Days after being fired as head coach of the New York Giants, Joe Judge had a massive order of pizza and beer show up at his New Jersey household.
TMZ Sports, of course, was on the scene for some reason and their photos immediately caused an unnecessary stir. It provided one final moment for those on the outside to mock Judge.
Joe Judge is getting over his New York Giants breakup with beer and pizza — and a whole hell of a lot of it. https://t.co/5VM2Ef8lsM
— TMZ (@TMZ) January 12, 2022
As it turns out however, Judge wasn’t drowning his sorrows with a night of gluttony. Rather, he was holding a “goodbye party” of sorts with his former coaches and players.
Among those to show up and wish Judge well were quarterback Daniel Jones, safety Logan Ryan and wide receiver David Sills.
Little nugget I heard: Daniel Jones was one of a few players (Logan Ryan, David Sills) to attend the gathering Joe Judge had at his house for his staff on Wednesday night. Jones will be on his third head coach and fourth OC in Year 4.
— Dan Duggan (@DDuggan21) January 14, 2022
Ryan, of course, has had a relationship with Judge dating back to their time in New England. But it really blossomed in New York, especially after Judge sent Ryan home to be with his wife, Ashley, following the loss of their unborn son, Ozzy.
Jones and Judge also developed a strong bond over the past two years. In fact, there might have been no bigger supporter of the young quarterback than Judge himself.
And Sills… Well, Sills has really become a shadow to Jones, so it’s no surprise he tagged along.
Several of Judge’s coaches were also likely in attendance, including his close personal friends, Patrick Graham and Freddie Kitchens. Jerry Schuplinski, Jerome Henderson and Jody Wright were also rumored to be at the gathering.


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WASHINGTON - President Obama rebuked the nation's intelligence agencies Tuesday for failing to "connect the dots" and stop the Christmas Day bomb plot that could have cost nearly 300 lives. He vowed to correct problems.
"We have to do better, and we will do better, and we have to do it quickly," Obama said after meeting with 20 national security and intelligence officials. "American lives are on the line."
Obama said he would not, however, reconsider his decision to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, despite opposition in Congress.
Transferring terror suspects to an Illinois prison or to foreign countries could "risk sending these terrorists back into the battlefield," Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said.
Bombing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab of Nigeria told authorities he received training and explosives from al-Qaeda in Yemen, according to the Associated Press. About half of 198 detainees at Guantanamo are from Yemen.
Six detainees were returned to Yemen just days before the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 bound for Detroit. Obama said no more will be sent back "at this time."
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Speaking for the first time from the White House since passengers and crew helped foil Abdulmutallab's alleged effort, Obama said the government "had sufficient information to have uncovered this plot and potentially disrupt the attack" but the intelligence was not properly analyzed. "That's not acceptable, and I will not tolerate it," he said.
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They conducted a simple genetic test to identify the presence of the unusual form of the gene, the so-called M allele that other researchers had suspected might be correlated with out-of-season fertility, in their test flock and then validated the gene’s relationship with aseasonal breeding by observing that trait in the flock.
The finding, published in the August issue of the Journal of Animal Science (Vol. 87, No. 8), may be a boon for the sheep industry worldwide, especially when combined with the Sheep Program’s STAR system – a method to manage ewes to lamb five times in three years rather than once a year.
“The primary biological limit for sheep production worldwide is the seasonality of breeding, but the market for high-quality lamb is a 52-week thing,” said Doug Hogue, professor emeritus of animal science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. His Cornell colleague Mike Thonney and former Cornell postdoctoral researcher Raluca Mateescu, now at Oklahoma State University co-authored the paper with Andrea Lunsford, a graduate student at OSU.
Although the presence of the M allele has been definitively correlated with the ability to breed out of season, the researchers caution that it may only be a marker for the gene actually responsible for the trait.
“Breeding out of season is a complex trait,” Mateescu said, “so there are a lot of genes controlling it.” Mateescu observed the phenotype – the physical expression of the gene – in the researchers’ flock during a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell.
“In this case, we’re talking about a receptor gene for melatonin,” Thonney explained. Melatonin is a naturally produced hormone commonly found in many animals. The change in the DNA sequence of the M allele does not change the amino acid sequence of the protein. This means that it may be an accurate indicator for the phenotype of breeding out of season, though it’s uncertain whether the gene actually impacts how the sheep’s body reacts to melatonin. And there may be a risk of losing the association over generations, the researchers said, as recombination could occur between the marker and the functional gene.
Thus, the researchers stress that it will be very important to validate the gene’s ability to indicate for aseasonal breeding each time the allele is bred into a new sheep population.
“I think it’s very exciting … we only have one gene, but it’s definitely a tool that farmers can use,” said Mateescu, who is now focusing on placing markers across the sheep’s entire genome to more accurately determine which gene or genes directly affect the trait of aseasonal reproduction.
The allele is particularly useful for management under the STAR system, developed by Hogue and Cornell sheep farm manager Brian Magee in the early 1980s, which uses nutrition and conventional breeding techniques to reduce the time between heats. “If a ewe doesn't get pregnant when she is supposed to, instead of a year, it’s only 73 days [using the STAR system] until she has another opportunity,” Thonney said.
While the STAR system requires better nutrition and more farm labor to manage the lambing, each lambing event involves fewer ewes than traditional yearly lambing.
The researchers hope that the discovery of the M allele may help the STAR system adapt to consistently high levels of production without any additional risk to flock health.
The study was supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station and New York Agricultural Experiment Station.
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Mr La-Brooy was awarded for “Fair Play in the music business“ at the Fair Play Country Music Awards, held in Holland on Father’s Day 2021.
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The study utilized time series analysis models and employed the Johansen's cointegration procedure and the vector error correction model to examine the short run and long run dynamics of the relationship between interest rates and stock market returns. The results of this study show that contrary to popular evidence from extant research, interest rate changes positively and significantly affect stock market returns in the long run and the deviation from the long run equilibrium is corrected each period following a shock to the stock market in the short run. The positive linkages between interest rate changes and stock market outturns may be explained by the relative strength of banking stocks on the Ghana Stock Exchange. The analysis shows that as the long run equilibrium is approached, the deviations in the short term decrease significantly.
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The wife and family of James Adamson filed the complaint in the St. Louis 22nd Judicial Circuit Court on September 21, naming 3M, Copes-Vulcan Inc., Gould Pumps LLC and others as defendants. Adams died in September 2016, leaving behind his wife, Frances J. Adamson, and their children.
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At the heart of the change in the White House lies the stark choice: Do Americans want the country to be dictated by a woke fringe which hopes to smash with a single lunge the systemic racial and cultural fault-lines of the last 150 years? Given the increasing assertiveness of blacks and browns acting in concert with the growing tribe of white wokes, will the world’s greatest democracy be pushed into walking the socialist path with communists lurking in the shadows.
More importantly, will the mass of people known as White supremacists allow the woke crowd to call the shots any longer than necessary before civic unrest begins to unfold? Democrat control over the trifecta of Presidency, Congress and the Senate can impel the party’s fringe to risk the worst. And their 78-year-old boss, Joe Biden, lacks the guile or gall to check their radical agenda beyond the restoration of normalcy after four chaotic years of Trumpism.
There is really no point in dwelling on Trump’s sins of omission and commission. To reiterate that he was a misfit for the Oval Office is a waste of time and breath. It was apparent from the first few days of assuming power. America’s Left-Liberals who have a vice-like grip over the media narrative, however, made utter asses of themselves both in 2016 and 2020 by predicting a Democrat landslide. Even a month before the day of reckoning last November, every single opinion poll showed Biden getting an overwhelming majority of the popular vote. The actual results, however, saw a massive 74 million plumb for Trump compared to 81 million for Biden, roughly making for a 51:49 divide.
Democrats are welcome to dupe themselves by claiming that the Don’s backers are an ungainly mix of semi-literate, gun-wielding, Bible thumping bums who belong to the colonial era. This is the kind of drivel that cost Hillary Clinton the election in 2016. Newsweek magazine prematurely declared her “Madam President” on the cover. Well over 125,000 copies of the magazine had to be recalled when the tables were turned at the eleventh hour. The pre-written cover story contained much the same diatribe regurgitated by Trump critics throughout the four years of his Presidency.
Here’s a sampling of the self-delusional cover story: the election “was unique in a number of ways because a female candidate faced a kind of demagogue previously unknown in American politics…President-elect Hillary Clinton ‘went high’ when her opponent and his supporters went ever lower…” and so it transpired that “on election day, Americans across the country roundly rejected the kind of fear and hate-based conservatism peddled by Donald Trump… The highest glass ceiling in the western world had finally shattered.” Guffaws!
Liberals are good at jumping the gun. Mammoth Trump rallies compared to the sparsely attended Biden meets towards the end of the campaign had the TOI’s Washington correspondent, Chidanand Rajghatta, a bleeding heart to boot, cream his pants at the horrific prospect of another Dem disaster. If only the Don had wagged his foul tongue less frequently, restrained himself from deluging the media with racist slurs against blacks, women, political opponents, African and other black nations like Haiti, he could have breasted the winning tape.
Even if Trump’s Weltanschauung of White racial superiority is taken as the swagger of a certified oaf, he cannot be forgiven for canceling his visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 on the plea that it is filled with “losers”. The 1,800 marines who lost their lives at the Battle of Belleau Wood (during the German Spring Offensive in June 1918), he said, were “suckers” for getting killed.
Earlier in 2015 while running for the nomination he had insulted the late Senator Joh McCain, a war-hero who spent five years as a prisoner in North Vietnam. Trump refused to acknowledge McCain as a war-hero because “I like people who weren’t captured.” The remark touched the nadir of insensitivity and idiocy.
Trump also referred to former President George H. W. Bush as a “loser” for being shot down by the Japanese as a Navy pilot in World War II. Bush escaped capture, but eight other men were shot dead. If there is one reason for which he deserved to lose the Presidency, it is the contempt he has for military service. Smart people in the Trumpian worldview never join the military. He said he disliked the presence of amputees in military parades.
History may judge Trump as among the worst inmates of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (DC), but the hypocrisy of America’s vicious liberals was never more in evidence than during his Presidency. Their standard bearers, the New York Times and CNN, called the anarchists who ran amok at Capitol Hill “domestic terrorists” and seditionists. Biden referred to the events as an “insurrection” what was in essence nothing but an obstreperous demonstration with some isolated violence resulting in the death of a woman protestor and three others in medical emergencies.
Glib tongued Michelle Obama, a favorite of fashionistas and feminists, called on Big Tech to ban Trump from their platforms on the plea that such a move would prevent their technology from being used by the nation’s leaders to incite insurrection.
Compare this with the #BlackLivesMatter and #Antifa violence last June in which swarming hordes of louts went rampaging across several cities, looting shops, felling statues of national heroes, and vandalizing public property following the death of a black criminal (George Floyd) at the hands of a bestial white cop in Minneapolis on May 25.
Four months later Secret Service agents rushed Trump to a White House bunker as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the executive mansion, some of them throwing rocks and tugging at police barricades. Neither NYT nor CNN labelled the turbulence as terrorism. Instead they described the protests as peaceful.
And, lest it be forgotten, just as Trump supporters refused to accept the verdict of 2020, angry Hillary backers had staged widespread protests across America in 2016 marching under the banner of #NotMyPresident.
Conservative author and commentator Mark Steyn called the media’s coverage of the chaos at Capitol Hill as “sanctimonious drivel”. In a witty takedown of the People’s House and the violence done to the Capitol’s dignity, he wrote on his website:
“The media may be sentimental about the Capitol, but in my unscientific survey of my North Country neighbors the people aren’t. Congress has an approval rating that falls somewhere between Islamic State and child pornographers. Pundits and politicians can wax mawkish about ‘the people’s house’ but you’d be hard-pressed to find one in a thousand citizens who’s ever used those words in a non-contemptuous sense…”
I was surprised, he later tweeted, that even politicians and pundits could utter all that eyewash about the citadel of democracy and a light to the world with a straight face. It is a citadel of crap, and the lights went off long ago.
An unrealized aspect of the racial political divide in America today is that much of it is exaggerated, media fueled, even imaginary. Blacks, in fact, have never been as equal as today. In his article titled “White Wokeness” written for City Journal, America’s premier urban-policy magazine, in June 2020, Charles Love says that discrimination and racial prejudice does exist, but it is rarely violent and does not affect blacks in any significant way. The prejudice is not systemic or institutional.
“For more than half a century, the US has had no laws preventing black people from doing anything that white people can do, and government agencies and courts closely monitor socioeconomic life for any vestiges of discrimination in housing, employment, or public accommodations.
“The media give a distorted view of black life. We see this in the stories they decide to report—and not to report. In 2018, police shot and killed 54 unarmed men; 22 were black. Compared with the percentage of blacks in the U.S. population, that figure looks disproportionate—but black people commit a disproportionate amount of violent crime and thus tend to have more interactions with the police…”
Trump may be a racist, but there is little evidence to suggest that he did anything overtly anti-black. Ironically, this is why newspapers like NYT have a vested political interest in projecting, magnifying, and over-dramatizing subterranean race tensions. It is the pivot of their editorial line. Liberal politics in America would substantially collapse without depicting blacks as desperate and defeated, with nothing in the way of material or personal resources to extract themselves out of their misery. Arousing white guilt is the linchpin of the fundamentalist liberal.
The City Journal article refers to ridiculous instances in which conciliatory gestures took the shape of whites washing the feet and polishing the shoes of blacks to expiate themselves of the collective guilt. Public spouting of the great White guilt was heard from celebrities, athletes, and corporates; and millions of dollars pledged to plug the racist vein.
The apogee of White wokeness was Nike’s advert starring Colin Kaepernick which won the award for outstanding commercial at the Creative Arts Emmys in September 2019. The advert featured the NFL quarterback sloganeering: “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything. Just do it.” In 2016 Kaepernick began kneeling for the pre-game national anthem in protest at racial injustice in the US.
When civility leads to death, revolting is the only solution, he tweeted. To which that messiah of racial justice and non-violence, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, responded with a liberal $3m grant “to advance the liberation and well-being of black and brown communities through education, self-empowerment, mass mobilization to elevate the next generation of change leaders”.
In the end, however, it is the people’s mandate which settles scores. When nearly half the popular votes cast for the winning candidate are polled via the post office, the millions of Trumpers who took the risk of venturing out to cast their franchise amid a raging pandemic have good reason to feel cheated.
The contention that Team Trump failed to produce hard evidence of widespread electoral fraud that could change the result is sophistic. Implicit is the conclusion that minor gerrymandering can be taken in stride. Especially in a country where there is no federal body to supervise Presidential polls. Every state has its own set of rules, with some having a provision for universal mail-in balloting, a throwback from the 19th century. Then there is that arbitrary institution known as the Electoral College which decides the size of the victory through a perverse set of rules which have always puzzled outsiders.
The practice of ballot harvesting can only add to the overall suspicion. The US Election Assistance Commission had in 2006 issued a report on election crimes which said:
“One point of agreement is that absentee voting and voter registration by nongovernmental groups create opportunities for fraud. For example, studies have cited circumstances in which voter registration drives have falsified voter registration applications or have destroyed voter registration applications of persons affiliated with a certain political party. Others conclude that paying persons per voter registration application creates the opportunity and perhaps the incentive for fraud.”
Attorney General William Barr had warned weeks in advance that mail-in voting could be especially vulnerable to fraud during the coronavirus pandemic. Though he later insisted that the Justice Department had not detected any major voter fraud, Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani issued a scathing statement that “there hasn’t been any semblance of an investigation” into the illegal voting in at least six states.
Given the complexities nothing but a complete reform in election laws can restore trust in the system. Failing which America will teeter on the political precipice every four years.
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Situated on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal, Umzumbe Beach is still relatively undiscovered. It’s a fantastic beach for families, with lifeguards on duty throughout the year, safe sea swimming conditions and a tidal pool.
During peak holiday season, environmental education activities are given for kids and holidaymakers. Access from the parking area to the beach is via a steep walkway. Ablutions and facilities have recently been enhanced.
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Boston – September 22
Walk for Nepal 2012 – Boston will be happening at the Carson
Beach area near the JFK/UMass station easily accessible by public
transportation and by driving.
Mother’s Rest Carson Beach Area
25 William J Day Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125
On-site registration will start at 11:00 am
Walk will start at 12:30 pm
You can register online now by going to our registration page.
Subway: Take the Red Line to JFK/UMass Station. Walk 0.25 miles east
along William J Day Boulevard until you arrive at the starting point.
Look for signs that will lead you to the location.
Bus: Take MBTA bus 5, 8, 11, 16, 0r 41
Driving: Free public parking space is available. Use the map below for directions.
We will walk along the shore between the two markers shown on the map
above, turning around at the second marker. The total walking distance
is about 3.5 miles.


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Questions over benefits of medications for mild hypertension
For patients with mild hypertension, who have not experienced any adverse health event related to their blood pressure, questions have been raised over the benefits of commonly prescribed medications. Four trials of approximately 9,000 patients have found no proven difference in mortality, stroke, coronary heart disease or total cardiovascular events between patients taking the medication and those taking a placebo. For patients with blood pressure in a certain range there is no proven benefit from taking medication. What was noticed was a trend towards reduction in stroke, but a trend towards increase in coronary heart disease. The drugs can cause harm. Jim Wright says a large randomised trial is needed to confirm the beneficial claims of newer medications.
Diao D, Wright JM, Cundiff DK, Gueyffier F.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012 Aug 15;8:CD006742.
Norman Swan: Systematic reviews of randomised trials are about as good as it gets in terms of informing decisions about your health. The Cochrane Collaboration is largely devoted to performing such reviews and one has just been published on the drug treatment of mild hypertension, raised blood pressure, the results of which could save the nation a fortune.
Jim Wright is Professor of Therapeutics at the University of British Columbia and Co-ordinating Editor of the Cochrane Hypertension Group.
Jim Wright: The way it is defined is that moderate to severe is above 160 systolic and above 100 diastolic, either/or.
Norman Swan: And mild is over 90 diastolic the bottom figure.
Jim Wright: Yeah, that’s right 90 to 99 for diastolic and 140 to 159 for systolic.
Norman Swan: There’s no question that in people with moderate to severe high blood pressure, medications save lives and reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes. But there’s been doubt about people who are otherwise healthy but have mild hypertension. What Jim Wright and his collaborators were able to do was pull the raw data from a set of randomised trials and reanalyse it by individual person with mildly raised blood pressure, a very powerful way of getting more reliable answers; and what the researchers into fish oil in the previous story were not able to do.
Jim Wright again.
Jim Wright: What we found is that we had approximately 9,000 patients in four trials and they were randomised to treatment or to placebo, and there was no proven differences in mortality, stroke, coronary heart disease or total cardiovascular events between the drug treated group and the placebo.
Norman Swan: It sounds extraordinary, I mean we in Australia have done some of the key trials in this area and I thought it was fairly clear that treatment over a diastolic over 90 does have benefits, but when you pooled all the information it didn’t play out.
Jim Wright: And we did include the Australian trial but the data in the Australian trial were somewhat flawed and the only outcome that we could use actually from the Australian trial were the mortality data.
Norman Swan: It was flawed?
Jim Wright: Yes, because people were cut off once they had an event so that you couldn’t look at total stroke or otherwise because if they had a heart attack first and then a stroke the stroke didn’t get counted.
Norman Swan: So there’s no benefit from putting people on medication if they are in this blood pressure range of 140 to 150 the top figure, 90 to 99 in the bottom figure. Yet the epidemiology, if you look at the population, the risk of heart attack and stroke does increase in that group. What’s your explanation for the lack of effect?
Jim Wright: Well we don’t say there’s no benefit, we haven’t proven no benefit but we haven’t been able to prove a benefit. It’s an important distinction. If we did have another 50,000 patients it’s possible that the benefit would outweigh the harms but it’s not clear whether that is the case. And what the data seem to show is a trend towards a reduction in stroke but a trend toward an increase in coronary heart disease.
Norman Swan: An increase?
Jim Wright: Yeah, an increase, and we’ve always known this that the drugs can cause harm as well and until you really have solid data you can’t say for sure that the benefits outweigh the harms.
Norman Swan: So if there is a benefit it’s very small. Now these trials would have used a variety of medications, some would have used what are called diuretics, some would have used beta blockers, some would have used newer drugs called ACE inhibitors and others.
Jim Wright: No, none of them used the newer drugs, they were all older trials and so the majority were thiazides but there were a fair number on beta blockers as first line.
Norman Swan: So what’s going to be your answer to the pharmaceutical industry when they say well their newer drugs are better?
Jim Wright: We would say prove it in a randomised control trial. That’s what’s needed right now. But in the meantime we may be harming more people than benefiting so it’s certainly worth it; we’re spending a lot of money.
Norman Swan: This is a huge group when you look at the population of people with high blood pressure, what proportion of people have blood pressure sitting in this group with mild hypertension?
Jim Wright: At least a half.
Norman Swan: Presumably that tracks through to the treatment that’s probably about half the people on treatment for high blood pressure would be in this group too.
Jim Wright: Yes, that’s correct.
Norman Swan: So if somebody’s listening to this and they’ve got mild hypertension, their GP has put a fear of God into them that they are going to get a stroke and a heart attack, what are they to do?
Jim Wright: When I realised that this was the case and I do run a high blood pressure clinic, it did change the way I approached these people. What I tell them now is that they are in a range where we don’t have proof that the drug treatment is going to make them live longer or prevent that event and therefore if they choose not to take any treatment it would be entirely appropriate. I leave it up to them and I actually get them to look at the evidence and then we discuss it and some people decide not to take the treatment and to work on lifestyle measures and others will choose to take a drug.
Norman Swan: And just to remind people about lifestyle measures which can reduce your blood pressure: reducing alcohol intake, reducing your weight and reducing your salt.
Jim Wright: And exercising.
Norman Swan: Sorry, I missed out on one of the most important ones, yes. And in so doing you could save the Canadian and Australian taxpayers quite a lot of money.
Jim Wright: That’s correct. But really the conclusions of this study are that a large randomised trial needs to be done, we have equipoise.We don’t know whether the benefits outweigh the harms so it would be ethical and appropriate to do a large trial.
Norman Swan: And finally we should just be clear that the recommendations in Australia and I think in Canada too are that if you’ve already had a heart attack or you’ve got diabetes and are therefore at very high risk of a second event, you should actually be put on an anti-high blood pressure drug because even though your blood pressure might not be that high it does have benefit.
Jim Wright: That’s still correct in that situation. So we’ve really been talking about people who haven’t had an event and who have a mild elevation in blood pressure.
Norman Swan: But if you’ve had a heart attack or stroke or needed a stent put in all bets are off, you’ve got to be on it.
Jim Wright: Yes.
Norman Swan: Jim Wright is Professor of Therapeutics at the University of British Columbia and Co-ordinating Editor of the Cochrane Hypertension Group.
- Jim Wright
- Professor Departments of Anaesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics and Medicine
University of British Colombia
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Vitamins B1 Supplements
Thiamine (Vitamin B1) is a water-soluble vitamin. It is essential for the utilization of carbohydrates. It is one of the most important members of Vitamins in B-Group.
The addition of sodium carbonate in cooking destructs it. Alcohol, caffeine, sulphur drugs and food processing methods also destroy Thiamine. It is stable in acid medium, and can stand short boiling up to 100 degree C. Hence, it is only partly lost in cooking or canning process.
Thiamine is readily lost from rice during the process of milling. Being a water-soluble vitamin, further losses take place during washing and cooking of rice. Much of thiamine in fruits and vegetables is generally lost during prolonged storage. Thiamine is also destroyed in toast and in cereals cooked with baking soda.
• It forms the active enzyme and is essential for the utilization of carbohydrate in the body.
• It maintains good appetite and normal digestion.
• It has fundamental role in brain metabolism.
• It prevents constipation, maintains normal blood count and circulation, protects against lead poisoning.
• It improves mental alertness, increases stamina, reduces fatigue, and delays aging effects.
• It is essential for oxidation of sugar in the tissues and brain.
• It helps the enzyme system which is responsible for the synthesis of fats from carbohydrates and proteins.
Natural Sources of Thiamine
Thiamine occurs in all natural foods, although in small amounts. Important sources are whole grain cereals, wheat germ, yeast pulses, oilseeds and nuts, especially groundnut. Meat, fish, eggs, vegetables and fruits contain smaller amounts. Milk is an important source of thiamine for infants, provided the thiamine status of their mothers is satisfactory.
Daily Requirement of Thiamine
Daily requirement of thiamine is 0.5 mg per 1000 kcals of energy intake. The body content of thiamine is placed at 30 mg, and if more than this is given it is merely lost in the urine.
• The two principal deficiency diseases are beriberi and Wernick’s encephalopathy.
• Its deficiency also leads to loss of appetite, absence of ankle and knee jerks, and presence of calf tenderness.
• Thiamine deficiency causes neurological and mental disturbances.
• Its deficiency may cause abdominal pains, muscle tenderness, emotional instability, constipation, heart irregularities and irritability.
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Colts owner Jim Irsay’s license has been suspended for one year following his March OWI arrest, according to court documents.
Andrew Luck led his team to the playoffs his rookie year. In season two, the Colts won a playoff game, and with their off-season additions, …
Indianapolis signed two free agents Wednesday cornerback Johnny Adams and center FN Lutz.
The Indianapolis Colts hosted the first-ever Mom’s Football Safety Clinic at the Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center on Sunday.
Indianapolis signed third-round draft pick Donte Moncrief on Friday.
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck joined two Riley’s Children Hospital kids in escorting the green flag to th…
Colts owner Jim Irsay was charged with 2 misdemeanors on Friday following his March OWI arrest.
A large picture of Colts quarterback Andrew Luck is now on the front of Lucas Oil Stadium.
NFL sacks champion Robert Mathis made one thing clear Wednesday: He’s coming back this season as a motivated man.
Colts linebacker Robert Mathis has apologized to his teammates for the four-game suspension he received from the NFL.


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What Are Same Day Dental Crowns?
You can restore your dental health and save time.
As adults, we often find ourselves fighting the battle of too much to do and not enough time to do it. When we get into these situations where there isn’t enough time, one of the things we forego is our trip to the family dentist. After all, if it seems that we can barely find the time to take a shower, other self-care items, including our oral care, will take a backseat.
Unfortunately, if we are experiencing tooth decay, a trip to the family dentist is needed. And sadly, cavities don’t just go away all by themselves. Ignoring a cavity and not getting a crown when your family dentist recommends it will allow it to grow in size and worsen in its severity. One cavity can lead to another before long. As decay progresses, your teeth become more brittle, making them more susceptible to cracks and breaks.
Dental crowns prevent the need for tooth extractions due to tooth decay. Once you have a tooth extracted, it can harm your ability to chew food, and it can also be detrimental to your future dental health. Thus, your family dentist will place a crown in the following situations:
- Your tooth has a severe crack.
- There isn’t sufficient tooth remaining to support a large filling.
- Your tooth has endured a root canal procedure.
- Your tooth has severe discoloration.
- Your tooth is chipped or misshapen.
Traditional crowns take two or more visits to the family dentist.
Getting a traditional dental crown generally involves two visits to your family dentist. During your first visit, your dentist will examine your damaged tooth, remove the decay, and take an impression of the prepared tooth. In some cases, this may involve a root canal. The impression is taken with a casting material placed into a dental tray. The tray is then inserted into your mouth for a short period to harden the casting material. The tray is then removed, and the cast of your tooth is sent to a lab.
During this waiting period, while the case is at the lab to create your custom crown, your family dentist will place a temporary crown over your damaged tooth to protect it and prevent more damage. You will then return to the dentist a week or so later to remove the temporary crown and get your permanent crown placed.
They are a time-saver for busy adults.
If you are a busy adult in Greensboro, NC, and are experiencing tooth decay, you may be interested in the time-saving convenience of same day dental crowns. Same day crowns are a popular cosmetic dentistry procedure. With a CEREC crown, Dr. Farless and Dr. Locklear can conveniently design, create, and position your crown in your mouth all in the same day.
The CEREC system uses modern cosmetic dentistry technology. It provides your dentists at Farless Dental Group with everything they need to design and mill your crown while you wait in the chair. With same day crowns, you’ll be able to get back to your busy life in no time, and your oral health will be all the better for it.
The Advantages of Same Day Dental Crowns
You may be wondering about the additional advantages of same day crowns. A CEREC-derived dental crown is just as good as a dental crown that is constructed in a lab. While there are different materials for different purposes, the choice most often used is Ivoclar’s Emax, also commonly known as IPS e.max. This material is metal-free and highly durable.
Additional advantages of same day dental crowns include:
- Restoration of function: If your tooth is damaged or broken, it will harm your smile’s appearance. Damaged teeth can also harm your speech patterns and eating habits.
- Injury prevention: Avoiding a crown after your dentist has recommended it makes your tooth more susceptible to injury. Further, if you take the traditional route and take too long between your temporary crown and permanent crown’s placement, the chances of your temporary crown becoming loose will increase. This can cause injury to other teeth in your mouth and can also harm your gums. With same day crowns, less drilling is required, which means more of your natural tooth structure can be preserved.
- More comfort: The precision gained by the CAD/CAM technology used to make your CEREC crown provides a more accurate and comfortable fit. Dr. Farless and Dr. Locklear will take digital impressions of your mouth so your dental crown will fit precisely.
- Cost savings: Though traditional crowns and same day crowns have similar costs, there are financial savings with fewer visits. One less appointment means more money in your pocket.
Farless Dental Group provides same day dental crowns for your convenience.
If you are ready to treat your cavity and don’t have the time for multiple trips to the dentist, a same day dental crown might be right for you. If you need a dental crown or would like more information about the same day crown process, you can request an appointment on the Farless Dental Group website or give us a call. We look forward to seeing you.


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The Bible is controversial on the matter of gender equality. There are numerous contradictions about the status of women in Christian society. Historically, the most prominent interpretation has been rather negative toward women. The Christian Church, with principally male authority, emphasizes the idea that women are inferior to man. They focus on Eve’s sin leading to a punishment that “her husband will have authority over her.” (Drury, 34)
In Shakespeare’s Othello, the nominal character, an honorable Venetian general, is driven to madness through the deceptions of his honest right hand Iago. Iago plots to ruin Othello and through his deception, he drives Othello’s insecurities by implanting the idea of infidelity of his beloved wife Desdemona. Othello goes on to murder his wife, and after he discovers Iago’s plot, he kills himself. In a time when women were looked down upon, Shakespeare crafted a drama in which women took part in major roles. Modeled by Elizabethan England the women in Othello were portrayed in a light justified by society as in Othello, these women were nothing more to than objectified possessions, forced to submit to the ever dying will of their husbands. This is displayed by Desdemona and Emilia’s and relationships with their husbands.
One of many tragedies written by William Shakespeare, Hamlet, takes place in the Kingdom of Denmark and is about the revenge of a grieving prince for the death of his father. Hamlet has a very low perspective of women, as past experiences have influenced him and make him think that they are subservient to him. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the two main woman are portrayed in contrast, as lustful and in search of one’s love, which deceives Hamlet of his opinion of them. At first, Hamlet believes that his mother and father, Hamlet Sr. and Gertrude, had infinite love for each other but after marrying the King’s brother only months after his death, Hamlet is given a bad impression of his mother and love itself. Month’s after the death of his father,
The basis of Shakespeare’s plays appears to focus mainly around the dominant male character and his conflicts, which tend to deal with a woman. There are only three women in the play Othello; Desdemona, Emilia and Bianca. The way in which these women behave and present themselves strongly reflects the ideological expectations of women within Shakespeare’s imagined Venetian society as well as the Elizabethan society in which he lived. This patriarchal Venetian society presented in the play depicts women as possessions of men who should remain submissive and meek at all times. The women are expected to unselfishly and unreservedly devote their lives to serve their fathers until they are of age to do so, their husbands. All three women love
William Shakespeare constantly filled his plays with cultural and mythological references that engulfed viewers in the story. He was well educated and progressive for his time; however he still had a few downfalls. His main one was that he often portrayed women as objects. Take Othello, for example; Desdemona is rarely seen as a person and often referred to as an object. Thus Shakespeare portrays women as mere possessions and deprives them of their humanity.
In the play ‘Othello’ written by William Shakespeare, we see not only the main male character leads. But we also see the female characters, Desdemona, Emilia, and Bianca. These three women were portrayed in ways that showed them being inferior to the other male roles as well as society during the Elizabethan Era. But Shakespeare made each of these individual ladies characteristics quite unique to one another having the traits of a feminist. Even though in the play we read how the male characters did somewhat control them and made them look weak compared to them, there were moments where Desdemona, Emilia and Bianca stood up for themselves.
Others have asserted that the roles of women in his plays were prominent for the time and culture that he lived in,his intent in creating characters to inspire much controversy. Two works, Taming of the Shrew, and Twelfth Night, stand out particularly well in regards to Shakespeare's use of female characters. If you could examine these two plays, you would see that Shakespeare, though conforming to contemporary attitudes of women, circumvented them by creating resolute female characters with a strong sense of self.
The role of women and gender representation in Othello challenged the male dominated society in that time period. Women in Shakespeare’s time were seen as being loyal and submissive to their husbands and not going against their husband’s judgment. Shakespeare developed complex and varied female characters in his plays, especially the women portrayed in Othello. In the play, Shakespeare introduces three female characters: Desdemona, Othello 's wife, Emilia, Iago’s wife and mistress to Desdemona, and Bianca, a prostitute who is interested in Cassio. The play examines the positions each woman has in the social hierarchy and also reviews the issue of adultery.
Women are a very important part of this world although they are sometimes not portrayed that way. One would think they would be seen as significant because of the fact that women make up almost half of the world’s population. Throughout all of history, females have been considered the weaker sex. In the play, Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, women are portrayed as weak minded and unfaithful. The inability to correctly make important life decisions, a weakened mental state, and complete obedience to men all contribute to this point.
Despite its first performance being in 1608 where women were not allowed to take part in theatre, William Shakespeare’s King Lear is arguably dominated by the female characters. The story focuses on a king who is driven into madness and decides to handover his power to his two eldest daughters, Regan and Goneril. These two daughters are exceptionally important to the development of the play since it can be argued that they are the ones commanding a fair share of the events that take place. This can also be said about Cordelia. According to Kate Downey Hickey and Catherine S. Cox, Cordelia is the essence of the play as she offers truth and evasiveness. In the following, the role of women will be discussed in King Lear. How are the female characters
Shakespeare also plays with the role of strong women as undesirable, even evil. As we see throughout many of his plays “it is common in Shakespeare’s plays… for the good characters to easily fall victim to their evil counterparts” (Peterson 12). This is particularly true of Cordelia and King Lear in the play, King Lear, as both become victims of Regan’s and Goneril’s plotting (Shakespeare V.iii.276-280). “Women as the most evil of characters is not a new experiment for Shakespeare” (Peterson 8).
In Macbeth, one of the most tragic and well known plays, William Shakespeare changes women’s part in society. During this time period, women are known to be both mentally and physically weaker than men. Women are called to be only housewives. Shakespeare reflected the image of women in society by giving the men bigger leads in his plays. Only in a few of Shakespeare's plays did he give women strong leading roles. Macbeth is one of the few plays where women play a more powerful role than the men. In Macbeth, he gives the women unusual traits like manipulation and betrayal. In William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, women like Lady Macbeth , the trio witches, and Lady Macduff portray non-feminine traits.
Firstly, the entire play is structured around the women and what they do. If Shakespeare was not trying to make a claim on gender roles then he would not have added merely three women. Right from the beginning, King Lear is foolish enough to think that giving his kingdom away would be wise. The play from then on revolves around Cordelia’s defiance and Regan and Goneril’s hypocritic actions towards their father. In other words, Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Webster represent the female characters in ‘Hamlet’ and ‘The duchess of Malfi’ by using general themes such as the patriarchy and the social control, the female identity and its independence, this institution of marriage, the expressions of sexuality and finally women shown to be either conformist or transgressive. Men were firmly in control in the Elizabethan and Jacobean era, and the expectations for women were to stay home, cook, clean and raise a family. Women’s status and roles were subject to the Tyranny of patriarchy, they were given strict disciplinary rules to follow whether by law or unspoken norms to prevent from rebellion. Women’s rights were restricted, legally, socially and economically, unlike today were women are more powerful and independent. Today women and men are seen to be equal and women can do pretty much everything a man can do (voting, working, becoming president) although there are many people still today who disagree with women having these rights.
Shakespearean tragedy is a story of one, or at most two persons. As a rule, they are male protagonists. But to say that Shakespeare’s female characters are shallow, undeveloped and used just as a decoration on the stage is very wrong. Women in Shakespeare’s tragedies have no leading role and they are, to paraphrase Northrop Frye, not tragic heroines, but heroines in a tragedy.

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Truck was running fine just shut off with the smell of a a coil burning in cab.
what would make the computer burn up in a 94 lighting? on 1994 Ford F-150 Lightning
there is a short somewhere whether it is a coil or wiring. thats needs to be repaired before replacing the ecu. failure to do so will result in the new one burning out


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Crimson clover is a nitrogen-fixing legume that can be used as a cover crop to improve soil health. In this blog post, we will discuss the benefits of using crimson clover as a cover crop and how to incorporate it into your management plan. Stay tuned for more information on using crimson clover in your […]
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21 Jan 2022 — All the key information needed ahead of Everton's Premier League clash against Aston Villa at Goodison Park.
But they will be favourites going into the game with a Blues team that is still without captain Seamus Coleman, Dele and Dwight McNeil. New signing Jack Harrison is also sidelined while there are doubts over Andre Gomes. Joe Thomas and Chris Beesley will be in the Villa Park press box to bring you all of the build-up, team news, live updates and post-match analysis. Kick-off is 2pm. Get involved and send your thoughts to @LivEchoEFC and don't forget to subscribe to our FREE Everton FC newsletter, our YouTube channel and listen to our Royal Blue Podcast - with all your favourite ECHO regulars including Joe Thomas, Chris Beesley, Connor O'Neill and Gav Buckland.
How will that have an impact on today's action? Time will tell. 12:43Keifer MacDonaldAnd here's what Chris Beesley thinks... Chris Beesley - Just the one change to side that lost to FulhamWith Sean Dyche declaring that Dominic Calvert-Lewin "comes straight back into the thinking" after his 90-minute run-out in a behind-closed-doors training match at Manchester United's Carrington complex on Tuesday, Everton's number nine should be back to lead the line at Aston Villa. The Blues boss has been cautious with the squad's main striker since he went off injured in his first game in charge - a 1-0 win over Arsenal back in February - but after pledges to leave no stone unturned when it came to resolving his fitness issues, a prolonged period on the sidelines, further setbacks at the climax of last season and then this summer's "factory reset, " the hope has to be that Calvert-Lewin can finally end the vicious cycle that has ensured he played in less than half Everton's matches in both of the last two seasons.
(Photo by Tony McArdle - Everton FC/Everton FC via Getty Images)13:00KEY EVENTEverton team news confirmed - Calvert-Lewin startsSean Dyche makes just one change to the side that suffered defeat at Goodison Park last weekend, with Dominic Calvert-Lewin replacing Neal Maupay. Everton: Pickford, Patterson, Keane, Tarkowski (C), Young; Garner, Gueye, Doucoure, Onana, Iwobi; Calvert-LewinSubs: Virginia, Maupay, Godfrey, Cannon, Onyango, Danjuma, Mykolenko, Branthwaite, Dobbin12:55Keifer MacDonaldStat attack - Blues looking to avoid historic defeat After losing against Fulham at Goodison Park last weekend, Everton will need to win at Villa Park this afternoon to ensure they don't become the first Blues side since 1956 to start the new season with back-to-back defeats.
13:08Chris BeesleyCalvert-Lewin will give Everton a new dimension As I'm sure most Evertonians hoped, Dominic Calvert-Lewin is back to lead the line today against Aston Villa which has to be a significant boost. The hope has to be that he can now stay fit. Regardless of his goal output - which was poor last season with just one strike from open play - his presence on the pitch alone brings a whole different dimension to the team's attack. BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - AUGUST 20: Dominic Calvert-Lewin of Everton before the Premier League match between Aston Villa and Everton FC at Villa Park on August 20, 2023 in Birmingham, England.
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A conclusion as to why some smart people support Trump is that it’s about tribes and fear. That fear, while tangentially factually-based, is grossly distorted from reality. Such fear appears to range from concern for personal safety, which is almost never in doubt, to a more generic anxiety about changes in our form of governance. They extrapolate progressive proposals to meaning the country is falling into Soviet-style communism. Lest you think I’m being too extreme, near daily a Ph.D.-level physicist sends out missives that the “Chi-Coms” control Biden and many of the Democratic Party senior officials. He is far from alone in transmitting communist symbology and associating it to the party. One of those is a retired CIA official. They are, after all, echoing Trump suggesting Biden is controlled by “people in the dark shadows.” That behavior might be expected from Russian trolls, but these comments emanate from well-educated Americans.
One of my most perplexing issues is attempting to understand why some very intelligent people remain ardent Trump supporters. It appears as if they are oblivious to facts that appear to be self-evident. Some of them, despite having advanced degrees and being very accomplished in their fields, ignore ground truth in favor of substitute theories that are the basis for alternate realities. After exploring a variety of options for intelligent people supporting Trump, the most parsimonious reason is that they identify with a primigenial tribe often from an amorphous impending sense of fear. Unfortunately, the tribe they think they belong to, the GOP, no longer exists in the form it was when they joined.
As Marianna Pogosyan, Ph.D. noted in Psychology Today, “perception is biased, selective, and malleable,” which explains part of what we are experiencing in today’s political environment. Called motivated reasoning, or motivated perception, these concepts do indicate frequently, we only see what we want to see. What seems certain is that in these current exchanges, fear is the motivating fact. It is also important to know that there are physiological differences that have been observed in the brains of conservatives and progressives. Specifically, fMRI studies found that under threat, increased activation of the amygdala is seen in conservatives. That means “when conservatives take risks, they are experiencing a higher level of arousal and a greater sensitivity to threatening stimuli.”
It is known that a substantial number of Trump’s voter base are less-educated white males. However, intelligence and educational level are not great predictors of who is more easily conned or mislead. In fact, magicians and con artists have known that for a very long time. But the issue addressed here concerns support in face of substantial evidence of the egregious behavior exhibited by Trump.
There are small groups for whom voting for Trump is reasonable. The first individuals are those with financial motives and that benefit in their personal circumstances from his actions. They might be among the very rich who have gained from tax breaks or are concerned about the oversight and regulations that could be enacted under a more liberal governance. Their support could be based on logical analysis of how their respective businesses might fare. For those in the financial sector, greater restrictions could lead to reduced income. Higher taxes that might be imposed on the rich also offers a rationale for avoidance of a Democratic Party controlled government. Some of them believe the events leading up to the economic crash of 2008 is something they could avoid if only allowed to police their own activities. History does not support such claims of self-responsibility. Numerically, however, those people meeting such financial criteria are relatively few in number.
Then there is the group of ultra-conservatives who are willing to make a Faustian bargain to reshape jurisprudence in America. That process is well underway. In addition to the two Supreme Court justices, that Trump has appointed, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, under McConnell’s connivance, the Senate has confirmed 142 judges to U.S. District Courts, 32 to U.S. Court of Appeals, and a whopping 197 Federal Article III judges. While many of the nominees have been rated well-qualified, there are several who, though rated unqualified, have still been confirmed by the Senate. The damage that will be done to the country shall last for decades as their “conservative” opinions attempt to return the country to a time that never was. Already, we have seen findings that support gerrymandering and other voter suppression techniques.
Of most concern are the people who do not fit any rational prerequisite for support, yet continue to do so even when confronted with massive data about the damage being done to the country. Amazingly they have demonstrated the ability to justify any edict from Trump, no matter how illogical or counterfactual. Trump’s pronouncements on the COVID-19 pandemic are rife with examples. They range from “15 cases going to zero,” the repeatedly claimed, “we have it under control,” to his denial of personal responsibility. Even when Trump touts the absurd, like drinking disinfectant as a cure, these supporters create rationale to patronize whatever he espouses.
As indicated, the majority of Trump’s base are not well-educated. Many of them can be explained by considering the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Explored in other articles, the Dunning-Kruger Effect basically means that the person believes themselves to be far more knowledgeable than they really are. However, that only holds in the lesser educated group as some of these highly educated supporters are well versed on the facts, but tend to ignore issues that are not in accordance with their predisposition.
Education is an interesting criterion, but not the determining factor for those Trump supporters. One key proponent of whom I speak, actually went to the same schools with me from K-12. For the most part (K-9), we were in a very small class together, thus exposed to the same material and ethics. When counterintuitive facts are presented in political dialogue, his general reaction is to not respond. The alternative is “but what about,” and digression to an unrelated topic.
A very important factor appears to be where those supporters get their information. For most of those I have asked, it is from Fox News. A couple of those educated supporters have suggested watching OANN and claim their programming is more accurate than the dreaded mainstream media (MSM). They are correct in saying one will see news on OANN that won’t be seen on MSM, and for a reason. It is unbelievably biased and often spreads known conspiracy theories such as COVID-19 was created in a laboratory. The OANN actually makes Fox News look moderate, but it should be remembered that Fox News also was a proponent of the Seth Rich murder conspiracy.
Of course, it is no accident that the Trump supporters choose media outlets that reinforce their beliefs. Most people, consciously or unconsciously, do the same seeking confirmation bias for their political positions. There are very few outliers who are broadly read, yet still conclude Trump is worthy of their support. They are well aware of his personality and behavioral shortcoming, yet appear to accept them and capitulate to fear
Tribalism tends to trump rationalism. For many supporters, they identify with party affiliation with little or no understanding of what their group currently embraces. Most political observers recognize that Trump has taken over the GOP yet does not hold many of the traditional values that once were hallmarks. The main observation would be that he is not a conservative. Notably, this election cycle the GOP did not publish a new platform. Rather than a thoughtful deliberation of complex issues, the 2020 fallback position appears to be “Whatever Trump wants.” Certainly, the politically astute are keenly aware that the party has been hijacked. That led to the formation of the Lincoln Project that is dedicated to Trump’s removal, recognizing that they relinquish control for at least one election cycle and hope they can restore sanity in the future.
Another example is a well-educated consultant with a military background and with whom I corresponded on the topic. When addressing values, I noted that our normal common ones, including truth and integrity, were at stake with Trump. The response was astounding. He indicated that based on Biden’s acceptance speech, it was he who was not truthful. His comment was, “He (Biden) totally misquoted Trump about the riots where the Alt-Right showed their sorry asses. He (Trump) actually condemned them.” The only quote Biden made in that presentation regarding Trump was the infamous, “There were very fine people – on both sides.” The quote is accurate. As Marc Thiessen noted in a Washington Post op-ed, “A year after Charlottesville, Trump has still not explicitly condemned them.”
There is another person who simply relies on hatred of all Democratic politicians. He has no rational explanation for his position and is impervious to facts. His stated solution was “to take out 30 top Democrats and line them up against the wall and shoot them.” The zealot saying this to me went on to indicate that executions should continue each day until no one would identify as a Democrat. This is not isolated and signifies how deeply these anti-American concepts have permeated in some areas. Comparisons with 1933 Germany are not far off the mark.
Trump’s amorality is common knowledge yet obediently excused by his supporters. Their tolerance for hypocrisy is boundless and they appear to have no comprehension of the incongruence between their professed beliefs and Trump’s actions. Equally observed is Trump’s falsely taking credit for the positive work of others such as the economic trends inherited from Obama. This week he shamelessly claimed credit for sending the National Guard into Kenosha when it was the governor of Wisconsin that gave the order. Conversely, he refuses to accept responsibility for his negative actions/inactions such as the thousands of unnecessary COVID deaths in the country.
In 2016, Trump constructed a similar narrative indicating that the country was in disarray, and that he “alone could fix it.” Obviously, he failed. Recycled fear is exactly what Trump is sowing with a dystopian worldview that engulfs his followers. For his base, facts matter not. Portland has not “been burning for decades, nor would Kenosha have been “in ashes.”
When fear permeates, logic, values, and morals become sacrificial. The result, even with some intelligent and well-educated individuals, the tendency is to regress towards a more primal and tribal mentality, one that can obscure rationality and consensus reality. As shown, we even have scientists rejecting science and some military supporters willing to overlook Trump’s abandonment of allies in combat. Meanwhile, they allow QAnon fear-based conspiracy theories that Satanist pedophiles are in positions of power to percolate into mainstream thought.
The question becomes how can such easily identifiable errors be entertained by well-informed supporters? More disturbing is the sense that not only are alternative facts acceptable, but that our value systems are also biased, selective, and malleable. That is a very dangerous proposition.
In ending, I note former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair’s quote on his 30 August interview with Fareed Zakaria on his Sunday GPS (Global Public Square) on CNN. Addressing the future of Western Democracy, he stated, “I am mildly pessimistic.” Given what we are observing, that is an understatement. As Barack Obama, and other astute political observers have indicated, in this election, our democracy is at stake.


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A federal judge in Georgia ruled that a sheriff's placing "No Trick-or-Treat" signs outside the homes of registered sex offenders violated their constitutional rights.
U.S. District Court Judge Marc Treadwell granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday barring Sheriff Gary Long in Butts County from the putting the warning signs outside the homes of the three offenders who sued over the practice.
The class-action lawsuit by the three plaintiffs said it represented all of the registered sex offenders in Butts County, about 52 miles southeast of Atlanta.
"The question the Court must answer is not whether Sheriff Long’s plan is wise or moral, or whether it makes penological sense. Rather, the question is whether Sheriff Long’s plan runs afoul of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. It does," the judge's ruling says.
The decision agreed with the sex offenders' contention that the signs were a form of forced speech. The posters forced the offenders to accept the sheriff's "message that their homes are unsafe, the ruling said.
Sheriff Long and his deputies placed the posters in offenders' yards last Halloween, and the sheriff wanted to do it again this year to "ensure the safety of our children," he wrote in a Facebook post last week.
The large white signs included images of two stop signs, the "no" symbol across a Halloween bag and the message: "WARNING! NO TRICK-OR-TREAT AT THIS ADDRESS!!"
Long said in a Facebook statement on Tuesday that he "respectfully and strongly" disagrees with the ruling.
"For this Halloween, our Deputies will keep a very strong presence in the neighborhoods where we know sex offenders are likely to be," he wrote. "Deputies will have candy in their patrol vehicles and will interact with the children until the neighborhood is clear of Trick-or-Treaters."
The sex offenders argued in their lawsuit that the placing of the signs violated laws against trespassing on private property in addition to their constitutional rights against forced speech. The suit also said that one deputy told an offender that if he removed the sign he would be arrested.
Under Georgia law, the names, photos and addresses of sex offenders are made available to the public, but Judge Treadwell's ruling said the "statute does not require or authorize sheriffs to post signs in front of sex offenders’ homes."
The posters were "dubious at best and even more dubious if posted over the objection of registrants," the ruling said.
"To be clear, this injunction in no way limits Sheriff Long’s discretion to act on specific information suggesting a risk to public safety," the judge wrote. "But he cannot post the signs over the named Plaintiffs’ objections simply because their names are on the registry" of sex offenders.


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I learned this quick whitewater gear tip haphazardly when I did not want to deal with putting wet/dirty gear back in my gear bag that was still full of other gear that had not yet been wet and smelly that day. Turns out when you paddle multiple times in a day you collect a plethora of gear to help stay motivated. I find my motivation dwindles when the thought of climbing into humid, fetid gear becomes a reality, but I digress.
One of the easiest ways to keep things separate until you get to your friends place, and you can take over his girlfriends shower to dry your gear, is to simply use your skirt as a temporary gear bag. This is also a great thing to do if your only taking a couple of things to the pool or even the lake or river and do not want to lug around a cumbersome gear bag. Check it out below!

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The presence of a ghost in her life doesn't alarm Lacy Aegar - in fact it makes her happy. Two and a half years ago when her dead husband, Nicholas, reappeared in her life as a full-bodied spirit, she questioned her sanity. But with Nicholas's explanation that things about life are not as she's always believed, she settled into a pleasant routine of working with her sister at their private investigation business and enjoying home life with her now eight-year-old son - with Nicholas never very far away.
Lacey's complacency and sense of stability is sent topsy-turvy when she runs into Jackson Carter, the son of powerful and influential business tycoon William Carter. Typical of the Carter reputation, Jackson's slick new private investigating business is siphoning off clients from the Aegar sisters' business, creating financial difficulty. It's a recurring nightmare for Lacey, who has already seen damage done by the Carter family, and when she encounters Jackson, she wants nothing to do with him.
But things are not what they seem when it comes to Jackson Carter, either. He's fighting a battle to preserve his business, too, and his integrity. For him, it's a fight for his soul. As they work together, Jackson and Lacey not only face death, they come to grips with their feelings about love and life.
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