I have been doing intermittent fasting for a month now. Involves fasting for a min. of 16 hrs a day and eating then in an 8hr window. I am actually finding the results are very positive with stubborn belly fat and other health benefits as detailed in the diagram below.
Seeing as I had picked up a couple of leg injuries, I had not been training for the last 2 months and wanted to try fasting in order to counterbalance potential weight gain. I read up about this 16:8 fasting and though, heck, that’s easy, give it a go. No special kits, supplements, watching your calories etc, just good old will power
Sometimes I stretch it to 18:6 and everyday is a bit of a game. It slowly becomes very easy to maintain, as its just a time frame that you abstain from eating. A month down and I might check my fat % and see how it relates to a reading I got 3 months ago. Gotta bear in mind that I haven’t been training at all.
UPDATE:
I would personally recommend this link for in-depth understanding of intermittent fasting.It’s an up-to-date 7,000-word guide on 15 health benefits of intermittent fasting according to science and includes carefully-researched suggested meal plans. Compiled by Jacky Miller.
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LINK TO ARTICLE https://www.jenreviews.com/intermittent-fasting/
Links for further information/guidance
An old and interesting article on LAShTAL prompted me to make a map that uses Aleister’s grid references for Cairo, when he received Liber Al vel Legis, The Holograph Manuscript of Liber AL vel Legis,sub figurâ XXXI A∴A∴ Publication in Class A, Page 60
Page 60 – Chapter III, Verse 47 with Highlighted grid references
Then looking at this map of Cairo, from 1933. Yes, I understand it is later than it should be and based on a map of Cairo in 1904. Yet unfortunately, this is the only map of decent quality and at a large scale, could find. So using the actual grid references that AC provided. It looked like this.
Map of Cairo 1933 – Showing line and circle squared.
Now I know the line is not exactly as per Aleister’s own but the start and the end points are referenced on the grid he drew, along with the “X” marks the spot. So to the best of my ability I have indicated this. He was roughly using the Shari Fouad el Auwal straight road, in order to give the reader a reference landmark, this was I assume to aid with more accurately placing the “X” on the map. Was this the location of the Reception of Liber L vel Legis?
Based on AC’s scribble I initially thought, due to the proximately, that the location was the Midan roundabout. Surely not! So using the co-ords given,
I worked it out to be either the Windsor hotel or the Shepheard Hotel. The map above due to being 25 years or more after the date, would possibly not be the best one to use. The landscape changed a hell of a lot over that sort of time period.
Luckily enough I did manage after a lot of searching to find a German map from 1904.
Shepheard Hotel looks to be the most likely location, though there are another couple that may have been used, in that immediate area. It was not uncommon for a hotel to have apartments for rent after all. Shepheard’s was one of the largest and well know. It had burnt down and been rebuilt in 1890’s and then again in 1952. So the actual room that Aiwass spoke in the ear of the Beast, must likely is no longer in existence. Unless it was another location.
So after Boleskine having being burned down, the Abbey crumbling away and discovering that the old Shepheard Hotel had burned down in 1952 and the 1890’s, anything to do with AC does not seem to hang around for long!
For more on the historical hotel scene in and around 1902-1904, please refer to Cairo of To-Day: A Practical Guide to Cairo and the Nile
Hat de Londres Club Chedivial (The Turf Club or the London Club) and Hotel Royal may be further candidates, in the vicinity.
Maybe another inquisitive soul with more sources could investigate these?
It is my belief that the grid was a map. It’s the most logical explanation available.
EDIT Additional Information of Shepheards Hotels History
First Class Hotels SIWHEARD’S nmL 8 Sharia Kamil, hhvccn Sharia Alfi Bey and Sharia Dubre. 350 rooms, apartment suites available, prices hm 160 P.T. per room per night. Some suites 1 £I3 to 2 fE per night. Open 1 November to 15 May, closed during the summer. The hotel’s spacious terrace is the site of nightly concerts; a ball is held every night in the high season. A garden in back provides a1 fresco dining and also has a large raised dance floor in the center. There is a restaurant and grill room, a bar, and post and telegraph offices open 24 hours a day. All major theaters, most night clubs, and the Cairo Opera are within easy walking distance. Shepheard’s hotel is the place to stay in Cairo. The starting point for every expedition, safari or tour of note, its corridors bustle with the pith-helmeted rich and idle of all nations. It has been said that “Alexandria is merely a signal stop on the tourist road to Shepheard’s.” While the 8~~0mmodations and food are no better than many other hotels in Cairo, it is the place to meet people of influence. Five minutes from the railway station, and the center of social life for Cairo’s well-to-do, the serious traveler cannot afford not to stay at Shepheard’s. This reputation is well earned, but fails to hide the fact that the hotel backs on to a block where the desperately poor live crammed together, their livestock tethered on their rooftops, and that the prostitutes’ quarter begins just across the road to the west. A bulletin board in the foyer holds public and private notices of interest to the European community of Cairo. The board lists houseboats to let, flats available, notices of meetings at clubs, and when and where forthcoming social functions are to be held. Doors at the hotel are never locked, although keys are always provided. All staff are scrupulously honest, as far as the belongings of guests are concerned. The only thefts occurring during the 1920’s are conducted by a small gang of French jewel thieves. A Chubb safe, located in an office behind the hotel desk, is at the disposal of all guests and staff. Advertised as being the most burglar-proof safe in Cairo, it was never robbed during its existence. At four stories high, with round cupola towers at each corner and a colonnaded entry foyer and portico, Shepheard’s is an impressive building. From the upper floors the whole vista of Cairo can be enjoyed, the flatroofed houses gleaming in the midday sun or moonlight. From west-facing rooms, the pyramids lurk on the southwestern horizon, beckoning to the tourist with promises of ancient mysteries and marvels waiting to be uncovered. The smell of hot dust rises into the air as the varade of human, motor and beast traf6,c passes in the strekt below, and at regular intervals the constant munnw of life is punctuated by the ululations of ‘the muezzins in their minarets calling the faithful to prayer. Stables and garages at the side of the hotel house the cars and donkeys of exmtions preparing to set out into the unhown deserts, and huge caravans of people and goods assemble in front of the hotel when the adventurous prepare to leave. Special function rooms at Shepheard’s include the his Room and the Moorish Hall. These are often booked for private functions, dances, or club meetings, and are lavishly furnished in typical Egyptian decor. The hotel is redecorated each year during the summer, and reopens each winter newly polished and finer than the year before. The original Shepheard’s Hotel was built in 1849- 1852 on the site of the Palace of Mi Bey (1750’s). There were a smaller palace and a temple on this site (dating from 900 A.D.), which were leveled before the newer palace was built. Bey’s palace was Napoleon’s htadquarters during the French occupation (1798-1799), and later became Muhammed Ali’s School of Languages (1815- 1847). When the fist hotel was built, the palace was leveled; the current building sits over the previous ruins. The cellars excavated for the hotel cut through and across the ancient temple and palace cellars, as well as tunnels excavated by Bey, Napoleon, and Ali The original hotel, only two stories high, was replaced in the late 1800’s by the current building. Note: Shepheard’s Hotel burns to the ground in 1952 during the revolution that forces the British out of Egypt. The modem Shepheard’s Hotel stands on an entirely different site.
Taken from this 1920’s Guide to Egypt/Cairo. Page 23 onwards. The text did not copy well from the paste. So best to use the PDF to read.
EDIT: 06-16-16
Granted, as a few have pointed out to me also that the grid co-ords, do not reference and known mapping system, so therefore surely could not be a map ref.
Why it was reversed did boggle me and maybe it is not actually the correct map.
A further point to note would be that the grid was not on the orginial manuscript and added at a much later date.
I have since stumbled across another individual who deems it to also be map references. Albeit in an entirely different region of Egpyt. The Temple of Dendera.
Then the circle squared in its failure… points to two different areas… Nag Hammadi or is it actually an Island in the top left???
Previously published in The Equinox — Vol. V No. 4 — Sex and Religion edited by Marcelo Ramos Motta
This book is extremely rare yet there are scanned versions in the depths of the Internet, for those that want to seek it out.
The pages that I have included here show that Crowley had in fact found the manuscript and was using it, prior to April 1906.
See attached images. Also note that Motta states that content is missing and mentions the “Fuller” version, for comparison.
For additional Motta information, check out this website.
Introduction & Commentary by Marcus Katz
The entire transcript of Crowley’s original 1904 notebook from Cairo and Boleskine House charting the magic throughout the reception of The Book of the Law.
Contains unpublished Tarot material, 40 years prior to the Book of Thoth, rare archive photographs, and an Aleister Crowley Timeline.
The below is only 9 pages from a book of 66 pages. This section relates to the before and after the torn out section.
Hope that this may be of assistance to those on currently discussing on LAShTAL on this thread and beyond.
Note that there is a view high res option on each photo.
Contents:
Introduction
GJY Notes
Invocation of Hoor
Confession
A Brief Interlude on Ancient Egyptian
Ritual B2
To Obtain LVX
Beelzebub Working
Tarot Notes
The Book of Results
A Note on Stele
Appendix 1: An Aleister Crowley Timeline
Appendix 2: The Names of the Beast
Appendix 3: Months of March & April, 1904
Appendix 4: The Names of the Servitors of Beelzebub
Reading List
Reference THE YORKE COLLECTION MICROFILM EDITION
Yorke Film 9 page 50 of 72
https://www.100thmonkeypress.com/biblio/acrowley/references/Yorke%20Microfilm%20Index.pdf
Having only started driving a car 9 months ago, having passed my test when I was 17 years young (I am now 40!), I was a bit wet behind the ears, when it came to matters involving cars.
We bought a £500 Blue Renault Clio 1.2 back in the early part of last year. It had to be taxed and insured, which was promptly done. I was on the road. My father-in-law dealt with the purchase of the car and reged it with the address that we were staying at the time Lisburn Road Belfast. So I was driving away after a series of 5 refreshed lessons. 23 years since behind a wheel and I was loving the freedom it granted me. That freedom was to be very much hampered in just 7 months down the line.
Phone call from my wife, Rebecca went pretty much like this. “Ah Paul, there’s a clamp on our car”, me “seriously”, “why would our car be clamped”? Let me tell you why and the drip feed processes, that the DVLA uses in order to scam monies from the unwitting public.
It turns out that the reminder was sent to our old address, on Lisburn Road, as that was the details on the V5C form, filled in by my kind Father-in-law. I, being the novice that I was, did not know that when I changed my address, that the car form needed to be resubmitted also. I innocently thought that the driving licence was all that was required. This was my first and only mistake, albeit a massively glaring one.
Well, the reminder for the TAX renewal, was sent to our old address and had run out on 01 SEPT 2015. Our car was clamped, outside our own door at 13:54hrs on 10/11/15. So 71 days approximately, after the TAX had lapsed. If I am being completely honest, my wife Rebecca did think in October that it was due for renewal. We decided to wait for the confirmation, that would never actually arrive. Bad move, an innocent one, yet a costly one.
Here is the leaflet we were left to gaze at in shock, with the car clamped outside. Oh the shame! 
In summary, just in case you missed the large bold text…. £260 requiring to be paid ASAP…. for a genuine oversight.
For further reading.
You would think that buying a NutriBullet, from Amazon.co.uk would be a straight forward transaction. I was proved wrong!
Normally, when purchasing from Amazon, you expect reputable sellers, selling authentic products, from the UK.
What I got was a seller in China, masquerading as a UK seller, supplying “Counterfeit goods” to gullible consumers, thinking that they are getting a few pounds off, the normal £99.99 price tag.
So, let me furnish you with the history behind my purchase.
Thinking I was being smart and getting a couple of quid off, the £99.99 item, I purchased the fake Nutribullet from a seller called “summerland”, for £97.68 plus 50p delivery. Nowhere on its page did it state that they were shipping from China or that they were a Chinese company. The time period for delivery should have alerted me to a potential issue. It was going to take 7 – 28 days for delivery. Thought little of it, as I was getting a slightly discounted price.
Fast forward 20 days later, a box arrives wrapped in what I can only describe as a black bin liner. This must have been to waterproof the product, as it traveled on the slow boat from China.
Before even opening the box, I could tell that it was damaged. The box itself was dented and battered. To my surprise when removing the waterproof ectoplasm, the fake Nutri bullet box, in garish green was on display. The product had arrived with zero protection for its journey. Immediately I was concerned that the product itself was damaged. Later though after removing the product from the box, I decided that this device would never have its ignition lit. The reasoning for this will be discussed now.
Straight out of the box, a number of strange anomalies got my spidey senses tingling. I noticed the helpful recipe booklets were inside. Nice and helpful but wait, where’s the warranty? No matter how much I searched, none could be found. This point alone, had me thinking of a complete refund, no matter what else was discovered. With this in mind, I consciously decided to contact the seller and Amazon, once I had fully compiled my evidence, in order to be reimbursed.
So armed with the above, I proceeded to directly message the seller, “summerland” as per Amazon’s recommendations.
“I did not receive a warranty with this item and suspect that it is a fake.
Where do I send the fake item back too and when do I get my refund.
I have attached evidence of your fraudulent product, I have more if required. Failure to respond will result in me notifying Amazon that you are selling illegal items. “
To which they replied.
“Thanks for your message, I’m sorry that you are not satisfied with the item. But how about we refund you £20 with no need to return it back, you can keep it or give your friend who like it, is it okay for you? Wait for your reply. Have a good day.
Best regards”
Not satisfied with the item. Seriously, you sold me a sub-standard counterfeit and expect me to pay you £80 for it. Looks like an email to Amazon is to be my next step.
Use this link to report directly to Amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=3149571
May I add, that delivery to China, using ParcelForce recorded and signed for, came to just over £100. The same cost as the item itself. I was also expected to pay for it according to their returns agreement as it was an electrical item! Not a snowballs chance in hell of that happening!
So thankfully Amazon looks on this fraudulent behavior very negatively and proceeded to deal with my refund request.
They managed to turn this around within a day and the seller has refunded the total amount, without the need for me to send the piece of crap back to him.
Yet still they try and make it sound like I was not happy with their product, nothing to do with the fact it was counterfeit!
“Hello, I am contacting about your claim. I am very sorry to hear that you are not satisfied with this transaction. It is our goal to give our customers the best buying experience as possible and if for any reason our customers are dissatisfied we want to take this issue into account. We try to match a 100% satisfaction warranty and bring solutions in a timely and professional manner.
If you thought this transaction was a disappointment we respect your opinion and we would like to give you a full refund as an apology. I hope you would also agree to close the claim after that.
Please let me know if this arrangement would be acceptable.”
Yes, I was not satisfied, you mention a warranty.. I did not get one! 🙂
This is what they sold me… Nutrition Extractor Retailing at £38.99
12 Piece Juice Extractor Blender 600W Nutrition Extractor BPA Free
This post is just a heads up to people who are buying products via Amazon, to be aware that fakes can be sold. Be on the look out and due to the lack of images and posts in relation to fake NutriBullets, I decided to post this. Just in case others are sold a suspect unit, they can check it off against my images etc.
Finally, I now have a cough NutriBullet for sale, if anyone is interested. 🙂
I joke. Best to buy via their official website.
http://www.buynutribullet.co.uk/
Help fight the war against counterfeiters.
IMPORTANT: Check with the company/manufacturer to determine if the seller/distributor is approved/authorized.
http://www.trademarksandbrandsonline.com/contributed-article/the-war-on-counterfeiting
This war affects us all and endangers the lives of many.
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley
Having recently released the initial Temple image, on the LAShTAL.com, I have decided to release a few more views, on my personal blog, for those who are interested along with a brief update.
Firstly, I must thank a couple of people have been very generous with their time and resources. James Gosling & Richard T Cole (who sadly, I have not heard from in a while).
We now have rendered up the “shell” of the Abbey and have hit a bit of a stumbling block. The internal murals, painting and furniture proves to be illusive, in regards to information . We have gleamed partial insights into the furniture and the rooms the Abbey contained. This resulted in the floor plan being slightly altered and the room names being changed, to reflect those titles, the inhabitants gave the rooms. The updated plans can be found at this link. Latest revised Abbey of Thelema Plans -Rev C.
We retrieved information from various sources. For example the 100th Monkey Press has a invaluable resource, from which the THE
YORKSHIRE POST 13 APRIL 1934 INVITED TO “TRY MAGIC” IN COURT, article can be found. The Great Beast by John Symonds has a very detailed description of the Temple space. This totally went under my radar and I can thank a Brother for pointing me to this books pages. Also used the Jane Wolfe: The Cefalu Diaries 1920 – 1923 from the College of Thelema for further insights.
Bill Hendrick also provided, via his website, the “Tourist Guide” Essay that Aleister Cowley penned for the Abbey of Thelema. Whilst this is purely a written description, it will prove useful as to identifying what murals go on what walls. Richard T Cole did have a illustrated adaptation of this on his website, though it has since been taken offline unfortunately.
We are awaiting a copy of Richard’s book, Thelema Revisited : In search of Aleister Crowley that is kindly being provided by James Gosling. As Richard is unavailable, via any of the means of contact I had for him, this will be my best point of reference. I do hope that he is well and safe.
A request for assistance was also submitted to the Ordo Templi Orientis, via their US Grand Lodge Website. It has yet to bear fruit.
Finally a massive thank you to Mr. William Pollock of Arcgraphics, without whom this 3D project would be dead on its feet.
Our next step is to take one room, one wall at a time and try and obtain the best images available to us, for inclusion in the render.
So If anyone knows of, or has high res images of the murals, in their best state, please let me know and email me at me@paultoner.com.
So here are some images! Kindest regards & 93’s.
We insist from the beginning on the individual character of the work, and upon the necessity of maintaining the objective and skeptical standpoint. You are explicitly warned against reliance upon “authority,” even that of the Order itself. Consider my own assets, personal, social, educational, experiential and the rest: don’t you see that all I had to do was to put out some brightly-coloured and mellifluous lie, and avoid treading on too many toes, to have had hundreds of thousands of idiots worshiping me?
—Magick Without Tears, ch. 71
After having been asked to attend the Graduation/Awards later this month, then my subsequent refusal. Can’t stand the over-hyped glorification it involves.The Belfast Metropolitan College sent out my certificate in the post. To the wrong address. They weren’t to know but I had moved house recently and I received the cert this morning.
Happy with my grade, Distinction overall, in Computing & Systems Analysis. It was a tough slog, between training first thing in the morning, working all day then college two nights a week.
Not too mention the long, intense weekends trying to perfect code, then write it all up. We all have our trials and tribulations, so no point complaining. It was a valuable experience, that I am thankful for my Father, for fronting the enrollment fees.
It was all worth it though, having a qualification for my 10+ years of practical experience. Making it a hell of a lot easier if I ever need to move on or start a new career. Luckily for me the hard part was not getting the experience but working on my own free time. Now it is all over, I had thought of starting an artwork course, possibly in oils. That will have to wait, on standby, as I am getting married next year! Too the beautiful Rebecca Mills! All my focus and cash is being funneled to that goal now. It and other projects are on ice! Cant wait until June 2014! 🙂
