Hi, I am Penny Adler and my grad title is on the screen. It's Making Goats Milk Soap Business Sustainable by Implementing Standard Manufacturing and Testing Protocols. And just to kind of talk about it, I am a small farmer by Watertown, South Dakota. We raise goats and I make soap. One of the cool things though that we're doing is we're doing a new product and I see if I can show you, but this is the cream soap, it's soap in a jar. So it's not bar soap, it's just something totally different and it's pretty unique. There are very few people that do it. So what's unique about it is the lather and you can play with this lather and it'll go and go and go. So I just kind of want to show you that lather because that's part of the uniqueness of the product. The other part of the product though that I'll show you, and I'm making a mess here is that this is my batch and you can see it should be nice and brown and it should not have this. So I had a failed batch. And so that's kind of how this got going for the grant was because I love my product, I don't love failures. And then the other part of it is is I always want to be natural. So our tagline is wholesome living in a colorful world. We make colorful soaps, but we also like wholesome soaps. So the question was is can I make cream soaps 100% natural or what do I need to do to make it safe for my customers? So that was kind of the impetus for the grant. In the end, I wanted a consistent, safe product. I wanted to be sound financially lower my costs or know my costs, lower my costs. And then also because I'm excited about doing this I wanted to be able to market that, hey, when you buy from me, you know what you're getting a consistent, safe product. Our goals are, these were the four product goals from our grant. I'm going to today talk to you about the first one, create manufacturing and testing protocols. If you like what you hear, I would love to talk about the other ones. So you can always invite me back and I would love to talk about preservatives and also product testing. So the first thing I wanna talk about is everything that I do is soap, almost everything. So, but I'm gonna tell you that everything I developed in this is based on cosmetics. So the question is for you, is soap a cosmetic? And the answer is sometimes. So if you want your soap to be soap, you have to have a consistent alkali of salt and fatty acids and that's no problem. Soon as you mix lye and oils, you meet that definition. So everybody meets that definition usually. And the product must be labeled, sold and represented solely as soap. So that means if you sell something that cleans, you are selling soap and the cosmetics don't apply to you. However, sometimes your soap is a cosmetic. So I do not sell soap. I sell a product that will make your skin feel good after you use it. It makes your skin feel soft. It feels moisturizing. I make the process of making soap. The interaction between the lyes and the oils creates glycerin. Glycerin is a humectant. It attracts moisture out of the air to your skin and doesn't that sound moisturizing? Soon as I say any of those things, I'm a cosmetic. So because of that, everything I've developed in this presentation or in my own practices is based on I am a cosmetic. I am not a drug. If I sell a soap and I tell you that this soap is really good for acne, I am crossing a line. So even if I formulate it, maybe it's a high coconut oil soap so it's high in cleansing. If I promise that it's going to do something, I fall under the Food and Drug Administration and have to have my product tested and whatever it takes to be approved. There are other examples are antibacterial cleansers than any of you talk about the one, but a lot of our soaps are good for people with psoriasis and other skin conditions, but as soon as you start talking about that, you're a drug. So everything I talk about today, I'm gonna talk about is gonna be based on what the Federal Drug and Cosmetic Act talks about. So there's two things that they really talk about is you must sell a product that's not adulterated or misbranded. And that's what I'm gonna talk about because what I did then is develop my good manufacturing practices so that I can meet these two answers or things you have to meet. All right, so here's the first goal. I'm going to create manufacturing and testing protocols. We're gonna establish GMP to reduce the risk and the documentation that you can use for this also is ones from the federal government that basically exactly tells you what's in their regulation. And then Marie Gale also puts out a book that is specifically directed towards GMP for soap makers and cosmetic makers. So it's very good for us. Just to give you an idea, these are all the sections. GMP is big and it gets real detailed and my goal was not to add all of this administrative work to make my job harder. My goal was to make my product better. And so everything I did to create accountability for me so that my customers could have that sense of that they knew what they were gonna get every time. So I don't look at it as a bad thing even though it's a lot of regulation or a lot of documentation because it's gonna mean a better product and accountability for me. Just so you know, GMP is not regulations. It is practices. It is not enforceable. There is no audit from anybody. The cosmetics, I believe the government wants you to register. It is optional and so I haven't done it and probably won't because I'm not sure what benefit it would give me but it is just a practice. It is big. You can tell from that previous slide. So what you wanna do is start with the biggest or the easiest areas that have the most risk to make mistakes. All right, so now we're gonna start talking about the different parts of GMP. So the easiest place most times to start is with your master formula. So this is basically your recipe with enough detail that when you follow it, you will get the same results every time and without it, you can't guarantee that to your customers with it, you already know of the base that you can create a consistent product. Couple of things that contains the ingredients and the quantity, detailed steps, but not just do this, do this, do this, but it also includes what temperature should the ingredients be at that step or how do you know when mixing is complete, what trace looks like, earthen trace or thick trace. Also details for quality control. What does it look like? What does it smell like? How thick should it be when it comes to cream soap? Those types of things. You know you have the right amount of detail when a person that's reasonably familiar with similar products can follow your master formula. So and that was the hardest thing because the examples, they go way, way, way deep. So remember my goal was not to create this administrative nightmare. So that was one of the hard things was to find a level of detail that was correct. The second thing is the batch record. So it is documenting that you are following your master formulation. The easiest thing you can do is kinda start with your master recipe and then create checkbox. That's the easiest way to move from that to that. Includes the date made, who made it, how many units and also a batch record or batch log number. All right, so that's the recipe. Now this came second for me but really in the process it happens before you make your recipe. Is your ingredients spec? So if your ingredients are not consistent from batch to batch you can't, even if you follow the same recipe you may get different results. So this part is establishing standard criterias for your ingredients and for your materials. Then you're also going to look at your suppliers and who will supply them to meet your specifications. And then as you go through your master record then you'll verify the ingredients before using them. One thing I learned is that you want to have two vendors for each of your ingredients or materials because what if they run out and you need to get some made or what if they quit selling your product. And you've all had that where they're back ordered and you're struggling to all of a sudden find it. The one thing I ran into was I used a lot of Malibu bottles for my lotion and I have yet to find a substitute supplier that I probably should have never started. I should have picked something out and I'm using another bottle, I don't like it as well. That's the way it is. All right, so far this is everything we've talked about. You need a master formula batch record, a batch log material, specs inventory log and inventory batch record. So that seems like a lot of information. So let's take a second look at it. So this is then how it starts, right? So before I can order ingredients I have to set my specs. This is my example of what I use for my material specs.  When I, and it also tells me who I will order them from. It also has the scientific name. And we'll talk a little bit about that in the end why it's important. Here Cocoa Butter Raw. When you go to order if you don't have this. Now what did I use in that last recipe? Was it raw or refined? Because there's a difference in color and there's a difference in order and there's a difference in texture. So when you go to order it, that's when these things become important.  So there you're gonna write your lot number and what I do for lot number is I use a system where the first two numbers are the year that I received it in. So I'll have 15 dash and then I'll have 001 and I'll go through and that's my lot number. When I received it, the name, the quantity and those things, expiration date, which is really cool because I have it on the specs so I know where that to find that information and then a little bit of the other information. There is a final column that says accept doesn't meet the specifications and that's real easy again.  You know how it should look and you should know how it should smell. An example of one that you don't think of maybe is like tubes where the lids don't fit on type like lip balm tubes or I had a batch of bottles where the little plastic had a little catch on all of them. I mean, those are the kinds of things that you start to notice when you are actually inspecting things as they come in. When after I write on my log, then I also create a label for the product that I affixed to it and that just is real simple. It has product name, lot number and expiration date and that way when I pick something up because one of it was to verify it when you use it in your recipe, right? And so there is a quick way to verify the expiration date. Just so you know, when I started this, one of the things I did do was an inventory of my ingredients and anything that I couldn't go back that year to find the invoice for and I knew some of it was older than a year. Those special ingredients, you gotta try ones. And I threw out because I couldn't validate that. And so I said, gonna do it right. Gonna have that consistent product. So there was ingredients I threw out at the beginning of the process. Here's an example of my master batch recipe. So it's kind of like the bottom part of my cream soap recipe and then it has the directions. And I include the ingredient, how much of it and also then I include the NC name because I want those so accessible when it comes to writing labels that I just make it part of everything. And then those are the directions. So yeah, so now you can see, I weigh the coconut oil and add it to the slow cooker. I weigh the sunflower oil and add it to the slow cooker. They're pretty detailed. Possibly you could say add your soft oils, add your hard oils. You would have to really think about that. However, like number 13, just to point out, it's like pour the lyes into the water under the stove vent on high. So I think that's good because you do and I also talk about stir and it isn't, it's stir until it's dissolved and water is clear. So that's an example of not only mix the two but what it should look like afterwards. To me, this is the best part that I've really loved is the batch log. It has product number and I'll talk about how I come up with my product number in the next slide. Product name, date, here's my batch number. So the first thing that this does is when you start the next batch, you go to the batch log to find out what batch number you're starting with next. So that's a big thing. I use my batch log when I say, okay, which soaps are done curing, I go to my batch log. I say, okay, these and I'm ready to be done curing. I didn't talk about that but you would also have a master recipe for how to package your soaps. So it isn't just for the manufacturing side but it's also for the packaging side and how you get them out the door. You think the cream soaps are probably harder because how am I gonna get them in my jars? So it might feel like a little bit more. Then it talks about how many units. So if I make a log of soap, it's 16 bars at four and a half ounces each. And so that's what I'll fill in. So product number, you have to come up with your own way. This is what I do. I have the first two letters talk about what kind of product it is. So my CS is cream soap, my LS is liquid soap, my BS is bath soap or bar soap. Then my middle one. The next segment we'll talk about what recipe it is. So under LS dash form one, that is my first recipe. If I have more liquid soaps, I'll add form two. The bath soap you can see there, I have a swirl recipe that's a little bit slower moving for me. Facial soap will have more gentle ingredients. And so it's formulated different. So I will, that tells me what recipe I'm using. And then the last segment will tell me fragrance. Because I also, and I'm trying to do this better, I don't buy a lot of different colors when I make soap. I try and buy my primary colors and mix them. Well, if I want to get the same purple, now I'm gonna have to start documenting. So that'll come into play even when I do that. Or how much fragrance this kind of soap gets over this kind of soap that all comes into play. And that's why it's important to have them for that. So on that batch log, then that's my product ID. We'll have my BS dash SW dash, whatever. All right, so now I'm ready to make soap finally. And so now I'm going to follow my batch record. So it's similar to the master record, except you can check things off, except there's a few other things to point out. At the top, you have your product ID. So I have that. You also have your batch number. So those are the two things that this will identify this batch of soap.  And I put a start time and an end time because I want to know how much my soap is costing me to make. So that helps me with my labor. When I do my costing, I will start an end time for manufacturing, start an end time for packaging. And so I get a true cost of my labor. And then I'll have the grams listed. And then I will also document the actual amount used. And again, this is because what is my standard operating procedure going to say if I get a little bit too much, is that okay? Is 5% over okay, is 1% over okay, or 1% under okay?  Because I don't always pour straight. And then as soon as I do that, then I create a little tag that has the product name, the batch number, and the manufacturing date. And that goes with, first with the log, and then after I cut it, it goes with that. And that's how it's identified on the shelves. I didn't say that when I create that tag for the ingredients. A lot of times I have to put packaging tape over it. Because I'm telling you, there is not a whole lot of inks that can hold up to oils. And so that helps. All right, then standard operating procedures. So these are the ones with the most words, I think, and the harder, because you just do it. Or you don't do it and you should be doing it. So the good thing about standard operating procedures is it makes you question your, how you do things. So I have a scale. Is it accurate? How are you gonna know? How often should you test it to make sure it's accurate? Is there a right answer? The right answer is whatever you put in your standard operating procedures. And there probably is a little bit, for some of them, a little bit better. The calibrate, your pH meter is supposed to be every month, but there are other things. Safety precautions, look at wild hair. Do I need to wear a hair net? You know, all of those things. I have a workshop, my husband walks by my workshop and wants to come in. Do I let him in after he's been out in the goat barn? You know, it's some of that stuff, which he doesn't like it when I think like that and I kick him out. The other thing we didn't talk about is 10 minutes, okay? Is how do you handle complaints? So there's another possibly log that you can create, but afterwards it's really hard because it's the emotional thing. Do it ahead of time, it's not so bad. All right. And these are examples, just of other things that you can talk about. I guess I didn't show you on that other screen. There was a link. Marie Gale also has a good book on standard operating procedures. Oh, there it is. So, oh, we're gonna talk about labeling. Yeah, so that was the other part for cosmetics. You have to have an adulterated product and you have to have good labeling. So we're gonna talk about that next. And they have different rules for your front panel, which is what the customers are most likely to read in the other panels, which are called information panels. And on the front panel, you have to have your name, your identity, and your contents. Your contents must be in both metric and in US measurements. You have to identify, is it soap or is it whatever else is it? And also then, this is the part that I put up with from the government then, is then that your texts, they get very specific and needs to be an eighth of an inch high based on the letter lowercase O, placed bottom parallel in the bottom 30% of your label. These things, they will say good practice is even if you're selling soap to have this much. Again, those soap is not regulated. The information panels, the back or side panels, and that's what they say. If you're selling soap, you at least want to have your name and address. Oh, did I? Okay. Directions for safe use. And you have to have your ingredients and warning statements. So let's take a look at a couple of those. Your name and address. I live on the farm. Do I really want my farm address on my label? The answer is no, but you will. The caveat is, is if you're listed in a printed phone book, you don't have to. So I may look at that. I do have people that drive up in my yard and oh, we just stopped to see your thing. And that's okay, but I would prefer a phone call. Can I use a post office box? And the answer is no. Right now the H-S-C-G, Handcrafted Soap Cosmetic Guild is putting together a petition to allow PO boxes, but right now you cannot use them. It has to be your physical location. Ingredients you need to use the NC name, which is from the cosmetic ingredient dictionary, except your botanical ingredients, you use the common name. So you list them in order, the ingredient that there's the most stuff is first, and then you go down. If you buy any type of a base or a blend, you have to list those ingredients individually too, with respect to your soap. So you can't just add, I don't buy any base blends or bases, so I'm not sure what you have, but you have to split them out. Well, I used to do a lotion base that I would buy. So I can't just say lotion base. I would have to list any ingredients. I have a really good recipe now. Ingredients, a couple more things. Fragrance, you can list as a catch-all. You don't have to break it free. So a lot of us like to say that we're failate free or paraben free or all those things. They don't have to list it. Other products don't have to list it because of this. And you can just list fragrance. Ingredients that are less than 1%, you don't have to worry about the amount there. Any order is fine. Color additives, there is a list of approved color additives and you have to abide by that, but you can list them all last, no matter if they're above that 1% or above that other. So those are always last, after all the other ingredients. So some of you use essential oils. So do, and you like to probably say, hey, I use lemongrass essential oil. What if you use lemongrass and tea tree? So if you want to list that you are using a lemongrass essential oil and you also have something else, you have to list all of them. You can't, you know, if it's a proprietary blend and you only want to list a couple of them, nope, you have to list all of the essential oils. If you don't want to do that, then you have to list it as fragrance and then you don't have to give out your proprietary blend. There are some special rules about trade secrets and those I don't know, nor did I include them, so. So that kind of is the end of my presentation. Was there any questions for me? So the question was, is how many goats do you need to make it worthwhile? So for a bar of soap, I say that one fourth of your bar is goat's milk. So if I make a four ounce bar, I need one ounce of goat's milk. So in a gallon of goat milk, I get 128 ounces, so that can make me 128 bars from that one gallon of goat's milk.  So one goat for you to start will do it. And I only have a handful of goats that I milk. I don't, the rest are meat crusts or meat, commercial meats.


Hi. Hello. Welcome to Sunday morning coffee. It is Sunday and I hope you don't have to do a ton of stuff today. I hope you get a little bit of time for yourself and our topic today address the stress. I hope will help inspire you to do just that even if you do have a busy day. Okay. So we're going to catch up on the last week events that full moon. Oh, she was a doozy. Like we're talking full moon epic. So lots of people in my life had meltdowns and including and friends had lots of stuff going on and like every single day I didn't have just one friend that needed to talk to me or that wanted to chat with me. But I had multiple ones. And so I'm like, oh, theme. Everybody's got this. This energy that it's not just it's not bad either it's not necessarily bad stress. It's like good stress to like things are happening things are opening it's January there's new opportunities bubbling up that you maybe didn't expect there's a new class you're starting. Or there's also endings. So endings and beginnings are really coming to fruition right now and it's really a bridge time. This time of year usually is anyway but this year I'm like, oh, I'm bad. I love you.  This entire theme for me in my work on above life channel is about empaths and about support for the empathic heart and soul. So this is there's a lot there's going to be a lot about that and we're going to we're going to chat we're going to come together and we're going to chat about that so on Sunday morning coffee today address the stress is about coming into the awareness that stress doesn't just happen to you it's not just something that hits you in the face like a big gust of wind in a rainstorm. You know it's not hitting you like waves, although it feels like that stress is something that is an energetic surge. So if we think of it that way it is natural. It is a surge of energy a boost of energy in a particular area of life that maybe you didn't plan for, or maybe you did plan for, but have all these additional expectations parameters experiences that are feeding into the energy around that or the boundary around that what might might look like or how that might feel for you. So there's an anticipation that comes with that that is not controllable. You cannot control that that that that epicness of the energy as it comes right you just you can't. So by the time you feel it it's it's too much it's overwhelming. So it's about really the address the stress is really about managing your energy, not controlling because you don't really have control over not much nothing. But you can navigate and manage and balance and you can get balance and you can find peace and you can find peace in the pain. Even if you're struggling with pain the last few days I've definitely had some heart some some chest pain some pain in my chest right on my right side. And it's not like it's not from the surgery it's just from the the regrowth and from the stretching and from developing new muscles and reconnecting old ones. And there's a stressor with that like I feel like I'm like oh that's weird oh that's new oh that's different and trying to feel into my body and find what the new baseline is. And so too with all the energy and the things that are happening in your life, instead of feeling attacked by it or surprised by it. I'm going to suggest because this is what I've been very clearly instructed by my healing team for me. And so I'm going to share it with you and if it works for you great and if it doesn't find something that does because you will because there are so many things that can help with stress management. Energy management okay and that is to have some practices rituals or routines that you're doing to manage the energy. So you're keeping up on a daily basis with where you're at energetically so that when something comes at you you have the ability to kind of move with it. And it's not it's like you're prepared like you have some some muscles some some energy management muscles some stress management I can handle it muscles. If you're not using those muscles then you can't okay so here's a here's a story so in cardiac rehab they tell us all sorts of stuff about myths about heart attacks and things like that I did not have a heart attack. I am like the unicorn in the bunch because I had an aortic dissection so it's very different.  So they told us that the thing is when people are out shoveling snow and they have heart attacks and why the increase of like people's visits to the chiropractor or back injuries or heart attacks happen. During the winter months more often is because people who are never exercising stretching taking care of their backs or their hearts at all are just going out and shoveling snow lifting heavy snow and doing major major cardio workouts and cardio impacts the heart. And so it. It's not shoveling the snow that causes heart at heart attacks or back injuries. It's the fact that the people that are doing it haven't prepared. Don't have a baseline of management. So instead of controlling circumstances or situations or people are external factors which we all know we can't do you have any teenagers. Have you had teenagers. Then you know I'm talking about right you can't control me you think you can you can influence. And so right now we're going to influence our stressors by preempting them by creating a new baseline of of a wellness in our flow of energy so you can manage your flow and so I want you to do that. Try that that's what my team has told me very specifically so. To manage the energy of so and I've been really open with you guys to on above life channel on my Monday videos about like about the things that have been impacting me to like with the post surgery and how there's a risk of depression and they talk about that in cardiac rehab to it's very common to have and especially for people who've had near death experiences. It's there's a common. And it can happen anytime in the first year or two is that there there can be a depression like well what am I doing with my life am I doing enough am I. You know and there can be guilt and there can be guilt like why did I come back and I didn't want to come back and I'm not you know I just don't feel it doesn't feel I don't feel right or whatever you know what I mean. And so I've been really really open about that about talking about that and one of the things that that came up just this week. I had a regular doctor appointment a regular doctor on Monday and I talked about that here and I was able to chat about some things and. I am kind of weaning off one of my medications because I'm getting a double whammy with some of the side effects like. Double whammy and even my sister said when I was visiting with her she's like yeah you do seem kind of just. And I'm like yeah and the doctor said it's the medicine like oh okay so we're going to wean off a little bit of some of my medicine. In order to do that I need to make sure for myself because I know me I want to have a plan and because of the empathic nature of things right now and because of my empathic nature. I committed to myself to be doing things like meditation every day and I have been I've been doing pretty well at that this morning I didn't do it. Because I wanted to talk to you guys because I have a full day but I wanted to talk to you guys first. It doesn't have to be a long meditation doesn't have to even be 20 minutes it can be five 10 minutes but just a meditation every day. To kind of go into that place and feel what the baseline is where am I at right now. Let's go inside and soften the energies and feel good and have some yummy goodness inside like what your natural state is is a beautiful blissful state that's the natural state of you I know it's hard to believe but it's true. It's really true.  No five 10 minutes did you not hear me and I am like the master of meditation it's easy it's not that complicated don't make it hard don't make it hard rule number one do not make it hard. Don't make it difficult. Oh you know what you guys I didn't even check to see if my sound is working is it. I hope it is. Can you thumbs up me make sure I'm not talking to myself. It looks like it's working. Can you thumbs up me. And the chat high in the chat hi nice to see you. We're just I'm just starting with the meditation one. Make sure you can hear me. Thank you. Hello buddy. Patay thanks for being here I know it's not easy for you right now. Thank you thank you thank you my dear. Okay so if you can't make it don't feel bad. We don't want to promote guilt in this group.  Okay so meditation is one of the things I decided to do to help manage the energy ahead of time like to manage my stress okay because obviously I've had a lot of stress this week and I have a kid like a 22 year old that's like moving out of. One place and moving into another place and is freaking out because roommates are leaving and they're taking all the stuff and so she can't microwave. Oh my God it's the end of the world there's no microwave.  There's this thing that's called the oven. And you don't even have to put it inside you can just cook on the top of it the stove top. Oh my gosh but like the freaking out right and so I'm like oh my God my stressors and that's probably why I'm feeling a little bit extra on the right side right. Can't just be muscles. I mean I have been working out a lot but it can't just be muscles. So the next piece is yoga yoga or a stretching scenario so stretching could just be reaching your arms up. To the sky and stretching with one arm going higher than the other. Right arm up high and then dropping it down and left arm going up high and you don't have to stretch super far you could just a little bit and then put the arms up together and then just drop them to the side. Stop here for a minute and take a breath and then drop them all the way down to the side and then shrugging the shoulders back. I don't know shrugging the shoulders forward. Maybe I know. It's as simple as that. Seriously. So I'm doing yoga you guys know that I've talked to you about that I've chatted with you about that I've missed now two days. Scheduling stuff different things. And that's fine because I've done other things instead. So it's okay. It is okay.  I collected all the items went through all the stuff packed a bunch of stuff up and put it into boxes and at my sister's house the stuff that I went through that was mine. I took some of the things that that I had there to give to her.  You know bowls and plates and stuff like that and so it's no big deal like half my stuff was from there anyway. And so packed it up and I was up and down and up and down and up and down her stairs yesterday so much I had so much exercise. I didn't even walk on the treadmill I didn't need to because I was like oh my God and plus I was carrying the bags and stuff like that. And I was carrying boxes and things like that not heavy boxes. I'm smart I'm not going to hurt myself. But I did a lot and did all by myself like in a good way I mean I had help I had support if I needed it but I did a chunk of it just by myself and it felt good you know.  I've had a little help with the big stuff I've had some help with the big stuff so anyway my point is. Like not exercising but like stretching just stretches you guys stretches getting up off your booty.   Anyway, so it's like one of my favorite shirts you guys have seen me wear multiple times but I had to share that I'm wearing today as I'm driving I am going to stop and get a Dunkin Donuts they have a pink velvet macchiato and it is really good and it is crammed with sugar. And it's very sweet and it's very yummy and I like it. But so stress management. I'm not avoiding sugar. I'm not avoiding yummy stuff, but I am introducing a routine that's going to help me when I go see her and or when you know month or non she asked me for 800 bucks to pay a render something and I don't have it. I want to honor my boundaries and hold my space and not feel guilty or bad or perpetuate energy that's connected to stress that pulls us down guilt energy, or expectations of others, or you need to be the same person you were four months ago.  Other people who have not gone through what I've gone through do not understand that. And I noticed that sadly. I'm like, I don't just go back to the way I once before it doesn't like I don't just pick up where I left off and keep going it does not work like that when you have life defining experiences. Don't cut yourself some slack do do two things pick two things that are going to help you. Manage your energy in a way that works for you so what is that for you I'm going to challenge you with this on the Sunday morning coffee to help you address the stress. Okay, by saying what is that going to be for you is it going to be reading an excerpt out of your book. Every night, or every morning, is it having an app on your phone, like the good news network, or having an app on your phone that gives you a quota day, or maybe you have the Channy app, where you get astrology for the day, something like that like what are you going to do to kind of align your energy. Put yourself in that kind of state of awareness of what your pure self is, which is good. Something that is is is uplifting the baseline is is positive or hopeful energy. I'm not saying be ignorant to anything that's going on in the world I'm saying when you start out what are you going to do to give yourself that best opportunity to be at your baseline and have your baseline be positive that is supportive for you and intuitive and what your soul wants for you what you're healing team what your angels today I almost did a Sunday morning coffee about angels because they're everywhere right now and I'm like cheese.  Wow, that's kind of cool. So maybe tomorrow on above live channel we'll have to have a conversation about angels for our Monday Monday talk, maybe we'll have to do that. So what is it that you're going to do, I mean maybe you're going to use oils, maybe you have essential oils maybe you love lavender or maybe you have an essential oil that you just love right. And you haven't used it for a long time or something maybe it's been in the closet or the cupboard in the bathroom or something take it out. And maybe you use that in the morning maybe you smell that and you put a little bit on your wrist and rub them together. Maybe you do that. So that creates a tone that sets a tone or a vibration you're choosing your frequency. It doesn't mean you're going to stay in this blissful state and you're going to be in this little bubble all day long. But it means at least you're starting making some choices right out of the gate or realigning yourself like if something something's going down at work and you're like oh my gosh you just had a meeting and you're like oh everything's crazy.   And I would say if you these are really easy ones these are non denominational people should not at all be offended or afraid of them and run the other direction.   They're probably just envious because they can't do that yoga move or something. But anyway so you could do cards. I would suggest Louise Hay has a couple decks like power of thought cards or wisdom cards and they're super general. They're just like affirmations that's all they are. And that's all they are but they're good and lovely supportive and gentle. So this is the one I just pulled from this deck and this is the one I think I have this on my link in my description. The gateway oracle cards Denise Lynn you guys know I like Denise Lynn because it her stuff is grounded. Like she's in reality she's not just like oming all day in the fields okay. Hearing messages from spirit. I am a clear channel for messages from spirit. Here you go. I just talked about angels right. Would you say that that is an affirmation that we should talk about angels tomorrow. We're going to have to remind me just in case I forget but yes I think that is. Yes yes I believe that's true. Okay there are also lots of motivational speakers. You can find one that fits your jam. I like Simon. I can't think of his last name. Simon. He does stuff with businesses and stuff too but Simon Simon he wrote. Oh my gosh I can't even I'm blanking out but Simon I can't think of his last name. A lot of people like Mel Robbins. I'm okay with I like some of her stuff the way she talks about stuff but some of her stuff. Her I'm not super in alignment with necessarily. I don't know I don't know but some people really like her Mel Robbins. There's other ones too who do you guys listen to in the chat share them with each other. Lisa Nichols yes yes. That's a powerful inspiring woman for sure. You know there's the old school Oprah's obviously. I wonder what Cheryl Richardson is up to lately. She used to be a really good like self care coach. Connected to Louise Hay. Louise Hay is old school you guys she's in heaven she's in the afterlife. Louise Hay has a lot of great stuff too.  The one I'm supposed to go see. Okay so who else I'm trying to think of who I've been digging lately I've just been pure into my own stuff whoever my team is my spiritual helpers I've been reading on women who run with wolves and I just got a new journal to go with that. Beautiful journal to go with that and it doesn't have lines for the first time ever I have a journal without lines which is kind of interesting a little scary but interesting so there's lots of stuff that you can do that's inputs that are positive I used to always say positive inputs in my coaching so create two two things that can help you and now this intent of this is to help address the stress before it starts it helps to give you a baseline that is more supportive because if your baseline is oh the world sucks and this year is going to be a shit show and everybody's going to lose their jobs and I hate taxes and I don't have money and I can't do this and I can't do that and I can't go to Florida because of politics so I can't do Disney this year oh my god my life is just awful I haven't you know worked in four months I mean oh my god if I'm doing that I'm gonna when stress comes at me from other people when my kid has stress when my friends have stress and when my clients have a lot of stuff going on how am I going to handle that I'm gonna be like oh yeah you're right you're right yeah yeah life sucks what what like that's not no no no so we have to create a baseline where we're at right and then we have tools though that can help us and it's really simple stuff like anointing like an oil essential oil or an incense that's burning like I have an incense burning right now that's called cinnamon twist that's that whole sacred shocker vibe going on I have a white candle on my altar space that's glowing right now just lighting a candle taking a minute light a candle take a minute and breathe and stare it into the candle and just open your your heart and let your the energy of light just imbue within you that connection easy boom boom boom easy easy easy easy peasy lemon squeezy as we used to say when the kids were little so alright my dear friends thank you so much for being here on Sunday morning coffee cheers I gotta get rolling rolling rolling rolling out this morning on the Sunday and I look forward to talking to you tomorrow let's talk about angels that sounds great another resource for you to help you manage energy and that's all really stress is whether it's good or bad or whatever we can judge it all we want but it's there and it exists and it can cause illness and it can cause foggy brain it can keep you keep you unmotivated and stuck and we don't want that and you have a choice on that you can influence that yes you can I know you can I totally believe that you can we can okay alright okay so I hope I've inspired your spirit today filled you with some hope and encourage you to live your life this is your life after all and you get to live it decide what's best for you just love it thanks for being here thanks for the thanks in the chat great to see you


My name is Blair Goulds and I work for Mi'kmaqanao Madnui. I'm the director of programs and student support services. I'm going to be talking about today the oral language program that Mi'kmaqanao Madnui has developed for early years oral language development. So the program is targeted for 3, 4, 5 and 6 year olds. So that tends to be between kindergarten 3 and grade 1. So we developed a series of resources supporting the overall assessment of oral language with the 3, 4, 5, 6 year olds of course. And so we look at the perspectives from the children and of course their caregivers, their elders and their teachers. And so we've developed in total 4 different assessments that capture individual students and their success in oral language. And of course looking at how contributors from those 3 areas ensure success for all children or the child actually. What we have developed is a series of puppets, more specifically for oral language. The face of that is Andle, the most puppet. And we've developed hand puppets, finger puppets. And we developed so far as early 2019 a total of 11 books and both 4 of which are translated in Mi'kmaqanao and in English. And the other 7 which are translated into 3 languages, English, Mi'kmaqa and French. What we're doing about this program that makes it so great and so distinct is that we're driving what assessment looks like for our children. And we are controlling and taking control of that piece that has been long controlled by somebody else. And so we are taking the ruler and redefining that ruler and measuring our own successes that fit our needs and of course the needs of our students. We pride ourselves in partnering with directors of education, with principals, with teachers, with parents and of course with the partners at the table from their respective organizations. All centered around changing and enhancing what is happening of course with our children in these respective grades. What I've seen, the benefits of this program that I've seen is that it's bridging together community and school. And so ultimately beyond the assessment, and we call it an assessment but it's much more than that. But really beyond that, it's bridging together community and school. And so we're seeing a lot of parents engaged through this process of course. They are one of the main contributors to the assessment as well as equally as students as equally as elders and teachers. We've seen a dramatic change in the way parents are just assuming that responsibility of their child's learning. That that's very important, that we engage the parents, that they know what's going on, that they see success within their children. They know how to contribute to success and so it's been such a rewarding piece to be part of that. And not everybody is perfect most certainly, but we all strive to want the same things. The other benefits of this program that I've seen, you know besides the assessment itself, beyond all of that itself. What we've seen and of course accounts of teachers is that how Andale has kind of set a tone in the classroom.  That the puppet is a family, you know is part of this classroom family. And children are very respectful of the things that they do and the things that they say. And they ensure that they include this puppet and so we know the close relationships that students have developed with this puppet. We're seeing now very early on in our pilot stages when we introduced it in grades kindergarten. We're now seeing those same children in grade one and so there's an existing relationship there. And so there's that existing trust there as well. And so what we're hoping for is just to really allow children to develop those relationships to be comfortable while doing assessments. They never know they're being assessed. It's just part of a friendly game with Andale one to one. And of course it allows us to collect over a thousand pieces of information. Of course which communities own, communities own their own data. And that allows communities to make those decisions, you know, data to instruct instruction. Some challenges, you know, I don't like to see them as challenges. But sometimes weather is a challenge. You know, sometimes we of course respect the jurisdiction that each community holds for education. And so it's not a one size fits all model. We're very respective of how communities want to do this and carry it out. Some people do it in a birthday party fashion, for example. Some people do it more one to one, you know, without a birthday party and that's totally fine. We like to celebrate all successes. And so I don't see them as challenges as much as we're celebrating that distinctiveness of all of our communities and how we approach this common approach that we developed of course with everybody at the table. Of course some of the challenges have been like inside of training. So when we provide training we are looking at different ways of offering training because it's not always feasible to do face-to-face training with our educators. Sub-shortage is such a real thing and we don't like to pull teachers away from their classrooms too often. And so we're looking at alternate ways of delivering PD, meaningful PD, which will allow them to connect a little bit further, you know, beyond just the one day that they can always go back to referencing some of that learning that needs to happen. Some of the advice I would have is of course we are open to sharing. We've built on this with the intention that we would be open to sharing the work that we've done. Of course there is a process in that. What we want to continue to pave forward within ourselves of course is taking control of that. You know, Underlay has four best friends right now. We're in, Alia discovers her math and developing a math assessment program for grades primary to three using the same existing characters that we've developed. But one girl taking the face of that assessment. And so there's two other puppets and so we need to really come back, recollect ourselves and decide on those priorities that we have for the intention of our characters that we developed together. And I believe that, you know, when we look at celebrating our successes, I know I've gone to many conferences to share about what we're doing and what's working. You know, this is just a one little piece of work that we're doing striving for, you know, First Nation control of First Nation education, exercising our jurisdiction. And, you know, when we think about indigenizing the classrooms and ensuring that when our children see resources, they see themselves reflecting reflected in all of everything that we do. That is a high priority for us, of course, engaging beyond the four walls of the school and engaging with the community is something that's very important to us. And of course, above all, you know, is ensuring that we're doing right. We're setting the priorities for tomorrow's workforce, right? And so we really, really want to embrace technology. We want to maintain the connection with our languages and our cultures. You know, and this is just a sliver of what we do at Mi'kmaq and Amad Nui. And I'm sure my colleagues have shared many other wonderful initiatives that are happening, that are driven by community for community. That is what we strive for. And I wish I could share more about what language is doing. Of course, that's such a big component of who we are as Mi'kmaq and Amad Nui. Our board of directors, of course, the chiefs of all the communities hold language at such a high importance in that there is such a critical need to revitalize and reclaim our languages in this land. To me, Indigenous education is not different from education. That we have the same principles. We define our outcomes. We ensure that our culture and our languages are well respected within those principles. We give the highest opportunity and the most opportunity to our students to ensure employability. We ensure that wellness is a big component of what we do. I think Indigenous education is something that strives and has paved the way. Mi'kmaq and Amad Nui is such a prime example of that. And looking at myself as a learner, I grew up in a Mi'kmaq and Amad Nui system where my community had the control. And the jurisdiction over education. And so that says something, not only to myself in present day, you know, that I was allowed to go to school from kindergarten to grade 12 and even some post-secondary education in my own community. I learned amongst my own people. I learned from my own people. I had many teachers who were Mi'kmaq. And to me, that only enhanced the success that I have today. And I feel very empowered being part of that. And so I've never, you know, we talk about different stories about racism, about, you know, experiencing those traumatic things as young children, as, you know, middle school children, whomever. And I'm very fortunate to say that in my schooling from kindergarten to grade 12 that I never had to experience that. And most importantly, my children will never have to experience that as they go to school in our own community. And I'm very proud of that. It's something that I think will develop them better, you know, as more confident learners, very successful learners. I have such high priorities and high standards for what we do. The standards that I set, you know, for myself five years ago look entirely different now. And I believe I've reached them and I've set the bar higher. And so what I want to do in the next 10 years is continue to set that bar higher to ensure that nobody is left behind, to ensure that we accommodate all students within our system. And of course, most importantly, and I think it's just a Mi'gma way of being is to share what we always do. That Abohanamadol Di is such an important concept for us Mi'gma that we have to help one another. And so I think Mi'gma Ghunamadnoy has really exemplified some of the ways that we control education, of course, within our communities. But it's something that, you know, when I think 10 years from now, I see our languages reclaimed. I see a school system, both provincially and First Nation, you know, respectively promoting more cultural identity, promoting this relationship that we have as treaty people. I see Canada being in a better place with the work that our people are doing and have done. And, you know, while being very ambitious, it's important to be ambitious in everything that we do. That creates standard. And so when we work towards ambitious goals, they eventually become reality. You know, and so I assume, you know, thinking about Mi'gma Ghunamadnoy 20 years ago, that our chief set ambitious goals. And I believe we've reached them within 20 years. And so there's a need to set further ambitious goals. And again, to see where we are and measuring our success.  Ensuring that we include all learners, whether or not we have diverse learners. You know, respecting all learners is, of course, a high priority for us. I think that learning happens inside and outside of schools. And I think we are in such a great position to enhance that. And so I hope, and yeah, I just think that in 10 years from now, we will continue to set the bar higher and higher until, you know, and I know it's going to forever be something that we do.


In a historic educational agreement, the Library of Alexandria and edX became partners to bring educational platforms to empower women and fight the extremist ideology in the Middle East. EdX for us is an opportunity to implement the vision of the Library of Alexandria as a place of learning, a place of dialogue, a place of openness. A window for Egypt onto the world, a window for the world onto Egypt, and a leading institution of the digital age, but above all a space of freedom where people meet, exchange ideas across cultures and across groups of people. EdX has three parts to its mission. One part is access to education, so bringing that not only to the privileged few, but to everyone, everywhere, whether it's rural communities or women, or people who cannot afford higher education, it's very important to do that. We did not have the technology to reach significantly large numbers until now, and edX is the platform that will enable us to do so, to enable us to reach to remote areas in Egypt where children are deprived and young people are deprived of access to books and study halls, but where, through the magic of modern technology, we can actually bring the best teachers and the best materials all the way to them and actually link them into a network of learners and a community of scholars that transcends the boundaries of Egypt to the rest of the world. Women's rights are human rights, they are inherent in the notion of equality, and in the library I'm happy to say that many of my colleagues are very able women, and I've never had a quota system or anything like that, straight competitive merit. Dr. Azaz says that women in Egypt have had access to education for some time now. However, underprivileged women are not allowed to go to school and are limited by culture. But in most universities now, we have a lot of women, and I would like to also say it's not about lack of access, but it's about lack of quality. To rise to the challenge of confronting extremism and violence with ideas of openness, pluralism, dialogue and understanding, we will rely on knowledge being the most important thing. As it is implanted in our part of the world, I think will be a fundamental mechanism in confronting these waves of extremism and violence that we hope to gradually eliminate in our battle for the hearts and minds of a younger generation. On behalf of edX and the Library of Alexandria, for Arlington Public News, I'm Akriti Jagmohan.


Ultra-thin optical fibers integrated into cold atom setups are ideal building blocks for atom photon hybrid quantum networks and can be used to demonstrate non-linear optics and quantum interference phenomena in atomic media. The observation of multilevel cascaded electromagnetically induced transparency, EIT, using an optical nanofiber to interface cold, the G7RB atom shows the potential of such an atom nanofiber system for quantum information, including simultaneously slowing down multiple wavelengths and generating ONF-guided entangled beams. All optical switching in the all-fibered system is also demonstrated using the obtained EIT effect. This article was authored by Ravi Kumar, Vandana Gokru and Saal NIC Kormaik.


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