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Since 1954, a thriving black middle class has emerged, along with growing numbers of Latinos and other groups who are reaping the rewards of a multicultural society. And, of course, the ascent of the nation’s first black President only accentuates the achievements of many African American professionals in recent decades.

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EP.41  Historically, religion and its adherents have been often oppressed by  government. By contrast, America has been singular in its dedication to  preserving the freedom of its people to expect and experience religious  freedom. That is now rapidly changing.  The number of violent attacks on churches and church gatherings  witnessed in recent months is unsettling. Protesters and rioters across  the country have decapitated statues of Jesus, desecrated images of the  Virgin Mary and vandalized monuments to a Jesuit priest. 

Churches—in  Washington, D.C. and California—have been set ablaze as "symbols of  oppression." Fire, chain and boot are the tool and trade of a culture  laying siege to religious freedom.  Using the pandemic as an excuse, elected officials have threatened to  permanently shut down synagogues, banned drive-in church services and  forbidden singing or chanting in religious services, while decreeing  that massive protests with shouting and singing are allowed.

 Riots Erupt Across America

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  Riots Raging across America over police shooting death of Walter Wallace Jr in Philadelphia 

  Hundreds of protesters marched through the US city of Philadelphia for a second night, demanding racial justice after police fatally shot a black man.

The family of Walter Wallace Jr says he was suffering a mental health crisis when officers opened fire on him.

Police say they shot him because he would not drop a knife he was holding.

The National Guard as well as police reinforcements have been deployed. Authorities say 30 officers were hurt during Monday night clashes.

The city's police have also accused protesters of looting and ransacking businesses during the unrest.

Mr Wallace, 27, had bipolar disorder, and his wife told officers this before they shot him, a lawyer representing his family said.

Philadelphia also saw large protests earlier this year over police brutality and racism following the death of George Floyd in Minnesota. 

Episode 39 The opioid crisis during the Covid -19 Pandemic is Sky rocketing   2018 data shows that every day, 128 people in the United States die  after overdosing on opioids.1 The misuse of and addiction to  opioids—including prescription pain relievers, heroin, and synthetic  opioids such as fentanyl—is a serious national crisis that affects  public health as well as social and economic welfare. The Centers for  Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the total "economic  burden" of prescription opioid misuse alone in the United States is  $78.5 billion a year, including the costs of healthcare, lost  productivity, addiction treatment, and criminal justice involvement.2 How did this happen? In the late 1990s, pharmaceutical companies reassured the medical  community that patients would not become addicted to prescription opioid  pain relievers, and healthcare providers began to prescribe them at  greater rates. This subsequently led to widespread diversion and misuse  of these medications before it became clear that these medications could  indeed be highly addictive.3,4 Opioid overdose rates began to increase.  In 2017, more than 47,000 Americans died as a result of an opioid  overdose, including prescription opioids, heroin, and illicitly  manufactured fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid.1 That same year, an  estimated 1.7 million people in the United States suffered from  substance use disorders related to prescription opioid pain relievers,  and 652,000 suffered from a heroin use disorder (not mutually  exclusive).5 What do we know about the opioid crisis? Roughly 21 to 29 percent of patients prescribed opioids for chronic pain  misuse them.6 Between 8 and 12 percent develop an opioid use disorder.6  An estimated 4 to 6 percent who misuse prescription opioids transition  to heroin.7–9  About 80 percent of people who use heroin first misused prescription  opioids.7

Businesses are being devastated by Covid-19 epidemic Because of Lock downs/When is enough enough?

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As exciting and awesome as the rewards of swinging can be, the lifestyle does come with some real worries & risks. You should talk with your partner to see if you are both comfortable with the risks and share your worries with each other.  You want to work together when deciding if the risks are worth the potential rewards of swinging.

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Taking someone else’s advice, even when you ask for it, is difficult.  Entire studies have been conducted just to understand the widespread  phenomenon of “advice discounting.”  But even as we ignore the well-intentioned suggestions of our friends,  families and therapists, many of us come back week after week to the  advice columns published by a slew of print and digital media outlets.  It’s hard to say exactly how many people read advice columns, but it’s  clear that many have built devoted followings over the years. The  workplace-focused “Ask a Manager,” for example, receives 2.4 million  visits a year and 50 questions a day, writes Alison Green, the author  behind that column for the past decade, writes in Vox. Several advice  columnists, including Green and Ask Polly’s Heather Havrilesky, have  parlayed their success into books.

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There is a popular belief in the marriage and relationship world that when the doldrums hit and you find yourself more numb than really alive, you should look for ways to get back what you once had.

EP. 34  The many wonders and uses for the cannabis plant aka marijuana aka mary  jane 

Today, more than 150 million people regularly smoke cannabis, making it  one of the world's most popular recreational drugs. But when and where  humans began to appreciate the psychoactive properties of weed has been  more a matter of speculation than science Cannabis, also known as hemp or marijuana, evolved about 28 million  years ago on the eastern Tibetan Plateau, according to a pollen study  published in May. A close relative of the common hop found in beer, the  plant still grows wild across Central Asia. More than 4000 years ago,  Chinese farmers began to grow it for oil and for fiber to make rope,  clothing, and paper. Cannabis can be found in various forms, and the health benefits of  cannabis is ever growing, here Tara Leo of Cali Extractions gives us an  insight regarding the diverse benefits of the plant. Cannabis contains CBD which is a chemical that impacts the brain, making  it function better without giving it a high along with THC which has  pain relieving properties. Both substances can be extracted and enhanced  for use through short path distillation. Users can get the following  health benefits of cannabis:

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