Eckhart Tolle TV is an internet subscription service that uses technology to bring the teachings of Eckhart Tolle and Kim Eng to the world. It is a monthly service whereby an issue containing new teachings from both Eckhart and Kim is released on the 1st of each month. Each issue contains a Private Seminar, which is a 60 - 90 minute talk delivered by Eckhart, a live meditation by Eckhartstreamed to your computer, and Eckhart answering questions from members (members are able to submit questions). Each month also includes exclusive content from Kim Eng in the form of questions being answered, or guided practices all of which complement the teachings of Eckhart Tolle.

Eckhart Tolle TV also hosts a robust community of people from over 130 countries. In this forum, people are able to start discussion threads and communicate with each other. Topics of the forum discussion range from support for understanding and living the teachings to more light natureddiscussions about experiences and life.

Finally, throughout the year, Eckhart Tolle TV creates an opportunity for the subscribers of Eckhart Tolle TV to join us in an intimate studio audience to participate in the filming of the content for the service. It is a wonderful opportunity to experience the teachings of Eckhart and Kim live.

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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle

It's no wonder that The Power of Now has sold over 2 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 30 foreign languages. Much more than simple principles and platitudes, the book takes readers on an inspiring spiritual journey to find their true and deepest self and reach the ultimate in personal growth and spirituality: the discovery of truth and light. In the first chapter, Tolle introduces readers to enlightenment and its natural enemy, the mind. He awakens readers to their role as a creator of pain and shows them how to have a pain-free identity by living fully in the present. The journey is thrilling, and along the way, the author shows how to connect to the indestructible essence of our Being, "the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death." Featuring a new preface by the author, this paperback shows that only after regaining awareness of Being, liberated from Mind and intensely in the Now, is there Enlightenment.

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Eddie Pepitone has been disgusted with everything longer than you have: Bed Bath & Beyond, the NSA, magicians, upscale grilled cheese, Parks and Recreation, and Wolf Blitzer are just some of his triggers. But what makes Pepitone my favorite comic is his persistent awareness of, and ability to hold, something that I call "the double horror." Not only does Pepitone expose the terrifying futility of those consumer identities we build to distract ourselves from the abyss, but he also reflects the anxious absurdity of simply being aliveand having a soulin the first place. "Is SleepyTime Tea going to make up for the fact that I was molested?" he asks. "Global capitalism is brutal and heartless. In other news I got a great app for my phone that allows me not to feel!!!" he tweets.

"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face," wrote Albert Camus of the strangeness of being alive. Pepitone's comedy is the visceral experience of a man being continually struck. When I've shown Pepitone's Netflix special to friends, some have asked me, "How do you handle all of the screaming?" The truth is, I don't really notice the screaming. Perhaps because his screams echo my own in a world where those around me don't seem so shocked by the fact that we exist. Camus also wrote, "I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion." In Pepitone's work, I find that revolt, freedom, and passion. I feel that I have company on that street corner

I caught up with Eddie Pepitone by cellphone on his way to play a role in Jill Greenberg's Feminist Pigs, wherein seven women take revenge on their abusers. Pepitone was to be shooting a scene at a pool in Beverly Hills, and for the part, he would have to be electrocuted underwater. We talked about anxiety, sobriety, and why life is hell.

So Sad Today: So you're going to get electrocuted?Eddie Pepitone: This is the kind of shit it's typical for me today I'll be getting electrocuted and tomorrow I'm supposed to be upside down on a lucite cross. This is how my life goes. That's my m.o. is I agree to do things, and then it's like, "Oh God."

Yes, any time a plan gets canceled it's the best day of my life.My big thing lately is I'm just gonna show up for whatever. I'm gonna be an adult. I agreed to do this. The old me would have wiggled out somehow. Now I'm on the trip of walking through pain.

When did the new you start? I'm being dragged, kicking and screaming. So I don't want to make it likeI guess the new me that is doing that is pretty new. Like a year old?

The walking through pain aspect is interesting. When I first discovered your comedy it was when you performed at an addiction recovery benefit show. I know that we're both sober. For me, using drugs and alcohol was an attempt not to be human. So when painmy own humanityoccurs, it feels like something is very wrong.Drugs and alcohol are just a game plan to avoid pain, right? When you've done that for years, you have to rewire yourself, because you're so used to killing the pain and not facing stuff. And now all of a sudden, you're like me where everything is fraught with anxiety. I'm going to a pool, and I'm just worried.

What would you say are your major fears right now? I think like tremendous violence happening to me or collapsing from a panic attack in the streets and being abandoned alone. What the panic attack symbolizes for me is I'm going to die in the streets alone gasping for air, how fucking horrific is that image, and it also representslike my big issues areI guess abandonment. Like just being bereft and abandoned and nobody gives a fuck. And LA is a weird place to be if those are your issues.

LA is an abandonment issue. You start out abandoned, because everything is so far apart. But dying alone in public is definitely scarier than dying alone at home. Like I just want to die in my sleep, and I think it's unfair that some people get so much better deaths than others. I think it's also about ego death. When I'm listening to a speaker like Eckhart Tolle, I feel like I get it, but then as soon as I go back to my life, I feel that terror of losing things, of losing life.

I loved in The Bitter Buddha when you were listening to Eckhart Tolle in the car and then yelling, "Fuck you, asshole!" at another car. He makes ego death sound so soothing, but the real experiences I've had of ego death were like, I felt like a chair was dissolving under me, and everything was decontextualized. I was like, wait, I don't want to be conscious, put the blinders back on! Anyway, I wanted to ask you, why is everything a living hell?Yeah, why is everything a living hell? Well, I think it comes down to that, well for me, I just didn't get any guidance or nurturing when I was younger. So I grew up such a twisted person who was always trying to avoid pain I just think it's hilarious that I drive around LA, the rich and powerful LA, sunshine, everybody's talking about it, and meanwhile I'm listening in the car to how the body holds trauma, and just feeling it. So your question, why is everything a living hell? I think it's a perspective we have cultivated for so long. I'm just becoming conscious of myhold on

[I hear Pepitone talking to a woman who asks what he is doing. She thinks he is there to clean the pool. He responds that he is one of the actors in a film and is an hour early.]

Now I'm afraidmaybe I shouldn't be giving information, like the filmmaker has done something on the sly and I've just given information, like, yes we're filming in the pool. Oh, God. And I'm like, "I'm one of the actors. I'm a big actor who has trauma trapped in his body." So why is everything a living hell? Wait, I'm going to tweet that, "I'm a big actor who has trauma trapped in his body." I think it's funny to call myself a "big actor."

That's also something you would literally see: Don Johnson, 30 years later, in US Weekly, "How Don Johnson Got Through the Trauma Trapped in His Body."Don Johnson.

It all comes down to Don Johnson.It does, I think. But I think it happens young, the hell. I think the hell gets implanted in us young, and I think as we then deal with the world, especially getting intolike I got into smoking tons of weed at 14 and that was my big escape. Little did I know that I was just postponing the inevitable reckoning. You know, there's always a reckoning in life.

The reckoning is so annoying. Like I've been clean and sober now for more than 12 years, but I'm still such an addict that I will get addicted to fucking anything that gets me out of myself. I'm always looking for that thing that I can just have infinite amounts of without a reckoning. But the day of reckoning always comes.Lately, I've been really into my dogs. Like, just putting so much of my emotions and obsessionI'm constantly looking to soften every day. I'm so into my dogs, but there's always part of me now that's like, "They're going to die one day. And that's going to be the reckoning that's going to be hard." It's like this too shall pass, the bad things and the good things but I remember Mark Maron said, "I'm trying to get the pleasure out of a pint of ice cream now that I got out of an 8-ball."

Yeah, the party we cobble together gets shittier and shittier. I have, like, Twitter and porn. I have, like nothing.I'm trying not to watch porn now. I just feel like it's feeding this shitty part of me... but then I get drawn to it too, and I'm like, oh my God but it's that panicked feel. Anything that has that addictive feeling to it, it always leads you to crazy things. It's that empty calorie shit that's feeding that demon we have. I need to fuck this, I need to eat it, I need to fuck it and eat it.

Totally! The hungry ghost.But are we being overly dramatic about our stuff? We're both sober. I'm sitting here right now ,and I'm looking at the trees, and the air is really nice, so there is a part of me now that is more connected than ever before to good stuff too. But it's so fraught with the feeling that just on the other side, waiting for me, are the demons. Have you read The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck? The big pain point is trying to avoid pain. We all think we should be riding around in a Maserati getting our dicks sucked, millions in the bank, everything is fucking great, and when adversity hits we're like, no, no, I don't want that, and that's what makes life unbearable. But it's the pain that leads to the good stuff. Like when you're in an intimate relationship, and you avoid at all costs a hard conversation about how you feel, but that kind of intimacy is what's going to make your life more intimate. We need to have the attitude that life isn't supposed to be a carousel ride while eating a fucking cake...which I love.

Of course. I want permanent cake. Like I want to be in the cake. I just want to be in the cake, all the time. But somehow not get sick of the cake. Like be high off the cake and just be able to eat the infinite cake. But in regards to the other shoe dropping and childhood stuff, I feel like it's a defense mechanism. To fully trust is just too scary. Because then I'm not in control when the shoe drops. Even though that control is an illusion. I think it's so fucking hard to let that go. And just to get into what's going on today, neo-Nazis and Trump, social media hysteria, you kind of look at the world and you go, Holy shit, it is a shithole. It is a fucking nightmare.

Yes, you look around, and there is plenty to verify that it's all shit. That's the scary thing.

There's horror. And then there's love. And then there's horror. But even nature is scary, toojust its randomness. I was watching this documentary the other day, and there was a crocodile who got in the mix with a bunch of hippos. And in defending themselves, the hippos had a stampede to chase the croc away. And they succeeded. But in the chaos, one of the hippos got accidentally stabbed by another hippo's tusk and was going to die. And I'm watching the hippo who got stabbed accidentally, and I'm like, fuck dude, that wasn't an act of evil. But it sucks for that hippo. And that scares me too. The randomness.Eckhart Tolle is constantly harping like a little bitch about the present moment. And I get his point butoh man, I felt that, the way that hippo got stabbed accidentally and was just going off to die, and the way animals like that go off to die is like my dying on the street alone. The way animals slink away when they're dying.

That hippo was having your nightmare death. I should have a picture of that hippopotamus dying, blown up, and just put on the biggest wall in my place.

It just says "The Worst That Can Happen."Right, the worst that can happen. And when people come over I just go uh, that hippo, that's just before she dies.

But what were you thinking about the present moment and that hippo?My thought is that, the reason why life is hell is that we don't stay in the presentlike you're watching that fucking documentary, and you're actually watching it on a comfortable couch, eating your cake, and that's your present moment.

But what about the present moment for that hippo? But I get it. I could spend 70 years worrying about my death and only five dying.Like, right now my present moment is fine. But what we do, we don't stay in the present moment. I'm worrying about my death, or my lack of faith. And that's what makes life hell it's our minds that are the fucking enemy. Like right now I'm sitting here, and it's really pretty and everything, but I'm in this really ritzy part of theI don't know where the fuck I amand I'm thinking, Someone with a gun could just come out and be like, Who the fuck are you? It's peaceful here.

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"A new generation of Futurists will be reading this seminal book and the incredible, important work of Hazel Henderson." Julie Friedman Steele, CEO / Board Chair, World Future Society.

SAINT AUGUSTINE, Fla., Aug. 22 /CSRwire/ - Foundational futurist Hazel Henderson, CEO of Ethical Markets Media Certified B. Corporation, releases her first book Creating Alternative Futures:The End of Economics, Foreword by E.F. Schumacher (1978), helping launch the "Small Is Beautiful" cultural revolution.

The issues and ideas explored are now more relevant today: decentralized, democratic solar economies; ending fossil fuel use; globalizing human rights, environmental protection and organic agriculture; facing up to inequality with decent wages, basic incomes, employee-ownership, cooperative enterprises, public banking, beyond economics toward transforming finance. all the UNs Sustainable Development Goals for 2030.

Theodore Gordon, founder of The Futures Group and co-founder of the Millennium Project says, This book burst like a creative seedpod and still germinates ideas among futurists, science writers and policy wonks worldwide.

Creating Alternative Futures in 300 libraries worldwide in many languages is also free from the University of Florida Digital Collections. Stephanie Mills, author of Epicurean Simplicity and On Gandhi's Path, says "Ahead of its time, right on time, and timeless, Hazel Henderson's first book abounds in courageous critical insight, immense sanity, systems wisdom, and inspiring reportage. Henderson, whose personal energy is positively solar, illuminates possible, urgent, evolutionary moves for our kind".

Original praise from founding futurists, including Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock(1964) and Barbara Ward, author of Spaceship Earth (1966). Elise Boulding, peace activist author of Cultures of Peace (2000) called Hazel "my favorite paradigm smasher"; oceanographer Jacques Yves Cousteau, said "In this book are most of the ideas we are fighting for"; Todays pre-eminent meta-historian William Irwin Thompson includes Hazel in his Lindisfarne Fellowship and "Thinking Together At The Edge Of History"(2016). Futurist philosophers Barbara Marx Hubbard and Jean Houston co-authored the Power of Yin with Hazel (1978). Physicist Fritjof Capra co-authored their Qualitative Growth. Alice Tepper Marlin, founder of Social Accountability International and founding godmother of socially responsible investing metrics discusses with Hazel "The Future of Finance" in our 2016 TV series, distributed globally.

About Ethical Markets:Founded by Hazel in 2004 to track and help accelerate the global transition to cleaner, more inclusive, knowledge-rich Solar Age economies, publisher of the Green Transition Scoreboard, founder of the EthicMarkAwards for Advertising that Uplifts the Human Spirit and Society http://www.ethicmark.org and a suite of global ethical standards and the MOOC, where Hazels book is also available free, along with resources for lifelong learners and aspiring global citizens.

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Washington, D.C. Today, the national advocacy group Food & Water Watch urged the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to extend the review of the proposed $13.7 billion Amazon.com-Whole Foods Market merger. The unusual and complex deal would pose substantial risks for consumers, farmers and innovative food manufacturers. The proposed mega-merger would jump-start Amazons floundering efforts to sell food and groceries by adding millions of square-feet of retail space at Whole Foods 436 U.S. locations.

The two companies already have many customers in common and the Whole Foods stores substantially overlap with Amazon Freshs distribution centers, giving the merged firm a strong platform to dominate the emerging online grocery and grocery delivery businesses. The deal also poses substantial risks to the thousands of smaller-scale and local farmers that have been supplying fresh fruits, vegetables and meat to local Whole Foods stores.

Amazons proposed takeover of Whole Foods could destroy long-standing arrangements with local farmers as the e-commerce giant pushes for larger scale suppliers and unreasonably low prices, said Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter. The deal could unravel decades of goodwill with local farmers who have helped build local food economies across the United States.

The deal could also harm independent organic and natural groceries and the innovative food manufacturers that have been delivering the healthier food that shoppers are increasingly demanding. Moreover, the deal could also weaken certified organic products, as Amazons chaotic third party marketplace could introduce fraudulent organic food and dilute organic standards, in part in an effort to push down on the price of organic farm goods. Already, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is struggling to combat fraudulent organic imports and the proposed deal could exacerbate the prevalence and problem of organic fraud.

Amazon has allowed its third-party sellers to sell counterfeit shoes, shirts and electronics the proposed deal could allow a flood of fraudulent organics that would dilute and undermine commitment to certified organic food, said Hauter.

Shoppers could also be disadvantaged in the face of Amazons opaque pricing algorithm that allows different consumers to pay different prices for the exact same goods. The complexity and volatility of prices and promotions can disadvantage and confuse consumers who may or may not be getting the best prices for any given good. This effective price discrimination is entirely inappropriate for food.

The FTC must extend the review of the Amazon-Whole Foods merger to fully investigate the wide-ranging implication of this latest mega-merger, said Hauter. Today, a tiny number of retailers dominate grocery sales and this proposed merger poses more risks than benefits for farmers and consumers.

Read Food & Water Watchs letter to the Federal Trade Commission.

Contact: Kate Fried, Food & Water Watch, (202) 683-4905, [emailprotected]

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LAKEWOOD, Colo., Aug. 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --In a recent survey of Natural Grocers customers, respondents revealed their top 3 reasons for choosing to purchase organic produce.

These survey results offer insight into the growth we've seen in the organic sector over the last decade. This growth has been mirrored by an increasing amount of scientific evidence emphasizing the benefits of organic food and organic agriculture. Recent large scale meta-analyses that carefully weighed all the data available from previously published studies have shown that organic produce is higher in antioxidants and much less likely to be contaminated with harmful pesticides and heavy metals than conventional produce.i

Organic buyers reduce their exposure to pesticides

More than 90% of the respondents said that one of the main reasons they buy organic "is to avoid pesticides." This reasoning is backed by solid scientific evidence, as one study found that 94% of people in the United States have detectable levels of pesticide breakdown products in their urine.ii Conversely, studies focused on the effect of eating organic have shown that consuming a diet that contains at least 80% organic ingredients for just one week reduces the pesticide breakdown products in subjects' bodies by 96%.iii Given these examples, it's no wonder that avoiding pesticides is a primary reason consumers choose to eat organic.

Organic produce is naturally non-GMO

The next most common reasonchosen by 70% of survey respondentsto buy organic is to avoid genetically modified organisms (GMOs). GMOs are pervasive in our food supply, and produce is no exception. Currently, genetically modified (GM) summer squash, such as zucchini, is grown in the United States and sold as fresh produce in both the United States and Canada. Similarly, approximately 80% of the total papaya grown in the United States (predominately in Hawaii) is also genetically modified, which is likely to increase as more GM papaya is in the process of being grown in new places such as Florida. A small amount of sweet corn sold in grocery stores is also GM, meaning that the delicious sweet corn you throw on the grill could be a GMOunless it's organic. Other types of GM produce that have been approved to be sold in the United States include potatoes and apples, though they haven't made it to the marketplace yet. Buying organic is a great way to be 100% sure that your produce is non-GMO because GMOs are never allowed in organic production.

Organic produce provides higher nutritional content

The third most common reason Natural Grocers customers choose organic produce is because they believe it is a more nutritious option to feed their families. And they are rightside-by-side comparisons of conventional tomatoes and organic tomatoes have shown that organic tomatoes have 20% higher levels of lycopene and 30% higher levels of vitamin C.iv Other studies have shown similar results when comparing organic and conventional fruits and vegetables.

Many of the phytonutrients in fruits and vegetables that are beneficial for human health are naturally produced by plants in order to discourage pests from eating the plant. When plants are sprayed with pesticides, the plant's innate production of these beneficial phytonutrients is reduced, resulting in a less nutritious product, while organic crops are forced to rely on their own defenses and produce more phytonutrients to deter pests. And it's not just about what organic produce has more of, it's also what it hasless ofdata shows that organic produce has 48% lower levels of cadmium, a harmful heavy metal that makes its way into conventional soils through contaminated synthetic fertilizers.

Organic produce supports a healthy ecosystem and agricultural economy

As you can see, there are some pretty significant reasons why consumers choose to buy organic produce. There are other reasons to consider, too.

Organic agriculture is known to regenerate ecosystems and the soil, while conventional agriculture strips the environment, destroying our natural resources, and requires constant chemical inputs. There are also numerous hidden costs of conventional agriculture that burden society and decrease quality of life.

On the other hand, a recent study conducted by a Penn State agricultural economist found that communities with high levels of organic agricultural activity are more successful economically. So no matter what your reason is for shopping organic, you should feel good about your purchase and know that you are voting with your dollar for a type of agriculture that benefits the environment, the economy, and human health.

Written by Jonathan Clinthorne, Ph.D. Manager of Scientific Affairs & Nutrition Education

Jonathan F. Clinthorne, Ph.D., is an ultra-endurance athlete trained in immunology and expert in human nutrition. Clinthorne has served on numerous medical advisory boards and has authored a number of research papers covering topics such as probiotics, immune function, inflammation and human nutrition.

Jonathan's mission is to help make free science-backed nutrition education available to everyone and reduce our dependence on pharmaceutical drugs. Jonathan has been seen on Fox TV, Forbes, Ultra Running Magazine, Runner's World and Organic Authority.

About Natural Grocers by Vitamin CottageNatural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. (NYSE: NGVC; NaturalGrocers.com) is a rapidly expanding specialty retailer of organic and natural groceries, body care and dietary supplements. The company offers a flexible, neighborhood-store format, affordable prices and free, science-based nutrition education programs to help customers make informed health and nutrition choices. Founded in Colorado in 1955, Natural Grocers has more than 3,000 employees and operates 140 stores in 19 states.

i Baranski M, et al. Higher antioxidant and lower cadmium concentrations and lower incidence of pesticide residues in organically grown crops: a systematic literature review and meta-analyses. British Journal of Nutrition. 2014; 112(5): 794-811.ii Barr, Dana B et al. Concentrations of Dialkyl Phosphate Metabolites of Organophosphorus Pesticides in the U.S. Population. Environmental Health Perspectives 112:186200 (2004).iii Oates L,Cohen M,Braun L,Schembri A,Taskova R. Reduction in urinary organophosphatepesticidemetabolites in adults after a week-longorganicdiet. Environ Res.2014 Jul;132:105-11.iv Vinha AF,Barreira SV,Costa AS,Alves RC,Oliveira MB. Organicversus conventional tomatoes: influence on physicochemical parameters, bioactive compounds and sensorial attributes. Food Chem Toxicol.2014 May;67:139-44.

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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Aug. 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --Leading nutrition brand Garden of Life and Alicia Silverstone actress, New York Times best-selling author and health advocate together announce an exciting innovation to their industry-leading mykind Organics line of vitamins. New mykind Organics Gummy vitamins are the first full-line of gummy multivitamins to be Certified USDA Organic, Non-GMO Project Verified, and made from real organic fruit and whole-food vitamins offering a deliciously innovative way for the entire family to get their daily vitamins.

mykind Organics is the No. 1-selling vitamin brand in the health food industry1. These new gummies provide a fun and convenient way for the whole family to obtain essential daily nutrients in a clean and popular form. They are available in six delicious varieties, ranging from prenatal and kids to men's and women's age 40+.

"I am so proud to team up with Garden of Life to introduce our new gummy vitamins the purest, cleanest gummies out there, made from the real, organic, non-GMO whole foods my family eats. These yummy gummies provide the essential nutrients you need, without all of the 'icky stuff' you don't want in your vitamins," said Silverstone.

Whole-Food Vitamin ChewsUnlike many conventional gummy vitamins on the market, mykind Organics Gummies steer clear of typical candy ingredients. Using a base of real, organic fruit, mykind Organics Gummies do not contain processed sugars or syrups, and have no animal gelatin, artificial dyes or artificial sweeteners. Every bottle starts with nine organic whole peaches and apples, with their juices. These are concentrated and combined with mykind Organics real-food vitamins (which are certified organic food-based vitamins, not chemically isolated and synthesized vitamins). The result is an organic fruit chew gummy that is nutritious, convenient, easy to eat and great tasting. And in addition to being Certified USDA Organic and Non-GMO Project Verified, mykind Organics Gummies are certified vegan, certified gluten-free and kosher.

The new mykind Organics gummy multivitamins are available in the following varieties:

Kids Multi Gummies Organic Fruit + VitaminsEach chew provides essential nutrients to support kids' health with 17 essential vitamins and antioxidants, including vitamin D. These gummies are available in two kid-friendly flavors: organic fruit and organic cherry.

Women's Multi Gummies Organic Fruit + Vitamins With targeted ingredients for women's special health needs, this great-tasting organic berry chew contains 17 vitamins and minerals, plus organic Pacran whole-food cranberry.

Women's 40+ Multi Gummies Organic Fruit + VitaminsThis organic berry chew provides targeted ingredients to support the needs of women over age 40, with 17 vitamins and minerals, plus organic black cohosh.

Men's Multi Gummies Organic Fruit + VitaminsA great-tasting organic berry, each chew includes targeted ingredients to support the needs of men, with 17 vitamins and minerals, including vitamin E and folate.

Men's 40+ Gummies Organic Fruit + VitaminsEach chew includes targeted ingredients to support the needs of men over age 40, with 17 vitamins and minerals, plus organic Flowens whole-food cranberry.

Prenatal Multi Gummies Organic Fruit + Vitamins A great-tasting organic berry chew, Prenatal Multi Gummies have targeted ingredients to support mom and her baby with 600 mcg of folate and B vitamins to promote energy.

mykind Organics Gummies are available now in stores across the country. To locate a store, visit gardenoflife.com. The full mykind Organics line encompasses more than 30 products.

About Garden of LifeGarden of Life, L.L.C. is the recognized leader and innovator in whole-food, science-based, USDA Organic and Non-GMO Project Verified nutrition. Headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., the company offers more than 250 branded supplements that help people achieve extraordinary health. For more information on Garden of Life, visit gardenoflife.com.

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In 2016-17 India exported Rs2,478 crore worth of organic commodities like oilseeds, cereals and millets and processed foods. Photo: Mint

New Delhi: Although India is home to the largest number of organic farmers in the world, malpractices have resulted in inorganic products being sold as organic, said a study released on Wednesday.

A uniform standard which clearly lays out labelling requirements, punishment for fraudulent practices and a single nodal agency for regulating organic farming will help the organic sector grow at 20% annually, said the study Organic Farming in India: Status, Issues and Way Forward by the Delhi-based Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).

Currently multiple agencies set standards for organic food. A nodal agency will help India establish itself as part of the global supply chain, said Arpita Mukherjee, an author of the report.

According to the report, India ranks 11th among 170 exporters of organic produce and ninth in terms of area under organic cultivation. While India follows regulatory standards set by the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), when it comes to export of organic products, there is currently no regulation governing its domestic market and imports, the study said.

73% of 73 companies surveyed entered organic food business since 2006 and close to 95% of them work directly with farmers, a survey in the study showed.

Ninetyfive percent of 418 farmers surveyed in the research said they were satisfied with organic farming, while 77% said organic certification should be mandatory as it helps them earn a premium for their produce.

Integrating small and marginal growers to the market for organic produce and following global standards will open up opportunities for agri-businesses, said Amitabh Kant, CEO of the government think-tank NITI Aayog following the launch of the report.

India has a rich heritage in organic farming and rain-fed tracts in parts of the country are organic by default, Kant said, adding, Organic kiwis (fruits) from Arunachal Pradesh are even better than what is grown in New Zealand. The challenge is how to take the produce directly to consumers as organic and inorganic products gets mixed up in the wholesale markets.

Data from the report shows that about 1.5 million hectares of land in India were certified organic, excluding wild and forest areas. In 2016-17 India exported Rs2,478 crore worth of organic commodities like oilseeds, cereals and millets and processed foods.

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Written by Jeffrey L Moore

A fews weeks ago, I was able to spend some time interviewing Edwin Britt, the President of Sales for Zig Ziglar International. Edwin has an endless knowledge base about sales, closing deals and building rapport. Hes made sales presentations to some of the biggest brands in the world, like; Coca Cola, Miller Brewing, The Walt Disney Company, Tommy Hilfiger and NAPA Auto Parts. Hes also represented product lines for Michael Jordan, NASCAR and the National Football League.

In this interview Edwin makes clear that were all in the business of selling. Whether youre selling products or points of view; getting people to see that their is a different way to do things is what selling is all about!

How to build trust and sell more in 2017

Jeff: In 2017, in a world where everyones attention is in such high demand, how can we sell our products and ideas better?

Edwin: Well Jeff, in my 30+ years of selling Ive learned that it takes a high level of preparation and planning. We often get in trouble when we try to push too fast to the end result. There is no substitute for slowing down and investing, not taking. Invest the time to plan and prepare.

Jeff: Walk us through what you mean by planning.

Edwin: Planing has many different parts. It can be reading and research. Its also physical and even spiritual preparation in advance of the activity. If you want to sell more in 2017, develop a process where you are creating the discipline needed, so you are prepared to meet the needs of your potential client.

Zig Ziglar, who Ive been a student of for 30 years, and had the pleasure of knowing him personally taught me these keys:

For me, the daily window from 5:30am to 7am is a combination of physical and mental preparation. Not only for my workday but also for my overall physical being and personal life.

Specific preparation applies to your day-to-day selling practices. Those who accomplish the most in this world are avid readers of information. He or she who has the most information has the most influence. So equipping your mind with information is going to make you an innovative, cutting edge, stand-out. Differentiating yourself from the competition is extremely important.

Next is deciding:

Jeff: What does it mean to sell?

Selling is what you do with someone, not to someone. Selling is an ongoing process, and you keep the process going by gathering information from the people you are speaking and meeting with.

Jeff: Edwin, the power of information keeps coming up. What role does being a student play?

Edwin: That is absolutely correct. For me it has been a thirty-year journey of learning.

Again Ill reference Mr. Zig Ziglar. When he was at a convention, he would be sitting in the front row taking notes. And were talking about a person who influenced a quarter of a billion people around the world. He never stopped learning. So yes, you have to commit yourself to be an ongoing student. Being a student helps us grow and their are four stages of growth. You want to continue evolving and never be content or think that youve arrived. Its absolutely a process and its absolutely ongoing. Its a proactive approach.

Jeff: What are the the four stages of growth?

Edwin: You know, weve all been in a point where we are unconsciously incompetent. In beginning almost any endeavor, we can become overwhelmed and lost. That can be sort of a slippery slope where people tend give up too quickly.

But what also happens is that people start recognizing that with success and with accomplishment, comes some pain and some frustration along the way. They will have to fight through that, and at some point you become consciously incompetent. In that particular stage, you are not very good at something and you know it. You might be prospecting and you might face rejections. You might quickly go to the price before you establish value. People often stop doing things that they are not good at. When we do that, what we need to do piles up.

Now, rather than solving problems you are putting pressure on yourself.

The third area is being consciously competent. Thats where a lot of people who have been selling a good number of years are. Theyre pretty good at what they do and they know it. In fact, a lot of the best leaders and sales managers are consciously competent.

Theyre very relatable; they can feel people move from one state to another. The ultimate example is ten thousand hours of practice and years and years of little failures and successes. Youll hear a lot of people say wow, they makes it look easy, but the reality is, its not easy. And, what that individual has done is a lot of preparation, trial and error, and stayed committed. They make it appear easy. This is when youre unconsciously competent.

Jeff: Edwin, youve spoken to some of the biggest organizations and brands in the world. For example, Coca-Cola, Miller Brewery, Walt Disney, Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Jordan, NASCAR, and the NFL. As youre talking to these Fortune 500 firms and these C-Suite Executives, people who are already incredibly successful, what are a few things you tell them that help them take their selling and their overall success to the next level?

Edwin: Jeff, I appreciate your level of research. Thank you for those kind words and I always want to make sure that theyre always asking meaningful, specific questions. In other words, theyre not a wondering generality. They have a process that creates alignment between themselves and those that theyre talking to. They understand their key fundamentals.

Michael Jordan was a phenomenal basketball player as we all know, yet he was a master of the fundamentals of basketball, in addition to having unbelievable natural ability and talent.

I want to make sure that I can bring some very standard fundamentals.

So often, peoples process is personality-driven. In reality, they need to have a process that is client-centered. A means of uncovering need by meaningful, specific dialogue. A process that creates trust.

Jeff: What are few things people can do so that they gain trust?

Edwin: First of all, we recognize that we solves problems, and not just sell products. We are problem-solvers and need to speak in terms of solving problems. Solutions.

Second, recognizing that people dont make decisions based on your reasons; they make decisions based on their reasons. And, their reasons are driven by their feelings, their motives and their beliefs. Find out what their reasons are.

When you have a process that brings the need for a specific dialogue, it allows people to ultimately share with you what their motives, their feelings and what their beliefs are.

I always ask, What would you like to accomplish and then Im quiet.

People will begin sharing, and at that point I know a little bit more about the person and/or organization. As they begin sharing more, you will see a natural sequence. Its a very organic conversation that appears to be almost off the cuff, but its very structured in my mind. Next, I ask:

Jeff: Edwin, how would you define Everyday Power?

Edwin: I think Everyday Power is when we stop listening to the negativity of the world and we start talking the truth to ourselves. It comes with a positive and healthy self-esteem. You got to put the good in and you will get good out. There is so much negativity in the world and the world tries to tell us the things we cant do and why we cant do them.

For me, I tell myself I, was born to win. Today, Im going to do my best with an attitude of gratitude.

Stop listening to the negativity and start talking to yourself in a meaningful, specific, truthful way because you are born to win. You are designed for accomplishment, you are engineered for success and you are endowed with the seeds of greatness.

For more more on Edwin Britt, check him out at Zig Ziglar International and on LinkedIN.

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How to Sell More and Build Trust Faster in 2017: Interview With Edwin Britt - Longview News-Journal

You start to go numb.Everything goes silent. And yet, you know there should be sound. Because you see the anguish on your mom's face as she tried to push all the new flurry of confetti into a pile. You see how she's hit by the clock as to remind her about time and going over his curfew. Your brothers and sisters are bumping into each other trying to get to their rooms.Tue Tue,I remember you being filled with adrenaline; it was about survival mode. Fight or flight? I remember your whole body feeling swollen, like the blood was pushing through your palms and your ears felt erect. You felt like you couldn't move, but you find peace staring at the blank screen of the floor model TV set. I remember Mario (5 years old at the time) sliding next to you and joining your stare at the TV.

He whispers to you,"Tue Tue, whatever you do . . . please, break that record."

You say, "OK."

You sit there until it's time to run your 1:46.45.

Even today, I am a fan of your bravery. You ignore his efforts to communicate on the way and during the meet. To your surprise, your standoff doesn't lead to more chaos. He leaves you be. I remember during the warmup you stay quiet and distant. As the final call for your semi-final is announced, he now needs to say something to you.

You were expecting an apology for HIM being the distraction, or even something like, 'I love you no matter what the outcome.' But he says, "The wind is not blowing, this is the day to do it!" And Tue Tue, you don't break your silent protest. You only nod in agreement. By then, you had your mind made up already. You were strong enough to figure it out: sprint the third two hundred meters to exhaustion. I know you would always run the first 200, jog the middle 400, then sprint the last 200. But here on this day, you decide to run the third 200 so hard that you would fatigue out at the 600 meter mark.

That didn't happen.

Tue, I remember the splits. The first lap felt like a 100 meter wind sprint. The clock clicks 49 ... 50. The bell lap rings at 51. It's hilarious to me now, and I know you feel it still. You making a pow noise in your head to signify the start of the real race, the third 200m. You hit the third 200 in 26 seconds! You get to the 600 and don't feel tired, but you can start hearing your breathe and the feeling of your feet hitting ground as you come around the last turn.

Da dum, da dum, da dum, da dum!

With 100 meters to go, you hear your dad at the 700 meter mark shouting, 1:27, 1:28, 29, 30 ... You do the math and believe you can do 14 or 15 seconds for the last 100! At this moment you feel alive! The crowd noise starts to filter in, you see the clock, 1:38, 39 ... Your legs suddenly become tree trunks that feel planted to the ground with every step, but you push past the finish line with the biggest smile on you face. 1:46.45!

You see two of your best friends from Bell Gardens High School, Juan and Bern Dawg, at the finish line. You run to give them some respect for the support. Twenty years from today, you will make a 100 t-shirts commemorating 20 years of setting the national record using the accutrak print out given to you by the officials. You are smiling with your right index finger pointing to the heavens (and, the wind reading says 0, lol!).

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Dear Younger Me: Michael Granville - MileSplit