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BOOKS & READING FOOD & BEVERAGE NATURE HOLY BIBLE - THE CREATION HOLY BIBLE - THE CREATION SOCIETY FASHION & LIFESTYLE GLOSSARY NATIONAL LANDMARK CULTURE HOLY BIBLE - A NEW HEAVEN & A NEW EARTH ARTIST SPOTLIGHT BABYLON ONE LOVE

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Books & Reading

Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind, and Spirit A manual on how to self-heal the female body focussing on the womb. Queen Afua teaches that the womb is the center of the female consciousness and creativity. Any Erykah Badu fans? Well Ms. Badu has been a follower of Queen Afua for years now and has become a certified Holistic Health Practitioner herself.

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Prep Time: 20 Min

Cook Time:

Ingredients

20 Min

Ready In:

45 Min 1 cup butter at room temperature 1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar 1/2 cup white sugar 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2 cups rolled oats chocolate chips (optional) raisins (optional) chopped walnuts (optional)

Directions 1.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13-inch baking pan.

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In a large bowl, beat the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar until thoroughly mixed and creamy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Stir in the vanilla extract until well mixed, and mix in salt, baking soda, baking powder, flour, rolled oats, plus chocolate chips, raisins, and chopped nuts if desired. Mix well to moisten all ingredients, and spread into the prepared baking pan.

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Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool in the pan for about 5 minutes before cutting into bars.

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Nature

great outdoors

Populated by misty green grass, rare blossoming flowers and preoccupied insects of wildlife, the open fields is a symbol of warmth and love. Have you ever been caught face to face with an open field and all you could fathom was roaming freely through its marble clear grassland? It's vast emerald pastures are filled with livity, peace, friendship and tranquility.

Listen to the ecocentric kisses of Mr. Sun as the unlocked acres awaits you.

Hear the call of brother wind open, loud and clear. Immerse yourself in the paradise of the green grass grows all around, all around... as the view of the up-above whispers life into your soul. The trees speak existence of crayons as the herb breathes life of water colors. The adventure is waterproof, no matter the season the open fields leaps turf as the lawn is fertilized by the living. Meadows.

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Holy Bible The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000.

The First Book of Moses, Called

Genesis 1

The Creation 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

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And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

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¶ And God said, Let there be light: 2 Cor. 4.6 and there was light.

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And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

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And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

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¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

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And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

And God called the firmament Heaven. 2 Pet. 3.5 And the evening and the morning were the second day.

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9 ¶ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

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12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

14 ¶ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

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Holy Bible 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

20 ¶ And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

24 ¶ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

26 ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, 1 Cor. 11.7 after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Mt. 19.4 · Mk. 10.6 28 And God blessed them, Gen. 5.1, 2 and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Genesis 2 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Heb. 4.4, 10

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Society

In sociology, anthropology and cultural studies, a subculture is a group of people within a culture (whether distinct or hidden) which differentiates them from the larger culture to which they belong.

SUBCULTURES

5. through their stylistic ties to excess and exaggeration (with some exceptions); 6. through their refusal of the banalities of ordinary life and massification.

In 2007, Ken Gelder proposed to distinguish The study of subcultures often consists of subcultures from countercultures based on the study of symbolism attached to clothing, the level of immersion in society. Gelder music and other visible affectations by further proposed six key ways in which members of subcultures, and also the ways subcultures can be identified: in which these same symbols are interpreted by members of the dominant culture.

1. through their often negative relations to According to Dick Hebdige, members of a work (as 'idle', 'parasitic', at play or at subculture often signal their membership leisure, etc.); through a distinctive and symbolic use of style, which includes fashions, mannerisms, 2. through their negative or ambivalent and argot. relation to class (since subcultures are not 'class-conscious' and don't conform to Subcultures can exist at all levels of traditional class definitions); organizations, highlighting the fact that there are multiple cultures or value combinations 3. through their association with territory usually evident in any one organization that (the 'street', the 'hood', the club, etc.), rather can complement but also compete with the than property; overall organizational culture. In some cases, subcultures have been legislated 4. through their movement out of the home against, and their activities regulated or and into non-domestic forms of belonging curtailed. (i.e. social groups other than the family);

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Fashion & Lifestyle

The beauty of vintage is incomparable. This style is cool, laid back and can be emulated all year long through out the seasons. No matter your favorite circa, past and present vintage stands still in the future. Conquer what is given, passed down through the eras and uncover the treasure of vintage apparel. Enjoy!

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Glossary

The Greek Alphabet The letters in the alphabet presented below are used for printed Ancient Greek texts. The earliest Greek texts that have survived were written with a radically different script called Linear B.

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National Landmarks "The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt."

- Gutzon Borglum

Mount Rushmore National Memorial is host to almost three million visitors a year from across the country and around the world. They come to marvel at the majestic beauty of the Black Hills of South Dakota and to learn about the birth, growth, development and the preservation of our country. Over the decades, Mount Rushmore has grown in fame as a symbol of America-a symbol of freedom and hope for people from all cultures and backgrounds.

All the cultures that make up the fabric of this country are represented by the memorial and surrounding Black Hills.

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Culture

Pillows can be traced as far back as Mesopotamia (today’s Iraq) and ancient Egypt. Head rests were found in pharaohs’ tombs. Early versions were for the privileged and rich, according to “Really Useful: The Origins of Everyday Things” by Joel Levy, but they were hardly cushy. Most were solid wood, carved or curved slightly in the middle.

For more than a millennium, Chinese dynasties used wood, jade, bronze, bamboo and porcelain for pillows, which were shaped like or decorated with pictures of animals, plants, humans or even geometric figures, according to chinaculture.org.

Hard pillows were preferred on the theory that soft substances robbed the body of vitality and were bad for everything from blood circulation to keeping demons away.

The rich and powerful in ancient Greece and Rome used softer substances including straw, reeds and feathered down. Embroidered pillows and cushions became fashionable in medieval Europe, where they are found in illuminated manuscripts, according to Cherie Fehrman, author of “A Brief History of the Pillow in Europe.”

By the 16th century, pillows were increasingly commonplace, although the stuffing had to be regularly changed and the cases washed because of mold or vermin. Pillows were by then also taken to kneel on in church, while Bibles were often placed on their very own pillows.

Much of today’s bedding was developed in the 19th century but not mass-produced until the 20th century.

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Holy Bible

The New Heaven and the New Earth

Revelation 21 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place1 of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people,2 and God himself will be with them as their God.3 4 hHe will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

5 And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I lam making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” 6 And he said to me, n“It is done! oI am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. pTo the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. 7 qThe one who conquers will have this heritage, and rI will be his God and she will be my son. 8 tBut as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

9 Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.” 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, 11 having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. 12 It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed—13 on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. 14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and hon them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

15 And the one who spoke with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls. 16 The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width. And he measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia.4 Its length and width and height are equal. 17 He also measured its wall, 144 cubits5 by human measurement, which is also an angel's measurement. 18 The wall was built of jasper, while the city was pure gold, like clear glass. 19 mThe foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of jewel. The first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. 21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

Continue to Revelation 21:1 - 27

The New Jerusalem

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Artist Spotlight

MELANIE FIONA Melanie Fiona is a bright, young R&B artist and Kanye West protégé from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Born Melanie Hall, the singer grew up in inner-city Toronto to Guayanese parents.

Fiona developed a passion for music at an early age, influenced by groups and artists such as the Ronettes and Whitney Houston.

It's no surprise, then, that she offers a throwback retro sound to complement her immaculate voice.

Though she has been active in the music industry since 2002, her first recorded release came with Reggae Gold 2008, in the form of the track "Somebody Come Get Me." The track was instantly acclaimed as a highlight, as well as a fan favorite on the album, and it helped her get signed to Universal Motown.

Fiona released her debut single, "Give It to Me Right," which samples "Time of the Season" by the Zombies.

Fiona's melismatic and dynamic vocal propelled the single to the Top 20 on the Canadian Hot 100, in addition to charting on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop songs chart.

Her debut album, The Bridge, was released in the fall of 2009, and was a Top 25 album on the Canadian Album Chart. The album which was spearheaded by Andrea Martin, and its lead single also charted in the U.K. and Italy. She is also known for being the opening act on Kanye West's European tour in 2008, which is notable because she hadn't even released an album at the time of the tour.

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