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I had never heard of Rose Byrne, her Moon Halo however immediately entranced me.
I had also never heard of The Rage In Placid Lake but a lovely Australian lady recommended this film from her country...
The very first shot already 'had me' as we see a playground, its walls decorated with Blue Birds flying over a rainbow as well as Yellow Flowers.
The Blue Birds that fly over the rainbow - "somewhere over the Rainbow, blue birds fly" Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz - were discussed heavily in The SpiriT of The Blue Bird. Rainbow happens when light refracts at a 42 degree angle. The 42 is associated to the alchemical symbol for Jupiter, which is also the alchemical sign of Tin.
Jumpiter but it is enough to know that rainbows, which Blue Birds enjoy flying over, resonate 42/Jupiter and Tin.
Let's not forget the obvious connects here: Australia often called OZ, the Australian film Rage In Placid Lake, the Australian actress Rose Byrne and the images of the Blue Bird/Rainbow all resonating the film The Wizard of Oz.
Why is OZ of such syncnificance? Well OZ, resonates PAN/77 (in Kabala) and can even be found in POP culture between the WTC Buildings on the Spherical Caryatid Sculpture in the film "The Wiz" with Micheal Jackson as the Scarecrow.
This is a sculpture that stood between the Towers, inside of a fountain, until it was damaged by the WTC collapse.
Much discussed in old posts and videos, try Rant In Z-Minor
We see Rose Byrnes character Gemma, meeting Placid Lake for the first time, at this same sync rich playground in The Rage In Placid Lake, while backed by the Yellow Flower.
The Yellow Flower was much discussed in a recent Blob post as an element found strange attracted to Kirsten Dunst.
The general feel is that the yellow flower represents star/sun/enlightenment or Christ Consciousness.
By the by: Kiki (Kirsten Dunst's nick) continues her awesome flower resonance unabashed in recently viewed media.
Above with yellow flowers in a television series "Touched by an Angel" (episode "Into the Light") and below with daisy at Ajna Chakra in "Dick".
One sync that made Rose Byrne jump out of obscurity and instant interest for investigation was that she shares screen time with Kiki in "Marie Antoinette".
Above Yellow Flowers crown Rose while a Dog rests on Kiki's lap, the dog will be highlighted again, soon...
As well as the solar Yellow Flower connect, we also see Queen (Kiki) and Duchesse (Rose) view the sunrise below.
There is a inexplicable symmetry in this shift from solar Kirsten Dunst to Lunar Rosa Byrne. The solar Queen lending her light to mirror Moon.
The sun and Rose Byrne can not be separated, as we shall soon see, to the point where I can honestly not tell which is her primary sphere. Perhaps Rose is a combination...
I had recently seen Rose Byrne in "Knowing" with Nicholas Cage and in "Adam" about her romance with an AWEtistic man.
This picture of Cage was recently posted at The Sync Whole in an ongoing chapter oabout The 2010 Matrix Code. Fascinating, as another shot in Rose Byrnes bedroom in The Rage in Placid Lake, instead of a moon crown sees a butterfly/moth. It gives us the feeling of the consciousness taking flight on delicate and gorgeous wings. That both stars in a film about prophecy share this strange sync unrelated to Knowing gives me pause.
Another thing worth pointing out considering the two butterfly/moth pics above is the work William Morgan has done on Knowing where he sees direct correspondences between it and the "Mothman Prophecies". See his Just My Luck for this fascinating investigation.
In Knowing Rose plays Diana who first meets Cage at a Crab museum exhibit. As Crab/Cancer is ruled by the Moon and Diana is a Roman Moon Goddess the sync meter went Looney.
At this notice I become convinced Byrne is a Synchromystic Moon Star or a sync 'resonatres' of Luna. After more speculation, some soon to be divulged, I am less certain as this apears to be only half of Rose's story..
Knowing revolves around Nicholas Cage discovering a code prophetically predicting key disaster dates and the amount of people who die during these events.
The first signal he decodes is the 911 Mega Ritual or WTC Disaster.
This is just too perfect as synchronicities revolving around 911 helped wake me up to the living union of I AM and gave synchromysticism the kick it needed to flower.
Synchronicities like the OZ Sphere between the Manhattan Twin Pillarmids (Pyramids/Towers/Pillars) at the end of the yellow brick road in The Wiz and the "2001: Space Odyssey" Monolith fashioned Millenium Hilton at Ground Zero.
The building was intentionally designed to look like Kubrick and Clarke's black cuboid stone from the film 2001. It was close enough to the Twin Towers as to be damaged during 911.
This seems to be the sync WE/ME have addressed that has captured the most peoples imagination. Understandably so, I guess...
An object that oversees humanities key historic shift in a fictional film (considered a corner stone of cinema) and real life event that marked a change in history, both centered on 2001. It's pretty hard to ignore.
In my mind these and other 911 synchronicitiess dwarfed the possibility of conscious human orchestration leading to the letting go of paranoia and conspiracy as key dynamic that governs world affairs. The new ruler of the Earth had to be something bigger than any human or material agency and had to involve my own consciousness directly.
My attraction to spiritual matters moved into the affair and a new understanding of the 'non-local Self orchestrating organism of Being' awakened in ME/WE.
The white circle of the moon backs Cher and Manhattan Island engulfing the WTC, connecting the Buildings to Luna.
Shares ("She who gives") 'ruby slippers' above the WTC and the letters ON, or if we tilt the N, OZ. Another connection to OZ just like The Wiz "Sphere" Sculpture OZ.
The architect of the WTC, Minoru Yamasaki, intended the Sphere to represent the Black Cuboid Kaaba at Mecca and it rotated once every 24 hours (42 Horus).
Pretty awesome as this yet again - as we have already seen in the 2001 Monolith and Millenium Hilton design - brings this kind of shape into the sync web of 911.
The connection repeats during the opening titles of Moonstruck and we see Star Nicholas Cage is also present.
Considering we have already seen Nicholas Cage interact with 911 in Knowing things start heating up.
At this point it seems Cage is the most singular 911 resonating Star known as illustrated by the montage above.
-He appears as a firefighter who gets trapped under the collapsed Twin Towers in Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center"
-He finds a code which predicts future disasters when noticing 911 in Knowing.
-His name appears over Manhattan Buildings and the WTC in Moonstruck.
-He stars in Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant" which opened on 9/11 this year.
If we consider the 2001 film and Hilton connect as a primary anchor for these syncs then perhaps further investigation into that film's mythos and its sequel 2010 can provide a framework upon which to hang for the myriad of syncs we could get lost in.
Actually, this is very simple if we limit ourselves to key locations where the Monolith interacts with humanity after the first evolutionary encounter on Earth.
Cinemas most iconic match cut... A bone becomes a starship, connecting the entire chain of events from primitive tool to space flight as part of the evolutionary influence of the Monolith. This all inspired by Contact with primitive human primates and the dark cuboid.
After the initial Contact with the extraterrestrial (or some such) cuboid on Earth the next one is discovered on the Moon.
Generally this is interpreted as humanities evolutionary progress being given a push when we reach key stages, in this case having mastered space travel, and made it to the level of interaction with the sphere of Luna.
I think of this as as first step on the Stairway to Heaven.
When astronauts reach the Moon Monolith it sends out a signal to another giant cuboid at Jupiter, to which we must now journey, to prove ourselves worthy of the next step on this Stairway to Heaven.
Orlando Bloom as Paris is speaking to Rosa Byrne as Briseis in her first scene in Troy:
"Your beauty grows with each new moon"
Eric Bana as Hector takes his first look at Rosa/Moon and says:
"A servant of Apollo now" noting her ordainment as a priestess in the Temple.
The Apollo missions were NASA's moon adventures and one of mankind's stepping stones to the stars. The external drama of space travel mirrors the internal growth of consciousness inside the people of Earth. Just as we move ourselves outwards into external space our consciousness dives deeper into the infinite internal mystery. The internal and external space are in fact one and the same.
I like how the Apollo 11 insignia above doesn't depict humans landing on the moon but fauna and flora. WE/ME are indeed only a facet of Earths consciousness doing our small part of the Great Work of which the plants and animals are vital components. Without plants and animals the Moon landing would never have happened. The patch can also perhaps be considered prophetic of the movement of animal and plant life to the sphere of the Moon.
The Animal chosen to represent the first human Contact with the moon entity is the Eagle. The Eagle is Zeus/Jupiter, letting us know that the next key step, just like in 2001, is Jupiter. The fact that technologically WE/ME cannot physically travel to Jupiter any time soon, suggesting that Contact with Entity Jupiter will be trans-physical.
Man Moon Jim Carrey illustrates this elegantly, on the "Man On The Moon" poster, where he climbs a ladder carrying the letters D, N & A (the Building Blocks of Life) to the Moon. The 'Stairway To Heaven' and key step, Moon.
Can it be that simple? Earth, Moon, Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite?
This year had stunning levels of Moon resonance rising in consciousness. Above is the Sam Rockwell Starring "Moon" with its Octagonal design, we will see our friend the Octagon and 8 way symmetry arise again, soon enough.
When ever Sam gets a call from Earth in Moon it has a ridiculous delay as it has been realyed via 'Jupiter link'. This is repeated a few times in the film : "Call via Jupiter link". I believe this was the only other body mentioned in Moon, certainly the most prominent, excepting Earth.
We keep seeing how Moon and Jupiter associate intimately through sync.
Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beeblebrux in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" (H2G2) where he quests to find the "ultimate question" to "the answer of life the universe and everything" which is 42 or Jupiter/Rainbow. We see Rockwell for the first time in the film with the Moon sync winking, "hello!"
Dolphins feature heavily in H2G2, we see them leave Earth during the intro of the film version, passing a glowing full moon. Lets look at something William Morgan posted at The Sync Whole under the title Have Mercy Mercury.
So with that in mind we look for the Kabbalah correspondence to Jupiter and we are introduced to Chesed or Mercy. One group of Correspondences is seen in the Table above... We see the 4th Sphere labeled Chesed with the association to the animal dolphin.... Chesed has a planet and Ancient God association with Jupiter as well as Tin and therefore Jupiter's Beautiful symbol(as well as Tin's Symbol) is usually found within that Sphere. I've seen many a Kabbalah help books sight the similarities to the Jupiter Symbol and the number four, only Sync heads see the 4 2.... To my knowledge at least. So the Chesed = Jupiter = Blue Hand(also a name given to Chesed) = Tin = Dolphins.... Get it?
Dolphins, seen in shot with the Moon in the 42 laden H2G2, are also associated to Jupiter via the sphere Chesed on the Tree of Life. Thanks Will!
Chesed is a Blue Sphere. We will see more and more how Jovian themes beckon us to take note of a Blue Star or Sun.
The Moon is also often associated with Blueness the term Blue Moon being a famous expression. Susynctly the Full Moon of 31 December 2009 was called a Blue Moon, perfect considering the Blue Sphere resonance we are showing as associated to 2010 and Jupiter.
The Blue Sphere resonence of both Moon and Jupiter show the interpenetration and mirroring of closely related symbols.
Interior: We see in indoor Dolphin - animal now known as associated to Jupiter and 42 - tank.
This is Roy Scheider's home in 2010 The Year We Make Contact. A golden Dolphin winks over his left shoulder as Yellow Flowers crown. He will soon brake the news to his wife that he must take the long journey to Jupiter.
On vacation in South Africa I visited a Town called Jeffreys Bay. Like many towns and cities one quickly notices Totemic animals and plants associated to that specific location.
Jeffreys Bay was covered in Dolphin imagery and references. As the area code is 042 all business displays would carry the code of Jupiter and H2G2 often with a nearby Dolphin or two. Over the years of participating in synchromysticism I have started to trust the associations in immediate environment, such as 42/Dolphin/Jupiter as clear indications of sacred principals. When reading Will's account of how Kabala also makes the connection between Dolphin and Jupiter the trust is shown as legitimate. I am more confident every day to trust association received via pop and environment regardless of whether there exists any occult or esoteric precedent for such a connection.
How very susynct, all this Dolphin talk, as we saw Rose Byrne as a priestess of Apollo. One of Apollo's animal associations is the Dolphin, an animal who's form this god has taken in myth.
However, to make amends for killing Python, as the fearsome beast was the son of Gaia, Apollo had to serve king Admetus for nine years (in some versions eight) as a cowherd. This he did, and when he returned to Pytho he came in the guise of a dolphin bringing with him priests from Crete (Apollo's cult title "Delphinios" meaning dolphin or porpoise, is probably how Delphi was so named). After killing Python and taking possession of the oracle, the god of light (Phobus) became known as "Pythian Apollo". He dedicated a bronze tripod to the sanctuary and bestowed divine powers on one of the priestesses, and she became known as the "Pythia". It was she who inhaled the hallucinating vapors from the fissure in the temple floor, while she sat on a tripod chewing laurel leaves. After she mumbled her answer, a male priest would translate it for the supplicant. Delphi became the most important oracle center of Apollo, there were several including Clarus and Branchidae.
While playing a board game with my friends in Jbay, where the objective is to explain the items on the card without using the words themselves, I pulled this little gem..
Drew Barrymore, she who participated in cinemas most iconic First Contact scenario in E.T. The Extraterrestrial, stands by her K2 sporting Yellow Car and Adam Sandler in "50 First Dates".
Adam is a marine-life veterinarian who takes Drew to see his work place where they are visited by the animal of Jupiter.
During Drew's first contact with E.T. WE/ME note she gets an octagonal halo subtle body entrainment from a stained glass window as she is introduced to the creature from another world.
Cosmic intelligences or consciousness from space resonate Cosmic Consciousness. E.T then is a symbol of alignment with Self and the realization of your own Consciousness. First Contact, mystical Illumination and simply realizing or acknowledging You ExisT, is all the same thing: intensity of experience varying depending on context and temperament of Being undergoing the phenomena.
Drew as Gertie believes E.T/Cosmic Consciousness to be a "man from the moon".
She bears Yellow Flowers throughout, flowers which have a sympathetic relationship with E.T/Cosmic Consciousness.
After E.T magickly heals the Yellow Flowers they wilt when he is sick, they recover when he does. In Opening The StarG8 VIA Kirsten Dunst: Star Light Flower flowers are suggested as enlightened/illuminated beings themselves thus Cosmically Conscious. The plant life mandala, the flower, shares a symbolic equivalence with E.T as both are pointers towards self realized Self. In this context E.T's affinity to the plant is entirely susynct. Drew gifts them upon the Star traveler and they leave with him aboard his Spaceship. Flowers are also little radiating stars, in a sense then they are hitching a ride home with E.T.
The King of Pop, Michael Jackson a.k.a Moonwalker, reverse birthed in 09, another powerful Moon wink. We see the actual poster for Moonwalker encodes Jupiter ViA the Rainbow. His Jupiter Finger - the pointer finger being associated to this planet - doubles this already strong Jupiter sync. This is exactly the same message we see on the The Apollo Patch with its Eagle/Jupiter and "Moon" with Sam Rockwell/H2G2/42. Moon and Jupiter go together like two peas in a pod as classically portrayed in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Peculiarly Drew Barrymore strange attracts Micheal Jackson, appearing in the film Scream with a masked white faced villain. MJ also has a song called Scream and a highlighted 'white face'.
Above in the still from Scream we note the DNA resonating coil of the telephone as a plant and illuminated lamp sync wink behind.
Drew also Moonwalks to Billy Jean in Charlie's Angels while appearing alongside Sam Rockwell "the man from the movie Moon" in this same film.
See Michael and The Ark for more MJ and Drew syncs.
Jupiter Fingers cover the moon on the E.T. DVD and also appear on the Creation poster. Monkey is Mono, anagram for Moon, in Spanish. This makes the connection between the two posters very vivid as E.T., associates Jupiter Finger with Moon and Creation associates the same with Monkey. Is Monkey a Moon-Key?
The ancient Egyptians seem to have taped into the same sync thread as their Moon God, Thoth, was depicted as a Baboon.
Moon and Jupiter (Pointer Finger), the two key rungs on the ladder towards space migration or cosmic illumination.
The monkey is a symbol of evolution being an animal that shares 98% of our DNA Blue Print.
The popularity of Vampires and Werewolves - both powerfully associated to night time and the Moon - we dare not estimate, just mention in passing with two examples. "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" and "Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant". Both these vampire films resonate DNA, the ladder/stairway of life, through the blood-lust of these creatures. We already saw how DNA/ladder is attracted to the Moon on the Man On The Moon poster with Jim Carrey. Blood/DNA/ladder/stairway, the blueprint of our evolution, has an affinity for the two major steps we take towards Cosmic Consciousness. A lovely symmetry is suggested between the two metaphorical ladders of micro and macrocosm, that of the DNA spiral ladder and the suggested Stairway to Heaven, represented by the 'rungs' of Moon & Jupiter.
The Vampire fad and its fascination with the creature that thirsts for blood is also symbolic of our collective need to drink the blood of Christ Consciousness and realize our own Divinity.
WE/ME are back in Knowing and Star Nicholas Cage is teaching astronomy class, holding the Sun/Star/Yellow Flower as Jupiter (red eye winking) entrains.
The sun has been taken from its central position in the model solar system by Star Cage and moved closer towards Jupiter revealing the Sun/Star resonance of the Jovian Sphere seen overtly in 2010: The Year We Make Contact.
We saw earlier that the Moon is very present in Knowing as Diana or Rose Byrne. Again, Moon & Jupiter.
Knowing final date 10/19/09 (19 October 2009) and EE meaning Everyone Else dies or the world ends.
Jim Sanders, an ayahuasqeuro, documentary filmmaker and ill wicked synchromystic, did an Ayahuasca ceremony one evening, the next night (18 October 2009) finding himself sitting down to watch Knowing. Susynctly just in time to realize that the final date on Nicholas Cage's disaster code (19 October 2009), the date the world ends, just so happens to be the very next day in 'real life'.
This was 10 days ago of this writing and a post was made about the incident at The Sync Whole.
Nicholas Cage realizes a solar flare will wipe out all life on Earth on 19 October 2009 as Jupiter eminates from his head. Seeing as death is an illusion, end of the world scenarios are generally interpreted as meaning the end of the illusion of limited identity.
The Red Eye of Jupiter sync kisses Cage and merges with another picture on his Computer screen of the Sun. Jupiter is merging with our Sun, becoming the Second Sun.
If we recall Rose Byrne plays Diana/Moon in this film, it becomes fascinating to bare in mind the extreme solar quality of the proceedings i.e Earth being terminated ViA solar flare. Especially when we take another Rose Byrne StarRing role into account, that of Danny Boyle's 2007 Sci-Fi film, conveniently titled for our purposes, Sunshine.
Is Byrne both Sun & Moon? Are we seeing in Rose Byrne's Composite Character the inseparability of the Sun & Moon owing to Luna shining as a mirror of sunlight?
She is part of a crew who must fly the "Icarus 2" towards the Sun in order to drop a bomb into the giant Yellow Flower or Star.
The sun is dying and the only way to save Earth is to create a second sun inside the original ViA nuclear explosion. This is not me taking artistic license, they call this process creating another sun inside of the Sun.
Confirming the syncnificance of the creation of this second sun is a direct sync wink back to Rose Byrne's The Rage In Placed Lake. Placid Lake (above), Rose's love interest, defies his bohemian upbringing by vowing to become part of the insurance agency Icarus.
This is the name of the Greek character who flew with his wax wings to close to the sun and fell to his death and also that of Rose Byrne's Starship in Sunshine.
The solar Knowing and Sunshine changing our perception of Byrne into both a Solar and Lunar SyncStar & displaying the interrelated nature of these spheres.
From the opening voice over of Sunshine:
"Our payload: A stellar bomb with the mass of Manhattan Island. Our purpose: To create a star within a star"
The mention of Manhattan Island resonates 911 as the location of the event that sparked a huge consciousness shift. Blogger Richard Arrowsmith has noted that Island is 'Eye/I Land' resonating Self Being realized.
Further the Stellar Bomb, which Rose Byrne rides into the sun, is a cube, resonating all other cuboids already associated to evolution i.e The Millennium Hilton, the Kaaba and 2001 film Monolith.
Dali's Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)
A cube can be folded from the cross when represented as six squares and we see above, in this Dali painting, the strong mystical association between Christ and cube.
This is then revealing the short answer to the mystery of the cube, synchromystically all cuboids and arks are potent symbols of Christ Consciousness.
The esoteric connection between Christ and the Sun (Son)* is also very solid making a cube dropping into the sun, as seen in Sunshine, very susynct.
*There are infinite ways of demonstrating the Jesus as Sun resonator connect.
-The rebirth cycle of the Biblical Christ mirroring the Solar cycles such as Christmas/Easter falling on or near key seasonal dates.
-The 12 Apostles being the 12 months of a year or 12 Zodiac signs related to the orbit around the 13th central hub Sun/Christ.
- The similarities between the story of Jesus and those of other solar rebirth Gods: Horus, Mithra, Buddha etc.
This is then revealing the short answer to the mystery of the cube, synchromystically all cuboids and arks are potent symbols of Christ Consciousness.
The esoteric connection between Christ and the Sun (Son)* is also very solid making a cube dropping into the sun, as seen in Sunshine, very susynct.
*There are infinite ways of demonstrating the Jesus as Sun resonator connect.
-The rebirth cycle of the Biblical Christ mirroring the Solar cycles such as Christmas/Easter falling on or near key seasonal dates.
-The 12 Apostles being the 12 months of a year or 12 Zodiac signs related to the orbit around the 13th central hub Sun/Christ.
- The similarities between the story of Jesus and those of other solar rebirth Gods: Horus, Mithra, Buddha etc.
The symbolism of the creation of a star or second sun becomes then the realization of Christ Consciousness. Many interrelated and interchangeable systems of thought exist for Christ Consciousness; ones used by The Blob include : Illumination, Conscious Consciousness (KKonsciousness, I-I), Cosmic Consciousness & Enlightenment etc.
The ONE NOW that is in a state of kNOWing that it Is.
I Am that I Am.
Take the Christ Consciousness connection to evolution into account, while viewing the Cher Moonstruck poster above. Her posture is exactly like a crucified Jesus.
Rose as Duchesse de Polignac licks a piece of paper in Marie Antoinette. She is playing a drinking game where one has to guess who you are, not knowing the name on your forehead, by asking questions of those participating.
Rose is to rise, like the Phoenix from the ashes.
Yet most iconic of all, the Rose is Jesus Christ.
Rose Byrne points at her heart with her Jupiter Finger* as she confronts Placid Lake who works at Icarus. We note her home address is 13, the number associated to the Sun/Christ as the central element surrounded by 12 houses or apostles.
*See Image Below for Jupiter Finger
The realization of your own indivisible, infinite and eternal Self is the ultimate expression of the birth of Christ, the second sun.
The epitome of second sun symbolism arrives in the form of "2010: The Year WE/ME Make Contact".
At the end of 2001 Dave Bowman made it to Jupiter after a bit of trouble with the ships A.I. HAL 9000. A.I are Tin Men, machines needing a heart. Very susynct that a Tin Man has to pilot a spaceship to Jupiter as Jupiter's planet symbol is also the alchemical symbol for Tin.
A.I is also A Self, a realized Consciousness.
HAL 9000, the Tin Man, with its single Red Eye/I, on its way to Jupiter, which also has a single Red Eye/I or storm, the planet of Tin.
Jupiter's Red Eye is a giant swirling vortex bearing associations with the myriad of spinning mandala shapes which we will address shortly.
2010 introduces the Blue Eye of SAL 9000 a female version of HAL. SAL is used to simulate the conditions of HAL's reactivation after being shut down in 2001, the project is called Phoenix. The Phoenix clearly refers to HAL 'rising from the dead' but also fore shadows Jupiter's transformations into the Second Sun. Project Phoenix is associated to Jupiter and overseen by a Blue Eye. We then easily associate this Blue 'Sphere' to Jupiter and note how we have moved from Red Male Eye in 2001 over to Blue Female Eye in 2010.
2001 ends with Bowman reaching a giant 2 kilometers (2K) in length Monolith/Cuboid at Jupiter. When he nears the object the film changes from narrative into a lengthy psychedelic spectacle Kubrick (K2) called the "stargate sequence".
The amazing entrainment with Kurt Russel flying towards the WTC in "Escape From New York" and being the first person through the stargate in "Stargate" and how this associates with 911 and its Monolith is explored in videos like "StarMummy".
Helen Mirren crowned by Yellow flower/Sun in "Calender Girls" and making first contact with E.T in 2010. Note how the Yellow Sunflower crowning Helen is sharing relative position of the Sun (between Starchild and Jupiter) in 2010
This 'trip' represents the next evolutionary stage of Consciousness moving beyond identification with the physical and mind made.
In 2010 we return to Jupiter with Helen Mirren as Russian Cosmonaut Tanya Kurbick (anagram for Kubrick and a K2).
Helen Mirren voices the A.I/Tin Man Deep thought in "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy". This is the entity that actually comes up with the answer to "Life The Universe and Everything" being 42 (Jupiter/Tin/Rainbow).
Explored in the video Heart City.
Heart City from Jake Kotze on Vimeo.
How about that as synchrofirmation of 42 connecting to Jupiter? The same person who realizes 42 as the meaning of life is present at Jupiter when she goes nova!
The idea being that Jupiter has the chemical make-up of a sun/Christ but just needed the interaction of human consciousness and the monolith to ignite the alchemical furnace.
Jupiter becoming a second sun in 2010 is related to our Enlightenment as a species. The Sun is Christ or I. The second sun is the awareness of this I, thus the I-I.
Jupiter becoming a sun/son is the external symbol of KKonsciousness becoming aware of itself.
Subtle process is always reflected in the material realm, indeed they are one and the same.
The question that is begged here is: Considering "2001 A Space Odyssey" entrained so perfectly with our evolution is "2010 The Year We Make Contact" continuing the trend and telling us about next year (this year actually as I continue to wrestle with this post)?
Take a deep breath and relax the faculty of mind. Many have fled synchromysticism in horror as it seems to increasingly become vague and loose. Connections being made between any and everything.
This is exactly where WE/ME are headed NOW and I ask you to use your heart and not your mind. All will sync in.
The heart knows that any and everything are intimately connected and related and that this is no threat to consciousness, it is KKonsciousness!
The idea of 2 suns (Chris-Christ or I-I) finds expression on many fractal and self similar levels. On one level it is our sun and Jupiter, on another it is the possibility of our solar system having binary partner or twin, which many believe is Sirius.
In "28 Weeks Later" with Rose Byrne we find the I-I expressed as Eye-Eye (see poster above) one blue and one red (technically in the film referred to as green and brown, but looking very blue and red, either way highlighting duality, thus same).
28 is a number strongly associated to the cycles of the sun and moon spheres as one year has 13 lunar months of 28 days each.
Synchromystically an Eye and I/Christ/Sun are all interchangeable.
Consider that the primary elements of a mandala, the spiritual & artistic representation of God, are the circle with a dot in the center. This is clearly the basic elements of the human Eye, the flower and the alchemical/astrological symbol of the sun, our native star.
Two eyes or circle dots express the I-I, yet true to the fractal nature of all, one eye or circle dot also reflects the sacred I-I. In one eye the two are represented by the single dot and its secondary, the surrounding circle.
A circle and a dot is a portal for God/Spirit into matter. That is why the eye takes on the shape of I/God or Circle Dot.
Why is that we can tell more about the state of each other by looking into our eyes, then with any other physical aspect? "I could see it in her eyes". Why when we are in love can we see it in a persons eyes? It has relatively little measurable physical change regardless of the state of the person. Why can WE/ME often not bare to look each other in the eye?
It's because the eye is the portal of God into matter and we can see the Infinite in them and each other.
When a person is thinking and not attending to you while you are communicating we say: "His eyes were glazed over". This is because the awareness or Being/Spirit moving through the person was for a while consumed by the mind and they are not present. Literally there is less God in the persons eyes.
"She has such piercing eyes" i.e "when she looks at me we are both very present in the NOW".
When WE/ME say I is Eye, this is very, very susynct!
In 28 Weeks Later Rose Byrne is crowned by a composite 'Red' and 'Blue' Eye or Sun/Christ. The pair of different colored eyes belong to a child who carries special blood/DNA. The "Rage Virus" that infects people, central to the story line, doesn't affect this boy which means his blood might carry a cure.
The boy, Andy, is a potential savior with special DNA, this all being figured out by Rose Byrne.
Andy's variant eyes resonate the multiple dualities associated to the external heavenly drama reflecting realization/integration of Consciousness (the I-I). The ones we have mentioned thus far being: the spheres of Sun & Moon, the Sun and Jupiter as 1st and 2nd Sun and also the Sun as partnered with possible binary Sirius. Another dual for our central Christ or Sun is the heart of the Galaxy itself or Galactic Center.
Even our two steps of Moon and Jupiter form an I-I.
Again regardless of which system WE/ME prefer to focus on, inevitably WE/ME are drawn to the ultimate duality that these are all just reflections of, the I-I (Eye-Eye of Andy in 28 Weeks Later). The Knower and the Known which ultimately merge into the unified Knowing.
On all fractal levels of reality WE/ME represent Divinity, primarily as either a pillar or a circle. Christian crosses or the Kabala Tree of Life are examples of Pillars type symbol systems, while Mandalas are good examples of circular Reality models.
These dualities arise from the mind attempting to model the same 'ultimate object' from different perspectives. A facet or individual singular I, the mind made self, trying to model the ultimate I-I.
Rtaher then having an actual physical form the 'ultimate object' is a representation of principles and relationships mirroring the characteristics of our true Self.
Let's use the example of DNA in the microcosm and galaxies in the macrocosm to illustrate some characteristics of the Ultimate Object as they suite the syncs discussed thus far.
We could just as easily have used other pillar/circle objects, less relatively far apart, say the human Spinal Column and Subtle Body (a pillar from the side view yet a toroid mandala from the top) as compared to tornadoes and hurricanes (pillars from profile and vortexes from above).
See E.T Ipsissimus of the A.:A.: for more about the two systems of symbolic representation of God.
Galaxies like the Milky Way display the vortex like shape of the 'ultimate object', seen from above, while stripped to its essence, still just a circle dot mandala. Perhaps at first glance DNA doesn't seem similar save from the spiral or coiled feel present in both it and Galaxy. Yet if we imagine DNA viewed from above, instead of in profile, we would find the spokes of a wheel.
The sine wave shape (a wave of peak and valley) of the side view of Deoxyribonucleic Acid is also a circle traced as a line moving through time.
If you trace the perimeter of a circle as a movement through time you get the sine shape.
This side view and overhead view of "Ultimate Object" are indeed interchangeable and ONE.
Think about StarG8 sequences in films, when characters time travel or warp. StarG8's are usually depicted as someone zipping down a swirling vortex tunnel.
Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure head on view of time corridor becoming a vortex or circle dot mandala.
Head on it's the 'circle dot' mandala , from the side it's a corridor...
Slinky Dog from Toy Story shows us the perfect entrainment of sine wave/circle/spiral as 'ultimate object' when we note that doG is God.
The evening of the very same day I wrote about Slinky goD as DNA/'ultimate object' I see Elle Fanning in Phoebe In Wonderland displaying both the overhead and profile view of the toy helix!
ViA the association of macro to micro DNA/Blood becomes a resonator of the Stairway to Heaven.
If we allow ourselves to associate blood with DNA/'ultimate object' many cinematic themes and scenes are suddenly illuminated.
Consider for example again the significance of Drinking Red Wine/Blood in the Eucharist and its association to Vampire films. Not only does the activity resonate ceremonially ingesting the Christ but also the substance being invoked, blood, carries the DNA with now clearly divine attribution.
Rose Byrne gets well covered in blood - the floW that contains the Blue Print of creation- in "28 Weeks Later". Becoming even more sussynct if we recall her associations to the Christ Cube in Sunshine and Jesus Christ forehead in Marie Antoinette.
Weirdly enough the film itself is made by a studio called DNA, displaying both side view, with rungs of the sacred ladder and overhead view with spiral tunnel. A spiral is a straight line curving through time down the 'Ultimate Object'.
Rose is currently on televisions "Damages" along with Glenn Close (GC).
See Sync Whole post Aligning with Galactic Center is Close for more on Close as GC.
Most of the episodes I've seen, as yet, start with Rose covered in Blood as the narrative, at this point, centers on explaining the reason for a traumatic incident and murder Byrne is involved in. The show keeps flashing forward to this incident revealing more by slow increments.
The murder weapon, like Byrne, is covered in blood and hair - traditional sources of DNA in all TV shows - and with crystal clear susynctness happens to be a bust of the Statue of Liberty.
Liberty is Isis and Isis is the Great Mother Goddess, profoundly associated to both Sirius and the Milky Way, particularly its Galactic Centre heart.
We found DNA resonates spiral galaxies now sync responds by showing us a symbol of the Milky Way, in the hands of Diana, covered in Blood. Oh boy!
While writing this post - with the intent of outlining the vivid resonance of 2010 with the realization of Cosmic Consciousness/Contact - the Scarlet Dragon started showing up again in the sync web.
Above is the new V which deals with alien first contact and the game Dragon Age. Both have a logo' featuring what looks like red blood, both have a reptilian themes (the V E.T.'s are reptilians disguised as humans) and both were released on November 3rd.
The blood as connected to DNA and the Stairway to Heaven is a solid lead into interpreting the Red Dragon. Here is another recent Scarlet Dragon sync wink which sheds light on the subject.
New DreamWorks film, "How to Train Your Dragon" in 3D, with red dragon title and tail on the poster.
The cinema is a mirror of the development of consciousness, that it is moving into a new dimension or 3D means WE/ME are also undergoing a shift. The new dimension that we are entering - this is literally true - is the dimension of Self aware KKonsciousness.
We see the Moon winking..
The character depicted peaking up at the dragon tail wears a horned viking helmet adorned with a spiral dragon and a smoking flame.
Book of Acts:
1When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
2Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
3They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.
4All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues[a] as the Spirit enabled them.
Spirit/Being/Self descends on the followers/flowers of Christ Consciousness manifesting physically as a flame above their crowns.
The word Smoke has the value of 420 in Kabala, which makes perfect sense as 4:20 is popularly associated to marijuana smoking. We then have the symbol of Spirit burning above the head of the horned & enlightened one, resonating 42/Jupiter. Yet again Jupiter, here associated to the coiled - thus resonating the DNA/Blood and Milky Way - Scarlet Dragon...
Another enlightened icon, Moses in the Winnipeg Legislature, horned and pointing with his Jupiter finger.
The horns, like the holy flame, feel like a variation of subtle body extensions.
Days after the reappearance of the Scarlet Dragon in my sync web - after an extended absence - I spot this loud wink, in shot with Josh Hartnett, while watching the Rose Byrne starring "Wicker Park".
Hart is in the Lady Dragon shoe store questing for his true love (Diane Kruger) while obsessive Rose Byrne thwarts his every attempt.
Josh Hartnett has appeared with a Red Dragon T in August a film with Robin Tunney as noted in Scarlet Dragon 1.
This motivated a desire to re-watch the Hannibal Lector film Red Dragon.
Mirren stands inside of her Tin Can or Space Ship parked by Jupiter in 2010, behind her WE/ME note a Russian character. It sees a bulbous ovoid red top with a stem running down.
It strikes me as similar to the above symbol from Red Dragon. The film describes it as a Chinese character that "marks the Red Dragon". Edward Norton discovers the symbol engraved into a tree by the Tooth Fairy serial killer who murders families during sequential full moons. We find the moon, our first step, again referenced in the syncs surrounding the Scarlet Dragon. The similarity to the Russian character seen numerous times in 2010 suggests a Jovian connection with the beast.
In 2005's The Zodiac with Robin Tunney we learn the infamous killer might be coinciding his murders with significant celestial phenomena.
Robin Tunney as Magick resonator, see StarMummy 1
Robin holds an Atlas of Stars and Planets in The Zodiac while pondering the killers potential astrological motives.
Our Zebra striped StarMummy serves her guests, as all have gathered to watch the July 20th 1969 Moon Landing of Apollo 11 referenced above.
This connects Robin Tunney and the Moon, so how about Jupiter and Robin Tunney?
A cinch as she recently appeared on televisions The Mentalist (S2 E8 Red Right Hand) with a character called Jupiter Calidos. Above her profile is merged with Mr. Jupiter.
Here is a still from a classroom in The Craft. Robin Tunney is crowned by 3 Moons and we also see Jupiter wink hello.
Tunney's moon halo looks allot like the image of Rose Byrne that started this post.
Since including the Scarlet lettering for Dragon on How To Train Your Dragon this poster has emerged crowning our Dragon Trainer with Luna..
The Dragon on the poster's name is Toothles, the tooth is suddenly and peculiarly strange attracted to out sync web.
William Morgan has veered into Tooth syncs...
Tooth(less)/Thoth is a Moon God, remember?
In Red Dragon we learn that the Scarlet Dragon has Christian Mythos 'end times' associations as seen in Revelations 12:3
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
Ralph Fiennes is the Tooth/Thoth Fairy serial killer who is obsessed with the Red Dragon..
He takes his blind date Emily Watson to visit a Tiger and hear its heart beat..
This syncs up perfectly with The Hangover where the Tooth/Truth/Thoth strange attracts to the striped cat of 2010.
The Tiger is 2010's Chinese Zodiac animal, a system of 12 partitions/animals sighted as regulated by the 12 year orbit of Jupiter.
Moon resonant Drew Barrymore makes first contact with E.T overseen by a stuffed Tiger. The 2010 Contact Scenario spelled out via sync.
Drew Barrymore is DB or 42 the number of Jupiter and Life The Universe and Everything. In Never Been Kissed she is crowned by the planet where contact happens in 2010: The Year We Make Contact.
StarMummy 2: FloWman from Jake Kotze on Vimeo.
In StarMummy 2 we see Seth Green go up Spirit River in Without a Paddle to find DB's/42's Treasure with Matthew Lillard.
The Tiger entrains with the flight to Jupiter in Robot Chicken episode President Evil featuring sketch 2001, But With Boobs as Tiger Woods is also parodied in that same episode used during the climax of StarMummy 2.
Tiger Woods is grabbed by his Nike sponsors and branded with the Swoosh Logo at his third eye point. The Tiger and Jupiter are close friends.
Seth as Dan knows the combination to DB's treasure but it is Matthew Lillard who opens the lock..
The treasure chest of dan/dna and Mathew is PANdora's box...
In fact, it is Matthew who owns the Lady Dragon where Hartnett interacts with the Scarlet Dragon.
Matthew and Hartnett stand outside the Lady Dragon, a heart playing card entrains..
Rose 'Moon' Byrne is dating Matthew only to be closer to Hartnett. They are seen below inside Matthew's home above the Lady Dragon. Matthew tells Rose, secretly obsessed with matthews chum Hartnett, the shocking news that Josh is about to reunited with his true love: "He's gonna be so happy, he's gonna hit the moon again"
She storms off passing the Red Dragon of the biblical end times.
I made StarMummy 1 and 2 with my friend Jim Sanders.
Above is Rose Byrne again in the room with Placid Lake and the Moon poster that started this journey. She is sitting on a bed, where one takes a NAP and becomes Whole or PAN during sleep. NAP=PAN.
Behind Rose, she who's children go to the New World in Knowing, is a tiny Winnie-The-Phoo. If you hang out with Sanders long enough he will share the following sync tale with you.., it's one of his favorites and helped vivify the role of sync in his life:
Note how we read Sanders above the door in E. H. Shepard's original drawings.
Winnie-The-Pooh got his name from a real bear which traveled from Manitoba ending up in the London Zoo where he was enjoyed by children.
Christopher Milne had named his toy bear after Winnie, an American black bear which he often saw at London Zoo, and "Pooh", a swan they had met while on holiday. The bear cub was purchased from a hunter for $20 by Canadian Lieutenant Harry Colebourn in White River, Ontario, Canada, while en route to England during the First World War. He named the bear "Winnie" after his hometown in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Writer A. A. Milne kept his sons bear in mind when naming and creating Winnie-The-Pooh. We can see how Winnipeg has flowed into Winnie-The-Pooh.
Jim recounts that his grandfather was wounded in World War 1 in Germany and spent time in a military Hospital in England. Sanders lay beside E. H Shepard and they become friends. Knowing the bear he was drawing was connected to Winnipeg, Shepard put Sanders' name, his acquaintance from Winnipeg, atop the door of Poohs home.
In 2010 WE/ME learn to ride the Dragon, the fearlessly awakened serpent of realized Being.
Avatar is set on a Moon called PANdora orbiting a gas giant resonating Jupiter with a Blue instead of a Red eye/storm. PAN is our dna/blood and the door is the opening stargate of Cosmic Consciousness.
The striped Tiger and the Red Dragon become one as Sam Worthington aka Jake Sully's Great Leonopteryx or Turok (last shadow).
Sam Worthington was originally to ride the winged beast of Being again today on March the 26 as the poster for The Clash of the Titans above attests. Meaning we would have had both a piloted Pegasus and Dragon, How To Train Your Dragon being released 26 March, flying through our silver screens..
The flying Monster/Moonstar, symbol of the human who has tamed the spread wings of Consciousness, soaring majestically through the Heavens.
Mr Arrowsmith pointed out the Avatar/Titans flying beast connect at The Sync Whole.
Instead the Dragon flies solo as Clash gears up only to be released on 2 April or 4/2...


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In the following Washington Post's article (Feb. 13) reporting the outcome of CPAC 2011, I found the phrase if you must know.
I think this phrase means though it may not be essential knowledge that you are supposed to have, or just for your reference. What is the difference of nuance among if you must know, you may know, and you might know, which is difficult for non-native English learner to discern?
The three-day Conservative Political Action Conference ended Saturday afternoon with a meaningless presidential straw poll (if you must know, libertarian gadfly Ron Paul won for the second year in a row).

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Om Malik writes about the coming of IPTV (digital television over your Internet connection). Not surprisingly, Europe and Asia are way ahead of the US in early adoption.
Bluewin TV, one of the new IPTV services out of Switzerland, is boasting 100 TV channels and 70 radio stations.
Uh… so what?
The promise of IPTV is not to create a better television experience, it is to completely redefine what television is. TiVo took this part way, but not far enough. IPTV will pick up where TiVo has negligently left off.
That is, we demand that IPTV services include all of the social features we've become accustomed to in the MySpace / YouTube world. That is: collaborative filtering, user commenting, ratings, flagging, content sharing, bookmark sharing, etc.
But most importantly, IPTV holds the promise of truly democratizing the "airwaves" by opening the network up to user-generated channels.
SplashCast will enable anyone to build their own media channel, broadcasting content they've either created or aggregated to any web site on the web. In the not-so-distant future, these user-generated and user-programmed channels will be available in your living room. You'll be able to flip between NBC Nightly News, the Om Malik channel (to watch his latest vodcast), the Justin Timberlake channel (to get footage of him eating breakfast IHOP — paid for by IHOP), the Barack Obama channel (to get the latest scoop on his presidential ambitions), and your brother's channel (where your 4-year-old nephew is the star).


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I can't talk about Wynkoop Brewing Company without talking about history.
But enough has been written already about Wynkoop's history, and anyway when I think of Wynkoop and history I'm really — as I am so often — talking about myself.
Four years ago, I made my first trip to Wynkoop without knowing much at all about it. I'm pretty sure I had to memorize the intersection at home before I left.
And of course once I got there it didn't get any easier. The most I knew about beer was that the "Ice" version had more alcohol in it than "Light," but no matter how much I scanned Wynkoop's taplist neither of those words appeared.
Since I didn't even know what IPA, ESB or black lager meant, I settled on Patty's Chile Beer, not knowing then that the jalapeño-flavored ale was named for the founder and editor of Westword, Patty Calhoun, and also not knowing that I'd like five or six Wynkoop beers a lot more than the chile — a fact I would learn over the course of maybe a dozen more trips over the years.
One thing I did know on that trip? There was a whole world out there I didn't really know a single thing about. I was sitting at Wynkoop's large, irregularly shaped bar, my back to 18th Street, Wynkoop Street on my right, TV in front of me, the whole of a city I had lived in but hadn't learned stretching out past the wall to my left, and I realized that I didn't know which thing I knew less about, Denver or craft beer.
Four years and an entire lifetime later, I love Colorado's oldest brewpub, the way you love the first poet who rewrote how you see the world or the first record that made your jaw drop. On a trip this week, almost exactly four years after my first visit, there are dozens of reminders of how much I've learned. I know where the place is, for instance, and how to pronounce Wynkoop (I prefer "wine" over "win"), and I know I'm not getting a Patty's Chile, not while Cowtown Milk Stout is on tap.
But first it's three samples, Wynkoop's two rotating seasonals and its newest star. Perhaps catching up a little with the newer microbreweries that are all about experimentation, Wynkoop has a sour ale on, which the bartender tells me is a blend of a sour and a saison. Koop de Ville, it's called, is mild for a sour, with tons of different flavors — fruity, citrusy, yeasty, the tiniest bit metallic at the end. There's also a pumpkin ale, Drunkin' Punkin', one of the best pumpkin ales of the season, on the lighter and milder end compared to stout-based pumpkin beers.
The new star is Colorojo, a double red ale that Wynkoop has started canning. Colorojo has joined B3K Black Lager, Silverback Pale and Rail Yard Amber — and maybe even replaced some of them — as Wynkoop's most visible, widely distributed beers. In the vein of "double" anything, it's complex and layered, hoppy and malty and sweet.
A Cowtown — sweeter, milkier, maybe a little less dense than Left Hand's Milk Stout — comforts me through the pain of finding out bangers and mash aren't on Wynkoop's new menu. But it's back to feeling positive when I produce a free beer token from who knows when, at least two years ago, and the bartender gladly accepts it.
On my way out, I say goodbye for now to my old friend and craft beer guide. I've learned a lot in those four years about both the city and the craft beer world, more than I thought there was to learn. But I know I'm not done yet.
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Bay Bridge contractors surpassed the 80 percent construction threshold Sunday, and the new span's scheduled 5 a.m. Tuesday opening — or perhaps even earlier — is looking more certain every minute.
Work has progressed so smoothly, in fact, that talk of an earlier opening sometime Monday night is the number-one source of speculation out on the bustling construction site as the hundreds of private contractors, tradespeople, consultants and engineers who have helped build the $6.4 billion span over the past 11 years anticipate marking the historic milestone.
The shiny new 2.2-mile replacement eastern span, with its skyway and iconic white tower and cables, is the world's largest self-anchored suspension span and California's most expensive infrastructure project to date.
The bridge team will Monday announce an opening time — probably a two- or three-hour range. But with speeches, a chain-cutting ceremony and VIP processional across the span set to start at 3 p.m. and take several hours, the public opening is unlikely to happen until late evening at the earliest.
"We are on track for a 5 a.m. Tuesday opening and that is what people should plan for until they hear otherwise, but we will have an announcement sometime (Monday)," said bridge spokesman Andrew Gordon late Sunday. Gordon said the Interstate 80 connection at Yerba Buena Island tunnel was completed at midnight Saturday.
On the Oakland side, all that remains is finishing up paving in the eastbound lanes, striping in both directions, miscellaneous electrical work, final barrier rail installation and general clean up.
MCM and Flatiron West, the two top contractors, finished demolishing on Sunday a 1,000-foot section of the old bridge's upper westbound deck on the Oakland side and began via crane lifting a dozen prefabricated pieces into place of the temporary bicycle and pedestrian trestle.
Cyclists and walkers will be able to start using the temporary wooden path starting at noon Tuesday. Over the next year, contractors will remove the lower westbound deck and build the permanent path.
In reality, several years of work lies ahead once the bridge opens to traffic — paint touch-up, final aesthetic lighting, permanent bike and pedestrian path installation in Oakland and punching the path all the way to Yerba Buena Island after the old 1936 steel truss bridge is demolished. There will be no pedestrian or bicycle access through to the island until the path is completed in 2015.
In addition, Caltrans took advantage of the rare traffic closure on the west span and tunnel and completed Sunday months' worth of maintenance chores on the west span within a few days, such as steam cleaning the inside of Yerba Buena Island tunnel, replacing the tunnel lights with LEDs to match the new eastern span, and lubricating the expansion joints.
For the next 24 hours, though, the focus is on opening the seismically far safer new bridge to motorists by the time they return to work Tuesday after the long holiday weekend.
Aside from what time the bridge will actually open to cars, another source of speculation has been over the who's who list of dignitaries expected to christen the new bridge at a private ceremony set for 3 p.m. Monday.
"Plenty of people of note," promised Metropolitan Transportation Commission spokesman John Goodwin.
A public ceremony was canceled in July when it became clear that repairs of snapped anchor bolts on the new span would take far longer than expected. The contractor estimates the retrofit will be completed by Dec. 10.
Engineers later approved a temporary fix that would allow the bridge to open on time, but it was too late to resurrect the planned public bridge walk, fireworks and ceremony.
Loath to open the historic bridge without marking the event in some fashion, however, the Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee — three state and regional agencies overseeing the construction — opted for an invitation-only event.
The restricted attendance has frustrated numerous Caltrans, regional agency employees and contractors who helped design and build the bridge but could not secure tickets for themselves and their families. Instead, many are holding private celebrations for their employees, including American Bridge/Fluor Enterprises, the primary contractor for the self-anchored suspension segment of the new span.
Those guaranteed a seat at Monday's event and a chance to ride across the span in the ceremonial processional following the 3 p.m. speeches and chain-cutting include the scheduled speakers, of course. Among them are Metropolitan Transportation Commission Chairwoman and Orinda Mayor Amy Worth, state Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Oakland Mayor Jean Quan. Removed from the old span surreptitiously earlier this week, the shy Bay Bridge troll is expected to make a rare appearance.
The Pacific Boys Choir of Oakland will sing the national anthem, and the Oakland Military Institute's color guard will present the colors. California's poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera will read his "Bay Bridge Inauguration Poem: For all the bridge dreamers, bridge builders and bridge crossers."
The committee will also pay tribute to the pioneering women who helped build the bridge as tradeswomen, engineers or other occupations, taking their lead from the Bay Area News Group's "Sisters of the Span" story, photos and video interviews published earlier this year.
Gov. Jerry Brown is out of state and will not attend, but Lt. Gov. and former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is on the program. . Other scheduled speakers include Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty, Metropolitan Transportation Commission Executive Director Steve Heminger, American Bridge/Fluor Joint Enterprises President and CEO Michael Flowers and state Building and Construction Trades Council of California President Robbie Hunter. Christening the bridge on Labor Day is the perfect choice, said Hunter when asked for a sneak preview of his comments.
"We will be standing in the shadow of two of the most historic bridges in the nation, the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge, both built almost 80 years ago," Hunter said. "We will also be standing with the workers who built those bridges and recognizing the people from all the trades who worked in all kinds of weather conditions day after day."
No one is saying which of these people, if any, will wield the acetylene welding torch and make that ceremonial cut. But it sounds like a job for an expert. Just coincidentally, Hunter was an iron worker for 30 years.
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For Secretary of State John F. Kerry, diplomacy has centered on what might be called the art of the interim deal. He has tackled two of the world's toughest issues — the Iranian nuclear program and the Israeli-Palestinian problem — and has fashioned tentative formulas outlining the shape of a final accord, even though the parties are far from such comprehensive settlements.
Kerry's tool has been the "framework agreement." He seeks to bring the parties together on an initial document that frames the issues and sweetens the bargaining with confidence-building measures. When Kerry hits impasses, he can turn to rollover agreements that extend the discussions for another six or nine months while the participants try to crack the final-status issues.
Kerry has used this phased approach in his two ambitious diplomatic campaigns over the past year. In November, he brokered an interim agreement with Iran in Geneva that froze that country's nuclear program for six months while the parties attempt a permanent deal. Both Iranians and Americans privately doubt a final pact can be reached in that time frame, but if good-faith bargaining continues, Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers may agree to extend the interim freeze another six months. The United States has officially been mum on any such extension.
Kerry is trying something similar on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, which for a generation has been the diplomatic world's version of "Mission: Impossible." Kerry got the two sides to agree last July to open negotiations and make friendly gestures. Now, with his nine-month window set to close in April, Kerry is drafting an interim framework agreement for this problem, too.
President Obama stayed in the background on both sets of negotiations last year, but he cited them in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night. Fair enough: Obama made Iran and the Palestinian issue priorities when he took office in 2009. He got burned politically on both during his first term. But he has found in Kerry a secretary of state who was willing to embark on what were initially viewed widely as diplomatic suicide missions.
Both issues may still prove insoluble: Listening to Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett at a conference here Tuesday, it was clear how vehemently the right-wing settlers' movement he represents would oppose a Palestinian state. "Our forefathers and ancestors and our descendants will never forgive an Israeli leader who gives away our land and divides our capital," Bennett said, his voice almost a shout.
Yet the prospect of a framework agreement of the sort Kerry is seeking seemed tantalizingly close in comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the gathering, which was sponsored by the Institute for National Security Studies.
Netanyahu told the conference that the United States was compiling a document that would summarize the points that have emerged during the months of secret Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. He said that Israel might agree to further talks under this framework, while not accepting all of the U.S. ideas, as long as the Palestinians agree to a demilitarized state that guarantees Israel's security and accepts Israel's status as a homeland for the Jewish people.
Abbas said that he might be willing to accept a phased, three-year Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and a continued presence by other military forces, as ways of satisfying Netanyahu's security concerns. Amos Yadlin, a retired chief of Israeli military intelligence who heads the institute that hosted the conference, described Kerry's goal: "It's a framework agreement, or an agreement on a framework, or an American piece of paper," he said, but the aim was to roll forward the negotiations for another nine months.
The White House has backed Kerry's attempt to pull together the parameters that have emerged in the negotiations rather than simply striving for another round of confidence-building measures, such as Israeli releases of Palestinian prisoners and Abbas's refraining from taking his case for a Palestinian state to the United Nations. As in the Iran negotiations, a framework agreement would patch over what are still wide differences on a permanent, final-status agreement. But they would reduce the risk of outright conflict while diplomacy continues.
Obama and Kerry argue that diplomatic engagement should be seen as a sign of continuing U.S. engagement in the Middle East, rather than as part of U.S. withdrawal. That's true, but it's also a strategy for buying time. The success of this approach requires that the interim version becomes permanent — which is still a very long bet in both cases.
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Colorado Mountain College releases Jensen's 'separation agreement'
GLENWOOD SPRINGS – Colorado Mountain College, seeking to avoid a legal confrontation, released a document that shows the mechanics of the resignation of former college president Stan Jensen on Thursday.The document, labeled a "separation agreement and general release of claims" between the school and Jensen, provides no real insight into why Jensen either was asked to resign or resigned under his own initiative.And those details are not likely to be coming soon from Colorado Mountain College (CMC), said one official.The document provides little information not already known but does give insight into the negotiations that likely occurred before the separation was made public."Agreements of that nature aren't really intended to contain such information as 'why,'" remarked CMC board president Glenn Davis of Avon. "And the confidentiality agreement is still a binding provision of the [separation] agreement."The agreement specifies that neither side in the negotiations may publicly disclose details unless ordered by a court or under subpoena. Jensen had been president of the six-county college district since March 2008. He resigned on Dec. 27, 2012, during a telephone conference call with the college's board of trustees, following weeks of negotiations.The agreement itself, everything about the negotiations between the school and Jensen, and any information as to why Jensen was leaving, were to be kept from the public as part of the agreement.In large part, the agreement is designed to prevent the disclosure of any details surrounding his departure and limit any future legal action by either side.College officials have steadfastly maintained that Jensen's resignation had nothing to do with an ongoing dispute between the school and SourceGas, a natural gas delivery company that last year was blocked by the college board from building a compression station on a natural gas line that traverses college property.One provision in the separation agreement, however, requires Jensen to work with the college in its defense against a lawsuit filed by SourceGas, which is hoping that a judge will force the school to let the compression station be built.Under the agreement Jensen received severance pay of $500,000, which is more than three times the amount he would have been entitled to under other circumstances, according to Tim Whitsitt, attorney for CMC.He was also paid half his annual salary, $99,400, for his six months of work in the 2012-2013 fiscal year, which runs from July 1, 2012, to June 30, 2013, Whitsitt said.When disclosed in December the financial settlement prompted response across the region served by CMC ranging from outrage to bewilderment. Most criticism, which prompted numerous letters to newspapers across the area served by CMC, focused on the size of the settlement and that the deal was done behind closed doors.The Post Independent and its sister newspapers in Colorado Mountain News Media including the Summit Daily threatened to file suit over the college board's decision to keep secret the negotiations leading up to the Dec. 27 resignation, and the terms of the separation agreement.In a Feb. 14 email releasing the separation agreement, CMC attorney Glenn Chadwick of the Beattie, Chadwick & Houpt law firm, declared, "By releasing this agreement, CMC does not acknowledge that it is obligated to do so" by the threatened lawsuit.But the release of the separation agreement, according to the newspaper group's attorney, was important because it indicated CMC recognized its obligation under state law."The disclosure of the separation agreement fulfills the purpose of the Open Records Act – to allow citizens to monitor and assess the official conduct of governmental actors," said attorney Steven D. Zansberg, of the law firm Levine Sullivan Koch and Schultz LLP in Denver. "This is especially true whenever the expenditure of public funds is involved; the public is entitled to know not only the amount of public funds expended, but also the reasons why those funds were expended."
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"The Intrinsic Virtues and Values of Death Metal," was a common topic of discussion between the ad hoc debate teams The Icarus Fallen (Me), and Mazor's Razors (my friend Brian) in the hallways of our high school. Brian with his long (dyed) black hair, black t shirt, and jeans– would always argue the pro-death metal position, while I– with my short-then-long-then-short-again hair and pop-rock affliction would, of course, argue the negative position.
I bring up our conversations because they give some support for my claim that, in spite of being regarded by their audience as punk acts, two-thirds of the bands at last Thursday's Tokyo Rose show had more in common with the former genre than with the latter.
You could argue that the two bands in question, For All Time and Riot Act, are actually hardcore punk groups, akin to Minor Threat and their ilk, rather than the comparatively pop-oriented Sex Pistols. But to me, the guttural vocals and frequent tempo changes of both young groups spoke more to my colon than do your typical pierced rockers.
Possibly this is why the audience seemed to love both acts. The Rose was packed– more than I think I've ever seen it, even for even big-name touring acts– with mohawks, chains, and the requisite mosh pit all making fine appearances. Hardcore, or whatever you want to call it (death metal), has never been quite my cup of tea, but I have to give the groups credit for drawing such a crowd of like minded devotees.
The other third of Thursday's bill was something quite different from the ear-splitting acts that sandwiched it– the first show of Damani Harrison (who, when he isn't playing music, is a Hook ad rep) and multi-instrumentalist Jon Dzermejko's hip-hop project, BEETNIX. This was the act I came out to see after getting a CD containing three tracks from the group's upcoming release, Homesick.
In all truthfulness, this is some of the best music I've heard come out of Charlottesville, and hip-hop is by no means my chosen genre. Damani's smooth smoker's voice laid down rhymes and melodies in the relaxed fashion locals who've seen his work with Man Mountain Jr., or some Chocolate Workshop performances, will be accustomed to.
Emcee Ra Da Rugged Man, who joined BEETNIX on stage that evening, was much more schizophrenic in his rhymes– he had an almost maniacal fervor, and the fact that he got more than half-naked on stage during the course of the set only added to the feeling.
BEETNIX's true coming out party is on October 5 at Starr Hill, where they will be joined on stage by Andy Rowland, John D'earth, Richelle Claiborn, DJ Chew-E, DJ Ducktape, DJ Mikemetic, and Ryan McClellan (Man Mountain Jr.) playing some of the parts they performed on the group's CD.
Yeah, Damani is a fellow Hook-er, but I swear I'm telling no lies– they are great. Don't believe me? Come to the show on the 5 and find out for yourself.


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We know beloved "Voice" coach Christina Aguilera can belt out more than a few hits. After all, she is the vocalist behind smash singles like "Beautiful," "Ain't No Other Man" and "Fighter."
But during an appearance on Monday's "Ellen DeGeneres Show," the music superstar isn't performing one of her biggest songs. Instead, she's ready to sing a few hits from other female artists.
While playing a round of "Heads Up" with host Ellen DeGeneres, Aguilera is asked to use her voice and sing a song from whoever appears on-screen. Buckle up kids because this contestant is ready to roll.
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When Whitney Houston appears first on the list, Aguilera immediately busts out into "I Will Always Love You" from "The Bodyguard" soundtrack.
Madonna also proves to be easy with "Like a Virgin," along with Beyonce, who gets love for her song "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)."
Things get even better, however, when Aguilera performs "I Kissed a Girl" by Katy Perry and "Work" by Rihanna.
"Work, work, work, work, work," Aguilera sings. "I really know the words la-la-la-la-la." As for how she describes Adele, Lady Gaga and Barbra Streisand, you'll just have to watch and find out.
Perhaps the impressive display shouldn't come as a total surprise. After all, this is the woman who wowed us on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" when she did musical impressions of Britney Spears, Shakira and Cher.
Games aside, Aguilera had much to catch up on during her appearance with DeGeneres. When not showing off her engagement ring to the talk-show host, the singer gushed about her children, who may not exactly be following in mom's footsteps.
While her daughter Summer Rain is just starting to learn how to swim, Max is ready to scare mom with his ambitious hobbies.
"He's just like this little acrobat. He'll be in Cirque du Soleil or something crazy one day. He's also training to jump off of buildings and give me a heart attack. It's awesome," she joked. "He could care less that I'm on 'The Voice,' but if I was on 'American Ninja Warriors,' he would literally want to come to work with me every day."
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Cool weather helps firefighters make gains in Calif. blazes
SAN FRANCISCO — As cooler weather helped firefighters make gains against a string of dangerous wildfires raging in Southern California, police announced an arrest in connection with one of the blazes that broke out in San Diego County this week.
The hot, dry Santa Ana winds diminished Friday, allowing firefighters to make progress containing the blazes. Sometimes called "devil winds," the Santa Anas are often associated with wildfires.
The largest of the six, the Las Pulgas Fire in San Diego County, has burned 15,000 acres and was 40% contained by Saturday.
Altogether, the wildfires about 30 miles north of San Diego have caused more than $20 million in damage.
On Saturday crews battled a new fire northwest of San Diego near Santee Lakes Regional Park. It quickly grew to cover 30 acres, the Cal Fire San Diego's public affairs bureau tweeted. Fire fighters were able to stop the forward spread of the fire and it was contained by the afternoon, the agency said.
Alberto Serrato, 57, pleaded not guilty Friday to an arson charge in connection with one of the smaller fires, a 105-acre fire in suburban Oceanside that started Wednesday and is now fully contained.
Tanya Sierra, a spokeswoman for the San Diego County district attorney's office, said witnesses saw Serrato adding dead brush onto smoldering bushes, which flamed up. He has not been connected to any other fire, Sierra said.
Oceanside Police Lt. Sean Marshand said Serrato is believed to have added fuel to the fire but not to have started it. "Unfortunately we don't have the guy that we really want," he said.
He remained jailed Friday, and Sierra said she didn't know whether he had an attorney.
Other fires in the area include:
• Cocos Fire, San Diego County, 2,520 acres, 70% contained
• Bernardo Fire, San Diego County, 1,548 acres, 95% contained
• Poinsettia Fire, San Diego County, 600 acres, 90% contained
• Tomahawk Fire, San Diego County, 5,400 acres, 79% contained
• San Mateo Fire, San Deigo County, 800 acres, 25% contained
At their peak, the fires prompted about 8,400 military personnel and their families to be sent home from various parts of sprawling Camp Pendelton, a 125,000-acre Marine Corps base on the coast between Los Angeles and San Diego. Many of the housing-area evacuations have been lifted, base spokesman Jeff Nyhart said.
"My whole life is here and I lost everything," Dave Roberts of Harmony Grove, Calif. told KGTV-TV.
He built the home 20 years ago by hand. It was destroyed in the Coco fire.
Still, he and his wife, Sherri, weren't giving in to disaster.
"Between my family and friends and relatives and everybody," he said in a choked voice. "I'll make it somehow."
"Everything is gone," Jack Whitling said of his aunt's home. "The fire just blew down the hills. We managed to keep my mom's house and the house next door."
Whitling, who has lived in the Escondido neighborhood, told KCAL-TV that he had never seen a fire so close or of such intensity.
It could take months to find the causes of the blazes.
"Do people have suspicions? Yes," said police Capt. Neil Gallucci, noting there has been no lightning that could explain the blazes. "But can we confirm them? The answer is no."
As of Thursday, for the first time this century, the entire state of California is in a severe drought — or worse. The three worst levels of drought are severe, extreme and exceptional: 100% of the state is now in one of those three categories (23.31% severe, 51.92.% extreme and 24.77% exceptional).
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has already has responded to more than 1,500 wildfires this year. In an average year, that number would be about 800.


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Volume 4, no. 3 Winter 1989
The Beethoven Newsletter
Volume 4, no. 3 (Winter 1989):
Myron Schwager. "Beethoven's Programs: What is Provable?" (pp. 49-55)
Geoffrey Block. "A New Cadenza for Beethoven's Fortepiano Concerto in C major, Opus 15." (pp. 49, 62-67)
Max Rudolph. "A Question of Tempo in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: Sonnleithner's l864 Letter on the Contrabass Recitative." (pp. 56-57)
William Meredith. Conference report: "The Beethoven Experience, PepsiCo Summerfare, Purchase, New York, August 5-6, 1989." (p. 58-61)
William Meredith. Conference Report: "Beethoven Papers Read at the 1989 AMS, SMT meeting." (pp. 68-71)
Festival Announcement: "Lincoln (Nebraska) Friends of Chamber Music 1989/90 Season: The Complete Beethoven String Quartets." (p. 71)
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Groups want Walker to have state run exchange
Walker faces Friday deadline
MADISON, Wis. — An array of interests including business groups and liberal health care advocates are united in pressuring Gov. Scott Walker to create a state-run exchange under the federal health care law.
Walker faces a Friday deadline to tell President Barack Obama's administration what he intends to do.
The governor met privately with advisers immediately after Obama won re-election and had no plans to publically announce what direction he's headed until after Monday.
Walker has three choices: create a state-run virtual marketplace for the public to shop for private insurance; let the federal government set it up; or a combination approach.
Those with an interest in the process contacted by The Associated Press said they have not been involved with Walker's administration on coming up with a plan.


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Higher concentrations of red tide are showing up at Sarasota County beaches from Siesta Key beach south through Venice to Englewood, causing slight respiratory irritation for some beachgoers and sporadic fish kills.
Recent beach water samples collected by the Florida Department of Health in Sarasota County and analyzed by Mote Marine Laboratory found concentrations of the harmful algae that causes red tide, suggesting the large bloom that has lingered off the Southwest Florida coast since last fall has made its way north again.
In January, the red tide bloom killed large numbers of fish as far north as Anna Maria in Manatee County and south through Sarasota County, irritating beachgoers at the height of tourism season.
Now, concern is rising again as spring break travelers are expected to make their way here.
"The return of red tide could throw what was on par to be a record-breaking tourism season off its course," said Virginia Haley, president of Visit Sarasota County, the region's tourism bureau.
"We have been so lucky to be red tide free for a month now," Haley said. "Red tide is going to be the key in seeing how the rest of the season plays out."
Winds from the north over the last few weeks had driven the red tide farther south. But prevailing southerly winds this week are believed to have contributed to the resurgence of red tide in Sarasota County, according to a county press release.
Small amounts of dead fish have been reported and are being cleaned up at Blind Pass Beach, Manasota Beach, Venice Beach and Caspersen Beach to Service Club Park.
Beachgoers with asthma or other chronic respiratory conditions are especially susceptible to airborne toxins caused by red tide and are encouraged to stay clear of the beaches.
Health officials also recommend beachgoers wear shoes when walking on the sand to prevent puncture wounds from the spines or bones of dead fish.
Swimming in red tide can cause skin irritation and burning eyes.
Beachgoers are encouraged to check the Mote Marine Laboratory Beach Conditions Report.
The report is updated twice a day and can be accessed online at mote.org/beaches.
"We are telling visitors to just monitor the beach reports," Haley said. "They are so variable sometimes, you never know what the conditions are going to be like."
Higher concentrations of red tide are showing up at Sarasota County beaches from Siesta Key beach south through Venice to Englewood, causing slight respiratory irritation for some beachgoers and sporadic fish kills.


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Happy Year of the Dragon! With the end of contest season, let's usher in the New Year with another building challenge. In honor of 2012, Year of the Dragon, your theme is dragons. Feel free to build anything - a dragon, feature the Dragon Masters in a MOC, or show us a company of dragoons. Be creative. Since this is the year of the Water Dragon, bonus points for making water a key component of your MOC.
As always, the Building Challenges are not contests. There are no rules, no judges, no winners and losers. The only requirement is that you have fun.


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Monday, May 22, 2006
Riffle Run Elementary School
This photo of Riffle Run Elemenary School and the following description of his first day at school are from his website.
"I proudly followed my brothers and sisters up the road to the little white building with the U.S. flag hanging by the door and the smell of oil (used to preserve the floor). Students drank water out of their individual cups filled from the little water cooler, which was kept supplied by the janitor. There was a coal stove in the center of the room. Double desks with inkwells flanked each side of the room.
In front of the room were the teacher's desk and the recitation bench where each class was called in turn to review the lessons they had been reading and to answer questions from the teacher. There were usually about twenty or twenty-five students scattered through the eight grades. Spelling was taught all eight grades from one volume. The beginning class started with the simple words at the front of the book and by the eighth grade, the book was supposed to be finished. There were no pictures, only endless columns of words."
Homer Heater is the President of Washington Bible College and Capital Bible Seminary in Washington D.C. Here is a recent photo of Homer and his bride of 50 years, Pat.
Pictured in the photo "Riffle Run Elementary School Around 1940"
L-R Back Row: Denzil Conrad, Wilfred Conrad, Mary Jean Heater, Alma Grace Sumpter, Lillian Brown, Thelma (Dink) Sumpter
L-R 2d Row: Myrtle Mae Brown, Charles McCauley, Bob Graff, Bill Heater, Pauline Conrad, Betty Graff, Mary McCauley
L-R 3d Row:Patty Graff, Louise Sumpter, Caree McCauleyFront seated: Jim McCauley, George McCauley, Bobby Blake, Winfred Thompson, Don McCauley, Wesley McCauley, Homer Brown, Homer Heater, Jr.
1. Riffle Run drains into the Little Kanawha just upstream from Burnsville while most of Orlando's land drains into Oil Creek, which drains into the LIttle Kanawha at Burnsville. As the crow flies, they are about 10 miles apart.
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- AnonymousFriday, May 26, 2006
I loved your story of the Riffle Run, for I knew most of the people that you were talking about and knew where everything was, I am Solomon Brown's daughter. Homer is my Uncle. It's always nice to hear about home and people you knew.
Bonnie, It would be a great contribution to our collective memory if you would share some of your memories, and any old photos you might have. Even if you only have time to jot a few notes from time to time & send them to me at firstname.lastname@example.com, they can be assembled for punlication later.ReplyDelete
Viewers, don't miss Rev. Heater's complete memoir at http://geocities.com/hheater2000/mypage.htmlReplyDelete
- AnonymousWednesday, September 25, 2013
I know its been a long while since anyone has posted here, but just want to add that Homer is my cousin, his father is my great Uncle, he was brother to my Pappaw, John C. Heater. : )ReplyDelete


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Yoga Rave is a party like none other in the world, a new concept in fun where the body responds only to the stimulation of music, yoga & meditation. The initiative sprang forth from the Art of Living Foundation, the largest volunteer-run NGO in the world. Just like the rest of the Foundation's initiatives, the motive is non-profit. The money raised goes to bring yoga, meditation, and stress reduction to university campuses and young professionals in need through the YESplus workshop. Learn more, & FIND A COURSE NEAR YOU! us.yesplus.org
The Yoga Rave Project will bring the spiritual element back to celebration and the way we have fun, offering a drug free alternative for our youth to gather and release their energy and tension. In the words of Art of Living Founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, "from the intoxication that depletes the energy to intoxication that brings enlightenment". We envision a new wave of entertainment for young people, based on nothing but music and our mind to create an atmosphere of natural enthusiasm, celebration and joy. Our vision is to create a movement that will support all people to come together in deeper connection and celebration, without the fallout. All proceeds will go to support stress reduction for youth and prisoners around the nation.
Yoga Rave was born as a healthy & balanced yet fun alternative. While singing & dancing along to mantras, one feels true energy, joy & enthusiasm that come from within, not as a result of something external. To achieve this experience it's necessary to be in an environment free of drugs, alcohol & smoke.
At the party one can enjoy both music & silence. It all begins with some Yoga to warm up the body & continues with an easy guided meditation that leaves attendees in the ideal state to hear So What Project!'s opening chords & slowly begin connecting with the music. At the end of the night there is another meditation. The party, which lasts 4 hours, is accompanied by a bar offering exotic & energizing drinks that are completely alcohol-free plus gourmet vegetarian food.
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So What Project! (Nicolás Pucci & Rodrigo Bustos) is in charge of the music. The duo presents an integral way of conceiving & creating music, based on vibrations & thousand-year-old mantras combined with electronic beats in addition to a wide variety of other musical styles.
The band was formed in order to provide the Yoga Rave parties with music. They launched their first album, "Smile" in November 2009, & just finished their second album "Blossom," this past winter. Their songs are heard all over the world, they participate in numerous festivals & their tracks are sold overseas through the Internet (Amazon, iTunes, emusic, among others)
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