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Legend of the Temple of Nine Wells

Before the Beginning of Beginnings
Before the Birth of the Aeons
Before even the Great Night of Time
In Rhythm and Motion
The Source of Sources awakened
and Life stirred
From One came Two, Spirit and Matter
Inextricably, Eternally Merged.
The Two Holy Primal Powers of Goddess and God
Attained Self-Awareness.
In Sacred Union and Divine Embrace,
Together they begat Mind and Cosmos
and the very Spirit of Life itself.
From their Union came forth
Those Central Sparks of Light, Love and Life.
Once again, She gave birth
That Great Womb of Worlds,
Once again the Twain became One.
The Great Mother gave birth to the Child of Promise
and the Cycle of Existance began.

Many are the Names and Aspects of the Great Mother,
Yet She is One.
Many are the Names and Aspects of the God,
Yet He is One.
Polar Powers, Eternal Balance
Goddess and God,
In Union they are One.

Then Light, Love and Life
In Triune expression
Flashed forth Seven Rays and Nine Vessels to hold and contain Them
To concentrate, emanate and dispense
The varied blessings pouring forth
From the Source of All Sources
And those Blessed Wellsprings we invoke here this night…

The Well of Wisdom
The Well of Healing
The Well of Empowerment
The Well of Magick
The Well of Love
The Well of Understanding
The Well of Beauty
The Well of Peace
And The Well of Wholeness

From Within to Without
Let these Rays shine forth from this place
And may all who join us in worship at the Temple of Nine Wells
And partake of these sacraments
Share in their Blessings, Virtues and Delights.

So Mote It Be!

 

Rev. HP Rich Ravish
Temple of Nine Wells – ATC ©2001 

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Elan Sassoon Opens Mizu Salons

 

 Partners with Mandarin Oriental in Boston and Bumble Vets in New York

BOSTON, October 16 /PRNewswire/ 

Mizu Boston, the first of two new salons by Elan Sassoon opens today in the new Mandarin Oriental, Boston hotel. Mizu New York will follow in early November at its tony Park Avenue locale, headed up by famed Bumble and bumble veterans, Damian Santiago and Michael “Vaughn” Acord, who partnered with Sassoon on the venture.

“My goal is to create the best salon possible,” Elan Sassoon, said. “We recruited a group of talented stylists who are guided and inspired by design, then created an environment that promotes peace, balance and an appreciation of beauty.”

Both locations invested in top architects-Niall McLaughlin Architects in Boston and Leslie Jill Hanson in New York-to achieve the desired salon aesthetic. Each space incorporates experience-enhancing technology like Myvu glasses that offer television and movie entertainment in the stylist’s chair, WiFi, and use of complimentary laptops available to every client. To further streamline the experience, at the end of an appointment, wireless check-out systems will complete any service and product transactions while sitting at the stylist station, shortening time spent waiting to pay at reception.

Mizu Boston and Mizu New York will offer haircutting, hair color/highlighting, blow dry, and up-do services starting at US$125 for a cut and US$250 for color. Plans are in the works for additional salons in Los Angeles, London and Dubai. A new salon academy, one of only two in the world to offer dormitories, is slated to open in Boston fall 2009.

About Mizu Salons

Created by Elan Sassoon, Mizu salons blend the finest talent in hairstyling with modern architectural aesthetic and function. Located inside Mandarin Oriental, Boston and at 505 Park Avenue in New York City, Mizu’s architectural design and international talent attract world-wide attention and celebrity clientele. By creating beautiful hair, providing intuitive service and staying ahead of industry technology, Mizu salons will mark a new era in hairstyling and the salon experience. For more information, hours, services and locations, visit www.mizuboston.com or www.mizunewyork.com.

Web site: http://www.mizuboston.com

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Water is a network of hydrogen-bonded molecules.

Water is a network of hydrogen-bonded molecules. It can form numerous structures, depending on how the individual molecules bond together.The most recent scientific findings indicate that biological organisms prefer the six-sided (hexagonal) ring-structure, found naturally in snow water.
This Hexagonal Water forms a liquid crystalline lattice that is involved in cellular communication, intracellular water movement, enzyme function and many other metabolic processes.
The amount of Hexagonal Water in the body has been correlated with aging. It has also been found to form the initial layer of water surrounding healthy cells. On the other hand, unorganized water has been described surrounding diseased and abnormal cells.
As shown above, Hexagonal Water is composed of six individual molecules of water, held together by common hydrogen bonds. This unique water structure is capable of rapid penetration within the cells of the body. Most tap water and bottled water is composed of large water conglomerates which are too large to move freely into the cells. It must be re-structured within the body to penetrate the cells (a time-consuming and energy-consuming process).

For many years, Dr. Mu Shik Jhon has known that the regular consumption of Hexagonal Water could provide innumerable health benefits.

 

 

Measurement of Hexagonal Water Structures and Determination of Healthy Cells
One of the tools Dr. Mu Shik John used extensively in his research of hexagonal water is Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). NMR has the ability to measure molecular size and has been recently employed to determine the structure of the water inside the body.Dr. Jhon clearly demonstrates that the NMR spin lattice relaxation time of the protons in healthy cells is different from that of unhealthy cells.
The scientific consensus of those scientists familiar with cellular water structure and NMR is that the water environment surrounding unhealthy cells is less structured and thus able to move more freely than the water environment around healthy cells.
According to Dr. Jhon’s (and other researchers), hexagonal water forms a protective layer immediately around healthy proteins. This same type of protection does not exist around unhealthy proteins in the body.

 
What is Hexagonal Water?
Hexagonal Water

 

is a specific arrangement of individual water molecules where 6 H2O units consistently link to form a ring-like structure. This unique arrangement is the basis of a more complex crystalline network that is formed when numerous hexagonal units join together.All water contains a certain percentage of hexagonal units – some sources more than others. The percentage of hexagonal units appears to depend on a number of factors, including the energetic influences that water is exposed to. For example: chlorine, fluoride and many pollutants typically found in municipal water sources reduce the number of hexagonal units. Tap water typically has a very low percentage of hexagonal structures.

On the other hand, there are a number of places throughout the world where the water has a high concentration of hexagonal structures. Many of these places are known as “healing springs.” Others are known for producing inhabitants that live long and disease-free lives.

 

 

 

How do we know when water is hexagonally structured?
Nuclear Magnet Resonance (NMR) is one of very few methods that can verify molecular size. NMR analysis shows that ordinary tap water is composed of large molecular units (between 12 and 20 individual H2O units). These unorganized molecular conglomerations are not nearly as supportive of biological functions as Hexagonal Water is now being shown to be.

 

 

 

 


Hexagonal Water moves easily into the cellular environment

There is significant evidence that Hexagonal Water moves within biological organisms with greater ease. It appears to enhance nutrient absorption and the removal of metabolic wastes. (Many who consume Hexagonal Water report a cleansing reaction within days or weeks.) This may be due to the smaller size of the molecular unit and its ability to enter and exit the cellular environment with greater ease. It may also be due to the specific organization of the hexagonal network which appears to enhance cellular communication and to support other structures within biological organisms. For example: according to The Water Puzzle, Hexagonal Water is found surrounding healthy DNA, whereas unorganized water is found surrounding the DNA of diseased tissue. 
Hexagonal Water enhances metabolic efficiency
There is also evidence that Hexagonal Water activates enzymes to a greater degree than ordinary water – and that it enhances metabolic efficiency. 
The Water Puzzle
Dr. Jhon explains why Hexagonal Water is energetically more powerful and why it has the capacity to improve metabolic efficiency. According to his book, Hexagonal Water has the capacity to perform more work and to transfer a greater amount of energy within the body. 
Hexagonal Water decreases as we age
We know that the total amount of water within the human body decreases as we age, but it is also being shown that the amount of Hexagonal Water decreases as well. In one significant study conducted in Japan, Magnetic Resonance Imaging was used to show that the amount of structured water in the body is directly correlated with age. This same study presents evidence that biological molecules require structured water in order to perform their functions. According to the paper, when biological molecules are found in unstructured water, they are just compounds – they have a decreased ability to perform their intended functions.

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1. Make me a channel of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring your love.
Where there is injustice, your pardon, Lord,
And where there’s doubt, true faith in you.
2. Make me a channel of your peace.
Where there’s despair in life, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness only light,
And where there’s sadness ever joy.
3. O Master, grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved, as to love, with all my soul.
4. Make me a channel of your peace.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
In giving of ourselves that we receive,
And in dying that we’re born to eternal life.
1. Hazme un instrumento de tu paz,
donde haya odio lleve yo tu amor,
donde haya injuria, tu perdón, Señor,
donde haya duda fe en ti.
2. Hazme un instrumento de tu paz,
que lleve tu esperanza por doquier,
donde haya oscuridad lleve tu luz,
donde haya pena tu gozo, Señor.
3. Maestro, ayúdame a nunca buscar
el ser consolado sino consolar,
ser entendido sino entender,
ser amado sino yo amar.
4. Hazme un instrumento de tu paz,
es perdonando que nos das perdón,
es dando a todos que tú nos das,
y muriendo es que volvemos a nacer.

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May today there be peace within.
May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.
May you use those gifts that you have received and pass on the love that has been given to you.
May you be confident knowing you are a child of God. Let this presence settle into your bones and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us.

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Mizu Salon & Academy of Aesthetics
Keywords: Entrepreneur Mind and Body Business Artist
http://www.boldfacers.com/

Elan Sassoon, what are you doing around here in icy New England? You’re an LA dude, reared on coolness, sunshine and beach parties. You’re the son of Vidal Sassoon. Yeah, Vidal. As in: “If you don’t look good, we don’t look good.” As in: You graduated from Beverly Hills High. As in: Your neighbor was Bob Dylan and his son, Jakob, your best bud. As in: What the hell are you doing here?
But here you are! You’re opening a swishy new salon, Mizu, in an even swishier new hotel, the Mandarin Oriental—tomorrow! You’ve bought space on Commonwealth Avenue to build the world’s first school of hair design and skincare, the Academy of Aesthetics by Elan Sassoon. You moved your wife and two children here to be freezing with the rest of us.

Welcome, guy! You’ll fit in. You have that Yankee work ethic, for sure. How could you not? Your dad was sent to an orphanage in England, just doors away from his mother, who sent him there because she could not afford to feed him. When he was 14, she took him to a neighborhood barbershop to get a job. “We don’t have any jobs,” the owner said. “Thank you, sir,” young Vidal replied. “I understand.” After which he took his mother’s hand, opened the door for her and escorted her. “Wait.” The owner said. “I like your manners. I think we can find work for you here.”
And so begat the gazillionaire empire of Vidal Sassoon, a collection of international salons, products and the infamous geometric “bob.” Vidal bore four children but only took one of them on industry trips to fashion weeks and shows—you. And despite the mansion and trappings of new money, your father insisted his kids work. Hard. You and your brother David worked construction, pouring cement in the summer. You were expected to earn their own money to buy things.

After graduating from American University, you chased Hollywood. You produced nine films, starring actors such as Sam Gallagher and Lara Flynn Boyle, and were nominated for an award at Cannes (losing to Ed Burns “The Brothers McMullen.”) But you couldn’t leave your roots behind, could you, Elan? Hair. You had a thing for hair.
So tomorrow is a big deal for you. It comes after years working in the beauty-care industry (you headed up Louis Vuitton’s salons, and started and sold a product line with your mom, Beverly). And it comes with great pride. It’s not just that you’re continuing the work your dad began. You have plans for eight more schools and a product line. It’s that you’re doing it on your own. We’re glad to have you with us, Elan. Now maybe you can convince your pal Jakob to move here, too.  

 
Mizu
Mandarin Oriental Hotel
776 Boylston Street
Boston
(617) 585-MIZU
www.Mizuboston.com

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Real Estate Investing

The Many Benefits of House Swapping

By Hayli Morrison
Posted in Featured, tax benefits, Article, home selling strategies, real estate news, Real Estate Tips


So arson is not really your thing and you don’t feel like reading over hundreds of essay entries. How else are you going to unload that house? One option is joining the thousands of people looking into house swaps. We’ve discussed temporary house swaps for vacation purposes, but a growing number of people are choosing to make those swaps permanent.

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article outlining just how popular this has become. We’re talking 16,000 listings as a combined total between house swap sites like GoSwap.org, OnlineHouseTrading.com, DaytonaHomeTrader.com and DomuSwap.com. Popular free online classified ads site Craigslist saw a 56-percent increase in “home swap” ads during 2007 with 7,392 such ads listed, according to WSJ.

These house swaps are working over short or long distances, usually with realtors or some type of transaction manager involved. It is recommended that a clause be included in the terms and agreements of each contract that final sale is pending on the same-day closing of both houses. This prevents either homeowner from getting snowed and coming up short-handed.

GoSwap.org has a fairly comprehensive Frequently Asked Questions section that briefly outlines some of the tax implications of swapping houses. If ineligible for a tax-deferred 1031 exchange, the homeowners may want to reasonably adjust the home’s asking price – say, by relying on the lowest of several home appraisers’ reports – and thus reducing their capital gains tax obligation. Obviously, the “asking price” of the home can be tweaked (within reason) because it is of little consequence in a housing swap.

The benefits of swapping houses are many. In addition to tax benefits, it can allow homeowners to skirt around broker’s fees – typically 4% to 7%. Still, roughly 13% of the listings on DomuSwap.com were listed and handled by brokers. Housing swaps also make it more possible for people to move up to bigger living quarters, provided they can find someone with a bigger house who is wanting to downsize. Under current market conditions, it may not be terribly difficult to find someone who meets that criteria but has been unable to find a buyer. House swapping is an innovative new trend that seems to provide a win-win scenario for all involved.

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Can’t Sell Your House? Swap It!

Tough Real Estate Market Leads Owners To Try Home-Swapping

ORTONVILLE, Mich.,

 

http://www.onlinehousetrading.com

Kelli Clifton and her 14-month-old daughter, McKenzie, stand outside their lake home in Ortonville, Mich., June 20, 2007. Clifton and her husband are looking to swap their three-bedroom ranch for a larger home near good schools by putting their house up for swap on Craigslist. (AP/C.V. Tines, Detroit News)

In-depth features on U.S. markets, taxes, employment and the Federal Reserve.

A tough real estate market that has seen homes languish with for-sale signs in their yards has pushed some Michigan homeowners to try to swap their residences.
Home swaps more typically are used by vacationers, who arrange to temporarily exchange homes. But owners looking for bigger — or even smaller homes — are trying to set up permanent swaps, The Detroit News reported Saturday.
Rob and Kelli Clifton want to swap their three-bedroom ranch on Lake Louise in Ortonville, about 37 miles northwest of Detroit, for a larger home near good schools. The home offers with 55 feet of private shoreline, a big backyard and a new kitchen.

“It’s not like we haven’t tried our best to sell this house,” said Kelli Clifton, whose home also remains for sale on the traditional market. “We’ve offered everything, dropped the price. If this does the trick, that’s fine by us.”
U.S. home prices fell for a fourth consecutive month in April, with all regions showing the effect of the housing slowdown, according to the most recent figures in a housing index released Tuesday by Standard & Poor’s.
Boston, Detroit, Phoenix, San Diego and Washington, D.C., showed the greatest year-over-year declines in prices. Meanwhile, prices rose in Charlotte, N.C., Seattle and Portland, Ore., versus last year but those increases were moderating.
Elaine and Allen Putvin, of Macomb County’s Shelby Township, are ready to downsize. They want to trade their four-bedroom colonial where they raised three children for a smaller home closer to Allen Putvin’s job.
The Putvins also still have their home for sale on the traditional market. But like the Cliftons, they put their house up for swap on the Craigslist community Web site with details of what they hope to get.
In May, the Detroit-area’s Craigslist had one or two swap listings each week. As of Friday, 13 such ads had been posted in the past week. On Saturday, the “Housing Swap” section had at least five more posted.
A swap would work with both sides agreeing on a price and cutting checks to each other. But the owners can avoid the chance of getting stuck with two mortgages as well as real estate commissions.

Real estate agents, however, note that swapping limits the choice of houses to buy. And while the homeowners may save money on commissions, they often spend money on an attorney to help close the deal.

http://www.tm1031exchange.com

http://www.homelink-usa.com

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HUMAN PAPILLOMA VIRUS (HPV)      *HPV infection is a sexually transmitted viral disease effecting primarily the cervix, but also the male genitalia, oral cavity, and esophagus D’Souza G, 2007).  Viral changes in cervical cells can often be detected on routine Pap tests.  The virus is more commonly seen in anemic younger women (>30 years old), contraceptive hormone users, smokers, alcohol users,  the poor, during late pregnancy, and in periods of low immunity (Moreno V, 2002, Santos C, 2001, Broker TR, 2001, Thomson SW, 2000). 
     *HPV has been found in association with low folic acid and antioxidant micronutrient status (Hernandez BY, 2003, Kwasniewska A, 2002 & 1997, Harper JM, 1994).  Folic acid has been shown to have a protective effect against the development of HPV, and improving folate status in people at risk of getting infected or who are already infected may have a beneficial impact in the prevention of cervical cancer (Piyathilake CJ, 2004).
     *Many cases of HPV resolve on their own but certain strains, such as HPV-16, 18, 30, 33, and 45, are considered more aggressive and may lead to cervical cancer.  HPV-DNA testing has shown that virtually all cervical cancers test positive for HPV with over 90% of them testing positive for HPV-16, 18, and 45 (Munoz N, 2003, Ngelangel C, 1998).  Women who are HIV positive are particularly vulnerable to HPV and often have unrelenting reoccurrences that quickly progress to invasive cervical cancer (Lee YC, 2000).  HPV is so common in HIV positive women, it is now listed as an AID’s defining illness.  HPV is at epidemic proportions, although early detection through Pap tests is helping to reduce its occurrence and deaths from cervical cancer worldwide (Lambert EC, 2001).  Cervical cancer kills approximately 300,000 women worldwide.  Recent studies have also strongly linked certain strains of HPV, especially HPV-16,  with the pathogenesis of squamous cell carcinoma of the throat in both men and women (D’Souza G, 2007).
      *A major breakthrough in the prevention of cervical cancer has recently been made as there are now two approved vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, that will provide substantial protection against the most common high risk types of HPV (HPV16 and 18, which cause about 70% of cervical cancers, and HPV 6 and 11, which cause approximately 90% of genital warts) in girls and young women (9-26 years of age) who have not yet been exposed to the virus. While the vaccines provide almost 100% protection against the above four HPV strains, they may increase the risk of developing lesions that lead to cervical cancer in women already exposed to the virus.  Therefore, the vaccines are not recommended for women who test positive for HPV-DNA.  Furthermore, the vaccines do not protect against less common strains of HPV that may lead to cervical cancer such as HPV-30 and HPV-33 so regular Pap tests will still be required  to detect precancerous changes in the cervix to allow treatment.  The effectiveness of the vaccines are thought to be only for about 3 1/2 years so a booster may be required after that time.  It has been estimated that the full effect of these vaccines against HPV in the general population will probably take about three decades to accomplish.  Makers of the vaccines are also working on a version for boys and young men (WP Report , FDA Report) who harbor the virus and test positive for HPV-DNA at about equal rates to that of women and who can spread the virus as well.  Vaccinating not only girls, but also boys, will help boost protect against not only cervical cancer but also oral cancer. Currently, some countries, such as Scotland, are offering the HPV vaccine to school girls as part of their government immunization program (Lyndsay M, 2007).  The vaccine has been shown to be almost 100% effective in providing immunity to the most common forms of the virus that can lead to cervical cancer. A more recent development is a blood test for cancer causing strains of HPV.  It is now patented and waiting additional approval for use (see Grant Life Sciences, 2007).
     *Hallmark cellular changes in epithelial cells of the cervix are mild to moderate dysplasia with koilocytotic atypia (a peculiar wide clearing of the cytoplasm around the nucleus). Koilocytotic atypia is pathognomonic of HPV.  Identification of HPV on Pap tests is always given an abnormal interpretation.  Frequent repeat smears and other follow-up tests are often recommended for several years after an HPV lesion is initially diagnosed.  A new study published in the British Journal of Medicine in October, 2007 found the risk of cervical cancer after initial detection of a high grade HPV lesion still remains high 25 years after treatment.  In this study the risk of cervical cancer was shown to have increased since the 1960s and to be pronounced in women over age 50 (Strander B, 2007).  It should be noted that starting in the 1960’s significant use of and exposure to synthetic steroid hormones (estrogen and progesterone) began in women of developed countries starting with DES in-utero exposure, then birth control pills, and finally hormone replacement therapy. Various estrogen or estrogen and progesterone combinations were also given liberally to many of these women to stop lactation after child birth (estrogen) and for ovarian and menstrual disorders (The Pill). 

http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/64/23/8788