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A relationship with God is exactly that – a relationship.

Like all relationships, a healthy and fruitful relationship with God requires time, effort, and communication to achieve intimacy and a strong bond.

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How do you target stomach fat?

Unfortunately, you can’t spot reduce: lose fat in a specific area of your body.

You will have to decrease your body fat percentage by being on a caloric deficit. You can either:

Progressively reduce your caloric intake.

Add cardio sessions to help you increase the calories you burn.

Reduce the duration of your workouts by making your rests shorter.

How to lose weight, the right way:

https://www.gymaholic.co/articles/the-ultimate-guide-to-lose-weight-fast

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Motivation is what gets you started habit is what keeps you going.

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Insecure: Official Season 2 Trailer

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YAAAAS IM READY

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Black Women are just irreplaceable ❗️❤️

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IS THAT DUSTIN ROSS AND PHILLIP HUDSON?!?!?? OH YES!! Get them acting credits boo!!

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And don’t forget Leon Thomas! He ain’t been on my television since middle school!

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I swear I am Issa. I love her. Can’t freakin wait.

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growth 👌🏾

disabilityfest

[Image: Four screenshots of disabled characters from recent media; Erica from Doctor Who, Yang Xiao from RWBY, Billy Cranston from Power Rangers and Chirrut Imwe from Rogue One.

In white space between them reads “Disabilityfest 1st July - 31st July”]

Hello everyone, this July we’ll be running disabilityfest again!

What is it?

Disabilityfest is a celebration of disabled characters across all media, we encourage everyone to make any contribution to it; art, videos, fics, gifs, meta, fanmixes, anything that you do!

Original characters and content are absolutely allowed as well as fanworks!

This covers all disabled characters, so physically disabled, developmentally disabled, mentally ill, chronically ill, d/Deaf, blind, significantly scarred and any other disabled characters are all welcome! Just tag it #disabilityfest and it will be reblogged to this blog!

When is it?

We’ll be running this from 1st of July until 31st of July but we want it to lead to people making more works about disabled characters all year round!

Guidelines, we won’t be too strict on them but if you can fit in with these that would be great:

Keep reading

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Amber and the Hidden City (2013)

“Thirteen year old Amber Robinson’s life is full of changes. Her parents are sending her to a private school away from her friends, and high school looms before her. But little does she know that her biggest change awaits in a mysterious city hidden from the world for a thousand years. Why? Amber’s grandmother is a princess from this magical kingdom of Marai.

She’s been summoned home to use her special abilities to select the new king but she no longer has the gift, and her daughter was never trained for the task. That leave only one person with the ability to save the city: Amber! But there are those who are determined that Amber never reaches Marai and they will do anything to stop her.

Prepare yourself for an exciting adventure that spans from the Atlanta suburbs to the grasslands of Mali. It’s a story of a girl who discovers her hidden abilities and heritage in a way that surprises and entertains.“

by Milton J. Davis

Get it now here

Milton Davis is owner of MVmedia, LLC , a small publishing company specializing in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Sword and Soul. MVmedia’s mission is to provide speculative fiction books that represent people of color in a positive manner. Milton is the author of eight novels; his most recent The Woman of the Woods and Amber and the Hidden City.

He is co-editor of four anthologies; Griots: A Sword and Soul Anthology and Griot: Sisters of the Spear, with Charles R. Saunders; The Ki Khanga Anthology with Balogun Ojetade and the Steamfunk! Anthology, also with Balogun Ojetade. MVmedia has also published Once Upon A Time in Afrika by Balogun Ojetade.

Milton resides in Metro Atlanta with his wife Vickie and his children Brandon and Alana.

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Under Trump’s revised policy, black Cubans will get left behind, again

BY ALEJANDRO DE LA FUENTE

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As President Trump announced the administration’s new policies on Cuba, I worried that Afro-Cubans would be the main losers. They have been losing for some time. The timid economic reforms implemented by the Cuban government in the past two decades have resulted in a growing gap between those with access to capital and those without it.

This gap is not color blind. Because access to capital depends on monetary flows from the overwhelmingly white Cuban-American community, black Cubans lack the resources to participate on equal grounds in the expanding private sector. As one of my collaborators on the island puts it, in Cuba, “Dollars are white.” In a country where, according to the census, they represent more than one third of the population, very few of the new private restaurants, rental houses, and shops are owned by blacks.

Still, the participation of black Cubans in tourist-related, dollar-earning services probably has increased since March 2016, when President Obama relaxed the regulations concerning American visitors to Cuba. The new rules allowed individuals to travel on their own for “people to people” educational contacts.

Precisely because Americans cannot travel legally as tourists, they stay away from the tour packages typically preferred by European and Canadian consumers, most of whom stay in state-owned, all-inclusive hotels. American visitors stay in rental rooms around the city, including less affluent areas, where Afro-Cubans are better represented. Their visits have had a democratizing effect on the service sector, creating opportunities for individuals, families, and neighborhoods that were previously excluded from the tourist economy.