Pollaro Custom Furniture Chosen for 76th Annual Academy Awards? Gift Baskets
(ContentDesk) February 24, 2004--The exclusive custom-furniture maker, Pollaro Custom Furniture, which has crafted fine pieces for Jerry Seinfeld, Eddie Murphy, Carole Bayer-Sager, Clive Davis and other celebrities, was selected as an honored participant in the 76th Annual Academy Awards? Gift Baskets.The Gift Baskets are given to the presenters, performers and other special guests at the Academy Awards? ceremony, which will be held on Sunday, February 29, 2004, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. For a list of presenters and performers consult the official Academy Awards? website
www.oscars.org/76academyawards/presenters_performers.html .Pollaro Custom Furniture is presenting a $5,000 gift certificate that will be accompanied by a handsome 8-page brochure specially printed on the occasion of the 76th Academy Awards?. The certificate can be used toward the commission of a custom piece of furniture from the Pollaro workshop, which is based in New Jersey. Pollaro has built and shipped furniture to discriminating clientele around the world. Academy Awards? gift baskets contain a selective array of merchandise, such as jewelry and fashion accessories, cameras and chocolates, and certificates for spa treatments and, this year, a custom piece of furniture.
Pollaro Custom Furniture produces hand-crafted museum-quality furniture, cabinetry and architectural woodwork. The workshop, founded by Frank Pollaro in 1988, has built a solid reputation for creating complex veneered and inlaid furniture among noted architects and interior designers, including Peter Marino, Charles Gwathmey, Harry Schnaper and Michael LaRocca, private residential clients and corporations worldwide. Pollaro created the elaborate marquetry reception desk for the headquarters of Jim Henson Productions in New York using 90 species of wood veneer to create three scenes featuring Muppets characters in action.With more than 400 projects completed in the past 15 years, Pollaro has designed and built wood-paneled offices, bedroom sets and entire suites of furniture, in addition to tables, chairs, sideboards, desks, cabinets and other single pieces of furniture as commissioned by clients. Much of Pollaro's work, which often is in the Art Deco style, incorporates exotic wood veneers; inlays of gold, silver, mother of pearl, precious stones and antique ivory; and such rare materials as shagreen, parchment and vellum.In November 2001, HGTV's Modern Masters featured Frank Pollaro for his designs and woodworking skills. Architectural Digest, House & Garden, Elle D?cor and numerous other publications have written about Pollaro's work.
There is an article about him in the March 2004 issue of Architectural Digest that is currently on the newsstands.For more information about and a portfolio of Pollaro Custom Furniture, go to www.pollaro.com. Pollaro Custom Furniture?????????Frank Pollaro????????????????????
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I stopped eating gluten and the weight just fell off
Ever wondered why low-carb diets work really well for 6 months, and then quite often, with no change in eating pattern, the weight piles back on again? Seems we may be missing something here. One fact that may be relevant about low-carb is that in the process of cutting out the carbs, most people end up drastically reducing their gluten intake.
Gluten intolerance, when ignored, can end up preventing certain nutrients from being absorbed, leading to that feeling of needing to eat, even though you just had a meal. The body knows it's missing something, so it triggers a craving for more food, even though it's not calories (energy) it needs.
When someone who is gluten intolerant stops eating gluten, their ability to absorb the nutrients in food gradually improves. In general, by cutting out gluten you will also end up eating more of the types of food that have a high nutrient value - it's well known that you don't get much goodness from a cake or a biscuit...
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3 Tips For Giving A Great Gift
I know that trying to find just the right gift for somebody canbe like going to the dentist at times. Ok, maybe that's alittle bit dramatic. But when people ask me about what theyshould get someone for whatever the occasion, they are somtimesin a panic. This is what I tell them.1. Be OriginalIf you can imagine, you can be "original" .
It really isn'tthat hard. You know how teachers are always getting those stereotypical apple and school related gifts? (You people know who you are.) Ok, enough. Teachers have feelings too. No, really. (I'm nota teacher but I have friends and family who are and this is whatthey tell me.)This is a prime example of "un-originality".
(Can you imaginegetting 24 primarily identical gifts at Christmas time?) What'sa teacher to do?Want to win some brownie points? Get he or she something thatthey can use and enjoy.Let me help to stir those creative juices.a.Gift cards or certificates for - Pedicure, Manicure, MovieTheater, Ice Cream Shop, Movie Rental...
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Breaking the Breakfast Barrier
Why was breakfast fun when you were a kid? Because Mom made it, it was probably sugary, and you didn't have to do the dishes!Now you're the whole show, maybe for the rest of the family, and there's just never enough time in the morning to get the kids to school and for you to get what most nutritionists have pegged as the most important meal of the day. You know that sugar coating is not good, that persons who eat breakfast have an easier time maintaining their weight than those who don't, and a news report just informed you that breakfast-skippers don't perform as well at school or on the job. What a dilemma!Can you make a breakfast that's convenient, quick and healthy? Sure, and here are a couple of examples. The Thirty-Second Slammer. Atkins it's not, but it's quick, healthy and tasty.
A cold cereal is still at the top of the list for most Americans, but without sugar it usually tastes like wet cardboard. It takes literally about 30 seconds (I timed it) to slice half a banana...
Breaking the Breakfast Barrier
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Your Body?s Secret Wisdom-- Eating from the Tree of Life
Your body's secret wisdom is as ancient as humankind and encoded in every cell. It knows the perfect food for you to eat at any point in time. Yet we have lost touch with that perfect knowledge in this industrial society. We have lost touch with our birthright of absolute health.
It doesn't matter how old or how young you are.
Your body can heal and rejuvenate itself from the inside out, and does so throughout your lifetime. If that is true, why is there such an epidemic of obesity and chronic illness plaguing the wealthiest society in the world?
We wear our suffering and lost connection to that secret wisdom in the form of excess fat, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. We no longer appreciate the sacred quality of every food we eat, or the myriad life forms that compose our physical nature, our cells.
This Do in Remembrance of Me
One way to reconnect is to take a little time to reflect on the food you are...
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