Jon Bon Jovi has found a unique way to give back. The veteran rocker and wife Dorothea have opened up a restaurant in central New Jersey named Soul Kitchen. It serves gourmet-quality dishes, many using ingredients from its very own garden, with one major twist: no prices. Customers are simply asked to leave whatever amount they wish in an envelope on the table, with all proceeds going to charity. Those who cannot afford much, or would prefer to donate their time instead, are encouraged to volunteer. “With the economic downturn, one of the things I noticed was that disposable income was one of the first things that went,” Bon Jovi told The Associated Press. “Dining out, the family going out to a restaurant, mom not having to cook, dad not having to clean up – a lot of memories were made around restaurant tables.” The eatery is the latest endeavor by the artist’s Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation, which has built 260 homes for low-income residents in recent years. [Photo: WENN.com]
Ummm… A woman who told her doctor she had a sudden, unbelievable increase in her sex drive died four days later of rabies. The 28-year-old, who lived in India, complained that she felt constantly aroused, sometimes with no stimulation at all. Her confounded physician referred her to the Sri Gokulam Hospital and Research Institute in Salem, Tamil Nadu. They discovered that a small bite from a puppy two months earlier caused the disease. The fear of water caused by paralysis of the swallowing muscles is widely known as a symptom of rabies. But it can also cause hypersexuality, a result of inflammation of the brain. Peter Costa, the communications director for the Global Alliance for Rabies Control, said that by the time the disease reaches that stage it is incurable. He said: ‘If you’ve been bitten or suspect you’ve been licked or scratched by an infected animal, you should seek treatment within 24 hours.’ Pet vaccination programmes have been largely successful in staving off the disease in the U.S. But around the world between 55,000 and 70,000 people die of rabies each year, Mr Costa told LiveScience. Most of the deaths are in children under age 15 in areas where vaccinations are lacking. Mr Costa said: ‘Dogs are responsible for more than 99 per cent of human rabies cases.’ SMH. Wow.
I first saw Justin play at a local mall in September of 2009. Since 2007, I have always followed him on Youtube and also when he created Twitter. I am currently living with a life threatening heart condition known as Uhl’s Anomaly and I am awaiting a transplant. Since I was just 9 years old, now 19, I always contemplated the idea of a wish from the Make A Wish of America Foundation. I changed my mind a billion times, plus times for the past ten years and just couldn’t settle on one. Finally at the beginning of last year, I settled on a wish. My wish was to meet Justin Bieber. Make-a-Wish flew my family and I out to Cincinnati, Ohio. The day finally arrived. The day of, we were driven by limo to the concert venue. We were brought backstage into his dressing room for a private meet and greet. I waited in the hallway for him to arrive more excited than I had ever been. I saw him walking towards me and couldn’t barely hold in the excitement. After he introduced himself, he invited us into his dressing room. While in there, he pulled out my chair and one for himself to sit next to me. We sat and talked for a while and I couldn’t stop smiling. He noticed my phone in my hand and asked if I would like to take a picture with it. Of course I said yes. Then we took pictures for a little while. I looked over and saw Sean Kingston sitting on the other couch. I couldn’t believe he was there too. Justin called him over and we all took pictures together. It was amazing. After signing some magazines and such for me, just as we were about to leave Justin told me to wait because he had a gift for me. He brought over a really big box. He opened it for me and inside was a brand new Epiphone guitar, which was an exact replica of the one he uses on tour. He signed my name with a heart and under it he wrote, “Never say Never” and also autographed it. He handed it to me and said never stop playing. We ended up taking some more pictures with the guitar. I was more excited because when taking the pictures, his arm was around me. I felt so special. This Make A Wish trip and thanks to Justin, for one day, I wasnt thinking about health issues or anything that was wrong. I was just happy. Ever since he wrote Never Say Never on my guitar, I live by it every day. I even have gone so far as getting it tattooed on my leg. Justin changed my life. What was really amazing about this whole experience was that I was his FIRST EVER Make A Wish kid. That made it even more special. Justin is such an inspiration to so many people, including myself. Now I’ll end it with this: I once finally got him to RT a quote I sent him on Twitter. He then became one of my followers. However, a few months later I was trying to direct message him and accidently blocked him instead. This removed him from my followers. So since, I have been trying to get him to follow me again. Luckily, I did. A few days ago he became a new follower of mine. I just want to say thank you to Justin for everything he has done and giving me something positive in my life at this time. He truly helps me through alot. I am currently in the hospital waiting for transplant and I even have a cardboard cut out of him in my room, along with posters and such. Thank you Justin, -@itskaylakelly Go here to read the rest: I first saw Justin play at a local mall in September of 2009….
I first saw Justin play at a local mall in September of 2009. Since 2007, I have always followed him on Youtube and also when he created Twitter. I am currently living with a life threatening heart condition known as Uhl’s Anomaly and I am awaiting a transplant. Since I was just 9 years old, now 19, I always contemplated the idea of a wish from the Make A Wish of America Foundation. I changed my mind a billion times, plus times for the past ten years and just couldn’t settle on one. Finally at the beginning of last year, I settled on a wish. My wish was to meet Justin Bieber. Make-a-Wish flew my family and I out to Cincinnati, Ohio. The day finally arrived. The day of, we were driven by limo to the concert venue. We were brought backstage into his dressing room for a private meet and greet. I waited in the hallway for him to arrive more excited than I had ever been. I saw him walking towards me and couldn’t barely hold in the excitement. After he introduced himself, he invited us into his dressing room. While in there, he pulled out my chair and one for himself to sit next to me. We sat and talked for a while and I couldn’t stop smiling. He noticed my phone in my hand and asked if I would like to take a picture with it. Of course I said yes. Then we took pictures for a little while. I looked over and saw Sean Kingston sitting on the other couch. I couldn’t believe he was there too. Justin called him over and we all took pictures together. It was amazing. After signing some magazines and such for me, just as we were about to leave Justin told me to wait because he had a gift for me. He brought over a really big box. He opened it for me and inside was a brand new Epiphone guitar, which was an exact replica of the one he uses on tour. He signed my name with a heart and under it he wrote, “Never say Never” and also autographed it. He handed it to me and said never stop playing. We ended up taking some more pictures with the guitar. I was more excited because when taking the pictures, his arm was around me. I felt so special. This Make A Wish trip and thanks to Justin, for one day, I wasnt thinking about health issues or anything that was wrong. I was just happy. Ever since he wrote Never Say Never on my guitar, I live by it every day. I even have gone so far as getting it tattooed on my leg. Justin changed my life. What was really amazing about this whole experience was that I was his FIRST EVER Make A Wish kid. That made it even more special. Justin is such an inspiration to so many people, including myself. Now I’ll end it with this: I once finally got him to RT a quote I sent him on Twitter. He then became one of my followers. However, a few months later I was trying to direct message him and accidently blocked him instead. This removed him from my followers. So since, I have been trying to get him to follow me again. Luckily, I did. A few days ago he became a new follower of mine. I just want to say thank you to Justin for everything he has done and giving me something positive in my life at this time. He truly helps me through alot. I am currently in the hospital waiting for transplant and I even have a cardboard cut out of him in my room, along with posters and such. Thank you Justin, -@itskaylakelly Go here to read the rest: I first saw Justin play at a local mall in September of 2009….
Back in 2010 was the start of the best weekend of my life. Not only was I was going to meet the one and only Justin Bieber, but I was also going to meet my best friends that I made on Twitter , I was super excited about this. I was going to the concert and meet and greets for Miami 12-18-10 and in Tampa also 12-19-10. The day goes by, I meet my friends and gave one of them the news that she was going to meet Justin with me because she hadn’t met him before, she started crying as I told her I had picked her. Lol. The time arrives and we get to the American Airlines Arena, we pick up our meet and greet wristbands and go stand in line to meet Justin. Our time comes and we get lucky enough to have our solo picture with Justin. My friend walked up to him and basically tackled him ha-ha, I walked up to him, turned around and said, “Look Justin” (I was showing him my tattoo of him) Justin said, “What is that?” *He walks up closer to see clearly* I said, “It says NEVER SAY NEVER and OLLG at the bottom. Justin just stared at it and pointed to Kenny, who came closer and asks, “Wait what does it say?”So he reads it and starts saying how awesome my tattoo is. I look back at Justin and he goes, “Is it real?” I told him, “Yes of course it’s real!” and Justin backs away from me with a smile on his face and starts screaming ‘SWAGGER’ in the meet and greet room! Kenny and I were cracking up haha, so Justin put his arm around my friend and hugs me with the other one (while Justin just kept on saying about my tattoo: that’s amazing, that’s awesome, that’s amazing). We took the picture, I give him another hug and I walked away saying my goodbyes. Justin said, “Wait wait!..” I turned around and looked at him. He said, “What if you ever stop liking me?” I looked at him and said, “That’s never going to happen.” He did that smile that we all melt for and said “nah?” “Nope” and started laughing. Justin and I fist pumped so I was walking away and Kenny goes, “Hey! It was very nice meeting you”, I answered, “Same here Kenny! See ya at the show!” Later on, the show started, songs played, screams are all over the place. Then all of a sudden, I see Alfredo Flores walking up my way. I stop him and said, “LOOK AT MY TATTOO!” He looked at it and told me, “I’m going to take a picture of it”, I turned around and he takes the picture, he shows it to me to make sure I’m cool with it, I said yeah it’s fine, and the he says, ”I’m going to show it to Justin” . At this point, I couldn’t BELIEBE what was happening to me. It was the time of the show where Justin turns on the lights to point out everyone he sees in the audience. I started jumping up and down pointing at my tattoo in hope of him seeing me, he did! Justin points at me and says, “I SEE YOU TATTOO GIRL”! *eekkkkk* The rest of the night my friends and I enjoyed the concert to the fullest. We got home and waited for the next day to do it all again in Tampa, FL. So the next day, we get to Tampa. As I’m in the meet & greet line, I walk into the room where Justin is. Kenny signals my group to go in, and as soon as he saw me, Kenny says, “What?!?! What are you doing here?” I said, “I just got here from Miami!” Kenny looks at me with the biggest “Omg she’s dedicated” face. At this point Justin had finished greeting the other girls, so when it was my turn, Kenny taps Justin on his shoulder and tells him, “Look Justin, it’s tattoo girl from yesterday!” Justin now sees me, he gives me a hug and patting my tattoo says, “What are you doing here?, yea I remember you, Alfredo showed me your picture from yesterday!” At this point I was in heaven! Justin and the crew knew me and Kenny had named me “Tattoo Girl”. We took the picture, walked out and we head out to our seats. I saw Alfredo walking my way, I stopped him, and said, “Hey Fredo! I’m here also!” The show starts and we have a great time! With an occasional “Hi” and “What’s up!” from Kenny as he walked around our section! Thank you Justin and the team for being there for us all the time and for everything that you do!!!! -Steff aka Tattoo Girl -@ollgbelieber Go here to see the original: Back in 2010 was the start of the best weekend of my life. Not…
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ABC fantasy series from ‘Lost’ writers/producers follows the lives of storybook characters forced to live in the real world. By Kevin P. Sullivan “Once Upon a Time” cast Photo: ABC The characters in the fairy tales you grew up listening to are people too. That’s a big part of the story behind ABC’s upcoming fantasy series “Once Upon a Time.” From the minds of former “Lost” writers and producers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, “Once Upon a Time” follows the lives of a number of storybook characters who find themselves trapped in the real world after a curse is placed on them. Jennifer Morrison (“Warrior”) stars as Emma Swan, the woman tasked with saving the fairy-tale world and bringing back the happy endings. Morrison says that there’s much more to the series than the familiar faces, like Snow White, and that the show is about something bigger and much more relatable. “It’s relationship driven. There is this sort of underlying universal thing,” Morrison said. “We’re in a time in our lives where the economy’s kind of tough and jobs are tough, a lot of struggles people are facing. In a sense, our show really represents that in the curse that is on the characters and the hope that there is a way out, that you can band together and find a way out.” Taking such a fantastical premise and making it about something real is a trick Horowitz and Kitsis say they learned from their time working on another sweeping fantasy epic, “Lost.” The creators cite the character-driven drama of “Lost” and that show’s executive producers, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, for giving them the direction and recipe for a successful outlandish drama series. “I think that the important thing that Damon and Carlton always told us was that it’s about character first, although the fairy tale is fun, and Storybrooke’s fun,” Kitsis says. “Like, oh my god, that’s Grumpy in a scene with Little Red Riding Hood. If you don’t care about the characters and you don’t care about their struggles, for us it’s important that they’re not just animated characters.” For any TV show with even the most tenuous connections to “Lost,” there will be questions of whether there is an overall arch already planned. Horowitz and Kitsis say they know where they want to take it but are waiting to see how viewers react first. “You can really only take those big picture ideas and then look at what’s right in front of you and try to tell the best story you can, and we’ll see what the audience says,” Horowitz explained. To clarify further, Kitsis offered up an analogy. “It’s kind of like we’re on a road trip. We know we want to get to New York eventually, but if we see a large potato in Idaho we have to go see, then we’re going to veer off and see it,” Kitsis says. “Once Upon a Time” premieres this Sunday on ABC at 8 p.m. ET/ 7 p.m. CT.
Poor guy: The owner of an exotic animal preserve who committed suicide after freeing dozens of lions, tigers and other beasts owed tens of thousands in unpaid taxes, and a fellow big-cat enthusiast said that he had taken in so many creatures he was “in over his head.” A day after sheriff’s deputies with high-powered rifles killed nearly 50 animals set free by Terry Thompson, the sheriff refused to speculate why he did it. Meanwhile, neighbors and friends questioned why Thompson – a man who seemed to like animals more than people – would send his animals to their doom. Thompson was mired in debt. Court records show that he and his wife owed at least $68,000 in unpaid taxes to the IRS and the county, and he had two federal tax liens filed against him last year. He had just gotten out of federal prison last month for possessing unregistered weapons. Kenny Hetrick, who has six tigers and other animals on his property outside Toledo, said Thursday he used to see Thompson at exotic-animal auctions a few times a year in Ohio. Many of Thompson’s tigers had been donated to him by people who bought baby animals that they no longer wanted once they started to grow, Hetrick said. “He really had more there than what he could do,” Hetrick said. “I don’t know what his deal was, but he was in over his head.” On Tuesday, Thompson, 62, opened the cages at his animal preserve and then killed himself. His body was found near the empty cages with a bite on the head that appeared to have been inflicted by a big cat shortly after Thompson shot himself, Sheriff Matt Lutz said. It appeared his body had been dragged a short distance, Lutz said. Deputies killed 48 animals – including 18 rare Bengal tigers, 17 lions and eight bears – in a hunt across the Ohio countryside that lasted nearly 24 hours and that has been criticized by some who say the animals should have been saved. Only a monkey was still missing, and it was probably killed by one of the big cats, Lutz said. Thompson had run-ins with his neighbors and the law over escaped animals and conditions at his preserve. But whether he acted out of desperation or vengeance in setting the animals loose was unclear. “I know how much he cared for them, and he would know that they would be killed,” said Judy Hatfield, a family friend who visited the farm many times and said it wasn’t unusual to have a monkey jump on her lap. “I don’t know what happened. I’m sure some horrible thing happened to him yesterday to make him do this or allow him to lose focus for a moment and do it. But I don’t know what it is, and we may never know.” Lutz said Thompson’s intentions were not part of the investigation. “To take your own life, Mr. Thompson was not in the right state of mind,” Lutz said. “And to speculate on why he did this would be a belittlement, I guess, by me, to do that, and I’m not going to do that.” Thompson and his wife spent much of their time and money caring for their menagerie, neighbors said. Most of the big cats and bears were declawed and had been bottle-fed by the couple, Hatfield said. Thompson also kept them fed by picking up roadkill and collecting spoiled meat from grocery stores, said another neighbor, Fred Polk. Source
My name is Jessica, I’m 17 and I’m from Chile . It was August and I became a member of BieberFever to get the best tickets to the Justin concert. I was really disappointed because I paid and I didn’t get my ticket from the pre-sale, so I had to wait until the normal sale started. I didn’t sleep that night and I went to the ticket office at 5:00am and finally I got my ticket around 11am, which were VIP and I was really happy! Then in September, a contest from Bieberfever came out. I entered to win the M&G. The day before the concert, I got an email saying that I had won! I was so happy, I cried and jumped, my dream finally was coming true! I went the concert the next day and got my bracelets for the M&G. After that, we went inside the stadium to wait for Justin. We saw Kenny, Kanec, Alfredo, Scooter, Pattie, the guys from Cobra Starship and more! Everyone was so nice! Then, it was the time to meet Justin! I was so nervous. We went in groups of 5. I was the first of my group, so I walked. I looked to the right and there he was. He was sitting. He got up, smiled at me and said, “Hi, how are you?” He had a cute voice and a perfect smile. I answered something, but I don’t even remember what I said, I was too shocked. He hugged and kissed me. Then I sat down and he hugged me again. We took the picture. I said, “Bye” and left. It was the best experience ever and I never knew it will happen TO ME. Then I went inside the concert and enjoyed it from the beggining to the end, it was just perfect. NEVER SAY NEVER! -@believeinus Read the original: My name is Jessica, I’m 17 and I’m from Chile. It…
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