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The Real List Of Celebs Who Have Open Relationships

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Who says marriage has to only be between two people? For some celebrity couples, total commitment to a partner doesn’t necessarily mean giving up the occasional second lover along the way. “I will start with monogamy, then commitment, and then I will have the marriage.” “The marriage comes with commitment, ma’am—unless you’d like something on…

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RELATIONSHIPS: THEN VS NOW

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Trump’s Labor Secretary Alex Acosta Should Resign Immediately Over Jeffrey Epstein

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Alex Acosta Should Resign Jeffrey Epstein

(CD Op-Ed) — The arrest of financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on federal child sex trafficking charges elicited fresh demands for the resignation of Trump Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, who helped Epstein secure a “sweetheart plea deal” for previous allegations while serving as Miami’s top federal prosecutor over a decade ago.

Following news of Epstein’s arrest late Saturday, reporters, politicians, and other observers called on Acosta to immediately step down—bolstering demands that have mounted in recent months amid a legal challenge to Epstein’s deal filed by survivors.

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CNN opinion contributor Raul A. Reyes wrote Sunday that “Acosta’s actions are worthy of bipartisan outrage and should offend every American father and mother. Acosta betrayed the vulnerable to benefit the powerful. His deal for Epstein shows a disregard for child welfare, victims’ rights and Justice Department procedures. Ironically, as secretary of labor, Acosta is responsible for monitoring human trafficking.”

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Over the years, Epstein has been tied to various high-profile individuals, including retired Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz and the U.K.’s Prince Andrew as well as former President Bill Clinton and current President Donald Trump.

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According to the Daily Beast, which first reported on the financier’s arrest late Saturday:

Epstein was arrested for allegedly sex trafficking dozens of minors in New York and Florida between 2002 and 2005, and will appear in court in New York on Monday, according to three law enforcement sources. Epstein, who owns a New York City mansion and an island in the Caribbean, was being held at the federal lockup in Manhattan ahead of his court date.

Saturday’s arrest by the FBI-NYPD Crimes Against Children Task Force comes about 12 years after the 66-year-old financier essentially got a slap on the wrist for allegedly molesting dozens of underage girls in Florida.

For more than a decade, Epstein’s alleged abuse of minors has been the subject of lawsuits brought by victims, investigations by local and federal authorities, and exposés in the press. But despite the attention cast on his alleged sex crimes, the hedge-funder has managed to avoid any meaningful jail time, let alone federal charges.

The new indictment—which, according to two sources, will be unsealed Monday in Manhattan federal court—will reportedly allege that Epstein sexually exploited dozens of underage girls in a now-familiar scheme: paying them cash for “massages” and then molesting or sexually abusing them in his Upper East Side mansion or his palatial residence in Palm Beach. Epstein will be charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors—which could put him away for a maximum of 45 years. The case is being handled by the Public Corruption Unit of the Southern District of New York, with assistance from the district’s human-trafficking officials and the FBI.

Sources told the Miami Herald that Epstein was arrested at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport and “around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, about a dozen federal agents broke down the door to Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse to execute search warrants.” A source in New York told the Florida newspaper that Monday’s bail hearing “will be critical because if they grant him bail, he has enough money that he will disappear and they will never get him.”

In a series of stories from last November titled “Perversion of Justice,” Herald reporter Julie K. Brown detailed how Acosta, then U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, worked with Epstein’s attorneys to craft an agreement that was kept secret from Epstein’s victims.

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Epstein “was accused of assembling a large, cult-like network of underage girls—with the help of young female recruiters—to coerce into having sex acts behind the walls of his opulent waterfront mansion as often as three times a day,” Brown reported in November. “Facing a 53-page federal indictment, Epstein could have ended up in federal prison for the rest of his life.”

Not only would Epstein serve just 13 months in the county jail, but the deal—called a non-prosecution agreement—essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe into whether there were more victims and other powerful people who took part in Epstein’s sex crimes, according to a Miami Heraldexamination of thousands of emails, court documents and FBI records.

The pact required Epstein to plead guilty to two prostitution charges in state court. Epstein and four of his accomplices named in the agreement received immunity from all federal criminal charges. But even more unusual, the deal included wording that granted immunity to “any potential co-conspirators” who were also involved in Epstein’s crimes. These accomplices or participants were not identified in the agreement, leaving it open to interpretation whether it possibly referred to other influential people who were having sex with underage girls at Epstein’s various homes or on his plane.

As Common Dreams reported in December—amid previous calls for Acosta to resign, which were sparked by the Herald‘s series—National Organization for Women (NOW) president Toni Van Pelt said that “Epstein plays by the same rule book as Donald Trump, Les Moonves, Harvey Weinstein, Eric Schneiderman, and other powerful men who have been revealed as serial abusers of women.”

“Epstein’s scant 13-month stay in a county jail—where he was even allowed to spend twelve hours a day, six days a week, at his office,” Van Pelt said, “was made possible by a culture of powerful men, enabling each other, while dismissing, excusing, or demeaning the women and children they brutalize with physical and sexual violence.”

By Jessica Corbett | CommonDreams.org

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The Anti-Inflammatory Power of Reishi Mushrooms

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Reishi mushrooms are documented to have wonderful medicinal value. Fight Inflammation with Reishi Mushrooms     Reishi mushrooms or Ganoderma lucidum (Ling Zhi) is documented to have wonderful medicinal value. Reishi mushrooms have been used in traditional Chinese medicine as a herbal medicine for more than 5,000 years, making it one of the oldest mushrooms known to have been used in medicine. The word lingzhi, in Chinese, means “herb of spiritual potency” and is considered the “mushroom of immortality.” It has attained a reputation in the East as the miracle mushroom due to its many health benefits and absence of side-effects. Lingzhi has been added to the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia and Therapeutic Compendium. Lingzhi has a diverse amount of other species and mycologists are still researching the differences between each particular Ganoderma lucidum species. Ganoderma lucidum is the only known source of a group of triterpenes, known as ganoderic acids, which have a molecular structure similar to steroid hormones. It is a source of biologically active polysaccharides, ergosterol, coumarin, mannitol, lactones, alkaloids, unsaturated fatty acids, and vitamins and minerals. The reishi extract is effective in treating migraine headaches. It is believed that oxygen shortage in the brain (hypoxia) is at the core of the pathogenesis of a migraine attack. As an anti-inflammatory agent, the extract is effective in substantially alleviating the problems and pain related to rheumatism or osteoarthritis and gout. In treating hypertension or hypotension, the extract is highly effective in a very large number of cases treated. In the more successful cases, blood pressure is back to normal within two months. The extract has been found effective in reducing and in some cases eliminating asthma attack. It is effective in reducing blood sugar levels and the amounts of insulin required for diabetic patients. The extract is operative in…

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Massive 7.1 Earthquake Hits California, Gas Leaks/Fires Reported

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California Earthquake

(ZH) —

Update (1145ET): Less than 12 hours after seisomologist Lucy Jones warned of another large quake, a massive 7.1 quake just hit 17km NNE of Ridgecrest.

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This continues the swarm of aftershocks that hit all day… (Seismologists at Cal Tech said Friday afternoon that there had been around 1,400 aftershocks since Thursday’s 6.4-magnitude quake, with 17 of those with a magnitude of 4 or above.)

The quake hit at 2319ET less than 24 hours after the largest quake (6.4) in over 20 years struck the same region.

It was big enough to be felt on the East Coast…

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The news and accompanying video started to surface on Twitter at around 11:30pm EST on Friday night. The Dodgers even played their baseball game through the quake:

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One person on social media reported feeling dizzy and his dog threw up. Chandeliers and hanging plants swayed. Pools sloshed. Electrical wires rocked.

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Even Northern California residents noted their pools making waves and Vegas residents felt the shake.

NBC LA reports gas leaks and fires have been reported.

Friday night, the power went out in Ridgecrest, a city of 27,600, around 100 miles north of Los Angeles, according to NBC reporters in the area.

The San Bernardino County Fire District tweeted that calls were coming in from northwestern communities and that people were reporting “homes shifted, foundation cracks, retaining walls down.”

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The fire district reported one minor injury and said firefighters were treating the patient. “No unmet needs currently,” the fire department said.

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As we detailed earlier, the strongest earthquake to hit southern California in nearly 2 decades has also resulted in an unusual number of aftershocks, seismologists are saying. The quake has already prompted one city to declare a state of emergency Thursday and affected residents from Las Vegas to Orange County, according to the Mercury News.

The quake registered a 6.4 on the Richter scale and was centered about 150 miles north of Los Angeles. An astounding 159 aftershocks of magnitude 2.5 or greater have been recorded already. This is a higher than normal, with the largest aftershocks registering at 4.6.

Seismologist Lucy Jones called it a “robust” series of aftershocks and says there’s a 50% chance of another large quake in the next week. She also said there is a 1 in 20 chance that a bigger earthquake will hit within the next few days.

She commented that earthquakes actually increase the risk of future quakes.

Jones said:

“It’s certain that this area is going to be shaking a lot today, and some of those aftershocks will probably exceed magnitude 5.”

“Plate tectonics hasn’t suddenly stopped; it is still pushing Los Angeles toward San Francisco at the same rate your fingernails grow — about 1.5 inches each year… Their motion cannot be stopped any more than we could turn off the sun,” Jones wrote in her recent book.

Earthquake scientists Ross Stein and Volkan Sevilgen, writing on their blog at Temblor.net said that this quake may have just made things worse for the area.

The two wrote that they believe that parts of three other faults — in remote areas of California — were actually “brought closer to failure by the 4th July quake.”

The area hit by Thursday’s quake likely became loaded with more seismic strain after two previous temblors — the 1872 Owens Valley and the 1992 Landers earthquakes.

The earthquake, now named the Searles Valley Quake, was preceded by 4.2 magnitude foreshock.

This has caused the city of Ridgecrest to declare a state of emergency, with the mayor citing five fires and broken gas lines as part of the city’s problems. There were also power outages that affected 28,000 residents. Meanwhile, the forecasted high temperature for the area is 100° today.

Near the epicenter of the quake, the fire department responded to more than 20 incidents, including fires and medical emergencies. Ridgecrest Regional Hospital was evacuated and about 15 patients from the emergency room were taken to another hospital. The facility is currently being inspected.

One nearby resident said of the earthquake: “We were panicked trying to get out of the house because everything is falling out of the cabinets, off the shelves, off the walls. … They were flying like missiles off the shelves.”

Another, directing a Fourth of July kids program, said that the quake startled the 65 children on stage. “It was terrifying,”she said.

Many residents near the area upset because the city’s smartphone app – set up to warn of quakes – didn’t send a warning in advance.

The earthquake was also felt in Las Vegas. It was the largest quake to hit southern California since 1999, when a 7.1 earthquake hit in the Mojave Desert. In 1994, a 6.7 magnitude quake hit Los Angeles, causing $25 billion in damage.

By Tyler Durden | ZeroHedge.com

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Why Clearing Programming Is SO IMPORTANT

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We all have a Mother.

However, we are not all Mothers.

Back when I was very heavy (I released 100 lbs. over 31 years ago), I remember the first time someone asked me how many months “along” I was and I had to explain, “I am not pregnant”.

I was crushed.

This happened to me repeatedly.

The truth? Inside I called myself “a big fat pig” and felt humiliated beyond words about myself and my body.

Some of our mothers’ may have detested their bodies while we were in their womb.

Studies indicate that we are deeply impacted by our pre-birth experiences and I strongly believe we hold onto those throughout our lives.

The good news is YOU CAN heal from this programming at any age, weight or decade of your life. I did.

So, if you feel badly about how you look and make excuses for not making necessary changes…this is the example you are setting for yourself and others.

You can take action right this moment.

It is possible for you to feel:

  • completely at home in your body and let go of that Mom programming (she was doing the best she could with her programming)
  • love for yourself in every way possible

It starts with small, simple steps.

In honor of my JULY (6th) birthday right around the corner, I am offering an opportunity for more of you to take action steps to welcome the love that you are.

If you are ready to raise your energy and undo more of your blocks to self-acceptance, self-care and self-love, please consider joining us.

And please use the comment section below to share one way you express self-love to yourself on a regular basis.

The world needs more love so your comment will inspire someone else.

Laura Fenamore, Body Image Expert, Coach and acclaimed Author is on a mission to help women around the world end the constant battle with their bodies and start adoring who they see in the mirror. Her approach walks students and readers through the heartfelt journey to self-love at any size or age by unlocking the secrets to a lifetime of emotional, physical and spiritual health. After overcoming a lifelong battle with addiction, obesity, and eating disorders, Laura released 100 pounds – keeping it off for more than 28 years. She chronicles this journey to self-love and health in her widely acclaimed book, Skinny, Fat, Perfect: Love Who You See in the Mirror. Learn more about Laura’s programs, or invite her to speak by visiting SkinnyFatPertect.com.

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Science Confirms People Behave Better When They Think They’re Being Watched

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People Behave Better Being Watched

(CONVERSATION) — If there exists one moral code that can be shared and agreed by almost all cultures and religions, then it must be the concept of “never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself”. This has come to be known as “the golden rule”.

But do people in modern societies really follow the teaching of this principle, especially when there are financial consequences to their actions? Our research brought this question into the laboratory and set out to answer it with a simple game of bargaining.

We invited 300 people to the laboratory at the Centre for Experimental Economics at the University of York to make a series of decisions regarding the split of a fixed amount of money between themselves and another anonymous person in the room. The idea was participants would be required to split an amount of money between themselves and another participant –- with one person in the pair deciding how much they both should get. This was then relayed to a third party who put the offer to the participant.

Each participant could offer their partner anything from zero to the full amount in whole pounds. If the partner said “yes” to the offer, they both received the money. But if the other person rejected the offer (as they felt it was not enough), this would result in a breakdown of the negotiation, meaning both got nothing from this round of the game.

Each participant would in turn experience both roles (the proposer, who makes the offers and the responder, who needs to respond to the offers) with multiple different partners. This increased the chance that one person in the responder role would need to respond to the same offer they made when they acted as the proposer.

What we were particularly interested in was how people would react when they played the responder’s role and were confronted with the same proposal they themselves made. If someone is playing by the golden rule, then they should have no problem being on the receiving end saying “yes” to the offers that equal the ones they made And indeed, we found that most people’s behaviour conforms to the golden rule – in that about 93% of people would say yes to the offers that equal what they proposed to others.

Being watched

As the saying goes, one good turn deserves another, and in our experiment, it seemed this was true. Those people who followed the golden rule earned more from the negotiations, compared to the people who chose to go against the golden rule.

But while the figure of 93% indicates that most people followed the golden rule, which sounds encouraging, we found that if people knew their behaviour was not being observed by their opponents, then the percentage of golden rule behaviour dropped by nearly 20%, and only 73% of participants stuck to the rule.

This finding echoes observations from social psychology that show people behave in a nicer way when they know they are being watched. Indeed, even a poster with eyes on it changes how people behave. And it seems when the chance of being observed is low, people are more prone to evade a moral code.

Thinking it over

We found contemplation matters in how people made their decisions. Those who took longer to decide how to split the money were more likely to stray from the golden rule. This may well be because the golden rule is easy to apply, so a longer decision time might reflect the sophisticated nature of the person who is taking a variety of (possibly competing) factors into the decision making process.

We found experience played a small role in people’s decision making too. Those who played the proposer’s role first were slightly more likely to be a golden rule follower, compared to those who first played the responder’s role.

We found that gender, socio-economic status or cultural factors didn’t make a difference to the golden rule behaviour, which verifies its universality. We also found that people’s golden rule behaviour was not driven by their monetary pursuit – which might come as a surprise – but rather it is the power of the moral code itself that drives the behaviour. This is in part down to the notion of “projection bias”, where people have the tendency to project their own thoughts, preferences, and behaviour onto other people – so the idea of unevenly splitting a sum of money while the other person is sitting right in front of you seems problematic.

What this all shows is that so-called “good behaviour” is dependant on a number of factors –- including whether a person believes they are being observed, or not. This indicates that although most people do follow some form of moral code, to what extent they abide by these rules does differ situation to situation.

By Yuan Ju and Jiawen Li | TheConversation.com

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