Monday’s Pearls – Episode 112: Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) – Video

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Monday #39;s Pearls - Episode 112: Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
Dr. Helene Leonetti describes the powerful benefits of Emotional Freedom Technique (also known as EFT or Tapping). She explains how what techniques are used during the therapy and what benefits.

By: Helene Leonetti

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Is our hard-won freedom extended in kind to others?

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COPLAND: On occasions each year, whether it be Australia Day or Anzac Day, phrases involving "freedom" and "our way of life" enter the public conversation.

When the TV cameras pan around the beaches and the streets of our wide brown land asking people to define what this "freedom" or "way of life" means to them, people struggle to put their feelings into words.

The most common response is, "We are free to have a barbecue and a few drinks with our mates."

But surely it is much more than that. I think I know where some of this freedom can be found.

Each time we vote we can freely choose whom we want to govern our nation, our state and our local government area.

There is no need for security on polling day.

A few years back when then Prime Minister Rudd was removed from office by his own party, local friends of mine who had escaped civil war in their homelands were truly amazed.

There were no helicopters in the sky, no soldiers in the streets.

Life went on the next day just as it had the day before. Freedom.

I'll tell you where else this freedom, this way of life, this fair go for all resides.

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Indonesia falls in global press freedom ranking

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Press freedom in Indonesia fell six places in the latest ranking from Reporters Without Borders, which places Southeast Asia's largest economy below Afghanistan and Brunei in its 2015 World Press Freedom Index.

The lower ranking comes following a year of intense election coverage and just four months after President Joko Widodo took office promising to ease barriers to foreign investment and embrace transparency.

In the 2015 index, Indonesia ranked 132 out of 180 countries, with an overall score of 40.75 out of 100, up from 38.15 in 2014. A higher score indicates less press freedom based on metrics such as pluralism, media independence, self-censorship and transparency. In a related index of abuses, which measures the level of violence and harassment encountered by journalists and news organisations over the course of a year, Indonesia scored 27.08.

Indonesia was twice placed at the top of the global news agenda last year, once in July when Mr. Widodo defeated former special forces commander Prabowo Subianto in the presidential election, and again in December when an AirAsia Indonesia aircraft crashed into the Java Sea.

The ranking pits Indonesia lower than many countries in Africa and elsewhere in Asia but above most of Southeast Asia. Cambodia is one rank below at 139, with the Philippines - one of the most dangerous places to be a journalist - at 141 and Malaysia at 147. Brunei is ranked at 121, while Singapore, which in the last year has charged political bloggers with offences such as contempt of court and defamation of the prime ministers, is ranked 153.

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Bulgarias Regional Development Ministry Seeks Concessionaires for 22 Beaches

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Bulgarias Regional Development Ministry is looking for concessionaires to manage 22 beaches for 5-year periods.

Although most of the beaches have not been taken care of for several years, there are a number of attractive offers in the resorts of Sveti Vlas, Elenite, etc, according to reports of Capital Daily.

The initial prices start at around BGN 2000 and reach nearly BGN 500 000 a year for the different tendering procedures.

The submission deadline is March 13, 2015 and the bids are to be opened one week after that.

Among the most expensive offers is the central beach of Sveti Vlas, which has an initial price of slightly over BGN 256 000.

At the same time, the western beach in that resort, which is substantially smaller, has an initial auction price of BGN 33 167, VAT excluded, a year.

The Regional Development Ministry is also looking for concessionaires to manage the beaches Elenite 1 and Elenite 2, with the annual fee for the bigger beach amounting to a minimum of BGN 134 479, VAT excluded, while the minimum fee for the smaller one stands at BGN 4787, VAT excluded.

Among the attractive proposals is the Nestinarka beach in the Tsarevo municipality.

The initial auction price for the Nestinarka beach, which boasts a top location in the southern part of the Black Sea resort, is BGN 227 509, VAT excluded, which makes it one of the most expensive beaches, according to the announcement of the Regional Development Ministry.

Some of the beaches have failed to attract the interest of concessionaires for years, including Kabakum - Central Beach and Kabakum - Biser in Varna and Chaika - North Beach, Chaika South Beach, Kamchiya - North Beach 2, and Kamchiya - North Beach 3 in Byala.

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