Tuesday, March 20, 2012

How to Use the Violet Flame Daily

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By Elizabeth Clare Prophet

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Friday, November 26, 2010

Ascended Master Gifts 20% Off

Timeless teachings of the Ascended Masters from the hearts of Mark and Elizabeth Clare Prophet to you and those you love!

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Saturday, November 06, 2010

Free Nov 13&14- 22 Countries - Saint Germain's Weekend Seminars

WORLDWIDE EVENTS: Saint German’s Greater Way of Freedom, November 13 & 14

November 13 & 14 – Live presentations in 22 countries, 10 languages:

(c) www.TSL.org Saint Germain Elizabeth Clare Prophet violet flame rayswww.ICOpresentation.com

 

Do you want a better tomorrow?  Do you desire positive change for yourself, your community and your nation? Then Saint Germain is the one to get to know.
Saint Germain is a master of wisdom who can teach you the path of soul freedom. He is known as a diplomat, expressing the godly qualities of dignity, grace, gentility, poise and true statesmanship.
Saint Germain teaches the science of alchemy (transformation and change) in his book Saint Germain On Alchemy.  He brings us the gift of the violet flame—a miracle elixir of light that can transmute and lift your burdens.
The violet flame is an invisible spiritual energy that appears violet to those who have developed their spiritual vision. The violet flame revitalizes and invigorates us. The violet flame changes negative energy into positive energy. By transforming negative thoughts and feelings, the violet flame provides a platform for our healing.
Saint Germain initiates our souls in the science and ritual of transmutation through the violet flame.  He is intimately tied to the destiny of America and the nations of the world. He is the sponsoring master of the United States of America and George Washington.
Saint Germain inspired the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.  He also inspired many of the labor-saving devices of the twentieth century.  His goal is to liberate mankind from drudgery so that they might devote themselves to the pursuit of the path of the ascension.
Saint Germain says:
“You are mortal. I am immortal. The only difference between us is that I have chosen to be free, and you have yet to make the choice. We have the same potential, the same resources, the same connection to the One.”

WORLDWIDE EVENTS: Saturday and Sunday, November 13 & 14

For times, locations and languages go to www.ICOpresentation.com
Sponsored by The Summit Lighthouse.

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Wednesday, November 03, 2010

NOW: Just say NO to FDA Frankenfish Salmon

Labelled?  Sure.  But let's not have it at all!  Playing with the food chain is risky business that will impact the planet (yours and mine!) for generations to come! 

GE Salmon: Coming for Dinner? Tell FDA If GE Salmon Is Approved, It Must Be Labeled

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on August 25, 2010, that it will potentially approve the long-shelved AquAdvantage transgenic salmon as the first genetically engineered (GE) animal intended for human consumption. The GE Atlantic salmon being considered was developed by AquaBounty Technologies, and genetically engineered to produce growth hormones year-round, creating a fish the company claims grows at twice the normal rate. This could allow factory fish farms to crowd the salmon into pens and still get high production rates. To make matters worse, FDA argues that these GE salmon don’t even need to be labeled!

We have only a short window to tell FDA to reject these GE fish, and at the very least label them. Can you send a comment today?

Each year millions of farmed salmon escape from open-water net pens, outcompeting wild populations for resources and straining ecosystems.  Any approval of GE salmon would represent another serious threat to the survival of native salmon populations, many of which have already suffered severe declines related to salmon farms and other man-made impacts. Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences notes that a release of just sixty GE fish into a wild population of 60,000 could lead to the extinction of the wild population in less than 40 fish generations. Wild Atlantic salmon are already on the Endangered Species List in the U.S.; approving these GE Atlantic salmon will be the final blow to these wild stocks.

The human health impacts of eating GE fish are entirely unknown, but some scientific research raises cause for alarm. For example, these GE farmed salmon will carry with them all of the health hazards of other farmed salmon, but transgenic fish may be more susceptible to disease than fish currently grown in aquaculture facilities because transgenic fish are identified as “macro-mutants” with a reduced ability to survive.  Consequently, the amount of antibiotics given to transgenic fish may be higher than the amount currently given to farmed fish; already farmed salmon are given more antibiotics than any other livestock by weight, threatening the health of those who eat them and the continued efficacy of these antibiotics to treat human disease.

Tell the Food and Drug Administration not to approve GE salmon AND, if the Obama Administration insists on approving these genetically engineered fish, it should require the fish to be labeled when marketed to fish farmers, fish retailers and food companies, restaurants, and when marketed to consumers.

Please take action today! The comment period on labeling of GE salmon is only open through November 22nd

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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Gotta Love Karma Cooler

Gotta Love Karma Cooler

Friday, October 08, 2010

Supplements Banned? Not My Problem, Can't Happen Here

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Lynn McTaggart (The Intention Experiment and fictional heroine in Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol") weighs in on the ponderous plot to eliminate alternative medical treatments including time-honored Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese herbal medicine and homeopathy.  Big Pharma is watching European consumers to see how much backlash there is to the WHO plan to stop all non-allopathic medicine. Unless there is sufficient opposition, within the next year or two, laws will come into effect in Europe that will drastically restrict the access of all Europeans to high-dose vitamins and herbal medicine.  The near identical intern
ational laws that have been drafted within the United Nations suggest that a well organized and concerted effort is under foot to finish off any alternative to orthodox medicine.

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/images/codex101/usnext.gifLet's hope that they wake up AND speak up....because the USA is next! What are you doing to help? More on Codex here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=162

"Not my problem"

Lynn McTaggart, August 6th, 2010

In 2002 my magazine What Doctors Don’t Tell You first learned about plans within the European Union to radically restrict natural medicine across all member countries, starting with laws that would create a very low ceiling of ‘safe upper limits’ in vitamins.
Although the laws were ostensibly to create a level playing field within the European supplement market, the proposals bore the heavy hand of Big Pharma.
At the time, the solution appeared simple. The majority of people in the UK use some form of natural medicine.  All we needed to do was to band together, whip up a national protest, and the laws would be stopped in their tracks.
In early 2003, we invited all the heads of the largest vitamin companies and representatives from all the leading natural medicine organizations – homeopathy, herbal medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and many others – to a meeting in central London. 
Many of the organizations never showed up. Of the 50 or so who did, many groups felt that our concerns were alarmist. Others welcomed the new moves as good for business. A few attempting to fight the legislation were busiest fighting each other.
No group seemed able to see the bigger picture. Each organization was mainly concerned with whether their own business was under fire.  If it wasn’t – and at the time it wasn’t for many of the disciplines – they weren’t interested.  Not my problem.
Big Pharma had big plans all those years ago.  Unless there is sufficient opposition, within the next year or two, laws will come into effect in Europe that will drastically restrict the access of all Europeans to high-dose vitamins and herbal medicine.
Most therapeutic herbal medicine, plus forms that are new to the West, such as Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese herbal medicine, will effectively be banned.  And although homeopathy has emerged unscathed from future EU law, the British Medical Association is working to eliminate funding for NHS homeopathic hospitals.
This pogrom will not end in Europe.  The near identical international laws that have been drafted within the United Nations suggest that a well organized and concerted effort is under foot to finish off any alternative to orthodox medicine.
The plan is to watch Europe closely to assess the level of consumer protest.  Thus far, that protest has been minimal.  The two consumer groups that have maintained any sort of consistent attack – the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) and Consumers for Health Choice who have challenged the law and lobbied parliament are starved of funds. 
The individual organizations to this day remain isolationist. Not my problem.

This attitude reminds me a bit of the speech given by Pasto Martin Miemoller about the passivity of many German groups to the purging by the Nazis of group after group. 

First they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for me for me
and then there was no one left to speak out for me.


For all of us wishing to maintain alternatives to drug-based orthodox medicine, these laws are all of our problem, and every last one of us has an obligation to speak up now.    

 
Here’s what you can do:
Right now, in the absence of collective consumer action, our best hopes in the UK rest with the CHC and the ANH.  Both need funds desperately in order to continue their fight.


Contact information:
Alliance for Natural Health, The Atrium, Curtis Road, Dorking, Surrey RH4 1XA.  Tel: 01306 646 600.  Website: www.anhcampaign.org

reposted from http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/not-my-problem.htm
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Lynne McTaggart, author of The Intention Experiment, Featured in Dan Brown’s New Book – The Lost Symbol  “…human consciousness, as Noetic author Lynne McTaggart described it, was a substance outside the confines of the body. A highly ordered energy capable of changing the physical world. Katherine (Solomon) had been fascinated by McTaggart’s book ‘The Intention Experiment’, and her global, Web-based study – theintentionexperiment.com - aimed at discovering how human intention could affect the world.”  - Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol (Random House, 2009).

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Wednesday, October 06, 2010

7 Image Searchers

7 Image Search Tools That Will Change Your Life

Although Google has been playing with some fun image search toys in its lab and the official Google Image Search has recently significantly upped its game, some of its most hyped features — color search, instant scrolling, hover preview — are but mere shadows of sleeker, better versions that geekier, more sophisticated image search tools offer. Here are seven of our favorites.
OSKOPE
oSkope is a visual search assistant that lets you browse images and products from popular sites like Amazon, eBay, YouTube and Flickr in a highly intuitive way. You can skim thumbnails related to your search keywords and save search results from different services to a visual bookmark bar at the bottom of your browser screen.


COMPFIGHT
CompFight is a Flickr search tool tremendously useful for all your comp stock image needs but also doubling as a visual inspiration ignition engine. It lets you search based on tag or text, spitting out a pleasant wall of thumbnails. Particularly useful: The CreativeCommons search option, which filters results by image rights license type.

CompFight was featured in the Experimental category of this year’s Communication Arts annual.
FLICKR RELATED TAG BROWSER
You may recall Flickr Related Tag Browser from pickings past — a sleek web app retrieves Flickr images tagged with your search keyword in a neat grid, surrounded by a radial display of related tags. Clicking each related tag produces the same grid of images tagged with it, semantically leading you down the endless image tagging rabbit hole.

FRTB is the work of interactive designer Felix Turner, the Flash whiz who helped build the now-ubiquitous Brightcove video players.
TINEYE
TinEye is reverse image search — feed it any image, either by uploading or by pasting the image URL, and it’ll tell you where it came from. We were able to use it on a scan of an obscure German calendar from our childhood and TinyEye proceeded to promptly produce a
TinEye can be particularly useful for identifying the artist or original source of photographs and artwork that you happen to stumble upon on Tumblr or another all-too-often unreferenced photo bookmarking service.
COOLIRIS
We first featured Cooliris nearly three years ago, when it was still called PicLens. This fantastic free browser plugin offers an image search interface like no other. It works on the expected image search platforms — Google, Flickr, etc. — but we particularly like its use on Facebook, where the native image browsing is lacking at best.

Cooliris is available for Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer. Chrome for Mac is, unfortunately, not supported yet.  Soon, they say.
RETRIEVR
From a previous post: retrievr is an experimental image search tool that uses color recognition to retrieve Flickr images that reflect the spatial color arrangement of a digital sketch you draw on a canvas.

It’s important to keep in mind that the algorithm doesn’t recognize shapes, but does color and space relationships — so if you doodle the outline of a wine glass in black, you’re more likely to get a lamp post, but if you go with an inverted triangle in blue, you may just get that Cosmo.
MULTICOLR SEARCH LAB
Easily the most useful color-based search tool yet, and also noted in a previous post, Multicolr Search Lab offers a simple yet sophisticated way of finding images based on a color or color combination you’re looking for. Images are pulled from more than 10 million of Flickr’s most interesting photos and you can add up to 10 colors as your search criteria, including multiple swatches of the same color to indicate ratio — say you want an image that’s almost entirely yellow with a bit of blue, you may select yellow four times and blue once.

Developed by Idée Labs in Toronto, the tool uses their proprietary Piximilar software which we’re utterly surprised Google hasn’t acquired yet.


from: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/10/01/best-image-search-tools/ By Maria Popova with thanks to Amrit, Communication Arts annual, Felix Turner, Idée Labs
Idée Labs

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

New Privacy Policy: What Google Removed and Added

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgWzsQ81hkdHXtaObWQkkPkkA5sdPPTPbzqD4e87ZgF72jtn9G8znekb0UNfI4sHP9LWerDIZsPHJARyMuCQgxI8W2XZDXqcVAl1U9j1hwEOGUO9-tMleoJPBMRCd36f-VArIo/s640/google-birthday-doodles.pngTo their credit, Google provides detailed information with track changes against the previous version of their Privacy Policy.

But here's some interesting factoids from their newest Privacy Policy effective October 3, 2010.

REMOVED: At Google we recognize that privacy is important.

REMOVED:  The affiliated sites through which our services are offered may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.

REMOVED: Google only processes personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and/or the supplementary privacy notices for specific services.

REMOVED: When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the specific service privacy notices, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the supplementary service privacy notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent.

REMOVED: We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not identify you individually.

REMOVED: Data integrity: Google processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice.

KEPT: We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent but REMOVED: and we expect most such changes will be minor.

ADDED: When you send and receive SMS messages to or from one of our services that provides SMS functionality, we may collect and maintain information associated with those messages, such as the phone number, the wireless carrier associated with the phone number, the content of the message, and the date and time of the transaction. We may use your email address to communicate with you about our services.

ADDED: You can use the Google Dashboard to review and control the information stored in your Google Account.

CAN YOU FIX IT?  Hardly.  But...you can download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. It lets you choose not to send information about your website visit to Google Analytics from pages (via the Analytics ga.js script). http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/eula.html?hl=en

reposted from Google.com info pages

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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Egg Sizes, Yields and Equivalents Leftover Egg Yokes - What's a Girld to Do?

Egg Sizes, Yields and Equivalents


In Place OfUseOr
4 large eggs4 extra-large5 medium
5 large eggs4 extra-large6 medium
6 large eggs5 extra-large7 medium


Egg Yields and Equivalents

Yields
4 tablespoons
2 2/3 tablespoons whites
1 1/3 tablespoons yolk

Yields
3 1/4 tablespoons
2 1/4 tablespoons whites
1+  tablespoon yolk
Yields
3 tablespoons
2  tablespoons whites
1  tablespoons yolk



 

Other Eggy Info - Total Volume


1 large egg,   beaten =

3 1/4 tablespoons


2 large eggs, beaten=

6 1/2 tablespoons (1/4 cup + 2 1/2 tablespoons)


3 large eggs, beaten=9 2/3 tablespoons (1/2 cup + 1 1/2 tablespoons)
4 large eggs, beaten=12 3/4 tablespoons (3/4 cup + 1 teaspoon)
5 large eggs, beaten=5

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Monday, September 13, 2010

Favorite Ice Creams Have Monsanto's rBGH

Yuck...  Okay, cross Breyer's, Haagan Daz, Edy's, and Dreyer's off my list.  Monsanto (c) 1969 Agent Orange, (c) Roundup, and (c) 1994 genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rBGH).  What's wrong with this picture???
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Yuck...  Okay, cross Breyer's, Haagan Daz, Edy's, and Dreyer's off my list  

Monsanto has been in the news this week, with a U.S. District Court Judge ruling that the USDA has to at least go through the motions of regulating the company's genetically engineered sugar beets. Monsanto, you may know, is not likely to win any contests for the most popular company. In fact, it has been called the most hated corporation in the world, which is saying something, given the competition from the likes of BP, Halliburton and Goldman Sachs.
This has gotten me thinking about, of all things, ice cream, and of how Monsanto's clammy paws can be found in some of the most widely selling ice cream brands in the country. These brands could break free from Monsanto's clutches. So far they haven't, but maybe this is about to change.
Ben & Jerry's gets all their milk from dairies that have pledged not to inject their cows with genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rBGH). Why, then, can't Haagen Dazs, Breyers and Baskin-Robbins do the same?
Starbucks now guarantees that all their milk, cream and other dairy products are rBGH-free. So do Yoplait and Dannon yogurts, Tillamook cheese, Chipotle restaurants, and many others. But ice cream giants Haagen Dazs, Breyers and Baskin-Robbins continue to use milk from cows injected with rBGH, a hormone that's been banned in Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Australia and all 27 nations of the European Union. As if to add insult to injury, Haagen Dazs and Breyers have the audacity to tell us, right on the label, that their ice cream is " All Natural."
We have Monsanto to thank for rBGH. Monsanto developed the artificial hormone and marketed it aggressively for years, before selling it in 2008 to Elanco, a division of the Eli Lilly drug company. Of course, Monsanto (and now Elanco) wants us to think the hormone is in every way completely satisfactory and safe. Monsanto's party line has consistently been that there is "no significant difference" in the milk derived from cows who have been dosed with the hormone compared to those who haven't.
Pardon me for not swallowing Monsanto's hooey, but if that's so, why have so many countries outlawed rBGH? Are these countries all run by ignorant Luddites who oppose technology and progress? Or might there actually be compelling reasons?
There are, indeed. One of them is that injecting the genetically engineered hormone into cows increases the levels of a substance called IGF-1 in their milk. Monsanto's own studies found that the amount of IGF-1 in milk more than doubled when cows were injected with rBGH. Studies by independent researchers show gains as much as six-fold. (Scientific citations in support of the statements in this article can be found here.)
Does it matter whether there are excess levels of IGF-1 in milk? It decidedly did to the European Commission's authoritative international 16-member scientific committee. Their report said the excessive levels of IGF-1 found in the milk of cows injected with rBGH may pose serious risks of breast, colon and prostate cancer.
How serious is the increased risk? According to an article in the May 9, 1998 issue of the medical journal The Lancet, pre-menopausal women with even moderately elevated blood levels of IGF-1 are up to seven times more likely to develop breast cancer than women with lower levels.
As if these risks to human health weren't enough reason for nations to prohibit the use of rBGH, there are more. The artificial hormone is also notorious for causing the cows much pain and distress. It does this by increasing painful and debilitating diseases like lameness and mastitis in cows who are injected with it. And because it increases udder infections in cows, it has greatly increased the use of antibiotics in the U.S. dairy industry. If you wanted to design a system to breed antibiotic-resistant bacteria, you'd be hard pressed to do better.
Does the increase in udder infections have an effect on the milk, and thus any ice cream, cheese or other product made from it? Most definitely, according to Dr. Richard Burroughs, a veterinarian deeply familiar with rBGH. "It results in an increase of white blood cells," he says, "which means there's pus in the milk!" The antibiotic use, he adds, "leaves residues in the milk. It's all very serious."
How, then, was such a dubious and tainted product ever approved for use in the U.S.? The answer provides a glimpse of how successful Monsanto's efforts have been to exert control over our nation's food policies.
By all accounts, the FDA's 1993 decision to allow the use of rBGH was one of the most controversial in the agency's history. Made amid widespread criticism from scientists, government leaders and farmers, including many researchers and officials inside the FDA, the decision was overseen by Michael R. Taylor, the FDA's Deputy Commissioner of Policy from 1991-1994.
Was Taylor unbiased? Prior to holding that position, he was an attorney at King & Spaulding, Monsanto's law firm, where he presided over the firm's "food and drug law" practice. After the decision was made which gave the green light to rBGH, he left the FDA and resumed working directly for Monsanto, as vice president and chief lobbyist.
How significant was Taylor's role in getting rBGH approved? As of August 15, 2010, his Wikipedia entry said that he "has long been hostile to food safety," and "is widely credited with ushering recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) through the FDA regulatory process and into the milk supply -- unlabeled." (This statement was removed from Wikipedia immediately after I referred to it in a comment following an article I wrote last week for The Huffington Post on the topic. Apparently, if you can get your people in and out of key positions at the FDA, messing with Wikipedia is a piece of cake.)
Congressman Bernie Sanders was specifically referring to Taylor when he said "the FDA allowed corporate influence to run rampant in its approval of BGH." Documentaries including "The World According to Monsanto" and "The Future of Food" present Taylor's pro-Monsanto actions at the FDA as a dramatic example of the how corporate influence has exerted massive control over the FDA. Today, Taylor again works for the FDA, now as Deputy Commissioner of Foods.
Things have taken a different turn in Canada, but not for want of effort on the part of Monsanto. During Canada's scientific review of Monsanto's application for approval of rBGH, Canadian health officials said Monsanto tried to bribe them, and government scientists testified that they were being pressured by higher-ups to approve rBGH against their better scientific judgment. But in 1999, after eight years of study, Canadian health authorities rejected Monsanto's application for approval of rBGH.
In the U.S. today, Monsanto continues to wield massive influence over U.S. food policies. In spite of, or perhaps in response to, Monsanto's toxic and tenacious grip on our nation's food policy, a movement is afoot. Every day more and more people are refusing to buy ice cream and other dairy products made with rBGH. And every day another organization adds its name to the growing list of groups campaigning against Monsanto's influence, and calling for the FDA decision allowing the use of rBGH to be revoked.
Late last year, the prestigious American Public Health Association officially called for a ban on rBGH. The Consumers Union, publishers of Consumer Reports has likewise taken an official position opposing rBGH. So has the American Nurses Association, Health Care Without Harm, Food and Water Watch, Center for Food Safety, National Family Farm Coalition, Family Farm Defenders and many other groups.
At this very moment, the plucky Oregon chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) is leading a nationwide effort to persuade
http://www.icecreamexpressvending.com/breyers_logo.jpg Breyers (whose brands include Good Humor, Klondike Bars and Popsicle), and Dreyer's (whose brands include Haagen Dazs, Nestle and Edy's) to go rBGH-free.

The campaign focuses on Breyers http://intelligentlyretarded.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/haagendazs_logo.jpgand Dreyer's because they are the two largest ice cream producers in the country today.


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Monsanto and its allies have a grand vision. They are intent on controlling the world's food supply. Don't let them. And don't let them cram their genetically engineered products down your throat. Even in a product as tempting and sweet as ice cream, that's no treat.

John Robbins is the only son of Irvine Robbins, the co-founder and co-owner of Baskin-Robbins, and was groomed by his father to run what was at one time the world's largest ice cream company. But John walked away from the company and the wealth it represented in order to advocate for a healthier and more compassionate way of life. To learn more about his journey along his own "rocky road," see The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less. The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less  
John is also the author of The Food Revolution, Diet for a New America and six other books. John Robbins For more info, see johnrobbins.info
John's father died in 2008, and there are no longer any members of the Robbins or Baskin families involved with the company.

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Thursday, September 09, 2010

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Title, Minutes
1. O Sanctissima, O Piissima, 2:35
2. Ave Maria, 4:55
3. Hail, Holy Queen Enthroned Above, 3:40
4. Immaculate Mary, 4:10
5. On This Day, O Beautiful Mother, 2:28
6. The Hail Mary, 2:38
7. The Sacred Name of Mary, 4:35
8. The Magnificat, 3:06
9. Mary, 3:11
10. The Virgin of Guadalupe, 4:22
11. Mother, Dear Mother, 2:34
12. Beloved Archangel Raphael, 2:45
13. Mary’s Diamond Heart, 2:40
14. Christ–The Immaculate Concept, 3:12
15. Beloved Raphael and Mary, 6:20
16. What Child Is This, 3:38
17. Gesu Bambino, 3:49
18. O Holy Night, 5:26
19. The Bells of Saint Mary’s, 2:45

Total Time ~70 minutes.

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Wednesday, September 08, 2010

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