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Trump's budget includes drastic cuts to Radio and TV Martí
President Donald Trump's recently released budget would drastically cut funds and staffing at the Miami-based Radio and TV Martí, while restoring funds to support other democracy projects in Cuba and new ones in Venezuela.
The restoration of funds comes amid large cuts to the Department of State and the United States Agency for Development (USAID). The proposal would allocate $10 million for programs related to Cuba and another $9 million for similar initiatives in Venezuela.
"Assistance will support efforts in both Cuba and Venezuela to promote democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms," says the budget justification sent to Congress on Monday by the State Department.
In 2017, the State Department presented to Congress a budget with zero financing for programs related to Cuba under its economic support and development fund. Aid to Venezuela was also slashed. The funds for Cuba democracy programs for fiscal year 2019 — which begins in October 2018 and ends in September 2019 — is half of what President Barack Obama's administration approved in 2016.
The presidential budgets indicate what the executive's priorities are, but Congress can make changes or approve a completely different version.
Under the current proposal, Radio and TV Martí could also suffer the biggest cuts in recent years.
The budget justification presented by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) includes a $10 million cut to the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB), which manages Radio and TV Martí, as well as the Martínoticias website. It also proposes a reduction of full-time personnel from 113 to 51.
The cuts are distributed among different divisions of the OCB. Radio and TV Martí will each receive approximately $2.2 million less. In total, the budget of the OCB would be reduced to $13.6 million, less than half of what it received in fiscal year 2017 when it was funded with $28.9 million. The budget for fiscal year 2018 is $23 million.
The BBG, however, requested an additional $1.2 million to expand Voice of America's coverage of Venezuela.
"We are still in the planning stages of how we would implement a cut of this magnitude should the final budget reflect these proposed levels," Nasserie Carew, BBG's communications director, told el Nuevo Herald. "Our objective is always to preserve impact."
Nobody thought that Donald Trump would be the one to bury Radio and TV Martí.
A Martí employee
Workers from the Martí stations who asked not to be named said they were surprised by the news, especially since Trump has hardened U.S. policy toward Cuba.
"Nobody thought that Donald Trump would be the one to bury Radio and TV Martí," said one employee. Several others said the proposed cuts came from a board of directors appointed by the previous administration.
The Obama administration weighed several alternatives to restructure or privatize the stations, including its merger with the Voice of America and a plan to turn its employees into contractors. "There have been many attempts by the same board of directors that Obama appointed," said one employee.
André Mendes, OCB's interim director after the resignation of Malule González in June, was to convene a meeting to discuss the budget, the employee added.
"Much of our operating cost is in personnel. Following the president's budget rollout, each of our entity leaders have had or will have conversations with relevant staff," Carew said. "We will keep all staff updated as the budget process unfolds."
In Miami, some Cuban exiles immediately criticized the proposal but blamed the previous administration.
"These Obama appointees, fearing that Radio and TV Martí will fall into the hands of a new director who is not afraid of offending Castro … have proposed taking $10 million [out of the stations' budget]," said Marcell Felipe, a lawyer and activist who chairs the Miami-based Inspire America foundation. "This shows how important it is for the president to get rid of Obama holdovers who do not support his policy," he added.
But not everyone opposes the cuts.
Over the years, the Martí stations have sparked criticism because of their cost and effectiveness. The stations' mission is "to promote freedom and democracy by providing the people of Cuba with objective news and information programming," according to the OCB's website. But the television and radio signals have been jammed by the Cuban government. More recently, the OCB has focused on its digital strategy and getting their content to the island on DVDs and USB flash drives.
"TV Martí is a waste of taxpayer dollars," said Geoff Thale, vice president of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). "It reaches few people in Cuba, and has been plagued with internal battles. Radio Martí's reporting often falls short of journalistic standards, and it's hard to imagine the justification for spending taxpayer dollars on a station directed specifically at Cuba when we already have a Spanish-language service of the Voice of America that reaches the hemisphere," he added.
Radio and TV Martí broadcasts, as well as USAID programs, have also fueled conflict between the U.S. and Cuba. The Cuban government considers both "subversive" initiatives. USAID has also been under scrutiny for its handling of information about programs related to Cuba and its use of the funds.
The most serious case involving the agency was the arrest of USAID subcontractor Alan Gross, who was imprisoned in Cuba for five years for smuggling technology forbidden on the island to connect to the internet.
Since its publication on Monday, Trump's budget has been harshly criticized for raising the fiscal deficit and including large cuts to programs such as Medicaid and Medicare, making it unlikely that Congress will approve it as is.
The proposal requests a total of $39.3 billion for the State Department and USAID, which is estimated to be a 27 percent cut compared to fiscal year 2017, when that figure reached $55.6 billion.
In general, democracy promotion programs suffered large cuts under Trump's proposal. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) would receive only $67 million, compared to the estimated $169 million it has for the current fiscal year. USAID's Transition initiative, with a current budget of $125 million, would get only $33 million in fiscal year 2019.
The Office of Management and Budget published a report on Monday highlighting the savings by eliminating the State Department's accounts for development assistance and food aid; significantly cutting funding for educational and cultural exchange programs; and slashing nearly $700 million in contributions to international organizations such as the United Nations.
The budget request "modernizes State Department and USAID diplomacy" and helps "to support more stable and resilient societies that will lead their own development and, ultimately, no longer need foreign aid," the agency said in a statement.
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What will you do if you picked up a local newspaper to read about happenings in your locality and stumbled on your own obituary? I can hear you say, 'God forbid'. That was the situation Alfred found himself in. He is the main inventor of Dynamite, Gelignite, Ballistite and made a fortune from them.
In 1888 Alfred who is a Swedish scientist pick up a newspaper to read and saw his own obituary. The death of his brother Ludvig caused several newspapers to publish obituaries of Alfred in error. A French obituary stated, "Le Marchand de la mort est mort"("The merchant of death is dead"). It went on to describe that his legacy was one of inventing something that helped people kill each other. He was shaken to the core by this appraisal of his life, and he vowed then and there that he would change his legacy with whatever time he had left.
He began to use his wealth to change lives in a bid to free his conscience and leave a legacy different from being called the merchant of death. 8 years after the publication of his obituary he died leaving 9million dollars to start a fund to reward people who helped humanity, and that's why you don't know that Alfred Nobel was the inventor of dynamite because that's not really his legacy. His legacy is he was the founder of THE NOBEL PRIZES.
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Robert Browning Poems (124 Poems)
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An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Kar (Robert Browning Poems)
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs,The not-incurious in God's handiwork(This man's-flesh he hath admirably made,Blown like a bubble, kneaded like a paste,To coop up and keep down on earth a spaceThat puff of vapour from his mouth, man's soul)–To Abib, … Continue reading
Abt Volger (Robert Browning Poems)
(after he has been extemporizing upon the musical instrument of his invention)</i> Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build,Bidding my organ obey, calling its keys to their work,Claiming each slave of the sound, at a touch, as … Continue reading
A Grammarian's Funeral Shortly after the Revival of Learnin (Robert Browning Poems)
Let us begin and carry up this corpse,Singing together.Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpesEach in its tetherSleeping safe on the bosom of the plain,Cared-for till cock-crow:Look out if yonder be not day againRimming the rock-row!That's the appropriate country; … Continue reading
Aix In Provence (Robert Browning Poems)
Christ God who savest man, save mostOf men Count Gismond who saved me!Count Gauthier, when he chose his post,Chose time and place and companyTo suit it; when he struck at lengthMy honour, 'twas with all his strength. II. And doubtlessly … Continue reading
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(_Epilogue to 'The Two Poets of Croisic.'_) What a pretty tale you told meOnce upon a time–Said you found it somewhere (scold me!)Was it prose or was it rhyme,Greek or Latin? Greek, you said,While your shoulder propped my head. Anyhow … Continue reading
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A Cavalier Song (Robert Browning Poems)
Kentish Sir Byng stood for his King,Bidding the crop-headed Parliament swing:And, pressing a troop unable to stoopAnd see the rogues flourish and honest folk droop,Marched them along, fifty score strong,Great-hearted gentlemen, singing this song.God for King Charles! Pym and such … Continue reading
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Shortly after it was recognized that AIDS was embedded in the Gay community, sex educators and health activists started talking about "Safe Sex". Of course, with a deadly virus in the population, homosexual practices in which blood to blood or blood to semen contact might occur could not be rendered as 'safe' even as similar heterosexual practices. As the epidemic spread, the pressure to use protected means never let up, but we gradually realized that 'Safe Sex' was a wish. It reflected an unattainable ideal and a wish to return to an age innocent of the risk of infection that was now lost. Not long after, heterosexual transmission was recognized as a serious risk, too. Sex was a great deal less safe, and everyone became less innocent about the grim reality that sex sometimes leads to loss. Our discourse changed. Now we talk of 'safer sex' or 'protected sex.'
|This symbol is a triskelion, representing BDSM.
BDSM faced much the same difficulty in the early days of its social organizing efforts. By their very nature many BDSM activities are both scary and potentially exciting. In building a larger community for sexual adventurism, the natural ambivalence of people who are interested, but have yet to join, must be addressed. To precisely that end, david stein, a submissive member of New York's Gay Male S/M Activists, devised copy using the phrase 'safe, sane and consensual' in August of 1983 to promote his nascent community. (Incidentally, the omitted capitalization is not an oversight, but idyomatic etiquette for many members of the BDSM community. submissives and slaves names are written in lower case, and personal pronouns capitalized for dominants and lower case for subs.) Efforts to characterize S/M practices as 'responsible' 'caring', and safe had been tried by many different groups before. But this SSC language slowly went viral because it addressed often unarticulated fears that activists thought served as barriers to joining. They were aware of these because Gay sadomasochists were facing considerable pushback from non-kinky Gay liberation organizations which saw kink as a risky, frightening fringe activity that only made their efforts at gaining social and political acceptance more difficult. And they knew from friends and acquaintances who showed reluctance to join, and from the barriers they had to overcome themselves.
S/M necessarily involved putting yourself in a situation where others would question your motives and sanity. If you were planning to inflict pain on others, why would they want that? Wasn't hurting others hostile and degrading to them? To the general public it seemed dangerous and crazy to comply with such demands. What good reason could explain placing yourself in the power of someone intent on hurting you? And sexual sadism and sexual masochism were both diagnosable mental disorders. With the full weight of psychiatry labeling this behavior sick and dangerous, anyone who wanted to do it was suspect. Thousands of historical and contemporary media examples used the terms sadism and masochism to describe criminal, deadly and anti-social conduct. So the slogan went to the heart of the fears that deterred the curious, and to the mindset of the general public.
|Lewis, Clark and Sacajawea. How'd they get in here?
The only problem being that it wasn't absolutely true. The initial set of bleeding-edge early adopters who formed the BDSM community of the 70's and 80's were even more adventurous, driven, and tolerant of the inevitable misfortunes than the average kink community members are today. They learned much through experimentation that can now easily be learned through community. They joined much smaller groups of elite partners in setting up the early organizations and did the necessary experimentation, and endured the adverse results when edgy behavior didn't work out. The analogy comes to mind to traveling west in the nineteenth century. The pioneers of kink performed feats like Lewis, Clark and Sacajawea, where later settlers had the significant but lesser challenge of following the Oregon Trail. BDSM has a much broader knowledge base of safe practices than they did 30 years ago, and the epistemology of learning the ropes has changed somewhat. You can learn safe practices in books, on-line, or from educational sessions at BDSM events, assuming you aren't affiliated with a local organization where more experienced members provide direct instruction and answer your questions. S/M practices weren't always all that safe, and participants were hardly actively certified as 'sane.' The language actually implied something more like "You can mostly expect to have a rational conversation with us." No one was offering free psychological evaluations as evidence.
The rapid and widespread adoption of 'Safe, Sane and Consensual' was not a panacea. david and his collaborators had never intended to launch a sloganeering campaign, or to suggest that S/M practices were particularly safe. They were advocating SSC as a minimal standard of ethical conduct, and to promoting thoughtful play. Although the wider SSC campaign has through the years successfully changed the zeitgeist in which BDSM is conducted, it has also become somewhat of a mantra. No one ever intended it to be applied unthinkingly, or accepted as a money-back guarantee of satisfaction!
|Laura Antonieu, kink activist and author. She wrote a famous objection to SSC.
When the emergent PR campaign started to gain real traction, many experienced players in the kink community became contemptuous, suggesting the overzealous effort to make kink safe threatened the exciting and edgy purposes of playing in the first place. Dominants likened negotiating a scene with submissives under the SSC ethos to the PC efforts of anti-date-rape activists on campuses who demanded that every move towards sexual intimacy be made explicit like a game of 'Mother, May I?' The last thing they wanted to feel during play was 'safe' and they didn't want their subs to stop feeling the frisson of risk. But the most serious criticism was the same as has been leveled against 'safe sex;' it is bad policy to indulge idealized expectations about risk-free BDSM. It recruits unsophisticated participants and damages the community for noob and experienced members alike.
In 1999 Gary Switch proposed an alternative to SSC, Risk-Aware Consensual Kink or RACK. This elided discussion of sanity altogether, and attempted to frame the risk issue without over-simplification. The goal is not 'safe' practice, but aware practice, and this is probably closer to the goals of the original GMSMA boilerplate than the original writers actually constructed. The kink community being a fractious place, no one is signing away their rights to object to the limits of any guiding principle. But many responsible participants, and most groups, adhere to and promote SSC, RACK, or both, now.
Nonetheless, it is important that the one concept common to both slogans is consent. Consent is so crucial and problematical; it will be the focus of the very next post. For those in the therapist community who have read this far, however, I would hope you would take away a few key insights:
Kink is not made safe by slogans, or even by intention, but by awareness. Individual responsibility is the order of the day.
Kink isn't usually dangerous, but can become so, and it is important to see how your clients represent the dangers when they arise.
Our clients, not ourselves, decide what risks they take in kink, just as they decide what risks to take in non-kinky life.
Responsible community greatly mitigates risk.
All-in-all, much kinky activity is quite safe relative to many other recreational activities. Reading quietly at home is safer. Make sure the doors are locked.
Often, intense feelings make it hard for clients to manage their ambivalence when they do confront risks. Intense desire coupled with lack of hands-on experience amplifies risk considerably.
This essay owes a great deal to david stein's excellent essay on the 'Safe Sane and Consensual, the Making of a Shibboleth.' http://www.boybear.us/ssc.pdf
© Russell J Stambaugh, PhD, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2013. All rights reserved.


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Today, Clarins has boutiques in more than 150 countries all over the world and millions of loyal customers, including the most beautiful famous women like Eva Longoria, Madonna, Naomi Watts, Reese Witherspoon, Lucy Liu, Cindy Crawford or Kate Moss.
Clarins' philosophy is based on environmental responsibility, which is why the brand prefers to design their products using herbal ingredients. In Clarins laboratories, doctors, biologists, cosmetologists and other experts constantly analyse and test thousands of plants, trying to use their properties to reach the best results.
The wide range of Clarins makeup, skin care and body care products offers only the most effective solutions to all cosmetic needs, solutions based on nature, tradition, and deep respect for women and their beauty.
Clarins is more than just a brand, it's also a commitment to make life more beautiful, to respect nature and protect its biodiversity. But first and foremost, Clarins is a success story of an exceptional family dedicated to female beauty and the balance between nature and science.
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Kate is a Glastonbury artist having rediscovered her love for painting after having a family.
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text: Raising Kids Activities Print Fun Game Ideas for Rainy Day Play Wet Weather Day? Head Outside Anyway! By Amanda Rock Updated August 25, 2018 Tim Hall/Digital Vision/Getty Images More in Raising Kids Activities Celebrations Gear and Products Technology For most families, a rainy day means being cooped up inside, engaging in quiet activities such as watching movies, playing video games, making puzzles, maybe even reading a book or two. But just because it is wet outside doesn't mean you have to spend your day indoors. Some of the most fun you can have is playing in the rain. How to Stay Active on Rainy Days Study after study has shown that kids do not get enough physical activity. A preschooler (a child of age 3 to 5) needs at least an hour a day of physical activity. On a sunny day, it's easy enough to head outside for some active fun, but what if the weather isn't so great? Fun Rainy Day Games and Outdoor Activities While you can certainly find plenty to do inside, if it's just raining, consider putting on your rain boots and raincoat and heading outside anyway. With these fun games and activities for playing in the rain, your preschooler is sure to have a blast (and so will you). Catch raindrops on your tongue, hands, and feet.Blow bubbles. Who can make the biggest one?A rainy day is perfect for looking for worms as they move up to the surface of the earth. How many can you find? Will your preschooler dare touch one? Will you?Follow the rain when it falls on the ground. Where does it flow to? Down the street? To a drain?Take a look at the earth—the dirt, the sand, the grass. How does the rain change these things?Don't just jump in the puddles—skip, hop, run, gallop, or walk through them. Who can make the biggest splash?Embrace the wetness and turn on your sprinklers or set up your kiddie pools to play in.Measure the rainfall by putting out a cup and see how much you can catch. Let everyone guess how much they think will be in the cup by the time the rain stops.Frogs, ducks, fish, and other animals are always outside in the rain. Pretend to be one of these wet-weather friends.Try playing some of your preschooler's favorite sports. How does the rain change how the ball moves?Go for a walk in your neighborhood and ask your preschooler to tell you about how the rain makes things look different. Also, what is the same?If there are puddles, toss rocks into them. Who can make the biggest ripple? What size rock makes the loudest sound?Listen to the rhythm that the rain makes and have a dance contest. Give a prize to the person who comes up with the silliest rain dance.If you don't mind tearing up your yard a little, let your preschooler slide in the wet grass.Instead of jumping in the puddles, try jumping over them.Live near a hill? Find a moving stream of water and race sticks.Take some inspiration from Gene Kelly and sing in the rain. Pick songs that mention rain, from "Itsy Bitsy Spider" to "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" and "Umbrella."Look for animal tracks in the mud. Try to guess which animal made the tracks.If it's warm enough, go outside in your bathing suits and bring some bathtub crayons with you. Who can draw the silliest things on themselves?Got a waterproof camera? Take some candids.If it is raining really hard, wash your hair. (This one is sure to make your preschooler laugh hard.)Bring out some washable paints and paper and let the rain make a masterpiece.Set up a wet-weather obstacle course. (Be careful, it will be slippery.)Make mud pies or sand castles, depending on your soil type.When the storm has passed, be sure to look for a rainbow. Precautions for Playing Rainy Day Games You and your kids aren't made of sugar, so you aren't going to melt away in the rain. But you do want to take precautions against hypothermia as you will cool down significantly if your clothes get wet, especially if there is any wind. Be aware of signs of shivering, clumsiness, and confusion and limit your time outside in wet clothes. Get inside and change to dry clothes and warm up. Also be alert to reduced visibility for traffic and use precautions, including wearing reflective clothing or blinking lights when you are walking or biking outside in the rain. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Get diet and wellness tips to help your kids stay healthy and happy. Email Address Sign Up There was an error. Please try again. Thank you, , for signing up. What are your concerns? Other Inaccurate Hard to Understand Submit Continue Reading


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In rural areas, a car is a lifeline to groceries, community, and medical care – all the basics of life.
Seniors who can no longer drive, or others without access to a car, must depend on neighbors and whatever public transit may be available.
Enter Rabbit Transit, which is striving to connect otherwise isolated individuals. The agency serves York County and nine other rural counties in Central Pennsylvania, providing some 2.5 million trips a year, explained Richard Farr, the agency's executive director.
"Part of our mission statement is really focusing on a high quality of life for our residents," Farr said. "We recognize the importance of unique transportation solutions."
Existing services to get people to medical care, provided by Medicare and through the Americans with Disabilities Act, have holes.
Rabbit Transit has therefore worked to cover seniors and to get people to, for instance, groceries and community centers.
Getting fresh food where it's needed
"Access to fresh food is incredibly important," Farr said.
To take care of that and related needs, Rabbit Transit began Senior Shared Ride way back in 1982 as a van service for seniors in need of groceries, and the agency now plans to expand to other groups.
The basic plan is simple. Seniors call for a van the day before from a limited range of hours available, Farr said. Vans may leave at 9 or 10 in the morning and return at 1 or 2 in the afternoon. Because every part of the 10 counties served has a grocery store, a medical facility, and a community center within 11 miles, the trips can be kept short and affordable. Payment is currently $2.35 each way, with Rabbit Transit picking up the rest of the $15.57 average trip cost.
The exception is for a hospital or specialized medical facility, Farr explained. In this case, the trip can be far longer, 30 or more miles, in which case the cost is $6.65 one way for seniors, out of a total expense of $44.
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Another innovation began in 2001 in York, the only urban area Rabbit Transit serves, with some 40,000 residents or a bit more than 100,000 including adjacent areas. Grocery stores have been leaving the downtown for suburban areas, causing difficulties for those without car access.
Extending services to others in need
Of course, seniors are only one group of people in need of transportation. While there are existing programs for the disabled, there is a "glaring" hole for low-income rural people, said Sherry Welsh, transportation project manager for Rabbit Transit. Latinos also, for example, tend to live in areas that lack safe streets and sidewalks and have fewer grocery stores, according to research reviews by Salud America!
Even getting to work can be a problem, and Rabbit Transit is just beginning to look for solutions.
"We need to get data first, then go to funders," Farr said. "We need to know where they live and how many."
Realizing the need for continued improvement, Rabbit Transit received a grant to begin the 3P Ride – standing for People, Places, and Possibilities – about a year ago. The program "brings people to the table who use our services," said Welsh, with about 40 participants, from seniors and disabled people to decision makers. "We focus on being inclusive, bringing people to the table who really should be."
Yet "there is always more to accomplish," she said, and the process has been extended beyond its trial first year. "The overarching theme is: transportation is a necessity for just quality of life. Just as people's needs are changing, the community's needs are changing, and we have to change as well."
With its willingness to experiment and a ready source of funding, Rabbit Transit has become a pioneer in helping the communities it serves.
"I like to think we're pretty unique," Farr said. "Certainly, we look at best practices, transit agencies doing innovative things, we steal pieces of."


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An unruly suspect was taken into custody early Monday morning after a vehicle was found in a ditch. An off-duty Cozad Police officer came upon the scene at 3:45 am about 6 miles south of Cozad along Highway 21. A Dawson County Sheriff's deputy responded and found an North Platte man sleeping in the vehicle that had become stuck. Deputies attempted to place the driver, 23-year-old Javin Newbrey, under arrest for Driving Under Suspension when he became very uncooperative according to the Sheriff's Office. After a brief struggle and assistance from Cozad Police Department, Newbrey was placed under arrest. Some suspected drug related items were also recovered.
Newbrey was booked into the Dawson County Jail on initial charges of Possession of a Controlled Substance-Methamphetamine, Driving Under Suspension, Resisting Arrest, and Obstructing an officer.
Meanwhile, a 15-year-old rural Cozad girl escaped injury from a one-vehicle accident Friday morning. According to the Sheriff's Office, it occurred about 10 miles southeast of Cozad around 7:13am. A vehicle, driven by Jocelyn Hendricks, was traveling northbound when it entered a ditch and rolled onto it's top. The driver was briefly trapped but, not injured. Seatbelts were in use.


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Top 5 Things Investors Should Look For In A Cannabis Investment, by HiFi Farms' CEO Sara Batterby & CFO Andrew Hunzicker
#1 The right team with the right domain expertise.
This is a no-brainer in tech, but it might be hard for, even experienced, early stage investors to spot the kind of talent that is foundational to success in a cannabis company. You definitely need a strong CEO. Somebody who has a solid grasp on the business end of things. Good operational skills and a track record in execution are also an absolute must. It is important to realize however, that real cannabis craft has been acquired over years in a shadow economy that has little to do with building professional credentials and a network on LinkedIn. You are going to need it, and it may come in a package that does not fit with the kind of person or profile you are used to investing in. I would go so far as to say, if you are a tech investor and you can relate to everyone on the team you are looking at, you probably don't have the right team. Just be prepared to deploy different strategies for validating talent in cannabis than you might deploy in industries that have evolved in the legal market. Realize that the talent you need may lack some of the professional skills that you will rely on to lower your risk, and make sure that the craft talent is supported by a team that can build a brand and bring a product to market.


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What To Know About Electric Train Rides For Small Kids
Often it seems as if virtually every kid goes through a train phase at some point. They become obsessive about trains and railroads and would like to spend all of their time tinkering with model trains or reading books about them. They may beg and plead for their parents to consider them on the real train.
While it may possibly not continually be possible that you should take your kids with an actual railroad journey, there are still ways to allow them to benefit from the knowledge of riding the rails. By searching for opportunities to be on electric train rides, your small kids trains can finally make their dreams be realized.
There are quite a few amusement parks, for example, who have many different trains that individuals can ride. Some of these are roller coasters that are aimed more at teenagers and adults, but many of them are slower and gentler rides which are more desirable for youngsters. Before you decide to go to the park, though, it is a great idea to confirm their internet site to view what rides can be purchased.
All things considered, you may not want to reach the park along with your children in tow, only to find out that we now have not any great train rides for these people. They will be very unhappy and disappointed, and you may have wasted each day on a trip which is not intending to make anyone have a great time.
Instead, do some preparing in advance to enable you to make certain that the park is full of plenty of rides that the whole family will enjoy. This will help create some amazing memories that you can think back fondly on in the foreseeable future. Make sure to take a great deal of pictures to remind yourself of everything that happened!
However, if you do not have an amusement park near your own home, or in case you are just unable to take a trip to 1, you may still find places that you could go which means that your kids can ride upon an electric train. For instance, these attractions can occasionally be bought at shopping malls along with other places. Malls usually have rides where kids will go to get fun while their parents are busy shopping. Beston kids trains.
You could potentially even rent or invest in a small electric train set for your children that you can create in the home. While this might be a little expensive, you can actually find some very affordable rates. This way, you do not even need to leave your own house to let your kids have some fun.
These sets come in a number of sizes, so it is easy to choose one that is certainly suitable for the space that you may have available. It is possible to set them up indoors or out, according to the weather.
As we discussed, there is a lot to find out in relation to helping your kids enjoy kids mall trains. Keep this advice under consideration to be able to ensure your children have a thrilling time.


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JACKSON -- Ole Miss wide receiver A.J. Brown is well aware of the school's former star receiver Laquon Treadwell. One reason is because there's a picture on the wall of the program's practice facility that displays some of Treadwell's achievements.
Brown took notice.
"Every day in the summer I'd say, 'I'm sorry, but you're coming down,' " Brown said with a grin. "It made me work a lot harder."
The Ole Miss practice facility might at least need a picture of Brown alongside Treadwell's after the season he just completed. The 6-foot-1 sophomore from Starkville won the C Spire Conerly Trophy on Tuesday night, adding to his many accolades this season.
The Conerly, which is in its 22nd year, is given to Mississippi's top college football player. It is named for the late Charlie Conerly, the only football inductee in the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame who was an All-American at a Mississippi university, an NFL rookie of the year and NFL All-Pro member, and quarterbacked a team to a world championship.
Brown leads the Southeastern Conference with 1,252 yards receiving and 11 touchdowns. He also leads the SEC and ranks sixth nationally in receiving yards per game (104.3).
Brown had one of his best games in the Battle for the Golden Egg against Mississippi State, hauling in six passes for 167 yards and a touchdown in a 31-28 upset victory. He also broke Treadwell's single-season school record for yards receiving. Treadwell set the original mark in 2015 and now plays in the NFL with the Minnesota Vikings.
Brown, who went to Ole Miss despite going to high school just a few miles from Mississippi State's campus, knows more than most about the Conerly Trophy and how much it means in the state.
"Hard work paying off," Brown said. "I'm blessed to be put in this situation and give thanks to God. I was surrounded by a lot of good talent (on Tuesday). I was fortunate enough to win."
Brown's six 100-yard receiving games is tied for best in a single season, equaling Treadwell's mark in 2015. Brown finished third on the single-season record charts in receptions (75).
Brown is the seventh Rebel to win the award. He joins Stewart Patridge (1997), Deuce McAllister (1999), Eli Manning (2001, 2003), Patrick Willis (2006), Bo Wallace (2012), and Evan Engram (2016).
It also marks the first time Ole Miss has won the award in back-to-back seasons.
MSU quarterback Nick Fitzgerald, Southern Mississippi running back Ito Smith, and Alcorn State running back De'Lance Turner were the other finalists.
Fitzgerald came to Jackson for the Conerly Trophy ceremony despite suffering a dislocated right ankle in the Egg Bowl on Thursday. He had a cast over his leg and was on crutches, but he said he hopes to be back for spring practice.
The 6-foot-5, 230-pound Fitzgerald was the offensive catalyst for No. 24 MSU, which has an 8-4 record this season, including a 4-4 mark in the SEC. He threw 15 touchdowns passes and ran for 14 more.
Smith, a 5-foot-9, 195-pound senior, had another fantastic season as Southern Miss' main running back. He had 1,323 yards rushing and 13 touchdowns. He also caught 36 passes for 370 yards and two touchdowns.
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The lively, joyous sound of Matuto entwines Brazilian folk music with the flatpicking guitars and fiery fiddling of American bluegrass. Matuto (Brazilian slang for "country boy") beautifully embraces Brazilian forró rhythms and the folk traditions of the American South, with instruments that include accordion, guitar, bass, triangle, and zabumba, a bass drum often used in Brazilian music. This performance features new works written and performed by youth in collaboration with Matuto as part of Carnegie Hall's Musical Connections program.
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A while back, my daughter friendship-evangelized me into the yoga world, and once I was converted to the wonders of yoga, I became an enthusiastic evangelist myself.
My favorite teacher is Adriene, of Yoga With Adriene on YouTube. She's cute, she's sweet, she wears normal clothes, and says non-stressy things like "Find what feels good," as opposed to the studio teacher who wanted me to stand on my head the first day I was there. "You don't trust your body," she accused me. I gave her my stink eye and came home to Adriene.
I always feel better, even after just a few minutes with Adriene's voice coaching me along to "Breathe lots of love in, breathe lots of love out."
My counseling clients know that I hard-core preach the benefits of yoga, research-proven to help alleviate even the toughest anxiety. (If you haven't read The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, or at least listened to his interview at the OnBeing podcast, you're missing out on the research behind the yoga revolution.)
For clients who aren't quite willing to take the plunge, it often becomes a joke between us to see how long into the session it takes me to suggest that yoga, might, maybe, possibly, be a helpful thing to just try this week? Just a sweet little, low-to-the-ground anxiety-cure practice? Just a little alternate nostril breathing, pretty please, because three minutes of this will make positive brain changes?
So. I love Adriene, and Friday morning, the Yoga with Adriene roadshow came through Dallas. It was a red-letter day, y'all.
It was wonderful to be in a room with hundreds of people breathing lots of love in and lots of love out. I had lots of good, teary moments, creating lots of emotional space inside myself.
My friend Shelly came along, and it was fun to practice with a friend, and then we stood in line for ages to talk to Adriene, and then we went for lunch in a super trendy industrial-concrete-floor-meets-cozy-upholstered-furniture sort of place.
It was a lovely, lovely day.
The only bump in the road was when I went to buy a t-shirt from the merch table.
And the t-shirt says "Self Love."
I don't know if this is just me, but somewhere along the way, I picked up the idea that it's not a good thing to love myself.
It's good if God loves me.
It's nice if other people love me.
But if I love me?
That's selfish.
That's narcissistic.
That's unspiritual.
So goes the story in my head, anyway.
I've learned to treat the story in my head with a certain amount of suspicion, because a lot of my head-stories are pure, vicious fiction. Horror genre stuff, some of them.
So I bought the shirt, because I wasn't willing to trust my head-story without further examination.
Plus, you only get to go to the Yoga With Adriene roadshow once in a lifetime, and after all the free hours of yoga on YouTube, I felt like I owed Adriene the price of a shirt. Or 100.
I wore the Self Love shirt all day Friday and all day Saturday.
I thought a lot about self love while wearing the shirt that says Self Love.
I thought about how powerful my love is.
I know that my love is a power for good in my husband's life.
I know that my love is a power for good in my childrens' lives.
I know that my love is a power for good in my friends' lives.
I know that my love is a power for good in my client's lives.
Eventually, I asked myself:
Why can't my love be a power for good in my own life, too?
You know what?
It can.
And it will.
I don't have to ration this love, divert it away from myself, starve myself of my own affection, or in any other way deprive myself of this power for good that is my love.
I'm discarding that old story about how self love is bad.
I'm going to let myself have as much love as I want.
As much love as I need.
I'm going to give myself just as much love as I give to all the other people I love.
And then let's just see what happens, shall we?
For all these great gifts of yoga, Lord, I am truly grateful.


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This week, the National Academy of Sciences released its long-awaited report regarding this issue. The New York Times has a good summary here.
The full report has a fascinating section on Virginia's geology, weather, and ecology. For example, it points out that debris flows are some of the most destructive events in the Virginia's mountainous areas, account for more than 50% of erosion in Virginia mountainous area river basins, and recur on a 2,000-4,000 year cycle. (P. 30-31) Virginia is at a relatively high risk for flooding because we have a high precipitation rate and topography - much higher than areas where uranium has ever been mined before in the United States (P. 34).
It also points out that our experience with earthquakes only started in the 1700's and we just experienced the most serious earthquake event of the last 400 years just a few months ago that shut down the North Anna reactor for months. (P. 30-31).
The report also included this great map that shows how all this got started. Basically, in 1973, the U.S. Government decided to promote uranium exploration in response to the 1973 OPEC Oil Embargo. The conducted an airborne gamma-ray spectrometry survey to identify surface concentrations of radioactive minerals by measuring gamma ray emissions. The map is on the right and the site we are fighting about is right in the middle of the massive purple blob in Central Southside Virginia (see note I added to Figure 3.4 at right (click to enlarge)).
IMPORTANT NOTE: Click to enlarge Figure 3.4 and note that on this map, the 44th District, Alexandria and Arlington have practically no gamma-radiation (explaining George Washington's emergence as our nation's leader and making the 44th District one of the few locations in Virginia whose thoughts aren't regularly clouded by radioactive emissions (note tongue in cheek)).
You can see the spike in 1973 and then in 2006 when this issue picked up interest in Virginia again.
About 20% of the current U.S. uranium supply comes from decommissioned Soviet warheads. That supply is coming to an end shortly. Between that and demand from new reactors (yes, I know Germany is going in a different direction), the long-term price prospects for uranium must be good.
That's what I read in the first 100 pages.
I'll read the last 120 pages tomorrow, but here are some highlights I pulled from the Non-Technical Summary.
- Page 11. There are 55 documented occurrences of uranium deposits in Virginia. Most are along the Blue Ridge and Piedmont (right). Thus far, only one has been identified as economically viable to mine.
- Page 12. Open pit and conventional mining (tunneling) are the only viable methods of mining uranium in Virginia.
- Page 13. The NAS did not have enough site-specific data to predict what mining or processing method would be appopriate for the Coles Hill site in Virginia.
- Page 14. Use of industry best practices and a robust regulatory framework are necessary to mitigate the risk of radiation exposure to the general public from groundwater contamination or airborne radiation (radioactive dust or radon gas).
- Page 15. Modern tailings management attempts to control tailings for 200-1000 years. VA is subject to "relatively frequent storms that produce intense rainfall" and "it is questionable whether currently-engineered tailings repositories could be expected to prevent erosion and surface and groundwater contamination for as long as 1,000 years."
- Page 16 - Existing uranium mining regulations were typically enacted in reaction to bad events. Going forward, "A culture is required in which worker and public health, environmental resources, and ecological resources are highly valued, continuously assessed, and actively protected."
- Page 17 - Virginia has not needed to regulate uranium mining in the past. "At present, there are substantial gaps in legal and regulatory coverage for activities involved in uranium mining, processing, reclamation, and long-term stewardship."
- Page 17 - Public participation is critical in the regulatory process before decisions are made. "[U]nder the current regulatory structure, opportunities for meaningful public involvement are fragmented and limited." Opportunities for public participation in licensing of specific mines is limited only to adjacent landowners. There is no guaranty that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold approval hearings in the vicinity of the proposed facility. "Furthermore, there is no evidence at present that members of the public would be included in deliberations about post-closure plans at the time those plans are implemented."
If the Commonwealth of Virginia removes the moratorium on uranium mining, there are steep hurdles to be surmounted before mining and processing could be established in a way that is appropriately protective of the health and safety of workers, the public and the environment. There is only limited experience with modern underground and open pit uranium mining and processing in the United States, and no such experience in Virginia. At the same time, there exist internationally accepted best practices that could provide a starting point for the Commonwealth if it decides to lift its moratorium. After extensive scientific and technical briefings, substantial public input, the review of numerous documents and extensive deliberations, the committee is convinced that the adoption and rigorous implementation of such practices would be necessary if uranium mining, processing, and reclamation were to be undertaken.The summary of the report raises many serious questions and points to many flaws in Virginia's existing regulatory framework that need to be explored before proceeding. It also suggests that a "hands off" approach is not the best way to proceed when dealing with a substance as toxic as uranium and that implemention should involve a lot more than the simple repeal of a moratorium if we are to proceed while protecting the public.
I might write more after I read the rest, but in the meantime, I'm curious to see what the proposal is to overcome the "steep hurdles" identified in the report. It seems to me like this will require much more than just a repeal of a moratorium.


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Market Children of South Quito
Although recently I have been only sharing my weekend adventures. That is in no way why I came to Ecuador. I came for the street/market children of South Quito. Before I dive into describing my current experiences, I need to give a little background information about the markets, children and organisation I am working with.
The markets are the livelihood of thousands of families, as generally the only source of income. At 4.30am every morning whole families awake to prepare for a long day selling goods at the markets. Children too are awoken from their slumber to be an extra pair of hands, as there is no other option, no where else for them to go. As markets are set up and run during the day, children either work, run riot or sleep in cardboard boxes. Little room for education or play. Older boys and girls take care of their even younger siblings. The markets are their homes.
So in comes the not for profit organisation, UBECI (United to Benefit Ecuadorian Children, International). Who "works daily to ensure a better future for Ecuadorian children and youth. Located in Quito, Ecuador, UBECI programs serve low-income children and their families in Quito and in surrounding rural areas". In the Working Children Programme (which is where im working) each day we head to a new market and set up an area where children can come and play, read and learn. Three wonderful invidiuals, Danny, Kati and Alihandro, run different activities for different age groups. As children pile in, often walking alone or with their siblings in busy streets, we spend an hour playing with legos, puzzles, reading books, or simply just running around. We sing songs and dance, the programme brings so much joy to these children who have nothing. Nothing but love. For the last part of the session we break off into age groups and spend time on a specific task. Crafts, learning english and different teamwork games.
Already in three weeks I have seen such a change in so many children, ones who were once shy and reserved are now talkative and confident. With another four weeks to go, I already know its going to be hard to leave, but for now Im going to do my very best to serve the kids and learn from this surreal experience.
With love from Quito,


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Hotel is located right across the street from Zhengzhou airport, however you cannot walk it and need to take a shuttle bus. The city is over an hour drive away. There is very little to do outside of hotel, its just convenient for the airport.
The room on the 4th floor had two twin beds but quite large size. Quite comfortable with easy to access plug sockets in between beds where a phone is also located plus switches for all lights. The room is quite spacious and offers a large workable desk with lamp as well as a small curved sofa and glass table. There is also a luggage rack, basic coffee making facilities and large wardrobe with safe. The room decor is ok, not spotlessly clean though and the wall paper is quite grubby with stains noticed. Light is good with large windows with view of airfield.
Bathroom is of good size with a large shower cubicle – issue is the water doesn't drain very well the cubicle gains a bit of a puddle for a long while. Amenities are all hotel branded and simple. They offer 2 complimentary bottles of water.
The main issue with this room is that it was very hot, the digital AC doesn't seem to go below 25C despite setting lower. It meant sleeping was hard in April when it was quite hot outside.
The hotel offers free WIFI and worked well enough- multiple devices with no issue regarding VPN.
There is also a business centre in the lobby.
Catering includes a buffet and normal restaurant, also a lobby bar but was never open. There is according to map a SPA and also a chess room but did not see these.
The building is quite nice from outside, like forbidden city style.
Staff seem ok, but lack much standard of English. Check-in took a while though.
Overall its the best hotel closest to the airport but its not of an international standard. However convenient for airport.
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Convenient for airport, Chinese hotel. Room is quite hot in Spring since AC works poorly
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- Name: Equipoise (Boldenona-E)
- Manufacturer: SP Laboratories (Moldova)
- Active substance: boldenone
- Product: Injection
- Concentration: 200 mg / ml
Boldenone Undecylenate (Equipoise) – an anabolic and androgenic steroid developed for veterinary use. Produced methandrostenolone in order to obtain a long-acting drug firmly entrenched in the market of sports pharmacology. Chemically boldenone molecule – a molecule Danabol devoid of 17-alpha-methyl group. Modification of a double bond between the first and second carbons made steroid same paved as testosterone (for anabolic properties), whereas androgenic activity Boldenona-E double weaker. Anabolic Index – 100, androgen – 100, liver toxicity – no, the conversion rate into estrogen – low progestogenic activity – is very low.
The effects from taking Equipoise
- High-quality muscle gain. This effect takes place gradually (Undecylenate – very long ester stsepochkoy 1 atom longer than decanoate).
- The increase in power performance.
- Increased appetite.
- Hematopoietic function. Equipoise increases the number of red blood cells produced, which in turn improves the delivery of oxygen to the muscles. This feature of the drug is widely used by representatives of endurance sports (such as athletes).
How to take Ekipoise
Equipoise course lasts approximately 8 to 10 weeks. Average dose ranges from 400 to 800 milligrams. Before taking advisable to conduct a full examination of the body and to consult a doctor. This will allow you not only to avoid possible side effects, but also the right to determine the duration of the course and dosage. Exceeding the norm more than 800 milligrams almost never leads to better results, but only increases the risk of adverse reactions. As for how to make Equipoise in combination with other AAS, the best hands in the "drying" are considered Anavar and Winstrol. The duration of the course is reduced to one and a half months (due to a significant suppression of endogenous testosterone). After 2 weeks of completion of the reception begins PKT: restore hormonal balance to help testosterone boosters. More detailed information about the steroids and the side effects can be found in topic Boldenone. Variety of steroids like Equipoise In a form of Bold 200 are available on our site.
Reviews Equipoise
Most beginners complain about the high price of the steroid. But such reviews Equipoise SP Laboratiries not entirely objective, because the drug is not the most expensive, especially given the rarity of injections. Steroid production Moldovan pharmaceutical company is considered one of the best, if not the best on the market in its price segment. Reviews Equipoise by high-level athletes talk about good quality to gain weight (with a gradual increase in the volume), increasing power performance and relative safety. At doses up to 600 mg per week side effects almost never occur. In general, the steroid has a good reputation.


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Worth Reading - 2/4
1. From Aaron Earls, 3 important times to teach your kids theology:
2. The problem of turning inward. A look at why Dutch Reformed Christianity hasn't grown, despite a mandate to take the gospel to "every square inch"
3. An article from the Economist on why sometimes sports teams have perverse incentives to lose:
4. Voices from the left side of American politics often complain about "Big Oil" and other political interests contributing to political causes. Notably, this is only when the contributions are not in their favor. There is some evidence that outside interests are playing into the political left's war on fossil fuels:
5. More money for public education is no more than part of the solution. In fact, it may not be the biggest part of the solution.


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Dak Prescott expects Cowboys to "pay what's deserved"
Dak Prescott wants a new deal this offseason. The Cowboys want to give him a new deal this offseason.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones already promised an "extraordinary contract" for Prescott, who "no one deserves to get paid fairly more than he does," according to team executive vice president Stephen Jones.
Prescott is worth more than the $725,848 he made last season, which ranked 55th among NFL passers. He has made more in his off-field endorsements than he has in football in three seasons. But figuring out where he fits in the quarterback hierarchy is the hard part.
Prescott expects the Cowboys to "pay what's deserved" and makes it clear he expects to be paid more than Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, who has a team-friendly deal that paid him $15 million in 2018.
"Nobody's wife makes as much money as his wife does either," Prescott told Jori Epstein of USA Today. "When Tom Brady isn't the breadwinner in the home, then that's a great problem to have.
"So, in that case, he can do that. He can do his contract however you want to do it."
Brady's wife, model Gisele Bundchen, earned $10 million in 2018 and $17.5 million in 2017, per reports.
Is Prescott worth Aaron Rodgers or Matt Ryan money?
He is 32-16 since the Cowboys made him a fourth-round pick in 2016 and has set an NFL record for most fourth-quarter and overtime comebacks (15) by a quarterback in his first three seasons. But he has averaged only 3,625 passing yards per season with 67 career touchdown passes.
"People are going to question, and I want them to," Prescott said. "I don't care. I am here where I am today because of the people always saying what I couldn't or could do.
"It's almost comical sometimes. if I hear it or allow myself to get involved in the talk, sometimes it's comical. But I just keep going out there and just doing what I know I can do best."


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Goodbye, 33: How I Learned To Let Go & Trust
365 days. A million more moments to see something new. To open my heart. To uncover more of who I am. To reclaim more light. To take up more space. To become more free.
This weekend marked the completion of the thirty-fourth year of my life. I am becoming increasingly more aware of the ways I am changing and the limitations that have shaped me. The stories are fading, the truth is emerging, and I am finally connecting to the woman who has been living beneath the chaos.
For most of this year I have been writing a book, a compilation of healing and heartbreak vignettes. Yesterday, two days after my 34th Birthday, I launched that book. Not only is it done, but it's been born and is on its own journey in the world and into the hands of those who need it.
Given that I've hit two big markers in the past few days, I decided to take some time to reflect on what this year has brought me and the big lessons I've learned. Here they are:
I can handle anything.
There is something that changes when you fall into the darkness and take the long, slow road out. I'm not talking about holding on for dear life to get through the bumpy ride. I'm talking about something that happens when you surrender to the path of your healing. It has its own pace and rhythm. You can honor it or fight it, your choice.
If you decide to fight it, the pain worsens. You get stuck on track. I found myself there time and time again until I got the hint and lost my interest in shortcuts. I was willing to buckle down and do the hard work of healing.
Ripping off the band-aid doesn't garner the same results. This slow, soakin'-it-all-in, takin'-my-good-ol'-time healing has changed me at my core. It has shed off layers that can't be put back on.
I am forever changed, and I now walk with a confidence I wouldn't have otherwise. My gait reminds me that I am stronger than I believed I was, and I can handle anything.
Focus on The Bright Side.
This isn't the message in my book which is titled The Bright Side of a Broken Heart. The message there is to dig deep, dive in, and face every morsel of terror in your body. It's about feeling it to heal it. No positive thinking or mantra work involved. No manipulation or avoidance tactics. It's about the raw beauty of grief, heartache, and healing.
One of the biggest lessons for me this year has been getting to know the subtleties of energy. Those deep beliefs that it's not safe to speak up, that we don't belong, and that standing in our power will get us hurt? That's the manipulative, dark energy in us that keeps us stuck and small.
I know it might sound like some kind of voodoo, woo-woo magic if this isn't familiar to you, but I've witnessed this energy releasing in most of my clients and have experienced it myself. What I'm really talking about here is something I think anyone can get down with:
Don't give voice to negative energy.
I'm a fan of being honest and keeping it real. For some of us, it feels like we're being a fraud if we don't voice the negative thoughts and emotions that are nagging at us. But what we are actually doing is feeding the energy.
Pulling ourselves out of the grip of dark energy feels impossible, but it's actually quite easy. In the Breathwork groups I lead I often have people begin laughing. Sometimes there are twenty people in the room sobbing, and then I say, "Ok now let out a giant belly laugh!" The resistance is palpable. When you're sobbing like that it feels like the sadness could go on forever.
But then people suddenly switch to laughter. They have to because I've told them to, and the stragglers who really resist end up caving into the contagious energy that is now rippling through the room. And then suddenly nearly everyone is laughing so hard they feel like they might never stop.
I often tell them to notice that switch, how impossible it felt, and how in a split second they made the choice to move from heavy to light. Focusing on The Bright Side is just like that.
Your moment-to-moment choices determine how you show up in life. If you keep focusing on the ways you aren't being the way you want instead of the way you are, the energy that keeps you stuck grows.
Breathwork really works.
This is not news to me but something has shifted for me these past few months where I am noticing huge changes in the way my mind and emotions operate. If you read my blog or are interested in my work, I'd take a bet that you've got some experience with sadness, deep feelings, and intense emotions like me.
Our minds can easily judge others and ourselves. We can feel overwhelmed by our emotions. We can obsess over the smallest details and overanalyze encounters that leave us queasy. We can often feel we're left the victims of our minds and our feelings.
I have suffered from mild depression throughout most of my life, having bouts of sadness and lethargy that seemingly couldn't be explained. I have released an enormous amount of pain and heaviness I'd been carrying around for most of my life, some my own and some I have taken on from others.
In the past six months or so I have experienced close to zero moments of depression or anxiety. I understand my emotions pretty well now, and when I feel them piling on I breathe and release. I don't find my mind constantly judging people or myself. I'm not shrinking myself down nearly as much, and I have been taking bigger risks.
My mind has lost its bitter tongue, and my heart takes up more space.
Breathwork works. After four years with this practice, I am in awe of how dramatically my life continues to change. My experience of myself and others is more compassionate. I enjoy who I am more. I take up more space. I feel more comfortable being me. I see the goodness wanting to burst through everybody.
It shows up in layers. There is always more to go and that's what excites me. This is the best I have ever felt. A couple years ago I said the same thing and the year before that. How incredible to find something that makes you feel better and better with age?
Letting go is about trust.
In my firewalk on New Year's Eve I chose to work with the word trust. It's a word I have written down every single day for over a year. Everything I have learned these past two years is about letting go, and letting go is about trusting.
I only hold on when I'm afraid. I hold on when I can't see what's ahead of me. I hold on when I don't feel I am worth more. I hold on when I don't trust I'm supported.
Holding on doesn't serve me. It keeps me stuck. It holds me back from living from my truth: that I am someone who is worthy of love and beauty and goodness.
I let go by breathing. I let go by being willing to see more and grow more. I let go by putting in the work of letting go. I let go by focusing on what it means to trust.
When I'm connected to my intuition I know that I don't need to see in front of me. It's safe to close my eyes and be guided from within.
Goodbye, 33. The year that I found myself again and reclaimed those bits and pieces that were locked up and stowed away. I loved this year so, so deeply, and I'm excited for what adventures await.
Thank you for being here with me.
Fun Facts: Grateful for 33
- I wrote and published a book—which means I'm now an author!
- I walked on fire under the stars in New Mexico on New Years Eve.
- I held my first retreat in Joshua Tree.
- Many of my Breathwork circles have sold out.
- As I grow I see my clients growing like crazy—so rewarding!
- I worked with way more clients than the year before.
- I taught Breathwork to a group of 50 people at a music festival in the desert.
- I let go of a friendship that wasn't serving me.
- I became obsessed with these Animal Spirit Cards.
- I camped on the beach under a full moon.
- I deepened my connection to the earth.
- I created the Choose Yourself Challenge.
- I rented a house in Joshua Tree and spent 4 days finishing my book without a soul in sight.
- I started a podcast.
- People started requesting to interview me.
- I continued into my second year as a Desire Map facilitator.
- I started teaching monthly Breathwork circles at WeWork in LA.
- I was featured in W Magazine's September edition.
- I sang in front of people for the first time since I was 12.
- I did another round of Healer Training.
- I put in an offer on a house in Joshua Tree. Didn't get it.
- My voice has opened and grown stronger.
- I upgraded from a studio to a 1 bedroom bungalow.
- Nature is calling my name, big time.
- I started a support group for writers, artists, and makers.
- I went surfing for the first time!
- I got really clear on the love I am ready for.
- I said no to things that weren't aligned with who I am or how I want to feel.
- I forgave myself and the people who have hurt me.
- I discovered old beliefs and worked on healing them.
- I took an impromptu trip to Mt Shasta and swam in a silky lake.
- I treated myself to a night at The Ace in Palm Springs and celebrated myself on my Birthday.
- I let in more gratitude and love than I ever have before.


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One of the most annoying problems we run into everyday in the online world is the use of login IDs and passwords.
Every site seems to want another ID and requires another password.
Short of forking over good money for a password manager app, is there a decent way to manage your online life with a unique ID and a secure, safe, and easy to remember password? Most security breaches are caused by easy passwords. But there's a difference between an insecure password and one that is both secure and easy to remember.
Doorman is a free Mac app that generates safe and secure passwords. And, those passwords can be easy to remember.
Here's how it works.
Use the Doorman controls to set up the type of password you want to use. Lower Case Letters. Upper Case Letters. Or, Numbers.
There's even an option for special characters.
Then select the standard Password Parameters, which include password length, and a speakable password. Once the settings are ready, click the Generate Password button and the password is displayed below.
The green bar indicates displays the safety value for the password (more green is better).
Generating a safe and secure password isn't difficult and there are many Mac apps available to do just that. But generating a password that's speakable, therefore easier to remember, is Doorman's claim to fame.


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"Thank you Liz. I am so pleased I joined the group. I feel much more empowered and happier with myself" (female, mid 50's, spring 2018 group member, 10kgs lost)
"Very supportive, informative course. Well run. Not overly complex and easy to follow" (male, early 60's, spring 2018 group member)
"Thanks Liz, throughout the last 8 weeks you have given me a better understanding of healthy eating and in the process I have lost 12kg and 56cm overall. The group environment no doubt kept my motivation up and had given me tips/ ideas along the way. Look forward to continuing my better eating habits and feeling and looking so much better. Once again thank you for you guidance and support" (female, mid 50's, spring 2018 group member, 10kgs lost)
"I wanted to find a healthy eating plan that I could sustain in my every day life. This course had made me change the way I will eat forever but doesn't restrict me from the foods I love. Thank you Liz" (female, late 30's, spring 2018 group member, 6.5kgs lost)
"Information that is backed by scientific facts, that's what I believe in. I couldn't believe how easy it is, my weight was dropping,. More importantly, I couldn't believe how great I felt, clarity in my mind, high energy and instant results. For me the ease of the program is what makes it work, no calorie counting, no supplements, no one saying eat organic only etc. I finished my 8 week program early December and I've been on holidays all of January my weight has gone up by only 1-2 kilos only so I just fast for a couple of days and I'm back to my NEW me!" (female, mid 50's, spring 2018 group member, 10 kgs lost)
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I have listed a new property at 2940 2ND AVE in Prince George.
Perfect starter or someone looking to downsize. Everything on one level. Close proximity to bus routes, Spruceland Shopping Mall, hospital and downtown. Renovations include: updated bathroom, roof, gutters, downspouts, and vinyl plank flooring in 2016 (as per seller). Windows and kitchen have been done over the past few years. 3 bedrooms, open-concept living/dining/kitchen area, and RV parking. All measurements approximate, and buyer to verify if important.