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How the Tea Party May Hurt Business
They are working for a common goal now, but their interests will likely diverge after Nov. 3.
Big business and the Tea Party movement both have their shoulders to the wheel, pushing in the same direction for the same goal: the election of a lot more Republicans to the next Congress. Both groups are highly critical of President Obama and the Democratic leaders in Congress. They share strong opposition to government regulation, the health care law and any climate change legislation.
But scratch beneath the surface and the differences between the long-term interests of the Tea Party and business leaders quickly emerge. The truth is, most in the loosely defined Tea Party have no love for big business -- they just happen to dislike Obama and the Democrats more. And most in the business community opposed Tea Party candidates in the GOP primaries. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, for example, backed GOP establishment candidates in Kentucky, Colorado and Alaska, and came to the support of Tea Party candidates who won only because defeating Democrats was a higher priority.
But opposition to Democrats won't keep the two groups together after the election. Consider that the Tea Party hated the 2008 bank bailout and the 2009 stimulus plan. Big business supported both as necessary to bring the economy back from the brink. While there are hundreds of Tea Party groups with somewhat different agendas, they share a desire to seal the borders and eliminate special-interest spending and targeted tax breaks. Businesses, especially those with multinational operations, want access to immigrant labor, favored tax treatment for overseas earnings and spending on programs that can help companies. Business also wants education reform, while most Tea Partyers want the federal government to leave education in the hands of local officials.
Tea Party activists tend to take a more doctrinaire ideological position, while business is more pragmatic. Tea Party sympathizers oppose government in most forms; some even want to abolish the Federal Reserve, eliminate entire government agencies and generally force the federal government into a less intrusive role. Business, on the other hand, wants limited government, but it prefers and needs some help from Washington. Small businesses want the Small Business Administration to do more, not less. Tech firms want incentives like the research and development tax credit, and there are business constituencies for a range of other tax breaks targeted by the Tea Party -- ranging from subsidies to help the timber industry to protections for NASCAR racing.
Once the election is over, the clashes will become evident: Business thinks a major transportation and infrastructure bill is important, while Tea Partyers are likely to regard it as unaffordable. Trade will be a sticking point, with businesses wanting more open markets and many Tea Party activists pushing protectionist agendas. And the scheduled rewrite of the farm bill will pit agricultural interests against deficit hawks determined to make major cutbacks.
These conflicts don't matter much today, not with Republicans in the minority and all efforts going into the election. But come Nov. 3, GOP leaders will have their hands full trying to chart a path through these two interests, both of whom will be crucial to the future of Republican gains.

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I meant to write about this over the weekend, but Romney making a big deal out of Obama's use of the word "revenge" the other day was pathetic.
In case you didn't see the original clip, here it is. He was giving his stump speech. He said something about Romney. Some people started booing. He said no, no; don't boo. Vote. Voting is the best revenge.
It's obviously just a saying. Living well is the best revenge. More generally, action is better revenge than words, is what it means. And the word "revenge" in this adage is understood to be other-than-literal.
But a black man saying the word "revenge"! Wow! It's only the lurid paranoia of some white people that made this controversial. And naturally Romney's team pounced on trying to play on this paranoia, feed it, stoke it, make it seem to white voters in the final weekend that Obama's campaign is fundamentally about revenge against them.
This hasn't been a horribly racialized campaign, but all the same, Romney sent a few signals when he felt he could get away with them—the loaded mention of "Obamacare" at the NAACP meeting, for instance, designed to ensure (in my view) that white Fox viewers would see him being booed by black people and thus "bravely" standing up to them.
That this hasn't descended into Jesse Helms land has nothing to do with anyone's character on the conservative side, but only to do with the fact that they have by and large concluded that we live in a society now where the backlash against that would be greater than the frontlash for it. So that's a very good thing indeed, and that's the result of work liberals have done over decades to make it so.
By the way, also on the subject of race, I see a couple of conservative commenters buzzing excitedly about the expected Bradley Effect today, which would mean that polls were inflating Obama's numbers, because a certain percentage of white poll respondents were lying to pollsters, saying they'd be willing to vote for the black man when they really were not. This would have the end effect, of course, of elevating Romney's percentages nationally and in crucial states.
But there was no Bradley Effect in 2008. Sorry bout that.


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SANTA CLARA, Calif. � Chris Wondolowski scored just before halftime and the San Jose Earthquakes beat the Seattle Sounders 1-0 on Saturday night.
San Jose (2-1-1) beat Seattle (0-2-1) for the fourth straight time in regular-season play, building on a sweep of three contentious meetings last year.
It was the second score this season for Wondolowski, who tied MLS� career record with 27 goals last season � including two winners against Seattle.
Wondolowski brought down a long pass that skidded off the head of Seattle defender Jhon Kennedy Hurtado at the edge of the Sounders� penalty area. Wondolowski�s touch was gentle enough that he ran onto the ball for a 22-yard strike that curled around Seattle�s sliding Djimi Traore. The ball barely escaped the reach of Seattle goalkeeper Michael Gspurning before ricocheting in off the far post in the 46th minute.
Gspurning kept San Jose from adding an insurance goal with a stop on Shea Salinas� redirection shot in the 61st minute.
San Jose goalkeeper Jon Busch made two critical saves in the 75th minute, diving to stop Mauro Rosales� half-volley from the top of the box, then scrambling to deflect David Estrada�s rebound attempt at point-blank range.
The Earthquakes narrowly avoided disaster in the 84th minute when Ty Harden�s back pass came up well short. But Estrada appeared to overrun to ball some 35, perhaps spooked by an onrushing Busch.
Busch plucked a swerving long-range free kick from Osvaldo Alonso in the 89th minute to stifle Seattle�s last chance.


text: Cultural Capital 23 November 2012 Who's offended by Victoria's Secret? After their 'racist' use of Native Indian headdresses, Victoria's Secret is yet another fashion brand in the firing line for cultural insensitivity. But is appropriation always insulting? Sign UpGet the New Statesman's Morning Call email. Sign-up Earlier this month, Victoria's Secret was forced to issue a public apology after its annual catwalk featured a lingerie model gyrating down the runway in nothing more than her underwear, heels, and an oversized, pseudo-comedy Native American headdress. Instant outrage followed this rather brazen attempt to use a sacred object to promote an underwear brand. Victoria's Secret promptly issued a formal apology and removed the photograph from all marketing material. The incident follows a chain of recent libel suits which saw a slew of fashion brands facing racism allegations for their appropriation of Native American imagery. Urban Outfitters faced legal action from the Navaho nation after printing their name on its products, Paul Frank were forced to issue a public apology after hosting a Native American themed party, and No Doubt very recently had to withdraw their latest music video after they faced a storm of offended criticism for its thematic 'Cowboys and Indians' clichés. Why has this collective outrage exploded so suddenly? Although all the above examples are understandably offensive, they don't detract from the fact that Native American heritage has long been part of the landscape of popular culture. From Clint Eastwood to Pocahontas, the American Indian image has been subsumed into mass culture - sometimes respectfully, other times much less so. The fashion industry, in particular, owes an unquantifiable debt to this visual culture, but few have yet to be offended by the legions of beaded moccasins in any high street shoe shop. So, where do we draw the line? When, in other words, does cultural appropriation become cultural misappropriation? It is, of course, demeaning for popular culture to arbitrarily borrow sacred symbols with no acknowledgement of their correct context. What's interesting, however, is that the laws of political correctness differ between different art forms. Consider the music industry – the entire history of popular music is, arguably, an extended exercise in cultural assimilation. Jazz, rap and hip-hop owe their entire existence to the elastic intermingling of alternate cultures. Paul Simon's seminal 'Graceland' album is widely considered one of the greatest records of all time for his open inclusion of South African musical traditions – albeit achieved collaboratively and inclusively, and still mired in racial controversy following Simon's apparent boycott of anti-apartheid protests. In our current musical climate, Damon Albarn remains a key example of how to do cultural assimilation credibly. He is currently creative co-director of Africa Express, a project seeking to foster collaboration between Western and African artists, with the intention of gaining a wider audience for the latter. The project has so far been extensively applauded for its inclusive approach and progressive sounds. Of course, the extenuating factors are obvious. Whether cultural assimilation is seen as a tribute or an insult comes down to whether it is achieved in earnest artistic collaboration (as in Albarn) or flippant superficiality (as in Victoria's Secret). Nonetheless, a huge grey area is destined to loom over the issue. No Doubt were recently forced to pull their new music video following outrage at their use of Native American outfits. Its worth asking – had they sampled traditional American Indian music instead of clothing, would anyone have been as offended? The truth is that nowadays, cultural assimilation has become so all-pervasive it's almost unnoticeable. Popular culture has always consisted of mining, borrowing from and subverting the cultural heritage of the past. In fact, Frederic Jameson went so far as to see this as a defining factor of the postmodern age. For him, the past and its symbols no longer exist, "except as a repository of genres, styles, and codes ready for commodification". This has vast implications for political incorrectness - no symbol can truly be said to be culturally isolated any more. The eagle-feathered headdress which inspired such extensive outrage on the Victoria's Secret runway doesn't belong to the Native American repositry alone. It's origins date back to widespread early cultures, including Aztec warriors, early Gaelic clan chiefs and Slavic hussars. Now it's been assimilated into contemporary culture and passed into the collective unconscious. Its original meaning is melded and mixed in a sea of new, secular meanings. In other words, in a postmodern, post-ironic, globalised world, can anyone really be said to have ownership over their own heritage? › Teenagers on telly: the settings change, but the stories are still worth telling Model Karlie Kloss walks the runway during the Victoria's Secret 2012 Fashion Show in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) Kamila Kocialkowska is a freelance journalist based in London. @ms_kamila_k Subscribe For the latest TV, art, films and book reviews subscribe for just £1 per month!


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(Leo)nardo da Vinci discovers the technique accidentally while attempting to manufacture bronze needed for the horse discussed in the post Gemini.
A vital component of his transmutation machine is this pentagonal crystal below.
Alchemy is a metaphor for the growth of consciousness inside and through us. The universe becoming consciously aware of itself on the level of existence. The base matter is form and thought including the suffering which attachment to inherently transient things creates. The gold is unconditioned consciousness flowing freely unobstructed by belief and desire.
The 911 Mega Ritual also involved a pentagonal structure, the Pentagon.
Tracing board with pillars and pentagram from p109 of "The Secret Zodiacs of Washington DC" by David Ovason. The pillars can be associated with Gemini (The Twins) or Sagittarius and Scorpio the twin guardians of Galactic Center. The pentagram and radiating eye both pass as symbols of the Stargate or Galactic Center.
When the news came through that American landmarks had been 'attacked' the entire planet focused there attention through the interconnected media network on the Twin Towers (Gemini Gate) and the Pentagon with its implied pentagram. Focus doesn't mean intense concentration, it means a mind silenced, in this case through awe. When the mind stops its constant chattering the obscured unconditioned consciousness can flow through unobstructed by the veil of thought. Never in the known history of the planet did so many minds become silenced and experience the ecstasy or joy of no mind at the same time. Practically this would be interpreted by the majority as shock and intense curiosity. It is fascinating to consider the objects receiving this special attention were symbolic Pillarmids (Towers/Pillars/Pyramids) and a giant 'pentagram'.
This was the consciousness focusing affect of the 911 Mega Ritual leading to the biggest crack in the egoic shell of mankind and the 'start' of the ascension process culminating in the 2012 Maya Mega Ritual. The opening of consciousness flowing into matter through the Stargate Portal of the ecstatically silenced human mind and symbolically represented by the Twin Towers and Pentagon.
The 911 Mega Ritual can also be fit into the alchemy model. The birthing of the 'golden' Being of no-thing through base matter and flesh surrendered to the extreme flux of destruction.
Synchromysticism attempts to use pop culture a much corrupted egoic base material and transform it into the very doorway of the divine.
Who brought down the Towers? Reptilian Illuminati Freemasons or Terrorists?
We did it! No-thing beyond all form - our true nature - animates all.
The pentagram is the ruling sign of the "The Craft" both the 1996 film and fraternal order. The pentagram is often associated with Isis and Sirius. Isis can be associated with the Milky Way and Galactic Centre.
Thus in a synchromystic fashion - if we choose to allow our consciousness to associate thoughts in new and exciting ways - we are seeing Robin Tunney below, stepping inside the Stargate or Galactic Center in "The Craft".
The Washington Pentagon (pentagram/Sirius) of the 911 Mega Ritual can in this fashion also be the Milky Way, the home of the 2012 Stargate.
Even further John Major Jenkins writes:
Perhaps more relevent are the facts that Spica and Galactic Center are almost exactly 90 degrees away and the Galactic Anticenter is on the same meridian as Sirius (associated with Isis) Galactic Center p195-196
We can thereby associate the Pentagons Sirius representing veiled pentagram as connected to Galactic Center through Sirius' being on the same meridian as Galactic Anticentre.
Bruce Willis plays Cat (Kat, K@, K2,) Burglar, Eddie "Hudson Hawk" Hawkins, named after the river that flows by Manhattan (symbolic Island of Atum) and the World Trade Center (the destroyed Pillarmids and now Octagonal Freedom Tower). He has just been paroled and is being blackmailed by the Mario Bros. (an Italian crime family, imaged above) to steel an original Leo(Cat/K2/Sphinx)nardo da Vinci small horse study model.
Circle M is the symbol of "The Mario Bros", Nintendo's flagship character and game
Bus Driver: You girls watch out for those weirdos.
Nancy: We are the weirdos Mr.
We see the double Circle M on the arm and jacket of actor Tony Genaro as Bus (mega chariot) Driver in "The Craft". MM is 2000 in roman numerals which can also be expressed as 2K or K2. Ben Fairhall was vital part of the infinite casual chain that lead to these MM thoughts.
The 1993 "Mario Bros." film saw KK on one of the Twin Towers accessed by the Mario Brothers through a Stargate. The Towers in the film had also been damaged resonating the 911 Mega Ritual in a particularly vivid fashion.
New here? Interested? What am I going on about 2K for? See videos like Why 2K?
Briefly: Ralph Ellis writes in "K2" that the Great Pyramid decodes as a pointer towards the mountain K2. Aleister Crowley was the firsts person to attempt a serious summiting of K2. Mighty interesting, no?
The poster shows the Mario pair, who along with the 2 Towers echo Gemini. In the previous post we learned that Gemini forms the lower part of a Galactic Center ('protected' by the twin guardians Sagittarius/Scorpio) and Galactic Anticentre (Gemini (sometimes Taurus)) axis.
A Zodiac wheel from "A monument to the End of Time" and "Galactic Alignment" showing the Galactic Alignment and Equinox Cross.
In this model 911 (a Mega Ritual) was the start of an ascension process moving from Gemini - symbolized by the Twin Towers - into Sagittarius (The Archer) and Scorpio, who's arrow and stinger point towards Galactic Center which famously aligns with the Solstice Sun on 21 December 2012 at 11:11. K2 or KK is also 11:11 as 11th letter of the alphabet is K. We note how the entire K2 phenomena as a double suggest and resonate Twins, while both the bottom of the Galactic Center - Galactic Anticenter axis as Gemini (below) and Sagittarius Scorpio (above) also display the sets of pairs idea repeated by the 11:11 sync.
Major Mystical Pyramid Rant Alert!
I view the Great Pyramid as having been constructed by entities (most likely humans) in great resonance and harmony with the universe. The Pyramid in comparison with a nautilus shell, sunflower or beehive displays magickal relationship of form and stunning geometry. The lack of mind needed in excreting natural harmonious objects, suggests insects, animals and plants as channel of the divine during their creation processes unveiling to me the likely true builder of Giza. Perhaps in a past Golden Age humanity lived without the ego noise of the self aware mind and universe excreted the Pyramid through these silent ancients.
One often feels that the amazing architectural, spiritual and astronomical knowledge of the ancients were not as result of great mastery of thought, but lack of it. They were a clear channel for Being and no-thing, the true creator of all. As the mind became more paramount we fell into history and object fetishism, this being the destruction of Atlantis. Thoth as pyramid builder with his kundalini/DNA serpent staff unveils this mystery, humans with fully activated chakra pillars having, in this model, built the structure.
Being even more bold lets suggest this as what we are returning to, having learned the needed hard lessons of materialism and technology. Technology, materialism and rationality was allowed to thrive until now, nature in its infinite wisdom organizing every facet in accordance with a plan unfathomable by human mind.
Metaphors for the process underway - consciousness becoming aware of consciousness - include: 2012, The Building of the New Jerusalem/Zion, Aeon of Horus, Judgment Day, Age of Aquarius, The New Atlantis, Apocalypse, Opening of the Stargate of Cosmic Illumination, The Second coming of Jesus, Armageddon, Ascension, New World Order etc, etc...
If we take that context, of Great Pyramid built by God/Being/No-Thing itself, it functioning as a pointer of K2 becomes massively more then just a map.
Synchronicity is needed to realize the last step. Crowley as a magickian and messiah (Stargate realizer), who - just as a sunflower with its amazing fractal design also desires to do the Great Work (sync up with the universe itself) - climbed K2 to highlight it for our attention. Just as the sunflower doesn't need to think to entrain with the universe, Crowley didn't by necessity need to know all the facets involved in climbing K2.
Through synchromysticism we can learn of our non-local inseparable consciousness that animates all in the present. The study of synchronicity unveils that K2 isn't just a pyramid shaped mountain, it is also 2K (the millennium) and 11:11 (the pointer of Galactic Alignment). The pyramid as a map of K2 thusly takes on a new meaning. K2 is the symbol of the Stargate of Cosmic Consciousness, the Great Pyramid as excretion of Being then, basically, points towards itSELF.
The Pyramid charts a course which leads one to knowledge of our true essence beyond thought and form. In the same manner silent contemplation of a sunflower can illuminate.
A relationship is noted between the pillars that bookend history, the Twin Pyramids of Giza and the Twin Towers of Manhattan. Further the resonance of pivotal pairs is repeated with the portal of Galactic Center aligning at 11:11 on 2012.
No-thing will complete you.
Who built the pyramids?
We did it! No-thing beyond all form - our true nature - animates all.
The infinite and space is invoked as we hit play..
This production studio displays its mostly unwitting allegiance to the magickal forces of the universe. The entirety conspires to play the game called life. By making a movie you are mimicking the game Being plays and thereby entraining with it through sympathetic dramatic magick.
On this fine day the 'Universal' grows - everything growing out of Being, nothing can ever be made - the film called..
Galactic Center as serpentine Monster Mouth aligns with the solar orb behind Bacon.
The snake like mouth of the Graboid or 'Dirt Dragon' attempting to swallow all that vibrates is Galactic Center. In previous posts we have compared the mouth of The Toad eating Hugh Jackman (First Father in the Fountain) and Micheal Douglas penetrating the gut of a crocodile with Galactic Center. Agent K was also seen being swallowed by a giant alien bug, my justification at that point for it being symbolic of Galactic Center being that its E.T flavor resonates Cosmic Consciousness. I want to extend the possibilities of these types of swallowing sync winks to any beast or monster. My justification, as does most of the new Galactic Center knowledge incorporated into the Stargate sync web, comes from John Major Jenkins "Galactic Center".
"I mentioned earlier that the Astronomical reference of makara or mukha is probably to the dark rift in the Milky Way, which the Maya also identified as a monster mouth". p167
The serpent mouth is also the Northern Lunar Node 'Rahu', but let's deal with that later in this post...
Tony Genaro last seen having the honor of busing Robin Tunney to her seance in "The Craft" returns next to Mr 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon (proto-synchromystic activity) in 1990's "Tremors". Yes, your eyes do not deceive we have a KK winking smack behind Genaro's head, giving him a little 'sync smooch'. Double K means we need to pay allot of attention to what is happening in this scene and what is unfolding is very interesting indeed.
There is something tantalizing about the bottle of Orange "Crush" sync winking in shot with the "Tremors" KK. As seen above, this "Supertramp" album (Breakfast In America (1979)) highlights the Twin Pillarmids , viewed from a jet window, with a cup of orange juice, held by our Statue of Liberty/Isis waitress, over and the letters UP (or even IIP) behind the Towers. The orange juice syncs with the liquid candy orange "Crush". See The Wrong Way Wizard for groovy thoughts related to this album art.
As explored in the post, Gemini, Isis resonates and represents the Milky Way and Galactic Center. The Twin Towers' (already connected to KK through "The Mario Bros." film) destruction can be seen as a the start of ascension leading to the 2012 Maya Mega Ritual on 11:11 (KK) 21 Desember 2012. The orange juice takes the role of Isis' Illuminating torch a symbol of our sun, Galactic Center and Cosmic Awakening. Concise imagery telling the tale of ascension, in this case however it is not the tale of any individual but our entire species. 911 externally symbolically expressed a particularly pronounced phase of rapid evolution entraining with a myriad of forces leading humanity into true knowledge of SELF.
Lets scramble back to Bacon...
Tunney's Bus Driver attempts to save Victor Wong from a 'Dirt Dragon'
A giant freaking Milky Way representing snake or worm thing is eating actor Victor Wong. Spectacularly concise as the Double K is painted on his characters shop window and realizing that he yielded his physical aspect the very day after the 911 Mega Ritual (Victor Wong R.I.P 12 September 2001)
Interesting to note Victor Wong's death in comparison with John Ritter's shedding of mortal coil (John Ritter R.I.P 11 September 2003). Both actors spotted on screen in frame with KK, both dying (death being a personal Stargate, consciousness freeing from form) in entrainment with the 911 Mega Ritual. Curious..
Victor Wong died 12 September 2001 seen with KK in "Tremors". John Ritter died on 11 September 2003 spotted with KK in Stay Tuned. Stay Tuned has a character called Crowley working for the devil. I assume this is a knowing lampooning of Aleister Crowley.
We see Bacon atop a candy resonating Pepsi fridge with Tigers on a tapestry behind him just as the Graboid Stargate mouth is about to eat Wong . Tigers are Cats resonating K2 (as @ and 2 are shared on your keyboard, K@), Leo and the Sphinx. Further we note the sugar pot (below the blue Tea Pot, top right in the image below) behind Bacon and Genaro.
The sugar/candy Stargate theme continues to mystify and recur with nagging persistence. See it highlighted yet again in the most vivid and direct manor in a Cadbury's chocolate commercial (Thanks Atlantean Times).
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Above is another still from "Hudson Hawk" (HH) expressing the consistent coincidence of KK and candy, in the vastly mysterious business card message reading "MY NAME IS KIT KAT THIS IS NOT A DREAM".
Anyone still - inevitably inherently fruitlessly - seeking enlightenment. Print out this still and ponder on its deeper meaning beyond the mere context of the film... I don't recommend the activity of seeking any-thing you already have or are.
The hand belongs to actor David Caruso who is a member of the Candy Bars, a 4 member strong gang of villains, who abduct Hudson Hawk and transport him to Rome. He communicates through these little cards while impersonating people and objects.
Hawk and his partner Danny Aiello (Tommy Five-Ton) play a game, Tommy naming song titles Hawk repeating the exact track length of the requested song (above). This has a practical aspect - in the absurd context of the film, mind you- as they sing songs in unison while separated on 'jobs' to time there actions with perfect symmetry.
Tommy: Xanadu?
Hawk: 4 min 19 sec.
*Xanadu is the nightclub and film where Olivia Newton John dances atop an Octagonal Stargate (see JFK Stargate).
*Xanadu was Kublai Khan's summer retreat, note that Kublai owned the land on which K2 stands and is a Double K himself.
*Xanadu is Orson Welles character - who resonates K2 mountaineer Aleister Crowley no less, as Ian Flemming's Le Chiffre in 1967's "Casino Royale" - Charles Foster Kane's mansion in "Citizen Kane".
*Xanadu is also Illuminati member David Xanatos' hideaway in The Gargoyles television series. One of our Gargoyles who interact with a Stargate atop the World Trade Center is also Hudson.
Hudson the Gargoyle jumping from the deck of the World Trade Center to retrieve the falling Stargate mirror which opens Cosmic Consciousness resonating doorways atop the Pillarmids of the 911 Mega Ritual. This particular episode, "The Mirror" aired on 11 September 2005 unveiling, synchromystically, its entrainment with the 911 Stargate opening. See video Island Of Atum for more.
Our cat/kat/k@/K2 burglar with the same name as our WTC Stargate interacting Gargoyle skates down a checkered hallway which entrains with 2007's 'sync'nificant West Kennet Long Barrow formation.
What lies at the end of this cinematic hallway is the Horse that started my personal sync journey (see previous "Hudson Hawk" post).
A horse of a different color (white) with wings will later smash Hawk (a hero and bird of prey thus Horus resonator) in the head.
After the crack to the noggin our Horus Hawk Willis is seen being transported by emergency chariot over the Brooklyn bridge with the Gemini Gate of the 911 consciousness focusing Mega Ritual Towering in the distance.
All these emergency horseless chariots (ambulance) display there magickal reality with pride. The Stargate staff of Thoth-Hermes Trismegistus - the DNA coil and spinal kundalini snake - inside a blue star, are always present (image below).
All is magick, even science and technology. Or maybe you prefer all being science and technology, even magick. Science and technology merely chart the mystical effects in mystery universe that repeat with much regularity and reliability. The effects followed and created by the magickian are less tangible and more ephemeral but by no means less real. The will of consciousness even changes the relationship between reliability of effect and outcome in mystery universe over time. What was at one point considered magick is now science.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke
Lovely and profound quote. Clarke could see no mystery inside Crop Circles even trying to prove they are man made. The synchromystic must try to heal this bias of evaluating phenomena according to the nature of its perceived creator. All (any-thing), whether crop circle, chariot or Hollywood film emanate from no-thing beyond form and would by necessity reflect the infinite regardless of the vehicle Being 'chooses' to create a form. Synchromysticism, as I interpret it, has no bias towards the perceived creator behind a synchronicity. A pop song by Britney Spears is as profound as a pyramount on the Moon. Indeed realizing Cydonia, K2, Giza and Church Etiquette are made by the same life force might release you from the wheel of Samsara, stop you from chasing your own tail.
Being unhappy with the paramedics wanting to kill him, Hawk escapes, wheeling behind the Ambulance on a gurny. The yellow Taxi type chariot whooshes past.
Barely perceptible in this Crop Circle image below, but its there alright, on the green hill in the distance lies the Pewsey White Horse. Me and Ben Fairhall sat on this Hill nearly a year ago being told by Police not to enter the formation in the picture, which had formed the previous evening. Thwarted but still able to appreciate the beautiful fresh circle, a gorgeous view being afforded by the elevation of the horse adorned hillside.
What ever their origin Crop Circles are, amongst many things, stunning mandala Stargates. The phenomena is charged by the attention (consciousness focusing or awareness) of many esoteric and metaphysical minds investigating the glyphs resulting in much realization of synchronicity. Synchronicity isn't something that happens from time to time during special moments. It is inseparable from the nature of the ever present moment you are embedded in. Honest open attention often reveals the interconnectedness of all things resulting in acknowledgment of synchronicity. Investigation of giant Stargate shapes will by the their very consciousness focusing nature result in realization of synchronicty.
One of the most iconic, attractive and fascinating circles to date (this is a rare consensus in which I agree) was the giant Milk Hill Mega or Galaxy formation of August 2001. Crop Circles don't happen much later then that as the crop gets harvested at the end of the growing season. One cant help but feel a connection between this amazing Stargate and the 911 Stargate event which happened one month later.
Relevant to this current sync web is the Galaxy reference in the name and shape of the stunning design and the white horse located nearby the event. The horse can be connected to the chariot, a Stargate vehicle of the gods. The alternate name for horse, equine, resonates equinox evoking sync connections with the movements of the stars and heavenly bodies. The 21 December 2012 Solstice Sun, John Major Jenkins in "Galactic Alignment" informs us, sees the formation of a heavenly cross formed by the axes of Galactic Center-Galactic Anticentre and Vernal and Autumnal Equinox (see the zodiac wheel above).
A giant Galaxy Stargate Mandala heralding the opening of the Galactic Center portal in Gemini (911 Twin Towers), marked by the 'sync'nificant equine hill decoration.
Crop Circles like the Checkered Hallway and Galaxy pictogram, along with Checker Chariots, were investigated in the Contact? Check! trilogy. Fox has removed part A for copyright violation.
"Ownership is theft" Hagbard Celine in "Illuminatus Trilogy"
1997's "Face/Off" sees nemesi villainous Nicholas Cage and hero John Travolta taking turns to assume each others physical identity making them synchromystically interchangeable. There faces are literally taken off and switched.
Travolta (playing both Caster and Archer) and a white horse inside the bullseye type Stargate symbol.
The film opens with Cage as Caster Troy failing to assassinate Travolta as Sean Archer killing Archers child instead. Travolta and his kid are riding a Carousel, Merry-go-round or Flying Horses. The idea of horses spinning on a fixed axis evokes the zodiac animal wheel and equine equinox (as a measurement of heavenly movement) connection.
Castor's (Cage) brother is Pollux Troy. Castor and Pollux in mythology, astrology and astronomy are the Gemini Twins. Remember that the Galactic Center-Galactic Anticenter axis' base is in Gemini, which is part of the Equinox-Milky Way Cross marked out by the 2012 Solstice alignment. Gemini is also the sign evoked by the symbolisms of the Twin Towers.
The Troy last name echoes the overall horse flavor being charted through the famed Trojan Horse.
It can be modeled then that we are moving from the lower Gemini Twin Towers part of the axis onto the Aquarius-Scorpio Twin Guardian part of Galactic Center-Galactic Anticenter axis. Pairs of twins guarding both sides of the ascension Stargate resonating 11:11, K2 and HH.
The Axis can also be viewed as a pillar or tree which functions as a galactic version of the kundalini spinal serpent system in the human body. This serpent imagery resonance is again seen in the film as Castor Cage's 'gear' is covered in dragons.
Our Castor Star Cage can be seen clinching the connection between 911 and Gemini through being the lead man in the "World Trade Center" film.
It's still just a normal day as our Gemini Star struts down the checkered floor to debrief his cop buddies and handout there workload for the day. The 911 Mega Ritual is about to dramatically change humanities seemingly enduring patterns...
'Composite Character' Castor Cage Cop looks around in disbelief as the Gemini Gate smolders in front of his eyes. Another self reflective pair of twin pillars, a double Thoth staff on a departing ambulance chariot, sync wink the veiled symbolism of the Pillarmid Towers (image below).
We are seconds away from the collapse of the WTC Pillarmids. The complex is about to be crushed with Castor Cage Cop and his deputies pinned beneath the rubble (below).
Reflecting in a pool of water is the octagonal logo of Chase the consumer and commercial banking division of JPMorgan Chase.
Ursa Major (containing the Big Dipper) and Minor (containing the northern pole star Polaris) mean big and little bear respectively. The Big or Great Bear (Ursa Major) is a circumpolar constellation meaning it travels closely around the North Pole Star or Polaris which resides in Little Bear (Ursa Minor).
Polaris - the pole star in the northern hemisphere around which all others appear to rotate - was seen on Michael Douglas's jet ski in the post Gemini. He also penetrated the 'monster' gut of a crocodile resonating Galactic Center. The Pole Star as another heavenly center resonates Galactic Center (the truer center) very strongly.
The 2012 Alignment forms a galaxy-equinox cross, again please see the Zodiac wheel above. Another way of connecting the equinox and Little Bear (containing Polaris) to 2012.
Beyond all physical centers, beyond even Galactic Center or the likely Universal Center is your timeless essence. Being beyond thought or form, the infinite unknowable that can not be conceptualized or understood but can be felt and experienced as this present moment. You cant 'know' the true center, but you can 'be' it. YOU are the true center!
"Kung Fu Panda" sees a big (Jack Black as Giant Panda resonating Ursa Major) and little bear (Dustin Hoffman as Red Panda resonating Ursa Minor) making it a strong northern pole resonator, intimately associated with the 2012 alignment.
Po (Jack Black) - a circumpolar constellation resonator - excitedly enters "The Sacred Hall of Warriors". The hall is covered in pillars with spiraling dragon motif, seen above. The spiraling serpent pillar can be:
-The World Tree/Yggdrasil (think also, the snake and tree of life in the Adam and Eve (Gemini) story)
-The Spinal Column with activated Kundalini Serpent energy. (Also Jed Pillar or Backbone of Osiris)
-The Twin 911 Pillarmids
-The DNA coil
-The Staff of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus
-The Galactic Center-Galactic Antic Center Axis of the 2012 Galaxy-Equinox Cross (functioning as subtle body kundalini serpent of the galaxy)
These are all fractally self similar representations of the same symbol system resonating each other intimately on different levels of scale.
Oogway the Tortoise and Shifu the Panda reflected in the pool beneath a cosmic serpent octagon.
Reflected in a pool of water, located inside "The Hall of Warriors", is a dragon inside an Octagonal Stargate. Stargates are consciousness focusing devices like circular mandalas, UFO's and Crop Circles. The Circle is the primary shape of divinity. Polygons like octagons and hexagons highlight different facets of the Great Circle/Stargate. All circles resonate the Stargate (consciousness focusing tool or representation) as do all polygons. The octagon has a particular affinity for showing up in affairs astrology and astronomy related. The motion of heavenly bodies are well charted by cutting a circle into four, like the four seasons, resulting in a cross through a circle. Cutting the circle evenly again results in another cross, quartering our divine circular Stargate into 8 segments. The octagon is thus a pivotal and beautiful representation of astronomical flavored Stargate motifs.
Goro Adachi was a central part of the infinite causal chain that resulted in these thoughts.
Now re-consider the "World Trade Center" Chase octagon, in shot with Castor (Gemini) Cage reflected in water seconds before the complex collapses. Reflect also on the fact that the giant torch being built atop the Gemini Pillars, the "Freedom Tower" is an octagonal structure to be completed on or near 2012.
Both octagonal waterdoors seen inside the movies "World Trade Center" and "Kung Fu Panda" entrain the ascension of humanity through the 911-2012 Stargate with the dawning of the age of Aquarius.
The Dragon Scroll said to contain the secret to unlimited power is placed smack center inside our Octagonal Stargate. This secret lies inside a hall with spiraling energy serpents, giant waterdoor octagon in the mouth of a monster. The mouth of the serpent monster, as hinted by the astrological resonating bears, gives away the true location being symbolized here, Galactic Center. The movie's Dragon Scroll secret - should you get to see it - unveils an accurate symbolic representation of the teaching pointed towards through the 2012 alignment mystery.
Galactic Center, as serpentine monster mouth, comes smashing through Michael's rec room complete with Stargate checkerboard pattern in "Tremors". Micheal wears an 'Atlanta Hawks' cap in the film reminding us of that ancient Egyptoid Hero, Horus, so firmly embedded in the Stargate sync web, one more time...
We already saw a turtle (Master Oogway) reflected in the waters of with an Octagonal Stargate in "Kung Fu Panda". Here are some more green Stargate heroes/Horus in a half shell.
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
The Big Blow Out Part 1 (Some stills follow if you don't feel like watching the thing)
Part 2
Raybeam at the Synchromysticism Forum highlights "The Teenage Ninja Turtles" episode "The Big Blow Out" (youtube videos above) with this amazing Twin Pillarmid Stargate sync.
Krang (an interdimensional Stargate being) and Shredder in their giant spherical "Technodrome" need to steal the cubic "Mount Rushmore Power Generator".
The turtles thwart their attempts at destroying the mountain itself, but fail to stop them from nabbing the power cube. Below we see the quartered Stargate circle in its target persona imposed over the Giant disembodied president heads. A few Freemasons inside that Stargate ad some telling extra 'freaky flavor' to our synchromystic proceedings.
Image of the Lunar Nodes from "Galactic Center" p 75 areas where the orbit of the moon crosses the apparent path of the Sun (Ecliptic). Eclipses happen near the these points.
In the post "K2 and the 2012 Maya Mega Ritual" we were introduced to Ketu (The knotted serpents tail of Hindu Mythology) -the Southern Lunar Node located in 3 degrees Sagittarius near Galactic Center -, noted as K2 resonating in sound.
The Lunar Dragon with its Tail (Ketu) in Sagittarius or Galactic Center and its Head in Gemini or Galactic Anticenter. Another serpent equivalent to the Galactic Center-Galactic Anticenter axis part of the 2012 Equinox-Galaxy Cross.
In fact I now discover Wikipedia notes Ketu, the tail of the lunar snake ending in Galactic Center, as another name for the Mountain K2!
Rahu as Dragon/Snake mouth often depicted as eating the sun or moon. This is owing to the fact that eclipses occur at the Lunar Nodes. Interestingly Galactic Center has already been associated with the monster mouth. Through Rahu being located at Gemini or Galactic Anticenter the monster mouth theme as related to the 2012 Stargate repeats.
Its opposite in the heavens The Northern Lunar Node is Rahu depicted in Hindu Mythology as a giant disembodied head (often a snakes) riding a chariot.
Rahu (Head) and Ketu/K2 (Knotted Tail), two of the Navagraha (The Nine Planets or Nine Realms). Relief Picture from Galactic Center p 81 above.
Mountain, already somewhat resonates K2, but giant disembodied head (like those seen at Mount Rushmore) resonates Rahu, the head of the Lunar Dragon. Rahu being equivalent to Galactic Anticenter and Gemini resonates the Stargate of Cosmic Illumination.
More on Rahu in the next "Hudson Hawk"(HH) post.
The evil Ninjutsu Foot Clan logo can be seen on the front of the 'Technodrome' as it heads for New York city after stealing the power cube from Mount Rushmore.
Image from p 111 of John Major Jenkins "Galactic Alignment".
Another celestial marker of Galactic Center apart from the already much discussed Sagittarius arrow and Scorpio stinger is the foot of Ophiuchus which John Major Jenkins associates with Mithras and Perseus.
Mithra's foot between between Scorpio and Sagittarius on the Zodiac of the Tauroctony. "Galactic Center" p 107
Apart from the cube (resonating the Millennium Hilton, Kaaba and Sphere sculpture), the Foot also need the Twin Pillarmids of 911 to complete there plans to open an interdimensional portal. Peeling away the cartoonish but still amazingly succinct symbolism we can reinterpret what is happening here synchromystically. The Gemini Gate (Twin Towers) with the help of Ophiuchus' Foot can open the Stargate of Cosmic Illumination.
The Technodrome has an all seeing eye surmounting its dome. In the image above we see the eye between the Two Pillars or Pyramids. This is amazing symbolism of Cosmic Consciousness waking up with the rippling Stargate vortex opening over the Towers. Compare image with Gargoyles "Mirror" episode, Crowley Tower Tarot and "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" Sauron Eye poster.
K2 mountaineer's Thoth Tarot Tower Major Arcana 15 compared to LOTR: 2 Towers image. We have a Scorpio related dove (pointers of Galactic Center) and a fire emitting Dragon or monster mouth (Galactic Center), Rahu head.. People fall from the Pillarmid in mystical entrainment with 911.
Let's briefly address the sticky topic of secret society involvement in 911 suggested by evil foot clan resonance and menacing all seeing eye of the 'Technodrome'.
Yes it is a possibility that elite occult organizations might have had their hand in the 911 Mega Ritual. By no means does this imply that they would be all powerful and all knowing. It is very likely that Being (our own infinite consciousness) is using these groups beyond the scope of there personal knowledge of intent and outcome. That a nefarious organization can orchestrate a deception or ritualistically destroy public buildings is not beyond my belief system. This is however not at all what I mean by 911 Mega Ritual. I mean the intelligence that animates all that is in existence and beyond, becoming aware of itself in human form, metaphorically expressing its own awakening through matter during 911.
The same intelligence that embeds naturally, subtilely and beautifully SELF reflective symbolism such as seen in the very 1989 "The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" "The Big Blow Out"episode (airing December 22 on or near the solstice!) we are investigating. This intelligence orchestrates - right NOW - that I can highlight Leonardo, one of the four Turtles with a blue bandanna, is named after the same Leonardo who invents modern chariots and makes alchemical gold for his giant horse in "Hudson Hawk".
Above is a giant Galactic Center pointing disembodied foot and Leonardo's hilltop studio in the Opening sequence of "Hudson Hawk". The explosion emmiting from the castle, in frame with our Stargate Ophiuchus foot, is part of the alchemical process. The alchemy being synchromystically uncovered here is transformation of planetary consciousness externally represented by 911 and Galactic Alignment.
The ambitious "Turtels" World Trade Center gateway is so large it intends to transport the entire planet through the Stargate into 'Dimension X'. The entire species being initiated into Cosmic Consciousness through the Gemini Gate (Twin Towers) and the Milky Way-Equinox Cross, here portrayed as Dimension X. X being the tilted Stargate cross or target.
A Gemini or Twin in "Face /Off" who passes octagons in "World Trade Center" on 911 finds South American style pyramids in National Treasure 2. Nicholas Cage quests for the fabled Cibola or 'City of Gold' located by our giant disembodied head collection, Mount Rushmore.
Freemason Rahu (northern Lunar Node in Gemini and Galactic Anticentre) heads, already seen in "The Turtles" form the base of the "National Treasure Book Of Secrets" Poster. The Egyptoid Illuminati and dollar bill all seeing eye glares at us with apex ablaze imposed over the 'holy' Mountain. Isis, the Milky Way and Galactic Center, is invoked by the Black Madonna topped US Capitol Building's dome and 'Castor/911 Cage's' Illuminating Torch. Rounding off the image is the Pyramid representing Eiffel Tower (a French Pillarmid) and the ben ben obelisk clock tower Big Ben (British Pillarmid). The Treasure being gaurded behind all this symbolism is South American type ruins resonating the 2012 Maya Mega Ritual or the Cosmic Consciousness physically expressed as Galactic Alignment.
In this symbols system and the context we have generated the Green All Seeing Eye can easily become Galactic Center itself, the sun behind our sun, as long as we bear in mind that all existing centers eventually lead towards and are pale reflections of the SELF or no-thing.
Cage's last clue, that uncovers the 'City of Gold' atop Mount Rushmore, is an eagle or phoenix. Both birds resonate Horus, as rising son/sun, and the new age of Being born through humanity.
The final 'face off' between good and evil approaches. Cage (once evil Gemini Twin Castor Troy currently good Shaun Archer) approaches the temple where he will battle John Travolta (currently Castor Troy) to the death. The Galactic Center Isis/Mary sync winks as the camera zooms in on the Star hero/Horus, framed by pillars/spears. White doves, the equivalent of Galactic Center marker Scorpio, fly over and past the South American pyramid adventurer. As Shaun 'Archer', Cage has become Sagittarius, the other Twin along with Scorpio who stands by the gates of Galactic Center. We will see vivid confirmation of cage as Sagittarius, shortly.
Stargate Master - a Bodhisattva who raises consciousness in humanity - Jesus Christ sync kisses his blessing on our bright Shining One (or Star) Nicholas cage, moments before 'the clash of titans' ensues. Cage has become the entire Galactic Center (Sagittarius) -Galactic Anticenter (Gemini) axis entraining symbolically through the dramatic ritualistic magick of cinema with the forces emanating from Galactic Center. This whole process now perceivable through the technology of Internet and synchromysticism.
The Stargate Milky Way-Equinox Cross in its Christian Ankh disguise, while Cage unloads at Travolta, between the Twin Candles (image above). The Candles on top of the Alter are the Twin Towers of Manhattan, Twin Pyramids of Giza and Twin Pillars of Solomons Temple. All symbolic portals of Being moving through us, entraining with the current planetary ascension of the 2012 Maya Mega Ritual Galactic Alignment.
Travolta, like Jesus, shows us how the human body conforms and entrains to the Milky Way-Equinox cross. Isis above, doves below...
A high speed boat type chariot race across the oceans of the cosmos unfolds. Nicholas Cage, the personified Stargate Axis' chariot bears the checkerboard trim and name 'Scarab'.
"Khepera, the scarab-headed aspect of Ra, is often symbolized riding through the sea of the sky in a wonderful ship called the Boat of the Sun" Manly P. Hall "The Secret Teachings of All Ages" p 268
The Astrological resonance of "Face/Off" couldn't be more clear. Again, I sincerely doubt John Woo or Nicholas Cage were aware (in the traditional sense of the word) of the forces they were entraining with when making this film. That is indeed the beauty and point of what I am trying to show with the symbolism encoded in pop media. Even the conscious (in the traditional sens) use of symbolism in movies such as "National Treasure 2" by no practical stretch of the imagination explains how Nicholas Cage has played all facets of the Galactic Center Axis or how perfectly it interacts through Mount Rushmore with the symbolism of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" episode addressed above. We can move beyond the limitation of explanation..
The final blow is reached, Archer/Sagittarius as the Galactic Center Axis Alignment grabs a speargun and fires his 'Arrow' at 'bad guy' Travolta killing him. The antagonist in its purest unveiled form is our own ego, Travolta in this scene. Poetically the context of Cage looking at him self - Travolta wearing Cage's usual face - shows us how the ego, the false self, attempts to fool Being into believing we are the ego. By aligning with the true center and SELF the ego is overcome.
The Ambulance Chariot makes its last appearance in this post as the dead Travolta Castor (Gemini) and living Cage Archer (Sagittarius) are transported to the hospital. The Paramedics Thoth Pillar (blue star shoulder patch) sync kisses Cage and all is well.
The cosmic giggle throws us a dazzling sync bone, associating the consensus opinion 911 Master Mind with K2. (Thanks Jim)
Terrorism: Bin Laden in Pakistan's K2 mountains, says report
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EMC last week brought 300 channel partner personnel together for its first-ever Global Partner Summit and followed up with over 10,000 customers at EMC World, an event it used to showcase its storage and cloud products and strategy.
The events featured the top execs of EMC and many of its strategic partners rallying the EMC partner and customer communities with keynotes, training and EMC's largest new product rollout.
However, it wasn't all work. Attendees had the chance to enjoy top-notch entertainment in various venues and some very fun activities at the solutions pavilion.
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"The American League is a little different animal. It's a dog eat dog world, a big bangers league. Obviously there's a lot of big bats. But your team's going to score more runs for you too," he said.
and on his current and former teams:
"The White Sox are a completely different class," he said. "They have established players, guys who've proven themselves."
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Wild caves are one of the precious geological gifts we have in our region, and one of the most fragile of environments. There are developed caves, which I have featured in previous posts, six or so, but around 1,000(!) caves are known in the Sierra, including some that exceed 20 miles in total explored passages. Their locations are kept out of public attention because of the ease with which they can be vandalized (and vandalism is a huge problem). Our trip today was one of education and building an appreciation for these rare environments. Our college students were accompanied by a group of local high school students who joined us in the exploration.
We did an exploration of a small cave that required crawling and scooting through a narrow passageway to prepare them for the adventure of the larger cave a few hundred yards away. All of our explorers wore helmets and carried three lights for safety, but they also wore gloves to preserve surfaces in the caves. Any visit will impact a cave and the life within it (even clothing lint), so our purpose was to teach how to explore with the least amount of impact. They did well, as I saw no gratuitous touching of formations (although that may have had something to do with not one, but three "wrath of God" speeches before entering any of the caves).
The largest cave we explored had a challenging squeeze through a very narrow passageway into a large room about 70 feet long (I tried not to think about the fact that it was the ONLY way out; what if someone got stuck? I have phobias...). It is festooned with some glorious stalactites and columns that hang in thick masses from the high ceiling (click on both pictures above for a better view).
Update: Helena Heliotrope provides an example of the horrific damage that can occur in caves when morons and idiots find them. This sort of thing has ruined many caves in the Sierra, and elsewhere across the country. Cave vandalism is a serious problem, and the perpetrators deserve stiff fines and imprisonment. Hopefully education can overcome the tendencies people can have towards this sort of crime. Certainly a great deal of damage occurs through simple ignorance, too (not to mention injuries; I took a hard hit on the head this last weekend that made me see stars, and put a gash in my helmet).


text: Discussion Prompts to communicate observations, inferences, and extensions:soil, soil formation, inorganic matter, minerals, sizes, weathering, sedimentsInferencing is the ability to "fill in the gaps" when facts or other information is not explicitly provided. With PHOTOinfer, we use photos to prompt connections between what is learned in the classroom and what occurs in the real world.One sheet of paper makes two PHOTOinfer activities to be used by two different students. Each PHOTOinfer has an anchor tab that is used to adhere it to a page within a student notebook. PHOTOinfer asks students to observe a photograph, make inferences based upon their observations, communicate what they experience internally and with others, and extend what was observed and inferred to other areas of their life and knowledge bank. Print PHOTOinfers in black and white for student use, but view the color version in a PowerPoint or projected onto a white board for discussions. Currently PHOTOinfers are based upon Earth, Life, and Physical Science concepts, but they will eventually be available for Math, Social Sciences, and Language Arts.- See more at: http://www.dinah.com.php56-16.dfw3-1.websitetestlink.com/products/rock-karst-topography-seafloor-deposits-limestone-formations/#sthash.Vw53yRJb.dpuf


text: Twitter launched a full redesign to its website Tuesday, showing off changes that lead Twitter.com away from its humble stream-of-updates past and toward a more interactive, app-like future. The new Twitter went live to a select few users Tuesday afternoon and began rolling out to everyone else Wednesday. If you don't see it yet, you will soon. The website now has a new two-panel view. Your familiar stream of tweets runs down the left side. On the right side is a dashboard of sorts, where you can see recent activity from your followers and the people you follow, trending topics, and the list of people you might want to follow.Click on a tweet and it expands in the right panel. There, you'll see rich media like photos and videos, associated conversations, recent tweets by the author, and mini bios for any other people mentioned in the tweet. Overall, the update plays on features found in popular Twitter client apps like Tweetdeck and Seesmic, and it looks quite a bit like the official Twitter app for the iPad. Somewhat like those apps, you can dive right into videos or photos without leaving the Twitter website, whereas the old site required you to leave the site or launch links in new browser tabs. Scrolling in the time line on the left panel is infinite. New tweets keep loading at the bottom as you scroll, so you can just keep cruising backwards into time as far as you'd like.When you expand a tweet by clicking on it, if there's a video or a photo from a supported site (YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr and TwitPic were all included in Tuesday's launch) it shows up nice and big. Videos play right there, and Flickr photos are accompanied by thumbnails to the rest of the photoset, if there is one. You can choose to see embedded photos and videos from only people you're following, or from everyone.Images, videos, maps and retweets are all carried over to the new individual tweet pages. "People can much more quickly grok the context of a tweet," Twitter CEO Evan Williams said at the launch event Tuesday.To send a new tweet, you can either use the old box, still in its familiar location, if you're on your homepage. Or, if you're elsewhere in the system, you can click on the little icon up next to your user profile picture to launch a floating window.Something else very appy -- Twitter has incorporated keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts are definitely a geeky power user feature, but ask anyone who uses them in Google Reader or Gmail and they'll tell you they can't live without them. In fact, the keyboard shortcuts are very close to those apps.@mentions are now accessible from a tab at the top of your time line.As are retweets.There's a new search box at the top of the page. Run searches and you can save them (click the "Save this search" button up top) to keep track of new results. Saved searches will then live in a tab next to Retweets at the top of your time line.Lists are handy -- I keep two or three that I browse every morning to catch up on tech news. Twitter has moved your lists into the last tab at the top of the time line. The redesign uses some cutting-edge web technology, including LABjs to speed things up and jQuery for the animated, Ajaxy twiddly bits. Also: the awesome Modernizr library, which checks your browser's capability of handling different HTML5 doo-dads and adjusts the website's code accordingly. These changes show Twitter extending a big juicy lollipop to users -- by providing people with a more rich experience directly inside the browser, there's less of a reason to go download an app. This is bound to cheese off a good number of developers who have much blood and sweat (and cash) invested in their own Twitter client apps and web experiences. However, there's still a place for those apps -- Twitter has built this new interface on top of its own API, which means that any capable developer out there can do something very close to this design, or improve on it, on their own. One big caveat: Twitter has the power to bypass its API rate limit of 20,000 requests per hour that it enforces for third-party applications. Only Twitter and selected partners can pull more tweets than that. These rates will change as Twitter grows, especially now that the service has got over 90 million tweets per day to play with. Also, it's doubtful this update will coax users away from their favorite apps. Many people who use the website to tweet -- Williams says 78 percent of active users have used Twitter.com in the last 30 days -- will likely adapt to this update rather than reject it and run to a different experience, like a Tweetdeck or Seesmic. It exposes much more information than they're used to, but by and large, the changes are useful and add more contextual value than visual clutter. So for people who have only ever used the old Twitter.com, or even those (like me) who use apps occasionally but heavily favor the website, this is a radical change, but a positive one. Those endeared to their third-party apps will probably look at the new Twitter.com and say, "Huh, neat, looks more like my favorite app than the old site." Then they'll go back to their app and tweet about it. What do you think of the redesign? Tell us in the comments.See Also:Twitter.com Goes Media-RichTwitter Unveils Ad-Supported Business ModelTwitter Ads Test Billion-Dollar ValuationTwitter StrangersSo Tweet: Geek Couple Plans Twitter WeddingJurors: Stop Twittering


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Connecting to LDAP server using OpenDS in Java
A colleague and I have spent the past couple of days spiking solutions for connecting to LDAP servers from Ruby.
We decided that the easiest way to do this is by using OpenDS, an open source directory service based on LDAP.
One option we came up with for doing this was to make use of the Java libraries for connecting to the LDAP server and then calling through to these from our Ruby code using the Ruby Java Bridge.
This post is not about Ruby, but about how we did it in Java to check that the idea was actually feasible.
The interfaces and classes we need to use to do this are not very obvious so it was a little bit fiddly getting it to work. The following code seems to do the trick though:
import org.opends.server.admin.client.ldap.JNDIDirContextAdaptor;
import javax.naming.directory.DirContext;
import javax.naming.NamingException;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.ldap.LdapName;
import javax.naming.ldap.InitialLdapContext;
import com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx;
import java.util.Hashtable;
public class OpenDs {
public static void main(String[] args) throws NamingException {
DirContext dirContext = createLdapContext();
JNDIDirContextAdaptor adaptor = JNDIDirContextAdaptor.adapt(dirContext);
// do other stuff with the adaptor
private static DirContext createLdapContext() throws NamingException {
Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory");
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "ldap://localhost:389");
env.put(Context.SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION, "simple");
env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, "cn=Directory Manager");
env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "password");
return new InitialLdapContext(env, null);
Some points about the code:
- Port 389 is the default port for the LDAP server so unless it's in use this is probably the port you need to connect to.
- 'Directory Manager' is the default 'Root User DN' that was setup when we installed OpenDS although there is more information on what this value may need to be on the official documentation.
- We originally tried to connect using JNDIDirContextAdaptor.simpleBind(…) but it didn't seem to work for us so we went with the JNDIDirContextAdaptor.adapt(…) approach.


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News Release
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Father Sends Abused Teen from Georgia to L.A. to Fend for Himself; Young Man and his Sisters Come from Home Life of Horror NR12441rfLos Angeles: Los Angeles Police Department detectives have been instrumental in exposing a bizarre and tragic case of child abuse that started in Georgia and ended in a Los Angeles bus station.
Just before noon on Sept. 11 of this year, two LAPD Newton Area patrol officers received a call about a possible missing child at a Greyhound Bus Station on East 7th Street. When they arrived, they met up with retired LAPD Sergeant Joe Gonzales who was working security for the station. Gonzales directed them to 18-year-old Mitch Comer…a pale, gaunt young man of small stature who appeared to be about 12 or 13 years of age. Later, it was determined he weighed only 87 pounds and stood just over 5 feet tall. His story was most unusual.
Comer explained that his stepfather had told him he was now a man, given him $200 and put him on a bus in Jackson, Miss., with a list of homeless shelters he had located on the Internet. Incredulous that the childlike Comer was actually an adult, the officers took him to LAPD's Central Station for further questioning and to come up with a temporary housing arrangement.
Later, police took Comer to the Newton Station where he met with Detective Dan Gersna. During the interview, Comer provided limited details of the abuse he had endured for at least the past four years. After removing him from school in the eighth grade, his stepfather, later identified as 48-year-old Paul Matthew Comer, confined him to a room and wouldn't allow him to leave. The young Comer was fed only small quantities of food daily and forced to assume a grueling disciplinary position every day for eight hours with the top of his head against a wall, his fingers interlaced behind his head and his feet raised off the ground. He also had two younger sisters he had almost never seen, and authorities expect additional charges on the case may surface as investigation progresses.
Complicating matters, Comer wasn't able to provide his home address to LAPD officers. Though he had resided mostly in Georgia, he apparently also moved to Arizona and possibly other places with his family for periods of time and then returned to Georgia. Fortunately, Detective Gersna learned that the elder Comer ran a home-based appliance business known as "Appliance Support Team," which eventually led to both a business and driver's license that revealed Comer's residential address. At that point, Detective Gersna contacted Detective A. J. Simonelli of the Paulding County Sheriff's Department in Georgia.
Detective Gersna shared what he had learned from the young Comer, including that he apparently had two siblings still living at home. Detectives Simonelli and Kevin Morgan immediately went to their address and located Comer's stepfather and mother, Sheila Marie Comer. Both parents were taken to the Paulding County Sheriff's Station for interviews and subsequently arrested for charges related to child abuse and false imprisonment. Detectives also put Mitch Comer's younger sisters, Catrina and Lya, into protective custody with Paulding County Children's Services.
After staying briefly in a Los Angeles board and care home, Mitch Comer flew back to where he'd been living in Dallas, Ga., on Sept. 19 to participate in the case investigation and legal proceedings against his parents.
"I am greatly relieved and thankful that one of our retired officers brought this victim to our attention and started the process to uncover these heartbreaking circumstances," said Chief Charlie Beck. "Without the intervention of retired Sergeant Gonzales, Mitch Comer and his young sisters would still be suffering."
Anyone with information about this case may contact LAPD Newton Detectives at 323-846-6556 or the Paulding County Sheriff's Office Crimes Against Children Division at 770-445-6105. During non-business hours or on weekends, calls should be directed to 1-877-LAPD-24-7 (877-527-3247). Anyone wishing to remain anonymous should call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (800-222-8477). Tipsters may also contact Crime Stoppers by texting to phone number 274637 (C-R-I-M-E-S on most keypads) with a cell phone. All text messages should begin with the letters "LAPD." Tipsters may also go to LAPDOnline.org, click on "webtips" and follow the prompts.
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This double bronze memorial features a wood grain border with maple leaves in each corner. Your memorial will come with the desired names, dates and epitaph. A vase is also available for this marker. The vase has the ability to unscrew, pull out and put inside of the monument for storage when flowers are not on the grave. The bronze and granite combination have been proven as a long lasting a durable monument. This memorial will be a long lasting tribute for many years to come.
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ASHEVILLE � Nearly 100 miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway in western North Carolina is closed because of the weather.
The National Park Service says the risk of snow and ice prompted closures on two sections of the road.
The scenic route is closed from milepost 355 at Mount Mitchell to milepost 376 at Bull Gap. The road is also closed from milepost 394 at N.C. 191 to the end of the parkway at U.S. 441 at Cherokee.
Mount Mitchell State Park also is closed.


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Bow Headband
October 30, 2010
About a week ago my friend asked me if I could make a bow like Rihanna's .
I finally got back to her two nights ago saying that I could and whipped up a prototype last night. After making a few adjustments I ended up with this!
I'm quite pleased. The band part is actually much wider but it was tucked underneath in the picture.
I'm thinking I might need one for myself now!
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Leaf Science: How to Find the Hidden Colors in Leaves
Do your kids wonder why the leaves change colors?
Do you have a future scientist in your household?
Help your kids discover the science behind nature's beauty with this fun family experiment.
In this article I'll show you how to unlock all of the hidden secrets in a leaf through chromatography.
Don't let the name scare you off, it's a super-simple science experiment done with items you probably already have around the house.
And it's a great way to help your kids learn more about the world around us.
Imagine this…
It starts out as a nature walk where the kids have a mission—finding different kinds of leaves—so parents can relax and enjoy the lovely fall colors.
Then there's pounding and noise and actually trying to stain things green. How often are kids allowed, much less encouraged, to do that?
Finally, there's a science experiment involving chemicals and mysterious migrating colors that appear from nowhere. You'll see a scientific phenomenon occur right before your eyes!
And it's all to answer an age-old question that your kids have undoubtedly asked: How do the leaves change color?
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San Ramon, CA — 24 Hour Fitness, San Ramon, CA, is the target of discrimination claims as well as a lawsuit involving the rebranding of some of its clubs.
Earlier this year, two former 24 Hour Fitness employees claim they were forced out of their jobs after they complained about discrimination in the workplace, allegations that 24 Hour denies.
Former district managers Paul Drobot and Reggie Allison claim that they heard sexist, racist and homophobic language at work. They then claim they were demoted and eventually forced out for complaining to 24 Hour's human resources department.
The two filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The commission recently upheld the complaint after a two-year investigation and is now trying to mediate a settlement between the two groups.
"24 Hour Fitness firmly denies the charges made in these two (Drobot and Allison) cases," 24 Hour said in a statement sent to Club Industry's Fitness Business Pro. "We have fully participated in proceedings sponsored by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and continue to look to the EEOC to help the parties resolve these cases, without the need for litigation. 24 Hour Fitness is an equal employment opportunity employer that is deeply committed to providing a work environment that is free from unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation."
A separate case involving a class-action lawsuit against 24 Hour is currently in the discovery phase. The lawsuit was filed last fall in Alameda County (CA) Superior Court on behalf of three people who were sold all-club memberships which they say did not allow them to use all 24 Hour Fitness clubs. Last year, 24 Hour closed two Sport clubs, one in Folsom, CA, and one in Moraga, CA, and opened new clubs in the same cities under the name 24 Hour Fitness Super Sport.
24 Hour has different tiers of clubs, each with different amenities and pricing. Active/Express/FitLite clubs are at the lowest level, followed by Sport clubs, Super Sport clubs and Ultra Sport clubs. 24 Hour also has signature clubs associated with sports stars. Members do not have access to clubs that are at a higher level than their club.
The complaint alleges that in an effort to increase memberships, 24 Hour rebranded existing clubs and built new facilities under the name Sport, Super Sport and Ultra Sport, informing members of the old clubs that they must upgrade their memberships at higher monthly dues to use the rebranded clubs. The plaintiffs also say the distinctions between the different levels of clubs are not meaningful because the higher-level clubs do not have some of the amenities outlined by 24 Hour.
"It's the classic bait and switch. You can't sell to members an all-club membership and then turn around and create a whole new tier of clubs that those all-club members are now excluded from," says Ivo Labar, an attorney with Kerr and Wagstaffe, which is representing the plaintiffs in the case. "It's adding insult to injury when those new clubs really aren't that different than the lower-tier clubs in the first place, and you close the lower-tier clubs, forcing these people to upgrade. Our view is that 24 Hour's incentive is to maximize their profits."
Labar adds that his firm plans to amend the complaint to add additional members to cover other categories and contracts.
A 24 Hour spokesperson says the company does not comment on pending litigation. However, last fall, 24 Hour Chief Marketing Officer Tony Wells was asked about the company's strategy pertaining to the closure of some of 24 Hour's lower-tiered clubs and the opening of 24 Hour Super Sport clubs, particularly in Folsom and Moraga.
"24 Hour Fitness is committed to helping our members reach their fitness goals by providing them with the best possible fitness experience," Wells replied in an e-mail. "Fulfilling this mission often includes upgrading our facilities in select markets to provide better amenities."


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Spain is ripe terrain for this. As a pioneer in utility-scale wind power, thousands of megawatts are now approaching — some even surpassing — the 20-year mark.
At a March seminar dedicated entirely to extending useful wind plant life, Spanish turbine manufacturer Gamesa revealed its life extension (LE) service, with which it soon aims to offer full guarantees to extend life from the 20-year standard to up to 30 years while promising up to 98% turbine availability.
"Contracts are already negotiated," Sergio Velez, Gamesa life extension programme director, told Windpower Monthly at the event, held within the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) conference in Barcelona, Spain, last month. Ideally, Velez believes LE should start around the 15-year mark, in time for major preventions.
Gamesa seems to be at the forefront of what is "a natural path for OEMs [original equipment manufacturers]," said Ruiz de Gordejuela of engineering start-up Nabla Wind Power, an independent LE provider — albeit without full guarantees — also at EWEA-Barcelona. Gamesa expects to attain certification for its LE service this year from GL-DNV, in order to provide solid guarantees for life extension and turbine availability.
The LE is based on Gamesa's real-life experience servicing more than 20GW of installed capacity worldwide. Other keys are a full plant audit, together with computer modelling and turbine condition monitoring to predict corrosions, wear and tear, fatigue and failures. "Knowing exactly where and when problems arise is essential," said Velez.
So far, life extension — as yet without full guarantees — is already available for Gamesa's 660kW machine. The company is also preparing an LE product for its 850kW and 2MW models.
Wind financers bank on a 20-year useful turbine life. Squeezing out an additonal five to ten years was once considered a bonus. But life extension is now essential for many Spanish companies to avoid negative results, said de Gordejuela.
That is because the right-wing Popular Party (PP) governing party is ending all subsidies for capacity online before 2005 — breaking the state's promise to maintain them for 20 years.
As an independent service provider, Nabla admits that it does not have access to the OEM's aero-elastic turbine mode. But, as "a company made up of turbine designers from across the sector," it has devised its own aero-elastic computer models for all major turbines, said de Gordejuela.
The company also works with clients to factor in a wind plant's track record. Furthermore, local partner Barlovento brings its wind measuring engineering expertise to LE modelling.
Contracting LE, at a cost of roughly 20-30% the initial plant investment, 50% extra life is attained, says Velez: "hugely cheaper than repowering". It is also an interesting option in Germany, where height restrictions prevent repowering with large new machines, according to one German delegate.


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Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace opens yet again this Friday, and the film is destined to make even more money because all the marketing for the 3D re-release has been aimed directly at kids. Even the junket interviews were conducted by children (you can watch our interviews here, here, and here). George Lucas hasn't given too many interviews regarding the 3D release, but one hit today that's sure to grind fanboy gear. During the discussion, Lucas defends the edits he's made to the Star Wars saga, and specifically addresses CGI Yoda and why Greedo shot first. Hit the jump to see what he had to say.
In an interview with THR, Lucas began by saying that tinkering with Star Wars is no big deal:
"Changes are not unusual — I mean, most movies when they release them they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world."
Lucas goes on to specifically address the Han/Greedo controversy:
"Well, it's not a religious event. I hate to tell people that. It's a movie, just a movie. The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted Solo [who seemed to be the one who shot first in the original] to be a cold-blooded killer, but he actually isn't. It had been done in all close-ups and it was confusing about who did what to whom. I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to think that he actually just gunned him down."
Please, continue to tell fans how wrong they are:
"It's the same thing with Yoda. We tried to do Yoda in CGI in Episode I, but we just couldn't get it done in time. We couldn't get the technology to work, so we had to use the puppet, but the puppet really wasn't as good as the CGI. So when we did the re-issue, we had to put the CGI back in, which was what it was meant to be."
Lucas goes on to maintain that there's "basically one version of Star Wars [that] keeps getting improved a little bit as we move forward." Uh, what? Honestly, if Lucas would simply release the original theatrical versions of Episodes IV-VI, the majority of fans' uproar would be subsided. Films are art captured in time, and to keep "updating" them to the most recent advances in technology removes a great deal of their charm. Alas, fan complaints are ultimately in vain. Lucas does what Lucas wants.


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This document discusses how to troubleshoot some of the issues that appear when you try to generate historical reports in Cisco Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX).
Cisco recommends that you have knowledge of these topics:
Cisco Unified Contact Center Express 5.x and later
The information in this document is based on the Cisco Unified Contact Center Express 5.x and later.
The information in this document was created from the devices in a specific lab environment. All of the devices used in this document started with a cleared (default) configuration. If your network is live, make sure that you understand the potential impact of any command.
Refer to Cisco Technical Tips Conventions for more information on document conventions.
The user might receive the "No Data Available in the Historical Reports" from 'Historical Reporting Client' message, even though the date range given by the user is valid to get report data. In this scenario, both Historical DataStore and Agent DataStore of 'DataStore Control Center' display this error message:
Error occurred while performing the operation. The cluster information and subscriber configuration does not match. The subscriber might be dropped (Please check SQL server log for more details)..
Also, both the Historical and Agent Replication status are:
Publication Snapshot Agent is Stopped Subscription Agent is Unknown
This error message appears due to a SQL replication issue among the IPCC Express nodes. Complete these steps in order to resolve this issue:
Choose System > Control Center from the CRS AppAdmin menu bar.
The Control Center/Servers summary web page opens.
Click the Component Activation hyperlink.
The Component Activation web page opens.
Select the Subscriber node.
Uncheck the Agent, Historical, and Repository Datastores, then click Update.
Make sure it shows as Deactivated.
Check the Datastores, then click Update to activate them again.
Restart the CRS node manager service on both the primary and subscriber servers.
Sometimes the charts or graphs are not generated when you run historical reports even though you check the Include charts in reports check box. Only the charts or graphs are not generated in the reports, and all other non-graphical information is present.
The issue happens due to the presence of other third party applications that use Crystal reports or Crystal dlls. Refer to Cisco bug ID CSCsv30102 (registered customers only) for more information.
As a workaround, copy the SSCSDK80.DLL file from the C:\WINDOWS\System32 folder, and paste it to C:\Program Files\Business Objects\Common\3.5\bin.
When you pull the data from the historical reporting client, the data seems to be incorrect. It reports far less handled calls than normally expected.
Complete these steps in order to resolve the issue:
Run the select max(sessionid) from contactcalldetail query in order to obtain the max value.
It returns a 12 digit number.
After you obtain the max value in step 1, complete these steps:
Divide the number by one billion (1,000,000,000). For example, if the number returned in step 1 is 323000003345, the value is 323.
Add 1 to this number (324).
In the remaining steps, you set this value as the seed value in the Registry.
Choose start > run, and type regedit.
Navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Cisco Systems, Inc.> CRS -> Properties > application.MIVR.properties.
Locate com.cisco.session.id.block.
Right click and select Modify - change the value data.
Note: In case you have an HA setup, determine the seed value for both the nodes and use the higher value as the seed on the registry for both nodes. After you modify the registry values, restart the Node Manager.
With Cisco UCCX 8.0, you cannot view data from any field within the resource table and no data is returned from any field. There is no issue adding fields or viewing data from other tables within the database. After creating a report with only the resource table and when attempting to add any field to the report, this error message is received:
Failed to open a rowset. Details:42000[Informix][Informix ODBC Driver][Informix] A syntax error has occurred.
This issue is documented by Cisco bug ID CSCtl02126 (registered customers only) .
In UCCX 8.0, the resource table is holding the agent information. The same name resource is also an Informix key word. Therefore, when querying the resource table, the query statement cannot use the resource as the alias (Microsoft SQL Query uses the table name as the alias by default). This causes a syntax error in Informix.
The workaround is to use some other alias in the query statement; for example, use resource1.


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Bückert (Bueckert, Bieckert, Bickert) family
Bückert was a Mennonite family name in the rural Flemish congregations of West Prussia. In 1776 five families of this name were listed in West Prussia (without Danzig), and in 1935 nineteen persons. The name has also been found among the Mennonites of South Russia and Manitoba. J. P. Bueckert of Gretna, Manitoba was the elder of the Blumenort congregation.
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Reimer, Gustav. "Bückert (Bueckert, Bieckert, Bickert) family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1953. Web. 7 Aug 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=B%C3%BCckert_(Bueckert,_Bieckert,_Bickert)_family&oldid=119875.
APA style
Reimer, Gustav. (1953). Bückert (Bueckert, Bieckert, Bickert) family. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 7 August 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=B%C3%BCckert_(Bueckert,_Bieckert,_Bickert)_family&oldid=119875.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 461. All rights reserved.
©1996-2020 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.


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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Mam maw's Coffee Cup
Having coffee and cinnamon toast with Mam maw Jones was the main source for many of my JONES family stories. The coffee cup she would place before me was truly unique. It was blue on a white background, and seemed to be telling a story. Starting at the place where the handle of the cup inserts, there was depicted, a small, single story house, like a poor man's house. From this little house, crossing an arched bridge, three small figures appeared to be heading to a much larger land mass. This land mass spread around the rest of the cup, above a fancy looking fence that seemed to dance in the foreground. Turning the cup, you left the three fellows and passed under two birds that appeared to be kissing. (I never quite figured out what they were doing in my story). The figures appeared to be carrying tools over their shoulders, but for many years I thought the last little fellow had a knapsack strung over his. In the watery background was a small ship which I thought must have brought these guys to shore from a land far far away. On along, there was a funny looking tree with what appeared to be feathers as branches. It was not like any cherry, apple, pear, or walnut tree that I had ever seen. Next there were two fancy looking three-story houses with funny caps and shapes along the roof line. These houses had multiple trees and small hills surrounding them giving the impression that this was certainly the place you would want to be if you lived in this cup.
The most amazing thing was that when you tilted the cup up to drink, the two big houses appeared on the inside of the cup. The funny looking tree was there too. I could look on the outside and the inside, and see the story. Wow, who ever thought of drawing inside a cup? The rim of the cup was bordered by some sort of mysterious shapes and markings. Another doodler I thought. My kind of cup.
The stories still come through this cup. To Mam maw I am thankful for the coffee and toast...and to being sworn to secrecy, that is all I can say.
For an account of my coffee and toast see the blog: Sworn to Secrecy. The above picture is of this cup and the memories it still contains.
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I love exploring genealogy/family history through heirloom items such as this. Tangible items we can touch and feel just like our ancestors did helps create a connection that just isn't possible any other way. And even without the story behind it: such a cool cup!ReplyDelete
Hey Jordan, good insight. I agree. Mam maw would be pleased that her cup is still dancing.ReplyDelete
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