The Lucy Show - Lucy Flies To London

The Lucy Show with Lucy goes to London.  The entire series of The Lucy Show entered into the public domain some time ago.  Since that is the case, we can offer free downloads on the episodes.  So if you like this show, you are free to download a copy of it.


http://www.putlocker.com/file/EDA9E76ED964A7D8  Free download link.  Click the free user option.  About 85 megs in size.  It's a nice quality video.  flv format so you will need a player that plays flv videos.  VLC is a free Media player that is the worlds best.  Free downloads from their site.  Just look them up.  There are other free flv players out there, but they have a lot of limited capabilities.  Also, Opera browser plays flv files on your computer.   So that is another option.  Windows Media player can not handle flv files.  Real Player has added flv file compatibility if you want to use that option.  Enjoy,  Plus One us on Google, tweet us, like this post on Facebook, email this post to friends.  Share this with others.

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Governor McDonnell Appoints Three Circuit Court Judges

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RICHMOND - Governor Bob McDonnell today announced three judicial appointments to fill vacant circuit court positions that were not filled during the 2013 General Assembly session. Robert R. Sandwich, Jr., will fill the 5th Judicial Circuit, Stephen E. Sincavage will serve in the 20th Judicial Circuit, and Charles L. Ricketts, III, will serve in the 25th Judicial Circuit. According to Article VI, Section 7 of the Constitution of Virginia, these individuals will “serve until thirty days after the commencement of the next session of the General Assembly.” Continued service on the Circuit Court will require election by the General Assembly.

            Speaking about the appointments, Governor McDonnell said, “I am pleased to appoint these highly qualified individuals to the Circuit Court. Judge Ricketts has served with distinction on the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court for the last eight years, and both Sandwich and Sincavage have served their communities with distinction as prosecutors for many years.  All three are talented lawyers who will continue to serve the citizens of the Commonwealth well in these new roles.  They were selected from a pool of highly qualified candidates, whom I thank for an interest in serving the Commonwealth.  I am confident that all three of them will perform commendably in this new role, and it is with great pleasure that I appoint them to the Circuit Court.”

Judge for the 5th Judicial Circuit- Robert R. Sandwich, Jr.

Robert R. Sandwich, Jr., currently serves as an Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Suffolk and has served in a similar role for the City of Virginia Beach, the City of Norfolk, the City of Portsmouth, and also in the Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit in Columbus, Georgia.  He has worked in private practice in the Hampton Roads and Richmond areas, handling a wide array of criminal and civil matters.  A Navy veteran, Sandwich resides in Suffolk with his wife.

Judge for the 20th Judicial Circuit- Stephen E. Sincavage

Stephen E. Sincavage has served as a prosecutor in the Commonwealth’s Attorney Office for Loudoun County for the last sixteen years, the last five as Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney.  He previously served as a Law Clerk to two circuit judges in the 20th Judicial Circuit. A native of Northern Virginia, Sincavage resides in Ashburn with his wife and daughter.

Judge for the 25th Judicial Circuit- Charles L. Ricketts, III

Charles L. Ricketts, III, was appointed to the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court in the 25th Judicial District and subsequently elected by the Virginia General Assembly in 2006 and reelected in 2012.  For many years prior to taking the bench, he worked in private practice in Waynesboro, handling a variety of civil matters in state and federal courts.  He also served as the Mayor for the City of Waynesboro for eight years.  He and his wife reside in Waynesboro and have two grown children.

Congressman Rob Wittman's Updates On Sequestration

Too many desks sat idle this week, as furloughs began for many federal civilian employees in the Department of Defense (DOD) due to the indiscriminate budget cuts known as sequestration. These DOD workers are truly dedicated patriots who are tasked by Congress with their duties. Their efforts to support our war fighters are vital to the mission of our overall national security, and these cuts continue to undermine the strength of our military’s readiness. As Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s Readiness Subcommittee and an American, this deeply concerns me, and I reminded my colleagues on Thursday of the personal and professional challenges our dedicated civilian workers face.

On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel issued a memo detailing the DOD’s plan for reducing its budget by $52 billion in fiscal year 2014, as mandated by sequestration. These budget reductions simply cannot happen. The impacts that they will have on our military’s future capabilities are unacceptable. Secretary Hagel’s memo addresses just one fiscal year, and yet it is indicative of a long term, systemic challenge facing our military. This In turn will require a long term, strategic solution: how to effectively provide for and maintain a fighting force in a world of both budgetary constraints and constant threats against our homeland. Congress and the President were elected to make tough decisions - not to stand idly by as the foundation of our nation’s military is compromised.

At the same time, it is important to remember that at the heart of this issue are dedicated Americans who sacrifice for this nation. These include young Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and Airmen whose training and resources are being undermined by sequestration; civilian DOD employees who support those individuals but are being forced to sit at home under furlough; and the children of those furloughed federal employees who will feel the brunt of sequestration as their parents find fewer dollars in their paychecks. They are all patriotic Americans who have dedicated their lives to this country so that it will remain the greatest nation the world has ever known. Instead of balancing the budget on their backs, let’s prove to them that we’ve got their backs - because they’ve had ours since 1776. I have sounded the alarm on this issue for almost two years now, and I will continue to urge Congress and the White House to find a solution. It’s time to make the tough decisions.

Finally, I am pleased to share great news for Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay. The House passed my Chesapeake Bay Accountability and Recovery Act (H.R. 739) last week as part of the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (H.R. 2642). The Bay is an economic engine and a cultural beacon for our region, and many industries and citizens have a vested interest in a clean Bay. My bill would enhance coordination, flexibility and efficiency of restoration efforts. This was a great achievement for Virginia and America’s First District, and I am eager for the Senate to pass Senator Warner’s companion legislation and see this bill become law. As Co-Chair of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Caucus, I will continue to advocate for and support measures to restore and preserve this national treasure.

The main streets of Virginia’s First District are full of ideas to get our economy back on track, and your feedback is critically important to me as I serve you. I can be reached by telephone at(202) 225-4261, through my website (www.wittman.house.gov), on Facebook (www.facebook.com/reprobwittman), and via Twitter (www.twitter.com/robwittman).

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Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100 - 2. Andante tranquillo - Vivace - Free SOng of the day

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Fattening Food Designed To Be Addictive?

English: Sagittal MRI slice with highlighting (red) indicating the nucleus accumbens. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A staggering two-thirds of Americans are now overweight, and one in four are either diabetic or pre-diabetic.

Carb-rich processed foods are a primary driver of these statistics, and while many blame Americans’ overindulgence of processed junk foods on lack of self-control, scientists are now starting to reveal the truly addictive nature of such foods.

Most recently, researchers at the Boston Children's Hospital concluded that highly processed carbohydrates stimulate brain regions involved in reward and cravings, promoting excess hunger.1 As reported by Science Daily:2

“These findings suggest that limiting these 'high-glycemic index' foods could help obese individuals avoid overeating.”

While I don’t agree with the concept of high glycemic foods, it is important that they are at least thinking in the right direction. Also, the timing is ironic, considering the fact that the American Medical Association (AMA) recently declared obesity adisease, treatable with a variety of conventional methods, from drugs to novel anti-obesity vaccines...

The featured research is on the mark, and shows just how foolhardy the AMA’s financially-driven decision really is. Drugs and vaccines are clearly not going to doanything to address the underlying problem of addictive junk food.

Brain Imaging Shows Food Addiction Is Real

The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition3 examined the effects of high-glycemic foods on brain activity, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). One dozen overweight or obese men between the ages of 18 and 35 each consumed one high-glycemic and one low-glycemic meal. The fMRI was done four hours after each test meal. According to the researchers:

“Compared with an isocaloric low-GI meal, a high-glycemic index meal decreased plasma glucose, increased hunger, and selectively stimulated brain regions associated with reward and craving in the late postprandial period, which is a time with special significance to eating behavior at the next meal.”

The study demonstrates what many people experience: After eating a high-glycemic meal, i.e. rapidly digesting carbohydrates, their blood sugar initially spiked, followed by a sharp crash a few hours later. The fMRI confirmed that this crash in blood glucose intensely activated a brain region involved in addictive behaviors, known as the nucleus accumbens.

Dr. Robert Lustig, Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, a pioneer in decoding sugar metabolism, weighed in on the featured research in an article by NPR:4

“As Dr. Robert Lustig... points out, this research can’t tell us if there’s a cause and effect relationship between eating certain foods and triggering brain responses, or if those responses lead to overeating and obesity.

'[The study] doesn’t tell you if this is the reason they got obese,' says Lustig, 'or if this is what happens once you’re already obese.' Nonetheless... he thinks this study offers another bit of evidence that 'this phenomenon is real.'”

Previously, Dr. Lustig has explained the addictive nature of sugar as follows:

"The brain's pleasure center, called the nucleus accumbens, is essential for our survival as a species... Turn off pleasure, and you turn off the will to live... But long-term stimulation of the pleasure center drives the process of addiction... When you consume any substance of abuse, including sugar, the nucleus accumbens receives a dopamine signal, from which you experience pleasure. And so you consume more.

The problem is that with prolonged exposure, the signal attenuates, gets weaker. So you have to consume more to get the same effect -- tolerance. And if you pull back on the substance, you go into withdrawal. Tolerance and withdrawal constitute addiction. And make no mistake, sugar is addictive."

The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food

Previous research has demonstrated that refined sugar is more addictive than cocaine, giving you pleasure by triggering an innate process in your brain via dopamine and opioid signals. Your brain essentially becomes addicted to stimulating the release of its own opioids.

Researchers have speculated that the sweet receptors located on your tongue, which evolved in ancestral times when the diet was very low in sugar, have not adapted to the seemingly unlimited access to a cheap and omnipresent sugar supply in the modern diet.

Therefore, the abnormally high stimulation of these receptors by our sugar-rich diets generates excessive reward signals in your brain, which have the potential to override normal self-control mechanisms, thus leading to addiction.

But it doesn’t end there. Food manufacturers have gotten savvy to the addictive nature of certain foods and tastes, including saltiness and sweetness, and have turned addictive taste into a science in and of itself.

In a recent New York Times article,5 Michael Moss, author of Salt Sugar Fat, dished the dirt on the processed food industry, revealing that there’s a conscious effort on behalf of food manufacturers to get you hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive to make.

I recommend reading his article in its entirety, as it offers a series of case studies that shed light on the extraordinary science and marketing tactics that make junk food so hard to resist.

Sugar, salt and fat are the top three substances making processed foods so addictive. In a Time Magazine interview6discussing his book, Moss says:

“One of the things that really surprised me was how concerted and targeted the effort is by food companies to hit the magical formulation. Take sugar for example. The optimum amount of sugar in a product became known as the 'bliss point.' Food inventors and scientists spend a huge amount of time formulating the perfect amount of sugar that will send us over the moon, and send products flying off the shelves. It is the process they've engineered that struck me as really stunning.”

It’s important to realize that added sugar (typically in the form of high fructose corn syrup) is not confined to junky snack foods. For example, most of Prego’s spaghetti sauces have one common feature, and that is sugar—it’s the second largest ingredient, right after tomatoes. A half-cup of Prego Traditional contains the equivalent of more than two teaspoons of sugar.

Novel Flavor-Enhancers May Also Contribute to Food Addiction

Another guiding principle for the processed food industry is known as “sensory-specific satiety.” Moss describes this as “the tendency for big, distinct flavors to overwhelm your brain, which responds by depressing your desire to have more.” The greatest successes, whether beverages or foods, owe their “craveability” to complex formulas that pique your taste buds just enough, without overwhelming them, thereby overriding your brain’s inclination to say “enough.”

Novel biotech flavor companies like Senomyx also play an important role.

Senomyx specializes in helping companies find new flavors that allow them to use less salt and sugar in their foods. But does that really make the food healthier? This is a questionable assertion at best, seeing how these “flavor enhancers” are created using secret, patented processes. They also do not need to be listed on the food label, which leaves you completely in the dark. As of now, they simply fall under the generic category of artificial and/or natural flavors, and they don’t even need to be tested for safety, as they’re used in minute amounts.

 http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/07/18/brain-imaging-confirms-food-addiction.aspx  Reasd more here and check out the videos.

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Secret Beer Recipes From London England

Historical Secret Beer Recipes from London, England vol 2 from Chuck Thompson

The information above has been guarded for over 200 years.  Secrets of the master brewers now revealed.  See how beer has been made historically.  This is volume 2 in our series.  We posted the first book yesterday.  So far these books are proving to be very popular.  If you make your own beer or know somebody who does, share this post with them.  Like this post?  Google Plus One it, like it on Facebook, Tweet it to others, send it via email to friends.  All the tools are right below this post to do just that.  Help spread the word.

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The Document That Changed The World

Liberty's Kids episode number 12.  Common Sense.  The introduction of Thomas Paine.  The art work is very good.  Thomas Paine actually looks like Thomas Paine.

This is a painting of Thomas Paine.  So you can see that the work done for Liberty's Kids is really top notch.

7th Virginia Regiment is pictured to the left here.  This photo was taken in Gloucester, Virginia around the Memorial Day weekend holiday a few short years ago.  It gives you an idea of what American Troops looked like.  So again, you can see the work done in Liberty's Kids is top notch.

Common Sense Thomas Paine" target="_blank">Common Sense Thomas Paine from Chuck Thompson

Here is a copy of Common Sense.  The cartoon above only touches on small areas of the document as they are under time restrictions.

http://www.putlocker.com/file/9DCB3D8BBBAB7EA2  Link to a free copy of the above document.  You never hear this document being discussed by our politicians.  This is the document, as seen in the cartoon above, that ignited the American Revolution and brought about the Declaration of Independence.  One has to wonder why politicians will not discuss it.  ???  We have to ask.



You can listen to Common Sense here.  We just learned that there is are limitations on the listening podcasting above.  There is a limit of only 5 minutes per file.  We were not aware of this before and are working on finding a new podcast host.

http://www.putlocker.com/file/6C776EDACEC096EA  Download free audio files from this link.  121 megs in size.  Just pick the free user option.

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Principle Of The Founding Fathers

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Edwin D. Mead (1849-1937), and Lucia Ames Mead (1856-1936), were both leading pacifists, writers, and social reformers of the U.S. and international peace movement. Edwin Mead directed the work of the World Peace Foundation and participated in many international peace congresses. He was an American delegate to the International Peace Bureau. Mead helped found the School Peace League and was a prominent member of the American Peace League. Lucia Ames Mead was a leading member of many feminist and pacifist organizations, including the Woman's Peace Party. Mead was a delegate to the founding conference of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919 and served as a vice-president on the board of the National Council for Prevention of War. She was also an officer of the National Council of Women of the United States, and was a member of many U.S. feminist associations.

The above document is an oral presentation given in Boston back in 1903.

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American History.  It's richer than you can ever imagine.  GVLN, changing the world, one post at a time.

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Gunsmoke - The Jailer, Classic TV

Gunsmoke.  The Jailer is the episode for Wednesday.  This is one of the one hour episodes that was shot in full color.  Season 12 episode number 3.  Sorry, no free downloads on this.  We only give free downloads on content that is in the public domain.  If it's still under copyright, we will not violate those copyrights by giving away illegal copies.  That's just bad business.

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