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Although Chef Charity has well over 15 years of experience, her calling to become a plant based chef followed as a result of her family’s own transition. That transition paired with her affinity to cook and be creative was the driving force that propelled her into her calling to become a plant based, vegan and transitional chef. As a lover of food, and self proclaimed foodie, her goal is to assist people in making an easy transition from animal products to well balanced plant based meals. She does this by providing nutrient rich and savory easy to follow recipe’s along with educating about the benefits an organic, non-gmo, plant based lifestyle has on the body and overall well being.

Chef Charity is most certainly more than a chef as many professional athletes will attest. She currently provides vegan meal preparation to several NFL players and has recently been featured by ESPN highlighting her awesome home made meals that have encouraged athletes to educate themselves, improve their athletic performance as well as their overall health.

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Lower shelter costs, along with less consumption spending of all kinds, are necessary pillars to restoring financial viability for households in the post-debt-bubble world.  As credit levels recede through a much needed secular contraction, home prices will have to realign with more historically normal income and saving rates.

In the end this will be a boom to younger generations and the future economy, however nearer-term it will mean capital deficits for those banking on indefinitely inflated asset values to fund their future spending needs.   See Housing values may fall as baby boomers die off, or sell off, two studies say:

Will baby boomers turn into party poopers when they unload their homes in large numbers starting in the next decade? Could they create an indigestible oversupply in the market that lowers home prices and frustrates sales?

That’s a sobering scenario outlined by two new, provocative studies.

Both studies cite demographic and housing data to make their cases. Boomers — the giant generation of Americans born between 1946 and 1964 — own 32 million homes, 2 of every 5 in the country. The generations preceding them occupy another 14 million homes. Collectively, their properties are valued at about $13.5 trillion, according to the Fannie Mae study, co-authored by Patrick Simmons of the strategic research group and Dowell Myers, a professor at the University of Southern California.

All of these homeowners face key choices: Do we stay put, sell, downsize or move to a rental? At some point, the inevitable kicks in: Health issues and death will force them to dispose of their properties.

As for today’s many mega-sized abodes (artifacts of the now dying credit bubble)–adding in-house apartments or making them over into multi-family dwellings is the most likely course.  Ideas that increase resource efficiency are on the right track.

The most stable systems have strong counter-veiling forces to help maintain balance rather than allowing any one party or interest to weaken the whole with domination and control.

Last week Google received a record 4.3 billion-euro ($5 billion) antitrust fine from the European Union and was ordered to change the way it ties search and web browser apps on Android mobile devices.  Presently Android powers 85% of the world’s smartphones and Google captures 90% of the world’s internet search activity, according to Statcounter.  Google says it will appeal the ruling.

Over the past decade, big tech cos have enjoyed minimal regulatory oversight and massive lobby influence on policymakers while most smaller startups (that traditionally create the most new jobs in the economy) struggle to compete.

A new trust-busting era is overdue and is likely to keep chipping away at monopoly profits for some time.  See:  Google’s grip on search is secure, but getting pricer.

FTC commissioner Rohit Chopra agreed recently that the agency should have more vigorous enforcement against large companies:

“When it comes to small-time scammers, we really do lay down the hammer,” he said, giving the examples of bans on particular executives and even the shutting down of businesses. “I would like us to apply the law evenly regardless if it’s a small-time scammer or a big-time publicly traded corporation.”

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