron at Chilbolton, Hampshire, on October 8 1940.
After the Battle of Britain ended on October 31 1940 he was on board HMS Victorious as part of the team hunting for German battleship the Bismarck.
From April 1941, Flt Lt McInnes was part of the North African campaign where he flew various missions including providing cover for bombers.
He was shot down by a Messerschmitt fighter plane on October 30 1941 and lost his left arm.
He was released from the RAF in 1946 as a flight lieutenant and eventually retired to village life just outside Cambridge.
Mr Cracknell, who was Flt Lt McInnes's biographer, wrote on his website that it was a "huge privilege helping gain Archie some long-overdue recognition as a hero".
Last year Flt Lt McInnes was pictured beaming with delight as he was taken for a flight in a two-seater Spitfire over Kent, aged 99.
Air Chief Marshal Mike Wigston CBE, the Chief of the Air Staff, said: "Flight Lieutenant Archie McInnes was part of an extraordinary band of selfless aviators to whom we owe the freedom we enjoy today.
"The bravery and sacrifice of Archie and The Few should never be forgotten - lest we forget.
"Our thoughts are with Archie's family and beloved friends at this sad time."


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Partner Paul M. da Costa is Speaking at 2021 NJAJ Meadowlands Seminar
By Snyder Sarno D'Aniello Maceri & da Costa LLC on November 22, 2021
Partner, Paul M. da Costa, will be a featured speaker at the Meadowlands Seminar 2021, hosted by the New Jersey Association for Justice. The seminar will take place from Wednesday, December 8 to Friday, December 10 at the Hilton Meadowlands Hotel in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Paul is excited to return to the event and to be featured alongside a wide range of knowledgeable speakers. He will be speaking at the Medical Malpractice Seminar where he will be discussing the topic of the effective use of literature from 2:15 pm – 2:45 pm on the 10th.
The three-day event will offer 24 programs taught in 65 separate webinars by esteemed faculty. Attendees will be able to earn more than 21.0 MCLE credits including 8.0 Ethics credits and 3.90 Diversity, Inclusion, and Elimination of Bias credits.
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Bacterial viruses found to interact with human cells, study finds
International research co-authored by a Monash biologist has shown for the first time that bacterial viruses (bacteriophages) directly interact with the cells of the human body.
The findings published in the journal mBio show that human cells transport bacteriophages into and throughout our body.
Bacteriophage (or phage for short) are the most abundant and diverse microbes found in the body. Phages control and manipulate bacterial populations, prevent infection and disease and have important roles in regulating the microbiome and body that have not yet been fully elucidated.
"We have known for a long time that phages are present in the blood and organs of the body," said the study's senior author, Dr Jeremy Barr from the Monash School of Biological Sciences. "But no one has known exactly how these phages get into these regions of the body," he said.
"Our work shows that human cells transport phages across the cellular barriers that line the gut, thereby allowing them access to the blood and organs of the body."
"This is a general and prevalent mechanism and based on our results we estimate the average human body transports 30 billion phage particles from the gut into the body every day."
The researchers found that phages were even capable of bypassing cells isolated from the brain - the blood-brain barrier forms one of the strictest biological barriers in the body, with many drugs and small molecules being incapable of bypassing this barrier.
"The fact that phages (which are foreign virus particles) are capable of freely crossing this blood-brain barrier is nothing short of remarkable," Dr Barr said.
"What the phages are doing inside the cells, organs and systems of our bodies is a major follow-up question."
The study suggests that phages could be manipulating the body in diverse and unexplored ways.
"Our study is significant because we show that bacterial viruses (bacteriophages) directly interact with the cells of the human body - something that had previously thought not to occur."
The researchers used in vitro studies to demonstrate the rapid and directional travel of diverse bacteriophages across cells in the gut, lung, liver, kidney, and brain.
More information: Sophie Nguyen et al. Bacteriophage Transcytosis Provides a Mechanism To Cross Epithelial Cell Layers, mBio (2017). DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01874-17
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Although some people enjoy it, cleaning the house is often viewed as a chore. Whatever the task, whether cleaning the floor, wiping down tables and countertops, washing the dishes, or doing the laundry, all the hard work and elbow grease is seemingly useless if you aren't using the best household cleaners and supplies.
When we go out to purchase household cleaning supplies, we expect them to do one thing: clean. We use a variety of soaps, bleaches, detergents, scourers, bathroom cleaners, and drain cleaners to keep our living environment clean, tidy, and sparkling. However, without many people being completely unaware, the chemicals in these products that make our homes spotless and germ-free, they may also be contributing to health issues. In fact, when some cleaners are among the most toxic products found within a home – believe it or not, side effects can range from as minor as skin irritation to as major as causing cancer.
The Benefits of Non-Toxic Cleaning Products
With all the nasty effects and chemicals found in these conventional cleaning products within your home, there is no better time than now to make the switch non-toxic household cleaner. In this blog, we'll explore a few reasons why you should consider making the switch to healthy, non-toxic cleaning.
Non-Toxic Cleaners Are Safe For Children
Children are known to have more sensitive skin, and the last thing you want them to do is to come into contact with toxic chemicals and risk a reaction. With all the chemicals leftover on clothes, countertops, and dishes from conventional cleaning products, it's not uncommon for children to come into contact with these chemicals. Switching to a natural floor cleaner, safe laundry detergent, or an all-natural all-purpose cleaner can significantly reduce the number of chemicals that your children may potentially come into contact with, which will result in a reduction of the number of rashes and allergic reactions that may potentially occur.
Non-Toxic Household Cleaners Keep The Air Clean
Did you know, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency, air quality inside a majority of homes can be two to five times more polluted than the outside air. One of the leading contributors to indoor air pollution is the conventional cleaners that are typically found beneath the kitchen or bathroom sink. In fact, using a cleaner with an added fragrance is more than likely polluting the air inside your home. Non-toxic cleaning products, on the other hand, keep the air that you breathe in fresh and clean.
Non-Toxic Cleaners Are Environmentally Friendly Products
When you use conventional cleaners that are found at your local supermarkets, harmful environments are being released into the environment, affecting the air you, your family, and your pets breather in. Changing to natural household cleaners can protect those in your home as well as the environment!
There are a variety of benefits of using non-toxic cleaning products to keep your home safe and clean in addition to those discussed above. If you want to begin living a healthier lifestyle, finding a place to buy natural cleaning products is a great place to start. And at Tony Fleming Enterprises, you can find some of the best cleaning products for your home. To learn more about our non-toxic cleaning products, get in touch with Tony Fleming Enterprises today!


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September 30, 1965 — The Luray Bulldogs and the Page County Panthers played to a 7-7 tie in the fifth football game in their rivalry last Saturday night at Shenandoah before a crowd of 1,500 fans who watched the defensive struggle in a 38-degree temperature.
Two long runs featured in the scoring for each team.
Page County scored first when Eugene Kiblinger broke off his own left tackle and outran the Luray secondary to the goal line on a run of 80 yards. Doug Burner kicked the extra point to give the Panthers a 7-0 lead.
Luray came right back a short while later in the same period to score a touchdown on a 63-yard run by halfback Tommy Campbell, who also ran for the extra point to tie up the game. Campbell's touchdown run was identical of Kiblinger's, in which he found a hole through his left tackle slot.
During the last half, the two teams waged a defensive battle within the 25-yard lines.
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text: Schwab To Venture Into Crypto Once U.S Provides Regulatory Clarity ByJimmy AkiPRO INVESTOR Updated: 17 July 2021 DisclosureWe sometimes use affiliate links in our content, when clicking on those we might receive a commission – at no extra cost to you. By using this website you agree to our terms and conditions and privacy policy. Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Brokerage firm Charles Schwab Corp has disclosed plans to enter into the cryptocurrency space but on one condition. The company says it would like to see more regulatory clarity before making a foray into the industry. Charles Schwab Plans To Offer Crypto To Clients The CEO of Schwab, Walt Bettinger, revealed in a call with analysts that the company is monitoring the crypto market, but still can't offer crypto services, Reuters reports. He said that once the US regulators give more clarity around digital assets, it would consider making crypto offerings available on its platform. Bettinger claims that his company will be a force to reckon with when it finally makes crypto offerings available for its users. The brokerage firm is also watching out for developments on whether regulators will allow a crypto-based investment-oriented product like a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). Schwab's comments on regulating Bitcoin come at a time when the US government is finally considering clearing up the confusion of surrounding crypto regulations. Founded in 1971, San Francisco-based Schwab has nearly 32 million brokerage accounts and over $6 trillion worth of assets under management. The company became a force to reckon with following the acquisition of major competitor TD Ameritrade for $22 billion in October. The combined company now accounts for around $6 trillion in customer assets and over 20 million brokerage accounts. US Finally Considering Regulating Crypto Clearly Over time, the actions of US regulators have made it clear they're interested in cryptocurrencies, even though they've struggled to create any framework to guide the industry. However, this looks like it's coming to an end as the US House of Assembly recently passed a bill aiming to provide regulatory clarity to digital assets. The bill called The Eliminate Barriers to Innovation Act of 2021 was introduced by ranking Member Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and would see regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission working together with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The financial regulators would work hand in hand with stakeholders in the crypto industry to outline solutions and recommendations to make the environment favorable for the firms to thrive. The SEC may draw up its first guidelines for cryptocurrencies soon following its new chairman, Gary Gensler's promise to provide guidance and clarity to the rapidly evolving market. The SEC has been accused of not being specific in its approach to cryptocurrencies. Some have argued that the agency had an unclear rule book, especially since it filed a lawsuit against Ripple alleging that the company had conducted unregistered security offerings by selling its XRP tokens between 2013 and 2017. Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage