Imbolc

Also called Oimelc and Candlemas, Imbolc celebrates the awakening of the land and the growing power of the Sun.

Imbolc: Sun is at 15° Aquarius

I would love to share this important tip based on my experience.  Something to keep in mind for Windows users.  If you choose to put a password when you log on to your computer whether laptop or PC desktop, please make sure that you remember the old password when you decide to change it for a new password for security reasons.  This is because when your computer crash and you do a "System Restore", your computer will go back to the last "stable state" of your computer.  So when you log on you might still use the new password but oftentimes it will be the password prior to the current one. 

Reminder for Firefox browser users, it should be automatic but there is a new upgrade to the browser.

I cannot believe that the "Google Web Accelerator" for Firefox browser is always not compatible with the latest version of Firefox.  I wonder why Google can't keep up with Firefox?  So rejoice Internet Explorer browser users, you can use the Google Web Accelerator.  When you download it, it will make your surfing faster on the ones that you visit often, i.e. Gaia and others.  When you visit a site Google will keep it in their cache so it will make your HTTP requests faster.

Feel free to add other tips and tidbits here for others to read.  Yes you may share this.  : )

Thank you,

Samme

‘ … we’ve set out to provoke the world to wonder.’

 

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ABOUT THE FILM MAKER, WRITER ETC - NIC ASKEW

‘Beyond the Words’ starring Feliciano Pop

3 minutes 52 seconds

‘in a language few will know but all will understand’

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‘A Glimpse of Reality’ starring Richard McCann

9 minutes 46 seconds

‘astonishing turnaround of high profile tragedy’

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‘The Girl who looked into the Mirror’ starring Lisa Evans

8 minutes 16 seconds

‘concerning the often-missed true nature of love‘

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‘How to Give a Fishing Lesson’ starring Maria Pacheco

8 minutes 6 seconds

 

‘might the causes of poverty lie deeper than we assume?’

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‘The Humility of Taking Notice’ starring Lee Scampton

8 minutes 30 seconds

‘how hard would life have to shake you before you woke up?’

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‘In the Life of Another’ starring Alison Wood

11 minutes 35 seconds

 

‘perhaps we all have a part to play in the life of another‘

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‘The Midwife’s Tale’ starring Doña Chona

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‘wealthy in a way few have yet realised is possible’

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‘Portrait of a Human Being’ starring Carlos Enrique Araujo

10 minutes 5 seconds

 

‘where do you presume true wealth to exist?’

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‘The Second Glance’ starring David Roche

8 minutes 13 seconds

‘perhaps our deepest fear is that we don’t belong’

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‘Size Doesn’t Matter’ starring Carlos Cabbarus

8 minutes 44 seconds

‘perhaps it’s our superiority that keeps us from our own life’

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‘Smile’ starring Olubunmi Ogunyankin (Olu)

5 minutes 50 seconds

‘where does our capacity to smile without reason exist’

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‘The Strawberry Hill’ starring Alejandro Giammattei

8 minutes 53 seconds

‘a brave soul who would be president’

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‘A Window to the Soul’ starring Anonymous

4 minutes 21 seconds

‘what if the eyes really are the window to the soul’

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‘An Introduction to Soul Biographies’

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Will you dance with me?  Dance with me I want to be your partner can't you see?
Press play for the waltz music...,




The Blue Danube - Waltz - Johann Strauss
             

a better version or an upgraded version of myself, in terms of spiritual advancement.

Samme 3.0
Mystic Geek
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This soul is already living forever but if you mean this body, no I would not want to live forever in this body.  That is not progress. 

15 Most Loathsome People of 2008 By Allan Uthman, Ian Murphy, Buffalo Beast Limbaugh, Palin, Warren, and more. They're the worst people in  America, and unfortunately they dominated last year's headlines. Read more »

 

 

The Whole World Is Rioting as the Economic Crisis  Worsens -- Why Aren't We? By Joshua Holland, AlterNet Americans are rightfully angry about the economic decline, but with  a few small exceptions, quietly so. Why? It depends on whom you ask. Read more »

 

 

It's Not Going to Be OK By Chris Hedges, Truthdig The economic crisis could plunge the U.S. into a long period of social instability. Our democracy is in peril; the threat of  totalitarianism is real. Read more »

 

 

Why Do People Believe in God? By Larry Beinhart, AlterNet Many people continue to clutch to their belief in God, even though  there's no evidence of a higher power. Why? Read more »

 

 

Women Have Boobs -- Get Over It By Samara Ginsberg, RH Reality Check Mine are really big -- and they're a burden. They come with the label "airhead" and "slut." Will we ever end our collective  obsession with boobs? Read more »

 

 

Iraq's Shocking Human Toll: About 1 Million Killed,  4.5 Million Displaced, 1-2 Million Widows,  5 Million Orphans By John Tirman, The Nation Now that Bush is gone, perhaps we can honestly face the damage we  have wrought and the responsibilities we must accept from it. Read more »

 

 

I Killed My Parents -- They Asked Me to Do It By John West, Counterpoint Press The author explains why, after his parents made their wishes clear,  he didn't argue. Read more »

 

 

America Is Completely Broke, And Here We Are Funding  Fantasy Wars at the Pentagon By Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com Scam artists are making a huge fortune off inferior, poorly  designed weapons. Read more »

 

 

Biblical Battered Wife Syndrome: Christian Women and  Domestic Violence  By Kathryn Joyce, Religion Dispatches Escaping an abusive marriage is no easy task for many evangelical  women, many of whom have pastors that say physical abuse is no  reason for divorce. Read more »

 

 

Plunder and Blunder; How the 'Financial Experts' Keep Screwing You By Dean Baker, PoliPoint Press Anyone with common sense, a grasp of simple arithmetic and a desire to go against the consensus should have seen the financial crisis coming. Read more »     New GOP Standard Bearer Rush Limbaugh Is Less Popular  Than Jeremiah Wright By Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast Didn't the Republicans who turned to Rush Limbaugh read the poll  which found that he's one of the least popular political figures in the country? Read more »       The CIA's Bizarre Plan to Win Hearts and Hard-ons in Afghanistan By Jim Hightower, JimHightower.com The CIA plans to lift us to victory -- one libido at a time! Read more »       Are Obama's Own Generals Plotting to Undermine His Exit Strategy for Iraq? By Gareth Porter, IPS News A network of senior military officers appears to be engaged in an  effort to mobilize public opinion against Obama's decision to leave Iraq. Read more »       Keep Your Job, Lose Your Health Insurance By Monica Sanchez, Campaign for America's Future More and more employers are cutting or dropping health insurance coverage as the economic meltdown gains steam. Read more »       Kellogg's Wimps Out Over Phelps's Bong Hit:  What Century Are They Living in? By Bruce Mirken, AlterNet While hypocrisy is hardly rare in American life, Kellogg's decision  not to renew his endorsement contract is really egregious. Read more »       The Atrocities Committed Against Women and Girls in the  Congo Defy Imagination By Marianne Schnall, The Women's Media Center Six-month-old babies are being raped; men with AIDs are  intentionally infecting women. Eve Ensler has a campaign to help  end the terror. Read more »     PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web       Invalidate Prop 8: Tell the CA State Supreme Court What  Fidelity Really Means By ZP Heller, Brave New Films The Courage Campaign attempts to reject Ken Starr and the  Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund. Read more »       Obama Takes the Stimulus Fight to the Streets By Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake Obama is going to hold town halls in Elkhart Indiana and  Ft. Myers Florida on Monday. Read more »       Charles Krauthammer and Reality: Still Not Friends By Joshua Holland, AlterNet Poor Chuck -- he's lost his way. Read more »

You write haiku and you post them everywhere.  Here's how to keep track of your haiku and also a challenge to write 1,000 haiku.  Join the Gaia Booklovers Group and create your own thread in the "Samme's Haiku Project Challenge" and you and only you can post on that thread of your haiku.  By entering one haiku for each post the count number will let you know if you are closing in on one thousand.  And you can easily go back to your thread as now there is a new feature on the left side widget of every group down at the bottom click on "I liked" under Discussions and you will be able to go back easily to your own thread and add your haiku.  This is a good way to keep track of your haiku creations by copying and pasting from other sites to your own thread.  There are other active haiku poets posting such as Naumadd, myself and Jen.  I advise that you create a new thread with your name, for example, "Your name's" Haiku.   I have also recently started the group over at Facebook called A Million Poets Writing A Thousand Haiku.  See you there and keep writing poetry.

Thank you,
Samme

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Okay friends, let's have an Oscar Party that only Gaia.com can deliver.  Please share your predictions or favorites to win in the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories.  Feel free to add your other favorites to win in other categories not mention.  You may bring food as well appropriate for our Oscar Party starting now. 

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After all the star-studded Oscar's night, I bring you this huge news in astronomy.  We all know that the billions of galaxies are chaotic and there's always something happening.  But this is the first time in modern times that we are able to detect this,

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US space agency's Fermi telescope has detected a massive explosion in space which scientists say is the biggest gamma-ray burst ever detected, a report published Thursday in Science Express said.

The spectacular blast, which occurred in September in the Carina constellation, produced energies ranging from 3,000 to more than five billion times that of visible light, astrophysicists said.

"Visible light has an energy range of between two and three electron volts and these were in the millions to billions of electron volts," astrophysicist Frank Reddy of US space agency NASA told AFP.

"If you think about it in terms of energy, X-rays are more energetic because they penetrate matter. These things don't stop for anything -- they just bore through and that's why we can see them from enormous distances," Reddy said.

A team led by Jochen Greiner of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics determined that the huge gamma-ray burst occurred 12.2 billion light years away.

The sun is eight light minutes from Earth, and Pluto is 12 light hours away.

Taking into account the huge distance from earth of the burst, scientists worked out that the blast was stronger than 9,000 supernovae -- powerful explosions that occur at the end of a star's lifetime -- and that the gas jets emitting the initial gamma rays moved at nearly the speed of light.

"This burst's tremendous power and speed make it the most extreme recorded to date," a statement issued by the US Department of Energy said.

Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's most luminous explosions, which astronomers believe occur when massive stars run out of nuclear fuel and collapse.

Long bursts, which last more than two seconds, occur in massive stars that are undergoing collapse, while short bursts lasting less than two seconds occur in smaller stars.

In short gamma-ray bursts, stars simply explode and form supernovae, but in long bursts, the enormous bulk of the star leads its core to collapse and form a blackhole, into which the rest of the star falls.

As the star's core collapses into the black hole, jets of material blast outward, boring through the collapsing star and continuing into space where they interact with gas previously shed by the star, generating bright afterglows that fade with time.

"It's thought that something involved in spinning up and collapsing into that blackhole in the center is what drives these jets. No one really has figured that out. The jets rip through the star and the supernova follows after the jets," Reddy said.

Studying gamma-ray bursts allows scientists to "sample an individual star at a distance where we can't even see galaxies clearly," Reddy said.

Observing the massive explosions could also lift the veil on more of space's enigmas, including those raised by the burst spotted by Fermi, such as a "curious time delay" between its highest and lowest energy emissions.

Such a time lag has been seen in only one earlier burst, and "may mean that the highest-energy emissions are coming from different parts of the jet or created through a different mechanism," said Stanford University physicist Peter Michelson, the chief investigator on Fermi's large area telescope.

"Burst emissions at these energies are still poorly understood, and Fermi is giving us the tools to understand them. In a few years, we'll have a fairly good sample of bursts and may have some answers," Michelson said.

The Fermi telescope and NASA's Swift satellite detect "in the order of 1,000 gamma-ray bursts a year, or a burst every 100,000 years in a given galaxy," said Reddy.

Astrophysicists estimate there are hundreds of billions of galaxies.

The Fermi gamma-ray space telescope was developed by NASA in collaboration with the US Department of Energy and partners including academic institutions in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden and the United States.

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What does this mean???

IMHO this will bring light (enlightenment) to this era.  It is so fitting that this happens after we had just entered the Age of Aquarius.  Yes I know this blast happened billions of years ago and it just reach us, and indeed it reached us in an auspicious time!!!  I am imagining particles from this dust will reach our own galaxy and will pass by earth and I am imagining that it will bring some new senses and dimensions.  I am not an expert just a wishful thinker.  : )

Starlight starbright,

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Sitting on the right side is the Oscar winning playwright Dustin Lance Black who won for Best Original Screenplay.  (my photo taken on June 08 at the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade).



Because I could not find a live streaming of the Oscars telecast online, my television was turned on after twelve years of not being used.  It is going to be donated.  In the meantime before it goes, it showed me a wonderful moment when I watched the Oscars and most especially Sean Penn winning Best Actor for his portrayal of Harvey Milk in the movie MILK.  I love to share these with you. 

Please watch and listen to Sean Penn's speech. 





Also please watch this the acceptance speech by Dustin Lance Black which won for Best Original Screenplay.




May we all live our lives openly for who we are and love.






Gay activists are thrilled over Sean Penn's win for Best Actor for his moving portrayal of slain San Francisco board of supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California.

"The Best Actor win for Sean Penn is so richly deserved," said Neil G. Giuliano, President of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation in an exclusive statement to RadarOnline.com.

"His groundbreaking performance gave audiences the opportunity to
get to know Harvey Milk's conviction, passion and the indelible
influence he had on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement
and community."

Giuliano added: "His speech, like the film itself, brought awareness
to the opposition our movement continues to face in our pursuit of
equality."  [ read more ]

 

Read my first blog on the movie MILK

 

Congratulations Dustin Lance Black and Sean Penn!!!  Kudos to Gus Van Sant who is one of my favorite directors and this movie MILK and My Own Private Idaho are some of my favorite movies.

 

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"Get on Your Boots" is the lead single from U2's upcoming album, No Line on the Horizon.

I am a movie lover and a music lover and an art lover, any kind of art.  But I am not a critic.  I cannot be a movie critic nor a music critic or an art critic because I respect people's artistic and professional creations, their personal life is besides the point.  Michelangelo has a saying that I like, "Criticize by creating".  If there is a song, movie or piece of art I do not like I will not just say anything about it and will not go to great lengths to lashed out the artist.  I love all kinds of movies.  For music there are some I do not like but I have a wide range of taste in music.  And I love most artistic creations.  So what I am saying is if I have a movie column or a music column my article will always be that I like the movie or the music. 

IMHO, if we are artists we should love life and the world.  Embrace all!  Of course we all do, some would say but what I mean is that we should be open to all kinds of art forms and possibilities.  Appreciation and tolerance is the key.  Like for example Flea of the hard rock group Guns & Roses.  He may not like Michael Jackson or his music but he was hired by Michael Jackson to play guitar with him.  Nowadays there are all sorts of "marriages" happening between and among the arts.  Two or three genres are being mix to create a new creation and the artists that you would never thought of would collaborate are coming together.  Of course this is nothing new but it is becoming much more mainstream and that the each time there is a new collaboration, it is always fresh and very interesting.

I think we can take that metaphor or that notion into real life and come together, be one and be in harmony with one another.  Set aside the differences and hold off the criticisms.  Let us be constructive and proactive and seek new boundaries not just our own circle.  We will find it to be enriching.  Art is a universal language.  Music is a universal language.  Love is the universal language of the heart and soul. 

For Windows OS users, when was the last time you defrag?  Do you complain of slow bootup or slow computer process?  Maybe you need to defrag.

I found this great free tool -- Smart Defrag -- at www.iobit.com. It speeds up my PC by defragmenting those slow files in the background automatically and quietly, so that I do not have to re-install my Windows or purchase a new computer. I really like it and best of all, it is completely free. They do not insert adware to your PC and they do not spy on you. Smart Defrag has received very positive reviews from publications such as CNET, Chip and PC World. A smart tool to maintain your system performance, speed and stability for no cost at all! You can download and use it for free at http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html

"Aquarius follows and is the evolutionary response to Capricorn, just as Capricorn's planet, Saturn, is followed by Uranus, Aquarius' planet. Until 1760, humanity couldn't see beyond Saturn which represented the boundary of our reality. Once Uranus was discovered, once it came into our consciousness, we immediately experienced the age of revolution, the urge for freedom and the birth of our nation. Now, we're moving toward that Aquarian Age and just yesterday had SIX planets transiting that sign. So, here we are, me with my Aquarius midheaven and Mercury and Samme with his Aquarius Sun, expanding peoples' boxes, helping people go beyond their seeming limits of thought.

Capricorn and Saturn represent TIME and the limits of duality, and in that way death. Aquarius and Uranus represent breaking FREE of Saturn's limitations and would include breaking free of TIME...and possibly death! In fact, I've felt that lightning is THE best metaphor for Aquarius which is the water BEARER. It's the atmospheric disturbance, the lightning that presages the water. And, in astrology, Aquarius, the final air sign, is followed Pisces, the final water and the final SIGN. Pisces is about transcendence and in order for that to occur, we must detach (Aquarius) from our dualistic constructs, we must "Go beyond".

~ Meho M.

Folks and friends, this is it!!!  We need trumpets!  This is the Age Of Aquarius.  We are on the Age of Aquarius!!!