Formation of mega-scale glacial lineations observed beneath a West Antarctic ice stream
Most discharge from large ice sheets takes place through fast-flowing ice streams and their speed is strongly modulated by interactions between the ice and the underlying sediments. Seismic surveys and investigations through boreholes have revealed a spatial association between fast ice flow and saturated deformable sediments. Nevertheless, our knowledge of the morphology of the interface between ice and sediments is still limited, resulting in only rudimentary understanding of the basal boundary conditions beneath ice streams and the generation of subglacial bedforms. Here we present radar data from the bed of a West Antarctic ice stream that reveal the presence of mega-scale glacial lineations. We combine these data with previously published seismic data and show that these lineations develop in areas of dilatant deforming till and are part of a dynamic sedimentary system that undergoes significant change by erosion and deposition on decadal timescales. We find that the mega-scale glacial lineations are indistinguishable from those found on beds of palaeo-ice streams, providing conclusive evidence for the hypothesis that highly elongate bedforms are a characteristic of fast-flow regions in ice sheets.
Authors: King, Edward C. ORCID record for Edward C. King, Hindmarsh, Richard C.A. ORCID record for Richard C.A. Hindmarsh, Stokes, C. R.


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Location: Healthy Body Weight ResearchTitle: Whole grains contribute a small proportion of dietary fiber to the U.S. diet: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003-2010 ) Author
Submitted to: Journal of American College of Nutrition
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/14/2017
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Citation: Interpretive Summary: The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010, recommends that 50% of all grains consumed should be whole grains and Americans should eat a high-fiber diet. One component of whole grain is dietary fiber. Both whole grain and dietary fiber prevent a number of chronic diseases. To date, it is not know if the beneficial effect of whole grain might be attributable to its fiber content. This analysis of a nationally representative sample of Americans ages 2 through 85 years old was conducted to examine how much of the fiber eaten in the U.S. comes from whole grains. Results showed that only 15.3% of dietary fiber comes from whole grains while 45.5% is from non-grain food sources. Dietary fiber is severely underconsumed in the U.S. and our results can be used to formulate future dietary guidance to improve dietary fiber consumption and public health.
Technical Abstract: The United States (U.S.) food supply offers a variety of foods that are considered “whole grain” foods and consumption of whole grains is recommended to be 50% of all grains consumed. Whole grain intake prevents a number of chronic diseases; however, the specific component of whole grains that protects health has not yet been established. Whole grains are considered to be a major source of dietary fiber. Although some whole grains are high in dietary fiber, not all whole grain foods provide much dietary fiber. This analysis of a nationally representative sample of Americans ages 2 through 85 years old in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Study (NHANES) 2003-2010 was designed to examine the distribution of whole grain and dietary fiber intake of Americans. Results showed that only 15.3% of dietary fiber is from whole grains and 45.5% is consumed from non-grain food sources. As dietary fiber is severely underconsumed in the U.S., these results may be used to help formulate future dietary guidance to improve public health by increasing dietary fiber consumption.

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Sensing Application System with Microphones
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The Internet of Things is one of the most promising fields of technological advancements. Through networks of sensors, we can obtain information about the environment around the sensor and use it for various purposes. In this project, the usage of microphones as a sensor is explored, by utilizing machine learning to classify sound clips collected in a lecture hall. To make raw sound clips usable by weak sensors, a downscaling of duration and sample rate of the audio clips are done. The downscaling is measured against the classification accuracy and Matthews Correlation Coefficient and show that the audio clips used in this project could by downscaled by a factor of 197, without losing classification accuracy/MCC. Based on the results of the downscaling tests, an estimation of energy consumption using Bluetooth Low Energy to transfer the audio files is presented, and the estimation result give a sensor lifetime that the author considers viable for a sensor network. Lastly, some approaches to adaptive sensing is briefly discussed, as a function to increase the reactiveness and data value.In the end, the results are considered mostly as a proof-of-concept for using downscaled audio files in an IoT-setting with weak sensor nodes. Even though these tests are done with a specific binary classification-based use case, and performed in a specific lecture hall, the results seem promising for other applications.


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This traditional hot green, herby condiment is served in little jars at my favorite falafel joint in Paris (they serve jars of harissa too)—when they’re in the mood to make it. I always ask for it, but some days it’s simply not there. No point in asking why, all you get is a shrug. A day without green sauce is a sad one, so I came up with my own, which, slathered into a pita with hummus and tomatoes (or a little grilled lamb), tastes mighty authentic. Try it too in non–Middle Eastern ways, on fried eggs and hash browns, or to brighten a Yankee pot roast.
Toast the cumin and coriander seeds in a small dry pan over medium-high heat until fragrant, about 1 minute. Coarsely grind in a spice mill or with a mortar and pestle.
Coarsely chop the parsley, cilantro, chiles, garlic, and scallions. Pulse with the salt in a food processor or blender until you have a rough puree.
Transfer the herb puree to a bowl and stir in the ground spices and olive oil. This is best the day it is made.
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So I went outside for a little winter-mushroom-hunt a few days ago.
I'm pretty sure I have found some Chaga, but I'd love to be a 100% sure. Does the Chaga mushroom have any alikes?
Also, how do I prepare it for a tea?
I have no idea if this link works out for you guys, but here are the pictures of my hunt: http://www.mediafire.com/?fz6w6ixdd1xbz
If anyone feels like it, identifications would be appreciated. :)

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To quote the Book of Pythia, “All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.”
In a world where films have endured countless remakes and reboots, so much television. This television season year we are already getting Lethal Weapon, MacGyver, Training Day, and The Exorcist reboots. And we still have reboots coming for The Lost Boys, Varsity Blues, The Departed, and Let The Right One In planned on coming to TV soon enough. With everyone’s nostalgia trapped in the past, it only a matter of time before all the greats get a polished update.
It’s been reported that there is a sequel to Magnum PI in the works for ABC Television. So far a pilot has been commissioned and will hit the airwaves. There’s no definite if the show will get picked up or not. In keeping with many reboots/sequels, this will basically be “Magnum PI… The Next Generation” as the show will follow Thomas Magnum’s daughter as she comes to Hawaii to continue her father’s legacy ad as a private investigator. The show is planned to have the same action and procedural format as the original. The new Magnum daughter will spend some of her time trying to find out who sabotaged her naval career.
For those old enough, Magnum PI was a big hit back in the day. The show made actor Tom Selleck a bona fide sex symbol during its tenure. The show was so popular that he passed up on being Han Solo in Star Wars as a result of his commitment to the show. If the show is picked up, Tom Selleck will probably have a guest star/recurring role on the new show. We still don’t know who will play the new Magnum PI. Let’s just hope we still get to see some cool Hawaiian shirts!
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An ice cream manufacturer and drummer who was already 40, a karate loving guitarist who became a bassist, a bio physicist teacher and a pipe smoking keyboardist who was originally a guitarist.
From such unlikely characters did the Stranglers grow but it certainly gave them variety and brought a lot to the pot.
The Stranglers were also a tightly knit group who had paid their dues and learnt their craft by playing over 400 gigs in two years (1975-1977) across the country to often very few people.
The stage was set for a uniquely English band to make its mark helped by the emergence of punk rock.
The Stranglers are:
Hugh Cornwell - Guitar and Vocals
Jean Jaques Burnel - Bass Guitar and Vocals
Dave Greenfield - Keyboards and Vocals
Jet Black - Drums and Percussion.
The band first came together in Guildford in 1974 with Jet and Hugh before recruiting guitarist turned bassist Jean Jacques.
Initially calling themselves the Guilford Stranglers they found gigs hard to come by and shortened their name to The Stranglers.
In 1975 Dave joined on keyboards.
Signing with a management deal with Albion in late 75 got them onto the London pub circuit and they played a daunting array of gigs travelling in Jets old ice cream van but picking up fans everywhere including The Finchley Boys, a gang of rowdy football supporters who took the band to their heart and followed them everywhere and a character called Dagenham Dave.
Their stark, aggressive act was seen as intimidating by audiences and the Stranglers never compromised whether being clapped or booed.
As such as punky bands began to appear though 1976 and The Stranglers found their music and attitude in common with the new movement whose members would often attend Stranglers gigs.
After lengthy attempts to secure a deal the band were signed in Dec 76 to UA and their first single Grip appeared in February charting at 44.
2 months later Rattus Norvegicus was released to almost universal acclaim and caused surprise when it reached no 4 in the charts.
The Stranglers debut was originally to be a live album recorded at The Nashville from late 76' but the band didn't like the recording so was scrapped.
The debut was also due to be called Dead On Arrival but Rattus Norvegicus was chosen instead.
Within 5 months they released three double a side singles Peaches/Go Buddy Go, Something Better Change/Straighten Out and No More Heroes/In The Shadows.
Artist: The Stranglers
Album: Rattus Norvegicus
1. Sometimes (4.55)
2. Goodbye Toulouse (3.16)
3. London Lady (2.32)
4. Princess Of The Street (4.37)
5. Hanging Around (4.27)
6. Peaches (4.07)
7. (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) (4.02)
8. Ugly (4.07)
9. Down In The Sewer (7.53)
Total Playing Time: 40.01 (min:sec)
Total Size: 60,4 MB (63.324.422 bytes)
No More Heroes was also the name of their second album 5 songs of which was recorded in the same sessions as their first and reached no 2.
Controversy came in the shape of the bands lyrics ie Peaches and mentions of 'Clitoris' and alleged misogyny in their lyrics which became a point of dissonance with journalists and the bands aggressive attitude.
Artist: The Stranglers
Album: No More Heroes
1. I Feel Like A Wog (3.17)
2. Bitching (4.26)
3. Dead Ringer (2.46)
4. Dagenham Dave (3.19)
5. Bring On The Nubiles (2.16)
6. Something Better Change (3.36)
7. No More Heroes (3.29)
8. Peasant In The Big Shitty (3.26)
9. Burning Up Time (2.24)
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So that's her skincare secret! Glowing Kristen Stewart carries large bottle of water while out with friends
She has one of the most flawless complexions in Hollywood.
And Kristen Stewart appears to rely on a simple regime to get that famous glow.
The 23-year-old was seen carrying a large bottle of water as she stepped out with friends in Beverly Hills on Saturday.
Rare smile: Kristen Stewart flashes a rare smile as she steps out in Beverly Hills on Saturday
The Twilight star seemed to be in cheery mood as she walked out of the parking garage and headed outside.
At one point, Kristen flashed her bright smile as she paused near a newsstand.
She carried with her a bottle of Smart Water and a manila envelope along with a stack of papers that had 'We The People' written on the back.
The movie star could have passed for any
other regular 23-year-old in her low-maintenance ensemble, which
included her trademark style of dark cuffed jeans, black Converse, a white tank top, black hooded sweatshirt and black jacket.
Dressed down: Kristen wore her signature low-key attire while sipping on a smart water
Grunge girl: The actress dressed in her trademark style of dark cuffed jeans, black Converse, a white tank top and black jacket
Her long chestnut tresses were styled in
messy curls over one shoulder, while she showed off her flawless
porcelain complexion as she went make-up-free.
While she prefers her low-key style, the star glammed it up recently for a Balenciaga perfume campaign.
The actress wore little more than intricate flowers and vines affixed to her torso, back, and arms.
Stunning! Kristen recently posed for a Balenciaga perfume campaign wearing only flowers and vines
Quick text: The 23-year-old paused for a moment to read a text and then looked over at something that caught her attention
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Blooming Sequence Manhwa also known as (AKA) “블루밍 시퀀스 ; Время цвести”. This Completed webtoon was released on 2017. The story was written by Lee Eul and illustrations by Lee Eul. Blooming Sequence webtoon is about GL, Psychological, Romance, School Life, Slice of Life story.
Blooming Sequence Manhwa – Summary Seowoo, president of the film club, is standing outside in the rain, a welcome break from the noisy and chaotic bar behind her, when a girl with orange hair stumbles out the doors and practically into her arms. Then she begins singing “Dancing in the Rain” while… dancing in the rain. It’s a minute encounter, really, but Seowoo has seen the greatest romances bloom from the smallest moments in the movies. So when Hayoung shows up to join the film club, Seowoo – who’s not even sure what she herself is feeling – finds her heart skipping a beat.

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text: I'm 5'10" 180 lb. I own my home, my jeep and my truck. Not to distant future I'll have my bike paid off. I still work mostly full time because I like to keep busy. I am retired. I do a lot of riding and looking for someone that likes to ride also and later down the road if things work out I would like to have a partner for good. I guess what I'm trying to say I would like to get married again. I am a widower for about 6 yr. now so it's time to move on. I do not play games and would want the same from you. I don't beat around the bush, you know exactly where I stand. I like to fish, go to auction and yard sales though I hardly ever buy anything. I like to go to the movies or eat out once in awhile even though I a pretty good cook. ( and I like to do dishes). I like to try new things and see and go to new places. I would prefer you lived fairly close as long distance relationships just don't seem to work. I guess anything else you just have to ask me as I really don't know what to say.


Last week CNN triumphantly reported that the job market has recovered to its 2008 peak. Here’s the headline:
Not so fast, though.
Sociologist Philip Cohen observes that the real news is hidden in the fourth paragraph. There the author of the piece acknowledges that the job data are numbers, not proportions. The numbers have bounced back but, because of the addition of almost 12 million people to the U.S. population, the percent of Americans who have jobs or are in school remains lower than it was in 2008.
Given population growth over the last four years, the economy still needs more jobs to truly return to a healthy place. How many more? A whopping 7 million, calculates Heidi Shierholz, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute.
Using the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Cohen offers us a clearer look at where we’re at:
Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College and the co-author of Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.
The Nation sparked a robust discussion last week with its incisive online conversation, Does Feminism Have a Class Problem? The panelists addressed the “Lean In” phenomenon, articulating how and why Sheryl Sandberg’s focus on self-improvement – rather than structural barriers and collective action to overcome them – angered quite a few feminists on the left.
While women of different economic backgrounds face many different realities, they also share similar work-life balance struggles. In that vein, the discussants argue that expanding family-friendly workplace policies – which would improve the lives of working women up and down the economic ladder – could help bridge the feminist class divide.
A growing body of research indicates that there are few other interventions that improve the economic prospects and work-life balance of women workers as much as unions do. A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), which I co-authored with my colleagues Janelle Jones and John Schmitt, shows just how much of a boost unions give to working women’s pay, benefits and workplace flexibility.
For example, all else being equal, women in unions earn an average of 13 percent – that’s about $2.50 per hour – more than their non-union counterparts. In other words, unionization can raise a woman’s pay as much as a full year of college does. Unions also help move us closer to equal pay: a study by the National Women’s Law Center determined that the gender pay gap for union workers is only half of what it is for those not in unions.
Unionized careers tend to come with better health and retirement benefits, too. CEPR finds that women in unions are 36 percent more likely to have health insurance through their jobs – and a whopping 53 percent more likely to participate in an employer-sponsored retirement plan.
Unions also support working women at those crucial times when they need time off to care for themselves or their families. Union workplaces are 16 percent more likely to allow medical leave and 21 percent more likely to offer paid sick leave. Companies with unionized employees are also 22 percent more likely to allow parental leave, 12 percent more likely to offer pregnancy leave, and 19 percent more likely to let their workers take time off to care for sick family members.
Women make up almost half of the union workforce and are on track to be in the majority by 2025. As women are overrepresented in the low-wage jobs that are being created in this precarious economy – they are 56.4% of low-wage workers and over half of fast food workers – unions are leading and supporting many of the campaigns to improve their situations. In an important sense, the union movement already is a women’s movement.
Education and skills can get women only so far. It’s a conundrum that women have surpassed men when it comes to formal schooling, yet women have made little progress catching up on pay. Many women who do everything right — getting more education and skills — still find themselves with low wages and no benefits.
With unions already playing a central role in helping to meet the needs working women and their families in the 21st century economy, anyone concerned about the well-being of women should also care about unions.
Mean and median are two measures of “average.” The mean is the average as we typically think of it: the sum of things divided by the total number of things. The median, in contrast, is literally the number in the middle if we align all the quantities in order. People often use median instead of mean because it is insensitive to extreme outliers which may skew the mean in one direction or another.
For a quick illustration of the difference, I often use the example of income. I choose a plausible average (mean) for the classroom population and review the math. “If Bill Gates walks into the room,” I say, “the average income is now in the billions. The median hasn’t moved, but the mean has gone way up.” So has the Gini coefficient.
Here’s a more realistic and global illustration – the net worth of people in the wealthier countries. The U.S. ranks fourth in mean worth – $301,000 per person…
…but the median is far lower – $45,000, 19th out of the twenty nations shown. (The graph is from Credit Suisse via CNN.)
The U.S. is a wealthy nation compared with others, but “average” Americans, in the way that term is generally understood, are poorer than their counterparts in other countries.
I’d hope that someone who has written a book about “What Shapes Our Fortunes” would have had Sociology 101 where he would have learned the fundamentally different ways that income and wealth work in our economy. But apparently not.
In Rags to Riches to Rags Again, Mark Rank writes that because of a great deal of turbulence in household earning over a lifetime “we have much more in common with one another than we dare to realize.”
One of the reasons for such fluidity at the top is that, over sufficiently long periods of time, most American households go through a wide range of economic experiences, both positive and negative. Individuals we interviewed spoke about hitting a particularly prosperous period where they received a bonus, or a spouse entered the labor market, or there was a change of jobs. These are the types of events that can throw households above particular income thresholds.
Ultimately, this information casts serious doubt on the notion of a rigid class structure in the United States based upon income. It suggests that the United States is indeed a land of opportunity, that the American dream is still possible — but that it is also a land of widespread poverty. And rather than being a place of static, income-based social tiers, America is a place where a large majority of people will experience either wealth or poverty — or both — during their lifetimes.
All together now: Income, that comes in *household* paychecks, regardless of how many earners are contributing to that household income, is not wealth. Wealth is how much money a household has in the bank and in investments and the assets they own, like real estate, businesses, land, cars, boats, and planes.
Wealth inequality is much greater than income inequality. It looks like this:
And breaking it down by race:
It is no small thing for any household to attain an annual income of a million dollars for even one year.
But it is an entirely different experience to have enough wealth that one can no longer worry about income at all, can work the tax system to mask enormous amounts of income, can essentially withdraw from everyday contact with everyday Americans, can use one’s wealth to leverage political and economic power, and can know that the children in one’s household will never, ever want for a thing.
The “1%” was never about income alone.
Jane Van Galen, PhD, is a professor of education at the University of Washington, Bothell. Her research focus is on socioeconomic class, education, and digital media. She writes for Education and Class, where this post originally appeared.
How do people in the U.S. become wealthy? According to the myth of meritocracy, they do so by hard work: blood, sweat, tears, a trace of talent, and a tad bit of luck. This is the story told in this two-page ad for U.S. Trust in The New Yorker:
On the first page we learn she’s rich, but she’s still a home-town girl at heart. On the second page, we learn a little about how she might have gotten so wealthy:
Note the first few sentences:
Who’s to say how it happened. A big idea. A gutsy work ethic. A lucky break here and there.
Well, uh…what about, “She inherited it”? That’s a pretty common way to end up with a whole bunch of houses and in need of a wealth management team.
The notion that rich people are rich because their parents are rich, however, interrupts the American mystique, the one where we are a country of self-made immigrants who pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps. People, even people who inherited wealth, like to think that they’re rich because they worked hard. Hence, the romanticization of the self-made millionaire in the ad and the corresponding invisibility of the inheritance loophole.
On the flipside, this narrative also supports the converse idea that the poor are poor because of their lack of personal efforts and merits. Perhaps they didn’t have a “big idea’ or the “gutsy work ethic” that enabled them to profit from the lucky break that they inevitably encountered, right?
This ad is just one drop in the sea of propaganda that makes it seem right and normal that a small proportion of our population is able to hoard wealth and property.
This post originally appeared in 2008.
Gwen Sharp is an associate professor of sociology at Nevada State College. You can follow her on Twitter at @gwensharpnv.
We have the money and the know how to tackle most of our social problems. Certainly unemployment, houselessness, and poverty. So, why don’t we?
In large part it is because our socially created wealth remains outside social control. Critical economic decisions are driven by private interests not the public good. One result is hipster economics.
On May 16, an artist, a railway service and a government agency spent $291,978 to block poverty from the public eye.
Called psychylustro, German artist Katharina Grosse’s project is a large-scale work designed to distract Amtrak train riders from the dilapidated buildings and fallen factories of north Philadelphia. The city has a 28 percent poverty rate – the highest of any major U.S. city – with much of it concentrated in the north. In some north Philadelphia elementary schools, nearly every child is living below the poverty line.
Grosse partnered with the National Endowment of the Arts and Amtrak to mask North Philadelphia’s hardship with a delightful view. The Wall Street Journalcalls this “Fighting Urban Blight With Art.” Liz Thomas, the curator of the project, calls it “an experience that asks people to think about this space that they hurtle through every day.”
The project is not actually fighting blight, of course – only the ability of Amtrak customers to see it.
“I need the brilliance of colour to get close to people, to stir up a sense of life experience and heighten their sense of presence,” Grosse proclaims.
“People,” in Grosse and Thomas’s formulation, are not those who actually live in north Philadelphia and bear the brunt of its burdens. “People” are those who can afford to view poverty through the lens of aesthetics as they pass it by.
Urban decay becomes a set piece to be remodeled or romanticised.
In a fancy bit of marketing, U.S. capitalists have been reborn as “job creators.” As such, they were rewarded with lower taxes, weaker labor laws, and relaxed government regulation. However, despite record profits, their job creation performance leaves a lot to be desired.
According to the official data the last U.S. recession began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009. Thus, we have officially been in economic expansion for almost five years. The gains from the expansion should be strong and broad-based enough to ensure real progress for the majority over the course of the business cycle. If not, it’s a sign that we need a change in our basic economic structure. In other words, it would be foolish to work to sustain an economic structure that was incapable of satisfying majority needs even when it was performing well according to its own logic.
A recent study by the National Employment Law Project titled The Low-Wage Recovery provides one indicator that it is time for us to pursue a change. It shows that the current economic expansion is transitioning the U.S. into a low wage economy.
The figure below shows the net private sector job loss by industries classified according to their medium wage from January 2008 to February 2010 and the net private sector job gain using the same classification from March 2010 to March 2014. As we can see, the net job loss in the first period was greatest in high wage industries and the net job creation in the second period was greatest in low wage industries.
As the study explains:
The food services and drinking places, administrative and support services (includes temporary help), and retail trade industries are leading private sector job growth during the recent recovery phase. These industries, which pay relatively low wages, accounted for 39 percent of the private sector employment increase over the past four years.
If the hard times of recession disproportionately eliminate high wage jobs and the “so called” good times of recovery bring primarily low wage jobs, it is time to move beyond our current focus on the business cycle and initiate a critical assessment of the way our economy operates and in whose interest.


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WASHINGTON (AP) – Still reeling from a devastating defeat in last week’s election, Democrats are beginning the process of charting the direction of their party in the Donald Trump era.
With Hillary Clinton and her team staying out of the public eye, liberal politicians have begun jockeying for control of the party’s future. While they all backed Clinton, they’re now pushing for a serious shift in the party’s policy positions, financial resources and grassroots organizing to focus more on motivating their base and winning back the white working class voters who went for Trump.
“We have to do a lot of rethinking,” said Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who mounted a fierce challenge to Clinton in the primary.
“Democrats are focused too much with a liberal elite, which is raising incredible sums of money from wealthy people,” Sanders said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
The Democratic National Committee, the last bastion of party power in Washington, is quickly emerging as ground zero for the fight.
After losing the White House and Congress – and likely the ideological tilt of the Supreme Court – the Democrats’ new chief likely will be one of the party’s most visible faces in politics, making the role a far more influential post than it was during the Obama administration.
Already, around a dozen Democrats’ names have been publicly floated to succeed interim chairwoman Donna Brazile, who replaced Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in July after she was caught up in a hacking scandal.
Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, a prominent progressive and the first Muslim elected to Congress, has emerged as an early contender, backed by much of the party’s liberal wing.
He’s also picked up support from several key Democratic leaders, including outgoing Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid and Reid’s likely replacement, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer. Ellison was expected to officially announce his bid on Monday. His supporters argue that Ellison’s faith would send an important signal about the party’s commitment to inclusivity during the Trump administration.
“My friend Keith Ellison is a terrific leader and a strong progressive who knows how to get things done. Now is the time for new thinking and a fresh start at the DNC. Now is the time for Keith,” Reid said in a statement on Sunday.
In interviews on Sunday talk shows, Ellison pushed back on concerns that he’d be unable to balance party responsibilities with the politics of his day job in Congress – a problem some Democrats believe hampered Wasserman Schultz.
“There’re a lot of places that I can serve,” he said, in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” ”I’m looking for a place to be of use and benefit. And every single Democrat in this country better be thinking the exact same way.”
Ellison is far from the only contender for the job. Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean announced his intention Thursday to reclaim a post he held during the Bush administration. Former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, DNC National Finance Chairman Henry Muñoz III, and South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Jaime Harrison have also said they’re considering bids.
Others are pushing for a Latino leader, arguing that the growing demographic group is crucial to the party’s future and should be represented at the highest levels of its leadership. Outgoing Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego and California Rep. Xavier Becerra are said to be weighing a bid. Jason Kander, an Army veteran who lost the Senate race in Missouri to Roy Blunt on Tuesday, is also said to be considering a run.
The contest comes at a time of deep unrest for the party – and the country. Anti-Trump protests continued this weekend with thousands of demonstrators turning out in cities across the country. And post-election polls showed a significant minority of Clinton backers question the legitimacy of Trump’s win.
Top party leaders are urging Democrats not to despair.
“It’s time to brush ourselves off, get back in the arena, and get ready to fight,” President Barack Obama said in an email to supporters inviting them to join a call with him on Monday evening about moving forward.
Clinton, meanwhile, has offered little advice to supporters after her concession speech on Wednesday. On a weekend call with top donors, she blamed her loss largely on the FBI’s decision to revive its examination of her email accounts.
She made nearly no mention of the other factors driving Trump’s victory, including flaws within her own message, and offered her backers little guidance on moving forward, according to donors on the call.

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The Three Orders of Medieval Society
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
In the Middle Ages society was made up of the three orders, the clergy, the nobility and the people, each order having its responsibilities, privileges and special honors.|
In this tri-partite division, there were clear boundaries between those who governed and those who obeyed, as in any social group. Nonetheless, each of these three classes in its own way and degree participated in the government. I stress this because the revolutionary saga portrays the Middle Ages and the Ancien Regime differently. According to it, this period of History was dominated by an absolutism where only the King commanded, with no one else sharing his power or participating in his government in any way.
Classes of medieval society: Clergy, nobility and people
This accusation is false. It would not even apply to the Czars of Russia, which was the type of government that came closest to this caricature. The only time this absolutism became a reality was under Communism. Then, yes, an ‘absolute monarchy’ was established in a way that easily led to abuses, excesses and exaggerations.
But the Revolution does not accuse Communism of this. It saves this criticism for societies born under the influence of the Church from the beginning of the Middle Ages until the end of the Ancien Regime. Thus, it accuses medieval kingdoms of exercising an absolute monarchy that simply did not exist, and it is silent before the absolutism that actually existed in Communist Russia.
What St. Thomas Aquinas recommends as a good form of government is a monarchy that includes the participation of all social classes: the clergy, the nobility and the people.
The first class is the clergy
How does the clergy, as a social class, participate in the government of the King?
Today, given that the Church is separate from the State in almost all countries, it can be difficult to understand how the clergy can be referred to as the first class of society and as a powerful political class.
The clergy directing all the orders of society to Heaven
The clergy is the first class of society because of its sacred character. Its members are the ones in charge of the worship of God and the preaching of the Gospel, the most elevated works that exist. The First Commandment clearly states that we should love God above all things. Thus, the class of men who guide and encourage this love in society is the first.
By teaching Catholic Morals the clergy lays the very foundation of civilization. Without morals a country has no worth, and it is the Catholic clergy who have all the supernatural and natural means to inculcate authentic morals in a country. Since this is the highest and most fundamental mission, it is natural that the men entrusted with it should occupy the first place in society.
Nobility - aware of its place as second class
The second place belongs to the nobility. Again the revolutionary saga presents this class as one teeming with vanity, self-infatuated, drunk on its own grandeur, jealous of its privileges and forbidding anyone to be above it. This is a ridiculous accusation. The nobility as a class was never like this either in the Middle Ages or later.
On the contrary, as we just said, the first class – above the nobility – was the clergy. The nobility was quite aware that it was the second class. At meetings, social events, official ceremonies, the order that had the first places of honor was the clergy. And the clergy was made up not only of the sons of the nobility but also the sons of the people, according to the vocation God had given each one. In the Church, what counted was the place a man had in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, not the social rank in which he was born.
I emphasize these principles to counter the wrong ideas the Revolution spread about the social regimes that existed before the French Revolution.
How the three classes participated in government
Both the clergy and nobility participated in the government of the country in many ways. Both groups had countless fiefs where they exercised a strong influence. Yes, even the clergy had temporal fiefs: At times, a parish would have a large property; at times an abbey or a convent controlled a large fief in this or that region of the country. As examples we have the Bishops of Cologne and Geneva who were at the same time temporal Princes governing large amount of lands. One of the Bishops of Geneva was the suave St. Francis of Sales, known for his sweetness.
By ruling over the small matters that made up part of day-to-day life, these lords represented for the little people the King, whom the people would see rarely. Therefore, in reality those temporal lords – nobles or clergymen – were the longa manus [long arm] of the King.
The nobility’s influence was also great because all the military power belonged to it. The whole military was under the King, it is true, but the great majority of the commanders were nobles. It was rare for a plebeian to enter the army as an officer. At times a commoner who carried out great feats and became a hero would be made a noble and then would share in the command. The power of the military is obvious. We often do not notice it when times are peaceful, but it takes on relevance and becomes decisive in times of unrest or war.
To the nobility fell the defense of the country in face of external aggressions as well as the maintenance of the social and political order of their fiefs. Normally the nobles also assumed the functions of what today would be a governor, mayor, chamber president, judge and police chief. He would exercise all of these functions without any expense for the Crown.
The nobility had the obligation to go to battle
As we see, these two orders – the clergy and the nobility – were turned toward serving the common good. To compensate them for that great burden, they were exempt from taxes.
The people exercised their influence through the guilds. The workers’ guilds had their own laws, special privileges and, at times, even their own tribunals, governed by men from their own ranks who were independent from the functionaries of the King, the nobles or the city. Many times these guilds constituted small self-governing bourgeois republics inside the monarchy.
The people were the class turned toward the work of production. They had the privilege of either not participating in war or doing so in a much smaller way than the nobility. The people usually had the exclusive rights over the most profitable professions in industry and commerce.
How did they participate in the dangers of the war? If they desired, they could go to battle, but they would be paid well by the King for their service. For many the war was a chance to make money and an opportunity to do heroic deeds and rise to the nobility. It was their possibility to have another career different from the normal country or city traditions. Therefore, many wanted to go to war, but it was a voluntary participation, different from the nobility who had the obligation to do so.
Normally, the members of the third order, the people, did not have any special obligation to the State. They worked for the common good insofar as they served their own individual and family interests. They enjoyed many honors and privileges that they guarded carefully. Their principal onus as a class was to pay taxes. There was a medieval saying: “The wool has to come from the sheep.” Since the people – the bourgeoisie and plebeians – were the ones who received the advantages that came from profitable jobs, the responsibility of paying taxes rightly fell on them.
Harmony in that participation
The equilibrium of these diverse autonomous groups used to bring a great harmony to the nation with this kind of participative government.
As we have seen, the Church and the State are both perfect societies, distinct from each other and sovereign in their respective fields: the Church in the spiritual sphere, the State in the temporal sphere.
The orders of medieval society: above, clergy and nobility; below, the people - bourgeois and plebeians
This distinction, however, did not prevent the clergy from having a participation in the temporal government. It was common for members of the clergy to become counselors of the King or the noble, and, through this influence, share in the temporal power. We have already discussed the Bishops and Abbots who actually had temporal power, which is another way for the clergy to share in the government of the King.
This harmonic division – the clergy, the nobility and the people – reminds us of the representative assemblies that characterized the life of many monarchies of the feudal period and Ancien Regime, such as the Cortes in Portugal and Spain, the Estates General in France, and the Parliament in England. In those assemblies there was an authentic national representation that faithfully mirrored an organic society.
With the Enlightenment, a revolutionary political philosophy was adopted by many leaders of European countries. Then, under the influence of a wrongly-understood notion of liberty, the Old World started on the path that would destroy the intermediary bodies of society, make a complete laicization of the State and establish inorganic assemblies composed of members chosen on a merely quantitative criteria of representation, the number of ballots in a box.
Posted June 23, 2010
Organic Society was a theme dear to the late Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira. He addressed this topic on countless occasions during his life - at times in lectures for the formation of his disciples, at times in meetings with friends who gathered to study the social aspects and history of Christendom, at times just in passing.
Atila S. Guimarães selected excerpts of these lectures and conversations from the trancripts of tapes and his own personal notes. He translated and adapted them into articles for the TIA website. In these texts fidelity to the original ideas and words is kept as much as possible.
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Skip to comments.Scott Walker; Sure, Obama loves his country
Posted on 03/02/2015 7:59:21 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
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And now this question from Fox News Sunday... Is Fox News in the Jeb Bush wing?
Limbaugh has given kudos to Scott Walker over and over about many things and gave even more to him for not playing the game of answering whether Obama loves America - and now this from Scott Walker.
I wonder what Limbaugh will have to say now...
Limbaugh says he doesn't get into primary politics, but we may be seeing a reversal on that stance. Does he support Scott Walker?
Last week, Conservative teen CJ Pearson, an African-American middle-schooler, posted an epic defense of New York City Mayor Rudy Giulianis repeated claims that President Barack Obama doesnt love America.
President Obama, You dont love America. If you really did love America, you would call ISIS what it really is: an assault on Christianity, an assault on America and downright hate for the American values that our country holds. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion and every single thing that our country stands for Maybe one day enough people will speak out about your downright hatred of this nation.
On Friday, C.J. Pearson, a 12-year-old conservative from Georgia who posted a viral video supporting Rudy Giuliani, discovered that his personal Facebook page was locked. In an exclusive interview with Examiner.com on Saturday, Pearson said he received a message from someone about 6 a.m. Friday. Thats when he learned his account and page had been locked for suspicious activity.
He jumped through all of Facebooks hoops, but wasnt able to recover his account. So he created a new profile to take its place. His public page was not affected, he said, however, he can no longer administer the page. Fortunately, he said, a friend is helping post links to that page.
As is so often the case in these situations, Facebook did not respond to his requests for help. Nor would they tell him what the alleged suspicious activity was. We reached out to Facebook, but the social media giant has so far refused to respond to our request for comments.
Pearson said he is working on legislation to lower the age of those serving in the state House and Senate. The legislation, which is set to be the subject of a hearing on Monday, would lower the age of House members from 21 to 18, and lower the age of state Senators from 25 to 21. Pearson said he was using Facebook to line up witnesses for the hearing, but Facebooks actions have made that more difficult. He cant read any messages sent to his old profile and the old page doesnt show up.
which country would that be ?
Obama loves this country in the same way that molesters love children.
Obama or “anybody else who is willing to put their name on the ballot certainly has to have the love for country to do that.”
No they don’t.
Or a lust for power, right Scott?
Jeb Bush did seem to get a fair amount of time on Hannity’s show after Jeb spoke at CPAC.
Which news outlets on the net and elsewhere do you think support a pathway to citizenship?
That may show you which candidate they support.
Is there a single statesman out there anywhere?
This is just getting sickening!
It should be obvious to anyone that he HATES America.
Anyone who wants to “fundamentally transform” us into a Socialist/Communist nation has no love for America.
Anyone who pushes the UnAffordable Health Care nonsense and the Global Warming Scam, by definition, hates America.
Obama loves to transform his country to a socialist state.
Unless they intend to infiltrate and saying in OCT 2008, " we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America."
I'm pretty sure everyone on here be it conservative, liberal, or troll understands what is going on inside the US political system and the goals of those presently in power and those seeking power...anything else on the matter is no more than distraction...
Walker is being a coward. He is afraid to speak his mind.
His speeches are woefully inarticulate. He doesn’t impress me other than the fact that he did nail the unions.
Let’s find a better candidate.
Fox News has been on board The Cheap Labor Express for years.
Facebook, Yahoo, and the rest seem to primarily rely upon automated methods to detect abuse. If enough people click the “abuse” button, or whatever, the poster gets locked. So all the leftists need is a large ping-list of people who are willing to hit the abuse button against any conservative.
Yet another reason to not use facebook.
Good answer. Just say yes and move on.
Jeb Bush seems to be trying to explain Common Core to the folks and show us all that it isn’t really so bad after all! /sarcasm.
Then we see Jeb Bush hiring Paul Wolfowitz on his foreign policy team, along with 19 others from either his father’s or brother’s administration.
19/21 are from his father’s, his brother’s or were on both.
Project for a New American Century - here we come?
What a bunch of BS.
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The girls varsity basketball team closed out their 2018-19 campaign as 2019 NEPSAC Class A Championship tournament semifinalists; advancing further in the championship tournament than any Deerfield girls basketball team in recent history.
In the tournament opening quarterfinal matchup, the 7th ranked Big Green squad upset 2nd seeded Nobles on their home court, 64-48; snapping Nobles’ 7-year Class A girls basketball championship streak.
In the semifinal match-up hosted by #3 Loomis, the Doors were led by the offensive effort of senior captain Emma Reavis who scored 26 of the team’s 57 points. Kelly Lahart ’20 scored in the double digits sinking 14 points for the Big Green. Claire Cummings ’21 and Melissa Mitrovic ’19 each registered seven points in the game. Despite the stifling defensive display from the Big Green, at the game’s final buzzer, Loomis prevailed to advance to the championship game.
The Big Green closed out their season posting an 11-11-0 record. In addition to concluding their 2018-19 season as NEPSAC Class A semifinalists, the team was a finalist at the 2018 Girls Basketball tournament and advanced to the semifinals in the 2019 Eight Schools girls basketball tournament this season.
Congratulations to the team and coaches on their impressive 2018-19 campaign!

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Joe Pavelski tied the game at one early in the second when he tipped in a Brent Bruns shot on the powerplay.
Joe Pavelski is unlikely to repeat his 41-goal season next year.
Joe Pavelski practiced on the Sharks' top line on Tuesday.
Joe Pavelski registered a goal and had two assists in the San Jose Sharks' 7-2 slaughter of the visiting Los Angeles Kings in playoff competition Sunday night.
Joe Pavelski skated on the Sharks' top line with Joe Thornton on Wednesday.
The San Jose Sharks are considering using Joe Pavelski as the team's third-line center.
Forward Joe Pavelski scored his 40th and 41st goals of the season to lead the San Jose Sharks to a 3-2 victory over the Coyotes in Phoenix Saturday night.
Joe Pavelski had an assist in San Jose's 5-2 loss on Wednesday.
Joe Paveleski saw his five game point streak end on Saturday.
Joe Pavelski registered his 38th marker of the season in Saturday's loss to Colorado.
Joe Pavelski scored a hat trick and added an assist for the Sharks in a 5-2 win against the Oilers Tuesday night.
Joe Pavelski scored two goals and registered an assist in San Jose's 6-2 win over Toronto Tuesday night.
Joe Pavelski had three assists in San Jose's 5-3 win over Pittsburgh.
Joe Pavelski scored three second period goals for the Sharks en route to a 7-3 drubbing of the Flyers.


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There are a couple pieces of our property that have the feel of a natural stage or amphitheater. It will be at least a year before we start offering workshops/classes, but I will start developing these areas this year.
Our climate is zone 7-ish with rainy winters (some snow) and strong sun from May through October.
The stage areas (several of them) are on a west facing slope that easy to access from the parking area and is naturally terraced with rock outcroppings that are well suited to hold a group of ~20 or so each. Scattered throughout the area are young doug-firs, madrone and pines for the upper story, small to large native hazels for the lower story and mostly ferns and moss for ground cover.
My initial thoughts for these would be to set up stable benches using fairly young (still solid, but fully dry) dead-fall in the area and begin adding in some herbs throughout the area. Rosemary, lavender, fennel, dill along with lemon/lime balm, other mints and lemon verbena for their smell and tea options. Figs and thornless trailing blackberry can be planted in between the stage areas to provide a visual break (and a snack, in season). I think a weather-proof cabinet for supplies would also be helpful, and maybe a blackboard as well.
The amphitheater is down in the valley overlooking the creek, still facing west. There is less rock here and more young oregon white oak along with madrone and pines. There is not much of a shrub layer here, and grass is the dominant groundcover. The soil stays more moist in this area, so there are a lot more options of things to plant. I'd like a good diversity of berries to occupy the shrub layer (blueberries, currants, everbearing raspberries, etc). This area has quite a few native mushrooms, and we will be adding culinary/medicinal ones as we go using log and stump culture. The hardscaping will be a bit more work without the natural terraces, so I am wondering if benches can be built in to the hillside in some way (stone and fallen logs).
Any thoughts on the setup that you have seen at other workshops that you liked, or even that you haven't seen, but you think would be nice are welcome!
"Limitation is the mother of good management", Michael Evanari
Location: Southwestern Oregon (Jackson County), Zone 7
Did this project ever take off? I see it's an older posting.
I love this idea and ever since attending my cousins wedding outdoors in the woods at a state park, I've had renewed interest in this type of thing. That area was was sloped downward toward the front with benches for seating under a full canopy of mature hardwoods. A wooded slope along a lake provided a backdrop.
One thing we noticed is that they trenched in electricity, this enabled music on an amplified acoustic guitar to fill the area.
I could see this going so many places especially over time with planted tree and shrub species and taking advantage of unique natural materials of the area. This type of project is only limited by the imagination!
Kay, I'm curious, too, if you were able to set up an outdoor stage or amphitheater - were you?
S, do you have pictures of the state park where that wedding took place?
My friend just visited a lovely place over the weekend that is used for weddings a lot - so much so that you might also call it an outdoor sanctuary, not just an amphitheater. My friend was kind enough to share some pictures, so I'm posting them here.
These were taken at Wellspring - "a woodland retreat and spa at the base of Mt Rainier." (Mt Rainier is in Washington State, over an hour south of Seattle for those who might not know.)
I think it's just gorgeous. Well done, Wellspring!
Here is the amphitheater from Kaw Point Park, which is the location for one of the long encampments of the Lewis and Clark expedition at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers. On each of the placed stones you'll see the inscribed name of the members of the expedition. The rest of the amphitheater seating is the limestone shelves behind. I love the fact that they didn't clear the trees out for sight lines.

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Legal experience - more than 10 years.
Mikhail began his career in a Moscow construction company, then in consulting companies, where he worked his way up from paralegal to senior lawyer.
Since 2019, he has held the position of Senior Associate at Plotnikov & Partners Law Group, specializing in the resolution of complex economic disputes, asset restructuring and bankruptcy.
He has scientific publications and experience in teaching private international law at the Higher School of Economics. Expert in regional and federal media.

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About Jae Curtis
Lead guitarist for the 3-piece Australian band Leo who previously performed with the pop punk band Lynk, formerly known as At Sunset.
He and his friend Harrison Kantarias formed At Sunset in January of 2012 after they started performing covers in local pubs.
He announced on his YouTube channel that he was leaving At Sunset in February of 2014.
He is originally from Adelaide, Australia.
He previously played alongside Andrew Kantarias in At Sunset.


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I don't know how to write
a love poem. I can barely make out
the recipe of a Puerto Rican cocktail.
I do not promise love
songs in a winter storm, only that rum propelled light
headed tipsiness on halfmoon nights.
The full thickness of the pineapple cream
is the taste of your tongue
the night it shared embrace with mine.
The icy blandness of the coc'nut juice
is your off trailing voice
whispering my name in the afterdark. The pine
apple wedge I forgot to add
is our nose tilted sideways
in a fad of half-parted lips.
The umbrella shaped parasol
shields our love from the ever potent
threat of the sunset, as the
slightly slanted straw spells out
our misplaced heart
beats thumping into one
uneven rhythm, our guts
0.00 metre apart at 2 a.m.
on a warm summer night.
& when affection glows at its brightest
the reddish hue of
the maraschino cherry on top
sitting doubtlessly in the milky rum
like love's sooty ass on my drunken heart.
Muiz Opeyemi Ajayi, a young poet and writer, is a fresh Law undergraduate of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He writes conventional & unconventional poetry on diverse subjects including identity, personality conflict, but's & maybe's, as well as experiences from living in the Western part of Nigeria. Follow him on Twitter @opendites, Instagram @real_bardboi and reach him on Facebook @Muiz Opeyemi Ajayi

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Watertown’s police supervisors will be required to wear body armor, submit to drug tests and carry antidotes to overdoses and allergic reactions as part of their new contract.
On Tuesday, the Town Council voted to transfer $197,625 to cover a new contract agreement with the Watertown Police Supervisors Association, which covers sergeants, lieutenants and captains.
The contract calls for members to submit to mandatory, random drug testing, according to the details of the contract.
Police supervisors will now carry and be able to administer two potentially life-saving items: Narcan – which can reverse heroin and opiate overdoses – and epi-pens – which help with many allergic reactions.
Also, they must wear body armor when they are working field activities, including working a patrol shift. In addition, they must wear protective vests for high risk and tactical situations, such as serving search warrants, drug raids and initial crime scene response.
The supervisors received a 2.5 percent pay raises for each year from Fiscal 2014 to to 2016. Also, they will get a 2 percent raise for defibrillator training and sergeants get an extra 1 percent increase after one year in that rank.
One item eliminated in this contract is the $1,300 uniform allowance. Members will will now be responsible for purchasing and cleaning their uniforms.


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Objective: Because reduction of the microtubule-associated protein Tau has beneficial effects in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy, we wanted to determine whether this strategy can also improve the outcome of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Methods: We adapted a mild frontal impact model of TBI for wildtype C57Bl/6J mice and characterized the behavioral deficits it causes in these animals. The Barnes maze, Y maze, contextual and cued fear conditioning, elevated plus maze, open field, balance beam, and forced swim test were used to assess different behavioral functions. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI, 7 Tesla) and histological analysis of brain sections were used to look for neuropathological alterations. We also compared the functional effects of this TBI model and of controlled cortical impact in mice with two, one or no Tau alleles.
Results: Repeated (2-hit), but not single (1-hit), mild frontal impact impaired spatial learning and memory in wildtype mice as determined by testing of mice in the Barnes maze one month after the injury. Locomotor activity, anxiety, depression and fear related behaviors did not differ between injured and sham-injured mice. MRI imaging did not reveal focal injury or mass lesions shortly after the injury. Complete ablation or partial reduction of tau prevented deficits in spatial learning and memory after repeated mild frontal impact. Complete tau ablation also showed a trend towards protection after a single controlled cortical impact. Complete or partial reduction of tau also reduced the level of axonopathy in the corpus callosum after repeated mild frontal impact.
Interpretation: Tau promotes or enables the development of learning and memory deficits and of axonopathy after mild TBI, and tau reduction counteracts these adverse effects.

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The contributions made to the U.S. by American immigrants have enriched the country in no small part due to their tenacious drive to succeed and their ability to approach problems in novel ways. These and many other gifts immigrants bring, have not only enriched American culture, but in many instances have defined what it means to be an American.
Alexander Hamilton, who was the country’s first Treasury Secretary, was born on January 11, 1755 on the island of Nevis in the West Indies. Not only is he considered as one of the founders of America’s banking and financial institutions, Hamilton was also a founder of the U.S. Constitution. Writing fifty-one out of the eighty-five, “Federalist Papers,” Hamilton defended the ratification of the constitution along with James Madison and John Jay through a series of essays published between October of 1787 and August of 1788.
Together they developed one of founding principles of our constitution namely, that only through the federal government could states ensure that their citizens enjoyed liberty and prosperity. The implication Hamilton, and the other Federalists made, was that the federal government would protect the rights of every citizen regardless of the state in which they lived. Indeed, without Hamilton’s commitment to federalism, the notion of equal protection under the law might have never developed.
Since the founding of our nation, a free press has held an important place in American culture. Yet it was an immigrant, Joseph Pulitzer, which in many ways developed American journalism to what it is today. Born on the 10th of April of 1847 in Makó, Hungary, Joseph Pulitzer enjoyed a comfortable upbringing. Everything changed, however, when Pulitzer and his family left their home in search of a better life after the death of his father, whose once successful business went bankrupt shortly after his death. After serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, Pulitzer faced many financial challenges like sleeping under abandoned wagons or alley ways. Despite all of these difficulties, Pulitzer reached great financial success when he became the owner of the, New York World. While the New York World would gain infamy through the use of yellow journalism, it also garnered respect as it often exposed corruption. Far and away Pulitzer’s greatest contribution to American culture was the Pulitzer Prize, which was named after him to celebrate poets, dramaturges, journalists and musicians whose artistic excellence continues to enrich American culture.
Today the Pulitzer Prize holds great prestige around the world. Scores of American artists and writers would not have had their work duly celebrated were in not for Pulitzer’s contributions. Just like Pulitzer, the contributions made by Serge Brin have left an indelible mark on not just the U.S. but also the world.
Serge Brin was born on August 21 in Moscow at the height of the Cold War. Together with his family, Brin immigrated to the United States when he was six years old. He received his bachelors from the University of Maryland and soon after was accepted into Stanford’s Ph.D. program in computer science. It was there where he met Larry Page and together developed the search engine Google. Thanks to their ingenuity and skill, Page and Brin have given the world one of most widely used search engines.
The U.S. has been greatly enriched by one of its most important resources: a large immigrant population. Immigrants like Hamilton developed a government that works for the people not for its government. Pulitzer’s contributions helped cement the press’ tradition and duty to expose corruption. More recent immigrants like Brin have not only enriched the lives of millions of Americans, but also continue to enriched the globe with their achievements.

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Professor Susan L. Brooks is dispensing expertise on experiential legal education around the globe this year.
The associate dean for experiential learning, Brooks spent part of the summer in Myanmar, where she took part in the first-ever legal conference on clinical legal education, which was held at Yangon University.
At the conference, community leaders learned how to use the legal system to advance human rights in the transitioning democracy. Brooks’ expertise in clinical and co-operative education made her a valuable contributor for such an event.
The visit to Myanmar was the second leg of a trip to Asia that also took Brooks to northern Thailand. Brooks guest taught a legal ethics class at the law school of Thailand’s Chiang Mai University, where she was a member of a delegation organized by Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia.
In Thailand, Brooks was able to see BABSEA’s programs firsthand, potentially sparking additional experiential learning opportunities for students interested in international law.
“We frequently hear of students who are interested in international law and human rights,” Brooks said, adding that a firsthand perspective confirmed the value of student experiences through BABSEA programs.
In October, Brooks serves as a guest law faculty member at the University of South Australia. There, she is co-teaching a course that parallels the Lawyering Practice Seminar, which Drexel students complete in tandem with their co-op placements.
Brooks said the trip could pave the way for future co-op placements in Australia.
Come early December, Brooks will take the scenic route home, stopping in New Delhi, India, to present at a conference sponsored by the Global Alliance for Justice Education. Brooks will talk about teaching law students about emotional intelligence as a way to enhance interactions with clients as well as fellow professionals.


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Meditation is a practice where you can achieve a calm and stable state emotionally as well as mentally. Meditation originated several thousand years ago, and within this period various techniques have been developed. And each one of them is still been practiced, some of these techniques can be traced back to thousand years ago while some of them have been recently developed.
Zen meditation is a meditation technique developed from the Buddhist traditions during the 7th century in the Tang dynasty. ‘Zen’ is a Japanese word derived from the Chinese word ‘Chan’ which is the translation of the Indian word ‘Dhyana’, meaning ‘concentration’ or ‘meditation’.Zen meditation can help people in several ways such as dealing with anxiety and depression, providing innate clarity,
tackling deep life issues, awakening nature of their mind, etc. To perform Zen meditation people usually sit in the lotus position and focus their attention inwards by concentrating on their breathing. It also involves keeping the eyes semi-open whereas other techniques encourage to keep the eyes closed. Practitioners are advised to dismiss any thought that comes into their mind and try to think about nothing.
‘Vi’is a Pali word meaning ‘special’ and ‘Passana’ is the Buddhist term for ‘seeing’, therefore Vipassana means ‘insight’ or ‘clear-seeing’. Vipassana is one of the most ancient techniques of Indian meditation. It is a process of self-transformation through self-observation. This technique can be taught in a ten-day residential course where you need to follow a code of discipline. But you can even perform it at home, find a quiet place, and then sit with your legs crossed. Focus on your belly and abdomen while you breathe naturally, slowly you will become aware of all the sensations that take place in your abdomen due to breathing. It is said that Gautam Buddha himself taught this technique to his disciples. Vipassana meditation will not only help you sharpen your awareness but also know yourself better, relieve stress, gifts you with peace and tranquility, and gives clarity of vision.
Metta meditation is about directing love and kindness towards ourselves and then expanding that love and kindness towards someone we love. The major difference between Vipassana meditation and Metta meditation is that Metta is about practicing concentration whereas Vipassana is about practicing insight. To perform Metta meditation sit in a comfortable position and take deep breathes. Clear away all your worries and for a few moments imagine your breath moving towards your heart. Later repeat phrases filled with love and kindness such as; may I be happy, may I be at peace. Allow yourself to sink into the intentions of these phrases. Later extend this towards someone you love, it can be your family member or your friend or someone you love. Repeat phrases like; may he be happy, may she get love, etc. Metta helps in increasing positive emotions, get rid of migraines, increase compassion, strengthen your capacity for empathy. and much more.
Yoga is not just an exercise it is much more than that, yoga asanas lead to meditation. Yoga exercises involve breathing, it is a combination of conscious breathing and conscious relaxation. Yoga meditation is something beyond mindfulness. Yoga approach to meditation is way beyond sitting on the dharna. Meditation is like an enormous garden with a huge variety of flowers, each of which has a unique fragrance. Yoga meditation is one such flower, which is not just about concentrating on your breath. It’s about exploring the inner world, living, healing, and revelation. Yogic meditation will not only reduce stress, give you peace but also enhance your flexibility, physical strength, and balance.
Self-inquiry and ‘I AM’ meditation
Self-inquiry meditation helps to achieve ‘self-control’ and ‘self-development’. The aim here is to realize and accomplish the divine self that lies within us. During the practice of Self Inquiry yoga, we attain spiritual knowledge. Spiritual knowledge is way different than intellectual knowledge, it is eternal and something that cannot be taught. To perform Self Inquiry meditation sit in your usual meditation position and for the first 25 minutes just make your self aware of the surroundings and let your mind settle. Later introduce yourself with the question, Who am I? Just let that question stay in your mind, don’t try to figure out anything. When your mind becomes still again, asking another question like who is thinking this thought? or who is seeing through these eyes? Once you get used to this practice you will realize that meaning of the word ‘I’ is now changed for you. Now it refers to something much more than just your mind and body. You will start to realize that Who am I? is not just a question its a timeless presence that will underly your every experience.
Taoist meditation is an ancient practice that was created by the religion of Taoism. It is created to bring harmony to the life of its practitioners. Taoist meditation permits the energy channels to open-up themselves naturally, increases your concentration powers, helps you to get rid of the intoxication within our body, enhances your knowledge, helps you sleep better, and also will improve your relationships. To practice Taoist meditation, you need to begin by taking three deep breathes. Then either you can close your eyes or keep them semi-closed. Relax every part of your body and start breathing slowly and deeply. Place the tip of your tongue in the upper palate and continue breathing, let the breath fill up your body especially the parts that are suffering pain. Throw-out all the pain and sickness, imagine it fading off into the air. Continue breathing and fill your body with light. Once you are done rub your palms up to 36 times and place them on your face.
The main goal behind Qigong meditation is calmness. Qigong meditation involves breathing, simple postures, and gentle movements. It will make you feel quiet and give you several experiences such as, merging with the environment, calming your scattered thoughts, etc. To perform this, start by sitting in a comfortable position. Concentrate on your breath for a while then later starting controlling it via deep breathing. Once you clear your mind get up and start stretching your body; your legs, arms, core muscles, etc. Stand straight and bring your focus back to your breath. After a few minutes, acquire Mabu or the horse stance. Try to maintain this position for as long as you can, while focusing on your breath. Then acquire the Gongbu stance and repeat the same procedure. Make sure you focus on your breath along with maintaining the posture. The benefits of Qigong meditation includes managing stress and anxiety, enhancing your concentration and flexibility, improving balance, and strengthening your body.
Breath awareness meditation
Breath awareness meditation helps to encourage physical as well as mental relaxation that effectively helps to reduce stress. Our breath is an essential ingredient in almost every meditation technique. It is because our breath is always within us but never in a fixed position, it keeps flowing throughout our body. In many of the techniques, it is advised to control your breath but here you have to let it flow freely. It can be really difficult to practice for beginners because our mind is always complicated with several thoughts. To practice this all you have to do is watch your breath. Acquire any comfortable position and relax your body. Try concentrating on your breath and avoid all the distractions that come your way. Breathe awareness meditation helps in reducing body stress, keep our blood pressure in control, helps in getting rid of chronic pain, decreases depression, and improve diabetic symptoms.
Kundalini yoga is derived from the Hindu term Kundalini, it is an energy that lies on the base of the spine. They are dormant, they become active when energy is channeled in the upward direction through chakras, through the process of spiritual perfection. This technique is influenced by Shaktism and the Tantra schools of Hinduism. It is considered the most dangerous technique since it involves the use of various subtle energies. It is a combination of art and science that involves transformation and expansion of consciousness and the awakening and the rise of the Kundalini Energy. With the help of Kundalini yoga, you can unite your consciousness with cosmic consciousness. Additionally, it also helps in healing oneself as well as others and co-create universal energies. The benefits of Kundalini yoga include expanding one’s lung capacity, bringing oneself into the state of mindfulness, bring balance into one’s body, mind, and soul, enhancing emotional balance, building-up creative energy, etc. There are various ways of performing Kundalini yoga depending on whether you are a beginner or not. It is better to perform this technique under guidance to avoid any danger.
Bible offers several insights into meditation, in simple words Christain meditation is a meditation on God’s word. Bible encourages the practice of meditation. Other techniques focus on emptying our minds before you start meditating. But here it is believed that an empty mind can be filled with Satan’s thoughts so, we fill it up with the scriptures we already know. So all you have to do is memorize the meditation scriptures from the bible. Then while you sit down to meditate repeat those verses. Through the recitation of these verses, you are connected with god. Therefore you can issue your problems like anxiety and depression while reciting those verses. These signify, that God will hear our problems and will heal them. Christian meditation is about healing by connecting oneself with god. This technique is a combination of meditation and religious beliefs.
Muraqaba is a Sufi meditation technique, through which we can watch over our hearts and possibly gain insights about the connection between the heart and its creator and also it’s surrounding. Muraqaba is an Arabic word that means ‘to watch over’ or ‘to take care of’. It is more of a religious technique since the main aim here is to bond with Allah rather than attaining peace of mind. It is believed that Prophet Mohammad practiced this technique while he retreated to the cave of Hira. To perform this technique, find a comfortable peaceful place and sit in a comfortable position. Close your eyes and think about Allah, his blessings, his sacrifice, etc. Than imagine Allah’s luminosity entering your body, imagine it in a form of bright light entering your body through your heart and spreading throughout your body. At the beginning start by staying in this state for a few minutes, later you can increase the time limit. Once you complete it do not drink water immediately.
Heart Rhythm meditation
Heart Rhythm meditation also termed as HRM, is a method that is created by Puran Blair and Susanna Blair from the Institute of Applied Mediation. They described this method in their book ‘Living From The Heart’ published in the year 1998. This technique involves Conscious breathing and using one’s lung capacity at its fullest. This practice generates a powerful internal rhythm that coordinates the breathing with the heartbeat. This technique helps in energizing your heart and heal it. This approach is directly related to our heart therefore it can bring changes quickly and effectively. Benefits of heart rhythm meditation include improving lung efficiency, helps to manage depression, anxiety, and fatigue, improve heart conditions, and brain wave rhythms. To practice, this technique sits in a comfortable chair and start conscious breathing through your nose. Have complete awareness about your inhalation and exhalation, connect your breath with your heart. Place your hand on your heart and feel your breath moving through your heart. Now towards the end phase try inhaling and exhaling on the beat of your heart
Trataka meditation is a Trantic method of meditation that involves yogic purification. In this technique, you need to stare at a small point or a small object such as a black dot or candle flame. This practice is said to fill energy into our third eye and encourage several physic abilities. By fixing your vision at a specific object you can bring your restless mind to a halt. Trataka meditation not only enhances your concentration but also your memory, focus, and your state of awareness. To perform this technique you need to place the object such as a candle about 3-4 feet away from you. Now sit straight and watch the flame without blinking, while emptying your mind. Once your eyes start to the water close it. Imagine watching the flame with your eyes closed. Experts in this technique can stare at the flame for about 30 minutes. Trataka meditation helps in purifying eyes and strengthen eye muscles and vision. Its benefits also include overcoming sleeping difficulties, develops intuition, enhances your will power, etc.
Chakra is a Sanskrit word that means wheel. In our body, there are in total seven chakras that are placed between the head to the base of our spine. Each of these chakra plays the role of a gatekeeper for each of its respective areas. During this process, we target our blocked chakras. To practice, this technique sit in a comfortable position and makes sure to keep your spine straight not rigid. Now focus on each part of your body starting from your feet and release the pain and the stress within those parts. Try focusing on your breathe but do not force it. Visualize your breath moving from your lungs into your blood flow. Later imagine your heart beating and your body functioning perfectly well, imagine this energy having a yellow orangish color. In the next step try visualizing you energizing each of the chakras starting from the root chakra. Towards the end imagine each of these chakras being feed with energies completely. Now relax for a couple of minutes and open your eyes. Each session should be about 15-30 minutes long. There are several advantages of practicing Chakra meditation such as increasing compassion, developing will power, increased sense of love, ability to heal oneself, etc
Raja Yoga meditation
Raja yoga meditation is an easy, versatile, and simple technique to practice meditation. What makes it different from the rest is that in this technique you need to keep your eyes open. To perform this technique find a comfortable place either inside your house or within your yard or garden. Now relax and concentrate on any particular spot within your surrounding. Make sure you do not stress your eyes. Throw out all the negative thoughts from your mind and form a positive thought such as I never felt so peaceful. Now try concentrating on this particular thought. Once you start feeling positive make sure to maintain those sensations. Practice this technique for about 10-20 minutes during the beginning. Raja Yoga meditation helps in developing a positive attitude, find a purpose in life, feel stable, develop a broad sense of self-worth, etc.

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There are many forms of CBD, each boasting its own unique set of benefits. Many people gravitate towards high-quality CBD isolate products because of the way they’re marketed. On the surface, they appear to be the strongest and purest form of CBD. If CBD is what you’re after, it seems to make the most sense to gravitate directly toward CBD isolate products, such as CBD isolate powder.
While there are some circumstances where CBD isolate products would be the most desirable option for some people, the majority of people looking to maximize the wellness benefits from their CBD products would see greater success with other forms of CBD, i.e. broad spectrum and full spectrum CBD products.
What Is CBD Isolate?
CBD, or cannabidiol, is a major active constituent of cannabis plants. Although cannabidiol is often hailed as the be-all, end-all of wellness cannabinoids, it’s one of hundreds of cannabinoids that can also be beneficial to our health.
CBD isolate is a processed extract from the cannabis plant. In the majority of cases, CBD products like CBD isolate are derived from an extraction process from hemp plants, since hemp plants are the federally legal version of cannabis plants. They are different from “traditional” cannabis plants because of their high-CBD, low-THC content. Hemp plants can contain a maximum of 0.3% THC by their dry weight. Any cannabis plant with 0.31% or more THC by dry weight is no longer considered hemp, and is no longer federally legal to grow, manufacture, and sell.
How Is CBD Isolate Made?
After the CBD and other plant compounds are extracted from the hemp plant, the CBD is separated from every other compound to produce CBD isolate.
CBD isolate begins with full spectrum hemp extract. Full spectrum hemp extract contains everything the hemp plant contains. It’s rich with active compounds called cannabinoids, aromatherapeutic and flavorful compounds called terpenes, flavonoids, fatty oils, naturally occuring waxes, and phytonutrients from the plant.
The extract goes through a process called chromatography. Chromatography uses food-safe solvents to separate every compound in the extract. The cannabidiol is isolated through chromatography, with more than 99% of the other cannabinoids and terpenes removed from the final product.
The CBD left behind is a crystalline substance that somewhat resembles rock salt. It’s often broken down into a fine powder that resembles sugar. The isolate can be used as is, placed into capsules, pressed into tablets, or combined with a carrier oil to make a tincture.
Is CBD Isolate Safe?
CBD isolate is generally very, very safe. It poses minimal risks for side effects and has absolutely no potential for addiction or dependency. When used correctly and manufactured appropriately, there’s nothing to be concerned about.
Before you use any CBD product, isolate or not, read the company’s lab testing results, and consider consulting your healthcare provider.
Reputable companies use a third party lab to test every batch of their product to ensure that the ingredients they’re reporting are accurate. These tests usually also check for contaminants, heavy metals, and residual chemical solvents.
If the brand isn’t transparent with these third party lab testing results, you shouldn’t purchase products from them, plain and simple.
The only way to know you’re getting exactly what the brand claims you’re getting is by reviewing these lab reports. If they have nothing to hide and they’re using safe manufacturing products, they would not forego the testing process.
What Are the Benefits of CBD Isolate?
CBD isolate provides benefits specific to cannabidiol, rather than benefits attributed to cannabis as a whole.
CBD creams, crystalline powder, and oil all interact with your body’s cannabinoid receptors to offer benefits like:
- Easing physical tension
- Easing emotional tension
- Promoting restful sleep
- Supporting holistic wellness
- Aiding in workout recovery
Can CBD Isolate Make You Fail a Drug Test?
CBD isolate is more than 99% pure cannabidiol. The remaining fraction of a percent is a minute mix of other plant compounds that were not removed in their entirety. This is often deliberate, as the remaining plant fats make isolate products easier to use.
Among these compounds may be virtually undetectable amounts of THC, depending on the purity of the product and the process used to create it. While this THC won’t get you high, it may accumulate in your body’s fat stores. Although it is extremely rare, the possibility that this THC may show up on a drug test technically exists.
Always check the lab testing results of a CBD isolate product to assure that no detectable THC remains. If the results state 0.0% THC, the product is officially “THC-free.”
Many people choose to use CBD isolate products with 0.0% THC to remain compliant with guidelines they’re required to adhere to. Athletes who must adhere to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s standards exclusively use CBD isolate products in order to remain compliant with the agency’s rules.
What Is the Best Way To Use CBD Isolate?
CBD isolate usually comes in a crystalline or powder form. These crystals can be mixed into food or drinks. Many people enjoy adding CBD isolate to their morning coffee, acai bowl or oatmeal, or their post-workout protein shake for an easy wellness boost.
How Long Does It Take for CBD Isolate To Kick in?
Although some of the benefits of orally ingested CBD isolate products will begin to become noticeable within an hour or two, the majority of benefits occur as a result of consistent use.
Using CBD daily gives it ample time to provide holistic support to your body. The benefits will occur gradually and become sustainable with regular daily use, just like you’d feel a better overall state of being every day from eating better, getting better sleep, and exercising regularly.
Is CBD Isolate Stronger?
CBD isolate isn’t usually “stronger” than other types of CBD products. CBD comes in all different strengths, and CBD product manufacturers will list the total CBD content of the product as well as the CBD content per suggested serving size.
It doesn’t take a high dosage of CBD to produce noticeable effects, either. Although studies suggest that people can safely use up to 1,500 mg of CBD per day, this is an extreme amount.
Realistically, the average CBD user would only need a small fraction of this to produce the desired effects. Even seasoned CBD users typically use less than 100 mg of CBD per day.
For this reason, the strength or concentration of CBD should be less of a concern than the purity and effectiveness of the product. Not to mention, the strength and type of CBD (isolate vs. broad spectrum vs. full spectrum) aren’t exclusive to one another. You can have “weak” or “strong” formulas of all types of CBD.
Is CBD Isolate as Effective as Other Types of CBD?
CBD isolate may not be as effective as other types of CBD for certain wellness goals. There are over 100 known cannabinoids and over 100 known terpenes in the cannabis plant. As the plant grows and performs its life functions, these compounds interact with each other to support the wellbeing of the plant. This act of concerted synergy is often referred to as the entourage effect.
Research demonstrates that the entourage effect takes place within the human body when ever active constituent of the cannabis plant works together to interact with the body’s endocannabinoid system.
In short, a greater presence of cannabinoids and terpenes can inspire a broader wealth of effects.
If you’re looking to experience the full wealth of cannabinoid wellness benefits, like the benefits that come from terpenes and other cannabinoids, CBD isolate cannot provide those benefits. You’ll need a high-quality full-spectrum hemp extract product. If you’re looking for CBD-specific benefits, then CBD isolate products can fit the bill.
Who Should Use CBD Isolate?
There are many reasons why someone might choose a CBD isolate product over a full spectrum product. These reasons usually stem from necessity or from personal preference.
Athletes have to answer for every supplement or substance they use. Many athletes are forbidden from using products that may contain CBD according to the official regulations that govern their league or club. All athletes who must adhere to World Anti-Doping Agency guidelines cannot use products that may contain THC.
People Who Don’t Want To Use Products That May Contain THC
CBD is non-psychoactive. It won’t impair your motor functions or cognition. CBD itself is rarely ever forbidden by employers or organizations.
However, THC often is, especially in states where recreational cannabis use is illegal. If you’re required to submit to random or regular drug screenings, pure CBD powder or CBD tinctures made from CBD isolate can significantly minimize the risk of a false-positive result for cannabis use.
For some people, the choice to avoid THC in any amount is a personal decision. That’s as good of a reason as any. If you don’t want to use a product that contains trace amounts of THC, you don’t have to. You’re in control of your own wellness.
Medical Cannabidiol Users
Cannabidiol is recognized and approved by the FDA as a medicine, but in one very specific formula only: Epidiolex.
Epidiolex is a drug used to minimize seizures and improve the quality of life for people who live with epilepsy and other rare seizure disorders. This prescription formulation includes CBD isolate, and is prescribed by a doctor in an appropriate dose, to be taken under that doctor’s guidance.
Epidiolex is not the same as a CBD isolate wellness product. If you have a rare seizure disorder, speak with your doctor about prescription CBD isolate medications and take them precisely in the manner your doctor prescribes.
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