Original Yoshiyuki (active circa 1848 - 1864) Japanese Woodblock print
Minamoto no Yoshitsune Defeats the Ezo, 1847 - 1852

Comments - Fantastic triptych depicting Minamoto no Yoshitsune in his flagship off the rocky shore of Ezo. Historically, Ezo was the name given to the lands north of Japan and the peoples who lived their. According to legend, Yoshitsune made a mythical voyage to these northern islands and had many adventures there. Here, his elegant ship approaches an island, with Yoshitsune sitting under a black lacquer canopy topped with a golden yellow phoenix. He wears armor and a horned battle helmet, and holds a folding fan. His loyal warrior monk Benkei sits in front of him, a monk's white cowl wrapped around his neck, while a retainer stands in the prow shielding his eyes as he watches the enemy. The foreign warriors are dressed in exotic costumes, gathered at the base of a magnificent fortress. White-capped waves crash against the bow and two other Minamoto ships can be seen in the center in the distance. Beautifully detailed and colored with soft shading in the sky as a rosy glow spreads along the horizon. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has this image in its collection. A terrific image from the life of this notable samurai.
Artist - Yoshiyuki (active circa 1848 - 1864)

Looking for
μαργαρίτης in the meaning of an egyptian plant
I found
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31793/31793-h/31793-h.htm
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/flowers.htm

This faience tile comes from the excavations of the Egypt Exploration Society in the Great Palace at Amarna.
New Kingdom (1550-1300 BC) / Faience / Great Palace at Amarna
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11413503@N03/2524049521/in/set-72157604145986272















and
μαργαρίτης in the meaning of pearl
I found

Derived from Latin Margarita, which was from Greek μαργαριτης (margarites) meaning "pearl", probably ultimately a borrowing from Sanskrit. Saint Margaret, the patron of expectant mothers, was martyred at Antioch in the 4th century. Later legends told of her escape from a dragon, with which she was often depicted in medieval art.






















http://concordances.org/greek/3135.htm 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_oyster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl

In the name of the Source And of the Child And of the Holy Spirit

In nomeni Fonte (the Heart)
Et Liberi (the Brain)
Et Spiritus Santi (holding your shoulders with arms crossing your heart).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_of_the_Cross

Monopole. Thank you white knights.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_monopole A magnetic monopole cannot be created from normal matter such as atoms and electrons, but would instead be a new elementary particle.
http://thankyouwhiteknights.blogspot.no/2011/02/pics-to-go-with-belows-post-on-monopole.html

Field of a quadrupole

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrupole
All known magnetic sources give dipole fields. However, to make a magnetic quadrupole it is possible to place four identical bar magnets perpendicular to each other such that the north pole of one is next to the south of the other. Such a configuration cancels the dipole moment and gives a quadrupole moment, and its field will decrease at large distances faster than that of a dipole.
An example of a magnetic quadrupole, involving permanent magnets, is depicted on the right. Electromagnets of similar conceptual design (called quadrupole magnets) are commonly used to focus beams of charged particles in particle accelerators and beam transport lines, a method known as strong focusing. The quadrupole-dipole intersect can be found by multiplying the spin of the unpaired nucleon by its parent atom. There are four steel pole tips, two opposing magnetic north poles and two opposing magnetic south poles. The steel is magnetized by a large electric current that flows in the coils of tubing wrapped around the poles.

Field lines of a point dipole of any type, electric, magnetic, acoustic, … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipolar_theism In process theology dipolar theism is the position that in order to conceive a perfect God, one must conceive It as embodying the "good" in sometimes-opposing characteristics, and therefore cannot be understood to embody only one set of characteristics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole  In physics, there are several kinds of dipoles: An electric dipole is a separation of positive and negative charges. The simplest example of this is a pair of electric charges of equal magnitude but opposite sign, separated by some (usually small) distance. A permanent electric dipole is called an electret. A magnetic dipole is a closed circulation of electric current. A simple example of this is a single loop of wire with some constant current flowing through it.[1][2] A flow dipole is a separation of a sink and a source. In a highly viscous medium, a two-beater kitchen mixer causes a dipole flow field. An acoustic dipole is the oscillating version of it. A simple example is a dipole speaker. Any scalar or other field may have a dipole moment. Dipoles can be characterized by their dipole moment, a vector quantity. For the simple electric dipole given above, the electric dipole moment points from the negative charge towards the positive charge, and has a magnitude equal to the strength of each charge times the separation between the charges. (To be precise: for the definition of the dipole moment one should always consider the "dipole limit", where e.g. the distance of the generating charges should converge to 0, while simultaneously the charge strength should diverge to infinity in such a way that the product remains a positive constant.) In addition to current loops, the electron, among other fundamental particles, has a magnetic dipole moment. This is because it generates a magnetic field that is identical to that generated by a very small current loop. However, to the best of our knowledge, the electron's magnetic moment is not due to a current loop, but is instead an intrinsic property of the electron. It is also possible that the electron has an electric dipole moment, although this has not yet been observed (see electron electric dipole moment for more information). The only known mechanisms for the creation of magnetic dipoles are by current loops or quantum-mechanical spin since the existence of magnetic monopoles has never been experimentally demonstrated.  With respect to molecules, there are three types of dipoles: Permanent dipoles: These occur when two atoms in a molecule have substantially different electronegativity: One atom attracts electrons more than another, becoming more negative, while the other atom becomes more positive. See dipole-dipole attractions. Instantaneous dipoles: These occur due to chance when electrons happen to be more concentrated in one place than another in a molecule, creating a temporary dipole. See instantaneous dipole. Induced dipoles: These can occur when one molecule with a permanent dipole repels another molecule's electrons, "inducing" a dipole moment in that molecule. See induced-dipole attraction.

KALASH: (Express Tribune) “We are a very strange people and this is why you are here,” Engineer Khan told a small group of primarily Pakistani tourists and journalists at the Kalash Home Guest House, which he and his family operate in the village of Rumbur.
The Kalash, are indigenous people residing in the Chitral District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalash_people

Neurons are only capable of communicating in one of two ways, either by firing or by not firing. This is very similar to the 1 (fire) and 0 (don't fire) familiar to binary code. Any time the brain sends information, a series of related neurons fire, while those unrelated do not. The central nervous system receives the commands and relays them to perform the appropriate function.
My view of the world around me is drastically varied based on my unique place in the universe in comparison to others. The experience of consciousness also changes based on the neurological network in an individual's brain. Since all of our brains are "wired" differently, our perception of the world around us is different.
External forces can play a huge part of what shapes our view of the world.
"Reality" is not a constant, as the processors of "reality" (our brains) vary according to circumstance.
At what point is this data being shredded and pieced together if there is nothing to be rearranged?
data is constantly being sent and received throughout the body, with some of this information not being processed as intended. Such a genetically programmed misinterpretation of data could be the source of all neurological disorders, as the "message" received will never be the "message" sent.
http://math2033.uark.edu/wiki/index.php/The_Brain_and_Binary_Code
Have you ever wondered why there are two halves to the brain? Children with one malformed brain hemisphere, live a normal life when surgeons remove the defective half of the brain. Also, in cases of severe schizophrenia, the connection between the two hemispheres of the brain is severed and they are separated so that they don't "think together." This is a form of cure for schizophrenia.
http://www.v-a.com/communication/binary-system.html

http://cmgm.stanford.edu/biochem201/Slides/DNA%20Structure/
http://cmgm.stanford.edu/biochem201/

http://www.jcrows.com/e8.html

Duke Mu of Chin said to Po Lo: "You are now advanced in years. Is there any member of your family whom I could employ to look for horses in your stead?" Po Lo replied: "A good horse can be picked out by its general build and appearance. But the superlative horse — one that raises no dust and leaves no tracks — is something evanescent and fleeting, elusive as thin air. The talents of my sons lie on a lower plane altogether; they can tell a good horse when they see one, but they cannot tell a superlative horse. I have a friend, however, one Chiu-fang Kao, a hawker of fuel and vegetables, who in things appertaining to horses is nowise my inferior. Pray see him." Duke Mu did so, and subsequently dispatched him on the quest for a steed. Three months later, he returned with the news that he had found one. "It is now in Shach'iu" he added. "What kind of a horse is it?" asked the Duke. "Oh, it is a dun-colored mare," was the reply. However, someone being sent to fetch it, the animal turned out to be a coal-black stallion! Much displeased, the Duke sent for Po Lo. "That friend of yours," he said, "whom I commissioned to look for a horse, has made a fine mess of it. Why, he cannot even distinguish a beast's color or sex! What on earth can he know about horses?" Po Lo heaved a sigh of satisfaction. "Has he really got as far as that?" he cried. "Ah, then he is worth ten thousand of me put together. There is no comparison between us. What Kao keeps in view is the spiritual mechanism. In making sure of the essential, he forgets the homely details; intent on the inward qualities, he loses sight of the external. He sees what he wants to see, and not what he does not want to see. He looks at the things he ought to look at, and neglects those that need not be looked at. So clever a judge of horses is Kao, that he has it in him to judge something better than horses." When the horse arrived, it turned out indeed to be a superlative animal.

I’ve reproduced the tale here not just because I invariably go out of my way to recommend a good prose pacifier to parents or older brothers of ten-month-old babies but for quite another reason. What directly follows is an account of a wedding day in 1942. It is, in my opinion, a self-contained account, with a beginning and an end, and a mortality, all its own. Yet, because I’m in possession of the fact, I feel I must mention that the bridegroom is now, in 1955, no longer living. He committed suicide in 1948, while he was on vacation in Florida with his wife . . . . Undoubtedly, though, what I’m really getting at is this: since the bridegroom’s retirement from the scene, I haven’t been able to think of anybody whom I’d care to send out to look for horses in his stead.”
http://bigthink.com/Think-See-Feel/salinger-buddhist
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger

Svartek eller sjödränkt ek är en typ av virke (ek) som legat sjödränkt eller begravd i jord under en längre period och därför fått en karakteristisk svart färg. http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svartek

Ett parti sjödränkt ek - svartek - som är 5200 år gammal.
Du får vid köp ett numrerat intyg från Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet som visar kol-14-analysen.

Stockarna har legat i en myr på Hallandsåsen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water

 

Universe Flag...

"I read somewhere that if you averaged all the colors of the stars and galaxies everywhere, you'd end up with a sort of beige or warm white color. I coupled that with an infinity symbol (hair scrunchie) to make this flag for everywhere." Sea Moon

Some things I do not understand:
"As you accumulate space, the weight of the space compresses the volume of the same, and that is what time is. More space = less time. m × c² = E"
Mark Cidade Space has mass (via the Higgs field) and when you add space to space, it gets squished. That's why you can't traverse more than 299,792,458 metres in a second. The more distance you cover in less time, the more weight is added to space (via inertial compression) and so it takes more time to do anything since there is LESS (temporal dialation). http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/03/one-minute-physics-why-einstein-rotated-time.html

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  Mark Cidade If you have 5 acres of land in one field and 5 in another lot, that makes 10 acres total. Now if you smush them together into the same land, you will have less than 10.
  
  Dark matter and energy is a joke. I know why the galaxies stay together and the universe is flying apart. It's the SPACE that makes the stars so heavy and it's the TIME that flies away from us at faster than the speed of light so that we can't ever make up for it!
  
  It IS due for a paradigm shift. It's called common sense sciense!

  Take your time. I'll give you some space : D
  
  
  I
  am thinking about something about love. It consists of the right amount of ATTRACTION and RETRACTION in order to exist.
  Otherwise what? (Some wording changed. Repulsion to retraction. June 6th in 2012)
  The wood (wooden boat) that separates air from water.
  Spirals within spirals at a certain distance from the cores.
  From a cross section they are like E8s?
  The cores are time?
  Everything pendles between too much and too little.
  Try to keep the extremes as close to the core to keep the best track.
  
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Way
  In a binary way.

Scatting may be desirable because it does not "taint the music with the impurity of denotation". Instead of conveying linguistic content and pointing to something outside itself, scat music—like instrumental music—is self-referential and "d[oes] what it mean[s]". Through this wordlessness, commentators have written, scat singing can describe matters beyond words... releasing emotions "so deep, so real" that they are unspeakable; his words "bypass our ears and our brains and go directly for our hearts and souls".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scat_singing

The cauldron is the largest known example of European Iron Age silver work.
The diameter of 69 centimeters. The height of 42 centimeters.
Nielsen believes that the question of origin is the wrong one to ask and can produce misleading results. Because of the widespread migration of numerous ethnic groups like the Celts and Teutonic peoples and events like Roman expansion and subsequent Romanization, it is highly unlikely that only one ethnic group was responsible for the development of the Gundestrup cauldron. Instead, the make and art of the cauldron can be thought of as the product of a fusion of cultures, each inspiring and expanding upon one another.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundestrup_cauldron

... where the two mantras "content is king" and "backlinks are king" meet smack in the middle. http://www.articleaccelerator.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_accelerator

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumbs_signal
Over time, the mere sight of an upraised thumb came to symbolize harmony and kind feelings.
The appreciative Chinese would say ”挺好的“ ("ting hao de"), meaning "very good," and gesture with a thumbs up, which in Chinese means "you're number one."

 In my room, the world is beyond my understanding;
 But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four
 Hills and a cloud.
Wallace Stevens

This is a very fine and heavily patinated antique miniature Chinese bronze vase.
He would date it to at least the 18th Century but it could well be earlier.
He would imagine that it would be classed as a scholar's desk object.
It has fine silver wire inlay in the form of mountains and clouds and a wonderful shape with twin handles to each side.
It does have damage, particularly to one of the very small feet, which is missing, and so it does not stand straight.
There is a small dent in one side.
It stands about 8 centimeters tall.

Mother's Day History

The majority of countries that celebrate Mother's Day do so on the second Sunday of May.
The highly traditional practice of honoring of Motherhood is rooted in antiquity, and past rites typically had strong symbolic and spiritual overtones; societies tended to celebrate Goddesses and symbols rather than actual Mothers. The maternal objects of adoration ranged from mythological female deities to the Christian Church itself. Only in the past few centuries did celebrations of Motherhood develop a decidedly human focus.
One of the earliest historical records of a society celebrating a Mother deity can be found among the ancient Egyptians, who held an annual festival to honor the goddess Isis, who was commonly regarded as the Mother of the pharaohs.
Yet the Roman root of Mother’s Day is perhaps more precisely found in the celebration of the Phrygian goddess Cybele, or Magna Mater (Great Mother).
Cybele stems from the Greek Goddess Rhea, who was the Mother of most of the major deities including Zeus. Rhea was therefore celebrated as a mother goddess, and the festival took place around the time of the Vernal Equinox.
Other societies worshipped similar deities including Gaia the Earth Goddess and Meter oreie the Mountain Mother. In many aspects, this Mother goddess was represented and celebrated similarly across cultures.
In the Roman celebration of Magna Mater games were held in honor of the Mother of the gods. Also customary was a procession through the streets with a statue of the goddess carried at the head, followed by a display of elaborate arts and crafts.
Early Christians initially used a day to honor the church in which they were baptized, which they knew as their “Mother Church.” This place of worship would be decorated with jewels, flowers and other offerings.
In the 1600's a clerical decree in England broadened the celebration to include real Mothers, referring to the day as Mothering Day.
http://www.mothersdaycentral.com/about-mothersday/history/
Above Portrait of a Mother and Daughter by Emile Munier

My FBfriend Jane Brooks posted a link http://www.autismcandles.com/products.html.
From the list of candle scents available I deducted that I would prefer that of Clove.
Though I did not really know what clove was. I thought of clover.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clove

 Several years ago I made this Christmas pomander that still hangs in the open doorway between our kitchen and our library.

Now I was inspired to unhook it and clean it from dust with a brush and cold water.

I started to smell strongly of Christmas (that is to say cloves)

http://www.schooloftheseasons.com/goldenapples.html 

By the 17th and 18th century
the decorated orange stuck with cloves
was often mentioned as a Christmas or New Year’s custom.
In his Christmas masque, Ben Jonson wrote,
“He has an Orange and rosemary,
but not a clove to stick in it.”

(One Yule, the Saint Nicholas 
who appeared at the Santa Lucia party 
presented by Helen Farias and James Carrell 
handed out gilded walnuts 
which could be hung from the tree 
to make wishes come true. 
 Diana Carey and Judy Large suggest placing small items 
(a charm, a shell or a few little sweets) 
inside walnut shells, then gluing them back together 
and gilding them. 
They can be presented in a bowl of moss 
on the Christmas table, 
hung from the tree or put on a ring of greenery 
 so each child can open one 
during each of the Twelve Days of Christmas.)

And then I remembered my recent remembrance of this Crimson and Clover.

Here I attempted to follow and secure evidence of the trail of my zigzagging focus this morning. It is one of countless clues that I am convinced will lead to vital insights into our case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_pencil_doctrine

In most jurisdictions, courts routinely "blue pencil" or reform covenants that are not reasonable.
The blue pencil doctrine gives courts the authority to either strike unreasonable clauses from a noncompete agreement,
leaving the rest to be enforced,
or actually modify the agreement to reflect the terms that the parties

could have — and probably should have — agreed to.

The term stems from the act of editing written copy with a blue pencil.

http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/why-self-organized-networks-will-destroy-hierarchies/2011/10/27
Hospitals are a good example. Most of the paperwork that nurses are required to fill out results from the fact that management doesn’t trust them to do what it wants them to do without some independent means of verification. But the paperwork is worthless, unless management operates on the assumption that those same nurses can be trusted to fill out the paperwork honestly. It all boils down to the fact that management knows their interests are diametrically opposed to those of the nurses, but there’s no way to actually get inside the nurses’ heads and look out through their eyes and thereby overcome this fundamental agency problem. So bosses constantly look for new, ineffectual gimmicks to get around the problem, resulting in endless layers of new paperwork that are as useless as the old paperwork.

Our Source that art in heavens and hearts, hallowed be thy meaning. Thy realia come. Thy change be done on earth as in heavens. Give us this day our daily needs, and forgive us our offences, as we should forgive those who offend us, and lead us to what is right, and deliver us into love. For thine is the realia, and the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. Besides our Source there is no other worthy of worship. It is Alone and has no partner. It is the Realia and to it is all praise, in its hands is good, It gives and takes life and It has power over all things.

Morpheus Tethered Test #8 – March 13, 2012
After a series of upgrades, Morpheus conducts a successful tethered test, firing a new engine for 50 seconds and hovering for 40.
Morpheus is a full spacecraft and rocket-powered lander, which demonstrates new green technology, as well as an autonomous landing and hazard detection technology.

Sunspot 1429 Unleashes Two X-Class Flares
This movie of the March 6, 2012 X5.4 flare was captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in the 171 Angstrom wavelength.

Stay tuned for more from this very active sunspot.

 Sacred Heart Mirror

 

Heart inside a Pygmy Right Whale

Black Forest Child's Chair c.1890 



The Origin of the Word Love

The word love was once *leubh, a word used by the Proto-Indo-Europeans approximately five thousand years ago to describe care and desire.
When love was incorporated into Old English as lufu, it had turned into both a noun to describe, “deep affection” and its offspring verb, “to be very fond of”.
One of the earliest uses of love, and its biggest influence, was religion.
Love was used to describe the benevolence and affection of God as well as the affectionate devotion due to God.
From this widely recognized meaning, love began to be used to positively describe instances of affection or acts of kindness.
From Middle English onwards, the most popular meaning for love however was to describe a “beloved person” (1255) – especially one’s sweetheart.
The word love was introduced to tennis from 1742 to mean no score- from the notion of playing “for love”, came the notion “playing for nothing”.

What “love” means from person to person, let alone from century to century, is one of the most varied in the English language.

The limbic system (or Paleomammalian brain) is a set of brain structures including the hippocampus, amygdala, anterior thalamic nuclei, septum, limbic cortex and fornix, which seemingly support a variety of functions including emotion, behavior, long term memory, and the sense of smell. 

The term "limbic" comes from the Latin limbus, for "border" or "edge".

Some scientists have suggested that the concept of the limbic system should be abandoned as obsolete, as it is grounded more in transient tradition than in facts.

 In recent years, it’s become clear that the unconscious brain is able to process vast amounts of information in parallel, thus allowing it to analyze large data sets without getting overwhelmed. Human reason, in contrast, has a very strict bottleneck and can only process about four bits of data at any given moment. But this raises the obvious question: how do we gain access to all this analysis, which by definition is taking place outside of conscious awareness?

As Michel Tuan Pham (Columbia University) puts it, emotions are like a “privileged window” into the subterranean mind.

Comment: The limbic system (emotions) is the decision weighting system that is tied to subconcious processes.

 The color of the bridge is officially an orange vermillion called International Orange and was originally used as a sealant for the bridge.

It is a color used in the aerospace industry to set things apart from their surroundings, similar to safety orange, but deeper and with a more reddish tone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge