Monthly Archives: July 2020

It’s bad enough when regular food stuff gets stagnant after a couple days resting on your kitchen counter. However when instilled edibles start losing their freshness … well, heck, edibles aren’t cheap!

If you’re going to do edibles, you might too do them right, which means having the devices to ensure your item remains both delicious and enticing while also avoiding of the hands of anyone in your family who should not be partaking.

The Herbal Infuser created a wise, practical answer to the freshness question with their Mighty Safe Vacuum Vault

Similar to a vault shops and protects your belongings, so does the Mighty Safe stand guard over the quality and longevity of your food or herbs. Crafted from stainless steel, this food-grade storage container employs a recyclable vacuum seal system that secures smells and seals in freshness.

Simply put your product inside this 0.7-liter container, lock on your lid, struck the pump about 20 or 30 times to suck out all the air, and your edibles and herbs will stay fresh for up to 15 days. There’s even a color indicating nipple that lets you understand when you have actually got a secure vacuum seal.

The Mighty Safe makes it possible to pace yourself without feeling the need to scarf down the whole edible in one sitting so it does not spoil. It likewise keeps your item safely encased, protected from sunlight and totally out of the way of potentially curious animals or children who might be attracted by unattended cookie or brownie.

You ‘d be hard-pressed to find a simpler, more efficient way of securing your herbs or making a great pot treat last for days than employing this small, but formidable protector into your regimen.

Routinely priced at $29, you can pick up a Mighty Safe Vacuum Vault and even save a couple bucks at the same time, getting it on sale now for $2699

” Lots of powerful business that drive environmental injustice are also backers of the exact same police departments that tyrannize the extremely communities these corporate actors pollute,” write the authors of a newly released investigation by the Public Accountability Effort The report is titled “Nonrenewable fuel source Industry Contaminates Black & Brown Communities While Propping Up Racist Policing” and it’s a damning indictment of corporate giants who protect their astronomical wealth by making use of the susceptible.

From the report:

It is building a huge ethane cracker plant near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that some feel could start to turn Appalachia into the next “Cancer Alley”– the label for the New Orleans-to-Baton Rouge corridor of Louisiana refineries, where Shell is also a significant polluter Cancer Alley runs through several Black communities that deal with very high rates of contamination and cancer– largely thought to be caused by refining and petrochemical operations.
• Entergy is a publicly-traded, Fortune 500 business headquartered in Louisiana that likewise services parts of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas. Entergy is perhaps the most powerful corporate force in Louisiana, with presences on prominent chambers, company associations, humanitarian organizations, and even charter school advocacy groups throughout the state. Entergy is a “ Featured Partner” of the New Orleans Police and Justice Structure with top billing on the foundation’s sponsors page. In 2018 Entergy made headings after it paid actors $60-200 dollars to impersonate grassroots fans at a City Council conference that was thinking about the business’s proposed gas-fired power plant in New Orleans East, house to a big Vietnamese community. The resulting scandal, suit, and city board examination prompted the Entergy New Orleans CEO to action down
• Wells Fargo is the second biggest worldwide lender behind nonrenewable fuel sources, with nearly $198 billion in financing between 2016 and2019 The scandal-ridden bank has a variety of ties to authorities foundations. It is a platinum sponsor and has two board seats with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Authorities Structure. It is also a partner and donor to the Seattle Cops Structure, a director and sponsor of the Atlanta Police Foundation, and a donor to the Salt Lake City Cops Structure. When it comes to financial ties to racist practices and institutions, Wells Fargo comfort with the police is just one example: the bank has been involved in inequitable financing, propping up private jails, and much more (for more details, inspect out the ACRE’s Forego Wells project).

CBD-infused coffee practically sounds like the premise for a bad comedy episode. Seriously … isn’t it nearly comical to consider what occurs when the go-go kick of high-octane caffeine slams headlong into the soothing, peaceful impacts of CBD?

The reality is, it actually can be the very best of both worlds scenario for lots of CBD coffee fans. A morning cup not only starts the day and propels you along like conventional coffee, however thanks to CBD, without any of the jitters or headaches that some encounter. Plus, you still get all the pain relief, anti-anxiety, and other medicinal benefits that CBD supplies.

Because it’s certainly worth trying for yourself, you can begin with some quality by sampling this Bean and Bud by Allo Increase mix

Made from 100 percent Arabica coffee beans, this combination of elite beans with CBD is an exquisite balancing act. In order to preserve accountable and sustainable practices, Bean and Bud coffees are sourced directly from farmers, who really utilize their own unique natural processes to instill the coffee with industrial CBD without losing the grain’s genuine homes.

This African Essential Blend Coffee is rich, yet strong, with noteworthy tips of raspberry and dark chocolate with no synthetic flavors or ingredients. The 8-ounce bag contains 320 mg of CBD, which lots of users swear serves as a near miracle elixir, offering relief for anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, body discomfort, and even a better night’s sleep.

If you’re already somebody who makes everyday Starbucks runs or appreciates the relaxing homes of CBD, this Bean and Bud blend may be the ideal method to see how those 2 worlds work together to assist you browse through your day.

Right now, you can get an 8-ounce bag of Bean and Bud by Allo Rise, helpful for about 40 cups of coffee, for $2 off the routine price, available now for simply $2999

A “growing tide of customers” gaining from the pain and anxiety alleviation properties CBDs offer isn’t even human; in fact, its members are pets, says a brand-new market report on hemp-derived items.

However, remarkably, this CBD family pet market is “genuinely taking off,” the report, provided today from data-intelligence business Brightfield Group, says: In 2020, pet CBD sales are growing to an estimated $426 million.

The family pet market is among the couple of bright spots in a rather bleak file whose total message is that, “In the very first half of 2020, CBD companies are experiencing a loss in earnings due to save closures and consumer concerns about coronavirus and their finances.” High joblessness, momentary brick-and-mortar-store closures and price compression have been related issues.

In the pet market, meanwhile, what may be unexpected to some observers is the fact that vets are being mostly left on the sidelines of this new Fido-based market phenomenon. With excellent factor: Even as family pet owners buy up increasing amounts of casts, treats, capsules and topicals, telling researchers that traditional medications don’t do enough, vets watch out for getting involved due to the murky regulative environment.

” Just California has passed legislation that specifically licenses veterinarians to talk about cannabis (consisting of CBD) with their clients, but still does not enable the ability to prescribe CBD,” the report states.

California Assembly Bill 2215 may prohibit the state’s Veterinary Medical Board (VMB) from taking disciplinary action versus veterinarians for discussing medicinal usages of marijuana, however it also restricts animal doctors from giving or administering these items to their clients.

On The Other Hand, the VMB, in January, published standards for how veterinarians can go over marijuana with their patients’ human owners. An important reason for the limitations is the lack of medical data readily available with which vets can back up any declarations.

In spite of this factor to pause, nevertheless, animal owners are still apparently believers: The report says that by 2025, as more clinical data becomes available and policies progress, enabling vets to speak more freely, animal CBD can be anticipated to make up a $1.1 billion market.

That kind of price quote has actually naturally drawn rapt attention from huge pet-product gamers like Pedigree, Eukanuba, 31 Whiskas, Iams and Purina. Chains like Petco and PetSmart and the specialized chain Bentley’s Animal Things, meanwhile, have actually been selling CBD items considering that2020 And, while canines have actually been the primary market target until now, products are being established for felines, birds and horses.

In the present market, products vary in rate from $20 deals with to $200 high-dosage or high-volume casts, which make up the largest share of the animal market. Among the family pet stores that Brightfield called in 2019 for this research study, all of those carrying CBD equipped cast products; 80 percent used deals with or other edibles; and less than half brought topicals or capsules.

Meanwhile, the rest of Brightfield’s 72- page report addresses the “saturated” CBD market in general, pointing out that the top 20 CBD business have technically lost share however still “keep the majority piece of a new larger pie.” In addition, the heightened competitors since the 2018 Farm Costs made hemp products legal may mean difficult times for smaller sized companies.

Still, the report says, there’s “room for development.” In truth, regardless of the backdrop of the infection, business are continuing to present new products. And here, tastes aren’t the focus any longer even practical components like elderberry, melatonin and turmeric in addition to the small cannabinoids CBG and CBN.

One bypassing problem, besides the virus, Brightfield states, is that CBD items are in “regulatory limbo” considering that the FDA doesn’t currently enable these items to be marketed as dietary supplements or contributed to food. That will not last forever.

” In the most likely case that the FDA develops a regulatory framework for CBD to be marketed as dietary supplements and the mainstream market continues to welcome hemp-derived CBD across the nation, the market is anticipated to grow rapidly, reaching $168 billion by 2025,” the report predicts.

NBC News has a recent piece on, “the hidden hand that uses money to reform troubled police departments” — essentially, looking at the private industry solutions to public law enforcement problems. It’s a worthwhile read if you’re interested in police reform like me. While it doesn’t go too in-depth, it does provide a glimpse at the ways that the existence (read: threat) of private insurers have helped to mitigate some potential police misconduct … and also how that can totally backfire and end up sapping resources away from a town — especially when the lawsuit and insurance coverage means that offending cops still keep their jobs..

For insurers, police reform is about money, not morality. Just as State Farm wants to prevent car crashes, a liability insurer wants to prevent lawsuits.

When the customers are police departments, “loss prevention” means teaching police departments how to reduce risk. In the first in-depth study of how insurers affect police, Rappaport surveyed the industry’s carrots and sticks, from policy audits to virtual reality use-of-force simulators. Often, insurers educate departments about risky topics like vehicle pursuits and strip searches. Many do site visits and go on ride-alongs, keeping “watch lists” for departments with histories of costly lawsuits, according to the study. Rappaport’s favorite example is the insurer that sends representatives incognito to hang out at “cop bars” to observe the police culture.

“Insurers are clearly affecting the behavior of police departments they insure, for better or for worse,” Rappaport said. “They are capable of doing it for the better and sometimes more efficiently than governmental agencies and prosecutors.”

As the article rightly points out, a large barricade with this private insurance solution is that it’s famously difficult to sue the police, or really file any kind of complaint that leads to any other action. Which means sure, towns can pay for police insurance, but it’s just going to inflate their police budgets, which are likely already inflated beyond demonstrably practical values to begin with.

One more thing that did stand out to me from this article, that made it feel particularly relevant to current events:

About 85 percent of police departments serve municipalities of under 25,000 people, and they are likely to be covered by liability insurers. These smaller departments rarely make national news, but they are more likely than big-city departments to be troubled, experts said. While police killings have fallen in big cities over the past six years, a FiveThirtyEight data analysis shows that they have increased in suburban and rural areas.

This discrepancy can likely explain a lot of the American political tension around policing. In small towns, people are more likely to have personal relationships with their police departments; and unfortunately, this means people are also willing to make more excuses for them. It probably means they feel safer, because their community is likely more homogenized (read: mostly white), and are thus more likely to think that’s due to police protecting them from outsiders (read: not white). When people in those small (read: mostly white) rural and suburban areas hear about police misconduct in The Big Scary Cities, it immediately gets racialized. Urban police departments might have larger workforces, which makes it easier for things to get lost in the bureaucratic machine; but again, small towns can still weaponize that bureaucratic machine, with the added shield of personal relationships and small town pride.

I’m not sure what the conclusion is, but it certainly made me think.

The hidden hand that uses money to reform troubled police departments [Kit Ramgopal and Brenda Breslauer]

Image: U.S. Air Force photo by Kendra Williams [Public Domain]

Back in the old days of the 20 th century, usefulness was the biggest factor most people used a watch. If you didn’t have a clock face right on your wrist, how else would you know the time?

Naturally, in the age of mobile phones and even smartwatches, the time is available essentially all over at any time at a look. Watchmakers today have guided greatly into the other factor people have always used watches– due to the fact that they look cool as hell.

Fashion-forward watches are the objective declaration for Zinvo, a luxury watch producer committed to crafting striking style pieces that immediately stand out. And each member of the Zinvo Blade collection reaches that lofty objective in true attention-grabbing design.

Zinvo Blade sees feature their unique dial style that includes a spinning titanium disk that changes the traditional 2nd hand.

Despite their tough eye for style, Zinvo doesn’t cut corners on function either. Constructed with a 44 mm gunmetal stainless steel case, resistant scratch evidence sapphire crystal, water resistance to 330 feet and a genuine leather strap, the Blade watches are developed to last.

These self winding watches are created to gain power from the natural motions of the wrist, making winding unneeded. The mechanical motion core of the Blade is so trusted, it will even continue running and keeping best time for up to 42 hours when it’s left fixed.

The Zinvo Blade family consists of 4 different designs, beginning with the Phantom.

What’s hotter than black on black as a design aesthetic? Combining self-confidence and mindset with premium stainless-steel, the Phantom is a complete black males’s watch with red accents that simply yells too cool for the space.

One of Zinvo’s first Blade designs, the Gunmetal still works because of its traditional design that appears like you just crafted it in your machine shop. The rotating steel gunmetal blades also stand apart particularly strikingly versus the black dialface.

One of the most popular members of the Blade collection, the Nitro integrates electrical blue accents and a perforated leather strap that nearly makes it appear like it’s surging with power.

The Hooligan is all about the bronze. Cool bronze undertones give this model a classically rugged, yet classy look.

Right now, these four members of the Zinvo Blade Collection are all on sale at $70 off their routine $289 price, down to just $21999

Recently, we lost iconic avant-garde designer, Kansai Yamamoto. Yamamoto is best understood for this long-term cooperation with David Bowie, especially the outfits for the Martian rocker’s Ziggy Stardust tour.

On the Fashion United website, there’s a piece about the 2018 Brooklyn Museum evening with Yamamoto, done in support of the David Bowie Is display.

Here, Yamamoto describes his collaboration with Bowie:

” Unlike me, Bowie was quiet, shy, but on stage he flips a switch and becomes David Bowie,” says Yamamoto. “Me, I’m constantly that way.” They shared a love of what the designer calls “radical look,” and when asked what they learned from each other, he responds that through Bowie he established his understanding of Western gown while he helped Bowie interpret Eastern clothing. He agrees that he sees a direct line between what he produced in the 70 s for Bowie and the present conversation on gender and gown. “I approached Bowie’s clothes as if I was creating for a woman,” he confesses. “Notice there is no zipper in front.” But he feels proud seeing how the more youthful generation going to the “David Bowie Is” display can reveal themselves when compared to the social restrictions he came across in Japan 50 years ago, as a self-taught, broke, designer introducing his career at the age of21 A professional photographer had snapped a picture of him strolling along London’s Kings Roadway and it was included on the cover of Life publication. “I felt every day I was the model in a fashion program and everybody around me were members of the audience,” he states. “There were many times, individuals looked at me unusual.”

Check out the rest.

Images: FashionUnited and FaceMePLS (CC BY 2.0)

Trump and Junior are urging their social media followers to heed the Covid-19 advice of Dr. Stella Immanuel, a Houston pediatrician who has determined that many diseases are caused by sex with demons and/or alien DNA. The Daily Beast reported that Dr. Immanuel “praises hydroxychloroquine and says that face masks aren’t necessary to stop transmission of the highly contagious coronavirus.”

From The Daily Beast:

In sermons posted on YouTube and articles on her website, Immanuel claims that medical issues like endometriosis, cysts, infertility, and impotence are caused by sex with “spirit husbands” and “spirit wives”—a phenomenon Immanuel describes essentially as witches and demons having sex with people in a dreamworld.

“They are responsible for serious gynecological problems,” Immanuel said. “We call them all kinds of names—endometriosis, we call them molar pregnancies, we call them fibroids, we call them cysts, but most of them are evil deposits from the spirit husband,” Immanuel said of the medical issues in a 2013 sermon. “They are responsible for miscarriages, impotence—men that can’t get it up.”

In related news, Twitter penalized Junior for posting hydroxychloroquine misinformation. From The Washington Post:

Twitter said it ordered the president’s son to delete the misleading tweet and said it would “limit some account functionality for 12 hours.”

The tweet, which featured a viral video showing a group of doctors making misleading and false claims about the coronavirus pandemic, was directly tweeted by Trump Jr.‘s account. That contrasts with his father, who retweeted multiple clips of the same video to his 84.2 million followers Monday night.

Twitter removed the videos, deleting several of the tweets that President Trump shared, and even adding a note to its trending topics warning about the potential risks of hydroxychloroquine use.

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