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Two former fashion editors have launched a food magazine that's artisanal enough for the Brooklyn foodie set. NYLON veterans Fiorella Valdesolo and Michele Outland had long planned on bringing their shared aesthetic to a new style magazine before deciding to tackle something new and unfamiliar. They put together the bi-annual food and recipe journal, called Gather, in less than three months.
Food-obsessed but novice, they enlisted Maggie Ruggiero, the food stylist, chef and former owner of East Village watering hole King Tut's Wah Wah Hut to edit the recipes. With a target audience whose median age is 32, it skews younger than most food magazines.
"I'm in touch with so many twenty-somethings who are so into cooking and eating right now," said Ms. Valdesolo, a Brooklyn style writer whose byline frequents Elle, Marie Claire, and New York.
Accustomed to tearing their favorite recipes out of Bon Appetit, they created a paperback volume that's meant to be held on to, a cross between a magazine and a cookbook. Gather's first run of 2,000 will be available in boutiques like Marlow's and By Brooklyn in New York, The Curiosity Shoppe in San Francisco, Room6 in Vancouver and Magpie in Somerville.
Ms. Valdesolo and Ms. Outland, whose credits include Martha Stewart Living and Domino, funded the magazine out of pocket, capitalizing on their Rolodex of freelancer friends willing to trade bargain rates for creative freedom. The result is a too-beautiful book whose visuals are more Dutch master than food porn.
Riffing on the theme "Float," the first volume contains recipes for fried baby octopus, lemongrass noodle soup and chamomile ile flottante and an essay on puffy foods.
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International Explorer's assets have increased "substantially" since Vanguard acquired it from Schroder Investment Management North America in 2002, Vanguard said. Vanguard attributed the growth to the fund's strong returns and "significant" cash inflows.
The fund gained 57.4% last year, while the average international fund was up 36.9%.
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Senate Bill 491 (Hernandez): Last week this bill failed to move out of committee on a 6-3 vote. The bill (SB 491) would allow nurse practitioners to open practices without any oversight from a trained medical doctor and prescribe narcotics without supervision. Although the bill failed to pass committee last week, it was granted reconsideration and will be voted on again next Tuesday in the Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee. While an important part of the health care delivery system, nurse practitioners simply do not have adequate training or education to be qualified to practice medicine without physician oversight.
Senate Bill 492 (Hernandez): This bill would allow optometrists to examine, prevent, diagnose and treat any disease, condition or disorder of the visual system, the human eye and adjacent related structures. This has become a two-year bill and is expected to be resurrected in the next legislative session. CMA believes this bill could place patients at risk of significant harm from having medical conditions diagnosed and treated by practitioners who lack the education, training and experience to do so.
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MTV Networks chairman and CEO Judy McGrath has the company firing on all cylinders. MTV Networks' Comedy Central, VH1, MTV and Spike TV all posted significant primetime audience increases during the first quarter of 2008, compared to the prior year. The group's online business — which includes network-based Web sites such as nick.com and comedycentral.com, as well as acquired sites such as AddictingGames and Neopets — is averaging a combined 90 million unique users a month, up by more than 20 million visitors for the same period in 2007. The group is also looking to leverage its multiplatform offerings with advertisers by offering new ad models and integrated on-air and digital campaigns that it hopes will provide more value for advertisers and revenue for the company.
McGrath recently sat down with Multichannel News editor-in-chief Tom Steinert-Threlkeld and programming editor R. Thomas Umstead to provide a glimpse into MTV Networks' global multiplatform business. An edited transcript follows:
MCN: One of the big things that you talked about during MTV's upfront presentation was a 'return on innovation.' So how do you measure return on innovation exactly?
Judy McGrath: ROI can be a data-driven experience if you need it to be. We took The Hills, one of our biggest franchises, and we plotted out a significant number of questions around the experience of watching it on television and experiencing it online to see whether the virtual experience added something to the audience that's rabid for it. We measured it working with Nielsen [Media Research] and several other companies to explain to a client that each of us enjoyed a bump in perception for doing something beyond what everyone is calling a multiplatform experience.
MCN: How do you measure perception? I can see how you can measure time viewers spend with The Hills on television and online, but I don't easily see how you can measure whether this or that application makes me feel better about The Hills.
JM: We always do qualitative research — we've always found that extremely valuable and we've always asked a series of questions about what is important to a fan of The Hills and whether they're satisfied with the product. It's a qualitative methodology, not a quantitative one.
With quantitative data everyone is slicing and dicing — and some say manipulating it — but when you ask these questions about perception and value, you really get a sense of whether this is the right way to move forward with a property, brand or idea. Do you evoke the right amount of action and feeling about that when you approach it this way? We have data that proves that even more so than we expected.
MCN: So what you're now trying to do is turn commercial time into content time. Talk about some of the methods you're using.
JM: I remember the days when art and commerce were two very separate things. So when you look at the work the creative people here did quite willingly like the "Get Mo" [Mountain Dew] campaign on Spike, which almost looks like a knockoff of The Bourne Identity or Mission: Impossible — or the guys arguing about athlete's foot as they are clearly trying to look like UFC fighters — it fits the humor of the Spike brand and it feels as though it makes product integration not something clunky and obvious. It makes you feel like you like to drink Mountain Dew and you like to watch Spike.
We want to entertain you every minute you spend with us, so let's make the whole experience entertaining.
MCN: Are you concerned that some people won't like having so much product integration on the networks?
JM: Some people don't like getting constant targeted advertising, but personally I think some of this is generational.
MCN: In what respect? Younger people want it more, or can they recognize it better?
JM: I think they understand what it is. It may sound like a contradiction, but there's clearly a desire for authenticity and relevance, and skepticism about being overly promoted to, so we're careful not to go overboard. I think the notion of breaking up content and then going to a commercial that's not relevant to where you were is something that's going to be changing over time.
The good news is that it affords you to do some interesting things with formats. You can literally have a longer stretch of really great content and a more impactful short [advertising message]. As we announced, Levi's has bought a block of time on Logo and they intend to program custom-made, heartfelt reflective marketing and commercials for Logo. There's really a lot of upside to this.
MCN: You seem to be enjoying this multiplatform world, where most executives seem to be having great angst over it. Why is that?
JM: There's nothing worse than living in predictable times, and I think the nature of the MTV Networks is to keep innovating. We've fallen on our noses more times than anybody else, but it's so exciting to realize that we're not just cutting longterm deals that you get together every couple of years to do.
This is a constant period of incubation, experimentation, negotiating — it's definitely a time of trial and error and trial again and trial better with consumers. It's an acknowledgement that they expect to be included in the process because they have more of an opportunity to do that. So I think it encourages you to compete and be your best self — it isn't enough to deliver what you've always delivered — you really have to step up your game. And it's thrilling and very exciting for all of us.
MCN: How is MTV Networks different from what it was two years ago?
JM: For a couple of years after reading in the opening sentence of every article about us that we were the company that didn't get MySpace, I haven't read that in a while. I think that's because we've found our own way to demonstrate that we've understood how to be successful and relevant online. We're not a big portal and not a big social network, but we've launched some really interesting broadband verticals that line up with our programming on television. We've launched several that don't have anything to do with our programming, and we hit magic with [the video console game] Rock Band.
I think we've found a place over the last year in casual gaming that is pretty extraordinary and it will be a good focus for us going forward. AddictingGames and Shockwave have really stepped to the top of that class. I think we've done this smartly — we've made some bets and they're now returning.
MCN: How would you define your approach to online?
JM: [MTV Networks Global Digital Media President] Mika Salmi called it the vertical entertainment experience. Our portfolio is broad and wide, but now we've begun to connect our own sites together so that you can search for an artist on VH1 and access the MTV archives easily. You can recommend and post a profile but you don't have to re-register when you move to another MTV Network site.
We did a lot of things to improve the experience. On our own sites we've gone a long way out of the — dare I say — the programmer's dilemma of overdesign and overprogram and really make it easy and simple to connect to what you might like elsewhere. We didn't go out and acquire a massive company to get into the networking space, which everyone is talking about, but we've tried to be bold but smart and focused. [MTV properties reach 90 million unique users a month, up from 68 million a year ago.]
MCN: What's MTV Networks' programming strategy?
JM: I would say that it's all about the hits — it's a great and competitive time for programmers to come up with hit franchises. Obviously, [NBC Universal] recently announced its 52 weeks of programming, but we have been speeding up our development and programming-launch process — we've always programmed the summer months. So in the world of people who are doing television development you still need a hit for TV, but nobody presents a concept without thinking about how it might live on other platforms as well.
MCN: What constitutes a perfect MTV Networks hit? A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila? Flavor Of Love? A concert series?
JM: There are levels of hits. One of the things that I like is a buzzworthy hit … you want to be talked about in the cultural dialogue and I think [MTV's] The Hills and [Comedy Central's The] Sarah SilvermanProgram] are there, and Nickelodeon is building one in iCarly. Those are always important and you get extra credit for them. You still need a decent rating and we've had some tremendous ones. The Hills got a 5 rating in a competitive universe and has pretty much sustained that. Spike has come a long way … how do you have a men's network and not the [National Basketball Association] or [National Football League]? You get the new thing and that's the UFC. And that's been the hallmark of this channel … you don't sit around and say you don't have it. You get the new hit.
MCN: VH1 has come a long way as well.
JM: They have. Celebreality — whether you like it, loathe it or want to talk about it, it's been successful. I love Best Week Ever and I love the way they've kept music front and center on the network. They have that instant absurd nostalgia — I think they're doing I Love The 2000s. At the same time, they've gotten more traction out of those wonderful people most people would call the B-list [celebrities]. If anything defines this era, it's partly profiling yourselves online. Everybody is living their lives in front on the camera.
MCN: How do you define the MTV brand?
JM: The beauty of MTV is you can't capture it in a bottle. It doesn't live under one easy catchphrase. It isn't everything to everybody, but I do believe that under [MTV Networks Music, Logo and Films Group president] Van [Toffler's] watch, MTV is having a fantastic moment of yet another at bat.
On MTV proper, as some people call it, the mother ship is having success in just about everything. There's a level of series like Made, which gets to reflect the audience who wants to live their lives on television and its very sincere and earnest. They had a big hit in Run's House, which does a number of great things — it's literally a family and a great representation of somebody people know. And of course we've talked about The Hills ad nauseum.
MCN: Is Van the one that will lead the charge for MTV, or are you still looking for a replacement for [former MTV president] Christina Norman?
JM: Not at the moment … MTV is definitely on Van's watch. He's really stepping out on innovation with virtual worlds, online and with bringing music back. He's got a great plan for music this summer that will be integrated into the programming that will be really great and really fun.
MCN: With all of the success MTV Networks has had, is it time to seek some license-fee increases from the operators?
JM: I believe that our working relationships with operators and distributors are closer, tighter and more united than ever before. We're fully cognizant of their issues and opportunities, and we've stepped up and supported their initiatives; but I think we can make a compelling case [for increases]. Look at Nickelodeon — almost 14 years as the No. 1-rated cable network, it has enormous value as it has an enormous willingness to participate in all of the [operator-developed] platforms. But I think we think there might be a gap in the Nickelodeon rate and the Nickelodeon value, so of course there's always negotiations and opportunity, but it's very much a focus for us.
MCN: Are we talking double-digit increases?
JM: I'm not sure. I trust that we'll be able to come up with something that is right for us and not crippling for them because that's not the intention either. But sure we see healthy increases on the way, and I think there's a willingness by the operators to engage in conversations. We have closed some deals with Cox and some others – they've been terrific and great and we've put more value in and extracted more value and everybody walked away from the table feeling good, which is what you hope for.
MCN: During the major MTV Network reorganization two years ago, there was a lot of concern about whether you would be sitting here today. Do you see yourself sitting here in another five years?
JM: I think I'm fortunate to have one of the all-time great perches, and by the end of every week, I don't have time to think of what I'll be doing the next couple of years. Right now I think this is a fantastic place to be — it's a great company with great platforms. We're cursed with interesting times, so this would be the very last moment you would want to pack up your bags and move to the next place. I'm only as good as my next idea, so who knows.


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Arrested Development ruined me. Since that show was prematurely ripped from the airwaves, I've started to assume that every show with a dash of creativity and quirk won't make it very far, especially on network TV (See: Better off Ted, Pushing Daisies, Worst Week). Nothing gold can stay, and if it's really gold, it will be gone way before its time.
Mr. Sunshine is a living, breathing example of this. But I hope I'm wrong this time.
Haven't heard about this little gem? It's a surprisingly good single-camera comedy about a 40-year-old guy (think Will in About A Boy) who's in charge of operations at a medium sized catch-all arena in San Diego (think Circuses, Motocross, semi-pro hockey).
It's not too smart for the room but it doesn't need a laugh track and prop gags to keep it going (I'm looking at you Two & A Half Men). The tone reminded me a bit of Scrubs but without the voiceovers and some of the schlock. It's packing some serious star power with leads Matthew Perry and Allison Janney and it's got a premise that could effectively run forever. Plus the writing is sharp, and particularly irreverent. *Yep, that's a quote from the pilot.
Ratings wise, the show got some help from a Modern Family lead in last night so hopefully people will make a habit of sticking around.
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The weekly creative projects and talismans, are meant to serve as reminders for staying true to our practice of mindFULLness and can be worn, hung, or otherwise used to adorn your personal, work, or altar spaces when not lovingly housed inside their altered matchboxes. We will then assemble the weekly altered matchboxes into a tower dedicated to our ongoing practice of mindFULLness. A practice, which encourages us to make choices that honor and uphold our Divinely Inspired Selves! Pictures of the weekly projects will be accompanied by a short video lesson or printable pdf files...so you can follow along and replicate the creations! This year long course is like getting a weekly mixed-media ART lesson wrapped inside a mindFULLness devotional!
Creativity has always been the one thing I could return to again and again...that thing...which allowed me to settle into my own personal place of be-ingness...that place... where I could rest and be comforted in the gentle arms of my own Sacred Self...a practice...where I could open my heART... W I D E...and create space for intentional mindFULLness to unfold and infuse...and it is my desire to continue sharing that practice with all of you!
At the beginning of our time together...you will receive 8 bonus video lessons...detailing the beginning construction of our HeART centered Tower. We will then be adding the additional layers and elements of the tower as we work our way through the year. Each Saturday throughout the entirety of 2018 I will post and share my weekly writings, creative projects, video lessons, and pdf files. We will have 4-12 Week Sessions...with a 1 Week break inbetween each session. Group members will receive a weekly email notification of the heART centered mindFULLness writing, creative project, video lesson and accompanying pdf files and supply lists.
These writings, projects, directions, and video lessons will be available to read and view at your own leisure and convenience throughout the entirety of 2018 and beyond. (Please note that you will be able to visit them again and again). At the end of our year together... you will have amassed a year's worth of writings on invoking the practice of mindFULLness...and will have crafted a HeARTfully MindFULL tower of reminders, adornments, and talismans...all beautifully rendered and stacked in a monument to honoring and upholding the Highest Expression of Your Divinely Inspired Self!
My weekly writings and heARTfully crafted projects, will be a sharing of my own personal thoughts, struggles, and processes on living a life of HeARTfelt MindFULLness....and through this sharing...it is my desire that you will then open your own HeART's to the idea of HeARTfully Crafted MindFULLness, and will join me in cultivating these practices into your own Divinely Inspired Life!
I look forward to gathering with you in 2018!
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Low Grade Inflammation Test – €65
This blood test is designed to measure if you are suffering with chronic low grade inflammation. The low grade inflammation test measure a very specific inflammatory marker known as CRP.
C Reactive Protein is a blood protein which increases in levels due to inflammation in the body. High levels of CRP are associated with the following conditions:
- Cardiovascular
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Pulmonary Diseases
- Arthritis
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Neurological Diseases
- Diabetes
- Certain types of cancer
What is low grade inflammation?
Most of the time, inflammation is a lifesaver because it enables your body to fend off various disease-causing bacteria, viruses and parasites. The instant any of these deadly microbes enters your body, your defenses destroy them by a process known as inflammation.
Once the invading microbes are killed, the inflammation process shuts down and healing begins.
Every once in a while, however, the whole feverish production doesn't shut down on cue. The inflammation becomes chronic rather than transitory. When that occurs, the body turns on itself with devastating consequences.
It can linger for years, silently and insidiously damaging organs and body tissues. This organ and tissue damage then leads to chronic diseases.
Symptoms of low grade inflammation can include:
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- Poor concentration
- Unexplained illness
- Premature aging
What size is test kit?
- This blood test kit is approx 14 cm x 12 cm x 2 cm so it will pass through a standard letter box.
- It has the CE certification mark and it conforms with European regulation.
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New Puppet Enterprise Platform Offers Distributed Application Orchestration
|Richard Harris in Enterprise Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Puppet Enterprise is releasing a new platform, Puppet Application Orchestration, which will be available later this year. It offers a new application orchestration solution to help companies deliver, install, configure and maintain distributed applications.
It offers a simplified application orchestration process which offers customers the opportunity to model distributed applications and application stacks as Puppet code to roll out new infrastructure and applications.
The new platform offers a complete management stack on a single platform which provides the opportunity to reduce the complexity of deploying and managing applications that are composed of multiple applications or services that span multiple nodes.
Puppet Enterprise developers will be able model entire applications in the Puppet DSL, including cross-node dependencies between different services and systems that make up the application stack. Based on that model, the new Puppet Orchestrator offers the capability to ensure that the right things happen in the right order on the right machines as the application is deployed or updated.
Puppet Application Orchestration offers the following:
- Easy-to-read, declarative language that allows the ability to quickly state how systems should be configured to do their jobs.
- PuppetDB collects and stores data about every node in an infrastructure and includes a searchable database of the resources managed on any node.
- The Puppet Serve runs on the Java Virtual Machine, compiling configurations for Puppet agent nodes.
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PHOENIX-Voting rights advocates will deploy hundreds of volunteers to polling places throughout Arizona during the upcoming elections to protect Arizonans from new policies that make it harder to vote and disproportionately impact Native American and Latino citizens. This ramped-up "Election Protection Program" is a response to last year's United States Supreme Court decision that gutted the Voting Rights Act, which marks its 49th anniversary on August 6th, and rules implemented by Arizona politicians since the Court's decision.
On June 26th, 2013 the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated Section 5, a key provision in the Voting Rights Act that citizens had used to stop politicians from implementing harmful election laws in the past. The Court's decision erased essential protections proven to advance free, fair and accessible elections and opened the door to political mischief at the expense of voters.
The Election Protection Program includes surveying voters at dozens of polling locations around the state about their experiences and any difficulties they faced. Leading the project is Arizona Advocacy Network, a nonpartisan civic engagement organization, with the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona and One Arizona, a non-partisan coalition of civic engagement groups.
"The Voting Rights Act was a significant law that secured the rights of American Indians to vote in Arizona," said Shan Lewis, President of Inter Tribal Council of Arizona. "The Shelby County v Holder case took us several steps backwards and could deny the right to vote for all American Indians."
A new policy by Secretary of State Ken Bennett and Attorney General Tom Horne could disenfranchise an estimated 15,000 – 20,000 eligible Arizona voters, according to Sam Wercinski, Executive Director of Arizona Advocacy Network. His group has successfully fought discriminatory laws that make it harder to vote and advocate for common sense reforms that increase access to voting for all eligible citizens.
As a major voting rights group, Arizona Advocacy Network is committing significant resources to aid voters this election year. "Collaborating with ITCA and One Arizona is a great opportunity to protect voters and stop disenfranchisement," Wercinski said. "Our work benefits Arizona citizens and every American who wants to be heard on Election Day."
Arizona students are also significantly affected by existing and new voting procedures being implemented this year. Surveys will be taken at polls serving university communities in Coconino, Maricopa and Pima Counties.
"Arizona students want to be engaged voters but politicians are preventing that with anti-voter laws passed as voter protection," said Shayna Stevens, President of the Arizona Students' Association. "This Election Protection Program will protect the voting rights of all students."
Arizona Advocacy Network will send volunteers to polling locations for the Primary Election on August 26 and the General Election on November 4 to survey voters on their experiences. Volunteers can be identified by their bright yellow T-shirts and credentials as part of this effort. An online survey will also be available for individuals to complete who wish to share their voting experience. The information collected will be used to seek changes in voting laws by working with election officials and legislators.


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"Clinton denounced us and said we were an attack on the entire 'international community.' We kept publishing."
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An Establishment Coup Against Trump
- I have been screaming about this since mid-2016, but the Controlled Corporate Media Machine says we are all paranoid "crazy" conspiracy types.
- But you are not paranoid if they really are out to get you.
(The Daily Sheeple) - In a tweet this morning, WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, made a prescient observation that the ongoing deep state coup against President Trump is an operation by establishment forces to unseat Trump and replace him with Vice President Mike Pence.
Assange noted that Trump's political capital has "been openly looted for months now by GOP, CIA, Netanyahu, Goldman Sachs, etc."
Essentially, Assange is saying is that the aforementioned stakeholders who want to see Trump gone have played a long-game, whereby they have worked "to extract as many unpopular positions as possible (e.g tax cuts for the super rich), push the resulting political corpse to Mueller & install Mike Pence."
This, of course, was done as means of severing Trump from his political base, which largely opposes CIA interventionism, Zionism, and globalist banking cartels.
The idea behind it being that when Mueller moves to recommend impeachment, Trump will have strayed so far from the positions that got him elected that there will be a minimal public outcry in his defense.
This follows chatter earlier this year that some saw Mike Pence as "the Deep State's insurance policy."
In fact, Wikileaks' Assange, tweeted back in March, that there was a plan afoot by Hillary Clinton and her loyalists within the Intelligence Community to force a "Pence takeover."
As the Washington Post's Josh Rogin observed back in March:
"Pence is seen by many in Washington as a figure who might stand up for the traditionally hawkish views he espoused while in Congress, a proxy of sorts for the GOP national security establishment."
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Judge Jeanine Pirro criticized Republican lawmakers for essentially sitting on their hands while Democrats "railroad" President Trump.
Pirro said there is a "subtle Republican plot" to bring down Trump and install another establishment Republican president similar to George Bush or 2008 nominee Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). (Fox News)


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Amongst the dancing and beverages, you hear your stomach rumble as it waits for the late night feast to begin. Then it happens, from a distance you see it pulling up. You've heard about it and you've even read about it. A commotion starts to brew and you can't believe your eyes as a food truck pulls in at the wedding reception.
Wedding trends come and go, but having non-traditional and unique features added will not fade out any time soon. Bride and grooms have just begun to explore all the possibilities that having a food truck at your wedding can provide. "Each truck has their own strength that they bring to the party or wedding. We offer that freshness and passion right off the table," states Vito Guerriero, owner and chef from Avella's Wood Fired Oven. Whether it's classic Italian pizza or succulent oysters, Niagara's food trucks are ready and willing to accommodate any bride and groom on their extraordinary day.
Itty Bitty Pie Company
The smell of a warm pie right out of the oven is somewhat sentimental. Perhaps it reminds you of the pies your late grandmother used to make or it evokes memories of fun times sitting around a large table sharing a slice of cake or a piece of pie with family and friends. The Itty Bitty Pie Company has been serving up savoury creations since 2012, leaving customers in awe of their fresh and flavourful creations that will send any of the five senses into overdrive.
When life gave Pam Nicholson lemons she made lemon meringue pie. Nicholson, Operations Manager of Itty Bitty Pie Company, had just been laid off from her job and her daughter, Tara Nicholson, was on maternity leave when they began selling pies at the St. Catharines Farmer's Market. "My daughter is a foodie and she would bring over these delicious things. Shortly after, we started our food truck and opened up a store on Lake Street in St. Catharines," explains Nicholson. Soon, Itty Bitty will be moving locations to 18 Secord Drive, St. Catharines. "We will now have the store and kitchen in one location," adds Nicholson.
Itty Bitty offers a diverse menu of enthralling pies, cakes and dishes that can accommodate both large and small groups. Brides and grooms can choose from both savoury (meat) and sweet (dessert) pies guaranteed to please any wedding guest. "Nowadays, brides are looking for something different," says Nicholson. "We work with the bride and groom to come up with something that is very personal to them."
Rebecca Galbraith and her fiancé were looking for a food truck that would serve both hot food and dessert when they hired Itty Bitty Pie Company for their stunning back yard reception on October 2, 2015. "It was cold outside, so Itty Bitty Pie Company came and served chilli in a bowl topped with pie crust croutons and sour cream," says Galbraith. "It was a big hit." Their guests were also treated to an apple crumble with ice cream drizzled with caramel sauce.
From decorating the truck with lights and garland to writing a special message on a chalk board, Itty Bitty goes the extra mile for their couples. "They had the truck decorated for a wedding and the food truck was great for taking pictures," says Galbraith. Itty Bitty also creates unique wedding favours such as pie-in-a-jar or pie-on-a-stick.
Nicholson likes to use the element of surprise to thrill wedding guests. "Usually the bride and groom don't tell anyone, so we pull up and the guests see us and it's an exciting factor," states Nicholson. "It's just so different than what someone would expect. The guests love it."
With Tara as the Pie Creator, and Pam as the Operations Manager there is no surprise why this mother and daughter team are frequently sought out by brides and grooms all over the Niagara Region to deliver succulent pies to their wedding receptions.
Hometown Ice Cream
Two years ago, Linda Vandewetering purchased Hometown Ice Cream and since then she has been making both young and old scream for ice cream. With Hometown Ice Cream the secret is in the sauce, so to speak, as Linda Vandewetering does not use a premade manufactured base in her ice cream. "It's all homemade. We crack every egg and pour every litre of cream and milk," says Vandewetering. "When in season, I use all local fruits and products."
When her truck makes an appearance at a wedding it is either for a refreshing snack in between the ceremony and reception or a late night treat. Both scenarios are guaranteed to put a smile on the face of any guest.
With crowd pleasing signature flavours such as Carrot Cake and Sour Cream Lime, Vandewetering is not only an owner, but she is also a flavour creator extraordinaire. She is constantly experimenting with new flavours as well as scooping out traditional ones. "If I don't have Old Fashioned Chocolate on the truck I have some grumpy customers," laughs Vandewetering. "Ice cream it's so nostalgic and part of the inner child and it makes people feel happy. It's picking the flavour and whole experience that is so fun." Hometown Ice Cream is willing to go the extra mile to make their brides, grooms, and guests feel accommodated. "I have many gluten free options. I do paleo, vegan, and dairy free which is mostly in a sorbet form," says Vandewetering.
Jane Bride and her husband wanted a different atmosphere for their June wedding and hired three different food trucks to cater their special day. "Hometown Ice Cream showed up a little after the dinner and people got up to socialize a bit, which is what I think they liked about having a food truck at the wedding," says Bride. "Linda's ice cream is pretty top notch. Our guests liked the flavour and variety of choices," says Bride. "We got a lot of compliments saying it was the best wedding they had attended in a while or ever."
"We know what a bride and groom bring in for their reception, the food, the experience, and the creativity is their way of saying thank you to those who have supported them and walked with them through their journey. It's an honour that they would choose us to be that expression," concludes Vandewetering.
Avella's Wood Fired Oven
What is one of North American's favourite foods? Yes, you guessed it, pizza. It doesn't get any better than a late night buffet of mouth-watering pizza. One afternoon, the idea to have an authentic wood burning oven on wheels popped into the mind of Vito Guerriero, co-owner of Avella's Wood Fired Oven. "I am always striving to find my own niche," says Guerriero. With his wife, Alice, the couple located an oven in California and their Italian oven mobile became a reality. Since 2010, Avella's Wood Fired Oven has been spotted cruising around the Niagara Region reminiscent of the wine regions of Italy and California.
Guerriero, who has over 15 years in the food and beverage industry, mostly in Italian cuisine, creates an assortment of thin crust pizzas ideal for any wedding size, as his oven can produce enough delicious 12-inch masterpieces to keep your guests' stomachs happy. "Most often at weddings, you will find us close to the party serving the late night buffet," says Guerriero. "We can sling nearly 100 pizza's an hour."
Pleasing the bride and groom with new creations is a must for Avella's Wood Fired Oven. "We play off our clientele and meet their requests. What I have noticed is that they are always looking for something exotic and new," says Guerriero. "A lot of the brides have tried a pizza in Europe and ask if we can make it for them and that is when we explore and learn new things." And that is exactly what Kat Steeves, co-owner of the Tide and Vine Oyster Company, did for her wedding day.
"I had been to Italy years ago with a few of my bridesmaids and I had this grated zucchini pizza that I couldn't get off my mind. Vito went above and beyond and made a Niagara fresh zucchini pizza that topped the original I had in Italy," says Steeves. "Having pizza be one of the stations at dinner pleased absolutely everyone: kids were happy, vegetarians were happy and people that had drank too much bubbly in the afternoon were very happy!" adds Steeves.
Not only does Guerriero aim to please his clients, but he also keeps his inspirations close to home. "We do a peach, prosciutto, and goat cheese pizza when they are in season," says Guerriero. "We roll with our harvest."
For modest sized weddings, Avella's will fire up a baked pasta dish. "It's amazing what the fire can do to any top of a dish," says Guerriero. "We also prepare braised chicken cacciatore, osso buco over steamed rice, and spiedini, which is a chicken or lamb skewer," adds Guerriero.
Avella's Wood Fired Oven delivers more than just delectable pizza. "He set up an awesome station and brought logs to present the pizzas. Our guests were so happy; the wood fire oven added a really great atmosphere," says Steeves.
"The wood fire oven is very approachable for a wedding. The signature is the pizza oven and the wood fired ambiance," concludes Guerriero. "Whether it be private parties, weddings, or corporate events, we bring the real deal. Our team is all about flavour and we always have a blast doing it."
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AP White House Reporter Loven Jumps to Liberal Democratic Political PR/Lobbying Shop
Jennifer Loven, an 18-year AP veteran and the wire service's chief
White House correspondent, has decided to put her communications
talents to work for The Glover Park Group, a DC-based "strategic communications
firm" founded in 2001 by a bunch of Clinton and Gore staffers, most
prominently Joe Lockhart, who found themselves unemployed after the 2000
election. She'll be "Managing Director in its Public Affairs
practice," a Thursday press release from the Glover Park Group, plugged by Politico's Mike Allen, announced.
She's the second President in a row of the White House Correspondents' Association to leave journalism for a left-wing, or at least left-leaning, lobbying outfit. In June, Bloomberg's White House reporter, Ed Chen, formerly of the Los Angeles Times, jumped to the Natural Resources Defense Council as Federal Communications Director. (My complete Obama-journalism revolving door list.) Loven held the WHCA position for 2008-2009 and was succeeded by Chen.
Amongst the clients touted on the Glover Park Group's Web site: American Civil Liberties Union, Alliance for Climate Protection, Campaign for Women's Lives, Better World Campaign and the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty. They also list some corporate clients, but no conservative activist groups.
The firm's leaders include a who's who of ex-Clinton and Gore operatives, such as "Founding Partner and Managing Director" Joe Lockhart, "the former chief spokesman and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton from 1998-2000" who "served as Senior Advisor to Sen. John Kerry's 2004 presidential bid." Earlier, he toiled as "Deputy Press Secretary for the 1988 Dukakis-Bentsen campaign, and Assistant Press Secretary for the 1984 Mondale-Ferraro campaign." In between all that, he put in stints as "Assignment Editor at ABC News and Deputy Assignment Manager for CNN in Washington."
Another "Founding Partner and Managing Director," Carter Eskew, "was Chief Strategist for the Gore 2000 presidential campaign, leading the message and creative team that helped Vice President Gore win every primary and caucus, secure the nomination, then make up a 20 point deficit in the polls to a victory in the popular vote."
Susan Brophy, "Managing Director," from 1993-1998 was "Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs, where she developed, implemented and directed legislative strategy with the White House, administration and Congress in support of President Clinton's policy priorities."
Loven's husband, by the way, is a liberal environmental activist. A 2009 National Review "Media Blog" post provided an excerpt from this bio for him:
Roger Ballentine is the President of Green Strategies Inc., where he advises and represents businesses, associations, government agencies and non-profit entities on domestic and international public policy issues and business strategies, focusing on energy, conservation and environmental matters. Roger is also a Senior Fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington D.C. where he works to develop cutting edge, third way approaches to public policy challenges in the areas of energy and the environment. He also served as Senior Advisor to the Kerry-Edwards Campaign on energy and environmental matters.
Roger previously was a senior member of the White House staff, serving President Bill Clinton as Chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force and Deputy Assistant to the President for Environmental Initiatives. Prior to being named Deputy Assistant to the President, Mr. Ballentine was Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, where he focused on energy and environment issues.
... He and his wife, journalist Jennifer Loven, reside in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
-- Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center. Click here to follow him on Twitter.


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I don't know when cellphone manufacturers are going to realize that adding gimmicky cheap features to their cellphones won't make them better, smarter, or more interesting. Example: accelerometers are great but would I like to use my hands like bloody David Copperfield to control my music? I would do it to make a hot chick on top of a dragon riding a Harley appear out of thin air, but not to play my music, change a track, or mute my phone, which is exactly what Samsung's run-of-the-mill BEATb and BEATs do. The idea is so last year, although Samsung has added even more functions.
According to Samsung:
Samsung BEATb and Samsung BEATs come with 'Motion Play' feature, which enables users to control their music with just few simple motions. For instance, users can play or pause music simply by tapping their phone. By flipping the phone, the music is muted and the phone is automatically set at the etiquette mode. Moreover, by simple shaking the phone, users can play the next song or previous song.
Thankfully for Samsung fans, and knowing that people won't use this feature except to show off with their friends and to play for the first three days, they also include physical buttons. Do you think motion control is useful or even usable for full music control?


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TORONTO - The Toronto stock market closed higher Wednesday on rising resource and financial sector stocks that benefited from word the International Monetary Fund is looking to bolster its ability to deal with a global economic crisis.
The S&P/TSX composite index gained 94.69 points to 12,327.52 while the TSX Venture Exchange climbed 12.33 points to 1,550.05. The Canadian dollar edged up 0.39 of a cent to 98.89 cents US.
The pipeline sector was also in focus after the U.S. State Department recommended that U.S. President Barack Obama reject TransCanada's (TSX:TRP) proposed $7-billion Keystone XL pipeline project that would carry Alberta bitumen south to Gulf Coast refineries in the U.S., although that is not the final word on the project.
Obama on Wednesday attributed the decision to a 60-day deadline that was imposed on him in the law extending the payroll tax cut by two months. TransCanada is expected to resubmit an amended plan. A major reason the project has met stiff opposition is because it would travel through a key Nebraska aquifer. Its shares were down 47 cents to $41.89.
"It's a great company, no matter how you slice it and I think ultimately it will get done," said John Stephenson, portfolio manager at First Asset Funds Inc.
He added it would be a much bigger setback if the project were killed outright instead of taking an alternative route.
Buying sentiment had improved shortly after the open when the IMF said it aims to add US$500 billion to its resources so it can give out new loans to help mitigate a worsening financial crisis. The Washington-based institution said its staff estimates that countries around the world will need about $1 trillion in loans over the coming years. Most of the concerns centre on the 17-nation eurozone, which has been embroiled in a debt crisis for around two years.
U.S. markets got an extra boost from investment bank Goldman Sachs delivered quarterly earnings that beat expectations.
It said net income fell 58 per cent to US$1 billion or $1.84 a share because of lower investment banking fees in a quarter marked by choppy financial markets. But that easily beat expectations of $1.28 a share.
Goldman's quarterly revenue fell 30 per cent to $6 billion and its shares were ahead $6.63 or 6.79 per cent to US$104,31.
The Dow industrials jumped 96.88 points to 12,578.95. The Nasdaq composite index gained 41.63 points to 2,769.71 while the S&P 500 index climbed 14.37 points to 1,308.04.
Sentiment was also helped along by data out Wednesday showing that U.S. factory output surged in December by 0.9 per cent, the most in year. Stronger demand for business equipment, vehicles and energy offered the most visible evidence that manufacturing has roared back from the depths of the recession.
On the TSX, the financial sector rose 0.56 per cent while Royal Bank (TSX:RY) advanced 63 cents to C$52.45 while Bank of Nova Scotia (TSX:BNS) gained 75 cents to $52.56.
Major dealmaking helped send the TSX industrials sector 2.24 per cent higher. Shares in Finning International Inc. (TSX:FTT) climbed $1.70 to $26.10 after it said it will acquire the Caterpillar distribution and support business formerly operated by Bucyrus in South America, the U.K., and Western Canada. The deal is worth US$465 million. Vancouver-based Finning is the world's biggest Caterpillar dealer.
Canadian National Railways (TSX:CNR) advanced 74 cents to $78.66.
The energy sector ran up 1.5 per cent as the February crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange kept most of Tuesday's $2 jump, losing 12 cents to US$100.59 a barrel.
Analysts said higher oil was supported in part by tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia, as well as a move by France to accelerate the EU's implementation of an embargo on Iranian oil exports.
Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi has said Saudi Arabia was ready to pump more oil if needed to make up for a shortfall in Iranian exports. That came as Iran warned Gulf nations not to make up any shortfall and that it may shut the Strait of Hormuz, which is used to transport about a fifth of the world's oil.
Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) gained 72 cents to $33.94 and Cenovus Energy (TSX:CVE) climbed 49 cents to $35.55.
The base metals sector gained 2.5 per cent as other commodity prices were weak with March copper ahead two cents at US$3.75 a pound after the Chinese economic report in particular sent the metal jumping nine cents Tuesday. China is the world's biggest copper consumer. Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) was up $1.07 to $40.92 while HudBay Minerals (TSX:HBM) was ahead 30 cents to $11.
The gold sector was flat even as February gold on the Nymex rose $4.30 to US$1,659.90 an ounce. Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX) faded 23 cents to $48.52.
The worsening economic climate was spelled out Wednesday by The World Bank which warned Wednesday of a possible slump in global economic growth. It also urged developing countries to prepare for shocks that could be more severe than the 2008 crisis.
The bank cut its growth forecast for developing countries this year to 5.4 per cent from 6.2 per cent and for developed countries to 1.4 per cent from 2.7 per cent. For the 17 countries that use the euro currency, it forecast a contraction, with a growth outlook to be negative 0.3 per cent from growth of 1.8 per cent.


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Show B****
I love to show my b**** to the boys (my "girls" are very very big), that's an easy way to control them. One Halloween night, my custom was a "the eyes, the b**** alien girl". And then three frki twenty years-old boy (I was twenty to) came to my house and make the "Trick or Treat" thing (boys are so pathetic, never grow up). My father tries to send them out but my mother says: "Come on Bob, give him some candy or they will p*** the garden". In that moment I think "Is time to make my appear" so I went to the door and said to my fathers "Go inside, I will take care of this". When they went, I look the boys, put sensual voice and say "Trick or Treat boys?? One for each one" showing them my b****. And of course I close the door in their faces. I said to my mother "If I have four of this I will dominate the world".
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This is literally from an episode of mike & molly.
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Title: Four Views
Size: 8 x 10
Medium: Oils on Acrylic
This painting is titled "Four Views" because it is multi-directional so that whichever of four ways it hangs, it presents a different scene. Look at the box of images below the first image and let me know what you see. If it is dry in time this will be my entry into the next SDAI Regional Show. I will have to decide which way it should hang for the show though, if selected. Hmmm.
The four views
This painting was selected by jury for the San Diego Art Institute's Regional Show through 7/18/2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Four Views. SOLD
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text: jv_nyc #326 Posted December 5, 2013 Ship – Explorer of the Seas Deck – Deck 10 Stateroom # – 1600 Stateroom Category – OS Starboard or Port Side – Port Quiet Stateroom? (With comments on problems) – Mostly yes. Only noise occurred during rough seas when the deck chairs on the deck about us moved around. Was stateroom a connecting stateroom? – No Balcony View – Yes Balcony Size? Normal or oversized for class? – Fine (please note that OS Balconies on Voyager class ships are on the smaller side because there is extra space (with a large window) in the bedroom.) Was wind a problem? – No, very comfortable If an aft cabin, was soot a problem? – N/A Any specific problems with this cabin? – Shower door didn't close completely, but not a big deal. Any other comments? – Great cabin, close to the elevators, one deck up to the Windjammer, one deck down to the CL. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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When I was a kid, the first Death I witnessed was the one of my great grandmother.
I was 5, it was the strangest thing because I had not heard about death prior to that moment and then one day, Death was in the house.
My great grandmother lived in what is the Italian equivalent of 'the projects' in America, at the time apartments were built with a common balcony that run around all apartments of the floor and then they shared one toilet in the corner of the common balcony.
When they installed the toilets inside the apartments, a few years before I was born, it was an event, the toilet just had the toilet bowl and the water of a hand-held shower run directly into a hole in the floor.
I remember washing myself inside a basin that was filled with water from the boiling pan in the kitchen/lounge, the apartment had 2 rooms, the kitchen lounge and the bedroom, inside that apartment, during the war, there had been up to 6 people sleeping, all in one bedroom with one double bed and a single bed.
In my money schizophrenic life, I had a grandmother that by the standard of the time, was rich, she lived inside an apartment with 2 bathrooms (where I am actually living at the moment), one huge living room (almost as big as my great grandmother apartment), one big terrace, 4 balconies, one master bedroom and one study room and a livable kitchen, big enough to fit a table.
I did not like to live in my great grandmother house during the week when my mum was working, I liked the comfort of my grandmother home and not the poverty that you could breath inside my great grandmother home.
When she died, as it was customary at the time since she died at home, she was left on the big bed for people to come and visit (?) and pay their respect and say one last goodbye.
I couldn't get around this story of Death, to me it was obvious that she was now an empty box, whatever was that gave her Life had gone, but I could not understand where did it go.
My mum said she had gone to Heaven, nobody knew where heaven was, which for a kid is confusing, because we are just learning that when you go to a place you must know where it is, instead for what concerned heaven everyone was happy to just point at the sky and say 'it's up there'.
I wondered how could Heaven be held up by moving clouds and not be visible, not even in the night, they had to turn on some lights, right ? So why didn't we see them, why couldn't they wave or stay in touch, what a way to behave, going away like that, no notice, when you go somewhere you have a schedule, you say your goodbyes and make plans for when you will see each other again, you know when you are going to leave, instead Death had no schedule, one day you were Here and the next you were in Heaven.
My great grandmother was very religious, she went to mass in the morning, every morning, and dragged me along, I did not like the church at all, churches are cold and designed to inspire Fear, everything is huge, the columns, the arches, the paintings of bloody saints and martyrs, beheaded, hanged, it's definitely not a happy place, churches in Italy are cold even in summer, and all the people sitting and saying the rosary were puzzling, each one started and went at their own pace, mumbling the Hail Mary in latin, if I were God I would have liked specific and unique words to highlight my wondrous creation, not a chorus of boring rosaries, but at the time there was the point of devotion, reciting the rosary was a show of devotion, usually dressed in black, with the head covered and kneeling down.
So, since I was already brainwashed into the Catholic tradition from kinder garden, I knew the requirements to go to Heaven, my great grandmother fit them all, no one was worried about her post-mortem destination.
Still, once they left me alone in the bedroom with the corpse, while they greeted the visiting guests for which there was food to share, I tried to pull her up, the death thing as a definite was not clear to me, so I whispered to her to stop it, that people in the other room were sad and believing she was no longer here, please pull yourself up. I did not have the strength to pull her up completely, I managed a half sitting position with humongous effort, she was cold and heavy even though she was skinny and frail by the time she died, and then that point of trying to lift up a very heavy empty box, I could not get over the impression of being around an empty body.
When they came in from the other room, they screamed and shouted, I dropped her down, then explanations followed from my mother about Death, trying to make me understand that when someone dies, they are no longer here.
They sent the casket, put her inside and we went down to follow the funeral, we walked behind the funeral car very slowly, many people had come to see the funeral as she was loved and respected and considered a 'good devout woman', my mother was crying, she had been raised by my great grandmother, I understood crying at funeral was appropriate and even demanded, but I could not cry and felt guilty about it, I wanted to feel as sad as my mum, for support, I even tried to think about sad things with no success, death had not yet hit me personally as something sad.
I have seen other 2 corpses in my life, one a friend of my uncle and then my uncle, I have missed all the other deaths of the family due to living abroad, the other 2 corpses I have seen left me with the same feeling, empty boxes.
It was easy for me to believe in Life after death, in a place where all the boxes contents had gone, because I saw it with my own eyes, only the body was buried, the 'inside' was no longer there, must have gone somewhere, Heaven was plausible.
I had more troubles with Hell, at one point in my Life I accepted Hell was 'living in separation from God', I gave up the flames of hell for the belief in a metaphorical hell of our own creation, I still held on to the belief that God was benevolent, only in my teenage years I was angry and questioned God, but found no sounding boards in Italy and the feedback was always the same, we can't understand the BIG plan, in the great scheme of things we are insignificant, God has a reason for everything, one day we will understand it all. I gave in, they all believed it and they loved me, it must be so then.
But honestly I embraced this belief because I feared it might not be so, and I had no other explanation that made any sense, around the age of 13 or 14 I discovered there were other religions, WHAT ?? How can there be other religions ? But they reassured me, they have not yet heard of Jesus, only our religion is RIGHT, and they will go to Hell for what they believe. That was another point I had against Hell, why people who had not been blessed like us Roman Catholics to hear about Jesus would have to go to Hell ? How can you be punished for NOT knowing ? Rome was far away from the Middle East, to take just one example, they could not hear the Sunday bells (and all the other days bells), how would they know ?
Many beliefs about the afterlife were weird, I settled for the New Age ones, We are God, I am a Light Worker, Namaste, I salute the divinity in You.
Then I moved to Asia. They believed really weird stuff !! They believed in the Hungry Ghosts coming to take bodies on a special Month of the lunar calendar, they suggested to not let the kids into the water during that time, body snatching happened more easily inside the water; they believed the afterlife was just like here and that there were days when the doors of this world and the Other World were opened up and gifts could be sent through fire, so a whole industry of paper replicas had developed for the offerings to the Other World,
this included paper money, credit cards, plane tickets, clothes, shoes, houses, mansions, paper maids (and thanks God for that or they would have burnt the Filipino people for real to send them to their ancestors),
of course even in death offerings there was a gap between rich and poor, the poor ones could barely send a paper house, maybe a simple 2 rooms one, the rich ones could send a mansion designed by an architect, the offerings could cost anything from 2 USD dollars to 1000 USD, they even believed that if you were disabled here you would be disabled There, so they made paper wheelchairs to burn on the offering days. They had many Gods and they bribed them regularly with paper money offerings, The Chinese especially were never hypocritical about Money, they had the God of Wealth at the entrance of every temple because if you were in a rush that was the God you wanted to find the closest, they would kow tow, touching their forehead to the floor, in front of the God, make an offering to the Temple, have the temple keeper bang the drums to let the God know you were there and had paid the entrance fee and then they would detail their request. They believed as well that Heaven was as deceitful as here and as Hell, so everything they sent over they sent it with the specific address tag "Miss Chan…. The Other World".
This left a big impression on me, this lack of trust was a point that bothered me, if you don't even trust the Gods because they are spiteful and evil, who can you trust ? What kind of fear did they live with ?
More or less same as mine 🙂
Once I was convinced about the fact that there was in fact nothing clear about the Afterlife, I started to wonder where was the truth, who knew it and why it was not disclosed. What happened to us in the afterlife ?
When I met Desteni and discovered they were channeling dead people, I was not one bit surprised, there they were, the surprise was about what they had to say, in fact it was a shock, such was the shock that as I said in some of my other posts I could not take in on board at the first encounter with Desteni, I fucked around for another 2 years, between Matrix Energetics, Russian teachings of Grabovoi, shamans, healers and then the day that I was clear about having exhausted my options in self fucking (we chatted with my buddy last night and I said, if there was a job for that "experienced self fucker" it would have to be mine !), with the tail between my leg I went back to Desteni and accepted the truth, Self as origin taking responsibility.
I still fear the afterlife, not like before though, now I fear that I will indeed still be there/Here and will have to face what I have not cleared within this lifetime and not the opposite, as Bernard said once, death as in deletion would be a point of Mercy, what I did not get yet is, will we have access to this Mercy, because we have created a merciless world to which we stand One and Equal, will we be Equal to Mercy by the time we cross over ?
Will we have got the point that this is our creation and everything is happening as a consequence of our separation from everything that exists or we will keep the self fucking going to the point of mercilessness ?
One of my good Italian friend that I have introduced to the EMS said to me about Equal Money, "we will have to see if we accept that we deserve such a system" ! And I saw this point clearly, we are abusing ourselves and the world as an outflow of our belief in deserved punishment of ourselves and others, as the score keeping of our demented minds that having forgotten the separation don't forgive themselves and others as themselves, having for-gotten that there are no others !
This world is our Self Expression, One Self Expression, the sum of our debts, suppressions, fears, beliefs, ideas, yes, crashing, humbling, makes us weep, but we can stand up and let go the ledger as the illusion that is keeping this reality alive, it will take the dropping of our masks, and the dropping of our debts, I have started to drop my debts through Self Forgiveness, so there is one less bookkeeper in the world and we may embrace the solution as the point of Mercy for ourselves and the World, One and Equal.
Let's correct ourselves now to leave behind a world of No Fear that can be enjoyed by everyone Equally as an expression of who we are as Life and not who we are as a surviving, competing, evil species that is leaving behind a wake of Death and Destruction. This is NOT who we are, time to wake up and review our Lives while alive to realign to Oneness and Equality and What is Best for All without having to wait for the Mercy of Death. Imagine the surprise to discover that the real Mercy was in the Physical, within the substance that was always Here standing One and Equal to everything that exists, while we fucked with ourselves in endless time loops in and as our Minds.
support the Equal Life Foundation and get yourself a real Education from the ones that have already crossed over, to know what's happening in the HereAfter at


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The Maton SRS 808 6-String Electro Acoustic Guitar is a high-end electro-acoustic with a classic Orchestra body shape. Expertly crafted from choice cedar, Australian blackwood, maple and East Indian rosewood, this stunning guitar produces a big, warm tone, ideal for a variety of playing styles.
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It's fair to say that a land as mysterious as time requires the knowledge and knowhow of one who knows it.
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Each BPL branch offers desktop computers equipped with internet access and basic Microsoft software, as well as special access to select learning resources only available at the library. When computers are all in use, sessions are limited to 30-minutes and patrons can sign-up for a session at the reservation station.
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I haven't seen the 1977 Poldark series and am waiting on getting them from the library. Till then, I'll share this very fair examination of the 1977 and 2015 Poldark's.
Boy, I've missed Poldark tonight. I'd much rather have seen one hour last week and one this.
A recap of Downton does not compare.


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Stunning apartment located in the area of Saint Peter, just a few steps from the Vatican City and the Vatican Museum. It consists of 2 double bedrooms, a large living room with a comfortable sofabed, a fully equipped kitchen, a beautiful terrace and 2 family bathrooms.
Check in: 14:00 - 02:00
Check out: 11:00
- Price does not includes city tax (3,5 € per person per day) to be paid cash upon your arrival;
- Late check-in (after midnight) has a additional cost of 20€, to be paid cash upon your arrival;
- Please respect your neighbors and keep noise to a minimum, especially during nighttime hours (10pm - 8am), and upon arrival and departure;