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The Twitter of the Blue Bird
The Twitter of the Blue Bird
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
One By One The Penguins Steal My Sanity!
"One By One The Penguins Steal My Sanity!"
These are words from a T-Shirt I saw in an American Metal Music magazine as a South African teenager. I imagined owning said T-Shirt would make me the happiest dude in the world. I have from time to time, returned mentally, pondering these mysterious words in the years since.
Being insane is not something I advise or condone. The majority of people are already quite mad (unhealthy and attached to thought and form) at this stage in the game.
Going out of your mind however, NOW there is something worth pursuing with much earnest.
The word "animal" comes from the Latin word animale, neuter of animalis, and is derived from anima, meaning vital breath or soul.
Wikipedia Animal Etymology
Ive been noticing penguin syncs, trying to get my attention, for about 2 years NOW. Ive been meaning to blog about it for ages and finally decided to give it a go yesterday morning (1st OCTober (note the OCT resonates 8), same day Goro posts his "Fake Jake" article) when I spotted Danny DeVito sync wink at me through his monocle. I had just received an email from Jim that Goro had posted his thoughts and decided I would take a shower before reading it. As I exit the water (H20), the arrangement of clothing had 'self organized' to reveal The Penguin on my "Batman Returns" T-Shirt (see photo above). This was the first piece of clothing I bought in a B.C thrift store after landing in Canada back in 2004.
The plans is to let this post gestate slowly, while I work on other projects, adding to it when I have the time...
Oswald Chesterfield Cobbelpot resonates OZ (77/Pan) while his trademark is the Octagonal (as most umbrellas display from above) specialized high-tech umbrella.
The logo of the fictional Umbrella Corporation in the Resident Evil film and game franchise.
It is interesting to note that Goro's concerns are particularly related to my use of the octagon and its related geometries in connection with Stargate concepts. That it would be highlighted synchromystically, through The Penguin, on Oct 1, minutes before I read Goro's words on the same subject feels most fitting.
The same evening I wrote the above I ran into this Penguin reference on "How I met your Mother" episode "Life Among Gorillas".
Jason Segel as Marshal is told by Neil Patrick Harris or Barney to meditate on the 'meaningful message' of his Penguin featuring motivational poster. Marshals is unhappy that his job involves loosing his identity. Barney recommends he learns from the Penguins. The Penguin who doesn't huddle together with the masses freezes and dies.
Note how the poster directly to the right says 'Strength' featuring two pillars, resonating the Twin Pillarmids. In fact Boaz (of King Solomon's Temple and Masonry fame, along with its significant other Jachin) is the pillar of Strength making this Penguin image resonate the occult mysteries.
The Penguin is leading Marshal to the door of Divinity. He is already questioning who he is and will soon be ready to leave the fictitious self and pass through the Stargate Portal.
Later in the same episode Marshals 'selling out' sees him imagining himself becoming a Gorilla, while fixing his suite in a looking glass. He feels like he is becoming part of the pack, just another monkey vying for acceptance by the herd. In synchromysticism however non human primates resonate Thoth in his baboon form. Loss of the form identity is also the path of awaking into consciousness. Marshal is loosing his ego and finding his true inner God.
The Mirror is a common symbolic doorway for Cosmic Consciousness to enter and heal the mundane. Alice, Tunney and The Gargoyles open this Stargate in StarMummy.
Another episode "The Duel" sees Marshal literally crowned by a tiny British phone booth's golden crown. The Stars head has moved perfectly to reveal the ONE of telephone while sporting a visible subtle body Stargate Halo. KKonsciousness is starting to realize what surrounds movie Stars' profile can be interpreted as extensions of their bodies as the Self is not limited to the physical form. Examples like the one below make this phenomena vivid.
The Telephone booth has sync winked One before as Keanu Reeves legs frame the word on the poster for "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure". As Keanu Reeves is also Neo in "The Matrix", a anagaram for One, this is a most fitting echo of the messianic role this Star would play a decade later.
I told Jim, the local StarG8tor, about the Penguin theme on Friday (3 Oct). Later that same day we caught Tony Hawk on TV talk about Penguins, some preliminary Google research lead me to believe this was the sketch comedy show "Human Giant".
Further questing reveals "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4" has a Zoo stage where you need to collect 5 penguins before advancing.
THPS4 Walkthrough part 10 - ZOO 2
An eight rayed (octagram) black star and halo is seen above the head of the player as the instruction to find the Penguins is given.
The OZ in Zoo brings in Pan/77 and the mythical land beyond the veil or Stargate. All these types of worlds; Wonderland, Oz, Shangri-La, the New Jerusalem, Atlantis etc are the state of KKonsciousness often accessed through ecstatic endeavors (drugs, trances, traumas etc) becoming mythic realms of mystery. Presently this state of KKonsciousness is arising as the normal mode of existence.
The black star resonates the black hole/star in the Center of the Galaxy we are aligning with physically and spiritually sometimes called the Hunab-Ku. Its is also the Heart of Galactic Center Temple or Winnipeg's Legislative building.
The Zoo ZO aspect interacts with the Zodiac ZO or OZ. The Zodiac is the 12 constellations that form a ring around the Earth, as traced by the path of the ecliptic.
The ecliptic is the apparent path that the Sun traces out in the sky during the year. As it appears to move in the sky in relation to the stars...
Ecliptic Wiki
In a way we can think of the Zodiac as a giant animal flavoured Mandala/Star Ring or Stargate.
I love how when a movie, full of actor Stars, Starts, it says "Staring"..
Our sk8terboy passes a Zebra striped truck. Philip K. DicK called his Kosmic Konsciousness encounter Zebra and VALIS.
That same weekend on Sunday (Oct 5), while at the local cinema to catch "Beverly Hills Chihuahua", I ran into a standee of "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa". It sees penguins and the Zebra.
"Madagascar 1" came up before as Chris Rock/Zebra interacts with Robin Tunney and Pizza in "Paparazzi". The anthropomorphic animals are voiced by Stars. We see the antics of the animated troupe as they escape from the Zoo and New York.
As N.Y is O.Z. one letter on in the alphabet this all becomes very susynct. It also resonates "Escape From New York" with Kurt Russel as Snake Plissken (See StarMummy).
Animals with human characteristics are dynamics of the earliest religions and cultures. I believe that films with talking animals, voiced by Stars, are symptomatic of the return to the Golden Age of centered Being.
See Z is for Zebra for some Tynney and Chris Rock Pizza/Zebra syncs.
The Ages are a spinning wheel of returning connected to the cycles of the Zodiac, Procession and Galactic Alignment. KKonsciousness moves from being 'one, whole and aligned' - during the Golden Age (OZ,Wonderland, Atlantis etc) - into seeming 'many, separate and diseased', during what we call history.
About midway through the proceeding week I quickly scan episode 1 of "Planet Earth" a show which I have had folks recommend to me endlessly.
This week while discussing E.T. and Plant Konsciousness through email with Jim it occurred to me that PLANET can be understood as the PLAN of the ET or even Plant ET. The idea being that Plant Consciousness is the fullest embodiment of Being (equivalent to cosmic consciousness or E.T.) on Earth.
Further as Earth is an anagram for Heart we could say the Plant of The E.T. is the alignment of the two Hearts. The Heart or Earth aligning with Galactic Center or the Heart of the Milky Way.
This show was unsuccessfully downloaded but we can clearly see the involvement of our flightless primary colored birds..
This weekend on Friday (Oct 10) I visited my friend Dianne at her delightful toyshop job. At this point I was just taking photos without explaining the Penguin syncnificance to her. A few weeks later, as we shall see, this would change and Dianne would provide a valuable Penguin sync...
I spot this exciting snippet of space/time (above). A Penguin accompanied by syncnificant others such as Panda, G8tor, White Rabbit and Frog.
Panda shares the checker motif and as a bear resonates the Northern circumpolar star constellations (Ursa minor and major). Bear as arktos (Greek) also resonates the cubic ark closely related to the polar axis.
For more pandas and in depth explanation of ark as 'cube of space' formed by the poles or Dragon Axes see Scarlet Dragon
In Chinese astrology the 2011 is the year of the Hare/Rabbit. This will be the likely fascinating year leading up 2012. 2010 generally resonates the 'Year We Make Contact' while 2011 in relation to this sync becomes 'the year we follow the rabbit, down the rabbit hole/StarG8'.
The toy G8tor with open jaw is the Monster Mouth of Galactic Center also resonating 2012, the Chinese year of the Dragon.
The Penguins left me alone for another week, seemingly enjoying playing peek-a-boo on weekends...
On Friday the 17th this one appeared on my Facebook news feed. Another 'fake motivational poster' type, perhaps adding dramatic weight to the first 'How I met Your Mother' sync and suggesting more to come..
I don't video play games but I walk in and out of the stores all the time, keeping a silent vigil on the forms at play in that mysterious sync rich realm. This is still Friday 17, if your keeping track.
Spotted this "Happy Feet" game for the SONY PlayStation 2. "Happy Feet" is also a 2006 film. Again, the Stars breath life (lending there voice acting talents), into the animated anthropomorphic animals.
The word "animal" comes from the Latin word animale, neuter of animalis, and is derived from anima, meaning vital breath or soul.
One of these Stars is Robin Williams as the Penguin Ramon (note the Ra) /Lovelace. The Robin is my primary animal guide, are the Penguins my second?
Its the evening of the 17th and its been a Penguin field day. Including all the ones mentioned above, I also saw many "Madagascar 2" Standees, sporting penguins, during my trip to the theater to see "SexDrive", that same day. Yet the best was still to came...
Witness and be dumbstruck with awe, dear friends, Alyson Hannigan playing Lilly Aldrin in "How I met Your Mother" Season 2 Episode 11 (2/11 or 11:11) "How Lily Stole Christmas"!
I have no idea in what sequence the posts I am working on will be published, some relevant information and context might be out on The Blob already, or still forthcoming.
In short this awesome red headed goddess and Star symbolizes Thelema's Scarlet Woman or Babalon interchangeable with Whore of Babylon. Her number is 777 and her Star is seven pointed. At the same time, with no less gravity or import then the interpretations of Thelema and Christianity, she is our synchromystic Willow the Wiccan from "Buffy The Vampire Slayer".
No person or group - for that matter, not any existing entity - owns a symbol, its meaning and associated interpretations. A symbol by its very nature is always pointing away from itself. It is a concept or thing, trying to point to the realm of the in-conceptual or no-thing. Any tangible and definable explanation or understanding of a symbol is a limitation. All symbols meanings are infinite. We honor the cultures, groups and entities that have passed down and expanded on the symbolism that gives shape to our experiences. As the very force that creates and animates all symbolism We are free to reinterpret and expand on the meaning and symbols our KKonsciousness becomes aware of.
Note the Penguin, under the H and above the sphere of the Earth/Heart.
I heard this perfectly fitting quote on my Ipod minutes after writing the above paragraph.
"Everything, a bird, a tree, even a simple stone and certainly a human being is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth."
Eckhart Tolle "A New Earth" Audiobook by Penguin Audio
Seth Green as Oz, Alyson Hannigan's charachter Willow's boyfriend, in his first appearance on Buffy while standing in front of a Zebra striped van. His shirt reads N.Y. which is O.Z. one letter ahead in the alphabet. The episode is "Inca Mummy Girl" an episode that already synced with the real life Grey Hound Bus beheading as discussed in Galactic Centre Temple
As Willow, girlfriend of Oz (Seth Green), she has solidified the interpretation of herself as Great Mother, equivalent of Isis and the Galactic Centre.
Willow and Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) in S3 E19 Choices. The Red Headed Goddess wears the image of the Zodiac (Staring) and StarG8 over her body. A small patch of visible Aureola as American red and white striped flag emanates from the Slayers head. (See Unveiling the Aureola Via Robin Tunney for more on Stars vivifying the presently emerging subtle body of humanity)
Here then one of uncountable sync winks in "Buffy" that exemplifies Alyson's resonance as Babalon/Isis.
Buffy and Willow inside the Slayer's room in S3 E20 "Prom"
As the camera pans - panning resonates the Goat god whose number is 77 equivalent of OZ through Gematria - a poster with the night sky and Milky Way moves through the profile of the Scarlet Star.
A facet entering and exiting (panning) the body of a Star seems even more powerfully charged then just apearing in shot or even touching (sync kissing) the outline of the actor.
The before mentioned "How I met Your Mother" sync sees the penguin kissing her, while a David Star does the same.
Alyson actually voices a Penguin in "Farce of the Penguins".
The Penguin as Polar (Southern) and snow inhabiting lends it to being a popular Christmas decoration. Alyson as Lilly wears the Santa (Satan/Lucifer/Light-Bringer) Hat next to the Christmas Tree during this sequence. Christmas, through Santa, is popularly connected to the Northern Pole. This along with the Christmas Tree, the symbolic pole or axis mundi, betrays its obvious association to the cycles of the sun, our local star.
The Wiccan Wheel of The Year shows the proximity of Christmas to Yule, the newborn solstice.
The Three Dragon Axes or Teli on p 97 of "The Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye" by Jay Weidner and Vincent Bridges.
The penguin, like Christmas, is a resonator of the Earth's/Heart's pole, an important facet and parameter of Galactic Alignment. Its is indeed one of the three Dragon Axes that form the Cube of Space, the heavenly or 'as above' Ark. In the illustration above it is B, "the moving axis of the procession of the equinox". (I think, to be honest the physical alignments parameters 'hurt' my brain)
This explains the rising popularity in pop culture of the penguin and polar bear. The polar bear highlights the North, while the Penguin focuses attention on the Southern part of this Dragon Axis.
On 18 Oct I braced myself for my second round of Darren Aronofsky's supremely affecting "Requiem For A Dream". I hadn't seen it since it was in theaters way back in 2K.
Ellen Burstyn is seen above, getting her hair dyed red, to match her red dress.
She is fixating on her appearance and imagining her television debut during her dramatic downward spiral. This is a most stunning and accurate depiction of the ego's madness. Infinite Being beyond 'stuff' - who You/We are - becomes so wrapped up in thought and form, lost in the world, it believes the act of acquiring more - be it drugs, possessions or experiences - can end its suffering. Paradoxically the more things It identifies with the more One suffers. Suffering is not knowing who You are, separation from knowledge of Self. I remember trying to fill up the void with alcohol for a few years. It didn't work. Accepting I am NO-thing is the only 'thing' that has ever filled that void. This is a roundabout and 'mysterious' sounding way of stating what doesn't have to be so melodramatic. Simply put, realizing that you are consciousness, consciously conscious of itself is the whole game. Seriously, this is the secret if we can even claim that such a thing exist.We are the Grail, the Holiest of Holies, the Center of the Galaxy or any other mysterious 'thing' out 'there'. Anything less, sold as redemption, is a trick.
The act of making herself red entrains with Alyson and the Scarlet Woman theme.
That evening I went with some friends to see Oliver Stone's George W. Bush biopic "W". I was quite surprised to see Burstyn as W's mom, Barbara Bush. There exists a hardly believable or verifiable - making it all the more tantalizing - yet persistent rumor alive on line. It suggests the possibility that Barbara Bush's mother Pauline Pierce (PP) participated in a Sex Magick ritual with Aleister Crowley which resulted in the former First Ladies birth. If true this would mean Khaled Khan (one of many pseudonyms for Pop Star Aleister Crowley, by which he will henceforth be know at "The Blob") is the grandfather of George W. Bush! I couldn't even pretend to actually believing such a scenario, but I dig thinking about it and have no reason to completely dismiss it.
Here we have a Scarlet Woman - an entity directly related to Crowley's New Aeon and Sex Magick - in Ellen Burnstyn, playing the possible progeny of Khaled Khan! The mind boggles...
Oh yes, we have the Penguin towel, seen during Ellen's hair dying scene, to thank for this stimulating speculation...
The image below was passed along in the days proceeding through an 'unrelated' email.
"The second image from the Batman book shows the Penguin's (black/white, Masonic checkerboard) HQ, a pyramid shaped building with an "eye" from where Batman has just smashed in." (Oct 20)
Soiled Linen Penguin Sync
Then there was the self explanatory Penguin/Batman boxer shorts incident... (video above)
Followed by KKonsciousness running into a discussion about Penguins as resonating of Tezcatlipoca on the Synchromysticism Forum.
Jenn from Hidden Dakini added this image of the Penguin as resembling of Dick Cheney. Funny and strangely resonant, yet again, of "W" in which Cheney is played by Richard Dreyfus. Most syncnificantly Dreyfuss has evaded the Galactic Centre representing monster mouth of "Jaws" and initiated First Contact in "Close Encounters of the First Kind". Does this E.T resonance mean that of all those at the top of the American 'food chain', Cheney is most directly involved with the secrets of Area 51? Who knows, just highlighting some interesting and suggestive syncs..
I cannot help thinking about Tezcatlipoca, "Smoking Mirror"... a god of the Dark Night who often manifests as a bird.... something like a turkey or King Vulture. And his face is most often depicted as Black/Yellow stripes... quite similar to the King Penguin! (Haha, weren't we just talking about queens? Now we're on to Kings! BTW, Bernie Mac was one of the "Original Kings of Comedy!")
(Oct 20-24?)
Synchromysticism Forum Dark Knight Synchs page 3
In Black Star I mention a particularly pronounced cluster of syncs happening around what I dubbed "Black Friday" Oct 24. Syncs tend to come in these sudden dramatic 'starbursts'. They are everywhere and when but the magnitude and amplitude seemingly ebbs and flows mysteriously. I'm in McNally Robinson bookstore at the Polo Park (PP) Mall - Mall resonates Lam, Khaled Khan's Preternatural E.T and Kosmic Konsciousness resonator - when I notice these ornamental Christmas penguins, the animal I have been closely tracking.
I stared at the pair of penguins above, thinking about Robins - the animal I feel inexplicably and most solidly bonded to - and birds in general, noting the added humming bird sync kissing the black and white flightless avians. I hadn't yet made the connection between McNally Robinson and my continued Robin interaction. That would take running into Black Star's on Robin from "How I Met Your Mother's" t-shirt that same evening (again see Black Star).
Right after seeing these Penguins, still inside McNally Robinson, I paged through Frank Albo's book about Galactic Center Temple a.k.a Winnipeg's Legislative Building, "The Hermetic Code". I see Khaled Khan and a reference to his appearance on the cover of "The Beatles" "Sgt Peppers". At the very same time a hear "Hey Jude" by the same band over the store P.A. I practically flee the scene with bewilderment only to be stopped in my tracks not 30 seconds later by a Mirror Ball - a pointer of McKenna's object at the end of space time - and that very "Sgt Peppers" album cover. (images etc at Black Star)
Crowley Beatles Penguin Sync
I return and shoot the video above. We can see Khaled Khan, the words "Sergeant Pepper's" (at about the 6 seconds mark) the "Hermetic Code" cover featuring Galactic Center Temple (at 16 seconds) ending with Penguins. All the while, if you listen closely, "Get Back" from "The Beatles" is playing in the background.
Later that evening I journey to see Black Star "DJ Jazzy Jeff", spotting this 'fancy' Penguin on the same street as the nightclub. The starburst affect of the street light should not be ignored. I feel these kinds of StarG8 shapes, often with significant context (like our Penguin friend), caught by cameras, are valid mandala/divinity pointers.
The next morning (Sat Oct 25-ish) I fire up the old Eckhart Tolle "A New Earth" Audiobook which starts, "Penguin Audio presents..". Minutes later I would spot this Penguin publishers book "The Omnivores Dilemma", featuring our checkerboard creature inside the orange oval or vesica.
Penguin Scarlet Dragon Sync
On Monday the 27th of Oct my friend Dianne, unaware of my 'penguin problem', showed me a book "Show Me How: 500 Things You Should Know" which continued the interesting phenomena shown up by the Galactic Center Temple and "The Beatles" sync. That is, the themes I am investigating such as Black Stars or Penguins, getting all tangled together, to the point where I am unsure where to highlight them. The video above shows the Penguin interacting with the Scarlet Dragon, begging the question, should it go in the new "Scarlet Dragon" post or be highlighted here, with all the other Penguins?
A groovy Australian (OZ) dude, Thorin, I met in London back in 2001 has remained a presence in my life through sporadic email forwards and more recently Facebook. I remember Thorin telling me his 'Hippie' (his words) parents named him after Thorin Oakenshield, a dwarf in Tolkien's "The Hobbit".
I was just writing about the "The Hobbit" being scheduled for release in two parts over December 2011 and 2012 in Black Star when I received the following.
See The Facebook Stargate ("On September 11th 2006 Facebook was opened to the world at large") and Black Star for 2012 "The Hobbit" Scarlet Dragon reference.
A slideshow of 'nature' and animal photography, including these three, in the direct chronological order they appeared.
Thorin, a 2001 (year of the 911 Mega Ritual), OZ and "The Hobbit" resonator, forwards me images including Giraffe, Penguin and Zebra (PKD's VALIS).
See Z is or Zebra for Zebra/VALIS context
"The Hobbit" Spoiler.
It seems possible that we might witness, in theaters across the planet, the Scarlet Dragon - a perfect symbol of Galactic and spiritual alignment - being struck down by the The Black Arrow (symbol of Sagittarius, which points at Galactic Center (GC) a Black Hole/Star of pure KKonsciousness) of Bared the Bowman entraining with 21 December 2012... Maybe.
The next afternoon (Oct 28) I would run into the same elements from the email, 'reassembled' and 'reorganized', interacting with my environment at "The Bay". We see the Penguin being sync kissed by the Giraffe. It is sandwiched between the Dragon and the Dinosaur. Both giant lizards are symbols of Cosmic and Spiritual Alignment with their Monster Mouth and Dragon Axis aspects. I'm sure the Zebra was hiding somewhere in Toyland, I just didn't think to go looking for him. About a week later I returned only to spot this penguin having migrated atop a "Do Your Own Magic" type Kit Box.
"The Bay" was last seen in Winnipeg Wormhole. It reapers because I by my groceries there. Plant KKonsciousness (fruits and veggies), that honors us, by allowing us to live through offering itself up as food. We eat them with respect, knowing that through us Life is realizing an amazing new facet of the Universe. A new species is emerging through the Plant, Human and 'Artificial Intelligence' (A.I or "A Self") interaction.
Later that afternoon, just before work, I see the "Madagascar 2", plus Penguin, poster in the the window of "Osborne" (OZ) Cyber Cafe".
By the next evening (Oct 29) they had invaded my workplace's notice board. Above there in shot with a Black Star and below such interesting things as a "Planet of the Apes" spoof and "Peter Pan" poster. A close up and a few more words about both these posters is provided at the very end of this post.
See Robin Williams as Peter Pan in Galactic Center Temple
While rummaging for some comic book related materials (early afternoon Oct 30), left in storage, I happened upon this April 2008 Time Magazine featuring the Penguin and an article titled "The Sopranos' Last Song: What Exit Will Tony Take?"
I don't know if the writer of this headline had any idea that it would indeed be the 'the last song' - Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" - and its accompanying scene, played in the penultimate episode, that would become a talking point in popular culture.
Again we visit Dianne, at the same toy store talked about earlier (late afternoon Oct 30). I spot Penguin cupcakes on a book of 'fancy cupcakes' she was showing me (we like treats). I ask if I can take a photo of the bird (some stores and malls ask me to refrain), admitting having taken many such already in recent days. She says it is permitted and advices me to purchase this little dude, below.
After tax my little Penguin came to 77 cents, the number of Pan, 77 and OZ.. Surprised? I don't even know what to call the feeling anymore...
The "Madagascar" quartet of Penguins pop up as a banner ad while I am reading this Nov (commonly shorted as NO, written as ZO for the reminder of post) 2 article about the death of the head of rap label "Def Jam Recordings".
It mentions Black Star "Jay-Z"...
I re-watch "The Matrix" for the first time in years, that same day.
Neo/One visits the black lady Oracle. The 'other potentials' bend spoons (note: Uri Gellar resonates the 9) and float cubic blocks. Above one black rotates to reveal OZ. Below we see the same block revealing J-Z as another unveils 9, a fitting number as it is often associated with Kosmic Konsciousness (The Council of Nine, The Nine Navagraha, Daniel Johnston).
I remember this kind of thing weirding me out to no end during the time I was taking acid as a teenager. How could what I be thinking influence movies! How can I read about Jay-Z, then reality reveals a J-Z in such a significant KKonsciousness changing film as "The Matrix". Does my mind influence matter? Am I God? Am I going freaking nuts!?
I now understand allot better. My mind originates and entrains with the ground of all being in ever increasing attunement. "The Matrix" and my mind share the same non-local source. I AM this source, meaning I am indeed God, but not in the autocratic and individual sense. What allows there to be thinking, movies, blogs, Internet, Barack Obama, discomfort, snow, UFO's and 2005 Canadian Figure Skating Championships - pure unmanifest Consciousness - is what I AM and the lesson of synchronicity.
Weakerthans - Civil Twilight
Dianne, now knowing and sympathetic to my Penguin quest, informed me today (ZO 2) about one she spotted recently.
In the video above we see The Weakerthans, a band formed in Winnipeg in 1997.
Golden Boy is just visible in the far left window, surrounded by purple.
In one amazing shot (above) we see a tiny silhouette of the Golden Boy (Hermes/Thoth), the statute perched right atop the Dragon Axis (which includes the Milky Way heart or Black Star) of Galactic Center Temple as a Penguin buss passenger sync winks.
On the 4th of ZO I spot a Penguin inside a Golden Triangle highlighted and entraining with numerous other Stars. The Star being an external and vivid pointer of our infinite depth beyond form. "The Sun" (our local Star), plus smiling Sun image, with headline "Rising stars".
As we zoom in we see another Star in "all-star" above our Penguin strange attractor. I imagine what ever KKonsciousness focuses on can become a strange attractor.
I spotted this Pittsburgh Penguin logo again (9 ZO) on a little kids tuque at the River Ozbourne Cumunity Centre (ROCC, the pay job).
Woke this morning (Friday ZO 7), looking forward to seeing "Madagascar 2", having decided this would be my final celebratory act in this penguin post.
To be honest keeping such close track of one particular animals sync web was pretty taxing, still wild fun. I'm happy to have a fitting excuse to stop doing this!
I watch numerous poorly rated and creatively uninteresting films on the strength of syncs and themes being investigated. For the most part, anything I watch is interesting on the level of synchromysticism, less so perhaps as a film lover. Being a fan of cartoon and animation, plus seeing generally favorable reviews on both worthy aggregate websites Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic for "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" makes the prospect all the more appealing. Going to the theater could be one of the most sacred and joyous exercises afforded by this life, as personally experienced by my form identity, Jake. (I Heart Movies)
The Metacritic website saw a "Castlevania" game popping in for attention. The overall Dracula and Vampire themes of these games entrain with all the "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" flavor I am steeped in. I went all goth for Halloween, even coloring my hair black, I imagine this Vampire theme (plus Black Star) was partly responsible for that uncharacteristic decision. Maybe Obama had something to do with it..
On my way to work (River Osbourne (OZ) Community Center (KK) 101 Pembina) this morning, I am walking through the first day of snow in Winnipeg and thinking about the great "Fight Club" Penguin. Edward Norton is faking illness to attend support groups, when asked to meditatively 'go into his cave' and find his 'power animal', in his case being a Penguin. The Penguin says one enigmatic word "Slide", proceeding to slip away on his belly over the iced over cave floor. I connected this ice and the snow I was walking over wondering what thread would allow me to bring up this wonderful penguin. 30 minutes later I turn on the work PC, which automatically boots up with MTS news, revealing the face of Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden, co-star with Edward Norton in "Fight Club". Nice and convenient.
O.K, this penguin epic is nearly over. Soon I can 'kick the bird out of the nest' and rest. The web says my local 'cheap seats' theater "Town 8" is Playing "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" today (Sat ZO 8) at 1:30 or 3:45. Nice little "Madagascar 2" advertisement featuring its four Penguins sync winking hello.
As I grabbed a 'random' T-Shirt for that auspicious Saturday of watching "Madagascar 2" I was little surprised but very delighted to see things had come full circle. OZwald Cobblepot a.k.a the Penguin returns...
Directly across the street from the Town 8 I noticed we can see a Black Star inside the "Pink Star Hair Design" neon sign. The reflection is of circular StarG8 shapes which Nosis chose as the backdrop for my interview.
30 Seconds into "Madagascar 2" and I knew why I was there.
Just a few days before I had taken these stills, of the Dreamworks sequence, from "The House of Sand and Fog", with Jennifer Connelly, doing JC research for an upcoming Red Ice interview.
Water ripples, right over the reflection of the moon. The H2O is being disturbed by a boy fishing, using the crescent moon as platform. This is a most elegant "Age of Aquarius" Waterdoor type StarG8 symbol connected firmly and not in the least bit uncommonly, to the moon. Just think about Kubrick and Clarke's black cuboid Monolith on the Moon in "2001: A Space Odyssey". When I saw this I thought that perhaps the moon jump started our space migration process. Would we have climbed towards the stars as rapidly without the call of Luna? Maybe not..
I make myself comfortable in Town 8 as the lights dim waiting to receive the Penguins teaching. It didn't take long...
A tiny black flipper extends, grabbing hold of the "man on the moon".
Note the twinned WE3 spinners, MW, directly under the crescent. This all happens in the blue dreamworld and heavens a.k.a OZ or Wonderland.
The boy is yanked away and beaten up! His place then taken by the four penguins who catch a fish proclaiming "Well done boys, looks like ice cold sushi for breakfast."
Translation: "Pisces is over boys, looks like Aquarius is dawning"
The plot of the movie repeats the same tale. The wild animals water has dried up, the Lion, Zebra and Penguins etc. save the day by bringing the water. The opening of the Aquarian Waterdoor of Cosmic Consciousness.
We need to "Look to La Luna" more later, but let's let it rest for NOW.
Be awesome.
The next day I ran into these "Safeway Brand" Oreo type cookies inside Osbornes' (OZ) Safeway.
Stopping at the same grocery stores 'in house' "Starbucks" (Stargate resonating) for same Coffee (Dark Water, see upcoming "JC Movie Synchromysticism" Red Ice Interview for more context) I discover that the Zebra/VALIS wasn't hiding at "The Bay" after all. It was waiting to emanate through the texture, the very fabric, of the "Safeway experience" or state of KKonsciousness...
Above we read about the walking African Checkerboard on my cup.
I move my awareness to the background and see it repeated in the surroundings.
Repeating the process yields the same result as in the background of this coffee stand is yet another Zebra.
It echoes and reverberates through the NOW one more time in perfect sequential alignment.
Cup to coffee beans then on to product rack without and gaps! Pretty amazing.
I sit back to relax and let it 'sync in'.
Ahead of me I see the radiating 11:11 signaling its silent message of galactic and spiritual alignment.
Winnipeg directly beneath the Black Star (again signaling its role as symbolic Galactic Centre) of this Rock Music festival poster. We see the "The Watchmen" which resonates the potential sync bomb of Allan Moore's masterpiece comic, heading for theaters in March 2009. This poster was seen above with some Penguins, remember?
Golden Boy has taken on the role of Isis/Liberty above, the goddess that can be equated with Galactic Center. The Golden Boy (Weakerthans "Civil Twilight") and this poster was graced by the Penguin earlier in this post.
31 comments:
- Dennis/87 said...
Dude you are over the rainbow. If everything is a synch for you, you must be near some nexus(Winn-i-peg) I caution you to rest your acute awareness for a spell.Vallis indeed. Dennis from Oregon.
- November 12, 2008 at 9:19 PM
- Jenn said...
On the eve of the Dark Night's end (at least for this Galactic Underworld) i am smiling with the rest! I suppose we can expect much from this upcoming Heaven of Flowering and the goddess of birth, Yohualticitl because we have certainly seen plenty of Tez's Dark (K)Night this past year! Beautiful post Jake :D
- November 12, 2008 at 10:02 PM
- Unknown said...
we can find other syncs with The Umbrella Corporation from the Resident Evil games, the next game of the series is Resident Evil 5 and it will be released in march 2009. It was recently revealed that this game will feature the founder of the Umbrella Corp. named OZwell Spencer, images released show the hero of the game will combat not only zombified people but also monsters similar to dragons. The hero of the game, Chris is the same from the first Resident Evil game where he worked for a Special Tatics and Rescue Service, otherwise known as S.T.A.R.S.
The villain of the Resident Evil games is Wesker, and he is the former captain of S.T.A.R.S who betrayed the hero in the past, the villain trademark are his sunglasses (similar to kosmic kounciousness ET beings) he is also involved in a project called Uroboros.
the most recent trailer of this game featured a mysterious masked foe, the mask has a "bird" (robin/penguin or crow?) shape and beak, the identity of this foe is unknown but many fans bet that its a woman who is behind the mask, a former partner of Chris and part of S.T.A.R.S. team, her name is Jill Valentine (love/heart sync?) and Jill´s grave can be see in the last shot of Resident Evil 5latest trailer (she is presumed dead, however she could come back as the "crow" lady).
- November 12, 2008 at 11:16 PM
- Unknown said...
and also gaming related 2009 there is a new videogame coming called zebbo, check pictures of it´s logo (with an stylized OZ) also one of the guy who came up with the idea for this console is Reinaldo NOrmand. He is a brazilian guy and a few years ago he had a gaming portal on the web called "outerspace".
- November 12, 2008 at 11:33 PM
- Unknown said...
oops, my mistake, the name of the videogame is Zeebo and you can see it on www.zeebo.com.br
- November 12, 2008 at 11:37 PM
- A Few Shots to Shaman said...
Is it true that 2010 is the year of the tiger then? I remeber the movie Juno when the guy comes out to see Juno on the Tiger carpet... "It looks proud" he says. There's also Jenn's of the OZ ark's new ZOo post with the tiger all the way trough it.
I remeber in Montgomery Alabama, where I grew up, we had the Montgomery ZOo. They had these cast iron garbage can toppers that were made to look like the Scarecow, the Tin Man, and the Lion.
Oh, my name is William Jacob York Morgan..... You can call me WM.
Huddle everyone it's getting cold.
- November 13, 2008 at 1:35 AM
- aferrismoon said...
The most Northerly Penguins reside in South Africa , except for those living in Zoos
Pen = Head
Gwyn = White
This Welsh word was originally another bird until some confusion reigned and the name got given to the Black-headed Ice bird.
Black Pool = DUB - LIN
- November 13, 2008 at 9:42 AM
- A Few Shots to Shaman said...
Now I have a question for you Mr. Jacob Kotze... Can you manipulate the symbols around you? Instead of just interpretation. Instead of noticing all the little penguin's that are being thrown your way. Can you fixate on a completely random symbol, say a aardvark(AA, Ark), that you have no past ties to, and make it come out of the wood work? Perhaps I have missed the point, but I'm merely playing Rupert Sheldrake to your McKenna. I don't believe that this is just a non ending lesson taught over and over. If you focused on just Girls perhaps you would have many Girl friends....... What I'm getting at is if there is a practical use that you have found from everything you've learned in Syncro? Or has it just been a vehicle of enormous joy? Much Love and Thanks....
- November 13, 2008 at 10:24 AM
- Atareye said...
OZce again eye read and eye recoil in fetal position with awe and doubt(?). Everything discussed here goes against what I was raised to beli'eve' in.
At the same time,(some might disagree)I feel like I'm in church. In this former religioz we were Told to congrate(huddle) with people that believe in the same beliefs. Ironic? Yes, yes indeed. Reading this post I stop for a piss(ahem:|) and exit the bathroom only to look up at a picture of my daughter with Scarlet Satan Clause framed by a fractal hexagon snowflake! Wow mom! I come back to see the Satan hat wearing Alyson Hannigan and the star of David sharing pixels(Buffy-Hex). Further down I see the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins logo and remember the New Jersey Devils logo... a stylized circle Devil N. Devil, of course, sharing thought with Goat and so-on.
"Seriously, this is the secret if we can even claim that such a thing exist.We are the Grail, the Holiest of Holies, the Center of the Galaxy or any other mysterious 'thing' out 'there'."
Watched Kung FU PANda yesterday(highly recommended), and ultimately realized, that is the message of the dragon scroll.
Robin above, Penguin below.
For some reason while watching your quick vid clips I imagined seeing this stuff on TV. Intervention format though. I can see other people not getting this and writing it off as OCD or schizophrenia of some sort. I just can't believe how it fractlates in such a way that people could not deny its resonances. I mean the underwear thing had me laughing at first but then serious recognition engaged. I think the Neo 911 Id thing is 'One' of the most amazing syncs ever noted.
'K'eep it 'K'ool "Fake Jake"
- November 13, 2008 at 10:51 AM
- Chris said...
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- November 13, 2008 at 10:57 AM
- Chris said...
This was posted 3 days ago:
- November 13, 2008 at 11:17 AM
- Jake Kotze said...
"Can you manipulate the symbols around you?"
Who am I and Who is asking?
- November 13, 2008 at 11:49 AM
- Prizm Light said...
I've been on to those sneaky Penguins for years! http://www.alienpenguin.cjb.net/ was all a joke at first but the more I looked the more I found.
It's great to see that someone else is spotting them now.
They seem to have taken over Christmas for one thing lol
Keep up the great work
- November 13, 2008 at 2:48 PM
- Unknown said...
As for Zebra's I just happened to see this Katy Perry Video Hot and Cold and it has a zebra in it. And there seems to be a little pink ray of light coming from the zebra's mouth. Then the camera goes from the zebra to the guy, and he tightly closes his eyes, and then he wakes up(we find he was dreaming). Didn't Philip K. Dick see a pink light?
Anyway, how strange.
Did anyone else see that?
- November 13, 2008 at 3:36 PM
- Unknown said...
I was reading your post and stopped for a moment to think "what is my animal that I have to follow?", I look at my desk and see a Penguin with a Santa hat staring back at me, and then on my screen I see the picture of Alyson Hannigan and a Penguin with a Santa hat! At work I have a wooden Giraffe I got from a trip to Prague as well!
Penguins and Beatles...there is a song called I Am The Walrus, they mention Penguins in that. Penguin also make me think of Wallace and Gromit, the wrong trousers.
I think JC and JK is interchangeable, as CC can be KK, speaking as one JK to another!
- November 13, 2008 at 5:19 PM
- ericswan said...
As the 'Fake Jake' (Kotze) problem continues on despite the recent public confrontation which I skeptically hoped would improve the situation (he's still trying to hi jack the cross-quarter theme/interpretation and now very predictably starting to latch onto the 'Whore of Babylon' motif I've been emphasizing here since September - now you guys, some of you, can see with your own eyes what I was talking about in action in real-time as it develops and realize that I was being absolutely truthful including him being, I'm sorry to say, pathological), I will be forced to confront the issue head-on again, this time much more thoroughly. Hopefully there is no physical danger lurking for me further down the line (not exactly a laughing matter given his stalker-like mentality).
Lex Luthor comes to mind but then Lana Lang and Lois Lane 5'd.
- November 13, 2008 at 5:44 PM
- Indras Net said...
great work jake, id be interested in getting my hands on some of that lsd that was around when you were younger hah. Penguins resonate plan-et-ary consciousness(pre kkonsciousness resonators) to me considering that they reside at the poles of the earth, only when humanity has fully realized itself and aware of the anima-ls at both poles, will these symbols be constantly manifest in popular cultureart, they could be symbols of awareness of the extremes of the poles(of awareness+space) before they shift and we go beyond them into hyperborea or the blackholestar of the unattached s(eyE)LF. Im lookin forward to the red ice interview you mentioned as well. be well man
- November 13, 2008 at 6:45 PM
- Z said...
Just as I finished reading your post I turn to TV (wife is watching the Latin Grammy's) and what do I see? A penguin jumping into a pool in a Bud Light commercial.
word verification is micili (me silly)
- November 13, 2008 at 9:33 PM
- A Few Shots to Shaman said...
Point taken..... But I want to get Rhetoric. I'm inspired to do so. I can see movies that are going to be important, before they're even finished. Sycromystism itself is a stargate to future events. I see personal sync's so much I don't even know where to begin. But these things were on bead to my vision way before I knew anything about it. I mean what the fuck. Which came first me seeing it or it having meaning. Sgt. Pepper's has to side 2 it, one telling you life is an illusion, the other celebrating the importance of that illusion. Can we make something big happen, or is the world only for watching?
- November 13, 2008 at 11:09 PM
- A Few Shots to Shaman said...
You know what don't answer that... interrogation is unwarranted. Fuck I don't know what came over me, antsy I guess(giggle). I'm taken a camera to work tomorrow morning and I want to see a big fuckin' elephant. If anyone else sees a random fuckin' elephant I want to see a picture!
No but seriously Mr. Kotze I don't care how many syncs you have in your underpants don't put your dirty laundry on the internet.
I'm going back to work on my next vid. Working title
Natalie Portalman pt 1; Plant Konciousness
Natalie Portalman pt 2; Jesus and the Sky of Diamonds
Love and Thanks
- November 13, 2008 at 11:41 PM
- Brendan said...
This is not Jake Kotze's blog any more ladies and gentleman, he has left your consciousness!
Jake is not creating all of these synchronicities his authentic self is.
The he that thought he was Jake Kotze has realized that is not who he really is.
When you feel the you or your consciousness perceiving the world around you is exactly the same consciousness or you that perceives within everything,just from a different physical perspective or point of view.
Raising of consciousness is just viewing awareness from a slightly different perspective.
For Jake the illusion of separation is disintegrating and everything is merging to oneness.
Way to go Jake I AM so glad you could join yourself.
This is all the synchronicities are trying to show you, the more you hunt them the more they show up because you are creating them. These are not chance events which are just a bit weird or strange, you are the events, you are everything all at the same time.
Oh yeah by the way great post Jake.
- November 14, 2008 at 7:52 PM
- Atareye said...
'H'ere! 'H'ear! 101. Well said!
Reading your comment spawned this imagery. I call this syncromystic poem...
Our consciousness is like the universe.
The whole universe(consciousness) is expanding.
Black holes(=enlightenment) are a causeway leading to another universe? Or Oz(etc)?
When we go through this black hole(=stargate), and exponentially move to center, our thoughts and synchs get closer and closer together to the point where they actually fuse into a completely different thing(perhaps our current reality.)
Is this 'thing' a reflection of the past 'thing' or a progression to a higher 'thing?'
This is, as my brother in law refers to as,
By the way Jake Great post indeed!(sorry for the lack of respect and manners)
- November 14, 2008 at 8:29 PM
- A Few Shots to Shaman said...
Not a single damn elephant....Look I'm not trying to be rude, and I know I don't know Jacob.... Hell I don't even know who I am anymore. All I know is that I see a symbol being used over and over and then I look to see what it means. I don't wake up that morning and say.... I want to see peacocks... Peacocks find me. I'm like "whats up with all the peacocks".
Lets get one thing straight we're all in this together, if it be a raise in consciousness or being ripped out of the material then we go together. We're all going to find alignment. Someone up there in the comments said they noticed Penguins too, that means Jake is not the owner of the Penguins, the Penguins were already there. Goro or whatever his name is... Is not responsible for octagons no more than Einstein made E=MC2, they were already there. This is not an intellectual game! If I can't find an Elephant then that means this is something other than my thoughts manipulating reality... We are beyond the number 23 here, this is something different. Take the Penguins, the price for the penguin in the toy store was there way before it was suggested to buy it, you can trace back the history of that little guy and get so confused on what came first. So did Mr. Kotze think of the Penguins himself or were they showed to him. Take the Di Vinci horse, if there was no Di Vinci then there would be no horse, no National Geographic, no TV show, then we would not be here. This is meant to be, all of us are meant to be here, there is nothing between us and Keanu Reeves. It's not like we can screw up reality, it's not like I was wrong in anything I said.... I couldn't even screw up if I tried! Sorry Jake if I said anything from the Pain Body, please understand that I may be a little abrasive at times but it's just because language is such a poor representation of what is....
Or the "thatness", as it were.
The more I seem to learn the less I can articulate.
- November 14, 2008 at 10:40 PM
- Jake Kotze said...
I want to see "Natalie Portalman". That sounds awesome.
There's a nice shot of Jennifer Connelly with Peacock wallpaper behind her in "The Hulk" while speaking to Nick Nolte.
Be well
- November 14, 2008 at 10:51 PM
- Adrian said...
Check this out Joel! Conan O'Brien played with the whole turning characters around... Boz Scaggs became ZOB>NOB...
Conan O'Brien -- Synchromystic?
- November 15, 2008 at 5:46 AM
- Dennis/87 said...
Jake what is up with Eric? I have only heard his side of it. I get some vibrations on occaison that mimic what you are going thru. Are there any enothens/ Psychedelic residue coursing thru your veins? Your location may have some peculiar ethers? To see every thing in sterio syncros is mystical indeed. The magic of the lesson is are you a spectator or can you effect the affect. Shine forth, Dennis
- November 15, 2008 at 10:41 PM
- Paul said...
Wondered if you sync-ed Good Luck Chuck at all, sorry if you have... deep penguin-ology going on, plus each sexual scene is a position of the zodiac.
- November 27, 2008 at 8:46 PM
- at67gr said...
Penguins are a synch for a checkerboard perpendicular to the vertical thusly highly unstable.
Basically your sanity is on edge is the resonance.
You are out of your element and when you dive into the deep the psychic sharks will eat you alive. Repent while there is still time.
Revelation 17:17-18
17And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, "Come, gather together for the great supper of God, 18so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and mighty men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, small and great."
- December 8, 2008 at 10:42 PM
'...hellloooooo......it's yer Granda. I'm reopening The Phoenix..'
Penguins eh; did you miss the whole false dualism virtual delusional battle that is: Desktop Windows vs Desktop Linux! See, the incredible spectacle of non-systemadmins fighting with one another over who's operating system is best! Witness, fanboys talk shit over countless message boards! Cringe, at how none of them are in any way at all convincing! Because They Are - superimposed projected dualists, here to turn all things to their polarity mindset of bickering between the two halves of their feeble brains.
But yes, Area 51! Roswell That Ends Well (right Granda) and a'that.
It's been said that at White House dinners, Cheney is known to build his mashed potatoes into volcanic-like mounds and then pour gravy over them. There does appear a resemblance between CSETIs Dr. Greer and Dreyfuss (not Chief Inspector Dreyfuss, that is another synch, though clearly related it may be).
From now on and henceforth, ye shall communicate only in the language of Pingu.
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Le Loup
Real Name: Anonymous
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 4:58 pm
Post subject: MILITIA PACK WEIGHT.
I have been reading as much as I can regarding early to mid 18th century militia equipment and trail foods. Militia on scouts they say could be out from 10 days to several months. Now obviously we can not be expected to carry 3 months worth of trail foods, but what about a week or ten days? Looking at the lists, at the amount of food stuffs; the powder and lead ratio, and all the other equipment required, this seems to add up to a lot of weight. Now perhaps this is just the way it was, maybe they simply had to put up with this weight in order to carry out their scouting mission successfuly.
I, and I am sure many others would be interested to hear from some experienced trekkers, as to what they carry, and what their equipment all-up weighs? Looking forward to some replies and answers, Regards, Le Loup.
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two veuzs
Real Name: Anonymous
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:36 pm
Post subject: MILITIA PACK WEIGHT
Le Loup--
I had access to a digital scale and satisfied my curiousity as to how much weight I was carrying around. I didnt count first layer of clothes which is breech clout, deerskin leggings, moccasins, flop hat and linen shirt. Here's what I came up with:
Whitney blanket 4-pt 6.30lbs.
5x7 oilcloth 4.60
Haversack (Full, with food for a week) 7.96
.50 cal flintlock rifle 8.50
Bullet bag and powder horn 5.25
Small axe in sheath 1.74
Full canteen (1 qt.) 4.12
Frock, wool waistcoat & wool shirt 6.34
TOTAL 43.53 lbs.
In extreme winter weather, zero or below, I add mittens, winter moccasins with blanket liners, heavy wool socks and half blanket which adds another 4.14 lbs. for a total of 47.67 lbs which is heavier than it feels. I have carried this gear for all day and forget the weight after awhile. Note that weapons account for 15 1/2 pounds!
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Le Loup
Real Name: Anonymous
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:12 am
Post subject: WEIGHT OF EQUIPMENT, FOOD & CLOTHING.
Denny, thanks for the feedback, this is just the sort of thing we need. I have no doubt that you have a few items not mentioned in your list that we all tend to take for granted. Your calculation of weight is not far off mine, & supports my findings so far, that maybe this is the true weight, & people just have to put up with carrying it if they wish to remain self-reliant.
Thanks again Denny, much appreciated. This may even promote further articles for ON THE TRAIL MAGAZINE! Regards, Keith.
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two veuzs
Real Name: Anonymous
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:37 pm
Post subject: wieght of equipment food and clothing
Keith, I originally did this exercise in weighing my gear at the request of trekking partners at a beaver trapping camp who wanted to know how my pack was considerably smaller than theirs. You are astute in noticing some items we all commonly carry not being mentioned, but they are included in the final weight, I just need to get more detailed. From my original letter to them:
"... I count the first layer of clothes, hat and belt knife as included in my personal weight at 180 lbs ... the haversack is a large leather one and I sling it as close to the center of my back as possible. The bed roll is on its own strap and I fold it rather than roll it. It is carried between my back and the haversack. In the haversack is flint and steel, tinder, sewing kit, tin of moccasin grease, toilet kit (comb soap and toothbrush), linen rags, 20 feet of rope, journal, extra wool socks, small tin pot, salt container & spoon and bags of pemmican mix, oatmeal, rice and walnuts with raisins..."
This gear does not change whether afoot, afloat or ahorse, though the haversack is then replaced by saddlebags. The oil cloth is both my raingear and shelter. On horseback everything must come in at under 25% of the weight of the animal as a rule of thumb which for my 1100 lb horse means under 275 lbs.
Saddle and 30 X 60 saddle blanket 22.56 lbs
Tack(bridle halter and lead rope, hobbles and 40 foot picket rope) 9.90 lbs
other gear and weapons 43.53 lbs
Myself 180 lbs
TOTAL 260.09 lbs Whew, I made it! I can now add a few lbs of extra food or better yet, more powder and lead. Happy trails.
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Le Loup
Real Name: Anonymous
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:47 am
Post subject: PACK WEIGHT.
Thanks again Denny. As a matter of interest, do you carry spare lock springs and tools? Regards, Keith.
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two veuzs
Real Name: Anonymous
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:58 pm
Post subject: spare lock parts
My rifle shot pouch which I weighed for this discussion contains an entire spare lock, since I replaced the cheap Dixie lock my rifle came with an L &R replacement lock and I kept the original for a back up. I carry a mainspring vise and spare mainspring when carrying the Brown Bess. Denny
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Le Loup
Real Name: Anonymous
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:43 pm
Post subject: LOCK PARTS & TOOLS.
I do not have a complete lock, but if I had one I would carry it. I do carry spare springs and a spare hammer & spring vice & turn screw. Once bitten, twice shy. Keith.
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Real Name: Anonymous
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 6:12 am
Post subject:
Never forget that in the past they had pack animals, Even in the East.
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Le Loup
Real Name: Anonymous
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 6:47 pm
Post subject: Pack weight & Pack horses.
[quote="dannyb55"]Never forget that in the past they had pack animals, Even in the East.[/quote]
True, but to use one well known charracter as an example, Daniel Boone mostly seems to have travelled on foot then later sends back for pack animals to come and collect the peltry.
I think the reason for this is that the horses leave too much sign and noise and are easily spotted.
The mail may have been delivered by a post rider, but runners on foot were still used. I think it depends on the area and circumstances.
Regardless, I am a woodsman on foot and that is the charracter and scenario I seek information for.
Le Loup.
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Real Name: Anonymous
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 7:23 pm
Post subject:
Maybe you need some captives to carry the heavy goods. It would be a great way to break in the probies.
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Le Loup
Real Name: Anonymous
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 7:47 pm
Post subject: Captives carry heavy goods!
[quote="dannyb55"]Maybe you need some captives to carry the heavy goods. It would be a great way to break in the probies.[/quote]
Actually I don't think I have any heavy goods but that is not a bad idea. Perhaps I could put up a sign on my front property gate, "Tresspassers Will Be Used To Carry Heavy Goods".
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Real Name: Anonymous
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:04 pm
Post subject:
Maybe you could use tourists, when they are in season, I hear that there is no bag limit.
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Le Loup
Real Name: Anonymous
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:19 pm
Post subject: Tourists!
[quote="dannyb55"]Maybe you could use tourists, when they are in season, I hear that there is no bag limit.[/quote]
[b]No tourists this far out Danny, thank goodness.
Le Loup.[/b]
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Joined: 30 May 2007
Posts: 144
Location: South of Colorado Springs, Colorado
Real Name: Wendell K. Smith
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 10:07 am
Post subject:
Weighed my stuff this morning before heading out this afternoon. Basic gear, two days rations, water,one blanket, small oil cloth, extra socks and shirt, firelock included, 35 pounds.
Wendell K. Smith
2nd Connecticut Regiment of Militia
Qui Transtulit Sustinet
(He who transplanted still sustains us)
Recovering FARB, Farbs Anonymous
Embrace the 12 step program :)
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Le Loup
Real Name: Anonymous
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 5:05 pm
Post subject: Pack Weight.
[quote="wsmith"]Weighed my stuff this morning before heading out this afternoon. Basic gear, two days rations, water,one blanket, small oil cloth, extra socks and shirt, firelock included, 35 pounds.[/quote]
Thanks for this info, well done. Much appreciated.
Regards, Le Loup.
PS. Would be pleased to have you check out this post below and give your opinion.
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Feliz Cinco de Mayo!
Like posing as Irishmen on St. Patrick's Day, Cinco de Mayo brings out the Mexican-American in all of us. On May 5th, 1862 the Mexican army kicked some major French butt at the Battle of Puebla (they'll get their props on Bastille Day, don't worry) and a hundred and fifty years later we are still celebrating!
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U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team Update for Nov. 12
Kim Glass, who has joined Evergrande Guangdong to reunite with 2008 U.S. Olympic Games coach Jenny Lang Ping, attacks during the 2011 NORCECA Women's Continental Championship
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Nov. 12, 2012) - The current U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team Weekly update released on Nov. 12 includes briefs on U.S. players.
U.S. WOMEN'S NATIONAL VOLLEYBALL TEAM TRYOUT: The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team will hold its annual open tryout Feb. 22-24, 2013, at the U.S. Olympic Training Center (OTC) in Colorado Springs. This tryout is open to United States citizens who are current college-age athletes and older, and high school athletes born in 1993 or earlier. Throughout the tryout process, USA Volleyball will be identifying prospective athletes for the following two different programs: U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team Program; U.S. Women's National Volleyball Senior A2 Team. The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team Program is available to athletes who have concluded their collegiate eligibility and who wish to be invited to be a member of the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team on a full-time basis. This program could begin as early as the spring of 2013, or when an athlete's scholastic or professional club season has concluded. Also considered for training with this group will be athletes who have remaining collegiate eligibility and their participation beginning in mid-May or when their scholastic calendar ends for 2013. The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Senior A2 Teams is available to athletes in college and with collegiate eligibility remaining for the 2013 collegiate season. This projected 48-athlete program is scheduled to take place in Dallas from June 25 to July 4 with training and competition at the USA Volleyball Girls' Junior National Championships (GJNC). For additional details including tryout fees, click here.
DAVIS HONORED AT ALMA MATER: Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.), a two-time Olympic Games silver medalist as a libero for the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, was recognized by her college alma mater on Nov. 10. In front of 80,154 fans, Davis and other University of Southern California alumni who represented the United States in the 2012 Olympic Games were recognized at halftime of the Trojans' 38-17 football victory over Arizona State University. In addition to Davis, beach volleyball silver medalists Jen Kessy and April Ross took part in the halftime ceremony. To view a picture of the three 2012 Olympic Games silver medalists, click here.
LARSON-BURBACH, BOWN WITH RUSSIA'S DINAMO KAZAN: Jordan Larson-Burbach (Hooper, Neb.) and Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.), who have each won an Olympic silver medal with the U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball Team, are competing for Dinamo Kazan in the Russia Super League. Kazan edged Yenisei 24-26, 25-17, 15-25, 25-14, 15-10 on Nov. 5. Larson-Burbach turned in 21 points with 16 kills on 29 attacks and just two errors, three aces and two blocks. She added a 51 positive reception percent while accepting 51 of the team's 85 service receptions. Bown, who started the first three sets, tallied three kills on seven attacks along with four blocks for seven points. For the second consecutive match Kazan pulled out a hard-fought five-set victory on Nov. 9 with a 30-28, 25-23, 25-27, 22-25, 16-14 victory over Dinamo Krasnodar. Larson-Burbach pocketed 28 points in the victory with 23 kills on 49 attacks on a .306 hitting efficiency, three blocks and two aces. She added a 58 positive reception percent on a match-high 43 service receptions. Kazan, the only undefeated team in the league at 6-0, will face Tyumen (3-3) on Nov. 18. Kazan will seek its second straight CEV Champions League victory on Nov. 13 against undefeated 2004 Tomis Constanta. The match can be viewed live online by clicking here.
BARBOZA WITH RUSSIA'S UFIMOCHKA: Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.), an outside hitter with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, is competing in Russia this season with Ufimochka UGNTU. Ufimochka won its first Russia Super League match of the season on Nov. 5 with a 25-17, 25-21, 25-20 victory. Barboza notched six kills in her starting role and added a 47 excellent reception percent on a team-leading 17 chances. Ufimochka pulled off an upset on Nov. 9 as its defeated Odintsovo 27-29, 26-24, 25-16, 19-25, 15-12 to win its second straight match and improve to 2-4 on the young season. Barboza produced a team-high 20 points with 17 kills on 47 attacks, two blocks and an ace to go with a 69 positive reception percent. Ufimochka will seek a third straight win on Nov. 18 as it faces Dinamo Krasnodar.
HOOKER WITH RUSSIA'S DINAMO KRASNODAR: Destinee Hooker (San Antonio, Texas), who earned the Best Spiker Award at the 2012 Olympic Games while helping the U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball Team to the silver medal, is competing for Dinamo Krasnodar in the Russia Super League this winter. After an eight-day break from the Russia Super League, Krasnodar lost its first match of the Super League season to undefeated Odintsovo with scores of 25-23, 30-32, 13-25, 25-22, 15-10 on Nov. 5. Hooker scored a team-high 21 points with 18 kills on 47 attacks and three blocks. Krasnodar lost a second consecutive five-set match later with a heartbreaking 30-28, 25-23, 25-27, 22-25, 16-14 setback to league-leader Dinamo Kazan on Nov. 9. Hooker scored a team-high 29 points with 26 kills on 55 attempts as part of a .364 hitting efficiency (six errors), two blocks and an ace. Krasnodar, 5-2 in the league, challenges Ufimochka-UGNTU on Nov. 18 in its next Russia Super League match. Krasnodar is also competing in the CEV Challenge Cup and will face Turkey's TED Ankara Kolejliler in the 16th Final Round Main Phase home-and-home series. The two-match series has yet to be scheduled, but will start no earlier than Dec. 3. To read a Nov. 7 FIVB Heroes article on Hooker, click here.
KIM GLASS WITH CHINA'S EVERGRANDE: Kim Glass (Lancaster, Pa.), an outside hitter with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, has reunited with her 2008 U.S. Olympic Games silver-medal winning coach, Jenny Lang Ping, with Evergrande Guangdong in the Chinese League this winter. In the season opener, Evergrande topped X.M.B. Fujian 16-25, 25-18, 25-23, 25-17 on Nov. 10. Glass, seeing time at opposite, came off the bench in the third set and started the fourth set en route to tallying four points with three kills on seven attacks and a block. She added one dig on six chances, along with one excellent reception attempt on one chance.
TOM WITH BRAZIL'S UNILEVER: Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah), a four-time U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball selection with two silver medals, is playing this winter with Unilever in Brazil's Super League, which begins Nov. 23. Unilever played three friendly matches against Banana Boat/Praia Clube on consecutive days between Nov. 7 and Nov. 9. In the first meeting, Banana Boat won 27-25, 25-15, 22-25, 25-23. Unilever came back to win the second contest 25-18, 24-26, 26-24, 25-17, then won the rubber match 25-16, 25-15, 25-17. Tom started in all three matches, though starters were limited to the first set in the final contest. For photos of the matches, click here. Unilever will play two additional training matches versus Sesi-Sao Paulo on Nov. 13 and Nov. 14.
AKINRADEWO WITH AZERBAIJAN'S RABITA BAKU: Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.), a silver medalist with the U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball Team at the 2012 Olympic Games, is competing for Rabita Baku in the Azerbaijan Super League. Rabita Baku topped Baki Azeryolservis 25-17, 32-34, 25-17, 25-21 on Nov. 7 as Akinradewo tallied 15 points with a 47 kill percent on nine kills, four blocks and two aces. Rabita Baku won its third straight Azerbaijan Super League match to open the regular season with a 25-15, 24-26, 26-24, 27-25 victory over Igtisadchi Baku on Nov. 10. The Azerbaijan Super League will be on hiatus until Nov. 27 when Rabita Baku meets up with Azerrail Baku. In CEV Champions League action, Rabita Baku (2-0) meets Poland's Atom Trefl SOPOT (1-1) on Nov. 13 in the third leg of the Champions League. The match can be viewed live online by clicking here.
HODGE, WILSON WITH AZERBAIJAN'S AZERRAIL BAKU: Megan Hodge (Durham, N.C.), a silver medalist on the 2012 U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball Team, is playing for Azerbaijan's Azerrail Baku in 2012-2013 along with fellow Penn State University alum Arielle Wilson (Broadview, Ill.). In its first Azerbaijan Super League match of the week, Azerrail swept Lokomotiv Biliceri 25-11, 25-10, 25-12 on Nov. 7 followed by a 25-17, 25-19, 25-12 win over Telekom on Nov. 10 in an Azerbaijan Super League. Hodge scored 11 points in the victory over Lokomotiv Biliceri. Azerrail is now 2-1 with six points in the Azerbaijan Super League as part of a three-way tie for third, but can make up ground in its next match against undefeated Rabita Baku on Nov. 27. Azerrail (1-1) returns to CEV Champions League action on Nov. 14 with a third leg match versus Tauron MKS Dabrowa (0-2). The match can be viewed live online by clicking here.
METCALF WITH AZERBAIJAN'S IGTISADCHI BAKU: Nancy Metcalf (Hull, Iowa), an opposite on the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, is playing for Igtisadchi Baku of the Azerbaijan Super League in 2012-2013. In the Azerbaijan Super League, Igtisadchi handled Telekom 25-22, 25-9, 25-21 on Nov. 7 as Metcalf compiled nine points. Igtisadchi lost to Rabita Baku (3-0) 25-15, 24-26, 26-24, 27-25 in a tight four-set match on Nov. 10. Based on points, Igtisadchi (3-1) remains in a tie for first place with Rabita Baku with nine points. Igtisadchi returns to the Super League regular season on Nov. 27 against Lokomotiv. In the CEV Cup action, Igtisadchi Baku has advanced to the CEV 8th Final Round to face Russia's Omichka Omsk in a home-and-home series on Nov. 13 and Nov. 21.
TAMAS WITH AZERBAIJAN'S BAKI AZERYOLSERVIS: Jennifer Tamas (Milpitas, Calif.), a 2008 silver medalist with the U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball Team, is playing for Baki Azeryolservis of the Azerbaijan Super League in 2012-2013. Baki Azeryolservis lost to Rabita Baku 25-17, 32-34, 25-17, 25-21 in a Nov. 7 Azerbaijan Super League match. Tamas scored six kills on 12 attacks with just one error to go with one block and one ace for eight points. Baki Azeryolservis dropped a 25-14, 26-28, 25-15, 25-19 match to Lokomotiv on Nov. 10 to fall to 2-2 with six points. Baki Azeryolservis faces Igtisadchi on Nov. 30 in its next league match. In the CEV playoffs, Baki Azeryolservis has advanced to the CEV Cup 8th Final Round home-and-home series versus Rote Raben Vilsiburg on Nov. 14 and Nov. 20.
THOMPSON WITH POLAND'S BUDOWLANI LODZ: Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.), a setter on the 2012s silver medalist U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball Team, is playing for Budowlani Lodz of the Orlen Liga in Poland for 2012-2013. Budowlani Lodz (2-4) had its two-match win streak snapped on Nov. 12 with its 25-23, 13-25, 25-16, 25-18 loss to Siodemka Legionovia Legionowo (2-4). Thompson set her squad to a 31 kill percent for the match while adding a block. Budowlani Lodz, now in sixth place in the 10-team league, faces AZS Bialystok (0-6) on Nov. 19 in its next match.
GIBBEMEYER WITH ITALY'S VOLLEY PESARO: Lauren Gibbemeyer (St. Paul, Minn.), a middle blocker with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, is competing for Robursport Volley Pesaro in the Italian Serie A1 league in 2012-2013. Gibbemeyer was clicking on all cylinders in helping Pesaro to a 25-20, 25-21, 28-26 victory over defending Italian Serie A1 champion Unendo Yamamay Busto Arsizio (2-2, 7 points) on Nov. 10. She tallied 10 kills on 24 attacks and just one attack error, three blocks and one ace. Pesaro (2-2, 5 points), tied for eighth place and one of five teams at 2-2 in the regular season, will look to stretch the win streak on Nov. 18 against third-place Asystel McCarnaghi Villa Cortese (3-1, eight points).
HARMOTTO, GLASS WITH ITALY'S VOLLEY MODENA: Middle blocker Christa Harmotto (Hopewell Township, Pa.) and setter Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.), both members of the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, are competing with Assicuratrice Milanese Volley Modena in the Italian Serie A1 in 2012-2013. Harmotto, a silver medalist at the 2012 Olympic Games, and Glass were also teammates at Penn State University before joining the National Team. Modena returned to .500 with a 25-15, 25-22, 25-17 victory over Banca Reale Yoyogurt Giaveno on Nov. 11. Glass set her squad to a scintillating 49 kill percent and .423 hitting efficiency throughout the match while adding a kill on three errorless attacks, one ace and one block for three individual points. Harmotto did not compete in the match. Modena (2-2, 7 points), tied for fourth place as nine of the 12 teams are either 3-1 or 2-2, will face league-leader Rebecchi Nordmeccanica Piacenza (3-1, 10 points) on Nov. 17 in a match to be seen on Rai Sport 1. Modena is also competing the CEV Challenge Cup and advanced directly into the Main Phase as it will face Nova KBM Branik Maribor in a home-and-home 16th Final Round series starting no earlier than Dec. 3.
PAOLINI WITH ITALY'S ICOS CREMA: Lauren Paolini (Ann Arbor, Mich.), a middle blocker with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, returns for a second season with Icos Crema as she helped the squad rise to the Italian Serie A1 Divisision for 2012-2013. Icos Crema scored a 22-25, 25-15, 25-19, 25-20 come-from-behind victory over last-place Idea Volley 2002 Bologna (0-4, 1 point) on Nov. 11. Paolini contributed five points, all on kills from nine attacks while starting and competing in just the first three sets. Icos Crema (2-2, 6 points), in seventh place but only one loss behind in the loss column of the league-leader, returns to Italian Serie A1 action on Nov. 18 versus eighth-place Duck Farm Chieri Torino (2-2, 5 points).
LLOYD, FAUCETTE WITH ITALY'S YAMAMAY BUSTO ARSIZIO: Carli Lloyd (Bonsall, Calif.), a setter with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, is competing in the Italian Serie A1 league with Unendo Yamamay Busto Arsizio in 2012-2013 along with American Juliann Faucette (San Diego). Both athletes played for Epic Volleyball Club in San Diego as juniors before going separate ways at the collegiate level. Yamamay Busto Arsizio, the reigning Italian League champion, was dealt a 25-20, 25-21, 28-26 loss to eighth-place KGS Robursport Pesaro (2-2, 5 points) on Nov. 10. Lloyd set the squad to a 30 kill percent for the match with an .081 hitting efficiency as 24 errors limited the offense's effectiveness. She tallied one kill on three errorless attacks and a block for two points. Faucette was a sub in the second set and started the third set in compiling three kills on nine attacks. Yamamay Busto Arsizio (2-2, 7 points), now in a tie for fourth place, will search to regain its form on Nov. 18 against 10th-place Chateau d'Ax Urbino (1-3, 4 points). In CEV Champions League action, Yamamay Busto Arsizio (1-1) will face ASPTT Mulhouse on Nov. 13 after an idle week on the schedule. The match can be viewed live online by clicking here. To read an English-language article on Faucette placed in vivolley.net, click here.
KLINEMAN WITH ITALY'S ASYSTEL McCARNAGHI VILLA CORTESE: Alix Klineman (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) returns to the Italian Serie A1 for a second season, but will compete for Asystel McCarnaghi Villa Cortese in 2012-2013. In Italian Serie A1 action, Villa Cortese dropped a 25-20, 25-21, 25-23 match on Nov. 11 to Imoco Volley Conegliano. Klineman came off the bench in the second set and started the third set in compiling five kills on 14 attacks and one block in her reserve role. She added eight reception attempts with a 50 excellent percent. Villa Cortese (3-1, 8 points), now in third place by itself, resumes Italian Serie A1 action on Nov. 18 versus eighth-place KGS Robursport Pesaro (2-2, 5 points). In CEV Champions League action, Villa Cortese (1-1) looks to rebound against Agel Prostejov (0-2) on Nov. 14 in the third leg of the Champions League. The match can be viewed live online by clicking here.
ENGLE, MURREY WITH ITALY'S BANCA REALE YOYOGURT GIAVENO: Ashley Engle (Yorba Linda, Calif.), who has trained with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, is currently competing for Banca Reale Yoyogurt Giaveno of the Italian Serie A1 alongside American Tarah Murrey (El Cerrito, Calif.) playing in her first full professional season. Giaveno lost to Assicuratrice Milanese Modena (2-2, 7 points) 25-15, 25-22, 25-17 on Nov. 11. Murrey totaled five points, all on kills coming off 19 attacks while adding a 58 positive reception percent. Engle started the first set without registering a point on six attacks. Giaveno (1-3, 3 points), in 11th place, plays second-place Imoco Volley Conegliano (3-1, 9 points) on Nov. 18 in its next Italian Serie A1 match.
SYKORA WITH ITALY'S CHATEAU D'AX URBINO VOLLEY: Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas), a three-time U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball Team selection, is competing with Chateau D'Ax Urbino Volley in the Italian Serie A1 League for 2012-2013. Urbino put up a five-set fight against Foppapedretti Bergamo on Nov. 10, but lost 22-25, 25-16, 20-25, 25-22, 15-11. Sykora did not compete in the match. On the opposite side of the net, American and past U.S. National Team player Alexis Crimes scored 13 points with 12 kills on 17 attacks and a block for Bergamo. Blair Brown also scored nine points for Bergamo after coming off the bench in the third set and starting the final two sets. Urbino (1-3, 4 points) will try to rebound into the win column on Nov. 18 against defending Italian Serie A1 champion Unendo Yamamay Busto Arsizio (2-2, 7 points). In CEV Champions League Pool E action, Urbino returns to Champions League action for the third leg against Schweriner SC (1-1, splitting two five-set matches) on Nov. Nov. 13. The match can viewed live online by clicking here.
LICHTMAN WITH SWITZERLAND'S HOTEL CRISTAL VFM I: Cassidy Lichtman (Poway, Calif.), an outside hitter with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, is competing for Hotel Cristal VFM I in the Swiss Volley League along with Americans Bianca Rowland, Brianna Barry, Michelle Kocher, Lise Muhlemann and Amber Roberson. Hotel Cristal VFM topped Volley Toggenburg 25-16, 25-14, 26-24 on Nov. 11 for its second straight victory. Hotel Cristal VFM, 7-4 with 21 points and in third place, challenges second-place Volley Koniz (7-5, 22 points) on Nov. 25 in its next league match.
FAWCETT WITH KOREA EXPRESSWAY IN KOREA LEAGUE: Nicole Fawcett (Zanesfield, Ohio), an opposite with the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, is competing with the Korea Expressway team in the Korean professional league. Fawcett's team lost to IBK 25-14, 25-23, 25-18 on Nov. 7 as she tallied 20 points in the contest. Korea Expressway (0-1) will seek to win its first match of the season on Nov. 15 versus Hyundai.
RICHARDS WITH TURKEY'S BAKIRKEY BELEDIYE YESILYURT: Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah), alternate for both the 2008 and 2012 U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball Teams, is competing for Bakirkey Belediye Yesilyurt in the Turkish League. Yesilyurt dropped a 25-20, 25-19, 25-21 match to undefeated VakifBank (3-0) on Nov. 10. Richards did not compete in the match. Yesilyurt (1-3) returns to action on Nov. 18 versus Galatasaray.