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Kosovo's Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj irrevocably resigned on July 19 after being summoned to appear for questioning as a suspect by The Hague-based war crime court investigating crimes committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) against Serbs during the war of independence.
Haradinaj was a former commander of the KLA, a paramilitary organisation that sought the separation of Kosovo from Yugoslavia during the 1998-89 war and the eventual creation of a Greater Albania. Among its former members are other top politicians including President Hashim Thaci.
"The reason for the resignation is that I have been called to appear for questioning by the Hague Specialised Chambers as a suspect," Haradinaj said in a Facebook post.
The court was set up in 2015 in the Hague, but is working under Kosovo's jurisdiction. Allegations it will investigate include the trafficking of human organs from prisoners and killings of Serbs and ethnic Albanians.
Haradinaj has been already prosecuted on a war crimes charge, but a United Nations tribunal cleared him of any war crimes in 2008.
"My innocence and the war of the KLA, confirmed by two verdicts, cannot be stained by anyone and anymore," Haradinaj added.
As prime minister Haradinaj has taken a tough line on Pristina's relations with Belgrade. Kosovo and Serbia are engaged in EU-mediated talks on the normalisation of their relations, but they stalled after Kosovo imposed 100% tariffs on Serbian goods for political reasons. Haradinaj said earlier that Kosovo will remove tariffs, a move also sought by the international community, once it is recognised by Serbia. On the other hand, Belgrade has insisted Kosovo must scrap tariffs as a precondition for normalisation talks to continue.
A land swap idea between Kosovo and Serbia was being considered an option by Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic and his Kosovan peer Thaci, but Haradinaj was a harsh opponent to this.
"My political views are clear: Kosovo cannot stand as a prize for being recognised by Belgrade and hence giving territory to Serbia," Haradinaj said.
Regarding the future running of the cabinet, Haradinaj said that his ministers would stay in office until a new prime minister is elected.
"After that resignation, I'm returning the mandate to the people to decide on the future leadership in free and democratic elections," Haradinaj said.
He added that responsibility now goes to the president to start consultations to set the date for snap election.
Thaci said he believes in the purity of the KLA war and the high moral values of Kosovo's freedom fighters.
War crimes committed by Serbian forces during the Kosovo war were punished by the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was established by the UN in 1993 and ceased its work in December 2017.
Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008, but it is still not recognised by Belgrade as a separate state. Russia and China have also not recognised Kosovo, but it is recognised by the US and most Western countries.


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Originally posted by HS Thomas:
Rivest, Shamir and Adleman (RSA) are credited with finding the most beautiful implementation of public key cryptography at the MIT CS Lab,
though the British Government are challenging for the title of inventor of public key cryptography.
Who is "they?"
Originally posted by HS Thomas:
By *they* I meant the authors. I would have thought that they'd have a reputation to uphold.
Second and Third editions of history books could outnumber Java book editions, authors and publishers just haven't cottoned on yet.
Originally posted by HS Thomas:
Video footage cannot lie up to a point.
Historians, as we know them ,may be another endangered species.
The news reporter may step in to fill the breach and the world will debate for ever more how those bits of video were cobbled together.
Historians are analysts.

subset: commoncrawl


text: Hi, does anyone know anything that can produce the sort of ASCII histogram that lame produces while encoding in VBR, from an existing .mp3 file? I'm interested in analysing the bitrate distribution of frames of a VBR live stream, though I don't mind saving it to a disk file if necessary. cheers, Ian


text: MUSIC Young Money's Mack Maine: Lil Wayne Released From Hospital 1:20 PM PDT 3/19/2013 by Sophie Schillaci FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images UPDATED: "God is great," the label president tweeted on Tuesday, revealing that the rapper was "headed home" after suffering a serious seizure. Lil Wayne has been officially released from Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai hospital, according to a tweet from Young Money president Mack Maine. "Thanks to Cedars Sinai for everything!!!" Maine tweeted early Tuesday morning. "@LilTunechi has been officially released and is headed home… God is great." PHOTOS: Lil Wayne Through the Years The 30-year-old rapper had been admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit late last week after reportedly suffering from multiple seizures. Details around his condition are unclear, but speculation has surfaced that his ailment was the result of a "sizzurp binge" and subsequent codeine overdose. Lil Wayne's forthcoming album, I Am Not a Human Being II, is due out next Tuesday, March 26. Update: Lil Wayne has informed fans that he's feeling "a lot better" via Twitter, writing that he is relaxing and watching Highly Questionable on ESPN2. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Sophie Schillaci firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


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Lebanon's public finances unsustainable says Fitch
Fitch Ratings, the international rating agency, stated in a comment released today that Lebanon's public finances are unsustainable but that the country is not likely facing imminent default.
Fitch Ratings, the international rating agency, stated in a comment released today that Lebanon's public finances are unsustainable but that the country is not likely facing imminent default. "The Lebanese pound has come under periodic pressure and bank deposit growth is slowing. Time is running short for the government, and it must act to avoid a financial crisis," says James McCormack, senior director of Fitch.
The Long-term foreign and local currency ratings are 'B-' (B minus), the Short-term rating is 'B' and the Outlook is Stable. At end-2001, Lebanon's government debt reached 168% of GDP, the highest of any rated sovereign. The 2002 budget projects a deficit of 15% of GDP (about 21% of GDP using Fitch methodology, which adjusts official data for comparability with other rated sovereigns) with debt service accounting for 82% of revenues. Notwithstanding several new initiatives to address the debt-deficit spiral, including the introduction of a VAT in February, Fitch believes that public finances remain on an unsustainable path.
Sources of financing for the government appear limited. Privatisation is moving ahead very slowly and the willingness and ability of domestic banks – the government's largest creditor – to continue to purchase more government securities is not without limit. As bank deposits shift from local to foreign currency (because of concerns about the exchange rate), banks are reducing their holdings of LBP-denominated government securities. Concerns within the banks themselves regarding the exchange rate are affecting their desire to hold sovereign eurobonds as well. The government is relying increasingly on the Banque du Liban for financing, essentially monetising its debt.
Foreign exchange reserves fell by 20% last year and are currently about USD4.9 billion. An increase in the current account deficit to about 34% of GDP and market intervention by the Banque du Liban to support the Lebanese pound drew reserves down. Fitch judges the current policy mix of targeting the nominal exchange rate as well as nominal interest rates in the context of falling foreign exchange reserves and rising government debt as unlikely to be sustainable.
Despite the very difficult state of Lebanon's public finances, Fitch does not believe that the sovereign is necessarily facing imminent default. Public sector external amortisation payments this year is only USD300 million and the country's external liquidity ratio – measuring liquid external assets as a share of amortisations plus short-term liabilities – is comfortably over 100%. And, although the currency composition of bank deposits is changing, the deposit base is still growing, albeit slowly. The agency warns, however, that time is running short for the government, and with the risks of devaluation and a further slowdown in growth of the banks' deposit base, the authorities must act to avoid a financial crisis.


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Scotland Yard was last night (Sunday) under pressure to explain why it failed to carry out a full investigation into allegations that a teenager had been trafficked to the UK to have sex with the Duke of York.
Four years ago, the Met received a complaint alleging that in 2001, Virginia Roberts, 17, was flown to London by paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and coerced into having sex with Prince Andrew.
It was claimed the incident took place at the Kensington townhouse of Ghislaine Maxwell, a close friend of the Duke. A photograph appeared to show him with his arm around the girl while Miss Maxwell looked on in the background.
After assessing the complaint, police decided the matter did not warrant a full investigation.
The Duke vigorously denies having sex with Miss Roberts and insists he knew nothing of Epstein's activities. But victims' rights campaigners have questioned why the matter was not pursued, especially given that in 2015 the Met adhered to national policy stipulating that "victims must be believed", introduced in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
Such was the Met's determination to pursue the policy to the letter that it spent 18 months and more than pounds 4 million looking into complaints by fantasist Carl Beech, who told police he had been raped and abused by a string of VIPs in the Seventies and Eighties.
The Daily Telegraph understands the decision to shelve the girl's complaint was taken by Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon, then commander in charge of specialist crime investigations, who reported to Assistant Commissioner Pat Gallan, overseer of Operation Midland at the time.
The Met has so far declined to explain why the complaint relating to Roberts was not taken further. Repeated questions to Scotland Yard about the decision-making process have been met with silence.
Dame Vera Baird QC, the Victims' Commissioner, is understood to have demanded an explanation but declined to comment directly because of the rules around election purdah. But Harry Fletcher, a victims' rights campaigner, said the Met needed to be transparent about the 2015 complaint. "There appears to be some worrying double standards here in terms of how Scotland Yard approached two complaints of historic sexual abuse," he said.
"In one case, a complaint from a vulnerable young woman has been dismissed without further investigation, while at around the same time the Met was going all out to investigate a pack of lies from a fantasist. It is only right that the Met now explains why there was such a divergence in their approach."
Meanwhile, it has emerged that the Duke held a meeting with Maxwell in Buckingham Palace in the summer, a fortnight after Epstein was placed under investigation by US authorities on fresh sex-trafficking allegations.
In the Duke's now-infamous Newsnight interview, he admitted seeing Ms Maxwell in the summer but insisted they had not discussed Epstein. Sources have now revealed the meeting took place in the Duke's private quarters at Buckingham Palace.
U.S. authorities are understood to be keen to trace Ms Maxwell, who has been accused of helping to procure young girls for Epstein – a charge she has always firmly denied.


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"In case you haven't recognized the trend: it proceeds action, dissent, speech." ~ davidly, on how wars get done
"...What sort of meager, unerotic existence must a man live to find himself moved to such ecstatic heights by the mundane sniping of a congressional budget fight. The fate of human existence does not hang in the balance. The gods are not arrayed on either side. Poseiden, earth-shaker, has regrettably set his sights on the poor fishermen of northern Japan and not on Washington, D.C. where his ire might do some good--I can think of no better spot for a little wetland reclamation project, if you know what I mean. The fight is neither revolution nor apocalypse; it is hardly even a fight. A lot of apparatchiks are moving a lot of phony numbers with more zeros than a century of soccer scores around, weaving a brittle chrysalis around a gross worm that, some time hence, will emerge, untransformed, still a worm." ~ IOZ
Apr 7, 2011
This was the day I turned down an invitation to meet with the future President Dubya, in one of those cozy living room meet and greets. It was the day a reporter friend got a call from Bay Buchanan, apologizing for one of Pat's notorious stickler umbrage takings. He wanted to tell me about it, so we decided to meet up.
A few hours before I allowed myself to be herded into the gathering of Presidential wannabes, the reporter and I found ourselves musing on politics and political fortune over excellent coffee imported from Montreal by our shitty mill city's then finest roaster (a friend, and for a while, my compassionate employer). I'd just signed on to another Republican's aspiration express. I was too late, and I'd bet on the wrong candidate. Dubya would soon snowball out of reach of all other contenders.
I'd sensed it then, gladhanding his campaign workers, watching their organization outmaneuver every opponent. I was lucky enough to be near to the center of the nasty little experiment in the (then new) corporatization of campaign structure. I got to see them do it - scratch Mrs. Dole's hopes and eyes out, dash Forbes against the rocks, whisper and rumor McCain into an eight year holding pattern.
Dubya's crew was masterful. They were at war, and they were the only people who knew it.
My reporter friend and I sipped at coffee and picked at croissants, discussing all this - he worked at remaining aloof, despite unreasonably passionate moral convictions; I tried to care, always failing for lack of a conscience and a reason to try out the feeling of loyalty. He would range from Bastiat to Baudelaire, cutting through his own arguments as a way of triplicating his dialogue with himself and others, backtracking to a point after following its logic to annihilation. I would pretend an investment in events which could never in fact overcome my composite detachment.
We both agreed that Dubya was a new thing - a variation, a Mule in the most Asimovian sense. Ending our conversation there, he dashed off to record a report, while I prepared my plastic and paternal concern, and returned to getting people to do things they would never do if plentiful food were equitably distributed.
Later that day, I met with the above mentioned men of Some Fame, shaking hands while a carried on with an impotent internal monologue. Bauer and Ashcroft were mild, soft spoken men. Gentle, for all that they would soon come to do and to explain away a comprehensive administration of deliberate horror. I remember now that I envied them their deep faiths, political and religious, while I simultaneously disdained them for it. Keyes was wild eyed, punctuating his speech with random gesticulation. As usual. I thought him a buffoon then. I still do now. A clown.
I never thought that of Ashcroft. I liked him, almost immediately.
And I knew him, from that handshake, as exactly the sort of unmovable administrators of death and destruction who remake human events, who by being who they are change how the rest of us live. How we exist.
Releasing his hand, the tactile softness of it still lingering, I had a compulsion to strike this man I found so pleasant in person. To strike him down and to kick him and kick him and to keep on kicking him. I have told this Ashcroft story before, but I have always omitted that eudaemonic compulsion. From shame. I was at the pivot of history. I knew it. And did nothing.
My reporter friend arrived. We retreated to a corner, again over excellent coffee.
I told him of the demiurge infecting me. He laughed, but I could not return him the favor. I had no humor. I had passed over some until then obscured border. I lost my balance, moving from my carefully constructed self, built over decades of self protection, to a man without any armor, without buffers, without any capacity to filter my experience. In a moment's release. In a literal instance of insubstantiation.
It would take a couple of years for this process to complete itself. I would hurt a lot of people along the way, having still any number of avenues to influence and power, but now armed with an ill formed conscience, with an uncontainable sense of outrage. With a compulsion to rediscover a long murdered fervor, to dredge up older sincerities, to ring them dry, to give them shape and a moral existence, to unleash them as guardian undead, patrolling the borderlands of my resurrected anger.
With the presence of myself riding my own memories. Inescapable.
That was then, and we're talking about a moment even earlier.
My friend took note of my expression. He muttered something about me being even more distant than usual. I told him, "Nothing further."
We soon felt out of touch. He needed me to be distant, but to pretend concern. He needed a sounding board. I needed him for the image of a self-confident conscience I'd long ago abandoned on the way to survival and self-preservation.
I still remember what I said to him, moments before I left:
"Empire, now. Or Balkanization."
I don't know why I said it. I can only remember really, really fucking meaning it. I remember ghosting myself, in order to say it.
I wish I'd been wrong.
But I'm glad I got to shake that one man's hand. It's the day which marks a necessary death. I would fall apart. Learn to panic. Unlearn how to be a conscientious sociopath. Start feeling. Begin to suffer. To hurt, for all that I'd done. For all that I could never undo.
And, within months, my wife was able to even like me, and not just love me.
(* - a deliberate but truthful amalgamation, to preserve for myself the illusion of privacy)
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I'll trade you one for the portrait of Ashcroft. My brother, in junior high school, once dated one of Reagan's daughters. As he waited in the hallway for his date to come downstairs, he could hear the future Pres and some buddies in an adgacent den, telling jokes about "jews" and "niggers". This was the man who later became stereotyped as a kindly uncle who wouldn't hurt a fly.
- April 7, 2011 at 9:03 AM
- Jack Crow said...
Barack Obama will probably never quip about jews and blacks. His noticeable dissimilarities from Reagan end at that point.
Like Reagan, and Dubya, Obama is a Mule.
- April 7, 2011 at 12:06 PM
I just like the disconnect between public image and private person. In a clinical way, I mean -- how twisted and tortured or seamless and effortless the bridge between one and the other.
Hey, for someone who hates the English language for forcing you to use a word like "wyf" (doesn't sound so bad in middle English), you use seem to revel in it in the current post.
- April 7, 2011 at 12:32 PM
- K. Ron Silkwood said...
Thank you for this post, Jack.
- April 7, 2011 at 3:12 PM
- Michael- said...
Wow Jack. That was a powerful post. You need to write a book, sooner rather than never.
PS - I retract my previous starements regarding intervention. The corporate-wall-street regime (empire qua empire) has totally co-opted the Libyan civil war.
I now realize it might have been better to let the rebels get slaughtered than to have them move closer to becoming like "us".
- April 7, 2011 at 3:41 PM
"conscientious sociopath" very well said.
as much as part of me wishes you had gone all bruce lee on all of their asses...prolly good you didn't. i mean, for starters, where would this fine blog be then?
- April 7, 2011 at 4:33 PM
It's quite possible you met my parents that day. They were active organizers for the GOP in NH, and specifically for Gee Dubbs.
- April 7, 2011 at 5:23 PM
- Michael- said...
So your parents are alien lizard soul-eaters then? Odd.
- April 7, 2011 at 6:07 PM
- Jack Crow said...
It was in Bedford. I skipped the living room deal with Dubya. I hate Bedford. Hate.
Thanks. I think. The rebels were never in danger of a massacre. That was Ob's "babies in incubators" moment.
I don't intend callousness, here - but the there is a firm, fast rule to insurrection: win, lose or beg for mercy. If rebels don't want their uprising co-opted, they shouldn't hand it over to the world's largest military treaty organization, fronting for a predatory death state.
K. Ron,
Thank you very much.
- April 7, 2011 at 7:16 PM
- om/ar said...
I had a compulsion to strike this man I found so pleasant in person. To strike him down and to kick him and kick him and to keep on kicking him.
That's what separates most humans from people like him. Because if Ashcroft felt this urge, he would secret himself in a law library, find some precedents, make some calls and you would find yourself in a holding cell noted for the violence of its guards.
- April 11, 2011 at 6:17 PM
- Jack Crow said...
Truth, om/ar. But, I have my own demons to bear. The moral high ground is not my native territory.
- April 12, 2011 at 12:45 PM


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90-minute Four-Hand – $250
Couples Massage
Choice of Swedish or deep tissue massage with your partner in the same room. May schedule one Swedish and one deep tissue on booking site.
*Prices include both partners
30-minute – $90 (Deep Tissue $100)
45-minute – $130 (Deep Tissue $150)
60-minute – $158 (Deep Tissue $178)
90-minute – $200 (Deep Tissue $220)
120-minute – $280 (Deep Tissue $300)
Deep Tissue Massage
When you are really serious about working your body then you need someone who is serious about working on your body. This is a therapeutic treatment massage focused on relieving muscular pain and deep body stress.
30-minute – $50
45-minute – $75
60-minute – $89
90-minute – $110
120-minute – $150
Swedish Massage
The original "quintessential" massage experience focused on stress relief, improved circulation and relaxation. This is the most common and most popular first time massage modality that is used to relax and rejuvenate. If you are unsure which package to go with, this is always a great start.
30-minute – $45
45-minute – $65
60-minute – $79
90-minute – $100
120-minute – $140
Four Hand Massage
Come get the FULL experience from Indy Massage Co. with this power packed therapeutic start up. Twice as much the power for less than what it would cost for two individual sessions combined.
30-minute – $90 (Deep tissue $100)
60-minute – $150 (Deep tissue $170)
90-minute – $200 (Deep tissue $220)
120-minute – $280 (Deep tissue $300)
Prenatal Massage
Gentle spa massage focused on the needs of expecting mothers.
30-minute – $45
45-minute – $65
60-minute – $79
90-minute – $100
Thai Massage
Fully clothed massage focused on an assisted yoga stretching routine.
30-minute – $45
60-minute – $75
90-minute – $100
120-minute – $140
Foot Massage
Massage focused strictly for relaxation.
30-minute – $25
Hot Stone Massage
This technique of using heated stones dates back hundreds of years and can be an excellent way to loosen up the muscles so that the massage technique can be more beneficial to inflamed muscles. If you suffer from stress or anxiety, the soothing nature of this massage can balance the metabolism and calm the mind.
30-minute – $65
45-minute – $85
60-minute – $99
90-minute – $120
120-minute – $160
Gua Sha + Deep Tissue Massage
An instrument-assisted press-stroking/scraping of the skin to intentionally create temporary markings -petechiae, called 'sha'- meant to break down and release tissue, stagnant blood, and energy. **Similar contraindications to cupping apply**
30-minute Gua Sha + Deep Tissue Massage – $50
60-minute Gua Sha + Deep Tissue Massage – $100
90-minute Gua Sha + Deep Tissue Massage – $135
Myofascial Release + Deep Tissue Massage
Myofascial Release is a very effective hands-on technique that involves applying sustained pressure keeping skin to skin contact to eliminate chronic pain and restore motion and flexibility. Myofascial Release will safely and gently release the entire Myofascial complex for lasting comprehensive results and genuine healing.
Please visit the link below for a complete description and all the problems myofascial release will help.
60-minute Myofascial Release + Deep Tissue Massage – $110
90-minute Myofascial Release + Deep Tissue Massage – $150
Graston Therapy + Deep Tissue Massage
Graston Technique (GT) therapy is successful in treating all soft tissue conditions, whether they are chronic, acute or post-surgical. GT therapy can help you enjoy a pain-free life. Graston instruments enable the treatment of scar tissue during rehabilitation for a faster recovery and has a greater success at improving range of motion and eliminating pain.
Please visit the link below for more information regarding this effective treatment.
60-minute Graston Therapy + Deep Tissue Massage – $110
90-minute Graston Therapy + Deep Tissue Massage – $150
Reiki Therapy + Massage
Reiki is a therapy often described as palm healing or hands-on-body healing in which a practitioner places hands lightly on or over a patient's body to facilitate the patient's process of healing. Reiki combines the Japanese and Chinese word-characters of "rei" (spiritual or supernatural) and "ki" (vital energy). Reiki heals by flowing through the affected parts of the energy field and charging them with positive energy.
60-minute Reiki Therapy + Massage – $110
90-minute Reiki Therapy + Massage – $150
Active Isolated Stretching + Deep Tissue Massage
Active Isolated Stretching (AIS) is a technique that focuses on lengthening muscles and fascia. By incorporating this technique into your session, we can relax the muscle tissue with massage and place focus on lengthening it out with AIS stretches to restore healthy alignment and function to your muscle fibers. This combined approach helps reduce tension and improve range of motion which is key for injury prevention and care as well as performance enhancement.
Please visit the link below for more details about this technique.
60-minute AIS Therapy + Deep Tissue Massage – $110
90-minute AIS Therapy + Deep Tissue Massage – $150
Manual Lymphatic Drainage + Massage
Lymphatic drainage is a therapeutic massage treatment. The massage uses very light pressure and long, gentle, rhythmic strokes to increase the flow of lymph and reduce toxins in your body. Lymphatic drainage can: reduce the chance of you suffering from minor colds and viruses; it helps your body fight off infection, and speeds up healing and recovery from illness; reduces pain and swelling, reducing water retention; improves your skin texture by reducing swelling, and puffiness; Reduces leg swelling from chronic venous insufficiency.
Please click on the link below for more information.
60-minute Manual Lymphatic Drainage + Massage – $110
90-minute Manual Lymphatic Drainage + Massage – $150
Thai Herbal Compress "Luk Pra Kob" + Massage
This traditional Thai therapy is a beneficial addition to massage and bodywork. Steamed bundles of herbs are applied to the body to alleviate aches and pains, improve circulation, promote lymphatic drainage, relax muscles, and stimulate nerves. Herbs such as lemongrass, ginger, peppermint, and eucalyptus provide a relaxing and stimulating experience. The broad pressure of the compresses can allow work on areas that might be too sensitive for normal massage. After the session, you may take the bundle home for reuse within five days or as a luxurious herbal bath infusion.
60-minute Thai Herbal Compress + Massage – $110
90-minute Thai Herbal Compress + Massage – $150
90-minute Thai Herbal Compress + Thai Massage – $150
120-minute Thai Herbal Compress + Thai Massage – $190
Cupping + Deep Tissue Massage
60-minute Cupping + Deep Tissue Massage – $110
90-minute Cupping + Deep Tissue Massage – $150
A powerful, all-encompassing acupressure treatment using cups with magnets intended to restore normal cellular vibration. **Contraindicated for clients with electrical implants such as pacemaker or insulin pump**
MelmaSan Massage
MelmaSan is a very slow meditative massage. The therapist melts muscle tension through gentle touch allowing muscle tissue to accept, receive, and follow the guided release. This technique combines aspects of Craniosacral Therapy, Reiki, and Manual Lymphatic Drainage.
MelmaSan Therapy is good for anyone who is looking for the therapeutic parts of deep tissue but the relaxation of Swedish massage. This massage is also good for people who are going through physical therapy after surgery.
A full body massage can only be done in a three hour session. A 90-minute session can be performed on a targeted area of the body, example; neck, back or legs.
90-minutes – $150
Three hours – $300
CBD Infused Massage
Cannabidiol is infused into massage oils, lotions and balms and used topically during a treatment. Medical News Today explains scientific and clinical research have identified CBD as a potential healing treatment agent for, but not limited to inflammation, anxiety, arthritis, depression, diabetes, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, neurological disorders and it has many benefits for your skin.
The cannabinoids in CBD help to reduce inflammation which is effective at providing relief from stubborn joint pain. CBD helps to ease and relax your muscles as the cannabinoids enter our endocannabinoid system via the skin. It does not have the THC that cannabis has which means you won't experience the 'high' effect. That means you can go about the rest of your day without feeling high and still enjoy the relaxing afterglow of the massage.
30-minutes – $55
45-minutes – $75
60-minutes – $89
75-minutes – $105
90-minutes – $110
120-minutes – $150


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