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From traditional desktop PCs and laptops to smartphones, tablets, consoles, and interactive TVs, consumers are using more devices than ever before. That puts added pressure on digital content companies (DCCs) to ensure an ideal user experience when people switch between these various screens. As a result, many businesses are turning to responsive web design (RWD), which can create a single source of web content that displays in a readable and relatively controlled way anywhere it's viewed. RWD's single code base delivers to any screen, so that when a change needs to be made to a web page, it only needs to be done once, saving valuable time and money. Examples of digital publishers that have successfully adopted RWD include The Boston Globe, The Next Web, Time, Food Sense, PandoDaily, and Smashing Magazine.
But while RWD can, under ideal circumstances, adjust your content according to the device and enable more fluid and responsive interaction, it doesn't always work across the board and may not be the best option, especially compared to traditional user experience (UX) design, some experts say. "(RWD) works best with content-driven sites, as users are coming to consume content and not necessarily to interact," says J. Schwan, founder/CEO of Solstice Mobile. "RWD addresses content optimization and functionality for every screen size, whereas UX design focuses on understanding and designing a user experience from start to finish by tailoring the available features for each device. RWD doesn't necessarily care whether a user wants to purchase an airline ticket or zoom in on their favorite pair of shoes. By not addressing the significant changes in the end user's actions as they interact across platforms, RWD requires more work on the developer's part and fails to solve all usability issues."
Carin Van Vuuren, CMO for Usablenet, also has reservations about RWD. "If the only aspect changing in the web site design is the size of the device, RWD can be a useful solution, especially for content-heavy sites like newspapers," says Van Vuuren. "But it might not actually be the best option for companies aiming to deliver unique mobile and multichannel experiences to their customers. RWD does not take into account user context on mobile devices. Context on mobile is not just the fact someone is on a device with a smaller screen. It's the combination of the device they use, when they are trying to use it, and what they are trying to achieve."
Schwan argues that RWD is not the right choice when users perform a subset of their normal tasks on their mobile device, or a different set of tasks all together. "While RWD addresses changes in a page's layout, it doesn't address significant changes in a site's information architecture or the workflow a user may follow to complete a specific task," says Schwan. "In this situation, UX design is the best bet to ensure that usability and customer experience is optimized."
To offer mobile users the best possible experience, content, not just design and structure, needs to cater to different user needs, "which point to UX design as the best choice," Schwan says.
On the other hand, RWD is quickly becoming the standard in the industry and shouldn't be ignored, says Bob Egner, VP of product management for EPiServer. "RWD with personalized content is an effective approach, and though it's an upfront investment, your long-term cost of ownership is significantly lower than constantly (having to optimize) for new devices," Egner says. "With RWD, editors can write content, preview, and hit publish once and know it's available and optimized across all different devices."
Chip Evans, owner of Evans Design Studio, says if you don't have a specific need for a separate mobile version of your site or a compelling reason to ignore the rapidly growing mobile market, your website should incorporate RWD. He warns, however, that RWD - which is still in its early stages - can be problematic with older browsers and odd-sized view ports.
Additionally, RWD's "biggest disadvantage is load time, specifically for images," Drew Thomas, CCO for Brolik Productions, says. "As developers, we're accounting for a potentially huge screen size. So we need images as large as possible, and even if they're displayed on a small screen, we still have to load the large image."
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Nothing too much to report this day. We went to Antwerp for Stake Conference. It was a live broadcast from Salt Lake City. Yep, we came all the way to attend church in Belgium broadcast to us in English! We did get to hear a blessing in Dutch, but that was about it. For those non-English speakers, it was translated for them in the main chapel.
We enjoyed the rest of the day with the Cazier's. We enjoyed some sandwiches for lunch, some shrimp/pasta/zucchini dish for dinner. Both were very good. They have been good to us. Letting us use their laundry, spare room, and dining room. They drove us to Vianden, Luxembourg, and Antwerp. I do not know how we will ever repay them. We certainly appreciate their hospitality and friendship.
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A cardiologist testified Wednesday that Michael Jackson "would've been alive" today if not for what he called the "strange" behavior of the superstar's personal physician during the critical early hours of June 25, 2009.
Conrad Murray Trial: Detectives' Interview, Coroner's Report
Dr. Alon Steinberg was called to the stand early Wednesday in Dr. Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial. He testified that Murray's treatment of Jackson, especially the administration of the powerful anesthetic propofol, before the superstar's death deviated from general standards.
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Beyond the equipment, Steinberg testified that is was Murray's failure to immediately call 911 upon noticing Jackson's condition was a critical mistake.
"Personally, I would have called 911 first," Steinberg said under cross-examination. "It takes two seconds to dial and say, 'I'm a doctor, there's an arrest, come to 100 Carolwood now.' Put it on speaker, do your stuff.
"If all these deviations hadn't happened, Mr. Jackson would've been alive."
Murray told investigators that he conducted chest compressions upon noticing Jackson was not breathing, then called Jackson's assistant. A guard who responded to the bedroom, after a call from the assistant, testified that Murray told him to call 911.
Related: Doctor's Calls Take Spotlight
Many of Steinberg's conclusions about Murray's actions during the early hours of June 25, 2009 were based on detectives' interview with Murray, the cardiologist said. The recording was played earlier this week for jurors.
Jackson's father, Joe Jackson, left court after hearing the searing criticism of the care his son's personal doctor gave him.
"It should never have happened. I can't get over him being dead," said Jackson.
Dr. Nader Kamangar, a sleep medicine physician who investigated Murray's care of Jackson for the California Medical Board, took the stand Wednesday afternoon. He testified that he found "extreme deviations" from the standard of care.
Other experts in pulmonary and sleep issues are likely to testify this week for the prosecution as it wraps up its case against Murray.
Earlier Wednesday, the Associated Press reported that attorneys for Murray dropped their claim that Jackson swallowed the fatal dose of the anesthetic. Attorney J. Michael Flanagan said a study commissioned by the defense showed any effect from swallowing propofol would be trivial, the AP reported.
"We are not going to assert at any time during this trial that Michael Jackson orally administered propofol,'' Flanagan said.
The disclosure was not made in front of jurors.
Legal experts see this change in strategy as leaving a hole the defense needs to fill. But, the defense already knew this was coming and so, it has specifically avoided making any mention of swallowed propofol to the jury.
"I think they can salvage it, but it's going to depend what their experts have to say," said legal analyst and attorney Steve Cron.
"What they're going to say is that Dr. Murray, in this instance, was prudent and that he met the standard of care in dealing with this patient," said legal analyst Ed Navarro. "And, I think that's going to be their defense."
How the drug was administered and by whom took the spotlight Tuesday during testimony from Dr. Christopher Rogers, who conducted the autopsy on Jackson. Rogers disputed the defense's theory that the King of Pop administered the fatal extra dose of the drug he called his "milk" when Murray left his bedroom at a rented Holmby Hills mansion.
"The circumstances, from my point of view, do not support self-administration of propofol,'' said Rogers. "In order for Mr. Jackson to have administered the propofol to himself, you would have to assume he woke up and although he was under the influence of... propofol and other sedatives, he was somehow able to administer propofol to himself.
"Then he stops breathing and all of this takes place in a two-minute period of time. To me, that scenario seems less reasonable.''
"Less reasonable than what?'' Deputy District Attorney David Walgren asked.
"The alternate scenario would be in order to keep Mr. Jackson asleep, the doctor would have to give him a little bit every hour, two or three tablespoons an hour,'' Rogers said, explaining that propofol wears off quickly.
Prosecutors claim Murray gave Jackson the fatal dose, then failed to properly monitor his patient. During the trial's first week, a medical equipment executive testified that Murray did not have adequate equipment for the adminstration of the drug, usually used in a surgical setting.
It's likely that Murray incorrectly estimated how much of the drug he was giving Jackson to induce sleep to fight insomnia, Rogers testified. During his interview with detectives two days after Jackson's death, Murray said the pop star pleaded with him during the night for something to help him sleep.
Murray said it was about 10:40 a.m., June 25, 2009 when Jackson said, "'Please, please give me something.'"
"So, I agreed at that time that I would switch over to the propofol and I would give him small amounts that would help him to sleep," Murray said during the interview. "I took all precautions that were available."
The cause of death was "acute propofol intoxication and the contributing condition was the benzodiazepine effect," Rogers said.
Two sedatives from the benzodiazepine drug group were found in Jackson's system.
The defense cross-examined Rogers for two hours. Attorney J. Michael Flanagan wanted to know whether someone could inject drugs into an IV drip that Murray had started.
"Yes,'' Rogers replied.
"But if they pushed it all at once, that can stop your heart, can't it?" Flanagan asked.
"Yes,'' said Rogers.
Defense attorneys have portrayed Jackson as desperate for sleep after his rehearsal for a series of upcoming concerts.
Read: Coroner's Report
The prosecution's case might conclude late this week, but the order of witnesses is not clear. Walgren told the judge Dr. Steve Shafer, a Columbia University professor who has studied propofol and its effects, would be prosecutors' final witness.
Murray's attorneys will likely call on their own witnesses to testify about propofol.
Most of Tuesday's testimony focused on medical evidence detailed by Rogers, but there were two emotional moments.
The first came from Murray's interview with detectives when he told them about his encounter with Jackson's crying daughter, Paris, at the hospital on the day her father died.
"She said, 'I know that Dr. Murray. At least I know. I know you tried your best,'" Murray told investigators. "'I know you tried your best, but I'm really sad. You know, I will wake up in the morning and I won't be able to see my daddy.' She cried and was very stark.''
Later Tuesday, prosecutors displayed an image of Jackson's body next to a coroner's identification number during Rogers' testimony. Jackson's family members were notified before proceedings that the image would be displayed.
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Sources in Seattle's real estate market say that Facebook is looking for 40,000 square feet in downtown Seattle, enough space to fit 200 workers.
That could mean that Facebook is looking to expand its 40-person Seattle office, Geekwire reported. While Facebook declined to comment on the report, sources were adamant about the social network looking for office space. Facebook expanded into Seattle last year.
Silicon Valley tech giants like the Pacific Northwest. Google has a 1,000-person office in Seattle suburb Kirkland, Wash., and Zynga is leasing 7,000 square feet in Seattle's Pioneer Square.
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I've written a useful script for Firefox and Greasemonkey called EasyCheckboxes. It makes it more convenient to work with multiple checkboxes on a page, enabling you to select, deselect or toggle groups of checkboxes. It will also work with all web pages.
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Using Dojo's query engine, Acme, in Greasemonkey
If you're not interested in the techie details, you can stop reading now.
Since version 1.3 of the Dojo Ajax Toolkit, it provides a standalone DOM query engine called Acme. I compressed this down to a single line of code, and inserted it in my GreaseMonkey script. I previously tried using the Sizzle query engine, but it had too many issues with Greasemonkey, the main being that it sometimes crashed the browser.
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Whac-a-Butt is a reinterpretation of the classic, featuring seven butts that must be whacked. With each successful butt hammering (the inclusion of a hammer in this set stinks a bit of anachronism, but then again, this is a game in which butts pop out of little holes to a timer) a slapping noise is made (again, not quite fitting a hammer, but we've never struck a butt with a hammer so who knows what that might sound like).
Whac-a-Butt sells for $22, includes batteries and it is specifically not appropriate for your office's secret Santa gift exchange. [Gobaz via Nerd Approved]


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Would it be an idea to change the structure of the forums ... because of the duplicity between the Barca and Poco 'how- to' forums ? And instead have a "Pocomail and Barc Email How-To" Forum, with a separate "Barca Calendar etc. how-to" Forum ?
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Join me tomorrow to watch the Championship live (NASA's providing the feed) during which I'll be covering the action and capturing the highlights of what's sure to be an amazing match.
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About the Author: Evan Brown is a Chicago technology and intellectual property attorney. Need help? Call Evan at (630) 362-7237, send email to email@example.com, or follow him on Twitter @internetcases.
"Right to audit" provisions in technology services agreements are common. You've seen them. A typical section will read something like this:
Vendor will keep accurate and complete records and accounts pertaining to the performance of the Services. Upon no less than seven (7) days' written notice, and no more than once per calendar year, Customer may audit, or nominate a reputable accounting firm to audit, Vendor's records relating to its performance under this Agreement, including amounts claimed, during the term of the Agreement and for a period of three months thereafter.
Clearly these provisions generally benefit the customer, to give it some transparency and assurance that the vendor is performing the services according to the agreement and that vendor is charging customer for the services appropriately.
But a right to audit provision can benefit the vendor (and go against the customer) as well. As a recent court decision shows (Carlson, Inc. v. IBM, 2013 WL 6007508 (D. Minn. November 13, 2013)), a customer's comprehensive audit rights can preclude it from claiming that vendor owes it a fiduciary duty.
In the case, the customer sued its software vendor alleging, among other things, that the vendor breached its fiduciary duty. The customer argued that it had to essentially "hand over the keys" of its operations to the vendor. But the court ruled that vendor did not owe customer a fiduciary duty because the customer had several important rights to know about and control the vendor's performance.
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- the right to conduct operational audits to examine vendor's performance of the services;
- the right to audit performance for comparison to standards in the service level agreement;
- the right to financial audits to verify the accuracy and completeness of invoiced charges.
The court found that "[t]hese audit and oversight provisions [were] meaningless if [customer] was as helpless as it [claimed]."
So while vendors may find right to audit clauses to be a nuisance, they should remember that the presence of such a clause could provide an important defense in litigation over the technology agreement.
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DUNEDIN, Fla. — While us scribes circled Alex Rios to discuss the extension he's apparently near signing, catcher Rod Barajas stood in the background, sporting a wide smile and flipping through a wad of hundred dollar bills.
Rios indicated that the online report that has the figures at six-years, roughly $65 million, with an option for 2015 that could push it to around $80 million, was accurate. He also told me he expected the deal be be finalized in the next few days.
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QUOTABLE: I was standing by Frank Thomas this morning, watching the Red Sox-A's game in the clubhouse. There were some players down the hallway, watching the game inside the weight room. We could hear those guys react to a play before we saw it happen on our TV. I said to Hurt, "Those guys must have more of a live feed than we do." He quipped: "What, they're closer to Japan?" Nice.
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Elliot Johnson, SS
Carl Crawford, LF
Carlos Pena, 1B
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Cliff Floyd, DH
Eric Hinske, 3B
Jonny Gomes, RF
Dioner Navarro, C
Andy Cannizaro, 2B
PITCHING: Jason Hammel
Shannon Stewart, LF
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Alex Rios, RF
Frank Thomas, DH
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Hector Luna, 3B
Buck Coats, CF
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Our outfield looks set for years to come!!! Wells in CF Rios in RF and Snider in LF. I wonder if Snider could be used as a DH or would that slow his progression? I'm thinking two or so years ahead here… Snider DH with Lind in LF???
Rios is a future MVP candidate and having him through is prime years is a great move by management.
Good to see Coats back in the lineup (and opening day roster?). I hope he does well.
I can envision the headlines following a Jays victory over the Yankees: "Coats all over Wang", or "Wang struggles to get Coats out"…
Thomas hits a double??? Was that a typo on the score sheet?
10 runs in the 5th and 5 errors for the game?!?! Ouch! Roy WAS cruising. I think Tolisano needs a little work on his throwing.
I was pulling for the SanFran deal to get done however, since Alex is here I am glad that he will be here for what sounds like a good contract (market-wise). The guy has talent, no doubt. The fact that he's a stud (according to my girlfriend) just makes it easier to bring her along to some games. It's win, win lol.
On another note how do you guys feel about Rogers Centre getting some World baseball classic games ? I am really excited about it and am hoping that the tickets wont be a lot more then a jays game. If they're reasonabely priced i'd love to attend some games.
Well, yet another humiliating loss, this time a 10-0 drubbing at the hands of the Rays. I keep saying this over and over and over, but this team is in trouble. Jordan keeps telling us it is only preseason. Someone should have told that to the Jays' opponents who keep serving them one loss after another.
I would not be surprised to see this team 10 games back in a hurry, once the regular season starts. My pick: 4th in the east, at best.
So now Rolen's injury could actually take a month to recover from. I hope this doesn't end up like Lyle Overbay last year. He never really regained his timing/rythem when he got back from a hand injury.
THE STARTERS AREN'T PLAYING FULL TIME YET!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tolisano made 3 errors… You may ask yourself who is this guy and you will find that, HE IS A MINOR LEAGUER. This is why spring games don't mean squatt, because the ENTIRE TEAM isn't playing yet.
2 weeks before they pull the pin so to speak on Rolen and I'm assuming another couple weeks before he is ready to go. Probably won't see him till late April early May now
If I lived anywhere even remotely close to Toronto I would check out every game at the Classic!!!
I hear what you are saying, but something must give here. Everyone else is using minor leaguers too! So does this mean that the Jays' minor leaguers are poor quality compared to other teams' players? This team has shown no evidence that it is ready to compete. If you are asking me to believe that when they start the season against NY, Boston, the Tigers, etc. they are going to start playing solid, winning baseball, I do not buy it for a moment. Everyone talks about momentum being an important thing for a winning club to achieve. Let's start seeing it. Nobody for a minute believes that Thomas is going to start swinging the bat well in a couple of weeks from now, because he hasn't been hitting all spring. Does the same thing not apply to the other players? I am sorry, but I think that the Jays are making a big mistake by deliberately refusing (if you are correct) to play competitive games a priori.
So by your logic, Boston (with a spring record of 7-11) are in for a poor regular season? And Tampa Bay is going to run away with the A.L. East by continuing to play at a .773 clip? And Detroit and Cleveland are going to muddle along around the .500 level?
I guess I see your point, but I just don't think it's time to panic and run for the hills just yet….
Okay guys calm down. I was actually at the game today (and will be at the next two as well)and it really was Tolisano's errors that cost the game. I know he's a young kid (just 18) and he won't be playing for us this year so it's not that big a deal. By the way two of his errors were on 1 play! This was what should have been an easy double play that he mishandled and then threw into the seats (very Chuck Knoblauch!) all this while the bases were loaded. This opened the floodgates. One play I was a little concerned about was Overbay's Bill Buckner style fielding in that same inning where he was looking at the runner at third before he caught the ball. I hope he gets that ironed out before the season opens but I guess it happens. Overall though the game was well played if you don't include that 1 inning, and if you take into account the errors they should have been out of the inning with only one run scored (the solo shot by Gomes to lead off the inning, which was a no doubter by the way). Although the thing that worries me the most was they're lack of ability to hit. This was a huge problem last year and except for Shannon Stewart, the hitting did not look good today. I also saw that someone made a comment about Thomas' double today. I'd like to point out that he JUST made it in to second, and no slide either. Talk about a slow train coming! I'll try to update some highlights from the next two games that don't get mentioned in this blog. bye for now.
I sort of see your point Burt.
I don't think your being as literal as people are taking you to be, but saying that, it can't inspire confidence in people knowing that Rolen will be out for how long, Overbay really doesn't seem to be hitting very well, and Vernon is not coming out looking like he did in 06.
I am glad that Macdonald is picking up more hits, it's just a matter of time before he takes the job from Eckstein, who is going to look bad as a shortstop now that Rolen isn't there to pickup those grounders to his right.
Actually, i just checked the stats, and i think id like to retract my statements about Wells and Overbay.
JMac still rocks though !


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Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!
I remembered dreaming about this type of China plate (above), with its two blue birds, while washing just such an item on my new checkerboard kitchen floor.
I moved into a new place, with new faces and a refreshing new pace at the end of 08.
The Blue Birds on the plate are surrounded by Trees and are flying above a traditional Chinese Teahouse. The Trees, specifically the Willow and the Teahouse elements, are worth highlighting given the context we shall soon interact with...
The plate and dream is discussed in more detail at The Blue Willow Pattern.
The Blue Bird element, came into sharper focus, with added depth of meaning, when I listened to Judy Garland's "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" from "The Wizard Of OZ".
Over The Rainbow - The Wizard Of Oz - Judy Garland
"Somewhere over the rainbow, blue birds fly"
"Birds fly over the rainbow.. Why then, oh why then, cant I?"
"If happy little blue birds fly, beyond the rainbow, why oh why cant I?"
Dorothy believes she needs to get away from the NOW or Kansas. Because she believes there is something wrong with her present life situation she must go through an ordeal, or walk the road through OZ. She is stuck in OZ until the bewilderment involved - looking for oneself where it cannot be found - leads to insight and illumination at the Emerald City. Once surrendered she returns to Kansas.
Classic enlightenment drama, not dissimilar from the journey of the Ring-bearers through Middle Earth to cast the One Ring into the Cracks of Doom and return to the Shire in "The Lord Of The Rings".
You are already perfect and whole, so the 'looking or journey' itself means willful ignorance and discord. Eventually the absurdity of this process, chasing your own tail, becomes clear and the illusion melts away.
The possibility exists to skip this whole business, freaking your Self out, and just getting down to the joy.
Dorothy believes she needs to get away from the NOW, yet she is the NOW as ZOE.
We see the word Joy in frame with Zooey Deschanel as DG (modeled after Dorothy Gale) in the reimagining of 'Wizard of OZ', mini series "Tin Man". Deschanel plays Jovie (a variation of Joy) in 'Elf". In Jumpiter we associated being Jovian or Joyful to Jupiter and a new state of consciousness presently Being realized on our Plan.E.T. (The Plant involved Plan of the E.T (kosmic konsciousness)).
Her name writ as ZOE becomes NOW, the current preferred pointer towards conscious consciousness (I-I), consciousness aware of ItSelf or cosmic consciousness (what is meant by KKonsciousness).
We thus have a NOW resonator in ZOE, already associated to Joy as Jovie, interacting, synchromystically, with the word Joy.
When WE (WE/ME Being indivisibly related) embrace KKonsciousness emanating from the NOW we are infused with Joy. Joy, being Jovial, and the emerging KKonsciousness of Earth (the Heart) are all ONE (ZOE/NOW).
DG works at a diner wearing her waitress uniform and is serving a slice of Pie/Pi. Pi is the number of the primary shape of KKonsciousness, the StarG8 and Mandala as the humble circle.
She travels to OZ, having at one point a circular StarG8 shape branded on the palm of her hand.
This magical stamp, with its spiral and highlighted central 'eye', becomes one of her guides through OZ...
My little Buddha, gifted to me by a dear friend in 2001.
Buddhas and Hindu deities are often portrayed with the highlighted palm, let's say 'SpiriT Palm'. Like the chakras and the halo these phenomena are parts of the subtle body, not currently visible to the eyes, but present to the sensitive.
I don't own a Jesus yet, but here is Dali's "Khrist of Saint John of the Kross" just to introduce the essence of crucifixion in our KKonsciousness.
Strange that the masters of the East would have a highlighted palm as well as Jesus having been nailed through the palm to the cross. Both the prince and the stable born carpenter - WE acknowledge the elegant duality at work here - who become the chief enlightened champions of the Earth/Heart had highlighted palms.
It is with great joy that WE should be reminded that ZOE Deschanel plays Trillian in "HitcHHikers Guide to the Galaxy" (often shorted a H2G2). A major plot device in H2G2 is that the answer to "Life, the Universe and Everything" is 42.
OZ in the famous song above is "Over the Rainbow", right? How wacky then that the angle of refraction involved in the creation of a rainbow is 42 degrees.
Zoe is both 'Over The Rainbow' in "Tin Man" and connected to 42 in H2G2.
The marked palm, like ZOE's in 'Tin Man', in many variations, have been arising in my localized field "KKonsciousness".
Since the initial writing of the preceding words, in irregular starts and stops over the past 2 months, it has magically appeared in the banner and writing of blogger Richard Arrowsmith at Black Dog Star.
Specifically see his The SlumDog-Star for highlighted palm references.
I dig that he follows different colored and even machine/robotic/tin palms, themes I feel appropriate to include in a more general 'highlighted SpiriT palm' theme taking shape in the sync community.
At first I felt the swirl or eye shape was the criteria for inclusion. Arrowsmith's timely entrainment with this pattern suggest to ME becoming more flexible, letting go of attachment and just considering hands, highlighted in any fashion as associated.
No doubt footprints, fingerprints and animal paw prints (thanks Richard!) all share resonance worth exploring.
I have no clear idea of what this symbol could be pointing towards (as of this moment and in this sentence), in its inherent infinite depth, yet I will blog about it.
I find the very act of compiling syncs about a symbol helps flush out its 'meaning'*.
Perhaps the gravity of compiling syncs creates a force that attracts meaning and insight.
Perhaps injecting the sync pattern into the web (WWW/WE3/World War 3) and thereby more facets of KKonsciousness (i.e You) creates mysterious 'awareness feed back loops' which ad to the depth of Our understanding.
If WE/ME still try and figure out whether the attention of the individual - manifestation, selective attention etc. - causes the sync or whether the environment - God, Illuminati, animism etc - is responsible, the illusion of a separate self is still active.
Our KKonsciousness and what is called environment is one seamless continuum.
meaning*: Definite meaning implies you have something wholly figured out. This could never be the case as all things have infinite depth. When The Blob says 'meaning' it means something like "a suggestive cluster of information for association to a phenomena as general guide to interpretation"
Mentalist S1 E12 "Red Rum"
The CBS eye hits Robin Tunney's hand in the "Mentalist". The eye and hand combo has highlighted the proceeding few seconds for conscious attention.
We see a water cooler signifying the age of Aquarius or mercurial and freed consciousness. Patrick Jane carries a cup of coffee through the profile of StarMummy. I think of coffee as black pool, or void, then connecting it to black hole and Galactic Center and the eternal Self. The Eye hits a plant - a species already deeply rooted in NOW and COSMOS, currently also a key teacher and healer of humanity - as the Black Pool passes through Tunney.
Does the eye hand symbol have an affinity to plants? This is already suggested by the name 'palm' which could be both a Tree and the front of your hand. More examples of the highlighted palm interacting with plant KKonsciousness to follow.
Robin Tunney as Carol Demas under a Tree in "The Magic Garden".
I have been revisiting old syncs for a new video collaboration with Jim Sanders. Favorites like Robin Tunney doing a voice over in "Robot Chicken" episode, "Slaughterhouse on the Prairie". Here StarMummy is involved in a parody of a 70's children show "The Magic Garden", doing the voice of Carol Demas.
The Magic Garden Carol Paula and Sherlock Story Box Hello
"The Magical Garden is waiting for us!"
"The Magic Garden" evokes botanical plant consciousness flavor while resonating Eden and Atlantis (previous periods where man was not hypnotized by mind?). I interpret this as 'A New Earth' where the WE are all aligned Spiritually and Galactically with the central Heart and living through Joy (Jumpiter/42/NOW).
Living through Joy is learning to floW. When you accept what ever is NOW and don't live for the past or future you start to re-floW or floWer.
It is also inseparable from loosing you sense of limited self and becoming ONE with SELF. No self is a result of becoming the conscious consciousness or the I-I. This is not difficult, you are this right NOW, regardless of what story or emotion the mind makes up to convince you otherwise.
In this "Robot Chicken" version of "The Magic Garden" the story box becomes parodied as the Ark of the Covenant in "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Last Ark", once opened the SpiriTs emitted kill Tunney.
I was delightfully surprised to find a parody of "Grease's" "Greased Lightning", directly preceding the "Raiders of the Magic Garden" sketch.
I had just watched the film a few days before and found it loaded with amazing syncs. I made a short post about how John 'Trabolta' resonates lightning and Zeus.
Zeus is the Greek version of the Roman GOD Jupiter. Jumpiter has been strongly associated to 42 and Tin.
See also Jimbo's "The Tinman's Rainbow Lodge and The Gnosis of 42".
Things get downright silly as the "Robot Chicken" version "Hump Lightning" sees Trabolta (Zeus/Jupiter) and the T-Birds building there own Tin Man!
The astrological symbol of Jupiter/Zeus and the alchemical symbol for Tin are ONE.
Tin Men - more modern versions of classic beasties such as Golem or Frankenstein - are symbolic of the process KKonsciousness is undergoing called humanity, with an element of fear/attachment intertwined. WE humans are, from a limited perspective, robots of LIFE. WE have DNA blueprint, a central processor comparable to a computer i.e. the brain and its creation mind. For many who use the mind to understand the Universe they cant yet see that even DNA and mind are only a small process of infinite Being. The idea of the human form as limited automaton, symbolized by the Tin Man becomes a classic narrative. The story itself unveils the reality as most Tin Men become Self aware or desire a Heart. This parallels the human drama of moving beyond the mind and becoming Konsciously Konscious.
See A Few Shots To Shaman's That's Eggzactly What I Said for insightful Tin Man talk.
Jim Sanders points out that the Blue 'T-Bird', as seen on the back of Trabolta, could be associated to the legendary Thunderbird of the North American Native people. The Thunderbird is depicted as a large Eagle, who's beating wings cause thunder and stirs wind.
Another Tin Man variation, the Snowman.
The Blue 'T-Bird' as 'Thunderbird' continues our Jumpiter resonance considering Zeus is also commonly associated to the Eagle.
So we have Trabolta, a Zeus resonator, pimping his ride as the 'Greased Lighting', while wearing a Blue T-Bird or Thunderbird.
Our associations start resonating soundly...
My ONE new roommate is steeped in Mayan symbolism. She showed me pictures (example above) of a recent trip to the ancient Mayan city of Palenque where she saw T-Shaped windows. She remarked that the symbol is associated to the wind or breath of Great Spirit.
"In other words, the T-shaped doorway or window symbolizes the Sacred Tree at the Center of the World (axis mundi) upon which the shaman's spirit may climb. In addition, it functions as the portal leading to the Great Spirit, through which the breath of life may pass"
From a very insightful article article
The Tau (or T-shaped) Cross: Hopi-Maya-Egyptian Connections
The breath of life, winds of Great Spirit, associated to the T and tree of the axis mundi..
Extra fascinating as we saw our Blue Birds on the Blue Willow Pattern China plate flying aboveTrees and a Teahouse (T-House).
(I like calling the poles or axis up and down all fractal scales of existence Dragon Axis digging the terminology of "The Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye" by Jay Weidner and Vincent Bridges in this regard.)
The Mayan T, "Grease" T-Bird and Blue Willow Pattern T resulted in the the T shape floating around in KKonsciousness. Then noticeable emerging during trips around the city on buses as the 'Winnipeg Transit' logo.
While on route to Thompson - my dear friend who's last name is Thompson, that is - walking down Osborne (Born of OZ) Street, I noticed that the 'Winnipeg Transit' administrative offices and main depot is located at 421.
An interesting connect between the T of Winnipeg and the number of Jupiter/Tin, 42.
Many things have happened to ad depth to the above passages involving the T as SpiriT and Winnipeg buses. I typed this lot a few weeks ago, let me quickly fill you in, instead of re-writing it all.
I traveled to Thompson, the city 9 hours North of Winnipeg, and met up with Jim Sanders to work on our new video collaboration.
Jupiter's symbol veils the 4
I saw him work with these Jupiter graphics and got a little insight or 'lightning bolt' sent from the planE.T.
Jim had noticed the 42 hiding in there, leading to both of us being inspired to do much Jupiter/Tin work.
I think the 42 as also the answer to "Life, The Universe and Everything" in H2G2 sold the syncnificance of this Jupiter sync to me personally.
The floWering floW of Thompson had inspired many insights in us including that 1 is also present in the symbol of Jumpiter.
See NO for other syncs unveiled in ThompsON.
The hotel room we shared while there was numbered 214 and my ticket fare for the trip was $142.
More 214's and context at Jim's Juniper floW
With this in mind, scroll back up and look at the "Winnipeg Transit 421 Osborne" photo, we can NOW note and appreciate a fuller extent of the elegant entrainment represented by this sync wink. The T or Breath of Great Spirit resides at 421, the whole number of Jupiter. I was fully satisfied with this sync, all tied up and solid as a rock... Then...
Yesterday, I was walking down the Street when I saw God.
God had taken the shape of a bus featuring Its symbol as T and the words "The Downtown Spirit".
This is the blue bus that Winnipeg commuters can take for free.
WE are always looking at GOD (object) with GOD (subject), the context of certain moments, like the SpiriT bus sync, help prepare ME for this Gnosis.
I love that the bus that most clearly reflects Great SpiriT is the one that transports people for NO cost.
Chronologically we return NOW to words written a few weeks ago and yet another encounter with God...
I sit down for breakfast, on my new checkerboard floor, with my Mayan minded roommate, discussing many of the preceding syncs.. We even listen to Judy Garland sing about Blue Birds over my laptop resting on the kitchen table.
The rainbow - remember hat the angle of refraction involved in the creation of a rainbow is 42 degrees - is powerfully involved with her personal awakening story, making the preceding sync meaningful and relevant to both parties.
We had just covered the cluster of 'T as blue T-bird/Thunder Bird/Mayan Symbol for the Breath of SpiriT' when we both clearly smell a fire!
The preservation instinct, and a little self conscious chivalry, kicks in and I literally start running around the apartment, sniffing the air for the source of the smell.
Narrowing it back down to the kitchen, and eventually right where we were sitting to begin with. NOw extremely mystified and perplexed as there is certainly NO burning material in the kitchen. Yet the smell persists and I sit back down, surrendering to the mystery and to finish my Tea.
Suddenly one of us smells the Teapot, realizing it as the source of this intense aroma.
Only a minute or so after both coming into mystified agreement of the Teapot as the source of the interruption and commotion, does the realization hit, with much jubilant laughter.
The T-Pot started smelling like its on fire at the very moment we were highlighting T as connected to Great Spirit!
To my mind this was a sign from Spirit itself that this T theme was on the money. SpiriT enjoys being recognized and wakes up in the environment. It is more accurate to say facets of SpiriT (US Humans) wake up and start to notice ourSelf.
Mystery T-Pot, starts smelling like its on fire, all the while sitting on a checkerboard floor...
The Kitchen this happened in was the same place I remembered my China plate dream, with its Blue Birds and T-House.
Adding residual background context, to this dramatic affair, still rippling through KKonsciousness, WE had both watched "The Fountain" the previous night and "Pan's Labyrinth" only a few days before that..
Both being 'magnitude films' of richly syncnificant proportions, featuring our Dragon Axis as T or Tree..
The SpiriT Palm in the Axis Mundi/Dragon Axis Tree film "Pan's (OZ/77) Labyrinth".
Trees as T's are then symbols of the Breath of Great SpiriT. It also occurs to me that the presence of wind is often signaled to the awareness by the rustling of leaves, 'the wind in the willows'.
Carole Demas as Sandy in the original stage version of "Grease", this would eventually spawn the famous film.
Turns out Carole Demas, last seen being spoofed by Tunney in "The Magic Garden", was the O.G. Sandy, a role popularized by Olivia Newton John, in the "Grease" musical.
We cut from a scene in the film version where the T-Birds are working on the car that becomes the 'Greased Lightning' directly to...
The trailer for "The Blob" being watched by the Rydell High students at the local Drive-In.
I've been having a strong cluster of marriage related syncs, some mentioned in Blue Willow Pattern.
Just a few quick choice media examples, there are way to many of these, as well the 'real life' type, to get into.
Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw gets married, enjoying her wedding dress on a checkerboard floor, in the "Sex and the City" movie.
A rather odd piece of decoration she wears, on the actual wedding day, is a Blue Bird attached to her head or being emitted from her crown.
I like to view clothing, accessories and even environment as clues that highlight the subtle bodies of people. I feel that the perception of a person ending at there skin is an un-justified limitation and bias.
The fact that this winged and feathered ornamentation is a bird is stressed in the film.
This example of a blue headdress being a visible reflection of the invisible subtle body is exactly the same as the 'SpiriT Palm' we are also investigating in this post.
A blue feather coming out of headwear, fantastically, wasn't unique to the "Sex and the City" incident during the creation of this post. We will see one more such an example before WE are done.
Willow Rosenberg a Wiccan Witch and Scarlet Woman as Bridesmaid.
Another perfect sync here in "Buffy S6 E16 Hell's Bells" where Willow and Buffy are part of their best friend Xander's wedding party.
Actress Alyson Hannigan, Wiccan Witch Willow Rosenberg, was present in the original sync that started the Blue Willow Pattern NOw evolving into the 'SpiriT Union' theme.
In Blue Willow Pattern we strongly associate the color blue to Willow Rosenberg, who's name directly resonates the Blue Willow trees present in the design.
Blue Willow - NOw both our Willow Rosenberg and the blue Willow Tree on the plate (which also features the Blue Birds and T-House) - appearing in consciousness as a bridesmaid!
When WE allow attention to move ever deeper into the syncs they become the very architecture of our experience. All we interact with, be it "Buffy The Vampire Slayer", a family dinner or a visit to a cathedral, will start resonating all else, through the process of entrainment and alignment.
In keeping with this pattern we see Trabolta as Danny give Olivia as Sandy (who resonates Demas thus Tunney..) a ring at the Drive In.
Olivia syncs were explored at World Trade Galactic (Anti) Center
Having this very 'personal'* "The Blob" sync in conjunction with the continued being wedded pattern gave me pause.
I have been using these very images, from "The Blob" film trailer, for more then a year during the existence of this blog. They are indeed the only permanent fixture at "The Blob". Now they sync wink back at me, seemingly trying to give ME an important message.
(I should ever run across an amorphous extraterrestrial I will indeed immediately, Run - Not Walk!)
To me the way synchronicity works is to just simply be more aware or KKonscious when you are alerted to its presence. As I believe it comes from the True Self, with which we are steadily aligning, I trust it to guide ME in accordance with MY intuition. Indeed intuition, insight and 'Will of God', all collapse into the same thing the more you harmonize with the non-dual Being WE/ME already are.
Do I believe I am speaking for God? Have I become a total messianic nutcase? Maybe, but I ask that you please find out who is asking this question before you ask ME...
So, I see "The Blob" shots and just naturally become more alert then usual...
The first thing that grabs my attention proceeding this personal sync is the courtship ritual of giving a ring. Very natural considering many past marriage syncs I have been having.
Am I to be married? Unlikely, as I am not even in a relationship.. I've never even wanted to be married.
Is there a more subtle spiritual interpretation?
How about both a spiritual message and a real life betrothal?
If I am indeed to be wedded in the foreseeable future, many dramatic changes must be in store for my personal life.
I also have a few close friends who are in relationships that might be heading towards Marriage, am I entraining with a cluster of marriage insight and experiences coming down the pipe? Are the wedding syncs related to the experiences of my friends, yet still bleeding powerfully into my awareness none the less?
Unsure, working on it...
After reading a new post by Richard Arrowsmith at Black Dog Star called Things Are Coming Together the symbolic aspect of marriage comes into sharper focus for me. Perhaps the collapse of my individiual identity into the non-dual and unified state is reflecting itself as marriage. Two, self and other, are merging as ONE.
Things in "Grease", at this early stage, don't work out to well for our love birds as Sandy sends Danny packing for trying to 'accelerate' the relationship prematurely. He seeks the forbidden fruit before grounding the experience.
*Personal: Ultimately nothing is personal as the individual, distinct from the totality, is a mind made Illusion of limited perspective. It's still a perfectly reasonable and useful convention if WE/ME acknowledge the Truth about Identity (SelfDentity).
You can take this piece of Tin!
She chucks the ring at Trabolta referring to it as Tin. Tin the metal associated to Jupiter being lobbed at Zeus incarnate. Nice, awesome and the like.
Again, lets highlight the Jupiter/42 resonance, the 'rainbow angle'..
On Feb 7 I changed my 'Facebook status update' to: "Jake is looking for the blue bird".
A dear Afrikaans friend comments on this (roughly translated into English): "I also saw K-Pax yesterday, weird"
I reply a little confused "Hu? Is there something about a 'blue bird' in K-Pax? I was thinking about something else".
To which Mr Z-Man replies "Yes it is part of the movie. He tells one of the patients to find the blue bird of happiness".
Now grokking what's going on I finish up "Fuckin-Ay. That helps allot!"
Coming out in 2001, the year of the 911 StarG8, K-PAX revolves around the question of whether a psychiatric patient, Kevin Spacey as Prot, is indeed what he claims he is, an alien from another planet called K-PAX.
Prot's humility and joy is infectious, healing many of the ills around him including other mental patients and even the doctors appointed to him.
He tells one of the patients to find the 'Blue Bird of happiness' as part of a series of tasks.
A Blue Jay does indeed arrive causing much jubilation amongst the patients.
I feel confident considering the totalities guidance in bringing this scene into KKonsciousness that the Blue Bird's message can be interpreted at face value. It is a symbol of Joy, Happiness and Celebration.
Synchronicities and the insightful character of Prot cause his chief examiner, Jeff Bridges, to start entertaining the suspicion that his patient might indeed be a Starman.
"What are you doing?"
"Well, you just reminded me of something I want to include in my report"
"Your report?"
"Yes, its our custom to compile descriptions of the various places and people we encounter throughout the galaxy"
The Dialogue about the Galaxy, our Great Mother, transpires as the movement of the camera interacts with a prismatic office object, causing sunlight to move through the spectrum.
A rainbow aligning with a Kosmic Konsciousness symbolizing E.T's mention of the Galaxy.
Jupiter, the planet who's number is 2, 4 and 1 hits the crown of 'The Dude' and 'Starman', Jeff Bridges, during a visit to the planetarium in K-PAX..
A sync web (a few 'Opening the Stargate Via' type posts) for Bridges is sorely needed but will have to reside as a thought form for NOw.
During the writing of this post, and further travels across Winnipeg, I come to a street corner near my home. I notice the crosswalks 'stop hand' has a highlighted central element just like the SpririT Palms that started this sync web.
Upon showing my roommate - the same ONE who helped inspire the SpiriT theme through the Maya T - these photos, she points out the Rainbow which I had entirely overlooked. The highlighted SpritiT Palm and Rainbow were now bleeding into each other in my environment.
The Blue word Zone veils OZ and ONE. This word has more personal syncnificance related to me and Jim's forthcoming video.
Below Zooey (ZOE) Deschanel, Mistress of the NOW, is still in OZ. The land over the rainbow where Blue Birds fly.
She is seeking her parents and the way home in "Tin (Jupiter/42) Man". Her tool is a compass with Black Star and Red Heart, over the palm of her hand. The Black Star is the unknowable and infinite void at the Heart of all that Is. The center of your Eye/I/Self and your true home.
Unknowable and Infinite yet ME/WE are IT right NOW.
It is unknowable because it is all WE KNOW/NO/OZ.
If all were blue how would you have any concept of blue?
If all were YOU, how would YOU have any concept of YOU?
I feel the SpiriT Palm is a currently re-awakening part of the subtle body. The I/Eye/Self is waking up in the species along with new facets of our SpiriT Bodies. This part of your hand is compass or guide to find the Heart and Black Star.
She follows her palm, the Tree resonating human appendage. It guides her to a StarG8 in the forest, the home of the Tree which we have connected to the T.
The SpiriT Palm and the Trees, with SpiriT emanating through an opening portal.
What lies beyond this particular door and its syncnificance to our sync web is a matter for another day.
As the highlighted Palm is an atribute of the Khrist, ZOE, with her own highlighted SpiriT Palm also NOW resonates Jesus.
Star NOW is also a talented songster in band "She & Him".
She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
Featuring the Blue Bird of happiness, the gift of NOW.
ZOE falls from a giant H and dies - shades of WTC (see post H) - her immortal SpiriT, the formless bliss from which totality arises, rises like the Phoenix from the ashes.
Jovies SpiriT Body sings betwixt lightning bolts of Zues/Jupiter.
As an actress strongly associated to Jumpiter - through the 42 in "H2G2", her role as DG in "Tin Man" and the Jovian name Jovie in Elf - this chimes allong beutifully with her already investigated resonance like magic.
Blue Ghosts/SpiriTs exit out of the Black Holes made by Jupiters bolts.
Realized Being, coming from the void of NO-thing, moving into Matter (Mother) through the Joy of NOW.
The bleeding Sacred Heart of our synchromystic Khristess.
The Death of the Khristess, the sacrifice of form, allows the realization of the formless. WE/ME realize that which remains when all that is false, all form and thought, is taken away.
Married eternal KKonsciousness.
I was trying to decide which one of the silly amount of poignant Blue Bird and SpiriT syncs, experienced over the last few weeks, to end on. I couldn't bear to cut all of them, so here are a few.
Outro: 1
A crop of Alex Grey's "Kosmic Khrist" painting (below) features the SpiriT Palm and the Rainbow feathered (much blue) bird wing.
This painting has been part of the sync web at E.T Ipsissimus of the A.:A.: and Opening the StarG8 ViA Jennifer Connelly: Stars and Stripes.
Khrist, the highlighted SpiriT Palm and the bird wing all neatly associated in the charged environemnt of this amazing painting.
Outro: 2
Monty Python - Dead Parrot
The most classic of all classic Monty Python sketches and a personal favorite, witness the "Dead Parrot" sketch.
I was showing my Maya and Rainbow resonating roommate an example of the show as she had never heard of it.
Couldn't tell you if I was surprised or not when noting the actual bird is blue (a 'Norwegian Blue' to be precise).
JC John Cleese lobs the deceased Blue Bird onto the checkerboard pet shop floor.
Compare these elements to the "Sex and The City" Carrie Bradshaw sync mentioned earlier..
Outro: 3
Merry the Hobbit:'The Withywindle is said to be the queerest part of the whole wood - the centre from which all the queerness comes, as it were.'
Lord Of The Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring p150
Above we see a painting of the Willows of the banks of river Withywindle (The name is derived from Withy. (willow), and Windle (basket)) in the Old Forest.
I started of on the rewarding labor of going through the "Lord Of The Rings" novels. I'm cheating a little as I downloaded the audio book, listening to it on my Ipod, instead of reading it again myself.
Again even this classic story started entraining with the Blue Willow china plate while finishing up this post.
Early on in the narrative the Hobbits end up at the river Withywindle all along which grows Willow trees. They fall under the spell and attack of one particular nasty Tree, Old Man Willow.
Often omitted from "Lord of The Rings" adaptations, much to the chagrin of 'fan boys' everywhere, yonder leaps Tom Bombadil.
Tom carries home Lilies to his lady Goldberry when he chances upon the Hobbits lost and under attack, by the Willow trees of the Old Forest. Funny enough our 'Blue' Willow Rosenberg actress Alyson Hannigan (major Blob muse) is currently famous as "How I met Your Mother's" Lily Aldrin. Willow, Lily, Blue feathers (thus bird) and plant consciousness all coming together in Tom Bombadil.
'Fair lady!' said Frodo again after a while. 'Tell me, if my asking does not seem foolish, who is Tom Bombadil?'
'He is Master of wood, water and hill'
'Then all this strange land belongs to him?'
'No, indeed!' She answered, and her smile faded. 'That would indeed be a burden,' she added in a low voice, as if to herself. 'The trees and the grasses and all things growing or living in the land belong each to themselves. Tom Bombadil is the Master. No one has ever caught old Tom walking in the forest, wading in the water, leaping on the hill-tops under light and shadow. He has no fear. Tom Bombadil is master.'
Lord Of The Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring p164
Tom encounters and saves the Ring-bearer Frodo Baggins.
There was another burst of song, and then suddenly, hopping and dancing along the path, there appeared above the reads an old battered hat with a tall crown and a long blue feather stuck in the band. He had a blue coat and a long brown beard; his eyes were blue and bright, and his face was red as a ripe apple but creased into a hundred wrinkles of laughter.
Lord Of The Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring p158
Tom Bombadil, a powerful magical forest dweller, a Master of water with an affinity for blue, having a Blue Bird feather in his hat!
To me Tom clearly resonates the Shaman and Sumiruna. Currently Sumiruna is embodied as Dr. Manhattan potently entering consciousness in the "Watchmen" film, opening today.
Read Jim's Sumiruna - Master of the Water for details.
Sumurina is perhaps the collective 'water/DNA intelligence' of the plan.E.T. A key Great KKonsciousness facet of Earth/Heart.
Note Shiva's SpiriT Palm and Highlighted third eye. His blueness and vivified subtle body perfectly entrain with Dr Manhattans circle-dot forehead Mandala.
Dr. Manhattan and Tom Bombadil are new variations of Blue Shiva.
The golden ring, resonating the Marriage theme, highlights the subtle body of Elijah Wood's palm on a 2001 - year of the 911 StarG8 - "Lord of The Rings" film poster.
Symbolic union of KKonsciousness and emergence of SpiriT into flesh.
The ring placed on the palm, thereby vivifying the SpiriT Body didn't occur to me through "Lord of the Rings" however. It was brought into awareness during Episide 5 of Season 5, "This Place Is Death", of the 'happy little show' called "Lost".
Jin hands his wedding band to Locke as proof to be given to his wife Sun that he has succumbed on the Island.
Locke has become a Ring-bearer...
This golden ring and message is however passed on by Ben not Lock, as Locke has expired.
They are all gathered outside a church, the house of God and the Holy SpiriT.
Sun, also the name of our local golden Star, holds her husbands ring on her palm. At this point I made the connect between this image and the SpiriT Palm, later connecting it to Frodo in "The Lord Of The Rings".
Nice, lets rest...
Hang on, the exchange of the ring is interrupted by Desmond and Jesus Christ!
Didn't we connect the highlighted SpiriT Palm to the Savior before? Only to have him return as Sun's palm becomes vivified in just such a manner.
Hang on to your socks, is the golden ring being held up by Sun passing directly over the stem of a Palm Tree?
Jesus Christ, it Is!
It took all of this context before my mind made the obvious connect to the T shape of the cross Jesus' palms were nailed to.
The Marriage ring, JC, the highlighted SpiriT Palm and Palm Tree all resonating together, soundly.
The very next episode "316" would take us into the church where we note it is adorned with Caravaggio's "The Incredulity Of Saint Thomas". An iconic image where the Doubting Thomas requires physical proof of the resurrection by asking to inspect Jesus' wounds.
This heightens the resonance we found outside where WE interpreted Sun's highlighted palm as related to crucifixion.
Jesus the Ring-bearer of Christ Consciousness (KKonsciousness), with his Palm Married 2 a T.
Exit Music:
Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino
"The wind in the willow played
Love's sweet melody"
"Live Long and Prosper"