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In April 2009, First Lady Michelle Obama planted a kitchen garden on the White House's South Lawn. It is a garden with roots in the American past, stretching back to George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, but it is also a garden very much designed for America's future. As fresh vegetables, fruit, and herbs sprouted from the ground, this White House Kitchen Garden inspired a new conversation all across the country about the food we feed our families and the impact it has on the health and well-being of our children.

The 1992 Los Angeles Riots: six days of looting, arson, assault, and murder. America's second largest city in chaos. In All Involved Ryan Gattis weaves a heart-stopping narrative from the perspectives of characters whose stories of the riots were never told. In six sections, each covering a single day, we follow the intersecting lives of 17 people: gang members, firefighters, nurses, law enforcement officers, and graffiti artists, every one changed for ever.

In this acclaimed collection of short stories, Pulitzer Prizewinning author Stephen Millhauser shares the dark suspense and humor that have gained him a cult following. Millhauser’s imagination and creativity are on full display with stories featuring artists gone mad, egomaniacal architects, and a historical society that’s given up its chronicling of history. Characterized by “phenomenal clarity and rapacious movement” each story “focuses on the misery wrought by misdirected human desire and ambition.” (Publishers Weekly)

In the first book, you explore how to actually boost your self-confidence, how to approach people you want to meet, how to start conversations and actually keep them going without letting your fears of being judged or rejected come in the way. In the second book, you learn how to effectively communicate your needs, how to set healthy boundaries, and how to build meaningful, healthy personal relationships, which will be long lasting. 

If you find yourself having these questions, you are definitely in the right place. Individuals who are perfectionists are more stressed out, more frustrated, and angrier, as every single failure they come across affects them deeply, even in cases when these failures are almost meaningless. On the other hand, being an imperfectionist means that you truly accept yourself with all of your positive and negative traits, that you focus on your positive traits without letting those negative traits stop you from succeeding in any way.  

Meditation, as practice of mindfulness and deeper consciousness, brings numerous benefits, both physical and mental, through awakening your chakras. Uncovering your Kundalini energy also helps you live in compliance to your own body and mind rhythms and helps you reach your higher self and finally be fully present and truly enjoy what life has to offer. Meditation and chakra-awakening techniques bring your own mind to a higher state of consciousness you can only reach by listening to your mind.

"A.I.": A young programmer works long hours in the lab on the latest A.I. project. Funny that he can't ever remember leaving... "Gorblat's Jig": It's alien abduction meets fishing derby in this hilarious short subject. Recorded before a live audience. "A Distant Land": Years after leaving the planetary colony where she grew up, a woman returns as an Inspector General, only to discover that things have changed beyond imagining in this sci fi drama.