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"Storms at Sea," painting by Irene Pruitt, © 2004
Storms Out at Sea
Storms out at sea
Never bother me
It's when they hit land
They have my command
When the wind blows
In circular patterns and gusts
We take cover, as we must
In stable brick and mortar
And musical tin roof
The evening holds the calm
Sky, a deep blue and black hue—still
The calm before the storm
Rumors of storms out at sea
Sit like twisted stomach—restlessly
Uneasy are those who have no shelter
Whose home is in deep ravine drainage
Roofs of tarp and plastic sheet
Walls of makeshift pallets and boxes
When the wind blows—in comes the unknown
Shaken is all that is and all one might own
A family, a name, a life, a place, the future
Uncertain. . .the evening holds. . .
Hopes of storms that pass over—they fade
Skies transition from black to blue—to morning hue
© August 23, 2012, Robbie Pruitt
O God of peace, who hast taught us that in returning and rest we shall be saved, in quietness and confidence shall be our strength: By the might of thy Spirit lift us, we pray thee, to thy presence, where we may be still and know that thou art God; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer, P. 832)
Assist us mercifully, O Lord, in these our supplications and prayers, and dispose the way of thy servants towards the attainment of everlasting salvation; that, among all the changes and chances of this mortal life, they may ever be defended by thy gracious and ready help; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer, P. 832)

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Lime decoction comes from the dried flowers and leaves of the lime tree, which is also known as tilia, linden and basswood. This decoction is an excellent sedative of the nervous system and it can even be consumed by newborn babies. It also fights insomnia, migraines, coughing and high blood pressure. It is diuretic and expectorant. It reduces fever and it alleviates the symptoms of cold. To make a decoction drop a spoonful of the herb in a cup of boiling water. Leave for about 10 minutes, strain and drink.
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: GREECE (mnt. PILIO)
What is written here is just informative. In no case can this information be regarded as medical advice or as advice on health issues, the only responsible for which is your personal doctor.


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Some notes on locksport.
A couple of weeks back, as part of our continuing education program at my dayjob I ran a hands-on class on locksport, the quasi-science (perhaps art) of picking locks for fun and... well... fun. I'm a security wonk so most of the talks I run have some security content in them, but I wanted to do something that was fairly suitable for everyone (coders and not). So, I got the go-ahead to expense a few more locks and some intro picksets to give away from The Lockpick Shop (no consideration for mentioning or using them, they had what I needed at a good price) and hauled most of my collection of locks and tools to work over the course of a couple of days.
I used the Creative Commons licensed lockpicking village slides from the TOOOL website for my talk after editing them a bit to condense them for time and spent a couple of evenings practicing both my slides and craft to gear myself up for the class.
What follows are some pictures and ruminations I have on the topic of locksport that come from years of playing around with locks (after spending about as long trying and failing to get any locks open) and doing formal and informal sessions on the topic. Please bear in mind, I'm far from a master of this particular art. I've competed only once (and pulled a Charlie Brown by picking the lock backwards, thus jamming it at the worst possible time) and, while I recognize that there are some very talented people out there who are into locksport for the sheer artistry of it, I'm not one of them. I'm a pragmatic lockpicker: I'm on assignment, I need into something, I'm going to pick the lock and get in. I'm not a spring steel artist.
Okay. Enough chitchat, here's what I actually wanted to write.


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In a confrontation with marijuana legalization activist Adam Eidinger, Harris told Eidinger that he did not "think [D.C.] ought to be a state because they make irresponsible decisions like legalizing marijuana when the African-American unemployment rate is 40 percent and the African-American graduation rate from high school is 12 percent."
Harris might want to brush up on his facts. The actual unemployment rate for African Americans in Washington, D.C. is 13.6 percent. The high school graduation rate for African American students in Washington, D.C. is 59.7 percent.
Harris did not specify whether by "they" he meant African American residents of D.C. or the entire D.C. population. Overall, 70 percent of District residents voted to legalize marijuana.
There is no credible evidence linking marijuana legalization with lower graduation rates. After legalizing marijuana, Colorado saw its unemployment rate drop.
Harris played a key role in attempting to block the marijuana legalization referendum in D.C. by attaching a rider to a Congressional appropriations bill. (Congress has ultimate control over the city's budget, even though it is funded through local taxes.)
He was partially successful. The city has not moved forward with regulating marijuana and licensing retail sales. But marijuana possession, in small amounts, is legal in the District and the city permits individuals to grow up to six marijuana plants in their homes.
Link to original article from ThinkProgress


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About writing and me
I am a freelance researcher having written on arms conversion and international security for various peace organisations including CND, CAAT and for trade unions. My main interest is workers control of industry and the transition to a post-capitalist economy owned by working people.
About me and music
My songwriting focuses on political themes and reflects a range of musical influences from pop through to classical. Lyrically, subject matters include the environmental crisis, capitalist exploitation and working-class struggles. I have been collaborating with musicians in West and North Yorkshire and have completed one collection of songs – Subversion, released in 2018 and am working on a new set of songs – Insurrection for release in late 2019.
CD, downloadable album and individual tracks all available here
The cover and album title were inspired by Arnold Newman's photograph of the German industrialist, Alfried Krupp, taken in 1963. He was expecting a normal public-relations shot but through the brilliant use of shading and positioning, Newman gave Krupp a demonic quality that completely subverted his status as a respected businessman. Newman's motivation was to expose Krupp's history as the managing director of one of the major arms manufacturers supplying the Nazi war machine, and personal responsibility for the use of slave labour working in appalling conditions and on starvation rations. He was prosecuted and jailed as a war criminal but only a few years later, and under mysterious circumstances, given an early release.


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Texts: Isaiah 6:1-8; Romans 8:12-17; John 3:1-18
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
Posted by Pr. Seth for Holy Trinity Sunday, Year B
Texts: Isaiah 6:1-8; Romans 8:12-17; John 3:1-18
It's awfully tempting to laugh at Nicodemus' question. The poor guy just doesn't seem to get what Jesus is saying. Of course we know that being born again is not about physically climbing back up into your (very surprised and concerned) mother's womb and being born a second time. Nicodemus knows that, too. His question may seem silly, but what he's really asking isn't. Nicodemus wants to know what we all want to know: "Can you really teach an old dog new tricks?"
The Inclusive Holy Spirit
Sermon for Pentecost Sunday, Year B - Pastor Stephanie McCarthy
Acts 2.1-21; Psalm 104.24-34, 35b; Romans 8.22-27; John 15.26-27, 16.4b-15
Alleluia! Christ is Risen! (Christ is Risen indeed, Alleluia)
I had to get one more in because even though it is most definitely the festival day of Pentecost, the season of Easter is not over. Today is the last Sunday of Easter, the last Sunday of a season of great excitement and joy. A season book-ended by Easter and Pentecost. Thinking about a season begun and ended but such incredibly holidays, I found myself comparing them to being part of a theater production.
That first Easter Sunday was perhaps a bit like opening night. It's a huge deal, but it's also one filled with jitters and uncertainty. There is great excitement after a lot of work, and waiting for this night to come. But on opening night, I also carry onstage a significant amount of nerves, perhaps even dread. You are about to show the world for the first time something that you have poured so much of your life into for months. And you don't know for sure how they will react or what might go wrong. I imagine the disciples felt a similar sense of anticipation, jitters, even dread on that first Easter as they waited to find out if the promised resurrection was really true, as they walked the road to Emmaus, not really sure what it expect.
Never Alone
Posted by Pr. Seth for the Seventh Sunday in Easter, Year B
Texts: Acts 1:15-17, 21-26; 1 John 5:9-13; John 17:6-19
Pretty much every Sunday for the last 3 years, we've opened our time of worship together by sharing prayer concerns. Some days, we don't have any, some days we have a lot, and every once in a while we end up taking entirely more time than your pastors were planning on spending on it! But, we keep doing it. We keep doing it because it is important. To be in need, to be anxious over the care of a loved one or frightened about something in our future or facing deep grief is isolating; those things make us feel alone, and sometimes we're not prepared to face the cares of the world by ourselves.
You may have noticed this single, unlit candle here today. This candle—the Paschal candle—represents the risen Christ. We light it in the gathering dark at the Vigil of Easter as a hopeful and anticipatory sign of the resurrection. We keep it lit throughout Easter as a reminder that Christ's life triumphs over death, that the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness cannot overcome it. We light it at baptisms and funerals as a sign that, in baptism, we are joined to that resurrected life and that at the moment of death we rest in the promise of that resurrection.
The ones Jesus loves.
Pastor Stephanie McCarthy
Acts 10.44-48; Psalm 98; 1 John 5.1-6; John 15.9-17
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25 inspiring authors for writersBy Leah Pickett
25 inspiring authors for writersBy Leah Pickett
"1. When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else. 2. When an adult, try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would." — Smith, from her "10 Rules of Writing" published in the New York Times.
"If I had to give a young writer some advice I would say to write about something that has happened to him; it's always easy to tell whether a writer is writing about something that has happened to him or something he has read or been told. Pablo Neruda has a line in a poem that says 'God help me from inventing when I sing.' It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality." — Márquez, interviewed for The Paris Review after winning the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature for "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
"One of the questions that is probably troubling you at the moment is this: How do I know whether I'm a writer? And the question can only be answered with another question: Well, do you write? If you don't, you're not. If you do, you are. There's nothing else to it...Walk into a bookshop and you will see books that you love and books that you hate, books that were written in three weeks and books that took thirty years, books that were written under the influence of drugs and alcohol, books that were written in splendid isolation, books that were written in Starbucks. Some of them were written with enormous enjoyment, some for money, some in fear and loathing and despair. The only thing they all have in common—and actually there is the odd honourable exception even to this rule—is that their authors finished them, sooner or later." - Hornby, in an excerpt from his Pep Talk for National Novel Writing Month, 2013.
"Your audience is smarter than you imagine. Don't be afraid to experiment with story forms and time shifts. My personal theory is that younger readers disdain most books — not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter. Movies have made us very sophisticated about storytelling. And your audience is much harder to shock than you can ever imagine." — Palahniuk, from his "Essays on Writing."
"Of course I stole the title for this talk, from George Orwell. One reason I stole it was that I like the sound of the words: Why I Write. There you have three short unambiguous words that share a sound, and the sound they share is this: I, I, I. In many ways writing is the act of saying I, of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying listen to me, see it my way, change your mind. It's an aggressive, even a hostile act. You can disguise its qualifiers and tentative subjunctives, with ellipses and evasions — with the whole manner of intimating rather than claiming, of alluding rather than stating — but there's no getting around the fact that setting words on paper is the tactic of a secret bully, an invasion, an imposition of the writer's sensibility on the reader's most private space." — Didion, from "Why I Write" in the New York Times Book Review, 1976.
6. Ernest Hemingway. Most notable works: "The Sun Also Rises" (1926), "A Farewell to Arms" (1929), "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1940) and "The Old Man and the Sea" (1952)
"The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you, so try to remember it."— Hemingway, in an October 1935 article about writing for Esquire.
7. J.D. Salinger. Most notable works: "Catcher in the Rye" (1951), "Nine Stories" (1953) and "Franny and Zooey" (1961)
"I have to know my character thoroughly before I start, and know how he'd act in every situation. If I am writing about Mr. Tidwinkle's golf game, I must also know how he would act when drunk, or at a bachelor dinner, or in the bathtub or in bed — and it must all be very real and ordinary." — Salinger, to journalist Shirley Ardman in New York, 1941.
8. Mary Shelley. Most notable work: "Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus" (1818)
"How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow." — Shelley, "Frankenstein" (written at age 19)
9. George Orwell. Most notable works: "1984" (1949) and "Animal Farm" (1945)
"Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. This sounds easy, but in practice is incredibly difficult. Phrases such as toe the line, ride roughshod over, stand shoulder to shoulder with, play into the hands of, an axe to grind, Achilles' heel, swan song, and hotbed come to mind quickly and feel comforting and melodic. For this exact reason they must be avoided. Common phrases have become so comfortable that they create no emotional response. Take the time to invent fresh, powerful images." — Orwell, from his 1946 essay,"Politics and the English Language."
10. Toni Morrison. Most notable works: "Beloved" (1987) and "Song of Solomon" (1977)
''I am not able to write regularly. I have never been able to do that—mostly because I have always had a nine-to-five job. I had to write either in between those hours, hurriedly, or spend a lot of weekend and predawn time [doing it]." — Morrison, in an excerpt from her 1993 interview with The Paris Review.
11. Virginia Woolf. Most notable works: "Mrs. Dalloway" (1925), "To the Lighthouse"(1928) and "A Room of One's Own" (1929)
"When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman." — Woolf, in an excerpt from "A Room of One's Own."
12. Dave Eggers. Most notable works: "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"(2000) and "The Circle" (2013)
''And here is where I spend seven or eight hours at a stretch. Seven or eight hours each time I try to write. Most of that time is spent stalling, which means that for every seven or eight hours I spend pretending to write—sitting in the writing position, looking at a screen—I get, on average, one hour of actual work done. It's a terrible, unconscionable ratio." — Eggers, from the 2010 article "Dave Egger's Writing Life," published in the Washington Post.
13. Mark Twain. Most notable works: "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1885) and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876)
"The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is that you really want to say.'' — Twain, on how writing is re-writing.
14. Roald Dahl. Most notable works: "James and the Giant Peach" (1961), "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (1964) and "Matilda"(1988)
"The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it. And that first love affair between the young child and the young book will lead hopefully to other loves for other books and when that happens the battle is probably won. The child will have found a crock of gold. He will also have gained something that will help to carry him most marvelously through the tangles of his later years." — Dahl on the power of children's books.
15. Margaret Atwood. Most notable works: "The Handmaid's Tale" (1985), "Cat's Eye,"(1988), "Blind Assassin" (2000) and "Oryx and Crake" (2003)
"Sometimes people are surprised that a woman would write such things. Bodily Harm, for instance, was perceived as some kind of incursion into a world that is supposed to be male. Certainly violence is more a part of my work than it is of Jane Austen's, or George Eliot's. They didn't do it in those days. Charles Dickens wrote about Bill Sikes bludgeoning Nancy to death, getting blood all over everything, but if a woman had written that, nobody would have published it. Actually, I grew up violence-free and among people who were extremely civilized in their behavior. " — Atwood, on writing violence, from her 1990 interview for the The Paris Review.
16. Vladmir Nabokov. Most notable work: "Lolita" (1955)
"After waking up between six and seven in the morning, I write till ten-thirty, generally at a lectern which faces a bright corner of the room instead of the bright audiences of my professorial days. The first half- hour of relaxation is breakfast with my wife around eight-thirty... Around eleven, I soak for 20 minutes in a hot bath, with a sponge on my head and a wordsman's worry in it, encroaching, alas, upon the nirvana. A stroll with my wife along the lake is followed by a frugal lunch and a two-hour nap, after which I resume my work until dinner at seven. An American friend gave us a Scrabble set in Cyrillic alphabet, manufactured in Newtown, Conn.; so we play skrebl for an hour or two after dinner. Then I read in bed— periodicals or one of the novels that proud publishers optimistically send us. Between eleven and midnight begins my usual fight with insomnia. Such are my habits in the cold season." — Nabokov, when asked how he works and relaxes in an 1968 interview with the New York Times.
17. Richard Wright. Most notable works: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1938), "Native Son" (1940) and "Black Boy" (1945)
"Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness." — Wright, from "Black Boy."
18. Hunter S. Thompson. Most notable works: "Hell's Angels" (1967), "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (1971) and "The Rum Diary" (1998)
"As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer." — Thompson, from "Gonzo."
19. Kurt Vonnegut. Most notable works: "Cat's Cradle" (1963), "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1969) and "Breakfast of Champions" (1973)
" 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. 4. Every sentence must do one of two things —reveal character or advance the action. 5. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of." — From Vonnegut's "8 Basics of Creative Writing" in the preface of his short story collection, "Bagombo Snuff Box."
20. Elie Wiesel. Most notable work: "Night" (1955)
"Why do I write? Perhaps in order not to go mad. Or, on the contrary, to touch the bottom of madness...There are easier occupations, far more pleasant ones. But for the survivor, writing is not a profession, but an occupation, a duty. Camus calls it 'an honor.' As he puts it: 'I entered literature through worship.' Other writers have said they did so through anger, through love. Speaking for myself, I would say — through silence." — Wiesel, in an excerpt from "Why I Write: Making No Become Yes."
21. Jack Keroauc. Most notable works: "On the Road"(1957) and "Big Sur" (1962)
"1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy, 2. Submissive to everything, open, listening, 3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house, 4. Be in love with yr life, 5. Something that you feel will find its own form." — Keroauc, from his 30 essentials in "Belief and Technique for Modern Prose."
22. Harper Lee. Most notable work: "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1960)
"I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide." — Lee in Writer's Digest, September 1961.
23. Stephen King. Most notable works: "Carrie" (1974), "The Shining" (1977) and "Misery" (1987)
"In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling." —King, from "On Writing."
24. John Steinbeck. Most notable works: "Of Mice and Men" (1937), "The Grapes of Wrath" (1939) and "East of Eden" (1952)
"Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material." — Steinbeck, from his "Six Tips on Writing" in the Fall 1975 issue of The Paris Review.
25. J.K. Rowling. Most notable works: the "Harry Potter" series (1997-2007)
"Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me...And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss." — Rowling, on living as a single mother on welfare before publishing the first "Harry Potter" book at age 32.
Honorable mentions: Marya Hornbacher, David Sedaris, the Brontë sisters, and the poets: Whitman, Poe, Dickinson, Plath, Silverstein, Frost, Ginsberg, Yeats, Angelou, Emerson, and Wilde.
Which authors, poets, and essayists have inspired you?
Leah Pickett writes about art and popular culture for WBEZ. Follow her on Twitter @leahkpickett.


text: Gianluigi Buffon (R) signed for Juventus in 2001 [EPA]Genoa handed Serie A leaders and titleholders Juventus a dramatic first league defeat of the season when Luca Antonini scored in the fourth minute of stoppage time to give them a 1-0 win. Genoa goal-keeper Mattia Perin kept Juventus at bay, his repertoire of saves including two brilliant stops from Alvaro Morata, and Angelo Ogbonna hit the crossbar for the visitors, before Antonini scored with almost the last kick of the game. Napoli continued on their erratic way as they threw away chances in a 1-1 draw at Atalanta where Jose Callejon fired over an open goal and Gonzalo Higuain scored a late equaliser, only to miss a stoppage time penalty. Inter Milan, for the second successive match, won 1-0 with a controversial penalty, this time against previously unbeaten Sampdoria, as Mauro Icardi converted in the 89th minute amid angry protests from the visitors. Mattia Destro and Daniele De Rossi gave AS Roma a 2-0 win over promoted Cesena as they pulled level with Juventus at the top. Both have 22 points from nine games, six ahead of AC Milan, Sampdoria and Udinese. Cagliari and AC Milan drew 1-1, Victor Ibarbo opening the scoring before Milan's Giacomo Bonaventura replied with a superb curling effort, and Palermo beat Chievo 1-0. Matteo Darmian's early goal gave Torino a 1-0 win over Roberto Donadoni's Parma, who are bottom after losing eight of their nine games. SOURCE: Reuters Sport Football Italy


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Ginger root is a commonly used herb in Chinese Medicine and cooking. It is incredibly versatile and has many different applications. It might be best known however for its ability to calm upset tummies. The properties of ginger in Chinese Medicine are warming, tonifiying and sweet. These characteristics make it an ideal at home remedy for stomach aches, gastritis, nausea, and digestion issues. For quick relief from nausea, boil water and add 6-8 slices of fresh ginger and drink like a tea. Honey or mint are good additions to this home remedy as well – especially if one also has a sore throat or the beginnings of a cold.
Ren 12 or Zhong Wan, which translates to Central Vent in Chinese is an acupuncture point located on the midline of the abdomen – halfway between the belly button and the base of your sternum. It is needled at an acupuncture treatment to help regulate stomach pain or discomfort. It is anatomically close to where the esphogeal sphincter connects to the stomach. Problems with this link in the digestive system are often related to issues of heartburn and acid reflux. Using your fingers to apply pressure and gently massage this point can help relieve bloating, gas, indigestion, heartburn and nausea.
3. Avoid Dairy
Many people know to avoid spicy foods when their stomach is sensitive but they may not realize that dairy products may be playing a role in their discomfort as well. Dairy is a mucus producer and can greatly exacerbate symptoms like nausea, bloating and loose stool.
Food as medicine is a great concept and can help keep your body feeling more balanced on a day to day basis. A lot Chinese herbs are easily incorporated into meals to help with things like stomach discomfort or bowel issues like diarrhea. Rice porridge or Congee as it is called in China, is a simple, easy to digest base food to eat when your body isn't digesting at its best. It can be really tasty too. Rice is a soothing, neutral grain without a lot of complexity that you're body has to work at to digest. It's essentially like giving your upset tummy some TLC and this preparation of the rice makes it very effective at tempering diarrhea and allowing your body to absorb nutrients again. I've include two recipes – one sweet and one savory – for you to try.
For both of these recipes stir well and often in the last 20 minutes of cooking and if mixture gets too think, thin with water to reach the desired texture.
Sweet Congee
1/2 cup rice
5 cups water
1/4 cup raisins or dates
1 tsp grated ginger root
1 tsp honey
Add rice and water to a pot and heat to boiling. Cover and turn heat down to simmer for 40-50 minutes or until rice is soft. Add dried fruit and ginger and continue to simmer until the mixture has a consistency similar to watery cream of wheat or oatmeal and the fruit is plumped – approx. another 10-15 minutes. Stir in honey and dish into bowls.
Savory Congee
1/2 cup rice
5 cups water or chicken broth or combination
1 egg beaten
2-3 scallions chopped
Add rice and water to a pot and heat to boiling. Cover and simmer for 50-60 minutes or until rice is soft and blended with water. Add beaten egg and scallions and continue to simmer until the mixture has a consistency similar to watery cream of wheat or oatmeal and the egg has been cooked through – approx. 5-8 minutes. Salt and pepper to taste and enjoy!


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Billy Bob Thornton is to play a villain in 'Out of the Furnace'.
The actor will join Christian Bale, Zoe Saldana and Casey Affleck for the movie, about a man who tracks down his brother's killer after he is released from prison.
Forest Whitaker is also set to play a leading part in the Scott Cooper-directed picture.
Billy Bob will play the leading bad guy in the project, taking over from 'A Dangerous Method' actor Viggo Mortensen, who was originally attached to the part.
Forest will be playing someone closely attached to the death of the brother.
Billy Bob - who used to be married to Angelina Jolie - is best known for roles in 'Sling Blade' and 'Armageddon', and is currently filming a part in 'Red Machine'.
He was last seen as Skip Caldwell in 'Jayne Mansfield's Car'.
Oscar-winner Forest recently played the role of Sam Cooper in TV series 'Criminal Minds: Suspicious Behaviour' and has roles lined up in 'Freelancers', 'Bill's Law' and 'A Single Shot'.
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Meditation is not….
Meditation is not Prayer/Worship
Meditation is not Concentration…not Meditation requires Concentration
Meditation is not Contemplation
Meditation is not just a Method
Meditation is not 'Doing'
Meditation a state of being which comes with emptying oneself
Meditation is choiceless awareness born out of the awakening of energy of understanding
While there is no singular method which can be called as superior or ultimate, still many meditation methods advocate the importance of Breath
Here is a method …
With continuous passive attention on Breath, slowly the mind gets emptied and gets focussed on the inner eternal silence and the consciousness slowly gets internalized. This internalized consciousness has to be maintained thru out the day and night
The Mastery over Breath is said to happen when the breath always happen in the abdomen even during normal daily activities of life.When the breath patterns are changed, mind also changes


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The evolution of the modern computer is a fascinating tale, and one that spans several centuries. The term computer used to refer to a person who worked out calculations or computations. This term was coined in 1613 and did not change its meaning from "guy who knows math really well" to "that mechanical marvel that carries out computations" until the middle of the 20th century.
History of the Computer
The computer started out as an automated machine that calculated figures and, though it is difficult to find a specific date as to the first time the human mind didn't have to struggle through complicated figures all on its own, there are quite a few machines that are worthy of honorable mention, such as the Sumerian abacus and the Antikythera mechanism which was used to compute astronomical positions.
In 1642, smack dab in the middle of the Renaissance, the first mechanical calculator, which could perform all four basic mathematical functions without the help of human intelligence, this was the seed from which computers sprouted.
In their infancy, around 1800, computers performed simple tasks, like keeping track of employees' workday. And in 1837, Charles Babbage designed the first fully programmable computer, however it was his son Henry Babbage that completed and built the first actual computer, this happened in 1888.
In the mid to late 1880's Herman Hollerith ran with this idea and built the first machine-readable medium for recorded data.
Computers in the 1900's
Jumping forward a few hundred years, to the first half of the 20th Century, many scientific computing needs were met by increasingly sophisticated versions of the analog computer. And in 1936 Alan Turing provided the blueprint for the modern computer with his Turing machine, which made use of an algorithm to compute more complicated data.
During the 1950's computers used vacuum tubes as their electronic elements, but these were quickly replaced by semiconductor transistor-based machines, which were cheaper to produce, smaller, which made it easier to create the personal computer, required less power, and were much more reliable. In 1953 the first transistorized computer was demonstrated at the University of Manchester.
In the 1970's the integrated circuit was invented which paved the way for the microprocessor. This further decreased the cost, size, and malfunctions with computers.
Today's computers
In the 1980's computers entered the home and it the personal computer was born. Later, with the invention of the Internet, computers became a form of communication with the outside world, growing to replace and rival the telephone and the television.
The defining characteristic of the modern computer is its programmability. This sets it apart from other household appliances and increases it functionality in the home and workplace as a tool or as a vehicle for your entertainment. There are many great companies out there to get a good computer for your family, look at dell.ca for great deals.


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Oleda Baker: Entrepreneur, Artist, Author, Model
MODEL: Oleda Baker began her career over fifty years ago with the Wilhelmina Model Agency (New York City) as a high fashion model in TV and print ads in the USA and overseas. Today, she still models for charity at special events and in her own company's ads.
FOUNDER & C.E.O: Oleda founded Oleda and Company, Inc. forty years ago, and has been its CEO ever since, overseeing the development of OLEDA creams, lotions, and vitamin supplements, a range of products she calls, CharmaSeuticals, for skin, hair, nails, and nutrition, including make-up and weight-loss.
Her company's website, www.oleda.com, provides volumes of information and products on Living Younger Longer and how to stay youthful for life.. Oleda has much to share on anti-aging, beauty and health through columns, postings of her "how-to" articles and dozens of tips based on decades of experience in how to maintain healthy beauty, youthfulness and energy at every age.
AUTHOR: Oleda has authored ten books on beauty and health, published by major publishers, Her latest is BREAKING THE AGE BARRIER, Great Looks & Health at Every Age. http://www.oleda.com/prodinfo.asp?number=PRBK Her only novel, Reluctant Goddess, is a story about a woman who has everything but a man to love her for herself.
She was beauty editor and writer for Model's Circle, a monthly beauty magazine, and stories about her have appeared in numerous newspapers and national magazines, including Cosmopolitan and Redbook.
ARTIST: When Oleda was thirty-eight, although she had never had an artist's brush in her hand or a lesson in art or painting, she strode into an art store in New York City one day and purchased whatever supplies the sales people told her she needed, and tried her hand at putting her feelings on canvas. It was the realization of a long-held desire.
Since then Oleda's visionary oil paintings have hung in galleries and halls around the country, including two extensive exhibitions in the Wichita Art Museum in Kansas, and the Museum of Florida Art, Deland, Florida. Her work can be viewed right here on Growing Bolder. just click on Oleda's Visionary Art in the banner at the top of this page.
PHILOSOPHY:Oleda freely shares her philosophy for Life and Aging, as she puts herself up as a primary example of a vibrant octogenarian. She says living younger longer is mostly in our own hands. The trick is to think in terms of making many small, everyday correct choices that determine how the cells inside the body are affected by our choices, particularly diet and exercise.
She maintains that lifestyle and environment are the most important factors, not genes. "Genes are important, no denying that," she says. "But, if, like the majority of people, we can avoid inheriting a tendency toward debilitating disease, studies prove that the decisions we make in day-to-day choices of how we live our lives account for at least 70 percent of the aging process. Even then, even if we are prone to cancer or heart disease because it runs in the family, there are choices we can make to try to counteract it. And I have the stories to prove it."
VIDEO: Oleda on Beauty, Health and AntiAging. Oleda Baker says she's more creative, more alive and more inspired than ever. She talks to GB CEO Marc Middleton about life, love and the pursuit of happiness. GB WebChat: Oleda Baker at growingbolder.com http://growingbolder.com/media/gb-exclusives/webchats/gb-webchat-oleda-baker-592544.html
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City Of Oakland Files Suit To Prevent Closure Of Harborside Health Center
Oakland, Calif. – October 15, 2012 – In a historic development, the City of Oakland announced last week it had filed suit in federal District Court to enjoin U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag from their attempts to close Harborside Health Center, a city-licensed medical cannabis dispensary (www.harborsidehealthcenter.com/). Widely acclaimed as a model of legitimacy and legal compliance, and featured in the Discovery Channel series, "Weed Wars," Harborside was targeted by Haag on July 9th when she initiated a civil forfeiture suit to seize the dispensary's Oakland and San Jose locations.
Steve DeAngelo, Executive Director of Harborside, issued the following statement in response to the City's action:
"We are heartened and encouraged by the City of Oakland's lawsuit against Attorney General Eric Holder and US Attorney Melinda Haag, and welcome the City's support. Ms. Haag has attacked not only Harborside and our patients, but also the entire system of regulated medical cannabis distribution painstakingly developed by the City. Those regulations were developed in response to very real and serious problems caused by unregulated sales of medical cannabis, and have improved public safety while raising substantial tax revenue. If Ms. Haag is successful in her efforts, our 112,000 patients will be forced to the illicit marketplace, over $25 million in annual cannabis sales will move back to the streets of Oakland, the City will lose its second largest retail tax payer, and our more than 100 employees will no longer have jobs.
It is shameful that Ms. Haag and her colleagues, who are sworn to protect public safety, have chosen to spend limited law enforcement resources closing down licensed and regulated dispensaries, instead of targeting meth labs or human trafficking. The President should immediately freeze all enforcement actions against medical cannabis providers, and review them to make sure they are consistent with administration policy to target only those providers who are out of compliance with state law."
To learn more about medical cannabis and the ongoing controversy between local, state and federal laws, visit www.harborsidehealthcenter.com or contact us today.
About Harborside Health Center
With locations in Oakland and San Jose, Harborside Health Center is the premier medical cannabis dispensary in California. As one of the first alternative health facilities of its kind, Harborside offers the best quality product and compassionate, individualized service to all medical cannabis patients. Harborside also strives to protect community safety and cleanliness by strictly observing and enforcing state laws regarding medical cannabis. For more details, visit the Oakland medical cannabis dispensary online at www.harborsidehealthcenter.com.
Landmark lawsuit filed opposing Federal attack on medical cannabis
(City of Oakland news release: http://bit.ly/STH0lO
City of Oakland filed complaint (PDF): http://bit.ly/TCNzsJ)


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Wednesday, December 9
CBS REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.)* "Segregation: Northern-Style," a report, shot with hidden cameras, on the trials of a Negro family trying to buy a home in a white suburban neighborhood.
BURKE'S LAW (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Burke's usual bag of interesting cameo players: Hans Conried, Broderick Crawford, Dan Duryea, Rhonda Fleming, Burgess Meredith and Mamie Van Doren.
THE DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Kaye and Guest Imogene Coca will perform Swan Lake with, one presumes, new variations.
Friday, December 11
THE ENTERTAINERS (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Thelma Ritter joins Regulars Bob Newhart,...


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Signed: 2014
Appearances: 184
Goals: 8
Honours: Champions League (2019)
Dejan Lovren's career since joining Liverpool in the summer of 2014 has included appearances in the finals of both the Champions League and World Cup, plus a European Cup winner's medal。
The Croatia centre-back - whose front-foot, powerful style of defending is combined with an impressive level of ball-playing technique - also played in the 2016 Europa League final, after scoring an unforgettable Kop-end winner in stoppage time of the dramatic last-eight win over Borussia Dortmund。
Lovren, who signed a new long-term contract in April 2017, is approaching the 200-game mark for the Reds and has been a key defensive figure since Jürgen Klopp's arrival in October 2015.
He played in all-but one of the club's games during the 2017-18 Champions League campaign, which ended in defeat to Real Madrid in Kiev.
The defender then played every minute of Croatia's tilt at the 2018 World Cup which saw them reach the final, where they lost out to France.
Injuries restricted Lovren to 18 appearances for the club across all competitions in 2018-19 and he was an unused substitute for the final victory against Tottenham Hotspur in Madrid.
He did, though play his part in helping Liverpool reach the final, starting twice in Europe during the season, including the 2-0 home win over FC Porto in the quarter-final second leg.
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Rutger Oelsen Hauer is a Dutch/Frisian actor, born January 23, 1944 in Breukelen, the Netherlands.
The son of drama teachers Arend and Teunke, Hauer grew up in Amsterdam but at age 15 ran off to sea and spent a year scrubbing decks aboard a freighter. Returning home, he worked as an electrician and a carpenter for three years while attending drama classes at night school. He went on to join an experimental acting troupe, which he stayed with for five years before getting the lead role in the very successful 1969 television series Floris, a Dutch Ivanhoe-like medieval action show, which made his name in the Netherlands.
Film careerEdit
His career changed course when director Paul Verhoeven gave him the lead in Turkish Delight (1973) (based on the Jan Wolkers book of the same name).The movie found box-office favour abroad as well as at home and within two years, its star was invited to make his English language debut in the British film The Wilby Conspiracy (1975). This film was set in South Africa and starred Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier, and was an action melodrama with a focus on apartheid. Hauer's supporting role, however, was hardly enough to establish him in Hollywood's eyes, and he returned to Dutch film making for several years. In this period he made Katie Tippel (1975), and worked again with Verhoeven on Soldier of Orange (1979), and Spetters (1980). Incidentally these two films also paired Hauer with fellow international Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbé.
It was in the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Nighthawks (1981) that he finally made his American debut. Cast as a psychotically cold-blooded terrorist named Wulfgar, he made a strong impression, which was confirmed by a major role the following year as the chief android Roy Batty (pitted against Harrison Ford) in Ridley Scott's science fiction film Blade Runner (1982).
He went on to be the adventurer courting Gene Hackman's daughter (Theresa Russell) in Nicholas Roeg's poorly received Eureka (1983), the investigative reporter opposite John Hurt in Sam Peckinpah's The Osterman Weekend (1983) and the knight paired with Michelle Pfeiffer in the medieval romance Ladyhawke (1985). He continued to make an impression on audiences, especially in The Hitcher (1986), in which he was the mysterious Hitchhiker intent on murdering C. Thomas Howell's lone motorist and anyone who crossed his path en route. At the height of his fame he was even set to be cast as RoboCop in the film directed by old friend Verhoeven.
Italian director Ermanno Olmi mined the gentler, more mystic and soulful side of Hauer's personality in The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1989), the story of a lost soul who dies of drink in Paris while attempting to pay a debt of honour in a church. Phillip Noyce also attempted to capitalize, with far less success, on Hauer's spiritual qualities in the martial arts action adventure Blind Fury (1989). He returned to science fiction opposite Joan Chen with Salute of the Jugger (1990), in which he played a former champion in a post-apocalyptic world. He and Chen would again work together in two more science fictions films - Deadlock and Precious Find.
By the 1990s, Hauer was as well known for his humorous appearances in Guinness commercials as for his screen roles. It seemed that he had increasingly become involved in lower budget films, including Split Second, which was set in a flooded London after global warming, Omega Doom, another post-apocalyptic story in which he plays a soldier-robot, and recently New World Disorder, opposite Tara Fitzgerald. In between these lower budgeted films, he appeared in the music video "On a Night Like This" by Kylie Minogue. In the late 1980s and 1990s, as well as 2000, he also appeared in several British and American television productions, including Inside the Third Reich (as Albert Speer), [[Escape from Sobibor, Fatherland, Hostile Waters, Merlin, and The 10th Kingdom.
He has recently been on the comeback trail as small parts in big films, again playing villains with Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2003), Sin City (2005) and Batman Begins (2005)
Other activitiesEdit
Outside of acting as an environmentalist, he fought for the release of Greenpeace's co-founder, Paul Watson, who was convicted in 1994 for sinking an illegal Norwegian whaling vessel, and has set up an AIDS research foundation called the Rutger Hauer Starfish Foundation. He married his second wife, Ineke, in 1985, and has a daughter from his first marriage.
- Turkish Delight (1973)
- The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
- Katie Tippel (1975)
- Soldier of Orange (1979)
- Spetters (1980)
- Nighthawks (1981)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- The Osterman Weekend (1983)
- Ladyhawke (1985)
- Flesh & Blood (1985)
- The Hitcher (1986)
- Wanted: Dead or Alive (1987)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
- The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1989)
- Blind Fury (1989)
- Salute of the Jugger (1989)
- Split Second (1992)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
- Surviving the Game (1994)
- Fatherland (1994) (TV)
- Precious Find (1996)
- Crossworlds (1996)
- Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
- Blast (1997)
- Merlin (1998) (TV)
- The 10th Kingdom (2000) (TV)
- The Last Words of Dutch Schultz (2002)
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
- Salem's Lot (2004) (TV)
- Sin City (2005)
- Batman Begins (2005)
- Dracula III: Legacy (2005)
- The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
- 7eventy 5ive (2006)
- The Hunt for Eagle One (2006)
- Minotaur (2006)
- Mentor (2006)
- Moving McAllister (2007)
- Goal! 2: Living the Dream... (2007)
- Magic Flute Diaries (2008)
- Brideflight (2008)
- Barbarossa (2009)
- The Mill and the Cross (2010)
- Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
- Black Butterflies (2011)
- Alle for en (2011)
- The Rite (2011)
- De Heineken Ontvoering (2011)
- The Cardboard Village (2011)
- Dracula 3D (2012)
- True Blood (2013) (TV)
Personal quotes Edit
- "I am not really into science fiction at all because I tend to think that it's just another sort of game with the brain. The future, which is fun to think about, but it doesn't really attract me."
- "'Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical."
- "I don't know what the appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and I don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand all the fuss."
Selected film quotesEdit
- "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." - as Roy Batty in Blade Runner.


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Stairway to Heaven is considered by many to be one of the greatest songs of the rock era, many critics agree, Stairway to Heaven may very well be the greatest song of an era. I always find it interesting, if not sad, that Robert Plant himself, say some reports doesn't actually like this song, or it's not his favorite, or however the story goes. There has even been some legal controversy over the song in recent years.
No matter, for me, the song has always meant something. Something deep in my soul responds to the song… Even as a young girl, I have always loved this song, it resonated somewhere deep for me. While my daddy was playing Elvis, I was rockin' out to Zeppelin and the Eagles and Steve Miller Band.
Without explanation, this song has always meant something deep to me, it just was what it was. It was not until my late 40s, when I began a more spiritual journey that I came to realize or perhaps recognize the meaning behind the song, on a more esoteric level.
This theory is bold, but if you will humor me with some of time, allow me to show you what I have discovered. Since this is the first post like this for me, it will be a bit long, as I wish to include references.
(Note: this is a repost from another blog I write, I decided to pull this one back out and update it for a class I am currently taking.)
The song itself starts off slowly with acoustic instrumentation and gradually builds in 7 verses to and the energetic climax, as if on an upward journey. Which perfectly aligns our mental expectations to begin a journey on the stairway to heaven, as the title would indicate.
But, the important thought here, is the number 7.
According to G.A. Gaskell's "A Dictionary of the Sacred Languages of All Scriptures and Myths"
Note: Gaskell's is my reference for all materials in this post, unless otherwise noted. I have checked many, but not all of the source material referenced in this two volume set of highly valuable information. I check source materials, as they become relevant to my research and as some of these original texts are ancient, many of them are difficult to come by with my means.
Seven is the perfect number and signifies completion or consummation, it follows 6, which stands for completeness of a process. Applied chronologically, seven indicates the beginning and the ending of a cycle – "the alpha and the omega"
Referencing Gaskell's again, Swedenborg tells us, "Numbers in the word signify things"
This is an important concept to remember going forward. Hidden messages and symbols are everywhere!
The Bible mentions the number seven many times. Most Notably as the Sabbath.
On the Seventh day, the Lord rested from all his works
(The process of creation thereby complete).
Additionally Gaskell's references Adams, AEONS (twelve), Evolution, Involution, Libra, Sabbath, Tuat, Zodiac
Seventh Hour of the Night of the Taut:
This symbolizes the first period of evolution, after the close of the six periods of involution.
Let us go back to that word Sabbath for a moment. According to Gaskell's:
Sabbaths– a symbol of periodic states or conditions of the cosmic and soul life on the lower planes, or the higher
So, here again, we have a Sabbath at the end of a complete cycle.
Seven, is also the number of primary chakras in many Ancient as well as Various Modern practices in the East. These include Tantra, Yoga, Taoism, Buddhism, Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, Hinduism, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Jainism, Ayurveda Medicine, New Age Medicine, various esoteric practices, which we will collectively refer to as energetic theories.
Without getting side tracked into talking about chakras, the important thing here is that they should be viewed as 7 primary energy centers in the body. As a meditation aid in Yogic tradition, the Yogi progresses from lower chakras to the highest, while internalizing the journey of spiritual ascent (Think of a staircase along the spine, each step represented by a chakra) Each chakra is a stepping stone towards higher consciousness, culminating in the crown chakra or Sahasrara, the highest spiritual center or state of pure consciousness (Nirvana, Heaven)
So now our Stairway to Heaven has 7 verses, 7 being a mystical or important number in many traditions. Perhaps this is a fantastic coincidence, as Robert Plant himself denies the esoteric meaning of his lyrics. But, let us continue our review.
Our Stairway to Heaven now takes us on a journey, progressing in tempo (Energy) and additional instrumentation through 7 stairs or verses.
Before we move on, let's quickly see what Gaskell's says about our Stairway:
Staircase, Stairs – A symbol of evolution from a lower to a higher state
Once again, we have more symbols, and we have not even yet gotten to the verse.
I am sure we all have our own vision of Heaven, be it here on earth or someplace we conceive of post mortem. Let's just consult Gaskell's one more time, before we move on
Heaven – A symbol of the state of consciousness on the buddhic plane which is above the mental state
Heaven and Earth – Symbols of Spirit and Matter- The life and the form sides of manifestation
Ok, let's move on,
According to occult symbolism, there are 22 paths to heaven. Led Zeppelin cleverly composed this song with approx. 22 notes per verse (give or take).
22 is also the Number of Revelation. In the 22nd Chapter of John, he identifies himself as the Alpha and Omega which would be the first and last letters of the Greek Alphabet.
There are also 22 letters in the Hebrew Alphabet (which was composed to the Word of God).The kabbalah teaches that there are 22 paths between the Sephora and the Letters of the Hebrew alphabet are the building blocks of the universe.
In numerology, the number 22 is often called the Master Builder.
The number 22 is the gnostic key to revelation in the Bible, as revealed in Isaiah 22.22
I could go on… but I believe I have made my point about the number 22, the point is, if unintended, our approx. 22 notes per verse give us yet another mystical coincidence.
Let's take a look at the first verse:
There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
Let us first consult Gaskell's for any hidden meanings
Gold- A symbol of spiritual qualities of the buddhic plane. Divine Wisdom; celestial Truth. The endowments of the soul which are above he mental plane. The "treasures in Heaven"
In Revelations xxi 18, we find
"And the city was pure gold, like unto pure glass"
I would also like to highlight the use of the word lady here as the feminine principle here must be addressed. Let's we consult Gaskell's once again:
Feminine Principle– The passive and receptive aspect of the manifest duality. Space, Matter, and Wisdom (Buddhi) have this feminine aspect and are symbolized by the great Goddesses in all the polytheistic religions. The present phase of evolution is directed from the buddhic plane which receives the transmuted results of experience and yields up the higher emotions (feminine) to the aspiring lower self-incarnate of the soul
I know, that is a lot to assimilate. Let's just for the sake of this conversation, consider the feminine principle to be associate with Wisdom, which is a deep inner knowing or intuition. Once again, let's quickly consult Gaskell's
Wisdom (Feminine) is a symbol of the principle of buddhi, or the intuitive and transmuting activities of the buddhic plane, operating through higher mind and upon the lower nature.
The very first line; a lady who's sure, sounds to me like Wisdom or Intuition
There's a lady who's sure (Intuition)
All that glitters is gold (Wisdom, Enlightenment)
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
In Alchemy, turning Lead into gold is symbolic of the quest for enlightenment.
In the first chakra, we are fools, materialistic in nature, without wisdom or true values.
In Tarot, we have first, the Fool who does not know the way to enlightenment but partakes in a personal journey to get there.
The Arcanum, "The Fool" according to Meditations on the Tarot, (A book written anonymously and published posthumously in 1980), Teaches us transcendental consciousness and it warns of its peril.
Indeed, we know that with great Wisdom comes great responsibility and the perils of ignoring this warning are in every single epic story ever told, be it a Historical, Literary, or Hollywood Reference.
As materialistic fools on the Hero's Journey, we believe that we can buy our way into heaven. Greed is where we start on the Journey to enlightenment.
So now, we find ourselves seeking Wisdom and Enlightenment on a journey to find it on our Stairway to Heaven.
All that Glitters is Gold, could have a dual meaning here, for in alchemy, we turn led into gold, but as the fool, we can be attracted to the Glitter on the way. (Think 7 deadly sins) For as we begin our Journey towards recognizing our own power, we are each tempted along the way. (The story of Star Wars is such a Powerful example of the forces of Good and Evil and the temptations each of us face on our Hero's Journey)
The Magician, in Tarot tradition is the Alpha and the Omega, the Magician has mastered all of the energy systems, he is the culmination of the journey, the soul that has mastered his manifestation on earth. He has mastered the four directions and represents the culmination of all the other parts of the journey. He is Jesus, Buddha, Mohammad, Moses. He represents the mastery of self in the body. The integration of Body-Mind-Spirit-Soul. He represents Heaven on Earth. He represents all of the great Masters.
Let us consult Meditations on the Tarot on the Magician
To perceive and to know, to try and be able to are all different things. There are mirages above as there are mirages below; you only know that which is verified by the agreement of all forms of experience in its totality- experiences of the senses, moral experiences, psychic experience, the collective experience of other seekers for truth, and finally the experience of those whose knowing merits the title of wisdom and whose striving has been crowned by the title of Saint. Academia and the Church stipulate methodical and moral conditions for one who desires to progress. Carry them out strictly, before and after each flight into the region beyond the domain of work and effort. If you do this, you will be a sage and a mage. If you do not do this- you will only be a charlatan!
I know some of this is deep stuff, so let me break it down for you, having read the entire chapter. The author invites us to think of the Major Arcana of the Tarot as authentic symbols. They conceal and reveals their sense at one and the same time. Since the Magician is the culmination of all the Arcanum or the "Arcanum of Arcana" he reveals that which is necessary to be known and to will in order to enter the school of the mysteries. (In this case, the Tarot) He reveals to us
Learn at first concentration without effort; transform work into play; make every yoke that you have accepted easy and every burden that you carry light
Regardless of which Religious Master you choose as your beckon of hope, their teachings reveal all of what is revealed above by the Magician. Even Pop Psychology and Culture itself is finally catching on to the idea of meditation or prayer (concentration without effort), making work out of your passion, and letting go of all the shit we carry around with us (confession any one?) We all need to get out of our heads (Monkey brains) in order to let intuition (wisdom) and creativity come forth. We need to be like water, as Bruce Lee tells us and allow the feelings to flow through us without attaching to them (or grasping, says Buddha) In order to do this, we must control the ego, once we control the ego, we are free to experience life without attaching ourselves to any experience, every yolk becomes light.
All of the great masters tell us these things, in various ways, with lots of colorful language. Many of us are easily distracted by life, so the universal wisdom designed many ways to enlighten us. (22 perhaps?)
I am making some subtle and some not so subtle references to various artistic, religious and philosophical works because I believe within them all lies the same message. Music has been my holy grail, but once you open the door, you start to see the story unfolding in everything that has been passed down through history.
In Tarot, the magician is also associated with the first chakra and represents the bridge between the spirit world and humanity. Historically, the image of the magician has been associated with commerce; "With a word," the magician can get people to part with their money.
The Magician is also associated with the number one, the number for beginnings. This is we find the first step on our journey on the Stairway to heaven.
Wisdom comes through intuition. We cannot get true wisdom from any false source. There is no other way to get there than to take the path yourself, the Hero's Journey, the Vision Quest. Each of us a fool on our own journey of spiritual unfoldment. Once you get a glimpse of true wisdom, of all that encompasses Heaven on Earth it becomes a call to action. You are driven to seek more answers, by a force greater than yourself and your work becomes your passion. The truth is so awesome and so powerful and so outside of the realm of our current human mind's capacity to understand (Opening Pandora's Box truly does blow your mind) one trying to describe merely the glimpse they have seen can only do so with symbols, metaphors, analogy – these are just seeds, clues, if you will, because the Truth of our own power is so great, most of us truly have no idea how much we don't even begin to know.
Through meditation, (or prayer) we learn to still our mind (the over thinking, over criticizing, over judgmental, over analytical mind) we learn to relax our mind, which allows us to be present in the moment. When we stop the endless commentary we change our polarity.
In one polarity, (associated with masculine energy) we are great projectors, always creating ideas in our minds and projecting our wants and desires onto the world through our actions and words. Whether we realize it or not, we do manifest our own future. We do not have control of all of our circumstances, because we are co-creating alongside of everyone else who came before us and creates with us, against us, and everywhere in between.
When we meditate, we change our polarity, we become receivers (feminine energy) with a quiet mind, free of the ego's endless commentary, and we are free to receive true Wisdom. Wisdom, as we have learned is intuition. It is that sense of knowing that comes without proof. It is the integration of our own personal experiences, knowledge, sensory experiences, and perhaps even all the experiences that comes to us through our 22 pairs of DNA. (There is that number again) Wisdom is the integration of everything. It also includes the collective consciousness. Think of it like this, we are all co-creating, we are all manifesting our own experiences on our own journey, but none of us lives in a vacuum. We have to weave our experiences alongside everyone else on the planet.
If you believe in God, this is what we call his divine plan, the great tapestry of how each and every soul's experience weaves itself together to form a whole of our planetary existence. Divine creation, the divine plan, whichever dogma you consider, not one of us is a solo existence and therefore, there is always something outside of our control. A Master plan of everyone's co-created experience.
When we meditate, we catch glimpses of this divine blue print and begin receiving wisdom in the form of intuition and a deep knowing, or understanding that is beyond words. It is my contention that many artists and masters alike have left seeds; pieces of the puzzle of our existence, if we only stop long enough and stop our monkey brains off long enough to allow ourselves to receive a glimpse of the vast greatness that is the truth, or Wisdom or Heaven on Earth. Even when you do glimpse it, you find that you must constantly wrestling with the ego to catch another glimpse of her (wisdom) beauty.
Yoda tells us that difference between a master and a beginner is that the master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.
I say this so that we do not think of the mind as the enemy. The mind is a most valuable resource, for the mind facilitates integration of all these sources. The mind extrapolates the sensory data it receives, along with the data received along the body's super information highway, or spinal cord, where it collects information on your health, your respiration, your diet, your air quality, temperature etc. It constantly collects and assimilates tons of information, truly a marvel of a super computer. It assimilates all of this information with all of the information collected by your senses, and all of the information contained within our DNA, all the memories, smells, sights, sounds associated with every part of any and all existence in our DNA is contained in the nucleus of each cell. All of this information is collected and stored and sorted and referenced constantly.
But, like I said, most of us don't even know what we don't know and we are too distracted with all the glittery stuff that distracts us from examining what the great masters have laid out for us. The entire idea point in our embodiment on earth is to experience all that life on planet earth has to offer. Spirituality, or Religion for that matter becomes a practice, an active state of balancing our own creative efforts (ego driven) with the wisdom that comes from recognizing that we are all part of the whole and each of us plays a part in the tapestry of creation. Through experience we gain enlightenment. More of the correspondences come to light, the symbols become living, breathing steps on the path to enlightenment, regardless if your path is through religion, yoga, martial arts, arts, history, science or math, the messages of the greatest masters all tell us the same things if we look closely.
We must each set out on our own adventure. We must each face our own demons and fears, we must each chase our own dream, or not. We each have a choice. We each then become fools on the journey, not even knowing or understanding what we don't know. Each of us on a quest, to be all that we can be on this journey. Some of us choose comfort over work. Some of us fail and fail again and never give up hope. Each of us a magician in our own right, but first, we must master all of our fears and demons and ego and emotions. We must not grasp onto things, or allow emotional attachments to clog up the flow of information. We are all energetic beings. When we grasp too much to our material existence, we leave no room for our spiritual, energetic selves to commune on the higher planes of existence.
This is why all traditions pray, they teach us to focus on something in order to stop thinking, so that we can hear the voice of God, so that true wisdom has a chance to send her current through us.
The union of the Father-Son and Holy Spirit is nothing more than the integration of our body (son- this is where we find our sensory experiences) – Mind (Father) (Where we integrate all of the experiences) and Spirit (energetic body, where we get our Wisdom), Our souls, the integration of all three, the union of all, the inclusion of everything else; are eternal, regardless of which formal or esoteric dogma you follow.
As you can see, this tiny first verse whops a powerful punch of information, when you take a moment to consider how rich it is with ancient symbolism.
The inverse of the Magician in Tarot symbolizes deceit, lack of energy, dishonesty, ill intentions. With this in mind, we come to understand that each step along the way, we have choices, we choose noble path or we can chose its opposite (think 7 deadly sins and 7 virtues) both paths lead up the same staircase.
As we learned already, when we get to the top of the stairway of heaven, to the pearly gates of heaven, if you will, the Masters of each of the great religions and ancient traditions has outlined for us the noble path. Having reached the gate without the Noble path, charlatans shall all be turned away. Guilt is not a light yolk to carry and therefore, the ignoble path allows only so much access to personal power.
The first chakra by the way is associate with earth or our physical identity. It is the manifestation of the Son in Christian faith, it is the energetic center of our earthly body. So the 1 or the first step, is about learning to be present in our body and to fully experience life here on earth.
And that ladies and gentlemen is just a small taste of all the hidden meanings and messages inside of Stairway to Heaven. Since this is a lengthy topic, I have decided to break it up into multiple posts. Tomorrow, I will analyze verse 2 of this epic masterpiece that is Stairway to Heaven.
I hope you are intrigued enough to follow along with me. In the meantime, what are some of your favorite songs? Do any of them make you feel spiritual? Have you ever looked at music like this before? I would love to hear from you, post your comments below.
You can read part 2 here


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This article is a guild information page for Elitism of Chamber of Aspects Europe.
The contents herein are entirely player made and in no way represent official World of Warcraft history or occurrences which are accurate for all realms. The characters and events listed are of an independent nature and applied for roleplaying, fictional, speculative, or opinions from a limited playerbase only. Guild pages must comply with the guild page policy.
Forged in the brains of men, came a gathering. Nomads, fanatics and wanderers of the likes who left their homes with nothing but a dream, a dream to create something better. Conceived in the mirth and darkness, a small tribe was mustered. Whispers were rife and word spread like wildfire of a new and upcoming culmination of a superior breed. Soon the small tribe merged into a more powerful force. Elitism was formed, A culmination of the very best that horde can afford.
We are looking for a few good men and women... Our demands are great - but the returns are many.
Do you have what it takes to be a part of something bigger then yourself?
If you seek challenge, inspiration, and strive for excellence then Elitism may be the right place for you. In Elitism, you will work with some of the most skilled people, working together to create a successful entity. If you share our goals, and have the skills, we want to hear from you.
Joining Elitism is a serious commitment. Elitism is a collective in which every member is valued as high as the next one and so is the time they put into this, we expect every member to be there for each other and perform at 100% of his or her ability when needed.
Elitism is a team in every sense of the word, we work and operate as a team, there are no rooms for individualists or internal conflicts.
We ride together, we fight together, we fall together and we rise together.
You should have carefully read all of, understand and agree to Our Rules and the Membership requirements. Submit a complete Application Form in the Elitism forum. Your application will then be discussed between our officers and the concerned class leader after which it will be decided if you can be accepted as a prospect. Once approved, you will then begin a trial period where we will assess you based on your personality, your abilities, skills, raid attendance, raid behaviour, guild behaviour, attitude towards loot and integration with the guild. After the end of the trial period it will then be discussed between the officers and the concerned class leader whether or not you are fit to become a Elitism legionnaire.
- Minimum age requirement to apply for Elitism is 18 years.
- Level 80.
- Able to attend at least three raids each week.
- Having at least one required raid spec in your dual specc.
- Install the compulsory addons requested.
- Maturity and able to tolerate constructive feedback.
Our rules
Elitism always comes first. Others second. All members of Elitism, regardless of rank, are expected to educate and critically evaluate themselves in accordance with the values and principles of Elitism. We will, in all our actions and conducts, express the basic values of Elitism:
- Discipline
- Professionalism
- Trustworthiness
- Perseverance and Dedication
- Comradeship and Respect
- Responsibility
- Personal example
- Representativeness
- A liking for work well done
Membership and activity
Joining Elitism is a serious commitment. Elitism is, first and foremost, a family, team and a collective. We are an entity in which every member is valued as high as the next one and so is the time they put into this, we expect every member to be there for each other and perform at 100% of his or her ability when needed.
We work and operate as a team, we help and take care of each other and we are able to see the big picture and take the need of our fellow guildies into consideration. there are no rooms for individualists. We ride together, we fight together, we fall together and we rise together. We leave nobody behind.
We DO NOT claim that, just like most other guilds, we raid 24/7, or that our members lack a social life outside of World of Warcraft, nor do we aim to objectify our members just so that the guild has a fast progression rate to the cost of the happiness and wellbeing of them.
But it does not mean that we do not have regular raids or regard them as less important, on the contrary, the main idea is to beat the game content in a less time consuming, smarter and more intense way, and to make this happen we are solely looking for smart and skilled members, able to see the bigger picture.
Elitism is a raiding guild, this means that members must attend raids on a regular basis. We need our members to be active in order to succeed, so if you want to apply make sure that you are able to attend the minimum required number of raids and if you have signed up for a raid, we expect you to show up. We are a small guild with high attendance. In the case that you are going to miss a raid, you need to be responsible enough let us know ahead of time. We are not interested in someone who is going to flake out and not show up.
It is your responsibility to know your class inside out, it means that you take the time needed and search for information regarding your class, your talents and its abilities, if possible respecc. and improve.
Visit the forum once a day before you log into WoW. As a member of Elitism we encourage you to visit our forum and take part of the information there and stay updated about the matters that concerns Elitism such as upcoming raids, boss strategies and raid times. If there was a relevant bit of information posted on the forums and you missed it - it will affect our progression. Not complying with information/suggestions posted will not be accepted and regarded as inactivity.
The main raids are four times a week and we expect and encourage our members to attend as low as three raids each week. We strongly encourage in-guild grouping whenever possible, as well as helping each other with tradeskills and heroic farmings. All raids will be combat logged and our performance will be analyzed. It is your responsibility to know the fight strategies for the bosses that will be encountered. Check the Raid Calender for exact destination, date and respect the raid times.
If there is a raid being organized or has been planned and you have signed up, log in 15 minutes before the raid starts, use those 15 minutes to prepare, repair and re-locate to the instance entrance. If you for any reason can not join any of the raids organized, make sure you sign into the Raid Calender and let us know, otherwise you will be accounted for. Stay updated about the raid times, raids go live at the stated time in Raid Calender. This means that you are logged in ahead of that time, prepared, repaired and available for invite.
|Learning Encounter
We kill, we distribute the loots according to a predetermined attendance system and we move on. The loot will be distributed by the raid leader and will be based upon these principles:
- Raid Attendance System Points, High attendance = precedence
- Members before prospects
- The member who will gain most from the upgrade
Patterns, schematics, recipes, materials or any other items that are BoP will be distributed to members who meet the required skill level. Patterns, schematics, recipes, materials or items for Class sets that are BoE and are not required by the raid members are to be banked in the guild bank so that it can be given to the highest member in need.
Attendance And Effort Point System - AEP
In order to make the loot system effective and fair, an Attendance and Effort System will be used and AE Points will be given to each raiding member, based only on the Time and Effort they put in, the amount of Attendance and Effort Points will then be used as a pointer and currency for a specific loot and will be subtracted from his/her AEP-pool, this way we can make sure that everyone can get a fair chance to get what they need.
Attendance and Effort Points will be given for
- On time and Prepared bonus - Repaired, loaded with consumables
- Hour of attendance
- Hour of standby
- Boss kill
- Complete Run bonus - [Hour of attendance + Boss kill]
- First Time Boss Kill For Guild
- Learning encounter run - Getting to know the new encounters before the actual run, Wiping on new boss attempts.
Guild progression
Wrath of the Lich King
- Naxxramas - Heroic: Cleared
- Naxxramas - Normal: Cleared
- Vault of Archavon - Normal: Cleared
- Vault of Archavon - Heroic: Cleared
- Obsidian Sanctum - Normal+1D: Cleared
- Obsidian Sanctum - Heroic: Cleared
- The Eye of Eternity - Normal: Cleared
- Ulduar - Normal: The Siege of Ulduar and The Antechamber of Ulduar Cleared
For Recruitment info /w Officers ingame or visit http://elitism.nu
- Benvolio
- Illuminat
- Moofish
- Sauzer (Wowwiki updater)
- Skinme
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